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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
January 31, 1901
Cpt Jlebraska Independent
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The republicans of the Nebraska Ug
UUture caw and cuss totwlihstandinc
tbt ne-pper rtport to tbe contrary.
Twenty of thtra hsre also screed to
eaKt r.
The m pre me court deld4 that
Nesfy bad to follow the Indictment
wbetber th fiag follows the eotistitu
tloa or tot. The latter question they
till tare tusdt-r -rotst. deration.
UeKlnley b f'a buying seme
snore it IstJs trtrm ijain. . Thi time
fc j4 f 1M0 easa down for t-o
peeks ia the tr :' inhabited
by polygaraitts an-i ! a ie-bolder-.
FpaJfl ot the mosey ca the tame
terms that be got the 119
Vc? never a eta it called a traitor
ta the t. S. cnate It 1 only positive
proof that be opposes the money pow
tr and is hose. To that point has
tbt nxilllojiaire club arrived. Doubt
Is" Senator Teller cherishes the ac
aslts made cpoa bits as the bighett
ort of coaspiirnect.
. EocizlUt ' pub-
Jerted ta Just sarh rule as all others
and son beside . Correpoad?nre snt
fcr publication East contain the name
cf the author loot necessarily for pub
lication I bet as a mark of good faith.
The papers re full of advertise
ments cf -Complete life of Queen Vic
toria.' The book-fet -will: swarm
mr tie land In countless number.
Anyone who has cornea sense will
)cs,w, without being told, bow tncii
rafcie ther will be in a history com
piled, printed and published la le
ftaa tea days.
There bare been more arreaU. late!y
cf Cuban peat si thieves."' One John
Fheridan who bad charge cf the money
ciders is short ma ay thousand dollars.
It was a toash lot of carpet -baggers
that MrKii-W sent down there. Those
wfe west from Nebraska we know
about. If the rest of tbero were cf th?
same kind, no wonder the cash con
tirres to disappear.
- CbanceUcr Andrews tittered a grest
tratb la fets Omaha adorers when be
tail: The fart Is that, to a great
rxtect. taoraiJty can be taught. Hither
to we bare hardly made any effort to
.Imrelcate It Wide and systematic ef
forts la tba beazvlf will trrprtse the
world witb their eoecess. Tbe teach
ing; cf morals baa been practically
a hardened !a both the higher and low
er schools for a great maey years. Tbe
result is ererywbere apparent. ' '
Celone! Harrisoij is making a rigor
ous Itkk aoct being discbarged from
tb army because bis father made a
speech agalnat Imperialism. He wants
a er-rt cf inquiry instituted to find
cct tbe reason why. If tbe sons of
two supreme jodges caa get cfSces be
dost se why the sea of an es-preri-ret
should mot bare one. Harrisoa
says that Ccrbia seised cable dls
patcbe addressed to btra (Harrison)
and refused to let them be examined.
Two or tbr weeks ago The Inde
jcdett Informed its readers about tbe
tboutands of houseless and homeles
poor wto were nandering In the
trttf of Losdoa. I-ast Sunday som
of tbe slow-going dailies beard of '
and actually bad a few feeble com
taests a tbe subject. Tb "submerge
tenth" that existed when Genera!
Booth cf tbe Salratloa army wrote
Mi book about -Darkest England" has
row become the "submerged fifth,"
and their condition more desperate
tbsa erer.
...... Seta cf tbe Wall treet financiers
got caught la a British trap ia such a
costpletft way that eiery one of both
side of tbe oceaa U laughing at them.
When that last British loaa was of
fered the smart American millionaires
west after it and underbid tbe British
Investors. Now tbey Sad. thxt they
wfll bare to pay a British income tax
' ,nf 5 per rest ca tbe Interest of those
Brltiih bonds and It makes them feel
wor than if they tad eatea a peck
of 'aaareVraut. Tbey are not bragging
to 'much about bow tbey beat the Brit
ish fa getting that loan as tbey were
ahi"e a so.
rBOTECTINO CItXME.
A young farmer writes a letter to
Tbe Independent in which be says
that be reads this paper and that be
read an article in it a short time ago
about the way farm hands from the
country were swindled by the confi
dence men in the cities. He says'that
be thought that be was prepared fcr
that kind of business, but that The
Independent failed 'to gire an account
of all the tricks that are played and
because it did not do it he got into
trouble In South Omaha, For the
benefit of others be wants The Inde
pendent to print his experience.
