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I i rv . vv.rvil! , a. A 3 WW 111 Ul lull VOL. XII. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1900. NO. 19 II I II I II I J II II II -II II f a II II II II mm THE TRUSTS Atfrwy -rat kni)lk R-prts tm Tb Ia4rfrlml tl Krett of Itis right Ik MlMlinl Oil J4 wlul I ritr Trattt Atiortir CiirI Kmytb was asked ty a repre native tit The Indepen dent togHt .some cf til experience in 'iBctioa with t recent trip to New ; standard Osl trust ar.4 the American j fcat, if as. add:tlosal la.s were 1 or "f"0? of aboutl6 cents a r. -ithr ta: or Mtiocal. for a ! fiJ1n ,n thirty years. This fftive-fr-x-rft.l proper ton of trust. In ! !.y dLpof.,0f tb r,rltense ,that e r;-i. fce aid that ih art. '.at u re of J tL: ..! La ju:t- a severe U a alert coca U:nat ions formed for purpose of d ?-at:c rotspHition. or rttrutitx trrde ia ay way. But 1? 1 far fros i-'lx. It prortd no r wLjVt tl attorney peroral, I C;:r it n to en fore St, may pro- ; y t mre aerate Mlrr. of the existence ' coet of PlPn il to refineries Is 5 of -ca eooUwtSoa in advance of the i Pr f rrel. hence a very small cBBtfBfSt of ctu,r.. And. afurluia Pr rallon. It does not cost to aa a tioa Las La rossiaenced, aly i 1 cent to refine It. The total tb ordinary of procuring testl- I COKt of.oi to th u? to tfce point r. r.r.r a- "r-rd! ard tferv a ln s where it is ready for fchlpment to the many eat -st!relr ictdus-te. What ie has t-n a Lie to do against trusts has Iwn dt;ne usdr Erat di&adran-tar- Tfce ?isadTaritars cn all be r cot M ty ti- yjf lature. aad thy tonl "l. A rt dal of ' Icportatit ? fk. Lofver, has L-en arcoinphf-L I tars tb su?pref5on of trust m this state. The Talidity of the law ts tn t-rtb!isl-d. This, however. r.rt ("ib r:ll ftr m rfit r:r- oros Cjctt pirtir:pAte.l in by Senator Thurtoa. Mr. V--iJorth other a.tcriieys of t?b -taftic. a.n the r p-r-s-fctatiii of ii jy who cruh the law. Is trjir.s tt f r.'.; ci tL.: !j In ovS"r..f".' to t.- J thr-f(. Mr. Fatth wrt to New York a few is r h of !-t:i"Sfny ::.' ttKi tf .Vi3.ar-I Oil tru:. TI Ut:ratiy of f tL' fjjB'r tru nts a fair win;- " t k t 1 JJ'"4 iSTt- Mr u lr!;t !. -s t k -n. It p"e i of ttj ra br-; by for i. d. th sr man- r of t'lrtiiUtu .-.( 'h-ir -?"ct tipoa wf wniii with t;.:al of $!.- i-re fi-i for tL 5MrT--!toru j of ti- ; ro!jit-r. a v t! e re It tout !;iu r t.-i:r-' i-ti.ning i f.1" Mr. ! -s i'i.rw. T-fj tfssre of nv d .i iLra tor which tii y jmM $!... but hLu- tLy s'ot "n : v i.b-:b to pay for the 4c-:k, Mr. I'jy4. afr israch hHatioa. itd. h iid iif Ilow. Wit h fi C-w'nt ft -Afs thy izmt cpon tL. u'ti s.1 n l or11 a tr-ust with $l.,;mfjs.f of rar?ia! t?o k. Tbt- uu nll'.ior.i of t-af ?ri ni -r- to tb o of ttnty.iour di-t invi j.-rtt. irw " m various part Of f.- tL t t And in rrturn t jt.k 1'itij, t:,t.-d the probity f iL. !r ',,-r.:' i. fo-jr-T!i was itrini;-ut one ts sweeping in iih proii--.:.utH to ttr tiu. TUm was 1I Yion. It provide for a fine and im ..ut.. 5D a .rrt vjrt t, rr.--. aif tn:m prionmeat as well as for an Injunc - th- tiumzuy Ih urporitors di- tion against those who violate its pro- a :;- r a:d a crw t of off-rs con- visions. The iMipremc court of the of or. fnitij . h of th,- ind United SUtes has construed it liberally Ir?-ct tab!ih.-i.:i'. twk etiarsv. and it is today, in my opinion, capable .i-i In to:.- of t5?n t -lretd Mr. of oetroy In in their essential 5. every f -; . i rri.ii n. !.-.-. then, were irost in tot United States engaged in in. uty.fo'j" -taW.8hmnt wLkh had interstate business. If its enforcement --n -tirK m-j-r.a-ctly of earb oth- ' was in the hands of a fearless execti r w!i - i ;it ;iv! m:. tJtion tivt. Why Is it not enforced? The re 1ih fc ftLr. uj !'. M-booi furni- publican party must answer. Until 'it- Uiizhi'. t ut M h ar now n- that party does answer, it Is the merest ! r oe control and tio Joss. r romfHl- t bypocri) to pretend that it is in favor tore. At orrr tb -y rj.i d th price of ! of additional legislation against trusts, school turnittir cwrc than ;i pr -i.t. ! No one should take any stock in such Tbir travn-,Bs al-mn r- ' prttens until the r?publican party p"S4 w; h tT'i tbff f,xd tb wares i ha- shown a willingness to enforce the of th-ir -? ;. oy . at Mich fieurt-s a-s .: pres-;t law. thy pai. Tb a ;L-y wete enahlrtl to py a Ur.. H! Ur.i opoa w.;tend -iticn w c!-th- t'j contrib'Jt to- Mark Hanra. Wolcott and Lodge its. -. !j rd. workel very scheme known to Tb arir-nry -r.ral af .-nuht to s shrewd politicians to prevent fusion prc-ufe tttto?v in ti- i-a brought n Arapahoe county, Colorado, In hita Hixt' tte r!d;.rd Oil o'is- which the city of Denver is situated, j.v. !.