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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. Sept. 7, 1899 gbe tlebragftalttoepenbeiU C-uoUdatUmt MM WMALTBMAIXBSani USCOIS : IlfDMPtJfDSlfT. PUBLISHED ' EVERY THURSDAY T TBI Independent Publishing Co. At 1123 II Btbeet, LINCOLN, - - NEBRASKA. TCLCPHONC S3. $1.00 A YfAR IN ADVANCE Address all communications to, and aaka all drafts, money orders, etc., pay bit to TOE INDEPENDENT PDD. CO. Lincoln, Nib. STATE TICKET. For Judge of the Supreme Court Pilai A. Uolcomb, of Custer Co. For It gents of the State University J. L. Tiitihs, of Lancaster, Epson Hku, of Douglas. LANCASTER COUNTY TICKET. Judges of the District Court OEO. E. HIHNER. . T.J. DOYLE. , rodert w heeler, Clerkof the Dm' riet Court r A. E. LINDELL, Lincoln. ' Treasurer WILLIAM H'LAUQHLIN, Lincoln, gberitf- P. H. COOPER, Lincoln. County Clerk ; H.C.REDD1CK, Bethany; County Judge , . ? FRED SHEPHERD, Lincoln. Commissioner J. J. MEIER, Ballam. Sunerlntenfbnt of rtehoni MISS ERNESTINE LYONS, Normal. Corouer DR. BENfLEY, Lincoln. Tbe way the republican party ia fight ing traits could be seen In last Monday' State Journal It had four editorial in the tret column all defending them. ' It ii announced that Hanna has par chaaed in Europe an outomobile. He probably intends to put McKinly In it when he starts him out to run for the presidency the second time. The republicans should not lay , tbe whole responsibility of this war on "Providence." The moat casual inves tlgator cannot fail to And that McKIn ley had something to do with it , Tbe republicans are for a British finan cial policy, a British colonial system, a British alliance, the old flag and an ap propriation. Tbey are sure the combi. nation will win if they can get the ap ptoprlatlon In advance. A Canadian paper saje, in speaking of the Filipino war, that the American bird of freedom is dead. Not by a long shot, He got pretty sick through an overdose of thffg'.ld cure, but he is rapidly re gaining bin accustoms J vigor. ' Since the protests in the foreign papers against the claim that nations can be bought and sold like cattle without their consent, Spain declares that she did not sell the Philippines, but only gave an option on the fighting. McKinley took by force the Philip pines or as muob of them as he could and intends to take the whole. After that, he is for tb "protection of prop erty, peace and charity for all." That program would secure the assent of the worat thief that ever lived. Melting Pot Morton is at it again but ' as usual be brings up tbe rear. Bixby rode the ''boar black pig' until he wore all the hair off bis back. Now that Bix has demounted, Morton with bis melt ing pot has mounted It. Tbe old man . thinks he can ride a pig as well as any body. Hurrah for Morton and the boar black pig! The way the unrepublicane can tangle np the Euglieh language is an astonish ment to all tbe world.' Tbey talk about dear money making! biiil) price and de clare that men are rebels against this government who were never citimns and whom they assert never shall be citiiens. Tbey are a creiy lot. General Mandereon in his speech be fore the American Bar association calls the common people "groundlings." That's right general. That's Jost what they are. Out of tbe earth comes all of . the wealth of tbe world. Tbe men who pi od uce It may properly be called groundlings or earthlings. But wbat are the other fellows? Qivs us a nam for them. T. L. Adams who was nominated to succeed J udgs Deal Is one of tbe best ee i . 1.. J J - by tb populist party in this state and tbey have bad som Judges who would rank in ability wVn any men on tb beach any where' is tb nomination hi equtvoltnt to Section tb people of that district bav reason for congratulations all around. , THE CAMPAIOW. Within a week the campaign as far as as the popullet are concerned will be in full awinir in this state. The chairman, Mr. Edmisten, has already secured many speakers, among them Cyclone imvis and General Weaver. The meeting of the state committee was tbe largest and most enthusiastic that baa been held for many years. Many of the old Alliance workers were there and this campaign will be conducted largely on tbe old Al ancenlan. Tbe republicans are still at sea with no harbor in sight. They first proposed to run Judas Harrison but he positively declined. Then tbey applied to Judge Reese and be would have nothing to do with It Judge Dickinson was then solicit ed to take op the burden but be thought that it was altogether too heavy for him to carry. Every prominent lawyer of good character in the republican par ty who ha been solicited to take tbe nomination has declined. There remains nothing but the small fry for them to make a selection from, t This is the result of tbe failure of the republican plan to prevent tbe nomina tion of Uolcomb. Tbey had great faith in that plan. They called on their sniff ling committee; they filled their papers with lies and slanders, tbey did every thing in their power to prevent the nom ination of Uolcomb. When tbe three conventions met in.Omaha and nominat ed him on tbe first ballot their whole Dlan was ruined and they had to begin anew and under distresssing circum. stances. . .V,.