Nebraska Newspapers

    THE OMAHA DALLY 11 EE: MONDAY.
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IMPORTANT ISSUES OF DAY
Ecnsevelt's Letter of Acceptance Explodes
False Theories of Fusion Party.
EXPANSION OF THIS COUNTRY REVIEWED
"(Jovcrnntctit Without Consent of the
Ontirtii'il" In Aitpllcil to Mori- ln
illnnn In T'nln fount)- Tlinu
TnxnU In Hip riillliplnrn.
(Continued from First Tagc.)
bo rulnotiH to our finances. If we. tire to
pruspu- the, eurr'ency of this country must
bo based upon the gold tlollnr worth 100
eer.w. The stability of our currency
. h's hoen greatly Incrensed by the excellent
aannlHl net passed by the Inst congress.
Hut no lw enn socuru our finances against
a he effect of unwlso and disastrous manage
ment In the hands of unfriendly adminis
trators. No pnrty can safely be entrusted
ith the management of our national nf
fairs unless It accepts as axiomatic the
ruths recognized In nil progresiive coun
tries ns essential to a sound nd ptoper
system of finance. In their essence thess
must bo the same for nil great civilized peo
ples. In different stages of development, dlf
fetcnt countries face varying economic con
ditions, but nt every stago and under all
circumstances the most Important clement
In securing their economic well-being i
sound nuance, honest money.
So Intimate Is the connection between In
dustrlal prosperity and a sound currency
that tho former la jeopardized, not merely
liy unsound finance, but by the very threat
of unnound finance. Tho business man and
rhe farmer aro vitally Interested In this
question, but no man's Interest Is so great
ns that of the wnge-worker. A depreciated
currency means loss nnd disaster to the
business man, but It means grim Buffering
ro the wage worker Tho capitalist will
lose much of his capital nnd will suffer
wearing anxiety and the loss of many rom-
forts, but tho wage-worker who loses his
wages must suffer nnd sco his wife nnd
children suffer for tho actual necessities
of life. Tho one absolutely vital need of
our whole Industrial system Is sound
money.
Iliirntlon of Trunin.
One. of the most serious problems with
which we are confronted under tho condl
Hons of our modern Industrial clvlllza
Hon Is that presented by the great busl
ness combinations, which aro generally
Known under the name of trusts.
Tho problem Is an exceedingly difficult
ane and the difficulty Is Immensely aggra
vated both by honest but wrong-headed
You will never find our Doc
tor out. He is here to give
advice without charge to those
who need him to those who
don't, sometimes. He doesn't
always recommend the Aver
medicines, because the Aycr
medicines are not "cure-all's."
Perhaps if we tear a leaf
from his correspondence it will
show you what we mean. Here
is a letter which came last
March.
"Hear Dr. Ayf.r:
I want your advice for my little boy.
He is getting very thin. I!e has no appe
tite. He is fifteen years old. When lie
was four years old lie hail lung fever, but
liis health was good until two years ago.
Since then he is failing fast. The doctois
here say he has the bronchitis. "He spits
all the time awful bad. The spits are big,
thick, and white. Yours truly,
Mrs. Makcarf.i Mt'Rrnv,
March 30, 1900. Kinbrae, Minn."
And this is the way the Doc
tor answered Mrs. Murphy:
"Dear Madam:
" We enclose our book on The Throat
and Lungs, in which we trust you will find
just the information you deire.
You should begin at once the use of
this Cherry IYctoul for your son, giving
it in moderate doses. Then procure omc
good preparation of cod liver oil, as
Scott's Emulsion, anil give him that, as
well. Tay particular attention to his diet,
giving him such nourishing foods as raro
teak, lamb chops, good milk, eggs, etc.
Above all, keep him out of doors all that
tho weather permits. There is nothing
that will do him more good than plenty of
fresh air. Let him live out of doors all
hat is possible. By carrying out these
general suggestions we shall hope to hear
soon that your son is impioving in every
way. Very truly jours,
April 5, 1000. J C. Avfr "
You see, it wasn't only the
Aycr medicines that we recom
mended. The first idea of the
Doctor was to cure that boy.
The result is told in this letter:
" Dear Dr. Ayf.r ;
" My little boy has improved so mnch
since I received your advice that I want to
write and tell you how tluukful 1 am.
"When I first wrote )ou, on March
50, he only weighed 50 pounds, but now
Vie weighs 82 pounds; and all this gain
since the 8th of April, when J first began
to follow jour directions
" Please let me thank you again for what
you have done for my boy.
July 17, lOOO. MARIisF.IT MfRPHY."
Perhaps it was the cod
liver oil; perhaps it was the
Cherry Pectoral. Probably it
was both. Hut, more than
either, it was the good, sound
advice the Doctor gave in the
first place. We are here to
serve you in just the same way,
and we will tell you the medi
cine for your case or tell you
what medicines to avoid.
Five out of ten of our cor
respondents need a doctor
rather than a prepared medi
cine, and we tell them so. If
the doctors only .knew it, wc
are working with them every
day.
J. C. Avr.R Company,
Practical Chrmiiti, I.ouelf, Mats.
