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The Ticket
For Governor W. H. Thompson
(Democrat. Hall- County.) 'it-
Lieut. Governor..... '-.'I.E. A. Gilbert
(Populist, .York- County.) i .
Secretary of State...... John Powers
(Populist, Hitchcock County.)
Auditor C. Q. De France
,t (Populist, Jefferson County.)' :
Treasurer . . . ... . . J..N.Lyman
(Populist,? Adams County.)
Attorney General'. . :. . . . J. H. Broady
(Democrat, Lancaster County.) ;s
Commissioner Public' Lands and-'
Bufldings , J. C. Brennan
(Democrat, Douglas County.)
Supt. of Schools Claude Smith
(Populist, Dawson Countyl)
" ' - CONGRESSIONAL.
First Howard H. Hanks
(Democrat, Otoe' county.) -
Second Gilbert M. Hitchcock
(Democrat, Douglas county.)
.Third John S. Robinson
(Democrat, Madison county.)
Fourths : V . . . . . . William L. Stark
(Populist, Hamilton county.)
Fifth. ....... . Ashton C. Shallenberger
(Democrat, Harlan county.)
Sixth .Patrick " H. Barry
(Populist, Greeley county.)
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& Our readers in . other states
must have patience .when read-
jt ing the large amount of political j8
J matter devoted to the interest of &
the party in this state which ap- J
pears in this issue. This is the &
j last issue before the election
and there seems , to be at this v
jt writing bright prospects of sue-' &
St cess. The editor believes that
every reader of The Indepen
t dent is interested in carrying
Bryan's own state,' and besides j
rH-that , ;the methods of corpora- 5t
. tions are very much the same ii;
8 everywhere, while there are &
many states that have no paper
like The Independent to fear-'
j lessly describe those methods, v4
., & The subscribers residing; outside,
- 5jt of Nebraska can . f eei assured
that the same sort of . forger-
ies, briberies and other villain- jt
. & ous methods are 'employed by ' &
& the party of trusts, railroad cor
porations and high tariffs right
, t. where they live. . The Indepen- j
dent Is both a state and national
paper which sometimes makes
. & .the position of editor a very dif- 8
ficult one. The educational fea-.
& tures will be resumed in the
next issue and continue until the ?
& next election with more vigor
J and force than ever. ,
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One of the peculiar things that was
observed during the coal strike was
that the less coal the people had the
hotter they got
Grover Cleveland has solemnly,
formally and officially indorsed the
New York, democratic candidates.
That makes it certain that they will
soon pass into "Innocuous desuetude."
There is one thing that is just as cer
tain as death and taxes and that is that
the anjthracite' coal trust will take the
cost of the strike out of the consumers
of coaL They have a trust-tight mo
nopoly and there is nothing to hinder
j I them In the least
.Tariffs have nothing to do with
trusts. ' The two greatest trusts.
Standard Oil and anthracite coal, are
on the free list" That is what the
spell-binders told the mullet heads
and every one of them believed it
Most of them believe it yet
During the last four , years..-, every
great, daily in the land has -printed
; more than a hundred times the state
ment that the Standard Oil trust had
no tariff protection. That is the sort?
of information,, that, they have, been
t v giving to the people on every subject.
The protectionists said that a high
tariff would encourage and build up in
fant industries, but the final result
has been the development of trusts
and monopolies and every infant ln
. dustry Is knocked in the head the mo
t ment its shell Is cracked and it begins
to peep.
The reports from the Illinois charit
able Institutions Indicate , cruelties in
flicted upon the helpless Inmates that
would be a disgrace to the dark ages,
and deprecations worse than a lot of
savages. The men who buy elections,
from the Morgana down to the petty
employes in charitable Institutions, are
all animated by tha samo spirit, and
oppress an rob whnrer and who
ever they can, .
V WISDOM OF THE AOSI
,Thousands of people who could nev
er understand the statement in the
first populist platform that "the land
was the heritage of all the people and
should not be monopolized," are get
ting a clearer .view of that subject
since the monopolization of the an
thracite coal fields have attracted so
much attention. The truth is that no
man owns anything absolutely, for the
ownership must be subject to the general-welfare.
