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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. MARCH 5, 1901 PLENTY OF MONEY. ? TrustsThe Cause and Cure v s roads; If that failed, stab railroad i would be necessary. From observa tlon among my acquaintances I be lieve one of the most effective weap ons against trusts is plenty of money in the hands of consumers. I have never heard any one, who had the money to buy necessities with, com plain of the extortion of the trusts. except those who remember a time when they did not have money to buy with; therefore give ns plenty of gov ernment money, gold, silver and green; backs; not by loaning to banks with- out'interest; not by permitting banks to issue asset currency which amounts to thfl mm, thing; not by Ioaning-to individuals; or any other method of loaning money; because loaned money has to be paid back, and Interest on the principal also, which leaves 'us worse off than before; and who can borrow money unless he has property; those who have no property must sim ply do without. Rather let the gov ernment undertake to supply every ofce with work that heeds; in that way the money will go directly to those who need it most and the poor will not feel the extortions of the trusts as they do now. GEO. B. BOLT. St Louis, Mo. Editor Independent. It is nearly guess work for any one not a stock holder In a trust, to try to explain the cause and the best way to curb or de stroy them. .Perhaps my guess will come as close to the mark as some others. I guess the first cause of trusts Is when a majority of people or firms engaged in any branch of in dustry desire to escape the hardships of competition. The only feasible way to accomplish this is by combining under one head, with a president and board of directors who have the power to fix prices, both buying and selling, and even shutting down some houses or factories when they see that money can be saved to the stockholders by so doing. I. The second cause of their existence is that there are states in this country that allow the organization of corpor ations large enough to cover the esti mated value of all the houses engaged in that particular branch of Industry in which a trust Is to be organized. The third cause is the failure of pub lic officials to enforce the law. As a cure for trusts, I guess we shall have to have more legislation to provide a more severe' punishment for public officers who fail to enforce the law, at the same time making it easier for citizens to bring them Into court A general law governing corporations whereby it will be possible for a state to shut out from its markets corpora tions chartered in other states. To avoid causing suffering it will be nec essary to build and maintain at pub lic expense factories for such com modities as are excluded by passing and enforcing such a law. If railroads should discriminate against state factories, a little manip ulation of shipments using one road entirely where there are parallel roads would have a good effect on the other EDUCATION. Editor Independent: You ask a trust cure; well, here it is: First, the proper education of the people; then the people to issue their own money. Take charge of the railroads, tele graphs, telephones, coal mines, cop per, silver, and gold mines; provided, the last two are to be coined free to the mine owners. To further aid the people, stop this injunction tomfoolery, ballot box stuff ingallow a free vote and a fair count Kill out millionaires by taxa tion; when one sells outr break his 1 neck. G. LIGON. Graham, I. T. Gapl. Ashby Replies Editor-Independent: The two criti cisms aimed at "Money and the Taxing Power" in your last Issue have been called to my notice, and as I have a moment's leisure I will entertain these gentlemen: '. The two critics direct their attacks, toward defects of a widely . different nature. , Mr. Van Vorhis, for his part, does not derive pleasure from, my use uj. teit-aiu wiuua ituu pa i uses, wuicu grate upon his cultivated literary sense. This does not in the least sur prise me. My early education was hot by any means what it should have been, nor what I could have desired. In fact I have never set myself up as a literary model. If Mr. Van Vorhis should so far tolerate my uncouth forms of expression, and inaccuracies of style, as to read "Money and the Taxing Power" to the end, I fear his artificial literary teeth will be many times on edge, and that his highly cul tivated and suseeDtible literarv Vierves will be tortured by the frequent re currence of a want of literary accur acy, very shocking to people of ultra literary culture. He may, however, by use, become gradually accustomed . to my crudities, and by the exercise of proper care, so that none of them shall be permitted to stick in his style, he will come uninjured through the trying ordeal. .; - So poor, indeed, is my literary taste that I do not feel any appreciable shock from my apparently unlicensed use of the word "incapable. I seem to be content to employ it, as I havn JS . 