APRIL 13, 1305
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tihe Nebraska. Independent
CARNEGIE AND ROCKEFELLER
Two Living in Glass Houses Should
Not Throw Stones
Editor Independent: Mr. Bryan
faid in the Commoner:
"The, Nebraska legislature can sym
pathize with Kansas, but not to the
extent of criticizing Mr. Rockefeller.
Nebraska University has a Rockefeller
temple in sight."
I agre with Mr. Bryan that it was
a disgrace for the citizens of Ne
braska when Chancellor Andrews went
begging Mr. Rockefeller for money to
build a university chapel;', that the
university students may have a
chance to worship the golden calf.
That act legalized Mr. Rockefeller's
robberies and sanctified his plunder,
converting the same to absolute sac
red property of Mr. Rockefeller; but
Mr. Bryan, too, disgraced the citizens
of Lincoln by begging Mr. Carnegie
for money for a library. The only dif
ference between Rockefeller and Car-
TlPCift la that t11.iv ha nr a rf tYtcm Vo
a chance for robHng a few millions
more than the other. These gentle
men have to build temples to their
god and keep the people in ignorance
and superstittion, therefore they hold
with the Philosopher Chilo in "Quo
Vadis," that it is better to be on god
terms with the philnsophprs for fear
they may prove to the people that no
such god exists, for thpn all would
cease to present that god with offer
ings. As soon as people are enlightened
about the colossal humbug of divine
rights of oil, coal, steel, railroad,
shares, they will cease to bring offer
ings to the temple to sustain that
idol and those fraudulent divine rights.
Every trust and great corporation
would long ago have been smashed to
pieces if it were not for the colossal
ignorance and superstition of the peo
ple and if presidents, governors, con
gresses, legislatures and courts ' had
done their duty. To do that not a
single new law would he needed, it
would only be necessary to enforce the
very ancient usury laws. Moses and
Christ declared, taking interest for
money loaned as usury; but afterward
to protect the common people against
extortions by usurers, every state had
fixed a legal maximum rate for inter
ests, for really invested money, run
ning from 5 to 10 per cent, but, our
money princes did never care for such
laws,' they not only take even 100 per.
cent interest for their really invested
money, but they nrgp the people with
out the least objection from the gov
ernmentJto pay interest for only fic
titious Capital, so-called water stock;
They need only to pay the tithe from
.their plunder to the philosophers,
building :a church or instituting a li
brary, when those philosophers will
bestow their benedictions on the plun
der, what converts the same to abso
lute snored nrnnertv of thnsp mnnpv
princes, after that are those philoso
phers arranging banquets where the
rarest' delicacies and most, delicious
wines and Havana cigars are served,
then they commence to sing a song
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talk, talk, talk until you become so
. stupified that you feel as if a fly wheel
of an encine was turnine around In
your cranium. After that they will
commission one of the sons of an ex
president , or member of the cabinet
to make an investigation, because
those fellows are so highly educated
and wise that they know everything.
Based on the reports of those wise
gentlemen our congress will declare
everything all right and our supreme
court, by a 5 to 4 decision, declares
i everything constitutional and that set
tles the matter.
' The best critic of our government
lino KJXmj , yjvj i o aiiicoccu m a sMIX
gle sentence in the London Monthly
Review. He said; "The American ad
ministration is a conspiracy for doing
nothing." -.
From respectable parliament have
r cur , congresses and legislatures de
r Generated' to nonsesical babblements.
It is alV squeal, but very, very little
- wool. t. ' , ,
But those babblements furnish to
our roDDer Knignts -the necessary.
traps, franchises, bonds and special
laws to catch their game. Instead to
squeeze the water out of every cor
, poration, they are squeezing the last
: hard earned cent out of the common
'. people by taxing every necessary arti
cle for living. Bread, wine, beer, coal,
coal oil, lumber, which money is again
' put at the absolute disposal of those
" robber knights, who use them for new
schemes to satisfy their insatiable
greed; for instance, a Panama canal,
ship subsidies, irrigation, asphalt
shares In Venezuela, building railroads
in the Philippines, Porto Rica and
China.
.Several years ago Secretary of the
Treasury Gage even issued an order
that for thirty days, all the revenues
or the unuea states must irom aay to
day be sent to New York and from
there to London, to save the bank of
England, that strongest bastile of the
International money bag, from tumb
ling over. But our secretary of the
treasury never had money to buy
bread and coal, to save our suffering
poor people from starving and freez
ing to death. Switzerland has no coal
and produces not half of its necessary
provisions, but you never hear that
people in Switzerland have to starve
and freeze to death from want of food
or fuel.