- or .n N- York fr ' they completely failed. A fusion ?: t r- :rif.-.- tc r r n i-ffort to ! ticke-t was nominated satisfactory to .!r tr.e .:!.i.- ...; tL Ur pri- I a thit-e parties. It will be electe-d by i! -i.t Kiirr. ususr nr. I i ( retary 1 large majority. They nominated the cf tl.-e conipati r I't ic.sm. A d-irc- right kind of men and one woman for tit er.,pk,-f f.-r the p'jrj.0-. of local- the legislature, whoso names and oc Inff tb- r. tsu.-t f- wrrt- w him ! cutations are printed 'below. It is with pro.s wii is formed by th? Ka ral Eitarn- tl :.? be as at hi r-?i-"fce-. Ti i!.forn;at tijn v,- f.rtsed ty th r.c pr-ed-nt 's co?rh-Ci-an. but wt-n the cf'cr called at thf bouse, the t-rtait denied that the vke preb!rnt was it torn, and the cfi'-r M cast 1- to procur service. Th-re in strong msor for b-lvin the vice prsiitr.t evad-d the service cf the writ. The rral manarr was wni with a fu tyt be dis ci r-.i its crtseB,tr -1. Th thicrs are rvn-ir:: -d it ti.,- how the of3-' rert ! this, th- -rrrM-n of all trim. s-k to etde u. rrsforcfmett of the law. In Near York th attorney rrru-ral cot any more ur-ful with re- fprt 40 turtsg the timcnr of of3- eer of the Standard Oil trust. While prettiest ranches in the state. He has thr. he b arnd from officers of the i aa extensive cheese factory. Wilbur law. that t? na made it a bus!- F- Canr.on served in the Ninth and ces,f to evidc f.rt let- of leral process. Twelfth general assemblies. Arthur arsd that e a rast'fr of fact thy had C. Bartcls also served in the last as orly coEitrrj-i for the law and very sembly and Harry C Insley is the I:t: rejt for .r;e t-oarts. After the I popular president of the Denver wheel most li':srt:t Inquiry upon his pirt he was naaMe to xr"iru-e nij infoma t:cn as to the whercatouts of these ol fleers. fct succ.fled in procur ing the testimony of one witness, well irfomJ with rpxt to the Stand ard Oil truAi and Its rathod of doing buicrr. well as 'rith rept to the cot of oil to the Standard Oil coni piny. Mr. itice v.as oace very pros tT JH rtS-ser of oil at Marietta. O.. b'-t railnid OisrrirainatJons in favor cf the Standard Oil trust, together with a ruifous coeapt tloa conduct M ty the trait, wherever Mr. R'c sourht to do buine. until be was dilvea out, -Arttilifil Is his, i!aot total ruin. It eftc Lea issrrtl thst the Stand ard Oil trust has reduced the price of oil. This Mr. Rice showed was with out any foundation In fact. The Standard Oil company was formed In 1S70. In 1861 the price of refined oil wan 14 cents per gallon. Nine years thereafter and before the Standard Oil company was formed, it had fallen to rCVi cents per gallon. This was, p rope-tlonately. In the nine years before the Standard Oil company was formed, a greater reduction tran that which has taken place since the formation of ,ng ln " s !: . . .? 1 , , V" "r"uv,:" price of oil. But 51r. Itlce cave further veluable testimony on this tame point. He showed what the cost of oil, per gal lon, was to the refiner, that is the Standard Oil company. The price of rude oil was 1 cents per gallon. The retail dealer, is 2 cents per gallon, and the cost of transporting it from the refineries at WTiltlng. Inrt., Mr. Hie put at 1 cent a gallon, making the total ton to the trut in Nebr&nka of nt. while they fcell it here to the retailors for 10 cent, or a profit of more than C-0 ter cent. Sir. Rice aUo htated that thla same monopoly ! boJd for export to Russia, at a.bout 4 r.ts a gallon. This was due to the mat competition existea in jiub- Th lack of competition, there for,, in tnls countr Because uie Standard Oil company controls 93 per cnt. said Mr. Rice, of the oil busi ness, compels our people to pay 6 cents a gallon more for the oil which they cor.. u me than the Russian is required to pay. In view of these enormous proiiU. forc.-d from the pockets of the p;ple of this country, the Standard I Oil trut has become one of the most wealthy aggregation in the world. And Its power its a consequence, in Mate and national politics ,i3 tremen loiia. This grr at power Is usually ex rrciKtnl to xntroi the executive depart v.if iA of govt-rnment. I do not taean to .v that it has purchased executive ofiitcr by paying them so much in ju. but It sees to t that none out ihoM- fritiidly to it? interests are fj.tr i with the executive power, and th.