1 Commoner
Extracts from W.
TIIK PRICK OP HARMONT.
The crying need of the hour Is har
mony." shout the reorganizes. If. we
answer that they are the ones who de
stroyed the harmony of the party we
are accused of recalling by-gones. If
we ask them what they will charge for
harmony we are accused of being dis
turbers of the peace. There can be no
satisfactory harmony that does not
rest upon an honest understanding
What have the reorganizes to offer
as a basis of harmony? First, that the
party will adopt their Ideas on the
money queeiion the Ideas that led
them out of the democratic party Into
the republican party or Into the Pal
mer and Uuckner party, which on the
money question was even worse than
the republican party. This does not
mean merely the suspension of the ad
vocacy of frt-e coinage. It means the
complete turning over of the financial
system to the financiers. If we dare
to condemn the Fowler bill we are
Interfering with harmony; If we ob
ject to banks of Issue we are alienating
the bankers; if we protest against
branch banks we are disturbing the
confidence of the monicd interests; if
we point out the dangers of the bill
making the silver dollar redeemable In
gold we are putting stumbling blocks
In the way of getting together.
It may aA well be understood now
as learned hereafter that harmony
means full and complete surrender to
the financiers. The next concession
demanded is that the nominees for
office, national, state, county and pre
cinct, shall have the confidence of the
"business intr rests." which the reor
ganizes ooiu true to mean men who
opKsed the platforms of 1HSG and 1!'
and lent either active or passive aid
to the republicans. Out of the mil
lions of men who earnestly supported
the democratic ticket in ISM not one
ran be found who sufficiently enjoys
"the confidence of the business inter
ests" to make him an acceptable can
didate to the reorganizes. Wherever
they are in power they insist that can
didates for congress, for the United
States senate, for the state legislature
and for all state and local offices shall
be men who are themselves connected
with the corporate interests or men
dominated by those who are connected
with the corporate Interests.
But is this sufficient? Not quite.
The organization must be turned over
to them and corporation men must be
put in charge men who secure cam
paign funds by mortgaging the party
to the corporations and who then em
ploy the campaign funds to corrupt
votes, purchase election officials, etc.,
tc.
When the money question wa3 sub
ordinated to imperialism in 1900 the
few gold democrats who came back in
sisted that they and men like them
should be given prominence in the
campaign, aud they resented the ac
tivity of men who were known to be
identified with the fight for bimetal
lism. If that demand was made when
the Chicago platform was not only re
affirmed, but reiterated, what can be
expected if the party consents to the
suppression of its views in order to
secure harmony?
The reorganizes constantly refer to
the victories of 1881 and 1892. To say
that they do so honestly would be a
reflection upon their intelligence, for
they know that the situation was en
tirely different in those yeas from
what it Is now. The party had not
divided over a great issue, and the
leaders had not been in open alliance
with the enemy. No one in consider
ing the career of Arnold would over
look the change that took place in the
Fentiment toward him after he became
an employe of the English government.
ind bo no rational man can review
he record of those who deserted the
party in 1890 without taking into con
sideration the change which their con
duct wrought in the sentiment toward
them. Whether they were honest or
not is not the question. If a democrat
becomes a republican he becomes un
available for a democratic office or for
the management of the party so long
as he remains a republican, no matter
how honest or conscientious he may
be in making the change. If he re
turns be must give evidence of a
change of heart before he will be
trusted again.
Even the election of 1894. disastrous
as it was. was only a feeble illustration
of what may be expected if the party
comes again under the leadership of
those who were recreant in recent cam
paigns. In 1894 the party had to carry
the gross Iniquities of Mr. Cleveland's
administration, but the men who led
the party had not at that time entirely
alienated the confidence of the masses
by desertion. Even men who were
faithful to the principles of the party
went down to defeat because of the
apathy aroused by Mr. Cleveland's sub
serviency to Wall street influences.
What will be the result if the men who
were loyal in 1S9S and 1900 are asked
to rally under the standard of those
whom they distrust, and are required
to surrender their deep convictions and
condemn their own votes. If the party
(although it polled a million more
votes than ever before) could not win
when 10 per cent of the members of
the party were dissatisfied, how can
it hope to win when 90 per cent of the
membera are dissatisfied?. Harmony
on the terms proposed, and no better
terms will be proposed, means not
only the abandonment of principle for
the promise of success, but it means a
failure to secure success the trading
of a birthright for a mess of pottage
without getting the pottage. The
"anythlng-to-win" policy is an insult
to those who have convictions and it
Wendell Phillips once said: "The
men who made the republican party
are in the grave; the men whom the
republican party made are in con
gress." The republicans ought not to
rest satisfied until they unmake a
number of those who represent the
party in the house and senate.
