THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS
If the repuliYans all over the United
States who hold federal offices are of
the same class that they are in Ne
braska there is no wonder that the
millionaires increase in numbers, or
that thousands of officeholders grad
uate from their official positions into
trust companies,' banks and show up
on Wait sheet The land officers of
Nebraska OJem Deaver is one of them
are such a hard lot that it takes as
m my Washington inspectors to look
after them as there are officers. The
latest ' deal of which'- they must all
have been cognizant and kept silent
was to steal a large part of the public
domain by using soldiers' widows as
tools through whom to work. A great
' fuss has been made over it,; but not
one of them will be removed from
oflice and the thing will all be hushed
up.
The various Indian land deals have
attracted attention all over the country
anl have been so foul and full of
fraud thai they have all been set aside.
Federal rmcials were the managers in
all o' Uiera.
Down at Omaha the federal officials
run a fraudulent fee mill. That mill
grinds all the year around and is the
sour;e of profit to a score or more of
federa? officials. Bootleggers are al
ways selling whisky to the Indians
contrary to law The men who are
engaged in that business , find that it
is cheaper, the way the federal court
is run in Omaha, than it is to get a
license and engage in the trade in a
li.it?mate way. One of them told the
editor of The Independent that it was
much cheaper to pay the smalf fines
than to take out a license. A host of
Indians are taken to Omaha at every
term of the federal court as witnesses.
Marshals' . fees are run up Into the
hundreds and the bootlegger is fined
such an insignificant amount that he
goes away laughing and straightway
proceeds with his business of selling
liquor, to the Indians, unmolested un-
. til . toward the beginning of the next
term when the same farce . is gone
through with again. The court knows
that in imposing these small fines,
that it is only an encouragement to
go on instead of a warning to quit.
Yet this thing goes on from year to
year. What other conclusion can one
form .than that the court and the
marshals are. in collusion. They are
all good republicans. A good stout fine
or two, with an imprisonment, would
. ruin the fee business for years. Ev
ery one about the court knows that.
The federal officials of Nebraska are
all tarred with the same stick. A pub
lic office is a private snap with every
one of them.
THE LITTLE TRUSTS
The favor extended by the govern
ment to the big trusts and the absolute
security they enjoy has encouraged
the formation of little trusts by the
thousands. In every little town the
dealers are combining and fixing
price. It is reported that in West
Point and Omaha the coal dealers have
combined and fixed prices, and while
hard coal has been selling as high as
$15 a ton in West Point, at Oakland
and Bancroft the price has been $11.
The same sort of complaint comes
from Sioux City. That the elevators
along the railroad lines have a hard
and fast trust, bolstered up by the
railroad management, no one denies.
If the old common law doctrine con
cerning combinations in restraint of
trade and destroying competition is
to become a nullity, then a new organ
ization of society will result just as
certain as that the sun shall con
tinue to rise and set.
VHILirriNE SILVER
The plutocratic dailies are greatly
exercised just at present on account
of the silver standard in the Philip
pines. The condition there is exactly
the same that the British brought
upon India. As silver falls, the sal
aries of the officeholders which are
paid in silver fall. The taxes are
paid in silver, and every fall in the
price of silver la a relief of that much
to the taxpayers. Those living upon
salaries find that they cannot buy as
much with their Mexican silver dol
lars as they could before the fall in
the price of silver. Therefore all the
carpet-bag officeholders want the gold
standard established In the islands
Immediately, which would increase
their salaries two, and a half times,
and increase the burden of . taxation
upon the Filipinos 250 per cent That
is what the British did In India and
the result was that millions of .the
natives died of starvation through the
oppression that it caused all over the
land. Finally the suffering and death
became so frightful that the British
had to abandon the project of estab
lishing, the gold standard there. The
carpet-baggers in the Philippines want
to do what the British attempted in
India and the plutocratic dailies in
the United States are doing their ut
most to aid the carpet-baggers to ac
complish their purpose. If they suc
ceed it will cause more suffering,
starvation and death than all the
"howling wilderness" orders ever is
sued b7 the military. There is no
doubt that it will be done. The Phil
ippines were bought for the purpose
of exploiting them for the benefit of
the syndicates who contribute to the
corruption funds of the republican
party.