- p-rty willing to sere it in that ie.pet is made the recipient of enor mous campaign contributions. In what other way can we account for the f & tin r& nf th nttorner eeneral cf the United States to enforce the antl-trnst 'law? Teat law, taid Mr. Smyth, v.as put npea the statute books in 1890, and yet some of the greatest of thj trusts now 'Xiling. nave oeen craie wucc mat time. Aye, most of them have been created since The law is a most FL'sion In Denver seen that every one of thera Is taken from the producing classes. B. P. Smith Is secretary of the srcel tcrmen's union and prominent In la tor circles; Max Moiris Is the sec retary of the retail clerks national protective association, and vice presi dent of the American federation of la bor; Jacob N. Lorber is a grocer at 1100 Market street; Peter Gorman was a lader in the knights of labor and is a blacksmith; Albert Gamin Is a salesman; J. J. Bradley was a mem- her of the last legislature and Is a contractor; Mrs. Evangeline Heartz is i prominent in woman's club3. She was i a member of the Eleventh general as- sembly. Thomas Caley represents the agricultural Interests on the ticket. He resides near Little ton on one of the club. C. G. Pitschke has been promi nent In municipal, educational and la bor circles for several years. He served as alderman, then mayor of the town of Colfax before Its annexation to Den ver, and as director of school district No. 21. He Is a member of the wood wcrk?rs' union and has represented that body ln the Denver trades and la bor assembly for years. "I express my we-considered opin ion that the United States onght not to accept sovereignty over the Phil ippines, but should secure the inherent rights of the people of those Islands to form and maintain a reupblican government similar to our own." John Sherman. HANNA GETS MAD Hays There Are No Trusts and Makes a Speech that the Fufonist Would Like to Hare Repeated In Every State Washington, D. C, Sept. 24. (Spe cial Correspondence.) Hanna is get ting badly frightened. The probab ility of republican defeat grows great er every day. You can always tell when Hanna is worried. He abandons his normal oc cupation of collecting campaign funds from the trusts and rushes upon the stump. He makes such a spectacle of himself in public that the judic ious members of his cwn party even forget the absurdities of Roosevelt in their contemplation of the damage Hanna can do his own case in the course of a fifteen-minute speph. "I do not know of the existence of a single trust In the United States," says Hanna. It is not necessary to discuss the statement or refute it. Let It stand as the republican reply to the protest of the common people against tha merciless exactions of trusts in the last three years. Hanna has collected his campaign fund with some difficulty. The trusts have been sure of loyalty, but they have questioned his Intelligence and discrimination in handling their in terests. Hanna is coarse and vulgar and commonplace in his methods. The trusts, feeling that they own the country, are under the impression that a finer quality of brain might serve them better than Mr. Hanna's. Hanna wants to be retained as the party boss and the willing Instrument of the trusts. His statement quoted above is his declaration of allegiance. He is always contemptuous of the common every day voters. He thinks they can either be bought or bull dozed. He wants the trusts to understand that they can have confidence in him. He will deny their existence so he will not have to discuss these griev ances which the people are always whining about. What does Hanna or his party care that the farmer pays trust prices for every foot of wire fencing, every piece of farm machinery, every suit of clothes in fact for about everything he has to buy? Nothing at all, because in Hanna's opinion the farmers are useful only as producers to be robbed and as per sons from whom war taxes can be collected. What does Hanna and his party 'care that more than 126,000 miners are I striking against the coal trust for liv ing wages? That 60,000 employes of the Steel and Iron trust are threat ened with indefinite idleness because they presume to want fair-wages from the trust that makes millions of prof its? ... Nothing at all. Hanna and his par ty think the workingman altogether too independent. They object to his having a heart or a brain. They are not even willing that he shall have a full dinner pail or three square meals a day. . . Hanna and his party believe in a protective tariff to fester trusts and free admission of cheap labor so that its competition may teach the Ameri can workman the lesson of grateful submission and acquiesence, no mat ter how the trusts starve them and rob them. Does Hanna and party care for the protest of the consumers of coal all over the country who are being robbed of millions by the coal trust, which has advanced prices