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    THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
August 9, 19004
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ahould get out a writ of injunction.
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The paper trut has paid a dividend of
S0pr t ta j; .ck for the it
year, and every mallet beadditor in the
L cited S'-at w putg op the liey
tariff Diva KiiH tva .riiwmrtu
are td. v ttLout that tariff, the
trst esotild not exm for three cs5aths.
A Ballet hd editor is the very queer . describing lhe TMcUating 'course
eat critter" oo earth. ' President Polk. Capt Paine is a re-
"" j putican and claims that he is a follow-
Mortai says that -Bryan i late in por ; er of Lincoln. When he ran up against
trayicg the dacrer of imperialism." j this speech of Lincoln's it is said that
That shows the kind of -hocet" atate- j te talked no more politics for half an
sect that Morton is in the habit of tour. The next thing that the Inde
pablahi. Bryan wa the t;rt can in pendent eipecU to hear is that an in
th Uci'd KUte to rai-p hi voice junction has been procured preventing
again! imprialisja. He did it at the aoy f unionist from quoting Lincoln,
reception of the Third ra-ka at the
Usaha epowtkn as all tc.ee know.
Mark llama ia as inu-n iew jun after ! far congr in thin district, deserves de
tiwUstiwideriUaielefUwn id: "Every feAl if eer uy candidate fo'r office ever
ooeof or principal speaker, had to face sicce candidates were invented. A
about on thr record whn they ment pusilanimous letter was never
icto the eacpaign. oc the nlver que - ; -Httn than th rn in rhiMi h
txcJ I ci that
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go through the
foetioo cf iBLj-nsli-ini in thi campaign
Ikkevelt has already dosw it.
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bof of the L-r. So he is and al-o of
aj esis wdo lore merty lie world over.
They Lav all hard of Bryan ad moth-
ers pray for hies in all the language of
xse arxa every cay. i Lrr y: -Oh!
if Bryan c5y win, tte influence of the
itva&iMv wiii purp war or conquest,
i3Ejnaisa win receive its dath blow
ana ora wu rare
After all the alauhter cf mi4tonaries
rrpcrted by th di kwcau in China it
turtss out, acsorCir.g to the reports sent
by the miavjtarie tho-i! v that West
Chita Methodist mikcarM are all
safe. The Irebyterian brrd ays that
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uMnrA-j wmrnv wi wij uifra are
accosrted lor, and the Baptist board re-
ceived EoUee that aJ th-tr mtocariM
in atf n and central China are safe.
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In the last twenty years, two presi-
deeta and tbr ro al rur have bn
aicated. A crar of fiuia, a prei -
dent 4 the United State, a president of
France, the nrpresa of Autria and the
kirg of Italy ha e all ben murdered.
Ujsoos tnoniered. thete have been
attempt r&ade upon the lives of all the
Eorcpeaa ruler, which hate failed,
The fiercestage of deaths sjboe rulers
has been great than among rci in
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Konve of the cazapaign matter aet in
r lates by the republican state commit-
! I altogether too rack for the more
respectable republican editors, Iloi
IlarESDcd got some sf it into hi paper,
He says that It easee in plates with no
prUitd copy and went into the Tribune
without raiirg. He makes a manly
apology to his reader for having printed
it and intimates that stuS coming from
the rrphicaa headquarters will hereaf
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ter l read tzcre n goes into cos paper.
WBOXt HAW. DOWJf TI1K ZXAO T l
On tha 14th of December William
McKliley made a epeech la which he
fahJ:- -Who will withdraw from the
j ptej !e over whom the American flag
j Eoata its protection folds? Who will
j haul it down?" Immediately all the re
) publican editors took up the cry and
Ifpritkled their columns with the words:
"Who will haul down the flag?" They
j all know that jut previous to the mak
j kg of that speech. McKinley had hauled
djwn the flag at the dictation of the En
IgUfh government from over a large strip
iof territory in Alaska over which it had
floated ever since the treaty with Rus-
ia had been signed ceding it to the
j Cfclied Bute. The cry wan raised to
1 cover the cowardly work of their own
president. It is the same plan that they
have pursued for th last thirty years.
I If they are against anything they pre-
teed to be lor it. That is the way they
I ran their campaign against silver.- They
j were always for silver. They declared
f for it in their platforms. They de
nounced Cleveland because ne was
against it and the first chance- they got
they knocked it clear out of the box.
