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VOL. XI.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA; APRIL 26, 1900.
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WE REHT FO?, U2EETY
WlMt JrftM WmU if ha wera now
the rrLJtr Um t'Il ita,
Albany, April IC rtrcfr Gorercor
John P. Aiteld.cf I'-ftr-'a-.ia Us ad- Sl3T8 llZfa He-fiStaDHShS 3.
drea Ufor th Albany BiaHi Qoe of the reulU of the new found
Leprae tm -What J t'craun Would Do - doctrine, of the republican part is the
aaid ia jrtc , re-establish me nt of the s!ae trade. It
Tb fyecdatior. cf tie republic are abvUt from the declaration that
hakirg. axd the aiur cf liberty are tha constitutional guarantees of liberty
crussU cj. Inj Ccgsr ar laia on do tot apply to the territories. Read
the.Ckdd- f Justin, ai soiled the foilowing A,sociated press diipatch:
hail are iLUgizg the tecjie of hu- -San Francisco, Cal,. April 13. Eleven
msxity. TyroIe-e laborer "were carried away
Tu tCort to seccre privilege and to yesterday to Hawaii against their will,
. .- --,-.,.1 ; . j axd eSeren others escaped ia this city.
--a?3 jrtrat taooopw in dry and AuslrUn Kor, attempted to
in tmuoa i set otiy rofcbu c. tut rot- ut their raieate from the federal of
lirz xss down. fl -ial- but they refused, as Hawaii is
-Ficiir.s -Ite gowstrett such a stiil treated as a foreign country.
. r..i .v,. .w!Lj The editor of the Independent had
j.r.UUe a. the pnra e oocoprJie , fon( fuQ with tW gam6 cf offic.
Lar tara pxidoa of it They ee j uu ia lown WBea ne waa runnicgr an
to eactftJ eauc-u--, csTestkea asd underground railroad over there just
eltti'A. Thy coctrul lLJatioo. thy T-reri to the election of Abraham
. r-A .v , j,..,.. .,, tv Lincoln. If he had been in Sao Fran-
cs ooort the tbe other day when the McKinley
Ir.i-ict of th Ltit-d Sta. federal oScial were chasing white
-The fcsctkisj of jrortmntt hare alaTea, he would have taken as willing a
bea prrertd. asd froa beicg the pro- hand as he did in 1558 9. He was
... ; ..j- j railed a traitor then and he is called a
, . traitor now. Bet he was a very humble
the jo. member of a band cf liberty lovers,
""At the dictation of the ecai.tM the sota of whose names will adorn the
eouU, which were intended to protect i Pg history far aU the ages to come
tfc citin ia hi rihX have been used conquered the whole
to s&hka down trial by jary, that bul- j we t!iick it the world te
ark of liberty f-r hich the Exliah j hare swung backward a hundred years,
t-peakic people have hed srorw blood j The (Treat fr American republic has
t5 fr asv othr thirr. i become an empire. White sieves are
-AItho;.-s livt- ic a republic and 1
cavitg: do &a ca an arcy. ice corpora-
lioe of Ascsenca are fotrriar a miiitary
tablihisest, aL-d the bcli pens cf
Idaho how what i in store !r the tcil
rr c f Aserisa if this corrupt rule of the
yr dicatas i& &ot arrese-i.
Ons th-? republican party stood for
great priacip!, o&ce it had a tse&s.ce
lor hug-.a&iig. Bat the firr d the
corp'eatkac aa erjd eery jrreat
oau irta ita basiur. ard today the
great jarty of Lincciu rit meekiy in
lift crit p!c and U-k- it intrue
ti'xk 2rtu tio tn. 3at,at5 of Amer
ica. O&ce it hai conscknre. row
hut -r; cnce it kned ho-rty. now it
worfecap the dollar; wore it stood for
hsiicaty, sow only for Render. Cant
.i- at
jor jinn.
the zof the republican irtj. !en Xmon and Lld it with amazing
Uer the circuca.Unt it is rat-! nvcrJ nst a force of British.
nnl Ur both Ketmblicaas and Demo- For a lon time the 0611 fought inces
crat to a-k what would Jeerun do if j f "VJ?115 T,T
he were here 1 loading their rifles. Finally fifty Brlt-
-Here U the key to Jeer s mind;! soldiers, with- fixed bayonets.
hre i the cuzzmoa of his political ! charged on the intrenchment. As
fabc. mxA th toochctooe of his pohti- tfce wm rlosier- the Boer men crept
csi pht'-ictiv.hy.
