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Ik fell mm The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated. VOL. XI. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1899. NO. 14 V HE'S AN EXPANSIONIST After Cogitating; Oyer the Matter Jerry Simpson Conclude! that he la for . jjxpanslon. - : ., Jerry is publishing a paper down in Kansas called Simpson's Bayonet. He is a candidate for United States senator from Kansas and for that and other reasons his opinions are looked for with interest. In the last edition of his paper he comes out for expansion without an if or but, and gives his reasons as fol- lows: '. :' '"",r '"" Tte Philippine' Islands, according; to good republican authority, (all the au thorities we will use in this article are republican) have an area of 114,000 square miles, including a number of vol canos and a population of 8,000,000 people. The territory of Arizona has an area of 113,000 square miles, . and a population of about 120,000 people. It is hot in Arizona but it is hotter in the the Philippines. We should judge from all accounts, that there is only one place either on top of the earth or beneath the earth that is very many degrees hotter. As between the Philippines and Arizona, we are in favor of expansion in Arizona. Arizona has only one eightieth the pop ulation of the Philippines and about the same amount of territory. A few of the many million dollars which must be ex pended in the subjugation of the Fill- " pinos and keeping them in subjugation would transform the sand dunes of Ari zona into rich farms and splendid QVp chards. : . Then, there Is Nevada. Nevada has an area just about equal to that of the .Philippine islands and only a population ft of about sixty thousand. The popula tion ol Nevada must, therefore, be mul tiplied 150 times before it is equal to that of the Philippines. We are in fav or of expansion in Nevada. To be jure, it is claimed that Nevada consists large ly of arid land, but all that is needed to make these lands a garden of Eden is water and the millions to be expended on the Philippine Islands would procure that water. Decidedly, we vote for ex pansion in Nevada. Then there is Colorado, the centennial state, the state with mineral resources which have hardly been scraped through although they' have already produced untold millions of wealth. Colorado lacks only a few thonsand square miles of being us large as the Philippine Isl ands and It only has a population of about 400,000. We are in favor of ex pansion in Colorado. She is our near neighbor and we sympathize with her aspirations. We feel that the money it would cost to bold the Filipinos in sub jection to our rule could be better ex pended in Colorado. - And there is California, the land of fruits and flowers and perennial summer, where they sell climate and soft Italian skies with their real estate. California with an area half . as large again as the Philippine Islands, only has a population of 1,500,000 people. An eminent geologist, not long ago, after a careful study of the natural resources of California, gave it as his opinion that the etate is capable of sustaining in com fort, without strain upon her land, a population of 40,000,000. It would seem from this there is room for expan sion in California. We think some of the millions which are to be expended for maintaining a large military force in the Philippines, could be expended to better advantage in California. And there is Texas, with thousands upon thousands of acres of land which have not yet been touched by the plow; a state almost twice as big as California. Jnst think of itl Why if Texas were populated as thickly as the Philippine islands, it would have over 20,000,000 people, we are in lavor oi expansion in Texas. ' MORTON'S ANSWER. There are no doubt many populists who are curious to see wha kind of a reply Morton would make to Alleu'8 scathing letter. We take pleasure in burnishing it to the readers of this paper. It will be seen that the great egotist is a good deal more mild man nered than usual. The scoring that he got has done him good. Ilia reply is as follows: , In a recently published letter Judge Allen, formely a United States senator and now a district judge, promulgates higresent political faith. He has at various periods of his unselfish and faultless life adhered to republican doc trines and also to those of the' democ racy, but, as late as last month, be was a member of the propaganda of popu lism, and made a confession of faith as follows: "In the first place, I believe in the abo lition of the issue power of national banks. I believe the power to issue money, gold, silver, copper and paper, under the constitution and the decisions of the supreme court, resides exclusively in the general government; and that either partial or total mosopoly of this power by