" That principle is older
than the common law, and was ex
pressed by the old Hebrew economists,
where the cnurcn ana siaie wa una
and the;, same' thing, "in the phrase:
"The earth is the Lord's -and the ful
nessr thereof." , '
a The i ownership - of , property, only
gives control so long as. it aoes noi
conflict with the public welfare, and
that principle is engrafted upon ev
ery"' sovereign -government, 'the only
proviso being that .it cannot be taken
without? due compensation. ,
- :The' private ownership of, land and
ail the land .contains Is permitted as
long 88 ' it does not conflict ' with the
pul-Hc welfare and no longer. When
the 5 ownership of land Becomes a mo
nopoly,inflictIng distress upon the peo
ple, or when by its public ownership
it can be better used for the public
welfare, the rlht of eminent domain,
which is a rightpreserved to itself by
every government,; is enforced.
AT railroad ; is .allowed to Jake the
land belonging to private parties when
the public welfare will be better served
than if it remains in those nanas.
That is,' the ownership of the land is
by force transferred from one party to
another. It will be seen that this rignt
extends further than taking land from
private parties for the government use
and ownership. It takes land from
private owners and confers the title
upon , other owners, not the govern
ment. .Whenever the transference of
coal lands or any other land from one
private party to another, or to the gov
ernment, will better serve the public
welfare, the government hasa per-
ect- and constitutional right to make
the ; transfer, and ' has thousands of
precedents to sustain it, the forcible
transference of privately owned lands
to the railroads being only one of
them;
In a political platform covering al
most the. whole field of government
and political economy; it was of course
only possible to state propositions in
the very, briefest terms. The land dec-
aration In the Omaha platform con
tains the essence of the wisdom of the
ages ' upon that question, and is In
perfect accord with the other govern
ment ownership propositions that the
document covers." ' - x '
THE NEBEASKA INDEPENDENTS
Oct. 30,. 1902,
TBI MORGAN DEMOCRACY
It Is constantly asserted In many of
the eastern, papers that J. P. Morgan
s back of . the v- whole reorganizing
movement in the democratic party. It
s claimed that his recent conferences
with Cleveland has resulted in Cleve-
and agreeing to take the stump in be
half of Morgan democracy and that he
will r make his first address in New
Jersey. Furthermore it is asserted
that Morgan is confident that he can
elect a democratic candiate for presi
dent, if 'he can get one? of the right
kind nominated at the next democratic
national convention. He proposes to
continue to buy up state conventions
and if it is necessary he will force a
panic to help his candidate. He can
do that easy enough if he wants to, for
all he would have to do would be to
issue an order to his string of banks
to call in all their loans.
Every man knows that capital has
no politics and no Country. If Mor
gan thinks that he can make money or
prevent serious assaults apon his
trusts by reorganizing the democratic
party and electing a plutocrat under
the democratic name, then he will do
it If the Wall street power Is thrown
over, to such a democratic party, it Is
thought that it will be an easy matter
to Uy , the few northern states that
with the, "solid south" will make up an
electoral majority for such a president.
There is hot much doubt that Mor
gan Is down on Teddy for Interfering
with his presidents of the coal rail-J
1 roads. It is constantly and confiripnt-
ly. asserted that he is. It is also said
that the "fine Italian hand" of Gorman
has been engaged In the manipulation
of these matters from the very first
Gorman would be the head of the
movement in the senate and every one
knows what Gorman would do with a
tarlffi The 900 amendments that he
tackd onto the Wilson bill is a sufl&c
ientMndlcation of - what his course
would be.
"HUMAN DEVIL"
The tin workers have been holding a
session the last week. The principal
question discussed .was whether they
should submit to a reduction in wages
for the benefit of the Standard Oil
trust Rockefeller not . only . has the
benefit of a high tariff on oil, but a re
bate of 09 per cent of the tariff on tin
which all other Amorlean consumers
have te pay la full. The canseeuenee
is that ha buys all hia tin in Wales
and the trust uses immense amounts
bt it" .The we rters finally agreed ta
make Reekefellep a denatiea . eut of
their wasps et thai ; 9 pa? Beat aad
ttl6 till "Will hproffoT- ho mflniiffltiirpH
in this country. Thus, this human
devil, goes down into the pockets of
the wage-workers and makes them do
nate to him a part of their, wages
which he adds to his accumulated mil
jions. ie ia able to do this wholly
on account of the tariff: The tariff on
oil and its by-products, together with
the rebates which Rockefeller gets on
his' raw material makes the Standard
Oil trust the most-highly protected in
stitution in the whole . United States
and this has been so covered up that
even the president publicly declared
that it had no protection at all
Rockefeller is the richest man in the
whole world, yet his greed Is so great
and the ordinary human instincts are
so lacking in him, that he actually
forces a large number of worklngmen
to donate to him a portion of their
wages. If the title of "Human Devil
does not exactly fit him, then it can
never be applied to any member of the
race.
