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A. THE NEBRASKA. INDEPENDENT October 28, 1899. i 51 V ir it hi r.3 1 t (I i f: if ....... . i Ctntelidatie f TEE WEAL Til MAKERS end LINCOLN INDEPENDENT. STOBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BT TBS Independent Publishing Company AT 1202 P STREET. Telephone 538. inrOOLN, - -; . ITEBRASKA UP PER AM U IBTHCE. ' " AUtnm all communications to, andj Make all drafts, money orders, etc., Myaole to V3M INDEPENDBJTT PUB. CO. ; Llncola, Nebraska.:- . STATE TICKET. , 1W Judge of the Supreme Court GILAS A. HOLCOMB, of Custer Co. Jfiwr Bem&ts of the State University J. L TEETERS, of Lancaster Co., D80N RICH, of Douglas. - - GOIIORSSSIONAI. TICKET, it Ceacress Sixih District WILLIAM NEVILLE North Platte. LANCASTER COUNTY TICKET. W Judges of the District Court ,, GEO. E. HIBNER, i' t. j. doyle. ?.".:;'' - KOBERT WHEELER. For Clerk of the District Court A. B. LINDELL, Lincoln. , For Treasurer WM, McLAUQULIN, Lincoln. FerSheriff- P. H. COOPER, Lincoln. Far County Clerk WM. HEIBERGER, For Countv Judge 1 - 1 FRED SHEPMERD, Lincoln. For County Commissioner JOHN J. MEYER, Hallam. . Far Superintendent of Schools , F.B.PARRISH, ; i For Coroner .i , DR. BENTLEY, Lincoln. . Justices "' ' R. H. HAGELIN, F.O.BERGE, , Constables ' W. H. ESSEX, ' ' C. 0. PACE. ; ' The sultan of Sulu is a republican ad Mark Hanna might not like it if anything was said against him. That's the reason that the State Journal keeps ao mum.,, The republican raked the state orer to get a soldier to make speeches for them and the best they could, do was to get a Malay chaplain, The rest of them said "No." . . ' Honesty is the best policy." EVen ( i , Sartiey would now agree to that, but it la doubtful whether. Eugene More and , Altcault would; However the books are not finally balanced on those two cases - J. ' " A recent report upon the great increase hi lunacy in Scotland says that poverty .aad, the' increase in lunacy go hand in There are now lEv9 lunatics in jeen&nerant in Scotlaad, an incsease in year of 487. ' Two weeks ago there were two repub lican papers at Weeping Water and now where are none. One is out and out' for he fusion party and the other claims to bo independent Whafs the matter i the g. o. p.? ' J - . , JTeatdeot Kruger, la a dispatcn to a flew York paper, says: . "The republics hare determined that if they must be long to England, a price must be paid that will stagger humanity." Oom Paul will make his words good, too. It comes with poor grace from the re publican managers to upbraid their op ponents with being friends of Aguinaldo when they themselves hare hired a Ma lay, and a very disreputable one at that, to run their campaign for them. The positive, undeniable, overwhelm ing proof of the existence of McKinley ' prosperity .in this county of Lancaster is (225,398 of delinquent taxes. Any man whe safs that that does not prove pros- ferity is a traitor and Teddy Rosevelt will swear to it The defense that the republicans make of (be infamous record that Judge Reese left at the state house consists of. print ing a portrait of their candidate and not snriag a word about him. That is about aa muck as any editor can 4o unless he haa the cheek of a brass monkey. f The reception that was given to Dew ey is said to be the grandest ever given to any Amerioaa. But every day, and generally six times a day, Bryan la given Just such a reception. When we consider the this bom of the population of the west aad compare it with the east Bryan's receptions seem to be the great- eat , . The pepullst weeklies are fun of chal lenges to reimbUcans to meet their can didates In Joint debate. So far not one of them has dared to do it They "don't Drawees to furnish audiences for popu Uat orators," not even in counties where the reaubheans haven't a coraoDoral'a guard of voters left Brand them as aewarda. That's what they are. IGNORANCE OR MEJIIJACITY. One i sometimes m "doubt whether the writer of the editorials in the State Journal is afflictod with unlimited igno rance or is wholly given over to menda cious lying. Last Moiday he got off the following: - The fact about the balance between Great Britain and the United States today, as generally believed by people wno are jn nuHineas something about the and who know matter, is that ureal onuiin owes us. If Great Britain is owing us what be came of the $4,000,00000 of goods and gold and silver that we shipped to Eu rope more than we received since 1873? And what became of $600,000,000 excess of exports last year when we re ceived only $100,000,000 'in return? The statement is so mendacious that it is impossible to discuss it with patience. There is no doubt, however, that every mullet head speaker during the rest of this campaign will calmly announce to his audiences that under McKinley pros perity, Great Britain has become greatly indebted to us and that now we have the English paying