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The Ticket
For Governor W. H. Thompson
(Democrat, Hall County.)
Lieut. Governor E. A. Gilbert
(Populist, York County.)
Secretary of State John Powers
(Populist, Hitchcock County.)
Auditor C. Q. De France
(Populist, Jefferson County.)
Treasurer J. N. Lyman
I (Populist, Adams County.)
Attorney General J. H. Broady
I - (Democrat. Lancaster County.")
ATominissioner Public Lands and
p J Bafldings J. C. Brennan
m (Democrat, Douglas County.)
T I Bupt ef Schools Claude Smith
Tli f (Populist, Dawson County.)
CONGRESSIONAL.
- First....:...... Howard H. Hanks
. I - (Democrat, Otoe county.)
I Second..... Gilbert M. Hitchcock
I (Democrat, Douglas county.)
- I Third John S. Robinson
r I' (Democrat, Madison county.)
Fourth William L. Stark
" I (Populist, Hamilton county.)
- Fifth.... Ashton C. Shallenberger
-'V (Democrat, Harlan county.)
: I Sixth ..Patrick H. Barry
'. 1 (Populist, Greeley county.)
The harmony of the republican party
over in Iowa is hardly of the angelic
kind.
Don't forget Mickey. He's running
for governor. It seems that a good
many republicans are trying to forget
It. Don't let them. " " '
The "spotted cow called Speck" and
the "boar black pig" strike out for the
woods every time they hear the name
of Mickey mentioned.
'Our man Mickey" is still a candi
date for governor. The Independent
makes this announcement for fear that
lie will be totally forgotten.
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Republican prosperity consists in the
kiting skyward of the prices of all the
necessaries of life while wages and
salaries stand still.
' The trusts desire very much to have
a president that will ; stand without
hitching. That makes them cast long
ing eyes toward Mark Hanna.
' The trusts will have to select a new
man for ; speaker for the next house.
They will get one who will do their
bidding all right enough if there is a
republican majority.
Please don't fail to mention to your
neighbor that Mickey is running for
governor, especially so if he is a re
publican. A good many of them are
Wanting to forget all about it.
The "big six" republican senators
met the president at Oyster Bay Tues
day to give him the necessary instruc
tions concerning how he should talk
when discussing the tariff on his
western trip.
It is next to impossible to buy iron
and steel jf rom the trust direct. Every
purchaser is referred to some middle
man and a big rake-off is taken in
above the ; list prices. That is one
way tne monopoly has of fooling the
mullet heads. ,
Those two" lowly followers of Christ
and modern evangelists, J. Pierpont
Morgan and Mark Hanna, have united
in an appeal, to the public for. money
to spread Christianity in the Philip
pines. Be sure to send them a dollar
by the next mail.
According to Secretary Shaw the
gold standard is a complete failure.
To prevent a crisis he is sitting up
nights inventing schemes to get "more
money" in circulation. If there is gold
enough to do the business" of the con
try, what is he' fretting about?
It is said that the failure of the
president to make mention of the tar
iff at any time during his New Eng
land trip was owing to the advice of
Lodge. He did not mention it when
in. West Virginia. Did Elkins give
him some advice also?
Alabama republicans scratched the
name of every colored delegate to their
state convention ofi the list of mem
bers and then proceeded on the "lily
white" plan. ; Will the next national
convention of the republican party
cut down the representatives from the
south in; that body because the negro
vote has been suppressed? - ...
NOT A PARTY QUESTION"
The question before the people of
Nebraska in this election fs not whe
ther tnis party or that party shall win
the fight. , In fact, it is not a question
of parties at a I jV but whether the rail
roads mall ' become complete masters
of the state and run it by "the author
ity of the "railroads of Nebraska."
' The railroads are already the mas
ters of the Industries of this state.
The profit that; every baan shall get
out of hi3 business is determined by
men - who meet In Chicago or New-
York and fix the rates that he shall
pay. " All business . success depends
upon transportation charges.
The. whole, railroad system of the
United States will soon be a great
trust, guided . and , directed by one
omnipotent tyrant, located at New
York city. The consolidation has pro
ceeded very fast during the last year.
