AUGUST 4; 1904.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
PAG J 11,
hope of defeating Peabody is in a
landslide to the populist v candidate".
There are indications that that may
happen.
The strike among the workers in
the packing houses in Chicago, Omaha,
Sioux City, 'St. Joseph and Kansas
Cit, is still on. It is impossible to
arrive at the truth about it. All the
dailies are" in the interest of the pack
ers and are publishing everything that
would have any tendency to discour
age the strikers. It is claimed that
thousands of men have been shipped in
and that the packers have nearly their
normal supply. One thing is certain
about the Chicago strike, breakers.
They are for the most part the off
scourings of the earth. They are
plantation negroes and the most de
graded of the foreign population of
the eastern cities, many of them com
ing from the stamping ground of the
anarchists at Patterson, New Jorsey.
The skilled men" that must be em
ployed are from the. regular paid Hes
sians of the Parry army of labor
union destroyers.
There is no longer any doubt that
when plutocracy succeeds in electing
either of their presidential candidates,
vthe precedent set in Colorado will be
followed everywhere, un?ess tnere is
a very large protest made by the peo
ple of the United States in voting for
the people's party candidate. Three
milliori votes cast for Tom Watson
would cause a halt in such proceedings.
With nearly all. the vote of the United
States cast for the two plutocratic
candidates, Parry and his gang will
take fresh courage and the courts will
follow the Colorado precedent.
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braska, to those who wish to attend
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Watson. " . . v
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Kspiies To ScMiienger. ;
-'Editor Independent: , I notice in
your issue of July; 21 that Mr. OV L.
Schellenger of Omaha, father Justi-
r lies the military rule that has abro
gated every civil and political right
of every citizen who has bad the mis
fortune to be a resident of the 'state
of Colorado and at the same time be
a member of any- labor union, other
.than Gomper's republico-federation;
and I regret to see that he so readily
charges crimes to tarjor union men
simply . because the charge is ma.de
by Peabody's trust-employed Bell.
; Your correspondent charges - that
thirteen non-union men were blown
.up by the union men, and yet those
who read the news know that all the
evidence so far adduced goes to prove
that the agents of the mine owners'
union or the citizens' alliance com
mitted the crime. Without giving con
sideration or at least credence to the
assertions of innocence made by; the
labor unions, we know that the dyna
mite was placed beneath the platform
of a depot that was guarded; that a
new wire was run a distance or sever
al hundred feet, from the mine to a
mine owner's shaft house; that the
mine was exploded by some one who
was concealed in that shaft house;
that it would, have been r impossible
for a union man to have planted the
mines, secured the wire, connected it,
and remained in the shaft house and
discharged the mine, without being
detected and shot on the spot; that
after the-explosion Bell set blood
hounds on the track of the ciminal
and the dogs ran directly to the resi
dence of a well-known and prominent
member of the citizens' alliance and
another ran to the residence of a well
known detective of the miue owners'
union; that the experiment was re
peated and the result was the same;
that Boll thru took the dogs away
and denied that this was any proof
as to the culprit.
If the doga had gone to the rcsl
deuce of any union laborer, it would
have been taken m proo io.itive
that the owner was the criminal, am!
HEADACHE
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he would have been hung in less time
than it takes to tell the tale. But
the crimes of assault that have been
committed in Colorado, by both sides,
and no -matter how aggravating and
outrageous, are of little moment In
comparison with the, arbitrary setting
aside of every civil law; and consti
tutional right, protection and privi
lege. These usurpatons of despotic
power have demonstrated, that a gov
ernor single man placed in the
gubernatorial chair with the assist
ance of the state military forces, which
are -entirely at h!spersonal and un
controlled command, can set aside
both the national and state consti
tutions; that he can ignore every
court and every form of civil authority-
that he can retire through , the
threats of his military, every elective
state, county or municipal official whom
the people have chosen to administer
their airairs and that he can lill the
vacancies with his own appointees.
These acts have proved that the
governor may of his own motion de
clare any class of citizens: of his state
or many classes, to be "Undesirable,",
and with force of his military;", he may
deport them. They, prove that only
such citizens may figur(e their' tenure
in a state as safe as may submis
sively worship at the shrine of the
governor. They prove that in this
"land of the free," the governor has
really more despotic power than was
ever assumed by a' king or the most
despotic czar.