-."' - V. Cyclone Davis will begin his series of speeches on September 16th and from that time on until tbe close of tbe cam paign tbe fur will fly for the populist party has its war paint on this time and means busluess. Let no one think how ever that the republicans will be inactive. They will fight with tbe desperation of despair. Tbey bave unlimited means. Tbev know all the tricks of politics and will not (ail to apply everyone of them. This campaign can be won and will be won but every populist must do bis whole duty. The fight is not for offioes. It Is to gain control of the Judicial system of tbe state which has so long been simply an adjunct of tbe corporations, It ban dooe the principles of reform bub little good to elect distrlot Judges while the supreme court has been owned and controlled by railroad corporations. Tbe corporations always bad the money and the lawyers to appeal every case and when it got to tbe aupreme court they felt perfectly safe. Tbe election of Holcomb puts the whole Judiciary in tbe bands of reform and tbe railroads willpnt up such a fight as they have never put up before. Tbe railroads bav never yet been .defeated when tbey have laid themselves out to win. That makes this tbe crucial fight tor the reform forces in this state. Up and at them and never let wp until the last vote Is 1 son tod. - , HOT THAT KIND. , Here is the lacts known of 'all men. An effort was made by tbe military authorities to induce the volunteers to re-enlist in this new war against the Filipinos. There were extraordinary in duoements offered besides a cash bounty in travel pay and ration allowances that would average about $500.00 for en listed men up to . f 2,000 for officers. Circulars were" sent to each company setting forth tbe inducements so that all tbe men might be acquainted with them. Privates who had seen service were told that if tbey re-enlisted that they would be made non commissioned officers as the new recruits that would come in would need them. After, all this effort, but on man in the First Ne braska re-enlisted. All the other regi ments refused to re-enliet. Tbe most re cruits were obtained from a T nneesee regiment that bad been stationed in one of the southern Wanda where tbey bad seen no hara service, and only about 100 were obtained from that regiment. Now what does all that mean? Does it mean that ' tbe volunteer regiments from ths various states want this war to go on, but for somebody else to do the fighting? No more dishonorable suggestion could be mad concerning the volunteers than such a suggestion as that. Whenever a republican editor claims that the returned volunteers are In favor of this war, be makes just that charge against , their honor. We claim that 00 percent of them are against this war. That their action ia refusing to enlist can not be honorable under any other hypothesis. If they were in favor of the war and believed that the Filipino were savages that were not en' titled to sell-government, if they be lieved In the doctrine that one nation could buy another . nation, land and people, without the consent of the in habitants, if tbey believed that the flag should not be hauled down in tbe Pbil pplnes and the flag of a self governed people rassed in place of it, if they be. lieved that shooting Filipinos was de fending the principles of this govern ment, they are brave enough to fight for such a belief. Tbey would not come home, lay down their Arms and ask som on els to do t be fighting. Tbey ar not that kind of men. Especially tb men of tb first Nebraska were not. FILIPINO -8 ATAuES., ' ' Naval cadet, Leonard R. Sargeant, whom Dewey sent Into tb interior of Luson along with another officer 4d whose report Dewey highly com- mended has an article in the Outlook upon tbe Filipinos that will bave a ten dency to open tbe eyes of Theodore Roosevelt If be rends it "The rough rider will find that his celebrated speech in which he denounced tbe Filipinos as savages was a mass of falsehoods from beginning to end. Roosevelt claims to be a man of honor. He will prove that he is if he will make a public correction of that speech. . . ' Mr. Sargeant spent the months of October and November 1898 in tbe in terior of the Island and ; traveled all the time. He says that "many millions" of tbe inhabitants at that time bad no government but tbe provisional govern ment established by Aguinaldo. There was peace and good order everywhere. In one city where tbey stayed three days, a dinner was tendered them each day and the shortest of them was fifteen