Ajer'i Strnpirill
Ayw' PilU
Ajer'i Ague Curt
A)fr'i Hir Vijor
A)' Chrrty Prcto-il
1 Ajer'i Comitone
a"a. ks on our whole inlusnal Mi'cra in
the effort to remove some if tho evtla
connected with it and by the mischievous
advice of men who either th:nk crookedly or
vrno anrnnro remedies Knowing tnem to be
Ineffpf-tlVe. but (lnemlnr that thnv tnnv hv
Inrkonlng counsel, achieve for themtelves
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a spurious reputation for wisdom. No good
wnaiever It subserved by Indiscriminate de-
nuuriatton of corporations gnerally and of
all forms of Industrial combination in pat-
ucuiar and when this public denunciation
Is accompanied by private membership In
too great corporations denounced, tho effect
is. of course, to give nn air of Insincerity to
tho whole movement. Nevertheless, there
aro real abuses, and there Is ample reason
tor striving to remedy these abuses. A
crude or Ill-considered effort to remedv
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tnern would either be absolutely without
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effect or else would simply do damage.
I'ulilli'lty Will Ho Much. '
The first thing to do Is to find out the
facts, and for this purpose publicity as to
capitalization, profits and all else of Import-
ance to the public Is tho most useful mens- ou" policy to tne peculiar needs of tne situa
uro The mere fact of this publicity would Hon- But ns soon as the present revolt Is
in itself remedy certain evils and. ns to
the others, It would In somo cases point out 1
mo remedies and would nt least enable us
to tell whether or not certain proposed rem-
rdles would be useful. The stale uctlng In
Its collective capacity would thus first find 1
out tho facts and then be able to take such
measures as wisdom dictated. Much can bo
doiio by tnxntlon. Even more can be done
by regulation, by closo supervision nnd the
unsparing excision of nil unhealthy, de
structive and nntl-soclal eloments. The
separnte state governments can do a great
deal and when- they decline to co-operate
mo national government must step In.
While paying heed to the necessity of
keeping our house In order nt home, the
American people can not, If they wish to re
tain their selfrespect, refrain from doing
their duty as n great nation In the world.
The history ot the notion Is in large part
tho history of tho nation's expansion. When
tho first continental congress met In Lib
erty hall and the thirteen original states
declared themselves n nation, the westward
limit of the country wns marked by the
Alleghany mountains. Even during the rev
olutionary war the work of expansion went
on. Kentucky. - Tennessee nnd the ereat
northwest, then known arf the Illinois coun
try, wero conquered from our white nnd In
dian foes during the revolutionary strugglo
unci werp confirmed to us by the treaty of
pence in 17&3. Yet the land thus confirmed
wns not then given to us. It wan held by
an alien foe until tho nrmy under General
Anthony Wayne freed Ohio from tho red
man, while the treaties of Jny nnd Plnck
noy secured from the Spanish nnd British
Natchez and Detroit.
Mot-y of i:11n1iNl1111.
In ISO.'l. under President Jefferson, tho
greatest single stride In expansion that we
ever took wns taken by tho purchase of the
Louisiana territory. This so-called Louisi
ana, which Included what arc now the
states of Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana.
Iowa. Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Idaho, Moutnn.i and a
largo part of Colorado and I'tnh, was ac
quired by treaty ami purchase under Presi
dent Jefferson exactly nnd precisely ns the
Philippines have been acquired by treaty
and purchase under President McKlnlcy.
The doctrine of "the consent of the gov
erned." the doctrine previously enunciated
by Jefferson in the Declaration of Inde
pendence, was not held by him or by any
other sane man to apply to the Indian tribes
in tho Louisiana territory which ho thus
acquired, nnd there was no voto taken even
of the white Inhabitants, not to speak of
the negroes and Indians, ns to whether they
were willing that their territory should be
nnnesed.
Tho great majority of the Inhabitants,
white nnd colored alike, wero bitterly op
posed to the transfer. An armed force of
United Stutes soldiers hail to be hastily
sent Into the territory to prevent Insurrec
tion, President Jefferson sendlnts these
troops to Louisiana for exactly the same
rensons and with exactly tho same purpose
that President McKlnlcy has sent troops to
the Philippines. JefferBon distinctly stated
that tho LoulBlanlans were "not fit or ready
for self-government," und years elapsed be
fore they wero given Belt-government, Jef
ferson nppolntlng the governor and other
oiriclals without any consultation with the
inhabitants of the newly-acquired territory.
Tho doctrine ihat tho "constitution follows
the flag" was not then even considered either
by Jefferson or by any other serious party
leader, for It never entered their heads that
a new territory should be governed other
than In the way In which the territories of
Ohio and Illinois had already been governed
under Washington nnd the elder Adams;
tho theory known by this utterly false aud
misleading phrase was only struck out In
political controversy at a much later date,
for tho tolo purpose of Justifying the ex
tension of slavery Into tho territories.
I'urnllol In I'lnlu.
