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fife AY if mm I I I! I I II J II II II 'X VOL. XII. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 2 2, 1900. NO. 27. (M yjTV vs. . a i ii a y ii.ii i . V.'KY UTAH WHIT 6. 0. P. A CMtmt W MmI Willi tb Mrta Aatbwrit- by tiftUaa ! I -i flfsaay A !- The fo!kfwi:: dispatch is from the leaver Near. It only coafirmi vbit Tte It-Jsd t.t slid or. the same suj-c It eicits to fttrpris la the local tsJ&i !a I" Lib that a majority of 5lJ was tan4 to a majority of 29 for McKinley td the single cold stand ard In !''. Tt-re has been no great revelation la political wstiment In Utah. The p-opie still believe la lt rtaJiSsj asd are till opposed to the roll stac-Jard. Asd yet it wa known days W fore election that they would rl a teeming Is Sorement to the l. v! rta4rd- It was perfectly well tiaderatood how ufi why this result would t troaLt about. It wms ii owa from end to cd of the state that the e-lirt Lid gr.t.e forth from the Mortsoo JiMlr r.hatl the pcple must vote far McKinley. th.it the pledges made by ti.-e 1 ri tc- d!iver Utah's electoral to the republicans might L rd'-rs- 1. Evsry ll-iefonrd voter In the ltit I SOt tl it if i t'.- pOer Cf th rei'-tt! 1 I. t wir3 out th Bry an majority. 1'oMirtar.s tr-at the matter a Joke and comment lightly cpoa the smooth!- with which the church authorities rr1ed out the I'mrrarn. Thre ire no expressions of !riifxt;on or sorrow that the spirit of Atmriczn goierr.trc nt is dead In I'tafe. thit the state ccnfiitutlon ts a dad l-tt'-r and that trre is absolute tra:oa of church ar.! ?at. The peo ple hat i become cailc-us4 to thse tfr. V.'.'.m . It su about a yvar aro that Utah's t '-toral o.- m tf3rrair.d to Mark Hisr.e. Hobrt. th io!ysaraift. had -n throws vul of roacrems and the tat. os's turtr vt M-nrn was pointed to t'tah. A ront!tu!iona! amendment prohibiting i-l) rmy was threatened by corner" mi. Thl was to be followed by tr;r.r-?t !-rH!a!ion. There were ral tho'itarid k'tl polyraraSsts In tt.f tate to whom th legislation i o 1 Irinz rntat distress. These xly rarr!t ar the not InSuentlal fi.ea Ja the Mormon hurch. To pro--t th rra"t!re cf polyramy and sare thmwlvr frora fx-rration the ctuTh ii(!ri rf willing to enter !t,to a pfAixlsiMl arr am to debauch ; t!; -I--rt orate. ; CL f Jw-iit f I'trf h. Aostl John H: ry f-'th atd Ii.hop H. II Claw oti wt tba to Vaiantton. Hirtch i a jr-r.Ufe rh'i rrce have al- iji t-n o.a-d t te dtfpotal of the ; n chofh oSria!s la exchamte fo- p!:f:ral f rt. His term of of f i to-jt to ep!re and his re warJ tijtr t'rlrricu ralvat'on to poly r v. a tm t-c a r r.orr:iaat:on and re. :-i;3. Th- thr-" west to Wash-lvs"--i -r.'J h-H rorfrnes with t;a t.'.r.'! !.'i-m f th r-pujllcan party ar d r j.i--r,tt!v of th McKlnSy 9cr:it'.im:i"z. ihr tnea announced, t Vat:lcrtr. that I'tah's vote wottd ra.-t for M'Ksr.S'-y at th- coming ; 1 : ju. At tL-' o;.-f,ltr of the presM2t!zl arJr in I h tot-r. Irry S. II- i?h a iMjr.! r-preiMpatat!ve of Mirk cl.U I ot the pr-ss tyreau of the r -:" HWan ratlonU rotn is it tee, canie to t'tah. Withia tw-nty-foir 1 o-irs sft-r h: arrival in Salt !jik h held a sret conference with the tir- men who compose what Is kion as lhe mt pnsidency of the i!c rn oa cherch Irenzo Snow, the and hi to counsellors. Oorce Q Cannon and Joseph F. Hsaith. What occurred at this iecret conference is cf coarse tot knows to the puhiic, hut withir. t-a days the p-tL or the Mormon church rom m r.ced to preach M KInleyUm to the people. Ilry is the rarapa!rn and shortly af!r I'erry S. Heath's visit to Utah. A pottle Cowley told his congregation in So-Jthern Utah that he was "in spired" to t:rire thera to vote for Me Kir. ley. hLortly after this State I'res-H-nt li-i'isr, a candidate for state sen ator in Southern Idaho, called all of the Mthops acd other members of the priethood tojr-ther ard informed thera that it was the desire of the "'retires." that the people vote for Upon the night before election some cf the church oScials threw off the mak entirely and in their anxiety to wjn out the Bryan majority plainly toll the people why they should vote for McKlE.ley. Ia a public meeting hld at Mesdon. Cache county. Pa triarch HnjrLe boldly stated that Me Kialey ad the republican party were plered aa:rt the anti-polygamy as:esijmr.t to he conftltution. acd to prf tct p!jca.nit arainst arrest as J Imprif nmetu. In exchange for the electoral vote of Utah. BLESSINGS RECEIVED tlwj Wer arrttk et Iy After 1 1 t:tti ! Tttr mrm 9mf More Coeo. WaLicrtoa. D. Nov. 17 (Fpe e;al Correspondence.) It is lets than a mosth sice the popular verdict was given