THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
October 5, 1899.
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' M'KINLEY A 1H.CTATOR.
Now in 181H), at the ekiso of the Span
isb w&r, the - president of ' the United
States possesses and exercises an author
ity beyord that of any ruler in the world
except the Czar o ' " and without
question from r 4 From Wash
lngton to McKinley We have evoluted
from the weakest form of federation to
the most concentrated one of executive
centralization. Chauncy Depew at the
Christmas banquet of the Buffalo Inde-
. pendent club. ' , '
LOOK OUT FOR THEM.
There is a desparate attempt on foot
to capture the ballot boxes in Nebraska,
lift every populist be on the lookout
Whenever a republican comes to a popu-
( list with a projxjsition to trade on county
indue or clerk mark him. That in their
p!an to get hold of the election machin
ery o they can stuff the ballot boxen for
imperialism, trusts and the gold stand
ar.i in 15StO. Every county chairman
should take thin matter up so that there
shall be not a populist voter in the Htate
who will not know what it means not
to vote for the fusion county judge and
clerk. Keep hammering at it. If the
republicans get control of the election
machinery and attempt to stuff the bal
lot boxes there will be more trouble than
we have had in thin country since the
civil war. Look out for them.
SHOOT ON SIGHT.
The republican have been sending
out instructions to their newspapers.
Among them is the following: "Let the
members bear in mind to put special
stress upon the election of county judges
and clerks, since these two officers have
charge of the appointment of election
. , Iwtawta nft fha r.n v.uutncy g9 lMttin
returns, both of which will be of vast
' significance during the presidential elec
tion neit year."
Thy do the republicans put "special
stress upon the election of county
judges and clerks? Without doubt this
instruction comes directly '.from the
JIark Banna headquarters, The repub
. lkans under Mark Hanna managed to
cast one vote for every two inhabitants
men, women, children, insane, paupers
and criminals all counted in, In the state
of Ohio. Now, that is to be tried in the
state of Nebraska. They' know they
can't do it unless they can get control of
the ballot boxes through corrupt judges
and clerks,. The Independent says to
these scoundrels that if they attempt to
stuff the ballot boxes in this state they
had better look out for their hides. That
is treason of the rankest kind nd any
man caught at it ought to be shot on
sight
A CULTURED UAH.
The New York Post, which is supposed
to represent the culture of the gold
party, can lie like thief, and its "cul
tured" readers make no protest what
ever. It says:
"Co'onel Bryan is "a proper man to
rt present labor. He never did a day's
work in his life nor ever furnished a
day's employment to any one else. He
nays he: is worth 1200,000. Why doesn't
he put his money into some business
that will furnish employment at good
uvges to some of these laboring men he
wwns to feel so much sympathy for?"
A n -purler of the New York Tost, a
timn who. a that journal hires to "work"
(r it, undertook to follow Bryan in his
campaign. While Bryan was making
a Unit six'een speeches a day that re
li'TtiT oiily wrote up one short report
T.-u days of following Bryan, whd did
hixt n l.nurs work to the reporter's one,
ntd Ota I'wt'i hired man threw up his
j.l. lb decided that there was not an
o:tu r human I eing in the United States
that f..n!i s.Vid the amount of work
that lii y,m v doing for one week. The
"culf ;,r.i" editor of the New York Times
wi i.Sii better hive an interview with that
,iiird tiin of his before he tries to write
and customs of work.
. Tub populist htate committee has se
cured Uie cervices of Mr. Vara Vorhis,
the. g: et economist He will make a
kth's of speeches in this stato. . Watch
the (ii)tiounce.iuents and gdand hear him.
Take al your friends and neighbors. It
U not tsi-ty d-iy th it men of his eminent
a l.iiity u.: great learning can be heardjimt now the public at large has had a
Mot in ('u' sts have read extracts from
hU -mii- .u. The Independent has been
in th Vuit of printing a good many of
l.eiu
,' MXEV AND PRICE.
Last week'the Western Union sent out
some fuke tVblegrams from Liverpool
under w hich the price of cotton went up
in the southern exchanges 2 1-2 cents a
pound in a few hours. If the price had
been retained, every bank doing business
with the cotton exchunges would have
had to close before night So great whs
the danger that the boards of directors
closed all the exchanges and stopped
business. When the fulsity of the cable
gram was established all trades made
under them were declared off. In a tel
egram from Galveston it is said:
'The banks received telegrams from
their correspondents from many points
in the interior, calling for currency. A
prominent bunker, stated this evening
that overfir0.U)0 in bills were shipped
from here this afternoon."
