FEBRUARY 9, 1905
X5ho Nobracko. Independent
(
1
Old Siorl R.(eld
Some years ego The Independent
; gave itg readers a full history of S'en
. ator Aldrich's capture of the street
car lines in providence, and anarchistic
violation "of a law of the state making
a ten hour day. . The-bpen and notor
icus violation of that law was nothini
but anarchy led by a United States
senator. - The workmen struck and de
manded their rights under , the law
Aldnch led the light on the workmen
and declared tlwir action anarchy.
With the 'vast criminal wealth of the
state to back him, this anarchist sena
tor "won out. ' He succeeded in bonding
and stockjng a cfjmpany A'fcere the real
investment was 12,000,000 for $39,160,
200 and sold the securities to the pub
lie, Now, long atter The Independent
had given its readers the story, Mr
; Clure's magazine has got it and it is
; creating a sensation.
'- Another story which was written up
at the time, in lS(.4 was when it hap
pened, is also made a part of the Mo
Clure Magazine siory. Senator Allen
had a - part in it. It was the raising
, of the tariff on sugar, by which one
mill on a pound more than the sugar
trust asked for vhen the bill was in
the house, by Aldrich when the bill
came to the senate, by which $3,000,
000 was taken out of the people. Aid
rich did that after makins: an agree
ment with the sugar trust to buy the
Rhode Island legislature and re-elect
him to the United States senate. -:
All the readers ofThe Independent
will remember what a . fight Senator
' Allen put up against that steal and
how one of a firm of New York brok
ers who handlei the" sugar stock: for
these senatorial thieves was "sent to
the District of Columbia jail for not
answering questions when subpoenaed
jas a witness before a senate commit
tee. Populists Lave known all these
things for ten years, but they are news
to , the readers of magazines and the
great dailies. ; " . . ,
There is one thing that populists
should; .take into consideration when
reading about th?s anarchist Senator
Aldrich. He is ganerally known as the
t'hoss" of the senate, but the extent
of his power is sot. fully realized. He
is chairman of the finance committee,
, the most imports nt, committee of the
senate,' but he is also chairman of that
cthef committee, which " although it
does not appear on the official list of
committees,, is mor?. powerful than any
of them! ; That -s the" "steering com
mittee" which decides what bills shall
' come before the senate ana what shall
not. Of all the cold blooded villain's
that has ever appeared in American
politics, Aldrich - is the worst. He j
has back of him Rockefeller, the two
families being bound together by mar
riage relations, tlio sugar trust and the
great manufacturing grafters. Aldrich
literally makes every tariff billUhat
- goes through the senate. '
No "Thrust" Intended
Ina recent letter Mr. D. M." Young
of Plattekill, N. Y., takes -me to task
, as follows: ; ; J, -
'' Read your article in' Independent on
New. Zealand. Very good reading; but
but you go out of your, way to make
a thrust at the greatest reformer of
. all times Henry George!
Mr. Young refers to that notice of
Dr. Taylor's new book, "The Fvlitics
, of New Zealand." I must emphatically
disavow any intention of 'making a
. : Vthrust'- at Henry George or anybody
else. For both Henry George and Karl
" ilarx I have the highest regard, and
were I a -hero-worshipper, I'd be com-
pelled to worship both Inconsistent
as that may. appear.
Beyond any doubt the philosophy of
Henry -George is one of justice. So,
too, is the philosophy of Karl Marx,
yet."--'-! Neither has had & fair trial.
If magnet. One 13 individualistic the
' ether collectivistic; yet both are hi-
tended to better the condition of man
kind.; , .
Both, top, are t1 eoretieally beautiful
4f!becausej:the, ! big, ;warm hearts of
George and Marx were fuil of love for
humanity. But iLey are enly theories
yet. Neither has has' fair trial
Either may be correct or both may be
wrong we can' not tell positively; for
we have no concrete examples to guide
us. New Zealand does tot help us,
because, as I tried to' show perhaps
in too blunt a way neither single tax
nor "collective .ownership cf the means
of production ana distribution" has
been tried there.
