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JULY 2, 190-3. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT II QbJtER JOURNALISM All the republican papers are giv ing all the aid they can to the Cleve land democrats in their efforts to cap ture the democratic party. They de nounce Bryanism, declare that it dis graced and ruined the party and that wfth the overthrow of the Kansas City platform and its pernicious principles the party may get back into power. Then the next day the same paper will declare that . the people have had enough of .democracy, Cleveland soup houses and hundreds of thousands out of work, when it- ' was impossible, though a man might be worth thou sands in property, to borrow a dollar, Then hundreds of thousands had to be fed by charity, when the alms houses were filled with paupers and the asylums with the insane. They declare that that is what Cleveland and democracy did for the land, but they are very anxious on the odd days to have that same Cleveland re turned to power and declare ttat if the 'democrats will only put the ; old stuffed prophet back into leadership, they have every chance to win.' Did sny man ever before see such'puerile twaddle in any publication anywhere in the world? But it is good enough for the ignorant masses of Cleveland democrats and republicans who stool around on the street .corners with empty stomachs and patches on their pants . and declared that all that they wanted to make them happv was "money that was good in Europe." They never expected to see Europe or spend what few cents they could get farther away from home , than the nearest grocery or saloon, but they wanted moneyj3JJsEurope-" The Independent has been watchful ot the expression of opinion by -democrats" concerning- the capture of tha Iowa democratic state . convention by the Cleveland outfit. They run about as follows: "Let them have it and we will see how many votes they' will poll." "The republicans will stav off a panic until after the next presi dential election by asset currency or loaning money to tin bankers on stat end railroad bonds. It would be a misfortune for the democratic party to come into. power at the next elec tion and have to face another panic. Let the soup houses be established un der the republican administration." "As long as democrats won't go to the primaries . nothing else is to he ex pected." , "They may capture conven tions, nominate the candidates, and make the platforms to suit them but th ey will never, get my, vote. . Th ere are a few million more democrats just. like me." "There is a great deal of talk about Brvan and the Kansas City platform papers supporting the ticket if the reorganizes capture the next rational convention. It will make no difference to me whether they sup port it or fight it. I will never vote for a plutocrat." "The result of the convention gives us the only chance cf success." The Lincoln Star grows furious be cause The X)mmoner said that the bankers objected to silver because it vas half fiat and now want an asset currency'which is all fiat It says that af set currency "includes strict and in cixorable limitations for absolutely ex eluding fiat" and "they embrace pro visions for Its redemption beyond per adventure." If asset currency Is not fiat and has the "value in it" why orovide for its redemption? What is a piece of paper issued by a bank promising to, pay five dollars worth? Will it stand any of the tests that intrinsic value fellows were wont to apply to gold? Is it "good in Europe?" Can you melt an asset note down and then exchange thj residue for as much a; before it was melted? If there U nc fiat in an asset note, please tell us what there islnitr - - - The Independent is being "favored" i n it ri 1 i - . wun copies oi me oauiraay evening Criterion, Haverhill, Mass., a repub lican paper devoting much space to attacks on socialism. Under a head of "Important to Editors," we are given "liberty to reprint any article . . with or without credit." No, thank you; The Independent will make its own criticisms. It takes but lit tle stock in' this National Economic league method of side-tracking pop ulism by a sham attack on socialism What these plutocrats want is to get the. people to forget about government money and government railroads an! et them aroused over discussions of eoeialism, but It won't work. The social democratic party in Ger many made great gains in the recent election, but readers of The Indepen dent must not be deceived into the telief that the social democrats of Germany are advocating the doctrines of the socialists of - this country. A recent letter from Berlin gave the real principles underlying the present movement in tbxt country. All of the radical demands of the Karl Marx socialists have been dropped and re forms that are possible make up their platforms. The writer of the letter above referred to said that some one had sent him a copy of The Indepen dent in which the present demands of the social democratic party were summarized . and said that the state ments were" correct. Those reforms are almost identical with the prin ciples advocated by the people's party in this country, The collective owner ship of all , the means of production and distribution of wealth finds no place and but few advocates among those wno are called socialists m Germany, although there are some radicals of that kind. , It is stated .tliat the legislature of New York repealed the law of im prisonment for debt in all cases un der $100 It 'is said that hundreds of the poor on the east side have been confined in jail for the non-payment of debt, usually where they