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How may the good people of Ohio
know how to vote? In Nebraska the
democratic party seems now to be
dominated by the liquor interests and
the standpatters have the republican
organization. If the sincere people
vote one ticket they will vote for
the "interests" of the state; if they
vote the other they help to continue
the grafting at Washington, D. C.
How shall the people get a chance
to rule? I believe that the majority
of the people of Nebraska want coun
ty local option; they also want a re
duction in the tariff. But how can
they get it? My home county (Ad
ams, Ind.) went dry under the
county local option law by a big ma
jority. Our state representative, a
democrat, voted with the temperance
people. In the next primary the
liquor, "interests" got hold of the or-
ganization, and a liquor man defeat
ed our representative. If I vote for
the liquor man he will help in the
attempt to repeal our county option
law; he will also vote for Mr. Kern,
a man who, if elected, will help to
make it hot for the "interests" down
at Washington. But either way,
one's vote will be in favor of some
selfish interests. Give us the ini
tiative, the referendum and the re-
. call and then the people will have a
chance to get what they want.
C. H. Beale, Baxter, Kan. I have
been reading the different articles in
reply to Senator Owen and, while I
will not undertake to answer his
question, I will give you my views as
to a method of correcting some of
the evils of bad legislation and it is
this: Reduce the cost of the Con
gressional Record down to actual cost
of publication and mailing, so that
tho voters may know what their con
gressmen are doing. Then we would
know whether it was to our interests
to send them back or not. The voters
don't knbw any. more about what is
," being done there than "we do of the
house of commons in England. The
people will never rule until they can
know what their rulers are doing.
(Although it is a fact not generally
known, provision is made for the free
distribution of the Congressional
Record. Send your request to your
representative in congress. Ed.)
J. C. Hill, KingflBher, Okla. The
reason the people do not rule is be-
cause they will not go to the conven
v tions or primaries and vote their hon
est sentiments. They go as a rule
and vote for machine made candi
dates. These "candidates" are gen
erally "brought out" in the rear end
of some saloon, and are known to
stand for the "interests" before they
are "brought out." If the people
" would honestly stay with an honest
conviction, and eternally pound at it,
they would rule. Good, straight men
are too cowardly; they are afraid to
stand a battle was never won by
being afraid to "shoot." The motto
should be "Eternally stand and
shook"
S. A. Little, Pontlac, 111. There
are two classes of people in this
country that get what they want,
and they are the thousands who sell
their votes to the equally dishonest
rich for a small sum or a drink of
whisky to elect men to congress to
run the government. Those are the
ones that are running this govern-
. ment now, and they are getting what
they want. But the great majority
are not getting what they want. I
guess that the devil will try to be
on top most of the time. I am done
voting the republican ticket. 'Have
voted twice for Mr. Bryan, but have
found that he IS too far in advance
of the American people in his moral
and religious principles ever to be
president. As he is, he is doing more
for the people of this country than
any other living man. I hope that
. the people of Nebraska will nominate
and elect tho associate editor of The
Commoner to tho United States sen
ate. I have read his letter in Tho
Commoner and like it much.
G. R. Dilbert, Willow River, Minn.
The people elect representatives to
do their business, but they don't
make their wants known to them.
The trusts make their wants known
through an individual representative
to the representatives of the people,
and the representative of tho people
becomes a traitor to those who elect
ed him and he rules and governs
them. This applies from road boss
to president of the United States,
yes, and to Speaker Cannon. If. tho
people want anything they can't get
it. If they don't want it, it Is forced
onto them. For an illustration will
refer to tho "Nebraska Battle" in
issue July 15, of Tho Commoner.
Will give the following for a defini
tion to the word trust. A certain
number of men banded together to
rob the people by law and the man
that takes the oath of office takes
oath to support them, as all trusts are
made constitutional. The people
don't rule; they are ruled.
B. C. 'Jones, Bridgeport, Ala.
The reason the people don't rule, too
many of them are like the Irishman's
pig. A party met an Irishman driv
ing a pig and said: "Hello, Pat,
where are you going with your pig?"
