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    THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
-.. June 19, 1902
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THE BRIBING OF GOMEZ
(Continued from Page One.)
sent a message to congress upon the
question begging them to fall in line
with the administration's policy, but
this has but strengthened them In
their opposition. Perhaps they may bo
won over by "army pie" and "river
and harbor pie," but this seems doubt
ful at the present moment. The pass
age of the house bill would be a bit
ter pill for the administration to swal
low, but they would be even willing
to pass this rather than do nothing at
all. There has already been some
talk In that direction and the pros
pects are pretty bright for another
democratic victory such a one as ths
members of the house had some time
ago. WILLIAM W. BRIDE.
THE SPECIAL MESSAGE
Senatorial Dignity Oirall by KootU'
Order That Cougresa get in Line ' ".
Kathbunisra Rampant
Washington, D. C, June 14, 1902.
(Special Correspondence.) The situa
tion was anything but quiet or reas
suring when Roosevelt concluded to
break all precedent of time and placo
in sending his special message to con
gress. The senators of his own party
regard It as , an impertinence for the
chief executive to pas3them out spe
cial advice when they" have the meas
ure under consideration. -This feeling
of offended dignity applies to all re
publican senators, but the effect of the
message Is still more disastrous when
It is remembered that it means an ab
solute split of the republican party
one that cannot be healed or con
cealed by any application of party
discipline.
The beet sugar senators most from
the middle west and northwest are
more determined than ever to' oppose
reciprocity for Cuba. Those who
stand by the president and for the
measure are thus lined up as sharp
ly in opposition as if they belonged
to another party. Of course Roosevelt
has ruined any chance he had for a
nomination. to 1904, but as these were
daily growing smaller that is a minor
matter. ;. .
The beet sugar, forces have all along
contended that reciprocity with Cuba
would not benefit the Cuban sugar
planter nor yet the consumer. It would,
they claim, simply go into the coffers
of the sugar trust. The testimony, of
R. F. Thurber before the senate com-
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nection and proved the democratic ar
gument. Mr. Thurber, on being con
fronted with a voucher, by General
Wood, admitted that he had been paid
more than $8,000 to distribute "recip
rocity" literature all over the United
States and that the sugar trust had
paid him a large sum for further dis
tribution of precisely the same docu
ments. ;
It was only when Senator Teller
forced the admission that Mr. Thurber
told the story of the whole transaction.
It was a bombshell. Nothing which
has happened this session created such
tremendous excitement at the capitol.
It established several things which
Interest the public. First, that Gen
eral Wood has been disbursing Cuban
finances for lobbying, purposes to get
what the trusts wanted and has been
allowed to handle these funds just
as he chose without making any ac
counting. Second, that the sugar trust
and our, military forces and our re
publican administration have been
nana in giove to 1001 tne people ana
to further the projects of the trusts.
The administration with its usual
fatuity Immediately tried to justify
the expenditure of funds and to ex
cuse and explain away the trust con
nection. It never seems to occur to
the administration to reform its wrong
doing and punish the offenders. Sec
retary Root at once had himself in
terviewed saying that General Wood
had a perfect right; to expend Cuban
funds in any manner he saw fit. The
republicans have been shouting to keep
up their courage and declaring that
the connection of the sugar trust was
quite accidental and made no differ
ence. But if so, why all this secrecy?
Tr wnct h v ar.rident that th ATnn
came,
The thinking people of the country
need only to have these facts in their
possession to make up their minds a?
to the advisability of trusting the na
tion's destiny with a party and an ad
ministration where every week ex
poses some new corruption and when
exposed the administration justifies
ttm course. . -
For some time the democrats have
been endeavoring to get an accounting
OI Ulo lUUUb sycui. uuuug uut luiuuai
occupation of Cuba. But the rotten
ness Is so great that the republicans
dare not let the country know what
has been done just on the eve of a
congressional election. So the official
report will be held up until after con
gress adjourns and - then f suppressed
until after election. ,
The postal frauds in Cuba will be
ka nothinsr comnared to the wasteful
illegal and lavish expenditure under
: General Wood's regime. It is now the
intention of prominent democratic
senators to send a representative to
Cuba to unearth a great deal of evi
dence that can readily be obtained as
to the enormous amounts; of money
cpent by General wooa ror any pur
- pose which happened to strike his fan
for a young republic when we leave
it with exhausted resources and empty
coffers. ' t
The president's ' message' fell flat
It was recognized as a piece of bad
politics and bungling statesmanship
which simply embarrassed his party
still more when .It was already writh
ing under the disclosure of sugar trust
connection with reciprocity. It is
easy to see why the spirit of militar
ism does not want the people to know
how their money is being spent. Ev
ery investigation shows corruption.
