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THE NEBRASKA ;inDEPENDENT
Sept. 4, 1G02
The News of the Week
Soon after the news reached Michi
gan that General Miles was going to
the Philippines, General Alger an
nounced that he was a candidate (or
United States senator. General Miles
is not expected back until next spring.
The Michigan legislature meet3 this
winter.
Several more large donations by
the rich have been announced. The
definition of philanthropy by the rich
seems to be: A gift of part of the
rake-off to educational or religious institutions.
The little credit Inflated banks all
over the west are beginning to tum
ble. One at Tecumseh with over $100,
000 deposits went up the flume and
two others connected with it are ex
pected to follow. Better watch out.
"Prof." Boyce has been kicked out of
the socialist party for being in the
pay and vorking under the direction
of the g-epublican state committee.
when the-said "Prof." Boyce came into-
The Independent office some months
ago and putting on his best hypocriti
cal dignity demanded a retraction of
something that had appeared in this
paper about him, he . was told then
that he was in the pay of the republi
can party and playing exactly the
same game that he played when he
was Clem Deaver's chief fugleman.
Last year the socialists ran Kharas
for governor, but afterwards they ex
pelled him for appropriating republi
can money for his own benefit instead
of for the benefit of the organization.
The next time they get hold of any re
publican money they had better di
vide it up eaually and save trouble
That would be according to socialist
principles any way.
The demoralizing effect of the "write
ups" of the criminal news which The
Independent has so often denounced
is seen in the state of Washington
where the exploiting of the deeds of
the multi-murderer Tracey to the ex
tent of five or six columns a day for
weeks has resulted in some scores of
degenerates starting out in imitation
of the famous bandit. It is said that
no organized band exists, but many of
criminal tendencies operate singly or
in pairs. It is not safe to leave the
Pasco depot at night for numerous
thugs lie in wait nearby. Pasco is a
railroad junction where many change
cars.
The census bulletin issued August
30 on the manufacture of iron and
steel In the United States shows a cap
ital of $590,530,484 invested in this in
dustry In the 669 active establish-
ments. This sum represents value of
plants, but does not include capital
stock of corporations. After reading
that, reflect that the steel trust alone
is stockd and bonded for $1,400,000,000.
All that the companies are stocked
and bonded for above the $590,530,484
is water and the public is patiently
paying interest and dividends to the
Morgans on it. A New York financier
recently published figures of the value
of the plans that went into the steel
combine, that is, the valuation that
their owners placed upon them when
the combination was made and it
1 showed that Morgan had added over
$600,000,000 of water and issued and
sold this water on the market. That
steal forms the main part of the Mor
gan fortune, upon which labor is to
ray interest for all time to come.
Morgan get $600,000,000 for .nothing
and founded a fortune that is to be a
burden upon labor forever. It is no
wonder that the trust question is up
permost in the minds of the people.
Shall a few men be allowed to put a
burden of interest on the consumers
which is to last forever when they
have invested nothing? Shall a priv
ileged few be allowed to tax the toil
ing millions for all time to come when
they have given nothing in return?
That is what watered stock means.
The president keeps unweariedly at
his speech-making. Lately he has been
talking very little politics and devotes
himself to such themes as manhood,
character and large families. Some of
the eastern papers declare" that he of
ten verges on slang as when he says:
"I don't think you are built that way,"
"There is no earthly use," etc. One
daily remarks: " "If a president less
highly educated than Mr. Roosevelt
were to employ these phrases of com
mon, every-day speech the 'carping
critics,' of whom so much is heard,
would be tempted to say that they
proved his low origin, or revealed him
as a rude, unlettered person who could
not use elegant English. Even Mr.
Bryan, for example, one of the great
est orators "that this country has ever
produced, would be set down as more
of a demagogue than ever, by his foes,
if he talked in a very free and easy
way. Mr. Roosevelt, however, is en
tirely safe from the terrible imputa
tion of being deficient in culture, for
he is the child of Fifth avenue, a grad
uate of the only Harvard and the
writer of books."
Both the United States and Canadian
mint authorities announce a tremend
ous falling off in the output of gold
in the Alaska region. If those fields
should become exhausted it would
hasten the coming of the downfall of
the house of cards that has been built
up in the United States consisting of
mountains of credit such as the world
never saw before. It shows once more
the folly of depending on the mines as
a regulator of the volume of money.
