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CHAPTER XIII Continued
The Bishops words had quickened
3he pulse of the people and cheer fol
lowed cheer again It is written
continued the Bishop that whosoever
exalteth himself shall he abased and
he that humbleth himself shall be ex
alted Our young President has this
flay sat down in the lowest room and
if he must needs leave us having his
own reasons that are none of ours may
the Lord cause His face to shine upon
him and comfort him in al his adver
sities
Then there was but one voice in
that assembly the voice of a loud
-Amen And Michael S unlocks had
risen again with a white face and dim
eyes to return his thanks and say his
last word before the vote for his re
lease should be taken when there
nvas a sudden commotion a sound of
Jurying feet a rush a startled cry
-and at the next moment a company of
soldiers had entered the house from
the cell below and stood with drawn
swords on the floor
Before anyone had recoverd from his
surprise one of the soldiers had
Gentlemen he said the door
as locked you are prisoners of the
-King of Denmark
Betrayed shouted fifty voices at
once and then there was wild confu
sion
So this mysterious mummery is
over at last said the leader of the
Levelers rising up with rigid limbs
and a scared and whitened face Now
we know why we have all been brought
ihere to Dight Betrayed indeed and
-there stands the betrayer
So saying he pointed scornfully at
Michael Sunlocks who stood where 5j
-had risen with the look of deep emo
tion hardy yet banished from his face
by the look of bewilderment that fol
lowed it
False Michael Sunlocks cried -It
is false as hell
But in that quick instant the people
looked at him with changed eyes and
ireceived his words with z groan of
xage that silenced him
That night Jorgen Jorgensen sailed
aip the fiord and landing at Reykja
vik took possession of it and the sec
ond Republic of Iceland was at an end
That night too when the
headed -by Thurstan trudged
through the streets on their way to
-Government House looking to receive
the reward that had been promised
them they were elbowed by a drunken
company of the Danes who frequented
the drinking shops en the Cheapstead
Why here are his brothers shout
ed one of the roysterers pointing at
the Fairbrothers
His brothers His brothers shout
ed twenty more
Thurstan tried to protest and Jacob
io fraternize but all was useless The
brethren were attacked for the relation
they had claimed with the traitor who
liad fallen and thus the six worthy
and unselfish souls who had come to
Iceland for gain and lost everything
-and waited for revenge and only won
suspicion were driven off in peril of
their necks with a drunken mob at
full cry behind them
They took refuge in a coasting
schooner setting sail for the eastern
fiords Six days afterwards the schoon
er was caught in the ice at the mouth
of Seydis fiord imprisoned there four
months out of reach of help from land
or sea and every soul aboard died
miserably
Short as had been the shrift of Red
Jason the shrift of -Michael Sunlocks
-was yet shorter On the order of Jor
gen Jorgensen the late usurper of the
Government of Iceland was sent for
the term of his natural life to the Sul
phur Mines that he had himself es
tablished as a penal settlement
And such was the fall of Michael
Sunlocks
THE BOOK OF RED JASON
CHAPTER I
WHAT BEFELL OLD ADAM
Now it would be a long task to fol
low closely all that befell dear old
Adam Fairbrother from the time
-when the ship wherein he sailed for
Iceland weighed anchor in Ramsey
Ibay Yet not to know what strange
risks he ran and how in the end he
overcame all dangers by Gods grace
and his own extreme labor is not to
know this stcry of how two good men
with a good woman between them pur
sued each other over the earth with
vows of vengeance and came together
at length in heavens good time and
way So not to weary the spirit with
much speaking yet to leave nothing
unsaid that shall carry us onward to
that great hour when Red Jason and
Michael Sunlocks stood face to face
let us begin where Adams peril be
gan and hasten forward to where it
ended
Fourteen days out of Ramsey in
latitude of 64 degrees distant about
five leagues north of the Faroes and
in the course of west northwest hoping
to make the western shores of Iceland
Adam with his shipmates was over
taken by foul weather with high seas
and strong wind opposing them stout
ly from the northwest Thus they
were driven well into the latitude of
sixty six off the eastern coast of Ice
land and there though the seas still
ran as high as to the poop they were
much beset by extraordinary pieces of
Ice which appeared to come down from
Greenland Then the wind abated and
