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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. June 21, 1900. Zh tlebraska Independent -. ZJacelm, Htbrssks PSZSSZ ZUYjJcC RML3L DT AND fi STS f YEAR IN ADVANCE H"L tjt i ritti Atiot Smv Btoar Willi tMTI MfC. Hti4r te t b fivir44 by Ut. Tbf frsi3y forget r rt.t A.ffrrt iwtt iKaa lefl witk tXm. -J tin mtwi'tbwc fails to c $if draft, incf wr, . trr4 t Cfr Rehrssks Imdtrtmdtnt, Lincoln, fietrmtk. lr&. F.i w will o W f - Ff President. Wuxjaw Jtsyw BatAi For Vice President. Cbakuu A. Towjca For CorcTeMtan lrt Dirt G. W. Bekt.e, Lincoln ii' I Orelacd gt SAVlli vote in 1K2. a i jlurality of 3fl010 over Harrison who; rf-ceived .17X10S. Bryan in ! got of them. If arrioa wa a minority pre- ; Sdect even is I, when he was elected. j A Washirgtoo rot writer after giv-'( irg an account of the St. Lot street car strike innocently remark that they s are having a St- Louj time over in Chin alo- It eeets that they have been having an Idaho time out in the . 2hiiippin for several ejocth. The recto takers are aking no ques tion thi time about mortgages. They 1 did that la-t tiae and once was enough for all the plutocrat. It- lead of that, j superintendent of the soldiers and sail the bureuV ee-plojee in thk district ; ors home at Milford had cut away the ar takieg a poti cf the voters for the T4iUable shade trees. Mr. Fowler the benefit of the republican party at the ; cost cf the tax payer. i With ociy 33 per cent of the amount r f rd ca hand tiow, that there was at this tiise U-t year, wool continue to faiL There tent to te s-oniethitir the matter with the working of the DiEjr'ey bill and al iiethins with the claim that tfc republicans m ere gxns to carry '" Mocica on the'pfice cfwobt State Treasurer Merre ha invested , fi OCiOol the permaEM-ct agricultural col-; lege eodowEjent fund in refunded Buf-1 fak concty warrant drawing three and re-half tjer cert interest. A rood invest- j isecC" Othr coiSh "ho'Az.z options "The following is the amount of pro that -perriit of rvfandit if paying a ducU from home garden and premises: greater rate 4 intreirt should re-invest Five bushels of radishes, 7 bushels of at this tiase. - " lettuce, 7 bushels of onions, 2 bushels of ; bet. 100 heads of cabbage, 3 bushels of A goidbu Nebraa banker out in the pas, 1 bushel of cucumbers, 25 bushels weetern fart of the stale bought a gold j 0f gweet corn, GO bushels of potatoes 20 brick the other day and paid 113,000 for j bushels of sweet .toe, 10 bushels of it. Hewa ooefrf thoe fellows who ; tomatoes, 24 dozen eggs, 80 chickens, were telling the farmers ia 1T3 that TpOO pounds of pork and THIRTY they did not know, ecocgh to discuss j CORDS OF HICKORY WOOD." . the toecey question. IK will probaWy j ThLs shows plainly who cut the tim be otilitea by the'republican tate com-1 ber-one Captain J. H. Culver, republi mitte ia the cosier campaign. c4n anj ex superintendent After cut Lord Salisbury tsad m great mistake in cot in forming General - Bctha and Pe i Wett the next morei eg after the drunken ' and riofcm celebration in London over the ending of the war that -the war was rr " lt SermlB not I t,Tic fanned of the fact, went on capturing andVillicg KtgSkh regi- xaents after their aecartomed habits. waa a very great oversight. 11 Of the 150,000,000 voted f or the Span- ia war ana larsea over so iciniey to pjty it U, that men will become so ut expend a he aw ct. I17.OO0.W0 was j terly degraded as the Journal writers, paid out for hip. many of them like j that they have no respect for character. the Jlernmae, worthier old tubs, and ail the other bought at price at least twice what they were worth. McKinley ia responsible far thi immense amount do one eiwr. j e money was pyt entirely at hi dipoaL tf m -i - r-i. .. : ! thay have been tumerous, that have According to the Shibboleth of the been called to protest against the Brit muZel head pr. the republican party ; h war of conquest in South Africa i interlarded from tp to bottom with J have been broken "up by mobs. Now traitora and httle Americana. Hoar is a the women have teken up the cause and traitor. Hale i a traitor. Boutweil is a , cl'lPi a meeting at St. James Hall in traitor. Maoo i a traitor. Thee are at ! the interest of the Boers. Five hun the top and a on examir toward the ! dred working men have tendered fcheir bottom, the traitor gt thicker and ! services to protect them. Only women thicker. Any decent man ought to be j wiIj be admitted in the hall. The chair ahamd to betoeto a party that af be occupied bvMrs. Leonard Court- o Kacy traitors in it. ThefrlJO00 of greenbacks that hate been in circulation have never cost the government a cent for interest or the people who received - them from the Lands cf the govern n?ect. To put the a amount 4 bark tr.crey is circula - too tne government wouia nave to pay would have to ray to them they, the banker please to charge. The plutocrat have downed another IeT rd. the Xonhweertf university rear Chicsg- Presideat