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

have had many pops turned down by
the democrats and / consider that
seine of the ringsters in the democratic
party just as tricky as those in the
republican party and the rank and file
of the democrats are just as much OPP
posed to it as the rank ana file of tiie
LOpulist party, but we have been too
lenient and laid our men down too fire.
Quent to please some of the democrats
no have come into our party for the
purpose of leading our conventions
and who always prefer to support the
democrats rather than the pOpulist5,
therefore l take great interest in the
Denver proceedings and The Indepen-
dent as neither have or desired to shut
out any refOrmer, no matter WHIT
party he has affiliated with. I always
thought when TOwne was turned down
VIC ought then to have gone our own
way"
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Mr.. De France, the associate editor
of The Independent, has been forced
to lay off for few days for repairs.
Being first class accountant,
statistician and knowing how to use
libraries he has been made the pack
horse for the whole party for years.
Whenever information was wanted
and documents at the state house were
to be examined, articles In old news
papers were to be found or any other
work was to be done that required
skill, patience, hard work and learn
ing, De France has always been called
upon to do it. Oyertaxed nerves at
last revolted and he has gone on over
to Illinois or somewhere else SO that
he can be clear of newspapers, tele-
graphs, articles on socialism and sim
gle tax and the money question and
forget a desk piled high with anan-
swered letters and unexamined cOrre-
spondence. 1t is probable that he will
be back in a few days to begin anew
the old grind again.
&SSS<@$
AS soon as the big boom is over
the revenue receipts will begin to de-
crease, in fact they have already be-
gun to fall off, decreasing for the first
ten days of this month over $1,000
900. After while the government
will want that $154, 900, 900 which Shaw
has deposited in the banks. How Is
he going to get it? If he draws it
out the banks will bust" The pet
hanks in New York will be the last
ones called upon. The fool bankers
in the west that have been applying for
deposits will have to furnish what they
have first. The wise western banker
has never applied for government de-
posts.
$SSS&SS$
Rockefeller's $50,00O,000 income is
constantly invested and We see him
buying up banks, rail-
reads, Industrial plants, iron and coal
mines. Twenty-Five years from now.
because his income is ever increasing
there will be room for nobody else If
the thing &C ON as it has been going
icl the last twenty-five years. 1t will
rot be very long before the warnings |
against the power of money which |
The Independent has been giving will |
be appreciated. The young men now
who SO gaily talk of Standing pat
will, unless something is done to de- !
troy the trusts and abolish special |
p. ivileges, find that Rockefellers son
tthe one who teaches a Sunday schos
owns the world and that they only |
live by his gracious permission.
&S>S$%S%
1t is somewhat amusing for the
calm, sane man to watch a socialist
get excited, talk about the proletariat,
determinism, science and
Il ings of that sort when be does not
know the meaning of one of the terms
he uses Most of them think that il
hey call a thing scientific, that set
les it. Everything is science these
lays from a fist fight to treating a
-atient three thousand miles away by
mind transference. A teacher asked
j. boy in the public schools who won
he battle of New Orleans, and the
10Y promptly answered: "Corbett
rhe teacher, somewhat surprised, ex-
claimed: How is that?' The boy
eplied: "Cause Corbett had the most
S$SSSSS&
The cattlemen are going to put up a
packing plant of their own and they
hink that in that way they can fight