The monetary system of the world is
built upon the uncertain output of
gold mines. Sometime in the future,
although it may "be a long, ways off,
the populist system of regulating the
volume of money Will be adopted by
all the commercial nations because
universal distress will make it abso
lutely necessary. '
The republican state convention of
North Carolina met the other day and
the first thing that was done was to
heave every negro delegate over the
transom. After that the convention
of white men proceeded to do business.
General Miles left Washington on
Wednesday for the Philippines, and
will sail September 1 from San Fran
cisco on ' the "transport Thomas. Mrs
Miles and two aids will start with the
general, but Mrs. "Miles may not go
farther than San Francisco. General
Miles said that he regarded the trip
merely as a visit to the army in the
Fnuippmes. .4 y , ,
A close friend of Chamberlain said
In London the other day to an Ameri
can newspaper-man: "While Great
Britain does not want a commercial
war with the United States, she will
not stand indefinitely being shut out
by the American tariff wall while keep
ing open house for American traders
in the United Kingdom. . The question
of retaliatory duties is not so improb
able as many people imagine. There
is no reason why the British colonial
markets should not,be opened to Brit
ish goods on a preferential basis."
The trade unionists of England re
port that there has been a decline all
around in wages, during the last year
and that the number of unemployed
Is constantly on the increase.
As far as the political control of
South Africa is concerned it seems
that the Dutch have captured it and it
Is announced in London that Chamber
lain will - suspend the constitutional
government in Cape Colony.
It is announced that the British are
going to make great reforms in their
army So far as announced, the re
form consists of a scheme of the war
office to reduce the living expenses of
cavalry officers so as to enable a man
to live on $1,000 per annum, besides his
pay, the present minimum being $3,
000. As long as the British army is
so run that no mancan be an officer
in it unless he is rich enough to pay
$1,000 a year for the privilege of fight
ing for his king, the other nations of
Europe need have no fear of it.
In Roosevelt's speeches he not only
imitated Bryan -in his trust remedies,
but adopted Bryan's habit of making
frequent biblical references. And
right there is where he fell down.
Bryan never makes any mistakes
when referring to Bible characters or
teachings. Roosevelt gave the Psalm
ist the credit of having said "give me
neither poverty nor riches," when in
fact they are the "words of Agur the
son Jakek" and found in Proverbs
XXX., 8.
It should be borne in mind that the
Philippines are exempted from the civ
il service act. You don't have to pass
an examination to get a carpet bag ap
pointment over there unless you are a
school teacher.
The appeal .of the West Virginia
miners from Judge Keller was tried
before Judge Goff. Judge Goff owns
coal lands that make him a rich man;
Judge Keller was counsel, for .tho
Pocahontas Coal company before he
was appointed to the bench a year
ago, and Judge Jackson's close friends
and associates are among the coal and
railroad magnates who were using in
junctions to kill the strike and destroy
trade unionism. The whole govern
ment of West Virginia is concentrated
in the hands of the oil, gas and coal
barons. The fight that organized la
bor has made there is a brave one, but
will prove useless. The attack must
be made along another line. With the
government and courts against them
there is no chance for success. Get
hold of the gpvernment. There is no
use in their voting the republican
ticket and then trying to fight the men
whom they have put in power by their
own votes.
The pictures of the young lady win
ners in golf and tennis are now
printed in the dailies alongside of the
jockies and horses that win races. It
is a proud distinction for modest, young
girls.
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L11NCOLN INEBRAS1CA
jury is being eliminated. Ten millions
of people in the Philippines were de
prived of that right by an act. of a
republican congress. In all cases
where' wage-wOrkers interfere with
the rules, regulations and rate of
wage3 paid by the trusts and indus
trial corporations, the right of trial
by jury has been abolished, and we
find that in one case that where
Judge Goff presided that the judge
being himself greatly interested in the
controversy, as an owner of mines,
has sent to jail several men without
trial by jury. Against this annull
ment of the constitutional .rights of
men, the populist party was the very
first to protest.
It is announced that the farmers and
implement dealers of Kansas and Okla
homa have formed an association to
fight the harvester and implement
trust lately formed. The farmers are
to sign an agreement not to purchase
anything from the trust and the deal
ers agree to supply, them from other
sources. All such efforts will be fu
tile. The trusts cannot be successful
ly attacked in that way. The trust
will send its goods in there and sell
them below cost until the association
is broken up. Neither the farmers
nor the labor organizations can do
anything effective until they get the
government and courts on their side.
The line of fight should be to put the
party out of power that permits the
formation of trusts.