Rogers at- American ComtDdJa?ealtii,ThO is a mem tended the an ti imperialist meetirg and! ber of parliament and writer of worldwide nund a red tot speech in favor of the j reputation. The fact ; is, that the schol declaratks of independence. That set- ars and thinkers of England the men tied it. The trustee intimated to him who have made the nation great are that it wa time for him to resign and almost unanimously against the war on he did. The Northwestern is aMetho the Boers. They IwjouJd have been heard diet icttitutioa, - , - long ago if the JoevChamberlain jingoes TMEMLTER 8TANDABD Silver standard,. Mexico still forges ahead at an astonuhing rate. The men who declare that bimetallism means ruin and the silver standard eternal damnation when they talk politics, has ten down to Mexicoogptajhare of prosperity that coiaekrS -nation that would hare nothing ha dorwith the gold standard. D. ET Thompson " is down there now, looking after investments that pay him more than anything he can invest in, in these gold standard United States, because all the people down there are prosperous and not only a few trust magnates and preferred stock holders. ........ - The annual report of the Mexican ! Central railway has some significant figures well worth the study of all those who wish to invent in Mexican securi ties and industries. The total gross gain for 1899 was $1,997,122. The bulk of this adrance on the receipts of 1898 was made up of an increase - in local freight and local passenger business. The former shewed a gain of $1,175,680 and the latter 509,554. The interna tional freight showed a gain of $420,366 and international passenger business of t-Vn. It will be seen that the local bus- iness was the chief factor in putting the Mexican Central where it could meet all iu jnteret without drawing upon the banked up subsidy 'fund as in previous -phe local business is what gives pros- ; perity to this ente.rprise, and that means that all the people are making money ami doing welL And Mexico is a silver standard country! When these gold bugs get excited during the next cam- pa urn and begin to tell of the horrors of silver money, it will be well to put in a shout of "Mexico! Mexico!" REFCBLICAX STl'MPS v i Some space in republican papers has , been devoted to a slanderous and wholly : false story to the effect that the present prejient superintendent has done noth ing of the kind but has merely cleared away the under brush and old dead limbs that were cut from timber cut down by the preceding betcblica? su rtBijfTE?frE?fT, captain Culver. The proof of this can be found on page 10 of the First Biennial Report of the Nebraska Branch Soldiers' and Sailors' Home for the perioiil ending- November 33, 1ST! The repofrSras prepared by J. H. Culver, commandant and was pub- iihed by authority of the board of con- trol composed of II. C. Russell, J. A. Piper, A. S. Churchill and J. S. Bartley, republican state officers at that time. The report says: ting the THIRTY CORDS he left the trimmings for bis successor to clear away. Mr. Fowler has cleared un and im- j prored the pUce until it presents a most i crediub3e appearance. J No reSpecUble paper would have pub- iUhed such a scandalous lie as the story that -.j in the Journal. It seems i that there is no misrepresentation, no I falsehood or slander or abuse of a public : official so vile that it cannot find lodge- meet in the columns of the Journal. reputation, honor and truth. EXiLISH BOER SYMPATHIZERS Imperialism has gone to such extremes , jn jga j cal,y ahoHshed. free speech is practi All the meetings, and ney, supported by the marchioness of FJpon, Lady Coleridge, Lady Farr&r, Lady Murray, Lady Russell, Lady Shaw Lefevre, Lady Grove and Lady Burne Jones. The principal address of the evening will be delivered by Mrs. James Brice. .,... 1 Miss Hobhouse" the "secretary of the f movement, is oneof England's sturdy woman leaders. Hef, earnestness and . courage in the catise of peace were tried in Victoria park, where she was assaulted by a mob ot ruffians and escaped injury only through the timely arrival of the t Mrs. Brice is wiot-tbt'uthorof the 11 had not systematically started the mobs to howling down and assaulting every man who opposed the suicidal policy adopted by the English ministry. It will not be long, however, before the voice of reason will again be heard. Then Joe Chamberlain will crawl into a hole and never crawl out again. POLITICAL CROP REPORTS One of the most amusing things in the great republican dailies is the new scheme they have evolved in publishing political crop reports. One of them sent out letters to correspondents in several states asking for a crop report. As the field covered was here in the west, where there is the best prospect for a big crop that there has been for several years, it gave correspondents a good chance to whoop it up for McKinley and Mark Hanna. They would first tell of the big wheat, corn, oats and hay prospects and then add that all interest in Bryan