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7 isvsv I It II r VOL. XII. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA SEPTEMBER (5, 1900. NO. 16. rrm 2 llvvv II II I mi J Hull 17 THE INDIANA PCPUUSTS TIm- MW Hri r4 lias MmI f IK Of iglaai tpsHt I'a yrr ! llukt Mai Ij-M go Hryan and the i Mark Hisui .i.tsxtjs tt-re will b- j irxre disreputable than any ' - ,i - .,t 4 , .. ,.lifrrK i tow 4 of mahr.iu. ts and party traitors . ' , t . r were ia these I ru-l States. Of : la.te thej have dose kc? of the CKwt . riaijrxar.t lyirg that ran be found In , m v T!. fol- - tb whole jroI.2-i.uff pr-?s. IH loi- ! sowing is a iwsEr.;'--. The Nebraska Icu-indst. a fu-j t nder the head of civil and miscel rsoa paper, and decidedly democratic j laneous expenses, the last congress ap in it tendencies published at I Jn- j propriated $SO,X78,115.26. and since oln. Neb., i trying to make the pop- j July 1. when the appropriation became ulrvts it that tlt U-liee that Stev- available. $2348,509.34 has been ex-r.-or-. the cVn.uTi.t!c candidate for j pended. It ia out of this funa that the i-- pei4r.t, is almost a populist. No tt- eCitor of tJu Independent ktop. If he Lsows anythitiK. that Stevenson was k? f i nt while u!aul wa president, and that he was is f'ill :-.fur 1 with Cl-lacd in all hit r'AJ-h xK doir.r. in-!ad!rsK the r o! tLe oa!y la ttat provided for the c of toure filter am money, tl-at is fiul. he ma f.- of Cleveland's CiAia ct'Ctw-fctJiil adrif--!. acd that h -aii put on tt" tirk'-t with lir; ;ta at KaasAjs City to t t:?Jy tLe .old-!-!is elIe t. jr.rt ut S-- ali v u put a the tkkt at the Chicago roawction !a to Mt!if tht jrr.- eleriie.tt." j Now that is a err f!Hy jUitement to tsAl: to the Arrvn:iri p-ipl or the f-- dozen of thu that that paper re&r te. It prof to le t 1 1 raij.'ht pwpiihst papr a: d thut ts the ay it j:e to 4.sfeitt ili the el t on of MrKm-1-T ty frXtizz Cien who uald other wise vote for iir in to ot- for a da:n njf caiididte who w .t to Mcivlnley ai-i tra?;r'-d thit he tad rude ar racjeemetit to k-p er.oa.rh wjpu'Ut ftrt a ay fro:n iir j au to e!-ct Mc KiEy. Now- the 0-:u, of The Ir.'iper-'jMit was lo Vahj: rtor. mo.-t i t CStveiaud s ltt t-rt::. H ifioss, as eery one know-, that Adlai tevesun during i!.i that b'..r. nr. : terrihle httl-. was s tru to nlr a Senator Teller or John 1. Jore. Trie tradtiots of faU c.-fftee I'-'Tv'i hia to t.e ';ulet atil keep Li raouth c d ia ihllr. but he r.erer wavered for a tiioment in his purport of it- cuen who foufht m lone and o l-raely for the principle plank in the p.'pciit piatiorm the free -f.r.jr- of tir at the ratio of 16 to 1. Any man who wh that Stevenson a In full accord with Cleveland must be wrhrdJy itrn&rm-nt of tie current events cf tro times or imply a Mark Han li har for what there ia it. At oue time the fold-bug rf-aator rot up a Mheme to violate the rules t f the M-cate and intrw. ice anarchy In that body by puttici? t-ie rr.otion on th r ral of ni e SLeriuis act some clay w tea twee roM-bu: -t.ator was ;a the hair. Stiato- Teller and ev eri othT of the free silver members cf the ketai- cali.-d u;on Stevenson avl the editor of The independent west along. Stevenson H.ten-d to the ptory and then aid: "The motion will r.o tie put whs!- I -am vice president, toctrary to the rulrs of the et.ate." Juki a otc as a once populist pa-j.-r become an ai-taf.t republican, itt editor alwaj adopts republican twrtte and fi'S to lying whoWale, and that t Jut what the editor of the Union IX patch of Kokoino, Ind., rfd when be wrote that article. The lnerend-ct repeat what it ha said from the beginning, and that is: There is nothing ia the record of Adiai Stev enson that will prevent any populist from voting for him. a there was in the record of SewaU. Is tnu aire i p-r it is feaid that l Tern Vuod '! a true a populist as j ever lived." Tom Waton has an- , noced hi intention to vote for ; liryan at all true populitts will. EKOHMOUS EXPENDITURES .b ir.,u .in M.rc rcre.. in m,- j ... x K... i. ,u. j and harrowing semi sew outir- i ty-thrce American soldiers In the Phll m.wr, ti.,...er..u.t j ippSnes died BinCe the previous report. The !r.j;en,:.t ta fjeiUectly whjca was less than two weeks ago. c ied attention to th eijormoup war ; To what end have these American and naval etj&iiture of "this roverr-j toys died? Where shall we find, the r.t and tow the fct are h- sinning j recompense? to be printed. It Hi-a:. another ie.nue ! Uanna Pfifff fha Path of bor. a ure as ih days o by. I tlaMi 0B15 lilB WdMl. Notwitr.ptat.ditr the rr.atin-iar.. of I WASHINGTON. D. C. Sept. 2. The the ?zcp s.d oth-r ar taxer. th r ' numerous host of patriots who have win t a deficit of ot !