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Oc oter 18, 1900. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 11 CAfJCER CURED WITH SOOTHING, BALMY OILS r.T T JfTTju jtsi evta la otitri rprrofetM tte pcrsuccJ tork cf W. Kx-iVtiicr SfacCrsoa, riitly ca tferu 1 prsve f&r tia tatt of tfc Itejnifclicaa pvrtr. tliit cotwJtiAtirii tog iL n X -ssritJuUra- the ""mUl fcuy powers uf Core; ajxu&i more a tz.-ir tmW t'in w ij Tle Ne Trk Jcitrc! prizt4 aa artteie thoir llt tk ei'ltary bir:t ia Euros izuri L esiir ott u! jssioss, t4 U-U If fvA ills Into Account sur J-XXry zzu?c wre near!? ?wic ywt ju iStmvt of nay otLet tii;try Mntry la tie wcrid. TLr X3 t Xy;-'C3a literary l3ras Urug a-2.j-ra hke Lfcli act at &fU reaalajc ia tb eo:um&i edf ILr H2'aV-i-jjt prrw of tLe co'.in try: W. R. E-ansr, Lt.r cf tie N Ywrk Jnori. ay ujcst "Uryniit, y tiLat lm PTtzn ot $-oka3 tc : b Ui -hso." "iI;Mtaxtt2j xxjrvlis Ki iiryaj u on- f ths great is-te la tLte cmraii. Veterasa wU: tr? l3 U p of what maj Vsr Ur:.4 "IA fciiay Landa ia poll Ursf" um! yt scb tr tLe method cl li 11 ti uiitirMly. wiiiKKJt s tt d&k-r i- Sar-i in:rrptia to tu;ti Pnicu!r m. r rrA.;gL aM trial ttcup!e i !r rople'a iJir.k. ToiUK. N'th.. I Waader. Tfaey tell us that te must '.Tf-i :t : i !- Ciaurt j sty on the Islands to obtain markets J tt rtarj t"3;y. yir. i f jr our manufacturers; that th Phlllp ?i trjd wary '-crS:! cur-s. , th riuw provide a baris of trade with w. r"""1 r"":i!u- jr t,r" I the OrfeaL They tell as that we ought Mr. U. SeeCor. Ca, Kan 1 to eta3ct w3r tbU d eJef at' . Sipis A. Fifli-:j i:i.i!.ina ! a of courtlcs. llres and millions ix-faau. write;" H.-tru-t iVad? Co.. cf dollars. :r h:r: I t r. -. . ' :X-jZ S for L:1 ui.' tie e'.rll kr y-Ar r.l am i itzt a.'w uaine a fw wks I am 1 J-i:!r- oj can co4.J tot Le rosditiua than I t.lrtt for .jrk t'tr-y t?'i i. -wre aij-. ftr & '-.a. a mac -. 4 lire, sit! -luJy mtifui ta jo. Eer;McTf u.Jy jwjr. M. M'CQV. Tto-2"is of j'.! wfca h 5 1 itej up is !pA!r cf -r t-iti c r?irf! t a..r ns:a our ; a ..trt tirn You rii Lave a Lrfai Eimpk f r iy .-. car. !!- wr us full pixtic- tk ibTilx-r of Th? lnsj3- j r-l i y ail srr' S."i and aj jir rttfwil ia alSiaur mill ;- t-f cjr larrr pis,a ict ir. of M'. Bryaa. V Lae a lsr; cuaVr d lh&m p'.etur on LizS wish to 1 i tkia t-ftr t'j clou af the It i aa -!ftst jnctur". 'i.tit-S for fran'ur. sd .to'iJd t hi -ry Art fcoci. To ;Mctir this :,4ir K i f:Aary tt fell oat tte f ''lirw;a c25aa: B II TAN picti'i:k ritKK COUIf I4f B!er:t Pv . Co.: H3- rlcp fed tif". -;:: o pay all r; ul'r npt;oi ar r3rfc axuj t-i-mai ffr an otier jrr. siaj IJr aa piciur- p f mtmr. Xi r. 5tat.. A mo j it acioeJ f . . . . Picture will ! ctai'-d isn) d;?v!y cpon rcti.v. of this coa yo's ncp-rly Clsd out. Tie "Fr Ikj3.' r.hr o!jon i.d tt "Vr- itrysa p;nur" ill col talis If t-ct to t!.- !sa:n a4- Plflf ttAff IUIR SWITCHES. r . Kg -.mtmmm, IS I 1MIM. t(UMl mm tw Mf r ii. i f w,art Im, KUtl wul .lit tut SIS I Giand Island Route Double Daily Service FREE RECLINING OIATR cars on raarr traits. tt ItVMiMt m CtM. tM fm me tiirt s. si ADsrr, ap.iu - T. josrprt. MO. IADGHLIN SPEAKS " A U VJXL JJ J. OJ: xUiLlVO PaOFESSOR POLITICAL ECON OMY ACAINST fcVKINLEY. rmlvrUr Slo T-IU 111 CUiw Urn Will VoC for Rt-ptibUoMt Ttefa Tr Urn 0jjomkI 10 t lla !. Prof. J. Laren9 Liuglilla, who us oa of William ilcKiaiey's mint ener ?eiic oiorters four years asi. and who took a oromlnunt part la debates witii "Coia" Harrey. adrocatiac the iiasle gold taaiu.rd. as aanoenced to hlM class? at the L'niTersity cf Chi cgo tlut be cannot cast his tc-llct for lht McKlnly admloltmiion. Prof. LattsUin fflvea bia reason for the defection President Ucllinley'd atti tude oa the queiiloa of imperialism. The coarse of tli preiont adminis tration In opposed to tfco verj' origin i and gen'ua of our lustitutioai," he la- ittv. aad I cannot vote for McKin 17" Prof. Isashlfn 13 head of the depart z&eat of political science at the Unl- f rerslty of Chicago. He belli ea that I America u caomraereo can never be in creased by tho xaetlioOU of lmperlaJism aloae. 