THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
April 26, 1900.
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Cfc Etbrjsij Inisprr.dtnt,
A utn mourn ew iecta -wZl tnut t to-
Robert G-jod, formerly with the Valen
tine News Democrat, hi turchaed an
it.teret is Hozjb Jls and will become
It editor.
' Th patting c-f any man cm the ticket
with Bryan who is not as pronounced in
hi views as Bryan Limaelf i only an La
viiAtkc to cciccit murder.
McKirJey after lory? og-itatioa ccn
rjuded that a England had an Ireland,
this cosntry mut hare oaf too. So lie
went to w5rk to make aa American Ire
lard at of Porto Rico.
Rhode dcribes the British flag as a
eozimercial asset. The banker of this
cocntry hare found out that the con
trol of fegialatio is also a very profit
able cuss&ercial asset.
If the pepulista can just fool enough
des-orratj and republican into voting
for W. J. Bryan to elect Mai president
d the United State, they will hare car
ried o-Jt their scheme to perfection.
The portal savings bank of Hawsii
hare been abolihd- They were a great
eonvessenre and birg to the masses
of the per -pie, but a they paid do tribute
to the national barkers they had to go.
The new doctrine of the republican
party is that the constitution can be ex
tended, restricted or suspended at the
wi3 of oorgreas. If that doctrine is en
dorsed by the voters it means an end to
- free government.
.. The republican Lave advanced the
rat. At ocm time Secretary Gage de
scribed it as -philanthropy and fire per
cent," By the passage cf the Porte
" Iliean btil it aaesna cow to be:
thropy and fifteen per cent."
"Piilao-1
The trurt magnates each and all say
that the only way to destroy the trusts"
is to rote the republican ticket, and they
want to be destroyed wo bad that they
pst op f00JOO on their first
xaest the other day to help dc it.
Here is a poxxSe for the boys and girls
ho read the Independent.
JL The United States.
2: Verio Rico.
The foreigner pays the tax.
Find the foreigner.
Fir hundred and thirty -eren new
national hanks hare already bsea or
ganized ender the new law, and they
will begin shoring out their chin plas
ters by the r.asdfuL Walk up and pay
yocr tribute la the shape of ten per cent
Interest.
Thcrrtoa says no that the Porto
Rico bill ha passed, nothing more will
be heard about it. But there are still
kcc of the old aboiitionirts alive as well
as a few who voted for Lincoln. Their
Leads are gray taow but they will have
ogaethirg to say about it.
The sage eonduion to whi zii the re
publican leaders eooe is that the found
era of this government intended to e
tablkh a governsjet of three branches,
the executive, the judicial and the legis
lative should be oe cf arbitrary power
tJ govern men without their consent.
We matt fodiow the example cf the
moat enlightened nations of Europe. Of
course we must. Those nations spent,
last year, a wax, munitions, interest on
ar debts, and other thing of similar
character, the sum of f.WJOO.OO.
ll r that makes theta the "mot en
lightened" is another of those things
that ec pop can fed out.
- Tc Asmciatei Pre i always re-
jtnarking that Lindsay f dem,i and Caf-
jfexj , idem-l voted with the republicans. ;
How doe it happen that It never reports '
Petfigrew, i rep. asd Teller. I rep. ) voted
w;-- vsf cpsscct-ji; .w cere u as-
r.s .v J .. , -
w.Ht l"P o oui ;
Fettrrw is a gvud deal more f a re-
...t : L A
pssa u,o 1 a mocnq.
Mark Hanna has things so arranged
that there will be at kat four presides- traitors that the infamous banking and
tial tickets is the fid in NVbrt-ka this I currency bill got through this congress,
fail, namely, republican, f uzzie wuxries, Thee traitors are Wclcott of Colorado,
Debs, and union reform, besides the f u-1 Warren of Wyoming,, Thurston of Ne
arm ticket. If there is asy other that , bra'ka. Shoup of Idaho. Carter of Mon
cocid by any possibility draw a few votes j tana, and Eaker of Kansas. "" v
away froea Bryan, the money, mLl be j If these men had voted against the
. fymisLed to pay the expenses. - - jgold standard - bp! as they promised
THE HOPE OF 3II1XIOXS
There nerer was a ticie since history
began to be recorded thtt hopes of so
maty millions wejcplaosd ppon one
roan as are cow placed on W. J. Bryan,
All men who lore liberty, in all lands,
hope and work end prey for him. In his
success they fct-e the only escape from a
backward movement covering the whole
world, and from which it will take gen
erations to "recover. Such backward
iaoTemeBts hare ix?ea recorded in all the
cycles cf history. The world has not ad
vanced by tlocrard .r?riu. develop
ment. There h3e of liberty
folk-wed by centuries of tyranny. Such
was the case with Greeo - and Rome.
