Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
April 13 1899
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W can't have a Nicaragua caoal.
Tber if no use of talking abont it any
mors. ft P. Huntington and tbe other
railroad magnates object That ends it,
Let us talk about something else.
A man down in Kansas claim that ba
bo Invented a ballot box that cannot
ctuffed. Now let bim Invent aometblng
tbat will prevent tbe stuffing of voter
with gold bug rot and tbe thing will be
complete.
Tbe republican tried to cover tbelr
attack on tbe First Nebraska by ex
ponging tbe Stotsenburg resolutions,
but tbelr vote refusing to send tbe boye
any assistance except "tbanka" are atill
on he records.
Justae aoon aa the republican got
reinstated in power lo Kanaaa they aent
Word to all inau ranee cormoianta tbat
Web McNall bad kicked out of tbe atate
to come back and go .to akinnlng tbe
people again. They came.
Tbe correspondent of the Independent
will have to have patience. There are
ao many of them tbat the barber shop
rule must b enforced. But don't stop
writing. Keep it up. That ' I what
bolp make a paper aploey. Every body
shall bavethelr aay, socialist and all.
If tbe Saunders County Journal.or any
other journal in Nebraska, prefer to
call Km It a socialist Instead of a populist
newspaper, tbe Independent bo not tbe
slightest objection. It will indulge in no
fuuendoes nor call any names. It wants
it distinctly undoretood, however, that
tb Independent is a populist paper and
supports the principles of the populist
Pty. " " '
Tom Jobuaon aaya the time will come
when tbs people will ride free on the
streetcars. Tbat is about on a level
with aoma other of Tom's economic
ideas. Then those who rods on the cars
would be a privileged olacs and those who
did not, would have to pay taxes to
give them tbe privilege, better atick to
the old popcUst doctrine tbat no man
aball have something for nothing.
It is a trifling with word to say tbat
a nation I rich wheu all tlie woalth la
owned by a few men and the massea are
all atetxd in poverty. ' What is a na
tion anyhow? Is it a vast stretch ol
country regardless of tbe people who In
habit it? Is a nation great when it has
75,000,000 under task maetors? Is a na
tion rich when it baa pauper by tbe
million?. "
Mayor J oops got 2,000 more vote,
than the republican and democratic can
didate combined, in bis independent
raoe for mayor of Toledo, Ohio. That
shows bow tbe people will stand by pop
ulism ttbeo they coma to understand it
There is not a thing advocated by
Mayor Jones that cannot be found In
tbe platforms of tbe populist jurty In
Nebraska ever slitee 1800, ,
Uow tbestreet car magnates bsvs been
swindling the public eaa be eeen heu
tb fact i taken into consideration that
tbr perfectly responsible mm have
iuJ aa (.ffi-r U tie tlty govrumal of
lodiaaapotU to take over th line la
that city and give threa cent (area, ash
versa! trattaltre, to da all pavlag be
twea track and at tb expiration of
taeety year to turn all etrwet-railwa
llu ovrr o the city litr nothing .fiTtwy
or Trw.ld.-iit 1. M. Tarry of the Tarry
agon aad tarrlag work tf ladieaap
oU,C.rHniIth tdth Wavwty UieycW
cwmpaay aad Traak UdM, a br.
Tber U a gral dwU of talk in to
plulurrttle pr about "vkwtp bo
y,M Tttey 4lr tbat,inouy wo
0f so tkap m ao twut Utmt
rU are tow. Wbvaewr lUrt rat
am lot; It la u oly pru4 that tuaay
W4af bttbatltU riug dVarttaU
tktl. It Wum; eoaiuva lu t
aW a a a4 not Wad It alt ti gt
tab, iiety jt it will bay aiure Ikaa
It I4 tk year M. taa or ta
w m will W Ju ku aeesU
tKal bate l4 t t It, Pat kt
My Id really tt hap Tba
tV tuMr a lpa It Ike pmnt k ga,
Pakr a'l It la tkf vault
tow. Kvery Mly will woat tu Wrvwa
l It tb ftweoey la level 14 I fwupatty,
)ae m aay gta tkaap, froperty
iU t &rt. la Serb tltoe rateawl
attt aNolej kijk.
KCONOMIC PBBDICTIOS8.
