Consolidation of the Wealth ma hers and the Lincoln Independent
NO. 29.
VOL. XL
, LINCOLN,' NEBKASKA, NOVEMBER, SO, 1800-
ENGLISH GOLD GRABBERS
Jka Artie in Bwr Paper which hash!!
Mid to T the Real Canse of .,
- the War. ' ' 1 ' ''
The "wage workers in the Boer repub
lic have never been allowed to bo heard.
While the war is ostensibly waged in
theii interests it is a fact wages to crush
them. The following article which was
published in the Bloomfonteiu Express,,
is said to have had a great influence Up
on the English gold grabber they fear
ing thut some such plan might be finally
adopted by' the Boer republic. They
therefore doubled their efforts to bring
on the war. The article is as follows:
"In order to give the public some idea
of how the capitalistic clique is endea
voring to stimulate and intensify the
present crisis in Johannesburg, wo pub
lish the substance ol a letter from a
iwiiner on the Rand, which has just
'reached us, and knowing the writer, we
have ever? reason : to believe that the
statements therein made are correct
We regret that we are unable to publish
the letter of our correspondent in full,
but it is evident from the context that
there is a very large majority of the
Cornish miners who would welcome a
change in private ownership of the
themki 3 state ownership with con
siderable' satisfaction. As things are at
present, sanitary arrangements, general
comfort of employees and conditions
which are calculated to ensure perma
nent residence are .all subjects to the
greed of shareholders for record drvi-
' dends, which under wise and equitable
state management would be spent in the
republic, and so ,promote the general
prosperity of the whole people, instead
' of, as at present, going to Europo to be
' wasted in luxury and riotous living by
men who in all probability never did an
. honest day's work in their lives. The
f rkin men on the Rand complain very
' V'h f the conditions of employment
Icq tbej' are .compelled to comply
- ith. The twenty-four hours system.is
& standing grievanee. The men com
plain that it gives thenv no encourage
ment to4tempt.to settle down in life or
get their families out from England, the
cry being "what would we do with a wife
and three or four .children to drag abuut
from one end of the reef to the othr,
while we are seeking another job?"
They complain of the injustice of
being compelled to sign insurance con
tracts, whereby in case of death compen
sation is limited to one year's wages.
They aw also obliged to subscribe to- a
sick fund, yet have no choice in the se
lection of medical men. This stultifies
the capitalists cry that taxation without
' representation is slavery. Out o the
' workmen's subscriptions the gold min
ting compart 'build spacious reading
" roowM. They not only claim the credit
for so doing, but own the buildings.
They suppress as far as possible the
frightful mortality amongst the Kaffirs,
and fail to remedy the bad conditions .in
which these are now herded together,
yet howl like Australian dingosover
wrongs wfcich exist only in their own
imagination. The. dynamite monoply is
quoted as one of those wrongs, but many
' of the companies have solved the prob
lem by charging the extra cost on to the
contractors.; whoj use the dynamite in
some instances charging them from ten
to twelve shillings.over cost. The ever
present 'osire for profit is apparent in
the eontewptable custom of also making
a profit on dynamite caps ii.id fuse. But
these are not the only sources of profit.
The rapacity of the gold mining compan
ies nnds vent in what in England would
be a violation of the "Truck Act." They
raise the rent of the. boarding houses ac
cording to the increase in the number of
the boarders. Theseire only a few of
the numerous methods we could name,
which are pursued to increase dividends
at the expense of the actual producers of
the gold. This kind of management
shows only too clearly that it is high
time the government of the South Afri
can republic itself worked the L ines for
the benefit of the people of the republic.
Under such management it would bo
possible to remove most of the taxes now
falling on the producers and consumers
in the way of custom-house and excise
due. The incident of taxation would
be altered and the revenue required to
"carry on the government would come
.out of nature's store house out of the
Sand itself, which, if wrested frc.u the
' octopus of capitalism, mav become the
most prosperous in he Southern Ufis
l phere, and lead the 'orld in civilization
1 nod equitable laws. It is the fear of the
. capitalists that . democracy may estab
lish itself firmly in these republics that
' has evoked the cupidity of not only Eng
land, but Europe as well. Hence the
apathy, if not desire, to see the gold in
dustry remain a practicaily private mo
nopoly.
