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VOL. XII.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY 26, 1900.
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droe i i&filr w-t i fr and the
fri triple va fcxrer apt Ik-bi to the
dellE,ie 4 r...&r..i:,'i. The
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ary i ta27f ett a Ie-e;u."r J.
The Kta&dard O! crpacy rai-ed the
j rir of fetroja f r -n Janu
ary 7 to oc Ie-cj-r r;j.
The cr trot ri--d tle price on
uaryl.to treeoD lber .. and
ha nu-ed it lwce :n-e. ,
ti ipecar fri per p.,uri oa Juju- j
ary to t-,.w jr ,yn4 on lumber J. ,
Ti.e n-e trtl raid lL price cf cam ,
IiW 'T1- - I-"r -";
cect on iJwetfcbt r TSx TLe trie trust
raia pree 4 iroai -i ceci j dj , aPDreciate.
M - m .
January . t- eect. on lmwr Uryan. Lincoln,
IXe Me trut rai-d the price i,t , un t rich
' Jcur' 4 w ! utterly. Rockefeller
y r-r.i cs icea.uer .
The ra.ieo triit r.i-d the l;ce of th Ulkasureof hi ideal For this dis
ca!ic Itvm .t exu on January to -1 ; nUed flunkey crawling at the feet of
cert fremr -. f-r f nut cloth. tLe uHoaaire, the goid cf Croe
tDdfromicrtt it ceLl. en mdi-u ; of f'ar moment than the
j 1-ir.t. ! world-transforming intellect of Caesar.
Twtrul rai-J ti.e pr.ee t n , ,n hk dio0rderei mind, there exists no
rspW frvo, . . cer t on Janu j duuLt but that the march of mankind
uarj to 4U cett. on I Hrubrr : from n&k(kj Ta?ery to where we stand
T:.e rate tn.st rai tie pnee of jute t as led h Id aQ(j nQt b
heu.p frKi 2 cetu n January to & tijought.
ret. tm leii.ber , The Morton has nursed his wrath and
Tfce un ft trut ratted the price of of B unti, u hag
U . piate frc eJ a box on January . to j an alworled all man to feed
t'oo Uiwsber !itelf. Todav he forms no part of vital
The cttru,t ra.e-i the pn on ne of an the world is unable to
It,ia.e f jvm reiit, , oa January O to' Hrmn' greatne.. His pn-onal dis
U, cenu c fce-rmUr he7-Ta;d fapiJ(DtmeIll has become "rooted sor-
ifce frc darx 1 1 eatue uaM on i'urt j ch week he seeks lelief by the
Urifmatltof-. Linwhion of wrath through his paper.
Tl tail tru.t n.cread the price of ThU hU satisfactio and he buys
rav from IL10 on Jtuary 4, IsA. to k with kis in otten -oW. It ha3 e.
03 -sury irumj ;
ir.crea-ed the price of wire tail from
f 1 J-j to t-XJ curtr.g the aa.r period.
The vructurai iron c-ju-pacy i&cread
th cost of itrucxural armies from 11.15
on January 4. If., to fJ-j on January
Tte trut iD'-read the price of
acthracit coal from on January 4.
l-'M, to on January :i, l'.MJ.
The jriaB tr-t iccrea.ied the price of
gla- froi f'iT7 on January 4, l&O, to
rJLV on January l, 1J".
Tfc rubber trut increased the price
j rubber frcua 14 cent on January 4.
to tl-tS on January 3. UJQ.
The pnee-i of boot and ih'e, control
led by th leather trut. hows an in
crease during the year 1 on cuen
grain cje frcna '-'T cent to 11.12; on
Creedciore aplil from iO cent to 11.10,
and a Lite incrta-e on all grades of boots
and fchoe.
The price cf crjtton good increased 50
per rent. White heetitg wSd on Janu
ary 11 at 115ilt and on December 'JO
t tSl
AU line cf building material, iron,
teei, wcauien goud,cottoO goods, leather.
and other line coctroed by industrial
trusu, although showing a great increase
in pri" during the years cd l".
showed even a greater increase during
the vear 1
TilK ONLY PILICilS TO FALL
wo a; thosh of farm piuj
IL(JT. The year txxk of the depart
ment of agriculture for 1 which has
recently been issued, shows that the
farm prod act and farm animal in
although vastly increased in quantity
emce had fallen off in value to the
eitect of t'J'Jn. Thi onl oounta
a farm product corn, wheat oats, bar
ley, ry
buckwheat, notatoe La and
cottos-
If the farm product e.t i c
had brought the aan.e prices a, did the noiei mus ana were nusuing arouna in
ea:r.e produ-t in 1--'. the would have n flrt to borrow it, The wri:er tum-bmu-Lt
Siore than they aid by tl&fJ,- on to e situation and concluded
4T7J4. . to sift the matter to the bottom. A Mr.
