The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-26

beginning to get acquainted with him.
Why cannot sucl economic and social
conditions be attained that the world
will know genius when he is alive
and not have to wait fifty or hun
dred years before it ever hears of
him? Such conditions will never be
attained while wealth is the only d.
virity that is worshippcd. AS long as
the captain Of industry Is the great
man, the genius will not be known TO
his fellow men.
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After all the calculations have been
made and all the juggling with the
figures possible some through with tie
bald fact .stares every llan in the face
that enormous appropriations by COLI
gress are going to create deficit In
The revenues next year OF about $780,
100000. That will come just as the
hard times begin to press upon tie
people. In that day and under those
conditions, the banks will be called
upon to give back the government Le-
posits that they have SO long had
without interest and when demands
will be made upon them from many
different sources. II is all very well
for. the bankers to go on plunging
and say, After us the deluge,' but
they will find that that deluge will
consist Of fire and birthstone.
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The shrewdness OF the political
managers of the railroads is amazing.
While they allow some of their or
gans to assail them on the tax quts-
ton they have already made rates
to recoup themselves in large degree
for any raise in the assessment.
Architects and builders in the middle
and western part of the state Say
that the freight on building material
is often two and three times the Or
iglnal cost of Inc material. Nothing
is ever said about this in the repub-
lican papers that have been calling for
an increase in the assessment. 1t
was freight rates that populists first
attacked, well knowing that that was
the vital point. If you lower freight
rates, that hits them on the solar
plexus.
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Does the Stanton (Neb.) Register
think that the hundreds OF worKen
for Hearst who so suddenly appeared
in SO many differ ent states started out
TO spend their time and money simply
because Of the admiration they had
for> Hearst, as SO many thousands did
for Bryan in 1886 and 1900? Does he
l. a IL v1or npc. ocv
cially the labor and socialist papers,
that devoted whole editions to get
ting up his boon did it because they
had such hign admiration for MI.
Hearsts character and ability as a
statesman? Does it b.iieve that Mr..
lhmsen sent those thousands OF news
kilograms about Hearst for weeks TO
daily and weekly napers recording Mr.
Hearsts triumphs because OF linn
sens admiration for this man OF char
acter and statesmanship, and paid for
them out Of his own pocket? II 1t
does. then its criticism OF The inde-
pendent is justified. 1t is fact that
the republican stories of the millions
that Hearst has expended are ridic-
uious. Less tlan million would
nave done the whole business. But
then no candidpte for presidential
nomination ever before spent NIL
lion in getting delegates. Bryan had
no millions to sperd.
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A gentleman, in writing to The In
dependent. says: do write In your
peculiar style at least one paragraph
doing justice to the socialists. among
whom are many of pure character and
the very highest ideals and who arc
doing the best they can to bring theil
I wn lives and tat Of the communities
a. 4 nlch they live up TO those ideals"
T'neie is one thing that the Indepen-
dent mas often said about the social
Ets. The world owes them a debt
o; gratitude for calling attention 10
TIC social evils from which human
ITS s,.Iers. There arc no writer's in
lac field of literature who have done
more valuable service. or who can
present those evils IN such burning
words. All that The Independent has
To So antagoniHlic to socialism Is that
ID uoes not believe that their pro-
loscd remedies Will bring relief.
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John ID. RocKefeller, j., escaped ar
raat In Taxan f,r xflaInftne> tha et a