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yj 5BrUary 16, lOob THE DEBTfr nTTA KJPDPSuaijITT 'w ! f ""'7. ' y.ou get' T cela here, make it your headquarters. . V .V' Please Mention The Nebraska ft" , : ; 7 THE BRIAN MYSTERY ' - .The eastern papers are Just at pres ent discussing ithe Bryan mystery." They realize that among the great daily papers of a dozen of the most populous states not one of them is friendly 4to him, and. that the rich ami . powerfu members ,of the democratic party, in "common with their class in the entire jcpuntry, are opposed to Bry an and to all.that he stands for., , They know the. power of the press, . not only to crush" ah' individual,, but to often attach odium, in the eyes of the people to acause that Js just. , Experience has taught them that public men, am bitious, to attain , political preferment, have never. In the past been able to suc ceed without the friendship of he rich and powerful classes and the support of thQ. great dally' papers, of the coun- try. But in the case of Bryan all this has been reversed and they, can't, un derstand ft To "they cH it '. the .MBry- ! an Mystery."' " , .' . ; .If these editors would read the In dependent they, would soon be able to solve .this mystery as well as a good many otliers that have troubled them in the past and will trouble them In " tThey beiieve that he iSiabsolutely.hon f est. They know that he has no greed , for gold. AH the daily papers in th .. land cannot displace this trust and confidence in Bryan, He never hesi . tates. y lie . never . employs . duplicity. lie meets every question as 4t. arises . without evasion.,.. He talks straight from ;his ;.heart ; anu;Jt reaches the hearts of, the people. ; The common peo-' - pie will, stand, by, Bryan to the end of . , the contest. ;.The dailies may denounce him,: the trusts may assault . him, tae , banks., anay,-, intrigue, against him, but theyr cannot shake the confidence that t!the people have in him. ; ., ( , 4 v . ' . Ther murder by "starvation of millions tof innoceht people In India, is one of . the 'crimes1 that the recording angel has '-written down in the" books of heaven tgalhsr the. English govern ment and one for which restitution must be made or that nation will per-v . ish' from the earth. . The. workers ; In India have not failed to produce food enough' to feed the people. , The En glish have taken it from them by their financial . system and left ? them to Our Incubators! hT all Mm UtaslixnorenMotuBioM m very lw vrlcea no saaraa tee U piraM mrrcuuiur.seM Jmai ceaM lor our javeafvcmwofiM, ullCB conuitniUMMriptlwM MV ITUU1M llfll moA IftlU AW fkn.' -Piu to Booltrr ud brooat. tm i Des IMm lacakfttor Cu Box 33 Dcs Malan. U. SURS HATCH ii'JOUDATOf Trot W it n W. Ml njxH jgmjgt VR3HIKWi?i MnfZ nctm hatiat la renter ot ft eauntMr Ectiraly aato. aati. Handrcdi r, in M. prinv bkk 4ows yoar tttio, Oar Catalnrm i ckack fultf nnwtlcU Foal. trr tntrBtioo. - It-l, WRFTK. 8tid fw ft now. 1URB HATCH INCUBATOR COMPANY. Clay Ceattr. Heat DISC HARROW .2&-!& eelebratd Budlon-Ldow patent. All boxes anaranteea aaui8t' wear for two years; also viae 32, Dim Drill $39. 2 ity tea. aizaa. uiaka ont DiM thrwwlna? Mptk all C way. I'roai factory to farm; Be KMiiaiemea: Mvt M . bena xor Liieat.frM.aiid price delirarad at your .station on lu?gias, harases, . scales. mother thlnite yoa want. Address Kd Flew Co.. Hex AIos,lil. iMAoc jm ike OaMea atatas stlllBg olrtet istas unmaisi. S3IS2 OUR PIASA DIRD SULKt row won, iicuft uraib. easy . uandlimc. we fisTs thaasaad of testimonials from farmers. .Bens oa tri.U, sau iafaction - soaran teed. Send for big free -catalog and prices on bagzies, harness, ewina machines A 10UO other thtass. de ItTered. Address, Ilapceod Plew Cv. Box 62ft Alton. I1L at U tae Caaas Waaas stUhn sisrat ss tae awaiiai is. J" 2t4 t 5 V ZXIS 3 4r-- 6 Bl- AAVf X 'J eEa r2J taeeatrslea OUR ADVANCE AGENT Douale Board best ":;-: -jfTJr'CastsC C11.C0k!:s V., Say Aici"ar it . - Do you want a Gat-: alogue? We're going to send out four hundred thousand of them this spring, and we'd like ' to ' have you get one of them." We'll be 'ready to mail them in '"a : fewdayis, and you'll get one if ' you drofi us a postal card right away-.theyre full of Information regarding Clothes, Shoes, etc.' 