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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
AUff. ,7, 1902.
Zfyt Uebraska Independent
Lincoln. Utbraska.
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The Ticket
"For Governor. .... ..W. H. Thompson
(Democrat, Hall County.) .
Lieut. Governor E. A. Gilbert
V (Popull8t, York County.)
Secretary of State.. John Powers
(Populist, Hitchcock County.)
; Audi tor.... C. Q. De France
. (Populist, Jefferson County.)
Treasurer . . . . ;....'.. . . . J. N. Lyman
(Populist, Adams , County.)
Attorney General....... J. H. Broady
(k (Democrat, Lancaster County.)
.Commissioner Public Lands and-
Bu'ldings.... ...J. C. Brennan
(Democrat, Douglas County.)
, Supt. of Schools Claude Smith
' ,. (Populist, Dawson County.)
The logical candidate of the - imper
f lalists is ."Hell Roaring" Jake Smith.
i Populism is ' not socialism," never
,-theIess it is an earnest-protest against
the, overstrained individualism of the
last few decades.
' Roosevelt, Knox,, and Littlefleld are
1 going to knock the trusts out, so they
'cay, but nevertheless, the trusts will
(furnish the campaign funds to keep all
those three' gentlemen in office.
r The republicans are going in for
"literature in this campaign at a whole
sale rate. They print their documents
by.the mIllionsand if one should form
'an opinion from the blood-red ink
that they use." so profusely; he would
come to the conclusion that they were
all anarchists. ,.
' : 2S52SSSA
Little by little the truth comes out.
It now transpires that Senator Tapp of
. Kansas did not say he would vote the
republican state and county tickets ;
that; he didtlot say he would vote
against Senator Harris' re-election to
the, United ' States senate And again
the Associated press is to blame for the
dissemination of a lie.
" The new ecleslastic who will go to
Manila under the orders of the pope
will become a political power. The
government of the United States will
be greatly interested in the character
of the man, which is the first time that
this government ever got Into such
.close connection with the Roman
Catholic hierachy. This imperialism
leads to much very strange business.
Every one knows that the alien con
tract labor law has been a dead let
f ter ever since commercialism took
charge of the government through the
agency of the republican party. - Now
t that an election is approaching over
which that party is very anxious, an
order had been issued to the Immlgra
ition commissioners to strictly enforce
It. That is the republican way of.do-
ing things all the time.'
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It must seem rather ' lonesome for
George W. Brewster of Lincoln, Neb.,
.member of the national committee of
? the "Allied People's Party" for th a
state of Nebraska. He's "
"The mldshipmite
And . the bo's'un tight
And the crew of the Nancy Bell."
Or, In the language , of the street,
' Brewster's the whole cheese. He's
probably the only "allieder" in Ne
braska. 'There Is lots of fun for a pop In thl3
campaign. The republicans are print
' ing some democratic speeches, such as
Morgan's defense of the army, and the
democrats are printing some republl
; can speeches including those of Sena
tor Hoar One offsets the other and
whether either party gains votes by
the performance one thing will be es
- tablished and that is that some demo
crats are republicans and some repub
licans are democrats.Vyet. party insan
lty has such a hold upon them that
they will all vote . their own party
ticket and vote 'er straight.
The church takes on more and more
.the purely business aspect. There are
evangelists who go about the country
agreeing to save souls at so much a
head. One in northern Illinois goes
- about from church to church on these
terms: "Forty dollars a week and fifty
' conversions . guaranteed or money re
funded." He finds many ministers and
churches ready to hire him. Tha
r money value of a soul under that
. agreement seems to be 80 cents. The
- Independent -wonders what old Peter
Cartwrlght would have said about an
. agreement of that -kind,.
rUTURK POLICIES
Whether one agrees with the conclu
sions of Mr. Newton M. Taylor or not,
the article from his pen which ap
peared in The Independent. affords sub
ject matter, for much thought. ' Let u?
all acknowledge the facts and then see
if, we cannot. all come to eSome agree
ment. It will be well to remember
past errors so as to avoid them In the
future. The error committed In tha
last campaign was In not freely ac
knowledging and accepting the facts.