When Mr. Cleveland was elected in
1892 a democratic house was elected
with him. In 1894. when Mr. Cleve
land's term was but half done, the re
publicans carried the congressional
elections and secured the largest re
publican majority in the house since
the close of the war.
The Filipinos enjoy all the rights
and privileges of American citizens
with the exception of relief by habeas
corpus, trial by jury, representation,
right to keep arms, right of petition,
franchise, citizenship, and other minor
things too numerous to mention.
Those people who still believe that
figures will not lie should cast their
eyes over the tax figures submitted by
the railroads of Nebraska.
President Roosevelt said a few words
In denunciation of the trusts and then
took lunch with Mr. Frick of Home
stead riot and steel trust fame.
Comment.
J. Bryan's Paper.
ought to be offensive even to those
who have no convictions if the have
political judgment.
WHICH IS THE BETTER WAT?
Fifty veara aico Jaoan was a heathen
country, without trade or commerce.
Her people were unacquainted with tne
outside world, and utterly ignorant of
Christian civilization. Without the
flrinc of a. shot or the shedding of a
drop of blood. Japan was rescued from
her isolation, her people made ac
quainted with the world at large and
helped on the road to liberty, no na
tion d resumed to teach the Japanese
self-government. No nation assumed
to control them under the specious piea.
of benefitting them. No nation de
clared its purpose to govern the Jap
anese and graat them as much free
dom as their condition warranted and
the interests of the controlling nation
dictated. On the contrary. Japan was
left to work out her own salvation,
and although an oriental island and
occupying a vantage point for oriental
commerce, no nation seized the island.
During the fifty yeas since Commo
dore Perry opened the ports of Japan
nnil ma le a treatv with the Japanese,
the people of Japan have made pro-
gress unparalleled in the History oi me
world. Today Japan is a world power.
Her people are classed among the in
telligent and progressive peoples of the
earth. Autocratic and arbitrary power
is fading away before intelligence, and
trade and commerce flourish without
the bullet and the bayonet.
For three hundred years the Philip
pines have bren peopled by Christians.
The Filipinos have buildcd sc hools and
universities. The people have sent
representatives to the leading univer
Kitin of Kurotie. Thev have worshiped
the true God. erected homes, founded (
cities and struggled ior iieeuoin. -a
Christian nation seizes the islands
under the specious plea of acting un
der Divine providence, drenches the
islands with blood, lays waste towns
and cities, devastates fields and makes
sport of yearnings for liberty and free
dom and self-government. Peace
marked the dealings with the heathen
Japanese; slaughter and sword mark
the dealings with the Christian Fili
pinos. No one sought to interfere with
the government of Japan by the Jap
anese, although they were ignorant of
Christianity, and knew nothing of civil
liberty. But a people yearning for
liberty, worehlpping God, and eager to
take a place among the nations of the
earth, are coldly told that they must
submit to arbitrary government, re
linquish the dream of centuries and be
shot if they oppose their conquerors.
Which is the better way, the one
pursued in Japan or the one now being
pursued in the Philippines?
THE IMPORTANT PRIVILEGE.
A Michigan reader of The Commoner
says that in re-reading the Declaration
of Independence he was surprised to
find so much in it that he had forgot
ten. It occurred to him to question
some of his fellow townsmen and he
found that none of them had read the
Declaration within ten years. Possibly
that accounts for the fact that so many
republicans are indifferent to the doc
trine that governments derive their
just powes from the consent of the
governed. In order to encourage read
ing of the Declaration of Independence
by republicans. The Commoner hereby
offers to accept a year's renewal from
any republican subscriber for 75 cents,
provided the subscriber states in send
ing in his renewal that he has read
the Declaration of Independence com
plete within the year.
A SIMPLE REQUEST DENIED.
Ms. McKinley asked for the reten
tion of a postmistress in Pennsylvania.
This postmistress was appointed by
Mr. McKinley. Senator Penrose, how
ever, persuaded the Roosevelt admin
istration to reject Mrs. McKinley's re
quest and remove this official. Tho
republican party has repudiated Mr.
