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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
June 12, 1902
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"Man's chief value does not He In
his ability to conquer with the sword
nor to get money.f'-r-Blshop Spaulding.
i1-
After McLaurin is well seated in his
sinecure . on . the. court of claims, It
will be in order to discipline Tillman
some more for saying that McLaurin
sold his voteJorofflce-
Roosevelt says that the natives of
the Philippines must show a capacity
for self-government' before ' it Is
granted. "Yep. That's so. The boy
must learn how to swim before he goes
near the water
The logic of all this talk about at
tacking the army is this: . .The oath to
defend and support the constitution
should be abolished and in its stead
one to support and defend the army
.should be adopted
The Kansas City Bankers' associa
tion resolved that it was opposed to
"a monopoly" of banking, but as the
affldavlt-maker always remarks, "fur
ther the deponent sayeth not." As to
all other monopolies bankers are eith
er mum or decidedly in favor of them.
. Washington and his confreres : shot
the doctrine that the king could do
' no wrong clear across the Atlantic,
. but in this twentieth century the re
publicans nave forced upon us one a
thousand times more odious, nameiy,
the army candnowrong.
President -Roosevelt will make two
trips to the west during the campaign,
one to the northwest and one to the
southwest A few speeches like h's
Decoration Day address will elect an
opposition congress with a majority
so large that it will scare the tariff
grafters, trust magnates and Imper
ialists out ofthjBirsenses.
If Carnegie, instead of going to Mc
Kinley and offering the government
$20,000,000 to give the ' Filipinos their
independence, had gone to Mark Han
na and offered him half that amount
for campaign expenses there would
have been a republic in the Philippines-today
Instead of ,10,000,000 sub
jects of the United States.
McLaurin has been, expelled by the
constituted authorities of the demo
cratic party of the state that sent him
to the senate, and still we find always
in the Associated press dispatches
these words: "One democrat, McLau
rin of South Carolina, voted with the
republicans." That fake is worn out
and it is time that It was dropped.
The standing army of the United
States under the army reorganization
law will consist of 66,497 men. A
general order has been issued dividing
the army into three parts, with the
idea of always keeping one-third of
the army in the Philippine islands,
each third taking Its regular turn
there. That is in order to make the
; flag "stay : P1,
Professor Schurman defines imper
ialism as follows: 'Imperialism is
twice cursed. It curses him that give3
; and him that takes. Nor shall I hesl
; tate to describe the imperialist. That
American is an imperialist who sees in
: our lordship over the Christian Fili
pinos of Luzon and the Visayas a per
manent policy and not a passing re
' sponsibility issuing in Philippine In
dependence." , ...
A writer in an eastern illustrated
weekly remarks that we will now have
to talk and write the king's English,
.after having used the queen's Eng
: lish for nearly a hundred years. If
" Americans adopt the present king's
j English the newspapers will be filled
i with numerous dashes, unless it be-
comes fashionable to print the swear
words out in full instead of only in-
; aicatmg tnem witn aasnes.
' Bishop Spaulding says that "we are
. under the tyrannous sway of com
mercialism and expansion. Those who
prefer money to truth and learning are
i degenerates." The-bishop must have
been reading The Independent. "D
i generates" is what it has been calling
those classes for the last four years.
I Now the bishops begin to see the ap
1 propriateness of the term when ap
j plied to the advocates of imperialism
j and the trusts.
The Boers since the war began have
: done many astonishing things, but the
: most astonishing was when they lev
ied a war indemnity on the victorious
British of $15,000,000. That is turn
( ing all history topsy-turvy. The like
; of it was never known in'all the earth
before. It only exceeds fighting suc
s cessfully the greatest of European
i generals and the best equipped army
i the British ever put in the field at
j odds of 20 to 1, for three years.
