THE NEDHASKA !;;DEFf;DENT
MAY 19. 1904.
CI; ntbrssha Indtptadttit
Lincoln, UtbrtMtt,
holds that it is best to let things wax
worse and worse until they are unen
durable and then right them by a
revolution. The populist platform
that the Debs branch adopted at the
close of the long essay, is as follows:
The socialist party ; pledges itself
KatedccordiiigteActofCoiir"ra nomic and the Dolitical strucele for
1,187 at the Pwtoffic. .t I.tacoln, NeDrwM,- each BUCCesslve immediate interest of
USERtY BUILDING.
J321 0 STREET
Cccond-clas nail matter.
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to be forwarded by them. They frequently
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left with them, and th aubscribcr fails to gel
proper credit.
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T H TIBBLEB, Editor.
C Q J)E FRANCE, Associate Edltot
F. I). EAGEK, Business Manager.
Ig IT CARKLKC8NKSS?
Readers of The Independent whose
subscription accounts are delinquent
"cul Y vice president What can be attained
the working class; for shortened days
of labor and increases of wages; for
the insurance of the workers against
accident, sickness and lack of employ
ment;, for pensions for aged and ex
hausted workers; for the public own
ership of the means of transporta
tion, communication and exchange;
for the graduated taxation of incomes,
inheritances, franchises and land val
ues, the proceeds to be applied to the
public employment and improvement
of the conditions of the workers; for
the complete education of children,
and their freedom from the workshop;
for the equal suffrage of v men and wo
men; for the prevention of the use of
the military against labor In the set
tlement of strikes; foi the free ad
ministration of justice; for popular
government, including initiative, ref
erendum, proportional representation,
equal suffrage and municipal home
rule, and the recall of officers by their
constituents; and for every gain or
advantage for the workers that may
be wrested from the capitalist sys
tem, and that may relieve the suffer
ing ana strengthen tne nanas oi la
bor." .
The convention , nominated Eugene
V. Debs of Indiana for president and
due. Several thousand bf our readers
are careless in this regard. The re
by organizing another party whose
Tre7, ,' , B . ? i practical demands are identical with
ff IwianW iLIiTS PPulIsm 18 hard to aerstaud. What
1X!lJhtSSS: is practical could: well be fought for
frequently delayed pending the ac
cumulation , of the necessar) funds.
with some show of success under the
SSjSS wMT5 bringing the into po.it.es. .
funds handicaps every proposed move
ment. With most of the delinquents
it is only CARELESSNESS NEG
RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS
The Independent is not at ail quer-
LECT. We hope those who read this ulous. It does not wish to find fault
will profit by it and send payment I with the John M. Baldwins and the
V'thout delay. Remember that the other high-priced and eminent law-
trtaclpal expense for publishing alyers who have been trying to inform
newspaper is for labor, paper t and the board of equalization and the pub
postage, all of which requires SPOT lie, generally concerning the right Way
CASH. The' Independent has no cor- to tax Railroads.; The Independent
poratlon friends to di aw upon for agrees with ,them all. In the firct
funds. It is published, in the interest place.! they say that the roads ought
of ' its readers , and depends . solely to .be, taxed, according, to their "net
upuu meir pairuuiige iur ius nuyvuit. i caiuiiigo. j. uai o ait ugui, out ici.
Examine the date with tne aaaresaroTr the farmers be taxed under tne same
. the wrapper of your paper and if de- rule, so that when the grasshoppers
linquent send the amount due-without eat up all the crops or the hot winds
delay. We need it. V blow and the farmers have no "net
' , earnings," they will have no taxes to
onaha taxes pay. ; !That is only another form of the
The tax lew in Onwha is 60 Dcr income tax! and The Independent has
cent, higher this year, than it was last always advocated that mode of taxa-
year, and last year it was 30 per cent tion as eminently just. , ,
- hishcr than It ws the year before. Then these lawyers say, let the rail-
The people down theic are praying roads be; taxed on the cost of the
for "a, scourge of populism" to' take roads. .If the roads only cost $20,000
the Dlace of remiblican redemDtion. a mile to build, let them be'assessed
There is a widow down there, who, at that. Here again The Independent
when her husband died .left her $1.-1 agrees with these eminent nirea men.
