THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT-
September 20, 1901V
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r--r: j te stabllsbment of a government on
wiMMurMBitttt feuuDoe; common sense grounds n the new ter
itk hm, iMttMn. -ic to j r J lory: and he railed at the sticklers
tcrTii by Umsi. Zj '.--i-ri:f forct I for an impossible application of his
tm.tx 4.5&t fcMt ab ift with principle, saying, in language which
&m. tt u,WriW f-ls w tt iftf I at the present day applies to the situa
idit, J tion in the Philippines without the
&A4rm sil r.&.r sd oak ll j change of a word, "though it is ac-
4rfu. sr'4em. tc i9& ; kcowledged th?.t our new citizens are
Ch tlthrsika Indtptndtnt,
Unccin. fiebrsk. t
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tar-Mtd.
Jart zm the eertaisty of Bryan's elec
tion bomes trior apparent, silver
goes tUshicr; up. It ha teen worth
3 rests a ounce in Ixmdon for some , . .
th change of a word, and without
rm" i that cnange, it does not apply at all.
This time the republicans offer the j To mak " coinc Into liap- " noul
maworkers a full dinner pail, next i rd: "Though it is acknowledged
tIS they will off.r them a full trough " 'subjects are as incapa
and it wxt time they witl tell them ! bI of self-government as children
to root hog or die.
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I ray that those who are follow- l
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fag the occupations of iae and in- '
ictry are vastly i uprior to those
whose jsrofeasion is the kUlii.fr of tb-ir
Ifllow xnen-" Sarsut-i Gonitis. prri
dttt of the FedTatioa of L'xjt.
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Carl Schun. in a prh ia the
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I cited States senate in made the t
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test rrfly that ever has Uu made to
the phrae:
My c-oui.to' right or ,
wrong- He Raid:
Osr country right
or wrorg Ln right to kpt right,
when wrosg to be put rigtu'
There was an error in Lam '- L's
Iadepadest iiai'i by the tirojipirig:
out of cse ord Th' itrr. should
Lae read: C-oTipri with the
;i-p'ii l'.r. id in Wrsiozt fell eff
10 ptr ci-t ar.d the i!-tncxratir vote
Intreae4 1 p-r cent. T!.- word "ln
vr" was 1-ft out.
In Wcit Virginia, in the ioc5tse of
I Linahaw county aloc-. 1 1 citizens
to voted for .VfKiD'-" hae made
atS: davit th.it thy intend to rote for
ilryaa thit time. Ti.- r publican pa
per in that part of ts tate are He-rvoir-ciag
the notari-s piblir before
torn the I5 iavit mere !.n:t in the
nj't u.SE2i?ASTJred trr.
Ia the republican pap-rs huh pub
l;hM Rooyt e!t' acr-p.2te letter
f rr rreat variation occur ia the text
gr&x that it Is iropo.-iLle to be
liev that they were accid-Ltal. The
!V-e leaves off the part of th quotation
from Jefferwoa co staler.; ti. word
"citizen" and in masy ajj changes
tie text from the way it app-ar in
n:e other papers. Whit wi'I these
imperialists do nxt?
The ret papers report :bn the
clergymen tarn out to greet Ilooevelt
aad hak hat-d wHh him. That is
tbe way thej uf-d to do L n the
icrat orator went throuKb the coun
try ienoaicing the "black republi
car." hose j-rinripal argument was:
'Io ya wait your dausLter to marry
a nIg.erT" There were cirrgymen
tfcea who jmp-thired wuh liberty
zrd there are fcome now who do, but
becate a clergyman advocatrii ira
perial'tta and the ihooting of Chris
t Unity ii.to tie Illlplno and China
ren it ia no proof that it is the Di
vice will to extend ChriJtiarJty in that
ay.
A writer in the Old iVpenrrale is
'try maea dipteaed with the author
of a noteiette which apeared in one
of the recxt mrazises. because cer
tain characters, supposed to b con
certed with the !.-st i-tr in New
Tork. diin"t know where Linc-oin was
ard wmT.wi to low if zzy Intians or
Migalrt -re to l en thereabout.
IVrhap llfwe York rs had seen
a cr-py or tmo cf the ftate Journal, and
st'ppoeicK that t!.e cots Tvjr.it? that
would rupport bach a paper was sit
uated amucR will Indians or Fiji isl
zATf. for Eowh"r eie in anr civil-
i
:s':A ooaaalrr r3" P'ta- j
t on be to-zA.
