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2 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. July 5,1000 MakxNo beys, thi wou!d be as e-Vjrnt platform if a few of the planks had cot been stolen- THE RAILROAD ASSESSMENT TW B1 T1cr fchenlr that the ryitot tot Jl Thews Higher tit y lWf frrrty 1 lb Mate, Editor Independent There are those in our party who are trying to make po litical capital oot of the a--ment of the railroad by the state board of trans portatAoc They contend that the rail rods do cot pay their share of the tax -e. Thi they are using against Gover nor Pyctr recomination. notwith standing that he u but one member of that board and in the minority. This coc Lection is ucjut and untrue. I realbe that anjooe who defends a railroad ha a ta&k in the nands of some popbUsta, but having been a delegate to ery populist state convention but one I feel that I aa at !eat entitled to a word. In thia J am only talking of the subject of railroad taxation; 1 am cot in any manner defending thoe many practice resorted to by the railroad-? that we all ia common hope soon to have stopped through -gorernment own ership and operation."' I am only plead in; that credit be given where credit is due; that our state board of equalization ha had the courage cf it cos fictions in aoakis? thee railroad a.e-isments upon ihe bai that all chall pay taxes cpoQ ad equal a ad jut valuation. Let cs t- The total 5ssed valua tion of Ufrdi in thi state i 1110,042. Haoa ThM it about ee tenth their actual raltse. The assessed valuation of the railroads is thi state is f-Xl'.Ol-0O or one fourth a much as the lands Does any ise man in thi state think that the railroad are worth oc fourth a much a ail the lands in The total personal property in Ne braska i assessed at rSX7,Ol".".0a The railroad at tSJOMjauo. almost a mcrh a the whole of the personal prop erty in the atate. Does any one even think the railroads worth anywhere near a such a the personal property in this tate? The resource of the tate, prirate and cations! banks, showed Dember 2nd. IWJ. tSTUXliOO. On pagre 21 the sec retarie of the state board of transporta ties speaking of the eot of the fire thouasd Ere hundred rail- of railroad in thi flat hay: -Without any doubt these lir.e can now be built for an arer ac cot of 5.000X10 per Uiile, a total of ti:U0O0.oa- If this be true then the bank of the state here almost enough ts their hands to build and equip the railroads ia .Nebraska, yet the raiiroad are pajirf one fifth of the taxes of the state. If other property i aMKed at one tenth U alte, then should we treat all corporate property the atue. The li. & iL. is ae-ied $IQ&0XQ per mile throughout Nebraska. Ten time thU odd make it worth tlOa.K-00 per Go pc 52. January 3.tb, 1339, si ale board of tranportaloa report shows it and a!! equipment to have cot up to t&at date t;Ai-13 per mile. The 6 ZJ !GCi0r S Dr. Williams Pink PHI let Pale People zxc the tonic to tike at this tine of year to tend new blood" tingling throt; the body and to . restore strength to tlie wcaienei system. "They are crude from the formula, of a regular fhyrtcfan and tneir remarkable power as a Blood ani Nerve medicine was m first proTei ia prirate practice. Since they hare beta giren to the ptiWic, thousands hare testiliei to their wonderful merits and they hare been approved and prescribed by lezden cPthe medical profession- Hp. Williams Fmh Pills for Pale People axe pleasant to take no nauseous doses to vpset the stomach; contain no mgrcdients that may help in one direction but harm in a doxea others. A simple, safe and sure 1 . remedy for all diseases of Blood and Nerves. At all rcrrltA. or direct from Dr. Wimn Md3a Co., ceacidr. 3T. T ' peatptM om receipt prU, fc. pr box; boM. txfiO, U. P. i assessed at f9,830.00 per mile, ten times this would make it worth $93, OuJ.OO per mile. Three years ago the populists in this state demanded in as much as the gov ernment had aided the U. P. in con struction with bonds and lands in the sum of 00,000.00 per mile, that we therefore owned it, should foreclose our lien and operate it. All of which 1 think should have been done, yet they are paying taxes upon $38,000.00 per mile more than we said it was worth. The U. P. stockholders only daira it worth t.20a-22 per mile, water and all. TheF. ilJb 3L V. throughout Ne braska is assessed at 83,000.00 per mile. Ten times this assessment would make it worth rKQOO 00. Page 18 of the same report hows that this read could be du plicated now for $22,427.42 per mile, There is appended hereto a list of all railroaas in this state which shows the amount of assessment of each. There is alo appended hereto a list showing the average assessed raluation of the lands of every county in Nebraska. An exam ination thereof will soon convince any