SOUTH OMAHA is said to be the
highest feeder market in the country
jat present and many Iowa feeders are
going to Chicago because they can
buy there Cheaper.
Hardy's Column
The retail coal dealers are now go
ing to form a trust. It is said to be a
movement on the part of the' coal
trust so that it can deal through them
with individual consumers and fix
things to suit themselves. The joint
assault on the trusts made by Teddy
and Knox- is having some peculiar re
sults, but the only thing to do is to
vote 'er straight.
George Gould has settled the trust
question. He says: "Trusts are a
natural industrial evolution and are
all right. There is far more good in
them than there is harm. They in
crease productiveness without inflict
ing any injury." If they do not in
flict any injury how can they do any
harm at all? If they are "all right,"
why say they do more good than
harm? Gould seems to be as faulty
in his English as he is in his ethics
and political economy.
The only trouble with cattle raising
in Canada is the want of corn to fat
ten them. xGrass fatted beef does not
sell as well or as high as corn fatted.
Canada will be supplied with packing
houses. So far tariff on range cattle
between the United States and Canada
or -Mexico does not amount to much
on a herd of fifty or a. hundred head.
Ihe dividing lines between the coun
tries . are so long that it would take
thousands of collectors to vatch the
whole length of the dividing lines.
We have had a few little rains lately
for which we should be thankful that
they were not big ones. We have had
more big rains this year, all over the
country, than we haye had before in
forty years. In ancient times they
would conclude the water, above the
firmament was nearly exhausted and
that would be the reason for small
rains. There are a great many mys
teries in nature as well as in theology.
The death-dealing quality of an ex
orbitant tariff is exemplified in the
tariff on tin. Two-thirds of the tin
manufactories are now shut up and
idle. This comes from two causes.
The high price of tin which has cur
tailed its use and the little arrange
ment thta was" made when the law was
passed to exempt Rockefeller and the
ment that was made when the law was
all. Those great consumers of tin
buy all their supplies in Wales while
the American -workmen stand idle. The
lest effort made jto get the workmen to
accept lower wages has failed, all the
unions working against it.
Hanna is down at Columbus endeav
oring to get a. law passed that will
make his street car and all other
street car franchises perpetual. That
is to be the state issue of paramount
importance in the . comine: campaign.
Tom Johnson has made it .so hot for
Hanna he says if he can't run his busi
ness and politics both, he will drop
politics and give air his time to business.
Populist principles continue to
spread with astonishing rapidity. Ev
ery week some man of prominence, or
newspaper, announces adhesion to one
or more of them. The New York Jour
nal has come out. as an earnest advo
cate for the public ownership of rail
roads. . " .
Over In Iowa a republican judse has
declared a law. which provided for tak
ing children away. from parents who
were bringing them up in crime and
vice unconstitutional, because it did
not provide for a trial by jury. Hun
dreds of men have been tried and sen
tenced to prison In the last few years
without trial by jury lately several
In West Virgina but this republican
judge has entered no protest as a citi
zen or judge ,aainst; that , course of
procedure. Little by " little trial by
' Why are not the republican candi
dates willing to publicly discuss he
national questions that are up for set
tlement. There is but one reason for
congressional candidates to refuse,
that is, they know a large majority of
the people are not in harmony with
the leading republicans, on several im
portant questions. '
President Roosevelt seems to be
tramping around the circle as John
son did, thinking to convince the peo
ple that they are wrong and that he
is right. If that Indiana editor was
alive to follow him we would have
the same fun.
Voting for a part of what we want
and getting it is better than voting for
all we want and getting none.
What a public officer says or does is
public property and is legal feed for a
free press, and when an officer, civil
or military, hides what' he has done
after the crisis is past. It proves he
feels guilty and is afraid to have it
known.
It has been a bad summer for wheat
harvesting and also for honey har
vesting. The -growth of all kinds of
vegetation has been splendid, though.
Is it our duty, or is it just, to keep
fifty thousand soldiers in the Philip
pines just to help millionaires to dou
ble their millions?
The general opinion, or at least the
general talk of the leading republicans
Is to the effect that a high protective
tariff is the foundation of all good
times, and any. meddling with it is
sure to bring, hard imes. .,' Who will
give the cause of hard times in the
seventies? We' had the highest tariff
then we ever had and it was being
increased instead of decreased. It
went on' until the government surplus
was mountain high.
o difference who" is elected presi
dent next time, whether republican or
democrat, providing It is not Bryan
himself. Bryan's mouth and pen will
be needed to keep the people posted
in what is going on. It is strange
that the best republican papers should
think it such a crime to state publicly
so many truths about Grover Cleve
land and Hill as he has. It seems to
be the universal party doctrine to
swallow everything our own party
leaders do without chewing.
