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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-01-27
Public Sale.

Tuesday, February 1O.-Personal Prop
erty, by Joseph Y Shaull
The Leader-Weldeman Brewing Com
pany was formed here yesterday apd
purchased the Harpers Ferry Brewery
for $I4'4oS. Abner & Drury, of Wash
lngton, are the largest stockholders.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-01-27
1903. We Greet You With The Greatest

Bargains disposed goods
following ridiculouy They ought all
move with rush, don't delay For offer
The independent., 1903-04-30
THE THE AMERICAN FARMER.


The Director Acknowledges receipt
from the author, A. M. Simons, editor
Of the international Socialist Review,
copy of "The American Farmer
III mo-, cloth, 208 pages; soc; Chas.
II. Kerr & Co., Chicago). A hurried
glance through its pages leads The
Director to believe that Mr.. Simons
has at least laid the foundation for a
better understanding of American
farm economics. Most socialist lit
erature treats the farm problem from
the standpoint of the European farm
er and the conclusions drawn are not
applicable here.
A more thorough review will be
given at the earliest possible moment;
but, in the meantime, The Director
has no hesitancy in recommending the
book as worthy of careful reading.
1t will help the student of political
economy who desires a glimpse at this
phase of socialism through American
glasses instead of the strange foreign
Dnes we have hitherto been obliged
70 use.
The independent., 1903-04-30
Cracks a Kangaroo

Editor Independent: In a recent is
sue A. K. Angaroo says: "The sin
gle tax will help the man who works
for HIMSELF which is true, and the
gentleman will also admit that then
there will be more working for them
selves because land will become prac-
tically free-easier to get, as then no
one will hold land idle because it will
be improbable to do so.
This increased number of people
working for themselves will reduce
the army of the unemployed some.
also the fact of their being helped by
the single tax will enhance their pur-
chasing power, thus making an in
creased demand for labor products and
again reducing the army of unem-
ployed, making of them not only pro-
ducers, but consumers, in turn en-
ploying others and repetition of the
act indefinitely. That one benefit
should be enough to make any fair
minded person favor the idea.
The gentleman. also intimates the
socialist old stereotyped expressed
that the single takers want to go back
to hand production, which is almost
too ridiculous to notice The single
takers would not abolish the present
labor-saving machinery If they could,
and could not If they would; we would
leave the machinery as it is, and eth
er gradually or instantly abolish all
taxation, direct and indirect, and sub
stitute the idea of single tax, which
is really not tax at all, but the pay
The independent., 1903-04-30
which class will your children be?
M. FOERG.

M. FOERG.
Meridian, Miss.
lMr Foerg makes a good populist
argument in the main, but wholly
overlooks the point The independence
has been urging: That the present
lnequitable distribution of wealth can
not be explained wholly by applying
the Marxist formula of Surplus val
ue." Certainly the farmer is ex-
plotted, just as Mr.. Foerg suggests;
but the MarXist does not account as
exploitation the robbery of one
burgeois by another. Marxist lex
ploitation" occurs when the laborer
sells his labor-power at cost of pro-
duction and the capitalist uses that
labor-power for longer number Of
hours than would suffice to produce
the things necessary to keep up the
laborer's capacity to perform labor.
The surplus hours produce surplus
value" we are told.
The Independent repudiates as un-
sound the whole Marxist theory of
surplus value" willingly admitting,
however, that the laborer receives
nothing like an equivalent for the
services he renders. 1t has no quar-
rel with the"general survey made by
the socialists, but objects to being
required to account for the enormous
inequalities in the distribution of
wealth by using the surplus value"
formula. Further, The Independent
does not believe in the "inevitability'
argument advanced by the socialists,
every inch oF the ground if we make
any adyance.-Asociate Editor.)
The independent., 1903-04-30
A Plan For Union