From frt-edem they descended to empire
and d?-rotiai.
No only her$ ia: Ainri:ax jda the lov
ers of liberty p!ace all their hcpeln the
sttcce35 of Bryan, but in all far away
countries whoe inhabitants have never
ten his face, but who hepe and fight
let liberty, do they anxiously watch and
wait and pray that he may succeed. In
far off South Africa, in sunny Porto
Rico, in the islands of ths China seas,
i mKrrr th hone cf libertv lives in the
breast of men there do they pray for
liberty. The Boer mother, who with her
bible in her hand tries to comfort her
fatherleas children, tells them of Bryan
in far off America, who if he succeeds,
-rill be a friend to that liberty for which
their father died " and uiil bring the
gTeat influence of America to bear in
their behalf. "
The fc tarring, patient Porto Ricans,
as they viewed the royal pomp and splen
dor of the inauiruration of their first
American carpet bag governor, will say
softly to one another: "Perhaps Bryan
will be elected and if he is he will be
stow upon us and our children all the
price le38 blessings of liberty."
The loyal citizens of the South Ameri
can republics look wistfully toward the
great cation in the north and say: "If
Bryan is elected, wars " of conquest in
which the great imperial nations seek to
crush the weaker ones will stop. We
will then have a strong friend to pro
tect us from aggression instead of a pow
erful foe to watch and fight."
So if is everywhere the whole world
over. Men with white skins, brown
fckins, black skins, men who live under
kings and emperors and men who live
under republics all who love liberty
work and watch and Fray that Bryan
may succeed.
PERFIDIOUS PEEsIDENTS
When President Hayes issued orders
violating the conditions of surrender to
General Miles by Chief Joseph. General
Miles declared that he would never give
up the fight until that wrong was righted
i ana ne was as gooa as ms wora. lear
a -- wr .
after rear he worked awav until the
wrong done to the chief was righted.
Miles has now another job of the same
kind on hand. Another president has
violated the promises that Miles as com
mander in chief of the- army of the
United States had authority to make.
General Miles declared to the Porto
Ricans that:
We hare not come to make war upon
the people of a country that centuries
had been oppressed, but, on the contrary.
to bring you protection, not only to your
e'.t. but to your oroDartr. to r remote
your prosperity and bestow upon you the
immunities and blessings of the liberal
institutions of our government."
If General Miles lives to see this last
wrong righted, he may well oongratu-
late himself that although presidents
may despise honor and violate promises,
the people at last in some way set things
right. We hepe that Miles will make as
brave a fight for the rights of Porto
Ricans as he did for those of Chief
Joseph. '
Practical men who know the world
and especially that portion who knew
Webster Davis never put much faith in
his philanthropy .when he announced
that he would resign hie office so that he
could work for the Boer cause. They all
suFpickmed that there was something
else behind that move. It now turns
out Mr. Davis will run for congress in a
Missouri district which he hopes to save
for McKiniey. He will illustrate his love
of liberty by talking against English im
periali-m in South Africa and for Mc
Kinleyism in Porto Rico and the Philip
pines He fancies that he can carry that
district becau there are a good many
Germans living in it. He will find, how
ever, that the Germans are against im
perialism whether it is on the eastern or
western hemisphere.
TBAITORS OF 4.
One-third of the United States senate
was elected in . ..Thatwa the year
pouxicai ireason ana pernay wasMtr me
high water mark." ar'y every leader
in the republican party was an advocate
of free silver. In the - west and south
all of them were. John M. Thurston
was about the country icErkig he was
1 1, BItM-
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3 1 1 Fl M i mmt m r .1 -1 I mm- 1111 I V I II.
r s M t-v i t .1
were joaded to elect a lot of republi
ca& traitors-men who intended to com
mh wben they were asking for
the suffrage of the people.. . It is prin
J ci pally on account'of the work 'of these
they would when they were running for
office, it would have had only two ma
jority in the senate. Two more traitors
from the south was what enabled the
plutocracy to win Lindsay and Caffery.
