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THE NEBRASKA, INDEPENDENT
OCTOBER 6. 1S04
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THOSE THHEK PLATFORMS.
Dr. C. F. Taylor, editor. of the Medi
cal World, Philadelphia, prints the
following letter which he received
from Dr. C. M. Spalding of Narbath,
Pa.:
"My Dear Doctor: I have been read
ing your September number and re
viewing the August number of your
splendid magazine, and find myself so
pregnant with its pleasant and profit
able recollections that I have , got to
tell you about it. I took those three
platforms and compared them plank
by plank, and find the republican and
democrat platforms so near alike that
It would take a microscope to distin
guish the difference; but the populist
platform In every plank speaks for the
interests of the people, while both of
the other platforms are ambiguous,
wordy and hypnotic as to the irue dan
gers of our republic."
There are many thousands of voters
in Pennsylvania, especially among the
professional and educated classes, who
entertain the same views. The man
agement that leaves Pennsylvania in a
condition that it is Impossible for the
citizens of that state to record their
votes for the people's party aational
ticket, has certainly slipped a cog
somewhere.
MR. WATSON'S LETTER.
Particular attention is directed to
the advertisement of the special edi-
tion of The Independent in another
-JjuniV, This special edition will ap-
pear next;w?eK-74yr13. It will
contain both letters of acceptance '
Watson and Tibbies, in addition to Mr.
Watson's best speeches in this cam
paign, with many other valuable con-
, tributions upon economic questions.
This will be a first class magazine dl-
l tion of The Independent. One state
has already ordered 40,000 copies.
Other committees and all persons de
siring copies of this edition should
forward orders at once to avoid mis
take's and delay in filling them.
HEBE'S A KICK.
The Independent, for the first time
during the campaign feels like scold
ing a bit. In Massachusetts there are
two great .economic interests and one
cf patriotism and sentiment that find
no advocate outside of populism, and
any sort of wisdom on the part of polit
ical managers would have seized hold
of them at once. The mills, water
powers and factories of Massachusetts
'are In danger of losing theii whole
value and following them the houses
T ' 1 ,,ttRU v T wu , VUresentatlon.' These departments will
the small merchants who suopii theranTW1T. ln t.of nar.,nMotX tha fil.c. ,.ma
population, on account of the loss of
trade with Canada through tlie rejec-
tion, of all reciprocity treaties. The
New England 'manufacturer ; can no
longer sell textile goods in the south,
; j I because the south has gone -into man-
ui'acturing itself 'and' is eiaplojing
itXcheap child labor and the negro. The
' Tli?ctajolitIfljt. $nft other ..... changes 'are
severely airectingTtstJsVat jthe
west New England must have? reci
procity with Canada or the value will
go put of its immense manufacturing
plants and the towns surrounding
them. . , ; ;.
The small banker in New England
is just beginning to find out that
branch banking' and other Wal street
plans means his complete ruin, and
he is ready to join a revolt' '
In no section of the country is the
feeling so intense against imperialism
as it is in Massachusetts. Yet Gerry
Brown has received very little If any
assistance- in endeavoring to get the
people' party on its feet in Massachu
setts where It., would undoubtedlj re
ceive a very large vote if tbj princi
ples of the" party were rightiv pre
sented to the people. The condition that
Massachusetts has been left in, makes
the editor of The Independent feel
like getting up and kicking everything
over in the room.
The editor of The Independent has
been cogitating over an editorial for
more than two years, and has never
yet gut the subject cleany enough de
fined in his own mind to attempt to
write upon It. Some time in the fu
ture he may feel able to elu:.dute li
lt concerns the subjects of savmj, anl
waM The thing was brought to mind
by mm figures recently imbibed
about the St. Louis fair. It is h!
that not bus than $110,000,000 has
been expanded on that fair ar.C yrotV
ably several millions more. At the
flrKt glaneo that seems grra'fi than
tho wjute of a cotton wood tree which
not only produces need enough to
propagate the spodrs, but ru;ti to
sed half a stats each jiar. Hut U
H absolutely wat after all?