courses. There was fine table linen, napkins, silverware and imported wines. He says that he never saw an intoxi cated Filipino. They were liberal in re ligion. Their heroes were not men of war but men ot science and education. Education bad been beyond the reason of tbe poor because it was so costly but it was the desire of all. One of the first things that the provisional government did was to establish common schools and Mr. Sargeant thinks that if the war bad not come on with the Americans they would now be well established all over the island. ' , These are tbe people that the' imper ialists want to slaughter by the tbou sand because they believe in the declara tion of independence and believe that it applies to all men and not to tbe white race alone, taking exactly the ' same ground that Abraham Lincoln did in his celebrated contest with Douglas. ' ' - - - THEY DIDN'T KNOW. ; -j The people should always remember that economic forces act slowly. ' Tbe change in tbe purchasing power of mon ey does not begin to be felt until a long time after the law passed to bring it about is enacted. If silver had been de monetised one day and next day. prices bad fallen fifty per cent, there would bave been a revolution, but when It took twenty years to produce the full effect of that law, there was no revolution and it was hard to make the people see what was the cause of the continual decline of prices. The economic secondary tfftcta are just as slow. Two years ago there there was a rise in the price of wheat caused by the famine in other wheat pro ducing countries. There was a large crop in this country for that year and tbe year following. Now if the farmers had begun, the next week after the rise. to build barns, employ carpenters and bricklayers, purchase lumber, new agri cultural implements, buy hardware, clothing, and house furnishing goods, no one would have doubted that the rise in the price of wheat and . other cereals was the cause of increased employment of labor and activity in every line of but-iness. But the economic force mani fested itself so slowly it was difficult to make tbe people understand tbe real cause of tbe fleet produced, Some peo ple believe that what little of increased activity has come about was tbe result of the election of McKinley and that tbe rise in prices of farm products was a re sult of that election instead of the short age of crops in other countries and good crops in this. r Tbe result of the rise in the price of farm products is just wbat tbe populists said it would be. They did not say that that result would be manifested in every line of business the next day after a rise was started. They supposed that the average man. would know that much without being told. But it seem that a good many didn't. " 'twould ruin a monkey. The Grand Island Republican asks the following question: ; 1" "Will some populist priest of discon tent rise up nd point out a time In this country's history when a dollar would buy more food, clothing, transportation and other necessaries of life than it will now?" ' ... - May the Lord bave mercy ou your poor ignorant soul. That is Juab what tbe "populist priests of discontent" bave been saying for tbe last ten years. A dollar will buy more wheat, corn or any thing else than it ever would before. Tbe man who has the wheat and oorn is painfully awsre of that fact every time he takes a load to town with which to buy money to pay bis interest, bis tax and his debts. Tb fool caper , that these mullet head editor do cut np sometimes Is beyond all accounting for. That editor bad better rely on the Mark Hanna furnished editorials altogether hereafter. Many such breaks as that would ruin a monkey. The steal plc.-JS by Mark Hanna in that ship aut '7 1 bill is the most enor mous that bather been attempted - in the history of tbe United States, and we bad some big stealing In the day of the old Indian ring and Credit Mobilier. But put all these steals together atd they would not amount to as much as can begotten ont of this tbing. , Tbe Ohio stat democratic convention epeci fieally denounced It and it should b de nounced in every reform convention held. It will be tbe biggest Issue in the next session of congress for Mark expects to put Ii through before tb presidential lection com on. The authorities in New York seem to be having a big row with the Christian Scientists. The Independent proposes a compromise. The Christian Scientists say that "there is nothing in matter.1 If that is so, drugs can do no harm. So let tbe doctors come and give all ths drugs tbey want to and the Scientists go on with their system at the same time. Tbe scientists ought to agree to this, es pecially in all contageous and infectious diseases. Tbey certainly cannot expect the people of New York to allow them to treat a case of yellow fever or bubonic plague without quarantine regulations. Tbs germ of