T . ,
JCDK- DIP
Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1898.
NO. 33.
VOL. X.
OWN
THE
TQM
Judge Maxwoll Introduoeg a Bill
i for Government Ownership of
Telegraphs and Telephones
LET EVERY ONE READ IT
Sea What an Easy Thing It Would
he to Copy "the Most Enlight
ened Nations."
Thin I ropullmii.
Judge Maxwell ha Introduced u bill
in the bouse of representatives roviJirir
lor the constructing arid maintaining of
telegraph ami telephone Hue and io
authorize tint purchase ot such line us
are now in existence and to fix reason
able rate for the use of tbe same. Judge
Maxwell's great learning and long ex
Irenes upon the the iwucb CHlllieiitly
qnriliflee lilrn for iha task of drawing
such a bill. Tb,o mountains of difficulties
tb ut loom up in the mind or men wfien
they contemplate tli taking over of the
telegraph system of this country and
making It ft piirt of tb postal system
will disappear wliea they read Judge
Maxwell' bill. All that I needed is
that the "be it enacted" shall bo sanc
tioned bv our representative arid sena
tors and then we shall have a telegraph
and telephone system after the pattern
of "those enlightened nation" of whom
the republican used to talk no much.
The bill is herewith printed in full.
A bill to construct and muintaln
postal telegraph and telephone line,
and to authorize the purchase of tele
ttrnoh and telephone lines now in exist
ence, and to fix reasonable rate for the
ohm of the NHM0.
W hereon the meuns of cotntnunieation
bv teleurraph and telephone within the
United Htutee are Insufficient and ninny
important portions ol tne nation are
without adequate means of such com
ninnicutiou; 'and
Whereas it would lie attended with
great advantage to the nation, as well
toe merchants, business men, com
mercial agHucle, and the public gener
ally, if a cheuer, more widely extended,
ami more expedlou system of tele
f;raphy and telephoning were estnb
isbed in the United Hi a tee, and tn that
end it in expedient that the government
of the United Htate construct, purchase
own, suit operate the telegraph anil tele
phone linen in the United Htutee: There
fore Be It enacted by the senate and house
of representative of the United Htate
of America in congress assembled, That
the postmaster-general is hereby author
ized to construct, purchase, ami miiin
tain a system of electric telegraph and
telephone line uloug the side of the
streets, public road, and hiKbways of
the United States, either upon pole of
ufllcient height to render the earns free
from obstruction to those piotsm along
uuh streets, roads, and highways, or
who may have occasion to pane under
the wirtu; aud in all canes where it shall
be deemed Juexpediint to place the wire
upon such pole or the safety or nouven
ieuoe of the publio or Individual muy
suffer or be in danger from the name, the
postmaeter-generel is authorized to
have plans aud specifications prepared
for the const ruction of subway in or
through any city or tWuk or between
diffurttnt noiDts in the country In which
Mthe oecMwary wires shall be placed. No
Inula contract (or th construction of
subway shall exceed one mile In leugth,
nd shall be let to the loweat bidder
Itrdu public notice ol four werke to
at elect, such bidder tu present with
jin bid a bond in a sum to b stated in
tb itottc with good aud sultli ivut ur
tie lor the peilorumue ot tint bid la the
time and niwuuer iwitld. Any li.-r,
h. . .. MftUB . 1 1 I t ,1 UllMPMli. Ill I I. .
eaca aiUe to u eouetrue led. The pst-
'"Vj naeler-general way r auy ami an
r II lu bis opinion iu pa one iuivrt
t H tkfrby l ubrvd.
Are.il. That every post-oUlo a here
)e grtfs rweipt hir the prvMnliMg jtrar
tveaut twea ke thaw threw liiiit4
l tillers HSU peeamieii i ieureia or
ihue"Utn'MiiU, aav im illum
etMNtial: I'ruveM, I bti a Mia
irity ot the Inhabitants wilhia the hw
jtuiWtiry rwat a tviiouit ik
HmI aitrge,"i entliutf lurlh the
atiy (of eut h line and thlr dMtiie
hit the oairwotha wt the eaate,
IM, a. muwm a eea m iu
I eostttraelvd, aud II U pf'lwlW that
rlMie a ra wiilbeUkva
l,f daid bf tbe wtOMtiat'tiua td ttith
lal.e., ed k H are aeahie u
Ate epa the anat l a4aMi(e, II
efcli be Ik dsly . tb t'ailml aialve
iluiiiut lluHf ol la ilri. I la aliwb
h iwf tt wtnnu-l t a m tvtititie
iMittel eitl KiaUe tiU etiari ol
teal 4itiWI aVtitug the il8l
triUUl4 a9kt aa l eUtisg lb
aawaat tataea tkwd aitb a buss
a eHawt las twa as la tlam
Si i sad tbtttftia It shall t lb dxtf
I ii tb ( t apnaat ahw,
' 1 Uiratia-bU, al Hernial , but .
