Ufff Nebraska. Independent
PAG13 8
FEBRUARY 16, 1505
t1)t tlebrasha Independent
Lincoln, ntbratka.
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T. H. TIBBLES, Editor.'
C. Q. DE FRANCE, Associate Editor.
F. D. EAGER, Business "luanager.
According to President Eliot of Har
vard college, the- prize fight occupies
an equal, if not higher moral level
than football as ii has been played in
the interstate contests. Most people
who have . watched these games will
agree with President Elict.
The New York World says "the
democratic party of the Empire state
needs ideals, principles, initiative,
more than it needs a leader." The or
dinary observer of political affairs
would be inclined to say that that is
what it needs everywhere.
The first work of Burkett since his
election to the United States senate is
seen in the appointment cf State Sen-
-a rr . . . 1 tt 1 1 1 2 il
mur lucKer ui numuuua us jusuw
of the supreme court of Arizona. It
Is the opinion of lawyers hereabouts,
that if the whole pile of republican
politicians in the &tate hai been raked
over, no more unfit or wholly unquali
fied candidate could haye been found,.
He will turn out ju&t as Ben Baker did.
The suffering in Cincinnati seems
equal to that in any of the other large
cities. The Times-Star says: "In Jan
uary last year the bread line was in
stituted temporarily, and many were
fed but conditions have altered terri
bly for the worse, and this season
sees nun craving food and clothing
who, in other yecrs, were at least com
fortably independent." Plutocratic
prosperity is doh;g its perfect work all
over the "countty.
The New York eWorld announced
that as Senator Depew has been re
tired from the position of chairman of
the board of directors of the .Vander-bilt-roads,
he will hereafter spend con
siderable of his time in Washington.
Heretofore Depew has given almost
the whole of his time to the railroads.
He was onlj certain to be in Wash
ington when the New York Central
and allied roads wanted him there.
Depew is a fair precimen of the cor
poration senators. Will that sort of
thing go on forever?
The New Jersey authorities have
rccomended voice culture and instru
mental music as one of ths best means
of reform. Some doctors of, note in
-New. York are also recommending mu
Bic as a cure for disease. The papers
do not say that they "are holding
themselves out" to do that, but it is
evident that the Gage county Solon
who Introduced the anti-Caristian sci
ence bill in the Nebraska -legislature,
had better be looking after those fel
lows down east. He ought to provide
some way to make those cianks down
there stick to drug?; and patent medi-
t . . TT Y J 1 - .1 1 r
cines. using music as meuicine is cer
tainly as bad as any faith cure.
The American Grand Dukes j
The dailies have had a great deal to
say about the corruption grafting and
thieving of the bureaucrats of Rus
sia, but the fact Is that our grand
dukes of the United States senate are
just as corrupt a3 the grand dukes
of Russia. Iast week a paper was filed
in the senate asking for the expulsion
ot. Senator Piatt, charging him with
being at the tiead of the express trust
that fixed charges everywhere in- the
United States and that he was there to
legislate for the express companies and
against the interest of the people.
Everybody knows that the charge is
true. It will be utterly impossible to
get a bill through the senate for a pas
ta! check currency, a parcels post or
any other legislation along that line as
long as Piatt is in the senate.
At the same time it has been an
nounced that. Piatt has been sued for
breach of promise. Everyone in Wash
ington knows thai the charges In that
case are true also. He 'transferred a
ycung woman from a government po
sition in New York to one in Wash
ington, wrote her a hundred or more
passionate love letters, promised to
marry her, and then when he got a
chance to -marry r. ricji widow jilted
the girl. He made some sort of a set
tlement at the time of his marriage,
but the young woman has now brought
a more serious charge against him
than breach of promise, although that
is part of the charge.
Three of these grand dukes have
been indicted during the year and
charges of the most serious character
have been made against others, in
cluding Senator Warren of Wyoming.
Among the formal charges presented
in the Wyoming legislature are the
following:.
That Charles II. Smith, brother-in-law
of Senator Warren, was kept on
the senate payroll at Washington as
a clerk of the committee on claims
(Senator Warren, chairman) " at a
salary of $2,200 .1 year, while in fact
he never served in" tuch . capacity in
Washington, but stayed in Cheyenne
al! the time, turning his salary over to
Senator Warren.
That Hiram Sapp similarly col
lected $1,400 f 10m the government as
assistant clerk, and turned the money
over to the senator, while remaining in
Cheyenne.
