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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 2 2, 1900.
NO. 27.
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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