The various ways that the dhtiluu.
Hon of Immonse wealth has jn dis-pos-d
of at the death of the oh nr dur
ing the laM few years has uier ti
universally satisfactory. Whether it
has been given to educational or other
public ' institutions or bestowea upon
the relatives, has not met geneiai ap
proval. At last there has been a dis
tribution of an immense estatt which
seems to meet with the approbation
of all and has brought . great, joy to
the hearts of many honest, hard-working
people. Recently Bejamin Matlack
Everhart of West Chester. Maw., died,
and when his will was probaU-d it was
found that he had divided more than
one half of his great fortunj among
the people of his town. After pro
viding for his children in a gcneious
way, he released mortgages of men of
small business, gave houses and lots
to widows and hard working men rais
ing families, added to the capital of
others struggling to establish a busi
ness, and departed into the Lie be
yond, leaving behind a memoiy that
will be cherished by thousands, and
a name that will be honored for gen
erations to come.
Governor Wright has been writing
letters (for publication) to the 'pi evi
dent telling him that any discussion of
the principles of the declaration of
independence in this country must be
stopped, as it has a tendency to make
the Filipinos rebellious. Judge Brew
er did not obey the warning for at the
St Louis fair the other day in a sceech
he said: "You can see here twenty
acres of Filipino life but not one
square rod of the constitution." The
applause with which that was 'eceived
KabAhlv' induced him to add: "The
purchase wfclcn ift-yr-jexposltlon
commemorates was n4 thereafilpo
conquest and came not at the end of
war. Not a gun was fired or a life
lost. A lawyer, not a soldier, made
the transfer. The glory of that trans
fer Is one of the laurels, of our pio
fession." The New York World announces
that "David B. Hill and W. J. Bryan
will both stump Indiana for Parker.
Hill will make thirty speeches and
Bryan fifteen."
. The Direct Legislation Record which
has for years been so ably edited by
Eltweed Pomeroy of East Orange, N.
J., has been s merged with . Wetinore's
Weekly,' and ,its Influence thei eby
largely extended with, that larger field.
Mr, Pomeroy will continue to edit that
department in .Wetmore's Weekly.
Robert Tyson of Toronto, Canada, will
also edit a department In Wetnioie's
Weekly devoted to Proportional Kep
appear in that periodical the Prst issue
of each month, making the record of
these two important reforms monthly
Instead of quarterly as heretofore. The
direct legislation movement Is so pure
ly a democratic movement, depending
on the always unpaid efforts of v idely
separated earnest men and women,
that it needs a center of. information.
This Is well accomplished by this
"jncrger. - Those interested will! do
well to coixtoijjJi J4r,.Pomeroy
or Mr. Tyson. T "-1
The people of Boone county have a
chance to elect to the legislature a
splendid man in the person of L. E.
Ilallstead. He has been a resident and
active business man in that county for
many years. He is an independent-
spirited' man and thoroughly rcl:.ie
in every way. He will make a worthy
representative.
He Is certainly devoid of ail teuse
of humor who can not see whole' gobs
of it in this campaign. The two old
parties are so nearly alike that were it
not for the" ginger that Watson and
Tibbies, reinforced by their following,
have put Into, this campaign, few
would know that there is a campaign
in progress. But the joke of the cam
paign so far developed 1b the leading
editorial' in The Commoner foi this
week.- It is entitled "Tho Wonders of
the West." And this In the uildt of
an exciting campaign, in the baling
democratic weekly, edited by the an
dldate of democracy In tho previous
two campaigns, who says he Is sup
porting Parker In this campaign. Tru
ly t hit la one of "The Wonders of the
West."
A great many assertions arc made
concerning what was the logical thing
for tho Kansas City democrats to Co at
the closn of the St. Ixmis coiwetitlun.
Thd "logical" thing for them to have
done, If the had not tho founo to
repudiate the surrender, as to nay:
"Now that wo have given up o ir prin
cipled, lt us nominate Roosevelt and
make his election unanimous.'
