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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1903)
JULY 9, 1903. ft SHOOT TO KILL The Independent's way of fighting plutocracy is to fight Shoot to kill. It will never support candidates run ning on compromise platforms how ever good their records may have been. It will not support men with pluto cratic tendencies running on the best platform that can be made. The can didate must be right and the platform must be right. The people who want good and honest government have had enough of straddle platforms and straddle candidates. They want a platform made without subterfuge which contains the principles In which they believe and a candidate who be- 1 LLX LUVOX? lUUilO J UUV 1 as they themselves do, and if they can't have that, they prefer that the straightout plutocratic candidate shal be elected. Then they will know what tc expect This thing of sticking to a party "right or wrong" is ten times worse than the imperial doctrine of supporting a war "right or wrong, because the country has engaged in it It is the opinion of The Independent that if the Kansas City platform dem ocrats should openly declare that thf principles ' therein set forth were looked upon by them as fundamental and that they would never support t candidate who repudiated them, reg ularity or no regularity, in a f ev. weeks they would have the reorganiz ers on the run. - So far, there have been none among tnem wno were bold enough to declare so publicly although thousands of the rank an? file have so declared in private. "As long as the fight is carried on in that manner the reorganizers will continue to gain strength. Better take the course that The Independent has al ways followed. Shoot to kill ' The Bee says that The Independent "gives the impression" that it would not support the present fusion regents if they were renominated, and then adds: "There is no danger of that" The independent wishes to inform the Bee and all others interested that if the populist state convention should do such a thing as renominate the present regents or any man likely to make the state university a pest hoi1 of partisan republican politics, It will not only not support them, but it will fight their re-election from the time the nomination is made until the last ote is cast "By the grace of God, King of Ser via" has proved a little too rank for the bishops and potentates of Eu rope,, but Karageorgevitch is as much king "by the grace Of God" as the best of them. The thing is a blasphemy when uttered in regard to any king. Since the Iowa convention the South Omaha Democrat has got far', enough along to call us populists "calamity howlers, purifyers, round-heads and whiskered brigade." Let it howl. That does not change the esteem in which the thoughtful, honest democrats of this state are held by populists. If the South Omaha Democrat and its kind got control of the party it will not be troubled by association with populists, nor for that matter with some thousands of democrats who honestly believed in the doctrines of the last two democratic national plat forms. The gold bug democrats think that they have discovered a war cry that will equal Mark Hanna's "stand pat" They intend to start shouting: "Turn the rascals out" That is good Just now, but if the postoffice thieves all get in jail before the next election it will become a sort of boomerang. j suit has been brought to recover $2, 000,000. . The Lincoln Evening News says that the Nebraska socialist candidate for supreme judge is a blacksmith. That is no disqualification. Many su preme court decisions give us the im pression that other parties in the pan bave nominated tinkers for that high position. , In a letter to The Independent, un der date of July 1, Secretary Edgertoa says: "Our local committees are all formed and the folks have taken fco'd of the matter with a vim. I . have herd f mm Mr. Parker, Mr. Mr Bride and Mr. Park of the mid-roaders an they all assure me that their commit tee will bo called at onc3 for July nere. (the call appeared in last weed's Independent, and i3 republished this week.-Ed. Ind.) Inasmuch as they purpose calling their , full nationa committee, also their sympathizers and friends, I think we had better do the same. I do not believe Mr, Edmi te "mould delay, a day. . . . Reports Te ceived are almost all favorable. Am tearing from silver democrats, single fixers and middle-of-the-roaders as much as from o"r own people." Some of ' the American promoters vent over to .Paris and made offers to f be city government very fine on their face for a franchise to put in r-as and electric plants. They cap Lured the special committee appointed o investigate the matter which re norted In favor of accepting the offer, out when it came up before the coun cil the whole thing was repudiated an the council resolved to put In a mu nicipal gas plant of it3 own and in Mead of giving the profits to a foreign indicate the people themselves should have them. The mullet head in this country will have none o' that sort of thing. He wants to pay three prices ror gas and wear patches on his pants o that the gentlemen of the syndi cates can have their yacht3 and pal "ces and hava a good time. in every state where there was no fusion