OCTOBER 6. 190-1
fHE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
FACE 9.
trust made a demand that they, by a
new construction of the law, should
be made to pay a heavy tariff. It
was done, for the officers of the gov-
ernnient have learned Dy ions- ex
perience that what a trust wants it
must have. The shoe manufacturers
and other trades that use shep skins
raised a big howl. They dida't be
lieve that the foreigner paid the tax.
Riit. so far. the new interpretation
stands, for the trusts must always
thev ask for. The meat
trust will make a few millions more
this year on account of this tarift on
pickled sheep skins.
The tobacco trust had a litte scheme.
It wanted a very conspicuous label in
different color from the ordinary rev
enue stamp put on every imported box
of cigars. It gathered in all the to
bacco plantations in Cuba before the
treaty was ratified, the senate putting
off the ratification until the trust had
things fixed, so as to absolutely control
the tobacco industry in that island.
The American manufacturers went to
the custom house authorities and put
up the argument that their infant in
dustry ought to be protected and said
that if that revenue stamp was of
the same color as the domestic stamp,
and put on the bottom of the box
instead of the top, the American to
bacco grower and manufacturer would
be benefited. That was done Then
the trust descended on Washington in
its might and this time Teddy was able
to make a 'compromise. He ordered
the stamp on imported goods to be
of a different color, but it should be
put on the bottom of the box. The
trust is not satisfied and it will not
be long until that stamp will be back
on the top of the box.
"IT MtOET BAVI BUElf.
Those who have apologized for Mr.
Bryan's support of Parker have re
peatedly said 'that had he bolted the
St. Louis convention be would have
" stood alone. That is a debata ble ques
tion. So faras the leaders of his par
ty are concerned he might have blood
alone or nearly so. But so fir as the
great' body of his party are concerned,
the campaign is proving erary day
that he would have rallied about his
standard an army of reformers that
would have proved a terror to plutoc
racy. The evidence of this fact is the
tremendous following that even the
Watson and Tibbies ticket hns gath
ered. What that following mignc have
been with Bryan's assistance who can
tell? The people's party itself wculd
have been glad to welcome Bryan and
his tremendous following. It would
have thereby organized a movement of
tremendous force, and though it might
not have been successful this year, its
momentum would have proved so great
as to sweep all before it in IJOS.
Even on the "low ground of expedi
ency," that Mr. Bryan so frequently
mentioned, the advantage to him would
have been great It Is a safe guess to
say that the subscription list to The
Commoner would have doubled. Every
body would have been anxious to read
what he had to say. People who never
did and do not now read il, would
iiav&jftiUibreathlessly for every is
sue, iu - zmi mTifu1
Nebraska would nave been swept clean
by the Watson and Tibbies ticket, and
no man in the state under tuosc cir
cumstances could have stepped before
Mr. Bryan in achieving the toga or the
United States senatorship. His power
and influence would have inci eased a
hundredfold. His old following would
have .seen new cause for their enthus
lastlc support" of him, and those who
formerly scoffed (by such a demon
Btration of loyalty to principu above
party on his part), would have been
shamed into silence.
As It is his old following uavo lost
heart, and he has gained no recruits
from the other side. The .mmcuse
crowds that formerly flocked to hear
him are this year conspicuous by their
absence. His splendid eloquence in
former campaigns, when bo pleaded
for justice and appealed to the moral
nature of his hearers, Is now chilled
with the blight of Parkeritls. Ills elo
quent tongue is paralyzed with Clcve
landism, and his magnetic control of
the multitudes has disappeaicd. In
the fare of thefe facta he stands be
fore the country today In the most em
barrassing position of any man In pub
lic life.
