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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. August 2, 1900. I the Uebraska Independent tUmcim, ntbrssks PSiOSE COJLSt DTM ASH STS Kurvasta Yak - . Tvmixiutzi Lvcxr TutMDtr PT? YEAR III ADVANCE La . tzt rac iii6- &a lea asooa-r r.sit t kMniet tit lft villi l&Mt,il tl vcba&xit tada M f prwpr 2 mmcm!. ail fcaft. wtn roV e, MrU W Zh EtbrMiks Tndtptadtnt, m. I ! f am7& owiti m wtbeo-l tir-d. E.j44 a-r:i. 1 a U t Sk ICNAL TICKET. - i yr rMidst ..... Vtujav Jri Bans Iel&.- SL. ! to tr F"fiSt -. - - - ......... i ......... CatatLCs A. Ln.latK. Xbn. ; Tor ?ri4wstil F!irt.t!...,. J, R. Ht Fui T. Hi. Oasafc. M . i. !v as. Trmaa-i. E Owes -. I rTK. Utetim. JK firaxa. ?ei.yr. ' j Tim Tr-tTt cj. w. i:rsc t-o-r?3 ; Tfaira . .. ,ai . hoaiK. l4ia Fnb lcrn . t- Mi. Aurora f ;ftt. Iin . . ... Caa(.t iiS-i'r Au. r; .stk inxtrlcl .. at. Nst itAaU Ntb litt STATE TICKET F GeMtfee..... -, ... M. A.. IoiTt. For Lirvfe-ftaef Oemw 11 A. illT. Vor k I or Scrtary etJstmi C- v.soa. - raal , rr Ai.u a rv ir , - , Tm UtitM, ( aj Cta rcrSutTttm - - Ho its. CJNVil p. J. w- vV ax'6V :rtT The republican c-w itatsect read this ray: -fio islo all the world and boot th ropei icv every creator. If th eniverwty president don't top akirs ILckeJ-lr for docation, kero eoc oil will ooa be a 4c41r a gallon. The Indepe&dftJit doe xjot permit di plf airertiaair el advertiias doctor txi it rt pa; even if they . are catxi da'te for Sc. , Th reptiblican proeiaissi rjtze SDoethc ago that JKcretary Hay had ac oosj.IiLed the t&fjst a-tor-Uhirg dipk cuatie frt in the history of th world. II had cured aa 'vptn door" to Chira Bat frcsa rter&t dptchr Jt appear that i&Vd of the door leir.j- ?pen it i ekaxd so tif ht that even the foreign cJn itr hare curb trouble in gt-ttlr-g out. After fcaticj dIari alat etry cy for four year LX the ijver ivue w dead, the St. Paxil Pioneer-Pre Lf-adM as editorial lat k with the word: Silver zA a dead iue." Then it write a locsr article to prove that it La la Jyic ail th Ueu. That is a way the republican editor hare of t-.howir that they are true folio er of Mark Ifacca. Mark Hasna thick that the cam ten i fthaMCf lit all rLrht. He h i otrairedtiat there are already ten CE? mor a Pr cl idestiaJ ticket, in the field and e- d d'b Uxpayers were bearing peet the arrival of ce or two more. If rden heavier than was ever imposed they won't tote for MeKiaiey. then b !n the laboring classes of the world All taean. prerect them from ruling for ! in " the rs of lhe nd li wa? 'iryan-even a fuxzi wuzii candidate ! ProP that legislation should be se ;U poll a few rote that would other - cured thikt wouU Pu a currency e go to Bryan. le in value, then they said that that ' wa a "threat" against the honor and . . . . . . . credit of the nation. down a decision debarring from the practice of law in North !akota L. A. Sizcjxm. rtatee atiortiey of Stark coun ty and repabliran candidate for tat erator. He will mt be taken off the ticket and all the as!t he.d will vote for Lim. for they will neter know that he has been debarred. They read nothing bat republicaa papers Soeae peopte aeeta to think that you casnot have an eoij-ire without an em-1 peror. Frar.ce La a colonial empire, but the boa.e govercmect i republican. : The one e-wentiai feature of an empire i ; the pfM-ek. t i object protince that i are not ia prooes f becoaoicg part of I iteX It make .no difference to the jeope of the province whether the; : rxother coastry i ruled by an emperor J c-r by a coce- a far a they are con- ceroed the government i imperial. Our rule in the Philippine i a depotiu fl a ahaiolste a that prevailing in cy part 4 Hoia. "" wmmmmm The Prioce of Wale ended the social fareer of William WaJdwf Attor by ' pmzg the fo1kwtcg wcjrd in regard to fum: ! know Captain Milne to t an republican papers denounced him as a 'lSeeranda geutleoiaa. We will rfaud ? traitor, a copperhead, a little American, by fcia acd end the career of that cad, ( and declared that he was old and fenile. A'jc." A tor renounced hii American ! Afterward., when the said Hoar an- ctirenhip acd went to London and nounced that he would support McKin avor allegiance to the queen where he j lev for the presidency, although he still a been attempting to ape the BritUh I believed that McKinley's policies would xlteeraey. Hi Ut perfonnacce wa fend in the overthrow of the republic, order Captain Milne out of hi house j then the said republican papers declared ; then publish that the captain had that the said George Frisby Hoar was a ced ore of hi partle without an? ation. The captain proved that he i there throurh ' a mistake. What i gwer Willie do ow ? KING AND HIS COURTIERS All the recognized leaders of the re publican party assume