Your Uncle Mark Hanna thinks that
"let well enough alone," will do for
a campaign motto.- But when the din
ner pail is without meat and the scan
dals of the administration grow there
is no well enough, to be let alone. It
is a condition which demands prompt
action and a thorough Clearing out of
the rascals. D. P. B.
THE PRODUCTS OF LABOR
Mr. Bolt Dliouiiet the Propenltioa and
Asks Some Pertinent Qntien.
Editor Independent: What are the
products of labor? ' It is my belief that
a paper is a benefit to its readers,
when, as a result of reading it, new
ideas are awakened 'in the minds of
its readers, causing them to give a
few moments' serious thought to any
subject, no matter w.hat that subject
is. Considered Jromrthis standpoint,
I have already got the worth of the
price of subscription from The Inde
pendent although I-have nearly a year
paid for yet. The editor must not con
strue this statement too literally, how
ever, and stop my paper or I shall be
obliged to resort to "strenuous" meas
ures to induce him to - resume, even
perhaps a trial of the "water cure" or
rope cure."
My thinking drill has been working
overtime lately, trying to go to bed
rock in my consideration of the real,
live subjects which appear in every Is
sue of The Independent.- One of those
subjects through which I have not
been able to go to bedrock, is the the
ory that workingmen are to a more or
less extent being deprived of the prod
ucts of their labor.
The products of a producer's labor
are the things brought into existence
by that labor; when those products
are sold for the market price in cash,
the money represents the wage of the
producer for the time he actually
spent in the production of the article.
I fall to see where he has been de
prived of the product of his labor. A
skilled workman is set to work on the
raw material thus produced and re
ceives a stated price for transforming
it into a finished article. I fail to see
where he has been deprived of the
products of his labor.
The manufacturer pays cash to the
producer for his labor; he also pays
cash to the skilled workman; be also
pays other incidental expenses, such as
clerk hire, Insurance, taxes, rents,
transportation, etc, perhaps the total
expense of material, labor, etc.,
amounts to one dollar and twenty
cents an article, a profit of twenty per
cent would amount to twenty-four
cents, which would make the selling
price one dollar and forty-four cents.
I should think the product of labor
is the difference between the selling
price and the total expense. In other
words, the product of labor is the
profit the employer is able to realize
by the employment of the workman.
Very few people will take the bold
stand that the employer should have
no profit, and nearly : every one will
make haste to declare that workmen
should have a sufficient wage to ena
ble them to save a little of it.. But I
fail to see how the employer can get
more money for an article than he
paid out for It, and the laboring peo
ple pay out less, than they receive at
one and the same time.
I hope the editor will be able to eo
to bed rock for my rope is all out.
GEO. B. BOLT.
St. Louis, Mo.
(Mr. Bolt has raised a very pertinent
question. Before the division of labor
had been carried to as great "an extent
as now, a great many articles were
manufactured and used by the same
person. The farmer killed a steer
and his family ate the beef. From the
tallow they made candles to furnish
the house with light.. He tanned the
hide and later made shoes for himself
or members of his own family. He
produced the "raw material;" he man
ufactured it. The products of his la
bor were the beef, the candles, and
the shoes. His wages were these
identical articles. No one could say
that he was not entitled to all he pro
duced. Yet it was a cumbrous and ex
pensive mode of . production. By the
use of money, the division of labor is
brought about and today the farmer
would sell his steer for money and
with the money buy meat and shoes
and candles (or a substitute for the
latter). But somebody must butcher
the steer, tan the hide, and make the
shoes. The man who knocks the steer
on the head with an ax, the one who
sticks him with a big, bloody knife,
the one who skins him, the one who
cuts him up, the one who hangs the
quarters in a cold storage house, the
one who places these in a refrigerator
car, the railroad company that hauls
the beef to another town or city, the
retailer who sells the meat all are
paid for their services in money; . they
own no interest In the product. The
question is: Do all these men receive
a just equivalent for the services they
the machinery are entitled to Interest
upon their investment; in a measure
they must stand on the, same footing
as the men who perform the actual
labor. But the further question is:
Does not the manufacturer get more
than his just share? Or, stated an
other way, do not those who perform
the labor receive less than their share
of the things produced? Suppose
there were.no such thing as money:
Then each man employed would be en
titled to his proportionate share of
the product he helps produce. Does
he get that today? If not, then an in
justice is being done him.
