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APRIL 2, 1903. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 7 Morgan's Interview "i Editor Independent: Believing from the name and tone of your paper that you are free enough from party pre-i judice to encourage Independent thought, I ask a small space in your paper to comment on the famous in terview of senator Morgan of .Ala bama a3 published in the Atlanta Constitution of December 29. I have wondered why this inter Tiew was not published in all the papers, but suppose it was too cutting, and too independent to suit the par tisan editors. Under the , following double - column head-lines is what the Constitution says of it: "BOTH GREAT PARTIES BOW IN TERROR BEFORE COMBINES. "I cannot see," says Senator Mor gan, "that there is any great differ ence between the lead of the demo cratic and republican parties on the question of trusts; whichever party is out of power, cries out against the octopus; whichever party is in power, bugs the octopus to its breast." ! Senator Morgan says that in his opinion, neither party is more anxious than the other to find and apply a -remedy. He says a cure will be found, but fears before that is done the chastening rod will be laid heav ily upon the American people. "A political revolution that may sweep out of existence both of the great parties as they are now organ ized, he sees among the possibilities of the future. How soon the solution comes depends on how soon the Amer ican people are awakened to their peril. He inclines to the belief that there will be dark days before ths awakening. 'The . president and con gress.' he continues, are figures com pared with the strength corporate wealth has attained in the United States; democrats and republicans alike rave and shout and profess to engage in mortal combat with the giant.' "The Alabama senator considers a 'graduated tax upon the capital stocks of the corporations, the rate increas - ing with the size of the corporation, as the most plausable- way to start the fight He says reduction of tar iff schedules might afford relief, but would not cure. He thinks the trusts will be much discussed in the cam paign of 1904, but cannot be a real issue as both parties will fulminate against trusts, each charging the other with insincerity. The crisis may not jae reached in the next two years, but 'no man can tell. He adds: 'The ex isting order of things may be up turned before the presidential elec tion.'" I have quoted at length from the Constitution, some of the sayings of thi3 grand old man, because I agree with much he says, and because the plutocratic press of bolh old parties instead of giving publicity to these grand truths, seem, rather, to want to suppress them, and to criticise Mr. Morgan for saying what he did. Could populists say more than he has said? Yes! We can say we have found a remedy and are willing to ap ply it We agree with him that neith er of the old parties are willing lO apply the remedy, for have they not both had a chance? Our remedy, which is the only solution for the trust evil, is public ownership. We say that what would pay a cor poration to do, would pay all the peo ple to do. I agree with Senator Mor gan that reduction of tariff rates will not cure the evil. How would tariff reduction affect the great banking and money trust? How could it even touch the great railroad, or transportation trust?- Or how could it affect the oil trust? When we know that this coun try produces an abundance of oil? Over seven millions of gallons per day for the year 1901, with a great in crease since, - which runs it to about a half gallon per day for each family in the United States. Is not that a sufficiency? Who can think of any trust, except the sugar trust, that tariff reduction would affect much? To put sugar on the free list would hurt the American sugar grower. If tariff tinkering is the remedy for trusts, why hai not one of the, old parties cured the evil? Have they not both had a chance? But, says somebody,, "old Grover" was in the way of the democratic party, when it had its chance. This excuse will not do, for when they had both house and senate, . they passed the ' Wilson bill without his help. It is true when old Grover refused to sign it, he said it contained party perfidy and party dis honor. ; We all learned, by dire distress, that the passing of this law, and throwing the balance of trade against us, and the out-lawing of silver by this administration, caused the worst panic that this generation ever saw. The people will be . slow to vote for another such administration. ; I believe the liberty loving Ameri- HHP The Way They Write. 