McKinley's Buffalo speech. It refused
to give recognition to a very simple
request made by the late president's
widow, and yet whenever a democrat
criticises any of those policies to which
Mr. McKinley was committed, the pres
tige of the McKinley memory is in
voked and the critic Is charged with
faithlessness to that memory and dis
loyalty to the government.
The democrats and populists of
South Dakota have agreed upon a
state ticket and entered the campaign
with courage and spirit. The demo
crats indosed the Kansas City plat
form and stated the party's position
on the leading issues in unmistakable
terms. South Dakota fell back in 1900.
but it is only a question of time when
that great agricultural state will be as
hostile as Missouri is to republican
policies. '
An Indiana democrat complains be
cause the party did not have a big
campaign fund in 1896 and 1900 and
blames the editor of The Commoner
for it. Well, we could have collected
as much from the trusts as the com
mittee did in 1892 if we had been will
ing to mortgage the party to the trusts
as it was mortgaged in 1892.
The president has issued a new civil
service rule, but it does not protect a
clerk who dares to hold opinions con
trary to the opinions of the head of
the administration.
Are we to understand. Admiral
Dewey, that American lives were sacri
ficed to Spanish pride and naval com
placency? Law offices raise a great outcry
when a few bandits hold up a railroad
train, but remain perfectly quiet when
a railroad corporation holds up an en
tire state.
Newport "society" has just experi
enced the delightful thrill of a dinner
at which a monkey was the guest of
honor. The monkey felt perfectly at
home.
The men who bored holes in the bot
tom of the democratic ship insist that
they be given command of the vessel
because they know Just where they
bored the holes.
The Philippine bill as passed pro
vides for government without consent
and taxation without representation.
George III. has been a long time dead,
but a belated claim for vindication
should be filed.
The steel worker with his 10 per cent
Increase In wages still has cause to
ponder when he bumps up against the
40 per cent Increase in foodstuffs.
i-erhaps they call the beet sugar In
dustry an infant because the most ol
the work in the beet field3 is done by
little boys and girls.
IS MERE
PHILIPPINE
MENT" Bl
Two Most Important,
Measure Drawn Up
Deceive Fourth of
ance In the Islands.
The Philippine "civil government"
Mil as It emerged from the confer
ence committee and became a law is
i piece of legislative patchwork far
from creditable to the American con
gress. The two most Important features
ire those which deal with the money
of the Islands and with the legislative
body representing the people.
As to the first, the senate provision
for the silver standard and the house
provision for the gold standard are
replaced by a paragraph which will
enable the commission to Issue a sub
sidiary coinage, leaving the Mexican
silver dollar to take its chances as
a standard as it has done for years.
It is plain that this paragraph is a
miserble makeshift. It was necessary
to the credit not only of the insular
government, but also of Individuals
and corporations that a standard
should bo established and that it
should be the gold standard.
The great boast of our Republican
statesmen has been that in the legis
lation which they would perfect they
would do the people of the archipela
go immense good in a material way
and would shower upon them such
blessings of prosperity that they never
more would think of independence,
but would cleave to us as their bene
factors so firmly that no force could
ever wrench them away.
Yet "the very first serious attempt
to legislate for them i3 a wretched
fiasco in that it fails to provide the
most important of all things for the
development of the resources and the
highest econemic prosperity of the
islands.
As to the native legislative cham
ber, the conference bill grants it
only if the islands remain peaceful
for two years after a census has been
taken.
This is equivalent to indefinite post
ponement, becauso the time when the
census shall be taken and the ques
tion whether the islands are peaceful
are left entirely with the administra
tion. It follows, therefore, that the auto
cratic military regime is perpetuated
indefinitely by deliberate act of -congress.
All the fine things that we have
heard about the rights of the natives,
etc., are mere chaff. The bald fact
underlying the whole matter is auto
cratic presidential rule, practically ir
responsible, with the commission as
his nominally civil hand of velvet and
the army as his one effective hand of
iron, with the people of the islands
as subjects, having no rights which
the autocrat is bound to respect.
This bill is an interesting commen
tary upon the spectacular performance
on the Fourth of July in the islands,
when officials of the war department
said "military control of the Philip
pines ceased absolutely" and Gen.
Chaffee "surrendered his functions"
with great pomp and circumstance.
There are some Filipinos and a
good many Americans who were not
greatly deceived by this stage play.
THE PRESIDENT'S YACHT.
Executive to Sail in "Most Luxuriously
Appointed Vessel Afloat."
