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i f ff, j Hi r ! 11 THOSE VNSrSAKABIJB JUDGES THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. FEBRUARY 26, 1903. In capturing most of the press of the United States, plutocracy gained a vast amount of power, and in cap turing the courts it gained the ability to use that power in the most heart less manner for oppressing the com mon people. There is a line of deci sions which have been obtained ra the last few years that are as disgraceful and tyrannical as the edicts of any of the kings who claimed to rule by di rine right and that they could do no wrong. Every one of these decisions Has been iu favor of plutocracy. The judges have used the broad state ments of universal liberty, the right to hold property, the prohibition of the confiscation of private property and in general all the broad prin ciples of human justice and equal rights placed in the Declaration of In dependence and constitution of the United States by the founders of thj3 government for the protection of the people, as an excuse for decisions that restricted liberty and piled up un earned millions in the hands of the fewl The logical and sophistical trickery the judges have employed in using the principles of equality to jus tify; opinions that destroyed all equal ity I before the law between the rich and poor, must always excite the con tempt of honest men as long as the world endures. A few examples of this sor? of judicial quackery will suffice to establish the cnarges inai-iue Independent , has ever made against the t judges. A; few years ago the supreme court Of (Illinois decided that the constitu tional guarantees of life, liberty and property, rendered the laws regulat ing the hours of labor .in factories un constitutional. A law making eight hours a day's work on all public works was , unconstitutional because "it-amounts to a discrimination be 'tween different classes of citizens." A law preventing discrimination against union men, was, according to the sophistries of these judges, uncon stitutional because of the guarantee that "no person shall be deprived of life liberty or property without due process of law." The right of a corporation to pay its employes in brass checks which were redeemable only in goods at a "pluck me store," instead of lawful money, was upheld by the following argu ment: ' "To say that a free citizen can con tract for or agree t6 receive in return for his labor one kind of property onlv. and that which represents the smallest part of the aggregate wealth of the country, is a clear restriction of the right to bargain and trade, a " suppression of individual effort, a de Dial of inalienable rights." The inference is that when Jeffer son placed the list of inalienable rights in the Declaration, he included the right of a corporation to pay its employes in brass checks instead of money. Weekly payment laws, the judges also found conflicted with "inalien able rights." When it comes to trusts, an entirely different conception takes possession of the judicial mind. The federal viudee. Swayne. in the Texas case, de clared: "It is not every restriction of competition or trade that is illegal , or . against public policy, or that will justify police regulation, but only such as, are unwarrantable or oppressive; and a state statute which prohibits combinations formed for. the purpose of reasonably restricting competition violates the right of contract guaran teed by the federal constitution." Relying upon this decision, all the trusts take care to announce that while they are formed for the purpose of restricting competition, that they are benevolent in their purposes and will only "reasonably" restrict it The "right of contract" , prohibits eight hour laws, but gives the trusts the right to reasonably restrict competi N tion. A West Virginia federal judge sent two men to jail for contempt of a rail road company; The charge was that they "reviled the employes or a rail road company." The men were poor and could not appeal, so they had to serve out their time in jail. The in famy of some of the injunctions which have been issued are beyond the pow er of words to describe. They are all defended by quoting the broad guar antees of equality and freedom con tained in the constitution and Dec laration of Independence. erty was comparatively valueless. Ev ery effort to get the courts to oust them has been a failure. Numerous cases have been pending in the courts from fifteen to twentj- years without results. President Roosevelt has large property interests on Chambers street in that city and the Pennsylvania road has confiscated it. A case was brought to oust the road and it was ordered