AUGUST 27, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
CLXYELAXD'S CHAHCKg
a somewhat general view of the po
litics! situation, and in doing so base
any conclusion upon undisputed facts.
That there is serious division in the
democratic party and that, as Louis F.
Post says, the Bryan democracy is
making the fight of its life, goes with
out saying. That' there is ar division
in the republican party, wide and seri
ousous, is not so well known, but
there are many facts that lead think
ing men, even in the republican party,
to fear that it will have most disas
tious effects. The Wall Street Jour
nal pays:
"President Roosevelt, as it well
known, has offended powerful Wall
street interests in three ways:
First, he directed his attorney
general to bring suit against the
Northern Securities company; sec
ond, he invited John Mitchell, pres
ident of the united mine workers,
to the White house, and took steps
" to bring about a settlement of the
anthracite coal strike in a way
that, was not pleasing to the coal
operators; third, he has publicly
advocated, and , has had enacted
into law, a policy of publicity to
be applied to the industrial com
panies doing an interstate busi
ness. Any one of these things
things would have been cause
enough, from the standpoint of
that lesser Wall street, which looks
at everything through the micros
cope of its own immediate selfish
interests, to have merited Presi
dent Roosevelt's defeat for a sec
ond term. All three of them to
gether constituted an indictment
against him so strong that it has
been the general belief that no
measure however drastic would be
neglected to bring about his re
tirement at the end of his present
term."
Taking all these things into consid
eration what conclusion can be drawn
concerning the outcome of the next
presidential election? Cleveland is
and always has been the idol of Wall
street. If the monied interests there
throw their whole force and power to
Cleveland, will he not carry New York,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jer- j
sey, Delaware, Maryland and all the
southern states? Cannot the monied
interests buy Indiana which is al
ways "for sale? The republican party
in Wisconsin is in a factional fight to
a finish, "and wir not the railroad re
publicans there join forces with Vilas,
who was a member of Cleveland's
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him? Is Illinois in any shape, after
the disgraceful administration of Gov
ernor Yates, to put up a fight that will
liold that state to the republicans?
Cleveland has always been an anti
imperialist and Massachusetts is hon
eycombed with anti-imperialist socie
ties, every voter in them being per
suaded that that is the all important
question. The stagnation and suffer
ing that has been caused by the stop
page of so many cotton mills, the loss
that wage-workers have suffered in
consequence of the tremendous fall in
stocks which they were induced to
purchase by the republican papers,
and the rise in the cost of living on
account of trust prices has put even
old Massachusetts in the doubtful col
umn. The Independent called attention to
. the fact two or three years ago that the
monied interests might conclude that
It would be cheaper for them to take
up the democratic party than to pay
the awful assessments that Mark Han
na levied on them to buy elections, for
they would have all the southern
states without cost and womd only
have to buy two or three, whereas un
der Mark Hanna they had to buy a
good many.
Think over all these things and each
man ask himself whether the claim of
the leaders of the Cleveland democ
racy that they "can win" is entirely
groundless.
In such a contest as that, the west
and the northwest would scarcely be
factors in the contest. All these states
might go for Roosevelt with over
whelming majorities and it would not
affect the election of a president Wall
street would not spend a dollar in them
and it would be "mighty poor pick
ing" for the politicians.
Neither must it be forgotten that
there are many shrewd republican poli
ticians who think that the best thing
for them to do is to let the Cleveland
democrats have the next election. They
believe that there will be a panic and
hard times before long and if they
can manage to have that come under a
democratic administration they think
that then they could come in and hold
the government for many years with
out much effort or cost, as all that
would be necessary for them to say
would be: "Look at the misery and
suffering a democratic administration
always brings. If you want a reign
of soup houses and starvation, vote
the democratic ticket"
The quality of sophomore rhetoric
never equalled at any commencement
exercise in the last hundred years.
