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Sept. 21, 1899.
THE NEBRASKA. INDEPENDENT.
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Clippings.
'AGAINST IMPERIALISM.
Lieut. T. 0. Murpty of the United
army .recruiting station at lMtsburg.
Has reurned from Meaaville, Fa,
disgusted with the Meadville anti
. expansionists, who caused him. to
close the sub-recruiting station there
and to come away without a single
recruit. 1 he station Mas opened on
; August 29,. in charge of Private
Baldwin, and in two davs seventeen
Applicants had been examined and
hvc accepted. Mr. Murphy went u
to swear the men in. None appear
u, ana caiawin went out and
brought them to the office. They
refused to take the oath. , One .of
. them said: ' ;-. ' ' ; , ..
"My friends have been talking to
me and telling me that Americans
' ought not to have anything to
with the war over there in the Phil
ippines. ' .They told me that those
fellows ought to be given a chance
to be their own bosses, and that this
country is not .giving them a square
ueai m ngnting tnem. All the
folks here feel that way and it wil
go hard with fellows if we go into
jthe army to go over to the Philip-
f pines. - A lot of my friends tell me
:f I go the people here won't have
anything more to do with me, and
X guess I won t go." ; :
. i ne other recruits bore him out
in this statement. Meadville is the
feat of Allegheny University,
Methodist institution, where the
president received his college educa
tion, and of a Unitarian college en
dowed by. New Englanders, with a
faculty comprised ; chiefly of New
Lnglanders. National Watchman,
OVKRIiUKDENED.
1 he producers of this country
are becoming more and more over
burdened each year and if some
thing is not done to relieve thein
civilization must collapse. Years
ago the populists began to point
to ine increase in the insane, the
criminals and the incompetents
mat increase goes steadily on. Ev
ery census, either state or national,
tells & horrifying tale. - It is time
t hat partisanship was laid aside and
'an honest effort made to find out
, the cause. If. the cause is hot what
'.the populists have said it was, then
; rind out and tell us what it is.
According to the ninth; annual
'report of the New York state eom-
'.'mission in lunacy, there are held in
the Various asylums for the insane
-m taht-state 21,683 persona, says
ncnry McMillan in Leslie s Weekly,
' Let us see if we can get some com-
: prehension of what these figures re
i present of the mere material loss
. that they stand for. Poughkeep
sie, N. Y.; Bangor, Me.; Cedar Rap
lis, la.; New Albany, Intl., for in
stance, are among the most prosper-
"o'hs cities in their respective states.
In duly activities, in churches and
schools, in factories and stores, they
are about equivalent to the efforts
of the same number of persons as
are confined in asylums for the in
sane that the state of New York is
compelled to support. In other
words, the populations of these asy
, lums is nearly equal to that of one
of the country's important cities. If
'. the camparison could be carried
further, and we could ascertain the
number of ordinary paupers, deaf
nnd dumb, blind, idiotic, epileptic,
asylum and hospital inmates, and of
other public and semi-public phil
anthropic and correctional institu
tions, the burden which misfortune
and crime put upon the sclf-sup-'
porting would assume t opalling pro
k portions. The most at we can
ff .1. ... it. -,. -.. ! . . .
a nuw uii ju uiai uirer in statu
& that the census of f cave, in a
partial enumeration ..- we classes
? their number at !)0..VO. .'his was
larger than the population then re
turned for the flourishing cities of
Syracuse, N. Y., Columbus, 0.,
Worcester, Mass., or Richmond, Va.
apparently the number of insane
has since increased 0 per cent. If
there has been a like increase all
along the line of the dependent and
restrained clashes, as it is not im
' probable,, their growth - has been
much larger than that of the nor
mal classes'.
LIPS NOW SILENT.
In a recent speech Senator John
M. Thurson is reported to have said,
in referring to the Philippines, "We
must hold these islands if it takes
every man in the United States and
if it means the destruction of the
entire population of the Philip
pines." A little over a year ago,
"by commandof lip now fcilent,"
Senator Thurston delivered a speech
in the cause of the freedom that
electrified the nation. Would that
those lips might again5 be unsealed
J Mong enough to influence Senator
.Thurston to stand by those grand
sentiments expressed by him in his
speech for Cuban independence.