out of there in short order. The court said: "It is decreed that the defendant, its agents, etc., be perpetually en joined from. further maintaining, etc., such additional track or fence, and shall within thirty days after the entry of the decree re move such additional track and fence." ' That decree is a demonstration of the truth of the statements made by The Independent concerning the courts. The cases of the poor and un influential lot owners are still hang ing fire. POOR TEDDY The trusts are just as happy As ever trusts can get, For while they've pased the trust bills, No trusts are busted yet No trouble with the railroads, The rebate men feel well, They say, whatever happens, ? Neither one will tell. The trusts will have a round-up, A suoner and a dance, For Knox is very friendly And Teddy's in a trance. j He thinks he's roped in Morgan And carried off his crown, - But all the trusts are jolly, They've got poor Teddy down. 'Twas Nelson and Steve Elkins, The other man was Knox, That hypnotized poor Teddy And cast him on the rocks. IAMB HORSES At. .....lion, to hi. JbB,.,., hi. low pri; "warm proItion." SJSmm will .now jrou un .union. 01 ait air, rr - rci ia IN NI BBA8RA. and norm, yon will wish to bur or pay jrour far to . fc-you tho jxide. w rm win pay ca.h or gij btntibu now, yon win .or vuj n 7 ;: " , ; " k . . i n t h U imported 63 black ad bay .t.Uioa., they eannot t dnheaUd la any importing barn.j m. uw United Stat., far tha number, for bi aiw, quality, finl.b, royal Dittoing ku uar. . They art all . TOP NOTCHtnb. Vuitor. and bnyer. tbron hU barns and .ay: Hallo, Bill! I'm from Dlinois, ralkjr from Ml..oori; lam. has the rood one.; he .how. "horse, better than he aTe- jn" , viik o Lia . i ... t kim t ti 9m CnnMn'i dnnheata him in Illinois, Utu. or Iowa at K.OOO. See that 2,150-lb 3-y.ar-old, a "ripper". Say, , Ikey T we tho.e " black 2,3004b 4-year-old. he is .howin to thoae Ohio men. Th.y are the BKST I EVER HAW. Bar, boys lloofc . ki. k rniLik t k.inti Umi warth trains- from Maine to California to see (M. tb.a the picture!. Say, Ik.y, too couldn't o www here. They are all "crackeriaek. . " open your month and your pocketbook., you will do buiin.... Iam. .ell. them. He ha. on nana Imported and horns bred, i 117-DLACK PERCHERONS, BELGIANS 4, COACHERS-117 2oyearaold,weicfcU. to 2,500 lba., all approved and .tamped by the European ffOTern mem. V9 per cent sw per ccu xn uvujikj. k " - --7 - a uvu -a ia. direct from the breeders. PAYS NO ITEHP8ETIRS. NO KUYJCRS. NO SALESMEN. HA NO TWO TO TEN MEN AS PARTNERS TO SHARE PROFITS WITH: hia buyer, getmiddie- . Tk... r.... him i - rt nf nu.acfnl hnamau at St. Paul make, aim sen first class stalliona at fifty cents on the dollar, and sates his bnyers $500 to SUM) on each Ltlliom. PARUKR8: Form ronr own stock comoanr. why oar slick salesmen $2,500 to $3,000 for tnira rate sUllion wfcn you earn buy a Utter one of lam. at $l,r $1,200. First class rtaiuonjaraj NEVER PEDDLED to be aold. IT TOSTS $800 TU n,ow xu nA t js a wVi 7 BY SALESMAN; IAMS pays horses freight and his buyers' fare. Write for finest horse cata, loeue in United States, showtng 40 illustrations of his horses. It is an "ayeopener. References, St. Paul State bank, First State bank and Citiaens' National bank. Barns m town. FRANK IAMS,'. ST. PAUL, Howard Co.', Nob. On U. P. ond B. 4. M. Rys. SHIRES, PERCHERONS, BELGIANS. DRAFT STALLIONS, QA Head to select from all im- OA UU ported by us and guaranteed. QU $1,000 buys a good one from us this fall. competition byBelling more quality for less money than the small importers can possibly do. We do not adyertise 100 and only hare 20, but hare just what we claim. 60 good ones now on hand. Barns just across from B. & M. depot On September 9 we landed 40 head, which i our 34th import. Watson, Woods Bros. & Kellej Co., - - - - Lincoln, Neb. We down all !"! I! RICH AND POOR For years and years the railroads have taken the streets of Chicago and occupied them with their, tracks with out compensation. ' This was not tfnly the confiscation of the streets which belonged to the whole city, but also a main part)f the" values of the houses and lots on each side which belonged to private parties, for with a railroad occupying the whole street, such prop- Their fairy, tales believing, He had a pleasant dream. Some day when he's awakened He'll find things not what they seem. Steve Elkins, Knox and Nelson In many tricks were schooled, And Teddy, the confiding. Was most completely fooled. PoorTejhjy . TARIFF AND RAILROADS - The importation of coal has for the last three years averaged just about mo ooo tons a vear. The first month after free trade in coal was instituted, the importation was 