He says be went to South Omaha
with a friend in charge cf two carloads
of bogs. They were walking along
the street when they met two respect
able looking men in front of a place
that was called a theatre. One of the
men said: "If you want to sec a pood
show go Inside. It woa't cost you a
cent and it is really the best free show
that I erer saw." Ire and bis friend
went la. An attendant said: "Take
a seat, a performance will be&in in a
minute or two." The room was filled
with small tables and a few people
were sitting around. They sat down
at one of tbe tables and in a minute
or two, two women came and at down
at the same table. They began a con
versation and presently they ordered
beer. A waiter brought four bottles
of beer and demanded of the men two
dollars. The y cutis man who writes
says be saw that be wps in for it and
taking a silver dollar out of his pocket
be paid for two bottles. Without
drinking the beer he t up and went
out. He waited outside for some time
for his companion and then fearing
that be might be in trouble he went
back. When be got Inside there was
a row on. His friend had refused to
pay for the other two bottles. He says
that they were set upon by four ruf
fians, assaulted and thrown out on
the stteet- Immediately a policeman
appeared and arrested them both aud
ir were taken to jail, locked up over
nifUt and accused the next morning
of ?elng drunk and disorderly. The
pcliremen who arrested them did not
appear and they were discharged.
T i youns farmer asks that his ex
peri tic be published in The Inde
pevle?it for tbe benefit of other hon
est "young men that may go to Omaha
or Eoath Omaha on business.
Tl e Independent publishes it be
CS.US the experience related is tHe re
sult cf the introduction Into Nebras
ka oftbe police protection of crimo
andr'U for a consideration In money
whlci jhas lorg been the practice in
Philadelphia, New York and Chicago.
That place, wherever it was, that -was
calle.l a theatre, was put un under a
contract with the police to divide the
profits! The polfceman who arrested
the two young farmr was the great
est r Jlain In the outfit. He knew per
fectly "Well that the two young men
had oea robbed or that an attempt
had i n made to rob them, and he
knowingly arrested the innocent and
let the-: guilty escape. No such plac
could exist In Omaha or South Omaha
withe ut the assistance of the police,
and the Independent is informed that
there are quite a number of them.
This police protection of crime and
vice bis gone on for a great many
years atid the people in the cities have
all known it. The ministers know it
tbe lawyers know it, all of the citi
sens; of the cities know it and they
have made no protest. The grand
Juries know it. the judges know it, tbe
state si I attorneys know it and they
bate not protested. At last it has in
vaded kebraska. Will there be any
efflcie tj protest made In this state?
Innoc fat men, men known to be inno
cent ) "yf the officers are arrested every
day fx Nebraska and confined in loath
some" prisons, foul with filta and ver
min. , 'hile they are not imprisoned
for lottgf terms, as was done in the dark
ages.';itll the Innocent are imprisoned
and t4 guilty are protected and c:i-
eouraB by the officers of the law.
The practice has grown so universal
irtbe eastern cities that public atten-
being called to it. Meetings
cf n held lately in Chicago, Phil-
adelpJ if
and New York protesting
against
it. There is no very great
hope )fj reform. Such protests have
been .cide
in years past, men tne
mattex f as dropped.
It Is the result of
the dfgfneracy that has set in since
tbe chttfch apostatized and began the
worship of Mammon instead of the
God ofixuth and justice. The heads
of pol departments who derive an
ineonv twice their salary from such
work! Judges who never present such
mattes s I to grand juries, politicians
who b; fneans of the existence of such
nl&eesL ; Secure nominations and elpc
tionsi ale one and all received into
the ck arches, or If they are not, thty
hear nadenuncIation of their wicked
cess fiotn the pulpits except in times
of sudden outbursts, and after that,
things g on as usual. : We have the
same tiing right here in Lincoln. Last
week I rwo of the Lincoln policemen
were cbirged with addressing two re
spectatl married women and endeav
oring to entice them away to houses of
prostitution. Will; they be dismissed
from tUil service of the republican par
1 ' ' " - 1
tioa Ji
have I
ty ? Hardly. When the next city elec
tion comes the degenerate churcbe3
will line up and cast an almost solid
vote for the same practices. There
are one or two honorable ministers in
the city who will protest and quite a
number of laymen. But the majority
will vote as they always have voted.
The degeneracy will go on until so
ciety is disintegrated or a sudden up
heaval "occurs. Men with money,
much of which comes from the spoils
of robbery, will control the primaries,
and then because they run on a ticket
lalelled "republican," the apostates
will all vote for them.
The hope of this republic lies in the
purer life lead by the families living
on farms.
