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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
NOVEMBER 12, 1905.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN KEPI' BLICAMS
During the week several of the
bishops and many of the leading men
of - the great Methodist Episcopal
church have been in Lincoln to at
tend the meeting "of the Freedman's
Aid and Southern Educational society.
These men have been an interesting
study for Tie Independent. In the
first place many of them are men of
wide scholarship, and in the second
place they are honest and striving for
the attainment of high Ideals. .All
that, it is a pleasure to say, not sim
ply in a complimentary way, but be
cause it is true.
The first thing noticeable was that
one of the bishops made a political
speech and advised the people to vote
the republican ticket. He paid high
compliments to Roosevelt and 'said-to
vote for him, not seeming to compre
hend that to vote for Roosevelt was to
vote for all the republican party
stands for.
Among the leaders present were sev
eral highly educated coloreu men.
These colored leaders of the cnurch
were also men of good scholarship',
fine manners, and some, of them eml
tnent orators. But when they came to
Lincoln every hotel in this city, where
there is about 1,800 rppubllcan , ma
jority for the party for which the
bishop advised his hearers to vote, re
fused to give entertainment to, or al
low any one of these educated, . refined
colored men to enter their doors. Not
one of them had applied for any en
tertainment, for they were true gen
tlemen and adverse to thrusting-their
presence upon any person who did not
wish to receive them. .. ' , ;
Then another of the! bishops' in '
speech denounced the' action; ; Of " th:e
hotel-keepers, announced; .his belief jjn
the doctrine that all men were created
equal and declared that' God 'had cre
ated all men of one blood. This bish
op went on to say that, in the soifth
there were , thousands of ; nobl&Vwbite
men who had been giving all? the aid
they could to the uplifting or the cl
ored race. , r ; . u
Another speaker declared that there
were colored physicians in the south
who had large numbers of .patients
among the white people. Would these
northern ;men, who ; call themselves
"Abraham Lincoln republicans,' tiie
men who organized af republican club1
by that name in this qity during the
last presidential ' campaign,, thjnk of
doing that sort of thing? - -
To a man who fought' along ' witb
John Brown:. "Who ! "canvassed "for
Abraham Lincoln; who; ' greeted : the
Emancipation. Proclamation ; , with
thanks 'to God, the 'advice -of the
bishop to vote the republican ticket
sounded strangely out i . of . harmony
with the ; acts of that, party and the
persecution it visits upon the very
highest and best of the colored race.;
"Any man who knows anything:
about politics knows that it has been
tue votes of colored men cast solidly
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for the republican ticket that has
elected every one of the later republi
can presidents. In the closely con
tested states of Indiana, Illinois and
several others the colored vote has
been the determining factor, and yet
that cowardly party has never had
the courage to enforce the laws that
were put upon the statute book and
in the constitution.
The bishop advised his hearers to
vote the republican ticket, and here
in Lincoln where every officer, state
and federal is a republican, ihey re
fuse to enforce even" the statutes of
this state in regard to colored people.
The following is a copy of them:
CHAPTER 14a. Civil Rights.
1673 Section 1. (Equal Privil
eges.) All persons within this
- state shall be entitled to a full
and equal enjoyment of the .ac
commodations, advantages, fatlli-
ties, and privileges of inns, restau
rants, public conveyances, barber '
shops, theatres, and other places
of amusement; subject only to the
conditions and limitations estab
lished T)y law, and applicable alike
to every person. 1885, chap. 104.
Re-enacted 1893, chap. 10.)
1C74 Section 2. (Same Penal
ty.) , Any person who shall violate
the foregoing section by denying
to any1 person, except for reasons "
by law applicable to all persons,
the, fuR enjoyment of any of the
' accommodations, advantages, fa-
eilities, or privileges enumerated
in the. foregoing section, or by
aidjhg.-jor' inciting such denials,
3, shall; for each offense be deemed
guilty ofa misdemeanor and .be
ftneil 'in any sum hot less than.
I twpty;flve dollars ($25) nor more
v than 'one, hundred dollars (?100)
; and to pay -thi costs of the prose
cipii. '
Thisr' act lias "been -adjudicated and
pronounced .'constitutional by the su
preme court, of , the state as will be
seen ' by.. ih following note which Is
appended to the above chapter in the
compiled statutes of the state:
' Chap, 14a.' "An act to provide that
,:ai". persons snan De enuuea 10 tne
, . same ,e;iYil rights, to punish all
persons for violations of its pro
visions, tp repeal," etc., chap. 14a,
C. S. ,j'Tbok effect Mar. 17, 1893.
Laws, 4&J3,, chap. 10. Act valid so
far as it relates to citizens. 25
fNeb., 275. :. -; ... .
; .If party insanity ever had a. better
demonstration than in' the occurren
ces above" narrated,; The. Independent
never ,)ieard jof it. . The Methodists
and the' cplored people ; -themselves
will continue Were in Lincoln to "vote
"'er Straight !. and the party followers
will ' "continue"; to call themselves
'Abraham" Lincoln republicans."
