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a wnmarjiiriTiijiit-iiimyii 1 M THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. January 4, 1 CO. 4 Cenifliaation ef THE WEALTH MAKERS and LINCOLN INDEPENDENT. . PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY , , BT TUB dependent Publishing Co.npany AT 1202 P STREET. Telephone 533. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA FOOTER ANhUM in ADV Mil Address all couimuulcaUons to, aud, make all drafts, money orders, etc., payabio to THE INDEPENDENT PUB. CO. Lincoln, Nebraska. Congressman Roberts is about to ex perience the result of having too much of a good thing. Joe Chamberlain :-Thls boar hunting is not what it is cracked up to be. Their tusks are too long and they won't scare worth a cent. Heretofore whenever there has been a big war, wheat has always risun in price. Why don't it raise now? We asked a mullet head that question and he an swered, "Oh, 'cause!" The "deadly parallel" has no terrors for the republican congressmen any more. They simply repudiate all their principles and promises and then get up on the floor of the house and brag about it Take Doliver for a specimen! We suppose those Boston republicans would now be supremely happy if that Boston bank that failed for 110,000,000 bad only had $10,000,000 of notes out "hnwnd on bank assets." That is the thing that every mullet head believes in, Hurry up and pay your internal reve nue taxes; the bankers want to begin drawing interest on it right away. All of it goes Into their coffer? now. thanks to Mr. Gage. Who'll haul down the flag? It floats over every revenue office My country, right or wrong. . When the British prisoners were inarched into Pretoria, the burghers took off their hats and stood in silence - as vhey passed by. The British returned the Balute. It is among people of that sort that the English purpose to "estab Urih a Htjib'e government and advance civilization.' Some few workmen have had thei wages raised five or ten per cent, but when they go to pay their store bills they find that the prices of the things thHV must have are all under the con raised OFFICEHOLDJNG KCOJfOWISTS. If passing strange how much repub- ienn that is the average republican oleson an officeholder. If a man only holds a prominentollice.then he is learn ed profound and wise and the people hould Iks guided by his words. lake Dawes, the comptroller of the treasury and little Eckles his predecessor for ex amples. If neither of them had ever held office, would the great republican papers be now quoting them as author- ty? If Dawes had given out an inter view before he held office on one of the most difficult points in political economy would he have been quoted asan author- ty and the people asked to follow bis advice? The paper that would have done such a thing would have been aughed at. Is Dawes any more author ity on political economy now than he was before he was appointed to office? n the trustful mind of a mullethead, the fact that Dawes is an officeboloer sottlos it. Dawes knows it now. Any one who should intimate that he did not, is an anarchist, socialist repudiator or something of that sort. As the Inde pendent has long been classed by the mullet heads as belonging to that set, it can afford to say that neither Dawes nor Eckles know any more about political economy than theydid before they held of- ce when no one claimed that either of them know anything. The Independent does not mean to say that the ydon't know anything. They do know enough to is sue a statement whenever the 'clearing houHe ring tells them to and sends on in advance the substance of what they are to say. THE HAPPY CHUMPS. If you want a poper to lie to you to the extent of forty columns a week, take one of tne plutocratic woeKiies. iou get it for twenty to forty cents a year, You will be told a continual succession of lies from the beginning of the year to the end. You will become so soaked with them that you can't tell a lie from the truth after a while. You can live as happy a life as a mullet head in a mud bath. Such follows go about the towns of Nebraska and honestly believe that the war in the Philippines is over, that there was no panic on Wall street, that the greenbacks are not to be de stroyed, that they can buy more goods with a wagon load of wheat than they ever could and they are just as happy as any chump can be. They believe that Mark Hanna is a very godly man that McKinley never pardoned any bank wreckers, that it is the proper thing to give an officer's wife a pension of 8100 a month and take up a subscription for his widow to the amount of 830,000, but that the destitute widow and child of a private soldier has no claims on the public. They think that the "best money" is thn- dearest money and if it was so dear that it would take a Imnd red bushels of wheat to cet one, dollar, that would be the best thing that could happen. To be ' a happy, jolly has been standing on his head ever Hnce he imagined that Prof. Andrews was an atheist, would do well to cast bis gleaming eyes upon this address. Let him ponder for a while upon this sontence: "Upon the Bchools of the land depend its eter nal life in conjunction with the church." And, also, upon this; "They must see to it that