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8 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT APRIL 23, 1903. the tlebraska Independent , Lincoln, UtbrasUa. LIBERTY BUILDING. J32S 0 STREET nttrcd according toActof CongrtMof March 5, 1879, at the Postoffict at Lincoln, Kebraka,a tccond-clau mail matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. FOOBTEENTH YEAR. $1.00 PER YEAR 4 When making remittance do not leare money with newt agencica, postmaaters, etc., to be forwarded by them. They frequently forget or remit a different amount than war left with them, and the aubacriber faila 10 get propei credit Addreaa all communications, aad make all draft, money order, etc, payable to . tht tltbraska Indtptndtnt, Lincoln, Neb. 1 1 , 1 " " Anonymous communications - will not - be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned, . Seven United States senators were .foreign born. Kearns of Utah, Mil lard of Nebraska, and Gallinger of New Hampshire were born In Canada, and Nelson of Minnesota in. Norway. Senator Patterson of Colorado is Irish. The young man Vanderbilt, over whose wedding in NewporJ the great dailies went wild, devoting unnum bered columns in description of it. was up in the police court and fined the day before that event occurred, but hone of the papers mentioned that fact The Stratton will case was settled out of court by the payment of $350, 000 to young Stratton instead of the $50,000 provided in the will and the $10,000,000 home for the poor will be built Tom Patterson and Wolcott were opposing counsel in the case. It is the first time that any of the millionaires have made a donation for the poor. " - Captain Pershing had a fight with the Moros and the report said that he killed 100 Moros and his own loss was three wounded. Now he sends word that his troops have cholera which they caught in the fort which they captured. The loss in the Philippines to our troops must not be calculated from the standpoint of those killed &nd wounded In battle. The other tosses exceed those by 100 per cent. The increase in the acreage of win ter wheat, according to the govern ment report, has been so large that if the crop averages 161-2 bushels . per acre, the increase of the yield over the largest crop ever raised will be 115,000,000 bushels. The condition of the crop at the time of the report, the end of March, was the highest that has been known for thirteen years. The prospect Is for a pretty low price for weat next fall. . The Metropolitan club, the very swellest club in all Washington, re cently black-balled General Corbin. Then Corbin and his friends got to gether and tried to induce all the military officers belonging to the club to withdraw, but very few of them would consent to do it. The class of men to which Crowninshield and Cor bin belong do hot seem to be as pop ular in Washington as they were a year or two ago. The statesmanship of the Taft gov ernment in the Philippines can be judged by the law which it enacted requiring that every band which plays the Aguinaldo march must Immediate ly afterward play The Star Spangled Banner. There- is a complete lack of common sense in such a requirement The bands play The Star Spahgled Banner as required by law and the Filipinos stand by and hiss. Great is the statesmanship of these Imperial- BOUGH SEAS AHEAD The merger magnates from Pier pont Morgan down are doing a good deal of talking since the court of ap peals handed down its opinion in the Northern Securities merger case. Among all the interviews with them that have been published there Is not a single suggestion from one of them that the law will, or ought to be obeyed, but they devote their words to describing how the law can be evaded in some other way and the same thing accomplished as was ex pected to be accomplished by the Northern Securities company. If any of them deviate from that line of talk, it is to say that the next con gress will repeal or modify the anti trust laws so'that railroad and other combinations can be formed for de stroying competition. When the next congress meets we look for one of the fiercest fights that has ever yet raged over the trust question.! Teddy thinks he can stave off iae tariff fight until after the hext presidential election, but what is he going to do about this trust fight? That will be ten times worse than a tariff fight The people have become bo accustomed to tariff fights between leaders like Gorman on one side and Aldrich on the other, that they take but little interest in them. Will Ted dy r"stand pat," "let well enough alone" and lie down, or will he fight? If he fights it will be a fiercer battle than if he advocated tariff revision. When the next republican national convention meets the trusts will be there. Their leaders are all financial pirates, sailing under letters, of marque granted by New Jersey, and they are as desperate a crew as ever buccaneered in the Caribbean sea. Will they make Teddy walk the plank? There are rough seas ahead for Teddy unless he casts anchor in the port of "let well enough alone" and permits both the trusts and tariff grafters go on ther way without molestation. A young man by the name of Regi nald Vanderbilt was married at New port the other day; and, the great dailies went half wild over the fact They devoted scores of columns to a description of the event from the time the young man applied for a li sence until the whole thing was over. Why they should become so excited .over the matter is one of those things that no pop can find out WILLING TO BE CONVINCED There is a farmer out here in Ne braska who wants the single taxers to explain some things to him. He says that he owns 160 acres of land and has a wife and four living chil dren. It.has taken eighteen years of strenuous work and careful manage- mei for him to get this farm, erect the buildings,' stock it and get his ma chinery. Now he feels safe. He can pay the usual amount of ataxes, live comfortably, educate his children, sending the two who so