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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
April 17, 1902
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The dangerous classes dangerous to
liberty and good government are the
Immensely rich and not the poor.
The states of Deleware and Ne
braska are on an exact parity In re
gard to their representation in the
United States senate.
The cow boy tastes of the president
are shown by his admiration for Fun
ston and. his dislike for such men as
Miles, Dewey and Schley.
Dqubtless the fed era! judges. I take
Into consideration the fact that they
are appointed for life and. do not have
to come before the people for re-election
when they hand down many of
their decisions. . -, .
The republicans say that they are
willing to rest their case in the next
campaign on the plea that an "inves
tigation has been started" in regard
to the high price that the trust charges
for meat.
The Boston Herald wants to know
how many more reports similar ' to the
one made by Major Gardener are hid
den away in the archives of the war
department. Secretary Root could
tell, but he won't.
King Ed only invited Whitelaw Reid
to stay six days, but "Whitelaw says he
will stay at least six weeks. King Ed
will pay expenses for : one t week and
Whitelaw will have to foot the bills
fox. the rest of the time.
Every thief and scoundrel In the Phil
ippines hides himself behind the flag.
"Who . will haul down the flag?" he
cries. The cry is taken up by every
plunderer in the states,.-: They rob
and murder and cry: "Who will haul
down the flag?"
The Washington correspondents now
say that Roosevelt is going to forcibly
retire Miles and appoint that old tub
of intentines, Brooke, whose dawd
ling at Pine Ridge resulted in the
massacre at Wounded Knee, com-inander-in-chief
of the army.
.It franchises arc not property, how
can it be claimed by the federal courts
that -to tax them is confiscation of
property forbidden by- the fourteenth
amendment?. There are things about
come of these decisions of the federal
courts that no pop can find out.
It is gravely' announced, by the
Washington correspondent that At
torney General Knox does not expect
to convict the meat trust and will only
go so far as to furnish a basis for a
refutation of the democratic charges
that the republicans have" '.been fost
ering and promoting trusts.
In the senate investigation . this
week, imperialism got a blow on the
point of the jaw, it is laid out and
the bottle holders . are trying to get
it on its feet again. General Smith
has been ordered to be court-martialed
and Major Glenn has been ordered
liome to be prosecuted for torturing
Filipinos.
Some of the mossbacked old fossils
in the republican party are just waking
up to the fact that there is a growing
demand for the public ownership of
railroads, telegraph and telephones, as
well as the public utilities of cities.
After a while they will be advocating
what the populists advocated ten years
ago, -
On the peace rumors from South
Africa, hundreds of new companies are
being formed nuanu nuanuanuanun
being floated in London and the suck
ers are biting like hungry cat fish in
the . spring. Stock exchanges' are the
same thing the world over. Wall
street and Lombard street pursue the
same tactics.
It is the admirers of Funston who
continually, charge Filipinos with
treachery. Funston clothed his troops
in the enemy's uniform, forged the
signatures of the enemy's chief offi
cers, concealed all the signs and in
signia of a hostile force, marched un
der, the enemy's flag and he's a hero.
If a .Filipino does one of those things
-put'lnToTeVdiVgslrtngVTothTt
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WANT JfONEOF.THBM
The democrats have finally chosen
the members of the executive commit
tee that will take charge of , the con
gressional campaign. They are as
follows: ', ; . '' '.
Ben T.'; Cable, "Illinois - chairman;
Lewis Nixon, New York, chairman of
the finance ' committee ;' David Over
meyer Kansas; Thomas Taggart,
Indianapolis; Richard Olney, Mass
achusetts and Daniel Lamont, New
York. '
."The Independent wants a thorough
understanding- about this. It will
march under no Funstonian .false
colors.. As far as that crowd is con
cerned, it has no use for them. If
forced to a choice between the two,
It prefers Roosevelt to Dave Hill. It
prefers Payne to Tom Taggart. It
prefers Hay to Dan Lamont. All of
these men . have r pretended to sup
port Bryan, while all" but one of them
did all they could to beat him. The
Independent would not toss a copper
to see whether there should be a
plutocratic congress called demo
cratic, or the same kind of a congress
called republican. Republicans are
proud of being plutocratic and every
one would so understand them. If
the congress that this committee
woud elect should entertain its
opinions, we would simply have Cleve
landism over again. Two members
of this committe were Cleveland's
most trusted advisors. If democrats
want a solid, republican congressional
delegation from Nebraska, let that
committee take a hand in the cam
paign of the state.