'They post you and educate you how and where to buy your Clothing, they tell you how we : can -" afford to do better by you ' than any other clothing store in America; "If in the meantime in Pmha','wy "not come !n and' acquainted with us,chtckvyour par-' ' ' - ' Independent when answering starve. Kow they appeal to us to feed the people -whom-they''1 have robbed. Dr. - Jameson and. Cecil Rhodes un dertook to capture Oom Paul's repul lie with 500 men. The bump of states manship must -be very? small in the heads. of those diamond hunters and gold grabbers notwithstanding all the adjectives that have been wasted upon them in the English jingo dally papers. . England is begging the world to con tribute to the support of the 20,000,00i i paupers she has made in India while she . spends her , money and energies trying to . Christianize the . Dutch of South Africa. HARDY'S COLUMN , . J . - . . - ; - ' " " The Lincoln ' Auditorium Thurston - Gold 'Standard Gov. Pingree Tax- ationCarnegle'8 I Offer Republic ' or Monarchy The , South ; African War Lancaster and Nebraska." The republicans of Nebraska must feel proud of senator Thurston. He was elected senator and one would ex pect: him to stand up for Nebraska. Instead' of that be stood up for the railroads bef-the .XJ,. , supreme court against Nebraska in ,thc maxi mum freight case and now' he standi up for the Standard Oil trust, agaittsc the people of Nebraska and will dq all he can to fasten the trusts on to us.' Is that the republican idea of standing up'for Nebraska? . 4Tf we have" to' redeem-our bills in gold," said a national bank, president, of Lincoln, "we never will increase Our Circulation' if permitted to do so. The strong banks of fhe east will apply the endless chain arid break the small banks whenever they choose. The appropriation eaters of the state of New York are now planning for an other appropriation for deepening and widening the Erie t canal. It is not the canal so much they have at heart as the opportunity of stealing the apr propriation at least in part. It is esti mated it will cost sixty millions. The New York Central, four-track road, offers to carry all the grain from Buf falo to New York, free, if the. state will pay them the annual interest on the sixty millions- i ;' ;s . The governor of Michigan Is having a hard fight to get their constitution amended so they. Can tax railroads and other corporation property the same according to. value as. they tax farms. The facts In the case, show, that Pin- WflPEST TREES Apple, 8 to ft., $7 1 cherry, ---honest tni onalit? nest In prioe. We pa light. Catalog' free I Apple, 8 to f t., $7 1 cherry, 3 to 4 ft., t20 frees tons peach, aa; Concord grape, 82. 60 per 100. 1000 Has. trralber. rr, 01. Black locust, an and osage hedge Terr cheap, JANSEN NURSCRT. BoiM .anMn.Ntb. Fairbury Nurserico. 25 Apple Tree for. $1 25 bud ZS bud ed pea ach trees. 2 CENTS fljEjL... 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The Journal thinks it is also a great Injustice totax mortgages and (other paper evidences of debt, such as" "city,- county and state war rant and bonds. We say every paper evidence of debt should be taxed iu the same proportion as widows houses and unless they are registered for tax ation they should not be collectible by law. ' : i -v. i . .; It was . rather a bold ofEer that Car negie made Mckinley for the Philip pine islands. He offered twenty mill ions it McKJnley would deed the is lands over to Aguinaldo and his gov ernment. , If. that is not a streak of liberal patriotism1 we would like to know; Why do not republics think s much of repnbllcs as they do of mon archies? Guess every body does ex cept .McKinley. . rJ : 1 t It isvan appalling fact that ' the head leaders of the dominant political party in this country are-leading us toward monarcbial government as fast as pos sible. No effort is being made -to es tablish new republics. It was prom ised that Cuba should be left to form a government of her own, a republic, but she is being chocked down and if the present administration is length ened out four years more she will be made , a perpetual dependency, sub jected to oppressive taxes and imperi al government of the McKinley states. There Is no thought of making a re public in the , Philippine islands. : It will not do to trust matters in the hands of such low down people as arc found in the island they say. Just so they said when our fathers were fighting for liberty. ' - It; does look as though there was an overruling suDreme justice directiug the bullets and shells in South Africa, The English army expected: only a dress parade, a .mimic battle with blank cartridges, but they find a job such as they have never found before since Bunker Hill. It is there a good deal as it was In the south, during our civil war, -the inhabitants of the country are all playing the spy for the Boers as reliably as did the col ored people of the south spy for the northern army. Never were our boys betrayed or deceived