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I800--I900.
Some Hfstorf cal Parallels Be
tween Jefferson and
Dry an.
First bov Mr. Henry Adams
nmmlec of Us Urates alnt
JeTerae by U-e Federalists of New
EcgU4 ui Kew 'York la 1S00:
Ery 4MmAUt Intriguer. looe-llTer,
farxcr. ti.ire-co'.r:er and prlon-bIrd;
vry Ita4r braised. loud-ta'Mng dem
ar -.; every tpecaUtor. BcoJer and
atheist, wm follower of Jefersoxi;
aad Jerss was himself Ui lacaraa
tiast tf their tlteories."
WHAT BOETrLT nAlS OF TC
ToU-tTHKM or JKrrEBWW
"iititdy lio Kansas City platform
aad yea caaa-at help realizing that
iteir poUmj is las policy of infamy,
tfcat their uisaspk woulJ mean misery
so widespread that it U almost un
taiakaUs sad a ditsra so lasting
that mat than a generation would
Lass to pace Wore it coulJ be wiped
sit.
"They etand fr UWihh aad dis
order. e4kty dt.hooor. for
ti c svod SmW ! sad rew
ard:? tWtofcmt frMB abroad."
wait itiTma? aar r jcrrrit-
MVI ADMIXIoTKlTIOX.
A ad what followed all this bysteria
a saalie, Is vocation f dread spec
trtm aad yrsdlctioa of the mob? Yhat
was the ir;s4!? An administration.
as &coelrr jastly describes it. "peace
ful, p rsr4r a&d popular beyond all
precejeat. especially ftrong and
sseeesafsi jest where U direst dlsas
irr ha bees foreboded, in the mm
retseat cf tie finance of the coun
try. "Tar pellcy of this remarkable
adalaktratia.M writes this admirer
ml JtSmos. was at once and steadily
ssceessfel ia wlnnlcg the people; and
the pretties cf enthusiasm became Ir
reslstihls whta conjoined with the
wrest:?. ef success. An executive,
neither 12 instrument of others nor
a brtrsyer f trusts, we may regard
Jererewa as the genuine personator of
list to which France's First Consul
presented contemporaneously the
cots eterf tit a leader of the common
papl la the direction cf their test
desires."
TI verdict is aot simply that of
Jeffersea't admirers. The historians
art aaroaica. Mr. Morse, ia his
r Cm sate jZeroa. in the American
imri aeries. and neither the
aeries as a whale, cor Mr. Morse's vol
jc la partisular, will evtr be ac
cased f E&ahjjes admiration of JeJer
ea its ferte uses terms almost iden
tical. Mr. Beaouler. la the passage
(noted, is wrttlsc of a time midway
1a Jeffersda's second administration,
3t Wfore Use troubles lta England.
Mr. Morse is writing of the close of
all lrt admlaistration. when the
caaBpala fcr his re-election ap
? reached. Everything, he says. re
doeaded to mis food fame and popular
ity." The aatlon felt "comfortable
aad coed aatared amid the broad Tisi-
i hie facta cf the paisinr time, ...
vfer at expenses curtaile4 and taxes
reduoed. aad debts being rapidly di
minished? . . . Had the country
bea for ssasy years pat so free from
Irritation aad sa xiety growing out of
fore4ga aSahs? ... Had political
liadlisess erer be'ore permeated the
nation aa It did today? Four years of
prosperity ad tranquility left little
room for diacmttnt with the govejis
ssent. Aseid such InJSuences poliUcal
ppoltlfea 4.ed and almost died.
Tfc wrtft mt ktaury tit arfiulal.
rtlB mt t ltVr 4 j Jffng,
WUUim J. Uf SfTM, mUm K W
pml&tjpm, wut ftMl tmllmm mmt thm
I LINCOLN VS. HIS PARTY.
tUay , IM. frch at mooning ton. III., at the formation of party in
UftWw Arojotd. sw VS.)
XC an, ia Vol'iting oor new pertv, plant oar-lvee en the reck of the
Ileratkin of lojoVprailmco and the cat of hell shall not be able to prevail
I
ae now trlare the Dvctarmtien of Independence obsolete and deny
It
tal prlsM-lp!o that (tcruaraU derie tblr jat pon trt from the
tt of the rmi.