; But of all the silly campaign cries that
they have made use of, this of "who'll
haul down the flag is the most ridicu
lous. They had just hauled it down
where it had floated in triumph and
glory for thirty years, and then they
started through the land shouting:
Who'll haul down the flag?"
Now the flag has been rained in China.
Who'll haul it down? Is it to remain
there and be supported by a standing
army as long as we can draft soldiers
and make them go and defend it?
Who'll haul it down?"
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AX INJUNCTION C03I1XO.
It is related that some gentlemn who
were standin? in front of a
hotel in
South Omaha when one of them quietly
remarked:
The president is by no means satis-
fled with his positions. First, he takes
UP BU ia euuravormg iu aryuo us
into it, be argues himself out of it.
Then he seizes another and goes through
the tame process: and then, confused at
beicg able to think of nothing new, he
patches up the old one again, which he
had Dome time before cast off. His
01Dd Ufed beyond its .is ruQ.
ticg hither and thither, like some tor-
tured thing on a bumiug surface, find-
ing tio position on which it can settle
d be at eaSC.
There was in the crowd one Captain
Pair shn vhn h harr1 tViA wnrrla
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broke forth in a torrent of oaths and de-
! dared that -any man-that would talk
S .t way about the president of the
United SUtes oughtto be hung for
; tnoa - Thta lhe gentleman who had
j word -from his pocket
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a, oooic ana sn.owed
Capt. Paine that
: they were the w-rda of Abraham Lin-
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E. J. Bl'HKETT.
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Burkett, republican candidate
chc.es to meet in ioint debate his oddo-
rni iiMi iMrcA. lax annnr. mar.
ards! If this action is not cowardly it
would be hard to tell of what cowardice
consists. It is utterly impossible t get
republican candidate to run the risk
0f a reply to his speeches before the aud-
; i0ce to which they are addressed.
j They dare not do it. They haven't the
courage that it requires to do it They
are not made that way. It isn't in the
heart of any one of them
J God hates a coward. All honorable
! nien de-pise a coward. A man who can
j cot muster up the courage to defend his
j principles is not fit to be a member of
congress or any other law making body.
j For ten years the populists have been
j trying to get the republicans to meet
them in joint debate and they have
never yet produced a man who had the
courage to try it. The republicans of
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; wi aisinci musi reel very proua or a
leader who dares not face the enemy
who will only appear in public when sur
rounded by his own partisans and after
his managers have mad sure there will
' be no one there to reply to him. A
5 brave man is EL J. Burkett! A very
1 brave man indeed! Won t the mullet
beads be proud of him?
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i LCiARlTr AM) lika.
Some philanthropist ought to take
pity on this city of Lincoln. It is under
dire distress and it seems that the citi-
! tens have no way of relieving themsel
; Tes of one of the greatest curses that ev
: er afflicted a community in ' having
i thrust in their homes every morning a
daily paper in which the foundation of
i almost every criminal article is either
i vulgarity or lies.
la last Sunday's edition, which is
fair sample of the paper, it declares that
j the New York Journal has discovered a
new force in the railroad ticket scalpers
I that will fight Mckinley. The.Journa
j well knew that was a lie. The Journal's
! article, which U printed in another col
- 1 umn of this paper, referred to the regu
fa . aa.Ba.
1 iar ucstei agents wno sold tickets, not
only over their own roads, but over oth
er roads as well.
Then it calls the young and beautiful
queen of Italy a "mare" and says she i$
a better "horse'" than her husband. ;
It next defends Roosevelt in charging
that all Democrats are cowards, it being
the only paper in the United States that
has defended the imprudent words of
that enthusiastic candidate. Then it
calls Adlai Stevenson a "gold bug," and
so on to the end of the chapter.
In its news matter, it is from 24 hours
to a month behind other papers. It
gravely gives as a matter of news in this
same edition, the engagement of Lady
Churchill. Lady Churchill was married
some time ago and all the other dailies
had full accounts of the wedding.
It publishes as news matter an inter
view with Gen. Ludlow, in which he
said: "All the world goes to school to
Germany in military methods." That
interview has been going the rounds for
a long time, even the weekly papers have
been commenting upon it. The Journal
prints it as news.
Every day, it takes the dispatches
printed in the Chicago dailies of the
day before, puts a new date to them and
prints them as the latest.
