&e Nebraska. Independent
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JANUARY i, 1903
jV On Common Ground
jli most important question before
the"lmerican people at the present
time is the "Railroad Question." What
shall we do to be saved from extor
tionate freight and passenger rates,
from corrupting rebates, from the free
pass evil through which, with the aid
of money, railroad manage re control
legislatures, courts and public officials
of every class and description. So se
rious has this railroad question become
In recent years that there are now
many thousands of plutocratic republi
cans and democrats who . are willing
to join in a movement for relief. To
populists, who have beerr contending
for government ownership for years,
the story is an old one. At thi3 time
it seems likely that "railroad question"
will soon become the common -ground
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fupon which all are agreed as to
pmedy. Populists understand that
ttempts at "control" through leg
pn by either of the old political
s will prove fruitless. Instead
Government control" it will con-
0-
to be , "railroad control." Gov
:r)j nt ownership is the only effec
th remedy. To secure this, populists,
; : ' Jists, liberal democrats, and anti-
poly republicans can join hands.
1 -show how thoroughly the social
lit ' ire in accord with populists on
thi Suestion, we quote the following
v. 1? f waa the leading editorial in Wil
;h:; ? Socialist Magazine for January:
l) THE PEACE OF JUSTICE.
4, president's" message properly an-
zl I is the most revolutionary docu
; ever given to th world by the
hell for a great government.
'tj I it its, revolutionary character -is
quiffs unconscious is even more signif
ies:; t for its . very unconsciousness
'c' show how the "socialist ferment
-4 r r"" -. it t it
mh- preaa, ' au unnoucea ana uniore
:ei In the most unexpected minds. ;
ten to this sentence and hear the
clr, of revolution echo in it:"
4L steady aim of this nation, as of
Clljt ightened joaMoas',' should be to
z,itv HoVbritig" ever nearer the day
ivh . 'there shall prevail throughout
rld the peace of justice.1'
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III POfiTK-EIGHT. H0UHS
.
Cold Affected Head and Throat
Attack Was Severe. '
i Chas, W. Bowman, 1st Liout. and Adj t.
4th M. S. M. Cav. Yols., writes from
Xianhani, Md., as follows :
"Though somewhat averse to patent
medicines, and still more averse to be
coming a professional affidavit man, it
eems only a plain duty in the present
Instance to add my experience to the
columns already written concerning the
curative powers of Peruna.
"lhave been' particularly benefited
by Its use for colds In the head and
throat I have been able to fully cure
myself of a most severe attack in
lortyeight hours by its use according
to directions: I use it as a preventive
Whenever threatened with an attack. .
. i. "Members pf .my family also use it
for like ailments. W? ave recommend
ing it to our friends." C-W. Bowman.
- Pe-ru-na Contains no Narcotics.
i One reason why Perntta has found per
manent u0 in so many homes is that it
contains no narcotic of any kind. 1 1 can
be used any length of time without ac
quiring a drug habit. .."'
Address Dr. llartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio, for free medical advice. All cor
respondence held strictly confidential
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It is true that when the president
wrote these lines he was not thinking
of the "peace of justice" between In
dividuals, but between nations; never
theless the one is but the corollary of
the other. No nation will be unjust
or overbearing to another nation when
"peace of justice" reigns within its
bordere.
Russia, the modern type of the na
tion which, would tyrannously oppress
weaker nations, is notoriously the na
tion in which the powerful within her
own borders tyrannize over the weak
er. ,
The differences between nations al
ways arise in the effort of a tyrannous
clas3 within one nation endeavoring to
extend its tyranny beyond the national
boundary." In the feudal age it was
the nobility which brought about war
Today wars caused by the capitalist
class of one nation wishing to con
quer new markets for itself to the ex
clusion of the capitalist class of some
other nation. For instance, Russian
and Japanese capitalists wanted the
Manchurian market. The Russian cap
italists got their czar to send out his
troops and navy to carry out their
program by force, and the Japanese
capitalists got their mikado to send
out his troops and navy to meet those
of the czar. .,.....,;'-
When the war ends there will be lots
of dead peasants and lots of new cap
italists. There will be peace, but
whether it is the "peace of justice" or
not. is another story. . ;
If the president wishes the peace of
justice between nations, let him first
look to the establishment of the peace
of justice within the borders of his own
mation. It is true that he has, in hi3
message, made feeble steps in this di
rection, although, feeble as they were,
nevertheless they threw the capitalist
class Into a frenzy of fear. The partic
ular paragraph which so excited them
was that in which he recommended
that the government should have the
right to fix the rates charged by the
railways. If there is any danger of
his recommendation causing any such
law to go into effect, it is not surpris
ing that the day after the message
called together In New York a ha3ty
meeting of fourteen of the presidents
of the great railway systems to dis
cuss ways and means to meet the emer
gency. '
The day after there was a violent
break in the stock market, and while
our friend and co-worker, Mr. Thomas
W. Lawson," should be given consider
able credit for this break for he had
advertised in papers that on that day
he would begin his onslaught on the
Copper and Standard Oil crowd still
Lawson himself must admit that the
message of the president, coming out
as it did, was at least a singularly for
tunate coincidence for his bear ope
rations. The probability is that the net result
of the president's threat will be the
hurrying along of Rockefeller's well
laid plan for the complete trustification
of all the railways.
