The independent., 1903-06-18
CASPER CRITICIZES

CASPER CRITICIZEs
The Nebraska Independent has
taken a new departure-it is hand
ing its columns over to single
takers, socialists, mid-roaders, a
new pop party, and heavens knows
how many other crankisms. The
editors appear to have gone out of
business, and it's old time good,
hard sense, and plain, wholesome
language has given place to long
winded verbiage which the next
set of long-Winded cranks pro-
nounce clap-trap. Columns are
written by one set of impractical
visionaries correcting the sup
posed "unscientific terms of an
other set in abstract propositions
of political econc ny. The practi-
cal man, looking over all that
mess of truck will never have his
mind cleared up, and learn what
his duties are. AS a friend of
The Independent, wish to say that
not one practical man out of ten
will read that Carl Marx truck.
One page of editorial from Bros.
Tibbles and De France is worth a
dozen Carl Marx editions. What
they all say as to conditions is not
new, and when it comes to the ap-
plication of remedies the angels
in heaven might live the ideal life
they clamor for. These visionary
cranks couldn't hang together
thirty days to save their souls.
No two of them can agree to any
thing except Bcble of noise The
Almighty Himself couldn't do
what those fellows imagine they
can do, without recreating the hui
man race, so what is the use of
fooling with them.-C D. Casper,
in The Press, David City, Neb.
Unfortunately (or fortunately for
The Independent it has no recalcitrant
md renegade populist ex-president
ipon whom to expend its surplus col
INNS these summer months in car
coming and lambasting. Occasionally
lowever, when the situation seems to
y arrant it, The Independent takes
,ime and space in hurting a few de-
in tie direction of Prince
on and Buzzard's Bay, but that is a
ort of truck" of which even ''prac-
ical" men tire-especially when it is
lot our funeral" and we are fearful
# being "called down. for Quitting
NJ ON ''the mourners." A little study
i single tax and socialism will not
lurt any man-even a "dimmycratic'
'ditor. He ought to be sufficiently ac-
luainted with these subjects to make
IT intelligent criticism of them if oc-
aston requires. Brother Casper's
ritique, with change OF very few
gords, sounds for all the world like
What has heretofore been said of his
verbiage'' by those
practical men"-the gold standard
Idvocates.
This is not time for preaching to
practical men" upon what their "du
les are" They had plenty of that
asst year-and they were so highly
practical" that a good many thou
'ands of them shucked corn election
lay. Political parties today are in a
'haotic state; men who have not al
owed their brains to ossify are con-
cious that in the not distant future a
risis is coming that cannot be met
~ columns of taffy concerning our
candidates and other columns of de.
of the other fellow. and
'uch men are studying these crank
SINS" which offend Brother Casper.
Single takers and socialists cannot be
out of existence by the ignor
ng process; ridicule-one of the most
;ffective of weapons-has lost its
sting, and if the "clap-trap" of either
3ody of men contains the slightest ele-
nent of truth, it is our duty to rec
,gnize it; and if error, to expose it in
terms.