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V. V THE NEBRASKA niDBPBNDENT. January 11, 1900. .. 1 in . Zl;t Debrzsti Independent Lincoln, Tlebraska ; ; mZiSE ELDO., CORNER t3TH AND N STSJ Eleventh Year Published Every Thuesda. j $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE When making remittances do not leave money with new a gene its, postmasters, etc, to be forwarded by them. They" frequently forget' or remit a different amount than was left with them, and the subscriber fails to get proper credit. . , . . Address all communications, and make- all drafts, money orders, etc., payable to Vbe Uebraska Independent, Lincoln, Nebraska. ' Anonymous communications will not be no ticed. Bejected manuscripts will not be re turned. COJIETO LINCOLN. 'The Independent extends a most hearty invitation to the members of the populist national committee to come to Lincoln and hold the meeting of the committee here. Lincoln is but ninety miles from the geographical center . of the United States, that point being out near Kearney. As the national com mittee is composed of equal members from each state in the union, it makes this city the most convenient for them, the ninety miles from the center being n favor of the eastern states. Here was where populism was born. t wa3 at Omaha , in . thi3 state where was issued aud where the first candi date of the party for president was nom on ita greatest successes and here are the, incorruptible fighters thai have woi: ihose successes. Here can be seen what populism can do when it is in power. , Pnim 4 r T Awnr1-n nrA ,,.2 lollr nvnr . U1UC IU 1 Jl I IVvllH lUU IV. V V. 7 VU1U. VF W V 1 , vvj uuv.il iv,cuiui auu iv. y "Vain inspiration for the great battle -yakpAjust ahead. ' It is eminently ' 11 i hatV3 where the banner of equal rightdj all and 'special privileges to none was first flung to the breeze, that the men who unfurled rhat flag should meet to plan for a continuance of the to bring this nation back, to the H.les laid down in the Declaration impendence,; jme to j-iincoin ana you snan nave heartiest welcome ever given by a ting pop. .Tho sate house is in oui ntrol and every room in it shall" bt and glad hands will be extended tvery deor to Welcome you in. Xvto to Lincoln and you will remem it, in all the years to follow, as tht, 'est occasion of your earthly career. tie to Lincoln. Every town in tin state will bid you welcome, everj op farmer, and there are' sixty thou sarifi ot them, win run up a Has anc w ep it floating as long as you stay the state. Come to Lincoln. : A PROTEST. Jnge thing, has come, about jriaitoriais nave of late appearea nng republican papers against the rpetual and universal lying practicec by republican editors -generally. Thest riters begin to see that the matter ha- n over done and- that a reaction u Incr. If the practice continues tht ieiublican editorial will have no mon influence than so much white paper ii fact among thinking men it hasn't mucl ore than that now. There was one in Jthn State Journal'fhe other ' day about (half a column in length in which ever) Nstatement of fact was an absolute false ood. More than that, the statement f were such bald and notorious lies tha they would not even fool"a mullet head Any man at all acquainted with curren events would know' at sight that the; - jere lies: Here is one specimen: he surplus that is now in nations' is not money withheld from th f itors of the country, but the exces. le revenues over the expected in von account of the great revival e. ?ss and wonderful prosperity o; mtry." . , mto in this country who know:- ; at all knows the excess o' n the United States treasury i vere on account of excess of reven- i ues, but on account of the sale of 200, 000,000 of bonds and payments, by tht Pacific railroads. Just previous to this this unparalleled liar had been savin. that the country was so prosperou: mder McKinley' that the treasury wa jaying off the bonded debt of the natioi. ?hen everybody knows that the . bondec. tebt of the nation had been increase 200,000,000 and taxation nearly doublec. These editors who aro protesting seen to fear a revolt. A revolt is coming am all their efforts will not prevent it. It u too late. : Remember that the Hon. Silas A Holcomb was a peculiarly strong can didate. . His majority was large in par at least on account of his personal popu larity. The vote for regents where non of the candidates were especially we! known shows more accurately th actual majority of the reform forces i: this state. The average majority of th fusion candidates for regent over the n I Dublican -candidates was only 6.20; HKeep this in mind. Do not be over coi YldenL Get into the hght tnd stay ii -ntil the last vote is counted cn Noven f " 3 6e no i v J TUE OMAHA AGREEMENT. It will be remembered by tJie reader of the Independent that the populisi national committee met about a yea) ago at Omaha to discuss party policies-' The result of that conference has beer called "the Omaha agreement." It 1 wa a contest between the , middle of th roaders and those who