000 from a fraternal insurance com- That's all right, only tax the farmers
pany. , This she invested in a mort- in the same way. ' If a farm only cost
gage, friends advising it.- It is her $5 : an acre, and, most oi tnem oniy
only DroDerty. save a few household cost $14 for 160 acres at the time they
goods. When the assessor came I were settled and at the same time the
around she conscientiously returned railroads were built, assess the farms
the mortgage at $1,000 and her house- at that. If a farmer Las a steer that
hold goods at their full value of $50. he paid $5 for when it was a calf and
Thus she has a tax of $14.70 to Day. is now worth $25, assess it at
Another case Is where a woman had The lawyers don't want the roads
saved up $100 from her husband's assessed as a unit or a whole. That's
warns of 145 a month. She reported all rtaht. But when the steer is as-
this flOO, which she was saving to sessed apply the same lule. Find the
pay a debt along with her household value of the steer's horns, his hide,
coods. Thus, thoueh the $100 was his meat and his tallow and assess
used up for necessities' long before the each part of the unit separately. The
thla familv. with its Tndflnendent is . not captious. It
lnonm nf $45 ft month, finds Itself makes no objection to tny of the pro-
paying over Si personal taxes, while positions submitted by these eminent
the president of one of the large hired men. All it asns is mat me ruiea
bauks of. the city pays but a little asked for shuM De maue oi umversu
over $3 ou tho personal property of application. .
his home. Ptt&tt&A
There are 531 of the wealthiest men j,ow liitkk, mxht
of Omaha who have mauo no sworn Th0 C(lltor of Xhe independent has
return oi iwir pciHuuu prupeny. - no BPcrct8 concerning public affairs
publican redemption came high, but ., -.nomine ti ndmlnlstra.
the corn uhuckcrs and mullet beada Lou of Rtfttft affalr9 hy the ixpulist
would have It.
THE SOCIALIST!
Many of the phrases of the ioclalht
national platform are of the cxaggfr
Aldd kind that fctl&lUU delight In ma
ing in eonrentatlon ami dftiat. llfre
are two of them: it In iuuxwsihio
for a majority of human Wins; to
ever become posaessors of private
uroiH-rty." 'Conations and cutuplfte
triumph or tho working lais m the
tmly elaH that hat the right vv pow
er to te." After Inditing that long
add not containing many txtramant
atateiuenU they pr(Htcde4 to adpl
P e iHpulUt platform, It must be re
narty. Dr. luxby mauea tne rouow
Ins. acTomnaniea ny some ox ms
felicitous rhymcH the other day:
'Some day we are going to
lariat T. II. TllWca and hold him
in captivity until he kUca up the
srret upon whUh h has tten l
lrnt so lonir. lie mull tell us why
the popullut rrty whon In iower
failed to tax the railroads a It
agreed to do If Intrusted with
power, In hi edltoilal ndumni
h Ktudtounly avoid mcuttontnjt
thl quratlun, though multitudes
r fambhlng to read hat he has
to ay."
The facts are three. Dr. DUby
j..rmber4 that there are two ( lal- when the ipnltsts tnx, tapturisl the
t-t urtles In this eouBtry. The other IrcUUturo they bent all their efforts
C- uoc$ m bviicYt to retirra, nuuu) letting wwur ireiai rate
Send for Swatches of these Special Suits
S9
Men's Spring Suits,
worth $13.50 at
For ten days we are going to sell just 800 of these strictly high grade
Suits. They are a lot that we picked up below the regular price. The
minute you see these excellent Suits you'll recognize them as the quality
sold elsewhere at 113.50 and $15.00, and they are worth that much, too,
We secured just enough of these Suits to last for ten days.
MEN'S $18 SUITS FOR $12.
Twelve dollars for Men's $18.00 suits is not such an ordinary thing, but
for ten days we are going to sell just 500 of these suits. They are identical
in pattern and quality with those you've paid $18.00 for earlier in the sea
son. You've paid more than that in other stores for the same suits. We
never sold any better suits for $18.00, and you've never bought any better
suits for $18.00.
BOYS' SUITS,
worth up to $4.50 will be sold for
2.45
We have cut the prices on five hundred and fifty boys' suits that sold
all the way up to $4.50 will go on sale at $2.45. These are boys new
spring suits, but they are sorts that have become. broken in sizes, and we
shall not repew them. We can give you all sizes from the different lots.
They come in sailor blouse, Norfolks, sailor Norfolks, double breasted style
and three-piece suits. The greatest values ever offered in Boys' Suits.
12? Send for Samples.
