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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
ONE 4, 1903.
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WHERE IS THE PRESIDENT?
Mr. Bchwelzer Believes That KooMTelt
Should Return to Hli Duties at
Washington
Editor Independent: Can you nt
find out where the president is, to tell
him that he at once should go home
and tend to his business? Since the
president commenced to swing aroun-i
the circle, everything goes wnng in
Washington; but It seems that that
gentleman believes that we pay hin.
?50,0u0 a year, besides pocket money,
that he may enjoy himself with hunt
ing, sailing, making pleasure trip3 in
Pullman cars, baniuetting and enter
tninfnff nftonlfl by telling them funn
stories. I believe if some one had
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"-" tn Kpn an find actuuul O
would not make three months, count
ing every minute which the president
' has spent in his office, since he moved
into the White house.'
Since the president is absent, a dar
ing gang of safe crackers broke in
bright daylight into a room of the
postofllce department, opened the safp
and stole some public documents. It
is a clear case and the whole gang
should at once be sent to the peni
tentiary. It is no excuse when the
burglars say that they took only their
own documents which were put in
there for safe keeping. If I give to a
friend some valuables for putting
them in his safe, , that gives me no
right to break into his house and
crack his safe to tatce my own valua
bles out and let some of his valuables
go with them. It is an aggravation
of the crime, that the head of the
gang is the wife of an officer of the
postoffice department under whose
shield the crime was commuted.
In the last few years stealing and
robbing public money are alarmingly
increasing, without ever a single one
of the culprits being punished aiM
urged to give up the booty. All such
defrauders and robbers are put
through a newly invented white-washing
machine out of which they come
just as white and innocent as a baby
but of his bath. Some of the gentle
men right after coming through the
machine were sent to the United
States senate to make our laws.
Now that white-washing business
must be stopped, and to do that is a
- uuty of the president. There is other
business, too, to which the president
should attend at once.
A few weeks aeo the report of Gen
eral Miles about his inspection of the
Philippines was published, whlcn
shows and proves that some of our
officers in the Philippine Islands com
mitteu atrocious barbarities . just as
horrible as the atrocities of the Span
ish inquisition and those committed
by General Weyler in Cuba, the Brit
ish in Africa, and the allies in China.
. Such barbarities could not have been
committed without knowledge or eveu
order of the highest officers in the isl
ands and. therefore, the honor of the
United States demands that the full
truth shall be known and every culpr't
punished, no matter who they are
and if the president does not attack
the culprits, then congress must take
that matter in its hands. Whitewash
ing and insulting General Miles, as it
was done in the embalmed beef case,
will not do this time; -we must show
that this is not a nation of barbarians
and freebooters.
Then there are all over disputes ber
tween, employers and employed, which
in some cases interrupt all business
- and cause great damage and suffering
to the people in general, in tnos-j
cases, too, the executive should inter
vene and nrotect the rights of the
people who have to suffer from such
interruption to . business, even Dy
withholding from them the lncuspensi
hie articles for the sustenance. Now
, there ran be no doubt that it is the
duty of the executive to defend and
nrotect the rights of the people in
such disputes and I believe that that
can be performed a good cteai Deuer
according to the principles of reason.
truth and justice than witn riot can
rlrtfPS.
For thousands of years governments
had to nrotect the weak against tn
Ktrnner. the Door acainst the rich, th-s
people against extortions, even the
withholding from tnem oi tne neces
sities for living by cornering tnem
-with Jaws against usury, market and
tade regulations and ordinances. But
in this country It is different All such
Tftimiatlons and restrictions were
abolished, usurers and money princes
usurped unlimited- power, might H
tWs and the most unscrupulous and
beastly tyrant is boss. All disputes,
between employers and employes are
settled with riot ana cartridges ana
Pinirertnn's nonce militia ana reg
ulars receive the strict order: Shoot
to kill But you never heard, tnat an
officer ordered his subordinates to
cfcnnt nt n Pieroont Morgan, Rocke
feller, Carnegie Armour Gould, Van-
derhilt Of Baer.
' When envernnr Alttreld tried to set
tie the Chicago strike according to the
principles of reason, natural right and
justice, Grover Cleveland prevented
that by sending hi3 regulars with
loaded guns and plenty of riot cart
ridges to Chicago.
But it pays to defend the sacre
sacro money bag. About 20 years agi
Cleveland was glad when he got a
chance to earn a few dollars by mak
ing neck-ties at Buffalo; today he ia
a multi-millionaire and receives a
pension of $25,000 for life; but Gov
ernor Altgeld died a poorman.
That there is a better way to set
tle labor disputes and to control cor
porations is shown by the following
article of a law adopted in 1887 by a
direct referendum vote of the people
of the Canton-Zurich, Switzerland:
"Art. 35. The regierungsrath (stati
executive) Is authorized to reiorm
such coruoraLloiiS." wuiCu are ucKu
erated or endanger the credit or other
nublic interests.
Besides, the kantonsrath (legisla
tnre) can abolish such corporations
which pursue illicit, immoral aim3,
detrimental to the public welfare.
