THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
MARCH 3, 1304.
Viit Dehrasha Jndependtnt
Lincoln, IltbratkM,
U2ERTY BUILDING. 1328 0 STREET
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T II TIEBLEir, Editor.
C. Q DIf FHANCE, Afafete Editor.
I'. D. EAGElt, I ukIiubh Mamieer.
- ' Teddy paid $5,000,000 to the French,
the Wall street boodlers, and a "jun-
ta" of conspirators for the Panama
canal, but net a cent to the nation
. that owned the canal route. et Ted-
i.
dy is always talking about being "de
penL" It seems to be settled that Con
gressman Dick is to take ilanna's
placeTin the United States senate. He
is the Dick that signed those checks of
which so many lithographic copies
frere made and circulated during the
pampaign of 18L6.
I The Mexican Herald sizes up the
Panama affair about right, U says:
That ridiculous little Panama -re-mbllc
gives its consent, in advance,
0 anything Theodore Roosevelt anl
John Hay wish to have done. Cail It
protectorato honestly, and without
tny more damnable dissembling."
1 NVVSVVS ' "
There will be more. than twice as
,nany votes cast this year for the can
didate for president nominated by the
people's party than was ever cast lor
i populist candidate before. Besides
hat, we will capture some legislatures
ind elect a populist senator or two as
veil as some representatives in con
fess. ; The Financial Chronicle announces
hat the output of gold last year was
328,568,774. This is an increase of
50,116,068 over the phenomenal out-
tut of the preceding year. Prices go
p as the quantity ol money increases,
hst as the populists alvays slid they
jrould. Wheat is a dollar a bushel in
Chicago now,
j The meat trust gets V2 mills a mile
rom the railroads for each mile that
m of its own refrigerator cars is
un. The owners of other private cars
et nearly as much, and more than
lie-tenth of all the freight cars arc
Tivatcly owned. That is even bctlcr
han the Rockefeller s.itm of re
ates with which he started out I it
tosiness. Rockefeller la credited with
k invention of this private car bul
as well aa most of the financial
cvlltry of modern times.
The other vl;y some of the arl&tcc
ley la tho Jlrltish parliament wre
ukiris arguments in favor of Chines
jAh labor in the African mine, dur
ig whit h they denounced the tla la
H allowing their wives to rupport
i John iJurns quietly threw tti
-ie remark: ' "Hit it is far wot.- for
ttjccunloui English peers to many
V.icrUnni tokly fur their n-eney.'
(tsliliii that, ISiirr.ti was to wicked an
cast a plane up to the gallery
htTfl one of that sort of pu iyha
'tthg. The jwr quhUy withdrew,
i
THE HOUR HAI COMB
The conclusion arrived at by many
eminent men, as the editor of The
Independent has learned from con
versation and interviews with them
both In the east and the west, is that
reform can never be effected under bi
party government as it has heretofore
existed in the United States. This
is the only free government in the
world that adheres to the bi-party sys
tem. In the congress of the United
States every member in the house
and senate belongs to one of two
parties. In England, Germany, Italy,
France and Austria-Hungary, the
members of the parliamentaiy bodies
belong to several different parties.
These men say that while the demo
cratic party in this country should be
the reform party and while there are
moremen members of it who earnest
ly desire reform than any other party
they are utterly helpless. If by any
miracle of eloquence or otherwise,
Bryan should gain control of the
democratic national convention, no
man denies that the Cleveland men
would not bolt just as they did in
1896 and 1900. . If Cleveland should
control it, it is just as. certain that
the Bryan democrats would not sup
port the .ticket. That condition of af
fairs makeo the democratic patty in
capable of accomplishing anything,
and hundreds of thousands of men
are "ready to forsake it who have fol
lowed its fortunes for a lifetime.
' In the republican party the same
condition, though not so pronounced,
also exists. Large numbers of men in
that party, Loth in the east and the
west, are disgusted with trusts and
exorbitant tariff rates. This class of
"republicans have able representatives
both in the east and the west. No
man .seriously believes that any etfec
tive measures . can - ever be enacted
against high tariffs or the trusts by
means of the republican party. Re
formers in both , the democratic and
republican parties have expressed
themselves to the editor of The Irider
pendent as seeing no hope for better
government as long as the present
condition of bi-party government ex-ists-,
'- '- : " ;v ' - f-
- One. of thp most, distinguished men
in New York city said to the, editor
of The Independent ths other day:
"With two parties, as they now ex
ist,: the financial and tariff interest
will continue to rule indefinitely. ' If
one party makes a campaign for a
reduction of the tariff and elects a
majority of congress, it will aiways be
found that there will be enough
members of the majority who.will not
vote for a reduction, to defeat any
such legislation, so it will be upon
any other vital question. That was
tha' case in 1892. The Wilson tariff
bill as it finally pas?ed congress was
the' highest 'protective bill ever en
acted up to that time. The hbur has
come for the organization, of an in
dependent party. That is the only
way in which the schemes of the
trusts, promoters, and tariff grabbers
can be defeated. I have taken a
somewhat active part in political mat
ters for twenty . ycar3. But 1 have
quit. I will no longer spend my time
any money Jn hopeless efforts to get
legislation through either of the par
ties. If an Independent party with
the right kind of a platform was put
In the Dejd, I would be willing to give
what assistance I could to aid that
Kind of a movement."