Tho parallel between what Jefferson dlu
with Louisiana aud what is now being done
in the Philippines Is exact. Jefferson, the
author of the Declaration of Independence
and of tho "consent of the governed" doc
trine, saw no incongruity bctwoen UiIb and
tho establishment of a government on com
monecnte grounds In tho new territory and
ho rolled at tho sticklers for nn Impossible
application of his principle, saying. In lan
guage which nt tho present day applies to
the situation In the Philippines without the
change of a word, "though It Is acknowv
CULLED from the Field of POLITICS
Ono of the absurd stories put in clrcula-
tlon by his political enemies Is one accusing
Theodore Roosevelt of expressing antl-Ger-
man sentiments and discriminating against
Gcrmnn-Amorlcans In olllcial appointments,
Tho story was brought to the attention of
Mr. Roosevelt and wns promptly and vlg-
orously branded as a campaign canard,
1 writing to Louis Vlercck, editor or Dlo
I Verelnlgto Statcn Zeltung, tinder date of
1 September 1. Mr. Roosevelt says:
1 i,ti, .i,.a thnt 1 nm nnti.riermnn is so
absurd that It Is difficult to discuss It. As a
matter of fart, very many of my closest and
unrmest friends, socially and politically,
I nre Germans. Many of the men who havo
' the most Intimate relations with me, offic-
tally nnd privately, are Germans. My stcn-
ograpber, who Is taking this letter, Is of
Gcrmau parentage. One of my eight cap-
. talus before Santiago Fritz Mullcr, was a
1 German. My orderly. Henry Bardshnr. who
was with me moro Intimately than any one
else throughout the campaign, was a Gor-
man a son of an "Acht and Ylerzlgcr."
Throughout my work in the police depart-
mont tho two men with whom I was throwu
' Into closest comiwnloushlp wero Arthur
' Von Brlezen, a C.frmnu. and Jacob R. nils, a
1 pane. 1 have constantly gone on the prln-
iplo of treating every man strictly on his
merits as a man, paying no heed to his creed
or blrthplnce. I never discriminate for or
against a man because be Is a German, an
I Irishman or a native American, a Catholic
or a Protestant. My most Important ap-
1 ..ointments here hnve boon the Judges. I
'tave either appointed outright or nsslgned
' 0 high courts somo eight Judges. Ono of
1 hese was by birth nn Irishman and three
' vero by birth or parentage Germans. I
nil not take the fact Into account one way
ir tho other I appointed all four becnuso
' P thought them tho best men. The throe
Germans wero Judge Werner of Rochester,
Judge Hlrschberg of New-burg and Judge
Kruse of Olean. In each case among the
-andldates were several men of native
American stock, who were also well fitted
' for the position. I appointed the three
1 men t did simply because, after careful ex-
I animation, they seemed to me to be the best
edged that our new fellow dtlzens aro as
yet as Imaoable of self-government as
ihildrcn. vet some cannot brine themselves
to suspend Its principles for a single mo-
ment " He Intended that ultimately self-
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kuttl UIIICUL DUUUIU in luiiumiliil ..
ihe territory but only as the different parts ,
h.n,. m it ,t no onner. This is
heramn fit fnr It. anil no sooner.
jut tho rollcy that has been pursued. !
jn no part of the Louisiana purchase was
complete self-government introduced for a
n.imw nt in nn n.ir nf 11. the In-
,nnn territory. It has not yet been Intro-
jUCC)i, although nearly a century has
elapsed. Over enormous tracts of It. Includ-
ng ,ilc various Indian reservations, with
- territory In tho aggregate as large as that
of the Philippines, the constitution has
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authority, without asking tho "consent of
the governed." Wc must proceed In the
Philippines with the same wise caution, tak-
Ing each successive step ns It becomes de-
slrnble, nnd accommodating the details of
put down nnd order established, it win un-
doubtedly be possible to give to the islands
a larger measure of self-government than
Jefferson originally gAvo Louisiana.
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quired by conquest and partly by purchase,
Andrew Jackson being the most prominent
figure In the acquisition. It was taken
under President Monroe, the aftertlmo
President John Qulncy Adams being active
In securing the purchase. As in the case
of tho Philippines, Florida was acquired by
purchase from Spain .and in Florida the
Semlnoles, who had not been consulted In
tho sale, rebelled and waged war exactly as
sornu of the Tagals have rebelled and waged
war In tho Philippines. The Seminole war
lasted for many years, but Presidents Mon
roe. Adams and Jackson declined for n mo
ment to consider the question of abandoning
Florida to the Semlnoles, or to treat their
non-consent to tho government of the United
States as a valid reason for turning over the
territory to them.
Our next acquisition of territory was that
of Texns. secured by treaty after It hud
been wrested from tho Mexicans by the
Trxnns themselves. Then oume thu acqui
sition of California, New Mexico, Arizona,
Nevada nnd parts of Colorado nnd Utah ns
tho result ot the Mexican war, supplemented
live years Inter by the Gadsden purchase.
The next acquisition was that of Alaska,
secured from Husslu by treaty nnd purchase.
Alaska was full of natives, some of whom
had advanced well beyond the stage of sav
agery nnd were Christians. They were uot
consulted about the purchase nor was their
acquiescence required. The purchase was
made by tho men who had Just put through
a trlumphnut war to restore the union nnd
freo tho slave; but none of them deemed
it necessary to push the doctrine
of the "consent of the governed" to a con
clusion so fantastic as to necessitate the
turning over of Alaska to its original
owners, the Indian nnd the Aleut. For
thirty years tho United States authorities,
military and civil, exercised the supremo
authority In a tract of land many times
larger than the Philippines, In which It
did not seem likely that there would ever
bo any considerable body of white In
habitants.
fiim Inn of ItiiMull.