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It is o!y within the 1t f-w days;
ttat any of th rr-t dailirs hare had !
a word ct protect agaii the inhuman
cruelties e a art 1 1 in China by the ai
V.-4 troop. The Independent de
roJSd them from the very first. So
far the oalr papers thit have protested
are Bryan piprj . That was to be ex-pecte-d
Thce editors who have calra-
,?y ccb&c4 the new from the I'hihp-
pines, re-id of the slaughter of whole
.lllzgt arid called It "advar,clag civil-
iwtlox ccild to? be expected to de
t ounce, the murder of women and chil
dren Is China- The Buffalo Times re
marks: in general the progress of
''ihi allied force i has been marked by
JtuSd&ts hich eczistftude a wide de
.partsre from the mles of civilized
warfare.1 'We shouU siy that it did.
BoorELr8AccEmcE
Rooeevelta letter of acceptance Is
devoted almost exclusively to defend
ing McKinley against the charge of
imperialism. He says:
"TT r parallel between what Jeffer-
j toa did with Louisiana and what is
' i . tt 21 i 1
now oeing Gone jn me rnuippiura s
exact. Jefferson, the author of the
Declaration of Independence, and of
the Vonsent of the governed' doctrine,
fiaw no iuoojjgruity between this and
& yet incapable cf self-government as j
children, yet some can not bring them- i
selves to suspend- Its- principles for a
fciagla moment."
The search after an indorsement for
me .aicivimey poucy anions iuc i j t
ings of Jefferson has been exhaustive,
and while the above quotation is only
part of one sentence, it Is the best that
could be found. But to make it apply
tn Vr nn1iv XfrlTlnlotr it ilrtPR need
; etc. Neither Mr. uooseveit nor Mr.
i McKlnley ever proposed to make the
Filipinos "citizens."
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The effort to make the McKlnley
,
policy adopted towards the Indians,
as was pointed ou in The Independent
a few weeks ago, cannot succeed.
There is no parallel betwe-en them at
all. Jefferson bought the country from
.
Napoleon. But all that he ever
. .
claimed to buy was a quit claim deed
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edged to be the rightful owners of the
soil not only of that portion that
they actually occupied, but of the
whole country. They were, while only
savages, acknowledged by Jefferson
and the presidents who ha-e succeed
ed him to be independent, or semi-independent
nations. Congress never
attempted to pass any laws to govern
thtra. The land that we took from
thra was always bought from them
and not from Napoleon. We acknowl
edged that they were nations and have
made over 400 treaties with them. 1
That we usually swindled them in j
the making of treaties and in the price j
that we paid them for the land is true, j
But the governmental policy which
has always been followed toward the j
Indian tribes of this country is not
in any particular similar to that which j
McKmley has followed toward the
Filipinos. There is a similarity be
tween the policy adopted toward the j
Sultan of Sulu. but none whatever to
that in regard to the Filipinos. Mc
Klnley uent an army ofScer to make a
treaty with the Sultan, just as has
often been done with Indian tribes. By
that act he recognized the government
of the Sultan just as we have always
recognized the government of the Ind
ian tribes. But with regard to the
Filipinos he declared that they are
subject to the authority of the United
States without asking their consent
or making any treaty with them.
The declared policy of the United
States since the beginning has been to
finally make the Indians citizens, as
the Severalty bill says, "with all the
, rights, privileges and immunities of
any other citizen." That is not the
, policy of McKlnley toward the Fili
pinos and he dare not proclaim such
a policy for there is not one voter in
the whole United States, except some
! who desire to import cheap Asiatic
labor, who is in favor of such a policy.
It is a lamentable thing to say, but
every honest man must acknowledge
that the presentation to the people. of
a statement that the annexation of
: contiguous territory which was in-
tendec to be carved into states and
the citizens thereof to have full repre
, sentation In our government by their
votes, and the annexation of far dis-
tant islands of the sea. whose inhabi
tants are never to become citizens and
' never have any voice in our govern
; ment. is one and the same thing, is a
deliberate attemDt to deceive the Am-
j erJcan Whcn The0(lore Roose
Tbe parallel between what
Jefferson did in Louisiana and what
is now being done iEL the Philippines
i is exact." he stated a falsehood. It is
not possible that a man of his general
nui puiutc uiiL a mau ut uis general
inforrnation could not know that it
vzs a falsehood whea ,e made the
statement.