Mr. Bolt confuses the "product of
labor with the profits enjoyed by
the capitalist. The product of labor
is the thing produced. If every man
worked wholly for himself, produced
only for himself, and exchanged noth
ing with his neighbor, but one of two
conditions could possibly exist: He
would either consume his products ap
proximately as fast as he produced
them,: or he would accumulate a sur
plus for future use. The same is true
under a wage system: If he spends
his wages as fast as he receives them,
he is in reality consuming all he re
ceives of what he produces; if he
saves something out of each week's
wage, he is virtually accumulating
part of the product for future use.
The machine the workman uses
helps produce; it is entitled to credit
for the part it performs; the owner of
it is entitled to the share it produced,
for It represents him. But if the owner
of the machine gets not only that
portion, but also part of the portion
which is really due the workman, then
the laborer is not receiving his just
share of the product in other words,
what he himself produced. Under
the minute division of labor at present
it is difficult to say in any specific In
stance exactly what portion is due the
laborer, and the payment of wages in
money still further obscures the issue.
Laborers are not paid wages accord
ing to what they produce, but accord
ing to what others equally proficient
are willing to accept. Allowing a just
proportion of all goods produced to
go to the owners of the machines as
tleir share, would the total money
wages of all workers buy back the to
tal of the products which theoretically
belong to these workers? Nobody be
lieves it would, and this is what is
meant when we say that the laborer is
entitled to what he produces and
does not get it. Ed. Ind.)
NEBRASKA LAND FOR SALE.
480 acres under irrigation, Elkhorn valley, at
S15 Der acre.
820 aeres, 7 miles from Lincoln, $47.50 per acre.
o4U acres, improred, 40 per acre.
190 acres 1 miles from Lincoln, $50 per acre.
We have snecial bmraaics in Nebraska farms.
Terms of sale about one-balf cash, balance at 5
per eent.
PAUL H. HOLM, 1045 "O" St., Lincoln, Neb.
THE DOOM OF DEMOCRACY
An English Critic Tells Some Unpleasant
Tmthf and Makes Some Disa
greeable Predictions.
Occasionally a reader of The Inde
pendent believes the editor to be sim
ply an alarmist who views everything
through dark-colored glasses and sees
danger in even the most harmless
looking manifestations. The follow
ing, quoted from Public Opinion, will
show that others besides the editor of
this paper see the drift of America
from true democracy:
An English author, Mr. Francis
Grierson, writing in the Westminster
Review, foretells the downfall of re
publican institutions in the United
States. By way of opening the sub
ject, he quotes Chateaubriand's dic
tum: "Aristocracy has three succes
sive ages: the age of superiority, the
age of privileges, the age of vanity;
sprung from the first, it degenerates In
the second, and expires in the third.'-'
In the United States the Declaration
of Independence ushered In the age
of superiority; the close of the war of
(recession opened the way for the age
of privileges; we are now entering
upon the last stage, the age of vanity
and decay.
"Three things have caused this pre
mature old age," says Mr. Grierson.
Rapid and continued increase of
wealth, the American's love of travel,
and a hasty, superficial culture. Long
continued prosperity has created a
ove of luxury unparalleled in the his
tory of the world; rapid and easy
traveling a taste for foreign things;
cheap schools, colleges, and literature
a belief that the highest culture con
sists in hearing and seeing. Ameri
cans have lived so fast that only an
nsignificant few have had the time
to read and digest the work of the
great thinkers and writers like Emer
son, Lowell, and Whitman. Thou
sands who have made the voyage to,
Europe more than once have never
crossed the Mississippi river; others
from the far west know London and
Paris without having passed a day In
Washington.