No one who knows Mr. Br ran will
ever say that he has either beea bribed
by or that he has compromised jH any
way with plutocracy, There U Just one
return why he utanda where he doe
today. That Is that he istin Ik pes to
jieoure control of tho democratic party
and swing It aealn Into the path of
reform, lie will fall utterly Bhould
Parker he tIi ted what Lop may Bry
an and hi-- friend have fur euntrol of
that organization! They tipudi.
ate him absolutely. They know that
he is honest and incorruptible and
that is net the kind of a man they
want. If Parker should be defeated
the blame will resf'upon Bryan. If
Parker is successful ' Bryan wilt get
nothing, not even a chance to "re
organize" his party. If Parker is de
feated Bryan will be cursed wih it.
There are many things in this cam
paign that indicate much the same
condition of things . that existed in
1892. In that year there was compara
tively a good degree of prosperity. No
body doubted Harrisons re-election.
Everything went on smoothly, and
when the votes were counted weli,
Harrison was swept off the political
map.
Now there was a reason for all of
this. The protective tariff nonsense
had been carried to the point where
it was about to precipitate a condition
of depression and hard imes Thoae
wno were in ravor of the protective
tariff graft, saw what was coming.
They knew that if their graft was to
continue much longer they must
change their tactics. So they made
a very adroit feint that took the peo
ple off their feet. It was to allow
Cleveland to be elected in fart to con
tribute to his election and then when
the hard times should come, they could
say to the people "We told you so,"
and thereby easily secure a re-euact-ment
of tariff grafting. Everybody of
intelligence" knows that the panic of
1893 was not caused by "fre- ti ade"
nor even by a reduction of the taiiff,
because the McKInley bill of 1S9J was
then in effect, and was not even In
terfered with until the panic "was
about over. That is to say that dur
ing nearly the entire time of the panic
the McKInley law was in lull swing.
iio'fr is-i'vitA-ractlV vWiiat Is
threatening in thlscampalga.iai
ridiculous tariff policy of the republi
can party has been in operallor ; suf
ficiently long. It is reaching the point
where it is about to prove the absurd
economic principles upon which it is
based. Its beneficiaries know this, and
they also now that if the republican
party should at that time be in control
of the government, they will not , then
be able to say "I told you so. '...They
know that their tariff policy ' will be
held : responsible. So the chances, are
that those in control, being sure that
Parker is right for them on the money
question (so that they need not tear
on that score) and that there can be
no interference with the taj.'ff . "will
probably allow his election in or aei to
again load upon the back of this poor
democratic donkey the blame of; hard
times on account of the treated ed Vfree
trade." They will then secure a new
lease on the tariff graft. And the poor
donkey seems disposed to trot along
and bite atsthe bait. The result will
be that it will bear the blame of the
catastrophe of. hard times that ae
bound to come, and then the republi
cans will again sweep the cout4jy in
order to "restore properity . and the
tariff" as was the case in 1891 Under
those circumstances we may again see
the campaign of 1896 fought 0Tcr
again with , the same humiln'.ing' de
feat of Mr. Bryan. When that time
coraes he will discover the mlsLake
the nbbiest of.the race to be crushed
with conditions that make it impossi
ble to escape "heart-breaking" toil
during. any portion of their lives, while
another portion of the race become de
generates because they never work at
-all. i-. -
; THAT GREAT SCOUNDREL.
The greater the scoundrel the more
the republican dailies will press him
upon the people .as a statesman, a
patriot and a philanthropist. No
greater scoundrel ever held a stat in
the United States senate than Aldrich
of Rhode Island. He Is as much a
boss of the United States senate as
Murphy is of Tammany. Not a word
is ever allowed to appear in any of
the great papers truly descriptive of
him, but he Is always depicted as a
statesman. The people of Rhode Is
land assembled in a convention the
other day and presented in i resolu
tion the following photograph of him:
"This is senatorial year and the
senior senator awakes to the lact that
there is a state of Rhode Island, drops
his duty as 'general manager of the
United States' for, a time and comes
back to this state in order to insure
his re-election to the senate and to be
able more strongly to fasten the hold
of the trusts upon the peopl-a of ihis
country. Every known corrupt and
coercive agency is to be set to work
for his return and it is .'the impera
tive duty of every right-minded citi
zen in this state by his vote and by
his Influence to prevent it. His tol
erance of the existence of ths present
conditions which, If he cared anything
for the state, it were easily possible
for him to change, proves that the best
interests or tne state will nor be sub
served, by. Ms re-election, He has sim
ply, used his. power as a senator of the
UfiitM '" States ? andia4sts;:
the republican , party in this state for
the enactment of laws in favor of the
quasi-public, corporations for his own
emolument and aggrandizement."
rwnaftMirtsgfrAiid eat. ud on" the
word, "Of all sad"w6rds6r ' tJuk'UfcJT
pen, the saddest are these, 'Tt bight
have been.' " Q.
