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The Eleetiona of 1901.
While it is impossible at this time to
measure and weigh the local influences
which may have affected the general re
sult, enough is known to justify the
conclusion thtt two leading political
parties show practically the strength
inai inev tua a year ntro. it the re
publican policies which have bren de
veloping during the last twelve months
nave aroused any protest among the
people, that protest has been off-set by
the assassination of the president.
The republicans everywhere confessed
their reliance upon this influence when
they devoted so much time to appeals
to the personal regard felt for MeKin
ley, the man. It is not unnatural that
the republicans should have been spur
red to greater activity by the presi
dent's death, neither is it strange that
it caused some apathy on the other
side.
There was another general cause
which the republican position, namely,
the ability of the republicans to get
out their vote. The off-year elections
always show a falling off in the voting
population as compared presidential
and congressional elections, and the
party that is best organized and the
most successful in getting its voters to
the polls has an advantage. Take, for
instance, the election in Nebraska this
year. The total vote will probably
fall fifty thousand below the vota of
lat year. If there is a loss in the re
publican vote of twenty thousand, and
a loss in the fusion vote of thirty
thousand, the republican candidate
can have ten thousand majority more
than his ticket had last year, and yet
have twenty thousand votes less than
Lis party polled last year.
Aside from having federal oSicials
everywhere through whom to reach
the voters, and besides having money
everywhere with which to organize,
the republicans in some of the states
'are able to secure from th-.j railroad
companies transportation for all per
sons who desire to return home to vote.
In every community there are voters
who. for business reasons, have fre
quent occasion to lie absent from
hoir.e. The party that is able to bring
every voter home on election day has
an immense advantage over the party
that cannot furnish transportation.
During the recent campaign the re
publican authorities were prepjired to
secure parses and tend every Nebraska
student home to vote, a practice not
only helpful to the party, but demoral
izing to the citizen.
The returns do not give any consid
erable advantage to either element of
the democratic party. The reorgan
izes have not gained any prestige
where they have secured control,
neither have the regular democrats
won any signal victories where they
Lave lieen in charge of the campaign.
We gain a senator in K-ntuckj- and
the state shows an increase in the
strength of the democratic party, but
as we elected a democratic senator
there two years ago, and carried the
state last year, the result this year,
though gratifying, was confidently
expecteL 1 he democrats have carried
Marvlard, and Mr. ;c:riuan will in all
probability W re-elected to the senate,
but as the campaign was fought purely
on local iues. ( the negro question be
ing the main issue, t"ii victory is not
a vindication of any national po'icy.
In Ohio, Pennsylvania, anil Ne.v
Jersey, where the conventions failed,
or refused to reaffirm the Kansas t'iry
platform, the republicans won. In
Massachusetts, Iowa and Nebraska,
where tne conventions did reaflirm the
Kansas City platform, the republicans
alx won. Insofar as the result has
any influence upon the democratic
party, it will tend to strengthen those
who believe in fighting for principle
rather than those who are all the time
offering to lead the party to a glorious
victory, provided it will abandon its
principles. Those who fight 1x prin
ciple may mourn over a iWiat, but
their purpose is not shaken because
they are doing what they believe they
ought to and find their reward in the
connciop.sness of duty done. Those,
however, who are willing to suspend
their principles in the hope of secur
ing political success have little to con
sole them when a reverse comes. If
a man barters his convictions for a
promise of success and then loses, he
has nothing left. If a man keeps his
convictions with him he has a founda
tion upon whiea to build in future
contests.
It would seem that the republican
policies ought to arouse overwhelming
opposition among the wealth producers
of the country, for surely no man who
earns bis living can point to any ad
vantage which the republican party
brings or can bring to the masses of
the people. In the bank control of
our currency, "in the monopolistic con
trol of our industries and in an imper
ial policy for the country there is dan
ger and disaster for a large majority
of the people, liut they evidently fail
to appreciate the viciousness of the
principles which are at work. The
only lesson that can be drawn from the
It seems that New Jersey is not
yet ready to break up the gang of
highwaymen who organize trust in
that state and then proceed to plunder
the people of all the other states.
Many newspapers now rejoicing over
the fusion victory in New York city
have spent a great deal of time during
the last five or six years denouncing
fusion in western states.
Senator Hoar's latest is calculated to
make the administration organs dig up
the "granny' and "eopp-i-l-ead" lines
from the standing galleys.
The wily Turk will not be frightened
at any French deinonstiation as long
as he knows that each European na
tion wants his domain bad enough to
keep any other nation from grabbing
it-
When men fight for a principle de
feat does not discourage them, but
when they are actuated solely by an
'anything-to-win" policy, defeat is a
more serious matter.