believed in fusion Milton Park was there' and boasted iit the presence of three'reputable citizen ; of this siate that he had ' brought witl him on free railroad passes forty met who had voted in the committee oi. proxies. There was a hot time for thre. days. Finally, at the instigation o these roaders, and as a settlement fo; the time being of the questions in dis pute, it was voted to ask the nationa committee to call the national populis convention a month before either of th other conventions. That action wa raken at the request of these men anc they agreed to stand by the regular or iriiniTntmn it 4bnt. nrna Hnnn - Within five hours after this action was taken and the agreement solemnly entered into, these same men got to aether and laid the foundation for th rganization of a new party, which wa anally perfected by a call for a conven tion to be held in Cincinnati. Said con vention was duly held and Baker ant Donnelly were nominated as presidentia candidates. The Independent . has always hel that the moment that these men vio tated that agreement the other part was released, and that by the organize , tion of a new party and the nominatioi of candidates, they had withdrawn fron. the populist party and should no longei be admitted to its councils. . . Now these same men want to com back into the popnlist party and com pletely control the organization. ,Ther can be no just claim made that any oni is either in ethics or honor bound b that "Omaha Agreement." ' Furthei more, every " man who took part in it violation and helped to organize a nev party; should be barred from participa tion in the councils of the populist part) r attempting to act as its officials. It is on that ground that the editor of th Independent would fight this battle and fight it to a finish. PRESIDENT KKUGER, The world is just beginning to appre :iate Kruger, but the great statesmen o Europe have long known and acknowl dged his eminent abilities. Sir Charle. Dilke when on one of his visits to Ger many remarked to Bismark: . ,"Kruger i one of the extraordinary uen of this century. It was very foolish tfhen the English ministry did not allow lie Queen to receive him during hi visit-to London. He has never forgotten his affront which certainly would not have been done in Germany. Duke dds:; "I remember the expression and imotion with which Bismark spoke ibout Kruger when I called him, (Bis mark) the first statesman of the nine teenth century." Bismark replied: "The first statesman, no don't believe that, Cavour was much finer and much , more npiomanc man i am, out mere is a nan . who is stronger, greater and shrewder than Cavour and myself. Thi s president Kruger. He has no might) army and no grand empire behind him o support him as I have. ' He i3 alone .vith a small people of farmer soldier.- ind by his genius alone he can put ill in the shadow by what he acconi dishes. I met him several times and he simply astonishes me." SHEARING BANKER LAMBS, The great financial papers of the east Wave been in the habit pf late of using a ;ood deal of the financial writing in the independent without credit in fact several articles that have been printed n this paper have been reproduced al nost verbatim by the financial writers f the great dailies in New York and ther cities. We make no complaint Ve are glad to see them do it. The nly thing is that many of them fail to ee the real point and therefore draw vrong conclusions. ine ioiiowing is rom the Chicago Record of January 8. This writer gives full credit, but. draws t wrong conclusion. He says: "With reference to the growing de jendence of the west on Chicago as a noney market, the following extract rom a recent editorial in the Nebraska n'dependent (Lincoln) has especial sig uficance, since it may fairly be assumed o voice a distinct note of public senti- nent: " 'Wall street is indulging in the vain lope that money will soon begin to re urn from the west and south and fill up lie coffers of trie New Yorli banks. It is loomed to be disappointed. Western . ankers had their fingers too severely urned in 1893 to forget so socri. They ound that at that - time their money night as well have been at the bottom if the sea. When they drew on New sfork the bankers there simply refused to onor these drafts. Keserves in New lorK oanKs at times oi distress aro no eserves at all. uui tnings get in a atisfactpry condition western bankers ho have a particle of common sense fill see that their reserves are not in few York, and Wall street will look in , ain for the 'return of money from the i vest and the south.' " It is hardly fair to say hat the article juoted Was written "with reference to he growing dependency of! the "west pon Chicago." It was intended to reato a growing confidence of the bank- rs in these western states upon them- elves, instead of putting themselves in uclra condition that they must respond i every nod and wink of Wall ", street. Rockefeller crowd and clearing louse ring, if tneir reserves are ai here, ' they are beyond their control They were such fools in '93 as to