THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
August 16, 1000.
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TSD EPEX D E3f TS GREETING.
The Independent comes to its readers
this week ia a new dress, it Is printed
from new type and every edition here
after will also be printed on new type,
then melted up and cast over again for
the n-xt edition- That is to say. that
the management has put In a linotype
machine and the paper will all be set
up on that machine every week. This
will enable us to greatly Improve the
paper. Hereafter there will be sixteen
different departments, all carefully
edited and prepared. The news column
will be extended and every happening
Inside the state and outside that it is
important its readers should know will
find a place somewhere in Its columns.
The Independent Is able to make this
Linroin. Nebraska, j enlargement through the unselfish
A CHANGE OF BASK.
ond Is like unto it, "Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyseir." The fourthcoming report of the di-
Jtieflh? SZSi mv atod ctor of the mint will show that the
the Almighty, the second his duty to- ... tJ. , . .
ward hi3 fellow-men. The fatherhood Sld mined in the United States dur-
of God and the brotherhood of man ing the year ending December 31, 1899,
are parts of the same gospel and can- exceeds that of any year in our bis
"Ul "c DCY . , ; ZJ tory, and for the first time surpasses
of measuring man s love toward the , . ,
Creator except by the good will which the record established in 1853, when
he manifests toward his rellow crea- the mines of California made their
tares. highest record of $65,000,000. The gold
affirmative benevolence which religion Production of the United States was In
commands and the rectitude which 1898, according to the estimate of. the
government compels. The Christian director of the mint, $72,500,000,-while
cannot content himself with a life of no prior year had shown so high a
negative harmlessness; the fruits , of . . oo ... . .ftnft tt,n.1(ri,
the spirit must manifest themselves total as that of 1853, $65,000,000, though
to positive helpfulness.
CENSUS FRAUDS.
Since the census bulletins have be
I gun to be Issued it is apparent that ular the growth has been no more
the total for 1898 was $64,463,000. -The
annual average gold product of the
United States is now double that of a
decade earlier, though in this partic-
ork of its subscribers who have on j thfre have been sy stematic frauds com- in other parts of the world,
their motion greatly extended its cir
culation by getting up clubs and asking
their neighbors to subscribe. They all
like the paper and they are not afraid
to tell their neighbors of Its good qual
ities. So The Independent grows and
grows, and as it grows the management
adds .new features and tries to make
the paper still better. For the en
thusiastic pupport of its readers. The
Independent is very grateful and to
each and everyone of them sends most
i hearty thanks.
! If it was easy to get up clubs before,
v -. V H ! it will be much easier now. No reform
AaMfMt Miiiii will rot hm
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rrGmw ! aI1 the magazines and best current lit-
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rr7..!! JJTa ol:i.. cr Ct-ur paper where the farmer is heard when
rorSutt.Trsr.e has anything of Interest to say to
r'wrIi mblic and they often say the most
... . p. j. ct. interesting things of any.
fStittftIspi.L(j The Independent wll stand as here-
T&ktAtMwt Gf J "". "... jtofore for the constitution, the Declara-
- w- 0l-,AM " j ti0n 0f independence and for every
' " t benef cial reform. It will fight the ccm-
McKlcley Is for expansion when he I lEK t,attle with all the vigor that it has
can get lacd by shooting Filipinos, but fou?j,t ln the past and when Bryan is
h is for costrartloa vhn Great Brit- president we will have the
ain wasts a slice of Alaska. i test jolifications that the world
mitted in the interest of the republi
can party. The enormous increase in
population reported in some of the
eastern cities and the small gains in
the west bear the marks of fraud on
the very face of them. It is in the
the world's product in 1899 having
been, according to the best estimates,
$315,000,000, against $123,000,000 a de
cade earlier.