'l "Trade does not fallow the lias. he j In-lsts. "but on the contrary, the flag follows trade. When American ability pete In foreign markets is proved th 'the protec ere trade -v".il eo and later protecting flag will follow. came by the Philippines. The war on those Islmds was due to sotie one's "The argument that this course is an effectual means to trade expansion is fallacious. Go bsck to tb years be tween 1SS3 and UOO and you will find that the total annual value of the ex ports and imports in the Philippine liUrM was $3I.0D0KX). Snppoalng that this trade was all under American control and that it pa:d a fair rate of :rc3t. say 13 per cent. It would be in- ! saSrient even to pay the interest on our war loan. t ' Increasing trade will not depend on our owning the Philippines. After we g-t them we must open the doors of trade to other nations on about the same conditions as we ourselves enjoy. J Then to aell goods to the Islanders we must make the prices as low 33 those ot other nations. Our ability to com pfte with theo otter nations will de pend upon the industrial conditions at home. "The fact that the value of Ameri can exports has reached a sum never quaJvJ before refutes the claim that we need foreign port to sell goods. Whether America shall sell to the Fil ipinos much or little depends upon what the Islanders can produce to offer us and upon our ability to supply the goods they desire cheaper than any other nation. If American manufac turers wish to sell good3 oa the east ern markets the conditions at home most be looked after. "The ability to Fell derends upon America's natural resources, on the eSciency of labor and the organization of Industries. Also on the low cost of transportation, the knowledge of for eign markets and the adaptability to the castoms and the prejudices of buy ers. "America has taken the lead In Iros. and steel trade bcause cf the abund ance of ores, the Improved machinery for loading and the capacity of trans port. Kurcpean contracts for bridge building and railroad construction come to Americana because advantages similar to those enumerated enable th-m to do the work cheaper and better and fader than the British firms. And so I say that trade with the Philip pines depends more oa the smoking chimneys cf the south than on th rapid-flring guns of the army. "It Is the laboring man and the tax payer who defray the enormous cost of exploiting a new ccuntry for the benefit of a favored few who obtain Industrial concessions there. The only commercial gains by conquest go to the few at the expense of the work Isgman and the taxpayer. The course of the present administration In ex ploiting the Philippines is opposed to the vry origin and genius of our ln stitctions. Imperia!i?m Is the government of a colony which has no equal hare In controlling the policy of tbe parent state. This is exactly the syrtem which the Amerkatn republic ont repudl atMk lt Is the very elementary principle oa which the constitution Is based,and that principle Is being betrayed. If there Is any historic sense in the Am erican people they wlil revT3e the pol icy of Imperialism, as the hope lies not so much In presidents as in the houses of conrress. -President JIcKlnley declared at At lanta two years ago that 'the flag has been planted In two heml?phres.where it remains the symbol of liberty and taw. of peace and progress, vho will withdraw frcm the people cvr whom it Coats its protecting folds? Who will pull it downr In the Philippines we are now mowing down th natives with ripid-Cre guns 'nlger-buntlng, ft Is grewsnmely expre.c 1 The flag loes not protect those- over whom it floats. It Is there to Filipinos the em i!en cf tyranny and batch? ry. The common een? o? -Ji people ksows that the flag cannot be inmo dirteiy withdrawn, but the ncral sense of the people demands that so long as it remains its folds shall provide for white men and brown men alike a free and independent government and as surance from outside aggression. '' As a nation of freemen all equal under the constitution we are stultifying cur selves morally and politically. We are showing to the world that our prin ciples of government are as nothing in comparison with grasping land, be cause It is said by our legislators to be fertile and rich. "The baseness of this philosophy should bring its own punishment and dishonor. The base greed for gain which has led streng interests to ob tain the promise of special privileges in return for political support Is ap parent in the whole buuiness. The ap peal to the cupidity cf the dishonest element in the country has been open ly proclaimed by. some of our legisla tors, notably by Senator Beveridge, who advocates the conquest of the Philippines because they abound In gold and hemp." M'KIN LEY'S HEALTH. Mr. McKinley, we muEt regret to say, is a man in feeble health. Much care was used by the trusts and Hanna in selecting the vice-presidency be cause of the fear that Mr. McKinley might fail to live out his term. The idea was to carry forward the Idea of changing the form of govern ment now ex'sting here a form that now makes trusts and their profits depend on an election, and is. there fore, instccre. Roosevelt was selected to run for vice-president. If anything should happen to Mr. McKinley, the trusts would be quite content to see Roosevelt in the White House. How would the average thinking