The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-10-13

New YORK campaign alone, Wnen
Cleveland ran against Harrison; and
all of us know the secret pledges
which were publicly redeemed. Arthur
German and John G. Carlisle saw 70 It
that the tariff measure was so framed
that the trust got more out of the peo
pie, by tens Of millions. than they had
gotten under that "culminating atrOc-
lily OF class legislation the Mckinley
bill. Their senatorial representative,
Arthur German. has been placed in
open control Of the Parker campaign;
he has been, the secret director from
the beginning will his clients,
the sugar trust, get out of this election,
| II Parker is successful?
Wall street wants more bones; the
machinery for getting them is there,
just where Cleveland left it; the same
men who worked Cleveland tor bonds
are steering Parker's campaign; what
has been promised to Belmont and his
confederated corporations. Is the end
less chain" to be put in motion again?
Voters who do not consider these ques-
tons do themselves injustice.
The Wall street organ, the New York
World, compelled Parker to speak out
on the money question, why should
he not be compelled by the Hearst pa
lpers, and other really democratic pa
pers, to speak out upon other questions
where the people have a right to in
| formation?
The Cry of Extravaganza.
| What avails this cry about "extrava-
gance?" That the government is Iun
with a reckless disregard of .he mid
die and lower classes who pay most
of the tariff taxes, is known of all
men. But who believes that either of
these 1.-TWO great parties is going to-
retrench expenditures? Appropriation 4
for administrations are on the increase
Everywhere With the federal govern
ment, there is no such thing as going
backward. TheasbilliCns dollar congress-
! q s sst ;sss,,s was sifecs fslad hv
a Cleveland congress pledged ia it'd
ECONOMY and it was not long before
1.-THE democratic appropriations reached
the billion dollar mark. HaIriscn re-
duced public expenditures by II quar-
ter billion dollars. and Cleveland was
mot long in adding more than HARRISON
tsaU tdhpN uWny. IL d. LIZ uEkksAl-
scratic congress devoted to sid eet
lomy'' Witch allowed the Chicago expo
sition to loot the treasury oG failIiollsi,
ftime after time. and which gave fD
leach member of the house d tier K at
lone hundred dollars perrnonili.
/ Besides, who could put faith in the
pledges OF the party which has so lit
tie unity of conviction as the national
democracy? What party ever made
and broke so many pledges. What
party ever changed its ground so
often? What other party ever IN
loaded all OF its principle at one quick
thrOw-dOWn, as they did at ST. Louis?
They elected Cleveland on flee sill
yer platform, and called special SEES
sion to violate the contract. They
promised to put an end to national
banks, and they issued new bonds to
keep them in life Then. w.lcn the
bank charters expired, they united with
the republicans to give national banks
a new lease of life. for twenty years.
They promised to relieve the farmers
from the Mckinley tariff, and they in
creased the tax on lumber, nails, horse
shoes, rivets, tacks, screws, pipe. lues
and wire They doubled the tax on
imolasses, and put an addition OF forty
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES arife which.
the people were paying for sugar UNI
der the eliminating atrocity of class
legislation" the Mckinley act. They
pitied the laborer and promised to he
his friend. and they let the Pullman
Palace Car company have the use of
the army to compel the submission of
laborers to cut in wages. They prem
ised to abolish child labor, and in those
states of the south where the demo-
cratic party is most absolute, child
slavery is most immovably planted
They promised the people graduated
income tax, which should compel the
millionaires and the gigantic col pora-
| tons to contribute something to the
support OF the government upon which
they fatten; but now they have given
up the contest. The income tax no
longer appears in their platform. The
millionaires and corporations support
ing Parker are not the kind of demo-
Gratis to clamor for a graduated in
come tax.
A Trembling Platform
How any party which has for recent
years stood for so many different