The Independent was the only promlT
nent paper that wanted to acknowl
edge facts; and which urged that pol
icy -upon the national democratic cam
paign committee. ' Its editor secured
the adoption of a" plank In 'the populist
platform of the state of Nebraska call
ing attention to the enormous increase
In the volume of money and the results
that followed. , The democratic party
should have done the same thing, but
it did not. If It had, the whole field
would have been cleared for new Is
sues. The republicans, after denounc
ing the coinage of silver and predict
ing that it would bring disaster and
ruin 'upon the country immediately
went to work as soon as they were !u
power and coined more silver than was
ever coined before In the same length
of time, and although there was an
immense output;6f . gold they bent ev
ery energy to increase the currency
and get "more money" Into circulation-in
every possible way; except by
issuing greenbacks.
Why the democratic managers did
not take advantage of. so wide a gap
in . the enemy's lines and march tri
umphantly through, is a thing that this
writer could never -. understand. He
wrote frequent letters to the national
democratic committee and to editors
of .prominent democratic papers urg
ing that attention should be called to
these things. He : even collated sta
tistics of the increase in money taken
from treasury reports: and reports f
the 'director of the mint and presented
them to democratic speakers and the
said speakers refused to ust them. Dr.
King of Lincoln win remember one
Instance of that kind,, for' he had a
hand In It. . ' V-'!;'f 7. ' V
If the democratic party had taken
that position .the decks would be clear
for action now. As it s is -they are
strewn with rubbish which neither
crew or commander knows how to get
out of the way.;-': :
As far as the populist party Is con
cerned the declcs are clear and every
man stripped for the fight. Popull3t
never made fools of themselves talk
ing1' about "the two- precious metals
that God designed for money." !They
always said that what was needed was
more money" ,and that It did not
make a particle of 'difference whether
It was made of gold, silver or paper.
They declared that an increase in the
amount of , money-, would, relieve the
distress and bring prosperity. They
advocated the coinage of silver, not
because it was "the money of the
fathers," "constitutional money," or
"the money ordained by providence,"
but because the coinage of that metal
would make "more money," especially
the coinage of senlorage lying idle In
the vaults of the treasury. They are
now in a position to say that the de
mand for more money having been
complied with, they insist upon the re
mainder of their platform being en
acted into, law. -
There Is no silver bullion uncoined
anywhere In the world. All the sliver
that is mined, excepting what Is used
In the arts, Is coined and goes Into the
circulation of the world. Gold ought
to be coined on the same terms that
silver Is as long as the world insists
on the barbarism of metallic money.
All the sliver being coined what more
can we ask?
Every economist knows that any
greater rate of increase in the volume
of money than' is now assured from
the tremendous output of gold and the
coining of all the silver except what is
used In the arts, presages danger. The
position hat. populists should take fn
regard to money is to fight against in
flation, and especially bank inflation.
They should protest in their platforms
against the; issue of wildcat money,
and enormous and unsafe expansion of
credits. Bank credits now stand at
the ratio of 10 to i for every dollar of
money 'in existence. A short crop or
any. other national disaster would blot
out all of , this confidence i money in
the twinkling of an eye. As far as
national finance Is concerned, the fight
of the fusion forces should be along
these lines. .The platforms should be
built upon these . principles. - .
The financial is but one question of
many that" statesmen must deal with.
There are many other questions upon
which the populists and Bryan demo
crats are hotly opposed to the repub
licans. They may be summed up; 03
opposition to all those things which
tend to concentrate wealth s in a feT
hands, and the defense of the baste
principles . upon which this govern
ment was founded and has grown
great. If It was worth .while, for Wash
ington, Jefferson and Lincoln to de
vote their lives to the establishment
of those principles it certainly Is worth
our .while to defend them, The denial
of the principles contained In the Dec
laration of Independence and the tear
ing in shreds of the constitution! by
supreme court decisions Is certainly
a matter that presses upon us. Can
we, because our stomachs are full for
a time afford to see the very founda
tions of the government removed with
the certain knowledge that the whole
framework will come tumbling down
sometime in the future?
So far . the fusion forces, and espe
cially the populists, have constructed
their policy on the eternal and un
varying laws of political economy.'
That is the reason that we can.hold un
our heads and look all men straight
in the eye. Shall we compromise oir
honorable record now? One of the
fundamental laws of political econ
omy is that restrictions upon trade
hinder the production of wealth. Tar
iff restrictions upon trade not only do
that, but they create monopolies, en
able "the captains of Industry" to rob
the laborer and take to themselves all
the increment of wealth made possible
by invention, science and education.
We will still stand by the principles
in this regard that we have so long
promulgated.
