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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1904)
Ucbrssha fndtptndtnt : Lincoln, litbratk. XlZlZTt BUILDING. 1321 0 STREET Cntred according to Actof Congresof March j, 1879, at the Postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, M econd-elasa mail matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ; ; ' SIXTEENTH YEAR. 1 $1.00 PER YEAR ' - When making remittance do not leave Money with newa agenda, postmaatera, etc., to be forwarded by them. They frequently forget or remit a different amount than was left with them, andjhc lubacriber fail to get rper credit. . . Address all communication and. maka all f rafts, money order, etc., payable to the Dtbraska Independent, , ; : v ; Lincoln, Neb.: Anonymous communications will not bt ' noticed. Rejected manuscript will not bt returned. . ;. '-. ' ' , , 1 1 T H TIBBLE8, EdltorN -C Q DE FRANCE, Associate Editor. F.D. EAQEK, Business Manager. Did America make veech of an ad vance wlien she dethroned the king anil crowned the political boss? The republicans of Iowa held their convention and "the. "Iowa idea" went glimmering into the vague herealter. There never was a better aphorism than that contained in a sentence in Rev. Herbert S. Bigelows sermon last week,, when 'he said: "Our real en emy is not the greed of the few, but the ignorance of the many."- In other words, the mullet heads. , The leaders of both old parties are urging short platforms. The Indepen dent, siicffpsta th fnllnwine" Tlcmn. cratic, "Sane and sound." Republi can, "Stand pat," What's the use of printing a lot of platitudes. The thing is to proclaim something to get in on, and as soon as in, get off. The Lincoln News says: "Now itis almost a political axiom in Nebraska that whenever the editor of the llee assails a man, there. is something good puijucaiiy in s.ore tor mat man. Tho Independent don' believe that . the Star can get Tom Majors and sev . eral, other men in Nebraska to agree to that. The Independent has been criticised for calling the two state administra tions preceding this, populist instead .of fusion. There may be some ground for the objection, but all the state ofllcers were populists except one, At torney General Smyth, and he was the best 'populist of the whole lot, al though he called himself a democrat. . The question is not whether the "board of equalization" will "consent" to raise the assessment of the rail roads. Will the roads, after taking all things into ' consideration, conclude il .1 11 i A. it J 1 A a. x at . mai u m 10 meir interest 10 consent to a raise? The Eee, the Journal and . the News do not fire their shots at the right parties. Let them get the "con sent" of the railroads. , A small advertisement is appearing Ing in many papers of a religious hook. At tho Ririn la n. tifmrn nf n rv-n.c , with a $ mark. The cartoonists have often clothed the plutocratic spell binder with dollar marks, but this ,s the first time tho cross was ever printed with th dollar mark. It it the crws or the dollar mark that best Illustrates current religion? The News, the Journal, tho Star, and tho Uee.are all warning tho rail road that if the republican party is beaten in this state, the roads will get taxed to tho limit of the law, and the only wis cuurs for tho railroad managers to pursue la to do something to keep that party In power, which is to publicly acknowledge that the ro .publican party Is now, and always has been, tho railroad party, Nest fall they will all deny that. Kvvwvvl The lommlHskmers of education In Kansas Uav otd.ud Ihui ilu prt tho school hla'ory which relnte how Kut.Bton swam a rter In frvnt f the enemy it.all be expund. They tay that it was f 'o private who per formal that IcU nn-l Put Kututoii. Hut Ubatou Kt a brigadier gt'ncraUihip In the regular army at a reward for a fat that tutu) vtw e.no performed. 'Ill At oort of thing hn Men common la tu history ol imperialism. WALL STRUT BRAGGARTS. The fortunes and great accumula tions of money in this country depend entirely on the libor of he farmeis. Without their product? to ship ahjoad the country would soon, be. without gold and bankruptcy would stare ev ery banker and promoter in the face. It is the farmers who supply the vital forco that keeps the mills ruriaing. toe mines open, the railroad carsf url -at freight. .The value of exported farm products Wing 1893 was $878,479,331. Take that much from pur export trade and ships would have to be laden wita gold every ween to Europe or imports cease. Much" bragging is done by.fae plutocrats of. the east concerning. the increase in foreign trade, ' but they never mention the fact that it is the farmer, . and principally the., western and southern tarmer, who , furnishes the material for that trade. They-intimate that It is tie great men of the east, the "captains of industry," , who make our foreign trade. They . strut, around as if they were lords of crea tion. They coutrol . .the governme-L. The army and