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Th NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
OCTOBER 1, 1903.
Ce tlebrasha Independent
Lincoln, Ktbraska.
LIBERTY BUILDING. 1328 0 STREET
tivated he would be unable to support
bi3 wife and children.
Such were the Romans through the
years and centuries when they were
oppressed to shoot the other half at a
shilling a day whenever trouble arises,
there is some doubt about their being
able to do it in this country whenever
the oppression gets too heavy.
The Adirondack region of New York
has lately been large bought up by a
few millionaires and fenced in; They
intend to make hunting parks, and fish
reserves out of it as the lords and
dukes have done in Europe. One of
these multi-millionaires has recently
fenced in fifteen square miles of this
region which has always been free to
the public, and put up notices all
around it as follows:
"Trespassers Beware! All per
sons are warned against trespass
ing upon these lands or waters, the
same being devoted to the purpose
of propagating and protecting fish,
birds and game and as a private
park. Orlando P. Dexter, owner.
Azro M. Giles, game-keeper and
warden."
The other day Millionaire Dexter
was shot dead from ambush and it is
reported that the lives of others of the
same class of men are not safe in that
region.
The Independent has no sympathy
with murder under any circumstances,
but the conditions that have brought
about this state of affairs is directly
attributable to the course that the
rich have pursued and it is time that
they took warning. They may be able
to get men to marcn with a tin dinner
pail but of which there sticks a piece
of sausage, while the rest of the pail
is empty, but the very men who march,
in those lines are the ones who try
to redress their grievances by commit
ting murder.
"WAX WORSE AND WORSE"
There is a sect that believes that
"the world will wax worse and worse,"
until finally mankind will become so
vile that God will wipe them off the
face of the earth and begin anew. It
must have been men. of that sort that
captured the daily, and most of the
weekly and monthly press of this
country. Nothing could drive man
kind on faster toward such a goal than
the way the grea. dailies are run. In
every field, it seems to be the effort!
to publish less than the truth, more
than the truth and when occasion re
quires, absolute falsehoods, but never
to print the simple "truth itself. It
will sell its honor to the highest bld
dtr, Invade, the privacy of homes, Cor
fu Jt the minds of the youth, sell its
i , '
influence to corrupt politicians, im
poverish by its lies millions of well-to-do
and bring actual starvation and
death upon the poor if only sufficient
boodle is ottered it. Today the : de
cent people of the United States are
practically without a press and their
children are every day fed upon libid
inous literature gathered from, every
foul corner of the globe, contained ia
the sensuous descriptions of the work
of the police and lewd pranks among
the men and wojien. who make what
is called "high society."
In these papers crime and scandals
are so written up as not to make theni
repulsive, take, for instance, the way
that the Tracy murderer's career was
handled,. The papers were filled with
the story for days in which the endur
ance and bravery of the criminal was
described in such a way as to make the
wretch a hero. It produced the effect
of making the readers, especially the
yovng, sympathize with the 'criminal
and desire his final escape. That is
the way the other scandals and crimes
are treated. The demoralization it
produces is unspeakable. American!
homes are flooded with this vile trash'
to such an extent that -when good lit
erature is offered, the reply is always
made: "I get more papers now than
I can read."
The people are opposed to trusts and
uiuuoyunes 01 any kind. They favor
equal rights, equal opportunity and
equal taaxtion of property. Yet when
it comes to decide whether they will
accept equal rights, equal opportunity,
and equal taxation, if to get it re
quires them to vote a ticket that is
named neither republican nor demo
crat, they have so far . preferred a
party name rather than the reforms
that they demand. The reason whyj
they act in that way Is one of thoso
things that no pop can find out.
The wild dreams of the imperialists
of Americanizing tropical countries
are vanishing in air as the years go;
by. During the year 1&92, 11,982 emi
grants went into Cuba, but, only 1,663!
were Americans. During the first si
months of 1893, American emigration
to Cuba had almost ceased, there being
only 114 who went there. In the Phil
Ippines during the last year the num
ber of Americans has decreased from'
13,000 to something below 6,000. This
whole tropical Imperialism business;
was the greatest piece of folly that any;
nation ever committed, .. , . " J
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T. H. T1BBLES, Editor.
C. Q. BE FRAKCE, Associate Editor.
F. D. EAGER, Business Manager.
LIBERTY, WEALTH, DECAY
The result of great accumulations of
wealth has always been the same. It
would be well for us all to remember
what that result has been. The his
tory of nations has been summed up
in three words: liberty, wealth, de
cay. We have had our season of de
votion to liberty, years in which all
men venerated the Declaration of In
dependence. Of late years those ideals
have been completely abandoned by
the ruling party. We have, indulged
in wars of conquest and hold millions
of men as subjects. We have entered
on the stage of wealth and waste of
the products produced by toil. What
will follow next? Let us "look back,"
not on a scene created by the imagina
tion as Bellamy did, but upon the real
facts of history and see if we cannot
draw a lesson from them. When Rome
was great and its people happy, do we
find that men of wealth were consid
ered their greatest men? Was there
immorality . among the governing
classes? Was the family life pure?
