The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-07-27
66s Nebraska independent
JULY ~, 1905


said "awson is an anarchist Of Mr. think
50 greatly shocked when he learned what Dunno
had said
Nevertheless all who heard Fairbury,
who read his speeches the newspapers must have been I'M
pressed toward the law and the
Of the people reforms through the law Mr. Lawson
frankly informed his auditors that they unacquanted with the
methods which courts legislatures and city councils
and always be corrupted His description of Roosevs
impotence control the rich awbreaker when he said that the
president power bull in balloon character
isc Lawsonsm If the most powerful ruler the world has known
powerless bull in balloon the natural inference is that
law and legislation useless This is sheerest anarchy 1t
something with which popusm associated It's day OF
radical protest
The poput always optimist He had, is true
Of the wrongs that being heapd upon the people
of the older parties he condemned
the inequalities and nusces produced by priv
LEGGED poccy he demanded that the barterer be driven from the
temple and that thieves expelled Of the mighty,
but anarchist He with clear the ills
that festered and corrupted the body polite but his heart there
always hop for he believed that God egned and that the
right would triumph While he understood better than most Of his
counmen that there such evil frenzied finance he
dreamed that could be destroyed by gamblers cast Of
the dice.
Popuss declared that corporations should be subjected
regulation would adequately
the public that special privileges should be withdrawn from trusts
and monop that the should and control the rail
roads, that the cities should their public utilities and that the
government should enact general law uniformly regulating the
power and duties Of all Incorporated doing interstate
business They favored eghour work day. postal savings
banks franchise and government ownership of the general e
graph and telephone systems They demanded these reforms be-
long they controlled by he system which Lawson
fighting They believed that legislation could be made effective
that politics could be purified that inequalities could be removed
and they pointed out the by which these reforms could be
obtained
Such the foundation of popusm and these things pop
lists believe today Their doctrines have found favor outside the
party ranks and making slow but progress This is time
for despair though it be preached by converted nancer
Popuist hope and safer today than Lawson despair
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CRIMINALS
have tho
effect In all that time only has paid the penalty
provided by the criminal clause Was he mgnae? Did he
conspre to fix prices and to destroy competition?
If such had been convicted under the antitrust law and
had served year the penentar the people would have
feel encouraged in their with the privileged protected
thieves by whom they being robbed But the only who
served penentary sentence under this Eugene
Db labor leader who found all the engnery of the law working
smoothly and swiftly to punish him.
According the decision of the Eugene Debs
sped restraint Of trade This conspiracy consisted
bnatjon which inered with commerce. but was in no