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November 18, 1899 if It won't do.. It won't do you any good to reduce the pricethere'll never be todav is 85.00. it will be 83.00 next only kind of clothing that stores reduce the price on is something they , i 1 couldn't sell in season; but as we' "Old age is Honorable," But not so in Clothing. Our 8G.75 Overcoats bring $9.00 elsewhere. Our 87.50 Overcoats bring $10.00 elsewhere. Our 88.00 Overcoats bring 813.50 elsewhere. Our $10.00 Overcoats bring 115.00 elsewhere- Just so nil along the line; we can save you money on your clothing, be sides we guarantee every garment that loaves our store; do all stores do as much for you? One of our catalogues will post you in regard to Clothing Economy Yours for the asking. , . v NEWS OF THE WEEK. x The citizens of Nebraska were regaled Wednesday morning, by great scare heads in the daily papers which were afterthis kind: "Race About Run," "American Army ' Fast Decimating Rebel Hosts," "Sharp Fight at San Fabian," "Troops Encounter Equal Number of Insurgents," "Battle Briof but Bloody," "Major John A. Logan Falls in Thick of Fight," "Six Privates Killed and Thirteen Wounded -Fill pino Trenches Filled With Dead Agui naldo Escapes." A calm review of the situation in Luzon shows that the campaign ot the American forces against Aguinaldo's army has failed again. Nearly a year ago it was reported by the American officials that President Aguinaldo and his cabinet would be surrounded and captured in the capital city Malolos. A vigorous campaign was begun for that purpose. McArthur's division, three brigades, was started north along the railroad track under orders to press for ward to Malolos as rapidly as possible and there surround and capture the Filipino leader and his army. Every inch of the advance was stoutly con tested by the natives. After heavy loss the American army captured Malolos. only to find it deserted of its inhabi tants and the capital moved further in to the interior. The American cam paign had failed in its purpose. It was left with more than thirty miles of railroad track to patrol and guard requiring the entire attention of two or three regiments of infantry. It became necessary to strongly garrison every town and village along this thirty miles to resist the nightly attacks of de tainments of the native army. Once in possession of any part of the railroad track it was easy for them to destroy it and shut off the transportation of sup plies to the American troops at the front. It has been the policy of the native army from the beginning to avoid any decisive engagement. They have pre pared to annoy, impede and harass the American troops. The wisdom of their policy is apparent At the present time a large force of American soldiers is re quired to garrison the city of Manila. Every day the inhabitanrs of that city can hear the sound of the battle almost within their gates. There is not a week passes without a skirmish around the pumping station and roservoir within three or four miles of the city. From this place the army is scattered along the railroad for fifty miles holding and guarding a strip of land about four miles wide on each side of the track. With the additional soldiers that have secently been sent to Manila the Ameri can commanders have been ablo to force General Aguinaldo a few miles further ipto the interior. More troops will be required to guard the roads and supply teams in the rear. In a short time fur ther advance will be impossible. Amer ican soldiers worn out with fatigue and sickened with fever will die by hun dreds. More troops will be needed. Another increase in the army must soon be made in order to push imperialism a few miles further into the island of Luzon. What do we gain? Where will it end? It will bo well to take a hasty glance at the territory that has been captured after nearly a year of hard fighting. We have a strip about eight miles wide, and including the present advance, per haps 100 miles long. The great island of Luzon with its millions of inhabitants Is still loyally supporting Aguinaldo and his government It is useloss to try to FEES tin Onamftw B. IKJVKHHMKNT BOMIML loa I BO Mini aa frmmA. wdXSTuLtt FREE delay your overcoat buying until we any difference in the price; if the price week if there's any of them left. The sell our winter clothing in the winter, and summer clothing in the summer, we don't have to carry over anything that needs to be sacrificed, we make the right price on clothing at the right time. deceive ourselves. That is the truth about tne situation. Neither Agui nnldo nor any great portion of his army has been captured. Among the losses on our side in this last advance was Major John A. Logan. Every one will extend to his mother, the widow of General John A. Logan of the civil war, the most heartfelt sympathy. All hor heart and life , was centored in this boy of hers. She has often said he was all she had to live