"The yacht Mayflower, the official
yacht of the United States and the
ocean home of President Roosevelt,
after undergoing alterations that cost
$50,000, is ready for sea. She is at
Brooklyn navy yard and is one of the
most luxuriously appointed vessels
afloat.
"Neither the Hohenzollern Kaiser
William's floating palace nor any of
the other royal yachts has staterooms
and aaloons more beautiful or costly
than those of President Roosevelt's
official craft. The Mayflower ha
been refitted and refurnished com
pletely from stem to stern.
"The president's quarters are sit
uated aft, on the main deck, and in
clude six staterooms for the exclusive
use of himself, Mrs. Roosevelt and
their children. Two larger of these
staterooms have been very lavishly
furnished.
"Special attention has been given to
the decoration of the bulkheads and
the paneling, which are covered with
expensive silk in many colors." New
York dispatch.
Truly the imperialistic sentiment at
Washington is strong! What do the
taxpayers and wage-earners of the
country think of the spending of thou
sands of dollars in fitting up one of the
"most luxuriously appointed vessels
afloat" for the exclusive use of tho
President of this Republic? If the
days of simplicity, honesty and econ
omy In government have not disap
peared forever, the voters at the com
ing elections will rebuke this ostenta
tious extravagance of the most cor
rupt and trust-ridden administration in
our history.
Appointive and Elective Judges.
There are some undeniable advan
tages in the system of appointment,
out nevertheless we constantly find
the appointing power prostituted in
various ways. The tendency of the
times is to treat patronage, or the
power of appointing to office, as a
personal perquisite rather than a pub
ic trust. That such trusts are often
well administered is quite true, but
they are so often abused that in near
'.y all the states the people hav6 grad
ually taken to themselves the task
sf electing their judges, notwithstand
ing the botches they so often make.
Making and Unmaking Trusts.
The most important observation
contained in the president's Pittsburg,
address Is that In wnlcn ne dec;
that new legislation is neededf
subject of trusts ana com Dinar
restraint cK trade and Indus'
Probably 99 per cent of tt'
can. people will agree withf
lent on the proposition
mould ne additional iegis
'lr. - tho frusta of the e'
riety, but most of tbos
earnest in this hostility
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which makes trus
tlcular regard fort"i
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would unmake them
Back-Scratching in
What a fine mutual admiration so
ciety we now nave In the ffieral ad
ministration! 4
In his HarrsjN address the presi
dent exhausted -vccsbulary in his
eulogies of Root iaid Wood.
Taking the cy&V liven. Ambas
sadors Choate Vv at London
and Berlin, be V'- verbal garlands
upon the preside Imost to the point
of nauseation. V
Quick to tak' J hint also. Gov
ernor Taft Bene" inassase to Secre
tary Root, prtUrJably a. public ex
pense, to say to Ilm that only a few
favored mortals J$e himself are able
to appreciate hnt courage and genius
in dealing with ; the Philil pine prob
lem. .
We now have the beslobbering of
Attorney General' Knox by the presi
dent at Pittsburg, with a reasonable
certainty that as soon as opportunity
shall offer Mr. Knox will return the
compliment with interest.
Self-esteem l.-Ta desirable thing, bat
vulgar back-scratching in public is In
tolerable. Conscientious Elihu.
Let all admirers of rugged puritan
rectitude gaze upon E.'ihu.
Much as Klihu would like to comply
with the congressional request for a
detailed account of the Cuban expendi
tures during American occupation, he
is unable to do so because he cannot
find legal authority for the employ
ment of typewrites to make copies of
the accounts.
Without such legal authority Elihu
would submit to have his joints racked
and his toenails extracted with pincers
before he would hire the typewriters
and furnish the information.
Strict regard for the law, it may be
observed, has always been Elihu's long
suit.
It was that aentiment, undoubted
ly, which promoted his approval of
General Wood's payment of $35,000 to
the venerable Maximo Gomez.
Elihu feared that if Maximo were
not paid that money he might raise a
rumpus and infract the law.
What Might Have Been Expected.
The gathering of lumber trust em
ployes, nominally known as the
Michigan Republican state convention,
has, of course, declared powerfully in
favor of continuing what it terms "the
beneficial operations" of the protect
ive tariff. The beneficent operation
of the tariff on lumber is what en
ables the trust to pay $25,000 each
for United States senatorships, thus
creating successive eras of great
prosperity for Republican members of
the Michigan legislature. It is quite
natural that thes gentlemen and their
friends should shout valiantly for the
retention of a source of income so
easy and assured.