Fifteenth and Farnam.
rates were then, and are nowdouble
n Nebraska , what they are over ' in
Iowa. A maximum freight bill was
passed and relief from railroad op
pression was Bought in that way. The
roads fled to the federal courts and
by the treason of the' republican at
torney general, to the interests of the
people, , who , put . things into ' the rec
ord without the knowledge of the at
torney, hired by the people, Mr. Web
ster, got the federal courts to phut off
any relief from that course. : . ' '
When all .hopes! In - that direction
were gone,, then the populists turned
their attention to more severe taxa
tion of the roads. They put in their
platform an express declaration on
that subject and: demanded that "the
assessment of the railroads should be
raised to $40,000,000. ' Then you, Dr.
Bixby, and the rest of the republi
cans, did all in your power to defeat
us ancl ;we were defeated. The people
declared by their, votes that they did
not want the assessment of the' rail
roads raised to $40000,000. The last
legislature and tho present state offi
cers were elected on that issue. They
are therefore under no obligations to
raise the assessment of the railroads
to that amount, , If the people do not
want, the railroads to pay taxes on
$40,000,000 of property, The Indepen
dent cannot see -how state officers
elected on that issue can in any way
be bound to do a thing that the peo
ple repudiated at the polls. The rail
roads spent many thousands of dol
lars to defeat the proposition ad
vanced in the populist platform that
their assessment should be raised to
$40,000,000. They bought space in the
newspapers of all ; parties and ex
plained their position to voters of all
kinds, and the voters said that they
should not be assessed that amount.
The roads won a victory in a fair fl&ht
before the people and the men that
they elected have no right now to
desert the roads. -If a majority of the
voters of this state want a railroad
government, they are entitled to, and
ought to have it. The Independent be
lieves In a government by the major
ity and It wants to see the will of the
majority enforced.
The populist party, when in power,
never made any agreement whatever
concerning the taxation of railroads.
It first attacked htfih freight rates and
agreed to lower them and II passed
such Hws. Then it attacked the low
aHMeMtment and promised to raise It
to lirt.OOO.OOO. but it was defeated. The
populist party grew up first on na
tional questions. The farmers bad
been reduced to penury by low prl
and thoae of m ho wire on farms at
that time will never for?.et the horrors
of those days. They demanded more
money, higher prices for farm prod
ucts and lower freight rates. The men
who were fleeted to oflke by the party
were unarr tuterped to lawmaking and
the details of covcrnmt&t The man
elected governor was counted out.
There were some traitors in their
ranks, but they gave this state the
best and most economical erovfern men fr
it ever had.' During the hardest years
xnac mis state ever saw, much of the
ume corn selling at 10 cents a hushe.
they paid off over $600,000 Of the state
ueui. iney am not increase taxes.
Every institution of the state was -wpII
cared for. -While Dr, Bixby 'and his
leuow repuDiicaus are in the habit of
referring to this Deriod as "the Rfnnrir
Of ; populism' ' ' every man' connected
with it Is proud of the. part he bore
m it. - Tnere were some minor scan.
dais, and there always will be, but the
state never lost a dollar by embezzle
ment or otherwise. ' I .
Compare this with the record that
the republican party has made. Em
bezzlement of a million -dollars. The
more than doubling of taxation: An
enormous , increase in the state debt.
High offices parcelled out amnnc rh
railroads one road taking one United
&tates senator and another road the
other senator. The Eovernor name
by the railroads far in advance of the
convention, is there any doubt that
the record of the ncoole's DarLv will
always be a bright spot in the his
tory or this state?
Two decisions of the supreme court
pf the United States . were handed
down last week, one of which was in
the line of despotism and the other
in favor of the railroads.
spread out the infamous "fellow ser
vant - ruling wider than it was ever
spread before. Heretotore if a rail
road employe was killed or injured by
the negligence of a man working with'
him, it has been held that the road
was not liable for damages as it wa3
the fault of a "fellow servant." Now;
that has been spread out to cover men
in different trades working 9nywhre
for the company. Step by step cor
porate power advances. In the Turner
ease, while no ono will deny that ev
ery government has the right to ex
eludo from its shores whom it pleases,
the argument which the Judges used
to sustain It Is purely despotic. Un
der that ruling, Tolstoy could not
come to the United States,
The talk of the delegates from Oma
ha to the republican state convention
was to the effect that nominations had
long been made and tho party com
pletely controlled by Tom Den n (son
and other gamblers In Douglas coun--ty,
but they modestly claimed that
this delegation was of a better sort
However, Tom Dennlmm has not yet
been turntJ over the rourt that In
dicted htm In Iowa, No other in
dicted criminal was ever treated In
the oamo way. Tom mmX still have ft
blf -pull. , .
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