had been induced to buy on the installment plan. Agents infected that ration of the, city, using their, utmost powers of persuasion to induce the poor to buy articles upon small monthly pay ments. When the purchaser lost his job or there was sickness, then they were arrested and thrown in jail. The inhuman cruelties practiced upon the poor in some of the great cities is more infamous than that of any heathen nation towards its subjects. Nothing worse was ever done by the sultan of Turkey than is constantly being done in the centers of plutoc racy in the great cities of this coun try. sSs The west half of the Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri river, is as sessed for at $25,000. The east half is assessed by Pottawattamia county, Iowa, for $100,000. The bridge is worth more than $1,000,000. The "re publican authorities in this state see t it that railroads and all their ap purtenances pay but a modicum of taxes. The wonder is that they as sessed the bridge at all. To assess a property worth $500,000 . at $25,000 is a kind of treatment that the railroads get from the republican authorities and will continue to get as long as that party is in power. That is the reason that the railroads elect re publicans to office. There is anxiety among the great banks and in Wall street ' generally about the constant shipments of gold to Argentina and Europe. The facts about the matter . are simply these: Whenever we cease to export $500,- 000,000 a year moro. than we import, gold has to go. Our tribute to Eu rope, Including what the millionaires and other tourists spend over there, such as interest on foreign invest ments and rent on foreign owned land i", just about $500,000,000 a year. When we do not pay it in wheat, corn, cattle, hogs and manufactured goods, the gold has to go. Before King Peter started for Ser via he ordered an $8,000 gold crown from a Paris jeweler. The last two kings of Servia ordered crowns, never paid for them and pawned them to raise spending money. That is about equal to some of the tricks played in the United States senate, only ,the weasels who get seats there go for bigger game. The "governing classes" all over the world are a hard lot. The editor of The Independent looks fcrward to the gathering at Denver, July 27, with a great deal of pleasure. He hopes to meet there many of the men who have come all the way over the trail since '90, and talk of those who have passed over the divide. When wc talk over the days when none of m thought of anything" hut to do something that would make the worl.i happier and better, we will not men tion the traitors who sought associa tion with us for the sake of office and have since deserted. We will have no curses for anybody, but heart to heart fellowship with all those who have proved true. It will be a glorious time. The governor of Oregon, where the referendum was .recently adopted, says "The referendum stands as a safeguard in the people's hands against the pernicious acts of an un worthy legislature and a conniving governor." The session of the Oregon legislature held since the act went Into effect was without scandals of any kind and no charge of corruption was made against it in the press of either party. One or two of the acts were opposed by some of the people, especially the one appropriating $500, C00 for the Lewis and Clark expositioi and the one appropriating $165,000 for a state portage railway at the Dalle,. "THE BEST OF EVERYTHING." SUMMER TOURIST RATES : Hot Springs and Return....,,,.... (15 50 Deadwood, Lead, S. D., and Ret..-. $17 85 St. Paul and Minneapolis and Ret. .(15 15 Above on pule June 1st to Sept. 30. Return limit October 31st. City Ticket Office 1024 O St R, W7 McGINNIS, General Agent, Lincoln, Nebraska. on the Columbia river, but 5 per cent1 of the voters could "not be induced to sign a petition for a referendum al though some of the corporations hired men by the day to go out and get sin natures to refer, the state railroad act back to the people. The fact that a referendum exists seems to be effec tive in preventing boodle legislation without sending any act back to the people-; ' The movement among many differ ent denominations to secure endow ments is an announcement to the world that the present membership have lost all their faith. It is to say that they do not believe that future generations will contribute for the support of the Christian religion and if that form of worship is to contin ue, it must be supported by the mak ing of Investments by this generation which will return an income for the future without relying on the contri butions of the church members then living. As far as the observation of The Independent goes, the endowed church is a detriment to the commun ity in which it exists. It inculcates pauperism and selfishness. Every university and every library building erected by the contribution of trust magnates and tariff grafters is an agency of degeneration in the community where it exists. Every oung man and woman who looks at them sees there commemorated the robbery of the poor. They are monu ments built to extol the genius of men who were cunning enough to gather to themselves the wealth created by the wage-workers. The friends of Rockefeller will erect such a monu ment to him on the campus of the University of Nebraska. . , There are all ; sorts of grafts for good republican bankers, enough of them to make them hold solid to the republican party. The United States treasurer has sent over $7,000,000 abroad every year to pay our foreign ministers, their attaches and other expenses of that sort. Instead of au thorizing its