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DECEMBER 4, 1902. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 15 TAKEN TO TASK Mr. Stark? Lcctonitb Editor Beeaw Ha Tfaa not PUud with the Election Results Editor Independent: I have just read your account of the "Victory for the Railroads" and' I am convinced that you are feeling badly. Why con demn the fellow who husked corn "for a couple of dollars" and wliy charge "that the people of Nebraska love to be humbuged and . robbed" and why claim that they have indorsed the par don of Bartley and all other mean things tha.t the republican party is guilty of? Have you no condemnation for yourself and those claiming to be populists who wilfully coerced a fu sion with a party that has a record as mean as it is possible for the repub licans to be?; Ah, my brother, it is not that a populist will sell his vote for "a couple of dollars" nor that they "love to be humbugged and robbed," nor is it because they indorse "the pardon of Bartley," but it is because, vrhile they have no love for republican misrule, they will not lift into power a party that they know is no better. It is far better that the responsibility be left with the republican party than that true populists be compelled to bear the burden of democratic misrule. It is likely, dear" brother, that the honest populist feels as bad as your article shows you to feel, and he is no doubt saying, If the majority of populists had shown the "spunk" to cast a freeman's ballot and killed fu sion at its first appearance today we might all rejoice in a victory for the people. It is now too late to build the populist party on its wreck, but every, true populist is ready to start anew, and after shaking off the leech of ; democ racy it is possible to yet reclaim some of the lost ground. Are you willing? My vote went to the social ist party this year, but it matters not , what its name is, except democrat or republican. No one is more sorry than myself that so grand an organi zation as the populist party shffuld (because of its bad associations) bo compelled to repent in sackcloth and like the dog lick the hand that ad ministered the blow. Democracy is not populism. Dem ocracy is against every advancement. It made slaves of humanity. It un dertook to erer this union, tt 1s re sponsible for the exception clause on the greenback dollar after opposing its issue. It is as much with railroads as the republican party and in fact its history is to plain to be a stumbling block to the coming generations. Hoping you will give this space in this week's paper and that you will take it as a kind chastisment, I remain as ever a populist. W. C. STARKEY. Violet, Neb. (The chief difficulty with populists In the past and The Independent will not shirk its share of the responsi bilityis that they have expected (oo much. Knowing where the difficulty lay, they have believed it to be an easy matter to 'bring about reform. They have expected perfection, although well knowing the frailties of human nature and the imperfections of ev .'ything human. Instead of criticis ing and when necessary denouncing acts inconsistent or repugnant to pop ulist principles, they have been in clined to denounce without stint the men who did the questionable acts. No man is wholly good or utterly bad, and if populists and everybody else would pass judgment on acts in stead of the men who performed the acts, much more could be accom plished. As to what might have been, every man is entitled to his opinion. H"3 fusion or co-operation never been en tered into, it is possible that the peo ple's party in this state even in the nation might be stronger than it is today. No one can prove that it would not have been. No one can prove that it would. But it is extreme ly doubtful if the populists could ever have carried Nebraska. Fusion gave Nebraska the best state government it ever had. Not every thing the officers did can be com mendedbut it is simply folly to con demn the lest thing you ever had sim ply because it has some flaws. Be cause one can't have a brown stone tront is no reason why he should live in a "shack," when there are I comfortable yet not perfect cot tars to be had. Mr. Starkey shows remarkable in conMency when he says, "it matters not what its name is, except democrat or republican." If the republican par ty platform stood for government money instead of bmk money, and government railroads instead of cor poration railroads. The Independent would be a republican paper, provided it had confidence that the men nomi nated had the courage of their con- J vlctions and stood squarely on the platform. ' , The people's party is not dead; but if it were, the wonderful growth of sentiment in favor of public owner ship ' would compensate for all the woik dope in