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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
DECEMBER 25, 1902.
A SOLD OUT LOT
The ordinary, republican, honest and
ft good citizen, must feel somewhat
jchagrlned when he reflects upon the
manner that the Wall street crowd
and the politicians have fooled him
and made an ass of him for the last
ten years. This sort of a republican,
never having studied political econ
omy, honestly believed in the sophis
tries !n the dailies and the fallacies of
the spell-binders. He really imagined
that there was "intrinsic value" in
gold and that there could be no good
money sound money that was nc t
made of gold. He actually believe 1 j
that this gang of political scoundrel ;
wanted "honest money" and that to ;
have It they intended to establish the j
"gold Btandard." Now he can t kelp
seeing that no such thing was intend
ed. What that gang wanted was to
get the chance of issuing "rig monev"
manufactured by themselves. To
make a place for their rag money they
had to get rid or thought they bad to
of standard silver money. Finding
that Increased population and busi
ness made It impossible to demonetize
silver and sell it for bullion, they
abandoned that plan and are- going to
have the rag money in addition to it
Now, how must the ordinary re
publican feel who has been shouting
for ten long years for hard money and
the gold standard? He is beginning
at last to see the facts. They cannot
longer be hidden. Wall street d ies
not want gold money, but paper mon
ey. It wants congress to grant them
the privilege of taking a little piecs
of paper, the value of which is leas
tha : the one-hundredth part of a cent,
and make it a dollar, a hundred dol
lars or a thousand dollars. That is
what these "financiers" have been al
ter all the time, and they have usel
the ordinary republican who thought
that he was voting for "sound money,"
"money made of gold," as a tool to ac
complish their purposes. The ordi
nary republicans at least some of
them are just beginning to see that
they have been played for suckers.
What deceived the ordinary republi
can the most completely was that ho
did not understand the power of legal
tender. He wanted money that was
good in Europe and he tho ught that
the only money of that sort was made
of gold. He could not be msde to see
that gold money coined in the -United
States was not money in Europe, that
he could not take a purse full of
United States gold money and go along
the streets of Paris, I on ion or Ber
lin and buy goods with it. He must
first take it to a bank and get it ex
changed for the money of the country
in which he was traveling. While
every man who went to Europe knew
that if he had both United States pa
per and gold money, h could always
get. a little more of, the money of the
country in which ,he happened to be,
.-'a mm sV3 CH:.
Baby Had Two to Sir
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for the paper money than he could for
the gold money, whether that paper
money was greenbacks redeemable in
gold, or silver certificates redeemable
in silver, yet he could not understand
that it wa3 the power of legal tender
and not because the United States
coined gold money that made this pa
per money good in Europe.
These Wall street scoundrels knew
all the time that paper money was an
absolute necessity of civilization.
What they wanted was the privilege
of making the paper money them
selves. They saw that there were mil
lions in it, if they conld get the priv
Uoxz of laking a small rd 'ce of paper
and make it a dollar, five dollars, one
hundred dollar? or a thousand dol
lars, pay it out or loan it and get in
terest o i it. That was the thing that
they were after while the ordinary
republican thought that he was vot
ing for "gold money that was good
in Europe."
Anv piece of paper that is legal ten
der for one dollar or any other amount
in the United States will always be
"good in Europe" as long as the peo
ple of Europe have to send 'money
here to buy wheat, cotton, beef and
corn. An Englishman, German, or
Frenchman would b an idiot to take
les than the face vlue for a paper
dollar that was legal tender in the
United States and which he could
send over hnre and get for it the very
things that he must have. Even If it
is rot lsal tender, but 13 general
ly receivable in the payment of debts
in this country, it will still be "'good
hi Europe."
A republican said to the editor of
The Independent the other day when
this unlimited issue of paper money
by the bani:s was being discussed:
"Well, I guess wo have been sold out,"
and so thev have. But the price paid
was very small.
V.TIAl HE HATES DID
The Eteel trust has gobbled the
Union Steel company, its greatest
competitor. The Union Steel company
had ore beds of its own and has been
doing a flourishing business. It is now
said to have been turned over to the
Morgan combine at about actual cost.