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We can sat isfy you as completely as we satisfy others. layer Era So Lincoln, Nebraska. , , . xr, . can people have been kept divided long enough by the two old parties, by a sham battle over the tariff. Again I agree with Senator Morgan in his prediction that a political revolution will arise that will sweep both old parties from the field , May God speed the day. Let ' reformers get to gether for the fray under the banner of populism, government money, pub lic ownership,' a graduated income tax, direct legislation; in short, for a government of the people, by the peo ple, and for the people, and let those who want to hold with plutocracy, go. J. J. HOLLOWAY. Clem, Ga. The legal presumption that one charged with-a crime is innocent until his guilt is proven, seems a failure when applied to either business or politics. And this reminds me that in the good old days of the farmers' al liance the members of that organiza tion were about as suspicious a lot of men as one could find. Well, they had reason to be they were the real po litical Ishmaelites of those days. As my friend, Judge Hartigan of Hast ings, used to tell me, the populists had good reasons for being suspicious; their apprenticeship in either the re publican or democratic party had taught them that "For ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain," The old party politician is peculiar. And that reminds me of Billy Crane of Steele City, one of the original al liance men, a good public speaker; wrote frequently for the heavier ma gazines of the easj:. Billy's forte was stampeding pop conventions with a hair-raising speech in support of his favorite candidate. Billy had plenty of both brain and lung, but it some times seemed that he was dead-set on having the convention nominate men who had more lung-capacity than any other qualification. The last stam pede he attempted .was followed by a counter-check from Billy Barnes but that's another story. .What I started to tell was how sus picious Billy Crane always was of the "money power." Even the sacred $50 "per capiter" (as Papa Gere of the State Journal understands it) would not help any, because those "Shy locks" down on Wall street would sim ply gobble it up like "The noble cassowary. On the plains of Timbuctoo, Gobbled up a missionary, Flesh and bones and hymn-book, SEED POTATOES EARLY OHIO'S Our first car of Early Ohio's are in and they are beauties, in fact we believe they are the best car we have ever had. The potatoes are smooth, regular in size and free from scab. We shipped these in from near Fargo, N. D. and this seed will yield at least 25 per cent more than the native grown geed. Per bu. 80c, 10 bu. lota 75c. SWEET POTATOES Wo have just received a car of Genuine Muscatine Grown Sweet Potatoes. They are just the right rize and shape for putting in "beds and are grown especially for seeds. The Muscatine Potatoes yield more sprouts and the sprouts more and better potatoes than any other kind Yellow Jersey and Yellow Nansemond $3.25 per bbl. 5 bbl lots ?3.00. Early Golden, Southern Queen and Red Bermuda's $2.C0 per bu. Red Jersey and Vineless f 2.25 per bu. GR1SWOLD SEED CO., P. 0. Box K, Lincoln, Neb. JJ RELIABLE SEED CORN MADE FROM PHOTO OF OUR CATTLE KING CORN. VflfiCSflt'c A Upland Grown on our own farm, 1902 crop, Guaranteed to grow where f CI II 0 0 li I any corn will grow. Varieties include corn suitable for different climates and CftAfl Porn localities. Corn especially bred for cattle feeding purposes, yields from 60 OwCu bUl II to 100 bu. per acre; everybody wants this variety. Also a fine yellow early 100-day corn, splendid yielder; also a'fine white variety, grows on white cob, etc. Van si nt s sta worn never disappoints, write tor tree Samples and Circulars. 1 f.SfSSS&;tSii W. W. Vansant & Sods, Farragut, la. too." The subtreasury scheme wouldn't, do the farmer any good, because "Shy lock" would buy up all" the grain and then control all the government ad vanced on it And so on all through the second declaration of indepen dence. Finally Billy struck his gait: Mark Ilanna came to Nebraska with a dinner pail full of hot air, and Billy climbed into the red band-wagon. Our socialist friend3 are suspicious of public ownership. They are quite sure it's simply a capitalist scheme to head off the co-operative common wealth and keep on yanking "surplus i value" out of the wage-slaves. And the single taxers " are equally suspic ious because public ownership will simply make. land more valuable and J render it more difficult for the fac tory-hand to raise potatoes on the .va cant lot adjoining. , Fact is, I am myself getting a trifle suspicious. I just now received a proof of Dr. Victor Rosewater's pa per, "The Case for Municipal Owner ship of Electric Lighting," read before a convention in New York a week or so ago. It is an able paper and preaches pop doctrine of public own ership without a flaw. Why am I suspicious? Not because Im afraid of public ownership, no matter who advocates it; but because I am forcibly reminded of a remark made to me one day by a Lincoln (D. E. T not Abraham) republican: The republicans intend to steal tho pop platform before long." I am suspicious that they have such designs. C. Q. D.