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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. December 27, 1900 t Zht Rebraska Indtptndtnt Llmcelm, Htbrsska FRESSE ELDG-. corer dth and n sts Elstrtth Year . -PrsLUHio Evrr Thcmdat SI.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Wbc avekiag reuite do bo 1mt so&y with agtia, ptaif. eta., t fornlod by Um. TW freqoeaUy target of rastt different amount tka was lft wilk tm, a4 tk aabeeribe fails to gt ffr ereaii. AodreM all sMwirttiu. aad make all Aral u- aMy "Wa. te-. iy iU to CJfr tltbraska lwdtpndtnt, " Lincoln, tleb . Asoxysoa roBBBBtrtt!:! will not be no-td- Brtd aoaaerista will aot b re reed. Whit to do mith oar x-presldents hu became a cabinet question since Benjamin Harrison made bis famous speech on Porto Rican tariffs and PuMlipplae subjugation. It la jood to rely upon your own opinion, but It U vastly better to do your own thinking- So very few men do their own thinking that they are cot hard to count in any community. The republicans belles Mark Hanca and TVall atreet can do their thinking for the a much better than they can do It for themselves. Thl nation has more than once been surrounded by perils which affrighted the most courageous men, and we have escaped frcra those perils and guided the ship of state into seas of peace and harbors of prosperity- If the supreme court will only be guided by the wis dom that has been our salvation in the past, we shall escape the maelstrom for which McKinley has been heading for the last fire years. t"p to and including November 13 there had teen issued by the treas ury department of the new 'Mrty years two per cent bonds, for tie benefit of the national banks. Thirty years more of debt and Inter est paying tor the benefit of the bank ers, but then that was part of the "money scheme. Seven million of voters said that they wanted it and they got it with seveial other frill thrown in. A cablegram from Cork savs that the English troops that had been or dered to South Africa had to be dis ' s red and driven aboard the troop t h!r at the point of the bayonet, while I the ship was delayed for more than an hour because another lot was drunk and carousing around Queenstown. The dispatch says: They were final ly collected by the police and forcibly put aboard." When a nation carries on a war where the soldiers that do the fighting act in that manner, there must be something wrong. English men have never been accused of cow ardice when fighting in a good cause, but when the Anglo-Saxon is lined up to die for capitalists axd fight against liberty, the case is different. It is ' claimed that there will be no difficulty la enlisting 100.000 men In this coun try to fight the Filipinos. But we shall see. The Chicago Record, while it has some good features. Is the strangest made-up paper in the country. Its editorial matter appears In the first coiuma cf the first page, generally car ried over onto some other page and always over tre signature of the most efficient - liar that this country ever produced. What appears on the page designated as editorial comes the searest to being a string of meaning less word, with a rare exception now and then, that was ever printed in any newspaper. The other day it gravely announced that the price of silver was I "about 0 cents an ounce." If the writer had glanced at the commercial columns of the Record at any time during the last year he would have knows better. In the same paper in j which the editorial appeared, silver ? certificates were quoted at 3 and bar silver at C4. With the increased coin age of silver, under the McKinley ad ministration, the price of the metal has been gradually riling, just as the pops said It would. i COJ1CKMIOSAL FAKES. Both the house and senate engage in the most transparent fakes and they are becoming very frequent of late years. A while ago Several hundred CwJy dres-d ladies of the W. C. T. U. filled up the galleries of the house when the army bill was on its passage. With the temperance ladies looking down oa them, the members, brewers and all. promptly and by an almost unanimous vote passed an amendment prohibiting the army canteen. The ladies were of course delighted. The bill went over to the senate and the committee oa military affairs prompt ly knocked the amendment out When it goes back to the house, that body will as promptly and unanimously sanction vest the senate has done as it put the amendment In. It was all a pure fake. Just like the dispatches sent out during the discussion of the'Hay Ia.ucctfote treaty. COINAGE IN OCTOBER Here are the official figures for the coinage in the month of October. Show it to your republican neighbor. Make a big blue mark around that total coinage of silver. Point out to him that II Is more than twice as much s was ever coined in one month under, cither the Bland act or the Sherman act. Ask him what he thinks now of the cry that the republican leaders raised In 1896? Ask hira if they didn't say at that time that the coirage of sil ver must be stopped or blue ruin would submerge the country? Ask him what he really thinks of this pop plan of coining more than $4,000,000 a month of silver? Ask him if he still believes that the coining of silver means repudiation, cutting of wages and reducing the deposits of the poor in the savings banks? Ask him to tell in tha light of these figures what be really thinks about "sound money" anyhow? You need not stop with tha questions