from $1.50 to $2 a ton using the strike of miners as a pretext when the fact is that there is a surplus of coal on hand. Not at all. - Hanna thinks that the consumer of coal and every other trust product is there for the express pur pose of being fleeced. Hanna is do ing his best to procure another four years of robbery and license for the trusts. ' Does Hanna and his party care that thousands of small manufacturers have been forced to the wall by the trusts. That thousands of workmen have been rendered idle because the trusts desire to limit production and put up prices? Not at ali. Hanna is for the trusts and against the people, first, last and all th9 time. Hanna's declaration was a plain and emphatic notice to . the masses that the party of which he is the boss had no sympathy whatever with them. Anybody who watched the action of the recent republican congress could have no doubt on the matter. The Fifty-sixth congress held up all anti trust legislation, it encouraged every subsidy grab that came to the surface and it killed every piece of labor leg islation that came before it. Still it is just as well to have Hanna put the matter bluntly and crudely. The situation has Its humorous side from the democratic point of view. The republican leaders are In a panic over Hanna's declaration. The trusTs, whom he tried to serve, are angry. The latter realize that it does not help their cause to insult the in telligence of the people. ' ; After much dodging the republican' leaders have just waked up to the. fact that the trust Issue is an impor tant one. They were preparing i to meet It with all the discretion and per suasive eloquence with which a bad cause might be defended when Han na made his statement. Now nobody knows what to do In order to counter act Its effect. Hanna's abuse of Bryan in a man ner which would have done credit to Roosevelt. That's all right. Abuse is the last resource of those who' have no argument to offer. If Hanna would make daily speeches" 'from now'ur.til election day, he would tnake thou sands of votes for the democratic par ty. When Hanna speaks "he-shows the utter selfishness and hypocrisy and brutality cf the republican party. Bryan's speeches and Ms personality need no defense. It is a. good thing that the voters have the contrast pre sented to them so sharply. HERBERT JARVINE BROWNE. For Free Speseh - While the republican party is con stantly introducing policies copied from Europe, the people of that coun try are making . mighty .struggles to emancipate themselves .and attain to the liberty ' guaranteed to us by the Declaration of Independence and" the constitution. A recent cablegram says: "Freedom of speech may soon tri umph in Germany. It is probable that the 'lese majeste law will be revoked, in which case the people will no long er be bound to hold the royal person age beyond criticism, but can " call the kaiser such names as they deem ap propriate, for it is proposed to remove the treasonable construction from im perial criticism. "The reform movement in Germany has long been looking toward the day when restriction oC the press and of speech will not stand in the-way of progressive government-". THE BANKER'S BILL The Practical Effect of the Financial Bill was to Extend the Government Iebt and Benefit National Bankers Editor Independent: The McKin ley aid "Society pops will do their best this year in Nebraska, will they not? I call myself a populist, too, but-not of that kind. McKinley - will get Iowa again this year, but he will not get it by 63,000 majority by any. means. I think that if this part 6f Iowa is any indication, he will come far short of it. I wish to ask you a few questions in regard to the bearing of the late finan cial, bill. The reform papers seem to disagree about it. Some say one thing and some say another., 1. Is the silver dollar a legal tender for government bonds and all public and private debts the same as it was? 2. If not, to what extent is it legal tender? - .1. Does the act make silver dollars redeemable in gold? . 4. Can greenbacks and coin notes be lawfully redeemed in silver? Please answer through The Inde pendent then all can see for them selves. . ' '- ' . ; I suggest that if the; middle-of-the-road populists . wanttb get on the ticket under the name of populist, that they be allowed asMcKinley aid pop ulists. .