Joe Chamberlain's war against the
Boers cost England almost twice as
, much as all her wars against Napol
eon. Besides that she has been forced
j to partially abandon her economic
. policy of free trade that has for a
1 hundred years made her the master of
, the foreign trade of the world. The
London Hooligans declare that Joe
; Chamberlain is a great statesman, and
that England Is stronger than when
! she went into that war. If that is tru?,
"j Joe had better begin another war of
i &e same gpri rxgut away. . 4
POPULISM PAST AND 3TTUB1I
The difference in the price of corn
along the railroads that parallel, the
Missouri river in Nebraska and t. the
price in Chicago is about 12 cents a
bushel. When corn was selling at 10
cents, the railroads and middlemen
took the whole crop and sent back a
bill for collection on the farmer wno
shipped it. Several cases of that kind
are on record in" northern Nebraska.
When corn was 25 cents a bushel the
railroads and middlemen took half of
the crop for transporting and selling
It in the Chicago market and the
farmer had one-half of the crop him
self. Now that corn Is 50 cents a
bushel, the railroads and middlemen
only take one-fourth of the crop and
the farmer has three-fourths for his
own use. When corn was 10 cents a
bushel . the railroads and middlemen
got very little, for but little was
shipped and the farmer b'irned enorm
ous quantities of it for fuel and the
railroads didn't get to even haul coal.
At that stage of the proceedings the
populist party appeared and said tnat
low prices for farm products was the
ruin of the farmer middlemen and
railroads alike. That the thing to
do was, to raise prices and then thev
would all be prosperous. The middle
men and railroads said that to raise
prices was to advocate cheap money
and cheap money meant repudiation
and that the populists were repudla
tors and dishonest. The middlemen,
not having any knowledge of politi
cal economy, joined in this sort of de
nunciationthey didn't know any Bet
ter, but the railroad managers knew
what they were about. They went
on until they bankrupted nlne-tentns
of the railroads, got thtm into a re
ceiver's hands and when . they were
put up at auction bought them in for
a song. Tnat was tne beginning or
the great railroad consolidations and
combinations.
The populists said that the ex
changeable value of everything was
governed by the law of supply and
demand and that money was not an
exception to that rule. That ir one
unit of money or dollar exchanged for
ten bushels of corn, to so change the
ratio between them that one dollar
would exchange for only five bushels,
then the dollars and things doing duty
as dollars must be doubled. Popul
ists knew that for every dollar of
money added to the circulation, from
four to ten dollars of credit money
would be built upon it, and that it
would not require a doubling of the
actual money to double prices.
Cleveland, by the aid of John Sher
man, and all the leaders of the re
publican r party, stopped the making
of any more dollars,' and the ere lit
money disappeared. This was a dis
tinctively republican plan and was be
gun by Boutwell in 1873, followed up
by McCultough and other republican
secretaries until a halt was called in
1878. Then John Sherman planned
and worked for fourteen years, but
was never able to accomplish his full
purpose until he got Cleveland into
the White house. Then followed tho
Sherman hard times, not the Cleve
land hard times, falsely so-called.
Cleveland was but the agent of John
Sherman and the hosts of bankers and
railroad magnates for whom he acted. ;
Those were republican hard times
rather than democratic, and no one Is
more conscious of that fact than the
republican leaders who brought the
condition about.
Having brought about a diminished
supply of money in relation to the
demand, principally by the destruction
of credit money, and having bought
for a song the railroads and billions
of dollars' worth of other property
held under mortgage, then these same
men went to work to raise the price
of the property that they had pur
chased at sheriff's and receiver's sales.
They knew how to do it. One of the
first acts that they passed was one
for the coinage of the silver senior-
age which had been suspended under
the repeal of the Sherman act. The
next was to increase the amount of
national bank notes 10 per cent by
the passage of the law allowing the V
sue of national bank notes up to the
full amount of the bonds deposited.
So eager were they to increase ; the
volume of money that they ran j, the
mints night and day for two years
coining silver of which a record is
made in the report of the director of
the mint,, a copy of which any man
can ,get by writing to his congress
man. June 1 the total amount of
United States money in circulation
throughout the country, according to
the monthly statement published by
the treasury department,, was $2,254,
415,975, or an increase of about $70,
000,000 in the last year.
