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SEPTEMBER 15, 1904
THE. NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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however, keep down expenditures to
any great, degree, and the republicans
inherited a legacy of overlaps that they
have been making up every since."
The. truth is as every man knows
who has any knowledge at all about
the subject, that the populists instead
of increasing the state debt by "over
laps" or in other way, reduced it in
your years 1677,0930. Eli Perkins
could not beat, if he should try for
years, the News and Eli was famous
in his day as the biggest liar on the
American continent.
But the News need not feel proud j
over this feat and claim that it is the
champion liar of Nebraska, for there
are a score of other republican editors
who have been telling the same lie in
almost the same words, and having
been the first in the field, the News
can only claim the second place.
SAME OLD KIND
'That Carter Harrison's city council
in Chicago is the same sort of thing
as the republican city councils all over
the United States that have been
stealing the streets and giving them
to private parties. In fact it is a lit-
tie worse than the republican brand
f6r it has direct orders from the peo-
ple what to do and is proceeding to do
exactly what the people forbid it do
ing. A vote was taken in Chicago on
the following propositions with the re
sult given:
"Shall the city council upon the dering tnese buttons tp send along $1,
adoption of the Mueller law proceed $2, $5 or $10 each for campaign ex
without delay to acquire ownership of pense3 i they want the work of 'the
tne street railways uuuer m yuraa
conferred uy tne Muener iaw: ine
vote: for. 121,957; against 50 807.
"Shall the city council instead of
granting any irancmses piuewu at
once 'under the city's police powers
and other existing laws to license in?
.. sireei, railway compauiw uuui mum-
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iee?. The vote
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for, 120,803; against,
With the above staring them in the
ta nMoafrn rift miinrti is en -
guged in passing a city ordinance that
would eive the traction company rights
And nrivileees and earning powers
never dreamed of in traction legisla-
lion in Chicago before! It would take
avav by contract the: general powers
of the city to regulate street cars. It j
would entrench the traction companies
In the streets for all time and sound
the tleathknell of municipal ownership. 1
That is what the Carter Harrison
democracy is doing for Chicago. It is
same old thing and always will be.
poruLisar a success
Where ever populism has been tried,
either in this country or in other lands,
it has always proved a great blessing
to the people. Chicago's experience
with municipal electric lighting fori
public purposes will' be a hard nut for
wijjuiauuu 0Lrti.101.1v1a.110 iu viai.iv.
According to the report of the city,
authorities the total cost of the aver-
age number or arc ngnts in lwd 4,-
52-1 was ?bz,8. unaer tne system
of renting from private corporations
uiese ngnts wouia nave cost oo,-
9S6. ThQ Saving, therefore, Was $297,-
u5. xet tne cuy paia in wages irom
15 to 33 per cent more than theprivate
corporations. 10 nav.e remea mese-
lights for the sixteen years of munici
pal ownership and operation would
have cost $3,895,812, and the city
would now have nothing to. show for
it all except a package of vouchers
and a memory of street lights that had
glimmered in the past. But tinder mu
mcipal ownership and operation, in
spite of high wages and incidental
grafting, the city has spent only $3,
720,099 ($175,713 less than the rentals
would have aggregated) , and has to
show for it besides a memory of
ijShtcd streets a lighting plant of its
own, which has increased from a sys-
tom nf im iimn in is7 tnnno rf t Uf
fml0j,amPa;!nl88Veof-V82
In lso.
TltPiTS "IRUBVOrABtf"
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.,AU that is necessary to "irrevocably
establish the trust system according to)
ft, recent dispatch, is to get it in such
i-." z: 7, . lW9
Interfered with or prosecuted in the
court, a financial panic will result
That i lus jHmilion taken by ltooso
vclt as detailed in a special .dispatch
in the iMonocr-rrcss, It appears that
11. U. Uorts riicently vlnltcd the pre
iJent. What occurred Is described as
follows:
Th president tohl ihf financ ier
that iho a.lmlnitratlon had no Inten-
tlon f 'rutntnR amuck of all the rum-
Mnationa that had Wcu furnml iu ro -
cent yt;m. It waji roalUod. he naid.
that if Hiilti wrre to bo Imniedlatily ln bins mrroUratcd. Tho cmprfU has
f tltuti-d against all th corporations allowed her portrait to b painted "v
whus IfKallty under the latf-at docUIon fral tlmra and of lato haa hcn ph-
.k nodi tn doubt, that a financial
ranlc tnlsht tw."
Thf Morean tntrrvlrw was IJHr
j.ubllthed in the trn pnsi, but IhUlor rmperor of fhlua a ever allow ei
PnrPTS Interview WAS KimnrPSSfid. I
Shortly after these two interviews, the
Sun and Harper's Weekly flopped over
to Roosevelt, and Wall street quit
booming Parker.
There 13 on exhibition at the World's
fair at St. Louis a telegraph mechan
ism that sends 1.000 words a minute
over wires a thousand miles long. Yet
under the special privileges granted to
private telegraph companies in the
United States, the people are .charged
25 cents for sending ten words ten
miles. The Independent has often
called attention to the fact that the
great telegraph companies refuse" to
utilize any of the Improvements in
telegraphy, for fear that public opinion
would force a reduction in rates-There
is no way of escaping the extortions
practiced by the corporations, aside
from the populist way, namely, public
ownership. :
WATSON AND TIBBLX8 BUTTON
The Independent has made arrange-
ments to get some Watson and Tibbies
buttons, the button carrying a photo-
gratm of both candidates, which it will
furnish to its readers at the following
ratcs: -.' ' .
1 button .
