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February 221900. , I NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. I Zt)t Iltbrzslta Independent Lincoln, iltbraska , - . tZESSE BLDG.. CORNER I3TH AND N STS " :": Ei-eveith Year - t j PUBLISHED EvEBT THURSDAY 1 $.00 PH YEAR 1 IN ADVANCE? Yvnen making remittances do not leave money With news agencies, postro&3tersyete., to be forwarded by them. They frequently forget or remit a different' amount than was loft with mem. ana tne suoscriper iaus to get p roper credit. Address all communications,'- and mal e all flrafts, money orders, etc., payable to -' Zht Dehrasha Tndtpendent, , s Lincoln, Nebraska.- Anonymous communications will not be no ticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. : , . . The republican party hangs -on to the name of Lincoln, and fights every , prin ciple and every policy that Lincoln every advocated. 4W 3 ? Kyle has 1 entered the republican cau cus. ..We always said from the,first time we ever saw. him, .that he .was on the road to hell, r ' " ? '. e ' PresidentDiaz has been unanimously te-elected president of Mexico. r;tWhen will the time come when we will elect a president that way? i From past experience, we have learned .that whenever the Boers start to retreat i that the next mail will bring: news that the British have received another licking. That secret treaty is liable to'cet a black eye when the canal treaty; comes ; up in the senate. Even some of the' re publicans are liable to.,give it a .punch or two. ,.,.. ,.. The starving millions of India is a re jralt of, the English gold standard policy She depopulates those ancient countries by starvation and calls it "advancing civilization." ' '" ' ' ? .. ' Governor., Poynter leftSaturday night to attend the meeting of all the governors in Washington. There may be some . lively times happen in Washington before that meeting of governors adjourns. - Joe Chamberlain first tried John Bull on the Boers and when that didn't work he tried Buller. As for. himself he has always been a bully; So far 'the Boers have mot Bull, Buller and bully, and all three successfully. " . - Populist conventions, state and county, krtnt. in orvit. h ft Cimffk RPMrPiT AVftrv t.nriA this year, including oneagar. uowara. If there was ever a year in the history of Nebraska when the office should seek the man, it is this year. 1 " " " :: ' The republican attorney who swiped the ballots - out in Hitchcock and when chased by the officers threw them out on :the prairie, evidently forgot ! that there . 'had been a change of administration in Nebraska, or he ' would? never have done it. . " " . " ' " " ' The Union Pacific has doubled ,its . 'dividends on botn common ana . pre ferred stock over last -year. - In con sideration ' of this ' fact it is foremost amonsr those roads that nronose to raise freight rates "so as to get part of the nroimorit.v that the wholo countrv ia en- goying. England should take a hint from the diplomacy of Spain. .. She -should sell the Transvaal and the Orange Free State to McKinley for $20,000,000. Salisbury nd Joe Chamberlain have just as good m title to them as Spain had in the Phil ippines. Spain got ; rid of a ; long and costly war by that little transaction and flngland might do the -same thing. Populism has made such rapid strides In the last year that it bothers the editor of the Independent to keep track of it. It has at last invaded McKinley's . cabi net. Secretaries Long and Wilson . are .both out in newspaper interviews advo cating government ownership of public utilities. In the New York Independent they declare in the most positive terms for the government ownership of the INicarauguan canal and a cable across the Pacifi ocean. . ,,,,.. v- Gen. Ludlow who, has .nqt.been very ' much of a success in Cuba now,recom mends that a couple of Cuban papers be suppressed. - He "declares that if -.the American administration J;in"-Cuba is to be successful a pr&S censorship" must be ' established.- McKinley witt-likely lend a willing ear to such proposals as he has been running a press censorship ver since he came intp office.5 Step by Step despotism advances. . The English jingo vindicators in this countryvdefehd the- war - on the upon the' ground " that the ''' butlahders were taxed without representation. 