In a private letter an old friend and
cn-worker eavs: "You quite frequently
ear that the ecouomiets predicted just
what occurred since tue afiDonniuou
of silver. I have showed then pasaflra
to a republican ; neighbor of mine. He
always replies by saving that there were
never any such thimr ritwi and tbat
you just print that sort of 'tuff lor po
litical effect. If it U 'not too much
trouble for you to look it up, I wish tbat
you would print in tbe Ini indnt a
passage or two from ibn prwlictlons
so that I can show ihmn to him."
In the year 1871, Ernest &vd wrote
as follows: '
"It Is a ftreat mistake to suppose that
the adoption of the gold valuation by
other states than England will be bene
ficial. It will only lead to tbe dlstruc
tion of the monetary equilibrium hither
to existing, and cause a fall in the value
of silver, from wbicb England' trade
and the Indian ailver valuation will suf
fer more than all other interests, griev
ous as the general decline of prosperity
all over tbe world will be.
"Tbe strong doctrinism existing in
England, aa regard the gold valuation,
Is so blind tbat, when tbe time of de
pression sets in there will be this) special
feature: Tbe economical authorities of
tbe country will refuse to listen to tbe
causa here loresbadowed; every ' possible
attempt will be mado to prove tbat the
decline of commerce la due to all aorta of
causes and Irreconcilable matters. Tbe
worklngman and bis strikes will be tbe
first convenient target: then specula
tion and over-trading will have tbeir
turn. Later on, when foreign nations,
unable (0 pay in ailver, bava recourse to
protection, when a Dumber of other
eecondary causes develop themselves,
then many would-be wise men will have
the oppertunlty of pointing to specific
reasons, which in tbeir eyes account for
the falling off In every branch of trade.
Many other allegations will ba mode
totally Irrelevant to tba real lieue, but
satisfactory to tbe moralizing tendency
of financial writers. The great danger
of the time will then be tbat among al
this confusion and strife, England's su
premacy in commerce and manufactures
may go bock tt an extent which cannot
be redressed, when tbe real cause be
comes recognized, and the natural rem
edy la applied."
It cannot be denied tbat every one of
these predictions bave been fulfilled)
even to tbe one that foretold tbe loss of
England'a supremacy in commerce.
England no longer rank first in com
merce although as a bond bolder and an
interest grabber she lead the world.
Wolowski made the most detailed pre
diction of this character which was
printed in 1808 but some icrouudrej
borrowed tbat book and never returned
it. . -
Rome day when the editor baa more
time be will get another volume and
print the whole pasaage, Many other
economfsta wrote in the same way. In
(act any man who bad enough sense to
run a saw mill would bave said the same
thing if it bad been brought to his atten
tion, and be bad stopped to thing about
It.
GIVE ONE BIO WHOOP.
Populism is bursting all the bounds
set for it by the managers of the republi
can party. It will not down but con
tinues to arise and assert its strength in
most unexpected places. It breaks out
In revolt in the moet severely guarded
republican camps. It starts up and
aerts itaelf in tho very bead quarters
of the dt'tuocratic party. It bus risen
upin all tbe unrestrained force of eternal
truth in four of the great cities during
the last month and has triumphed. In
Detroit, Chicago, Toledo, aud New York
tbe issues befjr the people were all
ieaue raised by tbe populist party and
are contained In all of its national and
atate platforms. Ia three ol those cities
populism ha bad a magniflclent triumph.
City franchise or hereafter to be owned
by the people instead ol by the corpora
tion. Oht you loug hatred, wild eyed
pop, what do you think ol it now? All
the long year of wit elf sacriflca bave
not been la vain. You will smile now
when you think of the time w us to gt
up oa a dry gawd box on a stru t cur
sor aad try to teach tb people tba doc
trine ol tba public ownership of publie
franchises walk tba republican booted
aad railed a aaarvbUU, Now th
very doctrine art tearing tb republi
can party la hrd. Tbey overpower
tb otost earelully t aad provided Kr
Mark llaaaa euaveatioa. !.oub at
Toledo, glv on air tlltting hoop, the
pull off your eoal aad go at It again.