Undoubtedly "the hour has come"
for th organization of art Indepen
dent party which will not amiiato
with cUhrr of th ethev c!J parties.
That waa what waa accomplished at
the St. I.omU cotifemiew last wck.
TIIK nMi: Ol II (1M
The dd Knif wbli H tins bven prac
tlecd fur the last l.ooo yeara U b ing
workrd on Cuba. It dltop;ttir
probnblo that If an ttvreentut had
not t.vn mi'lc to allow the gaat. that
Cub would now be In the larre rue.
Uuamcnt as the Philippine!, Iho
This season, as in the past,
are in line with a lar?e
tiic idi irinmn hiirprif
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of Nursery stock to offer for spring planting. We make a specialty of
hardy varieties which are adapted to Neb. and the other northwestern
states. Our apple orchards whbBltHid the blizzard and severe freeze
of April 29, 19M, and retained a sufficient amount of their lruit buds to
produce ns 3,000 bushels oi apples the past season. We still have a lair
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money power had a very lively part
in the final agreement to allow Cuba
to become a nation. They were look
ing forward to a chance to get their
16 or 20, per cent. Cuba has just
issued her first lot of bonds through
the banking house of Speyer & Co.,
New York. That house ' takes $35,
OOC.OOO at 90. That is to say the pur
chasers of these bonds will get 16 per
cent interest, the first year and 6 per
cent afterwards. ; The eity of Havana
is to put out 128,000,000 more. These
will be. sold below 90 and the rate of
interest will be higher. Now here is
Cuba; which is about the size of the
state of Nebraska, and not more pro
ductive, saddled with $P3,000,000 of
bonds. A good many men in Ne
braska are raging around like a Texas
steer on a stampede because the re
publicans have run up the debt of
the state to two and a quarter mil
lions. What would they say at a $63,
000,000 debt just as a starter?
It is the American money that has
got this, hold, on Cuba. The people of
that island will toil for the benefit of
the New York millionaires for the
next century or two and the fruits of
their toil will go to add to the ac
cumulations of the twenty men down
there who rule us with such an iron
hand. "After us, the delugei' Vote
'er straight. Stand pat
A NATIONAL PARTY
Small independent paiiies are to be
found in every part of the United
States. Many of them have been suc
cessful In cities, towns or counties.
Every one of these successes have
been gained by advocating people's
party principles. The successes In
San Francisco, Detroit, Cleveland, and
many eastern cities have each and all
btn maue possible by advocating lo
yally distinctive populist programs.
What has been called the liberal
democratic par'y in New York hai
had great sun-ess in many paits of
the kiate and pollod many OiouKanda
of votes, yet it lias bc n A well de
fined populist movement wlih plat
forms Identical with tit t of the peo
ple' party. When U cam to utate
and national politics the taen vho
hid fouuht and won loyally by advo
rallug populist principle found that
thy had no vuy to rxprr their
oplutons through tho ballot tot.
Our Seed Corn Wins
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sorts. It ripens and gets out of danger of frost, too.
We raise more Seed Corn than any other firm on the
globe. We guarantee prices lower and quality high.
If you want perfection in corn, we have it. When
buying you might as well get the
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to make corn crop and iaruu ug
a success.
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i m i s:
There were t!ie two tickets in the
field, the democratic and republican,
and in a few instances another choice
as to the prohibition party. The as
saults on corporations owning city
utilities have all been made on the -populist
principle of public owner
ship and where a victory has been
gained, it was a populist victory m.
fact, though the organization that
won It was .known by sortie other
name. . !' - ; "'i-:
From every part of th .Unioii J;here
has grown up in the (. last few years
a demand for a national organization,
bringing all the independent parties
into action wider one name and as"
parts of one organization. This was ;
made possible by the action at St.
Louis. Adding to the agrjcultuial
vote, which has always been populist,
the scattered irdependent parties m
the cities, who have been advocat
ing populist principles, and there are
not less than 2,500,000 of them. That
is the number of populist votes we
have to start out wit'j. There are
more than 100,000 straight pcpulist
votes in the- state of New York alone,
who have proved themselves to be
populists by, voting with the literal
democrats and other independent or
ganizations which advocated populist
principles.
The disgust among the common peo
ple against the rule of the rich for
their own benefit is shown in the re
publican party as well as in the demo
cratic party. Several large cities
where there have been republican ma
jorities of many thousands have been
wrenched from the control of that
party by an uprising. Just at present
Milwaukee is attracting attention.
That city has always had a republi
can majority of from 3,000 to 10,000,
but now they say the party has no
chanco to elect Its city ticket at all.
There Is an uprising the ro against tho
rule of corporations and machine
RiAft. Tho fight that will l made
will be upon distinct populist prin
ciples. All these kind of voters will
find a home in th people's party after
the nest national convention at
tfprlnMd. III., to bo held on the
Fourth of July next.
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