Many republicans, her tho 6ml cf
somf reform has pressed uiot them,
havf been In the habit of say tit:
"We'll Ret U through the reiMb!ian
party." But Roosevelt has declared
that, the policy of the. party is fixed,
there is to be no change, no reform.
He says In his letter of acceptance:
"We intend in the future to carrj on
the government in the same way that
we have carried it on in the past"
That is only another form of Judge
Parker's proclamation that things are
"irrevocably" fixed and . ordained tor
all time to come. The part r.ry of
both Parker and Roosevelt is the
same. One is "irrevocable" and the
other is "stand pat."
The Japanese continue to 'astonish
the world with their genius for o;gan
ization in which never a detail is neg
lected. The correspondents assert that
the day of the first freeze in Man
churia, the whole army was supplied
with woolen clothing and the khaki
uniforms were sent to the rear. Never
a battery yet has ceased firing oi an
infantry been forced to retreat be
cause of exhaustion- of ammunition.
The people of this state have a
choice for governor between a man
who says that he rides on raiiioad
passes and one who will not accept a
pass and pays his own expenses. Ev
ery mullet head will vote for the man
who rides on a pass and then pay his
governor's fare himself in higher pas
senger and freight rates. After he
has cast his ballot, he will go home
and boast to his wife that he "voted
'er straight." But when his wife asks
him for an easy- chair or to send one
of the oldest children to the high
school he will declare that ho is too
pooGti. can't afford it. Tlut is be
cause he wants ti-prp3i?,te hl3 own
species. If the boy went to the ri.gh
school, he would probably not turn out
a mullet head,
The republican idea of the wty to
curtail the postal expenses was to
stop the circulation of as man coun
try weeklies as possible and Madden
and Loud tried their hands at that
sort of economy. The populist idea
is to cut down the exorbitant charges
of . the railways. Which plau is the
most statesmanlike?
Some populist and some democratic
papers in this state refuse.,to put up
the national ticket at the head ct their
columns and display only, the fctate
ticket under the head of "f ueion.
Both sets of them are cowards, "if y&u
have no politics don't put up any ticket
at all. If you are for Farker put up
his name. If you are for.Wacson put
up .his name.
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, died
at his home in Worcester, September
30. He had been confined to Ins bed
for several weeks. Senator Iloar was
of the old style of statesmen, highly
cultured, of unimpeachable honor and
great ability. Of all the speeches that
he, has made none will probably live
m history except those dissenting from
the policies of his own party. There
ar6 passages in his speeches against
imperialism that will rank for all time
to conieHil'S hjSrjitojx Webster.
The republican spellbinders are still
going up and down the land telling the
people that "the foreigner pays the
tax." In France, although tbey have
a high tariff there, they don't seem to
believe it. There is a great shortage
in wheat in France and the tarift on
wheat Is 3G cents a bushel. The gov
ernment has removed the tariff on
wheat so that the people may have
cheap bread, which -is evidence that
the French government does not be
lieve that the farmer in Nebraska who
sends the wheat to France "rays the
tax," but the French "consumer pays
it all."
The eastern democratic leaders are
getting excited over the rush to Wat
son, but that only makes thm hate
Hrynn worse than ever. Some of them
say that while Bryan Is making
speeches for Parker, "he only damns
Parker with faint praise." wnilf oth
ers say that "In his speeches he almost
faints with damned praise."
Tho London Dally News calls at
tention to tbe danger that lurks in the
establishment of universities umlti the
patronage of the trust magnate of
America. Tim greatest danger It
thinks lies in the Influence, tt 1M Lav
un other Institutions of Jearninir, which
in a large mi'iuure will 1ok ll.ilr In
tellectual freedom fishing for fcitnllar
donations. It adds: "Tho growing
control of the American millionaire
over higher education In Amcnm a
real as It Is subtle, and It win be Imi
tated In Knglsml If w Subject onr
educational forms to the same pres.
fturr," Ther la no greater threat to
fre government than this ra-'-Mnr
over of th educational Jnstittu.'oni
of this country to the control and pat
ronage of the trust magnates. Against
that populism has always protested.