that imperialism it an accomplished fact. Senator Lodge who made the principal speech at the Philadelphia convention and was the orator of the notification committee, ad dressed McKinley as emperors are ad dreisned. lie adopted the fawning lan- ! jrua4 of a courtier of the Fifteenth cen i tory and ascribed everything and all things to the mighty , power of McKin i ley unaided by ministers or congress. Listen to the word acd ponder them well: . "The peace,1 . taid Mr. Lodged "you had to make a one. Cuba, 1'orto lueo, the Itilippines you had to assume alone th rTnihilitr of taking them from Spain. Alone, acd weighted with the terrible responsibility of the unchecked war power of the constitution, you were ob:ired to jovern thee inlands and to rtpr- rebellion and disorder in the th- lhilii)fjifiML No cartr creed de- - j J - M w fined the course you were to follow. Here is the courtier addressing his ! monarch. "You are all powerful and all wj.e Voudid these things by your v own might. No party creed, no adviser j did you need. You could do no wrong and what vou hare done must forever be continued as the policy of the govern- meet of the United States." Teen I .x veil brings up the rear I ana nouu uti ail woo uouui ine w is- don of thi- all-wie emperor, are cow- 1 . . , . , 4 it ' rd unworthy to be called Americans. The fawning ycophscis of the court of Lonis XIV never exceeded this. It will not do to look upon ail this with simple tcorn. The old spirit of kiegcraft is growing stronger in the United States. The constitution is ig nored and the declaration of indepen dence U scoffed at openly. There are open demands made to limit the suffrage. Foreirn born citizens who have 'fled from imierialt-m in the countries of .jr bifth acd who know better than any American its blighting tyranny, are told that they should not be allowed to Tote. Little by little, as the Indern-1 dent ha often pointed out. despotism , advance. ."Sow is ttie time to fignt lor Bryan and his party." The Indepen your liberty. Four more years of Mc-! jeut after reading that felt like the Kinley a etrperor and Lodge and Roose-j I . ' m . 1.1 . Ml I '. velt a chief courtiers and then it will be too late. A BO lT T 1 1 K K A T V , . , . . s a about closing and a treasury dehcit I . . , -. . . .. ; of abnorma; proportions was staring the ' cation in the face, when the last dollar of gold vi about to disappear from the i tault, whed Foster had plates prepared for the iue of bonds, when the destruc tion of credit acd the good - name of the nation wa bringing dL-grace and dis aster, the magnates of the 4 republican . . . S prt ro-e up in the tenate and declared OaUt wa all the reult of the -threat" of free .ilver. Day after day that was ...... hrd in the senate. V hen the courts adopted a new pol-; icy, never heard of in any civilized na tion before, and judges accused men of crime crimes that were not specified in any statute ordered the sheriffs to ar-r-t them, brought the accused into court, and when there the judges acted a proecutioir attorney, judge and jury and cent the men to jail upon their own : motion whrn this occurred and a pro 1 tet wa made against such tyrannical proceediegs, again the republican lead ' er rai-ed the cry of a -threat" against the independence of the judiciarv. .... . , . j When money had increased in pur-, When the people in different national convention- proposed to stand by the declaration of independence and the constitution, that was said to be a "threat" against order, honesty, and honor and an advocacy of disaster at home and a cowardly shirking of duty abroad. When the financial papers of the coun try continue to point out, as Keen does in hi London interview, that the fall in price after the trust inflation has not yet reached its climax, the republican leaders reply in concert that this is not the result of the legislation of the repub lican party and the attempt to set up a gold standard, but the "threat" of the Bryan campaign. According to their philosophy, every disaster that has fallen upon the people has been the result of a "threat. re.U" are more powerful than per- formances. If you want to bring a dis aster about, it is only necessary to make a "threat." When Cleorge Frisby Hoar, United States Senator from Massachusetts for a quarter of a century, announced that he ! was opposed to imperialism, then all the patriot and a statesman of the very highest order; that he retained all the mental visor of his younger daj-s and i had the brightest mind in the United States. The only conclusion; to be drawn from s;uch a course is that re publican editors believe a mar, to be a patriot, statesman, and of sourd mind as loDg as he is willing to vote for Mc Kinley, but if he refuses o vote for Mc Kinley