3 buttons
10 cents
25 cents
$1.00
100 or more, each . .... . ... . . .. 3 cents
The Independent advises ; parties or-
party to go on. The national commit
tee has reCeived requests for nearly a
mmion copg Df Watson's Cooper
UnioQ speech, and hasn't money enough
postage on a thousand, even if
' tL beeches alread y printed. If
reaI1 believ(f in popullsm put up
monev.to back your words: The
r of the little money that has been
sent in, has come from the very poor.
Shame on you rich farmers and busl-
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want the poor to bear all the burdens
while yu 'bea3JI
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theiTiw tore CANDiMm
The populist state ticket in New
York has been made up with good
judgment ' and great discrimination
The candidate for governor is Alfred
J. Boulton of Brooklyn. Mr. Boulton
is chairman of the Central Federation
Labor union, known as a prominent
union labor man and has been; in1 at
tendance at labor union conventions as
a delegate or officer for many years. He kl
was candidate on the fusion ticket inv
1903 for county clerk of Kings county.
Other candidates' were chosen with
equal wisdom.
A HOST OF TKAITORs
The strike in the packing houses al
Chicago'- and elsewhere,- where ever
irie meat trust cpntrois, nas Deen a
.failure.' '-The- strike was a humanitarr
jan move on tne part 0f the union to
get living wages for-the common la-
horers. who on account of beins em
pi0yed irregularly ; were only able to
ret ahout a dollar a dav. The unions
have a rorv sorinua fiiturs awnitin?
th(1Tn Thfrft-Vs r well nlanned cam
Dalsm inaugurated against them by the
Hr.h-wMrh has ri Virw th4 destruction
of unionism in th.e United ,States.; The
rich have in their tavor the govern
ment, the courts ajid the army and the
wage earners 'have ' only their -bare
hands. The contest is very unequal
There is only one weapon in the hands
of the working people that is at all
effective and s;o far. they; have refused
to use it. If the trusts and corpora
tions had any fear that they would use
itt they would hover have organized for
the destruction of the unions. That
weapon is the ballot The labor unions,
"f 2hJ W vr.m Vn
traitors for the last few jcars. Most
of the men that both of . thera " have
like the people's party, have been full
raised to leadership and high office
have betrayed ahl deserted them as
wion as they thought that there was
profit in so doing. The populists, by
great sacrillce and cost, elected sen
ator after senator -aud they all, with
ttiM AtAfHn rf Ctannirtt Allen fl A-
serted and went over to the democrats
or republicans. Two of these senators
nr today worklnK in the republican
ranks and the rest of them are with
the democrats. Labor and populism
hare had a host of traitors.
Tho reports that have rcathfd th
United States, some tomlng via Huasta.
and soms from KucllJi and. American
resident in China, conrrninK the
1 wonderful change In tho chararter of
h cmprts of China are all Iho tlmo
toratdiM. ThLt I la dlnnt contra
Idhtbn to all tntmu of China run
I nine ba k for LiXk) year. No t mprtm
V i ( "Mt rausr nmuTxm vohslt Tom to tan," J ) I
HOME VISITORS'
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INDIANA, WESTERN OHIO, LOUISVILLE, KY
AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS.
ALSO HAWESVILLE, POWERS, LR1SPDRT ASD CWEKSB0R0, IT.
September 6ft, 13th, 20th, 27& and October 11th. Return limit; 30 days.
: DON T; MISS THIS CHANCE
To visit the old home and eee your friends of ether days.
FOB PAftTICULARS. INQUIRE
IL C TOWJi8Sl, General Psaaenger
J)r. Shoemaker's
For. the treatment of surgical diseases. Rheumatism,
Neuralgia and Nervous Troubles treated with Electro
Radiator, the only one in the state. -
1117 X Stmt Pbone
to be" looked upon before. Now the
empress goes through ! the streets in a
chair and even: bows to acquaintances.
She gives tea parties to the ladies of
the foreign legations two or three times
a week. It is said that the; empress has
chosen Mrs. Conger, wife of the Amer
ican ambassador, as her special adviser
and that Mrs. Conger has been given
free entrance tot the palace at all hours
day or night. Mrs. Conger is an en
thusiastic Christian Scientist.
The republicans made desperate ef
forts in Vermont to increase meir
vote and. it all resulted in a failure.
They- sent the 'speaker of the house,!
representatives, senators arid . other
spellbinders by the score into the state
and during the last weeK nem over zw
meetings and- did not: pou. as many
votes as they did in 1896 by 5.206,
nor as many as they did in 1900. The
cause of the increase in their majority,
was that the democrats, disgusted with
Parker, did not go to the polls, ine
lesson taught by the vote in Vermont
is that the people there are disgusted
with both old parties, for; with an tne
strenuous efforts put forth, even some
of the republicans would not vote. If
there had been a people s party ticket
in the field the figures would look very
different.
The Lincoln Star quotes a prominent
fifmncrat as saylns: "As it is. Wat
son will be the cause of the defeat of
the democratic Ucket and in my opin
ion 'the democratic state committee
doesn't care," Well, we are inclined
to think that that is about the way It
Tom W'aUun 1 spending hundred
of dollars that roroe out ui his own
pocket, and tha other candidate on the
national ticket what little ho can rako
to!:eth-r. without hon of reward or
prospect of ot!U e, and tlur are thoti
naml tt other populists, rhh In thU
world's ctHid. who havi m far not con
trlbutcd a tent toward pay'.mj tho r-
bcmt'H of the campaign. It M enough
to maUe a preacher aw. car whenever
one thlnhi of It.
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