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10 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT FEBRUARY 5, 1903. WAKING UP AT LAST It seems that some of the economic Idiots of the east are at last begin ning to realize the dangers that threaten this republic from the enor mous accumulation of wealth in few nanus. ine otner uay me xew iuik Herald had an article entitled "Thir teen War Lords of Finance," in which it pointed out that all the railroad3, al the great industries and all the banks were under the control of thirteen men of enormous wealth, who at pres ent are divided into two camps, the Morgan group and the Kuhn-Loeb group The power that these men can ex ercise is greater than was ever known before. No monarch or military leader ever exercised one-half as much. They control transportation, the telegraphs and the money of the country. An or der issued from either of their offices in Wall street would affect every in dividual of the 80,000,000 population of these United States. An increase in freight rates over all the railroads, an increase in the rate of interest or an order to curtail loans would do that. Every human being in this country would feel the effect of such orders from the nursing baby to the centen arian. What potentate in all the his tory of the world ever had such pow er as that? ' The writer in the Herald seems frightened at the prospect. After con sidering the matter at some length, he conies to the conclusion that the most clanger lifs In the control of the great hnnLu nr in nlher wnrrls ihc nnwer to control the volume of money. tt is very strange that it has taken the err.-t so many years to comprehend a few fundamental truths. All that the article contains has been pro claimed by tie populists for the last ten years -and all that time the New York t:eraiil has been devoting all its efforts to denounce populism. Now at last. vlKn the results of the policies which it 1ms .advocated have been ac complished, it is frightened at its own wui n. If the demands of the populists had beer, enacted into law at the time that ther wore first proclaimed there would now be no such concentration of wealth and power in the hands of these thirteen men. The enactment of three of the populist demands would have prevented it. namely, the public ownership of the railroads, the mak ing of the telegraphic transmission of information a part of the postal sys tem and the government control of the volume of money. With those three things engrafted upon the law, there would be no thirteen men domi nating commerce, the courts and con gress. One point in this article in the Herald is the prominence that it gives to the control of money by these mag nates. The money question, after all. it concedes is the paramount question. the one thing that makes the power of these men irresistible. It now seems that the Herald has come to the con clusion that the populists and Bryan democrats, whom it fought with such venom, were right after all. The east is slowly waking up, but the denseness of the ignorance on all 3 Tllat is shown from the frequent in- quuieb mat ruiue irom mat section t of the country, asking if the republi cans have really been coining silver. It is another illustration of the stupid ity of the management of the demo cratic party. The party papers have not even informed their following that the prosperity of the country has come from an enormous increase in the volume of money, including running the mints night and day coining sil- Tl, O-O mil cio LI I i i v J cvcl j J I Li V I device that could be invented to in crease me amount or money m cir culation. .Neither. have they informed -them. (that by . the . organization of trusts and the destruction of competi tion, that all this increase of wealth has gone into the hands of those wtu; were already immensely rich. For a quarter of a century the re publican leaders denounced green backs and declared that no government had the right to issue paper money and make it a legal tender except as 'a war measure. During all those years their followers marched up andidown the streets during campaign times, carrying grease-dropping lamps, curs ing greenbacks as rag money. Now that these same leaders have resolved to make paper issued by the national banks legal tender, these same crowds will all rally again and shout: "Yep, that's right." If any man will coin a better phrase than "mullet head" to describe such a set of partisan idios as that, then The Independent will never use that term again. The courts continue to meddle in all sorts.,pf private affairs, extending their jurisdiction to the most sacred relations of life. The other day a judge issued an injunction forbidding a man to go to church because some of the finicky members claimed tha lie was in the habit of saying amen too loud. The man said that he did not at tend the trial because he was too poor to hire a lawyer. If there ever was such a disgraceful and disgusting set of officials on the bench in any coun try on earth as some of the judges of this country, the fact has not been recorded in any standard history. In Frank Carpenter's letter from Antwerp, he remarks: "This country, however, has many queer things. The horses, for instance, wear straw hats in the summer, while the women go bare-headed. The horses cost money, and their heads need protection. The women are cheaper, and the men tell me they can be had for the asking." How much better is a civilization that produces that state of things than the conditions that are denounced as barbarism? The single taxers are beginning to use the arguments by which imper ialism was forced o'n this country. One of them in a