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2 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT HAY 21, vu i era There is a Guarantee of 25 years behind every S Stiffen GOLD Watch Sssc It' th only (roil filled csetliat hs proved its wVtirll'K LJuilly S..V Ubl m lliut. U"I1 iiml won. mice ISM. H-n.rmtxT this wtii'ii t.u Hit; u m-li, tti ci ii -i-t on huv. In b Kua iiute with tie Ke-W:e trade mark i:i:jc. rfc-u.1 fr Uxikiet. .... .. j smi Philadelphia. !'). -il haul, could loan to its custo nn is 75 m r nt of It. deposit one half of tin' remaining 25 per cent w;th so -railed reserve agent banks, or i might send M'-j p-r t ent of it to any ter.tral reserve bank as a de- U i.- a deceptive gambling contriv ance by w li i li the public is made to I,.-'., w' th-.'t a bank has a pood, safe re all. .Sec I"-' ing are in-' re. when it has almost none at Avanrp, "f course, ... -dikes to frotn 'J5 to 4't per cent of d1 ': i . i ! o in the vaults and not earn- it!t-r"-t. The New York banks aji; jtliti - to this spirit by otier ii.tetest on these reserve deposits. Jr.-er e -ity hanks throughout the .outcry are thus enabled to offer M.i'jii'ry bants aDd state banks in terest on th.-:r deposits. Of course t;.ey gi.e a little lower interest than trey re; ejve and make a profit Tii-- r.-wiit is that a considerable per itni uf what ought to be in the vaults of the rural banks, state and national. for the protection of the d"- . finds its way to the arena of Wail street pus; SStOt they hoh ;amb!ing Ktor then, uiau fear i the ;ahit! oh r :'ui -. t he and This ue.-!!.i:al tlo'.v is (.lily stopped when the ft ar of loss is sufficient to ..-, hakit!. e th- de.-, ;e for sain. Th? ie N w l'.'TK speculators is. to allay the far and stim iesire for Kain: to deereasf. keep up (onfidenee in the New York banks and in the eastern fiuaneiul condition; d'leptive reports are made, and false pretenses as to conditions indulged in in true con fidence game style. Recently it was stated in the press that some eastern tanks were offering as much as 4 per rent on deiosits. If this statement Le true, it ought to Le both an' ex planation and a warning. The im rea&e of over $18,000,000 in deposits during the last week was fol lowed immediately by an increase of loans of $13,4i3.!KMi. but the situation in the stock markets was not changed from what it had been the week be fore, nor waa the banker's surplus materially increased. There is co dis guising the fact that there is a feel ing of apprehension concerning the financial situation arr.ong those who are Infornud. If this fear could ex tend itself to the wei-t, the middle west and the south so that their banks woul keep their reserves at home, these sections would be in better con dition to meet any disturbance if it occurs. Of course, this would be hard upon the gambling transactions of the stock markets, and upon the New York banks hat hold these specula tive s'ocks as i nl'.ateral, b".t the we-t and south v.;il y-e able to stand it bet ter if their t'-strves are at home and not involved In the scpu-ow. It looi s verv muh as if wo were on the rve of the time when avarice had better take counsel hum tau tioti and 'Ointi.nn ser.se. FI.AVirtJ .1. VAX YOUHLS. Indianapolis. Ind. THE PEOPLES PARTY Nntlonal Committeeman Themae of Ne braska Give. Ji la YU-w of the Situ atlwn Ever since November 27, 1902, The Independent has been waiting patient ly, hoping and expecting that Chair man Butler of the people's party na tional committee would take some steps toward bringing the party or ganization to a working basis. On that date The Independent said (un der caption of ".Marion Butler, List en"!: "The Independent believes that the chairman of the people's party, under tnese conditions, should call a na tional and representative council some time during next winter and let th? party make a formal and official statement concerning the policy that it proposes to pursue in the future." Then on December 25, 15u2, was published the address of Jo Parke.