WHAT'S IN A NAME.
To show the unimportance of names
t is related by Plutarch that when
the ambassadors of Antlochus tne
Great represented , to the Achaeans
how numerous the king's forces were,
and, to make them appear still more
so, reckoned them up by all their dif
ferent names. . "I supped once," said
Flaminius, "with a friend; and upon
my complaining of the great number
of dishes, and expressing my wonder
how he could furnish his table with
such a variety. 'Be not uneasy aoout
that, said my friend, 'for it is all hog's
flesh; and the difference is only in the
dressing and the sauce.' In like man
ner, I say to you, my Achaean friend,
be not astonished at the number of
Antiochus forces, at these pikemen,
these halberdiers and cuirassiers; for
they are all Syrians, only distin
guished by the trifling arms they
bear."
"What's in a name?" the poet askd,
believing the name to be unimportant.
But is it so? The people of the United
States have for years been robbed by
protection to our infant industries;"
they have voted for a financial system,
known by the high-sounding title of
honest money," which has for its ob
ject an unjust distribution of wealth.
the creation of a few millionaires and
hundreds of thousands of semi-paupers.
By calling it "benevolent assim
ilation" they have justified, to their
own satisfaction, the murder of peo
ple guilty of a desire to be free and tc
govern themselves, in an osiensiuiu
effort to "maintain the parity" of sil
ver, the .national administration is
slowly but surely doing the very
things which must result in destroy
ing the parity.
"What's in a name?" Everything,
mv friend. The haDDV selection of a
cleverly constructed catch pharse will
often prove more effective than the
most learned arguments. Republican
leaders are adepts in the art of coin
ing successful catch phrases. Protec
tion, reciprocity, honest money, sound
monev. "a dollar worth a hundred
cents the world over," criminal ag
gression and benevolent assimilation,
maintaining the parity all these must
eo down in history as illustrations
that names have something in them;
that with the multitude, sound is for
a time more successful than sense.
"What's in a name?" Much for
weal or woe. If there be one thin
absolutely necessary to a free ex
pression of the will of the people, that
thing is direct legislation. And why?
Because it is the only feasible plan so
far presented approximating a pure
democracy a government of the peo
ple, by the people, and for the people.
But it has been handicapped t)y names.
The initiative and referendum and im
perative, mandate Words with a for
eign sound, breathing cf nihilism, an
archy, communism, socialism, and all
the other isms which, rightly or
wrongly, strike terror to the heart of
the averaee conservative man aud
your average man is generally conser
vativc. '
The people of Nebraska make use of
the referendum every time they vots
on a constitutional amendment. They
are. not afraid to vote on amendments,
but thousands of them are alarmed if
you but suggest that the referendum
ought to be invoked in the case of all
important legislation. They are afraid
of the name.
"Direct legislation" is a little bet
ter. But why not call it "popular leg
islation" or "law making by the
people?"
The Illinois legislature soon brought
a recalcitrant railroad to terms. It
hud issued passes to all the membera,
but wrote on them "not good on the
limited express. mat made a row
and the number of sand-bagging bills
that, were prepared frightened the su
I-erintendent so badly that he went
down to Springfield and told them that
v bile it was impossible to carry al
ti'.e members and their hangers-on to
Chicago on Fridays, as the train wa3
as heavy and long as could be hauled
without them, nevertheless he would
fix things to suit them. So he ordered
a special train to be made up for the
accommodation of the legislature and
the lobby and the bills for lower fares
will never see the light of day. Those
who do pay fares will pay the cost of
Ihauling these deadheads. That's right.
That is what the people of Illinois
voted for and they ought to have it.
XOT TIXI, THEN
As long as money controls elections
n the west it win never receive tne
benefits of national legislation such as
s bestowed on the east. Millions upon
millions are appropriated by congress
every year for the benefit of eastern
states, and but the smallest doles are
ever allowed to the west. So extrava
gant have the eastern appropriations
been for the last fifty years that the
result of them has been to build up
enormously rich and flourishing com
munities in the most sterile and n-
hospital portion of the union. Whila
this has been going on, the west has
not been able to obtain even the nec
essary appropriations for public builds
ngs. Western senators and congress
men who are elected by money sent in
from the east make no such fights for
the interest of their constituents as are
made by the eastern senators ; who
dominate the senate, or the men in the
house who manipulate the legislation
there. If a western congressman .gets
so much as the repair of a worn-out
sidewalk around a public building, he
comes home and brags about it during
the whole campaign. This condition
of affairs will continue just as long as
western senators and congressmen are
elected by the use of eastern money,
and eastern money will be sent here
in campaigns by the hundreds of
thousands just as long as the mullet
heads continue to vote the republi
can ticket regardless of all conse
quences. When these men become in
telligent enough to refuse to vote
away their birth rights for a mess of
pottage, even if it is offered in a tin
dinner pail, then, and not until then,
will the west receive the same con
sideration as the east.
