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8 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT OCTOBER 8, 1903. the ticbraska Independent Lincoln, Htbraska. , LIBERTY BUILDING. 1328 O STREET Entered according; to Act of Congress of March f, 1879, at the Postoflice at Lincoln, Nebraska, u ccood-clasa mail matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. FIFTEENTH YEAR. $1.00 PER YEAR When making remittances do not leave fcioncy wiiii news agencies, postmasters, CtC.t to be forwarded by them. They frequeutly forget or remit a diCerent amount than was left with them, and the aubscriter fails to get i ot ei credit. Add.csa all communications, and make all ialU, money orders, etc., payable to tb lUbraska Independent, , Lincoln, Neb. Anonymous communications will not be acticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned. T. H, TIBBLES,' Editor. C. Q. PE FRANCE, Associate Editor. I. D. EAGER, liiihflbefcB Manager. CAMPAIGN FXPENfcES . The Independent has somewhat of a reputation for talking plain English and it proposes to lep it up. There are certain unavoidable expenses in conducting a campaign, and it is only just that the officeholders who are the only ones who financially profit by success, should at least pay a reason able proportion of those expenses. So far, they have paid from nothing to one per cent, and never over four ppr cent, of the salarie they draw, while scores of .aose who never 'held an office have paid r, great deal more than the office-holding class. It. cos's r farmers from t:a to forty dollars a year to attend conventions, when thoe whom they elect to lucrative offices often thlnv that they have made a lib eral contribution to campaign ex penses if they put up five dollars. The Independent has become very thed of that fort 'of work. At the end of one campaign the committee found Itself $2,700 in debt and The Indepen dent had to devote columns for months, that ouat to have been filled with entertaining reading matter, to raising that money. It was raised, and every honest obligation of the party rid. The populists up in Cuming county, where no populist ever held an office, either by election or ap pointment, paid $65.50 when their share of the debt was only $40. A man who won't pay a reasonable portion of the actual cost of electing him to office, whether it is a state or contv office, should never be elected. He is too mean to be entrusted with au office. There is another class of officehold ers who are still meaner. They are those who hold their offices by ap pointment. Thee persons have had no campaign expenses to pay. li'-e thoee who are elected, and the office" is elf an gain to tem. Some of thee pereons have held office continuously for twelve years and refuse to con tribute to campaign purposes. When thev act in that wav, the appointing power should -be held responsible for their action. The Independent is determined that no expenses shall be incurred, if it cn prevent it. until the monev is in sight to pay. " One thing is certain; The Tn dependent will not be used to collect money to pay campaign debts. It is the duty of every member of the party to fontribute something for its support, and The Independent hopes that the farmers and city dv.'ellers. who believe in its princinles and want to see them enacted into law, willall do something, however sma 1 the "contribution may be. to lighten the burden which rets heavily upon the shoulders of a very few who have borne it for many years. THAT KTKINfl FAKK The readers of The Independent will remember what it said about Elkins and his law for reforming the railroads at the time the bill was before con gress. Now com i the interstate com merce commission and declares that "the law contains no provision for the prevention of unjust discrimination in tariff rates between different localities or sections, or in the classification of freight, or between car load and less than car load rates nor for protection against the continuance of ratea un reasonable in themselves." This again raises the question of the abominable daily press. The whole country was led to believe that the Elklns law was a real reform law and that some of the Iniquities practiced by the railroads would hereafter be pro hibited, or if persisted in, the offend ers would he punished. The men who run these dailies knew perfectly well that the Elklns law was a fraud and a fake, but not one of them drew at tention to the ..navery involved in its passage. If any paper in the whole United States ever called attention to the dishonesty of the whole transac tion, aside from The Independent, the fct has never been called to the at tention of this writer. The only men tion of the law that he has ever seen has been to laud it as a great reform