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.
Wall street always rewards them for
Governmental favors. . Gage Is there.'
Carlisle is tiiere and Shaw . is soon to
go there . and Cortelyou, is to , iak
lcg before ' CortelyouwilI be . there
also.. Think of the infamy of it allt'
Before the editor of The Independent
would take 'he position. that a man cat
never know what his own principle! .
are until after the convention meet,
and declares them, he would go out
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