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15he Nebraska. Independent NOVEMBER 17. 1904 PAGE 3 senator or representative found that he could not represent the wishes of h's constituents, he resigned. Now he barters and trades with the great cor porations and he is considered a suc cessful politician instead of a bribe taker and scoundrel. When the repub licans came into power pauperism was unknown. Now the almshouse: that have been built at theccst of mil lions can't hold them. Tiiere has also been a steady increase, iz? crime as all the statistics show - ur der repub lican .-rule a far greater increase than that of the population. There are now great palaces and gc-me preserves and they are increasing while the peo ple wander homeless. There has been a great increase in wealth the people have worked hard but most of that wealth is the property of a few men down on Wall street. This is the course of republicanism. It has not worked out its full effect, but the com ing years will show that republicanism has changed our people from free and independent citizens to hirelings who slave for the trusts. A PopiHst Victory. The Independent has often remarked that this government must of neces- -itti arlnn nnnnli?!- nrlrtHnlPH if It. eB- WiltJ VIWJP rvrfc.w X - continues to do it. The government ownership of telegraphs and telephones was one of the first things advocated by populists. It is now announced that the government has established exten bive telegraph and cable systems in Alaska. General Greely, the chief sig tal officer, reports that the cables used in the Alaska system would reach from New foundland to Ireland, and the land lints from - Washington to Texas, there being "2,079 miles of cables, 1,439 miles of land hues and 107 miles of wireless lines. The United States has brought southeastern Alaska, the Yukon valley and the Behring straits region into telegraphic communication with the rest of the civilized world. The United States government is the only civilized government that al lows the means of communication to remain in the hands of corporations. We come along in the -rear, side by side with the pig-tailed Chinese. If there was a government ownership of the telegraphs the people might lind out what the Watson vote was. The vciegrayu iuuiuw j ,v- is distinctly: ayppulisctory, Watson Votes Withhold. The most votes that the democrats ever cast ir. this state was 44.000 for Morton. Although the population has nearly doubled in the state " since ft this election, ana it seems mai ev 'ery silver democrat " in the state, through the pleadings of Bryan, voted for Parker. The latest returns yet printed in the dailies show that Roose velt polled, 117,647; Parker, 43,771, and wo term with twenty-six counties missin g, 13,376. The full vote for Mickey and Berge, with only three counties at all incomplete give Mickey 109 151; Berge 100,083. That shows a total vote of 209.234. Everybody knows that the total vote of this state is not less than 250,000. What became of those other 40.000 votes? It is probable that-at -'least 10.000 , of them weje cast for Watson and the others are thgse whom the editor of The In dependent told the political managers .that they would not vote if there was fusion in this state. We wilf know nothing concerning the matter until the count is made at the state house and the official figuresprinted after the dull round of red tape is completed. Every mm is either a land owner or a tenant. Think that over for a while. Herr Babel, the socialist leader in the German parliament, is enormously rich. He has a handsome villa on the Shore of Lake Zurlc. Besides all that he recently received a bequest of 400, 000 marks left him by a Barvarian ad mirer. The "human equation" of which the opponents of cocialism so often s.peak, seems to be the ruling factor in Herr Babel. Henry George In California.. Anyone who travels across the im mense reaches of the Sacramento val ley in the fall, where mile succeeds mile of level, not nearly level, but level land, peraaps the richest on the globe, Bees what appears to be a desert. The houses, few and far between, are mere 6hacks where the employes reside. He will notice four and six horse teams with one driver, attached to gang plows and tnce in awhile a steam plow. , Those lands belong to the crcat estates like that of Stanford and oth ers, where each owner has thousands of acres. It is worse than the heredi tary estates of England for the duke or lord who owns an estate there, has always a great manor, country seat or palace in which he takes pride. But the California dukes and lords build no such palaces, or if they do, they are elsewhere. They spend their win ters in the great cities of Europe or America. The monopolization of land makes a wilderness of what ought to he the most densely inhabited portion of the United States. It is no wonder that as Henry George looked over these immense stretches of fertile lands, almost without inhabi tants, and then down the streets of S'an Francisco - and out on the sand lots where the men without work gath ered, that his. sympathetic soul set it self about devising some way whereby the landless people could be sent to the. uninhabited lands of the Sacra mento valley. Tfe Associated Press Th3 privr'e ownership of the teb egrapb system of the United States ii one of the greatest menaces to fre" .overnment. that exists. It is through this private ownership the Associate! v ovists Kn-Dftrtv?'1. gt-ifpreTef5renthe peopk unless the censor of the Associates Press sees fit to let it.. In the mattei of election returns, no party can ge its vote reported to the' people until long afte- the interest in the election has passed away, unless that censor sc pleases. No action by any body o! people, no matter how eminent the) may be in character, scholarship ant influence, can present a matter to tht American people unless the Associated Press sees fit to let thjm. It caL make or