DOWKIllQBBYAK
The congressional committee of the
democratic party, which is a very im
portant part of the: national commit
tee, has a press bureau which sends
out during the campaigns and sessions
of congress correspondence to the
weekly .papers. That correspondence
used to come to The Independent, but
this paper seems to have been taken
off the list It is beginning its work
at a very early period as we see it ap
pearing in some of the democratic pa
pers already, although congress is not
i Tt ooooinn on1 Vi ttAlUtMl MAHnjv
- wvmwavu muu liattuuui l-CLUUpCLigll
is nearly a year in the future. Among
the papers in this state that are print
ing it is the Fremont Herald-Leader.
Here is an extract from it:
"Many men who supported Bry
an in 1896 and 1900 agree that he"
cannot possibly be called a candi
date again. They realize that the
issues will not be the same next
year and that the people have put
the seal of their condemnation on,
some of the issues on which he
twice led the party to defeat."
What The Independent wishes to
call attention to is that the national
committee of the democratic party has
joined the crowd that has been deter
mined to down Bryan and the Kansas
City platform. This committee is the
one that fought the Bryan campaign
in 1900. These are the men who
made the Kansas City platform and
nominated Bryan. Now they have
deserted both Bryan and- the platform.
They are in control of the democratic
organization. With that fact staring
every man in the face, what possible
hope can there be that Bryan prin
ciples will prevail at the next demo
cratic national convention? The Den
ver conference sized the situation up
right.
RACE PREJUDICE
The lying tendencies in the great
dailies are not confined to matters
political at all. They cater to every
vice and every prejudice of mankind.
They endeavor to create the idea that
tnere is but one section of one race
that is really entitled to be called
"men" and that is the Anelo-Saxon.
Everybody else in their plan is "in-
lenor. instead of cultivating the
broad principle of "the brotherhood of
man" they teach race prejudice. It
crops out against the Indian as well
a3 all other races. That has gone to
such an extent that Colonel Pratt of
the great Carlisle Indian school felt
called upon to make a protest against
it in his official report to the com
missioner of Indian affairs. He says:
"From time to time throughout
the history of the school illustrated
stories have appeared in the public
prints, especially in the Sunday
editions, making most flagrantly
false allegations against returned
Carlisle students. Within the past
five years as many as twenty such
stories have been printed, all of
them entirely false, and some of
them most malignant in character.
There has seemed to be a syndi
cate of fabricators moved by a
common purpose to disparage and
manufacture prejudice. My re
peated contradictions of these
stories to newspapers themselves
did not stop these misrepresenta
tions." He then calls attention to the story
about White Buffalo which was printed
in the Philadelphia North American,
which was profusely illustrated, con
cerning this graduate of Carlisle who
was said to have murdered two or
three wives, every word of which was
a lie made up out of whole cloth.
Colonel Pratt sued the North Ameri
can for libel, but that paper made a
full retraction and prosecuted the cor
respondent who sent the article.
All the great educators and large
numbers of the best citizens of this'
country lot upon the great dailies as
distinctly demoralizing in their ten
dencies. The idiocy of the claim that the
possession of the Philippines strength
ens the militarv nowpr of iha TtnHo
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States should be so plain that a mul
let head could see it We are weaker
by just as much force, naval and
military, as it will take to guard and
defend a thousand islands 7,000 miles
away, whose inhabitants will join
with the first nation that proclaims
war against us. How many soldiers
and how many ships will it take to
keep control of those islands against
a foreign enemy and all the inhabi
tants thereof? The European mon
archies were jealous of the power of
the United States and every one of
them urged the imperialists on to sub
jugate the Philippines for the purpose
of restricting the power of these
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It is hard for the ordinary! man
who is not acquainted with "the pro
position that reform papers are up
against" to fully realize the nature of
the difficulty that confronts every per
son who attempts to print a paper that
is opposed to trusts and corporations.
Competition we will meet without a
word of grumbling, but when we are
forced to enter a field where our com
petitors give away their goods that is
another proposition. The Independent
has often called attention to the fact
that the farmers' homes are flooded
with newspapers that are given away.
During the last year these plutocratic
papers have invented a new scheme
which enables them not only to give
away their papers, but to get unlim
ited advertising of the fact. Their
form of procedure is illustrated in an
item in the Greeley (Neb.) Citizen.