- than t-'V bcn suffering from the prevailing , . I'r. Vr the of Mar h 11 "apathy" against Which Mr. Hanna th i- ".r.t; t to pay f'D ii I 'Z. , W tef4. . : L.r.'s V. t ' K' ltr!.! ..t.-i -vf o th bafiK- ri- w.il ure th-ri to S'.:- pa Ir t!iiey ar.d u;u. tht the r-ojie w ii t a t. p- jii?-r-st araifi. A Wahiirt lr i-i-u 'i August 27 t - ! ' .- !s. tn the 5r-e.-tjt tinic -C-. .f !f i.i to i-o'-tr ID the fe a fo;k; ' S ?t I: t h ;,' rate of -1 f (ii- f.f-?. t h- ot of ffiaittitlr the m-v- -irtr.t ; tie eoveram.nt for t r--i -.-I '"'2 ev..l r y tsu.-.ot: t? - -1'5-ropr.atson maie ty th- .t . J rotu Juu j .p to , !-. than . . .... . ...... . .v.- . . i o-pdrttS'est, . it iv en o'it by the trea ffv n ; artfi :!. Liif t-n 132,110,- m : TlsJ 4S titjt iti- lde the coet f't tif i . r. t I O. .t j ... ini r- A fr.it. ru. ,r..ft ir, r!.imus.cg liar. -i el ff rr th ff ial d!l,utir.g of- ficerm ith the 1 '.i.-t Stat armies in lb- i I!.. Tt- proprij;D raade by the 11 Oi.gr"- tor the t-.ii:. -iiar.ee of the war depart meet. in'iuding ail expenses j Cf t& artrtv. w fl 1 4..223.22. t.U-a e5et.v are materially de-crei--i it ejtlruate.! that for the J3a:iier.a.-- of the artay and the war Ucjfarttutnt cerly f,,jf)JjQ in ex- cfs of the appropriation will' have bwn expended during the current fiscal year. The statement of the treasury de partment, given August 20. also shows that the expenditures of the navy de i oartment are runnini? far ahead nf th appropriation made by congress. For the entire yeartrom July 1, 1900, to June 20. 1901. the last congress ap- propriated for the maintenance of the " , , . --..-.n T navy department $o2. 147,043.35. In ttan two monthg $10,356,673.98 has been expended. At this rate, by the end of the year the navy have expended nearly ti .-i i k tion expenses of the McKinley commissions are paid and simply charged to- mis cellaneous expenses, without being itemized. Other departments of the government show that the ratio of expenditure is also far in excess of the appropriation made by congress. It is admitted by the administration officials that the nest congress will have to make a large appropriation to cover the deficiency in the expenses of the government for the present year. TOM BENTON iuix-ra are Surprised to Find that Be Wa the Original Populist. Colonel Doniphan, who is now a very old man. says that he was at a meeting in St. Louis In 1S49 and Col onel Benton delivered a speech in fav or of a line starting at St. Louis, go ing by Ka.nsas City and up the valley of the Kansas river and crossing the Uocky mountains at the head of the Platte river. It was then that I heard him give utterance to the grand dec laration. "When this mighty work is completed and the' commerce of the etist is being brought over it, and the iron bands connect the oceans, a grate ful country will carve out of the gran-i ite pillars of the Rocky mountains a statue of Columbus pointing to the west and exclaiming, 'There is the east! There! There is India.' " Re garding the bill for the building of a Pacific railroad that Benton intro duced. Colonel Doniphan says: "On December J6. 1850, Colonel Ben ton introduced in the senate a bill 'To locate and construct a great national highway from EL. Louis, on the Mis souri, to the bay ot San Francisco, on the Pacific ocean. In his advocacy he said the bill conformed to all the ideas of a national highway. (1) It Is cen tral, as it begins and ends between the 1 thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth paral lels. (2) It is national, as it combines a railroad, a graded wagon road and a turnpike or paved roadway, and a telegraph line, all parallel, and to be built upon the right of way, of one mile in width. In the public domain. (3) It would have a branch to Santa Fe. one to Salt Lake and byond to Oregon. (4) It would be national, as the work was to be done and owned by the government," The Philippine Death List. The newspapers of Wednesday Aug ust 29. published another installment of the serial story, entitled, "The Phil ippine Death List." It Is on time and of the usual length. It contains the names of thirty-three American young 1 men sacrificed upon the altar of Mam- mon. Some died of wounds, although we are assured that the islands are pacified and that there is no war. Some died of dysentery some or smallpox, one died of sprue, whatever that is; some of uraemia, some of nephritis, some of malarial fever, some of ty phoid, some of tuberculosis and some died from causes unknown to the au- thorities. But the chapter in this long 1 han been invelging mightily for a month can now prepare to make up and proceed to do business. Mr. Han