It began by .consolidating different
ln.?3 into one. Then these great lines
of from three to five thousand miles
of trackage were combined into sys
tems, four or five in number. These
systems will soon see the "community
of Interest" and then there will be
but one system. -
It is not by the authority of the
"railroads of Nebraska" that this cam
paign is being carried on. There is
no such thing as "the railroads of Ne
braska." It is the railroad power of
the United States that comes in here
to get control of this state govern
ment. The men who own the systems,
part of whose lines lie in this state,
are not citizens of this1 state. They
have no interest here except what
they can make the people contribute
to their accumulations of wealth. The
churches, the schools, the hospitals,
are no concern of theirs. Yet these
men, located at New York, propose to
take' charge of the state government
and have it run in their interest in
stead of the interest of the people who
live and work here. Their hired
agents, who do their bidding, may live
here, but they have no will of their
own. They are simply hired servants
of the great railroad moguls and
stand in the same relation to the rest
of us as the "house servant" did to
the "field hand" on the old slave plan
tation. ,
The Thurstons, Mandersons, Burts
and Holdreges, personally gentlemen
of culture and refinement, are simply
hirelings of the Goulds, Vanderbilts,
Hills- and Harrimans and must in
stantly obey every order they receive
from the offices in Wall street. They
are the house servants of the railroad
slave masters. ....
If the railroads succeed in this cam
paign, we will not have the honor of
being governed by the great magnates
themselves, but will be put under the
control of their, upper servants who
act in the same capacity as the over
seer on the old plantation. The state
of Nebraska will be one of the pro
vinces which the great universal rail
road trust will rule from Wall street
and fiom which it will draw millions
of revenue.
When Governor Taft enacted a new.
law in the Philippines, he promulgated
it "by authority of the president df
the United States." If "our man" is
inaugurated as governor, the laws of
Nebraska will be made "by authority
of the railroads of Nebraska."
What difference does' it make to
Baldwin or Manderson whether the
railroads are taxed on $25,000,000 or
$50,000,000?, Their salaries win re
main the same in any event What
difference does it make to the general
managers of the roads here in Ne
braska? It makes no difference at alt.
They are paid so much a month for
their services. No one in . Nebraska
will be the gainer by taxing the roads
for less than their actual value. It is
the magnates down in. Wall street
whom these men serve for the money
they get who will be the gainers. Let
any party pay these men double the
salaries they now get to oppose the
roads and they would immediately be
come as fierce opponents as they are
now advocates for them. It is simply
a question of money with them all.
Bat after all, it is not the question
of taxation that the Wall street mag
nates are so much "interested in. The
numerous lines in Nebraska could each
pay a few thousand dollars more taxes
so easily that the Goulds, Harrimans,
Hills and Vanderbilts, would not
bother themselves about it There is
something of far greater importance
to them. They want a state govern
ment tL-t will obey their orders with
the same alacrity that their attorneys
and superintendents do. The question
of rates is of far more importance
than the question of taxation. Then
there may be industrial troubles in
the near future there is a big strike
on hand now and the Wall street of
fice may want quick obedience to or
ders, issued to the state government.'
They know that they will -get It if they
succeed In this campaign.
The state government in the hands
of the railroad3 is what is wanted by
Wall street An order for the militia
to turn out and help the railroads
when they get into aNispute with their
employes, if not instantly obeyed by
uie governor, might mean a great 'deal
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
Sej 25, 1902,
more to them .than the taxation for a
whole year. ; A legislature that would
attempt to reduce some of ., their ex
tortionate freight rates might cause
them more trouble and cost them more
money than their taxes at full rates for
five years. What the railroads want
is a governor and a state government
that will obey the orders issued from
the New York offices. That is why
they are spending so much money to
elect "our man Mickey,"
With Prout attorney general and all
the railroad attorneys gathered around
him as "friends of the court," with a
board of review opposed to taxing
railroads at their salable value, with a
governor with his ear. to the ground to
catch the orders from the Wall street
offices of the railroads, a large and
fertile province would be added tp the
dominion of the Hills, Harrimans,
Goulds, Vanderbilts, and Morgan, tho
Grand Monarcn of all.
THE IOWA ERUPTION
Speaker Henderson has declined to
accept the republican nomination to
congress. The reason that he assigns
is that he does not agree with the
Iowa republican state platform which
declares that the tariff should not be
used as a shelter for monopoly. He
says: "You cannot kill the trusts by
applying free trade without killing
all our industries."
