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i DR. BENT LEY, Lincoln.,
The imperialists say that the Phil
v ippine situation ia "a, legacy of tho
, war." Well, a man isn't obliged to
accept a legacy unless he wants
'to."
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If Gov. Poynter don't sue Senator
.Thurston for the price of hauling-
his private car, from Denvjj-iW Oma
haWell this edij,w?arl visit the
state house vri'blood in his eye.
--Or- '..'""
A colored strgeant in Manila was
" asked by a Fifuuno what he was
' there for and flip replied: "I am
, here to tijke up the white man's bu
', den." That "half devil and half
.child" Filipino couldn't see ' the
' point at all. ,
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The republicans have- the Associ
ated Press, the telegraph, and the
' big dailies) We have the truth arid
' the arguments. We shall see who
shall win. Truth crushed to earth
will rise again for the eternal years
of God are hers.
o-
The editor of the Quill says he
knows what Senator Thurston said
to the rose but he wants to find out
. what he said to the railroad coin-
pany when bis private car was at
tached to a train paid for by the
people of this state against the pro
test of Governor Poynter. . -
1)
Congress declared the people of
Cuba are free and of right ought to
be free. Haven't the Filipinos the
same rights that the Cubans have?
Did God restrict their rights? Were
the Filipinos born with fewer rights
than the Cubans? Those are some
cf the things that no pop can find
out by asking republicans. -
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The republican dailies are still
... keeping up their cry that the scar-
city of harvest hands shows that
there is no unemployed labor in the
. United States. Even their poets,
who write doggerel at so much a line
; are ordered to furnish rhymes on
? the subject, , All of which shows
how very nurd up they are for
gument. ..; '-;
ar
' Vh Nicauntguajcjnanl has been
written about aiulftflEeU about ever
6ince Huuboldt declared iliat it was
feasible in 1805. 'ft&ii: been Bur-
.veyed and reYeye&ime after
time and now AqouratTiWalker de
i ( clareg in the yprystrongest terms in
favor of its construction. It is time
j that we quit resoluting, talking and
j writing and went to work tto build
' it. But thenwe can't.v Hunting-
ton and the railroads won't let the
, 1 United talcs do such a thing. That
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SHOBTAOK OF J
What the Indepcn
as been
le bank
foretold, has all conic 'tcC i
ie result
is the financial btatemciU
last Saturday from New nU;nt out
t New ork, Sept. 16.-)( Ljj. ,
ment of the clearing h jie
issued today shows a prf .bankg
liaustion of the surplui , Q
which stand at $275,4o L;
requirements ' J , .
like that which started s
tidn exactly
the failure of the Bari
liepanio in
gs and from
yet fully re
the lnde
said, can
ine dollar of
Bunks may
which the world has no
covered. Banking, as
pendent'has' constantly
not be carried on with
money to ten of credit,
run for a few months
a collapse is sure to cd
littt way, but
itle. There
is just one way to stop
money and that way ni
his draft for
ed or we will have the
experience to go thro'u,
that the country has
tet be adopt-
same terrible
h with again
since 181)3. There in
ulTercd from
great reduction in pri
st be a very
dness of the country
eg. The bu
innot be done
el with, the
rculation and
'. Credit can
thari four to
nty of a col
tit the present price le
amount of money in c
there is no use to try
nut be pushed furthei
one without the certal
lapse. ;; ;i
As usually tho secrj
treasury has rushed
tary of ., the
a the aid of
g the October
Sta(c bonds.
the banks, by advancii
interest on the United
That will be only a t(
The crops cannot bo
niorary relief.
business of this coin
inoved an the
at the present price
wheat, cattle, everyt
just themselves to tl
ry "famed on
'levels, "; "Corn,
money in circulation.! tity of
done, we may look ox & not
agBin' . (tj for '1)3 over
A 8HARP BA, '
v McKinlev sent thd "
ing, must ad
ganboat Petrel to th glateg
on Washineton's birf
Island of Cebu
manded the surrendf
liduy and dc-
to the United -Stafl
rr of the island
The 'governor was
to make reply. Du
eg governuent.