"Let well enough alone"; is the foun
dation of present. republican plead
ings. . No further progress, no further
improvements; - just 'let everything
stand still.' Don't cultivate your corn,
don't pick It when It is ripe,, it is a
good crop and. "let well enough alone."
Farmers - have deposited their sur
plus money, in country ' banks, the
country banks " have deposited it in
city banks, city banks have sent their
money to the eastern trust banks and
it has been' used In seasoning watered
stock of . the trusts. - When a crisis
comes fanners will wish they had in
vested their own money-nearer home,
for it will go. . : V- .: '. "
It appears we have a one-man ., gov
ernment." Senator Aldrich, individual
ly, runs the senate; iThe wiggle -of his
finger kills ,any .reform, measure pro
posed inthe- interest 1 of the common
people or equal justice, ,
Governor Cummins and a . majority
of the republicans of Iowa have taken
a big jump toward Bryanism. They
advocate a change' of the tariff in the
Interest of the common people. They
want to be able to buy American
made goods as cheaply as other foreign
people buy them.'- The governor has
got a cabinet, speaker and senators on
his back, but the people stand by the
governor. . '
Papers report that President Teddy
shot a wild black, pig in the woods of
New England. - Wonder where the
spotted cow Speck "was? The repub
licans of Nebraska always see them
together. Shooting a black pig is
just as bad as mortgaging him.
The prejudice .against the Catholic
church is fading Jaway. We were
taught when young'that to become a
Catholic -was worse than , to remain a
sinner. The rack and the thumb-screw
were quoted- as evidence of inhuman
ity and -cruelty. The same persons
never referred to the -Protestant treat-
ment of witches and Quakers in New
England.' Parochial' schools, exclusive
schools for a . certain class of girls,
hospitals and orphan homes are most
certainly fruits of Christianity. If
not, we have yet to learn, what Chris
tianity is. There are just as reliable,
conscientious. Christians in the, Cath
olic church as in any-other church.
The president-stands up in. words for
the Monroe doctrine..' How can he har
monize what he. ;is (doing on . the other
side with that .dqctrine? If I forbid
you stealing my horse, does that per
mit me to steals yours : if you are a
weak man?. , f- r&V.i ; . ..
Honest : men never tremble when
thieves quarrel.. Th fight between
Rosewater and Savage Is really a sav
age war.' And thought between Gov
ernor Cumnains and the gold, bug, high
tariff republican nieans blood. Ne
braska and Iowa -are - not the . only
states where republicans are bleeding
each other.- v The president is at swords
point with ,many of.rthe leading repub
licans, , but; Teddys' back begins to
weaken to the great'. joy of trust and
tariff men. - : $ , '.ti?2ir. - -l -;;-.,:
We ate dinner-the "other day with
two teachers front Colrimbus,' Ga. Co
lumbus is a noted' factory city, located
on the i Chattahooeheei1 river, where
the water jumps : down two or three
hundred - feet - in' .two - or three miles.
There are ' six ' or eight large cotton
factories located -' there and several
other factories. -None, of the descend
ants of . slave-holders, either men,
women or "children, stoop to work . in
any of the factories:'; The help mostly
comes from-, the mountain region
where the white people' have done, their
own work and supported ', themselves.
Colored people are not given work in
thecotton actories. Working there is
the upper crust of labor. Work in all
the factories commences at six" in the
morning and ends at six in the after
noon, the dinner hour out. Our friends
thought the children . who worked in
the factories were - much better off
than those who did not and they would
make much better citizens. The work
the children do is light work. They
are taught in evening schools with
many of their parents;. To be able to
read and write their :oWn name Is a
full education With them.
H. W. HARDY.
Credit
. . . . -
, Editor Independent:; We see In The
Independent of August 21 where it
refers to a republican campaign book
. where can we get the book? Have
you any on hand for distribution, if
so,, send -us one.
Also j what - is the meaning of the
credit referred to that is being spread
over the country? Will you please
give in The Independent the Fowler
bill In full? F. M. BURNS.
- Rockford, O. -
(The Independent understands that
the first edition of the republican hand
book has been destroyed because
President Roosevelt did not approve
of certain" tariff statements contained
In itn The Independent has none of
the books it is not honored by dis
tributing republican campaign litera
ture.
