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1 " h - . - -x xr :v: j x: I If r. j t! VOL. XII. r.y. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JUNE j V s 1900. NO. 0. KEEP OUT OF THE KUSS W M Trl.l i kMik Oar II Ilk f k tttilip pi. CW mhI It do- Esot Like aty geew.!g to tell what pcaMtion pc-p-uli! will tike on any iue that ar;e. The editors of popsIit paper -V eot wait to Lear from hed--tiartrr tat the party leader are Czz to Co. Ttcy i-t4.r:t! decide for j tLea-eite fi3 thy ar OC?U It their dcijos about frc-ji tL fat that guided by certain ft suerai r-n which tbey all ar?. Thi come I populUta principle- tip j T e Iecver ! tie ere: p p--.t daily, ex ; artiy the a boat w Lai the I Uaited Stavui cLaiild -do in r-rard to rL;:.a that the !r.dtfc ieci tor lat t ...... .. . :.s to amte we -z.t'. f.nd that tiiey are all m jT4f a r aUnst tLi ix-attr. Tle New : "Ti. ie.jtii.tite in the f,rewt.t cTii." y lie I'al Ma J az-tteof Iidon.tn dnnra-jr-g the -t-calm in China. cac et rccs ff.ua Vahicrtjst." Thi i a ie: -ate it-ir.utjj tLat the L'tited itel m. . le ' A h r e- 4k J1a 3 A 5 1 jc.-nete prarti-ally tt.e tt.e i-tureJ fi IT; t.at an uio- eir.i-ir, i. i the rV of jure to i-rtt.e tt,e cpu ,-. wti-a U.e in t r. .e f f.-:ani. ftufcia, France, Ja jac ar.i iercatr Late Icrt-ei frr-ct. and which are irWuded ta t Uk i :r a a the Ctit-- 4U-tJ.n. Jycd th f r t,ri'zc 4 f -r ii.iciler and hi i'vatijc. if ct.sfUtr. and other Arner rat. reid-:... tL t'cii State- ha- no cr.ccm c the I h:t,-w tci. save itx'ectaliy a h i cur,cerred in hav ing f-ane lc rt,utry with whkrh the ecor suerria! relate r-. Oar carIr.- at,d ar tr j- are cot there : :r.jr tfTeteil t recaia aia nola A the empire. When their pur eof a?:- eri.n !f ert i lots withdraw. ! to war eter a I . it r r--i--tx. t thenj th4cty o? the Ln:V-i State to ay that thej hI! rirt. IJeyorsd tendering var asEtv. rtie. in the uua! po I.t an-i dipkaaatr way. we ehould cr?t jr. V.i.e U-e Ci.tr- ''jto i r- j:ar-1 a Ors-c-al. it i eent!Iy ha ' , nations f-j-ar.. Tie frrjr Kurt,an ' ' " , "Iwehavetoleamishowto Uve, how to (?"f ?Tv tti:M ff V distribute our money, how to take from Ueraid keep ct of the eve. an fit iu mwtery OTer U8 and ma3ce t our !B- "-I " 3 . ' -""ir J 7- . . . .. ' f and c-.to interrer in ueh tati we are c n a ftion to do fco, vf A if it were prrp-r ar.d w de-red to an 'J We have rt4s enough of oar 3 hafid 131 at MenecL Cuba, ICTtO Un and th otaute aav n4ture rtx2 raTin in tooth and claw. r-ehare -the whit- can burden , Whereas the tendeocT; of true ctvilira at th. tsxe, ard a-e tai.r -the j.atsence. Uoa u to convert "thwstrule for - - 1 - ----.- w, v-- JlIe IE1to co-operation for Iifri try to a auSciect estet. Ue want no r,f for alL that maj h) , . .f- ;V ,n inner ponds which make men wise, '-iTei. 4 er.C II United h.-ate w-c'1 t.r.d tlie side cr the f -ther ta what proto t.e to t'j the creatt 'rj.girt 4 hitorv. The Anercao je.:-ie tt re.e of it. TLey hate a rtuf h f Ih-iectal affairs & ti.eir ha.tc tov a they desire. ' CHIMES CF IMPERIALISM Alt m.r-9 t mni m Nm HMar; Ir. ti laew er-tJtied ( ; ;rtur.i ?r, the Fit F-er. John I S;!dsc. bi-h f I'ecrj. I1L, tL.ar an eiojuett pro t ffait.t the j"!at-y f itnirialisa in a city-tee. er. titled Demands wfcirh t. Learve c-t New York What Patriotism Ar.ti Itrperialisit a pub:!.Led in pamphlet f--rc. Fr'.s lkhop Spalding we a f;w ; We hate .. pa:hied mith all op preed p - with Ireland, Greece, ArK-er-ia, CxJ a. To emancipate the iCate re gladly a.eTsticed the lite of hundred of th-fUf.ars of our r.ldiers And now ti AcefKaa eotd ter. w0 ovid r-er .houider a gun excepst in a aw the ntobon,rawhoe real cma ie that they mizh tube free. wih ?l iroecom is enrootea m moral xree V.ratiu. -dom that nches are akin to fear and 1 o say that they .re ucf t for freedom ! alb" at b 601,1 OIlly C&D Catln i to pat forth the pa of the" tvrant in . u ' .v i i all are. and everywhere. Tb enemies j H but have the courage to lock 4 rty hate tter larked for pret-xts dJT things as they are, : aA k.nail aseilv vawtaiva thfit htw 4wia !i u'ifrf?af f.- fe..tK If tie ir LaL.i:c .f i I iv ca.e ciadiy to thr theite into Xi :!, "ett-J rX area, we -t,9u. re!ue to j , . , a , more than ercel. guide and protect rJs ,,.u. Uttl ti-K. thee if to be thcrt-t of iw who renclted either u ru or exterminate the t.r jja is-ieir-,r probably that r up$no ! a eras r ipinoT The argystent that our policy has : frjra the bextir z one of expan-1 ea has r afpiicatii in the present rr ti. li the treaty of 171 the Miseis- ipj4 rite? waa re"ogi!xed a the west- ; em boundary of the United State: but ; w hen in lCrJ th Frtis-h rtril officers, i whoa J- ratrhavirg recrred Louw- Seward county will present the name ana, ieft ia errand, toed a prociam- j cf jf. u. O. Anderson to the fusion aa c-in th ilijwj to American feUtA