tbe bubonic plague or yel low fever may be nothing but "mortal error" but tbey have a way of getting into the minds or bodies of every one who is exposed to them. It is a little too much for tbe Christian Scientists to aek tbe people of New York to abolish their laws against contageous diseases and let the "errors"' of diphtheria, scarlet fever, and yellow fever run riot over the millions of that populous city. Make a compromise. That's the thing to do. The twist and turns of the gold bug beat all the contortions of Chris Hart man's celebrated suake "that wriggled iniand wriggled out" with such swift' tress. The Mew York Sun says that "Bryan has two voices." Sometimes be talks silver and sometimes he don't. That Is a specimen of the fairness of the best of tbe gold bug writers. It bases tbe remark that Bryan talks for silver on his action at Omaha and that sometimes he don't on the fake interview sent oh t from' Des Moines which Mr. Bryau has positively denied several times. The Sun still insists that those inter vie wa are genuine that some unknown reporter is better authority on what Bryan said than Bryan himself. Republicanism is the same everywhere, False, malicious, deceptive and never honest and honor able. The Sun knows very well that Bryan never at anytime or anywhere said he was willing that the ratio of six teen to one should be dropped. The veterans of '61 believed in that war and were in favor of it. When their terms of enlistment expired they re-en listed by whole companies, regiments and brigades. Every one of them had seen as much hard fighting as any of the troops in tbe Philippines. In this Me Klnley war the volunteers had no heart When their terms of enlistment expired tbey dfd not re-enliet but came home in a body. Not one per cent of them re enlisted ' although they were offered larger bounties than the government ever gave during the civil war. Now Busbnell says that they are all in favor of tbe warl If they are, they have a queer way of showing it. 1 Since another item was in print in which it was announced that Bixby ' had dismounted from the "boar black pig," he has denied tbe assertion and declares that he is-still astride. That sore backed, swine is to be pitied for be has now not only to carry the fat Bixby but the stout Morton and his melting pot Morton has taken his seat in front and Bixby has to ride behind. The sight of them is expected to enthuse the republi can rank and file as tbey were never en thused before. , It is just as much the duty of the peo ple to furnish campaign funds as it ia to vote. You can'telecf? any body withont votes and you can't carrry on a cam paign without money. When tberepub licans need money they go to tbe bank ers, trusts and corporations and allow them to dictate the laws that are passed Why shouldn't they? If any one expects anything else there is something wrong in his upper story. Attorney General Smyth has started after another trust. This time it is the school furniture combine. That trust represents twenty two companies .that bave gone into a combination to hpld up tbe people ot this and other states and make them pay exorbitant prices for all kinds of school furniture. We ' will see what the republican courts do about that. Their papers already declare that nothing can be done. ' Tbe commissioner of pensions has just made his report, from wblch it appears that theVe are 1,090.866 persons draw. ing pensions. There are' four widows of tbe revolutionary war which was closed 117 years ago, still drawing pensions. Therein also on soldier and 1,998 wid ows drawing pensions for the war of 1812. For tbe Mexican war, 9,204 sol dh-rt and 8,177 widows still draw pen' sions. 1 Even Roosevelt seen. to have "smelt a mouse." In his speech at Little Valley the other day he said "be boped to see tbe day when the Filipinos would build an independent nation of their own." That is a complete flop from tbe speech that he made a while ago when he talked about the Filipino "savages." Teddy bas had, his ear to the ground and heard something. Tbe Omaha Labor Bulletin got out a uieguiflcent labor day Issus N On tb first page was a cut of Abraham Lincoln with the words: "An immortal friend of labor.' When wilt we have another." It was. printed on . floe paper and had twelv pages.' Tb party that Lincoln founded I the party ot plutocracy and trusta now. The Chicago Record winds np its ac count of tbe reception to tbe First Ne braska boys with these words: "Brbfly stated, most of tbe soldiers of the First Nebraska are opposed to tbe war." . Some of tbe republican papers are ad vertising for a new war song. The old song "We'll rally 'round the flag boys, shouting the battle-cry of freedom,'' doesn't seem to suit tbem any longer. In an army bent on conquest it does not enthuse the men. k ; ' The populist headquarters"this year will be at tbe Windsor Hotel, southeast corner of