as,d already we caa appreciate eosse of the manifold beat-fits which ccr-a- from trust control. No sooner was McKinley re-elected than price began to go up with a The stirar truft bera the game. Al most every household necessity. Salt, prtisea. Cour. meat, rice, coffee and similar ankle have gone up from IS to 2j ptr cect at retail. There is nothing la the business sit uation to explaia the rise. The house hold rr ump-y has to pay the advance or go wiitont the goods. This is only the b-tfsrir.g of the trust policy. The p-pW mtt were carious to see what wo'ald ceme of another four years cf trmt eapaasloa and control are go- Ing to have that curiosity fully grati fied and at the expense of their own pocket books. There Is no talk at all of any legis lation to control trusts during the coming session of congress. The re publicans think that the iext appeal to the popular verdict i-i far enough away'tht there is no need to pay any attention to appearances just now. There are other doubtful blessings immediately following the election. In less than a week after the Standard Oil stock reached the highest point In its history and the retail price of oil went tip from two to five cents all over the country. Mr. Quay announced that he would be elected to the senate from Penn sylvania and Mr. Addicks was sure that he would be the senatorrom Delaware. The English press hails the re-election of McKinley as a sure proof that the Anglo-American alliance will be firmly cemented and that this country will back England in her imperialist policy all over the world. Salisbury has done us the honor to approve the seven millions and three-quarters who voted for McKinley and to Intimate t that the seven millions who voted for Dryan were not quite right in their minds. The English press also informs the world that the decent and conservative majority of the United States ap proves of the style of warfare which England has carried on against the Boers. The assumption that the McKinley administration has received an un qualified indorsement makes us sure that there are other bles3ings to fol low as soon as the congressional mill begins to grind. Undoubtedly the three-quarters of a million voters who determined the re sult were the sort who were open to a certain sort of subtle coercion which the republicans have always used with great success. There was the small depositor In the savings hank. Just the hint that Bryan's election might affect his quar terly installment of interest was enough to scare him. It was the same way with the holder of small mort gages. Tht clerical class need only a rufplcion that the defest of McKin ley might endanger their places or wazes. Now none of these classes really feared any very serious result if Bryan was elected, but the bare hint of any change was such a potent appeal to their caution that the ballot was cast for McKinley. It is worth while for the democrats to study how to deal with these clarses next time. -- - EVA M DONALD VALESH. FINAL CROP REPORTS Corn I up to Th A verag But The Wheat Crop ICeport Will Not be Pub lished Hefor Dee. IS. Th? preliminary estimate of the av erage yield per acre in corn In 1900, as published in the forthcoming monthly j report of the statistician of the depart- merit of agriculture. Is 25.3 bushels, as ! corrpared with an average yield of i 2S.31 bushels In 1699, and a ten year ; averaee of 24.1 bushels. The indicated yield per acre in Ohio is 37 bushels, in Indiana and Iowa 38, In Illinois 37, in Missouri 2S. in Kansas 19 and in Ne braska 26 bushels. The average as to quality Is fc5.5 per cent, as compared with 87.2 last year. It Is estimated that 4.4 per cent of the corn crop of 18&9 was still in the hand of farmers on November 1. 1900, as compared with 5.9 per cent of the crop of 1898 in farmers' hands on November 1, 1899. The preliminary estimate of the av erage yield per acre of buckwheat is 15 bushels, against an average yield of 1C.5G bushels in 1899 and a ten year average of 16.8 bushels. The av erage as to quality Is 90.2 per cent. The preliminary estimate of the av erage yield per acre of potatoes is 80.8i bushels, against an average yield of SS bushels in 1899 and a ten-year av erse of '6.6 bushels. The average as to quality Is SS.l per cent, against 91,4 per cent in November last. The preliminary estimate of the av erage yield per acre of hay is 1.28 tons, urainst an average yield of 1.35 tons in J liW and a tcn-ytar average of 1.28 tans. The average as to quality is 9 7 per cent, against 93.8 per cent in November last An etlmale of the wheat crop will be if sued as scon as the individual