There has been opposition to Hen
derson in his own district for a long
time. Last winter most of the news
papers in his district, and for that mat
etr in the whole state, gave him such
a dressing down that he had to apolo
gize. He was made speaker of the
house by the trusts and he has formu
lated legislation to favor them until
even the republicans of the district
could not stand it any longer. The
universal assertion by the Iowa lead
ers that he "was sure of election" is
all bosh.
Henderson)s character may be judged
from a few sentences from his letter
declining to run. He says of the re
publicans who propose to revise the
tariff and take off the protection to the
trusts: "They propose to slaughter
every Interest in the United States
whether capital or labor." Of the dem
ocrats he says: "No proposition has
ever been made by the democracy, ex
cepting to put everything on the free
list and to give the country free
trade." A man who will lie like that
is a fit champion for the trusts. When
did the democratic party ever pro
pose to put everything on the free
list?" The last democratic tariff was
the highest protective . measure ever
enacted up to that time. Even the dec
laration of "a tariff xor revenue only,"
which is the farthest extreme to which
tne democratic party ever went, was
not i declaration "to put everything on
the free list" The charge that the
purpose of the republicans who wish
to take the tariff off trust goods "is to
slaughter every interest in the United
States whether capital or labor," is
the talk of a man who is not only de
void of integrity, but shows a vicious
i.ess that would do credit to th6 devil
himself. Their purpose is to destroy
every interest in the United States!
That Is what they really wish to ac
complish! Henderson, you are not
only a villain, but considerable of a
fool. Why should . any man wish to
destroy every interest in the United
States; That would include his own
interest
THE AMERICAN NAVY
One thing grows more certain every
day and that is that we can never get
seamen enough to man the warships
that are already built until the whole
navy is reorganized and the Crownin
shield influence eradicated unless a re
sort Is made to the impressment of
seamen. The Indisposition of the na
val apprentices to re-enlist in the navy
after their term of service has expired
amounts to 90 per cent, when figured
in percentages. That is to say, only
10 per cent of them choose to continue
in the navy after their preliminary
training.
The boys find it a dog's life from
the start and they only wait for the
term of their enlistment to expire so
they can get out of it. They might
endure the abuse of the warrant offi
cers, who are encouraged by the offi
cers in their brutality, if there was any
hope that they could ever rise to a
better position in the service. In the
commercial marine a lad who starts as
a cabin boy may become a captain of
a great liner, but no boy who enters
ie navy can ever rise to the rank
of the lowest lieutenant The whole
thing is utterly un-American. Many of
the highest officers in the regular army
came upfrom the ranks. Unless there
13 a reorganization in the navy, what
is the good of building more ships?
Theref are not half enough men to
manthose that are already built
bIss Tweed would have blushed at
the sthought of his puerile efforts if he
hadl lived to have read the accounts of
the municipal thefts committed by
modern republicans. Philadelphia,
Minneapolis and St Louis republicans
coulS give Tweed cards and spades
and beat him every same. :; j
TOO SUBTXE .FOB HIM ,
One of the old workers for reform in
this state writes to the editor as fol
lows: ' . :'
'I sometimes think that you take
It for granted that your readers
know more of the subtleness of
political economy and the intri
cacies of government than most
of them really do and you expect
them to. do more thinking than
they are capable pf , doing. I will
, give one instance but InThe In
dependent there are generally sev
eral of the same kind each week.
You have frequently said -Wall
street or the plutocracy have en
gaged in a new scheme by which
these men intend to capture all the
great increase of wealth resulting
from general education, the ad
vance of science and invention
and there you leave the subject to
be thought out by your readers.
I . can tell you that not one in a
hundred of your readers ever
thinks it out, and the sentence,
while loaded to the brim with
truth, is worth no more than so
much blank space to all except a
few. That sentence has caused
me weeks of thought. I am not
half through with it yet, but how
many have given it more atten
tion than they would a squib about
Mark Hanna or Morgan? I have j
tried twice to write an article
about it, but the subject is too
wide and all-embracing for me to
handle. A man who Is not used to
writing can't put things in a few
words like one who has followed
the trade for. years." j
The Independent has been telling the
people for years that they must do
their own thinking" and not trust oth
ers to do it for them and it is encour
aging to see that even one man has
been doing some, thinking.
In regard to the ; sentence which is
the subject matter of the above letter
it may be said that the American
workman Is acknowledged to be the
most efficient in the world. He will
produce twice as much wealth in the
same number of working hours as the
wage-worker of any other nation. Sci
ence has enormously, increased the
production of wealth. It has added 20
per cent to the value of the cotton
crop by the utilization of the seed.
