The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-14

ern meat packers to raise the price OF
their slaughtered meat as much above
European prices as eastern manuiac-
turers raise the price OF their goocs!
We never can buy any OF their goods
without paying European prices VIA
the American tariff added. Would II
not be equally just for western farm
ers to add as much to the price OF
their wheat and meat? Is 1t wrong loI
the west to serve the east as kindly as
they serve the west? The law should
have the same effect in both cast .. /.
We could take what we cannot sell
here over to Europe and sell just ds
they do.
The chief objection made by re-
publicans to the nomination OF Hearst
for president is that he publishes the
three most widely circulated neWspd-
pers. one in the east, one in the cen
trail west and one on the Pacific coast,
all on yellowish paper. He chooses
yellow paper SO any citizen can tell
the paper at distance; it is his
method of advertising his papers Tie
most important color Of his papers is
the fact that no corporation, trust or
party dictates or controls his puDli-
cations.
More red hot, sharp, moral sentl-
ments against drinking, gambling and
prostitution have been published in
his three yellow papers than in any
white political papers in the United
States. The fact that he is q con-
1verted sinner Is not very black spot.
We have not forgotten the black spots
brought to light during the year
Cleveland and Blaine ran. | did not
vote for either and will not. | Was
not SO much offended at VIZ they did
in early life as what they would not
do in mature life.
] When Wall street refuses to vote
! for a man it induces me to vote fer
him. Selfish, grating statesmen ale
not the kind for me. Hearst can fuI-
nish his own election money and Will
!. not need to sell himself as Cleveland
did. 1t is reported that Carnegie Of
5 ers to furnish Roosevelt's election
money. Neither of them has HAM
to stand up in front as he did before
Mckinley. 1t is shame and dis
grace that we use SO much election
l money.
The annual pension money payable
to our ex-sOldiers has received another
!. big boost. No matter how general
and universal the benefit, yet we are
!. nowhere near the top notch. A vast
]. number of the old soldiers are holding
high salaried Offices and many mol
4 are independently rich. A Thousand
special cases will be brought befo.t
every congress for special pensions
J no general law will cover the ground
i Thousands who were on their way t.
Grants army when Lee surrenderet
i will want a pension;of course, they
1 were honorably discharged befoi'
hearing a gun.
There are three motives for 81:
q increase Of pensioners and amour
{ expended. The first little excuse is L
comfort the needy old soldiers. Ther
!! are but few who are needy. A kim
4 support in soldiers home Is no
8 enough; on top of that they must hav
& pension to spend foolishly, in man
& cases for strong drink.
4 The second motive is to influence al
! the old soldiers to vote with the L1il
i liOnaires, for men who will continu
q to let them run this government /
the interests of millionaires, trust
and corporations.
4 The third great reason Is to use Ii
4 all the high tariff money, that the tai
Il if may be raised and not lowered
4 There is now surplus enough to MOI
II than pay for the canal and the loanin
OF 1t to bankers without charging ii
i terest does not take well among tn
common people.
~ There Is no city in the east, west c
4 north that Nebraska is interested :
1. and more dependent upon than Gaive.
!. ton, Tex. That harbor Is being mad
III the safest and most useful and con
Nenient OF any on the Gulf Of MeAic
Already II Is the third export harb,
in the United States. New fos
stands first New Orleans second; all
Galveston third. The leading expo.
S. are cotton and wheat. Texas alol
must furnish nearly one-half of a
the cotton grown In the United State
!. The most of the wheat exported com
from Nebraska. Kansas and Oal
h0ma.
II Is not safe to store corn a,