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VOL. XII.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA NOyJEMBER. 29, : 1900.
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HIDEOUS AND H0HHI3LE
Tl rra Cklaecrf The Isbamaa C'rael
tie a.d Ilarfcarttf f fcekitereof
Tkrietlaw' atla.
The following account of the Inhu
Bts oi!lm f the soldier of the so
ealled Christian power In China, Is
from the pn of a truthful man. The
editor of The led pendent met Mr.
Col'man It. Lonioa, and can testify
that there is not a ma aty where who
HI more imprest one with his upright
rhar&rtrr to rra ter extent than he.
All who know Lira have the utmost
co&Sd-nte la Mm. There can be no
Qisemlioa Uit arsy statement to which
fee will 3ttirt hi name. The letter
.zt l-n pilJ;Lf d in one or two east
ern ppTf. but lihont comment. The
fact it rntJa are nlmort too horri
ble to priLt. tat aout the truth of
tfcm thr can W co doubt. The let
ter tars the date of Pckin. Sept. 11.
1 ?, and is a follows:
T- writer wa one of the besieged
la !-kin and for nitty days expected
nothing but !ith ana torture at the
r.s4a of ..tines. Consequently
no ery t-r.d-r feline for able-bodied
CM natron of the oM!er or farmer
cla&x-n txUts fa his Iomdi. But the
!fhu nf wanton cruelty witnessed In
Ten fir f on wr such as to cause
ter to fow in pity for th country
men 'A the peop who lss than a
mofiia sinte wre -jins every effort
to deprive ni of life. Shame, too. we
fe?t that the rrprf-sststivts of a civfl
ItfA country on'd jvrrH:rate such
f-hocking atrfnih. Frc-nch soldiers
in full nr;fortc entered the houses in
two and thr-- and murdered the
Uf t. peactahle merruantt. violated
th!r wlv-ii anl dsushfr. carried off
tf r'r valui"b!ef and set Are to their
home. In a f-w d?.rs the whole city
fco dread d tbem that many women
Junip-d df-n tht wells or burned
ttemuTe to death in their houses to
a roi l di honor.
The fo!Iolcg rase were seen by
the writer personally and are seared
leto his memory forevr: Mrs. Ya. 43
years of aj?e. living in the wreck of
fcT form-r comfortable home with her
or.!y firing child, a litll? boy aged 7.
reUted to mo btween her sobs the
following ?wful tory.
"Xlrbt days ago a party of our
ne;hLor?. consisting of twenty-two
women, three men and my husband,
srd i, acd married ma, aged 25,
rr ht:ddled together in the court
yaid. fs.rfal cf the French, who had
ln looting, ravUhire women and
murieriss r-ecple in this section cf the
city. whrn our worst fears were real
ired by t! e front door being burst
opn by Ritn fco!ii-rs dreseed In blue
with hhzi' i -)n thir heads and riSc?
in their ha&d.. We all screamed as
they entered, t-a th-y quickly made
lis UTi-Uisi&ni they "o"!d shoot us if
e were rxK juit. upon blch we be
came very still. They then ordered my
hcJand atd all the other men to ?ro
:t-to the fit cou.ty.ird. which, as
th-y mere nnzimed. tny were obliged
to do. and they ckj-d the dcor of the
cot'rtjzrd and one of them remained
oa w.ica as 3try at the door. The
otbr i each i-elected from amen?
our numr a woman apiece and drag
fed ar tery unwillingly into the In
side rooms, leain the rest of us
fji;htend nar!y to death in the
ctjrtyar- The vomer, selected were
all younj; aiv esceptlta: a Miaa Nien,
H years old. who as a virgin. The
women all cried but dared cot scream.
blss warned by the soldiers to make
ro ro:e. The women were kept In
the rooms by the soldiers from twenty
micctes to half an hour. Three sol
diers came out rt and went into the
yard where the men were, takin? the
sentry with tiiem and their runs. 1
apprt tended they meant some harm to
the oen. fco 1 followed a few feet be
tted th-m. Jan ts I turned the cor
cr of the femurs 1 saw them put tsp
their rsns and je and my poor hus
band aisd son, Mr. Wang's two sons
and Mr. Han all fell to the ground.