-iw everything to the people. eab-
cut a'l ii.ijsrtant caller to the people; tutus or tfieir nnes to Hammer DacK
the can i- trurud. they may err, 1 British. Before their wives' eyes
bat they will right them-lTes. ev-ry cn- of the fourteen Boers was
-Is order to answer the qation as to ! killed bayoneted or shot,
what Jr-ferwaa would do if he were! The fourteen women, so quickly wid
here. x u e hat wa the bent of hi OWfl. EfTer thought of surrender, but
csi. j fought most valiantly and coolly for
-i ir-t. he u oz of the cvo-t radical i half aa hour. The British surroundsi
cjec, awd the ot prqpreeive and j then; not one of the fourteen sur
agieiye pitician aid ta teaman of j vlved to mourn her husband.
Uiat period. He wa teutral la nothir-jr, i Two days later, when the British
he tvr tri-rmed. h rerer dodged, h ! forces retired across the Tugela
never fctradci-!. he neTer aked whether I tweaty-lght corpses, fourteen men and
a tLsre a popular, bat whether it 'fourteen women, were found within a
wa- iu-t and etrtATy right. radius of 100 feet. Now there Is a big
-fecwd. he a ne-rer nezatire, but ! raound where rest the bodies of as
aiwa poitite. brave a band as ever fought for free-
T Lird, froc hi itterarea it is clear dosi.
that te voulj ix;ach rd drire into ! Scores of women have been in every
eternal disgrace the judc who have ; commando's laager I have visited and
e-urpevS the f uccuafi of the kirlatire only one has been without her rifie and
aid execruli d-;rtai.u by etabluh- S bandollrrs Mrs. Joubert. wife of the
Sr. govemcect by injunction.
r'urth. h o-li j ur-ih by projr
proceed ic all lhr-e a-a wao u the j
r-.ilil.iry f.-rcr o a la vivlat the rights I
cr Asj-ri-3kn citiirn.
-1 ;fh. he lth :!ter and
g' 1- like lert-s-4. He Sv.uld ceoouoce
the fl Uil Ul-iy p iiy Cotg-
?::itli. Itt7im. it n ,u; e rJrsre the
Filipino people ic e-tabhhi?.g an icde- f
Iec-t ;-oim:vtl, ard probably ghel" very Kooa conaiuon. ii
, t , , , v ' needed food and clothing. In fact the
S-jatli Ass-enca-o republics.
-.tis. lie
WCUid erd
si
g ri ill ard c.
"jfii eui'jrt to
the two
rvu:h Afrvraa repub.ic that
are
rrt-
tisftence.
.h. He
great cms
osir eu- rn
would c',':z-"- the two
ith a canal io as to bring
atd eastern eiorw
V-lher, ard he would cot get on his
kr tJia -der to cur igiaid's per- i vsi t!ln t--at ashtngton wrote Jo-n-i--
fcr thi ecterprl e. j eph Reed, president of congress, to the
-Nitth. Jeroa wooid eublih the following effect:
Yriz&l&e of direct legislation, now 1 "H gives me sincere pleasure to find
caivi the initiative and referendum. that the assembly of Pennsylvania Is
-Te&th Ht 'r2t trut JeSTer-l'0 ireI1 disposed to second your en
wn. w-nild abolish all nosoV. and deavor In bringing thoe murderers of
ill jctl frivege. Tt-i much we i jr suse. the monopolizers, to condign
kc-. for he ha icli u. But ho punithnient. It Is much to be lamented
wtvld he do it? In scy juignent tht eacb state long ere this has not
there i rJ.j cf - -ay, and thit n to! bunted iheiri down as pests to society
hate the t-rf can aad or-rate allJl hs rrtatest enemies we have to
a
raucici -
l This
tl tiUte kz.c tranTiorfatjoa. This
dtx. 2xst of ihe otter would dissolve.
lh-re would iff no private monopoly
in tnia pvj r.try.
1L JrSeroii would eelablkh a just
incuts tax and require concentrated
capital to bear iu hare of the bur
des of gcrternxettt ard thus lightaa
the burden A the emalr taxpayer.
""Well, hst what would he do as a
ci'irea ia the year IVjQ if he were
her Ths-t i section ha already been
anwered. It It clear fros hi utter-
as, hi character and hi coure that
& wos-ia rn a.i ju misrnt aaa mam
support the Cliicago platform and Wil
lau J. lirjan.
