THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
November 15, 1900
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W now have & man cf the moral
character of Jim Boyd quoted approv
icsly in the daily paper when . be
vrtu his spleen on Bryan- What we
shall tare seat to man can telL
Tte democratic managers thought
that ptiriotirm was more popular than
the ifcorthlp cf money. In that they
-esa to hare been isbtaken. Money
and millionaires ar ta only thins
that the poverty-stricken wretches In
this coar-try admire. All higher Ideals
luke co appeal to then.
Henry Clay. James G. Blaine and W.
i. Bryan ere defeated for the presi
decry, but Franklin Pierce, Grorer
Cleveland and William McKinley were
elected. What righteous man would
not rather to down to batory as a
Clay, a Elaine, or a Bryan than as a
PUrte, a Cleveland, or a McKinley?
Lord Salisbury at a public dinner In
London announced his intense satis
faction OTfT the re-election of McKin
ley. ETery plutocrat In Europe Is re
joicing because the United Slates has
JoiaHi the plutocratic governments of
the world. Th- old American repub
lic f the Declaration of Independence
is a thin; of the past. We have started
on a new career.
The New York Journal says that
Bryan was beaten for two reasons.
First, on account of the silver issue,
and, second, because of cutting loose
from the Philippines. If ihe demo
cratic party had dropped the money
question and advocated the annexation
of the Philippines what would have
dlstltfuih4 It from Mark lianna's
party? It would cot have carried the
south or a single western state. If
those e-astera democrats are repuoll
cans In disrui&e. as we. have all along
suspected, they had better join the re
publican party. They will probably
do that In the near future or get up a
little party of their own.
Every man who knows anything
about the situation in New York,
knows that the republican Piatt ma
chine Is just as Tile as the democratic
Croker machine. The Piatt machine is
the mere dangerous of the two. be
cause it has much effect upon national
politic. The virtuous republican edi
tors who have so much denunciation
for Croker and his ways, have nothing
to say against Piatt and his machina
tions. The three most despicable po
litical bosses In the United States, and
they stand In the order named, are
Piatt. Steve Elk Ins and Matt Quay.
They always work In harmony. They
are all republicans.
Several fusion editors hae re
marked since the election that there
win bs snca a large and active minor
ity la the state legislature and in con
eress that the republicans cannot pass
any very radical measures. If they
hate any political sense left, they will
atop that kind of talk. The republi
cans hare carried a large majority of
the states and have a good working
majority In congress. Let them pass
all the radical republican measures
that they want to and let us see If
their theories will bring us prosperity
and happiness. Let cone of our men
seek to obstruct them. Their duty will
be performed when they vote. Let us
see what armies, trusts, colonies and
bank money will do for us. Let them
run the state to suit themselves.
At the close of Cleveland's last term
democracy is a wreck. Bryan gal-
Tanlzed it Irto life. Now it is wrecked
again. Both times the party has been
wrecked by Its goldbug adherents in
the eastern states. The only life that
It has ever had la it came from the
west and the south. If it has any fu
ture at all it will lie in a complete sep
aration from the gold bug wing in th
east. No man of any sense can fail
to se that such men as Gorman. Hoke
Smith and Olney announced their In
tention to vote for Bryan simply that
they might maintain their standing in
the detaocratic party and then did all
that they could to defeat him. Those
fellows cow say that they are going to
reorganize the democrat !c pirty. We
hope they will. They will have a high
old time when they come to Texas,
Tillman t country and the western
states.
NO OBSTRUCTION.
The people have; spoken sradThe In
dependent submits to the instructions
given at the polls. , It hopes that the
whole populist party will resolve to
put no obstruction in. the way of any
legislation that the republicans want
to enact either In state or cation. Let
us try republican theories and see If
they will result In prosperity and hap
piness for the people. ; . .
Let us have a big regular army,- a
big. costly navy. Let us turn' over all
the industries to the trusts. Put no ob
struction in the way of their raising
prices just as high as they choose. Let
us demand a conscription law and
force the young men who seem to have
voted almost solidly for the republi
can party into the ranks of the pri
vate soldiers. Let us Insist that the
censorship shall be more firmly estab
lished and only such things printed as
the rich want to see in the papers. Let
us help to keep the f tamp taxes in
force and add to all other taxes. Let
us Insist that goods shall still be sold
to foreigners for half what they are
sold to Americans.. Don't put any
thing In the way of any of these
things being done. The people have
said what they wanted and the com
mands of the people most be obeyed.
