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2 The Nebraska Independent JUNE 28, 1906 BRYAN STATES POSITION Nebraskan Says Private Monopolies Must Be Exterminated and Cor porations Regulated Trondhjem, Norway. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan arrived here to attend the coronation. Mr. Bryan, taking for his text the statement that he - was .. being ' de scribed as conservative, said: "1 am not responsible for the phrases used in regard to me, but I am responsible for my" position on public questions. That position ought to be well known. Take the trust question for instance, as it seems uppermost just now. My position is that private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable. That was the demo cratic platform in 1900 and the plank was incorporated in 1904 and it is the only tenable position. . "There is Bome talk of controlling the. trusts you might as well. talk of controlling burglary. We do not say we shall only steal a little bit, or in some particular way,, but that, they shall not steal at all. It is so of pri vate monopolies. It is not sufficient to control or regulate them they must.be absolutely and totally de stroyed. Corporations should be con trolled and regulated, but private mo nopolies must be exterminated, root and branch. Now you can call that a radical doctrine. Yet it is more con servative to apply this remedy now than to wait until predatory wealth has by Its lawlessness brought odium on legitimate accumulations. ... "What used to be called radical Is now called conservative because peo ple have been investigating. The doc trine has not changed, but public sen timent is making progress." Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will spend a week in Norway and will then go to England. They will sail for home late in August. . : TO TOUR EUROPE A-WHEEL Five Cornell Students Expect to Travel 10,000 Miles Ithaca Five Cornell students will spend their summer vacations in a trip by wheel through Europe. The party, which is made up of George W. Naysmyth, Walter Manning Ladd, William Tudor Price, A. . H. Candee and Manuel Marco-Romero, left New York on the Celtic Tuesday, and will be gone three months. : Three of the students will work their passage across by acting as as sistant engineers on the steamer, and all of them have arranged to sell ac counts of their trip to newspapers throughout the country. Romero, who is a Peruvian, will represent the larg est daily in his native city, Lima, Tern. , .-,,.:.... . . England, France, Germany, Holland and Austria are on the itinerary, and as a final wind-up the boys intend to make a trip into Russia, although no one of them knows anything about the language or customs of that coun try. V-. Special cards of admission to all the big factories of Europe have been given to the students through the ef forts of Director Smith, of Sibley col lege. The party expects to travel ibout 10,000 miles. SOUNDS WARNING TO RICH MEN Address of Goldwin Smith Dedicating Cornell Hall of Humanities " Ithaca, N. Y. "Rich men must give service .or there will be a fearful judgment pronounced over them," .was the warning pronounced by Goldwin Smith in his address at the dedication of the Goldwin Smith Hall of Hu manities, which was formally opened at Cornell University this week. "There is one class of people to whom liberal culture Is especially nec essary," said the speaker, . "namely, the people who inherit great wealth. I am not a socialist, or an alarmist, but the social horizon is dark and the times dangerous. Rich men must give service or there will be a fearful judgment pronounced over them. "I would especially desire to have this building stand as a memorial to the reunion of the English speaking races. The peoples of this race can not be united in one country, but in language, literature, ideals and cus toms they are alike. Canada will never be annexed, but ; if the time comes when it shall be united with this country It will come as a deep, free and lasting union." - Among those present at the ceremo nies were Andrew D. White, President Schurman, Richard Watson Gilder, Phillip S. Moxom, Alonzo B. Cornell, and the deans of the different col leges and the professors of the college of arts. -'y.-s:'-' CALLS GRAFT NATIONAL EVIL President Schurman Scores Idle Rich at Cornell Commencement . Ithaca, N. Y. "Among the rich and well-to-do business . and professional classes 'grafting' has been so common that the very idea of commercialism has become a byword and a reproach; the whole nation needs a new baptism of the old virus of honesty," declared President Jacob Gould Schurman in his commencement address at Cor nell University today. Continuing he said: ,.' ' ,. :' "7 "The idle rich are an excrescence in any properly organized community. And in a democratic republic, in which every man has a vote, he assured that the rights which convention grants to property would be swept away if the propertied classes become idle, luxurious, selfish, hard-hearted and indifferent to the struggles and toils of less fortunate fellow citizens. The vice' of the age is that men want wealth without undergoing that toil by which alone wealth is created. The love of money and the reckless pur suit of it is undermining the national character. But the nation, thank God, is beginning to perceive the fatal dan ger. The reaction caused by recent revelations testifies to a moral awak ening. At heart the nation i3 still sound, though its moral sense has been too long hypnotized by material prosperity. We must restrain the brutal and predatory pursuit