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' , : . .-y jVtlllllHHi II ill ) ftt- - . . V THE ITBBBAOKA ; HTDEPEITDEI IT. January 25, 190 " ' '- - - ZOs he&rasiia Jndcptndtm - . - - - ; Lincoln, Wibraska CLDC CORNER I3TH AND N STS Eleventh Ykab PUBLISHED EVEBY ThUBSDAT GLOO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE l -.v I .Tomb making remittances do not leaTe mono: witk mwi Offenclos, postmasters,' etc., to b forwarded by them. They frequently forget o raait a different amount than was left trit) tfem, and th subscriber fails to get prope credit. , Address all communications, and make all drafts, money orders, etc., payable to -: Vh ttebraska Independent, " Lincoln, Nebraska. Anonymous oommnnieations will not be no ticed.. Rejected manuscripts trill sot be re turned. "We desire to have an agent for sub scriptions and a representative in ever town in this state. Write for terms and particulars. bbbmsbbsmbbbimbbibsbbsbi Corruption is more to be feared in thfc country than the red flag of anarchy. It eats away the very foundations on which free government exists. . , -. A republican who is now , caught de fending the principles of the republican platform of 1896 is immediately marked down as a copperhead or traitor. About the only anxiety that any one of them suffers is to rind out what the latesi change is in policy and prinbiples that has been ordered, so that they can swear by it. : ' ; Many of the readers of the Indepen dent will be pleased to know that Mr. George Howard Gibson, formerly editor of this paper is now managing editor of "The Social Gospel" published by the Christian Commonwealth at Common .wealth, Georgia. A sample copy received at this office contained much valuable and interesting reading matter. Did yon ever think of the fact that a "board of transportation's not necessary to secure a proper charge in the , postal service? If government ownership re sults in such a -uniform and satisfactory rata" and charge for carrying the: mails, why would it not operate as well to have government - 'Ownership for carrying frelghtt The Independent believes , in the government ownershin ." of railroads- Don't you? '. , No nation ever beheld a thing like that which . McKinley , through his sec retary of the treasury, has done.. He has taxed a hundred 'million out of the people and given it to a few pet bankers to loan out. He has taken the hard earnings, of . the poor, for most-" of the taxes come out of the poor, and has given it to a lot of multimillionaires! We defy any man to point to the act of a government that equals it in wicked ness. - " - -.When republican senators roll off - the words, "The imperial destiny of the re public, they should stop long enough to consider that there is not aa intelligent man living who does not know that the assertion is a self evident contradiction. A republic cannot have an imperial des tination, any more than . it can have a monarchial destination. Perhaps they mean tnat una repebiic, under tneir con trol, shall end in having- a monarch or emperor for a supreme ruler. " W. P, Wright furnishes the readers of tee independentsome - elementary pnn ciples of political economy. It may be accounted dry reading, but there is one thing certain if the people will not stop long enough in tho hurly burly of life to consider long established principles and understand them, even if it does take a little -thinking? to do it, there will never be an end to the disasters that willcontinue to harrass mankind. The ursuitof happiness'' will be a losing auiu. The annual interest now paid by the 1- A. A Al A. , 1 lions of dollars. That is more than the value from the crops raised. Two bil lions paid over by the producers of wealth to those who produce nothing How long can society endure under such a system? The republican party wants to add 1350,000,000 more to that burden by allowing the banks to lock, up the uau UU (lUWICDO iu Va3 be used In place of it. Is there or is patient, toiling people? " One of the pet phrases of Senator Al drich in advocating the - gold standard bank bill was: "Encourage the na . tknal banks to increase their circula tion.w By that he meant to pass a law that would enable the bankers to make large profit out of furnishing " the peo pl money with which tr pay their debts and do business, which it is the sole pre-' relative of the government to do, with out any cost to the .people . at alL In ether words, Aldrich wants the govern- taent to fob the : people of ; their haTd cTningg and gi ve them to Qie already fcamensely rich bankers. Think of the tA M I a 1 A .4 il . cTawiiy n uieueci oz me prooueer wno Will support such a policy! . CLk of - five -' smbscribers ; from now vZ'Jl January 1. 