CHE O’NEILL FRONTIER
O. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
ITNEILU NEBRASKA
Frederick Courtenay Selous tells
kome Interesting things In regard to
fcig game In his new book. Does It
(hurt to be bitten by a lion# The fa
Imous hunter was told by an old Boer
(that he suffered greatly while being
bitten by a lion, and he heard the same
(from Kaffirs. On the other hand, the
(evidence Selous had been able to gath
jer from Europeans, who probably pos
sess more highly strung systems, goes
rto prove that the bite of a lion or a
tiger Is practically painless. He be
lieves that the reason of this is that
fthe tremendous energy exerted by a
jlion or a tiger in biting is equivalent
to a heavy blow, which produces such
a shock to the nervous system that all
sensation is for the time being dead
'ened, as It would be by a heavy blow
from a sledge hammer.
When Emperor William of Germany
was In Vienna recently he visited the
Capuchin church to lay a wreath on
the timb of the Empress Elizabeth.
This church Is not only the Hapsburg
family sepulcher, but is said to be also
probably the most striking burial place
In the whole world. Over and above
the more than a hundred coffins, those
of emperors and empresses draped in
black velvet and gold, while the lesser
Hapsburgs rest under red and silver
trappings, there is an array of crystal
vases each containing the heart of a
Hapsburg. Ever since the Thirteenth
century it has been the custom of the
royal house for its dead to have the
heart removed and separately enshrined
(in a little crystal casket, while another
custom requires the Hapsburgs to lie
actually In wood, which, however, may
have an outer metal covering.
To a reporter whose questions came
rather thick and fast, the brilliant
Chinese ambassador, Wu Ting-fang,
said in San Francisco: “You are push
ing me too hard, young man. You are
ttaking advantage of me. You are like
the Pekin poor relation. Did you ever
hear of him? One day he met the head
of his family, a mandarin, in the.
street. ‘Come and dine with us to
night,' the mandarin said graciously.
Thunk you,’ said the poor relation, 'but
wouldn't tomorrow night do as well?’
!*Oh, -yes, I suppose so,’ said the man
darin. 'But where are you dining to
night?’ he asked curiously. 'At your
house,' was the reply. 'You see. your
estimable wife was good enough to
give me tonight's invitation.”
It Is pointed out in a French con
temporary that it Is exactly 100 years
since the first lithographic press was
Installed In France. The invention Is
ascribed to Alois Senefelder, a Ger
man dramatic author of Munich, who
In 1796 accidently discovered that cal
careous stones possess the property
of retaining the impression made by
thick ink and transmitting it to paper
Sreseed on their surface. Senefelder,
owever, did not realize the Importance
Of his discovery, and some years elapsed
before the invention was put to prac
tical use. It became partially known
In England about 1881, but its general
Introduction is credited to Mr. Acker
mann, of London, about 1817.
Strife and 111 will because of differ
ences as to religious views are of such
frequent occurrence, says a writer In a
Cologne paper, that an Incident which
took place in the village of Dettelheim,
In Alsace, Is worthy of notice. In that
place recently the parish priest cele
brated mass an hour before the usual
time In order to be able to attend him
self and to allow ills parishioners to
be present at the funeral of a Jew. In
life there had been nothing nbout the
man in rank or station to suggest the
dlctinctlon, for he was only a butcher
snd not a rich one. But he had an
honorable record as a soldier and was
beloved by his fellow citizens.
The passenger traffic through the
8lmplon tunnel has fluctuated greatly
and was largest In August, 1906, the
third month of its operation. In that
month 42,622 passengers were carried
through the tunnel. The number fell
to 14S45 In November of that year, and
,to 10,106 In the following January. The
largest number In any month since has
: been 34,500. The freight traffic has
grown rapidly, but is still small. The
(largest, in 1906, was 5,669 tons In Oc
tober. For the first five months of
1907 it was about 44,000, swelled by a
blockade of the Moat Cents route. In
!the first year the gross earnings were
4190.000.
Sir L. N. Casault, ex-chief justice of
the Superior Court of Quebec province
died at Montreal in his 85th year. De
ceased had been in poor health of late
and his death was not unexpected.
After leaving his entire estate to his
wife,'Lady Casault (nee Elmlre Jane
Fangman), the deceased requests that
the funeral Bervice consist only of u
libera; that only one bell and that the
Smallest bo tolled; that his coffin be
anado of pine, painted black, and that
the hearse be like that furnished to
the poorest man and driven by one
■horse, and that only six eundl'es be
placed around the bier.