The most distinguished citizens of the
United States if they happen in Lincoln,
it assaults with vile names. It called an
ex-vice president and a man honored and
respected by all, "a bald headed old
rooster." Another of almost equal
prominence, it denounced as a "blather
skite."
Now won't some philanthropist take
pity upon this city and establish a daily
paper here that is fit to go into a private
amily.
Several republican papers have been
demanding of late, and among them is I
he Philadelphia Telegraph, that Ger
man-American citizens be disfranchised
If we are to go into the disfranchise
ment of foreign born citizens a few other
nationalities are likely to be included,
especially those of English extraction.
It generally takes about two generations
to get all the imperialism and royalty out
of an Englishman, although, there are
many exceptions to the rule, but the
second generation of Germans have no
more love of Emperors, kings and queens
than the American of a lineage going
back to the revolution. But all this talk
. as
in tne republican papers oniy snows
their general habit of unreasoning preju
dice when writing about anybody who
does not agree with them in their impe-
perialist policies, whether American or
breign born. The next thing that they
will be demanding is that all fusionists
be disfranchised in substance they do
that now. They call us traitors, and of
course traitors ought not be allowed to
vote. it-
Cuba is to have a constitutional con
vention in September, and shortly after
will inaugurate an independent govern
ment. Cuba will start off the youngest
of nations and all the future open for a
government with not a cent of debt.
But watch! The "financiers" will be
there and the very first congress will
issue bonds. From the date of the issue
of these bonds, Cuba will no longer be
free. All the sufferings of her patriots
for thirty years will go for naught. She
will enter the bond slavery that is pre
pared for all them who have not studied
the money qestion. The nations of the
earth are all bond slaves. Not one of
them is free. All pay tribute to the
hydra headed monster, the money power.
Cubu will be the only free nation on
earth. But she will .not remain free.
The money power will have subjugated
her lefore her flag floats three months
above her proves of palms and fields of
sugar cane.
There is a Major Duval down at Fort
Crook, who, if the reports of his sayings
are true, evidently is serving in the
wrorg army. He should go and enlist
undfr the boxers or become a retainer of
the Sultan of Sulu. He advocates the
lining up on the beach of every Filipino
who will not accept of McKinley's pol
icy cf benevolent assimilation and the
shooting them down in the same man
ner that the Spaniards used to do it.
The report of his opinions appeared in
the State Journal, but that is such an
unreliable sheet that the Major ought
to have benefit of the doubt. If, how
ever he did express such opinions, he
should be court martialed and dismissed
from the service. No officer of the reg
ular army was ever before known to ad
vocate wholesale murder. It may be
that the degeneracy that has set in, in
the army of occupation in the Philip
pines is to follow the officers when they
coma home.
According to some of these eastern pa
triots, it is far better that this republic
be overthrown than that the gold stand
ard should be endangered. They de
clare most vehemently that imperialism
will destroy the republic, but they will
vote for imperialism because the gold
standard is in danger. They have wor
shipped gold so long that all other
things, country, liberty, the nation it
self must not be considered at all if gold
is threatened. They think gold, when
they are awake. They dream gold when
they are asleep. They see gold when
ever they open their eyes and when they
die they expect to enter heaven through
a golden gate, walk on golden streets
and spend the unending ages of eternity
playing upon a golden harp.
' , BUSSIA OUB FBIEND. . -
In a recent article some writer tells of
a conference between a Russian diplomat
and an American consul in China, in
which the stationing of a large fleet at
at New York and the sending of another
to the Pacific coast at the time that
England was about to recognize the
Southern Confederacy was mentioned by
the Russian. Russia did that, as well
posted men know, and by that act en
deared herself to all patriotic Americans.
That was a time when we needed a friend
and England was lined up with our ene
mies, ' "" ' ;' .. '
In a recent article in a New York mag
azine it is stated that in 1896 the Russian
government proposed an alliance with
the United States whereby the farmers
of this country and Russia would have
been greatly benefitted by an increased
price for wheat. The proposition came
from the Russian minister and was pre
sented to our secrectary 'of state, who,
seeing that it referred to agricultural
matters, turned it over to the secretary
of agriculture. The United States had,
unfortunately, as as occupant of that of
fice at that time a cad and a snob, by the
name of J. Sterling Morton. He replied
in such insulting language (he never
could write or talk like a gentleman),
that the Russian government dropped
the subject.
