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0 The Nebraska Independent NOVEMBER 1, 1906 ThtNtBRAbKAINDtPuNUtM ESTABLISHED 1888 J. M. DEV1NE, Editor FKEDliRIC O. BERGE, Business Mgr. Published Every Thursday 1328 O Street Lincoln, Nebraska Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-clasa mall matter. Under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879. CUBSCRtPTICN TiRKS 1 OO .BO .85 Vrr Year U Mouths 'A Months Suhscrlptions Must be 1 aid In Advance. Subscriptions Can be sent direct to The Independent. They can also be tsant through newspapers which have adver tised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, where sub-agents have been ap pointed. All remittances should be sent by postofflce money order, express order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Change of Address Subscribers re questing a change of address must give the OLD as well as the NEW address. Advertising Kutes furnished upon applica tion. Sample Copies sent free to any address up on application. Send for Supple Copies and c'ob rates. Address all cummunicatlons. and make an Cittlts. money orders, etc., payable to THE INDEPENDENT, Lincoln, Neb. During the last two weeks state ments have been sent to all Independ ent readers. If you. have not yet made your remittance please do so this weok.' Let every subscriber square his account. THE INDEPENDENT. THE CALL OF DUTY Before receiving another issue of The Independent our readers will be called upon to discharge a solemn duty involving their own welfare and the welfare of their neighbors and of the state. The preparatory work leading up to the choice of candidates and policies In issue at the coming elec tion has been done in such manner as our interest and intelligence prompted, and we are now to make a final choice between such of good, bad and indifferent as we find represent ed hi the candidates named for the various offices to be filled. In mak ing a final choice of candidates for each position duty demands the full est and freest exercise of our God given faculties, having uppermost in our minds, not the success of a party or a faction, but the ends of justice and good government. In the discharge of our solemn duty as citizens it must constantly be born in mind that parties are only means to ends, and that in the final choice of candidates to be voted for it becomes a freeman to scrutinize un sparingly the claims of each, analyz ing the individual character of each candidate together with the influences behind his candidacy in order that we may not unwittingly do violence to our cherished conceptions of right, but that on the other hand we may with the utmost freedom know and do that which is level with conscience and measures up to the full stature of a man and a citizen. Parties do not mean the same thing at all times. Jefferson wrote the De claration cf Independence and found ed the democratic party. The declar ation of independence made all men free by virtue of birth alone, uncon ditionally eo. But, the slave power after controlling the two contending parties for a half century, in fact until the anti-slavery element of each, de spairing of accomplishing the over throw of slavery through either cf them were driven into organizing a party distinctively for that purpose, when the slave power decided to make its final entrenchment and stand in the party of Jefferson. The republican party of Lincoln did the work it was organized to do. It blotted out chattel slavery. Lincoln was the greatest Jeffersonian of his day. But the party of Lincoln, pure in its youth, in its manhood became the party of the brigands and buc caneers of commerce, the refuge of trusts and monopolies under the con trol of its Platts and Depews, Mor gans and Rockefellers. Today parties are little more than names, the people having learned fin ally, after much tribulation, that both were honeycombed with the hirelings of a common master, the confederat ed monopolies. The masses of parties today realize the treachery of their leaders of yesterday. To illustrate Only a few years since Hanna, the high priest of the commercial ban ditti that ruled the nation, came into Nebraska and the republican party reverently bowed its head and re cieved unction from his hands, and his influence is credited with victory for the party in the state. But how different now. The mantle of Hanna has fallen upon Aldrich. But would the republicans of Nebraska welcome Aldrich into the state now? Would not his indorsement of its candidates insure their overwhelming defeat? What i3 true of Aldrich in the repub lican party is true of Cleveland and Hill in the democratic party. The in dorsement of the democratic ticket by either of them would bring to the party only blight and ruin Tn fact the lead rrship and the principles of both parties of a decade ago stand con demned today. The scu.blance of the parties remain, and monopoly hire lings and sycophants ?.ie found cling ing to the rigging of the old ships shouting frantically about ancient