us large sums for interest Furthermore every mullet head voter will believe every word of it JINGOISM RAMPANT, Polish citizens held a meeting at Grand Rapids, Mich. Governor Pingree delivered an address in which he said: "Jingoism is now rampant. The Judg ment of the people is being supplanted by artificial enthusiasm excited by hys teric waving of the stars and stripes. If we pause a rnomout, recollecting our owb country's early strangle, we will modify our zeal for new possessions and will be more tolerant of the rights and liberties of other peoples." America has long been the refuge of the oppressed of all nations. Thousands of the very best liberty loving citizens of all the countries of the old world have made this land their home. We have always been proud of them. Now that they have a chance to show their grati tude, they are rallying around the dec laration of independence with, if possi ble, more enthusiasm than the liberty loving Americans themselves. These Poles cheered themselves hoarse at Pin gree's words. The4 foreign voters of all nationalities are nearly solid against im perialism. The Bohemians and the Poles, who have suffered so much from it in their own countries, are especially determined to do all within their power to prevent its adoption in this country. AVANCE OF DESPOTISM. Step by step, ever since McKinley was inaugurated, has despotism advanced in this once free country. The first step was a declaration of war upon the Fil ipinos without the sanction of congress, for the proclamation that McKinley is sued was a declaration of war. Next the keeping of the volunteers in the service after their term of enlistment expired and forcing them to right in a war that had never been declared by congress and against a people that had never done us any harm. Next came a violation of the United States maijs a clear act of des potism and again a violation of an ex press provision of the constitution. This violation pf the mails is still continued. There Is sent from Lincoln the press let ter af the republican state committee at newspaper rates, the mails are still closed against a populist paper in Cass county, and last Saturday another paper was re fused transportation through the mails at Cleveland, Ohio. Saturday Night a newspaper of Cleveland, has beea in ex istence for six months, and has hereto fore passed through the mails without question, but Hanna ordered it thrown out aad the paper was excluded. Thus, act after act of despotism is being taken step by step, power is being wrested from the lawmakers and employed by a despot at Washington. Where will this thing step? Can any man tell? Our war with Spain wasj very small affair compared with this war with the Filipinos, whether we consider the num ber of troops or the cost of the under taking. It looks now as if it would turn out to be the largest war in which the country was ever involved with the sin gle exception of the rebellion. Who de clared this great war? McKinley. Con gress hes never been consulted upon the question. Is there any monarch in Eu rope who would dare to engage in a war of this extent without the sanction of his parliament? . Even the Queen of England called a session of parliament before a war was declared on the Boers. McKinley is the greatest autocrat on the whole earth. There is not one other, not even the Czar of Russia, who would have dared alone to exercise the imper ial Dowers that he has assumed on his own responsibility. WHY IT FLOPPED. Last week when it was announced thai the great Bohemian paper had renounced republicanism it created so much sur prise that a man was Bent to enquire the cause of the flop. He saw the managing editor aad made inquiry. "The reason,' said the editor, "was this. We had to floo or atoa publication. ' During the last few weeks we lost over six thousand uhflcribers. The Bohemians will not stand imperialism and great standing armies. To escape these things they came to this country and .xiey -"ill sup port ae paper that advocates eir estab lishment in this country. That is why we flopped." There is nothing unfair in turning the sentence that McKinley repeated so often in his swing around the circle, the other end to and saying that the flag means the same here that it does in the Sulu islands. In those islands it means that a man who cannot pay his debts is sold into slavery and his children after him to all generations. The Malay bar barian whom the republicans have hired to canvass the state says that the flag means that it shall never be hauled down and we must support McKinley, right or wrong. The women of Nebraska should drive this Asiatic heathen out of the state. Will they allow their children to grow lip under the teaching of a pro fessed preacher who says they must up hold wrong if the administration says so? For unmitigated, everlasting, infernal lying, commend us to Harper's Weekly. Last week it said: "Industry