This report Is further evidence that
the position that populists have always
rotten burroughs of the east where the token ,n regard to money is the only
republicans get their congressional ma
jorities. The eastern cities are packed
with the rabble of Europe and the
offscourings of all America. Their
votes can be controlled, and by their
sound and scientific theory that has
ever been advanced. Not that they
were the first to advance it by any
means, for it is the sum and substance
of the conclusions of all economists of
votes will the trusts and money power authorlty world over. We have
control legislation at Washington. The alwayg gaid that when the mines were
more free, intelligent and patriotic Droductive and. money was nlentv.
agricultural population of the middle there was prosr)erity, and when the
and western states cannot be so con-
mines failed and money became scarce
has furnished the material for the com
ing fair; it- has produced wonderful
grains, vegetables, fruits, grasses and
flowers, and they have not only grown
and fattened the best breeds of live
stock, but with them the pocket books
of the farmers and merchants who are
now making ready the best display ever
aggregated in Nebraska. The fair man
agement has worked and is still work
ing hard to excel all past efforts and
to make the exhibition grounds and
buildings inviting and comfortable. The
railroads have joined hands without
protest and are actively soliciting ex
hibits and patronage. It will pay you
to come and see the thirty-second an
nual fair, from September 3 to 7.
Edward Jloswater. editor of the
Omaha r. a local republican ppr.
has b3 appointed a the advisory at
tachment to tbe republican national
cocislttee.
ever saw.
THEY NEVER DID.
Ross Hammond in his Fremont Tri
bune says with a great deal of posi
tlveness: "No republican of high or low degree
has ever proclaimed or admitted a pur
pose to embark in imperialism."
Who ever supposed they would? If
any man ever did suppose they would.
j he had very little knowledge of the re
publican way of doing thlng3. About
twenty-seven years ago the republicans
started out to demonetize silver and
An attempt as mace to eenstxre Mr. I
W. O. Bmfcaker of Peoria, ill., who had 1 repuDUcan oi mga or low aegree ever
charge of the tmnBc work at the ! Proclaim or admit that that waa tne r
Uacoa vvorth aesemblT bcau he P"Hose? Not much. They continually
"acof ? . tft. . i announced up to 1896 that they were
Every little while tome fellow re-
tsixi frosa Colorado and reports that '
everything U all rigtt for McKlnley.
Last week C. 1L Kloop of Omaha dis-
eovered that it was exfe for a man to j
tpeak well of Mf K!c!y in Colorado,
and eoBJ-equently be fe! sure of a re-
psblieax. victory.
trolled, and as congressional legisla- imes were hard
UUM ia u,tBtJU vu yoyuio" . it is interesting to note that change
interest of plutocracy to pad the cen- in the arguments 6f the gold standard
1 J .1 J.1
6US 111 luuse 'iuus ue iu mass adTOcated since 1896. Then they de-
of ignorance outweights the intelli- clared witn one voice that tne quan.
ence tity of money in circulation had noth-
The men who manage and run the ing to do with prices imbertson,
republican party will spend millions to getting his informaion from the pam
" ao' 1 pftlets issued by the sound money
never vote a aouar mat wouia nave league, even went so far as to tell the
a tendency to settle up the arid regions members of the class of economics in
of the west. If the money already spent the state university that a redundancy
fighting Filipinos had been spent in ir- in the currency produced lower prices.
u6auuu' 1L "vu. uttYB uiuugui uuuer Now tne republican papers "point
cultivation enough land to have sup- with pride to the unprecedented out
ported the surplus of population for a put of gold and claim that there is a
ioub Wiue io come, out eastern piu- greater per capita circulation than ever
tocracy don't want that, for that re- before, and that the result of it is great
gion would be settled up by farmers prosperity
whose votes could not be controlled. The gold standard advocates have
It is to their interest to fill up the completely abandoned the position that
slums of the great cities, and if they they took in 1S96 and are now using
haven't enough to keep their present the very arguments that the populists
superiority in congress, pad the census used in that campaigI1) and which at
until they do have enough. Sioux City tnat time they denounced as anarchy,
is mamng a vigorous kick about tne repudiation and an effort to debase cur
count made in that town as are sev
eral western cities.
OUR EMPEKOE.
There is not a government on the
face of the earth today that is run on
rency. They have made a complete
change of base, but then they have be
come accustomed to that mode of polit
ical warfare and it does not disconcert
them in the least.