an unsearchable and noisome fog fol
lowed so dense that not an acre of
sea could be seen from the top mast
Lead and so foul that the compasses
would not work in it After that
though they wrought night and day
with poles and spikes they were beat
en among the ice as scarce as any ship
ever was before and so terrible were
the blows they suffered that many a
time they thought the planks must be
wrenched from the vessels sides Nev
ertheless they let fall sail thinking to
force their way through the ice before
they were stowed to pieces and though
the wind was low yet the ship felt
the canvas and cleared the shoals that
encompassed her The wind hen fell
to a calm but still the fog hung heavily
w
oevr the sea which was black and
smelt horribly And when they thought
to try their soundings knowing that
somewhere thereabouts the land must
surely be they heard a noise that
seemed at first like the tract of the
shore It was worse than that for it
was the rut of a great bank of ice two
hundred miles deep breaking away
from the far shores of Greenland and
coming with its steady sweep sucn as
no human power could resist towards
the coasts of Iceland Between that
vast ice floe and the land they lay
with its hollow and terrible voice in
their ears and with no power to fly
from it for their sail hung loose and
idle in the dead stillness of the air
Oh it is an awful thing to know that
death is swooping down on you hour
by hour to hear it coming with its
hideous thunder like the groans of
damned souls and yet to see nothing
of your danger for the day darkness
that blinds you But the shipmaster
was a stout hearted fellow and while
the fog continued and he was without
the help of wind or compass he let
go a raven that he had aboard to see
if it could discover land The raven
flew to the northeast and did not re
turn to the ship and by that token
the master knew that the land of Ice
land lay somewhere near on their star
board bow So he was for lowering the
long boat to stand in with the coast
and learn what part of Iceland it was
when suddenly the wind larged again
and before long it blew with violence
At this their peril was much in
creased for the night before had been
bitterly cold and the sails had been
frozen where they hung outspread and
some of the cables were as stiff as
icicles and half as thick as a mans
body Thus under wind that in a short
space rose to a great storm with can
vas that could not be reefed an ocean
of ice coming down behind and seas
beneath of an untouchable depth they
were driven on and on towards an un
known shore
From the like danger may God save
all Christian men even as he saved old
Adam and his fellowship for they had
begun to prepare themselves to make
a good end of their hopeless lives when
in the lift of the fog the master saw
an opening in the coast and got into
it and his ship rode safely on a quick
tide down the fiord called Seydis fiord
There the same night they dropped
anchor in a good sound and went in
stantly to prayer to praise God for His
delivery of them and Adam called the
haven where they moored The Har
bor of Good Providence So with
cheerful spirits thinking themselves
indifferently safe they sought their
births and so ended the first part of
their peril in Gods mercy and salva
tion
But the storm that had driven them
into their place of refuge drove their
dread enemy after them and in the
night while they lay in the first sleep
of four days the ice encompassed them
and crushed them against the rocks
The blow struck Adam out of a tran
quil rest and he thought nothing bet
ter than that he was awakening for
another world All hands were called
to the pumps for the master still
thought the ship was staunch and
might be pushed along the coast by the
shoulders with crows of iron and thus
ride out to sea But though they
worked until the pumps sucked it was
clear that the poor vessel was stuck
fast in the ice and that she must soon
get her death wound So at break of
day the master and crew with Adam
Fairbrother took what they could car
ry of provisions and clothes and clam
bered ashore leaving the ship to her
fate
It was a bleak and desolate coast
they had landed upon with never a
house in sight never a cave that they
might shelter in or a stone that would
cover them against the wind with
nothing around save the bare face of a
broad fell black and lifeless strewn
over with small light stones sucked
full of holes like the honeycomb but
without trees or bush or grass or
green moss And there they suffered
more privations than it is needful to
tell waiting for the ice to break look
ing on at its many colors of blue and
purple and emerald green and yellow
and its many strange and wonderful
shapes resembling churches and cas