Nearly thirty years passed before tho
next Instance of expansion occurred, which
wns over the Island of Hawaii. An effort
was made at tho end of President Har
rison's administration to secure the nn
nexatlon of Hawaii. The effort was tin
successfsul. In a debate in congress on
February 2, ISP I. one of the lenders in op
posing tho annexation nf the Islands,
stated: "These Islands are more than
2,000 miles distant from our extreme west
ern boundary. We have a serious race
problem now In our country and I nm not
In favor of adding to our domestic fabric
11 mongrel population of this character.
Our constitution makes no provisions for
a colonial establishment. Any territorial
government we might establish would
necessarily, because of the population, be
nn oligarchy, which would have to bo
supported by armed soldiers." Yet Hawaii
has now been annexed nnd her delegatus
havo sat In tho untI0n.1I conventions of
the two great parties The fears then ex
pressed In relation to an "oligarchy" and
"armed soldiers" aro not now seriously
entertained by any human being, yet they
nrc precisely the objections urged against
the acquisition of tho Philippines at this
very moment. We are making no new de
parture. We arc not taking a single stop
which iu any way nffectB our institutions
or our traditional policies. From tho be
ginning wo havo given widely varying de
grees of self-government to tho different
territories, according to their needs.
The simple truth Is that there Is noth
ing oven remotely resembling "Imperial
Ism" or "militarism" Involved in tho pres
ent development of that policy of expan
sion which has been part of tho history
of America from the day whim it bocamo
a nation. Tho words mean absolutely noth
ing ns applied to our present policy In
the Philippines; for this policy Is only
Imperialistic lu the senso that Joffersou's
policy in Louisiana was imperialistic; only
mllltnry in the senso that Jackson's policy
toward the Semlnoles or Custer's toward
tho Sioux embodied militarism, nnd there
Is no moro danger of its producing evil
fitted. In Ncwburg there are very few men
of German parentage at all. nnd In the
county from which Judgo Kruso was ap-
pointed I suppose he was the only Germnn
nt the bar. I did not In either case appoint
tho men to represent tho German vote. I
appointed them because I thought lu char-
ncter, temperament, capacity nnd profes-
sionai iruining tucy woro mo nest men 1
could put In as Judges. Of tho two highest
positions lu my gift, one. the Btato nrchltect,
Is filled by a gentleman named Helns. who
Is of Germnn descent. When I appointed
him I did not think of his being of German
descent. What I thought of was that he
was the best nrchltect 1 could get for tho
position. When I put cx-Mayor Schleren on
my charter commission, nnd Otto M. Eldlltz,
the nrchltect. on my tenement house com-
mission. I did not appoint them because
they wero Germans, but because I thought
bey were men best fitted to do duty In
those two special positions, exnctly as I
mougni tne samo ming auout .Mr. crim-
nilns of tho charter commission nnd Mr.
Miles Tlerney of tho tenement house com-
mission, who nro of Irish descent.
I happen to havo peculiar sympathy with
Ucrman social customs, German literature
nnd tho German way of life nnd sturdy char-
acter generally. So I doubt If thero is any
body of my fellow citizens with which 1 am
more apt to get on well. But tho Blmple
fact Is that Boclally and polltlcnlly allko I
nm Incapablo of treating any man except
on his merits as a man, whether In my
regiment, or when handling tho New York
police force, or ns governor. It has never
entered my head to take any position, save
to push forward decent men. no mntter what
their parentage, ancestry or creed, and to
stand straight against men who are not
decent, also disregarding every other con-
slderntlon."
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J H. Cook, a well known populist farmer
near Carthage, Mo., said the other day to
a reporter "I have been advertising In
all tho Carthage papers for a farmhand
and still I can't get one. What's tho mat-
terT Is It a case of republican prosperity""
When insured that be had eucised right u
results at home now thin there was of
Its Interfering with freedom under Jeffer
son or Jackson or In the days of the In
dian wars on the plains Out nrmy Is
relatively not ns large ns It was In the
days of Wayne, wc have not one regular
. .
Ior rverJ' 000 mnnminnts. Tiiere is no
morc danger of a draft than ttiere is or
the relntroductlon of slavery
Work Auiilint Iniiirrliill'iii.
When wo oxpanded over New Mexico and
California we secured free government to
these territories and prevented their fall
ing under the "militarism" of n dictator
ship like that of Santn Anna, or the "Im
perialism" of n real empire In the days of
Mnxiralllian. We put a stop to Imperial
ism In Mexico as soon as the civil war
closed. We made a great anti-imperialistic
stride when we drove the Spaniards
from Porto Rico and the Philippines nnd
thereby made ready the ground In these
Islands for that gradually Increasing mens
ure of selNvovernment for which their
populations are severally fitted. Cuba Is
being helped along the path of Independ
ence ns rapidly as her own citizens are
content that she should go.
Of course the presence of troops In tho
Philippines during the Tngal Insurrection
has no more to do with militarism or Im
perialism than had their presence In the
Dakolns, Minnesota and Wyoming during
the many years which elapsed before the
final outbreaks of tho Sioux were definitely
put down. There Is no more militarism
or imperialism In garrisoning Luzon until
order is restored thnn there was Imperial
Ism In sending soldiers to .South Dakota
In 1S0O. during thn Ogallala outbreak.
The reasoning which Justifies our
having made war against Sitting Dull
also Justifies our having checked the
outbreaks of Agulnaldo and his followers,
directed, as they were, against Filipino
and American alike.