Now, here is another demonstration of
the quantity theory of money. A rise of
2 1 2 cents a pound causes one town
(.lone to forward $230,000. If the price
of cotton had been maintained for a few
hours longer it would have been utterly
impossible for the banks to have fur
nished the money. 'There was not
enough money in the banks to move the
cotton crop at that price. It would
have been an utter impossibility,' After
the banks had furnished all the money
in their vaults, they would have closed
their doors and the price of cotton would
have tumbled away below even the for
mer low price. The "quantity" of money
inexorably fixes price. Mr. Lauiberteon,
the treat Lincoln gold bug lawyer, in
formed the students at the stato univer
sity that a redundancy of money lowered
prices. Bnd the professor. of political
economy never said a word in correction.
REI'UIILUAN TREASURERS.
The republican county treasurers in
this state hive made no reform in the
manner of doing business except what
has been forced upon them, by State
Treasurer Meserve. , As soon as ' he got
into office, he issued instructions that
made it practically impossible for a county
treasurer to steal state money. Be
fore, under republican treasurers, county
treasurers were allowed to keep Btate
funds in their hands for a long time and
untH the amounts grew to be very large,
which they loaned out to the banks and
put the interest received 1 into their own
pockets. Meserve made them send up
their funds every month, so they can't
loan and can't steal any great sum.
In conducting the affairs of the county,
the republican treasurers are continuing
in their old ways. Gage county is a
typical republican county and the treas
urer does the business of the county
after the old republican way. The
Beatrice News says: ,
"There is no call for county warrants
which have been drawing 7 per cent in
terest for over six months in the hands
of Dan Cook and other ring friends, and
yet over $40,000 in the county treasury
for their redemption which should be
used at once for such purpose. Pecula
tion end eitortion are the watchwords
of our county treasury."
inat statement simply means that the
republican court house ring in Gage
county have m their possession $40,000
upon which they can ' draw interest and
also hold $40,000 in warrants upon which
they also draw. 7 per cent All of this
income belongs to the people of that
county and the treasurer has a legal right
to nothing but his salary and fees, if any,
provided by law. When he takes any
more, he is morally as guilty of embei-
ment as Bartley ever was, although the
aw may not be able to reach him. Re
publican treasurers have always been
costly officials. Gage county ought to
get rid of this one this fall.
FURNISH THE NAMES. .
Mr. Orlando Teft, the new chairman
of the republican state committee, has
issued an address to the J voters of the
state. It is to be commended in that it
doss not go into denunciations and
slander as has been the custom of the re
publican leaders is this state." One or
two points in it will bear a little discus
sion. Mr. Teft thinks tnat the cnair-
mak of the populist party insulted the
German voters when he ' declared that
they were opposed - to i mperialism, and
that the Germans will take umbrage at
it and just go for the populists. Mr.
Teft is hugging a sweet delusion here.
A German will be insulted if he is told
that he is for imperialism and great
standing armies. He will probably say
that to escape that kind of a government
be came to America and now that he is
here, he is not going to vote for it
In another place Mr. Teft assures us
that the populists are going over to the
republicans in large numbers and that
at all the republican conventions this
year there were many former populists
who were delegates. Of course Mr.
Teft was not at these conventions and
the only conclusion is that he has been
1 stening to the tales of Joe Johnson.
I- oppose Mr. Teft furnishes us with
ime of the names of populists who have
t urned republican. The populist papers
1 re all the time publishing names of re
I ublicans who have forsaken McKinley
i nd the republican party. So far the
tepublifsns have furnished the name of
imly one populist who has gone over to
McKinloy, and that fellow waa a
preacher. His name is Mailey.
There have been many special prlvl
egea granted to the few in this country,
special privilege granted to it No other
ation since history began ever had such
privilege conferred upon it by its ru
era. It is the privilege o( paying from
25 to 150 per cent more for the goixls
manufactured in the. United States than
the people of Europe have to pay for
them after they have been freighted
3.000 miles over sea. That is a most glo
rious privilege so the mullet heads
think. They get so enthusiastic over it
that they go out and yell for McKinley
by the hour. '"' '
A BANKER'S FAIRY TALE.
