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iiaad. Bajaeted
J. Pierpont Morgan dictated the re-
publican platform - the last time. What
tanker will be called in to do it this
timer
Get out of debt That will settle the
interest question as far. as, you are con-
cerned. Let the mullet heads speculate
J with this bank money and then pay
f their debts in gold.
A correspondent writes that the
ipest and best way for the Nebraska
delegates to go to the populist national
convention is 'ten drive through via.
MPonca and the Bix Sioux. He says this
ia the shortest route and the best roads.
A change of about 9,000 votes would
Ugive Indiana to Bryan, and a change of
leas than a thousand would give him
California. This change, with Delaware,
Maryland, West Virginia, and Kentucky,
which even the republicans say he will
carry, will elect him. No wonder that
lUrk Banna feels "sort 'o blue."
Donnelly has evidently been - in com
munication with, the lying spirits again.
He publishes an article declaring Allen
"has been for years a corporation attor
ney and their' tool both in the judiciary
and before the bar.! When a man joins
the fuzzie wuzzies, there is no telling
what he will say.
The Brooklyn Eagle says:' "The tariff
duties are' taxes on ourselves." ,. Not long
since It said, "the foreigner pays the
tax." It would be no use to quote this
last statement in argument with a - re
publican for he' would simply reply:
You needn't quote any former sayings
on us. We have changed our mimds."
What is to be done with such creatures?
The republicans tried carpet bag
government in the south, but ' with' dis
astrous results have not taught them
anything. They now,' seriously , propose
to establish carpet bag" government in
Porto Rico and ; the Philippines. Re
publican office holders 7,000 miles from
home and preserved from public execra
tion by a censorship of the press and
cable would have a high old time.
- . - -
Deliver was the man who announced
In congress that you need not quote
any free silver speech on us. We hav
changed our minds." Now he has made
. another announcement. He says that
v both the sugar and tobacco trusts are'
for free trade with Porto Rica But
'come to think about it, what does it
V matter what such a man says anyhow T
i' It is of such characters, however, that
i t . .
i uw npuoucu majority is maae up.
The democratic party in Nebraska did
a very wise thing when it made Dr.
; Hall, the present state bank commission
rr chairman of its state committee.
Here is a man with ' good -sound judg
ment who has no frills to him but is
ww oi'ww dob -pouucai economists . in
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west. The ooDulist nartv
r
no difficulty in working in
a M -rf
lony witn the democrats of this
as long as their politics are guided
. sucn men as yv. i. Dry an and Dr.
r m - -
- There are no papers in Europe like
jur country weeklies; These "most en
a
lightened nations" have postal laws that
make it impossible that there ever will
be. Mr. Loud is exceedingly anxious
that our postal laws should be patterned
after those nations in the same manner
that we have copied their financial sys
tems. Every mullet head editor of course
will back up Loud even though it results
i in the extinguishment of his paper and
his whole business. Uncle Sam and the
weeklies will not be in it.
The Independent has had very little
faith in and very little attention' has
Ibeen given in its columns to all the talk
1 - A. IV!. " - , m
ldou uus wujjnasi passing a Dili to con-
the Nicaragua canal. A subscri-
sr who is very much interested in the
robjdct wants us to publish more about
it. Wewillbeueve there is somethinsr
'n it when Huntington and a few 'other
trunk line railroad men are dead and
'put six feet under the ground, or when
we get a congress that does not have
rtilroad majority in it Keep this want
of faith in the intention of the republi
can leaders in congress in mind and then
call it up after Grfs . congress adjourns.
