X3hs Nobraokcx Indopondcnt
ATOIL 6, 1905
PAGE I
THE SPRING ELECTIONS
They Show a Tremendous Advance In
Populist Principles
There never was such a city election
as has just been held in Chicago. It
brougnt out almost as many votes as
a presidential contest and the cam
paign was more vigorous than presi
dential campaigns" usually are. Popu
lism has made such ; advancement in
Chicago that both candidates claimed
to be advocates of municipal owner
ship of city utilities. The democratic
candidate, Judge Dunne, was for im
mediate ownership, and the republican
candidate was for granting franchises
for a few years ten or fifteen until
the city could be in a better position
to take charge of the street car bust
ness. Judge Dunne and immediate
ownership won out with a majority of
over, 25,000.
In the city of Lincoln, Neb., the re
publican machine went all to pieces,
and here, where the republican's usual
ly -have a thousand or two majority,
the democratic candidate for mayor
'Was elected by over 500 majority. The
labor union vote went almost solid
for Brown and that was what did the
business. Heretofore the labor union
ists of Lincoln have almost unani
mously voted the republican ticket
and then spent the rest of the year
cursing the men they elected and fight
ing injunctions. -This year they voted
together. The issue on the face of
affairs was whether the saloon keepers
should pay $1,000 for a license or $1,
500. As far as that was concerned
the $1,500 license won out. A majority
of the excise board is pledged for
the higher amount. The really sur
prising thing was that the labor union
ists broke away and refused to vote
er straight.
Let Labor Have What It Produces
Editor Independent: Congratulations
on your editorial, "Let Labor Have
What It Produces." You are doing a
noble work. Eminent domain is a
tacit admission that in . the last analy
sis, society has a prior claim upon
what the individual thinks he owns
absolutely. , There is no absolute own-
. ' ership except in society itself. Prac
tically it is hard to determine just
how much of a given product Is due
to the individual and, how much to so-
s ciety, past and present. But the eas
iest way to solve the problem is to
allow each to'own what he seems to
have produced by his own effort, sub
ject to a reasonable tax to maintain
government in a state of efficiency.
Your position is sound and it com
pletely answers both socialists and sin
gle taxers, who unite on the fallacy
that the individual has an indefeasible
right to what he produces by apply
ing his energy to the land. It
be that abstractly he has such a right
but he can not show just what it was
; he produced solely by his own effort.
Therefore, to tax him is not robbery
" per se. '
Populism is now coming to the front
as a rational system. It will solve
these problems by compelling govern
ment to perform its duty of transact
- ing public business, while each pri
vate person is permitted to attend to
his own affairs with the least possible
interference by government. It is not
difficult to draw the line today be
tween public and private business. In
a hundred years the line might be
drawn a little differently, because of
changes wrought by .new inventions.
But I do not believe either extreme in
dividualism or extreme collectivism
will ever prevail. Both socialists and
single taxers pulling in opposite di
rections are doing a good work, how
ever, by calling attention to populism,
the golden mean, the attainable, the
possible, and probable. , ' .
i , CHARLES Q. DE FRANCE.
New York City, 'N.. Y.
POPULISM IN ENGLAND
Conditions There Are Desperate and
Populism Is Only Relief
The countess of Warwick and many
more of the nobility and wealthy
classes in England have united them
selves with the , political movement
known as social democracy, which is
practically, the same thing as populism
in this country. The cities in Great
Britain which have adopted populist
principles and where the municipality
owns the street cars, water systems,
lighting systems, telegraphs and tele
phones; 'have much less suffering than
in those cities where these things are
.privately 1 owned. ; The purchasing
"power of money is so great in England
that it : makes a vast difference to a
workman whether he pays a penny or
a half penny twice a day for car fare,
whether a bath costs two pence or six
pence, whether his light costs two
shillings or four shillings a month.
In the cities that have taken over the
public utilities the cost of all these
things have been reduced almost one-
half, which is equivalent to a great
rise la wages. One-half of the family
may bo out of work and the other
half, on account of the public owner
ship' and cheap rates of the public
necessities, can keep the wolf from
the door. It is along that line that
the reformers In England are working.
The distress is very great But Eng
land will have to take hold of the
money and land system, that is, adopt
the full populist program, if any gen
eral and permanent relief is obtained.
The Springfield Republican, in
speaking of this movement in England
says:
"The countess of Warwick has
joined the social democratic federa
tion, moved thereto by her distress at
the enormous number of people out
of work and actually starving. In
London the conservative estimate is
100,000, and many reckon it as 150,000;
and extreme penury is to be found in
every city of England. The countess
is now engaged in addressing working
men's meetings in the poorest quarters
of London, and , at some of these the
more desperate have counseled ex
treme measures, and advised that
mobs should take what is needed to
live, since nothing Is done to relieve
the present want.