The C?.:rago j '.ttfom is the
breath cf Jr ?eron, axd iiryaa is his
great prototype.
"Th Jear we
I V battle over, and 1
already prictd 'i
are gutg to tight the
the hm tif victory are
m the heavens.
j fptnt c tisepcjideaoe ta growirg
and neither of the great parties can bo
celivered aa they once could.
-Th Almighty la'
cutties a road
tnrougn the forest and its cocjng m
acLmialed on the calendars of destiiy."
exiasea py jeaeraj ozscers uirougn Amer
can cues, tr-oiored men dv tne million
are declared to-bsre no inalienable
rights, but only such rights as congress
is pleaded to grant them, and a sordid
populace vote for men advocating such
things because the ticket is labelled "re
publican." HEROIC WOMEN
Tlwy Tirhi sad I)i by the Side of Their
leaser
A co rre? por dent of the World wrlt-
rhe world knows no finer example
fl ruitai , l1 oy iour;
f f vV.fft QrAffftrt CftlAfl M AT & c4HttlV
over the earthworks and while the
WOB Degan snoouag. tnea wun tne
commandant general of the Transvaal
' forces.
WASHIKSTGH ON TRUSTS
!
; lie trate4 tb Mooopollit Hnac
j Cliow.Teii Time Higher
on a
Than lUnan'i
In IT'S. General Washington's army
scldirs were la rags. and. with their
oGc'era
lived on the plainest cf food.
; principally roots, wrarress was sirug-
giing to supply cim anc nis army witn
the necesEaries of life, but it had trou-
! bl those wno caa tne supplies,
i because they controlled the market
clo-erianI were cot disposed to let uiem go
without oeing paid ttieir own price, it
S1" happiness of America.
s "I would to God come
s wouia to ioa come one oi tne
I ost atrocious In each state was hirag
la gibbets upon a gallams five times as
high as the one proposed uy Haman.
"No punishment, in my opinion. Is
too great for the man who builds his
greatness upon his country's ruin."
He Will Da It
If the president cf the United States
can use the army and ravy contrary to
the De-claraUfn of Independence and
In vioiatioa f the constitution to sub-
jugate the people abroad, give him a
nary big enough and an army strong
enough and he will une it to subjugate
the people at home whenever he and
his clique of multi-millionaires decide
that the country has again outgrown
the constitution and that the vulgar
republic la not up to the required dig
nity of such aa expensive nation.
Private Smith . . , . . .
WHO MURDERED THEM
Tha Corpaea on th Death Strewn Plains
of India ara the Result of tha Work
of William McKinley.
The people of Nebraska are being so
licited everywhere to contribute money
or grain to save the starving millions of
India, and Nebraskans have never been
appealed to in vain in the cause ef suf
fering humanity. But it is well to con
sider the cause of this Indian starva
tion. Who is responsible for it? The
Independent says,' and it means just
what it says, that William McKinley,
more than any other man in the whole
world, is the cause of it. Upon his
guilty soul is the responsibility for the
dying women and children of India and
in the great judgment day he will have
to account for it.
Now for the proof. It is a fact that-
this starvation has been foretold by
every economist in the world. Away
back in 1893 nearly every speech made
in the senate and hundreds of volumes
written by the economists of England
and other countries, pointed out that
the wealth of the people of India was
in uncoined silver and that any legisla
tion that reduced the value of that sil
ver one half would produce eternal fam
ine among the 300,000,000 inhabitants.
Six or eight months ago the Inde
pendent published a letter written by
Morton Frewen in which he denounced
this closing of the mints in India as
cold, heartless, premeditated murder of
the innocent and helpless people of that
country.
But what did McKinley have to do
with all this? He is the man more than
any other man in all the world who is
responsible for the dying groans of the
millions of India. It is with greatest
difficulty that the government of Eng
land. was driven to adopt the gold stand
ard in India- At last the friends of
honesty and humanity gained so much
that the policy was about to be dropped.
A bimetallic commission was sent out
from this country and an arrangement
had been perfected to open the mints in
India, when McKinley sent a diabolical
and fiendish message to congress, advo
cating the gold standard. That broke
the force of all that had been done on
both sides of the ocean, defeated the ob
ject of the commission and made cer
tain the starvation of millions in India.
McKinley is the guilty soul upon whom
the vengeance of God will finally rest for
all this suffering. He has murdered
more people than Napoleon did in all his
wars.
