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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JULY 2, 1903.
C!)t Hebmska Independent
Lincoln, Kebraska.
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T. H. T1HBLES, Editor.
C. Q, DKf IUNCE, Assoeiato Editor.
FT D. EAGER, Eusiness Manager.
"There Is many a pop in Nebraska
who is yet able to whip his weight in
wild cats when It comes to a fight on
bank issues, trusts or the rule of the
corporations. A good many people in
this state will find that out before thi3
campaign is over.
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A Jlttle while ago the Wall street
brokers and underwriting syndicates
thought that "J. P. M." stamped on
any number of millions of watered
stock nfade it j-ust p-crfect m-oney.
Now they have, changed their minds
and think-that the initials stand for
"Judas Played Me."
The first blow at Morgan and the
one that nearly knocked . him off hl3
pedestal was the loss of the fori y
millions that he put in the ship, trust
That showed the Wall street specula
tors that Morgan was not infallible
and they,- have been after him evec
since. " '
The splendor of the United States
grows day by day and year by -year.
Its monuments, its libraries, its great
universities and its temples of wor
ship costing millions of dollars each,
increase in numbers, but long ago the
poet called statesmen to observe:
"How wide the limits stand
. Between a splendid and a happy
land." V -
The editor of the American Stand
ard (Ind.) puts up a great howl .be
cause twenty rich men run the coun
try in which he lives. Now he should
not be so disconsolate. His county is
far better off than the nation at large.
It is a conceded fact that this mighty
aggregation of 80,000,000 people com
posing the United States is run by
thirteen men located down in Wall
street. -
One of the, attorneys in the case
brought to appoint a receiver for th3
United States Shipbuilding company
declared in open court that "the ccr
. poration was conceived in iniquity,
maintained by fraud and is ending in
crime." That is a good description of
every trust in existence. That is what
those beneficent concerns are that th?
republican papers declared were to
bring such blessings to mankind.
The ornithologists now declare with
out a dissenting voice that the an
nihilation of the birds would be fol
lowed by the annihilation of the hu
man race, and some of them go so far
61 to declare that vegetation would
disappear from the enormous increase
in Insect life. After that of cour.se
the insects themselves woulddie anl
this world would be a barren waste.
Things are very much inter-related .la
it is old world.
WHAIWlUTallDO?
The capture of the Iowa stats con
vention by the plutocratic democrats
brings matters up for consideration
that most of us had supposed wouM
bo delayed until after the national
convention of that party next year.
What sort of a condition is General
Weaver in? He formally united with
the democratic party in that state and
its state convention by a vote of more
than three to one declared that they
would not favor the government own
ership of, railroads even after it had
been demonstrated, that the govern
ment could not control rates with the
roads in private hands It refused to
indorse those principles in the Kansas
City ; and Chicago platforms upon
which the Bryan democrats and pop
ulists agreed. The tr .h is that the
Icwa democrats have gone back to
Clevelandism against which Bryan led
a revolt
Thousands of democrats are sub
scribers to The Independent and dur
ing the last fev years the editor has
received hundreds of letters from
them. They are just as honest as any
populist and many of them are mors
radical than the ordinary populist.
They have sworn br all that was high
and holy that they would never vote
for a Cleveland democrat or any ia.i
who did not stand for the great prin
ciples of reform included in the two
last national democratic platforms;
What are they goiag to do?
Without the populist party and its
literature Bryan could never hav;
been nominated. Without it, "the Chi
cago and Kansas City platforms could
never have been adopted. The pop
ulist party has made the career of
Bryan possible. As soon as its organ
isation began to decline the enemies oi
Bryan began to et the ascendency. It
has been the partisan insanity of 1
few of the leading men in the Bryan
wing of the democratic party that ha3
defeated them. They'Wftl deliberate
ly to work to destroy the populist
party. They brougat the most awful
pressure to bear upon the populist
senators and representatives in ' con
gress to get them to.abandon'the pop
nlist party and go into the democrat!.;
party. In doing that they worked
lor theirown defeat
If the populists had five or six sena
tors who still "hel I their caucusses in
the senate elevator" and there were a
dozen or more populist members in
the house, "with a party well organ
ized in all the stcts, polling two or
three million votes, the reorganizes
would never have made the headway
that they have. This great ally thesa
fool leaders undertook to, destroy
They came very near doing it But it
still lives and around its banners wil
Cock the millions of honest men, who
will never vote for a candidate of the
trusts, he banks, ' 1 corporations and
the exploiters of the common people.
They will continue to fight for equal
rights for all and special privileges
for none until special privileges are
abolished. The world is not going
backwards. The time will come when
one man cannot tux a state $1,000,000
dollars by raising the price of oil and
then give $100,0vm) to some university
library or church and claim that he
is a philanthropist
The soul that guided us so gently
and taught us so much has it become
extinct because it has vanished from
the sight of mortal eye3?
