MAY 26, 1904.
THE NEDHASKA INDEPENDENT
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A sociologist who has been making
some local studies in Lincoln says
that there are, besides i the college
settlement, five other clubs or asso
ciations,"1 numbering about a dozen
people each, -who meet at stated times
in this -city to study and discuss po
litical economy and sociologoy. They
are all composed largeiy of working
salaried men, there being only four
or ' five' professional, and business men
In the whole Jot. He-says that then
is not a republican a regular attend
ant among them. Once in a while a
're., iblican is induced to attend. He
asked one of these republicans why he
did not continue to attend. Tne an
cn-'oi in eiihetnnro was1 . "T can't im
defstand what they arc talking1 about
half the time: It ivould take lour
years of study to acquire the" know
edge necessary to comprehend the
terms they use. Take me socialists
what do they mean " by 'surplus val
ue,' 'fixed economic law,' 'exploitation,-'
'a labor fund,' ana all that sort
of thing? What do tnose other lei
lows mean when they talK about 'mar
efnai rnst ' "bank" reserves.' .'expan
8ion of credit 'tne unaccounieu iui
millions in the axDorts and imporw
Life is too short for mc to get only
nil thrwtft sort of things."
' 'But,' said the. sociologist, 'tnty
also talk about trusts, public own
prshin taxation. special privileges
the purchasing power of money, its
roiaHnn' to waees. real wages, aul
many other things in which I should
think that you wouw De mieresieu.
. "There you are again," , replied the
rermhUran. " Ileal wages What do
you mean by real wage Are not aU
wages real 7 '
"I will try to explain," said the so
ciologist. "Suppose that an English
workingman and an American worn
nman both eer S5 z week wages
ti Pncilshman navs one dollai a
week for rent and the American pays
two dollars, and in the same propoi-
tion for all his living expenses, at u e
end of" the week has not the Kngusn
man reallv received more for his la
bor than the American? 'Real wages'
may be said to be the ratio that tie
laborer receives above the cose oi sup
.'That is the worst ret I ever did
tiaar" iha mnuhUran tenlied.
"Well," said the sociologist, ' they
talk about intemperance,, saloons, the
police -control of the social evil, tax;
tion, the factory girls, the conditions
surrounding the women m omces, .i
, the denartment stores, the condition
ht the lails. your system of private
detectives sanctioned by tate law, the
noor how they are cared for, tne re
formatory work in the penitentiary
and places for detention for criminals,
the character of the men on the police
force, the beautifying of your paries,
what is best to be done about the
reservation" on the bottoms, the con
dition of your schools"
"Oh! for heaven's sake stop. "You
will drive me crazy." said the repub
lican. "I never had anything to do
nnir rt . tVinQO t til TICS . T flnll't
Willi klXJ VI. i.aavkjv v..md w w
know anything about them. I don t
want to-bother wkh them. lt is as
much as I can do to make a living."
After relating this, the sociologist
asked us howwe would classify, a niau
like that and now ma&y such there
were in the stale of Nebraska. We
lold him that in The Independent they
were classified as "mullet, heads" and
according to the election returns
there were a litdle ove 06,000 of them
in the state.
Massachusetts sends one-third of all
the millionaires in the state thirteen
as delegates to the republican na
tional convention and many of these
are multi-millionaires,, The starving
thousands who are now out of work in
that state, made desolate and poor by
the government policies these million
aires advocate, will rally at the polls
next November and vo.to give tbe
control of the government Into the
hands of the very menjvho have ac
cumulated their millions by exploit
ing the common people. Why can a
party committed to the Interests of
the very rich get the votes of thope
millions who have little or no piop
rrty at all? Can any one tell? The In
dependent gives It up. Tho small prop
erty owners outnumber the million
aires many hundred times. They could
at auy time take charge of the govern
ment and adinluhder It In their own
luiVrt'Hts a was done in NewZaland.
.Why don't, tho do it J
Tho world seem inner to ha;e
learned to ttft acquainted with Renins.
Tho man of Kulu has always beta
forced to live a life of Isolation, It
is not (111 ho has been dead fifty or u
hundred year, or A thousand yea's,
that the world begins to know him.
The pott IVo cited years aso m
ixmrty and dUtr-. During (ho ,it
few yearn hundreds of edition vi hU
Works have Mwrt i tiMihvl In thin
and other laud and the world la just
beginning to get acquainted with him.
