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November 9, 1899.
Bwr National Hymn.
Know'st thou me, of freeman bred,
Who broke the tyrant's uiitjht ;
Who broke their cha ids and fought and Wea
For freedom and for rwlitt
Come, burners ! Kaiiie the Bag on hh
That led to victory; '
The hour of bondatte has gone by
Free men, free aieu are wel
Koow'st thou a land more keenly Bonght
A lovelier, fairer field, .
Where nature hath more nobly wrought
Or stored a richer yieldl
Tranivaalersl Sliout your freedom song I
There, wlere eur armies stand.
There, where our sturdy patriots throng
There is our fatherland I
. Know'ft thou this noble .tate ef ourg
Which by it jnt iectee
Struck down the Bi itii-h dejpot a powers
And bade our race be free?
Trnnavaalers! Fear no tyrant s rod,
Whatever be our fate
The verdict trust we toour Wort
He guarda our well loved state I
ENGLAND A BULLY.
Will Take All Sorts of Insults from Equals
hut Jumps ou the Weak.
John J. Ingalls gave his opinion of the
Transvaal trouble and bullying imperial
policy of Great Britain in the New York
Journal as follows:
The situation in South Africa is an
ironical commentary on the Peaee Con
ference at the Hague and the proposal
of the Czar for the disarmament of na
tions. Before the wax on the creden
tials of her delegates was cold, England
was deliberately and wantonly forcing a
Prident Krucer on
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trump.dup and baseless pretense for
, ... ... ..e jt.(mvini? 1h mdenen-
me purpose ui ,,. j.
J Z ..t 4V,n Tnuvnl r-l)UD IlC. HaV-
UL'UUO Ul tu - r
ins succeeded in forcing au ultimatum,
t- :.. .. mWimf n armv irreater
BUB 13 UUW n.Ti,JAw."fc, "
than the entire native Boer population,
larger 1hnn tne aggro-rate ui iuc a.m.
under Wellington at Waterloo and Kag
lan in the Crimea, for the purpose of ob
literating a little commonwealth whose
area is less than that of Montana and
whose citizenship is exceeded by scores
.r '.:... :.. V, iltnta rf MW York.
01 emeu in wn. w. -
Having been snubbed and cuffed and
kicked by all the great powers of Europe,
subjected to indignities to which she has
submitted without protest, England now
makes an enormous military demonstra
: ...,;ot on insiimiticant community,
as a discredited slugger avenges himself
for the insults ot nis equal
.,iitj iinnn i-rumles and
women and -children; and this war of
conquestr-the most brutal ana luuei.-n-sible
of all her crimes against human
; nrarrail in t.hn name of emjiza-
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tion! It should not be forgotten that
the Boer republic has been an estabhsn
ed, independent, sovereign republic. It
had the mme right to exist as Germany
or France or the United States. By the
eonveniionat Pretoria in 1881 England
conceded its autonomy, and again by the
London convention of 1884 it was for
mally and definitely agreed that the
Transvaal snouia oe supreme m w in
ternal administration; that it should
make no treaty with powers other than
the Orange Free State without t he con
sent ;ind approval of Great Britain.
There is no pretense that these stipu
lations have been violated in the present
contention. The foreign relations of the
Boers are not in question. Nothing is
involved except the conditions upon
which naturalization, the franchise and
representation are granted to immigrants
and foreigners. These are matters of in
ternal policy and adminl-traiion, to be
determined by the Transvaal Govern
ment as it sees fit. ' The regulations may
lie satisfactory to England or otherwise,
but by international law sh has no more
right to meddle than she has to interfere
with suffrage in the United States or
with the methods of taxation in Russia.
The claim that the Boers are an obsta
cle to the onward march of civilization
Is a pretext equally impudent and infa
mous. They are what they have been
for a century. They are neither better
nor worse than they were when Lord
Derby treated wit'. them fifteen years
ago at London. They are a race of fairly
educated, industrious, sober farmers.
They are peacablo, much given to hospi
tality, and deeply religious; they love
liberty and are devoted to the principles
of self government.
