The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-01-26

ings banks. 1t would provide parcels
post. 1t would so regulate the tariff
: that American citizens would not have
to pay twice as much for American
goods as the same goods were sold to
foreigners. It. would Immediately take
over the interstate telegraph and tel
epaml 3'pea and make them part OF
y} bstoffice system fi<tze==zs=sa man
III That it would seek to get the gov
a. hent ownership of the railroads. In
states and municipalities 1t would
n hue the same policy. Street car
3, Waterworks, gas, electric light
and power would become munich
\ properties. That would, where
4 se thinge were operated at cost,
- long way toward the more equal
btribution OF wealth, which is the
final object Of the populist move
lent. Populist know what they want
nd have plans, practical plans for ac-
Dmplishing 1t, Even granting that
Dc socialists do know what they want,
Not one OF them will lay down a plan
pr accomplishing it. Their papers are
uIl Of what will happen under So
|cialism," but not one Of them has ever
yet made public plan by which those
glorious things were to be accom-
blished.
With these facts before them, why
Is It that the plutocratic press will In
5ist upon calling pepalists, socialists?
Can anybody tell?
The republican party has been So
cialistsf hstfh The sJpulist party never.
s1Ioaorhv - publican party, competi-
-: \ been completely destroyed in
many great lines x sssssssres. Not only
that, but the republican press has adj
v0cated the destruction OF competi-
ton. They have called it "canabalis-
tic" and destructive They have adj
yocated pooling by the railroads and
the concentration of capital in great
trusts for the express purpose Of de-
stroying competition. Both the So
cialists and the republicans believe
and preach overproduction. There are
1t least two great principles upon
which the republicans and socialist
agree, and there is not one on which |
he populists and socialists agree
Populists declare that there can never
be any such thing as general over
production until every desire of man
Kind is satisfied and there is something
eft over that no one wants. When ev-
cry man and woman has all the fine
clothes, all the mansions, all that the
appetite Graves, all the books, all the
music, all the automobiles, all the
yachts, all the fruits, flowers and works
Of art that they want and there are
some of these things that no one wants,
then we will have productions
There may be production in GER
tain lines. We have all seen that oc-
REASONABLY, never an over-production
OF all things. The doctrine that the
populists preach IS that there is an in
equitable distribution of wealth and
not an reproduction. They believe
that the measures they advocate would
to large degree, be a remedy for the
concentration Of wealth in the hands of
the few with its coreative of want and
suffering among the many.
There are two socialist parties in
this country. one run by Wall street
and one by the socialists. Today there
are thousands of these Wall street So
calistss and their retainers thronging
the halls and corridors Of the capitol
at Washington an6 the seats of gov
eminent in the various states. They
are there to destroy competition" in
the industries and in transportation
Neither the plutocrat nor the socialist
wants any competition anywhere Tho