1CQI, for. C3.50. Qvnzy. V BOASTING OP INFAMY, ' The degeneration of the people under epublican misrule is becoming more yident as time passes by.. It has reached uch a stage in Milwaukee that an at orney in defending a lot of aldermen Vho took bribes from a corporation and oted away ; the right to, the streets gainst the almost unanimous protest of he people and in direct violation of the rdersof the courts, boldly proclaimed he right to buy votes and defended it. ?his is what he said: . . "I say if there was any man who was pposea to this ordinance whether he vas a member of the bar . or not that he company or. the opposition had the ight - to procure his influence with noney, if this could be done, to repre ent its side. What is there i' e ;itimate bout the sale of . power or influence to iid the passage or defeat of a measure? .Vhere is the wrong? Or where the vrong if the person of power or influ ence with the common council is by a noney retainer restrained from using his power or influence either to aid the assage ef a measure or to prevent it?" That man is admitted to the best so ;iety in that city and sits in the front pew at church. Let the scientists talk i bout "degenerations," but the very best pecimens are to be found in the high est social circles and in the most fash ionable churches. They are in fact so degenerate that they cannot distinguish between right and wrong, or if they can, they prefer sin to righteousness. SATANIC LITERATURE , The robberies of the people "by the trusts and syndicates ia defended with the most admirable skill by the literary henchmen that they support. I The fol lowing from the pen of Horace White is an example of the shrewdness which they employ. Mr. White in the New York Post says: "It is curious to see, too, how the in creasing flow of benevolence has helped to dull the edge of some of tne difficul ties which much social speculation has, in our day, raised up. It goes far, for example, towards reconciling us to the presence of the rich among us. There is an obvious incongruity in denouncing great fortunes when the possessors . of them support our hospitals and asylums, maintain our . free public . libraries, en dow our manual training schools, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and bring sunshine and pleasure to the children of the slums.. The wild tirade of anarch ism and the dreams of a social state In which all shall share alike lose annre- ciably in both , effectiveness and charm in the presence of men . and women who seem to gather only that they may later scatter, abroad. It is not even easy to b very vindictive towards the trusts, so long as the few. who profit by them do not hoard their gains. - i u f i: Such writing as that is far more dan gerous to the welfare and independence of this nation, than all the ravings of so cialists and anarchists .It contains within it the germ-bf all that is . evil. The claim, when stripped of its literary verbiage is, that it is right to oppress and rob, to force men to go naked and hungry, to crowd little children into the slums to die of disease, to freeze, them with cold, to force mothers and little children into the dens of the sweatshops and thus create enormous wealth for the few, that they, the wealthy, may toward the close of their lives have the glory of giving away part of it. Satan himself never imagined a more heartless and ciuel thing. v " There is not a student . of sociology who will not declare first of all, that this chlirity giving, whether to great in stitutions firmly established, or to slums, has in it the seeds of degeneration. It destroys the virility of - both the giver and the recipient. There is no charity giving that does not degrade all parties that is not given according to the sys tem laid down ' by the Master. "Let not thy right hand know what thy left handdoeth." That s the teaching of science as well as of the Man of Gallilee Such writings as the above are inspired by his satanlc majesty, and Horace White is simply one of satan's literary chaps. ' ' ' . GfJIDKD BY LAW ' The forty days allowed by the rules of the supreme court in which to file a mo tion for a re-hearing in the case involv injg the authority of the secretaries of the boaad of transportation will expire the 28th of this month. The decision of the court to a certain extent gives them the authority to adjust ' rate charge- within the state. After that date the people have a right to expect some ac tion by the board that will - result in reduction of the excessive charges foi freight within the