The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07
TIE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT

must shortly pass away.
Fortunately for the world, the prin.
ciples Of freedom and independence
as defined in the Declaration Of indie
pendence in support of which those
lives have been given may remain for
all time.
Unless the intrusion OF piratica1
self-styled captains of industry into
the realm of government, under whose
management and for whose benefit
all wealth and powers of government
are being concentrated be speedily
forestalled, all hope of the people, OF
government by and for the people will
be utterly destroyed.
Politics is defined "the art of gov
eminent" Since the reign of the
plutocrats it is the art Of transferring
the holdings of Uncle Sam and OF the
people to private pockets, for private
use and ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
To those OF us who are past the
flower Of youth and the times when
men promoted to public places rep
resented honor and public virtue, the
sure anchor of craftsmanship and
guarantee of liberty, now in the even
ing of their days tarry yet awhile to
be the unwilling witnesses to the work
of sacrilegious hands of an insanely
covetous people, tearing to shreds the
vesture of this blood bought republic,
erecting instead thereof an oligarchy
of wealth, and substituting Americas
boast of human rights and freedom,
for the beastly grunt Of the Imperial
Hog.
When remembering the clash of
arms at New Orleans where blood
like water flowed that man might be
secure in freedom and govern them
selves-in view of these things we can
only exclaim, To what depths have We
fallen?
In forty-four the writer sang songs
for Clay and protection. He knew
nothing OF tariff then, and all he has
learned Of it in the intervening sixty
years is that it is scheme of leger-
domain operated by the taxing pow
er for the purpose Of transferring
money from one mans pocket into
that of another without return OF
equivalent. In other words tariff is
the stuff of which fools are made of.
At the age Of seventy-two in this
nation of classes, 80 unjustly gov
erned by political asses, l am trying
to exercise the privileges of a free
man for my country's good, un-
swayed by grasring partisans or crafty
creeds.
The Independent Is full strength
and yard wide. Would that its ad-
vice and many warnings, rays of light
and truth, could open up the under
Of the people, dispeIl the pre-
JUDGE, thick darkness and ignorance
so prevalent in government affairs.
One million homes should receive The
Independent weekly. 1t will be as i'm
possible to accomplish reformation
reform papers in the hands
of the people as it would be for the
slum inhabitants of New York to lift
themselves out of present environ
ments without assistance.
Many years ago Parson Brownlow
declared it made him feel like steal
ing something to enter Washington.
Things have evoluted since then.
Men entering Washington at the pres
ent day are not only seized by the de-
sire to steal something, but the poll
tician Of today under plutocratic train
ing steals by nature and by instinct in
whole chunks and by thousands.
So universal is the pull of the politi-
cal CRATER, the administration should
place this inscription over the White
house door:
MEN WANTED
Having Ability to Steal and Not Be
Detected
APPLY HERE.
HOLDS THE FORT.
Those having no interest with cor
porations will please keep
off the grass!
The call of awakening. issued by the
St. Louis conference to assemble ct
Springfield. July 4, comes as bright
CLEAN Of hope through very murky
political sky. May the people take up
the refrain, and in solid phalanx join
forces. and In the love of freedom and
union carry CONSERVATION to the coun-
trys iispoilers. VIM. L. MORGAN.
Williansport, o.
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