Every one of them will be sent into
oblivion to join the long list of other
traitors, like Mills and Carlisle, with
the curses of their constituents resting
upon them, at the next election. The
question is: Will other traitors be elected
in their stead? Give us the referendum.
A man who will declare that the pol
icy of imperialism adopted and enforced
by McKiniey means the destruction of
free goverament and then will vote for
McKiniey for president, is morally rot
ten from the crown of his head to the
soles of his feet, or else he is not of
sound mind, and we don't care whether
his name is George Frisbie Hoar or John
Smith.
By a vote of 210 to 15 the house of rep
retentatives has passed a resolution'for
as amendment to the constitution pro
viding for election of United States sen
ators by a vote of the people. Of course
this is only a sop to catch votes . and it
will end with that. It will be a stopper
however to, the practice of calling a pop
ulist a lunatic because he has advocated
it since 1890.
The difference between a "sound
money' man and a populist lunatic is
this: The "sound money" man believes
in inflating the currency to the extent of
S800.C 00,000 through the banks. The
populist lunatic believes in inflating the
money to $50 per capita without paying
the banks interest on it, and therein ap
pears the superiority of the wisdom of
the sound money man.
The copperhead who first stimulated
the Filipinos to fight for independence
was one William McKiniey. He said to
them that "forcible annexation, accord
ing to our American code of morals,
would be criminal aggression." When
Aggy heard that he just waded in and
began to shoot American soldiers. When
ever we begin to hang copperheads, Mc
Kiniey will have to stretch hemp with
the rest of them.
A pop editor who will use his editorial
columns to advertise such papers as the
New York Tribune, State Journal, and
other imperialist publications isn't fit to
hold membership in the ranks of reform.
All of these papers are sent out two or
three times a week at about one-tenth
their cost, and the printing of the soph
istries in them is paid out of Mark Han-
na s campaign fund.' It you are going
to advocate the fusion cause, be manly
enough not to stab it in the back. -
There never was a fraud on earth that
could equal the republican who can
stand up in open daylight and denounce
the Cleveland administration. That ad
ministration was supported by the whole
working force of the republican party,
with John Sherman at its head. The
Cleveland acts were republican acts, and
when they denounce him they denounce
their own doings. It takes cheek to do
that sort of thing, but the republicans
have it.
There is no hero worship in the make
up of the populist party. They do not
put Bryan or any other man on a pinnacle
and fall down and worship. They sup
port Bryan, every man of them, because
they believe in the principles which he
advocates, and they have absolute confi
dence in his honesty and courage. He
is their candidate and they will fight for
him until the last vote is counted. But
he is not a hero to worship. They don't
engage in that sort of thing.
Senator Hoar made the same argu
ment and quoted many 01 tne same au
thorities that Gen. Weaver did in his
speeches in the last campaign in regard
to the transfer of the allegiance of
people by purchase or otherwise. There
is no doubt that all authorities on inter
national law are agreed that the alleg
iance of the inhabitants cannot be pur
chased with money or transferred by
treaty. Such a thing was never claimed
until the doctrine was proclaimed by the
emperor of the Philippines, William I.
Many of the atrocities that are being
committed under the sanction of the ad
ministration at Washington since this
republic became an empire, are too hor
rible to be read by any except by those
of the strongest nerves. Such are some
of the butcheries reported from the Phil
ippines and the garrotings in Porto
Rico. When we rejoiced over the sign
ing of the proclamation of emancipation
and the adoption of the war amend
merits to tne consutuuen, we never
thought to live to see such times as these,
and we sometimes almost wish that we
had not.
The republican convention of New
York declared in the platform which
they adopted last week that: "The in
surrection in the Philippine islands has
been overcome. Organized rebellion no
longer exists, and the establishment ol
American auxnorny in ail tne islands is
proceeding to the contentment of their
inhabitants." That is a fair sample o!
republican platform making of late.
When a thousand leading republicans
of the great empire state will make
statement like that, is it ,not time to ac
knowledge that the party of great moral
ideas has become wholly degenerate?
AWORtDPOWER
The United States of America grew, in
a little over a hundred years, from 3,
000,000 people and' thirteen poverty
stricken colonies, to a mighty nation of
over 75,000,000 and wealth far exceeding
that of Great Britain. There was not a
spot on the earth where the influence of
its institutions was not felt. Under its
aegis republics sprung into existence all
over the western hemisphere, and " the
rule of kings and ' .emperors was driven
from two continents. Its power per
vaded the governments of the old world
and ministries responsible to the people
took the place of the divine right of
kings to reign. Everywhere it brought
the blessings of liberty to mankind. The
eyes of all the world were fixed upon the
great republic whose basic principles
were that all mankind had inalienable
rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. It was - the greatest and the
wealthiest power that the world had
ever known. No one denied it. Every
nation on earth honored, respected and
eared this great government.