. the Journal of Commerce, one of the
dull and staid old papers that the
financiers and plutocrats generally
rely upon, , draws attention to the
fact that although 'there is a great
stringency in the money market, the
banks do not seem inclined to increase
their issues although many of them
could do so if they wished. There never
was a greater delusion than that in
dulged in by many gixsl people when
they talk alx.ut an "elastic currency."
Their idea is that whenever .there is a
money stringency the banks will issue
currency to supply the demand. The
truth alxmt it is, as every economist in
th' world hns pointed out time and
again, that is the time that banks do not
and can not expand their issues. ,
We are told that if the banks are al
lowed to issue currency upon their assets
that whenever there is a money stringen
cy they will immediately issue more
money. The truth is, if theyshould do
that every one of them would go into a
receiver's hands within ten days. Bank
money is not a legal tender, anvd at
such times nothing but a legal tender,
will enable a man to pay his debts! Men
go after the roal thing and no sort of a
substitute v. ill answer. Their debtors
under Jsuch circumstances immediately
begin to call upon the banks to redeem
their promises to pay and if the banks
should try to relieve the situation by is
suing more promises to pay, f"hey would
find themselves hopeless bankrupts in
very short order.
It is evident that the old Journal of
Commerce has been a believer in this
fairy tale and its astonishment when it
found out that the theory was an illusion
was very great. i '
Nearly every fusion paper in the state
comes to this office. Not a word of un
favorable criticism of an officer or man
of the First Nebraska has ever been
found in one of them. Chaplain Mailey
has exposed himself to criticism since he
came home in various ways, ecpccially
when he declaree at Omaha he was "for
the administration right or wrong" and
at Lincoln when he made the astonish
ing statement 'or a minister, that the
soldier always preceded the teacher in
the advance of civilization. We sup
pose that when he was preaching before
he went to the Philippines he was proud
of Livingston, Cary, and hundreds of
other missionaries that invaded the
wilds of the world far in advanae of all
attempts of governments to obtain po
litical ascendancy. Notwithstanding
these open invitations to criticism, it is
still true that the only slanders and un
friendly criticism that has appeared
against the members of the .First Ne
braska has all been printed in the re
publican papers. It has been republi
cans and republicans only , who have
printed some of the vilest slanders
against these brave officers and men
that ever appeared in print at any time.
Shame on them. '
The American anti-trust league has
put out a sworn statement of the ad
vance in the price of trust articles. The
advance is from 5 per cent to 130 per
cent Among the 148 articles there in
not one raw farm product Beef tongues,
corned beef and canned beef are in the
list But the things that the farmer has
to buy have advanced enormously. Cut
nails have advanced 115 per cent Rope
33 1 3 per cent Tea 25 cents a pound.
Tin plate 75 per cent Wrought iron
100 per cent Writing paper and en
velopes 40 per cent Now this means
ultimate poverty to the whole nation.
The advance to be advantageous must
be in raw material. That has not ad
vanced except in one or two cases where
it is controlled indirectly by a trust
Farmers can not long continue to buy
with no raise in the price of what they
have to sell. They must curtail their
purchases and that means the stoppage
of production and idle labor.
The American invaders in Manila
have established a daily paper. To
duly impress the savages with our ideas
of benevolent assimilation they called
the puper Freedom. The savages will be
duiy impressed; no doubt with the klrd
of freedom that McKinley will bestow
upon them. The editor says that "ex
pansion carries with it the bible, bullets
and beer." To make this fact apparent
to the dullest savages in the islands it
has thirteen displayed advertisements
of beer and liquor. Where the bible is
to come in, the editor does not inform
the poor wretches. Information on that
point could likely be obtained of Dr.
Wharton of St Paul's M. E. church,
Lincoln. If not from him, certainly from
Chaplain Mailey. Filipino savages are
all respectively referred to them.
Tub silly old egotist who edits the
Conservative at Nebraska City thinks
such stuff as the following is logic and
eloquence: "The Douglas County organ
of populism, fusion, confusion, illusion
and delusion is evidently 1 worshiper, and
adorer of 'The Money Power as a vote
compelling agency."