state. It is unfair U demand of these men . that they act in defiance of the rules of the ' suprem court. After the 28th of thh montb they should issue orders for reduction in the rates and begin stsits to enforc the penalty provided for by law agains every company that refused to obej their order. " The demand that is beinj. made in certain quarters that order under thi3 : decision be: issued by th board before the case is finally disposed oi is ana nas Deen premature, it is a demand, it would seem, made for tht purpose of gaining popular favor by de ceiving the people and tearing down th reputation of honest officials a play tx the galleries, a demand for action before action was' possible. The Independent insists upon a reduction in freight charges but it. believes in! securing tht reduction through 'the .channels and ir the manner prescribed by law. Tht laws as .they exist were made by the rep resentatives of ' the people and . pub lie officials are bound to respect, obej and be guided by the law as it is writter. in the 'statute books. ' It is unfair to de mand and the people do not demand that public, officials act in defiance of the law or -refuse to be guided by its provisions.- If ' the method prescribed by law is too ' slowit is the business of the legislature to so : modify it that it will provide a speedier remedy. It ' is not the business of public officials to disregard the law and rules of court. . mi 1 t t ' it.. i. JLuese principles appi uio twuio w the members of the board of transporta tion as to other officials. ' The forty days allowed by the rules ' of court expire the 28th of this month and then the board should, and doubtless will, begin a vig orous attack upon the railroads to com pel a reduction in freight rates. .THE BIGHTS OP MAN. "When this writer was a boy, there was such a thing recognized as the "rights of man." They were embodied in what was called "the bill of rights." Anyone who would have denied these rights would have been looked upon as an en emy of society and of this government. In these later days, since the republican party has succeeded in changing the very nature of our government, we hear no more of the rights of man they have been abolished they no longer exist. That is at leas the theory upon which this government is at present run. Have the Filipinos any. rights at all? If so, what are those rights? McKinley abso lutely denies the existence of any such rights. He openly declares that the Filipinos must surrender their arms and submit themselves to his will without any recognition of any rights whatever. This position is an abandonment of everything in government that Wash ington, Jefferson, and Lincoln sought sto establish and defend. It is putting into execution the principle ' announced by Judge Janey when he said a black man had no rights that a white man was bound to respect. It is a more damn able doctrine than was ever enunciated by the most blatant of slave holders. The thing that is most astonishing about it is that; the republican mullet head supports this doctrine and remains un der the impression that he is an Abe Lincoln republican. '.- ' But the result of the whole matter is: The rights of man'areno longer acknowK edged.. We have entered upon an ago of imperialism and government by force instead of government by the consent of the governed." It is the mightiest change that has been effected in human affairs in. " the last five , hundred years.; No sophistry will: hide- it from men who think.' " ' - . NEW ENDLESS CHAIN Editor Independent: Under the pend ing financial bill, can the banks issue their notes to the "'' full value of- their United States .bonds? v. -. ( Can they buy more bonds with such notes? " If so, cannot a bank keep on buying bonds on their . original capital indefi nitely? That is, buy 1100,000 worth of bonds and issue notes on them and then buy another $100,000 worth with the notes thus issued and so on ad libitum? I ask these questions because it seems to be the opinion of many that such is the case. Reader. - . ; Answer. That such a thing lies with in the scope of the bill, though not stated so as to attract attention, is be lievedby all disinterested men who have made a close study of the measure. The banks will receive money to the full amount of the bonds deposited and in terest on the bonds, and the money so issued as a gift to the banks, is made a partial legal tender. Other sections, of the bill provides for an unlimited issue of bonds -at the descretion of the secre tary of the treasury. With a plutocratic court to construe the bill, no one can doubt that the final result will be to give