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September 6, 1900
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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Lincoln, ffthrmsk.
Amttmrv-ama erspieti. r;ll tot b no
te4. Zje4 mcr.pt will o W tv
"A for fusion. I ata in favor of It."
AtrLkS3 Lincoln Is a letter to Dr.
Theodore Can!! us. May 17, Ui3.
Mark Hanna says that he won the
txtt lat tits without an argument
asd he will do the ume thing this
time- Wll, we stall sec-
Ilaxca says every crank In the coun
try 1 for Bryan. Evry mullet head
in the eosttry U for McKinley. which
J a fart that no one denies.
tn the eyes of the republicans the
treats are all Infant industries, not yet
four years old. and they must all hare
protection untsl they become of age.
Jlep&blicaa orators and writers seem
to hate arrived at that stage of degen
eracy la which they actually believe
that hue Is argument and lying the
natural thing to do upon any and all
oer-asiona.
Within a year there will be but one
sleeping car company in all the United
Stales. Like the first one, "it will have
KOthi&g to arbitrate. It will be owned
by the Vanderbilts. Wonder what
Pullmnn thinks about arbitration now?
Silver Creek, Colorado, will produce
$:E6.K9,tX of gold this year and give
Bryan from s.Ow to 9,000 majority. Ed
Wolcott will be there to read the re
turns and afterward will make no pre
tense cf hiving a residence in Colo
rado. The fuoin forces have ever had but
o&e purpose, that of electing W. J.
Uryan president of the United States
And sow they have but one ticket In
the field for which all of them will
. That is the way the thing
i total! be. -
Whit the matter with Hacna? He
complains of apathy; he says the
tn'its are not putting up half what
they ought to. and he has sent wprd
out to Illinois that both CuIIom and
Tanner must b dropped or the state
will go Bryan sure.
"Senator Pettigrew says that when
Teddy ILoofceielt comes out to South
Dakota the cowboys wni challenge him
to a rteer-roplng and broncho-busting
content. They wauat to find out wheth
er he is a real cowboy, or only a fraud
parading around the country.
The national bankers are prosperous.
Nobody doubts it. The last republican
congress made them a gift of 10.000,
CC0, of which something orer J,000,
00 has already been handed over to
them by Secretary Gage in national
tank notes. The rest of it is to follow
and they fl happy.
. Ueitrkh was tsp in Tekamah the
other day and posed as a statesman
and prophet. He said that Bryan
would cot receive one electoral vote.
Deitrirh is the candidate of the repub
licaas for governor, and he fairly rep-res-ents
the intelligence of that party
as it is at present constituted.
lieveridge's great speech and the
stun-et of gold found In a Philippine
tmk did not have the effect that Mc
Kinley exported they would upon a
waiting world. That speech Is not cir
culated as a campaign document. Mark
Haeaa has repudiated it and all the
republican editors cow declare that
they never had any idea of Inaugurat
ing imperialism.
"Farmers being the most numerous
class, it follow that their Interest Is
the' largest. It alto follows that that
is cos worthy of all to be cherished
and cultivated thit if there be Inevit
able conf ict between that Interest and
any other, that other should yield.
Abraham Lincoln, speech at Mil
waukee. Wis.. September SO. !Si9.
William McKinley has vociferously
5eEanded the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of IS to I; has pledeed
himself to promote fre coinage by in
ternational agreement; hs advocated
the single gold standard; has declared
for the oai.titution and the Declara
tk,n of Independence, for freedom and
liberty for all men. for the subjuga
tion and conquest of alien peoples, for
fr Stride with Porto Rico and for a
tariff oa I'cwto Rieaa products. With
the aid of Mark Hanca he has been
elected once- president cf the United
States and now wants to be elected
ajrin. That' is the history of William
MCKI5LKV KESPONSIIILK.
