X5he Nobrashoc Independent
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MARCH 23, 1905
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T. H. TIBBLES, Editor.
;C. Q. DE FRANCE, Associate Editor.
F.D. EAGER, Business biauager.
The four great generals of the Jap-
fl T1 frt ntr-ntr nun nil a r n .1
iuimc ai iujr aic an uu auuuuui aiiu
ought to be chloroformed according
to Dr. Osier.
Mr. Ager served him right. If a
man will take an annual for himself
and trip ' passes for his family and
then won't tote the way the railroads
order, he ought to' be pilloried. He is
a very ungrateful wretch. -
One of the most pathetic things in
all the history of this stale has been
the piteous appeals of the members of
this republican legislature for some
body to save them from the railroad
lobby.
A German engineer is building a
railrbad to Mecca for the use of the
pilgrims. He gets the rails from the
American Steel trust and they are laid
down at Beirut, $6 a ton cheaper than
they can be bought in America. When
is Teddy going to '"bust the steel
trust? .-;
The plutocratic grafters and "cor
poration cormorants" have two
schemes neither of which has ever
proved an entire failure. One is to
. "investigate ' and the other is to de
clare it unconstitutional. When one
wont work, the other always will.
This Garfield business is becoming
simply ridiculous. When ordered to
investigate the Standard Oil opera
tions in Kansas, he went to New York
and spent some , days with the Stand
ard Oil attorneys. Then he went south
on a fishing trip saying that he wanted
to get good rested before he tackled
the Standard Oil in Kansas.
Bishop Berkeley's poem being trans
lated into Japanese, they pondered for
a while on the words: "Westward the
course of empire takes its way," then
the little cherry blossom worshippers
shouldered their knapsacks and start
ed after the setting sun. At last ac
counts theyjiad got as far as Tie Pass
None of them showed any intention
of stopping there. How much further
their empire will take its way, no
body knows.
The people on the Pacific coast who
are so frightened about Japanese imi
gration, should possess their souls in
peace. That "westward the course of
empire takes its way" and immigra
tion also, has been a law for ten thou
sand years. The great movements of
population have always been toward
the, west ever since history began to
be written. . Now that the Japanese
have full sway in that undeveloped
region' of Corea, there is not much dan
ger that they will prefer to cross 5,000
miles of sea to come eastward.
Union Pacific Frauds
Every one who has made the slight
est investigation of the subject knows
that Abraham Lincoln, in spite of the
tremendous pressure brought upon
him, insisted that the terminus of the
Union Pacific road should be on the
east side of the Missouri river, so that
bridge over that stream should be a
part of the road on which toils could
not be exacted any more than over
any other bridge on the road. Wrhile
Council Bluffs was fixed as the ter
minus, the scoundrels who built the
road and whose successors have fol
lowed the same policies to this day
have made the bridge a toll bridge, as
though it was not a part of the road.
Mr. Edward Rosewater had personal
knowledge of the whole matter, for
he was there when the swindling was
done, gave in the Bee the other day a
short account of the transaction which
is reproduced for the benefit of the
younger generation and those who
have made Nebraska their home since
that time. Mr. Rosewater says:
City Treasurer Hennings is to be
commended for calling the attention of
the city council to the refusal of the
Union Pacific Railroad company to pay
city taxes on the west half of its Mis
souri river bridge, and it is to be
hoped the council will not stultify
itself by allowing the treasurer's re
port to remain within the pigeonhole.
The Union Pacific bridge was orig
inally erected by authority of a special
act of congress, and the structure was
capitalized for $2,500,000, for which
amount 8 per cent interest gold bear
ing bonds were issued, guaranteed by
the Union Pacific company. The
bridge, like the main line, was con
structed by the Credit Mobilier at a
cost of about $1,200,000, and the re
maining $1,300,000 was absorbed by
the construction ring, less $225,000
paid to Andrew Carnegie as commis
sion for negotiating the bonds. .
For more than fifteen years after its
completion bridge tolls were exacted
at the rate vt $10 per carload and 50
cents for every passenger transported,
and a net revenue of from $300,000 to
$500,000 a year above operating ex
penses, taxes and interest on bonds
was at the disposal of the bridge com
pany for distribution to stockholders
or for deposit in the sinking fund.
After the bridge had paid for . itself
several times over it was reconstruct
ed at an." expense of about $600,000,
but the structure still continues to be
operated under the original charter as
a toll bridge, although it has always
been a link in the main line of the
Union Pacific, whose legal terminus,
as fixed by the United States supreme
court, is in the state of Iowa.