Originally settled in Cape Colony, they
fled from the tyranny of the British to
Natal sixty years ago. Pursued by their
hereditary enemies in their new abode
they again emigrated, and set up their
homes and altars, like the Puritans of
New England and the pioneers of the
west, in the wilderness, surrounded by
fsavage foes, and there they remained
with such degree of civilization as con
tented them and disturbed no one else
until the discovery of the diamond fields
at Kimberly and the gold reefs of Wit
watersrand. Quite likely they were not
as polished in Iheir manners or as re
fined in their ways as the English gen
tletwn who figured in the Cleveland
street scandal; possibly they were not
more honest than the guinea pigs of En
glish nobility who sold their names to
the promoters of swindling eorjiorations:
or the comrades of the Prim of Wales
who cheated at cards; but they are har
dy, self reliant and prone to the enjoy
ment of domestic life,
It may be that the government of Paul
Kruger is narrow, prescriptive and in
tolerable; but if the Boers are satisfied
it is no concern of England. There are
other governments which are not idenl.
and none are perfect. The portraits of
Own Paul show that he has no more
lieauty than without a candle would go
dark to lied, the cut of his whiskers is
not up to date, his clothes do not fit, but
lie is the li-gi imate ruler of a sovereign
state ns much as William McKinley or
Kaiser Wilhelm. It is said that Mrs.
Kruger cooks for the family, rrmkes the
bed and waits on guests nt table. But
rone of these characteristics and eondi
tions menaced Anglo Huxon civilization
or threatened the stability of the Bnti-h
Empire until 1SS5. when gold was ,'is
C ivered at Johannesburg.
The single truth is that the real eriev- j
ance of England at the Brers is n t 'hat
they are ill'tente. M'ohd an I tinprou'ess
Init tint the Transvaal con'ams 'he
richest gold mines in the wor'd. and En
glish miners, capitalists and specu
lators want to contiol then.
Whenever a weak ,or fceb'o J ow
r has anything that En rland wants and
refn-es to surrender, that i-t of ii-elf
casus bell', and the plunder, robbery a. -J
ex'ort'on that follow are nlwny in ;h
in'erest f civilin inn. In this conso
or ited name she btii't up the Imi'an em
pirp tiya ers of inconceivable Imrba
ri'les. who-e horrors s narrated in the
ipeenhes of Bur'te and lfns!inir for
p' er k' the conscience m n' ind.
ITHn the same proten-e she forced the
fa nou-i opi'im tragic on China, and is
now enr':ed in dismomber iMf h it. n
ciont domain to advance civilization and
FARM FOR SALE.
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beautiful country. . School within 100
rods. Addrasa, Wm. DENna,
3w ruiey, ieo.
at the same time secure control of the
Suez canal and protect patent land hold
ers. She bombarded Alexandria and
burned it in the night England is the
bully and ruffian and coward among na
tions. She never fights her equals or on
equal terms. ,
She never tenders an ultimatum to the
strong. With them she negotiates and
compromises and dickers and squirms
and yields.
She claims to have been the conque yr
of Napoleon, but she never dared to meet
him single handed on any field, and had
it not been for her Prussian allies would
have been defeated at Waterloo.
She fought Kussia in tae Crimea with
the help of the French; but give her a
cripple or a baby as an antogonist and
she is dauntless and undeniable. She
bullied and insulted and domineied over
this country till we thrashed her in two
wars on land and sea.
During the llebellion she omitted no
effort to destroy the Union. She threat
ened the north with war and treated the
south with promises of recognition. She
equipped a fleet of pirates that swept
the suns of our commerce, from the ef
focts of whose depredations we have not
yet recovered, and then paid fifteen mil
lions rather than fight. Cleveland slap
ped her in the face in his Venezuela
message and she accepted the insult and
submitted to arbitration.
It would seem as if the greatest king
dom in the world couid afford to be mag
nanimuus in its dill rences with so small
an adversary as the Boer republic and
find some amicable solution by negotia
don, as it has ofteu done with the great
powers; but the interest of civilization
demands that the Transvaal shall be ob
literated in order that British control of
the Bund mnv be supreme. The result
can hardly be doubted. The odds are
too ereat. The Boers must go; but there
is no intelligence so dense and opaque as
not to know the cause of their oppres
sion, and no conscience so, callous and
cold as ;-.ot to feel that they are victims
of .reed and injustice such as will, on
the judgment day oi nauous, uemauu
vecgence and retribution.
Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is the rem
edy on which you can depend for the
mini nt ii nrntriKitpd ifouin or lunz af
fection, bruught ou by exposure to cold.
It is the most excellent meuiciuo sum,
A bottle costs only liuu.
Frivnle Ownership.
It is often said that the public owner
ship and management of railrouds would
be impractical in this country, because
men of sufficient ability could not or
would not be secured by the govern
ment Well, let us suppose a case.
Suppose the railroad system of the
United Stales was a national affair, as
the postal system is now. Suppose the
head of the departrue.-.t of railroads was
a cabinet olilcer, as the postmaster-general
is today. Suppose there was a va
cancy in that office and the president
was looking for a man to fill it. Sup
pose he went to Yale and picked out a
young man just graduated at the age of
temy-one, and entirely without i-ny
record of personal achievements to dis
tinguish him from any other youth of
his age. What would tho country say?
That is the way in which the plan of
private ownership works. Mr. Alfrod
Gwynne Vanderbilt, Yale, '99, is to be
the ruler of a railroad system greater
than that of Frafcce. He is to bo put
above the venerable Senator Depew, and
all tho other able men who havespeut
their lives in the study and practical ap
plication of the science and art of trans
portation. And for what reason? .
President McKinley has probably de
parted as far from the theory that pub
lic olilce is a public trust as any presi
dent we art likely ever to have. But
what would we say if president McKin
ley, after making such a selection for a
head of a national department of rail
roads as we have imagined, should ex
plain it by observing: ' I was going to
appoint Cornelius, but he married some
body I didn't like, and I appointed Al
fred instead."
If private railroads aro well managed
it is because they are operated by skill
ful hired superintendents, such as the
government could easily employ, and
does now employ in the postal service.
Th owners of the stock are simply
enormously expensive supernumeraries.
loung Mr. Vanderbilt aouniiess ae
serves any reasonable amount of good
fortune, but it is hard to see what ser
vice he can render to the American
transportation system commensurate
with the share of its earnings that will
be handed over to him. New York
Journal.
O. O. P. Copperheads.
Following are the names of some of
tho prominent republicans who are
openly oppo-ed to McKinley 's policy in
the Philippines:
Thomas B. Deed, ex speaker and can
didate for the presidency in 18:X5.
United States Senator Hale of Maine.
Ci'ijimS. Boutwell. Ex-United Status
stnntor from Marsahaeits. (President
oi anti-imperialist league.)
United S. ales Senator Georze F. Hoar,
of Massachusetts.
United States Senator Wellington, of
Maryland.
i 'arl Schnr., ex unneu rirmes sennior
from Missouri Bnd ex cabinet ofii.-or.
M'luwuiiip, but supKrted McKinly in
HiHi.)
.lniin Sherman, ex senator, cabinet off)
i cr of McKinley's nnd one time proud
nent ramiidate for pre-Meney.
llenj. Jb riisoti, ex president of the
United S otes. (Hs never expressed
him-elf pub icly, but, has said so to hi
fr ends.)
Uni ed States Senator William Mason
of Illin 'is.
Governor Haen S. Pinreo of Miehi-
P'n- - . ....
Ilenry Johnson of inniana, ex eon-irres-iii
'n and le (linir candidate for sen-
nte "tr.dnst 1i ver tlge.
follnA'nj arc o nx democrats favor
ing McKinley V to icy:
t Ion .I.m Wni'pli-r. er onfederate.
slave-holler and presen holder of a corn-
nil- o i in i rmy given iy Sten niey.
Sen iter M jrgan of Alabama, ex-confederate
slave holder.
THE NEBEASKA INDEPENDENT.
M WanUwl.
"The wor J wauU men lurKi-hearted, manly
men,
Men who shall join its chorus and prolong
The psalm of labor and the psalm of love.
Tl-.e use want heroes heroes who shall dare -To
struinrln inltlie solid ranks of truth!
To olutch the moiistur error by the thi oat ;
To bear opiuiou to a loftier s'it :
To blot the error of oppression out,
And lead a uuivorsal freedom in."
Ntill With Us.
"Now, Dives daily feasted and was gorseouidy
arrayed.
