THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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A Ltgbtnln Striker
Editor Independent: You invite
your readers to give their opinion of
The Independent's, new dress. I like
it, and believe all reform papers should
follow the fashion;
I like you, sir, because you have the
grit to tell the truth. Your biography
of Nebraska republicans fits a majority
of Texas democrats to a T. The demo
cratic party must separate the sheep
from the goats before it can ever be
come a reform party. Many of their
leaders here have always opposed
Bryan. Others who have pretended to
be enthusiastic for him, now say he
has no policy; that they must have
some such man as Gorman or Olney.
I believe now is a good time to bgin
reinlistment in the populist ranks. Let
past differences as to policy be hur
ried. Leave off radical extremes.
Come to the people with a plain, sim
ple declaration of truth and justice.
There stand or fall. Truth crushed to
earth will rise again. The great hin
dering cause is partisanism and preju
dice. Spread the truth.
Your article on currency inflation is
a lightning striker. Give the "mullet
heads" more of them.
II. M. McCUISTION.
Paris, Tex.
R. A. Chapman, Glymont, Md.: I
sold the five educational subscription
cards to intelligent, reading men and
hope they will bring forth abundant
fruit. The Independent is on the right
road, but greed has this country. ' The
god of Mammon is securely enthroned
and there is but little chance of dis
enthroning him..
A Grand Work
Editor Independent: I have been a
subscriber to your paper for nearly a
year. I was ; a, populist for fifteen
years in Kafisas. I labored and wrote
for, that party until that grand old
man, General James B. Weaver, re
ceived a million and a half votes for
president, and until the old parties
were falling over one another in their
haste to adopt populist principles.
They are doing this and are enacting
into law, in many of the states, the
leading populist principles.
Populism, therefore, did a grand
work in its day it educated the peo
pie to a better life. It was, however,
confined quite largely to a small por
tion of the states. There is a move
ment now under way which has for
Its object the uplifting of humanity
to the plane of Christianity. It covers
all populist demands and goes beyond
into a grander and nobler field
Equality. This movement is not con
fined to two or three states of the un
ion, but is world-wide. It has as firm
hold in Maine as in Kansas or Cali
fornia, in Pennsylvania as in Nebras
ka. It is national and international.
This movement is socialism.
Please read Bellamy's "Looking
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Nervous Prostration
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took all the advertised remedies for troubles
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than for years; in fact am entirely relieved.
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and rheumatism were meet severe I secured
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Myers, Redfield, S. D.
"I was taken with pain in my heart and
under the left shoulder; with such heavy op
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hardly breathe. I had palpitation so bad
and my heart would throb so that it would
shake my whole bed. I also had a weak, all
gone feeling in the region of my heart. My
doctor treated me for liver and stomach
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Backward," then read his "Equality,"
and may God help you in -your labors
for the higher and puter political life.
. . S. L, LOWERY.
Indiana, Pa.
(The Independent grants that social
ism is beautiful enough in theory, and
that it might work well in practice if
a sufficiently large majority were in
clined to put it in force. But the ex
treme individualists also present con
vincing arguments for their theories.
Between the extremes of individualism
on the one hand and collectivism on
the other is the golden mean of pop
ulism, demanding "collectivism in the
ownership and operation of the means
of communication and distribution,but
not disturbing individualism in the
ownership and operation of ordinary
industry. Without entering into any
dispute about the wisdom of having
the collective ownership of all the
means of production, we should not be
blind to the .fact that if this owner
ship is ever accomplished it will not
r 11. come at once, but will be by gradual
growth. And the' natural order of
events certainly seems to be: Munici
pal ownership (that is, city owner
ship) of water works, electric lights,
street railways, and other similar util
ities. State ownership of stock yards,
state insurance, and .matters of that
nature perhaps even state railroads."
Finally national ownership of rail
roads, telegraphs, telephones, . express
and such utilities and probably own
ership of coal, iron and copper mines.
: If this can be accomplished in this
generation it will be glory enough for
the socialists and populists as well.
Why need they quarrel now. whether
we shall then take over all the land
and remaining factors of production?
Ed. Ind.)
Judge Allen Smalley, Upper . San
dusky, 0.: You are the salt of the
earth, and I hope that the salt hath
not lost its savor. 4
A Fable In Verse.
