FEBRUARY 23, 1905
&e Nebraska. Indopendont
you used to rave when the populist
proposed a moderate maximum freight
rate bill with none of these other at
tachments. Is it any, wonder the old
Nebraska pop strokes hi3 whiskers and
smiles a quiet smile?
This attempt in Kansas to down mo
nopoly and .re-establish" competition
has given heart to those who have been
robbed for so many years in other
states and they have mustered up cour
age enough to attack the trust also.
Indiana, Texas, Iowa and Oklahoma
have fallen into line, but they have
all run up against one thing freight
rates. There is where every man lands
that starts out to get justice in a con
test with any trust. That's the snub
bing post that every one, is drawn up
to, tied and then kicked. There will
be no final relief, and these Kansans
and other fellows who have started
out to fight ; the trust will find that
there is none, until the government
'cwns the railroads. As soon as Rocke
feller got his pipe line complete, rates
ch crude oil went up . to 51 cents a
.barrel for. crude oil from Kansas oi!
:fields to the Missouri river, while
Rockefeller redud the price of oil
to 31 cents a barrel.
When we populiuts used to try to tell
the republicans about these things, the
'great dailies immediately denounced us
v.f lunatics and anarchists. Theyin-
slsterl that- tmsts vvprp hpnevnlpnt - in-
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.slitutions and declared that they re
duced expenses a.V lowered the price
to the consumer, althougn prices al
"ways rose to the consumer as soon as
"the trust got into working order. Every
'time that Rockefeller reduced the price
or cruae on, ne raiseu uits- pnus ui
(the refined.
In this fight against the trust, the
republicans have not gone at it in Jhe
way that a populut would. The popu
' list ' would prosecute: criminally the
s Standard' "Oil managers, 'and as; scon
as they - had the Vald-pated old pirate
. ir. the penitentiary, they w'culd go after
the railroads! But the republicans are
oing pretty, well, that -is, considering
Hhe class of, newspapers,"fhfy have been
. reading. "The -populists shout, "Whoop-
tla! ..Give if. to. Jem". : :
j Costly Newspapers
The Custer County Beacon (populist),
. cays: '
. We took charge of the county in 1890,
with a debt of $40,000 hanging like a
i dark pall over us. In spite of drouth,
the chinch bugs, grasshoppers and the
bankers' panic, we paid off every dol
lar of that indebtedness and turned
over the county to our successors with
ova warrant raid and with a lew cut
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in two. .
But the people wearied cf well-doing.
For some unaccountable reason they
took from ourhands the reins of coun
ty government and turned them over
to our political enemy. Now, we take
our compas3 to find where we are,
after several years of high tax levies
and collections under distress, and find
V, nr-n orroin in HoVlt 1 K (Cft
When the populists had the state
government they acted very much in
the same way, anl in spite of years of
drouth, mortgage foreclosures, and
without raising taxes, paid off more
than $600,000 of the state dejjt. But
the people did not like that either, and
now with vastly increased taxation, Ave
have a vastly increased state debt.
These are facts. The official records
at the state capital show that they
are facts. Any man who denies that
they are facts, is simply ignorant or
a common, every day, political liar.
The farmers who prefer to have a plu
tocratic paper that costs only 25 cents
a year or is sent to them for nothing,
perhaps don't know the fact3 and they
iu the end pay frcm $10 to $25 a year
for their paper in increased taxation.
The tax-eaters can well afford to send
the papers to the farmers for 25 cents
or for nothing.
Wildcat Insurance
The New York Equitable Life In
surance company it a stock company
the sort of company that the people
in Nebraska havs been in the habit of
calling "old line" companies. Its cap
ital stock only amounts to $100,000 and
James H. Hyde owns 51 per cent of it,
which gives thi3 young high flyer the
management of over five hundred mil
lion dollars of money to invest, and
Insurance to the amount of 1,500 mil
lions. When young Hyde, who inher
ited this stock from his father, gave
a hundred thousand dollar dinner at
which the performance of the Little
Egypt at the SVeley dinner in the
''altogether," were put into the shade,
there was a row. The knowledge that
the savings of millions of people are
at the mercy of this young butterfly
of fashion is not d pleasing-one, and
the prospect that the Equitable had
leached a point where the public would
no longer patroniza it caused some of
the more sober ones connected with
the company to advocate a change ot
its organization to that policy holders
could have a voice in tho election of
directors. But the Independent believes
that back of all this is the use of the
r..any millions of the' Equilable funds
by trust and loan companies connected
with Wall Ureet, as a marKei foi- reil
r.ad bonds and stocks of the his i rusts.
It has even been suggested that E.
K. Harrinian be ejected president of
the Equitable, an l Urns tunithe whole
affair over to the Standard Oil crowd.
The PhlMppines
From several remarl s made by re
publican member-; in the house during
the last few weeks it is very evident
that that body is in a mood, privately,
to aAvard a handsome -priw to any one
Mho will point out a decent and hon
orable w?ay for us to retire from the
far east and relinquish our obligations
ir. our colonial possessions.
George E. Frost, chairman of the
committee on naval affairs remarked
very . bitterly the other day after a
fight on the navi, appropriation bill
that: "At least one third of great naval
outlay was attributable to our posi
tion in the Philippines." Another mem
ber of congress said in discussing the
same subject: "We are like the man
who had the bear by the . tail, w can't
1st go and we enn't hold on." Both
members of the lie use and senate are
eaj ing: "We got nto the greatest mess
in all our history when we took the
islands, but now that we have got them
we must hold on unlil we find a chance
tc slide out. One . . the republican sen
ators from the nnrthwest Enid:
If Japan is successful in the present
war with Russia, and, becoming-arrogant
at the end of that conflicCcasts
covetous eyes at the Philippines, on
my soul, I don't know how we could
prevent her from taking them. Of
course, if Uncle Sam got his dander
up we could go over there and retake
them, but I think it would be hard to
inflame public sentiment in this coun
try sufficiently to make that re-conquest
possible.
The readers of The Independent will
remember how often it declared when
the republicans had the imperial craze
that the acquisition of the Philippines,
instead of being a defense in time of
war, would be a weakness, and that
it would be almost impossible to hold
them and defend our own coasts
against any great power.
But the republican leaders have had
a fashion whenever a fad struck them,
whether financial, domestic or foreign,
to declare that every man who pointed
out their fqlloy and madr-ess, was a
traitor and a copperhead. And every
mullet head whei he heard the declar
ation answered back: "Yep, that's so."
Only One Wtvy
The object of The Independent has
been to show the absurdity of this talk
about "railroad control." It involves
a contradiction. If the government
ha3 a right to regulate one kind of pri
vate property it hjs a right to regulate
all kinds. If it can say that a man
who invests his money in a railroad
can not fix the price of his service and
the commodity he has to sell, it also
has the right to fix the price of the
service and the commodity of the man
who puts his money in a farm. The
principle is exactly the same. To get
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