convenUon for the nomination for cotnruerce, r. at once became manifest Uut superintendent. The Independ- J?Zfifi!mth.u0f Unt-Bemocrat of Seward jives him a great river wi,c &wed f ar more than a Uery strong endorsement and it is re thouaatwS cues through our territory in pond that the Seward county delega- - : ' - i a jane. x pur-.x-ael tne wnoie region : Irgetof the 3Iiftfcs-:ppi river, and n' t atreaiy occur ed bv Spain. r litre was a na'aral development, the .ei.eTMPH uereiore. aciea in ue ejint it t&urnort. . , . . -- --i. T., ttiird term as county a i vantage rJt tj etr.baracjent of Bon- .. gaining possession of vast tract 'of un--ettled lands which, if not peopled by American citizens, would .become the ! home of a power! al rival state,' f and this would involve wars, standing armies and I the jeopardy of free 'institutions. Sim , ilar reason justified the purchase of Florida in When, in 1845. we an- ; nexed the republic of Texas, we did what ! the Texans themselves v-iffced us to do. Dispute concerning the western boun dary of Texas led to the war with Mex- 1 ico. which, at the close of ice war sold to the United States' New Mexico and Utah, most of Arizona anc parts of Colorado. These countries were scarcely inhabited. Upper Cali'ornia containing not more than Io.OOQj people. : In this ko coyne of expansion we followed V, e entered upon the possession of waste regions which were geographically lrt of our country, and which we were to fill with populations simUar to tho-e occupyiDj? the states already iwuw avjt iwaa -wti vui j. vuvtv i uld be no need of a standing army or a powerful nary; none of making war to , conquer and hold in subject races which I being altogether fcriike ourselTes claimed j the right, in the establishment of a gor- eminent, to be; 'guided by their own ideas and traditions. In purchait-g tljese territories it may beMudthatv9 bought land and not human beings land that was ptrt of our ; inheritance. But now, following the : lead of our great capitalists and -trust iord4, we buy at one stroke ten millions . of human Lei cm. beinirs who lire in an- other hemiphere, who differ from us in ; is fatal to the white man, who can be of i no advantage whatever to us, but who, ; if we permit in holding them, will in Tolve us In the most serious difficulties i and darrers. A war of conquest is in ; contradiction with our fundamental princif es of government; it i opposed to all 4ir traditions. Thetaoueht of rulinir over subject i roplw is repugnant to our deepest and TxjtjiMi senuments. it. is part ot onr uty tol Cibsion in the world, that our coun - Rt E ? try is vat enough and sftlf-sufficient pabbiiig eBwtrt, to cke ail desire Jor conquent an unholy and zneaningle&s temptation have room for three or four hundred cJlLI kms of human beings. If more are required and we are true to ourselves, 4ntkh America will come to us without there being need of firing a zun. " li We have money enough already, and cjr wealth is increasing rapidly.' What Our capital is fast becoming the most inhuman, the mott iniquitous tyrant the blight acd Curse to those who exercise it vf.n o the multitude wh ara its victims. Commercial and manufacturing com petition is becoming a struggle for ex- istecoaereer than that wmch makes utowork irexne holy. is tha . m,rAm.rv nf ricrht lrUi-af irtn our rrMl only true God and Savior of manjburries us on with increasing speed into all the venalties, dishonesties and corruptions, into all the tricks and trusts by which I the people are disheartened and impov- ; erihed. We are hypnotized by the glitter and glare, the pomp and circumstance of ! wealth, and are becoming incapable of a national view of life. We have lost taste for pimple things and simple was. We ! ftee from the conntry as from a desert, and find elf forgetfulness only amid the i to and rush of great cities, where high thought and pure affection are well-nigh ? ioip'jrible. How far we hare drifted ; from that race of farmers who threw off f rngland and buut the noble state: wbo belie red that honor was tet ter than money, freedom than luxury and display! Their plain democratic ; republic is no longer good enouffh for us. We are become imperial. We must have mighty armies, and navies which shall encircle the earth, to bring into subjection weak and unprotected sav age and barbarians. We are the victims of commercialism; ; we bate caugui me coniagicn or me ln- i worthiest and most enduring. We have sight of the eternal principles that - a iiwrtic wnv wui work lies here, and not ten thousand miles away. We are the foremost bear ! of the most precious treasures of the race. In the success of the experin; : 1-1 1 - I . ! "fT-u In toe the experiment wmcu arire uiawz me oupes ui an -.it- J r uou.r anu generous souis ior a nigner ? life of mankind are centered. If we fail xne worm