What happened then? A few pinch
beck statesmen began to cry that we
must become a world power. We must
put off the swadling bands of infancy
and take a hand - in the affairs of the
world. To do that, they declared that
we. must abandon every principle upon
which this temple of liberty had been
built, we must repudiate the policies in
augurated by Washington and Jefferson,
the following of which had led to the
building up of the mightiest free govern
ment that had ever held sway on earth,
we must declare that " we were not a
world power, but only an insignificant
republic that had just developed a desire
to be one.
Has the world gone mad? Is there
an epidemic of brain softening pervad
ing half the population of the United
States? Is it true that tyranny must
always follow liberty ; in a never ending
cycle? The United States has held a
position as a world power higher than
that ever attained by any other nation
and it held it because it advocated lib
erty for all men. . Shall we now abandon
that position and become the frazzled
out follower of the empires of the old
world? .
There is not a parliamentary body in
any civilized country on earth that is
disgraced with such a brutal, rough,
coarsegrained member of prominence
as Grosvenor of Ohio. His language on
all occasions is of the sort once common
among a lot of toughs whose greatest
ambition was to ride in from therange
and "paint the C town red." Men with
such manners were not formerly admit
ted to the society of gentlemen, but as
the days of imperialism lengthen out
we shall have many, more" of them. In
the days of slavery there were always a
few of them to be found in congress and
they swaggered about after the present
Grosvenor style until one v Anson Bur
lingame took them in charge.
No more loyal, honest, hard-working,
always-at-it, lot of reformers ever existed
anywhere than the" Cuming county pop
ulists. It has been their work that has
redeemed that county from the republi
cans and gold standard democrats who
formerly held sway there. That they
have never received the slightest recog
nition for their work has not abated
their ardor in the least. As one of them
says in a letter, "they are for reform
rather than for party." But the state of
things that has existed there cannot go
on forever, Those "who have ignored
them may find out that conditions may
arise when the necessities of reform will
not compel them to vote a solid demo
cratic ticket in county affairs.
Tne independent teld its readers a
long time ago that the talk about this
congress passing a Nicaragua bill was all
buncombe. Huntington will never con
sent to it and a republican congress will
never pass a bill to which he .seriously
objects. There has been an excitement
over the matter during the last few days
at Washington and a petition was started
in the house asking the rules committee
to bring in a rule to fix a day to con
sider such a bill, but it fell far short of
receiving the requisite number of names.
Not a single act has "been passed during
this congress in the interest of the peo
ple. They have been for the interests of
the banks, the corporations and the
trusts. Will it do any good to tell the
stolid, prejudiced partisans who elected
McKiniey of these facts?
Governor Altgeld sums the whole
thing up in the phrase, "the effacemeut
of the people," The New York Journal
says: "There is something haunting in
that." The people have been effaced by
the epidemic of partisan insanity. They
cast tneir ballots (or a party, and no
longer consider principle. If their lead
ers make a campaign advocating one
thing and after election do. the very op
posite, the people are satisfied if I their
representatives condescend to say: . "We
have changed our minds."
The republican majority in congress is
an aggregation of jumping-jacks which
bobs up and down when someone pulls
the string. The ways and means com
mittee brought in a bill giving free trade
to Porto Rico. All of them were in
favor of it. Someone gave the" string a
jerk and all of them except nine were
agaiust-it. Being frightened at the
growing discontent in: the party ranks,
a bill was introduced to build and forti
fy the Nicaragua canal. All of them
were in f aver of it. Someone" jerks the
string again and they are all against it,
and another act is brought in to take its
place. Who is it that pulls the string?
Not the dough gentleman in the white
house. But who is it that these con
gressmen so dreadfully fear that they
dance every time the string is pulled?
Mark Hanna has established., one
branch of his literary bureau in the
treasury department, which purposes to
send out a lot of stuff twice a week tell
ing of the grandeur, glory and profit of
our trade with the orient. A mimeo
graph copy was received by the Inde
pendent last week. It will appear
promptly the next day .after Gabriel
blows his horn.