in the United States has never before been so active over so wide an area and through out so many departments of productive work. The same story comes from the great centers of iron-making, from the agricultural regions of the west and south, from our exporting seaports, and from almost all manufacturing commu nities." How much prosperity is there in fifty cent wheat when the trusts have raised the price of everything the farmer has to buy from 10 to 150 per cent above what it was a year ago? The farmers of "the agricultural regions of the west" are making no such reports. They were manufactured in the editorial rooms of Harper's Weekly. Spain could only sell her right to hold the Filipinos in subjection. For that right McKinley paid $20,000,000. Now he says that they are a much a part of the United States as Texas or Louisiana. We have held for more than a hundred years that certain rights were unalien able. Neither governments nor individ uals could dispose of them. But Mc Kinley says he can buy them, nay more, has actually bought them. The Malay chaplain says you must support the president, right or wrong. If he says he can buy unalienable rights, you must swear that it is so or otherwise you are a copperhead. The supreme court of Illinois render- a decision against trusts the other day to the effect that combinations made to control production and fix prices were illegal. Within three days the whole re publican press of that state jumped onto that court with both feet That shows two things. First that the republican party is opposed to trusts and that their claim that the judges were never to be criticised was the heartfelt sentiments of all the leaders of the party from Mark Hanna down. Any man who does not believe this statement is a copperhead. The stress is becoming so great in New York that even the gold bug editors are crying out for more silver. The New York World, aad there is no more persis tent fighter for the gold standard than that paper says: "This country needs ten million dollars worth af small change, dimes, quarters and half dollars, for the convenient transaction of business." If things go on as they have for the last six months, it will soon add to Ha call, silver dollars, aa well aa halves, quarters aad dimes. The cad, J. Sterling Morton, was made chairman ef the anti-trust meeting at Chicago. There he proved again that he was not a fit associate of gentlemen. Having told a square lie, a gentleman in the audience arose and told nim so. The gentleman was afterward sustained in his position by a vote of the committee, all of which salacious business was duly recorded in a report in the Chicago Record. If one is to judge from the words used in the republican platform of Massa chusetts, the whole party there has turned copperheads and traitors. They say that they demand a government for the Filipinos "as free, as liberal and as progressive as our own;" and "in accord ance with the sacred principles of liberty and self-government upon which the American government so securely rests." That kind of talk is surely treason. Of all the fool things that the Hanna managers have done at Washington, the manufacture of proclamations for Agui naldo is the silliest They have a bu reau down there that grinds out an Aguinaldo proclamation on fifteen min utes notice. When one of these procla mations is sent over via Hong Kong with tne name or some reliable newspaper man at the end of it it will be time to give it some credence, but not before. How is it that those women's clubs never have a word to say about the Sul tan of Sulu while they use up reams of paper writing resolutions about Roberts? According to McKinley, the Sulu Islands are as much a part of the United States as Utah la. Is it because in their ten der heats they have a kind of a liking for the sultan but congressmen are alto gether too common. . McKi'1' is getting to be a common every day eort of a liar. He has, time and again, during the swing around the circle, said that there was only a part of one small tribe in rebellion against his authority in the Philippines. He knows that he lies when he says it He knows that all the population of the archipel ago is for independence except the old sultan of Sulu and his chiefs whom he has bribed. WHAT CACHED THE WAR. There was just one thing that brought on the war with the Filipinos." That thing was the proclamation issued by President McKinley. It reads as fol lows: With the signature of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain by their respective plenipotentia ries at pans on the 10th instant, and as the result of the victories of American arms, the future control, disposition, and government of the Philippine Islands are ceded to the united Slates, in t'liu FILLMENT OF THE RIGHT OF SOVEREIGNTY THUS ACQUIRED, and the responsible obligations of gov ernment thus assumed, the actual occu pation and administration of