Oct, 23, 1902
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That some of these days there will
come a time which will try men's
eouls and the government will have to
exert all Us powers to maintain order,
if the power of the trusts is not
checked, was indicated in many things
that happened during the coal strike.
The papers say that the paving blocks
Tre torn up in many of the streets of
Chicago for fuel and in one case an
unoccupied frame house was torn down
and carried away. The ordinary pro
cesses of ; law ' become Ineffective as
soon as any large portion of the com
munity become convinced that general
injustice is being done. The hun
dreds of people who engaged in tear
ing down that frame house, could not
be controlled by the police or prose
cuted under the ordinary processes of
the courts. The only thing in such
cases where the disaffection is wide
spread is a soldier on every street cor
ner and a court-martial sitting in ev
ery block. Even that would not be
effectual if the disaffection became
general.
If the fuel famine had continued for
two or three months . longer, riots
would have occurred in every- large
city of the union, and the " unreason
ing rage of the mob would have taken
the place of law and order. Under
such circumstances the trust magnates
and holders of. millions of wealth
would stand a very poor show. So they
better have a care.
Under the rule of the republican par
ty the public welfare is often in the
hands of a, few men. If they become
angry or unreasonable, distress, ta
mine and chaos ensue. Suppose thai
some 'lay Morgan in a fit of dyspeptic
ragf hould issue an order to stop the
iro mills and throw a million men out
of employment. The whole nation
would b i in an uproar. In his case it
will be seen that the peace and wel
fare of 80,000,000 people depends upon
the good nature of "one ' man, because
of his millions. Is that the sort of a
government that Washington and Jef
lerson thought they were founding?
It is said that although Rockefeller's
health is better than it was a while
ago, yet he is becoming subject to fits
of violent passion, as dyspeptics often
are. Suppose he should issue an order
some morning to his string of banks
to call in all loans and not lend an
other cent. A crash would come that
would shake the financial foundations
of every business concern from ocean
to ocean. Here is another "one" man
upon whose soundness of mind and
good temper the welfare of the people
depends. And it is all because of the
concentration , of wealth. . ,. T
There are half a dozen other men
who hold and can exercise at any mo
ment just such awful power. And as
their wealth accumulates, their power
grows greater and greater. That is
the verge of the gulf that special priv
ileges, franchises, exemption from
taxes, private control of railroads with
their rebates, tariffs and elections
bought with the money of the rich
have brought us to. The concentra
tion of wealth in few hands is a threat
against the nation and the stability
of society. Under it we must depend
for our lives and fortunes upon the
whims and caprices of 'one" man and
it brings us back again to the condi
tion In which the world was when it
was ruled by absolute monarchs by
divine right.
SAPHEAD POLITICS
Blair is a prosperous town of sev
eral hundred inhabitants in Wash
ington county, Nebraska. Just at
present many of - the shop windows
and bill boardsare covered with post
ers, headed in large letters: "Dave
Mercer." Then follows a picture of
this Atlantic City statesman. After
that come these words: "Two years
ago I promised Blair a postofflce
building." Then there is a picture of
a small, neat building, under which
are the words: "Here it. Is."
That Is to say Dave Mercer made a
present to the town of Blair of a post
office building. One might', Inquire if
he was able to do : that,' why is it he
has never been able ,to establish a
residence in the district? - He should
have built himself a home before he
started out buildingr postoffices. But
aside lrom all that such a poster is an
appeal to sapheads for their votes. It
is taken for granted- that the mer
chants and farmers of Washington
county will.elect'a tool of the railroads
to congress because he succeeded In
adding to the taxation of the public
enough to build a postofflce in their
town. If Mercer and men like him
succeed in holding the government the
railroads will take enough out of them
in one year, above fair rates, to build
half a dozen postoffices. Mercer takes
it for granted that the voters of Wash
ington county are just that sort of
sapheads.