The populist idea Is, the public own
ership of all public utilities, including
the railroads. Rebates on the rail
roads are the foundation of some of
the great accumulations of wealth and
the basis of the Standard Oil and some
other trusts. Until the people are suf
ficiently aroused to demand the public
ownership of railroads the fusion
forces will give all aid possible to
ward complete control of the railroads
by governmental authority.
The fight for equal taxation of all
property held by individuals or cor
porations should be kept up with the
greatest vigor. The justice and equity
of this no man can deny.
Election of United States senators
by a vote of the people will be de
manded until it is granted.
The attempt to increase the credit
currency by making silver redeemable
In gold, when the credits already are
more than ten to one of all the money
in existence, including silver, should
be fought with all the power and
force that can be mustered. That
means ruin and desolation such as
this country has never known.
Branch banking, which is only an
other name for the greatest and most
powerful trust that the genius of mail
ever . Invented, must be met with 'the
fiercest opposition. That would create
apower greater than was ever' exer
cised by any czar, emperor or poten
tate that ever lived. When a year oC
bad crops came, the managers of ft"
would simply take In all that was
worth having In the whole country.
An Income- tax, which is. "the only
really just tax ever Jevled, must be ad
vocated. By the present system of a
tax on consumption, the poor pay as
much as the rich, while the cost of
government is mostly made by the
rich. The protection of their rail
roads, street car lines and other vast
interests . fill the dockets of the courts
from top to bottom and keep in sor
Tice a vast army of marshals, sheriffs
and policemen.
The initiative and referendum will
be demanded until It Is granted.
On broad lines, the fight by the fu
sion forces and especially by the pop
ulists, will be for a government in this
Interest of the.whole people as In con
tradistinction to a government by the
syndicates, trusts, banks and railroads
for the privileged few. "
STOP TALKING
The modern Massachusetts Puritan
is very, much like his ancient ancestor.
Beginning with Vermont and ending
with Connecticut the shrewd traders
of that district, foreseeing the end of
slavery, transferred their slaves to the
south to raise cheap cotton for their
looms. From that sort of labor they
grew rich. "Now they have transferred
many of their looms to the south
where they have Inaugurated a slavery
ten times worse than ever that of the
African was. It is child slavery. The
wee, toddling things are driven to
these Massachusetts owned factories
and worked from ten to fourteen hours
daily and the Massachusetts aristo
crats grow rich from a toil that is
cheaper than that of the negro slave
ever was. These sanctimonious gen
tlemen go to church every Sunday, and
walk -about with a holier than thou
strut, while they denounce the labor
agitator and walking delegate and
their judges send Mother Jones to
jail for "talking." It Is, true that
Mother Jones has done a good deal of
talking. She has been down south an I
seen the little tots toiling In the cot
ton mills to pile up money for the al
ready wealthy northern owner. After
she saw those sights she "talked."
And now a federal Judge has sent her
to . jail because she would not stop
talklrig.
All this is part of the gospel of
greed the concomitant of the wor
ship of Mammon. It is the result of
the doctrines taught In some of the
churches and the political idea that
the object of national existence is to
amass great fortunes. The whole ma
chinery of government Is used to that
end. Tht great apostles of the repubr
llcan party bend all their energies to
that purpose. The men and women
must toll and the little children mut
sever have any time to play er study,
they must spend their years from just
above babyhood until they die in the
factories jillng VP 'gold for the ca;
tains of industry. Any working man or
woman who has the spirit to protest
and "talks,' must be sent to Jail. Af
ter the judge gets them in Jail on his
own order, then he walks the streets
and while off the bench : insults and
abuses his helpless victims. Judg?
Jackson's remarks .about organized la
bor while off the bench was the most
abusive that ever fell from human
lips. He exercises the right to "talk,;
but denies it to wage-workers.
3lA.TL.RO A t MERGERS
The modern plan ? to consolidate the
railroads in few hands is simplicity it
self. The only wonder is that it has
not- generally betn . adopted before.
There is no possible way of any gov
ernmental interference with it. It ref
quires but comparatively a small
amount of capital to do it. Any one
can understand, how it Is done.
..-In the first place a railroad is owned
by a Joint stock company. ; The con
trol of the road is in the hands of
those who own a majority of stock.