tarm n turns are available. This will le not later than Dec. 10. State Expenditure Some of the state officers and heads of the various state Institutions have filed estimates of the amounts which will be needed in their respective de partments during the coming bien nlum. Those received so far are as follows: State treasurer. $16,700. State auditor. $25,400. State superintendent. $18,000. Attorney general. $14,700. Supreme court, $34,400. State library, $16,541. State university. $348,000. Board of transportation, $14,200. Irrigation board. $14,600. Banking board. $7,800. State normal school, Peru. $60,140. Industrial school for boys, Kearney, $97,000. Industrial school for girls. Geneva, $13.C03. Home for the. frlendlefs, Lincoln, $41,000. Daf institute. Omaha, J&2.750. Blind institute, Nebraska City, $50, 175. Industrial home, Milford. $31,250. Insane aiylum, Lincoln, $112,400. insane asylum. Hastings, $272,800. State Industrial bureau. $1,600. Soldiers' home, Milford, $20,500. Soldiers home. Grand Island, $100, 800. , The total of all the estimates that have been made is $1,536,23L CIVILIZERS IN CHINA A Letter From Lincoln Man Tolling How Christianity is Propagated by Modern Methods Hubert P. Herr, whose mother, Mrs. Maud M. Chapman resides at 1452 Vine street, Lincoln, participated in the siege of Pekin. He is a member of company E, Ninth United States in fantry. Mrs. Chapman has just re ceived a letter from him, dated Sep tember 20, shortly after they entered the besieged city. He says: Pekin, China, Sept. 20, 1900. Dear Mother and All: Here I am In Pekin, and have been here since the 14th of last month, and haven't written before this. What do you think of me? The truth is, dear mother, I have been sick unto death, after arriving here in Pe kin, but I am getting all right now. The march from Tien Tsin here did it. I will not try to describe that march, for no man can; it was something ter rible. Men by the hundreds fell out of the ranks every day from exhaus toin. It took us ten days to make the march, and we were living on quarter rations, that is, our rations for a day was coffee, three slices of bacon and hardtack. I managed to pull through all right, but it near killed me to do it. We had three battles on our way here. The first was about five miles from Tien Tsin on August 5, where hundreds of Japs were killed, but no Americans, for we were in reserve that day. But the next day, August 6, about twenty miles from Tien Tsin, we got in it for sure. The bullets were coming like hail. The Americans lost pretty heavily, but only one man was hit in my company. From that on the Japs took the advance until we got to Pekin, so you see we didn't get any more of it until we got here. Then we got it again on the 14th, when we started into the city. We had five gates to "go through and each one had to be blown open. We lost quite a number that day, but nothing compared with the Chinamen. There were thousands lying around on the ground. It was a sickening sight, but such is war. After things were quieted down a lit tle the soldiers were turned loose to forage for food, and then it was some thing I will never forget. How they did rob the Chinese. They would go into dry goods stores and throw thou sands of yards of silk and fine furs on the floor and walk over it, and I was one of them. What could we do with It? Nothing. We would go in jewelry stores where watches were by the hun dreds, but they don't amount to very much. They are all silver, except a few. I took about forty and sold them for $1 and $2 apiece. I could not carry them. I have five or six left that 1 will keep for relics. I have one little gold watch that I will send you. It is a nice relic. It is so small and delicate I don't know whether you will get it whole or not, but I hope so. I was offered $30 for it, but would not take it. I want you to have it. The big hand has come off, but you can have it put on, as it is still in the case. Tell Grover and Roy I have a nice little watch apiece for them. I will send yours now, but will wait until I can get something to eend the others in. May and Charles won't get left. I received a letter from you about a week ago stating that you had written to Colonel Liscum and Captain Scho field. I don't know whether it will do any good or not, but we will wait and see. Of course Liscum can't help me. That is sure. We are getting ready to move again, but I don't know where. I hope it Is to the states. Once I get there I will stay. I think it is about time the Ninth was going home. We have seen service enough for a while. Don't you think so? Well, I will