The result of what Mrs. Emery
would call the "eighth conspiracy" is
the 'most stupendous concentration of
wealth that the world ever saw, fol
lowed by another which will prove
more disastrous than any that preced
ed it, the formation of trusts to ex
ploit every industry known to man.
During . all this time the populist
party has maintained the well estab
lished principles of political economy
principles that have been declared
by every economist "of authority in the
whole world, while their opponents
as to deny the quantity theory of
money.
, Hut new issues have arisen. The
thing that the populists contended ror
most strenuously has been accom
plished. The volume of money nas
been greatly increased, not only by
the coinage of silver and the Issue of
bank notes, but by the greatest output
of gold that the world has ever known
and populists turn with as much vigor
and statesmanship to those new is
sues as they employed when fighting
the contraction of the currency, the
Sherman hard times and the concen
tration of wealth.
The most important of the new is
sues is the question of imperialism.
No sort of compromise will ever set
tle that question any more than com
promise settled the slavery question.
Populists stand as one man for the
Declaration of Independence and the
constitution as It was before the su
preme court tore it into shreds by its
income tax, Philippine and Porto Rico
decisions.
As to the trusts, there is not one
faint-hearted or luke-warm man In
the ranks. They will fight them with
every weapon that they can lay their
hands on, and in this contest they
paint upon their banners, "No Quar
ter." As to the other questions, such as
government ownership of railroads
and telegraphs, recent events have
more firmly convinced all populists
that their platforms have offered the
only means of a permanent settle
ment, and for that reform they will
contend in the future as In the past.
The past record of populism has
been most glorious. It has not fought
for offices, but for principles. The
children's children of populists will
be as proud of them as are now the
descendants of the revolutionary fath
ers. Their organization is perfect ana
it will remain one of the great factors
in government for years to come.
YOUNG MAN IN POLITICS
To the young men who are ambitious
to serve their country, to make a
name for themselves and in some
measure at least to guide the destinies
of the nation, The Independent would
say, now is the time to lay a sure
foundation for future fame. It is as
certain that the republican party is
going out of power as that in tne
breasts of some men there will always
be a love for mankind and that they
will sympathize with the oppressed.
Too few benefit by wars of conquest,
special privileges and the favors that
the trusts and corporations can be
stow, for it permanently to hold a
majority of the American people.
Nothing but selfishness holds it to
gether. It is to the interest of a rew
to support its policies, but it is im
possible for it to make it for the in
terest of the ma, for it exists to
exploit the many the benefit of the
few.
The foundation of reform has been
laid in the labor and self-sacrifice of a
generation of men who are now pass
ing away and the young men who tafce
up the work will reap the rewards.
That is the history of all reform. One
generation suffers, sacrifices and "ays
the foundations in days of darkness
and often in despair. Then another
generation takes up the work and car
ries it on to success. None of the
great and patriotic men who laid the
foundations for the abolition or hu
man slavery, in this or any other coun
try; ever received any reward In of
fice or emoluments. The young men
who took up their fight, where the
pioneers laid it down, got the rewards.
So it will be in this contest of the
common people against the aggrega
tion of capital and wars of conquest.
The policies now advocated by the 're
publican party are as certain to bo
overthrown as was human slavery.
That is in the very nature of man.
All literature will be against it Op
pression never produced a writer
whose works have lived. All poets
sing of liberty and never of greed. Not
in any country in the whole world,
while slavery existed, did there ever
a writer appear whose work has lived,
except his work was a protest against
it. Literature is slowly undermining
the foundations upon which the re
publican party rests. In its literature
there are no poems and nothing that
appeals to the better nature or the
heart and soul of man. It is full of
meaningless catch phrases, bitter In
vective, slander and malice. Such lit
erature does not influence mankind
and it dies the day that it Is born.