with the Bryan democracy the populist party was practically wrecked In the only state where such fusion was constant the populist party is in full fighting trim. The old republican cry recently resurrected by the Lin coin Star that fusion killed the pop nllst party does not seem' well founded. Fusion was a "policy" and had noth ing to do with the principles advo cated. It was simply "politics." and a kind that the republicans of this state vigorously objected to. Nowhere, ex cept in North Carolina, where Butler fused" with the republicans, has the party ever fused" with another party advocating principles opposed to those announced in the national populist platforms. It has been simply a means to an end, and whenever the party deems it wise to employ other means it will do so, The meat trust, not satisfied with its other extortions and stealings, is now engaged in putting" up short weight packages of lard, canned meat and other products of the packing houses. The ability of a trust to in vent new forms of stealing exceeds the genius of all the rogues of history. A three-pound can of packing house ard contains ' only two and one-half pounds, and the trust "stands pat OUHN 'I 0 o n onjmana makes the best lice and mito killer; the easiest to uso; the most certain in result LEE'S LICK KILLER. A liquid; simply spray or sprinkle it on the rooms lor poultry-it doos the rest.' 'mll Wo handling of lowls, no labor or- bother. Sold by 10,000 deals-B at 85 eenta tier nt.. St!1 nm. gaL Don't economize a lew cents on lice killer and lose valuable lowls. Send for free catalog of poultry and stock supplies, poultry calendar and ?ng record, list of 3000 agencies, and special $2.00 free offer xo points wuere w e jrmve no a Kent. : CEO. H. LEE CO., Omaha, Every department of the government eeems to be in. the hands of republican thieves. Recently frauds have been discovered in the land department in volving far greater amounts than the postoffice stealings. In one case a $100 REWARD $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stage 3 and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be ing a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the dis ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith In its curative powers, that tbey offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best The following clipping from the Ne )raska State Journal of last Sunday was handed to the editor of The In dependent with the inquiry: "Is the writer of that a fool or a liar?" "The surplus has always been a grief to the democratic party and the way they turned the republican surplus of 1892 into a democratic deficiency of nearly three hundred millions hnfnr,f termination of their high jinks with the administration of Grover Cleveland was a caution." Everybody acquaint ed with the matter at all knows that the plates for the issue of new bonds were issued before the republican ad ministration retireland those plates were exhibited by Senator Vest in the senate corridors. By the most desper ate schemes money was finally raked together to keep the government going until the old stuffed prophet took his seat That is the kind of a surplus that the republicans had under the John Sherman regime. North Carolina is about at the foot of the list in literacy and is actually at the foot when it comes to the pro ductive power per capita. It is edu cation that has so increased the pro ductive power of the United States that In that line it leads the world. But after all there are other thine that are more important to mankind than ,the mere production of wealth. Wealth has ruined many nations, but poverty never one. The question that h ffrWntf'ai'TifcSiiMfl l 32 i. Nab. confronts modern man is how to pre vent riches from producing degenera i:on, now, to Keep the man first and the dollar second- Somewhat nettled. by the constant. asEeriion. that . colleges turn out. only "educated loafers" and "useless ath letes," large numbers of students and graduates have started for the Kansas wheat fields. ..When they. get there the "quarter back" and "center rush1' wll find that the ordinary farm boy will be. able to put them in the shade any day in the week and then go, to the country dance at night , University and farm athletics are two different things, There was never a paper published that has been treated by other papers as The Independent has been. For years . editors . all over the Unite States have, been in, the habit of taic ing column after column of 'matter from The Independent and printing 1 In their editorial columns as origins matter. It is often said that The In dependent shoifd . feel complimented by the constant reprinting of its mat ter, but Ifi3 a kind of compliment that always makes the editor fight ing mad. - In the city of Pittsburg a majority of the city council gave written pledges before their election that they would not grant franchises without full compensation. This council voted the other night to grant the Pennsyl vanla railroad the right to occupy one of the principal streets for a mere pre tense of payment. One of the papers in that state gives up In despair and asks what can be done." The remedy Is very simple. It is a referendum when ever a franchise is granted. The pop ulists long ago pointed