close, hopine to be with you soon. Your affectionate son, HUBERT P. HERR. MODERNIZED EDUCATION The University Graduates the Most Help less of Men When Time Has Been Given Exclusively to Science and Literature. The following article from a profes sor in one of the modernized institu tions of learning, is along the same lines, and advocating the identical pol icy in education so long defended by The Independent. It was written by a professor who knew what he was talking about. He says: In this morning's mail was a letter asking for a graduate from our farm course to fill a place as farm superin tendent in a New England school. The place offers a salary of $800 a year to start with, and an up-to-date, enerr getic young man Is wanted who has good executive ability. This letter had been read but not answered when a college graduate walked into the office and (said he wanted to know what he could do to fit himself to take a position in farm work. This young man was a graduate from the general course and had a good general train ing in many, things, but was not trained to do any one thing well. He found that the only thing his general training fitted him for was as a teach er In district schools, where he had to compete with girls' turned out from the city schools, who were willing to work for from $25 to $30 a month and board themselves. Last year one of our farm course boys made a study of feeding skim milk calves and dairy cows. Last spring he had five places open to him at one time, ncne of which paid less than $40 a month and board to start with, and some of them offering good opportunities to work up. Last week we iopt a graduate from a general col lege course who was getting $40 a month and boarding himself. He was a clerk in a . lumber yard with no chance of promotion. One of our grad uates who made a. specialty of good butter making was paid $900 for the first year's work, and today two places are bidding for his services. Another graduate from a general college course believed that after college days gen eral culture should .be continued, and for fourteen years took up post-graduate work, each year taking different studies so as to broaden his views. The only work this student is competent to do today is to teach a school or work as a laborer. These are only a few instances of the many -with which the writer is familiar. ; The first thing that 999 out of 1,000 students must do aftr they leave col lege Is to make a living, and for most of them this will be! a main problem through life. There Is a constant de mand for those who (are skilful in in dustrial work; ; the ; market is over stocked for men in gemeral- profession al lines. Nebraska ants young men who can manage farms, feed ' cattle, make a dairy herd pay, superintend an orchard or nursery, do good work in machine shops, or get power from a boiler and engine economically. The young man knows only how to teach school or work in a store or do office work finds two other men after the same place he is trying to get, and in the end loses his place jbecause a young lady will do the work for one-half what It costs him to live, because all she wants is money for wedding clothes, and she expects to resign. Travellers say the World is full of men who have taken: a good general college training and who have spent thousands on their education, who are glad to get places as waiters at lunch counters or as inotorneers on street cars, while as soon as a man has fitted himself to feed skim milk calves suc cessfully half a dozen men are waiting to hire him at good wages. ' The old theory that a properly edu cated man must have spent his time in studying dead languages and myth ology is dead; .'the later idea that a true education consists in an education general in all things and a special training in none is dying. The theory of a general college education was based on the idea that if a student knew a little, of many things his mind was broadened . and his ability strengthened, while the specialist who knew much about one thing and a lit tle about a few others had a narrow view of life and work. Facts show the contrary. The man who is an ex pert in one line usually has a liberal appreciation . and knowledge of the work of specialists In other lines and is most often the mar-sof broad train ing. His skill in his own lines fits him to quickly comprehend work in other lines. The fcest informed man in literature, geography and" history in the writer's acquaintance is a special ist in etomology. The general student may be likened to a traveller who, to secure a view of the country, visits each spot in the