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8 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT JULY 9,1 9 0S. tin ftebraska Independent s Lincoln, tltbraska. LIBERTY BUILDING. 1328 0 STREET - f .Entered according to Act of Congress of March j, 1879, at the rostoffic at Lincoln, Kebraka,aa second-class wail natter. , , -r PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. FIFTEENTH YEAR. $1.00 PER YEAR When makinjr remittancea do not leave money with newa agencies, postmasters, etc, to be forwarded by them. . They frequently forget or remit a different amount than was. left with them, and the eubacriber fail to get proper credit " ' ''' ' i " , Address all communications, and niaV. , all frails, tuoney orders, etc, payable to ' , bt tltbraska fndtptndtnt, L , ; v., . .. v Lincoln, , Anonymous communications . will not be not red. Reiecled manuscripts will not be returned. t ! . ' T.' II. TIBBLES, Editor. " ' G. Q. DEFRANCH, Associate Editor. , . F. D. EAGER, Business Manager. ; When the regents undertook to make the university a pest hole of republi can party politics, the men who elect ed them naturally objected. That is the only reason that any protest has teen made. - -'. . Several world records in horse rac ing have been beaten on the Chicago ' race tracks during the last week. "Horses are improving, but the men who run them are becoming more like ' brutes as the years pass by. The present system of taxation is so Infernal,' placing as it does the whole burden of government upon the poor, ' T'he Independent will favor any other 'system,? ho matter what; for it' can not possible be any worse. 'W. J. Ghent, author of : "Our Ben evolent Feudalism,"' Joins ' in the 'lex1 tension of The Independent's circula tion by buying four of the Madden EuucatlonaH subscription cards and having , the paper sent to - friends in Indiana, . ; ' 'v-; -yi .-V '' In the materialistic philosophy f the socialists there 18 no right and ho ; -wrong; no ought or ought not, no self lehness or unselfishness and all - the. t things, are summed up in their phrase r "egoism." But w: t the "egoism" is ? they don't know. I was immensely pleased ; with,; the Henrv Renree Edition anrl vnur ..in--' tention of devoting a page to the dis cussion of the single tax will , make vour rianer mora. TElnahle. as in mv opinion all gooeV popullsls should be - The postoffico department has issued ' BP. order disrontiniiinfi" mirrhasps from . the Postal Device Improvement 'Com pany. That is the company in which . Loud, the congressman who was so - wrought up ove- deficits in the :de . partment that he wanted to suppress lUG luim picas, ao luiciesiVu. Our-subscriber and friend. BishoD L. B. Heller, Belmar, N. J., sends an nouncement of the 32nd America World camp meeting, to be held be tween Como and Belmar in July and August, where, he says, there is "room for seven million people from Lake v.'nort. N. J. Dines to the Atlantic ocean coast." ' The wisest thing politically for this fidministration to do is to make thor ough work of -tl. postoffice investiga tion. When congress meets the mi nority will force an Investigation by a ' committee of the house. If anything Is covered up or any guilty man al lowed to escape, that committee will ba sure to discover It , PLUTOCRATIC LITCRATTJBB The greatest obstacle that, any re fcrm movement has to contend against is the enormous mass'.' of .plutocratic literature ' that is thrown "broadcast o er the land. The rural homes are swamped with it and in the cities the daily papers are distributed by the hundred thousand at far less than the "cost of the white paper. It is not true that the advertisers pay these enorm ous bills. It would come near bank rupting the mercantile world to do it. Take it. here in Lincoln. There are three , large republican , daily papers published here, In this small "city of less than 45,000 inhabitants.. The im mediate range of - their circulation must of necessity be small.' Every man acquainted with the newspaper business knows that they are - pub lished at a Joss of from $600 or$700 a month each., Who is it that puts up that ; enormous sum .of money? One of them is furnished free to-all its subscribers," that is; the News and the Journal are furnished to their sub scribers at . the former price of one. Two daily papers for 15 cents a week every man knows ! must cost some body enormous sums beside the pit tance that is gathered from subscribe ers and advertisers. ; . Who furnishes this money ? In the case of one Lin coln daily the proprietor holds a gov ernment position with a salary of $17,- 000. That: may. account for Its con tinued publication 7 The three papers publish exactly thef same news matter and as for the " editorial matter it is too insignificant to be a factor wheth er ... considered , from the . quantity or Quality "of It"' ''.'w' ' 'v.''