THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
OCTOBER 15, 1903.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OO00CK0O00O0O xoooooooooooooo
i
o o
o
raider
Big Discount to Reduce Our Enormous Stock Before
12
Cheaper !
o5 tne Building season closes.
05
5
If you intend building a house, barn,granary or corn crib we want to give you an
estimate on your lumber, shingles, windows, doors, and mill work. It will cost you noth
ing to get our prices and we can save you money, carrying, as we do, a large stock at
Lincoln, and haying the most complete planing mill in the state. We make water tanks
of all kinds, store fixtures in fact everything that can be made in this line. No matter
where you live write us for prices of goods delivered at your station, I'
We invite a visit and personal inspection of our lumber at our yards, 700 0 street
and of our planing mill and equipment at 21st and T streets.
If you cannot Call, your Order by Mail will receive
05 Prompt and Careful Attention & &
JR.
m
Birowini
700 O STREET,
LINCOLNNEBR.
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The People's Rule S
BY:
Geo. H. Shibley.
(Continued From Last Week.)
In states other than Kentucky, if the
state convention has been held, the
state executive committee or a local
committee can go forward and ques
tion the candidates, demanding an im
mediate answer. In order, to get tiie
answer . in writing and to get a spe
cific form of an amendment, it is
suggested that a few citizens sign and
deliver In their own names, or that of
a majority rule league, copy of the
letter to candidates set forth in a pre
ceding Issue of The Independent One
determined man or ..woman can pledge
the candidates in a district:
Inform each candidate that a state
ment cf his attitude will at once be
aade to every non-partisan organiza
tion in the district labor unions,
farmers organizations, etc.
This will usually result in a favor
able reply. In case a candidate refuses,
then -get each of the non-parflsan or
ganhations to adopt a resolution for
majority rule, instructing its execu
tive committee to question each leg
islative nominee in the district.
In getting the resolution presented
to a grange or union, should it become
necessary, it will be well to say little
or nothing about the refusal of a
nominee. Ieave this for the debate,
should objections be raised. Your rep
resentative can win in open debate,
but might be kept from getting the
resolution before the meeting if the
refusal should become known. "
The questioning of candidates should
be pushed in your district if you live
In either of the ten states that elect
legislatures this year, namely, Ken
tucky, Ohio, Iowa, Maryland, New Jer
sey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, South Carolina or Mississippi.
It is your duty to see that the work
is do-e In your district Speak of It,
A Rare Opportunity
I am in position to afford a safe in
vestment to any one having Idle funds,
pr money out at a low rate of inter
est, where the returns lire sure to be
ample and yet keep your investment
, safe. , .. . . :
If you are interested write me for
particulars. GEO W. GRIBBEN,
" (Wholesale Coal.)
S09 Richards Bile, Lincoln, Neb.
therefore, to two or three of your
friends and ask them to join you in
signing, and presenting the letter,
which can be done personally or by
mail. There is no expense.
Those who work for liberty, are pH
tnots. Those who reiuse to do what
they are able should realize their
short-coming. They should realize
that they are lacking in the spirit of
1776 and are lacking in the spirit of
Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln. They
have only an instinct that keeps them
a slave to the ruling few rather than
risk a sneer from them, though in so
doing they help to become sovereigns.
Such men cannot see the on-sweping
march of the people's power whose
victory is close at hand. ,
CAMPAIGN OF 1904 FOR ABOLISH
ING PARTY GOVERNMENT.
Next year forty states elect legis
latures, except the half of the senates
that hold over, and there will be elect
ed a new national house .and one-third
the national senate. The people's par
ty should hold Its state and national
conventions, and apply the Kentucky
program. (The questions for national
candidates are set forth in an earlier
paragraph.) By applying this program
an immediate victory will be achieved
In state and nation, and early In the
succeeding November a national con
ference can be called to frame the na
tional bills that are to be directly in
itiated for the control of railways and
other interstate monopolies.. The con
ferees will include represent Ives of
organized labor and organized farmers,-
and the bills when put out for
signatures through these organiza
tions will be ready to file with con
gress when it meets in 1905..