na let it be known at New York re cently that he has all the money he needs for the campaign. Mr. Hanna was closeted yesterday with representatives of various trusts and other large corporations in the offices of the New York Life Insurance ' company, the conference lasting sev : era! hours. It was at the close of this . emfernce that fr Hanna mad the ; anaotineement of having completed his 'campaign fund. When asked by an iroIrtlnent reported what the size of hi campaign fund was Mr. Hanna r ,itA- "It's nobody's business how much money I have raised or how much we think we shall need in the campaign." W. n. Curtis is sometimes a most The other day he said i be had been in aearly evtry state of f the union during th? I?st few months j and had never yet met a man, not per- tonally interested, who believed that 1 Bryan would be elected. Just at pres- ent he is working up a great quarrel among the democrats in New York which will surely effect the election of McKinley. Ell Perkins used to do homo tall lying, but he couldn't hold a candle to W. E. 'Curtis. REPUBLICAN EVIDENCE The Great Men of the Republican Party Hare all Declared the Present Posi tion of the Populist Party is right. Wise statesmen as they were they perceived .the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they estab lished these great self-evident truths, that, when in the distant future some ban, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, or none but Anglo-Saxon white men were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit' of happiness, their posterity might dock up again to the Declara tion of Independence, and take cour age to renew the battle which their father's began, so that truth and jus tice and mercy and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land. Speech Of Abraham Lincoln at Lewiston, Aug ust, 1858. WILLIAM M'KINLEY. We are different from any other na tion ; and it is that" difference which makes us the best. Our political sys tem rests upon a principle different from that of any other. It is founded upon the consent of the people. If we had wanted it otherwise we would not have left home, but would have re mained the obedient child of an im perious parent. We, would not have turned from the mother country. We would have remained one of her de pendencies. We would not have fought our way through blood and sacrifice to independence. Speech at Georgia Chautauqua. August 21, 1888. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Of course no one would wish to see these, ox any other settled communi ties, now added to our domain by force we want no unwilling citizens to enter our junion. The time to have taken the lands was before the settlers came Into them. European nations was for the possession of thickly set tled districts which, if conquered, will for centuries remain alien and hostile to the conquerors. We,-wiser in our generation, have seized the waste soli tudes that lay near us, the limitless forests and never-ending plains, and the valley of the great lonely rivers, and have thrust our own sons into them to take possession, and a score of 'years after each conquest we see the conquered land teeming with a people that is one with ourselves. From "Life of Thomas H. Benton." OWEN LOVEJOY. I care not what may have been the creed of the man who drew up the Dec laration of Independence, the truths it asserted were intended to realize the mission of the Pilgrim Fathers . It declared that governments derive their powers, not from invading bor der ruffians, but from the will of the governed. What, then, is the mission of America? It is to main tain and illustrate the self-evident truths laid down in that Declaration of Independence. Speech before first re publican convention, 1856. CHARLES SUMNER. But I cannot disguise my anxiety that every stage in our predestined fu ture shall be by natural process, with out war, and, I may add, even with out purchase. There is no territorial aggrandizement which is worth the price of blood. Speech on acquisition of Alaska. JAMES G. BLAINE. Happily removed by our geographi cal position from participation or in terest in those questions of dynasty or boundary which so frequently disturb the peace of Europe, we are left to cultivate friendly relations with all, and are free from possible entangle ments in the quarrels of any. While the great powers of Europe are steadily enlarging their colonial do mination in Asia and Africa, it is the especial province of this country to im prove and expand its trade with the nations of America. No field promises so much. No field has been cultivated so little. Our policy should be an Am erican policy in its