Not at all because he liked it, but because 'twas
That the people might have calico, he olothed
himself in silk.
And surfeited himself on cream that they might
have more milk;
He fed five hundred servant that the poor
might not lack bread.
And had his vessels made of gold that they
might have more lead ;
And even to nhow hi pity for the deserving
poor.
He did no useful work himself that they wight
do the more."
THE OLD ROBBER
Kugbwd Kn gaged la Committing the mast
Colossal Crime which haa Stained
Her Annuls.
V
The British government has followed
exactly the same course that McKinley
adopted in the Philippines. Tho first
hing that it did was to establish a rigid
censorship and try to deceive the people
of England so as to induce them to par
ticipate in the most colossal of crimes. .
The following taken from the Nc
York Journal shows to what extent Jot
Chamberlain has crone in his efforts to
overthrow two small republics and steal
the gold and diamond mines of Sout)
Africa. Olive Shreiner is known the
world over as a literary genius of t!?e
first order. Her story of an. Africa
farm begins this week in the Independ
ent It will enable the readers of thi
paper to form a ju-t idea of the brave
people in far off Africa who have resolv
ed to lay down their lives in defense ol
the principle that governments derive
all their just powers from the consent
of tlfh governed. For more than J.U0
years men have been dying on blood
battlefields in defense of that principle,
and still they are willing to dio for it.
While we heap our anathemas upon
the English government, we must not
forget that our ownt govemwen, under
the control of Mark Hanna and McKi; -ley,
is engaged in the very same kind of
disreputable business.
Cape Town, October 28.
To the editor of the Journal: Let
Americans understand that. this is not a
war between the Dutch and the English.
It is the endeavor on the part of a small
but immensely wealthy section of pfit
sons to gain poss tsslon of the Transvaal
Kold fields.
By means of mendacious and shame
ful lies airainst the republic and its peo
pie they have endeavored to mislead the
Ingush nation and induce it to consen
to a war.- ' ,
' The English people arenot to blame.
They are misled. Hundreds of iiinglish
in South Africa, who, like myself, have
not one drop of Dutch blood, and are
bound by the profoundet affection to
hingland, feel deeply the shame and sor
row of our situation. .
It is because we are English that we
have sought to avert from our country s
head the weight of the most colossal
crime which has stained her annals.
The intellect and conscience of Eng
land aro with us in our struggle for
fustiee. From Herbert Spencer and
John Morloy to Frederick Harrison, the
loftiest voices of the English nation are
raised to recall their people o the path
of justice and wisdom and in denuncia
tion of the policy which would murder a
nation to fill a few pockets and
Here the dispatch abruptly ends.
The dispatch of which the above is n
portion wan filed by OliveSchreiner, the
Journal's correspondent at Cape Town,
Bnd evidently was passed by the censor.
The cable operator was permitted to
send a part of it, but before he had fin
ished the censor probably decided to
prevent its transmission and stopped it
abruptly in the middle of a sentence.
The dispatch was diroctedto the Jour
nal's London bureau, by which it was
transmitted with the following explana
tion :
London, Oct, 28. After Ions restric
tion by the censor, Olive Schreiner has
at last succeed in sending the Journal
an expression of the .sentiment of the
people of Cape Colony regarding the
war. It may be taken as expressing
also the views and position of the Cape
government, of which her brother is
premier.
Miss Schreiner is endeavoring to send
this to the Journal for two weeks, but
could not get the use of the cable. Fi
nally shu declared she would send her
correspondence by mail, and thus se
cured the cable. How much the dis
patch has beo,n censored is not known.
We sell "all kinds of coal" except poor
coal.
tf HuTCHros k Htatt.
Oom Petal Likes Americans.
The fact that there was great (sympa
thy among Ameriems for the Boers
pleased Oom Paul, mightily.
"The Americans did give me some
trouble in the Jameson-raid," he said;
"but, on the whole, I jret along whb
them very well. America is a wonder
ful country, and I always remember her
president in my prayers."
Oom Paul's fondness for us leads him
to patronize American manufacturers,
and in tho comer of the room I noticed
a big organ of a well-known American
make. The table o i which his pipe nnd
tobacco Iy crime from the United
States. A Vermont company had just
finished laying a line cement pavement
in front of tho 'White House," and
hanging to the curb thereof as wo cime
in, were two Auierions, one of whom
wanted to tret an order for Krueger's
lomhslnuc; the oilier a concession to
build a national ice hour-e. Ainslee's for
December.