THE SADDEST THING
The Boston GJobe says:
"The saddest social tendency,
however, is that which gradually
eliminates the middle class, the
glory of every nation, and leaves
nothing but the very rich and the .
very poor.
"And all authorities are agreed
that the trusts are the great agen
cies today that are, accomplishing
this worst calamity that can befall
a nation."
It is just as sad a thing that the
Boston Globe and some hundreds of
other democratic dailies did not find
this thing out six years ago. It they
had listened to Bryan when he so of
ten quoted these lines from Gold
smith 111 fares the land to hastening ills
a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and
men decay.
Princes and lords may flourish or
may fade,
A breath can make them, as a
breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their coun
try's pride,
When once destroyed, can never
be supplied.
they would not now be uttering such
laments. But at that time they pre
ferred to advocate men and measures
that would be certain to accumulate
all wealth in few hands. This class
of papers still pursue the same poli
cies and then vainly complain of the
result of their own work. The mid
dle class will disappear not in a year,
nor in ten years but certainly as time
goes on, if the policies of the govern
ment are not changed. There will be
no more of the independent business
men. There will be nothing but the
great corporations and their hirelings.
Special privileges, destruction of com
petition, high tariffs, discriminations
in freight rates, unequal taxation, will
end in that result. For these iniquit
ous things the great dailies stand and
their result is certain.
"WORST SORT OF T YING
The telling of half the truth, which is
constantly practiced by the daily press,
is so much worse than downright ly
ing that there can be no comparison
between the two. This writer remem
bers a case that illustrates it. At a
social gathering a distinguished pro
fessor remarked to those present that
people wasted their time in denouncing
Robespiere as a cold, blood-thirsty
monster. "Why," he said, "Robe
spiere resigned his seat rather than
pass sentence of death on a prisoner,
as was required by French law, who
was guilty of murder." Now that
statement as far as it went was liter
ally true, but it was only a half truth.
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stigator of the most ruthless and in
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history. K is this sort of thing that
is engaged in at present by the dailies
in regard to the fall in the gold price
of silver. Silver has fallen.. That is
true. But the value of silver "mon
ey" in this country and Europe has
not been effected thereby. The English
shilling or half crown and the Amer
ican silver dollar are still at a parity
with gold. That part of the truth the
dailies do not tell. Some of them even
lie outright and say that the Ameri
can silver "money" has lost millions
in value. . ..,
"STANDARD" OIL
Not so very long ago the Standard
Oil company of Indiana was selling
an extremely poor quality of kerosene
in Lincoln at 14 cents per gallon in
five-gallon lots delivered. Recent
raises in price have brought it up to
17 cents, and the clamor raised on ac
count of increased price and poor qual
ity of the oil has induced the com
pany to offer a "better grade of oil" at
19 cents. It requires a trained eye to
notice any difference between the 17
and the 19-cent oil but Lincoln con
sumers must grin and bear it for sev
eral different reasons: (a) Because of
private ownership of railroads, the
Standard Oil trust is enabled to secure
a much lower freight rate on oil than
any other shipper hence, it can crush
out competition, (b) Because a re
publican pettifogger occupies but
does not fill the office of attorney gen
eral in Nebraska, the state lost a suit
almost won by the former attorney
general, C. J. Smyth, which would have
shut out the Standard Oil company of
Indiana from doing business in the
state and so stirred up the whole ques
tion that for a time at least indepen
dent oil companies might have sold
oil in Nebraska.
Last spring The Independent called
attention to the shrewdly devised
election law of Kansas, whereby it is
practically impossible to vote anything
but a straight party ticket without
rendering the whole ballot defective.
The Pittsburg Kansan estimates that
there were 60,000 defective ballots
thrown out in tht last election. The
result was about as follows:
Effective ballots, rep 150,000
Ineffective ballots, dem 120,000
Defective ballots 60,000
Total 330,000
"The 150,000 ballots elected eight
congressmen," says the Kansan, "all
republicans; the remaining 1SO,000 bal
lots didn't elect even one."
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