I V ifW4 I4 H , ste kH It
j ftliat as l Jeka lb .l iht
CI jtl tt-mttb-Hl etia4 WU abMKt
aUt be altd If lb HMeo4 SMteia
I . aad aul ethuaid,
U I bat iMl aa id lk
g iia4 l li4 shall Ungia
1 akvtaa U kaJ if
I MWabi haeaa asd kfa ift",l
whom no agreement has Iwen made at
leant ten days before the time desig
nated to flew the properly siieeitleil. in
case the person whoee projmrty Is ob
failed is a non-resident of the state lie
may be served by publication of the
notice In some newspaper of iteneral clr.
illation once In each week for four weeks
and a copy of the (xtiltlon to be sent to
the owner's luet-knowa place of resi
dence.
The pout roaster-general may from
time to time make regulation for deter
mining the hours which the office desig
nated for the receipt and the dixpatcli
of meeeiiueM bill I be open for the trans
action ol telegraph and telephone busl
tiee. niid fixing the sums that from time
to time be paid for the trutiMiiU-.ioii of
messages, and for services rendered lu
connection therewith, and for the gen
eral conduct of the b'lcgrnidi and tele
phone business: Provided, however,
That the charges for the transmission of
messages by telegraph throughout the
United Htates, without regard to dis
tance, be at a rate not exceeding t wenty
cents for twenty words or part of twenty
words of each messag and not exceed
ing five cents for eicli additional five
words, and that the names and ad
drefses of the senders and receivers of
the message shall not be counted as
part of the words for which payment
shall be rcoiircd.
That the sums charged for the trans-
mission of messages shall be held to
cover the costs of delivery within the
limit of the town postal delivery of that
office, aud in case the person addressed
does not reside within such delivery and
t he sender desires to have his message
delivered by special messenger t'lechorge
to him shall not exrd flttceri cent r
double mile or any part thereof beyond
such limit.
When the fierson addressed doe riot
live within the above described limits
and the sender does not desire to Incur
t he cost of special deli very hi message
ehall be delivered free of extra charge by
the ordinary postal delivery tiexiloliow
lug the arrival of his message, and if
there is no postal delivery such message
shall be placed in the postofllee of that
place in an envclooe addressed to the
person to wnom tne icessage was sen r,
Hec. G. That the postmaster-general
may from time to time make contracts
wit h the proprietor or publisher of any
public newspuisT or the proprietor of
an.v news agency loriue iraiisimssiMii
and delivery of any telegraphic comma
ideation at rate not exceeding twenty
cents for every hundred words trans
mitted between the hours of six o'clock
nost-meridian and nine o'clock ante
meridian, and at rates not exceeding
twenty cents for every seventy-five
words transmitted between the hours of
nine o'clock antemeridian and six
o'clock post-meridian to a single ad
dress, with an additional charge of five
ccut lor every uuimrea worus or seventy-five
words, a the case may be, if
the stone telegraphic communication is
ho transmitted to other addressee: rro-
vided. however. 1 hat the postmaster
uenerul may Irom time to time let to
hiiv such proprietor, publisher, or new
agency the special use of a wire for the
purpose of such newspaper or news
agency, at a rate not to exceed one
thousand five hundred dollars per an
num: And provided furtlmr, That no
such proprietor or publisher of such
newspaper or proprietor of a news
agency shall haveuuy undue priority
or preference in resptct to such rate
over any other proprietor or publisher of
ft newspiier, orol a news agency. For
the use of the telephone any distance by
one person for five minutes the rate shall
not exceed twenty cents, and to the pro
prietor or publisher of a newpaer, or
of a news agency, in obtaining or trans
mining new not to exceed oue-thlrd of
that rate. m
Hco. 7. That copies of all cortracts
and arrangements for the transmission
of news at sMH:ial rates shall be trans
mitted to congress withlu ten days if
congre I In eslon,and ifnotln
aiou shall accompany the next report of
tb postmaster-general, and shall at
all times be opeu to lnctiiui; and
copU of all regulations mad by the
poNtmaster geuerul from tuns to tim
shall b rtnrld lu the same manlier.
