DECEMBER 22. 1904 .
&ra Nebraska. Independent
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Colorado Anarchy
Some months ago The Independent
denounced the supreme court of Colo
rado as anarchists. It reiterates the
charge. No law abiding citizen of that
Biaie is unaer obligations, moral, legal
or " otherwise to submit to the orders
of that court in assuming the "king's
prerogative." When the court aban
doned its functions, declared that all
the powers of the circuit courts of he
state were abolished and gave the state
over to the despotism of military rule
from which there could be no appeal
to the courts, it ceased to be a court
to - which any American citizen was
bound to render obedience. Now it has
fcwiic j. ui iiici . xl uaa ucviaicu mat an
attorney general may file a petitio.i
asking the court to assume jurisdiction
over the election in any or all the coun ,
ties of the state. That the court, with
out any authority from the statute,
and, if needs be, against its plain com
mands, may assume the jurisdiction;
. appoint what they may be pleased to
term ''watchers," and promulgate a set
of' directions for the government of
election officers, candidates, constables
and others," pertaining to frauds and
such other matters as it may deem
important. That, after .trfe election,
complaints may be prepared charging
election-officers and others; in one or a
hundred, or; ja thousand precincts, with
violating the 'directions; of. the court
The court may cause the ".arrest of all
alleged: offenders, try thorny without a
juf y ltox contempt of its., orders, send
them to ailand then order canvassing
boards to throw out the entire votes
of the one, the hundred or the thou
sand precincts, whether . , there were
frauds or not, but merely because the
officials and others may have disre
garded some of their orders and there
by put themselves in contempt of the
court. , . .-
This unprecedented action of the su
preme court of Colorado portends a re
bellion in that state. When the Colo
rado legislature meets there will be
trouble. X: '
The question at issue ianot whether
a court, after the 'facts have, been-ascertained
by a jury, may throw out; one-
can throw out precincts, in, an "action
for contempt, in disobeying some un
lawful order of the court and thus dis
franchise all the legal voters of a pre
cinct. , ' ..."': V
President Ellott UnfeJr
President Eliot criticises trade unions
for attempting to limit the supply and
restrict the" output. That is very un
fair and superficial in President Eliot.
The trade Unions are only trying to put
into practice .the ' theories of political
economy taught in President Eliot's
own university. ' Why did he lay the
Jjlame on the poor trades unionists?
Why did he not attack the professors
that are serving under him or the
great political party that rules the na
tion and has been teaching the same
doctrines for over a quarter, of century
in its press and on the hustings?
Then years ago these gentlemen were
telling the farmers that they must ex
pect that the very low price of wheat
that wa3 then prevalent must become
permanent. They saiu that the opening
of the wheat lands in the Red River
valley, western Canada and the west
ern plains had so enlarged the wheat
production that there was over-production
that it must last forever. They
refused to listen to the reply that the
over-supply of wheat was caused by
the poverty and underconsumption of
flour. The republican party, the polit
ical economists and the socialists have
been preaching continuously and side
by side this doctrine of over-production
for years, and now President
Eliot wants to lay all the blame on
the labor, unions. Just at-present with
many millions more bushels of wheat
on the market or to come on it in the
near future, the price of wheat is more
than double what it was when the re
publican leaders told us that we had
an over-production. The poor wage
earner, who has no reading matter
aside from socialist or republican pa
pers, is now blamed for trying to put
in practice what the learned pundits
have been teaching in the universities
for a hundred years.
If there should be circulated among
the labor unions a few pamphlets con
taining some fundamental" truths' con
cerning distribution of wealth, it would
not be a year before the absurd doc
trines concerning over-productiou
would "be dropped. But that will not
be done. It would stop the concentra
tion of wealth in few hands, and that
is what plutocracy is determined shall
not be stopped. The greatest uphold
ers of the present system of concen
tration 'are the labor unions. Without
the labor vote, the republican parcy
would be driven from power. Without
that vote the trusts would fall. With
out it, the production of railroad mil
lionaires would cease. Therefore tlio
labor unions are taught a false politi?
cal economy and then denounced for
believing in it and trying to practice
it. There is nothing fair about such a
proposition as that, even if, it does
come from the head of one of Ihe
greatest universities.
