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VOL. XII.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 14, 1901.
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FUBCHASED K&P
rrt fU ea4 lb fh!lipr" lt Part
f rmlHUml rnly THr
are t IVWh for thlar
a4 IWard TtutKMlr
Tfc Brown family consists of John
Crown. father; Mrt John Drowu.
tucll.tr: James. Joseph and Josiah
Crown, sons ever 21 years old; ana
kerl jouzgr son and daughters
rinjlcg from fire to fifteen years of
are. All lire toother under one roof,
tat at the use table and share in
each other Joys and sorrow. The
jouet children hare the wme rights
to prtpr food and clothSnjc as are n
Jorrd by tfc-ir parent and older
brother. Parental control a to them
eitndt further in a few respects than
in ease of the crown-up eon. Yet the
al! eontitGte one family. No one ever
4reaaed f referring to them as the
Uron familr and dependencies."
New York. IVnni ylvania, Virginia,
Maryland, etc., raay te likened to the
chirr Brown. Kana. Nebraska, etc.,
are the grown-up sons and daughter.
Anxona. Nw Mexico and Oklahoma
are the younger brothers and sisters.
Collertlteiy. al! are known as the
l'n!te4 State. They '.onstitute the
United State family.
This Is no Idle fancy, either.
Chief Justice Marshall, in Lough
borough vs. Ii!ake ( Wheatonl said:
Certainly this qtiestion can admit of
hut on answer. It (the United States)
is the tame of our great republic,
which Is composed of state and terri
tories. The District of Columbia or
the territory west of the Missouri i
not less within the United States than
Maryland or Pennsylrania.
Cot where do the Porto Uicans and
Filipinos ctnne In? Are they to become
a rptM sous and daughters, or tre
they merely -hired help." working for
nothing and boarding themselves?
WAR EXPENSES
fader fteeU S2le They are Meaat
les t Mhr4 f um They WIU
Never lie t'sttt te Repnfc-
rm rty 1 Overthrow
Senator Hale announced on the floor
of the senate the other day that the
military budget of the United States
including the expenses of the army
and the nary and the payment on ac
count of pensions would amount to
f -nearly twice as much
t said, "as Is paid by any European
country. r"
The cot of the new army can very
aMy m estimated. Fortunately there
i nothing about It that can le kept
from the pabiic. It will cost the gov
ernment considerably more than II,-
to support each member of th
new army of IOO.OmO men during the
rossiag year. The appropriation bii:
for the maintenance of the military es
tablishment, which is now before the
houe. call for a grand total of 1117.
:4.ei3.10. mnd is x aside red the lowest
mm on which the army can be main
tained fr twtdte months.
It Is likely that even this tremendous
amount of money will prove insuffic
ient tor the need of the army during
the com Ins year, for the committee In
framing the bill cut down the esti
mate uf the army oflSeers by more
than fl ;. v. the war department
bair.g kM for a round f 130.000.000.
However the appropriation carried by
the present fcllli the largest ever of
fered for the army sine the civil war,
exceedlEg by several millions of dol
lars the beavieft demand made during
the year following the Spanish war.
The average cost for the support of a
soldier has been about ll.OoO for many
years past, bat It has slightly increased
since the Spanih war. The average
appropriation for the military estab
lishment when the army consisted of
but 27.000 men was about 123.500.000.
The appropriation in lb7 was I23.27S.
and la the preceding year it wa3
f 3.2O09. For the year 1) it was
$O.I3it.O". and for the current year
the total was 1111.220 .Goo. The b's
jset single Item of expense for the
amy la the pending bill Is charged to
the quartermaster's department, and
I for transportation of troops and sup
plies. For this purpose the depart
ment Is allow! t34.OX.0OO, which Is
J. J.).XJ more than was required for
the support of the entire army live
years ago. General Lodington. the
juartermabrr general of the array,
says that the great bulk of this money
will be expended in sending troop to
and from the Philippines. China. Alas
ka and Porto Itico. He also says that
pit cf It will f ) for chartering addi
tional tfKi to help out the army
tnn;orU in the work of bringing
tatk troo;j from the Philippines. It
look as though $34OO.OOQ would not
be r cough for thi parpose, as te
department fca. during the seven
months of the current final year, spent
Izu.uOo; In carrying troops back and
forth, and General Ltidicgtoa has
asked for an additional fS.ooO.OOO to
help tide over the time between now
and July I next- General Ludlngton
his charge of the disbursement cf
more thin half of all money appro
priated for the upport of the artuy,
i3.0.(J betng placed to his credit
in, the new bill.
