SUPPLEMENT.
PLATTSMOUTH NEWS.
Plattsmouth, - Nebraska
Saturday, September 15, 1900.
THE AMERICAN NAVY
Work of Preparing It for the
War with Spain.
Credit Should Be Given to Those Who
Administer Its Affairs Difficulty of
IJnyinc and Equipping Auxiliary
Vrucli Doubling the Force of
Sailors.
Under the present administration the
navy has shown itself worthy of its best
traditions. The great victories at Manila
Bay and Santiago were in no sense acci
dents. They were the results of years
of careful training of officers and men
and the thorough preparation of the fleets
for the crucial test of war. For this
preparation, this readiness to meet the
supreme moment for which a navy is
constructed and maintained, those who
administer the affairs of the navy should
have credit. The glory goes to our he
roes who are in command afloat, and to
those officers and men who seize the op
portunities of war to render conspicuous
service; but in remembering them one
should not forget those who labor with'
out ceasing to secure the fleet in a con
dition of high efficiency, and to place at
the disposal of the commanding officers
an abundance of supplies, without which
the fleet is powerless.
As early as Jan. 11, 1S98, more than
a month before the Maine was destroyed
in the harbor of Havana, the Secretary
of the Navy began to mobilize the ships
of the navy and to take such measures
as would place at the disposal of the
officers in command the full measure of
our naval force.
Immediately upon the passage of the
bill appropriating $30,000,000 for the na
tional defense, a board was organized
for the purchase of auxiliary ships, and
after careful examination 102 ships of
various types were secured at a total
cost of 817,950,830. Of these vessels
but two, the New Orleans and the Al
bany, were strictly vessels of war. The
others were merchant ships, pleasure
yachts, tugs, etc., which were rapidly
overhauled at the different navy yards
provided with such light armor protec
tion as was practical, and suitably
armed.
Between March 1C and June 30 all
these vessels were purchased and as rap
idly as ovoi hauled were placed in com
mission and put into active service. They
were used not only as auxiliary war ves
sels, but to supply the fleets with coal
and ammunition and with fresh water
and fresh provisions. For the care of
the sick and wounded the Solace was fit
ted out as a complete hospital, and to
make repairs to vessels at sea the Vulcan
was fitted out as a modern machine shop.
In order to meet the increased demands
on the navy yards, it was necessary to
practically double the force between Feb.
15 and the middle of April.
Ta addition to the ships which were
added to the navy by purchase, fifteen
revenue cutters and four lighthouse ten
ders were transferred from the Treasury
Department to the navy, and four of the
great steamers of the International Nav
igation Company and one of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company were charter
ed. There were in all 128 ships added to
the regular naval establishment, and it
became at once necessary to provide offi
cers and men to man them. For this
purpose 225 officers on the retired list
were ordered to active duty, S50 officers
were appointed for temporary service,
and the enlisted force was increased from
12,500 to over 24.000 men.
It was an enormous undertaking to
make all these additional ships ready for
war service, to secure the necessary guns
for them, and to keep the fleets supplied
with coal, ammunition and provisions.
But this was only a part of the work
which the Navy Department had in
hand. For the protection of the coasts
of the United States an auxiliary naval
force was created, which was officered
and manned by the naval militia of the
United States. A coast signal service
was established, which kept practically
our entire coast line from Maine to Texas
tinder observation, to give warning of the
approach of an enemy's vessel or of sus
picious craft of any kind.
The operations of the fleets of the Asi
atic and North Atlantic squadrons are so
well known that it is hardly necessary to
speak of them in any detail. Their work
was so well done that the power of Spain
was swept from the sea, and Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines, which she had
misgoverned for centuries, were taken
from under her dominion.
How We Have Grown.
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
Fiscal year. Amount.
1900 $2,220,190,828
1S0G
1,002,331,012
Increase under McKin
ley administration. . . . $557,S."0.21G
WAG E-EARNERS EM PLO Y E I ).
Fiscal year. Number.
1900 7,500,000
181H. 5,300,000
Increase under McKinley
administration 2.200.000
WAGES PAID.
Fiscal year. Amount.