Famines in India will be perpetual
from this day on. Not only in India but
all over the world will this same cause
work out the same result. When silver
is finally repudiated by all the nations
and all of them, great and small, have
reduced their money to gold alone, the
value of all property will be reduced to
one-half the present prices and debts,
taxes, transportation, interest and all
fixed charges will remain the same. In
that day the farmers of all nations will
be in the same condition as those of
India are today. They will be only able
to sell their products for enough to live
on year by year. When a bad ye,ar
comes, and they come in all countries,
there will be starvation.
These statements are mere theories.
They are deductions from laws as fixed
and well known as the law of gravita
tion. They are fortified , by the exper
ience of all mankind. Tnat the suffer
ing from the famine'in India is caused
by the closing of India mints is proved
by the following letter published in the
Manchester (Eng) Guardian:
To the Editor of the Manchester
Guardian, London Sir: The following
telegrams were received in India last
week: "The queen has given 1,000 to
the Indian famine fund, the Prince of
Wales 250 guineas, the Princess of Wales
100 guineas, and the duke and duchess
of York 100."
"The lord mayor of Manchester opened
an Indian famine fund yesterday, with
Sir Forbes Adam in the chair. The ex
ecutive committee made an earnest ap
peal which was very liberally responded
to."
People in England do not yet under
stand the true cause of this chronic need
for assistance in India. I have been in
India for fcrty-three years, and during
those years I have seen many actual
famines of great extent, and many more
small ones through partial failure of
crops in certain districts far removed
from railway communication. Even in
such isolated districts which are stead
ily becoming fewer, the great body of
the people in all former years of scarcity
always had some ready store of small
savings to fall back upon, but not so
now. By our late unfortunate cuirency
legislation we have deprived the poor of
most of the value of their hoarded sav
ings, kept in silver ornaments, and the
value of the whole product of the Jand
has been reduced by the government's
policy of contracting the silver currency
of India. No one in England appears to
understand or even to suspect that India
is being gradually but surely pauperized
by the change in her monetary system,
and the people of England may make up
their minds for a standing Indian fam
ine fund. However liberally they may
respond to it this year, the same demand
will probably recur next year from some
other district in this vast empire because
failure of crops is ever present in India
in some quarters or other. And since
the government by its currency legisla
tion has swept away most of the savings
of the poor by keeping the mints closed
to the public for the coinage of silver
and forcing a gold system upon an un
willing people, the poor have but little
to fall back upon to meet even a partial
failure of crops.. Indeed, unless India
in future produces bumper crops every
season throughout the district, even par
tial failure will be intensified into 1am
ine for a large percentage of the people,
especially the agricultural classes, whose
savings have been so "sweated" by legal
exactment, and who now depend solely
upon the seasonable produce of the land
for daily support. ?, l jk-
Formerly, when the mints were open,
silver ornaments were freely! exchange
able for their weight in rupes, but now
even the wealth in India, whose wealth
was in hoarded uncoined silver, have, by
the change, lost 40 to 50 per cent of their j
wealth, and the poorer classes, who de
pend on the land, suffer a much greater
loss, as in times of stress they have to
take what the village dealer may choose i
to give them for ' their ornaments, and
you may be sure he makes the most of
his opportunity. . The goi' standard,
with the mints closed to silver, instead
of bringing prosperity to : India, will
bring death to millions of her people,
whereas, with open mints and a silver
standard, as in former years, India could
in all partial failures of crops have read
ily provided for the very poor who had
no resources. It is not alight matter
to have changed the standard of value
of a population of 300,000,000 and closed
the mints for the coinage of the money
of the people, and so reduce the wealth
of the wealthy by 40 to 50 per cent and
the hard earned savings of the poor to a
still greater degree. Practically no one
in India, except government officers,
asked for the change, and whatever the
Indian officials may say, even the native
princes were indirectly muzzled, tmd
dare not speak their minds on the ques
tion. The following on counterfeit rupes
is taken from the Calcutta Statesman of
February 22, 1900:
"A Marwari trader, an inhabitant of
the interior of Jodhpur (a native state),
came to Knusropur to purchase some
grains and oilseed, etc He afterward
went to Patna, and after finishing his
business went to the station to start
home. A passenger who was bound for
Calcutta changed a 10-rupee note with
the trader and handed over the money
to the booking clerk for two half tickets
for Howrah. On examining the rupees
the booking clerk found three of them
to be counterfeit, and - reported the
matter to the station, master. The
trader, Jaideva Marwari, was then
caught and taken into custody, and on
his person, after being searched, fifteen
more counterfeit coins were found. Po
lice inquiry was instituted and the ac
cused examined. In fact, the defense
admits the whole story of the prosecu
tion, but says thatthe rupees "are not
counterfeit. And fox this reason the so-
called counterfeit coins have been sent
to the assay mastery Calcutta, for ex
amination and report. Now the whole
case for the prosecution hinges upon the
-report of the assay master, xhe loth
inst. was the date fixed for the hearing
of the case."