by. a colored man, neither are , the Boers deceived by men, women, or children. They don't need a baloon to discover where the 'enemy are or what they are do ing. Their system of telegraphing from hilltop to hilltop by brands of fire at night and flags by day keeps the Boer general posted of every , move made by the English. It would not be out of order for the English army to be thrown into a panicby the breaking of a few pitchers, the glaring of a few lamps, and the resounding of a fef p-"uts, glory to God and Kruger, 'for ever. ; '; ' nth nArt Ipk learned a lesson last fn in Tjinpftater county that will not be forgotten " very 8J6n. "The lesson learned is mat oniy goou cauuiuaws a n' va olpptpd . - Look . at the vote cast for the two republican candidates for county judge ana county treasurer auu compare their vote with the Vote cast for clerk of the ' district court, it showed that .there are near two thous and republicans in the county who like reliable, candidates more than they like party. Tl republicans have tried . . , -i . all kinds or caucus metnoas or nomi nating but they have found that to vote for the other fellow and let party go, is the way to get good candidates on their own ticket, so the fusion party lonmpd a lesson two years ago in the election of legislators. We found that ... . A candidates wno sanctionea every imng that tha fnstlnn lpjrialature did two years before did' not take among the honest voters, 'mere ; were several iWn. mnddv slews that we had to till up- by promising . better ' things and promises are not half as good 'filling as real worK. we nave got a Digger fieri r on our hands this fall than that of two years ago and our best timber must be used. It is a poor idea tnat only the" same old fellows are compe tent to hold office. The republicans of the state are getting out of that idea; NEWS OF THE WEEK. i The people who have read Otis many dispatches concerning- the complete" conquest of the Philippines have been Inclined of late to jest about his isles Of peace,-but the latest news is of too serious a nature to make . the subject of a joke. This news is to the effect that the Filipinos are in full activity again and our soldier boys are - be ing shot down everywhere. The lists of killed and wounded are larger than ever, There se ems to be war every where In the islands and peace no w,herev;t The dispatches say that, ''Of late , the- Insurgents in Luzon, have adopted harassing tactics against the towns which the Americans have-garrisoned. They camp in the hills and maintain a constant fire upon the American outposts. When the troops sally against them they scatter, re turning when the Americans retire. : "They shoot burning arrows and have thus burned a large part f the town 6f;Albay. Indeed, "most of the larger towns in that province are prac tically deserted, exeept by the garri sons. Scarcely any of the inhabitants return t& their homes. They are camp ing in the interior. As a result of these conditions the hemp business in that section is seriously hindered and ships going for cargoes are compelled to take gangs of coolies to do their loading. Hemp field in tne interior is quite in accessible" v Warfare continues .Just.south . of Manila, Gen. Schwan narrowly - es caped capture as he was returning to Manila with his staff and a guard of a hundred mounted men. Lieut. Co!. Beacon had a fight with Gen. ael Pilar's ; command .and the Americans had several wounded . including one captain. Gen. , Alejandino has recov ered from his wounds and has assem bled a large force In 'his district, r The plague continues and eight new cases were reported during the week. Small er - - w r ww- r w- ' e-w m Syouno REAL ESTATE 6 Do you want to BUX a rin?1 I OAflQ -Farm I Do yon want to If til M LwlUWiiitt 8ELL. your Farm? Do yon want a farm LOaN at 5 per centt If yon do, see me. ' H - sO TSyfXTTKTf Stohards e Ve I UUIIt Bloeklncola 118 WORTH ELEVENTH STREET. pox : Is prevalent. Two officers' of the 30th infantry have died from the dis ease and another officer and several soldiers are down with it. , , This is a sad state of affairs, but it is just what the populists have said would result from McKinley's crimi nal aggression pojicy. If the adminis tration still insists that it will submit no policy , to the Filipinos except that they make an unconditional surrender, with no guarantees at all of any, meas ure of liberty,, this condition will con tinue Indefinitely. The Filipinos will carry on their guerilla warfare, more" American lives will be sacrificed, tfte enormous cost of the campaign, which up to date is about $300,000,000, will continue, the common