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Ctmoiaatum f THE VTBALTHMAKBRS 4 UKCOLS Iff DEPENDENT. CTII T7 B3Li FWMUSUED EVERY TUURflDAY 8T THB independent Publishing Co npany AT 1202 P STUB 1ST. Telephone 931 . EHTOOLN, - NEBRASKA $1.01 PER AlftOI II iDT ACE.. ddres all commuaicatlons to, audj make all drafts, money erdeni, etc., taxable 10 TUB INDEPENDENT PUB. CO. ' Lincoln, Nebraska. GOVERNOR I'OYNTKH. lathe trying and difficult situation that a vacancy In the United State sen ate placed Governor Poynter, he hnH conducted himself with dignity and great discretion. His action from the very first, was along the line of those principle that the populist party has ho long advocated. What ever hi personal -desires might have been i making the appointment, he laid them all aside, nnd called upon the people to expre a their 4eire lu the matter and put into practi ce! operation that principle of the party that declare in favor of the referendum. The people responded immediately and began by the thousand to express their piaion through letters. There wan no ne to lead in the matter there wast no pitta to circulate petlions every man for himself simply Mat down and wrote a letror expressing his opinion. Nine tenths of these men expressed their wish that Senator Allen should be appointed, aad as soon as that became evident Gov ernor Poynter appointed Senator Allen, The action of the governor is com leaded by all. In very trying circum stances he has acquitted himself well. The banner of the republican party beare but one legend. It is "Gold and Empire." All the legends ot freedom. efl.ua! rights and government by the people and for the people have been wiped out It is now simpiy "woiu ana Umpire." It may now occur to some of the ad- vertising agencies which refuse to place advertising in the columns of the Inde- your Indejiendent or get them to sub peadent because it is a populist, paper, MTm for it. that they are working a big swindle on their customers. One thing is certain. if the advertising agencies don't find it at their customers will. There has never been a run on the treasury for gold since the Chicago platform was adopted. When the gold standard men had thine all their own way and when Cleveland the greeted gold standard advocate of them all was president, were the days when the run a gold was experienced. President McKinley denounces the trusts. There is no doubt that President McKinley is just as much against the trusts as he was, ugainst the gold stand ird when he denounced Grover Cleve land and t-aid that Cleveland wanted to make money clear anil everyinmg eiso cheap, he is. There can be no doubt that The Independent does not claim to be the "whole push," but it modestly sug gests that the hundreds of letters that poured in to the governor's office in an- ewor to a request in its columns, might have had some influence in securing the appointment of W. V. Allen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Hayward, and further, deponent fayeth Mt. Low prices to foreigners and high prices to American consumers is theeco- noraio policy voted for by every support r.of the republican parly. Meat dressed in Umana ells in ixmnon at a less price than it is sold to the people in Omaha. So it is with almost every article exported from the Uni'ed Statev Now here is treason to American interests, not simply a false cry. l he traitors to America are in ine gold standard, trut, tariff baron party, lead by Mark Hanna. A republican ntnttgcnl down Uie street An i liinajieml, uuntrHiiy Iwt. "Thnt Milu on I ma. Kiilvt. too, lU.th have wivsn-mo than two Wliat Rliali the pnrtjr io1 Tlinltii lif'iiill iliflit ttotwriawewill tight." "Tlmn atopped and ttiomtlit and pondered- T. in 1 mLtm ir it. MuvM hill' hotlt r fnmf- It forty ana !nren. How la itt Je li-t me ant. Yes, it 'aall ritrht. Von -e h for forty, not for lluee Aad wboop iX, for Hie g. o. p. 'Whoop for forty, not for three. Forty wie I Oil I tlmt'a it. Unel That e what Mao inani lie Kali ritrht Kab t diva em three. lSothinc lilte the c o. p.' Our reader who are delinquent on ubecription are requested to be kind enough to make a remittance at this time. The business manager extends! this invitation as politely aa he knows how. If the mere invitation fails to do the business, naturally he will be com celled to try a more heroic treatment "A word to the wise is sufficient," ahould be sufficient When you remit please mntion this editorial tn order that we may know whether it paid have it act up or not 1 O K TK A 1 O r I M TE1U A MS W . Ooe year, of hnper.nl wm. What is the result? . An army scattered over the islands of 'he seas in the Occident and orient, men wading through swamp chafing fleeing natives who always out run them, an enormous expense taxed aghhst the people nearly a million a day to keep up the game and what in the result? The secretary of the treas ury snroe op the cost this way: Expense of military establishment 18IW... $229,841 2M 47 Expense of military establishment 1898 .