Mr. Roosevelt ,nay excuse himself
hy stating taat"this "is only politics."
But those who still have some regard
for the moral law will not accept that
as a justifiable excuse.
LET US DO IT.'
The curse of republican rule has its
Illustration in the cities of Lincoln
! and Omaha. Both cities, according to
i the census, have greatly decreased in
population during the last ten years.
The Graham administration in Lin
coln and the electing of a mayor in
Omaha who had been indicted on seventy-two
counts for stealing, were
enough to drive every decent man who
could possibly get away out of both
places and prevent any others from
I corning in. The state under the pop-
ullst rule has prospered, while the
cities which have been under the con
trol of the republicans have retro
graded. The greatest curse that rests
upon Lincoln today is its narrow, vic
ious, malignant republican majority.
There will never be prosperity until
it is overthrown in both county and
city. - There will never be a better
time to accomplish such a reformation
than in the coming election. There
is no valid reason why Lincoln, with
its many state and private institu
tions which bring annually into it
hundreds of thousands of dollars
should not grow instead of decrease in
population. It would grow if it were
not for the intDlerance and malignity
of the governing power. The men
who run the city would much rather
tie it decay than that it should be
filled up with intelligent, pushing, hus
tling reformer?, who would have city
ownership of tilephones, gas. electric
lights and a cheap, rapid and efficient
street car service. If further decad
ence Is to be stopped, this republican
majority must be wiped out. Now is
a .ood time to dc it. The county out
s're of city is fusion and for advance
ment. It is the city republican ma
jority that brings ruin and disaster.
It cm be knocked out. Let us do it.
JOUS HAT EXUVIAE
Several days before it was published
in any other paper, The Independent
piinted the fact that John Hay, for
some !'me e- retary of state to Presi
dent McKinley, was not so sick as had
been repiesented, but had been in
vited to take a vacation so that the
adminhstiation by the aid of Secretary
Root might get hold of the tangled
threads of diplomacy and find out
' where we are at." It is now plainly
stated in several of the great New
York dailies.
Hay had been such an Anglophile
that there was serious danger that all
the rest of the nations would combine
against us. Prominent men who had
always acted with the republican party
had become frightened and Senator
Burrows in his now celebrated screed,
it was found was only giving voice
to a very large and influential portion
of the party. There is no doubt now
that that speech was made by the
senator upon the advice of McKinley.
Let us see what the diplomacy of
Hay has resulted in. It worked up a
war with the Filipinos engaging 65,000
troops and stripping the country of
every available trooper and battery.
It ceded to Great Britain a large slice
of valuable gold-bearing American
territory in Alaska without compensa
tion. It revived the dead and buried
Bulwer-Clayton treaty and gave to
England all the benefits of an Ismath
ian canal which was to be built wholly
with American money. It betrayed
the confidence of the Porto Ricans and
made them subjects and not citizens
as had been promised by General
Miles. It has made the South Ameri
can republics, which had always
trusted us, suspicious, fearing that
their turn for annexation might come
next. It made such arrangements with
all the European powers that it was
impossible for any of them to aid the
South African republics. It had got
ten this country so tangled up in Chi
na with its affiiliation with Great Brit-
ain that there was danger of a pro- .
longed war over there. And finally it
brought this country into such con- !
tempt, both at home and abroad, that
it was thought necessary for Hay to J
get sick, and he got sick, left Wash- j
ington and permitted other men to i
take hold who were not such blind I
admirers of everything English as to j
get buncoed in every transaction in
which this country had any part.
There is no doubt that McKinley ap
proved of everything that Hay did at
the time it was done and much of it
was done according to the president's
directions. Now that the result is be
coming a great factor in the overthrow
of McKinley himself, he does just as
he did with Sherman and Alger. John
Hay is simply another scale of the
exuviae of this administration.
The republicans declaimed about the
terrible result of the coinage of silver
under the Sherman act and said that
the' coinage of silver must be stopped
or everlasting ruin to the country
would be the result. McKinley now
brags that he has been coining two
million silver dollars a month for
some time the same amount that was
coined under the Sherman act and
says that we have more money in cir
culation than ever before. The poor
mullet heads must get muddled over
this state of affairs when they think of
it that is if ever they do think.