More than any other man in this
wide world. McKinley ;i responsible
for the devastating wars, the suffering
and death, the Increasing of national
dbts to be a burden on generations
yet unborn and the weeding mothers
and widows and orphans that can be
found in every land today. If at the ;
close of the war with Spain he had de
clared to the Cubans In unequivocal
language that they wen; to be free
and Independent and that as soon as
they could establish a government of
thefr own the United States troops
should be withdrawn, that people
would have been forever our friends
and in a short time would have been
asking admission to tfce union as a
state. But no such declaration was
made and the people of the island be
came suspicious and worried over the
situation until they have - well nigh
lost respect for this country. It is ex
tremely doubtful yet whether they are
to be entirely free or whether ,McKin-
Icy wi!l not demand that the consti
tutional convention that is soon to as
semble shall be coerced into offering
the United States a sort of suzerainty
over them.
In Porto Rico, whose inhabitants
welcomed us and who, after General
Miles proclamation guaranteeing to
them all rights which we en Ic y under
the constitution, cut up their cloth
ing to make flags and waved then
from every window to express their
loyalty and gladness at becoming Am
erican citizens these Porto Ricans
who welcomed us with so much glad
ness have been made subjects and
taxed without representation, by the
power of William McKinley acting as
president of the United States. One
word from him when the bill was be
fore congress would' have killed it.
In the Philippines he has waged a
war without a declaration of war from
congress for two years upon men who
were our allies and helped us to drive
the Spaniards out of the islands. He
Is at the present time trying to make
them subjects, forcibly annex them,
and after that tax them without rep
resentation. If he had proclaimed freedom to the
Porto Ricans and allowed the Filipinos
to set up an independent government,
If he had proclaimed to the world that
the United States still stood for the
principles enunciated In the Declara
tion of Independence, and that it would
maintain the Vtvine that all men
were created " eiraL and had inalien
able rights tolilefnberty and the pur
suit of happiness, there would have
been no war In the Philippines and no
American-Ireland in Porto Rico. Fur
thermore, jtenor twelve million of
people, now our enemies, who would
have been our-'jindying friends. They
would have ttecn lovers of old glory
and willing at any time to fight and
diedefending the colors that first
brought liberty to them.
If McKinley had thrown the world
wide influence of this government for
republican Institutions and liberty for
all men, England would never have
dared to overthrow the two little re
publics of South Africa and there
would have been no bloodshed upon
the velts and in the mountains of that
continent. That same influence would
have prevented the desolation of
China. - -
When the United States forsook its
ancient traditions and started in for
land-grabbing and empire, it gave a
stimulus to all the monarchies and
autocracies of the whole world to . go
on with their devastations and so, on
William McKinley rests the main re
sponsibility for the world-wide wars
that are now devastating the earth
Let him settle with his God for the
evil he has brought upon the world
THEY SWEAR THEY LIED.
Every republican paper in the United
States asserted when the act of March
14, 1900, was passed, that the gold
standard was at last firmly established
and no secretary of the treasury or
president could hereafter pay out sil
ver to the government's creditors un
til the law was changed. Most of them
asserted that the law could not be
changed f or six years, although some
admitted that a free silver senate
might be secured in four years.
Now they have all changed their
tune and are singing a new song all
out of harmony with the old one. Pro
fessor Lawrence Laughlin of Rocke
feller's university declares that there
is, tl rerunning snoum stop, zi,uuu,-
ChK of government indebtedness that
can, under the present law, be paid in
silver dollars. Secretary Gage is also
a new convert and sends forth a warn
ing cry of impending dishonor and
disgrace.
The question about this msitter that
bothers a populist Is: If these debts
are payable under the law and writ
ten contracts in silver, where is the
disgrace and dishonor in so discharg
ing them? Another question is: How
is a free silver secretary or president
going to get the millions of silver to
pay out on these obligations? No one
denies that the law absolutely pro
hibits the coinage of silver except in
small amounts and on government ac
count. Secretary Gage says that there
is oaly $16,000,000 of silver belonging
to the government and all the rest is
in circulation among-the people.
How can these gentlemen who are
now proclaiming to an astonished
world that they lied like yillians when
the act of March 14 was passed, ex
pect a guileless public to belleve-them
now? If they lied then, as they now
say they did, how are we to tell that
they are not lying now? . But there is
no 'use of bothering further about it,
There are some things about these
distinguished gold bugs that no pop
can find out. "Letus all go to work
and elect Bryan and Stevenson. Then
we will have men at Washington who
will not advertise to the world that
they are tbe'most distinguished liars
every six months.
