OCTOBER 8, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
bribes ts. cocbtksy
If the meat trust should give an
order on Its agents good anywhere in
the United States, to furnish free to
all judges, members of congress, state
officers, members of the legislature and
county officers all the meat that they
could use in their families, wouia it De
looked upon as a "simple courtesy?"
But the value to the recipients of such
a favor would not be equal to the gift
of free transportation that is given
by the railroads to the above named
classes each year. The cost of the
amount of traveling done each year
ty the above named officials far ex
ceeds the amount of their meat bills.
"Would such a "courtesy" from the
meat trust have any effect upon thoe
leceiving it in regard to their atti
tude toward it? If the meat trust
should adopt such a policy, how long
would it be before articles would be
gin to appear in the great dailies de
nouncing it as an attempt to bribe ev
ery official in the land? ' It would not
, be long, provided that the owners of
papers did not receive the same
"courtesy." If they did, then ar
ticles or anomer Kina. wouia buuu ay-
enormous amoun'; of capital invested,
iJie -cost of maintaining the plants,
in-? hih rate of insurance, the taxes
tha: tT e trust had to pay and the very
small margin of profit that there was
in the "business. That is exactly the
way they, do in regard to the railroads.
No one blames, the railroads for giv
ing passes. That is a part of the
business. But when the officeholders
who ? eceive them solemnly declare
that thev are not a bribe and they do
not affect their sentiments or actions
in the least, it has a tendency to
cause the sensible man to swear.
DRIFTING TOWARDS POPULISM
" The conditions of Wall street and
all over the country is , irresistibly
forcing the government toward pop
ulism. The growing population and
business demands a constantly in
creasing currency supply. The note
'issue is based upon the national debt
and no increase can De made in it
vithout increasing the national debt,
and increasing it for that very pur
pose. It is hardly possible that such
a program could be put through,, be
cause it would be so plainly for the
Interests pf national bankers alone.
The republican leaders are great at
phrase-making and deception,' but
could they - persuade the people to
agree to an increase of the national
cebt for the express purpose of al
lowing the national bankers to deposit
their bonds and get their full face
Clue back in money and tnen draw
ihierest on their monev and their
bends both at.'Ue same time? Will
they not ask, if it is necessary for
more money to be issued and a bond
must be issued befor.e the money, why
can't the government issue the bonds,
put them in its vaults and then issue
trie notes and not tax the people to
pay interest on the bonds?
The only other way to increase the
uneucy is by the issue of asset notes.
But Secretary Shaw and many of the
republican bankers are opposed to that
exefpt as an emergency issue, taxed
to ir e amouut of 6 per cent, which
would prevent any such an issue ex
cept, in the direst straights.
W hat then can there be done to meet
this growing demand which . corae3
from increased population and busi
ness? There is one way only. It is a
way which commends itself to the
common sense of every unprejudiced
mind. Let the government issue the
money as it has issued the greenbacks.
There is an irresistible tendency to
ward that way of settling the difficul
ty And It is thA nnnnUst wav Tho
tide may be stemmed for a time, but
ia the end the Overnment will rev"
to do it, or face years of falling prices
and hard times. Even the republican
party with all its splendid organiza
tion could not long hold power under
such conditions. Rather tLan to face
them, it would probably adopt the pop
ulist theory.
COW4RD JUDGES
The judges of the district court out
ia Teller county, Colorado, seem to be
pusillanimous , cowards. The Judge
who would allow his court room to be
invaded by armed soldiers witbo"t
protest is a coward. He had the right
ar. any moment to order the sheriff to
clear the room and he Issued no such
order. He went on to try a case with
the bayonets gleaming in his face. The
lawyers had more couraere than tho
Indge, and they not only protested and
when the judge refused to clear the
court room, withdrew from the cace.
The same judge has Issued warrants
and, ordered the sheriff to ma'e cer
tain arrests of militia officers. He dos
rot insist upon the orders of the court
being executed. The excuse made that
anv posse tnat tte sheriir could
toon would be insufficient to execute
the orders of the court when the crim
inals command a thousand armed men,
h the excuse of a coward. Let the
sheriff collect a3 large a posse as he
can, go to the military camp and see
If that militia outfit would dare to fire
on them. If they did, , The Indepen
dent predicts that not a militiaman
would be left alive in three months.