Storage Reservoirs
The statements made now and again
' by some western men that the govern
ment will never build storage reservoirs,
ioes not appear to be well founded in
view of the progress of events within a
comparatively recent period. The Geo
logical Survey, a governmor : institution,
has been and is today working steadily,
making surveys for reservoir sites, and
reserving the land against the time when
it may be needed for reservoirs, and con
gress is annually appropriating for this
work; the department of agriculture is
this year spending $.J0.00O, which con
gress appropriated in irrigation investi
gation in the west, and last year the
senate, by a good majority, voted square
ly to build a storage reservoir in Wyom
ing. ' ,
The amendment was defeated by the
house of representatives, but the fWht
i came painfully near, to the pessimist,
r oeng an out-and-out triumph for the
Tke most tot wtst need this time
is to stand solidly together on, this irri
gation proposition and make a . united
demand upon the government for what
it wants, then take off its coat and work
for a year, in season and out ' of season,
and without let up. until it gets it.' No
question but that it can get it' if it de
mands, and backs up its demand with
all the force and energy, at its disposal.
The following press report taken from
the Washington Times, shows, tke atti
tude of at least one branch of the gov
ernment upon this question:
, - "The present agitation in the west,
notably in California, concerning water
storage f.w irrigation has brought in so
many requests and letters to the geolog
ical survey that F. II. -Newell, the hy
drographer, has prepared a circular set
ting forth the attitude of the govern
ment with reference to the building of
storage reservoirs. . '
rllte circular states, among - other
things, that u large number of storage
reservoir sites have been surveyed and
reserved, and that the maps and esti
mates of the cost of construction have
been prepared and plans drawn to af
ford an accurate basis for 'appropriations
for construction,' The circular states
that the olllcers of the survey have no
concern with the question whether these
reservoirs are to be built by private cap
ital or public funds, but nevertheless its
.statements are conceded to largely com
mit the government to the policy of fed
eral storage of western Hood waters,
THE INDIAN RING
The Old Guiig Sec him in Have lU-orKUiiived
For tlx r-irporie of Taking l' The
White Man'h Kurilen.
The old Indian ring tnat caused such
an upheaval years ago, and was finally
suppressed, seems to have reorganized
since MeKinley and Mark Hanna have
been running things at Washington.
They have carried out a systematic plan
of robbery all over the United States.
In Nebraska, as elsewhere, they
working their schemes. Not long since
the agent of the Omahas proposed to
the council of that tribe to pay John M.
Thurston $.50,000 for supposed legal ser
vices. John L. Webster has been attor
ney for these Indians ever since the fa
mous Standing Bear case, and they still
desired to keep him, but the agent, who
is practically an appointee of Senator
Thurston, would not have it that way,
trom information at hand, it appears
that this was nothing but a steal of the
old Indian ring kind. It is not only in
Nebraska that these men are "taking up
the white man's burden after the fash
ion he has always done when native peo
ple are the objects of his solicitude, but
it is all over the United States. The
commissioner of Indian affairs pots up a
very strong protest in his annual report
The first thing he will know, off will go
his head. The following is a short ex
tract from his report There w lots
more of the same kind.
In 1889 the Chippewas were with dif
culty induced to cede to the United
States large tracts of valuable pine land
on the representation that the sale of
the pine would bring them in a fund of
several million dollars.
As is always the caso, many Indians
were utterly opposed to the negotiations.
A commission was appointed to make al
lotments on ceded and reservation lands
and to secure removals to VVhite Earth
of those who were willing to" go ,here.
Estimators were appointed to appraise
the Chippewa pine. The ex;xtnse of lioth
is charged to the fund of tae Indians.
The expense of the commision up to date
has been not less than 8200,000, most of
it in salaries.
The work of the estimators proved
worthless and a second set of estimators
was appointed with no better results,
and a third set of men was assigned to
the work. Up to date about 1280,000
has been charged to the Indians for es
timating. Meantime large tracts of pine
which have been estimated at from one
fourth to one-half of their value were
sold,nd the loss fell upon the Indians.
Farm and Dairy School
The University of Nebraska has just
issued a very attractive pamphlet des
criptive of the school of agriculture.