Ihen his heart was softened by grief
Over the death of his wife who died
m Cuban soil, and whose dying re-
quest was that her husband would
ipeaK tor tuban independence. .Now
nit a little over a year removed from
the tender influence of that noble
hearted woman, and he gives utter
ance to the brutal sentiment quoted
at the commencement of this article
Can you imagine Senator Thurston
rising m the nited States ' senate
and "by command of lips now si
lent," giving utterance to the ex
pression "We must hold these isl-
ands if it takes every man in the
United States and if it means the
destruction of the entire population,
of the Philippines?" Keith County
.News. .
SHE'S POPOCEAT.
Nebraska has within her borders
the greatest statesmen in the world;
the greatest fighting men in the
world: the smallest percentage of
illiteracy of any country on - the
globe, and she is popocratic. i Is
u'ji, hub a, i-ujtivBBciaMuiir- lu.'.uoe
.! 4-1.;.-, A : - 'J i...
an obsolete word. Shelton Adver
tiser.
WORSE THAN EVER.
The usual practice of the republi
can editors of this stale is to fill
their papers with half truths or at
least flavor their lies with a dash of
truth, as the book says, but of late
they are abandoning that and pub
lish their lies without any flavoring
al all. llere is one from the man-
ton Picket: "Silas A. Holcomb was
governor ot .Nebraska lour years.
During the last two years of that
time he was supported by a full
corps of his kind of officials. Dur
ing those years the expense of run-
ning the state government steadily
increased.
It is still incresaing.,:
LAWTON'S TESTIMONY.
It is the fashion of the whole im
perialistic press to deny every par
ticle, of testimony in favor of the
ruipmos that comes to this coun -
try. but here is some testimony that
it will do them no good to deny;
ju tne current numDer oi ine
i . . i p i i
Congregationalism of Boston' the
Rev. Peter MacQueen, who has been
in the Philippines for the past year
in service with the army, quotes Ma
jor, venerai nenry w. Jjawton as
-i' - i r ttr r ,
saying:
"The Filipinos are a very fine set
of Soldiers. They are far better
than the Indians. The Tagals are
what'J would tall a civilized race.
They are good mechanics. Imita
tive toey manufacture everything.
Taking everything into ' considera
tion, the few facilities they have,
the many drawbacks, they are a very
ingenius and artistic race, and tak
ing into account the disadvantages
they have to fight against, in arms,
equipment, and military discipline,
they are the bravest men I have ever
seen.
The Filipinos are not military by
nature. They are rather domestic
n tastes and habit, peace-loving
and industrious. Nine-tenths of
the people of the islands will strong-
y lavor peace, even at the expense
oi some ot their theories, wishes and
hopes. I believe that with a lib
eral government, such as the United
btates can and will establish, they
will be peaceable, thrifty, happy
people. I believe that it was a great
misfortune that we were not able to
give them a chance to sample our
government before hostilities open
"Among them are many cultured
people who would ornament society
anywhere in the world ladies who
lave studied and traveled, men who
have good education and a fine
brain. Take them as a class, there
can as many of them read and write
as the inhabitants in many places in
America. W hat we want is to stop
this accursed war. It is time for
iploinaev, time for mutual under
btan dings. These men are indbm-
table. At Kaccor Bridge they
waited till the Americans brought
their cannon to within
yards, of their trenches.
thirty-five
Such men
have the right to be heard. . All
they want is a little justice. I es
tablished a civil government at Beli-
naf, with the government entirely in
le hands of the natives. It work
ed to perfection. All these people
need lor.seii-government is the pro
tection of our troops till affairs have
quieted and then they, 1 have no
I .. ,
doubt, wil advance as rapidly m the
Japanese, nerhans more rsnidlv. T
1 ' , I - I
am very well impressed with the Fil-
ipinos.'
TOM REED ON". FILIPINO'S.
Portland, Me., Sept. 12. In a
railroad coach todav I homa B.
