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The independent., 1907-01-10
THE LESSON OF 1906

The year that has just closed, amid
burst of glory, has been one of
growth for mankind, wheresoever dis
persed upon the earth. During the
year material and spiritual growth
have gone hand in hand everywhere
uplifting mankind toward a realiza-
tion of more perfect life, and inspir.
ing human consciousness with gram
der and loftier conceptions of the
powers, possibilities and responsible
ties of man as an intellectual, social
and moral being. The year has been
marked by great initiative and grand
accomplishment in diverse fields of
human endeavor, throughout all of
which has been observable unmistak-
able evidence of most gratifying I'M
foldment of the intellectual and moral
nature of man.
The material progress of the world
has been great, and that of our own
nation stupendous The basic indus
try, agriculture, has prospered beyond
the fondest dreams Of those engaged
therein, being blessed with crops that
taxed the utmost abilities Of trans.
portation companies TO haul them TO
market, while being exchanged nj
prices that gladdened the heart of the
farmer Manufacturers have been
The independent., 1907-01-10

will see to it that their reserves do
not find their way into Wall Street
banks, then a Wall Street blizzard
will not effect western financial tem-
perature.
The director of the United States
mint has just given out review of
recent monetary expansion both from
the mines and through the initiation
of bank credits In 1896 the worlds
gold product was only $200,0000O0 for
the year Last year it was $400,00O,-
coo or twice as much as ten years be-
fore. The director of the mint from
from the source of information at his
hands predict that the mines will fur
nish $3.50, 100000 of new gold next
year. And the end is not yet. New
gold fields are being discovered and
improved methods Of mining continue
to facilitate the cheap and rapid ex-
traction of the metal. So that there
is reason to look for further cheap
ening of gold for a period of years to
come.
Under conditions of an increasing
gold supply sufficient to gradually
cheapen the metal, the universal rise
in prices is sufficient to overcome the
evils of over-expanded bank credits,
unless very bad judgment is used by
bankers. Therefore, taking conditions
as they exist, all in all, there is no
fear of a general depression in busi-
ness SO long as crops are good.
Attention is called to the marvellous
initiation of trust securities between
1896 and 1902 and the liquidation in
the same, also to the Baltimore fire
and the San Francisco earthquake and
fire without either or all of them bring
ing a general collapse of credit. The
conditions that withstOod such calami-
ties are still sound and will withstand
any Wall Street furry that may come,
so long as gold is cheapening, and our
crops are good, Notwithstanding any
prophecies of evil that may emanate
from such calamity howlers" as Sec
retary Shaw, John D. Rockefeller or
Stuyvesant Fish
The independent., 1907-01-10
THE iNDEPEND ENT,
Lincoln, Neb.
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE

Governor Sheldon's message has the
ring of true metal 1t is a plain,
straightforward statement, without
any attempt at rhetorical display, or
other evidence of insincerity. 1t en-
bodies the demands of the voters of
Nebraska in language that is direct
and unmistakable The sentiments,
expressed, will meet with the hearty
approval of the voters of the state,
regardless of party.
The straightforward attitude of the
governor places the republican mem
bers of the legislature in a position
that will admit of no Disguise The
duty before all of them is plain The
path for all honest members to tread
is a straight and narrow one. To
halt, hesitate or equyocate is to ac-
cept the railroad brand.
The people have made their wishes
known. The governor has given those
wishes full recognition in his mes
sage. No member of the legislature
is in doubt regarding the imperative
command given by the people in the
late election. Each member is either
for the people, or against them. Each
will make record that will mark
him either as an honest man, or as a
corrupt tool of the corporations. The
lines are clearly drawn There is no
middle ground. There can be no
escape from the just and righteous
verdict that the people will pronounce
upon the individual members of the
legislature.
He who fails to obey the commands
of the people as expressed in all po
litical platforms last year and to dc
SO freely, fervently and in perfectly
good faith, will thereby forfeit the re
spect of all honest men, and will
merit and receive the contempt OF his
fellow citizens forever afterwards.
The present legislature will be one
In which regulations will be made ant
lost There was Il Judas among III,
twelve apostles. There will undoubt
edly be found Judas in the leglsla
ture, but think of The life that viii
The independent., 1907-01-10
INDUSTRIAL CRISES

