SEPTEMBER 29, 1904
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
PAGE 9.
Every man who knows him will testify
to that fact. Berge does not ride on
railroad passes and Mickey does.
Berge declares that if he is elected
he will use all the influence .of the
governor's office to make the railroads
pay their just part of the taxes. If
you are any sort of, a man at all you
will vote for Berge
THROWING VOTES AWAY
"Tlnn't thrnw vrmr vntft awav.' is the
new catch phrase of plutocracy. "One
of two candidates, Roosevelt or mark
er will certainly be elected," they say,
"and if you vote for any other candi
date, you throw your vote away." Such
an argument is directed to the man
who . never thinks, for if stated seri
ously to a man who does think, it
would be met , by a burst of denunciation.-
in Viq firot iilaro it resumes that
iU UlUb .Miv, v
the man addressed has no principles
whatever, that he is only actuated by
a motive to be on the winning, side
and cast his vote with that party that
ha3 the best chance of winning, even
if winning means the destruction of
everything he holds to be honest, up
'right and for the good of his country.
It comes at a man with the. presump
tion that he is willing to cast his vote
for a system that he believes would
result in suffering, toil and baiaships
for the many, if only when the votes
are" counted he finds that his vote was
among the unknown millions wno vot
ed for the winning side. It assumes
that the voter so addressed has no de
sire to better his own condition, ' or
leave a country for his children where
they may enjoy peace and comlcrt
it . - ' t ' i. ii ju;n
jwiugner aspirauuu wujie un una
earth, no gre&tr; legacy to leave the
world than to" have it r carded oi him
that he was always with the mujcr'.'-y,
though that majority - made slaves of
him and his, and substituted a plutoc-.
racy fof" the free republic that the sac
rifice and blood of his 'ancestors left
to him. There is nothing that can be
said to an honest man that. would so
enrage him as such a proposition The
man who makes such an argjment is
as base low and. vile as a human .can
get.'".-. V--- - " ' j ' '"" '
The honest man wants" to say to his
children when - he comes . to pull the
green robe of mother earth. over him
and . sleep the sleep that ' knows . no
waking here below. "I never cast
my vote or gave my influence Icr a
IJ i. W . J . W L JI
policy i ueneveu was wrong. i svoou
olwono .avan it I hsd in atartH Wnra
-for what f believed was right., though
the way seemed broad and streh with
flowers and the ; multitudes - walked
row way, though sometimes there were
few who fo.und it." ;
That is , the kind of a record that
an honest man would want to make.
He would . not want it recorded on his
crowd, he never had any principles of
. - . f ii.r
ms owu, ue was bo hi ram. oi imow
ing - his vote away," he would v never
stand up and be counted among" taose
who protested against wrong. He nev
er asked if a thing was right or uicng.
All he .wanted to know was whether
1 I 1 I . . T .
li JiU.2 LU UG WILLI LI1K Willi. 1 II ST
&iuTornot. ' . . . " .
Whenever. 7 r.:ojj comes to you with
that catch phiascabolTt tiimrjas; your
vote away,, that is the sort of a trea-:
ture he takes you to be. If you are a
"man" you will resent it. If he is
of your size and you knock him down
for so grossly insulting you, trie re
cording angel will look the other way
while the job is being done, for no
greater insult could.be offered jou.
it may not be right to knock a man
down who calls you a liar or a thief,
but in the case where a man tells you
that you are willing to turn traitor
to your country, your wife a.ul your
children, just lor the sake of "win
ning' the case is different.
In whatever state you live go tc the
pulia and can your vote for the peo
ples party doctoral ticket if you be
lieve tho platform xreprescnts your
ptlnciplex. Do it if you are the only
man in your county. Thou no hme
and have your little daughter ulnr, the
dd .Sunday school hymn, 'T'ra to
stand alone." If you do, you wil he
proud of the act an Ions as you ho.
VINDICATED
Th position taken by the filler of
Tho Independent In regard to the fart
that populist In this KUIo had
refused to vote for the last few jrx
ha been fully vindicated ly the vrk
of on of th in-t cartful and jt ho
oily Hlaihtlel an in this it wny olhrr
Mat. For ome Weeki tiit cent'c
man I141 o t n Invcuh-stln; the .vt'oet
ae I carefully romparim? the ofl,. ial
election return and the re ult if tai
work ahovn that no topu!UrM hat
foil over to tho republican, tint thjr
r all hern and Are mpulist iiill
The rrpuhlli an vote In tl.N n'at hsi
Hv tnen as d even In riprilun to
the increase of population and in many
parts i of, the state has actually de
creased. In the fight that occulted before the
state convention was held .the .editor
of The Independent constantly asserted
that- there were 30,000 populists in this
state who had refused to vote and
that there could be no prospect of car
rying the state unless such a couise
was pursued as would get the populists
to turn out and vote. Such state
ments when made to the wise politi
cians, were usually met with a sarcas
tic remark or a flat contradiction. The
work of this statistician the totals
of part of which are printed in this
issue is a complete vindication cf the
course1 pursued by The Independent.