This prospect for Immediate suc
cess almost takes one's breath. Close
examination, however, shows no flaw,
and shows no conflict with the recom
mendation of the Denver conference or
of previous action by the people's
party. It is simply a recognition of
the importance of changing the sys
tem of government before attempting
to use the Improved system. There Is
an order of time in securing reforms,
the first of which Is the establishment
or the peoples' rule; then will come
the legislative reforms, and number
less ones. In the words of the Den
ver conference: "As an open door
for all economic reforms, we urge the
rule of the people through the op
tional referendum and initiative."
The independent political action of
the people's party, recommended by
the Denver conference, should, of
course, center its efforts upon the in
stallation of this improyed system of
government. As to whether or not this
independent action should include the
nomination of president and vice
president, is not necessary to decide
at this time. It Is a mere detail the
main thing is the establishment of the
improved system of government. The
president has no veto as to the adop
tion of rules of procedure in the house
and senate, and whenever a majority
of the people vote fora bill no presi
dent will veto it.
Reviewing the program for the im
mediate success of majority rule, we
find the basis in four recently discov
ered methods of political action, cou
pled with their recognition by organ
ized labor, organized farmers, the na
tional federation for majority rule,
referendum leagues, direct legislation
leagues, people's rule league of Mas
sachusetts, which Hon. , George Fred
Williams is organizing, the people's
party, and by other organizations and
hosts of individuals. These recently
discovered methods of political action
are: " ..
1. Majority rule can be established
In national affairs without waiting to
change the federal constitution
merely a majority vote In the house
and senate for rules of procedure for
majority rule Is sufficient.
2. The majority rule in the house
can be secured in next year's cam
paign by questioning candidates pro
claiming that organized labor, organ
ized farmers,, and referendum and ma
jority rule leagues, demand a people's
veto and direct initiative, and that the
candidates who do not pledge them
selves to vote for the dethronement
of the rule of the few,- will be de
feated; while the people's partv
should further declare that in each
district there will be placed In nomi
nation at least one reputable candi
date who Is pledgedto majorltv rule.
In short, wherever necessary, the peo
ple's party should supply the nomi
nating . machinery for the majority
rule cause, at the same time center
ing the efforts of populist worVers and
all other enltebtened patriots on the
need for pledging candidates for con
gress and defeating the enemies of the
people's rule.
3. The majority In the senate can
be secured in next year's campaign by
pledging candidates for the legisla
turespledging them to vote only for
such men for the United States sen
ate as are pledged to vote for major
itj rule, and also pledging the candi
dates for the legislature to vote to in
struct the hold-over senator or sena
tors. The Declaration of Independence
was the result of instruction by leg
islatures, and our second declaration
can come in the same way.
4. Another cardinal fact to be rec
ognized in determining the program
o a third nartv- is that thp pstnhiish.
ment of a people's veto and a direct
initiative terminates party govern
mentthe final power as to legislation
is transferred to the people from the
organization known as the political
party.
'.This and the three -preceding facts
are all Important in determining the
best tactics for the populist party.
Success wil be achieved by electing
congressmen anj members of legisla
tures who are pledged to abolish par
ty government The mission of the
people's party is to establish the sov
ereignty of the people the people's
rule majority rule. This is "an open
door for all economic reform," says
the Denver address, and the statement
Ii true. Establish in the people them
selves the final power instead of in a
political machine, and reforms will at
once come and from all -directions.
Every association of people who are
working for a good cause, a cause that
will stand the light of scientific in
vestigation, can and will secure a pub
lic hearing. Reforms will come as
Inevitably as gravitation brings down
the apple. Let the people's party, then,
proclaim next year a platform of im
mediate demands and state that the
reforms demanded will Inevitably re
sult from the establishment of major
ity rule. Then if a sufficient number
of pledged members of congress and
of legislatures are elected next year,
steps can at once be taken to co-operate
with the grange and organized
labor In framing bills for tbe more
pressing of the economic reforms, and
the bills can be circulated for signa
tures and filed with the new congress
when it meets. Within one year
thereafter congress will be obliged to
submit to a direct ballot of the peo
ple the initiated bill, and submit, also,
such - competing measures or other
recommendations as it may choose to
put forth.".
This is a practical plan of cam
paign, and one that organized labor 13