F1SHT1S3 LURK HANHA
JTere4 Ealec tewiM 4 X Work Oat
tJ rwre4 by Stor
Washington. I. C Feb. S. 1&01. I
th'nk St is time for the ringmaster of
this circus to let us go home. said
Senator Tillman at It o'clock the first
evening that the republicans forced
nlgkt sections In order to push through
fc;t-be!Mrs' combine each year for
thirty year?,
9 It was turloua xi;ht. Mark liana
had been confined at home with rheu
matism all day. but be dragged him
self out a bitter cold evening In order
to keep tab on the republicans who
had promised to be component por
tions of the quorum Insisted upon by
the democrats.
Senator Frye walked up and down at
the rear chamber doing voluntary po
lice duty In order that no republican
should escape.
To such bulldozing tactics have
llanna and Frye descended in order to
consummate the nine million dollar
loot of the treasury In behalf of th?
ship-builders combine.
Senator Jones of Arkansas gave the
republicans a foretaste of what is to
happen to their subsidy bill wheu,
earlier that same day, he objected to
consideration of the subsidy bill and
It had to give place to an appropria
tion bill.
The republicans declared that the
evening sessions would allow the dem
ocrats to wear themselves out with
speech-making and that the day ses
sion would then suffice for routine bills
end the subsidy measure also.
Senator Nelson of Minnesota, just
re-elected by a state which gave Mc
Kinley 77.000 majority, gave the nrst
sensational act in what promises to
rival a continuous performance in in
terest. He took advantage of the -evening
session to deliver a scathing ar
raignment of the administration for
refusing to supply the senate with in
formation In relation to the Lawshe
report on Cuba.
Senator Nelson seldom makes
speeches, but this invective of his
against the encroachment of imperial
ist methods was worthy of the most
bitter enemy of the president.
Senator Jones led the democratic
protest against the subsidy bill and
sounded the keynote of the opposition
debate. He showed clearly how out
rageous a steal is contemplated and
how contemptible are the tactics of tho
majority In making its passage a test
of the physical endurance of the mi
nority. ,
The republicans will hardly succeed
In this plan. The democrats will in
sist on a quorum every minute of tha
evening sessions and the first session
not only have not advanced the sub
sidy bill, but have given the minoritv a
beautiful opportunity to put on record
some sharp and well-merited criticism
of the administration methods in var
ious directions.
The democrats feel that so great a
principle Is involved in this subsidy
steal that they will fight It to & finish
and let the republicans take the re
sponsibility of the results. - '
So far as McKlnley is concerned, he
wants an extra session if this one can
not take action on the Philippines and
Cuba.
Every day he has a string of repub
lican senators and representatives at
the White house Impressing upon them
his desire to share the responsibility
of governing our insular possessions
with congress.
That is the way the administration
puts it. Cut there is not the slightest
desire that congress should interfere
with the Imperial policy now being
developed.
All the administration desires is the
formal transfer of authority from the
legislative to the executive branch of
government.
For instance he wants the Spooner
resolution passed giving him absolute
civil power in the Philippines until
congress chooses to interfere.
Similarly he wants congress to pass
a resolution authorizing him to deal
with the Cuban constitution as he sees
fit.
The administration sees no reason
why a well-disciplined republican con
gress cannot take ten minutes oft from
consideration of the appropriation bills
and the ship subsidy bill to pass a cou
ple of blanket resolutions and then
adjourn at the proper time.
The administration can then go
about its business of giving out fran
chises and special privileges to spec
ulators and subjugating the Filipinos
by a dual civil and military govern
ment and neither congress nor the peo
ple need pay any further attention
except that the latter are always o
furnish the soldiers and pay the bills.
