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SEPTEMBER 13, 1906
The Nebraska independent
business activity on the cash pay
ment plan, with mortgages shrinking
and equities fattening. The change
in the value of money is now on the
side of the debtor and promises so to
be for an indefinite time to come.
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The newspaper is the organ of pub
lic intelligence.
Mr. Berge's speech at Columbus
has the ring of true metal.
Taft has got the physical propor
tions and that seems to be about
all.
Xo man is so necessary to the pub
lic that it can afford to overlook his
shortcomings.
A railroad pass record is an in
convenient thing for a candidate for
office just now.
Public intelligence determines the
character of laws under which we
live, in a republic.
The men w,ho ride on railroad
passes are perfectly willing that you
should pay the freight.
The public cannot condone an of
fense in a candidate. To do so would
be to destroy the foundation of popu
lar government.
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Watch the railroad vote in your
neighborhood. It will not be cast for
the candidates of the people. The
railroads know their friends every
time.
The veil is being torn from the
hypocrite in politics in all sections of
the country. The old fashioned polit
ical machines are falling upon bad
days.
Human nature is the same in the
United States as in Russia. But the
institutions of the two countries are
vastly different. Ours are the pro
duct of superior enlightenment work
ing through the centuries.
Will Roosevelt be moved to re
consider his determination not to
again become a candidate through the
pitieous cries of orphan politicians
who will' refuse to be comforted by
Fairbanks, Taft or Cannon?
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the news that is being so generally
expressed by our readers is a source
of genuine satisfaction, and amply re
pays us for the trouble and-pains
necessary to prepare the same.
The growing demand for back
numbers of The Independent, coming
as it does from all sections of the
country, suggests the growing popu
larity of the paper among students
of economics, and current politics.
Neither the friends or enemies of
Mr. Bryan, politically," are in doubt as
to what he stands for.' He dares to
open his campaign two years in ad
vance of the convention, because he
is not seeking to play a confidence
game upon the voters.
If the standpatter coull be made to
bear the unjust burdens his ignorance
and folly brings upon the country we
might wait complacently for him to
learn the lesson of his folly, but un
fortunately his vote affects our wel
fare as much as it does Lis own.
Voters, what kind of a show do you
expect from an official that accepts
railroad passes and uses them in any
case where your interests are pitted
against the interests of the railroads,
in the matter of taxation, ' extortionate
charges, discrimination or any any
thing else?
Candidates for public office are en
titled to offer no excuses for past con
duct, because the public can be
served by parties that do not need
to offer any. The public owes noth
ing to candidates and their record
should be invesfigated with the most
searching scrutiny.
Roger Sullivan is evidently deter
mined to make the most of his op
portunity to gain notoriety. It is to
be hoped that Mr. Bryan will decline
to enter into a public controversy with
a politician of his class. A statement
of the facts such as Mr. Bryan made
at the Jefferson club in Chicago is
sufficient for the information of the
public.
The largest audience that Mr.
Bryan ever addressed was assembled
on the state lot in Lincoln on the
evening of the 5th inst. to welcome
him home. The number of people
present is variously estimated from
fifty thousand to seventy-five thou
sand, covering nearly four acres as
closely as human beings could be
huddled together.
In his address before the Jefferson
club in Chicago Mr, Bryan stated that
he was opposed to any man who held
a position in a franchise corporation
having ansjion, or connection with
a politicalnorg&tfiteafeion that lays
clainntfrereefAt(frjn'e' people, as such
P,rf(D?l!nL1lK-,corPor;
jatkwv eitheisneojklet fcut&eaeame
tittle'. eHoVrtttri lf9!Sfr.fi Bryan's
date for office speak bo disinterest
edly or so courageously in behalf of
the interest of the plain people. Mr.
Bryan spoke words of wisdom, not
from the standpoint of a self seeking
politician, but from the lofty stand
point of the public good.
