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. ; Llucola, Nebraska.
Tkn state house lookii ho fine sinee the
pop put a 10 to 1 dotno on it, the poat
tiltr bnH ordered all street mail boxes
silvered o'er In the name manner.
The cost of , producing all " raw mate
rial ha been reduced and the advance
made by the trust on manufactured
good is robbery and nothing else-
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1 In the late election in Ohio the repub
lican uoraniitfea expended 81)1,120.37 and
the democratic, , committee $17,098.58.
How do tlio fact compare with the re
publican ( talk vaboot McLean barrel?
Wnat straight must Mark and Mac
hava been in to have spent nearly $100,000
ad then got left in a minority of 72,U00T
1
J OhamhHrliln link'
. ent Conan
Doyle, the great writer of detective
stories' to South Africa."" Joe evidently
wants to find out what became of tbo
amis that he sent down there. It will
take a first eland detective to find them if
things go on much longer as they have
far the last two month a
Since Allen was appointed, the repub
lican editor do not fad to announce in
six different place in every edition that
tba pops have swallowed the democrat.
Before that, they had a nightmare every
time they thought of fusion, because
"tha democrat were going to swallow the
pop. No matter what happen , they
don't have any peace of mind.
me Jim at me great ueparimeui
store have made life a misery tbu far
during the holiday season. There has
been nothing but worry and loss in try
ing to buy things at their counter. How
auoh better it was in the good old day
before the department store was invent
ed? Then the people could be distrib
uted in a hundred smaller store and do
their shopping with some comfort and
satisfaction.
Wall Street got it
first
experience
with "international money" last week.
. It will have more of it in the near future.
British disaster in South Africa caused
drain for gold and Wall street was
thrown into a panic. That i what will
happen to every nation using gold for
exclusive money. The bank of France
serenely paid out silver and paper a
usual. While Berlin howled Paris
smiled.
Dolivar announced in his speech for
the gold bill in the house that no one
need quote any silver speeches on him.
lie had changed his opinions and that
was all there was to it . That is to say,
having got into power by advocating bi
metallism, the republican party intends
to establish the gold staudard and be
tray the men who voted for its candi
dates. The jarty ha sunk so deep that
it now announces that it will turn trai
tor and even brag about it on the floor
of tba house. Like a fallen woman,
drunk in tha gutter, it glories in its
shame.
' Congressman standing on the floor of
the bouse declaring that money was nitre
plentiful than e.ver before, advocating
tha reduction of the legal tender money
of the country to the amount of $800,
000,000 is not a whit more rediculous
than the scenes in the United State
senate in 1893, when senators would
stand up and declare silver dollars to
be worth only, fifty cents when they
were at the very time bringing a prem
ium io New York of three cenra over
,gold, and other senator arising and of
fering to take hundreds of thousands of
them at par. There is nothing too silly
or rediculous for a gold bug to do and
nothing that a mullet will not believe if
told to him by a party leader. 1
The weekly editors are everywhere ex
pressing tho greatest surprise at the si
lence of the great dailies even the free
silver dailies during the passage of the
most infamous measure that was ever
iatroduced into any legislative body on
earth. Souv of them are even blaming
the opposition in congress. 'As far as
the dailies are concerned the editors are
right. Not one of them put up a decent
fight They are now as they always have
been, commercial venturo. All tho de
fense of tho peoplo against robbery that
has ever been made, ha been made by
tha weekly press! Confound these dai
lies! Most of their editors deserve
hanging. They have never done any-
thisg for reform and they never will
It takes a pop weekly and a Washington
press to do it
UOVMD FIJCAKOIERIHO.