Indicated, but go on poping them to him for ten hours and after a night's rest go back and try him again for a few hours more. After a few days of that kind of treatment you may be able to make aim see what an ass he made of himself when he went around shouting that the coin age of silver must be stopped, and talking about "sound money." You can take other copies of The Indepen dent and show him from the official figures that McKinley has been at this same sort cf business coining silver by the ton for many months, and then you can ask him whether he thinks after all that if it was the be nign influence of the administration that made times better or the adoption of the pop policy of coining of silver? Ask what he now thinks of the con stant assertion made during the cam paign that if .Bryan were elected he would go to coining silver, and if ht did, waves of destruction, mountain high, would roll over the land? Coinage executed at the mints of the United States during October, 1900, was as follows: Denominations. Pieces. Value. Double eagles 256,000 $5,120,000 Silver dollars 3,002,000 3,002,000 Half dollars 1,326,000 663,000 Quarter dollars... 1,620,000 405,000 Dimes 780,000 78,000 Total silver Five-cent nickels. One-cent bronze.. 6,728,000 $4,148,000 3,680,000 184,000 5,661,000 56,610 9,341,000 $ 240,610 Total coinage.. 16,325,000 $9,508,610 THE NEW GOD. When partisan Insanity becomes as prevalent as It was in the last cam paign, it really endangers the exist ence of civilized society The blind adherence to party bosses, whose dic tates drive men who deem themselves possessed of ordinary moral attributes to support slavery and polygamy, and defend the action of a president who puts polygamlsts on the pay roll of pensioners, as McKinley did when he thus enrolled the Sultan of Sulu and his chiefs, shows a moral degradation so low and vile that it i3 hard to see how civilized society and the Christian religion is to be preserved. Bishop Potter's startling words Indicate that he begins to see the danger that The Independent has long pointed out. A few ladies . met in Philadelphia the other day, who also seem to be fright ened. They call attention to the fact that polygamlsts have the controlling vote in five states of the union and they are gaining footholds in others. They may well be frightened. All this has come about by the wor ship of Mammon. Commercial inter ests demanded and secured the treaty with the Sultan of Sulu and the in dorsement of polygamy. The greed for gain sent Perry Heath to Salt Lake City to make a deal with the AiOrmons very much as General Bates was sent to the Sulu islands on the same sort of a mission. The old standards of morality went by the board with the Declaration of Independence. New standards have taken their place and a new god is worshipped. It is a real, substantial sort of gol and looks something like this: $$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$ $o$o$ 5$$vJJ$ $$ $$ $$ $$$$$$$$$$$ mm $ S $ $ m$$$ mm mm mm s $ $ $ $$$$$$ :$ $$ $$ n $$ s$ $$ $$ $$ is t $??$ $m$ DOLLAR WHEAT, There are things in the present econ omic conditions that puzzles the best economists. There has been a very i large increase in the volume of money and the result that has always fol lowed has been an increase in the gen eral level of prices. Heretofore among the first of human products to respond to an Increase in the money supply has been the great fundamental crops the real source of all wealth like corn, wheat, cattle and hay. While manufactured products have Increased 50 and 100 per cent, and in some cases more than that, the price of farm products have risen but little. With the present amount of money in circu lation wheat should be worth a dollar a bushel and corn 50 cents. The Independent has endeavored to get the opinion of several economists of authority on this subject. None of them are prepared to say to the public just at present what the reason is, but all of. them have the same opinion, al though they have not obtained all the facts which they deem necessary to sustain the opinion before they speak authoritatively. They all believe that there is some where a great ; secret combination, which by methods not yet fully known, s able to control the prices of these great fundamental crops. Some of them believe that they will in the near future be able to expose these methods so completely and with such proof as will put the matter in so clear a light that there will be no opportunity for further dispute. All the economists are of the opinion that the phenomenal rise in many manufactured products a rise that goes far beyond any result that could be secured by the increase in the vol ume of money is the result of trusts, which are monopolies controlling both the amount produced and the price at which it is sold. There can be no ques tion that a rise like that in the price of salt is a result of a monopoly, which if the old common law were enforced, would not be allowed to exist for a day. It seems that the common law, as expounded by Kent and Blackstone, has gone by the board along with the Declaration of Independence and other things which have been held sacred by the people of this country ever since we had a country. The system that is now everywhere operative whatever may be the power behind the throne that keeps it In force- -i a system that adds to the ac cumulations of the billionaires, whily it robs the farmers and laborers of their rightful