people will fur nish the men and pay the bill. - ' : ' In all the history of the world there was never a more costly or idiotic un dertaking. ; The only defense that is made of It is to call every man Who objects to It a: : "traitor." The ' result of this war in the Philippines is just what every populist, and for that, mat ter, every man of sense in the United States said it would be. These 10,000 -000 of people are being , made the per manent enemies of the United States when they wanted to be friends. That enmity will grow just as long as. the present policy is pursuedv A guerilla warfare will be carried on for years to come.. Millions upon millions of money will be sacrificed and thosands of American young men will be called upon to give up their lives, in th6 swamps and jungles of these tropical isles. Why? Senator Beverjge says he has a nugget of gold and some dust found along one of the creeks. . If the people of these states allow this slaughter and expenditure to " go on, they, do not deserve the blessings of free government and they will not have it for very long either. ' ', t The' British' without doubt got the worst drubbing , they have had yet, in Buller's last advance across the Tagu la river, so bad. indeed that the com manding general has sent no details of it not 'even the usual list of killed and wounded. f rAll that is known is that Buller went humping back across the river something alter the same fashion that he had done twice before. Just south of Cbatanooga and after the battle of Missionary Ridge, a tall, lank mountaineer was ..captured. In talk ing with our boys be said: "You fellers couldn't lick us.ir vou fit fair." "Don't we fight fair?'nakef onei'of the Yanks.. '"No- you -don'fc Your always fighting us end ways.!!ri'Bwler does not seem good at fighting Vend ways." His at tempts, to out flank have all been fail ures. Winston Churchill says: "Wher ever we attack It is a frontal attack." The latest news is to the effect that Gen. Joubert has gone into the flank ing business , himself and has out flanked the British ' on both flanks a t once. The sum total of the whole mat ter is that the "British have not only been repulsed but driven back, and thi Boers are . now threatening . their lines of communication from two directions. It is also said that the whole of the in habitants of that part of South Africa are ready to rise up in arms on- ac; count of the attrocities committed by the British soldiery. If the Boers ad vance further into the British terri tory! instead of meeting with losses, they are likely to meet with large rein forcements. That is not the only , trouble that John1 Bull has on his hands. Mutinies are reported to be brewing in India and there has already been one in Egypt. A batallion or two of the Egyptian troops revolted. They were brought to terms and some of the offi cers are to be courtmartialed. Worse than all that, .$he . Russian troops con tinue to assemble on the Indian front ier and the 'Ameer of Afghanistan is said to beIn sympathy with ? the Russians. What purports to be a gen enfl order has been published order ing large forces to assemble "at the gates of Herat."., . ' The disturbance in Kentucky is by no means settled yet Taylor's atr tempt to play Cromwell still goes on, but with ferocity somewhat .modified.. He has ordered part of .the troops home and called the legislators whom he sent to the mountains, back " to the state capital. The legislature, that Is a majority of - it, , has assemblad. tn Louisville, while Taylor's rump mem bers are in Frankfort How W will all end it is hard to say. It will prob ably be settled by the state courts al though the republicans are-trying to get it into the federal courts. If the. federal judges undertake to take a hand -in the tow, then there will be a lively time sure, enough. There may be some one of them who will have the cheek to try. So far, every one' ad mits that the democrats have kept strictly within the law. ; ' h -, ' The thing 1 that has attracted i most attention at1 Washington during, the week is the new treaty that McKinley has negotiated with Great Britain. The staunchest' republicans ' ' stood aghast when' its contents were made known. It concerns the building of the Nicaragua canal and . the sum and substance of .it is that we are. to build the canal at btir own- expense, ' keep it up for the benefit ; of tne whole world Jn time of peace, and turn It over to England . or. any other power in time of war that has a bigger navy than we have. That is accomplished by a' clause that prohibits the United States from fortifying the canal. If fortifications are to