The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-07-23
American Socialist Demands in a Nut Shell
Bs. P. Gibson, Star, E Eeb.


and farming on government lands. The
result can be S4 to SIS a day N goods,
houses, etc.
Ii you are socialist, then consider
yourself at once cooperative mem
Der; ii you have work, stick to it,
save every cent to put in the cooper
alive concern; lit will grow, with the
aid of machinery, SO to 100 per cent?.
Let those socialists out of work oper-
ate on the farms, saw mills, etc., then
when a strike or panic and out-of-
work comes, if we jointly have 100
million bushels of wheat, rice, corn,
etc., on hand, we are all O. X.
With hand-roller graham -four
mill to operate, one person can live
on four and one-half bushels of wheat,
81; / bushel of rye, 25c; bushel corn.
25c; 5 bushels potatoes, 81; 3 gallons
molasses, 81; 80 pounds sugar, ST.; 40
pounds dried fruit, 81; 20 pounds lard.
direct from hog, $1.75; 20 pounds
rice, 75c;. rs pounds oat meal, Use; 5
pounds tea siftings, 40c; pounds cot
fee, 25c; extras, $3.50. Total, $13.
This for one year. Meat and much
butter is not healthy. Eight dollars
worth Of sheet iron and scantlings
tuiids 6x8 cabin; then If you have
a spade, hoe, ak, saw, and hammer,
you have capital to develop natural
resources for one year; do better if
you have more capital.
If all is bought and cash paid, it
takes | million to fit out 93-thou-
sand, 12x12 miles farm on government
land, or in northwestern Canada. This
includes irrigation plant; sixteen rs
horse power steam plows, etc. Run
ming night and day in eight-hour shifts
it takes $4,000 days labor, (including
digging coaD, to operate this farm
without irrigation; with irrigation,
$4,000 days labor more; yield of
wheat, / million to million bushels
a year; yield of rice, 2 million BUSH
els: with plenty of water, rice can be
raised on the big uplands in New
Mexico
Socialists, here is your beginning;
40,ooOscan get food enough out of this
big farm start one, then another, etc.
Put in S. to 500 each; pay those who
operate good, common wages extra.
divide the balance to all in it. or in
vest in more farms, saw. mills, etc..
Those farms, ETC., will be used for.
models under full socialism. If we
cannot find socialist managers we can
trust, then we cannot trust them in
Political socialism. Then let us never
talk socialism again. If land and
machinery is bought on half-tim. half
amount OF money will do. Joi1s the
Artluvian Cooperative association.
The populists advocate the public
ownership of railways, telegraphs
telephones, postoffice and the educa-
tional systems Further. than this in
public ownership the populists for the
present refuse to go. Nebraska indie
pendent.
Speak for yourself, comrade. We in
the field know better Let the ques-
ions DE put to popular vote outside
parties and nine out of ten will vote
Tor government peoples government
ownership of all timber, all saw mills
and transportation and make and sale
at cost to consumer of lumber: nine
cut of ten will vote for government
ownership and operation and sale of
ccai mines and coal at cost: nine out
OF ten will vote for government own
ershlp OF iron mines and steel working
industries; nine out of ten will vote
Tor government ownership of all
banks, direct issue of money; nine out
OF ten will vote for government owner
snip OF all distilleries and all saloons;
nine out OF ten will vote for free land
70 the extent of what each person can
work without hirlng), or something
Ike the single tax and thus abandon
land speculation; nine out of ten will
vote for several other industries to be
owned and operated by the govern |
ment. including government grain ele-
vators and maybe packing houses
areameries, etc. Thunder! the farmers
hrst demand twelve years ago was
for government grain elevators and |
issuing of money 0abor checks) on the
grain in storage. Has The Indepep- |
lent forgotten the alliance PLATFORM
All of the racical demands of the
Karl Marx socialists have been
iropped, and the reforms now de- |
handed are identical with those of the
oopnlists in the United States Ne
)raska Independent
This refers to the recent socialist
,ictory In Germany Gott i'm himmel,