The o!ders each Cred two or three
fchots. Then they eanie laughing out
of the inner eo-irt, called their three
eomrais away from the women and
all left tor-ther. I went at once to say
Luatand. iut toth he ard my son were
dad as well as two -ors of Wane. Mr.
llrj s leg was broken above the knee,
bit he wta otherwise cnlnjnred. With
the help of his sister-in-law. a young
wemau of 2Z. e moved him across
the street to his own home and I
atandosed my house and went to live
with yosx-K Mrs. Hnu Three days lat
er two French soldiers came Into the
lists liow-e and packed up la boxes
all the valuable of the Hsu family and
made the younrrr Hsu carry the box.
The eiCtr Hsu railed ost from an In
ner r.om to his younger brother to
do whatever the French told him or
he wosld be shot. The French hearing
a voice er.t Ir.to the Inner room and
Ssdicg the elder Hvj in bed lifted
thlr MS and shot him dead. The
yoarr-r ilsvt wa a v.eak man cd
eotild fcearcefy lift tt bavy box, but
commanded by the soldiers he stagger
ed down the street with it. his young
and pretty wife hid!ng Itiside the
fconse. as -sle as a ghost, watched hla
to e xt. When he hsi gone bet a hun
dred yards he was completely ex
hausted and obliged to lie down pant
trs. when he Wis Immediately shot
dt-td The next day the two soldiers
returned and one of them stood guard
while the other dragged young Mrs.
Hsa into the laser room and ravished
her. I witnesed it without being able
to help her. After this Mrs. Hsu fled
acre the city with a friend'a wife and
Is now living in the quarter protected
by the Japanese, and I returned to my
own cs. -r court. Won't yon please
rcme and ee the bodies? I have cov
ered tie m with a mat, as I have no one
in bury them."
Following Mrs. Yo into the next
ccurtjaxd I av several pairs of legs
protruding from under a mat. She,
sobbing, pointed to th? mat and said:
"There He my poor husband and my
poor boy." I raised , the mat. Four
bloated bodies met rcy gaze and I
hastily dropped the mat and retreated.
Inquiring definitely where Mrs. Hsu
lived across the city, I promised Mrs.
Yu that I would report the outrages
to the French commacdant and try to
secura the punishment of the men. I
then visited Mrs. Hsu. She was a
timid young woman of 23. She replied
with eyes dropped to all my questions.
At the end of my interrogations she
begged me to have her husband's Ifody
searched for. Her story was: "My
brother-in-law was shot In Mrs. Yu's
yard the day we were all hiding there,
and tlx women were ravished that
day. one a virgin, the others all young
wives They did not , take me that
day. We moved my, brother back
home with a broken leg. He w as the
only man left alive; the French sol
diers killed alt the other?, after rav
ishing the women. Two of the wom
en ravished were the wives of old Mr.
Wang's sons, who were afterward shot
in the yard with Mrs. Yu's husband
and eon. Several days after this two
French soldiers came into our yard,
killed my wounded brother-in-law and
made my husband carry a very heavy
box down the street. lie was not
strong, and I knew he couid not carry
that box. When he was gone but a
few moments I heard two shots, and
I felt sure they had killed him. I
was told by a neighbor's boy that my
hut band's body was at the edge of the
lake, but as French soldiers were con
stantly in the Btreet I dare not go to
see. All our neighbors had either fled
across the city to the Japanese protec
tion or had fone into the country
across the river to the east. The next
day, when only Mrs. Yu and myself
were in the house the two Frenchmen
c-me back. One of them immediately
seized me by the arm and dragged me
into the inner room. After they left
a neighbor's wife called and brought
roe over here to live with her "
! next visited a very old woman,
Mrs. Pal. Her husband's dead body
lay in the yard before us, and she.
poar old woman, was enduring the
stench of it to keep o5 the dogs. Alone
rbe had sat there for five days in the
company of that stinking body. Her
story was: "I am 85 years old. My
hu: band was S5. Five days ago two
French soldiers came into the yard
and demanded watches or jewelry
My husband assured them by signs
that we had none. They raised their
guns and shot him. killing him In
stantly. I want to .lie, and will soon
do-so ns I have tasted nothing, since
his death. The poor -old woman was
very necr death, evidently.
Next door I visited a Mrs. Ting,
aged 71. Her story was: "In that
doorway you see the body of my hus
band. He wan 73 years of age. We
lived alone. Five days ago we heard
gunshots in Mrs. Pal's yard, and short
ly afterward two French soldiers came
Into our yard and demanded watches
and Jewelry. My husband got down
on his knees to them and assured
them we had none. One of the men
poked his gun Into my husband's face
and fired, tearing one side of his face
off and killing him Instantly. I have
been here alone In the yard with the
body ever since. If I could get some
ore to bury him I would go and search
for my daughter's family."