valley, while the spe cialist climbs to the highest mountain top and can see not only all that the traveller in the valey sees, but miles beyond. The writer would advise every young man to determine early in his college course what special , line herwants to take up in after life and then bend all his -work to fitting himself to become a broad-minded, well-fitted specialist. Suppose that the student selects steer feeding as his life work, he will find that his interest in this will make4 chemistry a living study. He can learn chemistry more quickly and become thorough in it. because he will know that this science will be of great help in making money with his steers. He will find physics easy and fascinating and, if he is the right stuff, he win go farther than the rest of his class in this study, because upon the applica tion of the laws of physics depends his success in raising feed for his steers in time of drouth. These are only two illustrations of a fact that is general. The student who has a special object in view can learn easier, become more interested, and will go deeper in his general stu dies than the student whose only in terest in college work is to obtain gen eral culture. The student may find after he has finished his college course that his ideas have changed and that he wants to follow a different line of work for life from that first selected. Even in this case he has gained by working to wards a specialty. His quickened in terest and deeper delving in all his studies makes him a stronger man for his new -work than his neighbor who has studied for general culture only. The Mormon Agreement The republican party will not pass any measure during the next term in regard to men living with a plurality of wives. An attempt was made at the last session of congress to pass a law reaching Mormons who married more than one wife a number of years ago and continue to live with them. It failed of passage. , This year the republicans made an agieement with the Mormon church that no legislation on the subject will be enacted. In return the Mormon church has delivered Utah's electoral vote to McKinley. The Mormon vote in western Wyoming assisted very materially in giving Mr. McKinley the vote of that state. The same vote made itself felt in Idaho where the saints" are strong. The net result Is that the Mormons gave the repub licans seven electoral votes and two senators, and nearly swung three more electoral votes and another senator. Polygamy, one of the relics pf bar barism, flourishes in Utah, in parts of Wyoming and Idaho and iu the domin ion of the sultan of Jolo under the, be nign rule of Mr. McKinley Denver Post. END OF FREE THOUGHT We Have Voted for a Government by the Rich and Free Thought "Will be Banished From our Uni versities. The dismission of so eminent a scholar and scientist from a professor ship in the Leland-Stanford university because he spoke, wrote and published against the introduction of Chinese cooly labor into this country, has oc casioned some mild criticism in the plutocratic press. But the die is cast. It will do no good to protest even vigorously now. At the close of Mc Kinley's second term there will be no free universities in this country. By that time all the professors will have learned to keep their mouths shut and stop writing and publishing. One of the Chicago papers In discussing the Ross matter said: "It is reported that Prof. Edward A. Ross of the chair of economics of Stan ford university, California, has been forced to resign because Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, widow of the founder of that institution, was displeased with public expressions by Prof. Ross in favor of the prevention of Chinese immigration, and also with his advocacy of munici pal ownership of public franchises. It is not necessary to measure the merits of Prof. Ross' views nor to discuss Mrs. Stanford's right to her own opin ions of the doctrines involved in or der to reach the conclusion that the Incident has an unfortunate signifi cance in these days when the discon tented ignorant, the agitator and the opportunist are accusing the great uni versities of this county of being the culture beds of an aristocracy and the nurseries of social and economic , ty ranny. "Mrs. Stanford holds the purse strings to a great fortune which has been the source of rich endowment and patronage to the university in which Prof. Ross was an educator. Mrs. Stanford owns profitable stock in the Market Street railway of San Fran cisco, and her vineyards in southern California are manned with Chinese coolies, the cheapness and skill of