one making it. that the railroads are paying upon a greater valuation propor tion ir than are the farm lands.. There are two classes of property that cannot be hid from the assessor: farms and railroads. While other classes sometimes escape both assessment and payment of taxes, these do not. There can be no doubt but there can be found farms in Nebraska paying tax es upon more than one tenth their val uation. They arefcxceptions and prove the rule. There are rhaps two or three counties in the state that are as sessed too high. But taken as a whole the board deserves no censure at the bands of the farmefSTJf Nebraska, for they have assessed the railroads upon their ficticious valuation, the valuation upon which they collect freights $45, Ivlli per mile. This includes all that water in the stock that we have contend ed for years should be squeezed out. And this assessment is made in the face of the fact that our own tarty officials and those of the party before us have said that these roads could be duplicat ed for $25,000.00 per mile. lie for any man passes condemnation upon any member of the state board let him first investigate. I make the state ment that in the eastern and the richer portion of the state the railroads are paring more than their share of the tax es. And since the railroads are assessed the same throughout the whole state of Nebraska, this must of necessity apply more forcibly as we go farther westward where the assessed valuation of the lands decrease. Very truly yours, TRENMORE CONE, Wahoo, Neb. USD ASSRSSMEJETS FOB 18D9 o. coorriM rRovao f'scVed 1 Adams 331 1M 2 Astelot. i 116 3 lUiiutr 65 4 Blair 15 14 5 bou& IttJ 152 S Box Bott v-... 65 ? Boyd lirown 218 114 4 Hatlalo - 2U3 13 10 liurt , STiO Hyo 11 JiatW J7 24S U Cmi 633 W lUr 23T 357 14 I'Uim 105 - 98 li Cfcerrjr 7 15 Cbja& ZM 20 r-0 iiledicine- 17 Clay 814 V 218 18 Colfax 474 19 Cumins 4Si 891 20 Caster 149 " S6 21 Dakota 6U0 250 22 Dawes 9 23 Dawson 160 116 24 Deuel 60 52 25 Dixon.... S4 Vs 2i 26 Dodge 442 - . 385 27 Douglas, 1171 6&74 28 Dundjr 104 85 29 Fillmore.. 454 323 30 Franklin .. 230 142 Bl Frontier 138 32 Furnas 232 186 33 Gage 523 408 34 Garfield. ....... 251 149 35 Goeper 188 38 Urant 135 37 Greeley 247 168 3S Hall 369 213 39 Hamilton i... 309 177 40 Harlan 211 l&S 41 Hayes.... 127 42 Hiteheodr . 168 12 43 Holt 157 142 44 Hooker Rl 63 45 Howard 225 139 46 Jefferson 418 264 47 Jobnson 552 ' 48 Kearney 191 130 49 Keith 51 50 KeyaPaha 102 51 Kimball 127 0 52 Knox 285 169 53 Lancaster 473 ' 863 54 Lincoln 139 68 55 Logan ..i 148 56 Loup , 217 M 57 Madison 374 233 58 McPherson 125 59 Merrick 309 284 60 Nance..... 303 228 61 Nemaha 541 379 62 Nuckolls 811 253 63 Otoe 714 515 64 Pawnee 517 48 65 Perkins 96 ' NJ 68 Phelps 218 154 67 Pierce 316 238 68 Platte v , 288 200 69 Polk a 211 70 Red Willow 145 11 71 Richardson 517 72 Rock 141 73 Saline 835 292 74 Sarpy 838 404 75 Saunders 347 76 Scott's Bluff 137 65 77 Seward 431 78 Sheridan 82 79 Sherman 153 80 Sioux 124 77 M Stanton 388 812 82 Thayer 367 269 83 Thomas 116 57 4 Thurston 759 85 Valley... 233 122 86 Washington 584 87 Wayne 427 88 Webster 251 192 89 Wheeler 90 York 357 152 Total average 858 132 . YTV't . 1 - I . I . 3 1 7 nnero iuis mart appears me tmprurra anu unimproved are not separated.. The assessment of railroads, showing the number of miles and the assessed valuation per mile of the - railroads in the State of Nebraska as determined by the State-Board of Equalization: . ' xo. , pek ; MILKS MIJLK 191.51 $10,580 50.88 6,570 i:w.6:i 4,600 551.82 4.500 NAME OF BAILROtD Burlington & Missouri River Omaha fe South-Western Nebraska... Republican - Valley.... Atchison & Nebraska . 107.85 4.600 Lincoln & North-Western 73.47 3,600 Nebraska A Colorado 430.61 3,340 Chicago. Nebraska & Kansas 5.28 3.600 Union Paeirkj. 467.22 9.800 Omaha A Republican Valley 414.44 8,500 Kansas City & Omaha 193.38 3,500 Missouri Pacific Neb. Extension 92.25 6.1XX) Missouri Pac Crete branch 5818 8,540 Mo. Pac Springfield and P. b'hs 7.88 S,C50 St. Joseph Grand Island 112.53 SAW C. R. I. A P., St. Joseph branch. 69.86 4,500 Sioux City & Pacific 28.85 5.000 Fremont. Elk horn A Mo. ValleT. 983.95 3.8(0 hicago. St. Paul, Min. AO 271.16 5,200 ., S.1 4 P. Nelson brunch.... 51.53 8,500 Chicago. Rock I. land A Pacific. 124.19 6,010 Republican Valley, Kansas A S W 8.50 3,040 Grand Island A Wyoming Cen.. . 352.44 8,150 Omaha A North Platte 80.59 6,550 Lincoln A Black Hills..:. 157.34 ' 3.040 Oxford A Kansas 59.61 3.540 Kearney A Black Hills 65.74 8,000 Republican Valley A Wyoming... 49.17 8.040 Kansas City A Beatrices 2U.10 8,050 Sioux City, O'Neil A Western 129.18 8.000 M. P. Omaha Belt Line 16.54 6,200 M. P. Weeping Water branch . . . 