the banks unlimited power to issue bonds of the United States, or what is the same thing force the secretary to do it ..: -'; UNPARALLELED VILLAINY Some of the republican papers have joined in the criticism of Secretary Gage for turning over a few million dol lars to the bankers for them to loan out and get interest on without any cost at ill to the bankers. But these same papers are all advocating the passage of the bill that will compel the government to print at least a thousand million dol !ars of paper money and give that to them to loan out and get interest on. What is the difference in Gage taking a nundred million dollars out of the treas ury and giving it to the bankers to loan out, and printing the same amount of new money and giving that to them without cost, to-keep loaned out perpet ually? Tteonly difference is that the atter transaction is a, little worse than the former. Yet every one of these sanctimonious hypocrites , advocate it. It is a special privilege of greater value han was ever granted to a favorite by any monarch on earth. The govern ment is, to issue a thousand million of ipllars and give it to the bankers. That is all there is to Jt. .The government s-on't give any money to farmers or mer chants. It will only give it to bankers. They are the privileged few. There vas never a proposition that equalled it n villainy presented to mankind before. Piracy on the high seas never forced the tenth of the amount from unwilling victims that this infernal thing will Vnd there are sanctimoneous editors who defend it! It is nothing but infer nal villainy. . " V ' . jl-'.hl.!-; 'r..,'.;, ' The Independent In clubs of five from now until January 1, 1801 (nearly a year) i or ou cents eacn. invite your neighbor to subscribe. . THE ATYOItNEY-GENEBAL The Independent has received man complimentary endorsements from lea ing populists in' the state supporting i in its position in favor of the selectio of an able, fearless , and conscientioi populist lawyer for attorney-general fo the stater AH who; will consider the sit uation must admit the. importance of s curing a proper man for that importai position. The fusion forces are new i control of the supreme court and th people have a right to expect relief an protection from the merciless greed c corporations. ; The "court alone cann , originate .cases f or trials-it cannot at upon its owa motion. The atornej general must firs V prepare , the case an present it to1 the court before apy actio can be.taken by the court. This requin an energetic and industrious . attorney general onetwhqis not afraid to orig nate cases and prosecute them to r speedy and final 'hearing. If the peopl desire to get fche relief they deserve fro the exactions of corporations, they mur be careful the kind of man they selec for attorney-general.; . In the opinion t the Independent such a man can only L found in the ranks of the populist party The above is not intended to reflect i; any way upon the work of Mr, Smyth the present . attorney general. Durin; his term he has performed every . dut. honestly and conscientiously and almos always successfully. He has -been b far the best attorney-general the stat has ever had, and were he a candidal for re-nomination he would find the In dependent supporting him ; : with th- greatest enthusiasm:. But as we under stand Mr. Smyth does not desire th- nomination for a third time. It is fo this reason , that it is necessary to begi: searching to find a man of tM proper siz. and qualifications to fill this importan position. The people themselves mus find the man. The "slated" man ma not be the best. There ijever was a tim in the history of the party when as uiucl care was needed in the selection of can didates as at present. The probability of election insures many aspirants an? among them will, be found some weal- and dangerous men. The people mus see to it that' 'bad "slates" and combina tions are promptly broken, ; - y r OLITICAL ANNEXES ; The New.' '..yprk.l iPost in discussing trusts admits, .perhaps inadvertently; that they all hate a political annex. - If they did not what " would become of the republican party? If the trusts had no4 supported Quaytatt and Mark Han n where would the republican party be? The enormous simrs of money which the trusts have squeezed. out of. fhe people has been collectedly' them through the privileges . graniejd; ito.them. by legisla tion secured through the republican party arid by republican judges. We defy any man tp point out a trust that does not existjthrough republican legis lation and decisions secured through re publican judges!' The trusts are -.not only "annexed" but