whose labor make them seem neces sary to the earnings of the estate. Therefore she disapproves of munici pal ownership of traffic franchises and believes that Chinese immigration is good. ' But when,- as it is reported, she demanded the removal of Prof. Ross because he taught doctrines inimical to her bank account, she depreciated tho value of her husband's princely gifts to Stanford university and . pre judiced the motives of her own gen erosity. . "No university can be great that is tethered to the pasture of rich and un learned patrons, and it is creditable to President Jordan of Stanford that he tried to prevent the removal of his associate." In the eyes of that writer it is only "the discontented ignorant, the agita tor and the opportunist," who have accused the great universities of this country of being the culture beds of plutocracy. It was the "ignorant" who objected to the treatment of Chancellor Andrews which resulted in his resignation of the presidency of Brown university. It was only the ignorant who called attention to the treatment of Profs. Bemis, Parsons and scores of others. Wisdom only abides in the rich. If a man is not rich, it is impossible for him to have intellect, culture or scholarship. Poor professors may be endured as paupers, receiving their doles from the hands of' the rich, but the moment they profess to have "opinions" they become unen durable. Their only place in plutoc racy is. to exploit the sciences for the benefit of capital. They will soon learn their place and permanently stay there. Then science will die and free government will die. Later dispatches seem to Indicate that there is a warm time in Califor nia over the matter, . and that Prof. Howard, who was formerly connected with the Nebraska university and who is in fact a Nebraska man, - is taking a hand in it. The dispatch is as follows: "Stanford university continues to be highly excited over the enforced resig nation of Prof. Edward Ross, head of the department of sociology. The stu dents and the majority of the profes sors regard the Ross resignation as a direct blow to freedom of thought and speech at the university, and they don't hesitate to say so frankly. One of the things which has attracted stu dents to Stanford was its entire free dom from all sectarian and conven tional restraints. Perfect freedom was allowed in the choice of studies, and the professors have always felt at lib erty to express their views fully and fairly. "Prof. George E. Howard, head of history, in place of his usual lecture on the French revolution, today de voted the hour to the discussion of Ross' resignation and its meaning. He declared that the forcing out of Prof. Ross was a blow at the fundamental rights of free speech and a disgrace from which the university would nev er recover. "He said further: " 'The greatest" martyr to any cause is the man who surrenders his position because of his belief. It is far better for Ross to go out into the world without a single thing to do, and tot trust to his own brilliant mind to fur ther his aims, than to remain here, with his power of speech abridged aj?d his science for himself alone and not for the world.' ; "As Dr. Howard uttered these words the students applauded again and again, and there was a great demon stration. Howard concluded his speech with this sensational utter- j ance: . , " T do not bow down to the Market Street railroad. I do not doff my hat to the Chinese Six Companies, neither am I afraid of the Standard Oil. "This bold defiance, of Mrs. Stan ford's position may cost Howard his professorship. -Indeed, it is reported tonight he may resign to show his sympathy with Ross." All this fight will be in vain. Those who control the money that runs the university will control the university. Money controls all things. President Jordan will surrender and so will Prof. Howard, or both will be re moved. No fight for free thought will ever again be successful In these, United States in any university sub sidized by the rich. Victory does not lie along those lines. If it is possible at all, it is in another direction alto gether. This is a government by the rich and for the rich and subsidized universities are like unto the govern ment. . ANOTHER RAILWAY TRUST Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Union Pacific Pcol Their Interests. The editor cf The Independent has received a private letter in which the writer says that foreigners just sent to his precinct and who were unable to speak a word of English were herd ed together by paid republican workers and were each given instructions how to vote. Fearing that