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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JUNE 4, 1903.
feel and prove the faith they had in
them; in the absence of the press, I
believe a community in such environ
ment, would develop the higher intel
ligence. ; -
Pictures "of times make stronger Im
pressions than do the best written
eentences. How often one forms an
opinion from reading a newspaper
editorial, and finds when he comes In
contact with other minds, that he was
wrong. Or, after a heated discussiou
with his friends, feels he i3 right and
stands up a stronger ' and a better
man. For It 13 only by right thought,
and right action that men grow
strong. Only the things we can prove
are the ones we should hold to; and
man isolated and alone can prove lit
11? if anything. The conflict of mind
against mind, develops " truth, and
good roads and cheap transportation
enables men to meet in discussion.
But combine the two forces and we
have that which tends to place hu
manity on the high plane so often
dreamed ,of. . t
How many people In a state get to
see the capital of their state? 'How
few of the million of toilers get to
see their national capital? They work
hard and vote regularly every two
years to send a man there, but why
don't they go down once in a life
time and see .the thing for themselves?
How many fathers and mothers of
the millions of farmers, take their
boys and girls to the large cities or
ocean side, to see the great ships and
steel steamers; Iron and steel plants;
puddling furnaces; manufacturing of
various kinds; sweat shops and can
ning places, where women and girls
work so hard and cheap, that they
drive the heathen Chinese out of the
labor market? Or take them on a
month's excursion to the mountains or
lake side, where they can see some
of the beauties and grandeur of
Mother Nature? How many of the
real wealth producers do such ben
eficial things for those they love? Not
one in a" thousand. A shame, Isn't
it? Yet 1 what object lessons would
such sights be to the boys and girls.
They would see things and remember
them, too, that the older ones would
never notice. They would return
home with more will power to make
of themselves men and women;
stronger to do and dare and be.
Here and there it would change tha
whole life action of this boy or that
girl, and tend to bring . forth new
thoughts and develop new ways of
controlling the forces of nature to
farther, bless mankind. "-Of, such is
the power of association.,
You can hardly talk with a man
five minutes without leaving him with
new thoughts. Thoughts that neve.
would have come to you had you not
met the man in personal contact.
Take the world's lair at Chicago.
Could the hundreds of newspaper
write-ups give the men ana women,
the boys and girls at home anything
like a real conception of the beauti
ful White City on the shore of Lake
Michigan? And the tens of thousands
of different things and invention.
from the various countries, could oi
did the press convey anywhere neat
the impression to the readers at home
like that made on those fortunato
enough to see and feel the great ex
position itself?
Would it not have been a grand
thing If the White City had ever re
mained as a school of art and in
struction to the millions of our people
who would have been glad to attend
and see and feel the new thoughts and
demonstrated facts? Stood, there on
its lovely site forever as a monument
of intelligence and advancement. Add
the "new inventions and works of art
each year, so the multitude could feel
and touch the real things themselves.
Would such an act been of benefit to
mankind? No one can tell how much.
Was such a great benefit 1 possible?
Yes. There was only one obstacle iu
the way lack of cheap transportation.
But why should such objection stand
when we have good steam railways to
all parts of the country?
Under proper regulation, 10 cents
to ?1 would pay all cost to carry on
person from any point in the eountry
to Chicago. Under such management
twenty or thirty millions of people
would attend such a school every
year. During the World's fair at Chi
cagq, thousands of families, every
member of them, rode from the east
ern and western states to Cnicago for
nothing. You say, "But the people
who attended the WTorld's fair and
rode on passes, belong to the wealthy
and well-to-do classes, you can not
expect the mass of people to do so."
Very well, we answer. If the rich
who are able to pay can afford to ride
on passes, should not the average
worklngman have the right to ride on
a public highway, if he is willing to
pay what the service Is worth? He is
not a man who would be content with
less; What would you think if what
we call the wealthy class went Into
court, and got justice for nothing,
while the average man got injustice
In the same court and paid ten times
more than it cost?
So with steam railways, all men
should have the same equal right to
use them by paying what the service
is worth. And 10 cents is enough to
pay to ride to the next station or end
of division, let that be 100 or 200
miles.
Is such a system of cheap transpor
tation impossible? No. And no one
will doubt the benefits to humanity.
Yet the gain to every citizen would
not be as great In dollars and cents
as would appear from first glance;
but the greater gain from the moral
and Intellectual development by per
sonal contact and much more frequent
association, so men would see many
strictions on individual freedom that
today they do not seem to realize
It is not the hard, continuous and un
requited labor: that makes the man;
if so, we would look for the highest
degree of Intelligence among tha
chattel slaves. There are millions of
our fellows who on account of their
ignorance seem doomed to a life of
unceasing toil.- Hundreds of thou
sands of families have no book or pa
pers in the house. Millions of famil
ies only take their little town paper
magazines and periodicals, none.