"We have to look at such people
from two points of view; the practical
and the psychological. Considered in
a scientific light the American busi
ness man has a young head; consid
ered in a social light he has an old
heart. In imagination he Is still in
venting and creating; in feeling he is
discontented and blase. The typical
rich American of today regards with
Indifference the luxuries with which
he Is surrounded. What he and his
wife desire are the distinctions and
privileges which belong to the illu
sions of the social world. Steeped in
an atmosphere of ennui, the only so
lace for so much mental misery Is a
sojourn in Europe once or twice a year
where it Is some consolation to dine
with a decadent lord or sup with a
declassee duchess. Thirty years ago
the whole country took its moral tone
from Boston. The whole nation Is
now Influenced by the wealthy sets of
the fashionable centers. Washington
basks in the radiance of ambassador-,
ial pomp; Baltimore has a cardinal's
court; New York is both Catholic and
Episcopalian; Chicago makes a dis
tinction between the millionaires of
the stock yards and those of the stock
exchange. There is scarcely a city or
town that is not in some way con
nected by a kind of wireless communi
cation with the British nobility. But
this state of' things will not long sat
!sfy the commercial potentates of the
great republic. As soon as the Ameri
can navy is three times as powerful
as It now is an empire will be formed
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with considerable regularity in its col
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ONLY A FARCE
Serere Arraignment of Our Judiciary,
Our Constitution, and Our Institu
tions by Mr. Sehweizer.
"Laws and rights are inherited like
an eternal plague." Goethe.
"Courts are slaughter houses of
rights." Arndt.
Bolton Hall, a prominent lawyer In
New York, declining a nomination to
a judgeship, wrote to the independent
labor party:
"I wish not to serve you in any con
nection with law, for I do not think
that at present either the object or the
effect of law is to do justice. Lord
Cook said the law was a machine for
the creation of costs. Any layman
who has experience with it will bear
me out in saying that law of today Is
merely a game played by us lawyers
for our benefit, and under complicated
rules made by ourselves at public ex
pense. I would not wish to spend my
life playing such a game."
This explanation is correct. Justice
has become a rare, costly drug In this
country, which common people can
not afford to buy. The old, worthy,
scrupulously righteous Dame Justice,
with scale In hand and the Icey to
the larder in her pocket, who always
took pains that every one had his
good dinner and plenty, at the right
time, died long ago' and was replaced
by an indifferent, conceited, unscrup
ulous hired girl for everything, who
always keeps in reserve an extra
sausage and a bottle of champaign for
every one of her many beaux. Our
proceedings at law are a farce of
idiotic technicalities, hair splittings
and law chewings, a reproach to all
reason and justice. The decisions are
based on false oaths and antedeluvlan
precedent cases and the more worm
eaten and moldy the parchments are
from which our judges take their pre
cedents the wiser and more just these
gentlemen think that their decisions
are.
At our courts the lawyers represent
the torturers of the dark ages con
fusing, intimidating, insulting and
hypnotizing parties and especially wit
nesses to prevent them from telling
the truth, and for extorting false con
fessions out of them.. I was not only
f-urprised, but shocked, after I came
to this country and entered a court
room the first time, especially when
I saw with what indifference judges
administer oaths in this country for
every trifle. It is a sacrilege to call
God on the witness stand for everv
disputed nickel, and that's what an
oath before the court really is. That
deprives the honest, conscientious man
of his rights and delivers him at the
mercy of every mean, unscrupulous
rascal who swears to anything and ev
erything. A few such mean rascals
can bring the most honest, innocent
man to the gallows.
Mrs. Harriett Beecher has very
truly criticised that system in the
romance, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," where
the lawyer Marks, who in partnership
with Tom Locker had made it a busi
ness to catch free negroes and to sell
them as. slaves, says:
"You see we have justices conven
ient at all p'ints along shore that does
up any little job in our line quite rea
sonable. Tom he does the knocking
down and that 'are; and I come in all
dressed up shining boots, everything
first class when the swearln's to be
done. You ought ter see now, how I
can tone it off. One day I'm Mr.