they might fall down when they got in the booth, they were furnished with a card on which was printed: "I want to vote a straight McKinley ticket." It seems that this plan was adopted and form ulated at the republican national head quarters, for a Colora'do paper reports tho same thing out there. The writer, who was a correspondent of the Den ver News from an interior town, says: "Everett Bell arrived in the city yes teiday from Trinidad to look over the legislative situation. Mr. Bell has been re-elected to the lower house, and is spoken of as a possible candi date for the speakership. "He brings a card showing how the Wolcott managers attempted to vote the Italians who are working in the coal mines of southern Colorado. Thousands of cards were printed, as follows: ' I want to vote a Straight Republican Ticket. "The cards were placed in the hands of men and women unable to read, and they were directed to hand it to a republican judge at the polls, who would make out the ticket. The cards, in many cases were distributed by su perintendents and officers of the coal mines. "It was the warmest campaign ever known in Las Animas county. The Wolcott managers began last summer by sending Dan Stone, the clerk of the district court, to all the coal mines. He issued blank certificates of naturalization, aud passed on to the next district, lhe agerts or tne stores filled up the blanks and hundreds of votes were cast upon such credentials. It is the first instance known where a district clerk left his office to distri bute credentials to the voting popula tion. At one of the polling places where I was stationed for a time the superintendent of the coal mine was judge of election, and the clerk of the company acted as clerk of election. They voted everything that could reach the polls, but In the distribution of naturalization blanks the Wolcott people made some curious blunders. A pretty Italian girl, 19 years of age. who wap born in the region, appeared at the polls with a certificate of nat uralization. A young Italian who, ac cording to his own testimony, became of age July 16 last, handed in. a certifi cate dated April 23, showing that the workers had begun field operations early in the season It was a big elec tion machine, and money flowed like water." Dewet a Fighter James Searle, a South African, prominent for his veldtlore and abili ties as an athlete, tells a striking1 story- of General Dewet's mobility. Searle is a lieutenant in one of the scouting corps, and twice during the last few months has fallen into De wet's hands and twice escaped. He says that on one occasion Dewet and all his men and cattle some 600 or 700 men and between 2,000 and 3,000 oxen were peacefully encamped on the veldt having breakfast when a Boer scout dashed up and delivered a message to Dewet. The Boer leader did not report the message, but evi dently Its purport was that the Brit ish forces were much nearer to the republican laager than had been sup posed. At all events the word was given to "inspan" and trek. Searle took his watch out, and he says that in exactly eight minutes from the time when the alarm was given Dewet and his men were on the march. And their endurance was not less wonderful than their quickness, for Searle says that for between twenty-two and thirty- three hours they kept up the trek, with only a few minutes' rest every few hours, for the sake of the oxen. Searle adds that Dewet was ever up down the line of wagons, particularly at the rear, urging, persuading, coax ing or sternly upbraiding the strag glers. Searle succeeded in escaping from the Boer laager by rolling under a fence at sunset, when the change from light to darkness in many parts of South Africa is almost instanten eous. PLAUSIBLY EXPLAINED. Dick By the way, old man, do you recall why Jacob had to work seven years for Rachel? Harry I suppose he was saving up for a Christmas present to her. De cember Smart Set. PLUTOCRATIC JOURNALISM Its Facts are Falsehoods, Its Arguments are Fallacies, and its In flu ence Degenerating If there was truth or righteousness In the republican cause it would! not be necessary for the great plutocratic papers to employ the most audacious liars that can be hired for money to furnish matter for their columns. There has not been a liar of equal abil ity produced, in the last twenty years to W. E. Curtis, and yet the Chicago Record continues to give to his writ ings the most conspicuous place in its columns. During the campaign the Record had to devote considerable space to other writers correcting some of his most palpable falsehoods. Now it adopts a new policy. It