All the world is called upon to ship
goods to India to save the people from
starvation. But India shipped out of
the country last year nearly f200,000,0C0
worth cf goods and sold them to the
various nations in excess of what she
bought. Now they want us to contrib
ute of our hard earned dollars to buy
these goods, ship them back there and
give them to the starving people. There
is a mystery about this business that no
pop can solve, unless he falls back on the
well known principles of political econ
omy that he has long advocated.
The administration papers are contin
ually harping on our excess of exports
over imports, which they call a "favor
able balance of trade." Last year India
exported $150,250,000 more goods than
she imported. - England imported 5525,
252,000 more than she exported. India
had a "favorable balance of trade" and
England had an unfavorable one. Today
there are millions of people starving to
death in India, while England carries
on wars of conquest and still continues
to grow rich. If "favorable balances of
trade" produce such results, the Ameri
can people can very easily see what is in
store for them.
Those who read an article in another
column entitled "Who Murdered Them,"
must not conclude that the loss the peo
ple of India have suffered is all included
in the fall in the price of uncoined silver
which they owned. The change in a
financial system such as has occurred in
India affects the people in a thousand
different ways. The loss on their silver
is but a small part of it. The price of
all their property was halved and all
their debts have been doubled. The
men who change a 'financial system for
the benefit of taxeaters, office holders
and owners of debts, are the colossal
land pirates of the age.
Congress, after a full debate, gave an
almost unanimous vote for one of the
cardinal principles of the peoples party
-the election of United States senators
by the people- This editor has been
called a lunatic, told that he had wheels
in his head, and informed times without
number that he was soft-pa ted and idi
otic for advocating that same thing dur
ing the past ten years, from which he
infers it is ten times more annoying to
be one decade ahead of your generation
than to be fity years behind it.
Talmage is over in England telling the
people the famine in India is a "visita
tion from God." The secretary for In
dia said in the house of commons that
the famine was the worst ia a century.
The house appointed a committee to in
quire into the cause. What -right has
the British parliament inquiring into
the visitations of God? India, accord
ing to the-ofiicial reports, is shipping out
goods to supply the rest of mankind by
the hundred million dollars worth and
at least 50,000,000 of her own people are
starving to death. There is something
about this that no pop can find out. -
A farmer who used to live near this
editor when he was editing a Nebraska
farm writes him a letter in which he
says: "I am somewhat discouraged in
my efforts to educate the voters in this
precinct. I believe we have about all
that can be taught anything. Our ma
jority in the precinct is 27. What is the
use of talking about principles to a man
who cant tell the difference between a
principle and a cornstalkf One of them
asked me the other day: 'When was the
declaration of independence enacted by
congress? When I told him that con
gress never enacted it he said: That's
just what I thought. It's one of them
populist fads; I'm going to vote the re
publican ticket."
The New York World continues to
make the assertion almost "daily or at
least five times a week, that the sole
cause'of Bryan's defeat in 1S96 was his
advocacy of silver. When the fact is
taken into consideration that Bryan
polled more votes than was ever cast for
any man for president before that time
and that if he had not advocated silver
it is certain that at least 3,000 r000 of men
who voted for him would not have done
so if he had not advocated the very doc
trines that he did, this constant itera
tion by the World that silver defeated
him, has seemed somewhat strange. The
conundrum has at last been interpreted.
The World fought Bryan with all its
might. It is the World that makes and
unmakes presidents. ', If Bryan had only
turned gold "bug and "secured the sup
port of the World nothing coid have
defeated him. " -
VILE IJfSUTCATIOX
It has been conceded by all conver
sant with the facts that Hon. J. B. Me
serve has conducted the ststo treasury
in a manner above reproach- It is well
known that when he received it that its
condition was as bad as could be im
agined. The state's credit was so low
that it was the -shame of every inhabi
tant. - Warrants drawing 5 per cent in
terest were being sold at three and four
per cent" discount. Great defalcations
were known to exist and eastern capi
talists were alarmed. Mr. Meserve took
charge and by his splendid management
state warrants were at par soon at a
premium. The legislature reduced the
rate of interest to 4 per cent. The war
rants continued at a premium.
In the face of such a brilliant
record and showing as that, the
Omaha Bee, the great purity organ of
Omaha that supported Mr. Moores for
Mayor, has the . vileness to say editor
ially: "Possibly after the state and congres
sional conventions of the popocratic
parties have been held Treasurer Me
serve will find time to inform the people
where the idle school moneys are de
posited. . The public is becoming some
what impatient, but would be willing to
wait a little longer if . there were any as
surance of securing the information."