Let us insist that more railroad
magnates and multi-millionaires shall
have the seats in the senate. Let us
advocate such men as Cnauncey Depew
or young Vanderbilt for president. Let
us demand the continuation of wars of
conquest and Insist that Cuba shall
come along with Porto Rico and the
Philippines. -
This government for the next four
years is to be a government by the
rich. The people have demanded it
and they must have It. We, unuer the
present condition of the popular mind,
could not have even carried Colorado
or Montana if we had not had some of
the multi-millionaires on our side in
those states. Without them and their
money," we would have been snowed
under there just as we were every
where else. The people regard noth
ing but money any more. Only men
who have accumulated millions have
their aumlratlon.
The people have ordered a govern
ment of the rich, by the rich and for
the rich. We made tte best fight we
could against it, but the people have
said that they wanted It and they are
entitled to have' it. They have said
that they wanted trusts. Let us have
the trusts without any hindrance from
our party.
Populists should also quit taking
sides with those who vote for govern
ment by Injunction and then go on a
strike to get higher wsges. "All these
fellows vote for trusts and low wages
and they should be made to abide by
the result of their votes. If "they don't
want It they shouldn't vote for It.
There will be some big strikes in the
near future. If populists have any
sense left ey will not side with the
strikers. They did that in the case of
Debs and they have had Debs as well
as the rich against them ever since.
They sided with the Pennsylvania coal
miners. Then the coal miners went to
the polls and voted almost to a man
for Matt Quay and McKinley.
The populists have sympathized
with the renters and hoped that the
time might come when each man
might own hi3 own heme. But these
renters nearly all voted for plutocracy.
They wanted wealth all concentrated
In few hands and whole counties to be
owned by one man. Now let them have
it- The present census is showing a
vast increase in the number of renters.
In this state the populists have
polled their votes against such a pol
icy. Men who were educated in the
alliance did not want any of these
things -and voted against them. They
are the thrifty and intelligent people
of the farming districts! But the ma
jority Is against them. More people
in this-state want Mark Hanna and
the trusts than are opposed to them.
Let them have Mark Hanna and the
trusts and put nothing in their way.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
The readers of The Independent
know more of the facts of current his
tory, more of economics, more of the
leading politicians of the country and
more of the trend of public affairs
than the readers of any other paper.
The time is coming in the near future
when the knowledge will be of great
value to them. The Ignorance of the
most common things by republicans,
even those who claim to belong to the
higher classes, is simply astonishing.
The other day a colored man was
making a speech on the streets of Lin
coln In which he said that two half
dollars weighed less than a silver dol
lar. A republican a man doing a
large business listened to him and
remarked that he wondered that any
crowd would stand and listen to such
absolute nonsense. "But," said a by
stander, "that is true."' The republi
can looked at him w:th perfect con
tempt. Then the man said, "Come
with me and let us see." They went
into a drug store and weighed two
half dollars and a dollar.
That republican was In. the condi
tion of thousands of other republicans.
He had read nothing but partisan re
publican papers. He was not only ig
norant of that fact, but cf thousands
of other things that he ought to have
known, and would have known if he
had been a reader of The Independent.
You cannot afford to get into this con
dition. You are interested in knowing
the facts. Hundreds of these are
printed in The Independent that you
will get nowhere else unless you spend
hours of time in reading the great' dai
lies and magazines. They will; cost
you ten times as much In money as
will The Independent.
Many of you have not the time to
spend in reading scores of columns in
the daily papers and cull out of them
the few real facts that you desire to
have. In the "News of the Week,"
the editor of The Independent does
that work for you, and there you will
find the record of current events of all
the world in which you are interested,
with such comments as will show their
bearing on the home and family life
of the common American citizen.
The work of education must be kept
up. The value of that work is shown
in the steady, unflinching column of
reform voters. They have had the
facts and e mass of the. people have
not. We polled more votes than we
ever did before. We held all our old
voters and made a few converts. Our
voters knew that the better times was
because of two years of good crops
and the vast increase in the coinage of
sliver, the unlooked for output of gold
and the issue of vast sums of paper
money. Those who nad not been edu
cated and who did not know the facts,
believed it was because McKinley was
president. Each voted on the informa
tion that he had. If fitty thousand of
the voters had been furnished The In
dependent they would have had the in
formation that they lacked.