Editor Independent: / have never
written before for publication and am
usually too busy to worry about poll
tics, but having read an article in
your issue of April 2, by Rev. w. M.
Kain, under the head of Unite,
Unite" | happened to think of a
plan to unite ali Of the parties OPP
posed to republican misrule.
The plan is: Let each party meet
in national convention as usual; let
this plan be put before them and it
having carried, let each party nomi-
nate candidates for president and vice
president as usual. Then let all these
candidates for president meet and
draw lots, the lucky one to run. The
rest to withdraw. Let the candidates
for vice president draw lots in the
same way. The resulting ticket to be
called the Union ticket. The same
pan to be carried out in nominating
state and even county tickets.
| think this plan would result in a
conservative cosmopolitan ticket that
none of the common people except the
very hide-bound and partisan could
object to.
Hope my suggestion won't do any
harm anyhow. From my observation
OF human nature it would be impossi-
tle for these parties to meet in joint
convention and nominate. Each
would want their idol to be TT.
E. w. ROBBINS.
Naponee, Neb.
The independent., 1903-04-30

ment to society for advantages that
society confers on the individual.
The adoption of the single tax would
remove the evils that the socialists
are cracking at Karl Marx uncon-
sclously admitted it when he wrote:
The appropriation of the soil from
the people forms the basis of the Ca
pltalistic system of production" If
that is true (Which we do not admit
then the restoration of the soil would
destroy the basis of socialist bogie
man, the capitalist. Then il there is
anything in their evolutionary idea 1T
can go on natural lines and not per-
verted ones On account of the conse-
quent result of the unnatural monop-
oily of natural resources.
=, TANGLE SKIER. &
Youngstown. O.
The independent., 1903-04-30
SOCIALISM--UTOPIAN AND SCIEN.
TIFIC

To A. w. Kicker, one Of the editors
OF The Appeal to Reason, The Direc-
tors Acknowledgements are due for a
copy Of Frederick Engels Socialism
utopian and Scientific''-one of Kerr's
little pocket library SERIES This The
Director has promised Mr. Kicker to
read carefully and thus assist in the
development" signs of which Mr..
Kicker processes to have observed in
The Directors knowledge of social
ism.
The independent., 1903-04-30
Jefferson

The author of the Declaration Of
independence stands in human history
as the foremost man who ever lived.
whose influence has led men to gov
ern themselves in the conduct of
states by spiritual laws, not formulas
to be assented to, but rules of life to
be governed by. 1t was due to JEFF
ferson that our fathers laid deep the
foundation of the state in the moral
law. They first set to mankind the
great example and exhibited the
mighty spectacle-the sublimest spec
tacle in the universe-of a great and
free people voluntarily governing it,
self by law higher than it's own de-
sire.
He will hold his place among the
worlds immortals as the author and
fnisher of that great charter of hui
man rights and foremost architect
among the builders of free institu-
tions, when those who now speak and
act in hollow mockery of his exam
pie, and selfish serviency to his glory,
are but forgotten dust. His is safe
name for these to juggle with for
popular favor; but his loyalty to con-
science and his sublime courage to
resist popularity when it demanded
sacrifice of manly independence are
and will remain to them unknown vir-
tues.-Senator Hoar,
Importance of fresh air to the sick
is told about in Care of Invalids."
"a copy of which has reached this
office), issued by the medical depart
ment of the Mutual Life Insurance
company of New York, and sent on
request to those who address the
tome office of the company, Nassau,
Cedar, William and Liberty streets,
New York city.
The independent., 1903-04-30
4 Popu|Ist Socialist