and the money question had vanished and all the farmers would vote for McKinley and for things to remain as they are. Now if the reform movement was de pendent on the crops.it would 'never have been started. From 1889 to 1892 we had splendid crops, but it was in those years that the Alliance movement was organized. It was then that the great republican majorities in these western states were wiped out. If a farmer's vote depended upon the rain and the sunshine, upon drouths and grasshoppers, if when we had good crops the farmers all voted the republican ticket and when we had drouths and bad crops, they all voted the populist or democratic ticket, we should have a very queer country indeed. If when a flood came and washed out the crops on the lowlands and there were big crops on the highlands, the highland men all voted the republican ticket and the low land farmers all the democratic ticket, as these political crop reporters would have us believe, we would have a fine state of affairs. Just give us a good season in the presidential campaign year, and the republicans can go ahead and establish standing armies, abolish the constitution, trample the declara tion of independence underfoot, carry on wars of conquest, appropriate a billion dollars every session of coneress, con quer as many Asiatics as they please and hold them in subjection, establish polygamy and slavery, build up a sys tern of trusts and do anything else that they wish, and if the farmers only have good crops, they will care nothing about these proceedings and all vote the re publican ticket. That is the substance of a political crop report. The Independent does not believe that the farmers are that kind of men. WHO IS IT? SALGKEN. It may interest the readers of the In dependent to know that one A. P. Sal gren of Kearney who has written a long effusion of abuse of Governor Poynter that is occupying much space in repub lican papers and assistant republican papers, is none other than a third-class printer. For a time he pretended to edit the Kearney Pilot; made a failure of the enterprise and in order to recoup himself demanded the position of in structor in printing at the Industrial school which he was wholly unqualified to fill. After his failure to secure the political plum he desired, Salcrren sold the controling interest in the Pilot to C W. Hoxie, the editorship went to a Mr. Hall and Salgren went to work as a job hand. As the Independent has said before, all the opposition there is to the re-nomination of Governor Poynter comes from disappointed office seekers. To those j who knew him this parade of Slagren as a prominent leader is most amusing. So far as we can learn he is not a member of the printer's union and passes among the members of the profession a poor grade scab. Mark Hanna sometimes meets with disappointments. One of them is that when he downs a man, very frequently the man won't stay downed. He thought that he had knocked the attorney -gen eral of Ohio, Mr. Monnett, clear out of the box. But the other day the silver republicans of Ohio had a meeting at which many prominent men, formerly all McKinley supporters, were present and Lo! Mr. Monnett was among them as was also Mayor Jones, who polled 100,000 votes for governor on an inde pendent ticket at the last election. That forebodes more trouble for Mark Hanna in Ohio. These men met to form plans to attend the Kansas City convention and devise schemes to elect W. J. Bryan president of the United States. The anti-monopoly republicans in Ohio, and there seems to be quite a number of them, will follow Monnett into the Bryan camp. That will be another dis appointment to Hanna. When Otis landed at San Francisco he declared that the war was over. When he got to Omaha he reiterated that the war was over. When he got to Chicago he stuck to it that the war was over. When he arrived at his old home in" New York he affirmed and avowed that the war was over. After 1 hat he called upon the president and he hasn't said it once since. Did McKinley inti mate to him that the censorship in the Philippines had not been thoroughly successful and that the people really knew something about the situation there? THOMPSOTfS GOOD ADVICE At the meeting of the National Demo cratic committee- in the City of Wash ington last February, Hon. W. H. Thompson contended that the demo cratic national convention should be held on the same date as the populist national convention.