broadestf and most comprehensive sense a policy of peace, of friendship, of commercial en largement. From letter of acceptance, July 15, 1884. JOHN SHERMAN. I am and always have been opposed to war in the Philippines. We have no business there, and I hope they will soon be left alone to govern them selves. I shall be glad to welcome the day when the soldier boys shall be called home from the Philippines. We shall then again be the same great family as we have been heretofore. The war is not only an expensive war, but it is also unnecessary, uncalled for and unjust. Speech at soldiers' reun ion, Mansfield, 0., August 26, 1899. JAMES A. GARFIELD. But liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. It is the realization of those imperishable truths of the Declaration, "that all men are created equal;" that the sanc tion of all just government is "the consent of the governed." Speech in congress, January 13, 1865. When, one hundred years ago, our fathers announced as self-evident truths the declaration that all men are created equal, and the only just power of government is derived from the con sent of the governed, they uttered a doctrine that no nation had ever adopted, that not one kingdom on the earth then believed. Yet to our fath ers it was so plain that they- would not debate it. Unconsciously to themselves, the great truths were growing under the new conditions, un til, like the century-plant, they blos somed into the matchless beauty of the Declaration of Independence, whose fruitage, increased and increas ing, we enjoy today. Reply to Lamar, in committee of the whole. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. So It has happened that heretofore, nations have either repelled, or ex hausted, or disgusted the colonies they planted and the countries they con quered. The United States, on the contrary, expand, not by force of arms, but by attraction The native colon ist no sooner reaches a new and dis tant home, whether in a cleft of the Rocky mountains or on. the seashore, than he proceeds to found a state, in which his natural and inalienable rights shall be secure, and which shall become an equal member of the fed eral union, enjoying- its protection, and sharing its growing greatness and re nown. Speech at Yale university, July 26, 1854. ULYSSES S. GRANT. .It (the Mexican war) was an in stance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory. In 1885. - . ROSCOE CONKLING. This republic of ours is the only considerable experiment extant on the globe, of ii government, "of the peo ple, for the people, and by the people." Its theatre is a continent blessed with abundant and matchless natural ad vantages. Its polity and its institu tions are the work of extraordinary men, drawn from many older nation-s alities men profoundly versed in government and they consecrated themselves to devising a system su perior to any mankind had'known. It has endured a .hundred years in the world's most enlightened age, and if now the experiment has culminated In one grand carnival of venality and paradise of trickery and plunders, who dares come next in the march of na tions to dispute the divinity of kings? Speech at Brooklyn, October 30, 1874. THOMAS B. REED. War is a beastly barbarism. It is only, murder on, a large scale with ranked battalions and pomp and cir cumstance. . Men, have found by experience which is another name for knowledge that it does not pay in the long run to destroy property, and hereafter they will find out that it does not pay to ;' destroy life. Satur day Evening Post, 1900. GEORGE F. HOAR: The question the American people are now considering and with which they are about to -deal is not a ques tion of a ilay, or "of a year, or of an administration, or" of a century. It Is to affect and largely determine the whole future of the country. We can recover from a mistake in regard to other matters which have interested or divided the people, however impor tant or serious. Tariffs and currency and revenue laws, even foreign wars, all tbese, as Thomas Jefferson said, "are billows that wiir pass under the ship." But if the republic is to violate the law of its "being if it is to be con verted into ah :empire, not only the direction of ' the voyage is to be changed, but the chart and the com pass are to be thrown away. We have not as yet taken the irrevocable step. Before it is taken let the voice of the whole people be heard GEORGE F. EDMUNDS. WTien the United States aided in the attainment and recognized the inde pendence of " the Spanish provinces of Central and 'South America our gov ernment did not set itself up to be the final, judge of whether or not they were capable