private citizens or private cor. porations, is a violation of one of the fundamental principles of the govern ment." This is rather vague for a jurist of known perspicacity of thought and ex pression. When did the government ever make a paper a dollar? When did any national bank make one? The gov ernmest issued promises-to pay dollars. These promises are printed on paper and so are the promises of the national banks. Individual notes promise to pay dollars also and likewise, ai money, me diate exchanges just as veil as the prom ises of either .government or banks do, and they are; therefore, from Allen's standpoint "a partial monopoly" of mat "power to" issue money ' wmcn re sides "evclusively in the general govern ment." And the ancient currencies of tobacco, coon skins, periwinkle shells and buckskin which were used as meas ures of value and mediators of ex cnanges were alsol invasions of and "par tial -monopolies" of "a power residing exclusively in the general government." The judge knows very well that man has never created money with value in it, and made it permanently and suc cessfully a measure of other values, out of anything which did not have value as a commodity before it became money. All paper performing the functions of money is the promise to pay money.and is at par or below, as the probability of its redemption in money holds good, in creases or diminishes. allen's railroad views. 'In the next place. IZbelieve in govern ment ownership of railways and tele- grapns. uigbty per cent o! the govern ments of the world, outside of the United States, own and operate a majority of tne railways in their respective coun tries, and in many they are owned and operated exclusively by the sovernment. thus imposing upon the people not to exceea one-nan oitne burden our sys tem imposes UDon our DeoDle." It is strange that those who dread and denounce a monetary system based upon .the gold standard because that system 'obtains in England and other parts of Europe should laud and advo cate government ownersbin of railroads fa the United States because "eighty per cent oi tne governments ol the world outside of the United States own and operate a majority of the railways in their respective countries." Why reject a monetary method when it is used by eighty per cent of the inhabitants of the civilized world and adopt a railroad ownership lor the same reason? Trans portation of passengers and freights by rail in the United States is cheaper than in any other country on earth and better. -.'-':. But as United States Senator Allen declared that he would not vote a dol dollar of bonded debt upon this country even to aid in -carrying on a war, how, then, wfll he purchase the railroads for the government? The railroads have cost much more, eleven times more.than the present debtof the United States! Will Allen pay for them in spot cash? Will be confiscate them? How will he have the government acquire them? Does government dredge harbors, deepen rivers and erect buildings at less cost than private persons can do the same kind of work? Upon what data, what ascertained facts, does Jndge Allen assert that with government ownership bf railroads the burdens or cost of trans portation in the United States would be reduced "one-half?". Pennsylvania built andtowned and operated a railroadN Is from the expe rience and satisfaction in running the transportation business by the Key stone state Judge Allen is led to bis conclusions? Michigan buit two rail roads, tne Central and the Southern: did they give the Wolverines cheaper rates r ine tonservanve would be pleased to publish the figures ' and facts whence the incredible assertion of Judee Allen is deduced. Tberenis so much mis information circulated as to railroads and other corporations that it will be only addng another blessing to the long list wmcn Judge Allen admits he has conferred on Nebraska if that dis tinguished and erudite publicist will demonstrate the correctness of his knowledge as to the cheaper rates of railroads which are operated by govern ments in Europe. PROTECTION. Acknowledging his errors' when as a republican be praised and exalted the faithful followers of the McKinley school of economists Judge Allen expresses his tree trade views tnus: "I believe that under the constitution the power to impose tariff taxes is lim ited to tne necessities oi tne govern ment, economically administered, and tnat every dollar ol tans taxation otherwise imposed violates the constitu tion and the true theory of a republican form of government, in which the people are entitled to have the burden of taxa tion rest upon them as lightly as possi ble." This is very candid and inspires one 1.1. 