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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1903)
JULY 0, 1903. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT FOYN TBB'S LXTTEB , The letter from Former Governor Poynter, published some weeks ago in The Independent, has aroused more comment in populist circles than any recent document of the kind. Milton Park" in the Southern Mercury of June 25 quotes from the letter and says: The old party bosses who are harboring the thought that 'pop ulism is dead' and that the daisies w ill grew luxuriantly on Its grave long before ihe next campaign is 'pulled off' will find the leaven working although there is no noise just now in the camps, nor is there . any stir . visible. Yet the same crowd which polled , the 239,01)0 ; ;. votes in Texas in 1896 is still here. , Some have crossed over the great divide; but for every one who has fallen before the sickle of the x grim reaper there are more than double that number who have got ten their fill of old party methods and measures, and are readyto . line up for a grand struggle for reform." .. V , And the Cleburne (Tex.). .Watch man, referring to the same matter. says: ' ;' V. "It will be remembered that the governor was one of the strongest advocates of fusion with the dem ocrats, and we give him credit for entire honesty in the course ho pursued in the last two campaigns, and we are glad to see him with many others who occupied the same position, all coming boldly " out for immediate action. Let Chairmen' Butler and Parker sound . the call and these old veterans of "reform will come rallying in from everywhere ready to pull together the discordant elements of the party and get things ready to re- ; ceive the honest element - of the free silver, democracy." . "WHEREAKBWE AT?" Professor and Madam Curie have torn up the very foundation of thini with their discovery of radium and polonium. At the Berlin conference ' Sii William Crooks said: "We stand on the border line where matter and force pass into e-ch other. In thi3 , ' borderland " lie the greatest scientific problems of "the ; future. Here lie the final realities, wide reaching and marvelous. Will we be content to see matter dissolving into a multitude of revolving . electrodes? Such a mys terious dissolution of atoms appears to be universal. It occurs when i piece of glass is rubbed with silk. " It is present in sunshine, in a .rain drop, in lightnings in a flame, in a waterfall, and in the roaring sea." As to polonium it possesses in a much higher degree than radium the property of shining in the dark, and although it is known that actual par ticles infinitesimally small are being shot out from it continually, this strange substance does not seem to ex haust itself nor to lose its luminous power. When a boy the writer won- - dered that Newton should have said after all his great discoveries that he was like one on the sea shore while the great ocean of knowledge lay un explored before him. The" words no longer seem strange. Is all matter simply -different forms cf energy, as Professor Crooks suggests? Do we after all live in a world where every thing is only a manifestation of on? great unseen power? WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST Whatever may be his personal views as to the availability1 of William Ran dolph Hearst as a candidate for the pr:sidency next year, let no man fool himself with the belief that Hearst will cut an inconsiderable figure in the struggle. Beyond a doubt he has "right &t this moment the greatest following Of any democrat now mentioned in connection with the nomination, but it . may well be doubted whether Hearst's following is made up of the men who - dominate conventions or even attend - conventions as delegates. ' ; j Back of Mr. Hearst is being arrayed the large majority of organized la- borers. His campaign managers, by "means of thdse comprehensive meth-j ods which have made the Hearst pa pers a power, are even now at work, and j they. are keeping in close touch with every part of the United States. To show the trend of organized la bor toward Hearst, the Labor Com pendium ,St Louis (official organ of the national building trades) made its issue of June 21 a special Hearst edi tion, devoting over four pages to ex cerpts from Mr .Hearst's speeches and expressions of personal and- editorial opinion in his favor. The Hearst papers, being somewhat socialistic editorially, are causing the kangaroo socialists no end of worry, for they profess to see a gigantic rt heme of the millionaire newspaper magnate to side-track the "move ment" and put off the coming of the co-operative commonwealth for years and years. This is all the more amus ing when it is remembered that these socialists lay great stress on their pet "materialistic conception of history,1 and make no end of sport of populists for believing" In Mrs. Eddy's "Seven Financial Conspiracies." If we are to accept without question the fatal istic theories of the socialists,-Mr. Hearst is performing his part in bringing . about the downfall of "ca pitalism," and all this "class con scious" shrieking will not prevent the proletariat from rallying around hist banner. ... . But men who have nothing to sell but their labor power are not num erous in democratic national conven tions, and whether Mr. Hearst can capture the nomination remains, to be seen.' ' . - " ;' INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL WORK In the election contests that take place this fall The Independent can do most effective work if it is put in the hands of the people. There are thou sands of men voting the republican ticket under protest in every state in the Union. They see the tariff made a shelter for the trusts; they see the trust methods expanding in every at rection and all that they need to make them ( fighters against plutocracy and imperialism is a little information They are republicans simply for the want of information! They know how they suffered from It he exaction of the coal trust last winter. The farmers know that while the equipment of the railroads has been doubled during the last ten years the roads refused to furnish them cars and the elevators i ef used to take their grain until the manipulators got ready. They know how the price of machinery has raised since the harvester trust was formed, but they do not know how to escape these exactions. What they need is information and The Independent fur nishes that every week. All these people are overwhelmed with papers that are sent to them free, so many Indeed that the men who work have not the time to read half of them, but they do not contain a line that would be of benefit In enabling these men to solve the problems that confront them. Plutocracy