Every farmer should write for one.
This course in agriculture is a complete,
practical and common sense thing. It
is something that no farmer's girl or boy
can afford to miss. The people in charce
of the school realize the fact that most
farmers' sons and daughters cannot af
ford to spend the time and money re
quired in the preparation for and com
pletion of the regular college course,
but believe that in farming, as in every
other business, education and training
Pay
Keeping this in view they have pre
pared a snort practical course of ihree
months, beginning January 2, l'.lOO, and
ending March 17. . It provides for the
following studies; Soils, field crops, dis
eases of farm animals, breeding of live
stock, feeding of live stock, dairying,
horticulture, agriculture, engineering,
carpentry and blacksmithing, insects in
jurious to crops, plant pest, farm ac
counts and English.
An explanation given in the circular
of the manner in which the instruction
is given, shows that the student obtains
much of it py means of actual practice
an observation. Not that he will be ex
pected to do the work of the farm with
which he is already familiar, hut such
operations as stock judging, milk testing,
treating sick animals, etc.
No examinations are required for en
trance. There is a registration fee of
one dollar. The cost to each student
last year for room rent, table board,
book, etc., wa about thirty six dollars.
BRYAfi READS A SERMON
lib Hunting Trip" lias loii Him iool
ialnel Six Pounds In One Week.
Si'KiNc.FtEU), Mo.i Nov, 21. William
J. Bryan ' yesterday came out of the
woods . of the Taney Game Preserve,
where ho has been hunting, and reached
hero yesterday. The people in all the
little towns along the Way turned out in
crowds to see him, and he received a
rousing reception here.
Mr. Bryan had not seen the ..newspa
pers for a week, and was startled to read
of the dangerous; illness of United
States Senator-elect llayward of Ne
braska. Mr. Bryan refused to discuss
the rumor that he would be appointed
Senator in Ilayward's place, saying that
any consideration of the matter now
would be unfitting. '"I am very sorry to
hear of Senator Ilayward's illness," he
said. -. . ' ;
CONDONS BONU OKFKH.
Mr. Bryan talked faeely, however, of
Secretary (Jage's oner to purchase CiV
000,000 bonds. "The republicans." he de
clared, "have been saying all the time
that there was plenty of money in the
country. When the free silver people
advocated an enlargement of the money
supply they were told that the circula
tion ful.y met all the demands of tTade.
"Now, when Wall Street becomes short
of money the government is prompt to
go to the relief Of the speculators. All
we free silver people ask ' is that Uncle
Sam shall treat the farmer and the la
borer with as much consideration.
"The gold men. claiming that there is
plenty of money in the country; never
make -the proper distinction between a
standard dollar and a credit dollar! They
assume that for all purposes an actual
dollar and a promise to pay a dollar are
the same.
"This failure to make the, distinction
between the money of final account and
the various forms of credit employed in
the transactions of the country has
greatly confused the minds of those con
trolled by the gold standard idea."
At the hunting park, Sunday, Mr.
Bryan took part in a unique religious
service. There was no minister to be ob
tained, and the party of hunters were
nearly fifty tiriles from a church bell.
Major McCann, President of the Game
Preserve Company, is an Episcopalian,
He has the prayer book of his church at
the lodge. At 11 a. m. the guests were
assembled in the club-house parlor. Mrs.
McCann played the organ and the party
sang a nymn.
KRYAN KEA1W A SKliMON.
Major McCann read the usual Episco
pal service for Sunday morning worship
and then Mr. Bryan read a sermon. He
seemed thoroughly clerical, and a stran
ger would never-have suspected that a
lavman was offlciqtjng for the first time
in such a capacity.
The sermon was one of St Augustine's
on the Lord's Prayer found on pages 188
to 1K in the nrst volume m "The
World's Best Orations," collected by
Justice Brewer. Col. Bryan had the
book with him on this trip.
Mr. Bryan closed his hunt Saturday
by killing a four-year-buck. During the
hunt he killed a quantity of small game,
including a Dumber of wild turkeys. He
gained six pounds on the trip aud looks
the picture of health and strength.