308,988 tons, be ing more than three times as much in one month as in a whole year be fnrp thp tariff was removed. A good deal of this coal was anthracite. No doubt it had an effect on the price. At any rate the price began to recede as soon as the foreign coal began to land. But this was only swapping one pi rate for another. The railroad man agers got together and concluded that they would have all the reduction in price caused by free trade in coal, at least, as far as the interior was con cerned. The roads raised the rate on coal as follows: Pittsburg to Chicago (all rail) Old rate, $1.75; new rate, $1.90. Ohio to Chicago Old rate, $1.50; new rate, $1.65. West Virginia to Chicago Old rate, $1.90; new rate, ?2.05. Pit.tsbure to Lake (rail and lake) Old rate, 73 cents; new rate, 83 cents. Ohio to Lake Old rate, 75 cents; new rate. 85 cenls. West Virginia to Lake Old rate 813-4 cents; new rate, yi a-4 cents. The commercial rates from mines in all districts to lake cities was in creased from 90 cents to $1. As far as the people are concerned it makes little difference -to them whether they pay their tribute to the tariff pirates or rai'.nrd pirates. Un der republican r.ile, the pirates are going to take "all the tratnc win Dear" anyhow. BIMETALLISM The gold standard advocates in the United States senate have at last giv en un their foolish idea and are will ing to take measures to establish a world-wide bimetallism. President Roosevelt started the movement by a special message to congress. I he gold standard leaders in the senate, while they knew that such a measure was a necessity that could not long be avoided, of course felt a little hesi tancy, after the years they had spent in denouncing in the most bitter terms every man who had advocated bimetal lism in hrineintr forward such a meas ure, so they allowed Senator Patter son to do it. He proposed it in the form of an amendment to one of the PhlHnnine bills. When that bill was called up by Senator Lodge, Senator I ' LAHR'S .. I I RANGES AO Hardware Now at 1032 O St.' Frank E. Lahr. llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfig Patterson offered his amendment pro viding for an international conference to devise some plan by which the gold and silver coinage of gold and silver using countries would be maintained at a stable exchangeable ratio. Sena tors Lodge, Aldrich, and Allison ex rressed their assent to the principle in volved in the amendment ana it adopted without a . dissenting vote. When we look back at tne six years, of destitution and suffering caused by the attemDt to establish a gold stand ard, think of the bankruptcies, the wrecked homes, the lost lortunes, tnat that effort hrousrht about, and the complete backdown of-the republican leaders in the United states senate, words fail to express the infamy of it. It was impossible for those leaders to have believed in the sophistries and fallacies which were the burden of their speeches and of the spell-binders who were sent out by tne am oi cor poration contributions to deceive the people. The Independent has been warnec not to make such remarks as. these for fear that it would provoke resist ance from influential quarters. It has no fears on that score. The estab lishment of a ratio, fixed by law, be tween the two metals is an absolute necessity. It is either that or a per manent curtailment of trade with the silver-using countries. The losses from such curtailment would be so nersi stent, and permanent that the fix ing of a ratio will be forced by those engaged in commerce. The ratio will probably be 32 to l, instead or the oia ratio of 1G to 1. Nevertheless it is bi metallism all the same. The little joker in the Fowler bill is the recmirement that the asset notes shall be redeemed in gold and then in connection with the Aldrich bill di viding: the country un so that New York can always force the western hanks to furnish the gold. We al ready have nine kinds of money and these currency tinkers propose to add two kinds more, uemember. always that the national bank notes are re deemable in "lawful money" and this new kind of money is to be redeem able in gold. Cancers Cured; why suffer pain and death from cancer? Dr. T. O'Connor cures cancerg, tumors and wens; no knife, blood or plaster. Address 1306 O St., Lincoln, Nebraska. IDAHO IRRIGATED LANDS. Good climate, healthy location, rich and productive lands, abun dant water from the famous Snake River, -never failing sup ply; good crops always assured; you govern your own moisture; no cyclones; no hail storms; no rains to prevent gathering of crops; more sunshine in the year than any other state in the union. 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