APRIL 2, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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GREAT SCHOOLMASTER
...
Former Congressman Stark of tha
Fourth Nebraska district made The
Independent a pleasant visit Monday.
He is looking hale and strong after
the close of his six years of service,
and says,"I was the last populist to
leave congress and am' as strong in
the faith as ever. "
"Do you know," he continued,-"that
the populist party has been a great
schoolmaster in political economy?
The republican party has turned com
pletely around and now not only ac
cepts the quantity theory of money,
but actually gloats over every in
crease in the circulation. The public
ownership idea has made great head
way also. I used to tell some of my
fellow members that by and by the
republican party would be forced to
take up every plank in the populist
platform. 'What about the. sub-treasury
scheme?' would be the retort.
"For some time all I could say was,
'Wait and see.' Sure enough, now we
have that, too, in a bill to aid the
Philippine islands to say nothing of
the steps looking to bimetallism: fix
ing the price of silver and gold by
law.
"Paper money? Well, it strikes me
that the Fowler bill went about as far
along that line as one could imagine.
Of course, in everything the republi
cans have attempted along the line
of applying populist principles, they
have tried to incorporate some spc
cial privilege which would inure to
the benefit of a favored few instead
of to the people as a whole. But they
have ceased to deny the soundness of
populist ideas no matter what they
znav say to ii3 contrary."
And Judge Stark is correct Pop
ulist hammering at the railroad ques
tion, showing the great waste under
diversified management, while it per
haps did not cause, yet it certainty
hastened railroad combination and
consolidation. Keeping everlastingly
at the money question finally taught
all but the thickest-skulled mullet
heads, that "dear" money and" "high"
prices cannot exist at the same time.
The stern logic of events has shown
that closing the mints to silver ar.d
leaving it to the mercies of supply and
demand for purposes other than mon
ey, has so demoralized the price that
some legislative interference was im
perative. Ashamed to admit their de
feat, the republicans, coward-like, pre
vailed on Senator Patterson to engi
neer, the silver conference appropria
tion. It is up to all great commercial
nations now to return to bimetallism,
and the conference, this time will
doubtless reach some agreement.
Probably the price of silver will be
fixed at about 65 cents an ounce (32
to 1), but it will be bimetallism never
theless, and rather an awkward sur
render on the part of those cock-sure
economists who said sneeringly, "You
can't fix the price of anything by
law." yss
News of the Week
The news from the Philippines con
tinues to get more horrible as the
weeks pass by. The latest is to the ef
fect that the town of Surigano was
captured by the "ladrones" and that
Inspector Clark, who ranks as col
onel, had been killed. There is trou
ble with the Sultan of Jolo of such
serious nature that Governor Taft and
General Davis have both gone there.
The story ends up with the follow
ing gruesome tale: "The burial ship
Proteus has arrived here (Manila)
from the Jolo archipelago, bringing
the bodies of 500 soldiers and a few
civilians." What has been going on
In the Jolo archipelago that has caused
the death of 500 American soldiers
and a few civilians? Why were not
the facts sent to the people of the
United States? Is this military cen
sorshio to last forever?
There was never a more silly, cost
ly, not to say damnable piece of busi
ness engaged in than this imperial
Ism in the Philippines. American sol
diers are being slaughtered over there
by the hundred and for what pur
pose? Some weeks ago The Indepen
dent called attention to the fact that
large numbers of troops Avere being
hurriedly sent to the Philippines, in
cluded among which were some that
had served their time there and had
returned. This shipload of dead sol
diers is the only light we have on the
subject. It tells a horrible tale. Why
don't Hearst put a correspondent in
the Philippines? He is perfectly able
to do so. If there was no other way
of avoiding the censor, the news could
be sent to Hong Kong and cabled from
there.
The Associated press dispatches say
that the president will soon announce
the names of the parties who are to
go to Europe and get the nations over
there to help fix a ratio between silver
and gold. They say that they are all
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declares the necessity for such an ar
rangement is "obvious."
The government Is advertising for
$2,000,000 worth of silver out of which
it is going to coin pesos for the Phil
ippines. This additional demand, just
as every unbought economist has al
ways said, will raise the price of silver.
It has turned out that the Elkins
bill which was to do such wonders for
the people was drafted by A. J. Cas
sat, president of the Pennsylvania, and
Paul Morton and E. D. Kenna of the
Santa Fe railroad. When Elkins in
troduced it, The Independent said that
it was a bill perfectly satisfactory to
the railroads or Elkins would never
father it.