be prohibited there would be no defense except by the navy." ' '- - - As soon as the treaty was ; read In the 'senate there were hurried consul tations on .theLrepublican.side and In stead of ratifying it it was refcrrcil id a committee: Among the "republi cans, all those ; who had a spark of patriotism Jeft in them, revolted. They looked ..upon it as an offensive and de fensive alliance with Great Britain and gave a joint control of a purely Amer ican canal built with American money. Under its provisions the United States abandons the right to defend its own property in return for a promise o- as sistance from Great Britain when ever such assistance should be required. That . simply means an alliance, de fensive and offensive, with England. Worse than that it revives and brings to life the old dead and burled Clay-toh-Bulwet treaty. The promulgation of this document is additional proof of a. secret treaty or understanding between" the McKinley administration and the tdry government' of England that has been so often asserted. In tne last f ew . months. - ; Additional evidence accumulates every day showing that the republi cans are badly scared over their goui bill, and the bill that will pass , tne senate s not the one that went through the house with such a rush. The pres sure that come against its passage is not from this country alone. The bank of England Is afraid of it and Englisn pressure . is being brought to bear against it. The shutting, up of the gold mines of South Africa is affecting all ; the governments of the world. Gold is likely to become a very scarce article In the near, future and England may be among the first to be willing to remonetize silver. It was a hint from Lombard street that put Aldrich up : In the senate to make an amenu- ment to the etfect that nothing in the bill should prevent international bi metallism. , "."'' 4 j " V fi " , ' ' 1 ' ,-.: iK- i- During the week there will arrive in SanFrancisco 600 more bodies of Sol diers who have died of wounds or dis ease or been killed in the Philippines. Along with them there will come fifty insane soldiers making. over 200 sent home with wrecked minds in the .last three months. Otis in an official re- f port stated that fifty per cent of those wno remain have lost their teeth from effects, of tropical fevers and army ra tions. At what an' immense cost '. Is McKinley carrying on his war-of crim inal aggression! ' The trust conference is in session at Chicago. The number present far ex ceeds the attendance expected. Over a hundred and fifty men came pre pared to discuss the question, but there was time for only a few of them to be heard. The first resolutions passed denounced the gold bill and sent a del egation to Washington to protest against it The economist Del Mar was -there. He pointed out to them the root of all trusts In the following language: ; ' i "The greatest of all trusts, the father of monopolies, .the deadliest - foe. to liberty is the money, trust The trait ors and cozeners who surreptitiously altered the mint laws of 1873 have be come opulent, and with opulence they have become. bold. They now propose to again, alter the mint laws, this time with the, design to wrest the vital pre rogatlve"of money from 'the govern ment 'and5 confer It upon 'the banks. When; Trf future times, another. Volney shall survey " the ruins of this once mighty empire and seek to know the author of its overthrow, the specter Of departed liberty will rise from its tomb and point its accursing finger at the money trust - "Is there any rift In the cloud? Is there any way out of this deplorable state of affairs? I see but one. It is the election of a congress and a pres ident. I care not of what party, who will resolutely undo the bad work , of the last four years, cast off the shack les which have been imposed upon the nation by avid corporations, liberate the currency from the control of banks and restore the royal prerogative of money f o its only proper custodian, tne government Nature nas endowed this country with advantages which would have enabled it to control uie markets of the world. The money trust in forcing upon the country the British system of money, has deprived it of these advantages and made it the slave rather than the arbiter of the world's markets."' The meeting of the national commit-' tee of the-People's party, which takes place at Lincoln, Neb., February 19, will be full of interest, and Chairman Ed misten extends a' cordial, invitation to all members of the party to attend this meeting. ' ' Many questions, of importance per taining to the party's interests will be discussed. The