On the side of liberty, therefore, the
scholarship and all the higher Im
pulses are to be found. In the end
they will conquer and the day will
come when those who are now advo
cating wars of conquest, government
by force, special privileges for the few
and the concentration of wealth will
be held in universal detestation. This
Is the era for the young man In poli
tics. Those who have the foresight
to take advantage of it will be tne
rulers of this country, just as those
who took advantage of the labors and
sacrifices of the pioneer reformers of
the forties and fifties have ruled for
the last half century. If these men
had been faithful to the teachings of
those reformers they would rule on,
j but they have discarded the Declara-
have even gone so far In their madness tion of Independence, torn the consti
tution into shreds and are now ad
vocating the very things that their
forerunners wiped off the face of the
earth. - . V.'
There is no hope lor the young
man in the republican party, even in
the near future. It is dominated by
old men who have grown hard and
selfish. They are the extremely rich.
They are at the head of the trusts,
great banks, and railroad corporations.
They will give no heed to the aspira
tions of generous youth. ', In their ar
rogance of power and greed for money
they will consider nothing else. If
they can use a young man to further
their interests they will do it, but they
will pay no heed to the aspirations of
the young man who desires to do
something that will live in history and
be remembered as a blessing to the
world.
I-et the young man who has aspira
tions forsake the rotten old hulk,, dom
inated by bankers, trust and railroad
magnates and join the ranks of those
whose motto is onward and upward.
Let them enroll themselves among
those whose work will be a part of the
Ineffacable glory of this republic in
the ages to come.
SENATE HISSES
Washington is a city of republican
office-holders. In fact they are the
city, only enough other persons resid
ing there to supply their wants. The
stores and shops exist for them. The
hotels are almost exclusively for their
use. The different departments em
ploy thousands upon thousands. The
workingmen in the trades are em
ployed upon government' work. They,
too, are largely employed through po
litical influence. The remainder of
the population, a little over one-half
of all, are negroes. The consequence
is that the senate and house galleri?3
are always crowded with office-holders
and their families. They cheer for
trusts, imperialism, wars of conquest,
or anything else that the republican
moguls advocate. One of the shams
of the great dailies is to pretend that
these gallery crowds represent Ameri
can public opinion. A word from a de
partment head at any time would fill
the galleries to cheer or hiss any
thing. The other day these gallery
crowds of republican office-holders did
some hissing for the first time in the
history of the senate, and the presid
ing officer failed to call the galleries to
order and announce the rule of the
senate. The Associated press account
of the matter is as follows:
Reference was made by Mr.
Spooner to the alleged letter that .
had beem written by a soldier
about 1,000 Filipinos being com
pelled totdig their graves. This
had been repudiated.
Mr. Lodge said that the war de
partment had caused an investiga
tion to be made by questioning the
soldier himself. .
; "No doubt," replied Mr. Car
mack, "under this suggestion the
soldier will repudiate it, as every
soldier in the rhilippines has been
requested to do." ;
This was the assertion that
brought out a volley of hisses,
which only subsided when the sen
ator from Tennessee resumed his
seat.
Imperialism makes constant ad
vances. The time has now come wnen
United States senators who oppose it
can be hissed off their feet and the
imperialist advocate cheered on by
fawning crowds of office-holders and
ihe courtiers who surround the im
perial authorities. What Carmack said
was true and was not an attack on tne
army, but on the secretary of war.
TEDDY'S BAD BREAK
Information from Washington is to
the effect that there was about the
most enraged set of republican poli
ticians the next day after Roosevelt
delivered his Decoration Day speech
that was ever seen in that city. The
efforts of the old gray heads In that
party have been exerted to get a foot
hold In the south, but the waving of
the old bloody shirt In the way Teddy
did it blasted all their hopes. His ac
cusation was to the effect that the old
confederates who in the heat of the
war made charges against the north
ern troops, were the ones who now
are again "attacking the army." The
charge is most ridiculous. The at
tacks upon imperialism and inhuman
acts by some of the troops in the
Philippines have come, almost entire
ly from the north and the chief point
of the criticism has been in the old
abolition state of Massachusetts, with
Senator Hoar as the leader. The south
has had little to do with it. The sen
ators who have been fighting the pass
age of the Philippine bill, with the
exception of one, have all come rrom
the northern states. The favors that
have been bestowed upon a few gold
democrats from the south, like Mc
Laurin, the old gray heads now say
have all been thrown away and the
south will be solider than ever. So
they are all in a bad temper. They
with one voice declare .that it was
the worst break ever made by a pres
ident and that there is no way to re
pair the damage.