1 . . i T l wim nope ior continued revisions ana amendments of the political faith ol Judge Allen, who has, in a luminous office-holding career, evinced wonderful versatility as a party acrobat and con tortionist. ' But the brevity of'Judge Allen on the money question is startling, lie tersely says: "I believe in postal savings banks, and In fact, in everything that is embraced in the St. Louis populist platform of 1890, including the free and nnlimited coinage of silver and gold at the legal ratio of sixteen parts of silver to one part of gold." This is clearly in favor of the gold standard. He measures the sixteen ounces of silver by the standard, gold. everybody wno declares lor tne ratio of sixteen to one admits the one, the gold, to ds tne unit oi value. HOW MUTCH RICHER? Now my farmer friends how much richer are you under a gold standard than yon were before its adoption? Tou have bad largecrops now fortbree years and helped once by a foreign failure, but have yon laid up wealth? Have yon mads mora than yon wonld have, before bad not drouth and crop failure been your lot? With your immense crop yon can only hops for a small gain, if any. 8 tan ton register. J Mews of the Week One day last week Otis sent a pom pous cablegram to the president that was immediately given ont for publica tion, which was to the effect that the Filipino army was completely broken up and all that was left of them was a tew roving bands, small in numbers. Three or tour days afterward he sent an ac count of a furious battle in which he de clared that he met 6,000 of the enemy in one body. The question is: "Which time did he lie, or did he lie both times?" From the accounts sent by the war correspondents this battle was a terri ble affair and the losses while in action were five killed and forty wounded. That does not include those who per ished from heat and exhaustion. Otis does not allow those records to be sent. Harry Armstrong McCutcheonseems to have been Vanished or left the island the correspondent of the Recard says: "The weather was terrible. At times a blistering sun beat down on the troops. Then they would be marching and fight ing in a blinding rainstorm. Next the sun wonld come out again with ita fear ful heat. The regiments experienced some hard firing daring the advance. They had to travel through water knee deep and then across cane and rice fields whioh were flooded by the heavy rains. The blades of the cane cut the faces and hands of the soldiers." While the officers and Men kept ap the record of the best fighting army in the world, the report lot their brave deeds excited no enthusiasm. Busy men hardly took time to read the account of the battle. ' How different was all this from the way the news was received when our army was fighting a war of humanity in Cuba? The fighting at San Juan was mostly done by the regu lars as it is now being done in the Phil ippines. Then every man gloried in their deeds. Now they take but little interest. Why? Because the people of this country have no heart in this war. The greater part of them continually denounce it. It is not defending the principles of our government nor add ing glory to our flag. There has been the most disastrous storm in Porto Rico and some of the other West India' islands ever known. The only storm which can be compared to it occurred 83 years ago, The com manding general in Porto Rico tele graphs for help and says . that several thousand people have lost their lives and many thousands more are left help less and starving. The war department has called on the people for donations and many citizens have responded. Gen. Davis says that it will take 1,000 tons of provisions a week to supply the starv ing for several weeks to come. McKin ley has, while in the annexing business annexed a lot of West India hurricanes and transferred the support of the suf ferers from Spain to the United States. Shell out. Here is a case of "our duty" sure enough. Word comes from Ecuador that a United States consul down there has persuaded that little republic to go to the gold standard. Of course it can never do it. They can't now pay their debts with silver and when they double them by establishment of the gold stand ard it simply means repudiation in the end. The gold standard idiots in this country are greatly elated over this scheme of the American consul. They never stop to think that even if Ecuador could collect gold enough to do the business of that people that it mus be taken away from the United States and other countries and make money that much scarcer here.. The banks are prac tically without reserves now, and the clearing houses are using certificates in direct conflict of law to pay balances. Jurt take away a few millions to estab lish a gold standard in Ecuador and the banks will be in a much better condition That is what these mullet beads think, but their thinking machine has long been out of order. The writers on the Stats Journal got into such a state of excitement the