share of the wealth they create. Part of it is the over-capitalization of everything from railroads to the manufacturing of a match. One thing is certain that if natural laws of trade were not in some way inter fered with, wheat wouiu be worth a dollar' a bushel and corn 50 cents. The producers of these crops are entitled to those prices and they would re ceive them if it were not for the arbi trary interference of the money power. Whatever less the farmers receive, they are robbed of, just as much as if they were held up on the highway. A majority must prevail. There is no other way of working a free gov eenment, but the existence of a minor ity implies that there are many who believe the majority to be wrong. The result of an election does not imply that the minority must abandon its views. It is the duty of the minority to restate its views, reorganize and strive to prevail. If a man honestly believes in his cause, he feels no dif ferent toward it than he did before he was defeated. Every time an admin istration is overthrown the former mi nority prevails. Nevertheless the ma jority must always rule. Factious op position is not wise, but an opposition that votes its convictions and tries to Impress them upon the public is no less patriotic than the majority. Af ter years, it very often proves to be much more patriotic. Those who fought human slavery were in the mi nority for many years a far smaller minority than those who have fought plutocracy for the last ten years. Plu tocracy is a greater menace to this re public than slavery ever was. Slavery never claimed the imperial powers that Attorney General Griggs asserted in the supreme court the other day. Slavery was bad very bad, but plu tocracy and the claim of imperial pow ers outride of the constitution are worse. Mark Ilanna has secured the ser vices of all the bankers magazines and financial papers of Wall street and vicinity in the advocacy of his subsidy bill. The propositions that they put forth in support of the meas ure, besides being fundamentally wrong, are ridiculous. When this na tion is manufacturing locomotives, steel bridges and scores of other like articles which the manufacturers are able to sell all over the world by un derbidding the foreigner, it is ridic ulous to say that they cannot build ships also as cheap as the Europeans. What the matter is with our merchant marine is not the want of subsidies, but a renovation of our antiquated navigation laws and prohibitive tar iffs. The Hanna bill is nothing, but a steal for the benefit of a fast ocean steamship line in which a few mil lionaires are interested. He will get his boodle. There is not much doubt about that. If we had ever so many ships, they could never be manned by American sailors, until some of the laws affecting seamen are repealed. Americans, except the very lowest class, would never submit to the treat ment that is accorded to the common sailor under our present system. Patronize our advertisers. , . .-THS9 GLASS TRUST. ; ' ; -: The Philadelphia Record says: "The extortions of the glass trust have Tse come so. unbearable under the' cover of the high duties imposed by the tar iff upon imported glass that the deal ers tn paints and glass have beer driven Into open revolt. "There is no remedy for consumers except to drive the trust from under its tariff shelter. The dealers know precisely, what pinches them, and they have resolved to carry their grievance to the door of congress." . - - It' will do little good to appeal to congress.. Before the glass trust put up its campaign contribution it se cured itself from assault along that line. Of course there can be no rea sonable excuse made for not lowering the tariff on glass., but an unreasonable ono will do just as well. The question of revenue does not come into the mat ter. Not one cent goes into the treas ury now from a tariff on glass. The duty is prohibitive and no glass, to speak of is Imported. The tariff is simply for the, benefit of the glass trust and of the republican party from the contributions it gets for having enacted the law. There is no econ omic question connected with it. It is a little arrangement made between McKinley, Mark Hanna and the trust owners, whereby the parties of the first part agree that they will impose a tariff on glass and the parties of tho second part agree to turn over a cer tain part of the money which that tariff enables '- them to filch from the pockets of the people to help buy vot ers to keep the republican party in power. QUEER MEDICINE The American Banker is publishing a serial form of work on political econ omy, by Albert S. Boles, "Lecturer on banking in the university of Penn sylvania," This is a new kind of po litical economy something never heard of by such men as Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Ricardo or any other economist known as an authority. Boles should go to school for a while, (really he ought to begin in the third grade of the common school), then af ter a few years he could perhaps learn a few definitions of the terms common ly used. Here is a sample of his wis dom: "Silver certificates, therefore, cr the silver they represent, may be regarded as a mixed form of currency, consist ing partly of faith and partly of in trinsic value. At the present time sil ver dollars contain in intrinsic valu about 50 cents, yet they circulate read ily at their nominal value, for the reason that the government is willing to redeem