WE STAND THERE STILI.
The Independent does not discard or
in he least modify any of the declara
tions of principles . that it has ever
defended. The result of the gold stand
ard was even worse than it ever said
it would be. It brought not only dis
tress to millions In this land, but pro
duced famines and distress in other
lands. Every man knows that most
of the suffering in India which we have
been called , upon to help relieve, was
the result of the attempt to set 'up the
gold standard there. All the accumu
lated wealth that the poorer classes in
India had accumulated was in silver,
made into ornaments or in other
forms, which they relied upon as -a
hoard on which to draw in years of
crop failure. The British government
destroyed half of that hoard and the
people died of starvation.
In this country the continual fall in
prices for twenty years, the result of
the act of 1873, was such suffering as
this country never knew before. The
result is just what we said. We have
nothing to take back.
The productive power of this coun
try is the greatest of any nation in the
world. A series of good crops with
shortages in other countries has some
what relieved the distress. Tens of
thousand of bankruptcies have cleared
up the books. except as to government,
state and municipal bonds and rail
road mortgages. An increase in the
volume of money, said by the treasury
department to be $250,000,000 in gold
and $80,000,000 in bank paper, has
started the wheels of commerce to.
some extent. But who has been
benefitted by this? The trusts. The
farmer pays more for everything that
he buys, in some cases as high as 100
per cent more, while the price of his
products have advanced but slightly
Hundreds of mills have been closed by
the trusts, throwing thousands of
wage-earners out of work, and they4pays Dack
find that while wages have not ad
vanced, the trusts have raised the cost
of maintaining a family. 'Who have
been ''benefitted ? The banks which
have been ma'de a gift of $80,000,000
with more to follow, and the trusts
which have cornered the industries and
doubled the cost of their goods. With
wars all over the world and crop fail
ures in many countries, wheat ought
to be worth $1.50 a bushel, but it isn't.
Why? Because of the gold standard.
HAVE SOWN DRAGON'S TEETH.
Another mob and riot occurred at
Gilman, 111. This time the mob at
tacked a woman who was accused of
murder' and who shot one of a posse
sent to arre st her. Two citizens were
killed and cne mortally wounded. The
Independent again calls attention to
the bloodthirstiness everywhere mani
festing itself in this country. If this
thing goes on at this rate much long
er, we will soou have a government by
mobs. Any citizen who gives the least
encouragement ' to a mob or joins in
one which results In death to the ac
cused or a bystander, should be prose
cuted without mercy and If found guil
ty, should be hung for murder. Order
must be preserved and the law en
forcgd. Any man who gives the least
encouragement to a mob or in any way
palliates the crime, is a traitor to his
country, and just as villainous a
traitor as if he engaged in war upon
it. Everyone of them should be pun
ished to the limit of the Jaw. The
daily press and imperialist agitators
hftve sown dragon's teeth by the. pub
lication of the details of brutal prize
fights and the approval of the murder
of whole villages of innocent people
under the name of war, and now the
penalty is being inflicted by the dem
oralization of whole communities.
Mark rlanna bought some more
newspapers last wees. We hope that
the fellows who sold out got a good
big price. The time for switching vot
ers over with newspapers that have
been bought with republican campaign
boodle has passed. A man who has
been reading a fusion paper for a year
or two is not going to change his vote
because Mark Hanna bought the pa
per. A man who has read a good fu
sion paper for a month 'would know
better than to be caught with such bait
as that. .
Roosevelt has adopted the State
Journal's "hogs in the parlor" style
of campaigning which was so popular
in the republican party in and '93.
The State Journal has been trying to
find out what hit it ever since, and
Roosevelt won't know whether he has
a lariat around his neck or his heels
when the votes are counted.
; THE FARMER NOT IX IT
; Every man of common sense knows
that whatever trade we may gain by
holding the Philippines, little pr none
of it will come to" farmers. The farm
ers are not in it now and" never will be.