other day that they nearly rahed the roof from the building. From the office boy to the "old man," every individual hair on their beads stood straight up. The rauss of it all was that the exchange editor found some dispatches in the Chicago papers dated at "Camp Poynter," San Francisco. They all rnshed pell mell for the long distance telephone and then to the telegraph office and wanted to know what that awful thing meant. Finally they got a dispatch from Col. Mulford who said that the place where the First Nebraska was camped was called the Presidio and that is all that the gallant colonel said. He did not go into details and say that there were several regiments camped in the place called the Presidio , and that each regimental camp had a name of its own. With that bit of comfort the office had to be satisfied and after a . while they all got baok into the old rut again. The military -authorities suppressed a paper in Havana and that interference with the freedom of the press in the country where theJTJnited States is in supreme authority, is creating a great deal of comment all ' over the United States, even in some of the republican papers are putting np decided objections. A commission of Cubans have como to Washington to lay the- matter before the president in person. The defense that is made by the military authorities is that the paper was not suppressed on account of its fierce advocacy of inde pendence, bat for publishing obscene matter. That defense is a puzzler to a pop for he cannot see why if that were true, the matter was not brought into the courts and the proprietorjpunished according to law. The courts are in session every day in Havana. ' - Gorman is holding a conference of the gold democrats at Saratoga to push his candidacy for the democratic nomina tion. The first thing that he did after begot there was to send a special dis patch to ail the ' democratic papers in the south declaring that Bryan would not vote for Crisp for Speaker because Crisp was a confederate soldier. After doing that, Gorman declared that Bryan would not get the delegation of a single southern state. The gold bug editors made a great display of this bit of news. They take their readers for suckers, and in fact most of them are. War seems to be imminent between England and the African Dutch republic of which Uncle Paul Kruger is president. Thl last time the English attacked these Boers she got gloriously whipped. The Jameson made a raid on his own account and was captured. A good many people in England are opposed to the stand taken by Mr. Chamberlain. It must be remembered that we get only one side in the dispatches, It is this writer's belief thai Rhodes Is at the bot tom of the whole business. He wants to make the whole of Central Africa, from Capetown to Cairo, English territory and has been working at his scheme for twenty years. Every Dutch soldier car ries a Bible and prays and sings psalms while be shoots. If he is killed, he goes straight to Heaven and is happy ever afterwards. That being the case they are very troublesome fellows to whip. Besides that, outside of the Dutch re public itself, there are many thousands of Boers scattered all over South Africa, some of them holdinghigh office. An attack on the Boers will" make fighting prevalent all over Sooth Africa. efll This trial of Captain Dreyfus at Reunes, France, is a phenomina ot civili zation. The interest of the whole ciyil ized world seems to be centered upon it! All the newspapers of every civilized nation are giving more space to it than to any one thing that has happened the last quarter of a century. Many of the New Tork and Chicago dailies are spend ing thousands of dollars a day for special cablegrams and the Associated Press sends out columns of matter daily con cerning it. Why should the whole world ho Intormtod in th fate ot one man? It can be accounted for on no other ground than the lnate love lot justice that is found in all races. The whole world except a portion of the French nation, believes that Dreyfus is innocent. The newspaper representa tives of all !nations, of whom there are sixty in attendance upon the revision trial, are each and all firm believers in the innocence ot Dreyfus. Twice has the fate of this man threatened the life of the French republic. Now again, is all Francs in an uproar. Nothing else is talked about or thought about in the whole nation. The attempt at convic tion has resulted in the suicide of two prominent officers, the Imprisonment of several and now the counsel for Dreyfus has been shot down in the streets. The evidence that has been brought forward at this last trial by the prose. cution, is of the flimsiest kind. It woold not be admitted in a jostle e eoort In this country. Still the trial dram on from day to day, with no other effect apparently than to keep France, and