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FEBRUARY 26, 1903. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 3 CONFLICTING VIEWS Dlfferoncea of Opinio Retarding Iad- pendent Articles "On Man' Moat Another's I'olion" The Independent will not knowingly publish anything containing a mis statement of fact It will not publish communications containing indecent language or calculated to arouse in decent thoughts. Questions of opin ion are quite another matter. The Independent's mission is to teach the, soundness of populism as expressed In the national platforms of that partyand its own interpreta tion of tbe, meaning of those plat-"; forms is to be found in the editorial columns. Naturally the members of any political party cannot be expected to fit exactly a Procrustean bed of political economy. On matters of min or importance, of, method,, or even as to the best statement" of a funda mental proposition, populists' can dif fer widely and still be populists. Further than that, many of The In dependent's subscribers have never affiliated with the people's party,', and among the twenty thousand of them it is not surprising to find "many men of many minds." , , The business manager and the edi tor and his associate are all doing their level best to make The Indepen- - dent each succeeding week a better paper than it was the week before. . How. well they succeed can only be known by watching the subscription list, grow. Its columns, as far as space will permit, are always open for expressions of opinion by its sub scribers. Publication of a communi cation does not mean that The Inde pendent indorses the opinions there in, but rather that as no man can know all the truth, there, is wisdom in the counsel of, many. Amusing incidents groiv out of the publication of communications. For example, some weeks ago we adver tised in eastern papers for short term subscribers and asked each to write his views on the cause and cure for trusts. Many of these have been pub lished and more will be. In our issue of -January 29, under the head of "Trusts The Cause and Cure," Mr. Walt' Cronacher of Bcston advocated the issuing of paper money as the cure. His idea was-to allow any indi vidual to issue and circulate his own notes as a medium of exchange., tut without the aid of a legal tender fea ture . added by the government. Of course. The Independent had no .no tion of approving- Mr. Cronacher's scheme, believing it to be absurd and impractical. Yet. for all that, it forcefully calls attention to the great wrong done by making national bank notes even a partial tender. If gov ernment endows John Doe's note with power to perform certain services, why not do the same with the note of Richard Roe? Indeed, why? "Equal rights to all, special privileges to none" cannot be secured by making Doe's note a regal tender and Roe's note a mere evidence of debt. Our good friends, The Cambridge Encyclopedia Co., who publish the ex cellent works of Alexander Del Mar on the money question were much shocked by the publication of Mr. Cronacher's letter, as the following letter will show: "Editor Independent: We are afraid that'if you open your columns to pro positions of this sort (to flood the country with a paper currency of for ty thousands of millions of dollars) you will discourage any person of real ability from contributing to your col umns. Sane men do not care to be seen in such company as that of Mr. Cronacher, the author of this wild proposal. We congratulate you upon , the im proved appearance of The Independent and the general- excellence of its con tents." CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA CO. New York, N. Y. Sometimes the very absurdity of one proposition best calls attention to the absurdity of another. A major ity of the American people seem to think.that Mr. Del Mar's views are little else than "wild proposals," and doubtless some gold standard metal list "of real ability" might hesitate about being seen in the company of a man who, .knowing that freo coinage of any metal renders it impossible for congress to regulate .the value of money, nevertheless will advocate the free coinage of both gold and silver. One's sanity is difficult to determine absolutely. Copernicus was undoubt edly insane in his day but we don't believe so now. "Who 'in thunder' do you suppose," writes James Bartley, proprietor of the real estate exchange, Amsterdam, N. Y., "is going to wade through the Interminable 'argument' and befud dled attempt at philosophy published on your last, page every week under the head of 'Money and the Taxing Power?' If you want to get at what the writer there is so laboriously try ing to present you can get It from a book published in- New Haven, Conn., where the author, John Philip Phillips, resides. The title of the work is 'Social Struggles It presents in a clear, crisp, lucid and forcible style all the truth this wearisome Mr. Ashby ..thinks he sees. For God's sake have mercy on your readers and send for it. "If instead of the busy times we live in and the heavy cost per minute and per hour of standing room on the earth, a fellow had forty years to wander in some vast wilderness, he'd hardly have time to read these wordy lucubrations. (Then don't read them if you don't like the meat, help yourself to the mustard. Ed. Ind.) "The fellow who thinks he sees any important truth and can't present it any more briefly and clearly than Mr. Ashby, is only fooling himself. The people are sick of these occult 'defi nitions' of value, which every fellow who thinks he is a political economist undertakes to give. It is amusing to look under that head in every 'Politi cal Ecotiomy' written since Adam Smith's time. About every one of those writers gets his worst attack of swelled-head right at that point and the result is wonderful as well as. amusing. "I refer to Phillips as an authority and a clear reasoner on his specialty money and exchange. But like a born painter undertaking to excel also in music, the minute he leaves the realm of exchange and ventures into the department of production, he