Gfcj Nobraolio. Independent
AUGUST 10, 1905
rAGE 7
b
P
o
Letters From The People
Hardy Suggests Some Remedies
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 8. To the Editor of The
Independent: All the governments in the world
have Improved during the last hundred years. It
is very easy to see that our government has
improved in many respects. It is equally easy to
see that many more improvements should be
made. - .. ;
All our laws should be soaked with equal
justice and benefit for every Individual. Govern
ment justice should be more permanently fixed
for every citizen, and we should have officers to
enforce all laws to the last letter.
' Special favors from government are very dif
ferent from special favors from" individuals. The
unmarried man has a just right to give his earn
ings to any single individual. If he has a wife,
he cannot dispose of his farm, with a clear title,
.without her name on the deed; so the husband
should not be allowed to make a legal will with
out his wife's name. The wife 6hould be made
the only legal heir of the husband and the hus
band the only legal heir of wife. The marriage
relation is dearer than father, mother, sister or
brother. Mothers are just as reliable to care for
children as fathers in case of either companion
dying.
Corporations have no just right to treat in
dividuals differently, charging one a higher price
than another. It appears the railroad companies
realized that it was unjust to do such a thing,
and that was the reason they secretly rebated
a part of the freight charges to the favored few,
so the people are as secret as possible. Now
the best remedy for these unjust dealings would
be to make the rate of all freight and all passen
ger mileage so low that the companies would
think best to keep all freight money they receive
and charge all officers, lawyers and politicians
the same per mile that farmers pay. The mem
bers of congress and of legislatures are paid for
big traveling expenses. That money. has been
put into their pockets and bribers paid their
railroad fares. . ..
Another black spot in our government is the
general failure of our officers to enforce our laws
pertaining to intoxicating liquors,, tobacco, gamb
ling and prostitution. Women are the chief suf
ferers. If they were elected officers in many
places, the laws would be much better enforced
and if they were permitted to vote, better officers
would be elected. In England the ' qualified
women vote as well as the men and women gov
ern there when necessary.
Our treatment of China has not been just. We
are pleased to learn that the Chinese government
is planning to meet us in the same paths of
meanness.
Mad dogs and rattlesnakes licensed to run free
in our streets would do the people but little harm,
compared with saloons and tobacco shops. The
men of Lincoln pay more money for liquor and
tobacco than they do for food and clothing for
themselves and families.
The sale of every thing that orks injury and
no good should be prohibited by law and the
law enforced.-
Delinquent taxes in this state is a black cloud
hanging over us. Justice demands that all taxes
should be collected in the year they are levied.
Everything should be saleable furniture, houses,
live stock and land, without redemption. A mil
lion or two of unpaid taxes are now hanging over
us. Taxes on many city lots have not been paid
for fifteen or twenty yearn. Many of them are
not worth the pile of taxes.
The grain elevator trust is being ripped open.
The best remedy is to give farmers the same right
to build elevators and the same rate for ship
ping freight. There are places in the east where
they grind almost as many bushels of wheat as in
Minnesota. Farmers could ship direct to the mill
owners, and grain dealers could take out no big
profit. It Is much better for producers to sell
direct to the consumers. Grain dealers and rail
road companies have objected to letting the far
mers store and ship their own grain. The pres
ent anti-trust law will undoubtedly humanize the
grain dealers, if fully enforced.
A change should be made in our high protec
tive tariftV Something should be done to compel
the manufacturers to sell as cheap here at home
as they do in Europe. Farmers sell their pro
duce cheaper here than they do over there.
'Wheat, corn, cotton, meat and other farm pro
duce constitute over half our exports. There are
few imports of that character. Farmers should
be able to buy manufactured goods as cheap as
factory men buy farm produce. Equal justice
should be the object of every law.
Less money shouU be collected and used for
carrying elections, A single dollar used should
invalidate the election of any candidate. Mil
lions are used for carrying presidential elections.
Votes are bought or voters are hired to stay at
home. No carriages should be hired to transfer
voters. . If a man can't carry himself to the bal
lot box his vote is not worth castings Saloons
are furnished with election money for weeks be
fore election. H. W. HARDY.
Thinks Campbell Erred
Plymouth, Ind., July 9. To the Editor of The
Independent In a recent issue of your paper A.
Campbell states that the Missouri World and the
Southern Mercury both claim that the greenbacks
are irredeemable government money. I have
taken both of these papers for years and I have
not seen in either of them any such claim. It is
not populist doctrine. :
Mr. Campbell goes on to describe what he
wants and it is clear that he wants precisely
what the Omaha platform an '. all other populist
platforms demanded. He declares that most popu
lists want an irredeemable money. So, too, does
Mr. Campbell. Let anyone read his explanation
of the money he thinks the nation should have
and he must be convinced that it is irredeemable.