1 ; it.ii . uuue, aiuug wun some profound thinkers and quite distinguished writ- " a, uu owhu, uw, tur my iiLeiaijf sensibilities that I seem to feel no : shock that "theories" advanced, shall come in "collision" with "assump tions" which "are Incapable of verifl- VtVf J . . S . . . . ... ? As for the definition of "wealth," j supported my etntement "by the great authority of Mr. Henry George; and although it may be of no conse quence to the sticklers . for literary 'culture, that men have b?en writing for ages, about a thing of which thev had no definite Idea, I nevertheless thought it - worth while to point out the fact Perhaps I owe an apology for telling the truth. The other criticism,1 coming as it does, from one occupying' the pbce of ,i prophet, raises a different qupftion. This Mr. Bartley, it would seem from ?iim remarks, has slanced through ;mv entire work, although not pub- Mfhed. nd knowing its contents, by iispiration, announces categorically 'hit. some gentleman of his aco'iaint- 1 ice in Connecticut, I believe, has told fy story much better, snd in smaller compass. Mr. B. will never know whether this statement of his is true or not, because he declares himself to be one at least "in thunder" who does not propose to "wade" in order to learn that which he is confident, he already knows. This Amsterdam real estate agent has no moral right to hide his great intellectual ; electric light as he is doing. It Is wicked. It Is clear from the glimpse he gives of himself, that no writer upon politi cal economy, from Adam Smith down ward, has escaped him; and the ut most their efforts have been able to compass, in his case, is to "amuse" him with "definitions of value." Manifestly the gentleman has had too much, and the fragmentary figures re flected from his mental mirror tell all too plainly of the shattered state of his intellectual reflector. r . It is only because I, have a little leisure, which I desire to improve by literary gymnastics, that I have no ticed these entirely unimportant at tacks. W. H. ASHBY. J. A. Farnsworth, . Cashion, Okla.: You have some able writers and I like a great deal that is in your pa per; but prosperity has struck me so hard that I cannot -afford to take a dollar paper. 25 cents for the Kansas City Star Is the only tribute that old party papers get from me. I voted republican 16 years, populist 2 years, and now, I am a socialist government ownership of all monopolies. Not the "Last Leaf" Editor Independent Please, send me a specimen copy. You can't imagine how surprised I was to see the name of your paper in a socialist magazine as I had come to the conclusion that all the populists but myself had been "snowed under" in the . storms of despotism and jugglery which have visited the country in the last few years. ' ' : 7;r I thought I'd die laughing when I read in one of those shameless organs of imperialism, what a great blessing it was that the people's party had dis appeared without leaving a trace of its existence behind, and in the next page informs it? readers that the financial policy of the present is about the , shakiest in the history of the country; that the masses are clamor ing for the initiative and referendum; that another "populist fad." the "elec tion of United States senators "by di rect vote of the people," is certain to become a part of the constitution in the near fut"re. In an insignificant pamphlet bearing the d'ibions title of "Sound Currency" a person nmed Farquahr, referring to leral tender, money, savsr "It is use at this time to raise any Issue with the supreme - court decisions which pronounced the civil war legal tender act constitutional," which is Save 25 Per Cent on Paint r Any of the following delivered at your station,; fr ight prepaid. Send -us an order. 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HARDY'S COLUMN The two old narties are in lust about the condition the two old narties were during the forties and fifties. The whig party was broken in two by wooly heads and silver grays. The democratic party was broken in two by the barn-burners and , hunkers. They then had three additional par ties, the abolition, free soil, and know nothing or native American party. To day the old parties are split, the re publicans have the Roosevelt and Rockefeller factions and the democrats have the Bryan and Cleveland fac tions. , The barn-burners and woolly heads united with the three- small parties and formed the republican par ty, the silver grays united with the hunkers and formed the new demo crat pro-slavery party. Now the Roosevelt and Bryan faction are near together and with the help of the pops, prohibitionists and socialists could carry the next or second elec tion. Cleveland, Hill. Rockefeller and Pierpont Morgan with all the banks, trusts and corporations could mill to gether for the millionaires. Million aires are running the government to day as completely as the slave-holders did previous to 1860. The wife should be made the first heir of the husband to all (he prop erty they accumulated after marriage. Then to all prop r'y V e w! e's heir ship should be the same as the hus bands heirship. ;We wold favor a law prohibitin? a husband or wife from having mcr 'ban one living companion in marriage, whether di vorced or not. H. W. HARDY. COLORADO FARM LANDS. FRUIT FARMS. GENERAL FARMS. STOCK RANCHES. COLORADO CLIMATE CURES more invalids than all the physicana of the country. THE GRAND VALLEY, MESA COUN- . TY. COLORADO, is the Garden Spot of the West a lani of sunshine, a sanitarium of health a poor, a sick or a rich man's paradise where ev ery invalid is cured or benefited, and those in -health enjoy life and prosper- . ity to its fullest extent. : : : : . 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