May Depend on the People.
"My opinion is that we shall hear
from the people in unmistakable
terms." Senator Hanna gave expres
sion to this sentiment in a burst of
anger at the failure of his party to as
sist Cuba, but he spoke better than he
knew and undoubtedly touched the
truth. His expectation is well founded,
for it is unlikely that the people of
the United States will indorse the
congressional neglect of Cuba and
cendone the extravagant appropria
tions amounting to $1,000,000,000.
A Record to Boast Of.
Speaking the other day of defects
of the memory, Senator Dillingham
told the story of a noted character
in Vermont, who once sent a message
by the Senator to his father In these
words: "You tell the governor that
although I am getting along in years,
I can see just as well as I ever could;
I can hear just as well; my mental
powers are unimpaired; and if I have
ever forgotten anything, I must say
that I cannot remember what it was."
Where the True Gcspel Is Found.
The integrity of Americanism of
the loyal, faithful and saving sort is
in the creed of the Populist party,
and the present epoch calls strongly
for the preaching of that creed broad
ly from one end of the republic to
the other. "Death to monopoly" is
the battle cry that should be fore
most and never abandoned until
"equal rights to all and special priv
ileges to none" is again the rule and
the practice of the government.
Services in Historic Church.
Harriet Eeecher Stowe's ..ninetieth
birthday was celebrated by negro resi
dents of San Francisco in the old
church on Stockton street, from the
very pulpit where the patriot, Thomas
Starr King, preached forty years age
to hold California within the union
and against the extension of slavery.
Long Terms of Office.
Should Sir Michael Hicks-Beach re
main in his present office for another
four years, and thus Dring his tale of
budgets up to eleven, he will have
equaled Mr. Gladstone's record and
surpassed that of any other English
chancellor of the exechequer during
the iast 100 years.
Steel Trust Profits.
The Steel Trust gives out its profits
for the year as nearly $151,000,000;
forty millions more than last year,
and yet this is an infant industry,
sucking at the protection bottle which
a Retvic gn
AN ISSUE
3 ATTEMPT TO DE
THE PEOPLE.
Public Attention from
tat Are Injuring tne Party
:rata Will Demand that In-
Jtlons Shall Be Tharauflh.
The Republicans are in a mess, they
are unable to agree among them
selves on the most Important legisla
tion. The exposure of the looting of
the Cuban treasury to aid the Sugar
trust, the bribing of Gomez and the
cruelties in the Philippines have put
them on the defensive.
With admirable audaciousness they
attempt to divert public opinion from
their own sins of omission and com
mission by charging the Democrats
with attacking the army. The Presi
dent sets the pace by making a
tump speech at Arlington, and tho
great trust-controlled dally newspa
pers take up the refrain. The little
organs edited by the postmasters give
tongue in unison.
This effort to put the Democrats in
the attitude of assailing the army
will prove abortive; the common sol
dier is all right, and most of the of
fices, from Gen. Miles down. They
obey orders; that is the duty of the
soldier.
The Democrats do protest and will
forever protest against the issuing
and carrying out of orders to make
"a howling wilderness" of any terri
tory under the American flag.
They protest that to "kill all over
ten," to kill prisoners, to torturo by
water cure or other Spanish method,
is not war, it is vandalism; it is not
American, it is barbarous. If not or
dered by the highest authority it
would never have been perpetrated
by American soldiers, except perhaps
in isolated cases.
The Democrats believe In keeping
the military authority subordinate to
the civil power. No republic can exist
that does not do so. The Democrats
Intend to investigate these cruelties
when they have the power, and pun
ish the guilty, however high In com
mand. They will investigate the ex
pense accounts, both at home, in the
Philippines and in Cuba. The trans
port service and the purchase of sup
plies will be investigated. They will
find out who received the large sums
that have been raised by extreme
taxation and if the money was squan
dered on high living in Cuba and
elsewhere. Who was "fixed" to stay
aut of politics and who was aided to
stay in. What secret intrigue set
free the Hanna pets, Rathbone and
Neely? Why Buencamino was or
dered by the administration to come
to this country to testify, when the
request of the Democrats for other
witnesses was refused. A page might
be filled with other details that will
be investigated, and from the amount
ot evidence that has been forced to
the surface there is a vast amount
behind.
To do this the Democrats must
elect a majority of the next house of
representatives, and this they will
Jo, if the people agree with them that
the curtain should be raised and the
truth known.