If they had declared In 1896 that
APPEAL TO THE RABBLE.
The appeal, so far as any has been
made to the voters by the republican
party, has been an appeal to the rab
ble. Roosevelt goes forth as a cowboy
and appeals f or votes by wearng a cow
boy hat. Other speakers make appeals
that could in no event be addressed
to educated, intelligent people and
must be intended to deceive the ignor
ant and excite the passions of the very
lowest classes. This is not done by
those whom we are accustomed to call
ward politicians, but by members of
congress and men of national reputa
tion. Congressman DoIIIver delivered
an address to a Chautauqua assembly
the other day at Pontiac, 111. It would
be expected that If he intended to de
liver a speech at all during the cam
paign in which he would appeal to the
intelligence of the people it would be
on an occasion like that. But read the
following words as reported In the Chi
cago Record:
Bryan is against trusts hecause they
ncreased during the republican admin
istration, but is for souphouses because
they increased during the democratic
administration. The only reason trusts
were not formed during Cleveland's ad
ministration was because the American
people wouldn't put money in trusts or
any other enterprise, grest or small.
Bryan would break up all business to
break the tiusts.
"What are we going to do with the
Philippines? Nothing yet. But will
1o whatever we are compelled to no.
We were not in favor of capturing
them. We didn't want them, but after
Dewey captured the bunch we were in
charge of them, and as the law says
when a nation is overthrown another
can stay until order is restored. There
fore we are in those islands and will
stay there.'
Bryan would break up all busi
ness. He is for souphouses because
they iucreased during the democratic
administration." Think of a soeaKer
Burning the offering at the altar of the Almighty Dollar.
vo there was to bt, an unprecedented out
runs me government oi tne umtea
roasted President MeKlnley every day
of his labors at Lincoln park. A res
olution of censure which was sneaked
ia at a lite hour was t potted andj
promptly tabled. The Epworth assem
bly was not muzzling its teachers and
preach ers this year.
This writer U thankful that he does
not have to write for the rabble. The
wnters on tie republican fide must
constantly appeal by slur, innuendoes
and i nfereoe to th worst passions of j
the lowest and vilt and it is a very j
dirty kind of work. The Independent!
Is printed for the intelligent and think-
for the ne of both metals as standard
money without discriminating against
Uither. and In that year they declared
that they were for international bi
metallism which they pledged them
felves to promote. All the time their
only object was to establish the gold
standard.
Now they have planned to make this
republic an empire, that Is, to hold con
j quered nations in subjection and deny
to them the rights guaranteed to all
Isg portion of oar citizenship and it
is a pleasure to hunt cp the best liter-
and legislation that will bear the clos-
men in the Declaration of Indepen
dence. It is the old game, but it won't
work this time. They can't fool all the
people all the time. No doubt they can
fool some of them all the time, for
j there are poor mullet heads who act
ually believe that imposing a tariff on
t tcrtstlzT
wesea.
f thinking men and
I the Porto Ricans is only expansion and
not Imperialism at all. They are even
so blinded in their minds that they
The reserTe of gold in the Bank of j ttink that the constitution does not
Crdand got th lorn tor years the ! fo!!ow tte Ca' and that we can raise
other day zA to avoid a disaster the j tb cs over a conquered nation, deny
British gOTerszeeat placed tfty million to th rlRht of a 4x131 ty Jury and
dollars of the new war loan ia Wall
ttreet- Thai was their only salvation
and it was cone before the Locdon
all other rights guaranteed to Ameri
can citizens, and that also is only ex
pansion and not imperialism. No, they
bankers inw anything about it. The:nTer 641(1 tbey were for iaPrlalIsm
English gorerrmest had two objects j and never wilL That 18 not their
la view ia placing that loa hre. n4t. ay- But if McKinley is re-elected
it rtsore4 the piesicre for rold crer lhey win Proceed forthwith, to increase
there, and. second, it will make theitte sanding army. 100.000 more troops
zaea who Lcld KflUh bond on this!'111 6ent to the Philippines, war
side more -z,thuiaf tic Anglophiles i taxes will be increased.. Porto Ricans
tiaa they have ever ben tfore. Er- I and liP'Os will remain "subjects"
ery English tondhoMr on this side acd we sha11 have niprre and im
wi!l be a sspporter of Englitb policies ; periaiism.
and secret alliances. I --
i THE TKl'E GOSPEL.