Two coolies in the neighborhood
were impressed and Mr. Ting's body
was laid to rest in the ground.
Case after case of this description
met my raze each day for three days,
until, sickened by the odors of decay
ing flesh and having evidence enough
to convince the most unbelieving, I re
turned to Pekin convinced that the
worst boxer is no worse than a French,
soldier, or, at least, those sent to
China. In one place I saw the bodies
of seven young women, side by side,
who had killed themselves to avoid
falling Into French hands.
ROBERT COLEMAN, Jr.
WILL NOT PROSECUTE
ItapoMlbl U Get Jury to ' Convict Any
Ubo PrtlrlpU4 in Lynching
of Porter.
The Rocky Mountain . News prints
the reply of Sheriff Freeman of Lin
coln county to the letter of District
Attorney McAllister , .of Colorado
Springs, concerning .the prosecution of
the persons who burned -the . negro
rapist and murderer, Preston Porter,
at the stake at Llmon. Colo., recently.
After telling him of how he was in
fluenced Into taking Porter from Den
ver to Llmon upon the assurance of
leading citizens of Lincoln county
that he would be allowed to pas3
through Llmon unmolested to Hugo,
where he would be permitted to place
Porter in the county- jail, - Sheriff
Freeman declares that It would be im
possible to get a jury In' Lincoln or
any adjoining county that would con
vict any one charged with-participation
In the burning of Preston Porter.
He concludes as follows:
I do not Justify the cremation, but
I do object to having you- and Gov
ernor Thomas saddle the blame of this
burning on me and l will not involve
Lincoln county in a needless and fruit
less litigation against its own citizens
or give additional advertisement to
the state cf Colorado for the sole pur
pose of making, as it now seems to me,
political capital for somebody. I want
to add tha; politics cut no ice in this
affair. Waile Lincoln county is a re
publican county, the men who partici
pated in this lynching were represen
tatives of all political parties. When
It comes to administering death, to a
brute who first rapes a child and then
Flats and kicks her to death, I take
it that true Americans lose sight of
mere politics and remember only that
they are fathers a net brothers.;. It
seems to me that we had better let
this episode rest where It now Is."
SEHOR LOPEZ vs. SCHURMAHN
The Filipino Leader Controverts Schnr-
mann's Statements in Regard to :
. His Countrymen, , :
There has been no greater crime in
flicted upon the people of this country
and the inhabitants of the Philippine
islands than the establishment of a
censorship which has, kept Jtoth peo
ples in ignorance of the facts. It is a
shame and a disgrace a blot upon the
good name of the United States that
can never be defaced. The people of
this country were called upon to de
cide what policy should be pursued to
ward the people of those islands and
the censorship was instituted to pre
vent them from knowing the facts.
The prominent leaders of the republi
can party lied about the facts, Theo
dore Roosevelt and President McKin
ley especially being guilty.. They re
peatedly asserted that only one small
tribe were opposed to American domi
nation that the Filipinos were a mass
of savages who would Immediately
proceed to cutting one another's
throats if the American troops were
withdrawn. They both knew that they
were lying when they made those
statements. "
Those, regardless of party, who
heard President Schurmann when he
spoke in Lincoln, were all surprised
and disgusted at the arrant demagog
ery of the man. But because he is at
the head of a great plutocratic univer
sity, his statements carry weight with
the unlearned. This man was selected
by President" McKinley to missrepre
sent the Filipinos, and to give color to
his false reports he was sent to the
Philippines at graat cost to the people
and great financial advantage to him
self. The Filipino side of the case was
suppressed by the strong arm of the
military. The correspondents of the
press in the islands were not only re
fused the use or the cable by the mili
tary authorities, but drawn up before
the military commander they were told
that they would be put off the island
if they did not cease their efforts to
furnish the facts to the people of the
United States. When every one of
these correspondents united in a pro
test, and sent It from an outside
source, it had no effect upon President
McKinley. He had started out to sup
press the facto and he persevered in
that course. Not a word from a Fili
pino was allowed to be printed in the
United States, and until now we have
heard nothing from them. .