Of mil th humbug and falme pretense of the McKinley administration there is nothing tnere
tfltou? tluan th cry of jrojcrit t.f' The uppresetl rotten beef scandal, which is sought to be covered
fry pXewa patriotism; tlie Vuban frauds, whose authors are pretended to be prosecuted j the boodle
fumUhlnf truftAy which are held up as enemies while licensed to tax the people? are'all&palpable
eridem of the miserable hypocrisy of JUarfc llannurs regime, but for cool audacity nothing lias
equaled the clamor about "prosperity.'
- Dt O. JT. JTerkins, of Chicago, has made a study of a certified report signed by, A. IT. Glens
on. Chief 3rU of the ISureau of Jjabor and Industrial Statistics of Xebraska. Under his analy
sis thim report tells a cidely different story from that daily proclaimed by Mepublican
speaker and press. "Using the round numbers," he says, ' the mortgages satisfied', during the
three and m half years ending June 13, 1VOO, amount to $99,000,000, cm against $77,000,000 filed,'
or a difference of, $22,000,000 in favor of prosperity.' This applies to real estate mortgages only
end would bear out the claim of the Ilepublicans provUletl there was nothing fur titer. Wlien, however.
fwe pas to the nejrt column we
$77,000,000 atifieda difference of $1G1,000,000 against prosperity,'" v
Th difference between $IGJ,OOO,00O and $22,000,000 la $139,000,000. This is the actual
increase in the mortgage indebtedness of the state of Xebratha according to the sworn statement of the.
eounty clerk. The large figures are not easily comprehended. Viewed from another standpoint t
TO SUITLANT WHITES
American Workmen T7ill Be Put in
Competition with CMntxaen by
Conquest of the P hilippinea.
"BIAS ALEZADY OPEEATUTG.
lerer In the history of thla gov
ernment baa the labor of this coun
try been bo menaced by the threatened
Influx of the Mongolian and Malay
cheap labor of the far east as seems
probable under the McKInley policy
of imperialism, should that dangerous
policy be ratified by the American peo
ple. Without the labor rote that policy
cannot be approved. It behooves the
laboring people, therefore, to look out
for breakers shead. What does the
eonqurt-t of the Philippine islands
mean? It means that they shall be
come American territory. What rights
does that proposition carry with it to
the people of the Philippines? ' The
McKInley policy to make the Philip
pine Islands American territory by con
quest, and subject to American Juri3
dicUon. carries with it the right oZ
the people of those islands to free lo
comotion to travel whither they will
from one part of American territory
to another without let or hindrance.
What has happened in the Hawaiian
Islands under the McKInley adminis
tration since those Islands have been
annexed to the United States will take
place in this country. Fourteen to
twenty thousand Japanese coolie la
borers have been imported Into the
Hawaiian islands by the rich, sugar
planters, under contract, since the
annexation of those islands; and this
too, in violation of the contract labor
law. Why did not McKInley as the
chief executive of this nation whose
duty It was to enforce the law, pre
vent this Influx of Japanese coolie la
bor? Simply because he is bound
band and foot in the clutches of the
syndicates and trust combines of the
country.
What have we in store for the
Philippine islands should the Mc
KInley war of conquest be endorsed?
The Influx of Chinese coolia labor into
those islands under the sanction of the
McKInley . administration! General
Wesley Merrltt and General Charles
A. Whittlcr, U. S. V., and other land
and naval oSieer3 went to Paris from
Manila to testify before the Paris peice
commissioners as to the Philippine
people, their wants, needs, capabii.ues
and government. General Whittier
said:
Then the question of the admission
of Chinese, with the strong argument
oa both sides. ' The merchants of Ma
nila are unanimous in their represen
tations of the necessity for more cooley
labor. They, and many others, re
quire it In Manila, and think that it
will be necessary in railroad building,
and in Che development of the coun
try, esying, "There i3 no question of
competing with American labor here,
there being no such in the country,
nor can there be. the climate prohib
iting that Cheap labor and plenty of
It is the life blood of the Philippines.