More Di-apotism,
A Pennsylvania judge, has just ren
dure J n decision to Ike effect that labor
unions have no rght to persuade appren
tices to join their organixat ion-, and that
any at em pt to do so is an infrtngn ent
on personal liberty. Industrial Leader.
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Country people invited to
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dnift for fid cents or nme in Kturtips will
-rf'mire 4 packs, and they will be t-ent bj
express, charges prepiiiu. Address, John
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BUGGIES AT OLD PRICES.
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Fir com. fln4 mttimI. Hii4 for tmclaOiiti. of
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THE TROUBLE WITH DEAVEU.
Stebbin'n old partner, D.Clem Deavei
who was one of t he soft mouthed fellow
who luanaRod to hold olilce for fouryeai
under ex Governor Holcomb, but who!
was forced to let go oy Gov. Poynter,
after his long pull at tho teat, is out in a
letter which will be scattered broadcast
by the republicans, trying to show that
there aro malicious docigns by the dem
ocruU upon the populist party. The
schenio is too transparent, gentlemen, as
there is but trilling differences between
a 1(? to 1 democrat and a populist more
on account of historic , memories upon
the part of the former than anything
eh-:e. The trouble with Deaver is that
since he has been forced to let go of tho
lacteal depository, ho bleato like a young
bovine of the male sex for more Inde
pendent Era,
SUPPORT THE BOERS.
The news of British disaster nt Lady
Kinilh, Natal, has produced intenso ex
citement in Antwerp. Everywhere one
hears cries) of "Vive less Uopm!" In the
cafes, in the trams and in the streets
men stop to congratulate and to embrace
in their enthusiasm.
Wild joy prevails throughout Holland,
and from all parts of l hat country, as
from the continent at large, telegrams of
felicitation are pouring in on Dr. Leyds,
th Transvaal's agent at Brussels.
Tho Human catholic bishop of Arnham
has issued a call for prayers for Boer
success throughout the catholic churches
of Holland.
Every village and town in tho Nether
lands has its Transvaal committee and
the sums subscribed in aid of tho Boers
have reached an enormous totnl. .
Hakky Tvck Sherm.vs.
MORE DESPOTISM.
Honolulu, Oct 19. Via Port Townsend,
Wash., Oct. 30. Considerable amaze
ment and almost consternation was
created hero by the receipt on the last
mail steamer of a letter from Assistant
secretary of the Treasury Frank Van
derlip stating that the customs depart
ment of the islands was under the ad
ministration of the war department
Tho letter was a reply to an application
for a posit'on in the customs depart
ment. In it Mr. Vanderlip says:
"I hnvo to advise you that tho collec
tion of revenue from customs at Hono
lulu is now under the con'rol of the war
department. Your communication has
been referred to tho secretary of war."
. Ad 4ha TSJon.'lnn.lu rnaalutifin fvnrfaa1v
provides that tho customs regulations of
the islands shall remain as under tno re
public of Hnwait until congress acts, th
reccipt of the letter created great sur
prL-e, If true, it amounted to putting
Hawaii on the footing of eonquosted ter
ritory and under military control.
SPECIAL TRAINS.
Who is paying for Bryan's special
train, anyway? Kurely h would not ac
cept it as x gift from the railroads, al
though they would be glad to donate
that much iu recognition of past favors.
--Omaha Bee.
Bryan's special train cost tho sum of
?l,85r..r). This was paid for in cash to
the railroads as follows; ' '.,
To E. L. Lomax of tho Union
Pacific 9 253.00
To J. R. Buchanan of tho Elk
horn 700.00
To J. Francis of the B. A. M"." . 837.50
-Total..;............ 9 1.8W5.50
Tho money vith which these payments
were made was contributed bv about 1.-
500 fusionisto in Nebraska.
Will tho Bee now explain who paid for
Mr. McKinley'u special train? World
Herald. CONVICTED.
Gen. Otis in command of our forces
stands convicted by tho signed state
meats of six leading repulican newspa
pers and the Associate Press newa or
ganization of being a notorious and
unscrupulous liar, who has kept the peo
ple of this country in the dark as to the
progress of the war from its inception.
