JANUARY 1, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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THE TRUST ADVOCATES
Thm Great Dailies Give Spac to Telling
' How GmmA Thy ara aad all the Mai- ,
let HtuU Say: Yep; That' so
The power to deceive and!, then op
press that lies in the press is so great
that no man can describe it or com
prehend it. Just at this time when
trust prices are causing untold suf
fering, especially in the eastern states,
that famous plutocratic writer, Will
iam E. - Curtis, makes the following
specious argument in defense of the
trust3 and the Chicago Record-Herald
gives it space in the first column of
the Christmas day edition:
"The. records of the patent office for
the last year have upset . one of the
strongest arguments that have been
made against the recent combinations
of manufacturers which people will
persist in calling trusts. It has been
frequently asserted that by removing
competition in the manufacture of ma
chinery, implements and apparatus of
various kinds progress would bo
stifled and improvements would cease;
that when the incentive to superiority
was removed there would be no fur
ther rivalry among t different man
ufacturers to continue the develop
ment of genius and encourage inven
tors. For example, it is contended
that the manufacturers of agricultural
implements, having combined, will no
longer improve their machines, but
will be. content to use the old patents
as long as people will tolerate them.
It has been asserted also that Fince
the manufacturers of machinery went
into a trust they have discharged their
inventors and other experts, who, dur
ing the days of hot competition, were
employed to design improvements and
novel features. In short, it has been
asserted thousands of times that the
position of the United States as the
most progressive nation of the world
is likely to be lost now that competi
tion has ceased by the combination of
manufacturers. .
"The report of the commissioner of
patents, which has just been issued,
leaves no ground for apprehension on
this point. The number of applica
tions for patents and trademarks for
the year ending June 30, 1902, was 51,
253, an "increase of 3,183 rc"m the
previous year, and, although the force
vrm recently increased, 'the officers
choked with ' business and there was
so much to do that 11,042 applications
could, not be disposed ."bf.'v :l;
Several tallies during the 'last: year
The r Independent ,has called raehtion
to the great activity among inventors
in their strenuous efforts to get'ahead
of the trusts; but jlet the. fact; become
generally accepted that .the triists. are
to endure and .competition totally de
stroyed, then from the very necessity
of. the conditions! thus created the oc
cupation of the inventor will cease.
What wU - he do1 with his invention
when there is but one customer ,vjth
whom he can deal? That customed can
take it or'not as? he sees, fit ..He can
pay what he pleases for It. It is riot a
necessity for the trust which has com
plete control. The shallowness of the
argument that because now when the
war is waging against the trusts, when
hundreds of bills are being introduced
into congress for their suppression,
when the president denounces them in
his speeches and messages that In
ventors are especially active, that they
will be so when everything is in the
hands of the trusts, is on-a "parity"
with all the arguments with which
the unthinking mobs that make up the
republican following areled to vote
for their own destruction. The writ
ers, of such stuff know that the fol
lowing of the republican party will
read such stuff and simply say: "Yep.
That's so."
W I L S H I R E'S VE R Y LATEST !
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an opportunity to make money selling the cards and to help along the good work.
We are going to give a large number of valuable prizes to the agents purchasing the largest number of cards before
May 1st, 1903.
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ing the second
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PIANOTIST
cards we will
T S175
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prize. Price . .
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p e rsort
selling
of yearly
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the fifth largest number
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twelfth and thirteenth
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:$I25
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LSHIRE'S MAGAZINE, 125 E. 23d ST., NEW YORK CITY
Stead on Rockefeller.
In an article discussing the enor
mous accumulations of Rockefeller,
William T. Stead comes to the fol
lowing conclusions:
1. Mr: Rockefeller may divide-his
fortune, or give it away, or his for
tune may take to itself wings and
f q away, in which case the operation
of natural economic causes will have
removed the danger now imminent on
the near horizon.
Mr. Rockefeller may ' beeom ;
strong enough in combination With
other billionaires to, dominate the
democracy, overawe the legislature,
and make the executive his tool. In
that case, while the form of the' re
public might survive, as it did under
the Roman empire, all "power "would
be centered in the hands of the bil
lionaire, and we should be living under
the autocratic rule of the plutocracy.