prints the contradiction to his lies in another column of the same Issue of the pa per. In last Thursday's Record there appeared In one column of the Record the following from the pen of Curtis: "Writing from Baltimore about the middle of October I told of two great financial enterprises which had been inaugurated but would be abandoned in case of the election of Bryan. The information was given me by Alexan der Brown & Sons, bankers, and by ex-Mayor Davidson, president of : the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee com pany. The dispatches from Baltimore this morning give some interesting; in formation concerning both of them. One scheme, managed by Alexander Brown & Sons, is the amalgamation of the Atlantic Transport company with the Layland and other steamship lines and the construction of eight large freight and passenger vessels for ocean transportation. When the consolida tion is complete and the new ships are built the company will have a Beet of fifty-six of the finest steamera in the world, at a capitalization of !25, 000,000. The project was proposed last summer,- but negotiations were sus pended the 1st of October until after election, it being understood that they would" be abandoned if Bryan was elected. The principal inducement for this consolidation is the passage of the subsidy bill by congress." In another column on the same page of tho same issue of the Record this was printed: "James A. Wright, second vice pres ident of the International Navigation company, better known as the Ameri can line, denied today that there was" any truth in the rumor that his com pany is to consolidate with the Atlan tic transport line. President Bernard Baker of the Atlantic transport line made a simliarx emphatic denial.'' Plutocratic journalism has beeia a greatfaclofinF America for some years. . Its faets are falsehoods, Its ar guments are fallacies, its tone Is de grading. The Record sometimes will give a mild denial of a lie that it has given general currency, but in hun dreds of instances it has absolutely re fused to do so when the facts have been laid before it. CONGRESSIONAL RATIO It Will be 200,000 to One Representative Kansas and Nebraska Will Lose One Each. The use of counting machines and new methods will enable the commis sioner of the census to certify the total population of the United States to the coming session of congress. This Is the first time that this has been possible. Always heretofore one Hes- sion of congress has been concluded before the detailed results of the cen sus were known. This accomplishment will brini; a new apportionment bill before con gress. Its features already are dis cussed. The prevailing sentiment is in favor of keeping the house at very nearly its present number, which is 357. The present ratio is 173,901; of population to every member of the house. The proposition apparently most In favor at this time is to in crease the ratio to 200,000. On this basis, Illinois, New York. Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas will each gain two representatives, while Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louis iana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, Washington and West Virginia will gain one each. Kansas, Maine, Nebraska and Virginia will lose one each. This would bj a net gain of seventeen members find give the house a total of 374, which Is enough for any deliberative assem bly If, Indeed, the house of represen tatives can be termed such a body. Un der recent practice. the speaker and tho committee direct and control and of ten very-arbitrarily all legislation. A dozen years ago Chief Justice Walte remarked to a news interviewer with a grim smile: "Congress long ago ceased to be a deliberative body." The only other ratio mentioned besides that of 209,000 is 200,000, so that it is quite safe to predict that the present ratio o fl73,901 will be abandoned. The matter will come up promptly on the meeting of congress, and in 1902 Colo rado will have three members to elect. Denver News. . ; Silver Republicans j A story is current that Charles A. Towne, chairman of the sliver republi can national committee; Georgo 11. Shibley, Illinois committeeman, and E. S. Corser of Minneapolis, treasurer of the committee, have been in con ference over the party's future. It; is understood they have decided to Issue an address, In which they will express the belief that the time has come for the giving up cf the party organization and the merging of its members icto the democracy. All silver and Lin coln republicans will be 'irg;-, 0 come democrats in good standing, I