NOVEMBER 5, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
AN INDEPENDENT FAKTY
"The Independent has made the best
fight that it could for an "independent
people's party." What such a , party
might accomplish is shown by the in
dependent action of the Irish nation
alists. That party, few in numbers,
lias accomplished what the great Glad
stone, with the mighty liberal party
behind him, failed to accomplish. The
success of the Irish party has stim
ulated the effort in England to or
ganize another independent party
the labor party. It already has thlr
teen members in parliament, but up
to this time has acted with the lib
eials. It now proposes to cut loose
from that party and stand on its own
platforms. It will be "independent,
nominate its own candidates and have
its own headquarters in London. It
does not propose to in all cases nomi
nate candidates who are members of
the labor party, but it will nominate
men in either of the other parties if
it Is concluded that b: that means it
can best serve the cause of labor. Its
members will not enter the caucus of
any other party or give obedience to
the "whips" of the other organizations
It is thought by that means the cause
of labor can be advanced, just as the
Irish have advanced their cause by
the same policy. '
That is the position that has been
taken by The Independent in regard
to the people's party in this country.
The day of bi-party government is
past. It has been abandoned in every
civilized nation except England and
the United States, and since the or
Ionization of the nationalist party by
Parnell, it has been practically aban
coned in England. That was the ob
ject of the Denver conference. The
action taken at Denver hap put new
life in the populist party everywhere
end in in no other state more so than
right here in Nebraska.
The immediate program in England
of the labor party is an eight-hour day
in the mines, legislative assaults upon
"slums" and improvement in the hous
ing of the wage-earners in the large
tewns and cities, old age pensions, bet
ter and more education for working
men's children, at the expense of the
state, the amendment of the .work
men's compensation act and more rad
ical temperance , laws.
BHITISn gILVKIl DOLLARS
The tricks that the plutocrats of
England and America (and together
they make up one gang) have played
with the coinage of silver are almost
innumerable The viceroy of India
ifcsued a decree in 1900, authorizing
the mint of Calcutta to coin British
silver dollars of 416 grains and made
them a full legal tender in the Straight
settlements, with a provision that
they were to retain their full legal
Under If they only weighed 411 grains
which made the amount of silver in
them y grains less than the anount
o' silver in the American dollar. The
cold bugs of England as well as those
o' America soon found that It was im
possible to make a universal gold
standard, and thr falling off in their
trade with all India aud Asia soon
brought them around. Like the re
publicans In th! country they went
to coining silver with a rush, while
at tho same tlnn they kept up their
talk about "good money," The little
airangcment to coin silver at the Cal
cutta mint was to head off the circula
tion of tho Mexican dollar, and the
putting tho "limit of tolerance" nt 411
trains was just a mall steal of tho
same character as tho "clipped coins"
tl at bo befuddled Lord McCauley,
HKTTFll JOIl THAI Hit (All
Th policy of the republican party
H to tax million of dollars out f tho
jHOpl above tho nmnitary rxpvmtrs
tif tho Kovrrnmcnt and then turn
tloo million over to tho national
bunkers without iuttwt. , In all (hit
campaign thno h4 not been a ilngl
lujtjpstlou from Shaw, Robert or any
ether man connected, with tho ad m In
to tratloa that tho taxes ihoulJ to re-
duced to an amount equal to the wants
of the government. The banks now
have about $170,000,000 which has been
taxed out of the people and given
free to the bankers. Those bankers
realize at least 4 per cent on that
money, or $G,S00,000. The plain pro
position is this: The republican party
trxes the people and makes them
give $0,800,000 a year to the national
bankers. What is the difference be
tween that and taxes on the people to
maintain a king and a lot of nobles?
The national bankers receive swice as
much free from the Americans as the
czar of Russia does from all the peo
ple of his Immense empire. Besides
getting twice as much money taxed
out of the people as the Russian czar,
the American bankers have a much
scfter snap in numerous ether ways.
They do not have to watch the nihil
ists, the anarchists from fear of be
ing shot on sight. They even have
an easier time than the French aris
tocracy before the revolution. There
is no "third estate" threatening them
with the guillotine. The peasants of
this country just walk up, pay their
taxes and then go and vote 'er
straight for the fellows who live off
the taxes that the peasant pays.
"GRAFT" AND "GRAFTING"
A year ago some of the Boston cul
tured set criticised The Independent
for using the words "graft" and
"grafting." Now those words are
found more frequently in the Boston
dallies than any other two . words in
the English language, all of which
gees to show that this paper is as far
In advance of Boston in the use of
good, forceful language as it is in
political economy. David Starr Jor
dan of Stanford university says: "The
use of public authority to extort mon
ev is a form of robbery, and we have
a good strong word to cover all such
things, the word graft."
W, J. Bryan's definition is, as fol
lows: "The word 'graft' has been so
frequently employed of late -that it
has come to have a technical meaning.
It is used to describe the illegitimate
profit which a corrupt public servant
makes out of his oflice. The most
ccramon form of graft is in the form
cf a rebate on contracts made by the
efficial for the public. The postoffilce
investigation shows that several em
ployes were interested in contracts
made in their departments. Of course,
it is plain, barefaced stealing."
