The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-10-20
THE JEFFER son OF 1904

lof selling their goods in foreign mar
kets cheaper than they do in the
home market, and cheaper than the
foreign manufacturer can sell in the
foreign market.
"(2) A financial system which allows
| the national bankers to do business
for their private benefit upon the
credit OF the government, to use In
their private business the funds OF
the government without payment OF
Interest, to create and issue the paper
currency OF the nation at an immense
profit enjoying at the same time the
power to absolutely dictate values by
| the expansion or the contraction OF
the currency.
"(3) The land legislation which had
leither given away to private corpora
lions a heritage which belonged to all
the people, or allowed it TIC become IN
a great measure monopolized LOT
speculative purposes
"(4) The corporation laws, which
have granted sovereign powers to
money making combinations, whose
sole purpose was selfish gain. They
have been granted exemptions from
| taxation they have. been given the
| tremendous power to tax every per-
son who wishes to travel, and every
package of merchandise which seeks
a market
mo individual can resist the. opera
ton OF law. IT we violate the laws
of health, we must pay natures penal
lty. So, in state, any law which
operates in favor of one. man against
another, or of one class against an
bother, the result will be inevitable.
flns> man. in whose favor the law
WORMS viii grow stronger, the victim
weaker. Thus one 6ssxa becomes great
at the expense Of another. Tic tav-
ored few become masters and milliO4-
aires; the unprivileged many become
subjects and paupers.
| Fortunes Butt on Privilege
| How could it De otherwlsgs When
Legislation gives to its favorftes some
Thing mere than the common man en-
]c, :. the common man has lost some
| thing some part of his power or his
opportunity, or his property. The
fact is self-evident. Every. fortune in
this land, or any other, which has been
Quilt upon privilege is a dishonest
fortune. To the extent that it grew
LQut OF special favors, it grew at the
fexpr nse OF somebody else. And to the
Iextent that it did this, the law for
Icibly confiscated one mans goods and
gave them to another.
ITO take from him who made. and
give to him who did not make, is one
I OF the worst forms of tyranny. Our
own government has been doing it,
since the civil war, with callous in
difference tocorrect principle shame
full pandering to wealth seeking lust
such as the history of the world
rarely presents.
Had the government governed
justly, the probability is that we would
never have had a labor question in
this young republic--ncyer a strike
never lockout, never Cripple Creek
horror, never Chicago pandemon-
lum. Had legislators in this country
always been true to the Bentham
prlnclpi1 lnfesthe greatest good to the
greatest number, ksaxthey never set
themselves down with cold, Ggithsrate
purpose to create inoneyed aristoc-
racy at the expense of the peoDIe
1 believe-God knows | state NV pro-
found belief-that the beggar in the
streets would have continued to be a
spectacle to exicte establishment. as
DICKENS said he would have been in
the streets of Boston some fifty wears
ago. The frightful tenement house
cancer would not now be eating it's
way into the vitals Of social order
The huge army of poverty and de-
spair would not now be marshaled mn
der the black flag of quenchless hatred
to the rich and to the system which
made them rich.
Who Should Wear Crowns
The charity Of Louis Fleisch-
mann is a monument to hic memory
more enduring than brass. Better in
finitely better, for the world that sucb
men as he should wear crowns. if there
must needs be crowns, than any king
or kaiser known to the world at tbis
day; but the very charity of the good
hearted baker of New York is an in
dictment of the social and political