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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1903)
OCTOBER 15, 1003. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT THE PATIENT PEOPLE , Sit on the ground floor of some ho tel in a great city early in the morn ing aud walcb the passing throngs of people. Hundreds of young women, many of them with pale and care-worn. faces, will be seen passing to their work, j each carrying a very small package containing the, noon-day meal. Thus they pass, day after day, patient toilers, earning a hare existence, and the homes that they ought to adorn and make happy no longer exist. Then watch the street cars. Those riding upon them have all paid enough to the corporation running them to more than remunerate it for giving each of them a seat and- a comfortable, journey. But not one in four get a seat and those who are seated; are jammed and crowded upon until exist ence in the car is hardly endurable. The platforms are full and along the sides hang others who with much dif ficulty sustain' themselves in their perilous positions. Not one of them utters a complaint ' They bear all this swindling and extortion and never ut ter the slightest protest. " Then let the onlooker buy a ticket for some nearby city. He will find that as soon as the car doors are opened there is a rush. None of the ancient courtesy is shown to women - and .chil dreh. They are jammed into' the cars altogether like" hogs are - driven into theslaughtering pen at the cattle yards. " All get ' seats who can, but many women get none and they stand after having paid an extortionate price for a seat, swaying to and fro until their ' station is reached or until the train gets farther from the city and enough have got off to leave a seat for them. No't one of the patient cre atures makes the slightest protest. Get off at one of the stations which is a populous little city. There stands a rickety street car. ' Another rush is made. The conductor cries in a hoarse aiid mandatory tone: "Move forward,' and if his orders are not obeyed, he throws Lis burly form into the rear door and by his weight pushes! the passengers in the aisles forward , until they are pressed u?-against the front door as tightly, as they can be. -Then he jams some more into the vacant . space that he has made. The only protest that is made is by a youth hanging on the outside, who shouts out: "Get your goad and prod them up. Some of the cattle may get down and you will los i them." But the re mainder of the patient crowd say not a word. . , - The farmer will toil all through the spring summer and autumn months. He will pile up thousands of bushels of corn, fill his granaries with wheat and oats, raise hundreds of chickens, scores of hogs and cattle and the next spring he will go out and look over the place and see that they are all gone and he has nothing to show for it all, except his living and what im provements he has put on his land. But he don't complain. He goes to work and does the same thing over again,' year after year, until his hair gets gray and his children grow up and leave him to spend the few mournful years alone that yet remain to him before he lies down in the country cemetery. But he does not complain. He knows that the railroads take half of all he produces and the trusts take most of the remainder. But the farm er is a patient man. The toilers in the city go to the meat shop and find that they get but half as much meat for a dollar as they got two or three years ago. They take the thin slices that meat dealers give them and go home, but they enter no protest. They.are a patient people. Even when they read in the papers that the price of hogs fell off $1 in a day and the next day they had to pay half a cent a pound more for their bacon, they entered no protest they tc,?z no complaint. They had read in the paper which was sent to them, free that the "discontented" were a very bad lot, and they did not want to be numbered with them. So they ,6ald nothing. , , None of "these patient people are pofTulists. The populists do not sub mit to robbery and extortion without wn4 i. rni i. t uuni. kick up a rumpus. They say things. They try to make things better. GOD A'D MORALITY PARTY It is passing strange that society has become so degenerated that the most prominent men In the country can appear before audiences and lie worse than a horse thief, without los ing standing in the church or the community in which they live. Think of the moral condition of a man who, without the least hesitancy, will lie like, Secretary Shaw did in a speech that he made at Akron, 0., on the 10th of this month, in which he said: "The , plan proposed by the mi . . nority party is to throw our com mercial doors wide open forthe , .free Importation of the products of foreign labor. Members of that ; party insist that if we do this we will of necessity have unrestricted access to the markets of other countries. ' They urge that if we ' will but allow Europe to clothe us, furnish us our glass, our earthen-"'-ware, our hardware, our steel rails,: our structural iron, and everything else we produce, we will thus se- , cure a most wonderful export trade." - - No member of the "minority party" nor any other person ever made . any e.uch statements, and Secretary Shaw knew thre was not a word of truth in the statement when he made it. Is there any wonder that politics is "a dirty pool" when members of the cab inet, as soon as they get out in a cam paign," will lie at a rate that would make a back-ally crap shooter envious. Such exhibitions of mendacity by members of the cabinet, senators and others in high official positions, have a Regenerating effect upon the whole population. No English politician ever so disgraces ; himself and (his nation It is a vice indulged in only by leaders of the great "God and morality party" of these United States. ; ; GREAT SENATOR (?) ' ! ' The dailies have kept a certain, set of senators before the people by con stantiy asserting tnat tney were statesmen of eminent ability and great factors in moulding the legislation of this country. Prominent among these has been Senator Allison of Iowa, who has been in the senate since the mem ory of man runneth not to the con trary. He is merely a newspaper sena tor. Aside from the notoriety that is given him by the constant parading of his name before the people in the col umns of the newspapers, he is a mere cypher in the ruling and formative forces of the policies that have been adopted in this country. There has never been an act of his long sena torial career