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
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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.
