JULY 2, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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8TBIK.ES ABE USELESS
There has been a craze for strikes
among the workingmen. At first the
strikers won, but of late many have
failed. The strike of the Fall River
mill workers has failed and - all the
hands have gone back to work at the
old rate after losing over a millioi
of dollars in wages. If the mania for
strikes continues it will be the ruin
of the trade unions in this country.
Tens of thousands of men have rushei
into the unions who have no concep
tion of the principles underlying them
and grievous things have been dons
by the votes of these new members.
Of late the leaders of brains among
the wage-workers have been giving
the unions some very sound advice,
but many of the unions failed to heed
it The fact should be pressed home
to these wage-workers that strikes,
even if successful, settle nothing. If
the rate of wages is raised, the cost of
living increases at a greater ratio and
the burden comes right back upon the
wage-workers themselves. Nothing U
gained. '
If the condition of the wage-workers
is made permanently better it muse
be by some other method than a raise
in wages. These men must take an
interest in government. They must
think out sbme plan for the more
equitable distribution of wealth. They
must vote for those men who will in
sist on passing such laws as will de
stroy special privileges. The bank
ers, the railroads, the manufacturers
and every division of the wealthy
classes have accumulated their wealth
by special privileges. Before the
great franchises were given away and
the other special privileges were
granted, there were no strikes an J
no labor unions. The granting of
these special privileges made labor
unions a necessity. The conditions of
labor will never be better until the
laborer learns to vota for his own in
terest instead of the interest of the
classes who despoil him of the wear.h
that he creates. That is what labor
unions 'must learn.- Let them stap
all the efforts to irevent an increase
of production and instead thereof beml
every effort to increase- production.
Then see to it that the wealth that is
produced is equitably distributed.
1-OPULIST8 AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
From the very beginning the pop
ulists have taken the position that
there were some things in any civil
ized community that must be owned
ir. common and some things that must
be the private property of the individ
ual. The streets of a city and the
reads in the country must be held in
collective ownership. The personal
belongings of every individual must
bo private property. There is no man
of sound mind who will deny this gen
eral proposition. When it comes to
considering what other "things should
be owned in common and what by in
dividuals, the differences arise. The
socialists claim teat all means of pro
duction and distribution should be
owned in common anJ that takes in
all manner of property. The popul
ists advocate the public ownership of
all those things in whicTi the public as
a whole is directly interested. That
includes the telegraphs, telephones,
railways, postoffice system and the
educational system. Further than
that in public ownership the populists
for the present refuse to go.
LOW DOWN POLITICS
The populists have had no criticism
to make of the agricultural depart
ment and until lately it has not been
used as a political machine to advance
the interests of the republican party.;
There is no more disreputable thing
than using that department and the
literature that is paid for by all tho
people than to make Its bulletins and
reports a vehicle for t: e advancement
and defense of the most disreputable
'doctrines of plutocracy and 'imperial
ism. That was what was done in the
June crop report "published by thej
authority of the secretary of agricul
ture." In' that "crop report" there is
published a statement concerning the
Philippines which has no place in
such an official document and is aa
F artisan as anything that ever ap
peared in the republican press of this
country as the following extracts will
show: '
"The people (of the Philippines)
almost universally are favorable
to American occupation and gov
ernment; they are more prosper
' ous and contented under our hon
est and equitable administration of
their affairs than they have ever
been before."
After all the official reports and af
ter the appropriation of $3,000,000 to
keep them from actual starvation, to
publish such a statement as that in
the official crop report, is about as low
down politics as was ever discovered.
But there are other statements just
as absurd. One of them is this:
"I consider the climate ideal the
country wholly attrrxlive and the
people kindly and well disposed,
though it cannot be denied that
centuries of oppression have de
veloped ' traits of hypocrisy and
treachery, that time alone can
eradicate."
The real animus of this is shown In
another paragraph which is as fol
lows: 'This is a country of wonderful
possibilities. Labor ischeap and
cost of production in every direc
: tion low; and, while the native la
borer, is . apt to be improvident, "
there are thousands of Chinese
here who can be employed at very
low wages and who make the best
workmen as well as the most
faithful. This virgin field will not
remain virgi i Tery long; the op
portunities are too great and iav
orable results too certain to be
neglected." .
That fellow has a scheme of ex
ploitation and the agricultural depart
ment is used to Ao his advertising for
him.
lOMETHINO ASTONISHING
One of the signs of the times that
indicate" a coming revolt 'against thc
universal rascality by which for
tunes are accumulated is .that even
the Wall Street Journal has raise.l
the question as to morality of certain
transaction that have been very
common during this reign of Mam
mon. The directors of a railroad de
termine to purchase the stock of an
other railroad and by that means
consolidate the two roads. After this
action is taken these directors go out
individually and buy the stock of the
road to be purchased for themselves
at 60 to 70 cents on the dollar. Then
they make the ranouncement that
the corporation that they are trustees
for as directors will buy the stock of
that road and it goes to over 100.