Having received 5500,000 for subdu
ing the Boors Lord Roberts bhould re
turn to South Africa' and earn about
S'Vx,00O more.
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J. Bryan's Paper.
election returns is that still more work ,
is necessary. The "Lct-well-enougn-alone"
argument cannot always pre
vail, for bad principles will ultimately
bring1 about bad time, and experience,
costly experience, will teach those
who refuse to foresee evil and provide
against it.
Crnrral Slllea on the Canteen.
In his annual report, recently made,
General Miles reviews the canteen
question. He points out that the can
teen developed from the amusement
room, where enlisted men were pro
vided with b;xks. papers and games.
There they could also purchase re
freshments other than intoxicating
liquors. Pic ally light wines and beer
were added to the canteen.
Inferring to the act of congress
which prohibited the sale of intoxicat
ing liquors in the canteen, General
Miles savs: "No injury has resulted
thereby and the law has in the main
been benenVial."
General Miles points out an import
ant fact th ;n he savs that the army is
composed "principally of young men
who have not formed the habit of using
liquors, and although the majority of
the enlistments actually come in large
eities. as recruiting oflices are princi
pally located there, a large percentage
of men come from homes in the country
and small t jwns and villages in every
part of the United States."
When the anti-canteen bill was lc
fore congress, its opponents urged that
its passage would prevent enlistments
aud increase desertions. General Miles
declares that the prediction has not
been fulfilled. On this point the gen
eral says:
Since the law was approved Febru
ary 2, 1001, the recruitingstationshavo
leeii thronged with men seeking en
listment for the service, 23.041 men
having leen enlisted since that date,
and the percentage of desertions isnow
far less than in former years. Deser
tions most usnally occur during the
first six months of enlistment, and a
much larger percentage of enlistments
has leen made during the last six
months than heretofore. In many
cases the men that have deserted lie
long to a class whose presence in the
service was not desirable under any
conditions, and whose real character
was not known at the time of enlist
ment.' It is further pointed out by General
Miles that the anti-canteen rule has
been enforced at West Point and at the
national soldiers home for many years,
and has produced gratifying results.
And be adds. "There is no doubt the
result of the present law in its effect
upon military garrisons will also bo
beneficial."
General Miles supports his assertion
that the anti-canteen law has no
caused dissertiens by statistics show
ing the strength of the army from IS'jT
to the present time, with the percent
age of desertions and a comparison be
tween the nuiul-er of desertions during
the months of April, May and June for
the last three years. These show:
The percentage of desertions in la07
was .'0.7 and in 171 30.2. the highest in
recent years. Prom 171 the deser
tions decreased to 7.3 per cent in 1375
and then increased to Uper cent in lso,
1.4 J xr cent for I"?:!, a gradual de
crease following that year until 1S07,
when the percentage of desertions was
2.0. Prom 1S03 to l'Ri, inclusive, the
desertions averaged between 4 and 5
per cent. During the first six months
of the present year the desertions
amounted to onl3 1.0 per cent.
Severe on Hotter.
Sometimes the gold democrats who
bolted the ticket in 1S05 complain be
cause the regular tlemocrats insist that
those who deserted the party five years
ago should, on coining back, give some
assurance cf their purpose to support
the ticket hereafter. While the con
ditions imposed have never been un
reasonable or severe, they have aroused
violent criticism in some quarters. It
may not be out of place, therefore, to
quote what the St. Paul Globe says
about local bolters. In a recent issue
it condemns some St. Paul aldermen
who deserted their party in the elec
tion of a county commissioner The
following ii an extract from the Globe a
editorial:
"It is &s the Globe predicted it vrould
be. A democratic county commissioner
has been elected by the votes of the
democratic aldermen assisted by one
republican, and democratic traitors are
ignored and spat upon, as they long;
since should have been. Treason to
the party has not been found profitable
in practice among St. Paul democrath,
It will be found no more in the futurj.
Hunt and Bantz have a severe reckor
ir.g before them; and we apprehend
that the mass of St. Paul democrats
will find as little use for them in the
future as the democratic aldermen
found for them in the election of Coun
ty Commissioner Kelley.
"The way of the transgressor is hard
and transgressors these men have been
of all the rules and observances in po
litical life which all true party men
and good citizens will hold themselves
bound by. The Globe will gladly aid
their return to the obscurity from
which they should never have
emerged.'