jiven 14 hours
this governor, a ma
ing thosd hours
McKinley and Rool dcnounceJ by
age, wrote out and
Isevelt' as a sav-
ply that has been
of every scholarly
forwarded a re-
he astonishment
seen it. The repltJ
person who has
In the face of tl
was as follows:
tion to this governi
wander of the Un
e verbal intima-
boat Petrel, denian
der of the fort and!
ient by the com
ted'' States gun-
order to hoist the 11
ling the surren-
on the Cotta withi
city of Cebu, jn
fourteen hours, tlf
Jag of his nation
convoked in consetJ
i the limit of
j)osed of represent;
creat council
live forces of the
unanimously to ac
mands in view of
uence, and, com-
Uves of all ' the
lountry, resolved
cde.to these de-
the American armi
first protesting thai
he BUDerioritv of
eminent of this pi
, but not without
whole of its mha
it neither the gov
have the power ti
wince, nor the
prcssly forbidden
president of the P
Emilio Aguinaldo
chief of the Btate,
itants combined,
execute acts ex
by the honorable
dlippine republic,
to his indisputabl
our letntimate
governor and ill,Ccognizcd, thanks
Sad and painfu
qualities of just
this defenseless
itrious general.
act contrary to it
is the.situation' of
ty, compelled to
i own convictions;
therefore it proc
whole world that
not based upon
aius before the
form the codes o
tion; it never exj
this occupation is
ny rights which
tuch a scene at th
supposed to bo e
f any civilized na
ected to behold
The talk of coi
; close of a century
orate, of cession
iards, as if the a
ihphtened.
hquest, of protect-
persons, a wove a
nade by the pan-
iso sul.i.t in bnironiix'iago and our
of these is worth?1' were uierchand
sand worlds, ev
ter, when one only
that metal callet
more than a thou
n if composed of
I vile, which possi-
bly enchants lik
pent.
But be this a
person whom 1 1
treat with is Sen
out whose acqui
the eyes of a ser
it may, the only
ie pretender can
manded of this d0T Aguinaldo, with
er licit nor lega wtn, e ine ncl 1
tni, rovemment is nei
de-
tous
th
(Signed)
ix)ns fi
Cebu, Februa
. Aside from i
being too momen
QRES, Governor,
y 2- 18!)t). -
line of that re
I he pathos of e very
for many other
f1tf it ia mmail-nkln
place it cover , . .
e n he exact ground ta-
"y.edStateginthedif.
ueia contention , . . .,
lgland in the Venez-
li that is now under
arbitration in Paris. It is the ar
gument that the great lawyers from
this country are making. It covers
the exact point in the claim of Great
Britain to ft part of the soil of a
South American republic against
which we are "contending. Aside
from the ability, tho forcible lan
guage, the scholarly construction of
the whole document, is the pathetic
appeal to justice. But McKinley
has adopted the doctrine of force
and justice weighs not a grain in
the balance. The demand made
on that day was the demand of pow
er. It was the old Roman demand.
Rome set up force against the cry of
justice and the whole world knows
what, was the fate of Rome.
- Another thing' the document
shows. McKinley claims that Aguin
aldo represents but a small part of
the people of the islands and that
those Who favor him are all on the
Island; of Luzon. This document
proves the falsity of that statement.
At least the people of the Island of
Cebu acknowledge their allegiance
to him.
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t , OTIS, CENSORSHIP.
Mr: Collins, the Associated Press
agent in the Philippines, has written
an '.article in which he shows just
what the censorship in the Philip
pines is for. He says that it is whol
ly, for political purposes. He de
clares taht experienced war corres
pondents who have worked in Japan
and China, and reported the wars in
Africa and in Cuba, all declare that
they have never been subject to any
thing like it not even under Wey
ie'r'in Cuba. Further than this, Mr.