Eleventh and Q streets. Popu lists having bulfnees with the committee can get entertainment there for fl.25 perday and good enough for anybody. ' The Capital Collection agency adver tises a judgment for sale against Bud Lindsay, That agency should employ Wheedon to collect it In that way be might get revenge for the time Bud beat bim in a contest for delegate to tbe na tional republican convention. ' - A correspondent writing from north ern China says that the Chinese np that way "are big, strong, and independent, many of tbem standing over six feet." When tbe slicing up of China comes among tbe great powers he looks for lots of trouble for the white man. There is a statement going tbe rounds of the press to thetfffct that the state of Nebraska has bought 3,200 voting ma chines. That is a story that is made out of whole cloth. There is not a word of truth in it It ia not like most of the republican lies which are usually hall truths. ' ;r ;: "' ' J:-: The republicans of Kansas have not been in control much over half a year, but the treasurer bas already begun to stamp tbe state warrants: "Not paid for want of funds." That is tbe ordi nary way that republicans finance tbe affairs of any government which they control. ' ' ' : ' Pretty soon the trusts will get things into so fine a shape that they will find that they not only do not need any traveling salesmen, but tbey do not need to advertise any more.' In those days tbe mullet head editors wbo bave been backing tbem up will . wipe their weeping eyes and take to counting ties, The G. A. R. reunion will be held tn Lincoln the week ending September 16. The First Nebraska will be given their reception that week and without doubt there will b people here from every part of tbe state. Information has been re ceived to the effect that at least eighty per cent of all those who enlisted in the First Nebraska will be present It is said tbat Oom Paul calls a prayer meeting for every night In the week these days. After the meeting is over be sees tbat every mau bas 140 rounds all in good candition and then he tells tbem as soon as tbe sun rises to go out and fire forty rounds in target practice.' Joe Chamberlain adjusts his binocular and watches, and then writes some more dis patches. At the meeting at tbe opera house when the war first broke out, Dr. Row lands remarked that this was tbe drat war tbat tbe United States ever waged where there were no opponents and tbat all tbe people without exception were in favor of it. Tbat was the war with tbe Spanish. Of this other war with tbe Filipinos he would hardly make any such a remark. - Dr. Wharton's address at the Y. M. C. A., on Sunday as reported by the press, would lead one to believe tbat the soldiers ot the First Nebraska were very much disgusted with some of tbeir moth ers and friends when the said mothers and friends sent them a cablegram advis ing tbem not to enlist and which Otis refused to deliver to them. How be got the idea ia bard to tell. If don't seem to be in accordance with tbe facta. It is a very common phrase used by all tbe imperialist writers tbat tbe Span ish war made this nation a world power. How that resulted from the Spanish war I oneot the things tbat no pop can find out. Power rests upon navies, flgting men, guns and money. This nation did not have e much of those things after tbe Spanish war as it did before. We lost one battleship, the Maine, which wa worth more than all the ships we cap tured. Will some Imperialist therefore pleas to explain to ns long haired pops bow tbe Spanish war made as a world power any more than we were before. We really want to know. ' The State Journal through its local columns undertakes to maks an attack on Adjutant General Barry for his man agement of the militia. The whole man agement ol militia from the time of the first encampment under General Barry, including the enlistment ol three regi ments for tbe Spanish war has been so eflVotive, energetically and skillfully don tbat it ha received the commendation of all tb military authorities. Ths very first encampment ot tb milit'a under General Barry abowed a great re daction In expense and greatly Increased efficiency. That record has been kept up vr aino. 1 . DEMOCRATS ADVANCING, - Tbe democratic party continues to make long strides in the direction of populism. In the platform adopted by the Ohio stat democratic convention were these demands: "f ' . 