Chicago daily in de nouncing the income tax says: "Much reasoning and many arguments will be necessary to explode their fal lacy, at least in their minds, before they will behold the natural tax as laid down by the Creator, and that is the 'single tax.' " The Independent replies as it did to the imperialists. When the single taxers show the docu ment with the Almighty's signature at tached containing the law "laid down by the Creator," then The Indepen dent will be convinced. A correspondent gives the names of the rich men in his neighborhood and says that not one among them is a man of public spirit or who ever con tributes anything but niggardly pen nies to churches, schools, or any thing else for the public benefit. The park in the little town, the beautify ing of the public school grounds, and the improvement of the main street, aside from what was paid by general taxation, was all procured by the con tributions of those who were by no means rich. Then he wants the edi tor of The Independent to tell his readers what he thinks of the "nig gardly rich." Well here goes: "Go to now, ye rich men; weep and hofci for your miseries that shall come up on you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered, an J the rest of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire." Coal at the Towa mines 100 miie.3 east of Omaha is sold at from $1.5') to $2 a ton. A little further west, the splendid lignite coal is sold at the mines at from $1 to $1.50 a ton Along the eastern comities of Nebras ka the farmers, and all others for that matter, arc paying $8 to $10 a ton for that very coal. The republi can farmer of average means pays from iO to $50 every year f,or coal and he insists on doing it, although the fuel could be furnished and give a good, fair profit to the railroads and every one concerned in the trade for $20. Every effort to reduce freight rates has been fought, by them for the' last twenty years. They go to the polls and vote for the railroad candi dates because they are labelled "re publican" regardless of their own in terests. It would seem that partisan insa'niiy could go no further. The editor of The Independent wishes to say to the numerous corre spondents who have written concern ing the article entitled, "A Strange Editorial Episode," that the million aire spoken of is now an old man. His habits of life and mode of busi ness cannot be. changed. He has his confidential clerk, his legal adviser and goes on in the old way. The routine of his office with all its numer ous employes is fixed. Letters sent to him would be read by his confidential man and unless referring to import ant business which needed his per sonal attention, he would never see. His investments are made in stand ard securities after close examination by his legal adviser and the experi enced men in his service. He has made his bed and must lie in it. It is now impossible for him to change. He can only say: "What Is it all for?" It is now declared, not only by Sena tor Morgan, but many other men of high standing that Mr. Herran, the Colombian minister, had no authority to attach his signature to the Colom bian canal treaty at the time the docu ment was signed. It is by such sub terfuges as these that the trans-continental railroads hope to prevent the building of any isthmian canal at all. Every time there is a raise in the price of corn and the farmers begin to shell and haul it in, they are informed that the elevators are full and no cars to be had, so the trust refuses to buy at all. That is what this republican era of trusts, destruction of competi tion, and creation of great captains of industry has brought about. Such conditions will continue as long as th republican party is in power. With a Dave Hill regime it would be no bet ter. The World-Herald certainly deserves the gratitude of every citizen of Oma ha for breaking up the coal trust that was operating in that city. If there had not been a daily in Omaha not subsidized by the trusts and pluto crats, that coal trust would have gone, on indefinitely, with its oppressions and robberies of the poor. Too many cities in this country have no such daily, and there the trusts rob at their pleasure, with no word of criticism ever uttered against them in the pub lic press. When the banks and the trusts secured almost all the dailies, the agricultural and religious papers in these states, they made a stragetic movement that has returned them mil lions, though it may have cost them millions to get the control of them. It seems that there were a few that even millions could not buy. The congressional committee tha went to Boston to investigate the coal famine found that there was a coal trust there that raised the price of coal from $5 to $12 a ton. Didn't they have as good a right to do that as Rockefeller has to raise the price of Iterosene until it costs the people along the lines of railroads in Nebras ka 25 cents a gallon? No congres sional committee ever investigates the methods of the Standard Oil trust. The republican dailies, with the Chi cago Record-Herald in the lead are giving Dave Hill's candidate for the presidency, Judge Parker of New York, a great boost. They well know that any candidate that Dave Hill would name would be so easily beaten that the republican candidate, whoever he might, be, would have a walk-away. Republican dailies never boost a Bry an candidate. K. W. Harding, a special financial correspondent of the Chicago Record Herald at New York, sent a dispatch to his paper last week saying: "Bank ing houses today received private ad vices from Washington that there would be no trust legislation during the present session of