If Mercer had come before the peo
ple of the county with a proposition
to Increase their taxes enough to
build a postofflce in Blair, every one
of them would have been down on it,
but that Is exactly what Dave Mercer
has done without asking their con
sent. To get this appropriation for
Blair, he had to vote for the most
extravagant public building bill that
ever passed congress. When the peo
ple of Washington county, pay their
share of taxes for public buildings,
they will have paid a great deal more
than the little postofflce building in
their town cost.
The sapheads think that when they
get an appropriation from congress
that it is that much clear gain, but
men of sense know that in all these
raids on the treasury the boodle has
to be passed all around among tne
boodling congressmen. If there are a
few thousand coming to Blair, many
millions have to go to the other
boodlers, of which the citizens of
Blair have to pay their share. The
idea of the saphead is that the con
gressman is great just in proportion
as he is successful In raids upon the
treasury. It matters not that he helps
kill every bill that would give power
to the interstate commerce commis
sion to reauce rates or prevent re
bates to the great,, trusts. If he can
only spreau out his hands and get them
deep into the treasury, he's the man
for tnem.
The election returns will show how
many sapheads there are In Wash
ington county. From the attendance
upon Mercer's meeting in Blair it ap
pears that the people In that town are
not sapheads at least not to any great
extent.
THE BORAX TRUST
Always about election time the P
Street Idiot gets into a state of ex
citement, and his capers during those
periods are exceedingly amusing.
Tuesday morning he undertook to dis
cuss the borax trust in support of the
theory at there are trusts in free
trade countries the same as in high
tariff countries. He does not deny that
the Borax trust charges cents a
pound for its product in this country
and sells it in England for 3 cents.
But he says that the trust is an organ-
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ing at it, you will not wonder why no other store has any
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39c. From that up to $00. Perhaps the best all-around
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FORMER MAYOR OF ST, IGNACE,
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.Taught film Valuable Lewon
"I have had. an experience which
taught me a valuable lesson," said the
Hon. 'Thomas F. Madden, former
mayor of St Ignace, Mich., to a re
porter the other day.
"It was while crossing the Gulf of
Mexico," he continued, "in an attempt
to recover my health, that the sug
gestion came to me. For twenty years
I had been a sufferer from indigestion.
It tortured me. I could not eat a
hearty meal and even the lightest food
distressed s me. I was treated by sev
eral very able physicians, but grew
worse all the time. In fact, nothing
helped me until I tried Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills.
"Chronic indigestion had brought on
a whole train of other troubles. I be
came nervous, suffered from violent
headaches and billiousness, and I
think I would have given every cent
I possessed to find relief. But I be
came more miserable and finally in
despair I .determined to take a south
ern trip.
'"On the steamer bound for Galves
ton I chanced to see Dr. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People mentioned
in a newspaper article. As soon as we
landed I purchased a box of the pills
and they gave me almost instantane
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I think I 'should have starved to
death. I grew constantly better and
in a short time I was cured.
"It is now over a year since these
pills cured me. My stomach is sound
and my digestion is perfect. I can
eat heartily of the richest food, my
nerves are quiet, my blood good and
I feel well and strong. I have been
made a .well man by Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People."
The Hon. Mr.4 Madden's address is
St Ignace, Mich., and he is willing to
corroborate the statement given above.
The power of Dr. Wilnams' Pink Pills
for Pale People in the vast number of
diseases due to impure blood or to de
rangements of the system, has been de
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way to restore health.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People are sold by all dealers, or will
be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50
cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50,
(they are never sold in bulk or by the
hundred) by addressing Dr. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
ization of English capitalists and
therefore what a "therefore" that is
the trust 4s a free trade trust The
fact is that the borax in this country
covers the ground out in arid regions
and can be gathered up at about the
cost o shoveling sand.
This tax was put on borax at the
time the editor .Of .The , Independent
was In Washington. One day Senator
Stewart of Nevada said to the writer:
"This tariff business is all a grab game
and it is pretty hard for the west to
get any share of it, or to decide what
excuse to present for making a grab.