We have held tile Philippines for-two
years and even now the supplies for
our army are furnished by British sub
jects, residents of Australia. Frank
Carpenter in his last letter says:
"You would think that the United
States should furnish the most of the
-.tr
butter and canned goods of the Phil
ippines. It does not. The bulk of the
canned stuff comes from Europe, but
Australia is pushing its way in far
ahead of " the Americans. We have
Australian canned fruits on our din
ing tables and our army is now eating
Australian butter and Australian beef.
We take more of the exports of the
Philippines than any other country,
but we get less in return. Last year
all the United States goods sold in
Manila were worth, in round numbers,
$130,000 in gold." .--'; : V
, That is the iruth about the much-
vaunted trade in the Philippines. The
American farmer . never can compete
in the Philippines with "Australia and
New Zealand. We are too far away.
That fact is known to the men' who
are pushing this imperialism business
and their talk about "trade" is all a
blind. What they want is to get a
chance to exploit the Philippine islands
get hold of the franchises, lights,
waterworks railroads, electric light
ing and hold the offices.
Carpenter says that besides Aus
tralia, France, Switzerland and Aus
tria are shipping largely to the Phil
ippines. Of course they are and will
continue to "do so. They have the
shorter route by way T the Suez canal.
The American farmer has not now and
never will have any share in this Phil
ippine "trade." A great deal of Amer
ican beer is shipped there, but it is all
consumed by the American soldiers.
The natives of that country won't
touch it. Unless we keep a large army
in the Philippines, there will be no
shipment of beer. To send soldiers
over there to consume beer is a pretty
dear way of getting a market for the
stuff. v v
The American farmer has no inter
est and never can have any interest
in this "Philippine trade." Why
should he vote to retainthe islands
and tax himself to sustain an army
there when it is all a dead Toss to him?
He-will never get a cent of profit out of
the trade or a dollar of the taxes he
THE;OU BE-LIABLE.
That re-liable' old liar,' the State
Journal, had the following two items
in the same edition of the paper Aug
ust 10:
"The evident intent of Bryan to
abandon the national campaign and
make a fight , for the legislature is
having a depressing effect on the fu
sion forces here."
"W. J. Bryan will lead the fight of
the democrats in the central and east
ern states. He will take cStnmand
next week in Chicago and then will be
gin an invasion of republican terri
tory, for he has decided to stump Il
linois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin; Mich
igan, Minnesota, New York, New Jer
sey, Maryland and West Virginia."
No creature - under heaven, save a
mullet head, is capable of firmly be
lieving both of those statements, but
they can do It and iever wink .an eye.
George W. Berge was twice a candi
date for the nomination for congress
and was defeated. Both times he went
out and canvassed the district with all
the vigor for his successful opponent
that he could have put into the cam
paign if he had been the nominee him
self. That sort of loyalty to the prin
ciples that we all hold dear has en
deared him to voters of this district
and gives him a place in the hearts
of the people held by no other man ex
cept it be W. J. Bryan. If all the de
feated candidates for , congressional
nominations will do as George W.
Berge did, a complete fusion delega
tion will be sent? to congress from Ne
braska, every one of whom will have
a lousing majority. i"
SAVE THE POMJMST PARTY.
There is but one thing that can de
stroy the populist party and that is
the election of William McKinley. If
he cannot be beaten with the demo
crats, silver republicans and anti-im
nerialist league all helping us. what
prospect is there that the people's par
ty will ever succeed? Any man who
does anything that will aid in the
election of McKinley, either by voting
for a candidate impossible of election
or by refusing tc vote, is a deadly
enemy of the people's party If after
ten years of constant fighting and fear
ful sacrifice by hundreds of the best
men in the union, both of time and of
money, and after having obtained the
assistance of three or four other par
ties and" many organizations, it is
found impossible to elect a president
of its choice,., the party will die.
Men will not fight a losing fight for
more than ope decade. They will give
up hope and trysome other plan. " The
hope of the populist party is in , the
election f W. J. Bryan., Any man who
goes into any sort of an organization
whose object is to keep votes away
from him, is helping, to screw down
the lid of the coffin of a party of the
highest ideals ever organized. It has
n it the hope of humanity and the men
who will help to destroy it are the
enemies of mankind. They may not
know what they are doing, but -that
does not lessen the evil that will re
sult from their action. You . may not
know that thertTts poison in the cup,,
but if you drink it, you will surely die.