1900 $3,125,750,000
1896 2,003,730.183
Increase nnder McKin
ley administration $519,990,817
Five years ago when $7,200,000 in gold
left New York in one day for Europe it
nearly started a panic, and extraordinary
efforts had to be made to offset it. Now,
New York bankers offer England $23,
000,000 aa a gold loan, and are prepared
to lend money to Russia and Sweden,
and the announcement causes only a
smile of complacency.
McKinley Is Our Man.
McKinley's fame has had a boom
Since ever it began;
No silver crank can win this year
McKinley is our man.
From north to south his fame resounds,
And every breeze doth fan
From sea to sea this glad refrain,
McKinley is our man.
There's not a chance for Colonel B.
To get his "Aunty" clan
In sight of Washington, because
McKinley is our man.
So let him hustle after votes
And get them if he can.
But on election day he'll find
McKinley is our man.
N. II. R., in Eureka Republican.
DEMOCRATS, PONDER THIS I
Filipinos Ask Providence to Decree
the Election of Bryan.
Maj. Arlington U. Betts of Toledo,
Ohio, a brave soldier now serving in the
Philippines, writes to friends in his home
city that the Tagal rebels in the islands
are constantly encouraged by men of the
Bryan stripe to continue killing our sol
diers, and that the rebellion there can be
suppressed most effectually by ballots
cast in the United States next November.
When the American troops took the
town of Tobaco, in Luzon, they found
posters everywhere bearing a proclama
tion, a copy of which Maj. Betts sends
in his letter. Note well the following ex
tract: Ilere is Indisputable proof that the in
surgent Filipinos are kept well inform
ed of Mr. Bryan's utterances. They know
his sympathy with them. They are en
couraged to keep on shooting American
soldiers in the hope Bryan will replace
McKinley and nsher in "happy hours."
What do the Democrats of the United
States think of this?
Are they willing to have Bryan, the
Populist put them on record as allies of
the rebellious Filipinos?
Let them ponder these things, as
American citizens, before next Novem
ber. A DEMOCRAT ON FILIPINOS.
Gen. J. F. Smith Tells of Their Vir
tues and How to Govern Them.
Brig. Gen. James F. Smith of the vol
unteer army is a Democrat. lie was ap
pointed to the colonelcy of the First Cal
ifornia volunteers by a Democratic Gov
ernor, James II. Budd. After the con
clusion of the treaty with Spain, he was
sent to Negros island as military gov
ernor, liefore the Spanish war ne was
a practicing attorney in San Francisco,
and in the army his legal talents have
been employed extensively in the Philip
pines. Here is what he says about the
people of Negros. He was asked:
"And do you believe in the people and
their possibilities?"
'"I do with all my heart. The more I
see of them, the better I like them. In
ten years I think that they will be the
most American Americans in the world.
Atkinson's articles have been circulated
by the disturbing element, printed in
the Visayan language and have done us
a great deal of harm, unless we want to
keep the rebellion alive."
Gen. Smith does not give much oppor
tunity for his one-time political allies to
shout.
The Plan that Failed.
The Filipino insurgents, some time be
fore the war broke out between the
United States and Spain, got up a sched
ule of their grievances against the rule
of the Spaniards. There were over twen
ty specifications, not one of them would
be possible under the American flag.
The Filipinos who were induced to take
up arms against the United States, af
ter the Spanish rule was broken, were
in the enjoyment of liberties unheard of
in all their experience. The only thing
they complained of was that the United
States did not turn them over to the one
man of their race who claimed to own
them, and the whole country also, with
out a shadow of authority from the in
habitants. The Aguinaldo plan was, af
ter he had appointed himself, to proclaim
that the people had ratified the appoint
ment and then become lord of a thousand
islands because he had been appointed
and ratified as the successor in despot
ism of the departed Spaniards.
The Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining
Company at Calumet, Mich., owns 2,400
houses, which it rents to its employes at
$1 a month for each rowm in a house.
In spite of this immense number of
houses, nearly all recently built, so pros
perous are the miners at Calumet that
the cry is constantly for more houses and
better ones.