There is rooia for three millions of
Chinese comfortably, while 90,000 is
the present estimate.
The Omaha Bee (Republican) said
editorially Oct. 14. 19S, if we absorb
the Philippines, with their millions
of cheap laborers, and proceed to the
development of those islands Indus
trially and commercially by the utili
sation of this cheap labor. NOTHING
CAN BE MORE CERTAIN THAN
THAT IN TIME OUR HOME LABOR
WILL SUFFER FROM THE COM
PETITION. WE SHALL NOT BE
ABLE TO PERPETUALLY SAFE
GUARD IT BY THE SYSTEM OF
PROTECTION NOW IN OPERATION.
. . . . "Territorial expansion as
sow proposed Is a very serious mat
ter for American labor and the op
position of that labor to expansion
should have more vigorous expression
than has been given.
This was when the Omaha Bee was
opposing the conquest of the Philip
pines and endeavoring to shape the
course of the administration.
FALSE .PRETENSEi-QF"- PROSPERITY.
find that $23S,000.000 in chattel mortgages have been fiZed as against
Birdseye View of
William
His Devious Poftica! and Official Trail Is an Anomaly
in American Politics
Always Wrong
- Th Republican rty Iis aecepSd the Enropeoa Idea and planted Itself wpo
prouad taha by George III and by every ruler who dl trasts the capacity af the people
far lf-soTeramnt or deaies them a voice la their wn affaics. WUUam J. Bryaa
Letter af Acceptance.
TbtH U what President William McKinley ba done, sars Jenathaa K. Taylert
He has exere'srd the autocratic and uneonstltatlanol power or denying the riffht
of representation and traffrage; of trial by jury; ef writ of habeas corpus; of the right
to bear arms of all ri&hts guaraateed by the eoastltattaa to the lnuabltanO of newly
recognised Islands.
lie has recognised slavery and polygamy In Suln.
He has made war upon the non-slave holding neo-pnly?inoiM Inhabitants of Iaen
lie has eonsc nted to the taxation without representation of the inhabitant of
Porto Rice.
He has withheld Independence from the inhabitants of Cnha.
Thl is imperialism, i
la his message President McKinley
said:
"Forcible annexation Is criminal ag
gression." He then proceeded to "forcibly an
nex" the Philippine . archipelago with
its 8.000,000 unwilling people.
In 1899 President McKinley said:
"It i3 our plain duty to give free
trade to the people of Porto Rico."
He immediately proceeded to im
portune and coerce a Republican con
gress Late passing a tariff bill against
Porto Rico in accordance with the de
mand of the sugar trust.
He gave pledges to Spain and Cuba
that Cuba should be free and inde
pendent. '
He has created a military govern
ment in Cuba, which has thwarts
every step toward island autonomy
and which reeks with theft and corrup
tion of every kind.
Record in the Philippines. '
President McKinley paid Spain $20,
000,000 for something which Spain
did not possess and had not power to
deliver. The president has since that
time spent of the American people's
money $200,000,000 trying to obtain
that for which he had paid $20,000.
000. In this attempt he has only
succeeded in filling graves, hospitals,
insane asylums and fat Insular jobs.
The end is not yet.
He has appointed more commissions
to carry out his unconstitutional pol
icy than all other presidents have
legally created. He is paying these
commissions in violation pf the con
stitution. (See article 1, section 9,
clause 7).
These commissioEs have never done
anything beyond administering coats
of whitewash to the autocracy at
Washington.
McKInley Appointees.
President McKinley is responsible
for General Alger of canned beef no
toriety; for General Eagan, who was
suspended for blackguardism, on full
pay; for Rath bone and Neely, the Cu
ban postal thieves; for Gage, the
banker, who turned the treasury over
to Morgan and his Wall street con
spirators, and for Griggs, whose sole
duty is to shield the robber trusts
from prosecution.