Keed took part in a discussion with
two rortland men and plainly ex
pressed his sentiments m regard to
tne war in the I'lulippiDes. One
of the friends with him, who is
S
radical expannionist, remarked that
to. withdraw our. troops from thd r
Philippines now would humiliate
our nation before the world. Mr.
need said:
"You don't think those Filipinos
would chase our soldiers 7,000 mile
if they should start for home,
l your :
I he Portland man replied that
it was not fear of the Filipinos but
humiliation in the eight of the other
nations that was referred to, where
upon Mr.-Reed said:
" have always observed that wit
individuals the fear cf humiliation
is exactly in proportion as they do
serve it, and 1 believe the same prin
ciule holds srbod with a nation and
with a patty .-- Some people seem to
be afraid that those Filipinos wi
put their tongues in their cheeks at
us. They have done that already
iney nave watched our lauure as
others' have. I don't know how
long it will be before the American
people get tired of spending $50,
000,000 a year to conquer these peo
pie, out iptloesn t seem to mo it wi
be very long. 1 can conceive tha
freedom is just as. dear to them as
it is to us, and they will light for
I muf na lAi.v"
I jur bd tuiig,
CHARGES AGAINST OTIS
Denver, Colo., Sept. 14. The
signed statement, of which the fol
lowing is an extract, was given by
Napoleon, h. Guyot of yie. Iirst
Colorado to the representative of a
Denver" paper;
"During October, Nevcniber and
December of 1898, all the vouchers
covering disbursements in every de
panment m Manila passed through
my hands, and now that I am once
more a free citizen of the United
States, I can say that the adminis
tration of Gen. Otis is one of the
most tyrannical and rascally mili
tary governments that have dis-
I graced the orient since that of War-
ren Hastings. An examination of
the receipted vouchers now in Wash
ington by any honest accountant or
auditor m the United States would
result in their recommending that
a number of generals, colonels and
1 captains in wanna be at once
ar-
I rested for malfeasance in office,
tried "and sentenced to the . penl
Tnn.i Hi..
w?'aj-
IIOUSE RENT.
No. Mos. Amt.
; drawn.
Av. per
month,
Gov. Thayer.. 21
Act.Gov.Tha.ver. 6
$2,000.00
500.00
1,250.00
2,303.30
195.34
83.3:
(Jo v. Boyd 15
Gov. Holcomb.. 4.1
Gov. Poynter....3
83.33
51.18
61.13
192.40
HANDLING CORN FODDER.
Bow to Do It Moit Profitably Vala-
, nbla reeillae Staff Wasted.
The problem of how to get the most
out of corn rodder is yet unsolved by
many farmers. In former years It was
the practice to bask the corn la the
field and then turn the'itock on to eat
the fodder, but this practice was very
wasteful. It destroyed much valuable
feeding stuff, as in the fall and earlv
winter the ground would be soft,' and
tramping of the stock did more
daimass t0 tl,e ,n" the stalks
? ,.!fl0Je VT? "noer
farms are farmed the more It costs to
maintain them to a standard of paying
crops,
It Is necessary, in order to get the
most out of the fodder, to have it cut
when it contains the most nutrients,
end that is when the corn is glazing. In
shocking the corn the shocks should be
made large so that less surface will be
exposed to the hot sun and rains. The
ears should be husked before, winter
sets In and the fodder secured under
shelter, or, If necessary, It can be left In
long shocks well built so that It can be
fed out from one end and not leave
much surface open to the weather.
All stock will ent corn fodder, but It
Is especially good for cattle. A great
many feeders put the fodder in the
mangers for the cattle to eat what they
want, and the stalks that are left are
thrown In a pile to be returned to the
land later. ' A better way Is to have a
feed cutter and cut all the fodder; then
the refuse can be placed in the gutters
to absorb the liquid manure, or It
makes good bedding.
when this practice Is followed, when
the farmer saves his corn fodder at
economically as his hay and grain,
can Sept on our
tuiuiB, more manure win ne maae to
be returned to our land, and the fertil
ity of our land will be increased as
well as the size of our pocketbooks.
says a Prairie Farmer correspondent
In concluding the foregoing advice.
T DeeeltralaeM ot Knowledge.
in reply to a question about the saf
ty of feeding second growth sorghum,
, - . . . . ,. . ....
,,uiuo . rown writes to tne Ohio
Farmer: If any one says that second
cmwth torrhnm i riniu . ,..
"' - - .v.
tie," he ought to read what Mark
Twain said, "It's better not to. know so
much tbon to know so many things
that ain't so." I have grown sonrhum
for seven years and cut each year the
second growth and fed to my cattle.
ad last year that which we fed off 1n
July grow to maturity and was cut and
fed early enough so that the third
growth wss large enough to cut before
the frost killed It. 'There have been
some mysterious cases of nolsonini
from feeding sorghum to cattle, but I
believe that it Is as safe feed as clover,
D wl,h "hnidrwl f farmers no
tne state I have never personally
known of an animal being Injured
from eating.
VARIETIES OF WhEAT.