righteousness abounds more and more." Here are three paragraphs from the address: Purils should be told that they have work to do national ills to be corrected and political dangers t bo guarded and ho instruction in the questions of public mportanie should be given, i ne patri otism of Leonidas or Washington can not be made to germinate in the breast on fdinple notification. Neither comes as he result of teaching, mere must oe in the character of the country a ba-is for the teaching. I cannot be an enthu siast for my country unless it is worthy of enthusiasm. Whatever we can do to perfect the school will tend to make hose wtio go fortii ironi tnem manaiui if not enthusiastic citizens. Instruction in the rudiments of politi al and social science ought to begin in the primary schools and never cease un til the pupils graduate, and the study of history should comprise tne pasi, presem and future. On he schools of the land depend its eternal life in conjunction with the church, They must see 10 n that righteousness abounds more and more among the people. I he senoois must grow the men with inspiring poli cies, who will aare speaK or me amne mission of America. If Analo-Saxon civilization is to be come predominant it must be we, rather than iUnsrland. who are not only iresner, freer and more inventive, but tied by living bonis to nearly every other na tionality. America must lead in the fu ture enlightenment of the human race. WK WAST TO KNOW WHV, Attorney General Smyth says: "Un der the statute it is not only the duty of the secretaries of the board of trans portation to receive and act on evidence of unjust or discriminating rates, but it is their duty to go out and seek for such evidence, and either the secretaries of the board act on this matter of carload rates, or the board itself will take the matter in hand. That there is nothing in the world to prevent the secretaries from taking up and effecting needed reforms in the matter of railroad rates. Their power to take up charges, article by article, and remedy abuses therein, is unquestioned. That being the state of the case, the populists of this state will want to know "the reason why" something is not done, and know it in short order. The editor of the Independent has a faint remem brance it was so long ago that it seems now like the shadow of a dream that he brought a case before that board. It has never been heard of, although he has been ready to proceed with it at any time when th i secretaries got rested Whenever the republican leaders of the house promise to do anything then one can bank on the fact that they are going to do the very opposite. They were shouting all over the country that the government must go out of the bank business. Gage is throwing it into the banking business to a greater extent than ever. He proposes to furnish the banks with $300,000,000 to bank on after the fashion of the lamented Bartley. They proclaimed all over the land and shouted from a thousand hustings that they were for the use of both metals "without discrimination against either," and the moment they got into power That is the way they have been doing for the last twenty years. SPEAK OUT. There is over 8500,000,000 in silver in circulation, either in dollars themselves, or in certificates, in this country. They . . 1 A 1 are doing the duty or money every wnere, they did tho other lhing ana no one can get one or mem tor loss than one hundred cents. One line of the bill that recently passed the hou.-.e transfers these dollars from money into a public debt. Who is benefitted by adding $500,000,000 to the public debt? Do you know of any one who is? What public beneMtis conferred by such legislation? ' Will some gold standard man please answer? These dollars can be brought to the treasury and gold must be paid out for them. Where will the gold be obtained? The secretary of the treasury is au thorized to sail bonds and buy the gold. Bonds bear interest. Interest must be paid by increased taxation. Will in creasing taxation benefit the public? Destmy $500,000,000 of money! Will that be a benefit? Is money too plenti ful dow? Can any man give a reason for this legislation? Speak up. A Dr. Was, who says he is a Hollander writes a letter to the State Journal and says to that paper that if it don't show more sympathy for the Boers that all the Hollanders will likely vote the pop ticket next time. He says that all the populists sympathize with the Boers 'for a purpose,' and it would be too bad for the republicans to lose their voles for he is a red hot republican himself. It seems that this doctor never appreciated the fact that he was advising the State Journal to sympathize with the "Boers for a purpose." It is not at all surpris ing that his association with the repub lican party has somewhat dulled his in tellect. He is not the kind of a Dutch man that is planning tho, campaigns against the English in South Africa. trol of trusts, and have been from twenty five to a hundred perjjjjjvhump, just take one of those great plu J .5 1,1 A mullet head calls the workingman. ThiuwfcJBtold a profound truth when gave out an interview the other day. lie nam: aub reiiuunuou umjmi .v, in the senate, counting gold democrats, must be about thtrtee-, uoia aemo crats