The native states are full of these
counterfeit rupees, all of standard silver
and full weight, but made byv the gold
smiths; and what this unfortunate man
meant in his defense was that those
rupees were not counterfeit L e,, jhuta,
or lying, rupees-but genuine, in that
the rupees are of full weight and fine
ness. There is no exact equivalent in
Hindustani for our word . "counterfeit;",
it has to be translated by the same terms
as lying or cheating, and hitherto the
natives of India have been accustomed
to believe that every tola of silver of cor
rect weight and fineness is an honest
rupee, whether it has . passed through
the government mint or not, and it will
take generations to educate the mass of
the people to understand that it is the
stamp of the mint that gives value to
the rupee and makes it either genuine or
spurious. Many of the natives are be
ginning to consider in view of the dif
ference now existing between the tola of
minted rupee and tola of pure silver
that it is the government minted rupees
which are dishonest. If the greased
cartridges of IS57 brought about mutiny
and rebellion throughout a great part of
India, what may not the artificial rupee
bring about? It is a dangerous strain
to put upon the ignorant and easily led
people of India. Dalhousie was the
greatest statesman India has ever had,
and his last advice was: "Stand by
your silver currency; borrow in silver
and pay in silver. Never borrow in gold
to be repaid in gold." .
The whoie circumstances of India de
mand that the country return to open
mints for silver and an honest rupee.
Yours, etc,
William Forbes Mitchell.
Bon Accord Works, 46 Garden Reach,
Calcutta, February 23, 1900.
Great Responsibility
hundred and thirty-five
One
years
ago the British Parliament passed an
act for the taxation of the American
colonies, the money thus raised to be
expended in and upon the colonies
themselves.
Tne whole vrorld knows what fol
lowed. It glows upon the brightest
page of human history. It thrills
from every fold of the freest flag that
floats.
At the bidding of aiiam McKinley
a congress of the republic Wednesday
drew across the shield of representa
tive government the black bar sinis
ter of tyranny and spat upon the
graves of those who died on the bat
tle-fields of liberty from Lexington to
Yorktown.
Shall we wipe out that stain? Shall
we reconsecrate those graves?
The republic has been assailed. Its
principles have been abrogated. Its
institutions have been " undermined
Ana in tnis .rorto mean bill Privilege,
Militarism and Imperialism throw
down the gauntlet. There is no
longer any possibility of deception or
delusion.
Rarely has heavier responsibility
been placed upon political leadership
than that now resting upon the lead
ers of the JJemocratic party. a. Y.
World.
President J. a. Beattie of the state
normal school has resigned his posi
tion. The boarw have not yet elected
a successor.
Hon. David B. Hill of -New York has
declared himself in favor of the elec
tion of U. S. Senators by. direct vote
of the people, r
A PERILOUS SITUATION
Millions of South Afrioan Savages ay
Ertwik Out Into War Both Sides
In the War in Danger
No one can have a clear view of the
real conditions in South Africa unless
he takes Into conslderation'the vari
ous races of men who inhabit that
country. In the British possessions.
Natal and Cape Town, there are about
two Dutchmen to one Englishman, and
theseDutch, while still nominally loyal
to Great Britain are at heart almost
without an exception in sympathy
with the Boers. Besides these there
are the thousands of natives, most war
like savages. . Some of the recent fight
ing has been on the border line of one
of these native nations. Joseph L.
Stlckney in an article recently piinted
In the Chicago Record throws a great
deal of .light on the perilous situa
tion there. He says:
It may seem strange to the casual
reader that the colonial troops under
CoL Dalgety, when . hard pressed on
three sides by the Boers, do not retreat
into the mountains of Basutoland and
hold their enemies at bay, as the Boers
hold their when they are attacked by
superior forces in a rugged country
like the northern part of Natal. Why
is Basutoland, with Its splendid
strategic positions for defense a "for
Didden ground?" Looking at the map of
South Africa in an offhand way, one
has a general impression that the En
glish are the owners 'of all tnat por
tion south ofthe.Vaal river except the
Orange Free State, Since the defeat
of the Zulus - tne status of the native
tribes has been supposed to be that of
vassalage to Great Britain.