Collins charges that there has been
a perfect orgie of looting of tho pro
perty, of non-combatant Filipinos.
To those charges he says every re
spectable correspondent in the isl
ands. will testify. This state of af
fairs is just a taste of militarism. We
will get plenty more of it. ,
ANOTHER GREAT SCHEME.
The gold bugs have another great
scheme on hand. They are going
to. take W. J. Bryan up on a high
mountain and offer him all the king
doms of this world if he will ' Only
agree to make silver a secondary is
sue in the next campaign. , They
Bay. that they have organized seven
great anti-imperialist leagues and
that all those leagues will pledge
their support to him if he will only
promise. Carl Schurz and Bourke
Cochran are to manage the thing.
They will get, "get thee behind me
Satan," in a voice that will make
each individual hair stand on end.
XO
wo great was tne stringency in
the money market last Saturday,
the clearing house bankers called a
meeting to consider the situation.
They talked, of clearing certificates
and aid from the treasury and all
those sort of things and then did
nothing. The average banker is
the biggest idiot in the whole popu
tation when it comes to questions of
this sort If one of them shows
tendency to learn something all the
ret of them jump on him and tear
him te pieces or persecute him unto
death as they did St. John of the
Commercial National. Back of them
all, is the guiding hand that holds
the bonds of the world and whose
only interest is to constantly in
crease the purchasing power of
money. The slightest nod of this mo
gul, they all obey, even if it means
the ruin of their country. In regard
to bankers, there are just enough ex
ceptions to prove the rule and since
St. John died, they all seem to be
in the west.
The imperialistic preachers have
to change their premises every once
in $ while, but they can do it as
slick as a sleight-of-hand man can
make a silver dollar disappear. In
the beginning they ' declared that
God was for .imperialism because
victory crowned our army and navy
everywhere. "That was during the
war against the Spanish. In the war
aguinst the Filipinos our campaign
is pronounced by everyone to be a
failure." So according to their
logic God must have gone over to
the other side. But that don't trou
ble tho preachers a bit. They have'
a new system of logic ready to ueet
the emergency. They say now that
Uod is trying us by fire.
THE NEBRASKA INDiiPENiiKJNT.
In a letter from an old populist
worker which was burned up in the
fire, was tho remark that in the next
campaign we tfbuld have an advan
tage over the last inasmuch as the
authorities in the republican party
had given up the contest against the
quantity theory of money and were
now saying that the incresae in the
output of gold was the cause of the
present "prosperity." The editor
of the Independent does not look
for much, from that sourse. Even
if we should read to them the report
of the director of the mint and their
paper should announce that the
more money there was in circulation
the scarcer and harder it would be to
get, the mullet woul4 immediately
declare, "that's so, the pops are all
lunatics." - . ...
Senator Thurston in hia first
speech in the United States senate,
said that he had given his father to
the service of his country and was
going to give his son. As for him
self, he hitched his private car onto
a train paid for by the people of the
6tate and rode in it from Denver
to Omaha. -That is the sum total
of his sacrifices for his country. But
the mullet lieads think that Thurs
ton is the most patriotic man in the
state. He is, in their eyes, far su
perior to a man who followed the
flag of the First Nebraska in the
Philippines and then came home
and dared to say that he did not be
lieve this war in the Philippines was
defending the principles of our gov
ernment. That sort of a soldier is
a copperhead in their eyes.
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Tom Reed has returned thanks to
his old district for keeping him in
congress so long. He says: "It
would not be just in me to withhold
my thanks to those democrats who
have so often given me their votes."
He winds ,up his letter with the
words: i t v
"Whatever may happen I am 6ure
that the First Maine district will al
ways be true to the principles of lib-
erty,n8elf -government and the rights
of man (.signed) tl, t
" i fTHOMAS-B. REED."