obe) .he mandates of that crowd and the con equence was that half of them wen ;nto bankruptcy along with the rest o ho people of the west. The Independ mt hopes that they have learned some hing since that time. We all know that when the Wa' treet crowd sent the orders to contrac heir loans, they had no more sense thai o obey, and thereby destroyed thei wn business as well as that of the res f the people. If they had . under theii wn control tneir, reserves at tna ime and had refused to obey. this order lundreds of bankers who lost their all vould now be in business with comfort ble fortunes and the wreck and ruir hat was wrought to merchant, farme' nd laborer alike, would have been" pre ented. - But these little bankers though5 it that time that they knew it all anc hat the eun of financial knowledge rose ind set in Wall street. They have founc nit at least some of them have sinc hat time that they themselves wen he. innocent lambs that the Rockefeller vere shearing. Some of them have sc ar advanced as to actually condescend o read the financial articles in a popu ist paper. ' A good many bankers have written to he editor of the Independent during he last few months and some have call ;u uj !ee mui peisuuniiy. xie lias luiu meuy .J A i: 11 TT 1 1.1 J Al me and all that banking could .not b done with ten dollars of credit to one o' ictual money, that there was sure disas er ahead for them, as well ' as for " the people at large, unless they get their re serves where they could lay their hand.- n them when they wanted them. He has pointed out to them that under the 'aw making certain cities reserve citie.- ind allowing the sending of their re- erves to certain banks in those cities to be loaned out, was a provision that destroyed all reserves, for at the very ime they wanted them they could not ;et them. The result of this is, that quite a num ber of the bankers of the west have come to the conclusion that Wall street win not nave ine cnance to snear tnem .11 .1V - Jl 1 1 A V 11 ;igain. The wool hasn't fully grown out on them since the last shearing. In the t'uture they will prefer to take care of themselves and let Wall street do the -ame. They are just beginning to con ceive that it is out of the millions that t hey have sent down to New York thai i he great fortunes have been accumulat- ea ana tney memseives nave Deen leit to l l ii iv . i i 1 1 Jj j iiold the sack. If they will all take the Independent and be guided by sound political economy, Wall street will be Jown on its knees to them before the next aecaae is past. A 1 1 i a. .. v , W1IERK THE GERMANS STAND. j.ne r reie iTesse nas been tatung a vote of its subscribers on the Philippine luestion. The result of the first week's r rfciirns are as follows: For a colonial government, 73. For entirely abandoning the Phillip pines, tvJy. For concluding a peace and granting independence under an American pro tectorate, 1,548. In doubt whether to abandon the 'is lands altogethor o: for a protectorate and an independent government, 368. rm m . i ine votes comes irom every state m the union except five or six, but most of them are from the middle states and Texas. More will be heard from next week. A REFERENDUM. senator iviarion sutler nas sent out a cal1 referendum vote on the follow m, ons: 1 .hall I call a meeting of the national committee to fix time for next national convention? Answer, yes or no, Second If yes, what time and place do you favor for the committee meeting? Answer time and place, j Third Or shall I take a vote of the national committee as to the time of holding the next national convention by the referendum vote i Answer yes or no. Fourth If you favor the referendum vote what dates do you favor for the na tional convention? Answer. Fifth Shall we not hae the silver republican convention to meet at the same time and place with us? Answer yes or no. In regard-to this Senator Allen has written a letter in which he makes the following suggestions: .Washington, Jan. .1, 1900. Senator Butler, chairman of the populist central committee, has submitted a referendum vote for the time and place of holding a meeting or the committee and - of the national convention. I beg to suggest to you that you vote for the meeting of ary 12, and for tho location of the con vention at Kansas City, Mo. This will accommodate the largest part of popu lists and will do much toward assisting to carry the southwestern and north western states where our vote is large. It is to be hoped that the committee will vote for the calling af the commit tee at the time and place suggested by Senator Allen, and "no" to all the rest it. -jet the committee get together and talk over theWhole matter, and act in telligently and for the best interest o the party. Many of these men are farmers and have not the opportusity.on accoun of their remote residences and distance from each other, to fully communicate with other members of the committee on the very grave situation of affairs. To keep the Independent growing keep your subscription paid up. Examino the date on this week's i ue. If in ar rears please maice a remittance as soon I as possible. EDUCATION MAKES POPUI-ISTS. You have observed the enlargemeD jfthe Independent to a seven-columi .age, or and increase of eight column jer week. This is a direct gain an- enefit of eight columns of reading ma' ,er per week to each and every reader t he paper. Naturally it costs more mor y to put it out in the present form tha t did when the pages were only six cc nuns. We hope that our readers wi how their appreciation of the improve aent by sending in a club of subscril irs, by sp9aking a good word for the Ii o lependent" at every opportunity. 