He is responsible for Hay, the Brit
ish toady. He sent Hay's son to Pre
toria to be the administration agent
at the death of the South African re
LET THE PEOPLE
ELECT THE SENATORS
President Johnson, in 1888, recommended a constitutional amendment
providing for the election of United States senator by direct vote of the
people, but his recommendation met with no response. About twelve
years later General Weaver, then a member ot congress, tried to secure
the passage of a resolution submitting an amendment but his efforts
were futile. In 1892, the resolution recommenced by President Johnson
and urged by Congressman Weaver finally passed the house of represent
atives, but it hs not yet reacned a vote, in ' the senate. And now after
eight years moro of public discussion , the proposition for the first time
receives the endorsement of the national convention of one of the great
parties. '
If the fusion forces win a victory this fall, we shall see this reform
accomplished before the next presidential election, and with its accom
plishment the people will find It easier to secure any remedial legis
lation which they may desire.
Great problems are solved slowly, but struggling humanity marches
on, step by step, content if at each nightfall it can pitch its tent on a
little higher ground. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
Ncradey:
in the Eod
publics. Under the same Hay MeKln
ley surrendered American territory in
Alaska to Great Britain and denied
the right of American miners to pro
test Enemy of tabor.
At the request of the Standard Oil
trust President McKinley sent its
regular army into Idaho to shoot down
and imprison miners who had rebelled
against Standard oil tyranny in Coeur
d' Alene. These men were thrown
Into a stockade and kept there with
out right of trial until many of them
became raving maniacs. These facts
are a part of current history.
He placed a horse doctor in charge
of vthe medical department of Cuba. He
pliced Gen. Miles incommunicado and
sent to Cuba in charge of the army
Shafter, who rode to battle in a lit
ter and who wanted to surrender when
the first shot was fired.
Crooked All Threagh.
Mr. McKinley was a free silver man
in 1893, a bi-metallist in 1896 and a
single gold standard advocate im 189S.
He was a champion of civil service In
1896, and two years later he discharged
8,000 civil service appointees to make
place for political pets of Ifanna and
Piatt
Through his pro-British secretary of
state he entered into a treaty with
Great Britain whereby the American
people were to dig a Nicaraguan canal
and leave it defenseless to be used at
pleasure by John Bull.
He permitted the opening of special
mail matter to our consul at Pre
toria by British agents and called our
consul home because that official com
plained. He makes constant declaration that
the Institutions of this country are
in the hands of providence and then
demands a large standing army, as if
providence were not equal to the task.
r Behold the Man of Destiny.
Secretary Root in a recent speech
in New York said:
"Oh for one hour of Grantl
WTiy Grant if McKinley is such a
Napoleon?
Why Grant when the man of des
tiny and of providence, is at' the
helm?
Look -at. the man! He has been on
every side of every- question-" always
landing on the side opposed t the
people, on the side of oppression, on
the side of national shame.
may be easier. Allowing that
census of 1S90, we find that tlie
in the state.
If the people of the state of Kebraska with abutufnnt crops are in this short time plunged $139,000,
OOO more in debt titan at the beginning of tliis period, how many years will it require under the
same regime to place the property
Those not acquainted withpte present method's of loaning money in the icest and south will be
astonished at Vie large increase in chattel mortgages shown by the report. This is explained by the
fact that the lender prefers a short time loan at an increasetl rate of interest secured by a m&rlgage on
growing live stock to one on real estate. An analysis of similar reports made by other state officers in
tJte west and southwest will show practically the same results.
Instead of there beingany decrease of mortgage debt in Indiana, the mortgage debt? real estate
and chattel, has increased during every year of the McKinley administration, and the total increase
for Vie three years completed is in excess of $50,000,000. In two years of McKinley prosperity the
ehatiel inortgages cf Indiana liave increased 255,151 in number, and $782,234 in amount, and the
total mortgage debt of the state in three'years cf McKinley prosperity has increased $55,94G,7G over
wluit has been paid, not including the chattel mortgages and foreclosures of 1897. v
WANTS A MONARCHY
HcTTinley Organ in Ioto. Voices the
Beal Sentiments of the
Republican Party.
COSTITU I'IOU IS 03S0LETZL
The following article is frora the
Des Moines (la.) Globe," a Republican
farmers' paper. It voices in plain lan
guage the spirit of McKinley Repub
licanism. What thex Globe frankly
speaks the imperialist secretly thinks.