IT IS STRAIGHT BUSINESS
There can be no doubt that the rail
roads could purchase a majority in
this state at $4 a vote (according to
their standards it would be a straight
business proposition), and make mon
ey by the transaction for the foreign
stock and bondholders. According to
railroad ethics, if the big holders of
stock located in Wall street and in
vestors in Nebraska railroads who re
side in Europe should order their man'
agers in Nebraska to buy this election,
they would be bound to do it. It is
simDly business. If they can make
money buying votes at $4 each, they
should, be bought just 'as they would
buy coal at $4 a ton if they could get
it no cheaper. It is simply business
and that is all.
The great trusts could far more
easily pay $5 a vote to hold the na
tional government That would also be
simply business. They could put their
accountans to work and soon find out
just how much a vote was worth, put
nn -the monev and buy them. Of
course all that they could wheedle into
voting their ticket for nothing would
be so much clear profit, That would be
straight business also. Those who
voted without pay would be looked
upon with the same sort of contempt
that is bestowed upon the sheared
lambs of Wall street
If the republican ticket is elected we
shall have a government by "the au
thority of the railroads." If they buy
it and pay for it in cold cash, then, ac
cording to business ethics, they are en
titled to make all the profit out -of it
that they can and there can be no
doubt that they will They are "busi
ness men" and they are after profits.
The policies that have been persued
in this country for the last quarter of a
century have resulted in putting
enough wealth in: the hands of a few
men in New York city to give them
control of enough railroad lines and
other public utilities to make it simply
a "business proposition" to buy elec
tions, both state and national. By con
trolling the government the govern
ment becomes more intimately con
nected with the operation and man
agement of railroads, than if the roads
were owned by it By tariffs and the
granting of franchises the government
becomes just as intimately connected
with the trusts and thousands of quasi
public corporations as if the govern
ment owned the industries and public
utilities. The control of the govern
ment is as much a part of the business
as any other thing connected with it
Investments in elections are just as
necessary to make enormous profits as
investments in the plants themselves.
So it has come to this point in Ne
braska and the rst of the world. Elec
tions are to be bought and sold just
as stocks are sold on the stock ex
change.' A man who is willing to vote
for the railroads without pay is sim
ply adding that much to the clear
profits of the gentlemen of Wall street
The state of Pennsylvania spent
something over $1,000,000 in putting
its whole militia force into the field
and in other ways connected with the
strike. That much money invested in
coal lands and worked under govern
ment ownership would have created a
competition against the trust that
would have prevented extortionate
prices for all time to come. As it is
the taxpayers who furnish that mil
lion will get nothing in, return. That
is the republican plan of public finan
ciering. The Independent does not feel so
badly now as it did a while ago when
some of Boston's citizens criticised its
manner of using the English language,
for these same gentlemen have been,
criticising the president, who is a Har
vard man and has had all the culture
that that famous Institution could give
him. The effort to make people out
side of that city talk Bostonese is
bound to prove a failure.
' THE TERM "WALL STREET
A lady says she thinks that "the
frequent use of the term 'Wall street'
is not 'edifying as it really has no-
meaning except what each reader
pleases to attach to it" That may
truthfully be said of almost any word
exceedingly glad if the banks there
can furnish enough money to carry
on honest business and the gambling
speculations on the board of trade and
stock exchange and prevent a panic
All that the west asks . Is, that when
having money on deposit there, checks
or term, but to the average reader and drafts will be . cashed when pre-
." Wall street" in the first place means
the great, combined financial power of
the United States, held principally by
the string of clearing house banks in
New York city. Besides that it means
the first stopover station for each re
publican congressman on his way to
congress and is the place where he
gets his instructions concerning how
he shall vote. . On his final return it is
the last station just before he vreaches
hell. On one side of Wall street there
is a mountain of gold nine-tenths fine
and on the other a million of paupers.