(See round robbin of newspaper corres
pondent addressed to their respective
papers.) Tho bayonet.
Krupfrer on the Franchise.
"Krueger sprinkles shrewd illustra
tions through his discourse as can only
a person gifted with natural expres
sion," writes Allen Sangree in Ainslee'a
for December. "Speaking about En
land's desire to own tho Hand mines, ho
said:
'"I'll tell you, the gold fields are like a
beautiful, rich young lady whom every
body wants, and when they can't get hec
they don't want any ono else to possess
her. t'hat Is our position among the
nations of the world.'
"When a delegation of Uitlandera
brought him a petition, he said to them:
'Oh, you are just liite my monkey. You
know I keep a monkey iu my back yard.
The other day when we were burning
some rubbish the monkey managed to
get his tail burnt, whereuiion he bit me,
That's just like the Uiilunders in Johan
nesburg. They burn their tails in the
hie of speculation and then come and
bite me!"
' Krueger forces his religion on one
constantly. Two-thirds of my questions
he answered with Scriptural quotations
that usually were pat. When I asked
him if ho intended to seie Delagoa Bay
to'fore the English took possession, iu
order tlint li- iui,'ht have a sea port, he
nn-wered briefly:
"Cursed lie he who removes his
ueuMxii's land marks!'
"I a -ked him way hciid not give tlie
Uitlrmders the fraiichi.se. Thisi I
thuug'it. would open up an extensive
field, for it has furnished tomes for the
archives of Gret Britain and of the
Transvaal Oom Paul di.-posed of it in
one paragraph.
" man, tie sni 1. quickly, and with
out removing bis pipe from his mouth.
'cannot ervo two masters. J-.ither he
will forsake the one and love the other;
urelso liato tho one and cleave to the
other. Now, tho English,1 though the
liehavo thein'-eivos properly aud are loyi'.l
lothe htate in a way, invaiiably fa'
back on the quern when it suito thei.
purpose. The Germans aio not so. Well
wo have a law for bigtaiy in thin country,
and ",."n Put off the old love be
fore u. ling on tho new
"A n ;nwuld hardly be more m
cine and waplllc. It defines Kruegertj.
4 l"Jn Anf ica he to
me, 'thy Enir
tuericiina. UW
lishman roee ith.
Am
i loses hi idenrMJ; ' He he omphasizeB.
, it. When ah lltfuanuer snows a. disno.
i km to Hhare ourxJ'roPerity and troubles.
I tjke, him I give he franchise.' ' -
JOE CHAPMAN.
Hrotl.er Englishman OfVes His OiId1sb.
I of Xo and HU Caulf
he Independent extends itfAprofoundi
8)1
oathy to tho good people of Ylnglan
in
4 shame that has been brought up-
4m by their v heartless government..
on'
Ju
yi uuve Bcnreiner has said, the-
me
sd women of brains' and hearts ink
End
nd are all opposed to Joe ChamV
borl
his
v methods. Labourchere given
'hiion of the matter in Londoa
Trut
titer the following fashion:
.I
i rocall no war so utterly unjusfc
tlesly foolish aff this Southi
or so
Africn
-aid. Deliberately and of ftet
set pu
e, mr. unamberlain haa dnft
4 hostilities bv trick the chica-
ed us
nery, w
Ch have been disgraceful to our
good n
I, ana in defiance of the real
wishes
ti kla n ..l tt...
i uia vuiicuuun, ui uih pnrij,
majority of the elector The
and of
t
war is d
to the mere haphazard chance-
Jduct of our relations withj
il republic is in the hands of
that the '
the Trail
tho colon
iscreiary instead of in those
rn Hecretary. Can any one
of tho for
imagino
I'd Salisbury writing dwr
og negotiations to envenom
patches d
a dispute i
to arouse passion? .Then
feme of all that is reasona-
why, in th
b'o, does h
Uow his subordinate. free
V-:-- '
At . T 1 A. At . 1
hand?
Mr. Chan
because Mr,
would not
wiain leit tne uoerai party
Uadstone and the party-
w the knee to him, HeA
hus found in
conservative
Ord Salisbury and in the
rty more pliant knees. If
him, I could understand.
they trusted
this. But
judge from their private
i. have as wholesome a.