Ranch For Sale
Two miles northwest of Venango,
Perkins county, Neb. 295 acres deeded
land, 52 acres school land, 20 years'
lease; 200 acres has been under high
state of cultivation; plenty of gras
for hay; miles of free range; 80 acres
pasture, 2 wires; frame barn, 24x32x
12 feet; posts Hen on east, L on north
room for 75 head cattle; all stock can
be fed from Inside the barn; mow
room for 12 tons of hay; chicken house
and hog pen; frame dwelling, 5 rooms,
3 rooms plastered, kitchen and wash
room celled, well painted inside and
out; barn and windmill painted; 60
barrel cistern near the barn with wood
pump; garden fenced; bushels of
strawberries; nice plum grove loaded
with plums; plenty gooseberries and
pieplant; large rock-walled cement
reservoir to irrigate garden; large
rock-walled cellar with stone steps;
everything in first class shape for
cattle ranch. This is a snap for the
small sum of $2,250. For fu partic
ulars write me at Venango, Neb.,
Troickem from New Orleans; 'nother
day I'm just come up from my plan
tation on Pearl river where I works
seven hundred niggers; again I come
out a distant relative of Henry Clay
or some old cock from Kentuck. Tal
ent Is different, you know. Now Tom's
a roarer when there is any tumping or
fighting to be done, but at lying he
hain't good, Tom hain't. You see, It
don't come natural to him, but Lord,
if there's a fellow in the country that
can swear to anything and everything
and put In all the circumstances and
flourishes with a longer face and carry
it through better than I can, why, I'd
like to see him that all. I believe my
heart I could get along and sneak
through even if justice was more par-'
ticular than they Is. Sometimes I
rather wish , they was more partic
ular then would be a heap more rel
ishing if they was; more fun, yer
know." - ,
It must be about 50 years that Mrs.
Beecher has written that serious, but
true criticism of our judiciary, but in
this long period the judiciary system
was not changed by a single letter.
We have today by the hundreds or
even by the thousands the Tom Lock
ers, who have to do the "tumping and
knocking down" of men and the Marks
who can swear to anything and ev
erything and put in all the circum
stances and flourish the same with a
long, piteous face. They instituted a
well organized and well armed and
well drilled by the government li
censed guild and from their talents
and efficacy they have given proof at
Homestead, Hazelton, East St. Louis,
Brooklyn, Chicago, Coeur d'Alene.
These Marks and Toms are hanging
around in every court room and are
employed with large salaries by rich
corporations, which have justice con
venient at all points alone shore and
does up a little job in their line quite
reasonable. If a corporation or one
of our millionaires is prosecuted for a
crime they go to the president or to
a judge and ask what they will charge
them for the joke, as for instance by
the investigations in the case of Bab
cock, Bellknap, Credit Mobilier,
plugged up armor plates, embalmed
beef, when some of the Marks will
come in all dressed up first class,
shining boots, to swear to anything
and everything desired and the con
cerned gentlemen will again be as
clean and innocent as a new born
baby, just the right gentlemen to be
appointed or elected to the United
States senate for enacting our laws.
In the worst case, if an intelligent
jury should resist all intimidations,
brlbings and bulldozings of lawyers
and judges and send one of our mil
lionaire robbers through the front
door to the penitentiary there would
be one of our higher officers waiting
with a key to unlock the hind door of
pardon for him. Money buys In
digencies for every crime, only for
the poor man there is no pardon. Hun
dreds of bankers who. robbed the poor
of millions were pardoned, but to the
poor devil who robbed the mails for
only 2 cents a pardon was refused. In
Idaho 1,200 men were corralled, ar
rested and placed In a stockade, prop
erly named a bull pen, where they
were cruelly treated and held for
months without trial under pretended
suspicion of having set fire to a coal
mine, although not the least proof
could be produced and not a single
man could be put on trial. Justice
Gunmere of the supreme court of New
Jersey handed down a decision, If a
railroad kills a child its parents should
be satisfied with damage of $1. Chil
dren are a source of expense to their
parents and of no pecuniary benefits.
Justice Robinson, a member of the
supreme court of Connecticut, Is re
sponsible for this judgment: "Pro
vided, the railroad killed a man pain
lessly, $10 is sufficient damage for his
relatives. The relatives must prove
that the man suffered pain to get more.
The fact that the body is mutilated
does not prove it."
The price of men went way down
since the emancipation of slaves. A
negro was worth from $500 to $2,000,
but at present human flesh is the
cheapest article In the meat market.
If a railroad kills a hog it has to
pay from $1 to $20 damage; if it kills
a cow or ox it has to pay from $20 to
$50 damage, but according to the
above cited decisions the officially
fixed price for a child is $1 and for a
man $10, so that human flesh is even
cheaper per pound than pork or beef.