There is not the word republican
or republican party in the whole
letter. The last line, in which the
word "self-government" occurs, is
especially significant just . at the
present time. '
If Great Britain should make a
demand oh this country to the effect
that w:e should allow her subjects
to come to this country and vote
without becoming citizens and with
out renouncing their - allegiance to
the Queens, do you think that there
is a man west of the Atlantic would
dare advocate it? But that is the
demand she is making of the Dutch
republic, and British lickspittles,
like some of the great dailies that
are advocating it. Joe Chamberlain
will find that there are Patrick Hen
rys by the thousand in the fanner
republic w ho will say "give me lib
erty or give me death."
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England wants us to have colo
nies so that we will have to keep ar
mies in all parts of the world and
have many points to defend. That
once accomplished, the United
States would not be a power to fear
any longer. Seventy million people
with only our coasts at home to de
fend would make us invincible
against the whole world. But with
a thousand islands in the Pacific
and three or four more in the West
Inlies, the case would be different.
The statesmen, of England know
what they are about. .
There are wo republican parties
in Maryland. It doesn't change
matters any because one conies be
fore the people with the name dem
ocrat printed on the ticket. There
is a chance for the populists in that
state and they ought to take advan
t age of it. '
If what the correspondents in the
Philippines say is only half true,
France can Bay in reply to our criti
cism of the Dreyfus case: "You
have an Otis and we have a Mercier,
lti a Roland for an pliver." All
that we can reply is: It is not Otis,
it is McKinley.
"THE BEST NEWS'
There was burnt up in the fire a
very valuable article from Van Vor
his on exports and imports in which
the author went exhaustively into
the whole subject. The idiocy which
the Independent has often called at
tention to, of the republican claim
that a nation can grow rich by ex
porting more wealth than it im
ports was fully shown up. Mr. Van
Vorhis had prepared a table from
the government reports showing
just how much more wealth we
had exported from the foundation
of the government to the present
time than we had imported. The
mullet heads read with great glee
every week Dun's reports of imports
and exports and because the ex
ports greatly exceed the imports
these idiots imagine that this nation
is growing rich by the operation.
Dun's article began last week with
these words:
"Better than all othre news, the
record of August commerce show
the relation of United States busi
ness to that of other countries. Ex
ports were $20,082,875 larger than
ever before in August, and exceed
ed the imports by $37,92i),699 part
ly because exports of staples wrere
$9,366,978 larger than last year
but also because exports of other
products, mainly manufacturing,
were $10,349,000 larger than last
year, and larger than any other
month of any year.
"Better than all other news," If
that is true, let us go to work and
ship all the wealth out of this coun
try and bring none at all back. It
seems that partisanshap can drive
every grain of common' sense out
of a man's head. England is about
tne only country in the world that
has for years constantly imported
more than she exports and England
is the commercial mistress of ' the
world. In counting exports ' and
imports Dun never says anything
about gold and silver. If these ex
ports brought back gold and silver,
then we would have something to
show for the wealth that we sent out
of the country. Those metals are
largely kept over on the other side
to pay interest on railroad and other
bonds and stocks and for rent for
the millions of acres of land . ..that
the Englishmen own in this country.
We are short already on this year's
transactions over $400,000,000.
That is what Dun calls: "Better
than all other news.'
DEPTHS OF DEPRAVITY.
The contemptible meanness of
the State Journal was exhibited in a
new way last week. In all the his
tory of journalism in this country
we defy any man to find any thing
that will compare with it. For thir
ty years this writer has been engag
ed in newspaper work, in New
York, Washington, St. Louis, Chica
go, Omaha, and this city. It has
been his fortune to be connected
with papers that have suffered from
fires and has seen other papers
burned out. In all these cases un
til he came to this town, he has only
known among the profession, how
ever they may have fought each
other, the greatest sympathy from
rival concerns and offers of help
from all sides. It remained for the
State Journal to break this record
in the profession.