5 Wei is not that exactly what the McKinley . ites propose to do in the Philippines and.1 Porto Rico? If ' it is right for England to make war on the Boers for taxing i , without consent, is it not' also right for the Filipinos : to make war on the. Han nacrats for taxing t them without their consent; uo meso rignis innere oiy. v" la the Anglo-Saxon race ? ii k f ?y- - - - . -,V " " v sT f t - t The war in' South Africa has st The war in' South Africa has stimu lated a good deal of writing on a subject not at all connected , with the war, but which has been a theme upon which very much has been written and much discussed in populist circles for the last ten years. Hcwfarinf avlmce -of, the mass of the people, and " especially that part called ' the , educated,' were the principles of the populist party, is just becoming to be understood." ,. - The populists have held that econom ic conditions were producing, degenera tion on both flanks of the army of civili zationamong the Very rich and among the very poor. .' They have held that the concentration of wealth in a few . hands and extreme poverty of a large part of the people would in the end 7 be ' disas trous to the whole race. The extremely rich would degenerate and so would the very poor. They claimed that every cataclysm that had overwhelmed advan-. cing civilization in the past could' be traced to this one' cause. - ' VA The Independent has published sey eral short articles from British . writers in the , last. few ' weeks describing the situation, in the English army, which go to show that this condition of affairs which has long existed in G-reat Britain; has produced exactly the resnlts predic ted by the-writers and speakers: of i the populist party." One officer of the Brit ish army makes the statement without qualification. He says the officers of the army are for the most part taken from a class of degenerates namely, the sons of rich men and of the aristocracy. An other officer declares that the common soldier has degenerated, both in intellect nd Tihvsinallv. and in ' nroof- noints to the recent order of thl , Kritish war de partment reducing the height of men who would be accepted for military ser vice to five feet in the infantry and five feet two inches in the artillery. A similar order was issued by our own war depart ment; relaxing the regulations for physical examinations before the ' last call for troops .could ? be filled f or. the Philippines. .. sv.-- -('- I Olive Schreirier's articles in the Cosr. mopolitan bearing upon the degenera- l tfon of women in the higher.circles and the impossibility of . them - bearing healthy, strong children, was upon the aine theme." The anthropometric inves tigations that have been carried . on in the universities of Nebraska, Yale, Well esley and Oberlini bear ; upon the same, subject. The result' of ' these' measure ments are described in another article in this issue under the head of "Nebraska Girls Excel.', All of this evidence is to the effect that degeneracy can plainly be detected very where among the very rich and the very ,-poor '.. . Among both classes tnere is a iacic)i pnysical vigor and a dullness of intellect. . , ..Thatis exactly what-the populists have always . .said would .be the result of he , concentration of wealth, in few hands with extreme poverty, among the masses. There has never been another sufficient cause assigned for it. , It . can be explained on no other theory. All history bears evidence to it, for where- ever m ail tne past weaitn nas concen trated the same result has been pro duced. The brilliant intellects disap peared in Rome and the manly physical vigor or tne masses vanisnea, just as wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. So it was in Egypt, in 'Assyria, in every nation of which history has any record.' The most nauseating sight that the editor of the Independent has ever seen were some of the dudes that he has met in what' is called "the highest circles of society" in London, Edinburgh and New York. They were far more disagreeable to meet than the beggars who formed the degenerates at the other end of the line. What can be more,1 disgusting than a simpering girl, dressed in an ex treme 'decollette toilette, or a dude star ing at vacancy , through a single eye glass? Or a specimen of the latter walking along the street with a cane bottom side up and his elbows stuck out at the proper