tles and spires and turrets and cities
-all ablaze in the noonday sun
They built themselves a rude hut of
the stones like pumice u id expecting
the dissolution of the ice they kept
watch on their ship which itself look
ed like an iceburg frozen into a ships
shape And meantime some of their
company suffered very sorely Though
the year was not yet far advanced to
wards winter some of the men
swooned of the cold that came up from
the ice of the fiord the teeth of oth
ers became loose and the flesh of their
gums fell away and on the soles of
the feet of a few the frost of the nights
raised blisters as big as walnuts
Partly from these privations and
partly from loss of heart when at last
one evil day he saw his good ship
crushed to splinters against the rocks
the master fell sick and was brought
so low that in less than a week he lay
expecting his good hour And feeling
his extremity he appointed Adam to
succeed him as director of the com
pany to guide them to safety over the
land since Providence forbade that
they should sail on the seas Then all
being done so far as his help could
avail he stretched himself out for his
end only praying in his last hours that
he might be allowed to drink as much
ale as he liked from the ships stores
that had been saved This Adam or
dered that he should and as long as he
lived the ale was brought to him in
the hut where he lay and he drank it
until between draught and draught it
froze in the jug at his side After
that he died an honest a worthy and
strong hearted man
And Adam being now by choice of
the late master and consent of his
crew the leader of the company began
to make a review of all men and clothes
and victuals and found that there were
eleven of them in all with little more
than they stood up In and provisions
to last them with sparing three weeks
at utmost And seeing that they were
cut off from all hope of a passage by
sea he set himself to count the chances
of a journey by land and by help of
the ships charts and much beating of
the wing3 of memory to recover what
he had learned of Iceland in the days
when his dear lad Sunlocks had lef
him for these shores he reckoned that
by following the sea line under the
feet of the great Vatna Jokull they
might hope if they could hold out so
long to reach Reykjavik at last Long
and weary the journey must be with
no town and scarce a village to break
it and no prospect of shelter br the
way save what a few farms might give
them So Adam ordered the carpenter
to recover what he could of the ships
sails to make a tent and of its broken
timbers to make a cart to carry vic
tuals and when this was done they
set off along the fell side on the first
stage of their journey
The same day towards nightfall
they came upon a little group of grass
covered houses at the top of the fiord
and saw the people of Iceland for the
first time They were a little colony
cut off by impassable mountains from
their fellows within the island and
having no ships in which they dare
venture to their kind on the seas with
out tall and strong limbed in their
persons commonly of yellow hair but
sometimes of red of which neither sex
was ashamed living on bread that waB
scarce eatable being made of fish that
had been dried and powdered lazy
and unclean squalid and mean-spirited
and with the appearance of being
depressed and kept under It was a
cheerless life they lived at the feet of
the great ice bound jokull and the mar
gin of the frozen sea so that looking
around on the desolate place and the
dumb wilderness of things before and
behind Adam asked himself why and
how any living souls had ever ventured
there
To be continued
Biggest Emerald in the World
The Duke of Devonshire owns thb
biggest emerald in the world It is
known as the Devonshire emerald and
was purchased by the present dukes
father from Dom Pedro As of late
years this stone has become the rarest
of gems the Devonshire emerald
measuring two inches in diameter and
of the finest color is of fabulous value
Skyscraper Makes Clerks Seasick
Down at the Battery in New York
city there is a skyscraper office build
ing on the top floor of which are the
headquarters of a big trust During
a violent windstorm last week the
building swayed so that half a dozen
clerks became seasick One of them
said he would sooner keep books on an
ocean lingr
Missouri Giantess Now House
Miss Ella Ewing the Missouri giant
ess who is eight feet four inches in
height recently completed a house for
herself at the town of Govin in that
state Her new house has doors ten
feet high ceilings fifteen feet high
with chairs tables beds and every
thing in proportion
Capable Sign Artists
The makers of the big and gaudy ad
vertisements which so offend on ever
