FEBRUARY 2, 1905.
Ure Nohrasfccx Independent
PAGE 3
Jayhawkers on the War Path
They Strike the Tro.ll of Rockefeller.
The people of Kansas, like the people
elsewhere, are like the patient ox and
will stand almost any amount of goad
ing in piling up wealth for the "ten
men of Wall street." But they seem
to have reached a limit in toiling for
, one of them the saintly John D. Rock
efeller. How many of them are outxm
the war path The Independent cannot
say but thousands of the following cir
culars are being scattered over the
state:
"SHALL WE, TACKLE 'THE OCTO
PUS?" Shall the state of Kansas , grapple
with the greatest commercial pirate
civilization ever harbored, and build a
refinery? If not, why not? Do you
favor it? If so, get out of the camp of
Gen. Apathy and help the project.
-Don't be a clam. It makes no dif
ference now "Who struck Billy Patter
son." He'3 dead. The tough proposi
tion before us now is "STANDARD
OIL." :
WHO. STRUCK STANDARD' OIL?
Nobody. Lots of people are telling
how much it deserves it. It's the worst
enemy of decency, of justice and of civ
ilization in the world. New York
w anted to hit It, but backed out. Penn
sylvania trained a little for a scrap,
but was cowed. Ohio danced around
the ring a little while under Monet's
lead and then called him off. Indiana
did no better. New York, dasn't.
Pennsylvania dasn't. Indiana dasn't
and Kansas? It's up to Kansas now.
Kansas is just feeling of the claws of
this "tough proposition."
"SHALL WE TACKLE THE OCTO
PUS?"
"To be, or not to be; that's the ques
tion." If New York, efc al., dasn't,
"WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
KANSAS?"
Ten years hence when people are
saying: "Who struck Standard Oil?"
would you take pride in stating, Why,
Kansas, of course! Kansas struck
Standard Oil that tough proposition
and gave it a solar plexus
"Let U3 tackle the octopus" with a
state refinery and a state salt plant,
and in doing it let us not make the mis
take of fighting these monopolies with
convicts. Give the job of constructing
the works and of serving therein after
they are built to free labor.
PERCY DANIELS.
Populist Campaign Debt. f
S'even hundred dollars would now
wipe off the national committee's slate.
More than one-third of the work has
been performed which The Independent
set out to do. There should be no lag
ging now until every dollar of the debt
is paid. It can be done in the course
of a few weeks.
It is encouraging to see how widely
scattered the current contributors are.
Messrs Whitmore, Campbell and Manz,
of Rochester, N. Y., are old guard pop
ulists who have kept the faith, lo, these
.many, years. Mr. Latton; of Chicago,
is head of a large firm of decorators
and clings to populism as the nation s
hope even in Chicago, thai city of so
cialism. Mr. Humphrey, of Moscow,
Idaho, is another of tlii faithful, not
withstanding, the body blow Henry
Heitfeld gave populism when he de
serted. He remarks that 'there must
be several thousand populists fully as
able to subscribe 15.00 as I am," and,
no doubt, he is correct.
, Messrs. Adar, Edwards and Edwards
of Caldwell county, Mo., have been
earnest workers for years. They were
very early in the Old Guard of Popu
lism and did much to make it a sue
cess.- -
Mr. Moore, of Hawley, Minn., is a
staunch believer in reform all along
the line. He styles himself "The Spel
ing Reformer," and insists in "speling"
"askt" that way even if the "buks"
"shuld" say it is "rong." Curiously
enough, however, he doesn't "spel" his
own name ,"Mor." Mr. Moore objects
to the statement made by. Secretary
De France in The Independent of Dec,
15, that populists who cannot afford to
give a dollar should not be asked to
give anything. He believes otherwise
and backs up, his belief by collecting
dimes from his neighbors to help pay
off the debt. Theoretically, Mr. Moore
is right but there are not many pop
ulists who would push the work as
energetically as he does.
Of course, we must not forget that
Bennett Travis, of Franklin, Nebi, also
believes in seeing his neighbors and
soliciting their aid. - Mr. Travis is one
of the hardest workers for populism in
the state. He chides The Independent
'for allowing democrats' or demo-pops
a hearing in its columns. In this, The
Independent thinks Mr. Travis errs.
The paper should not be monopolized
by those populists who, believe in
breaking up their own party to help a
vacillating democracy but such men
should not be denied a hearing. All
sorts of men, with widel,- varying ideas
as to what i3 best to be done to bring
about reform in money, land and trans
portation, make up the people's party.
The Independent believes straight
party action will in the long run ac
complish most. It is not believed that
when Mr. Bryan was thd candidate of
a rejuvenated democracy, which held
out hope of acomplishing'in short or
der a part that populists want. But
Mr. Bryan failed to holL.the fort. His
political enemies re-captured it. And,
simply because their uniform was
, branded "democracy" the same as his,
.he helped them to inflict all possible
Injury upon the staunchest friends he
ever had the populists.
The Independent supported . fusion
With Bryan democrats in 1S9(J and
1900, and in the state campaigns. It
had ample justification for such a
course then, but it has none now, be
cause the democratic party is now "ir
revocably" committed to Parkerism for
four yeare at least. Fusion with Roose
velt republicans would be much more
logical today.
But there, are sincere populists who
live in the past Fusion is a; fixed
habit with them they dread the at
tempt to break it.