and see if the instincts of the Indepen
drat are not right - s
" NOT ENGLAND'S BUSINESS
In answer; to OL. Watkins of -Wallace,
Neb., and one or two others, the Inde
pendent desires to say England has no
rights on this hemisphere at all outside
of the possessions she held when the
Monroe doctrine was proclaimed. That
statement by President Monroe, every
nation of Europe has respected and it
has become the acknowledged law of
the world. It was first made in the in
terest of England and at her request
Now Secretary Hay and ' the McKin-
ey administration seeks to set it aside
and revive the claims of the European
governments which have been discarded
for fifty years. This treaty would re
vive the claim that the monarchies of the
bid world have a right to extend . their
dominions or exercise a suzerainty over
republicans who' have established free
and independent governments on this
side of the ocean. England has no right
in the Nicaragua canal at all. It is none
of her business if this government and
the two little republics of Central Amer
ica determine to . build a canal. If .we
had undertaken to interfere when . Eng-
and got hold of - the v Suez , canal r she
would very soon have given us to under
stand that it was none of our business
and we should treat her in the same
way when she comes over here interfer
ing with our business. It is probable
however that she would never have
thought of doing it had it nob been for
the fawning and cringing of Hay and
McKinley. '
JOHN M. THURSTON
The Lincoln News and several other
republican papers are working a gold
brick scheme on the poor mullet heads,
and these innocents are taking to it
with so much avidity that it excites the
compassion of the Independent So we
ask some ef the kindhearted old pops to
explain the matter to them whenever an
opportunity arises. John M. Thurston
is out of politics. We so announced
more than a year ago. He will go from
the senate into positions that will net
him about $40,000 a year. Some time
since it was reported from Washington
that he would not even attend the re
publican state convention in Nebraska.
Now the News and a lot of republican
editors, who have been given, the tip,
are jumping into ThurstgfWth both. J
a. A,iii i a 2 1 1 i a 4 1
leet, wiling wnat an awiuiijiaa jnan.un,
is and they are going to make a great
reform and put some good man in his
place. It is all political rot .If - Thurs
ton had said that he wouldJbetCBarrdi,
date there might be some sensepfoak
Announcements go eut from Omaha and
other places that the republican party
has downed John M. Thurston! They
will prevent him .from going to the na-1
tidnal convention he ' shall' not be on
the national committee. A good man, a
truly good man, will be selected by the
republicans to take his place. All the
time they know that TSrjoipHgfl
want any of the places ana wcttiKm fc
have them if presented on a golden plat
ter. John M. Thurston will be the head
of the law department of the U. P. svs-
j l.u v. jMf.r
wm uiu uuiu a very ' lucrative position
with the Standard Oil tru3tT But fEet
innocents will all be made to believe
that the republican party is -making
desperate efforts at reform.
WARDS OF THE NATION
The Indians of this country were un
der tutelage of the appointees of the
president who were sent out to christian
ize, civilize and prepare them for citizen
ship for a hundred years, and at the end
of that time were more degraded and
barbarous than they were when Co
lumbus discovered America. In 1S7&
the editor of the Independent began a
campaign to make them citizens. He
succeeded in getting such laws passed
that any Indian can become a citizen.
What has been the result? The Indians
have made more advancement in the
last fifteen years than they made in . the
preceding four hundred years. " Every
report "of the secretary of the interior for
the last few years bears testimony to
the truth of that statement Now it is
proposed to resurrect this old, discarded
Indian system and apply it to Porto
Rico and the Philippines. The result
will be just the same as it was when we
tried to apply it to the Indians. In a
thousand addresses all over the eastern
states this writer . has . declared that
there was no way to advance . a people
except to let them paddle their own' rj
noes. Warship, tutelage, ; and; all that
sort of thing only results in degradation.
If a boy is to learn to swim, he most go
into the water. If a people is to learn
self government they must establish
and practice self government If the
present plan is carried out for the gov
ernment of Porto Rico and the Philip
pines, the enormities, insurrections and
robberies of the old Indian rings will be
but as a drop in the bucket , ta what we
shall see in the future. We - want no
more "wards of the nation." ,
BOODLE FOB BANKERS
The Independent promised to tell its
readers something more about the boodle
that' McKinley is distributing - to the
bankers. It will take a good while and
many ' columns of space to tell it all.
This week we ask the old farmers of Ne
braska to look at the following items:
All the bonds now extant would have
become due in a very few years and the
holders would have had to receive their
face value in lawful money. The bank
ers didn't want that at all so the repub
licans passed a bill to give the bankers
tS4a,Q&L22 more than the f ace value
for their bonds, which is another gift to
them of the money that you will have to
earn raising corn and wheat 4 : " v
Mr. Gage says that the cash premiums
on the old bonds will amount to 5.6851
per cent for the 3s, 11.6765 for the 4s,
and 10.0751 for the 5s. That makes $84,
541,064.22 to be paid out in cash, if all
the bonds are exchanged. The interest
on 1339,146,490 of. new bonds at 2 per
cent for thirty years will amount to $503,-
487,894, making the total payments
above the present face of the bonds
$588,028,958.22. '
That is a nice big sum for the bank
ers to receive as a' gift from the govern
ment by the sweat of your brows.