It Is a place where in all kinds of
business that it does, if one fellow
makes the other fellow must lose. It
sented and no attempt is made to play
the 93 game again. ' What the west
wants is its own money, not New York
money. . ' y , ,
LINCOLN COMMERCIAL CLUB
In the interest of honest business
methods, The Independent makes the
following proposition!. It has no bets
to make and no prizes to offer, but if
the Commercial club will appoint a
committee to examine the books and
subscription lists of the Nebraska In
dependent and those of the State Jour
nal and they do not find that The In
dependent has two subscribers for ev
ery one that the Daily State Journal
is a great collection agency for funds nas and tnree subscribers for every one 1
with which to buy elections. It runs
the largest gambling hell in the whole
universe. No man has, ever been
elected president against its wishes
since the time of Andrew Jackson. . It
Is the only place in the nation where
a banker can refuse to pay a deposi
tor his money and not be thrown into
the hands of a receiver. It is where
all the secretaries of the United States
treasury eo as soon as they get out of
office, and most of the comptrollers vno labor with their hands all pros-
the Semi-Weekly State Journal has,
then The Independent will pay all the
cost of the . investigation.
The Independent wishes to do busi
ness in a field with honorable compe
titors and not be forced to compete
with frauds and cheats. While it is a
national organ having subscribers in
every state and territory, Lincoln is
its home and it wishes to see the
n;erchants, business men and those
One minute the republican spell
binders say that it was "sound money"
that didJt and the nest they declare
that it was the tariff, and finally they
assert that it was simply because the
repuMiean party was ia power, They
eaa't tell the same lie and stick to it
ta save taei? live
end their days in those happy hunting
grounds. It is the cave where the
most rapacious robbers that the world
has ever known hold their meetings
and plan their raids upon their help
less victims. It is where a banker can
pay his depositor in clearing house
certificates instead of money and the
government at Washington dare not
say a word.. The members of the gang
range from the wild rapparee to the
lowest grade of sneak thieves. That is
what the term "Wall street" means to
the man of average intelligence.
OMNIPOTENT REPUBLICANS
The Star claims that "a large pro
portion of the prosperity enjoyed today
by Nebraska people is due to the fact
that the republican party is in power
in both the state and nation." That is
the main argument made everywhere
to eet men to vote for "our man
Mickey" and the other members of the
board of equalization, who, if elected,
will put the. burden of taxation on the
farmers, merchants and business men
and let the foreigners who own the
railroads escape. Will the Star please
give a single) fact to prove that because
Savage is governor and Prout attor
ney generalWiericQ of corn rose from
10 cents 7a bushel as . it "was , in the
Sherman-Cleveland times. Does the
fact that there are other republican
office-holders ' in the state house ac
count for the rise in price of hogs and
cattle? Does; it deny that the rise In
the price of the productions of Nebras
ka has caused the better times? Does
t believe tha't if we had a republican
set of state house officials and corn was
10 cents a bushel and hogs 2 cents a
pound, that we would still have pros
perity?
But we do have higher prices and
The Independent readily admits that
they were caused by the action, not of
state officials, but of a congress which
had a republican majority. One of the
first acts of that congress was to au
thorize the coinage of tons of silver
bullion lying in the treasury, and a law
of that kind they had declared from
every stump and in every party paper
would ruin the country. They had de
nounced every man who had claimed
that "more money" would make higher
prices, and sneered at, lampooned and
eered the proposition that they adopt
ed the very moment that they got into
power. .
Well, "more money" did have ex
actly the effect that populists and
Bryan democrats said it would. But
the trusts, banks and syndicates went
to work to gather in all profits that
ncreased activities in the industries
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produced. The latest, treasury statis
tics, as is shown in an , article in the
Baltimore American, a republican pa
per, and which is printed in another
column of this issue of The Indepen
dent, shows that during the last four
years the rich have been growing rich
er and the poor poorer. The point to
which the poor have been reduced was
shown by the suffering in all the east
ern states, when the rise in the price of
coal added just a little to their bur
dens. In those states which gave the
great republican majorities there is as
mucu suffering as there was in. 1894.
If Savage "and Dietrich caused the
rise in the price of cattle, and Prout
caused the rise in price of hogs, then,
of course, the farmers ought to vote for
them." Can the Star make even the
mullet heads believe it? ".
per. There are many houses doing
business in this city whose customers
are scattered over a large area of ter
ritory and they are only reached by
means of advertising. When a mer
chant pays out large sums for adver
tising in papers that have but small
circulation, the loss is not only to
himself, but to the city as a whole.
