j-It - THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT April 24, 1902 the Uebraska Independent Lincoln, Itebraska FRESSE BLDG.. CORNER I3TH AND N STS Published HjVrbt Thuesdat SI. 00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Whoa ' staking remittances da leave none? with news ageaeiei, postmtstere, ete., to be forwarded by them. They frequeatly forget or remit a different mount tkaa was left with them, and the sabieriber fails to get proper credit. Address all communications, and make all drafts, money ert, etc., payable to Zh Hebrask Independent, Lincoln. Neb. Anonymous commnnications will not be no ticed. Bejected manuscripts will not be re mined. It seems that the editor of Freedom, In Manila, who committed lese maj esty against the Taft commission, is an Irishman. His name Is O'Brien. The man who had trouble about let ting go of the bear's tall had a picnic in comparison with what Is waiting for those - republican leaders who bought the Philippines. That populism is stripping for the coming fight is shown by the fact that its national organ, The Independent, received an average of 114 new sub scribers every -day last week. Bowlby, of the Crete Democrat, says that there are a lot of democratic and populist editors who take their cue for editorial writing from the repub-4 licans, and in that statement Bowlby is right. The republican papers jeer at the "water cure." They say it is a mild sort of thing, far removed from tor ture, but a, lieutenant :in thetPhilip pines has been tried for murder be cause he applied it to a private sol dier in his company and the soldier died under it. It seems that Senator Lodge has a "machine" in Massachusettes that beats any ever constructed by Quay or Piatt. It is said that it never slips a cog or develops a hot box.' What Lodge - says- goes with every republi can leader in the state. Senator Hoar is no longer consulted. t The reports of speeches made . by democratic members in the house goes to show that the party is pretty well saturated with protectionism. When a democrat takes to protection, he can be counted on to support every other republican policy when his vote is needed. -,. v k; " '. '. TT71 3 - 1 . 4 . . J x vv lieu a. leueiai juuge i ttxi uume into a etate and by an imperial order remove the tax assessors and collect ors and ; appoint men of his own to assess and collect the taxes, as Judge Orosscup did in Chicago the other day, it might be well ! to stop and? try to figure out how much of this republic is left. . "". Mr. DeHart's article on tariffs, pro tective and for revenue only, which appeared in the Independent last week, was a forcible presentation of the sub ject, and it would be well for the dem ocratic managers to make a study of It If o tk nnoUInn 1 lists from the very organization of the party. The Chicago dailies . have, allowed the reporters to write up descriptions of the suffering caused by the extor tions of the meat trust, but that is -as. far as any of these subsidized edi tors dare to go. An editorial denun ciation of a trust, is a thing that not one of these miserable creatures dare attempt. TVi n n34s?1 nnll V. T.- vuivii van iui cue ivausas puD- ulist state convention is out. It will be held at Topeka, June 24. Five su preme1 judges, a congressman at large, and eight state officers are to be nomi nated. The apportionment is based on the Breidenthal vote, a delegate at large and one for each 250 votes, mak ing a total representation of 740. The official reports coming to this offi.ee show a very great falling off in exports, especially of .wheat, corn, and" cotton during the last six "weeks.1 A prominent New York financier says that the only thing that will prevent large gold exports ' during the year and a panic, is large crops in this country and failures in Europe. Look out. - '; . - Three men run congress. They comprise the majority of - the rules committee. No man can address .'the speaker, introduce a bill, or speak a word without the consent of these three men is obtained In advance. The three men are' Henderson, Gros venor and Dalzell. The whole Amer ican, people are , under the control of their absolute power. That is one of the lines along which imperialism ad - .4. i.u- icauiuri BU ui&s tu mat. seiuie- - BIET IUGAK AND TARIFFS Mr. Tawney l said in the house that "If the beet sugar business was prop erly protected for a few years that it would supply the entire domestic con sumption." ; "Properly protected?" .Whatf does? thatf-mean ; r There is no doubt that the government could tax the peole to such an extent and de vote the taxes to the production of beet sugar so as, to raise enough sugar not only to supply the peole of the United States, but probably the peo ple of, the .whole - world.' ,There is no doubt about that. But at the end of "the few years" what would happen? Would not this ' country be in ' the same condition' that Germany is to day? The taxes for the production of beet sugar, and it makes no differ euce whether