The difference is what you would have
to pay if these bonds had been paid
when they become due and what you
will now have to pay under this new re
funding scheme is $368,620,374.62. That
is the amount of your money that will
be turned over to these bankers' for
which they make no return at all except
their contribution to the Mark Hanna
corruption funds. : "
This is not all "of the boodle that the
bankers will get There is lots more of
it, the details of which will be printed
from time to time!. Notwithstanding all
of these facts, and they are facts capa
ble of mathematical demonstration, the
mullet heads will walk up to the . polls
and "vote 'er straight," as ' they always
have done.
raatina; Value.
It has been the cry of the republican
deceivers on every stump in the United
States for the last ten years: "You can
not create value by legislation." John
Sherman used to get up about once a
week in the senate and repeat the dec
laration in one form or another. Every
mullet head in America re-echoed the'
cry. XMow tne republicans nave been
doing some legislating about banks. Let
us see if they have created any values.
In the case of fifty-seven of the best
V known banks and trust companies the
increase in the value of individual stocks
ranged, at the close of 1899, from 20 per
cent for the Irving, Citizens, Republic,
and others, to 300 per cent for the Fifth
Avenue bank and the Mercantile com
pany, 450 per cent for the Garfield bank
600 per cent for the City National bank,
to 625 per cent for the Central Trust
company and 750 per cent for the First
National bank.
VDCWere all the holders of these stocks to
Ifijsjpose of their holdings .now they would
receive $60,000,000 more than they would
have obtained a year ago. Yet the
entire capital stocks . of ' the fifty-seven
institutions is but $52,000,000. So that,
within a single year, the principal banks
of.' the 'metropolis have more' than
doubled in value as profitable concerns
by legislation. .
yjW seems that this congress has found
nA difficulty in legislating value into
... . . ... ..
bank stock by the million. Yet you
can't create value by legislation! Oh,
no, not at all.
'.WE CANT TELL IT.
There are no words in ' the English
language that will express the vileness
of the republican leaders in their deal
ings with the . money question. We all
know how they made the campaign last
time, declaring from , every stump that
we had money enough that there was
in fact a redundancy in the currency
and that we must not add to that re
dundancy by the coinage of silver. Now
they have passed a bill that will add in
the end about $800,000,000 of bank cur
rency to what they claimed was a re
dundant amount, They make no excuse
for this. They jiow say that we need
more money just what they denied in
the last campaign. Congressman Brosius
gave out an interview last week in which
he said: : ;
"The apprehension expressed in many
quarters that under the banking features
of the financial bill recently passed there
will be some inflation, I . do not doubt
has some ground. It would be unfortu
nate if there was not for we need more
currency. I have no doubt that there
will be a gradual increase in our circu
lation to meet the requirements of trade."
When we said that there ought to be
"a gradual increase in the currency to
meet the requirements of trade," they
denounced us as repudiators. ; Now they
are advocating it themselves. Why?
Because this increase is not come from
the free coinage of silver, which would
give the people money without paying
interest to national banks to issue it
but the banks are to get interest on
every cent of it that goes into circula
tion. No man can get a dollar of it until
he pays tribute to these : bankers. The
money is sent by the government to the
bankers and no man can get a cent until
he goes there gives his note payable in
gold coin and pays : his interest in ad
vance.. Isn't it a beautiful scheme?
The house of representatives has voted
to give to some capitalists $1,118.81 a
day for twenty years to lay a cable to
Hawaii, " So you see that there are a lot
of other fellows who are to have boodle
besides the bankers. When all these
piles of boodle have been squeezed out
of the labor of this country and paid
over how much will be left for those who
toil? That proposition was submitted to
a member of the late convention. After
working over the problem for a long
time", he handed in the following figures
as the correct answer: The toilers will
have $00.0000000001."
SPECIAL OS-FSB .