xaiis; n we succeed we shall i do mor f9r th. of men than if we j ;r . . . C 1 """"""" W3- our mission is to show that popular gov- .ew W-i i ta da4 aII V,a w 4 MAnftnants a uiuTru a aaa a w ocoic a3 vvui pauuio with the bet culture, the purest religion, the highest justice, and that it can per manently endure. In comparison with this what would be a thousand groups of Philippines? what the most brilliant career of imperial pomp and glory? Catholic Tribune, t i mn i unirimnni inn nf niifiicTu in He is now serving his superintendent of Read our Premium offers on pa?e 4. No such opportunities to reform workers were ever before offered. AJI EXTRA MOUTH'S PAY Federal Employes to Give One-Half f It , to Itepabllcan Campaig-a Fund. Washington, D. C.,' June 15, 1900. (Special to the Independent) Th re publican national convention at Phila delphia serves as a sort of a pantomime to distract public attention while the real work of levying campaign contribu tions goes on vigorously. The republicans scarcely need a na tional convention.' It is only a matter cf empty form. Every detail was arranged months before. Still Hanna and his lieutenants realize that it looks well to give the people some semblance of parti cipating in the nominations and making the platform. The platform is an- old story. The "ready-made" state platform sent from Washington in the past few months wer advance notices of the national -policy of excuse and misrepresentation and ' eva sion.. Hanna remarked to a newspaper correspondent in Washington ten days before the convention that the adminis tration press had already admirably foreshadowed every line of the republi can platform. With McKinley's nomination a" cer tainty, the effort to get up an appear ance of excitement and spontaneity over the vice-presidential nomination was hardly successful. As a prominent politician remarked the other day ;-"the public never forgives a man for allowing himself to be elected vice-president" Even the callow politicians who - would like to have made an effort to, yet even so empty an honor, were discouraged by the certainty that Hanna pfDpjsed to do the dictating even in this iratter and there was no need of wasting enthusiasm without his august permission. ' Even Hanna pays only perfunctory at tention to the fireworks of ? the national convention. He is still worried about that campaign fund. Hi 3 elaborately planned schemes demand an enormous fund. He has assessed every .big inter est in sight and still the. fund failed to reach anything near the figure he con sidered absolutely necessary, Of course federal emi loyes have been assessed before but it is being done more systematically this, year than be fore. Even so small a contingent as the capitol employes has not been neglected. Their case has ready a touch of un conscious humor about it. The recent ly adjourned republican congress appro priated a total of about 880,000 in order to giro encb. emploVofat the capitol an extra month's salary. ' Now the beneficiaries are peremptorily ordered to line up and pay over one-half that month's salary to an accredited agent of Mr. Hanna. In the first flush of indignation j 'the employes allowed themselves sorne, criticism of this paltry sort of Mfat frying." But they will pay over the assessment just the same. It doesn't make any difference that it is il legal to ask or assent to such assessment. The use of an agent who is apparently not in the government employ, to collect Hthe assessment thinly veils the steal, affayenju.H were aone more boldly this aanilnistration would not think of interfering. It needs the campaign fund and proposes to use the federal machin ery in every direction. ; : , The postmasters are all to be asked to contribute $5 apiece. This' assessment is to be levied through the medium of Mr. George J. Cory, deputy naval officer of the port of New York. Under Han nas indorsement and with the assured hearty support of the Republican Na tional Committee. In order to evade the letter of the law Mr. Cory is permit ted to make this assessment : under the guise of offering membership in the Na tional Commercial and - Industrial League of New York City. So it goes, the smallest and poorest paid clerkship must contribute its per centage. A good deal of the office hold ers assessment, like that of the Capitol employes, goes to the Congressional Committee. Chairman Babcock has been thrown oh his own resources by Hanna, The big assessments are to go into the general corruption fund and Chairman Babcock of the Congressional Committee found after adjournment that he was left to shift for himself. This scheme of petty Federal contribution does not; promise well for .Republican control." of the next House. Many a Congressman who voted for the Porto Rican tariff ' bill and other iniquities, against the wishes of his