A MEW 11 E
OidTtddtdetka swots lo'lla4 to
ttakaaetat Waa oalolUov. Tayatof's
vetttutta riluUoas oWlariug tkal
vorla tb Tfcilipi4Bl ar latHvaee
ut toe prlap! wl U goteraowat. tvf
narWa it tn w wake a part 4
tkat iM Id tahMt that U gov
eraof t4 a raoJtUa of tkaak to
odWr a4 tl U lirt Nebraska
it IW. M U vela irMJy aaya Ik
oalrary tad I 14 tba latiwa
of ail mm, Malklaf avail Vaa tk
(Mtpwtkt ( tkaa ti atak aa ta wa
tl cat i Ik ftuiiwUa. Tkal attea
up tb otul lilt t la tbe way
I4 lib la Kara It, TWew laaota
partMa of 4bt tbat tbrw tvMtrtka
mar 4 U tipl ut o da4
eitt tki , Ktery Mali aad
ft wad ol tk aftW ao4 a 4 Ik )t
Nebraska are against it and nothing
would please tbem better than a chance
to bo express themselves at - tbe polls.
Oa tbat issue the populists would carry
tbe atate by about 110,000 majority.
If any one doubts that the First Nebras
ka would not approve of that resolution
to a man, he should read some of the
private letters that have come from them
daring the last few days, y Every one of
these letters contain tbe most positive
Injunctions not to print tbem as tbe
writera fear a court martial if tbey were
cnugbt writing such things home,but they
are all opposed to this war 01 criminal
aggreaslonal. After the Nebraska boys
are discharged, if any of tbem aver live
to be discharged, some of - these letters
will be printed.
JOB PAKKERSIDKA.
Joe Parker, one of Milton Park's
orgaitlzera of tbe Wharton Darker kind,
says ha wants more populism and leas
ailver, As all tbe other planka of the
populiat platform are being taken up,
endorsed by republicans and democrats
In every part of this country and by the
citizena of almost every other country,
Joe need bava no fear about them. In
several of tba city elections thia apring
tbey were made planka in tba platforms
of all the parties. But ailver tbey don't
want any of tbat. Free ailver and the
government issue of all money will soon
be tba only plank left to distinguish us
from the Rothschild outfit. Tbe other
things show a strong tendency to take
care of themselves. The fight from tbls
oa will be for free ailver and full legal
tender government money.
All tba claim we have in the Philippines
la what wa bought of Spain for f 20,000-
000. When Spain waa trying to enforce
tbat claim, every paper in tbe United
Stateaidenouneed it. Now tbat McKln
ley has purchased tbe rotten old thing
It must ba dofeaded with the blood of
our best young men. Is the claim any
more juat after It waa aurcbasod by Mc
Kinley than it was a the bands of
Spain? If It is, wo would like some one
to tell why.
That committee to formulate a money
measure that will suit plutocracy and be
enacted when tbe next congress meets Is
working away. They are going to flood
tbe country with bank paper upon which
the people will bave to pay interest.
Tbat committee, it is to be hoped, will
net fall to put a lot of intrinnlo value
into tbeir new iesue of bank paper for
that Is tbe only kind of money tbat is
any good tbey Ull us.
f John M. Thurston bos flopped over to
the imperialist side In doing so be ue
enough cant to nausiate a carrion eat-
inr crow. He talks about "God's provi
dence." say tbat "God hoa given u
the responsibility" etc. etc From bis
speech one would infer tbat John baa
just been having a private Interview with
the Almighty and baa found out juat
what God intends to bava ua do. It will
be regretted, if tbat is the case, that
aome more credible messenger was not
employed to carry tbe message.
v
One by one tbe roses fall. John C.
Watson, so tbe papers say, skipped the
country last week, John was one of tbe
big red roses in the Nebraska republican
boquet. He use to run things in the
republican legislatures. There he ac
quired that Dartley and Norval habit
and now he has left his country for bis
country's good. Soon the last republi
can rose will be loft blooming alone on
the supreme bench. Then in due time he
will fade away and Nebraska will know
them no more forever.
' The republicans killed tbe bill tbat
was introduced to send money to the
Nebraska boy who wore fighting ia th
Philippine: tbey passed resolutions con
demning their commanding officer, and
now they at trying to mak political
capital out of th fact that th governor
vetoed a resolution which, if adopted,
would have a tendnecy to keep tbem
fighting la tropical jungle lor th next
tn yar, provided they could be forced
to stay tber that long. If th republi
cs raa mak anything oatof tbat they
are wvIouumi lo It.