cit izen like that? We do not ask the opinion of the citizen whose personal physical timid ity leads him to worship a magazine made hero. We ask the thoughtful men men brave enough to do their own fighting if cause should arise, men who do not hand over their think ing or governing to a magazine blus terer: HOW WOULD YOU LIKE ROOSE VELT IN THE WHITE HOUSE? Roosevelt stands for a huge perma-J nent army, and for using it against those who should fail to 'agree with him. He has said that this way of treat ing those with whom he disagreed po litically would be to "stand a few of them up against a wall and shoot them." He is a man who would use the coun try and its citizens for his own stupid ambition and big-toothed glory. He could conceive no better use for young men than to rnake . the tough ones rough riders and the tender ones rough taxpayers the rough riders to build u? his fighting fame and the rough taxpayers to foot the bills. Some peaceable frogs not much more intelligent probably than the average Roosevelt enthusiast wanted a stork to rule them. The stork ac cepted and had fun. The frogs did not have fun. How many voters want Mr. Stork Roosevelt to come along and dispose of their destinies lor his greater glory? How many want to be rough riders or rough taxpayers without their own consent? If you vote for Roosevelt for vice president you are not necessarily vot ing to give an ornamental Job to an ornamental biowhart. You may be voting to make of a dangerous, ambi tious braggart a president of the Unit ed States. San Francisco Examiner. WAS JAMES O BLAINE A DEM AGOGUE? Where is the McKinleyite who will say that James G. Blaine was a small American? Where is the McKinleyite who will say that he was in favor of a policy of scuttle and cowardice? Who will say that Blaine would have given away to Great Britain a large slice of United States territory in Alaska. In his letter of acceptance, July 15, 1S84, Mr.' Blaine said: "Happily removed by our geographi cal position from participation or in terest in those questions of dynasty or boundary which so frequently disturb the peace of Europe, we are left to cultivate friendly relations with all, and are free from iossible entangle ments in the quarrels of any. "While the great powers of Europe are steadily enlarging their colonial domination in Asia and Africa, it 13 the especial province of this country, to improve and expand its trade with the nations of America. No field promises so much. No field has been cultivated so little. Our policy should be an American policy in its broadest and most comprehensive sense a pol icy of peace, of friendship, of commer cial enlargement." Does that spell Imperialism? "A pol icy of peace, of friendship, of commer cial enlargement." Not one, but all three. Not commercial enlargement by force and at the price of blood, but commercial enlargement with peace and friendship. Not trade expansion at the point of the bayonet and the muzzle of the rifle, but with peace and friendship. Postmaster Sullivan of Cripple Creek, who made the so-called Victor mob to order, is now calmly awaiting his reward. Investigation shows that he instigated a feigned attack upon Governor Roosevelt for the purpose of exciting partisan sentiment. The Republican party appears to be fn hard lines for argument this year. SOAP AND STARCH TRUSTS. The Indianapolis Sentinel la com menting upon the co-operation of the soap and starch trusts in 'Indiana, says: . - - ; . -,. The soap trust commands & capital of 525,000,000. and the starch trust about half that amount the two trusts having a capital of about $25,000,000. These two trusts, to a certain extent, supply-the same claes of consumers though the soap trust does vastly the largest business. In the homes of the people they operate together, , and by advancing prices reap rich harvests. Soap is said to be pre-eminently an article of civilization because cleanlU cess is the fundamental basis of all physical refinement, and it has been proposed , to " estimate the progress of civilization , by the consumption of soap, the formula being toliivlde the total quantity of soap consumed in a given time by the total population con suming it, the quotient expressing the civilization of the community. And this formula is offered by a modern scientist of distinction and gives to eoapuan importance and dignity of spe cial significance. Hence, it may be affirmed that t he manufacturers of soap may be classed among the world's greatest philanthropists v and benefac tors. - . To make soap cheap It appears i3 essential to civilization and refine ment; tomake it dear is to obstruct the march of progress, civilization and refinement and promote ignorance, filthiness and