Nevada hasn't anything to 'protect,'
at least not of the class they have in
the east. But I have studied it out
There is lots of borax shipped from
Nevada. It lies all over the country'
out there. I am going up to the sen
ate this morning and make a grab for
Nevada. Come and watch the perform
ance." Sure enough, at the proper time to
offer an amendment the old white
bearded senator arose and in the most
solemn manner described how the "in
dustry would be ruined" if there was
not a heavy tariff put upon borax.
With tears in his eyes he plead for the
poor, hard working men out on the
arid plains, who never had any benefit
from tariffs and now, one of their chief
"industries was to be ruined" for the
want of the same kind of "protection"
that was given in such generous quan
tities to the people of the eastern
states, the tariff on borax was clapped
on instanter and every washerwoman
in the United States has been contri
buting of her pitiful earnings to the
borax trust ever since.
EVERT FAMILY BOBBED
Senator Spooner in a speech in Mad
ison, Wis., the other day said: "Pe
troleum is not on the dutiable list and
never has been," and taking that state
ment for a premise, went on to make
an argument that the tariff had noth
ing to do with the formation of trusts.
The duty on petroleum is the same that
is imposed by the country where It is
produced, and all custom officers are
instructed to collect on petroleum from
the countries named as follows: Rus
sia, 91 cents a barrel; Germany, $2.07;
j? ranee, $2.80 on refined and $2.52 on
crude; East anuies, 58 cents; Rou
mania, $4.96 on crude and $3.72 on re
fined; Peru, $4.22; Canada, $2.50 on re
fined and $2.10 on crude; Mexico,
$12.85 on renned and $3.85 on crude.
Moreover where Russian petroleum
was shipped to England and refined
and then exported from England,
which has no duty, to this country the
Russian rate was- imposed at the Am
erican custom house.
The dense ignorance of the most
brilliant republican senators of all
financial and economic subjects is most
astonishing. The Standard Oil trust
is one of the most highly protected
trusts in the United . States, and by
that tariff on petroleum nearly every
family In the nation is robbed.
The only ground for protection that
exists Is for a tariff sufficient to pre
vent foreign nations from dumping
their, goods , here below the cost of
production anywhere for the purpose
of destroying American manufactures
and getting a market by freezing out
honest industry and then raising
prices. That Is the sort of business
that the trusts are in and they should
be treate- to just as drastic legisla
tion as the foreigner who does the
same thing.
The Harvester trust has established
a plant over in Canada. The number
of manufacturers who have gone over
there in the last year or two Is very
large, and they continue to go. They
can get trust goods which they use aa
material about 40 per cent cheaper
over -there and escape retaliatory tar
iffs in their foreign trade. The Ding
ley tariff has two great results. Un
der it the trusts flourish and manu
facturers are driven out of the coun
try. The whole of Wall street has been
back of Baer and his partners. The
Wall Street -ournal says: "The an
thracite coal companies are fighting
the battle of the whole country today."
And then it explains that what they
are lighting for is "the right to labor
in a free market." But when any one
proposes that laborers shall have "the
right to buy goods in a free market"
the .Wall Street Journal raves and
tears its hair.
The president got down on his knees
to Morgan and sent as special messen
ger to that magnate, who is so much
bigger than the president Of - the
United States, his secretary of, war to
ask that he would kindly condescend
to settle the coal strike. It is per
haps the first time in the history of
the world when a ruler of a great and
mighty nation sent a member of his
cabinet to a private citizen on such an
errand. Morgan rules and the presi
dent acknowledges that fact
The republicans are sending spell
binders out to Nebraska all the way
from Washington. One of them, F. W.
Cbllins, orated at Chester the other
night. Among the, "paramount falla
cies" of Bryan he enumerated trusts
and imperialism. , Then he delivered a
eulogy upon Lincoln,' Garfield and Mc
Klnley, and' quit. - To -a people pro
foundly interested inr great and press
ing questions of,, government and po
litical economy, the -delivering of such
addresses is time, wasted.
The populists tiavV persistently ob
jected to the waste of public money
in printing ponderous volumes of gov
ernment reports, many of them magni
ficently printed and " illustrated, which
are sent by the carload from the gov
ernment printing office to the dump
pile. The thing has gone to such an
extent that it is beyond endurance. It
is said that an effort1 will be made to
curtail the verbosity of government
officials and save some millions of
.money taken out of the people. It
should have been done long ago.