effecting its organization. It will not be many years until, out of the shattered fragments of all parties, a great, party will be formed. It will probably not co-operate with any other party but it will be a "fusion" of all parties. A large portion, of the older mem bers of the democratic party who stood for slavery of the black man are today affiliating with the republican party, standing for white slavery. It is idle to let partisan insanity run to such lengths as to utterly condemn democrats of today simply because they choose to bear a name which was once obnoxious. Ed. Ind.) To Jew and Gentile Editor Independent: To whom this may come, greeting; to the Jew first and also to the gentile: For 47 years I have lived in Minnesota, and been under a republican state administra tion ;and again she has declared her self republican by electing the whole republican ticket from Alpha to Omega. But by and by somebody will have to do penance for their sins of omission and commission. Of late there has been mnch said in The Independent on the money ques tion. Some seem to make this a com plex question of many parts and hard to be understood, and use a good deal of superfluous talk in trying to ex plain the same, in our judgment the question as to money is very simple and plain. Money is a creature of law and in this way it becomes a legal tender for debts, public and private. Leave off all this talk about commod ity and worth. The government says 4124 grains of silver is a dollar and it is good for all debts, unless other wise stipulated in the contract. The government says so many grains of gold i? a dollar and a legal tender for all debts, public and private and that is all there is to gold and sil ver as money. Only outside of this it ha a bullion value which has had but little to do with its coinage value. The stamp of the government con verts it into money and its value cannot be increased or diminished un less the ratio be changed by the gov ernment. Greenbacks are money backed up by the government good for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt; but only for the stamp of the government the paper is almost worth less. The money and tariff question has been bobbing up as campaign issues for a good many years, more especial ly the tariff question. And for several reasons: First, the chiof politicians calculate that the common people un derstand but little about these two questions and they will be easily fooled and entrapped by them. In this there is a good deal of truth. Next, the bankers and money power see their chance by which they may speculate on the public finance of the country and hard earnings of the people. Next, the manufacturers and combin ations, corporations, etc., want a high protective tariff so as to put up the price on their manufactured goods, and draw money from the pockets of the consumer and still have the workingmen believe it is all for their benefit. This is misleading and has caused the poor to be robbed while the rich have filled their coffers. Tar iff for revenue for the support of the government and that is enough. J. H. McGARY. Maple Plain, Minn. The Ignorant Voter Editor Independent: Please, allow me space in your columns to ask your readers a question or two. In the lirst place, if a man is nominate fnr q high office and is elected by the pur- cnase or votes and he accepts his elec tion, knowing that he would hnv hn defeated without the use of money, can such a man be depended upon to ad minister the affairs of government in the interest of all the people, no mat ter how honest and upright he may be? Can he accent offico under sur-li circumstances with a clear conscience? Again .taking the country over whirh of the old parties shows the most in telligecne, say, voter for voter? Ts it just and right that a negro voter who cannot write his name or read his candidate'.- name on his ticket, have the same influence in shaping the af fairs of government as an intelligent white man who pays taxes, state and county, and Knows a little something about the affairs of his country? Now for an illustration: I myself have had a negro to work for me for 20 years and he always voted the re publican ticket straight, and next day Home Seekers' Excursion On Dec. and and i6th, 1902, the Burlington will sell Ilomesetk ers' Tickets at one fare plus f j.oo to all points in Indian and Okla homa Territories and Texas, and many points in Arizona, Arkan sas, Louisiana and New Mexico. CITY TICKET OFFICE Jt'K Cor. 10th and 0 Sts. ' rri 00c aC tjjt aC t et & aJ it a eC a & BURLINGTON DEPOT . 