Tho Independent annouueed about
four weeks ago that there would be a
Very great money stringency in New
York about, the first of January and
asked where the money was to c-ime
from that was to pay the interest on $3,
000,000,000 of trust stocks that came due
about that time. The squeeze cams just
a the Independent said it would. The
next squeeze will come about the first
of April when the next quarterly divi
dend fall due. Where will the money
come from then, even if the evil day is
put off that fart
Take a look at the tremendous efforts
that had to be made to prevent the sus
pem-ion of payment by the New York
bank last week. In the first place Gage
advanced $11,000,000 of interest, then
810,000,000. Then he bought 820,000,000
of bond at a high premium, the clear
ing house issued $3,(XX),000 of certificate
to be used a money and still there was
not money enough. Then (Inge, in de
fiance of all law, deposited , about $30,
000,000 of government money in the
banks so it could go into circulation and
promised to deposit bvj.OUO.OUU more
every month right along. Finally J.
Pierporit Morgan,' representing the
iWh-child put np $10,000,000. " ' ' "
No such effort were ever made in all
the history of finance before. ' It took all
that the millronuires could do, to prevent
a suspension of payment by the banks
andjiniverpattuin,'.'' 'ft'- .
; By the time the next general payments
on tru.Ht slock become due the govern
ment will bo' powerless to hwlp to any
great degree. What'will' result then?
The bank that hold trust stock a col
lateral security will be in the soupi If
the interest onhhe stock is not paid, the
trusts will go .into .bankruptcy. It will
be found , that the whole tremendous
fabric is r.othing but wind. If the bank
will not lend money on industrial seuurr
itlo the money cannot be obtained. If
they do, tbey will land in a receiver's
hand themselves. '
Think of the attempt to do all of, the
enormous volume of business in the
United State on a volume of a little
over a billion of actual money and all
the rest credits or pure wind. If the
Rothschilds and- the whole financial
power of the government makes u en
deavor, the thing may be held up for a
year or so, "but after that the deluge." i
Wall Street is indulging in the vaia
hope that the money will soon begin to
return from the west and the south and
till up the coffer of the New York banks.
It is doomed to be disappointed. West
ern banker had their fingers too severely
burned in 1893 to forget so soon. They
found that at that time their money
might as well have been in the bottom
of the sea. When they drew on New
York, the bankers there simply refused
io honor their draft. Reserves in New
York banks at times of distress are no
reserve at all. Until things get in a
more satisfactory condition, western
bankers who have a particle of coinn on
sense will see that their reserves are not
in New York, and Wall Street will look
in vain for "the return of the money
from the west and the south." Ohl this
gold standard business is a lovely thing.
It is so "sound" that is nothing but
sound. I
GOLD STANDARD SCHOLARSHIP.
The beauty of having thunder maker
Harrison down at Washington was illus
trated in Saturday morning's Journal.
He sent a dispatch containing a speech
by some heretofore unheard of congress
man, the substance of which would have
been a disgrace to a pop school boy in
the third graJo. Here is an extract
from it:
"The American people have come to
understand that they are not so much
interested in the amount of money in
this country per capita a they are inter
ested in the amount of money per pock
eta. "When tho republican party went into
power several thing rose; wheat rose,
pork rose, beef rose, land rose, labor
rose, humanity rose, the flag of the na
tion rose, and everything from one end
of this nation to the other rose except
the democratic party, and you bet your
life that has been going down hill."
That is a specimen of the scholarship
of the advocates of a bill that double
the value of bonds and taxes it out of
the common people. Those are the sort
of creature that the grasping, greedy,
gold standard, bondissuiog leader send
to congress to legislate for, decent peo
pie.
Htri'DlATlON.
