The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-01

tire last winter and altered a few
bird laws and squirrel and fish laws
that nobody takes any notice Of, and
passed law to just double their salary
and pocketed twelve hundred instead
CT six and came home with swelIed
pockets and no help for it.
For when legislature, state or ma
tional, has the right to pass laws to
iii their own pockets they have done
it lDe will again without regard to
party and every constitution, state or
national, ought to forbid men voting
money into their own pockets directly
or indirectly.
Well let me prophesy little and
will say if Parker is elected then Hill,
Cleveland, Belmont and Wall street
will run largely the government.
II Teddy is elected he will run the
government to suit himself whether
that lie right or wrong and think
shall FISK him instead of the other.
II. G. ARNOLD
1lIllersburg, 0.
because of the failure of many
earnest ones to see clearly the real
causes that underlie all forms Of econ
omic injustice, comments like the fore
going may well be passed in silence.
That the labor and trade unions may
often commit wrongs and err in va
rious ways can not be doubted, for they,
as all organizations, are human. No
more than other institutions do they
possess charters from the Almighty in
surfing against fallibility. But it is
not true and never can be true that
these organizations can properly be
classed as trusts. 1t is the natural
and inalienable right of every indi-
vidual to enjoy the full fruits of his
own toll. If economic conditions are
such as to deny him this opportunity,
he has a natural right to band with
others and protect that natural right
to name the conditions under which
he will toll Having done SO, it is but
natural that he will consider every
man his enemy who steps between him
and his oppressor and settles the fight
in favor of the oppressor. Labor
unions are organized primarily for this
purpose Their object is peace, which
they will have, though they have to
fight for it. They have contributed
vastly to the civilization of our time.
They are the result caused by funda
mental wrongs, and though they often
strike blindly in their opposition to
injustice, the fact remains that they
are the only real protection to pro-
ducers today, whether those producers
are members or not Our correspond
ent seems to long for a return to the
time when these toilers worked at
from thirty to fifty cents day, Would
he enjoy the task of selling his prod
ucts to such pauperized laborers?-Q.)
Editor independents: | have been
thinking for several weeks of writing
you and letting you know just where
l now stand on political questions.
voted for Bryan in 1896 and in 1900,
and think now, inasmuch as the pop
ulist party supported Bryan because he
believed in our principles and pro-
fesses to yet, he and all his supporters.
should now pay US back and support
the pOpulist ticket. | am unable to
see the consistency in Mr.. Bryan's
support of the men he has SO long
been fighting, because of the princi-
pies they hold ! can not do it. So
far as | am concerned now know
what course to pursue.
My principles are stated in the pop
ulist platform and endorsed and adj
vocated by Tom Watson and Tom Tib-
bles, and they will get my vote and
support.
| have also talked with some Bry-
an democrats and they seem to feel
the same way and will vote for the
two Toms. A neighbor, who has al
ways voted the republican ticket, says
he will vote the populist ticket this
fall. I suppose might be classed
with the Old Guard. / helped form
the greenback party. was one of three
that started the first greenback paper,
which was burned UP in the great fire
in Chicago in 1871. | was the nomi-
nee for secretary of state in Iowa in
1888 of the union labor party. and
have voted straight till | voted for
Bryan. am nearly SO years old
Il. b. VAN COURT.
Newton, Iowa.