-. -N. J. SLATER. Hazleton, la. - In answer to the above questions The Independent -would say that we will never, know wiint the late financial bill does provide for until, the courts get hold of it and tell 4is.: That is the way with most laws since the republican party has done the legislating. This much Is - pretty, certain. Government bonds are specifically made payable in gold. A refunding scheme was pro vided for so that the coin bonds out standing could be refunded into gold bonds. " As soon as the outstanding bonds are refunded, they will all be payable in gold. Silver is a legal ten der only where no other kind of money is specified in the contract. Silver dollars are not redeemable in gold, neither are silver certificates. It was the understanding at the time the bill passed that it made greenbacks re deemable in gold, -but the wording of the bill is not clear on that point, and the authors of it now declare that they are, and others of . the McKinley fol lowers say that they are not. We will have to wait until the courts tell us what the thing means. The main pur pose in enacting that bill was to ex tend the government debt for thirty years so that the national banks could get bonds to bank on. Without a gov ernment' debt and government bonds, the national banks of issue would have to quit business, so the old bonds that would soon fall due and have to be paid off, were made refundable in long-time bonds at a low rate of in terest so that the national bankers could deposit them at Washington, get their full value back in money and then draw interest on both bonds and the money s which, they loaned out to the people. They, already have over $84,000,000 .ftf this money which Gage ha3 handed orer to them since the bill was passed and there is a possibility of their getting something over $400, 000,000 more. If silver dollars and silver certifi cates were made redeemable in gold, the banks could wreck the - United States treasury at any time within ten days for there is something over $600, 000,000 of them and all they would have to ;do would be to go down to Washington and " demand gold until the treasury would have to suspend payment. "They did that with green backs alone when Cleveland was pres ident, and he had to issue $262,000,000 in bonds to keep any gold in the treas ury. At that time he had an undoubted legal right to redeem the greenbacks in silver, but he would not do it. So we were 'saddled with nearly $300, 000,000 more of deht on which we must pay double Interest. This financial act was simply an act lor the benefit of national bankers. That was Its ob ject and will be the practical effect Of it. - - -; - - The Law Breakers At present the coal fields, the men who work them and every human . be ing heated by the coal exists at the mercy of a few law-breaking finan cial gamblers who should be breaking stones In state prison instead of break ing hearts in thousands of homes. Chicago American, , - CAUGHT IN THEIR OVH TRAP Judge Taft's Report, Held for Weeks to Produce a Favorable Affect on the. Election, Printed at the Wronc Time. , Washington, D. C, Sept. 22.(Spe cial Correspondence.) About' a month ago Secretary Root obtained from Philippine commission No. 2, now in Manila, an advance report for cam paign purposes only. When he thought the psychological moment had arrived Mr. Root sprung it on an innocent and unoffending pub lic.: '. .i. . - . .. ...... .". It was the same old string of Otis lies revamped and badly told. "Only a fragment of one tribe in re bellion. The balance of the ten mil lions of Filipinos just hungering for McKinley, Imperialism." The very day that was published General ' MacArthur sent In a report of active fighting on September 16, in which 33 per cent of the American forces were killed. On September 19, a battle with 1,000 insurgents took place. Fighting was reported all over Luzon and neighboring islands where out troops have established outposts. The most charitable construction to place on this discrepancy between the facts and the report is to assume that the commission systematically hides itself in some cellar in Manila so that it won't get hurt and won't find out what is going on. Judge Taft's commission told ? the same old tale about the insurrection disappearing in sixty days if McKinley were re-elected. The usual assertion was made that the Filipinos were be ing encouraged by the attitude of the democrats. The lie is too stupid to need a reply, but if one were necessary the report of the commission proceeds to fur nish it. After representing the Fili pinos as astute politicians in . one place, - the report - later takes occasion to state how ignorant and degraded the Filipinos are and how unfit for independence or citizenship. The ad ministration still fails to furnish an explanation of the failure to suppress the insurrection when for the last year it has had 70,000 troops in the islands