barbarism, and that is just what the soap trust is engaged in doins. INDIANA'S CONSUMPTION OF SOAP. Indiana Is distinguished for her civ ilization and refinement, and meas ured by schools, churches and the con sumption of soap, she is in the van of progress. The estimate is, taking ho tels, laundries, factories and homes, that the annual consumption of soap in Indiana will reach 100,000,000 pounds or an average of forty pounds per cap ita of- the entire population of the state. Before the soap trust began plundering the people of Indiana this 100,000,000 pounds of soap would have cost, at three cents a pound, $3,000,000, but the trust advanced the price to 4 cents a pound, making the cost $4,250,000 , a year, an increase of $1,- 250,000, or 50 cents per capita for ev ery man, woman and child in the state. And while robbing Indiana of $1,250, 000 annually the trust pockets from the whole country by its looting and free-voting policy not less than $40, 000.000.. V It is estimated that the laundries and the homes of Indiana consume an nually 20,800,000 pounds of starch! Prior to the advance forced upon con sumers, starch was. purchased at two cents per , pound, the cost of the In diana consumption amounting to $416, 680. The trust advanced prices to 3 1-3 cents a pound, making the cost to the people $728,S90, the advance amount ing to a clean steal of $312,810 a year. Assuming that Indiana has a popu lation of 80.000.000 the " starch trust would secure by its piracies $9,981,120, an amount equal to its capital stock. The two trusts are filching money from every home in Indiana and from every hotel and boarding house, and from every laundry, and they are able, by their operations, to rob the people of Indiana annually to the extent of $1,562,810, and make the whale country pay them a spoliation tribute of $49, 998,120, equal to their' entire capital stock of $35,000,000, with an overplus of $14,981,120. This trtibute is taken by ceaseless petty larcenies, but In the aggregate swelling to a grand larceny of as tounding proportions. WAS CHARLES SUMNER A SCUT TLER? Charles Sumner was a great repub lican statesman. But he was not an imperialist; he was not an advocate of expansion at the price of blood. In a speech on the acquisition of Alaska he said: "But I cannot disguise my anxiety that every step in our predestined fu ture shall be by. natural process, with out war, and, I may add, even without purchase. There is no territorial ag grandizement which is worth the price of blood." Sumner was In favor of expansion by natural process only. He was not an advocate of expansion by purchase, and was absolutely opposed 0 expan-, sion by force of arms. He was in fa vor of the natural expansion that places the - constitution at once over the new territory, and that makes the new territory an Integral part of the United States of America. ' . Was Charles Sumner a scuttler? It is estimated by conservative Re publican leaders that Col. Roosevelt's t strenuous tour of the far west has cost McKinley the states of the two Dakotas, Wyoming and Utah, even had there .been a chnce for him in the four commonwealths. - Besides this, v the self -laudatory hero of San Juan has Increased Bryan's majority in all other western states. McKinley's hopes have therefore found a tomb in Roosevelt's cavernous mouth. It has developed that the New York, ice trust is wholly controlled by Re publican politicians, This explains why Governor Roosevelt haa refrained from shooting the New York ice trust; in the back. The panic scare and starvation cry will not win this year. Workingmen have sounded the deuths of the full dinner pall and tested the breadth of trust prosperity. IT IS UP TO M'KINLEY. PERTINENT INTERROGATION ON TYRANNY OF GOLD. A Qvastloa for tb President Do Yle timaa t Trait Xtaserrw Leu Sympathy tbaa Ylctiim of Flood? TkouMtit Threatened wltu'Hmnefw Mr. McKinley's response to suffering in Texas was prompt and admirable. The war department was ordered to relieve distress as far as possible and to spend money -freely to that end. Mr. McKinley 3 action In the Klon dike and at Cape Nome, when Ameri can citlzes by thousands were threat ened with starvation, was equally com mendable. Government steamers were dispatched to bring back to civilization unfortunates stranded because of fool ish, thoughtless impulsiveness. With the steamers went provisions to feed the needy. We heartily indorse the action of the president in the distress in Texas and in the delusive gold fields. Thousands of citizens being threat ened with great danger, the president justly decided that he could brave the bogy of "paternalism" and send relief at the expense of the nation. v We now ask Mr. McKinley a very serious