navy Is at their calL If some poor foreigner fails to pay f.r the goods ordcicd the practice is es tablished of sending a Warship, to col lect the. debt' : 'But these bragjers are not the men who create our foreign trade at a'l. It is" the men out on the plains $1 the west and on the plantations of the south who plau the corn, wheat and cotton who mao our foreign trad- and if the should fail m their busi ness for" two years the whole world would be swept with, famine. ; Yet these men who mke prosperity possible, who cieate the wealth, wbc make the foreign trade, furnish tt power that turn? the "wheels in the manufactories, that sends the great ships acros3 the seas with their yn duce these men let th braggarts cf Wall street brag on, run the govetL ment, control transportation and treat them as if they were serfs and slaves. What does Wall street care for, a farmer?, It looks upon the farmer aa part of the soil which the street is to farm for what can be got out of him." 1 And the farmer , vtcsv for Wall street! He asciibes unto . the deni zen there all glory ana power. The importer . and exporter are the great gods he worship and reads about ery day in his paper. lie is going-to vote for i a ship . subsidy to still lur ther exalt him. - That is, "some of the farmers. , A good many of them be gan to see things n the true light ten or. twelve years ago, More of tnem are getting the seal ss knocked off their optics lately, i hey; are forming com panies to build, elevators. Some of them are even so audacious as to buy seats on the boards of trade and sell their, own corn, wheat and cotton. Wall street had better keep an eye on the farmer." He is showing symptoms of a desire to have some of the gloy, the honor, the power and the mone; himself. The farmers are going to Springfield on , the Fourth s.of' July. Wall street '"better watch out." , ; s The proportion of divorces to mar riages in 1902 in eight states reporiing statistics .is as follows: Maine, , 1 to ti.O; New Hampshire. 1 to 8.3; Vcr mont, 1 to 10.0; Massachusetts, 1 to lCORhode Island, 1 10 8.0; Ohio, 1 to 8.8; Indiana. 1 to 7.6; Michigan, 1 to -11.00. Those statistics ar6 the proof of the degeneracy concerning which The Independent . has been warning its : readers for the last lour or five years. THE tNEXPECTKD.l ' No one can tell what will happen in politics. Here i Jo Parker and a lot more of the mid-roaders writing stren uous letters to Vice Chairman Edmls teh, De France and otners demanding that the populist rational convention shall bo postponed until alter tho dem ocratic national convention, so it things turn out to sxut them there, the populists can Indorse the,-democratic nominee, a thing that these mid roadera have been denouncing with ail tho fierce adjectives to be found, In tho dictionaries for the last seven years. Then again tere h the condition nuong the democrats many promi nent men ol llut party u Ncvt lcik oculy declaring thai it a reo; tanuer UKo i'arkcr i uuunnattd the) will bolt. Who wcnld hae eei drearaeU ot uch a thing .iflppenlnn down ther in "the encm's eouuiy?' Tho t'leveltmd boom ncciued to bo uroptoU ud'a l laanj ucfua aso ant! l arker taken up. No ti la dcciannl in many high p'ae.i tlist tht I'arker landUUcy. tho OJncy tyna and the rest t4' lh r-:rinnivnn ban betn mMy for the pcrm.u of at !.tt nnii inattng Cleveland. Thty now bfgln la bay, and the h.tve pood f;round4 fur tho eracrtlon. that Cleveland la the only iua' tho dein'jcr.nti can ektl. ttcveiaud ran tnfV New ork, Ccr tiettKUt, lthola Nlani and all Ua (iouthern Plat. The row tmng ir pulliran la II nvU ta l V'Ucvola w We Will Till Your Order By Wail Xbis Offer 7s Tor 10 Days Only. '. The backward spring season is responsible for this motet unusual assortment of high grade suits at $9.00. -It re quires no argument other than the decided merits of the goods themselves and their very low price to effect a sale and make a permanent customer of every purchaser. ; The very best value of the season jn- now Ofl flfl before you. Send for samples-at only . . . Mn's digb Gradt Suits $11 00 About 100 suits in all, that we expect to fill mail orders on. They are worth all the way up to $16.00. Made of fine cheviots, worsteds, fancy mixtures and homespuns-all izes. We bought them" at a great price concession, of which we'give, you the advantage. Here's another thing about these suits we want you to consider-They are all hand made. That's why they will hold their shape and look" so different fxon the ordinary factory made elothing-suits, .00." Send for samples, - 7 r : will make them leiziocrtic states and Indiana can be bought, giving Cleve land a good majority in the electoral college., It would not matter how big the majorities m?ght be in the other states for Roosevelt, . for . that would not affect the lSF'ie. 