DECEMBER 18, 1901
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
THE INDIANA POPULIST
One Lewis Patterson, whoever he
may be, has issued an alleged "call to
arms" and announces that about the
first of next January he will begin the
publication of the Indiana Populist at
Charlestown, Ind. As a feeler he sends
out a sample sheet bearing the nota
tion, "Vol. III., No. 4," probably to fool
some well meaning populist into think
ing it is an old established paper.
The Independent would feel like
welcoming the Indiana Populist if
Mr. Patterson showed any disposition
to talk populism instead of rail at
men, especially so long after railiag
can do any possible good. There is
now no necessity to hold any more
postmortems over what the people's
party did in 1896 and 1900. We have
quarreled with each other until both
factions ought to be sick and tired of
it The Independent hasn't any more
use for Jo Parker than the Indiana
Populist has for Marion Butler, and
wishes that some truce might be af
fected whereby both of them could
step out of the way and let the two fac
tions be united. Even upon the ex
tremely diaphonous excuse that Parker
claimed to be the chairman of th3
"regular" organization of the people's
party, he is now out of it and at the
head of a new party that attempts to
out-fuse fusion. If Butler abandoned
his chair at Lincoln in 1900, Parker
abandoned his when he accepted the
chairmanship of the "allied populist"
or "allied people's" or whatever party
it is called.
The Indiana Populist is away be
hind the times if it believes anything
can be gained by calling Senator Al
len, Senator Butler, and such men hard
names. Even the Missouri World
once as rantankerous a mid-road pa
per a3 existed anywhere admits that
after a self-satisfying (but not grati
fying) experiment it found that the
sentiment for co-operation, or "fusion"
as it is erroneously called, was far
more wide-spread than it supposed
As the World truly says: "There was
room for a. difference of opinion and
as good reformers as ever breathed
favored, while others just as good op
posed Bryan's indorsement"
It is high time that populists quit
using "handles" to their party name
Let us simply be populists during
this winter at least and preach pop
ulism. No one can tell whether there
will be fusion or not in 1904 although
it is doubtful, because just now it lo,oks
as if the democratic plutocrats may
win and leave the democratic demo
crats partyless but that is simply a
matter of party policy and has nothing
to do with government money and
government railroads.
POETS ALL POPULISTS
Extended empire, like expanded gold,
Exchanges solid strength for feeble
splendor. Dr. Johnson.
If thou art rich, thou are poor;
For like an ass, whose back with in
gots bows,
Thou bearest thy heavy riches, but a
journey,
And death unloads thee.
Shakespeare.
By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,
And drop my blood for drachmas, than
to wring
From the hard hands of peasants
Their vile trash by indirection.
Shakespeare.
What is't to us, if taxes rise or fall
Thanks to fortune we pay none at all.
Let muckworms who in dirty acres
deal
Lament those hardships we cannot
feel. Churchill.
That is the way it is with all the
poets, for these are only samples. In
the above extracts the poets take ex
actly the same position on imperial
ism, the accumulation of wealth, tariff
taxes, that is, taxes by indirection, and
the escape of the rich from taxation,
that is taken by populists and an
nounced in their platforms. The writ
ings of poets live and are admired by
all men because they strike at the
very heart of things and enunciate
great and ever-living truths. These
truths populists would make effective
for the uplifting of the human race.
POST CHECK CUKRKNCY
The Independent hopes that the ef
forts of Mr. C. W. Post may be crowned
with success and that this session
congress may pass the bill which will
give us the Post check currency. The
bureau of information under Mr.
Post's management has rendered va
liant service. Postmaster General
Payne, Third Assistant Madden he of
erstwhile newspaper notoriety and
Auditor Castle all indorse the plan for
some more convenient method of re
mitting small sums of money through
the mails. And the Post check plan
fills the bill.
The Independent hopes it was mis
taken last spring when it predicted de
feat of the plan because the bankers
will not permit any convenience to
the public which they can suppress,
tf. such convenience should deprive
them of revenue for writing drafts.
And if Mr. Post's plan is adopted it
will be only as the result of over
whelming public sentiment in favor
of it
Independent readers are familiar
with the idea: One, two and five dol
lar bills, and fractional notes less
than a dollar are issued just plain
every-day paper money, except that
each note contains a blank line in
which the holder can write the name
of a payee. When this is done, and a
common two-cent postage stamp af
fixed to the larger bills or a one-cent
stamp to the fractional notes, what
was money becomes a mere order to
pay money a government check or
draft and it may be sent through the
mails with perfect safety, for no one
but the person whosa name is written
in (the payee) or his order can cash
it It saves a trip, to the postoffice or
bank to get a money order or draft.
The fractional note feature alone is
worth fighting for. Write to your
congressman and urge him to support
the measure. If he declines, find out
the reason why.