But the militia would not Are upon
the sheriff's posse. The men in the
ranks are the ordinary citizens of the
state and they would never shoot down
the lawful civil officers of the state,
even if they were ordered to do so. It
is simply a big game of bluff that the
governor and his tin horn general are
playing and the judges haven't the
courage to call them down.
If those Colorado judges expect the
common people of the state to obey
their orders, they must have the cour
age to demand (he execution Of the
court process upon all alike. There
has been nothin'g in this country that
will have such a tendency to under
mine the authority of the courts as the
cowardly position taken by these Colo
rado judges. They should be im
peached and men of some courage
installed in their places. ' If the courts
will not protect citizens against the
militia, then we have no government.
THE 1'OKKR TOO HOT
The military despotism that the re
publican governor has established at
Cripple Creek is of such an infamous
na'-ire that the Colorado republican
state convention held last week
dropped him like a hot poker. That
convention adopted resolutions partic
ularly approving of President Roose
velt's "devotion to law and order, the
effort he has' made, to bring all per
sons, rich and poor alike, in obedience
1 it and within its protection and
row".
It made no approval of the admin
istration of the governor, and instea,1.
pas?ed this i tec 3i lion:
"We Lel:w in the supremacy o
law. and every citizen of the state
" is ent.tlod tc'it protection. Life
ani property must be made secure
and the entire power of the state
should pe used to guarantee to
every citJzen his rights under the
constitution."
The governor by his orders has al
lowed the military to invade the dis
trict court and compelled it to sit sur
rounded by fixed bayonets, while the
"muzzles of sharpshooters' rifles and
gatling guns commanded it from the
outside. As there is an election at
hand, the republican machine came to
the conclusion that something had to
be done or the common people might
wake up and there would be none to
vote the republican ticket except the
officeholders and millionaires. If by
this maneuver the common people are
fooled into voting the republican tick
er, after the election they will find the
same old gang rt the helm.
UNVARNISHED LIES
The chief object in the editorial
writing in the great dailies seems to
Ic to suppress the truth and print
lies. A bright example of that kind
of writing appeared in the Chicago
Reeorc -Herald of September 30. In
comnenting upon the fall in price of
Engl -eh consols which had reached
jhe low point of 86 7-8, it says:
"If we turn from the 'world's
premier security' to American gov
ernment bonds we will be able to
make a comparison not at all un
pleasant from the American point
of view. Our 2 per cents, which
rtt less interest than the consols
t to the investor, are selling at 107
and 108, with great demand."
The statement that there is as much
difference in American and English
credit as is represented between bonds
seil.'ng at 108 and consols selling at
8fi 7-S is an unvarnished lie and the
writer in the Record-Heraid knew it
was a lie when he wrote the article.
A banker with $100,000 worth of
American 2s gets interest practically
on $200,000. He can get their full face
value in deposits or he can get na
tional bank notes for the full face
value and still own the bonds and get
interest on them. If he gets no more
interest, and always does get more,
on the money deposited or his na
tional bank notes, he is getting 4 per
cent, instead of ,2. on his investment.
To the English consol no such privil
eges attach.
VERY LIKE NEBRASKA.
Ex-Governor Hogg of Texas, whom
the dailies have been telling us had
become a multi-millionaire and aban
doned his former political principles,
made a speech the other day In which
he made the fur fly more furiously
than in all his life before. He talked
the same kind of talk that the pop
ulists of Texas have been in the habit
of using from the last few years. He
said that the last democratic legisla
ture was as bad a thing as the state
ever suffered from even in the darkest
days of reconstruction. In reviewing
their work he declared that in tho last
four -years party pledges had 0 been
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scandalously violated; that platform
promises had been deliberately ignoreu
and ridiculed, and that lobbyists and
free pass dispensers had controlled the
actions of the people's representative:
to an extent never before known In
the state. He declared for a constltr
ticnal amendment providing that no
insolvent corporation should do busi
ness in Texas; that the free pass sys
tems over railroads should depart for
ever, and that the use of corporation
funds in politics and the support of a
lobby in Austin should be prohibited.