The performances of the democratic
authorities in Kansas have made a
republican delegation from that state
a certainty, with the exception of one
district which will likely go populist.
That gang of gold democrats would
go out and talk tariff reform and then
pass another Wilson bill with 900 Gor
man amendments, and Gorman will be
back in the senate to offer the amend
ments. The Wilson bill, after Gor
man got through with it was the high
est protective tariff measure that was
ever got through congress. They
would talk anti-imperialism and then
rivet down imperialism as one of the
permanent institutions of the country.
The Independent wants legislation,
and who holds the offices is a minor
matter. It wants men that it can
trust like Bryan and Altgeld and not
plutocrats like Dan Lamont. The In
dependent can say for the old popu
list guard of Nebraska without asking
them that they want no cooperation
with that Cleyelandized crowd and
what is more, hey -won't .have it. Let
that committe stay out of this state.
It is the democratic congressmen
who have done this thing and not the
rank and file of the democratic party.
Wait and see what the rank and file
say about it. These congressmen
"think" that they have laid a sure
foundation for the nomination of
Dave Hill' for the presidency. After
a winter in Washington men often do
some queer thinking. A blind horse
could see that this is a Hill-Whitney-Cleveland
arrangement. The Inde
pendent knows very well what the
populists and Bryan democrats of this
state will say about it; but the col
umns of The Independent are open
to any pithy remarks they may have
to make on the subject,
Dan Lamont, Tom Taggert, Olney!
Good Lord, deliver us.
MR. HILL'S VBRACITY
Dave Hill says that "democrats
have always favored hard money
coined money money of intrinsic
value." How- far back does that "al
ways" go? Most of the Hill kind of
democrats for: some time have been
favoring bank money which is the
very "softest" kind of "soft" money.
He also says that "national hank
notes are not legal tender and never
have been, and no person is obliged
to accept -them.",; Now Dave Hill, be
ing a lawyer with a large . practice
and closely connected with national
banks and great financial interests
of all kinds, knew when he wrote
that, that on the back of every na
tional bank note was printed the fact
that it was a legal' tender. The words
are as follows: ,
"This note is receivable at par In
all parts of the United States in pay
ment of all taxes and excises and all
other dues to the United States, ex
cept duties on imports, also for all
debts and demands owing by the
United States to individuals, corpora
tions and associations within the
United States, except interest on the
public debt."
Not only the corporations, banks
and the officers of the United States
are forced to take these notes, but
"individuals." The national ; bank
note i3 a legal tender for hundreds
of millions and it is impossible that
Mr. Hill should 'be ignorant of that
fact. There was never a greater out
rage committed by any government
than when national bank notes sim
ply promises to pay made by banking
corporations were made a legal ten
der. Mr. Hill thinks it a great out
rage that greenbacks are made a le
gal tender, but he has constantly
supported this other outrage, mak
ing national bank notes a legal tender
a magazine article the well known
facts in the case.
As far as the money question is
concerned, Mr. Hill is against mak
ing the notes of the government legal
tender, but is in favor of making na
tional bank notes legal tender. Then
he talks about wanting "hard money,"
"money of intrinsic value!" Mr.
Hill's statements show that he is not
at all anxious that the siver dollar
shall be redeemed in gold so that it
may be kept at par.
A WHACK AT FARMERS
There has been some quips and
turns made by this congress in re
lation to the countries that we hold
in subjection by force of arms that
is rather startling, especially to for
eigners. Secretary Root has just or
dered that the law in regard to re
bates on export duties which are lev
ied in the Philippines contrary to the
constitution, shall immediately, go
into effect. The export duty on hemp
is very heavy and the duty on all
hemp that is shipped to the United
States will be refunded. "That will
make all things manufactured from
Manila hemp much cheaper In the
United States than in any other coun
try. "That is what the cordage trust
said when they got this little bill
through. Binding twine, hundreds
of tons of which is used by the farm
ers is made from this material. Will
the farmers get their . twine any
cheaper? Not much. The tariff will
protect the trust up to the full amount
of the duties refunded and it will
raise its price and take in a few mil
lions more from the farmers. That
is the kind of legislation that the
farmers get from a republican con
gress and is the kind they ought to
have as long as they insist on vot
ing for republican congressmen.