desire to the university and putting all of them through the high school. He has had some awful hard times in the past, especially when money was dear and everything- else was cheap, when he eold corn for 10 cents a bushel and hogs for 2 cents a pound. In those days they all worked hard, lived on the poorest food and dressed them selves in the cheapest clothing. Since money has become cheap and he has been able to get 25 cents a bushel for his corn and 6 and 7 cents a pound for his hogs, he has made most of his im provements and lived well. What he wahts to know is what change there would be brought about in his condi tion by the adoption of the single tax. Would he have more taxes to pay? If. he should die, and his son takes to professional life, in what con dition would his widow and the minor children be left? Under the present system they would have the private ownership of the farm and could rent "NEBRASKA SPECIAL" A Suit for $10.00 A New Shipment of Men's Spring Suits That We Will Sell for $10 all this Week ; The man who is swayed by style will , find his greatest expectations realized in one of our "Nebraska Special" Suits at $10.00. The man with whom fit is a point of determination can be no better fitted than we can fit him in our "Nebraska Special" at $10.00. The man who goes down in the matter of quality will find . Nebraska Specials" suits at $10.00 possessing surpass ing worth. We ask comparative consideration with our $10.00 suits with others at $15.00 and $18.00. We would not urge it if we were not certain that impartial investigation must bear out our claims. Eery pattern in all the great variety of suits at $10.00 is an exclusive one. Not a garment that does not bear the tell-tale points of expert tailoring. Send for our new catalog. mmmiA or sell it ahd be safe from want If the farm was taxed for its full rental value what would become of his wife and children? He says that he is free from prejudice as a .man can be and is willing to favor any system that would be for the general welfare and is open to conviction. Will some single taxer please enlighten him on these points? COST OF IMPERIALISM Prof Charles J. Bullock of Will-, iains college in a recent article in. the Political Science Quarterly points out the fact that "Our national government In 1902 was imposing upon taxpayers ' a burden that averaged $29.80 for every family of five persons. Of - Hhis sum, only $8.75 was needed for all civil expenditures, while $21.05 must be charged to the ac couht of war." The republican party is fast reduc ing this country to the same condi tion that the people "in the armed camp of Europe" have long been in. There is no necessity for any such extravagant taxation for military purposes in this country, situated as it is 3,000 miles from any foe capable of attacking us. ' It is the bitter price the people have to pay for imperial ism. ' WHO DOES UNDERSTAND IT? In a personal letter to the associate editor, one of the editors of the Ap peal to Reason says: "You do not understand social ismthat is evident; and I am quite sure that you have con fined your investigation to only one of its phases." To this the associate editor replied, confessing that he does not "under stand socialism" and asserting that the more he reads socialist literature the more lie Is convinced that nobody else understands It each writer sim ply giving his idea of what it is. For example, the Weekly People (S. L. P.) of New York last week de voted a column to proving that "Roosevelt (is) Turning Populist" Without at this time noticing the People's wholly erroneous concep tion of populism, let us see how It "understands socialism" "The 'share' of the wage-earner means the price of the merchan dise wage-earner.- The price of merchandise is determined "in the merchandise' market by the sup ply of goods; the larger the sup ply the lower the price. The wage-earner (Labor) being but a merchandise, its price, 'share,' depends upon the supply of labor ih the Labor Market. The supply of the merchandise Labor in the Labor Market is steadily on the increase, due to the private owner ship of the machinery of produc i 9. I XTw 4tvi'4- -i . i i tou. i tuat an asiumsning state ment to come from a socialist sheet? "Price' if The Independent . can make anything ' out of socialist jargon, is value expressed in terms of the money; commodity nothing less than "exchange-value" spoken in the money, term. Very well; and "the amount of labor embodied in a commodity de- , termines its value," says "T. R." in the Edinburgh Socialist, in an article copied by the People not long since. Then the amount of labor embodied in a commodity also determines Its price. But, says the People, "the price of merchandise is determined ... by the supply of goods." If both statements are correct, "the supply of, goods" and "the amount oMabor em bodied" are synonymous and inter chahgeable terms. If the Marxist doctrine means any thing which an ordinary person can understand, it means that labor-power is a commodity whose "exchange-value" is determined as is the value of every other commodity by the "amount of labor embodied in it;" in other words, by the cost of keeping it up. But the People asserts that this "exchange-value," expressed in terms of the money-commodity, "depends upon the supply of labor in the Labor Market" No populist could find fault with that statement, if to it were add ed, "and the demand for labor in thef labor market, ' considered with refer ence to the supply of and demand fou coin." j But isn't that getting far away from; the Marxist theory of "socially neces- sary labor?" ..-'' Thus far the government has onljj purchased two lots of silver for Phil ippine coinage and they were too! small to affect the market The gov ernment proposes to buy 20,000,00(1 ounces and if it does that will certain ly affect the market to a considerable! degree. England is also buying con siderable bar silver for India tQ ba - coined into rupees. T ilk it'll! ... f M it . fv . ! l U AIM'