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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