The Globe is much more severe i a de
nouncing democratic aldermen wbj re
fuse to support their party in a Tocal
fight than the silver democrats at in
condemning papers, which, like the
Globe, deserted the presidential ticket
in a national contest.
There is very little consolation that
democrats can draw from last w; .-k's
elections, but those who made a tight
for democratic principles have more of
it than those who relied upon the per
sonal popularity of the condidates.
Patriotic Americans who want to
help the Boers can do so by selling
mules to the British. The iiritish send
the mules to South Africa and the
Ikrs seize them. In this way Ameri
cans help themselves while helping the
Doer.
When the banks issue all the money
and the trusts own the attorney gen
eral, then the people may begin to
realize that they were mistaken when
they thought a full stomach the acme
of human happiness.
Captain Mahan is writing a book
aliout "Types of Naval Heroes. It
will be admitted that the United States
navy has several "types," but the
Dewey-Sehley-Clark-Fhillip type is the
most satisfactory. .
A two-billion dollar glass trust is
now lieing planned. This is a monop
oly that the people ought to be able to
see through.
' PITDVR ATi TRFASTTR V
ULtUlXAU lJlidOUIH.
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iparalleled
' a -two dillicn congress- not
FAR AWAY.
.obly am! Sn?ldy Grabber I'rcparlns
fur an Oinl:tuitht ThU Cooling Winter
One uf I lie Kvils of Too Much
Surplus.
It is barely a decade since the high
water mark of federal expenditures was
reached bv the famous "billion-dollar-congress."
Since then we have left the
billion-dollar Unilt far in the rear. At
the present rat of annual increase tt
will not be long before some congress
assumes the title f "two-billion." su
ing down into history as the marker
of a new era In national extravagance.
The remark cf Representee McCali
of the ways and means committee, in
cpeafclng of the growing treasury sur
plus, is apt and forceful. "I suppose."
says Mr. McCall. "that congress will
want to speud It That is always the
tendency where there Is plenty of
money." If this conimitteear.n had
cared to go Into details he could have
pointed out that lobbyists and subsidy
grabbers of every degree are already
knocking at the dcor cf the new con
gress for sums of money that In the
aggregate would not only wipe out the
treasury surplus, but would leave a
deficit.
The American people are in nowise
disposed to be niggardly in providing
for all needful expenditures to meet
the nation's marvelous expansion.
This Is far from saying that they will
look with tolerance upon any ten
dency toward prodigality simply be
cause the revenues are piling up In
unparalleled volume. As Mr. McCall
6ays, the tendency to spend freely ir,
always stronger when the treasury,
public or private, is full to overflow
ing. The tendency is even stronger
where the spendthrifts are handling
impersonal funds that is, money be
longing to a government or a corpor
ate entity where the responsibility ot
financial management must be Intrust
ed to individuals.
There will be sharp, and It is to be
hoped effective, criticism upon every
action of the new congress tending '-.a
show that this inclination toward na
tional extravagance has 'reached the
point of recklessness. There is as
much need for sound economy with a
full treasury as with a light one.
Prodigality in any form wi! only
strengthen the critics who are even
now contending that a too full na
tional treasury may become danger
ous. It wil! be the rart cf sound economic
wisdom to enact such measures in the
neit congress as will reduce the treas
ury surplus by lightening taxation,
without in any degree Impairing the
available funds for all the needs ol
government. Chicago Chronicle.
COST OF ADMIRAL SCHLEY'S TRIAL
Th? word "trial" is used advisedly
in reference to the cost of the naval
court of inquiry now in session inves
tigating the matters connected with
the sea battle of Santiago. The con
spirators In the navy department have
made it a trial of Admiral Schley a3
far as they had the cunning and the
power as much so as if he had been
1 resting under actual charges.
It is stated that the trial will cost
Admiral Schley not less than $20,000
It is understood that his payments Ij
his counsel will not be as large as in
ordinary cases and it may be merely
nominal. All the lawyers on his side
of the case, including tho late Judge
Wilson, were his close personal
friend3. and as they knew from the
start that he wa3 not a rich man their
charges, if any.will be moderate. But
other expenses Ivill be immense.
It is shocking to contemplate some
of the features of the Schley case. He
is a veteran of the navy with a distin
guished record of over forty years.
He rendered valuable service in the
civil war when he had just graduated
from the mval academy. In 1865 he
participated In the suppression of a
coolie insurrection on Chincha islands
off the coast of Peru, where our gov
ernment was called on to protect Am
erican investors in large guano de
posits. In the same year he landed
with a body of marines on the coast
of San Salvador to guard the interests
of American trilers in the town of
La Union, the scene of a revolution. In
1872 he was with the Pacific squad
ron which assisted in quelling the
Corean outbreak against the treaty
powers. In 1876 he was sent in the
Essex to the south seas in quest of a
missing seal vessel and rescued the
shipwrecked crew from the scene of
their sufferings on an antarctic island.