We are told that the republican ma
jority In the senate propose to rush
through with all possible speed the new
currency bill. Panic and demoralization
is raging in Wall street" Boston has
had two disastrous failures of national
banks involving eight or nine millions of
deposits, and something must be done
to give the national banks more wind to
keep open their doors. They are on the
verge of ruin and widespread disaster,
They have not the kmoney to meet the
demands of their depositor and are irrt-
ploring congress for the privilege of
making some more. Last week the na
tional bankers of Boston sent a petition
to congress asking that body to hurry
up and serve them. Their depositors
who put good hard dollar into w
banks are getting importunate and
something must be done and donfa quick
ly. The Independent has agnin and
again warned its reader that t e gold
standard meant wildcat money ind rs-
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pudiation. It has again and again
warned its readers that the "Sound mon
ey" of republicanism meant wildcat
money. Here is proof positive. Here is
what the Boston bankers say to con
grass: , - , . ' ' j
"The great blunder of our currency
laws is in debarring the banks from aid
ing commerce in the most natural way,
viz: using their notes as currency in re
sponse to the demands of trade." And
here is where they let the cat out of the
bag in their petition, for they say:
"Notes issued by the banks would not
be a legal tender, therefore a decline in
their market value would cause loss only
to the individual who happened to hold
them."- .
Remember, readers of the Independ
ent, every national bank in Boston sign
ed that petition. If that is not an ex
ample of unmitigated gall then we nev
er saw one. Let some republican howler
for "sound money" n'W talk about repu
diation; Compare the kind of money
these national bunkers propose with the
greenback, and then figure who is trying
to drive this country h 1 bent to repu
diation.1, .,; , ' ' V -. " " '
Mark the statement: "Their market
value would cause. loss only to the indi
vidual who happened to hoid them."
Did anyone holding a greenback ever
suffer loss lwcause he happened to hold
one at any time? 'And yet these Boston
national bankers are petitioning congress
to permit them to issue money secured
only by the a-wtqf the , bank, , and
which the public must take at its own
risk ;'nd the greenback ' which never
hazarded the earnings of any man must
be destroyed to give a place to this wild
cat nationalbank money. 5 Will the peo
ple always thus sell their birthr'ght at
the, dictation of a gang of hold-ups?
WHOLESALE HO II U Kit Y.
.When the independent said that the
bill which recently passed the house
making gold the only legal tender would
greatly increase the value of bonds, it
simply stated the naked truth. That is
recognized everywhere. Here is some
testimony from the financial columns of
a gold standard paper in New t York.
The writer was discussing the slowness
of bonds called by Secretary Gage only
$20,000,000 of the $25,000,000 bing of
fered. He says:
Men in Wall Street who have criticised
the secretary of the treasury for not
buying these bonds to relieve the market
were answered yesterday by trust com
pany officials, who said that the refund
ing scheme of the senate currency bill
made the prospective value of these
bond higher than the secretary's bid.
In other words they said that since the
senate was bidding higher than the trea
sury, the bondholders would naturally
bold out for the - better bargain. The
trust companies have $40,000,000 of Gov
eminent bond which they can lend
against good curitie.
What sort of thieving i this that of
fers to increase the value of bonds that
are now from 12 to 30 p.er cent premium
in the market? Never wa anything like
this known before in the history of the
world.
NOT OVKB IET,
All the great dailies are continuing to
announce that the scarcity of money in
New York' ha disappeared and that
there are cords of it lying around loose.
That is the way they have of preserving
confidence." What are the facts? The
clearing house feels the pressure so
strongly that the other day it passed the
following resolution:
Resolved: That the clearing house
committee request the trust companies
of New York to lend their United States
bond to the clearing house committee
or to the banks direct, for the purpose
of facilitating the deposit of internal
revenue receipts in the banks, and in
this manner relieving the money market
So it seems the money market is not
wholly relieved. This action i to get
all the money out of the treasury that it
is possible to get The plan i for the
secretary to deposit all the money in the
treasury in the bauks and let the bank
ers loan it out and get interest on it
The bankers with a republican con
gress in session soem to think that
they have permission to do all the
deviltry that they car devise. When
they get all the money in the treasury
out, and have loaned it to "relieve the
money market," what will they do next
April when the next payment of interest
on the trust stock w ill became due.
The supreme court having sustained
the law establishing the board of trans
portation, the populists of this state will
now look for soma effective work from
the board without any' further delay.
They have now the power without ques
tion to cut down the extravagant charg
es of telegraph, telephone, express and
railroad companies. All obstcacles have
been cleared away and if something is
not done, the populist will want to
know the reason why and know it
mighty quick. We have waited patient
ly for a long ti me.