THE SOUTH EXPANDS
Prosperity the Issue in
Presidential Campaign.
the
Col. W. A. Hemphill, of the "Atlanta
Constitution," Says Democratic Lead
ers Must Fight Against Prosperity,
and All Other Issues Are Subor
dinated. Col. W. A. Hemphill, president of the
Atlanta Constitution Company, was re
cently in' Chicago. He is enthusiastic
over the future of the South, and his ex
perience as a newspaper man gives
weight to his utterances. In the Chicago
Evening Post he said:
"Demcciatic leaders will find that the
great battle of the ballots will have to
be fought, so far as the Democracy is
concerned, against prosperity. All oth
er issues are subordinated to this one of
prosperity, and the prosperity the South
is now enjoying is increasing in volume.
It will be something marvelous by win
ter, if the present rate is continued. With
cotton selling at S to 10 cents, the South
is assured great good times. I have made
investigation and I am safe in saying
that the deposits in Southern banks to
day are double. what they were a year
ago. Nearly every national bank has
taken advantage of the law to issue notes
up to the legal limit.
"If a man were to borrow an expres
sion from the game of poker, the South
has a great hand she has four kinds.
These are cotton, coal, iron and lumber.
The world is the market of the South for
these supplies in the crude state. But
the people have awakened to the fact
MSKINLEY5 FARM FERTILIZER
that the country rich in natural resources
remains comparatively poor while it con
tents itself with supplying the world mar
ket with the material in the crude state.
We expect to revolutionize the business
with manufacturing.
"Take the staple of cotton. The out
put is 10,0X),OW bales, worth, at a low
estimate, $300,000,000. If manufactured
into finished products the crop would be
valued into the billion figures. Georgia
puts out about a million and a quarter
bales each year. What a world of money
that product will leave with the State
when it is sold as a finished product. M'e
of the South have been bobbing up in the
North for several years, and we have
the itch for manufactories.
"Atlanta is growing the whole country
is growing. There are contracts await
ing fulfilling in our city to-day for $0,
(MK),000 worth of new buildings. I re
call the time, and it is but thirty years
ago. when this sum would represent the
entire value of the structures in Atlanta."
fhis representative newspaper pub
lisher from Georgia speaks from the
shoulder, so to speak, and regardless of
political feeling. Senator Morgan's at
titude on the expansion question, claim
ing, in brief, that the new territory of
the United States opens a market for the
staple products of the South, Col. Hemp
hill says, evidently finds much favor in
the South, for the Senator has been most
effectively indorsed by the people of his
State.
Corn and Candy.
During the fiscal year ended July 31,
1S09, the consnmptiou of corn for glu
cose and its by-products amounted to
over 27,000,000 bushels, which is equiva
lent to the whole yield from one million
acres, based on an average of 27 bushels
of corn to the acre. From one-third to
one-fourth of the glucose product of this
same year went directly into the manu
facture of candy, according to a state
ment which is made by one of the lead
ing authorities in the glucose trade. The
prosperity in the candy trade which is
directly responsible for such a big part
of last year's great consumption of glu
cose, and the absorption at good prices
of a large portion of the 1S99 crop of the
corn growers of the West, was directly
due to the general prosperity. When
the mills are closed, and the workman
cannot fill his dinner pail with the nec
essaries of life, candy is a luxury for
which there is little demand. That can
dy can now be eaten in the families of
workmen is one of the bes't evidences of
prosperity that there is.
J What People Are Saying.
Candy is one of the luxuries. When
times are hard and money scarce, we feel
it, I tell you we do. The last three or
four years show a vast increase in our
business. There has been improvement
each year over the preceding one, and
this year the prospects are that business
will be better than it has been for six
years. The general trade throughout the
United States in the last four years has
increased fully 50 per cent. In some
cases it has doubled, the increase being
specially noticeable in large establish
ments. This business is essentially an in
dicator of the moment. Supply equals
demand. We cannot store our goods
away in barns and warehouses and wait
for the market to rise or the trade to
come to us. Instead we are controlled
by the demands of the hour. Take the
chocolate trade alone. Americans are
only now beginning to awaken to the nu
tritive and delightful qualities of good
chocolate and chocolate candies. Euro
peans have been familiar with this for
years. During the past year or two our
trade in this line has increased by
bounds until to-day half of our custom
ers call for chocolates. I am a Demo
crat, but am free to say that while con
ditions exist as they do at the present
time, it would be wise to let well enough
alone and make no change. C. F. Gun
ther of Chicago, ex-Alderman, Democrat,
and candy manufacturer.