7 ittle effort on the part of each reader ii ecuring two or three new subscribe! vill enable us to make other improve cents, and every reader .will be ben itted thereby. Will you help? Thei s nothing you can do that will help mor ward the overthrow of imperialism an he gold trusts than to increase the cii ;ulation of the Independent. Tt is con eded to be the leading and most pre ressive reform paper in ' the w'est. In vite your neighbor to subscribe. Or, i le will not subscribe perhaps you cai ifford to make him a present of a year'. subscription There will be much o ntense interest during the coming year rhe war in the Philippines, the war ii South Africa, congress in session, con jressioaal e lections, state and natiom conventions, full state ticket and a leg islature that will elect two U. S. sena ors, and the presidential campaig. promiso to make one of the mnst intei esting and exciting periods in the histor; of our nation. The reform forces canno ifford to lose this battle, and now is th time to sow the seed that will bear frui ateron. Literature and education ar :he weapons that have won reforrn vic tories in the past. They are the bes weapons to use now, and the best forn in which they are to be obtained "i.- through the fearless and independent weekly newspaper. It is a -steady edu cator, read by all the family in the quie of the home circle when political preju dices are least aroused. Under suci circumstances most men will read am think, and thinking men become popu ists. Begin by sending in your owi subscription if you are not already j subscriber, in order that you may bt properly fitted with armor y to do you . part in the battle for the restitution o the constitution and the declaration ol independence, for the principles an traditions that are dear to every patriot, ic citizen. To fight a good fight it 1 necessary to have on the f till armor ani to keep in close touch with all that h being done. To do this you , must hav the Independent, the most: reliable an fearless champion of the people, to bt found in the United States. It ha been enlarged and we are giving you tht best paper we can consistent with the patronage we receive. Give us bettei patronage and we will give you a , bettei paper. A blank to be used in securing nev subscribers will be found inserted in this week's paper. You aro invited tc use it. Lfo not throw it away, use n today. Take advantage of the exceed ingly low rate we have offered for club of five. There are thousands of reader. of this paper who can afford to take ad vantage of this offer, which is-practicallj the cost of the white paper upon which it is printed, to send the Independent tc five of their neighbors. . Try , it. You will feel better and it will do them good. We have done our part. We have met yeu more than half way. In clubs of five or more from now until January 1. 1901, 50 cents each. Could you expect anything more liberal than that? A CLUB OF FIVE SUBSCRIBERS FROM NOW UNTIL JAN. 1, 1901, FOR S2.50 Think of it! Clubs of five ok moke subscriptions to the best reform paper in the United States at 50 cents each. We are anxious to do our part to over throw and destroy the present imperial istic policy to defeat the deserters of the constitution and the " decriers of the declaration of independence. -We have enlarged and improved the Independent and offer it to you at al most half price. We have met you more than half way; will you do your part? Kemember that the reform torces in this state will not win a victory without a struggle. Only a year ago they lost the legislature. The republican national committee will gladly spend a quarter of a million of dollars in this state to secure the next legislature and the two United States senator it will elect. Under the present division into repre sentative districts the republicans have considerable advantage. They will im port thousands of voters into this state from Iowa and states where they can spare them. . They will hire thousands of others to stay at home or to vote the ticket only in part. Be not , over-confi dent. There is too much dependent on the result to lose. Jrut on your irmor and get into the fight. Begin by sending in a club of five or ten or twenty subscribers, and we wil guarantee to educate theni during the year to the extent that they will not be doubtful voters. They will not be stay-at-homes. They.will vote the en tire ticket and vote it straight. They won't be mullet