New Zealand iolicies are more in
accord "with populism" than anything
else and populism isn't rounded out
fully -enough to be dignified by the
name "science" ur "philosophy." If it
be aphilosophy, it is an eclectic one,
taking what is conceived , to be good
from any and all sources The; New
Zealanders were i undoubtedly influ
enced- by Henry George. Their, land
tax shows that. But they violated .the
very foundation tf his philosophy by
imposing an income tax which is
founded ou ability to pay rather than
a payment for advantages conferred... .
There isn't, really, anything of Marx
ism in New Zealand laws, because the
wage system is , left intact. The post
office, savings banks, public railroads,
government insurance, and the like are
concrete examples of applied populism.
The history of New Zealand seems to
disprove some of Lcria's theories in his
"Economic Foundations of! Society."
The middle class actually did capture
the government r.t the polls; held it;
enacted laws to benefit the middle
class; and still hclds the power. If I
understand the socialist doctrine,, New
Zealand rather shatters the "Inevitable'
part. of the program. Up to -1890 it
looked as though capitalism was run
ning its course so swiftly that, if Marx
theories are correct, the co-operative
commonwealth would be "inevitable"
in- a few years it most. Possibly the
union of middle Ci&ss fanners and pro
letarian laborers was "reactionary"
but it was accomplished and is giving
good results. I believe thf same thing
can be done and will be done here in
a few years. ' ! - " 'e - -
No, Mr. Young, -1 have no unkind
words for either Henry George or Karl
-t
Marx. But there is " a w orld ' of " dif
ference between tLeory and ' practice,
as the example of New Zealand shows.
Yet; without the Iheory, there would
belittle progress. .;,'"
CHARLES' Q. DE FRANCE.
New Yjork, Jan. 30,
: . Civilization .',
Tom Watson's. ; speech at Lincoln
was ; the arraignment of the political
course of one of America's" greatest
citizens. While every sentence cut like
a two-:edged sword, while the sarcasnl
was as pungent- as ever employed, by
Cato in his denunciations of Catiline,
yet there was not a trace of malice in
all that he slfid. But the Japanese
seem' to be past masters in thatstyle
of oratory. ; Wher.j can a more terrific
accusation aginst, our modern civili
zation be found trn in the following
extract from an address delivered in
Bgston by Mr. Hyashi, a distinguished
citizen of Japan; :
Today we Japanese have battleships,
torpedoes,, cannon. The China, seas
redden with .the blood of our killed and
of those we kill. Our torpedoes roar,
our shrapnel shriek, our . cannon
breathe slaughter and we die and are
the cause of death.- And you Occiden
tals say to us: "You have won your
rank,' you have civilized yourselves."
Centuries upon centuries we have had
artists, painters, sculptors, t philoso
phers. In the sixteenth century we
had published - in Japanese the fables
of ,Esop were we then barbarians?
His Name 19 Dennis .'
Public Opinion is publishing a" long-drawn-cut
attack on Lawson written
by Dennis Dcnohoe, the financial edi
tor of the New. Vork Commercial. , The
style "would hardly pass muster In.' a'
quarrel over the county printing by two
county papers in the back districts.
The following if a specimen taken from
the beginning of the second number:
"In what respect : Is Mr. Lawson's
The Greatest Western Mail Order House.
Everything
at Lowest
Prices.
nn.nnni i mm
JiJHiLLsijvJs
THE RELIABLE STOKE.
Satisfaction
or you cm j
" Back
This-Handsome Combination Dc:k $15.00 Value for $8.85
I.
We are now making prices on Furni-
lure that will enable you to own the
most desirable goods at X fraction of
, their cast to you Isewhere. ' , ,
This fine COMBINATION. CASE.ali oak
finished in a rich golden,' with French
, ' plate mirror 10x12. (?a$ej3pf ins. wide
and C9 jns. high. ' with large writing
? table and lower cabinet, glass doors to
bookcase, wood quarter sawed Oak, an
"... article that would cost $15 in nearly
any store in the land tQ Q-
" special at.:....:. ;.i;.. .005
YOU CANT HISS IT
By sending us your orders for if the
poods we ship are -not perfectly satis-
factory we will gladly refund your
money ,v
Send for Our New Furniture Catalogue
- Send for Our Spring Clothing Catalogue
ADDRESS DEPT. A 27
.; ;v , i-'
I Li '
: II MP? f
ifu" i
16th and
Dodge
HAYDF.N BROS.