: The Associated press, continuing its
Old practice, which it began in -1890,
refused everywhere to report the pop
ulist vote. " Out in Colorado wnere
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Judge Owers ran on a straight pop
ulist ticket and received over 10,000
votes, the fact was not mentioned in
the Associated press dispatches at all.
The Independent had to wait until
the local Colorado papers arrived be
iore any information concerning the
populist vote could be obtained. No
word has yet been received concerning
the populist vote in Iowa or any other
state and will not be until the week
lies arrived or the official tabulated
vote is made public about the first of
next January, What -the people's par
ty needs more than any other thing is,
tirst, a national party paper goiftg in
to every precinct in the United States
and then county papers from which
the news of general interest to all
can be gathered. Plutocracy planned
well when it started out to destroy
the populist press and build up other
papers in its own interest in their
stead, by giving them large amounts
of bank, trust and protectionist ad
vertising. . What becomes of the $300,00.0,000
more of wealth that is shipped out of
this country than is shipped in, has
long been a puzzle to the economists.
Ine republicans, and especially Secre
tary Shaw, insist that we can only get
rich by sending more wealth out of
the country than is brought in. Of
course a balance must be struck some
how. The goods that we send outin
excess of imports are not given away,
but just how they are paid for it what
has been the puzzle. Tourists in Eu
rope, freight paid to foreign owners
of ships and everything that can be
thought of, when added up, does not
account for It. Lately the answer has
teen found. The goods that are
shipped out are priced at the rate they
are sold to American cltizeni, but
they are sold to foreigners for from
-0 to SO per cent less. That accounts
for a good many millions of the miss
ing dollars.
The Independent ha.' some informa
tion that is of special interest to la
bor unions all over the country. It
appears thar the effort made to break
up unionism has the backing ot much
nionpy and a portion of that money 1
FrTit in keeping a larRO body of men,
Berne of almost every trade and oeru
patlon, constantly on pay and ecndlng
them tq any point where there Is a
f-trike. They are rt'Kuinriy eni ployed
"strike breakers," ra.ly to go at a
rtomrnt'a notiow hcr a nfrlke occur,
rnd Klve at least a semblance of hav
Irc non-union labor taking; the place
o.' the (striker.
There hate Wen Enr-Tc.atli.ns mad
to Th Independent that tt fchould
from henceforth appeal only to the
finhn,i'.i lu men. It wtll. however,
continue to fHtht the butt to th old
way. Much these roeu ttfty 'l true.
Ine lut rontcau have Uvn won by
pppallrtf" ta the bavat lntlncti. The
love of bloodshed and the love of
inhabited by hundred's of thousands
of innocent and peaceful' people, 'have
been' made "a" howling ' wilderness."
and the followers '-f Mark"-" Hanna
floated over misery and dath: They-5
bave given special privileges to tfte-1
few who have accumulated many mil
lions and scattered a few of these mil -lions
among the , purchaseable voters,
and that policy has won. : But The' In
dependent will never advocate such ':l
methods, even if it were certain1 'that i
such a course would "ecui'e""poHtic,aI -victory.
It would a" thousand times
lather be defeated 1 than win 'in that
way. It will "still-stand for -'Justk;' "''
ior equal rights for - all an,d' special '
privileges to none."
Every department of the govern
ment is full of grafters and thieves,
tut none more so than the Indian-d'e-"
partment. Things on thef ese'rvatlons :
are about as bad as they were in the'
days of the old Indian ring during the
time of Grant and wiiich he attempted "
to reform by his celibrated "peace
policy" and giving the churches 'the
power to select Indian agents. A'-ter--"
rible story comes from the Blackfbot"
agency where the agent has confined,
an Indian in jail for writing a' letter
to the department describing the con
ditions there. Ten Indians have been
killed there during the year, caused by
whisky sold to them by the govern
ment trader.
Tom Johnson offered' the olive
branch to the gold democrats in the
nomination of Clarke and they tram
pled the offer under their feet. " They,
een went so far as to cause their fol
lowers to vote the republican Mark
Hanna ticket by the thousands. All
of which confirms The Independent in
its pre. Ions views. There i3 an ir
reconcilable conflict between these
two factions of the party. Especially
If that true of the gold wing. Nothing
will ever satisfy them but the utter
destruction of such men as Johnson
and' Bryan. It would be well If thes
two men would accept that fact and
tu-t upon It. '
The poor brokers down in Wall
street are having about as hard a
time aa the farmers had out here In
Nebraska In the years of hot winds,
drouth and Cleveland floup houses,
The pricw of svxh on the stock ex
change have ucvi'ncu or.c-half S:i the
lat few wctla. A while aro a seat
was sold for fSl.Oui) In the Nw York
stock t xihan ve. and last week th
p:tpTs repotted the sal of n fe-vt for
$"1.H. Th mmo decline ha hm n
"na' jn the price1 of membership' In
alt th f rent t ii h all over ttu n,i
try. Hot y,UmU nnJ drouth havf
ttritck the broker. As thry .do
Mad The I.ib pendent, thy in 4 no
warning of the lotalrtsr chtsnv Hint it
i rt'ipht then uimwares.
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