Pat said: "Hush, he thinks he Is go
ing to Dublin to the fair but I am
taking him to Kilkenny to the
slaughter house. If he know where
he was going, divel the bit would
he go." Now if the great mass of
people who are voting for the Inter
ests knew they were going to the
almshouse as the result of penury
and want, instead of to wealth and
happiness as they think, devil the
bit would they go. Tob" many per
sons believe that the more a man Is
taxed by the taTiff the better off he
is. But just how they arrive at the
conclusion that the great masses are
better off with a high tariff on what
they eat, use and wear and the rich
and lordly which constitute the In
terest, as better off with a low tariff
on what they eat, use and wear is
something I fail to comprehend. Tho
art of language is such that it can
be used so no one can tell what is
meant when either spoken or writ
ten. During the agitation of seces
sion a' judge in this state said we
can whip the Yankees with pop guns.
After the war on being reminded of
what he said, replied: We could, but
the fools would not fight that way.
The republican platform in 1908 was
for the immediate revision of the
tariff. Mr. Taft construed It to mean
revision downward. The interests
construed It to mean upward revision
and upward revision we got. ' Mr.
Taft being as clay in the hands of
the potter, we got what the interests
wanted. The financial plank in the
democratic platform promised the re
peal of the Sherman law, the pur
chasing clause was all that was re
pealed, and the interests got what
they wanted. The republican party
in I860 said all' must be either
slaves or free. That pledge is the
only one mado to the people it was
ever carried out, and it was fulfilled
by making all slaves slaves to the
interests. After the war the north
ern soldiers were told to vote the
way they shot, towards the slave own
ers. Now they ought to vote the way
they shot, towards the slave owners,
the Interests. I favor the initiative
and referendum and recall, the guar
anty of deposits in national banks by
the government and the guaranty of
deposits in state banks by the states.
I am opposed to electing any to any
office who has failed to keep sacred
a pledge made to the people.
L. H. Duxstad, Omaha Neb. In
the first place the people do not rule.
They do not rule because the people
havo not beon represented to their
interests in tho senate or house of
representatives In either stato or na
tion, but special interests, through
special interests candidates for office,
have had tab on what laws they got
and what once thoy wantod to their
own interests, taking caro that tho
people as a wholo should not get a
ghost of a show in any kind of a
wholesome 'law to control. Because
tho people havo no such laws as
election of United States senators by
direct vote and not such measures
as initiative and referendum, the re
call, also bank guarantee and such
others to like effect. Why don't tho
people get these? What reason is
there that thoy should not bo enact
ed? Is it because your senator or
representative says these laws aro
no good that because of their Judg
ment you have to fall in lino with
them? Is a senator's or a represent
ative's Judgment any bettor than any
common individual citizen voter?
Why don't tho people vote for can
didates with principles, stating and
working for them? Like county op
tion hero in Nebraska, who is it that
is doing tho shouting against it but
the special interests, through special
Interest ofilceseeking, duping. Why
should not the pcoplo of a county
have a right to vote on the liquor
question? Besides every little ham
let, village or city in a1 county voting
on license, why should not farmers
and others living outside havo a vote?
Those hamlets, villages and cities de
pend on support from outsido, on
farmers, etc., yet thoy havo tho au
dacity to say to tho county, you farm
er voter, you outsider outside of ham
lot, village or. city, you. ehall not
vote. Wo, tho special interests, shall
control you; shall say for you, county
option is not in the issue. Our dem
ocratic and republican party will
loso at tho polls. Our special inter
est ofllcescokcrs will fall to bo elect
ed for office; therefore, you pcoplo
in tho county, the spccinl interests
want to deny you a vote. You can
got leave to pay taxes tho special in
terests say, but tho right to voto you
aro denied a plain taxation -without
representation. I would like to know
whether a democrat or a republican'
or any other: Why everybody quali
fied to voto in any county should
not have a right to voto on any ques
tion as woll as this one, abiding by
majority and enforcing what ma
jority wants.
Levi Forguson, Chotopa My an
swer has always been, that tho pco
plo as a mass do not get laws passo'd
so thoy can keep what they rightly
already do possess. Of courso tho
people at tho start own most of tho
gas and oil. I think they ought to
retain as much as thoy need to groaso
their own broad. I know I am right.
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