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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
OCTOBER 8, 1903.
the ticbraska Independent
Lincoln, Htbraska. ,
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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.
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