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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. JANUARY 1, 1903. . What is a Unit? Editor Independent: A unit is one, not many. An abstract one is the unit of, number. By adding or multiplying it can express all numbers to infinity. By subtraction or division, it can ex press all fractions to the infinitesimal. It. seems absurd to call the sum of these numbers the unit of number, to call the sum of all figures the abstract figure one. This abstract one is rep resented by the earth and all things or by a pencil mark. The yard unit Is a determined three parts of the earth's surface, a deter mined three feet of an Imaginary line drawn over the earth's surface, called the equator. Since all things have length, the yard unit can be repre sented by any and all materials pro vided' the material contains the deter mined three feet of this equator. Andy applies the yard stick ten times to de termine the ten yards stored in a bolt of cloth, and each time the stick is ap plied it expresses in" the cloth the three feet stored in both. The pound unit is sixteen ounces of the earth weight. The bushel unit is ' a thirty-two quarts of the bulk of the earth in space. It is represented by any material that encloses the 32 quarts of space. It is absurd to call the material the unit since that would be calling the material the space it encloses. These units always and ev erywhere measurs the same quantity. If the earth would be destroyed, they would remain true units. They meas ure a thousand units stored in any and all materials with the same exact ness they measure on unit stored in any material. A thousand yard stick does not add to or diminish the three feet stored in any material. The same is true of all exact units. The increase of meas ures does not affect the units to be measured. It does not increase the pounds to jbe weighed. It does not decrease the bushels to be measured. The law of supply and demand has no effect upon true units. If used a mil lion times or not used at all, both they : and the things to be measured remain UUlUtiugUU. i. lie ijiiuuiieo wuitu mcoc- exact units measure re stored in all things by continuo. ime or labor. ' Length, weight and bulk are not cre ated in an instant by fiat The sum ; of these qualities ism product or con tinuous time stored." Since all the "qualities which make up product do have exact units of measure for ex change it is a scientific and mathe matical conclusion that the product -must equally have as exact a unit for exchange. 4 plus 4 plus 8 equal 16; since the first three figures can be . li .11 - i i i -i o A - 4-Um If! their sum can be equally divided by .1-2-4. History tells in what this ex act unit is, that it was created pre- cisely as bur other units ' were and 1 that by it we can have a scientific mon ey system for the exchange of prod ucts in accord with our scientific sys tem by which we now exchange quan- J titles of product by their unit of quan tity. , , ' : , iThe dishonest price unit: all our ex changes of product for product are now made by price. What is this price unit; by which we now. -make ex changes? ' The law pr)ce pf a few grains of gold. Whence comes the authority to make a few grains of gold always hear dollar price and always command In exchange any and all commodities' at dollar price? Every tree in the wilderness which no" man 'ever saw and never will see has the qualities of length, weight; bulk' and : number and is continuous time or la bor stored. Has nature stored in this tiee5the qualityof price? What na ture has not created man by his flat cannot create. Man ' cannot create ! something1 out of nothing. ; Yet the neatnen goas wnicn never were rule the thoughts- of cultured Greek and Roman. So this flat price unit which is not1' and never was, does rule our thought and actions. It is as absurd to talk of the price of money as of the God Jupiter, sinca neither are and never were. The be lief -in a worship of the gods of myth ology created false relations. The be lief in the fiat price of gold and our worship of gold creates false relations between gold and all other commodi ties. There can be no unit created to measure these false relations. How can constantly changing relations hav ing no basis be measured? That which has no existence cannot measure. Could you uniform the relations of heathendom to the gods only of 'mythology? These relations must be changed by accepting the unity of God. In dis cussions ambiguous terms are to be avoided. It is a fact that labor cre ates products. It is a fact that all products of labor do have In common certain qualities. It is a fact that these qualities do have exact units Tor their measure In exchange. No one dis putes these facts. It is a disputed fact that product does or can have an exact