Fart Lke thee go straight to the ! Shamp. brother to the chairman on per
sr.ir d-r f er imlT ece?it the r. rr i manent organization, confessed that he
vt the trut. lu- farmer understands
theai. ar-1 th farmer i to Le reckoned
ith in Kan- and Nebraska, in ihi
Indiana a:. i lilincns, in North and South
IWa and Micneut. and WiMxmin convention, but he, for one, was left hold
and Mx.:h va. axd is the 1'aeiric coast i the pack and had not money enough
The repubh -an partv stand for the
trul-, atd the rople wboui the trusts,
tr v:zz hit the republican party
be we & the t e.
THE MUD GEYSER
Srlka f . list I lutlt ktilpbariuut
It
Tie authtT tf the fol!
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(jiiotH i!rtoa effu-K-n on Uryanarchy, j
Aljet-archy ad Tiblearchy printed on
the editorial page and proceed- as folks-:
KdiV-r Independent: -The article
tiiark- the t-ight t ancient CJerserette.
In tirj- pat u4'ch mud, hot alkaline
water and e'ling eteam with a bicken-
ing &der w ectitied from it with a loud
fcoucduDsr tvub.. Hut it is fast becoming
extject- It kfsrerthuiderand roars.
It only gargle. It ha eeael by reason
tf it fury to be any longer articular.
TLe taud od under it bo longer conde
iceiid to hu&an peecb, nor cubmita
i himself to orderly emission of force in
j lh felsape of thought. The flow of ner-
Tom energy is no longer controlled, but
rushes out tumultuous, incoherent. In
I tellectual exhaustion has supervened.
' Fury ha sterilized his brain. That
'organ do longer generates thoughts; and
t idf a. It emits blue flame without form
or beat, recognized solely by the char-
.cieriiic bad 5tneIL In his decrepitude
and dotage, gone all to malice and rag
: ir..? wrath, he seek to conceal his intel-'
iectual exhaustion under a mass of new-
coined t-lzt-f: which be uses instead of
lacfruzre. j d suosuiuuon ui couuwr-
i ti I -i I,.pmJ unnn kirn hr thrt fT that
lbk of,ice of je is to express ideas.
Mere fury and inconsolable rage born of j
jealousy and envy must seek some means
than words. So he
from a moonshine still of tm own. The
bvnew. and degredation of his ideals
may ttill be gathered from his inarticu
late muttering and by observing tne
j voice left working of his jaw. His life-
fcjcg worship of gold and those who own
; it K lrri5frht him t thi-s riflct U
rinc no aengni excepi ween ncKing me
ljot of M)me rich man. There L no
morth in the world but money. Only
tome combination f catutaJ organized
eece the tiroducers of wealth, can
titid favor in Lis crcH-ed and fog-dimmed
eye. Tnere is no worth in man. Gold
aione Li worthy. The only true end and
aim of man is to gather coin. Except a
man become rich like Morton, he can in
no case be ref-pectaole. wnosoever
worthy of jj pral. Mere m
,,r fr h;, vrt mattr i
same is
manhood
TODdilions hy the presentation of high
mnd ennobliEg jdeasT the reward is not for
bim mud refrves his lau-
dation for the low born money getter
like himself whose base motives he can
Jefferson and Jesus
and therefore failed
and Russell Sage
' th rr1s-tfst,42 rrrAJ v fK-1rklr fill tin
... nnti, it hHncr.. A hlnh M,.h
week to those who knew the Morton
when he was a man. "Pity the poor old
man. ' A. Uktasabchist.
Nebraska City, July 20th. 1
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THE FUZZIE WUZZIE CONVENTION
Tt Grand Itlaad lie publican Declares not
SOO Ilcate Present Car Fare and
Ktpensea I'ald Shainp Denuan--
th Tro Populist.