BORN THAT WAY
The information that the P Street
Idiot gives to his readers is sometimes
somewhat astonishing. The other day
he solemnly informed them that "The
sixteen-to-wunner claims that an
ounce of gold is worth no more and no
less than sixteen ounces of silver, but
he always flies the track when the
government proposes to say that It
shall be when it is coined into silver
dollars.
"The sixteen-to-wunners have al
ways declared that. the ratio was es
tablished by divine fiat, but they al
ways object to the interposition of hu
man law to make it good in fact rath
er than in theory."
There Is no doubt that the Idiot
firmly believes all those statements to
be true. He states them so unreserv
edly and positlvelyho one can doubt
that he firmly believes them. He is
not to blame for being an idiot. He
was born that way,? and: it would te
cruel to charge the thing with deliber
ate lying. ' ;
WHATWILIYOCDO;
There are some things that every
voter in the three, r reform parties
should take into consideration right
now, so that he can have plenty of
time to make up his mind concerning
what course he will pursue in the fu
ture. In the first place the Cleveland
wing of the democratic party is mak
ing great inroads on the democratic
organization. Several things show
that. One is the vote cast in the Mas
sachusetts legislature where it was
supposed that the organization, was
solid for Bryan. Instead of voting for
George Fred Williams or some man
of that character, all the democrats
voted for Olney, who is a Cleveland
democrat and. was a member of Cleve
land's cabinet. The Texas legislature
invited Dave Hill to address it. The
new democratic state committee of Il
linois is said to be of the Cleveland re
publican kind. Word comes from oth
er places to the same effect.
There is not much doubt that if the
Cleveland democrats can get hold .of
the democratic organization that their
promise of -electing the next president
has a good show of success. They will
have , to aid them with all the vast
power of money that Mark Hanna
handled with so much success in this
last campaign. The whole money powr
er under such circumstances would
be Dn the side of democracy. , The
money power is very anxious to do
that thing. They find that the sup
port of the republican party costs im
mense amounts of money. The sup
port of the democratic party, with-a
man to suit them on the ticket, would
not cost them one-tenth as much. They
count upon the fact that the southern
states will all vote the democratic
ticket, no matter who is the candi
date or what principles are set forth
in the party ; platform. They would
have with a gold bug-imperialist can
didate and platform the solid south
without the cost of a cent. All they
would have to do would be to buy
two or three northern states. Support
ing the republican party, they have to
buy a great many northern states and
it costs them very many millions,
Therefore it is very much cheaper for
them to buy up the control of the
democratic organization. That is
what they are now. doing, and from
the success that they have had, it be
gins to loojt as if they would succeed.
If they do succeed there, will be a
division in the democratic ranks.
There arc hundreds of thousands of
democrats in the north and some in
the south who will never affiliate with
a Cleveland democratic party. What
will such democrats do?
! The silver republicans have dropped
their organization (they are all in the
north) and joined the democratic par
ty. They cannot take their voters into
the democratic party if the Cleveland
wing gets control of it. What will
they do?
In Colorado it seems that the pop
ulists have resolved to go into the
democratic party. If the national or
ganization gets into the hands of tho
plutocrats they will not stay there.
What will they do? From some things
that have appeared . in the Colorado
papers some of the populist leaders
are beginning to think that they made
a mistake. . -
Last, there is the populist party in
the state of Nebraska with a complete
organization in every county in the
state. But this legislature is sure to
pass a law to prevent fusion. At the
next election the reform forces will
all feave to vote under one party name.
What are you going to do about that?
What name will we vote under? Will
we put two tickets in the field with
two sets of candidates, one called dem
ocratic and one people's party? Will
we all unite under one name? What
shall that name be?
These are some of the things that
will press for solution in the near fu
ture. They- should be taken under
consideration now.
. . REDEEMING SILVER.
The committee on coinage, weights
and measures undertook to report their
bill to finally destroy silver and green
backs without any hearing except on
one side of the case. To that Con
gressman Sutherland made such
strenuous objection that at last he got
a hearing. In the discussion over th
matter, he denied the statement of Mr.
