NOVEMBER 12, 1903.
.THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
SORROWFUL KEW YORK POST
The Independent Is sometimes criti
cised for its vigorous language, the
most of such protests coming from
the New England states, and New
York. During the campaign atten
tion was called to the strenuous lan
guage used in the Boston and Spring
field, Mass., papers. Now here comes
the New York Post, that exemplar in
elegant writing, and remarks concern
ing the defeat of Low: "Hen was
stirred up from beneath last night, in
' the worst quarters of this city, to wel
come the Tammany victory. As much
as that we begin by admitting."
That is as much more "strenuous"
than anything that a pop editor ever
wrote concerning a defeat in Nebras
ka, as the editor of the Post is sup
posed to be more "cultured" than the
shirt-sleeved pencil-pushers who edit
pop papers and report political
speeches delivered in sod school
houses.
The editor of the Post was exceed
ing sorrowful and like the men of his
class turned to his library to hunt for
consolation. At last he found this:
"What! know ye not the gains of
Crime
Are dust and dross?"
It was simply human for the editor
of tfte Post to fly to the poets for con
solation. Usually the plutocratic edi
tor finds little there to help him,
while to the populist editors, the poets
contain the stirring songs that fill
their souls with hope and courage.
After a defeat, the populist editor us
ually quotes this stanza:
"Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne;
But that scaffold sways the future
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch upon His own."
After a paragraph or two telling
them that the "next campaign is now
on," he winds up with the following
lines-: j
"Truth crushed to ' earth will rise
i again,
Th' eternal weight of years are hers;
While Error, wounded, writhes in pain
And die among her worshipers."
After that he feels all right, sit3
down to his desk and "goes for" the
trusts, the tariff grafters, railroad ex
tortionists, the money power and the
whole gang of plutocrats with more
vigor than ever. He tells them that
"the old guards die, but never sur
render." The Independent commends the
courage of the populist editor to the
attention of the sorrowful man wto
edits the New York Post.
KCONOMIO GKNKKALIZATIONS
The assertion often made by a cer
tain school of political economists that
the amount of land cannot be in
creased or diminished is very far from
correct when "geological time" is con
sidered. Even within historic times
we know thatvmany famous .cities
which were once seaports are now far
inland. The city of Adrla, in north
ern Italy, which was at the beginning
of the Christian era so famous a sea
port that it gayo its name to the
Adriatic Sea, Is now sixteen miles in
land the Po and the Adige having
exleodol their deltas (hat distance
elaco the city became famous. Paolo,
on the Pei-Ilo, in China, was on the
shore of the Yellow Sea 200 B. C. it
1 now forty miles Inland. As late
as MO A. I)., the sea was eighteen
rnikf nearer Tientsin than it la now.
The Euphrates Lai Tigris have filled
up tho had of the Persian gulf with
their sediment until Ur of the Chal
dreii, the fortaer residence of Abra
ham, U now ,ifnty or eighty miles
Inland. Tha delta of the Mississippi
id more than 200 miles long, and, on
the average, titty mtU's wkb com
ing 12,000 square miles; walla the
Ccpmlte of the river are pushing It
out into the Gulf of Mfsleo one mile
farther every elxtetn year,
All thin koni to-enow that mn
thfwtM be very careful a tout making
tcnrrellutlons. Too many modern
philosophers are in the habit of mar
shalling a few facts and then making a
generalization which covers every
thing. That is the fault with the rea
soning of Karl Marx, and many other
writers upon sociology and political
economy. They make a Procustean
bed and cut everything off, or stretch
it out to fit it. While we may claim
that some . truths eternal truths
have been discovered, let us beware of
claiming that no new truths will ,be
discovered that may give a new mean
ing to the old ones.
WHAT SCnWAB DID
A reader of Tbe Independent says
that he "does not fully understand
what Schwab was actually guilty of
in connection with the shipbuilding
trust and wants it made plainer.
Schwabx and Morgan's transactions
may be summarized as follows:
Schwab bought the steel
plant for .$ 7,000,000
Schwab sold the plant to
. the shipyard trust for:
Bonds .110,000,000
Preferred stock . 10,000,000
,. 10,000,000.
Common stock ,
30,000,000
First paper profit..... .$23,000,000
Schwab pocketed the bonds. $10,000,000
Schwab sold 75,000 shares
preferred 1 stock at 65. . . .$ 4,875,000
Schwab sold 75,000 shares
common stock at 25 1,875,000
Schwab's cash profit.... $ 6,750,000
And he still held the bonds,
giving him a total profit
on the deal, in cash and
bonds, of 9,750,000
Mr. Morgan's share was worth one
quarter of Schwab's and after the two
bad" secured this enormous profit they
seemed to have set. out systematically
to wreck the shipbuilding trust, and
succeeded very effectually.
"That is the sort of work that the
trust magnates have been engaged in
for the last three years. The facts in
thi3 case were only obtained because
the trust got' into the courts, but the
facts that have leaked out concern
ing the other trusts are of the same
nature. That is the gang of scoun
drels that is ruling the United States
the gang that seems to be after
President Roosevelt, and who are plan
ning to elect a gold democrat-in his
place. Roosevelt's great, and in their
eyes unpardonable, crime was order
ing a suit brought against the North
ern Securities company. There seems
to be some millions of men in these
United States who prefer to have the
government run by swindlers and
scoundrels like Schwab and Morgan.