64.88 5,000 Pacific R. R. in Nebraska 71.22 3,290 M. P. Lincoln branch 45.39 5,000 Total 5,542.37 The Premium Watch t Editor Independent: I received the watch all O. K. It is running all right. Thanks. Wm. Wright, Baker, Neb. Editor Independent: Sometime since I received one of your premium watches. I want to thank you for same. It is all right. Well worth every one's time to get up a club for it Geo. A. Baker, Stratton, Neb. Fditor Independent- The watch that I received is all right and keeps good time. Thanks for the picture you sent me. J. N. Baker, Ortello, Neb. Editor Independent: The watch is all right and was a surprise to me. I think if let alone; that is if the boys (big and little) don't monkey with it it will run for years and keep good time. How ever, to my notion a pair of shoes or trousers or other useful article, or even a dress for the ladies would be more practical and fully as well appreciated as a premium. L. E. Larson, Chadron, Neb. Price of Silver . The price of silver bullion has been slowly rising for some days. One day last week it went up eight points in a few hours. The London price at this writing is something over 62 cents an ounce. The cause of this rise is some .thing that none of the gold bug papers care to discuss, but it is generally con ceded that the feeling that is abroad in the land that Bryan is going to be elect ed is the cause of it. The exports of silver from this country for the year ending May .31st were $23, 276,640. There has been shipped from London to India since the first of last January and up to the 7th of June, 13, 391,000. We have furnished England with silver and she has sent it to India and coined it at the ratio of 23 to 1. In other words, by our legislation against silver we have provided that we shall furnish Great Britain with silver at about 60 cents an ounce and she coins it and issues it to the starving people at fl.33 per ounce. By this deal England has been robbing the starving people of India of millions of dollars and then sending agents over here to ask us "for sweet charity's sake" to feed the millions whom she robs. That silver is sold at one price to the gold standard nations of Europe, who take it and coin it at double what they pay for it, is a rank injustice both to the wage earners of Europe and the men who mine the silver in this country. It is a sort of an indirect taxation of the people of the gold standard countries and a robbery of the men who work in the mines to produce it. If silver is worth tl.33 per ounce when coined, it ought to be worth that much before it is coined. All that is produced except what goes into the arts is coined. The business of the world could not be done without it. Gold is never used by the people, who purchase their supplies in amounts of less than five dollars. That means that nearly 80 per cent of the business of the world is done with silver or with substitutes for silver. The way the great robbers have things now fixed, they, make silver a substitute for gold, and paper and copper a substi tute for silver. They get the silver for less than half price and the paper for nothing and the people pay the full face value of both to the robbers who man age the whole affair. We're fir Sound Money There will " be pothers" r using the "sound money" slogan this campaign. The republican-gold-standard-national bank law gives the people national bank "rag money," those notes not being re deemable in gold. The reform forces will stand for greenbacks or other issues by the government, the same redeemable in both gold and silver, the latter coined on equal terms with gold at the ratio of 16 to ll Which" is the "soundest" money. And not only the "soundest" money, but its issue and control is taken out of the hands' of the favored corporations and kept in the hands of. the people the government, a And not only that, but the true monetary reform will 'stop the government from actually donating to the banks, at the expense of the people, their "rag money bank notes which they loan oat to the people. Apropos, the United States Monetary League, pledged to such "sound money, in its call for a convention contains the following pithy sentiment: "Money made of gold alone, no matter to what extent It may be coined, cannot serve as the money of the great mass of the people, who make their daily cash purchases in sums of one dollar or under. Therefore a vast volume of sub stitutes for money must be used, and the larger the volume of these substitutes, these promises to pay money, which are forced into circulation and become ac cepted instead of money, the easier it becomes to 'fertilize the rich man's field with the sweat of the poor man's brow.' How's This We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known P. J Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West and Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. -Hall's catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu cous surfaces of the system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold!by all druggists. Tes timonials free. f- v . i Hall's Pamil Pills are the best THE STAB? OF THE WEST : - : - i . i It Will Rie In Washing-ton on the 4th r Jiext March and Illamtne Erery Cot- tage mod Home In nil the Land a, ...... , . " Editor Independent: We are accus tomed to see all the large planets and bright stars arise in the east, but a few years ago, a star of the first magnitude arose in the west. At each revolution of the earth it goes up higher and higher, and shines brighter and brighter. Thou sands and tens of thousands go out by day and by night' to gaze upon its mag nificence and imbibe its inspiration. The telescopes of all nations are focused upon it; some in wonder, some in joy, some in anger. Mark Hanna and a subsidized press are shooting arrows at it, dipped in wormwood and gall; but it travels on, and its brightness is undimmed: and on the 4th day of next March it will cast a halo of silvery light upon the capital at Washington, so that our law makers can see plainly that it is a duty they owe the American people to wipe out the foul" blot left on the congressional record 23 years ago, by the wily trick of John Sherman, inspired by the glittering gold of English potentates. William Jennings Bryan! The very name fills the ear with sweet sounds; fills the heart with fond hopes. No other name brings such cheerful thoughts to the American farmer, to the American mechanic, to the American laborer. That name is synonomous with equal rights for all. That name means more money, higher prices for labor and all the products of the soil. That name means government control of the rail roads, consequently lower rates for travel and transportation. That name means the dethronement of wealth and the ele vation of labor. That name is the watch word of all the forces that are opposed to the doctrine of imperialism; that are opposed to the imperial sneer at the declaration of independence. I thank the Nebraska Independent for the beautiful picture of William Jen nings Bryan, just received. There must have been some transfer ase of thought from Oakdale to Lin coln, for I have thought many times of late that I would send for that picture. I shall put it in a frame and hang it on the wall of my sitting room where my happiest hours are spent. It will be a pleasure each day to look at that noble face; to think of the greatness of the man, the purity of his character, the ele vating influence of his example, his power for good, his worthiness for the presidential chair. I shall delight to gaze at those lips from which flow his matchless eloquence and his impressive words of wisdom. I shall delight to look at those eyes that see in every indi vidual, high or low, an image of God that see just as many angelic qualities in a poor man as in a Rockefeller or a railroad magnate. Again I thank you. J. S. Dewey, Oakdale, Neb. OPT1CAI. GOODS. The Western Optical and Electrical Co., located at 131 North 11th street is composed of old citizens and thoroughly acquainted with the business, having fitted eyes for twenty-five years. Cer tainly they ought to be competent to do good work. They are , permanently lo cated with us and that means much to the purchaser of eye glasses and spec t Great Historic Event at i Kansas City. INDEPENDENCE DECLARED. Democrats Reaffirm Charter of Human Liberty. THE PRINCIPLES OF JEIFEBSON. Political Descendants of the Father of Democracy- Will Maintain Them aaratnst the Forces of Imperialism. Bryan a Fitting: Snceessor to the Im mortal Jefferson He Needs Xo Plat form i He Stands For .Inst lee Rep resentative Government Bronght Into Dlsrepnte by McKtnley Civil Service Pensions Roosevelt and Piatt. Special Washington Letter. The great historic event at Kansas City July 4 is a fit companion piece to the great historic event at Philadelphia July 4, 1776, -On the latter date the Magna Charta of human liberty, written by the fa ther of the Democratic party, was pro claimed to all the world. On the former date the political de scendants of that man met at Kansas City to take counsel " together to pre vent the principles enunciated inf that famous state paper the most famous ever traced by uninspired pen from perishing from the earth, for if the Democrats do not preserve the ideas contained in the Declaration of Inde pendence they will not be preserved at all. Therefore it is eminently meet and proper that the Democratic convention should meet in this year of grace on the glorious Fourth, and as the repub lic itself sprang from the meeting at Philadelphia let us hope that the things done and the forces set in motion at Kansas City will save this great people from imperialism and all the