of self-government, al though it was perfectly well known that self-government by the people of these provinces could not be such, and never could be such, as the races and inhabitants of temperate zones could establish and maintain. Letter of January 8, 1899. JOHN B. HENDERSON. (Ex-Senator from Missouri.) It has been said that the trusts and protected interests of the country have demanded this sacrifice of republican justice to the now dominant spirit of avarice and greed. If such be the case, no accusation of the anti-imperialist is without its vindication. If this legislation is to be enforced the terri tories of the United States will here after be known as colonies,, They will be governed not by those familiar and sympathetic with their interests, but by aliens greedy of their earnings and heedless of their sufferings. As the feast grows small the vultures will fight over their prey. Rome did no more than this, and if we follow her example, we must expect to follow her fate. Speech at Philadelphia, Feb ruary 22, 1900. - GEORGE S. BOUTWELL. (Ex-Senator, ex -Secretary of the Treas ury, and ex-Governor of Mass.) In my age I leave the republican par ty now that it has surrendered itself to despotic and tyrannical motives. I helped create the republican party, a party at that time of justice and prin ciple and honesty. I now believe it is a party of Injustice and despotism and I will help to destroy it. And how? There is but one available means and you know what that is. I am for Bryan. I am for Bryan in spite of what he may believe concerning the currency or finances of the country. This is a question of life or death to the republic. In such a crisis shall we stop .to consider whether silver should be worth more or less than it is? If a, mistake is made in the next administration, should Bryan be elect ed, the people can remedy It in four or eight years. The country would not be destroyed; If the currency" is impaired we can redeem it. It was impaired during the civil war and we redeemed it afterwards. Speech at Indianapolis, August 15, 1900. SHELBY M. CULLOM. Mr. President, the United States Is not a government of conquest or of usurpation. Our country is not a country of wars and warfare. - Our people are not bred to the business of human slaughter, nor educated in the trade of blood. Our fathers taught us that the empire of, happiness was not to bvj reached by grasping ; the terri tories of our neighbors, but rather that the peace and prosperity of our country and the highest enjoyment of our people would be found In wisely caring for the magnificent Inheritance which they transmitted to us. The history of these outrageous acts of nearly every European power of consequence is but a repetition, time after time of the story of usurpatjon, tyranny and bloodshed. A pretext is made, the inhabitants are driven off or enslaved, peacefully, if possible, but wiv fire and swordif necessary; the country is occupied, and its whole ma terial capabilities are made tributary to the conquering nation: Speech in senate, December 10. 1895. JOHN HAY. There are those who think the Span iards are not fit for freedom. I be lieve that no people are fit for any thing else. Castilian Days by John Hay. HENRY CABOT LODGE. As a part of the British empire the struggles of Europe were vital to us. As the United States of America, as a free and independent nation, we have no concern with them. So Washing ton laid down the principle of neutral ity in the European wars then raging and maintained it in the midst of ob loquy and attack. It was left to a later, generation to appreciate rightly the far-reaching wisdom and the high courage which dictated the action of our great first president. When Wash ington went out of office and gave to the country his farewell address, he stated the principle which he had car ried into action 'in words which can not be improved, and which have been the guide of all succeeding statesmen of the United States upon this point from that day to this.