The goldites of the east are trying to
plaj the same old game that they
played in 1896. In every business let
ter they write they put in a note to
the effect that bxisiness is good and is
likely to continue so if Bryan is de
feated, but if he is elected we are sure
to have the same old times we had un
der Cleveland. As Bryan fought
Cleveland's policy with might and
main and the republicans supported
it, how they can come to the conclu
sion that the election of Bryan will
establish the Cleveland policy is an
other of those things that no pop can
find out, , ' V - , 1
BMGHT OF KEPCBIJCAJflSM.
The disgrace and ..loss inflicted on
this state by the republican majority
in Lancaster county will never be fully
rectified until .the present generation
of degenerates who rule the city and
county have passed oft the stage of
existence. They are a curse that this
community must endure until their
span of life is ended.. There is noth
ing in them but spite, malice and hat
red. For the sake of being vengeful
and vindictive they will do what they
can to ruin their own city. There is
not a generous impulse in the' whole
lot Take the matter of the awful
disaster that befell the city of Gal
veston a disaster not equalled in the
whole country. Not a move was made
by any one in authority to render any
assistance. There Is not a city of the
size and importance of Lincoln in the
whole United States whose officials
did not do something, save Lincoln.
These officials were too busy running
up and down the streets shouting that
Bryan was a traitor and a demagogue,
to give any thought to suffering and
death among their fellow men. Re
publicans run this city. At the state
house where the populists are in pow
er, the governor took action imme
diately. But the Lincoln city council
and mayor had not a word even of
sympathy, much less material aid to
offer.
On the cars over in Indiana the oth
er day a gentleman said to the editor
of The Independent: "That city of
Lincoln is a queer place. Partisanship
seems to blind the inhabitants to their
own interests. In my town we have
a United States senator. We are proud
of the fact. Although I believe his
political principles are most pernic
ious, I point out his residence to stran
gers and tell pleasant things of his
personal life among us. I was in Lin
coln the other day. I went there to
see Bryan. In the hotels and on the
streets I heard the most disgraceful
remarks made about r him. A presi
dential candidate for the second time
of one of the great parties ought to
be a big thing for any city or town,
but the way the people of Lincoln act,
they make it an injury to them. Many
men who had the kindliest feelings for
Lincoln come away from there feeling
very bitter. "They will never say a
good word for the town while they
live. They will tell their friends that
it is a good piace to keep away
from."
THE POPS AUE THANKFUL. .
The Independent never fails to ac
knowledge a favor.' Notwithstanding
that the State Journal has for ten
years almost daily spewed forth its
vituperation and abuse upon every
man, no matter how honest and up
right he might be, who called himselfi
a populist, The Independent will not
refuse to duly acknowledge a great
service that that paper has done the
populist party and in the name of the
party return its thanks. For several
days it has kept standing at the head
of its editorial columns the following
extract from a speech by W. J. Bryan:
"If there is any one who believes the
gold standard is a good thing or that
it must be maintained, I warn him not
to cast his vote for me, because I
promise him it will not be maintained
in this country longer than I am able
" u "
Nothing that Mr. Bryan ever said j
will have a greater tendency to hold I
every populist vote or make an en
thusiastic fighting pop out of every
private in the ranks than that quota
tion. In another column and in another
way it gives the populist party a big
boost. It makes a fierce defense of the
Standard Oil trust and ridicules the
efforts of Attorney General Smyth to
bring it to justice. There has been
nothing published that will be a better
vote-getter for the populist party than
that article. For both of these favors
The Independent returns hearty
thanks.
As soon as tjie newspapers began to
comment upon the extraordinary
amount of insanity among our sol
diers in the Philippines, the censor
blue-pencilled alt" that sort of news
and we have heard nothing further
about it for two or three months. But
when a prominent officer goes insane
and runs amuck, it is hardly possible
to suppress it. Here is a specimen that
appeared in the Associated press dis
patches: "Manila. Adjutant General, Wash
ington: Charles McQueston, captain
Fourth United States infantry, died
yesterday, Mangonone. Bacoor, Cavite
province, 8:30 evening, result from
gunshot wound caused by private sol
dier. Captain McQueston in a fit of
temporary insanity attacked - men of
company. Shot one or more and was
shot himself in self-defense. Further
particulars when received."