In its "Jist" of losses it carefully
refrained from mentioning that the
Nebraska Independent had been
burned out and then at the close
of its account of the fire said that
the subscription list of this paper
had been lost. , The subscribers who
will receive their papers as usual this
week will know how much . truth
there was in that statement. That
was a lie told with forethought and
malice. Every one knows that if
the subscription list of a paper is
lost it means irretrievable ruin.
The loss of this paper was about
$2,000, but it will continue publi
cation. New offices have been se
cured on the northeast' corner of I
and 12th streets; $2,600 of new ma
terial have already been purchased
and is being placed in position. The
paper will be enlarged and the fight
against plutocracy and imperialism
will be continued with more vigor
than ever. Now is a good time to
send in subscriptions and pay up
back dues. The management needs
the money.
Mr. Smith says that the last edi
tion of the Independent was so ter-
refically hot that it set the whole
block on fire.
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Gen. Lawton says that "the Fili
pinos are the bravest men I ever
saw," and "all they want is a little
justice." ; They will never get it at
the hands ,of McKinley.
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The cabinet meetings are longer
now and more frequent than at the
height of the Spanish war. The
way the people have commented on
McKinley's impedial policy seem to
trouble their minds.
Rockefeller has donated to the
building of another church. Now
they should adorn the altar with a
statue of Saint Coal Oil, and all the
members should fall down and wor
ship it once a week. '
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The republican propaganda as it
exists in this year of our Lord, 1899,
is for the single gold standard, tariff,
trusts, imperialism, militarism, poly
gamy and slavery. How much has it
in common with the life and
speeches of Abraham Lincoln?
0
Secretary Hay wants a court dress
adopted at Washington.What do you
suppose would have happened if he
had proposed that to Lincoln when
he was Lincoln's private secretary?
Thirty-five years has produced i
great change in Hay. '
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According to the Independent-
Herald, Gibson was not a socialist.
The Ruskin colonists are not social
ists and there is not a socialist in the
state of Nebraska aside from Mr
Brown himself. In this matter
probably Mr. Brown is eminently
correct.
0
The State Journal has been claim
ing that in this year of trusts -and
McKinley prosperity every man
hereabouts was at work who wanted
work. But when there was great
demand for carpenters to build
booths for the street fair, it was
found that there were plenty of
carpenters in this city who want
ed work.
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The claim that there must be a con
stitutional amendment before trusts
can be regulated is based on the
theory that the present supreme
court is absolutely plutocratic. The
power given to congress to regulate
commerce between the states is suf
ficient, under any reasonable inter
pretation, to cover a law making
trusts take out a license and submit
to-complete publicity.
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" All the bankers now agree that
the phrase in the last republican
platform:" The present gold stand
ard," was a first-class lie. Now they
6ay that they want a law passed to
establish the gold standard. The
consequence is that all this prosper
ity that they talk about is not the
result of the gold standard at all, for
if the gold standard is yet to estab
lished it is not the cause of the con
ditions that now exist. ,
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An old soldier in a communication
to this week's issue of the Inde
pendent draws atention to the fact
that the republican managers dare
not trust a member of the First Ne
braska on the stand. While the
managers sickened the audience
with their fullsome praise of impe
rialism they took good care that
no member of the Fighting First
should speak a word. They prepar
ed great dinners for them which the
fighters would not go and eat, but
they declined to hear anything that
they had to say.
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All the great republican dailies
take it for granted that Tom Reed's
letter to his constituents is a formal
withdrawal from the republican par
ty. The Times-Herald and other
papers say that Reed "belongs to an
insignificant majority" and repre
sents nobody and nothing. They
give it to him hot and heavy and
after the fashion that they have had
of denouncing every man that would
not bow down and worship their
new god of imperialism. The first
thing they will know, one of these
fine mornings, is that Tom Reed
has & tongue as well as they.
Sept. 2h 1899.
THE OHIOWA BANK.
