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PAGE 8. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT AUGUST lao tin Nebraska Jndependent Lincoln, tltbrask LIBERTY BUILDING. 1328 0 STREET . Entered according to Act of Congress of March 8, 1879, et the Postoffice at Wncoln, Nebraska, a econd-clasa mail matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. SIXTEENTH YEAR. CAMPAIGN RATES. ; One for 15 cents.-Seven for a Dollar. $1.00 PER YEAR When making remittancea do not leart money with newa agencies, postmasters, td to be forwarded by. them. They frequently forget or remit a different amount than was left with theu, and the subscriber fails to get jropei credit ,' . - Address all communications, and maka all tuftf, money orders, etc., payable to Xht tltbraska Jndeptndtnt, Lincoln, Neb. Anonvmous communications will not b noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not b teturned. x t,. , . 11 . T H TIBBLES, Editor. C Q DE FRANCE, Associate Editor. i'.D. EAGER, LueJuetB Manager. CCUHCIL iifctf jscs THE TICKET. : S . For President ' J & THOMAS E. WATSON J fc of Georgia. & J For Vice President & THOMAS II. TIBBLES. Jt of Nebraska. ( PLATFORMS Of all parties, includ irig those of 1904. Price, postpaid, 25c. Address this office; The Hearst papers are fighting Bel mont terrifically and support Bel- , mont's candidate enthusiastically. Populist papers are waking up all over Kansas and. the State Record at Topeka is about the widest awake, of any of them. The editor of The Independent told Bryan In Washington in 1893 that be intent as well try ta reform a rotten egg as the democratic party. Roosevelt and Parker, are carrying on the sweetest campaign ever known in American history. They are an other pair of heavenly twins. . Watson and Tibbies clubs have been formed in eighteen states and the exe cutive committee of the people's party has not yet held a meetrng. The peo ple don't propose to wait and are go- g right at it themselves. The pressure upon the columns of The Independent by correspondents is, as a woman would say, "perfectly awful.' Give us 100.000 circulation, then we will double the size of the pa per and more can have a chance. Seven for a dollar. Send in the clubs. Whenever two or more meet to gether to help their fellow man single taxers, socialists, silver republicans, Bryan democrats, co-operative store keepers, labor, reformers, anti-monop olists, or farmers associations they straightway adopt a populist platform. Joliet Daily News. The Denver News has got to the point where It declares the reason for the references to the great age of the democratic vice-presidential candidate la because "that Is the only damaging evidence the opposition papers can find against him." Compare that with t-some of the fine editorial writing that appeared in It columns before it weut over to Parker and Wall street. What a blight Wall street puts, upon the finest Intellect! A man who sign hltuself "Demo crat," sends the following "for publi cation." MThe national platform of the people's party adopted at Sprltig field is an exposition of Jeffrsonlan democracy and Lincoln republicanism. Watson represent the .Jerfersonlan democracy ami Tlbbks the Macolu re- publicanlam.' . STAND CP AND BE COUNTED. In the correspondence printed In The Independent last week signed Up . lUilunlUg O&UtCUW VslAACJ- "Bryan is the idol of the common peo ple and the man to whom they are looking to free them from the domina tion of the money power." But' Bryan says he will vote for and support Par ker. If his followers follow his example-there will be recorded as in favor of the the money power all the votes cast for both the republican and democratic candidates. There will be no protest filed agarnst it save what votes the populists Cast. Would it not be wisdom to cast as many votes as possible for the populist ticket? No hman will get a federal office except those who support . the money power. All the prestige of power and wealth will be in its favpr. Bryan's vole and that of every other democrat, who supports the Parker ticket will be counted for the money power. They propose to stand tip and be counted on that side.". What a man says be tween elections don't count. It is his vote that , counts. Shall it be pub lished to all the world that an over whelming majority of the people of the United States ' voted for 'plutoc racy and the money power? You will be counted anions them if you vote for any man who supports Par ker cr Roosevelt. Will you do it? ' WATSON'S SPEECH, Watson's speech at the people's par ty state convention at Lincoln will be officially reported in The Independent's edition of August 11. Exrta copies of that edition can be had at two cents per copy. This speech will mark, the opening of the people's Tarty cam- paign of 1904, and will be a campaign document of great importance. 'No re liance can be ; put upon Associated Press reports or condensations or sum maries that "may appear in old party papers. Every one of the million and a half of populists in the United States should have an official copy, and there will be tens of thousands of members of other parties who will Want to read it. Send in your orders in advance. ' The Lincoln Star comes out un equivocally for the, retirement of the greenbacks. Let the Wall street gang curtail the ''currency $346,000,000 at a turn if they want to. -The Independent would like to 'see them do it. When the panic was over, the people's party would take charge of the government. The ' Denver News has got far enough along to print a big cartoon in which' Uncle Sam J3 inviting Parker to take charge of the government. The most noticeable thing about Parker in this cartoon is that he bears a big card labelled:, "Telegram on gold." When Tom Patterson deserted the peo ple's party he started on his downward course. The people of his state de serted him and voted the republican ticket as a rebuke. Now he has reached an abiding place in" the Belmont end of Wall street.