Our business has been more prosperous
in the last three years than in the entire
previous history of the company. This i
true not only of Chicago, but elsewhere
It is chiefly due to two causes. Not only
has the telephone established itself as a
necessity to business and private inter
ests, but It is also owing to tne pro
nounced prosperity which has been gen
eral throughout the country. As I said,
the growth of the Chicago company in
these years has been equal to the entire
growth before that time. Personally I
believe that any material change in the
present policy of government would af
feet all lines of business most disastrous
ly. Ours would suffer with the rest.
John M. Clark, President Chicago Tele
phone Company.
I belong to neither party. I vote in
local and national elections ns my inde
pendent judgment dictates. Nebraska is
prosperous. Four years ago the times
were very hard. Our farmers burned
their corn for fuel. Then it was that
Mr. Bryan argued for free silver as the
only remedy for those apparently hope
less conditions. The country did not
take his remedy, and yet got well. What
is the inference? Mr. Bryan's remedy
was not much of a remedy as he thought
it. Mr. McKinley will be re-elected be
cause of the prosperity now existing. A
very large percentage of the citizens will
pay no attention to free silver, imperial
ism or anything else than our great pros
perity. J. A. Smith, Humphrey, Neb.
The whole situation can be expressed
in a sentence. The country Is enjoying
a most wonderful period of prosperity
The country at large, the individual cor
porations and the people themselves have
been successful to a degree under the
present administration and the Republi
can party deserves universal support,
and what is more to the point, I believe
will have it. The country Is greater
than any man or any party, and with
wise men at the helm, as there have
been during the last four years, to direct
this country of ours, conditions will con
tinue to Improve and we shall reap the
Deneht. U. b . Hutchinson, of the Com
mercial Exchange Bank of Chicago.
T voted the Republican ticket first
when Abraham Lincoln was a candidate,
and I have voted it ever since. In my
opinion it is the patriotic duty of every
man who is in the habit of voting the
Republican ticket to keep to his alle
giance." Gov. nazen S. Pingree of
Michigan (claimed by Bryanites).
President McKinley's eminent services
commend him most favorably to the peo
ple, and a change for an inexperienced
incumbent would create panic and work
disaster. T. C. Early, an emiuent lawyer
and lifelong Democrat of Cripple Creek,
Colo.
On such subjects as expansion I
thought with the ancient Romans that
it was right never to cede any land or
boundary, but always to add to it by
honorable treaty, thus extending the area
S the republic. Andrew Jackson.
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II GREY'S FAMILY.
A Story of
BY ALMA L. PARKER, GUIDE ROCK, NEB.
CHAPTER II. (Continued.)
"Well, if that's you're opinion, I must
ask cue favor of you, anI that is that
you do not tdl it in I'.ooiisville. If you
were a laboring man, you'd be a Popu
list. Wages are low. IIos in P.ooiis
ville are only worth a little over 2 cents
per pound, corn 12 cents a bushel, and
everything else to correspond. Now,
one thins sure, soinethiii;? is wroujr. and
we are in favor of a change. A lew
years ao I had a llock of sheep, and
was making money -with tbem. so
thought it would be a xond scheme to
buy more. I also needed more hogs,
but I didn't have the money necessary
to buy them, so I mortgaged my place
to get it. Well, most of the hogs I
bought died with the cholera. I dou't
supppose that was the government's
fault, but wool has gone down to al
most nothing, and all I have left is the
mortgage."
"Wait a moment," said Ezra. "You
say that a few years apo wool was a
good price. What kind of a money ba
sis had we then?"
"Gold I reckon."
"Then you admit that prices can be
good, with gold for the standard
inoney?"
"No, not as good as they ought to be."
"Oh, yes, Simon. I remember, you
wrote me the fall of 02 that hogs were
8 cents. Didn't that satisfy the farm
er?"
"I suppose that such as them that b.ii
hogs was satisued."
