FEBRUARY 4, 1904.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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HEW YORK FOREBODINGS
laa Plntacrata Say:"W eaa Hir One
half the Pepl to Shoot the Other
Half Whea It ia Necessary
New York, Jan. 25, 1904. (Editorial
Correspondence.) I spent an evening
last week with New York's most won
derful young octogenarian minister,
Jtev. Robert Tollier. Years ago he
opened his church in Chicago to Bish
op Clarkson, Bright Eyes and myself
to attack the old Indian ring. His
interest in current- events is just as
keen as then. In an interview for
publication he said:
"My only foreboding is that the
casting out of national devils of cor-
ruption will take a violent form. The
people may not be able to contain
themselves once they have the whole
thing thought out with startling clear
ness. In that event their vengeance
upon their betrayers will be as terri
ble as it was under the leadership of
Lincoln, a man who had. a God-given
truth in his heart and was guided by
It in all his acts."
A good many here, as well as Dr.
Collier, are having forebodings. The
pressure ' grows heavier every day.
The wages of "non-productive labor
ers," as Carl Marx calls clerks, book
keepers, stenographers and all those
who do not actually produce wealth
by the toil of their hands, have
scarcely been increased at all, and
there are hundreds of thousands of
them in these eastern estates. Mean
time the cost of living has enormous
ly increased. I have made somewhat
of an investigation of that subject
during the last few days. Housekeep
ers in New York and Brooklyn de
clare that the increase in cost of liv
ing has been ' not less than 33 per
cent. '
A woman here "who makes house
keeping a strictly professional affair,
has a complete record of household
expenses for ten years past. In her
household, which is conducted upon
Strictly economic principles, the cost
of food per week in 1899 ranged from
$19 to $22. Now with the same num
ber in the family it costs from $45 to
$50 per week. The only difference in
the family is that the three children
are four years older and may eat a
little more.
From an examination of those ac
counts it appears that the cost of
lamb in 1890 was 12 cents a pound.
Now it is 16 ccnt&. Turkeys . then were
15 cents, now they are 25 cents. Ten-
a . A
aeriom pork tour years ago was iu
cents. Now it is 25. Veal cutlets are
now 25 cents. Four, years ago they
were 16 cents. Canned "goods show
the same increase in price. All vege
tables have gone up in price. Butter
has advanced 10 cents apounc?. Flour
that cost $3.90 per barrel in 1S99,
now costs $5.20. Kerosene has ad
vanced 5 cent? a gallon. This is a
tax on the very poorest people, those
who are so poor that they cannot af
ford gas and use kerosene both for
light and cooking.
But the greatest increase in ary
thing is in rents. The result of the
rise in rents is that fairly prosperous
people are slowly being" driven from
respectable neighborhoods toward the
slums where many thousands of tfiem
will finally land if there is not a
change for the better.
The "building boom" that has been
In full swing for the last four years
has resulted in the construction of
thousands of fine, steel framed apart
ment houses, where the flats were ex
pected to rent from $50 to $500 per
month. That millions invested in
these buildings will be lost, or at least
produce no revenue for years, is just
being perceived. So there is hard
times ahead for investors as well as
for the "non-productive laborers" and
ordinary wage-workers.
The passing of the payment of the
riuarterly dividend on the common
stock of the United States steel cor
$100 UEWARD-$100
The readers of this ;aper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded dhenae that pclence 1ms
been able to cure in all Its rtaKcs and
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furfacea of the syntirn, thereby dfr
etroyinx the foundation of th dli
Vase, and Kiting the patient strength
by lulldtDK up the constitution and
naslatlnR nature it doing Its work.
The proprietors ham ro much .faith
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! Ilall'i Family Villi re the Uil
poration and the shrinkage of values
of both the common and the preferred
stock has brorght distress upon an
other class of cave dwellers. In fact
all classes, except the very few, who
watered stock and swindled whole
sale and retail, have "forebodings."
AUVUV lUbVO 1AAJ.UI lSUaSW0 QMrMA
ered to themselves millions. They are
all, without exception, for Mark Han
na, and the mullet . heads who have
had the very . hides peeled off them
will continue to "vote 'er straight."
These are the "people who will not be
able to contain themselves," when
the crash comes. As for the robbers,
they say: "We can hire half of the
people to shoot the other half when
ever it becomes necessary; and there
are swift steamers plying between
here and Europe." T.
