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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
NOVEMBER 12, 1903.
the Uebraska Independent
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T, II. T1BBLE8,' Editor.
C. Q. DE FRANCE, A?oeJnte Editor.
F, D. EAGER, lUHinm Mnnr-gcr.
Hanna 13 claiming all the glory of
the republican victory in Ohio, but
the glory does not belong to him at alK
It belongs to the gold democrats.
That is , tor say, it was a victory for
the McLeanltes and the Clevclandites,
Partisan Insanity makes men vhq
suffer from it forget personal honor
and common decency, and induces
wen, sane on other subjects, to sup
Irt corporations that rob them ev
ery day in the year, including election
day.
Bradstreet says that the failures in
the United States for the week end
ing with November 5 were 216. Dun
Bays they were 246. Neither of them
give the amounts, at, least the west
ern dailies do not publish the amounts.
As to how many millions were, in
volved we are left in the dark,
The Independent wishes to thank
Mr. John D. Edwards of S Louis and
several other ladies and gentlemen for
sending to the editor valuable clip
pings from magazines, and domestic
and foreign papers which had escaped
the editor's notice. All these ladies
and gentlemen are all helping to edit
The Independent. .
The New York World, in speaking
of democratic candidates for U.5 pres
idency, says: "As matters stand to
day with the democratic party it is
Cleveland first and the others no
where." The World comes to that
conclusion after taking a look at the
election returns from Ohio and New
York city.
The Denver News says that "Con
gressman McClellan, the newly chosen
mayor of New York, is a man of abil
ity." On what does the News base
that statement? Does being a cypher
in congress for several years establish
a reputation for ability? If it defes,
there are several hundred great men
in this country of whom the people
have never heard, born, as It were, to
waste their sweetness on the desert
air, as the poet expressed it.
Chancellor Andrews said to the edi
tor the other day that he had lost a
fortune by not following the advice of
The Independent and selling eteel
. ccmroon short when It was quoted at
about forty. The editor told the chan
cellor that he still had a chance, for
ttet common then wa selling at 1"H
6nl hfl could still eoll thort and win.
The chancellor did not take thU ad
Ykc flthrr and now he has lost an
other fortune, for it eel common hat
Ueu done to 10 tine then. If he
kccPi on lesdng fortunes at that rat,
hat will happen to the Nebraska
tUto university!
THE BECJEHT ELECTIONS
Standing on the banks of the Mis
souri river at some favored point,
the water seems hurriedly, but peace
fully, rushing on toward the sea. The
next day we may come to the same
point and instead of a river we find a
huge sand-bar and no water at all ex-v
cept far away in the distance. A dam
has been constructed by unseen hands
in a single night. But -the Missouri
river still flows on to the sea. So it
is with the evolution of man. So it is
with the progress with reform. It may
be turned aside. It may be checked
for a time, but onward it ever goes. ,
Mark Hanna built a dam across the
onward. movement when he planned to
capture the press of the United States.
The rising waters pressed heavily
sgalnst it in tne campaigns of 1896
and 1900. Many times it appeared that
it was giving away, but it held. Since
then the waters have somewhat sub
sided, but the day is coming when the
waters will press against it with un
controllable force and the . structure
will fall. The demand for informa
tion comes from every direction.
Lulled to quietness by a little relief
from republican-Cleveland .soup house
distress, the people have allowed plu
tocracy to gain another victory and
upon the heels of that victory will
come more extortion and robbery of
the toiling masses. That is what plu
tocracy fought for, and to the victor
belongs the spoils.
The result of the elections in Ohio
end New York, not to say anything
fcbout Iowa, shows conclusively that
what The Independent has been say
ing for a year or more is true, name
ly, that the democratic party could not
te made a reform pariy. Even Mr.
Bryan seems to abandon the hepe of
such a consummation, for he says in
The Commoner: "The plutocratic ele
ment of the party deserted and ever
since that time has been plotting
against the party. It threatens defeat
if its dictation is resisted and is pow
erless to give victory when the party
yields to its demands."
That both of the old parties are now
regarded as assets "of plutocracy is
shown 'in everything that has been
written and said by the political lead
ers and writers since the election.
Those parties are to be used by aggre
gated capital to further its ends. The
trusts and millionaires are planning
to get the next president and it does
not make a particle of difference to
them whether that president is a re
publican or democrat.
It seems from all that can be gath
ered that an effort will be made in the
republican party to nominate Mark
Hanna or some man of his sort. If
Roosevelt secures the nomination, then
all of the Wall street millions will be
thrown to the support of the demo
cratic party, foe every one now con
cedes that the next democratic nomi
nee will be a Wall street man.