So far, no republican paper has
made editorial mention of the rise of
trust stocks and the rise in prices of
all trust goods. The men who take
only republican papers will never
know why there has been a sudden
rise In sugar,- dressed meats, salt and
many other things. They will only
find out that they 1 have risen when
they go to town to buy goods. The
men who read The Independent will
know. That knowledge will be of
value to them, a value many times
larger than what the paper wiy ever
cost them.
Therefore let the readers of The In
dependent make every effort to ex
tend the circulation of the paper, for
their own interest and for the interest
of all their neighbors, republicans as
wel as fusionists. In other words,
keep up the fight. Stand for your fire
sides and your homes. Four years of
trusts, from the way they have started
out, will open the eyes of a good many
men.
ONE THING ESSENTIAL
The plan outlined by the eastern
democrats for the reorganization of
the democratic party as stated in in
terviews by many of the prominent
democrats who have always fought
Bryan, as well as the New York Jour
nal and other papers, is to adopt all
of the populist demands, including
public ownership of railroads, tele
graphs, gas plants, water plants, elec
tric light plants, postal saving banks
in fact everything except the populist
theories" concerning money. That is
only proof of what The Independent
has said a thousand times. It has
pointed out time and again to the en
thusiastic populists that their de
mands would all be granted by the
goldbugs without question, except the
fundamental one of all, the control o
the volume of money by the people.
That is the one 'thing essential to
plutocracy. They never lose sight of
that. It underlies all, and overshad
ows all other questions. Upon It is
built the massive fortunes of the mul-ti-millionalres.
By it the concentra
tion of capital has . been possible and
without it, it would be impossible.
Upon it rests the trusts. By it plutoc
racy secures the control of the govern
ment. . Without it, the government,
would go back into the hands of the
people.
Let populists be on their "guard.
These bribes of unessential things,
however good they may be in them
selves, should never allure them away
from the essential thing. As long as
the power to control the volume ol
money rests in the hands of the rich,
just so long will we have a govern
ment by the rich, or in other words,
plutocracy. -
A familiar sight during the latter
part of this winter and next spring
will be the beautiful pictures of sar
geants, corporals and enlisted men,
dressed in fine clothes out on a parade
ground, that the war department sends
out when it wants recruits. They will
adorn the bill boards everywhere.
These are really fine works of art and
have a great attraction for the bump
kins who loaf around the streets.
They have not been a common thing
in this land of the free and home of
the brave, but they will be very com
mon hereafter. They are never out
of sight in England. There, the re
cruiting sergeants have a fashion of
getting the bumpkins drunk and then
giving them the "Queen's shilling,
which settles their fate. Our recruit
ers will soon get onto that sort of
j thing", for "it's English, you know."
THE TRUSTS. ' J, , .
Not only have the organized trusts
had a boom since the election such as
the world never saw before, but a
score or more of new 'trusts have been,
organized in the last few days, promi
nent among which is the rice trust
and cotton trust. Salt has advanced
from $1.10 to $2.50. Meat has ad
vanced a cent- a- pound. Sugar has
gone up fifteen, cents a hundred
pounds. Iron and steel have made
substantial advances as well as many
other things. The rice trust is making
contracts good for' only four years;
which seems to indicate that the man
agers have not much faith that anoth
er trust president will ' be elected at
the close of McKinley's-term.
Of the things that farmers have to
sell, everything has. gone down ex
cept hogs. Wheat fights hard on the
boards of trade, but there has been a
gradual decline, an' eighth cent at a
time. Everything that the farmer has
to buy has gone lip.1 As to the, wage
workers, the cost of living j has in
creased and there will be. no rise in
wages. '
It is generally conceded that organ
ized labor stood, almost solid for re
form, but the workers in the trade
unions are few In comparison to those
outside. The vast army of counter
jumpers clerks who get from five to
eight dollars a- week went solid - for
the trusts. This is a class that has
always been held n contempt by the
clear-eyed, muscular farmer boys.
They have always stood at the tail end
of manhoo.d. They have never had
sense enough to organize for their own
interests. In one store here in Lin
coln where the merchant has given
this class of mental nonentities better
wages, with less fines and discounts
than any other employer and never
undertaken to control their votes, was
disgusted to find that every . one of
them had voted for McKinley, while he
had been striving to make their con
dition better. They will now pay trust
prices for board , and clothes and get
no advance in wages. They hadn't
half the sense of the girls who worked
by their side. A slim-fingered, pale
faced thing, calling himself - a man,
selling lace, ribbons and corsets, is a
disgusting sight to any manly man.