At a meeting of the stockholders
those owning the majority of the
shares elect the directors. These di
rectors control-the road, appoint it3
officers and fix the salaries. All that,
everybody understands. In . the past
directors have sometimes so managed
the road that the stock run down to a
nominal price and it took but little
money to buy a majority of shares.
Now a new plan is adopted.
. The syndicate called the Moore Bros,
have obtained a majority of the shares
of the Rock Island. . The stock of that
company amounts to $75,000,000. It
sells at nearly $200; a share. To get
control of the, road and hold it under
the old plan would require $75,000,000.
That was a little too, big a .thing for
the Moore Bros, 'syndicate to manage
for any length of time.. So they adopt
this new plan that will enable them to
control the road and manage its busi
ness for less than one-seventh of that
amount of capital.: ; They do like the
steel trust tried: to do. They invite the
stockholders .tor -take first mortgage
bonds for their stock.. They will give
the stockholders who are willing to
do that, two dollars in. bonds for one .
dollar of stocky vThe bond. Is simply
a mortgage on the road and calls for
4 per cent interest. : As soon, as a
stockholder -' changes - his stock into
bonds he hasino more to say about
the j management " of the road. The
control remains in the hands of those
who own what stock is left. The stock
will be reduced;: by this plan from, $75,
000,000 to rabotftH$2Q,000 ,000. 'Ten mil
lion and one dollar of stock will give
completer "control of "the whole vast
system'and thejBoore Bros, will be
come Goulds and ' Vanderbilts right
away, . Under ' tjils . system less than
one-seventh of the amount of capital
will control the rroad than is now re
quired. Working' this plan on a larg-3
scale, will throw the whole railroad
system of the United States Into the
hands of a dozen men, and they will
have no trouble, in making arrange
ments to take all the traffic will bear.
THE REPUBLICAN RECORD
The republican state government
has been the most miserable falluro
from the beginning to the present that
ever disgraced this commonwealth.
They started out with a legislature
that spent three months trying to elect
two United States senators to the neg
lect of all the interests of he stats.
That tremendous effort resulted in the
election of Bartley's partner and the
unspeakable Dietrich. The latter was
the candidate of the hoodlums and
was In every way a fit representative
of that class. He has kept up his re
putation while In Washington. Their
governor made an- assault upon the
educational Institutions of the state
which was a fit and proper thing for
a hoodlum governor to do. To offset
this, a tax had to be laid upon the
students while the money raised by
taxation for the university lay idle in
the- treasurer's hands. ' Two costly
state buildings, the penitentiary and
the Norfolk asylum, where guards paid
by- the state were, supposed to have
every room under their eyes night
and daywere burned down. No rea
sonable man will' say that there was
any necessity for these fire losses, and
if the guards had been appointed on
account of their fitness to perform the
duties, they never would have oc
curred. They have had two governors, the
hoodlum whom, they elevated ; to the
United States senate and his successor
who has prostituted the pardoning
power to such an ; extent that It has
been a matter of I comment .all over
the United States. , Thelr state treas
urer made himself so disreputable by
his bond deals that the party dared
not renominate him. Their board of
equalization of taxes, composed of
state officers, have rallied around them
every railroad attorney in the state
to. enable them to devise schemes "to
relieve the railroads from paying their
Just share of the taxes. Their state
attorney general has proved to be such
a legal imbecile that he is the laugh
ing stock of the whole bar. They havo
increased the state indebtedness near7
ly a million dollars
Their conventions, with- the excep
tion, of the few sharp, shrewd railroad
attorneys and managers, have been a
ss of hoodlums "that" painted Vit
pjjjna
town red " and filled the police courts
with cases of plain drunks. They In
sisted upon keeping the saloons open
after midnight and got some very good
citizens " into trouble by their . urgent
demands that whisky should, be idea'
out to them all night long
Now this gang, without one : act , of
good government' to recommend them,
come, before the. people for re-etection.
While some of them may have doubts
of .success, most of them are arrogant
and full of confidence. They know that
the mullet heads, are accustomed to
"vote 'er straight" and that is the
basis of their confidence, v . ,
CREDIT" AND PRICES
The inflation of. bank credits is so
enormous that ;even among, some . oi
the "sound money" men' who have
gone into this wildcat banking, creat
ing liabilities of ten dollars, for every
dollar they have in their vaults, are
Inclined to halt a little. Thfe great
burden of it, however, comes upon the
wage-workers. They, .in their: blind
way; are protesting all aver the coun
try. The enormous increase Of cost in
living expenses,, with a wage scale
that responds to it In only a slight
degree, produces a very great amount
of hardships among the toilers, espe
cially in the eastern states. Very
much of this suffering is directly
traceable to the inflation of credit.