and unlimited power as to what policy should be pursued. It is about time to try a new president and a different policy with the .Filipinos. The commission urges . that "Rail road franchises should be at once granted." Of course let the trusts have ev erything worth stealing in advance and do it quick because McKinley is likely to be defeated and in that event the franchise-grabbers will be left out in the cold. The election of.; delegates for the Cuban constitutional convention indi cates that the independent party won out against the annexationists. Now the administration henchmen are growling and declaring that the Cu bans wouldn't let Governor Wood and the rest of the administration ap pointees advise them so "the rabble won out." The Cubans, are merely a rabble to the administration when they want independence and a ful fillment of the solemn pledges made by this country. - HERBERT JARVINE BROWNE. SENATOR HOAR He Advocated Exactly What Bryan Set Forth as his Policy In Jthe Indian apolis Speech and now bays that is Ridiculous Nonsense In the United States senate, April 17, 1900, Senator Hoar said: (See Congressional Record, page 4596.) I believe that, if not today or to morrow, yet at an early day, better knowledge of the facts, the light of experience, the love of liberty and justice which still burns in the hearts of the republican masses in this coun try will bring that party, back to the principles and policy upon which it planted itself in the beginning. We are told that if we oppose the policy of our imperialistic and ex panding friends we are bound to sug gest some policy of our own as sub stitute for their's. We are asked what we would do in this difficult emerg ency. It is a question not difficult to answer. I for one am ready to an swer it. - 1. It would declare now that, we would not take these islands to gov ern them against their- will. 2. I would reject a cession of sov ereignty which implies that sover eignty may be bought and sold with out the consent of the people. Spain had no rightful sovereignty over the Philippine islands. She could not rightfully sell it to us. We could not rightfully buy it from her. 3. I would require all foreign gov ernments to keep out of these islands. 4. I would offer to the people of the Philippines our help . ln maintaining order until they have a reasonable op portunity to establish a government of their own. 5. I would aid them ty advice, if they desire it, to set up a free and in dependent government. . 6. I would invite all great powers of Europe to unite in an agreement that that independence shall not be inter fered with by us, by themselves or by anyone of them without the consent of the others. As to this I am not so sure. I should like quite as well to tell. It is not to be done whether they consent or not. 7. I would declare that the United States would enforce the same doc trine as applicable to the Philippines that we declare as to Mexico and Hatl and the South American republics. It is true that the Monroe doctrine, a doctrine . based largely upon our re gard for our own interest, is not ap plicable either in terms or in princi ple to a distant Asiatic territory. But undoubtedly, having driven out Spain, we are bound, and have the right to secure for the people we have lib erated an -, opportunity, - undisturbed and in peace, to establish a new gov ernment for themselves., 8. I would then, in a not distant fu ture, leave them to work out their own salvation. As every nation on earth from the beginning of time, has wrought out its own salvation. Let them work out their own salvation, as our own ancestors slowly and in long centuries wrought out their's; as Ger many, as Switzerland, as France, In briefer periods, wrought out . their's; all of them within a century, some ol them within the life of a generation. To attempt . to impose freedom from without on any people is" to disregard all the lessons of history. It is to at tempt. "A gift of that '. which is not to be given By all the blended powers of earth and heaven." 