Nebraska Newspapers

    February 221900.
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NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, :
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