POPULISM VIHMLY ESTABLISHED
Twice the republicans have had to
fly to populist principles to save them
selves and the country from wreck
and ruin. The long depression that
followed the stoppage of the coinage
of silver proved so disastrous that the
republicans were compelled to resort
to the populist demand for more mon
ey and for three or four years they
coined more silver" than was ever
coined before in the same length of
time in all the history of the .govern
ment. The result was just what the
populists said it would be. There was
a revival of business and a season of
prosperity set in. If populist princi
ples had continued to be applied, that
prosperity would have been "general
and continued. But they were aban
doned again and wreck and' ru?n stares
evervhodv in th face who were en
gaged in their .abandonment. Trusts
were allowed to be formed and hun
dreds of millions of watered stock was
issued. The president allowed the
Sherman anti-trust act to become a
nullity and the interstate commerce
act was not enforced. The result is
that through transactions on Wall
street, criminal in their very nature,
hundreds of thousands of people who
had saved a little money have lost it
all by investing it in stocks. In the
eastern states there . is misery and
want on every hand.
But once again ;,has the government
been forced to adopt a populist prin
ciple. The attempt to let the banks
regulate the amount of money in cir
culation resulted in bringing the
'country to the ragged edge of a gulf
of despair. Destruction, not only to
Wall street interests, but legitimate
staring the nation in the face. In this
desperate situation Secretary Shaw
was compelled to adopt, as far as pos
Bible, the populist doctrine that the
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rency ana maKe money more scarce,
To stop the work of the bankers, to
maintain the volume and increase it if
possible, the secretary resorted to ev
ery governmental means within his
reach and undertook by governmental
action to control the volume of money
in spite" of the bankers.
The only two acts of congress in the
interest of the common people who
Jive on the farms and in the cities
that have passed congress in the last
thirty years was one forced through
by the skill and active work of Tom
Watson, a populist, and the other by
the eleven populists who were in con
gress in 1893 and the latter, the in
come tax, was knocked out by a plu-
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it, they had to reverse the decisions of
that court for a hundred years.
The events of the last decade have
firmly established , the soundness of
populist principles. They are sure of
final, adoption as that this republic
shall exist,
WHAT'S YOUR POLITICS?
They have been, trying the Lincoln
system of making a man publicly de
clare what party he affiliates with be
fore they will allow him to register
or vote at a primary. The voters at
Boston did not accept this inquisitorial
work with the same meekness that the
citizens- of this city have done. The
Boston papers say that this inquiry of
the election officers in regard to the
person's politics was generally resent
ed as an impertinence, and in many
cases resulted In the person's refusal
to vote. In oi precinct booth, a
middle-aged man, after giving his
name and being admitted within the
rail, was then accosted In the usual
form employed: "We have three bal
lots here republican, democratic arid
socialist; which one do you want to
vote?" "I don't see that it is any of
your business," declared the man, in
dignantly; and when the law was ex
plained to him he turned on his heel
and left, declaring that no man Had
heretofore known bow he had toted,
and no one should know at this late
date. At another precinct came an
elderly man, who was asked the same
question. The reply:
"Sir, that is nono of your business.
I have voted in East Boston for a num
ber of years, and I don't want any man
to inquire into my politics. I have a
right to vote as I please."
The law is likely 'to create a good
deal of uproar and cases will be
brought to test its constitutionality.
There being no populist party in Mas
sachusetts, it disfrahchises all those
independent voters who w ill not say
that they belong to either the repub
lican, democratic, or socialist parties.
Under the law there is no chance for
the independent voter at all. He is
put in the same category as the negro
in ; the south.
WILL THAT DAY COME? '
In a letter to the editor of The In
dependent one of the most distin
guished men now living said: "The
time will come when the subjugation of
the Filipinos and the changing of this
freev republic into an empire will be
made the paramount issue in a presi
dential campaign and I have faith
enough in the love of liberty among
the common people to believe that it
will be decided right." Things are
happening all 'the time that tend to
show that the confidence placed in the
.love of liberty by the common people
will have it fruition in the re-establishment
of the doctrine of the Declar
ation of Independence.
The Independent noticed the ar
rival of a transport at New York
bringing the bodies of 302 dead sol
diers. The incident is attracting wide
attention. The fact that there were
300 dead bodies in the hold of the ves
sel drove the passengers in hysterical
efforts to dispel the gloom. One writ
er describes the long passage of some
weeks as follows:
' "All had agreed to dismiss sor
row the day they sailed for home.
They stocked up with liquors at
Singapore and indulged in a
'Dutch dinner, which would not
bear repetition. They had sup
pers, dances, s balls, punctuated
with varied revelr.y, and the last
Thursday night got up a masquer
ade 'which surpassed the fondest
expectations of its promoters.' "
A poet describes the horrible af
fair in these words:
"Now let's be merry!" the captain
said,
"We laugh at the skipper's curse
The living must live though the dead
be dead,
So here's to the floating hearse!
And here's to the dying that huddle in
crowds
Where the pestilent breezes blow,)
And here's to the ghosts that grin in
the shroud J,
And here's to the boys below!"
"Now form quadrille!" is the merry
call;
They sway as the prompter bids;
Now swing your partners balance
all!"
Just over the coffin lids.
The shrouded listen beneath their feet
And whisper "A masquerade show!"
And groans from above the dancers'
greet -
And a laugh from the dead below.
WHICH IS MORE SENSIBLE?
