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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
darkness and rank along with other
criminals that society denounces. A
prominent republican said to a fuslon
ist during the campaign: "Everything
Is fair in politics. The fusionlst
looked him straight in the eye and re
piled: "No, sir; some things are crim
inal, whether in politics or outside of
if
As near as can be estimated the re
publicans spent about $30,000 in print
ing garbled figures and fallacious ar
guments in the weekly press of the
State. Here again is where the re
publicans had the advantage. Many
times arguments for reform have been
offered for publication in republican
papers at regular advertising rates and
were refused. But the railroad argu
ments were printed in the fusion pa
pers at the regular rates. Every man
knows, who has given the least time
to investigate the subject, that the
railroads are taxed less than half on
their salable value than the farms of
Nebraska are taxed. But very few of
the voters have had the time or facili
ties to make investigation'of the sub
ject The great railroad lawyers,
trained in all the tricks of logic, can
of course put up an argument that will
easily deceive the common man when
no reply is allowed to be made. That
thing they proceeded to do in every
democratic and populist paper In the
state, always excepting The Indepen
dent, and all the millions the railroads
have could not get one of their lying
statements Into this paper as long as
the republican press continues to re
fuse to publish an answer.
The voters have been so demoralized
and corrupted by republican methods
that the great expense of a campaign
is getting the voters to the polls. A
fusion voter said to the writer: "The
republicans always have buggies and
teams at every precinct to send for
voters. Why can't our folks treat their
voters as well as the republicans do
theirs? I know of half a dozen who
Would come if you would send for
them. All the republicans out there
have been sent for." There is where
the corporation contributions count.
In this state they got every man to the
polls Svho would vote their ticket.
There were some thousands of repub
licans who would not vote for Mickey
and 'they did not go to the polls. If the
fusion committees had had one-fourth
of the money to pay for checking up
ithe voting lists and sending for the
indifferent voters, every fusion candi
date on the state ticket and for con
gress would have been elected by good
round majorities.
The railroads could make money by
paying $5 to get a voter to the polls,
while whatever the fusionists paid was
that much money out without hope of
return. The fusionists proposed if
they were elected to just double the
taxes now paid by the railroads. If
the republicans were elected the rail
road taxes would not be increased. So
a voter was worth to them at least
$3 a year as long as the republicans
hold power in the state. Railroads
have no politics. It is simply a mat
ter of dollars and cents with them.
It the fusion party would lower their
taxes and keep up freight rates, they
would support it just as heartily as
they do now the republican party.
With the private ownership of rail
roads, elections are up for sale and the
highest bidder gets them.
What is true of this state is true to a
greater or less extent in all the states.
Republican bosses in Nebraska, cor
rupt as they are, are not different from
leaders of that party in other states.
What then is to be done? To attempt
to con. est along the lines of corrup
tion employed by the republicans
would be useless. Even if successful
It would only result in getting a few
offices, and what does that matter to
the mass of the people? That is the
line along which the reorganizers
would fight
The Independent does not believe
that a majority of the people of the
United States are" corrupt If they
arer the day of retribution .will not be
long postponed. Thousands of them
act as they do for want of Informa
tion. The thing to do is to get the In
formation to them. It Is far better to
spend a few hundred dollars In get
ting a paper like The Independent in
to the home every week in the year
than to spend thousands sending for
voters on election day. The editor
would like to hear from hi3 readers
on this subject.
Rosewater tells the railroads that
"to attempt to seduce and manipulate
the government under present condi
tions would require means so gross
and obnoxious that popular agitation
would spread like wildfire. It would
be moonstruck madness for the rail
road corporations of Nebraska now to
provoke such a situation." All of
which is simply poppycock. A ma
jority of the people of Nebraska seem
to care not a tinker's malediction whe
ther the railroads pay any taxes or not
but their interest is aroused imme
diately when Bud Lindsey and Tom
Darnell merge the retail liquor deal
ers' association and the anti-saloon
league and go to whooping it up for a
prohibition-high-licenso republican
candidate. What do people care about j
taxes when there is a sham whisky
fight stirred up?
Since Mr. Dickinson left the Union
Pacific, the editor of The Independent
has not a single personal acquaintance
among the general officers of that road.
Ke don't know what kind of men they
are and don't care, but he does know
that attacks on them by union labor
leaders miss the mark altogether.
These men are simply hirelings, as
much as the men who work in the
shops and must be even more careful
to obey orders than machinists and
blacksmiths. If piece work is ordered,
it 13 not Mr. Burt who orders it, but
flarriman, Gould or some other Wall
street magnate. The members of labor
unions are "up against" Wall street,
but they do not seem to know it, at
least some of them don't. It has been
under the policies of the republican
party that Wall street has developed
into the mighty power that it is.