, we have; whilst, as for
i hi -i i uu
utterances t
distrust of hi
the country, it
nievtm iiiime in poiuicni
consistency.
lan who, having floated
into notoriety
not only joins s
a radical-of radicals
nservative government
but insists, as t
thut hulf his fa
Jtriue of bw aervices.
'V shell lia fniiitprl nit
tho public tren
iry is weighed in the
balance and foun
? anting in everything
trusted statesman.
that goes to mak
Distrusted by his
illeagues, by the Hb-
erals, hy the conw
Utives. bv the coun-
try, by tho Cape,
present eonfedera
d accused by hia
tr. Rhodes, of hav
trtner in the Jame- -
ing been his silent
son raid, what m
dess has came over
us to allow him to
t loose the hell-
hounds of war in Si
h Africa, when, a
it no! bfe't fop
every one is aware.
his baneful presenci
tithe colonial of
fy, hI4 policy of
Hce. his lust for noto
bluff and bluster, an
ps deteraimatioa
nt Kruger, peace .
to force war on Presi
would never have bee
list ur bed in that .
liose British pa-
part of tho world, am
tnots residing in the
uolic wno wisn
t)ice as Engliab
cd to sail their inher
men for a Transvaal
9. would have
been free to give effect
thei? natrbUc.
SppirctijasT
Who Ri'-aii
Jean noss, the specia
tnrrMinnnlAnft
of the Figaro (Paris, Fr;
lie) gives the
following account of ho
i iho fighting
began in the
Philippine .He haa al-
ways been an admirer
of Auicrty apd
TTi pArtnirl1J...
American institutions,
cannot be said to have
against us:
nnv ' nreinrlii'ia
i .
"The story of that first fighting U
curious. After the Spanish capitulation,
the Americans occupied the town, the
Filipinos the suburbs. Friendship, joy,,
und comradeship prevailed. The troop,
of both sides were on the best of terms.
They were awaiting what should happen
in America and Europe. There were
discussions. Then the flag of this sister
republic that had been so saciedly hon
ored, was caviled at The troops became
loss friendly, and regarcL-d ach other
with suspicion. Thus is went on until
the first of February. Tho Filipino.
had organized their government, and
aguinaldo demanded that his people
should be consulted upon the new pro
positions of the Americans. In shorty
the relations were strained. Then on
the night between the 4th and 5th of
February firing began at Paco. On the
morning of the 5th of February there-wa-t
a furious battle all along the line,,
in which all the American forces en
gaged. Surprised and overwhelmed in
numbers, the Filipinos fell hack in.
fighting order, only yielding to the can
non, leaving many dead on tho field, but:
saving their rifles; and that is the main
thing vith them, as for each gun they
have several men.
How did the surprise come about?'
Treason, say tho Filipinos; treason by
the Americans, who wished to anihi
lute them by attacking them in the
midst of peace. Nearly all the Euro
peans resident in Manila think asd say
the same thing. The Americans speak:
of an accident a shot of one of their
sentinels in tho night o the bridge at
Paco, lired after tho exehanvo of abus
ive words with a Filipino sentinel on the
same bridge b accidental shot, not in
tended, which gave the signal for a gen
eral battle, it is true, but nn accidentt
Who is right? I do not wish to express,
my own views. There is, nevertheless,
one fact that I positively ascertained,
which is that at tho first shot all the
Americans were in line, wit h all the offi
cers at their posts; that tho Filipinos,
ivero taken by-surprise, find thai their
,,'etierals only arrived in timo to find the.
outtles lost, having been far away, many
of theuiatMalolo-."
McKinley Lies.
It is surprising to uiany republicans
that a president of the United States,
should stoop to petty lying on a stump
ing tour, and this on u si-i ject where all
lis hearers knew h was lying. Thit4.
IcKinley did when he tolJthe returned
ol tiers that they warmed his heart
vhen they cabled him that they would
.lay in the Philippines till he could
. line an army. The boys never sent
uch a dispatch, and McKinley knows
t, and knows that everyliody else knew
t. hut ne toM the lie, just tho same. -
Ja'tota Kuralist.