measure. The truth grows more apparent ev ery day that no reforms can be ac complished until the character of the press is changed. The people are kepr in the most profound ignorance and are deceived and lied to day after day. If half a dozen dailies having corre spondents at Washington had dis ci ssed this bill and denounced it, the fotling in the country at that time against discriminations by the rail roads would have swelled to such a point that a reform bill could have been passed. But we did not have a great daily in the United States that dared do that. Their subsidies would have been endangered. There is no work as effective as that of spreading the circulation of reform papers which fearlessly discuss public questions and print the facts from week to week. AJiOTIII U SAMPLE The unscrupulous manner in which the republicans continue to deceive the people is getting past ail endur ance. Here is a sample of their lying taken from the St. Paul Pioneer Piess: "The gold in the Bank of En- " gland amounts to about $167,000, C00; in the Bank of Germany, $170,000,000; in the Bank of Austria-Hungary, $221,000,000. Add all these sums together, and we yet have to draw $95,000,000 from France's hoard of $494,000,000 to mai-e a total equalling the $653, 000,000 which, according to . a statement just put forth by Trees- urer Roberts, is the amount of gold at present held by, the United States treasurv. This store of treasure exceeds any on record." Tfcat $653,000,000 is not in the United States treasury. Over $164, 000.000 has 'been deposited in the bans and a very l"rge part of the re mainder also belongs to the banks. It. has been deposited with the govern ment and gold certificates have been issued aeainst it. The gold that is In the banvs of Berlin, Paris and the Bnk of England belones to those con cerns. Only part of the gold that is in treasury of the United States be longs to it and most of what it does own hs been deposited in the banks and it dare not try to tae it out of the ban'-s. Such unscrupulous lying Is an everv-dav occurrence in the daily pres. This sort of financiering will end in the sarc way that the trust financiering has. The above paragraph is most care fully de'Id. The inference which every common rr.-n will draw from ft is tbt that gold belonsrs to the United Prates the tame as the gold in th F"ropean banVs belongs to -them altho1' it don't sv so, but it does eav that it "is hold" bv the United Ptates. whtrh is false, for a lare-e part of it Is held by the national banks. The evanescent character of "paper wealth", is shown by reference to the stock of the Lake Superior Consoli dated company. Seventeen months, ago a man who held $100,000 was worth $80,000. Today he is worth $2, 500. . If he had at that time $100,000 worth of the common he would have been worth $36,000. 1 Today, as that stock is selling for one-fourth of one pet cent of its" face value, it would not take a very large pocketbook to hold his wealth even if it were alj in the despised silver dollars, which have never yet varied one-thousandth of cne per centinvaboe . GERMAN SOCIAL DKHOCRAT8 What the object of the daily press ii this country has in misrepresenting the German social democrats is hard to define. Many members of that par ty, who long served in its ranks, are in this country. Some of them are the finest scholars and scientists that Ger many has produced. One of them is at the head of a department in a great university in this country, being espe cially annoyed at these misrepresenta tions sends to The Independent the following for publication: - "Let me quote from the American Review of Reviews of 1903: 'At the last party meeting, 1. e national con vention, they restated all the essen tials of their creed. They aim, besides other things, at a republican form of purely representative government, (though In this respect the Bavarians dsopdy U0ti)in Tor Bom.. C CLOTHES 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 pood, substantial materials, well put together. You'll seldom find a good clothing store that handles clothes iu which the wear is sacrificed for the sake of Bhow. 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 tind no shoddy about a "NEBRASKA" boys' suit. In calling your attention to 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 Seal more by your home clothier. Don't be Bamboozled. WE HAVB NO STORE IN SOUTH OflAHA. and south Germans in the party are allowed some latitude, they preferr ing a strictly constitutional mon archy); the substitution of a national militia in the place of the regular army; arbitration under any and all circumstances; more liberal terms of land tenure and homestead provi sions; the absolute equalization of rights between the sexes; forcible pub lic education and strict separation be tween church and state, religion be ing held by them to be "a personal af fair." They have championed besides many measures of immediate utility, especially those benefiting the labor ing classes. ' : . 