make ' up republican majorities! Then are they democrat or are they re publicans? Which? We wieh some one would explain this matter. s t 1 ri a 1 . r TJ- Based upon the same figures that . r;; . , , , . anva that. 29000000 of iwnn r k ow v were used by the Morgan bynoieate p-'. - ' . V whe,. they offered to take the Cleveland bonds if mudo.pnyable in gold, at $1G, OO'J.OOO uiore than if made payable in coin, the increase in the value of bonds made by the passage of the act that re 1 4Mrossi The way that McKinley satisfies his conscience when he thinks of the blood hed in the Philippines in the war which be declared without tha consent of con- cress, must be something , after this fashion: "Didn't Hanna buy me when he paid off that 1190,000 mortgage? Don't Hanna own ma? Then why shouldn't I buy Filipino at two dollars head and own them?" lat notion the Papjllion Times will i next it is impossible (or any cne to euiM. ine last one is mat rroiessor Anwftws, whom it has been nuggested shouijl be called to the chancellorship of .1 r i.- : u-' . iw:. It is nonlong since that Professor An drews w. a Baptist preacher, and if his name haseen stricken from the rolls or he has bee expelled from that church, no one in tlXe parts has ever heard of it A concrensmial mullet head thinks that he says siething extremely pro found when he klls the Wilson bill "free trade." Orosveur did it the other day Wasn t that a emtxt thing for a miu who poses for a statesman to do? The Wilson bill imposed the highest tariff with the exception o,the McKinley bill ever enacted. It earned an average duty of over forty per xont When leading republican wilrget up on the floor of congress and lielikea horse thief, what can be expectet of the ordi nary mullet head? i ' ! It is now said that a large tomberof the distressed and oppressed Oulandera for whose sake England went uo war, voluntarily enlisted In tha lioel and the others ran away, and so heard from not one of them has a at tha front with a gun to defei riffhta. And that reminds us claim that was mads by McKinley the volunteers in tha Philippines all in favor of the war. They all home and left the fighting to bs dona by sotns one elae. ratio weeklies and pay twenty cents it In the mullet head heaven no ng thoughts ever disturb the lity of the dweller therein. TUB KUKIK l'HKSS. Thfc.lias grown up in Lincoln a pub lisliing m-incss in the German language that is,bolutcly astonishing. When any one V Void that there is a German paper priftild in Lincoln having a guar anteed circulation of over 84,000 ho is astonished ltond measure aud can hardly credit Ae statement at all. Nev ertheless it is t w. The Fieie Pressand its two supplemts, the Deutch Ameri can Farmer and ir Hausfreund goes to that many paid 8UtlCrilers every week. Not only is this fa , but the subscrip tion is on the irkose all the time. There is no German Uly paper in the United States that cawmipare with it in circulation. inisgn'M uuwuras um been built up here iu LiTOoln without the residents bing awareit. Recent ly it was brought to their ivwi-e by the nnrchase. bv the Dronrietori I the pa r , v -j, - paper, of the great four storyM. C. A building and the removal of bust to that prominent corner. It vJutt make one of the finest newspaper buifVwgs in all the west The Hoe perfectina. Tess id , which was formerly used and whict an amazing speed, was found too w for the immense increase in business d one of the very latest, capable of doiVt color woric, has oeen purcnasea anu placed in the new building. HowsOu great a newspaper could be built up in this far western city is incomprehensible to the ordinary man. But it has been done and there is the great press, the building and tho scores of busy employes in evidence of it PROF. ANDREWS. Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews, who is at present superintendent of schools in Chicago, delivered an address to the Il linois state teachers' association that is well worth careful attention. One sen tence in it reminds the writer of Bryan's speech at Arlington on decoration day 1993. President Cleveland was on the stand and Bryan turned toward him and said: "We cannot have love of country unless we have a country worth loving." Prof. Andrews asys: "I cannot be an en thusiast for my country unless it is worthy of enthusiasm." The thought both insUncM is the same. Patriot- will die out iu this land if it becomes pire. attention o Edgar Howard, who cently went through the house is 274 per cent. The results of the enactment of this bill will be, first, the making of our already inelastic currency still more rigid; second, the increase of our bonded debt over $205,000,000, and of our annual interest charges nearly $8,000,000: the contraction of our currency by over $500 , OOO.lXWand tho reduction of the per capita circulation to $19.20; and, fourth, the substitution for ' the end!e.