for. The British do not seem to be suc ceeding any better in their war of con quest than we are in ours.' No news of any importance has been received for several days. The Boers have General White surrounded and have been bom barding the town he is in for nearly a week. The British censor adopts ex actly the same policy that McKinley has enforced in the Philippines, and nothing is published that is not in the interest of the British government as long as it is possible to conceal it. The latest news from Nebraska City is to the effect that Senator Hayward is very sick and doctors in attendance have stated that there is no prospect that he will live more than four or five days It will be remembered that he had a stroke of apoplexy some time since and he seems never to have re covered from its effects. HARDY'S COLUMN A Sharp Trade Tax Payers Know Who to Trust Freight and Providence Ohio all Right Wheat Dropping Doliver Literary Y. M. C. A. Re publican Speech. " The Journal Company sold their even ing paper at just the right time. Two or three more Bryan victories, and the thing would be worthless. V The taxpaying voters know very well that it will not do to make county treas urers of republicans. It is better not to elect them than to put them into the penitentiary or under the ice after they have been elected. Only one or two counties in the state elected republican treasurers. In one county the fusion candidate was beaten because he swiped the county out of thirty thousand when he was a republican treasurer. V With increase of business up goes freight. Not that it costs more to haul but business will bear it. Take coal, as a sample, if they paid more for labor mining, no one would complain. It should be as it is in other countries tho government should make the rates on freight. Let farmers commence burning corn back would go your freight. So far providence, not the kind that is shooting Christianity into the Filipinos, has come to our relief by keeping the weather warm. Murcury goes up with freight on coal this time. V It is fortunate for the reform forces that Ohio went republican for if that state had gone the othT way Dewey or Tom Reed would be the next republican candidate for president. Bryan can whip McKinley easily while there are some doubts alxnit Dewey. What is the reason that the same divine providence can't run Bryan's politics as well as Mc Kinley's war? Providence knew that Bryan would succeed against McKinley. It is much easier to believe in political providence than in an unnecessary war providence. McKinley and his provi dence have gone out of the humanity business into that of subjugation. V rfheat is dropping, dropping while all trust goods are going up, un. The far mer can't raise the price of his products by merely writing up the market quota tions. If the farmers of Kansas, Ne braska, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota could go into a trust and put the price of their wheat delivered in Chicago at one dollar and their corn at fifty cents, they would get it. But there is the trouble, a million of men cannot bo mado to stick as easily as fifty. Trtsstand corporation men know it. - Election day did not close the political stumping. The Y. M. C. A. literary lecture course gave us a very admit re publican speech Saturday evening after election. The speaker was Congressman Doliver from Iowa. We would not care if the young men would now give us ex congressman Towne from Minnesota or some other man to level up things. The first part of Mr. Doliver a speech gave the lie to the last part or else the last part gave tne lie to the first part The declaration of independence and McKm ley s Phuipine policy are on opposite sides of the fence. If Washington and our grandfathers were right Aguinaldo and the Filipinos are right If a govern ment of the people is good in America it is good in the I'hihpines. If the Spanish peoplo were not capable of teaching the Filipinos what is best what is the use of our trying. See how the Mexicans have forged ahead since throwing off the Spanish yoke. Mexico will have to turn ble to McKinleyism next. It will be just as much of a helping under provi dence to shoot Mexico into heaven. The speaker denied that the country was tending to plutocracy. The fact that a majority of our senators are mil lionaires p:oves it is. Then the fact that the senate has killed several bills tor amending the constitution allowing the people to elect senators, proves it again. Senators know they could not buy or fool the people half as easily as they can state legislatures, hence the- present system suits them best The speaker boasted that our govern ment was a poor man's government. No poor man ver made a million under just laws by honest toil or trade. The speaker opposed the Spanish war but since found out he was wrong, and now upholds the Philippine war. What consistency! He thought we were near ly out of our trouble, however. General