side are not as might be supposed
mere inartistic daubers They are fre
quently real artists who have had
years of training even abroad but who
find that more legitimate forms of art
afford them only a precarious liveli
hood
Californias Bis Registration Boko
California visitors to the Buffalo
exposition next summer will register
In the largest book ever bound It has
just been completed in Los Angeles
The book Is twenty nine inches long
twenty eight inches wide and eighteen
inches thick is of 4000 pages and
weighs pounds
Jerusalems Stamp
Jerusalem has its own Hebrew can
cancellation stamp says the Jewish
World Hitherto all manner of stamps
have been current in payment of out
ward bound mails Now however the
Turkish stamp is the order of the day
and Jerusalem in Hebrew neat
square characters forms part of the
postmark which cancels the stamp
Big Order for Wire
The order recently filled in Con
necticut for a million pounds of trol
ley wire for an electrical road in In
dia is the largest export order for this
material ever received in the state
The reels upon which the wire was
wound required nearly 100000 feet of
lumber for their construction
Iiong Delayed Chocolate Arrlvo
It is reported that three boxes of
chocolate sent by Queen Victoria the
Christmas before last for the Rhode
sian forces have now arrived at Mafe
king There had been much grum
bling at the non arrival of her late
majestys gift
Automobiles Ftlghten KatiTes
The arrival of two automobiles made
a great sensation recently at Lag
hoaut in the south of Algeria and on
the edge of the Great Sahara The na
tives whom they passed on the route
appeared both surprised and fright
ened and ran away shouting They
are the devils machines
Kalsors Imperial Train
The German Emperors Imperial
train cost 750000 and took three years
to construct There are altogether
twelve cars including two nursery
carriages The reception saloon con
tains several pieces of statuary and
each of the sleeping cars is fitted with
a bath
A perfect woman nobly planned to
warn to comfort and command
TRUTH ABOUT ALASKA
Secretary Seward Said Its Acquisition
Was Most Important
To the vast majority of people Alas
ka is a frigid barren valueless section
of country It has never seemed to be
closely enough connected with tht
United States to arouse any patriotism
or interest in the hearts and minds
of the masses Doubtless there are
thousands who cherish the same sen
timents towards the cold corner that
were entertained by the opponents of
the Alaska purchase thirty years ago
Congressman Ferris then said that it
Was a wretched God forsaken region
with absolutely nothing of value and
he moved that the bill authorizing the
president to pay 7500000 for it be
amended to read to pay the sum to
any European Asiatic or African pow
er that would take Alaska off our
hands Congressman Price declared
that the payment would be a dead loss
to the country Gen Butler proposed
that if we must buy the friendship of
Russia we give her 7500000 and let
her keep Alaska and he denounced
those who favored the acquisition as
being insane enough to buy the earth
quakes of St Thomas and the icefields
of Greenland Such sentiments in
view of the value of Alaska as at pres
ent understood by every well informed
person appear almost like the babbling
of idiocy We paid 2 cents an acre
for the territory the area being 369
529600 acres The Alaska Fur com
pany have taken 33000000 worth of
seal skins and have paid or owe the
government 7340533 in royalties It
is officially estimated that the Alaska
fisheries not including seals and
whales are worth 67890000 and since
the purchase the territory has produc
ed 25000000 of gold Secretary Sew
ard said that the acquisition of Alaska
was the most important event in his
long career but that it would take a
generation for the people to realize it
NOW FOR MEDICATED EGGS
Unbounded FosslbUltles That Are Open
ing Up to Pharmacy
There is scarcely any branch in
which medicine has not advanced with
in the last twenty years but in no
dne branch has more improvement
been shown than in the compounding
and putting together of drugs No
more is the unwilling patient made to
swallow large doses of nauseating med
icine for sugar coated pills capsules
and wafers have come into use and pa
tients can now take the most vile
tasting medicines without any dis
comfort Now comes along a French
man with a still more ingenious plan
which opens up to pharmacy unbound
ed possibilities of going still further
ahead On account of the difficulty of
assimilating iron as a medicine a
French druggist has sought to intro
duce it in a digestible way by what he
terms ferruginous eggs Hens can di
gest iron easily while rendering it