Instances of desertion from the army
In Mexico are very rare and for the
best of reasons," said Senor Jose de
Mlnaidcz, of Nueva Leon. "The rea
son lies in the almost sure capture of
the fugitive and the certainty that he
■will get not one but numerous (loggings
on his bare back. These lashings are
done in the presence of the comrades
! of the deserter, and when the men see
how great Is the suffering of the miser
■ able wretch who tried in vain to quit
his military obligations, they ure forced
to conclude thut It Is better to stick to
the army than to undergo such a ter
rible ordeal'"
{ I once had a cat that did a rather
I remarkable ratting feat. He stalked
two young rats on the eaves of a
low flat stable roof, and caught one In
the usual way. The other Jumped onto
an elderberry tree Just below. Bob
however, not satisfied with the one
grasped it firmly In his mouth, and
then Jumped headlong for the other
Kither he was very lucky or extraordi
nary agile, for he fell to the ground
•with one rat still in his mouth and the
other in his paws, and promptly killed
them both.
As It is now running between Bark
ing and Whitechapel a train with nine
cars, carrying nearly 1,000 passengers,
the London District railway claims the
longest multiple unit electric train In
'the world.
Owing to the steadily diminishing
quantity of wool grown In the district
.and the poor prices obtained in recent
Tears, the annual wool fair, which has
■been held uninterruptedly tor over a
.century at Hemel Hempstead. England,
Stas been abandoned.
The May statement of the London
■board of trade shows decreases of J41,
Tfl.OOO in Imports and 129,278,500 in tx
jports.
An old fashioned plow on the slde
■fwalk in front or a store in Dey street,
|New York, attracted a crowd. One man
staked how it was used.
FLOOD SUFFERERS
SEARCH FOR LOST
FRIENDS IN FLOOD
Pitiful Tragedies Revealed
Among Russian Element,
Who Try to Hide Loss.
Lincoln, Neb., July 11.—Hundreds ol
men and women are searching through
(he Jetsam of Monday night's flood In
the hope of being able to find either the
bodies of missing friends and relatives
or to recover part of their property.
The section devastated Is occupied al
most exclusively by the German-Rus
slans, many of whom spend the summer
in the beet fields. The flood came on
them In the early morning, so rapidly
that many of them were unable to get
out. and had to be rescued. Some of the
members of the various families tried
to escape by the railroad tracks, which
are higher than the surrounding land,
but some of these were drowned In
the effort. Just how many met this
fate nobody knows. The Russians are
secretive, and when they find a body
they take charge of It without letting
the authorities know.
Several pitiable tragedies were noted.
In one case, Fred Zebek, before at
tempting to rescue his famllv. came up
town to tell his employer he couldn’t
go to work ns he had to go back home
and take his family out. When he got
back home he found the water so high
that In wading out with his 7-year-old
daughter on his shoulder, she was swept
out of his grasp by the waves. He
made no report of the loss to anyone,
but hunted up his employer the next
day and told him.
The funeral of the 8-year-old son of
E. W. Walrath, who died of tetanus as
the result of a sliver In his foot, was
in progress when the flood came. The
undertaker had to carry the coflin out
under his arm, while the mourners had
to scatter in haste. The family, that
of a laboring man, lost every bit of
clothing and furniture, and the mother,
when discovered with a more fortunate
neighbor on the highlands had only a
skirt and a waist on. She Is almost In
sane from grief over the loss of all her
earthly possessions, following that of
her boy.
SEVEN FLOOD VICTIMS
ARE YOUNG PEOPLE
Lincoln, Neb., July 11.—The bodies of
nil the known victims of the flood Mon
day morning have been recovered. The
list numbers seven as follows:
HERMAN AMEND, 14 months old.
JOHN AMEND, 9 years old.
MAGGIE AMEND, 12 years old.
WILLIE AMEND, 5 years old.
GEORGE DAM, 19 years old.
JOHN NELSON, 20 years old.
DELARD NICHOLAS, 15 years.
Search for further supposed victims
will go on today.
The railroad service Is Improving, but
It will take several days to restore It
to the normal.
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL
AND ONE HOT DAY
Lincoln. Neb., July 11.—Weekly
weather bulletin for week ending July
0, 1908:
The week was cloudy and cool, with
an excess of rain in nearly all parts
of the state.
The dally mean temperature was be
tween 64 degrees and 70 degrees, which
is about 6 degrees below the normal.
Sunday was the warmest day, with a
maximum temperature very generally
about or slightly above, 90 degrees.
The rainfall was above the normal
in most of the state. It exceeded one
Inch In nearly all counties, while In
several southeastern counties It ranged
from three to more than six inches.
Showers occurred quite generally Wed
nesday and Thursday, with rainfalls
ranging from one-half to a little more
than one Inch. Showers occurred very
generally Sunday night. In the west
ern half of the state the rainfall was
light, but In many central and eastern
counties it was very heavy, ranging
from three to five Inches in 12 hours.