THE MEAT TRUST.
There was never anything in these
United States quite as Satanic as the
ways and objects of the meat trust, The
price of dressed beef is away out of pro
portion to the price of cattle. Phil Ar
mour and tue rest of them have been
piling up millions on millions on millions
for the last several years, but their greed
has grown on what it has fed upon, Two
or three of the leaders in it have made
up their minds to become the rivals of
the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. How
much suffering they cause among the
poor does not concern them. . They are
after the millions, regardless of the hun
ger and want that they inflict upon help
less humanity.
The writer of this well remembers the
time when something like a hundred re
tail dealers were driven out or crushed
in tho city of Omaha. Phil Anuour told
them to sell meat at a jertain price and
they dared to disoliey the order, lie put
up shops all ovef town and sold meat for
far less than cost until the'rotail men
had to surrender. " ' ' ,' ' " '
There is another thing back of all this.
These men w ere' allowed to loot the treas
ury and poison the soldier Uys. Now
they intend to help the administration
by keeping up the price of cattle and
call it "McKinley prosperity" until after
the election is over. Then there will be
a big smash. The fool bankers who have
been putting out so much cattle paper,
based o the present prices, will get a
jolt that they will remember for many a
day. . The feeders who( have borrowed
the money .will go , up the flume, hogs,
cattle and all. None of them will des
any pity. ! ; !" ; ' '" ' ';
UEI'UHMCAN FUND
The meat trust is perpetrating one of
the most outrageous frauds upon . this
country that was ever practiced upon a
nation. It is doubtful if any other civ
ilized people on the face of the' earth
would submit to 'it for avweek. The
trust continues to sell dressed meat in
Europe for 23 per cent less than it sells
it to American citizens. That is, this
combination is charging the people of
this" country 25 per cent more for meat
than is just. Having completely stifled
competition it is levying upon the people
a tax that amounts to millions every
week. .
If any conquering military tyrant ever
treated a subject people worse, when
was it? This is the Culmination of the
tendencies that have been put in force
by the republican party jn its adminis
tration of the government and just what
has been predicted by every economist
in the whole world. More than that,
they predicted that when these things
came to pass, the people would not know
the true cause and would assign their
sufferings to everything but the right
thing. - '
Of the millions that the meat trust is
swindling the people.out of, a good deal
will go into the Mark Hanna fund. The
question is, how much further can money
influence the voters than it did in the
last presidential" election? Can a whole
people be bought? There will be no
lack' of money to buy with and the peo
ple will themselves furnish it The meat
trust is only one of many that is in a
position to tax the people for money to
be turned over to establish imperialism,
trusts and the gold standard. , It will be
collected from the whole population in
the same way that all indirect taxation
is collected, without their knowledge. It
will be added to the price of the goods
that they buy. That is tho way the re
publican campaign fund will be raised.
Always bear in mind that wealth is
not "elastic." Why then should we
have an elastic currency. If the cur
rency is suddenly reduced or inflated, in
either case it becomes out of proportion
to wealth. There was never a more un
scientific and idiotic proposition , than
that of the bankers to make an "elastic"
currency based on bank assets.
( ..
The children of New York plutocrats
have a hard time of it If they are girls,
thpv am Hold to deiranerate scions of the
O ( v
European .aristocracies for titles. If
they are boys and marry for love, they
are disinherited. Several instances of
both kinds have occurred lately. Poor
little plutocrats! They don't have half
the fun that the boys and girls of Ne
braska have. No one out this way en
vies them.
With the address on this paper you
.will find the date at which your sub
scription expired. You will oblige us
by giving it your immediate attention.
If delinnuent kindly remit at once, we
have put in a new plant comple'e to re
place the one lost in the recent fire. We
need money and therefore ask "you to
pay up promptly. . . .
Thb titleof "the best governor that
Nebraska ever had" was not confred
on Silas A. Holcomb by comuion con nt
for nothing. He redud the exjienwes,
without taking from the e.llciency, of
every institution that came under his
control. He reduced the eot of house
rent from $91 a tuoiiih when Thnyer was
governor, to an averago of $51 for his
whole term of tour years. In the eyes
of the repfrblicsns that was a grevious
fault and they think that he ought to be
pcuted for emWexBV ment A man
wbV would do a thing like that they are
veiw sure should never agnin be. elected
call Jiem mullet heads.