unit for measure in exchange. That men have lost the knowledge and are of this mind through their use of a lie, no more destroys the unit than the worship of the gods of myth ology destroyed the unity of God. We must look beyond the appearance of things for the wisdom that informs the life that walking in the light of the life we may become children of the light and cease to walk in the darkness of ignorance. It is foolish to say the house a man builds is the man. It seems equally foolish to say the creations of intelligence are the intelligence, that created them. If from apes through the law of suggestion we have ascended to our present plane, can anything but supreme intelligence through his suggestions, assimilated and made part of us, limit our ascent toward him or it? It is immaterial to the argument whether this ascent was made innate, placed in us when we were created by the intelligence which created us. or comes to us from external suggestion as we are fitted to accept it Behind each lies the creative intelligence either acting one? or continuously. Analogy suggests continuous action by an ever living God in whose invisible world we live. move and have our being here and now on this earth. F. W. ANTHONY. Mattawan, Mich. Modern Esaus Editor Independent: Inclosed please find $1 money order for which please, send me your paper for one year from the 14th of December, 1902, to De cember the 14th, 1903, my subscrip tion at present will be due December 14, 1902, by the wrapper notification. I think it is the best paper printed in the interest of the common people, but there are so many cussed fools that don't know their own interest and if you undertake to show them they will curse you as likely as not ann Bay you got that logic out. of thar. old Independent Well, I tell you there are lots of poor devils that, worse than old Esau, sell their birthright for a mess of pottage full dinner pail followers that siruck as soon as the first dinner pail got empty. Well, I think just such fel lows ought to starve; a man that has not got a bit of independence about him is not fit for a good citizen, and any man that will sell his vote should not have the right of franchise for 'he is a dangerous man to the pubiic. Well, I predicted twenty years ago that we would never get Jefferson or Jackson or Lincoln policy of justice to all men alike with special privil eges ,to none .until we got it through revolution and 1 have not ch&ngeci piy mind a bit on it yet; we are now very near the Robespierre time in old FYance. All that we lack is that the beheading and uilottin.e has not com menced yet, Jj.nt . soon may. E. EUBANKS. Cambridge, ; Neb. rca ca Ea En r.n ca ma eg na crj na r,a kj 153 na m ma na z'j ma ey ra n'j ra krj na En ca na na Mil rcn na ra na E-a csa En n a ca ca COMMENCES Monday, January 5, '03. ca Ea E3 E3 E3 fc3 E3 ' E3 ED Ea E3 Ea " r, ca Ea Annual January Clearing' Sale, The sale when big savings are made possible to you, on account of. our invariable rule to close every vestige of winter goods, no matter what the loss. Tremendous actual discounts in every de partment. 25 per cent to 75 per cent discount on Cloaks, Suits Furs, etc., 26 to 6G 2-3 per cent dis count on all silk and wool drss goods. Phenomenal bargains in every department. , Attend if possible, if not send for sale circular at once. Lincoln's Progressive Store Ea Ea Ea Ea E3 ma Ea cat Ea ia Ea esj Ea Ea Ea iza Ea iaa Ea ca Ea tj Ea fcjU Ea En Ea ea E3 ca Ea ea Who is the Foci? .v Editor; Independent:. 'Mr.' Roosevelt makes me tired. Passing by his very shameful remarks about Jefferson. Van Bufen, Pierce, Polk, Monroe and Tyler men who once filled' the presi dential chair with credit to themselves and the nations, I come to consider Mr. Roosevelt in another phase than that of critic, and let me say in the beginning that I do not mind beihg taken for a villain or a coward, or a thief, but when a man takes me for a fool, I draw 'the line, right there, and 'that is what Mr. Roosevelt has done. Yea, more, he evidently takes the American people for a lot of fools; if he did " not, he would not talk to them about a' tariff commission. ' Has he forgotten, or doed he think the people have forgotten President Arthur's message to congress in which he told them that : there was being collected from the people over one hundred million of dollars annually that ought to be left ; with them in stead of being piled up in the treas urythereby creating5 a scarcity of money? and that the congress unwise ly created a tariff commission to look into the matter and report to the con gress? Now, commissions are as a' rule a soft snap. Generally they are slow in reporting and slower resigning; but af ter a long time, said commission 'did report and strange to say (although it was selected by the friends of pro tection) it