This excessive rainfall caused the
rivers and streams to overflow their
banks and flood the low lands. The
total rainfall from April 1 to date is
decidedly above the normal, except in
a few western counties, where there is
a slight deficiency.
JOHNSON APPOINTED
POSTMA3TER AT MASKELL
Maskell, Neb.. July 11.—Edwin C.
Johnson received from the United
States postal department his commis
sion as postmaster at Maskell Tues
day, Heretofore this village and vicin
ity have been served by rural route
from Newcastle.
ulliaiSTnordica’s
FESTIVAL HOUSE
IS WELL BEGUN
New York, July 11.—Active work has
been begun on the plans for the admin
istration building of the Lillian Nor
dlca Festival house to be erected by the
singer at Harmon-on-the-Hudson. This
Is the first of the group of handsome
and artistic buildings that, fostered by
the prima donna and three men and
women of wealth and society who are
to constitute the board of managers
and patrons, will go to make up a mu
sical Institution similar In every respect
to the Wagner Festival house In Bai
reuth, Bavaria, founded by Richard
Wagner.
As soon as the administration build
ing at Hannon Is completed Mme. Nor
dien will open it as a headquarters from
which the work on other buildings will
be directed by an executive staff now
being gathered for the preliminary
work in connection with the practical
construction of the opera house and the
buildings to be devoted to the teaching
of music and voice culture.
The buildings will be grouped In a
semicircle at the very top of a high hill,
while umple space has been reserved
for a dormitory for both men and wo
men. as well as a club house which will
be an elaborate feature of the musical
. colony.
W. C. T. U. TREASURER DEAD.
Chicago, July 11.—Mrs. Harriet W.
Brand treasurer of the National Wom
an's Christian Temperance union, died
today at Evanston, after a protracted
Illness.
NEBRASKA SAILS TO
REJOIN ATLANTIC FLEET
S'*n Francisco. Cal.. July 11.—The
battleship Nebraska, which was de
tained in quarantine on account of the
outbreak of scarlet fever on board,
sailed today and will rejoin the At
lantic fleet at Honolulu.
Unusual.
First Disputant—Then I'm a liar?
Second Ditto—On the contracy, my
dear fellow, you have Just spoken the
truth
DEMOCRA TIC NA TIONAL
PLATFORM FOR THE
CAMPAIGN OF 1908
Denver, July 13.—Following Is the plat
form adopted by the democratic national
convention early this morning at the con
clusion of its reading by Governor Has
kell, of Oklahoma, chairman of the com
mittee on resolutions.
We, the representatives of the demo
cracy of the United States, In national
convention assembled, reaffirm our belief
In, and pledge our loyalty to, the prin
ciples of the party.
We rejoice at the increasing signs of an
awakeidng throughout the country. The
various investigations have traced graft
and political corruption to the representa
tives of predatory wealth and laid hare
the unscrupulous methods by which they
have debauched elections and preyed upon
a defensedess public through the subserv
ient officials whom they have raised to
places and power.
The conscience of the nation Is now
aroused to free the government from the
grip of those who have made It a business
asset of the favor-seeking corporations; it
must become again a people's government
and be administered in all Its departments
according to the Jeffersonian maxim of
"equal rights to all and special privileges
to none."
"Shall the people rule?” Is the over
shadowing issue which manifests itself
In all the questions now under discus
sion.
To Many Officeholders,
Coincident with the enormous Increase
In expenditures Is the addltloc of the num
ber of ..ew officeholders. During the past
year 23,784 were added, costing *16,136,000,
and in the past six years of republican ad
ministration the total number of new of
fices created, aside from many commis
sions, has been 99,318, entailing an addi
tional expenditure of nearly *70,000,000, as
against only 10,279 new offices created un
der the Cleveland and SicKinley adminis
trations, which Involved an expenditure of
only *0,000,000. We denounce this great
and growing Increase In the number of of
ficeholders as not only unnecessary and
wasteful, but also as clearly Indicating a
deliberate purpose on the part of the ad
ministration to keep the republican party
In power at public expense by thus In
creasing the number of Its retainers and
dependents. Such procedure we declare
to be no less dangerous and corrupt than
the open purchase of votes at the polls.
Waste People’s Money.
The republican congress In th“ session
just ended has made appropriations
amounting to *1,008,000.000, exceeding the
total expenditures of the past fiscal year
by *90,0011,000 and leaving a deficit of more
than *60,000,000 for the fiscal year. We
denounce the needless waste of the peo
ple's money w'hlch has resulted In this ap
palling increase and shameful viola.ion of
all prudent conditions of government as
no less than a crime against the millions
of working men and women from whose
earnings the great proportion of these
colossal sums must be extorted through
excessive tariff exactions and other Indi
rect metjiods. It Is not surprising that in
the face of this shocking record the re
publican platform contains no reference
to economical administration nor promise
thereof In the future. We demand that
a stop be put to this frightful extrava
gance and insist upon the strictest eco
nomy In every department compatible
with frugal and efficient administration.