The Editor of the Independent Era
"got his dander up" over some of the
mean things things that Lucion Stebbins
had been saying about the Bryan popu
ulists in this state" and to get even went
and published extracts from the court
records showing that Lucien was tried
and convicted for cow stealing before
Judge Gaslin by a jury of "twelve good
and true men." Besides all that, that
editor remarks:. "Our republican friends
not being able to meet reform arguments
and not being able to nominate men who.
can command the votes of the people up
on their declared principles, seek to win
out by hiring ex-crnvicts to assail and
attempt to smirch the reputation of re
form candidates."
Every populist who has read this
paper and approves the, principles which
it has so long defended, now in the day
of its distress, is asked to do a little mis
sionary work for it andhe party, by
getting subscriptions'. A plan was just
forming to have some one at every pop
uiist .meeting lane subscriptions, but
the fire compelled attention to other
things. Any populist who attends the
meetings is authorized to take subscrip
tions for the Independent. Forward the
name and the ! money to this office and
the paper will . be sent. Get up after
the meeting and announce, so that all
can hear, that you will take ' subscrip
tions and many will . come forward and
subscribe. ,
McKinley " has trodden the constitu
tion, the declaration of independence,
the protocol and the treaty with Spain
under his feet There is not a dictator
in the whole world today who exercises
the power that MeKinley has usurped.
The constitution declares that slavery
shall not exist under the jurisdiction of
the United States.- The declaration de
clares that all men have a right to lib
erty. The treaty with Spain . declares
that tho government of the Philippines
should be established by congress. The
usurper McKinley has trampled all these
things under his feet. He rules accord
ing to his whim. He is an absolute dic
tator. '
The Randolph Reporter says in speak
ing of Bryan's visit there: "The Harting
ton Herald of last week contained not
a single . line announcing the visit
of so distinguished a guest to their town.
That, we( suppose, is republicanism. The
Herald is a sore spot in that community."
That's a fashion they have. Gen. Wea
ver delivered one of the greatest speeches
ever herd in this state in Lincoln the
other night The audience was large
and enthusiastic. The Stato Journal
never mentioned the fact And these
things call themselves "news papers."
An imperialistic writer says: "There is
nothing in the constitution to prevent
the Filipinos from having as much home
rule as New Yorkers have. . That is a
sufficient answer to Small Americans,
that the stars and stripes mean slavery."
What a "hefty" argument that is! No,
there is nothing in the constitution to
prevent them and the present upheaval
in the republican party is a very good
indication that they will get all the con
stitution allows them. Imperialism
sours on the stomach even of a mullet
head. . , " "
Cyclone Davis who is speaking in the
Sixth district in a letter to Mr. Edmis
ten, chairman of the state committee,
says: "Try and persuade Colonel Eager
to come, the people are anxious to hear
him. Everybody is anxious about the
loss of the Independent by fire." Col.
Eager would go in a minute if it were
possible, but the building up anew the
entire Independent plant requires all of
his time. It is impossible for him to
leave Lincoln.
Ham Kautzman remarks that Phosnix
like, the Nebraska Independent at Lin
coln rose from the ashes after the great
fire, and appeared without loss of an
issue. It came out in new type and en
larged to a 7-col. quarto. Brother Tib
bies can now spread himself on republi
can corruption, but even then he won't
have room to tell all their meanness."
That is the way it looks to a man up in
South Dakota. 4
Tho people are "pointing with pride"
to the record of the fusion county offi
cials in every counly in the state where
they have been in power. In both stato
and county government we have nothing
to make excuses for and a whole lot to
be proud of. Uovs, we are all right But
don't stay at home to husk corn on elec
tion day. If you do and the republicans
get back we will have the old tale of de
faulters again.
Bourke Cochran said in his Chicago
speech that "that trusts which largely
increase production are good because
they increase the u:uount distributed in
Wages." The hundreds nf vacant fac
tories which thf 1 runts have closed that
can be seen all Ter the country shows
how they incrrH vroduction. The first
object of a trUi-t is to raise prices. Where
do the wage wot ! ets come in on that
kind of a deal? ,
God had a ci ,''i', i lu-wsage concerning
his providence rd Lit 'hose the leaders
of the republic m t ' his prophet
to deliver it. If y- ;i don't believe that
you are a coj !. "0, , -
DJUTANT GENERAL BARKV.