It is a matter of record that Doug
las county issued $250,000 : in bonds
bearing 10 per cent interest as a do
nation to aid in the construction of
this bridge,' and within the thirty-four
years since, its completion the taxpay
ers of Omaha have paid over half a
million dollars in taxes to meet the
interest on the bonds originally issued,
and still have five-sixth of the original
subscription to pay.
It is a matter of record also that by
the manipulation of the Union Pacific
tax agents and lawyers the assessment
of the bridge had been reduced from
year to year, until the assessment of
the west half had dwindled down to
$150,000 a mere bagatelle compared
with its value based on earning ca
pacity. - - r
It is a matter of record also that the
Union Pacific bridge has been and is
still taxed separately in the county of
Pottawattamie, Iowa, and in the town
of Council Bluffs, although the earnings
of the bridge have been merged with
the earnings of the main line.
Under these circumstances, the re
fusal of the Union Pacific company to
pay a city tax on its Missouri river
bridge above the mere value of mile
age will scarcely be justified in the
eyes of fair-minded people.
A Worthless Daily Press
If we had an independent daily
press that was uncontrolled by the
trusts and millionaires it would fur
nish the information that everybody
is so anxious to get. If there were any
opposition press at all, it would tell the
public what the beef trust was doing,
what the railroads were getting from
the government for carrying the mails,
what combinations existed to enforce
he people to pay exorbitant prices for
coal, salt and a hundred other things.
t would print photographic copies of
bills of sale of American goods sold in
foreign countries showing beyond con
tradiction that the foreigner was pre
ferred over the American by the very
manufacturers whom we have taxed
ourselves for fifty years to sustain. .
A New York daily spent last year
$1,000 on the reporting of one divorce
case, that is, that was simply the sal
ary and expenses of the reporter and
photographer assigned to that single
case, It made a sensation for several
weeks, and many papers were sold,
but if the manager had spent that
much money getting the facts about
the coal trust it would have made a
greater sensation and even more pa
pers would have been sold.
The daily press is wholly owned, and
managed by one set of interests. In
supporting democrats and republicans,
it supports in all cases the same
thing. There is no opposition press.
It is all on one side of the question.
Lately there has been a small effort
in opposition, but it has not come
from . the daily press. It has come
from the monthly magazines and the
enormous circulation that some of
them have attained shows what a
field there would be for a genuine op
position press.
What a fight such a paper could put
up! It could send its Washington cor
respondents and get the contracts
made with the railroads and favored
steamships for carrying the mails. The
publication of some of these contracts
would produce a greater sensation
than any divorce case, however nasty
the testimony might be. It could get
the facts . about the paper trust and
show up its extortions. It could as
sign a reporter to the packing houses
and give the exact selling price of
steers and follow the meat to the re
tail market and show that it was sold
there regardless of the price of live
stock at the cattle yards. It could
follow a carload of dressed beef over
the private industrial roads, out to the
various cities and tell, just what was
the rake-off given to the , directors of
the roads and the owners of the beef
shipped. It. could send a reporter
down to Morton's salt, mines, and print
the rebate given to the Morton broth
ers. .
An opposition press would be doing
those sort of things all the time and
every day in the year. But there is no
opposition press. The people are de
nied all knowledge of these things ex
cept what they pick up here and there
or arrive at by "intuition. " There is a
great and unlimited field for that kind
of journalism, but it takes piles of
money to run a great daily paper and
the banks won't let a man have the
money for any such purpose.' If a pa
per really got to publishing' the facts
about the trusts and" tariff grafters, it
might also say something about the
bank graft and that would never do.
Any man can easily imagine what
an uproar there would.be in New York
city if wlfat are called the "opposi
tion" or democratic papers . there
would assign a reporter or two to
write up the-banks; show just what
their deposits were and the acual
amount of cash that they had on hand.
The reporters might drop into some of
the banks that supply money for bet
ting on the stock exchange and ask
for the cashier's slip for several days
in succession and then publish what
they had found out. The newspaper
men of the United States are keen to
do such work as that. They would
throw heart and soul into it if they
had a chance. But there is no daily
that wants such work -done. There is
not one of them that would print such
matter If it was offered to them free.
They are all of one kind. While some
of them label themselves democratic
and others republican, there is no an
tagonism at all between them. There
is no such thing as an opposition press
in this country.
An Old Subscriber
The Chicago Tribune says it' has a
subscriber who has been taking that
paper for fifty-two years. His name V
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