We are glad to announce without
fear of further contradiction that there
are as many populists in the siatt to
day as there were in 1892 or 1836.
They can never be induced, cajoled or
deceived into voting for any Wall
street gang. The republicans can nev
er get them. They stand today as
they have ever stood, ready and will
ing to fight the money power, the rail
roads and the concentration of wealth.
They can not be bribed or forced into
supporting any man who allies himself
with any Wall street machine under
any name.
'It would be a wise move if "the vise
ones" would make some effort to get
these 30,000 populists to vote.
tVATTKUSON SNUUBED
Henry Watterson'got a dose of Wall
street that he did not -at all relish.
He says-that he and Clark Howch of
the Atlanta Constitution 'wtre not
treated with even ordinary couriesy by
the democratic gold standard papcis of
New York at the recent meeting oi the
editors in that city. . Those 'papers re
fused Is print the speeches of W'aticr
son and Jloweur Wajfterson has been
cuddling up to Wall streeri- s.e eral
years, doing all the dirty work in int;
south for plutocracy that was demand
ed of him and now he finds that he
is going to' the same fate that Bene
dict Arnold did. After enumerating
air the discourtesies that weip heaped
upon him,' he concludes that "these
things make us feel in the west and
south particularly in the south that
we are blacklisted in New YorK, that
there is some sectional ban arainst us,
that, personally, politically and profes
slonalljv we "bear the bar sinister even
in the house of our newspaper kind
red." " ;.'.'
We are sorry for Henry because he
takes the matter so. much; to heart. lie
ought to do as the editor of The In
dependent does when he goes ticvu to
Wall street. : He snaps his finger at
the whole gang, tells them that they
are the worst thieves of all God's ages,
and then on the side gives them a lit
tle instruction in the science of bank
ing, or how to keep order, and points
out to them the fate that is intore
for them. They always listen wiln the
greatest interest, ' after ; which the
bankers generally ask for a further
conversation or offer to take hixn out
automobile riding. He has found out
that neither the lords or dukes of Eng
land, or the pirates of Wall street have
any respect for a sycophant. If a man
wants to be treated" with res;wct in
Wall street, instead of being obspii
OJ13. he must make it plain that be is
ready ' Ssht for, his money a;'d his
opinions. " '''rr.., r .
OOD'a ASSISTANTS
It i3 doubtful if man eer achieved
anything that nature unassisted would
not have accomplished as the cycles of
lime rolled on. Man simply hastens
the processes of evolution, he can not
alter them in the least. If it were
otheiwi.se, chaos would result. Emer
son veil says: "There is a power in
nature arid ove? the heart of every
man, so that none of us may wrong
tho universe.'
Some times man'a interference with
nature vvorl.a the most disastrous con
sequences .for a time, hut finally that
power which dominate alt things,
'tehta tho wron;?. There ur many tit
Hlanoes of man's Interference with na
ture to his own Injury. Among them
the introduction of tho English rutddtd
Into Australia, the English, sparrow
into thl country and the n-ddliiiK
moth Into ManMuf husetts, Sloo. ly but
liiirely thh h bilrii; righted. When
man work along the linei of natural
evolution, he? may bo culled iU.c. us
itaist. In California there live a man ly
the namo of I an her Iturhank. Ihh
man hai Riven to th world, am.mi;
other thlr-r. a plnnt !ih tl.o Raver
of tint p.atttett pear; f- varieties of
Mp!"4 all prodiiM-.l on fn tree; paint
ed IntUHneral le Ii!!e n Imh uu -aM
eo!.rt; reivove l tlu rm fiom llsm rat tl
fantlly; put new tint Into th dah
lia and n tld r of petah to th,ir
tih.RHoii h ma lo dale ni larve a-t il,f
palm of the baud; j reduced MinH lewi
Patronize the Horse -Show
and thus assist in advertising Omaha,
for its success will be heralded by the
press everywhere, and don't forgel;
that the . . .
BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
COMPANY '
OF OMAIIA, NEBRASKA
is continually advertising Omaha and
the west by means of its scores of
agents in no less than fifteen states and
territories where it tausacts business.
Reliable agents and capable men
are always in demand by this pro
gressive company. 4
B. H. ROBISON, President
plum; crossed thfc ?1 um and apricot; I
created the paper-shelled wur't,; andj
produced . that wonder of the 4'nht
world, the white blackberry. His lat
est achievement, however, is. to change
the hue of the California poppy from
a bright orange color , to a scarlet red.
Without taking from or adding a leaf
to its foliage, without changing Its
petals either in size or number, and
without reshaping a pistil or remold
ing a stamen, has this complete change
of color been wrought.
Others have produced the needless
orange atrid ' the seedless aqd cureless
apple. All this is perhaps only the
hastening of evolution which the ages
would have-accomplished without the
assistance of man. It would alo ap
pear' that wherever man interferes with
nature and the result is a blessing to
man, the change becomes peanaucnt,
where it is hurtful it disappears.
