Oc oter 18, 1900.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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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
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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