This same snob is now engaged in
printing a paper at Nebraska City, in
which about every third word is "Bryan"
or "Bryanarchy."
A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.
Lincoln is in the hands of the corpor
ations and will ever be so long as the re
publicans have a majority in the city
council.. It appears that a majority of
the citizens of this city would rather
have a republican city council than a
cheap and efficient telephone service.
They are willing to pay double price for
gas and electric light if they can have a
republican city council -in fact, they
will bear almost anything, excessive tax
ation, corruption in official life, degener
acy, if they can have that one thing that
alone satisfies the republican soul, a re
publican city council. Last week twenty
of the business men got together and or
ganized a telephone .company that
pledged hrthem and all citizens a better
and cheaper telephone service, but the
city council would have none of it. To
defeat it required but very little exertion
on the part of the monopolies. The city
council was republican, and tnat was
enough to kill the thing deader than a
door nail. It was killed. It would be a
good thing to try. the referendum on that
question. But that can .never be done
while there is a republican majority in
the city. Being that republican majority
every kind of robbery and corruption
aoiaes in penect peace, auey wen Know
that they will never be disturbed as long
as there is a republican majority in the
city council.
WAS HE MISTAKEN ?
Secretary of state, Lewis Cass, sent to
Lord Napier, April 10, 1857, the following
dispatch:
"This proposition from Great Britain
looking to a participation by the United
States in the exisiting hostilities against
China makes it pooper to inform your
lordship that under the constitution of
the United States the executive branch
of this government is not the war mak-
lug power. The exercise of that great
attribute of sovereignty is vested in con
gress, and the president has no authority
to order aggressive hostilities to be un
dertaken. v
"Our navy' officers have the right it is
their duty indeed to employ the forces
under their command, not only in self
defense,, but for the protection of the
persons and property of our citizens
when- exposed to acts of lawless outrage,
and this they have done, both in China
and elsewhere, and will do again when
necessary.
"But military expeditions into the
Chinese territory cannot be undertaken
without the authority of the national
legislature."
Did Secretary Cass misinterpret the
constitution when he declared that the
executive of the United States is not the
war-making power? Had the president
the right to declare war and carry on
military operations in foreign countries
without the consent of congress? Mark
Hanna peremptorially announced that
there was no necessity to assemble con
gress to enable the president to carry on
a war in China. The czar of Russia can
inaugurate a war without the consent of
any parliamentary body, but the queen
of England or the Emperor of Germany
could not. So it seems that our empe
ror, William the Wobbler, has more
power than any other ruler on earth ex
cept the czar of Russia. And yet they
say that this cry of imperialism is all a
sham. What is your opinion on that
subject? Have we already an empire
while still retaining the form of a repub
lic? Is this cry of imperialism a false
cry? Was Secretary Cass mistaken?
i . THEY ARE FOR BRYAN
The Mark Hanna effort to capture the
anti-Imperialist league by getting the or
ganization to put a presidential ticket in
the field is likely to result in a fiasco. W.
W. Bride writes to the Independent from
Washington as follows about the matter:
"To show the tenor of the Washington
anti-imperialists and to show you the
determination with which they, have en
tered the fight for Bryan, I will appe'nd
a resolution passed at last night's meet
ing of the league. The Washington anti-imperialist
league is composed
of about two hundred citizens of
Washington, D. C, and neighboring
states, of whom a large majority are re
publicans, and as such supported Mc
Kinley in 1896, but whose voices and in-
fluence will be for Bryan and Stevenson
in this more consequential fight. The
resolution is as follows:
"Resolved, That the anti-imperialistic
league of Washington, D. C, endorses
the anti-imperialist plank of the Kansas
City platform, and hereby instructs its
delegates to the anti-imperialist confer
ence at Indianapolis to vote for the en
dorsement of the nominees of that con
vention, Hon. William Jennings " Bryan
and Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson."
"The league comprises such promi
nent ex-republicans as ex-Senator J. B.
Henderson, ex-Senator J. S. Fowler.
Capt. Patrick O'Farrell, Gen. William
Birneyman, Dr. L. W. Habercom and
Dr. W. A. Croffut, -editor several years
ago of the Washington Post, and such
prominent gold democrats as Mr. M. F.
O'Donoghtie, who has completely flop
ped and is the mover of the motion re-,
ferred to above. The delegates from this
league, so far as selected, are Capt. Pat
rick O'Farrell, ex-Senator Henderson,
Dr. W. A. Croffutt, Dr. L. W. Habercom,
William W. Bride and others."