, VXBT BOUGH SAILING
The imperial newspaper craft are
sailing in very choppy seas these days.
They have had to bout ship and sail
away in a new direction as the moun
tainous waves of facts were about to
overwhelm them. They had voclier
ously denied trie existence of any in
humanities in the Philippines and
when Major Waller was acquitted they
shouted so loud, "we told you so," that
they made the very earth shake with
the volume of the notee. But when
General Chaffee's review condemning
the court that acquitted Waller was
cabled, they saw that their craft3
would soon be a hundred feet under
the water If they held on to that
course, so their skippers threw their
helms hard over and sailed away In a
new direction. Not any of them
thought there was any need of trying
to be consistent under, such distress
ing circumstances, and so they didn't
try. They all united in saying: This
is the course we have been sailing on
all the time and it has turned out ju3t
as "we", said it would. They are still
finding the seas rough and the winds
high.
IS IT DESPOTISM t
A newspaper writer complains be
cause The Independent calls the gov
ernment we have established in the
Philippines, "despotism." He Is very
bitter toward the editor for constant
ly referring to it as despotism. The
Independent adopted that term after
reading the following extract from. a
speech by Abraham Lincoln:
"When the white man governs
himself that is self-government;
but when he governs himself and
also governs another man then
that is more than self-government,
that it despotism. Our reliance is
in the love of liberty which God
has planted in us; our defense is
in the spirit which prizes liberty
as the heritage of all men in all
lands, everywhere. Those wno
deny freedom to others, deserve it
not for themselves, and under a
just God cannot long retain it."
The words "when a white man gov
erns himself and also governs an
other man then that is more than
self-government, that is despotism,"
is a complete description of the Taft
commission government of the Fili
pinos, and Lincoln said it was "des
potism." The Independent knows no
higher authority than Lincoln. It 13
content to be abused by the same class
of men who abused Lincoln. It will
continue to call this republican plan
of governing the Filipinos "despot
ism."
CLKM DEAV3R
By the active work of Mr. Rosewa-
ter and the grace of the republican
party Clem Deaver runs the land office
at O'Neill. From the way in which
Deaver got the office one might read
ily imagine how it would be run.
Nearly 20 years ago the government
bought a large section of country troth
the Omaha tribe of Indians. After tne
government took possession, it was
appraised and sold to settlers. Th a
land was appraised far below its value
at that time. The manner in which
the appraising was done was after the
true republican fashion. The distin
guished gentlemen selected to do the
job at a big salary came up and
formed a hunting camp with their
dogs and guns. They hunted prairie
chickens, which were very plentiful
at that time, until they tired of the
sport and then they took a sectional
map and valued the first line of sec
tions on the south side at $15.00 an
acre, the next line at $14.00 and so
on, going down one dollar an acre on
each line of section until they got
down to about $9.00 an acre and then
slapped the remainder in at that price.
They perhaps spent two hours at thl3
labor and then returned and sent in
their per diem.
The land was sold at the appraise
ment. There were numerous frac
tional pieces, for the railroad, which
was the line on the east side ran
diagonally from southeast to the
northwest. Then the south line wa3
20 rods off the section line, , making
small strips 20 rods wide on every
section. All of these fractional pieces
were taken and some have been paid
for, but about 400 acres have been
used by the adjoining occupants with
out rent or taxes for a great many
years.
Recently these fractional pieces
were ordered sold and the business
was done through Clem Deaver's land
office. Land is very valuable in this
garden spot of Nebraska where the
crops have never failed in a single
year since the country was settled.