curses therein contained. Imperialists mouth a good deal be cause we set our convention for the Fourth of July, St. Jefferson's day, but our reply that is, "The better the day the better the deed," and surely there can be no' better day for the re vival of patriotism and genuine robust Americanism which. we are inaugurat ing and which will sweep the country from sea to sea. A Democrat made the day Immortal. Certainly Democrats have a right to use the sentiment appertaining thereto for the salvation of their country. Jefferson and Bryan are a century apart in time. They are twins in theo ries of government. Both are great tribunes of the people. Jefferson and Bryan. In his day Jefferson was compelled to fight monarchists. . Bryan is now do ing the same. Jefferson was abused as a dema gogue, mountebank and anarchist. He Is now universally conceded to have been the profoundest philosopher that ever devoted his life to statesmanship. Bryan is now denounced, as was his great exemplar, as a demagogue, moun tebank and anarchist. The historian of our times will place him in the front rank of statesmen and patriots. Jefferson and Bryan each exerts vast Influence over their countrymen. Jef ferson was not an orator. He depend ed entirely upon the pen for the dis semination of his ideas. Bryan is the greatest living orator, perhaps the greatest that ever lived. Nevertheless he Is also "cunning with his pen." as old John Adams declared Jefferson to be. The proverb "A constant dropping will wear the hardest stone away" ex plains to a large extent the widespread Influence of these two men. Jefferson never rested. Bryan never rests. Each is an exemplification of perpetual mo tion. Each Is a zealot in the cause of human liberty, and each came to be supreme In his party. In Jefferson's day his party swallow ed all other parties, as Aaron's rod swallowed the other rods, and an "era of good feeling" ensued. Under the leadership of Bryan that remarkable performance in politics will be dupli cated. There have been "many other great Democrats whose fame is part of the priceless treasures of the republic and whose names should never be mention ed save with reverence and with grati tude to Almighty God for such stal wart friends of freedom, but if every word writ ten and spoken by all others should perish from human memory from the writings of Jefferson and the speeches of Bryan we may obtain ev ery iota of the Democratic creed and every argument necessary to support our confession of political faith in any forum of the worjd. Jefferson, with wisdom, courage, pre science and patriotism unequaled, made the Louisiana purchase, the most stupendous transaction in real estate proposed on this earth since the devil took the Saviour to the top of a high mountain and offered him the domin ion of the world to fall down and wor ship him. ' Principles Reproelalmed. It is entirely in keeping with the eternal fitness of things that on the one hundred and twenty-fourth anni versary of Jefferson's day Jefferson's party should assemble in the heart of the vast domain which he added to the TJnlonr the richest under heaven, to re proclalm his principles and to nomi nate a successor who will , once more make ; those principles paramount In the conduct of the government. At Kansas City the unities are pre served and the names of Jefferson and Bryan indlssolubly linked together. Each leaped Into the circle of the im mortals at an early age, Jefferwn be ing only 33 when he wrote the great Declaration, which will be . read with rapture as long as the earth revolves upon its axis or slides down the eclip tic; and Bryan being only 86 when in that astounding speech before the Chi cago con vention he not "only snatched the presidential nomination from the renowned veterans of his party, but also wrote his name on the scanty list of really great orators, --j- ' ' " - Jefferson was defeated In 1796, elect ed In 1800, re-elected kr 1S04 and left the government in the hands of his po litical friends for half a century. Bry an was defeated in 1S96, and, history repeating itself, he will be elected In 1900, re-elected in 1904 and will trans mit the government to a long line of successors of his political faith our political faith the people's political faith a consummation devoutly to be wished. . ' Candidate and Platform. A great controversy is raging among certain sapient editors as to which has the more farreaching Influence in car rying a presidential election, the candi date or the platform. Nobody can telL because nobody knows and because it is sometimes one, sometimes the other and sometimes neither. For instance, In 1S40 neither candidate nor platform had much to do with the result. There had been a panic, and in a delirium the people saag General William Henry Harrison into the