FEBRUARY 5, 19031
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
congress is under the thumb of the
trusts? He cannot be got at in that
way. There is no way but to suffer
and bear these exactions except where
state law may give relief. The execu
tive officers of the United States will
render no assistance as long as the
republican party is in power. If Roose
velt should ask the attorney general
to resign, there would be such unani
mous pressure brought by the leaders
-of the republican party upon the pres
ident that he could not appoint' any
other kind of a man. If he appointed
a man whom the trusts really feared,
he would not be confirmed by the sen
ate. The newspapers would trump up
infamous charges ' against him and
. give such wide publication to them
that the senate would be upheld in its
refusal by public opinion. There is no
way of escape from the extortion of
the trusts but to put the republican
party out of power, and to do that all
who oppose trusts must vote for the
fame candidates.
KKFUBLICAN H OWLS
The republicans along the lines of
railroad In northern Nebraska remind
one of a coyote out on the bleak and
bare prairie some lonely night when
the thermometer is 20" degrees below
zero. They raise a wail that pierces
the skies. Go into any of the little
towns some day of the week when the
elevators are full of corn, when there
are no cars and no one will buy.
Watch them as they sit on their
strings of wagcns and wail. Some oi
them have hauled their heavy loads
many miles and will have haul them
back. Other men start out hurriedly
to stop the shellers. If the corn can
not be sold it will not do to shell it,
for it would soon become unmarket
able, unless the farmer had special
store-houses to keep it in.
Go into the stores and hear the
added howls of the merchants. "There
is a man," says one of them, "who
owes me a large bill that Avas to be
paid last week. He tells me that
he can't shell and that the sheller has
gone over to another line of road and
won't' be back for two weeks. The
man is all right and I relied on that
money to meet a sight draft that will
surely come within a day or two.
What l am to do I don't know. D n
the railroads anyhow." When that
tight draft come3 he will howl worse
than a coyote on a freezing night.
If one fays to them: "Quit your
howling and take your own medicine
like little men," they only howl the
more. One of these kind- got far
enough along to remark: "The rail
roads have been buying and building
thousands of cars and locomotives anu
yet we can't get cars. I must confess
that I do not understand it." That is
about as far as any of them get. In
(me town when it was learned that a
man had bribed a conductor who had
two cars partially filled with way
freight, to put all the freight into one
car and leave the other and that that
man got a carload of corn off when the
price was up, there came near being
anarchy. Some of these mullet heads
wanted to block the switches and take
the first cars that came along.
Corn is piled up in great ricks all
over northern Nebraska and the farm
ers are waiting for cars so that they
can shell and ship it. None of it is
very sound on account of the cold wet
summer. A few rains on it and it
will be worthless. That is why these
republican farmers howl.
The Independent has no sympathy
for them at all. The more they howl
the better the prospect, that some time
they will acquire brains enough to
vote for the government ownership of
the railroads. But just at present they
are piercing the very heavens with
their shrieks. One of them remarked
that "this is another thing just like
that pretended coal famine."
It takes something like this to teach
people anything. The trouble is that
they will get all over their howling
before the next election. There was
never a car famine known during a
republican campaign. These sort of
squeezes come in between times. It
is probable that if an election were
held at the present time in northern
Nebraska that the railroads could not
elect even one member of the legisla
ture in all that part of the state. But
by the time the next voting day ar
rives, the howling republican coyotes
will walk up and vote 'er straight as
usual.
May God have mercy on their
souls.
ROOSEVELT A IUMETAI.I.IST
The silver question won't stay dead.
The exporters to silver-using countries
have found the fall of silver is acting
as a prohibitive tariff barrier and they
are casting around for. some excuse to
re-establish bimetallism.- The presi
dent sent a special message to con
gress the other day on that subject
on which the great dailies had no re
marks to make. The president said:
"I transmit herewith a report
from the secretary of state with
accompanying notes from the
Mexican ambassador and the Chi
nese charge d'affairs ad interim,
which seek the co-operation of the
United States in such measures as
will tend to restore and maintain
a fixed relationship between the
moneys of the gold standard coun
tries and the silver-using conn
tries." After that statement he further re
marked in the message:
"I recommend that the execu
tive be given sufficient powers to
lend the support of the United
States in such a manner and to
such degree as he may deem ex
pedient to the purposes of the two
governments."
That is, the president wants con
ferred upon him authority to establish
bimetallism. In the report re
ferred to by the president, Secretary
Hay says: "A-standard of value for
silver should be fixed to save trade."