Some twenty commercial products
have besn evolved by science from
corn. The utilization of what was
formerly the "off all" of slaughter
houses, mainly resulting from the ap
plication of the science of chemistry,
has added millions to the wealth of
the country. In a hundred other in
dustries science has done the same
thing. Invention has enabled a man
by the use of machinery to produce as
much wealth, in the same length of
time, as twenty men could in former
times. All this should be evident to
every man. It should have resulted
in an enormous Increase in the com
fort and luxuries ofth whole people,
but instead -of that, it has resulted in
the creation of a few fortunes such as
the world has never before known
and in but a slight ' increase of the
welfare of the masses of the people.,
Furthermore, these owners of immense
fortunes are planning to take all the
future increase of wealth to them
selves except a bare living to the work
ers. One of the most potent things to
accomplish that is the organization of
trusts with stock watered to the
amount of hundreds of millions. If
the people are forced to pay interest on
this watered stock in the increased
price of all those things that they
consume, the result will be that all the
increase of wealth resulting from edu
cation, science and invention will go
to the few and the masses will toil on
for the ages to come, while the few en
joy the benefits of the labor of the na
tion. '
There are other things besides the
trusts invented by the same men to
accomplish that purpose. One of them
is exorbitant tariffs whereby the Am
erican consumer has to pay about 40
per cent more for his goods than the
same goods are sold at a profit to for
eigners. ; '
It is the same old game that plutoc
racy has played for the last thousand
years, changing their schemes as the
years go by to suit new conditions.
The last scheme was to double the
debt of the world by doubling the pur
chasing power of money. The founda
tion of many of the great fortunes
were laid in. that way and especially
that of the house of Rotschilds. The
tremendous upheaval caused by that
plan and the escape from the effect of
the revolt by so harrow a margin, and
costing millions to buy elections,
caused the abandonment of it and the
adoption of the present scheme of wa
tering stocks and destroying compe
tition. SOLDOUTrOR CASH
That the trusts are slowly buying up
democratic caucusses and conventions
can, nc longer be doubted. The demo
cracy of Massachusetts has been sold
as sheep in the shambles and the cash
was paid in advance.
There never was a condition in pub
lic affairs so favorable to democracy
as this year in the old Bay state.
Most , of the voters are hirelings, re
ceiving a stated salary. The cost of
living has gone up by leaps and
bounds, but the salaries have remained
stationary. The result has been not
only inconvenience, but actual want
and suffering in many rather well-to-
do families. . The advance In . trust
made goods has caused an advance in
rent Fuel and most of the household
supplies have" doubled in priced The
exaction - of corporations have been
greater than ever before. The people'
of 'the state were ready for a revolu
tion in politics. Many of the manu
facturers are demanding a revision of
the tariff. Thousands of men have
been thrown out of employment by
the removal of manufacturing , con
cerns to the south to get the benefit of
child labor and to Canada where they
can get trust-made material 40 per
cent less than In the United States and
escape the retaliatory tariffs of Russia
and other countries.
With this condition of affairs there
came to the front a Mr. Hamlin, a
democrat, who put out a program,
which he pledged himself, if elected
governor, to do all in his power to en
force. It was just such a set. of prin
ciples that perhaps nine-tenths of the
voters of the state would have in their
hearts approved. It was a plain state
ment with no double meanings. In
substance it was the doctrine of the
populists and Bryan democrats on
trusts, high tariffs, municipal owner
ship of public utilities, the refefen-
dum, concentration of wealth, special
privileges to the few and matters of
that nature. Under the conditions ex
isting in the state, no one could doubt
tnat with such a candidate and such a
platform that the democratic party
would have polled a larger vote than
it ever did before in that common
wealth.