advised an average reduc tion of 25 per cent in the tariff, and what did the congress do? It un wisely ignored the advice of its own commission it reduced the tariff les? than 2 per cent, but years had been spent in doing that much, and all those years, the people were Deing robbed by the tariff, and hundreds of millions of dollars were being piled up in the treasury, and to get it out and prevent a money panic the treasurer bought hundreds of millions of dol lars in bonds, paying as high as 33 per cent premium, if I remember cor rectly. Here we see how millionaires and paupers are made. The national bank era took, we will say, $100,000 to the treasury. He bought the same amount of bonds, drawing 5 per cent; he leave the bonds with the treasurer who hands him back the money he paid for them and with this cash he opens a bank. He gets 5 per cent for the bends from Uncle Sam and he gets from 5 to 10 per cent from the people on the same money, tnd then f.oes back to the treasurer and sells him the bonds for a premium of 33 per cent. Now. let's figure out the result of say one year's business: he gets irom Uncle Sam for the bonds 5 per rent, $5,000; from the people on same mon ey say 8 rer cnt, $8,000; he sell tin bonds back to Uncle Sam for a prem ium of 33 per cent, $33,000. Total profits, one year, $46,000 a fine year's York, is it not? In the meantime he has paid no taxes; but let's see how it is with the people who pay the freight. In some of the states his farm is taxed 3 and 4 per cent and he pays a tariff duty of from 10 to 100 per cent on everything he wears or eats or sleeps on and pays the banker 8 per cent if he gets any money. I? it any wonder his house is sold and his cow is sold and his horse is sold and he and his wife and his children are paupers? But let us go back to Mr. Roose velt: all of those things are known to "him; he has not forgo; ten the tar iff commission that the friends of pro tection got up, nor the results during Arthur's administration; but he takes the American people to be a lot of born idiots and believes that he can humbug them with a tariff commis sion. In the meantime the protec tionists are filling their pockets. Then he wants the trusts to have full swing until the constitution is amended, and amended so that they will only need to own a small majority of the United States senate to control all legislation, no state being allowed to 1 rouble them. Ah! Mr. Roosevelt, the people are not the fools in this case, and yet, and yet, Is there a fool in the case? I leave you to say who is the fool. A. H. STEAGALL. De Land, Fla. S. G. Sheffer. South Haven. MiVh I have been interested in the work ever since the greenback party was formed at Toledo, O. I was a green backer until the neoole's nartv was formed; and then a populist until the democrats adopted our platform ac Chicago in 1896. Then I thought my labor had amounted to something; but, alas, the money power was too much for us. However, I think the education the masses are getting through the trusts and the coal strike will bring the wage-workers to their senses and we shall yet prevail. So, my dear sir, keep on striking for the' right through The Independent. -It stands up for the rights of the Ameri can people and may it aiways strike sledge-hammer blows until we all stand equal before the law. Enclosed find five educational subscriptions. New Ninety and Nine There are ninety and nine that work and die In want and hunger and cold That one may revel in luxury And be lapped in the silken fold! And ninety and nine in their hovels bare And one in a palace of riches rare. From the sweat of their brow the desert blooms And the forest before them fas-- heir labor has builded humble homes And cities with lofty halls. And the one owns cities and houses and lands And the ninety and nine have empty hands. But the night so dreary and dark and long At last shall the morning bring And over the land the victors' song Of the ninetv and nino ohoii And echo afar, from zone to zone; ivejoice: ior labor shall have its own!" ROSE ELIZABETH SMITH. SPECIAL MARKET LETTER FROMHYE & BUCHANAN CO LIVE oivjyn. UMMISSIUN MER CHANTS. SO. OMAHA, NEB. Tuesday and Wert eral receints nf rnttio hnva n-A u In Chicago. Recent advance all lost. orn-iea beer, finished steers s 00 to $6.00; good, $4.00 to $4.75; fair to good, $3.15 to $4.00: rnwa nrwi hitn- choice, $3.25 to $3.75; god, $2.85 to $3.25; canners and cutters 1 tk $2.50; stock ers and feeders, 'nhnin.. steers. $3.75 to U no- fu? $3.50; bulls. $2.00 to S.rnn- t $4.00 to $6.00. " VtMCa' Hog receiDts w IWV1 LA, l evil 1 1 GUI lower in two (lavs. T? $6.35, SheeD receints th rpO rioirc 1C AAA Market loc to 20c lower in sympathy with Chicago. Killers T7 iCCUClB, Lambs $5.00-$5.25 $3.75-$4.00 wethers . ; . 4.25- 4.65 3.15- a an Ewes 3.50- 3.75 1.00- 2.00