question in regard to another large body of citizens threatened with starvation," oppressed with a danger, permanent and therefore more formid able than storm or cold. - In the coal fields of Pennsylvania half a million human beings, victims of a law-defying trust, are threatened with starvation as winter come on. , The trust has no single sympathizer, no single ally in all creation, except hunger, but it wants and needs no other or better ally. On HUNGER the trust relies to win its victory over half a million men, women and children. Mr. McKinley, what are you going to do when hunger "drives those hun dreds of thousands of citizens to des peration? Will you allow the Coal Trust to make good its boast," and with hun ger's help to subdue and enslave those citizens whom yoa are sworn, to pro tect from injustice? - Will you permit the trusts, which have defied the laws that you are sworn to enforce, , to overrule the promptings of humanity? Breakers of the law are oppressing half a million people. They rely on poverty, on starvation, and; Mr. McKinley, on your SLUG GISHNESS for suceevss in their attack on human rights. Are you going to realize the hopes of law breakers? Are you going to watch hundreds of thousands hopelessly fighting against unlimited money and villainy or will you send to victims of the trust, as you sent to victims of the storm, help that shall carry them through their troubles? These men and women - now suffer because you have permitted the trusts to grow strong and defiant during the past four years. You can diminish their sufferings, if you will, and bring the trust to terms, if you will. . ' Will you send supplies to the relief of the Pennsylvania miners, as you did the victims of the Texas storm and the northern gold fields? Are you more interested in HALF A MILLION POOR MEN or in HALF A DOZEN very RICH men? We believe that your reply to this question may , have a certain bearing on your future career. JUST HOW IT. IS. Miner Say, look here, boss! The coal trade is prosperous just now; don't you think that we ought to share in that "McKinley prosperity" the pa pers tell so much about? We ought to have more pay. Operator ;What are you fellows al ways kicking for? We are doing the best we can for you. We buy labor In the labor market. When the market is full we don't have to pay much; when it is empty we can import all the men we want to fill it; so, you see, we don't have to pay more wages than we are paying now. Besides, the roy alty has gone up. You wouldn't de prive the mine owner of his share of prosperity, would you? " Mine Owner That's right, these un grateful fellows are never, satisfied. Wrhat would become of them If we didn't allow them to work our land? They've got work, what more do they want? I'll see my partner, who has command of the militia. He'll be on hand in case these fellows' talk too much. , , . I do not fear that McKinley will pro claim himself king nextyear should he be re-elected. I fear not that the United States will be a monarchy in five or ten or twenty-five years. But I fear that in the course of time, if we pursue this policy of imperialism, we will find ourselves descending on a toboggan slide cf national degradation. We cannot violate the eternal princi ples of liberty in the far east without at the same time striking a blow at our Democracy at. home. We cannot long retain self-government in its pur ity for ourselves if we should deny it to others. We cannot command ' the respect of the other nations if we belie our own professions. We cannot de serve the health of. the republic if the bacillus of despotism dwells In any part of our own domain. Tha peace treaty was not bindinc until it was ratified by the United States senate and by - the Spanish cortes. The senate ratified It Feb. 6, 1899. The cortes ratified it April 11, 1S99. And still, in December, 1S98, McKinley had the audacity to assert American sovereignty orr the Phil ippines and call upon the inhabitants to submit or be shot. If they a$k you who fired the first shot tell them it was William McKinley. His inlamoas proclamation was a declaration of war. If patriotism In our "congress could have risen above partisanship William McKinley would have besa impeached for this unprecedented arrogatioa ef power. Sigmund Zelsler. LABOR'S GREATEST ENEMY. The New York Central Labor Union has . received letters from over one hundred representatives cf labor or ganizations in Porto Rico, stating that they are imprisoned in San Juan by military authority, the chiefs of the American army suppressing all labor organizations which they can discover. Thesa victims of McKinley's. despot ism inclndo tho presidents and secre taries and members of ' arbitration committees