The administration had rather risk
an extra session, if necessary, than
risk popular disapproval by carrying
out the imperialist program alone. But
here comes the trouble. Senators and
representatives know the. temper fit
their constituents and are loth to as
sume responsibility for the new de
parture In government. This is par
ticularly the case with house mem
bers. The Increase and reorganization of
the army gives a splendid opportunity
to give out various succulent plums
to those who behave nicely and do
what the administration tells them 1o.
This indirect sort of bribe Is being
very freely used. The congressman
who displays independence and any
thought for his country's welfare is go
ing to come out very badly in the mat
ter of appointments for bis constitu
ents. There are so many enormous steals
going on nowadays that it seems hard
ly worth while to point cut that the
navy department recently held a rum
mage sale of vessels bought during the
Spanish war. The n?t loss to the gov
ernment in selling these vessels was
1281,000.
Great Britain is obliged to send
20,000 mere troops to Lord Kitchener
In South Africa. The Boers have over
19,000 men in the field and are gain
ing fresh victories every day. Strange,
isn't it. what pluck and determination
men can show when fighting for their
homes and for freedom. . ...
The billion dollar steel trust is cne
of the republican Infant Industries
that must have protection against the
pauper labor of Europe. Nine dollars
a ton Is about what it wants and Aid
rich. Allison and Mark Hanna will see
that it gets it.
PHILIPPINE DISEASES
The Official Report llor Than Coiflrai
th Statement Mad In The Re
form Press.
One of the most accurate and val
uable correspondents who were sent
to the Philippines was Mr. William E.
Johnson. This gentleman is well
known here in Lincoln where he was
connected with the university. All the
professors of the Nebraska university
will willingly bear testimony to his
honor and uprightness of character.
He went to the Philippines as a cor
respondent of the Voice and the first
thing that he found out was that if he
wanted to get at facts he must keep
his Identity and purpose of publica
tion In the background. In fact, noth
ing of his writing was published until
he was beyond the harsh hand of mili
tary authority. As soon as his letters
began to appear, the flunkey corre
spondents at Washington, chief among
whom was William E. Curtis of the
Chicago Record, began to denounce
him and publish articles from politi
cal chaplains contradicting his state
ments. Now that the official reports
have at last been published, Mr. John
son takes occasion to compile them
and show him his statements were
under the truth instead of being ex
aggerations. He says:
I have before me the annual report
of the surgeon general of the army
for the fiscal year 1900, which William
E. Curtis, the Chicago Record savant,
and other prophets announced was to
utterly demolish the statements mad3
in the New Voice.
This official report proves that in
stead of this estimate of 60,000 being
too high, it is actually less than half
high enough to cover all the cases of
ficially recorded the results, largely,
of the army canteen and the licensed
dens of drunkenness and vice that our
officers allowed to open in Manila.
In the army records, no man goes
on the "sick list" unless he is sick
enough to be disabled from duty. He
is then seat to a hospital. This is
sometimes to one of the regular mili
tary hospitals, a field "division" hos
pital or to a temporary "field" hos
pital. In cases where there is no
available hospital, the patient is some
times taken care of by the army sur
geons in his own or some tent prepared
for that purpose. The estimate given
by the New Voice included only the
soldiers sent to the big division hos
pitals and did not include the field and
other temporary accommodations. The
figures given officially by the surgeon
general include the entire hospital
business of the army in the Pacific
islands. These figures include the sol
diers stationed at Honolulu, but there
is not a sufficient number of soldiers
in Hawaii to materially affect the case.
The basis for the table given below
is the statistics found on page 350 of
the report for 1899 and page 336 of
the report for 1900. The "mean
strength" for the first six months of
1900 is based upon General MacAr-
thur's report issued during the 'sum
mer giving the number of troops in
the Philippines. For the purposes of
making this estimate for this period,
it is assumed that the "admission rate"
will be the same as that for 1899. But
supposing that there were absolutely
no sickness at all during the first six
months of 1900, even then the admis
sions would reach the appalling num
ber of 100,000, and my estimate of
60,000 would still be but a little more
than one-half high enough.