Got Scared
It is very evident that Seeretay Har
rison and Chaimiai. Tefft of the repub
lican state committee got badly scared
during the last few days of the campaign
over the prospeets of losing the foreign
vote and they determined to save some
thing out of the wreck. They remem
bered the republican newspaper federa
tion circular, aud proceeded to 'go after'
the county clerks aud county judges
wherever there was any hbpe. Iteese,
the man who was to save the g. o. p.,
was mercilessly traded off for a chance
to control the election machinery. Look
at the results in a few counties and de
cide for yourself if this be an idle tale.
lioonc county gave Holeomb ll major
ity; a republican county clerk was elect-
there by ;.$(); his vote was 400 greater
than lieese s. Cedar county eave Hol
eomb 519 majority; a republican county
clerk was elected by 2TB; his Tote was
401 greater than Reese's. Dakota coun
ty gave Holeomb 121 majority; a repub
lican county clerk was elected by 541
majority; his vote exceeded Reese's by
410.v Dixon county eave Holeomb 12G
majority; a republican county clerk was
elected by 1:5): his vote ran 228 greater
than iteese s. 1 Hi tidy county cave Hol
eomb 28 majority; a republican county
clerk was eleeUM by 77, aud his rote was
(Mi greater than that of Judge Reese.
Custer county gave Holeomb 590 major
ity; yet in a three-sided contest the re
publican candidate for county judge
bad 35 majority, a plurality of 249 over
his populist opponent and 394 Totos
more than the party-savior who headed
his ticket Such things do not happen.
They are the result of well directed ef
brt. And this must be humiliating to
Judge Reese and his friends.
A Child's Will
"Little good can come of being arbi
trary with a child, by making him do as
we wish without first getting at the
causes of his willfulness, is the position
taken by Anna Wikel writing of Break
ing a Child's Will" in the December
Woman's Home Companion. "A child's
volitions are transient The endeavor,
then, must be to get at his fleeting voli
tions and train each one aright, until he
can be said to have a governing purpose.
Some put implicit faith in reasoning
with a child. Well, it shows respect for
child nature and occasionally reaches
him; at least it may have some effect in
developing his reasoning powers, and
certainly promises confidence between
parent and child. If his reason were al
ready developed there would be less dif
ficulty in training the will, but since it
is not we must train the will through
other avenues, and his feelings, bis emo
tional impulses, form the best of these.
In order to strengthen ind train his
will a child must be ' allowed to exercise
it by choosing for himself as far as
practicable. The parent or teacher must
advise the child before the choice is
made, or when he is suffering from the
result of an unr. ise choice he may well
reflect oil them for not givingv him ihe
ijenelit of . their experience; but after
both sides are made plnm the qhild must
bo left a free moral agent. If there is a
choice between a pocket knife and a ne:
pair of troitsers a boy wiil almost surely
choose thcAknife. When ho feels
ashamed oivtiis patched knees it will be
a means ? culture to his judgment
through (means of shame, und his
nest willir,inay be along the lines of
reason. it takes more than one
lesson to le'n that 'we ennnot eat our
cake aud bnve it, too.' Robertson says,
'There are two ways of reaching truth
by reasonirk; it out and by feeling it
out.' A child must feel his way to the
truth. A child lives in his feelings, and
through them he is reached for good or
evil." :
A Just Decision
Circuit Judge Beeman, of Indiana, in
declining a railroad pass recently, wrote
thus to the railroad company: '
"If a fanner was to enclose 8100 to a
judge and ifc was accepted and after
wards a lawTuit was instituted by the
farmer agafost a railway company in the
court of tl: judge who had accepted
the farmer' ii hospitality, and the knowl
edge was bAmght to the defendant rail
road company of the farmer's hospitality
and the jupge's acceptanco of that hos
pitality, tie railroad company would
make haste to take a change of venue
from the court on account of the bias of
the judge; but, upon the other hand, a
railroad company placees a puss worth
$100 per annum in a judge's hands as a
mere matter of courtesy, and the judge
tries to educate himself candidly to be
lieve that he is not influenced by the ac
ceptance of the same. I have failed vo
so conclude, and believe it is unwise for
a judge to accept a railroad pass, just as
much as it is to accept f 100 from a farm
er who expects to be a party to a litiga
tion in his court."