STILL ADVANCING
Populism captured the New York
democratic state convention the other
day. That convention placed the fol
lowing resolution in its state plat
form: "We favor the ownership by the sev
eral municipalities of their own water
supplv and the general principle of
municipal ownership of public utili
ties." The man who .would have prophe
sied such an. accomplishment as that
in 1836, would have been declared, to
be raving mad.: Thamost enthusiastic
pop Sever dreamed of such rapid ad
vancement of populist principles.
That democratic platform boldly be
gins its list of state issues with the
declaration: "We condemn the cor
porate combination known as the Ice
Trust."
Compare that with lies that the
State Journal has been printing about
the - way a resolution was treated in
that convention denouncing the Ice
Trust. We defy mankind to point to
any publication that was ever issued
that will compare in infamy with the
organ of the republican party that is
located here in Lincoln. It devoted
nearly a whole column of its editorial
page September 15 to telling how that
convention sat down upon and even
refused to be allowed to read a resolu
tion condemning the Ice Trust.
" That platform alsd demands thei
election of United States senators by
the people and a complete separation
of the public schools from all politi
cal influences. The fact is, that it is
almost wholly a populist platform,
adopted in a state which four years
ago looked upon populism as the vain
imaginings of lunatics.
The work of Mr. Hearst in flying to
the relief of ths homeless and destitute
citizens of Galveston will command
the admiration of the world. As soon
as the news was made known of the
awful disaster, he started a special
train from the home of each" of his
great newspapers one from the Ex
aminer at San Francisco, one from the
Journal at New York and one from the
American at Chicago, loaded down
with medicines and delicacies for the
sick and wounded and with doctors
and trained nurses. More than that,
he announced that he would take care
of the helpless and orphaned babies
and children and telegraphed orders
to Galveston to rush the work of find
ing a place where they could be shelt
ered and cared for. The trains were
started the moment that they could bq
made up and nurses and doctors could
be secured to administer to the wants
of the stricken people. The prompti
tude of the action was as much to be
commended as the donation of the
great amount of money necessary.
Here is something that rises above
the sordid motives that govern so
much of the conduct of the rich men
of New York and will be told in mem
ory of Mr. Hearst long after the mem
ory of many of the millionaires of that
city has rotted into oblivion.
v. T. Stead sized up McKinley more
accurately than any other newspaper
man in the whole world. Writing
from Rome, November 21, 1898, he
said in speaking of the sentiment of
Rome- "They do not believe in the
least in the disinterestedness of the
American war of liberation. The Am
erican declarations are almost univer
sally derided a s a hideous example of
a worse than English hypocrisy. The
friends of America wring their hands
in unaffected grief over the fall of
the United States under the temptation
of territorial expansion. Her enemies
can shoot out the lip and shriek in de
rision over what they regard as the
unmistakable demonstration which
the demands for the Philippines af
fords, of American insincerity, Ameri
can bad faith and American ambition.
'We told you so!' they exclaim. 'That
is what the unctious rectitude of the
Anglo-Saxon always ends in. He al
ways begins by calling heaven to w't
ness his unselfish desire to help his
neighbors, but? he always ends by
stealing their spoons!'"
A NEW SCHEME
The Independent has received the
following letter telling how men start
national banks without any capital, j
A rumor has been current to that ef- J
feet. If the comptroller wants to go j
into collusion with the bankers, of
course it can be done. They will do j
almost anything down at Washington j
that a national banker asks them to 1
do. Whether this thing has been done !
or not The Independent does not
know. The letter is as follows: j
"It is reported in a confidential way
that national banks can start some
what easier than the common people
suppose. Responsible business men
of the Mark Hanna breed can arrange
with the comptroller of the currency
for $100,000 of bonds on the install
ment plan (that is, it has been done).
Mr. Comptroller will advance $10,000
in bonds. Mr. Business Man takes
the currency to the full amount of the
bonds, goes home, organizes a bank
with $100,000 capital, signs up the
promises to pay and is in the banking
business.. Deposits tome in and by
the time his sixty days are up he can
pay for his first installment and re
ceive a second one and so on. Do you
know anything about that way of
banking?"
A gentleman of national reputation
and undoubted veracity came into The
Indeperdent office at the beginning of
t.e week and said thai he. had just
come through Chicago. While there
he saw Joe Parker, the national chair
man of the McKinley assistant pop
ulists, come out of Mark Hanna's
headquarters There has never been
an infamy in politics quite so vile as
that which Joe Parker heads and di
rects. Here in this state his managers
ire trying to steal, the name of pop
ulist with which to serve Mark Hanna.