they are called "boun ties" or "protective, tariffs," have become such aburden upon the people that all, the nations that have adopted this . false policy have recently called a conference and agreed to stop the practice. ' If at. the end of "the few years," the government support to this Indus try should be withdrawn, far reaching disaster would follow. It -; would not affect the farmers so much as the mea who had invested - millions in beet sugar factories. The farmers could plant their fields with other crops. The scientists have devoted their best and severest work to the perfection of the system of extracting sugar from the beet for more than twenty years. It is reasonable' to say that the process has been brought as near perfection as it ever will be. There is no reason to suppose that at; the end of "a few years" that It can be done cheaper or better than .now. What will follow then? , If the government removes its "protection," a great disaster will fol low. To avoid that, the only recourse would.be to tax the peole for ever for the benefit of this industry. Either one of. those two things would follow, that is, if the statement is true that beat sugar; cannot be. raised without "protection." The farmers who are engaged in the raising of beet sugar are an exceeding ly small per cent of all the farmers. Shall a tax be placed upon all the other farmers, collected by increase in the price of sugar that they consume, for the benefit of this small per cent, and shall that tax be perpetual? That is the only practical question in this whole beet sugar contest. There is no doubt in the mind of un prejudiced men that beet sugar can be produced at a profit without "protec tion." Mr. Oxnard and the chief chem ist of the agricultural department have both so testified under oath and in cir culars distributed, all over the coun try. Other and more important evi dence is that the sugar trust is build ing beet sugar factories in Colorado and is going into the beet sugar busi ness in other states. Other evidence is the positive statements made by the Oxnard chief chemist to friends in this state when urging them to take stock in the Oxnard factories," which were to the effect that there was big profits in beet -sugar .without bounties or Protection: and. that all . f . .. . Of those two tMners that thv irmlrt get were simply gifts to a profitable business. - : The main question, however, is whether this country should now take up the discarded : policy of Germany and other European countries which has brought them to the verge of dis aster. Germany;'. France and Belgium have tried it and found in it only dis aster.' -:':, V , . EDITOR WHO GOT LBFT The miserable creatures who do the editorial writing on the daily papers have no principles . of their own and their only duty seems to be to keep their eye on Washington. Most of them do it to perfection, but once in a while, one of them gets left. That is what happened to the editor of the Chicago Tribune the other day. All that came from Washington was to the effect that Roosevelt was going to forcibly retire General Miles. Roosevelt had given out the word him self. That being the administration's policy, the Tribune editor naturally came to the conclusion that the thing for him to do was to roast Miles and flatter the president. He devoted his "leader" to that, and no doubt viewed his work with satisfaction when he ran it over before he put it in the chuta to go up to the composing room. V Now it happened that at the very time that that editor was wriing his screed, three of the most' distinguished and oldest senators were talking to the president telling him that the retirement of Miles would not do at all, that the old soldiers would stand br the civil war hero to a man and that people would raise a termendous row. This Tribune editor, ignorant of all that, went on to tell how the old soldiers didn't care a cent about it, that ' the press was riot interested and that it was the right thing to do. About the time that editor ; re turned from 'the theater, and sought his virtuous . couch; dispatches came rolling into the Tribune' office, tell ing of the visit, of the senators and how Roosevelt had changed his mind out in th same paper and that editor must have been disgusted. He was trying to obey his orders to support the administration and the administra tion had flopped in the afternoon with out informing him. He had a right to be disgusted. He didn't care whether an old soldier 'was to be dis graced, whether the thing was right or wrong he did not take into con sideration, but to be found opposing the administration when his order.3 were to support it was very disagree able. The editor who has principles and stands by them, never has such trouble as that. The editor of The Independent has been searching the dailies ever since the Gardener report appeared. He knew what was coming, and has only been surprised that it did not appear earlier.' Last. Sunday the dailies, had it. Colonel