Cut Czar’s Power.
The House of Representatives was de
signed by the fathers of the constitution
to be the popular branch of our govern
ment, responsive to the public will. The
House of Representatives, as controlled
In recent years by the republican party,
has ceased to be a deliberative and legisla
tive body, responsive to the will of a ma
jority of its members, but has come un
der the absolute domination of the speak
er, who has entire control of its delibera
tions and powers of legislation. We have
observed with amazement the popular
brauch of our federal government help
less to obtain either the consideration or
enactment of measures desired by a ma
jority of Its members. Legislatlve govern
ment becomes a failure when one man In
the person of the speaker is more power
ful than the entire body. We demand that
the House of Representatives shall again
become a deliberative body, controlled by
a majority of the people's representatives,
and not by the speaker, and we pledge
ourselves to adopt such rules and regula
tions to govern the House of Representa
tives as will enable a majority of Its
members to direct its deliberations and
control legislation.
Misuse of Patronage.
We condemn, as a violation of the spirit
of our Institutions, the action of the pres
ent chief executive In using the patronage
of his high office to secure the nomina
tion of one of his cabinet officers. A
forced succession in the presidency is
scarcely less repugnant to public sentiment
than is life tenure In that office. No good
intention on the part of the executive and
no virtue in the one selected can justify
the establishment of a dynasty. The right
of the peop.e to freely select their of
ficials Is inalienable and cannot be dele
gated.
oampaion Lonirioutions Publicity.
We demand federal legislation forever
terminating the partnership which has ex
isted between corporations of the country
and the republican party under the ex
pressed or implied agreement that in re
turn for the contribution of great sums of
money wherewith to purchase elections
they should be allowed to continue sub
stantially unmolested In their efforts to
encroach upon the rights of the people.
Any reasonable doubt as to the existence
of this relation has been forever dispelled
by the sworn testimony of witnesses ex
amlned_ in the insurance Investigation in
New York, and the open admission—un
challenged by the republican national
committee—of a single Individual that he
himself, at the personal request of the
republican candidate for the prestdencv,
raised over a quarter of a million of do't
iars to be used In a single state during
the closing hours of the last campaign. In
order that this practice shall be stopped
for all time we demand the passage of a
statute punishing with Imprisonment anv
officer of a corporation who shall either
contribute on behalf of. or consent to the
contribution hv, a corporation of anv
money or anvthing of value to be used In
furthering the election of a president or
vice president of the United States or any
member of the congress thereof.
We denounce the action of the repub
lican party, having complete control of
the federal government, for its failure to
pass the bill Introduced in the last con
gress to compel the publication of the
names of contributors and the amounts
contributed toward campaign funds, and
point to the evidence of their Insincerity
when they sought by an absolutely irrele
vant and Impossible amendment to defeat
the passage of the bill. As a further evi
dence of their Intention to conduct their
campaign In the coming contest with vast
sums of money wrested from favor seek
ing corporations we call attention to the
fact that the recent republican national
convention at Chicago refused, when the
issue was presented to It, to declare
against such practices.
We pledge the democratic party to the
enactment of a law prohibiting anv cor
poration from contributing to a campaign
fund and any individual from contributing
an amount above a reasonable amount
and providing for the publication, before
election, of all contributions above a rea
sonable minimum.
State’s Rights.
Believing with Jefferson In the suppori
4 Lincoln, Ken., July u, 10:40 a. m — 4
4 "1 am very much pleased with the 4
4 platform. It Is clear, specific and 4
4 strong and I am grateful to the 4
4 committee for the work that they 4
4 have done In stating the Issues. I 4
4 am sure that the platform will 4
4 greatly strengthen us in the fight 4
4 upon which we are entering.' 4
4 This statement was made by W, 4
4 J. Bryan upon reading the plat- 4
4 form adapted at the democratic 4
4 national convention this morning. 4
of the state government in all their rights
as the most competent administration for
our domestic concerns and the surest bul
wark against anti-republican tendencies,
and in ‘‘the preservation of the general
government in its whole constitutional
vigor as the sheet anchor of our peace at
home and safety abroad," we are opposed
to the centralization implied in the sug
gestions, now frequently made, that the
powers of the general government should
be extended by executive and legislative
action and by Judicial construction. There
is no twilight zone between the nation
and the state in which exploiting inter
ests can take refuge from both, and it is
as necessary that the federal government
shall exercise the powers delegated to it
as it is that the state governments shall
use the authority reserved to them, but
we Insist that the federal remedies for the
regulation of interstate commerce and for
the prevention of private monopoly shall
be added to, not substituted for, state
remedies.