Why cannot suca economic and social
conditions be, attained that the world
will know a genius when he is alive
and not have to wait fifty or- a hundred-years
belore it ' ever hears of
him? Such conditions will never bo
attained while wealth is the only di
vinity that is worshipped. As long as
the "captain ol industry" Is the gret
man, the genius will not be known to
his fellow, men. ' . -
After all the calculations have been
made and all the juggling with the
figures possible f,one through with Ue
bald fact .stares every man in the face
that enormous appropriations by con
gress are going to create a deficit In
the revenues next year of about $100,
000,000. That will come Just as the
hard times begin to press upon tie
people. In that day and under those
conditions,., the banks will be called
upon to give back the government de
posits that they have so long had
without interest and when demands
will be made upon them from many
different sources. It is all very well
for. the bankers to go onjplungiug
and say, "After lis the deluge," but
they will find that that deluge will
consist of ' fire and brimstone.
The shrewdness of' the political
managers of the railroads is amazing.
While they alloT some of their or
gans to assail them on the tax ques
tion they have already made rates
to recoup themselves in a large degree
for any,,, raise-in the assessment.
Architects and builders in the .middle
and, western part of the state say
that the freight on building material
is often two and trree times the or
iginal cost of ihe material. Nothing
is ever said about this in the repub
lican papers that have been calling for
an increase in the assessment. It
was freight ratps that populists first
attacked, well knowing that that was
the vital point If you lower freight
rates, 7 that hits them on the solar
plexus, - '
Does the Stanton1 (Neb.) Register
think that the hundreds of women
for Hearst who so suddenly appeared
Lin so many diffcieut states started out
to spend their time and money simply
because of the admiration they had
ton Hearst, as so many thousands did
for Bryan In 18J6 and 1900? Does he
believe that the weekly papers; espe
cially the labor and socialist papers,
that devoted whole editions to get
tine ud his boom did it because they
had. such a hign admiration for ivir.
Hearst's, character and ability as a
Statesman? Does it -brieve that Mr.
Ihmsen sent those thousands of news
telegrams about Hearst for weeks to
daily and weekly naper. recording Mr.
Hearst's i triumphs because of inm-
sen's admiration for this man of char
acter and statesmanship, and paid for
them out of his own pocuetY u u
does, then its criticism of The lnde
Dendent is justified. It is a fact that
he republican stories of the millions
that Hearst has expended are ridic
ulous. Less Uan a million would
nave done the wole business. But
then no candidpte for r presidential
nomination ever before' spent a mil
lion .in getting delegates. Bryau had
no millions to sper-d.
A gentleman, in writing to The In-
dependent, says: "Do wrte In your
peculiar style at least one paragraph
doing justice to thejsoclali3ts, among
whom are many of pure character and
the very highest ideals and who arc
doing the best they can to bring then
t wn lives and tt.atof tlu communities
J,i f.iiich they lire up to those Ideals."
Tutsi is one thing that, Tne Indepen
dent has often said about the sodal
u9. The worM owes them a debt
of jrratitudo for t calling attention to
Uic social evils from which human
ty M.Jcrs. There arc no writers in
the rtcld of literature who have done
more valuable service, or who cn
prpixnt those evi. in such .burning
words. All that Tne I nut pendent ihs
to B antagonlcuc to socialism la that
it uoes not believe that their pro
posed icmedles will bring relief.
John T). ItocKefeller, Jj., escaped ar
rest In Texas for violating tho stale
antl-irust acta by the asttanc of t.e
railroad aOlctala who sot hold ot a
private telegram and trnncfer.cd
young John 1. to a s(Hcial car and
rushed him through tuo state. The
ono car attached to a locomotive did
not attrart tho attention of tho sher
iffs who had warrants, aid In that
way tho Kreut Sunday ithool tiacLer
fscuj't'd the oILU't'rs of lao law.
A recent opinion hauled down by
tho supreme court make Mr. Hone
water pay fJ'J.t'J a wort! for libelling
th "poHTfUlo' candidate, as he
calied him. in lato .cleUlori, Tho
fuU amount of thi judt:mfnt M i'j.SCMi.
Another ra-o in whhh It lofni that
llooe water won In tho lower coutt
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