An Old Republican
Editor Independent: The people real
ize that the fusionists put up good men
on the state ticket, and the county tick
ets got their share in the distribution.
The farmers can sleep peacefully now,
for they know that the supreme court is
in good hands.
I am an old republican and I am per
fectly satisfied with the result of the
election. They may call me a copper
head or whatever they like. I am tired
of hearing hein calling MeKinley ' "the
good" and :trk Hanna "the ju.it," If
there was .f (y good, the capitalists got
the cream ft! it. -The fusion is t speakers
told such facts that it made my republi
can hair stand upright. I w ent, to an
old pop and asked him to explain some
things, and he gave me your paper to
read. That got my dander up. I told
my wife to burn the darned thing. She
read it and said that it was all right and
that I was nil wrong. She said if I
would take the paper she would pay for
it out of her butter and egg money. So
I got it, and I am proud to say that the
Nebraska Independent has told nie more
truths than I ever road in the republi
can papers in all my lifo.
My old friends may call me what they
please. They can fool the farmers some
of the time, but not all the time. Now,
Mr. Editor, this is something out of my
line. I know more about raising corn
than writing letters to you, but I just
had to, to please the old woman, who
bought the paper with her euz monev.
So success to your paper. I will do all
l can for it in my neigliliorhood.
Sally and Joski-h Ilnrx.
Douglas county.
A Suggestive Prophecy
Here is something for expansionists to
swallow. The Mexican Herald, publish
ed in the city of Mexicoin a long arti
cle dealing with North American preten
tions to dominance in this hemisphere.
and, taking a clairvoyant glance into the
future, gives the dates of the following
annexauous oy "our excellent Uncle
Sam:" 1900, St Thomas. Havti and San
Domingo; 1910, Martinique, Santa Lucia,
lsinmus or ranama and Central Ameri
ca; 1912, Mexico; 1915, Colombia, Vene
zuela. Ecuador; 1929, Chilo. Peru. Bol
ivia; 1940, Argentine Republic, Uruguay,
raraguay and Brazil. The article closes
witn the statement that the United
States will get into several imbroglios
with foreign powers in the far East and
fall in the year 1941. This is comforting
since, if this prophet knows what he is
writing about, many of us who have
lived to see this expansion policy en
tered upon will also live to see the ruin
and fall of the American "Empire."
Never Wear Out
Irrigated farms never wear out It
may occur to farmers who are in the
habit of applying largo quantities of ma
nure ana icrtiiizer to their lands and
raising only moderate crops, that where
irrigation is practiced and immense
crops grown every season without inter
mission, either increased manuring is
necessary or in its alisence the land,
from the increased drain put npon it,
will gradually lose fertility. This is not
shown to lie the case, however. Where
the irrigating water is drawn from sur
face supplies, it itwolf furnishes an ever
lasting supply of fertility. The lands
irrigated by the Nile floods are of sur
passiug richness and their tillers never
heard of such a thing as crop rotation,
plowing under clover, manuring or fer
talizing. The ancient irrigated
fields of the Philippines, which yield
from four to six times as much as the
dry-farmed sections, have never kuown
artificial fertilizing, and iu the United
States we have the evidence of the New
Mexican farms which nave been nndnr
cultivation for 250 years and are today
as produutive as virgin land. Irrigation
water is both food and drink.
ENGLISH SILVER LUNATICS
The Director of tin- Bi'.nk of Kngltmil !
cliireH that Himt'ltnIIlMii Ik the
inly Solution of the Ciir
' . ' rem-y tjueftt Ion.
It has long been known that every po
litical economist in the universities of
England . was a bimetullist. The gold
grabbers of Lombard street, like the
mullet heads of this country, have re
fused to listen to them. Now the Bank
of England is getting into harder lines
than ever. With the South African wur
on hunds and the output of gold greatly
reduced, there seems to be nothing
ahead but another suspension, of specie
payments. The Director of theUanli of
England recently gave out the following
statement which was' cabled to this
country by a correspondent of the New
York Journal. The associated press has
said nothing about this and the editors
of the gold standard dailies go on talk
ing about silver lunatics and advising
the democrats arid populists to drop free
silver if they want to win. 1 lenry River
side Crenfell, director of the Bank of
England, said to tho Journal corres
pondent: "
There is no immediate cause for
alarm, but sooner or later the question
is bound to becomo acute. The Indian
government has power to lock up in
England sullicient gold to meet its lia
bilites on this side. The liabilities are
by no means small. Already about 700,
000 of the reserve of the Bank of Eng
land has been earmarked and that is a
mere flea bite to the amount that will be
required for all practical purposes.