Warming notes are being sounded by
certain eminent financiers against the
approach of an industrial crisis. The
secretary of the United States treas
ury has given out repeated warnings
of late. John D. Rockefeller has de-
parted from his usual silence and on
divers occasions, of late, has uttered
notes of warning. Last week Stuyve-
SAINT Fish, late president of the Illinois
Central railroad, prepared careful
but elaborate statement of his views,
wherein he utters a solemn warning
of approaching danger.
Now the ordinary layman upon sub
jects of finance will undoubtedly heed
the warning of these eminent finan-
ciers, because he will credit them with
superior knowledge of the subject they
discuss on account of their eminence
in the world of finance. He will only
credit such men with knowledge of
the subject however, because of his
own lack of such knowledge.
While knowledge covering condi-
tions that lead to monetary panics, and
industrial paralysis is now much more
widely disseminated than at any form
er time, such knowledge is least to
be found where it is most to be ex-
pected, namely, among such men as
Rockefeller, Shaw, etc.
These men were chief among the
high priests of finance who, ten years
ago, were insisting that gold was of
unchanging value. And, that the gold
dollar measured values with the same
unerring accuracy as the yard stick
measured length or the pound weight
measured weight
These are the men who now tell us
of the beauties of a banking system
through which they. as bankers, are
enabled TO evolve billions of phantom
money that does the work OF real
money through system of book.
keeping They and their followers may
be heard In this day. dlscreditIng
money as factor In business and
laying emphasis on the claim that
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DNi NSS"fN "
Fortunately for mankind the wide
dissemination of information through
the press has enabled the public to
learn something of the shortcomings
of such paragons of financial wisdom,
and to study conditions for themselves.
This has resulted in dissipating the
halo of superior intellectual acumen,
that erstwhile attached to the names
of the men who We're able to garner
into their own Golfers an undue por-
tion of the wealth created by society.
What was once credited to the wiz
ards of finance as superior wisdom is
now known to be brazen effrontery
and cold blooded lying and deception.
Hence it is that among the farmers
and men of moderate means are now
found men who are familiar with the
factors that enter into financial dis
turbances, and who can foresee with
unerring accuracy the advent of finan-
cial or industrial revulsions, and can
detect their coming at sufficient dis
tance to enable them to adjust their
affairs so as to, in large measure,
escape the evil effects of such.
Here, we assume the responsibility
Of telling our readers that SO far as
the western farmer is concerned he
need have no fears of a financial col
lapse that will effect his interests dur
ing the present year. And to further
assure them that their conditions next
year will depend upon the size and
character of the crops they raise
rather than upon the solvency of New
York spectators, or frenzied finan-
ciers.
What are the conditions today that
make the outlook cheerful. First the
labor of the country is employed at
good wages and the toilers are able
w Uuy duu pay lOl LllC hCSCpodl lC0 VI
life for themselves and families. The
retailer is receiving cash for his goods.
The retailer is paying cash for his
wares Wholesalers and jobbers col
lecting on thirty-day bill are able to
pay manufacturers for wares. The
wholesalers, not being obliged to bor
row money to carry customers, are
able to pay manufacturers so that
trade is not resting upon vast fabric
of credit, but is bottomed on the solid
rock of cash payments.
While the manufacturer can collect
for his wares he can pay for his raw
material and his labor, and labor while
employed at a good wage will con-
sumo the products of the farm Thus
while there may be money strin-
gency among the frenzied financiers
who are in death struggle for the
possession of additional railroads, ETC.,
a little smash in Wall Street that
would result in the transfer of a rail.
road or two from the ownership of
one clique to another would hardly
have a momentary effect beyond the
confines of the New York financial
district.
There may be some bank failures.
but such are unnecessary and the eff.
fects of such will be confined within
local and narrow limits Bank credits
are dangerously extended. But the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-16
SLAPPED DecoIlette Necks.

Henry Collins, who married Miss
Burd Thsw, has been expelled from the
Pittsburg Club, TO which the wealthiest
and most fashionable men in that city
belong. The governors OF the club, oil
which Harry X. Thsw is q member,
informed Mr. Collins that they strongly
djsspprove of love-slaps given on the
uecks and shoulders CT women 10 decoi-
lette gowns, particularly when the women
are the clubs guests.
The club gave dance few nights
ago. Mr. Collins was there snd erJ9yei
himself extremely. He reapPeared on
the dancing floor after prolonged ao-
sence. Approaching young woman
he slapped her sbspely shoulder. Angry
aud ashamed, she shrsnk from him. 10
the ssme way be showed his admiration
for two or three other women. When
the husband of one and the brother OF
another learned of Mr.. Collins slaps,
they told Collins they would break every
bone in his body if be did not leave The
clubhouse. He went.
The governors Immediately suspended
him temporarily, and ut later meeting
demanded bis resignation.
Collins is a brother-in-lsw OF young
William Thaw, who went such pace In
New York recently that his mother sp-
piled to the courts TO declare him a
habitual drunkard.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-16
BattIeship for n Target.

Representative Mudd, of Maryland, a
member of the HOUSE committee on
naval affairs, hss prepared a bill, which
he will shortly introduce, providing
tor the destruction of the batteship
Texas by using her as target upon
which to test high explosives. 1t is
proposed to bring the Texas up the Po-
tomac to Indian Head proving grounds,
anchor her in shallow water, turn in her
guns, turn off her crew, and fire dyns-
mite shell at her from l2-inch gun,
inst to determine how we'll her armor
will stand the shot. The test is sought
by William I.bam, the inventor of the
Isham shell, at whose request Mr.. Mudd
will introduce his bill. Mr.. lsham for
a number OF years has been working to
develop the theory that the greatest de-
structive power Of q shell is obtained By
outside explosion rather than by pene'
tration. and to prove that this is true, 1t
is proposed to fire at the thickest portion
of the armor OF the Texas at the water
line.
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CRApsEY AssAILED ny RABB'.

