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'FEBRUARY 9, 1905
Xj3 Nebraska. Independent
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T." H. TIBBLES, Editor,
'. C. Q. DE FRANCE. Associate Editor.
F. D. EAGER, Business Manager,"
The greatest "calamity howlers" any
where on earth just at present are
Pr.esl(icnt Roosevelt and the interstate
commerce commission. ' v
' Whenever you .see a man with a
pass, spot him A political pauper
who rides around il the expense, of the
v people who do pay their way, is riot the
sort of ta man to do business with.' ;
... " The plan to adopt a railroad rate
fixing. bill, by the house with a whoop
and a yell and send it ov J.r to the. sen
ate to be permanently deposited in a
pigeon-hole, is abcut the most trans
parent political trick evjr attempted
by a set of corrupt politicians. '"'."
"Government fcy injunction" has
troubled the beef trust very much al
though It . has ; been extended over it
, for more than, a year. It Is a different
thing and works like chain lightning
when it gets the control of an organ
ized wage-Torker. ;. W" '
, - The reason why so many of the
political bosses an plutocratic papers
favor a restriction of the suffrage, is
that when they get suffrage limited
they -will not have to Duy so many
votes to carry an election. But as the
supply of voters decreased ' the price
might rise.- That is the law in eco
nomics and why would it not apply to
politics? ' . -
A first-class specimen of John Bull
hypocrisy, was given to thi world last
.week. The whole English, press was
berating the czar for refusing to re
. ceive in person a petition of the work
men and zemstvos for a representative
government. When exactly- the same
proposition was irade to Lord Curzoh
by the people of Irldia, Ue acted pre
cisely as did. tha czar and refined on
exactly the same grounds, r.amely, that
"the people were not preparedfor self-
- . government." The English' press has
no condemnation lor Lord Curzon.
.. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker, of the
. - house, who has been exploited by the
: -papers as a common old farmer, turns
out to be one of the worst snobs in
Washington. He has a devil wagon
of the true man-killing type, and "car
ries on" in other ways after the gen
uine plutocratic style. The president
gav6 a dinner party the other night
to wlhich the " speaker was invited.
When Cannon found out that the ar
rangements were such that the jus
tices of the supreme court would out
rank him, he wrote a riote to the pres
ident declining to , attend, , saying he
- would not be outranked by any per
son at (hat dinner except the president
himself. That Is the kiai of an old
snob the speaker of the house of con
. press Is, -y. V;: ; ;--. ; ' ' , . ,; Ma.
R.ooaevelt's Socialism
In trying to avoid the government
ownership of natural monopolies such
as railroads and things of that charac
ter, Roosevelt is driven into socialism.
If the principle of the government own
ership of monopolies is discarded, there
is ho other landing place than social
ism. In his speech in Philadelphia the
other day, President Roosevelt said:
.The great development of industrial
ism, means, that there must be anin
crease in the supervision exercised by
the government over business enter
prises. 1 .
. That statement is. straight, undeflled
Marxian socialism and will be so rec
ognized "by any socialist. In fact, a so
cialist-brought .that statement to the
notice of the" editor of. The Indepen
dent- with the claim - that economic
force waa driving this nation to social
ism. In an irresistible manner. That
socialist was in high spirits over the
tact that the president of the United
States ..was.', forced by the economic
environment, that ; is, ; the prevailing
mode of production," to adopt one of
the fundamental principles of social
ism. -.; V; '. . , . .
The position ta'.ien by the president,
The independent1 utterly repudiates. It
declares that any supervision exercised
by the government over any private
business enterprises whatever, further
than now provided in the already es
tablished laws which protect property
and enforce contracts, is usurpation
and trespass upon the rights of sov
ereign citizens. The government has
no right to tell any man what he shall
charge for goods or services. When it
does that, it enters 011 a course that
sap3 the very foundations of liberty,
if is socialism in 'M fundamental form.
That doctrine' is more destructive
than the thing that it proposes to su
persede, as ruinous as ; that has been.
The policy that .has been? followed
heretofore "was '"co delegate to private
parties part of the sovereignty' of gov
ernment. Now Instead of withdrawing
that delegated power of eminent do
main, it proposes that the government
enjter fields of private affairs and dir
rect the business of private individuals.
That is socialism.
- What the populists propose is that
the government v resume ; its rightful
authority, forbid the delegation to in
dividuals of the "tower to tax, through
the control, of the highways and mean3
of communication. Those are govern
ment functions, an! private individuals
can no exercise tnein without dele
gated, authority from the government.