them at their face value in gold." Think of such ar combination as "faith in intrinsic value!" He must have dreamed out that mixture after he had dined on minced pie and lob ster salad. It appears that the New York bankers believe in it. They must have the sort of faith that removes mountains for no financial patient could be induced to swallow such a dose who had a faith of less heroic kind. According to' Secretary Carlisle and all the other secretaries of the treasury who have spoken on the sub ject, silver dollars are standard money of the United States and are not re deemable. They are at par with gold because they are a legal tender for debts, public and private unless oth erwise specified in the contract, and not because they contain any mixture of "faith" or "intrinsic" value. That is tho strangest concoction ever yet offered to the mullet heads. But they will all take it and swear that it is sound medicine. A silver certificate is simply the equivalent of a silver dollar and is sued in place of a dollar which the government will hand over on demand. Boles couldn't have been talking about "intrinsic" value in the paper certifi cate. We give him credit for having that much sense. It is the silver dol lar that contains "faith" and "intrin sic" value. A GRIP ON THE WORLD. When we fought the fight in 1896, this nation was a debtor nation. The tremendous output of the mines of coal, iron, copper, silver and gold, added to the wealth produced by sev eral years of good crops on the farms, has gone a lor.g way toward changing the conditions that then existed. The excess of exports has ben used to pay foreign debts and if the crops continue good and the miues produce as in the past for a few years, this nation will no longer be a debtor nation. While we were in a condition of a debtor na tion, it was to the interest of our Eu ropean creditors to demonetize silver and make money dear, so that the evidences of debt which they held against us would be the more valuable. The Wall street gang of tory traitors did all that they could to help our commercial enemies and the American mullet heads followed in droves o f A thousands. Now there is a change coming over the spirit of the dreams of these for eign financiers. They beheld with dis may the prospect of the United States becoming a creditor nation, which will place them on the other side of the market. The prospect now is that several of those European nations will be demanding the free 'coinage of sil ver; with louder shouts than ever a long-haired,' wild and woolly "pop In dulged in. : They are "skilful manipula tors. They are beginning, their clam or with a talk about the rise in the price of silver and to prophesy that the time Is near at hard when "silver will be at a. parity." . . They now say that the great output of gold has cheapened that metal a thing that they denied, in 18?6; Then they said that gold had ah "intrinsic" value that .-never; changed. The y say that there is a great demand in China and India for silver. "When we saia that four years ago they declared that we were lunatics. They say that they made an attempt; to introducethe gold standard in India and it failed because the people there , would not use gold for money and demanded - silver or they would have : nothing. When we told them that, at the time they were wrecking business, establishing soup houses and making millionaires, they said that we were repudiators and anarchists. - ; Germany was one of the most per sistent advocates of the gold standard. She went into it on account of a de sire for -revenge upon France. She had forced France to pay her; an en ormous sum as war indemnity, and she wanted it in "money of the great est purchasing power." So she went in for the gold standard. Now Ger many is in sore straights. Three of her largest banks recently failed. Th i minister of finance made a speech in the Reichstag and told that body that the people of Germany might expect some years of hard times. The Ger man and Belgian economists have al ways been ardent bimetallists and some of them have been saying to the finance minister, "We told jyou so." In a letter to the editor of the Inde pendent, an English economist of the highest authority, asserts his belief that within three years two or three European nations will be demanding the free coinage of silver, not at the ratio of 16 to 1, but at the ratio of 15 to 1. That will be worse than any demand that the populists have ever made. He says that the big finan cial men are as fast as possible chang ing their investments from national bonds into industrials. He believes that bonds of most European nations will fall far below par m the near fu ture. They will be unloaded upon the unsuspecting lambs. If such a change as that is made to any extent, it will throw the money power to the other side of the financial question. In the opinion of The Independent it can only succeed if the trust system is made permanent. If the trust system is to stand the "financiers" will have a new grip on the world, and it will be more powerful than the old one. When the English go into txcessive glorification, get up a . drunken satur i aj?"a lasting twenty-four . uours over the defeat of the Boers, do they ever stop to think what the historians will say? If John Li. Sullivan had jumped upon a small boy, hammered him into in sensibility and then had gone on a drunk for twenty-four hours bragging about it, what would these English men