HEART-BREAKING TO 1 1,.
It is strange how a plutocratic en
vironment win Diina the eyes, distort
the soul and destroy the reason of th
well-educated and the cultured. Re
cently there appeared In a review an
article deploring the sad condition of
college educated women who married
poor men and had to wash and sew
and do housework. The Springfield
Republican in commenting on ihe arti
cle says:
"In England the burden Is simply
shifted. The poor clergyman's wife
lives dismally and pays sUr ration
wages to the servants demanded by
standards of gentility. The Ameiican
woman has a better house and better
food and pays for them by a heart
breaking toll that destroys wt&lity
and often ruins health. Boll are the
victims of false social standarcs."
Is there nothing false and wrong
about this condition besides "social
standards?" Is It not rathrr false
theories of government Tacre Is
enough wealth in this land and Eng
land tHi, to give comfort, fra-dom
and happiness, to every woturi' with
out a necessity of driving : . to a
toll "that doHtroya vitality nni ruins
health."
Thewe women are not vh-tin.K of bo.
tnl rdandard but of government.
which, through the granting of spe
cial privilege enables a fey lu ac
cumulate all th prwvt .J i ot" . .'ura-
tl.iii, jtdeu.e And luKMiiiitn. ..n mtr
DEMOCRATIC ASSISTANTS.
' If it had not been for the effective
assistance given at critical moments
to the , democratic party by, the re
publican party, . the democratic party
would long since have been 'numbered
among the .things of the dead past. Tit
was such assistance that enabled Grq
ver Cleveland to secure the presidency.
The ; republicans - rendered the . same
sort of aid to the democrats, that gold
democrats did to the republicans and
the parties engaged in it received the
same rewards. . These republicans were
known as "mugwumps." ; ji s . v
"When i Grover Cleveland reached the
white house, he received the most ac
tice assistance from, every, leading re
publican United States senator and
scores of the republicans in the house.
But the most vital assistance the re
publicans have ever rendered the dem
ocrats has . been given within the last
year or two,' through the republican
daily press.: Over a year ago, the re
publican dailies began to give more
space to the interest of the democratic
party than it did to its own organiza
tion. -The democratic candidate for
the presidency, as every . one . knows
who reads the daily papers, wd3 given
HKftreflFHWitteft.Qg. and more eulogies
wore nrlntoH mnwrnini iT, T.tff'.. wt .1
peared in the support of the republican
candidate. For weeks at a time, Par
ker was constantly kept befora the
people through eulogistic artolts and
Roosevelt was hardly mentioned That
sort of assistance is continuad even
uow in the middle of the campaign and
Parker Is given as much prominence in
the republican papers as Roorevelt.
About a year ago there was a ne
cessity on the part of the demociatlc
party to develop some sort of a lead
er. The orders from Wall street were
that this time it must have both can
didates and that meant the reuuucla
tion of the leadership of Bryan. Gor
man was chosen as the leader of this
reorganized democracy. Immediately
the republican press began to tell what
a great man Gorman was. Gorman
was the genuine statesman, the astute
political manager, the heroic, the gal
lant, the wise man. He wa.i to get
the fragments of the democratic party
together and direct them as a general
did an army. For months the repub
lican dallies kept Gorman heron the
people. The republicans did their best
to build up a leadership for the reor
ganised democracy. They gave all the
assistance to the democratic part that
wm In their power.