The only certnln way of rendering It
necessary for our republic to enter on a
career of "militarism" would bo to aban
don the Philippines to their own tribes
nnd nt the same time cither to guarantee
n stable government among these tribes or
to gunranteo them against outside Inter
ference. A far larger nrmy would bo re
quired to carry out nny such
policy thnn will be required to
secure order under the AmctUnn
flag, while tho presence of this (lag on
tho Islands Is really the only possible se
curity against outside aggression. The
wholo argument against President McKln
ley'a policy In the Philippines becomes
absurd when It Is conceded that we should,
to quote tho Innguagc of the Knnsas City
platform, "give to the Philippines first a
stablo form of government."
Not for AkiiIiiiiIiIii.
If they arc now entitled to Independence,
they are nlBO entitled to dccldo fur them
selves whether their government shall bo j
stablo or unstable, civilized or savage, or 1
whether they shall have any government
at nil: while It Is, of course, equally evi
dent that under such conditions we havo
no right whatever to guarantee them
against outside Interference nny more than
we havo to make such a guarantee In the
case of the Iloxers (who nre merely the1
Chinese analogues of Agulnaldo's follow
ers). If we have a right to establish a
stable government In the islands It neces
sarily follows that it Is not only our right
but our duty to support that government
until tho natives gradually grow tit to
sustain it themselves. How else will It
be stable? Tho minute we leave It, It
ceases to be stable.
Properly speaking, the question Is now
not whether we shall expand for wc have
already expanded but whether we shall
contract. The Philippines are now part
of American territory. To surrender them
would be to surrender American territory.
They must, of course, he governed pri
marily In the Interests nf their own citi
zens. Our first care miist be for tho peo
ple of the Islands which have come under
our guardianship as a result of the most
righteous foreign war that has been waged
withtn the memory of the present genera
tion. They must be administered In the
Interests of their inhabitants, and that
necessarily means that any qucHtlon of
personal or partisan politics In their ad
ministration must be entirely eliminated.
Wo must continue to put at the heads of
affairs In tho different Islands such men
as General Wood. Governor Allen and
Judge Tnft nnd It is a most fortunate
thing that wo are able to illustrate what
ought to be done in the way of sending
officers thither by pointing 'out what ac
tually has been done. '
l-'ll I omern liy Merit Mrni.
Tho minor places In their administration,
where It Is Impossible to fill them by na
tives, must bo filled by the strictest ap
plication of the merit system. It Is very
Important that In our own home adminis
tration tho merely ministerial nnd admin
istrative offices, whero the duties are en
tirely non-polltlcal, shall he filled abso
lutely without reference to partisan af
filiations, hut this Is many times more
important In tho newly acquired Islands.
Tho merit system Is In lis essenco as demo
cratic aB our common school system, for
It simply means equal chances and fair
play for all.
It must bo remembered always that gov
erning these islands in tho Interest of the
Inhabitants may not nccessairly be to gov
ern them ns the inhabitants nt the moment
prefer. To grant self-government to Luzon
under Agulnaldo would be llko granting
self-government to an Apache reservation
continued. "Then I'll hnve to work for
Iiryan harder than ever. If he wins nnd
what you republicans say Is true I'll get
my farmhand thnt way without any trouble
nnd on my own terms. And Just now the
farmhand question Is tho paramount Issue
with me. If you run across an Idle man
don't fall to lit him know that I've got a
jon tor him. '
"What do you consider tho highest sue-
cess In llfo?" a writer In Success asked
Benjamin H. Odoll, tho new political leader
of New York, who promptly repllrd:
"To do well tho work assigned, to build
up n true character, to make the most
of one's faculties, mooting obligations to
God nnd fellow man."
Mr. Odell. like most great leaders, Is
Blraple and modest ns a child. His sudden
promotion ns the trusted lieutenant of
Thomas C. Piatt haa not turnrd his head,
Ho Is well poised, of even disposition and
nas a complete mastery of himself. Ho Is
a good listener ns well as an excellent Judge
of men. It Is said of htm that he Is ns
willing and able to execute to the mlnutcBt
details us he Is wise to plan. Hn Is loa!
to his friends, rewarding them whenever
possible, but always suiting each man to
tho position secured. It is to his efforts
largely that Joseph chonte, Ellhu Root nnd
Horace Porter owe their exalted positions,
for ho advised and urged them to accept
rather than to allow Inferior men to be
chueen.
Dick Crokors candidate for governor of
New York Is a very vulnerable politician.
He has been a consistent supporter of
Hrockway, the brutal superintendent of
the State Reformatory for Hovs at nimira.
whose cruelties became a state scandal nnd
caused Governor Roosevelt to fire him.
Stanchfield refused to support Bryan four
years ago. He is denounced ns a foe to
oiganlzed labor und has been engaged in
litigation against the labor unions, has at-
tacked their methods In court und has ap-
peared before legislative committees In op
position to the employers' liability law and
other labor union legislation,
under some lotal ihicf and this is no moro
altered by the fad that the Filipinos
fought the Spaniards, than It would be by
the fact that Apaches have long been
trained and employed in the United States
army and have rendered signal service
therein. Just as the Pawnees did under
the administration of President Grant. Just
ai the Stoikbrldge Indians did In the d.tys
cf Gcueral Washington aud the friendly
tribes of the Six Nations in the days of
President Mndlsou.
