The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-03

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governor alone to veto it, 1T shall not
be left to the president alone to veto
it-but it shall be referred back to
YOU plain John Smith, plain Tom
Brown. plain Richard. Thompson-re-
ferred back to you. II you don't like
that law you can veto it by your vote
of disapprovai. fAppiaase.}
imperative Mand.se
Another thing. Under the present
system you elect an officer to repre-
sent you somewhere: in the town
council, the legislature or in congress.
He comes around to see you before the
election. He introduces himself to
you in the blandest terms. He wants
to become acquainted with your wife
and asks to be introduced to her and
is extremely polite to her. He asks
the names OF your babies. and all or
those you let him kiss he will kiss.
Oh. how sweet he is! How polite! He
finds out first how you stand on any
question and that Is exactly how he
stands. What you want is what he
wants. He is exactly your representa-
tive. He is man after-your own
heart. He has been aching for the OPP
portunity of serving you and you vote
for him and he goes up into the state
legislature or goes UP into congress
and they stuff his pocket with free
passes and the franking privilege and
winf Nm HfiaS tiJfs ~; IN and he talks
will Strange men and talks wfsfs|
strs Ser women and the first thing you
knt Nhe amt your man at all. He is
the ther fellows man. daughter and
apr 8nSe) He casts votes which out
raap your sense of right. he helps to
pan laws which fasten the yoke OF
TIL system upon you, he helps to pass
fasors for the beneficiaries OF class
lenalation. But what can you do?
YIN can do nothing. He is in for two
ySSrs, or he is in for four years, or he
issnn for six years III he is federal
jkese he is In for life and he can rule
~ by injunction and exercise more
tjAnny than the car of Russia dares
o. He becomes on earth a small
tGcket edition of God Almighty in his
Nm eyes. He utterly ignores the
lights Of the common people, he takes |
3Way the time hOnored Anglo-Saxon
Fby jury. He becomes despot and
H his beck and call the United States
kxihy moves back and forth crushing
down the laborers who will not do the
dictates Of the corporations Now
What the peoples party says is this:
From a federal judge, who is imposed
alpon you for life, down to the member
pf the legislature or the judge on the
bench who may be imposed on you
|fOr one or two years-the peoples
party says that the moment your rep
resentatiye ceases to be your represen-
tative, the moment your soldier de-
.serts and becomes a traitor, the mo-
SraAt your picket turns against you
and becomes r,aas rthat moment you
have got right to cancel his comm
sion and send him back home. Cap
plause and cries of "Good.'o You won't
have to wait two years. you won't
have to wait four, but the moment the
man betrays you by single act it is
in your power to say: Here, I gave
you that commission to serve me. Ii
you can net serve me get out of the
way for somebody who can. | won't
let that rotten rail stay in the fence.
1t Injuries the whole fence. won't
allow that leak in the bottom Of the
vessel. 1t may sink the vessel. | will
caulk that leak in the vessel so that
it may ride the ocean in safety. L
will take out the rotten rail and
will put in sound rail so that the
fence will be pig tight, mule
high and bull strong. applause and
laughter.) II the peoples party had
no other plank in its platform than
that-if could preach no other gospel
TO you than that, you can see at once
that that principle is broad enough,
deep enough, strong enough if enacted
into law, to make you once more rulers
of your own destiny and your own re-
public. You ought to give this mat
ter your thought if for no other rea-
son because the great republican party
is not in favor Of it, the great demo-
cratic party is not in favor of it, The
great republican party knows what it
wants and as mass you are against
it. The great democratic party has
not as yet discovered what it does want
outside of the offices. Qaughter.)
Eisht-Hour Day
What else? The peoples party saws
that the hours of labor are too long.
In these exhaustive emnloyncntc