Those things all voted for McKinley.
EDUCATING MARK HANNAS.
The great universities of the coun
try are being used to educate young
men so that they shall be efficient boo
dle campaigners." . The lofty ideals that
once inspired .the young men who
sought higher education, the sense of
justice and fair play are abandoned,
and while yet in college "the young
men are taught to accept corporation
bribes and to make a boast of it. The
young men accept a bribe in the shape
of free transportation, of from five to
fifty dollars from the railroad to go
home and vote the republican ticket,
and instead of being ashamed of it,
they, in many cases, make a boast of
it. It is well known among all the
students that every man who could be
relied upon to go home and vote the
republican ticket was given free trans
portation. Not one who was looked
upon as doubtful could obtain the
least reduction In rates. Many of these
populist and fusion young men did go
home at a great sacrifice a sacrifice
so great that they will feel it for
many weeks for the sole purpose of
voting. They paid full fare both ways.
But the tone of the university is such
that these young men of honor are
looked upon with pity, while those
who took the bribes are regarded as
the coming men of influence. Teaching
students bribery is one of the missions
of the republican party. When these
young men take the helm of state we
may look for whaU
There is nothing like-a. monopoly.
It has such a vigorous way of squeez
ing the people and does it with such
perfect complacency." Take the Lin
coln Gas company. Every other, firm
in the city sends around a bill and is
perfectly satisfied if it is paid when
presented. Not so the gas monopoly.
It insists that every customer must
come to It and inquire what the bill
is and if he don't it sets itself
up as a court without theright of ap
peal, and fines its customer ..whatever
it sees fit, because he did -not come
around, inquire what he'owed anu set
tle on the first of the month: "No;
there is nothing like a monopoly. It
is given to the recipient by the coun
cil, without cost and the owner grows
rich and is happy. : r .-. u,
THE INDIANS.
If a falsehood once becomes cujrent,
It seems almost impossible to correct
it.. It matters little whether it is of
personal interest to the people, an ab
stract idea or a historical fact. Let it
be generally circulated and currently
believed and that settles the matter
for all except a few investigators. The
idea that this continent was once
thickly populated with Indians, that
they have decreased in numbers just
in the ratio that they have come in
contact with the whites, is fully be
lieved by nine-tenths of the people.
The truth Is that there are as many
Indians now as there were when Co
lumbus landed and if we count those
who have amalgamated with the
whites or have become a part of the
citizenship of the country, engaged in
business and the varied pursuits of
civilized life, there are a good many
more. The secretary of the interior
has just submitted his annual report.
He has every means of ascertaining
the facts. The scientists of the Smith
sonian institute as well as the census
enumerators all agree upon this- mat
ter. The report says it can be stated
with a great degree of confidence that
the Indian population of the United
States has been very little diminished
from the days of Columbus, Raleigh,
Captain John Smith and other early
explorers. The first reliable Indian
census was in 1870, and certainly since
then the Indian population has been
nearly ' stationary, whatever decrease
there is being attributable to Indians
becoming citizens.
There is an immense amount of time
wasted in the common schools under
the pretense of teaching patriotism.
The result of it is. they don't teach
patriotism, but a sort of fetish worship
of the flag that has neither sense nor
nonsense In it. Patriotism is a love
of one's country. To teach a child pa
triotism he must be shown that his
country is worth loving. Let the child
be told what this country has done to
uplift mankind. Let it be shown how
under the inspiration of the constitu
tion and the Declaration of Indepen
dence men have, been made free and
vigorous. ? How by living In a free
country all may have a chance to ad
vance, that education spreads, that
the homes of the poor are made more
comfortable, that the whole people are
happier. A child so taught will love
his country will grow up to be a pa
triot. This everlasting talk about
the flag has no tendency whatever to
make patriots. The constant flaunting
of the flag, its use for commercial and
partisan purposes places it before the
child in a manner to destroy all gen
uine respect for it. Flag worship is
just as disgusting and degrading as
joss worship.