Editor Independent In an article
of yours in reply to Mr.. Steffe under
| head "As to Baby Rattle" you say
that the socialists ignore the farm
problem and you ask wherein the
farmers are exploited. Does not the
transportation companies, the grain
elevators, the Touring mills, the meat
packers, the cotton factories exploit
the small farmer? The farmer has to
sell his staple produce to cooperative
buyers. Do they not take all that he
produces over and above very limited
wages? Does not the interest on
debts, public and private, constitute
a fixed tax laid upon the producers?
The Capitalist employer buys labor
power at the cost of production" as
you grant, and he exploits the farmer
by fixing the price of what he has to
sell as we'll as what he must buy. He
is therefore as much serf and as
| much Wage-slave as any operative
in the factories He can never rise
above this condition except by adopt
ing some form of exploitation him
self and robbing his neighbor.~
The socialists are therefore right in
classifying the people into two classes,
the robbers and the robbed, and they
look forward to the time when the
brilliant editor of The Independent
shall WELD his pen for that platform
which offers in their opinion the only
hope for the robbed.
Come with us! We need you.
You are too broad to care for
name. The sacred cause of labor,
both rural and urban, we know, is
On your heart and the socialist pro-
blem for it's emancipation needs your
logical brain and warm enthusiasm.
Many of us take your paper because we
believe you are an unprejudiced rea-
soner and will ultimately see the
light, and when you do you will have
the courage to stand for the right
regardless of hoary custom.
by surplus value" we do not un-
derstand to mean that surplus is
produced over and above the consum-
ing capacity of the people, but that
there is more produced than the
wages allowed will pay for. Conse-
quently there is real distress in a land
of abundance. How can this ever be
remedied while small part of the
people fix both price of products and
the wages paid labor? ~.4
Public ownership of transportation
might help the independent farmer
who owns his farm, if 1t were not that
the exploiting class owns the govern
ment and by means of fixed charges
of interest and taxes impossible to
escape because added to everything he
buys. The farmer populists called in
vain on the wage-earners for aid in
their reform movements. The tide is
now turned and the wage-slaves are
calling on the farmers. 1t Is useless
to hope for reform until these two
classes get together They are usel
now by the robbers to neutralize each
other, the landholder being told that
he is capitalist and needs cheaper
labor in order to get profit.
But the system which teaches men
to take profits from labor is wrong
and will eventually divide mankind
into master and servants. A feudal-
ism which may at times be benev-
olent, but never the less slavery. In
The independent., 1903-04-30

DO you want to understand the aims
and objects Of the single tax? Ii you
do, you can obtain literature on the
subject free of cost by writing to the
Brooklyn Single Tax League, 1467
Bedford ave-, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The independent., 1903-04-30
THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

Mr.. Simons has also favored The
Director with copy of "The Social
Revolution" by Karl Kautsky, trans
lated by A. M. and May Wood Simons
lKerr & Co.; IL mo-, cloth, 189 pp.,
50c). This is also reserved for re-
view.
The independent., 1903-04-30

Is it not time that the populists take
charge of our state government again
to reduce freight rates and raise rail-
road taxation? The populists may
have given up their fight as a party,
but their work with the democratic
party was productive of much good
to the people of the state of Nebras-
ka. Anyone who is fair ought to ad-
NIT that the populists did more for
the interests of the farmer and ranch
men than any republican legislature.
Valentine Democrat.
The independent., 1903-04-30
PROGRESS AND POVERTY.

n uioolplc VI I1cuIy ICOTSe-dHu a
modest man to boot-has given The
Director a clothbound copy of Henry
Georges great work, Progress and
Poverty" with the condition that The
Director first read it and then do as
he pleases with 1t afterward. AS The
Director has read this work, he be
lieves it should be in the hands of
some member who has never read it.
1t is a free book, costing the reader
postage on to the next. Who wants
to read it first? j
The school work grew faster than
The Director expected, and, with the
Henry George Edition crowding, he is
literally sWamped with work, which.
being largely in a formative stage,
requires his personal attention. A
number Of members have books or
dered and some delay has been un-
ayoidable, but as soon as the work is
systematized SO others can assist, the
members may expect prompt service.
Parsons "City for the People,"
Clients "Our Benevolent Feudaltsm."
Ely's Outlines of Economics" and
Del Mars Science of Money" are the
leaders thus far. Simons' "The Amer
ican Farmer will doubtless take well,
once it is started. Deposit Soc; same
for Kautsky's Revolution.
The Director expects to furnish
treat for the populists some of these
days. He is now in communication
with H. w. K. Eastman, Cheever, N.
H., who, back in 1888, copyrighted
THE Science of Government" which
was published under the auspices of
the Massachusetts, state assembly of
the Knights of Labor. Mr.. Eastman
denies that labor has anything to do
with values, and sustains his point
with vigor. Both the Marxists and
the single takers reach some wonder
full conclusions in their efforts to con-
meet value with labor cost. Marx, for
example, denies that virgin soil can
have (exchange) value, but admits
that it may command 'price!"
Mr.. Eastman's book will be re-
viewed as early as possible and ar
rangements made to circulate it, The
few pages referring to the K. of l..
will not detract from it's worth.
The independent., 1903-04-30
independent School OF Political Economy
1DEI MAQ'cHist, precious metals
a4OLL NlftN , "a; Hist, money 81;