The pot master-general i Imreby au
thored aud required to purchase ail the
t.-legrai'li and telephone llnw In the
United Hi a I.- at their fair cash value,
and ti L'uitd Htates, by aud through
Hi piistiuaaler-gxuetataud hi audit
null's asd employe, ebsll, Iroui aud
alter Hi pg aud tskiug ttfeclof
litis act, bav th xclust privilvg of
transmitting tlegram or coiumuuica
lion by telephone wilhia th United
Mtair exeept a heroin alter provided,
and shall elt, wilhia the I mw-d Ktate.
have Ut titlusiv t'tfki and prmbg ol
i!uf mm ad th laeldenlai mat ol
reviving, wulltN liug. or dwlivng ll
gram aud Islephnua aieMOrfsa slept
im lurwi uair pro vi.b J.
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rlus.vs pnlleg ol th govramwl h
bIUiwsg'
'tri. TlaiaH or bdrphon aie.
la lb lraatalsioa ol alin h ao
rhsigs m utade, lxsa lrsnolll or
ir aiaaiiad tly br lb rivt
ae aud fvUuaa o lb bUH4 of J-rl-alaaoid
lb waar Ibsrnd.
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agw Imssuotud by wi eiislied
im b pmet a ot a .itauia,
vaKM, or it'a, 4 lb oj
tthah, Mr id lU riUetHa, rpl, asd
IraesaiWMiua r dbr l whwb a
Hotasf o valaahla raih-iliw bal
ts uai as-l tu ttwdtir ta
I bird. 1Ufet and tl'b'a Sa
mm iraasaiilied ib lb M
sl id lb istalf-gal aad
Uli la tb bwttseM ol k 'l.He
aiatiaeal.
Thraaa aad Ub,boa
Smhmw Iraasaoltcd lit of tb j
i it. Mat.
Nia lb bualai abniiy itb
ha a vitf w tnUai PruvKnl, Ibat b
lw aav rsl their llaa b
WHAT IS SOCIALISM?
Mr Sheldon glvei iomo Dictionary
Dcflulnons of the Ancient
Cult.
THIS IS A POPULIST PAPER.
Tho llavorhill, Musi , Bc-formen
are Denounced by Socialist
as ropuiisti,
C'su'l Serve Two Masters.
Kdltor ludcpcudeuti The editorial
attacks upon socialism in recent Issues
of the Independent arc, I believe,
wrong', both us mutters of act end as
mutters of policy, Bo believing I de
sire briefly to criticise then and to
pdescnt soc-Jein. lis I understand lb
and as I know very muiiy jopulists
voters in tho state of ftcbrusha under,
stands it. For a text covering1 purt of
the field of controversy let me quote
the following purugrupu from the lost
issue:
"There will be 110 more football
games after the socialists, the trusts,
and the corporations get to rough with
us. "Competition" is to be eliminated
from the field of human activities. Of
course, if it is wrong to cuter luto
competition, for property, it is also
wrong to compete lu a foot nice or for
a prize at college, ihe trusts are
dowu on, competition, it thinks that
if some other fellow should build an
other line and compete with it for pas
sengers, that it would be all wrong
Tba-thing that is wrong is not compe
tition. In very few occupations is
there any chance for competition. The
monopolists and socialist Vork to
gether in such a way as to completely
destroy It."
It may be said in reply to the above
paragraph that the system ol using
prize and "head marks" in school
work as a means of stimulating schol
arship is disappearing. The philosoph
ic reason for this i that it only siimu.
lates the very few who are in the front
and discourages the many wlio know
form the outset that they are not in
the race. The plillosopny tnat unuer
lies the best educutlou today 1 that of
broadening the knowledge of all not
of banging up prize for the leverisn
competition of the few,
Ho with regard to the illustration of
building another ruilwuy line ia com
pete in carrying pusseugers with those
already built. If the line parallel a
previous one certainly the people don't
want it built, The building of the
Nickel I'.nte railroad was a public Ions.
To parallel the Lincoln street railway
would be another. i tne first road
can do the buslucs It u very oor
economic sense to build another. What
the publio need is railway aervice at
cost.