EASTERN AND WESTERN LIARS.
The Chinese horror tales that have
been printed in the great dailies are a
disgrace to civilization. They have been
numerous and of every shade and de-
"greeof horror. The particulars of the
massacre of the Russian minister and of
the tortures of his wife . and children
were given with many details. But the
Russian minister and his family are still
alive. The way that Admiral Seymour
dispatched his wounded to keep them
from falling into the hands of the Chi
nese was a fine piece of imaginative
writing; but Admiral Seymour came in
with all his wounded. There has been
columns of this sort of stuff always
followed with denunciations of the Chi
nese liars, who were declared to be the
greatest liars in all the world, which was
a manifest absurdity, apparent to any
one who had read the dispatches from
the European correspondents. Back of
all this there was some design. The
correspondents never all took to lying at
once like that. It is probable that most
of these reports were concocted in the
foreign office of "the powers" for the
purpose of inducing the people to sanc
tion their plan for the slicing up of
China.
HOW THEY PROSPER.
The monthly statement of the comp
troller of the currency shows that at the
close of business July 31, 1900, the total
circulation of national bank notes was
$320,015,356, an increase for the year of
$78,483,978, and an increase for the
month of $10,455,637. The circulation
based on United States bonds'amounted
to 5l25b,44,4cJ4, an increase lor tne year
of $30,679,640, and an increase for the
month of $12,331,832.
There you have it. A present from
the government to the national bankers
of nearly $90,000,000. . Was ever there
anything on -dearth . that equalled that
equalled that kind of robbery? What
feudal lord ever asseseed the toilers of
his domains any such amount as that
and made a present of it to a few of his
favorites in one year? Altogether they
have over $300,000,000, all of which is a
present from the government. There is
no use to deny it. It is a present. "A
banker takes his bonds down there and
0ets their full face value in money and
still owns the bonds and draws interest
on them. No wonder they prosper! Who
couldn't prosper under such treatment
as that? That kind of a financial policy
is a glorious thing for the bankers.
That is how they prosper.
COST OF PENSIONS.
In figuring the cost of war, pensions
are seldom mentioned, yet pensions are
part of the expense of a military estab
lishment and in our country they amount
to more than all the cost oi-war while it
is being fought. The forthcoming an
nual report of the commissioner of pen
sions, Mr. Evans, will show a grand to
tal of 993,528 pensioners on the rolls on
July 1 last. During the year 40,645 orig
inal pensions were granted and 4,699
names were restored to the rolls. To
offset these, 43,334 names were dropped
from the rolls during the year, including
35,809 by reason of death, 909 by reason
of remarriage of pensioners and 6,616
for other causes. This is an increase of
2,010 pensioners for the year. The num
ber of claims of all kinds pending July
1, 1900, was 437,104, agains 477,239 July
1, 1899. The cost of pensions in the
United States is now greater than the
cost of Germany's standing army. What
is worse, the cost of pensions is on the
increase. New. wars are constantly ad
ding to the amount and the burden upon
the tax-payers is very heavy. The pro
per remedy for this evil is not ' to with
hold what is due the old soldier, but to
put a stop to wars and the perpetual in
crease of pension payments. If we don't
it will bankrupt the whole country.
The horror of 16 to 1 is all a pretense
on the part of the republican leaders.
They have just enacted and put into
force a law recognizing that as the proper
ratio. Under the McKinley adminis
tration up to June 30th, there was coin
ed at the ratio of 16 to 1, 52,177,824 sil
ver dollars. These dollars were coined
under a law passed June 13, 1898 and
signed by William McKinley, President.
Having passed that piece of legislation
and coined millions of silver dollars un
der itthey now raise up their hands in
horror whenever 16 to 1 is mentioned.
It is on a par with McKinley's hauling
down the flag at the dictation of John
Bull in Alaska, and then starting out
through the land crying: "Who'll haul
down the flag?"
THE FREIE PRESSK.
The following item has appeared in a
good many Nebraska weekly papers. As
it is incorrect the Independent deems it
proper to give the facts. The item is as
follows: , -
. "Mark Hanna has bought out the Freie
Presse, of Lincoln, a German paper, and
put one of his imperialistic hirelings at
its head as editor. This is an attempt to
fool the German voters."