The Tariff,
We welcome the belated promise of tar
iff reform, now offered by the republican
party In tardy recognition of the right
eousness of the democratic position on this
question. But the people cannot safely
entrust the execution of this important
work to a party which is so deeply ob
ligated to the highly protected interests
as is the republican party. We call at
tention to the significant fact that the
promised relief was postponed until after
the coming election—an election to suc
ceed in which the republican party must
have that same support from the benefi
ciaries of the high protective tariff as it
has always heretofore received from
them; and to the further fact that dur
ing years of uninterrupted pawer no ac
tion whatever ha3 been taken by the re
publican congress to correct the admitted
ly existing tariff iniquities.
We favor immediate revision of the tar
iff by the reduction of import duties. Ar
ticles entering Into competition with trust
controlled products should be placed upon
the free list, and material reductions
saould be made In the tariff upon the
necessaries of life, especially upon articles
competing with such American manu
factures as are sold abroad more cheaply
than at home; and gradual reduction's
should be made In such other schedules as
may be necessary to restore the tariff to
a revenue basis.
Existing duties have given to the manu
facturers of paper a shelter behind which
they have organized combinations to raise
the price of pulp and of paper, thus Im
posing a tax upon the spread of knowl
edge. We demand the Immediate repeal
of the tariff on wood pulp, print paper,
lumber, timber and logs, and that these
articles be placed upon the free list.
Trusts.
* private monopoly is indefensible and
Intolerable. We therefore favor the vig
orous enforcement of the criminal law
against guilty trust magnates and offi
cials. and demand the enactment of such
additional legislation as may be necessary
to make it impossible for a private mo
nopoly to exist in the United States.
Among the additional remedies we specify
three: (1) A law preventing a duplication
of directors among competing corpora
tions; (2) a license system which will,
without abridging the right of each state
to create corporations, or its right to reg
ulate as It will foreign corporations doing
business within its limits, make it nec
essary for a manufacturing or trading
corporations engaged in interstate com
merce to take out a federal license before
it shall be permitted to control as much
as 25 per cent of the produce In which it
deals, the license to protect the public
from watered stock and to prohibit the
control by such corporation of more than
50 per cent of the total amount of any pro
duce consumed in the United States, and
(3) a law compelling such licensed corpor
ations to sell to all purchaser in all parts
of the country on the same terms, after
making due allowance for cost of trans
portation.
Railroad Regulation.
We assert the right of congress to ex
ercise complete control over interstate
commerce and the right of each state to
exercise like control over commerce within
its borders.
We demand such enlargement of the
powers of the Interstate Commerce com
mission as may be necessary to compel the
railroads to perform their duties as com
mon carriers and prevent discrimination
and restore confidence.
We favor the efficient supervision and
regulation of railroads engaged in inter
state commerce. To this end we recom
mend the valuation of railroads by the
Interstate Commerce commission, such
valuation to take into consideration the
physical value of the property, the orlgi
nay cost and the cost of reproduction and
elements of value that will render the
valuation fair and Just.
We favor such legislation as will pre
vent the railroads from engaging in busi
ness which brings them into competition
with their shippers, also legislation which
will assure such reduction in transporta
tion rates as conditions will permit, care
being taken to avoid reduction that would
compel a reduction of wagee, prevent ade
quate service or do injustice to legitimate
Invpfitmpnts
We heartily approve the law's prohibit
ing the pass and the rebate, and we fa
vor any further legislation necessary to
restrain, correct and prevent such abuses.
We favor such legislation as wrill in
crease the pow'er of the Interstate Com
merce commission, giving to it the initi
ative with reference to rates and trans
portation charges put into effect by the
railroad companies, and permitting the
Interstate Commerce commission on its
own initiative to declare a rate illegal
and as being more than should be charged
for such service. The present law relating
thereto is inadequate by reason of the fact
that the Interstate Commerce commission
is without power to fix or investigate a
rate until complaint has been made to it
by the shipper.
We further declare that all agreements
of traffic or other associations of railway
agents affecting interstate rates should
be unlawful unless filed with and ap
proved by the Interstate Commerce com
mission.
We favor the enactment of a law' giv
ing to the Interstate Commerce commis
sion the pow'er to inspect proposed rail
road tariff rates or schedules before they
shall take effect, and, If they be found
to be unreasonable, to initiate an adjust
ment thereof.
Banking and Currency.