In 18S4 he was In command of the
relief expedition which brought Greely
and his band of arctic adventurers
through 1.400 miles of icy seas back
to civilization. Other events of his life
are of recent history.
By the malicious intrigues of the
navy department clique, conniving
with Admiral Sampson, there was an
attempt to rob Admiral Schley of the
laurels which he gained at Santiago,
where his victory was one of the
greatest ever gained on the ocean.
The discussion which followed Involv
ed so many indecencies of assault and
such volumes of falsehood that he was
compelled to ask for the Inquiry which
is resulting in his brilliant vindication.
ays the Chicago Chronicle of recent
date.
He should not be forced to bear
the expensa of this vindictive aixl
groundless . proceeding. Congress
should reimburse hlca for the amount
which it will cost him. He is not a
rich man. For the best part of his
life serving on the ocean, h has had
no opportunity to accumulate wealth
beyond his modest savings from his
salary. The country. will be glad to
pay through a congressional appro
priation the amount of his expenses
la tti3 Inquiry.
MR. ECKELS AND RECIPROCITY.
Mr. Eckels, ex-comptroller of the cur
rency, has been cordially received at
the white house. But it does not fol
low that President Roosevelt is seek
ing advice from Mr. Eckels on econom
ic questions, though he might do much
worse.
The ex-comptroller Is indirectly
quoted as strongly - advocating "the
general adoption, of the policy of reci
procity.' Bat be is directly quoted as
h-3?111 "The opportunity presented to
th Republican Darty is almost un-
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. . Trade expansion
can only be f.ccomplished by radical
amendment cf our present tariff poll,
cy, and I thin'c everyone believes that
the opportunity for reform of the
tariff by Its friends was never better.
A lot of reciprocity treaties reducing
duties some 20 per cent on selected ar
ticles in favor of this, that, and the
other country would not radically
amend the present tariff policy. It
would only perpetuate that policy with
some slight modification In favor of
particular countries, but with practi
cally no relief to America it coiiHumera
Mr. Eckels evidently believe in
something morn radical thun that.
Probably Mr. Itotmevidl rtov not be
lieve even In that.
AYOIIt.tNCK OK Till: ltrK.
(Springfield Republican.)
If the Republican leaders cannot now
find It In their tender, friendly mouI to
cross one IiikIo over-protected Inter
est, even bo far as to adopt tho gener
ally picayuntsh reluct Ion of tho Kan
son treaties, how much bettor are tho
recommendations of a reciprocity core.
mission likely to fare at their handst
The commission suggestion Is slgiiu-
cant simply of a policy of delay nn l
avoidance In the matter. And this la
all that the coming session of congress
promises just now. Tho last counsel
of President McKinley will continue.
no doubt, to be highly honored to the
word, tut otherwise Ignored. "Let well
enough alcue' is the answer Mr. Han-
na and the party In Ohio arc making
to it.
V.tIN riCUT AHA INST KATIi
Philadelphia Record: Having as
sured thenselvcs that the reciprocity
treaties are dead tho tariff beneficiaries
and their political associates are busy
ing themselves with the invention of
new devices to enable them to mako
a pretense of keeping platform prom
ises. The appointment of a commis
sion of expert.! is talked of. The hum
bug reciprocity cant of the extreme
protectionist wing of the dominant
party must bo made patent to the least
observant of persons by this kind of
talk. The pampered beneficiaries of
tariff legislation and their political al
lies, however, pro engaged in a vain
effort to rweep out the rising sea with
a broom.
A WOKI) TOR SCHLEY.
Minneapolis Tlm.?s: Admiral Win
field Scott Schley mry not be the Dem
ocratic candidate for the presidency ir:
1904. The original Winfield Scott had
political asplratiors that were doomed
to failure. The Democratic party tried
another Winfield Scott whose last
came was Hancock, and he was alike
unsuccessful. All the same should the
unexpected happen and fichley be made
the candidate, how amusing it would
be to note the change of front in Re
publican organs who are now glorify
ing Schley as a bcro, martyr and vic
tim. How quickly would the organs
use the loop tber now extol to stranglo
their opponent withal.
ALLIANCES A It K IJANGEROIS.
(Richmond Times.)
Th'j Democratic party cannot afford
to lorn alliances with other parties
w'jcs'. principles are not democratic.