he is a traitor, a demagogue, and ot of sound mind. That is the point to which republican journalism has de generated. What sort of American citi zens will that kind of newspaper work have a tendency to produce? Forty years ago it would have been impossible to conduct a newspaper as many are now conducted. What would have been the result if some great daily in New York had attempted to publish a republican paper and at the same time filled its columns with falsehoods and slurs about Abraham Lincoln. In a presidential year, a democratic or repub lican paper that fought tha presidential candidate would have been a total fail ure. Now it is different. There are dailies in nearly all the great cities which call themselves democratic, that fight Bryan with more bitterness than the republicans. The same thing is coming to pans in regard to the people's parly and its candidates. Papers call ing themselves populists, fight the can didates of the party in every issue. They never have any hard things to say about McKinley and his boss. This is the most dastardly business that was ever engaged in by any set of men on earth. Men who do it are no better than those who fire on a flag or who come to a man's house as a guest and then secretly poison his food. They are despicable beyond the power of words to describe. They are the aff-fall of crer ation. They do not rise to the dignity of ordinary cowards. They are at the lowest point that it is possible for a de generate to reach. The Philadelphia North American, which claims to be a hisrh class, moral at..cr u pi-;a was forced upou the country by Mr. 0ij ia(jj wno when told of any- - ' - thing uncommonly wicked would hold up her hands and say: "What is this world cominer to?" When Wanne- i maker's great religious paper will lie like that, what better could we expect from . ' , T the degenerates who run the State Jour- . , . .L , ., . nil TK n wHT wn cua r its Hat v nnttMitV uai lua aa n no l no ovc in Abo uaiij vuvjuii. The democratic party "forced" the rati fication of that treaty! If the demo crats had to use force to put it through, then the republicans must have been op posed to it. There must have been forcible opposition to it. But every one lrnnwc that. iiAarlv nil tViA nnrmci Hnn tn i . , j treaty was among the deocra c ntor? d lt WaS, M r.lfied b i the deciding vote of the republican vice L- F , 4, crnts favored the ratification, among them Mr. Rryan. But it was with the distinct understanding that the Bacon resolution should ' be passed which granted independence to the Filipinos- The Topeka Farmer's Advocate has come back to the fold of populism and is now under the ownership and control of Carl Vrooman, Frank Peltret, J. II. Cur ran and George B. Harrison. In the an- ; nouncement of this change it says: f x "Editorially the paper will henceforth i ue tne advocate of the principles for which the popujjst party stands, and for any advancement from those principles which would, in our opinion, make for the general welfare and happiness of mankind." This is the end of the Peffer attempt to take populists back into the republi can ranks. Populism will now have an organ at the capitol in Kansas, but it will be well for the Advocate to go slowly in advocating any principle not found in the populist platforms. When the people want an advance, they will say so themselves through the regular constituted channels of conventions duly called and attended by the voters. The Bee in an editorial item says: "The fact that Nebraska is prosper ous is evidenced by the fact that only 77,000 acres of school lands in the state are not now under lease, and practically all of this is in the western counties where plenty of range is to be had at a less figure than the state valuation." Rosey evidently forgot to mention that the reason why there was no more land not under lease was on account of the persistent work of Uncle Jake Wolfe as land commissioner of the state of Ne braska, and the Independent takes this occasion to rectify the error. Rosey is getting aloag in years and his memory is not as good as it once was. Clem Deaver and Rosewater counted up the free tickets sent out through the state and then declared that they were willing to swear there were 400 dele gates to the Grand Island meeting. Now as several of these tickets are here in Lincoln, never having been used by the parties to whom they were given, includ ing one at this office, it is evident that Rosey and Clem overestimated the num ber of delegates. Roosevelt's denunciation of the fam ous democratic soldiers and sailors who fought in the Spanish war as cowards, has so enraged eome of those gentlemen that they now declare they will take no apology from him less than a written statement that he did