The People's Party had its origin and
growth through the Alliance organiza
tions among the ' farmers, ' 'It is, essen
tially a party of education-a party of
progress. All of the principles which it
originally put forth have steadily grown
in favor.. Many of them have been rec
ognized and made a part of "the plat
forms of one or both of the old political
parties. The Peoples Party has 'grown
and prospered greatest in the states
where it has pursued a policy of educa
tion where it has taught the; people in
principles of government There is no
class of people so thoroughly acquainted
with political affairs as the members of
the People's Party in Nebraska. With
pride it points to its leaders as the bright
est intellects in the United States the
leaders to whom oppressed people in all
other states are turning for relief. It
was the People's Party in Nebraska that
first championed the principles and put
forth the men who are destined to bring
relief to the common people. ' In Ne
braska the People's Party has prospered
and not the least of the factors in its suc
cess is the Independent Published at
Lincoln the capital for eleven years it
has continued to educate the people of
the state. It has pounded ' along the
same lines from the same stand. It is
the old reliable. Nebraska populists ap
preciate what it has done for them. For
the patronage they have given, it is thank
ful. It has labored faithfully in good times
and in bad. In Iowa the People's Party
paper found it more profitable to give up
the fight for the party and to become a
"strictly Agricultural paper." In Kan
sas the Topeka Advocate, once a fearless
champion of the people has' changed its
policy and is now only an "agricultural
or family paper." The. populists of In
diana are without a paper, and in all of
those states the party of gold, , trusts and
imperialism is in power, , In Nebraska
where the state paper of the party has
been educational and has been loyal,
courageous and energetic at all . times
the People's Party has nrosuered as no
where else. The greatest battle is yet
to be fought Presidential electors,
state officers, congressmen, the legisla
ture and two United States senators de
pend on the result of the contest Edu
cation has been , the most effective
weapon in the past and it should not be
neglected . now. The Nebraska Inde
pendent has been the most successful
educator in the past, is now,' and will
continue to be. '.x ' ' "
It is always a leader in ' the '- struggle
for "equal rights to all and special privi
leges to none." The trust has- doubled
the price of white paper but that is only
a reason why the fight will be the harder.
The special rates announoexi' for new
campaign subscriptions atftf 'proportion
ately lower than . any that ' have ever
been announced in the past V Hundreds
have taken advantage of the special offer
and have sent in clubs of five. Many
loyal populists have paid these subscrip
tions from their own pockets. They
realize that it is the surest way to get
results at the election this fall. To en
courage this plan of campaign the Inde
pendent proposes to make a rate that is
at this time Below Actual Cost with
the hope that the circulation may be
sufficiently increased to bring the aver
age cost per copy down to the special
rate announced. It costs less per copy
to print 50,000 papers than : it does to
print 40,000. To meet the rate we have
announced we must add 6,000 new sub
scribers. Will you help? Will you do
your part? Will you get five or ten of
your neighbors to subscribe?!' If you do
not care to take the time or if you can
not get them to subscribe - will you pay
for it and send it to them anyhow? We
have met you more than half way. Here
is the offer: v V ,,
The Independent every week from now until
after the election, seven month To one new
subscriber 35c, to three new; subscribers $1, to
five new subscribers $1.50, to ten new sub
scribers $3. . . -
No other reform paper in the United
States has made any such - an offer as
that The Independent has the best
facilities in the state for printing papers
in large numbers. It is printed upon
the largest and fastest Press, west of
Philadelphia, a quadruple Hoe perfect
ing machine with a capacity of 48,000
eight page papers printed and folded in
one hour. When you are in Lincoln you
are invited to call and see it in the Press
building 13th and N streets. With all
these facilities the Independent has an
nounced the lowest rata possible, even
allowing for the increased circulation.
It's up to you now will you do your
part?
Independent Publishing Co.
13th and N Streets Lincoln, Neb.
A republic that robs and enslaves the
people is no better . than a monarchy
that does the same thing. A republic
that enters on wars of conquest and
holds millions of people as "subjects" is
no better than a government called an
empire.' This writer will never forget
when Bryan turned to President Cleve
land while delivering an address at
Arlington and said: "You. cannot have
love of country unless you have a coun
try worth loving." ; : V
A number of large advertisers in New
York city wrote all the papers of any
note in this state and in the United
States and ask if they might send a man
to examine the books and subscription
lists, so that they might know just what
the circulation was, Of lLthe papers
in the, Btate only two would consent
They were the Nebraska Independent
and the World-Herald, That is pretty
good evidence of two things. The hon
esty of the statements made concerning
circulation and what class of people take
and read papers in this state. The mem
bers of the fusion parties take papers,
pay for them and read them. The re
publican following won't pay for papers
when offered to them by the Hanna syn
dicate at half price, and don't read them
when they are sent free. The men who
recieve the Independent (read it and
many, of them file it away for reference.