that in any way marks him as a legislator or statesman. Ask any man who is in the habit of speak ing of him as a great senator, what Alison has ever done to entitle him to any distinction above the score of other senators whose names are never seen outside of the roll calls printed in the Congressional Record, and he will be silenced in a moment. Why is it that some half dozen sen ators have their names constantly in the daily papers? It is simply be cause these men can always be relied upon to stand by the tarfff grafters, the railroads and Wall -street. Alli son, in his long career, has never failed once to line up for those In terests. Last Saturday Senator Allison made a speech at Clinton, la., which the dailies, in the little summary that they put at the head of every article, said was "a clear and forcible exposition of the trust question." That summary irf the only'thig that thousands of business men read. When one comes to read the speech itself, he finds that this "clear and forcible exposition of the trust question" was a statement that the tariff had nothing whatever to do with trusts. That it in no way benefited the steel trust, the meat trust, or any other trust. After that exhibition of statesman- HAYD . The Reliable Store. Great Sale Men's, Boys' & Children's Clothing Men's fine suits in all the latest styles and fabrics, all hand tailored, hand pad' ded shoulders and hair cloth fronts. These come in Cassi meres, Cheviots, Worst eds, serges and fancy Cheviots, in blacks, blues, browns, or in fact anything which you might fancy." Any of these suits'are worth double the price asked. Come in and see our specials for this week in suits at 17.50, $10.00, 112.50 and 115.00 and up to 125.00. ' . In Men's Overcoats We have the nobbiest and . best assortment of any in the city and invite your in. spection. We handle the II. S. & M. goods, which means the best to be had for any money. 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ThU you will find when trading at HAYDEN BROTHERS 16th and Dodge Sts., Omaha, Neb. ship he next devoted, himself to ex tolling the gold democrats and telling what services they had rendered the country, informed . his audience that gold was the great means by which "elasticity" was produced in the cur rency and finally declared the govern ment now controls the volume of pa per money and that it would continue to control it. . That speech was telegraphed all over the country as a great speech and printed in the Chicago and other dallies-everywhere as an evidence of the statesmanship of Senator Allison. There is no mystery about the con tinual praise of such senators as Alli son, Aldrich and five or six others. They are the men who always stand by the national banks, the tariff graft ers,, the railroads and the trusts. The subsidized . dailies make it a point to keep their names constantly before the. people and forever repeat the statement that these are the really great men of these United States. If an ordinary congressman had made the speech that' Aliison did at CKnton, it never would have been printed in the papers and would have been looked upon by the audience that heard it as a very weak effort to make some excuse for the extor tions of the trusts. The consequence is that the deluded people who read only the great dailies are constantly kept voting for their own exploitation. The moral of this history is: Do ev erything that you can to extend the circulation of those papers that talk sense and print the truth. - CONTROLLING BOTH PAltTIES Dr. C. F. Taylor, editor of the Medi cal World, makes a few remarks that are well worth repeating. After say ing that he was "born a republican," he adds: "A public conscience and sense of justice and right are arising that must successfully oppose the domination of corporations, trusts and other concentrated capitalistic Inter ests. Chattel slavery was tangible, In a certain limited section, and Its de fenders were brave and 'above board' fighters. The new enemy is in ouH midst, is cunning, and frequently hid den like a snake in the grass. The policy of this enemy has been to secretly contribute money to, and con trol, both of the great political parties. Then it Is sure of victory. Its chief exploits have been, unfortunately, through the republican party, using the good name and glorious past of that party to further Its own selfish ends using patriotism, "old glory," and sectional differences to serve its selfish ends. Many in both parties have served - party, losing sight of principle. TJiis party adhesion has teen of great service to the new en emy that knows no party nor patriot ism except personal power ! and ag grandizement. Many of us have be-, come slaves to party, and all of us have become slaves to this new op pression. Let us burst the bonds of party, and open oui eyes to new con ditions, as civilization is constantly developing them, and Insist on eco nomic justice to the people."'" v A QUESTION OF INTEBEST The Socialist, of Seattle, .Wash., Is responsible for he following bit of "convincing" argument: , ! A local politician rushed into my room and shouted: " i : "Burgess, I want you to ,vote the democratic ticket!" . ".Why?" I asked. "Because," he replied "the republi cans of this town r.re corrupt as h 1 and will steal everything in sight." "Well," said I, "it makes no differ ence to me if they do." "What!" said he, in astonishment;" "don't, you want good government, economical government, pure govern ment?" ' "Come," I said, and I led the way to an eminence near by where we had a view of the entire city, and then I pointed out to him the evidences of wealth there before us and said: 'I own not one cent of this vast wealth, few of my class own any. Now why should we care which set of thieves possesses this wealth." My friend was silent for several minutes and ther. said: i never iriougni oi mis Deiore, out I shall study this phase of the sub- ject." Recently this man bought Marx's "Capital," and if he masters this he will know that the wage-worker as a class is not interested In taxation, pure government, economical govern ment, nor in just government as un derstood by capitalists. We are only tem. A frank statement and well put. Now, on the other hand, why should any man who works for himself be in terested in "abolishing the wage sys tem?" It's a poor rule that won' work both ways. The farmers, for ex ample, ARE interested in taxation and these questions which are of no mo ment to the , wage-workers, if we are to believe the Socialist. How can the farmers have anything In common with socialism?