1 "We favor tbe initiative and referend um, the passage of tbe eight-hour labor law, the more rigid inspection uf mines and workshops, the prohibition of sweat shops, and tbe abolition of the contract system of prison tabor. v - "We demand a cessation of national bonded debt building to curse posterity. . '"We recommend a constitutional amendment providing for tbe election ol president, vice president and senator by a direct vote of the people. , "Political bosses are to be. detested and are inimical to our form of govern ment Bosees represent simply a con centration of political power, or a ring. They live and exist through jobs and schemes loaded upon tbe taxpayers. They substitute their rule in tbeir party for (be rule of its voters and visit politi cal death upon any wbo refuse to bow to tbeir dictation. Tbey select the nom inees wbo, if elected, remain their tools and administer their official powers in tbe interest of their boss and aot the people." ; ; . "We demand that the Cubans and Filipinos not onl be permitted but en couraged to establish independent re publics, deriving ail their governmental powers from theconsentof tbe governed. "We are radically and unalterably op posed to imperialism in . the United States of America. When we bav solved some of tbe race problems tbat confront us at borne,' then by example ftt . we can proclaim tbe blessings tbat no from tree institutions, and tbus procure 'benevolent assimilation without crimi nal aggression. - , , ; ''We are opposed to entangling al- liances with foreign kingdoms .and em pires. ." v -v . ' l-,..' i "We declare that all unlawful cornbin- -ations of capital are the legitimate fruits . of a gold standard and other corrupt re publican legislation on questions of the tariff, and we demand tbat all articles, tbe prices of wbich are controlled by tb trusts be placed on the tree list" They have learned all that from th populists and they will bave to learn a few more things before the fusion be tween and the populists is declared to be permanent. They will have to come to , the point where they will demand the government ownership of railroads and all monopolies of all kinds. When ' the democratic party has done that, then we will take into consideration the pro-. priety of making fusion permanent Now t we are going with tbem, as Bryan says, as far as we can and will, separate when we must. We will help tbe democratic party down the money power, " we . will stand by Bryan because we think that he can be trusted, but after he is iuaug- nrated these other things will have to be attended to. r FOBGOT1T. Russia has just placed an order for $150,000 worth of farm maohinery with a New York firm and France is said to be buying agricultural implements her in larger quantities than ever before. A considerable shipment is also being made to Holland, where the bulk ia trans-shipped for us in the Dutch East Indies. Press Dispatch. ''' Tbe above which appeared in thou sands of papers is very stale news. The shipment of agricultural machinery to foreign countries has been going on for twenty years, The one important point in connection with it, the writer forgot to mention. . These goods ., are sold to foreigners for just half wbat tbe Ameri can farmers are forced to pay for them. When this writer was in England in 1887, he found all sorts of American farm Implements being sold there at just half what the Nebraska farmers bad to pay for tbe same things. He remem bers tbat just before leaving the farm to start for Europe he bought a six tined manure fork for wbich he was charged 91.25. At Jedbnrougb, Scotland, he saw one of the same forks with tbe very same trade mark on it He asked tb price and it was offered for sale in that far away place for twoshllling-; sixpenso. or about 62 cents. Asb-al beam, six teen inch plow, for which he paid 21.00 was sold in Glasgow for three pounds, fourteen shillings and six pence. That sort of tbing has been going on ever since, although prices under, tb gold standard bave been . very much - lower. For the blessing ot paying twice as much for agricultural implements a tbeir competitors in foreign countries ' tbe American farmers are under obllga- f, Hons to tbe McKinley tariff. Tbe mul let heads think tbat that - is just what tbey ought to do and go around brag ging about it ' THAT BAM K STATEMENT. The New York Financier takes sub stantially the same stand in regard to the conditions of the banks that waa taken by the Independent and which caused several republican editors and a few mullet beaded bankers tn this state to make such a howl. Tbs Financier says tbat tbs banks in their tfiort to save themselves have decreased their loans since July 20 over $40,000,000 . but ths reserves have only been increased $5,000,000. It announces tbat the banks can't "expand" any more. W should say not. Tbey bav already ex panded to the tune ol $10 of credit to $1 of money. Now they an in a quandary nhout "bo w the crops are to be movd." Tbe crops will be moved all right They would be moved if there was only bait as . much money as there ia now. Tbs trouble will not be in "moving tb crops, it is aoont tn -prior" at wti ch 1 bey will be movwi. vat million dollar will move J.mw.tiUM bnetieia or wheat at dollar a bunbel. It will move 9.K)0.- 000 bushel at 50c a bushel. So it i ia with all th rest of tb crops. 1 ( ( 4 s. if s w r