FOLLOW NEW TOSK'f EXAMPLE.
The following telegram tells tho
story of the activity of New or&
populists in this campaign:
NEW "YORK. Oct. 5 1904.
The Independent,
Lincoln, Neb.
Will take forty thousand copies
special edition Independent.
HENRY M. MCDONALD.
The Scotts Bluff Republican thor
oughly believes in the old adae: "The
whole hog or nothing." It says, "the
revenue law is one of the best laws
passed by the people of late." H that
sort of obedience to party w as ever
excelled, when was it?
Speaker Cannon says the republi
can party is against reclproc'ty with
Canada. Everybody knew that before
he said it It is against reciprocity
with any nation. It is for a tariff
that will protect every trust and com
bine and which will enable ti?.e trusts
to charge American citizens just twice
as much for goods as it sells the same
goods to foreigners, and every mallet
head in the land is willing to pay the
extra price, if he is only allowed to
vote a ticket labelled "republican."
The steel trust graft consists of
tariff and monopoly. In a recent legal
investigation a letter was introduced
written by Schwab to Frlck, in which
Schwab said: "We can make steel
rails at $12 a ton leaving a nice mar
gin for profit". The tariff is $7.80 per
tonY TIhs njacagers add that $7.80 to
their "nice profit'and-x;f6Ijt'.i-to '
their tariff graft. Then they ciap on"
$8.20, credit that to the monopoly and
sell their rails for $28 per ton. Vote
'er straight.
It is doubtful whether all the monu
mental thieves are among the trust
managers and bankers. The political
managers are at least a close second.
The democrats stole the populist plat
form and all the populist senators but
one. The republicans stole our policy
of creating more money, set the mlnt3
to coining silver and kept them at it
night and day for three years, besides
putting out a large quantity of tank
paper money. That amount cf polit
ical thieving was never equalled in the
same lengthjrt timebefore.
. Of all the parts of speech the prepo-
sitions give the most trouble to a -writer.
There is no getting along with
them In any sort of a satisfactory way
We are glad to see that the London
Saturday Review has "pitched into
them" in a way that has aroused the
whole United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and Ireland. The best thing to do
"with" them or "to" them (which is
right?) is to pile them in as they
happen to turn up... The Saturday Re
view registers a vigorous protest
against "averse to," and declares we
ought to write "averse from." It has
the same objection against a good
wr TPore of prepositions. "Com-
pared to ' it tyi. --la.ueaTaDie.
mere is 110 use ixying iu gei. mis aw
ful English language into a ctate of
order.
The spellbinders says that Iowa will
roll up 100,000 republican majority.
The dispatches from there say that the
elevator trust has finally bec-n com
pleted and that no farmer or oulsfde
grain man can interfere with it. And
they are all going to vole 'er straight.
In 1S9G the democrats stole the pop
ulist platform and ln 1904 they stole
the republican platform. As they will
have to return the stolen goods and
pay the costs of the suit, perhaps they
will next time try to produce a plat
form of their own.
Twice lately, tho younjj ladv chosen
to break tbe bottle of wine on the ship
as it started down tho ways, has failed,
and it had to be broken bv n ine nnA
else. A quick wlttcd sailor saved the
flay at the launching or the Connecti
cut, for whirl) ho has been (on.niondcj
by tho navy department. When a
great government like that if the Unit
ed Sfats offlilally sanctions a
superstition. It makes one Womlcr If
we aro very rar advanced biui tho
primitive man after all.
The dHpntehes Kay that Purkf his
been completely abandoned hw t.
democrats of Michigan. Th?- never
mention his narao In tho ion itv rnn.
vcntlons or In the newspapers. The
llnhtnlnfc thnt rarrled Parker's rt.
brated teler-ram k rocked th Mir-hirm
democrats out of tho fight. No sort
or treat m. nt has iwen able to rcslcrt
tbm to ronsdousnrsa.