"Well, if they didn't have, it wasn't
the government's fault. Cattle were a
fair price, too, I believe, and all other
live stock was valuable property, in
spite of the awful fact that we had gold
for the standard money, and Harrison,
a Republican, was President of the
United States. Of course, prices are
regulated more by supply and demaud
than by anything else."
"Well," said Simon, "supply and de
mand have nothing to do with it. and
will you please explain why we are
having hard times now, when gold is
still the standard?"
"Simply because there is now a lack
of confidence, which did not exist in
'02. This is the principal reason, al
though the low tariff policy of this
Democratic administration has hurt u-.
The low tariff laws have c!oel hun
dreds of factories, shutting meu out of
employment, and it has knocked the
bottom out of many industries. That's
the trouble with wool. The sheep rais
ers in Australia can raise sheep muck
cheaper than the fanners in this coun
try cau, and now they can bring their
wool over here, and sell it without pay-
Ing anything for the privilege. They
can undersell farmers here until they
have to go out of sheep-raising entire
ly. The cause of lack of confidence is
the fear of Bryau's election. The silver
dollar now passes for loo cents, be
cause it is backed up by gold. If we
stopped backing it up with gold it
would fall to its market value, which.
at the present time, is only about ;0
cents. Of course, when the silver dol
lars fell to 50 cents, everybody would
pay their debts with it, and keep back
the gold money. It would be all that
would circulate."
"In your opinion," said Simon. "Now,
I'll tell you how things will bo if Mc
Kinley's elected. It won't matter how
scarce hogs, cattle, or products are, or
how great the demand, they won't be
worth raisin if the Republicans wiu,
and these goldbugs continue to have
control of the markets. I am living in
hope that no such awful calamity will
befall us, and I do believe McKinley
will be the worst defeated candidate
that ever run for oflice, and I hope Glen
Harrington -will be the next worst
He's the fellow the Republicans in this
county have put up for Superintendent
of Schools to run agin Vinnie. Rather
singular, too, when he's her beau. But
to return to my subject. Men who
have studied the subject say that con
ditions among farmers will be about
ten times as bad as they ar now
Money will be so scarce many will be
obliged to live without any. TIaies
will get in such an awful condition that
with some brave leader like Coxey, a
great army will be raised. I prophesy
that there will be the awfullest war
this world has ever seen. It will be
labor against capital."
"Wait and see If your prophecy comes
true, Simon. It is the only thing that
will convince you of your mistake. You
will find that our country's all right,
after all. It has been said that 'Amer
ica Is Just another name for oppor
tunity. That country where a day's
work will buy most of the necessaries
of life Is the country most blessed of
heaven. Men are afraid to spend gold
now, for fear of free silver; that is the
reason we do not see ay at present."
"Ah, Ezra, that's not the reason. It's
because England is grabbing it all up.
She is glad we have gold for our stand
ard money.
"That's probably what your paper
tells you, said Ezra, "but there is no
truth In It. The enlightened nations
found It necessary, in trading with each
other, to have a universal standard of
money, and they chose gold, because
tny considered it the one metal steady
Country Life.
it-
enough for the purpose. It .a i,.r n
conspiracy against the I : i ( ; - I s: a
We had at that time nrnr" i-iM u i. -s
than any other cnun-iy."
"Rut we haven't f.Mlu'u ii "
that's the trouble." i r. t , r r 1 1 ;: ! s i.
"The quality of money U va:!.v i;
important than the (juantiiy. If iu-t.i y
were too plentiful it wouldn't be Ui'itli
as much. We Wol'.U have to ..i:;y
more in ot:r p..!.ci to buy r!i.
thine we buy now wiih less. t :
uir.icct -s.-iry. What we in-. -d N '.: i -. e
the money we have to -!reioa:c. w'.i'cii
it won't do while there N (V;ir of I ,-.
silver. Times are hard !-: i of Ihe
fear of its sucoos, but suppose v. - re
a reality; why! tiiere'd be the worst
panic ever known in the history of t o-
country."
Simon and Ezra Grey now arrived at
home, and there was i;o more said on
politics for a while. Political Simon'
family Cynthia. Jimmio and Johnny
and the girls were all delighted with
Uncle Ezra.