indications are that there will be a large attendance. ' You cannot afford to miss it v Attorney-general Smyth has begun suit in the supreme court to recover $25, 000 from the B. & M. R. R., f 25,000 from the F. E. A M. V., and 85,000u from the C. St P., M. & O. penalties far violation of the ''car-load" freight rate order on live stock made by the board of trans portation in 1897, and in which the roads named violated by their recent change to "cente-perrhundred". rates. .... ... Engine fcr Sale Eight horse, upright engine and boiler complete and in good condition, for sale at a bargain. Cairo address The Inde pendent Press building 13th and N Lincoln, Nebraska. . Jh:Widos and Orphans Capt Gridley of the Olympia left a wife and a mother partially dependent. Capt? Wood, who commanded the Pet rel during the engagement'in Manila bay, has a family In Washington with out means. The two Caprons, 'father and'sbnwho were killed at Santiago, both left widows arid children who' are entirely destitute and dependent upon a brother-in-law, who is himself a poor man.. ": ' ' . Capt, Gogardus Eldrldge, who was killed in action in Luzon, left a widow, who is now the guest of friends at Vancouver barracks, Washington, ; in destitute circumstances. Capt Wool brldge Geary, 13th infantry, who was killed In October, left a widow in San Francisco with nd means and no pros pects 'except a pension; The a widow of , Capt, Guy, Howard, who r was killed near Arayat Luzon, has three children BE8CEraE DATALOSUE m . . Upon application, we will mail to your address our CATAXiGQUE, in which islisted all ' : -; -v The Leading Stondopd Fruit adapted to the Northwest A ful line of Nursery Stock on hand for the Spring of 1900.. Fruit Trees, Small Fruit Plants, Ornamentals.' Forest Shade Trees and Seedlings. EVERQREENS. : Address, - , , Hi mm., "... ..... - i,.: , . .. ' " rzr and is penniless.. The widow and three children of Lieut Krayenbuhl, 3d ar tillery,. Who: was killed in Luzon last March, , are entirely dependent upon her father, who Is a major of infantry and has nothing but his pay.r -Col. John D. Miley, 2d artillery, who was chief of staff to Gen. Shafter at the - battle of Santiago," left a widow and three - children nearly "destitute. Col. - John M. Stotzenburg of 4 the Ne braska regiment who was killed in ac tion last April, : left a large ; family, without; means. Lieut. Alfred -W. Drew; " 12th infantry, who : was killed in, October, left a large family in Tex as - wboC ; are - dependent : upon tueir friends, and several other cases of a similar nature might be mentioned. .; People's Independent Convention The. people's independent convention for, Lancaster county, Nebraska, is called to .meet in Bohanan's- hallLln coin, onr Thursday, March ,1st 1900 at 2 o'clock p. m., to elect '47 delegates to the people's independent state conven- tlon .s called" to meet at ; Lincoln March 19th, -1900, to elect deiegates",to'attehd the vnationapeople's ihdependentcon vention, the .Jime and place for which are, to. be fixed by the national, .coin-, mittee which meets in Lincoln, Febru: ary;19th;'M900. Said county conven tion will also transact any other busi ness that may jpyoperly come before it The basis of ; representation is fixed at one delegate for each fifteen votes or major fraction thereof cast for Silas A. Holcomb for supreme judge In No vember 1899; and one delegate at large for' each city .ward and . county v pre cinct as follows: , . V Lincoln: 1st ward 1C; 2nd ward,' 16; 3rd ward, 28; 4th ward, 27; 5th ward, 28; 6th ward, 16; 7th ward, 17; Buda, 9; Centerville, 7; Denton, 6;, Elk, 8; Grant, 9; Garfield, 4; Highland. 7; Lancaster, 32; Little Salt, 6; Middle Creek, 5; Mill, 7; Nemaha, 11; North Bluff, 7; Oak. 8 -Olive Branch, 3; Panama, 8;. Rock Creek, 7; Saltlllo, 8; South Pass, 7; Stevens Creek, 7; tstockton, 6; Waverly, 7; West Oak, 6; West Lincoln, 5; Yankee Hill, 9. 'Total 347. .-v It is further recommended that pre cinct and ward primaries to select del egates to said -convention be held at the usual polling place on Saturday, FebV 24th at 7:30 p. m. unless other wise called by the precinct commltfee men. ' . ' ' ' " ' . ' : ' ' : v A. E. SHELDON. Chairman. .. , , C. G. BULLOCK, Secretary. S i - Boers After Thep j I (London, Feb. 12. Advices from Durban show that the Boer raid into Zululand is assuming alarming pro portions. The Transvaalers r. will be able to seize vast quantities of cattle. Natalers in London have urged arming the Zulus and Basutos and accepting their aid against the Boers, but the war office so far has steadily refused. It is' now said that the British will not he able to