1. Old age insurance. - '" 2. Safeguards against accidents in mines and factories, etc. 3. Supervision of factories. 4. Restrictions upon child and wo man labor. . 5. Mechanics lien law. 6. Abolition of truck system of pay ment. 7. Measures for the prevention of political, social, and economic intimi dation. (A demand is now being made to have all election days declared holi days.) 8. The enforcement of- the laws making the debauching by employers of women and children a penal of fense. ' See "The Gehna" Election" and the Socialist," br Wolf von Schierbrand, American Monthly Review of Reviews, August, 1903. Is this not sufficient?" '. ' What object the dailies can nave in attempting to ma'-e the people of this country believe that the German social democratic party is thev same thing that goes by the. name of socialism In this country is unknown. The fact is that the social democrats of Germany are simply advocating the reforms fav ored by conservative libera-ls the world over, very many of .which have al ready been enacted into law fh this country. AH AWFUL SOCIAL CATASTROPHE "Society" at Bar Harbor has been turned almost gray:headed by a recent discovery made there. A "count" ap peared there. He had, JiKe most of the nobles of Europe the linguistic gift, speaking fluently several differ ent languages, he had social accom plishments of the highest order, great musical ability, large physique and as tonishing good looks. He knew art and literature and was an attraction Bought after at every dinner and lawn party among the millionaires. Then one evil day a woman recognized him and declared that the "count' had for merly been a'vallet in the Gerry fam ily in New York. The announcement created so great a sensation that all the country thereabout came near sinking beneath the level of the sea. Two or three families that had pressed their attentions on the "count" were so horror-stricken that they left early the next morning and took to the woods up . beyond the St. Lawrence ( COR. Isth ANDFARIWI. and have not been heard from since. It turns out that the man's real name ' was Count E. Pressiner.and that since the days when he was a valet. in the Gerry family he has accumulated quite a sum of money and went to Bar Har bor to spend his vacation. The ter rors that beset "society" in America are many and dismaying. The only way that the poor victims can express it. is to say: "Horrors on horror's head accumulate." What became of Mr. Pressiner in the tumult that fol lowed the awful discovery, no one seems to know. CANNOT KNIH RK The editor of The Independent said ai the Denver conference that pres ent conditions could not endure for another twenty-five years. Even the Wall Street Journal seems to enter tain the same opinion. In speaking of Rockefeller's income of ten million dollars a quarter, it remarks: "It is all very well to talk of property rights they should be re .. spected, and heaven knows they are respected, since they are put ahead of life, charity and justice in all our law books. .. "The ten millions of dollars mean ten millions of days' work. "If ten million of men must work a day every three months for Mr. Rockefeller, is he not getting more than his share? . : "We can't be forever discover ing new oil wells, building new great cities, developing and or ganizing new great industries in order to pay Mr. Rockefeller what " he wants. "What will happen when the people no longer have the money ready to pay Mr. Rockefeller in- -terest on his mortgage on the United States? .. ' "They will have to take an earn est thoughtful view of him or of his heirs at that day." That some sort of a policy must be adopted different from that in vogue must be apparent to any thinking man. That the present awful extoitions ex acted from labor and agriculture for the benefit of bankers and manufac turers cannot long be endured is cap able of a mathematical demonstration. Silas Holcomb, Fort Branch, Ind.. in company with his nephew, Judre Hol comb, of this city, called on The In dependent a few days ago. Mr. Hol comb is one of the Old Guard of Ind iana and has, been prominent in the mid-road movement in that state. He impressed the editors with the fact that the leaders of Indiana democracy, with some notable exceptions, are of a very different brand from the leaders in Nebraska, and that co-operation with the Indiana democracy would be about as absurd as with Indiana re publicansthere beirr no difference between the two except in name. Always mention The Independent when writing to our advertisers. I