constituents, under promise of a big campaign fund to secure his re-election now finds him self without the promised "barrel" and unable to answer the pertinent queries of the voters who want representatives who remember that the Constitution is the creator and director of Congress and not to be capriciously set aside, as it was in the Porto. Rican matter. The Democratic and Populist Con gressional committees are not depending upon a big campaign fund, but have a well perfected organization and are go ing into the close districts with a pre sentation of facts that will increase the indignation which the voters in many sections have felt over the manner in which they have been misrepresented by their republican congressmen. -They are really going with the drift of public sentiment, which almost irrespective of farty, proposes to call a halt on the law essness, and extravagance and corrup tion which has characterized this ad ministration. The Bureau of Statistics in Washing ton is preparing the combinations of statistics which, will support the Repub lican argument of prosperity. Of course the Bureau of Statistics is supposed to be a non-partisan department which collects statistics purely for the sake of impartirjg information to those desirous of knowing the truth. The fact is that the administration does not scruple to use this or any other Bureau for partisan purposes. Represen tatives Grosvenor and Dick, in speeches delivered a few days before Congress ad journed, gave practically ' the advance sheets from the Republican - campaign by the Bureau; of Statistics. The old adage that "figures don't lie" has long ago been disproved. Statistics even if honestly collected in the first place can be juggled to prove any imaginary-hypothesis ever put forward. The voters; however, care very little for partisan statistics. They will act upon the" facts within their knowledge. II ere are two instances. Wheat in the North west brings five "cents less a bushel than it did, a year ago, and this iH face of a poor crop.. In fact the price of wheat is so low that the farmers have quit buy ing barbed wire and nails at Trust pros perity' prices. It has been the republican boast in the Northwest that labor had plenty of employment; yet the trade reports show that within a few weeks the demand for labor has greatly fallen off in that sec tion and that there are plenty of idle caen. Around the city of St. Paul, for i "jistance. thexe are a score of idle factor ies and empty smokestacks. 1 et tnis is the one section of the country, above all others to which' the republicans have pointed in proof of their prosperity ar gument. The voters in this and -other sections will look about them and decide whether the rainbow tinted theories of republican oratory are borne out by the facts. - t Admiral Dewey Bas returned from a second western trip tully convinced that he made a mistake vrhen he announced himself a presidential candidate: "The people don't seem to want me," he says with-some pathos. He is only realizing now what his friends and advisers knew from the beginning. He is a popular naval herd and stands high in the esti mation of his countrymen for his brave achievements. lut his dream of presi dential honors was one of those illusions whieh are pardoned and forgotten in view of the man's real claim to public admiration on other grounds. London seems to have rejoiced rather prematurely over Lord Roberts' capture of Pretoria. He took an empty town. The Boers had successfully withdrawn their troops and guns. Within the last ten days the Boers cuthis line of railway communication and have put up more than one stiff engagement, out of which even Robert's optimism could not twist even a semblance of British success. The British army is a long way from home. The .men are poorly clad, the horses are dying by thousands and even the British now admit that the Boers are by no means conquered. They pro pose to give Great Britain many months of hard fighting yet." If the Chinese complication should force Great Britain to turn her attention elsewhere the chances for ultimate success of the Boer cause would be arreatly increased. Great Britain is not in an enviable po sition. Everybody who has a grievance against her and who has not except Mr. McRinley isproposing to take ad vantage of her difficulties in the Trans vaal. In sharp contrast to the bicker ing and dissension in the republican ranks is the unifying of forces which goes steadily on in the democratic ranks. The eyes of the country are turn ed to the Democratic national conven tion at Kansas City. Not in a quarter of a century have the issues been so mo mentous and fundamental. If not a new Declaration of Independence, the platform will at least be affirmation that the original one still applies and that the honest and serious minded citizens of