: What did the state convention do un
der these circumstances? It nomi
nated Colonel Gaston, the creator of
more grinding corporations and the
most perfect representative of modern
plutocracy that could have been found
in the whole state. He was the mov
ing spirit in the subway and rapid
transit corporations and the whole city
of Boston as well as the state govern
ment have been carrying on a fierce
conflict with him for years to prevent
some of his projected robberies. An
attempt was made to hiss down George
Fred Williams ; in the convention for
opposing him. The convention was
four to one for Gaston from the very
start
How did this come about? As con
servative a paper as the - Springfield
Republican charges that a fund of $50,-
OuO was raised last spring which was
used in getting Gaston delegates elect
ed to the state convention Under
the circumstances existing in the state
the republicans were exceedingly anx
ious that Gaston should be nominated
and $50,000 is probably but a small
part of the money expended to secure
his nomination by the democracy. Now
the situation is, this, as described by a
Boston correspondent:
"All the republicans will have to
do to throw the democrats into ut
ter discredit is to point at Gas
ton's record and laugh. They are
doing it already, and every demo
crat in Boston knows that they are
saying only the truth. Every dem
ocratic leader who supports Gas
ton may expect to see himself
scorned as one of the biggest fools
of the state for presuming to sup
pose that the people did not Imow
a corporation man when they saw
him, even if he had resigned his
corporation connection in order
to be the party candidate. Consid
ering the emphasis laid, today upon
trusts and monopolies, the ex
treme sensitiveness of" the public
mind upon tie subject, the distrust
of most of the public, especially
the democracy, of capitalist influ-
ence, and the fact that this is the
great national question upon which
the democrats are , to join issue
with the republicans, for the. Mas
sachusetts democrats to take a
conspicuous representative of the
capitalists and call him their rep
resentative is the wonder of the
time. Republicans are already
jeering the democrats for it, and it
is evident that Gaston's nomina
tion will mean a small democratic
vote. Yet it looks as if the demo
cratic leaders were preparing to
advertise themselves as just such
foolish, managers, and were delib
erately taking a course they know
will forfeit their claim to public
confidence and strike the democ
racy a blow from which it cannot
recover for years."
This makes the fifteenth democratic
state convention that has refused to
ndorse the Kansas City platform and
gone over to plutocracy. The wisdom
of maintaining the populist organiza
tion is more apparent than ever.
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1 Your Attention is Requesu
The Gage County Herald says: "C.
Q. De France may not be an adept at
handling railroad "mathematical
problems," especially when it comes
to watered stock, but it is safe to say
he made Colonel Browne's petulant let
ter look like "30 cents" in his reply
published in last Monday's World-Her
ald. Good for De France! Let us make
him our next state auditor!"
Secretary Shaw is experimenting
with every desperate scheme that he
can invent to get out more money to
prevent a crisis before the election is
tulled off. Any kind of money is good
enough for him except honest silver
collars not redeemable in any other
kind of dollars. His preference seems
to be for national bank money. When
20 per cent was offered for money on
Wall street, Shaw began to think that
the end was in sight.
At the beginning q
talk on a subject
interest to you we
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based on A life.time of practical S
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have the suits here suitable for this purpose, that we ask you to come
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DECREASE IN WAGES
The census taken in 1890 and that
taken in 1900 enables us to see what
the trusts have done for labor. The
republicans constantly chatter about
the increase in wages under the ben
eficent rule of the combinations of
capital. The facts are that the total
of wages has fallen a little over 25
per cent since 1890. The census of
manufacturing shows the following:
; '.. 1890.' ''
Establishments,.....,..,. 355,415
Capital . .$6,525,15(5,486
Salaried officials clerk. . 461,009
Salaries . ...... 391,988,208
Wage earners .......... 4,251,613
Total vages .: . ; . .$1,891,228,321
Miscellaneous expenses.. 631,225,035
Cost of material used... 5,162,044,076
Value of products 9,372,437,283
1900,
Establishments 512,339
Capital . . . . . v. r $9,835,086,909
Salaried officials: clerks. . 397,174
Salaries $ 404,230,274
Wage earners 5,316,802
Total wages $2,328,691,254
Miscellaneous expenses.. 1,028,035,611
Cost of material used:.T 7,348,144,755
Value of .products 13,014,287,498
A glance at that census table shows
two very significant things the result
of the organization of trusts. While
the number of salaried officials,; clerks,
etc., decreased by 13.8 per cent, their
total salaries increased by 3.1 per cent,
and while the average number of wage-
earners increased 25.1 per cent .the to
tal wago increased only 23.1,per cent.
Those two things account for the ac
cumulation of several fortunes greater
than were ever known before and the
protest of labor is manifested in num
erous strikes. Salaries like that paid
to Schwab and other magnates quickly
run up that item. The number of wage-
earners increased over 25 per cent, the
total wages they receive decreased 2
per cent! That is republican prosper
ity for wage-earners. That is what
trusts have done for workingmen in
the last ten years. Another ten years
of the same republican rule will re
duce them to what has been called
the iron law of wages," namely, they
will get only enough to preserve life
and perpetuate their species.