PLUTOCRACY IN A FRENZY
It Editors Ray for a Week and Tha Sat
iify Therusalves with the Certainty of
-" Controlling the Democratic
Convention
New York, Jan. 26, 1904. (Editorial
Correspondence.) It will be hardly
possible for the west to understand
what an uproar there was in the New
York dailies and among her politicians
over the little conference held by the
editor of The Independent with cer
tain liberal democrats in an up-town
hotel and the subsequent reports from
the west concerning Mr. Bryan's
speech Hn Lincoln. A wild frenzy
seemed to seize the whole town. Even
the staid and stately Times talked af
ter this fashion: -
"The voters will never raise to
the presidency a candidate who
shares Mr. Bryan's belief about free
sUver, free riot, and organized as
sault upon the organized business of
the country."
In the first expression of their mad
ness, the .dailies berated the gold
democrats for not making a fiercer
fight against Bryan, declared that
nothing was being done to suppress
this anarchist Irom the west and that
populism was sweeping ovef the coun
try with no resistance being made. It
was only in their, madness that they
did this, for they all1 knew that for
months everything had been done that
the ingenuity of the sharpest intel
lects could conceive to capture the
coming democratic national conven
tion. They knew that paid agents had
been at work in nearly every county in
the United States for months, laying
plans td secure the control of that
convention. The news that even
though they controlled the conven
tion, there would he a holt, and one so
! large as to threaten the very exist
( ence of their raid democratic organi-
zaiion, carnea mem ciear tui meir
feet and so crazed them that there
was muclf writing of the same sort as
that quoted above. In the place of
Bryan, they saw looming up in the
dim distance the overwhelming truths
of populism. The sight drove them
mad and for fully a week they did not
get . back enough courage to renew
their attack along the old lines.
The Herald was the first to shake
off its fright. It sent telegrams to
leading democrats all over the coun
try asking them what they "were go
ing to do about indorsing the Kansas
City platform. Its first appeal was
to members of the house and senate in
Washington. The returns showed 162
democratic members and senators
against Bryan, and only seven for
him. Among the prominent ones
against Bryan were Morgan" of Ala
bama, Daniels of Virginia, and Mc-
Creery of Kentucky.
The World went after the demo
cratic national committee and chair
men of the state committees. The re
turns showed CI against Bryan and 12
for him.
A careful examination of the south
ern papers was made and it "was
found that most of them were against
Bryan.
After all this work, the plutocratic
editors here became more calm and
frenzied shrieking stopped. Tho an
nouncement was made, by all of them
In the same levies of their paptrs
thfit
"The St. T.ouls convention will not
bo controlled by Mr. Bryan. He will
not even control one-third of It
members. Th party U tired of
him. sick of Mm."
That H what Th Independent said
a year iu;o. That I why the Denver
lonfrrt-ncp wai called. That Is the
reason fr the orRnnliatiou of theOld
Guard.
The phraw. "the party h tired of
him," uned In the abo?o quotation,
mean of cotrs that those who luive
obtained control of the party oriian
UatloD are "tired of hlni." It U cry
prohall that rlcht hero In New York
n majority of the toter of tha demo
cratic party, If a secret ballot were
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taken, would vote for Bryan as
against Cleveland.
It is the settled conviction here that
the gold democrats will have an over
whelming majority in the democratic
national convention and there will be
a bolt.
From what I can learn, the Hanna
men are working for bis nomination
actively and persistently. They, are
using the , same methods that have
proved so efficient with the gold
democrats. They have paid agents in
every State "secretly" operating to
obtain Hanna delegates. A friend who
knows as much of the inside work of
that gang as any man in the United
States said to me yesterday that Han
na has already at. his back every
southern delegation. That " indicates
that the situation will be: Hanna on
one side and a gold democrat on the
other.
Organize the Old Guard. T. -
CORNERING AIR AND LIGHT
Plutocracy Getting Into Position to Say to
the Corn in on 'Man, "Serve or Get
Off the Earth"
New York, Jan. 28, 1904. (Editorial
Correspondence.) It was often said
in the beginning of the farmers' al
liance movement that "everything but
air and light has 'been cornered and
pretty soon plutocracy and the courts
will find a way to do that." The pre
diction has come true in this part of
the country. The courts have refused
to apply the English doctrine of "an
cient lights" and a corporation can
come and utterly ruin the real e&late
of the owner of a moderately high
six or tcn-storv building. A corpora
tion here owned two adjoining lots.
On one It built an Ughteen-story
building and all the flats wore rented.
On the other It began the construction
of a twenty-six story building. The
tenants In tho first building Imme
diately gave notice that they would
remove If the adjoining bulMlng was
run up to twenty-six Ktotiea and cut
off their air and Unlit. Then the cor
poration went to flouring in the per
cent way, an 1 discovered that the
running of the building up to twenty -px
stories would rewilt In a loss If
flic tenants In the old building vacate!
It, so tho directors cut off the new
ne at six Ktorien and stopped If the
adjoining lot hi! belonged to another
owner, hU property would hive ben
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redfrsa. The owners of the new
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