The directors then sell the stock
which they have privately purchased
to their own company at a profit from
30 to 40 per cent and put the cash in
their, own pocketsN. The Wall Street
Journal has advanced far enough to
question the morality of that kind of
stealing, which is a very great ad
vance. Such tricks as that have been
the common thing in Wall street and
this is the first time that the question
of "morality" was ever raised.
"Morality" has ' been an unknown
thing in Wall s'.reet and the fact that
some one has taken a thought on the
subject there is simply astonishing.
VICTORY IS NIGH
For some time The Independent has
been saying that a revolt against the
worship of money was near at hand.
The signs continue to multiply. Even
the Chicago Tribune has at last edi
torially repeated what this paper has
been saying for years and when The
Independent was saying it the Tri
bune was engaged in denouncing all
such papers as this as anarchists and
socialists. At that time the "captains
of Industry" were the idols of the
Tribune which it worshiped and
fawned upon. Now it says:
"The object pf all chevaliers
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d'industrie is to get hold; by fair,
promises, and unfair dealing, of
wealth which others have created.
The big ones manage to do it
without coming in coniflct with
the law. The little ones are
scooped up in the net and dumped
into the bait box."
What a mighty change is here! The
Independent is no longer "a voice cry
ing in the wilderness" as it was for
so many years. A great mass of peo
ple, and among them ' some of those
who were then demanding the heads
of all modern John the Baptists, are
begh.ning to preach the same gospel
that The Independent has been preach
ing ell the time. So it says to the
true &cd tried who have come all the
way over the trail: "Cheer up. The
day of victory draws nigh." .
xIt has even occurred to the Tribune
that all . the syndicates put together
have not created one dollar of wealth.
The wealth was created by those who
toil 8nd the Morgan syndicates have
simply been engaged in gathering it
to themselves. It even Intimates that
Morgan and all like him are nothing
but common liars, who by means of
lying have been . engaged in robbing
the people. Listen to it:
"The unscrupulous person who
takes a dozen or more plants, '
soma of them valuable and some
worthless, consolidates them, and
issues against them bonds and pre
ferred and common stock whose
face value is from three to ten
times the value of the plants and
offers his securities to the public
with assurances that they are
worth their face, knows they are
not and never will be."
But a few months ago this class Of
Individuals, in the opinion, of the Tri
bune, were "great captains of indus
try" whose brains were making this
nation a world power, and it held
them up as models for the youth
of the land to pattern after. What
has happened? The Tribune sees the
end approaching.
RAILROADS AND MADDEN
A great many things may , result
from the postoffice investigations at
Washington not at all contemplated
when the thing began. The populists
have been continually calling atten
tion to Ihe excessive rates paid to th2
railroads for carrying the mails. Tho
fact that the enormous sum of $60.
533,217 was paid to the railroads dur
ing the year 1902 for carrying the
mail is being commented upon even
in some of the great dailies. It is a
fact known to all newspaper men that
newspapers are carried by the ex
press companies on the same trains
and often in the very same cars for
one-half cent per pound when the
government gets one cent and yet that
is the class of matter the Madden aul
Loud gang claim produces the whol
of the deficit. If the express compa
nies can carry newspapers for a half
cent per pound and make a profit, it
should follow that the government
cculd carry theru. at a cent a poun.t
and not make a deficit, providing that
the same rate was charged for their,
transportation that the express com
panies pay.
The truth which the great dailio
have long refused to publish is that
the railroads have so dominated the
republican party that it has paid to
them three or four times as much as
the service was worth and much more
than the roads charge private corpor
ations for the same service.
The Independent in the last few
years has many tinges called attention
to the exorbitant amounts paid to tho
railroads and perhaps that is one of
the reasons why Madden has let loosa
the dogs of war upon it so often. If
the Xacts which this paper has pub
lished had not been suppressed by the
dailies, the wrong would have been
righted long ago. The correspondents
of those papers in Washington ha m
known all about it for the editor of
ent when the facts of the excessive
charges of the railroads were laid be
fore committees of the senate and
house. He knows that some of thes9
correspondents did report the testi
mony given and sent it to their pa
pers and he 'knows that It never ap
peared in print. Such papers as that
would never be troubled by Madden if
they should mail a half million extra
copies at pound rates.
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