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AUGUST 25, 1904. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT PAGE 17 GOV. PEABODY AND IBEB LA BOH, .After long silence Governor Pea body of Colorado issues an adroit ap- ynAi ig me "law-aDwing" citizens ana 'conservative" unionists of Colorado to re-elect him to the position that he has prostituted that he may again resume his reign of despotism in that fair state. His appeal overflows with general and indefinite charges against members of - the Western Federation of Miners. Nearly if not all of these charges have; already; been proven ab solutely false by the prosecutors themselves, who abandoned their pros ecution before thrial in some instances. This fact is -recognized by the gover nor himself by bis failure to be spe cific. ',.." ;'"- v And here follows the hypocritical climax of his frenzied appeal: "I have had to deal with an organ ization . which has no counterpart in this country. Its official proclamation, full of defiance and challenge, issued from. time to time, have amounted, as has been i said, to a "declaration of war against the state.' , i uave met iue tuaneiise wiiu a policy none tco vigorous for the out lawry I ' was called to oppose. But through it all I have had but one ob ject, and that to show the people of Colorado that the laws. will be upheld that a criminal organization can not dictate the policy of thi3 administra- tion, and that everywhere, within the ' borders of Colorado, property obail be , secure and. labor , shall, be free." "Labor shall be free," forsooth! Yet i every attempt to.' make ; the conditions of labor free " in Colorado , has been frustrated by Governor Peabody and his official mob;- 'After the, people of Colorado had voted in, favor of con stitutional . amendments- for . the bet terment of the conditions of labor this official, anarchistic mob urged on by the most corrupt elements .of Colorado, defeated that 'will of the people. in the state legislature - All this was well set forth in a-recent issue of MrClure's by Ray Stanard Baker and "needs no repetition here. ' But the essence of hypocrisy appears in the expression that in Colorado "labor shall" be free." This flattering phrase is too often rung into the ears of members of organized iabor. "Be free men." Free indeed. Yet every attempt of laborers to be free, truly free, is frustrated by such would-be despots as Peabody. Who can honest ly say that any laboring man is free bo long as he must beg for leave to toil? And having secured from mo nopoly the "leave to toil," he must ac cept for his labor not what he honestly earns, ,but what monopoly sees lit to pay. Free indeed. How free is he who leaves his home in the early of food, leaving the last morsel there for a careworn wife with hollow cheeks who in 'her turn bestows it upon a starving child? How free is he who having left his home under such con ditions and tramped footsore all day long, secures at last from some ' cap tain of industry" a leave to toil, and hears from that captain the words, "Your pay will be one dollar a day"? Can he say, "I think I ought to have tw6 dollars a day"? Is he free? NoJ he will not say such things. : He dare ot. But with bowed head he stoops to kiss the hand' of him who bestows upon him this 'blessing." .No, it is not the freedom of labor that such fel lows as Peabody desire... It is the more complete dependence, the more abject enslavement of those who toil. When an attempt was made a year or two past to pass a constitutional amenment in Colorado that would have lifted from the back of labor its burden of taxation and freed the store house of nature that labor might apply its genius and enrich itself in na ture's bounty, thereby dointmuch to "free labor," did Peabody and his official mob aid the cause? Far from it. It is hardly likely now tnat the labor unionists and the American, llb-erly-lovlng citizens of Colorado will be detelv?d by the governor' hypocritical appeal. They wUJ nsert their rights and their manhood, and nhow to him mi J his kind what "free labor" if ally means. I. A HO It T) AT. It is f luouratdng to note th eon tinned Interest manifested year after year In the obJ-ervanee of Labor day. Jt in still more encouraging to note that more ami more, each year, the day I devoted hot alone to port &Ntl Idle frolic, though this h to he tn ouraged, but that the day t being made one itf education m well. Labor organliatiotia have served a m at pur. pose, and tht-ir continued growth prove that they arc booming more and morn appreciated by toller of a!) clic yrar fter year, ifut the gnat est