Wheeler was tho speaker's latter day hero and patriot. Touch the color line in America and we would find where the hero stands. We wero told that great nations wero servants of men. It looks as though we were serving the Filipinos rather meanly. Not one t-ten lies been taken, we were told, with the Filipinos that could have been honorably avoided. Honor of whipping a weak peoplo is what we are ufter, then? Had wo treated them us we have the Cubens all bloodshed would have been u voided, honorably, too. We read between the lines , that Cuba will never have a government of her own under McKinley. Then look at the inhabitants of Porto Rico. They are cut off from all their former privileges of trade with Spain, and the tariff cuts them off frOm trad ing with the United States. Why not make them full citizens as we did tho people of Texas and California? They certainly should have all the righto of a territory at once. But that would not bo in style with Europe. They must be ground down as , colonies, as England ground down the American colonies be fore the revolution. THE GLOBEJHEATRE. Continuous Performance ' of the Great American Kxtravaganza, Expansion, or Expand and the World Laughs at You. Characters of the Prologue. Time: About 1770. George IV, King of England, a promi nent expansionist afterwards known as a tyrant and oppressor. frKrire Washinirton. 1 Tliomus Jefferson, I Benjamin Franklin, Jolin Hancock, I Natlmu Hale, I RaKKed Rebels, after wards known as Pa triots. Sir William Howe," Lord Corn wnllis, Missionaries encased in the work of expansion. General Clinton, f General Gage, J The Marquis do Lafayette, a friend of Washington and an auti-expansionist. The Declaration of Independence, a seri ous document. Chabactkes of '"theExtravaoanza Time: About 120 Years Later. His Imperial Highness, McKinley I, Ruler of the Isles, Sultan of Iloilo, Captain-General of Cuba and Porto Kico, Cwnmander-in-Chief of the Im perial Army and Navy, Defender of the Constitution and Business Agent of the Xvepublican Syndicate. What's the-Mattcr -With Mark Hanna, Manager-in-Chief of the Syndicate, Comptroller of the Barrel, Procurer of Votes to his Imperial Highness. Russ Alger, a scapegoat. General Eagan, a retired embalmer with a handsome income. George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy and Presidential Candidate of Patri otic Republicans. Civil Service Reform, the butt of the Imperial Court. General Otis, a cheerful obliterator of facts discreditable to his Imperial Highness. ' n in i. i i Missionaries of Expansion Genera McAltlmr, . who (lo their dlty whrth. General Lawton, ) er tllcy like it or not Truth, a character rarely permitted to apiear on the stage, and then only in an obscure light Aguinaldo, a poor cuss. Other Niggers, inhabitants of the Phil ippine Islands, incapable of suffering and possessing no desire for liberty and happiness. Next to seeing their homes burned and wives and children maltreated, their principal joy consists in being shot down by Expansionist missionaries. T. C. Piatt, I Sub-Managers of the Republican M. S. Quav, t Trust. Teddy, tne Rough Rider, a young man who meant well, but went wrong. Tho Declaration of Independence, a hu morous document, read only by old la dies and children. Business Interests, an idol set up by the Republican Syndicate on the pedestal formerly occupied by Patriotism. Protection, an imaginary fence around the idol. Olllce Holders, Office-Seekers, Politi cians, Contractors. Protection-fed Trust Magnates, G. A. R. Men, Pension Agents, etc., etc.- Life. Iteware of Ointments forCataarh that con tain Mersurjr, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and itompletely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescrip tion from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catasrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu cus surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Cataarh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and is mado in Toledo Ohio, by F. J. Chenny & Co. Testimonials free. EHrSold by druggists, price 75c per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the but f IRE ON BOARD SHIP It Breaks Out on the Steamer - . : - 1 ASSISTANCE COMES lit RICK Of TIME Russian Boat Takes Off All the ras angers, Most of Whom Wore Amcr- ' leans Passengers and Crew Cool and Panlo Is Averted. The Hamburg-American steamer Patrja, from New York, November 8, which passed the Lizard Wednesday, is on fire near Dover. All the passen gers were rescued and have arrived at Dover. The Russian steamer Ceres sighted thePatria, showing signals of distress and demanding immediate help about twelve miles from North Hinder light ship. Putting on full steam the Ceres soon reached the Patria, and sending a boat learned that Captain Frohhch was in urgent need of assistance. The boats wero rot out, and with great difficulty all the) Patria's passengers, numbering 150, were transferred