this country propose to restore the government to its original principles. The people feel that in this campaign democracy stands for something greater and better than any partisan issue. It will show, that the courageous spirit which animated the party in the last campaign is still . there and ready to meet the new issues with courage and intelligence. ' Herbert' Jasvbix Browsk. POPULISM IN EUROPE It Seems to Be Making Astonishing Prog, resa in All of the Most Enlight ened! Nations Americans - are apt to regard them selves as thoroughly up to date when compared with the people of European cities. Yet such places as Birmingham, in England, Glasgow, in Scotland, and Amsterdam, in staid and homely Hol land, have much ;- to impart when the taxpayers of American cities should be willing, for their own advantage, to learn and assimilate. Municipal ownership in the English and in the Scotch city noted is an established success, with local gov ernments of the highest order of excel lence and the lowest known rates of taxation. In fact, there are no taxes to speak of in Glasgow, over and beyond the profits turned in by . the street car, lighting and other companies, which are ownea oy tne puDiic ana wontea ex clusively for the public benefit In slow, old Amsterdam, where the people have time to smoke and think, the city conducts water and gasworks. two ferries, a street car line, an abattoir and a factory for making the uniforms of municipal employes. In addition to all these. Amsterdam . also operates its local telephone system. Municipal op eration began in 1896, at the expiration of a sixteen-year franchise granted by the city to the Bell interests, and the long distance lines were assumed about the same time oy tne general govern ment The reasons for the city's embarking upon-tnis enterprise ware the high charges and poor service of the private comrany. ' The improvements since made, the increase in the number of subscribers, and the reduction in cost to the latter have been remarkable. The . total number of subscribers has increased from 1,784 in 1896 to 3,031 at the beginning of. this year, or from an average or o.y to o.a subscribers per 1,000 inhabitants. The total number of calls last year was 5,651,209, as against 3,750,000 for 1896, and the number of long distance calls to and from the city rose for the same period from 86,000 to yy ,'Jbo. Single wires have also been handbook which is being prepared generally displaced by the metallic cir cuit system, the conduits have been ex tended, a night service has been added, and instead of $2.40 as the weekly wages for a nine-hour day under the private company, wages now vary from f 2 to 54 per .week for a seven-hour day, while sick, accident and old-age pension pay ments are assured the employes. Contrary to the custom of , private companies; the increase to subscribers and consequently in the value of the service rendered, instead of being fol lowed by an -increase of charges, was accompanied by a reduction from $47.20 to $36 plus $10 for original installation) for unlimited service. The city's profits have also been greater under public con trol. Although up to 1895 the company, under its franchise paid the city no less than 21 J4 per cent of its gross receipts the actual amount in 1894 was $17,125 the city in 1897 and 1893 turned into the general treasury $20,000 a year and still had sufficient left to allow a contribution of about 3 4 per cent toward the reduc tion of its $100,000 capital investment and to permit the appropriation of a still larger amount for extensions. It is not strange in view of this showing that other cities of "the same country have followed the example of Amsterd am.- Denver News. IMPERIALISTIC FALLACIES Can we Purchase Trade With the Blood of American Soldiers, or Make Profitable Wars of Conquest ? Those who advocate an imperial pol icy usually assert that the Filipinos are incapable of self-government. It might be a sufficient answer to quote the reso lution of Congress that "the Cubans are and of right ought to be free," and the report made by Admiral Dewey declaring that the Filipinos are far more capable of self-government than the Cubans. But there is even a broader answer that may be made. Clay, in his defense of the people okSouth America, said: "It is the doctrine of thrones that man is too ignorant to govern himself. Their partisans assert his incapacity, in refer ence to all nations: if they cannot com mand universal assent to the proposition, it is then demanded to particular na tions; and our pride and our presumption too often make converts of us. I con tend that it is to arraign the dispositions of Providence himself to suppose that he has created beings incapable of govern ing themselves, and to be trampled on ly kings. - ; " - " There are degrees of intelligence: some people