Hist. Monetary crimes, 7sc; Science
money, 81; Hist Money in America,
sr.so; Hist money China, soc; Hist
money Netherlands, soc; Cambridge
Press, Box 100. M. S. New York.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-12

endeavor to secure his services as
manager of the event from first to
last.
IL was decided that an old-fash-
ioned barbecue would prove a great
drawing card. and in all probability
this will be one of the features of
the celebration.
The committee ON sports will doubt
less be instructed to arrange two
good baseball games. and there will
be plenty of other events to fill in
the day most enjoyably.
Another meeting of those interest
ed will be held soon. and decisive
steps taken in planning for the details
of the celebration. When this
meeting is called, it is especially de-
sired that a large number of ladies
attend.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-12
LATE NOTES FROM TONOPAH
Interesting Items From the
Bonanza and Miner
(From the Bonanza. }

An opposition fast freight line is to
be put on the road between Sodaville
and Tonopah
The new town at Gold Mountain
which may be described as an Esmer-
aida county suburb of Tonopah. has
boarding house, general store and
three saloons in full blast
F. W. Johnson. a San Francisco
mining operator, recently closed a
deal with w. d. Neligan, whereby
the PeQuot group of mines at Lone
Mountain become the property of the
Tonopah-Aloha mining company. Ac-
tive development work will begin
about the 18th inst.
Joe Quoy and Sing Zing were ar
rested several days ago in Chinatown
by Constable Hickey, brought before
Judge Lindsay and charged with
smoking opium. The case being a
clear one against the Cinnamon they
concluded to plead guilty, whereupon
they were fined 81 and costs. The
costs amounted to $96.
For the past week strikes in the
near-in properties have occurred daily.
Every person in Tonopah has been
congratulating one another upon this
and that strike. and the cry has been,
What's the matter with Tonopah
mines?" and the answer came quickly,
They are hummers and the like the
world has never produced" A re-
porter of the Bonanza inspected the
Belmont ledge today and by actual
measurement finds the crosscut in
the ledge to be 451a feet, in almost
solid ledge matter. The face has
opened up a body of ore that is the
richest ever found in the camp. The
ore in the face will undoubtedly aver
age $500 to the ton. and from all in
dications will open into a larger body
The reader must stop and think of
the enormous size of the ledge as far
as penetrated-forty-f and one-half
feet-and no hanging wall in sight.
Today it can be conservatively esti-
mated that there are over s10,00O,000
in sight in the Belmont. The east
drift in the ledge is in twenty feet
and today the face shows ore that
will mill $3.50 to the ton. Tonopah
is wild today over the great body
of ore. The sum of $3.50 is offered
for the stock on the curb but holders
will not dispose OF their valuable
stock
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-12
KENNEDY
PICK-UPS
Items Sent in By the Silver
States Correspond
ent

Mr.. Tuttle left this morning for I'm
ionville.
Mr.. Waters of Austin visited in
Kennedy Sunday.
Mr.. Ranny spent Wednesday and all
of Thursday in Kennedy.
Mr.. Jake Leick departed today for a
business trip to his ranch in Idaho.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. Pearce and baby
are visiting relatives in Pleasant Val
ley.
Mrs. Hillyer and family had three
days outing at their ranch the past
week
Mr.. Clark. of the firm of Bingham
and Clark. started Friday for Rock
Creek
Mr.. Kistle made trip to Union
vile Tuesday and returned Wednes-
day. Billy Hyatt went over there with
him.
Nick Pearee is driving our stage
now as Fred is suffering from severe
attack of tonsilitis. We trust he'll
soon be entirely well.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-12
Building of NewLine Will Open
Up Many Mining Camps
I'm Nevada
A BIG DEAL CONSUMMATED
Salt Lake Capitalists Purchase
Mines on Munice Creek,
White Pine County