-s chuin of greenbacks, as now, an endless chain of silver dollars. Before the cen tury is a decade old, even the mullet heads will be able to comprehend that a government by bankers and bondholders is not the thing they thought it was. The cogitations of a mullet head edit or would convict an orang-outang of having the jim-jams Now listen to Rosewater. lie says: "Senator Kyle is now a broken idol with the democrats and populists. He has the good sense to see that any change in the monetary system would be dis astrous and has had the courage to say so." With Senator Kyle advocating a bili that makes tho greatest change in the monotary system of the United States that was ever proposed, that remark shows that there is nomething wrong with the old man's head. Kyle purposes to revolutionize the monetary system as it now exists. But perhaps it wasn't the old man who wrote that paragraph. T . It. 4 t . - f til inn j uuvo uven luni, nuuiescuui, uuf ui bis. Let us give him the benefit of the dying of starvation in that country. That is one of Ibo results of "estab lishing stable governments and bring ing civilization" to the people of the Orient Public debts and enormous taxation have placed such a burden on the natives of India that the failure of one crop means starvation. It is all that the people can do to pay their taxes and live when they raise a crop. When the crop fails they starve. If things go on at Washington the way they have start ed this winter, it won't be long until we are in the same fix. HARDY'S COLUMN How is it Pay. as you borrow No par don for Joe Praying to kill Cleve land republicans County funds City Library Next state election We are proud to be called a political flopper. Everything east of Ohio wift go for Mc Kinley, and that is all he wiif get. V For once our county peem inclined to put the surplus county funds out of reach of thieves. 1 1 is better to pay a debt before it is due, interest and all, rather than run the risk of its being s'olen. If treasurer Burnham had done that, the county would rot have lost a dollar by Moshier. It looks a though this reform has come because the treas ureship is to be taken out of the repub lican party management. Now if we could only see the bottom of the city treasury then thy servant could sleep in peace. : V The only things we coveted in Minnea polis were their library building and their parks. The Detroit and L'ulTalo builduuis were out of question for cost. We ere creditably informed that the ereat Scotch iron master, of Homestead, Pa., has generously offered $75,000 for the erection of a first class fare proof li brary building in Lincoln, on certain conditions. One of the conditions is that we furnish the lot on which to buiid. The territory on which the site should be selected should be bounded by 11th and 14lh, east and west, and P and M, north and south. Postoflice square is too far northwest, and the high school ground is too far southeast We have always felt a personal pride in our city library. The first city warrant we signed, as mayor, was one of three hundred dollars for starting it in its present form. To say that we have cov eted other buildings but faintly repre sents our desires. Light is very essen tial, hence a comer lot will be neccssayr. V We are going to have the hardest fight in our next fall's Nebraska state election we ever had. The election of two senators is what will bring in a mil lion of Hanna's money. A mistake in our appointments to be made this winter or a mistake in nominations next sum mer will bury us so deep there will be no third day resurrection. Let those who have held office four years stand aside and let us take new blood. Those who are now in office do not constitute the entire stock of good timber in the party by any means. We should select our candidates for state officers from new fields and each as remote from the oiher as possible. And, above all, the old officeholders and employes should not be allowed to dictate the candidates. In selecting candidates for the legisla ture the strongest men should be chosen. All through from top to bottom the ticket should be made up of men who will look after the interest of the people more than their own pockets. , We cannot boast of having always stuck to the same party right or wrong, nor of having voted the same ticket, yellow dogs and all. We are proud to be classed with the floppers. To start with we cal ed ourelf a, whig. The first election we remember was that of Jackson for second term. We remem ber the hickory pole raisings and tho pictures of coffins the whigs got out, showing the men's faces whom Jackson had killed in duels. He was the last duelist ever elected president. We re member but little of Van Buren's elec tiou in 18315. except that ho was a Dutch man from Kinderhook and had been fed sauerkraut. The election , of William Henry Harrison, in 1840,vs a liwly tune. Van iSuren tuid been extravagant, i eating with shver spoons and keeping a ! coachman. Iiarri.