No wonder the Republicans are on
the defensive and are endeavoring o
switch the thoughts of the people
from their misdoings by claiming that
the army is being attacKed. They
know, however, that it is the orders
issued to the army that is the main
point and the officers of the army,
for their own honor and reputation,
and the honor of the United States
will welcome the change.
THE PRESIDENT DEFEATED.
The Senate Refuses to Act on His
Recommendation for Cuba.
The defeat of the Cuban reciprocity
legislation is a great blow to the ad
ministration of President Roosevelt.
His attempt to coerce congress to do
his bidding, which he emphasized in
two messages to that body, ha3 been
spurned by a large faction of the Re
publican party in the interest of the
Beet Sugar trust. It is now stated
that the President will call an extra
set 3ion of congress.- The members
Df the Beet Sugar faction in the house
of representatives, joining with the
Democrats, passed the bill reducing
the duty 20 per cent oa Cuban prod
uces, with another section added
which was insisted on by the Demo
crats, repsaling the differential duty
on refined sugar. The Republican
members of the Senate found them
selves in the same dilemna as the
members of their party in the house
of representatives. They were com
pelled to take ..he bill as it came
from the house, with the Democratic
anti-trust section, or take the re
sponsibility of no legislation.
The Democratic position is unique;
the members of that party voted in
the house and are ready to vote in
the senate, for the President's recom
mendation for reciprocity with Cuba.
But knowing thtt this 20 per cent re
duction on Cuban products would in
the case of sugar, inure In a great
measure to the benefit of the trust,
they compel at the same time the
repeal of the differential dutjr, under
which the trust is allowed to collect
about $6,000,000 additional tax from
the American consumer, and If the
countervailing duties are added that
sum can be multiplied fourfold. This
egislation, if enacted, would probably
lid the Cuban renter somewhat and
would reduce the price of refined
sugar in the United States as much,
jr more, as the Sugar trust would
gain on the 20 per cent decrease of
iuty it would have to pay cm import
ad raw sugar from Cuba.
This double reduction did not suit
'.he Sugar trust, nor did it suit its
lilies, the administration senators.
If President Roosevelt had really
jvanted to aid the Cubans and strike
xJlaw at one of the great trust
ps, wny did he not recom-
reduction of the tariff on
'gar equal to the advantage
ductJon on Cuban raw
vould not, of course.
- circumstances, give a
the Republican cam-
it the consumer of
jilted States would be
benefited, even If the collector tat the J
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campaign iunu niu to nui.i iium uiun
trust quarters the necessary cash to
make up the deficiency.
THE TRUTH ABOUT CUBA.
Developments Show Systematic Loot
ing of the Island's Treasury.
Rathbone has returned from Cuba
after being pardoned with the rest of
the American prisoners. Ho Is boil
ing over with indignation at the way
Cuban affairs have been managed. He
claims that the penal code was violat
ed" to convict him and bints that a
political quarrel between Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General Brlstow
and Perry Heath was the reason the
former .tde a case against him, be
cause he was a friend of Perry
Heath.
There Is no doubt that Rathbone
knows a good many things that Sena
tor Hanna and the administration
would shudder to have revealed, and
this, Mali of Rathborie's In telllnR a
little of the truth and demanding a
congressional Investigation is to
force the political powers that bo to
put him off from telling more. The
little he has told is interesting, as it
shows that the Cuban treasury has
been systematically defrauded to pay
bills, "identical with mine and for
which I was indicted." He also says:
". . ..Besides directly bearing upon
my case, the auditor's records contain
Items such as $42.40 a day and ex
penses for single witnesses in recent
postal trials and entending through
twenty days. . . . Tho bills referred
to Included two coachmen, while 1
had only one coachman. . . ."
It Is probable that the two wlimcn
he refers to were for Gen. Wood,
who had to put on the airs of a
pro consul to impress the Cubans with
the power and wealth of Uncle Sum.
That the poor and impoverished
Cubans were paying the bills does not
seem to have limited these extraordi
nary expenditures. When all the
items are given to the public. It will
doubtless be found that the pay
ments of $12,000 to Thurber to aid
the Sugar trust campaign for reci
procity and the $25,000 to Gomez to
keep quiet have been repeated in
many cases. Other patriots such as
Sanguilly will be found to have been
quieted in like manner, especially
when the administration was running
the campaign to elect Palma president.