The Citizen says:
"The Nebraska State Journal
sends us an advertising proposi
tion, offering to furnish their
weekly edition to us at 15 cents a
year. We presume our democratic
neighbor will advertise the Jour
nal's proposition, as it did that of
the Chicago Inter-Oceans a short
time since, and as the price,of the
Journal is so small it might offer
it free to new subscribers."
The Greeley Citizen has guessed
right That is just what the corpora
tion papers have been doing for over a
year. They first tried it by putting
their papers down to 25 cents a year
in clubbing offers with country week
lies and now they have reduced it to
15 cents. The State Journal is not
the only one in that sort of work.
The whole gang is at it. It is, not to
be supposed that the publishers of
these plutocratic sheets foot the losses.
There is a fund somewhere to be
drawn upon.
That is the proposition that The In
dependent and every other reform pa
per is "up against." We must enter a
field to supply a newspaper demand
where our competitors give away their
papers. It will be a hopeless fight un
less the readers of The Independent
take a hand. They have done so in
all the years of the past. They and
they alone have given this paper the
w."de circulation that it has. The war
upon plutocracy is no child's play. It
takes brave men to carry it on and
they must have self-sacrificing sup
porters to back them. No greater
calamity could happen to this nation
than to drive out of existence every
raper that will not sell its editorial
columns to the worshippers of Mam
mon, and no more truly patriotic
work can be done than in extending
the circulation of a paper that fights
plutocracy and corporations from one
end of the year to another.
The eastern dailies hold up their
hands in holy horror because Mr. Bry
an called Cleveland a "bunco steerer."
II is tfco opinion of The Independent!
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that Bryan let Cleveland oil alto
gether too easy. It was a common
practice with senators of national,
reputation when Cleveland sold J.
Tierpont Morgan those bonds at 13
cants on the dollar less than the mar
1 et price and out of which Morgan
cleared about $9,000,000, to call him
worse names than that It has also
teen the practice of these same dailies
whenever they wanted to round up the
mullet heads up to "vote 'er straight"
not only to talk about "Cleveland soup
houses," .but to apply to that individ
ual epithets such as only those
schooled in political strjfe can invent
and apply. Now they would have us
believe that their tender sensibilities
have been most, severely shocked be
cause Bryan called Cleveland a "bun
co steerer."
Judge Brewer's advocacy of the ex
tension of government by injunction
and abolishment of the rights of ap
peal for persons accused of crime in
dicates that he has become a believer
in the doctrine that the judge can do
10 wrong. He would abolish all safe
guards that the people have set up
against the human frailty and fallibil
ity of men elevated to the bench.
There is no need of them "for the
judge can do no wrong." Thj editor
of The Independent once told ih
Lporation lawyers who were acsembled
Deiore tne board of transportation that
when the patriots of '76 shot the doc
trine clear across the Atlantic that
"the king could do wrong," there went
along with it that other and more in
famous doctrine that "the court could
rot err."
The power that railroads exercise
over their employes Is shown in the
state of affairs in the First and Third
wards of Lincoln. The populists and
democrats carry those wards and have
cow the two councilmen, but there
are scarcely enough known populists
and democrats to be found in them to
fill the delegation to a county conven
tion. Most of the voters are railroad
employes and a e known on primary
registration books as republicans.
When it comes to voting the republi
cans are largely in the minority.
The words "populist" and "popul
irlic" and ."populism" have become a
permanent part of the English lan
guage. What the final meaning that
will attach to them will be cannot be
told. All the plutocratic papeTs use
them at present to describe anything
that is opposed t? the continual domi
nation of money, the schemes of the
trusts and consolidators of railroad
systems. In this they include all the
reforms demanded in the Kansas City
platform as well as the distinctly de
fined populist principles. Such expres
sions as "out-Bryan Bryan in popul
istic principles" is often used. In the
eastern papers and reform, any change
from the doctrine of liassez faire is
called "populism.'
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