The reason of It is that Morgan has
adopted the Rockefeller plan of re
bates on steel products made by the
steel trust and the Union company,
threatened with disaster, had to sell
out just as the independent oil pro
ducers had to sell to Rockefeller.
Morgan has a bigger "cinch" than
Rockefeller ever had for he controls
many lines of road and a word from
him about private rate3 is sufficient at
rny time. Back of the steel trust is
not only the tariff, but secret rates on
the railroads. There is no other way
of escape from this extortion aside
from the populist way nationalize the
railroads. The Union company had
planned to build a railroad to' the
lakes to get their ore, but they saw
that even that would not save them
for their finished product would have
to 'ind a market over Morgan's lines,
so they threw up their hands and
quit.
SHAH'S DOGMATIC STATEMENTS
Secretary Shaw has been making an
other address in advocacy of wild-cat
banking. In it he asserted many
things in a dogmatic way to which
no economist of authority will agree.
Even his historical statements are far
from being accurate. Among other
things he made this assertion:
"Both reason and experience
show that there is but one way to
maintain parity between different
forms of money, and that is by
exchanging one for. the other at
the . will of' the holder."
Of course every economist will give
a Hat contradiction to both these as
sertions, and every man of average In
telligence knows that the silver dol
lar has been at a parity with gold and
that it is not exchangeable with gold.
Another of his bald statements, which
even a tyro in economics knows to be
false, was that bank notes were the
same thing as checks and drafts.
There is so vast a difference between
a check that is drawn in favor of a
particular person and must be in
dorsed by every man through whose
hands it passes, and a bank note that
circulates as money without indorse
ment, having nothing behind it except
the party that issues it, that it is past
comprehension that any man can have
the face to make the assertion.
What Shaw wants to induce con
gress to pacs a law nl'owmg bankers
to take a little piece of paper and
make it money. Th.t is what all the
bankers are after. They cover it up
by various phrases, such as "credit
currency," "asset currency;" "emerg
ency currency" and "gold reserve cur
rency." Whatever they call it, it ai
rways means the same thing. That
sort of thing has been tried a thou
sand times and it has always ended
in disaster and never will end in any
thing else.
THEY LIKE IT
There' is a low bridge 'over a rail
road in Indiana that has already killed
nineteen brakemen. The family of the
last one killed sued, the railroad for
damages, but the supreme court of
that state decided that the brakeman
lost his life by his own carelessness
for he knew the low br'dge was there,
and held the company blameless.
There was an accident last week In
which ano .h r rilr- ad man was
killed. The erg n er had been con-tinuo-sly
on h a r ngine for 30 hours
and r.ndred u'.terly unfit for duty.
The wife of this railroad employe will
get no damages either, for the courts
will hold tnat it wa the result of tho
carelessness of a "feliow .-r,aai.''
But the railroad employe, like the mul
let head farmer, seem to like the vay
he is treated and don't want anything
better. The populist party endeav
ored to have this "fellow servant"
business stopped and demanded it in
their platforms. But the railroad men
would have none of it. Almost to a
man they "stood pat," declared that
things were "well enough" and that
they wanted to "let them alone." The
railroad managers are not to blame
for the way that the employes are
treated. The men declare that they
like it, they don't want any change,
that they want to "stand pat," and
"let well enough alone." They turn
out by the thousand and march in the
plutocratic ranks, they vote the pluto
cratic ticket and then they receive
plutocratic treatment Once in a while
they strike, suffer untold hardships,
are enjoined and imprisoned by the
courts, but as soon as they are out of
jail they vote for the judges and the
candidates of the party that impris
oned them. If they don't do that, they
organize an assistant republican crowd
to draw votes away from the party
that would give them relief. If the
railroads were owned by the govern
ment they would be under the same
regulations as the postal clerks that
travel on the same trains, have perma
nent, employment, good wages and rea
sonable hours. But they won't have
it Almost to a man they are down
on the party that demands it So
they will have to continue occasional
ly to work 90 hours without cessation,
get killed by low bridges, and mean
time the intelligent will look upon
them just as they did upon the black
slave who declared that he did not
want to be free.