that out. Marshall Field gave out an inter view in New York the other day on the Industrial and financial situation that coincides with what The . Inde pendent has been saying for several months. He says that the top has been reached and that, the greatest caution, must be used. The failure of the ship trust will make the selling of industrial stocks . still more1 difficult and that confidence in these industrial trusts Is being lost, He thinks more are to follow the ship trust in the near future. A poor crop In the western states would , end In a general . smash- up. The fate of all the great concerns with their millions of capitalization depends on what the farmer can do in the next four months. He is the foun dation of the whole .superstructure-- banks, palaces, yachts and alt Oregon has been rejoicing greatly over having secured the initiative and referendum. It has been commended by the press of all parties and its good nfiuence on the legislature - pointed out But Oregon has not got the ref erendum after all. Four judges xf the circuit court put their heads together formed a merger, as it were and knocked it out. They say that it Is unconstitutional. The first haul of the net to catch postoffice thieves drew ashore three God and destiny" congressmen, and the most conspicuous among them was Loud. , The Same Old Story The foolishness of attempting to create artificial competition in busi nesses that are natural monopolies Is well shown in this press dispatch: San Francisco, July 2. Competition n the selling of Illuminating gas and electric power ceased today in this city. The San Francisco Gas and Elec trie, Light company, which, formerly for. years had a monopoly, ..is again in control. : It has purchased for. $0, 000,000 the. Independent Gas company snd the International Electric com pany. These two. were owned ; by Claus Spreckles. It also absorbed the PaciQc ; Gas Improvement company's plant .and .business, paying,' $5 per share for .139,000 shares. The Eqult- able Gas company and small ei , con cerns were absorbed on a basis of ex change of , stock. There . will be a reorganization Monday, and, ,W, ,.B, Boutin ' will probably be elected presU det vThe price of gas will be . raised a-llttle over ?t per 1,000 feet In some districts it fell to 50 cents under com petition. . ; Fcrell'a Frctklng ; A friend of The Independent, Jiving at Seward, sends the following edito ial clipped from George LI Burr's pa per, the Hamilton County Register. In passing, it may be said that although The Independent never refuses to ex change with any Nebraska paper, Mr. Burr seems to prefer borrowing The Independent from his neighbors and will not exchange. The editorial says that ; -. . "Rev. E. von Forell made a cou- . pie of trips to Lincoln this week. He says that the populists down, there are criticising the editor of The Independent quite severely for his efforts to sow discord at the last meeting of the state com mittee. They attribute to him the introduction of the resolution . declaring against fusion that the committee were not willing to con- i sider and say that his fighting qualities all found employment in scattering dissension between those who have been antagonizing . ' trusts and corporation rule and that he had little to suggest about ' a way to organize for their defeat" in this state.!' The "populists down there" with whom Mr. Forell associates are doubt less. Jo Johnson, Charlie Morrill and others of that stripe. The. editor of The Independent cares nothing for their criticism, or for Mr. Burr's at tempts to strike The Independent over Forell's shoulders. Notwithstanding Mr. Burr's nervous apprehension that a little plain talk at the populist com mittee meeting might frighten away the 'touchy" democrats, the commit tee went right ahead and settled the question of holding a state convention at Grand Island as the editor favored without the foolishness of asking the permision of any other - body of men. It was jather amusing to notice Mr. Burr's fidgeting. Such an astute poli tician as he modestly admits himself to be, should have kept in closer touch with the trend of events. The "fighting qualities" of the edi tor of The Independent will not per mit him to "suggest about a way to organize for, the defeat of trusts and corporation rule" which has. as ': a part of its program, the renomination of a man like E. von Fore!!, who has proven himself a traitor to the party he pretends to affiliate with. Neither will those fighting qualities permit the editor to advise his party to po out of Its way and truckle at the feet of any other political organization. He would gladly co-operate with all par ties In the re-election of Judge Sulli van but the peope's party organisa tion has not performed its full mis sion and it must be maintained. HEADACHE At all drug atom. 2S Dooes 25c Nebraska's Socialists. The socialists on Jul 4 nominated the following state tl' ;: Supreme judge, y ristiansen, of Plattsmouth. J .Regents of theW.f university, T. W. Lippincott, of Blair, and F. S. Wilbur, of Omaha. The Seattle (Wash.) Socialist was Indorsed as official organ, thus putting a ring In the nose of Wayland of the Appeal to Reason and his mid-road populist associate editors. Karl Marx Edition, July 23. 1903. )