Under the auspices of the anti-imperialist
league of Boston, among
whom - there -we re many men,of?: influ
ence and power, whom "McKinley; did
not dare to arrest and against whom
he dared not employ the military arm
of the government, there was brought
to this country one of the Filipino
leaders, Sixto Lopez, a man of educa
tion and refinement and backed up by
the old liberty lovers of Boston, he
ha.3 been able to publish one or two
statements which 'have found publish-
ers in men like those who control the
Springfield Republican. The . follow
ing article in reply to President
Schurmann (born an English subject
and but lately naturalized) is from this
gentle educated lover of his country,
Sixto Lopez. He says: v
"The report of the late commission,
of which you were president, professed
to deal, in addition tor other matters,
with education in . the Philippines.
The position which you thus occupied
as the channel of exact information
between the people of America and
the Filipinos placed you under obliga
tion to faithfully state the facts,
whatever your conclusions might have
been. I do not know what were the
sources of your Information, but I am
bound to confess that it seems almost
inconceivable how anyone, who had
spent even six months in the islands,
could have failed, as you and your
colleagues have failed, to discover the
palpable facts of the case. Indeed,
you, of all men, interested as you are
in educational . matters, 'will be sur
prised and grieved . to learn that you
hare cruelly and carelessly, but I be
lieve unintentionally, misrepresented
the condition and degree of education
In the Philippines. Thus you repre
sent in your report that the Insignifi
cant part. which the Spanish authori
ties played I use the latter word
literally in matters educational was
the sum total of educational activity
among the masses of our people. That
this is a most unfair and inadequate
representation of the facts it will now
be my pleasure to, prove; believing as
I do, that when the error is made clear
to you and the - facts which I shall
cite are easily verifiable you will im
mediately take steps to rectify the
great wrong you have unintentionally
done to the Filipinos. -
. "You state in your report that 'the
only educational advantages attaina
ble by the common,, people of the
archipelago are those afforded by the
primaty schools, that is, the. Spanish
primary schools- You then proceed,
to Bhow, in fourteen pages, of closely
printed Spanish statistics, that these
primary schools,? providing only two
teachers to ; each 5,000, Inhabitants,
formed a 'wretchedly inadequate pro
vision as an educational system. And,
finally, you seek , to prove, again .by
Spanish statistics, that the statement
as to the relative illiteracy in Massa
chusetts and the; Philippines is 'ridic
ulous and 'preposterous.' , Would it
not have been better to appeal to lacts
instead of to Spanish statistics? The
fact that the Filipinos are an educated
people is practically admitted by your
self and by all classes and conditions
of men with, perhaps, the exception
of Major Younghusband, who wrote a
'book about the ; Philippines after he
had examined one of the pebbles on
the seashore! How, then, could this
condition have been achieved if there
.were only two teachers to each 5,000
Inhabitants? -. .
1'Let me explain - this , very simple
matter by giving the facts of the case:
My own province will serve as an ex
ample for the .whole archipelago. Ac
cording to your report, the province of
Batangas, .with ,a- population of 312,
192, had only 51 teachers allotted to it
by Spain, that Is, ojae teacher to each
10,073. inhabitants., Even these statis
tics are incorrect. ,?here were in real
ity. 22 towns in Batangas, each having
one male and One female teacher, and
nine of these' towns; had two assistant
teachers each, making a total of 2.v It
is; however, still clear" that if we had.
been dependent1 upon Spanish activity
we should, indeed, have been as il
literate as Massachusetts before the
days of Columbus.' But we were noy
thus dependent. Long before , the
Spanish conquest our voluntary
schools ;werer established in every
town and village-. Elementary educa
tion reading," writing and arithmetic,1
the latter borrowed from the Moros
was more widespread ""than in any
country in the world at the time. And
our ; system of ) voluntary schools and
voluntary private tutors has flour
ished during'- all- the -years of the
Spanish occupation.:; J : .
"Thus, in addition to the 62 primary
school teachers, there were in Batan
gas 242 , village school teachers sup
ported entirely, by yoliintary contri
butions. There were also. 154 private
tutors i who, at their own expense,
educated the children of their poorer
relatives and friends. In addition to
this, there were'six collegiate schools,
open to rich and poor alike, with an
average of .five teachers to each school,
making 30 in all. There were also, In
every town, preparatory . schools for
the . teaching of Latin and Spanish,
which I do not here enumerate. We
had, therefore, in the province of Ba
tangas, without reckoning the prepara
tory schools, a total of 488 teachers, or
one teacher to each 639 inhabitants.