While tk adoption ol a part of
tb prloHpW of tb populist party
and their enforcement In aoia ol tb
oil l
M la KagUnd triage a measure
rMrf to the ctlua ol tho
till, tb Mure of tb IMUK gov
meat to adopt tb plit lUafecUl
ortrioM. work Buffering and Kxwla
iay otfe por tlaa of tk ktaadom.
gUw at aa article la aaotke eulana
this pc-r arttlea by a Urttwh eubjeet
rwidlsg at Tetbnry, liaglaad, will show
tkat tk gold (Uadard k producwd
rtly IU m4 tfUet ther tkat It ba
Wltrel vaaM vry aar aatkf
IU,
k I'tUlai lt k, Tb bask bad
m prepattag I it sema! day a4 It
tua4tttBiy iol
i4 ol tba lamb. Tba ta UU !
M4 to Wuta oay alt tb ttwk ol
rtry kwM4 trl awejpaal w aw
tvrity. I tkat tb baak an rtgkt, M
tkMtmkM tk l4fkat ba
oatlaaity mm et baf Ml
kbi4 torn awtl tate. Il
H aaatM ttontb WTaH Haiti .
An tk lawba lava nat Wa kar4 yet,
Tvm tumuli OMutbe aade, lorawr
'ba4 la lb aal lalara.
POPULISM IN ENULAHD. .
The growth of populism in England
and on the continent still continnes to
be phenomenal. The city of Manchester,
England, which bos always taken tbe
lead in populism in Great Britain, has
made a new departure by addlDg manu
factories of aoap, tallow, oil, glue and
fertilizer to Ha garbage and sewerage
department. The city government now
owns street-car lines, gas, electric light
and water works, ice factories, fifteen
markets, baths and public laundries,
slaughter bousea, cemeteries, cheap lodg
ing houses, technical schools, art gal
laries and work-shops for tbe manufac
ture and repair of Ite vehicles, toola aud
implements. It baa reclaimed a large
awamp by depositing its street cleanings
and the solid matter found in its sewage,
and is now reclaiming another, by which
it is expected to add several millions of
dollars to the wealth of the city. Tba
most noval branch of the city govern
ment is a corps of bousecleaners, who
can be employed by tba occupants of
of stores, flats, office rooms and resi
dences to overhaul and clean their estab
lishments aa often as desired. A Man
chester woman who desire her bobse
cleaned can telephone to police bead
quarters, and a gang of scrubbers,
sweepers, window-washers, etc., will be
sent at once to take up tbe carpeta and
relay them and do ber spring bouse
cleaning in a few hours and in first-class
style while she goes to London or visits
friends.
Itia this sort ol govennmeot that tba
Independent advocates in contradistinc
tion to socialism. Tba principles of
populism enacted Into law and enforced
in Manchester Is making It tbe cleanest,
wealthiest, tba most highly educated
and happiest city in all of England.
Tba sweat abop and starvation among
tbe wage workera, which are aucb acursa
in New York and Chicago are becoming,
and soon will ba known there only aa a
horrid nightmare of tbe past. There I
no attempt there to Interfere with tba
freedom of tba Individual. Every worker
is free to choose his occupation and each
one Is paid a salary which becomes tba
private property of each individual
worker to expend as he or she sees fit.
Tber are thousands of wage workers
employed by tbs city and the rate of
wages is controlled by tba vote of the
whole people.
Other cities are taking note of the
prosperity of Manchester, and will pat
tern after the good example set In that
city, They will soon be employing
thousands of wage worker also and tbe
outside emplowers will be forced to pay
equal wages. Populism will thus coma
to be the redeemer of the downtrodden
of Europe before the plutocrats will al
low Its enforcement in this, tbe load of
its birth.
The salvation of society Ilea in pop
ulism. Its blessings can be obtained
without the overthrow of present con
stitution or the change of form in any
government. It does not make the in
dividual a cog In a mighty machine gov
erned and made to revolve or stand still
at tbe dictation of a anperior power,
called the "state." He is still a man
and tba director of bis own destinies.
He can still bave a family and a church
of bis very own. Ilia children will be
under his own control, supported by
himself and not by the "state." Even
politics wilt be purified, not by any
change in human nature, but by tbe con
dition it will create. When public
utilities become the property of the gov
ernment, there will be no bribe giving
lobbyists bauating tbe balls of congress,
tbe state capitols or municipal councils.
There will be no immense campaign
funds raised to corrupt the electorate,
Not because men have Wonie angule
and bave submitted tbemaelvee to Cap
tain Asbby'alaw of love, bat because
there will be "nothing in It." There
will be no mora Yerkea and C. P. Hunt
ington in Washington or Chicago, for
th reaann that tber will be no mora
million) to b atoleo by tneaae ol rail
road charier and municipal Iruochlnes.
