MARCH J, 1904.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
15
A Trus Forecast
Editor Independent: The enclosed
letter was -written, as the date indi
cates, in 1900, to be sent to Mr. B.
O. Flower, then editor of The Arena.
It indicates a forecast that is meeting
Its accomplishment today. I am sat
islied to give the letter to the public
on its merits and truthfulness. It
may help - some one to see the way
more clearly, and emphasize, your
movement in organizing the forces
that make for Liberty, Let us , take
warning in time.
JNO. V. POTTS.
THE LETTER.
North Robinson O.. Julv 4. 1900.
Mr. B. O. Flower Dear Sir: In the
spring of 1896 when I returned, from a
few months' tour in West Virginia, I
found among my mail the October
number of The Arena for 1895. It was
the first time I had ever seen your
magazine. I read it with avidity.
Looking over the whole ground as I
had been studvins the situation for
more than ten years, I wrote you a
long letter, with the-impression that
centration of our forces you, with
many others of us, would be crushed
oui, and the gold standard would be
come the supreme law of the land.
All this has come to pass., The sit
uation is appalling. Unless some
thing heroic is done' there is an end
of our republican form of government.
A military plutocracy will rule with
a iron hand. These millionaires and
officeholders will buy enough mer
cenaries to 3hoot us down in platoons.
Wiat they do not obtain by deceit and
fraud they will get by the swerd as in
the Philippines and Hawaii.
Do not mistake.- The increase of
the army is for discontent at home, as
well as subjugation abroad. Negro
siavery was nominally abolished Jan
uary 1,1805. Universal slavery is to
be established by the oligarchy of
wealth. We are to be a nation of de
pendents under the iron rule of an
aristocracy of landlords, commercial,
men, bankers and trained officehold
ers. The masses, as now in Britain,
Germany, and Turkey, ' will ludow
nothing but toil and subordination.
"The coil3 are being drawn tighter
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year hy year. The poor will ever re
main poor, the rich will enhance their
wealth.
The first step in thisTinfamous
scheme is our iniquitous financial sys
tem, a counterpart of that of the
British empire. The second is a mili
tary establishment strong enough to
suppress any internal uprising. The
third is to perpetuate in power a class
of men In full sympathy with this
program of fraid an'd oppression.
It was no idle boast that it Bryan
had been elected in 1896, he never"
would have taken his seat. These
men intend to rule by fair or foul
means, and override the w.ill of the
people, if they cannot bribe, frighten
or cajole them into submissicn.
I do not know what the democrats
Wiii. do at Kansas City today. I. sup
pose they , will nominate Bryan, and
adopt a platform. But the leaders of
that party have never shown any ca
pacity to improve the. condition of the
country. I have personally known
the record of the party for fifty yeais
and nothing great has ever come of
their administration in that time.'
They have many- great and good men
among. them, but ; they are always
handicapped.
The party trusted Grover Cleveland,
but he betrayed his country and his
party. Bryan was defeated by the
gold standard democrats. So was
Chapman as governor in this state.
The oligarchs in all the parties are
hand in glove with each other. If
we cannot get the people together we
are undone. ;
i am in favor of organizing a peo
ple's democratic republican party to
elect a fit man and control congress
in the interest of gooi government.
I wanted to begin this work thie&
years ago, but could not get men to
act. The silver republicans seemed
determined to make dunces of them
selves. I think they are seeing their
fatal mistake. Yours truly,
JOHN VINTON POTTS,
Chairman Thirteenth District Ohio
Silver Republicans.
North Robinson, O.
A Challenge
Editor Independent: I hereby chal
lenge the prohibition party, cr any
competent gentleman, to ?. pubi'c
joint discussion of the temperance is
sue. I shall affirm the following
proposition:
"Under existing coniitions public
ownership is a necessary step in solv
ing the temperance problem."
The object of this work is to unite
the temporance and labor for res on
public ownership for th romlaa am
Plgn. Addnvs the rltr at Abib-ne
Ka. O. II. TRUMAN.
Editor Fsrrlss
Ono of th mn whoito presence as
crratly iv-I-m.! .t tin St. t.oiii mat
ins In J-iiium II. Kcrrlv, edltoi of U e
Jol.ft (III.) NWs. ll h rutlf atirtR
town r. tb JmVrabbU country, kin
dj tnt i r.nd cither i tat! u.rt-r-
It !. niul vttlng ret-I up '
j jtatury t th- hard w,rl wj.it h w,H
P'Hin h' Hum Mm. M s U lWr hrtnw
kw r iv?-lMijtin t!in Ri-i and
titoiiKl h: vt b'fri printed cathir, b t
f r th. f v I tht It pnt mtted up in a
Pl' of ,,i.rrf, w" rutn!. rijii wiuh
ivrviniii!,tr4 v iy raj I lly aurn H
J iiiinuy ntruilr:!t nt of h Uhl Gus7.
If it Rr.t Ur the i.v t tlut I am
trying to IU!:.!ln ray bump r f ns
' I d fav tht Ir. rH U
j.okniiS a ltit! fan at mo-hut, hen.
ever, what's-the difference? Let him
have his joke. He says:
Friend De France: I enclose a V
from the News for your work, and a
card for myself. There is great pos
sibilities in the organization, and I
hope you may make it your life work,
and that I shall live long enough to
see a monument In bronze on the pub
lie square of Lincoln accurately por
traying the prominent features of the
Grand Secretary of the Old Guard.