"The countess appeals to the gov
ernment' and the wealthy classes, as
suring them that they will be forced
to meet the demands of the desperate
if they do not help willingly. Many
leading citizens are awake to the
needs of the hour and are subscribing
liberally, and a committee has been
formed to carry out a systematic
scheme for providing, work, and it is
work that the , self-respecting poor
clamor for; they do not ask for alms.
London papers the past winter have
been full of cases where men and
women were, brought before the court
for being, known to have children or
other dependents in a starving condi
tion, only to be dismissed because the
so-called delinquents are able to prove
that they have been out of work for
weeks, or, ' in some cases, many
months, and the whole family is starv
Ing. Temporary relief is almost no
relief; soup kitchens do not restore
the self-respect that would rather
starve than beg, or afford the comforts
of home or sufficient clothing. ' '
"It is of interest to observe, in this
connection, the effect of the Brussels
sugar bounty convention, to which
England was a signatory, upon the
condition 'of the poor. That the rise
in the price of sugar in the London
market, due to the abolition of the
bounty system in Europe, has in
creased the distress can not be doubt
ful. The London Daily News lately
gave two columns to the distress
caused in that one particular. It ap
pears that many men no longer able
to do hard work, or widows left with
a few pounds, have resorted to the
keeping of a "sweets-shop." A front
room in the home, or a small shop,
does not cost much, and a little money
is sufficient to start in with a stock of
confectionery; the trade is easily
learned and this has earned a frugal
living for many until now, when the
high price of sugar lately, imposed has
actually killed this little business and
plunged many families into acute dis
tress notwithstanding the ass'erva-
tions of Mr. Chamberlain that colonial
preference taxes on the necessaries of
life would fall lightly, even on the
poor.
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GOT PETULANT
Then His Wrath Cooled Down and He
Will Continue to Get Wisdom (
Editor Independent: But more par
ticularly, our other friend, Chas. Q.
DeFrance, giving you credit for hay
ing better sense than to "stop my pa
per," you may credit me with a dollar
on subscription. It Is not that I "take
myself too seriously," but in ordering
the' discontinuance ;of the paper a
while ago, was perhaps overly petulant
at the drivel against Mr. Bryan and,
as too many others do, jump onto the
editor. At second thought it is easy
to see that the "blue pencil," is dif
ficult to wield at all times, especially
in this medley of ecomonic thought.
But I want to say once for all that
Bryan is a safe man to tie to and to
those who express distrust of him,
that they do not know the man at all.
Not being a. worshipper of men am In
good position' to scan their views with
out favor or other' prejudice and am
free to say that Mr. Bryan gave and
perhaps yet gives too much stress to
the "silver fad," and like some others
of my acquaintance, favors the "in
come tax," singular as that may seem.
In this connection, I am constrained to
note the reply of Bro. Freeman to
your (seemingly) private letter to him
on the working of the single tax, also
your tilt with Mr. Young concerning
"conditions in New Zealand. Young
said just what was in my mind to say,
only that I would f ave quoted Taylor
as evidence that all. the economic bet
terments in New Zealand are due to
the very meagre application of the
land value tax, I. e., the doctrines, of
Henry George, while a much larger
aDDlication is assured. In your, reply
to Mr. Young you say, "There is no
doubt that the single tax would estab
lish justice," and then break away
with remarks reflecting unen its suf
ficiency, or practicability, such as we
are not sure that Mr. George was right
and that "it is vet to be tried." etc.
Do you think we need to try "justice"
to see if it will work?
Going back to Bro. Freeman's reply
to you in last issue, it is easy to see
that vou have not eiven. hitherto, se
rious examination of the single tax
philosophy for I am assured that had
you done so, your economic acumen
would have soon overcome the "shift
intr of the tax to the consumer" and
that a higher rent would reflect back
in higher charges, giving no relief.
How much more do you pay for eggs
at the hlch rent department store at
the center of the mart than you do or
the litle grocer on a by-street who
pays a low rent? But I am not going
to trespass after Bro. Freeman's lau
rels, and If you keep on propounding
your objections to single tax to eltner
he or Wakefield or their like, you will,
laying prejudice aside, soon see that
single tax is no fad. Both you and
Tibbies better get in out of the wet
for there will be a single tax shower
before 1908. E. C. CLARK.
him. Fortunately he retained sufficient
presence of mind to pull the signal cord
and the men at the surface began to
haul him up. Ae he emerged from. the
water he was completely wreathed in
the sucking tenacles of the fish and was
in a state of collapse. As he was
dragged up the ladder the octopus still
clung to him and had to be chopped off
with knives and hatchets. ,
When spread out on the pier the fish
measured eleven and one-half feet
from tip to tip of his tenacles.- Kansas
City Journal.