If Bryan is elected, a brighter vista
opens up before the pa rty than ever
before gladdened the eyes of those who
have so long worked and ; waited for
reform. Bryan, and the men: of hfs
belief, will have to rely upon it to ef
fect every reform fo. which they have"
labored. Everyone knows that there
is an element in. the democratic party
in the east and to some extent in the
south who, when they get their men
into congress under the name of dem
ocrat, will do all that is in their power
to defeat the main measures that Bry
an will propose. In that condition of
things there is a field for useful work
for the populist party and no one will
be gladder that it lives than W. J.
Bryan himself. But let Bryan be de
feated and the populism party will only
be a memory. The work that it has
done will live in history, but the par
ty will be no more. .
THE WHOLE THING WRONG.
This whole theory of empire the
extending of one government by one
autocrat or one parliamentary body
over vast spaces of the earth s sur
face Is wrong and will wrok out evil
and not good to the human race. The
larger the area- of any government
when it is extended beyond reasonable
limits, the less beneficial will that
government be. The United States to
day spreads over such a vast extent
of country that many parts suffer for
want of legislation because it is im
possible for congress, in the limited
time of its sessions, to pass the nec
essary laws. Alaska has been left
without a government for many years
for that very reason. What possible
good can come to the . people of the
United States by unreasonably extend
ing its boundaries?
The , best government is local self-
government. Europe has no knowledge
of such government. Everything there
must come down to the people from
the central power. The people of a
city there cannot dig a sewer or open
a street until they have secured the
passage of a law by the central gov
erning power permitting them to do
so. Dr.' Edward Everett Hale, In a
speech before the Nebraska university
three or four years ago, clearly ex
plained the great difference between
the system of government in all Eu
ropean countries and that of this re
public. If we are to have an empire,
that is to gather people of different
races, far separated from one another
under one government and govern
them by one congress, then of neces
sity, . local self-government must be
abolished and the system of Europe
established in its place.
In a great empire, covering vast
areas of the earth's surface, inhabited
by various races of men, it would be
impossible to allow local self-government
and preserve the authority and
power of the central government. Such
an empire could not stand for two de
cades, The conflicting interests of
various peoples, widely scattered, gov
erning themselves, would make many
governments and not one government
in a very short time.
The charge that the present policies
of McKinley will destroy our form of
government is true add that will be
the result, whether it is so intended or
not.
Every young man should be a poli
tician. Not a schemer to get office,
but a worker for his own self-interest.
The future marked out by the trusts
for the young men of this generation
is that of hirelings. When all the in
dustries 'are controlled by the trusts,
as they surely will be, if present pol
icies are pursued, there will be no
ladder to climb up by to a higher posi
tion than that described by the pluto
crats as "the condition to which it
has pleased God to call you." Every
avenue of advancement will be closed.
No business can be entered upon with
out large capital. The little concerns
will all be crushed but. But few of
them remain and in the near future
tnere will be none. In the Bryan clubs
young men should be invited to speak.
They shoulc be encouraged to study
the questions that effect their future
welfare. They should be given active
work. Let the young men take hold.
They have more vital interests at
stake than the older men.
Bradley, he of Texas, was out mak
ing speech the other night." He
told them the mercy of McKinley in
providing that the Sulu slaves might
purchase their freedom at the market
price, when a slave, while he was a
slave, couldn't earn the price of his
freedom in 500 years, was like that of
a tender-hearted jury, which, not
wanting to sentence a crimanal
forj
V . A. 11.1 A. T"V
me, Drougni in a eraici sentencing
him Cor ninety-nine years, just
show that they were merciful.
to
MCKINLEY'S CHINESE POLICY
; There is no use at all trying to pre
dict that McKinley s policy toward
China will be anythingjthat he says or
anything given out bx.the state depart
ment. ; European diplomacy has been
adopted and we all know what that
Is. We must look elsewhere for facts
upon which to found an. opinion. If
one 'can find out what the men who
manipulate McKinley intend to do or
to have done, then may we form some
just opinion upon the subject. One of
the potent influences that has hither
to shaped his policy In the Philippines
has come from ' the ishops , of " the
Methodist church. . The men who hold
the big paying pulpits in that church
almost without an exception have
backed up the bishops, .while a large
section ofthe humble members of the
church have been opposed.
