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Hist." Monetary crimes, 75c; Science
money, $1; Hist. Money in America,
H.50; Hist money China, 50c; Hist
money Netherlands. 50c; Cambridge
Press, Box i6o,M. S. New York.
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I see that you advertise some works
on many important economic ques
tions in your paper.. I have been
fnr works of this kind for my
Hhrarv but have not been able to I mount " question of the hour,
find the books 1 warn. 1 wuum
to collect a few standard works on
the subject of . money. 1 nave oeeni
able to find plenty . on the side of
monometallism, but these do not suit
my ideas. What I want is some works
in support of bimetallism. I ask you
to send me t. list of the books, not
only of this kind, but all the books
relating to economics. I have been
looking for Henry George's "Science
of Political Economy." If you ask a
reasonable price I may buy one.
As to your Independent School of
Political Economy, I heartily indorss
it. This is the only means of getting
a correct idea of economics. By stu
dying the question individually the
person gets a more wider knowledge
of economics. The attempt to mako
it a study in the schools , and colleges
has resulted in a failure in.ihat the
student takes what others think and
in most cases what their "professors
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think for one's self. 4Tr
W. J. HARKYN.
E2217 Ruby st, Spokane, Wash. .
(Henry George's "Science of Politi
cal Economy" is a large book and re
tails at $2.50. If The Director can se
cure a copy of it for less than the re
tail price he will be glad to furnish it
to Mr. Harkyn at actual cost. Del
Mar's "Science of Money" is the best
work The Director knows of along th
line of bimetallism, although -to tell
the fact, Mr. Del Mar is opposed to
'"free coinage" of either of the metals,
for the reason that under free coinage
it is absolutely impossible for con
gress to perform its duty of regulating
the value of money. In any event Mr.
Del Mar routs the monometallists
horse, foot and dragoons. Science of
TVloney can be had at $1; postage paid.)
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News of the Week
Thp "Soo" line of railroad has re
quested alfthe legislators: in North
Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and all
the upper peninsula to return their
passes and hereafter pay their own
orQ ute other citizens. It makes
thp El kins law the excuse for its ac
tion, though none of the other roads
have thought that law forbade free
transoortation to members of legisla-
tors. " If The Independent rightly un
derstands the situation, there will be
do more meetings' of legislatures in
that region for two years and when
the time arrives for them to meet
aaai'n the Soo can reconsider its pol
icy. Meantime it will collect some
thousands of dollars as fares from
these defunct legislators and then fix
up the new ones with transportation
as it always has done heretofore. The
truth about the matter , is that no
railroad running through those states
dare refuse free transportation to the
reoublican legislators. They would
cass laws that would skin the roads
alive, and do it under the plea that
they were reformers, working in the
interest of the people. The railroads
in self-defense are forced to give free
transportation to lawyers, judges,
members of state legislatures, state
officers and half fare to the' clergy.
There is no way to stop it except gov
ernment ownership.
There seems to be a desperate ef
fort in Kansas to capture the demo
cratic delegation to the next national
convention by the Cleveland-Hi!
crowd, wit'a prospects of success.
When The Independent told the dem
ocrats that there would be such an
effort, both in Nebraska and Kansas,
the leaders in this state said there
was no danger. -
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"'The discussions in the dailies as well
as their news columns during the last
week thow that the trust question is
becoming more and more the "para
The
trusts and the socialists both' declare
that the day of competition is passed,
never to return. What ever of clvili-:
zation there is in the world has been
evolved from recognizing and en-
orcing the law of competition and
society Is constructed upon that prin
ciple. If competition is destroyed.
whether by trusts or socialism, a new
form of civilization will result It
will be such a change a3 has never
before occurred in the world. From
barbarism to feudalism was a great
change. From feudalism to competi
tion and free government was an
other great transformation, but neith
er would compare to the universal
upheaval that would follow the de
struction of competition. It means
an entirely new form of life and a re
construction of society from top to
bottom. Either the trusts must be
destroyed or society and government
as it now exists be overthrown. A
few of the dailies begin to see for the
first time . what the destruction of
competition really means.
There was an effort made by the
railroad attorneys before the inter
state commerce commission to sup
port the claim that the greatly in
creased earnings of. the roads came
from the increase in business, but It
utterly failed. The increased earn
ings have come from the increase in
rates which -have been made since
there has been an agreement of all
the roads to stand by "the community
of interest plan." There Is no more
any competition In any direction.
When the roads running to the ports
of New York, Baltimore and Boston
raise rates, the roads running to Gal
veston and New Orleans make a cor-
1 est ending advance. The roads are
going to take all the traffic will bear,
whether they run north and south or
east and west; , There Is no .way of
escape except government ownership
and when the mass of the people come
tiv understar d the situation, govern
ment ownership will come "with a
whoop."
The postoffice investigation has ad
vanced f,o far that charges have been
file! against ex-Postmaster General
Smith, Comptroller of the Treasury
Tracewell, Postmaster Merritt of
Washington, Perry S. Heath, secre
tary of the republican national com
mittee and the fourth assistant post
master general, Bristow. They all
seem to have been tarred with the
san:e stick. The charges are filed by
Seymour W. Tollock, for twenty yean
cashier of the Washington postoffice.
These charges are to the effect that
the general postoffice has been used
as the dumping ground for the pay
ment of workers for the republican
parly. He says that an investigation
started some time ago was stopped
by tne order of Comptroller Tracy be
cause fraud was being traced to too
high officials: He adds: "Very few
'good things' have lasted longer, been
enjoyed with greater effrontery or
been protected by those so high in
authority and influence." The whole
republican machine is rotten from top
to bottom. Turn the rascals out.
The church of England is terribly
excited over the marriage of W. K.
Vanderbilt by a minister of that de
nomination and the papers over there
are filled with gossip about it. It is
now stated that the reason that the
New York court modified its decree
and allowed Vanderbilt to marry
again was because Senator Chauncy
Depew made solemn oath that Van
derbilt had reformed and was no
longer a libertine of the lowest cast,
such as he was proven to be when
his first wife got a divorce.
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Strikes are becoming so numerous
that a mere enumeration of them
would fill every column in The Inde
pendent. In Omaha about half the
working population seems to be but
on strikes and in other cities it is
very much the same. The trusts raise
prices and the wage-workers strike for
higher wage3. If the increase In
wages Is granted then trusts raisa
prices again, and there you have it
What the end will be no man can tell.
Thirty tlnusand people are dying
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The daily papers have several ways
of keeping the people thinking' and
talking about something else while
the trusts and railroads rob them
is to get up some kind of a war scare,
sometimes in Europe and sometimes
in China, or somewhere else. For" a
week or two there has been columns
written about how Russia -was going
to gobble up a part of China, prevent
any other government from trading
there and do a lot of other things of
that sort The Independent paid no
attention to it. Now it is announced
that the whoij story was a fabrication
and Russia, has formally denied it
through her diplomatic representa
tives in thi3 country and elsewhere.
Very much of the same sort of stuff
has been published about an . upris
ing in Macedonia and Bulgaria. Some
specific information has been printed
in the last few days that leads The
Independent to think there may bo
something In this. The day of the
Turk is numbered. The forces of
civilization, and especially education
and science is bound to down tho
Turk sooner or later. It may be that
the beginning is near at hand.
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