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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JANUARY 8, 1903.
News of the Week
The treaty with Colombia concern
ing building an isthmian canal has
been held up again. Everything ha.
been arranged and tne treaty wa-i rea
dy for ihe sitmawa ol! the conlrait
ing parties when the Colombian min
ister announced ' that he had no au
thority to sign. Over $1,000,000 has
been expended and a treaty has not
even been made. A big trans-continental
railroad lobbj at Washington is
looking after that business. It is not
to the interests of the railroads to
have a canal built across the isthmus
and so we are not to have anyv Even
if the treaty gets signed after long
delay, then it will have to go to the
United States senate which has a ma
jority of railroad lawyers in it. Re
publican platform promises on this
subject are not worth any more than
ttose promising to admit the terri
tories asstates which the party has
openjyrepudiated. ,
They are organizing an "imperial
national bank" at Chicago. The name
given to it, shows where the hearts of
the plutocrats are.
- Justice Shiras will retire and Gov
ernor Taft will take the vacant place
on the supreme bench. It does not
change, the imperialistic majority, but
strengthens the "appurtenance" idea
in that court.
, According to the United States cen
sus bureau, suicides have increased 5.
per cent in three years. The pursuit
of the. almighty dollar instead of "the
pursuit of happiness" leads straight to
death.
The Methodists have raised $20,000,
000 for, educational and benevolent
purposes.' One or two of their uni
versities will get $1,000,000 each. That
is much better than taking part of
the loot of the modern feudal barons.
It gives; to these universities , an inde
pendence that the recipient of millions
from Rockefeller's coal oily hands can
never feel.
. The number of convicts in federal
prison"! has increased 50 per .cent in
ten years. The chase after,, the al-
mighty dollar reads some to'a suicide's
grave and many others to a federal
prison. . Keep it up. The-Malthusians
say that population is increasing too
fast -
Jrtayor Low's reform administratio'n
In New York city has proved so "com-"
plete a failure that tens of thousands
of Voters who supported him went
over to Tammany and rolled up such
a majority as was never seen before.
The "tenderloin" district is just as
much a hell's half-acre as it ever was
The protests against the way things
were running forced the mayor to re
move the head of the police depart
ment and appoint another.
According to the latest statistics,
the increase in the output of petroleum
last year was 27.21 per cent, but the
increase in price was much more than
that. The Rockefeller trust can reverse
all known economic laws. Instead of
a fall in price upon the production of
more than one-fourth more oil there
has been a great rise in price. The
dailies tell us that trusts are ben
eficent institutions whose mission is
to reduce expenses and lower the sell
. ing price of goods, but that does not
seem to be the result.
that the roads could be operated at a
profit on a 3-cent fare basis. The
presentment says that the only solu
tion of this vexed problem of metro
politan transportation is municipal
ownership and operation of the means
of public travel. '
Last month the glut of the cattle
market at Chicago caused prices to
recede to the lowest recently reached,
Silver standard Mexico seems to be
an inviting field for investment by
the gold standard advocates In the
United States. Consul General Bar
low writes to the state department
from the City of Mexico that Ameri
can capital has been invested in that
country to the amount of $500,000,
000, gold value, through 1,117 Ameri
can companies, firms and individuals.
Half of this sum has gone into Mex
ico during the past five years. If sil
ver money is such a cure as these men
have been declaring for the last five
years, why do they invest millions in
Mexico? They are the worst frauds
on earth.
Lord Curzon riding an elephant av
the ceremonies representing th?
crowning of King Edward, reminds
one of the days of glorious loot that
England has had in that country and
the famines that have followed. It is
said that $000,000 were spent in this
grand "durbar" show, which reminds
us of another thing. Americans con
tributed hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to the starving people of that
country, and now the English are
wasting hundreds of thousands mors
in silly and foolish ceremonies.
The steel trust has promulgated a
great profit-sharing scheme ostensibly
for the benefit of. its employes, but
the knowing ones wink an eye and
then say that it is a plan to dispose
of a lot of steel stock that the pro
moters still have on their hands and
for which they can find no buyers.
Dr. Arthur Macdonald, the crimin
ologist of the United States bureau of
education, in his latest official report
asserts that certain kinds of crime
as" well as suicide, insanity and nerv
ous diseases, have increased in this
country at a much greater rate than
the increase of population. Dr. Mac
donald attributes the increase in sui
cide and insanity to the hurry and
lusu ui .uv cineo. i ins wuim... ua.o
watched the rush and scramble to go
aboard the street or elevated cars dur
ing the busy hours in New York and
Chicago, and wondered why the whole
population did not go insane, when hp
reflected that that thing was repeated
day after day and year after year.
A list of prices of the ordinary nec
essaries of life was rent to the editor
the other day from New York city. It
made a mockery of the talk of "pros
perity" for the toiling millions.
Solon Chase, a great father of the
old greenback party that swept Maine
back in the seventies and frightened
the' republican party nearly to death
for a few years, is still alive and now
and then somebody goes out to Chase's
mills and interviews him. Uncle Solon
says that he voted for Bryan both
times, "but the last time I knew that
there was no show for him, because
there was not so much hog in the dol
lar. Hogs had riz in 1900."
is not all the pay they have, for to
this class of men belong all national
reforms, they are the defenders of the
home of the people, the defenders
of women and children, against those
that are robbing them of their rights.
