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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
FEBRUARY 12, 1903.
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PLEASE DON'T
The announcement made by a dozen
railroads that they would not, until
further notice, receive any freight ex
cept perishable goods, live stock and
coal, and the humility with which it
,was received by the people marks a
new era. The people have become re-
, signed to their condition of servitude
to- the corporations, and acept any
infliction with the same stolidity that
the slave received the lash. In the
days of our freedom and indepen
dence such an announcement as that
would have created an uproar from
one end of the laud to the other.
.Legislatures would have appointed in
vestigating committee. State attor
neys would have started inquiries.
Congress would have had a word to
say. But now congresses, legislatures,
state attorneys and judges are all
alike the submissive agents of the
corporations and they will continue to
be as long as the corporations and
trusts elect them to office.
This order by the railroads will
bring confusion and loss to business
men everywhere, except to the fav
ored ones who were informed in ad
vance what was going to be done and
. supplied themselves with what goods
they needed before the order went in
to" effect. The charter of every road
that went into that pool should be an
nulled. The government should take
possession immediately. The slimsy
excuse given for the order will de
ceive no man. That the roads, with
their splendid equipment, which has
been enormously increased during the
last four years, cannot do the busi
ness of the country if they want to, Is
an assertion so ridiculous, that the
man who believes it, certainly has not
common sense.
This state of things has been
brought about in this way. The roads
are bonded for all that they are
worth. What stock there is, is used
to control the roads. Much of it is
quoted at five cents on the dollar and
from that up. A majority of the stock
rule3 the road. All that is necessary
to do to continue in possession and
control, is to pay the interest on the
bonds. In other cases the stock is
put in the hands of a security com
pany to hold, and the same game can
be played where the stock has been
sold at 200. Then the men who con
trol the roads go into all kinds of bus
iness which depends lor profit on
transportation rates. They get coal
mines, large industrial plants, go into
wholesale merchandising and when it
is to their interest to stop trains they
stop them. They can raise the price of
anything which they have to sol!.
They can destroy the business of any
competing firm and make fortunes,
such as the worid has never seen be
fore, outside of the rates charged for
freight and passengers. All that they
need is to keep cunliul of the roads
by owning a majority of the stocks
or by putting it in a security com
pany. To that sort of thing the people
of the United States submit just as
humbly as the slave submitted to the
lash. All that they do when the pun
ishment seems unbearable is to say:
"Please don't."
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After years of experience In vot
ing subsidies to railroad companies,
it seems that the suckers are not all
dead yet. Three townships in Clark
county, Indiana, are about to vote
some $30,000 In bonds to the Cincin
nati & Louisville railroad, and strange
to say the local democratic paper is
sure that "to vote against the rail
road seems sheer suicide."
SAY, MR. MAITIW
Once upon a time you interfered
with a newspaper publisher who of
fered to give away half a million sets
of dishes in order to get a half a mil
lion subscribers. You claimed that
was not "legitimate," although any
newspaper man knows that the adver
tising patronage growing out of hav
ing half a million subscribers would
be so great that the publisher could
well afford to give back in premiums
more than the entire amount re
ceived for subscriptions.
But you wouldn't allow him to do
that and enjoy the "subsidy" of second-class
rates. Now what do you
think of this proposition: The Ne
braska State Journal, a thick-and-thin
(mostly thin) republican paper
in this city, gives away an "ap
proved" $2 rural mail box with every
subscription to the daily if paid in
advance at $4 a year. Is it any more
of a violation of your commandments
to give away dishes than mail
boxes? If so, why?
CAIX IT PROSPERITY
Russia has just promulgated a new
"fighting tariff" increasing import
duties from 50 to 150 per cent. That
is the game now going on all over
Europe as The Independent said it
would be. While the trusts are throw
ing the whole business of the United
States into confusion, especially that
of transportation, the tariff is playing
deadly havoc with foreign commerce.
The fall in the price of silver curtails
trade with the orient, the tariff with
European countries and the trusts rob
and freeze the people at home. Such
is the result of the work of the repub
lican leaders, who, mad with greed,
have thought that they would over
throw the principles upon which mod
ern society is built, defy the economic
laws evolved from the wisdom of all
the past and place in the hands of a
few men, favored by special privil
eges, all the wealth of the world. The
masses call that thing "prosperity."
SOME TRUST INCONVENIENCES
The want of coal and the impossi
bility of getting cars to ship the
products of the farm are trust incon
veniences that have raised a storm of
protests, but there are others just as
exasperating and in the end will
prove as costly. Since the trust has
taken control of the manufacture of
steel, tools have so deteriorated that
the extra labor required to do tho
work is costing more money than the
rise in the price of coal. This incon
venience is affecting the whole pop
ulation, for all use steel in some form.
If a man buys a knife, the first time
he undertakes to cut a stick as large
as his finger the edge crumbles away
or the blade breaks off snort. The
woman can't use "her scissors, a week
until they won"t cut muslin. Then
there is the matter of repairs for farm
machinery. If some cog-wheel breaks
the whole force will have to stop,
whether it be a corn-sheller or a
threshing machine, until the trust is
pleased to send the piece wanted.
There being no competition, very of
ten it is a long time before it is sent.
Some of the little towns relying on
the meat trust for their meat supply
are very often without meat for a dav
or so, because the trust did not sec fit
to fill the order the day it was re
ceived. The meat trust don't care,
for there is no competition. So it is
with a hundred other trust articles.
That is the sort of chaos that the re
publican party has brought upon us
by refusing to enforce the laws
against trusts.
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cringing at the feet of plutocracy, the
dailies will hound him from one end
of the year to the other. Those who
have read the jibes and' jeers of Cap
tain Hobson in the daily press, espe
cially those of that disgusting crea
ture, William E. Curtis, concerning
him, have no doubt made up their
minds that the captain is a poor, sil
ly creature and a man of no ability
at all. That is because Captain non-
son has been called a populist. He
has for a long time suffered from a
disease of the eyes and recently sent
in his resignation.
Admiral Taylor, chief of the naviga
tion bureau, has made the following
recommendation to the secretary of
the navy concerning Captain Hob
son's resignation: "The bureau is
reluctant to recommend the accept
ance of the resignation, believing that
time should be given him to recon
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of the new duties at the station to
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Senator McMillan introduced and
the state senate of Kansas passed a
bill to prevent the eating of snakes,
lizards, scorpions, centipedes, taran
tulas and other reptiles. It is said
that the bill is sure to pass the house
and that the governor will sign it. It
seems that since the state went back
to republicanism, something had to
be done to prevent a complete rever
sion to the habits of savages.
A reader of The Independent, says:
"I find some of the sharpest thrusts
and spiciest items scattered here and
there through The Independent with
out heads and stuck in just as if it
were done to fill up. Why don't you
put all those items together in some
good place where every reader would
see them?" The "make-up" of The
Independent, that is the arranging of
the matter in the columns and the
general appearance of the paper, has
already about worn the life out of two
men, because so many things of im
portance press for space. T?oth of
these men came to the same conclu
sion and that was that 32 pages could
not be crowded into sixteen and that
the two classes of citizens who want
their "ads" at 'the head of a column"
or "next to reading matter" both
ought to be hung with the benefit of
clergy.
Thousands of men are idle by an
order of the sugar trust, hundreds of
thousands are suffering from the ef
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are paying extortionate prices for the
necessaries of life on account of the
other trusts. How long the patient
people will endure this condition of
things which has resulted from the
establishment or monopolies we will
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