Gardener is the most in human wretch that ever walked on two legs. The horrors that attended his command of the Thirtieth infantry are beyond the power of words to de scribe. He maltreated the sick, he kept the men on guard needlessly, if one fell out of the ranks from sickness he had him court martialed, fined and imprisoned. Take altogether Colonel Gardener was . worse to his men than a dozen Weylers. That is what all the imperialist papers said last Sun day. Futhermore he Is a traitor for he went Into close fellowship with the "niggers," especially the leaders and the rich ones from the very start. Every sensible man who read that re port knew that was coming and hero it is. That is what is meted out to any man who has the temerity to doubt the infalibility or omniscience of the republican president or th-3 policies of the party. Mr. Herbert W. Horwell, an Eng lish literary man temporarily in New York, writing for the Forum, doesn't take much stock in the present-day talk about Americanizing the world. "Undoubtedly," he says, "there is just now in England a great sale for Amer ican products. It is only natural that the English customers should profit by the opportunity. By the kindness of American protectionists the . Lon doner is able to buy such goods at a less price than that which they are sold for in New York, and he would be foolish indeed if he did not take ad vantage of this generosity." Mr. Hor well hints that to make a splash is not the same thing as to swim. And he recounts what happened during the past five, years of earnest effort ... to capture the. cycle trade. About . three years ago he says that many thousands of American bicycles were unloaded upon the. English market; "they were advertised with the , utmost ingenuity, their merits were expounded by smart agents, and their cheapness attracted purchasers all over. the kingdom. To day scarcely anyone in England ridys an American bicycle." Instead of be ing concerned "over Americanization, the English are getting the best of it just as they did in the case of German beet sugar. By means of the sugar bounty German manufacturers were enabled to sell sugar in England at a ridiculously low price, so low, in fact, that it was frequently fed to stock by the English, while the German peo ple were obliged to pay about four cents per pound more for sugar than English people paid. Our protective tariff is working much the same way in many lines of trade. Of course the English can stand it very well, but how long are the American peo pl ienoggbmh mh mh m hfrararfarfa pie going to stand It. Much was given to this nation and much will be required. Neither men nor nations can escape the inexorable penalties which have followed and which always will follow infractions of the moral law. We enslaved men. Think of the penalty. Four years of war and bloodshed. How many hearts were broken? How many families de stroyed? A penalty will follow this Inhuman war on brown men in the Philippines just as certainly as it fol lowed the enslavement of black men in the south. They said they had set tled the slavery question a great many times. That was but another illustra tion of the truism that nothing, is ever settled until it is settled right. It might have been settled long before the war. Every southerner could have been paid for his slaves at one tenth of the cost of the war. The Philip pine business .will never be settled un til it is settled right. They may an nounce six, times a week for years to come that "the war is over." But it wil never be over as long as the great moral law is defied. Never. The Chicago Chronicle frantically asks 'is there no democrat anywhere who is man enough to insist that the democratic party shall be democratic and not populistic?" In plain Eng lish this means, is there no one to in sist that J the democratic party shall be assistant republican and not demo cratic? That is i an easy one. The Chronicle is respectfully referred to J. Sterling Morton of .Arbor Lodge, G. Cleveland of Gray Gables or D. B. MORGAN'S STEAMSHIP MERGER It is announced that all the steam ship lines, American, -: English and German have been morganized into one great combine upon! the principles of the Northern Pacific merger. The agreement is between the International Navigation company, the White Star, Dominion, Leyiand, Atlantic Trans port and Red Star lines, with tUo German lines included in the "un derstanding." This is a threat against the commerce of the whote world and it remains to be seen what action the different governments will take in re gard to it. It is acknowledged that American capital will control, while the company will be nominally for eign. Morgan is the head of the whole thing. The Independent does not look upon this as so serious a threat against the welfare of the common people as the combination and control of railroad lines, for steamship companies have no right of way and no power of emi nent domain. It will not be an abso lute monopoly of the