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Next week the electoral college will
perform the last act in sealing the
sarchopagus of Grover's "safe and
sane" democracy. The mourners will
turn away andsilence will reign over
it while the eternal ages roll on.
Every populist should join in push
ing the circulation of populist papers.
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Hardy, Ark., has been re-established
and is one of the best in the field.
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and can furnish The Independent and
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$1.25. Address all orders to The In
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should take advantage of this offer.
The phrase "not prepared for self
government" has become the shiboleth
of the ruling class in this country, and
seems to them a perfect answer to all
demands for liberty. But during the
last weei that question has been fre
quently asked concerning Colorado.
Strange to say it is not asked by the
people who have been using it, but by
the other side. ' :
The deficit during the month of No
vember was almost a million dollars
-a day. In these days of incomprehen
sible figures that does not "excite com
ment at all. During the civil war when
the expenses of the government rose
to a million dollars a day, there wa
consternation all over the land. Tha
fate that presses hard upon such con
ditions as now exist in. this country,
has often been recorded in the history
of the past. When a nation sows to
greed and extravagance, it reaps hell.
A decision of the United States su
preme court last week makes the south
ern states liable for over $200,000,000,
which those states repudiated during
reconstruction times. If the bonds are
tQL.be -collected by the , power of the
federal government there will be seri
ous time3 head. The burden put upon
.those states will be enormous and al
most unbearable. S'ome of those bonds
were issued through the power of the
government instituting carpet bag governments.
Three senators and three congress
men have been proved to be every day
small thieves during the last year and
how many more of the same kind thee
are, no one knows. Of the larger kind,
the men of greater.. -intellects, whose
thieving is not connected with a few
post offices, race track postal business,
and some sections of public lands, non?
have yet been exposed, Among those
caught are Senators Burton, Dietrich
and Mitchell, the latter last week had
to hasten home in connection witb.tlie
Oregon land frauds. The congressmen
are Driggs, Hermann and Litairer. One
United States judge, Swayne of Florida
also adorns this list of grafters. The
senate and house is made up of the
same class, of men as we have in th-2
city councils of the various cities. They
are members of the preditory class.
. Of the 124,381 votes reported to be
cast for the peoples party ticket, 22,
C36 were returned in th state of the
presidential nominee and 20,518 In the
state of the nominee for vice-president.
These two men, certainly had influence
among the people of the states where
they reside.
Some of the dailies are giving statis
tics of the awful poverty in London
but they publish not a word about the
awful poverty in the big cities of this
country. - The same plutocratic, - eco
nomic system prevails in both coun
tries and produces exactly the " sam?
results.
The control of railroad rates con
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tinued to be discussed during the week,
but with somewhat less earnestness.
One thing was noUcablc. While the
railroad managers objected to the com
mission, because as they said it was
not right to submit the regulation of
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railroad work," they were all willing
to submit them to the federal judges.
Those judges had never had any such
training, but the managers are perfect
ly willing to trust them. They know
who have been their friends in the
past. .
The senate passed the bill guarantee
ing interest on the Philippine bonds to
build railroads at four per cent inter
est, when the government can borrow
all the money it wants at three per
cent. In the first place the interest
was placed at five per cent, but some
omnioua threats from the west, made
the senators conclude that that was a
little too big a steal.
The First National and the Marino
Bank of .Caneaut Harbor, Ohio, closed
their doors last week. They lay the
blame on Mrs. Chadwick, but there is
a good deal of doubt about that The
increase in bank failures still goes on.
After forty years of silence the Stan
dard Oil company is beginning to reply
to the attacks upon it. - During the
campaign it denied that it was identi
fied with politics of any ind, and now
it denies that it is interested in Amal
gamated Copper. The corporation may
not be, but Wm. B. Rockefeller is a
director in both companies and H. H.
Rogers is president of the Amalga
mated and vice-president of the Stan
dard. .
A prophet down in -Boston prophe
cies after thi3 fashion : "Great riots
will shake this land in the next two
jears, and the workingman will parade
the streets. . This, great struggle be
tween oppressors and oppressed will
result in the formation ot a new po
litical party, of. which the president
vill be the indirect founder. The work
ing . classes, . under : the leadership jI
Roosevelt, will triumph over the
trusts."
There was a vote in the senate on
the government regulation of railroad
rates and it was beaten 39 to 33. It
occurred on an amendment to the Phil
ippine bill. The president's recommend
ation on that subject does not seem to
have a majority in the senate.