-rSpeech in sen ate, December 30, 1S95. DAVID S. HEN DERSON. (Speaker of House of Representatives.) Young as we are as a nation we have spent eighteen long years in battle four of them in deadly fratricidal strife. Today the genius of our coun try, indeed of the world, is bending all its powers to increase the capacity for destruction of all the terrible engines hot death. Is it not high time that each citizen become a Nazarene to proclaim peace among the people? Let every martyr's grave be a sermon and every widow's wail a hymn for peace. Let us cut down our army bill and save our earnings for the school house, the library and the home. The wretches that have brought this desol ation are the panthers, the hyenas and the ghouls of humanity. War is the world's terrible, relentless, re morseless inquisition. War is the weapon of tyrants, the prop of thrones. Speech at Chicago, September 12, 93. ECONOMICALLY MANAGED. Republican politicians and editors are indulging in a good deal of libel lous, talk about Dr. Lang these days. The doctor's action in holding on does not meet with the approval of fusion ists generally; yet a visit to the in stitute for feeble-minded youth would give the lie to those stories regarding the condition of the inmates. For more than six months past there was not a single case of sickness that kept the patient in bed over a day at the long est. The inmates have plenty 'of out door exercise, good food and good medical treatment. During the school year, they have the best instruction available and are taught as far In the common branches as each individual's capacities will permit. . This has been a peculiarly unfor tunate institution from the first. Dur ing fusion administration a nest of republican ward-heelers, headed by the State Journal correspondent, have attempted blackmail on every fusion superintendent who has taken charge and, failing to receive what they asked, have waged incessant warfare upon him. So far this coterie of dis reputables have succeeded in making trouble for Dr. Fall, Dr. Sprague and Dr. Lang. They will do their level best to make trouble for Dr. Dearing; but if he is wise, he will steer clear of the Journal .correspondent and promptly discharge any employe who is caught chumming with that prince of liars. Yet notwithstanding its numerous superintendents and occasional rows, and its present incumbent refusing to be jarred loose, it has been conducted with much less cost to the state than under the boasted administration of Dr. Armstrong, the republican. From January 1, 1892, to June 30, 1894, a period of two and one-half years, there were 153 inmates. The cost was $78,503.69, or $513.09 per in mate. From June.l, 1897, to November 30, 1899, two and one-half shears, there were 216 inmates. The cost w;as $87, 924.60, or $407.06 per inmate r a saving of $106.03 on each inmate for that period. . rt , . THE FIGURES. Under republican mismanagement, iae cost of maintaining each inmate at the Norfolk hospital for insane one year was $245.07. Under fusion, good government the inmates are better cared for, have bet ter clothing, better food, better medi cal treatment and attendance; yet the cost per inmate per year is only $179.09. Figure it out for yourself : No. inmates. Tot. cost. 1892-4 (rep.) ...194 $142,629 91 1897-1900 (fus.) 244, 131,093 63 A saving of $65.98 per year in keep ing each inmate is a neat little sum; with 244 inmates it means $16,099.12 saved each year. It is announced in the London papers that Gates, the wire trust magnate, will leave England this week and come to Illinois to make a campaign for sen ator. That accounts for the orders sent out there by Mark Hanna to drop both Cullom and Tanner, on the pre tense that their contest for the senate was injurious to the national ticket, and it means a million for Mark's fund to buy this election. GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Any Man Who Eights It, Must, in this v Day of Advancement, be an Economic Pirate. . Populism advances by Meaps and bounds. Efght years ago when a pop ulist advocated the government owner ship of railroads and telegraphs, he was looked upon as a wild-eyed crank. No great paper or magazine would publish an article advocating such doc trines. If they were referred to at all in the, public press, it 'was with sarcasm and ridicule. But . the old farmers went along, talking and rea soning with their neighbors and friends and after a while some of the "wise men" heard of these things and began to discuss them. Today they are advocated insome of the greatest dailies in the United States, hot half heartedly, but boldly and openly. The greatest daily in the United States de voted its whole editorial page last Sunday to the advocacy ; of the gov ernment ownership of the , telegraphs and railroads. Think of that, you old sun-browned, callous-handed farmer! Hold up your head and march on to greater victories." You have been lead ing the world and didn't know it. The writers, scholars and philosophers have learned wisdom from you. Among other things, the New York Journal of last Sunday had this to say about government ownership: "A single vast system extends its wires from Key West to Puget Sound. Competition is practically non-existent and individual enterprise entirely so. In such circumstances private control