'f So they are ail hurrahing for Cievclan not openly and above boa'd, f jr that might de feat their plans, Out on the quiet, when a few of the faithful who always Vote 'er straight get. togethy Then they dream dreams about ocing , postmas ters, United States marshals, revenae collectors, : and pll soru, of . things. As for The Independent, it possesses its soul In peace, , Tere will bt , a people's party national convention at Springfield on the Fourth of July, a platform ; promulgated ; ; candidates nominated and tne peopie s party viil poll twice as manv . vctes ' as it ever did before. It Wiii carry several states, elect , some : congressmen, perhaps a pnited states senator or two, and go on its way rejoicing, confident that in the near future populist principles will be triumphant,; t"n people will own the railroads, telegraphs, telephones and all those things requiring govern ment powers for; their operation, ttob ber tariffs will be repealed, the trusts, will be destroyed, there will be postal savings banks, but .one kind of mon ey and that issued by. the government and not by the Danks. On to Springfield.- There will be a "rip-roaring' time there and you will want to take part in it. The only men who are doing busi ness these, days ire the farmers. Th?y are putting in their crops, buying lots of machinery and paying for it, while down east, that country that skinned us alive in '93 and '94 and '95, they are selling but little goods and the wage-workers who voted ' on the full dinner pail cry are being discharged by the tens of thousands. A long time ago The Independent warned in dwellers In "the enemy's country ' that they would "get It in tho neck" some day themselves. riOLlKtt THAN THOU. Whenever a, man appeared In tho populist party who constantly declared, that ho was holler iui all tho ictt and tho only siraon pine reformer in tho lot, lie Invariably turned out a traitor to the party and was Boon found denouncing It. Amonjs that sort ot mnn ftt Hn:o waa I'owder.y and In this tate John tKPprechir, Sprecher. In M Fre l.ame., Is dc coanrlns th iM)ulut party tnoro tlercely than It was evet denounced In any Btralghtout republican paper. In fa t. Itls vhargM ar Kreattr f.ihiv hood than were ever uttered by the republican In this tntc In a loiu; artlelo, copied in the liw and whb! will to lined as iftmpnlgit thunder bj tho re publlan, Hpij'r msn. "Tho state nadly r.i eded a new 1 revenue tacamre, lecauso tic d bt worth up to Q I nil at. ...Ol I lUU i was getting not only away beyond the constitutional lip?lt, but was ; increasing rapialy year by year, yet these 'reformers' failed when " it came to act and today , all they have on that line isio attack the : j law the republicans passed when - they returne.cl to power." ; No republican ever had the cheek to declare that the state debt ' was increasing rapidly year by year."- it took' Sprecher to do that. Most of the republicans know that tne books show that' the fusion government reduced the state debt in four years $G77,0i3.10, and it took a "holier than thou" saint" to make such a bare-faced and utterly false cnarge. If the rcpubli tans had not so enormously increased the appropriations there would have been no necessity for a new revenue law and increase in taxation. If the, paying off of the debt without in crease of taxation at the rate the fu sion government did ior four years had been continued, there would soon have been no debt, taxation could have been dscreased and there would have been no demand for a new revenue law.'. ,: - I' TDK FRENCH AND THE POPS. :' There has been a great deal said in the papers during the week about a rupture between the French republic and ' the pope. " The French minister has been withdrawn from the Vatican, that mbch is certain. As near as one in America can tell, the row is about the support of the bishops and pi leca hr France. The French governm?ut pays about $8,000,000 a year to these ecclesiastica, but has the right to name the bishops. It appears that the new pope Is of the opinion that this gov ernment support should be abolished and the church malnta.ued as it is in , the United States by contributions as it destroys his control over tho bish ops. Strange as it may appear, the socialists," who believe In no religion at all, aro In favor of the government continuing to support the Catholic clergy. They think that If the clergy draw their pay from the government the priests will be far less dangerous than If left to tho support of cont butions by tho people. The bishops and prieuU am not at all anYeted by tho recent legislation aj,alnst the mo nastic orders. That Is what all this talk about tho repudiation of tho "concorda" means. Should dcairmcrSo'the world anj rut heavy burmna on the living? it is well known that Jay (lould provided la his ti!l that any of hh dRMshters mairtetl without the consent of their brothers that tho daughter houM foifi'it their portion of tho Inheritance. Ihftt a m&nj'if millions ran control tho heart nftttln of others long afttr his death, ueonis coutrary to naturo, but an iUislhn court ha decided that he caw, und the courts id this country always lyllow llneliah irecvdents.