He must bear harder upon his em
ployes. He must curtail his contribu
tions to schools and churches-
He must minimize the ex
penses of his household and thereby
curtail the income of other merchants
from whom he would buy such goods.
It is therefore to the interest of the
whole city that the circulation of the
papers here should be stated correctly:
The Commercial club could do no bet
ter service to the city than to bring
about such a thing.
Meantime The Independent invites
any member of the Commercial club
or any business man of the city to
come in at any time and examine its
books and circulation list They are
open to all.
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to order an extra live thousand copies. Readers of The In
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WANT OUR OWN MONET
The editor of The Independent never
looks over an edition of the New York
financial magazines and journals with
out seeing things that have a ten
dency to make him say bad words. But
the most irritating of all of them is
the constant reiteration of the false
hood that the New York banks must
.furnish the, west with money to move
the crops. The west does not require
that New York shall furnish a eent of
meaey to move the ereps. It will be
SPECIMEN DISPATCHES
The dispatches in the great dailies
run this way:
Washington, Oct..-22. Miss Alice-. r
Roosevelt, oldest daughter of the .
president, is engaged to be mar
ried to Captain Green way of the
Rough Riders. Formal notices of
the engagement will be sent out
within a few days.
Washington, Oct. 23. The story
that Alice Roosevelt is engaged
to Captain Greenway . is absolute
ly false. The president and Mrs.
Roosevelt both authorize a posi
tive denial of it
Thousands of people pay from five to
ten dollars a year for a paper that
furnishes them with such dispatches
day after day to a greater or less ex
tent always to a greater extent when
they- relate to public policies affecting
the plutocrats.
THE HAS BEENS
. The republican party when it was
first organized attacked the democrats
as mossbacks and told them that they
were still voting for Andrew Jackson,
and there was good ground for such
an attack. Now the republicans and
their most distinguished leaders at
that are campaigning upon the same
old mossback plan that they once con
demned in the democrats. Secretary
Shaw is a shining example of this kind
of spell-binders and has made great
use of it in his western speeches. He
tells . of the glories of the republican
party in the "has been" when Lincoln
saved the union, and whatever else it
has done in some later years after Lin
coln's death. At Omaha he said:
"The first anti-trust law drafted
was by that grand old pillar of the
republican party, John Sherman.
The first anti-trust bill ever passed
by a congress was the Sherman
anti-trust act and was signed by
a republican president, Benjamin
Harrison."
When he got that far he stopped."
He did not tell his hearers that John
Sherman was later kicked out of of
fice and that Benjamin Harrison prac
tically left the party before he died
and was one of the foremost opponents
of the main issues of the republican
party in the last republican campaign.
Neither did he tell his audience that
the republicans of . these days abso
lutely refuse to enforce the Sherman
law and that It was a dead letter on
the statute book. To gain votes for
the trust' party he tells of the passage
of anti-trust laws, and to the accusa
tion that the republicans refuse to
enforce those laws he makes no al
lusion. On the "has beens" of the
Sherman times that have passed into
history he is loquacious. Upon the
pressing matters of "today" he Is as
silent as the tomb. If he could have
pointed to any - Instance where the
administration had enforced the Sher
man act, that would have been talking
sense. There ean be na doubt that
he would have dene so if there had
been an iastaaee i that kind.
Mail to-
Catalog No. 12 as per your offer in Neb. Independent.
At a public meeting in Maine the
other day resolutions were passed de
manding the public ownership of the
railroads and anthracite coal mines.
Nearly 1,500 men rose to their feet and
cheered the passage of the resolutions
until they were all hoarse. But most
of them voted the republican ticket at
the recent state election and they will
vote for the party of trusts and rail
road domination at the next election.
Undoubtedly the meanest thing that
any robber in all history ever did was
when Robber Rockefeller raised the
price of oil and gasoline to correspond
with the rise in the price of coal
caused by the strike. This old thief
reached down into the thin purses of
the poor all over the land and took
part of their hard earned money and
added it to his millions just because he
could. That is what this abominal
old human devil did.
