DECEMBER 11, 1902.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT,
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Won't Ha Smash Them?
(Continued from page 2).
great mistake the courts made was in
not using the law against capitalistic
trusts as well as labor trusts. This
was, perhaps, what helped to elect
Cleveland in 1892. The party iti pow
er in 1890, when the law was made, the
republican, was charged with all the
severities of the kw. The democrats,
in national convention assembled in
1892, condemned trusts as follows:
"We recognize in the trusts and
combinations which are designed to
enable capital to secure more than
Its Just share of me joint product of
capital and labor, ir.d natural conse
quence of the prohibitive taxes (tar
iffs), which prevent the free competi
tion which is the life of honest trade,
fcut wo believe tint their worse evils
can be abated by law and we demand
the rigid enforcement of the laws made
to prevent and cent: el them, together
with such further legislation in re
straint of their aDmes as experience
may show to be necessary."
The could not, however, condemn the
trusts without, at lh same time, con
demning protection f American indus
tries. They cannot now, without con
demning a protective tariff and put
ting in a plea for "tariff reform,"
which means tariff for revenue only.
Cleveland, beiu-; armed with the
Sherman law and the approbation of it
by his own party, at once commenced
the most rigid enforcement of it, pro
vided always that it was not used
against capitalistic unions or combin
ations. The resuit was, that Eugene
V. Debs, president of the American
Railway union, w-is sent to prison, an1
it was all approved by the supreme
court of the United" States. This might
have been all right, but it was certain
ly all wrong to neglect to apply the
same law to all the capitalistic un
ions formed for the purpose of mo
nopoly. The result was that the dem
ocratic party coul 1 not elect their can
didate in 1896. Nor could they have
done it if Bryan had been a saint He
had to bear all the ?ins of Cleveland,
besides his own, which was more than
anv man could bear.
The result will be that the republi
cans will have the honor of putting
down the capitalistic trusts, as the
democrats got all the dishonor of put
ting down the iab.ir unions, without
putting down the unholy capitalistic
unions.
Tf Teddy Roosevelt loes enforce the
Sherman law faithfully, he will not b9
entitled to be elected president in
1904, because he will only be able to
say: "I did my duty according to
my oath of office, and I did no more
than my sworn duty. This does not
entitle me to be elected by the people.
If I had not done my duty, I would
be a criminal, then and now."
If we live to se.-1 the winter of 1903
4, we shall find tie tariff issue com
ing to the front. T'ae republicans are
ready for battle on this issue and the
democrats are easer to join on this is
sue. fJrover Cleveland & Co. wi1!
revamp all his oid speeches and mess
apes. David B. Hill expects to carry
New York on this iue. It is the only
thing the democrats can talk about,
but it will be uphill work when they
find that Teddv lias wiDed out the
trusts. JNO. S. DE HART.
Jersey City, N. J.
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
An Illinois Editor Compares the Cost
Under Public and Private Owner
ship Tb Laws of Moses and
Principles of Christianity
A public utility is another word, 1
take it, for a public necessity, the na
ture of service, which for public con
venience and economy, is best adminis
tered by a single management. Some
ol these are already owned by the pub
lic ownership seeming to be largely
a matter of habit. Here the public
owns the wagon roads and bridges. In
Kentucky the roads are owned by cor
porations, and in Colorado the bridges;
whoever travels pays toll.
The public owne the postofilce sys
tem. Once it was owned by the Wells
Fargo company, and you could send a
letter fo.' twenty-five cents at a tim?
when labor was thirty-three cents a
day. As with telegrams, prices were
scaled according to distance. "We send
packages by private express compa
nies and when the agents are sober
and good natured, we can send by
paying a good round sum. In other
nations packages are sent by mail.
The medium of exchange, currency,
money, is a public utility. Sometimes
our government owns and issues it
sometimes privaie exploiters do this.
Loth ar-i doing it now, and the fight
is still on, and alwavs will be until
one has complete control.
Water, gas, electric lighting and
all forms of transportation and com
munication when for public use, are
plainly publie utilities and should be '
owned and managed by the people.
Wages will be better, hour? shorter,
service cheaper and more efficient, and
the people will feel more kindly and
P-ore interested in the prosperity of
the service.
Experience shows that all these
public utilities in public hands are
more . efficient, moie honest, more
ecoriomital for the people. The rea
son for this is largely that the human
part of the undertaking is placed upon
a different basis. Give a man a noble
object, the employment he prefers,
with a promising outlook, and the
mean characteristics of life are largely
eliminated. He no longer feels the
necessity of cheating the public for
his own or his employer's tmeut. His
whole thought is for the public.
The most induo'.rious and useful or
ganization now called to mind is thi
national agricultural department. Its
young men, thoroughly equipped in
science, are penetrating every corner
of the land, and the discoveries they
make bring millions of dollars over
and over again to the producer. They
make surveys, soundings, chemical
tests and experiments of great value
too costly or too laborious for private
undertaking. We need such 3 depart
ment for the manufacturers and an
other for the miners.
It may be said that it costs the gov
ernment more to build than private
corporations pay. Some are so ex
travagant as to claim that it costs
twice as much. Perhaps this is true
in some instances one way of look
ing at it But, for example, the street
railway system f St. Louis cost $9.