is wholly mischievous. In every re spect its management and the distri bution of its profits the telegraph sys tem is a public enterprise, and the process of nationalization ought to be made complete. " "So of the railroads. We have not yet reached the single railroad trust that is to control all the transportation routes of the country, but things are moving that way so rapidly that the end is plainly in sight. Already we have single men in command of rail road systems greater than the whole mileage of important, European coun tries. Half a dozen, men could get to gether about a lunch table and dictate the policy of all : the roads in the United States. ' . . "The railroads of . this country em ploy a million men one-fifteenth of all the voters of the union represent ing a population, nearly equal to that of the state of New Ydrk. These men constitute a f orce too. formidable to be under any control but. that of the' na tion. We talk about the 'dangers of militarism, from a standing army of a hundred thousand men, but here is a standing army of a million men the picked men of the country for vigor, courage and endurance. By the side of such forces how petty were the lit tle bands of men-at-arms with which the Colonna and the Orsinl terrorized Rome in the middle ages; "The railroads not only control the largest organized force of workers in the United t States, but they control practically all the industries in the country. By their alliance with the trusts they are helping to kill off com petition everywhere. They built up the Standard Oil combination by dis criminating rates and persecution of rivals until how the creature Is great er than its creator: They have main tained the monopoly of the sugar trust. They uniformly use their power to build up great combinations and de stroy individual enterprise. "The railroad system has passed be yond the competitive stage of organ ization, and therefore it ought to be long to the public. Under national con trol, with discriminations abolished and a fair field opened to all, it would help to delay the advance of socialism in other directions. "Meanwhile it should not be for gotten that the only party that can logically oppose the general adoption of state socialism is the democracy. It Is the only guardian of the competi tive system. The trusts have deprived their friends of every argument against socialism. They have trampled on the principle of individual enterprise; they have proved that the national organi zation of industry Is practicable, and they have carried it out in the most offensive form a form in which the masses do all the work and the few ab sorb all the profits. "An advocate of the trusts must be either a socialist or a pirate. The man who abhors piracy and still clings to so much individual enterprise as can be preserved Mn our stage of develop ment most of necessity be a democrat." LABOR DAY ORATORY The Wage Earner will almost Universally Vote for Bryan Hanna still Holding: Roosevelt Down WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 31. The labor unions, as a rule, guard the Labor day speeches with great care in order that they may be non-partisan in character. The day is usually an anniversary upon which the economic history of the country is reviewed and sugges tions made for future work. The unions feel that they have ac complished many notable victories without allying themselves formally with either party and . they are ex tremely careful hot to surrender econ omic weapons for those purelypoliti cal. J The unions, however, recognized that at times certain fundamental issues arise which have to be settled politi cally and yet concern every wage worker, regardless of party. Such is the case this year. , The two issues of imperialism and trusts formed the staple topics in the Labor day oratory all over the country. The . labor unions have been anti-Imperialists from the beginning. They are op posed to the imperialism which would hold the Philippines as subject colonies for the sake of exploiting cheap labor. If neither of, the existing political parties had made imperialism the paramount issue, the working people of the country would have been forced to line themselves up in protest against this policy which threatens seriously the future economic prosper ity ofHhe country.; , . . . ' v Labor day speakers pointed out how an immense supply of cheap labor al ways at hand would tend to degrade labor in this country if the cheap la bor was allowed to come here. If it were confined to the Philippines the result would be quite as deplorable" because some of our most Important industries would remove to the scene of abundant . cheap labor. Then the wage workers of this country would have their choice between idleness and accepting the pittance that Filipinos and Chinamen could live upon in or der to keep the industries from leav ing this country completely. This Is no fancy picture. It may be said that the Filipinos do not de sire to work. '. Perhaps not. But with militarism as an adjunct of imperial ism they could be forced to labor. Just as England no w forces the Egyptian cotton weavers " to produce wealth, re gardless of their own Inclinations. v The rapid and formidable growth of trusts makes the wage worker anxious in various directions, but in connec tion with imperialism it is easy to see how readily the trusts could change the seat of manufacturing or import cheap labor and the citizens of the country who work for wages would be powerless. It did not need a political campaign to open the eyes of the work ingmen to the dangers of imperialism, but the intense interest shown in re gard to it on Labor day has a deep significance. j The general argument against im perialism appeals to the citizen In pro portion to his patriotism and ; his knowledge of the fundamental prin-' ciples of free government. The working people have a selfish reason in addition to the patriotic one. . They perceive that imperialism backed by militarism and aided by trusts threatens their very means of subsis tence. The men who labor for daily wages will vote for Bryan regardless of previous party affiliations because the danger is one that threatens them regardless of party. It was this big industrial vote which was lacking in '96. It was cowed Into voting for McKinley. Coercion will be tried again, but the conditions are different. - 'r '. The trust issue Is next In importance . to the Industrial masses. They are the people who have to pay trust prices for practically everything they eat, drink and wear. They are the people who have suffered when trusts closed down factories. They are the people who know, that no matter how many , millions profit the trust makes in a year, it does not advance wages un less its employes are organized and ready to risk expensive strikes in or der to force the payment of living wages. The education along these lines ap peals directly to the Interests of the workingmen. In such a case they would probably vote for any party which voiced their protest. The fusion party does in the most unmistakable manner. That's why Bryan will get' the votes of the working people. Republican orators,, talk in vague generalities about "prosperity," but not one of them has been found with courage enough to analyze the effect of , Philippine labor on the American market. They say when forced to make some reply that the Filipinos will be kept out. In view of the con stantly increasing stream of Chinesei immigration"" which pours into this country in defiance of the exclusion act, the. wage-workers do not believej such promises. No republican is ready to discuss the effect of employing the Filipinos In their own islands and letting their products compete with that of American labor. That is. one of the issues from which attention is to be diverted. ' , Hanna's whole ddea is to divert at tention from the real issues. Senator Davis and Congressman Grosvenor, for instance, are making very eloquent speeches praising the administration for its wisdom and courage In han dling the Chinese trouble. ,The trou ble is not settled. And the indication!? are that McKinley Is going to get sad ly involved In the diplomatic game that is Just being opened. But ora torical gush about China serves to divert attention from the empty din ner pail in this country and the aw ful blunder which the administration has made in the Philippines. , - It was just about a year ago that Secretary Root was assuring the coun try that the 70,000 troops then heing sent to the Philippines would be homo in six months. They are not home yet. In fact more troops are being sent to Manila, but the administration oratorn are silent about that. To talk of ths Philippine war might remind the peo ple that they are still paying war taxes. Roosevelt has 'been kept in seclu sion since that unlucky St. Paul speech of his. Hanna sayj in a vague way that Roosevelt will make some speech es in the west later in the campaign. It will be very late, indeed, if the par ty managers have their way. Protests are coming to republican headquarters that the people of the west don't want any such gingerbread soldier as Roosevelt sent out to them to make their campaign ridiculous. Altogether .Roosevelt has a hard timo finding any place where he is wanted. HERBERT JANVRIN BROWNE. Y - v " I i . v. J I. I