The independent., 1903-10-15


preacher, who recently made visit
to this country, was howled into ST.
lence for a side reference in defense OF
the Boer war. Such reference did not
coincide with the object of the meet
| ing which was to insist that England
should intervene and stop the Mace
donian massacres. That audience did
Tot seem to understand that those
massacres were permitted solely for
| financial reasons. The House of Roths-
childs holds nearly $2O0,O0O,000 of
Turkish III bonds, and that house being
the governing power in all Europe, 1t
will allow nothing to be done that will
| ir the least detract from the value of
those bonds.
The money power cares no more for
the massacre of helpless Christian
women and children than for the death
of SO many flies. That was proven
when the English government and our
cwn government gathered them into
concentration camps in South Africa
and the Philippines and let them die
ot starvation, disease and the elements
| from which they were unprotected.
The justification Of it was made by
Senator Beveridge in the United States
senate when he exhibited as defense
| a lump of gold found in a Philippine
creek, and in England the more sub
stantial returns each week from the
Rand gold mines.
AS long as the great financial COM
blnations rule the world, justice, the
humanities, and all the high ideals
which have been the force moving
men upward, will not be taken into
consideration. If there were profit in
it, the farmers of Nebraska would as
! readily be crushed as the farmers of
the Boer republic The quality of
mercy is unknown in Wall street
transactions. The successful young
man there telegraphed his father: II
have bankrupted the whole crowd
| Hurrah!"
The farmers and small business men
of Nebraska must realize that that is
the character Of the force that is ar
layed against them. If it is to the in
-.
terest of the bankers a-d railroads to
impoverish them, they VIII be impov-
erished. If it is their interest to
take from them everything but a bare
living, they will take that. Justice
and humanity will not enter into the
transaction at all. That is the sort OF
fight that is going on. The tender
hearted farmer-the man whose better
nature has been developed by contact
with the helpless animal life which de-
pends upon him for food and shelter
n need have no doubt that the rail-
Z roads will take care Of their own in
terests without any help from him
They have constantly in their service
the brightest intel acts in the land
men who from their early youth have
had their intellects sharrened by con-
stant training. I lie farmer and small
business man has no trained and high
ly educated lawyers to look after his
interests. No one watches for him
the introduction of every bill into the
legislature or congress and follows il
day and night until it is defeated OF
passed. His only advocate and de-
fender is his vote. Yet, strange as il
may seem, during the last few years
many of these men have declared thai
there was nothing to vote for" and
have stayed in their cornfields and
around their barns on election day in
stead Of going e the polls. ~
On the other hand, the trained intel
lects working for the money power
have been active day and night. They
have saddled an enormous state deb
upon the people and passed revenue