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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
Oct. 16, 1902
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Special Washington Letter.
THE New York Democrats did a
rattling good thing when they
nominated Mr. Coler for govern
or. Pattison of Pennsylvania,
i Coler of New York and Ilollis of
New Ilampshire are a good three to
draw to. rattison has been elected
; governor of Pennsylvania twice be
cause he is an honest man. Perhaps
the same thing may happen to each
member of this illustrious trio this time
and fort the same reason. But hasn't
Republican politics fallen to a low level
when a man can be elected governor of
a ; great commonwealth solely because
he Is honest?
The New York Democrats not only
,put their best foot foremost in nomi
nating a candidate for governor, but
they made a radical departure in mat
ter of platform by declaring in favor
of government ownership of the an
thracite coalfields. There is meat in
that proposition, sure as you live, and
lots of It. Perhaps the time has come
to settle once and for all whether J.
Pierpont Morgan & Co. or any other
set of men are or can be stronger than
the government of the United States.
If the proposition of the New York
Democrats should be accepted as the
proper thing then we can see the begin
ning of the end of private monopoly
In the public ownership of general
utilities.
Presidential Perambulation. '
A great many persons are coming to
the conclusion that the presidents of
the United States should perambulate
about the country less, thereby reduc
ing the chances of death by accident or
violence.
Dolliver en Trusts.
My distinguished, mellifluous and elo
quent friend. lion. Jonathan P. Dolli
Ter, junior senator from Iowa, spoke
on the subject of trusts in Chicago not
long ago. When Hon. James Gillespie
Blaine wrote bis once famous letter
from Genoa, a disgusted patriot de
clared, with beads of perspiration and
agony on his brow, that he had read
that mystifying document right side
up, wrong side up and catawampus.
and then didn't have the remotest iea
as to what the magnetic man from
Maine was driving at, I am in the
came frame of mind with reference
to Br'er Dolliver's remarks as to trusts,
lie speaks, like the ancient oracle, in
a double sense. He owes it to a suffer
ing world to publish a diagram with
his remarks. He must believe in the
celebrated mot of Talleyrand that lan
guage is Intended to conceal thought,
for he most effectually coucealed his
thought, if any he has, on the subject
of trusts. Senator Dolliver appears
to have taken a lesson out of the book
of his senior. Senator William B. Alli
son, who rivals the famous Earl of
Halifax as a trimmer. Great Is the
Iowa Etatesman!
.The Wall Street Gamblers.
Two sets of gamblers got to playing
high stakes on Wall street recently.
The inevitable happened. One set got
the other where the wool was tight.
Immediately the set with the upper
band began to squeeze its victims.
i At once there rose as wild a yell
t As all the fiends from heaven that fell
Had pealed the banner cry of hell,
and the cry was: "Stringency in the
money market! A panic is at hand!"
Immediately Secretary of the Treas
ury Leslie "M. Shaw made unseem
ly haste to rush to the relief of these
gamblers "by placing illegally as mauy
think three hundred millions of the
people's money in the hands, or rather
the vaults, of certain pet banks in
New York to relieve the stringency!
Thus did Leslie M. Shaw, who was
going to show the bankers some new
tricks, follow in the footsteps of Ly
man J. Gage in aiding and abetting
Wall street. Vive la bagatelle!
Query. Who cared which set of
Wall street gamblers skinned the oth
er except the gamblers themselves?
Did anybody ever bear of a secretary
of the treasury rushing to the aid of
the great masses of the people when
threatened with a money stringency V
Clark's
Outlook For Democrats Bright.
Republican Family an Unhap
py One
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' to enable the trusts to mulct the peo
ple here at home of large sums of
money billions of dollars each year!
Senator Harris' Shoes.
