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a ' .1 r .: SEPTEMBER 10, 1903. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT .-OSLY OrtE SUCOESS Br. Steritar IUeouU th Work of th Old Coopar ' Editor Independent: What has the Old Guard to cheer them after the great sacrifice they have made for government reforms? Since the green back movement in 1876 oar efforts have cnly in one instance been crowned with success, namely, the stopping of the contraction of treasury notes at $346,000,000. Attempts to : regulate railroads in the interest of the people have utterly failed. The abolishment of national banks and government control of pub lic utilities is farther from a fact than ever. National banks now get 100 per cent of their bonds in currency and the tax is reduced, one-half. Rates of transportation are higher. . Monopolies are a hundredfold more numerous and the middle class is on its-way down the pike that leads to slavery in a far greater degree than at tne oegin ning or rather at the close of the civil war. .True, as a nation we are vastly bet ter off; but as a people, not so. The special privileges have drawn from the masses and made giants of tne rav ored class. . Whv is this so. while thousands to day have been educated and see the wrons-s where but few saw them while the many felt them from 1873 to 1879? Do the people love to be slaves? Or have they lost confidence in all efforts to correct these evils? If the former, CSod pity us as a nation. If the latter what has caused it? I cannot- believe it is the love of drudgery, while I do believe it is a loss of confidence. When .tne green back Dartv sent thirteen. men to con cress in 1876" they were pure, honest and determined. They held the bal ance of power and not one of them flinched and they won a victory. They did not court any old party trades and spurned any offer of such even to the extent of a personal clash (as between General Weaver and Parks). So in tent were they that the nation, even their political enemies, respected them for their candor. t Such men might since have done much , more a3 the people gained knowledge of right as against wrong. Since those days the populist party lias claimed 26 members at one time in the congress of the United States, but nvhere is the evidence? Ah, they were "bound hand and foot because their election was the result of a barter! In - the south by republican , and in the north by democratic aid. They were mot free v men, and while the people, waited they waited in vain for relief. . Finally their power was lessened; - then it was that the cloven-foot of the enemy bore more heavily and set. its talons deeper. his loss of confidence is the result of stepping aside in duty's path and the resuTt is so far-reaching that any effort at reform is met with suspicion. Even the Denver conference. . . . A party must always be true or weak and the farther from truth the weaker. As one of the Old Guard, or at least one who has followed Peter Cooper since his race for reform, I am done as a populist; but believing in its principles and opposing both demo cratic and republican policies (which are one and the same), I am going to cast my lot with a party that, though not perfect, is true to name and sound in principle. However, I shall watch the trend of things and when honest, sincere men again stand up and show their faith by their works I will be pleased to wish them God-speed. I cannot fully subscribe to socialism. It goes too far toward communism, while prohibition is but right and bad ly needed. W. C. STARKEY. Violet, Neb. Salle St. Station, Chicago, the only passenger station in Chicago on the elevated loop. When going east, try the Nickel Plate Road. City Ticket Cm a. 111 idni f f '.hiraen. What Is Your Excuse? If vou are offered happiness and re fuse it, What is your excuse? If some one offers to supplant misery and dis tress with peace, enjoyment of life and comfort of body, ana you auow it noi, What is your excuse? Mr. Theo. Noel and the Theo. Noel Company of Chi cago, whose announcement appears in these columns, wants to know wnat U your excuse, if you are sick and ail ins, and refuse to accept the offer of thirty days' trial of Vitae-Ore at the ing to the readers of this paper. The offer "Personal to Subscribers" has appeared in these columns a num ber of times during the past two years and hundreds are today blessing the day they read and accepted it, else the company could not continue its an nouncements from time to time. If von fear its genuineness, ask any of 'your fellow subscribers who have ac cepted it, and then, if YOU don't ac cept, What is your excuse? You need the medicine; you can have it for the asking, you take no risk; What is your excuse? - ' , The editors of the best periodicals in the country indorse the company and the offer let their indorsement be your excuse for writing today for a trial package on trial. See large an nouncement in this issue. A am ruiu ONE Third on September 1, 8, 15, and October 6th, 1903, to many points in Indiana and Ohio. HOfl VISITORS nrniinoinM EAUUn&IUII To all points in Indiana and many Points in Western Ohio. Tickets