The following account of the fuzzie
wuzzies astern oiy ai urana island is
taken from the daily Republican of that
place:
That a goodly sprinkling of republi
cans in disguise were at the convention
as delegates is in evidence. This fact be
came painfully apparent not only to the
true populist delegates but to every
spectator present. Some eight or ten
counties voted throughout the conven
tion without credentials or representa
tion. On four different occasions a mem
ber of the Adams county delegation
; TOtfd twelve votes for Hall county,
which county was not represented at all
A gentleman by name of Crouch, of
Pawnee county voted the Dodge county
delegation throughout S. M. Eider,
known as Marsh Klder, voted the Clay
county delegation and was not a delegate
to the convention from any county. If
the truth was known we seriously doubt
if there were two hundred legally elected
delegates present, the number required
bv law. I his morning presented a sad
state of affairs at the Koehler. Some
fifteen or twenty beart-gickened and dis
gruntied fellows were holding the sack
borne had not money enougn to pay tneir
la a a a
was tired and disgusted.
He said that
fo.000 had been sent into
the state and
placed in the hands of the state commit
I tee to pay the expenses incurred by the
to tay nis notei biiL Jie cnaractenzed
tli louglas delegation as a set of hogs,
i stating that upward of ninety attended
the convention several brought their
wives with them and not one of them
paid a cent for car-fare, board-bill or
anything else. He also stated that the
Webster county delegation and other
delegations had their car-fare and other
expen paid
Ouring the course of our conversation
with him, Mr. Shamp stated that the
rartr needed a state onran. edited b r a
j uian whom tne people can have confi
dence in. "1 have been canvassing for
the I rue Populist but nearly every man
I meet Hms to have no confidence in
leaver." Mr. Shamp admitted that he
did not like the management himself, for
the reason that a republican railroad at
torney of Omaha is furnishing the funds
Politically we have no criticism what
ever to offer against the majority of the
delegates who attended the convention
j and are occupying the middle-of-the-
road, bur in all sincerity we honestly be
lieve that the fellows who are urging the
movement on at this time are the devil's
imps, whose sole object is to beat Bryan
ana tne state UcKet
IN SERIOUS DANGER
NoRrpubljc Has Kver Vet Been Able to
liovern Subject Provinces and Ire
Brte Its Own Freedom
A survey of history does not lend
much encouragement to the cheerful
view that American institutions cannot
really be in serious danger. Ours is not
the first republic that has existed in the
world, nor the oldest. It has lasted
now for a hundred and twenty-four
years. There was a republic in Athens,
with some intermissions, for nine hun
dred years; in Carthage for seven hun
dred, in Florence for three hundred, in
the Netherlands for two hundred and in
Venice for eleven hundred. Where are
those republics now?
It is flattering to our vanity, but the
truth is that we are an upstart, parvenu
nation, whose endurance has yet to be
tested. If our government should go to
pfeces, after lasting even another cen
tury, it would go into history as one of
the shortest lived of the innumerable
wrecks with which the annals of man
kind are strewn.
We may think that our brand of i
human nature is so cunerent irom
human nature in general as to make us
immune against ills that other nations
have not been able to resist But that
is another delusion. The Roman of the
fourth century before Christ was of a
sterner, more unyielding republican fibre
than the American of today. He was
more jealous of the slightest infringe
ment of his rights. He did not treat be
trayals of trust on the part of his ser
vants as jokes his sense of humor was
rudimentary. When his resentment was
aroused it was relentless.
And yet this Roman's descendants be
came the abject slaves of the degrading
despotism that ever ground down a civ
ilized people.
There was a Brutus once that would have
Brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
Within two years from the time when
descendant of that Brutus struck the
last blow for republican liberty Antony
was laying a third of the Roman world
at the feet of a harlot queen, and before
some of the children then living were
dead Califiula was making his horse a
Consul.
There never was a more turbulent, in
dependent democracy than that of Ath
ens. The people there were not depen
dent upon trust-owned senates. They
got together in their own popular assem
blies ana maae their own laws, iney
did not hesitate to try and execute vic
torious generals for slight breaches of
customary requirements. But the time
came when Athenian philosophers were
the humble flatterers of Macedonian and
Roman rulers, and when Athens de
graded even her primacy in taste to the
point of giving her highest honors in
music and poetry to the imperial mounte
bank Nero.