"" The credit referred to is bank credit
brought about through receiving de
posits and then loaning them on short
time notes. Mr. Burns, of course, un
derstands that when -he deposits $100
in a bank, subject to his check, the
banker does not pretend to keep the
whole hundred dollars in the bank
vaults. In the . smaller towns he is
permitted by law to loan 85 per cent
cf the deposit, and in the larger places
75 percent. The 15 or 25 per cent is
called the "reserve. " One would sup
pose that this reserve should be kept
in cash in the bank vaults but not so
country banks -may loan nine of their
fifteen, per cent to other banks known
as reserve banks, and these in turn
may loan - to central reserve banks
fifteen of their twenty-five per cent,
the result being that country and re
serve banks have only $6 to $15 in
actual cash in their vaults for every
$100 of deposits, the other $94 or $85
being represented by customers' notes
and the bank s account with Its cor
respondent. Mr. Burns can readily
see. that this . permits the banks to
have "on deposit" all the banks an
aggregate sum far in excess of all the
actual, gold, silver and paper money
in ' existence. Yet as long as things
go smoothly the man with a hundred
dollar deposit writes his check against
it and uses it in business just the same
as if he had kept it in his pocket in
money. It i3 only when the crash
comes and the bank closes that the
depositor discovers that his bank de
posit is different from actual money.
Authorities on banking are agreed
ihat the bank can have deposits four
times as great as the actual cash in
the vault and run with safety, but
that whenever the amount of reserve
is less than that, the crash will come
sooner or later. Deposits within the
past year have been more than ten
tims as great as the actual cash on
band and a day of reckoning 13 com
ing within no great length of time.
This is. what is meant by the expan
sion of bank credits.
The Independent has not published
the Fowler bill in full because much of
it is repetition and leeral verbiage
which no one, except a lawyer. Is in
terested in. The bill provides for
branch banking, an issue of bank
notes based on bank assets (that is.
its customers' notes., and its other
properly), redemption of the silver
dollar In gold, and a lot of meaning
less trash about relieving Uncle .Sam
of the burden of redeeming the green
backs. Ed. Ind.)
Congressman De FactoC?)
Several years ago the delegates to
a populist state convention were con
siderably amused and also somewhat
disgusted by, the antics of a delegate
who presumed to prompt the chair.
Finally his importunities became so
great that he was seemingly chairman
de facto.
From a whole page review of "Mr.
Hinshaw's Rural Methods" in the
Hamilton County Register, it appears
that the suave and smiling gentleman
from Fairbury is presuming to act as
congressman de facto for the Fourth
district. He is chasing over the dis
trict "booking" pension claims and no
doubt has as many public buildings
promised the various Fourth district
towns as Tom Majors had wardens of
the penitentiary the year Governor
Holcomb gave him such a drubbing.
Mr. Hinshaw better save his breath
to cool his broth. Judge Stark will
look after pension claims, rural routes
and other matters for the Fourth dis
trict after the 4th of next March with
the same care he has always shown.
And he will get to vote against the
Fowler bill, too.
Turn on the Light.
A poem suggested by reading a poem in The Commoner en
titled " Put Out thh Lights," taken from the Youth's Companion.
Turn on the-Light, why in the darkness grope? "
Lost in life's mazes with but little hope
To ever find the way that leads to right
" Or shun the perils of the darksome night.
Bound in the thrall of ignorance and creed,
The slaves of party and the dupes of greed;
TV"e i wage .with i error's hosts unequal fight,
While reason loudly calls, Turn on the Light!
Turn on the Light, why always grope, forsooth,
To niid the pathway to eternal truth?
Or accept . as truth that darkness is assigned
That to the few. all wisdom and all worth
Is given; to rnle the toilers of the earth-,
With unjust laws; to rob to "blast and blight '
The suffering pooi, who cry, Tarn on the Light!
Turn .on the) .light where fraud and falsehood hide,
On -gambling dens, where grasping trusts, abide;
- On tariff laws, bestowing place and gold
, -To thieving knaves' found, in the party, fold. .
On all the moral darkness of our times; ;
Onfall its. villianies, its wrongs its crimes,
. And fill the world with glory and delight;
An outraged people shout, Turn on the Light.
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V - -." ', - Atrium Smart, in Minden (Neb.) Courier. K
A Growing Question
Hon. Elmer J. Burkett, .
Hon John J. McCarthy, . .i r
Hon. Edmund H. Hinshaw,
Hon. George W. Norris,
Hon. Mose3 P. Kinkaid,
GcntUmant If laoUd to Congratn, will yu rot for r Against the rowler bill?