The law of competition a Is exists
ia the world today is the law of flesh
sud blood selling itself at a continu
ally cheaper price year by year. To
psrtially protect themselves from it
destructive effects Wbor combines Into
unions and capital into Combinations.
Itoth acta are as natural and necessary
for self preservation aa the herding to.
gether of buffalo. Neither la against
interest until it seek to do injustice
to other as for Inst a no the buffalo
lu gather iu herds for th purpose of
driving the elk form the feeding
ground.
To come directly to "Ihe tiling
which mean the imin and theory
reins to frighten my frleud - blra
What 1 socialism? there are three
answer which I give In order.
FirstWebster' definition! A the
ory or sysieiii of stN-iut reform which
contemplate a complete reconstruc
tion uf lct), wiili a mora just and
toluol dUiiibuiioo of property aud
htr,M
.Neil th tiianditrd dhtiotiaryi "A
theory of i lvtl policy - that alma to
cur lha revons trm lion of ataiely, lu
tie of wealth, sod a tiiora stpjll
aide dislribuluiu of th prodmla of
labor thtuiigh the puliile vtdlwtitt
OMi rhl of laud aiel capital di
tlc-guUhed from, Sil tit public d
It-tlne iitsiiatfciiirut of all I ml tut i Irs,
lu imU is ,,Uijie. etVording to
his UcU,w
sHim, rUtowd by l adv
I ,l.ll'Ui.lir. flMU iH.innmU-
m ia uui d .i.dm a iuiiu unity of
v.hhI or propily and friw uuMal
Uiu la hut eMhg ll'l s i iudlvuluaU
shati t rewards! sUb."
,i,4 Ihlid, Ih leulury diclbiaaryi
"Aey thuty r )i" of wil oi
ybuila whub wuuid aU..ih, ta
in.! wr la kiI ! lb In Uldal
bb so'tduit ! iH.u.pellil on lil' ma I
?r tm -le)r , Sim snustum iv "
fi'fU at'U a, M alt!w a
hums psittrt an I tipuiat I d sirta
a vf lb plu'l uf Ular. and
a ,.,,.4 ake Md d wpnal, h la
traHut and ! t l'biUia,
tlx t..ii iHtMstsUa of lb utetuorr
K, twwMI,tt4l,
,Nuw, ub say we er an un i
ih dt ttsiiioa. sad I aitim
tbry ptlit belbUg tht I VnftlW
la Mitm. (,
I lurthsr affirm thai
II th aU at lbs peapl' pHa
tr a I dMd lu . la dv
sentlally the very things set forth by
these authorities s dcilning social.
tuici en isi tine ca-onnrui on. ior
coitipetltlou in the production and
distribution or weaiin ana tiiereny to
secure a "more perfect and equitable
distribution of the product of labor."
I know personally hundred of popu.
lists who understand these tilings as
I understand them and fortify their
understanding with the sitma argu
ments here presented and more be
sldss. We are noiiiillst who believe
in socialismwho openly avow its doc
trine a herein defined and believe
In securing its blessings ns rapidly as
we can, vve uo not yieni to jrouier
Tibbies nor to anv other man our
right to understand socialism as de
fined by the highest autliorities upon
the Kmrllsh language nor to defend Its
doctrine when so defined.
lint, perhaps, the claim may lie ret
nn III ii I. If Is kiudullstii a bounded bv
the socialist party that I so objection
able. I huv never been a member
of that party, and cannot speak for
Its orgonlwilion. I take notice, however-
f hut the socialist party in fills fall's
elections made surprising gains la all
the eastern states and mat in naver
hill, Muss,, a socialist mayorthe first
In tb history of this country wu
elected over both old parties upon a
plttjlfortti which 1 here present as a
sample of the tenets of the socialist
party, The platform rends es follows:
Article 1. The acquisition by the
municipalities of the publio utilities,
such a street railways, gas and elec
tric light plants and nil other utilities
requiring a frnncuise, the same to be
operated by th operatives, co-operatively,
subject to direct vole of the
whole people the employes to elect
their own superior officers, but no em
ploye to be discharged for political
reasons.
Article 2. We demand the abolition
of the contract labor system on all
public works.
Article 8, We demand that elglit
bourn constitute a dny's work with a
minimum wage of $2 per diem.
Article 4. We demand that all sal
aries and wages paid by the municipal.