Tber will be no more Atkiu aud Matt
Quay to bold up legislature aud pre-
veat th people Iroin having tblr jul
rvpnweatation in tb United State a
at a, for gaa combine aad railroad pools
will b thing of tb dreadful pt.
Ia populism lie tb bop ol tb world.
It poiat out th plain practical way fo
relief Irom th condition tbat oppr
and dmorali( tb peopl. 08 will
your coat all y old worker! Hlrlk
oat a you bav vr struck Nfurl
Your pio la th rank ao other man
aaa fill, la tb battle a-ist pluto
racy tkat kv ga b-fr yon hart
Waro4 to MM. Yo r a vetraa bow,
Mak your lt day tb Wet gtorioa
day. Nw rwcu't are towiag la bat
tby ar oaly lerrait. It rnjir wrb
tuly ta adrta4 tb prtncipW ul
pop!! a4 tby t aa4rtwo4
Uforw tb rwrfutt ran I aiad lata
leal, To aeit Ul al b Hukt
by lb IH4 Uuard. Ar ya rad? Uav
yo got yor war tu t tn? Hi a4
M a ko.
tan MtiagtMvio.
It kt Ub Ntfwt tkal tk I4(a4nt
ot tbat mom fmpalwt fff ar
(tftaol 0ly tk abate (4 Iketf spa tti
Ila4ne utw4 tk aut tk
4 tb aatMMot pUlkwB, !( aa all
U4 1 tba asaia tka. M bit mm
t4 tb MpHfW l tb Utkeb)l. rfT
or &mpr larM l tb lvao.
rablp of abat tby H tb nadwtri
X" tbwa aba ar rUy lb4ra
jng power in this country cor but little
about them. What they are intereated
in ia the mofntalnanoe of the gold atand
ard. That ia flae real question, tba par
amount question. That Indianapolis
committee ia at work night and day.
The congressional committee is laying
its plana. Tbeir press committee is fill
ing the great daille all the time with
their lies and their sophistries, Their
associated press censor (s never off duty,
A great battle la to be (ought in the next
congress. More gold bonds are to ba
issued in the next five years, if their
plans succeed, than are now outstand
ing. The heavy band oY the money
power ia to be laid upon us with more
force than all tbe past. It meuu serf
00m lor 'tie producer, it meanero"eas-
ant agricultural class. It is
Sterling Morton bas declared, that
alter tnoae tbat are born landless mu
always remain landless. . Let ua
after tba bondholders and the money
power just the way wa did when tha
party was first organized.
A BIO DIFFERENCE.
The Saunders County Journal says:
"Mayor Jones ia an advocate of munici
pal ownership of street railwaya, ia in
fact on avowed socialist." It don't
seem to the Independent that tbat state
ment accordr with the facta In the case,
and for two reaaona. In tba first place
Mayor Jones call himself a republican
and there is a wide extended movement
In Ohio to make him tba republican nom
inee for governor. In tba second place,
the municipal ownership of street rail
waya, where tba amployeea are paid sal
arles which tbey are free to ' spend aa
tbey please, I not socialism and no so
cialist of authority ever claimed tbat it
wa. Under socialism, if a man were a
conductor on a street car ba would get
no aalary, but would bava a common
Interest in all property with tba other
70,000,000 citizena of tba United States.
Tba one is populism and tb other ia so
cialism and there is a mighty big differ
ence between the two. '
MADE II CiOOD.
Editor Independent: My copy of the
Independent of April 6 came to band to
day. After leading the letter of II. Kil
gore I am reminded tbat my subscrip
tion expires today and I immediately
lay down tha paper and take up my pen
to renew. Inclosed find postal order for
one dollar. Go on with the Independent.
You are on tha right track,
i J, M, Waup,
Marquette, Neb.
Tbe Nebraska Independent, of Lincoln,
publishes mora good sound fusion doc
trine, every week, than most fusion pa
pers do in a year. We would like to re
print tbe entire Issue each week, but wa
can't Adams County Democrat.
Several papers in the state have bad
tba honesty and manhood to acknowl
edge tbat tbey were a little too fast in
tbeir denunciation of the auditor and
bave taken it all back. Soma others
should do likewise.
TU AT KUltOKIAIi DCBEAU.