- 91,992,000.29 Increase .$137,849,254 18 Secretary Gage's report further nets forth that the revenues of the govern ment for the hVal year ending June 30th 18!, were $610,982,004. The expendi tures for the same period were $700, OSW.364, leaving a deficit of $89,I11,5TO. Every sort of a war tax has been im posed, the Dingley Bill in still in force nnd Htill there is a deficit. It in the largest deficit ever reported by any sec retary nince the civil war. Then look at the, expenditures. Over $700,000,0001 Nearly two million a day! It is a greater daily expenditure than was made when we had a million soldier in the field in the civil war fighting the bloodiest bat ties of all history. One year of imperialism! Plow do you like it? You have not felt the full effects of it yet fh forces work slowly. When the heavy hund begins to pres still more hardly, how will you like it then? Tax yourselves two mil lion a day and turn the major part of it bver for the support of an army aid navy. How much prosperity will be loft for you and your children? But this is only the beginning. It will soon be three millions. Secretary Long wants eighteen .new warships. McKinley wants a large increase in the army, The list or civil omcers win nave t,, largely increased Three millions a day will not pay the bill. Is theie no escape? None at all unless it is found in the patriotism of the com mon people. If they sit supinely down. imperialism will become the permanent mt.r of this government. If you have . fo iye a country where your children shall have an opportunity to ive Home other life than that of a tax pi)J.inK Mtrf you must put your armor on n wx not do to sit down now. Get these facts before your neighbors. They are ignorant of them. The republican j,H,ers do not publish them. Give them The plan is to not only make you pay this enormous amount of taxation, but to double the burden again by making money dear and till hou have cheap. The gold standard is to be adopted. The contract with the men holding over a billion of bonds is to lie changed nnd lh value nf ,i,eir ond-i doubled. Taxes are to bo taken oil the national bankers and placed upon you. The telegraph and express company have already been exempted and you are paying their taxes today. The incomes of the rich have been exempted by a decision of thesu preme court declaring the tax unconsti tutional. It will nil have to come out of you and men of your class. Two millions a day and soon to be three miliums! You will have to get the money by rawing wheat, corn, cuttle nnd tioirs. Would it not lie good iiusine-s sense to get out and work a little to stop this drain of cash that will le made upon you, by distributing information among the people. Hven a mullet head would not vitt for this thing if he knew the facts. Put the facts into his posses ston. I.KAKMNO SOMKTH1NW. Every gold bug paper in the Uuited States has been endued in the task of demonstrating the great prosperity of this country by uuoting the excess of Lmirtsover imports. Lately a few of tnm i.ave i,01rUn to imtci ive that iheir LrKUnietit did not have the force of a nVmon-traiion. It has taken a lont: tim to beat a little common sense into tn(lr neU(4; ,t a few of them begin to I " " .Mcnnwledirn tlmtthe position they have taken was untenable. A year ago the chjuato Record was foremost among those who thought a large excess of ex tH,rtrt WM the acme to which all nations hould Bspire, and the nation which had the greatest excess was the most pros perous. Now it says: The nation that sends out of its tern tory more wealth than is received grows poorer, not i letter, i ne uniiea owies cannot go on permanently importing goods valued at only $OlJ7,14.4W an i ex tKiriinir to the amount of $1.227,02.1,302. . -. th case during the last Hscgj I jroi. i .n. . ,,r ... . . may te explained on the theory that Americans are paying debts abroad or that tourists ate spending large eunm of money, or that the balances in our favor are settled in gold. The time must come however, when imports must onset ex ports, tf trade is to continue, (or if bal ances were continually paid in gold we should soon have more of that metal than we would know what to do with fen we would be anxious for wealth in other forms, It is evident that that editor has taken a hasty glhnce into some standard work on political economy, but he did not read far enough to find out that gold, when - used as money, is not wealth at all. One might pave the earth with gold and the or people would not thereby have better shelter or more to eat or wear. Money lis not wealth and when we export more to I than we 1 n port we are just that much I poorer instead of beiag that much rich THE NXBKASKA ITOEFEOTENT. .UJ.l.'