The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-22

this railroad to which the people do
mated enough land to build it and then
money enough to build it again. They
paid in excessive freight and passen-
ger rates enough to build it five times
since then The populisls only demand
when the people pay for it one more
that they. shall own it. The editor OF
The Independent is denounced on the
streets OF Lincoln every Gay for being
too radical because he believes in
such doctrine as that. The people OF
Connecticut don't seem to think That
he is 'too radical"
Again these sandhill populists OF Me-
braska have been SO opposed to fusion
that some 10000 OF them have refused
to vote for the last three or -four years.
The Independent advises them to read
what Henry Ne. Mcdonald, the chair
man OF the New York county PEOPLES
party executive committee says about
fusion in this weeks issue OF The In
dependent. Perhaps by that tile all
their doubts about the eastern populist
movement will be dispelled.
Whenever a railroad wants TO steal a
street they lay track on it Jn Sun
day. That was what the Union fcnitic
road did last Sunday in Omaha Every
citizen, being part owner in the
streets has right to take gazing
gun or club and defend his property
against such thieves, and the time Will
come when the railroads vIll run
against some such proposition as that
During the first quarter OF the year
there were fortyrthree strikes in the
state OF New York and the strikers lost
all OF them but five. Some Of them
proved very disastrous to the unions.
Parry had it in for them, but he ex
poets them to vote his ticket which is
Parker and Roosevelt.
Who would ever have dreamt that In
1904 Charley Wooster would DE found
working for Wall street stool-piseon
for the presidency ?-State Journal.
Who would have thought that re-
publicanl paper in 1904 would point the
finger OF scorn at any man WHO might
be found working with Wall street to
elect a president.-C Democrat.
Honest men everywhere are pointing
their fingers at both OF them.
According toa dispatch from New York
Judge Parker has been banKrupted be-
cause of the nomination that the de-
generates save him in St. Louis But
he can't lay the blame on the degen-
crates. Ii he had just opened his
mouth few times before the degon-
crates met he would never have been
nominated. 1t would have been Cleve-
dand.
1t is announced that Belmont and
German are putting all the money they
can raise into the states Of New York,
New Jersey Connecticut and Indiana
to save those states for Parker and
that the congressional committee to
whom is assigned the duty of eiecting
degenerate congressman has been left
without a cent. The consequence is
that the men in charge of that COM
mittee are going home. The degenerate
congressman will have to look after
their own campaigns.
All the Indians in the great wild
west show at the ST. Louis fair went
on strike the other day. Tile Red
man is fast picking up the whi,e mans
ways. The first thing we knew there
viii be a labor union ON every reser-
walton.
The eastern wage worker is confront
ed with very serious conditions. 1'rere
was q rise IN the price OF coal then
in meat and now in -FOUR. An the
time wages are ON the decllne and
thousands are being thrown out OF
employment Moro than two years ago
The Independent told them WAT sort
OF times there was ahead Of them. but
they continued 10 vote or straight
II In sad thlng 10 relate bst soy.
eral OF Mr.. organs oldest fricads ana
most earnest and enthusiastic support.
eFa ~ this state have expressed Ia inc
editor az The Independent DURING the
last few DAYS the opinion that he III
wholly lost "a The reform movement.