CRIPPLED CHILDREN
A doctor in Michigan argued hefoe
a medical association that a law ought
to be passed authorizing physicians to
kill crippled children at their birth
If there is nothing in this world but
the material, if the accumulation 0
money and the worship of Mammon is
the true doctrine, then this doctor was
logical and right
If there is nothing in life superior
to being well fed, well clothed, well
sheltered and having the power to
take from others the means of like
Woold Yon?
Would you pay ten dollars for five-fifty suits? Not if
you knewit. There are men who are paying that four
and a half dollars too much, but they are men who
don't know it. We want those donH-hnoio-it felloys to
know it. We are selling genuine all pure worsted serge
suits for $5.50. Nobody else is. We know it. We
want you to know it. There are serge suits sold for
less than $10. There are worsted suits sold for less
than $10. But we are selling genuine pure worsted
serge suits. The ideal, dressy, comfortable, summer
suit at $5.50 per suit. We have plenty of them, for.
such a price is possible only to a concern that is a big
buyer, and a concern that is not profit greedy. Look
on page 2 of our spring catalog. , If you haven't our
catalogue send for one at once.
comfortable living, then the doctrine
of this doctor arid of the republican
party and the worship of Mammon is
sensible, sound, logical and should bs
adopted.
But, is It true that the material
things of life are the "real" things?
Is it the palace and the yacht, that
adds to the happiness of the owner or
is the association of spirit with spirit?
If the palace 4s filled with intrigue,
malice, hatred i.nd made a spiritual
hell can the marble walls, the mirrors,
the tapestry, . infested with these
things that are not material, bring
happiness?
Last week a man in Chicago fur
nished a special car to take the crip
pled children from an institution to
the country for a day's outing. Their
appearance excited the best emotions
of all those on the train. The, mer
chants in the city where they alighted,
halted the busses on the way to the
place of the outing, made presents to
the little cripples, the people along
the streets waved their handkerchiefs
to them a: 1 these little helpless ones
inspired thousands to happier and hol
ier lives. Crippled children have a
mission in this world not inferior to
many others.
Cut any man off from the opportun
ity to be helpful to others and he be
comes a miserable wretch, the offall
to be thrown in the garbage pile of
civilization.
The populist party has thrown its
whole influence against this worship
of the almighty dollar. It has taken
the position of Lincoln; the man be
fore the dollar and opposed the ma
terialistic program of the plutocrats.
It Relieves that heaven should begin
before the world be passed. It be
lieves that the "real" things of life
are not money, palaces a..d the brick
and mortar of the great cities. It will
do what it can t j destroy the power to
oppress.
XIEJffRY GEORGE EDITION
The Henry George Edition of The
Independent (issue of May 14, 1903) is
now practically exhausted. We can
supply an occasional copy . (having
probably a hundred left, besides our
files) to a new subscriber who asks
for it; but cannot furnish any more
in quantities. , '
Karl Marx Edition, July 23, 1903.
KARL. MARX EDITION
As heretofore announced, The Inde
pendent of July ,23, 1903, will be de
voted to a presentation of socialism
and known as the Karl Marx Edition.
To date the contributions for this spe
cial number are not numerous, but of
good quality that is, if a populist
should presume to ;?ud&3 of such mat
ters. The Independent management
has not pushed very strenuously in
the matter, owing to a variety of
causes. In the first place, Mr. Madden
caused us some trouble because we
mailed out large numbers of the Hen
ryGeorge Edition to "lists of names
furnished by persons interested in the
circulation" of The Independent and
he has not yet told us whether we may
or may not treat the socialists as we
did the single taxcirs mail out a hun
dred copies to a hundred different per
sons, whose names are furnished by
the man who pays us $1 for the lot
However, we can, and will, mail in
bundles to one address at the dollar a
hundred rate.
Prof. Simons, editor of the Interna
tional Socialist Review, and author
of a number of socialist books not
ably "The American Farmer" has
contributed an article for the Karl
Marx Edition, touching upon thi
American farmer and the necessity,
for the farmers and wage-workers t-
unite politically if either class is ever
to accomplish anything for the good
of both. '
Wm. L. Garver, Chillecothe, Mo.t
contributes hi3 article on "Free So
cialism," which appeared in the May,
Arena; B. F. French, Bisbee, Ariz.,
"Socialism in a Nutshell;" and Max
Brodkey, Sioux City, la., a paper ha
read some time since before a minis
ters' association, in which he talkel
upon "the principles of socialism, its
aim and the means by which we hope
to achieve them."
In addition to these, a sketch of the
life of Karl Marx, his picture, and ex
cerpts from some of his works will
given. Those desiring to contribute
papers to this edition " should have
their manuscripts reach here not later
than July 11, if possible.
The single taxers told their story J a
the Henry George Edition. The so
cialists may tell theirs in the Karl
Marx Edition, July. 23, 1903,