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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
MARCH 5, 1903.
uate Egypt. With a nominal ruler
she still dominates Egypt and the
' canal of Suez. She has extended
Egypt to the sources of the Nile and
the Soudan, expelled Marchand and
his Frenchmen, annexed the African
republics and opened the way for her
railroad from Cairo to Cape Town.
"Whatever this octopus seizes "Perfidi
ous Albion" never lets go, unless the
tentacle is severed as by our heroic
fathers. To capture Castro, set up
their tool, the rebel Mator, as presi
dent of Venezuela, extend Venezuela
over Colombia and the isthmus, would
give to England control of both inter
oceanic canals and commercial and
political supremarcy in both hemis
pheres. This would be done without
violating the letter of the Monroe doc
trine which she devised to protect her
commerce in the South American re
publics from the "holy alliance." She
would no more colonize South America
than she has Egypt, though dominat
ing both through the control of their
- nominal rulers. . The crux of the Vene
' zuela situation is control of the At
lantic and Pacific canal. With this
control goes commercial, financial and
political supremacy. With the decad
ence of Venice and Genoa the center
of commercial activity passed from
the Mediterranean to the Atlantic un
der Portugal, Spain and England. It
eeems about to move to the Pacific.
,' In addition to this glimpse of his
tory, here are some present facts: In
the beginning of 1902, England and
Germany made their demands upon
Venezuela and rested. Then came the
rebel, .Matos, with headquarters at the
neutral island of Luracao, plentifully
supplied with ammunition of war,
' waging the most violent civil war
Venezuela has ever known. When he
was defeated after a seven days' fight
by Castro in October last and his
cause hopeless without further aid, the
allies descended with their war ships
upon Venezuela. They seized her navy
so she could not act against Matos in
intercepting munitions of war. In
their blockade they have excepted the
ports under control of rebels. They
have allowed ships bearing ammuni
tion of war to pass the blockade of
the Orinoco and carry them ammuni
tion to points occupied by rebels. Am
munitions have flowed in from neutral
Curacao through the rebel post of
La Vela; opposite this post is con
nected uy w or iz mues or ranroau
with.. the ancient city of Coro to be
used by rebels for a base of supplies.
Since the blockade the rebels have
gathered and renewed their activity
plentifully supplied with ammunition
of war, Castro is placed between the
two fires of the rebels and allies.
Meanwhile our canal treaty with Co
lombia all ready to sign was suddenly
held up until Colombia, threatened by
the allies to make her abandon the
treaty, found her only safety was in
our protection and signed it.
Our republic has no such treacher
ous and vindictive foe as the ruling
class of England; they tied our hands
by saddling the Philippines upon us.
They persuaded our imperialistic tories
that by making war upon the Filipinos
they could create a standing army to
protect them from the people when
they objected to their fighting them
to starvation. If it was Germany alone
with whom we had to deal we could
without trouble. The rulers of Eng
land doubtless keep their ulterior pur
pose in the background with the kais
er, compelled by President Cleveland
to use the kaiser, when the chest
nuts are picked, as usual, he will be
dropped.
It is this ruling class that with a
smiling face and hand outstretched in
friendship makes its opportunity to
stab to the heart. This class, preach
ing peace and good-will, enforcing at
the cannon's mouth their tribute from
the nations of a never-ceasing flow of
gold into their polluted coffers. It is
this class with whom we have to deal,
a treacherous, perfidious, vindictive,
relentless foe. Treacherous in peace,
bribing and luring into financial pit
falls, that they may reap the fruits of
progressive industry as their spoils.
Always relentless, both in peace and
War, cheating and pursuing their vic
tims. Robbing in peace, "pig stick
ing" in war; Burglars at home, bur
glars- aDroaa, tne burglars of the
world. Robbing in the dark and mur
dering if resisted. Yonder for the gold
of South Africa, now in Venezuela.
Robbing in the islands of all seas.
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Occident. Everywhere converting the
toil and s"weat of industry and blood
into gold.
'.A ray of God shines upon them. In
its radiance the mists of their great
ness vanish. When President Cleve
land prevented England from Egyp
tianizing Venezuela, he secured a
niche in the temple of fame which
"neither wasting ruins, nor the im
potent north winds and the series of
years and the fights of time can de
stroy" when his financial' heresies are
remedied and forgotten, the words of
Horace, Non omnia moriar," I shall
not wholly die, may be applied to him.
An onlooker thinks December last,
when Matos renewed bis activity, we
should have cabled to Castro an air
liance offensive and defensive against
the rebels, ordered Dewey to stay and
hold the rebel port of Vela, not block
aded, and prevented shipment of am
munition to rebels. Sent 10,000 United
States troop3 to La Vela, held the rail
road and occupied Coro as a base
against rebels. Putting rebels between
two fires, as Castro now is, and dis
missed our English Secretary Hay.
The allies could not properly object
tc this alliance to create a stable gov
ernment that might pay their claims.