A Number ot Intcrmtlnw Votes For
Euterprlnlnir Grower
-The winter wheats- of the United
States can well be put into thwnj dis
tinct elnsses. The white, soft-wheats
, are most successfully grown In Oregon
and Washington, oud In tho leinllug
apple growing regions of the middle
latitudes.' . The semihard wheats are to
be found between Oklahoma .'ami- Ne
bruska In tho west and Canada aud
North CaroiinaJba the ent.t 'l'h very
hard flinty gralucd winter wheats.
known as durums, are be(ng success
fully grown la Texas, a-'w ,-r
There Is an Immediato and pressing
demand in Oklahoma and uorthwest
eru Texas, as well as In sou them Illi
nois, Indiana and southwestern Ken.
tucky, for, a semihard red wheat that
is of a hardy, drought resistant charac
ter, that will resist the orauglejif ust
(TJredo rublgo vera). .Wheat hpf;, this
class is perfectly adapted to-the roller
mill process of flourniaking, ; which
has now been so generally adapted by
miners. . .. ...,.ea,-..
The Turkey ed, a semihard wheat
now so exoeedipgly growu Kansas,
is an exceedingly valuable variety., The
Budapest, now grown la Michigan, con
be very properly put in tho same class.
, The varieties of the durums, or iiaacr
aroni. wheats are less known.. One va-
rUty now grown In Texas Is the Nica
ragua hard. This is classed as one of
the very few rust proof wheats, that
have, been successfully grown In tho
south, where the rust almost Invaria
bly ruins the crop. ,lt is a heavily
bearded wheat and con bo sown in cen
tral Texas not only in October, but In
the following February,' thus giving
the grower a double advantage bj se
curing a. crop. So far ias.jknpwn; the
old fashioned red bearded, Mediter
ranean is still one among the most re
liable varieties for general cultivation
In the southern states, , but Intermix
ture with other varieties ,now renders
It almost Impossible to obtain a. sun-
ply for seeding purposes., It was by far
the most valuable of the great number
of varieties yet Imported and a. variety
least, subject to the attacks of the
wheat weevil. 3 v . , ..- A.(
Among the varieties that may very
properly be classed with the medium
hard ted wheats which can be profit
ably grown In all the deat corn grow
ing regions, the Fultz, which was orig
inated In Pennsvlvania. takes tha lend.
Until the time the seed of'thlsriety
had become too much deteriorated by
Intermixture with other varieties It was
regarded by the wheat growers Of the
United States much in, thfc same light
as , was the iltfflfSVjt't&i
strawberry grower, the Concord by the
grape grower and the Baldwin pr New
ton Flppln by the apple orchardlst
Another variety of wheat, the Mealy
Which the writer of those hotos dls'covJ
ered In southern Virginia, when chief
of the seed , division of the United
States department of agriculture, is an
other wheat of a similar character, but
which, like the Fultz, Is rapidly losing
many or its desirable qualities by be
ing mixed with other more common
vorletles. .'When the originator of It
tpok It to the country milt,. the miller
refused to grind it on Account of the
extreme hardness Of the grain. This
variety has been well tested at the
Ohio experiment station and s highly
recommended,
Where the winter wheat was killed
by the extreme cold weather last Feb
ruary, in the winter wheat 'tftotyitt:
countries in northern t)h Id,. Indiana
and southern Michigan, the Turkey
lied wheat should be substituted for
the less hardy varieties.
More and better work in the line of
Introducing improved pedigreed seed of
the leading farm crops is a meed of the
hour, since it will surely lead to a
greatly Increased yield and thereby
promote the general prosperity of the
farming community, That enterpris
ing wheat growers want bettCTaotsd
wheat is shown by the fact that 'they
frequently pay from $3 to 85 ft bushel
for some presumably new variety which
In too many cases proves to b no bet
ter than the ones heretofore grown. It
has been well stated that "it is the rec
ognized province of the experiment sta
tion In each state to determino what
varieties of the different grain rrops
are best adapted to particular locnli
tics in the state; for If they are not In
formed on the subject others are not
likely to be." concludes the author of
these valuable notes in Farm and. Fire
side.
UarreitlDa; and Storing florae flad-
lah. . ' .": '
Since horsa radish makes its best
growth during the cool autumn months,
since it steadily Improves In quality
after September, and since the roots.
If still In the ground, are not Injured
by frost, the digging is usually defer
red until late fall, or at least until the
more tender Crops r all attended to.