is resolved that such in formation shall not reach them and Madden and his cohorts at Washing ton throw every obstacle that hellish ingenuity can invent in the way of an extension of the circulation cf The Independent, while every facility Is given to plutocratic papers to spread their falsehoods to every part of the union. The Independent has grown to its present circulation by the ef forts of those who read it and show it to their, neighbors. And it appeals to them to continue to work for the uplifting of mankind in the same un selfish way. Let the education of the people go onsyvywvs Since the people of Chicago conciud for at every election and have made it a practice to go to the polls and vote, for at every election ' and have it a practice to go to the polls and vot they have obtained several things of vast Importance, the last of which is ar. ordinance that secures to them pure milk ; and stops the sale of skimmedmilk as genuine whole milk. rnf Special flail Order ifiUVJS Clothing Sale Write for Samples or Send Your Order. Every Garment Guaraa teed Satisfactory or Your Money Back . uu fiiU LnlU-12 Special . . $5.00 Suit Coat and Vest $3. 75 Pants Men's Suits made from all wool worst eds will be sold by Hayden Bros, for 15.00. All well made and have good lin ings , and trimmiogs. They're : put to gether to stay together; and come in regular sizes also stout and slim cuta, made in four button cutaway sack style. In all sizes f iorn 34 to 46.. - ; Your home merchant will tell you that it is cheap at $8.00. If you don't like them after you get them we want you to send them back to us and we will refund your money. This applies to anything we sell as well as these suits. '; . . : ' '; Pure Worsted Four-Button 5ack Suit $9.00 j Coat and Vest, $7.oo.- Pants not " old separate. ; - " Men's fine pure worsted suits in a neat stripe and cut in the very Jatest styles, four button cutaway sack, ! ; This material is made from pure , long worsted yarn, will probably wear longer and -gire as much satisfaction as ' any Cloth; that you can procure' no matter what price you pay. The coat, if made with hand padded shoulders, hair cloth fronts which keeps coat in perfect shape; also lined, with a good serge, lining and well tailored throughout. Comes in sizes from 34 to 46, regulars. NEW GROCERY LIST NOW ' READY FREE FOR THE ASKING iMiUiotl iKIU Wholesale Supply House Omaha,Neb. Hereafter skimmed milk will have to carried in cans painted red and ev ery customer will know, what he gets. Ihe board of health says that the or dinance will save the lives of hundreds of babies during the coming hot sea son. There were seven human devils In the form-of aldermen who voted against.the ordinance. They were will- ing , to . murder hundreds, of - infant children so that a few of their con stituents could sell skimmed milk for the genuine article and thereby make a few dollars. Such degenerates a? tl ose seven aldermen should be driv en off the face ! the earth. :: .There is no place for the like of them even among savages, and , . especially not among civilized-men. Whenever a reform movement is started that interferes with any of the special, privileges of corporations th2 dailies never fail to denounce those who are active in it as .''irresponsible parties.",- That phrase they think i3 a crusher. When it comes ,tp. govern ment one man is just. as "responsible" as another, The day laborer, has one vote ,, and the multi-millionaire one vote, the government . rests upon the shoulders of those who vote, and .the responsibility is alike upon alt Those who are advocating in Chicago the ,im- mediate public , ownership of the street car. lines are denounced by, tho Tribune and other plutocratic and cor poration dailies as "irresponsible in dividuals," and they seemjto thin that settles the whole question, al though among these same Individuals can be found merchants, lawyers, doc tors, educators 1.3 well as wage-work ers. When it comes to government no man of sound mind, twenty-one yean old or over, is an "irresponsible par ty." The performances of some of the labor unions ati' perfectly absurd and if a halt is not called the whole sys tem of organize! labor -.7111 be over thrown. A man by the name or ueret- ti down In Vermont employed fourteen stone cutters, signed the union scale and conformed to all the rules of the union. He had a rush of work and his patrons pushed him to get the stone ordered. He went into his shop and to help things along began to sharpen the tools that the stone cut ters used. The blacksmiths' union made complaint to the stone cutters' union that tho men were working in a shop with a non-union man, and his fourteen men were called put .Cerettl then tried to join the stone, cutters' union and they would not admit 11m. He tried to join the blacksmiths ..un ion. They wouldn't have him either. Therehe is. THe is not allowed tPt work for himself : and the unions will -not allow any one to workTfdr him It is no wonder that the men :,ot brains among the unions are getting discour aged. They see the patlenfand -intelligent work of years in building up organized labor being destroyed. The sharks who deal in securities are sending up long howls because "the public," that is, the gudgeons who have" been losing their money, will no longer buyr The wail of the Chicago publication called "Farm LoanS and City Bonds" is particularly long and .loud; Finding that no more money can be made in that line it now advo cates ''farm loans in. Nebraska and elsewhere. In its argument it tries to show that this is a much better graft than national banking and . makes a statement concerning the loss that bankers suffer in taking government deposits on which they pay no inter est but which must be secured by gov ernment bonds. It says that the bank er must buy government 2s at 168 1-2. Tim frtarlrcf Tvr!., trr Mvprnmraf 3a !s 106 to 105 1-2. It Is that kind of lying that these sharpers indulge in to fleece the people out of their hard earnings. Then think that thft r.ontrollinfirDOwer in politics is in the hands of such men! It is about time for these men to make a drive to get loans on farm mortgages. There is a panic coming in the future and If tL:r can only induce farmers to mortgage their lands to make improvements or to buy addi tional manchinery, it will not be long before they will come around and take the farms In as they did in 1893-'94. The people of Philadelphia pay their money to the republican boodlers of that city with the same cheerfulness 8nd alacrity that the farmers of Ne braska pay the taxes for the railroads. The mayor of Philadelphia who has just retired had known debts of $40, 000 when he entered upon his duties. He Is now the president 01 a big na tional bank, -