7th St., Bet. P & Q. J Tel. Burlington No. 1290. et st 0 THE NORTHWESTERN LINE, PLUS. . . . S2.00 9 HOMESEEKERS' TICKETS-On sale November 18, December 2 and 1(5, to Many Points in Nebraska, North and South Da kota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and points in the Canadian North west Return limit Twenty-One Days. City Ticket Office 102 4 O 8TKEET. Telephone 544. Northwestern Union Sta., Cor. Oth and 8 Sts. Telephone 502. R. W. McGINNIS. E. R. Butler, C. T. A. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA., E. T. Moore, D. T. A. a after election I was always sure to ask him who he voted for and his answer would always be. "I don't know, sir." He could not tell me the name of a single candidate on his ticket and yet just such voters as these hold the balance of power in the state of Maryland. Now this negro's vote counted for just the same as any intelligent white man's, no matter what his standing in nolitics mieht be. So that intel ligence counts for nothing in the re publican majorities of the state of Maryland, my Maryland. Is not this a sad state of affairs? Who can tell what the outcome will be? These same negro votes in a majority of cases run the machinery that keeps the trusts, corporations, coal barons and millionaire bankers in power. Verily the negro is a power in the hands of the republican party. The Ignorant negro is free, and the intelli gent white mn is a slave under the balance of power which the ignorant negro holds. See? Now, this is a true statement of Maryland politics. Let The Independent's light shine so that the people may know something about what is going on. A. J. ALLEN. Salisbury, Md. Senator Tapp of Sedgwick county, Kansas, a hold-over nopulist state sen ator, openly espoused republicanism at the last election and worked for rail road domination of his state. No com ment is necessary. The countv commissioners of Gun nison county, Colorado, recently set tled with the D. & R. G. railroad and accepted $28,000 in full for the 1901 taxes. "Stick to your oil stoves," advises J. P. Correll in the Easton (Pa.) Sen tinel. "Burn your coal, if you have any, with the greatest economy. And sieve your ashes carefully. Don't waste any coal." Regulating tariffs will not destroy monopolies. Few people who talk tariff, t .ink it will. Let the govern ment make all the money, and regu late its quantity, allowing no corpora tion, bank or anyone else to make any money, or use any promises to pav as money. Then the money trust will die out: a legitimate, healthy banking business will be left to its nroper field when everv dollar of our money is made a lesral tender, and cer tain to be good under all condition"?. V'G." in American Standard, Frank fort, Ind. U race F. HUhop, Attorney, Lincoln, Neb NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DEFENDANT In the District Court of Lancaster County Vera A. Hurley, l'luintifl, ts. Dennis J. Hur ley, Defendant. Dennis J. Hurley, defendant in the above en titled action is hereby notified that on th 18th day of Novemb-r. 1901!, said plaintiff Yr A. Hurley, filed her "petition in th Distriot Court of Lancaster county, Nebraska, acainst the said defendant, the object and prayer of which is to obtain a decree of divorce dissolv ing the bonds of matrimony between the plain tt IT and the defendant on the rrnunHs of willful abandonment and desertion without just eaose, for more thau twoynars. last past, and grossly, wantonly and cruelly failing to provide for the wants of the plaintiff. You a' e required to answer said petition on or before the twenty-ninth (JSlih day of Decem ber, 190& Dated this 18th day of November, 1902. VERA A. flUKLKY. Plaintiff, By Horace F. Bishop, her Attorney, Cancers Cured: why suffer 'l pain and death from cancer? Dr. T, O'Connor cures cancers, tumors and wens; no knife, blood or plaster. Address 1306 O St, Lincoln, Nebraska. TRUCK FAR m IN THE SOUTH. Does Trnck Farming in the South pay? Write the uudersiirned for a free copy of Illinois Cen tral Circular No 3, and note what is said con terninr it. J. F. liKRRT, Ass't Oen'l Pasa'r Agent Illinois Central Railroad, Dubu iun,Ia. Readers of The Independent should examine the advertisements in its col umns. It will pay you to read them and take advantage of the bargains of fered. Always mention The Independent HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS TO Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indian Terri tory, Texas, and many points in Lou isiana, Arizona and New Mexico on October 21, November 4 and 18, De cember 2 and 16. Rate one fare plus $2 for the round trip. Arkansas is the finest fruit country in the world and is productive of cotton, corn, coal, min erals, grazing and the land is still ridiculously cheap. For descriptive pamphlet, folders, etc., call or apply at City Ticket Office, 1039 O st. F. D. CORNELL. P. & T. A. J. C. L. Wisely of Sargent, late so cialist candidate for congress in the Sixth district, talks of starting a so cialist state paper at Lincoln.