dude angle? His father is a millionaire, and he has no ob ject in life except to exhibit his charms to a gazing public, made up of degener ates of another class These scientific anthropometric meas urements show that degeneracy has not yet set in, in Nebraska. Why has it not? We-have no great accumulation o: wealth in few hands here yet. Where suchv accumulation has taken place, there we find it and no other place. r The root of this . evil, then, is the con centration of wealth, and the study o mankind should be to "find the cause o this concentration. The populists have always said -that wealth was concen irated or distributed -by controlling the volume of money. ;. In this they have the upBpjliptalL .economists and the ver diet of all 'history, It is thehivrsa: nistory or manKina tnat, wnen money was plentif ul.'.Vealth has been distribu ted, the masses of the. people prospered and the accumulation of great . fortunes i : 1 i rm tsi iri s Allison ana Jtiutuwllve testi mony to this fact. : No historian of au thority ever said any things to the con trary. , . "There was great industrial prosperity in Great Britain immediately after the battle of Waterloo, and there waseaual ly great business prosperi ty in the Uhiu d states immediately after the surrender of Jjee atJVppomattox.-JJutin each case that prospenty jwas followed by ieorisla tion destructive of theieeal tender mon ey pt tae,cointry ivhicarhad created the prosperity. 'England, after the Napole anic wars, suffered more in five years by egislation destroying the money of the country than from all her military ex penditures of twenty-two years under suspension of ' specie payment. The United States suffered more in the ten years following the cessation of hostili ties, by the wicked policy inaugurated by Secretary - McCullouzh and his co workers, than by all the expenditures of that tremendous war. - ? " f In the contest Which now lies before us, the welfare of the whole human race is concerned that of the rich as well as that of the poor. ' All the science, all the art, all the education will not save us if this concentration of wealth is not stop ped. There is but one thine that will top it. That is ah increase in the" vol ume of money. All the tinkering .with trusts and tariffs will avail nothing, The concentration of wealth will go on as ong as the money of the country is re strieted to its present volume. ,1 , There is but one thing to do.. Elect a president and congress that will take the control of the volume "of the money out of the hands of the greedy .rich, ...That will be the battle ground of the future, until it is accomplished, or our present civilization is overthrown. e .r THAT LITTLE INFANT Carnegie has fallen out with his old partner, Frick, and they have got into the courts. Now we are in a fair way to get some of the facts about this infant industry that congress has so long ostered by prohibitive tariffs. Frick has, filed a bill in court and his attorney sum maries it as follows: . "The business from 1882 to 1900 was enormously profitable, growing by leaps and jumps from year to year, until in 1899 the firm actually made on low-priced contracts in net profits, after paying all expenses of all kinds, $21,000,000. In November, 1899, Carnegie estimated the net profits for 1900 at $40,000,000, and Frick then estimated them at $42,000,000. Carnegie valued the entire property at over $250,000,000 and avowed bis ability in ordinary prosperous times to sell the property on the London market for 100,000,000, or $500,000,000." J ttst imagine tne wickedness of that McKinley bill and its foster brother, the Gorman-Wilson tariff bill, which laid such heavy burdens upon the American people that this set of men might become multi-millionaires. Remember how they hired- Pinkerton thugs to shoot down American workingmen," who only asked air wages out of this immense boodle. How were these men able to commit these enormous robberies? Simply be cause tney naa tne republican party behind them. . They Will continue them as long as that party is in power. , The only way of escape is to take from that party the control of the government. That is he duty of every honest man in these United States. . r FARMERS' NATIONAIj CONGRESS. There is a gold bug association that meets once every year called the 1 Farm ers' National Congress. The editor of