are the ' main thing in that party. The courts have for years maintained . the Standard Oil trust. Every one of these federal judges who have allowed it to rob to the amount of hunareds of millions, who have per mitted it to bankrupt and ruin thou sands of men, every one of .them have been republicans.. Any man knows that if the judges had ! administered the law without fear or favor as it is found on the statute books, the trust could never have existed.' Talk about the Standard Oil trust having a political annex! Why the government, the courts and the re publican party are all annexes ofthe Standard Oil machinery:' ' HORACE WHITE'S RAVINGS Horace White Who now has the con trol of the New York Post, is the most contemptible literary .tool; of plutoc racy that this age has produced. We remember when he came down to Wash ington and posed before a congressional committee as an economist. The paper from the stand -point of good English was unexceptional, but from the stand point of science would have been a dis grace to a school boy. The Post, while posing as an Independent paper, U one of the most rabid advocates of the gold standard arid every evil of plutoc racy that can be found in the United States. Some of its ravings would brand any man with lunacy. Here is a sample':' ' '"' ''; '; "!';' 'i':-1 ' "Think of Hanria's having had the spending of millions in 1836 with never an account rendered! Meanwhile it is perfectly evident that our political bank ers, our trusts with lam many , and Al bany ramifications, are today the strong est supporters of Mr. Bryan. He is soon to visit this city,- What . more, effective speech can he. make than would be a simple reading of the letters from New York bankers to the treasury depart ment, or the official records respecting the state trust' company? (Ye have to say to the gentlemen concerned in these painful affairs that they could not have more directly, contributed to Bryan's election if they had come out for - him openly and given $100,000 a piece to the democratic campaign." ' . - CALLED DOWN ; . : ' Hon." H. G. Stewart sends an article to the Independent that would fill ; at least four columns if riot more.' It be gins as follows: ;'" -; r . "In a recent issue of your paper you take occasion to remark that 'you have no use for gold . or silver, but as the United States has promised to pay deb therein, you are in favor of such coin age."' Now Mr: Editor you have oftei. told us that when - we heard any one ake an unsound statement regard! aancial matters, we should call the own, and as you ;'are occupying th. osition as a public educator, it is mu tore necessary that we call you down Then he proceeds to "call us dow? 3 the tune of four columns, but wee ot believe that if he extended his r arks to sixteen columns, that he cou' take the populists , of this state belie iat there is anything unsound . in th. mark, w aether it was ever made in tJ ' idependent or not. " There are many good things in th rticle of Senator Stewart's, but the as not been a communication of th: ngth printed in this paper for the la ve years, and we are perfectly cortai lat if we printed it in full, we wou! et "called down" by the readers of th aper who hate long articles, in a wa hat would make our ears ring. BEYBRIGEI8 BIODEST Senator Beverige said in his speech ae senate: "God has marked the Amy . ;an people as his chosen nation to fit lly lead the regeneration, of the world, t is a pity that the senator did not g lore into detail about that -revelatio' f it is true, he should have told the pe le just how God delivered it to hin t must have been' something ' in thit vay: God spoke out of a great clouc md said: "Beverige, where art thou?" Vnd Beverige answered and said: "Her im I Lord. What wilt thou have me t io?"" And the Lord said unto him: "G md stand up in the senate of the Unitec states and say to them, thus saith tht xrd. I have marked the America! .eople as the chosen nation to final, ead in the regeneration, of the worlu md I say unto you (but you need no ay that in the senate) the Jews wh vere once my chosen people and all th est are not in it any more. I have di nherited the whole lot." Now if Bev rige had only given the details of tha interview with the Almighty, it woul iave been put under a slug head on th irst page of every daily in the lane tint Beve .ige was so modest! . In the early days of the populist party ihere was a principle announced tha1 was sound in every particular and one that should be adhered to at the pres ent time. It concerned the selection of delegates to conventions. It was con tended by the founders of the . party that