John Stuart Mill says: "In a state
of commerce in which much credit is
habitually given, general prices at any
moment depend much' mare upon the
state of credit than upon the quantity
of ..money.. A person who, having
credit, avails himself of it in the. pur
chase of goods, creates just as much
demand for the goods, and tends quite
as much to raise their price, as if he
had made an equal amount of -purchases
with ready money." That state
ment is so self-evident that - it needs
no argument to sustain it. v" '
Bills of exchange, promissory notes,
checks, and the clearing house scheme
for quickly handling them, have ail
greatly increased the facilities, of, cre.l
it; In any city, if all the inhabitants
had credit at one 'bank and did all
their business" with checks, no ' money
would be used at all. In every transac
tion there would simply be a ere lit
and debit made on the books of the
bank. This can be very easily under
stood . if, applied to only, two , perso as
instead of hundreds. A buys $1 sworth
of sugar of B and gives B a check cm
the bank for "that amount. B" sends
the check to the bank where B's ac
count is credited with $1 and the same
amount lis "charged , against. I NqJ
money lias been hsed." Thern If 6 buys,
a hat q ,A for $1; and , gives - Kim a
check on the bank . tor,, it, -when the
check reaches the bank the process is
reversed and another debit and credit
is entered on the bank's books. Still
no money has been used. , A; and B
may never have put a dollar in: the
bank. Each of them may have gone
to the bank and given it a promissory
note, and the bank has given them a
credit on its books against which they
have : drawn these checks. It will be
seen that by this plan of promissory
notes and checks, money has bee'h en
tirely eliminated. The two together
have performed all the functions of
money. This Is what is called "credit
money." . ..
As prices depend, other things be
ing equal, upon demand and supply,
it can be readily understood how; credit
raises prices just in the same propor
tion as that increase in the amount cf
actual money would. A's credit en
ables him to buy a dollar's worth of
sugar and, that added just that mucn
to" the demand for sugar. It does not
matter if these' checks" pass through
many hands before they go to the bank
or. whether B ever buys anything di
rectly of C or not. The whole multi
tudinous exchanges of "a city '.can be
"clone In' this manner. ;
But there is a very; great difference
in doing business in this way and
with actual money. If A had : paid
actual money for his sugar thai would
have been a final settlement. The ac
count would be closed forever. Not
so with this check business Between
the time that A gave his. check oh the
bank and its presentation there might
have been a run on the bank. When
he got there he would find the door
closed. Then he would return the
checks to B and demand "money."
While the bank stays open," and ev
erybody has "confidence" in everybody
else, this "credit . money" is, a great
thing. But all this credit money may
vanish in a twinkling of an eye. Ah
order from Wall street, in 1S93 destroyed-
It from. one. end of the union
to the other and the effect upon prices
was exactly the same as if so much
real money had been destroyed; An
unreasonable panic may start at any
time which all the "bankers put to
gether can't stop. Yet upon so frail a
thing rests the fortunes of million i.
The wreck of fortunes produces crime,
insanity, want, starvation and ; even
death. '- ;:'y .'
Public policy demands that the gov
ernment should take every precaution
'to prevent such disasters.
Credit currency Is no new thing. AH
governments haye passed laws to con
trol it. Scientists .have studied every
phase of it, Thesubjeet was thrashed
out by the economists more than fifty
years jayoad governments gtAerbll
accepted their conclusions.!! It was
shown that credit ; money could be
deemed ; fairly, safe when it itmounti
to four to one. of real money. Any
thing beyond that was full of danger.
In enacting , the first national .banking
law -that basis, was -adapted,. Banks
were required to keep ft reserve of 23
per cent. Littleby little the govern
ment, has.; alio wed this credit money to
expnd.'TJhe,. first move wfts to ltt
4he banks joan .their reserves to other
banks. Just to the extent that that is
done, the- reserve . Is .. destroyed and
banks, instead ot .having,. one dollar In
cash, for every four .dollars that" it
owes always -,ln . its -vaults ready to
check any .run,. or meet any special
and. .unjooked .fpr ;clemand, have now
less than one 'dollar for .'every ten of
demand liabilities.. " i
Two things result from this: First
it is a very greai . hard ship upon la
bor, for " thia enormous amount of
credit noney has' doubled the cost of
livingv acting on prices while" In exist
ence precisely as would that amount of
real money? and, second; it creates a
most' dangerous financial situation. It
must oe kept up or 'there will be a
fall in -Drices. , wrecking business. A
short crop, a black Friday on Wall
street, or any One' of a hundred other
things' may knock it all out of ex
Istcnee Then look for .'63 over again.