Who would have thought, to look at
the raving democracy of the French
Terror, when it was as much as a man's
life was worth to call a lady "Madame
instead of "Citizeness," that in five years
France would be walking with bowed
head under the rule of a military despot?
Nor are we without hints nearer home
of the possibility of radical changes in
the government of a people. Americans
were not always republicans. Two years
before the adoption of the declaration of
independence they were protesting their
enthusiastic loyalty to the crown of
Great Britain. After the revolution
thousands of the foremost inhabitants
of the colonies, unable to reconcile them
selves to a republican government, emi
grated to Canada, where their de
scendants are now the most extreme
supporters of monarchial rule.
American women, after a long and
honorable apprenticeship at the wash-
tub, have availed themselves of the first
smiles of fortune to go to London and
kiss the hand of royalty. Foreign noble
men find their titles readily transmut
able into American cash. Americans
like William Waldorf Astor and Bradley
Martin have exchanged their republican
birthright for the privilege of calling
themselves subjects of the English queen.
The trusts that are working for the re
election of William McKinley would
just as cheerfully work fer the corona
tion of an emperor if they thought that
step would promote their interests. '
If a visitor from Mars had been per
mitted to see Rome at the beginning of
the first Punic war and then had been
able to see America today, which coun-,
try would he have considered more
likely to hold on to its republican insti
tutions? The republics of the past have fallen
from various causes, but one rule we be
lieve to have been invariable:
No republic has ever governed sub
ject provinces and preserved its own
freedom.
Empire abroad has ended in either
empire or collapse at home.
But do we believe that William Mc
Kinley, if re-elected, will be formally
crowned as the emperor William the
First? Certainly not Revolutions of
this sort are not usually carried through
in that way. Despotism is the same,
but the type of despot changes. When
the Roman republic was ripe for its fall
the jieople did not crown a king. First
one general and then another exercised
power through the forms of law. After
the excess of Marius and Sulla there
was a temporary revival of constitutional
government under Cicero. Then the
senate conferred the powers of a number
of different officials upon Caesar so
many that he was in fact a monarch, al
though in name only the head of a re
public. Then, after a period of anarchy,
this concentration of power in the hands
of one man was systematized and made
permanent Rome became in fact a des
potism, but it was long before it ceased
to be nominally a republic, and the head
of its government was never king, but
always "Imperator "Uenerai."
Nor did Florence in losing its liberty
become at once a ' monarchy in name.
The Medici at first were simply commer
cial bosses an infinitely superior grade
of Mark Hannas.
In this country we can already see the
beginning of the descent in the abdica
tion of power by our legislative bodies.
It is all "trust the president"
Don't regulate the government of the
Philippines by law leave it to the pres
ident " '
Don't interfere with Cuba let the
president attend to it .
Don't let the Porto Ricans choose their
own rulers let the president appoint
them.
Don't say how the $50,000,000 national
defence fund is to be -spent give the
president entire discretion.
Don't fix a price for armor plate
leave it to the president's secretary of
the navy. '. . ,
Don't lay down a policy in China let
the president decide what our relations
shall be with a third of the human race.
If this keeps on tnuch longer it will
make no particular difference whether
we have the name of emperor or not
We shall have the fact of t empire. New
York Journal. '
NOTHING TO DO WITH CONQUEST
What Jefferson and James G. Blaine Had
to Say about tbo Xiw-Fonnd loc-
trine of Imperialism.
The advocates of imperialism are try
ing to utilize Jefferson . as the patron
saint of their cult because Jefferson car
ried out the Louisiana purchase, which
was, in fact, simply a purchase by a
householder of the lot next door. In a
letter to Wm. Short, " written in 1891,
Jefferson says:
"If there be one principle more deeply
written than any other in the mind of
every American it is that we should have
nothing to do with conquest"
The drift of the republican party
away from the principles of its earlier
days also is illustrated by Mr. Bryan's
quotation of the resolutions introduced
by James G, Blaine in the congress of
American republics in 1890, when Mr.
Blaine was enthusiastically engaged in
the bringing together of the republics of
North and South Amelfica. The Blaine
.resolution was unanimously approved by
the commissioners then present It
read as follows:
"That the principle of conquest shall
not during the continuance of the trea
ty of arbitration, be recognized as ad
missible under American public law.