ocean carrying until it gets control of all the ship yards of the world, which no doubt it will next proceed to do. The ocean is a free public highway and can not be monopolized. If this combination charges extortionate freight and pas senger rates, other men will build ships and compete, until the ship trust controls all the ship building busi ness. '' -; "-' Morgan's . plan seems to be to first get into position to say to the people of the world: "Get off the sea," and then afterards he will arrange things so as to be able to issue the commands "Get off the earth." What will the poor mullet heads, do then? Perhaps they will wipe their weeping eyes and say: ''Mark Hanna told us there were no trusts." . PRACTICAL EDUCATION There have been thousands of col umns published in the papers and hundreds of books written about the wonderful industrial development of the United. States The fact however is that it is mainly due- to the practi cal education received by the young men of the country, a system that this writer has unremittingly advo cated for twenty years. The practi cally edudated young men have gone into the great iron manufactories.the creameries, the textile works and hun dreds of other places and brought the scientific knowledge they have ac quired tOpbear upon production, the saving of j by-products, making a direct application of chemistry; electricity, and J mechanical engineering, and in that lies tlie great secret of the won derful production. There , remains yet one thing to be done. One half of the population of the United States are engaged ' in ag riculture. The same system of edu-; cation must be applied to , those who will encr.e in farming. Greater im provement lies in that than has ever been accomplished in any other field of production. The technical, schools of agriculture have been but poorly patronized, The time has come when they should be filled with bright young men and women who expect to spend their lives on farms. There is an il limitable field of undiscovered knowl edge connected with agriculture that awaits the trained intellect to bring it forth to bless mankind, enrich the world and make it beautiful. A few of the republican worms who have been trodden on for years by the three moguls who run the house have at last begun to turn. Congress man Cushman did some wiggling last week and broke out as follows: "When a bill is reported what does the mem ber who introduced it, and wrho is charged by his constituency to secure its passage do? Does he consult him self about his desire to call it up? No. -Does he consult the committee that recommended it? Does he con sult the will of the majority of the house? No. I will tell you what he does. He either consents that the bill may die on the calendar or he puts his manhood and his individuality in I his pocket and goes trotting down j that: little pathway that leads" to' the speaker's room. All the grandeur that clustered around the holy of holies in King Solomon's temple looked like thirty cents yes, looked like twenty nine cents compared with that job bing department of this government." TWO CENT PASSENGER FARE There is no destroyer of common sense equal to greed, and it has never had better illustrations than among railroad managers. Some years ago there was a, road in the northern part of this state that. charged five cents a mile and over for passengers It was a poor sort of thing and got down so low that it ran only one train a day each way and that a mixed one. When the legislature fixed a maximum rate of three cents, the managers of this road said they were ruined. But they were ; not ruined at all. Within a year they were . running two trains a day, one a passenger and one a freight, eacli way on the road. l The Independent has often told the railroad managers in this state that if , they.wojaldeduce jtheir passenger rate. would, make more money from pa3-. sengers than they now do on account of the increase in travel and give a boost to business all over the state which would bring bigger returns on freight. But they will have none of it. They figure out what they think the traffic will bear and then pile it on. The managers of the Tew Ybrk7 On tario and Western railroad seem to have more sense than . the average railroad magnate. That road nearly fours years ago cut its passenger rate to two cents per mile. The first year there was an increase In their receipts of $30,000, or about one-half of one per cent. It has been increasing ever since, the total Increase for three yea.s being 24 per cent. The fourth year ha3 not yet been reported. Absolute power in the hands of any man or set of men is detrimental to them and the whole people. The rail road, managers have exercised abso lute power in fixing rates, all efforts of state governments to Interfere hav ing been futile. When the government takes over the roads we shall have a two cent or less rate, and there will be increased travel and a great im pulse to business. 