Mr. Edgerton, who did most of the
work for the populist national ticket,
was left by the astute managers al
most entirely without funds. The
foolish notion that eastern states
could be carried -for western ideas
without previous educational work
has had its day. Western ideas will
never get a foothold there until they
get them in the same way they were
propagated in the west. Teach the
j people the fundamental principles of
political economy as tney have been
taught out here. Mr. Edgerton was in
that work from the beginning and well
knew how to do it, but the wiseacres
would not allow him the means. to do
i it. The time to educate the people is
not during a campaign. The work of
education in the west was done in the
school houses during the winter
months when men were not excited to
a partisan irenzy
The railroads took a more active
part in this campaign than any that
ever occurred in this state. More trans
portation was given away and more
active work was done by the roads
than ever before. If this legislature
can't find some way to prevent the
railroads from furnishing the funds to
run republican campaigns and then
taxing it up against the people in un
just rates, the members will not earn
their salt. One thing is certain, if the
railroads can ta the people for the
benefit of the republican party, the
legislature can certainly tax it back
from them for the benefit of the whole
people. This railroad question is go
ing to be a mighty big question for the
next two years Gentle treatment only
has the tendency to make the man
agers more rapacious.
One of the first things that this leg
islature should do should be to give us
a ballot that can be voted without hav
ing gone through a school of instruc
tion to learn how. All manner of mis
takes have been made with the one
we had this time, but the crowning
infamy of the whole thing was that a
man could be asked his politics. That
infamy should be wiped out instanter.
In the opinion of this writer a ballot
should be so made that with one mark
the whole ticket could- be voted. A
large majority of voters desire to so
vote. But no obstruction should be
put m the way of those who want to
scratch their ticket. The old ballot
with the little cottage on it was the
best ballot we ever had.
The New York Journal says that we
must take the control of money away
from the banks and put it back in the
government, by making all the paper
money redeemable in gold. If ther
is any more certain way of giving the
banks the control of money than that,
the ingenuity of man has failed to dis
cover it. With only one metal to cor
ner and a large issue of paper money,
the banks would have a very easy time
of it. It wouldn't be very long until
all the available gold would be locked
up in their vaults.
No man will longer deny that
"money can buy an election" after he
scans the Nebraska returns. That
matter is settled.
SPECIAL
; We quota a few cheap prices on Notions Prices that are
good only: till November 22, and being .made in connection
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Watch for these
Independent.
THE STATE RETURNS. .
It had been hoped that before this
edition of The Independent went to
press the official returns from all coun
ties In the state would be available.
But that has not proved true. This
much is positively known. The re
publicans have elected all the state
officers. The vote on governor will not
vary far from 300 between the two
candidates and that in favor of Diet
rich. The legislature will depend upon
the count in Omaha. That will not
be finished before Friday. Both par
ties still claim it.
After the votes are all counted and
officially declared, some valuable les
sons can be gathered from them. It
is useless to attempt it now. There
is no doubt, however, that many thou
sands of illegal votes were cast in this
state. These show up in little towns
along the railroads most unmistakably.
In many of these small towns the
number of votes cast for many years
have been known to all. Parties have
been clearly defined. Every man is
known to be a republican, democrat
populist or free silver republican. Yet
in many of these towns while the fu
sion vote has remained the same, the
republican vote returned has been in
creased all the way from twenty-five
and thirty to as high as eighty and
ninety. The fusionists have made a
slight increase in their vote, but no
one can tell where the new 18,000 or
20,000 republican votes have come
from. There has been no such increase
in the permanent inhabitants of this
state. In fact six or seven counties in
which crops have failed for the last
two years have been almost depop
ulated. This much The Independent says
this week. When the vote is finally
canvassed by the secretary of state
and given to the public, some inquiry
will be made in those places where this
enormous increase appears. At least
some of these men who came Into the
state and swore In their votes must be
reached and prosecuted. If they are
not, it will be folly for Nebraska ever
to go to the expense of holding anoth
er election.
The English cabinet seems deter
mined to demonstrate that Pinafore is
not a comic opera at all, but a gen
uine representation of the imperial
way of doing things. Lord Salisbury
is engaged In appointing "his uncles,
his cousins and his aunts" to office so
fast that even the old conservative pa
pers that have been tories since the
memory of man runneth not to the
contrary, are expressing astonishment,
while some of them have gone so far
as to make mild dissenting comments.
Joe Chamberlain is looking out for
his relatives In the same manner.
Meantime ! the Boers keep killing
Englishmen at the old rate.
As soon as congress shall pass the
bill increasing the navy to four times
Its present size as recommended by
the navy authorities, naval recruiting
stations will be opened In all the
states of the union. It will take quite
a number of Nebraska boys to supply
the quota from this state.
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The result of Imperialism always
has been, is now and will continue to
be war.