Hill that the minority of the commit
tee had had an opportunity to present
its views on the gold standard bill and
charged that the hearing on the meas
ure had been formal and the evidence
was given by prominent gold standard
advocates.
He questioned Mr. Hill on the full
meaning of the bill, to which Mr. Hill
replied that under its provisions the
bullion and silver dollars in the treas
ury could be coined into the subsid
iary coinage and that the bill would
force the treasury to exchange gold
coins for silver dollars, when pre
sented by holders thereof. He be
lieved we should have only gold and
bank currency and ' silver subsidiary
coin, being opposed to greenbacks, sil
ver certificates, or any form of govern
ment paper -money. , ,
Any one who has read the bill can
plainlysee that the object of the meas
ure is to destroy silver as money and
retire the greenbacks. Then the sil
ver now in circulation will be sold a
bullion and all . the paper money will
be issued by the national banks, creat
ing a financial despotism such as the
world never before suffered under.
State banks would be a hundred times
better, for state bankers would get
only one rate of interest, while these
national bankers will get Interest on
the money invested in bonds and again
on the same money when issued from
the" banks. This bill of course makes a
new issue of. bonds necessary and an
immense increase in the national debt.
If silver dollars are sold as bullion,
bonds will have to be issued , to cover
the difference between the : value of
silver dollars as standard money and
the price of silver bullion." At th
present, time that difference would
amount to - about $300,000,000, and
would make at least the issue of that
amount of bonds necessary. Before
3uch a policy could be carried out it
would be. very much more. The throw
ing of 600,000,000 silver dollars on thi
market as bullion would depress the
price of bullion to no man knows
where.
On last Friday, nine days after The
Independent had fully informed it3
readers all about the Hill and other
bills introduced to redeem silver dol
lars and sell the silver for bullion, tho
three great dallies of the state printed
the very first news about it. That is
doing better than usual. They are us
ually from five months to five years
behind this paper in the news they
furnish that is of importance to the
reople. Their mission seems to be
to keep track of the divorce trials,
kidnapping games, and scandals in
high life. When it comes to real
news that the people are interested in
and which affects, their well-being,
tbe dailies are days, months and some
times years behind this live weekly.
The moral to this little tale is that if
you wantthe news that affects your
present well-being and future welfare
you must subscribe for 3Che Indepen
dent. ; Free speech has not been entirely
suppressed in the Chicago university
The proof of the fact is that a thesis
discussing "The Assymptotic Evalua
tlon of certain Toticut sums wa3
not suppressed. ' "
DEMOCRATIC EDITORS.
"Democratic editors," said a demo
crat whose name is familiar to every
citizen in this state and many other
states, "there are no democratic edi
tors. Not one. They are simply re
porters." A That is. getting to be the
general opinion of all the thinking
men in the democratic party and they
are crying out against it. When they
take a democratic paper they want to
find something in.it besides the scan
dals and personalities of the whole
world. They expect an intelligent dis
cussion of fundamental principles and
current events. But such things are
not to be found in any democratic pa
per these days. The editors all seem
to have laid down, given up, thrown up
the sponge and retired-to" their corners
to recuperate. There lies on the edi
torial table three democratic dailie3.
One published in New .York, one in
Chicago and one in this state. What
do they discuss in their editorial col
umns? ' The leading editorials in one
are entitled: "The Superior American
Woman,". "A Pretty Wife Not for
Locking Up." "The Patterson Verdict,"
Queen. Victoria's Death," "The
Queen's Private Fortune" and one en
titled "More Futile Fallacy." which
denounces fusion and closes with these
words: "Not the futile coalescence of
ineffectual fragments, but repentance,
regret and a return to true democratic
principles will rehabilitate the party."
In this democratic paper we find
four editorials about women, one a
foreign woman, and one written in the
interest of republican principles and
policies. t .
In another great democratic daily
there are but two editorials with these
headings, 'Traction Profits," and
"What of the Castellanes?" This
democratic editor seems to think that
the fortunes of a French count are cf
more importance to the American peo
ple than the bonding of the people of
this country- In hundreds of millions
of dollars to the Rockefeller national
bank ring.;
In the other democratic paper the
editorials are entitled: "Secretary
Utt's Report." "A Widespread Ail
ment," "The Hour of the Queen's
Death," and "Governor Lafe." ' :
No wonder that' this old democrat
was wrathy and declared that there
were no democratic" editors apthing.
but reporters."