A Cry of Alarm
" Some of the clergy are beginning to
talk about moral degeneration' Very
much in the same way The Independent
has been talking for the last three or
fcur years. The clergy paid no heed
to ' the warnings given by The Inde
pendent and boasted of having tii3
bread and wine in the communion
services passed by millionaires, while
they held up as models for the young
men "the Captains of Industry." Bish
op Anderson of the Episcopal church
told a congregation of thousands in
Chicago the other day that: "It is time
we woke up. Crime is at our doors.
The whirl of pleasure, the spirit of ma
terialism and ieonoclasm sap the vi
tality of our people. We have sown
a wind of religious indifference 'and
shall reap a whirlwind of devastation. '
He declared that: "Strikes, class hat
red, riot, anarchy, are threatened. It
would take only a spark to touch1 them
off. And Chicago i3 the storm center
In the city of Chicago last year seven
times more murders were committed
than in London, a city several times its
size."'
It is four years since The Inde
pendent began to warn the people that
this era of commercial fraud and spec
ulation would end in--the demoraliza
tion of the whole land. The thing is
so patent now that it can no longer
be denied. It is late for the ministers
of the gospel to recognize Ihe situation.
Many of them have been criminally
stupid, but it is a good sign to sea
some of them waking up. Bishop An
derson sends forth a cry of alarm. How
many will heed to it?
How They Did It
There has recently been published a
book concerning the organization of
the great railroad systems. It goes
back to the beginning of railroads in
this country and winds up with the
great systems now crossing the conti
nent or occupying stretegic positions
which . control 'immense amount of
freight. Of course it is complimentary
of the men and the systems whicii
bear their names. It does not, how
ever, give the facts, the details of the
work, the real thing about any of them.
The truth is that behind these great
systems there was at first a scoundrel
of tremendous intellectual ability, That
scoundrel committed every . crime
known to the calendar, in many cases
murder, itself. He stole, he lied, he
bribed, he swindled, he betrayed his
friends, he demoralized the courts, the
legislatures and congress. He sent
thousands into everlasting poverty, h3
made some few rich. Thi history con
tinues all along. It began with the
Goulds, the Fiskes, the Vanderbilts and
has continued down to the Harrimans
and the Hills. Of that part of the work
that these men did, the book says noth-,
ing. ,
The affairs of the Kansas City Safe
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ZrSU JIi uzauv
Hello, Buster Brown, lams' special train of 100 stallions arrived Aug. 18, 1804.'
Stallions direct from Europe. The only apclal train and largest importationn
of stallions by any one man in U. S.
Cheer up, Mr. Bright Butinena Man Snrd the good news: lams' Peaches
and Cream have arrived A special train of 100 sensational Mack boys, the
cream of France and Belgium. The best money and lams' superior ability can
buy after i months' stay in Europe among the best breeders.
They are sensational stallions of quality, big size, large bono and fashionably
bred. In fact, "Top Notchers." Positively the best lot lams ever owned of draft
and coachers. "
Owing to lams' facilities for buying, poor crops and lams' cash he bought
stallions cheaper than ever and they are so good and cheap you will be his buyer.
He has on hand more full blood stallions than any one man in U. S., and must
sell them.
149 - - BLACK PERCHERONS, BELGIANS and COACHERS 149
Hello Central Did you watch Jams' smoke at 1904 Nebraska state fair?
lams' horse show of 35 sensational Percherons, Belgians and Coachers was
the greatest and best 4 horse show" ever made by one man in U. S. lams' com
petitors took to the woods "went away back and sat down" Hard.
lams'. Percherons, Belgians and Coachers won every first, second and
sweepstakes prize in every age or class. A clean sweep.
$1QO-Will Be Paid You-$100
If on a visit to lams' barns you do not find every thing In lams add or cata
log as stated.
