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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1903)
WARCH 12, 1903.-.; THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT COLORADO ANARCHY h' BpuMIcan GTrnor Tarsi th Com man of tfc Military Owr t th . Great Cerporatloai . ? Some thousands of the members of the labor unions In Colorado Insisted on voting the republican "ticket, enough doing so to give the state offi ces to that party. Now it is charged lhat the great corporations out" there are working every scheme to raise a conflict with the labor unions, bring on strikes and then crush the unions jwith the militia, which will be used to protect the importation of scab labor. One of the great concerns is already building a huge stone wall around its works and making a verity able fortress of it The high wall, shutting out the . free circulation of the air, will make the lot of the men who labor within very much harder than it has been. In pursuance of this policy, the Colorado Chronicle declares that the republican governor- has turned the command of the. militia over to the big mining and smelting corporations, one of which forced one of its superinten dents to take the office of adjutant . general at a salary of $1,800 a year, although his present salary is $5,000 the corporations making up the differ ence from their treasuries. The Chron icle says: - . "Sherman Bell of - Independence, Colo., mine manager for the Smith Moffat interests in the Cripple Creek district at an annual salary of $5,000, was appointed adjutant general. Mr. -Bell was not an applicant for the po . sition and had repeatedly told the governor so. Mr. Bell, one of Teddy Roosevelt . rough riders during the Spanish-American war, who has the reputation of being a ' nervy, dare devil soldier, and one who has a great idea of his own importance and power of bluff with men, was the man whom the mine owners wanted for adjutant general. But Bell per sistently refused the place on account of the small salary of $1,800 per year. "Mr. William H. Sweeney of Pueblo is the new assistant adjutant general. Mr. oweeney has been connected with the national guard for a number of years and his sympathies have al ways "been against organized labor. "Frederick W. Gross, an employe of the Colorado Telephone company, is the new inspector general. - "William R. Freemon, tax agent for the Colorado Midland railroad, Pull man Palace. Car. company and several other corporationsis the new military secretary, while corporation , men largely make up the governor's mili tary staff." If the corporations proceed to carry out their present plans there will be some months of anarchy in the state and a condition such as the people there have never before experienced. Would it not have been much better for the wage-workers to have followed the advice of The Independent and have taken command of the militia themselves? Ontario Word has just come from Robert Tyson, who engineered the Toronto campaign which won out, that he and others have arranged for a paid secre tary to organize a Direct Legislation league for the province of Ontario, on the federation plan. The secre tary is to give one-fourth of. his time, and $150 is the cost. Fifty dollars has been raised and we herewith ask that everyone' who can will help to pay the balance. Send- your subscription to Mr. Robert Tyson, 6 Harbord st, Toronto, Canada. - The Toronto federation for major ity rule has published a "Report of Progress," copies of which, have been mailed to the 30 trade unions and the single tax and democratic club, that compose the federation. Copies have also been mailed to the unions that have not yet joined the federation. These organizations contributed from one to ten dollars each and were the sole support of the movement whereby the pledged candidates were elected in Toronto on January 5. The Money Question Editor Independent: In the last few issues of The Independent there appear several articles on the finan cial question, but the writers made the same 'errors the gold standard writers do," confusing money with currency. National bank notes are currency, butjthey are not money within the meaning of the law, they are only make-believe money; the treasurer of the United States will re deem them in - greenbacks when pre sented in sums of $1,000. Banks can not issue money; congress .alone can do that x We have not got a gold standard and cannot have while greenbacks and silver dollars are money. Congress Another Bargain Sale of MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. Wonderful Values! If you .have never attended one of our Muslin Underwear Sales you do not know the astonishing values we offer, ir vou have, then you will he more than anxious to attend this great sale. Stop! and consider these low prices. Observe the variety of garments we offer, and notice the elegant finish and varied styles.- It will convince you homo sewing is the veriest drudgery, and you will wonder how we can sell these goods so cheap. Economy tells you to buy your underwear ready made when you can buy at such low prices as we offer in this sale. Send mail orders at once before stock is broken. Lot 1 M 'ML- ice. m Can Von afford to waste time making these garments offered at to Ceniaf Don t trust these cum. ' Come and $ee the good Lot 2 wm So well done for so little money is a marvel The garment$ speak for themselves. LUtcntothcm, Lot 3 25c. A triumph T- Trt. m " ' " P Ml- tmm " W " ' C"Wef' Lot 4 50c These pictures give but a hint r" " " Chnce ,ik thi tMm 9 If you have any doubt about great value for little money, come and see our goods. Only at this sale can you grt so good valuft Latest styles and shapes: If you Ml to supply youraall w, yon won't get another chance. Take a few while fhey last New Idea Patterns... Any style, any size, none rkrr better...... 1UC Lincoln, Nebraska. 233 BEST GRADE LIVE GEESE FEATHERS.. in 1, 2, 3 and 5-1b. sacks, 0 per pouncLy OL must first take the legal tender qual ity away from everything but gold to have a "gold standard." There is no such a thing as a standard of value as value is an ideal thing and is always changing. We may have a standard foot, or yard, a standard- bushel; a standard is fixed by law. All articles of commerce are valued by money or currency and this make-believe money is just as good as any money as long as it passes for money, and the values rise and fall with the volume of mon ey and currency; subsequently the more notes or currency the national banks issue, all kinds of produce will rise in value. It is their drawing in this currency that causes depression and panics. . . If we are to have national bank cur rency, we should Mve a law compell ing them to issue an amount great enough to supply the wants of the people to do the business of the coun try on a cash basis and not allow them to call this currency in, and no kind of money or currency should . be re deemable, for no one ever gets money redeemed for a legitimate business. Out of the 76 million people in thia nation no one ever got money re deemed in any other kind of money except a few hook-nosed Jew3 in Wall street. They are gold gamblers, con nected with other gold gamblers in the large cities of Europe.. There is very little gold in our treasury in Washington; it is kept In the sub treasury, No. 30 Wall street, New York, and very little is coined inio money. It is in bullion run into bars and bricks for the convenience of these Jew gamblers. - The secretary of the treasury counts this 130 millions of bullion as money, yet it is no more money than our warships and other government prop erty, lie also has about 128 millions loaned out to rational banks without one cent of interest and if this mon ey was called in, it would cause the greatest panic ever known in the his tory of the world, and it 13 a question if this money will ever, find its way back to the United States treasury, where it belongs. There is very lit tle money among the people at the close of business every day; nearly ev ery dollar is deposited in banks and if your readers will look at the sworn statement of bank officers they will find that with all they can rake and scrape to make a good report, they only have enough to pay from 10 to J 5 per cent of their deposits. And if they will get the last report of the comptroller of the currency, they wilt be surprised to see the small amount of money the national banks carry compared with their deposits. If the government and all the people who have money on deposit in the bank.i should attempt to draw their money out on the same day, I dare say it would break every single bank in this nation and bankrupt one-half of the people and nine out of every ten-mer cantile houses would close thelrdoore next day. Although our government has coined silver dollars as fast as the mints could turn them out and the banks have issued hundreds of millions of wild cat currency, the great finan ciers now tell us we are on the verge of a panic. Wall street has been cry ing for money for months and any day may bring' the worst panic tho world has ever seen. - 4 . T. J. QUAIL. Watertown, Neb. There have been more changes in the Fifty:seventh congress than in any 'of ucent years. Of a member ship of 357 in the house, 15 have died in ofHee, -two have been removed by contest proceedings and five have resigned.