THE 11IBLB IN COURT
There has been a' good deal said
during the campaign about reading
the Bible in the schools. But a judge
dewn in Savannah, Ga., read a pass-
sage from the Bible to a jury in giv
ing his instructions to them. It was
a divorce case and each party had
brought charges against the other.
The judge in giving his instructions
icad the following from the eighth
chapter of St. John:
"Now, Moses in the law, com
manded us that such should be
stoned, but what sayeth thou?"
This, they said, tempting him that
they might have to c-cuse him,
but Jesus stooped down, and, with
his finger, -wrote on the ground, as
though ho heard them not. And
He lifted himself up and said unto
them; "He that la without sin
among you let hjm first cast a
stone at her."
Tho judge read this to enforce hla
Instruction that when a party seeks
justice ho must come into court with
clean hands. Tho jury went out and
In a few minutes came back with a
verdict Riving both parties a divorce.
What would Undo Dan Freeman do
t? that Judge?
AnmnCUAYlC ft AM UMNO
rpul!U have Always held that
Icard of trad and etock exchange,
while primarily organic! to facilitate
actual business, are In fact gambling
cow-emu, In whhh tho inlrlt of gam-
ling I tho chW Incentive. In leltt-
trato commerce both parths to a trad
r lenefiUHl, but In ambling when
one l benefited tho other must lone,
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To what extend this gambling inspires
the men who operate on the stock ex
change was shown before the last divi
dend was declared by the steel trust.
There were thousands of bets made
t'pon what the dividend would be on
the common stock, the dividend was
I ought and sold by the hundred thou
sands. It had been paying fl a bhare.
The ruling price on the stock exchange
was 70 and 75 cents. For two days
the greatest stock exchange of the
world did practically nothing but gam
Lie In various way on what this divi
dend would be. When it was declared
it was only 50 cents a share and that
was 25 cents more than the trust
earned during the quarter.
All this was straight gambling. No
dividends were actually bought or
scld. The loser simply paid to the
winner the ditference between his
guess and the actual payment that
was made by the trust. That sort of
business is the chief occupation of
stock exchangesx and boards of trade
the country over. The police are ever
after the crap shooter, but never hear
of the gambling on these boards and
exchanges. The crap shooter makes no
contribution to campaign funds, and
puts up no money for "graft." ,
AVVVWSA
Collier's Weekly asks fhe following
question: "To form a vast combina
tion, knowing it to be so watered as
to be unsafe an to bargain for your
own gains at the expense of those who
trust you what Is the name for
that?" The Independent has never
been at a loss for names to designate
these sort of wretches. It has called
thcra pirates, robbers, thieves. The
editor of Collier's Weekly oucht to
know without asking.
ICIKNCK AMI 11KI.10IOM
Startling conclusions continue to be
derived from the discovery of radium.
The latest announcement is in ac
cordance with what Tho Independent
Paid when tho discovery was first an
nounced, I. ., there la life In matter.
Tho aclcntlata are now t'"? notice
of what mechanics have U. averted.
Tho barber cays a raator gets "tired"
and if laid away to "rest" for a while,
It will araln perform it functions.
It U a well known that machinery
bhowa fatigue, and that finally It be
come Incompetent, but will rwovrr
If It I allowed a rent. IcomotUe
enjclne.i exhibit th tamo trait; In
deed many rnulncrr dvUr that they
can recognko that their woodcrf-.il
charges get tired out and need rest.
It is now announced by the scientists
that there is a close similarity between
the action q( stimulants and narcotics
on the human body and on metals. The
still more startling announcement is
made that "the observation of phe
nomena in nature lead one to the be
lief that there is no such thing as
death meaning the perfect impotency
of restoring activity." Religion and
science are getting very near an agree
ment. .... ; ..
PLUTOCRACY AMI) AXAKCHY
The only man outside of the state
who gave Tom Johnson any assist
ance in his fight in Ohio, aside from
the speeches made by Bryan, was
Congressman Baker of Brooklyn the
r an. who sent back his railroad pass.
He was sent down into the hotbed of
McLean influence in Hamilton county.
In one of his last speeches Tom John
son said:
"This evening I received a tele
gram from Congressman Baker of
Brcoklyn, N. Y.. who came o it to
Ohio to help us in this campaign "
and who has been holding street
corner meetings in Cincinnati. To
day he was clubbed b" a police
man, run over by a sprinkling wa
gon and finally arrested. If they
have to run over the speakers and
bring out wagons to sprinkle the
crowds away it is n pretty good
sign that they are worried. I am
glad to say that Mr. Baker was
not seriously .njured and tint he
did not stay locked up very long."
Mr. Bryan was also refused permis
sion to speak from the poatofllce steps
In Toledo O., and had to . o to another
place after the crowd had assembled,
tc hear him. These things show an
prchistic tendencies of plutocracy.
They are sowing to the wind and gome
day they will reap the whirlwind.
The cuts that have been given to
the paid editorial writing in the dail
ies are making some of them wince.
The Chicago Tribune makes a reply
to theso attacks. It says: "Wouldn't
P. be helpful, though, If the ipace
which I now given to abusing writer
for earning their living were glveu to
refuting what they write?" Let gomo
cno attempt to refute omo of the
economic rot that tho hired writer
of that pap r put out and e what tho
result would bo. Not a lino of It
would ever appear In type. Th! thine
ha hvtn oru-n tried and always with
cm result. Th rrply went to the
via to basket.