. While there is a certain amount of
fact in this impression, it does not
give a correct idea of the attitude of
the Basutos to the adjacent British
colonies. . They are a thriving people
of great physical strength and courage.
They inhabit a territory where it is
comparatively easy to make a living,
and as they are not yet broken by the
vices and diseases that too often accom
pany the approach of civilization to
ward a community of aborigines they
would constitute an effective fighting
force for either the Boers or the Brit
ish If they could be induced to take
sides in the "white man's quarrel."
They have plenty of horses of a char
acter very similar to the mustangs on
our western plains,- animals that will
carry thefr riders forty, fifty, and even
sixty mioses in a day. Situated as they
are, on the flank of both combatants,
they would be a terrible factor in the
war if they should ally themselves ac
tively with either of the beligerents.
But up to the present neither Briton
nor Boer has tried to bring this seem
ingly easily available force into the
fight. When such a possibility is sug
gested by. a stranger in .Natal or Cape
Colony the colonial "old settler" will
shiver nervously and look over his
shoulder, as though he were afraid of
being overheard, "Dont talk about it,"
he will say; "we have trouble enough
on our hands without having that to
worry over." "But couldn't you get
them to fight on your side?" the
stranger may ask. That question gen
erally gives the colonial a fit. He gets
away as fast as he can, leaving his in
terlocutor under the . impression that
he has been talking something worse
than high treason or blasphemy. While
the Boers do not show the same kind
of fear at the possible employment of
the blacks as fighters in the war they
are just as resolutely set against, it.
Thus, -although the beVigerents have
different reasons for their desire to
keep the Basutos out of the struggle,
they are agreed upon the necessity for
so doln
Back of all the questions which- have
brought the Boer and the Briton into
the field against each other stands the
black specter cf native revolt. I have
not at hand the figures showing the
excess in numbers of the blacks over
the whites in the British colonies and
in the territories adjacent to tne Boer
republics, but it is so great that a pre
cipitation of the natives into the con
flict might result in wiping out of ex
Istence nearly all the population of
Caucausian descent in South Africa.
Throughout the Orange Free State ana
the South African Republic the white
male citizens are in the ranks of the
Boer armies to such an extent' that
hardly any one is left on thefarms ex
cept women and young children. The
land is being cultivated and the stock
cared for by the negros. If the latter
should feel that the time had come for
them, to throw off the rule of the white
man and retake possession of the land
as they once held it under their former
chiefs they wouid kill every human be
ing of white descent outside the army
lines. Knowing, therefore, how open
to such a possibility they are, the
Boers are as fearful as oie British of
allowing the native to taxe any part
in tne war.
But in addition to the reason that
influences the Boers, the British colo
nist has another of .nearly equal
weight. It is well known tha. through
out Cape Colony and Natal there are
thousands of men of Dutch descent who
sympathize strongly wiu the Boers, a
small proportion of these men have
gone into the ranks of the Boer army.
but the greater number have refrained
from giving active aid to the enemies
of the crown. They are only passively
loyal, however, and It would not re
quire a great Influence to make them
rebel. If they should -earn that the
blacks had taken the part of the Brit
ish there would be no holding them
back . There would be a rush to the
Boer ranks from every hamlet In
two colonies. Railways would be cut
and rolling stock destroyed wherever
a switch could bo turned or a torch
applied. And it would not e merely
the men of Boer ancestry who would
be disaffected. There are .thousands
of loyal British colonists who would
find their loyalty seriously shattered.
If not wholly crushed out, the day a
black force entered the field against
the Boers. So awful would be the con
sequences of a native uprising that
the , colonists would rather see Brit
ish dominion sunk forever in the sea
than face , that dreadful apparition
again. ' . ,
It is to be hoped, therefore, that the
recent report alleging that sir Godfrey
Lagden. the British resident commis
sioner, has armed 3,000 Basutos at the
border between the Free State and Ba
sutoland ia an error. It would be far
better to let the Boers take the respon
sibility of retreating into Basutoland,
to be there attacked by tne British if
possible and necessary, ' than to let
the natives take part in the war. If
the latter should once join in a battle
and destroy or defeat a body of or
ganized wuite men there is no telling
where they would stop. ' ....