- The democratic party back in the six
ties, vile as it was, wa never half so vile
as tho republican party of today. , It
upheld slavery, but it never provided
for the protection of polygamy nor un
dertook to destroy our form of govern
ment and make it an empire. It. never
iuttoduced and passed a bill annulling
contracts without the consent of the
parties. It never provided for the doub
ling of the value of debts and robbing
debtors. The old slaveholding demo
cratic party was a heavenly saint be
aids modern republicanism. v
INSUBAMCB
MM.' ,
COM PA
Fortunately for the taxpayers of this
state the supreme court has just declared
unconstitutional h Weaver law enacted
by the republican legislature last win
ter. Under: the provisions of this act
certain designated insurance companies,
in consideration of the7 payment of tha
fee entitling them to dot,ne-w in this
state and two per cent if premiums each
year, were exempted frbr 1 the payment
of any taxes od their flVrUi'tvd property.
Under still another
rsywion
certain
other companies were
xoused from
the
payment of all taxes,
'jp state auditor,
John F. Cornell, cont
iiea mat tnese
provision were in v
of those
provisions of the c
braska requiring taxe
itution of Ne-
l e uniform and
forbidding the com
u tut ion of taxes.
In this the supreme i:
utt has just sus
tained him and has 1
unconstitutional on
the whole act
untof the above
nefarious provisions.
i is a victory
over which the au
tdr and bis party
well may be proud.
fTbfbring about this
result the auditor h
as I had occasion to
use great firmness a
idi ps-bearance. He
iminced because he
has been roundly del
did not surrender cjh
(ol of all the in
surance business of Btj
state and then
test, the validity of th
law. If he bad
voluntarily abandefc
his duties he
could not have urgedt the unconstitu
tionality of the law(defense of his au
thority, for he woil4j then' have had
none to defend. A )on as hi1 right to
control insurance inf. ters was question
ed he instituted prw eding in the su
preme court s to ascertain whether the
law would tie upheld Which ( 'shame'
lessly protected' corporate exemptions.
At length the case ijeftched the stage of
oral argument. I While this was pro
gressing Judge Sii' iVan, sharply fore
shadowed the eimci ision j ultimately an
nounced, that the attempt to protect,
certain insurance companies vitiated the
entire act. Th
ole court finally con-
curred in this vie
and thi n the course
of the auditor wa
Vindicated. Too often
we have eeU call
upon in the past to
mduct and bubservi
eed. '" 1 ' "
rebuke official )bii
ency to corporate
It is a grateful
the monotony fey
isk to be able to vary
hinting with pride to
instance of ojfic
independence and
devotion to duty
firmness with Wb
stituted and carr
The unosleuttttiuuH
h Auditor Cornell in
Hi on this to a success-
ful termination
the interests of the
people is in marl HI
contrast with the
subserviency of
republican prede-
cessor. lie has
hly ' earned and no
doubt will le; chberfully accorded the
approval and confidence of the entire
fuhion paity for J the results which have
been achieved ttjrough hi firmness and
devotion to duti as he understood it
KXPl
HT1VG CUBA.
it , It has been giv
They
are- aq
en out that
no franchises would
Cuba while it was
control, but that was
be granted.' i
under mllifar;
only done to h
doff undesirable noto-
riety. Thest
have been gob
t railroads of Havana
ed by a trust The ac-
count of the ti
the associated
nsaction was sent out by
t
press, ana is as follows:
New York
Dec. 21. AU the street
railway intere
s in the city of Havana
were consoli
ated today, thus ending
the litigation
etween the Harvey syndi
cate and the American Inde company.
The new Hoard of directors of the
Havana Eiedrio Railway company,
which now o
s all the franchise in the
Cuban capit i
is a follows:
.President,
dwin Hanson.
Vice presi
nts, Wm. L. Bull and B.
A. C. Smith
Secretary
id treasurer, Arnold Mar-
cus. t
Directors
n addition to those above
named). F.