, . - .. ... . i I Ia . t. .awwIamM
liy oe in j;roijruu w m khn
rendered. t
Article 5, We demand that the city,
when necessary, furnish proper food,
clothing and shoe to all children wlio
are kept at home on account of a lack
of proper food, clothing nnd sboes,
Arili.ln A. We demand thflt the full
pow,rs of tbe municipality be exer
cised for the relief of the unemployed,
rictvyliumy, out r tne esienusn
ment of public works for their employ,
trient.
Article 1. We demand the abolition
of grade Crossings and every other
menace to human health and life.
Article s. We demand that the bur
den of taxation be distributed in pro
portion to the holdings of each citi
zen. ....
Article 9. We demand the abolition
of all secret aession of the ity council
mid that a public record be kept of the
vote of each member on nil question.
Article 10, We demand the adoption
of the principle of the Initiative and
referendum and proportional repre
sentation. Arill 11. We demand that all offi
cer be aubject to recall by the respect
ive constituencies.
Article 12. We demand the aboli
tion of tbe secret Balloting in the city
council.
Now read this platform over from
lieglnnlng to end and point out the
plenk In It that the progressive pop
ulist in Jicbrassa cannot eubscrlbe to.
There is, it seem to me, no good
causa either in fact or in theory for
lit tack upon socialism. I thlnlc the
effect of them is to weaken the at
tachment to the populist partv of that
body of actual socialistic tbwkera who
have don aa much as any clase to
make the people'a party a iniwer for
the present and a prophesy for the fu-
're- . .
A. l Hu.;l.lN.
Lincoln, Neb., Jh ermbcr SO, 191.
Iteply by the l'ditor -lt w
rd do
la take refn
1 1, a liehlnd Ihe dictionaries.
The definition that Webster give of re-
nublicaiilsm is a follow)
ilepublloanlsm I. A republican
form or system of government the
principle or theory of republican gov
ri.,,i.,.l 1. A tl.ii'liinrlit lit. or tMilitU
eel ymjMMhy for, a republican form of
government.
If ft mill itrtM-lnhit hllllsrtf a rt'liul-
llean, will Mr. Hhebloit awept hl a
a deHnlMon 01 Hi pliuci rn nf t
There U ol a word In II atsmt "In
Irlnsle" value, lha gold atandard or
intiirt'tlv tariff.
Th m tslism thai the editor of Ih
tndiwlrnl oppose ! Ih amdaltwa
uf th reil lder of lhl tjr
vhhb Mr. thbii ) l organising
in ... ui I Ih union. Their
.4rt and tbir edr aeiue
ulmiu with mora nei aii r
beioeix- Ihsw Ih tepubl.ean db The
ery titijil be gitea of -iiiw la
IUrthltl, Mum, U daae. by Ihem
p,i,uUia aad at iilli at all,
Vt Mr, tiWba lUs lhl It U "
rUIUm, Wha U Ih hot author na
tive fi.mal, Mr. hl.M or lb
iUitsi lea tvia and ir? Tb
New Verb I'vopte, Ih bsdin sk Ub
rwpf l Iks I Sited llr,
dsioxiars th )lvlhlll les.Wt I
det tsi thai they are sol clIUa. bul
..i.ttlut. lb I'eopl dwlsrta Ihsl
l4 iMidrts ef th lUverlilll mnil
r irt hlef all h lurditlr ol
i-pubtiM. I k ladfjwHdsol I a pop
alil paper II biltw I ami ada
rle vvrv plash of Iks pUtf irW f
t pipuUl j.llfrat. Thet la aalb
" (l owttaatd (ia I'tflH lg)
IFAV.'f
hi
Peopling tbe rialne of Asia-Rail
road Building Through the
Veld Region.
GREAT EASTERN MIGRATION
Vlewe of John W. Uooltwater, a
Well-known Nebraska Land
owner and Free Silver
Champion . '
A tioveniaient Itsllway System,
The historian of a hundred years
hcuco will note two great landmarks
of the lust quurter of the Nineteenth
century the signing of the treaty of
peace between the United States, and
the building of the trans-Siberian rail
road. These two events ma' th entrance
of tbe two great future worlds-powers
upon an era of world wide influence
and control. The only two nations
that have tbe territory and the peo
ple Cupablo of expansion are Uussla
and the United States, Fifty years
from now they will so completely over
shadow the other nations of the earth
in all the element of material
strength as to make the disarmament
proposal by the present cstur not only
possible, but entorcable by their own
mutual airrcement,
Heverul times in tbe past year the
column of the independent have re
ferred to the opening of tbo great Si
berian empire bv the Ilussian govern
ment and the prospective incoming of
its mighty rivalry In the production
of grain aud live stock. Additional in
formation end rropbecy is given o
John Itook waiter, whosa residence 1
in Ohio, but who is an ex-tensive land
owner in Nebraska. Mr. Uookwelter
is not only a land owner, but ie an
original and energetlo thinker on econ
omic questions. Ilia little book, "Free
Hilver or What" printed two yeara
ago ia not merely a campaign docu
ment, but a piece of literature that
will be read with interest long after
the other writing of tbe campaign
of IbOO have ceased to be considered.