The other day Senator- Harris of
Kansas came home from a trip through
Europe. Time was, by the way, when
every Republican paper In Kansas
would have pilloried a statesman who
would indulge In such a luxury; but,
happily, even Kansas is of late years
growing so liberal that It sometimes
breaks away from its old mossback
manner of thinking. But, speaking of
Senator Harris, that urbane gentle
man brought home, on his feet a pair
of new shoes. lie bought them in
London, but they were of American
manufacture, and, though freight had
been paid on them to London and a
traveling salesman's expenses had to
be paid across the Atlantic to sell the
shoes, yet Senator Harris bought them
for 20 per cent less than the same
shoes would have cost him in Wash
ington. He knows this to be true, be
cause he priced the same kind of shoes,
made by the same Arm, on Pennsyl
vania avenue, and found the price to
be 20 per cent higher than In London.
This is merely one of hundreds of
proofs that the American manufactur
ers sell at lower prices in Europe than
In America.
A few weeks ago the Democratic
congressional campaign committee ad
vertised in the New York papers an
offer of $100 reward for a copy of the
export price list of the big Peabody
concern. After much effort they se
cured a copy and published many ex
tracts from it snowing that hundreds
of articles f everyday use were sold
by them in Europe from 10 to 100 per
cent cheaper than they would sell the
same articles in America. Of course
it doesn't take a smart man to cipher
it out that they sold them cheaper
thera because they had to do so,
that they charged high prices here
because the high tariff permitted it
and that they would not have sold
these articles in Europe as cheaply as
they did if they did not find the busi
ness profitable. If they can make mon
ey there, for heaven's sake, how much
do they make by skinning those poor
Americans who so dearly worship their
high tariff that they would rather con
tribute toward making every Amer
ican manufacturer a billionaire than
vote against it.
What a pity it is that every fellow
can't regulate his own tariff! The free
trader would speedily be buying his
shoes at the low rate paid by Senator
Harris. I wonder if the high tariff men
would show enough devotion to "pro
tection" to continue to pay the Penn
sylvania avenue price for their shoes.
Senator Harris in an interview said:
Everything of American make is cheap
er abroad than In this country. My work
for the St. Louis exposition took me to
all the great stock farms, and I was par
ticular to ask what the Englishmen paid
for American farming machinery, pitch
forks, hatchets and other necessaries of
farm management, and I found that they
paid a great deal less than I am forced to
pay in Kansas City for the same articles.
It seems a very great injustice and im
position for American citizens to be
forced to pay such high prices here when
foreigners secure the same things at a
much lower rate. It is the high tariff
that is, to blame. The American manu
facturer says that he must be protected
against the foreigner. This is not true.
He has nothing to fear from the foreign
manufacturer, because he is successfully
invading the foreign market. Neither is
it true that the American goods which
are sold abroad are surplus products. "The
American manufacturer is selling his
goods at a fair profit abroad and at a
tremendous profit at home.
It seems to me that it would be very
easy to lower the tariff, which would give
the American consumer an opportunity to
purchase American goods at a decreased
price, and. if necessary, the American
manufacturer could raise the price slight
ly abroad. Something, however, ought to
be done. The present condition of affairs
is not just to the American consumer,
and I do not believe the American people
will stand it much longer. Something is
radically wron when I can buy Ameri
can shoes abroad for less than 1 pay for
them here, notwithstanding the fact that
freight for 3,000 miles has to be paid upon
them.
At the Mercy of Pierpont.
To this extremity hath it come at
last. Mor n is now in such a posi-
Never? Well, hardly ever, and nobody j tion. placed there by a government that
ever will hear of such a thing until
we get a. really Democratic administra
tion.
'American Products Abroad.