"This is a fair example of the condi
tions obtaining throughout the archi
pelago, with the exception of Min
danao. And if statistics are to be the
gauge, the comparison between the il
literacy of Massachusetts and the Phil
ippines is not so 'preposterous or 'rid
iculous' after all. But: when it is re
membered that these 488 teachers In
Batangas confine their attention al
most solely to elementary education,
and that each teacher gives Instruc
tion? to probably twice or thrice as
many children as dofthe teachers in
Massachusetts, - the comparison be
comes still less rldidulous' and 'pre
posterous, and it will be found that
these figures compare- favorably with,
those ,of any country in the world. :
"Now, just a few facts about the
Filipinos and higher education. In
your report, you. "declare thatthe Royal-
university 1 of, Santo Tomas Iwas
founded a " a college - in 1603 by" the
third archbishop of Manila That is
another . example of the apocryphal.
The college was founded and endow
ed by Ali (Mrs.) Gatpandan, a wealthy
Filipino land owner of BInang, in the
province of Laguna. The endowment
was handed over to Fray Benavides, a
Dominican, who became the first pres
ident of the college. It is true that
this occurred during the regime of the
third archbishop of Manila, who prob
ably took all the credit to himself.
One of the conditions of the gift was
that all .students, whether Spaniards
or. Filipinos, who were unable to pay,
were to be accepted as resident stu
dents without fee of any kind. This
was characteristic of the Filipinos in
all educational matters; they never
forget the deserving poor. It was
equally characteristic of the Spaniards
that as soon as their benefactress died
they totally ignored this condition in
so -far as it related to Filipinos, only
Spanish students being admitted free;
and All Gatpandan's name was for
gotten by them but not by the Fili
pinos. v
"In matters educational the Fili
pino record is creditable to a degree.
During all the years of the Spanish
regime, notwithstanding monastic op
position and Spanish indifference, our
system of education flourished and in
creased. University extension and co
legiate schools, the result solely of
Filipino activity, have spread through
out the archipelago. The intense de
sire of our people for education, both
in its elementary and higher forms,
was known and feared even in Spain,
and has leen admitted by yourselves
and your colleagues. . Every program
of reform put forward by our people
has included ; a system of free state
education. In almost every branch of
knowledge, in competitive examina
tions, the Filipinos have shown them
selves the superiors of the Spaniards.
In all the learned professions, in
science, in philosophy, in theology, the
most prominent . men are Fili
pinos. " Notwithstanding the fact that
the Filipino who came to Europe was
immediately singled out for the hatred
and persecution of the monks, many
Filipinos sent their sons to the univerr
sities of Madrid, Paris and Germany,
where JAey distinguished themselves,
especially in philosophy.
"The latest addition to higher educa
tion in the Philippines is due entirely
to the Nenergy and liberality of the
Filipinos. In July of this present year,
amid the clash . of arms and political
strife, the Filipinos founded the Ma
nila Lyceum, with 41 teachers and pro
fessors, all of whom with three excep
tions, are pure Filipinos. Among the
subjects taught are Greek. Latin, Eng
lish, French, Spanish, , universal and
commercial geography and statistics,
history, theology, philosophy, zoology,
physics, - chemistry, general science,
drawing, etc This institution owes its
origin to Senoras Guerrero, Mendiola
and Villamor, all of whom are pure
Filipinos, two being Tagalogs and one
a Visayan, and the . funds have been
provided exclusively by Filipinos.
. "Thus, the first university and the
latest college were founded by the
Filipinos themselves. The first was
established shortly after the Pilgrim
fathers landed on Plymouth Rock; the
latest at a time when the descendants
of those Pilgrim fathers were decimat
ing our country by a war of conquest,
Through all the intervening years of
bitterness ;we have kept the light of
knowledge burning, , notwithstanding
the attempts of, our so-called elvilizers
to quench its sacred flame. But you,
sir, and your colleagues, would now
seek to reduce our well-trimmed lamp
to the measure of the light given by a
Spanish dip hidden beneath a monastic
cowl- Your, report furnishes another
proof that even wise men will some
times 'rush In where angels fear to
tread.'
"With every assurance of my per
sonal respect, and in the belief that
you will consider your decision on the
question of Philippine . edw '".- i
am, etc., SaaiO LOPEZ."
No man who has a spark of that
spirit in him which inspired the men
who laid the foundations of this gov
ernment, who fought at Bunker Hill.