Competition is the cause of secret re
bates and comparatively unjust rates
that the president is so much exercised
over. One railway fears if it does"
not give a rebate to a big shipper
that some. other railway Will take the
business. After , giving a rebate to
one shipper it tries to get even by
charging other shippers exorbitant
rates. The poor railway presidents are
in a dreadful quandary lest they lose
their $50,000 a year jobs, if Rocke
feller takes over the railways, he will
certainly fire them, and if the club that
Roosevelt holds over them govern
ment ownership comes about, then
Uncle Sam will be just as sure to
throw them out. Next to being in the
ingenious ivlrs. Chadwick's' place in
the Tombs, charged with 3 manufactur
ing two million dollars out of nothing.
I think being a railway president is
about the most nerve-shaking position
one can Imagine. With the elimina
tion of competition and war no cap
tains of industry will be wanted. And
even if they hold on to their jobs there
is going, to be very little, for them to J
do. For Roosevelt proposes to manage
their railways for them so completely
that they will not have much more to
do with the running of the trains than
has any mere stockholder like ' the
gay Mr. Vanderbilt himself who spends
all his time in Paris partaking of the
reward of thrift.
The president would have the gov
ernment see that the railways are
equipped with rifety devices for their
employes. He says that he knows It
will never be done "unless the rail
ways are required by law to make am
ple provision for their safety." Talk
about rights of capital and labor; I
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would like to know what recognition
does the president give to the right3 of
capital when he calmly proposes to
take the money of the railways and use
it to build automatic couplers and
block systems, and all against the wilt
and consent of capital.
It used to be said that the capitalist
will have enough heart to look after
hi3 men without any law compelling
him to do so. We said men would not
work for a heartless employer. Then,
when we found capitalists seemed to
get all the labor they wanted, even if
they had no hearts, we said that the
way to get at them was to make them
financially liable for injuries to em
ployes. If going at the heart was a
failure, let us aim at their pocketbooks.
When they find Jt doesn't pay to kLi
and maim men the capitalists will put
safety appliances. The railways sim
ply got comparative figures and found
that good safe and sane judges were to
be had in unlimited quantities at much
lower figures than were the poorest and
cehapest automatic couplers. Therefore
they bought judges instead of auto-'
matic couplers and went gayly on with
the gentle sport of. killing their em
ployes. The president has awakened to this
and he now says the only thing is a
law compelling the installation of
safety devices. - I fear the president
will never see much attention paid to
life when so much, attention is paid to
dividends. If the president is sincere
then let him not hold up the club of
government ownership as a dreadful
alternative to the present system of
murder for profit, but let him advocate
It because it will not only save from
slaughter thousands of employes' lives
every year, but will also at the same
time be a good business proposition
for the people from a purely financial
standpoint.
However, I must give the president
credit for calling attention to the ne
cessity of doing something. I do not
remember of any other president ever
going into the matter of the necessity
of shorter hours for railway employes,
of ihe need of child labor laws, of the
importance of cities looking tothe
housed, and of providing -playgrounds
for children. ..........
The materialistic conception of his
tory finds fresh grounds for its base
in the president's . recognition of the
change of character of our industry
requiring a change of character of our
political institutions. When the re
public was born, industry was local
and carried on on a small scale, and
naturally the several states were given
control of it. Jefferson was the only
statesman farsighted enough to pro
pose any control of industry by the na
tional government, and even he sug
gested it for insurance only, which
from the very nature of the business
has never been of a local character.
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supervision of insurance, is merely re
echoing Jefferson. Today all the great
er businesses are national in their
scope, but the law still assumes them
to be local; so instead of the big cor
porations which are all national in
their operations being incorporated Hjy
some state and very often in a state
where they may never intend to ope
rate. The president now proposes that
these corporations be brought under
national control by having "them in
corporated under a new federal law
by the national congress instead of un
der the state laws by the state legisla
tures. There is no doubt that this is
a perfectly logical proposition, but
whether the corporations who now can
protect themselves under, the old states
risrhts doctrine will not rrefer the nre-
em system ta xne ns w one is question
able. It is considerably cheaper to
buy a state legislature than it is to
buy congress, and then too a state
charter has advantages over a national
charter anyway for incorporators who
want as, little supervision and control
as possible. -
This country is run for the benefit of
the corporations, and' it is doubtful if
even a ivoosevelt will ever change the
system of state control as long as the
corporations own the country.
Let the nation own the corporations
and then we may see something doing.
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The independent l yr.
R. P. Yates, Kenton, Tenn.: "Find
my vote marked for a straight fight.
No fusion in minestate or national.
Give me Tom Watson, first, last and
all the time."
To Curb Th Trusts
Editor Independent: If congress will
the treasury of the United States to
assess corporations, tay 1-4 of one
per cent .up . to $20,000,000, and then
when ther add $20,000,000 more add
one-half per cent to their tax, when
they increase again $20,000,000 add an
other one fourth of a per cent to the
tax, they would not capitalize for any
more than their stock was worth and
there would not be millions of stock
on the market. that is not worth a cent,
or in other words they would not
water their stock. Such a tax would
add millions to the treasury. I would
like to hear from some one through
your paper on this subject!'
AUSTIN BOLLES. ;
Sardina, N. Y.
CO., 35th & Iron Sis., Chicago.
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