heads. Republican ' treasurers, whether nat ional, state, county or munleipal have t ashion of acting very much alike. The !opositing of that check given by the ity National for the purchase of the ustom house building with the bank nstead of in the United States' treasury pas embezzlement. It envolves exactly he same principle that underlies the ase against the Omaha bank that is ow being contested in our courts in re ard to that $200,000 check that Bartley mbezzied. "" UNIVERSAL KEPUDIATORS. The republican party has repudiated he declaration of independence, nearly very declaration of their national plat orm, all of the principles advocated by Vbraham Lincoln and now McKinley is epudiating himself. He is now engag d in doing the very thing that he de ounced in the house of representatives. See Congressional Record, Fiftieth con ress, February 29, 1888.) There will be mnd these words: . -"Nearly $59,000,000, as I understand, f the surplus money that ought to be n tho Treasury today, the Secretary saving refused to pay it out to Govern aent creditors, is now out among the anks, held by them, they giving to the Joverjutnent bonds as security for the lepcit;and they are getting, it without nterest. "And I charge here today that the 'resident of the United States and his Administration are solely responsible or whatever congested condition .we iave in the' Treasury and whatever larm prevails about Jthe finances of the ountry. Every dollar of it should have aid a dollar of the Government debts if he Secretary had wisely exercised the iscretion given him by law. What does i man do who has got a surplus balance n the banks and has outstanding debts earing interest? He calls in . the tjvi 'ence of tboso debts and pays them off pith his surplus deposit. That is what t business man would have done, and hat is what a business Administration vould have done; and we" would have iad $59,000,000 less of interest-bearing jonds in circulation today if the Presi Jent had followed the way blazed for dm by the Republican party." Now he proposes to deposit in these anks without interest, not $59,000,000 nly, but two or three hundred million. Che rank and file of the republican .jarty may be made up largely of mullet leads, but the leaders are repudiators of ontracts and every honest thing that nen have advocated. i PUT ON TOUR WAR PAINT. Without any question the populist arty stands - today in a most perilous ituation. It will do no good to try to . lisguise the fact. We must meet the luestion aEd meet it now. Let a look be akenover the different states. The mly. portion of tho union in which the party after fighting for, ten years has gained successes is in the western states. The populist vote and prestige is nearly ill west of the Mississippi. But the national committee is composed of three nembers from each state, and Maine, with a hundred or two of votes, the per jonal following of one man, can come in to that committee and exert as much power as Nebraska, where the party has practical control of the whole state gov ernment. There is no use to make any remarks about the unjust ness of it. That is the fact. ' In Nebraska one policy has been.fol lowed and it has proven successful. Jn Maine another policy has been . followed and the party there, although Maine was one of the original greenback states, has become practically extinct. This has not resulted in inducing the'handful of men in Maine who call themselves populists, to change their policy but to more persistently follow the course that has resulted in the extinction of the organization." There is no use to argue with such men. Neither reason nor ex perience has any effect upon them. Ohio is another example. It the pop ulist party had been managed in that slate along the?ame lines that have been followed in Nebraska there isfno reason to doubt that it would today be, if not the dominating force there, at least a force that must be reckoned with. In Indiana it came very pear being wrecked, but a few faithful and wise men have stood to their guns and today it is party and must be accounted tor m every election. Every where and in all states where the party has had wise leadership, a leadership that worked for relief by the. formation of all forces into one, to oppose the gold standard and the domination of banks and syndicates, it has grown in power and in the num ber of its adherents. Where the. opposite policy has been followed, the results' to the party have alwavs. and all the time, been disaster and defeat. Now when there is brighter prospect for the success of the populist principles than there has ever been, these men who have failed in their own states propose to take charge of the organization of the party and to conduct it along the lines that have re sulted in failure. Tha question is: Shal. wo permit it to be done?. The men who have won success for the party have never been offensive to those with whom they have disagreed They have made every effurt to concil iate and defer as far as possible to the ideas of those who opposed their poli