The republicans are claiming tnel Some of the imperialist preachers
ote of every naturalized Englishman, j irEO have been assaulting Bryan and
la that they will be very much dii.?- advocating the spread of the gospel
jointed- While tome cf the Englifch- S of tie iIan of Peace with battalions of
AmericatiS are very tot on account of I infantry, squadrons and cavalry and
the sympathy expressed by the fusion ; Prks ot artillery, should readme fol
forces for the Boers there are a great ' lowiES trom the introduction to an
States. Russia is an autocratic gov'
ernment in theory, the czar could de
clare war at any time of his own mo
tion. But the fact is if he did, it would
end in his overthrow. He would not
dare to do such a thing. But McKin
ley has carried on two wars of his
own motion. He has carried on a
war against the Filipinos for eighteen
months without the sanction of con
gress or anyone else. The war ended
with the treaty of peace with Spain.
Legally the United States has not been
at war since. But in fact, a war has
been carried on at an expense of many
millions of dollars by the orders of the
president.
Now he has engaged in another war.
Thousands of troops are being hurled
across the continent and over the sea,
Shiploads of munitions or war and sup
plies to the amount of millions are be
ing hurried after the troops. But the
congress of the United States, in which
the constitution places the power to
declare war, has not done so. It is all
done in accordance with the orders
of our emperor.
senator Teller called attention to
this state of affairs in a speech a few
days ago. "In my judgment," said he,
"the situation in China demands the
immediate assembling of congress. I
know congress will not be called in
special session because the administra
tion prefers to act without the approval
of congress. The president is not jus
tified In going further than to protect
our official representatives in that
put of gold, that the increase in the
volume of money from this output
would be sufficient to maintain a sta
ble level of prices, then their course
would have been consistent. But they
did no such thing. All their argu
ments were to tne eitect that a very
small amount of money was necessary
to transact an enormous amount of
business. Senator Hoar arose in the
senate one day and told a story about
some transaction in which some gen
tlemen in Wall street were engaged
which involved millions, but when the
business was closed, it was found that
it only took 19 cents to settle the bal
ance between them. He did not draw
any conclusion from these remarks,
but the intended inference was to the
effect that the amount of money had
very little part in the business trans
actions of this age. The argument was
so childish that no senator thought it
worth while to reply to it. If Senator
Hoar had ever had the experience of a
working man's wife, he would have
found that when the monthly grocery
bill came in, 19 cents would not have
gone very far toward settling the
balance.
The money question is still an all im
portant question and it will remain so
until it is settled on entirely different
grounds than "a gold standard" or
bimetallic standard," or any other so
called standard. Prices, other things
being equal, are wholly controlled by
the amount of legal tender money in
circulation, and If stable prices are
ever to be maintained, it must be by
country. When that is done our army the control of the amount of money
miief rv -rrr ?- 4ma
-cu.w uUie&!, congress ln circulation. The amount can never
snaa oraer otherwise. The president be controlled by relying upon the
wctuuuc ucciare war; mai can oniy be mines
done by an act or congress, and the
many who believe as heartily in the
doctrine of the Declaration of Inde
pendence as any American. The Eng
lish people at borne are very much di
Yided spoa the subject. Nearly all the
yraat wriUra. thinkers and scientists
of England are opposed to the Boer
.-ar. They have the rabble to fight
there. jtt as the reform forces have
it to Cfeht here, Tne new loan that
England has be a forced to make to
carry on Joe Chamber laia s jingo pol
icy la ratsinac a good deal of hard
thinking In England lust at the pres
ent time. The oppositioa to the war
grows ia the United Kingdom just ia
the ratio that the war is prolonged.
article written by Mr. Bryan for the
New York Journal and then go and
hide themselves for very sham-3.
"Standard oil and the water of life
will not mix.