There nrc now In the United Slates com
munities of Indians which have ndvanecd
so far that It has been possible to embody
tl.em as a whole In our political system,
nil the members of the tribe becoming
United States citizens. There are other
communities where the bulk of the tribe
nre still too wild for It to be possible to
take such a step.
There are Individuals nmcng the Apaches,
Pawnees, Iroquois, Sioux nnd other tribes
who are now United States citizens and
who are entitled to stand, and do stand,
on an absolute equality with nil our citi
zens of pure white blood. Men ot Indian
blood are now serving In the nrmy and
navy and In congress and occupy high po
sition both In the business and political
world. There Is every reason why as rap
Idly as an Indian or any bedy of Indians
becomes fit for self-government ho or It
should bo granted the fullest equality with
the whites, but there would be no Justifica
tion whatever In treating this fact as a
reason for abandoning the wild tribes to
work out their own destruction.
Kxnctly tho same reasoning applies In
tho case of the Philippines. To turn over
the Islands to Agulnaldo and his followers
would not be to glvo self-government to
thu Islanders; under no circumstances
would tho majority thus gain self-government.
They would simply be put at the
mercy of a syndicate of Chinese half breeds,
under whom corruption would flourish far
more freely than over It flourished under
Tweed, while tyrannical oppression would
obtain to a degree only possible Jindcr such
an olignrchy. Yours truly,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
PROSPERITY IN COLD CASH
Hi-port of the Ciiinptrollrr of the Cur
mic')' In llnril 1111 the Hrjiiti
Itc (inlmx.
The one supreme test of prosperity is
tho money In the bank. This Is a self
evident truth. If a man's family Is well
clothed and fed nnd In a comfortable home
and besides this he can put money lu the
bank, It must be admitted that he Is pros
perous. In the following unparalleled showing of
the lucreaso In thu number of deposits
from the dark days of the democratic Wll
son bill regime In 1S!I to the glorious days
of McKlnlcy prosperity, the most mar-
vclous of nil Is the Increase In the num
ber of depositors nnd In the amount of de
posits In tho savings banks of tho country.
These banks are particularly the ones
where the wngearnern of the country put
their savings.
Mr. Bryan says the people arc not pros
porous. So say nil IiIb calamity followers.
We commend to them the following official
figures from the report of the comptroller
of the currency of tho United States for
1R01. They aro unanswerable:
TOTAL UNITED STATES.
Total No. Depositors.
Banks.
National
State nnd private...
Loan nnd trust cos.
Savings
1.H-.11.1S3
nw.ssi
II3..121
t.'iM.r,i6
Totals
Increase depositors. .
5,Ti45,V,
7.C1.4U
lOfl.MT
Total Ain't Deposits.
Hunks WH. Wi
National $U"..l'.il,rii Jl.SKllfi.Mi.
State and private... JI4.4l2.f.in 41R.ISI.2hT
Loan and trust cos.. S39.WI.M2 570.721.J17
Savings .: l.:C1.Di.lin 1.7SJ.074.4SI
Totals J',874.r!.rii It.iViS.CS.l.OOj
Increnho deposits $l,Tn.1,&W,oW
Average deposit in all banks;
1!I4 $.120 lSW Ji'I2
Since the democratic days of lSfil there
has been an tncrenso of 2. 10D.rl7 bank de
positors In the whole United States.
This number more people havo had
money to deposit during McKlnlcy pros
perity. The totnl amount of money deposited to
the credit of the people was $2,S74.5SE. 10G
in 1891.
In W! It was 4.tiu. 096,00,',, showing an
Increase of almost $l,T.i0,0uo,000 to tho
credit of the people who had bank accounts
In the five years since the country was
Buffering thf agonies of n democratic ad
ministration. Not only has there been this vnm In
crease In the aggregate amount i, money
placed In the banks, but the average
amount of each bank account has Increased
from ?320, In 1S94. to an nvorago of $002
per bank account In 1899.
Who will say that the promise of the
republican parly havo not been fulfilled?
Who will &ay that the advance agent of
prosperity has not visited the American
people under tho republican administration
of President McKlnlcy?
TURN OUT TO SEE ROOSEVELT
t'liTKj ment anil Their niiurruntlnnn
tinlliiT at tin StntloiiM to
Slmlic llln llniul.
GLENDIVE. Mont , Sept. lC.-Oovernor
Roosevelt's special train left Bismarck this
morning for Miles City, 300 rallcs distant.
Thero was no spocchmaking during the
day, but thero wns somo handshaking with
tho peoplo along tho route. At Now Salem
two Lutheran clergymen, with members of
their congregations, woro at tho atntlon
to greet the governor nnd to shake his
hand.
At Dickinson a stop was mado for an
hour to wnlt for tho paasago of a heavy
freight train that had tho right ot way
In tho opposite direction. Here tho pas
tors of the Episcopal, the Methodist and
Presbyterian churches, with members of
their congregations, wero presented to
Governor Roosevelt on tho station platform
Quito a large number of the citizens of
tho town generally wero also at tho station
to sco tho visitors.