FAMINE IN THE PHILIPPINES
It is no longer possible to hide the
desperate condition to which the Unit
ed States has reduced the people of
the Philippines. Vice Governor Wright
has been forced to come to this coun
try and make an attempt to obtain aid
for them. This government is going
to have a worse problem of starva
tion and death of its subjects on its
hands than England ever had in In
dia, although the conditions are much
alike. The sufferings .caused by the
war, the pestilence and the rinderpest
have left the people in a far worse
condition than they ever were at anv
time under the Spanish rule. General
Miles points out that the loss of their
beasts of burder, the water buffalo,
which 1- the only domestic animal
that., is suited to the climate, is the
most serious of all. To replace these
animals, except at the end of a long
term of years, is impossible. Mean
time how are the Filipinos to cul
tivate their fields?
The proposition that Mr. Wright
presents is to lower the tariff between
the islands and the United States 75
per cent Whether that measure would
bring any adequate relief is very
doubtful. If the Filipinos are in such
a condition that they cannot produce,
they would have nothing to ship to
the United States and nothing with
which to buy goods that might be sent
there. The fall in the price of silver
has made the price of foreign goods so
high, and it takes so much more sil
ver to get them, that it will be an
utter impossibility for the Filipinos to
buy them, unless there was a general
rise in the price of the products they
have to sell, including labor.
A private letter to the editor of The
Independent intimates that General
Miles was so impressed with the suf
fering in the islands that he cut short
his visit and will return much sooner
than he at first contemplated, in the
hope of aiding in some measure of
relief.
The most important thing in that di
rection advanced by Governor Wright
is the admission of cooley labor and
the production of sugar to be shipped
to the United States. He says the pos
sibilities for the production of cane
sugar seem to be unlimited. It looks
now as though this imperialism busi
ness will result in one of the great
disasters of all history. The facts
concerning the condition of the islands
cannot much longer be suppressed.
In a private communication to The
Independent, Mr. W. J. Ghent ex
presses his thanks for the review of
his book, "Our Benevolent Feudalism,"
which appeared in the issue of No
vember 20. He believes it is "by far
the best interpretation of the spirit
and purposes of the book" that he has
yet seen in print. He calls attention
to a small error in the review
where "A Modified Individualism" is
credited to Henry D. Lloyd instead of
to Professor Clark. Mr. Lloyd's article
appeared in the New York Indepen
dent of May 1, 1902 strongly social
istic ,of course; but Professor Clark
wrote the article named above.
SOMETHING SrECIFTC WANTED
Jules Huret, a member of the staff
of the Paris Figaro, lectured in New
York the other dav on the social ques
tion in Europe. He said he had made
thorough and prolonged investigations
in Germany, Italy, Russia, Austria
and the United States and had come
to the conclusion that, "apart from a
very small number of workingmen,
the laboring classes in Europe are
practically ignorant of true socialistic
notions and that everywhere in Eu-
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rope the socialist parties consist of
men who are merely opposed to the
actual state of things."
He is certainly correct as regards
the socialists of this country. If an
inqury was put to the whole mass of
them individually, asking the ques
tion, "If the socialist party should
carry all branches of the government
at the next election and you had
elected the president and an over
whelming majority of both branches of
congress, what would be the nature of
the bill that you would introduce to
establish socialism?" no two of them
would give the same answer. As a
protest against present conditions, so
cialism is very interesting, but it will
have to advance to a stage where it is
willing to put out a platform contain
ing the specific legislative demands
that it insists upon. It will not do to
simply say: "We demand the collec
tive ownership of all means of pro
duction and distribution." It must in
dicate tha nature of the laws by which
it expects to bring those things about
Government consists, hot in generali
zations, but in specific, legislative acts.
No organization of men can expect to
accomplish anything until it gets be
yond the stage of generalization, and
can get its ideas into the form of spe
cific laws. If the socialist press would
fqr a time stop denunciations and pro
tests and fill its space with definite
propositions in the form of law, that
socialists wish enacted, then they
would find that reformers of all liinds
and sorts would take up those propo
sitions in a fair and candid way. and
if after investigation they believed
that their enactment would be for the
benefit of mankind, they would advo
cate them.
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C. F. Blanke, Tea and Coffee Company, a cor
poration organized under the laws of the state
of Missouri, and Charles Spies and Victor M.
be iter co-partners as Charles Spies & Co., will
takenotie that on the 2th day of November,
1902, Fritz Westerman a justice of the peace in
and for the city of Lincoln precinct, Lancaster
County, Nebraska, issued an order of attach
ment for the sum of $114.10 in an action pending1
before him. wherein Frank D. Eager is plaintiff
and C. F. Blanks, Tea and Coffee Company, a
corporation organized under tha laws of tha
State of Missouri, and Charles Spies and Victor
M. reiter co-partners as Charles Spies & Co., are
defendants, property consisting of money and
credits due and to become due said defendants
lias been attached under said order in the hands
of the following persons and in the following
amounts, viz:
George M. Beach $14 13
Edward L. McLaughlin 21 77
Amos S. Karer T.... 22 63
John 8. Bowers 7 f0
Said action was by Raid justice continued to
the Kith day of January, 1903 at 9 o'clock a. m.,
at which time said defendants are required to
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