There you have the very es
sence of the question. "A standard of
value for silver should be fixed." That
is what the gold bugs have declared to
be an infamy. That is "fiat" pure and
simple. The secretary of state and
the republican president have come
over to the silver side of the question.
A "ratio" between silver and gold
must be "fixed," by government.
Whatever that ratio may be, whether
it is 16 to 1, or 40 to 1, that is "bi
me allism."
Something of that sort must be
done or the gold standard countries
will have to stop trading with the silver-using
nations. They are begin
ning to find out that what all the
economists said was true and that
their idiotic scheme of goldbugism
won't work.
ItE.1 I.TS OF COMBINATIONS
It seems that the claim that the
organization of trusts and the merg
ing of railroads into great groups,
dominated by one man. would result
in reducing the cost of operating, the
lowering of rates and increased divi
dends to stockholders, was all a
dream and the very opposite has been
the actual result. The fact is that
rates have been increased and the net
earnings of the roads have decreased.
One of the most distinguished finan
cial writers in New York city calls
attention to the fact that the full re
ports of the roads and various other
combinations for most of the year
1902, now just available, show the
gross earnings for 10G roads for No
vember increased $0,506,446 and oper
ating expenses increased $7,448,175, re
sulting in a decrease in net earnings
of $941,729. Gross earnings of 103
companies for eleven months increased
$56,273,743, but the operating expenses
show an increase of $57, 52"), 606, re
sulting in a decrease in net earnings
of $1,215,863.
Every farmer knows that as soon as
one of his neighbors gets too much
land, he begins to grow poor. There
is a certain amount of attention to
details that must be given to any
business by interested parlies or the
mi
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business will go to- ruin. Hired men,
however devoted they are, cannot do
it. It is in the very nature of things.
Expenses will run up and profits will
run down.
Men working in two scientific fields,
not at all related to each other, have
predicted this result from the very
beginning of this craze for merging
and combination. The doctors said
that the successful conducting of such
enormous interests by one man would
break him down in a short time, that
no man could endure the strain for
many years. The economists said that
it was impossible to condect such
enormous concerns from one office,
some of which spread out over a whole
continent, and do it as efficiently and
economically as when it was conducted
by many smaller concerns, with men
in supervision who were personally
interested in success. The results so
far reached, prove that the doctors
and economists were right. Several
of, the big magnates are physical
wrecks. One general superintendent
broke down and for months has been
i . Europe trying to regain his health.
The profits of stockholders have grown
less and the cost to the people has
cjatly increased. A few men by
these manipulations and defiance of
all law have accumulated immense
fortunes. That is the result so far.
Have the people had enough of it?
THE INFAMY OF THE AG K
The republican orators, especially in
the house and senate, have for thirty
years denounced as infamous the is
suing of paper money by the United
States and then making it legal ten-'
der. They have declared it to be the
most infamous crime that could be
committed. Now in the Fowler bill
providing for an asset currency the
following occurs:
"Sec. 5. That such notes shall
be a first lien upon the assets of
the respective banks issuing them,
and shall be received upon deposit
and for all purposes of debt and
liability by every national bank
at par and without any charge of
whatsoever kind, and such notes
shall be receivable for all public
dues except duties on imports, and
when so received shall be paid out
arain."
If it was infamous for the govern
ment to issue paper and make it a le
gal tender, it is a thousand times more
infamous to issue bank paper and
make that a legal tender. No govern
ment on earth ever did such a thing
before. Governments have made their
own paper legal tender, but never
bank promises to pay. Nothing more
infamous can be conceived than giving
a special number of citizens the right
to make their paper legal tender. To
such degredation as that, has the re
publican party that held power for
many year3 by demanding "hard mon
ey" descended. That Fowler bill H
Lthe bill that the republicans declared
was dead and buried, never to be
resurrected.
What we want in the administration
of this country are men with
"Eyes to pierce the darkness through,
Wit to grasp the hidden clew,
Heart to feel and hand to do,"
and who will not believe all the
"can't" stories that Attorney Gen
era Knox ha:; to tell.
Last week two farmers hauled two
heavy loads of shelled corn to a depot
seventeen miles from their homes.
When they got to the railroad where
there are three large elevators, they
were told that every bin was full and
there were no cars. Then they hauled
that corn back the seventeen miles
over which they had brought it. One
of the farmers was a republican and
the other was a pop. The pop was be
hind and he made that republican
wish several times he had never been
born before they got home. The few
sentences that were overheard were
too hot for publication.
It seems that the more freight cars
and locomotives that the railroads get,
the more car famines there are.
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