3. The democracy has become
alarmed, and by legislation and taxa
tion, by progressive income tax ;md
rlsath duties, or by the simpler pro
cess of direct appropriation, may trans-
fer the Rockefeller billions to the na
tional exchequer.
The second possibility I dismiss as
unthinkable. The first is, of course,
the most" desirable. But if it fails us,
then the third becomes inevitable.
The beemaster sees without alarm
the extent fto which his industrious in
sects store up the honey crop Of a
whole1 couhtry's-ide 'in a few hives. He
sees with the utmost satisfaction the
conversion of millions of cells ' into
billions. The vast accumulation ' of
(he sweets of field and grove goes on
unchecked all' summer. But autumn
comes. In olden days, before the
apiarian learned the true science of
bee-keeping, he incontinently smoth
ered his" industrious' workers and ap
propriated the combs. Nowadays he
has grown at once more humane and
'ess wasteful. He would scorn to slay
a single bee. He relieves them of their
ruperiluous store, but carefully re
serves for them sufficient honey to
keep them through the winter.
What the modern bee-keeper does to
his bees, society will do to its billion
aires. When autumn comes, as com
it will, the public will say to the bil
lionaire: "Friend, we would not de
spoil you of one red cent that you call
your own which you can show us is
needful for your personal comforts
or your luxury. All the money you
ran spend, wisely or unwisely, is yours
to dispose of. But the enormous resi
due which you cannot spend, and
which you can only administer
through hired servants that residue
which enables you to overshadow the
republic and exercise a dangerous in
fluence in the commonwealth that
residue we shall transfer from your
control to the control of the eif-tted
representatives of the people. Busi
ness will be carried on at the ole
stand by the same old hands, only
instead of the net revenue of $286,
000,000 per annum passing into your
private account, $250,000,000 thereof
will be diverted into the national treas
ury to be used for the amelioration
of the condition of the people. Witn
the remaining $36,000,000 per annum
you must contrive to subsist as best
you can. Many better men have sup
ported a useful existence on less." -(Mr.
Stead figures that Rockefeller's
income in fifty years will be $286,000,
000 per year, unless something is done
to dissipate the fortune.)
The Way the Money Goes
One of the farces of government ad
ministration has been the employment,
of fletter-carriers' physician." In all
the large postomces of the country an
alleged physician has been employed
and paid a big salary, his principal
duty being to go round and look- aft-r
the letter carriers who remained away
from tin office berausy of "illness,"
and to ascertain if the carrier was
playing off on the government... which
is often the case. It was a position of
honor without labor, and got to be
farmed out for political purposes. The
postmaster general ha3 decided that
he will dispense with the assistance
of a medical man in all ofllces except
thJ very largest, and thus save about
$25,000 a year to the government.
National Tribune (rep.), a,
And that is one cf the ways tho
money of the taxpayers is used;- a
chaplain hired to open their meet
ings with prayer, it makes 2nie think
V'.d words to think our trusted ser
vants are. so dishonest, , and wonder
why tho taxpayers don't turn tj'ha
rascals cut. J. If. OSBORN.
Hopkins, MO. "
James A. Haley, 809. Winds6r Square,
Philadelphia: I am so discouraged, by
the talk and actions of men in general
when discussing political subjects, and
the way they vote, that I think it use
less to try to get them to read up on
those subjects. 31ost .young me.n l now
look upon an election-as a sort of a
dog fight, : where the stronger dog
wins, and never go any-deeper into the
question than to ask, Which is, the re
publican and which is the democratic
ticket. z-.f
Rev. W. M. Kane, Ashtabula, O.:
Yes, I read The Independent and am
delighted with the bold, manly and
courageous manner and make-up of
the paper. I am what might be called
a Bryan democrat, and of course take
Tho Commoner; and I am not a little
tinged with socialism, and of course
I take the Appeal to Reason; so that
I feel sure that I take and read three
of the best papers in America.