Some Americans wouder how the
American manufacturers can beat the
foreigners in their own markets, under
selling the Germaus in Berlin, the Eug
:lish in London and Liverpool and the
French In Paris, and yet have to be
protected here at home by a high tariff
; wall. When Frank A. Vanderlip wrote
his widely quoted article on "The
'American Invasion of Europe." show
ing that American manufacturers can
go Into free trade countries and "pro
tected" countries alike and distance all
competitors, it was read by millions of
people. It started a loug train of arti
cles add editorials of the same char
. acter in magazines and newspapers. It
.made Americans proud of America'
s achievements, but it did more than
that it awakened every thinking man.
even in the Republican party, to the
knowledge famt American industries
that can beat the opposition on its own
'ground certainly do not need "protec
tion" here at home, and that the only
possible use such a. tariff can have is
permits the formation of trusts and the
merging of vast railroad Interests,
that the financial world has to fall at
ius feet and ask for relief when riot
ous speculation and inflated valuations
have brought Wall street to the verge
of panic. Of. course if panic were
threatened while a Democrat sat in the
White House we are free to guess, as
to whether Morgan would come for
ward with the advance payments. The
Associated Press chronicles the event
In the following:
New York. Sept. 26. J. P. Morgan & Co'
today notified the shareholders of the va
rious companies and corporations for
which they act as fiscal agents that they
would anticipate October interest and
coupon payments next Monday, two days
in advance of the required time. These
payments. It is estimated, .will approxK
mate J14.000.000. This action Is taken to
help relieve existing financial conditions.
The United States Steel corporation an
nounced today that it would mail checks
tomorrow for th quarterly dividend on
Its common stock, due Sept 30. and that
the checks would be payable Sept. 29.
The sum of the quarterly dividend la
J5.0S3.025. and that sum will be released to
the money market.
Justice . Brewer as a Brush Burner.
Associate Justice David J. Brewer
is undoubtedly a success : on the u-
49 preme be,.
constitutions his opinion on the an
nexation aby of the Philippine an
4& publican of testifies. He is a lie
by the way. thJncoln type a type,
extinct. Dlowevel rapidly becoming
he be, he has evidelle justice though
Intricacies of the feanot studied the
and the peculiar ha bit. gasoline can
leal. To those who irmf. that chem-
j age eupveme court justice the ver"
I thing far removed from tb06 80rn6
! ordinary men, a something saSe of
; apart, the following press and
j will prove a revelation: atch
Justice David J. Brewer of the UV
I States supreme court was quite bat
; burned about the face and hands at h
I summer home at Thompson's Point, Lakt
uaampiain, last evening. Judge
lias remained longer at the Point than
I have the other cottagers and was clean
i Ing up some brush about his cottage.
Liberty Hall. He used a small amount of
! vasoline to make the brush burn and was
; In the act of lighting the pile when. the
accident occurred. His burns were
; promptly attended to, and with good
: nursing he hopes to be out- in a few days
without scars.
The moral of this really regrettable
accident to Justice Brewer is Every
man to his own work.
Applied Republicanism.
Nature endowed the state of Illinois
! most bountifully and made her a great
state. I have said in these letters a
good deal about "applied Democracy,"
a fine example of which is found in
Missouri. There is no finer test of a
6tate's real progress than can be found
in the record of her schools. Missouri
is justly proud bf her school system,
built up and fostered by Democrats.
The school attendance is large and con
stantly gaining, and she has the largest
per capita cash school fund possessed
by any state in the Union. Texas has
what will probably prove a larger
fund, but it is now in the form of un
sold lands.
The Chicago Record-Herald pub
lishes an interview with Mrs. Florence
Kelley. Mr. William E. Curtis secured
the Interview. In it Mrs. Kelley calls
attention to the fact that in 1890 Illi
nois stood sixth among the states as
to the percentage of children of
school age in the schools. The 1900
census showed that Illinois had gone
back to fifteenth place. This is a
frightful increase in the percentage
of illiteracy and cannot help in a few
years but show its dire results in in
creased crime and destitution. Such
a condition is bound to breed anarchy
and riot, of which Illinois has surely
had too much already. The lawmak
ers of Illinois are responsible for this
condition because the laws of Illinois
are so lax as to permit the employ
ment of child labor, than which noth
ing can be more pernicious. How
different are the laws of "poor old be
nighted Missouri," where the heaviest
penalties are prescribed for those who
employ children where their mental or
physical health is liable to become im
paired in the slightest. Mrs. Kelley
speaks of the "shocking incompetency
and indifference of the officials." ;Poor
old Republican Illinois, "6tony hearted
stepmother" (to use the words of De
Quincey when he apostrophized old
Oxford street), "thou drinkest the tears
of the children and hearest the cries
of the fatherless!"