The census tells the story. It is the
work of republicans and they can't im
peach their own witness. The result
of republican, policies in fostering
trusts, in maintaining exorbitant tar
iffs, in concentrating wealth in few
hands, is .'ist what The Independent
has always said it would be. It will
make of the people of the United
States a set of miserable hirelings, de
pendent for their daily bread upon the
will of a few trust magnates and own
ers of railroads. Remember that this
result has been declared after the
marvelous production of the most fer
tile continent on the earth, and after
years of wonderful crops. What will
happen when the lean years come?
'After us the deluge."
- MICKEY A SK1N BXIJfT
Every intelligent voter in the state
knows that Mickey is what the farmers
call a "skin flint" There Is no set oi
men who will waste . more time de
nouncing skin flints than republican
farmers. Every town in the state has
one or more skin flints. They start
a bank. They induce farmers to feed
cattle and promise them the money to
purchase stockers at a low rate of in
terest. , Then, thay charge them a big
rate and compound the interest every
sixty or ninety days, so by the time
the farmer gets his stockers fat and
sold the skin flint has raked in about
25 per cent, which is all the profit
there is in the business. , That is to
say, the iarmer raises corn, worna
hard all the year, round and give to
the skin flint &ll the profits of his la
bor above a bare living. The only con
solation that the farmer has is that
his land raises in value, which, if he
continues to farm, is a detriment, for
it raises his taxes while it adds noth
ing to the fertility of. his acres.
. The Mickey style of skin flints do
other things. They keep a sharp look
out for any- farmer that is in debt and
get a mortgage on his place. If there
comes a yeai or two of bad crops, the
skin flint takes the farm! on a mort
gage. , The . farmers out in Mickey's
county, say that he has gathered in a
good many farms in that way. Final
ly the skin flint gets rich and a good
many men ' who ' once ' owned farms
have lost them and are eking out a
miserable existence as "renters." The
skin flint being so much like a cor
poration, that Is, having neither soul
nor morals, he is naturally the favorite
of the railroads and 'they proceed to
nominate him for governor, well know
ing that the farmers who .curse tho
sicin nmts tor 3b4 days out a year will
vote for him on the other day if he
bears the label "republican." That is,
some of them will. The others will
cast their vote for the generous-heart-ed
W.' H? Thompson,' who never took a
poor man's farm "from him on a mort
gage or loaned money at 10 per cent,
compounded ' every sixty days, to the
corn raisers of Nebraska. It is said
that 300 or 400 men in Mickey's county
whom he has skinned during the last
twenty years are ' out working for
Thompson and there are a large num
ber of republicans ' in other counties
who have been Mickied by other skin
flints doing likewise.
THEIR MENTAL CALIHRE
" The republicans were driven to
adopt and put in force the populist de
mand for more money to prevent a
revolution, and now a good many of
them are demanding the immediate re
vision of the tariff which the popul
ists have always insisted upon. There
is one very queer thing about a re
publican. If a plain economic proposi
tion is presented . by a populist or a
democrat, the said republican will de
nounce it as anarchy or socialism. If
the same thing Is advocated by some
one who prefaces his remarks with the
declaration, of "I am a republican."
that changes the whole face of the
matter, instantly. It is said that the
republican crowds in Massachusetts
who .listened to Qeorge E. Foss while
he talked populism and Bryan dem
ocracy "cheered with an enthusiasm
rarely equalled in any presidential
campaign." When Bryan and George
Fred Williams said these same things
four years ago,, these . same men de
nounced such sentiments and declared
that their adoption "would ruin the
country and bring back the reign of
the Cleveland soup houses." Of such
mental calibre Is the American mul
let head.
The criminal laws of the VnitM
States are compulsory upon the poor,
but optional with the rich. .Any poor
man who violates any section of the
federal code as the trusts have the
criminal law in regard to trust3 would
long since have been "penalized" and
landed In jail. :
The reserves of the banks, and they
are only nominal reserves at any time.
being lent from 'one bank to another,
were the lowest last week that they
have been since 1S90, just prior to th
great Baring failure. The govern
ment's sub-terasury holdings are for
the most part In the banks. What, do
you think is going to happen one at.
these daysT