the Independent attended one of their conventions when they met at Council Bluffs, la. He went to " the meeting of the committee on resolutions. When the roll was called it turned out that that committee of the Farmers' Congress was composed of seven national bankers, one gold bug politician, Hall of Missouri, and three other men, not one of whom was a farmer. This editor has attended no more of its meetings . - H. F. Miller sends a clipping contain ing some of their discussions, the con elusions ot wmcn ne aeciares ; are "a no such thing." Here is the clipping: . "Hon. W. B. Powell, of Pennsylvania, in an excellent paper on inventions for farmers, drew a contrast between the farmer of the south doing his work by hand and the farmer of Iowa doing his work by machinery; said wheat can now be raised at jO ccents per bushel at profit, and that seven men can now raise the wheat required to make the flour for 1,000 persons. V The editor of the Independent wishes he had the power to force all these chaps to make a living raising wheat at 30 cts. a bushel." It would not be long unti every one of them would be howling pops. ; Any man wno ever raisea a crop of wheat knows that such assertions are simply ridiculous. There is no money in a - . t raising wheat even at 50 cents a bushel beyond farm hand wages. . f THE GREENBACKS DESTKOTFD The greenbacks the money that saved this nation and which has done the busi ness of the country for thirty-eigh years have at , last , been destroyed Here is what Senator Allison says abou it. (Congressional Record, page 1838) "We have provided first for $150,000, 000 reserve of gold. We have provided that the greenbacks thus redeemed shall remain there until the gold is placed in the reserve, and then, of course, they are taken out. Therefore we have , literally carried but the President's proposition, because when a greenback is redeemed it never can get out of that redemption fund until a gold dollar goes in in place of it." ' :,rr .;-,,,. This.is just what the populists said the republicans would do if McKinley was elected. When the charge was made, every republican orator and every republican newspaper denied it. They obtained the power to do this thing by falsehood and hypocrisy. They have obtained power , in .this . way and they exercise . it - like all despots. ' Do the masses of the republican party really want the greenbacks destroyed? Will their partisan insanity keep them voting for the party that did it? ' ! These days England keeps one eye on Russia and-the other on Oom' Paul ..'' " WHAT ABE THEY? ' The last consolidated report shows that the banks of Nebraska have indi vidual deposits amounting to $50,525, 771.50, being $50 a piece for every man, : woman and child in the state. And j this does not include government de- j posits, of which 'there is a considerable amount; held 1 by Lincoln and Omaha banks. Eastern people are wondering how calamity howlers can have the face to remain in a state ' where there is so much money. If the extra dollar : that are carried around in' pockets, or are aid away in the ' stocking ' banks; were added to the total the' easterners might well wonder.- Wilber Republican When ah ' editor ;; picints a statement ike that, any honest man who reads it, no matter how religious : he may be,' has to bite his lip to keep from saying cuss words. 'What is the moral standing of the educator is another question. To say that he lies does not cover the- mat ter. That he (s publishing a lie is self - evident, for the bank statement;; from which he quotes shows that instead of there being $50,525,771,50 in the , banks at that time, ' there were only , $4,134, 675.38. Even the figures of deposits are wrong as well as every other part of the statement. 5 The statement of the na tional banks has these three items of de posit: Individual deposits; $28,859,060.38. United States deposits. 