Bishop Fowler arrived in Denver the
olher day and when approached by the
reporters, he said: , i
"I won't, talk about church affairs.
I will talk about politics, if you want
me to " x
The reporter suggested , China as a
fit subject.
"I believe in keeping' every soldier
'we have there at present," the bishop
said, and more, too, If necessary. It
was not enough to put our ambassa
dor in safety, as' we have just done.
There are other considerations besides.
We must maintain our treaty rights.
We are, according to these, one of the
most favored nations and we must
see to it that Russia, Germany, Eng
land, France and Italy are not given
more than we -get.
"In that is our internal safety, too.
We are producing and are going to
produce ten times more than, we need.
We thus must have a market. The
only open market is China. Let Rus
sia and Germany and the others ac
quire their slices, and this market Is
taken away from us. What follows.
Hard times come from over produc
tion, for we cannot dispose of our sur
plus goods. Famine arrives, discon
tent prevails. Mobs then come and
destruction at home goes on. We shall
need an armyof 100,000 men to keep
the peace here.
"So I favor a protectorate. Iet it
be by the United States, England and
Japan, and the other nations can come
in if they want to. But this must be
insisted upon and must behad, be the
consequences what they . may."
The Independent believes that Bish
op FOwier Indicated the policy that
McKinley will pursue. It contains the
economics of the republican party
plainly stated. The common people
of this country, that Is the millions,
are to be kept in such a state of pov
erty that they can consume but a small
part-of the products of the industries.
We must have an army of at -least
100,000 to keep the dissatisfied in sub
jection to this order of things. We
must have an enormous army for ser-
Lvice in Asia to help the trusts to ex
ploit them: That is what the McKin
ley policy toward China will resolve
itself into if he is re-elected.
There are good grounds for the
statement that no confidence can be
placed In l( the statements of McKin
ley or his department of state. He
has so many times Ignored his prom
ises and changed his policies . that no
trust can be put in- him. "Forcible
annexation is criminal aggression," he
said. And then he started immediate
ly upon a policy of forcible annexation
and has kept it up ever since. His
"plain duty" toward Porto Rico he
repudiated. What he intends to dp In
China will never be given to the pub
lic as long as he thinks that there
will be a considerable opposition to it.
While he will make announcements all
the time that he thinks the American
people will approve, he will go right
ahead in- the administration of what
the great money men of the United
States want. If Bryan Is elected, this
hunt for Asiatic empire and trade will
stop and we will go to ,work and de
velop these United States. If Mc
Kinley is elected, then the exploitation
of the workers of the world will be
gin In earnest.
EXCESS OF EXPORTS.
That part of the republican platform
that boasted of the excess of exports
over imports seems to have burned
their fingers so badly that they have
dropped it like a hot poker. There is
nothing to be found in their speeches
or even the literature expressly pre
pared for the mullet heads about it.
The editor of The Independent has re
ceived one or two letters making in
quiry how it was possible that our
exports. show a balance over Imports
to the enormous amount of about $3,
OOOTJOO.OOO since I860.. How could the
foreigners manage to get that much of
American wealth without returning
anything for It?
There are several ways in .which
that matter has been managed. In
the first place they came over here
and bought" millions of government
bonds with paper money, that was
worth from forty to fifty, cents on the
dollar in gold, and then had the bonds
made payable in gold. Of course this
increase In the value of the bonds held
4
Lby foreigners was a gift- outright to
theml- The republicans called that,
"the strengthening of the publiccred
it," and all the mullet heads thought
it. was an awful good thing.
To pay
this increase in the value of
bonds
for which the foreigner never re-
turned a cent, many millions of ex
ports had to be sent across the water.
Then bur railroads are largely owned
by foreigners. The stock has been
watered to the amount of many mil
lions more. The share of the watered
stock that went to foreigners was a
gift, ,and to pay the interest on it,
many millions more of exports had to
be sent abroad for which not a cent
ever was, or ever will be returned.