Scores of other men have felt its heavy
hand, just as the labor unions now
feel it. No man can escape the toll
he has to pay to it.
The republicans are very fond of
cj'.oling a "part of a sentence from
one of Senator Hoar's speeches in
which he said that the republican par
ty had made but one mistake in fifty
years. Crimes can hardly be called
mistakes and by that loop hole Sena
tor Hoar escapes. It was not a mis
take to steal the presidency and the
perjury and fraud by the means of
which it was accomplished were not
mistakes. It was not a mistake to is
sue paper money and make the soldiers
take it and then partially destroy its
legal tender power and make it re
deemable in coin and thus double the
value of bonds which were bought and
paid for in that same paper money.
No, none of these things were mis
takes, they were crimes. But there
was one thing that was a very grave
mistake not the imperialism to which
Senator Hoar referred and that was
when the republican party enfran
chised 4,000,000 ex-slaves who were de
scendants of generations of the lowest
savages and who had had no oppor
tunity to prepare for citizenship. That
mistake resulted in a disaster that
hung as a shadow of blackness over
this republic for a quarter of a cen
tury. Up in Cuming county a republican
farmer went into his chicken house
just at dusk and seeing what he
thought was a fine Plymouth Rock
chicken sitting in one corner he took
it up and folded it to his bosom. The
supposed chicken turned out to be a
Mephitis Americano. The other repub
lican farmers, of the state who have
folded Mickey to their bosoms will
have the same experience. A man
who was elected by notorious forgeries
could not turn out any other way.
Your Wife, Mother,
Sweetheart or Sister
Or whoever the human being
you hold most dear will value
your company Thanksgiving
day more if you are olad in
Armstrong clothes.
There is something master
ful and beautiful in the make
of Armstrong clothes that ap
peals with greatest force to
your fellow beings.
To begin with, the cloth is the
highest expression of the weaver's
art
To follow with, price for price,
there is more merit it the tailor
ing than you will find elsewhere,
A combination of these things
has given the Armstrong store the
title of "the always satisfactory
trading place."
We cite you to a wonderfully
pretty variety of Mixed Cheviot
suits made in all th i latest styles.
Made with all the are and work
manship that an exclusive tailor
will put into garments he sells for
$35.00 and $45.00. Suits not so
good sold elsewhere for $20.00.
They are a special purchase and
the regular wholesale price is more
than we ask at retail.
There is style, service and wear
to the utmost limit in these suits
You can have your choice o
them for $15.00.
Better investigate .quicklyf
These suits are selling fast.
Armstrong: Clothing Co.
1221, 1223, 1225, 122V O St., Lincoln, Neb.
SSI
THE NEW INDEPENDENT
The changed form of The Indepen
dent has long been under considera
tion. The character of the paper
seemed to demand it When speak
ing of The Independent the Boston
man says, "It is unique;" the western
man says, "There is no other paper
like it" The form in which it has
hitherto appeared made it difficult to
preserve and perhaps there is no other
papfcr in the United States that is so
universally filed away for reference af
ter it is read as The Independent.
The new form will be more convenient
in many ways. What surprises most
pec pie is that a populist paper, pub
lished out on the plains of Nebraska,
should get a national circulation, hav
ing many hundreds of readers in ev
ery state and territory in the union.
ft has never had any agents to spread
it among the people and has grown to
its present enormous circulation by
the unselfish work of the readers of
its columns. Men read what The In
dependent has to say, are impressed
with it and show it to their neighbors.
Others make a practice of lending their
papers to their neighbors who in time
become subscribers.
This is not tljg result of any extra
ordinary ability of the editor. There
are thousands of other men in the
United States who are more learned,
who are better economists and sociol
ogists, who know the history of this
government better, who have read just
as many works on banking and in
other ways are far better equipped to
fight plutocracy than the editor of
The Independent. The only difference
seems to be this: The editor of The
Independent not only knows the truth
"but dares to tell it," and so far no in
fluence has been great enough to get
him to stop telling it, or in the least
to modify it in the interest of the rich.
Another reason why the circulation
of The Independent is increasing with
such rapidity, especially in the east
ern states, is that there is not a paper
of general circulation in all that region
which dares- to print articles contain
ing the principles laid down by the
great economists. Some few will print
part" of the truth. What paper in
all the eastern states dares to print
the chapter on money in the ordinary
university edition of John Stuart Mill
as annotated by J. Laurertce Laugh
lin? And Laughlin was a gold bug and
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