restrain them much longer and it is hinted that the natives will soon join in the war on their own account. This is 'accompanied by alarms from Durban, that ithe Boers will sweep the cattle out of Zululand and then raid north-eastern Natal Why Not be Boaest The Washington Post, an administra tion paper, having come to the con clusion that the veil of hypocrisy is too thin, comes out flat footed in the fol lowing statement and owns up to the truth:' V J.J '-;'; ;:. " .'I "Why cannot we be honest in our ut terances' touching the territories we havorecently .acquired? ; Really, , it would save . time ; and trouble, " to say nothing of life and treasure, to come out frankly with - the" announcement that we have annexed these posses sions in cold blood, and that we intenu to utilize them to our profit and ad vantage. All this talk - about benevo lent .assimilation; all this hypocritical pretense . of anxiety for the moral,: so cial, and intellectual exaltation of the natives; all . this transparent parade of responsibility and deep-seated purpose Kinoes . Ylfiiri Alf fill DiSt : CaTt,, 0nU A r5S I:sker for arid regions. Onion Seed and Onion Seta. Large stock of tree seeds. Elegant catalog mailed free on application. Write for one NOW. KANSAS SEED HOUSE, F. Barteldes Co.. Uwrenca. Kan. Q more state prize winners and Exposition winners. "For 18 years lams has led all horsemen with best horses, lowest prices. Big bargains tor next 30 days. All stallions must be sold." Nonets. . IAMS RECEIVED SI 3 20 For ft iZmZrt ,Ci ana JWVZ9 COiSUK,"-best In TJ 8.w0rth 500 miles trip to see. IAMS kas NO salesman in conntrj. Save money, hr going direct to lams' barns and bay a winner a 5rBif ow rom more stallion, than all other importers in Nebraska. God gnanteeVi and lams pays freight. Good terms to responsible parties. Stallions exchanged. ?""mtV 40 HEAD OF 1400 T0 1900 POUND CHUNKS and DRAFTERS for SALE, to and bis t:r$:s m P2sc:t$ to t::;h& d: t:::s tits tta. i Only. P. and B. & M. Ry. ST. PAUL, NEBRASKA . ' ii G Arlington, Nobraoko. all this deceives nobody, avails noth ing, helps us not an inch in the' direc tion of profit dignity, and honors We all know. . down in our hearts,' that these islands, groups, etc., are import ant to us only in the ratio of their practical possibilities. We value them by the standard of their commercial usefulness, and by no other." The New York Evening Post states another phase of the question. In speaking of the inhabitants of 'our colonies" it says: ' "They are not entitled to trial "by jury," to the writ of habeas corpus, to representation as the basis of taxation. In fact they have no rights whatever. To exist to acquire property, to main tain family life, to speak freely, to move freely, to make contracts these are no rights of theirs recognized as such by our government ( 6im Kstf Life We find that In every kingdom into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes a new phase.' Labor and Indus try gain life. The merchant becomes more enterprising, the- manufacturers more diligent and , skillful and ' the farmer follows his plow with more attention and alacrity. The good pol icy pt the government consists In keep ing, if possible, still increasing as long as there is an undeveloped resource or room for a new Immigrant because by t that means there is - kept alive a spirit of industry in the nation whlcn increases the stock of labor, In which consists all real power and riches. DAVID HUME. ooooooooooooo Bromiis Inermis Our State University has just issued a Bulletin (No. 61), descrip- , . tive of Hungarian Brome Grass (Bromus Inermis). Get one, thty r are free, and put out a pasture of - the only grass that withstands x treme drouth and cold. . - We have the seed. , Pbicb: 30c per pound, 3 pounds 80c. y v post paid; 20 pounds for $3.60, 50 tr pounds $7.50, 100 pounds lli.oa Broom Cora This is the year to put It in. Don't run the . risk of getting poor seed just to save 3 ceWf per acre. V' MISSOURI EVEEGREEN, $2 per fekeL TENNESSEE EVECGSEEN, $2 per hktl DWARF EYEEfiKEEN, $2 per tzstsL K .- - -4 -. , . ' '. ' . ; ' " V ' CALIFORNIA GOLDEN, $L75 per lzzl ' tTWe will send sample if you wish. ; tSTOur Catalogue is free. - Co. LINCOLN, Box A1500. Ml nd DREEOER pEnciiERons, SIIIRES-GLYDES and C0AC11ERS. ' 1AMS' Horse Show at the Omaha Expo, had all the People Judges. Superintendents and all ON TlIK BUN to see the largest exhibit of horses On the grounds. MOHB BLACK STALLIONS than all ex hibitors; more 2,000 pound Horses, Making Greatest Horse Exhibit - AT OMAHA FYDncmriM mm1 . - - - ' WW W - Wm -V" SB a Grisuol Sec NEB. IMPORTER it t - X essae. f v -0 .