FEBRUARY 26, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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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-
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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.
And if the natives of Samar had
lieen able to "welcome with hospita
ble hands to bloody graves' every offi
cer and soldier in General Smith's
command, what opinion would Gen
eral Smith's great state have ex
pressed, could she have spoken again
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