. ." 1 OU9 Of tUlM er. ur course im h things that a mullet lead oan mrvwr find OUt. APPAl.I.IKO KXPBJUMTCBKK. In counting up the income of the gov ernment for the last two years the fact is oftso lost sight of that a very large part of that income was paid into the treasury wholly outside of the revenue from the Dingley Bill, the war taxes and the ordinary revenues of the govern ment. Over $300,000,000 has come from ttt I is -ties and old d-bU collected dur it - that time. The presidout say in his message: , The amounts paid and secured to lie paid to the govemnient on account of the Pncitic Railroad subsidy claims are: Union Pacific, cash ...... .$58,448,223.7o Kansas Pacific, cash ($,303,000 W Central and Wes-u Pa- cificeaHh 11,788,314.14 Notos, secured... 471uw1lY2.:Jt Kansas l'oificii' i lends for deficient; duo Uated States, cash 821,907.70 Making a total of ....$124,421,607.95 The whole indebtedness was about $130,000,000, more than half of which consisted of accrued interest, for which sum the government has realized the en tire amount less about W.oou.uuu wiltiin a period of two years. Add to that $200,000,000 of bonds and it will be seen that notwit hstanding the excessive taxation, $:i"2U2l ,007.00 have been poured into the treasury and still the treasurer of the United States re port that there is a deficiency of $89, 000,000. The deficiency has been m fact $413,421,607.00. This is nothing lea than appalling. We would like to hear what some of the readers of the Independent , think of it One thing is certain. If expenses in the future are to be the same, taxation heavy as it is at present must be doubled! What have the people to say about this? A LCABNKD IHSCUSSIO.N. Some of tke learned mea of Gotham have been applying the methods of the "higher critics" to the president's mes sage and they prove to their owj satis faction that it was not writtnd by Mc Kin ley at all, but by Mark Hanna. In examining the president's former speech es and writings about which there is no question of authorship, they Hnd that he can write fairly grammatical English, that he never placed a predicate four hundred words away from the subject, that he knows that a verb must agree in number with its nominative, that a pronoun must be somewhere in reach of its antecedent and not so used as to. for ever prevent a reader from finding out, what its antecedent is. On the other hand hey find that that is Mark Han na's style exactly. So they came to the conclusion that Mark Hanna wrote the message. There are other critios, however, who deny the force of this reasoning. They say that a man's style has been known to change. This change niBy be noticed not only in speaking, as is often the case but. also in written documents. Put a man into a new community were differ ent forms of expression are in use from those to which he has been accustomed, and it will not be long until he will be found using them lioth in speech and writins. These t undits say that 'the ong intimacy and constant association of the president with the jier.-on and iverpowering will of Mark Hanna has u-ed him, all unciouly, to adopt the utters hitbit of disregarding all th rules of English grammar, and it does not necessarily follow that the writing of the message was done by Mark Han n, but it may have lieen written by Mr. McKinley after all. The proof, they say. whi e having some force, is not conclu sive. Moral: If you want to write pass aide English, associate with gentlemen not with men covered with dollar marks. llON'T KNOW. The following letter has been received from L). Clem Deaver: Omaha. Nan., Dec. 9. 1399. Editor Independent: The Independent has hail consumable lo sav about me lately. 1 nm pot aware that I have done anything unbecoming a meiitlier of the national committee of the people s party and if you will kindly point out where n I have erred, 1 will, with your )ermis sion, lane pleasure in pre.