say about it? That is a parallel case to their own. The British have had 200,000 men fighting 30,000, ant. have gained some, victories. If they finally succeed, will it add anything to their military glory? There is no more glory to be got out of it than there is for Americans fighting Fili pinos. There is no glory for the Anglo-Saxon fighting for conquest against men who are willing to die for independence, either in South Afri ca or the Philippines. We crowner the heroes, whether on land or sea. who fought for liberty against Spain with laurels. Those who have come home from the Philippines, though they were just as brave and sufferer, more, have received but few plaudits Prof. Bryce in his American Com monwealth says: "A majority is tyran ical when it cuts short the discussion needed to give the minority a fair chance of convicting the majority that it is wrong." That was written be fore the Reed rules were adopted by a tyranical majority in the house, but since that time the republican major ity not only "cuts short the discus sion," but it absolutely refusess to dis cuss public questions at all. That has been its settled policy for tha last six years and more or less for the last ten years. These tyranical republicans not only refuse to discuss, but if one of the minority tries to reason with them, they antwer back with the vilest epithets. A statement made . by a member of the minority which has to support it the well considered opinion of every economist of authority in the whole world, is. met by them with the insulting remark: "You are a luna tic; you rre an anarchist, you are a socialist. Bimetallism, which had the backing of the scholarship of the whole world, was called by them "that silver lunacy." What further remarks Prof. Bryce- would have felt called upon to make if lie had written a few years later about the tyranny of ma jorities, it is impossible to conjecture. Even at that time he looked upon it as a serious threat to free government. Our advertisers are reliable. FALL FRANK IAMS returned from Franca, Oct. 20, 1900, with larokbt importation of tal lions to Nebraska in 19UX Only man in United States that imported ALL black stallIoks He imported. 28 -Black Percherons28 They are the "town talk."- The people throng his barns and bubble over with theso com- Fliments, The most and larjrest black stallions I erer saw." "Every one a winner," The oe;fc imi erer imported," "Bat lams always has the largest and finest horses," "Won t hare 0011," VHis horses always win at state fairs.'' He has on hand 100 Black Perctiarons, Shires, Glydss and Coachers -100 They are two to fire years old, weight 1.600 16 2,400. lams has mere black stal lions, more ton and big stallions, more cracker-jacks, more tops, gorernmeut approved, royal bred stallions, than all iMFOftTSBS or Nebraska. lams speak s -French and German; needs no inter preter) knows the - breeders in perch - coCNtT. This, with twenty-five years experience, saves him $300 on each stal lion, and he selects' only the very best individuals. Has no salesman saves you middlemen's profit. Guarantees to show yon more ton black Percheron stal lions than all importers of Nebraska, or pay fare and $20. Don't bb a clam Write Ims. FRANK SHIP YOUR There is no way to get full value for your produce except by shipping direct to market. The fewer hands the products of the farm passes througa before reaching the consumer tue more profit there is for the producer. We Distribute Direct to the Consumer. We receive and sell Bl'TTKR, EGGS, VEAL, POULTRY, GAME, FUK. HIIES, J'KITS, WOOL. rOTA- TOKS. SEEI; BROOM COKN, l'OP cohn, beans, hay chain, ukjccn and IUIED FRUIT Of all kinds, or anythi return for nil shipments, money for your product th Wa , paIibKIa anil rAennncif for 27 years. Write us for prices, shipping tags ng you may have to dispoe of. We guarantee prompt sates and quick SUMHERS, BROWN & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND RECEIVERS FOR THE PEOPLE, Ref. Produce Exchange Bank, Chicago, and THE GROUT BILL The Independent has received sev eral inquiries from farmers about tho oleomargarine bill that was recently before the house. Nearly all of them take the same view of the matter. They want no special legislation, no exclusive privileges conferred upon them by law. They will stand by their principles, live or die. One man says he believes that the passage of the bill is for the purpose of laying the foun dation for a creamery trust. That the manufacturers of oleomar garine have been engaged in swin dling the people, no one doubts, and those who have been - swindled have been for the most part the poorest of the people. They fix up tallow so as to look like butter and sell it at a profit of 500 per cent. On the other hand there are many thousands of working people, who in these times of McKinley prosperity, cannot afford to buy genuine butter. That being the case, this butterine, as they call it, makes a very fair sub stitute. Butterine is a farm product just as much as butter. If its manufacture is prohibited, it will effect the price of fat cattle. It is well known that the best dairies use coloring matter. To prevent manufacturers of butterine from coloring their product, and allow tho dairies to color theirs, looks to a pop like unjust discrimination between two sets of men who should be equal before the law. It is perfectly easy to draft a law that will prevent fraud in the manu facture and sale of butterine. It