WHEREIN IS RELATED THE FATE
OF THE MAN .WHO SHUCKED
CORN ON ELECTION DAY AND
REFUSED TO VOTE.
John Husker on election day, said
"I don't think that it will pay to leave
the field, for goodness knows corn
should be shucked before it snows,
and, anyhow, I rather guess to stop
to vote is foolishness. I'll make a
dollar by my work, so public duty I
will shirk."
So saying Husker took a chew and
on his team the harness threw; the
to his fiald of waiting corn he hast
ened in the early morn. He shucked
away with all his might as long as
there was any light, then in the dark
he homeward went and with the world
felt well content.
But while John Husker worked thai.
day the corporations joined the fray
and by a shrewd use of the "rocks "
they captured ev'ry ballot box. They
won the fight and thereupon began to
pile the tax on John, and squeezed him
till he had to pay for working on
election day.
They hammered down the price of
grain and thus did heavy profits gain.
They added to John's bitter fate by
boosting up the rate of freight, and
having Husker's hands well tied they
robbed him clean on ev'ry side. "Alas!"'
said John, "I'll never stay at home
again election day!"
MORAL.
No kick is coming, friend, your way
If you don't vote election day.
Will M. Maupin, in The Commoner.
David Marshall, Milltona, Douglas
Co., Minn., sold 5 educational subscrip
tion cards and wants 5 or 10 more. He
says: "The Independent is the best
paper I ever read."
Liberal Democrats
Editor Independent: I read an ar
ticle in your last issue in which you
say you were invited east by the lib
eral democratic party or rather, a
member of said party. Now, Mr. Edi
tor, the said party is composed of
black republicans (at least in this
county) and I suppose it is the same
all through the state. The signers of
the petition in this city are all re
publicans but two (64 signers in allt.
It was simply a republican scheme to
split the democratic vote. Whether
they received any great number of
votes, I have not noticed, but I do
know that the people in this county
who signed the petition did not vote
the t j I" e t. Don't let those fellows
fool you for a minute. No doubt they
thought their scheme a good one to
catch the Bryan men but I guess they
were pretty much next to the game.
PATRICK J. FOX.
Amsterdam, N. Y.
(What have our friends, Forrest and
Corbin, to say to this soft impeach
ment? Ed. Ind.)
Standard National Publication.
Hon. Flaxiua J. Van Vorhis, Ind
ianapolis, Ind.: Concerning the change
of form of The Independent, it is good;
splendid. ' I am glad to know that The
Independent is getting so much of a
calculation outside of its own state. I
hope that it may succeed in estab
lishing' itself as a standard national
pulMcation. If it continues the course
hfretofre fo' owed with the same abil
ity I believe it will.
James McGraw, West Almond, N.
Y., took five of The Independent's edu
cation subscription cards with him to
the polls. He says: "I did not find a
democratic ticket, but a plutocratic
Morgan-Hill ticket; I could not vote
that, so I went to work and sold your
five cards so I may have partners to
help me vote against Morganites and
bankers next time or, In other words,
vote the greatest good to the greatest
number. This is my policy and I know
you approve. I wish you more power
to explain all topics of good government
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J. A. DONOHOE,
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J. J. Nugent, Lockport, N. Y.: Find
enclosed educational cards. Go on
with your good work. I enjoy" your
publication.
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, Samuel Cross, De Kalb, Mp.:. I am
an old soldier, like; J. M: Robb, of
Clayton, 111., but have not voted with
him for thirty years. .Missouri is all
right and we want to keep her so.
G. W. Crook, Alum Bridge, W. Va.:
I am a subscriber to one monthly,' four
weeklies, and one thrice-a-week paper,
but I shall make room for The Inde
pendent through the winter season.
. H. S. Dean, Delhi, N. Y., finds it
difficult to get his t republican and
"Morganized democratic" neighbors to
read any paper that doesn't preach the
doctrine of "keep on letting well
enough alone." . .
Albin Perkins, Mt. Grove, Mo.: I
wish I could get all of my republican
and democratic neighbors to read The
Independent long enough to learn to
think before they leap. Keep the good
work of education going it is a long
lane that never turns.
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