It seems best to seize the bull by the
horns and hold him before he starts
to gore us. The war cloud in Eu
rope's back yard gathering by the
mobilizing of a quarter of a million
of barbarians to keep Macedonia quiet
under the Turk doubtless prevents
present hostilities here. A few weeks
will determine the action of England's
ruling class. It seems important to
recall this glimpse of history and these
present facts to the attention of the
many thousand patriotic readers of
The Independent, whether we have
present war or continued peace. Those
who have lived through the losses and
anxieties of our civil war can look
upon such a war without alarm. If
war is hell, like the lightning it is a
purifier. It sifts the chaff from the
wheat. F. W. ANTHONY.
Mattawah, Mich.
IHE SENTINEL SQUEALS
Indiana Paper Vxed Democratic Paper
Hand In Glova With "Economic
Lajrn" of Plutocrat!
Editor Independent: The Indianap
olis Sentinel is disturbed by the ref
erence to it that I made in my letter
to the Clark County Citizen (published
in The Independent of January 22,
1903,) and expresses itself as follows:
. "Dr. Flavius J. Van Vorhis, recent
ly an officer of the Indiana Protective
Tariff league, in a letter to the Clark
County Citizen says:
Everybody knows that as be
tween Bryan and Cleveland the
Sentinel is for Cleveland; that as
between what Bryan represents
and what Cleveland represents the
Sentinel is still with Cleveland.
'As to which it is to be said that the
Sentinel is a democrat, and 'as be
tween Bryan and Cleveland' is for the
democratic party first, last and all
the time.
"As between what Bryan represents
and what Cleveland represents the
Sentinel is for what both represent;
among other things the Monroe doc
trine, free institutions and self-government
everywhere under American
jurisdiction, a tariif for revenue only,
and rigid repression of monopoly.
Messrs. Cleveland and Bryan are
equally sound on all these proposi
tions, and they are the vital questions
of American politics today. They dis
agree about silver, which is not a live
issue and cannot become such under
existing conditions.
"To keep forever harping upon the
differences which once divided the
party upon this question is to play in
to the hands of the trust combine that
now controls the government. No bet
ter method of perpetuating its power
could be devised, and the men who are
doing this are . consciously or uncon
sciouslyand many of them, we think,
with deliberate intent doing the work
Mark Hanna especially wants done."
The charge that anybody is helping
the trusts, "consciously or uncon
sciously," comes with bad grace from
this trust-controlled sheet.
If, when I call attention to the tin
warranted assistance given by the
treasury department to the New York
banks, or if, when-1 mention that the
government dare not make these banks
obey the law, or if, when I point out
that the most powerful opposition to
tariff revision comes from the bank
interests, or if, when I insist that the
financial question is a very live and
urgent one, I am helping the trusts,
what is the Sentinel doing when it as
sociates itself with an organization
clearly intended to advance the inter
ests of combined wealth?
It will occur to most people of av
erage intelligence, when they know
the facts, that the Sentinel ought to
"sing very low" in any attempt to
stigmatize any one as a "trust helD
er." In 1899 there was organized a hum
bug "Economic League." Its principal
office is now at 13 Astor Place, New
York. Its avowed purpose is to con
vince people that all those, who see
and call attention to the danger of
the "concentration of wealth in a few
hands," and all who are opposed to
corporation and trust monopolies are
"socialists" of a type dangerous to our
institutions. This league has, for some
reason, kept out of sight. It is only
recently that anything has been known
about it. It was a concealed factor in
the campaign of 1900. Its lusty asser
tion that it is "absolutely non-partisan
and non-sectarian," will deceive no
one. The influences that control it
are well known not to be embarrassed
by either political principles or moral
convictions. I have on my table a
bunch of its literature sent out with
a letter dated February 18, 1903. It
was not sent to me, of course. It was
intended only for those whom it sup
posed to be controlled by selfish busi
ness interests and cupidity, and whom
it therefore expected to sympathize
with its deceptive purposes.
Mr. bamuel E. Morse (by the grace
of Cleveland, late consul general to
Paris), chief editor, president and con
trolling stockholder of the Sentinel, is
a member of this organization of trust
advocates and supporters, and a mem
ber of the press committee.
His name is prominent on the let
ter head with the names of Lyman J.
Gage (late secretary of the United
States treasury department), presi
dent of the United States Trust com
pany, 40 Wall street, New York; Gus
tave H. Schwab (of steel trust), man
ager of the North German Lloyd S.
S Co., 11 Broadway, New York; Dav
id M. Parry, president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, Indian
apolis, Ind.; S. N. D. North, secretary
National Association of Wool Manu
facturers, Boston, Mass.; Harry S.
New, editor and publisher of the Ind
ianapolis Journal (rep.), and many
others representing like interests.
With this literature is a booklet of
125 pages that, from beginning to end
ing, is filled with sophistical argu
ments in favor of corporations and
trusts. It points out that there is a
growing public sentiment against
them, and sounds the alarm to all
Combinations of wealth. The pur
pose of this so-called "Economic
League" is to counteract this swelling
tide, and to convince the masses that
trusts and corporations are only con
ducive to public welfare; that con
centrated wealth is a blessing, and
trust magnates public benefactors.