the entire group of the Philippines becomes imme diately necessary, AND THE MILITA RY GOVERNMENT heretofore main tained by the United States in the city, harbor, and bay of Manila is to be ex tended with all possible dispatch to the whole of the ceded territory, . ; That is straight, unmistakable imperi alism. It was a declaration of war against a people who had been acting faithfully as our allies. It left but one course for the Filipinos to pursue and that was to defend with their lives the doctrine that all governments v derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. ; That proclamation meant that the Filipinos were to be forced at the point of the bayonet to submit to a military government. They were to be governed by a military satrapy. They were to be taxed without representation. for further along in the proclamation McKinley says: The taxes and duties heretofore paya ble by the inhabitants to the late gov ernment of Spain become payable to tne authorities ot tne united states, un less it is seen tit to substitute for them other reasonable rates or modes of con tribution to the expenses of government, whether general or local. The declaration of independence says that taxation without representation is tyranny. In proposing to tax these peo ple without representation, . McKinley proclaimed himself a tyrant and the Fil- pinoe, as any brave men would do, re solved to fight. McKinley knew when he issued this proclamation that nothing but war could result from it He de liberately plunged this nation into war without the consent of congress or the people, and he alone is responsible for the war and the murder of every man who lost his life in it PKIXT THE REST OF THEM. It was the earnest desire of every true populist in this state that the present campaign should be devoted to the dis cussion of principles and policies of gov ernment both state and national. Great problems are pending problems that must be settled in the near future and to the discussion of these problems, the populists would have devoted themselves. But the republicans would not have it that way. They would not meet us in the discussion ef principles. They de liberately planned a campaign of per sonal slander and abuse of candidates for office. They open every meeting with fifteen or twenty minutes devoted to calling a man who has often bees hon ored by the people of this state with the highest places of honor and responsibil ity within the gift af the people, the vilest names that tbey can invent As speaker after speaker comes upon the stage, every one repeats the performance. They began this thing even before the nominations were made and they have kept it up ever since they were made. This sort of work, continued week after week finally forced the populkts to re taliate in kind. The Independent has believed from the first that however un pleasant such course was, the republi cans had made it a necessity and it has advocated both publicly and privately the duty of the management when they were forced to do it to shoot to kill We say again that letters written to public officials with the intention of influencing official acts, are not private letters, and any request to make them private only shows cowardice or visciousness in the writer. The most important part of the letter for the information of the public is such requests. No high sense of honor should prevent the publication of all of this kind of literature. The Independ ent says: Print the remainder of them. The public is entitled to know all the facts. ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE. Reform forces everywhere should keep a sharp watch of this newly formed Anti-Imperialist league. The Independ ent has had its suspicions concerning it for some time. There were some good speeches made at their meeting in Chi cago, but because the men who made them were not gold bugs, the dailies gave them but scant notice. Wnen a gold bug made a speech, it was reported in full. When it came to forming their or ganization, every officer of it is a gold bug. Here are their names: George S. Boutwell is president of the national organization. Seven vice pres idents weie chosen ex Senator George F. Edmund of Vermont J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, Carl Shun of New York, Richard T. Crane of Chicago, Sen ator Donaldson CalTery of Louisiana, Judge Rufus B. Smith of Cincinnati and John J.Valentine, president of theWells Fargo company, of San Francisco. While Boutwell is one of the most bit ter and prejudiced gold standard men in the United States and was secretary o( the treasury when legislation was secured that doubled the value of the bonds then in the hands c bondholders, there is nothing against Vita personally. The first two vice presidents are Edmunds, who declared that he would forswear his allegiance to the United States and leave the country if Bryan were elected, and the