A SILVER SENATE
The Statement That it Will Take Six Tears
to Gat a SXajarity is Absurd on
the Faca of it
An old farmer in a letter to the
editor of the Independent says: "It
seems to be conceded ( by , every one
around here that the senate willje for
the gold standard for- the next six
years: I can not see now that that
can be a certainty, but as every one
says it is a fact beyend dispute. I
have said very little about it. The
great New York dailies publish so
many rediculous lies that the Inde
pendent has grown tired denying them
and has said nothing about this last
absurd yarn. Every one knows that
one-thirLOf the senate goes out every
two years and they also know that
there are a great many free silver sen
ators in that body now. In four years
two-thirds of them will -retire. The
statement that it would 1 require six
years to get a majority in that body for
bimetallism .is absurd on the face of it.
The assumption is perfectly safe that
silver men will ue returned in place of
Georgia, Arkansas, North Carolina,
Texas, Virginia, Alabamr, South Da
kota, Mississippi, South Carolina and
-Tennessee, ; It may be conceded that
gold men either the present senators
or others of like opinions will be re
turned by the states of New Hampshire
Maine, Iowa, Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. a if teen of the thirty - states
are thus accounted for without change.
In- Kentucky, Blackburn, a . silver
man, already nas been cnosen to sup;
ceed Lindsay, a gold Democrat, -Witn
certainty it may be asserted that sil
ver men win be sent in place or tne
present Incumbents by the states of
Kansas, Louisiana Montana, Idaho,
Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming. In
those seven states Wyoming is the only
one where the Republicans have any
real hope of making a fight and the
chances there are strongly - against
them. The-change in uiose seven
states and in Kentucky will reduce
the anti-6ilver majority in the senate
to TWO.
The only seat how held by a silver
man wnicn tne republicans nave - a
chance of is in Delaware, -and it is an
even chance that they will not get it,
There, remain five other states in
which the silver forces have a greater
or less chance of making gains. They
are: Illinois, West. Virginia, Oregon,
Michigan, ana Minnesota and silver
has a very fair chance In three of them.
In the face of these facts and of the
certainty that additional seats will be
captured for silver in the elections of
1902 it is futile for the administration
organs to assert tnat tne senate can
not be changea for many years to come.
BRYAN DEFENDED
The Most Influential German Daily in the
State Take Occasion to
Speak Ita Miad
The New York Staats Zeitung, one of
the oldest and "certainly the most in
fluential German daily- in the United
States will support Bryan for the pres
idency. This is a great gain to tne
fusion cause. It has been the - main
stay of the old republican ship in New
York for many a year, but McKinley
imperialism is too mucn ior it. in a
recent issue it came to the defence of
Bryan in a vigorous way. The follow
ing is translated from its columns.
"In his great speech against imper
ialism senator Hoar nas given as a
reason of his district of Bryan that
it was principally Bryan's influence
which brought about the ratification
of the Paris treaty, because he Influ
enced the democratic senators to vote
for it, This is true, but censure
should not rest upon him for it. Mr.
Hoar, himself, says In the very- same
speech that the ratification was effected
after the administration had declared
expressly, that the .United States by
this treaty, does not bind its self to any
thing in regard to the future of the
Philippines, but wishes to finish the
war with Spain ts soon as possible in
the interest of the Filipinos them
selves. - The opposition against the
treaty had been at that time denounced
by the administration and its support
ers as collusion with the country with
which we. were. at war. Considering
the assurances given by ..the adminis
tration, Mr. Bryan thought it advisable
to counsel his supporters to vote for
the ratification of the treaty so that the
future of Cuba and the Philippines
could be decided upon with due delib
eration. Mr. Bryan could not forsee
that . the administration would disre
gard Its promises and upon the ratln-
cation of tlie treaty would deduqt the
conclusion that the Philippines had
been "rightfully acquired by us," and
must remain American forever. In
this there might be some short sight
edness and too much confidence in the
honesty of the McKinley administra
tion, but there ia certainly no reason
in it to accuse - Mr. Bryan of incon
alstency.
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THE DECLARATION
Senator Soar Says Be publican Arguments
Would Raise a Lamgh in Hell and Sa
tan "Would Lead tha Chorus.
From the long speech of Senator
Hoar, the following defence of the dec- -laration
of independence is taken: -
The declaration of independence . is
not so much a declaration of rights as a
declaration of duties. It prescribes a
rule of conduct in the samevstate to one
another and for the nations of the earth
to one another. Like the golden rule, it
makes the law of individual right the
law also of individual duty. Do sena
tors reflect how this "imperialism, as
they call it, is inaugurating a revolution
hot only in the law of nations, not only
in the fundamental law by which the
people of . the , United States have gov
erned themselves until now, not only in ,
the interpretation of the Constitution,
but in the moral law itself? As I hear
the utterances . of some worthy gentle
men taking the name of God upon their
lips, it seems to me as if they thought
the balance of the universe itself had
changed within the year, and that God
had gone over to the side of Satan.