It appears that the transaction where
by the Freie Presse passed into ne
hands was purely a business transaction.
It was bought by the owners of the Ger
mania of Milwaukee as a means to pro
tect their own interest in the publishing
business. The Freie Presse was under
mining the Ger mania, getting a great
many of their subscribers, because it was
published at a much lower price. - The
owners of the Gei mania have interests in
or own several other German papers. To
protect their' own interests they came
down here and offered Mr. Nagle a very
large price for his paper and it was ac
cepted, the contract stipulating that the
policy of the paper- should not be
changed. The old editor, Mr. Hermann,
is retained by the new management and
will continue to edit the paper for the
next year at leash He is a scholarly and
vigorous writer. Of course the paper
Q poses imperialism as all the German
papers do, but it has always maintained
an independent position in politics and
will continue the same policy.
FOR A MONARCHY.
Six or eight years ago, when the popu
list party gave warning that the outcome
of republican policies would be a demand
for a king, the warning was treated with
contempt. But the farmers who had
been watching events, correctly diag
nosed the.disease that was eating out the
love of liberty that had animated the
people of the United Statea for a hun
dred years. Now some of the republican
papers, are boldly advocating the over
throw of the constitution and the estab
lishment of a monarchy. The following
is from tne Des Moines Globe, a McKin
ley paper:
"Now is a good time to do away with
our old, obsolete constitution and adopt
a form of government that will be logical
with our new expansion ideas and will
give ample protection to capital. We
should not be disgraced in the sight of
civilized nations as the violence and kill
ing that accompany the operation of
street cars in St. Louis now. A consti
tutional monarchy is probably the most
desirable plan that we could now adopt.
Everything is ripe for the change. We
have a large army and it can be increased
under almost any pretext without caus
ing alarm to the masses. This country
has been so prosperous that the voters
have lost that spirit of patriotism and
honesty that are necessary to the success
ful operation of republics. The strong,
iron hand of discipline will have to be
used to- bring ' the masses" to a sbnse of
proper behavior." V :1- '
THE ANGLO-MANIACS.
It has become the custom of the east
ern press to glorify every English insti
tution and demand of Americans that
they imitate every thing that the English
do. In the matter of the consular ser
vice, there has been no end of the eulo
gies of the English. There has been
more panegyrics written about English
consuls in the imperialistic papers than
a pop . could count in a week. The
American consuls were no good at all in
the eyes of these writers, and the Eng
lish consular service was well-nigh per
fect. But the English themselves do
not seem to think so. Mr. Musgrave,
secretary of the London board of trade,
in a recent interview said:
"British merchants never engage in
enterprises on the strength of our con
sular reports. We wish very much that
the consular service of Great Britain
were characterized by the practical effi
ciency - of the American service. Our
consular agents have the best intentions,
but they - have not mastered the art of
supplying information of real, substan
tial value."
IDIOTIC EDITORIALS.
Editorial writing in the republican
dailies goes to the very extreme of idiocy.
No idiot basking in the sun ever talked
more like an imbecile than-'Rosewarter
when he penned the following which ap
peared in the edition of last Saturday.
He sayi:
"All the United States has to do, how
ever, according to the popocratic pre
scription, is . to -register a rvote of lack of
confidence in President McKinley for his
energetic action in protecting American
citizens endangered in the Orient and
substitute Mr. Bryan in the White House,
on a pledge to permit China to massacre
our missionaries and residents without
punishment, and all will be smooth sail
ing." - ,
Does he imagine that there is even one
pug-nosed mullet-head in the whole state
who could be made to believe that the
popocrats ever wanted a pledge made to
permit China to massacre our ministers.
Spch talk is simply the mouthings of an
idiot whatever way one looks at it. It is
idiotic to think" that any one could be
made to believe that such a charge was
true. Wonder what the readers of the
Bee really think of such writing as that?
The governor of Montana in appeal
ing for contributions for the starv
ing people of India speaks of
that country as "that once rich
and beautiful land." So it was once,
but the British have come 'there and
looted it by "heavy taxation to support a
foreign army and thousands of carpet
bag office holders. India is no more rich
and beautiful. Her streets and high
ways are filled with the dead and dying,
and whole provinces have become fam
ine stricken deserts. Yet India has ex-
ported during the last decade mill
llioJWf
of rt ?e. '
bushels of wheat and pounds of;rt?e
Now the people die for the want of 'it
They have only been able to retain
enough of the fruits of their toil to live
from day to day. When there is a crop ,
failure for one season the people dief .
famine. But India is a great exportift
country. Her exports exceed her im
ports, and according to the republican
platform, the people ought to be rich in
stead of dying from poverty. Poor India!