can and do govern themselves better than others, and it is possible that the people living near the equator will never, owing to climatic conditions, reach the governmental standard of the temperate zone. But it is absurd to say that God would create the Filipinos and lea ve them fcr thousands of years help less, until Spain found them and threw her protecting arms around them: and it is equally absurd to say that Spain could sell to us the right to act as guar dians of a people whom she governed by force, The nurnose behind the lmnerial nol- icy ie the extension of trade. Franklin denies that the securing or holding of trade is a cause for which-menmay just ly spill each other's blood. The man who says that an imperial policy will pay, must be prepared to place a pecuni ary value upon the soldiers who have al ready lost their lives in the Philippines or have become insane from the effects of the climate, and upon the soldiers who will be sacrificed in future wars of con quest. The republican party, which boasts that it sprang into existence in the defense of human rights, now coolly calculates the value of human life meas ured by Oriental trade. Abraham Lincoln wrote the . following: letter to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston: "Executive -Mansion, Washington, Nov, 21, 1864. "Dear Madam: I have been shown ia the files of the war department a state ment of the adjutant-general of Massa chusetts that you. are the mother of five sons wno nave died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should- attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming:, But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation which may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereav- ment, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully,' Abraham Lincoln." No more beautiful expression of sym pathy, can be found in literature. Com pare it with the sordid consolation which an imperialist would extend to a sorrow ing mother, assuring her that the trade purchased by her son's blood would be worth all that it cost! It will be noticed that Franklin also denied that trade could be profitably purchased and held by fleets and armies. History supports his contention. A na tion never makes a profit out of a forci ble extension of trade. Such a policy is defended by the few who make a great deal out of the trade, white the expenses of the war are borne by the taxpayers. xnere is no doubt that an imperial pol - -ii 1 1 . . icy wm De advantageous to army con tractors, and to owners of ships who rent their vessels to the United States to carry live soldiers to the Philippine isl ands and to bring dead soldiers back; ana it may be advantageous to carpet- uag governors ana 10 xnose wno can se cure good paying positions in the army, but it will be a constant drain upon the wealth producers. The amount already spent upon a war of conquest in a single year, would almost construct the Nicar agua canal; or if used for the reclamation of arid lands in the west it could furnish nomes for more American citizens than would go to the Philippine islands in - a thousand rears. W. J. Bryan in North American Review, . THE PEOPLE'S PARTY How It Came Into Existence, Who Com pos Its Membership and tho Prin ciples it Advocates. - At the request of the management of the Freie Presse, Mr. Edmisten, vice chairman of the people's party national committee, furnished a synopsis of it3 principles and a short history of its formation, as follows: Lincoln, Neb, Jtme 18, 1900. Editor Freie Presse, Dear Sir: At your request, I take great pleasure in giving to the public through the columns of your very ably edited paper the ob jects of the people's party. . In order that I may be fully under stood, it will probably be necessary that I give a brief history of the people's party, and from this it can be easily un derstood what the objects of the same are. There has been one element in our political history for a great many years a quarter of a century or more, that has been outspoken in its views against any party or administration that did not, as it believed, follow out certain lines that seemed to its members to be necessary in order that a government of the people, for the people and . by the people should not perish from the f ace of the earth. This energetic, enthusi astic and most faithful class of citizens have never ceased their agitation for the principles they adhere to, and coming up to 1890 when there was a general in dustrial upheaval throughout this coun try; when from ocean to ocean and from gulf to the lakes an agitation on indus trial questions had reached a white heat, figuratively speaking, and the members of this class of citizens had grown and multiplied to such propor tions in all sections of the country that it had . attracted the attention