Mark II anna's editorial ' bureau ia
working over time these days. At tbe
beginning of tbe week It aent out an en
ormous amount of imperialistic editor"
iuls. One of them begins as follows:
The mistake made by congress lost
spring when the resolutions were passed
iu connection with liberating the Cubans
from Hpanish rule aud eMtablishing a
free republic is only too evident now. Up
to a few daye ago tbe general opinion
in Cuba was anti-auuuxationists; but
since tbe aseembly bas given patent
proofs of absolute incapacity to direct
the affairs of the country, beginning by
paeslve resistance to the military gov
ernment of the United States, and crown
ing tbeir lueillaiency by tbe deposition of
Gomes, Cuban popular feeling bas under
gone a complete change,"
The whole package is full ol theory:
"W must hold Cuba." Watch tbe great
daille and se bow tbey will take np
tbe cry. They ar all edited in Mark
llanna'a quarters in Washington.
FRANK IAMS
Va3
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OrtU.P..n4a&M.Ry. OT. PAUL, NED,
WI8EBTBAN THEY KNEW.
The populists who fomrulated tbe prin
ciples of tbe party builded wiser than
they knew. They had no idea that they
were laying foundations upon which
were to be built new theories of govern
ment, but that is what tbey did. Social
ism was older than tbe Christian era,
but tbey did not adopt that. They knew
tbat through all tbe ages it had been
advocated And that thousands of at.,
temps had been made to put it in prac
tice and tba result waa what they saw
before them. So they atarted out on
new linea. In essence tbey adopted the
principle tbat what best could ba dona
by by private iudividualssbould be done
by tbem and what could best be done by
tbe goverenment should be done by tbe
government. Tba public ownership of
all franchises, atate, national and muni
cipal and tba operation of telegraphs,
telephones, street cars, railroads, liarht-
InflrpUnts and water works, thev saw
could be much better carried on by tba
city, state or nation than they could ba
by private parties and tbey demanded
that all these should be owned and op.
perated by tbe public authorities. They
saw bow this would clear tba political
atmosphere and go a long waya toward
cleansing away tbe filth of politics, but
it is to ba doubted if any of them antici
pated tha thorough revolution in gov
ernment tbat would result from It.
There will be no mora railroad lobbies
banging around tbe balls of congress
whan' tha government owns the rail
roads. So with all tbe other lobbloa.
Tba Omaha platform was a new declar
atlon of independence and phe principle's
there enunciated we atill defoud.
Our dear (and jalntly brother of tba
Papillion Times calls the editor of the
Independent a "buck." Tbat be bid not
call bin a "stag," shows bow kind
hearted and truly good dear Eddie ia.
Eddle'a growth In grace baa been pben
ominal. It Is reported that angelic
wfnga are already aproutlng on bis back
and that aome day in near future he will
sail away to those happy regions where
the good democratic editors go. He de
clares however that he will never join tba
great multltudespoken of In Deviations
because they have Palms there. "
The Kansas republicans are going to
make their state college nonnnrtlzdn hv
turning out; everything in it except the
republicans. Pop students will hardly
be allowed to attend It hereafter. The
other day a republican cayote got up
some fake charges against one of the
regent and the treasurer and the gov
ernor promptly suspended both of thorn.
The' professor are preparing to pack
their grips and flee to some other state
tbat is not so strickly nonpartlzan as
are tbe republicans of Kansas.
Even some ministers in this age of
greed estimate every thing by what it
will bring in money. One of them tbe
other day in an article triod to prove
tbat Prof. Herron ought to be dismissed
from his department in the college where
be teaches applied Christianity because
tbe college was losing money by keeping
him in its faculty. When a minister gets
so low in the moral scale tbat he would
auppresa truth because it did not sell
well on the Wall street market, he is low
er than the bawdy house, the gambling
bell, the ring, tbe race track or even
Wall street itself.
Morality is not a late arrival in this
evolutionary world. It can be traced
duck, tnrougti the sub-human forms to
the lowest forms of life. The aunimals
that show love for tbeir youoir survive.
Those who devour tbeir young or for
sake tbem disappear or set about to
improve their morals. Tbe law is unl-
venial. It applies to man and to na
tion. Th nation that doe not Pro
vide for posterity goe the way of tb
icntnyosaurus. in men who ar trying
to fasten tbs gold ataadard upon thia
nation do not aeein to know that, or If
they do, they dou'l car.
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Porchorons,
Bolivians,
Uhiroa-Clydea
and Coacucra
tab h etottM t toiaay at bat