-.on V.vad ia lorf house and drank hard cider. After this the slavery question to the front fast. Harrison died and Tyler gave tho slave drivers everything they asked for. In 1844 two slaveholders were nominated for president, and also James G. Biruey was nominated as candidate of the abo lition nary. We were not yetold enough to vote but old enough to flop and would have voted for Birney. l'olk and (Jlay were the last slaveholders any party ever dared to nominate before tbe re bellion or since. T xas was admitted and the Mexican war followed. Taylor led the army and in 1848 was elected president BLrainit Lewis Cass. Tbe slaveholders managed both conventions. Here was our second nop into the free soil party. In 18.2, two northern men with southern principles were nominated and John P. Hale against them. That time we stuck to our party. During the next four years the republican party w 8 organized and Fremont was nomi nated, Uur third nop was into tne ro publican party and we voted for I re- mont. In 18ti0 we stuck and voted for Lincoln, and a:ain in 18G4. In 1808 we the extension of slavery and the repeal ' of the Missouri compromise, just as favorable to the admission of Kansas ns a frte state, in truth, if the republicai party when in power had adminis'toref the government in the interestjof all tht people instead of favoring the million aires, corporations and trusts we could fellowship the party today. Look at the vote on the currency bill, every eastern Cleveland republican, democrat, voted with the republicans. There is as much of a wall between the east and west as there ever was between the north and south. We are as much of a prohibitionist as we ever was. We believe in prohibiting every public institution that work3 only evil to the human race; such as liquor saloons, gambling hells, brothels, lotter ies and prize fights. Today our political faith harmonizes with the ooctriues preached by Win, J. Bryan, and we shall vote for and expect to see him elected anain and not counted out The whole republican party expect, tor they.are set ting their il for the reverse wind. NEWS OFTHE WEEK. It is becoming more evident than ever that if anyone wants the news that is the truth about the occurences of th world he must take and read the Inde; pendent. In regard to the condition of affairs in the Philippines, the only peo ple who have obtained the truth about it, are those who have gotten their in formation from this paper. The Inde pendent has constantly maintained that the dispatches of Otis were mainly false and sent at the instigation of the admin istration for the puupose of influencing the action of congress. The facts that have been published during th week show beyond doubt that that was the case. All the stories about crushing the rebellion are false. More fighting k " going on and more losses have been re ported among the American troops dur ing the last two or three weeks tha at any time since last February. The fighting now is in sight of Manila. Furthermore there came very near be ing an uprising in the city itself. A lot of arms and expl isives were found by accident and three thousand more troops were rushed into the city to hold it and keep the peace. It is even reported that Aguinaldo has been in the city himself . Large bodies of Filipinos are in near proximity and it is now declared that another campaign is being organized to drive the Filipinos out of Cavite prov ince which adjoins the city of Manila. ray, Bdis ottVI wsrelin ninia iam ubt e How is it that the state insurance of fice is unconstitutional and the banking office, oil office, labor office and trans portation office are all right We know the constiletion forbids the making of any state officers besides those mention ed in the constitution, but if one is wrong the others must be. V We borrowed of the bondholders sixty cent greenbacks, we also paid off our coldiers in tbe same kind of money. Now if we make the bonds as good as gold, we certainly should make the soldier i pay as good as gold. V Leading republicans are now at work for tho pardon of Joe Bartley. Tbey need him to lead their party. It has been stated that he had fifty thousand readv to nay whon he was arrested. He has probably paid his lawyers that. Now if he will pay over the other five hundred thousand we promise to make no kick against bis pardon. Jle need not flatter himself on being pardoned on account of eore eyes. If he would money he would bo more likely to get a pardon. nele George Wells gives the editor olw Independent a scolding because ho t iil there were 80,000 populist votes in Nwaska, and then figures out that it . i . ... ... rtn rt can tvwso. ino popuusM cast m.isi votes 11 Powers 1890 and the party has only tell who had the been graving ever since. All Ihi votes that it hbi lost you can count on your fingers arVies. There is 8tebhins, Sara Elder. andSwc or six others. If the edi tor should f,tt on his thinking cap for half an bour could name threw or ised the Cubans, four hundred yuo have joined the popu list party 8tnce Bt aay. ' - The republican aave howled about ui inn and pft lsration since 1873. Of course all the Cleveland republi Now that they havo.'&limited power the n in congress joted for the absolute ..... it . t j!-.