Such moral, depravity cannot be prop
erly punished in ' this world. H 1 wa3
expressly prepared for use in such cases.
STATE JOCRXAL LITERATURE
The intelligent and educated , portion
of Lincoln have so long been utterly dis
gusted, with the editorial writing in the
State Journal that they have ceased to
protest. . They take it for granted that
aside from the.-press dispatches and
some intelligent writing by the reporters
who work on that heet, they will find
nothing but idiocy and let it go at that.
Of late. however, some of the citizens of
foreign birth--have been compelled to
read the paper because it is the only
morning paper in town, have been pro
testing against its shameful ignorance
and constant misrepresentations of facts,
especially in regard to South Africa and
other European matters. The other day
one of these gentlemen sent to the edi
tor of the Journal the following note:
"Editor of the State Journal: If you
will look up an almanac you might be
able to find out that the Sultan's name
is Abdul Hamid, not Murad as your edi
torial, "In a Box," of today calls him.
Don't you - think it would be good for
you to get some information before you
are writing on things you do not know
anything about? Whenever you write
about European matters, there is some
nonsense in it which could be avoided
by looking up a book on matters you are
writing about. To do you some justice,
I beg to inform you that Sultan Murad
has been deposed since August 1876.
(Signed) -Somebody who is compelled
to read the Journal as it is the only
morning paper in town. . .
SOME WERE" DISAPPOINTED.
The State Journal in a recent corres
pondence from Washington, D. C-, has
the following:
"An interesting story is that the fu
sion ists of Nebraska are not satisfied
wifti Governor Poynter and may attempt
to turn him down and tender the place
to W. I Stark. Some think Judge
Stark has his eyes on the gubernatorial
plum two years hence, but others say he
wants it this year;" and that Governor
Poynter may be relegated to private life,
where appointment troubles will no lon
ger haunt him."
No doubt this opinion of tile Journal
correspondent is the offspring of his own
desires. ; But we wish to say to him and
his kind, the Nebraska f usionists have
no desire to" play into the hands of the
Hannacrats by turning down the popu
list governor of Nebraska, whose admin
istration has been conservative and
sound, and has given the best of satis
faction to the rank and file of the people.
It is no doubt true that there are somo
members of the fusion movement who
are opposed to Governor Poynter, but as
a rule they were applicants for appoint
ments who have been disappointed, or
friends or sympathizers, and we are not
surprised at this, as there . were many
applicants for each position. As but
one of them could be appointed the rest
were necessarily disappointed.
- But we deny the proposition that the
fusion" movement . was organized for
office. ' It rallied to the support of prin
ciples, not men. It has succeeded in
turning out the leeches on our state government-
It has improved the credit of
the state, and it has a governor true to
its principles and will re-elect him next
November.
Trusts are based on three things
tariffs, patentsand rebates on railroads.
They will exist as long as those things
exist, and all this talk about constitu
tional amendments, publicity, federal
license, and government supervision will
amount to nothing. Irusts will never
be gotten rid of until the .causes that
produce them are destroyed. How long
would there bsfa Standard Oil trust if
the rebates on railroads were abolished?
How long would there be a steel trust if
the tariff on steel were repealed?
. Attorney- General ferny th has not
smashed a trust or brought suit against
a railroad company for some days. No
one would harbor a suspicion that he
had gone out of the business, however,
when there cwas such a large held uncul
tivated. Omaha Bee.
Inthe above editorial the Omaha Bee
unconsciously admits the splendid and
effective work 'that Attorney General
Smyth has done in compelling trusts
and corporations to give at least a little
heed and respect to the laws of the land.
Mr. Rosewater -what do you say to
proposition to re elect Hon. C J.,SmylJi
in order that hs may continu the cuelU
vation of the field he has so well begum?
Would you help or would 1 you ratty r
have a corporation tool, or a r putty miji
as thechief legal representative of - ti'
people.! Nebraska? Really, Mr. Ros -water
don't you think that Mr. Smylh
has served the people of Nebraska l
better advantage than the great ard
mighty railroad senator chosen by ti .0
republicans?
There is a demand being made th t
the government shall issue a coin of tii
value of half a cent. A New York gold
bug paper commenting on this says:
"It is an axiom that the economy of
people is accurately measured by tf
smallest coin it uses. So if we are '
have half-cent pieces it will mean th t
we have become thriftier under influent
of the bargain counter."