the servants -of the people office holders and their appointees were not competent to serve as delegates to conventions charged with approving or disapproving the manner of 'service which they had rendered. A conven tion made . up . ' J argely of '-office holders and their appointees Wbuld ' be very likely to find the service which they had rendered entirely satisfactory. In other words ihey would I very likely endorse their own administration, in toto, the good and the bad alike. The Indepen dent would like to see the conventions made up from the people, by the people, and for the people, and not from the office holders, by the ' office holders and for the office holders. ; The methods adopted by, the pluto cratic and imperialist senators are the well known methods of despotism every where. Their first great effort is to sup press information. . Every time a pena tor or representative arises and asks for information from any department of the government some one of these jumping jacks of the administration is on his feet with some sort of an objection. Of course he does not say: ; "I rise to ob ject to such information being furnished" but he makes some deft and specious plea that answers the purpose. Until recently all resolutions asking for in formation from any of the departments were adopted without any objection, but in this congress every effort is made to prevent correct information reaching the people. It is a new thing, but a le gitimate outgrowth of imperialism. They have even prevented the census takers from gathering information con cerning the trusts and accumulations df wealth. They don't want the people to know such things. The people are no longer to be trusted with the facts. They are to be kept in ignorance and governed by the privileged few. Such is republicanism. Mr. Harvey's new book entitled, "Coin on Money, Trusts and Imperialism," has just been issued. In discussing these questions he adopted the same literary form that made 'Coin's Financial School' so popular. As the main interest in the next campaign, especially to all popu lisms, will be the question of bank issue of money, this volume will be of great use to every worker in the field of re form. We have to fight the ofti green back fight over again, but a new genera tion has arisen who never heard the ar guments that proved so successful at that time. They inust all be made-over and this book, treating as it does so a-gely of banks and banking, will be a very effective weapon. Oh! for a few days of some of those old greenbackers. But they have mostly gone to their re ward and we who are living must figh' the battle. May we be as successful a they were and more so. All the pro perity that this country enjoyed frou 1878, when - they scored their greates success, to this day wa3 their unselfis) labors. The only reward they ever re ceived was a consciousness of havint done their duty. PROOFS OF PROSPERITY "" .lepublican ? signs of prosperity av ery where visible these days. The;, e of two kinds. One shows that un Id millions are being piled up in th tiers of the millionaires and the othe at poverty is on the increase. : Abou ,000 people partook of charity in Phi' , lelphia on . Christmas . day. Here i ; oof of the latter statement. But the" 000 were ' fed. How could so man. ople have been fed if there was n I'osperity somewhere? The republics ea of prosperity is a city where ther , re twenty multi-millionaires, and a" ie rest of the people struggling for ex teoce with tens of thousands of thei , ving oa charity. A few men, witr ealth beyond the dreams of avarice, a' ; ie rest struggling night and day for re existence and thousands who cai 't even obtain that, is t he . republican lea of prosperity. That was the cond , on of Rome just before that might; apire fell to pieces and the world wen ck to barbarism for eight hundit " ears. ' GETTING UP CLUBS ' 4 Many are responding already wit labs of new subscribers taking advar :ge of the low rate offered by the Inde endent. There is no better way to insur t populist victory , in this state this yea . han by increasing the circulation of th independent." The low rate offered put t within the reach of all. Two dollar nd fifty conts for a club of five unti 'nriuary 1, 1901. When v it i3 remen ered that the " paper trust has almoi loubled the price of white paper it i lain that the offer of 52.50 for clubs f ive until January 1, 1901 (nearly a yeai -s exceedingly liberal. ' Many of on eaders appreciate this and have a'read; egun to do their part by inviting thei ighbrs to subscribe. This week w iave received clubs lrom: .. E. Sutherland. 