back through the albumen of their
eggs in a form which is easily digested
by the weaker stomachs of mankind
A salt of iron is given to the hens
with grains of wheat A dozen of these
medicated grains of wheat a day makes
the hens after three or four days lay
eggs which are very rich in iron al
ready digested The Frenchman is ex
perimenting further with other flrugs
and it is not without the bounds of
possibility that we shall shortly be
able to take all our medicine in the
form of eggs
Senator Elkins Talked Spanlsb
Senator Elkins talks Spanish like a
native He learned the language when
he was a young man in New Mexico
and he has never forgotten it Yes
terday he was talking Spanish in the
marble room of the senate at the rate
of 200 words a minute says the Wash
ington Post A delegation of Porto
Ricans had come to the capitol to pro
test against a law recently passed by
the legislature of that colony which
provides for the raising of revenue by
the assessment of property Their com
plaint is that the assessment was so
high as to be ruinous although it is
only 1 per cent and they wanted con
gress to repeal the law as it has -a
right to do under a section of the For
aker statute They poured out their
grievance to Senator Foraker in brok
en English and with much gesticula
tion Presently one of the delegation
spoke to a fellow member in Spanish
Senator TSlkins happened to pass at
the same moment He greeted the
delegation with a Spanish sentence In
stantly joy was visible upon the faces
of the Porto Ricans One of them
spoke to Mr Elkins in Spanish Mr
Elkins answered- promptly and intelli
gibly A moment later and he was
surrounded by the entire delegation all
of whom were jabbering away in a loud
tone of voice and with the words pour
ing from their lips like molten lava
Senator Elkins jabbered back at them
in their own tongue The conference
lasted several minutes and its unique
character monopolized the attention of
all the visitors in the marble room
The satisfaction of talking in their
native language was all that the dele
gation could secure by their visit The
law of which they complain is not to
be repealed
Had an Irlsb Wife
The death of Baron Satge de Thor
ent at the age of 97 has removed
from the roll of the Lesion of Honor
its oldest member After having
served for many years in the French
army he went to reside in Ireland and
married an Irish wife by whom he
had a large family One of his sons
served in the British army but the
baron himself spent the latter part
of his life upon a pictuesque estate In
the eastern Pyrenees He was a per
fect type of the Frenchman of the
old school
CHHKWKKK
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Commoner Comment
Extracts From W J Bryans Paper
In a recent issue of the Courier
Journal Mr Watterson that quaint
and always interesting journalist ad
vises his party to raise the white flag
and surrender to the republican party
on the question of Imperialism He
does not announce that he is convinced
of the righteousness of the republican
position but he excuses himself by as
suming that it is impossible to combat
the forces which seem to be behind the
republican party He admits that im
perialism is an innovation upon Am
erican principles and antagonistic to
the teachings of the earlier statesmen
Here are his words
Let us say at once that the scheme
of occupying a territory remote from
our borders of subduing a people alien
to our character and institutions and
of undertaking a system of colonial
government over this territory and
these peoples without their consent
and apparently in opposition to their
will is not merely a serious innova
tion upon the original plan embodied
by the constitution of the United Stat
es and contemplated by the authors
of that constitution but that it is re
pugnant to the prudent counsels de
livered by the wisest of our older
statesmen to say nothing about the
teaching of history
After a brief review of the past one
hundred years he accepts the republi
can doctrine of providence and says
God moves in a mysterious way His
wonders to perform He made the
Spanish war He was not less behind
Dewey in Manila than He was behind
Shafter and Sampson and Schley at
Santiago What was His all wise pur
pose We know not But there we
were and there we are and nothing
is surer in the future than that we
shall be there a century hence unless
some power turns up strong enough
to drive us out Instead therefore of
discussing the abstraction of imper
ialism illustrated by the rights and
wrongs of the Philippines Mr Bryan
were more profitably engaged in con
sidering how we may best administer
possessions which for good or lor
evil are with us to stay
It will be noticed that he adopts the