He further charged that every offi
cial in Texas that had any control over
the affairs had pockets full of free
passes, including sheriffs, judges,
clerks, tax " assessors, and scores of
ether officials, and that their official
action was influenced .largely thereby.
The situation down in Texas undei
democratic government is so like it is
in Nebraska under republican rule that
there is no distinguishing between the
two. The railroad corporations still
ftdlow Jay Goulds advice. In a dem
ocratic district be a democrat, in a re
publican district be a republican, but
always and everywhere be for the in
terests of the railroad.
ALWAYS FOUND TOGETHER
Wherever there is an Indian reser
vation and republican officeholders,
there is stealing and swindling. It is
just as bad down in the state of New
York as it is in the Indian territory
or up on the Omaha reservation. Even
the saintly Rockefeller has been at it.
Rt. Rev. William D. Walker, bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
vesrein New York, said at Rochester,
in a public address and in an inter
view, that some of the steals in New
York state parallel those charged
agau.st members of the Dawes coin
m.sfion in Indian territory, and only
of a smaller magnitude because of the
lesser opportunity.
The bishop further remarked: "Con
stant vigilance must be exerted by the
friends of the Indians to keep them
fr;.m the talons of these birds of prey.''
Perhaps the bishop has in mind a littl
Rockefeller transaction which was as
follows:
The Seneca Oil company, which was
permitted to exist for a short time,
succeeded in purchasing valuable
holdings frfm the Indians in the
southwestern part of the state, and
made them large promises as an in
ducement. The lands were obtained
at ridiculously low rates, and then al
most immediately were sold to the
Standard Oil company at a price esti
mated at from $150,000 to $200,000.
Rockefeller would rob an Indian" just
as he would a hard 'working house
wife. Dr. Harper, of Rockefeller's univer
sity, got a concession from the sultan.
Then he came back to Chicago and
announced that there had been
"amazing progress in Turkey since
Abdul Hamld began to rule twenty-
nine years ago."
NKWbPAPliR THICKS
"For tricks that are vain" the re
publican editors, of this state are pe
culiar, and at the head of the list
stands one Edward Roscwater. The
following is a sample.
"Remember that Judge Barnes
was twice appointed supreme court
commissioner by unanimous vote
of the three supreme Judges, in-,
eluding Judge Sullivan. Is not this ,
pretty good evidence that he is in
every way qualified 'for judicial V
work on the bench of our highest
state tribunal?"
There is not an intelligent reader of
newspapers in Nebraska who does not
know that the whole nine supreme
ccurt commisioners were appointed
"by unanimous vote." There are
three judges who make the appoint
ments, one of whom is a republican,
one a democrat, and one a populist.
Here are nine commissioners. To
keep peace in the supreme' court fam
ily it was agreed that each of the
judges should name three commission
ers and the court sitting en banc
"unaninaously" appoints them all. That
bein;.: the case, could any newspaper
trick be vainer than the above, taken
from the Omaha Bee of October 1
The trick consists In the ' inference '
th:.t Judge Barnes has such a high
judicial reputation that he alone re
ceived the unanimous vote of the su
preme court, including that of the pop
ulist and democratic judge.
That trick wouldn't fool a five-year-old
boy. That is the reason that The
Independent says that "for tricks that
are vain" the republican editors of
Nebraska are peculiar. Nearly all of
them have been trying the same trick.
What hopes the socialists can have
of ever organizing the "proletariat"
into an efficient rolitical party is past
comprehension. he wage-wor er
cannot even be forced to act together
ia labor unions. When one of these
unions strikes for higher wages, in
stead of the workers all joining to
gether and thus winning a victory,
there is always a lot of them willing
to act as strike-breakers and fight the
men of their own class. If "does on
sciousness" will not work there, where
the economic effect Is close at hand,
how can it be made to work with the
socialist propaganua, where the eco
nomic effects are far off? There Is a
learned and distinguished citizen in
this city, who for seven or eight years
has held weekly meetings teaching and
advocating the Marxian theories and
his meeting are not made up of the
"wage slaves." Never more than three
or four of them have been attendants.
The men who have attended those
meetings have been editors, university
professors, judges, lawyers and nw
chapts. The discuslons have been in
dulged for the intellectual enjoyment
they afforded. "Class consciousness'
has not put in an appearance yet.
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