The new Chinese minister, Chen
Tung Liang, has arrived at San Fran
cisco with an immense retinue. He
seems to be very much the same kind
of a man as Minister Wu. His first
secretary is a graduate of Yale.
The British are anxious for "more
money" for exactly the same reason
that Wall street is. Last week con
sols fell to 89 7-8, the lowest point
known for a generation or two. Roose
velt's bimetallic commission will re
ceive a hearty welcome over there.
While the judges have been issu
ing injunctions, the packers have gone
ahead and organized a trust composed
of all the great packing concerns un
der a New Jersey charter. The amount
of capital announced is $15,000,000. But
the best authorities in Wall street say
that it will - be increased within a
year to $500,000,000, with preferred and
common stock after the most approved
trust methods. Congress passed the
famous republican f;nti-trust bills, but
no trusts are busted yet, while new
onea are forming all the time. Con
gress "busts" the trusts like the Ne
braska republican legislature taxes the
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would be more appropriate than the
acceptance of these resignations.
If British consols remain below 90
for a few days every bank in Eng
land will have to take means to
strengthen its reserves from other
sources. That is what makes the
British banker begin to dream about
silver.
The president started Wednesday on
his 14,000-mile trip of speech-making
and delegate-hunting. He will be ab
sent from Washington sixty days. No
president ever deserted his post at
the nation's capital for so long a time
and no president ever before undertook
uch an extended trip while in office.
But Roosevelt is after delegates to the
national convention and he is bound
to have them.
There seems to be a horrible rotten
ness among the chief officials of- the
postoffice department at Washington.
Recent investigations are bringing in
astonishing numbers of resignations.
If half of the stories are true, a resi-
The Irish land purchase bill was in
troduced in the British parliament lasc
week and met with the approval of all
parties. Michael Davit, who was in
the gallery, remarked that he served
his first term in an English prison for
proposing a like, but much milder
measure. The British propose to ap
propriate $500,000,000 and put 50,
000,000 down in cash to get the land
back from the British landlords and
give titles to the Irish farmers. It 13
said that the cost of government in
Ireland will be reduced $1,250,000 a
year because the English have had to
keep such a large armed force there
to defend their landlords. This bill
is much more radical than anything
that Gladstone ever proposed. As has
been the tory habit, they fought the
proposition for generations and then
went to work and enacted it them
selves. All the republican dailies have de
voted much space to telling what a
wonderful democratic leader Gorman
was and how he would give dignity
and importance to the democratic mi
nority in the senate. Washington cor
respondents, and especially W. E. Cur
tis, have waxed eloquent over the sub
ject. Curtis now says: "One of the
anomalies of political life is the in
timacy that has long existed between
Senators Aldrich and Gorman, the
leaders of the two parties in the United
States senate. These two gentlemen
have much in common and are not so
far apart in their opinions on eco
nomic questions as the rest of their
colleagues. They agree upon almost
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buy, sell, own, lease, and encumber real estate,
and execute the necessary papers therefor; to
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to erect, own, and maintain a crematory, and
any other buildings and structures necessary to
the conduct of mid business.
4. The authorized capital stock of said cor
poration shall be Fifty Thousand ((50,000) Dol
lars, in shares of One Hundred ($100) Dollars
each, to be subscribed and paid as required by
the Board of Directors; Provided, however,
that said corporation may enter upon the pur
possof its creation whenever the sum of Oca
Thousand (O00) Dollars f itscapitalstoekhas
been subscribed.
5. The existence of this corporation shall
commence on the first day of March, 1903, and
continue during a period of fifty years.
6. The business of nid corporation shall be
conducted by a Board of Directors, not exceed
ing five in number, to be elected by the stock
Lumen, such eieciion to take place at snch time
and be conducted in such manner as sr ay bo pre
scribed by the by-laws of said association.
7. The officers of said corporation shall be a
president and secretary-treasurer, who shall be
chosen by the Board of Directors, who shall
bold thoir office for the period of one year, and.
until their successors are elected and qualified.
8. The highest amount of indebtedness to
which this corporation shall at any time sub
ject itse'f shall be not more than two-thirds of
the capital stock of said corporation.
9. The stockholders of said corporation shall
hold their annual meeting on the first Monday
in March of each year. The necesiary notice to
stockholders of annual and other meetings, and
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corporation, shall be regulated by by-laws to ba
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unto set their hands this 3d of February. 1903,
ClIABLBS L. MBTEES,
Charles T. Hill.
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