DECEMBER 10, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
RE-DISGRACKD
The republicans disgraced this state
until it was a stench in the nostrils of
the people all over the Union. They
not only robbed the state treasury, im
poverished the schools, let the teach
ers go without their salaries for a
long time, but brought demoralization
and grafting into every county in the
state. Then the populists got control.
They prosecuted the thieves, doubled
the apportionment to the schools and
during the hardest years that Nebras
ka ever saw reduced the state debt
$600,000. ; ...
Then the republicans got the gov
ernment again. " In good times, when
taxes are easily paid, they have in
creased the state .debt, to : $2,000,000,
and engaged in the same schemes of
grafting all over, the state , and from
top to bottom that brought disgrace
upon Nebraska in the days of Mosher,
Hartley and the old gang. Their
United States senator is ' indicted in
this state, and theirstate auditor in
Wyoming; their late, adjutant general
is now charged with getting away
..witirf 2,000 worth of blankets." What
else will develop in the, near, future
no one can guess,, but that there is
plenty more to come every one be
lieves. It seems that there has been a
typographical error in the head-lines
and writing in all the republican pa
pers. Instead of Nebraska being re
deemed it has been re-disgraced.
These editors hereafter should see U
it that the letters following "re"
should be rearranged so that the word
will be "re-disgraced" instead of "re
deemed." ' j
The Independent is not ready to in
dorse Mr. Groot's estimate of Tom L.
Johnson in this issue. Opinions are
often colored somewhat by personal
animosities, of which the public is
not generally informed. This may or
may not be the case with Mr. Groot.
The mayor of Cleveland has many
qualities which, at this distance, The
Independent cannot but admire. It by
no means regards, Mr. Johnson as in
fallible 'or as representing every re
form which The Independent would
like to see effected. But, on the whole,
it has believed that Mr. Johnson's
heart is in the right place, even if
his head does lead him to . advocate
certain financial measures which The
Independent regards as inimical to the
public welfare. Mr. Groot is un
doubtedly right in his regard for the
importance of the money question;
but The Independent Is not ready to
believe that Mr. Johnson is a "man
without political or business honor."
Doubtless Mr. Johnson's scheme for
uniting the two wings of democracy
was faulty Clarke should not have
been nominated but that it was rath
er a piece of political blundering than
otherwise, The Independent would
prefer to believe.
WAITS FOll AN OPENING
Walter Wellman says that since
lianna's recent sojourn in New York
city, Ilanna gives it out that if Judge
Parker is nomiuated for the presi
dency by the democrats that a large
share of the intluence of the money
power wilt bo thrown against Roose
velt. Especially will the Hockefpller
crowd contribute lare sums to de
feat him. Hanna says that Jim Hill
will fight Roosevelt and that 1 1 111 can
tarry one or two of the northwestern
states out to the democrats. All the
plutocratic correspondents- arc paying
that the republican leaden In Wash
ington are acknowledging that it will
require the fiht of their lives to elect
Roosevelt with a K!d democrat eun
illdito and platform put up attalnst
him.
It lfA iiot rt-qulre very much ao
rumen to discover th aim of all thi.
Tltf'ito arth l. x arc written I y cone.
I mut-h UU W lnt I ;ive I e tit for"
ly llama and hU follower!. It H
limply a p.rt of a plan to q' n up ft
way to . t rid .f for j !
to-racy wanti tl original program
carried oft, that 1, two lAuJJdate for
the president, about whom Whitney
on the democratic side and Aldrich
on the republican side have no fears
or doubts. It Is true that Roosevelt
has as yet done nothing to seriously
interfere with the trusts that he
hasn't the scalp of a single trust
handing at his belt but the pluto
cratic leaders are afraid of him he is
too "rantankerous" and erratic. They
all know that the whole financial
fabric hangs, as it were, by a thread,
and the -whole thing may drop to
pieces in spite of all that they can do
if the president does, not always and
every ( time take orders , from them.
Under the circumstances as they ex
ist at the present time, "Brer Hanna,
he lay low," starts up all sorts of
rumors and waits for an opening. .
The Kansas Agitator, Garnett, says
that there will not be more than three
democratic papers in Kansas next year
who will refuse to support the presi
dential nominee, "be he Cleveland,
Gorman or Hill," notwithstanding that
"these papers have nearly all de
nounced Cleveland as a traitor to his
country and have declared their al
legiance to Bryan." The Agitator says,
however, that David Overmyer is one
of the Kansas democrats who refuses
to support Cleveland. The most as
tounding news is that former Su
preme Judge Frank Doster, a populist,
favors Cleveland's nomination be
cause he believes the Stuffed Prophet's
election would kill the republican par
ty, after which the democratic party
could be killed off without difficulty.
"We believe Judge Doster is sincere
in this matter," says the Agitator,
"but we believe he is as badly mis
taken as was the bull that tried to
shove the locomotive off the track."
A belief in which The Independent
concurs.
DESTRUCTION AHEAD'
The reasons behind Chamberlain's
propaganda in England are of a dif
ferent character from what have been
generally given in this country. How
England is to compete with the United
States is a very serious question. Here
we have a continent of almost virgin
soil richer than the old world has
ever known. There the soil is becom
ing exhausted and costly , manures
must be used to raise a crop. Here the
coal lies in inexhaustible quantities
almost upon the surface of the earth.
