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n THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT AUGUST 11. 1304. PAGE 10. SscUlisra Tr.riitnr Indeoendent: I enclose $1 to renew my subscription which I notice j by wrapper has expired. Personally I wish you could see your way to come squarely out for social ism. I am a business man; have made a careful study of economics for twelve years. Am a Presbyterian deacon; so I feel fairly conservative. But some radical change must be made and made soon. Our vast fortunes are corrupt ing the rich, and are giving our young men false ideas and false ideals. ,1 was a single-taxer first and I still should rejoice to see it become a law; but the ideal or socialism is a truer and greater ideal. In fact, single-tax but proposes the socialization -of land. Well whjr not then socialize machinery and capital. '' It must come ultimately or our civ ilization will go down in dark chaos as did that of Egypt, uabylon, Greece and Kome. , Equality of opportunity, true and eseshtial brotherhood it seems to. me is the only possible basis ; of ah enduring civilization. It is the business of all of us to see, -to it that nou person, who wauts to work stands idle or is rorcetl to eat the bread of charity. . - Monopoly, is a big word. It is the cause of much . poverty and misery; but how can we abolish it? The single tax offers a remedy. S6cialism offers a remedy. They are the only ones I am able to find in all the economic study of years. I incline to the remedy of socialism for , many reasons which I cau't go - into here. ' The literature of the phil osophy is rich and varied. YYou can. do your clients much good by giving it in condensed form in your columns. C F. NESBIT. 1801 Phelps Place, Washington D. C. (The Independent lias no hesitancy in admitting that the socialist phil- osophy has done much to modify and I inlluence modern 'political thought. It gives due credit to socialism for a ; clearer view of the forces at work in society. But The Independent can go the whole road with neither- socialist nor anarchist. Both extremes of poli tical thought have their, uses, but, being-extremes, they must always re ,.. main ideals unrealized. Sij v Specifically The Independent could not come squarely out for socialism for two reasons: (a) It repudiates a3 f unsound the Marxian theory of "sur plus value" and the concept of value upon which that is predicated, lb) History fails to show mat the slave ; ever freed himself; and the effort to build up a political party led and dominated by the "propertjiess" class, as The Independent views it, is, in the language of Senator Ingalls, "an irridescent dream." It is true that the extreme division of labor is having the effect of breaks ing down the intense individualism which was so noticeable, especially in this country, half a century ago; and to thai extent the social pendulum is swinging away from ideal anarchy and toward collectivism. But jour Marx ; ian socialist has a bed of Procrustes upon1 which he demands ' that every form of human industry be com pelled to lie "the collective own ership of all the. means of pro duction and distribution." He for gets that the operation of nat- , ural law-makes ' different substances appear to act in contrary ways. If a bag of sand and an equal weight of hy drogen gas be released from a balloon 500 feet above the earth's surface, the two substances go in opposite di rections, although the law or gravita tion has no exceptions. Different forms of production vary quite as much as sand and hydrogen gas. The Marxian law of social gravi tation Is faulty, unscientific, unnatural, because it is assumed that all forms of production arc of the same social specific gravity and that, therefore, ail will go down together, .nto collective ownership. Associate Editor.) fiRT ON THE LIST ' ; Oiir Various Clothing Catalogs for and Winter '05. Now Ready. " ' .-";:;.V ' If lou Are Not on Our Hailing List, Send In Your Name Early .t n I ! I r" ; f a L i L I which cover every branch of our Wc Publish Five Distinct Catalogues sxJs x have made them so. They are very valuable to the man who has clothing to buy. We want you on our list whether you buy from us or not. Yourill find that it will pay you in more ways than oDe. OUR CATALOGUES ARE MAILED FREE. . A penny postal card request will bring one or ail of the books. . It's as much for your sake as it As for our sake that we urge you to get on our list We only have a limited number of thousands of books extra each, season. Many people send when it's too late. , - Below we tell what these books are. Write today for the crae or more that you would be interested in. The Price Mr. Bryan's price was a promise of future reorganization. We do not be lieve Mr. Bryan would sll out for gold, neither would J sell out for any honors the Wall street sans could confer upon him. but that pie crust of a promise, cumin?; to him as it did In hU weakened condition, was more than he could bear, and In that fact alone. some future historian of the eat'.se of the people may find a juMluabh ex cuse for hi action. Milton (111,1 Ar- RU. In An Automobile - I'ih.ii hi arrival in Lincoln Mr. Wataou wan met at the depot and cur ted to hh room In an automobile uf th latent pattern. It wa fur Liietl to the reception committee Catalogue . , " . jrf 'I 1 "f'ff' J " B O Y Sv logue Gatal Is a bookvdevoted to MEN'S SUITS and OVER COATS. Shows many samples of , goods - and then goes on by illustration and description to explain all about men's GOOD CLOTHES; what they are worth and what you ought to payt j The book has a wonderful value to any man who. has clothes to buy. If interested, Vnte for the book. IT'S J? KHiK. - , -;.."'::. ' Men's Furnishing Goods Our Boys' catalogue is perhaps the finest book gotten : out tn the U mted States which deals exclus ively with the CLOTHING NEEDS OF THE BOY AND LITTLE FELLOW.; The book shows upwards of-, one hundred correct styjes for boys and a score or more samples of goods are pasted in the book. Evqryone who, has a boy to dress should possess one of these , books.- The book is MAILED FREE on request. v - en 's Odd -Pants Catalogue A 32-page book show- ing by sample a score or more styles of menV odd pants. r A BOOK VV J HUH SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME.' Write for it. 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