9. I would strike out of our legisla tion the oath of allegiance to us and substitute an oath of alegiance to their own country. V ; ' , , . On August 12, Senator Hoar, refer ring to Mr. Bryan's pledge at Indian apolis to immediate convene congress, if, elected, with a view to declaring the independence of the Philippines, said: "He (Bryan) says if he is elected he shall call an extra session at once and propose to congress to give up the Philippines to their own people.. He is too intelligent not to know very well that this : talk is the idlest and most ridiculous nonsense." AN UNOCCUPIED EMPIRE To Reclaim and Settle It is a Stupendous Problem be Be Accomplished Only By the Government The vista that the possibilities of ir rigation reveals is almost stupendous. The federal ' government today owns 100,000,000 acres of land, which is worthless only because it is arid. This "un watered empire" can be reclaimed by irrigation and rendered capable of sustaining a population of at least 50,000,000 people. In the words of the secretary of agriculture in his last an nual report: "More than one-third of the country depends upon the success of irrigation to maintain the people, the industries, and the political in stitutions of that" area; and future growth will also be measured by the increase of the reclaimed area. In a region which, in the extent and . di versity of its mineral wealth, has no equal on the globe, the riches of the mines in the hills' are already sur passed by the productions of the irri gated farms in the rvalleys and the nation at large is at last awakening to the fact that the development of the use of the rivers, and arid lands of the west will , constitute one of the most important epochs' in our increase in population arid material-wealth." - These stupendous possibilities also present a colossal problems How may this gigantic desert be1, transformed into a land of prosperity? - Who is to redeem the national ; domain7 by a comprehensive system of reservoirs? It . has been demonstrated by twenty years of experience in irrigation de velopment and by the reports of gov ernment experts and engineers that the great' problem can only be solved by the. federal government. Captain Hiram M. Chittenden, engineer corps, U. S. A., in his report on "Surveys for Reservoir Sites." declares emphatical ly that reservoir construction in the arid regions of the west can properly be carried out only through public agencies. "Private enterprise can never accomplish the work successful ly. As between state and nation, it falls more properly under the domain of the latter." It is . estimated tnat $143,000,000 would reclaim the arid lands of the west; that an expenditure by the' fed eral government of $15,000,000 a year for ten years would open up lands for the settlement of a population as big as that of the entire country at pres ent: An appropriation of $100,000 was made at the last session of congress for preliminary surveys to discover the best locations for the immense reser voirs.. . . " - '.:""'... The assistance of every organization and of every individual in forwarding this all-important work should be wel comed and assisted "in every possible way by the citizens of the United States. . -", Here Is a work that will be beneficial to mankind. It does not" require" the slaughter of tens of thousands of Fili pinos (the war depaitment reports show that we have already killed over 30,000 of them) nor does it demand the sacrifice of thousand of the sons of this republic upon blcody battle fields. It will not cost half the money that our foreign wars have cost, in the vain attempt . to conquer, foreign pos sessions and hold the inhabitants thereof as subjects. It is in work like this that the populist party would have , our government engage rather than in the pursuit of gold and glory through slaughter and suffering in the tropics. --Which policy commends it self to readers as the Test for this na tion? . For which will you cast your vote? -. ; . . - ' ' : Praying Against Mckinley The women who are opposed to the re-election of McKinley have started a prayer chain' against him, '. A lady in Indiana began it and wrote three letters to her friends and asked them to pray every day for the defeat of McKinley and that they each write to three of their friends making the same requests. The idea took. It has spread like wild fire. The chain has been be gun. Even now the letters are flying from state to state and, city to city, and it is believed that by election 10, 000,000 women will be praying to Al mighty God for the defeat of the re publican ticket. WHAT IT PROMISED Republican Party Promised Bimetallism and Gave us the Gold Standard, It : asw rromiMi UMny ana win Give Us Imperialism The villainy of the republican party is written In the imperishable records of this nation and can never be erased. In the ethical future, the world will standaghast when it contemplates It, In 1892 ln its campaign book It said: "Nine-tenths of the people ; are bl metalllsts. They want both money metals used, because they believe both are needed to sustain the world's com merce. The republican party honestly and Intelligently answers their wishes. President Harrison Is a