For borne use it Is often left In the
ground all winter and pried up with a
pickax when needed. The dlgglug may
be done with a spade, or upon larger
scale with a plow. ' ' ,;
The storing of the roots may" be ci
ther In root cellars or In pits. A a
general thing the pits are to be pre
ferred, since the roots so stored retain
their good appearance, their crispatst
and their pungent flavor better thnn
when stored In cellars. When the roots
are trimmed for storage, the. lateral
branches are saved, trimmed; and
buried or stored In sand In rootptlnrs,
to b used the following season for the
production of a new crop, soys no no
thortty oo growing this root. -v
The silo seems to grow steadily
popularity.
Id
FERTILIZER FACTS.
Mitnnriol Requirement of Crops,
Need of Gram, Clover, fire, Eta,
The.IIa:h experiment station of4
Massachusetts hns reached some very
practical concluslous as i result of
careful Investigation Into tho , tntiun
trial requirement of props.- Among
them arc the following: : ; v
Grass is similar in Its requirements
to oats (nitrogen In the form of nitrate
of soda most beneficial);' 'the clovers
are to a considerable extent similar to
corn in their dependence upon potash.
but are more benefited by phosphoric
acid than the latter.
For use where .timothy,, is to
bo
grown, a fertilizer supplying the elo-
ments In the following proportions Is
recommended: Nitrogen, 8; . phosphor!
acid, 8; potush, 3. For manuring where
clover is desired: Nltrogpu; 2;'. phos
phoric acid, 5, and potash, 10.
Maximum crops of liny at minimum
cost, ' whether of grasses or clovers,
are not to be looked for from the ap
plication of phosphate,
Bye shows a more general- depend
ence upon applied fertilizers than the
other crops under experiment,, V T)ie
muerenco m tne uegree or effective
ness of the elements applied (nitrognn.
puospuoric acid audt potash) Is not
great. Tho results of experiment do
not encourago the belief that one sided
phosphate manuring for , rye will , be
most proninuie.
Nitrogen should be most prominent
in fertilizers for oats, while for rye
tne rortuizer must be richer in potash.
The experimental work of the past
rew years indicates that the contlnu-
ous use of muriate of potash may so
far deplete the soil 6f lime that an oc
casional application of , this, material
may do required in case of such use,
Some results indicate that the sulphate
of potash Is a safer material to use,
where a growth of clover Is desired,
tnan the muriate. The high grade sul-
pun te should be selected. It costs
about 40 cents per hundred more tlmo
tne muriate,
Intereatlng Celerr Ttotea, '
"It takes plenty of manure and water
to make fine celery. We manured the
ground for celery very beavily, and
when tho plants were about half
grown we placed a thick mulch of ma
nure between the rows and poured the
water on the mulch with the hose.
The result is a large growth, and
think I have doubled the value of the
crop by mulching and irrigating it In
this way. To grow well la hot, dry
weather, celery roots need a moist,
cool place, and this Is most easily pro
vided by mulching with manure.
have 20,000 plants on one plot of one-
half an acre. On this plot I have spent
about $100 for manure and labor. The
crop is now nearly all ready for, mar
ket, and as It stands I estimate the
value of the crop at wholesale price td
be" $40o; If we can retail It all, t can
double this amount. ' ' .
"There is always considerable loss in
marketing a crop. Many times when
growing a crop 1 have figured on Its
value at the market price, but always
when It is marketed there is a short
age in the cash received for It Celery
is tne most expensive crop I grow and
If it is well handled, the most profit
able one. I have realized well from it
by packing about two dozen bunches
iu small baskets and expressing them
to hotels and boarding houses. H They
get It fresher so than when buying In
larger quantities." Sd' writes a New
Vork truck gardener to ' the Ohio
Farmer. . - . . , ,
Conqnerlng; tha Bardoelc.
It takes a burdock two years to reach
maturity, and if the warfare Is begun
with the first appearance of the plant
it is likely to bo abandoned before the
victory is won that Is, if you tinder
take to spud out the. young plants,
enough will escape to lead one to be
lieve that that method is not effectual,
If the plants are cut off early In the
second year of their growth,. Just as
the blossom stalk Is nicely formed, the
plant wlU send out lateral seed stalks
that will mature seed., And because
of their low branching It Is Impossible
to mow them, and they are left la their
glory. " . ' ,
If the plant Is left entirely alone un
til there Is danger of the bun being
distributed and then cut off close Ur
the ground and the stalk dried and
burned, that plant will be conquered,
because frost will overtake it before
It can mature seed. If this plan is fo!
lowed up. burdocks can bs eradicated,
as i know rrom experience, says a
Country Gentleman correspondent.