limited to 30 days. ONE AND ONE-THIRD FARE. Call and get full information . The Nickel Plate Road, with its eastern connections the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and West Shore and Boston & Maine railroads i: considered by those who have pa tvonized it as a most desirable line between Chicago and New York, Bos ton and other eastern points, and takes Its place among the first class lines leading eastbound from Chicago. X , i3 , operating three through first class trains, all daily, and equipped With modern improvements, for the convenience and comfort of the trav eling public, and has succeeded, to a remarkable degree, in pleasing its pa trons, growing in popularity every flay. One of its attractive features and thoroughly appreciated by the traveling public is its dining car ser vice, meals being served on American Club plan, ranging in price from 35c to $1; also service a la carte. Colored corters are in charee to look after the comfort of passengers in coaches, and especially., to assist ladies traveling wita cmiaTen. .ah passenger trains arrive at and depart from the La i)!liitjrijM City Ticket Cf rice Burlington Depot Cor. 10th and O Street h St, bet. P and Q Telephone No. 235. Tel. Burlington 1290 The Tree of Populism ; Editor Independent: I have been much of my life engaged .in agricul ture. Was Drincinallv reared in west era Tennessee, with but poor facilities for acquiring an education. Was a soldier in the C. S. A. for four years Returned to begin life with only an honest heart. Moved my abode to Texas in February. 1869. Though democratic inclined, did not take any interest in politics till 1876, when that noble school began under the euidance of the farmers alliance. I entered as a student, doing all in my mieht to SDread its lieht. On the 4th day of July, 1892, at the time when the ground was being prepared to plant the tree that is, to bear the fruit to feed the nation, I was standing before the people declaring the good things to come from that day's work. Manv happy days have I watched the rapid growth; many hard days have I worked . to ' nourish; It and guard it from the sap-suckers . that sought to perch upon it, till the withering blight oi fusion attacked it. That -caused it to shed its leaves. exDosing its cror of ill-formed and unnatural fruit. We still rally around it, to save it from decay. Soon the unnatural fruit be can to fall till onlv the sound was left. Some said the tree is dead . cut it down; but, no: we preferred to wait till spring, when it would out forth signs of new life.. As was indicated at the Denver con ference, it was . then seen to be in vigorous growth, and will, in its sum mer, nut forth blooms with such nro- fusion that all the world will admire it, and the laborers will be filled with joy at the approach of its fall season, when the " national convention shall name a man worthy to care for its fruits when gathered at the" election, when the choicest selections shall be placed in the White house, to feed the hungry who will gather there seeking relief from those who seek to rule with an iron rod. During its winter, time is afforded to digest the laws after the order of the initiative and referendum and imperitive mandate, the, fruits gathered from the noble tree, whose Loughs sperad broad and wide, that all may rest beneath them in peace; for then will come in fact, what we have now in theory, a government by and for the people, the right to gov ern only by the consent of the gov erned. Hoping that God in his infinite wis dom may continue to guide and direct you in your efforts to lead the forces as corporal of the guard to report as it is sounded along the lines. "All is well." W. D. WILSON. Boonvllle, Ark. . 7"; A Young Old 6uard; Editor Independent: As you re quest all members of the populist par ty to write a short article for the OH Guard Edition, I write with pleasure the following letter: . I was born in Dover, near , Clayton, in Lenawee county, Mich., February . 1882. Attended district school for seven years and after finishing that school I entered the Clayton high school-. I was born a politician and began to study politics at the age of fifteen. At the age of sixteen I was a strong democrat and wrote political - articles lor the Cincinnati Enquirer during John R. McLeans campaign in unio. McLean was the first politician I ever corresponded with. At that time I considered the democrats the "real re formers," but I was not versed in southern politics and knew nothing about the corrupt methods in the Fouth. In 1900 I worked with tue democrats. In 1901 I bolted the demo cratic party because it ignored the money question, repudiated the Kansas City platform in the Ohio convention end used Bryan's pnotograpn as a carpet to walk on in the convention. I considered it an insult to Bryanites and declared that the democracy was again in the old plutocratic rut! After that time I affiliated with the middle-of-the-road populist party. I cast my first vote for the prohibition ticket last spring, i There was no pop ulist ticket nominated and I could not vote the old party ticket Government issue of money