"That all cessions of territory made
during the continuance of the treaty of
arbitration shall ber void if made under
threats of war or the presence of an
armed force.
"Any nation" from which such ces
sions may be exacted may demand that
the validity of, the cessions so made shall
be submitted to arbitration.
"Any renunciation of the right to ar
bitration made under the conditions
named in.the second section shall be null
and void."
In the opinion of Mr. Blaine, the very
principle of conquest was abhorrent and
denied a place in American public law.
The assembled republics declared that
cessions made under threat of war or be
cause of the presence of an armed force
must be submitted to arbitration.
No longer ago than December, 1897,
President McKinley in a message to con
gress on the Cuban situation said:
"I speak . not of forcible annexation,
for that cannot be thought of. That, by
our code of morality would be criminal
aggression."
Like his opinion of "our plain duty
to Porto Kico, Mr. Mcnmiey s views Ou
criminal aggression have undergone
sudden change.
The truth is that the expansion which
the country needs is not in the direction
of distant colonies, inhabited by alien
races of subjects. Proper and legitimate
expansion may be found:
First In the reclamation of our arid
lands, where there is room for 50,000,000
American citizens.
Second In steps looking to the peace
ful annexation of Canada, which con
tains 5,000,000 of intelligent people and
which transacts an annual business one
hundred times larger than the whole
business of the Philippine islands.
So long as the United States is im
mersed in adventures across the seas, so
long will it neglect the arid and the
semi-arid region of the west, and so long
will the membership of Canada in the
British empire remain undisturbed.
The sentiment in Canada favorable to
annexation to the United States is based
largely upon opposition to a monarchial
form of government as contrasted with a
republican form. When the United
States launches out into "empire" wil
no essential difference between its meth
ods and those of the British empire the
Canadian can see little advantage to be
gained from the change. The British
statesmen who are encouraging the Mc
Kinley administration in its foreign pol
icy know that they are strengthening
their hold on Canada by every step this
country makes toward imperialism.
Denver News
The Heathen Chinee
The heathen Chinee is peculiar. In
San Francisco there is located the ship
ping firm of Ho Tung & Co., who are not
included in the federal exclusion act
This firm has called attention to itself
and to the topic of commercial expan
sion by bringing suit for the recovery of
duties paid at Jdanila on articles im
ported from the United States. They
contend that the president violated the
constitution by establishing a tariff
schedule between different parts of this
vast republic After all that has been
done to keep the question, out of the
courts, it is annoying that the mere hea
then should press for its settlement and
should challenge the loyalty of the pres
ident to the fundamental law Denver
News.
Office of the Nebraska Mercantile Mu
tual Insurance Company is 1241 O St
D. C. Perkins s Citv Manager. Phone
j 660.
A M'KINLEY FIASCO
The Trouble In China Forces the Admin
istration to Acknowledge- Its Phil
ippine Statements to all Lies
Washington, D. C, July 20 1900.
President McKinley has just missed the
opportunity to compel the admiration of
the world and incidentally to greatly in
crease his chances for re-election.
If, on the receipt of the news of the
massacre of our citizens at Pekin, he
had besn able to send 5,000 men from
the Philippines and march them quickly
to Pekin he would have avenged the
death of our citizens, have compelled
the aid of all the foreign forces within -reach
and have given China notice that
it had better not get entangled in a war
with this country.
What does he do He .stays in Can
ton for several days, loth to give up his
summer vacation. ; -
Then he ;omes to Washington, potters
around, holds a cabinet meeting or two,
announces that he doesn't know what
on earth he is going to do and then goes
back to Canton to renew the front porch
campaign.
while trying to make up his mind
what to do, he decides to send a beg
garly 15,000 troops that cannot reach
China for at least a month.
While the administration dawdles in
Washington comes the news that the
Ninth regiment was practically wiped out
at Tient Tsin sin. This is no warning to
a man of McKinley's vacillitating dispo
sition, he goes right on with his policy
of feeding a small army piece-meal to
the Chinese and thereby inviting their
scorn and certainly offering provocation
for all sorts of entanglements with the
foreign powers that also have troops in
China.
It would have been within the power
of the administration to avenge the death
of our citizens and to serve notice to the
world that this country could deal with
an affront and yet keep out of foreign
entanglements. Why didn't he do it?