Georgie dear, go and see lams' stallions before you pay those Ohio men 13,600
for that inferior prize-winner. ,
Say, Ikey, what a rich "graft" those "con stallion salesmen" are working on
the honest farmers, sellinglnferior stallions at $3,000 and $5,000. f
Mr. Business Man, lams, the' live horseman, is selling first class stallions at
"live and let live" prices. His stallions are 90 per cent blacks, 50 per cent ton
horses. lams' speaks the languages, buys direct from breeders, pays no buyers,
His twenty-two years' successful business makes him a safe man to do busi
ness with. lams guarantees to sell you a better stallion at 1,0C0 and $1,400 than
are being sold to stock companies for 12,500 to $4,000 by slick salesman, or pay
your fare and $25 per day for trouble to see them, you the judge.
lams pays horses' freight and buyers fare, gives CO per cent breeding guaran
tee, Write for eye-opener and finest catalog on earth.
References St. Paul State Bank, Citizens' National Bank.
ST. PAUL, NEBRASKA.
Percheron and Shire Stallions
When you go to luy a horse stop at Lincoln, Nebraska and Bee Wat
son Woods Bros. & Kelley's l'erchcrous end Shires. 60 Lead on hand,
e'end lor beautiiul photographs ot latent importation, and price, lint.
Theso arc ireeto nil who mention The Independent. Address
WATSON WOODS BROS. & KELLY, Lincoln, l!sl,
Deposit and Savings bank were close!
up last week .when $1,000,000 worth cf
securities were sold for $400. Mrs.
Chadwick did not beat that perform
ance very much. "Safe deposit" and
"savings bank!" Think of those terms
in connection with such a concern! And
yet the people will not vote for a gov
ernment savings bank!
Populists' Jubilant
, While the republican majorities in
Iowa continue to be as great as ever,
novertheles3 the application of popu
list principles is spreading at a mi.it
astonishing rate. Many of the towns
are building their own water works,
steam and hotAwater heating plants,
electric light and gas factories, tele
phone lines and exchanges and other
public utilities. Many are buying ex
isting plants and putting an end to ex
pesive private ownership.
This populist ', movement is not con
fined to Iowa, but is pervading to a
great extent the whole' of the JJnited
States. . Populists should grow jubi
lant. They gave the country the only
set of principles that .will preserve the
nation. They see them adopted year
by year all over the country and the
time will come that' the most honor
able thing that can be said of a man
was that he wa3 a populist when most
of the world was denouncing him as a
lunatic, but the world had at last to
acknowledge that he was sanest and
safest of all men. We did not go into
this movement to get offices, but 1c
get reforms. ,
.A Specimen Lie
From time to time, The Independent
has given specimens of the unequalled
lying done by W. E. Curtis in the Chi
cago R&cord-Herald. .The following
specimen 13 not up to his highest
achievements, but It will do as a speci
men. He says:
The model hospital of the United
States, and I am assured it is not sur
passed in any other country, may be
found at Pueblo. It is the achieve
ment of Dr. R. W. Corwin, surgeon in
chief of the Colorado Fuel & Iron com-,
pany, and he built it with funds fur
uishedby that corporation. ,
The, truth is that the . company has
been in existence over twenty yeara
and, during that time it has taken , a
dollar a month out of the wages due
the working men for hospital expenses.
It employes on an average over 10,000
men. It has therefore taken from the
working men over $2,400,000 and in
vested It in a hospital. 'That hosoltal
was an absolute necessity to the com
pany on account of the numerous acci
dents in the extremely hazardous call
ing. The Independent repeats that while
that is not quite up to Curtis', usual
work in that line, it will do a3 a speci
men. Curtis furnishes 730 columns a
year of that sort of plutocratic lying
and the Chicago Record-Herald prints
it, two columns each day.
London has 20,000 more paupers this
vear than last. New York has npnrlv
40,000 more. If in years of prosperity
paupers increase at that rate, what will
be the condition in years when there
have arrived at the "compound inter
est" state of. development What
awaits us in the future under pluto
cratic rule we can only Imagine.
The charity authorities say that pno
cause of the suffering in the east Is
that the trusts and great corporations
will no longer give men over fifty years
of age employment. Would the situa
tion be relieved if they did? The dis
charge of a man over fifty makes a
place for a younger man who woull
otherwise be out of work. The cause
of the suffering is deeper than that.
Primarily it comes about from the
special privileges granted to the few
ana me reiusai 01 ine president an?
state authorities to enforce the crimi
nal law against the rich;