3711)82.91. . De posits of United , States disbursing offi cers, $357,886.36. The state bank state ment has this: General ' deposits, . $21, 666,111.12. ... " ;'. The statement conveys to the general reader the one idea that the people of Nebraska have ver fifty millions of dol lars lying in the banks. ' It is not possi ble that the editor did not know that , - h . , - -' . . - w- ..... that statement was ..a lie.; That, is ten times as 'much money as is in the banks. The amount of money - in tne banks ac cording to the bank statement was as follows: National banks, $3,330,280.39, In the state banks, $1,909,446.99. , This same article has been printed in nearly all the republican' papers in Ne braska. Are all the' republican editors in the state international liars? Or are .they simply mullet heads? Or do they think that morality has no place in the discussion' of public questions? ; The Independent would like an expression of opinion on that subject from some of the readers of -this paper. ' Are these Nebraska republican - editors unmiti gated scoundrels and habitual liars, or are they just mullet heads? ' UNMASKED The fusion forced tn the United States senate unmasked the plans of the gold bug senators by securing votes on ; the two following amendments" to ' the gold bill: ' An amendment offered bv Mr. Pettus '(AlaX providing, that I gold " coins and silver aoiiarscoipeojoy tne -unixeq oiaies shall be a legal tender at their nominal value, was defeated .44 to 27. Another amendment by Mr. ' Pettus providing that nothing In ; thw act' should .affect the legal tender qualityjof United States silver dollars, was'hkewise defeated, 44 to 26. r;.:;:r'. .-, Mr. Vest, (Mo) offered an amendment providing for $200,000,000 of ..treasury bond notes, Which should ..be, loaned by the secretary of the . treasury to any person who would deposit United States bonds as security. . Uia Amendment, Mr. Vest said, if enacted; into law, would afford the citizen owner, of bonds the same facilities as wej-e afforded national banks. The amendment was defeated without division, ; . V- ,' -.' I'i The vote on these amendments shpws that the statement of Aldrich and Alli son that the legal tender quality of . the silver dollars was not - affected by the bill, were barefaced falsehoods, and that the republicans must go : before the people acknowledging that they have granted a special; privilege to nationa bankers to deposit bonds, get their-value back in money, and that they will not allow any other American citizen - this privilege. . " ' . '.. " ." .;; .' When this bill is signed by the presi dent there will be nothing a legal tender for debt but gold the republicans ' have said so" by these votes and -four or five thousand national .. bankers will be allowed to draw double interest on their money and no other American citizen will be allowed to do it. There is one thing that new regents o the university, should, take hold of with vigor, and that is to see that every stu dent before he can get a diploma under stands the principles' of logic. As it is now they are graduted by the hundred when they are so ignorant that : they can't tell the difference between a so phism and : ' ar sylogisjn.; Not one t in hundred of them can dissect- an argu ment and tell where it is spurious or f al lacibus. The science of the ; laws o thought, the art of using reason well in our inquiries ..after' truth; is " the n very foundation, of all things. -.If the men in public life now had 'been taught this science, the 'nation would . not be in, its present condition. Thousand's of Vmen moving in good society - believe ; in, and guide their" political action by sophis tries which they lack the ability, to de tect., . '. , - . . The Springfied Monitor has gone daft. It accuses the Independent of being "the paper which three years ago induced the populist legislature to repeal a good honest newspaper law . id order that it could take advantage of : its pull and come in for ' several thousand dollars worth of city advertising, which it ptlier wise would not have been v entitled; to.' This paper has never had a line of city advertising, and no" one in his sound mind would believe it possible for it to get any: in this gang ridden city whioh has 900 republican majority. The Moni tor is mad because this paper will not support Mr. Howard for auditor. The ine of " attack is exactly after the tactics of Mr. Howard. If you don't like a paper or public officer make a vicious attack. Everyone . has been expecting that England .would arm the savages and set them , on the Boers -just as George III did on the American patriots in the days the American . revolution. Sunday, dispatches, were published to the effect hat tne .English ottered, the Zulus arms, but they refused to accept them, saying that the Boers had done them