cies. But now a time has come when they must stand very firm or the popu list party will certainly go into deca dence, as it has in every state where this middle of the road element has had con trol. ! ' - V : ' -: There must be fusion of forces in the next election or there is not the slighte chance for success. No man with a sound mind can doubt it. The question and the only question, that can be con: sidered by any man who wishes for suc cess is how that fusion can best be brought about. There can be no com promise on this. Here is where there is danger. It is well known that the gold power controlled both the old parties until the Chicago convention met, and by such - control, fastened upon this country by syndicates, the trusts and complete corporate domination. It is now necessary to control the populist party and prevent fusion. No effort will be neglected to do it. Honest men will-be deceived. Scoundrels will be bought. 1 ' -.. Jf the gold power can get control of the populist '. national committee and the peculiar way in which it is constitu ted does not make it an impossible task That committee will call a national con vention at such time, and make such rules and regulations as will make fusion on Bryan impossible. In fact that is just what many of them declare they intend to do. - If they succeed, that will be the end of the populist party. While the Indexendent : believes that many men thoroughly honest are unwit tingly -engaged in this movement, that will not in the least pahate the disaster. See what the result will be. If the mid dle of the roaders get controL of the national committee they will expel every one who believes in fusion, they will nominate Barker and Donnelly, they will control the party name, they will have the only candidates on , the Australian ballots and the rest of us will have to organize a new party or vote the straight democratic ticket without having a word to say in its councils. Now this is the game that Mark Hanna has evolved. If it can be carried out it means the defeat of Bryan and complete control of the government by the Rockefeller syndicate. It means a great standing army to enforce its de crees. It is time that men who have made this - party not those who have always been a drag upon it got on their war paint. mm m ' Yon will find the date at which your subscription expires marked on this week's issue. If you are in arrears please favor us with a remittance in order that we may make other enlargements and improvements. Do not neglect " this; it is an important matter, well worth your attention. , NEWS OFtHE WEEK. Gold continues to be exported in large amounts. Five million dollars were shipped during the week. Since the panic about 15,000,000 has disappeared. In this year of unbounded McKinley prosperity there have been 9,343 failures and some of them for the largest amiounts ever recorded in the United States. Dun still insists on the prosperit y , but admits that an extensive revision of prices may disappoint extreme expectations, We said that six months ago, but at that time the men of the McKinley prosper ity sort, called it rank copperheadism. Notwithstanding this state of affairs the trust continues to raise prices of the ar ticles controlled by them. The 'price of smooth wire, barbed wire and wire nails has been advanced another twenty-five cents. No doubt that will have a ten dency to add to the happiness of the mullet heada. As it is just what they voted for, now they have got it, they would be queer critters if they were not happy. This attempt of Secretary Gage to es- tablLh an enormous bank in New York to dommate the finances of this country is no new idea with him. He has been advocating it for several years. William P. Lovett of Rochester, N. Y., writes the Chicago record that in 1895 Mr. Gage gave an informal talk to about a score of university of Chicago students, all mem brs of the political economy club, dur ing which talk he advocated a United States bank similar to the Bank of En-, gland. He also poked fun at Andrew Jaciison because of Jackson's opposition to the United States bank, and declared that the "American banking system could never attain a firm business basis till the English system, or oEe like it, were introduced." Mr. Gage's recent efforts have been plainly in line with his talk to the university of Chicago stu dents. It is quite evident that Mr. Gage has not changed his ideas concerning the. necessity of a United States bank. His recent denials will not be accepted by the people. He has made a record that cannot be blotted out. The movement of Russian troops to ward the Indian frontier is causing the British as much- anxiety as the Boer war. It has been ' stated by European correspondents that the Russians have over 50,000 troops "at the gate of Herat" Twenty years ago an intimation that the Russians were sending troops or propos ing to send troops in that direction uoild cause the greatest excitement al! over England. Now the Russians have built a railroad into that country and are quietly transferring a large