-. .In the Indepen dent of March 1, in i an account of ' the meeting of the democratic committee was the following: . "Another representative westerner who was here during the past week was Nebraska's member of the democratic national committee, W. H. Thompson. In the body of which he was a part, Thompson held up the reputation of the state and the section for the qualities which have come to be associated with both state and section. The breadth of his view of the political situation and the conditions that are to be met this fall and the soundness of his conclusions as to the course to be pursued was admit ted even by eastern democrats who voted against him. Thompson contended for holding the, democwttie national conven tion on the elate -previously fixed by the populist committee. - During the dis cussion Thompson in a fiery speech an swered a remark made by an easterner, and which he interpreted to indicate that the easterner held the populists in slight esteem. Thompson went after the member and in his speech descriDea the populists of Nebraska and defended them with such force and vigor that he carried the committee with him so com pletely that one after another they as sured him"and"the committee that he was correct1 in his position in giving honor to this branch of the fusion forces of the country." "The incident was the subject of con siderable discussion among the mem bers of the committee and Thompson won by it both for himself and the fu sion forces of Nebraska . even a greater measure of respect of the committee than had been accorded "to them before. it was Dut anotner illustration or me idea heretofore referred to that the pro vincialism of this country is confined to the eastern part of the continent." If Mr. Thompson's advice had been followed by the committee we would not now be confronted with the candidate nominated by the populist "party for vice president and a chance of the nomina tion of some other by the democrats for the same place. If the convention had been called at the same time there is no doubt that Mr. Towne would have been the unanimous choice of both conven tions. We know from experience in this state that it is much easier to nominate a man direct, even if he . is the choice of two other conventions, than it is to re nominate the same man after the first nominating convention has adjourned. In the one case it presents the appear ance of attempted dictation, in the other the concensus of opinion of three con ventions. The democratic national committee would have done better had it accepted the wise counsel of. Mr. Thompson last February. It remains to be seen whether the democratic national convention will have the courage and wisdom tb accept his advice and cousel and nominate for its vice presidential candidate that fear less champion of the common people, the choice of the populists, Hon. Charles A. Towne. With Bryan and Towne, the modern tribunes of the people, victory is certain. STAND UP FOR NEBRASKA 1 The people of - the west should take more care to placing the favors of their patronage with home institutions. At present the east fattens on the labor and products of the west. We do not mean to stir up "sectional strife" but rather increase "local pride" -pride in Ne braska business and Nebraska institu tions. When you can spend your money to as good advantage with an institu tion in the state as with a foreign or eastern institution give the Nebraska in stitution the preference. Do it every time. The money thus kept within the state will frequently return to purchase goods, or labor, or supplies from you. In the insurance business for example, by a system of home patronage the mu tual companies have saved several mil lions of dollar to the people of Nebraska. Before the organization of these com panies the greater part of this large sum was sent to the east and formed the basis for the enormous wealth of many of the foreign and eastern companies. If you cannot get the class of insur ance you desire in the mutual companies, that affords no reason able'excuse for the patronage of eastern companies. There are several just as reliable and thor oughly responsible "old line" companies organized under and incorporated in the state of Nebraska as any eastern com pany. The Farmers and Merchants In surance company of Lincoln, and the Columbia Fire Insurance company of Omaha, are Nebraskaoompanies, invest ing and spending " their earnings and profits here and are entitled to the first consideration when you are placing your business. Spend your money in Ne braska. Dollars, like chickens, come home to roost. Give such companies. as r, the "Com mercial Union Assurance Company (Ltd) London, England," the "Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool" and such Euro pean names the go-by. They will never helD to build up Nebraska or Nebraska institutions. MAN WITH THE HOE A circular letter to laboring men, doubtless sent out by "the Mark Hanna bureau, has fallen into the hands of the writer. It contains repeated assertions that if Bryan is elected wages will be re duced, and urging all wage earners to vote the republican ticket and thus in sure an increase in wages. It will be well for each wage earner who receives this document to inquire into the mat ter. . Is it not true that if Bryan's elec tion would "reduce wages, that all the great employers of labor would be his enthusiastic supporters? Do they not use every means in their power to hire men at the lowest possible rate? When a demand .i made, by their employes for higher wages do they