In Lincoln the republican tax as
sessors put the same valuation on the
household goods of a Chinese laundry
man as they do upon some of the finest
furnished residences of the elite, as
the official records show, that is, if
the owner of said fine residences votes
the richt ticket That is the same
policy in a lesser degree which guides
the state board of equalization when it
comes to assessing railroad corpora
tions. Several of the United States sena
tors who have been out. spell-binding
seem to have met with something that
has greatly riled them. Senator Spoon
er's wild talk has been equalled by
Mark Hanna, who is engaged in de
nouncing his principal opponent as
"the most unmitigated demagogue in
the United States." Such talk from
United States senators show that they
are so badly frightened that they are
going wild. When a politician is sure
of victory he don't talk that way.
Illuminating oil and gasoline Is but
a part of the products of the Standard
Oil trust It is said that it manufac
tures and sells about 200 other prod
uctsvaseline, dyes, articles used in
medicine etc, all of which' are highly
protected. That Is the way that
Rockefeller ' got his. mililons,. together
with rebates on - the railroads. And
Henderson was so indignant when
some of his constituents ' suggested
that the tariff should hot be so made
as to be a shelter for trusts, . that he
threw up his hands and would not ac
cept a nomination from a party that
hinted at-auch things In its platform.
Hanna, Spooner and Cummins have
all broken down during this campaign
and had to cancel many appointments.
The propositions that they had to de
fend were enough to kill ' and set of
men. Tom Johnson .and Bryan, who
have done twice as much speaking as
eithr one of these broken down re
publican orators, are as fresh as when
the campaign first began. They have
only truth to defend and the con
Bciousness of a righteous cause has
kept them In good spirits and good
bOAltb,' . !
Government f by injunction spreads
day by day. iludge Ford of Cleveland.
O., issued a,vilnjunction the other day
against every member of a labor union
in the ity." The unions had declared
a boycott on a certain restaurant that
wouldlnot pay the waiters fair wages.
How lhe Judge is going to force the
members of the labor unions to patron
ize thdt restaurant the dispatches do
not sa. Will, he clap every one of
them ill jail who refuses to get his
: meals tlierej That would not be any
greater exercise l " of autocratic- power
than sometof the judges have' already
engaged in
Carnegie is one of the men who had
"nothing to arbitrate." Many of his
employes were shot down for demand
ing exactly the same thing that the
anthracite coal miners asked. Since
that time Carnegie has accumulated
many millions on account of his suc
cessful stand of "nothing to arbitrate."
He is scattering those millions all over
the world building libraries. Perhan
he might get St Peter to look more
kindly at' him when he knocks at the
gate for admittance if he would pro
vide for the widows and orphans that
were made during -the Homestead
strike.
lorn Johnson is persuing the course
that The Independent has long advised
the democratic party to adopt He
pitched his big tent in Cincinnati the
other day and then he pitched into
John R. McLean and read him out of
the party. He denounced both McLean
and his paper, th9 Enquirer, as traitors
to the democratic party. He said he
had reserved this speech until he got to
the home of McLean and the Enquirer
for he wanted to tell the truth to their
faces. If the democratic party had
pursued that course toward the whole
gang of plutocratic traitors In the par
ty, the organization would have been
better off today.
If there was .ever a country af
flicted to the utmost point of endurance
t is the Philippines. ' Their , country
was ravaged "by war and 300,000 of
their people slain. The' rinderpest ap-
peared and most of the water buffalo.
on which they depended for their - -t
crops died. Then the cholera slew
more than a hundred thousand more. i .
Now there is a plague of locusts eat- j
ing up all that is left If things go j
on this way the United States will ,
have as many paupers to the thousand ,.v J
there as the English have in Inr7
i ne worm win De canea upon io ,u'
them from starvation and death fnd
this is the end of the Imperialistic
dream.
A writer In the Chicago -Record
Herald says: "Biennially to the parti--"
san there comes a silly season, a timf
when all sane judgments are pi '
aside, and despite the fact that every'
social and business relation Is free
from partisanship, the fetich -must fpr
one day be supreme." That is the
state of mind that The Independent I
long ago named "partisan insanity." J V
The Chicago writer calls it a 4 " t
"fetich," but whatever it is, it makes a . .t )
mullet head walk up to the polls and V'V
vote for.a party, name, ihough by that Tr
act he votes aerainst evprr lntrc-
of himself and family. '
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