That Frances E. Warren, son and
namesake of the senator, is drawing
pay as an . assistant clerk of the com
mittee on claims, although having
been absent from Washington and a
student at Harvard university.
That Senator Warren leased a build
ing to the government to be used as
a postoffice while a United States
senator.
That Senator Warren has, in viola
tion of the federal statutes, fenced in
a vast area of government land.
That Senator Warren used his ihflu
efice to secure from the federal gov
ernment a contract for lighting Fort
D. A. Russell, - at Cheyenne, for the
Cheyenne Light, Fv.el and Power com
pany, of which hs was incorporator
and is a principal stockholder.
Every grand dyke in Washington is
guilty of some of the offenses charged
in- the above account against ' Senator
Warren and everybody in Washington
knows that they .re guiity. Everyone
who has traveled through the west
and macre any inquiries at all or even
kept his eyes open, knows that Senator
Warren has fenced in many thousands
of acres of government land. The
president knows that he has, for he
was informed of that fact when he was
swinging his big stick around and de
claring that the fences on the govern
ment land had to come down. But
Teddy laid away his big stick and the
fences are there yet.
Even a summary of the grafting of
the American grand duke3 would fill
every column in The Independent.
Every man, 'especially every newspa
per correspondent in Washington
knows all about these things, but they
keep silent One of the most brilliant
newspaper men in Washington wrote
to the editor of The Independent the
other day that whenever he put a
paragraph of that kind in his corre
spondence it was blue penciled, and he
was sure that if he put them in too
often he would be bounced. The grand
dukes would see to that.
The Religious Press
The money power has used the re
ligious press for twelve year3 for its
own purposes, having suDsmizea- it
through advertising contracts, and
finding now that it is no longer neces
sary, Tare withdrawing those contracts,
in consequence of which there is an
uproar among religious publishing
houses. At a meeting of the managers
of the Methodist Book concern in New
York the other day a special commit
tee composed of five members was ap
pointed to investigate the inclination
oi advertisers to withdraw from the
religious press.
The religious press is as much or
more responsible for the evil condi
tions that now exist as the daily press.
It went over, with a few exceptions, to
Wall street in 1892 and has been there
ever since. For y?ars when these "cap
tains of industry ' would not put an
advertisement in The Independent at
any price, the columns of the religious
press were crowded with them. .We
hope these religios editors will look
upon the withdrawal of advertisements
as a direct chastisement of the Lord
and that the editors will repent and
do better in the future. While this
thing has been goingvon, crime has in
creased far beyond the Increase in
population.
' The scientists are claiming 1 that
ethics is simply what is Lest for man.
That what is called "good" benefits
man and what is called "ejil" is an
injury to man, and that is the rea
son, thatit is celled good and evil.
That is nothing more than the old
orthodox belief vut into & . new form.
The religious presi has assisted the
evil for these man years, but its man
agers will rind out that it has not been
good for man, not even for those men
who expected to profit by it. The
clergy themselves constantly complain
because the wage worker and the com
mon people will not attend church.
The complain because the educated
eli'Sfc-es are deserting the old beliefs,
and they have good cause to complain.
If things drift on in the same way,
there will, in a few decades be no
church. Mr. Ghent's doctrine that
economic force makes the morals of
the people will be adopted, and after
that there will be no use for preach
ers and churches.
What the ministe'rs want to do is
adopt the scientific basis cl ethics and
preach and practice it. No other basis
for ethics can exist. If God is good,
then it follows that righteousness and
right living is the best thing for man.
That wrong, robbery, extortion, and
in fact, every thing immoral, is bad
for man, and that too, whether the
economic force tends to drive him that
way or not.
There is not a church in Lincoln, or
any other city, that would hold the
people who would flock to hear the
preacher who would denounce the
crimes of Wall street and the. cap
tains of industry. The would flock
to hear him just as people, buy Tom
Lawson's articles by the hundred thou
sand. That would be preach "moral
ity," the people would instinctively
feel that it was "good," that it was
"ethics,'.' and that it was the best thing
for them and all the world.
The house judiciary committee killed
the anti-injunction bill quicker than
one could say "scat." Will labor
unions continue to "vote 'er straight?"
Is your subscription paid? The date
with the address on the wrapper will
tell you. It is put there for your In
formation and to avoid mistakes and
disputes. . . ..'
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THE
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