"If a man say I love God and hateth
his brother, he is a liar, for he that
loveth not his brother, whom he hath
seen, how can he love God, whom he
hath not seen?
Thus does John in his first epistle
denounce those who pretend to love
the Heavenly Father while they hate
the earthly brother.
Christ condensed the Ten Command
mnts into two when He eaid "Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God. with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. This is the first
and great commandment. And the sec-
,
yreaiueui, cauuot legally carry on a
war in China without such declara
tion."
Of course McKinley cannot "legally
vw "iLU"ut B-ueuon oi have obtained little or nothing.
congress, uut wnat cares he about
legality? He has carried on one war
without that sanction and why should
he not another? He has assumed the
Notwithstanding the enormous and
unexpected output of gold, prices have
risen but very little and the trusts
have obtained all the benefit of what
rise there has been. The producers
Aside
from that, the isue of bank paper is
paving the way for another panic of
huge dimensions. The evil effects of
thft romlncr nanlr. will nnt fall nnnn th
position that he is our emperor and reaQers of The indepndent, if they
seems determined to maintain it. With ODey its warnnig. They will stand
all these facts before the people, the from under and let tte mullet neads
repuoiicau papers canuaue to declare own medicine
tnat mere is notning in this question
of imperialism
THE COailJfO STATE FAIB
Hon. Peter Jansen, in a letter to the During the last two years there has
State Journal, tells about seeing seven- been no state fair held, unless the very
teen Deering mowers across the Ural unsatisfactory annex to the Omaha
in Asia, each drawn by a pair of cam- exposition could be so designated, and
els. But the Honorable Peter failed to this fallow term has prepared both
mention that these camel-driving Rus- the state board of agriculture and the
sians buy American farm machines at public to make and enjoy a real, old
a much less price than our American I fashioned cattle show and fair. That
farmers can procure them right at is what is going to happen at Lincoln
home. The "beneficent" Dingley bill this year. The product of the soil in
does it. I the best governed state in the union
A FARM DEPARTMENT.
With this issue The Independent
commences the publication of a farm
department which it expects to make
of value to every farmer in Nebraska.
There are many things which happen
on Nebraska farms which happen no
where else, owing to climatic condi
tions, soil conditions, etc., and in order
to secure all the information possible
which might benefit our readers, each
and every farmer reader is asked to
send The Independent sbort letters per
taining to farm matters What we de
sire is actual experiences, given in the
least space possible, as the space de
voted to this department must be lim
ited to three columns. Let us hear
from you.
Readers of Dunn and Bradstreet re
ports will notice that for many weeks
the working forces of the industrial
plants of the country have been con
stantly reduced. This week nearly ev
ery cotton mill in New England will
shut down ostensibly for three weeks
of repairs and clean-up, but it is prob
able that several or them will not
resume operations for two or three
months. There are . three hundred
thousand iron' owrkers in the country
out of employment, and while the
statement is made that this is only
temporary, one-third of them are out
on account of wage difficulties. About
half of the glass workers will go to
work September 1 at reduced wages.
heralded as the greatest orator in the ! Taken altogether the outlook for men
republican ranks making such asser
tions as that! See the broadness of
view displayed in discussing the con
stitutional questions involved in the
war upon the Filipinos! And that is
the best that the the greatest orator
in the repubican party can do!
Is it any wonder that thousands of
republicans, many of them men who
helped to organize the party, are de
claring through the papers and in pub
ic addresses that they will no longer
be considered members of such an or
ganization? They do not seem to have
man in the whole party who will
undertake to address the people sober
ly or with an argument. Meantime the
reform 'orators are abroad in the land
by the thousand. They make no appeal
to the rabble, to passion or prejudice.
They found their arguments upon the
Declaration of Independence and the
constitution. Their speeches are full
of quotations from Washington, Jef
ferson, Lincoln, Clay, Webster and all
the great men of the republic. They
make an appeal to intelligence, and in
telligent men of all parties are an
nouncing day by day that they will
support Bryan.
The reform worker who does not push
the circulation of the Independent is
not taking advantage of his strongest
means of doing good.