the whole world for that matter, ra an nproar. Dreyfus has l-een kept in soti tary confinement, much of the time under torts re, for flveyears and Mile bis case is on trial. The manner of ad' ministering justice among the Latin nations is very different from the plan followed by the Anglo-Saxons and Ger manic peoples. We often make dismal failures, as for example in the Eagan and Captain Carter affairs and the gen eral pardons that McKinley has issued to so many defaulting national bankers, but such a thing as this Dreyfus affair could not occur under our (orm ot gov ernment. Croker has hurried back from Europe to look after his fences. Be evidently heard something that started him oft pretty quick. When he got to New Tork he declared that he bad changed his pol itics. He has dropped imperialism and Van Wycke and is now for Bryan and the Chicago platform. It was Hogg who rooted him oat ot bis imperialistic gold bug nest. An opposition . had started among the democrats otNew York that portended his overthrow as Tammany leader. . Such men as Croker have no principles" He would be for any platform or anx cannidate through whom he coold control the patronage ot New Tork City with its millions ot die boreements. This flop of Croker will be ot no advantage to the reform forces. It will admit a lot of delegates to the democratic national convention that will try to control the platform In the Interest of goldocracy. Bryan evidently begins to see danger ahead. There can be no donbt that there is deep significance in ths written statement that he recently gave to the press in whioh he said that his candi dacy for the presidency depended upon ths platform adopted. Thisis fair notice given long in advance, that he will not run on the democratic ticket if there is any straddling done on the money question. Those who ( know Bryan the most intimately, have more faith in him today than ever before. Here is a man whom the money power cannot buy, deceive or buldose. REPUBLICAN RECORD Have yon noticed any commotion or contention about the republican plat form for 1900? Ths party's official record Is Its platform, Terrs Hants Ex press, - - , v What is the republican party's official record? A deficit producing tariff law made in the interest of the favored classes. An odious stamp act inaugu rated to bolster ap the tariff law. A violation of a solemn pledge made to the world concerning our attitude toward Cuba. A violation of the fundamental principles of the declaration ot indepen dence by a war for conqest. A hypo critical prating about the dangers of -criminal aggression" wniie laying plans to pursue a policy of criminal aitgres- sion under the mask of "benevolent as similation. A violation ot a pledge to extend and strengthen the civil service. Playing into the hands ot army con tractors. Patting incompetent ado lescent youths in charge of the food sup. plies ot soldiers enlisted to fight the bat tles for the flag. Algorism, Eaganlsm, Otisism and Corbinism. Truckling to corporations and ignoring the cries of fered np bv oppressed people for relief from the domination of trusts. Cattle transports for soldiers. Horse doctors to treat soldiers in the field. Fever camps pitched on spots selected by in terested aanerents oi tne administra tion. Censorship of mails and telea-raoh cables. Favoritism and prejudice. En deavors to rob men of their jnst honors in order to confer the same upon bureau era tic favorites. Violation of a solemn pledge to promote international bimet- alism. Ignoring of solemn pledges for currency revision and a deliberately plaving into the bands of the money brokers. Embalmed beef, 'Springfield muskets and black powder. It the managers of the republican party want to go before the people in 1900 on this "official record" the oppo nents of all these things will enter no objections. World-Herald. SEN. HAYWAKD STRICKEN Last Tuesday Senator Hay ward suf fered a stroke of apolplexy, the second within two weeks. He had gone to Brownville to deliver a speech before a fraternal society and as he was about to arise to address the audience he fell from his chair and was unconscious for an hour and a half. After that he re vived but late last night he was still too ill to be removed to bis home. He had. however, recovered all bis faculties and it was reported that be conversed with his family physician not only In a ra tional manner, but in the best ol spirits. Mrs. Hay ward hopes to be able to re move him back to their home in Nebras ka City within a day or two. It was thought that he could have been re moved Wednesday, bot he was too feeble to stand the journey. The Saonders county Journal remarks that "Any tool can be a republican h s it requires no mental effort." but "it tnkes sense, good, sound, common senna to be a populist." ; LANCASTER POPULISTS The populiat county convention of Lancaster county met In Bohanan's halt at Lincoln, Aug. 10th and was called to order by Chairman Judge Wheeler. J. S. Kent was elected temporary chair man and 0. W. Meier temporary secre tary. J. T. M. Swigart and ; Victor O. Johnson were , appointed ' assistants. The convention was larger than usual, all the precincts being represented but two. -v.