These conditions may be new to-us,
and many of us may not as yet have
adsorbed their full portent; but we
must awaken to, the fact that the
things here briefly stated have been
done, that, the precedent has been esr
tablished; and further, that there has
been no emphatic protest entered-; by
the American citizens of other states,
who have been spectators at the pre
sentation of the Colorado tragedies;
and I want to say, too, to the "better
element", of the community of observ
ing istates that have prevented the
expression of any objection by the
weight, of their quasi approval, that
it is. a poor rule that will not act
both ways, andjhat if some day the
laborer wakes to a realization of his
numerical . power both at the ballot
box and in the application of force and
applies .these same methods to those
who are now applying them to him,
that no matter how fully warranted
their loud protests may be, or how
thier cries of anguish may rend the
tendrils qt an honest conscience, while
they may receive oiir commiseration,
they will not be in a position to de
mand any sort of justice.
We are not at this time, condoning
or .excusing, nor have we. ever con
doned or excused any infraction of
the laws by the union laborers of
Colorado; but such crimes as union
laborers may have committed were all
punishable under the statutes of the
state; there were the courts and the
officers ready and willing to perform
their duties in enforcing the laws and
every infraction could have been,"prop-
erly punished. But such crimes . as
may. have been committed by mem
bers of unions, or all of them put to
gether, were of such infinitesimal im
portance when contrasted- with the
criminal acts okPeabody, acting at the
dictates of the mine -owners' union and
the citizens' alliance, that they shrink
to such small proportions as to be
scarcely discernable. Members of the
unions may have committed simple
crimes against individuals; but Pea
body committed the most, flagrant
crimes against the nation and its es-"
tablished conceptions and declaiations
of personal liberty and individual and
collective- right. We do not plead that
Mr. Calderhead "does not understand
the, situation in Colorado," he under-'
stands it fully, and he also appre
ciates and understands the blow that
Peabody and his Hessians have struck
at real American liberty.
Then, your correspondent says that
"capital and labor should go arm in
arm," and it is a sentiment that the
poet may weave many a muse about;
and when our thoughts float away to
a dreamy niillenlum, we are able to
tint the stern reality with the rosy
hues 'of this moral speculation; but
when we come down to the rrulili' s of
cvery-day life, we find capital in the
market buying with Its . cnsdi labor
at tM lowest market . price; and we
tind labor there selling at the highest
price It can command ml njrht in
this niorVot. where their Interests are
as diametrically opposite a can be,
we And tlm dteentwlulns: thHr aims
and taking antagonistic positions.
The tlrst business move vt ths
arm-in-arm Lrt.thr3 la anUfionUlle
and pity 'ti., under our present h
tem, no matter how much we may
moralize, they must o continue. It
must I? conceded by ecry one who
haa Riven the matter thought or has
come In contact with Its exaction,
that cat Ital Is esMrtitlally selfish;
that Us tne tbjt 1 to imVf ironey.
That being granted, , it follows that
capital buys as cheap as it can raw
material and labor; it sells its finished
products to the consuming public at
the highest price it can command.
These necessities to the maximum of
prosperity for capital, have produced
tne universal trust organisation.
Capital being wholly -selfish, and it
having organized the capitalistic un
ions for its 'own benefit, it must be
taken tor granted that it will set in
.motion sudi business policies as will
add to its profits. To add to its
profits it must and will by the or
ganization of trusts, place itself in
position where it will not compete
with itself in the labor market, and
it being organized into a consoli
dated single" bidder for labor, will
be in position to name the price at
which the' laborer shall sell his work;
it will also be placed in the same
position as the purchaser o raw ma
terial. On the other hand, being in
single control of the finished products,
which the people must have that they
may live, it will make the people pay
the highest price for those things they
must buy. .'',,
Capital has "one abnormal faculty
commercialism. It is in business for
profit. The smaller price it has to
pay for labor and raw material, and
the higher, pripo it can force the pub
lice to pay ' for the finished product,
the more It can make and if your
correspondent Can point out any room
in this business scheme for "affec
tion," we would like to have him in
dicate' the exact .spot. The theory
that the interests of capital and la
bor 'are identical is one that affords
opportunitL-for oratorical hyperbole
bitt'1 it offers no jutting', ji'pon . which
to hang a reason of fact' As Cleve
land said, this is a condition and not
a; theory that, confronts us. Altruistic
drejain's are of ,little use; when the
sternest: of - adverse conditions aro
staring us. in. the face. We have al-
lowed, otirselves td be marched up to
the; dividing ' line ' where, if we dis
play the intelligence that is requited
of American' citizens, we "must sayr.
this is tot the interest of capital (us?
ing the word, in rthe common accept-,
ance of the-term) and this is what It
will do if we allow it; this is for tho
interests of the ' ..'people who are not
rated as capitalists, and this Is what
must be done for. them if their inter
ests are to be conserved ana having
marked the ways, we must each 1 or
himself chose which of them we wiU
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