B. Widener, Thomas F.
Ryan, Sir
Iliam Van Home. William
McKenzus,
kins, Thorn
reiteric Nichols, H. M. Per
P. Fowler. E. II. Andreni.
William M lpoull, N. Uelats, and G. B.
M.Harvey.'J , .
The capitalization of the company re'
mains unchanged namely, $5,000,000 of
preferred istock, $5,000,000 of common
stock and first mortgage representing
$5,000,000 -i 5 per cent fifty year bonds.
There, is' i nice prospect for the Cu.
bans wli i lall inhabit that country in
the futsKyi A little city needing every
thing aiid fts street railroads capitalized
for, $15,OX,000! The Mogul Chazan
Kan, wks a meek and lowly missionary
by IheiiJe of these McKinley robbers,
who have 'bonded the helpless people
whoivlwelcomed our army as repre
sentative of "a war for humanity "
n
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, BO KB STRATEGY. .
The ?e ha been a good deal ' said of
late abO'A the strategy of V.,e Boer gen
erals. I strategy asusVln the military
w-rld tdpans th4"1ence of military
comuiani or thefrfjfctingof campaigns
and dSnfcting miKury movements. Tac
tics is ym fiance of placing the military
forces in the order of battle and per
forming evolutions, mere na been d
re vol u' ion in both tactics and strategy
since the civil war, brought about by
the improvement in firearm. It is a
fact that just as weapons of war have
become more deadly the death rate in
battle ha been reduced. When men
fought with short swords bows and ar
rows, there were more killod than when
gun powdor was introduced, and as the
rifle and cannon have become quicker
firing and of longer range the casualties
have decreased. Thre will never more
be seen such heaps ol dead men as were
piled up in the Wilderness, at Shiloh, at
Gettysburg and on other battle field
from '01 to 'C5' I
f The magazine rifle has made the old
formation in solid column a thing of the
TAXATION or
pl( Men lying down with magaziie
rifl eVruld destroy a charging force
solid coftrmn while they were sdva'nci
over a 1,000 yards. Thi editor does d
pretesd to know much about the bh
ern tactics, but when the war broke oi
with Spain he got hold of one or two
books on modern tactics and strateA
and teamed g .l'ft'" 1-
The formations in line of battle e e
now all in open order the men two r
three pace apart' A charge is ma ,
not by the whole line at once, but by a
sort of see saw movement, A regime t
lying in open order makes what th
call "rushes," one battalion at a tin
for short distances. While one batt I
ion rushes, theothetwo lying on t e
ground pour in a heavy fire to disconct t
and destroy the aim of the enemy. Tb n
another battalion rushes and the oth r
two tire. This kind of open order figl
ing requires a higher grade of soldie s
than the old lactic. Sfanding "shot I
der to shoulder" as we used to say in
the civil war, nas a tendency to give tie
weakest courage. .
Success now depends more than ever
on money for modern arm and ammh
nition are very costly and on muneuv
ing than ever before. The Boer geni
al seem to be better strategists than t,
English. . " . .
t j BUT WUIf
The . democratic national, com mitt:
will meet at Washington on Washii
ton's biithday to tlx the date for BryaiJ
renominauon, but it may safely be p
dieted that neither Chicago, New Yoik
nor Philadelphia will offer $100,000 i r
the privilege of being designated as t: e
democratic convention city. Omul a
Bee. ': '
Probably not.' But why? ' The demfc
cratic party hasut few millionaires ww
wall be willing to hire whole hotel ate!