unspeakable Mor. on. All the love of country that haa here tofore been exhibited by these men, has been the love of the bondholder and the plutocrat In their old age they may have developed a love of the whole coun try, including the common people, but it is well to have an eye upon them. It is the opinion of the Independent that their main object is to get rid of McKinley. Not one of them have received any rec ognition from McKinley. It is probable that they intend to take advantage of the sentiment against im perialism and work a game to create dis sention in the reform forces or prevent republicans who will not under any cir cumstances vote for imperialism and great standing armies, from voting the reform ticket. This writer has known some of those men personally for 25 years and he knows that they have an undying hatred for everything that populists hold dear. Keep a sharp watch on them. The cry of the populist press wherever Grosvenor has spoken is, send us more Grovesnors. He is making votes for the reform ticket by the hundred. . . , Whenever a republican comes to you with an offer to trade votes well, we don't wish to advise anything unlawful, but if you give him a good threshing there will be nothing immoral in the transaction. The supreme court is still in the in junction business. It has issued another injunction against the board of trans portation and commanded them to hold John O. Yeiser down and not let him bother the telephone companies, According to the logic of blood thirsty preachers like Mailley, all that a presi dent would Jiave to do to hold his office for life would be to get up a war just before his term of office expired. Then every man should be for him, right or wrong, while the war lasted, You can tax the hide off the back of a mullet head and he will hurrah for the party that does it, provided only that the tax is added to the price of the things that he buys and the tax collector does not come arovnd to get the money. That's all the sense a mullet head has. A republican editor asks: "What is imperialism, any hew?" Well imperial ism's first successful leader was one Julius Caesar, it was imported into America by one William McKinley and will be kicked clear off of this continent by an outraged people. It can't live among a free people. The "boys" are beginning to get their boodle. Unmistakeable evidence of it can be seen on the streets of Lincoln. They crawl out ef their holes and hav ing fired up with two or three visits to the nearest saloon, they begin in a laud voice to declare for the honor of the old flag and the subjugation of the Filipino rebels. . Cleveland increased the national debt $262,000,000, and McKinley has increased it about $300,000,000. Cleveland aad McKinley are a good pair for a bond holder to draw to. In the game of in creasing national debts, a republican can always beat a gold-bug democrat Mc Kinley, as will be seen by the figures, is $38,000,000 ahead. The State Journal not only lays claim to all the patriotism and all the sanity that there is in Nebraska calling all who do not agree with it lunatics and copperheads, but it now puts in a claim to all the injunctions. It spread its hor ror at the audacity of the fusionists all over a whole column the other day, as it said, the fusionists proposed to sue out an injunction. That seems to be a di vine right of the plutocrats. We see by a correspondent that James Burhaus, one of our best populist work ers and an old wheel horse in the Farm ers' Alliance, and a man who has done more for the upbuilding of the Farmers' Alliance than any other man in his county, is running for sheriff upon the populist ticket in Dundy county. We predict his election and an honest admin istration in his office during the time he will hold it If the Union Pacific keeps up its rec ord for stock watering at the same rate for another year it will soon have stocked and bonded itaelf up to the billionaire point It increased its capi ta stock the other dry $32 ,718,oou. xne interest on this $32,000,000 will have to be naid br the farmers of this and other states in addition to what they have been paying. The idea of it just delights a mullet head and he will vote early and late to continue the practice, The reliability of the news that is re eclved through Enclish channels and all of it from the Transvaal comes that way can be gathered from the story of a fight that was sent out last week in which it was stated that there were 300 British killed and 800 Boers. As it V an undisputed fact that nearly the whole Bper army are sharp shooters and the roops opponed to them were Tommy At ,;ins from London, the probability of the truth of the tale can be surmised SILVEtt CIKCtn.ATIHG. ' Of all the contemptible things that the organization which was formed nearly thirty years ago to control the avenues of information have done, there was nothing more contemptible than the stories that they