-entmg my opinion of your criticism of my actions, lesiiectfully, J). Clbm Dkavick. So D. Clem don't know what he ha' done! Well, that beats us. We always had an idea that there were a few mil li n things that D. Clem didn't know. but are somewhat surprised at this ex hibition of ignorance. What did he do Why, when lie wrote that letter to the Bee, as a gentleman recently remaraed, he thought he was getting into the band wagon, but after election he found that he was in a hearse instead. One of the million things that he don't know now, is how to get out of the hearse and get back into th band wagon. That's what makes him sorrowful. Judge Kohlsaat, McKinley's pet judge, appointed without the recommendation of a single member of congress or sena tor, recently made a decision that will coat this atate thousands of dollars. He declared that the $2.00 extra charge made for switching cant at the Chicago stock yards was all right and that to abolish it would be taking private prop erty for publio ase without com pen si tion. So the farmers who raise cattle and hogs in this and other states west of Chicago, will have to continue paying tribute to the railroads. McKinley's pet judge has so decided. Oo and whoo;) it up some move for the g. a p. tCKintmrt KKHHAcr, The Ctilies are everywhere poking fun at the message of the president and en perorofthff Philippines. In the first place it is the most ponderona document of the kind ever transported from the White House to the Capitol.. It makes a little over tweoty-one column in an an ordinary newspaper. The reaaly print houses put it in type, but so fa-r they have not been able to wll the who doc ument to a single paper. The most of the editors - even those of th gold bug variety -will oily take from five to ten columns of the stuff. One of the critics goes after it in this way: Mr. McKinley's carefully considered message, for instance, together with' the usual large collection of ipelegaucies, tautologies, split indicatives, misused auxiliaries, and other errors of number, tense and tuoud, i furs Mime sentences wiii:h yield up their lueaumg only efter curetut study. It l isouipaiaUVfly easy to uniieivtahd that when he s.'Y's t,h he Philippines "cariint ' e abandoned" tie i ea'iy mruus thai Uiey uuiy not tie abandoned, it is not imfii lo believe that Uit liu i a- "the in i.i.aU; reunions of all pari ot the country u;uca other"' alludes to the relations ui :tie various sections to one another. ' Lahalik Jiu" may be allowed to "meet to;tyuer,'' in view of the fact that they cannot meet asunder very well. After that he quotes ten or twelve sentences which he says no man living can tell what they mean or give a good guess at what McKinley really intended to say. This editor took several hours and waded through the whole document. It was the worst job he has fallen onto for thirty years. He has been sick ever since and had to go and consult a doc tor, Dr. Lowry said that his trouble was nervous exhaustion. There is one sentence in that message where the predicate is 487 words away from the subject. Dr. Lowry wouldn't presenile any medicine but said if the editor did not recover, to come back in a few daye. Two days after he thought be would have to report again for treatment, but observing that a copy of the message hung on a hook in front of him all the time, removed it to another place. Since that time he has rapidly improved. If anyone wants that copy of the message he can have it "free gratis, for nothing." ' OVB. NEW SUBJECTS, In answer to a correspondent and for the information of other readers of the Independent, it may be said that the number of inhabitants of the Philippine islands is between 8,000,000 and 10,000, 000. There has never been an accurate census taken, but that is the best judg ment of those who have investigated the subject. From all that has come to light it is probable that 1he latter num her is nearer the truth than the former. The inhabitants of Luzon, where the fighting has been done is estimated at between three and four millions. The best authorities put the inhabitants of the whole group of islands at bl per square mile. But it must be remem bered that much of the country is moun lainous and some of the islands are not inhabited at all, so that the country that is occupied is' much more densely in habitad than the statement would indi cate. Those islands were to all appear ances densely inhabited when first dis covered, and the population has not di minished. There are many races and tribes, speaking many diffeient lan guages and professing various re igions. Some of the people are highly civilized, md in the remote districts there are -avages who have never come in contact with civilization. Most of them are tierce tighten and many thousands were never brought under Spanish rule at all. These are the people that it is pro mised to hold as subjects. It will be a nasty job, no matter who commands the troops in the Philippines. HOMING IT THKOLGH. There was never a more despicable act of despotism perpetrated in any' govern than tha way the gold standard bill was was forced upon congress. All the long established procedure and preoidents of the house were violated and the despotic mandate from Wall street issued through the White House implicitly obeyed. All bills have heretofore be-n first referred referred to a committee, then submitted to the house with a report of the com mittee. This bill was perfected