. SATTNG IS MAKING.
' In .The Independent each week ap
pears the advertisements of all the
leading commercial houses in Lincoln
and throughout the country generally
Every large mail order house in Ne
braska has an advertisement in its col
umns. These institutions have goods
of all kinds for sale and are not
afraid to make public the prices which
they ask. Our readers will find it
profitable to read the advertisements
each week and in most instances they
will be able to make a very consider
able saving when compared with the
price asked by local dealers. ' When
writing our advertisers do not fail to
mention the fact that you saw the ad
vertisement in The Independent. The
merchant is always pleased to know
the influence through which he se
cures a new or prospective patron,
and we are pleased to have the credit
for securing the customer. .... Write for
catalogues and price lists it only
costs you a postal card and will prob
ably, save you dollars.
There is a very great -difference in
the cost of issuing a six-column, eight
page paper, four pages set up at home
and four pages of plates, and a seven-column
paper all set up at home
and the greater part of it original mat
ter. This is the difference in The In
dependent now and The Independent
a year ago. The old subscribers have
generously helped in this evolution,
not only with constant words of cheer,
but by much hard work done in ex
tending the circulation among their
neighbors and friends. However, there
are a few who have made no re
sponse have oven failed to pay up
their back dues. The fire and the new
machinery by which the paper is now
issued have cost a great deal of money
and to keep the paper up to its pres
ent standard the management makes
an earnest appeal to all in arrears to
pay up at once. There may be a few
who are not really able to send the
money at present they will not be
pressed but all those who are able
should respond at once. . The enlarge
ment of the paper makes an increased
expenditure necessary every day in
the year.
The national debt has been increased
in the last five years $462,000,000 and
interest-bearing bonds for that
amount have been issued. The repub
licans call that prosperity. Everyone
who goes into debt feels prosperous
while he is spending and enjoying bor
rowed money. After the money is
spent,, he is not so prosperous. Espe
cially is tthat so if he has spent the
money and it makes no returns, but Is
gone forever. That is just what this
government has done. The money
has gone to pay the expenses of war
gone never to be returned. The inter
est burden and pay day will not sec-m
so prosperous. Bo you suppose that
you could get a mullet head to think
of these things? Well hardly.
The two ex-presidents of which the
United States can boast at the present
time, both seem to be in a very tight
place. Harrison will not say a word
in the advocacy of McKinley and
Cleveland says he don't know what to
do. Ex-presidents are likely to go at
a discount hereafter if they are of the
sort that we now have.
Several judges who have long pre
sided over criminal courts have lately
called attention to the incease in
crimes of the most violent character.
Crimes of this sort are becoming pre
valent in all parts of the country.
Young men and even boys arm them
selves and start shooting and looting
in a way never heard of before in these
states except in the roughest border
communities. Some of these judges
have attributed this outbreak of crime
to the stories of slaughter constantly
reported from day to day in the news
papers under the name of war. This
From Abraham Lincoln to Hark Hanna
LINCOLN REPUBLICANISM.
"No man is good enough to govern
another."
"Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves, and un
der a just God cannot long retain it."
A. Lincoln.
From republican platform of I860:
t-j -r v. ,!nf.n,,nn f
Aeuieu, luai. aiu
the principles promulgated in the Dec
laration of Independence ana embod
ied in the federal constitution. 'That
all men are created equal; that they ? l rcesu'ts aavantageously -to
are endowed by their Creator with cer- he governed, it is proper
Uta Unalienable rights; that among J?' it proves ad-
these are life, liberty and the pur- ITronnrv P P' f the gOV"
suit of happiness; that to secure these ermnS country.
right3. governments are instituted "It has already been shown that the
among men, deriving their just pow- holding of colonies (government by
ers from the consent of the governed,' force) is advantageous to the country
is essential to the preservation of our controlling them." Republican cam
republican institutions." paign text book, pages 133-134,137.