ork of labor organisations hat yet to b airoiiupUiihfd. "i hey ran not hop for any permanent kimhI In mere loirrnKMi of aitLbortcutng of hour. Tlm and again thy r,av learned that this, however good in itself, is of very small importance. They have found that most of the increase of wages has been absorbed by greater cost of living especially in the item of rent. ."They will yet see the importance of wielding that potential power they, possess at the ballot box, in bringing about a more equitable economic system of things. They have already accomplished much in this line. . They .will accomplish more in days to come. Meantime their celebration of labor day on the first Mondaybf September will continue its educating influence. - The unions of Lincoln have prepared an" inviting pro gram of exercises at Lincoln park. Let the great work continue. ' , THE BROOKLYN EAGLE.' - After having accomplished the re organization of the democratic party, the reorganizes, of which' the Brook lyn Eagle has been most conspicuous, propose to "rub it in" on the reform democrats." The Eagle recently said that the "gold telegram" of Judge Parker had 'made the convention 'right about face, after the Bryan men had been absolutely floored." "Judge Par ker had made the convention reverse itself, and his telegram as a gold plank, had virtually been injected into the bowels of 'the platform, and the overthrow1 of Bryan and his handful of nidlignantg or sciolists had been made manifestly complete." 1 "Injected into the bowels of the platform": is certainly a Signified; .expression to come from the chief,; organ -of 1 the "safe and sane" democracy. It refers to Mr. Bryan as-having "broken loose again,", and having-'given ' the inhe sion of the lip and, the incision of the dagger to Judge Parker s candidacy. "Nor .was i free silver,' says , the Eagle, "the only infamy and idiocy of the platforms of 1896- and ISOO.Iree riot the packing, of. the United States supreme court in the interest of lepu diation and dot, sympathy with mur derous-strikes and striking' murderers, the war on thrift and property, in volved in a demand for a tax .on in comes, and 'many other , abomina tions," etc. ' The ' two planks in ' the S't. Louis platform that" squint at pro gressive . democracy, the Philippine and tariff planks, the Eagle roundly denounces, but these, slys the Eagle, "do . not command our open--hostility, because the republicans will have the senate,, for the whole of the next pres idential term, and can not lose it." Besides the Eagle is sure that Parker's nomination nullifies the. "nonsense'.'. of these' two; planks, .Think of the atti tude of a party that appeals for. votes by assuring the country that ; voters need not fear the, only two planks that do seem to raise, an issue,, by as suring them that their candidate will be "conservative" and "safe and sane" on these points, and that even if the party does go wrong on them, the re publicans' will protect the country from rash democracy. Think of it. And .'then to think of an intelligent man asking other intelligent men to support such a ticket. And here h; the warning that, the Eagle serves upon' all those democrats who were loyal to their ticket when it was worth supporting, while it turned traitor: -"Those who exucet consideration at the hands of the new. democracy, which is the old. will do well to keep their identification with the rancid rottenness of ISOtJ ami IPftO out of sight and out of mind." There you have it, Mr. Bryan democrat. How like you the picture Think of the absurdity of the attempt to harmonize such a democracy. Think of . the idiocy involved in the attempt to per suade the American people to elevate to trust and power such a malodorous aggregation of pretenders. Mil. BRYAN'S RlTrORT OF I'AKKER In the Commoner. June 21, of the present year, just two months past, the following Is what Mr. Bryan Raid of Judge Pari-or, democracy's nominee for president: "The editor of the Commoner learned mouth before that Jud.ce Par ker wan Mr. - Morgan" eanuidate. Be fore the pa era began to boom him It was known th.tt l.? wa.i being dis missed. In t'manrUl circles, and cSkIi teen month a?.n Mr. Morgan was re ported to h;n declared him u tafe and suitable man leforo the paper:." besran to d!nM the po.wdbllity of lib candidacy, We have bad one J. l'ler mnt Morgan prnidut. and be did t'if demoi Ttttlc party mote harm than all Ilia republican. irehlenU kin the war. When the rrpuMkaru Meet a Walhstreet man, the democrat ran dHuiutH' htm and fcaln ret ruiu by ro dolns. When th demo, rat iir un fortunate enough to bate a Wall