not fight it with every means in their power. Look at the attitude of the employers of labor in St. Louis, Chicago and many other large cities at the present time. There are strikes by the wage workers for the maintenance of their wages and the em ployers are spending thousands upon thousands of dollars to defeat the de mand. If the election of Bryan would reduce the wages of these men, would not all these employers be enthusiastic Bryan men? But the fact is that not one of them are. They fight Bryan with the same bitterness that they fight the labor organizations. After all this and their known opposition to Bryan, they send out letters to the working men tell ing them that Bryan's election would re duce their wages! If it would, would not the men who send out these docu ments -vote for Bryan themselves and get everyone whom they could influence to do the same thing. ' The working man who is deceived by such arguments must be yery dull of intellect indeed. He is a fair specimen of Markam's "man with the hoe' .MERIT RECOGNIZED . The benefit that an honest and ablv edited newspaper confers on the commu nity or state' where it is published does not always appear on the surface, but it never fails of recognition by thinking men. A : conversation that occurred in Omaha the other day, shows that the work pf the Independent has not passed unnoticed- by the men who carry on the great commercial affairs of this state. The present financial condition of the banks of this state was being discussed and the favorable state of business com pared with the stress and strife in states further east. The tremendous growth of thercattle and sheep business was commented upon and the ease that en terprising hustlers could get money to carry cattle, hogs ahd sheep through a season of pasturing and feeding. One of the men remarked that the credit of that should be ascribed more to the Ne braska Independent than to any other thing. Then he went on to say that the nnancial articles that nad appeared in the Independent during the last two years, many of which had been quoted or re-written for the great financial papers of New York and Chicago, had resulted in a great change in the bank ing business an Nebraska. The con stant warnings which the Independent had given to bankers about depositing their reserve funds in New York banks had been heeded. He then read an item from a financial paper that stated that the reserve funds of Nebraska banks were now nearly all to be found in the Omaha, Sioux City and Lincoln banks instead of in New York as formerly. The result of this, was a great stimulus to business in the state and especially in the amount of cattle and sheep han dled. This had been of incalculable ad vantage to farmers, and men in every line pf business. It had, he declared, been the great factor in making Nebras ka the most prosperous community in the whole United States. He wound up by saying that the people of Nebraska owed more to the Independent for clear cash in their pockets than any other one institution in the state. All the readers of, the Independent know pf the persistent hammering that it has done on that line in this paper in whichlt appealed to self interest and used argument, sarcasm and every means to get the "pigheaded bankers to see what was for their own good v and the good of the people of this state. Most of them have taken the advice and the result is stated by the gentleman quoted above. All the eastern goldbug papers, both democratic and republican, declare that the pops have swallowed the democrats. The same class of editors in the west solemnly affirm that the democrats have swallowed the pops. It is with these last that the fuzzie wuzzies agree. The Brooklyn Eagle devotes columns to proving tha,t Bryan is nothing but a populist and that the Kansas City con vention will be a populist convention and have nothing democratic about it. On the other : hand the Omaha Bee wor ries itself into a sweat almost every day because there is nothing left of the pop ulist party and the democrats have taken it in. It is evident that somebody is lying about this business. ' The laboring classes of this country have now, and it will be the only chance that thejt will , ever, have, to annihilate the scheme to establish a colonial em pire. If such an empire is established, they will come into competition with the labor and the products of the labor of Asiatics. Under that sort of compe tition they will be forced down and down, until they will be on a level with the Oriental hordes ' that starve and die on the plains of China. For the labor ing classes this campaign is fateful. What difference will it make to them ten years from now, what party wins or loses, if the imperialism and open door policy of the president is successful? All that they have fought and suffered for, will be gone, and gone forever. f DEMOCRATS FOR TOWNE Several democrats of national reputa tion are actively at work to secure the nomination of Towne by the Kansas City