no harm and had fed their hungry and cared for their sick. , It seems when it came, to the test, that the Zulus were more highly civilized than the British. . It is no wonder that Mark . Hanna is willing to shove out - wads of money to beat fusion. With fusion in Ohio and Indiana the republicans would be in a minority? in ; the i former; state of 72,000 and sin the latter .state about 45,000. - is a very good investment for the repub- icans to start middle of . the. road papers in those states. If there was the same sensible co operation in those two states hat there has been in Nebraska, Mark Hanna. would not have a ghost of a show in either of them and no one knows it better than Mark does himself. Senator Kyle flunked on the gold bill. He did not vote and was paired. If his vote had ben needed it would have been cast along with the other republicans. There never was such a cowardly politi cal rascal in the United States - senate before. The democratic rascals under the Cleveland regime all voted. ; There was not one among them so contempible as this scoundrel Kyle. The state of South Dakota has had an indelible mark of infamy placed upon" its record for having sent such a canting hypocrite to Washington. There are a few gentlemen in this state, who' staid ,in the old parties and fought for the gold bugs until Bryan licked them put of their boots, whohave now united with the fusionists and are still fighting the pops and the men whom they have selected to represent them in office with all the venom that they used in the days when they did not call themselves fusionists." Now they are the holiest saints on earth and the populists are the worst sinners and corporation tools that have ever dis graced the state. They think that that kind of warfare is much more effective than the old way of organizing new parties! '-'Keep 'an eye on them.4 ' Sl . We would like to know upon what grounds Mr. Harrington bases his state ment that -'Nebraska is as certain to go for Bryan as Pennsylvania is to go for McKinley." At the last election in Pennsylvania, oh the" vote for supreme judge, the republicans in that state had a majority of 168,486, and that after one of the biggest rows m the party that has ever been known. Holcomb had a ma jority of 15,505, (World-Herald Year book) and there were seventeen thous and voters who cast no ballot on the head of the ticket. : The Independent believes that Bryan will carry this state if the right kind of a campaign is waged, but to presume that we are going to carry it any how and therefore can afford to raise as many rows in the convention as we want to without danger, is pre suming altogether too much. An old populist writer to the editor asks: "Why do you not go for the Stan kard Oil company for its recent raise in the price of oil and hammer away at it in every issue? I think it is one of the most indefensible jobs of robbing ever perpetrated on the people." Well what's the use? All the readers of this paper know that it is robbery so they need not be told, and as for ' the mullet heads, they would vote for the Standard ; oil party if the company raised the price of oil every week. The best way is not to waste too much time on details, but gb for the thing that makes the Standard oil trust possible, and that is the gold standard. The money trust is the foun dation on which all other trusts are buiit. Knock out the foundation and the whole lot will come tumbling to the ground. ; 1 " The Independent in clubs of five from now until January 1, 1901 (nearly a year) for 50 cents each. Invite your neighbor to subscribe. . UNSELFISH WORKERS The Independent wants to extend its thanks to the following ' parties and all others who ! are devoting their , time to extending its circulation.. Not only are we thankful .but we. are unmeasurably astonished at the rush of subscriptions. If this rate is kept up, the populists of Nebraska will soon have a paper out ranking all other reform papers in circu lation, but also as many of them say that it does now in the vigor of its fight against the coming despotism, militarism and serfdom of the gold standard. The number of clubs that have . been sent in since the last announcement is given below. We wish some one would add up the column and 7. tell how many there are, for the " editor has been too busy during the last week fighting the men