She is under the heel of the imperialist.
She must suffer and die and finally dis
appear. When she can no longer pay
taxes, the British office holders will go
home and there will be a desert and
peace. .
Gambling has become the chief busi -m
ness of a very large part of the wealthy
men of this country. Hundreds of mil- 1
lions of .money is constantly employed in
gambling. An old sea captain was abt
far from the truth when he said a New
York city man, if he were shut up in a :
grave yard and could find nothing else,
would dig up the bones and use them
for poker chips. Board of trade busi-
ness is nine tenths of it pure gambling, f
Bucket shops abound in small towns and
they are duly small imitators of the
great gambling concerns in the board of
trade buildings inNew York and Chica
go. ' Lincoln has them, Omaha has theni
they are everywhere. They are siaipiyU
gambling dens of the very worst sort.
They are more demoralizing and danger-'
ous to the morals of a community, than
the card games that are prohibited.
They could be just as easily suppressed.
We are fast becoming a nation of gam
biers and that means the destruction 6f
everything noble in man. A race of gam-
biers is a race of degenerates. u f
The populists pointed out long ago
just how the Mark Hanna outfit would
try to carry this campaign and they are
doing it. They have inflated the cur
rency with bank paper already with over
$80,000,000 of the stuff. Of course - that
has a tendency to help raise prices, but
a day of reckoning is coming. There
has never been an inflation of redeem
able bank currency yet that did not end.
in panic and distress. These chaps
know just as well as they know they live
that that will be the result of this intla-,
tion. . But they don't care. They think
they will elect their bank president and
they will be prepared for the day of liq-
uidation and will get out from the way
of the avalanche. They have played
that game many .times and know how tq
take all the tricks. The mullet head
who backs them up will have the losses '
to endure. The day of liquidation will .'
come. That is just as certain as death.
v ": BRYAN A POPulSTj , .
All the leading republican and gold
bug papers in the east continually assort
that Bryan is a populist and nothing1 but
a populist. Last week the Buffalo Cqni
mercial said: ,
"William Jennings Bryan is a populist,
not a democrat. He did not vote the
democratic ticket in 1892. He supported
Weaver, the greenback candidate. . The
Sun asks what would be left of Bryan if
the populism were taken out ofjhim?
Nothing." .
Out here the republicans declare the
very opposite.' They say that no populist
can vote for Bryan and that if populism
is to be preserved we must all go 'over to
Clem Deaver. In a very sad muddle are
these republicans. Some day some of
their literature will get mixed and what '
was intended for the east will be sent to
the west. "What will the State Journal
do then, poor thing?"
Last week the Bee published a whole
column of extracts from republican pa
pers in Nebraska lauding the Clem Dea
ver outfit. There can be no doubt that
the republican editors of Nebraska are
highly delighted with, and most dearly
love every fuzzie wuzzie in the state. On
them, in republican eyes, rests all the
hope they have of electing a single re
publican on the state ticket. Without
the aid of the fuzzie wuzzies they know
they are lost. It is not strange, there
fore, that the columns of the republican
papers are filled with laudations of the
patriotism of the fellows who were in
duced to go to Grand Island by the offer
of free transportation.
There are a large number of medical;
missionaries who have been driven from
their fields of labor in China and have
fled to the cities of the coast or to Ja
pan. It seems to the Independent that
it would be a wise policy for those who
manage the great missionary societies to,
instead of herding them in safe places,
send them along with the armies to help
take care of the sick , and comfort the
dying. By their presence they might
help to stem the tide of demoralization
which always sets in among ' soldiers oc-
cupying a foreign country. In this way .
they could work more effectively, for the :
present at least, than anywhere else.
The group of anarchists who sent one
of their number to Italy to murder King
Humbert have their headquarters iii
New Jersey. Thfey could not have cho'
sen a more appropriate place of residence ;
for there is where Attorney General
Griggs lives and it is the birth place of
all of the trusts. . When a trust shnta f
down the mills and a lot of people arere
duced to starvation, they commit a more
henious crime than the killing l a
king. New Jersey breeds anarchist and .
trusts and Griggs says nothing J and
draws his salary. I '