bimetilllst, as his official papers and speeches show. The republican platform declares for bimetallism, and in that respect faith fully represents the course of the par ty. The. republican policy seeks a broader monetary basis. The world's commerce expands so rapidly the volume of paper currency and of various credit substitutes for mon ey, which must be -supported by the specie basis, has become so vast that scarcely any can be found to deny that commerce and industry would bo safer If the entire stock of $3,711,345, 000 gold and $3,939,571,000 silver In the .world (see estimate of Director of the Mint Leach, table A.) , could ba freely employed as a foundation, in stead of only a part of . that amount As matters stand ?n the great commer cial nations of the world, the credit system and the commercial exchanges now rest upon the stock of gold as the only basis. A bimetallic system would render the commerce and industry of these nations safer and more healthy. Serious losses and great risks are in curred through the constant disturb ance of exchanges between gold-using and silver-using countries. Even in Great Britain, where gold monometal lism is worshipped as it is . nowhere else, ; . the greatest statesmen and the most powerful boards of trade are at their wits' end to discover some way of escaping the frightful losses in com merce with the east which have this very, year involved great banks and firms in. ruin.". - ..... The money plank of the republican party adopted at Philadelphia, June 21, 1900, states: "We declare out steadfast opposl tion to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. We renew our allegiance to the principle of the gold standard." With the same criminal Intent the party is now abroad in the land try ing to deceive the people again. It promised us bimetallism; and it" gave us the-gold standard, . Now it prom ises us . liberty . and will give us imperialism, - ; . ' C P. HUNTINGTON 1 Hew he and his .Partners . Accumulated . Their Millions It Was' all Taxed . " ' Out of the. People .- Huntington went to Washington in 1862 and put through a bill authorizing the'eonstruction of the Central Pacific and contributing bonds enough to build the road. The day that the bill was signed he . telegraphed his part ners: ..'',' iV - ' " . "The bill has passed and "wo have drawn the elephant." The act passed by congress gave to the Central Pacific Railroad company a franchise to construct a railroad and telegraph line through California from west to east, having the right to con tinue eastward until it met the Union Pacific. " In aid of the project the government agreed to give every alternate section of public land to the number of five alternated sections per mile on each side of the road, the secretary of the treasury to issue to the company bonds of the United States payable thirty years after date, bearing 6 per cent interest. Mr. Huntington came to New York and sold $1,500,000 of the bonds for cash. - : ' The construction ' was begun and pushed. At last, in May, 1869, in Utah, was driven the last spike which con nected the Atlantic and the Pacific by rail. '" ' . When the road was finished only five men remained in it Huntington, Hop kins, Leland Stanford and the Crok ersr Other men who had assisted at the beginning had dropped out and the five menwere willing that they should do so. " ' The survivors formed the Credit and Finance company, which became the Credit Mobilier of the Central Pacific. As directors of that road they made a contract with the finance company themselves to build the railroad, giv ing therefor $27,000,000 of government bonds which they had received as a subsidy, $27,000,000 of the company's first mortgage bonds and $8,000,000 of land bonds which they Issued on the government grants. This was done gradually as the work prospered, but the above sum, with about' $27,000,000 more of bonds on subsidized road which the company afterward bought, was paid to the Credit and Finance company for build ing the road. Out of the surplus thus gained the five men bought all the other railroads in California, ' all the, river and bay otoa m ora flio Sail tTil n r i c:rn at rot - ot lines and finally established a mall line to China and built the Southern Pacific railroad. This financiering was bitterly op posed by the people of California, as Huntington had a monopoly of a most 1 ... . KWKf 1 . 11 1 1 fit . I.r-1 . liiH LllVfl 11 ment's bill was also staved off and the matter was dragged through congress for years. Now the Central Pacific is leased to the Southern Pacific, and Uncle Sam, as usual, got the worst of it. .. , '. .;; ' '