The day wore away: chore time came,
and the family scattered, to do the
work assigned to each one. Ezra Grey
was now left alone with Cynthia and
the little boys, and he determined to
have a conversation with hN sisr.-r-'n-law.
"What do you get for butter out L ; e,
Cynthia?" Ezra vei;iurd to ask.
"About N cents, or near it. GeHlu'
lower every year. I-'gus have be. : so
cheap it don't pay to keep c hicken- any
more. The Ird only knows what i!l
lKH'ome of us if McKilih'.v's eh
President. Simon says we'll all t
the pooliiollse. but I don't see how
Warble County's go!n' to provide a
pool house laige o;ioi:l;:i to held evei y
ltody that Would have lo U'' there."
Ezra Grey could not help but l.tu,l: .it
Cynthia's idea of Kepi.l.lie,,!, t
he wondered to hill s. f jf th;s tt'3 a
fair example of the Popnli-'t i-cntitm-nt.
"I'lielo Ezra." s;::,j .1 : n. m .it; musr
be sure to vote for I'.ryau. Money will
grow Oil frees. 1 'spect. it' he's 1. eti-d.
My pa's goiu' to vote for him a!! rich!.
Pa's President of the Farmers' Alliance
in Warl-Ie Countv. and President of tie-
I'.ryau Club in I'.ooiisville: and I 'speet
lis vote will count a whole lot. Ie foi-e
you are iiejo vei v loiiir voi; 11 hear pa
;d Viunie ipiariel. Virinio has a
publican feller, and he's ruunin' aiti
ler for Superintendent, -md pa says
political opponents should be en. mi. s,
and that she mustn't even speak to
him. Hut she does .speak to him. in a
loving way. too, and goes to church
with him, in spile of pa
My: but p:i
lless he'd like
gets mad sometimes. I ;
, Gloii Harrington all right if lie was a
Populist, but he says Republicans arc
either scoundrels or they lack sense."
It's hard to tell bow much more Jim
mie would have told his uncle had not
Cynthia hustled him out doors in a
hurry.
Uncle Ezra had now been at his
brother Simon's for a number of we. ks.
Many arguments they had ha-!, an ! all
were in good humor, which was rather
singular, considering Political Sim.-n's
disposition. Vinnie had I:sie;,ed with
keen interest to the'.r long il.sor.-.ions,
and had just acknowledged to Uncle
Ezra that she believed his side of poli
tics was right, but as she had s.-ijd i
fore. she int'-mlcd to h-t time prove
all things to her.
One evening us they were .-eit.-l at
the supper table Jnm!o, the boy ora
tor of the family, blurted out: "Say,
pa, Vinnie's gone ami turned R. -publican.
What do you think about that?"'
"What do I think about that?"
Simon repeated slowly, while a look of
horror was depicted on his counten
ance. "I don't believe it- Yimiie's t'.o
smart a gal for that."
"Ah, pa. but ain't Uncle Ezra smart,
and ain't he Republican?"
"Yes, my son. he's smart; but he has
not yet seen the light."
"Ezra." he said. "I dare say, when
you do see things as they are you'll be
a bright and shining star for the silver
cause."
Ezra laughed, and so did Viunie,
which Political Simon was quick to ob
serve. "Ezra," he said, "I hope you haven't
been stufllng Vinnie with any of your
Republican doctrines."
"I dare say, Simon, that Vinnie has
enough mind of her own not to be
stuffed, as you call It."
"Well, Vinnie." said Simon, "I have
this much to say to you. If you ever
take such a ridiculous notion as to turn
Republican, don't you ever mention It.
After all your raisin' and home trainin";
after all the Populist party has done
for j-ou If you after all that has been
done for your benefit, turn and say you
area Republican; have your name writ
ten with the Goldbugs Vinnie Grey!
I'd be ashamed of you I"
"Simon." said Ezra, "did it ever occur
to you that you might be mistaken?
Tiiese Populist papers and speakers
tell you that the Populist party is the
party for th poor man. They are ar
raying capital against labor, and they
tell you they are on the side of labor.
But, Simon, didn't it ever occur to you
that they might be false friends that
they are not telling you the truth?"
(To be continued.)