army t t he very borders of India and the Eng 1 ish dare not say a word. Ii the Boei war continues, it is not at all improbable that the Russians will capture the lon sought for "outlet to the Persian GulC even if they do not capture something more important. ., ' ' The phrase; "mare eto- and "mW librum"have been worn out, so to speak, in diplomatic discussion and it was thought that the subject of a free sea and a closed sea, had reached a definite settlement. Now comes the British, and because they are hard pressed in a war of their own making, violate long settled international law, by claiming the right to search vessels and capture their car goes on the high seas. It is substanti ally the same claim that they made that resulted in the war of 1812. Theymak'e a still more preposterous claim, to wit, that food stuffs are contraband of war, and in pursuance of this claim have captured unarmed vessels of neutral nations and confisca ted their cargoes. Two German ships have been so treated and the Germans are hot about it, A cargo of flour belonging to an American citizen has also been captured. It is said "that thp most friendly representa tion" of the wrong done to this Ameri can citi'zen has been made to the British government by the flunkey administra tion $hat is installed in the White House. Madison did not talk that way to the English when they tried that same trick in the virile days of this republic. The bubonic plague has so extended in Honolulu that a large part or the city the Asiatic quarter has been burned to the ground by order of the Board of Health'. The plague is one of the things that McKinley has annexed and for which every mullet head is truly thankful. It is also extending ( in Manila, but how far it is impossible to say on account of the censorship, which is still run on the plan that "nothing must be sent over the cable that will injure the administration." The republican newspapers have dis covered a new argumeut for the gold standard. They consider it a regular knock-down argument. They say that Bryan, at some holiday function down in Texas, rode an ostrich in a race against Governor Hogg. Although the whole story is a lie, the mullet head edi tor is firmly convinced that that settles the question of the gold standard and the control of the volume of money by the banks for all time to come. Bryan, on his return to Lincoln, said tjiat that celebrated mountain lion hunt down in Texas was the most successful and . en joyable hunt that he ever took part in, "for,', said he, "not a man was hurt, not a dog was hurt, not a horse was hurt, and the lion was put back in his cage without a scratch upon him." The war in the Philippines goes on af ter the old fashion. There is cabled a report of fighting almost every day. In one fight during the week twenty of our men were killed and wounded, in another several were captured these latter be ing signal corps men who were stringing wires. All of this was within twenty miles of Manila. Otis continues to assert that "the rebellion is suppressed." Gen eral Greely "got on his ear" the other day and said that if Otis could not pro tect the men of his corps when in sight of Manila stringing wires, that they ought to be recalled to this country. Joe Blackburn was re-elected to the United States senate from Kentucky last Tuesday. The vote stood: Black burn, 57, Bradley, (rep.) 52. No doubt that Bryan's aid in the last campaign was one of the large factors in thus oust ing a gold bug and putting a free silvei man in his place. The gubernatorial contest between Gobel and Bradley is not yet settled. The Boer war is still all in favor of the brave Dutchmen. During the week the English have met with further losses and reverses. The British losses, ac cording to the reports of the war depart ment since the fighting first began, are something over 8,000. A war office com pilation of casualties issued last Mon day, shows a total of 7,213 1,027 . killed, 3,675 wounded find 2,511 missing! These do not include 140 who had succumbed to disease, nor the casualties at Lady smith last Saturday. HARDY'S COLUMN Investigation Bryan Unites Reformers It take3 one With Ninety-nine The East End Endless Chain 1 Why not Government Make Evi- dence Not Money Enough Now Bad Smells Municipal Reforms Capitol Removal. Congress is about to investigate treas urer Gage. It is about time that the people know of his, actions. Since Mc Kinley came in Gage has sold bonds at four per cent premium and bought them ack at twelve. A nice way to help the millionaires. But oh how the republi cans did howl when Cleveland handed ver to tho banks the surplus funds, fie offered to take up bonds and pay he interest up to the time they, were due but the bond holders wanted a big premium on top of that. Now see what excuse Gage make3. . - - Bryan unites all the reform forces ot he nation just as completely as Lincoln ' lid. On the other hand McKinley nnites all the robbing, thieving and cor rupt elements as completely as Buchan an united the slave drivers. 1 .nYLeTakef auSe'd jt ) v. vs.