Rose water and the Geese.
Republican "harmony" in Nebraska
properly begins with the letter "h"
but it should contain but four letters
j if It is aimed to correctly describe the
present condition of the G. O. P. in
that state. Editor Rosewater is at war
with the party organization and is
heading a bolting movement that
threatens to defeat some Republican
congressmen and the state ticket.
Governor Savage has had himself in
terviewed. Evidently the first Sav
age was named from a trait of charac
ter that has been handed down to the
governor, for here is what he said:
If Rosewater has as much brain power
left as God gives to geese, he surely
realizes by this time that the people do
not indorse his methods of conducting
political fights. I feel nothing but pity
for the man who is now placed between
the devil and the deep sea. For twenty
years he has waged a relentless warfare
against the fusion candidate for congress.
For several years he and his friends not
friends, for he has none for several years
he and those who fear him have waged
one of the most bitter fights imaginable
against Mercer. Now, what can he do as
between these candidates?
Free Trader Foss Nominated.
Up in Massachusetts the fight in the
Republican party over tariff revision is
waxing hot. Eugene N. Foss has been
nominated for congress on a platform
that, so far as its tariff plank is con
cerned, reads as if it had been
"Quigged" from a Democratic speech.
It declares flatly for tariff revision and
free trade in articles controlled by the
trusts. They want free raw materials,
they want free coal and free beef.
A Bad Outlook.
The Washington Post, independent,
with Republican leanings, in summing
up the political situation, says:
Speaking as an impartial but sympa
thetic looker on, we are disposed to say.
that the lot of the Republican family at
this time is not a happy one. On the
contrary,' quite the reverse. It seems to
be literally honeycombed with schisms,
disagreements, even feuds. Republicans
are divided among themselves on Issues
that are really vital, and they are en-;
gaged In bitter quarrels over mere mat-.
ters of party leadership and discipline.
Out in Iowa Speaker Henderson has Just
declined a renomination because he says
he is not In harmony with his associates
as regards tariff revision. In New Fork
the Republican convention has been on
the verge of pandemonium over the nom
ination for lieutenant governor. Two
powerful factions were snarling at each
other, and it is openly declared that the
antagonism to Sheldon included the presi
dent himself, as well as Governor Odell.
In great western states like Michigan,
Nebraska and California there are ugly
contentions overCuban reciprocity, and
ill these conflicts are of a character
which Insures an aftermath of rancor, no
matter which side may prevail.
HARDY'S COLUMN
The year 1902, will go on record as
the year of strikes and big rains. Crops
were good in the west, but great loss
has been sustained by floods and long
continued rains. Thousands Of bush
els of wheat have gone back to the
ground. Much wheat and corn were
drowned while growing. Thousands of
bushels of beans have rotted in" the
field. Potatoes have scabbed over and
rotted in large quantities. Apples are
a bountiful crop and have ripened off
in splendid condition. Sugar beets
seem sound, big, and sweet. The east
ern farmers haye, k suffered far more
than they Have. in, te west.
Over 2,000,000 tons of freight has
Brewereen received at Buffalo from the lakes
& year up to August 1. The amount
jV lively be - doubled by. the 1st of
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been "-Sundance of. coal and oil have
similar n Alaska. One gusher,
as, is ophe one ; first found in Tex
.nd spouting. T, rt .
Co-operaL j , '
in England.' factories seem to lead
in Trenton, Midea has b6en Plated
Six elevators sa
are run in Kansatwo flouring mills
rjhat Way.