It is brutally plain, and for this rea
son Republican organs .have affected
to discredit' its sentiments; but it
speaks out of the fullness of a heart
saturated with Hamiltonianism, which
is the Inspiration , of President McKin
ley; and tnere Is1 in it that touch of
sincerity that gives It weight as an ut
terance, a little rash perhaps and pos
sibly a little premature, but significant
of ue trend of modern Republicanism.
The article deserves the very widest
publicity as showing the direction of
the McKinley drift:
"For a long time thinking people
who have large commercial interests
have felt unsafe with our present form
of government from the fact that we
are controlled by the little cheap
John politicians iinu ward-heelers.
NO. 13 A GOOD TIME TO DO AW A
vITH OUR OBSOLETE CONSTITU
TION and adopt a form of government
uxat will be logical , with expansion
ideas and will give AMPLE PROTEC
TION TO CAPITAL. .
"A CONSTITUTIONAL. MONARCHY
is probably the ' most desiraole plan
that we could now adopt Everything
is ripe for the change. We1 take it
(that the great farming interests of our
land will readily aclapt themselves to
the change. The warmer is a great
lover of law and t order, and ANTI
MONARCHY IS LARGELY THE IM
PRESSION OF FRENCH REVOLU
TIONARY ideas Suggested by
HOT-HEADED THEORISTS.
"We. believe that history and exper
ience have proven beyond cavil t A
REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERN
MENT CANNOT bUBSIST beyond a
certain stage. That as soon as a great
PEOPLE BECOME RICH,. STRONG
AND GREAT, THE REPUBLu
DROOP3 AND DIES. We believe this
is so, of necessity and not by chance.
Wo believe that there is not a single
case ofTecord where the masses ot a
great nation possessed the intelligence
to initiate laws, and were intelligent
enough to compel tne enforcement of
such good laws as they might pass.
"It would seem a" if science teaches
that men are created to follow their
masters -the inspired minds of the
world. HISTORY SHOWS THAT A
KING MUST BE AND IS FOUND IN
EVERY NATION to guide Its people
in every great crisis.' Neither is tae
change to be dreaded or looked for
ward to with foreboding. While we
are in fact largely under the conditions
of a monarchy, we have the evils with
out the benefits of the same.
Bryan and tha Incline Tax
At present the government ran draft
the citizen, bat wiatt drft the
poeketbook. Slowly but sorely the
tnllar i beinc enltcwt and the man do
based. Justice ia taxation " mast be
restered.
The sentiment prevailing among
thne who advocat n income tax
jaat'Be the prediction that the Demo
erntn, Ponoitsts ad S lver Repabllmt
wtU in their next mplgn advocate
aa amoadmeat to the rnnlkalinn
speeifiealty awthnrlatn an lnnvme tax.
and no one who hna fnUb in the final
trlnmph ef every rij;le- ws canse will
donht the a HI mate ftoecess of the effort
to make an Income tax a permanent
part of the revenue system of t e fed
eral govern meunk. W. J. BR VAX-
NO FREEDOM NOW F03 FLIFiKGS.
1 have sIitsti thonht that all men
should be free, but if anr should be
slaves, it shonld be first those who de
sire it for themselves and secondly
those who desire it for others.
ABRAHAM UNCOLJT.
' Prom an address to au Indiana Reg
iment March 17, 1865.
The Children of
Do yon hear the children wte"in;, O my brothers.
Kre the aurrow comes with years?
They are leaning their joan; heads against their mothers.
And that cannot stop their tears.
The yoang lambs are blrating in the meadows;
The young birds are chirpin? in the nest.
The young fawns are playing with the shadows;
The young flowers are blowing toward the west
But the young, young childrca. O, my brothers, -
They are weeping bitterly! S
They are weeping in the playtime of the others.
In the country of the free. Mrs. Browning.
the population of Xebrtiska, has
increased indebtedness is over $109
entirely in tlie hands of mortgage
ASSSIlLATKONi
A Republican Newspaper Ac
count of a Philippine ;
, Battle.