I had long been thinking of some
thing of this kind, but that is r-o
great surprise there are a lot of
things I have been thinking about.
It is a great pleasure to see the names
of lark, Morgan, Miller, Barker, Dix
on, Breidenthal, McDowell and the
Nebraskans .gathering on the roll. It
disarms susp'cion, establishes confi
dence, and will hold men of the high
est possible itieals together to the
end, and the result cannot mean any
thing else than a great influence for
the best in human progress.
Too many men of our kind since the
St. Louis convention (in 1S0C) have
been frittering away their time on
side issues; our resources have been
scattered, our own fighting with bur
own, and the farmer, the blacksmith
and shoemaker are no longer going
from house to house, and field to field,
making votes for the ticket. I iook
for this enrollment' to cure a lot of
diseases. .
I see a few rocks in the pathway,
but trust that this kind of men can
remove anything.' God bless vou.
JAS. H. FERRISS.
Joliet. 111.
'Under Socialism"
Editor Independent: Prof. Will says
that the socialists are not proposing
to . confiscatfi the little farms. But
they are just the same. Moreover,
under socialism production would be
so. low that we would all have to toil
16 hours a day to live. In the scciaiiFt
colony at Topolobampo, Mex., tee men
and women worked hard, had the full
product of thJr toil and yet never
had enough to eat or wear. Socialism
wherever tried has proved a miserable
failure. F. G. R. GORDON.
Reading, Majs.
Has Ceased Strifing
Editor Independent: I have not
given polities any attention since lSJfi.
I stood as candidate Tor member of
the board of ;niblic works once, and
also for congress once, and for repre
sentative once, and have done a 'pea
of other work for the prlnclplei, that
I believe to be nearest right of any
paity in existpnee.
If I can m3ke lomparikon right, our
country is surely drifting away item
flrat principles, whkli vr f.ir rrloiuh
from pure republicanism wlm thi
govtrnmcnt reme Into effect; and ip
etead of advancing rapidly a wo
should have done, thj people In thilr
Ktt!ld lethargy have allow! bund
and butter poUtblann to way tium
bark and forth, up and down, to ut
tlntr Kfavp-hoU.nst pu-p,'". Todiy
tU rMlroad., r m the p.v riui.ent ami
diitato to othrr tiit: iruj Jfut luw
thrj rnny !' rati', and tlniir tu tt.rn
actually own th popit with far
more subtle m , fu-mu hln t'nhn-
inrnt thin tie bit. M With H'lbje. It !
to in the Wi'itli.
I mjx.-lf live fi-it the wiltht if
thrlr aTured fnantlU lash aj,,j they
are yt houndlt;? awuy at uu. V In
diwoHrasln in vntrij Ijtr 1 1.
doiirIht Igucmiu e ut a irctl tin;i r.
ity of so-called populists, who did and
who will again desert our ranks for a
"mess of pottage," who think that
strikes and violence and ease-taking
are paramount to industry and its
fruits intelligently applied. . These
present the foundation of my resolu
tion to quit politics.
i am sixty years old, have not long
to stay; and have concluded after
spending time and money to the ex
tent of not less than $10,000, that they
can keep on deserting, -striking, idl
ing, serving politicians of the bread
and butter kind, raising up families
skilled in dodging honor, and finally
plunge into a great butchery, called
war, and after furnishing the blood,
enduring the pain and bereavements,
pay up the war debt. ,
I sometimes voice these sentiments
and receive the answer from men that
pas3 as being informed; "Ah, well, it
alwuys has been and always will oe."
The facts are, they themselves hope
it will be, and that they will profit
fifty dollars by its being.
Yours for the right as the Unknown
Cause of our existence assists me In
seeing the right. J. S." STEWARD.
t Gratis, Preble County, O.
THIRTY THOUSAND LOST VETKRAXI
A good deal of discussion has oc
curred in the papers since the service
pension Dill nas been brought to the
attention of the people concerning the
30,000 veterans of the war wno have
never applied for a pension or en
rolled in an army society. The east
ern writers are expressing great sur
prise concerning what has become of
them and where they are. The Indc-
icuucui ctti cay iu uiese cuiiuus peo
ple that not one of these men will
ever apply for or accept a pension.
They belong to a society known to
but few except themselves. At the
close of the war these officers and
men formed a fraternity, if buch it
can be called the obligations of which
were that they would never apply tor
a pension, ask any favor of the peo
ple, political or .otherwise, or wear
any insignia to call attention to their
service in the army except upou for
mal occasions where tho absence of it
would attract attention to them more
than if they did not wear it. They
said: "We entered the army and
fought for the country, not for the
pay, nor for preferment that might
come from the service, but to save
the Union and preserve a free govern
ment for ourselves and our children.
The government did the best it could
In caring fo- us. We will ma!s no
more demands upon It. We go back
to our home to become rUlzm of a
saved and free country. We did noth
ing but our ,1 ity. If th country ever
nerds um to defend It again wo star.d
ready to serve It on th same term?."
That la what has become ol those
30,000 lost veterann,
A. I llodwcll, Lebanon, Neb.:
'Tlen.10 co:nt me ono of the Old
duard. I think jou are worllng on
the rUht plan and the oaly ju-milbld
thins to do. There are a ymi many
lopull.HU here that won't vote at
l.eir after, mi let ;omcthhjg of the
l-ind In thine; but when re gtt mr
ruilzed o'ir Jom will ! but fw. Go
on with the Work."
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