We would like to know what saffe
promulgated that "axiom." If, whu
plutocracy has driven the common pe 9-
pie into such poverty that they have bo
purchase tea and sugar by the hf lf
cent's worth, that is to be called "thriff ,H
then we will need a new dictionary rf
the English language. The general u
of half cent coins would show just oi ia
thing, and that is that a large mass of
the people have been reduced to hardest
poverty. Who ever saw well-to-do people
using half-cent coins?
HARDY'S COLUMN
Douglas County Fences Double Dose-
April Rains Pretty Hats Whiskers
The Right Man in the Right Place
Th Slave Ship.
The republican fences up
in Douglas
county are in bad shape. It looks as
though Thurston would be compelled to
drink Rosewater in order to sweaten his
pol i tical t breath.
Can we stand a governor and senator
both from Lincoln? " It seems it will he
too much for one dose; it may kill the
doctor as well as the patient.
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We have had two of the finest April
showers ever known in Nebraska. They
seem to have affected the price of grain
but not the price of gold. Winter wheat,
the dealers say, is assured of a good
yield so far as wet is concerned.
Easter hats had a good showiDg last
Sunday. They don't have any more
bonnets. Easter was rainy. We cannot
say but that we enjoy reasonable orna
mentation of ladies dresses. Better
spend money in that way than for tobac
co and cigars as many church men do.
It does not cost one tenth as much. The
women of all ages and races have worn
ornaments. We say let it go on to a
reasonable extent. ,.. "
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-Men wear ornaments which are dis
gusting in the extreme. Whiskers on
the upper lip are more in the way and
less ornamental than any ribbons or
mock plumes the ladies wear.
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We are told by the republican god
father that Dr. Andrews will bring strife
and contention. That is what we want,
Sroviding it is all for the right and best.
f course a hen does not like to have
any other hen set on her nest. The state
university has been a republican hen's
nest so long there will be uome cackling.
But hens never, cackle until they are
driven off the nest. If Dr. Andrews
does not prove head and shoulders even
with any chancellor we ever had, or any
other university ever had, we shall be
greatly disappointed.
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Where is the man or woman who did
not like to hear stories in childhood
war stories, indian stories, bear stories,
anything wonderful or strange only we
preferred they should come out good.
We well remember old Sea Captain
Sykes and the stories he used to tell of
storm and; shipwreck, 4 of pirates and
strange things he, saw in . far away
countries. The story he used to tell of
his voyage on a slave ship made many
an abolitionist. He was twelve years
old when his father was killed in the
battle of Lundy's Lane; his mother
sickened and died soon after, leaving
him with a lone uncle living in Mass
achusetts. He visited his uncle but
there was no place . for him; the house
was full of cousins, so ' he hired to a
gardener near Boston and soon was
trusted with the sale of truck from a
horse cart on the market of the city.
After his truck was sold he delighted in
wandering up and down the dock watch
ing the blue jacket sailors climb the
ropes and listening to the flapping sails.
, Just before his time was out with the
gardener the captain of an East India
merchant ship asked him if he did not
want to ship as cabin boy. They made
a bargain and the next Saturday he
went on board. When they hoisted sail
it was cold and the snow was flying. In
four or five weeks they had crossed the
north tropic and it was so hot the nails
of the deck would blister the bare feet.
Tb&y doubled the cape in a severe storm
and in a little over three, months were ia
Calcutta. He noticed they took on
board a large quantity of water and rice.
After they were a day or two out from
Calcutta they hauled up from the hold
of the ship lots of chains and several
huga iron weights.
In the course of three or four weekn
they sailed into . the mouth of a large
river and cast anchor. Soon they began
to see black men coming towards the
ship entirely naked. The captain and
four or five of the seamen went ashore
and seemed to talk with the black men.
The next day over fifty meu, three girls
and a boy were brought on, board, all
yoked together, two and two, with wood
withs. In turn the captain filled their
boats with axes, knives, rice, and several
barrels of something.
. As they sailed out of the river tho
un were groaning as though in great
pain.' ; The cabin boy went down to see
them and' they put their hands upon
their lips, indicating that they wers
thirsty and hungry. He got permis
sion of the captain to give them wnte?
and rice and to cut their yokes off as
soon as they got out to sea a little so
they could not jump overboard. , That
also released the boy and soon he be
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