THE TRUTH WANMD
Since all the news gathering asso
ciations have become the agents of
plutocracy, letting the people know
only so much as the privileged class
think it is proper for them to know,
the most profound ignorance exists
among the people, especially those
who read only republican papers. Not
one voter in ten thous .nd knows what
bills have been passed by this con
gress or the nature of those that havs
been passed by this congress or the
nature of those that have been intro
duced and rejected. As a general
statement it may be said that never
was there a session of congress in
which the privileged class has secure!
so many and so valuable gifts and
ithat every bill that has been intro
duced in favor of labor and the pro
ducers has been either amended like
the one in regard to the oppression
of the courts so as to make it the
very opposite to what was intended,
or thrown out altogether.
To remedy this state of affairs and
let the people know what congress
does, Mr. Bryan has been advocating
that a summary of congressional pro
ceedings be printed and sold at cost
containing a brief account of all bills
favorably reported from the commit
tees, a full text of all laws passed, with
a summary of the arguments for and
against them. It could also contain
the messages of the president and con
densed reports of what is done in the
various departments. By this means
the voters could be informed of all
that was done by the federal govern
ments. The news associations give
but the faintest idea of the facts and
often misrepresent them.
Such a publication would be of very
great usefulness. The present congres
sional record . is wearisome to the
flesh on account of its size. But very
few can get it there is not enough
published to supply the editors and
libraries and but a small part of it
is of any use to any one.
A GOOD PLAN
The populists of Kansas are as full
of fight as they ever were. They are
actively at work in many different
ways. Some of them are making sac
rifices to get our literature into the
hands of the people by selling blocks
of five Liberty Building postal cards.
One writes that he will attend the
county convention and make an ef
fort to sell them there. There are to
be a good many county conventions
in this state in the next two or three
months, and it would be a good plan
for those who want to place the cur
rent news and a knowledge of the
political situation in the homes of
the people of this state to send for a
few blocks and sell s them at the coun
ty conventions. Put 50,000 Indepen
dents every week in the' homes of the
people of Nebraska and that will be
the end of republican rule.
Announcement is made by the Reed
Publishing company, 1756 Champa
street, Denver of the publication of
"Songs of the People," a new vol
ume. of verse - from the pen of J. A."
Edgerton, known in Nebraska as the
poet of populism. The book will con
tain 119 of Mr. Edgerton's latest and
best poems made up from the "Side
Veins", column of the Denver News,
making a volume of 224 pages. All
subscriptions before May 1 will be
filled at $1; after that regular pr'ce
SHALL WE BK RECREANT
As imperialism advances step by
step, The Independent has watched Its
course desirious of doing something
to awaken the people to the gradual
overthrow of all the ideals that we
have held sacred. Step by. step it has
gone on. First the denial of the right
of government by consent of the gov
erned. Putting the territories outside
of the protection of the constitution.
Engaging in wars of conquest. Es
tablishing, sedition laws : that make
criticism of public , officers treason.
The passage of the anarchy bill which
is intended, or whether so intended
or not, will be used to smother the
press. The establishing or a censor
ship and the withholding of official
reports. All these are advances made
by imperialism. With them and other
things of the same kind in view, The
Independent can think of nothing bet
ter to say than the following:
The contest for ages has been to
rescue liberty from the grasp of exe
cutive power. Whoever has engaged
in her sacred cause has struggled for
the acomplishment of that single ob
ject. On the long list of champions of
human freedom there is not one name
dimmed by the reproach of advocat
ing the extreme authority; on the con
trary, the uniform and steady purpose
of all such champions has been to
limit and restrain it.
Through all this history of the con
test for liberty, executive power has
been regarded as a lion which must
be caged. So far from being the ob
ject of enlightened popular trust, so
far from' being considered the na
tural protector of popular right, it
has been dreaded, uniformly, al
ways dreaded, as the great source of
its danger.
The first object of a free people is
the preservation of their liberty; and
liberty is only to be preserved by
maintaining constitutional restraints
and just divisions of political power.
This is the very essence of free poli
tical institutions. The spirit " of lib
erty is, indeed,, a bold and fearless
spirit; but it is also a sharp-sighted
spirit; it is a cautious, sagacious, dis
criminating, far-seeing intelligence; it
is jealous encroachment, . . jealous of
power, jealous of man. It demands
checks; it seeks for guards; it insists
on securities; It intrenches itself be
hind strong bulwarks, and fortifies it
self, with all possible care against the
assaults of ambition and passion. It
does not trust the amiable weaknesses
of human nature, and, therefore, it
will not permit , power to overstep its
prescribed limits, though benevolence,
good intent o and patriotic": purpose
comes along 'with it. Neither does it
satisfy itself: with flashy and tempor
ary resistance to illegal authority.