Mr, Uookwalter has Just returned
from a trip of 17,000 miles in Kusslan
territory. He was allowed to go every
where, to see everything and to take
hundreds of phototrr phs, tbanki. to
soeciul permits Issued to him by the
minister of the Interior on the appli
cation of the United Ktate ambaiuMMior
at St. Petersburg. During his Journey
he conversed with the governors ol
province and with mlllUry ana civ.
nvrnivK
RUSSIA
it officers of sir rank.
In hi Interviews he speaks aome mo
menlou truth. Among other things
he snld:
"Kverywbere - found the kindest
and most friendly feeling toward Am.
erica and Americana and heard many
expreaslona of aatlafactlon over Am
erica's success in our war with Spain.
To this there wna not a single decep
tion, Wherever 1 went everything was
thrown open to ma simply because I
was an American,
Amerlca'e best open door to central
Asia and China la through, ltuaala.
Already all the locomotlvea awl roll
ing atock on the railways are of Am
erican manufacture. Central Asia will,
In the near future, bo the greatest
market In the world for manufacture
of all kinds sud our obtaining th vir
tual monopoly of thl market only de.
..ml on our retaining the friuedahip
It ul hs now for u, .. great sur
prise to the world I la prerUon in
that part of the earth ami It will come,
I bellev. very em,
UUHS1A WJIXHBKK ALLfANCK.
Not many year will ellipse before
th world will are Uuasla, KnifUmt and
China combining for th partition, of
Asia. Th ry fore of circumstance
will bring lata about. Kngland and
Uussla will er b aW to agre oa
partition between themselves. ftUl
les will they allow the other pwrs
l.i hr with ihem In Ih spoils of
that eaiiplr. They will ft4 lo
defend China, wh abne I betple
galrisl Ih rev of lu wnUt awl share
with It th doiuluatioa of AU.
"Ih alllane of KngUad ad R"
tU aM I bin, of two ihlrd ef lha
human Me, wil! I h aa aHlawr a
hlslury la bl yet seen. II will b
i.s Ibsl will glv iHfa lo Ih world
for eeiiturte. AU I' lurU will
i.isU for pcv and II wilt l aid
di. ut teini la Ih r-sl f ih wr4.
l, fit dr athtiUr and ,NUra
ka Uudnwaer htw4 awh '
ai.d wh .! of f Aiwrta
i.ntlUiit and buna mew will tse-t
Mt- -thai tbti I bill M A i"
UU.r or InUrvsl la gta by th opw
leg f Chin ar Ih wtottw lb
,4V -!' a M as) mm Ihts lli
-,in. h rf Im' t fi by
a Sqxew d-Mr' la I Ulua, 1! realty
I an laduiill www, and what w ty
tf.w b abl a sf tl la Ih Chlw lb
lli Mt b bl la wh Ut lhw
tlvs. U dsy-eed thai f U af
I bad-hatr Chin buja fre
Ihe rsl f IH we 14. Will l5 H
ibiNHigli llil asd ttat ai Asia.
-Itss.1. la Ih ll Ihlrif r VS
4m Wei I epea Ih 4r f lli
than England and ell the rest of th
world has done in fifty years. No one,
unless he has seen it with hi own
eyes, can have tbe faintest conception
of what Ilussla has dona and ia still
doing in Central Asia.
"i have truveica over j,boo miles oi
railway which that country ha, built
from the Caspian sea to Tushkeud, ia
Turkestan, over a branch of thl Una
which runs to the northern frontier of
India, over another brand which goes
from Mery to the border of Afgbania
tan, This last branch was not com
pleted when I was there, but it will be
open to trafflo next week. There are
also ltusslun Hues along tbe 1'erslaa
frontier and penetrating into that
country, either completed or rupldly
approaching completion. - 1 th
work on these line na oeen uone uj
the soldiers, who, in that way, are not
ia Ilussla as elsewhere, non-producers.