This is the most atrocious scorn of
justice. Such judges are a disgrace
and a curse to a country. Where in
justice prevails people must degener
ate to stupid slaves, barbarians and
cannibals, and In that direction we
have made great progress. Laborers
in coal mines and sweat shops are
worse off than slaves ever were. The
devilish refined cruelties wherewith
people In China and the Philippine
islands were treated stand on a level
with the cruelties which once were
committed by Attilla and the Huns
and in cannibalism can we beat any
thing in roasting negroes? The con
ditions must be changed, but they
can never be changed by brutal force.
You can never attain moral good by
immoral acts; the end does not justify
the means. Club and sword are argu
ments of savages and barbarians, but
reason, truth and justice are the wea
pons of civilized peoples.
To change these conditions we must
change our political system. The peo
ple must take the reins of the govern
ment in its own hands. The will of
the people must be supreme law. in
stead of obeying the dictates of offi
cers, lawyers and judges the people
must show these gentlemen that they
are only hired men of the people,
who must work for their wages, obey
the will of their masters to whom they
are responsible for their acts, the
same as other hired men. But from
my experience In Switzerland, I know,
that that can only be done by a total
change of the constitution, which was
a patch work right in the start. The
most honest, noble, patriotic men of
that time opposed it and It was not
accepted by the people until It was
patched up with several meaningless
amendments.
Patrick Henry, one of the wisest,
most honest statesmen of that time,
was the strongest opponent to the
adoption of the constitution, and as
today his prophecies about the effects
of the adoption of the constitution are
literally fulfilled, I will give a few
sentences from his speech against the
adoption of the constitution:
Mr. Henry said: "If we make a
kin gwe may prescribelhe-Hll pby.
terpose such checks as shall prevent
him from infringing upon them, .hue
the president in the field at the head
of his army can prescribe the terms
on which he shall resign. . Master so
far that it will puzzle every American
to get his neck from the galling yoke.
Away with your president, we will
have a king. The army will salute
him as a monarch." But after the
constitution was adopted this noble
man said: "Yet I will be a peaceful
citizen. My head, my heart, and my
hand shall be at liberty and remove
the defects of this system -in a con
stitutional way. I wish not to go to
violence, but , will wait with hopes
that the spirit which predominated in
the revolution is not yet gone nor the
cause of those who are attached to this
revolution yet lost; I shall therefore
patiently wait in expectation of seeing
the government changed so as to be
compatible with the safety, liberty
and happiness of the people."
But, alas! this government is not
changed yet. We all know that this
government is not compatible with
safety, liberty and happiness of the
people. As Patrick Henry foresaw and
foretold, except for a small privileged
class, it is at present a great puzzle for
any American to get his neck from
under this galling yoke as there is not
a single sentence in the constitution
which confers the least bit of a right
upon the people.
In the Free Thought Magazine,
Judge Parish B. Ladd expresses the
sentiments of millions of American
citizens when he says: "Where, O.
where are our once boasted constitu
tional liberties? Where our cherished
rights of self-government? . Where our
asylum for the oppressed? Where our
land of the free and the home of the
brave? Alas! all gone down, trampled
in the dust by the iron heel of an
American despot, sustained by an ir
responsible congress of brainless dem
agogues and a subservient supreme
court."
Now there is no other way to change
these barbaric systems except to
change the constitution, but reform
ers must be careful in tearing down
existing institutions; they must act
like an intelligent archtect who, in
tearing down an old bulding, Is al
ways careful to save the building ma
terial which, by a little hewing, paint
ing or polishing, may again be used on
the new buildng. Before changng the
constitution we must prove and sound
the ground for solid moral founda
tion. Our political and economic system is
a failure because it has no moral foun
dation; instead of being based on rea
son, knowledge or truth and justice it
is based on old superstitions, lgnor
ance and brutal force. Our moral code
is yet based on thousands of years old
Hebrew myths and superstitions which
long ago were contradicted by science,
and our civil code is based on thou
sands of years of old Roman rights
which were intended for slavery and
absolute private property and there
fore it must have the same effect and
lead to the same end, where we al
ready have arrived. Our president
usurped and exercises more absolute
powers than any living monarch, and
the members of our supreme court
Imitated the pope, declaring them
selves infallible, what for thousands
of years was believed to be an attri
bute which belongs only to God.
F. SCHWEIZER.
Woodlawn, Neb.
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Arapahoe, Neb.
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