WAR PRICES.
War prices have always been consid
ered in the economy of public and pri
vate affairs, but the present war prices
are an astonishment to everybody.
Here is the whole world at war. Every
civilized nation on the whole earth is
not only on a war footing, but is act
ually engaged In war. There has been
nothing to equal it in the history of the
world for the last thousand years. But
look at the prices of farm products!
If these prices are war prices what
would they likely be with all the world
at peace? Wheat is worth a little over
50 cents a bushel. The old kind of war
prices brought wheat up to 52.50 a
bushel. All the armies of Europe are
on tbe move. Trains are hurrying
across this continent loaded with war
supplies for China and the Philippines
Hundreds of thousands 01 men are
withdrawn from productive industries.
thus limiting the suppry and property
is being destroyed by the millions in
the various wars, Increasing the de
mand and see the result under the
gold standard! Prices are actually
tending downward! ' There was never
such a thing seen in all the world be
fore. If peace should be suddenly
brought about, these extra soldiers re
turn to productive employment, the de
mand decrease and supply increase.
where would prices under the gold
tandard be then? When the devil got
the gold standard established by the
leading nations, he planned for a uni
versal smash-up and the thing is com
ing sooner or later.
who labor is not bright and the Me
Kinley brand of prosperity is not de
sirable. .
On August 10 the St. Paul Pioneer-
Press printed the following item in its
editorial page:
"When Mr. Bryan opens his morn
ing paper today he will see something
that will not tickle him the least lit
tle bit. It is Admiral Dewey's state
ment of a fact universally understood
that the Filipino rebel leaders are
keeping up the war with the hope that
Bryan will be elected, and that there
will be no peace until the election is
held. Hereafter Mr. Bryan will no
doubt question Dewey's democracy; but
this will not disturb the admiral, who
by this utterance proves himself not
only candid, but sensible and climbs
several notches higher in the respect
of the American people."
On the morning of the Ilth such re
publican papers as did not suppress It
entirely tucked away in some obscure
place a very emphatic denial from Ad
miral Dewey of ever having uttered a
word of the interview credited to him,
but the Pioneer-Press seems never to
have found it out at least it has never
apologized for its slander upon both
Dewy and Bryan.
HARDY'S COLUMN
The Soldiers Park Not Vandalized
The Two Pictures The Slouch Hat
Coming Reunion and -State Fair
Warships Can Work in Times of
Peace as Soldiers Should Good Eat
ing Doctor of Divinity Bryan's
Speech Monstrosities , McKinley
Policy China Money Circulation.
We had a talk with a Congregational
clergyman from Milford this week and
he told me the soldiers home park had
been greatly improved by. cutting out
the scraggy, half dead trees. At first
he thought too much had been cut, but
he now considers a good job was done,
Four years ago McKinley's pictures
filled every window In the state house;
now they are all Bryan. In the county
court house they are about half and
half. These two buildings show the
sentiments of the people. , .
Koosevelt is coming, we win see
him twirl his old slouched hat and hear
him call everybody "thieves and liars
but McKinley and I." We may not
have pure Rooseveltism from the shoul
der, after this, for it is reported that
Mark Hanna has Tewritten his speech
for him and cut out the things that so
offended the republicans and helped
Bryan.
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The soldiers reunion and the state
fair are two more occasions for farm
ers to take a vacation. It is not time
lost for old soldiers to get together, tell
stories and relate experiences. Neither
is it time lost for farmers to get to
gether and tell each other how to farm
it. Spend a whole week even if you
do not have as good eating and sleep
ing as you have at home; it will be a
change. Bring tents and live in them
as ths old soldiers do at the reunion.
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It is stated that seventy warships of
different classes are now helng built
by the United States government. That
number added to. our present number
of government ships cannot only pro
tect our coast trade In times of peace,
but do lots of our trade-carrying from
port to port and from nation to na
tion Let Samuel have all the ship
subsidies, and not make millionaires
of ship-owners.
It rests with the farmers to live bet
ter than any other class of people.