'DESPICABLE CREATURES That the 'great republican dailies are perfectly useless as a guide to pub lic opinion is shown in the way they have treated the order to investigate the cruelties practiced upon the Phil ippines in the inhuman war that has been waged upon them. Rosewater and the " whole lot of the truculent editors ifave scoffed at the papers that have these charges and called their editors "copperheads" and "traitors." But the moment they got ' the new3 from -Washington that the administra tion had ordered an investigation, he, and the whole gang of them, flopped over to the other side and declared that every man guilty of the barbari ties should be punished no matter how high the rank. They have no opinions or policies of their own. They are for everything that the ad ministration favors and against every thing upon which the administration frowns. From Maine to California and from the lakes to the gulf the are the set of parasities, flatterers, an l obsequious" followers of power and patronage. They are a curse to the age in. which, they live, a foul sppt upon civilization. Servility is their chief characteristic. The mass of stuff that they write and publish day after day has nothing in it to ele vate or instruct. If tomorrow with out any evidence at all, the president should announce that there had been no cruelties practiced upon the Fili pinos, every mother's son of them would take the other side of the ques tion. Not one of them has an opin ion of his own, or ; if he has would dare to express it. These men are simply writing hirelings and will ad vocate any policy or advocate any scheme that they have an intimation would be pleasing to . the authorities at Washington. The world never pro duced a mOre despicable set of crea tures. ..: . . . When railroad presidents begin to .talk like Ingalls did in Chicago the other day it shows how deathly sick the republican leaders are of this whole Philippine business. One of the most prominent of the' eastern sena tors broke . lose the other day in a torrent of profanity and damned the whole thing from top to bottom. All he wanted, he said, was for somebody to show the republican party how tJ get out. Congressman Robert W. Davis cf Florida, at a Thomas Jefferson anni versary dinner given by the Harlera Democratic club in New York lasi week said that the state of New York must have the next candidate for pres ident and that he can be no other than rr.vii B. Hill. Of course this state ment of Mr. Davis's does not nominate Hill, . but it is a significant straw which will make populists more earn est than ever in maintaining their party organization. The beef trust is giving the repub licans much annoyance just now be cause it has started . the good house wives to talking. The newspapers everywhere are taking it uprand about all the republican papers have been able to say is to advise the laborers to not eat meat. The Ralstonites have been preaching this doctrine for a good many years, but there is no doubt that the high price of beef right now will produce more vegetarians (tem porarily) than all the moral suasion ever attempted. Congressman Tawney . declared in the house that he and his colleagues had been denounced as "traitors," be cause they had humbly offered to make amendments to a bill before the house. He should not have com plained of that. That is what he and all the other republicans have been calling every man who , did support imperialism and every other republi can policy. Acording to, their talk, fully one-half of "all American citi zens . are traitors. Mr. Tawney need t - --ii "ill -'i-"-"t SUFFERED THREE YEARS. CATARRH OF STOMAG - Miss velym Morse Miss Evelyn Morse writes from 651 Adams Street, Minneapolis, Mlna., a t follows: "1 suffered for nearly three years with catarrh of the stomach which no medicine seemed to relieve, until a friend advised me to try Peruna. Although skeptical, 1 tried it, and found It helped me within the first week. 1 kept tak ing it for three months, and am pleased to say that it cured me entirely, and 1 have had no symptoms of its return. I am only too glad to recommend it. "--EVELYN MORSE. Adia Brittain, of Sekitan, O., writes : "After using your wonderful Peruna three months, I have had great relief. I had continual heaviness in my stom ach, was bilious, and had fainting spells, but they all have left me since using Peruna.- I can now get around and do my housework, and think; Peruna the greatest medicine I ' ever used." Adia Brittafn. ' Mrs.' Lizzie Blevins, 102 Boliver street, Cleveland, Ohio, writes : "I candidly feel Peruna was the means of saving my life, for I auffen-d f.-r months from catarrh of the ptcmch. Two bottles of Peruna cured me.M -Mr.-. Lizzie Blevins. If you do not derive prompt and pati? factory results from the use of rerun a. write at once to Dr. Hartman, gitinc . full statement of your case and he wiil be pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. - Address Dr. Hartman, President cf The Hartman Sanitarium, iumbui. Ohio. The commissioner of labor for Ne braska has collected the statistics of marriages and divorces in the state for the last two years. It appears that there were 9,06 marriages (luring. 