The building of the San Pedro, Los
Angeles and Salt Lake road will open
up many mining camps. 1t will bring
into easy distance a wide scope of
country rich in it's mineral deposits
Beginning almost at our very doors,
the road enters within the boundary
lines of productive districts. Stock
ton and Ophir are first reached by
way of the new Lexington cutoff
and SO is West Tintic Next comes
Tintic district with its constellation
of big mining camps-Eureka, Silver
City and Mammoth. Further along
in Milard county, are many pros
pective shippers, while, in Beaver
county, now the scene of such great
activity in mining matters, there are
eight or ten districts which can be
relied upon for heavy production of
the precious metals. In Iron county,
and not far from the road. is the gold
and silver camp of Stateline, with
Pixies Diggings and Dear Lodge as
near neighbors. The Lexington
cutoff also brings the rich mining
camps of the extensive Deep Creek
country into closer touch with the
outside world. The greatest good,
however, will come from the exten-
sion from Calientes through southern
Nevada. The great mineral region
lying around Phoebe will be tapped
and many old, but once famous, camps
in this region will take on new life
and activity, such as Silver Park,
Patterson, Bristol, Freiberg, Tim Pah
Ute, Silver King, Irish Mountain, Rev
ellie, Groom, Tybo, Good Springs,
Yellow Pine, Ivanpah, and other
camps which created sensations in the
history of early mining operations
in this western country. From Call
ientes on, it is understood, forty miles
of roadbed is ready for the ties and
rails. Work is to begin at both ends
OF the line. and in the middle also
which means rapid construction as
soon as the work is fairly in hand
Salt Lake Mining Review.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-12
(ErOm the Miner.l

Water was struck this week on the
Jennie H claim. the western extension
of the Tonopah- Union. The flow is
too great to be handled with buckets,
and preparations are being made to
sink to depth of so feet. This is
good news for the Gold Mountain
district, as water has to be hauled
from Tonopah at a cost of 81 per
barrel.
Hon. w. G. Pitt. state senator from
Humboldt, came down from Love
lock Wednesday to take look at To-
nopah. During the county seat fight
at Carson last winter Senator Pitt
was a staunch friend of Tonopah,
and naturally he has received a warm
welcome here. The Senator is largely
interested in Tonopah properties, and
will remain several days looking over
the field.
Chas. e. Watson, superintendent Of
the Fraction, was seriously hurt yes
terday afternoon. He was found lying
on the bottom of the Fraction shaft
in an unconscious condition. with a
cash cut in the scalp. 1t is presumed
that he was struck by a piece of fall
ing rock. DIR. Hammond was called
and dressed the wound and Mr.. Wat
son was removed to his home.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-12
CONDITION OF ALL CROPS
Government Report Covering
the Entire Country

The past few days were unseason-
ably cool over much the greater part
of the counery, the minimum temper
ature on Apr. 80 and May l and be-
ing the lowest record in the last de-
cade of April and the first decade of
May for the past thirty years at near
lv all weather bureau stations from
the central and west gulf coasts to the
upper Missouri valley. and also at a
Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Lake re-
gion, and New England, Generally
been favorable for farming operations,
but the unseasonably low temperature
has checked the growth of all vege-
tation. and heavy frosts and freezes
have caused much damage. Drought
has been relieved over southern Texas
and over limited areas in the central
Gulf States. but continues over the
greater part of the aforementioned dis
tricts and in northern Texas, and rain
is needed in Florida. Nothwithstand-
ing the decidedly cool weather dur
ing the latter part of the week, the
temperature in New England and por-
tions of the Middle Atlantic States
and Lake region averaged above the
normal. Rain is generally needed on
the Pacific Coast.
The early planted corn was extens-
lively killed by the freeze during the
latter part of the week in Missouri,
Kansas. Oklahoma. and Texas, and
the crop has suffered from cold wea-
ther throughout the Southern States.
Preparations for planting have pro
gressed favorably in the Ohio valleys
On the Pacific coast the outlook is
less favorable. especially in Califor-
MIA
Very little seeding of spring wheat
could be done over the northern por-
ton of the spring wheat region during
the past week. The reports indicate
that no serious damage has been done
to early SOWn over INC oOuIASAh PSA
ton. On the north Pacific coast the
crop is now in need of rain.
Oats sustained more or less injury
from the cold in the States of the
Missouri Valley, and slow growth is
generally reported in the central Mis-
sissippi and Ohio valleys. Decreased
acreage is reported from Illinois and
In the eastern districts planting mas
been vigorously pushed and is nearing
completion.
Transplanting tobacco has begun IN
Tennessee, but none has yet. been
planted farther northward. Plants
continue plentiful.
! Nearly all fruits have suffered lur-
ther damage from frosts and low tenn
peratures, apples having apparently
escaped with the least injury.
The reports indicate that the grass
crop is very backward.