not whip spain all alone by himself. Of course Roosevelt will never do that, and there is likeiy to be pistols and coffee. IMPERIALIST PRAYERS The present ruler of Germany .is an emperor, his country is an empire and he and his-predecessors have practiced imperialism until hundreds of thousands of the best people of the land have sought refuge from such evils in this land of freedom. The emperor made a speech the other day to the soldiers he was sending to China to civilize those heathen. We ask the readers of the In-. dependent to see how closely that speech follows the line of talk that we have heard from the imperialists in this coun try. His imperial soldiers are "to open the way to civilization." How? "Spare nobody. Take no prisoners." In other words, go back a thousand years to methods of barbarians, kill the innocent along with the guilty. And then follow the cant of the American" imperialist "The blessings of the Lord go with you." Here is what he is reported in the dis patches to have said: . "So I send you out. May you all prove your German efficiency, devotion and bravery, bear joyfully all discom fort and uphold the honor and glory of our arms. You must set an example of discipline, self -domination and self-control. "If you close with the enemy, remem ber this: Spare nobody. " Make no pris oners. Use your weapons so that for a thousand years hence no Chinaman will dare look askance at any German. Open the way for civilization once for all." The address concluded as follows: "The blessing of the Lord be with you. The prayers of the whole people will ac company you in all your ways. My best wishes for yourselves and for the success of your arms will ever follow you. : "Give proofs of your courage no matter where. May the blessings of God rest on your bannerg and may he vouchsafe to you to find a path for Christianity in that far-off country." - J Find a path for Christianity by mur dering all that they come in contact with. Spare none. Shed oceans of human blood. Kill the women and little children the aged and the helpless, those who have done no wrong as well as those who have committed the inhuman butch eries of which we justly complain. That is the way "to find a path for Christian ity in that far-off country." Have the authorities of the Christian church gone mad? That speech of the emperor is only the same sort of talk that we have heard from many of the so-called Christian . ministers of this land, prominent among whom is Dr. Lyman Abbott. All we can say to the readers of the Independent is: Put a white winged messenger of peace in the ballot box. When that is done you can use the words of the German . Emperor without hypocrisy and say: "The bless ing or God go with you." A TIRED LAWYER A republican lawyer ; down in Kansas has published a book. " He says- "The writer has been in Kansas every year for thirty-five years. He is tired. Oh, so tired. If the pop party carries Kansas this year he will go back to Con necticut, where he was born, and say: Good-bye, . my lover, good-bye.' And there are others." After the election he wall be apt to find that Connecticut is also pop, or what amounts to pretty much the same thing, a Bryan democratic state. "What will this lawyer do then? poor thing!" It is said in all . the republican papers that Kansas is the most prosperous state in the union, that the wheat crop down there is so big that it is worth more than the land that it was raised upon, that the farmers are so rich that they don't know what to do with their money, that they, ride about in automo biles and their wives order their dresses from Paris. This lawyer must yearn for the lean and starving years before the pops appeared in that state, for all this change in circumstances has occurred since the pops raised up their mournful voices and took most of the offices away from the republicans. If that lawyer can't stand Bryan principles, he will find no place of refuge in 4he United States after the next election and he will have to go to England. "Button, button, whose got the but ton," is the game Dietrick has started out to play for the next three months. When the game closes he will find that he hasn't even a button for all his travels and worry. As he retires to the parlors of his national bank he will sigh and say: "Ah! me. Eighty thousand buttons, and all for naught! Then just think of the sauer krout I ate and the beer I paid for." According to republican logic, Bryan will get all the votes in Saltillo and Rokeby in the southern part of Lan caster county. The crops are very poor there on account of a severe hailstorm. The "staff correspondents" who have visited the regions of big crops in the state all declare that the farmers there will vote for , McKinley and it was only