Fruit fresh from the orchard and vege
tables fresh from the garden are lux
uries that city people do not have. And
why farmers do not put out fruit trees
we cannot imagine. Mr. Russell of
Wymore, after testing .the soil and
climate for twenty years, has proven
this to be a good fruit state, especially
for peaches. He has a peach orchard
near Wymore-of 80 acres and one near
Lincoln of 160 acres. This year he will
be able to sell ten or fifteen thousand
bushels of peaches and they are fruit
fit to eat and not stale, bitter things,
such as come from California. You can
get a basket, for thirty to forty cents
and Russell peaches with cream is the
top notch of good eating. Then buy
some trees of him this fall or next
spring and start an orchard of your
own. He is able to tell you what
varieties do best in this country. He
has trees three years old bearing a
peck of good peaches. Mr. Russell is
also authority on the variety of apples
to put out. He has a forty-acre apple
orchard doing well.
According to Doctor Wharton's ser
mon, God has outgrown the Declara
tion of Independence and has turned
over with the biggest guns and longest
purses. The God we worship has one
rule for individuals and nations. That
rule is, do unto others as you would
have them do to you. Cheerfully grant
them. what you demand. for yourself or
be damned. So of a nation that de
mands independence" and liberty for
itself will be damned 'unless it cheer
fully grants the same privileges to
other nations. We do.not believe that
God has thrown up any new highway
of justice across lots or through tun
nels. .The fact Jhat; people disagree in
regard to governmental measures Is the
great fact that, is going to perpetuate
this republic. " ISp reform ever came,
either governmental, moral or religious
without kicking. Kicking is only the
harbinger of reform.
Bryan's notification speech has
punched the republican leaders below
the belt, and they demand the umpire
to rule him out of the ring. It is one
of the most unanswerable nolitloal
speeches ever spoken in the English
language. Not a paper has dared to
contradict a single statement or con
clusion.
There are creatures having the hu
man form in a measure, but they aro
not human for their father was tho
father of lies and their mother was
the mother of all iniquity, so they are
half-breeds, half liar and half robber.
These monstrosities claim to be repub
licans, ana i guess they are. Thev
hold up Bryan's book and his speeches
to ridicule because all the horrors nre-
dicted resluting from the gold standard
naa not yet been visited upon the com
mon people. They claim the gold
standard has been adopted, but it has
not, neither has It been adopted any
where In the world except in England,
and not half of the English colonies
have adopted it. Silver dollars, green
backs and treasury notes are leeal ten
der for any amount the same as they
ever nave Deen. ine republicans did
not dare to establish the gold standard
for fear it would fulfil Bryan's nronh-
ecy and beat McKinley out of his boots.
We can begin to see what McKinley's
plan is and how he expects to retain
Cuba as a colony of the United States.
Jteaa tne call: "it is ordered that a
general election be held in thfi isinnH
of Cuba on the third Saturday of Sep-
lemuer in me year iauo to elect dele
gates to a convention to meet In the
city of Havana at 12 o'clock noon, on
the first Monday of November in tbe
year 1900 to frame and adopt a consti
tution for the people of Cuba, and, as
a part thereof to provide for and agree
with the government of the United
States upon the relations to exist be
tween the two governments."
So ,the convention is not only to
make, but also adopt the constitution.
Why not let the people adopt it by
ballot? Because the convention can be
annexed to the United States easier
than the people can. This convention
has also got to agree -ith the United
States, which means ith McKinley's
party. Home rule a 4 consent of the
governed seem to s', iell ,bad in the
nostril s of every republican.
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There are two sides to the Chinese
trouble. We would not stand it if Eu
ropean nations should commence to
grab our territory, build forts, put in
standing armies and demand an "open
door" of trade. American and Euro
pean nations have gone wild after
cheap goods produced by cheap labor.
Labor in China can be had for less
than one-tenth what It can be had for
In America or Europe. The govern
ment of China has yielde Cto the mean
ness of other nations until the boxers
could stand it no longer ana gave am
ple warning for all foreigners to leave
the country. The best thing to be
done now is to get out or there. We
have made enough out of them to pay
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