have circulated that there were millions upon millions ef sil ver d.llars in the treasury that could not be made to circulate. They would take men who had come to Washington to visit their congressman to the treasury vaults and show them the piles of silver and these men would go home convinced that silver would not circulate. All the time that silver was in circulation by means of silver certificates. If any reader of this paper will look over the bills in his pocket book, he will usually find that nearly all of them are silver cer tificates. They call for so many silver dollars, and those dollars are in the vaults at Washington and belong to him and not to the government When ha pays one of them out, he starts it circul ating. Premiums have been offered, to the treasury for some of these silvr dol within the last few days, but they could not be delivered, because they did not belong to the government , 4 A DISGRACEFUL CAREER. r The one thing that made the demo cratic party in Nebraska a stench in tho nostrlis of the people more than all other things put together was the con nection that J. Sterling Morton - had with it. As long as he was recognized as one of its leaders it grew less and lean in the number of its voters and the in fluence that it had in this state. Finally when Bryan came into the state and tha Morton railroad influence was kicked out, there was engendered in Morton's mind if he can be said to have a mind at all an undying hatred of the young an. The only reputation ho ever obtained he obtained by fraud, His claim to tha honor of having instituted Arbor Day, as every citizen, of this "state knows, is a fraud. Then he used to go about tho state delivering a speech upon the tariff, every word of which? that had any point to it was stolen. That portion of it which possessed any merit was a repro duction, seriatum, verbatum, ad litera tum, ad punctuatum, from a pamphlet published by the Cebden Club of Lon don, addressed to the Western Fermers of America, the author of which was one August Montgredien. The other day he showed up in Chi cago and continuing his disgraceful ca reer, ho was publically denounced on the floor of a great convention as a liar, and the man who made the charge went before a committee and proved that ho was a liar. In the meantime about every decent paper in the United States, es pecially those in the east, continue to denounce him as a cad and unfitted to be admitted to the society of gentlemen. We are rid of Clem Deaver at last, and as Paul said, we thank the Lord and take courage. Clem appeared bo- fore a committee once to pass an exam ination w the bar. When asked: "What is the source of land titles in Nebraska? he laboriously wrote out for the answer! "The ii. k M. railroad, lie was so de lighted with that answer he thought that it qualified him far the office of governor" aad announced his candidacy. Having been put out of office, he has now fallen into the cess pool opened by the Omaha Bee, to catch the offscour ings of the populidt party. That cess pool now holds such a stinking mass, Stebbins, Mailley, Sam Elder and Dea ver, if someone don't put quick lima late it pretty soon we will have a plague. Silver dollars have been at a slight premium in New York and other large cities during the last few days. Why? Is it because they are redeemable in gold? When a silver dollar is worth more than a gold dollar does anybody want it redeemed in gold? Well, hardly. Why is a silver dollar, with' less than fif ty cents worth of silver in it worth mora than a gold dollar with a hundred cents worth of gold in it? Will old melting pot Morton's theory work in this case. The People's Advocate, Meadvillo, Penn., says: "The State Department at Harrisburg has rejected the nomination papers of the Wharton Barker Populists. This leaves but one peoples party state ticket possible, the one at the head of our edi torinl page, and it should be supported by all Populists without regard to for mer factional connections. Leave next year's trouble to be solved next year, and work now to roll up such a vote that next year the nomination papers will not be needed. Vote, the straight People's party ticket There is a man up in Cuming county who once declared that any one who would not believe Rom-water would not believe the bible. Some one who lives near him should show him those extracts from Rwewater's pen that were printed in the World Herald a few days ago in rrhich he described the character of on M.B. Reese. ' England would never have dared to suppress the South African Republic if McKinley had not first set the example. He has made himself the cure of the whole of mankind. If, on the other hand, he had declared himself as against conquest and for self government among all peoples, he would have taken a place beside Lincoln in the estimation of all the world.' He was ton spiall a man to embrace the opportunity that came to him.