If The Independent were "to follow
Mr. Travis' advice," these men would
be denied a hearing" in its columns.
Would that be carrying out the idea
of freedom of speech and discussion?
Mr. Travis must know it would not.
There is only one thing that prevents
every reader of The Independent from
having a hearing and that is lack of
space. The letters come so fast that it
is not possible to print even the very
best. Quite ofter a rather inferior
letter crowds out a better one because
the one is typewritten or pen written
in such shape that the editor can pre
pare it for publication with a minimum
of eye strain. Some writers use pale
ink, or hard pencil, on soft, spongy pa
per, and write the lines and words so
crowded that nothing short of copying
many letters that cannot be read by
artificial light, except by 3evere strain
on the eyes. These are often of great
importance, too, but are laid aside for
the more legible ones as a matter of
necessity not choice.
- But, to the real question at band
the populist campaign debt. Below is
a statement complete up to January
28. Read it over. Cannot you, dear
reader, help to cut down' that balance
ot $701.27? Why not send The Inde
pendent a check for $3.00 or $10.00 to
day? Or a money order for a dollar?
Every little helps.
CURRENT RECEIPTS.
Previously acknowledged $288 ,57
Tom Watson's Magazine 25 00
Morgan's Buzz Saw 20 00
Bennett. Travis, Franklin, Neb. 1 00
D. Baker, Franklin, Neb
Ceo. Buck, sr., Franklin, Neb...
L. A. Whitmore, Franklin, Neb.
S'cott Blake, Franklin Neb......
James Grout, Franklin, Neb....
John A. Barker, Franklin, Neb.
O. P. Moore, Hawley, Minn.....
W. II. Anderson, Hawley, Minn.
Warren Works, Hawley, Minn.
Knut Togerson, Hawley, Minn.
G. M. Adair, Kingston, Mo. ...
Amos Edwards, Hamilton, Mo.
Haywood Edwards, Hamilton
Theodore Lattan, 125 W.' Madi
son St., Chicago, 111 5 00
S. G. Humphrey. 808 Ash St..
Moscow, Idaho 5 00
Enos B. Whitmore, J. M. Camp
bell and Loui3 Manz, 52 Rey
nolds Arcade, Rochester, N.
y
FREE CATALOGUE
Beautifully llluttrafeii Willi ail tki
50
50
25
50
59
25
10
10
10
10
00
00
00
10 00
Total to Jan. 28, 1905........ $3G0 47
TOTAL CASH RECEIPTS.
From beginning of campaign
UP to Jan. 19, 1905 f.... $2,219 48
This week's receipts. ......... 71 90
Total to Jan. 28, 1905. .... ...$2,291 38
RE-
APPLICATION OF CURRENT
CEIPTS.
Office supplies.. .,...$ 4 40
Paid Joliet News............... 40 60
Paid W. N. U., Lincoln.......... 12 2G
Paid Secretary De France....... 14 64
Total .............. .$71 90
THE DEBT.
Joliet News -Co.. .$417 27
Secretary s salary 154 75
W. N..U., Lincoln 90 00
W. N. U., Oklahoma 11 40
Matrices Watson's Letter 25 00
Daily papers 2 85
Net debt" Jan. 28, 1905...... ,..$701 27
Address, The Independent, - Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Wants One Side Only
Whenever the editor of The Indepen
dent, gets a letter like the following,
nothing gives him more pleasure than
to publish it with instructions to the
jakeup" to give it a good place. A
man who cannot read both sides of the
the whole artile will enable the editor, case, is not intelligent enough to be a
to grasp its import. The editor receives subscriber of The Independent and the
If you hve not remembered the dead
by erecting a uitabie monument, now is
a good time to give the subject your
attention. Our catalogue is complete
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It is free. Write for it today.
KIMBALL BROS.,
1468 O St-, Lincoln, Ncbr-
sooner that sort of a multet head gets
a paper that prints nothing but what
he believes in the better it will be for
both parties.. The 'Independent opened
its columns to a discussion of a public
question in which the political action
of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearat were dis
cussed. Every letter received by The
Independent in defense of Mr. Bryan's
political course has been printed in full,
while not one of fifty who took issue'
with him' has been printed. The most
severe criticisms of Mr. Bryan were re
ceived from democrats. Only the lem ,
objectionable of them were ever al- -lowed
to appear in print.
If there are many teachers in the
Indian schools who insist on present
ing only one side of every question to
their pupils, a principle which the
writer of the following letter endorses.
there is no wonder that they have not
made greater advancement. If there
is anothr subscriber of this paper who
wants its policy changed, and hereafter
never print but one si'de of a question,
we. hope he will "stop the paper" im
mediately. To send printed matter- to
such, people is a dead loss. -
Department of the Interior, Indian
S'chool Service, Lehi Indian School,
Mesa, Ariz., Jaa. 24, 1905. Hon. T. H.
Tibbies, Editor Nebraska Independent,
Dear Sir: My subscription to The In'
dependent expires on the SVinst. Please
discontinue it at that date.? I have
been almost a continuous subscriber to
The Independent and its predecessors
since 1890. I still subscribe to the -
principles it advocates, but do not ap
prove of the attitude of the editor to-
wards Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst. These
two men are doing more for the cause
of reform than it is possible for The
Independent and its- disgruntled editor
to do. Very respectfully.
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