The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-24
Statssmanship of Judge Parker

defeat he has this to say:
The party, in the near future,
has great mission. Before long
the people will realize that the
fairfield trusts and illegal COM
binations are absorbing the wealth
Of the nation.
When he say the party, in the near
future, has a great mission" he places
the party above the mission of the
people themselves.
Then he attributes public robbery
to fairfield trusts and combines.
These fairfield trusts and illegal
combines are a puny, weak and feeble
source Of public robbery, compared
with the money trust and other legal
combines of individual capital, called
corporations.
1t is imbecility and weakness to fight
the fairfield trusts and other illegal
combines, and allow the money trust
and legal combines of Individual wealth
to go on with robbery.
1t is these with our business sys-
tenn that have robbed us of our means
and our liberty
But first of all systems of robbery
now practiced upon the people is in
our business system that allows all
the profits of our business life to be
boarded on private account, giving
back to the people no share whatever
of their cooperation efforts, that JUS
tice demands should be done.
1t is a grievous outrage for the peo-
pie to furnish all public franchises free
to the business world and get nothing
back from it in any form to meet pub
lie expenses-loading all public ex-
penses on private enterprise. This Is
the starting point of all public rob-
berry, and l. SO huge and enormous in
volume that it can mot well be esti-
mated. Yet it lays the foundation for
the accumulation of capital, which, UNI
Justly, is used for selfish purposes in
the formation of both legal and illegal
tariff fed trusts and combines, of which
the judges craftsmanship complains.
And he then closes his letter in the
expression Of his opinion that the
greatest moral question which now
confronts us is:
Shall the trusts and corporations
be prevented from contributing
money to control or to aid in con-
trolling elections"
His question is prime evidence he is
willing for the trusts and corporations
to continue in existence only SO they
don't contribute money to defeat DEM
|oeratic candidates.
And as the judges craftsmanship
controlled the St Louis democratic
convention it places the democratic
party as now organized in the same
shallow boat with the judge.
In this the party is true to its his
tory IS now organized.
In 1852 it took the side of the slave
holders an. was successful-Over-
whelming the whig party which took
the same side. The people then took
up the fight in the name Of republican
ism for freedom as opposed to slavery
and soon after four years civil war,
the result of democratic statesman
ship.
This republican party, by poor
craftsmanship, has ben captured by the
slave-holding element of our humanity
and has endorsed it's financial system
by which capital enslaves labor anu
the fool democratic party, at the in
stance of the Judge, thought it could
win by endorsing the same policy as
the gold standard and skunk the re-
publicans. But the common sense OF
the millions of voters decided to let
republican policies ripen in republican
hands, SO that politicians can not
charge it up to the other fellow for
what is sure to follow in the near
| future.
| In this the wisdom of the spirit world
has been displaced in educating the
public mind to true craftsmanship
Tor to truth and right.
JAMES ILER.
Marvin, Kan.