There the most profitable mines have
been exhausted and the remainder of
the coal is hundreds of feet below ttie
surface. Many of the metals England
does not produce at all, and here we
have mountains of iron, unlimited
stores of copper, large supplies of
gold, silver and many other metals.
Of necessity England must do some
thing. The London World sums up
the matter as follows:
"England, in regard to foreign
nations who come into our mar
kets, but will not allow us to come
on fair terms into theirs, is like a
shopkeeper whose neighbors " are
ready to sell to him, but who re
fuse to let him sell to them. As
he can buy only by means of what
he sells, he is on the road to ruin.
But in better times he has been
able to invest his money well, and
he may possibly be in the posses
sion of carriages and horso, by
which he may command the car
rying; trade of his district. This
is England's position. She has
Investment in foreign countries,
and she is mistress of the greatest
part of the carrying trade of the
world, the intercut on the former,
and the payment for the latter,
supplying: for the present the con
stant decline of her exports. The
il day when those resources may
fall m may be distant, and now
therefore U the time to prepare
for It. When It Ih close at hand,
It will bo too late."
When t.e (onlder the nattnal al
vjuitan'M the Unite! states ha over
I'uRlaiul the nei .-M.ity cf "protection"
it !.'. of tho tl.ttu'H that no pop can
Hud out.
Jce Hartley matha at h remark:
"It Ix'Mts to eir that I wtM rot
the only cn.'
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AT LAST THEY CONQUKIt
Bryan in his Thanksgiving speech
in London captured the hearts and
forced the applause of not only those
who heard him, but of the whole city,
for much of the speech was printed in
all the London dailies. In the follow
ing extract the readers will recognize
the doctrine preached by The Inde
pendent, though clothed in different
language. In his Thanksgiving day
speech in London Mr, Bryan said:
"I am glad, the world has come
to recognize 'there, is something
stronger than physical force. None
stated it better than your great
countryman, Carlyje, when he
said 'thought was stronger than
parks of artillery and ultimate
ly molded the world like soft clay,
and behind thought was love.'
"There never was a wise head
that did not have behind it a gen
erous heart.'
"So the world is coming to un
derstand that armies and navies,
however strong, are impotent to
stop thought."
In the article, entitled "Let the
Church Fear," in The Independent of
November 19, these words will be
found:
"There is a greater power in the
world than money. It has tram
pled armies and money under iU
feet often times in the past. It is
righteousness. Churches ma be
come corrupt. They may accept
bribes from the robber and ex
tortioner and keep silence, hut
righteousness will in the end pre
vail." Thought, love, righteousness, thl.4
trinity will conquer. We are fighting
along the name lines. Then? nre
years, sometimes n.es, of defeat, hut
at last they conquer,
election fighu:
A friend of The Independent, living
In Tennessee, who ha a knack for
figures, sends us, without a word of
comment, what th recent Nebraska
elcithin cicms to tell him.
He divides the forces of Nebraska
into two hostllo tnmtMj: Th Jffr
wniana and the plutncraU. The
former are made up f populist and
P.rjan democrat; th latter f r p it
Ihan ami Cleveland democrats, lie
believes that lu 1st' theifO fortes
fctootl:
Pluto rat , .!V.'s
J i-fTiT!ll4rii .M,.i7J
The plutocratic strength mad
up of i2.'"52 rfpuUlcart and lt;j;
democrats; the Jefferronians of C.",
6C6 populists and 18,909 dcinociatic
democrats.
Ten years later (1903), based on an
average of the votes for Judge and
regents, he estimates the relative
strength as follows: . : "
Plutocrats 99,938
Jefi'ersonians .78,5X0
In this calculation he continues to
count 18,636 plutocratic democrats and
gives the remaining 81,302 tc the re
publican party proper all, however,
voting together to defeat the Jeffer
sonians. He divides the Jeffersonian
vote into 68,507 populists and 10,079
democratic democrats. Here i3 where
our friend falls down in' his analysis.
The democratic vote, althougn smaller
than the populist, is certainly much
more than ten thousand. A good
many who were originally democrats,
and afterwards joined the people's
party, have, since "fusion,''-again al
lied themselves directly with the dem
ocratic party how many, of course,
the figures could not show, and no
body knows.
His analysis is not encouraging. Ten
years ago the Jeffersonlans lacked but
six thousand of breaking even with
the plutocrats; today they are 21,000
behind. Our friend, S. P. Gibson of
Star, Neb., suggests and there is
merit in it that fully one-third of
the populists who voted for Honest
John Powers in 1890 have been crowd
ed oit of the state through the fore
closure of mortgagor. Their places
have been taken by republicans and
plutocratic democrats from Iowa and
Illinois, largely.
The Public of November 2i contains
a euppkhu-nt giving a fine half-tone
engraving of John Z. While, one of
the most Industrious single taxera In
Chleaco. Mr. White at one time stu
died law with the Intention of prac
ticing, but, lM-emlnj: diusted with
th p 'ttlfnijrKlng and ihbanery of taw
pnutUe, h abandoned th j lan, rn
t rcd a print us KU and hm situ a
earned lib Ihlng a a journeyman
compositor. He polled S is I ute i as
the p- party t ar.did.ite far ci u-
Rrr4 in I SI I In a triangular contiat,
and In tvt'.( nn Ui fusion ca.vll bt
polled :n :;. Mr. White h now d
voting hh rnttre t lino to the ttni
tax proparand.i.