of the civilized world it was out of this con dition, and from this class, the people's party was organized. The principles for which it stood were equal rights to all and special privileges to none. In other words, this great body of voters, possessing as they do probably more independence in charac ter as a party than any other organiza tion, were then and now are opposed to any condition tl$e$dency of which is to press down upon one class and re sulting in the enthronement of another. To speak more plainly, that special legis lation should not be permitted in state or nation, and that the citizen who la bors with his hands is as much deserv ing of the fruits of his labor as is the man who is more pleasantly situated. To say that the people's party stands for progressivenessi is but stating the true sentiment that is ... maintained by each of its members, and they furthef hold that the greatest liberty possible in , religious and personal affairs should be guaranteed. - The objects of the people's party are to assist the great , body of intelligent voters in this cpnntryJn shaping and moulding "the ;6ndiuohs of. the same. The spirit of the forefathers was caught up by this organization, and we do not hesitate in saying , thit it contains a greater degree of real, genuine patriot ism than any other political party of this country now appealing for the suff rages of the American people. To prove this we have only to refer to the recent nominations made at Sioux tails, the candidates there named neither of whom are members of tHe people's party; yet we believe both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Towne to be of the highest type of American manhood, free fnom all the entangling alliances of the average can didates, and consequently our party had no hesitancy in nominating them as its standard bearers. The following are the - principles we closely adhere to: The people s party congratulates its supporters upon the wide extension of its principles in all directions. The people s party denounces the act of March 14, 1900, as the culmination of a long series of conspiracies to deprive the people of their constitutional rights over the money of the country and dele gate to a gigantic money trust the con trol, of the purse, and hence of the people. The people s party is opposed to stnk incr down tne green oacK m order to force the people to borrow three hun dred and sixty millions of dollars more of the banks at an annual cost of twenty million dollars. . Tne people s party demands tne re opening of tne mints of tne United States to the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1. The people's party demand a gradu ated income and inheritance tax, to the end that aggregated wealth may bear its just proportion of taxation. The people s party demand that postal savings banks be .estabiisned by tne government for the safe deposit of the savings of the people and to facilitate exchange. With Thomas Jefferson, we declare the land, including all natural sources of wealth, the inalienable heritage of the people. Government should so act as to secure homes for all the people and pre vent land monopoly. Transportation being a means of ex change and a public necessity, tne gov ernment should own and operate the railroads for the people and on a non-par tisan basis, to the end that all may be accorded the same treatment m trans portation, and : the extortion, tyranny and political power now exercised by the great railroad corporations, which result in the impairment if not the destruction of the personal rights and political lib erties of the citizenmay be destroyed. Such ownership is to be accomplished in a manner consistent with sound public policy. Trusts, the overshadowing evil of the age, are the result and culmination of the private ownership and control of the tnree great instruments ot commerce money, transportation and the means of transmission of information; which instruments of commerce are publi( functions, and which our forefathers de clared in the constitution should be controlled by the people, through their congress, for the public welfare. The one remedy for the trusts is that owner ship and control be assumed and exer cised by the people. The future of the peoples party, based on these principles, is very bright. It came in to existence contending for certain principles many of these prin ciples have been adopted. Other politi cal parties have seen the wisdom con tained in these demands and have read ily accepted them in platform and ac tion, as well as the people's party. These demands may be carried out in the name of some other party, but it will be the effect, and direct result of the influence of the courageous young giant known as the people' party. There is no place to stop. , The Peoples Farty will live to perfect and establish