Mr. Charles A. Fowler writes the
following letter to the editor of the
Geneva Gazette:
"Editor Gazette: In speaking
before the Tecent republican conven
tion, I illustrated the prosperous
condition of our people by citing
the deposits of the Bank of Ohiowa.
In your last issue you cnaractenze
my statement as "fishy,"', which
means that it was probably untrue.
The statement of this bank, dated
March 6, 189!), and published in
compliance with law in the Ohio-
wan, and also hied with the bank
ing department at Lincoln, gives
the deposits at' $14,869.12. The
statement published in the ' "Ohio
wan" of July 6, 1899, shows that the
deposits then amounted to . $62,-
974.04. On September 9, mst..,
they had grown to $71,861.28. This
means that the farmers business men
and others, living in or near Ohiowa
have this immense sum of money for
which they, have no immediate use.
and therefore leave it for safe keep
ing with the bank." .
'How any sane man can' believe
that bank deposits represent money
deposited in the bank, after all that
haa been written and published up
on banking during the last 20 years
is passed comprehension. A very
small part of what is called depos
its" in the official bank statements
is money. Any man with a modi
cum of common sense ought to
know without being told that the
farmers around Ohiow-a have not de
posited nearly $63,000 in a littla
bank at that place. How miich cash
that bank held at the time is not
stated by Mr. Fowler, but the many
inquiries that have been made in
recent years shows that what are
called "deposits" represent a little
over twenty-five per cent of cash
and the remainder is checks, drafts
and notes. On page 19 of the comp
troller's report for 1894 will be
found a statement on. this subject.
That officer sent out an order for
the banks to make a report to him
on a certain day of the amount that
was charged to deposits and to spe
cify whether it was gold, silver, pa
per money or checks, drafts and oth
er forms of credit. In the state of
Nebraska on that day it was found
35.6 only was money and the re
mainder credit. Credit has been
greatly expanded since ' then and
without doubt that .$63,000 repre
sents less than 20 per cent of money.
It is therefore safe to say that the
actual money deposited in that bank
was about $12,000 or $15,000.
WTiat would become of that bank
if the depositors should demand
their money? , V -
THIEVING STAFF OFFICERS.
For several weeks there has been
from time to time articles published
in various papers charging the grav
est offences against officers of the
staff in the Philippines. Now the
charges are becoming specific. "The
Rev. Peter McQueen, a minister in
good standing, now charges Gen.
Otis and his staff with taking a bribe
of $100,000 from the Chinese mer
chants. He 6ays that Otis issued
an order increasing the duty on opi
um, and that the Chinese merchants
raised $100,000 and paid it over to
have the order suspended, for two
weeks. During the two weeks tha
Chinese imported enough opium to
supply the market for a year.
He further charges that an Eng
lishman who had a contract to sup
ply horses was forced to give the
quartermaster $600.00 to get him to
receive them. Many other charges,
of the same nature are being made
most specifically by correspondents
on the ground and by men who have
returned home. That state of af
fairs is just what has been expected.
In fact nothing else could be looked
for. In the early days when me
came west it was not uncommon td
see them abandon the habits of so
briety and honesty that had been
their custom at home to observe,
and branch out into all sorts of dis
reputable doings. Much more will
they be likely to do it 10,000 miles
from home among a people who are
helpless and who speak another lan
guage. We have objected to the war in
the Philippines, not so much for the
sake of the Filipinos, although they
have the sympathy of all honest
men, as we have for our own sake.
With an army 10,000 miles from
home to return when the terms of
their service expire, who have been
serving in a war of conquest, subju
gation and looting, there is much to
be feared for our own liberties.
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If the McKinley policy is inaugu
rated, what title shall we give the
chief executive of this republic? II
will still be president of the Unitot
States and besides that he will be
the ruler of the Philippine archipe-'' )
lago. Shall we call bim president , -of
the United States and Emperovf VJ
the Philippines? Over across th
water they have a ruler who is queen t
of Great Britain and Empress' of
India.
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