Tho day was clear and cool, tho first
frost of tho season having fallen during
the night. Thoso accompanying tho gov
ernor today were United Statos Scnatois
Hansbruugh nnd Carter, ex-Senator Wilson
of Wuiiliington, Hon. John Proctor Clarke
of New York and General Curtis Guild, Jr.,
of Boston. There was also nn the train
today ono Joseph T. Ferris, who was with
Go ernor Roosevelt eighteen yrara ago
when ho killed his first buffalo. In regard
to this incident Mr. Ferris said1 "I wns
with him when ho killed his first buffalo
and ho tells mo he has tho head yet and
wculd not tnke anything for It."
liu rnor nt vin ( (v,
MILKS CITV, Mont.. Sept. 16. The Roose
velt special train arrived here at C o'llnck
and remained an hour. It ihon proceeded
to Hillings, there to remain during ths
night. At Miles city a numbor of people
Bari tb 1,18 0M 1)3,9 m.
8'2 of C&gstyyrf&&x
OABTORIA.
OAS C: X .
than the Kind 0U HaiB AUayS B5UW
ih'.
l.lJl.Wi
.Mi-.',;."'".
fi),i,:'s
3.413.477
Monsters and Microbes.
How the .Microbe Would Appear If
MitKtilflcil in tii.e to Corre
spond With Ha Tower.
The world has alnajs believed In mon
sters-great dragons of the land and hugn
serpents of the sea. As a rulo these mon-
strrs have been fairly peaceable, nnd beyond
frightening people occasionally, they have
done little rcconled harm. The real cu-
lamillcs of humanity have come from the
smallest forms of life. The minute mlcrob.i
has slain Its millions upon millions. If this
microscopic form of life were depleted in slz
and form equal to Its danger and tleadllncss
we should see a monster which would dwarf
Into Insignificance all the monsters ever
begotten by human Imagination. Tho ml-
jl '?7v
LASIm'Kii.jltijaliL'?. .
crobe has this In common with the fabled two ago I was reading one ot your Memo
monster, Its food Is human flesh and Its randum Hooks, nnd 1 decided to try Dr.
drink human blood. It fattens on slaugh- Pierco'B Golden .Medical Discovery
tcr. For centuries medical science fought and 'Favorite Prescription," and am cu
thls mlcroblc foe in darkness. The pros- tlrcly cured."
enco of the foe was recognized, Its dead
llness conceded. Hut It was uvcr nn Invis
ible foe, unknown and unnnmed. Today
sclcnco with eyo power Increased n mil-
llon fold finds this lurking foe, knows It
nnd names it.
FINDING THE FOE
Is the first atop, fighting It intelligently ,
U tho next. We know this minute or- ,
ganism lurks in tho air we breathe, the
food we cat, the water we drink. We
know the object or nttacK is tne moou.
Wo know that ns the mlcrobo Is bred ,
from foulness it must 00 ica on roumess.
Hence, we know that the mlcrobo finds
no lodgment In tho body when the blood
Ih pure. Keep the blood pure and you
shut out the microbe.
When the blood Is Impure nature at
once bcglna to show the red danger sig
nals. Dolls, blotches, pimples, erup
tions begin to work upon the skin surface,
as signs ami syinpiums 01 111" rui mo
tion of the blood. When these or any signs
of blood Impurity appear, the use of Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Is con
fidently recommended ns a most powerful
and perfect blocd-purlfylng medicine.
"I consider your 'Goldon Medical DIs
covory' one of the best medicines on the
face of the earth," writes William Floe-
ter. esq., of Red Dak, .Montgomery ccuniy
lown. "Whllo In the southwest three years n work on household medicine wnen you
ago. I got poisoned with poison Ivy. The enn get a good ono free. Dr. Plerce'B Com
poison settled In my blood nnd the horrors, mon Sense Medical Advisor contains 1,008
I suffered cannot be told In words. 1 1 largo pages and over 700 Illustrations. It
thought I would go crazy. I cou'd do noth- j Is sent freo on receipt of stamps to pay ex
Ing but scratch. I would go to sleep ipense of mailing only. Suud 31 one-cent
scratching, would wake up In tho morning stamps for the cloth-bound volume or only
and find myself scratching. I scratched 21 stamps for the book In paper covers,
for eight months. Had It not been for your Address Dr. H. Y. Pierce, Huffalo, N. Y.
auembled to greet the governor and shako
hands with him. Those who could do
so grasped him by the hand. This ended
the unique experiences of thlB Sunday In
Dakota.
llrjiin l.enx-M for Knnnnn.
ST. LOUS, Sept. Ifi. Mr. Bran at
tended services at the Centenary Methodist
cbutch today nnd spent the remainder of
the ,lnv with relatives In this city. He
left nt 9 o'clock tonight over tho St. Louis
& San Francisco road for southwestern
Kansas, where he will Bpend the next two
dns. Ho spcakB at Gnlena, Ivan., at 2
o'clock tomorrow nfternoon nnd will make
Bfvoral short speeches enroute to that
place.
Ilnlf tlir World In In Dnrknrnn
as to the cause of their 111 health. If they
would Btart to treat their kidneys with
Foley's Kidney Cure tho weariness of body
and mind, backache, hendacho and rheumn-
tic pains would disappear. Myers-Dillon
Drug Co.. Omaha; Dillon's Drug Storo,
South Omaha.
Hoir lit n Church.
The Jewish church near Twelfth nnd
Capitol nvonuo was th scene of u hit-r
quarrel Sunday night, which wiir proc pi-
tnteil ny inc proposeu eximiniou 01 n r '
a lower I'nrnani stnet Junk denier Mr
Ferer's frlendn milled to his support and
as the other faction wan determined thnt
he rnuHt go a row reniltod willed the noil -p
nnd to Htippre-s. Vhn Kmergency OMI"er
Baldwin arrived the lntei lor of tho little
church was a inn- of struuglltur. scratch.