Just past this a few hundred yards
we saw a solitary body lying In the
road. The body was almost stripped
of clothing, and there were no marks
of rank left on the blood-soaked coat.
But the face of the dead man had a
look I had never noticed on the face
of other dead men I had found in in
surgent uniform on the field of battle,
in the wake of an "American firing 1
line. The features were clear cut aud
forehead high and shapely. I decided
the man must have been an insurgent
omcer. A soldier came running down
the trail.
"That's old Pilar, he said. "We
got the old rascal. I guess he's sorry
he ever went up against the Thirty
third. "There ain't no doubt about it3 be
ing Pilar," rattled on the young sol
dier. "We got his diary, and his let
ters, and all his papers, and Sullivan
of our company's got his pants, a;.d
Snider's got his snoes, but he can t
wear them because they're too small,
and a. sergeant in G company got one '
of his silver spurs, and a lieutenant
got the other, and somebody swiped
the cuff buttons before I got here or
I would have swiped them, and all I
got was a stud button and his collar
with biood on it."
So this was the end pf Gregorio del
Pilar. Only 22 years old, he managed
to make himself a leader- of men
when he was hardly more than a boy,
and at last had laid down his life for
his convictions. Major Juaish had tho
diary. In it he. had written under the
date of December- 2, uie day he was
kined: '
"The general, has given me the pick
of all the men that can be spared and
ordered me to defend the pass. I re
alize what a terrible task is given me.
And yet I feel that this is the most
glorious moment ot my life. What 1
do is done for my beloved country.
No sacrifice can be too great" .
A private, sitting by the camp fire,
was exhibiting a handkerchief. "It's
old Pilar's. It's got 'Dolores Hosea
on" the corner. I guess that was his
girl. Well, it s all off with Gregorio."
v Anyhow," said Private Snllivau. "I
got his pants. He won't need 'em
any more."
The man who had the general's
shoes strode proudly past, refusing
with scorn a "Mexican dollar and a
pair of shoes taken from cne of the
private insurgent soldiers. A private
sitting on a rock was examining a
golden locket containing a curl of a
woman's hair. "Got the locket off Ls
neck," said the soldier. ...
As the main column started on its
march for the summit ef the mountain
a turn in the trail brought us again
in - sight of the insurgent general . fir
! down below us. There had been no
time to bury him. Not even a blanket
or a poncho had been thrown over
him.
A crow sat on the dead man's feet
Another perched on his head- The fog
settled down upon us. We eould see
the body no longer.
We carved not a line, and we raised
not a stone.
But we left him alone in his glory.
And when Private Sullivan went by
in his trousers, and Snider with his
shoes, and the other man who bad the
cuff buttons, and the eergear.t who had
the spur, and the lieutenant who had
the other spur, and the man that had
the handkerchief, and another man
that 'had his shoulder straps, it sud
denly occurred to me that his glory
was about all we had left him. Rich
ard Henry Little in Chicago Tribune.
Rights never- conflict; duties never
clash. Can It be our du'y to uss np po
ll Meal rights which belong to others?
Can it be ear duty to kill tliooe who,
following the example of our fore
fathers, love liberty we'l enough to
fijrht for it? W. J. IS RYAN.
the Coal Miners
increased twenty per cent since the
for eaclt man. woman and child
IioUlers?
GBOWTH OF COALBINISS
GRAIN DEALERS IN A TRUST
AGAINST FARMERS.
Latest Monopoly Is Con-tphracy to Je
Then of Their Profit II a lsr-Krct-lng
Effect - Contracts Aro A1inV
Signed.
P. E. Dowie, member of the execu
tive committee of the National Demo
cratic Traveling Men's association,nnd
of the Commercial Travelers Anti
Trust League, arrived in Chicago yes
terday. He has Just completed an ex
tensive tour of Missouri, Nebraska. itMd
Iowa.-, - '-"
"I have.N recently discovered." eal
Mr. Dowie, "a gigantic ccraspira:y to
rob the farmers of the country. This
latest product of monopoly Includew In
its membership about 00 big Karai
dealers and elevator men in the terri
tory extending from St Paul on the
north to Kansas City on the smith,
including the states of Wlsconria.Min
nesota. North and South Dakota, towa,
Nebraska and Kansas.