Besides its large circulation, the adver
tisements in the Independent are read
more than in any other paper published
in Nebraska. That is also a point that
advertisers should make note of. .
Something has happened up in Minne
sota: The Pioneer Press, the meanest
nastiest, prevaricating sheet in the
whole United States, has : flopped over
from the worship of England and is now
printing anti-English cartoons and
and whooping it up for the Bores. More
than that it is going for.the Porto Rico
tariff bill. It is too late Mr. Pioneer
Press. The people have sized . you up.
You and your party are done for in Min
nesota.' Isn't it rather queer that Loud, whose
soul was made so sorrowful on account
of the postal deficit, never once thought
that that deficit could be stopped and a
revenue of many thousands of dollars
obtained besides by the simple process
of making the railroads carry the mail
at the same price it charges for similar
service in transporting other goods? If
some one had just whispered that in his
ear, no doubt he would have instantly
withdrawn his bill. -
There is a lady in Lincoln who says
that she can make a better diagnosis of
a case of "partisan insanity" than was
given in the Independnnt last week."
She says there is ' one symptom that
never fails to disclose the disease and
that is when the patient begins to shout:
"My party, right or wrong." When a
man has delusions like that, of course
there is no doubt about his affliction,
but there are cases where the symptoms
are not so pronounced, and yet there can
be no doubt of the poor - creature's
affliction. . s
The British sent their Queen to Ire
land to live a few weeks and she also or
dered ' the Irish soldiers to wear the
shamrock on St Patricks day. That is
one side of the question. The other side
of it is something like ' this.' The Irish
paid $15,000,000 more than their share
of the taxes last year and the new budg
et of war taxes" puis $$000,000 "'more on
to them this year. The British govern
ment gives the Irish taffy and then
reaches - down into their pockets and
takes their money. The only change is
that heretofore they took the Irish mon
ey and gave them no taffy. -
Mrs. Potter Palmer is going to Paris, to
spend the whole summer. Before she
started she went to Chicago, personally
inspected the 100 dwelling houses that
she and her husband own,' and ordered
the rents raised twenty per cent in
every case. She also ordered a raise in
all the charges at the Palmer house.
Now she is ready to go and astonish
Europe with her extravagant " expendi
tures while she entertains in Paris.
Meantime her American slaves will hum
bly toil to send her what money she
wants.' If anyone should suggest to
them that they ought to vote for prin
ciples that would make such conditions
impossible, they would fly into an un
controllable rage. Poor creatures! They
are afflicted with partisan insanity. .
McKinley was trying to sail ' along
with Mark Hanna alone at the wheel.
The first thing one morning when he
woke up, he found the old ship in the
eddies and whirlpools and Mark Hanna
running her head on toward the rocks.
The senators all jumped out of bed and
ran around in the most frantio manner,
some declaring: "We are lost we are
lost" ' Allison raised his voice above the
cries heard on every hand and yelled :
"Drive Mark Hanna away from the
wheel." In reply as to who should take
his place, Allison said: "I will appoint a
steering - committee." He appointed
seven brave senators. They have been
consulting the charts, (there is no com
pass on board and hasn't been for two
years,) for several days and they haven't
found out "where they are at" yet
They can't make out whether it is a
great rock ahead, or Porto Rico or the
Philippines. j ?. '
Senator Beveridge says, and he is a
very close personal friend of the presi
dent and doubtless expresses the views
of the administration, that "On all ques
tions of power congress should be left
with an absolutely free and unshackled
hand." As the constitution defines and
limits the powers of congress, this decla
ration is unadulterated treason to our
form of government Congress under
such a a declaration becomes an unlim
ited despotism. That statement is a dec
laration in favor of a new form of ' gov
ernment differing in every essential
from that under which we have lived
since 1776. A vote for McKinley under
such circumstances is a vote for the
overthrow of our government
Read the editorial "Special Offer." It
should interest you.
, ASKING ABOUT BRYAN .
The editor of the Independent having
lectured for five winters in the New Eng
land states, five nights out of. the week
for four or five months each season, has
a large number of personal acquaintan
ces there who of late have taken to writ
ing him more letters than he has time
to answer. Their inquiries relate to W.