should be sold for what it is. If poor people, want to buy it they should be allowed to do so. If put upon the mar ket as butterine and sold for what it really is, the meat trust could not swindle the poor people out of thou sands of dollars every year as they have been doing in the past. Butter ine should be sold for four or five cents a pound." Those interested in dairies say that that would ruin their business. Peo ple would not buy butter at 20 and 2o cents a pound when they could get butterine for five cents. They want "protection" for their business. They say every other kind of business has "protection" except the farming busi ness. There is a good deal in that argument if we are to favor "protec tion" at all. The farmer sells every thing that he has to sell in a free trade market and buys everything that he has to buy in a highly 'protected" market. The farmers who have dair ies want a little slice of that "protec tion" that has been sc liberally dis pensed to the manufacturers. They think that they can get it by killing the manufacture of butterine. From the republican standpoint that is all right, but to a pop there seems to be something wrong with It. The Independent says: Pass a but terine law that will make the million aires of the packing houses sell their product for what it really is. Congress can do it if it wants to. Put a rea sonable tax on it. The millionaires will have to pay the tax and not tho consumer, if the stuff is scld for what it is. The dairies will also be able to sell their butter at remunerative prices. INCREASE in money Last week The Independent gave the. output of gold. This week it gives the increase in the circulation for the last year. In reading the report It should h borne in mind ; that silver eertlfl- I cates arc to all intent and purpose sil MM St. Paul, Howard Co., Nebraska, on B. Jfc M. and Union Pacific Ry. or acy information you may wa . t. this paper, 198 S. Water St., Chicago. ver dollars, and the silver, is as much in circulation as if the actual sllvf-r dollars were . in use. All. classes of people prefer paper money to metallic money, and it is for the convenience of the people that the silver is stored and the certificates issued. This report ends with November 30. It will be seen that the total Increase in the circula tion of silver up to that time certifi cates and dollars was .more than tw o million a month for the whole year. That is, McKinley has gone the Sher man act, which he said must be re pealed or destruction would visit the land, $4,5S2,335 better. The tables printed last week, and they are all official, together with those to be found in this week's Issue, will place in the hands of the readers of The Independent many facts with which they can defend their principles. If the republicans co'me around sneer ing about sixteen to one, you can make their lives miserable for them until they repent. It will be a good idea to call their attention also to the fact that the increase of the national bank notes, up to November 30, was $86, 038,065. That was a clean gift to the national banks of eighty-six millions. You might ask them how they like that? Incircul'fn Incircul't'n Nov. 1, '99. Nov. 1. '00. Gold coin..$ Standard . silver dol. Subsidiary silver Gold cer... Silver cer.. Treas. notes act July 14, 1890, U. S. notes. Cur'ncy cer tifier's, act June 8, '72 634,650,733 $ 621 ,761,2f.:j 71,361,740 73,479.169 81.035.187 215,595,969 421,380,745 76.173,164 127,593,519 394,976,239 88.893,894 317,264,666 65.478.160 333,295,0.C1 13,735,000 1,780,000 325.375.2S8 Nat. . bank notes 230,067,193 Totals ..$1,963,716,148 $2,139,181,412 Net incr 175,465,264 TWELVE THOUSAND MORE The house bill to Increase the stand ing army has been reported back to the senate from its committee on mili tary affairs. The bill is changed in many particulars all in the interer.t of plutocracy. The old artillery ar rangement is restored with its regi mental formation and useless colonels, lieutenant colonels and regimental staff, but the milk in the cocoanut is in the last paragraph which reads as follows: "That, when in his opinion, the con ditions in the Philippine islands jus tify such action, the president is au thorized to enlist natives of the isl ands for service in the army, to be or ganized as scouts, with such officers as he shall deem necessary for the proper control, or as troops or com panies as authorized by this act, for the regular army. The president is further authorized in his discretion to form companies, organized from com panies of the regular army, in squad rons or battalions, with officers and non-commissioned' officers coi respond ing to similar organizations in the cavalry and infantry arms. The total frumber of enlisted men in said native organizations shall not exceed 12,000 and the total enlisted force of this army, together with such native fores, shall not exceed at any time 100,000." 1 The field officers of the native troops are all to be Americans for the pres ent, but whenever the Filipinos show fitness for command , the. president is authorized to make provisional selec tions from among them for the-grades of tflrst and second lieutenants. Now Ufthati means anything at ;all U J fe lt 1 lEV ig-a '7. 'A 4AElJ IAMS, alofull market price anrt lull weieit;weguaranioe 10 gestvinxiru an you can got at home. One phipment will convince you of this fact vnn run no risk in suiDDinarto us: nave ooen estaonsne i nero V i 1 . f il