The panic of 1907, coming without any
legitimate excuse, w’hen the republican
party had for a decade been in complete
control of the federal government, fur
nishes additional proof that it is either un
willing or incompetent to protect the in
terests of the general public. It has so
linked the country to Wall street that
the sins of the speculators are visited up
on the whole people. While refusing to
rescue the wealth producers from spolia
aiion at the hands of the stock gamblers
and speculators in farm products it has
deposited treasury funds, without interest
and without competition, in favorite
banks. It has used an emergency for
which it is largely responsible to force
through congress a bill changing the basis
of bank currency and inviting market
manipulation, and has failed to give to
the 15,000,000 depositors of the country pro
tection to their savings.
We believe that in so far as the needs
of commerce require an emergency cur
rency such currency should be Issued and
controlled by the federal government and
Buttons as Clews to Crimes.
In the Black museum at New' Scotland
Yard is a fragment of button found on the
windowsill of a house which had been en
tered by burglars. It was the only clew
the police had to work on. but in the
hands of a keen eyed young constable it
led to the arrest of its owner, whom the
constable met casually in the street wear
ing the very waistcoat with its broken
button of which the fragment had formed
a part. The murderer of Mr. Delarue, in
Belsize Lane, Hampstead, some years ago,
was brought to the gallows through the
instrumentality cf a mackintosh button
found pear iwrftv of his victim.
loaned on adequate security to national
and state banks. We pledge ourselves to
legislation under which the national banks
shall be required to establish a guarantee
fund for the prompt payment of the de
positors of any insolvent national bank,
under an equitable system, which shall
be available to all state banking institu
tions wishing to use it.
We favor a postal savings bank it the
guarantee bank cannot be secured, and
that it be constituted so as to keep the
deposited money in the communities where
it is established. But we condemn the
policy of the republican party in propos
ing postal savings banks under a plan
of conduct by which they will absorb the
deposits of rural communities and rede
posit the same, while under government
charge, in the banks of Wall street, thus
depleting the circulating medium of the
producing regions and unjustly favoring
the speculative markets.
Income Tax.
We favor an income tax as part of our
revenue system, and we urge the sub
mission of a constitutional amendment
specifically authorizing congress to levy
and collect a tax upon Individual and cor
porate incomes, to the end that .wealth
may bear Its proportionate share of the
burdens of the federal government.
Labor and Injunctions.
The courts of Justice are the bulwark
of our liberties, and we yield to none in
our purpose to maintain their dignity. Our
party has given to the bench a long line
of distinguished judges who have added
to the respect and confidence In which
this department must be Jealously main
tained. We resent the attempt of the re
publican party to raise a false Issue re
specting the judiciary. It is an unjust
reflection upon a great body of our citi
zens to assume that they lack respect for
the courts. It is the function of the courts
to interpret the laws which the people
create, and if the laws appear to work
economic, social or political Injustice it
is our duty to change them. The only
basis upon which the integrity of our
courts can stand is that of unswerving
justice and protection of life, personal lib
erty and property. If judicial processes
may be abused, we should guard them
against abuse.
Experience has proven the necessity of
a modification of the present law relating
to injunctions, and we reiterate the
pledges of our national platforms of 1S96
and 1904 in favor of the measure which
passed the United States Senate in 1896,
but which a republican congress has ever
since refused to enact, relating to con
tempts in federal courts and providing
for trial by jury in cases of indirect con
tempt.
Questions of judicial practice have
arisen especially in connection with indus
trial disputes. We deem that the parties
to all Judicial proceedings should be treat
ed with rigid impartiality and that in
junctions should not be Issued in any
cases In which Injunctions would not is
sue if no industrial dispute were involved.
The expanding organization of industry
makes it essential that there should be no
abridgment of the right of wage earners
and producers to organize for the protec
tion of wages and the improvement of la
bor conditions to the end that such labor
organizations and their members should
not be regarded as illegal combinations in
restraint of trade.
We favor the eight-hour day on all gov
ernment work.
We pledge the democratic party to the
enactment of a law by congress as far as
the federal jurisdiction extends for a gen
eral employers’ liability act covering in
jury to body or loss of life of employes.
We pledge the democratic party to the
enactment of a law creating a department
of labor, represented separately in the
president’s cabinet, which department
shall include the subject of mines and
mining.
Merchant Marine.
We believe in tho upbuilding of the
American merchant marine without new
or additional burdens upon the people and
without bounties from the public treasury.
The Navy.
The constitutional provision that a navy
shall be provided and maintained means
an adequate navy, and we believe that the
interests of this country would best be
served by having a navy sufficient to de
fend the coasts of this country and pro
tect American citizen^ wherever their
rights may be In jeopardy.
Protection of American Citizens.