One reason why he didn t do this was
because there were no troops available.
The Chinese crisis has forced the ad
ministration to admit the true situation
. m i V j 1
in the -fmuppines. u nas oeen lying
all these months about the insurrection
being stamped out
The Filipinos are more active and ag
gressive than at the beginning of hostil
ities. General Mac Arthur not only
could not spare aay of our 60,000 troops
in the Philippines but he demands that
the number be increased to 100,000 if
there is to be the faintest prospect of
pacifying the Filipinos. He means sub
jugating them but uses the milder term.
So much for McKinley's tinsel imperial
ism which has cost millions of dollars in
taxes and uncounted loss of life. Not a
week before the news of the massacre of
a "a w rr . . . a " .
our minister jyicxviniey was spouting
from his front porch about the availa
bility of Manila as a base for war opera
tions in case of trouble in the orient
There is one point about our army in
the Philippines which the administra
tion is trying to conceal and that is that
our troops are so enfeebled by disease
and climatic conditions that they would
be unfit for service against the Chinese
even if they could have been spared.
McKinley s imperialism is the kind
that goes about trying to crush the weak
and defenseless who are fighting for lib
erty. When it comes to defending our
citizens airainst a strone nower like
China the McKinley brand of imperial
ism hunts its hole and leaves our inter
ests without protection.
Again tne rumor comes that the United
States minister and members of the le
gation are safe, but while the dispatch
is alleged to be signed Conger it bears
no date and contains a frantic cry for
help as massacre is imminent It is use
less to cry for help to this administra
tion. .
Feeling that something must be done
to divert attention from the disgraceful
expose of imperialism in the Philippines,
the administration hurried Govenor
General Wood from Cuba, and after
many owl-like consultations between
them it is announced that the Cubans
are now ready for independence, that
troop are to gradually be withdrawn
and that the Cubans are to be permitted
to hold a constitutionnl convention in
October. The administration announces
that in about nine months all the pledges
to Cuba will have been fulfilled.
Administration promises are at a dis
count but the story of withdrawal of
troops is true enough. They have to be
taken from Cuba for Chinese, service.
The statement is planned purely for
for campaign purposes. It will be
noticed that the actual withdrawal from
Cuban affairs is placed after election
but the proposed constitutional conven
tion in October will be worked over time
to make the voters believe that the ad
ministration intends to keep its promises
to Cuba. Should McKinley be re-elec
ted he can easily nnd plausible reasons
for deferring the execution of the prom
ise.
Apparently there is to be no effort to
punisn tne criminals in postal scanaais.
Neeley is still in New York and the court
has given him another stay on the
ground that there is no presumptive ev
idence of guilt Rathbone is at large,
In fact not one of the criminals have
been punished. The Cubnns might be
pardoned for thinking that they could
not make a worse mess of affairs than
the administration has done, promises
about independence for Cuba will not
have much effect on voters while the
postal scandals remain as a sample of
applied imperialism.
Roosevelt went to St Paul the other
day and made one of his war like
speeches in which he carefully ignored
the facts about the Philippines and pos
itively reveled in the idea that this coun
try should adopt the British method of
crushing out a weaker or a barbarous
nation wherever it could be found de
fenseless enough to make the attempt
safe.
Roosevelt came back to New York
very well satisfied with himself, but the
republican managers were shocked at
his lack of judgment and tact, in em
phasizing militarism and imperialism
just when they are trying to ddge the
issue.
So Roosevelt has been sent home to
Oyster bay properly muzzled and is not
to be allowed to make any more speeches
until October. Then he will be turned
loose in the mountain states that have
few electoral votes and' especially in
Oklahoma. But he will 'not even be al
lowed this latitude unless he writes out
his speeches and submits them to Hanna
for approval and then promises to recite
them as written. He is to be kept out
of New York state altogether.
Eva McDoxald Vauksh.
AFTER THE RAILROADS
The Attorney General, the Governor and
the Board of Transportation ask for
a Hearing Which is Kstopped.
by the Chief Justice.
Some time since J udge Munger of the
federal court made a decision which
brought up the question of the constitu
tionality of the law creating the board
of transportation. Attorney General
Smyth immediately called the attention
of the govehior to it and advised that a
speedy decision by the supreme court of
the state upon the subject was desirable.