The western bankers having got
skinned in 1893 by depositing in the
New York banks have been keeping
their money in the west for the last
three or four years. That being the
case, the New. York sharpers have to
turn their attention to individuals
and are getting their money. Secretary
Wilson says that thousands of farmers
have deposits in the New York banks.
It is sixteen to one that no populist
has any money down there, not be
cause they haven't got it to lend, but
they know Wall street and don't pro
pose to be among the lambs when the
shearing time comes.
The demoralization that capitalism
has brought Into every sphere of life
was illustrated last week when 500
young ladies engaged in a fight on
the streets of Chicago. Several hun
dreds girls and women employed in a
paper box factory went on a strike
and when others of their own sex
flocked to fill their places there was a
riot The sight of 500 young women
fignting on the streets for the privil
ege t earning a living shows the ten
dency of the times when the trusts
and railroads are piling up millions
and the women fight for the right to
work sixty hours a week for a mere
pittance.
Teddy says that he is going to rec
ommend that the tariff on coal be re
pealed and that he will do It in his next
message so that the poor people can
get their fuel cheaper. That Is good.
But suppose that he recommends the
repeal of some other duties so that
the poor people can get their sugar,
salt, boots and shoes and some hun
dreds of other things cheaper. Would
not that. be good, too? In other
words, isn't this whole republican sys
tem of "protection" which has' built up
the trusts and made thousands of
millionaires, altogether wrong?
Coxle was the originator of Secre
tary Shaw's last plan to inflate the
currency, but they put Coxie in jail on
the" plea that he "walked on the
grass," when Coxle was never within
twenty feet of the grass, as was clearly
proven at the trial, and as this writer
can testify, for he was there and never
took his eyes off Coxle while he waa
on the capital grounds. But they said
that Coxie was in a conspiracy with
Carl Browne, who did step r on the
grass, and they sent ' him up anyhow.
But now the day of Coxie's triumph
has come and it only, took eight years
to bring it about x
Some of the Bostonese talk is far
from forceful. They, have attempted
down there to adopt the English, way
of using the word "quite." If an Eng
lish shop girl says to you, "This style
is quite new," she means that it is
new absolutely new. 'The Springfield
Republican says: "The crisis is quite
past," when it means that the crisis
ispast If it does not mean that then
Jt should have said that "the crisis
is 'nearly past" It certainly does
not mean that the crisis is more than
past If a thing is round it can't be
rounder, any more than a crisis that is
past can be "paster." Such words as
'new, 'round,', 'square,' 'past cannot
be qualified. We western writers found
that out long ago, but these Massachu
setts gentlemen, some of whom have
criticised The Independent for the lan
guage that it uses, do not seem to
know it.
The final outcome of all this row
and roar over the coal strike seems
to be this: There is to be one law for
the corporations and; another law for
the men who toil, or. the law is to be
enforced against the men who toil
and is not to be enforced against the
managers of the corporations. The
coal trust is to be allowed to defy the
constitution of the state of Pennsyl
vania, disregard the: provisions of the
interstate commerce law and the Sher
man anti-trust act, while the wage
workers must obey every law. on the
statute book or suffer the penalty pro
ute book or sutf er the- penalty pro
vided. That the trust exists by the
constant violation of all the above
enumerated laws, nobody denies'. That
it is to be prosecuted for these viola
tions is not even proposed. If you like
that kind of government, just walk
up to. the polls and "vote 'er straight"
During" the campaign The Indepen
dent has received -a large number of
letters from old soldiers residing in
soldiers' homes, - in which the writers
have requested the suppression of their
names, assuring the editor that ' if
their names were published they would
be "bounced" from the homes which
had been provided 'for them by a gen
erous public. The subject matter of
these letters were not in any case com-'
plaints of the homes or attacks on the
officers, but simply discussions of
questions affecting the public welfare.