Mreet president, they have to either denoumw blm cr aiMiUUr for Mm, and no mmitr whUh tl.ev do they have to brr th odium of hi inauiio Utrallon. Nu womltr Mr, ( J.v!aijd speaks highly of Judge Parker. , He. is on the inside, and knows that Mr. Parker is satisfactory to Morgan and Belmont and the other financial mag nates who run the Cleveland adminis tration and yet while it is as plain as day that the Parker boom finds its source in Wall street, there are many democrats who are trying to argue themselves into believing that Judge Parker would be a good man to har monize on. He has the same envir onment that Mr. Cleveland had, and it can be set 'down as a certainty that Wall street always finds out a man's views before it supports him, how ever much those Vlevs may be con cealed from the public generally." And yet in less than one month after pronouncing the above ..denunciation, Mr. Bryan was urging his followers to support this , "J. Pierpont Morgan (candidate for) president.'- ' .'.'When the democrats are " unfor tunate enough to have a, 3Vall street president, they have to either- de nounce him or apologize.for .him, and no matter what they do, they have to bear the odium of his administration." Strong words these, and though Mr Bryan has, since the St. Louis con vention, said that he had "nothing to take back," yet he desires to put, upon the democratic party "tae odium of ar Wall street administration" of the presidency. Can he do so and feinain a good democrat a Jelfersonian dem ocrat?.! Mr. Bryan' knew what be was saying when he wrote the fore going (and he had no moral right to say it.' if he did not know it to 'be true), can he be sincere With his loyal following and true to his conscience now? He must have known it to he true when he wrote; it,' for he now says e has "nothing to take back. Yet - he asks the American people to elect tbjs second edition of 'Cleveland to the " presidency, . and f thereby put upon not only the democratic party, but the American people as well, the necessity of apologizing for another "Waif street "administration." jr Mr. Bryan's following desire to debtroy his influence in the democratic party they will vote for, Parker If they desire to preserve it,, they will vote for Wat son and Tibbies. f"' JUDGE PARKER "HIS OtTN PLAT- FORM," The Press-Post (Columbus. Ohio) in appeal for support of Judge Parker, says: '"' " "In breaking the sphinx-like silence he has maintained; JudgeTarker has fulfilledthe promise of his sponsors when they asserted that he was me ideal candidate for a "safe and sane" democracy. "Taking his speech as its Keynote, the democracy' clearly Is " presenting its appeal to the nation on grounds to which the most conservative can raisft no obiections. " No longer can the charge of wishing to disturb the business conditions of the country be laid at the door of democracy. -'Even more than the platform, does the speech of Judge Parker indicate hat the nartv has completely re versed the policy of the -last two cam paigns. "No longer can the democratic par ty be characterized as socialistic, pop ulistic or anarchistic, for it contains no element of any one of these doc trines or set of doctrines. "There is none of the Roosevelt m Judge Parker. He is as distinct from Roosevelt as day is from night. There is no trace of Bryan, of Debs, of Weaver, or of Swallow. He Is him self, the scholarly, dignified, independ ent, courageous, refined and moderate Judge. His whole speech, his whole personality teems with the idea that hp want to do whatever is reasonable. He is his-own platform; bis own is sue." There you have it "Mr. Bryan demo crat." You claim to support Judge Parker because of the "good democrat ic platform." but Judge Parker hi own platform; his own issue." No trace of Bryan about Mm. Only ' safe and . pane democracy," You are Jn MjHcd for your tnipport of the plat forms under Bryan, yet to be "regular" you vote for your traducers. Mr. Bry an av hH election will.. "clink Im perialism," yet Judge Parker u al ready proviii,: hinwelf an Imperialist with hi party. Can be be an Imper ialist at home and a JcfT ronlu dem ex rat In foreign relation.1;? The Plattsrnoiith Journal says "JudK Parker's tnlthl maud for 'A Bom President." " They may also stand for "A Bni Plutcs-rat. or. r? verstnt they may stand fur 'Plutoc racy'! Born Ally." 8ma!l rrmfort may b had from spelling out hop from Initial. PO It" L I ST T I .A T 1 Y) It H And thr of U cither parties, et mplftr. ln ItnltnR Un,M at l!t. IVir, slit l'id, Addrcts The lodrp. ndtnt, Llnci-ln, Neb. 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