"We pledge ourselves to insist upon just
and lawful protection of our citizens at
home and abroad and to use all proper
methods to secure for them, whether na
tive born or naturalized and without dis
tinction of race or creed, the equal pro
tection of law and the enjoyment of all
rights and privileges open to them under
our treaty; and if, under existing treaties,
the right of travel and sojourn is denied to
American citizens or recognition is with
held from American passports by any
countries on the ground of race or creed
we favor prompt negotiations with the
governments of such countries to secure
the removal of these unjust discrimina
tions. We demand that all over the world
a duly authenticated passport Issued by
the government of ,the United States to
an American citizen shall be proof of the
fact that he Is an American citizen and
shall entitle him to the treatment due him
as such.
Civil Service.
The laws pertaining to the civil service
should be honestly and rigidly enforced
to the end that merit and ability shall be
the standard of appointment and promo
tion rather than services rendered to the
political party.
Pensions.
We favor a generous pension policy,
both as a matter of justice to the surviv
ing veterans and their dependents and be
cause it tends to relieve the country of
the necessity of maintaining a large
standing army.
Health Bureau.
We advocate the organization of all ex
isting national public health agencies Into
a national bureau of public health, with
such power over sanitary conditions con
nected with factories, mines, tenements,
child labor and such other subjects as are
properly within the jurisdiction of the
federal government and do not Interfere
with the power of the state controlling
public health agencies.
The democratic party favors the exten
sion of agricultural, mechanical and edu
cational industry. We. therefore, favor
the establishment of district agricultural
experiment stations and secondary agri
cultural and mechanical colleges in the
several states.
Popular Election of Senators.
We favor the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people and
regard this reform as the gateway to
other national reforms.
New States.
We welcome Oklahoma to the sister
hood of states and congratulate her upon
the auspicious beginning of a great ca
reer.
The national democratic party has for
the last sixteen years labored for the ad
mission of Arizona and New Mexico as
separate states of the union, and recog
nizing that each possesses every quali
fication to successfully maintain separate
slate governments we favor the admission
of these territories as separate states.
Grazing Lands.
The establishment of rules and regula
tions, if any such are necessary, in rela
tion to free grazing on public lands out
side of forest or other reservations until
the same shall eventually be disposed of
should be left to the people of the states
respectively in which such lands may be
situated.
Waterways.
Water furnishes the cheapest means of
transp>rtation, and the national govern
ment, having the control of navigable
waters, should Improve them to their
fullest capacity. We earnesrly favor the
immediate adoption of a liberal and com
prehensive plan for improving every
Perfect Grief.
The wandering, wise, outcast sons
Of Pharoah, the dark roofless ones.
Taught me this wisdom: If Death come.
And take thy dear one, be thou dumb,
Nor gratify with suppliant breath
The attentive insolence of Death.
Suffer thy dear one to depart
In silence; silent in thy heart.
From this forth, be thy dear one’s name.
So I. that would not put to shame
So dear a memory dead, repeat
No more the sweet name once too sweet,
Ner from that buried name, remove
The haughty silence of my love.
— Arthur 9ymong? “Poems.”
water course in the union which Is lus-3
tlfied by the needs of commerce, and tc*
secure that end we favor, when prac-;
ticable, the connection of the great lakes,
with the navigable rivers and with the
gulf through the Misssslppi river, andt
ihe navigable rivers wth each other, and
the rivers, bays and sounds of our coasts
with each other by artificial canals, wlthk
a view to perfecting a system of inland
waterways to be navigated by vessels of
standard draught.
We favor the co-ordination of the va
rious services of the government con
nected with waterways in one service for
the purpose of aiding in the completions
of such a system of inland waterways,
and we favor the creation of a fund am
ple for continuous work, which shall bo
conducted under the direction of a com—
misson of experts to be authorized by
law. „ ,
We fa^%r federal aid to state and locafc
authorities in the construction and main
tenance of post roads.
Telegraph and Telephone Rates.
We pledge the democratic party to the:
enactment of a law to regulate the rates,
and services of telegraph and telephone
companies engaged in the transmission
of messages Detween the states under
the Jurisdcton of the interstate com
merce commission.
National Resources.
We repeat the demand for internal de
velopment and for the conservation of*
our natural resources contained in pre
vious platforms, the enforcement of"
which Mr. Roosevelt has vainly sought
from a reluctant party; and to that end
we insist upon the preservation, protec
tion and replacement of needed forests;
the preservation of the public domain*,
for homeseekers; the protection of the.
natural resources in timber, coal, iron*
and oil against monopolist control; thef
development of our waterways for navi
gation and every other useful purpose,:
including the irrigation of aria lands;
the reclamation of swamp lands; the1
clarificaton of streams; the development)
of water power and the preservation orj
electric power generated by this naturaL
force from the control of monopoly, and*,
to such end we urge the exercise off
powers, national, state and municipal,,
both separately and in co-operation.