Meaner men do not live than those
who will hold up little children ant
take from them their God-given right3,
yet this Is what the politicians and
the corporation press are doing.
To the reformers the people must
look for freedom from their robbers,
so by all means let us have union and
victory. We may not be able to get
all we want, but while we work for
what we believe to be the best for the
people, we should vote for the best
we could get, and go on working, for
we cannot get all we want at once.
We do not want a reformer like the
prohibition ' governor-elect of Nebras
ka put up by a corporation. Persons
that are posted politically know that
the whisky power or the brewers and
distillers are combined with the other
corporations, and a man that works
for one, works for all. The whisky
men laugh at such reformer, or rather
to how the voters are to be caught
by them; but it is anything to fool
the voter. Let us have union.
JOHN LONG.
Colfax, Wash.
Transportation
Under a handsome colored cover,
the Scientific American publishes a
most interesting store of information
on "Transportation." The number
deals with all phases of the subject,
taking up first marine transportation,
which is treated in a series of well
illustrated articles. Railroad trans
portation covers 9 pages of reading
matter, in which much of interest will
be found. Following this section is
that of electric traction, which con
tains an important article on the Ber-lin-Zossen
test of the 10,000-volt loco
motive. A special feature of this number is a
comparison of the railroad statistics
in the United States, iri which the tre
mendous proportions of our railroad
system are portrayed by a comparison
with various familiar standards, such
as the Pyramid, the Brooklyn Bridge,
etc. The immense amount of food re
quired to provision one of our. Atlan
tic liners is shown in a similar man
ner. In this way figures and dimen
sions are graphically presented and
permanently fixed on the mind. On ac
count of the broad field covered by this
number, it will readily be seen thar
matter of interest will be found to suit
all readers.
arid cattle were sold for $4.75 to $5.25
in' the month of December that would
have brought $8.25 to $8.75 at the
highest time of the year. But the
trust has not lowered the price of
dressed, meat. ,When will Teddy fire
another1 shot? ' '
Populism has struck Brooklyn, . N.
Y. The other day the Kings county
grand jury made a presentment con
cerning the traction facilities in
Brooklyand recomniendett that steps,
ts taken to annul the charters of the
constituent companies of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit company, and that
the city acquire and operate the sur
face and elevated lines. The present
ment declares that present conditions
are Intolerable, and that the officials
t - the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com
pany had admitted they could cure
the evils, but were unwilling - to do
so. The jury expresses the opinion
Let us Have Union
Editor Independent: I see in the
November 20 issue a communication
favoring a conference for the purpose
of consolidating the reform forces po
litically in one party which I want to
sanction. I have always contended that
if the money power was overthrown
it would have to be done in a part7 .
vhere the laboring class of people
could come out from the democratic
and republican parties and leave all
old prejudices behind, for animosity
and abuse was the chief argument of
the politicians after the close of the
war. It is true they sometimes talked
tariff and spotie of the best banking
system on earth, but when they got
through the average voter knew no
more about tariff or the banking syj
tem than he did before he left home;
but there was one thing that I special
ly remember of republican politicians,
and that is they would appeal to the
republican voters, and especially the
old soldiers, to rally at the polls and
lick 'em again. The result was that
neighbors were ready to punch earb
others' noses; the strife became so
great In some places that people that
were trying to be Christians would
not speak to each other, when had it
not been for the politicians they would
have been good friends.
Many of the neighborhood feud3
and fights, and sometimes murder, are
the result of such campqisin talk. It
is no wonder the politicians are arGoTi?
the despised of the earth and that
many good men refuse to accept a
nomination fo; office bpcfusc- of this
hMredr and the lyirrar political papers.
When I speak of politicians. I do not
wish to be understood as meaning all
iVoe that tali: politics, for th&ro are
many that are statesmen. A politician
talks anvtning that he things win
win. while a statesman talvs that he
bpliAve to be true, rpaardless of re
sults, vet the politician is successful
while the statesman hat the sneers of
a victorious people (corporations) and
a prostituted press for- pay. No, that
"Millions of our people live more or
less remote from any postoffiee, and a
very large proportion of them are not
able to buy money orders or bank
drafts without great inconvenience. It
is not unreasonable to expect from the
government that it will provide an
easy, convenient, and lafe method tu
transmit small sums, say, $2 or less
in amount, without putting the sender
to the inconvenience and expense
which now obtains in the purchase of a
draft or postoffiee money order.
"I urge upbn congress the import
ance of passing some law, so that our
people may have the advantage of it
at as early a date as possible. Hun
dreds of thousands of letters carrying
small aaounts in silver or postage
stamps are transmitted every year
through the mails. These letters are a
constant temptation to those handling
them, as it is easy to identify letters
inclosing currency.
. "With the extension of the rural free
delivery service to the remote parts of
the country, the use of postal checks
would go far to provide the relief so
urgently demanded, as it would con
veniently serve those sections of the
country not heretofore covered by or
adjacent to money order offices or the
banks of the country." From report
of .Postmaster General Payne for 1902.
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