He declares that by using paper, which is a cheap
and convenient substance, the government can
always regulate the volume of money In circula
tion to a certain amount per capita. We popu
lists think that the way to keep "so much" per
capita in circulation is to issue "so much." We
demand $50 per capita as about the proper
amount. Mr. Campbell says that the government
should issue all money and make it legal tender
for all debts, public and private. Populists want
a government money that is not redeemable like
our present greenback. Mr. Campbell asserts
that populists dont know Just what they want
and therefore can't agree. ' ; Friend Campbell
should read the populist platforms and he ; will
discover that his money is the 1892 populist mon
ey. He seems to think that his money is a. new
variety. It may.be "to him, but it is not to the
genuine populist. It is old and good.
DAVID YEAGLEY.
of a bright, clean little newspaper, the second
number of which has been received by the under
signed, and perused with intense interest. It is
issued monthly by the Boston, Mass., "Free Trada
League." It is ably edited, and its entire con
tents are worthy of careful perusal by every
thinking man who has the courage of his con
victions. More than a page is devoted to a portion of
Henry George's wonderful book, "Protection or
Free Trad' a publication that was never re
futed and never can be. The fact is that the frt s
trade sentiment Is growing, both In foreign coun
tries and in the United States, though not grow
ing half as fast as it should, nor as it would if
people were more generally eager to assert their
Independence and to declare boldly for what their
ownbralns and common sense tell them is true
and just.
The cold fact is that every human being s.
endowed with an inalienable right to' trade with
any other human being across the biggest ocean
in the world. He has the same right as he has
to trade with another across the smallest river,
or the same right that any small boy has to trada
jackknives with another boy across a small creek
or an insignificant mudpuddle.
Every intelligent person knor-s that such is
the case, and not one person in a thousand is
very likely to reject an opportunity to evade the
tarm laws unless compelled to do so irom rear
of punishment.
The tariff swindle is a fine thing for those
who are already rich enough to yearn for a few
thousand millions more, and who will get it, If
We hope the "Broadside" will pour hot shot
into protectionism until that Infamous fraud In
disguise is numbered among the Infamous dead
swindles of the past.
RALPH HOYT.
"Free Trade Broadside"
Los Angeles, Cal., July 31. Such is the name
Preserving Fence Posts
Viroqua, Wis., Aug. 6. To the Editor of The
Independent I see in your last Issue a statement
of posts made of iron with cement base; also of a
way to prepare telegraph and telephone poles, or
in fact any timber to go into the ground. Of
course, people using posts know the rot is found
at the surface of the ground and that above and
below that point it takes a long time for then
to rot; though generally they last longer above
than in the ground. .
I have a row of posts (green oak sawed)
which I put in my front yard fence in the spring
of 1871, and. while I have not taken them out to
examine them, ; I have this spring ' examined by
pulling at some of them to see if they would
break and I dug a little ways in the ground at
some of them. They are all doing duty in the
fence and apparently all sound. Of coursel I
painted them for setting at a cost of about 2
cents a post. After setting I painted them red
above ground. C. W. BUTT.
o
o
ine inuepenuenL S special uiier o
The subscription price for one year to The Independent is $1.00. During the summer months,
however, we are making a special clubbing rate whereby five new subscribers can get The Inde
pendent for one year for $3.00. This will make the year's subscription only 60 cents if sent to this
office in lots of five before September 1.
Below is a form of application for subscription cards. These will be furnished you upon re
quest. Each one of these cards is good for one year's subscription. You can pay for these cards
when you order them or pay for them when you send in the names. Money, however, should ac
company the names when sent in.
Anyone ordering thee cards will have the right to sell them for $1.00 each ai.din that way
earn a commission of $2.00 on .he lot o. sell them at 60 cents and contribute the work done to
the cause the paper advocates. No greater political battles have ever been fought than wilt be
fought in the immediate future. In this struggle The Independent will be found in the front ranks
battling for the people. You will wan: to read-it. Your neighbors will want to read it, but you .
must call their attention to it The Independent calls upon all readers to help in Its campaign to
extend Its circulation and influence. Begin right now; if you put it off you will forget about it.
If every reader would get five new subscribers The Independent's circulation would be increased
five times. We are encouraged by the way applications for subscription cards have already come
in, but we want every one to help In the work.
A coupon is printed below and anyone ' desiring these cards can fill it out, ' indicating how
many cards he wants and mail it to The Independent.
APPLICATION FOR SUBSCRIPTION CARDS.
Publisher Independent: I want to help double The Independent's circulation and .therefore
please send me... ......subscription cards. I promise to do all I can to sell these cards and
remit for them at the rate of 60 cents.
Name Box or Street No
City .....State ............... r