is forty miles behind Henry George." Just a3 Henry George, when he en tered the realm of money and ex change, was about "forty miles be hind" the crudest thinker on that sub ject. The man with a formula which fits every case, or the man who thinks he can please everybody, would be about the most miserable chump alive if he had "some power or giftie" to see himself as others see him. Mr. Phil lips is welcome to this free adver tisement of his book but The Inde-; pendent is not in the, habit of squan dering its "surplus value" purchasing every book on political economy be cause some subscriber thinks it is the best ever. Captain Askby is writing for those who are beginning to taste the pleas ures of political economy not for those who have become blase. Per haps he sacrafices brevity for exact ness of expression but one can't have his cake and eat it "Money and the Taxing Power" is his hot The Inde pendent's, and we are chiefly inter ested in seeing him demolish the ab surdity of "intrinsic value." HELL ROARING JAKE Mr. Sampson Writes to the Washington Post bat U Turned Down Cold Our contributor, Mr. Sampson, writes us that some time since he .ad dressed the communication below to the Washington Post, but that paper declined to publish it He says: "In view of the present trial of Major Glenn in the Philippines this com munication may not seem inoppor tune." It is as follows: Dear Sir: Radical as has been the writer's dissent from the attitude of the Washington Post on the whole Philippine question, he was not pre pared for its attempted defence of a policy whose infamy has been equalled only by its folly. The reference is to an cinorial therein on General Jacob H. :-'mith. According to the lachrymose Post; the general, on return from the Phil ippine shambles, was "broken," "sad ly worn," "practically an invalid," etc. Unfortunately for the Post, how ever, the Associated press reported the general himself as saying on that occasion, "I am feeling first rate; never felt better in my life." Again, the Post, speaking of the president s order retiring him from ac tive service, laments that "blow in his gray and sad old face!" What a strange sun that must have been in tropical Samar to turn his face gray! The first excuse essayed for this modern Duke of Alva that his "kill and. burn" order was not written- is on a par with the usual puerility of the administration's excuses, and may be dismissed with the observation that if only written orders are to be obeyed in the army, the sooner the army reg ulations are revised the better. Then it is said (not by the Post, but ty the secretary of war) that the order was not carried out Of a sys tem of morals by which a military order is judged according to the ex tent to which it is obeyed, the less said the better. "But, fortunately for the secretary of war. Major Waller, to whom was entrusted the execu- II SlU.'Ktf. ,mt f STRENGTH- T wen ty-fivp years ago In acquainting Jewelers with tho strength of tlie J as. Bom Btlftened Gold Watch Cases, an enterprising salesman used the method here shown. Jas. Boss Caars are etlll the strongest cases made. As good as bolld gold In appearance. Better than gold la weariDg quality. Lees than solid gold in cost la a Watcla as Stiffened GOU3 there is a layer of very hurd composition between an Inside and outside layer of solid gold reducing the cost of the case, and adding great? to Its strength. BOSS Cases are guaranteed to wear ror 35 years; are recognized as the standard, and sold as such by all Jewelers. Write us for a booklet. . 3 The Keyitonc Watch Case Company, fhiUdelphia. vt Yoa Know Thea tion of General Smith's.; order to "make Samar a howling wilderness," was reported , by - the, Associated press as saying, on.hlsTreturn to this coun try, that . Samar had been made a "howling .wilderness." The specific reason which has been assigned for General Smith's order is the "massacre" at , Balangiga. But how convenient It is to forget the tes timony before , the senate committee on the Philippines that this "massa cre" was simply an act of retaliation for cruelties wantonly Inflicted on the same Filipinos, a Few days, before, by American troops. ' And, apropos., of massacres, it, should . be remembered that in- the. several thousand engage ments fought in the Philippines, about twenty Filipinos . have been killed to every one American, and that, revers ing the rule almost universal, the number of Filipinos killed has large ly exceeded the number of wounded. Before much is said about the Balan giga "massacre," decency would sug gest a reference to these several thou sand massacres of Filipinos by Ameri cans. But it is the alleged character and mode of warfare of the Filipinos that constitutes the Post's chief excuses for General Smith's order. The records show, however, that during the early months of Philippine hostility, our "savage" opponents conducted tnem selves quite as much , in accordance with the rules of "civilized warfare" as did the American troops; that is was only when the Filipinos' deter mined resistance occasioned "the sub stitution of brutality . for. decency, in our military operations that the Fili pinos retaliated with cruelties in a word, the records show that, if there have been any cruelties in the Phil ippines, they were first practiced upor the Filipinos by the Americans. But did it ever occur, to the editor of the Po3t that the sole authority for his reckless libel of the Filipino patriots as "traitors," "murderers,'' "devils," etc, is the ex parte testi mony f men who have every motive to exaggerate, if not falsify, the char acter and actions of their opponents? The Post is mistaken if it imagines that its patrons will believe testimony that would be far from conclusive in any court in Christendom. The Post complains that General Smith's punishment was much too se vere. In the writer's humble opinion, the proper punishment for the au thor of an order which will forever disgrace the American military an nals would have been his execution. 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