J. Bryan. They want to know what kind
of a man he is. From what can be gath
ered from the questions in these letters
it seems that the religious people in that
section are very much disgusted with
McKinley's repudiation of a law of con
gress which they call the "canteen law"
which was intended to prevent drunken
ness in the army, and it is very evident
from the questions asked, that stories
are being circulated to the effect that
Bryan is a sort of toper and no better
than McKinly. Such stories - must be
afloat when these people write out here
to inquire about Bryan's personal habits
They want the editor to tell them what
he knows about Bryan. , , ,
To one and all of these inquiring
friends we say that we have known Bry
an personally for ten years. For over
two years we were in Washington with
him and saw him nearly every day. For
four years we have lived in Lincoln and
whenever Bryan is at home we see him
at his home, on the streets and at pub
lic functions almost constantly. , As far
as this editor knows, Bryan has never
drank a drop of liquor in all that time.
Bryan is not a fanatic or crank, but no
one in Lincoln ever saw him touch a
drop of Liquor.
A little reminisence will show where Bry
an stands on this subject When he was
first nominated this editor was an edito
rial writer on the World-Herald, , and
Omaha was at that time in this district
Inquiry around the office about who he
was brought forth very little " informa
tion. All that was known about him
was that he was a young lawyer , of Lin
coln and said to be an eloquent speaker.
Not much interest was taken in the
nomination because the republicans had
an overwhelming majority in the dis
trict and no one supposed he could be
elected. The questions that were before
the people at that time were the tariff,
the A. P. A. and the submission of a pro
hibition amendment to the state " consti
tution. One day it was announced that
Bryan would address some ward meet
ings in Omaha and we resolved to go and
hear him. ' : . .' . ; ; - : '
The place of meeting was a beer hall,
that is, there was a saloon on the ground
floor and a hall above, aU" belonging to
the same proprietof.' Everylman in the
hall to all appearances was a ferocious
beer drinker and 'many of them were
half seas oyer; The republicans had sent
in about a dbzenof their workers f to' play'
some game, if opportunity offered.to put
the "young man in a hole", as they said.
Excitement ran very high at that time
both over, the liqud question and the
Catholic, question. Bryan began his
speech on the tariff question. He had
been speaking, but a few minutes when
the republican crowd cried out: "Oh we
are tired of that Give , us something
about the liquor question." They thought
they had him in a hole sure enough. Li
quor was being circulated around
through the room and many of them
had about all they could carry. Bryan
straightened himself up to his full height
and stood silent for a minute or two. A
strange silence fell upon that moteley
crowd of beer drinkers, composed almost
wholly of the very worst; element in the
worst ward in the city.: Then' he said:
'Gentlemen I never drink a drop of li
quor myself, but I do not set myself up
as a dictator and say what other menJ
shall do." ,
There never was a sentence that fell
from Bryan's lips that produced such an
instantaneous and overwhelming effect
The absolute honesty of this candidate
for office,3 so different from what they
were accustomed to nearly took their
breath away. The silence continued for
some moments while he looked at them
out of those honest eyes. All at once
such a shout as was never heard in that
little hall broke forth from that crowd of
Third ward voters. Think of what that
victory was! Saying to that crowd' of
beer drinking, ward heelers: "I never
drink a drop of liquor, 1" " i
The little bunch of republicans looked
disheartened. 'Bryan went on with his
speech on tariff; Toward the close of the
meeting the republicans heartened up
tried again. Perhaps nine-tenths of those
present were Catholics and , the feeling
all over Nebraska at that time was most
intense on both' sides of the question.
This time the republicans cried out:
"Tell us how you stand on the A. P. A."
They were sure that the young man
would be"put in a hole" this time. Bryan
did as he did before. He stood in silence
for some moments looking over that
equally silent crowd. Then he said:"Gen
tlemen, I am a member of .the First
Presby terian church of Lincoln, whose
services I attend every Sabbath, but I
never will put any obstacle in the way of
any man worshipping Gbd according to
the dictates of his own conscience or
supporting any church or religious or
ganization that seems to him good."
There was no interval of silence , after
Bryan said that There, was a burst of
cheers,' greater even than the preceding
one. Bryan had conquered. Every man
in that assemblage was his friend. ' He
had conquered by being absolutely hon
est ' . . v , iY. ". .! ..