CRAPSEl ASSAtLED Bt hAbh''
Rabbi E. n. B'Own, of Temple Beth
FL, Brooklyn, last Saturday took issue
with DIR. A. 5. Crapsey, the dePosed
Episcopal rectOry in the latter's crusade
against portions of the Old and New
Testamentp. The Rabbi, among other
things, said;
ain his desperation DR.. Crapsey, so
far respected by everybody as fair
fighter, from his own point of view (al-
though he supplanted the theological
Oueensberry rules for code of his OWN,
having received solar plexus blow in
the highest courts verdicts, and having
taken his thirty days count, suddenly
Jumps over ropes, abandoning theground
staked out for fighting his bishop, and
runs amuck among the disinterested in
nocent bYstsuders outside OF the New
Testament, hitting right and left at the
Old Testament, at Judaism in its first
chapters OF Genesis, calling the Garden
of Eden a fabrication, Adam a myth,
etc. The great misfortune Of the Bible
in our days the overzesl ofits friends. They
do not sllow it to be criticised, according 10
modern criticism, maintsining that every
statement in Genesis is TO be taken
literally in our days by men who know
tina. modern science does not coincide
with accounts given by Moses in Geneses.
And here / may startle my Jewish aud
Christian brethren, the clergy, ii say
that Moses did not expect literal ac-
ceplance of the first chapter OF
Genesis as to the creation, the fall OF
man, etc., and that he did not
write those chapters for future genera
tions of intelligent men and women.
And, too, he did not base the religion
of Judaism upon the first chapters in
Genesis. say that Moses used those
statements as temporary prop for the
upbuilding of character in our slave an
cestors when freed from Egyptian bond
age. Aud these are the chapters that
DR.. Crspsey is fighting as Don QuixoIe
did the wIndmills."
Then Rabbi Brown went further in
celebrating what he called his theologi-
cal discovery. Hesaid that Moses in
culcated the doctrines of early Genesis
first in his followers, expecting to lead
them from Egypt into citizenship in the
promised land. Moses was informed by
the divine authority, be said, that none
of his followers was fit TO 60 into the
free citizenship. Thereupon Moses
changed his doctrines, dropping the
dogmas of early Genesis and taking up
an entirely new form Of teaching. "He
ignored Genesis just like DR.. Crapsey,"
said the preacher, "and his doctrines
we're not unlike those of Dr. Crapsey.
He made in Deuteronomy teaching of
religion of reason, pure and simple, be-
yond the criticism of DR.. Crapsey."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-16
Movement for Independent Church.

A dispatch from Paris says that within
a few days an attempt will be made to
inaugurate French Catholic chuich
under the auspices of Henri des Houx,
who, in September last, tried to Or.
ganiza the League of French Catholics,
with the object of securing the accept
ance OF the church and state separation
law. The effort to form the League OF
French Catholics having failed, owing
to the intrsnsigence Of the Pope, the
movement has now taken the form OF
setting up an Independent church.
Arhbishop Vilatte, of Texas, head ol
the independent Catholic movement in
America, who is now in Paris, has con-
sented to lend his apostolic aid for the
spiritual Jurisdiction OF the church, whose
services will be iusugurated in chapel
near the Plaoe,de Clichy, formerly belong
ing TO the expelled Barnsbite order.
The cultural associations formed under
the direction OF NJ. des Houx will con-
stitute the nucleus of the new organiza-
ton. As any regular priests participst-
ing in the movement will be promptly
expelled, Archbishop Vilatte has agreed
to orGain clergy and bishops who will be
elected by the Pensioners.
The Archbishop explains that the
Latin dogms, and ritual will be retained
and only the authority and the infalli'
bility Of the Pope will be denied.
NJ, des Houx is about to publish an
appeal to the French Catholics to throw
OIL the yoke Of Rome, which he charges
with engaging in deep-laid plots against
the republic aud with being responsible
for the monsrchist and Boulauger con-
spiracies, and for the Panama and Drey-
fus scandals.
1t is pointed out that the most inter
esting question is whether the French
government will support the movement
TO form q national French Catholic
church.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-16
sCift of Tongues

Dissension has arisen in the Friends
Church in Cleveland, some of whose
members professed to have been diyi nelly
and suddenly gifted with power to speak
strange and unheard of tongues. Scot
fers said that their alleged now tongues
were gibberish, gable. bubble and rot.
Meetings have been in progress now day
and night for nearly week, during
which the most exciting scenes have
been witnessed. Several persons have
publicly announced that demons have
been ousted from their bodies, one wom-
an in particular claiming that ber rheu-
matism of years has been cured, and
others have discarded glasses, saying
that their eyesight is now better than
ever before. A dozen persons claim to
have received the gift OF tongues, aud
songs of the most unusual jargon are
heard. with the familiar tunes of Near
er. NV God to Thee" and "Almost Per
suaded." At the last meeting one wom-
an began to talk in Greek, another in
German and still another in what she
claimed was SOuth African tongue.
The preachers of The city deride the
whole affair ~ hysleria, and say that un-
less there is an end put to 1t the Friends
Church is certain to be split in twain.
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