- "IRREVOCABLE." judge Parker woun a:? trie strands of fate together and then declared the gold standard "irrevocable." Even God himself must not meddle with it. The sage of Esopus nas said It and even Omnipotence can't chance it. The greatest statesmen of the past never tried to decide things for all future ages in that dogmatic way. While the men who wrote the con stitution believed that taey were stat ing some fundamental and eternal truths, they provides a way sn which that instrument could be changed or amended. All eternity is but an hour with Judge Parker. The gold stand ard is "irrevocable!" All the gold mines may become exnaustea, or gold may be discovered in inexhaustible quantities and become of less value than pewter, but the gold standard will remain. Nations may rtse and fall, all our notions of government, indus trial and commercial affairs, may be altered as the endless years roll by, but the gold standard Is "Irrevocable." Judge Parker has said it and to that dictum every true democrat must bow. Amen. Let us fuse. STARVING WOUEN ANDCUILDKEM The republican dallies have given a great deal of space to a description of the cruelties Indicted upon Fins and other residents of the Russian em pire by tho recently assassinated tnln Isle r. Von Tlehvc. The starvation In Finland brought about by military tc3;.Um was cruel, but was It any moro trufl than the -starving of worn cn a Ml children In Colorado by the mli'tni) despotism established there? Vet tf.o itatlhn have not a word to say about. tne suffering of tho wives and children if the deported miners Things t.at come to such a jass out All the Way through Life A man may rest secure in the knowledge that his family is well protected, if he is amply insured in the Bankers Reserve Life Company of Omaha, Nebraska. The-income of this successful Company is in creasing at a rapid rate and in the near future will exceed" ' $600,000 annually. B. H. ROBISON, President. there that the miners sent to Mrs! John A. . Logan, president of the Red Cross society the following clommuni Crttion: - "Knowing 'it to be the mission of the Red Cross society, of which you ait the official head, to take charge of and as much as possible eliminate suf fering caused: by the cruelties of war, we . earnestly appeal to you to arrange to have your noble organization take chnrce of the distribution of food and clothing to the families of deported cUizens ol Teller county. We will fmv nlsh ' all necessary- supplies and only ask your organization to take charge of the riiCtrituition of the same." Will these miners? continue to vote for the men who so oppress them. The Independent jcommends to their atten tion the plank on labor in the peo ple's party platform. - ' WATSON AT; OSCEOLA Eight - years ago Watson delivered as great an oration in Lincoln as was ever heard in this city of universities. Men who heard it are today talking about it and many of them, ; although eight years have passed, -can 1 repeat portions of it, Can that be truthfully said of any other address ever deliv ered in this city? The prominent re publicans of the state who heard it were astonished. , When questioned about it they replied: "It was a greal speech, but it was not a political speech. It was simply a patriotic ora tion which we all endorse." That was all they could say, for the speech was so overwhelming in its logic, so per fect in its deliyery, so beautiful in its rhetoric, that it captured every hearer. So admirable was Its art, it swayed alike the university professor, the learned ludve. the lawyer and the hum blest among our citizens. Only yes terday, a member 01 tne nou earners union of Lincoln came into the edi torial room of The Independent to say that he was glad that Watson was coming again for he nad heard him when he was here before and wanted to hear him again. This hard work ing man had cherished in his heart all these years Watson's words. The In dependent can not reprint that speech as it would be glad to do, for its files were burned, when the office went up In flames. The following are the clos ing words of Watson's speech at Os ceola tho same year which we clip from the Polk County Democrat: "We are not lighting lor sliver only. That Is good as far as it goes but it don't go far enough. We have got to reform the tax system and the trans portation system and we huve got to wipe out the national banks, and we have got to create more money for the people to take the puce of that that was burned up. Until populism re stores the government of our fathers, populism is not going to (116, Men of ; the west, : the , men of the south are not false i to-you and I hope you will not be false to us; our cause is the same, let our purpose be the same. Let us stand by the faith that we have pledged to- one another."1 Let us stand by the ticket that, we have put in the field. Let us do all that we can do to, right the wrongs of. the people. 1 Let .it be : our ; purpose ever to swerve;, never to surrender, k hever to lose heart until, we jrecapture, the fortress of the people and restore, jus tice and enact laws that will make crosDeritv1 possible in this remiblic.; 1 there is no time to talk about submis sion. , lu every household goes up a prayer for our success ey goo a women ana. iittie. cnnaren.. we win .win, out nothing on earth will , do it but fight ing. If we pre right we should be proud to flghlj on. The time. will come v, hen our banners will float m every breeze signaling - the success or our peciiie '' and . we will be once more a t-tcsperous, united and happy people." PLUTOCRATIC ROTTENNESS. New York ;is plutocracy's sink hol'e of rottenness. ; Prom there comes the two candidates of oppression, whom insane partisans all over the countiy shout for ; and proclaim "to the world ' as the friends of the people. How are the people in New York treated where there , is no opposition to the gold standard? A recent report on the con dition of the common people there is as follows: - "Tenement conditions in many In stances have been found to be s6 bad as to be indescriable in print; vile' privies and privy sinks; foul cellars full of rubbish, in many cases 6f garbage and decomposing fecal mat ter; dilapidated and dangerous stairs; plumbing pipes containing large holes emitting sewer gas mrougnout the houses; rooms so dark that one can not see the people in them; cellars occupied! as sleeping places; dangerous bakeries without proper protection 'In case of fire; pigs, goats, horses and other animals kept in cellars; old fire traps without tire-escapes; disease breeding rags and junk stored In tenement-houses; halls kept dark at night, endangering tho lives of the occu pants; buildings without adequate wat er supply the list might be added to almost Indefinitely." Co mo now and let us fuse m that In the great summing up, our votes shall be counted among thono who sup port plutocracy. Readers of Tlie Independent can nave money by rtroalzlng llayden Ilros., whose page al. aj peart. In every Issue, Why not fiend In a club of new nub icrlttrs frvai our neighborhood!