--v. The temporary organization was made permaient. A committee ol three was appointed to confer with ths free silver and democratic conventions, both of whioh were holding sessions in differ ent halls In the same building. Tha committee was composed of J. F. Bishop, R. F. Chambers and Dr. King. After some further preliminary ' business the convention adjourned until 2 p. m. When the convention reassembled the following platform was reported by the ' committee on resolutions, which was composed of Messrs. T. H. Tibbies, H. w. ismitn, ueorge w. oerge, Mr. r oster and Mr. Beardsley. TBI PLATFORM. . .. We, the populists of Lancaster conntv. In convention assembled, do hereby de clare our unswerving loyalty to the na tional piauorm ot tbe populist party adopted at St, Louis, and deolanltto be a ' statement ol fundamental princt-' pies, which must eventually be enacted into law it our republic Is to be preserved. We ask the attention of ths citizenship of this state to ths record mads bv the reform lorces in ths administration of stats affairs. We have reduced ths ex penses of ths state nearly one-half, we have almost doubled the disbursements to the common schools, we have ob tained large judgments against default ing republican officials and not one dol lar ot public money baa bean embezzled or mis applied since we took control of ' the state government. We believe that it the same system of absolute honesty and economy could be adopted in county affairs, that as great a saving to the people and as great a reform could be accomplished as has been accomplished in state affairs. The credit of the state is now the best ever " known and we believe that the same system - of administration applied to county government wonld end In the same result. We, therefore, Invite all good citizens to aid in an effort to bring; na result bikjqi. No words can accurately describe ths praise that should be bestowed upon the citizenship ot Nebraska which gave their tons to engage in a war ol human ity. Those sods have not only written weir name in ineiaeaDie characters upon tbe history of tblf nation by their for. altand obedience to constituted au thority, but by an endurance and bravery on ths field of battle which haa never been excelled by any men who have ever marched under ths folds of our glorious flag. To those who have returned we extend our most hearty con gratulations and for those who have given np their lives on battle fields or in tbe hospitals ws shall never cease to mourn. . We denounce the usurpation of the courts in the issuance of injunctions. We oeueve toe ordinance recently passed by the city council ot tbe city ol Lincoln, providing for the reduction in the price of gas is a wholesome law and we believe that the temporary injunction issued by ons of the judges of Lancaster county district court, is a travesty on justice and tbe mis-use of ths writ of injunction. Tbe following nominations were made by all three of the conventions. van TICKET. Judges of the District Court T. J. D0TLE, Lincoln. G. E. HIBNER, Lincoln. Clerk ot the District Court FRANK D. EAGER, Lincoln. Treasurer WILLIAM M'LAUGHLIN. Lincoln. Sberiff- P. JA.ME4 C08GRAVE, Lincoln. County Clerk H. C. REDDICK, Bethany. WILLIAM UEIBERGER, Grant County Judge r'KED SHEPHERD, Lincoln. Cammissioner JOHN MEIER, Hallam. J. S. Kent was elected state central committeeman for Lancaster county. COUNTT COMMITTEE. G. I. Smith, Rob't Wheeler, C. G. Bui luck, a. Warmer, J. L. Ayern, A. E. Shel don, O. Willson, A. Egger, W. H. Frohn, J. W. Olney, L. O. Knowles, John Leader. W. T. Han key, Frank Hartzer, O. E. Goodell, Henry Foster, J. Armstrong, John Hartline, L. Will helm, William Rooney, Fred Holman, Frank Brophy, Stephen Norton, Dr. Demeree, F. J. For geson,S..W. Beardsley, N. D. liellman, 11. Duling, a W. Brings and John Sidell. A full delegation was elected to the state convention and the county com- ' mittee was authorized to fill all vacan cies on tbe ticket. Tbe convention was harmonious and enthusiastic from beginning to end. The platform was adopted by ao unanimous vote and withoot discussion. Tbe fusion . forces will poll a larger vote in Lancas ter county tnis tall than they ever did before. Three ot the nominees. Eurer. Cosjrrave and Meier are members of ths First Nebraska. Brlttah Imi Are SmmiS Next to ths seamsn of the United States, British seamen get itches wages, and better fare, aad more eot fortable conditions of empleysisat than do seamsn ot any other eaatm