Far otherwise. It seeks for dura
tion and permanence. It looks before
and after; and, building on the ex
perience of ages which are p: ;t, it
labors diligently for the benefit of ages
to come. This is the nature of consti
tutional liberty; and this is our lib
erty, if we would rightly understand
and preserve it. Our security is in our
watchfulness of executive power. It
was the constitution of this department
which was definitely the most difficult
part in the great work of creating our
present government. To give to the
executive department such power as
should make it useful, and yet not such
power as should render it dangerous;
to make it efficient, independent and
strong, and yet to prevent it from
sweeping away everything by its
union of military and civil authority;
by the influence of patronage and of
fice and favor this, indeed, was dif
ficult. They who had the work to do
saw the difficulty, and we see it, and
if we would maintain our system we
should act wisely to that end by pre
serving every restraint and every,
guard which the constitution has
provided. And when we and those
who come after us have done all that
we can do, and all that they can do,
it will be, well for us and for them
if some popular executive, by the
power of patronage and party, and
the power, too, of that very popularity,
shall not hereafter prove an over
match for all branches of the govern
ment. Sir, in our endeavors to maintain
our existing forms of government, we
are acting not for ourselves alone,
but for the great cause of contitutional
liberty all over the globe. We are
trustee, holding a sacred treasure,
in which all struggle for our consti
tution and government, but heaven
forbid that they should us recreant.
(The above thoroughly populist edi
torial is an extract from a speech by
Danial Webster.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS.
Editor. Independent: I have been
out in the country working and
just got in last night. Sold those
five postals this morning in five
minutes. Draft enclosed for three
dollars. Send me five more.
- G. A. MILLSPAUGH.
Atkinson, Neb.
(Such letters as this encourage the
editor as well as the business man
ager. The editor feels that his work
must be appreciated when a friend
of the paper can take five subscrip
tions in five minutes. The business
manager feels encouraged, because al-
low rate five subscriptions for 3
yet every new name added through
the solicitation of friends of the pa
per is on the average worth two se
cured by traveling agents. The Lib
erty Building plan is bound to succeed
if our friends will each give only a
few minutes to the work. Perhaps
Mr.Millspaugh's record is exceptional,
but it. shows 'what an -energetic man
can do when he tries. Ed. Ind.)
Seven blocks of Liberty Building
postals 35 cards disposed of in less
than two months, is the record of C.
A. Skoog, Holdrege, Neb., and he
writes, "I : think I can sell a good
many more." , ..
A PLUTOCRATIC NOTION
The legislature of Rhode Island has
been passing laws to make men honor
the flag.
"Say what is honor? Tis the finest
sense ,
Of justice that human mind can
frame."
While the flag represents that, there
will be no need of laws to force men
to honor it. If it represents anything
else, all the laws that parliaments can
pass cannot force men to reverence
and revere it.; That men can be made
by law to honor a flag is a plutocratic
notion. Honor and reverence are emo
tions of the human heart and parlia
ments have no jurisdiction there.
Last year a poor rag picker was ar
rested in Boston and fined for dis
honoring the flag. He had fished one
out of an ash barrel and wrapped some
of his finding in it. The people of
Boston would have paid more honor
to the , flag if they had taken their
senator, who is trying to establish a
despotism under it and chucked him
in an ash barrel, then put the barrel
in a cart and hauled it out to the
dump and left it there.
BOUNTIES AND TARIFFS
Wherever and whenever the laws
of trade have been violated by forc
ing industries with bounties, tax ex
emptions or in other ways, the result
has ben disasterous. For a time they
seem to be prosperous, but in the end
there is loss. Some city, wants to
become a manufacturing place. Now
if manufacturing would pay there
it would soon be learned by those
who have money to invest in that
kind of business. But the city is far
from raw material or inconveniently
located and manufacturers are "in
duced to come by bounties or ex
emption from taxation. These put
it on a level with cities more favor
ably Situated. 7 In the end - the tax
exemption and the bounty ceases and
then there is disaster to both the city
and the investor. The same result
follows when nations go Into the
bounty giving business. The boun
ties on sugar in Germany are in
creasing taxes to such an extent that
it forebodes disaster to the whole
commercial situation in that country
and steps are being taken to abolish
them. But Germany will have to pay
the penalty for this false doctrine.