Another matter of mighty moment
to the American people that Mr. Itook
waiter saw and recorded Is the agency
of the government in this vast enter
prise of opening up end settling a con.
tincnt. Jie sitys:
"All this tremendous Aslatlo rail
way aysteiu is owned and operated by
the government. All tbe line are ad
mirably built and splendidly equipped.
Why, I saw a bridge across tbe Amud
arla in Central Asia, at point wlwre the
river is three miles wide, that cost 20,.
000,000 rubles and is the greatest piece
of engineering work ever accom
plished. There is nothing like it any. .
where else in the world, tho Celebrated
Firth bridge, near Kdlneburgb, not ex
eeptcd.
"Wherever I went I saw citlc and
town springing up, such aa Aobad
In Turkomaula, for example, which al
ready has 29,000 Inhabitant. Near
Mery the csar is building a magnifi
cent palace. New Bokhara, twelve
miles form old liokbura, has 102,000
inhabitants,
"The ltusslun policy in Central Asia
is not to bring the new and the old in
to too close a contrast, end so it builds
the railway stations a few miles away
form tbe old centers of population,
thus forming new and entirely modern
centers.
"Where do the people come from to
Inhabit these towns? Why, from Eu
ropean Ilussla. ihe government la
turning its aurplua KurojMson popula
tion into Central Asia just as the Uni
ted State turned it surplua popula
tion of its Atlantlo States Into tba
great western territories. What I have
Just seen in Central Asia la almost an
exact reproduction of what I wltaessed
years ago in Illinois, Indiana and Mis
souri, when tbe emigrant from tbe
east were pouring into the w at. No
human power stay the onward march
of the Slav through Kuasla, which will
be the feature of the twentieth cen
tury, Just aa tbe march of tbe ADglo
Haxon through America baa been the"
feature of the nineteenth.
No man who intelligently etudlee
present event can doubt that the Rus
sian and American nation are the
coming powers in the world. Though
widely differing they have yet many
trait In common among them great
power of endurance, tremendous ener
gy and colonizing ability love of free
dom and mechanical ability. When
the ltussian people shall achieve con
stitutional liberty which 1 certain to
com in the next quarter of a century
we may look for th long repressed
energies of that people to go forward
with great bound. America and Kua
sla will be the rulers of tbe world's
destinies in another fifty year. Am
erica i mora than a hundred yeara ia
advance of Russia in civil liberty and
organised progress, llow Important
to the world'a welfare that ah aball
take no backward etep.
Brr' ota .
CiacotiATt, Ohio, De. II. Colon
vVUllam Jennings Bryan will b pra
ent hr at th Jackson day banquet
of the Dusk worth elub. The dl ol
th banquet baa ba ebanged ta Fri
day, Jaauary a, to ntt bis eoava
tene. Tb speoh of Mr, Dryaa her
U pl4 tab his opealaf of th
eaupetg against aapaasloa.
Vfr Mal ay lb T
Waiaiaeroa, !) If. Asllag AW
taraay Qaaaral ttleaanta baa raadr4
aa enialoa la erhish he hold thai re
tail dalrt ar aot repaired U pay
the additional tag at II pr harrsl
Wf rhe4 by them prior ta Jaa
It, lilt, tba day Ihe we rae asl
at lata etTt aad hl4 by the a
that del.
Hi t tUl tw4
llstlii, Mast, PY It -Mr. Jada
ft, ru, wit of U eailvt l Ih
UUa Ur14.lt4 to-day f f astrtlla,
Ih ws Ih 4M. f 'ayaal
Vfalho l Ue l'ail4 tla arasy aaV
i aW at Ja ti U ia
muumm t ir4 atmbj
Ctavataawt tthha, lv l,-Tl
atapra eea Ih
at lira vUU llebaada. wk4 ol la
tale CwUi JaiwM lkaJe aad slus
4 ieaalo U. A. tlaaaa, be Ur, J a
Mam 4 lhif faresef rrvsiJewtei
the U:lwte hiI epaay, t he rw)
a4s itfte aad Itvo at the liltawfa
fftal eoespaay hate W Netty
ealUUM br the rtdiaJ iwd a
aaay, aad it baa bw Mtissatad ttat
its haUteft at ? aad lira. rv
ida to thl ib i4 If wat wWasaaast
ta!Ma,avh
7 aiU be lake) f daig'4 aad will
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