Sews aad Rates.
Wheat sown one or tw inches in
depth usually gives better results than
when seeded deeper, except In a very
dry season, when deeper sowing Is ad
visable. As a rule, wheat sown with a
press drill Is better than when sown
with A hoe drill, says American Agri
culturist. ,- - , ; ; .
The potato should be carefully han
dled in digging nnd storing so as nei
ther to cut or bruise It. A. bruise may
not bo so fatal as in the case of fruit,
but It may lead to decay.
The probability of sqttashcs and
muskmelons growing near together be
coming mixed or hybridized by cross
pollination is Infinitesimally small, ae
they belong to different genera, the
squash being a cucurblta and the
niuskmclon a cucumls. pranga Jndd
Farmer contributes this opinion on a
tnucb talked of question. - .
Under the suggestive heading of
Death In the Well" Ohio Farmer ob
serves: The statistics of boards of
health demonstrate that the maximum
of Ickness and tha minimum of water
are coinntent In September or Octo
ber, usually a low etago of water rep
resents a concentrated state of con
tamination; hence typhoid fever out
breaks that are traceable almost di
rectly to tba drinking water and Its
source of supply during these months.
' AND POLITICS
TH2 COT
UDICTORY COURSE PUR-
SUEICIV LABOR UNION MEN.
1,5.
Tlicjr Aa.n
Ne and Educate (loeatlona,
- but Inwr
; -DlvIdalV
dlntelr Taboo Them and
ten There ! a Cbaaev o
caviaatv
ant Force.
. The fo lug Is from Tho Locomo-
uiu iuuuiiauie, uuinui or
gaa, of thj B'lremen's Brotherhood:
one wuiti suppose unless he was
belter Infoiined that labor organlja
tions woild bo a power in the mainte
nance of gdod government. Such Is
not the fact Labor organizations are
as lmpoteut fin governmental affairs as
an alien organization. Labor organiza
tions as sik-Ii may advocate legislative
measures, may pass resolutions, may
earnestly atftate a reform only when
such measures or. reforms do not at
tract public! attention, When these
measures or) reforms become of sulfi
dent Importance In the public mind to
promise political action, labor organi
zations muscceaso to advocate or dis
cuss them, yriius far they may go In
the maintenance of good government,
but no furthf r.
Some yenri ago the money question
was purely an economic problem. Po
Utlcal part!
gave it little or no attcn
tion. , Labor!
organizations advocated
conducted an aggressive
reforms and
agitation, prdmlnent features of which
were the ailfptlou of resolutions and
the sign lug or petltlous to congress by
officers. This agitation
resulted In pplitlcal action, one party
aligning itself on the one side, another
party taking lssue and espousing the
opposite sldeJ Although labor organ!
zatlous had been largely Instrumental
in making the money question a polit
ical issue, thpy dared not participate
in the final solution of this problem of
government 4 a concrete body, for
their membership was Intensely parti
sari, ,Xhe niotiient the Issue became a
partisan question the ranks of labor
organizations jllvlded on partisan lines,
aud all that bad been said In resolu
tion and petition was revoked,
' For more than a century that clause
In the Declaration of Independence
which proclaimed to the world that
"we bold these truths to be self evi
dent that all men are created equal
, that they ar ndowed by their Creator
with certain Inalienable rights; that
among these ire life, liberty and the
pursuit of hasiplness; that to secure
theso rights governments are Institut
ed among meal deriving their Just pow
er from the consent of the governed,?
has been saciddly regarded by all citt
tens of the t'nltod States and pro
foundly revered by the lovers of politi
cal liberty throughout the world. To
have asserted tjhat American labor or
ganizations were not pledged. to the
maintenance of these principles would
have been resetted by their constituent
members; yet the time lias come when
even the advocacy of these principles
by an American labor organization Is
unwise. Although the writer protests
his belief to the contrary, it seems to
be the general Impression that one of
the partisan Issues of the next national
campaign will Jbe this very question.