This editor wended his way back to
the editorial rooms of the World-Herald
and wrote a paragraph about this you tg
orator which can be found in the files of
that paper, which some day he will look
up and reproduce. A man who was a
candidate for office for the first time in
his life, who could stand up before a
half drunken crowd and say: "I nev&r
drink a drop of liquor," and before r -ligious
fanatics, driven wild by taunts
and threats, and sav that "I belomr 'to
the First Presbyterian church whw
services I attend every Sabbath' his
something in him above the average pol
itician. If there has been any drinking and
carousing at Jacksonian banquets lis
some of these letters assert it has nt
been by Bryan's connsent The Travel
ing Men's Bryan club of Lincoln has g! v
en four banquets in honor of Bryan. !vn
the announcements of the first one it
was said that on account of Bryan's re
quest no wines or liquors would be Mr
ved. This writer has been a guest of all
of them and none have been served.
This much the editor of the Indeneu-
, . . . m f
dent says in answer to all these inquir
ies.
The Loud Bill was defeated in the
house by a very large - majority. Tl le
leaders concluded that with the genetal
dissatisfaction of the rank and file of
the republican party, in regard to Porto
Rico and other things it was not wise to
add to it at the present time. There
was a few mullet head editors who had
just sense enough to see that the bill
would cut the ground from under them
and their business. One of them even
got waked up enough to express an idea.
In expressing it' of course he came in
opposition to the whole course of his
paper and that of the administration.
He said he did not see ! why there was so
much talk about "a postal deficit"
There were many million of dollars, it
was true, appropriated . for the postal
service, but it was all . returned ' to the
treasury except a comparatively small
amount He wanted to know why some
of these congressmen did not talk once
in a while about a naval deficit or the
military deficit Millions were appro
priated to them and they never return
ed a cent to the treasury. Now that
was a good idea, but the next week he
took it all back by saying that the ' com
parison he made between the military
and postoffice departments . was "rather
far fetched," and that in fact no such
comparison could in any fairness be
made. We pity our mullet head breth
erea of the editorial fraternity. If they
ever do get up the courage to express an
idea, they have to take in - back in the
next issue. . - : -
AN AMERICAN KING.
The cost of the
monarchs is $21,859,085. The Czar of
Russia helps himself to $6,508,315, the
Queen of England is paid $2,765,000, the
German Emperor $3,852,770,the Emperor
of Austria $3,875,000, the King of Italy
$2,858,000 and the King of Spain $2,000,
000. These are all : poverty stricken
monarchs when compared to our great
American monarch, the head of the
Standard Oil trust, John D. Rockefeller.
The American people pay him annually
more than twice as much as all the
monarchs of Europe receive. He gets
Then we have - another monarch; He
can't compare with this big one but he
receives as much; from the American
people as all monarchs of Europe put
together. His name is Carnegie aad he
gets about $23,000,000 a year. , Besides
these two, we have a whole lot of others
to whom we pay more than any of these
effete monarchs of modern Europe, ever
dreamed of getting out of their people.
America beats the world.
j- , ,
The Holt County Independent - goes
for the Valley Times because it stated
that the war in the Philippines was over
and all that we needed there now was a
police force. In discussing that state-
men rtroiner xjves says: "un lxirai
LordT But he should not be so aston
ished. How does he expect a poor mul-
leu iwhu ouiwt iaj &uuw nnjr uciujr wno
reads nothing but republican - papers?
Why, they have all believed that the war
in the Philippines was over for months.
It is true that in listening to a few pops
discussing current events a few of them
heard something to the contrary and
wrote to Meiklejohn, who immediately
sent out an interview which was noticed
in this paper, to the effect that the y war
was really over and that settled it . All
the mullet head editors in this state hon
estly believe that the war is over as well
as all their readers. Thev don't know
an v better. Door thincrs.
Whenever, a republican pie hunter
comes to Washington these days and
will not be put off, McKinley in the ex
ercise of his imperial authority, creates
a "commission" of one sort or another
and gives him a place at from $5,000 to
$10,000 a year. , To these "commission
ers" he has already distributed a little
over $1,600,000. This commission counter
has proved to be one of the greatest pie
ceunters that the World ever saw.; Raise
some more wheat and corn and pay the
bill.""' v; ' " . ! -
Keep it in mind campaign ; subscrip
tions lower than ever. One new ; sub
scriber until after the election 35 cent
three new subscribers $1.00. - Five new
subscribers $1.50. Ten new subscribers
$3.00. r No commission and no deviation
from these rates allowed,