. A" check ' could be given to this in
flatiort'" and credit money gradually
reduced," with great relief to the wage
workers and without wrecking business.-
But the present tenddncy is u
increase It. Again 'this the populists
set a face of steel. They will do '.'ill
that is 'within their power against
wildcat banking and i the inflation of
credits'. " ' ''''"'.'."'.:'" . ):'.
(f.i.f;.-,;" '.',- A8 TO JO PARKER '
From 'far "off New Jersey, the home
of most -of the tramp corporations,
comes "a marked' copy of the Vinelan 1
Independent, published by , John J.
Streeter, in " which three columns al e
devoted to "A Bit qf People's Party
History,' reviewing an editorial para?
graph lnr the Nebraska Independent
relative to: Jo Parker, and the "allied"
people's party,. Mr. :- Brier's , letter of -
protest, onr answer thereto,; and Jo
Parker's ft reply in the Southern Mer
cury of July 19 Mr. Streeter seems
to. be 'at the .outs with Parker because.
marker aoes not take Kinqiy to street
er's ''septuserial" plan of division ahd
subdivision by sevens, but otherwise
stands with thej "chairman" of many
"parties" in his attempt to steal the
organization of the" people's party by
James Weftver. " . . rt
x lie yuiiii, laiocu ujr iuc iicuiaoAa
idp1 erident,'y says Mr. Streeter, "that
Parker was never 'Chairman of the
people's ''party; id ' not Well ta,ken nor
can'; it be sustained." Here Is how
Parker claims the gavel: "So when
the chairman declared the committee
adjourned' 1 protested, and demanded a
vote to show our strength. 1 knew
that I. had a majority, of the votes, for
I had' a record of every proxy, and
knew just how many votes they could
legally muster. The chairman refused
to recognize my demand for a vote and
deserted the chair! I at once nominated
Mr. Deaver for chairman pro,tem jfi
the absence of the chairman, and we
proceeded to regularly adjourn the
committee to another place."
Parker's own testimony fully sus
tains our point. There could be no desertion-of
the chair after an adjourn
ment of the committee. The action of
Parker, Deaver, et al. was the action
of bolters . (and they had a perfect
right to. bolt), but it gave them no
right to the; people's party name. We
reiterate that. Parker was never the
chairman,;: of the people's party ho
was chairman of something he and
his fellow recipients of Mark Hanna's
money , choosed to . call the , people's
party, but It was not the organization
that - made such, a grand "" showing for
General. Weaver In 1892. t j
.Mr., Streeter now raises the point
that Parker, by .accepting the chah
manshlp .of the "allieders," has aban-,
doned the,- former chairmanship and
suggests that it is the, duty of the na
tional executive committee to get to
gether and elect a chairman, "though
we would not nominate Clem Deaver
to the chair," he adds.
The whole discussion !s a profitless
one. Marlon Butler. Is .chairman of
the people's party, elected as such by
the Sioux Falls convention; he has
"not resigned 'of abandoned the chatr.
If he should resign, then the executive
committee might act
UltDEB SOOIAI.I8M
; Creating new demands, instigating
new wants Is what makes the differ
ence between -savagery and civiliza
tion. "Under socialism" what will
there be to create demand or Inspire
new wants." The people of this country
were perfectly satisfied to do without
clocks for a long time. They had no
Idea that they wanted a clock at all
and when a man offered one ; for sale
he was Jtold' that they had no use for
it. Then the Connecticut ; Yankee
started out to create a . demand. He
traveled ' through the country, would
stop at a farm house and auk if he
might leave a clock there until he cane
back as he didn't want to haal it tor
nothing. -"He was granted permission.
He always had ahandy little shelf for
against the . wall. Up went the clock.