republican theory that God is respon
sible for what we have done that it
is a matter of destiny and that we
are being swept along by influences
over which we have no control
The doctrine enunciated by the re
publicans since the Spanish war and
now indorsed by so great an editor as
Mr Watterson is not only dangerous
but it is immoral It is politically dan
gerous because it encourages the re
publican party to shirk responsibility
for its sins and shield itself behind the
pretense that it is working out the
will of the Almighty and it is immoral
because it obliterates the distinction
between right and wrong The repub
lican argument is built upon the theo
ry that wrong done upon a large scale
loses its evil character and becomes
an integral part of Gods plan It is in
keeping with the tendency to call an
embezzler a Napoleon of finance pro
vided the amount embezzled is large
Mr Watterson has not in the past
been in the habit of defending his po
sition with the philosophy which he
now employs In former years he was
known as the special champion of the
star eyed Goddess of Reform When
the democratic party went down to de
feat as it often did he did not say
God moves in a mysterious way His
wonders to perform He made protec
tion and the republican party and
therefore we must bow to both On
the contrary he raised the democratic
banner aloft and appealed time and
again to the intelligence of the Ameri
can people Neither has he been in the
habit of excusing the crimes of indi
viduals by attributing them to divine
inspiration When Governor Goebel
was assassinated Mr Watterson did
not say God moves in a mysterious
way His wonders to perform He
prompted the assassin to kill We
cannot understand His all wise pur
pose but there we were and here we
are and there is nothing to be done
about it
Instead he insisted that a murder
had teen committed and that the guil
ty should be brought to justice
When the Louisville and Nashville
railroad entered the arena of politics
and Logan its work of corruption and
intimidation Mr Watterson did not
s y
God moves in a mystvous way
His wonders to perform This rail
road company has sprung into exist
ence and must be carrying out the pur
poses of an all wise Ruler
Far from it He insisted that the
railroad should keep out of politics
and attend to the business for which it
was organized
There is no more reason for throw
ing upon the Almighty the responsi
bility for a war of conquest and for an
imperial policy which burdens our na
tion with a large army and suppresses
the aspirations of distant peoples for
self government than there is to blame
Him because one individual chooses to
kill another or because a great cor
poration attempts to control a state
government
Questions must be decided by the ap
plication of fixed and immutable prin
ciples Jefferson said I know of but
one code of morality for men whether
acting singly or collectively and
Franklin expressed the same idea
only in different language when he
said Justice is as strictly due be
tween neighbor nations as between
neighbor citizens The highwayman is
as much a robber where he plunders in
a gang as when single and the nation
that wages an unjust war is only a
great gang
Perhaps the Sultan of Turkey will
agree to pay that 100000 on the day
the administration keeps its promise
to Cuba
Attorney General Knox received his
appointment because he was just the
man to see that the trusts received ex
act justice according to the trust idea
of justice
Those New York insurgents
should not prematurely rejoice over
the Odelllng of Uncle Tom Piatt
Thomas is quite a hand at enjoying
the lastlaugh in matters of this kind
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WATTERSON ON DESTINY
If Jefferson and Franklin were right
how can we delude ourselves with tho
doctrine of destiny which is being de
veloped now
Yielding to a bad principle because
it seems triumphant Is simply an easy
method of avoiding labor and sacrifice
It is a complacent but unsound phil
osophy which teaches compromise
with wrong merely because the enemy
is strongly entrenched
No one has a right to assume that
error will be permanently victorious
If some of our citizens condemn small
crimes but seem inclined to condone
grand larceny and killing on a large
scale Mr Watterson should remem
ber his lecture on morals and point
out to the deluded ones that a nation
can no more than an Indiviaual avoid
the consequences of transgression If
he believed the authors of the consti
tution and the wisest of our states
men wrong he would be justified In
repudiating their counsels but believ
ing them right it Is surprising that ho
should be carried away by the brutal
and barbarous doctrine upon which
empires are built His Influence might