- :. ' What is true of Lincoln is true of other cities. This plutocratic stuff is forced on the people in such masses that any attempt to furnish another kind is always, met with the reply: "I get so many papers now that I can't read half of them." They never stop to think that the time spent in reading these plutocratic sheets is wasted, that the real news is sup pressed, garbled or put In some Insig nificant "place : where they never sec it They only think that they get a host of papers. . r Against this condition which results from the contributions of the great syndicates and the rake-offs from ' office-holding, the publisher who tries to furnish a paper giving correct ' in formation and ' reasonable discussion of things affecting the people must intend. ' - There can be no doubt that litera ture has a much larger effect in in fluencing voters than all the speeches that can be made.' All the good there Is in a speech cbmes from' its repro duction in' the press and furnishing a theme to write upon. Until those Who are opposed. to plutocracy find some way of extending the circulation of their 4 literature among; the - people there can be no4 advancement' A coun ty that will expend $100 for speakers would make ten votes where it makes one if it spent the same amount in putting such a paper as The Indepen dent in circulation among the voters. There stares every publisher of a reform paper in the face the terrible handicap of the free circulation of this mass of f republican papers, and Mad den never interferes Ith that sort of thing. If every man had to pay for the paper he received, then thousands could be induced to subscribe for The Independent where now only a few scores do so. The man who gets a free republican paper can keep a sort of run of the affairs of the world, learn of its storms, floods, mine ex plosions, battles and criminal news, but if he had to pay for his paper he would make some sort of a selection and soon take interest in government and the onward movement of man kind. Now when he gets his literature free he lets it go at that ' .The revival of populism that now seems evident will prosper just as the populist literature is spread among the people. It behooves, every pop ulist to-use his utmost endeavors in that direction. HOK TOM L. JOUNSON , That most genial gentleman, Tom L. Johnson, made a call at The In dependent office last week and shed about enough of cheerfulness and good humor to lighten the hearts of all The Independent force for a week. Old times were talked over when the edi tor of The Independent was in Wash ington and Tom Johnson, was on the floor of the house fighting the force of ravenous wolves on the republican side-who were determined to fasten on the people the money trust, the tariff trust and all the other trusts Tom does not pose as an orator, but what he said on some of those occa sions have - become household words among all men who love liberty a hate special privileges, while some of the oratorical efforts that filled the house with senators and other distin guished men have been forgotten The people know, that Tom" Johnson can neither be driven with threats ror bought with money and therefore they all i-have a sort of a, liking for him. - , ' -.- , In - his address at the Fairview Fourth of July celebration he made a point or two that will also ' become household words during, the coming campaigns. He called attention to Mark Hanna's war cry, "stand pat," end said that he did not suppose that that audience, all of whom were re spectable and honest people, really understood the phrase as it was a polier term and they were not poker players. When a man : drew a hand he sometimes "stood pat" when there were no cards of any value in it He put up a bluff, and that was what Mark Hanna's war cry meant Then he called - attention . to the downfall cf the republican party since the days when it stood by Lincoln with his clean hands to the present when it "stood pat" for Mark Hanna and his poker hand. a Tom Johnson does not look a day older than he did ten years ago and as far as The Independent is con cerned it hopes he will never get' any older until he has downed every rene gade democrat, driven thetrusts out of existence and brought to the presi dency some men with as clean hands as Lincoln had. : LOUIS F. FOST The editors of The Independent had a genial hour with Louis F. Post when he was in the city last week as one of the orators at the Fairview Fourth of July celebration. Mr. Post uses justJ as elegant, strong and forceful Eng lish in his public addresses as he does when he writes for his paper, The