From the very first organization of
civilized society the fact has been rec
ognized that there must be some things
owned in common. At first the vil
lage streets, the court houses and a
few other buildings were the only
things so ownea. As society grew
more complex it was found that the
public welfare necessitatedthe public
ownership of still more things. Pri
vate highways upon which toll had to
be paid by travelers were made public
property, then little by little followed
the public 'ownership of municipal
utilities, such as waterworks, street
car lines, gas, electricity and tele
phones.
The populist party from Its begin
ning has recognized that there must be
some things owned by the public, but
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lne season for Heating Stoves, Cooking Stoves and ranges is already upon us and
we can show you a nice line to select from. Also have about three car loads of
heating stoves which will be here in a few days. You will save money by looking
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Also making some nice prices on table dishes, etc.
Fine china decorated Chocolate pots 49
Fine china decorated cracker jars. , ..-'.49
. Decorated cups and saucers, each. 03
Decorated Flemish cuspedors , 10
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Grocery Department
This department is always kept well filled with nice, clean, fresti goods, and
you can secure anything in any quantity of the good things to eat. Our grocery
force is kept busy because when you once give us a trial order.you will continue
to trade here. We make a specialty of prompt delivery of groceries. Here are a
few prices quoted:
Large sacks white or yellow corn meal ..$ .12 J
' 10 lb sacks Graham flour 19
Hand picked Navy beans ,. .'03f
Tall cans fancy Alaska salmons, per can .'.'.'.. .09
3 lb can Fancy apricots, peaches, pears and plums " '
in heavy syrup for table .. .12
Tea sif tings, per lb ,. .12J
New crop Ceylon. ,29
Imperial tea...... .30
Good coffee .'.V. .7.7.'. .09
Old Ceylon Java & Mocha coffee, per lb... 7... 7.V.' .20
. H B. & C. Java & Mocha coffee, per lb 17 "
Uur out of town patrons will bear in mind that we can furnish you with gro
ceries as well as goods in any other line which we carry. If you have not received
our special catalogues, we will be glad to mail you same upon receipt of name and
address. When in Omaha, make this your headquarters.
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Dealers In Everything. 1 6th and Dodge Sts., Omaha, Neb.
has been insistent that other things
must remain in individual ownership.
The division point between public and
private ownership by the people's par
ty has been that railroads, telegraphs,
telephones, waterworks, gas, light,
and in fact everything was a monopoly
and in which practically all the' peo
ple were interested, should become
public" property and that all other
things in which one man or only a
few men were interested should "re
main in private ownership. That is
certainly as far r.s a majority of the
people will go for a generation or two.
It would not revolutionize society and
government, as would the proposition
for the common ownership of all the
means of production and distribution.
The populist proposition is sensible,
sane and has been adopted in some de
grees in so many cities and countries
that it can no longer be denounced as
an "experiment"
The socialists would have everything
in common;, the populists would have
the things above enumerated. Which
is the more sensible political program?
Or shall we wait for revolution and
try to reconstruct society anew upon
the wreck that is left?
HE WOULD N'T DO IT
The Lincoln Star says: "If Abra
ham Lincoln were living and running
as republican candidate for office in
Nebraska he would be denounced as
'a railroad attorney,' 'a corporation
tool,' etc. And yet some of the fusion
organs have the nerve to claim to be
Abraham Lincoln men."
Of course they would. They wouid
be traitors to their principles if they
did not. But if Lincoln were living
he could not run on a republican ticket
unless he proved traitor to all the
principles the advocacy of which en
dear him to all mankind. How would
Lincoln appear running on the imper
ialist state platform of the republican
party? How would he explain away
that Beardstown speech and scores of
other speeches " the same character?
Would he deny that he ever said any
thing about the sappers and miners of
liberty? Would he deny that he ever
gave an opinion about the phrase "all
men" that appears In the Declaration
of Independence. If George Wash
ington or Thomas Jefferson should ac
cept a nomination at the hands of the
Nebraska railroads, on a John L. Web
ster platform, populists would de
nounce them without any compunc
tions of conscience. But George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson
never did anything of that kind and
therefore populists venerate their
memory.
AN UNEQUAL CONTEST '
The injustice of the proposition that
is presented in the claim that a cor- "
poration has. the right to make a con
tract with and hire separately each
individual is preposterous. Now if it
were really a single individual who did
the hiring that sort of a contract would
have something of justice and equality. ,
in it. While under the law a corpora-'
tion is a "person," a single entity, the
truth is that it is an organized aggre-s
gation of many persons, sometimes
numbering thousands. When a work
in gman undertakes to make a contract
single and alone with a corporation, he
is not dealing with an individual, but
ar organization of thousands of indl
riduals acting together, and as one
person. The claim that corporations
and single wage-workers meet on an
equality when making a contract ia
extremely absurd. . It is thousands
against one. Even the largest of the
laoor unions wnen acting together in
making contracts with large corpora
tions are not equal. The proposition
sustained by the great plutocratic dail
ies that corporations have a right to
demand that they deal only with sin
gle individuals In fixing the rate of
wages has no foundation in justice
whatever. It is simply a proposition
to give to the rich the power to op
press and crush the ijor. The con
test is not only unequal as to numbers,
but is much more so as to wealth. The
wage-worker with his union is not
only inferior in numbers, but he is
poor and his opponent is rich. The
corporations have a great advantage
even when dealing with labor when it
is' organized. The plutocrats would
give the corporations still greater ad
vantage than thai. They advocate the"
establishment of absolute tyranny
over wage-workers. The saddest thing
about the whole matter and which!
makes the skies grow blacker over the
hopes and aspirations of .labor is that ;
most of them still continue to vote to
build up the power and Influence of
the corporations.
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