bring thousands of ratainers tb -loblw
through a pfatform that will build it
trusts and double the value of bonds
The democratic party has some reput
tion on the consumption of red liqu
but it can't come within a hundred mile
of h rmmhlii-nn nonvuhlion on that anil rn
t.inn. wi h siilonns won't DUt ud half u If
hundred thousand, as they did to get it
at Philadelphia. Pop conventions neyr
draw big subsidies, for the hotel men
and saloon keepers say there i but liti f
money to be gotten . out of .them
delegates being mostly poor l en gi tb
cheap hotels, and the saloon, men
they don't sell any more liquor on
day of a pop convention than at
other time. ' i, ' "'
My
INDESCRIBABLE INFAMY,
The Independent takes occasion
again remark that when it said tha
gold standard bill passed the hou",
was an act to increase the value on;,
ernment bonds, which were alread,
hiih nrfimium. it was talkincr
Government bonds have gone kiting
on the bare possibility that the bin Wi
pass the senate unchanged. The fins'
cial colUmn in the Chicago Record la
Friday began this way: "Judged by yes
terday's quotations for goverpment
bonds the credit of the United St tee it
on sn eminence seldom if ever approach!
ed by any nation." "
There never was an act of any- legi
lature since legislatures, congress! i and
parliament were first instituted that
will compare in infamy with this Wet It
sets aside a written contract without
the consent of one of the parties thereto
and it give many millions of dollars to
the rich which must be taxed out o the
poor. The lnlamy ol it is maescriOJioie
DOWN WITH TUB CENSORSHIP.
, Hid away at the tail end of a special
cablegram that doubtless escaped the
censor's eye was thi startling sYnience:
, The fight at San Mateo wa u iieavy
one. A courier estimates that, thirty
Americans were killed and. wof '.ded.
among them several officer Brides
Gen. Lawton and Capt. BrecUefiridife.
The troops had marched from ftnhlnight
Monday night until 9 o'clock; Tuesday
morning through a furious rain t meet
the enemy. " j i
This Otis censorship is becomisg more
despicable every day. ' CongreVs jshould
send s reliable man there and ass a law
providing that he should hays thje use of
the cable. What sort of a condition
must there be when a great battle take
place almost in tughi.of Manila, one
general, several 'officers ancrmany pri
vates killed and wounded? Ha Aguin
aldo army simply changed base after
wearing out the American troops with
long marches in the north of Luzon?
It looks very much as if that wa the
case.
Let every man raise the cry: "Down
with the ceasoiship!" Let us know the
truth, j
iA CHEERFUL IDIOT,
the title of a "Funny Prophet
9 Journal gives a manifestation
of ignorance that would astonish a Mis
souri mule. It is as follows:
In exploring a dusty pigeon bo'e the
other d jy. the Journal came upon a me
mento f the fierce political campaign of
HO, whim Mr. Bryan swept the First
eongrestional district in ' hi campaign
neainstkhe McKinley act by a big ma
jority. ;:It was a letter from some pro
teting sub-criber down in Richanson
county'tyho had been listen ng to the
boy orator's attack on our tin factories
that wwe just rising into notice after
the pa-wage of the new tariff bilh Th
reportr d the following extract from Mr.
BryanN speech at Salem:
Tal aliout the United States manu
facturing tin.' Given twenty years of
proteuion and we will never make tin
plate Hough to furnish badge for their
men. . This is merely an election scheme
D666iiilf 88,1890.
ifcf you will never hear any more about
in after the election."
That Bryan made that astounding
prophecy ia atte-ted by the following
Wgnatureif ill. rt. Felt, William winaie,
U. W. Koberts, J. vanaervoon, w. v.
McCooL. , . . r
Ordinary republican idiots have hai
-ense enough to keew quiet about the
-sfcrinley tariff on tin for many months,
but tke State Journal is no ordinary
idk.t It breaks out on the most unaus
pic o is occasions. It is so cheerful, aa
idiot that it imagines that the people -h"l
forgotten how the McKinleyitea
ioj-x rted tin ore from Wales, planted it
uja in the Black Hills, proclaimed that
iHors was enough tin there to supply
tfaif Jtcrld end that that infant industry
nff M have protection. After the elec
tion was over and a big tariff was seeur
ed on tin, it was found v out that there
wnsiio tin there or anywhere else in tha
United States.