This plank is a reiteration of the "But lasting peace came to Algiers
platform of four years previous, through the French conquest as "it
which also says: will come to the Philippines through
"It is essential to the preservation our refusal to abandon the islands
of our republican institutions that we (through our conquest government
restore the action of the federal gov- by force).
ernment to the principles of Wash- "So Russia has advanced over Tur-
ington and Jefferson." It further de- kestan (conquered her people and gov-
clares that "polygamy and slavery" "ems them by force) and brought peace
are "twin relics of barbarism," and in her trail." Roosevelt's speech at
that the "highwayman's plea" that St. Paul, July 17, 1900.
"might makes right" is "in every re- "The conquest of India by England
spect unworthy the American diplom- has benefitted the conquered people
acy and would bring shame and dis- and everyone else." Roosevelt in
honor upon any government or peo- "Life of Benton," page 231, edition of
pie that gave it their sanction." 1S98.
When one governs another it is an empire. If the voters of this country , de
clare for the government of Porto Rico and the Philippines by the Federal govern
ment, the Republic of the United States will be changed to an Empire.
wholesale bloodshed -has a demoraliz
ing effect upon the whole citizenship.
It is probable that the matter will
grow still worse.
Even the very best of the republican
orators who have spoken so far in
this state seem hampered and handi
capped so that they have no freedom
of utterance. The poor fellows have
an awful hard time of it. The best
that they can do is to call Bryan a
demagogue and a traitor, after which
they try to prove that the constitution
does not follow the flag. . When they
tackle that proposition they have tho
hardest job of all, but they hammer
away at it with all their might.
It can no longer be doubted that the
allied troops have slain ten innocent
persons In China for every one that
was killed by the boxers. The proof
is overwhelming. ; Yet there has not
been a word of protest from any great
paper or magazine in the whole of the
United States or Great Britain. If
the common people do not rise up In
their might and force a change of pol
icy the world will be hurled back into
the dark ages. The increase of violent
crimes is everywhere apparent. If this
imperialistic tendency is not checked,
soon every man will have to go armed
and defend his person and property
with deadly weapons.
HARDY'S COLUMN
A King in Heaven Manila and Pekin
Roosevelt and the Dollar We
Are Gaining The Rough Rider in
North Dakota That Woman The
Iron Men What Working Men
Think The Coal Strike A Word
to Farmers.
A Sunday school teacher was talk
ing to her class of small boys about
heaven. "I don't want to go to heav
en," said a little boy of four. "Why,"
said the teacher. "Because they have
a king there and I am a Bryan boy and
don't want any king or emperor in
mine. A president is good enough for
me and Bryan."
If It was right and patriotic to hold
the Filipinos and their territory af
ter Dewey took Manila, why not take
and hold a part of China after taking
Pekin?
Roosevelt says the republicans have
made the dollar worth a hundred
cents. Who but the republicans made
the silver dollar worth less than a
hundred cents. President Hayes ve
toed the bill for commencing to coin
the silver dollar and congress passed
it over his veto. There is no doubt
that Hayes was, secretly ph-dged to
the gold bugs before his election and
so was McKinley.
We will only have to gain, upon
the republicans, about half as much
all through the states as we havu in
Vermont and Maine, to knock McKin
ley clean out of the box. So get your
Bryan kindlings ready, boys, for we
are going to have a Bryan bonfire the
third day after election.
Roosavelt tcld the people of Da
kota last week that it would degrade
our nation to start two independent
republics, Cuba and the Philippines
we mean, as. other nations or we will
lose our prestige. We now have a
high standing among nations and to
let those two peoples start a govern
ment of their own would throw a wet
blanket over every empire and king
dom on earth. Away with such fool
ishness or words to that effect.
The iron men are complaining there
is not as much iron bought as there
should be, that the production in
greater than the demand. Let them
sell as cheap here as they do in Eu
rope and Asia. They are now ship
ping it 5,000 miles and selling it much
cheaper than they will to the Ameri
can consumer. Take off the tariff then
they will sell as cheap at home as
thy do anywhere in the world.
It is estimated that 250,000 coal
diggerr are on a strike for Higher
wages and more justice In treatment.
Since all the coal companies Areut
into a trust they think they can put
up the price of coal without putting
up the wages of the coal-diggers, can
charge double cost on powder and
M'KINLEY REPUBLICANISM.
"Probably the most striking exam
ple of the advantages accruing to the
population from a government sup
plied by experienced people of other
blood and clime is In the case of
India."
'Having shown that colonization or
control of a. comparatively unonran
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an experienced and intelligent coun
',C1 . e. sovernmer
try and government (i. e. government