1900 and 738 divorces. In 1901 there were only 8,897 marriages and 893 divorces The increase in divorces is astonish ing. The labor commissioner says that the cause of the increase is pov erty! Think of that in these days of unparalleled republican prosperity! That labor commissioner "better watch out" or he will lose his job.' The little motto on our coins those "sound" or otherwise must : go. Where's the use of so many 4. word? "In God we- trust" sounded all right years ago, but this can - be amended to suit the times by simply cutting off the first- two words "We trust. ' That's amply sufficient, but the verb itself has " taken on a new meaning since Rockefeller began hfs career of killing off competition in the oil trade, stopping at nothing short of murder and arson to accomplish, his purpose and it isn't certain that we ought to except arson at least. The imperialistic method of legis lation adopted in the house got a shak ing up last week. " Never since par liaments began has there been any thing so devilish cunning aa the pro c?;ltre in the xouse under .the thres Moguls. The majority, by the per mission of tl.? speaker, brings in a bill and th; minority are prohibited from offering any amendments. Tho bill must go' as it is presented, no mat ter Low imperfect it may be. That was the thing that the , republican worms at last revolted against. The Cuban tariff bill was amended. , It' seldom pays to be over aealous in drumming up recruits for the other fellow's army, even if he happens to be your ally. Grant Harrington, the populist leader of Brown county, Kan sas, worked with might and main to have the. populist organization aban doned and populists become demo crats. A few weeks ago the democrats Of Brown county reorganized and re pudiated Bryan and the new democ racy, says the Barber County Index, and came out flatfooted for Hill and Cleveland and . their kind of a plat form. Mr. Harrington ought ? to go way back and sit down. Whenever the republicans, intend "to do something they begin a howl against the opposition and declare that they intend to do it. Just now they are bawling: "Who will haul down the flag?" or "Shoot the first man who hauls down , the flag." , They do tlis because at the order of the British government they -hauled down the flag that floated over a vast region of gold mines iu- Alaska, they wi)l haul it f J ft, o --if -1fl piTn1 :r wrmLZm. they are getting ready to haul It dow in the Philippines. Of the last j- -they are sicker than the man wh drank tincture 'of ipicac and thong . i it was whiskey.' Three of the oldest republican sn ators called on the young man at ! -White, house and informed him that it would not do to retire Gen. Mile They said that the G. A. R. won! ! stand by Gen. Mljes to a man. an t that his forcible retirement would Hn the names of Miles and Schley togeth in the next campaign and the resul: would be the election of a democrat i house. The cowboy from the Bit Horn mountains who was made presi dent of the United States by an As sassin's shot promised that he wotil ! not remove Miles, at least for the pre ent. A scanning of the returns of city hr ! town elections in the various stat shows that almost universally, polit ical parties were ignored, national pol itics ' entering hardly at all into th contests. This is a very hopeful str and shows a tendency toward better municipal government. What earthlv use there Is In bringing Into a town election the question of imperialism. tariffs, subsidies and things of tha' sort is one of those things that no rw;r can find out. ThO 4arge cities kt their tendency to run their elections or; national issues but the smaller citiv : nd towns are abandoning that sort of thing. As far as the Investigation has gon in the meat trust there is a strong lin of evidence showing that the railroad are at the bottom of the who! of it. First in refusing to furnish cars ?o shippers and in the cut rates whlc they have given the favored packin? houses. The common people of Chi cago are in despair, and the retail meat dealers are organizing to SgM the trust. The federal district at torney, under the orders of the presi dent are making a show of an investi gation, but so far nothing has been , accomplished. Mark Hanna said .it the Oliver theater in thi3 city tha there "are no trusts." All the mull-: heads with patches on their pant shouted; "Yep." And then they went and voted the republican ticket. Dur ing the campaign they marched up ar. ! down the streets with a tin vessel lab elled: "A full dinner pail." But tha pail upon investigation proved to nearly empty. It has less in It no.v than it had then. The Independent Three Months The Commoner; " (nr. Bryan's paper) One Year.. .The above offer is open alike to old and new subscribers to either paper. Send all orders to - r