because that they had bad crops that they ever voted for Bryan. Dr. A. O. Repeto of Monta Vila, Ore gon, writing to a friend in Philadelphia in regard to the republican vote in that state says: "I notice that none of the eastern papers give the . cause of the re publican majority in this state in the June election. The heavy vote that went to them was on account of the sympathy of the administration with England in the Boer war. Fully one half of the population ofthis state and Washington is of Pritish descent, and they all voted the republican ticket. I hope to see the opposite in the middle states in November." The Canadians who can't make a living tinder imperial ism over, the line, come into - all states bordering on the British possessions, but after they get . here they keep up their, prejudices . for a , generation, and continue to vote for the same conditions that they fled frota when they left Canada.-'''.' ' It seems that the populist state con vention down in Kansas knocked the socks off . Jerry Simpson, or socked it to him, or something of that sort, from the reports in the papers. But that is not the ." end ; of Jerry by any means. He will be heard from again. ' According to the treasury report the government coined, during the month of June, 59,988,890 silver dollars at the ra tio of 16 to 1. Now if 16 to 1 ia not the right ratfo as stated in the populist and democratic platforms, why didn't Secre tary Gage have them coined at the right ratio? But that is something that no pop will ever find out ' "The concert of powers" of which so much is said in the papers, seems to be playing all out of tune. Just as it is time for a cornet solo the bass drum starts up, and when it is time for the bass drum to come in the fifes begin to squeal.. They say all that is lacking is a director, but when it is proposed to appoint a director every member of the band wants the place. The eastern papers are making sun dry sarcastic remarks about the suppres sion of Teddy Roosevelt's speech at St. Paul to which the Independent called attention at the time. They say that Mark Hanna has issued an order that Teddy shall stay at home until he learns enough not to insult half the population of the country by calling them names and telling them that they are not worthy of the name of American. There is no longer any reason to doubt that Mark Haana has put a quietus on Teddy Roosevelt. Hanna was in New York last Tuesday and had a conference with " Rqosevelt. ' After the conference Roosevelt said: ."I have' seen Senator Hanna, Senator Scott, Mr. Manley and Mr. Gibbs and have had a pleasant talk with them. I don't expert to be anything but a pri vate citizen durirg the month of Aug ust. Later than that I have not made any definite arrangements." Roosevelt also said that the suppressed St. Paul Speech had been under discus sion. ' - It is remarkable how fast even a wo man will degenerate as soon as she comes under the Clem Deaver influence. Read the following from Mrs. Luna E. Kellie, the editoriof-the Prairie ; Home, and then reflect upon it: "All say the Grand Island convention was the largest one of the year. The fusion convention had a lot of counties (sixteen I think) without a representa tive, while a number more had only two or three when they were entitled to eight or ten. The seats were filled up by resident democrats of Lincoln so it looked ' full, but except office holders very few were in town from other coun ties." It has been discovered that not only the department of education but the treasury department at Washington has been used by. the British government as a distributor of documents against the Boers. Secretary Gage has been send ing out, in envelopes bearing the gov ernment frank, a letter written by a merchant of the Orange River colony and- published in the British - Trade Journal, to correspondents here for re publication in American newspapers. This letter speaks as though English sovereignty were firmly established and the Boer republics wiped out, and calls attention to the chances for American goods in that countryr It will be seen that in every way possible the McKinley administration is giving aid and assist ance to the British in the endeavor to wipe out the tw9 little African repub lics.; It is hardly possible that such ac tion would be taken unless there was a secret alliance between the two govern ments. ' In fact that charge is sustained by accumulating evidence all the time. '- CHINA AND ASIATIC COUNTRIES The Independent this week offers an other very . valuable new premium. It is the latest Rand McNally & Co. atlas with maps" of Asia, China proper, North western 7. China, the Chinese Empire, Dutch East Indies, Indo-China, Hawaii, Korea, ' Malaysia, Oceanica, Philippine