J
thoroueh organization nf a trnlv tia-
- , .1 . e j , ... , . . 1 1 j , 1 w - "
mu , ',.-' tlSnSLl Darty that will antagonize 'In
. The spec!?.! subsidy of $142,700. ... . .
past life pertinent to the subject-matter
of your narrative?" As it is pur
posed in this chapter, an 3 in the suc
ceeding : ones, to depict in vigorous
English, several incidents, in Mr. Law
son's versatile career, which even those
who are, not censorious might ; well
deem shameful, it behooves the writer
todeaf with this question fully and
frankly, here and now. Haunted, he
tells us, njght and day by "that grim
procession of criminals and suicides'!
of his own making, he baws his per
fumed curl3 , over the stool of repent
ance and moans, "Mea Culpa! Mea
Culpa but ' don't forget for one mo
ment that others mad 1 ue do it!"
i - " No Opposition Party ;, , r,
There is no longer any democratic
party in opposition to the republican
party. What remains of that organi
zation
party
to the Southern railway for carryiog
the mails from Washington -to Atlanta
and New Orleans t.sked fo? by the post-
office appropriation bill wa3 before the
house. That is part of the republican
party's " scheme or subsidies., , It ,is
simply a gift by congress with out any
return whatever. It has been bestowed
upon that railroad company for many
years f or the declared purpose of "ex
pediting the mails,-' but In all that. time
the jnails have' nd; been expedited, and
are handled on the same schedules that
were in force before tne subsidy was
granted. It has been one.cf the inde
fensible scandals cf the. subsidy busi
ness for years. "vVhat happened when
this matter was oeiore the 'house? bid
the democratic party attack it? Not at
all. The most active advocates of this
most indefensible subsid were demo
crats. It passed the house with only
seventy-seven vote'd in the negative
and many of them were republican
votes. " . : '
Years ago the dt mocratlc party "did
fight subsidies, but now its leading
members In congiess are the most ac
tive advocates of them." There is no
possible opportunity for the democrats
to put up an opposition 'to the repub
lican party in the next campaign. The
record that the party has made in con
gress is such as In make any such at
tempt supremely ridiculous. There is
a greater proportion of republicans In
congress who really favor railroad reg-'
ulatlon, a. modification of the tariff, a
financial policy that will make every
dollar as good as every other dollar,
postal savings banks, a parcels post,
and who are opposed to subsidies than
there are democrats. With such a state
of affairs as . that, nothing could lie
more ridiculous than Tor the democrats
to put a ticket in che field in pretended "
opposition to tha republican party.
Such an effort would become the laugh'
ins stock of the World.
When the St. -Louis democratic n ac
tional' convention, '.submitted to the
domination of the Wall street gang
that sent the gold telegram,: it then
and there passed : out of existence, as.
a party in opposition to thi republican
party. -,;
: The next thing Jn the political his
tory of. the United States will be' the
earnest the policy of the dominant par
ty, fight subsidies and every other
thing that tends to accumulate the
wealth of this land in tha hands of a
few, and oppose the domination of the
"ten men of Wall street'
New Alignment
Everywhere thi "dailies and maga
zines are talking about 'the new align
ment of parties. It forces itself to the
front The momeni that the democratic
party went over to Wall street and
put the control of its machinery In the"
hands of such men as Tom Taggart,
Belmont and men of that character," a"
"new alignment" became certain. That
made it a political force, if any force
it had, exactly in line v;ith republi
canism a3 supported of the agrandize
ment , of the trusts, corporations and
money power. There was no longer two
parties in the United States and an
other was sure '.orise and take thd
field. The Springfield Republican says:
And that is- how the radical 'repub
lican element comes to be at the mo
ment in the ascendency or the party
and the control - of the government'
How long it will be able to hold its
position is a question fuir of national
interest and replete with possibilities
in relation to party realignments in
the United States.
Everyone know3 that there has long
been in "the republican patty a' larg
radical element Enough of them
bolted the party In 1896 to have cap
tured the government, if democrats
had not gone over to th. republican
la
r
1