APRIL 23, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
SUBMISSION AND SILENCE
There is a passage In the letter of
Mr." James Theobald, printed in The
Independent last week, that is so
fundamentally wrong and so opposed
to democracy in its generic sense,
that it seems worth while to call at
tention to it In speaking of the dis
cussion of economic theories and
terms he says: "No one is competent
to discuss them who is not thoroughly
versed in history and a master of
, style." If that were true, the great
mass of the people, the ; very ones
who by their votes decide what eco
nomic theories shall be the policy of
this government, must forever remain
silent, and probably among the silent
ones would be Mr, Theobald himself.
The editor of The Independent does
not pretend to be "thoroughly versed
in history,", although he has read
some hundreds of volumes on that'
subject, neither does he claim, to be
'."a master of style." He, for one, ob
jects to being assigned to the silent
throngs who must not discuss politi
cal economy.
What the editor of The Independent
Lnow3 of history leads him to be
lieve that every great reform, every
theory that has advanced the human
. race, either in philosophy, ethics, me
chanics or government, since the days
of the fishermen of Galilee to the
present time) has originated among
those "not thoroughly versed -in his-
tor ana wno coma noi ciaim io u
"masters of style." Especially is it
true that every protest against falsa
political economy, every effort to
throw off the .burdens which it im
posed upon the toilers, has originated
among the common' people, not one of
whom could claim to be "a master of
style," or "thoroughly versed in his
tory." Neither Ricardo nor Mill or
iginated anything in political econ
omy, as every one knows who is at
all acquainted with the uproar among
the people of England occasioned by
the distress which followed the Na
poleonic wars and the doubling of the
value of bonds by the shrewd manip
ulations of the house of Rothschilds.
..." ' ,1 l l- -.V A J
unese miiigs weie n uikwu vu
by' discussions among the people be
fore either one of them ever put pen
to paper. What these ' "masters o?
style" did was to take these ideas
that originated among the common
people and express them in good
English. The "discussion" occurred
among the people and among them
the ideas originated. i
1 The Independent is somewhat famil
iar with this claim that the common
people should leave the discussion of
the money question to another class
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of people, we were ioxa mat uy an
the great dailies from 1893 onward.
Members of congress and senators
were in the habit 'of rising in their
places and declaring: "I don't pre
tend to know anything about the
money question. That matter ought
to be left to the financiers and those
who "deal in money." The absurdity
of the proposition that none but
"masters of style" should discuss the
money question, should be apparent
to every man when he reflects that
those who are not "masters of style"
are the ones who will, by their votes,
decide What eort of a money system
we will have in this country. It is
the revival of the old theory that the
few should rule and the mass of the
people should submit and keep silent
The Independent has several times
tailed attention to the anarchistic and
revolutionary acts of several repub
lican legislatures. It is by no means
through with the list The Rhode Isl
and legislature was attracting atten
tion last week all over the eastern
states. It appears that a lawyer ran
for the senate of that state on the
democratic ticket As soon as that
body assembled he declared himself a
republican and the republicans made !
him their leader and gave him the
lLalrmanship of the most important
committee. It appears that this same
lawyer had sneaked through a bill at
the last session which was denounced
bj the whole population. The house,
by an unanimous vote, passed an act
repealing it When it got to the sen
ate, it was sent to this lawyer's com
mittee and he not only refuses to re
port it back, but uses the most insult
ing and threatening language to any
senator who intimates that the bill
should be reported. So one man, and
he a brazen-faced turncoat, is hold
ing up the whole state of Rhode Isl
and. The senate is a republican body
and absolutely refuses to change the
rules so as to force the bill back be
fore the body or punish this threaten
ing, shyster lawyer. Wherever the re
publicans are in power just such
things as that constantly occur. A
little more of it and we shall have
anarchy, pure and simple.
"A LUCKY PROMOTBR"
A paragraph in a personal letter
from a gentleman in New York city,
who is in excellent position to know
Wall street, deserves publication. It
savors of prophecy and only the flight
of time will show how true it may be.
He says: r .
"The Norlhern Securities deci
sion has dealt a mortal blow to
Morgan, who is no 'financier,' but
simply a lucky promoter who will
henceforth gradually sink into the
obscurity from which he arose," r,
LEE AND SECESSION
Under a law of congress each state
in the union has the right to erect
two statues of distinguished citizens
in the rotunda of the capitol at Wash
ington. The legislature of Virginia
has recently voted to erect there a
statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee. When
the matter comes up in congress,
there is likely to be a hot debate. One
side will declare that no state has the
moral right to erect there a statue to
a rebel. The other will claim that
the secession of a state was not re
bellion. Both sides will -have to acknowl
edge that in the -case of General Lee,
there were extenuating circumstances,
even if secession is declared to be
rebellion! General Lee was educated
by the United States government at
We3f Point While Lee was a student
there, secession was taught ' in the
school by the authority of the gov
ernment and one. of the text books,
given to Cadet Lee and from which
he recited was "Rawle's View of the
Constitution." In. that book are
found, among other of like nature,. the
following passages teaching the doc
trine of secession:
If a faction should attempt to
subvert the government of a state
for the purpose of destroying its
republican form, the paternal pow-?
er of the union could thus be
called forth to snhdiifi it. Yet it.
is not to be understood that its I
A. HI t I
interposition wouia ve jusunaDie
if the people of a state should
determine to retire from the union,
whether they adopted another or
retained the same form of govern
ment (Page 289.) .