White House with a lot of doggerel which has created as tonishment and merriment ever since. In 1844 the platform, or. more properly speaking, a letter written by Henry Clay, gave the victory to James K. Polk. In 1S4S General Taylor's mili tary prestige and a split in the Demo cratic party crowned the hero of Buena Vista with the, greatest civic honors. Nobody paid any attention to the plat form. Nobody knew what Taylor's opinions were on political questions. Indeed he did not know himself, but he had walloped the Mexicans in a most astounding manner, he was nick named "Old Rough and Ready," a fetching sobriquet, and sly Martin Van Buren out of revenge deftly inserted his poisoned dagger under the fifth rib of the ponderous General Cass. In 1S52 the platform was the chief thing which enabled Brigadier Franklin Pierce t3 snatch the coveted prize from Lieutenant General WInfield Scott, the hero of Lundy's Lane, Churu tmsco and a score of stricken fields. In 1800 the platforms were everything, the candidates nothing except as expo nents of the platform.- In 1S84 the re sult came of the malice of Roscoe Conkling and the alliteration of Parson Burchard. Jackson was elected In 182S j by reason of his matchless achieve ment at New Orleans and re-elected In 1S32 because he stood for the rights of the plain people," as Lincoln denomi nated them; the common people," as Bryan loves to call them. In neither case did he need any platform save his own record, and I doubt whether any body paid the least attention to the platform. The cry was "Hurrah for Jackson !" and it was irresistible. In at least half the cases presidents have been elected by vis Inertlse "Things are all right, let them alone." One curious result of Martin Van Bu ren's caper in 1S4S was that the name of Van Burcn county in Missouri was changed to Cass and that of Kinder hook to Benton. Missourians take pol itics seriously and never fail to punish Infidelity to the party. A man in Mis souri could no more duplicate the re cent somersaults of Hon. Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania than he could fly. Attempting that role a Missourian would have to "begin at the foot of the class and spell up" for 20 years. In the present instance Bryan needs no platform, ne is a platform in him self. Everybody knows what he stands for and for that very reason will elect him with a whoop. In electing him they know precisely what they are get ting. They are not buying a pig in a poke. They also know he will do what he says, for, while the average citizen may not.be able to talk the Jargon of physiognomy he judges men "by their flesh marks,"- and: no man ever gazed into Bryan's handsome face and beheld his high bridge nose, his magnificent eyes and his square underjaw without knowing that he possesses Incorrupti ble honesty, leonine courage and un conquerable resolve. Hence they trust him; hence he needs no platform. As to Traitor. Old King David once exclaimed in his wrath, "All nen are liars!" If he were on earth again and should read divers and sundry Republican newspapers, he could with perfect truth and in high good humor say, "Many men are liars." These pestiferous organ grinders and slanderers for revenue only declare day after day by the lie direct or the lie oblique that all who are opposing the McHanna policy of Imperialism are traitors. Such men as Bryan. Hoar, Schurz, George S. Boutwell, Mason, John B. Henderson. Teller and a host of other Republicans of distinction op pose it tooth and nail, thus bringing upon themselves the abuse of these base maligners because they love their country better than their party. Nearly all the original leaders of the Republican party are in their graves. In retirement or In revolt. No wonder they kick because the acta of injustice committed by the McHanna adminis tration are piled upon each other like Pelion upon Ossa, till they cry to heav en for redres9 Injustice to the confid ing Porto Ricans, who welcomed the American army with songs of gladness on their lips, who strewed the pathway of our -soldiers with flowers and who hailed Old Glory as the emblem of free dom and equality; injustice to the Cu ban patriots who fought as valiantly for their liberties as our fathers fought at Lexington, Bunker Hill, King's Mountain. Eutah, Yorktown or New Orleans; injustice to the Filipinos, who fought side by side with American sol diers to tear their sun kissed archipela go from the iron grasp of Spain; Injus tice to the brave and heroic Boers, who modeled their governments upon ours and who are battling, men, women and children, for all the human heart holds dear with- courage,, fortitude and self abnegation rarely equaled and never surpassed, but above all injustice, rank In a moment of temporary mental aber ration gave Into their unfaithful