help to restore American ideals he
cannot afford to aid in their overthrow
The position of Mr Watterson would
be untenable even if the issue of Im
perialism had been the only issue pre
sented last fall and the people had de
liberately indorsed the republican pol
icy Suppose the campaign of 1900 had
been fought with no other question be
fore the people even then It would
still be the duty of those who are con
scientiously opposed to imperialism to
continue the discussion with the hope
of convincing a majority of the people
But as a matter of fact there were a
number of issues in the campaign
While imperialism was declared by the
democratic convention to he para
mount every one knows that other
questions entered into the contest and
it is also well known that the
can party constantly denied that it had
any thought of attacking fundamental
principles or of converting a republic
into an empire The indictment1
brought against the republican party
was so severe that a great many re-
fused to believe the party capable of
such intentions as were charged
Then too the republicans sought
cover behind the fact that a war was In
progress They circulated misleading
reports from the Philippine Islands
and declared that the lives of Ameri
can soldiers were imperiled by the fact
that the democrats were criticising the
administration
Vhat the democratic party needs is
not advice to surrender but courage
to resist the attacks which are being
made upon American doctrines and
democratic principles
The campaign of 189G was the first
one in recent years when there was a
radical issue between the parties The
republican party pretended to want in
ternational bimetallism when it really
wanted the gold standard It won its
victory under the cover of interna
tional bimetallism and as soon as tho
election was over threw off the ensile
and came out for the gold standard
Many of the democratic papers which
had supported the ticket and all of the
democratic papers which had deserted
the party in that year counseled the
party to accept a decision won by
fraud as conclusive of the question
And for four years the leading demo
cratic dailies gave no assistance what
ever to the democratic party in its
fight against the money power
In the campaign of 1900 the repub
lican party practiced another fraud
upon the people on the subejet of im
perialism and now Mr Watterson and
a few other democratic editors advise
the acceptance of the republican posi
tion on that question
On the trust question the republican
party also practiced deception and
some -of our democratic papers seem
willing to concede the triumph of the
trust principle
Nothing is to be gained from a party
standpoint and everything is to be lost
from the standpoint of principle by
Mr Wattersons method of dealing
with the questions at Issue He ex
pects the democratic party to indorse
the colonial system and then promise
to send better carpet baggers to Ma
nila than the republicans have sent
Such a course would make our party
a laughing stock
No party is good enough to admin
ister a colonial system honestly and
for the benefit of the subjects A na
tion that is selfish enough to want a
colony is too selfish to do justice by it
and a party demoralized enough to in
dorse a colonial system would be im
Dotent to administer it satisfactorily
The Commoner is pained to see so
able and brilliant an editor as Mr
Watterson unconsciously lend his in
fluence to the republican party Far
better that his voice should command
a charge uDon the republican strong
holds than that it should call a retreat
in the midst of a battle which must de
termine not only the fate of this re
public but the fate of all republics
for years to come
The St Louis Chronicle is charging
that Mayor Wells was elected by fraud
This is adding Insult to injury - To
run seventeen thousand votes behind
the national ticket and then owe his
election to republican votes is bad
enough without having a suspicion
cast upon his title
One of the most humorous remarks
of the decade Is the one to the effect
that Philander Knox sacrifices a pri
vate income of 50000 a year as attor
ney for the Carnegie Interests to ac
cept an 8000 position in the presi
dents cabinet
Caesar had his Brutus Charles his
Cromwell and McKinley has just given
a Rodenberg to the civil service
The discovery of a new island in the
Philippine group would tend to make
Mr John A T Hull favor a special
session of congress lor concession in
suring purposes
If La Discussion the Havana
newspaper which was suppressed
would change its name to Division
and Silence it might secure a new
lease of life Discussion is not popular
in an empire
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