The states, then, may wholly
.withdraw from -the union; but
while they continue they must
retain the character of represen
tative republics. (Page 290.)
The secession of a state from
the union depends on the will of
the people of such state. (Page
295.)
The people of a state may have
some reasons to complain in re
spect to acts of the general gov
ernment; they may in such cases
invest some of their own officers
with the power of negotiation,
and may declare an absolute se
cession in case of their fabric.
Still, however, the secession must
in such case be distinctly and
peremptorily declared to take
place on that event; and in such
case, as in the case of an uncon
ditional secession, the previous
ligament with the union would be
legitimately and fairly destroyed.
But in either case (conditional or
unconditional secession) the peo
ple is the only moving power.,
(Page 296.)
When the government takes a boy
and teaches him doctrines like that,
he can hardly be called a rebel for
putting those teachings into practice
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EVERLASTING LYING
The Associated press keeps up a
never ending stream of lies. The
other day it sent out from Topeka,!
Kas., the following:
"The bank deposits of Kansas
amount to $3,000,000 more than
at any previous high water mark,
according to the quarterly state
ment of Kansas banking institu
tions, issued by. Bank Commis
sioner Allbaugh today. High wa-"
ter mark in the state's bank de
posits heretofore was on Sep
tember 30, 1901, when they aggre- '
gated $88,181,194.14. : The deposits '
are now more than $90,000,000,
over $60 for every man, woman
and child in the state."
Now that lie was written by an
expert, not only in banking, but in
the science of lying. Ninety-nine
readers out of a hundred would un-'
derstand from reading it that there
were $60 per capita of money in Kan
sas. The Independent has a hundred
times, more or less, pointed out that
bank deposits did not represent mon
ey nearly as much as they did credit,
'i ue man who got it up could have told
as easily how much money was in
the banks of Kansas, but he simply
makes a statement of what the bank
ers owe. A man goes to a bank and
gives his note for $20,000. He is given
a credit on the books of the bank for
that amount and that note goes in a3
a deposit Not a dollar of money up
to that time has been used and prob
ably very few will be used from that
time until the account is closed and
the books balanced- If Mr. All
baugh and the Associated press had
wanted to make a truthful statement,
the amount jof cash held by the banks
would have been given and then the
amount that they owed. But no such
statements are ever made by the As-?
sociated press or republican newspa
pers, .Th'ey prefer to lie and they
everlastingly keep at it
There are hundreds of men in this
state so poor that they cannot give
their children even a high school edu
cation, not to speak of sending them
to the university, and whose condition
is the result of the robberies of
Rockefeller and others like unto him,
who look with approval upon the gift
of a few thousand dollars from his
plethoric purse to the state university
as a meritorious act They are will
ing to be robbed of thousands of dol
lars if the robber bestows a few doK
lar3 of the loot upon some charity.
The people of this state are supposed
to be self-supporting and independent
They are not paupers to receive char
ity. The reception of money, obtained
as Rockefeller obtained his, is to be
come the receivers of stolen goods.
Every honest man in the state should
protest against the reception of a gift
to the state university from the foul
hands of John D. Rockefeller.
The mendacity of the republican
press of this state is shown in the way
Jt treats the matter of deficiencies.
During the last campaign it was uni
versally declared that the populists
always had an immense amount of de
ficiencies, but that the ' republicans
would have none. The godly Mickey
was foremost in making these asser
tions. Now that the legislature has
adjourned and the amount of defic
iencies that had to be provided is
shown by the books to be $121,000,
neither the godly Mickey nor a re
publican editor in the state will men
tion the matter. A more disreputabls
set of political scoundrels, to take
them all around, cannot be found on
the face of the earth than the repub
lican leaders in this state. ' .
It looks to The Independent as if
the trusts were going to try to gain
their point by the same methods
adopted by The national bankers In
1893. They are' going, to threaten a
panic if they are not allowed to de
stroy competition. Let them do it if
they think. that they can win by that
method. The populists will like to
see them do that thing. That they
can produce a panic If they so desire,
no one doubts. But the people know
more about finance' and political econ
omy now than they did in 1893 and a
panic may have . a-different ending
from what it did when they tried It
before. If competition is to be de
stroyed, the dilemma will be pre
sented: Socialism by the trusts or
socialism by the whole people.
The anthracite coal trust announce'4
the discovery of an immense new
field of hard coal just south of Wilkes
barre on land belonging to the trust
The veins aggregate a thickness of
150 feet and the value of the coal is
placed at $1,000,000,000. Now look
out for another rise in the price of
hard coal. Every time a new oil field
Is discovered the Standard Oil trust .
raises the price of kerosene oil and
the coal trust will likely follow that
example.