Democracy is as far removed from
Populism on the one hand as it is re
Moved from Republicanism on the
other, and it is as impossible success
fully to mix Democrats and Populists
and Republicans in one harmonioua
partv as it is to mix oil and water.
It doe3 not require a close snalysis
to discover that the American Protec
tive league, the Home Market club aud
similar organizations and men like
Senator Aldrich are the economic
Bourbons of the present situation.
They are making no provisions for
changed conditions; they are blind to
the dangers that threaten. They pro
pose to make continued gains by "con
quest," noi realizing that when such a
policy is formally declared and gener
ally understood it is a game that the
ten of the worid can plar at as wel
as we. Boston Transcript.
The attempt of the Navy Department
officials to insert in the evidence in
tl 3 Schley case some of the atroc
ious editorials of the New York Sun,
this Is evfdence enough that the Crown
inshield gang are using the most in
famous means to injure the Admiral
and if Admiral Dewey had not put ft
stop to their machinations the inquiry
would degenerate into a "prosecution."
Cablegrams to the Philippines are
expensive, so Col. Heistand, who seem
to have been more economical in his
private expenditures than those ho
made for the government, charged up
the hemp scandal messages to Uncle
Sam. Cne message cost 149.61 and an
other $5S.12, so it war not such a small
steal, either.
That sturdy old seadog, Amiral Jack
Watson, in defiance of the silence or
der, could not refrain from standing
up for the bravery of Admiral Schley.
Where there are so many lickspittles
nowadays it is pleasant to record Ad
miral Watson's opinion of the enemies
,f Admiral Schley.
Neely and Rathbone have not yet
been released, but the department of
justice and the war department havs
the arrangements all made so that they
can be when the times are propitious.
The blame will be laid on the Cuban
law and judges.,
There never was a moment from thr
departure of the flying squadron from
Key West until the Colon struck her
colors to the Brooklyn and the Oregon
that Commodore Schley was not the in
spiring and directing .figure In the fore
front of the American fleet.
"Reciprocity is a fine word' says
Andre r Carnegie on his return from
Europi, "but when you come to ar
range details it is a difficult policy."
Tariff for revenue only is simpler,
constitutional and more effectirs.
They have a preacher out at Log An
geles nrho declares that the only effec
tive way to fight anarchists is with the
Bible and shotgun, and yet a layman
would think that the two would hardlj
go wll together.
PPiYfiMTQ Oh1 TTtiT
XllUJ! 1-LO UJ? ltUSJ.O.
SHOULD BE SHOWN UP FOR PUBLIC
BENEFIT.
"All-Tl at-thc-Trn:c-Wilt-Hear" Itletlio Js
Would Not Ite Tolerated Were ttie
Combines Compelled to Make yurtoif-
ljr Statements Like Ilunkit.
The trusts have more ways than one
of llee'dng the public. Of course they
charge for their wares "all the traffic
will bear," which thanks to the pro
tection they receive through the tariff
and from the monopoly that most of
them enjoy of supplying tho American
market without competition should en
able them to pay large dividends. But
this largo profit does not satisfy some
of tho managers or insiders who, by
knowing the actual condition of the
prftportlcH and tho amount of business
being done are able to manipulate the
market for the trust stock and thus
blind the publi" who are silly enough
to deal in such stocks with no knowl
edge of their actual value except what
tho tru.Ht managers deal out to them
Speaking of a law which would compel
the trust to publish their condition as
banks and railroads do the Philadel
phia North American says: "Of course
tho biislnesi followed by conscience
Joss Insiders In certain of these indus
trial properties would suffer from the
adoption of a policy of publicity, be
cause It would safeguard to some ex
tent tho general rule of small ir.vest-
ore whom they find It immensely prof
itable to lleece. But among financiers
and investors as a whole any chance
tending to reduce mere gambling would
not be unwelcome." Then after show
ing that publicity has been put for
ward as one of the means for control-
lug the trusts and that the Stool Trust
haa voluntarily made a partial state
ment of its financial condition, the
American goes on to say: 'Tho Steel
Trust, however, has thrown out a val
uable hint, perhaps inadvertently,
which would contribute in sonii meas
ure to a partial solution of the prob
lem of monopoly. The compulsory
publication by all corporations -.'ngaged
in interstate commerce of regular
financial statements would at least af
ford a starting point for intelligent
discussion. The semi-annual statement
of its earnings by the Steel Trust ha?
certainly served a distinct purpose. It
shows that under present conditions
this immense monopoly has earned a
10 per cent income on a capitalization
that Is mere than one-fourth waU r.
