JANUARY 29, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
been able to buy quite enough to
elect him.
If the Colorado democrats had not
- been such insane partisans and had
lusea witn . tne popunsis, j.ney wouiu
have had such a majority in both
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contest. The third ticket in the field
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there, was an attempt to co-operate on
the legislative ticket, that several dis
tricts-were lost.
WHO WILL PROVIDE A WAY?
Every man knows that if the trusts
- and the republican party are over
thrown' that it will take the vote of
' e"try man in every state - who op
pcfes. them to accomplish it, and ev-
try one or tnese- men must voie wi
the same candidates for president and
congress. As long as those opposed
to concentration of wealth divide
their votes, casting a portion of them
for two or more candidates, the re
publicans will hold power and the
trusts will grow more powerful. There.
. is no denying these facts and in any
plan adopted for future work they
must be taken into consideration.
What do you want to do? Down
the- trusts and stop the .rack rent that
they levy upon us all? Do we want
to make impossible the cornering of
neces.-uJes of life as coal has been
-ornered during this long, cold winter?
Who can tell what the article may be
the rext time. If the wheat crop
fhould be short next year, the mill
ing trust could play the same game
that the coal operators have played
thi3 winter. A dozen other necessities
of life cou1 be handled in the same
way Some winter we may find our
selves without shoes unless we are
able to pay ihree of four prices for
them. It all comes about by the re
publican party refusing to enforce
the laws and it will continue to re
fuse as long as it remains in power.
holds power by the energetic efforts of
the trusts. If they withhold their
support' and immense contributions,,
the republicans would be overthrown
at the first general election. .
Certain contingencies may be rea
sonably expected in the future, ; If
there should be a revolt among the
rank and file of the republican party
and if a candidate was nominated by
that party whom the trusts really
feared, then the trusts would endeav
or to get some other party to nomi
nate a man who would not be inimical
to them. In that event they would
make desperate . efforts to name the
democratic candidate. If they succeed
ed in that, of course all honest men
in that party who have conscientious
ly fought the trusts and the destruc
tion of competition would desert it.
The question then would arise: Could
these former democrats be induced to
.vote for an anti-trust man running as
a republican?
If the populist party put a candi
date in the field whose character and
record would commend -him to the
people as certain to endeavor to down
the trusts, would enough democrats
and republicans leave their parties to
give him a majority? The republi
cans in such a case, having an anti
trust candidate of their own, would
say to the third party men: "Vote
for our man." The populist3 would
likely reply: "We cannot trust him.
All the tendencies of your party have
been toward plutocracy and even if a
man opposed to these former tenden
cies were elected., he would be sur
rounded at Washington by such pow
erful influences that he could not re
sist them."
The next contingency to consider
would be: With three candidates in
the field, would it be possible to pre
vent any candidate from getting a
majority of the electoral votes and
throw the election into the house?
Even if that were done, would "it de
feat the trusts?
One thing is certain. Some method
must be adopted to elect a president
and congress opposed to trusts or the
whole commerce of the world will be
revolutionized. A state of affairs will
ensue such as was never known be
fore: The people will become depen
dent for' their existence upon the will
of a few men who will control all
the necessaries of life. The prices
charged will be such that the mass of
the people in a few years will be re
duced to poverty and the wealth of
nanJs Of a few men who will 'dominate
the world will be concentrated in the
hands of a few men who will dominate
congress, the courts, the army and the
navy. The ballot in that day may
become ineffective. '
Is not this an occasion for all pa
triotic men to get together and vote
for one set of candidates? . Who will
provide a way to do it?
THE KNOX INFAMY
Every map of common sense in the
United States except the president
knows that Knox is the attorney gen
eral of the trusts and not of the peo
ple. He was a trust lawyer before he
went to Washington and has been a
more energetic trust lawyer since he
arrived there than he ever was be-!
fere. Knox saw that the excitement
was becoming so-great that if he di.i
hot "mato a pretence of doing some
thing the "trust busters" might get
the upper hand, so he made the state
ment to congress that what he need
ed to down the trusts was an appro
priation of $500,000 to enable him to
hire lawyers to prosecute the trusts.
The house immediately appropriated
that amount and now he goes before
before the senate trying to beat the
bill. A. Washington dispatch says:
"The appropriation committees
of the senate and house have re-
. ceived letters from Attorney Gen
eral Knox suggesting a change in
the appropriation of $500,000 to
be expended under the direction
of the attorney general in the en
forcement of the Sherman anti
trust act and laws amendatory
thereof, which passed the house
- on December. 17. last. Instead of
using this large amount of mon- ,
ey in the employment -of special
- counsel, etc., to - conduct -.. pro
ceedings under -the anti-trust act,
- the- attorney general suggests that - :
an act. be passed increasing the.