by a few men, kept a profound secret from all not in the ring, presented to the house without any reference to a com mittee and placed utxm its passage in a way that no other bill has ever been handled since congress assembled for the first time. Protests had no effect The order had been issued, every repub lican bent the suppliant knee like a cringing slave and obeyed. The object of this order was to prevent discussion. The backers of this bill well know that it will not bear discus slonr It changes the value of the money in which at least $22,000,000,000 of long tim. debts must eventually be paid, 4l is perpetrating a robbery of the produc ers of this country of such gigantic pro portions that it staggers the imagination. The well ascertained bonded debts of this country ere as follows: ttonded debt of tna United Stales., ttnantn nno IVmilep debt of raihoaiia s.ottt.UIU.UJU Mo tffnire debt, tacuiedon leal at- tate hvnuua of Irtd BoikU iwiied by oraaniaed indue- 6,010,(100,000 trial trnat not lae than 8,000,000,000 HtaiM. flniiHiriiml and other aornor ate bonded debt, mo. than 1,000,000.000 This bill makes all those debts paya ble in gold. What a future such a pros pect presents to toiling humanityt It will never be endured. It is too heavy a burden for humanity to carry. It will result in repudiation, revolution er at tempts at socialism. There's Nothing More acceptable fur a Chrititmas Gift tbaa a garni SuitoiCiV or Overcoai Our Mail plenty prompt. 3EE WHO KHAI.I, HE SKNATOK? In answer to this question, asked in the last issue of the Independent, letters began pouring into this office the next day after publication. Thenuuiberot them was astonishing. Thev were nearly all for Senator Allen and they came from every part of the stale and all c'awsBs of men. While they are mainly from populists, there were also many from democrats. The letters were taken np to the state house, and there we were info med that hundreds had been re ceived there, eaying that the writers had seen the question asked in the Inde pendent and had written directly to the governor instead of sending them to the paper, the writers fearing that if sent to the Independent office they might not p ach the governor on time. These were also nearly all for Allen. If any man had any doubts about the wide circulation of the Independent and the influence it has upon the men of this state who take an active interest in government and politics, these hundreds of letters will forever disispate any such wrong impression. This paper is an in de) endent publication and is dictated to by no man, set of men or party. That is the reason IhBt so many men who take an active part in public affairs read it and rely upon it for news. Its opinions have weight They always find it honest and reliable. In the fight for senator as between the World-Herald and Audiior Cornell Cornell is a winner. Iu the long run it doe n't pay a newspaper to abuse any tuin unjustly. Mr. Cornell has been an auditor far superior to any of his prede cessors. He is in it'ed to the credit of having administered the affairs of his office honest I.. . Personal likes and d is likes cannot deprive him of the credit he deserves. In the face of the thousands of letters from the people, will the poor old Jour nal dare to saj that the appointment of Senator Allen was "diclated by a ring?" Yes, the Journal will say it liecause it isn't so and the Joi mal ie a specialist at lying. 'Do unto others as you would have others do to you." Send in your bac k subscription together with jour renewal for another year and help our Christmas to be merry. Wh' n Senator Allen gets to Washing ton President McKinley will begin to rea i.e that war is not confined to the island of Luzon. Agnn Nebraska has a senator that is worthy the title. As usual Governor Poynter did the right thing. HARDY'S COLUMN Consistency Civil Service -Two Wars 1,1 Canals Spanish Murder Gold Standard-Where are We at Strengthening Public Credit. It is a funny law that makes it a crime to color tallow butter, but sanctions the name thinu in cream butter. If color is bad in one place it is bad in asother. The virtue of any law is consistency. There are two things they can't adulter ate and they are eggs and potatoes. V If McKinley has a right to cut and csrve the civil service ruie, oi course Bryan will exercise the same right in turning out McKinley men, that Mc Kinley has in turning out Cleveland mea. The quicker our office holding class is degraded to common citizens the better. Away with life tenure of office. It is unAmerican. V . We eertainly have the advantage of England in the two wars. Not a dol lar's worth of war material do we buy of them while at the same time England is buying millions of war material of the U sited States. These