to tho Ceres, which proceeded for Dover, reaching there just before midnight. Among the saved are many ladies and children, as well as six babies in arms. The hurry of the rescue was indicat ed by the fuct that most of them were enveloped in blankets only. They were rapidly distributed among tho hotels or sent to the sailors' home, and everything possible is being donu for their comfort. According to interviews with some of the passengers which elicited the fact that most of thiftn are American citizens who have come for a vacation in Europe, all were ordered on deck at (5 o'clock Wednesday morning, when they were informed that a disastrous fire had broken out among the general cargo and tho crew were unable U- master it. The boats were promptly got over the side, the crew working as if they were at drilling. The safety of the ladies and children was the first con sideration. As the fire had by this time consumed the greater part of tho passengers' belongings they had to get into the boats as they had como up from their bunks, and some in very light raiment. Captain Frohlich hopes to put tho steamer, ashore at some point on the coast where there will be a possibility of saving her. UTTLE HOPE FOR HAYWARD Senator ao Better, and End May Not be Far Distant. Thursday morning advices from Ne braska City say that there was little change in Senator Hay ward's condi tion last night. The hope for his re covery is slight, although he is resting much easier than earlier in the day. There is a paralysis of the right arm and his speech is somewhat affected. He is perfectly rati6nal and converses with those at his bedside. It is feared that unless there is a favorable change soon the end is not far distant Dewey Not In the Race. Senator Proctor of Vermont, Thurs day in an interview said: "It is not true that I am trying to start a Dewey boom for the presidency. It was generally understood that be fore Dewey left Manila ne was averse to being drawn into the play, and I am in a position to know that since his arrival in this country his antagonism has been confirmed." "Then you think there is no possi bility of the nomination of Admiral Dewey next year?" "There is absolutely none," was the reply. "He is out of it, and I am not trying to run him as a candidate." Kamea His New Secretary. Congressman Henderson, of Iowa, next speaker of the house, announces the appointment of Jules C. Richards of Waterloo. Ia., as private secretary to succeed Amos L. Allen, "who was Speaker Reed's secretary and who has just been elected to congress. Also, that Asher C. Hinds will continue as clerk of the speaker's table, and that Leroy Ncelcy, for some years Congress man Henderson's private secretary, will be the speaker's clerk. Gives Himself I' p. Anthony Joseph Pittmeyer, a ser geant in the marine corps, who served on the cruiser Urooklyn when Ccrvcra's fleet was destroyed at Santiago, gave himself up at St. Louis for murder committed there in 1S94. Dittmeycr killed his boss with a blow of his fist, in self-defense, he says. Fearing ar rest, Dittmcyer enlisted in the navy under the name of Dittmeyer and served with distinction until a few days ago, when he was discharged. Mrs. Logan Prostrated. A dispatch from Youngstown, O., says only the greatest care will enable Mrs. Major John A. Logan to survive her bereavement. The family have been notified that the Sikh will leave Manila tomorrow for San Francisco with the major's body. Hopp's Murderous Work. Eugene Hopp, a Chicago laborer, had trouble with his brother-in-law, Frank Anderson, and started in to exter minate the family. He killed Ander son and seriously wounded his sister, Mrs. Anderson. He went home, barri caded the door, and was captured only after a desperate fight. Faastoa Going Back. General Fred K. Funston and wife left Kansas for San Francisco. The general will sail on the transport for Manila aad Mrs. Funston will remain at her parents' home r Oakland. PfflUMOFFE SPECIAL FOB READERS OF If you are in need of an elegant SUIT OF CLOTHING, or OVERCOAT, for yourself or your boy, this is your opportunity to get it. We want new subscriber to THE INDEPENDENT, and are willing to give you a Valuable Premium for your effort in securing them for us. Show your copy to your neighbor and invite him to subscribe at the meeting of "The Farmor's Club," or any gathering of the farmers of your neighborhood. You could easily secure a club of five to twenty new names. By doing so you will be helping the cause of reform, helping us, and helping yourself. We guarantee the' clothing to fit you, to be of the Actual Value Represented, to give satisfaction if it does not, return it to us at our expense and we will return your money. You have our guarantee that the goods will not be "Shoddyl" We could not afford to send ont that kind. We get the clothing through the largest and most reliable clothing dealer in thit city. 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