The Retired List
The senate has several times shown
igns of wishing to rebuke the presi
dent for unnecessarily loading up the
retired list of the army by retiring of
ficers with advanced rank, bestowed for
ihe riurooso of setting them out of ac
tive service. Now, however, congress
has finally given him a free hand by
nffreci'nz'to the I. ill to place Senator
Hawley of Connecticut on the retired
list with the rank of brigadier-general.
A more inexcusable bestowal of a rich
government favor has not been seen
since Representative Boutelle of Maine
was made a retired captain in tne
rmw when stricken with incurable dis
ease. The retired lists were obviously
not intended to be the refuge of aged
or decrepit politicians. Mr. Roosevelt
can. hereafter. DOint to tne nawiey
case whenever any one criticises his
naddine 6f the retired roll of either
service. To make matters worse, the
house, in agreeing to retire Senator
Hawley, added an amendment similar
ly retiring General Peter J. Osterhaus,
one of the most gallant of our German
American civil war generate. Neither
of these men has been connected with
the," army since 18C6, General Oster
haus having lived In Mannheim, Ger
many, for the last thirty years. For"
Senator Hawley senatorial courtesy
will have a new meaning hereafter.
New York Evening Post.
Papers from South Africa tell of the
horrible experience which a diver
named - Palmer had with a monster
octopus. Palmer was down under thirty-five
feet of water. The water was
clear enough for him to distinguish ob
jects about him quite well. Suddenly
an octopus which was concealed be
hind a block of dislodged concrete,
darted out a huge tentacle and in an
instant had pinioned a leg. Another
tenacle shot out, fastening an arm.
The creature. drew itself slowly from its
hiding place, flicking Its feelers round
the diver and fastening them on various
parts, of his body. Having no knife
Palmer could make no fight with the
monster, which had drawn Itself clear
of the block and was clinging bodily to
The Inaugural Durbar
Now that the hurrah is all over and
people are reflecting calmly on the
subject, not a few are likely, to come
to the conclusion that there were some
features of the grand inaguratlon dur
bar at Washington last Saturday that
might well have been cut out, as un
dignified, improper and entirely unfit
ting to the occasion. The performance
of the cowboy contingent, for instance,
might lutt gone all right in a circus
parade or a Wild West show, but not
in connection with an affair of the
character of. this parade, and the event
which it was designed to be an im
posing feature. ;
The lassoing 'of policemen may . he
funny, but that. doesn't justify such
horseplay nor contribute to the effici
ency of the work of these officers in
connection with a big public affair of
this kind, for the maintenance of or-,
der and for safeguarding both partici
pants and spectators against the ac
cidents and confusion that are always
to be apprehended on all such occa
sions. In some, cities fool business of
that nature wouldn't be tolerated for
a minute, even to provide amusement
for the head of the nation. We ven
ture to say that were these cow puch- .
ers to undertake to loop policemen
under similar circumstances in New
York, for instance, they would dis
cover very quickly that these men
were not on duty to be made mon
keys of, but were engaged in serious
and responsible business, while Inter
ference with them in the performance
of it, even by a lot of rustlers who re
garded themselves as privileged char
acters, could not be attempted with
impunity and without risk to the of
fender of being 'taught a wholesome
lesson at short order, on the subject
of proper behavior. Fall River Globe.
Kansas Fighters
For many years Standard Oil hag
had Pennsylvania's oil industry in its
Rrosp. California, Texas, Colorado, In
diana and other 'states have been suf- .
fering from its oppression, but not
until it got Into a fight with Kansas
did the oil trust meet with anygreat
difficulty:; It is", the wealthiest and
most powerful of all trusts,, and it
threatened dire ' calamities to 'Kansas
for daring to oppose it, but threats
only stimulated the Sunflower state to
fight the harder.
The dispatches seem to indicate that
the Standard 13 now badily frightened.
It has never had a proposition of this
kind to deal with before. Following
the action of his state, a Kansas con
greesman has instituted an inquiry by
the federal government which prom
ises to add much to the trust's trou
bles. v
Other states may now carry on tho
fight about as vigorously as Kansas,
but the point of it is that Kansas had
to start it. As soon as Kansas did
so any number of states joined in the
idea. There are at least half a dozen
legislatures now considering proposi
tions to establish state refineries,
takes Kansas to start things. Topek
State Journal. v
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