sales, with short Doc em bet 14, 1SS Order Mas w . of time if you're: y crops in iiiurops generally, creating a heavy foreign demand, together with the fact that twenty-eight millions of silver have been coined within the year, all to swell the tide of republican pros perity. That party of course should have all the credit, and McKinley more than all the rest. Rigid economy among -our people and good crops should have no part of the credit.. V Canals or railroads which? There are places where canals are great utilities, but as a rule railroads are better. The canal around Sault St. Marie will never be abandoned. The same may be said of the Wei land canal nnd the St Law rence. Aside from these there is ne p'ace on this continent where a railreid would not serve a better purpose. The Chesapeake and Ohio canal has long since -been abandoned and the nquiduct over the Potomac has been utilized for . a wagon bridge, Ths Genesee valley, Deleware and Hudson and several other canals further west have all been aban doned and railroads built on their tow , paths. Notwithstanding these facta the government is now engaged in build ing a canal from Roak Island on the Mississippi to llenepin on the Illinois river, thence up the river to connect with the canal from Chicago or perhaps the great harbor drainage ditch, theocs into lake Michigan. The railroad cjua panies are perfectly willing for states and governments to own and operate all the canals but there is a general fight against their owning a single mile of, railroad or. telegraph, the tine canal is kept in repair by the state and free use ofit is given to any person who wishs to run a iHiat and yet the business is fall ing off every year. V We have just received a paper pub lished in Havana, the most of it printed in Spanish but one page in English. One of the items stated that, that 2,000 peo ple gathened that morning at the ceme tery to sadly commemorate ine an- viivorsurv til lliA BTprMitinn ftf otrrVit. Til,- ban students in 1H71 by Spanish author- -ity. The crime charged was that of ,' writing slur- on the tombstone of a Spanish o licer. The priest delivering the oration pronounced the execution murder. The exis'ing gold standard must be preserved by. law. It will not do to let it pre-srve it-elf by supply and demand, like o' her corumod'itie. The rich men are intere-ted in gold more than in any thing else and they must have the law to help them or they could not multiply their millions. The republican conven tion in ISM declared for the ''present gold standard." but now they wmit to change it so it will be more solid and en during, they are so afraid Bryan will kick it over. They have good ground for being afraid. V President McKinley boasts of a sur- plus in the treasury. Why should there no' be a surplus? Bonds to the amount of $200,0! XUIOO were sold. $2-,(KW.0W of -ilver which has been in the vaults 8 or 10 years was coined; then $12,000,000 has been received trotn sale of the U. P. railroad. Then count, the stamp act, and other increased 1aes. All these incomes go to swell the treasury, ana what will lie done when these resources are ex hausted. v . ' The first government lionds were is sued in the sixties and read "payable, principal in lawful money, interest in coin." In 1870 the bond holders discov eied the credit of the government was very weak and must lie s rengthened by making the bonds payable, principal and interest both, in coin. At that time we had no need of credit, for we hud stopped horrowing and had convnenced paying off our debts over a hundred million a year. But the bond holders must have what they wanted, so new bonds were issued payable in coin, standard weight and fineness of 1870, and the old ones gathered up and burned. The deck was now clear for another engagement. In 1873 the co nge of the silver dollar was stopped and those already coined were demonetized, at least limited as legal tender to ten dollars. The bonds were then payable in gold, for silver was out-. lawed for big debts. These laws in creased the value of all bonds at least 50 per cent as compared with property; The most severe financial panic ever .' known followed. In 1878 the silver dol lar was reinstated a legal tender, and its free coinage would probably have been estalijisbed again but John Sher man moved a ilver purchasing ill as a substitute. With the free comtge of gold, limited coinage of silver, the issu ance of silver certificates and treasury S 1 I l.W. t l..rtrla timAd HfAM IIIMT, Oil I ' It " I v liuri, V I III.--, nuu 1 1 IT 1 O 1 . - ov, A I A ana more prosperous up to imrj. Annul this time the endless chain was applied., to the gold in the treasury and even a more severe panic followed than that of '73. The paper presented for payment was T t