If they can do that In Switzerland
with their inadequate natural re
sources, it must be an easy matter to
do the same thing In this land of plen
ty. We are rich enough to provide
every family with a comrortable home
and plenty of good food and clothes
and to give every child a good educa
tion, not to make great philosophers,
clergymen or angels out of them, but
to prepare them to become honest,
healthy, intelligent, in dustrious men
and women, fathers and mothers,
i Statistics show that if all the in
comes of the United States were equal
ly divided that every family had to
spend every year $500 for their sus
tainance and comfort. Now it takes
not an expert arithmetician to figure
out that if you pay $25,000 pension to
Grover Cleveland (I wonder for what)
that fifty families or 250 persons; $50,
000 salary to a president, that 100 fam
ilies or 500 persons; $1,000,000 salary
to Manager Schwab of the Steel trust,
that 2,000 families or. 10,000 persons;
and if Rockefeller takes $30,000,000
profits, that 60,000 families, or 300,000
persons must be deprived of every
thing and urged to either beg, steal
or starve to death.
I saw In the newspapers that it - was
proposed to raise the salary of the
president to $100,000 and the salaries
of representatives and judges of the
supreme court in proportion to that,
but at the same time had Hill of New
York declared that it becomes neces-.
sary to cut the wages of our laborers,
thath our manufacturers are able to
compete with the manufacturers of
other countries, but Mr. Hill is mis
taken in that. Wages and incomes of
the common people are already cut
low enough and even too low. It is on
the top that the cutting down process
must begin. Squeeze the water out of
our corporations, enforce the old usury
laws, to stop all kinds of usury and
cut out the exorbitant profits and sal
aries of our money princes, high of
ficers and their favorites and you can
provide all thep eople with their nec
essary things so that they can live
comfortably. . ,.'
After while will the people of the
United States too become so wise not
to believe everything that every uni
versity professor, clergyman, politician
and old woman says, then they will
commence to think and act for them
selves andenquire and look for them
selves as to what becomes of their
money. First of all we must provide
bread and butter for our own people,
before we are squandering our money
for 'a Panama canal and building'rail
roads in China, Philippine" islands.
Honest Abe Lincoln said: "Some
people can be fooled some times, many
people can be fooled many times, but
not all the people can be fooled all
the time. F. SCHWEIZER.
Woodlawn. '
Government Ownership
One of the good results from govern
ment ownership would be the saving
of the $65,000,000 now paid to railroad
corporations for carrying the mails.
This vast sum would more than pay
the interest on the necessary bonds
that it would take to buy these rail
ways, if they could be bought for the
actual cost of construction and equip
ment, and then, being relieved from
the'' terrible pressure of corporate In
fluence, we would get even better pos
tal service fhan we now have. Our
present postal system is terribly handicapped-by
these corporations. They
refuse to allow the government to
handle many things that they well
could handle, because it interferes
with the profits of these railway mag
nates. . As god as our postal system
now is, it could be made far more
effective if the express companies
were not continually fighting the nec
essary legislation required to make the
service more beneficial. Another good
feature of government ownership
would be the death of the strong lob
bies that now hover around our legis
latlve bodies like vultures. These lob
bies defeat all good legislation and
fcrce upon the people all our bad legis
lation. They are the greatest danger
that now threaten representative gov
ernment. Another good feature of gov
ernment ownership would be the elimi
nation from politics of these vast cor
porations that dominate conventions
by stocking them with their friends,
by the use of the free pass system. No
political leader under private owner
ship can hope to dominate his party
without he can fill the convention with
his friends, and thus he is compelled
to favor these railroad corporations in
order to get free passes for his
friends to the convention. Govern
ment ownership of railroads would re
move from the field of politics the
vast corruption funds required to se
cure favorable legislation for the rail
roads, and to prevent what they con
eider unfriendly legislation. Nearly, if
not quite, all of our United States
senators are railroad attorneys, or in
some way connected with some legal
firm that receives a big salary from
some railroad corporation. These at
torneys are always armed with that
fearful .weapon, the free pass, and
these favors are distributed where
they will do the most good. These free
pascses constitute one of the most
deadly weapons against human liberty
now in use. By the free pass, legisla
tion is controlled, and all of our judges
are influenced more or less by their
use, and even coroners can bleed these
railroad corporations for an almost un
limited amount of transportation. The
most insignificant political worker is
armed with this deadly weapon to self
government. The more disreputable a
politician, - the more sure you are to
secure transportation with his signa
ture. Government ownership would
give us better transportation, better
laws, better judges, better officials
everywhere, and better politics all the
time. This being true, it is strange
that we, an enlightened people, do not
demand public ownership at once.