"While doing this it has charged
from $26 to 2S per ton for steel rails
to name one article which Mr. Car
negie has testified can be turned out
for $15, and has sold its products
cheaper abroad than at the point of
manufacture In this country. What
the other trusts are earning there Is
no means of ascertaining under their
present secretive system of operation,
but the average customer and the
average customer in fact is none other
than the whole people o? the United
States feels legitimate curiosity to
know how much he is being over
charged since healthful and natural
competition has been suppressed. It
may save some of the trusts much un
deserved criticism if they v."ill volun
tarily follow tho Steel Trust's lead in
letting the public know more of their
affairs. Their habit of concealment Is
a virtual confession that to expose
their earnings would encourage "legis
lation which they do not consider de
sirable for their own ends."
A CONSPIRACY BREWING.
The Protectionists and the trusts
have a new scheme to prevent a reduc
tion of the tariff by wiping out the
surplus and a3 this proposition evi
dently has the approval of the money
combine it may be forced through the
coming congress. Representative
Fowler, the Washington Star informs
us, will be the chairman of the bank
ing and currency committee of the
next House of Representatives and he
will make an effort to use the surplus
to retire a large block of the green-
backs. The retirement of the green-
backs has always been favored by the
national banks, they want complete
command of the money market for
their own notes, and they have always
had a distinct dislike of the people's
money because they could not extract
any profit or advantage from it. The
Star further informs us that "Mr.
Fowler, who will be assisted by other
men of the same opinion as himself,
would adopt one of two plans. He
would either cancel 930,000,000 or
$100,000,000 outright, without replac
ing the notes with any other class of
money, or he would take from
the available cash, about $100,
000,000 in gold, which he be
lieves could be spared, place that
amount la the reserve fund of the
treasury, and then as a like amount of
United States notes came in, cancel
them and issue gold certificates
against the additional gold laced in
the reserve fund. The reserve fund is
now $150,000,000 and the addition of
$100,000,000 to the fund would put the
figure at $250,000,000. Mr. Fowler and
other advocates of the retirement of
greenbacks would follow this policy
until the treasury contained nothing
but gold or its representative in the
treasury, removing the danger of the
burden of demand obligations that
confronts the country in case of pan
ics." "Beyond retirement of greenbacks
or reduction of taxation there are only
two methods of disposing of the sur
plus. These are the purchase of bonds
or the increase of the deposits with
national banks.
"The deposits already aggregate
$108,536,502 and this la considered in
many circles as sufficient for the
banks to hold. It ia the largest sum
of government money ever held by
the banks, except from late in 1S98,
to early in 1900, when the payments to
tne government from the sale of 3 per
cent bonds were placed with hanks
to prevent a curtailment of money In
the business world. Not for many
years before that or since have the
holdings of government money by
hanks been nearly eo la-ge as now. Ap
plications for deposits are being made
right along by banks, but they are be
ing Informed that the treasury has no
Intention of increasing the deposits at
this time.
"Representative Fowler and other
advocates of the retirement- of the
! greenbacks would like to see the treas-
r ,, om,.it to a still larger
extent tban it is now doing, as they
would like opportunity to present their
ideas to congress. The amount or
United States notes outstanding Oc
tober 1, was $346,681,016, and it is
from this sum that Mr. Fowler would
begin the process of greenback retire
ment." Thl3 radical Republican program Is
rather amusing in one thing and that
is their great fear that the United
States treasury will not be able to
meet its demands in case of a panic.
The great fear of the people who havo
deposits in the national banks is that
they will be the ones who will not be
able to meet their liabilities. If the
treasury was to call for the $108,506,
502 which has been loaned to the
banks without interest, there would be
a panic In Wall street, which would
at once extend over the whole country.
It Is only a few days ago that these
same banks were calling on the treas
ury to relieve them by purchasing
bonds at the enormous premiums of
40 per cent. If this is necessary in
tho prosperous times they claim ex
ist, what will become necessary to do
when hard times come again.
"HOLDING EI THE FARMERS
The Kansas State Grain Dealers as
sociation, which forms part of the
national association, is not doing the
justice for which the national asso
ciation pleads, says the Kansas
Farmer.
They are today a stench in the
nostril3 of every lover of liberty in
the state of Kansas. They have dis
regarded law, justice and equity.
They have placed themselves in a
position to receive the righteous con
demnation of all classes of people.