- god standard as they havo ltinKn first thing that they qtt was to repudiate and tnd nowhcre Cleveland did tho written contracts TWer which au h he could for the rich men, just as k. AhM nt th TTnltA tSite wore eon- MeKinlov is dolnz. and why not call j ..4iiL.n mitiinn- them both republicans. Cleveland is an " " " u :1 VC vllf with eastern principles. of proi!bylDoraainAburdensof whilo McKinley ii a western man with taxation so as lo maks the .Vpds issued eutern principles-that's all the differ- (a tlx hoadholdara nor al,i bio. 1 enoe. It ia th east against th west V If it is desired by the republican ad ministration to stop the Philippine war, all congress has to do is to promise them a covernment oi their own. as wa prora- we win grant mat nravine in the United States may have killed Lawton, but proying is not gcing to stop until the Filipinos and Boers are free aiyl independent. voted for Grant, but in 1872 we bolted our party and voted for Greelev. Grants administration was learruliy corrupt. In 1876 we voted for Hayes but never had the cheek to claim that he was elected. In 1880 we voted for Garfield, but our confidence in the party began to lie somewhat shaky. The money men bciran to rule somewhat as the slave ownersdid in former years. In 1881 we could see no difference in the two old party nominees to we Mopped into the little prohibition party. In 1888 and in 1892 we stuck to that little party. There wns no best man there lor there is no difference in rotten eggs. The eastern millionaires, trusta and corporations got what tbey wanted. There was no diller ence. it was Blaine for the east Cleve land for tbe east and Harrison for the east Tbe st got all it wanted no mat ter who was elected. Ihey-are getting what they want today from McKinley, The eastern gold policy split the iepub lican party, the old democratic party and the little prohibition party, just as the slave question split every party in the fifties. We were left high and dry on a shoreless island in a boundless sea, Bryan's craft came along and it so re sembled Lincoln s craft that we went board. Not a single doctrine we ever held have we abandoned. We believe in pro tecting infant industries as much as we did when a whig, but when the gray hairs begin to start we believe in letting them root hog or die. It is unjust for the law to help the factory man to get above European prices for the product of his labor out of the farmer while the farmer gets below European prices for the product of his labor out of the lac tory man. We say help them both alike or not help either, and doubly unjust is it to help one and make the other foot tbe bill, we are Just as much an anti xlavery and free soiler as when we voted for Hale in 185G, or just before we flopped with the free sailers, barn burn ers, abolitionists and wooley heads into the republican party and voted for Fre mont Wear just as good a republican as we were when we voted for Fremont and Lincoln, just as much opposed to Meantime the Filipinos hate sent a delegation to Washington to see if some thing cannot be dune to stop the was. The gentleman who spoke for the dele gation said to a representative th press in New York: J fj Our duty while here will be to see th'-J president and endeavor to get him to ex plain his feelings toward the Filipinos. We will lay the terms we have been given before him' and if he agrees to them all the tronbti trill end. If he will not con-" sent to anything but the terms General Otis has already offered the war will cou tinue. When I left Hongkong Aguinaldo was in a small town fourteen miles north of Manila, and the report that he was con stantly running away is not so. Th army has no trouble to get ammunition, and I can name at least two countries that will supply the Filipinos with arms so long as the war continues. It is probable that His High Mighti- ' news, the Emperor of the Philippines, will have nothing to do with these rep resentatives of the Filipino people. H will treat them just as he treated Agon- cillo when he came to this country. Maa and Mark are determined on war, a big standing army, a big navy and mor bonds. They want to create an aristoo racy of office holders who can strut around Washington in the gold lace of the army and navy, attend dances and receptions and quarrel about precedence at public functions, while the common trash toil on the farms to pay the bills. The very idea of such a State of affairs jut makes a mullet head swing his ht and give a big "Zip! Hurrah!" Otis went to tbe trouble and expense to cable to this country that Mrs. Aguin- olftr, Vinrt Hinrl nf fntiiriin in trvillffiv follow her husband, that being tie re sult of the vigorous campaign he was conducting. Now he cables that he has captured her and her sister. . From which we are supposed to conclude that the rebellion in the Philippines is squelched. The war in South Africa is still at a standstill. The British have been s badly licked that they have to stop for a while and recuperate. Only one skirm ish has been reported during the week. But a small number of troops were en gaged. It is said that the British out flanked the Boers and forced them to retreat from a small town that they wer holding. ' The English have captured two ships freighted with foodstuffs, on belonging to Germany and the other to the United States. This Li nothing but piracy under the law of nations. Even the English papers are denouncing it for they well know that there lies ahead a sea of troubles in mat direction. Foodstuffs have never been held to b contraband of war by any nation and of all nations on earth, Eogland would suf fer from such a policy. There is not food enough raised in the United King- iiAtn si Biinivirt inn mnu Hiinn Lili uw should tro to war witn any nation w had a navy and food was declared a coa traband ot war, she would d rigm ii the line to surrendering. ? l Congress has not been in session duj