1 il. Ford.. .. ... .. r ............. .... ..; a. Hatch. 1 I. W. Karn 1 O. L. Watkins . . . 1 O. Morton. .f W. E. Dech.::... f A. J. Wasson .r . . . .. . . . . 8. J.Boies.:..;... ................ ...f H.B. Miller..;.... ll R. S. Summer.. . .................. ...J. H. B. Miller. ..................;....,.( We expect to receive a large numbe more during the week. Who'll be th neat? ; " ' ' -" . HARDY'S COLUfcSH , ' . Have We Prosperity We lid "No t Proinise Expansion for Taxation . r Stringency and Panic Be Consist ';"- cmt -Alaska 'Purchase Candidate- The Big Fight. About the only unsettled questiov now up, is have we got prosperity . Wheat going, down and freight goinj. up; is that prosperity? raying doubl price for nails, glass, lum-er and fencr wirle, and selling farm produce at lov; down gold standard prices; is thai prosperity for the farmer? Sellin;r bonds one year at four per cent pre mium and buying them back . a thirteen the next year; is that pros perity for the government? What is the reason McKinley is not just as willing tne Filipinos shouM have a government of their own as the Cubans? I will tell you, said a repub llcan: "We promised the world to give the Cubans a government oi their own for. the sake of humanity, but we did not promise the Filipino's We would hold both of them for taxes and trade if .we had made no promise. Expansion for taxation and not. for humanity. War to subjugate and not to liberate. An empire to be estab lished and not a republic; Keep your own home and add to it by taking the homes of others. We must tackle Mexico and , Central America next.. They are not capable of . governing themselves and we have governing power to spare, and it Js a pity It should burn or go to waste. If three hundred millions of gold lying idle in the treasury at Washing ton, with four hundred millions ot greenbacks and treasury notes out against it, all; legal te.ider, shouM cause such a stringency in th banks eight hundred millions of greenback.- treasury notes, silver certificates an-1 silver dollars, are retired. Look out for a crash worse than that of 93. If a republican form of government Is the best and every. Fourth of July orator for a hundred years has said it is best, and every speech of president, congressman and judge ratines tne doctrine, then why does not McKinley and the party in power seek to plant and orgnize new republics? But no. they want -dependencies . instead Notwithstanding Lincoln's proclama tion they want to establish, the old sys tem of slave driving. The inside of the Alaska purchase is still a secret and probably always will be. Enough is known, However, to "ndicate that the $7,200.00(Tdid not an go for Alaska. In 18C2 there was sreat fear In Washington that England would side with Jeff .Davis and tha north would have two wars on hand Russia has always been much more friendly towards the -United States ban ' England has. It is well, ho w ever, that there were two of Russia's best war : fleets, one on e Atlantic mdsthe other on the Pacific, coasting ip and down, from 1832 to 1885, with io visible object in view. It is also 'cnown fnat the commanders of these :leets had sealed orders. The . con :ecture is that " these sealed orders rere to be opened in case England neddled with the affairs of the Unite 'tates. It is thought that not less han seven millions of that monev vent to pay the expenses of the two lussian fleets and the. two hundred iiocsand for Alaska. t These ,. thlngp iccount for Englands earnest desire to make friends with Samuel after tue Var closed. During our "Spanish Jir Ingland was more than : ' 111 Russia's place by manifest friefid hip toward us There Is no excuse for raisfiff tVeight rates on our railroads at tnis ime. Business' is nearly double what t was three years , ago,, aud rati liould be lowered Instead of raised. If 'arm produce had gone up it wouidi .fford an excuse, but wheat Is still umbling and other produce is stand ng still; If the state has any author ty over railroad charges we want an .ttorney general who will find it out :y bi-inging cases before the court or ilghest adjudication. Let us try to "nJ a man who never rode on a pass r acted as . attorney . for any ' road. riOpk at Thurston, drawing pay pb enator from Nebraska, and at the ame time acting as attorney for & Dig ullroad coi-poratlon. and every, time e gets married they take him around he world in. special. palace cars. We . ant no more of this. It is time the eople had officers to serve them, at ast in part. It will be hard to find suitable candidate in any of our jargo cities. It is one of the tricks cf .he-trade to "chalk the eye" of everv -nnrt lawyer by