Nemeha county, Neb., is very much
larger this week than it was last and
the portion that has been added to it
lies on the east side of the Missouri
river. All this comes about on account,
ot a decision of the supreme court
which says that McKissick's "island,
which was cut, off from Nebraska by
the Missouri river changing its channel
in 1867, is still a part of Nebraska Th
two words, "erosion" and 'axulsion"
is responsible for all that according to
the supreme court. This was a case of
"evulsion." If the soil had "eroded '
away it would have been different. ,
The thing last week that most in
terested the senators and representa
tives who make the laws for this great
nation wasi the place for holding
the inaugural ball. The senate wanted
it in the pension office and the house
opposed. The fight grew so fierce that
it is now said that there will be no
ball at all. ' How can. this nation con
tinue to be a world power and no in
augural bah?
President Roosevelt is sending for a
great many congressmen and senators,
and when he gets them to the whit?
house , he urges that they must adopt
his scheme for government control of
rates by the interstate commerce com
mission in order to check the populist
sentiment' in the country for govern
ment ownership, which he insists will
sweep the country before long if noth
ing is done to check Jt.
Sir Arthur Conon Doyle, in a recent
speech called attention to the fact that:
"during the three years of the Boer
war in South Africa the British army
lost 22,000 lives from all causes, while
during the same period the United
States lost 31,000 from homicide."
The Record-Herald's editorial en
dorsemeat of the Hill currency bill
contains a mass of false statements.
The bill is a radical transformation of
our currency, permits the re-coinage of
the silver dollars into subsidiary coin
that Is not a legal tender and allows
banks to inflate or retire their notes
at their own motion and whenever it
will be to their Interests to do so.
The Independent has no objection to
the republicans passing such a . law.
Perhaps it will be well to let the Amer
ican people have a trial of money
wholly under the control of the banks.
They don't seem to be able to .learn
in any other way.
The facts In the Chadwick case which
there has been printed in every metro
politan daily, enough matter up to the
present time to make five large vol
umns, and which have been read by
six or seven millions of people are as
follows: "A keen Yankee lawyer sues
to recover from a woman a loan of
$190,800 because he ha3 become doubt
ful of the security. It becomes known j
that the woman has a past. Then that
she owes hundred of thousands of
dollars. Her lawyer asserts that she
has $1,000,000 in, excess of debts. A
bank fails; its president and cashier
not onty lose their own fortunes, but
are arrested for making illegal loans to
her. It is whispered that the name of
Andrew Carnegie is on notes for $750 -000
on which Mrs. Chadwick got real
money. Carnegie declares that his name
has been forged. The dupes reveal that
the woman had represented him to be
her father. The treasurer of another
bank who had lost his own estate and
innocently assisted her in her opera
tions says that he believed her stories
of vast wealth. Her "securities" are
found to be a bogus deed of trust and a
mythical paper for $20,000,000. : An ex
judge of New York confesses that she
duped him. . Pittsburg millionaires are
said to have been fleeced of nearly a
million. She overrules her lawyers and
starts for Cleveland after warning her
husband to keep away. The entire
police force of Cleveland is , ordered
out to prevent possible mob violence.
She arrives and is taken to prison
in the same state where she has suc
ceeded in erecting this gigantic fabric
of fraud. It is with such stuff that a
very large majority of the people
of the United States are entertained t y
the plutocratic press.
The ridiculous propositions of the
advocates of the theory of overpro
duction produce many amusing situa
tions. .. The cotton growers met last
week, and passed resolutions recom
mending the reduction of the acreage
of cotton and favoring diversified crops
so as to reduce the production and th
price of cotton at ten cents a pound,
and then asked for big appropriations
to exterminate the boll weevil so that
they could raise more cotton. If a ro-
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strlction of production is wanted, why
not propagate the boll weevil Instead
of destroying it?
About two million democrats didn't
vote at the last election and those
who did vote out - in Colorado, are to
have their ballots thrown out. So,
what's the use any how? (
The Steel trust will maintain its
price for rails at $28 a ton which means
$16 a ton profit Foreign competitors
are kept out by the tariff.' On other
kinds of steel the profit Is still, greater.
That kind of business will go on until
Cabriel blows his trumpet or the re
publican party is put out of power.
The newspapers say that some of the
Wall street gamblers are going to
prosecute Lawson for telling lies to
bear stocks. What will they do to
Morgan, Schwab, Rodgers and a lot
of others for telling lies to bull stocks
and get rid of their undigested securi
ties? .
joe Chamberlin is making speeches
again for tariff protection. He call?