Va;- -.: .. :- ;. . : ..
to sympathize with Sixto Lopez and
his people. They have fought, not six
years, as our fathers did, but for a
hundred years for. independence and
liberty. Today they are fighting on,
though the odda against them are
greater than those faced by Washing
ton. " They are soaking their islands
with their blood. Against rapid firing
guns and Krag-Jorgensens, they line
up with their bolos and their spears
and die by - the thousand. Cold
blooded and heartless, McKinley sits
in the white house and orders Mac
Arthur to make "real war" from this
on. Show mercy to none. The de
generate leaders . of a degenerate
church cry for more blood. If there is
a God in heaven, there will be ven
geance for thi3. ',.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION
The Upheaval. In the Stanford University
Proves to be a Matter of Na
tional Importance.
The admission of - Chinese laborers
is at the bottom of the - up
heaval in the faculty of Stanford uni
versity, resulting in the removal of
Professor Ross sand the resignation of
Professor Ross and the resignation of
Chronicle, a republican newspaper, in
its comments on this phase of the
dispute says:
"Dr. Ross is. the reverse of an agi
tator. He is a severely scientific man.
As such and as professor of sociology,
he is necessarily a student of social
conditions "and of the causes which
make the struggle of life so .very hard
forborne .men. It is not to -his discredit
that his sympathies are -. with the
masses -rather than with the success
ful few; and lt '',1a. greatly to his. credit
that lie" does not permit his sympathy
to run away with his judgment: He
does not look for remedies for existing
evils in any other form of socialism,
but rather in such means as can be
devised by. men of common sense un
der society as it is. - He finds as a
scientific truth that the Mongolian
birth rate under their low standard of
life is so great that with Unrestricted
Mongolian immigration the present
American standard could not endure,
and perhaps not the American people.
Finding this to be true he says it in
public addresses, .and as an American
he favors restriction of such immigra
tion as will endanger our standard of
life. Noting the immense fortunes
which shrewd men have accumulated
by "the control of public utilities, he
thinks the people are not getting their
share of the wealth which they create,
and, while recognizing the great ef
ficiency of private . control, thinks it
probable that an era of municipal
ownership will shortly ensue, very
probably with a reversion to regulated
private control in the future."
This position, mild though it is, has
attracted attention at republican head
quarters and It is said thatthe Chron
icle has been informed that the re
publican platform said nothing about
the renewal of the Chinese exclusion
act which expires in 1901, while the
democratic platform favors the re
newal and calls attention to the dan
ger of this immigration. There are
rumors at.-Washington to the effect
that the republican party does not in
tend to allow the act to . be renewed
and while protesting their antagonism
to Chinese immigration, allow - them
to come in such numbers that they
will make it very easy to overthrow
the labor organizations which have
become so strong that they make it
uncomfortable for the multi-million
aires. The trusts did not put' fifty
or sixty millions of money into Mark
Hanna's hands for nothing. -
REPUBLICANS REJOICE
They Have Plenty of Money to Burn In
Greek Fire, Roman Candles, Calcium
. lMghts and Rocket.
; Notwithstanding that the heavens
went into mourning and the sun re
fused to show its face for three weeks
after the election of Mark Hanna and
McKinley, the first to run the govern
ment and the other to play emperor
the republicans concluded that they
would assemble in Lincoln last Satur
day night and glorify themselves over
their, great victory, so they got to
gether and rejoiced. But what did
they rejoice over? ; -
First Because they have elected a
law-breaking governor one I ' who
made oath that he committed perjury
and by his own. testimony, has dis
qualified himself from holding the of
fice to which he is elected.
Second Because the pardon of their
chief defaulter is near at hand and six
or seven prominent gentlemen who
have lived in terror for the last four
years for fear he would tell on them
will be relieved of a great burden.
Third Because they have been able
to put their condemnation upon the
administration of , a state treasurer
who has handled over $10,000,000 of
money for the state and accounted for
every cent of it and for four years has
so looked out for the financial inter
ests of the state that not one cent of
the taxpayers' money has been em
bezzled or , lost. ..The ; people of the
state did -not like that way of doing
business, went back on the party that
would so manage affairs and the re
publicans met and rejoiced. ,
Fourth Because the man and the
party ,lhat had doubled the disburse
ments to the common schools had been
downed and the old regime when the
school lands, instead of earning money
to educate the children could again be
parcelled out to the workers for the
republican party had arrived.: That
Idea made every eye in that crowd
sparkle with delight and added vol
ume to every Ehout. '
Fifth Because an attorney general
who had spent four years in trying to
collect some of the money stolen from
the state and fighting the trusts, had
been downed and was to be succeeded
by: a railroad attorney who was so un
popular among those who . were ac
quainted with him in his own county
that he ran far behind his ticket.