giving them fr:e ansportation. ; The republicans are going to fight aider this fall In this state than ever efore. They are already at it, hp rauizing young .men's clubs, old men s lubs, expansion clubs and . gotu tandard clubs. They are at work in very precinct, and one or two men rill, be chosen to act as committe., aider promise of an office. There wtlt two senators to be elected, and or biuse Allen will be one, and if ia uy way Bryan is counted out ncraia or the presidency he must: be the otiir t any rate the other senator must be hose from south of the Platte. Some , ay either as senators or eongress len we should send at least throe "viners to Washington. It does not aok well for an exclusively .n srlcul ural state to send eight lawyers to Lvpresent us. All the good brains of. rie state are not In the heads of th rt . m - . awyers. xaere snoum ve no aemam: or populist candidates, democrat cr ilver republican, but all should unUa a demanding the strongest and rao.it i-lial-Ie cundidato. It will net do tat:? 11 old of ace holders, we must fish up ;ew timber. Allen should be allowed o finish his second te:rra. and sa hould Poynter. I would not allow nn fflce holder, clerk or employee to stt :i caucus or convention. The old offlf-e oldeis dictating the new was wbat mried the republican party ' in th tate, and" we have got to stop it or we vill be in the same grave. It was ix ittle out of line, that Holcomb should ave been nominated as Judge after erving as governor two terms, but he necessities of the casc warrantetl he action. A state house. rins shouM e broken every four 'years in any arty. Somebody, either the board of raneportatl on or, the attorney gt nmi hould bring cases before the highest ourt, and have it decided whether tne oads are to charge reasonable or ex orbitant freight rates. f . NEWS OF THE WEEK. Te war in the Philippines seems to ,'o on In the same way that we have been accustomed to : for the last yetxr. Skirmishes and fights are reported from day to day with unvarying regul arity. Otis is always victorious and countless numbers of Filipinos are slain with considerable-numbers killed on our side. Last week Otis reported as follows: - "On Thursday a pack train escorted by fifty men of Company C, 30th in fantry. Lieutenant Ralston, command ing, was ambushed near Lipa, prov ince of Laguna, and two Americans were killed, four were wounded and niue were missing. The insurgents fired three volleys at close range, at.d the escort was obliged to retreat after killing fifteen of the insurgents. Sev eral animals of the pack train were killed and their packs were looted. The escort consisted of fifty con valescents from the hospital, who were going to rejoin the regiment. The in surgents hid in the bushes along tne road ana opened fire upon the pacts train from three sides. The Americaus, in addition to their casualties, were compelled to abandon the train, which consisted of twenty-two horses. The latter, with their packs, all fell into the hands of the. Insurgents, who pur sued the retreating escort for thre miles along the road, until the Amen cans were reinforced." ' ' The "stable governments" that Otis has been sitting up under the orders f McKinley don't seem to be satlsfat -tory. Last fall we were told how gladly the people of'Negros welcomed the United States troops, and how much they really wanted to become subjects of the United .States. A "stable government" was established with a great deal of ceremony, but the Associated Press furnished tho following result of it one day laat week: "Mall advices from Negros bring particulars of the uprising last monta in the southern part of the island In which Lieutenant A: C. Ledyard. bta infantry was killed. Instead of being an unimportant revolt of native police, as was at .first reported, It appears t have been, an attempt to , overthrow American authority. The movement was started by the chief officials of the autonomous government, the men who were elected and Inaugurated with so much ceremony last Novem ber." . Every reader of the Independent will remember that when the fish stories) were circulated in all the great dailies at the opening of congress, announc ing the complete subjugation , of th Filipino insurgents, it told its readers not to, believe a word of them, that they were manufactured to . lnfluencs the action of congress. And it has turned out just as we said. This war In the Philippines will be an unending war just as long as tne present wolici is pursued. " There are ten million or those people and they-have been flreq with the . hope of .independence anp , self-government. No such army at w 1 . ' h