"AH the 600 and more members ot
this newest thing in trusts are pledged
to buy grain at one and a half oentt?
low, that Is below the cash price, rn
to store for. not less than ono and a
half cents profit The association en
gineering the scheme is to fix the sell
ing price. Forty per cent of the profits
are to go to the association, the bal
ance going to the dealers who aro pi
ties to the swindle.
Have Signed Contrive.
"Grain-dealers in the sections where
the trust is at work have been in
duced to sign contracts and a rejrvlar
system .of inspection guaraatee
against cutting prices. Grata stations
are established here and there, and ot
each station the trust nas an' ngent
who" has authority to inspect the books
of any member of the association. A.
membership fee of $50 is charged. A
fine of $100 is imposed if the agreecaeat
is broken, and ,$50 is charged for re
instating a member who has violated
any of the terms of the pact
On its part, the assoeiation guaran
tees the grain dealers, who enter, Into
the agreement.protection from changes
In the ownership of elevators where
they may have their grain stored. If
an elevator attempts to break away
or to run independent they guarMitee
to have Its supply of cars shut off, so
that it cannot ship grain to market iv
opposition to the trust
Promoted by Repahlicana
"Since I discovered the consplraccr, a
few, days since, I have been collecting
information concerning it I Ciscer
tained today that the prornetar ;&nd
organizer of the trust is an ardent Re
publican and superintendent of oao of
the largest elevators in the entry.
"The practical workings of this com
bination to rob the farmer are not dif
ficult to see. By getting all the grain
dealers of a community enrolled as
members, it is impossible for the form
ers of that section to sell to anyone
outside the trust or to ship their grain
away. They must stand th losa of a
cent and a half a bushel on the price
of their grain in order to find a mar
ket I amjiot ready to give the n.uiaes,
but will do so soon."
It is said that the new movement to
compel the farmers of the states men
tioned to accept less than the market
price to realize on their crops bad its
inception in Chicago, and that several
of tbe big elevator men and grain deal
ers are interested in it
LYING WAS BEGUN.
The Republican ' national committee
keeps the Republican newspaper
throughout the-country supplied with
burning thoughts. This Is a boom to
the Republican newepapers, for their
thoughts use to cost them 25 cenla per
column from, tho "boiler-p ate" fac
tories, and now they get them for
nothing.
In a list of converts to Bryan pub
lished sometime ago by an eastern
newspaper, the article mentioned half
a dozen names of residents of Bath.
N. Y., as citizens of Bath, Me. The
mistake was purely accidental. Ob
viously their votes would b raCh
more useful lo Mr. Bryan, where they
properly belong than they would be
In Maine. The Hanna organs, how
ever, discovered the mistake, poanced
upon it with a great outcry, and even
yet have not finished crying "fake.
Last year, Mr. Creelman, the cele
brated newspsf er correspondent wrote
from Net ra ska that statement that Mr.
Bryan by his lectures and writings
had accumulated property worth about
twenty-five thousand dollars. The
ever vigilant and diabolically in
clined printer, put on an extra cipher,
making the amount two hundred and'
fifty thousand dollars. The mistake
was not discovered until the paper was
on the street. Here was another thing
for the Republican press to make an
out-cry about Remarks about Mr
Bryan as a "plutocrat" began to cir
culate through the Republican press,
but they eventually stopped when the
explanation. of the slip made the:a too
ridiculous to be persisted ia. The
Hanna literary bureau, has, however,
recently revived them, and ha uren
improved on the original typographical
error by raiting the amount of Mr
Bryan's fortune to three hundred thou
sand dollars.
Another instance of the methods em
ployed by the Republican literary bu
reau may be cited. Some years ajto a
gentleman, no longer connected with
me xxew York Journal, wrote a signed
article giving his estimate of Mr
Bryan as a man and as a leader. This
estimate has been revived by the Re
j publican press bureau and circulated
5 the editorial opinion of the New
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