without the intervention of banks, direct legis lation, utter destruction of the Ameri can saloon, public ownership of trusts and the election of United States sen ators by a direct vote of the people are the great issuer before the people todav for consideration. - The work of the Denver conference is all rteht if. we will permit the peo ple to nominate their own candidates for the various offices. -I stand for the people and sincerelv believe the teoniA oueht to nominate their own candidates. If the ponulist partv will r.iv st irk to tt"Ir policy in regard, to independent party action then victory U in sight. . a , am a journalist now and I Intend to devote mv t'me to thi" work. F. J. PAYNE. B. L. Clayton, Mich. ' . - Minnesota 'rcnitnr independent: My father was a Jackson democrat; my mother an old 'line whig. . The lesson I was taught was to have the moral courage to do what was right and never run; and in politics I have always tried to carry the lesson with me. I was born September 8, 1838, which made me old enough to cast my maiden vote for president m iov, which went for Abraham Lincoln. Left the republican party in ib-J, when the National Bank act became the law of the land, and , have never voted with the party since. My support and suffrage was given to McClellan in 1864; Seymour in 1868. In 1872 did not vote.. In 1876, for Peter Cooper; in 1880, for Han cock; 1884 and 1888, for Grover Cleve land; Weaver, in 1892; Bryan, in '96, under protest; 1900, Barker and Don telly received my support and what suffrage I possessed. And I expect to support the next populist candidate for president. The- Denver conference was a step in the right, direction and if followed up by men of courage, liberty can be restored, the money devils driven from the country as Christ drove them from the temple at Jerusalem, un, ior a Nehemiah (read 5th ch. Nehemiah) and one to pattern after him. Liberty and civilization are of the past with mankind driven from the face of God's green earth, unless the money devils a niarp.d in limbo. Money is a cre ature of the government and interest thereon should go to the government, and not the individual. , A. T. D. AUSTIN. Alden, Minn. Will Stay to the End " Editor Independent: Your request to hear from "the Old Guard who have come all the way over the trail" r.romnts me to send you a few woras I think that I am "one of 'em," but I know that I am not the only one left tn tell the tale. In my present mood I am feeling somewhat lonesome as I recall those who have passed on and icto the great beyond.' Of those who trit!LT7.pA in -Nebraska state farmers' alliance in January, 1881,. and in 1882 nut a state ticket In the - field, ana elected our candidate for governor in IE 90, how many have gone i And then Hot Springs and the Black lis Hot Springs, the delightful sum mer resort and natural sanitarium of the West, is easily reached by the complete train service of the Chicago & North-Western Ry. Special low rates in effect from all points west, daily, during the summer season. Fast dally trains with through service of Pullman sleeping cars from Missouri Valley, and free reclining chair cars from Omaha, reaching Hot Springs and the Black Hills the next morning with direct connec-tion-from Sioux City, Lincoln, Hastings, Superior and all points in Nebraska, Iowa and the Dakotas. Summer tourist rates now In effect dally via the Chicago & North-Western Rail way to the summer resorts of Iowa, Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin. Send for illustrated booklets and maps, with detailed information regarding routes, rates and schedules, which will be promptly mailed upon application to ' J. A. KUHN. Asst. Gen'l Freight snd Pass's Agent, NW53 Omaha. J) CHEAP EXCURSIONS TO OHIO AND INDIANA POINTS Sept. 1st, 8th, l5lh.andOct.6th-Return Limit Days. ; - ROUND TRIP RATES FROM OMAHA OI1IO Toledo $25.67, Urbana 827.34, Marlon ?27.84, Columbus $28. 4, Springfield $27.34, Dayton $26.07, Cincinnati $17 .04, Bandusky 82H.00, Lima $25.84, Bellefontaine $26.80. lNDlANA-Hanimond$17,80,SouthBend$20.i01 Ft. Wayne $22.94, Marion $23.27, La Fayette $21.14, Indianapolis ?23.20,New Castle $24.80, KvanHVille $22.00, Richmond $26.34, Terre Haute $21.80, Lo gansport $21.67, Kokomo $22.60, Wabash $22.40, Laporte $20.00, CrawfordsTille $21.47, North Ver non $26.67. Vincennes $21.80. KENTXICKY-Loviisv ille $26.00. This is only a partial list of points to which rate will apply, v Full information at Illinois Central Ticket Office, 1402 Farnam St., Omaha, or write W. H. Brill, Dist. Tass. Agt., Omaha. Neb. to think how we fused with those who counted us out! There I am too full for further utterance! I was In the .ptorile's independent party movement, from the beginning, and I am going to be in !t while I live. I approve the action of the Denver conference and I only wish I had the money to push It along. I would have more money if I bad not spent so much for the cause ir. the years past, especially In the early '80's when I was a candidate for governor on an independent ticket. But you can count on me to the end. E. P. INGERSOLL. Tecumseh, Neb. .Patronize our adyerjisers. E,