convention. " Prominent among these is W. H. Thompson of Nebraska. He began to instruct the eastern demo crats as far back as last February when he made a speech at a meeting of the democratic national committee in Wash ington 'concerning -the principles and power of the populist party. That speech is said to have had a very potent influ ence and went far - toward directing the work of the committee in its relations with the populist party. Mr. Thomp son isan earnest advocate of the nomi nation of Towne, being firmly, convinced that it is for the . interest of the demo cratic party to make it. Being -a mem ber of the democratic national commit tee and one who has taken a most active part, he has power to command atten tion to his advice. But Mr. Thompson s not the only member of the democratic national com mittee who thinks that ' the nomination of Towne would be for the best interests of that party. Two or three democratic state conventions were of the same opin ion and so expressed themselves. Wheth er there'-are. enough of ihafj opinion", or not to nominateTowne, it is not possi ble at the present time to say. The east ern democrats know nothing of the pop ulist party or its principles, and in some of the southern ' states the democrats have looked upon the populists as their mortal enemies. It will take hard work to overcome the prejudices of such men, but if it can be done, Mr. Thompson is determined to do it. Whether he suc ceeds or not, the position that he has taken, putting principle above party, and the honest endeavors he has made, will not be forgotten by the fusion forces of Nebraska. DEBASING THE CURRENCY The sophistries employed by the gold standard advocates in 1896, it seems, are to be repeated in this campaign. As a sample, examine, the following which was sent out from the official headquar ters at the republican national conven tion: "The question in 1896 was to bring back to the people of the United States such a measure of . prosperity as would enable them to support their families in comfort and contentment. One party proposed to do that by debasing the standard coin, by cutting in two the value of the dollar, and by setting the country adrift on a sea of finacial ex periments," without chart or compass." On the other hand, the same docu ment asks for support for doing that very thing themselves. They point out that there has been a rise in prices and consequent prosperity. If there has been a rise in prices there must of ne cessity have been - a debasing of the standard coin. A rise in prices means that the standard coin will buy less than it did before the rise and therefore it has been debased. In fact they accuse the reform forces of wanting to debase the currency and ask for support be cause they have done it" themselves! That sort of argument will hardly catch votes in this campaign. It is hardly possible that there are very many men in the United States so dull as not to comprehend that a rise in prices means a decrease in the purchas ing power of the standard coin, or in other words a debasing of the standard coin. In 1896 they denied the quantity theory of money. Now they brag con tinually about the increase of the quan tity. They constantly publish figures showing the increase. Their whole ar gument for support is based on the fact that the currency "has been debased, that coin purchases less than it did in 1896. It will not catch votes. It seems that the struggling mullet head editors in Nebraska have, never been furnished with a dictionary or they don't know how to use dictionaries if they have them. For their benefit the Independent prints a definition or two which will be of great benefit to them if they will cut them out and paste th6m up somewhere, so that they can refer to them when they sit down to write. To wit: r Empire--The dominions of an ejnperor usually including several nations or na tionalities. Imperialism The exercise of such power as belongs to a despotic govern ment. Despotic. Exercising absolute or un controlled power. After these poor republican editors have mastered the above words and defi nitions so they can repeat them without looking at the book, if they are not troubled with inflamation of the brain caused by hard study, the Independent will explain to them the meaning of a fe w more words which they do not seem to understand. ' The men who are for the- gold stand ard, who organize trusts, who shout for colonies and want "subjects" are all one gang. They are made up of bank mag nates, trust magnates, railroad magnates and one and all are determined to change our form of govern tnent and pattern it afte,r European institutions. They are the power behind the McKinley throne at Washington. For the last decade they have been marching through the land like conquering men of war, gath ering into what is practically one con trol, the banks, the railroads, the great manufacturing industries, the street Car lines, gas, water and electrics light and power. By the passage of -the gold