fiscal agent in Londoa to draw drafts on the treasury for the payment of these expenses, the treas ury department deposits the $7,000, 000 in a bank in New York and drafts are drawn on it. Meantime the bank loans it out and gets Interest on it The president has issued an order to go to the bottom of the postofflce frauds and authorized the employ ment of additional attorneys to help in the work of prosecution. - The trou ble with postorlce authorities is that they have' failed to go to the "top." That nest of thievea in the United States senate who are really at the top of the whole business should be looked into as well as the great offi cers of the department Without the aid and assistance of these parties the frauds could never have occurred. The state committee publishes the official call for the populist state con vention in this issue and say that it is for the purpose of nominating one candidate for supreme judge and two regents of the university. If this edS tor had written that document h-3 would have said that the purpose of the convention was to nominate one candidate for supreme judge and heave two regents over the transom, after which it would nominate candi dates for regents whose acts woul 1 not make the university, the seat of rabid republican politics. Two men who have been' promi nently before the public during the last year, Mitchell of the mine work ers' union, and Prosecuting Attorney Folk, seem to be able to stand the severest test and are firmly rstab lished in the confidence of the people. Plutocracy knows that a sure and safe way, to destroy the influence of anv man is to get him under any pretext to accept a gift from them. The gift may be In money. In property or in position. It matters ot which, but if It Is accepted, from that time on the Influence of the man In public af fairs as far as the common people are concerned Is gone. The acceptance of a gift from plutocracy has ruined many a public career that promised large blessings to humanity, and it t does not matter whether that gift was in the form of a lucrative situation, money, tangible property or : passes. These two men, John Mitchell and At torney Folk, have been offered gifts in all these forms. They have stood the test which so many thousands hav j teen unable to stand, and have refused them all. Carter Harrison says that the po licemen of Chicago when detailed to keep order In great crowds on public occasions always keep their clubs 'a their belts and that order is a great deal easier maintained than when they were in the habit of swinging them in front of the people. There is a greit principle underlying that. The peo ple have never yet betrayed a trust re posed in them. The populist motto has always been: "Trust the people. ' Chi cego's mayor also said that Princo Henry told him that one Chicago po liceman with his cl b in his belt could do more in keeping order in a greit crowd than twenty soldiers could in Germany. SPECIAUWRKET LETTER FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO., LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MER CHANTS, SO. OMAHA, NEB. Our cattle market is again up to the high point , Receipts so far this week have been moderate. The demand is good and prospects for a better market if receipts will continue light Many are holding till after the Fourth, and may glut the market next week. We quote choice beef steers $4.90 to $5.30, good $4.50 to $4.85, warmed up $4.00 to $4.35, canners and cutters $2.25 to $3.25, choice cows and heifers $3.85 to $4.40. Good light stockers and feeders are , selling at $4.00 to $4.25, fair $3.75 to $3.90, stock heif ers $2.50 to $3.00. Bulls $2.50 to $4.00, veal $5.00 to $6.00 , Hog receipts heavy. Market has teen declining. Range $5.50 to $5.70. Sheep market dull. EXAMINE THESE FALL WHEAT BARGAINS. THE CROPS GO WITH THE FARM. THIS IS THE' LAST TIME THEY WILL BE OFFERED. No. 100 Red Willow county, Neb.; 760 acres deeded land, two sets of Im provements; 200 acres of alfalfa land, 45 acres now growing, 180 acres fall wheat; all fenced; hog pasture; 32 acres with woven wire ; one of the best improved farms in the county; convenient to school. Price, $12 per acre. No. 101 Farm of 400 acres, 2 miles from town; house, stable, sheds, cribs, granaries and corrals; 8 acres of al falfa, 50 acres fall wheat, 2 pastures of 100 acres each, plenty of small fruit; well and wind mill Price, $2,800. No. 102 Farm, 160 acres, 21-2 miles from railroad town, school close, good Improvements, 90 acres in cultivation, 50 acres In fall wheat, 8 acres of alfalfa ' fenced hog tight; plenty of small fruit Price, $1,650. No. 214540 acres 12 miles from Bassett, near, McLean bridge. This land is on the Niobrara river, most ly fine bottrtn Jan4 and highly im proved. All' fenced. Will "cut 250 tons of hay.' Plenty of good timber, water and everything necessary on a first class farm and stock ranch. Also a 5-year lease on 320 acres. The crop this year is worth $800. . If tfold before crop is harvested the crop goes with place. Price, $5,000. Time on part No. 101E Farm and ranch, 760 acres, 8 miles from town, on Long Branch; 1 mile' running water with timber; 440 acres fenced with 3 and 4 wires; 20 acres hog pasture; 60 acres of alfalfa; 2 feed lots, 1 barn 32x32, 1 barn '16x20, granaries, corn cribs 32x32, house 24x26; 2 story; other good buildings; 220 acres of wheat, 15 acres of rye; convenient to school. Price, $20 per acre. - NEBRASKA REAL ESTATE CO. By J. H. EDMISTEN, Pres. 1012 O st, Lincoln, Neb. Karl Marx Edition, matter all con tributed by socialists, July 23, 190?. Keep within a thousand words if pos sible. "