Let the government own the railroads
and all other. natural monopolies where
competition is impossible, and there
will be no need uf this presidential so
cialism. The private ownership of railroads,
telegraphs and telephones under so
called government control, can not be
distinguished from the socialist idea of
"state" control under socialism, where
all sorts , of business i3, directed and
controlled by the "state." ; The prin
ciple is exactly the same.
The people's party would leave every
man to conduct his private business,
whether, alorie, in co-partnerships on
corporative capacity, as he pleased as
long as he conformed to the laws pre
serving property Tights, did not de
ceive, or obtain money or property by
false pretenses, or do any 'of the other
things now prohibited by law. That
policy is the concensus of the wisdom
of the ages. Let every one be free
free to conduct his own business as;
long as he does not trespass on the
equal rights of others. j
The Grea.t What Is It
If avrailroad is private property the
government has, :io right to .interfere
with it in any way different from any
other, private property.
If a -railroad Js "quasi" public or
semi-public property, then one-half of
Its bonds and , ttocks should be de
posited in the public treasury and one-
half of its directory should - be ap
pointed by the pjblic.
f !If ' a railroad is ? "quasi" .public or
then the government should have full
control of It and manage it a3 all other
government property is managed."
It is not possible for a railroad to
be public, and private property at the
same time. : -
There are court decisions that say
railroads are public" property and are
managed by the stockholders as agents
of the government.
There are decisions that say that
railroads are qu.v.-public property.
The railroads under the political
management of tin capitalists and con
gress have become 'The Great What
Is It', of the new world. The question
was long ago' seUltd in the old world.
. Railroads In Congress
The very' same question raised by
The Independent concerning .whether
railroads are private property, public
property, or both private and public
propety at the same time, was raised
the moment that the rate regulation
bill was opened for discussion in the
house of representatives iast Tuesday
Mr. McCall of Massachusetts declaped
that the regulation of rates was I'in
compatible with tha fundamental pfin
ciples of private property." Mr. Mc
Call is rights If the railroads are
private property the government -has
no more right to fix their charges than
it has to fix the price for which a far
mer shall sell his wheat. The "courts
are bound to so hold.. It would be a
dangerous thing lo: the courts to hold
that the government could come in and
regulate the use end fix the income of
private property. That would be pa
ternalism such as no government not
even, that of the czar ever attempted.
Can the government set aside a certain
amount of prive . property and say
that it will regulate that and fixs the
income for that, and net ; from all
private property? Will the government
undertake to regulate, manage and
control all privacc property? n That Js
socialism, and right towards 'that goes
this demand for regulation of the in
come of railroad; while they are in
private hands. : -
One thing to do, is for the govern
ment to acquire the railroads, make
them government property and manage
and direct them for. the good of the
public, and the other thing to db is fof
the government to stop this paternalism
and let private property, alone, subject
only to the general laws - enforcing
honest dealing. i '
The Morton Family
The interstate commerce commission
having asked tho attorney . general to
begin proceedings against the Santa
Fe for giving rebates that amounted to
over 5400,600 to th. Colorado; Fuel and
Iron company-has caused a good many
inquiries to be made about Paul Mor
ton who is now a member of Roose
velt's cabinet, but was the traffic man
ager, of the Santa Fe when the. rebates
were given. It appears that Paul Mor
ton was also a stockholder in. the Colo
rado Fuel and Iionv company at the
time he gave tho rebates to' that com
pany and . from which he personally
benefited. It appears to oe as flagrant
a case as could well be imagined.
Paul Morton is r. pn of J. Sterling
Morton who was t. member of Cleve
land's cabinet. ' J.' Sterling Morton had
four sons, Joy, born in ; 1855; Paul,
born in 1857; Mark, born in 1858, and
Carl, born in 1865. Carl died Jan. 7,
1891. Joy is an officer or engaged in
some way by tho salt .trust. Mark 13
in various business enterprises and
Paul is the "reformed traffic mana
ger" upon whom Roosevelt relies for
expert advice concerning how to con
trol the railroads. The elder, Morton
was always a railroad man and accu
mulated his fortune by his connection
with them.
If any man wants to know what con
gress is going to do about the .tariff,
let him go and ask AldriqJl. If Ald
rlch, won't tell, then no cne can find
out what 'is, Soing to be done. ? !
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