ALLITERATION
About a generation ago it was "good
form" to resort to alliteration in fact,
it was considered the acme of fine
writing; but nowadays it is rather the
fashion to avoid it, even at the ex
pense of clearness. Lincoln's words,
"As a result of the war, corporations
hnve been dethroned, and an era of
corruption will follow," call to mind
that there is a close bond between
the words, "corporation" and "cor
ruption." Alliteration, fair rhyme, and
cause and effect. Who can think of
a corporation without almost intui
tively thinking of corruption? Who
can hear of corruption without think
ing of a corporation?
Speaking of fine writing recalls
Ruskin's words: "People used to call
me a good writer then; now they say
I can't write at all; because, for in
stance, if I think anybody's house is
on fire, I only say, "Sir, your house
is; on fire;" whereas formerly I used
to say, "Sir, the abode in which you
probably .passed the delightful days
of youth is in a state of inflammation."
and everybody used to like the effect
of the two p's in "probably passed,"
and of the two d's in "delightful days."
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i'An.uiNG IN THE SOUTH.
The passeDger department of the
Illinois Central Railroad company is
issuing monthly circulars coneerning
fruit growing, vegetable gardening,
stock raising, dairying, etc., in the
states of Kentucky, West Tennessee,
Mississippi and Louisiana. Eery
farmer, or homeseeker, who will for
ward his name and address to the un
dersigned, will be mailed free circu
lars Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and G, and others
as they are published from month to
month. . J. F. MERRY,
Asst. Gen'l Pass. Agt, Dubuque, la.
A while ago Senator Beveridge
would have had us believe that the
Filipinos would all be speaking Eng
lish in a few years and that was to re
sult from sending a shipload or two
of teachers over from this country.
Recently he has been down in New
Mexico and declares that the Spanish
language seems to be a permanent
thing, for the people Lave been under
American rule for fifty years and still
persist in speaking Spanish, to such,
an extent that most of the proceed
ings in the courts have to be con
ducted in that language. For that
reason he is opposed to fulfilling the
repuiican promise of admitting New
Mexico and Arizona 4nto the union.
Beveridge is one of those geniuses
whose opinions and principles are
made to fit the exigencies of the party
to which he belongs and changes them'
as circumstances and party require
ments demand.
An old farmer writes to the editor
a scolding letter. He says of late this
editor has got into the fashion of ev
ery now and then of using words
which the common man does not un
derstand, a thing that he never used
to do. Among the words of that char
acter he mentions "littoral." The edi
tor does not remember using that
word, but perhaps ne did. He should
have said "of or pertaining
to the seashore," if he did.
Sometimes it is pretty hard to avoid
the use of words that he all the time
finds in his reading of scientific
works, though they are not in com
mon use by every-day, hard-working
people. He may do it unconsciously,
for he intends, as always before, to
make every sentence easily under
stood by those whose strenuous lives
give them but little time to conquer
the intricacies of the English lan
guage. How far away Dr. Hillis got his
hysterical tirade against organized la
bor from the teaching of the Master
he pretends to serve, will be seen
when one reflects that the key-note of
his address it was not a sermon
was that: "Every man, single and
alone, must bear his own burden."
'lne teaching of the founders of Chris
tianity was: "Bear ye one another's
burdens, and so fulfill the law of
Christ." Whether the teachings of
the founders would produce the dis
asters that Dr. Hillis predicts, no man
can tell for it has never been tried.
Kearney county is another erstwhile
populist county that has experienced
the blessings (?) of republican redemp
tion. Her last school apportionment
warrant is only $797.52 smaller than
the smallest one she ever received
from the fusionists $3,030.63 in De
cember, 1899. as against $2,233. i I in
December, 1902. After all, fusion was
not such a bad thing.
Dodge county U loser at lean $1
nX.2'.) in school money, even if she did
resist the tempts! ion to turn republi
can. The apportionment of December,
1S99. (smallest fusion one) was $fi,
183.83. This year the republican ap
portionment is $5,033.51.