All that means that there is going to
be a great breaking up of party lines
in the near future. The day of bi
party government is nearing its end.
There will be In the future in the
United States, as there has been for a
long time, more than two powerful
parties In Germany, Trance and to
some extent in England.
That being the case the wisdom of
the calling of the Denver conference
and the action there taken becomes
apparent. The thing for populists now
to do is to go on with their work of
organisation in every elate In the
Union. The prospect now ia that the
party will cast many more votes In
Uul than It ever polled before. There
will be hundreds of thousands of men,
In both tho democratic and republican
I nrtlrp, if king new political affilia
tions after the fominj panic.
The plan of plutocracy to hold the
fovcrnment will be, In th future as
In the past, to keep the voters In Ig
norance by controlling tho prwu.
There art millions of votrr who to
day do not know thi meaning of tht
word "ratio" or that th republican
party htti coined million upou mil-
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lions of silver since it came back to
power. The hope of reform is in ex
tending the circulation of the populist
press.
PARKS AND PAUPERS
The bureau of statistics at Wash
ington was run during the campaign
largely as the literary bureau of the
republican campaign committees. Now
the agricultural department has
s-tarted put as a literary bureau to
extol the trust magnates and their
wives. Bulletin No. 42 of the agri
cultural department is largely made
up of a report concerning how Mrs. J.
Pierpont Morgan is going to ruher
Adirondack park of 1,500 acres. She
has had the services of a scientific
forester from the department. The
report says that "the kind of forestry
practiced in the park will be one
shaped and adapted to the peculiar
desires of the owner." The whole
thing has been done for the benefit
of the millionaires who are setting
aside thousands of acres of what used
to belong to the people and was used
as aummer resort for all alike. Now
the trust magnates fence If in with
wire and put notices everywhere of
"No Tresspassing." That is exactly
what has been done by the same class
of plutocrats all over Europe Tens
of thousands of acres in deer parks
and tens of thousands of people starv
ing or supported by charity. It seems
to The Independent that the govern
ment should be in better business than
complimenting these plutocrats In
government reports and putting the
forestry experts, whose salaries are
paid by the people, at their service.
But we suppose that it is all right, as
the peoplo "vote er straight" for that
sort of thing every time they get a
chance,
TVtlV TIIElf DIDN'T
Many men ask why the Christian
government! do not Interfere an 1 pre
vent the bloodshed In Macedonia. On
what ground, moral or ethical, could
they Interfere? Russia had Veen
murdering th Jtws, England the
j lkrs. the United State the Filipinos,
while Germany not long am r.d a
whack at the FoIm. th Fin and th
Chin', and Frane at MdMmrr.
Tha Turk waa only following. In a
mild tort of a way, th e tmrd of th
"Christian" nation. U rould m
rtaion why a heathen mljfet not do
what the Christians did. Can any
body else?
It is true that Russia might have
said we have got through with mur
deringJews; England, we have dis
patched the Boers; France, we have
disposed of the rebels In Madagascar;
Teddy, we have water-cured the Fili
pinos and made their 'country "a,
howling wilderness," and now we will
teach the Turk how to run a Christian c
government. The sultan would likely
have replied: "I am doing the thing
along the same lines. . Just wait a
bit and I will make Macedonia as
much of a howling wilderness as the
British did South Africa or Hell
Roaring Jake Smith did his depart
ment in the Philippines." What re
ply could have been made? Perhaps
our Imperialists could have replied:,
"Our , way was benevolent assimila
tion and that makes air the difference -in
the world." , " ,
ENGLAND AND AMERICA
The conditions inv England very
much resemble those in this country
and practically the people are living
there along the same lines as in this
country. The London News, in speak
ing of Chamberlain and his new tar
iff policy, says of him and his past
policies: "We are faced with nerils
that threaten not only the existence
of the empire, but the peace of the
world. The dragon's teeth we sowed
In South Africa have sprung up armed
men, and all the evil influences In the
national life have been loosened upon
us. Fierce, unreasoning hatred of tho
foreigner, the sordid self-interest of
the classes, the rapacity of landlord
ism, the deadly avarice of the drink
traflic, contemptuous indifference to
the moral obligations of the' state
this la the foul brood that one mis-,
thlevous man, with an unrivalled fac
ulty for appealing to the' basest In
stincts of men, has unchained."
Then, after a rapid glance at eco
nomic conditions In the country, tht
News adds: "Instead of protecting
the trust-mongers wo must Assure to
labor the iteration, of the elcincu
tV right which parliament gave and
the courts took a ay, rich Li which
inastrra enjoy and mwn must hive."
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