Religious editors who solemnly ex
postulated and ignorant political
newspaper writers who tried to hoot
the New Voice out of court on this
charge during the campaign are in
vited to read the official figures given
below and then repent of their sins:
SICK RECORD OF THE PACIFIC
ISLANDS ARMY.
Admission to Sick List
Mean
Strength
of
Army
Calendar
Year;
Admissions
per 1000 mean
Strength
Admissions
1898
1899
1J0
2,903
39,280
63,000t
5,557
94 096
72,559t
175,212
1914.23
2395.52
2395.52t
First 6 mo.
Total....
The New Voice charge that since
the American occupation, 10,000 cases
of venereal diseases had broken out in
the army in the Philippines was also
greeted with hoots and hisses. Re
ligious editors joined the secular sheep
dogs' in the chase. The New Voice
was "slandering the soldiers."
Notwithstanding the sloppy way in
which the statistics of Surgeon Gen
eral Sternberg are compiled, the black
facts stare at the reader, from the
pages of the report.
The statistics from which the fol
lowing table Is compiled are to be
found on pages 356 and 278 of the re
port for 1900 and page 335 of the re
port for 1899. The figures for the first
six months of 1900 are made up in
the same way as in the "sick record"
table given above.
INFAMOUS DISEASE RECORD OP THE
Admission to Sick List
' Mean for enerea Diseases
Calendar Strength
Year of Per 1000
Army Admissions mean
Strength
1898a 2,903 210 106.78 "'
1398b 7,004 1,096 155.48
lfc99 39,20 4,587 116.78
1900 63.000c . 3,678 116.78c
First 6 mo.
Total 9,571
(a) regular army.
(b) volunteer army.
(c) estimated, i -
In a former article, detailing the
situation at Manila, I , explained the
methods of those interested to evade
having cases, of infamous disease en
tered as such on the records; that
when possible, some trivial ailment
was recorded in place of the real trou
ble or treatment taken of civilian doc
tors. This statement is corroborated
by Surgeon General Sternberg's re
port for 1899. On page 304 of the re
port, after giving statistics of this
class of diseases, he said:
"It is probable, however, that the
prevalence of these diseases was great
er than is represented by the recorded
admissions. Many surgeons have re
ported that men belonging to com
mands camped or stationed in or near
cities have sought medical treatment
from civilian physicians to prevent
the entry of venereal affections on
their military record. But this does
not render these records useless for
purposes of comparison, as there ara
probably similar suppressions of cases
in all statistics of this kind."
In view of the above tabulation of
recorded cases and of this official state
ment of Surgeon General Sternberg,
the one who, in the future, will at
tempt " to discredit this estimate will
be sufficiently invulnerable to facts to
warrant him in. applying for the posi
tion at present filled by William E.
Curtis. - , .
This tsntire report for the year 1900
is streaked and befouled from end to
end with evidences of. some appalling
influence for , debauchery at work in
the army. For instance, this same in
famous . disease is the cause of more
"discharges for disability" than any
other single cause. Here is the official
record for 1899:
Number discharges for disability .2,320
w '. Discharges .
Cause of Discharge per 1,000
. . mean strength.
Venereal disease. .2.61
Injuries other than gunshot w'nds.2.33
Gunshot wounds. . ................2.14
Consumption 1 . 80
Rheumatism 1 . 52
Heart disease . . ; 1 .37
Malarial diseases . ................ 1 . 10
Diarrheal diseases ................ 0 . 90
It is not in order for Chaplain Mil
ler and Chaplain Pierce to explain that
the sole reason for this distressing
state of affairs is; that there are not
enough beer canteens in the army.
It will be further in order for some
gentleman of the cloth vwho has been
preaching about "destiny" and "provi
dence" in upholding McKinley's policy
in the Philippines to call their follow
ers together to hold a meeting of
thanksgiving and praise because the
a dministration has induced congress
to send 60,000 more young men from
American 'homes'" to be engulfed -in
that moral hell that has been created
in the island of Luzon. v
TOO CONSERVATIVE
Th Independent's Estimates of Mark
Hanna's Subsidy far Blw What .
the Bill Carries.