Sixth Because they had downed an
administration that had so conducted
the public institutions charitable and
penal as to greatly reduce the cost
of maintainance per capita in all of
them. . .',...-',?; " .
Seventh Because an administration
which had been in power only four
years had paid off the bonded debt of
the state and so provided that In the
next eighteen months eyery outstand
ing state warrant would be redeemed
(and that while the state had been
blacklisted as all the great dailies still
declare by all 1he financial concerns of
the whole nation) was repudiated, and
the old regime was to be revived,
when warrants were below par and a
state debt of $2,000,000 was outstand
ing, drawing interest which the farm
ers had to plant, corn and sow wheat
to pay.
Over these things and others like un
to them, they rejoiced , exceedingly.
They marched through the . streets.
They beat upon the drums. They
busned Greek fire. They shot -.off
rockets. They, yelled and shouted and
hurrahed until, their voices were gone.
They did another thing. They
marched some men xhrough the street
dressed in torn and . ragged women's
clothing for 'the-purpose of insulting
the women of the city of Lincoln, who
though they had no votes gave their
prayers and their sympathy to the
cause of honest and economical state
government. More" than that. It was
intended as an insult to Mrs. Bryan,
for. her name was on the banner they
bore. From the hurrahs' for the self
confessed criminal' at the head of their
ticket, to the Insult. to. the cultured and
refined , women ;of Lincoln, the -whole
thing was cut from the same piece of
cloth. V'-'"; -.--.v.-
ENGLAND IS BUYING NORSES
Need Fifty Thousand for Ute in The
. Transvaal.
Horses to the number of 50,000 are
to be purchased Irj this country in the
next six months by agents of the
British government for the use of Lord
Kitchener's forces . in policing the
Transvaal and Orange Free State. This
news has been announced by John S.
Bratton . of St. Louis, who has sup
plied, directly and indirectly, to the
British army in the last two years
many horses suitable for cavalry use.
He has received a telegram from one
of his managers stating that the
British military p urchssing agent will
be at his stock . yards this week to
select saddle horses for I immediate
shipment from New Orleans to Dur
ban. " ' . ;! ' - s
THE BRITISH LOOT
" -
The British Hold Auctions, Sell the Stolen
Goods and Divide . the Money
With the Tommies.
The London Telegraph-has the fol
lowing account of how the British in
China dispose of the loot captured by
the English soldiers:.
"Prizes include everything from a
carved mahogany table . or a sable
overcoat to an ordinary Chinese fan
or an opium pipe. There are rolls of
silk, yards of gorgeous embroidery,
curious pieces of jade, heavy bronze
urns and tiny bronze vases, cloisonne
ware 100 years old. skins of rare ani
mals and wardrobes of rich mandarins.
It is not unlawful for British soldiers
to plunder, but all loot must be turned
into the common heap, which is auc
tioned off. The officer or enlisted man
Is by this means enabled to acquire
what is recognized as a proper title
to his souvenirs of Pekin and he like
wise puts moiey back into hi3 own
pocket . v
"Some of til e plunder bring , ridic
ulous prices, while more of it runs
very near what it is worth. . A fine
garm3nt with table will on some days
bring $50 in silver and again as much
as $150. A heavy bronze urn, which
stands a poor-show of being trans
ported back to England, cost Its own
er. $65. An ordinary Chinese fan not
worth 15 cents was, just for the fun
of the thing, run up to $3 and knocked
down amid great merriment to an
officer -of the "Welsh . fusileers. The
next moment a 4 Tommy watched his
chance and bid in a handsome leop
ard's skin for $8.
". "Nothing has been heard concern
ing the disposition of Russian, French
or German plunder. The last ar
rived late and with the desire of re
venge burning fiercely in their souls,
and so they have completely stripped
the houses of the district in the south
ern city ruled by them. The Russians
. are ; reported to have ransacked the
rooms; of the" summer palace,' fifteen
miles west of ' Pekin, and - to have
boxed up the rich : cloisonne, rare
china and silver, ornaments for ship
ment to St Petersburg." .
FREE SPEECH
The Effect It Has' Hail Upon the. Anarch
1st of Chicago Police Force Was '
. Absent and Pece Prevailed.
The following article from ! Com
mons, the organ of the Chicago Social
settlement, edited by Graham Taylor,
reveals a knowledge of human nature
that statesmen would do well to make
a note of. It reminds the write: of an
experience he had in London. A, mem
ber of parliament said that Americans
talked very much about free npeech,
but if they really wanted to I know
what free speech was, a walk should
be taken out to Hyde park or Kensal
Green some Sunday and there itwould
be seen as it was never seen any
where in America. Upon his Invita
tion and in his company a visit was
made to Hyde park the next Sunday.