ruin the reputation of any man within a week at any time. For the last several years it has guarded the interests of plutocracy with jeal ous care. No political movement or speech, inimical to the great corpora tions and financial syndicates, is al lowed to reach xthe tody of the Amer icn people, The November number of the Arena has an article by its editor, B. O. Flow er, ..on the subject giving some inci dents in regori to this matter. Ms Flower says: ;: We sDme" time since called, the attention of our readers to ts significant fact that whe i a judgo of the lower court in Oregon dc', cided against the constitutionality of the direct legislation law of th '..' state, the Western Associated Press heralded the lact far anC ' wide in extended notices, while th?. great conservative dailies . and beholden , to the corporations and special privileged , interests de voted columns to the subject; treat ing, the whole matter as if it were settled. But' later, when the su- preme court of the state sustained the constitutionality of the law and delivered an opinion which . proved to be one of the most mas terly and exhaustive state papers of recent years, in which the valid ity and constitutionality of the law was clearly established, the Asso ciated Press failed to find the item of, sufficient interest to make any special note of it. ... This signifi cant omission was in keeping with similar lapsps in its supposed func tions when the unpublished news In question was inimical to the in terests of powerful vwsted interests. One notable case, as we the& pointed out, was the declination to give publicity to tne news of the organization of the Philippine In dependence committee, which called forth the following signifi cant wordy from so conservative a paper as tue New York Nation: - "It is a little odd to read of the Associated Press congratulations on having induced the czar to re move the censorship n Russia, r,t the very moment that this same news-gathering association de clines at home to disseminate in formation of the highest sigriiri- cance. It refused to send out the news of the organization of the place of the rule of the political machines, was omitted. Universal Railroad Trust From many financial centers cornea all at once the statement that 162,000 miles of railroad. Comprising all the great trunk lines and many laterals (there are. only 270,000 mile3 in the whole United States) are about to be merged in one great -concern, with the Standard Oil interest in con trol. The republican landslide has given much courage to the promoters of thig the greatest trust ever imag ined, that the usual secrecy has not been insisted upon. The Roosevelt ad ministration has been the years of the greatest trust forming ever known and the overwhelming majority that the people have rolled in support of that" administration, pushes forward the movement with irresistible force.''..' The people are entering on an era of change of such violent and unpre cedented character that it dazes one to contemplate It. Even the repub lican newspapers seem startled and amazed. With the railroads under one' management, there will be, created a ertntpr nnwAr.nf th nemilA than' vir . 'Philippine Independence commit- , T- ,m mi iir-JirimTfTTr WLBr, - . w cn I i no HTfirV TflHl TflP M it rTt TT1 H M I .fill I fl men composing it are of such .weight and distinction that any thing they are united In advocating acquires thereby news-value. If President Eliot makes an address on labor at Boston, or writes of tne government of Bar Harbor, the fact is immediately put on the wires; but, when he cid eight oth er college presidents, together with eminent clergymen, authors, and publicists, have something to say about Philippine independence, it immediately becomes of no con sequence, ard the news is 'killed.' . Why, if those men were on a com mittee 'simply to dig a ditch, the fact' would be eagerly published by every real newspaper in tba land! If the formation of a pow erful 'Philippine Independence ; committee' is not news, then noth ing is news. The upshot is to leave the Associated Press, by this -refusal, in a kind of head-in-the-sand attitude, while the news gets circulated just the same." t One of the latest examples of the methods employed by the .great news-dissemir.atorc to keep : from the reading public matters inimical to the continued rule of the pub- . lie service corporations, the trusts and rthe political machines was il - lustrated in the publication, in such papers as the Baltimore American ndabi4a8M- Tn aDnageq letter :rom ueorge n. " Shibley, the well-known leader of the majority-rule1 movement, as though it were his letter in full, ; but from which the important news item that the organized workers and many of the grangers had adopted the non-partisan program for securing popular rule in the The story that the tfarriman, Gould, Hill, Moore, Santa Fe, 'Rockefeller, Vanderbut, Pennsylvania, Erie, Mor. gan and New. Haven railroad systems shall establish a community of inter est through Interchanged ownership of securities and interchanged nomination of directors, with Rockefeller dominat ing them all, induces such a radical re publican paper as the Chicago Tribune to say: v. ' , The members of the next con gress snoum Degm to stuay rail road consolidation to the end that they may do nothing rash and fool ish and yet may protect the manu- ,. facturers and traders of this coun- trv fmm tho twitontinl tvrnnTiv nf the greatest of all possible trusts. Let it go on. The day of the "uni versal ixust" of which Ignatius Don nelly warned the people is not far off. Shaw is to go the road of all the secretaries of the treasury. That road leads' straight from Washington to Wall street. The appointment to secretary of the treasury means in a, short time the head of some great f- Eiakes no difference whether the secre tary is a democrat - or a republican. 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