Here Is another funny thlnj. Dur
ing ail that time the republicans hxvc
teen denouncing the populism as dem
ocratic RHMiMant. while they have
been the one that have been In the
"assistant" buxinemi. The fart I lh
republican and democratic p.irtW-a ire
a 4.UnU ta tnU othrt. mi l like a I
AK-SAR-BEN.
The symbolic word and the meaning
of it brings forth our tenderest and at
fllA QQmA tlmA vrtt- a r t r.nT.HMi
-- v uvivv MqC " vuv V IVVllUQKIf
The enterprise, daring and dash that
are behind the name applies with equal
fnroo tn f ho
Bankers Reserve Life Company
of Omaha, a financial enterprise which
has grown from infancy to a young
giant during the period that Ak-Sar-Ben
has made famous this fair city and
state. The able, aggressive managers'
of the company with pride remind Ne
braskans that the present business of
the company amounts to $100,000 pre
ferred insurance written every week.
The premium receipts exceed $1,000
dally.
The company has the finest insur
ance offices in the city now occupies
the entire second floor of the Ware
block, 15th and Farnam Rtre-Pts hav
ing entirely outgrown its former quar
ters.. The company is operating in
uueen states and territories and has
about $10,000,000 of old line insurance
in force. . . l :y;,l. ,
The new policies are meeting - with
universal favor with agents aud the
insuring public.
Tho Twentieth , Century Policy,
a guaranteed dividend contract, is the
most liberal, attractive and 'yet 'con
servative policy that has ever been de-
viseq ay any company.
;oraIal Invitation ja extended by
rae-president H&$Jfa citizens of Om
aha,; as well as iy"!r&Mini
; IjsQ io strangers
where in the sta
and policy holde
offices and get' ;
management.
. The Bee is i
first-class Insurant
the able field sta
oeing attracted by
Visit the home
sainted with the
aaed that, many
Hmen are Joining ,
t. the company,
i aggressive man
agement, also theil!.ral policies and
Plans offered by tcompany.
man and his wife mi
get into, a great J-af
even Indirectly assis
them. ir
ieling, they both
If any. one else
1 either oue of
DIf REGARU( LAW
An Omaha correspoiit calls timely
attention to the disregM of law upon
the point of railroads lit other pow
erful interests. The iia,4ent calling
forth these comments ' wwit the laying
or, tracks by a. railroad wjuupany in
Omaha upon streets to
no title. The . work was d4 on Sun
day and unexpectedly; in orlei to prevent-any
court injunction orlher in
terference. The strong ponTtVeli set
forth by the cor responded tj is that
powerful business concerris viil set
Ulgif. employes directly to Ti-lat law,
so long as otner iuxe'rcSfjL.unc must
suffer. They do hot see that they are
teaching their employes a sysitm that
may and sometimes does redound tc
their own injury. An employer who
imagines that an employe wii: he truo
to him, if he teaches that cmpioye to
be untrue to others, is a shorUibted
employer. "The villainy you teach
me I will execut.e and it shall go
hard, but I will better the instruc
tion." A bookkeeper, who is directed by tho
corporation to make false entries to
deceive public inspectors, will eventu
ally make false entries to protect him
self. A salesman who Is Instructed to
misrepresent goods over the counter
will finally misrepresent things to ht3
instructor. It is a deserved retribu
tion. When we teach one the rule of
lying and deception, trlckerj aud
fraud, what assurance have we that
they may not practice these on us? A
clerk for a Chicago concern had ttoten
some few hundred dollars, and cov
ered up the theft by false entries. HI
employers upon the discovery hounded
Mini to the penitentiary. It was proven
that this clerk had been In theli em
ploy from childhood, and that he had
been taught Just audi tricks when u
came to dealing with the public. Gov
erimr Atteel.l gallantly pardr.nd tho
young man upon the ground that It
was htf Instructors who should havo
been condemned. It 11 vain to nppn.)
that any employe will In the ux run
be ttue to his employer, If that -m
ployer.tearhoji j,im (j,e art of d celvitu:
oiuera.