Tlie State Journal never fails to vilify
and slander a soldier upon every and all
occasions if it can find any sort of a pre
text at all. It makes no difference to it
whether the soldier has fought twenty
battles in the Philippines or forty in the.
civil war. All it wants is a chance at a
soldier and then it pours out its vileness.
in a volume. Of late it has been attack
ing Adj. Gen. Barry. Gen. Barry is an
old soldier of the civil war and left his
right arm on the battlefield in defence
of the flag, the union and the declaration
of independence. Having done that the
Journal seems to have an undying hatred
for htm, for the Journal thinks that the
declaration of independence is . an old
worn out 'document that stands very
much in the way of the Mark Hanna
party.
The only reason that it has for it
attacks on Gen. Barry is that he paid
the return fare home for some recruits
who had offered their services to Uncle
Sara at the beginning of the war and
were riot accepted. It matters little to
the Journal that the act was in com
pliance with the law."' It matters less to
it that it has been the custom of the .
state and the general government for all
but? uanu i yjuijr Acjmcn ju ibn Lijuuimu
glee because it had a pretense to attack
an old soldier. ' ,
Gen. Barry's administration of his de
partment has been honest, thorough and
energetic.' It has received the commen
dation of the war department. It has'
been commended by every good citizen..
Within two weeks after the call for
troops, he had two regiments fully offi
cered, equipped and ready for the field.
When another regiment was . accepted
1 J 1 - A
mere was no aeiay on account or any m
adequency of administration at the ad
jutant generals office. He has bean an
every one knows that he ha The vipor
of the State Journal cannot tarnish hi
reputation.
The republicans have an alleged
"labor paper" in Omaha. With money
furnished, there is no trouble in starting
a "labor paper" anywhere. A labor faker
can always be hired mighty cheap to
run it. ' ' '
J. Sterling Morton, the agent of the
gold miners and bullion owners, is of
course a great admirer of the trusts..
Down with the gold trust It is tho
twin of Standard Oil and every other
trust
According to the imperialists, Lincoln
was a dreamer and Mark Hanna is the
only true stuff. But they can't make
the old John Brown and Henry Ward
Beecher men think that way, and there
are lots of them still alive.
Massachusetts is still determined to be
the home of liberty. Democrats and re
publicans alike still swear by the decla
ration of independence. . If things go oa
as they have been going for the last sir ,
months, Bryan will carry Massachusetts,
by a hundred thousand majority next
year.
You will find the date at which your
subscription expired with the address on.
this paper. Kindly give it your atten
tion and if delinquent make remittance
by return mail if possible. If you de
lay you are likely to forget until we no
tify you again. The proper thing is to
attend to it NOW. We lost heavily in
the recent fire and need money.
The republican editors in this state
are in the dumps. They expected that
a whole lot of things would be said in
favor of the trusts in the Chicago meet
ing which they could use in their
columns, and there wasn't one single
paragraph that they could use. Don't be
gloomy boys. Mark Hanna is home-
again and ne will soon send you enougn
to fill your whole paper. Cheer up.
The republicans propose to issue a
promise to pay to be used as money,
based upon another promise to pay by
the bank and called bank assets. Every
one knows that bank assets are mostly
made up of thirty and sixty day prom- .
ises to pay and those are the things that
the bankers want us to base our money
upon. If you don't believe that will
give us sound money, why you are a
traitor or a copperhead.
A mono other directions sent out to the
republican papers, besides the laying of
plans to stuff ballot boxes are directions,
to suppress populist literature. None of
the republican papers are hereafter to
make clubbing arrangements with re
form papers. . After this, the first popu
list editor that runs a long reading notice
for the State Journal ought to be tapped
for the simples.
The letter of John T. McCutcheon,
published in this issue, should have a
tendency to open the eyes of the people
of this country. An effort is being de
liberately made by the administration to'
deceive the people concerning the situa
tion in the Philippines, and by that de
ception to maintain its power by carry
ing the fall elections. Nothing like this
letter willjbe published in the republican
papers ol tnis state, it la ineretore tne
duty of the readers of this paper to hand
it to their neighbors and call attention
to this letter and the statement of Col.
Eager. ( ' .
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