AUGUST 27, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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Wither do they load? Fraught as they
hare been, fraught as they are with
blessings and with misfortunes for us
of the earth, for those who have pre
ceded us, for those who will follow us.
Pregnant Trith good or with evil?
The future we cannot peer far into.
The past is unalterable. We live in
the present In it we can labor. La
bor which influences the present, the
future. Shall our energies be con
centrated mainly upon self-aggrandizement
which, even if accomplished,
proves unsatisfying?
With clearer insight into the un
changable principle of justice which
underlies all of nature's laws, there
will come a melting away of the de
basing strifes ot the past and the
present.
A conception faint at first, but grow
ing, expanding, becoming more and
more intense, more and more lucid,
will sway us, control us and lead us
aright. Will lead us into the pathway
of true advancement Will urge us to
seek Divine assistance as we labor to
- purify, to ennoble, to elevate ourselves
and the race. EDWARD STERN.
Philadelphia, Pa.
MAINE POPULISTS
National CommittMiu an Smith Say Pop
llsm in Main la Not Dead bat
Sleeping
(The communication below was
dated July 23, but did not reach The
Independent until July 28 too late for
publication before the Denver confer
ence. However, as giving an insight
into the situation in Maine, its publi
cation now will be helpful. If Mr.
Smith had used the word "democrat"
instead of "fusionist," where he speaks
of gallant Tom Watson, it would have
been more in accordance with the
facts. Here in Nebraska we had four
Watson and four Sewall electors. It
is highly probable that Bryan's defeat
in 1896 was in no small measure due
to keeping Sewall on the ticket Ed.
led.)
Editor Independent: - I received your
communication of May 28, also circular
letter of May 16, and several copies of
The Independent I must congratulate
you on the noble work you are doing
in trying to gather our straggling
forces together for the coming fray.
In my humble opinion there never
was a time in the history of our coun
try when reform was more needed
than now.- Nor were the people ever
core aissausnea ana mure rea.uy lui
a change than now. It. therefor be
comes the duty of every reformer, and
all of those who are opposed to the
two, old parties, and who know our
whole social and economic system is
v.rong, to assist in breaking up this
hellish oligarchy which will engulf
tbis nation and make a race of slaves
more cringing and dependent than ever
chattel slavery was in its worst form.
I believe , there will be a divided
democratic 'party and dissatisfaction
in the republican party in 1904.
Now is the opportunity of the peo
ple's party; will we grasp it? I think
so.
It is with pleasure that I see the two
wings of the people's party coming to
' gether.
Populism in the state of Maine is
tot dead, but sleeping. We have no
state organization at present. We are
waiting for the south, and west, to
start the ball rolling; then Maine will
wake up with her old-time vigor as
she did when we cast 50,000 votes for
the national greenback party before
fusion cast her blight upon us.
The socialists of Maine and Massa
chusetts are hurting us some just now,
but socialism stands no show for
power; it is visionary and spasmodic.
If the people will not grasp populism
thev will certainly not embrace social
ism. If they wish to become a factor
they must come back to the people's
party.
I make a nrediction. We hear it
said that the democratic. party is dead.
The democratic party will never die;
it don't know enough to die. But the
republican party will go into dissolu
tion. It will die from its own strength
and corruption and on its ruins will be
built up a new party of the people from
the better element of that party and
democrats of the Bryan type. And
when the new party shall have accom
plished its mission. and outgrown its
usefulness it will follow its predeces
sors, the old federal, whip, and re
publican parties, and on its ruins will
be built up a new party of the people
with new issues to combat the demo
cratic party; for into the democratic
party all exploiters of labor will go
These things must be or this republic
will be destroyed and all liberty lost
The fusionists made one of the
neatest mistakes of their life when
they threw gallant Tom Watson over
board and indorsed Sewall. Watson as
a statesman was to the wage-slave
what Phillips as an orator was to the
chattel slave.
If the fusionist3 had stood by Wat
son, Bryan would have been elected.
He only needed about 500 votes in five
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they had been true to Watson. But
it is no use to look back upon the past
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impossible for me to do so, as I have
just got on: a bed of sickness.
LEVI W. SMI 111, "
Member National Committee Peo
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Vinal haven, Me.
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Cause of Lynching
Editor Independent: On August 6.
1003, President Roosevelt addressed a
letter to Governor Bur bin of Indiana
an executive who for three years has
refused to surrender to the orderly
procedure of law a fugitive from jus
tive, accused of one of the highest of
crimes a letter in which, after eulog
izing this persistent obstructor of law
as a courageous opponent of anarchy,
1he president proceeded to dilate at
great length on the recent "growing
prevalence and barbarity of lynchings,
especially of negroes, in this country.
Whether the president's labored ef
fort was wholly uninspired by a hope
to influence thereby the colored vote in
the approaching elections, the writer
expresses no opinion. The object of
the undersigned is to direct attention
to what he deems an important cause
of the alarming evil of which the pres
ident treats an element in this mat
ter which the president, with charac
teristic superficiality, ignores.
Did it ever occur to President Roose
velt that the unusual frequency and
barbarity of lynchings in the United
States began since President McKin
ley declared a war of conquest in the
Orient? Does not the president know
that war is the abrogation of al! civil
and criminal jurisprudence, that it is
but accumulated violence, anarchy it
self? Does he not know that all war
is brutalizing, that a war of subjuga
tion is more brutalizing than a:i ordi
r.ary war, and that war is most brutal
izing when the victims are considered
by the conqueror of an inferior race?
Does he not know that the American
army of occupation has customarily
legarded the Filipinos as thus inferior
so allied to the negroes, in fact, that
it has been common to refer to them
as "niggers" (a term, by the way,
which always properly carries with it
more reproach to him who uses it
than to him to whom it is applied),
and to characterize their indiecrimi
r.ate slaughter as analogous to the de
lightful "pig-sticking" by the British
invaders in South Africa that even
the Filipino non-combatant has been
generally treated by American sol
diers and civilians alike in a manner
which, when it was not patronizing,
was domineering and insolent? Does
the president think for a moment that
the account of such practices by Amer
icans abroad is not calculated to in
cite strenuous Americans to similar
contempt and violence at home; that
the return to this country of tons of
thousands of American soldiers thus
Irevitably brutalized abroad does not
inject into society an element ripe for
the very evils which he denounces? If
Filipino "niggers" may be ruthlessly
fhot down by hundreds of thousands,
by American soldiers, because they
desired the same national indepen
dence for which our revolutionary
fathers died, and their impoverished
survivors be treated with general con
tempt and insolence, is it any wonder
that there is a considerable increase
cf lynchings in this country of Ameri
can "niggers" for some of the worst
of crimes?
Does our strenuous president think
tbat American barbarity abroad will
not inspire ' American barbarity at
home? Does he expect to gather
grapes from thorns or figs from this-
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