000,000 in steel, wood and labor. If
anything was paid lor a franchise, it
has not been mentioned m public
print. But the road is capitalized at
$90,000,000 and Lhe people arc- required
to pay 9 per cent vpon this capitaliza
tion, ten times as much as the cost,
to the 'widows and orphan who ar-i
dverti?ed as owning the stock. In
this instance, what did it cost the
to construct that system, as
compared to government const ruction'
A railroad corporation not 1,000
miles away from Joliet, paid Judge
Brown at Chicago a few davs ago, was
incorporated for $'io,000,000. It cost
$65,000,000, but in a system of enter
prise the company was reorganized
and stock, preferred and common, and
of one and another kind, was issued up
to $600,000,000 and over. Do you think
Uncle Sam would slash his people that
way?
Some government systems may not
earn a surplus, but what matters it if
the people obtain sufficient service?
Our postoffice department runs behind,
but for two cents we send a letter by
a man with a dog team through the
wildern,eFs, over the snow and ice, to
deliver Richmonl Marsh a letter at
Point Barrow. And with the co-operation
of that silver-ridden Mexican
government, with its Indian runners
and buncs, for fivt cents we send a
letter to his father among the peaks
of the Sierre Mad re.
As in tl e St. Louis case we the peo
ple, pay for these things, whether un
der government or private ownership.
We are paying ior three magnificent
steam roads and one electric road to
Chicago and we need but one. We
have two telephone systems, two tele
graph and three express companies
in Joliet and we fight like cats and
dogs with them, and will always do so
as long as speculative ownership lasts.
Under the government there would
be but one railway between here and
Chicago. It would have four tracks
and no grade crossings. Our" tele
grams would cost a nickle to the same
town. Ten cents anywhere else. The
workmen would be better provided for
in houri and money. The heads of
departments would rank as brigadiers,
every conductor a captain and every
section boss a sergeant.
Of fifty-one nations, forty one own
their cwn railroads. Governments
own 141.813 miles as compared to 87,
834 owned by privaie corporations. In
these figures the United Spates is in
cluded. Upon sr.mo of these govern
ments vvned roa-'Is, passengers travel
in zones, so much money for any point
within the circle. School children are
carried free, workmen at a reduction.
When postal affairs were taken u"n
der the wing of the government, the
measure was denounced as paternalism
and robbery. But the criticism was
ill-timed, for it was a measure that
mfde our people very proud of the
government and they then truly be
lieved America was the foremost na
tion in civilization. Since then the
teeeraph. telephone and railroads, all
in line with public highways and pos
tal lines, and more important, have
bepn developed, and while the people
wrangled over slavery and tariff, pri
vate exploiters walked off with the
plunder.
The nation Is waking up. Our ma
gazines and newspapers, our lecture
fields and the people are ful of enter
prise. Public ownership, like the Aus
tralian ballot and rural delivery, will
come upon us in a night. Men of all
parties are back of the movement and
STA
IAMS1 October. 1002. importation of black Perclierons, Rel isnt and Coschers was the largest
erer made wt of tlie Missouri Hiver. His stallions of big size, finality, finish and extremely
low prices are vrovoxitum that will make you his buyer. If you enn par csu or baniaoi
note, you will sure buy stallions of lams. Only man in the United States that imported only
black or bay stallions, lie has just imported
63-STALLION S-63
Shipped to New York br fsst boat, then by Farao Express, special train from New York to St
Paul, Nebraska, lams' biff barns are full of big, black, ton stallions. He is just finishing a
new barn 36x11)0 feet. lam's horses are the genmtUm of the town. Visitors throng his barn and
My : "Neyer saw so many big black stallions together:" "They are larger, bigger bone, more
finish than ever before:" "But lams is progressive:" 'He buys them larger and better each
year;" "He makes prices that makes the people buy his horses;" "lams has a horse show
every day, better than Mate Fairs." He has on hand over
100 BLAvK PERCtitRONS, BELGIANS and COACH ERS 100
2 to 6 years old, weight l.fiCO to 2,500 lbs. More black PArchoross, ton stallion, largest Fr nch
horse show winners, more government approved tnd Mamptd stallions of anyone importer in the
west, lams speaks Freuc-h and German jpiusno interpreter, tut buyer, no namnan; no two to
ten men as partners to share profits. His buyers get middlemen' prof Uk and xalarie. Urns
buys direct from breeders. This with bis twenty years' experience secures the best. All the
above facts save his buyers t50ii to ,U)0 on a first-class stallion and you get a first-clais horse, as
only second rate stallions are peddled by sleek salesmen to be sold. Uoodimes tell themmveH.
It costs $600 to JSUU to have a salesman form a company and ell a second rate stallion. form
your own companies. 'Go direct to lams barns. He will sell you a better fctallion for $ 1,000 and
l.l'OO than others are selling at 2,000 and $4,000. lams pays horse's freight and his buyor s fare.
Good guarantees, liarn in town. Don't be a clam. Write for an eye opeuer 'and finest horse
catalogue on earth.
St. PauL, Howard Co., Neb. On U. P. and B. &. M. Rys.
References: St. Paul State Bank, First State Bank, Citizens National Bank.
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men of all parties will alike be ben
efited and lifted up.
The laws of Moses and the prin
ciples of Christianity are in public
ownership. It makes all more pros
perous, giving them greater opportun
ities, and it gives an impetus to the
best in civilization. Much of the
cheating, lying, violence, anarchy, op
pression and meanness will disappear
with the coal baron, the beef baron,
the sleeping car baron, the print paper
baron, the oil baron, and the whole
barren lot. Our land may not have
highly illuminated barons to brighten
the landscape. It may lose something
in this artistic sence, but it will have a
prosperous people, it will be the home
of greatppportunities, and if a man
does not then provide for his family
and oid fge, it will be his own fault.
Jas. H. Ferriss, editor Joliet (111.)
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