. permanent omcJal force of the de
partment of justice. He recom
mends that authority be granted '
for the appointment for an as
sistant attorney general, a new
... office, one additional assistant at
torney general and two expert and
confidential stenographers and
typewriters. With this additional
force Attorney General Knox be
lieves that a much smaller sum
than $500,000 would be adequate
for the purposes intended and
that the results would be in every
way more satisfactory than could
be obtained through the bill as it
now stands."
The hypocrisy of that move is writ
ten large in every sentence. Knox is
very much distressed about a $500,
000 appropriation. He wants the bili
changed so as to permanently increase
for all time the appropriations for his
office. Instead of costing the people
$500,000, his new plan would soon cost
tlem $5,000,000. But the chief point
in it is that such an arrangement
would throw the prosecution of trusts
into his office where he would have
immediate oversight of it. No doubt
the trusts will be as enthusiastically
in favor of this new. bill as they are
for the publicity measures and the
provision in the bill that the receiver
and. giver of a rebate shall both be
criminally liable. They well know
that under such a provision as that no
conviction could ever be obtained.
This Knox infamy stinks unto heav
en. It can be smelt clear round the
world.
THE CAN'T IIKIRAIN
When the imperialists were in their
glory about two years ago they were
fond of declaring that this was a na
tion and a world power and could do
anything that any other nation could.
Now they have changed their tunc
and this nation is helpless before a lot
of land pirates who are robbing the
people of all they produce except a
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bare living. The refrain to the song
they now sing is: "Can't, can't,
can't." The trusts can't be sup
pressed. The railroads can't be re
strained. Cars can't be furnished for
the farmers to ship their own grain.
Other nations own the railroads, but
this nation "can't." Other 1 nations
own the telegraphs, but this nation
"cant." Other n.-Jons have a par
cels post, but - this nation "can't."
When it was wars of conquest and
making a foreign people subjects, this
nation could do it. When it- came
tacking on a few thousands islands as?
"appurtenances" of the republic, this
nation could do it. Then it. could do
anything that any other nation could
do, but when it comes to protecting
the common people from the rapacity'
of the trusts, it is helpless. It "can't."
The republicans have adopted as their
defense the old saying: "You can
and can't, you'll be damned if you do
and you will be damned if you don't."
AKV MANIINOl) LEFT?
It is announced in Wall street that
John D. Rockefeller has just com
pleted negotiations that place every
oil field in the United States in his
hands. There cannot be any compe
tition in the future and you will have
to pay just as much for oil as Rocke
feller demands or go without it. That
is what the accumulation of wealth in
a few hands means. Pretty soon the
coal mines and other necessities will
each be in the hands of one man, who
owning all, will be able ' to charge
what he pleases. There will be no
combination in restraint of trade.
There will be no trust. It will simply
be the ownership of the necessity by
one man. What will you do then?
Against this thing The Independent has
been issuing warnings for years. The
danger accompanying the concentra
tion of wealth has been pointed out
by "every great economist. That it
would end in the overthrow of the
present forms of society and modes
of doing business must have been evi
dent to every man who gave it serious
thought. Yet the republican party has
gone on giving away franchises worth
hundreds of millions and allowing
monopolies in transportation by which
hundreds of millions more went into
the hands of the few.
Along the railroads in Nebraska the
people now pay 20 cents a gallon for
oil. If Rockefeller chooses to charge
them 30 cents a gallon next year,
they will have to pay it or go without.
To stop rebates on the railroads will
do no good now. Rockefeller own3 it
all. No trust law, or laws directed
against "restraint of trade," will
reach him. He is not making com-'
binations. He is outside the limit of
laws of that kind. The oil fields are
all his. He can charge, what he
pleases. What are you going to; do
abo ;.t"it? . Will "yon '.submissively. ,pay
the. tribute be demands? " Is there any
Fpiiii of. manhood; left in you? v ','
The war " cry of : the populists is:
"Down with the trusts." " 1
For the benefit of a number of cor
respondents, The Independent would
ask them to read the last line in the
sub-head on page 8. '.'Rejected'
manuscripts will not be returned.''
While this rule is not rigidly enforced
at all times, yet The Independent can
not undertake to return this letter
and that simply because it cannot find
space to publish them.
As strange as it may seem one of
the Dingley tariff schedules has been
changed and the skies did not rain
fire and brimstone, the railroads did
not stop running, the farmer3 still
continue to haul their grain to the
elevators and send in their cattle,
hogs, butter and milk. - So the Ding
ley schedules are not divine after all,
at least the Almighty did not send
earthquakes, darken the sun . and
change the moon into Hood when one
of the schedules was changed and
absolute free trade inaugurated in
coal. The awful calamities long pr-.
dieted by Aldrich and the other tariff
grafters did not appear which they
have always "declared would follow
any change . of the sacred Dingley,
schedules. ,
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