Islands, Siam and a map of the world on a scale large enough to make it very valuable at any time. The map of East ern'China, where all the operations will take place in connection with the powers and the recent disturbances is upon an enlarged scale and will be of use to every one who reads the dispatches. It is in fact"' a "necessity to every intelligent household.,. .Besides the maps, there are a large number of half tone illustrations of Chinese life and manners, reproduc tions of photographs taken in . recent years." The printed , matter of which there is several pages is of great impor tance at the present time giving those facts about the Chinese people and the Chinese government that every one wishes to know. This atlas will be given as a premium for a club of six campaign subscriptions at fifteen cents each. Price when sent by. mail to any address 40 cents. Special rate to regular subscribers of the Independent 30 cents. Mark "We have fooled them once, HOW CAESAR DID IT. "Of the men, who have converted re publics into empires, Augustus Caesar was by far the ablest. He carefully pre served the . forms and legal fictions of the government he had overthrown. He won over - the senators . by appointing their relatives toVbffice, Distant pos sessions were ruled, by men who had aided him to attain supreme power. He encouraged at home that economic sys tem which concentrated in one individ ual the exploitation of a special branch of industry. -Thus each " wealthy mag nate controlled the labor of slaves trained as skilled workmen. ; These slaves could work only for the one master, who was enriched by the fruit of their toil. Crassus and his clique 'controlled the money, which they could increase or de crease at . pleasure. - The food supply was made . over to Ahenobarbus. The mines, the woods, and the fisheries had their respective monopolists. And at the right hand of Augustus stood his favorite," whose word was law. This per sonage, Maecenas, distributed the im perial favors. Offices and special privi leges were dispensed by him, and taken away by him. His will was supreme. Shortly before . his death Augustus called for a mirror, arranged his hair neatly and said: "Did I play my part well? . If so, applaud me.". It will be well to consider, how closely the imperialists of this country are fol lowing Caesar's plan. They are control ling special branches of industry by means of the trust. The food, supply-is in the hands of the flour trust and meat trust. Iron and steel is in the hands of the steel .trust, and so with almost every thing else. .Thousands of wage slaves are toiling day and night for these trusts and they have a more complete monop oly of labor than ever had Ahenborbus. The black list does it. Their Maecenas is Mark -Hanna. The royal favors are distributed by him. It is the way Caesar did it, with some .modern im provements added. Secretary Gage has made great improvements on the meth ods of Crassus, and has secured through the recent financial act a more perfect method of controlling, increasing and diminishing the volume of money than Crassus ever dreamed of. Caesarism, McKinleyism, imperialism they are all one and the same thing. McKinley plays his part well. - B POLITICAL HISTORY Another premium which is offered for the first time is a large cloth'bound vol ume entitled: "Political United States." To all who are interested in the coming campaign thii work will be of very great value. It has all of the party platforms of all the parties who have run , presi dential candidates since the constitution was adopted. It shows all the additions of territory to the United States, also of Porto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii. It has a summary of the Magna Charta, the Meclenburg declaration, the declara tion of independence, articles of confed eration and. constitution. Besides other illustrations it has half tone portraits of all the present candidates ' for president and vice president and much statistical matterl It is a work that you will find use for almost every day from now until the election. This valuable and costly book of 100 pages 12x15 inches, cloth bound will be given as a premium for fifteen campaign subscribers at fifteen cents each. This splendid book will not be sold it can only be secured as a premium for a club of 15 new subscrip tions at 15 cents each. Sad news comes from Kansas for the republicans. A little while ago, accord ing to. the republicans, the farmers were riding around in automobiles; their wives were dressed in gowns from Worth's; the young ladies -were away at the Paris exhibition, and they all had so much money they did not know what to do with jt, for the bank vaults were full and the bankers would not take any more. Now , there "comes a different story. It has been raining down there for three . weeks. The wheat has all sprouted in the shock and in the stack. No threshing has been done, the farmers have sold off their automobiles, the wo men have packed away their Paris gowns and are hoeing in the garden, while the men', when they do not walk, ride behind Indian ponies attached to buck boards. And the whole pack of them are going to vote the pop ticket because after Mc and can do it again. Kinley had given them such a bumper crop of wheat he got mixed up in this China business and forgot to stop the rains. KANSAS ALL, RIGHT. In a private lettar to a friend in this city, John M. Breidenthal says; ."All ention), was the greatest convention ever held in this state by any party,' and from the letters I am receiving from all parts of the state it would appear that the enthusiasm engendered at Ft. Scott is extending to every county in the state. I feel confident that we are in better shape than ever before; that our ticket will receive more enthusiastic support than at any time in the past, yet I real ize that there is a hard fight before us. We are receiving notable converts to the cause, among them Ex-Lieutenant Gov ernor Felt, Judge Burnette of Sumner county, and others. We are also receiv ing large accessions from the Germans." According to the "staff correspon dents" of several of the great dailies 1n Chicago, many -of the farmers of Ne braska are already millionaires and tho remainder soon will be. They tell how scores of them are absent at the Paris around in different parts of the world. We are all thankful for this fulsome ad vertising of the advantages of this state and hope they will keep it up. If they will only add that all this prosperity has visited the state since the pops captured the state government and . sent the re publican thieves to the penitentiary they will enable their readers-4, to under stand how all this came about. As it is they leave them in a hopeless fog. . : -Some shrewd pop, played a trick on the Ladies Home Journal. 1 That maga zine is published by the diletante, suur exclusive, upper tendom, and" of cour. o any talk about the money is never al lowed in its pages. However, eome pep writer concocted a very exciting story aboutthe return of some miners from the Klondyke who had a million in gold dust and nnggets. Their ship ran on a mud bank, and while it lay there strand- J AT 3 1 A 1TTL they came to bid on the goods offered for sale they' found that they could buy nothing, for the payment had to be made in money, and they had . no money nothing but gold. It is a good lesson to those who never before found out that nothing is money until the government puts its stamp on it, but with the stamp even a greasy piece of paper becomes money. News of the Week After reading sceres of columns of matter that has appeared during the last week . in the great dailies and many recent magazine articles, tho editor of the Independent is forced to confess that he has no information in re gard to China to impart that is of any value. At first the dailies, would an- nnnncft nn dav tht. th tniniatoro rf i y " V . . .J . tj v. I llli foreign powers were all safe and the next day that they had all been murdered.' Then they would state in the morning edition that they had been murdered, and in the evening edition that they were all safe. After that they would print a paragraph saying they, were safe, and in the same column of the same edi tion declaring they were dead. From that sort of sensational journalism the Independent beats a- retreat. At this writing there is no more known about the situation in Pekin than there was three weeks ago. ' - Some articles have been published in the magazines that have been of yalue in giving an insight into the conditions out of which the upheval in China grew. The best one was written by a Russian, He says this trouble has been brewing for very many years. It had its roots in the opium war which was waged upon the Chinese to force them to open their ports for the- admission of opium. lie says that this war was so horrible in its objects, that of introducing a poison that would demoralize and finally "kill the people, that the literati of China de nounced it in the most forceful language that they could command, declaring the men engaged in it as foreign devils.' Gradually the word has come into use and has now become a part of the lan guage, just as slang words are engrafted into the English language, and now sim ply means a foreigner. From that day to this, he says, every powerful nation of Europe has been making constant de mands upon China for territory and the Chinese government has in many cases been forced to submit to these demands t i f 1 ' r.- : K ..'. ft - v