These our fellow citizens are the
"most sot" In their way. They think
they know it all. Their environment
is of such a lowly nature, that noth
ing has ever aroused them to thi
need of change. What incentive. 13
there In a small country village to
move men to investigate, to learn, t
trace effect to cause? to learn of the
things that tend to move men in high
er thought and action? Two-thirds of
our people are over-worked; takes all
their waking hours to get a bare liv
ing. They have no means by which
they can get away from home, where
they may see and feel the great pulse
of the moving world. Give these
people cheap transportation, so. they
can afford to go out in the world long
enough to lose the home-smell from
their clothes, and they will soon learu
from contact with other people why
they have not got away from home
before. They will soon demand mors
books and papers and not be so in
different to public schools. They will
soon learn, It's not all work that
makes the man. Many who now
dream of contentment would wonder
why they get so little out of their
work. Seeing more of the world
would teach them as no other means
would or can do. They would stand
up stronger and better men and wo
men. Yes, cheap transportation is one of
the great needs of the working farm
er and laboring man. It is one of the
great factors that will elevate human
ity and bring country and city people
in closer touch and aid them in find
ing first cause, that, in spite of our
material advancement, makes it so
hard for the real wealth producers to
get a living. The chattel slave was a
great stay at home man. He had in
telligence enough to work to produce
cotton, but not enough to solve the
problem, how the master without
work got four bales of cotton whil?
he worked all the time and only got
one. The better the roads, the cheap
er the transportation the less ignor
ance. R. T. SNEDIKER.
Ics regarding the supply of gold. Far
and wide it is heralded that the chan
cellor has "recanted." The following
correspondence Is self-explantory;
Hard on Hardy
One of the department editors of
the Nebraska Independent, the official
populist organ, declares right out in
print that he "would vote for a yellow
dog before he would vote for Cleve
land or anyone like him." He may
have a chance to vote for the yellow
dog and still vote the democratic tick
etOmaha Bee.
Dr. E. Benjamla Andrews the Victim
Mlrpreentit!oa Regarding 111
Alled Rftntfttln
Those experienced in watching the
"ways that are dark and the tricks
tha,t are vain," pursued by the great
newspapers under plutocratic control
cannot say many harsh things about
the Pennsylvania legislature. and Gov
ernor Pennypacker in enacting the
recent law which holds newspapers to
greater accountability for their acts.
Freedom of the press or freedom of
speech does not mean immunity from
punishment for damages inflicted up
on another by reason of being too
"free with tongue or pen. Any man
may, no matter what the law, say o.'
print whatever he chooses but he
must suffer the penalties if he injures
another. The Pennsylvania law re
quires more care in making statements
purporting to be matters of fact and
no reputable newspaper will be in
jured by that. -
A recent example of plutocratic
mendacity is the report sent to east
ern papers from Lincoln of Chancel
lor Andrews' talk to his class in eth-
The Nebraska Independent, Lincoln,
Neb., May 28, 1903. Dr. E. Benjamin
Andrews, Chancellor University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. Dear Sir:
I quote from the New York World of
May. 25:
ANDREWS RENOUNCES
SILVER.
Nebraska Chancellor Announces
Himself Now a Gold Man.
Lincoln, Neb., May 23. Free
silver has lost an advocate in Dr.
E. Benjamin Andrews, the chan
cellor of the University of Ne
braska, who today, in an address
before the class in ethics, practi
cally announced that he had re
canted. "
Chancellor Andrews said he had
been misled by a celebrated geol
ogist of Europe,' who had an
nounced that the supply of gold
was being exhausted. This made
it necessary that there be an
other standard of value. Time,
he continued, had proven the
prophecy of the geologist to be
false. Instead of lessening, said
the chancellor, the output of gold
had greatly increased and the sup
ply now seemed inexhaustible. As
a result prices of commodities, in
stead of going to a lower level,
had constantly appreciated.
Chancellor Andrews did not en
ter into the political phases of the
question.
We have always been more or le?3
suspicious of Lincoln dispatches to the
eastern press and, therefore, before
making any comment on the articie
prefer confirmation. The Independent,
its editor, Mr. Tibbies, and myself,
would appreciate the favor of your
stating whether the quoted article 13
substantially correct I have not
seen similar statements in any of the
Nebraska papers. Yours very truly,
CHAS. y. DE FRANCE,
Associate Editor. ,
To this the chancellor answered:
The University of Nebraska, Chan
cellor's Office, Lincoln, May 30, 1903.
Mr. C. Q. De France. My Dear Sir:
The World quotation is essentially in
correct With the silver question as a
general economic question may re
marks to my class had nothing to do.