They arrogantly defy the law of the
state. They refuse to testify when
on tne witness siana. iney arro
gantly boast of their influence with
omclals and courts. They are ego
tistic enough to imagine they can ride
rough shod over tne rights of produc
ers and obtain tho decision of courts.
right or wrong. They boast of their
money and point boldly to the influ
ence of property, f armers are will
ing to pay a legitimate margin for the
handling of their grain, but they are
not willing to be robbed. This is not
a political question, it is a business
problem which will be taken up and
righted by the producers in this state.
regardless of party lines.
The Grain Dealc-rs' association has
gone too far. It has undertaken to
say that a farmer. Irregular dealer, or
scoop-shovel man shall not do busiues-j
in Kansas. It has gone still farther
and thrown barriers In the way and
tried, if the farmer had the audi -iiy
to ship his own grain, to destroy the
value of his property in the terminal
markets. In this they made a fatal
mistake. The people of Kansas will
not tolerate them. They may survive
for a short time, but justice will be
meted out to this organization la the
end.
Similar complaints have come to us
from taie to time from farmer3 who
desire to ship their grain to terminal
pointi. In the grain dealing business,
as in every other. It seems to man's a
fofference whose ox is gored. Human
nature seems to be human nature
still, notwithstanding all the labors of
all the preachers, and in any line Cf
business will bear watching.
ARROGANCE OF TRt'STS.
It tow appaars that the steel trust
is intent on a "community of interest"
plan with the English steel manufac
turers to so divide the world's business
that there shall be no further competi
tion. On this the Boston Post says:
"One of the biggest of the steel mag
nates" is quoted as predicting that the
next three years will see the steel and
iron trade amicably divided between
America and Engl:nd. "American and
British manufacturers." he says, "will
agree on a uniform scale of prices, be
lieving there is money enough in the
business for both." The arrogance of
the assumption on which thi3 pro-
phecy is based rasses the conception ot
the ordinary man. Is it all to be set
tied by an international combination
of a few producers, while tne great
army of consumers says nothing and
humbly pays whatever rates give
"enough money" to the trust? The
price of iron and steel in the United
States is maintained by a protective
taiiff of about 45 per cent. The Am
erican producers, the Steel Trust of
Mr. Morgan and his associates are able
to sell abroad at a less price than
they sell to their fellow-citizens here
at home, by reason of this tariff dis
crimination. They tax our Industries
in order to compete abroad. WTien
they come to make a "uniform scale of
prices", do they propose to include the
United States in the uniformity.
In fact, would it rot be just as well
for tne American pecple tD take a hand
in this adjustment, remove the feloni-
OUS "proiecuon wmcu iue uiu&ivy
. . . A - I 1
tariff gives to the "infant industry"
that has swollen Into a billion dollar
trust, and see if there is not "money
enough" in it for American Industry as
well as for the monopolists?
Those Republicans who favor the
ship-subsidy bill should examine the
report of the commissioner of naviga
tion, which say.3 393 vessels were built
in the United States during the three
months ending September SO. The ex
cuse for the steal that we must build
up, with a bounty, the merchant mar
ine is thus officially shown to be non
sense.
The new treaty that the British have
prepared in place of the Clayton-Bul-
wer one is said to concede all the Unit
ed States has claimed about an Amer
ican controlled canal, but how about
the Alaska boundary that should be
settled at the same time and niak a
clean-up of all the existing disputes?
A recent statement of the naval
board shows that another melon Is to
bo cut in the Philippines. It calls for
the expenditure of $20,000,000 for cou-
r.tmctlou of a new naval station at
Olongapo.
Purchasing bonds when a surplus
has been unexpectedly piled up In the
treasury is justifiable but to pursue
a policy of high taxation on purposa
to thus favor tho bondholders and the
Wall street gamblers l highway rob
bery of tho taxpayer
FLAV0RID MEDICINES.
repperflJfnt Apparently Favored
aoniog; of Doctors Now.
"I haven't seen It stated anywhere
.hat doctors hold a convention every
;Ix months to decide what flavor they
ihall add to medicines to make them
alatable, but judging from prcscrip
ions I am led to be'.iove that they do.
tomething of the kind." said the drug
:lerk. "At any rate, there are styles
n flavoring, Just as there are styles in
deeves and pompadours. At present
jeppermint is the real thing. Two
.hlrds of the prescriptions I put up
iowadays are made pleasing to the
.aste by the addition of a harmless
lash of peppermint Notwithstanding
.he popularity of peppermint it is
jound to lose its vogue in the course of
i few months and be superseded by an
other essence. No flavor holds its own
steadily for any great length of time,
rake cinnamon, for instance. There
was 4 time when that was ah the rage
and about a year ago half the medicine,
.ompounded smelled to heaven with
.Innamon. Now you seldom hear of it in
.onnection with a druggist s labora.