HARDY'S COLUMN
Nominations Poor Joe Spanish Emi
grationTropical Diseases Money
Legal Tender Tariff Republican
Tammany Bryan Not Dead Nor
Sleeping. -
' .We nominate Captain Billingsley for
our new governor's adjutant general.
We like to see matched teams,
matched in every particular.
I Joe Bartley may now expect his lib
', erty and privilege to spend that half
j million he . stole from the taxpayers
1 of the state. Such worthy republicans
1 ought not to be shut up in the peui
' tentiary. It is hinted that one of the
next United States senators had a
i hundred thousand or tnat money.
The Spaniards are coming over and
vim our great govern oer clearing sale now m progress. .
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weekly specials in
settling in Cuba by the thousands. It
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have already come, besides several
thousand from other countries. The
promise that they shall have a frea
government brings them. They would
flock to the Philippines In. the same
way if the same promise was made to
that people.
The tropic wars will not be as pop
ular when our boys begin to return
loaded down with infectious diseases.
Seventy-five per cent of the English
soldiers returning from the East In
dies are, so diseased that. they. are kept
in quarantine for months and many
of them for life. Their friends are
not allowed to even shake hands with
them for fear of spreading one of the
many diseases. Nor are the soldiers,
allowed to drink out of the same cup
for the same reason
Instead of retiring the greenbacks
they should be increased to $500,000,000
and then should the banks of the oast
apply the "endless chain" again, in
stead of borrowing gold, ' the govern
ment should apply the same chain to
the banks, present their bllla and re
quire redemption in gold. The same
gold could be used in redeeming green
backs. Counter irritation is one of
the remedies in medical practice. We
will continue to have good times pro
viding the republicans continue to in
crease the legal tender money as fast
as business increases as they have
done during the past four years. The
mints have coined several millions of
silver dollars every month.
Then we can stand the high protec
tive tariff if they would only let us
buy American 4 made goods . anywhere
in the world and bring them home
free. Now we have to pay a tariff on
our own goods when we. bring them
home. That is the meanest and most
unjust portion of the whole tariff law.
The republicans find much fault with
the democratic . Tammany ring of New
Y'ork. They ought not to, for they
have just such a republican ring In the
republican city of Philadelphia and
even a much worse ring and Quay Is
their Croker. The city did own md
run the gas plant, but the ring run it
into the ground so badly that it was
sold and now the new owners are mak
ing millions out of it and their ring
gets a slice of the profits, of course. It
is hard to change parties. In
cities where there are so many more
thieves than honest men. Wanamaker
seems to be the only man honest
enough to kick against city corruption.
Nebraska people should not hold up
their hands in horror, for we have the
same conditions In our cities, only on
a smaller scale. If we could change
parties every four years we could beep
ourselves clean. We have some scold
ing to do in regard to our city and
state management. There was no need
for .letting Nebraska and Kansa3
change quite so soon. It Is the fruit
of our own foolishness. -
The only trouble with Bryan on
these questions, he is a little ahead of
the times. : In four or five years te
majority of the people will stand
where he now stands. Bryan is not
dead, neither is his doctrine dead. His
speeches and his writings wilt Jive af
ter McKinley's administration has
been forgotf"' Two defeats will" not
silence eit his tongue or his" pen.
.When Frer cnt was defeated we en
joyed standing with him rather than
with Buchanan elected. So today give
us Bryan defeated rather than McKin
ley elected.
News of the Week
As soon as the election was over the
administration gave th5"annvial re
port of General MacArthur. A consid
erable portion of the report relates to
events which took place previous to
the date when he assumed command,
and he publishes some of the corre
spondence and proclamations of the
Filipinos obtained before that time. He
refers to the change in Aguinaldo's
plans in abandoning his army organi
zation and starting a guerrilla warfare.-
The conditions of the country
have afforded advantages for such a
policy, he says, as they have enabled
the insurgents to appear and disap
pear at their convenience. At one tim
they are soldiers and Immediately af
ter are within the American lines la
the attitude of peaceful natives,
A v.-.C oattered formation of Fili
pinos (Juluciy followed the guerrilla
warfare, wiiich led to a corresponding
dissemination of American troops,
there being ,fifty-three 'military sta
tions in the archipelago November 1,
1899, and 413 stations September 1,
1900. This resulted in a large num
ber of minor affairs., many of which
did 'not assume the dignity of a reg
ular combat, though the casualties be
tween the dates stated were 268 Axa-