The investors of millions in bounty
made sugar, the farmers who went
into it and the men who built the
factories will all suffer. Germany
will be fortunate if it does not end
in a commercial crash. In the end
if the farmers of Germany cannot
raise sugar beets without taxing the
remainder of the inhabitants to se
cure them from loss they will have
to raise something else.
Protective tariffs and bounties are
essentially the same thing and are
subject to the same economic laws.
This country has endured bounties
and tariffs because of its natural
wealth. The forests have produced .
many milions, the coal mines near
the top of the ground, while in Eu
rope it is down deep in the depths of
the earth, there are mountains of iron
ore, it has had interstate waterways,
a virgin soil the very richest in the
world, a healthy climate,, and by
means of these it has prospered in
spite of tariffs and bounties. The
application of the discoveries of
science to industry have had their
first application here many of the
great Industries are the result of work
done in the labatories of the chem
ist.' '
We have been able to endure under
this false political economy by mort
gaging the country to foreigners.
The tremendous excess of exports
over imports with no return of gold,
is evidence that the country is mort
gaged to foreigners and sooner or
later the debt will have to be liq
uidated or an enormous tribute be
forever paid.
Altogether aside from the justice
of taxing one industry to support an
other, is this question. There are
economic laws as certain in their
results as the laws of gravitation. All
the Ingenuity of man cannot find a
way of escape. The penalty is sur
to be inflicted. The forests are near
ly exhausted, the land in many of the
states is becoming worn and fertil
izers have to be applied to raise a
crop. After a while we will have to
go deeper for coal and the country as
a whole will come down in the level
of natural wealth to those of the old
world. Then we can no longer en-
Captain Gridley's J Restored fay
other and Brother il Peruna.
51 l tilM YOU ARC READY GfUDLYnRE:
DEWEY'S FLAGSHIP OLTMPIA -CAPTAIN GRIDLEY, COMJIAXDLR.
Airs. Gridley, mother of Captain Grldley, who ras in command
of Dewey's flagship, at the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Manila,
says of our remedy, Peruna:
At the solicitation of a friend I used Peruna, and can truthfully
say it is a grand tonic and is a woman s friend, and should be used
in every household. After using it for a short period I feel like a
new person.9' -MRS. GRIDLEY.
Mrs. Longstreet is the wife of the fa
mous Confederate General, Lieutenant
General James Longstreet, the only liv
ing ex-Confederate officer of that rank.
She writes as follows to The Peruna
Medicine Co.:
"I can recommend your excellent rem
edy, Peruna, as one of the best tonics,
and for those who need a good, substan
tial remedy, I know of nothing bettor.
Besides being a good tonio it is an effec
tive cure for catarrh." Mrs. James
Longstreet.
Hon. , Lucius E. Gridlev, brother of
Captain Gridley, also speaks a good
word for Peruna. In a letter written
from 1511 T Street, Washington, D. C,
he says:
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.
Gentlemen "Your Peruna has been
thoroughly tested in my family. My
mother and wife used it with the very
best results, and I take pleasure in rec
ommending it to all who want a good,
substantial remedy, both as a tonic and
a catarrh cure. "Lucius E. Qridlcy.
Miss Mary J, Kennedy, manager of
the Armour fc Co.'a exhibit, Trans
Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, Neb.,
writes the following in regard to Peru
na, from 842 West Sixty-second street,
Chicago, 111.:
"I found the continual change of diet
incidental to eight years travelinp- com
pletely upsot my digestive system. On
consulting several physicians they !"
cided I suffered with catarrh of th
stomach.
"Their prescriptions did not pvm f-
help me any, so, reading of the remark
able cures perfected by tho ue of IVm
na, I decided to try it, and soou funj
myself well repaid.
"I have now used it. for about three
months and feel completely rejuvenated,
I believe I am perfectly cured, and do
not hesitate to give unstinted prate io
your remedy, Peruna." Mary J. Ken
nedy. Congressman Geo. W. Smith of Mur
physboro, 111., writes :
"I take pleasure in testifying to the
merits of Peruna. I have taken on
bottle for my catarrh and I feel very
much benefited. To those who em
afflicted with catarrh and in need of a
good tonic I take pleasure in recom
mending Peruna." Geo. W. Smith.