bands and itching palms the mighty and mul tifarious powers of the most puissant government the sun has looked down upon since the world began. Me Kin ley's Dual Role. As far as In him lies William M6Kln ley has brought representative govern ment into disrepute by endeavoring to play the dual role of president of the United States and emperor of the Phil ippine Islands. But his days in the White House are numbered. He sees the handwriting on the wall. With foresight which is commendable he is remodeling, refitting and enlarging his Canton cottage. That is perhaps the wisest act of his life, as he will have pressing need for it after high noon, March 4, 1901, when Bryan will be in augurated, ushering in the twentieth century, as the nineteenth was ushered In, with a Democratic administration. Civil Service Pensions. Even such a valiant thick and thin organ grinder as the New York Trib une has found something in. Republic an doings which causes its gorge to rise, which Is most remarkable, unless Mr. Whitelaw Reid is raising a gentle rumpus for the purpose of reminding Brother McKinley that It is about time to pass the pie toward The Tribune of fice once more. However that may be, The . Tribune is kicking vigorously about the project to pension those hold ing places under the New -York civil service law after 25 years' service. The Tribune says that these would be pen sioners have formed a society "or close corporation and purpose to enter poll tics as a flying squadron of pie hunters, voting for those who will agree to raise their wages and grant them pensions and against those who refuse so to do. The paper founded by Horace Greeley denounces them as public enemies, de clares that there are now 3,500 of them, soon to be Increased to 60,000, and pro nounces their movements to be alto gether reprehensible. .Now, there never was a man with two ideas above a mud turtle who did not know that the civil service system inevitably leads to a pension list from the ?civil ' walks of ' life,' and yet The Tribune, which now denounces , these people for doing what everybody knew they would do, is a thick and thin sup porter of the system and a loud shouter for Colonel "Teddy" Roosevelt, who is facile princeps of "civil service reform ers, provided he can reform his politi cal friends into good fat offices.-- The Tribune may howl as much as it pleases now. It Is too late. - Mr. Hemmingway of Indiana declar ed boldly and unequivocally on the floor of the house that 10 per cent of all the clerical force in Washington Is In capacitated by reason of the infirmities of old age from doing any work what soever, and yet they draw their salaries regularly, and nobody has choked off one of them,. though Hemmingway said that months ago. So The Tribune In stead of howling about one feature an inevitable feature of a bad system which It helped to Inaugurate had bet ter study up the whole question anew, go back to original principles and fight the whole system. Piatt the Easy Boss. The one Republican in the United States who really deserves to be con gratulated on the outcome of the Phila delphia convention is Hon. Thomas C. Piatt, senior senator and easy boss of New York. He had a broken rib, but nevertheless his headpiece appears to have been all right. He fought Mark Hanna and routed him, unloading Colo nel Theodore Roosevelt on to the na tional ticket. He did not make sure of electing the Republican state ticket by eliminating "Teddy" as a gubernatorial possibility, hut he did undoubtedly Im prove the chances of doing that trick very much indeed. - With Roosevelt aa candidate for governor the Democrats would probably have elected their state ticket by 50,000 majority. With gome other candidate the, Democratic major ity will probably be cut to 25,000. Un less all signs of rain fall in dry weath er the Democrats will elect their state ticket And what of Colonel Roosevelt? There is no question but what he will make an aggressive, whoop 'em up, picturesque campaign. . If he win, he will be shelved, the thing which would please Piatt. If he loses, he Is a politi cal "has been," to borrow a term ex pressive If not elegant from the prize ring, which would please Piatt still more. So Piatt stands to get rid of his young old man of the sea. So I repeat that Senator Thomas C. Piatt is to be congratulated and he alone. Terhaps the Republican platform is the most impudent document ever is sued for the perusal of an intelligent people. The idea of that trust ridden convention even pretending in a milk and cider resolution to condemn trusts was an exhibition of gall never equal ed on this earth. The claim that Re publicans have secured honest officials ki Cuba is humor broad enough to ex cite the risibles of all the convicts ln all the penitentiaries under the sun.