-, chairman of the mid-road wing of the party, in which he suggested a joint meeting of the two committees. But not a word can be heard from Chair man Butler. Apparently he takes : for granted that 'the people's party is dead," as the republican and socialist papers are saying. The winter has come and gone without any sign on the part of the chairman that there is such an or ganization as the national committee. There is no need for hasty action, hut during the coming summer will be a good time for the members of the na tional committee to renew their ac quaintance with each other. Accord ingly, last week The Independent sent each member of the national commit tee a copy of the Henry George Edi tion, with an accompanying letter in which appeared the following para graphs: "It is charged that the people's par ty is dead but The Independent ha? persistently denied it. It may be that the organization is not in good work ing order, but the question is; Havi; those, who in 1SL2 and later believed in populist principles, abandoned those principles? If they have not. then with what party can they affil iate? If some of them have joined the democratic party, and if it next year shall return to the platform (and, perhaps, candidate) of 1SS4 or iS'-'J, what will they do? "I should be glad to hear from you (for publication, unless otherwise spe cified I aiving tir candid onir.ini, ..n j (tie ioiiowmg pomts: lai What ha in populist vo;iIls A History of International Socialism T'.'e !" volume-; of the Inter. t;a' "ii.il ,-'o. ialist UfUcw. each c n ta.c !; tweiie tneu'h!)' numbers, are l. i. fly. atil a third will be punk lu ' -. . r irl. in .1 ily. The-,- in unite thu with tho" v, i i h v. II f.di.xy tin ni t.:' i'ute a h ' ! ,. . i.r.i r, n merit of C. v ..i ! I . .- tf,:t,s- v. i is J l '..ii T) i ' c ' hil,.t an ! V. i' a . ..). hi''.' t i i t ' ' I ' ' I 'I 'I ! ) 'I ' '-' i'l the mu.iM ' ' ' ' ; ' c !i'..r ., ! " ' . fl'-Ii aw j been the lo;s 1 strength in vour state sin.-o ive j tb) What caused this Ios? ic) With : what party or parties ,j ex-poptili--'.; now aTi'iate, giving apttroximat ' number who are n.'v il democrats -i repuuiians; CD socialists. u nave you any p.,pu!ist organization tn your stale? iej if so, who are oft!- CIS of the s'ate committee? if) v'"h".t i- the ceiieial feeiiu- am. .nu populi- 's as t., party a, ,j., n,,xf e:ir? in) If tiic deiiif" rats de, hir. !or public own. r.-hip of railroa Is m-v ear, how wo-iid that affect j,,Jepei, c ut pop-ilht a, tion? in t,. nt of in it '. tt ,,. ilist t;.t .ar, v.iiiu.1 the pi.iu:i-.!s I' r tli'e fi! i r or OIUio e i ,u. honors of the election are with us. We have gainfd back more prestise and power in this campaign than Wi lost in all the dreary years of fusion with the democrats. We elected mere of our ticket than any other party. We elected our nominees for treus j urcr, attorney, comptroller, tax com I missioner and five out of nine coun ! cilmen by majorities ranging as high as 2..V' votes. We failed to elect our candidate for mayor and city clerk. . The populist tandidate for building ; inspector wis not indorsed by any or I ganization or any party except ou own. He rneivfd 1.23 votes. Th;s ' indicates our strength, and it aho I indicates that we are about as strong ! in Omaha as w" were ten years ago. I i.ow did this body of less than 1,300 1 voters prove so effective? By the adoption of the non-partisan idea pro mulgated by Golden Rule Jones. W-: I determined to nominate the best men chosen by any organization and to throw our vote to them. We figured that we would hold the halanre of I power, and in the main we did. Every man (let ted by our co-operation ! 1 strong, honest and capable. In the list is a gold democrat, a populist, : Miean a silver democrat and republican, of the ant i-machinr. j brand. The municipal league recom i mended our ticket where it reeom ' mended at all. Our candidate ft" : rnavor, E. A. Benson, received 5,177 votes in a three-cornered fight. Hj had 500 votes more than Ed Howell, the democratic candidate. This will entitle us to second place on the tick et hereafter, and leave the democrats to fight it out with the socialists for tail-end position. This was a fight for decency agains': vice and graft. The community hon ors our party for its stand in the In terest