Among this batch of stuff is a "par
tial list of sustaining members," head
ed by J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., Aug
ust Belmont, Levi P. Morton, John V.
Farwell & Co., The Standard Oil Co.,
and others too numerous to set out in
full.
This is the crowd which the Senti
nel's chief editor has associated him
self, and furnishes a complete explan
ation of the conduct of this paper dur
ing the campaign of 1900. In the face
of such a damning disclosure of inti
mate relationship with trust support
ers and trust magnates, it is surpris
ing temerity for the Sentinel to pre
tend opposition to such combinations,
and to stigmatize any one as "help
ing the trusts."
The Sentinel does not deny the truth
of what it quotes from my letter, but
seeks by ambiguity to avoid it. It
says that "as between Bryan and
Cleveland" it "is for the democratic
party." It does not even say that it
is for democratic principles. The Sen
tinel needs to be reminded that
thoughtful people are becoming sus
picious of those who find it necessary
to be continually reiterating the dec
laration of their allegiance to party.
What is wanted is allegiance to demo
cratic principles, and not subservience
to plutocratic influences. The asser
tion of the Sentinel that it is "a demo
crat" reminds me of a law case in this
city a few years ago.
A dealer sold a man a watch, and
gave him a statement that it was a
"gold watch." There was so little
gold in it that it would not respond
to the test. The dealer came into
court and admitted that there was
very little gold in it, but insisted that
"gold watch" was a trade description,
and that it was not meant by it that
the watch was made out of gold, but
that the particular brand of watch was
named "gold."
The Sentinel names itself "a demo
crat," but some of its readers are in
doubt about its containing enough of
the "principle" to entitle it to call
itself democratic.
It seems- to think that it has made
a crushing disclosure when it refers
to me as "recently an officer of the
Indiana Protectice Tariff League."
Why, bless its trust-infected soul, it
was worse than that. It was while
serving as an officer first as secretary
and then as vice president of the
American Protective League, with
headquarters in New York that I got
an insight into the situation and be
came convinced that, the contest be
tween the eastern "protective" and
"free trade" leagues was no better
than a sham and a pretense, kept up
to conceal the purposes of the finan
cial combinations behind them. I re
tired in disgust in 1896, before the
meeting of the Chicago convention,
and am not disposed to assist trust
magnates, republican leaders, and
democratic reorganizes to repair this
damaged ambuscade of the eastern
financial combinations with whic& the
Sentinel has allied itself.
When the editor is able to ride two
horses going in opposite directions,
there may be some hope that the Sen
tinel will be able to follow both Cleve
land and Bryan. They are inherently,
antagonistic in principle and purpose,
and will not harmonize. The pretend
ed belief of the Sentinel that they
agree upon ail questions but one is
absurd. Cleveland is a representative
and supporter of plutocracy and Bry
an of democracy. Cleveland supports
and defends the financial combina
tions, while Bryan is opposed to them.
Cleveland favors the special privileges
accorded to the New York banks, Bry
an does not. Cleveland is in favor of
surrendering to the banks the prero
gative of government to issue money,
Bryan is opposed to it.
When the chief editor of the Senti
nel is associated with such men as J.
Pierpont Morgan. August Belmont,
John D. Rockefeller, Lyman J. Gage,
David M. Parry, it cannot hide itself
by sticking its head under the Monroe
doctrine and the tariff question. Ev
erybody knows that what I said in
my letter (from which the Sentinel
quoted) is true, and that the Sentinel
is for Cleveland and what Cleveland
represents, and is opposed to Bryan
and what Bryan represents.
FLAVIUS J. VAN VORHIS.
Indianapolis, Ind. 1
Corbtn Roasts Hearst
The following is copy of a letter
mailed to Mr. Hearst by J. S. Corbin,
liberal democratic candidate for lieu
tenant governor cTf New York last
year. It speaks for itself:
Gouverneur, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1903.
W. R. Hearst, N. Y. American: I am
disgusted with your yesterday's issue.
To neglect to report Bryan and Tom
Johnson at Columbus, is little short
of an outrage on your democratic read
ers. If you would give a little more news
of the sort indicated, and a good deal
less divorce, murder, police and mil
lionheiress drivel, your thinking con
stituency I am sure will appreciate it.
Do not think for a moment that the
real democracy of the state will per
mit Bryan to be obscured by the re
organizing crowd which centers ten
blocks below you in that pit of hell
Wall street. You are showing a lean
ing toward that element (which has
twice defeated us) in your political
aspirations, and you are making a
mistake.
The road to democratic success lies
in driving the Clevo'ands, Gormans,
Belmonts and McLeans out of the
party and substituting twice as many
workingmen. Plutocracy and democ
racy will not mix. You can't ride a
golden calf and a thoroughbred Jcffer
sonian in the political arena. They
will throw you if you try it.
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