of neatly every labor union on the Island. -And yet the presidenL in his letter of acceptance, with char acteristic hypocrisy, claim3 that "Con gress has given - to this island a gov ernment in which the inhabitants par ticipate, elect their own local legisla ture, enact their own local laws," etc; every word of, which is false, as the legislature which congress provided for electing haS not been elected and has only been granted advisory power. Thus the administration antagonizes labor wherever it can, from the frozen Coeur d'Alene to the tropics, by pal pably unconstitutional means. Rus sia excels it only in barbarity, but not in despotism. Let Americans realize before it is too late that administra tion rule in these localities is but the prelude and warning of what may soon be reproduced all over the country if McKinley should be re-elected. I think the only real question before the American people in this campaign is the question of the right of self- government. President McKinley and his supporters seek to set aside the doctrine of self-government and to establish ia its stead the ancient here sy of xthe right of government by brute force. For me, no other in terpretation of our attitude toward the Filipinos is possible. The only difference between a re public and an empire is this:- In a re public of sovereign equals all of the people participate In the government on -equal terms; in an empire subject and dependent colonies are ruled by the home government without their consent or participation. Which prin ciple shall we adopt? I believe that we will be true to the democracy of the golden rule rather than to the autocracy of the rule of gold. It has been said i that our govern ment was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposi tion that all men are cre ated equal. This does not mean all Americans; it means all of the people of, the round globe; and let me tell you, workingmen of America, that only. by. standing In solid phalanx for equal rights for the little brown men of the Philippine Islands can you make your own liberty permanent and secure. Mayor Jones of Toledo. "If Senator Beveridge Is not aware that the 111 feeling of Cubans against Americans is growing more tense every day, he ought to be," says the New York Evening PosL "The native press' is more and more outspoken Returned army officers privately admit that the Cubans hate us worse than they ever did the Spaniards. Seme who. know the island well even pre diet an armed ' revolution. There doubtless would be one if the thing were not so hopeless. But there can be no doubt that public opinion in Cuba is inflamed and exasperated to a high degree. 'And this is the time a rising young statesman chooses to trumpet forth our intention first to lie to the Cubans, and then to seize their land! More In anger than in sorrow, wo say. to Senator- Beveridga that he is playing the part of an in cendiary in Cuba; at a time when pol icy, to say nothing of honor, calls for every possible act and word of con ciliation." "The coal miners of Pennsylvania and incidentally tne laboring men everywhere," the Atlanta Constitution says, "might do well to let their Im aginations picture the treatment the strikers would receive at the'hand3 of federal authorities and federal troop3 were Roosevelt in the presidential chair. The hoodlum campaign being waeed through, the west by thi3 mouthful advocate of the 'strenuous life is a fair example of his methods. Yet the prospect of a Rocs3veltian president is one cf the awful possi fcilities involved la Republican victory this year." The new plant erected less than a year ago at Coshocton, Ohio, by the Coshocton Rolling Mill company, and recently sold to the American Sheet Steel company (trust), is shut down and will be dismantled. The town gave a bonus of $20,000 to secure " the mill, but was far-sighted enough to stipulate for its retnm if the works should close, and the trust will refund the money rather than continue the factory. Mills are also being disman tled at Leetonia. Hasclton and War ren. Ohio. - . . - "There are no trusts that injure the people." said Mr. Hanna a few day3 ago. But when there -was a prospect that the hard coal trust might injure Mr. McKinley it was different. Mr. McKinley Is sacred;, the people are notnlng. MONEY IN OAS. Few people on the outside realize or even dream of the enormous pre fit of the gas monopoly. ' Once in a whila some of the facts come out and tha; public obtains fleeting glimpse the astonishing truth. A faw year hqu uoj uuk t ao T7t 111 vii tug o.o monopoly of Washington aal tie. country was started by the disclosures. There have been like revelations from time to time in Chicago and New, x York and elsewhere and now we are treated to an exhibit cf gas profits In. Springfield,. Mass., a city of some 50,- COD population, which will rank with the most striking on record. From the books of the SprtagSe'ld Gaslight Company, as shown in a re- port'of its own." the pr2l3 cf th business are and have been aheaome naL In 1851 the concern had $5. 