I merely mentioned that, a few years
ago, all people, whether bimetallists or
favoring a sole gold standard, were led
by the geologists to believe that the
yearly output of gold would never
much increase, but rather continue
to fall, and that we had all proved to
be mistaken. I added that I thought
the error a rather inexcusable one,
though initiated by able specialists
like Edward Sueus, of Vienna, sinca
a very small portion of the earth's
surface had then or has now been
thoroughly examined for gold. Yours
E. BEN J. ANDREWS.
This is simply in line with what
The Independent has held all along
that the real question Is one of mon
ey and not merely one of silver.or sil
ver and gold. Bimetallists, holding to
the theory that an increase in the
supply of coined' money would de
crease the value of each dollar an i
thus cause the price of all commodi
ties to increase, and having faith itt
the error of the geologists mentioned
by Chancellor Andrews, insisted upon
the free coinage of silver in order to
increase the supply of coined money.
Gold standard advocates, too, believed
in the error mentioned as to the prob
able future output of gold, but pleaded
in avoidance that the value of money
is something intrinsic in the metal
upon which it is stamped and that the
supply could cut no figure whatever.
Time has proven the geologists mis
taken about the supply of gold. The
gold standard advocates have indirect
ly recanted regarding their intrinsic
value fallacy, by pointing to the
greatly increased supply of money
and greatly increased prices thus, in
effect, admitting every essential of
the bimetallists contention as to the
quantity theory of money.
From the standpoint of gold stand
ard advocates who knew what they
wanted, the question has never been
one of either metal, but rather one of
securing complete control of the right
to Issue a taxpaying, debt-paying cir
culating medium in the form of bank
notes. The outlook from 1873 to 1896
was that this could best be accom
plished by stopping the free coinage
of silver; but the greatly increased
supply of gold suggests another point
of attack: Asset currency is odious
to too many people, so the next step
will doubtless be government owner
ship of railroads In order to secure a
largely increased supply of United
States bonds upon which to base na
tional bank notes.
MIS NOT A CANDIDATE
MARCUS AURELIUS HANNA DIS
TINCTLY DISAVOWS ALL AM
BITION FOR THE PRESI
DENTIAL NOMINATION.
6R0VER CLEVELAND TO TF4E FRONT
Grover Cleveland May or May Not Ba
In the Race He Is Engaged .In .
Sawing Wood.
Theodore Roosevelt will probably be
the republican nominee for president
It was thought Marcus A. Hanna
would line up against the New York
er, but the opponents of the president
were evidently counting without theU
host The great Ohioan has acceded
to the request of Roosevelt and his
friends and no one now familiar with
Ohio's politics will expect
HANNA TO OPPOSE ROOSEVELT,
In this connection the increasing
proportions of the Cleveland boom is
a significant political fact The dem
ocracy is sadly divided at present
William J. Bryan has repeatedly;
stated that he is not to be in the race.
He and his partisan friends are verV
much opposed to Cleveland, and with
sufficient reason from the Bryan stand
point. Curiously enough, the ele-
ments In the democracy which are
suggesting Grover Cleveland are allied
in business with the elements opposed
to Roosevelt
But meanwhile thjMeountry is try
ing to settle some questions not po
litical. The strikes are consuming a.
good deal of attention. Business con
ditions are surprisingly favorable in
spite of labor agitation. Men are
more than ever looking for safe in
vestments of capital and men are
more than ever anxious to provide for
the care of dependent ones and the
education of children.
THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
finds its modern policies more in de
mand than ever. The investment fea
tures are especially attractive to bus
iness men who are well-to-do. Tho
Gold Bond Policy is an especial favor
ite. The, regular twenty payment life
policies of the Bankers .Reserve have
all the modern options. It is always
wise to get into a growing life insur
ance company in the early days of iU
existence. Policy holders now takir.s
insurance will enjoy the benefits of "the
certain, growth of the next twenty
years.
B. H. ROBISON, PRESIDENT,
states that his well equipped field
force is pushing the Bankers Reserve
Life to the front In all the western
states. He needs n.ore men. The
harvest is ripe, but 'the laborers are
few. School teachers and college stu
dents would do well to write him. Ha
can utilize 250 good men during the
summer vacation and every good man
among them can make enough in two
months to carry him for the next year
at school.
Special subscription rate to single
taxers, .5 months 25c.
He Hadn't Heard It
Ex-Governor Pinter's letter in op
position to'- fusion between the popul
ists and the democrats in this state
will surprise a great many people, but
mainly because they have forgotten
that the populist party is still in ex
istence. Mr. Poynter's theory is that
the reorganizes will capture the na
tional democratic party, and that tha
Bryan wing will thereupon walk over
Into the populist camp in a body. He
evidently does not take much stock in
the talk of the silver democrats that
they will vote for Roosevelt rather
than support an eastern democrat
"More or Less Personal," State Jour
nal. Governor Poynter "does not tak-5
much stock in the talk" because he
hasn't heard it It hasn't been talked
except by republican papers.
Farmers, Attention!
Do you wish to sell your farm? If
so, send full description, lowest price
and best terms. Or, if you wish to
buy a farm, ranch or Lincoln home,
write to or call on Williams & Bratt,
1105 O st, Lincoln, Neb. -