The orders were to sell these pieces
to the highest bidder. When the day
of sale came there were a Targe num
ber of men present ready to bid the
full market value for this land, but
under Clem Deaver's "true populist"
management it was all sold to favored
parties at the old assessment made
years ago. The editor of The Inde
pendent knows of one place of 17 acres
on which a responsible man a repub
lican office-holder, too bid $50.00 an
acre, but it was sold to another man
for $15.00 an acre.
The way that the thing was done
was rather queer. On the day of the
sale a large number of men were
present. A committee was appointed.
This committee went around among
the crowd and told them some sort of
a story, the details of which the writer
did not get, and the result was that
each one of the expectant bidders was
given $100. Then the sale took place
in a secret manner, and at the old as
sessed valuation made nearly 20 years
ago. Those who did not g t land, got
$100 each, and -among thera was one
distinguished republican (tate sena
tor. .
Rosewater has been reforming- the
repuDiican party and getting "new
blood" into its leadership. 3 Clem Dea
ver and this gang are some of the
new blood
But this is not the end of the mat
ter. A full report of the transaction
has been sent to the Indian office and
secretary of the interior at Washing
ton. Besides that, at least one man
has employed a lawyer to prosecute
the scoundrels, and Clem Deaver may
get a chance to serve the state down
at Lincoln, or if tried in the federal
courts, to serve the United States at
Ft. Leavenworth
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We do not send the paper free of
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to please everyone. . r
Examine the date on the wrapper of
your paper. , -
THE INDEPENDENT.'
"GOD'S PLAN" !'
Bishop Thoburn has started the
preachers to talking imperialism all
over the. country and they are making
a worse mess of it and bigger fools of
themselves than ever before. Kev.
T. J. Mackay of Omaha declares that
our war on the Filipinos is "part of
God's plan for the government of the
universe, and our continued occupancy
of the islands is necessary to carry
out the plans of the Almighty." Did
the great God of the universe come
down and whisper this information in
to Rev. Mackay's ear? If so, when did
the thing happen? Was there any one
else present? Does the statement
that it is part of God's plan rest upon
any proof besides the bare word of
the Rev. Mackay? If God did not
make a special revelation of that fact
to Rev. Mackay, how "did he find it
out? How does he know so well that
itis God's plan that he Is able to
make a dogmatic statement of the fact
without the least equivocation? Will
Rev. Mackay please answer these
questions. If It is really God's plan
and Rev. Mackay has any proof of that
fact he should be giving it to the
public. From recent eventa it looks
as though the recalcitrant republicans
like Senator Hoar and the populists
and democrats may overcome God and
prevent the completion of his plan
and it is sacrilegious to think of such
a thing. The Independent cannot
speak for Senator Hoar and the demo
crats; but it is certain that the pop
ulists would Immediately abandon all
opposition to torture, government by
force, the discarding of the Declara
tion of Independence and the tearing
up of the constitution, if Mr. Mackay
will convince them that hs has re
ceived a direct revelation from the
Almighty to the effect that all these
things are part of "God's plan."
The imperialists of the senate have
grown so kingly over holding people
as "subjects" of the United States, that
they will not permit the "subjects"
who reside in the territories of Okla
homa, Arizona and New Mexico to
become citizens. The senate has per
manently laid on the shelf the bill
that the house passed to admit them as
states. . They did this In direct viola
tion of the republican platform. An
imperialist cares no more for a plat
form upon, which he solicits votes for
election than he does. for the consti
tution or Declaration of Independence.