bill they have practical control of the money of the country. Elect McKinley presi dent again and in another decade we will have a rich country the richest in the world but the population will consist of two or three hundred billionaires and 80,000,000 others who .will serve them, for wages when .they can get the op portunity. - Before the American people today there stands two mighty warnings- Rome and the French revolution. Rome sowed the seeds of imperialism and went down in utter ruin.' France? attempted despotic rule and the land was deluged with blood. What will be the fate of this republic if we launch the ship of state on the tempestuous seas that en gulfed Rome and France. Will it be blotted out as Rome was, or from a sea of blood, will it rise again as did France? But it will not be so launched. After next November we will start on a new voyage on the sea of liberty. The incor ruptible Bryan will be at the helm, and he will guide the ship by the old charts of constitution and declaration of inde pendence into that poct.where we ehall have equalTigHs v for" alljmd;- special privileges for f; none. 4 We can scarcely wait for the day when the lines shall be cast off and the word given to start for the port of peace and freedom for all men. ' ' The republican papers all -announced in unison with voices all pitched upon the key C, that Secretary Hay had ac complished one of the most amiable diplomatic feats that ever went on rec ord to the credit of a minister, and for dexterity and acuteness the thing had not been equalled since .the days of the old Italian masters. They said that Hay had made a treaty with all the civilized nations to the effect that, the United States should have an "open , door" for trade in China as long as the waters ran and the sun shone. That is what they said, and a great shout went up: "Great is McKinley and his secretary of state!" Now it turns out that the whole story was a fake, but the readers of republi can papers will never know that it was. A number of self-constituted leaders of ihe people's party are endeavoring to create an impression that it will make but little difference if the democrats do substitute some eastern goldbug vice presidential timber instead of Mr. Towne. Shelby Sun. Will the Sun kindly inform the public who these leaders are that have been endeavoring to do such a . thing? The Independent exchanges with every fusion paper in the state and it has never seen any indication of such an endeavor. While the Sun - is about it, will v it also please tell us how many votes such writ ing will make for Bryan and the peoples party? . Is it not the mission of a popu list paper to increase the vote of the party? .Are articles that, have a ten dency to create discord and excite dis trust the best way to advance reform? Many years ago De Tocqueville ' re marked: "Can it be believed ' .that de-. mocracy, which has overthrown the feu dal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists who have secured the control of the re publican party, may think that we will retreat, but they will find out as Paul Jones said, that "we havn't begun to fight yet." The scrimmages that they had with us in 1896 were just little skirmishes in comparison to the battle that is coming. We have reforfned our lines, added hundreds of thousands of new recruits and the old veterans arc fuller of fight than a mountain wild cat. The patriots of America will never "re treat before the tradesmen and capital ists." A decrease of 281,000,000 pounds in quantity' of wool imported in a year shows the value of protection to wool to the American" farmer. Sarpy. ; County Herald. The protection has resulted in a fall in prices. This week's circular letter sent out by Sherman. Brothers, wool commission merchants, Chicago, after announcing a decline of 1 per cent says: . ,. . . "The decline in London has tended to prolong the depression already existing in this country add manufacturers still stand aloof from purchasing large quan tities unless concessions are made." Try again, Brother Beedle. Which is the greater imperialist, the Czar of all the Ruisians, or William McKinley, president of the United States and emperor of the Philippines . and Porto Rico? The czar made a propo sition to the nations to decrease their armaments, their navies and their stand ing armies. About the same time Mc Kinley asked congress to increase ; ttfe standing army of the United States to three times what it had been before and to build a magnificent , and costly navy. Who is the great imperialist? The platform on which j McKinley must run is not that which will be pro mulgated at Philadelphia, but on the one which the party has made since it has been in possession of all departments of the government. The plank" that is adopted on trusts will not 1 influence in " telligent voters so much hi the action' of congress on that subjecf If the party was opposed to trusts, whyid it not suppress them when it hid jttppwer to flri sot . . t-.iri tv? . ?