who have attempted to turn the populist party over to the control of Mark Hanna. Mark met a Waterloo at r Lincoln . this J. B.: "Now,, about this 'ere ; canal, .William. Hi wants to be fair an square, an Hi makes this 'ere proposal: You dig: it "an repair it an police it an Hl'll take tb benefits, or HI'll take the bloomin benefits an you can dig it an police It an repair it. $ You can't hask no fairer than that!" i J Deep and Diplomatic William: "Now I must admit that this sounds rea-ponable."7-New ;York Evening World. ' - week. V From this time on populists will control the populist ; party, make its platforms and " formulate its policies. That great victory could 5 never have been won had it not been for the un selfish work of men like those who have sent in this great list of clubs. For itself, and for the, cause for which the Inde pendent stands, it extends to each and all its hearty thanks. CLUBS C. II. Nigh.... ..: 14 Wm. Fessler 7 M. Cartwright ."..12 C. L. Cook G J. M. Woodcock (more to come) 2 Peter Keen (more to come). 1 J. S. Dewey (more to come) ............ 1 George Bookwalter 12 Henry Dean 6 A. M. J ones. 5 R. Armstrong. .3 H. Byars ! . '. . . .'. J 7 D. Littlejohn 3 C. W. Nelson 5 John Moler. 5 J. W.Taber...;.... 5 Cal Graham 5 Andrew Young 14 Henry Lorain. 4 T. H. Mort. ... 5 C.L.Gerrard 12 F. M. Borden. 8 John Erskino. 5 Peter Reinert. .5 I. L. Sinclair... 6 Julius Jackirck...... ......... ....o A. G. Hallberg. . :.. i ...... 6 Annual Report of State Superinten dent of Public Instruction. Summary of Statistics for the School - Year ;K Ending July lo; 1899. : RESOURCES. . . Am't oii band at beginning of year ... $ 667,117 42 From county and twp. treasurers. .. 272,730 42 From sales of district bonds ., 83,587 15 From tuition of non-resident pupils ; 33,809 52 From local fines and "licenses 626.674 52 From all other sources..... .. 204,734 57 r Total.... .. .. I'. ... .'.':. .;'" $4,488,653 60 EXPENDITURES Paid male teachers . . ; S, ...$ 664,879 19 Paid female teachers : 1,833,886 49 For buildings and sites.;.. 212,264 09 For repairs... n 179,788 24 For fuel.....'... 204,613 61 For reference books, maps, charts and apparatus......... "... 62,671 27 For text books and pupils' supplies. ; 167,316 56 For furniture 52,866 CO For e U other purposes 437 ,306 77 Amount on hand at close of year.. . 673,060 78 Total. $4,488,653 60 DISTRICT BONDS Issued during the year ....... .... $ 368,301 81 Cancelled within the year 132,014 14 DISTRICT INDEBTEDNESS Bonded...................:......... 2,647,563 78 Not bonded.... 717,870 80 Total 3,365,434 58 . VALUE OF DISTRICT PROPERTY School houses Sites Text books.... .- Apparatus, maps, charts, etc. Other property .$ 6,425,302 90 . 1,661.056 19 . 519,699 07 324,195 22 284,969 60 Total ..$ 9,215,219 98 SCHOOL FUNDS APPORTIONED BY COUN TY SUPERINTENDENTS Amount deri? ed from state appor tionment ..... 632,927 78 Amount derived from fines and li- - . censes 33,080 70 Total . . ... ...........:............:.$ 666X08- 48 TEACHERS Nnmbcr actually necessary . . . 4 .'. . . . ....... 8,744 Number of certificates issued : , First Grade... 815 Second Grade 5,998 Third Grade , 1,099 Total... ... Number employed : Males Females 7,912 2,038 .7,155 9,193 Total. ...i. .... Aggregate number of days taught : Males...;.....:..;....'.......... 290,389 Females ,,1,008,742 Total.."...'. Wages earned : Males...... .. Females....'. 1,299,131 ..$ 654,037 27 1,844,143 76. , .$2,498,181 03 V Total: v. Average monthly wages : Males i .'. . . j . . i. . . . . Females... .... ...... . .$45 05 . 36 56 General average.......... ..138 46 PUPILS CENSUS, ENROLLMENT, ATTEN . DANCE , Cencus (children between 5 and 21 yearn of age) Males.-. 190,659 Females 182,103 '..Total.. ; 372,764 Children between 8 and 14 years of age. Whole number. .171,183 ' Attended twelve weeks or more. 143,903 Enroll ent Pupils between 5 and 21 years of age. Males 140,934 135,865 Females. Total Pupils over 21 years of age.... Pnpils under 5 years of age... ; , Total.:...:;.1.....:.. 276,799 256 - 714 277,7C9 . Aggregate number of days attended by all pnpils Males k ....-...:....-.. 13,t;95,95S Females.... .14,017,651 Total.......,...;.. i 27,713,809 Average daily, attendance. Males..... Females $3,933 85,489 169,424 Total Pupils transferred under section , 4a, subdivision 5... .......... .. - 4,433 Number of blind children. . .. 