Public, and his address was what was expected from a man of his great at tainments. As a writer, a thinker and economist Mr. Post has a national teputation, and th" audience that list ened to him had a rare entertainment The Independent expresses its best wishes ' for ' Mr. Tost and his paper. DR. II. S. TAYLOR Dr. Taylor, the poet-lawyer, was in the city last week, being one of the orators at the Fairview Fourth of July celebration. Dr. Taylor is a mem ber of the populist national commit tee and as full of fight as he ever was. He still has full faith in populist prin ciples. He was not in good health and after he had just opened his address he was unable to proceed on account of faintness. His speech was an at tack on the modern tory and the au dience was greatly disappointed when Mr. Taylor was compelled to cease. Afterwards he read two of his poems to the delight of the audience, one of which has never been published, and which is printed, elsewhere in this is sue pf The Independent. f In an informal talk with , Dr.' Tay lor The Independent learned that he intends to attend the Denver confer ence on the 27th of July. He said that from -force of circumstances he had been acting with the Kansas City democrats, but that he had always told them plainly that the moment they abandoned those principles he would take to the woods as far as any asso ciation with them was concerned. . He thinks that the populists " have done a wonderful work in educating the rank and file of the democratic party and believes that the principles, of populism have a deeper hold on democratic voters than is generally admitted. In illustration of that, he said not long since he was addressing the voters of a democratic wara in Chicago. , He told them, and they were what were called the ward workers, that, the moment the party abandoned the principles that it had been advo cating since 1896 he' should take to the woods and have nothing more to do twith it He expected that these men, being democratic workers and thorough partisans, would resent the declaration, but to his astonishment there were shouts from' every part of the hall: "We will, too." Dr, Taylor, is not only a lawyer and a poet, but he is one of the greatest living orators. It is to be hoped that nothing will interfere to prevent him from attending the conference at Den ver. . '' WILLIAM W. KM OK ,Wm. W. Bride, of Washington, D. C; was a caller at Liberty "Building Wednesday and spent a short time chatting with the editors. Readers of The Independent will remember the excellent, service he. rendered in the past as special correspondent; at the nation's capital. Mr., Bride is making a tour of the west, reaching Nebraska in time to read the Declaration of In dependence at the Fairview Fourth of July celebration. He will accompany Mr. Bryan's family on an outing to Grand Lake, Colo.; thence will go to TWnnnls Nh. for a shorr visir with Dr. Stark, son of Former . Congressman Stark; thence to Almat Neb., . to yisit Former Congressman Shallenberger; "and from there he goes to Oklahoma in which territory he expects tc en gage next year in the : practice of law and finally on to California. Mr. Bride related an amusing inci- 'dent which . occurred on . his trip from Washington here. 4 A fellow passenger, learning that Mr. Bride's horn., is in Washington, inquired if he knew any thing regarding the esteem in which the. Nebraska delegation was held at the capital. Mr. Bride asked him to "name the man" and he would, do his best to inform him. The conversation which followed was interrupted by the stranger saying, "Why, that's exactly what I read in the Nebraska Indepen dent; a Washington correspondent by the name of Bride told that same story." Maybe you know him him?" 'Bill Bride oh, yes; : I know him very well," answered The Independent's correspondent. "And," said Mr. Bride, in relating the incident, "I decided that two witnesses were better than one ",and did not introduce myself." As he views the outlook, the plu tocracy aims to nominate Gorman next year. The Methodists, , Congregationalists and United Brethren have formed a salvation trust and "merged" the three bodies into one for the purpose of destroying competition in over worked territory. It is expected to greatly reduce expenses by the reduc tion of the number of employe! They will divide up the world Into special fields of operation as the "railroads do. Hon. J. H. Caldcrhead, auditor of the state of Montana, in a letter to the editor of The Independent says." "I note that Secretary Edgerton has taken hold and called a conference at Denver, July 27, which' meets with my hearty approval. We must do some thing and must-not delay. I will' be there unless something now unforeseen prevents." .