the objects for which it was created, when that is fully accomplished, it will be in the forefront in the onward march of progress, with its banner to the breezes, though it may not at this time have following where it leads in actual name, more than two million earnest, conscientious and loyal citizens. There is, however, to-day, I believe, if a free expression could be had, ten million vot ers that are in spirit standing on the, broad platform of the Peoples Party de manding that the man shall be greater than the dollar, and the time is near at hand when they will vote together. The criticisms against the People's Party have all fallen flat and it to-day takes its rank among the parties of this country and has the respectable consid eration of all. It is a pleasure ; to know that the Peoples' Party has associated with it the men and women of this nation who do not live as parasites on the body poli-. tic, but its membership is constituted of the brain and brawn of the greatest na tion on the face of the earth. It is they who feed the world. It is they who pro duce the comforts of life; It is they who create the wealth; and it is they, who protest against an unequal distribution of the sama. ,. The Peoples' Party demand now, and will not cease their appeal until the same is complied with, that justice between man and man shall be restored. J. H. EDMISTEN, Vice Chairman National Committee Peoples' Party. ; ' CAN'T BE FOOLED McKinley's Tricks Too Gausey Why Congress Adjourned So Suddenly. Washington, D. C, June 17, 1900. - (Special Correspondence.) Again the president has illustrated hi3 .absolute poarer over congress by having that body promptly adjourn when it was most convenient to - him, which action wks taken without reference to whether the business in hand and the matters under consideration would suffer by such ac- It was - the " duty of congress . to have passed legislation relative to trusita and the Nicaraguan canal, but though measures had passed the house and were refused action In the senate, the house pressed for adjournment before the senate could get ready, thus show ing the hollowness of the pretense that republicans meant anything by passing these measures through the house. Itmaylse a fine stroke of political'; genius to rusn measures tnrough the house that are desired and asked for by the people, and then , conspire to kill . them in the senate, but the present ad-' ministration will find that the people of -this country who have made themselves heard in favor of certain legislation are . fully awake to the methods used to flaunt the Anti-trust bill and the Nicara- gua Canal bill before them as passed by the house and then - defeat their consid eration in the senate. The day is past when such jugglery will hold the votes of honest, thinking Americans. Aside from the fear that the millions of trust, bartered for by the Hannaites might be jeopardized, the president no, doubt had another reason for using such haste in ridding himself of congress. The Eastern, war-cloud hangs low and heavy, and as latest advices show, there may be the necessity for transactions ) between this government and Great Britain in the very near future, relative to which the president could not hope to take congress into his confidence' without having the feelings of our ally hurt by plain speaking members; but now that congress has adjourned, all can ; proceed smoothly. In spite of sundry denials it ha3 leaked out that the advisability of using a large portion of our troops in the Phil ippines in China, in case the situation demands it, has been discussed. There is no doubt that if matters take a cer tain turn in the east that the real in tention of the present administration will be fully uncovered, and will ; be shown to have much more comprehen sive plans under consideration than it has yet formally disclosed. The follow ing utterance by a member of congress during the past session, shows a com prehensive view of the matter: "The real object of the demand for the retention of the Philipine -Islands by this government is not benevolent assimilation, not the ultimate good of the 4 inhabitants, nor the betterment of this country:' but the hidden motive is th& presence of sufficient military and naval , strength to enable the capitalists of England and America at the proper time to invade China with railroads, open up the territory containg 500,000,000 people to : the planting of factories, 1 where can be found the cheapest labor on earth, and thus make China the work shop of the world." What is making the president trouble now in the Chinese matter is that the Boxers and the Czar of Russia have taken a , notion to proceed to business, whereas, for political purposes Mr, Mc Kinley would nave found it much more convenient to have waited until lifter election at least. '