39 Number of deaf and dumb chil dren... .i... 106 DISTRICTS SCHOOL HOUSES, TEXT BOOKS. APPARATUS, TAX Number of districts.:...... 6,705 School Houses-T-number and material: Frame 3,701 Brick.;. w... i 313 Stone......... &i Log 141 Sod..., 517 Baled Straw ..................... -. 1 Steel........... 1 Total..;;......... . 6,710 Number built during the year.. 159 Number furnished with apparatus, maps, charts, etc.. 4,604 Number of districts owning text-books... 5,816 Average number of mills school tax lev ied 5 13 Length of term Graded sch'ls, Private sch'ls. Number of districts holding Nine months or more.... . ...: 1,721 Six to nine months.... .. . .. 3,570 Three to six months 1.037 Less than three months or do wh'l S77 Average number of days of school in all Districts 134 Number of graded schools..... ........ 415 Number of teachers in graded schools.... 2,7:15 Number of private schools 174 COUNTY SDPERINTENDENTS-WOEK AND COMPENSATION. Number employed by the day ...... .v 29 Number employed by the year. 61 Total compensation. ., $79,622 W Number or visits to schools.... ' 9,41J Number of educational addresses. . . v.. 4 Number of teachers' meetings.......' 772 HARDY'S COLUMN Cranks and Kickers Omaha and Wa ter Shooting and Pouring in the Gospel Anti-Trust Meeting Sci ence of Money Gold Bill Passed. Whither the faces of the cranks and kickers are turned, thither the world is tending. They seem to be the forerunners pf . progress and elevation. The whole world has turned over on to their side within the last fifty years. No one curses them now. , So it will be again. The cranks and kickers of today will be respected and. praised in fifty years. ' ' i Shall Omaha own her waterworks ia the guestian over there. The question in Lincoln is shall the city own her light ing plant and light her own stieets? By using the power at the F street pumping station it can be done for half what we have been paying. By hanging two in candescent lamps, one over each sidewalk at each street crossing:, the cost can be reduced more than half, and the city be much better lighted than now, when our trees are filled with leaves. Frank M. Wells, chaplain of ? the first regiment of volunteers, spoke in Gar field church, Washington, D. C, the other Sunday. He stated that Manila now had over four hundred liquor sa loons, where two years ago they had but three. The treasury department, statis tical report, just published, states that only $337 worth of beer was taken into Manila in 1898, r and $71,635 worth in 1899. Nota drop of distilled liquor was taken in duriDg 1S98, but in 1899 there was $34,571. Christian civilization, bul lets and whiskey go together. That is the republican method of civilizing. ' . - The anti-trust convention last week in Chicago had its day. No remedies sug gested seemed very likely to effect much. Too many of the members were stronger for the tariff than they were against the trusts. Just put all the trust goods on the free list and then we would see. Or change the present tariff law so we can buy American goods anywhere in the world and bring them home without tariff, then we would see. The tariff is the mother of trusts and monopolies. We hear much about the ' "Science of Money." To us it sounds as un scientific a3 science of weather or science of markets. Science is a- collec tion of known facts, from which reliable conclusions may be deduced.. What are the reliable conclusions we have de duced from the facts we know about money?,; What is there that is reliable about the weather or markets? We can rely upon the bond holders and bankers making dollars scarcer-and higher as long as they run thd government, and that is about all. - : Butter is to be tested, smelled and discussed the present week.; But how to make, good butter is the chief ques tion.. We have seen butter buyers who could tell by taste whether the cows ran in old plowed fields and fed on clover or ran on hills, among stumps and logs and fed on blue grass. When cws drink stagnant bullfrog water that too makes a difference in the but ter,, ..We have come to the everlasting conclusion that whirling the cream out of the milk does not make as good butte: as. a cool; spring house. But Nebraska has not got a ' milk hou"e Sr.n .evy quarter section, as Yn& billy portioa orNew Xork and Pennsylvania, so she must do, : A J- 11'