Now Rathbone has escaped the
clutches of the law and Senator Hanna
has been able to draw down his $100,
000 he put up to shield him, these
sweeping charges and serious accusa
tions against the exorbitant military
and other expenditures would seem
out of place on his part, but it shows
what a band of leeches has been loot
ing tne Cuban treasury.
COFFINS FOLLOW THE FLAG.
Facts Which Should Cause Voters to
Do Some Thinking.
Forty-one new cases of cholera In
Manila in one day, with more than
GO per cent of deaths, Is the sad news
from the Philippines on June 1. This
accounts for the immense shipment
of coffins which is noted by the New
York World, when it says: "The army
transport Kllpatrick will carry on
her next trip to Manila 4,000 coffins
for use in Burying American soldiers
who have died or are dying of fevers,
cholera and other diseases Incident
to tropical warfare.
"Assuming the low average cost of
$8 for each coffin, this shipment of
$32,000 of merchandise exceeds in
value our total exports in nine great
classifications during the month of
May, the last for which figures aro
at hand: Agricultural Implements,
$1,100; sewing machines, $2,274; flour,
$5,250; clocks and watches, $5,302;
petroleum, $7S0;luniber, $1,700; build
ers' hardware, $5,192; carriages, $5,
371; furniture, $1.359 Total. $27,228.
"In the trade which 'follows the flag"
to our new Pacific possessions the
number of coffins is to the quantity
of ordinary merchandise In pathetic
proportion."
Difference in the Two Parties.
Secretary of the Navy Moody anff
Congressman Boutell, speaking at the
banquet given by the Republican club
at Detroit, glorified the deeds of their
party, especially the large surplus It
the Treasury and that the public debt
was less now than in 1898. One would
think, to hear these ardent Repub
licans talk, that they alone paid all
the taxes. It Is well to remember
that every dollar that goes into the
United States treasury is wrung from
the people through the tariff or inter
nal revenue taxes. If the collection
of the most taxes is the great credit
mark of statesmanship, then the Re
publicans have achieved it. The good
old Democratic plan of the least taxes
possible, with due regard to the ef.
ficient administration of the govern
ment, has been superseded by the col
lection of vast sums not required by
the government which can be stored
up in the treasury vaults or is loaned
to favored banks for which not one
cent of Interest has been or is being
paid, unless it be the donation by the
bankers to the Hanna campaign fund
of 1896, 1898, 1900; and probably
another liberal advance to the same
corruption fund this year.
What statesmen and patriots these
Republicans be!
Roosevelt's Judgment Warped.
President Roosevelt has certified. In
his late speech to the Harvard grad
uates, that Senator Lodge is his high
est ideal of what a Republican should
be. There is no doubt that the Presi
dent is right from his own standpoint,
for Lodge is known in Massachusetts
as the machine politician the boss of
the Republican party of that common
wealth, as Quay is in Pennsylvania
and Hanna is of the Republican party
at large.
His personal friendship for Lodga
has warped the judgment of the Presi
dent. The Massachusetts senator ih
quite an ordinary individual with t!ie
assurance and egotism that often goe3
with it. Lodge, if sold at his own
price would be expensive, but if got
rid of at his actual value, it would
not ruin a poor man to buy him. Theru
are lots of small but strenuous states
men at the helm these days.
He who can suppress moment?
anger may prevent many days of sor
row.
HOW 1MIAVK MAN DIED
PATHETIC ENDING. OF GRANDSON
OF JOHN BROWN.
J. A. Adams Wandered Away from
His Camp on the Colorado Desert
and Perl.: fi trr Want of Water-
Body Not Pound1.
J. .A. Adams, a former resident of
Arizona and a grandson of old John
Brown, whose "soul goes marching
on," wandered away from his rami;
on the Colorado desert on May 19 and
perished for want of water.. The
story of his disappearance is graphi
cally told by Charley Fay, one of the
party, as follows:
"We went out on th desert pros
pecting for gold. An Indian whom
had employed to mIiow iim where to
find water on the d-M-it caught hi
foot in the stirrup while inouutiug hie
horse and fell on his bock.
"The horse started lt run. dragging
the Indian by on foot. As the ground
was covered with Jagged rocks the In
dian would havo been killed had not
Adams run up and taken t!i? horse
by tho bit. Tin animal, wild with
fright, reared and plunged. Adam
was twice! thrown upon Hie rucks, ami
oner tho horse's hoofs hit him, but he
still gripped the bit until Mr. La
mere and I succeeded In rc-leuKlng th;
Indian.