Not less than ttt "
lions of the gold in tt hundred mil
ury is represented b$atinal treas
clrculation and nearly lrtlficates in
silver is represented by Fuch m0
cates. Paper is much bette91" cemfi
for circulation and the loss tan coIn
not one-hundredth part as nar 18
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Secretary Hay protests agafht
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' Mint ' two" of Its members with
the
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way Turks treat the Jews. Why
he not protest against the way
Illinbis people treat the colored peep
in the southern part of that state?
PERSONAL T !
The ocean cable is on its way to
San Francisco to connect this conti
nent with the Philippine islands.
Our Lincoln lawyers are pleading
lack of business and we are glad of it.
When people do as they promise, pay
as they agree and stop committing
crimes the business of lawyers will be
small. Let the republicans retire the
rest of the greenbacks, take away the
legal tender quality of silver, break up
half the banks and business men, then
the lawyers will have business enough
for five or six years again. As it is,
five hundred dollars for defending a
criminal negro will not be enough.
Every criminal defended the lawyers
will demand of our district judges a
thousand dollars. Several of the early
Lincoln lawyers have gone and opened
ofilces in other cities.
To raise the taxes on railroads and
require them to raise the wages of
their men employed and at the same
time demand a reduction in freight and
passenger fare seems a little exces
sive. It should be remembered that
railroad companies have large sums
of. accident damages and personal in
jury judgments to pay; then they are
robbed and ! blown up as well as
smashed up. If the water in the stock
could be squee&ed out we would have
less trouble. ! As long as dividends
are demanded-'on water, surely the
same water should be taxed. Selling
value should be the basis of taxation.
We can see very little more than farm
land value in country railroad fran
chises. Another road can be built
along by the side by buying the land;
not so with street railroads in cities.
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Our school board has certainly acted
wisely in' not allowing our public
schools and school buildings to be
turned into dancing schools and dance
halls. Dancing,- card playing and oth
er kinds of gaming do not mix with
study or general intelligence to ad
vantage. The same may be said of the
great college ball games. The dancers
and game players are not our best stu
dents by a long shot. Dancing, game
playing, horse racing and prize fight
ing all dwarf the human mind and
beget bad habits. If exercise is wanted
better for the boys to go out and husk
corn and the girls to help their mother
wash and scrub. :
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One popular writer thinks college
education of girls militates against
home interest and home love. Smok
ing, chewing, drinking, gambling, and
libertine men have good reason to
think that education prevents many
women from marrying such men. They
sweeten their breath ' by chewing
cloves or cinnamon when they are
likely to meet intelligent women. As
a rule our best educated women marry
men as good as they are or they do not
marry at all. They are capable of. self
support and are not inclined to support
such men. Then such men have to
marry women of their own stamp
and they don't like it. Intelligent
homes are our happiest homes. We
never knew a college' bred couple to
asK to be divorced. Intelligent people
are more sensible, more philosophical
and look farther ahead. Education
stimulates and widens general intelli
gence. Philosophy and comprehension
are more attendant upon the educated
mind. The meanest men fish for the
best women and when girls are quali
fied for selfrsupport in any of a hun
dred different callings they will not
marry a mean man. Sight love does
not captivate educated girls. Other
qualifications besides good looks are
necessary.
-We are a little shocked by the deci
sion of the Bupreme court of this state,
excluding the Bible, Bible teachings
and church singing from our public
schools. The constitution declares
that "religion, mprjality and knowledge
are essential to good government" and
makes it the "duty of the legislature
to pass suitable laws for the encour
agement of schools and means of such
instruction." ' According to the su
preme court decision no Bible com
mandments should be quoted or taught
by any teacher. The children must
not be told not to steal or bear false
witness.
Another train robbery was commit
ted only two or three miles from Lin
coln. We can't see why the through
express money safe cannot be made
dynamite proof. Cast iron or plated
steel a foot thick; would resist the ex
plosion of dynamite; then a fire proof
shelter could "cover the small money
safe. . ,;-li-H. W, HARDY. J
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