leaders and vociferating shop worn platitudes deifying the pnrty name while all that is vitl in either of them centers in the. teachings, pur poses and personalities of a Roosevelt a I aFollette, a Bryan or a Hearst. The time ha3 come when intelligent men in all parties are discriminatin between men in the caucuses and ccn ventions of their own psrties and ae again discriminatin in the choice of Individual candidates from both to be voled for at the polls. In other words party names and party regular ty are no longer accepted as a guar antee of anything to intelligent voters who have learned that they must look for their principles in the indiviJual candidates themselves, and in the in fluences that stand behind each of them. Hence patriotism and duty demand of the voter the exercise of the higher faculties of discernment, reason and independence in the dis charge of the duties of citizenship. A CLOUD The thoughtful cannot view with in difference the facts of the two years ust passed bearing upon the future relations of the United States with Japan and China. During that time Japan has conquered in war one of the greatest powers of the old world, throwing its men against fortifica tions that are ordinarily counted as formidable and proving them, in war, to be the equals, if not the superiors of the people of any . nation or race. The success of the Japanese on land and on sea was a source of continual surprises to the foreign military at taches of both the Japanese and the Russian armies. The patriotism, valor and endurance of the Japanese soldier has never been excelled, and the skill, determina'ion and daring of the Jap anese officers in the war against Rus sia challenged the admiration of all mankind. The fact that Japanese laborers are coming in increasing numbers to our shores, and are becoming a factor in the labor market in an increasing num ber of industries, until irritation over the fact is already palpable among American laborers attaches impor tance to a recent visit of the Japan ese ambassador at Washington to the state department and his demand that the United States strictly observe the treaty obligations entered into with Japan in 1894. The killing of Japanese seal poach ers in Alaska by Americans is looked upon by the Japanese as unnecessar ily severe punishment. And it is but natural that they should believe that the severity of the punishment may Ve partially due to the difference of race, that Europeans would have been dealt with less harshly. But the ques tion that has aroused and angered the Japs is the discrimination against Japanese children in the public schools of San Francisco. This has offended the pride of the Japanese and called forth a remonstrance from the mikado in terms that cannot be misunder stood. It is a foregone conclusion that American labor will, in the near fu ture, make an emphatic demand for the exclusion of Japanese laborers from our shores. And when that de mand is made it must and will be acceded, to, because it will be backed not by the voice and votes cf labor ers alone, but by the voice and votes of an overwhelming majority of Amer icans, regardless of vocation. When the time arrives that a Jap anese exclusion law is put in force can any rational person expect, in view of what we have recently learne of Japanese character that friendly relations will longer exist between our government and that of Japan? In this connection it is well to re member that China has awoke from the slumber of ages and has made more rapid strides in' accepting and adopting western ideas within the pas five years than was made by Japan in four times the period, and that th Chinese government has now a stand ing army trained by American and European officers equal in size to that of the average western nation and has only , made a beginning. It must be borne in mind that China alone has larger number of men capable of bearing arms than has the entire white race wheresoever dispersed on the earth. It is also known that agents of the Chinese government are idding so high for the services of American and European army officers that many are resigning their posi tions and accepting positions as in structors and officers in the Chinese army, and that the graduates of our military schools are in constant re ceipt of tempting offers from the Chi nese government. The people of Japan and China whether of the same race or not are not too dissimilar to amalgamate. And in so doing neither would be likely to feel that they had degraded themselves thereby. There fore, the natural bond of unfon be tween these peoples as against the white race has so many strong points and so few that are not strong, that n the final encounter between the white man and the yellow for supre macy in the world the Jap and the Chinese may be reckoned as one. Peoples that cannot amalgamate without dishonor cannot live together as friends and jointly constitute so ciety and a commonwealth based upon mutual good. 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