"After. th danger wan ovrr. Adam
pat down iijmxi a rock and begun
laughing, and when nuked If ho wa.1
hurt, he replied, 'Oh, no, I'm only a
little tired, but I giu-Mvj you'll have lo
help me net tills arm.' We then Mart
cd for Yuwa. Adanis riding Home 2S
miles tliiit altriiooii nnd never mice
complaining, though wo could set- I
bis diiiwu features that lie was suiTcr
'ng intense pain. '
"At. dusk wo camped for tho night
and within an hour the Injured man
was delirious and raving like a tna
niac. Soimt time during the nlht lie
left camp. As soon uh wo discovered
that he had gone we made; every ef
fort to find li i in. but could not do
much until daylight, when we found
his tracks In the sand. We followed
the tracks all that day and until about
9 o'clock the next day, when wo camo
to a hard, rocky place at the foot of
some rock hills. Here we lost thn
trail and try us we might we could
not find it again.
"For three days we searched tho
hills, but not a truce of the man could
we discover, tnough we weil knew
that somewhere within a radius of
iwenty or thirty miles lay the body of
one of the bravest rn- ii that ever lost
Tiis life in that greut death-trap, th-j
Colorado desert." Yuma Sentinel.
THE LAST KENTUCKY DUEL.
Was Fought in '66 Between Capt.
Desha and Lieut. Kimbrough.
The death of Captv Jo Desha ut ("yn
thiana a few days ago recalls a duel
which wa3 fought in Scott c ounty soon
after the close of the civil war a cold
day in March, IHW In which Capt.
Desha and Lieut. Kimbrough of Cyn
thiana were tho participants. Capt.
Desha had served in the Confederate
army, and Lieut. Kimbrough was in
the Federal service. The duel was
fought on the lino dividing Fayette
and Scott counties, on the; James K.
Duke farm. Lieut. Kimbrough was th
challenging party. Two shots were ex
changed. At the second shot Kim
brough was shot through the upper
part of the thigh, the ball passing
through the body. He recovered from
the wound, but nlways limped after
ward. Ho died a few years ago In
Texas. At the time of the duel Capt.
Desha's 'eft arm was useless In conse
quence of a serious wound received
during the war.
Dfsha and Kimbrough were neigh
bor boys and schoolmates, and tho
trouble began between them when at
school. It was renewed after the war,
tho duel resulting. Major Harvey Mc
Dowell of Cyntb'ana was Desha's sec
ond and Major Jxng acted for Kim
brough. Dr. Benedict Keene, then a
prominent physician of Georgetown,
was surgeon to the latter. The duel
was witnessed by Warren Smith and
George W. Downing of Georgetown.
This was probably the last duel ever
fought in Kentucky.
Not a Bit Pretty.
A commander in the navy, who s
now cruising with the South Atlantic
squadron, sent home to his Philadel
phia wife the other day a description
of the women of Montevideo. "These
women," he wrote, "are as i attrac
tive as clods of earth. They arc
swarthy, angular, dull of eye, and
6tolid of countenance. Hut what I
wish particularly to tell you of is the
moles upon their faces. Not one in
twenty but has, on her cheek, or lip. or
temple, a mole covered with Ion.?
hairs. They are proud of these moles
and regard them as beauty spots. It
is said, indeed, that those girls who
are moleless will resort to strange ex
pedients in order to raise the ugly lit
tle growths upon their faces. Thn
women of Montevideo twirl the long
hairs upon their moles proudly, aa a
cavalryman twirls the ends of his
mustache."
Gave Different Pronunciation.
Speaker Henderson and Congress
man Hepburn are both Iowa men, but
they do not follow the fame miles as
to the pronunciation of proper names.
The other day Mr. Hepburn had the
nnnr and Mr. McRae desired to ask
a question. "Mr. Speaker, I yield to
the gentleman from Arkansas," said
Hepburn, pronouncing the last two
syllables of the state name as though
it were Kansas. "The gentleman
from Arkaneaw na3 the floor," said
the speaker.
Case of True Friendehip.
Harry Swartz and Sidney Bernhelm,
fellow students in a New York high
school, were great friends and also
strong rivals for a scholarship, the
former being the son of a tradesman
in a small way and the latter belong
ing to a wealthy family. Bernheim
outstripped his chum by a small mar
gin, but withdrew fron the school in
order that Swartz might get the
scholarship, which he did.
When a man has stomach trouble bo
13 never :.t a loss for something to oc
cupy his mind