If you do not derive prompt and atM
factory results from tho uso of IVrunn,
write at once to Dr. Hart man, givins a
full statement of your ca.e and he will
be pleased to give you hia valuable ad
vice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of
The ilartman Sanitarium, Columbia,
Ohio.
with bounties and tariffs. We had
better begin to prepare 'for; it by the
gradual reduction of tariffs and boun
ties and" plac6 our industries upon the
solid foundations.
THE TIME TO QUARREL
Why should there be war. to the
knife among populists, single taxcrs,
and socialists. As The Independent
has often pointed out, the single tax
er's diagnosis of our economic ills,
so far as noting the symptoms is con
cerned, does not differ materially from
that of the socialist or populist. But
as to what caused the economic dis
ease, these doctors differ; and nat
urally they differ as to the remedy.
A unity of opinion exists that the
rich are growing relatively and actu
ally richer, and that the poor are
growing relatively, if not actually,
poorer. It might be pointed out that
even the poorest In our great cities
have some advantages which were n.;t
enjoyed by even the richest hundreds
of years ago; but this does not change
the fact that the gulf between the rich
est and the poorest is constantly
widening. Upon this point socialists
single taxers, and populist3 unani
mously agree.
What causes this widening gulf?
The socialist wil't tell you that the
competitive system, capitalistic pro
duction, wage slavery causes it. The
single taxers maintain that the pri
vate ownership in land is at fault, that
and the system,, or systems, of taxing
the products of man's labor, either by
taxing him upon what he consumes, or
receives, or what he has. The popu
list says that the people themselves
are primarily to blame, because they
have permitted congress to delegate
its powers to private persons; that
by and through congress the people
have given away in the first instance
millions of . dollars worth of wealth
in franchises to national banks, rail
road companies, and the like, and. in
the second instance have permitted
these corporations to rob them of oth
er millions by "watering" stock and
by other devious methods. Further,
that the people, through congress,
have permitted themselves to be rob
bed of untold millions under the guise
of protective tariff taxes, bounties and
subsidies. And that, aided by these
tariffs and bounties and subsidies, to
gether with rebates from the railroads
and special advantages from the na
tional banks,, ordinary businesses have
developed into the modern trusts, with
all their attendant evils. !
The remedy proposed by each of
these reformers varies according to
his judgment of what causes the dis
ease. The socialist demands the
"collective ownership of all the means
of production and distribution." The
single taxers ask that all taxation be
dispensed with except a tax on land
any improvements, and hopes thereby
to bring about state or collective own
ership of the land, but with private
possession of ' the' land and private
ownership of property and the means
of production other than land. Th
populist demands the abolition of all
special privileges and asks that con
gress cease to delegate any of its sov
ereign powers to individuals or cor
porations: In other words, that the
government issue all money In the tiS
rectest manner possible, without th
Intervention of banks or any othr
private agency; that in the excrei
of its powers as defined by the consti
tution, the government condemn ami
take for public use the railroads, tel
egraphs, telephones, and other Kin
dred institutions.
Now, the socialist asks more than
either of the others. He cannot cxp t
to get everything he asks at once.
There must be a gradual accomplish
ment of these objects, and the natural
order of events will be something like
this: First, municipal ownership in
cities of gas, electric light, street ear.
water works, and kindred public util
ities. Second, state insurance, state
ownership of telephone lines, stwk
yard3 and perhaps state ownership
of railroads, although this would
doubtless prove a failure. Third, na
tional ownership of railroads, tele
graphs, express companies, canals, ir
rigation systems, etc.
The single taxer's demand will never
be granted in the nation until it has
been tried in localities first. Perhaps
the best way would be to allow local
option, something after the fashion of
Colorado. He agrees with populist in
demanding the direct issue of all
money by the government. He goes
part way with the populist In de
manding that the state own at least
the right of way of railroads, etc.
The socialist will not see collective
ownership of all the means of produc
tion until some means of distribution
have become public property. Accord
ingly he need have no quarrel with
the populist upon the points on which
they agree.' After protective tariff?
have .been abolished, national bank is
sues done away with, the single tax
in successful operation in some of the
states so far as concerns local and
state taxe3, and cities operating their
public utilities, then will be time
enough for these three to quarrel over
what will be the final policy.
As a means of securing the things
the majority wants, whether social
isrd, Georgeism, or . populism, these
three can unite in pushing the princi
ples of direct legislation and this,
too, must grow from the municipality
upward.
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