000 invested in a plant. This is substan tially all the money which has been invested in the enterprise. Sinae that time the company has paid $1,682, 4 7.1 in' dividends; and it now has a capi tal stock of $500,600. and paid out of these dividends. Whenever an i3m$ of stock was made a eorrespomdlai; dividend was declared to ff3et v it. Consequently for every dollar put ir.to the plant eriginally, It has yielded 1 6T to its fortunate holders. It is now paying $30,000 a year, or 120 pec cent on what was originally paid In. ! This enormous profit is the result of an exclusive ownership of tfca streets As there seems to be no practicable way . of securing competitloa la as service, on account-of cost af laying mains, the remedy for the extortloa is public ownership cf gas vrorkft. which would cut down tho price c f gas to one-half or one-third of presv ent price and still pay a profit on fclm money Invested. TREATMENT OF PORTO RICO. In his letter of acceptance PresidCtt McKinley referred to Porto Rico oa follows: ' - "Congress has given to thia Isiani a. government in which the inhabitants participate, elect their own legislature, enact their own local laws, proviilft their own system of taxation. . The generous treatment of tho Porto Ricahs accords with the most liber.il thought of our own country, and en courages the best aspirations of the people of the island." ' ' These statements are of the kind of half-truths which are worse thckn whole lies. Correct as, far as theyt go, they yet convey an impression, as tha, president intends, far different from the actual state of affairs. Far exam ple, while the inhabitants , elect , their own legislature, Mr. McKinley omits to state that every act of the legislature can be vetoed by the governor general, who is appointed by the president, and removable at his pleasure. , Nor does he add that the governor's veto can only be overridden by a two-thirds vote of the executive council, whose members are also appointed by the president In view of these facts, the president's partial statement of the truth' becomes a wilful misrepresenta tion which of itself would be enough to stamp his whole letter as unreliable even where it purports to quote facts. Justice. Grabbing; the XAnct-Grabbers. In 1896 the New Zealand parliament empowered the government to take possession of any large estate at tha assessed price even though the owner refused to sell, and divide it into small farms to be let out On perpetual lease. This Is what the large land ewnera kick about. They raise a big hue and cry -about the government having no right to set asido the "vested rights" of a private citizen or A corporation. The kick did no good and th. people are talking; through, the government estate after estate where the original land-grabbers had established minia ture monarchies among their tenants and laborers. People's Paper. Abraham Lincoln hated war and Its horrors, although his presidency was one. long war. .When a general ob jected to the pardoning of twenty-four deserters, all of whom had been sen tenced to be shot. Lincoln answered: "Mr. General, there are already far too many weeping widows In the United States. - For God's sake, do not ask ma to add to the number, for I won't do it." What "would Lincoln have said to the Anglo-Republican policy of Imper ialism which would fill the land with mothers and widows weeping for sons and husbands, not killed In defending the nation's life, but in expeditions to distant lands in war upon those who have done us no injury? Eastern State Journal. . As John D. Rockefeller, the Stand ard Oil masnate. has sriven several professors their walking ticket from the Baptist University for thinking for themselves and teaching the students to do likewise by allowing them - to study, socialistic questions, and as he recently forced his minister in New York to resign for being too outspoken." a writer In the Chicago Public has sug gested that he use the doxology in a revised form, as follows: "Praise John from whom oil blessings ' 'flow. . . ' Praise him oil creatures here below, Praise him above, the heavenly host. Praise Bill and John, but John the mosL" - The worklngman who can be influ enced to vote for McKinley by threats of stnrvatioa way in driven to , tha polls in 1904 'at. tho point of the bayo net to vote lor Hanna. It would ha the logical conclusion of present meth ods. - " j