Was it considered necessary that their
judges and senators should receive
large salaries? A recent authority
eums up the conditions in Rome dur
ing the long period of its greatness as
follows: ,
The three centuries from the seces
. feion of the Plebs to the close of the
second Punic war was a virtuous per
iod. There was no divorce in Rome
through all that time. The' home life
of the people was clean and pure. Men
and women respected the moral law
and respected it because they vener
ated it.
Throughout this long period the life
of the Roman people was one of tem
perance, frugality and simplicity.
Rufinus was degraded from the con
sulship for possessing ten pounds of
silver plate when the law allowed
him no more than eight ounces. Atil
ius received the consular dignity be-i
hind the plow. Regulus, though twice
consul, possessed no more than one
little field. Fabricius and Aemelius
prepared their simple meals with their
own hand3. '
Cincinnatus, who was once consul
and twice dictator, after delivering his
country from he' enemies, retired to
his small tract of land, upon which
he maintained himself by his own la
bors. Fabricius, consul and victorious
general, cultivated his own little field
With his own hands.
Manius, the conqueror of Pyrrhus,
refused the thirty acres of land offered
him by the people in gratitude for his
great services, deeming such liberality
unnecessary and excessive. Regulus,
while In command of the army In
Africa, wrote to the senate asking for
his recall, on the ground that the
manager - of his five-acre farm was
dead; that the hired man had run
Away, carrying the farming tools with
Jilm, and that unless his farm was,cul-
KEEf ORDER
The Independent has often expressed
its belief that it would be difficult, to
keep order when this satanic trust
boom bursts. Things that have hap
pened during the last week indicating
that it will require all the patriotism
of the best citizens, especially in the
eastern states where the population is
not made up of sane, self-respecting
farmers as it largely is in tLe west, to
keep order. There have been danger
ous riots at Sault Ste Marie, Mich.,
where the starving workingmen hare
been demanding their back pay from
the bankrupt Lake Superior Consoli
dated company and at this writing no
one can foresee when, or how, it will
end.
, The state of affairs in Colorado is
such as was never seen in this country
before. Armed troops in the court
room and a judge so overawed that
he dare not direct the enforcement of
the orders of the court.
Far in the eaJt just as serious a
state of affairs exists. William Rocke
feller, who owns 50,000 acres of land
in th'e AdirOndacks, which he has
turned into a game and fish reserve
and around which he has posted no
tices warning everybody that they are
trespassers if they step on his land,
has fled with his family on a special
train in fear of his life. One million
aire like unto him has already been
shot from ambush.
The Independent denounces all dis
order everywhere. That is not the way
to right the wYongs of which com
plaint is made. It will only tend to
fasten tighter upon the people the
tyranny that they would throw off. A
mob must always go down before an
organized and trained soldiery. The
people must get rid of this oppression
in the same way that they imposed it
upon themselves. They have contin
ued to vote for it for ten years. It
will probably take, ten years ..to vote it
off, but that is the only way to do it.
If a republican governor had not been
elected in Colorado there would have
been no military despotism in that
state today. If there had been no re
bates on the railroads there would
now be no multi-millionaires like
Rockefeller. -., .
HOW ABOUT TRUSTS ?
vThe organization of new trusts has
come to a standstill. The conditions
resulting from, those already formed
have frightened the whole nation. The
question is being asked everywhere:
Has the trust come to stay? One thing
in certain: the methods used in their
organization are now everywhere de
nounced and will never again be pop
ular. Those that have been formed are
toppling over one by one the greatest
of them all, the steel trust, being
crowded to the verge of destruction
and no one knows how many more are
in the same condition. Perhaps a few
of them, those having men in control
of exceptional ability, may endure, but
of such men there are very few in the
world. The glory of those that shone
the brightest for a while have been
dimmed. Schwab and Morgan are not
the financial divinities that they were
two years ago. The one unjUmmed
star left among them is Rockefeller,
and his standing results from peculiar
conditions. Let the government own
the railroads and in the next genera
tion there will be no" Rockefellers.
A MILLIONAIRE MURDERED
Some very serious things have been
happening in this country of late.
They are of such a nature to give
pause to the class that has been ex
ploiting the common people and ac
cumulating millions through special
privileges. It may bo that the popula
tion of this country can be driven into
the conditions of the peasantry of Eu
rope, but The Independent doubts it.
While it Is true that the plutocracy of
Europe can always hire half of the
8ood Cloibing.
Tor Beys.
C1LOTIICS that you find in clothing stores of the good class
J are clothes that are built to wear. They're good clothes,
made out of good, substantial materials, well put together.
You'll seldom find a good clothing stcrsthat handles clothes
in which the wear is sacrificed for the sake of show. A good
looking suit for a child can be made of handsome cloth that's
poor, trimmed with shoddy silks and satins, cotton ribbons and
potato buttons. They won't wear. Clothes that are made for
us are made to wear while they last, and last while they wear.
You'll find no shoddy about a "NEBRASKA" boys' suit In
calling your attention t6 our boys' suits we suggest looking on
page 18 of our Fall and Winter Catalog. We want to impress
upon you one point WEAR. These suits are marked to sell
for $2, and sell for a great deal more by your home clothier.
Don't be Bamboozled.
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