Among the meanest types of tyranny
that was ever invented is that of sup
pressing free speech among the men
who fought to preserve the union.
Attention is being called by east
ern papers to the factv that the civil
service laws do not apply to appoint
ments in PortoRico and the Philippines
More than a year ago The Independent
published several articles on that sub
ject 'The eastern dailies do very well
when they are only a year behind The
Independent. On all the principal eco
nomic questions in which the general
public is interested they are generally
from five to ten years behind. As to
places in the Philippines and Porto
Rico, they were never intended to be
filled by any one except by party
workers whose reputations 'were too
foul to give them offices at home.
The reduction of the army that the
republicans are talking J about with
so much gusto will not require the dis
charge of a single soldier. The army
is hardly up to the minimum now be
cause American boys refused to en
list The idea of being sent to the
Philippines, to swelter .in its hot and
humid climate, , die ; of army disentery
or cholera, and fight in wars in which
there is neither honor nor glory is not
nearly as attractive as it was two or
three years ago when Beveridge used
to make speeches in the senate and tell
about picking up nuggets of gold in
the Philippine creeks.
These are the days when the repub
lican editors write long and pleading
articles advising the members of the
party to "get together."
Items of Interest.
Ohio has a trolley line which has in
troduced sleeping cars on its long
runs.
The price of western farm land has
risen in a marked degree within two
years. "
A cow's hide produces 35 pounds of
leather, and that of a horse about 18
pounds. i'
The king of England who could not
.speak the language of his kingdom was
George I.
In California alfalfa sends its roots
20 feet into the soil and produces three
crpps of hay a season.
Canada has most holidays of any
British colony..1 Including Sundays
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of advice. Buy your new shoes" now while your old
ones are in pretty fair condition, and only wear your
new ones occasionally until they, get broken in by easy
stages. You'll et better service out of your new ones
if you go at it right. Two pairs of shoes worn alter
nately will wear longer than three pairs worn one pair
at a time. Leather needs rest and care to get all the
good there is in it; And there's nothing but leather
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Fifteenth
Canadians have 95 holidays yearly.
The motto,. "DIeu et Mon Droit,", was
first assumed by Edward III. of Eng
land when he took the title of King
of France.
"Robinson Crusoe" was the first
novel with illustrations, ever published
in England. ,, This was in August, 1719.
The . illustration, was a map of the
world. ; ' ' ' - "' ' v ';
General Burgoyne's headquarters In
the Saratoga campaign in 1777 at San
dy Hill, Washington county, N. Y., is
about to be razed to ' make ' way for
factories.
William IV. was at the time when
he succeeded to the throne the first
William of Hanover, the second Will
iam of Ireland , and the third William
of Scotland.
Signor Galimbert, . minister ' of , posts
of Italy, is projecting an interesting, in
ternational envelope, for use through
out the postal union, permitting a post
paid reply.
"Your Majesty" as a royal title was
assumed in England in 1527 by Henry
VIII. The title before' thaf was "Your
'Grace" or "Your Highness" for the
king or queen.
In return ' for a monopoly -of the
preparation of opium in China a Ger
man firm at Shanghai has offered the
Chinese government an: annual pay
ment of over i5,000,000.
There still flourishes , at .: Pundee.
Scotland, a tree which was dedicated
as a "tree of liberty" more than a
century ago during the ferment caused
by the French revolution.
Henry VIII. was the first to assume
the title of king of Ireland. The title
king of Great Britain was assumed by
James VI. of Scotland when he became
James I. of England.
In 1890 the United States had 106
button, factories; in 1900, 238, with a
capital of $4,210,000, using annually
material worth $2,803,000, turning out
a product worth $7,695,000.
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In the lower depths of the ocean
some of the fishes go blind, while oth
ers develop huge eyes. Some are so
constructed that they, can swallow
fishes much larger than themselves.
The purity of Japanese copper ob
tains for it a market all over the
world, it . having the, highest known
electrical conductivity " of any speci
mens of this metal procurable. The
value of the copper exported in 1900
was $6,499,525. Pittsburg Dispatch.
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