Therefore the time has come for the
discussion of these principles to be cr
eluded from th publication, which Is
the official orgaju of a labor organiza
tion. ;j ,
Militarism Is llhe antithesis of Indus
trialism. Labor organizations are the
fruit of industrialism. Labor organi
zations nre; opposed by militarism,
The Standard Dictionary dellne In
dustrialism as "a condition of socie
ty in which the highest aim Is suc
cess in peaceful Industries; opposed
to militancy." The same autliorilv
say thot militancy Is "thnt social con
dltlon of mankind In which the efforts
of men are directed chiefly to arm
ed conflict with ono another; ou
posea to inaustriaiism. Tue same
authority defines militarism as the giv
ing of undue prominence to military
training and to military glory; the
maintenance of government by mill
tary force," etc. From this It Is seen
that the welfare of labor organizations
depends upon the success of Industrial
Ism and the discouragement of mill
tarlsm; yet, so It would appear, labor
organizations will not dare to say one
word In the settlement of this ques
tion, for, so It Is said, It will soon be a
partisan Issue,
Labor organizations have earnestly
fought against what is known as "gov
ernment by Injunction." Beldom a con
vention of a labor organization is held
that government by Injunction is not
bitterly denounced. The railway broth
erhoods have taken a leadins part In
tills crusade, having expended thou
sands of dollars lb maintaining com
mlttees at Washington for the purpose
of convincing mOuibers of conerefs
that the powers of Judges should be
curtailed; that no Jlndge should be dele
gated with the authority to annul that
part of the Amjerkan constitutloa
which guarantees every citizen a trial
by a Jury before conviction or punish
ment for alleged crime. But labor or
ganizations will perhnps be compelled
to stultify themselves, to rescind their
resolutions, In tbtt near future, for
government by Injunction" may be
come a partisan question of the next
national campaign, j
There Is a crcat Wnmor acalnst the
"trusts" now heal throughout the
land. The dlsconfi-nted manses de
mand their regulation or else extermi
nation. Tho attorneys and newspapers
of trusts ire, with! wonderful unani
mity, asserting thafl If the commoreinl
trusts must go, so must "labor trnsts."
Wo, will presume that the day will
come when the prohibition of labor or
ganlxatlons will be , partisan question,
filmll tabor organization take no part
In the discussion? ' Shall they not dare
to oppose their own cestructloo simply
bee a u h onw of the polities! parties Is
LAMi
opposed to labor organizations!
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LAST. GREAT FIGHT OF. ALL.
O my preple! O my brothertl T was .. Isw
th Lord of Hotu!
Hon ol might and light ind learnlfif, tartcs
not tin Dd ?' ghoiu!
Y irho In th plnful sweat ailly w tm
- tutor' nod . . - .
And wha march forwr onwMiJ tbaafk bMfc ,
suiii aad bod; bleed I
T o hold the plow of prorre '
" for' Mubborn aoll.'i
While Truth' furrow, Oodwardj malt
a path tot ttiow who toil
Through lif' rough and rock dMrt toward
the mountain of the dova,
Whw. rrnattrtnrd bnlh Poaea' 0I8V M
, enthroned tba Una of lova,
O my people I O my broth-n! Though It
that evil wis
.nd Right armies He forever, beten by taa
-" host of Sln( .
Lai tha God of (ildeoa livetb yet wtthii lha
- aaur akyl .- - --r. .'
Still he ten the- falling tparrow aad trill mO
day bear maa's cry!
Teal tie long' hath beard their walling,
.hiiti ariitad lor the lima 1 v ,
When the cold heart of their ruler jtraa)4
. freec aitn'i tear to fine, .
for hit anger rlaetb (lowly loug he sugars 14
1 kind-
Dut wo -unto th (inning crew who think thai
h la blind!
lo today hll Sit ealtb tliat ApollyM's
liall eeaae -.. .
When one mora th martyr. Uleblood ahaU dyt
red hi flag of peace,
for In every cllm and country they wh aorrow,
" aerv and lv ' -
Soon (hall wetr to lod their freedom or to 111
; patriot' gravel --, - - '
Tliough the mm Is more than mighty, their aa
preeeore, blind and weak.
Smiling, wait the fata! moment when they know
, their gun tnuit apeak, r '
Knowing not that fear or Mamaoa oanaat
awerv th on of God '
Who bar (worn to- Ire hi children from thai
iron ruling red. ,. . .
Crelea ef tba vengeane coming, Ilka
nr at th (aaat,
8tlU they luat, eppreaa and worahlp at tat ilfr'
- of th beaatl
But their day ot doom approach, far la .words
of living Sr ... .