f As there is no tin mined in this coun
try that any one h is heard of, this tanff
on Im protects no industry in the u ins
tates, but it, and the tariff on plates
built up one of the mst rapacious
ts in the whole country. The price
in has been advanced dver 400 per
t a tax on everyone who use tin
the benefit of the trust. It has turn
out just as Bryan said it would. : We
ort all our tin--there isn't enough
jirliduced in this country to make even
Jte badge, but the cheerful idiot of the
S ate Journal seems to think that the
pi ople don't know that, All that i done
it this country is to import the tin,
cfarge 400 per cent more than it is
worth, ma!e the plates and these be
ing protected by the tariff charge 2iKJ
IIS. - L . t. L 1
per cent mure nian iuey rt wuriu, suu
dip the plates in the imported tin. It
ikes a very cheerful idiot to see any-
ing in all that to charge against Bryas
his fight agtiinst a tariff on tin.
HARDY'S COLUMN
Don't Like Drunkenness Gambling and
Fighting Clean Up Honesty Taxed
Three Washingtons Fighting for
Flags Two Repudiations We Hear
Give Her Good Living Transvaal
La w Ohio Independence versus Col
ony The"Man the Platform Lincoln
Dead. ' ' ' '
We have-just finished reading Richard
Carvel, one of the hew popular book o
the day. With us it is not a popular
book, for it is filled with drinking', gam
bling and fighting. These are ruinous
trait of character to lay before our
young men. , the book may truthfully
portray English social wrongs of a hun
dred years ago, but we. want none of
them now. and the quicker they sink
out of sight the better.
v -
Why not keep our cities as clean, mor
ally, as the country. It is a fact that
our cities furnish the most of our drunk
ards, gamblers, prostitutes, paupers and
criminals. It is all because we have
deadfalls set for young men and young
wo'iien on almost every street in our
cities. Fifty year from today the city
of Lincoln will be owned and operaied
by the boy and girl who are now on
the farm husking corn and feeding
chickens.
V
A law making honest bankers pay tha
stealings of bank thieve would be all
wrong. Honest taxpayer are made to
pay when a publi.j o liji il steil, but no
banker can be made to guaran'e hi own
honesty. He now is made to secure the
bill holder against loss by putting up
United S:ates bonds, so make him put
up bon is to secure the depositor. If a
banker cannot give security he should
not be allowed to issue bills or receive
deposits. Let the government establish
postal savings banks.
V
Aguinaldo and Kruger are two living
Washingtons. They both stand up for
the rights of their people, against fearful
odds, just a Washington did. We hope
and pray that they may both come out
in the end a well as he did.
' V
The English are fighting for their flag
and their home government just a our
boys are in the Philippine. Who will
put up the fl ig i their question not
who will pull it down?
V
Is it not just as much a criminal repu
diation to pay more of the people's mon
ey, than we agreed as it is to pay less
than we agreed? Down with the gold
bug repudiators!
v
The war of subjugation in the Philip
pines is not ended yet When a general
gets killed we hear of it and that is
about all we do hear.
V
Give Mrs. Lawton and family as good
a living a western farmers" families get
and we will stand our share, but no such
high living, besides legal pensions, as
Mr. Grant gets, will we stand peace
fully. V
The editor of the Lincoln Free Press
gives the law of citizenship in the Trans
vaal, and no decent government can find
any fault with it With strong nations
small things make excuse for war and
conquest Every kingdom and every
republic ha had to tight the world to
tain it independence. We still have a
lingering to, that Samuel will let the
Cuban have a government of theirewn,
but it look dark. But the two wars
that are now raging in the Philippines
and Africa are only titcompamunsof the
Turkish war on the Armenian-. A sub-,
Jugated colony of degraded people is a
financial feather in our national cap.
V ....
We can't see how Ohio can be counted
a McKinley stale a long a the republi
can lacked fifty thousand of getting a
majority in the last state election. The
five millions that. Hanna i gathering up
from the trusts and corporation may do
it agnin. Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia.'
Illinois, Iowa , and Minnesota counted