The corruption in the city of Phila
delphia is blacker and more damna
ble than any that ever existed on tnn
continent. It will continue just a-:
long as the republican party remain
in power in that city. A superinten
dent of one of the public schools tes
tified the other day. that he applied lor
promotion to another school wher
the salary was larger. One of th
directors asked for $1,000 a3 a consid
eration for election. Finally the de
mand was lowered to $300. The prin
cipal refused to pay anything. Vm
other directors told him that he hn!
better pay, for if he did not he won'.. I
never get a promotion. One womar.
teacher testified that she had paid $12".
for her election and others variou ?
sums. Other teachers testified thn
they had "to see" the republican ward
leader before they, could get a plae
at all. The whole city government
is run by blackmail of that sort, but
the people of the city do not rebel be
cause to overthrow the corruptionlsts
they would have to overthrow the re
publican party. To such an extent na
partisan insanity gone in that city 1.0
one thinks it possible for anythir.;;
to be done to get rid of the robbers.
England has not suffered from tl
financial depression . which has be:
so marked on the continent, but no a
that the Boer war is over and the im
mense expenditures of borrowed capi
tal caused by the war will cease, tt
depression that has been so marked ir
Germany will break out With redou
bled force In Great Britain. The Jin
go government has paid out a billion
dollars for the costs of the war, marie
a present to the Boers of $15,000,oi )
more with the promise of an unknown
sum to be loaned without interest and
pay-day. for the British taxpayer will
come in when business Is paralyzed.
The amount of the price that staggers
humanity is not yet fully known. It
will be a mountainous burden for ar
cades to come. The greatest folly
that a nation ever committed wa
when Britain allowed Rhode; ani
Chamberlain to undertake to over
throw two little republics In the heart
of Africa. Generations yet to. corn
will curse them as they to.i to pay
the price.
About the flimsiest objection imag
inable has been urged against tt.
Post check currency system, i. e.: That
it would require a double system of
acounting, one for the postofflce de
partment and one for the treasury de
partment. Suppose It does what of
it?' Does not the treasury department
haye to keep accounts with the posf
offlce department now? A few more
clerks and that ought not to ff ighten
the republicans and some t licht
changes-In bureau methods would ob
viate any of the difficulties dairm-d .
by objectors. Let's have the Post
check currency, but not the Canadian
postal note scheme.' Here is a propo
sition to the bankers of the west:
You are frightened because of th3
possibility that the Fowler bill will
become a law; help us to enact thi
Post check currency law and we will
render all the aid we can to defeat
the Fowler bill.
Harrlman said in Omaha the other
day: "The days of pools and com
binations are past. Other conditions
are coming to take their places, and
the principal of them will be the cen
tralization of ownership." ' When the
ownership of railroads is centralized.
anti-pooling laws and interstate com
merce commissions will be out of u
job. That is as plain as the nose on
a man's face. If anything is done to
ward controlling rates it will have t-i
be in another way altogether. All
this vast machinery that the repub
licans have put in force as far as con
trolling railroads is concerned n
child's play and always has been. H
only furnishes big. salaries for a lot
of office-holders. Nothing will do th
work but government ownership of ilm
public highways and a railroad is n
highway as much as a common dirt
road. ' ,.
There is only one way to successful
ly fight the extortions of railroads.
The Canadians did not fool around
with interstate commerce commission'-,
and anti-pooling laws when Morgan
threatened to merge the Canadian ra
clflc. The Canadian minister of pub
He works, Mr. Tarte, simply said to
Mr. Morgan: "If you are acquiring
the Canadian Pacific road, the govern
ment will build a parallel line at any
cost alongside of it." Mr. Morgan
concluded that he had hold of the hot
endof the poker and let go pretty
quick. Government ownership is what
heated the poker.
One of the oldest senators remarke t
the other day that Roosevelt was "tho
strangest creature the White house
ever held." The New York World
says: "He is as proud of his 20-mi!o
walks as is . a professional athlete oi
his feats in the field. He glories ir.
his horseback rides, rain or shine. Uh
capers and skips about in his pnvare
office when he is receiving visitors,
as if to emphasize the springiness, of
his legs and the suppleness of hti.
waist. He slaps big men on the back,
tells them they would make great
football players, and always Hateu ,
with a keen interest to stories of tum
ultuous doings."
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1 r eveft lunatic.
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