Toha Nobrasktx Independent
JANUARY 19, 1905
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inconvenient laws, and an Innate
thinness of profit to dwell therein, one
might better in many cases turn from
the trade of stocks to that of the pick
purse; for with morals the same the
padder at least escapes the Wall street
vice of an inevitable treachery to his
friends. Long ago,t the homestead as
our records disclose of Captain Kidd
occupied the present site of the stock
exchange. Is there no suggestion
.here?"
Every district attorney and other
officer of the law whose duty it is, is
constantly engaged in an effort to sup
press gambling, and the pulpits . of
every church in the land, earnest ap
peals are constantly being sent up to
the throne of God for aid in the de
struction of their great evil, tb-at is
said to be corrupting the morals of the
young manhood of the land, but these
efforts seem to be directed alon
against the faro dens, pick purses, crap
and other games, and have no relation
whatever to the greater gambling that
includes among its votaries, it is said
by Mr. Lawson in "Frenzied Finance,"
even senators and representatives in
the. United States congress. The im
..j2orfant fact that I referred to above,
wasWifcSfiwoiic aa ibf arbvernment
allowed the gambrers6rrrH
to manipulate the finances of the coun-
try mruugii me gaiuuuug ucntw
therein, there coujd be no change what
ever in present conditions of a per
manent character, for whatever metn-
-n nrnrhiners and their friends may
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In Men's Suits and Over
Coats During Our Great
After Inventory Sale
Coryiight, 19M, Kohn Brothcri, CLici.
Jn futures can always, by playing with
"-aacked cards, skin any sucker wnp
thinks his ' system" can beat the game.
Temporary relief is not what is want
ed, but a large dose of your "Uncle
Samuel" directed straight at the heart
of Wall street gamblers, i3 what is
needed as a permanent remedy.
TAYLOR McRAE.
Dallas. Texas. . '
Defense of Socialism .
Editor Independent: It seems to. me
that your editorial concerning econ
omic determination In" a recent "issue
of your paper was unfair that you -at-
UlUUlt) IU VV. J. UUCUt. SCUUUiCUli) UUl
expressed in the quotation yjou m?
I have never read bis book -from
which you quote, but fail to find the
lack of moral Jorce in his , words you
have set forth and "entitled "repulsive
dictrine." Mr: Ghent has indeed made
y repulsive statements but are not these
repulsive statements true? ' '
You repudiate the following qubta-
tion: . . " '' . "
"Whatever may be our vague incli
nations, our nebulous aspirations to-
srtalnniversal moral law, the stern
necessity :f!a4.9?nomc
process aetermmes ana nxes our piae-
tical ethics and controls our actions,
The prevailing mode of production and
exchange is the closely enveloping me
dium which conditions all activity,
bodily and mentally. 'The American
revolution was prompted in the main
. by economic motives," etc.
Is it possible you deny these state
ments, Mr. Editor? Why, they read
like populist doctrine. They read like
your, many editorials.
Do not populists declare that our
economic conditions result in debasing
slavery, want and crime and press
down so heavily upon the many wealth
- producers that the majority are too Ig
noi i to vote for their own best in
terest?
As a general proposition, what
there false in the statement that "econ
omic process determines and fixes pur
practical ethics and controls our ac
tions?" Is it not true that, our indus
trial conditions constitute a heavy
' layer of clay compressing the real
-;f within only waiting opportunity
Lor a development of moral force? I
fail to discover that Mr. Ghent denies
this latent moral force. . r
You complain of his doctrine being
selfish. S'elf-preservation, the first law
of nature, is all selfishness and the
majority of men ase struggling for
self-preservation. A man will steal be
fore he will starve and to such there is
no "ought" nor "ought not." -;-.
- nd nowhere in your quotation a
denial of your statement that moral
force "ic an essential part of man's
nature." Neither does your author fly
in the face of evolution by proclaim
ing the retrogression of even the low
est. '
According to my mind, Mr. Editor,
Jfj men who have a clothing need to supply
that will' not make aneTimi
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y this sale. To buy here and now is to buy highrFlcf ccods
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Jit fl. frflYtinn Af fTiftiti trnlnna All Aim Vvn4- wiaItah ama) i
ved
) in both Suits and Overcoats.
This Is The irrangomon If lalo
The Independent and Kansas City
Weekly Star, both one year for $1.10.
Burlington Bulletin.
Whv Hibernate?
.; WINTER TOURIST RATES to Cal
ifornia, Colorado, the Gulf Country,
Florida, South, and Southeast.
Ask -the. agent, for, f urthe" informa
tion or write to L. W. Wakeleyt.Gn
eral Passenger gent, Omaha, Neb. :
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At 6.95 At $10.75 u
At thia ? price we offer Suits and Here we offer choice olevcral
Overcoats worth - $8.75, $10.00 ' and thousand Suits and Overcoat! Which
' " " -$12.50.
. Better garments for the price- formerly sold at $13.50, $15.0 A end
were never made. All are in the new $16.50. Every garment offered l ljjtb:
ctoribg8rjitjeom wool fabrics price is hand tailored and made jjozi
and cut strictly in fashionT'T'l-iine.rfabrics. if J
At $14 75 At $18.75
A wonderful assortment of hand- This price commands the best
some Suits - and Overcoats are here clothing in the world. Little wonder
offered at the one price of $14.75; ' The men who are accustomee to buying the
garments formerly sold at $18.00, $20.00 fi1nest clotlliDg are 80 enthusiastic about
v . ; , these Suits and Overcoats. The gar-
and $22,50. We offer here the broad-, ments formerly sold, at $25.00, $27.50
est possible assortment. All sizes, too and $30.00. Buy now and here the.
are represented. , price is $18.75.
Armstrong Clothing Company
Good Clothes Merchants. 3 1221 to 1227 0 Street 3
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Mr. Ghent simply states facts as they
exist today and because they exist the
people's party wa3.born.
You say "that in discussing this
question of graft, the author indulges
in a thousand contradictions of his
theory 01 economic determinism." Now
may not the trouble lie in your inter
pretation of economic determinism in
stead?
. ; . MRS. MARION TODD. ,
(Mrs. Todd and , all. othr$ can rest
assured that the quotationr. in ,TUa 'In
dependent . aro reliable. Mr. Ghent
states the true socialist idea. Any
thing aside from that is not socialism
at all and parade it3elf under false
colors. The proposition that economic
force determins our ethics and con
trols "all" our actions bodily and men
tally, is disproved by the history of
all mankind.. Did the economic, close
ly enveloping medium, .lead. the Man
named Jesus Christ to submit himself
tq persecution . and death. .Did an econ
Qmic.. force ( lead, , thousands rptQth.ers
since his day to. abandon every selfish
interest end lay down their lives for
the advancement of the human race?
Self-preservation is not the first law
of nature, if by "nature" we mean all
the works of God. Self-preservation W
the first law of brutes and not of the
ethical man. Cast an eye over Man
churia and then answer If "self-preservation"
is the first law governing the
hundreds of thousands of men in the
trenches. Populists have neve adopted
this damnable doctrine. They have
never gone before the people- and rde
clared that their: economic- environ
ment produced their -morals.)
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