The Fowler currency bill embodies all the iniquitous features of the old wild
cat banking plan. It provides for . bank notes issued on bank assets, for branch
banks, for retirement of the greenbacks, and for making silver dollara redeemable
in gold on demand of the holder. It is the foundation stone of a bankers trust
The Fowler bill has been recommended for passage by the republican majority of
the bouse committee on banking and currency.
The people of your, respective districts b.ave a right to know where you stand
on this question. At present ""you ar maintaining a- discreet silence. But this is
cowardly. Have youthe courage to say publicly what you will do if elected and
called upon to vote on the Fowler bill? w
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3 lbs. best rice 25
3 lbs. soda .' 25
3 cans lye..; 25
1 lb. best bakiug powder 25
1 lb. pure pepper....: 25
All the above for $5 uO
COMBINATION NO. 72E.
40 lbs-best fine granulated sugar. $1 00
1 keg choice 'syrup 1 00
1 bucket white, fish...... 75
G lbs. ; beans. 25
3 pkgs. best corn starch 25
1 lb. -best 50c tea 50
1 lb. best baking powder 25
5 lbs. rice 50
5 lbs. choicest raisins. 50
All the above for. $5 00
COMBINATION NO. V73E.
40 lbs best fine granulated sugar. $1 00
3 cans lye........ 30
S lbs. Lion or Arbuckle's coffee. 1 00
25 bars laundry soap. 1 00
1 large box matches 25
1 bottle Vanila extract 10
1 bottle lemon extract 10
3 pkgs. soda 25
1 b. pure pepper 25
4 lbs. choice apricots so
1 lb. best baking powder 25
All the above for $5
COMBINATION NO. 74 E.
40 lbs best fine granulated sugar. $ I
5 lbs. Java blend 1
2 lbs. choice apricots
3 pkgs. soda.
2 lbs. choice mixed candy
3 lbs. choice large. raisins.... ...
1 lb. best tea '
2 lbs. best baking powder
8 lbs. best rolled oats...
1-2 lb. pure ginger
1 box corn starch
1 can lye
1 bottle lemon extract
1 bottle vanilla extract
2 pkgs. best yeast cakes
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All the above for. . $5 0o
The Farmers Grocery Company
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NORTH IOTH STREFT.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
' Will They Debate? '
The evening annex has a very dig
nified notion about , the coming cam
paign and says that Chairman Lind
say will pay no attention to the chal
lenge issued by the fusion committees
to pit Mike Harrington against John
N. Baldwin in ' a -'joint discussion of
the tax question. It sneers at the idea
of taxation being a debatable issue
in the campaign because there is noth
ing in the republican piatiorm aDoiu
it.
There is something in both the pop
ulist and democratic platforms about
it, and it was so much of an issue a
few weeks ago that John N. Baldwin,
with five other able railroad lawyers,
came to Lincoln and displaced the at
torney gtneral of this state ana spent
several days before the supreme court
discussing this very matter.
Why has it suddenly been discov
ered that taxation is not an issue in
this state this year?
The railroads have out up a fund of
$30,000 to pay for discussing one side
of it in the newspapers, and they have
hired Colonel Brown of Colorado and
Frank Harrison of Nebraska to dig
and delve and misrepresent tax conditions.
If this isnot a debatable issue, why
waste this eood money, (which will be
charged to "operating expenses") and
the gray matter of Brown and Harri
son? Does the annex believe that it can
fool the people into thinking that tax
ation is not an issue when all the rail
roads pay less city taxes than one
bank?
Can it expect to fool all the people
when the company which owns it pays
more money into the city treasury in
one year than all the railroads? Is not
it a question in politics when either
the gas company or the traction com
pany pay three times as much tax as
all the railroads?
Let the congressional candidates dis
cuss national policies, if they choose,
bat ther is a state ticket and a leg
islature to be elected on purely 6tate
Issues.
The republican machine may think
it is going to dodge state issues, but
it is fooled.
The fusionists offer a man to discuss
taxation matters with -John N. Bald
win, who is brainy, able, informed,
and known as the "talking man" of
the Union Pacific.
The republicans will accept the chal
lenge or stand convicted of worse than
covardice. ;Lincoln Daily Post.
Seasonable.
With dripping brow and collar limp
The poet now the sweet muse nurses.
And midst the heat and dust and flies
Is grinding out his Christmas verses.
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