President Roosevelt sh.ould be peti
tioned by voice and by letter, to push
this fight against 5 1 Ilway -discrimination,
because this fight once begun will
necessarily end in government owner
ship of all meay. of transportation.
The Forum.
Election "Frauds
Those who are searching for an ar
gument against the political rights of
women are continually pointing to the
frauds in Denver as an example of
the workings of woman suffrage.
It is difficult for one to retain their
dignity when, reading some of the ef
fusions upon the Denver frauds in
their relation to woman suffrage, es
pecially when we know that women
took litlte or no part in them.
If the testimony of those who have
made a study of these questions for
years can be taken, the election frauds
in Denver are as nothing compared
with those in some of our cities where
men only vote.
Mr. Rudolph Blankenberg of Phila
delphia, chairman of the committee on
election frauds, says that 'in Philadel
phia there are more , than 100,000
fraudulent names on tne voting regis
ter, that when the polls opened at
a. m., oneb allot box had already been
stuffed so full of fraudulent votes mat
it war Imnossible to get any of the
legal ballots in; that 142 voters were
registered as living in one small house
not able to lodge a dozen; that out of
registered letters which he sent to
voters alleged to be living at another,
bouse, 29 were returned through the
mail with the report that the persons
were unknown there.
Vice outside the election frauds has
hernme so flagrant that the Law and
Order society has been tackling the
situation, and its executive officer, d.
Clarence Gibbony. iss aid to have
broken up 400 gambling dens and
ebout 1,000 houses of ill repute. They
have been making these raids without
the eo-oneration of the city police, be
cause it was found whenever they told
the police what gambling dens tney
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were going to investigate, the gamb
lers always received warning in ad
vance. And now a bill has been in
troduced in the legislature forbidding
the Law and Order society to make
any raids without previously notifying
the police.
What adds still more to the terri
bleness of the situation in Philadel
phia is the fact that a majority of the
voters submit to all this with the pa
tience of lambs while in Denver they
are making vigorous efforts to get rid
of it.
Christ's rebuke to the1 Scribes and
Pharisees seems most fitting in its
application to these people who are so
afraid of the votes of corrupt women
when He .says: "Woe unto you, Scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrates! Ye blind
guides, which strain at a gnat, and
swallow a camel."
ELNORA MONROE BABCOCK.
Will Pull With Any Man
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find $1 for subscription to November.
I had aboue become disgusted with
the way reformers were fighting one
another, but your article in February
23, "A Moribund Party," gives me
some hope that the reform elements
will have sense enough to come to
gether and do something, but unfor
tunately the ego is so strong in some
men that they would sooner not have
reforms than that some other man
should carry them out. I have been
fighting for reforms for thirty years,
and have seen my hopes shattered,
just because we could not agree as to
the mode those reforms should be car
ried out. 1 do not care ior pariy
names myself. I will pull with any
man, who is fighting for -the same re
forms that I am, I do not care who
it is, wether it be Bryan, Hearst or
Watson. They are all fighting for the
same cause, their mode may be differ
ent, that is , all. I think that Bryan
made a mistake in working for Parker,
and I did not follow him, but I do not
see any use in jumping on him for
that. It was a matter of the head, not
the heart. Let us get all the reform
elements together and form a new
party. Call it something like the na
tionalist, and I, will guarantee that we
can put the next president in the white
house. T. S. KNIGHT
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SHERIFF SALE
Notice is hereby given, that by virtue o. an
order of sale issued by the Clerk of the District
Court of the Third Judicial District of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster County, in an action
wherein Henry A. Somers is Plaintiff, and Beth
any Manufacturing Company et al Defendants,
I will, a: 2 o'clock, p. m., on the 16th day of
May A. D. 1905, at the East door of the Court
House, in the City ot Lincoln, Lancaster County.
Nebraska, offer for sale at public auction the
following described Lands and Tenements, to
wit: The Southeast quarter of Block twelve (12)
in Bethany Heights, In Lancaster county, Neb
raska Given under my hand this 12tn day of
April A. D. 1905.
NICHOLAS REPS,
Sheriff.
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