The utter and complete ignorance of
the common people of New York con
cerning all things connected with
money, banking, and finance in gen
eral, is shown by the way they will
invest in shipbuilding trusts, asphalt
trusts and Miller syndicates. The peo
ple of Chicago will "take a flyer" on
religion, as the Dowle craze shows,
but no one 'could get them in on a
Miller syndicate.
AFTER &KNATOK DIETRICH
When the republican legislature, af
ter months of wrangling, chose the
celebrated heavenly twins to repre
sent this commonwealth In the United
States senate, The Independent In
formed its readers what manner of
men they were. It did bo only In gen
eral terms, although It knew their
characters for many preceding years.
During the campaign that Dietrich
mtulo whn he went the round of the
saloons all over the tato mailing hU
cob bratotl polltlml Kpoech: "Walk
up, gentlemen, ami takd something on
me," The Independent faithfully re
ported it. The editor of Tho Indepen
dent personally heard that p;ech de
livered In the a!oni of the city of
Lincoln and Hi corrmponde nts re
ported It ji being delivered verbatim
In many part of tho tai. The r
publican every h re knew th char
acter uf the man and yet they elected
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16th and Dodge St., Omaha, Neb.
him governor and then senator. They
called that "redeeming the state."
Now the grand jury at Omaha has
Dietrich under investigation. Some
time ago The Independent was in
formed of the facts in the case. The
omplainants allege that Senator
Dietrich demanded from Jacob Fisher,
tie present postmaster, a compensa
tion for recommending him for ap
pointment, prior to the making of the
appointment, and that Fisher, in con
sequence, executed to Dietrich his
rote to hand for $2,500, the price al
leged to have been exacted." The sec
ond charge is said to be that Senator
Dietrich secured the" removal of i the
postoffice into his own building at an
exorbitant rental, and that he did this
personally by direct negotiations with
the department officials at Washing
ton, concealing the fact that the
building into which the postofilce was
to be removed was his own property.
WHO GOT IT?
A correspondent, writing on the car
toon which appeared in The Indepen
dent showing the farm in the spring
time, says:
"If this is the John Samuels farm,
the railroads and trusts got the first
half and the mortgage will probably
get the balance, with all tbe accumu
lated Interest at or before his (Sam
uels') death, probably before. A ?12,
000 salaried jndgo could have paid for
it in six months. This is designated
as "brains." It the farm had been lo
cated in New York or Pennsylvania it
would have depreciated 50 per cent in
value, so Mr. Samuels would now have
Just what ho started with. Thia, he
designates as prosperity for the Amer
ican, farmer! It Is only a Blight differ
ence or discrimination in time, six
months or sixty years."
The sugar trust h Billing mar at
Missouri rlvr points at 73 points be
low tho quoted prl-o in San I'nm-1
Cisco, where It i manufactured. That
it ficts! r'batrn on the railroads la be
yond question. That, however, li what
the peopla r m to want Itebaloa and
trusts are what they vote fur,
Th Independent does not brieve
that It is wlr.o for the labor vnlona to
undertake to c.-laMUh the ;nU of the
"tlottt'd ehnp." that M, to deny to the
employer the right to employ any on
but a member of a labor uahjn. Such
an effort will fail because it Is based,
on wrong principles. It !s an attempt
to establish a cast system. .Under It
fi. union man will be taught to look
upon a non-union laborer just as the
high cast Hindoo looks upon the low
casts. A union man, under this teach
ing, refuses to work along side of a
non-union man, to live in the same
house with him, to eat with him or in.
any waj come . in contact with him.
That is not democracy, not the broth
erhood of man, but Brahminism. The
better way is not to try to use "force
but reason. Convince the non-unionist
that It will.be better for him to join
tno union. The attempt at "force"
will fail. A minority never yet suc
ceeded in the attempt to use force
against the majority. .
The description of the "Indian war"
out in Wyoming given in. this paper
iast week proved to be correct. Indian
Agent Brcnnan at Newcastle, Wyo.,
has informed the commissioner of
Indian affairs that the reports of the
Indian trouble were exaggerated. He
says seven Indians were killed and
that the fight was precipitated by
white men.
All the demands of the Chartists
the movement of the middle class peo
ple in England In the third decade of
the last century have been incorpor
ated in the constitution of Australia
with the exception of annual parlia
ments. They were long since adopted
In Great Britain. " But the Chartist
movement suffered -more - persecution
and greater disasters than the popul
ist party ever did in this country, be
fore the Chartist principles were ac
cepted and enacted Into law. The
Chartltts foufcht on until they con
quered and so will the populists of the
United State.
A comic writer nukea a tramp ayr
"As It Iss now, I goes alonj; pvaeeable,
takin' only what folks w&ntu to give
me, 'etld o statulin 'eta up an' tak
in' It away from them like the trtigta."
That tramp m evidently , not an
economist or he would have known
that the trusts g't their millions Juist
In th rutno way that tho tramp get
his ruppllfii. They don't ft and any
tody up and taK their product! from
the in. Tho jw-ople tstrnply voto to r.ive
their farnlnf: to th trunu. Wha
can bUme the trust for taking all thai
It offered uudfcr such circuavBtanci1!!