Sure enough, there was a scene the
like of which no man ever saw in Am
erica. There seemed to be a hundred
thousand people there and scores of
men were making speeches to crowds
assembled around them. Every sort
of thing was being advocated by these
speakers, all of whom seemed ito be
working men, from free salvation to
atheism, and from anarchy to absolute
kingly rule. Listening to one extreme
ly rabid anarchist, we remarked to the
member of parliament: "Isn't; that
kind of talk dangerous?" He only
laughed and replied: "It is not a bit
dangerous, but if we tried to shut him
up, he might become dangerous."
There was a world of wisdom in that
remark. Prof. Graham seems to have
discovered the same thing. He says:
s "At last the wisdom of the public
toleration of free speech and open
meetings has had a chance to demon
strate itself with regard to anarchism
in Chicago. For the first time In thir
teemyears, some one in authority had
the common sense to call off the old
feud of fateful memory between the
police and the anarchists. And what
happened?. Why, the followers of the
red n flag emerged from their uncanny'
old, headquarters in the west side river
wards'which has for a dozen years
been the scene of conflict, and took
their 1 annual 'commemoration' of the
men executed for the Haymarket riot
Into the broadening and elevating at
mosphere of Central Music Hall. The
American flag was given the place of
honor, although their banner of in
ternationalism was on either side of it.
A great miscellaneous audience fairly
swallowed up the few hundred 'com
rades' who have too long been forced
behind closed doors. Herr Most's radi
calism In German was offset hx the
reasonable moderation of the speech
in English by a former state commis
sioner of labor. The police forco was
conspicuous by Its absence and peace
was conspicuously present. When not
driven at Jbay, anarchism becomes a
mere theory of individualism, so. man
ifestly doctrinaire, utterly without
plan of action, and distantly ideal as
to carry, with it its own corrective, at
least 4n America. The trades unionists
will have none of it The socialists are
its vevejr. alert and. sworn foes. The
greater public re. hardly half-way
concerned; We have nothing to fear
from : it except the effect of driving its
devotees to desperation by tho coer
cion of sheer force. Let them face oth
ers, and. be faced oh a free floor, and
anarchism will take whatever place it
can legitimately win and hold by ar
gument among other theories of social
order , Fpr six years it has done noth
ing more At our Chicago commons free
floor discussions, where its advocates
have been treated like other men.
"Ita propagandism is likely to be
both more rational and less menacing
since, by what may seem to some the
very Irony of fate, the editorship of
the anarchist weekly, Free Society,
published at San Francisco, Cal., has
just been assumed by Mr. James F.
Morton, Jr., who graduated at Harvard
university in 1892, and is the grand
son of the Rev. Samuel F. Smith, D.
D., author of our national hymn, 'My
Country, 'Tis of Thee.' "
A. lot of empty-headed republican
editors have thought it a clever thing
to call populists anarchists and so
cialists, not having information
enough to know that socialism and
anarchism were the very antipodes of
each other. What was most despic
able of all, was the habit t)f the east
ern republican editors, who are all
supposed to be university graduates,
denouncing the followers of Bryan as
anarchists. These highly educated
liars give countenance to the opposi
tion of the old ecclesiastics to secular
education. They wre in the habit of
repeating, the following formula:
"Man by nature Is totally depraved
and a devil. Educate him and you
have an educated devil capable of do
ing much more harm than if he were
uneducated." The conclusion was too
obvious to need repeating.
If the suppression of free speech (the
press Is the main part of free speech
In modern times) has a tendency to
produce anarchy, those tendencies
-were wholly within the republican
party, the proof of it being the censor
ship enforced by the orders of Presi
dent McKinley. The same tendency
was shown when the republican party
absolutely refused to meet their , op
ponents in public discussion. In r the
very beginning of the campaign it was
reported in the papers that Hanna
said he carried the last election with
out making an argument and he would
carry this one in the same way.
Whether he said it or not, that is what
he proceeded to do. Even the great
Senator Hoar never attempted to make
an argument during the whole ; cam
paign. In the place of that, he said
that the continuance of the McKinley
policy would end in the downfall of
the republic, but' he would support
McKinley because Bryan represented
anarchy. Did he ever make an argu
ment to prove that Bryan' represented
anarchy? If he ever did, it did . not
come to the knowledge of The Inde
pendent i