of better civic government More: having demonstrated our pow er, our democratic friends are mighty willing to get back into bed with us Lately they have not given us a pleas ant look, much less sharing with ft the fruits of victory. Today we ctn have what we want to take in th? way of nominations. But will we do this? I think we have found a bet ter way. A minority party is a more powerful and useful engine when i' makes no entangling alliances and when it selects only such nominees; as are worthy, irrespective of th'i. politics. By the use of the power thus held, a small minority party is able to secure good municipal govern ment. This is what we have done and this is why we rejoice and why we declare that we are not dead and not going to be dead. Our party his always had a mission, to-wit: to se cure good government by clean men and to educate the people upon eco nomic questions. The people's party could not die if it wanted to. This talk about our being dead makes me ineffably tired. It is as it was with Peter, when Jesus asked the disciple? if they, too, were. going to desert him. "Lord to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life." How about this for a stat policy? Judge Sullivan has been able and honest. We ought to meet and noni- S mate him for this and no other rea ! son. Politics should not be consid j ered, and fusion under that name is j entirely unnecessary. If we do that ; and pay no attention to the time and I place of the democratic convention j and give it out that in the future wo . shall do business as an independent organization without the aid or eon- sent of any ether party alo-.g the ! lines indicated in this letter, I b j lieve that the vote this autumn will ; -how that the party is practically ia ; tact, and as strong as it ever was. There is nothing in the situation r.n ' tiotttlly. that indicatos that our mis ! sion has been fulfilled. On the con 'rary, next year will be the year of he greatest u-tfuln.-ss and power that j the p-Hiple's party has ever enjoyed. ; lint thnt is another story alxmt which I want to say toinethmc in your od'-ti-n of June u. as per your 'nvlt.i lion to the members ,,f the national eonmittie. KI.MKK K. THOMAS. Omaha, Ndi. in which it has bc-n ' ery word of these essa -written. But, "there are others.'' my Independent that ': plagiarism has been ma i writer of these essays-' . ! the hurling of epith-u i carefully gathered Ii.h numerous "illustrious ; . been hit, "especially i:.. ; totle," says the ini: : which, as I read Captain . veriest bosh that the an... billiousness in any p.--. ; ings could possibly con. :: No, no, Captain Ash:., iarist! If he is. their !., : . and the stigma can b- a;,, , ly all writers on the equal justice. Calls names, does he' sometimes calls names ,:; "snap of the whip" wa .. j really hit anybody, thou-1, mean to, but he gets a:, i wide-awake attention n, : ! ers (those who take it ir, i hi means it) and that ;- after. To arouse, emphasize out the fonefulness of a m here and there which h danger of being passe l ; understood he just f.xpl : pletive or gives you a word to warn the read-tup," to look out! Thai I as harmless and as us.-f .1 do as it is to place on detonating cap signal of i run over by the coming ;. What super-virtuous e all th's anyway which -:. Ashby as "no master of I cuses him of plagiarism names, and of despoiling a:, j totles and later ol.l-tim-r.-most supernatural halo ! wisdom in which they c. j in the conception of mod--; ers at their shrine. J Captain Ashby, I am a v.. : able to take care of h : ' needs no help to ".-hoc-:;, j critic, who, taking him f j derloin forager" in th i empted field of p. -ill' ; . ' thinks to stampede him ': ' with impunity. A fair il . favor, is all he asks I'll v. ! him not be accused of i-ia-! of which he never !: ;: sins no mor-3 than ha above, I'll be bound. 1 n .-a i .a f h i U'.ij ''Il I'C'M s .a .1 r.,t il; 'X- Ar; Thoss Wedding Eelfs Mr. and Mrs. George W; have the honor of anr. ; ,: The Editor of The kce i'-: the marriage of their ;r Millicent to Mr. William Randolph 1 on Tuesday, the twenty-. :.'. 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