STARVING CHILDREN .
Dr. William Maxwell, superintendent
of the public schools of New )or.-. ofy,
says: "There are hundreds of thou
sands of children in our school;,- who
can not learn because they aie always
hungry." Why are. these chhdrtu al
ways hungry? Because the Wall j'rect
government of that . city makes their
parents pay a daily tribute to Roche-
feller, Belmont and others, , in exces
sive charges for gas, coal, elrctnc.iy,
street car fares and in a thousand
other, ways by which these privileged
fe"wfe;.7r- millions and the children
go hungry. Tn 'S'3ftiigad.Mit,wiU nev
er support any. man, not""vifcj&Jf,4ie
were clothed in the shining iobe o
God's angels, as long' as ho votes for
and advocates the election of any of
the men who starve the children that
they may gather millions.
strung all along in a line on each sida
of the way. Roosevelt is not a cow-
ui-!. snd when he submits to such extra
ordinary Amnions as that, he must
be convinced that '&E.vjsf'r on the,
verge of breaking out atany, igivijl
What does all this portend?
TUB POPULIST PLAN
The pppulist plan is that tho very
poor, that the men and wonrcn who
toil ceaselessly ami can only obtain
enough to sustain themselves atd their
families, should pay no taxes, That
was .the idea of all the great then of
the earlier times. . They, therefore, in
nearely all the states, exempted from
taxation a certain amount of house-:
Lhold goods, a cow, 'a team, the tools
of a trade, etc. In those days we had
men in charge of the government who
had hearts as welf as brains. ,vXow the
guvci iniituL taa . yaaseu uver liilJ, ine
hands of the sons of Wall street, and
the whole burden of taxes is taken
fro'm the rich and placed upon the
poor. A tariff tax Is a tax upon con--sumption.
' Yon pay the tax 4n the in
crease put upon the price of everything
that you buy,' To remedy this evil, the
populists proposed an income tax,
forced it through congress, and a court,
in the interest of the rich, pronounced
it unconstitutional,, although the same
court for eighty- y.ears, had repeatedly
dfi'lnr.-Jf it crrvrwl cnnnH low
WHAT IOK IT POUTi;Ml?
. There vvaa never such a sta t; of af
fairs Known In this country us exitts
In our ureat citlfs tolay. Tho lead
en f The Ind'p ndcnt wore int'ormrd
of the extraordinary pi'Haulien.i utken
by the New York polite to g'.t the
president turns the eity when ho re
turned to Oyster liay from VVaMiinu
ton. When h started l-ak to Wash.
Inston. the New York pollee wauhl not
Kiiatanten hla af pnnao through the
city an i he wsm transferred fr ;u Oys
ter Hay to Jersey City In a Kovernment
rivrnue cutter. Ten dteuvH unr
ronnded Mm on hi way frt-ni tils
hous.) to the water'n fd; (to nay hi
with him while u the and th
other haslem-d t,y rail lo J. rs y ((ty
to Rtiard th landing In Hlvatue,
Ihtre, Ci(ie d.t ttHeH wrr rtlntoiitd
l y a whoU I iiit.tli' n of J, t i j tlhe,
The piiiM. nt wni not allowed ( walk
from the ! r to tho j . i.tl eara
dUtarue t.f h t tfmri mo - hut
a put in a arriHi Miih , dte
tivo tm tl.ft with th ilrmr an I
inoro In front, on mh oti and
tehind. lUwidi it'that I'll. t,. ?i n re
OUH CORRESPONDENTS : ,
It becomes more difficult every day
for the editor to choose between the
Xp0ut!rjii3 of really valuable arti
cles to inMfpndent. The desk is
slacked high with tXi4iijf.ns that
indicate In the writers an ihiiT?tsti,
the political f-ituatlon of the day that
would put to shame the Intellect cf tho
average dairy newspaper editor, Edg
ing from tho specimens of pol.ticai jot
emanating from those sourccj, livery
one of lhe:;o contributions la vcrthy
of ppace in every paper, and Kome of
them of a higher order than la often
seen in the magazine. It Is a bcuiio
of great embai raiment to The In
dependent that upac can nut te found
for all of them. However, v,e have
not entirely despaired. It tmj Ih that
these paper will yet appear before tho
campaign Is over. Those; that do not.
Land that are of a character that can
be used t any tine, will app ae from
time to Urn oh ore a hm wld allow.
Hiring thM political eampaUn tho
pieMiro upon the column of Th In
dependent N so Kreat that much uews
of surpasviii! intend to thlnklus peo
ple ui'iM be s,iji'rei d, In that ai
h uh ft all th ii" that I creatliu
mh mi upheaval In iutilii riffles.
The ih uthu ro i reaflni: a new l.cav
en and a mw arti. I'.wn taat on.
rvatlve pullualion. fH- Journal of
I t hv h':, iry, til di l ,"UX rteetrtv.
theiuhtry, f;tj!; "Mind tondrutn th
tcdy.