Ing. biting, pulling humanity Ho start"d
In to clear out the building, but BOmo ono
Our New $2,50 Shoe-
Ih n gi'iiuino box mlf witli hont qunllty
of onk tan noli' lonthcr coles u hIioo
worth more Hum .'-'..'O-nnd one .von
would pay BOo moro for nnd bo untlstlcd
n shoo thnt linn the flttliiR proportion of
tho hlKh jirk'ed bIioos mnilo in nil tlio
impular toos-thln Is the lli'ht tlmo n
Konulni; wolt soled hIioo Iiiih over licon
ofTorcd for ?'-'.r.0-l)Ut wo bought Vm to
M'll nt till lU'li'o, and soil 'cm wo will.
Drexel Shoe Co.,
( iitalomie remly Sent trr for
the noUlntf.
IMV
Oinnlin'x I ii-to-ilntr Shoe House,
1 11!) FUl.NAM Vl'limiT.
Only One Overstock Art Sale-
WV luivo stiiirlc the keynote of sue
coss In our nit dopnrtiDunt ovory day
lll'ltlRK HOW Mlt'lH'lHOK for OUT OUHtOlllCl'H
In tlio tunny Imrculnri offered ilurlnK our
oveiMoii; nit nli you have never Und
Hiii'h nn opportunity to pureliiiho pictures
at your own piiro we offer every pic
ture In our More at a discount of 10 lo
(id per cent Ineludiuif all copyrighted
mid imported plcturex make your n.
lortlmi now while tlio nsoiiinoiit
large.
A. HOSPE,
MuiId and Art 1613 fJouzliv,
'Golden Medical Discovery' I would be
scratching yet I tried different kinds of
medicine, tried different doctors, but sit
the relief they could give me was to makf
my pockctbonk lighter. I then besan
taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical DIs
overy. Took four bottles without relief
Kept (Making it. I took lu all tcu buttles
nnd got entirely cured. 1 can say thst if
people would tnke your medicine Instead
tooling witti some of the qtucKs tn.M
Infest both the small nnd large towns,
disease would flee like chaff before the
wind."
The use of Dr. Pierces Golden Med-
lf"l Discovery will absolutely drive out
and eliminate tho poisons which corrupt
the blood.
BAD IILOOD AND GOOD HEALTH
cannot go together. Hut when tho blood
Is purified nnd enriched by "Golden Med-
If al Discovery" the result Is recorded In
pound health. Bolls,
blotches, pimples nnd other
eruptions disappear as th
Impurities which caused
them btc removed. The
skin Is healthy, the flesh
is firm. Tho dull nnd slug
gish feeling Is n thing of
the past. The appotlto Is
good, sleep Is sound and re
freshing nnd labor an enjoy
ment Instead of a burden
"It gives mo much pleas
ure to testify to the merits
of Dr. Plorro's Golden Medi
cal Discovery." writes Miss
Annie Wells, of Fergusson a
Wharf. Isle of Wleht Co .
Va. "I can say honestly anil
candidly that it Is the grand
est medicine over compound
ed tor purifying tho blood.
1 suffered terribly with
rheumatism, nnd pimples on
the skin and swelling In my
knees und feet so that I
could not walk. I spcut
nbout twenty dollarB pay
ing doctors' bills but re
ceived no benefit. A year or
Of all prevalent forms of blood disease,
Bcrofula Is the most intractable. Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has a re
marknble record of cures of scrofulous dls-
ens0!1 remnrknble both In tho number of
cures and their variety as well as In tho
fact that these cures .were effected manv
times In rases where nil other treatment
na( proved utterly Inonectual.
.., furf(, my Mu,(, ,,.,. 5Crofu ,vith your
.rj0jen Medical Discovery, and 'Pleasant
I'ellcta." " writes Mr
Hanpy,' Hunt Co ., Texas
Ell Ashford of
it has been four
years since then, nnd there has not been
any return of the disease."
There Is no nlrohol In i'Ooldcn Medical
Discovery," nnd It Is entirely free from
opium, cocaine and nil other narcotics
Why does a dealer sometimes try to sell,
a substitute for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medi
cal Discovery, claiming it Is "Just ns
K0)()
Is It for the ctistflmer'H benefit'' It
can't be. If tho two medicines are equal
In merit there's no advantage to the pur
chaser In an oven exchange. The medicines
nro not equal In merit, and tho reason for
selling a substitute is only because the
less meritorious medlclno puts a little
more profit Into tho dealer's pocket. His
gain Is tho customer's loss.
DON'T THINK OF HUY1NO
recognized him and called out ;nWwl:
came quiet. Captain tier came In just thn
unit tho officers took some of the lfiulern
to the station, but they were later rb.'aseil.
Kerer was the only one of the crowd who
received a severe Injury Onu of hit op
ponents got him between a door and th
iloor Jamb anil wa. dolnir his best tn com
press tne 11111K man s rios wnen ne w i
pulled on by one i-l Ferer's friends Ills
Injuries nre of smii a nature that he will
probably ho seized with a painful sliortnc:
! nrenin every ume no mm 01 nis mii-
row escape
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