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
That there is a necessity for an ex
tension of normal school facilities in
this state ho one. will question. Thre
bills have been introduced in the leg
islature bearing on this": question: One
is ' to increase the ' facilities for the
school at Peru, another for the build
ing of a school at Central City and a
third for the purchase of the Western
Normal situated in the suburbs of Liu
coin. This last bill is especially mer
itorious. There is there an immense
modern building, constructed especial
ly for school purposes, a private in
stitution completed just as the hard
times came on' in 1893. " It has been
abandoned and it and the commodious
grounds . can be purchased for less
than 50 cents on the dollar of the cost.
A school located there would hav-3
exceeding great advantages over any
place in the state. The students would
come under the educational influence
of the great university, wnose librar
ies, laboratories and museums would
be available for their use. They would
have an opportunity to come In con
tact with the distinguished men con
nected with the university and those
who come here'to. deliver special lec
tures and addresses, ? such as at com
mencement time and during the win-
ter months. These privileges would
be an advantage not to be secured
elsewhere.. The, building offered is a
noble structure and all ready for oc
cupation. It i& connected with the city
by street car tracks. --All .things con
sidered, ..the purchase of the building,
which, is modern and Complete, would
result ; in the saving of many thou
sands of. dollars: to- the taxpayers, of
the state"over any proposition to build
a new building at the increased price
of structural material now prevailing.
Two ladies came personally to The
Independent and one hag written a let
ter complaining of the vulgarity ex
hibited - by - the Nebraska legislature.
On one occasion, she wrote,, "it was
perfectly shameful. Some ladies who
were so seated that they could get
away without attracting attention left
the hall. Others sat it out, but will not
be seen there again." The editor of
The Independent paid the house a visit
the other day, and while here was
no vulgarity, there was about as much
dignity about -its proceedings as one
would expect in a convention of high
school girls assembled to discuss what
sort of gowns they, should wear on
graduation day. When one man would
make a remark, all the . rest would
giggle. A fusion legislature always
has some . decency and: dignity about
it. Many ladles always attended the
sessions and there was-never any
thing said or done that would offend
them. . Now that 'Nebraska is "re
deemed" it is- different. '
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. In all the pomp, pageants and gorg
eous splendors, in which the British
are indulging on account of the death
of the queen, there are some things
that are so silly that even' brutalized
working men of the East End cannot
fail to -be disgusted with them. , The
queen's funeral is to be the occasion of
the largest naval and military display
ever seen in the kingdom. - The body
of the dead queen is to be. hauled
through the streets on kn". artillery
caisson. . The other day his. inost-gracious
Imperial majesty, , Edward VI I.,
was pleased to bestow .upon Ms
nephew, the Emperor of Germany, the
title of field marshal ' In the British
army. Then Lord Salisbury, prime
minister, and Lord Roberts; commander-in-chief
of the British army, wrot?
notes to his most gracious and augu -vt
imperial majesty, the Emperor oi Ger
many, informing him of that fact. Tin
flattery and obsequiousness of thes
notes are simply disgusting. ., ,
, The complete surrender of the re
publican party to the Standard Oil
crowd was publicly announced when
Attorney General Sheets of the state.
of Ohio; walked. Into the supreme court
of that state the other day and asked
the court to finally dismiss all. the
cases brought by t Former Attorney
General Monnett against the Standard
Oil company. The request was granted
and the last Vfisrie of Mnnnetr's, rros-H
ecutions were wiped off the ' docket!
Sheets Is how making himself popular -with.
the preachers, by appearing' to be
very active in the suppression of prize
fighting. Soon he will vbe lauded tu
the skies by every religious Journal in
the state." It "is by little schemes, like
that that the trusts and plutocrats arc
able to rob the people of millions while
the men who aid them in doing it are
held up as shining examples of. pur
ity and uprightness. .
The following is President McKin
ley's telegram of condolence upon th?
death of the Queen: "
"His majesty, the King,' Osborne,
Isle of Wight: I have received with
profound sorrow the lamentable tid
ings of the death of her majesty, the
queenj , Allow me, sir, to offer my Bin
cere sympathy and that of the Ameri
can people in your personal bereae
ment, and in the loss Great Britain
has suffered In the death of Its ven
erable and illustrious sovereign, whose
noble life and. beneficent V . influenc ?
have promoted1 the peace and won th'?
affections of the world.
- J - "WILLIAM M'KINLEY."
The phrase, "promoted, peace," iXqvh
not seem exactly apropos icoming from
a man engaged In the creation of a
great standing army and waging war
upon a helpless people in the far oft
Islands of the', sea. ,' ' '
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