The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-17
NEBRASKA FOF uLISM


Hero Il Was horn, Here II Has Been Pre-
served and Here 1t VIII Conquer
Attention of Nebraska populi is is
called to the list OF patriotic WORKERS
printed below, all Of whom sent in
lists of new subscribers during the
two months Of July and August, vary
ing in number from two to fifty. 1t
will be seen tnat populists in almost
every state have been earnestly at
work. These men realized that 1t
would not do 20 wait until financial
cyclone swept over the country be-
fore they began to WORK. In the two
dullest months OF the year they went
at 1t and the list tells the result.
There have things been accomplished
at Washington during the last week
that will go far toward enthroning q
money power in these states-a power
more omnipotent than the world has
ever known before. Not one man in a
nillion will be informed of the fact.
The plutocratic press, supported and
subsidized by the corporation million
aires, will see to it that the people will
be kept in ignorance of them. These
facts will be printed in form that
the common people can understand
them only In the ~. ~iaska Indepen-
| dent.
If The Independent could be given
a circulation in this state of thirty
or forty thousand, there would soon
be enough we'll informed men in it
| to take control of the state govern
ment and hold it for years to come.
Readers of The Independent would be
| in possession of the facts with which
to convince their Eeighbors of the
right course to p. sue.
The reducing of national bank capi-
! tai to the BmaII sum N 81; 600 is en-
aLling the money power to plant a nest
Of well-paid plutocratic pirates in al
most every small town in the state.
Fifty new national tanks were au-
tlorized in two days last week. 10
these men are granted the privilege
CT drawing double interest on their
&C pital, for they get interest on their
bonds and the government immediat'
| " gives them back the full value OF
their bonds in money that is largely
| LEGAL tender. They also have the
privilege of charging interest on what
they owe. If man deposits money in
a bank, the bank owes that much to
the depOsitor. But the bank imme-
diately loans that money and gets in
terest on it. The state of Nebraska is
being dotted over with these nests OF
privileged financial pirates, whom the
citizens who have to work will be
forced to support in luxury, and at
every bank will be headquarters for
railroad workers and local managers
of the republican party.
| The farmers of the state are MAX
ing desperate efforts to get facilities
for shipping their grain and live stock
to market. No one need to be told
that there is collusion between the
railroads and elevator trust, or doubt
in the least that desperate effort will
b.. made by the railroads and elevator
trust to get control of the supreme
court of the state. If the national
banks, the railroads and the elevator
trust get the state government and the
supreme court, the farmers will be-
come helpless slaves Is 1t not for your
interest and for the interest of your
wives and children that the supreme
court of this state shall not be turned
over to the trusts and railroads? Cal
you do more to prevent 1t in any way
than to get the facts to the people,
Do you know of any better way to
get the facts to the people than by
sending them the only paper that has
the facilities to get them and the cour-
age to print them?
The Independent calls attention to
the lists sent in during the two dullest
months Of the year-July and August
and note the number of workers in
other states. Let the Old Guard and
the thousands of younger men get to
work in the same manner in this
state. Here populism was born. Here
it has been preserved. Here it will
conquer If every man does his full
duty.
! There are not less than 10000 pop