Then he would politely request tae
housewife to wind it every day as It in
jured it to stand unwound and not
running. After, a month the Yank
would come back and when he starts!
to take. the clock down every member
of the family objected and wanted him
to sell It to them. .lie. had created a
demand The peanut boron the train
creates a demand -in very much the
same way. Bui there are thousands cf
other ways of creating a demand. That
Is what makes the Advance "In civili
zation. "Under socialism' what wot;! l
there he to create demand? WcuIJ
thejworld come to atandstJll? ,
Under date of Albany, N. Y.. Sep
tember 12. 1S96, David B. Hill wrote to
Hon. Hamilton "Ward, Belmont, N. Y..
in answer to a . request to aid In th
campaign "as follows: ' "The situation
for', a democrat "who dealre3 at a!l
times to be loyal to his party is very
difficult. I am giving the matter very
careful consideration and inovint
slowly. I was a democrat before tfc
Chicago convention, and I am a demo
crat still very still. I am always slad
to hear from you." The thing for Hill
to do now is to keep still very ftltl.
That Roosevelt has started In to
build up a machine of his owp a?em
to be indicated in several ways. Th?
republican b03s .out in Colorado, who
Is for Roosevelt, recommended the re
appointment of D. C. Bailey as marsh
al of the district because ha was
man whose connections arc valuabl? fr
the' party." Judge Hallet, in "whose
court Bailey serves, wrote: " "Bailey 1
hot a 'fit person to. hold the offlce of
marshal' or any. other ofilce under
government," After reading these two
letters . Roosevelt appointed Bailey.
This isr the same Roosevelt who hai
said so many fine things about "merit"
and civil service reform. '
.We have increased our exports since
1893 about 60 per cent.. That Is all on
account of having colonies, and wag
ing a war of conquest.-, But CanadA
has increased her exports more than
50 per cent in the last ten years. Th
exterior trade of Canada during th
last fiscal year amounted to $70 r.r
capita, while that of the United States
amounted to less than $35. Canada
has. not been engaged In wars of con
quest, but In developing her own re
sources. She, sent, one cr two compa
nies to fight the Boers. Perhaps her
immerse increas-e In foreign trade was
all caused by that. I? republican Iojjic
Is sound, there, can be no doubt of It.
Judge Jackson', a 'representative cf
the" aristocracy of wealth which jut
at present rule3 the country, has suc
ceeded In establishing a despotism In
his district. ' On " his own motion ho
makes a " thing a crime which wns
heretofore lawful, he prosecutes the of
fender, adjudges him guilty and sen
tences him to jail, thus becoming
prosecutor, lawmaker, jury and jud;
Was that the kind of government thnt
Washington and Jefferson set up hi
thl3 country? Such little despots
Jackson the republican party has st
up all over the land. They are r.ot
called czars, but federal judges, and
their functions seem to be exactly the
same.
That this inflation of bank pape
and credit currency, while It has dou
bled the cost of living, has not ma
terially affected wages Is proven by the
labor statistics of Massachusetts. Th's
statistics of the labor bureau of th.it
state are always given full credence
by all scholars. They are absolutely
reliable. A recent report of the burenn
shows that the average wacs In 1S9J.
right In the midst of hard tlms an!
low prices, were $421.81. Last year
they wcro $449.63. " With beefsteak T",
cents a pound In Boston tfcnt insijTl
flcant raise In the average wages shcrrs
the suffering that wage-earners In tbe
eastern states are now. endurlnrr. Th4
full dinner pall down In Massachnie'ts
at least was a delusion and a snare.
The republican managers Intend to
conduct their campaign In ths iicsa
old? fashion. Beveridge r'iTts out br
saying: "The peop'o are r.ot Ufccly to
invite a repetition of tha f.nftr.ci.i! dis
asters and Industrial parr. lysis that
followed the revision of the- tariff by
the followers of Cleveland and Vilas."
Everybody, except the mullet heafis.
knows, and they are not expected to
know anything, that the panto came
under the McKinlcy . high tariff aul
that it was a year and a half old be
fore the Wilson bill was passed. B;t
anything goes. -Republicans are on
the streets already repeating Bever
idge's statement. They axe excusable.
The poor fellows don't know any bet
ter. They read nothing but republican
papers. ' 'ssss
The republicans have increased thi
state indebtedness in two years nearly
a mllllon of dollars. It seems that they
have a preconcerted plan to increase
It still . further. .The vagaries of the
board of equalization seem to have a
method in their madness. The taxes
received from Douglas and Lancaster
counties will be $100,000 less than ttey
were last year through their manip
ulations.. That means more state In
debtedness. Governor Savage says
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