:ory. I-avender Is a nice flavor. I
shouldn't be surprised If that was the
.'ashion next introduced. It Is more
ielicate than most of the perfumes
j.scd and 13 fully as efficacious in neu
tralizing the nastiness of th? other
Irugs. One of the queerest fada I can
recall In the seasoning of medicine was
the sweet pea flavor. A good -.yiany pa
tients put up a protest z..-r that.
Sweet peas are all right in th-.i- place,
and few are the people who do not
like their odor, but there is a vast dif
ference between the senses ol smell
and taste and what Is pleasant to tho
olfactories may be nauseous to the pal
ate. This came to be the case with
?wect peas, and finally the doctors
switched off from them ami began to
recommend cloves. Then came a pe
riod of six months when our prcscrip
:ion department smelled like a clove
"actory. These pleasing flavors neither
Udd to nor detract from the efficacy of
1 medicine, but. many concoctions are
30 horribly bitter that some such con
cession to the stomach is necessary.
I suppose a3 a rul it doesn't matter to
ihe patient what flavor he v.c and the
oha.se of the whole business that puz
c!e3 mo Is how do tho doctors come to
prescribe tho fame thing with such
narked uniformity?" New York Sun.
J. J. HILL KHOV.S WHEAT.
Rjllroad Magnate DUtiiiguWIie:! as m
troji iuet-r.
"Ycu see that wheat field over
there?" remarked J. J. Hill to a party
of friends while speeding through the
wheat belt of North Dakota the other
day. "How much do you suppose it
will yield?" it was a fine-looking
field as it appeared from the train
which was nearing a small station,
and estimates were made all the way
from 15 to 25 bushels per acre. "No,
you're wrong," replied the Great
Northern president. "That field is
hardly worth cutting. You make the
mistake of judging by appearances.
That's the way half the crop esti
mates are made. It is the heads, not
the straw, that fills the grain bins.
Now I will show you," and he ordered
his special stopped for the party to
aiight. They went well into tl e field,
and all except Mr. Hill were surprised
to find but few Kernels to a head, and
many of these shriveled up. The
stalks, while of good length, were al
most white, a certain indication, as the
railroad manager knew, of lost vitality
and strength. Growth had been ob
tained at the expense of the heads and
grain. Further along Mr. Hill point
ed out a number of fields giving his
estimates of their yield at seven, ten
and twelve bushels per acre, never
placing his figures higher. With him
wa3 one of his subordinates whose
duty is to estimate the grain tonnage
and be able to say just how the crop
is progressing, and it was suspected by
members of the party that Mr. Hill
took this opportunity to teach him an
object lesson without appearing to in
struct him personally. Pennsylvania
Grit.
Paul Revere' Silverware.
The silverware of Paul Revere Ls ot
excellent workmanship and chaste in
form, evidently modeled after English
18th century designs, and pieces of
plate manufactured by him, and now
30 eagerly sought for by collectors.
are good examples or me siyie ai
present so greatly in favor, which we
have agreed to call eoloniaL This
simple classical forms adopted by our
struggling artisans at a period when
art in this country was still In its "bib
and tucker" strangely enough have
never been improved upon by their
successors; and by reverting to them
n these latter days our silversmiths.
as well as our cabinetmakers, are dis
playing good sense as well as tasle; but
n this mechanical age they stamp or
saw out their patterns In unlimited
quantities by machinery, and do not.
as of yore, hammer or carve them la
boriously, piece by piece, by hand, and
therein lies a distinction and a differ
ence. Scribner's.
Guinea la Coughing;.
New Guinea is just now suffering
from a visitation of whooping cough.
This is the first time that the malady
has occurred there, and as usual in
such cases it is spreading like wild
fire. It is well known that infectious
diseases occurring among a hitherto
unattacked people rage with the great
est virulence, and whooping cough in
New Guinea is no exception; the na
tives are dying by hundreds. Being
at a loss to account for the deadly
scourge the natives attribute it to tho
witchcraft of their neighbors, with the
result that there have boon many in
tertribal and intervillage fights and
massacres.
Great Bice of CacaUa.
The British possessions in North
America and the West Indies are larger
than the territory of the United States
of America, including Porto Rico and
Alaska. On the North American con
tinent alone. King Edward's posses
sions are nearly 100.000 square miles
larger than those of the United States,
and taking In the West Indies and
Newfoundland, moro than. "200,000
fquare miles larger.