of wealth by law for the protection of the weak and for the equalizing of opportun ity."' More than 600 first diplomas were presented. FUNERAL OF GOV. PATTISON Simple Services at the Obsequies of Dead Statesman. " Milford, O. After a simple funeral service attended by high state offic ials, party associates and friends from all parts of the country, the body of John M. Pattison, late governor of Ohio, was this afternoon, consigned to the grave, his family alone being present at the grave. Judge Judson Harmon of Cincinnati, attorney general in President Cleva land's cabinet, and a life long friend, spoke on the political life of Gov- pmm Pnttisnn Bishop Henry Spellmeyer of Cin cinnati delivered the funeral sermon. The interment was at Greenlawn cemetery. NOTICE $1.00 pays for seven sub scriptions to the Independent until after the November election.. 25 cents pays for a single subscription until after election. Send in your subscrip tion. Address The Independent, Lin coln, Neb. WILL INSPECT CANAL President Roosevelt Plans a Trip to Panama to Inspect the Work on Panama Canal Washington President Roosevelt will visit the isthmus of Panama to make a personal, investigation of con struction work on the Panama canal. It is expected that the president will ieave Washington late in October or early in November. He will be absent about three weeks. The trip probably will be made on one of the big cruis ers of the navy,-but on which vessel is as yet undetermined. None of the details have been worked out beyond the bare decision to make the trip. It is likely that the president will be accompanied by Secretary Taft and Chairman Shonts. The president long has desired to inspect the route of the canal and to make himself familiar with the great undertaking. He will be able to spend at least a week in the zone and in that time he will familiarize himself with the situation. In connection with the announce ment of the president's intention to j visit Panama, Secretary Loeb said the president had decided not to visit San Francisco next autumn to par ticipate in the laying of the corner stone of the new federal building there. While the president, it can be said, desires to do anything possible to promote the reconstruction of the city, he cannot make a trip to both Panama and San Francisco. For sev eral weeks the president has been contemplating making a . trip next spring through the middle west, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and other states. But since the likelihood of his taking the trip has been announced such a . mass of invitations have been received that he has decided to give up the plan. It is said if he accepted one-tenth of the invitations the trip would occupy two or three months. It is probable that he will go next May to Lansing, Mich., to attend the centennial celebratipn of the establishing of agricultural col leges in the country. There he will meet many of the prominent educa tors of the country. The trip will be brief, occupying probably not more than four or five days. TO STANDARD OF BRYAN J Democratic Press of Twin Territo ries Enthusiastic Oklahoma City, Ok. The demo cratic editors of both Oklahoma and Indian Territory are showing a re markable disposition to get in the Bryan ranks. During the last two weeks not less than twenty-five new supporters have been added, and if the present movement is indicative, there is every reason to believe that the solid democratic press of the new state of Oklahoma will be for Bryan for president. It is believed that the laboring peo ple of the Territory will be friendly to the cause of Mr. Bryan. Their strength in the two territories is rap idly increasing, and from now on their power in the new state will have to be reckoned with. The contest for supremacy; by the two leading parties in the new state is going to be interesting. It is claimed by both. Whichever way it does go, neither side will have a big margin, and the present movement favoring Bryan is calculated to great ly strength the chances for a demo cratic victory in the new state. CUMMINS WRITES GOVERNORS Object is Convention Looking to Nom ination of Senators by Direct Vote i Des Moines, la. Governor Cummins has sent letters to the governors of every state in the' union asking them to appoint five delegates to a national convention to adopt means of secur ing election of United States Senators by popular vote. The convention which is called for September 5, was authorized by the legislature at its recent session here, when resolutions were adopted favor ing the election of senators by direct vote. It is stated that almost the nec essary three-fourths of the states have adopted resolutions favoring a consti tutional amendment to provide for such election , and the question will be submitted after the national meet ing in Des Moines. " KING HAAKON AND QUEEN MAUD Representatives of All Nations Attend Imposing Ceremonies " Trondhjem King ' Haakon and Queen Maud were crowned respective ly king and queen of Norway in the cathedral here. The royal party left the palace at 11:05 a. m. and entered the cathedral six minutes later. The coronation cere mony began immediately after their arrival. The crowning of the king was completed at 12:15 p. m. The corona tion of the queen began at 12:10 and was completed at 12:35 p. m. At 12:35 their majesties left the ca thedral and arrived at the palace five minutes later. - ; ' KENTUCKY CUTS RAIL RATES - State Commission Order Will ' Save Shippers $1,800,000 a Year . ...... - . ... . . Frankfort, Ky. 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