Now. do vou not think that corpora
tions, which control and corner every
nopoccltv ' nf Hfe ' - even wit hhnldinor
such necessities out of spite from the
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people, so mac tuousanas nave 10 ins
from want of those necessities, as was
done last winter by our coal barons.
are illicit, immoral and detrimental to
the miblic welfare?
Everv death which. In this country
with its inexhaustible natural re
sources, is caused for the reason that
the concerned persons had no chance
to acquire the necessary articles for
living, is murder, for which the gov
ernment is resDonsible.
Considering all these facts, it is ab
solutely necessary that the president
at once returns to Washington to tenn
to his business to defend and protect
the inalienable rights or tne people.
F. SCHWEIZEK.
Woodlawn, Neb.
1,509 Acre Hog Ranch
No. 709. The owner" of this prop
erty is old, a widower and desires to
retire. 1.500 acres all in a body. 400
acres of fine timber, entire ranch un
der fence: this timber is a never fair
ne source of income and will sell for
half the trice asked for ther ranch. A
small stream runs through the ranch:
600 acres, including the timber, is in
pasture; 200 acres of choice bottom
and: over 80 acres in splendid stand
of alfalfa, remainder all under culti
vation; the ertire 200 acres of bottom
and will nroduce the very best alfal-
'a. Good frame house, bearing orch
ard, laree barn, eranary. cribs, lots.
etc. Also a tenament house: four and
a half miles from good railroad town.
Right in the heart of the very best
ronntrv in the Republican Valley.
Price of this ranch and farm complete
$18 per acre. This is a money-maker
and will be sold on easy terms, mis
is a great opportunity for a farmer
who has several boys, or for several
farmers to buy this tract cf land to
gether. It 13 also an excellent invest
ment Weber & Farrisr Lincoln. Neb.
Possibly Only One Ring
Ponullst leaders in Nebraska do not
appear to share the confidence ex-
massed hv their democratic side part
ners in the certain discomfiture of the
renreanizers. On the contrary, they
expect the reorganizes to regain con
trol of the machinery or the national
democracy and look forward to re
cruiting the decimated populist co
horts from the remnants or tne ury-
anites excluded from seats at the
pnnnHl table of the nartv. The three
ring convention circus fell down to a
two-rinc circus several years ago ana
the chances are It will be a one-ring
show when next it goes upon the road.
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Karl Marx Edition, July 23, l03.
ist Reunion
A renort that if the democrats
nominated a Clevelandite the popul
ists of the west would vote for Koose
velt has been published by the Asso
elated press. As there has been
neither convention nor referendum
vote to ascertain populist sentiment the
report referred to is without founda
tion. Ex-Senator Marion Butler, of
North Carolina, chairman of the
Brvan ponulists. renlvine to the re
port, stated to a press agent that the
populists would have their own can
didates for president, that they would
be compelled to do this because it was
nlaln the democrats intended to nomi
nate a man of Cleveland's way of
thinkine. Of course Mr. Butler ex-
nressed his opinion onlv as he has no
authority to speak for the party. But
we believe his opinion is well found
ed. If Populists were compelled to
choose between Roosevelt and - Bryan
they would probably divide up about
equally and if they had no one to vote
for but , Roosevelt or a Cleveland
democrat, a majority of them might
vote for Roosevelt . As far as the
writer is concerned he would take to
the woods" as the two old parties are
in fact but one party ruled by the.
same men and controlled completely
by the money power. JBut tne discus
sion of what the populists would do if
compelled to choose between old par
ty candidates is out of order. The
question that is up before the popul
ists is, how can tne believers in pop
ulism be united in a fight against the
demo-republican party? .. The" first
thing to do is to reunite the people's
nartv. which snlit on the Question of
the second nomination of Bryan. The
next step would be to gather into ono
organization the millions who believe
in populism, more than two-thirds of
whom have never yet voted the peo
ple s party ticket. Tnis can best bi
done, we believe, by holding the peo
ple s party banner up ana every pop
ulist rallvins to it. thus encourages:
others to join. Missouri World.
The report arose over Richard L.
Metcalfe's editorial in the Omaha
World-Herald, Sunday, May 17, and
his open letter the next day to Nor
man E. Mack of the Buffalo Times.
and had nothing to do with the pop
ulist organization ana - did not pre
tend to speak for populists.
Mr. Metcalfe did not sav that Brv
an democrats would vote for Roose
velthe simply suggested in his edi
torial that the plutocrats are evident
ly laying their plans to defeat th3
president
Populists will have no need - to
choose hetween Roosevelt and H
Cleveland democrat they will have a
candidate of their own. .But it is idle
to deny the fact that if the democratic
nartv remains true to its last two
platforms and makes reasonable prog
ress along tne lines or money ana
transportation, that the people's party
win nave a smaii ronowing in many
states.
Nevertheless, it is the dutv of poj-
ulists to get their organization ready
for the fray. If a Cleveland democrat
is nominated next year, the people's
party can ne tne secona one in tne
race, and may throw the election in
to the house of representatives.
Why have uutier and Parker
dropped clear out of the arena? One
would never suppose that either of
them ever claimed to be the head of
a national committee.
Karl Marx Edition, matter all con
tributed by socialists, July 23. 190!.
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