Upon th wall of tbelr banquet hill tkar lima
y r. this meaaag dire:
0 y who hart ruled to men' ruin wb Wt
worihlped not me, but the pupal
Ta bav twtited my truth to s.Alaahcad aa4
nude of my blaming t cargj
T bav ehora my we in thewinter, y aarn
tarved the lamb of mr inck,
T have mad of my erne right' gibbet, af Hp
, aepulcber door love' block!
Th kindly croeler that turfed my abeaa wheel
unwitting they went (Stray
T have etralghteaed and aiarpeiMd into apea
; wliertwltb Ihoae lams to alayl
Th bower that I gave tM th good af all ye)
bav uaed for youreeive alone!
T bar robbed ' y ruled, hut your and bag
come, (or your etna ye muet no atonal
For, lo! my wrathful aword of bn for th but
tint I unahehth.
And when gain 1 scabbtrd It no avU kroadl
. (hall breathe! .
0 my people! O my brothers! Am ye, gird y .
for tb frayt
Witch and wait and pray and Bonder tUl at butt
. ; tber come th day - -Viuvi
Uod'a fearlea cboten warrior hear taeai
hefeiilT war Lord call .
To tba seid "f Armageddon for tba iaat great
fight of ll."
When all bell bont, legion nil? or tbtli t0J
fatal aland : , '..-
Ere the earth become td bearen tbt tm
. I'ather-ltotber pltnitefi.
Where th worker reap th harreet that tbatr
toiling hind her aows '
And eppreuign, wrong atid erU tr to aw M
longer known,
Where no neighbor win with neighbor aad man
kind, through iplrit birth. "
Bring Uod' kingdom that w pray far to all
dweller m th earth!
The, , oh, then. Win' mighty war trump afejall
no more the rrhoes ewcll. : ' ' -
Kor carth'a entile by bloody battle change inta
the amirk of bill.
t .
On the Belli of Armageddon, alaln by Love, lot
Hat el.al! dial
There hi urlnging conquered legion (hall tat
. iva alief lane try, '
And tlw iwrd and ica'.ea of Juttlce, mightiest
angel of Ood'i throng, .
lull forever mulder uun on lb crumbling
, : tojuu ol IV i one I
(.', Clarence Ladd
Davl in Aeaaye. j
It In Comii
The London Saturday Review pro
ceed to claim that Canada now, suf
fices by herself, both politically and
economically, and has no further need
of the United States; that only tha
most factious policy on -the part ot
Great Britain could revive the annex
ationist party In Canada, and ask
what possible reason Canada can bav
for involving the country In tha great
est International questions. - The arti
cle concludes a follows: .
"With .-. thousauds of Americana
slaughtering Filipinos whom the
want to be free, while the truth is con
cealed from the public . by method
worse than Russia's as an Instance
of external aggression, end with m
reign of terror In Cleveland, where m
tram strike is conducted -with nitro
glycerin bombs, as au example of In
ternal convulsion, there la raised the
grave question of what will happen
when the present tide of , prosperity
turns. - Therefore to urge Canada to
go beyond the bounds of reasonable?
concession would be good neither for
her nor the empire. ; v - ' , t '
The bankers are striving, by an in
creased Issue of nl; notes and by be
fuddling the 1 people through their
newspapers, to avert the tremendous
catastrophe that must follow the wip
ing out of one-half the metallic money
of the world. But It must com. It
Is as Inevitable as death. The day of
Judgment - may be staved off for
awhile, but it hangs over the world
like a bursting cyclones full of Inrx
presslblo horror, Ignatius Donnelly
in KepresentaUve.;, j t -
Standard Oil Bent Him.
The Standard UII company could not
bribe Attorney General Monnett of
Ohio, but If colli aud did kill him po
litically,-. ;and hp received only the
votes of the fJtiejrntes5 from his own
county In the'stnte' convention for re
uomlnatlon'Th&'brlbVbf 1300.000 to
dismiss the suits' against the company
was spurned,' but Jth1 'company can .
now spurn the private citizen Mon
nett. And thus does money corrupt tho
social and political life of the nation
becans ' representation does Bot rep
resent. And then to think that tho
Ohio Republican platform has an anti
trust plank! what fenny thing t
hatch out of tho political next i tr. v
hot summer days 14 Appeal to t.z J
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