Governor Poynter thereupon addressed
the following letter to the court:
Executive Chamber, Lincoln,
July 20, 1900.
To the Honorable. Supreme Court of the
State of Nebraska,
Gentlemen: It having become appar
ent to the board of transportation that
the railroads had advanced the rates up
on cattle, hogs and iood-stuff to the
west, a tentative order reducing the rates
was made by the "board. Immediately
thereafter the railway companies pro
cured a restrainiag order from the fed
eral court forbidding the board to pro
ceed further. This seems to be a matter
of most grave importance to the people
of our state. If the law creating the
state board of transportation is valid.
the orders of the board 'should be obeyed
and any reduction of rates should been
forced. A continuation of the present
rates is unjust to the oeople should be
declared valid. . If the law is valid the
people should know it at as early a date
as possible. In any event it seems to me
an early decision is desirable.
Permit me, therefore, to suggest "that
you should, assemble at tua jgarnesLco
venient date, and hand down a decision
upon this most important matter. '
Very truly yours,
W. A. POYNTER, Governor. .
The board of transportation passed
the following resolutions and also for
warded them to the supreme court:
Whereas, It is, in the opinion of the
state aoard of transportation, very im
portant to the cattle shippers and feeders
of Nebraska that the rates now charged
by the railroad companies for the ship
ment of cattle and hogs to the western
ranges, should be reduced to what those
charges were prior to the 1st day of
December last;
Whereas, The existence of this board
and its power to make an order reducing
said rates were put in grave doubt by
the recent decision of the United States
circuit court for the district of Nebraska,
and
Whereas, We are informed by the. at
torney general that the supreme court of
the state of Nebraska is the only tribu
nal which has the power of finally de
termining whether or not the act cre
ating this board was passed in conformi
ty with the state constitution;
Therefore, Be it resolved that in view
of the great importance of the question
to the people of the state of rsebaska,
we most respectfully request the judges
of the supreme court to assemble and
take such steps as in their judgment
may be proper and necessary to afford
an early decision as to whether or not
the act creating the state board of trans
portation is valid.
JOHN t UUKJS&LiLi,
J. B. MESERVE,
C. J. SMYTH,
W. F, PORTER,
J. V. WOLFE.
In obedience to this request, Judges
Sullivan and Holcomb came to Lincoln,
but Chief Justice Norval did not put in
an appearance, lie informed the clerk
of the court that he missed the train.
The other two judges having waited un
til the next day returned to their homes.
All the papers in the case have been
forwarded to the chief justice by
the clerk of the court, but so far no
word has been heard from him.
The situation is this: The court met
at the regular time, transacted all the
business. The next regular term will be
in September. Under the rules of the
court an extra session must be called by
the chief justice and unless he calls it
there will be none. The case is up to
Norval now and the people must pay un
til he is pleased to move.
Superintendent C. F. Beck attended
an enthusiastic convention of school
boards, patrons and teachers at Broken
Bow last Saturday. About 225 teach
ers were in attendance. County Super
intendent Tooley is doing a good work
for the boys and girls of Custer county
Mr, Beck is visiting institutes in the
western part of the state this week. He
believes that distant counties appreciate
heln from the office, and is willing to
take midnight rides in order to reach
them. "
Where. Qh! Where?
Thomas B. Reed, Benjamin Harrison,
Boutwell, Hale, Hoar, Webster Davis
and a host of other big ones are not cry
ing themselves hoarse over the Hanna
crat ticket And where, onr wnere is
John Sherman? Randolph Reporter.
WOROS OF JOHN BURNS
He Makes a Ringingr Speech in the British
Iloufte of Commons Against the . ,
War on-the Boer.
John Burns, the representative of the
English wage workers in the House of
Commons, made a speech in that body
the other day which gives the view of
the intelligent wage,workers of England
in regard to Joe Chamberlain's attempt
to follow McKinley's example in imperi
alism. The following extracts give the
tenor of the whole speech;
4I contend that this war might have
been avoided, and to that extent was
unnecessary. WThat is more, if the most
elementary precautions and patience
had been taken the cause of the war
could have been removed, if what others
saw had been seen by the Colonial oflico;
the crisis we are now in was foreshad
owed by many. But before I deal with
that point, I want to bring to light a
pophesy, not by myself, but by the Sat
urday Review on March Cth, 1897. That
journal took the view that
" 'The return of Mr. Rhodes to South
Africa will, we are afraid, mean the out
break of further trouble. Is he to be
permitted to damage right and left now
that he stents self -con vie ted of con
spiracy against a friendly state. Dr.