This locking up of gold is equivalent
in its effect to a shipment of gold to
America or other foreign jiorts. The
Bank of England's reserve is reduced to
the extent of the locking up of the
amount earmarked that is to say, it
can't bo used for any other purpose than
security of the currency. Obviously
this will have a tendency to harden the
money mnrket in general and keep up
discount rates.
As the scheme proceeds tho serious
ness of the situation becomes more evi
dent, and if the government doesn't limit
in some way the amount the Indian gov
ernment can lock up the effect is Iwund
to be a detriment
In my opinion, the most injudicious
course was adopted when the currency
commission recommended this step. Bi
metallism is, to my mind, the only per
manent solution of the curroncy ques
tion in India. Had the efforts of thf
Wolcott commission Iwen allowed to bear
fruit a better Way would have been found
out of the difficulty. Bimetallism was
directed to India more than to any oth
er place, but it was rejected to India's
detriment.
There was never an act of porfidy
equal to that of McMinlay, who ran on
a platform that pledged him to promote
bimetallism by an international agree
ment, when he deliberately went to work
to defeat that very thing. The WolcoU
commission had everything arranged for
the opening . of the India mints and
France had agreed to tho plan, hen he
tent that mesoago to congress recom
mending the Indianapolis plan for the
establishment of tho gold standard.
That message was sent for the sole pur
pose of defeating international bimettal
ism the very thing that he and his
party was pledged to promote. History
will record that MeKinley was the weak
est and most perfidious president that
this country ever had not even except
ing a man named Hayes.
The outlook now is that free silver
will lie more of an issue than ever in
the next campaign. If the Boers con
tinue to hold the gold mines of the
Rand and the war goes 'on for any length t
of time, England will, be in just as bard
straights as the banks of New York
were last week. There is no way out of
the difficulties that are threatening all
gold standard nations except an increase
in the amount of legal tender money.
This remains as the paramount question
and will so remain until it is settled
right.
NOT ONE WORD
Th KrltlKh dm In South. Afrrra shut
off AlMoluteljr Everything,
The New York Journal employed
Olive Schreiner as its special war cor
respondent in South Africa. She has
been trying for weeks to send some
thing but the British censor will not
allow, she says, "one word" to go con
cerning the war. The following was
published in the Journal last week:
Cape Town, Nov. 17. The wtK-culiitor
and the millionaire have their war.
Will they gain all they have hoped for
by it?
Our African Shylock holds today in
his hands the pound of quivering hu
man flesh, from which drops onto Afri
can earth th blood of English soldiers
and African citizens, butjthat which he
nas noia to gain by its osHession will
he win?
While the noble beasts. Enclish and
African, who have been set at the ron-
flict are engaged in rending each other
in tbeir life and death struggle, round
them sit the unclean birds of prey ith
hungry maws waiting till the battle be
over to engorge.
fcven now one hears the imnatient
rustle of their wings, ready to wheel to
ward uie quarry.
w look up to the blue African sky in
despair, wondering if there be not
bolt left. - -
Kondon, Nov. 18. A letter from Olive
Schroiner was received at the Journal
bureau today. After giving 'details of
her arrangement to follow up the cam
paign as correspondent for the Journal,
which ure of too confidential a . naturs
to be published, she proceeds: -
"I came down here from the, Trans
vaal hoping to be able freely to send
you wires daily with the latest news ob
tainable In the colony, but tho censor
ship is so stern that not one word bear
ing on military mutters is allowed to
pass.
"With the greatest difficulty I have
got through the cablo sent you, though
they contain only my feelings on the
political situation.
"The rule here is that no expression
of feelings of the people of this country
is on any account to get through to Eng
land or tho world. ,
"Ultimately, of course, they cannot
stifle our voices.'- At least in some way
we s!aall find voice, and ample voice,
though it may not be for some months,
even our letters are not safe."