There is one question which I would
like to put to the republican majority in
the senate and to the republican party
in the .country: Is this doctrine true or
is it false? Are you to stand on it any
longer or are you going to whistle it
down the wind?
Thomas Jefferson declared it, this
Srecise doctrine now at stake here,
ohn Quincy Adams reaffirmed it again
and again. Abraham Lincoln said he
was willing to be assassinated for it.
Charles Sumner was almost assassinated
for it in his place in the senate chamber.
Republican national conventions in 1856
and in I860 and in later years have re
affirmed it again and again. President
McKinley, two years ago, made the most
extreme statement of it to be found in
literature.
Now, either this thing is true or it is
a lying pretense. If it be a lying pre
tense, the country has stood on a lie
during its whole history. If it be true,
the country is dishonored when we de
part from it. For myself, I believe it is
true; I have tried to live by it; I am
contented to die by it; my love of coun
try - rests on it; my pride of ancestry
rests on it.' To me that is what the
flag symbolizes and stands for. .
I believe that utterance made at
Philadelphia in-1776 to hnve been the
greatest evangel that ever came to man
kind since the story of Bethlehem. Like
the shot fired at Concord, it was heard
round the world. It was heard with
fear in the palace of the " tyrant; it was
heard with joy in th4 huts where poor
men dwelt. I reverently believe it was
heard with joy in heaven itself. -
I believe, also, that if the gloss put
upon that great declaration, by the sen
ator from Connecticut had been uttered"
then it would have been greeted with a
burst of derisive laughter ' in hell, and
Satan himself would have . led the cho
rus.
We have had so far some fundamental ,
doctrine, some ideals to "which this
people have been devoted. Have you "
anything to give us in their place? You
are .trying .to kuock out tne corner .
stones. Is there any material from
your swamp and mud and morass from
which you can make .a new foundation
for our temple? .
Gentlemen tell us that the bill of the
senator from Wisconsin is copied from
that introduced in Jefferson's time for
the purchase of. Louisiana. Do you
claim that you propose to deal with
these people as-Jefferson meant to deal
with Louisiana! lou talk ot Alaska, of
Florida, of California; do you mean to
deal withthe Philippines as we mean to
deal with Alaska and dealt with Florida
or California?
It was safe to give Jefferson who
thought it was wicked to govern a people
against its will a power with which
gentlemen who think it is right ought
never to be trusted.
I have spoken of the declaration of in
dependence as a solemn affirmation of
public law, but it is far more than that.
it is a solemn pledge ot national taitn
and honor. It is a baptismal vow. It is
the bedrock of our republican institu
tions.. It is, as the supreme court de
clared, the soul and spirit of which the
constitution is but the body and let
ter. It is the light by which tho consti
tution must be res 1. The statesman or
the party who will not stand by the dec
laration and obey it is never to be trusted
anywhere, to keep an oath to support
the constitution. To such a statesman,
whenever his ambition or his passion
shall incline him, to such , a party,
whenever fancied advantage shall tempt
it, there, will be no constitutional re
straint. It will bend the constitution to
ita desire, never its desire to the consti- '
tution. Cbnstitutio ad causam accom
modatur, non causa ad constitutionem.
There. is expansion enough in it, but it
is the expansion of freedom and not of
despotism; of life, not of death. Never
was such growth in all human history as
that from the heed Tfionias Jefferson
planted. The parable of the mustard .
seed, thaa which, as Edward Everett
said, "the burning pen of inspiration,
ranging heaven and earth for a simili
tude, can find nothing more appropriate
or expressive to whicn to liken the King
dom of God, "is repeated again.
"Whereunto shall we liken it, or with
what comparison shall we compare it?
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which,
when sown in the earth, is less than all
the seeds that be in the earth.
-But when it is sown, it groweth up,
and be-meth greater than all herbs,
and shooting out great branches, so that
the fowls of the air may lodge under the
shadow of it." This is the expansion of
Thomas Jefferson. It has covered the
continent. It is on both seas. It has
saved South America. It is revolution
izing Europe. It is the expansion of
freedom. v it differs from your tinsel,
pinchbeck, pewter expansion as the
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