The news of the world for each
week is found in condensed form in
our summary of news. Readers of
The Independent do not have to spend
a whole week reading daily pipers in
order to know what is going on in
the world. The pith and kernel of
the news of the week is carefully ex
tracted from the dispatches and pre
sented in skeleton in our . summary.
This feature alone is worth the sub
scription price of the paper.
When the election is over The In
dependent will treat, exhaustively
the meaning of the awakening in the
Orient. The significance of the ques
tion presented by the developments
taking place in Japan and China can
not fail to interest the thinking peo
pie of all other nations. The ques
tions involved are of more serious
import to the whole human race than
any other that has arisen in cen
turies.
Bryan's home coming is proving a
God send to President Roosevelt. It,
for the time being, at least, occupies
so much of the attention of the pub
lic, that' his brutal assault upon Eng
lish orthography is escaping the
wholesale condemnation that it so
richly deserves. Will the president
have the good sense to take advan
tage of the favorable condition thus
afforded him to beat a retreat, or will
he await the chastisement that is sure
to follow obduracy on his part?
During state fair week The Inde
pendent was the recipient of many
pleasant calls from friends through
out the state, who were visitors at
the fair. As a result our subscription
list has grown consisderably, in addi
tion to many renewal of old subscrip
tions. The words of praize and com
mendation that was so lavishly be
stowed upon the paper has furnished
us with a stock of good cheer and in
spiration that will lighten the burden
of dur toil for many months to come.
Guy T. Graves, the fusion candi
date for congress, never rode on a
railroad pass in his life. When he
was first elected as judge, a pass
was sent to him by an official of the
Northwestern railroad, but it was im
mediately returned unused by Judge
Graves, who realized that he could
not accept it without becoming a
debtor to the railroad company. If
Judge Boyd has been riding on a
railroad pass the voters will probably
ascertain the fact between now and
election day and act accordingly.
When a candidate for public office
in addressing the voters deals elo
quently in glittering generalities, in
terspersed with amusing stories, caus
tic criticism of political antagonists
and fervent appeal to the emotions,
it is safe ti regard such candidate as
in'sjncere, merely acting a part. The
sincere candidate will labor to con
vey specific thought in direct and
simple language that cannot be mis
understood. His appeal will be to the
intellect and conscience, while, the
insincere speaker will seek to please
the fancy and play upon the emotions.
In the United States we are pass
ing through a period in svhich the
great natural resources of the coun
try are being appropriated and de
veloped. That prosperity is some
what distributed is due to this fact'
rather than to any governmental pol-1
icy. In fact a governmental policy
that is responsible for the Increase of
the wealth of Andrew Carnegie from
one hundred millions to three hun
dred millions in a single year is suffi
ciently vicious to sap the foundations
of civilization if permitted to exist
very long. The stability of civiliza
tion is dependent upon the distribu
tion of the wealth created rather than
upon the rapidity of its production.
The foregoing thought may contain a
suggestion of value to the modern
political philosophers who are dum
founded over the fact that Roosevelt
has so suddenly eclipsed all of the
great leaders of his party, and that
the democratic party is bereft of hope
except in the candidacy of Bryan.
Religion Divided Up
The late Dr. O. H. Bradley of East
Jaffrey; N. II., had a most supreme
contempt for shams of every form,
and made no effort to conceal it. Some
years ago a revival, led by a profes
sional evangelist, was in progress in
the village, and one of the loudest
spoken of the new converts was a
man noted for neglect of his domestic
animals. The doctor saw this indi
vidual one day fastening his woebe
gone horse to a post in front of the
pestoffice, and crossing the street pro
ceeded to congratulate him upon his
professed change of heart.
"I hear. William, that you have be
come a Christian," said he.
"Yes, doctor, said William, "I have,
and things look very different to me
from what they did."
T rejoice at it," said the doctor.
"Now, William, I tell you what you
do. Just divide up this religion with
that horse. Buy some grain, and take
some of your best hay, and feed hira
regularly, buy him a blanket to cover
up his poor old bones and keep a lit
tle heat inside of him and clean him
once in a while, and the Lord will
reward you. Boston Herald.
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