Old" Soldiers,
Monday of lost week Gov. Toynter
turned into tho state treasury au U. S.
treasury warrant for 85,419.';o, same be
ing quarterly payment of United States
aid for ti e soldiers' and sailors' homes
in this state. , y
This money goes directly into the gen
eral fund an is used in payment and
cancellation of iegistered general fund
warrants, the same as general fund tax
es or any other general fund receipts.
The legislature each biennium makes
appropriations for complete maintenance
of the soldiers' and sailors' homes against
the general fund, and no attempt is made
to keep the U. S. aid separate. This U.
S. aid is $100 per annum for each disa
bled soldier maintained at the state
homes, andjs computed on statements
of tho daily attendance. During this
year the following sums for "state aid'"
have been received: February $10,45().i8:
April, $1,270.93; August, f(i,(Xi5.00; No-.
vember, 85,119.00; a total of $23,80(5.21:
The legislature of 1899 appropriated
all told $194,870 for the home at Grand,
Island, and $37,474.24 for the home at
Milford.
For the Grand Island home $21,720
is for officers' salaries nnd employees'
wages; $44,(150 for maintenance; $0,000
for certain repairs and improvements,
and $12,500 to erect anew hospital build
ing. For the Milford home 85,540 is for
oflicers' salaries and employees' wages:
$11,700 for maintenance; $5,000 for anew
hospital building; $13,500 to pay for the
land upon which the home, is located:
and $1,734.24 to pay deficiency claims.
Total appropriations for both homes,
8132,344.24.
The U. S. aid will run - about $3C,000
during the biennum, leaving over $92,-
000 to be raised by tixation,
, Sinco 1887 the different legislatures
Jiave appropriated for tho establishment
and maintenance of these two homes
$00272.41, and to date the United
States has reimbursed the state of Ne
braska in the sum of $141,597.01.
The Volunteer;
The volunteers l-.vo foUfclit every suc-'-cfcisfu!
$ar th? Uftlte1 States his ever'
had, They have done the bravest and
hardest fighting the world over. There '
is no need of a great standing army iit
any country in the world. In the fight
ing that is now going on, the admira
tion of tho world is centered on the vol
unteers of the Dutch republic. No reg
ulars who ever carried a gun have
equaled them. American .volunteer
would rush to a defense of the country
in the same way in any righteous cause.
Read an English account of how the
Dutch volunteers rushed to arms.
The British public has for the last few
weeks been watching or reading about
the departure of troops for south Africa.
and this morning we chronicle a "record
embaakation." Side brside with this
stirring news it may be interesting to
place a description of the way in which
tne juoers set oil tor the front The
description is contained in a letter, dated
from Johannesburg, Oct. 1, which Mr.
Stead prints in the War Acainst War.
The writer is telling of the departure of
the burghers by train for Volksrust:
"It was a very interesting sight at the
station, and I have admired the African
wives and girls for their admirable atti
tude. No weeping or crying nothing
of that 'Do your duty,, then a kiss, a
shake of the hand, and the train went
off with husbands, brother, fathers,
possibly not to return again. Touching
scenes took place, There was old Fer
reira, with his five sons, for instance, he
himself a Boer of the old 'trekkers'
type, and his sons, all six feet odd. An
old Boer finds his Hen of 15 years or
therealmuts has stolen away and has
asked for a riffe from the vcldkornet' to
join the troops. The old man in the
end approves his son's desire. 'Behave
as a man is his word of leave. Old and
young, rich and poor, without demur-
ring, without discouragement; all have
flocked together at the first summons. '
leaving all behind, because the country
is in want of them. No glittering of
epaulets or buttons, no music, no bom
bast or boasting; only calmness and ser
iousness in thise resolute, tawny heads."
In one district where 400 were called
up t70 men presented themselves: in an
other district 800 appeared instead of
150. "All from the biribest to the low
est rank are ready and full of enthusiasm
and reliance in the Lord." The cynic
may smile. But we do not envy the
man who can read of such leave-taking
without a thrill. And this is the "rusti-
corura mascula proles" that we have to
tight in order, at the bidding of -he ICho-
desian crew, "to break the dominion of
A frikanderdom," London leader. .
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