Jamison, his victim, has suffered slightly
for his participation in the plot. Is then
the arch conspirator,' Mr. Rhodes, him
self to escape scott-free? We . are not "
disposed to be vindictive, but we do
think that it is criminal to allow Mr.
Rhodes to meddle further in the politics
of South Africa, If Mr. Chamberlain .
countenances Mr. Rhodes return to ac
tive political life and reappearance on
the stage as a prominent though non -defined
character, the results will be on his
own head.'
"We are informed that the Boers treat
the white laborers badly, but the native
laborers worse; but if any one reads the
labor papers which come from South
Africa he will find that organized labor
in South Africa like the trade union -councils
at home is unanimously of the
opinion that when the Transvaal comes
under the Rhodesian domination, white
labor will be reduced to what it is in
Kimberly, and that things will go from
bad to worse, as is proved by every reli
able witness who knows the conduct of
the Rhodesian capitalists. As we go on
we find instance after instance of intim
idation, if white men refuse to arm or
organize ' themselves for political pur
pose's, subserving a commercial end in
the interests of the mine owners of the
various mines. When we go into
the taxes, - the eight hour day.
lv labor, waces. and frepdnm from
TuTerferehccfthen I say the men who are
engaged in South Africa would lose
rather than gain by any change taking
place. ;
Ihen, coming to the natives, I have
had the pleasure, and perhaps the pain,
of being one of the pioneers of Africa
1 went to West Africa for a year, and
was there, although the Right Hon.
Gentleman may not know it, an engineer
in the employ of a company of which
the Colonial Secretary was a highly com
pensated stockholder.
"At the best 1 have seen cruelty prac
ticed there which has filled me with
shame for my country, and both Boer
and Briton need not be too proud of
their treatment of the natives in any
part of Africa.
This war is for territory, for gold, for
capitalist domination masquerading in
the guise ot freedom and franchise). I
believe while we are prosecuting this un
righteous war against these people we
ought to prospect for peace; we ought to
ascertain uruger s mind as to what the
ultimate terms should be. We can do
so without loss of dignity and respect,
ana witnout loss oi power or prestige.
"No, no." I am getting rather tired of
this arrogant and everlasting "No. r It
will have to be settled some day; I am
for feeling our way now. I can remem
ber reading, as a schoolboy, with pride
and pleasure, how old England from
King Alfred's time, has been the pro
tector of liberty and freedom. That is
the quality that differentiates us from
all other countries of the world. Except
Ireland, Britain has been through cen
turies the knight-errant of the smaller
peoples. Who set Belgium on its legs.
gave Greece its independence, helped
united Italy, and stood by Switzerland
from time to timer JL.ngland.
In this war England is .not fulfilling
her traditional task, the protector of
smaller nations, and the British army,
which used to be for all good cause; the
Sir Galahad of history, has become in
Africa the janissary of a narrow finan
cial section in and out of this house. I
spent my Christmas holidays going
through the books of the Charl-ered
Company's shareholders, and I think
that nearly everyone who has spoken in
this debate here, in the House of Lords,
and in the country, has his patriotism
strengthened and his speeches length
ened by the amount of his holding in
the stock of the South African Com
pany. - '
A Lot of Sympathy
What a lot of sympathy for Towne and
the pops fills the republican papers these
days, and how like satan they lie about
Stevenson when they call him a Cleve
land democrat. Why, man, Stevenson
was an original greenbacker, enlistud in
the cause of reform long before the peo
ple's party was organized, advocating
the prineiples of the people's party be
fore those principles were heralded to
the world iu the Ocala and Omaha plat
forms, and what is more, voting for those
principles in congress. If Mr. Steven
son did not become a populist it waa be
cause the people's party never became a
strong party in Illinois and because he
advocated and probably foresaw the re
form which has taken place in the dem
ocratic party. So far from being ia ac
cord with the Cleveland element oi the
democrats, he came squarely out for the
Chicago platform and Bryan in 1890 in
the most bitter opposition to the gold
bugs. - If you see anything about Ste
venson in the republican papers you can
set it down at once as a probable jlie.
Central City Democrat
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