About sixty or seventy millions of
our exports have to go abroad every
year to pay the expenses of our mil
lionaire globe trotters. Nothing ever
comes back. In that, and other ways,
have the $3,000,000,000 of exports dis
appeared, from the wealth . of this
country. It Is that much "wealth
created by American toil which . has
gone to add to the accumulated wealth
of Europe and for which we have re
ceived nothing. The mullet heads
think that that is something to brag
about, but the pops know better.
The State journal prints a passage
from one of Bryan's speeches and as a
refutation of it quotes a passage from
Jeff. Davis. We knew that the repub
licans would come to that, but did not
expect it . so early in the campaign.
Whenever they undertake to make an
argument for imperialism, Jeff. Davia.
book, furnishes them with their chief
authority. We have seen passages
from that book embodied Verbatim in
republican editorials several times.
EXTRAVAGANCE.
The republican state committee is
spending a great deal of Mark Han
na's money in a futile attempt to de
ceive the voters of Nebraska regarding
the present state administration. A
"boiler-plate" factory has been opened
at Omaha with one F. a. Harrison,
commonly known as "Thunder-Maker"
Harrison, as chief boiler-maker. For
a number of years Harrison repre
sented the Omaha Bee at Lincoln and
his distortion of facts regarding mat
ters of Estate government became so
notorious that when any particularly
outrageous lie appeared in any repub
lican paper concerning state govern
mental affairs, Its authorship was im
mediately laid at Harrison's door.
Last year Uncle Orlando Tefft and
Harrison attempted to "conduct Judge
Reese's campaign. , Uncle Tefft Is little
better than a wooden man, but it waa
supposed that Harrison would be the
moving spirit In the campaign. , Well,
he was. His was the spirit that planned
a most vicious campaign of mud
slinging against Judge Holcomb.
Scarcely anything was urged In behalf
of Judge Reese's qualifications for the
supreme bench; but a whole campaign
was waged on "house rent, Slippery Si,
the boar black pig and the spotted cow
called Speck,"o,The . . result was dis
astrous.. With' the strongest candidate (
ever put upv by the republican party,
Chairman';Tefft, the wooden man, and
Secretary,. Harrison, . the "thunder
maker," lost the state by more than
15,0c J. -
It seems that the republican party
in Nebraska will never learn by ex
perience. Notwithstanding hia miser
able failure last year, Harrison ia
again the biggest toad in the puddle
and Is again resorting to his dlsreput-
able methods of conducting a cam
paign. '
Each week the republican state com
mittee is sending out two to four col
umns of plate matter to all papers that
will use it and Harrison writes the
stuff.
One of his latest productions is an
Imaginary news item from Omaha, un
der date of August 27, declaring that
"Poynter's term will close with a de
ficiency of at least $100,000" and aver
ring "that the present fusion admin
istration has been an expensive luxury
to the people of Nebraska."
Whether or not there will be any
considerable deficiency to be met by
the next legislature wo purpofte to dis
cuss in full next week. It may be that
the republican legislature of 1839 did
not appropriate enough in certain
places to maintain the Institutions
with their increased number of Jn
mates, and that a small deficiency will,
be necessary- But, deficiency or not,'
it is the actual expenditures that tell
the tale, and we intend to see if the
"present fusion administration has
been an expensive luxury."
For the purposes of this article we
shall take eight state institutions, as
follows: , Insane hospitals at Hast
ings, Lincoln and Norfolk; soldiers'
and sailors' home, Grand Island;
school for blind, Nebraska City; school
for deaf, Omaha; industrial school for
boys, Kearney.
During the period of three years
from January 1, 1892, to December 31,
1894, all these eight Institutions were
under the control of republicans and
a republican state administration. Ev
ery cent expended during this period
for maintenance of these Institutions
is a matter of record both in the audi
tor's office and in the governor's office.
Each superintendent, during the per
iod, made a. semi-annual report under
oath to the governor. These reports
have been checked over carefully with
the auditor's records and &re found
correct.
To arrive at what has been the act
ual cost of maintenance,, all items for
new buildings and permanent repairs
and improvements have been cut out.
Tne . ioiiowinsr tauie elves - in rttaiii
the cost during the period mentioned;
and for the period of three years un