We insist upon a policy of administra
tion of our forest reserves which shals
| relieve it of the abuses which have aris
en thereunder and which shall, as far as*
practicable, conform to the police regu
lations of the several states where they
are located; which shall give homestead
ers the right to occupy and acquire title
to all portions thereof; which are espe
cially adapted to agriculture, and which*,
shall furnish a system of timber sales
available as well to the private citzen as
to the larger manufacturer and con
sumer.
Island Possessions.
We favor the application of principles
of the land laws of the United States to
our newly acquired territory, Hawaii, tc'
the end that the public lands of that
territory may' be held and utilized for the
benefit of bona fide homesteaders.
We condemn the experment in Im
perialism as an inexcusable blunder
which has Involved us In an enormous
expense, brought us weakness instead of
strength, and laid our nation open to the
charge of abandoning a fundamental doc
trine of self government. We favor an
Immediate declaration of the nation’s;
purpose to recognize the independence of
the Philippine islands as soon as a stable
government can be established, such in
dependence to be guaranteed by us as
we guarantee the independence of Cuba
until the neutralizaton of the Islands can
be secured by treaty with other powers.
In recognizing the Importance of the
Philippines our government should retains
such land as may be necessary for coal-,
ing stations and naval bases.
We demand for the people of Alaska!
and Porto Rico the full enjoyment of the!
rights and privileges of a territorial form
of government, and the officials appoint
ed to administer the government of all:
our territories and the District of Colum
bia should be thoroughly qualified by1
previous bona fide residence.
Panama Canal.
We believe the Panama canal will!
prove of great value to our country, and!
we favor its speedy completion.
Pan-American Relations.
The democratic party recognizes the
importance and advantage of developing
close ties of Pan-American frendship and
commerce between the United States and
her sistser nations of Latin America,
and favors the taking of such steps con
sistent wth democratic polices for better
acquaintance, greater mutual confidence,
and larger exchange of trade as will
bring lasting benefit not only to the
United States but to this group of Amer
ican republics having constitutions, forms
of government, ambitions and Interests
akin to our own.
Asiatic Immigration.
We favor full protection by both na
tional and state governments within,
their respective spheres of all foreigners,
residing in the United States under
treaty, but we are opposed to the admis
sion of Asiatic Immigrants who cannot
become amalgamated with our popula
tion or whose presence among us wouldi
raise a race Issue and involve us In
diplomatic controversies with oriental!
powers.
Foreign Patent*.
We believe that where an American,
citizen holding a patent in a foreign
country Is compelled to manufacture un
der his patent within a certain time sim
ilar restrictions should be applied in this
country to the citizen or subject of such,
a country.
In Conclusion.
The democratic party stands for de
mocracy; the republican party has drawn,
to Itself all that Is aristocratic and plu
tocratic. The democratic party is the
champion of equal rights and opportuni
ties to all; the republican party Is the,
party of privilege and private monopoly.
The democratic party listens to the voice
of the whole people and gauges progress,
by the prosperity and advancement of*
the average man; the republican party
Is subservient to the comparatively few
who are the beneficiaries of government
al favoritism. We invite the co-opera
tion of all, regardless of previous affilia
tion or past differences, who desire to>
preserve a government of the people, by
the people and for the people, and who
favor such an administration of govern
ment as will insure, as well as humaiv
wisdom can, that each citizen shall draw
from society a reward commensurate
with his contribution to the welfare of*
society.
WOULD KILL CATS
TO SAVE THE BIRDS,
BUT_OFFEND LADIES:
Bostn, Mass., July 13.—If State Orni
thologist Edward Howe Furbush has
his way not a cat will be left within*
the state of Massachusetts next year.
In his annual report to the governor to
day, after commenting on the depreda
tions of felines In general, he winds up*
with the startling request that the
legislature empower him or some other
state department to kill off the cats
within the state.
"To get the most good out of the
state," he says, "we must kill the cats.
They destroy thousands of birds each
year, working Irreparable Injury to
crops, besides through infection being
mainly responsible for the spread of
cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and
smallpox and a hundred other dis
eases.”
Germany Is experimenting to determine
whether or not a vertical shaft of light
can be seen a greater distance than a,
horizontal flash, with the Idea of so
equipping Its lighthouses If such proves
to be the case.
Theory Upset.
Prom LesV.ee Weekly.
,."^e Squulie has disproved one pet
theory anyway.”
”What one and how?”
It is commonly believed that lemons;
are good for the voice, and his doesn’t
improve in the least in spite of the
fact that the critics hand him a lemork
everywhere he goes.”
aJh"e ‘s a eyea‘ demand for yeilow
and black pearls In Europe.
The average man's vocabulary does
not exceed i00 words.