congress." The information is doubtless correct. Any effective anti-trust law would play smash with trust securities and that would smash the banks. This infor mation was nothing new to concerns that control congress. The republi can party no more dares to enact new trust laws than it dares to enforce those already enacted. Th; pa. ty has got the country into such a fix that any interference with the piracies of the trusts would bring a financial col lapse. Down would go trust stocks. The collapse will come all the same, for the neople cannot long pay the tribute levied upon them to pay divi dends on Avatered stocks. The repub lican party is in sad straits, however much it may whistle to keep its cour age up. If it goes for the trusts it is ruined. If it don't it is ruined. If the oil fields near Chadron turn out as expected by the experts, a com pany with a small capital of a few thousand dollars could be formed to refine the oil. sell it to the people of this and adjoining states at 10 .cents a gallon and get rich. But Rockefeller and the railroads won't allow a com pany to do anything of that kind. Even if a hundred wells spout 1,000 barrels a day each, we will continue to pay from 20 to 25 cents a gallon for oil and Rockefeller will give part of the loot, to the Chicago university. That sort of thing will continue as VERY FEW PEOPLE Are Free From Some form of Indi gestion. Very few people are free from some form of indigestion, but scarcely two will have the same symptoms. Some suffer most directly after eat ing, bloating from gas in stomach and bowels, others have heartburn or sour risings, still others have palpitation of heart, headaches, sleeplessness, pains in chest and under shoulder blades, some have extreme nervous ness, as in nervous dyspepsia. But whatever the symptoms may be, the cause in all cases . of indigestion is the same, that is, the stomach for some reason fails to properly and promptly digest what is eaten. This is the whole story of stomach troubles in a nutshell. The stomach must have rest and assistance and Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets give it both by supplying those natural digestives which every weak stomach lacks, ow ing to the failure of the peptic glands in the stomach to secrete sufficient acid and pepsin to thoroughly digest and assimilate the food eaten. One grain of the active principle in Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will dige&t 3,000 grains of meat, eggs or other wholesome food, and this claim has been proven by actual experiment, which anyone can perform for himself in the following manner: Cut a hard boiled egg into very small pieces, as it would be if masticated; place the egg and two or three of the tablets in a bottle or jar containing warm water heated to 98 degrees (the temperature of the body) and keep it at this tem perature for three and one-half hours, at the end of which time the egg will be as completely digested as it would have been in the healthy stomach of a hungry boy. The point of this experiment is that what Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will do to the egg in the bottle it will do to the egg or meat in the stomach and nothing else will rest and invigor ate the stomach so safely and effect ually. Even a little child can take Stuart's Tablets with safety and ben efit if its digestion is weak and the thousands of cures accomplished by their regular daily use are easily ex plained when it is understood that, they are composed of vegetable es sences, aseptic, pepsin, diastase and Golden Seal, which mingle with the food and digest it thoroughly, giving the overworked stomach a chance to recuperate. Dieting never cures dyspepsia, neither do pills and cathartic 'medi cines, which simply irritate and in flame the intestines. When enough food is eaten and promptly digested there will be no constipation, nor in fact will ther be disease of any kind because good digestion means good health in every organ. The merit and success of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are world-wide and they are sold at the moderate price of 50 cents for full sized package in ev ery drug store in the United States and Canada, as well as in Europe. long as the government refuses to en force the anti-trust laws. The rich in time manage to grab about everything. The Independent has told how the famous schools in England where the rich and the aris tocracy are now educated, were first established for the poor and were af terwards grabbed and devoted to the use of the rich. Dartmouth college in this country was founded by an Amer ican Indian by the name of Occom and was intended for a school for the education of Indians. Everybody knows who got it. In reply to a thousand inquiries The Independent wishes to say that it has no prophetic statements to make about what, will be the outcome to the pres ent political chaos. It only knows that if trusts and the republican, par ty are ever overthrown that it "must be done by all those opposed to them voting for one set of candidates for president and congress. Further this deponent sayeth not. Of the three prominent senators that left, the republican party in 189(1 only Teller will remain in the senate. Jones and Stewart went back to the republican party and they got left. New lands, who was a prominent re publican in the house and left the party at that time was elected to the senate last week to succeed Senator Jones who has held his seat con secutively for thirty years. They say that there is a row over the religious exhibits at the St. Louis fair. "What a religious exhibit is The Independent don't know. Did they intend to put up a specimen ot