The Independent is a conservative
sort of a paper. That every one rec
ognizes, but a letter has been received
admonishing it because it is too con
servative. The writer points out that
the estimate of the appropriations car
ried by Mark Hanna's bill are less than
half what the bill will cost the taxpay
ers. The estimate was made up after
reading the bill and Mark Hanna's
speech and was supposed to be sub
stantially correct. It required a good
deal of technical knowledge to make
any estimate at all. It does not make
any appropriation in dollars and cents,
but provides for the payment of cer
tain amounts of money to different
classes of ships and one has to make a
long calculation to arrive at any esti
mate at. all. The other day Senator
Morgan took the floor in opposition to
the bill and asked Mr. Allison what
would be the appropriations under the
bill. Mr. Allison said he didn't know,
but Senator Hale estimated them at a
much higher figure than The Indepen
dent has done. The probability is that
if the bill ever becomes a law that it
will cost the taxpayers half, a billion
dollars. Not one cent of benefit will
ever come to any farmer for the por
tion of the bill that he will have to
pay. It is simply a bill for giving
money out of the treasury to men who
are already millionaires some of them
multi-millionaires.. The mullet heads
like that sort of thing and as they are
in the majority we will all have to
pony up. Let the farmers plant some
more corn and sow some more "wheat
and make their contribution to the
millionaiies without making any wry
faces. It has to be done and there is
no use to kick.
The Armstrong Clothing Co. last
week purchased the entire stock of
Ludwig Bros.' clothing and gents' fur
nishing goods and are disposing of it
at 50 cents on the dollar. The public
is showing its appreciation of such an
opportunity to save money by taking
the goods as fast as an army of clerks
can tie them up. The Ludwig Bros.'
stock was new and up to date and ev
erything of the best quality. When the
prices on such goods are cut in the
middle it means real bargains such
bargains as can be had only at the
Armstrong Clothing Co.
An Incomparable Paper
Last week the Nebraska Independent
of Lincoln, printed almost the entire
contents of Mr. Bryan's paper, the
Commoner, on two of its pages. This
by comparison may give some idea of
the amount of work done by The In
dependent. ''Of all the papers coming
to this office, there are none that com
pare with The Independent in many
respects. It has an individuality of its
own and ought to be found in the
home of every Nebraskan. Clipper
Cirjzen. ; , .
EASTERN TAX DODGERS
Tana f Thousands of Paoplo UtIms; in
Costly Mansions tTho Hsts Nerar
Paid a cent of Taxes
The injustice of the modern mode of
assessments for taxation purposes will
probably at some future time be beat
en into the sulls of some of the mul
let heads. There Is just at the pres
ent time considerable of a stir in soma
of the eastern cities over assessments.
The fact is being made public that tens
of thousands of the citizens of those
cities who live in the highest style,
are surrounded by every comfort and
luxury have never paid a cent of taxes
for local purpose. In rer uting this
srete of thiugs, the Brooklyn Eaglf
says:
The tax officials have put on the per
sonal lists thousands of people who
have never paid personally before and
who have had no idea they would be
assessed this year. In Brooklyn alone,
it is admitted by President Feitner,
there are 30,000 names on the list, an
increase which runs up into hundreds
per cent.
The Manhattan list is as large as
that of Brooklyn and it contains, Mr.
Feitner said today, 10,000 more names
than last year. The commissioners
have, the result shows, been at work
quietly for months collecting informa
tion for. the purpose of holding people
for personal assessments.
The new lists contain many thou
sads of names never on prior lists,
names of people whose general mode
of life and business have given the
deputy commissioners ' clews upon
which to base their tentative assess
ments. The proportion of new names
is relatively much greater in Brook
lyn than in any other section of the
city, and the assessments imposed in
many cases will astonish the people
most interested. There will be h'owls
of rage and protestations by thousands
over the Work of the deputies, and the
rush to swear off will probably far sur
pass anything seen in former years.
The number of personal notices to
be sent out in Brooklyn is so great
that it has practically swamped the
office here. The notices were to have
gone out today, but with men working
all last-night there are still thousands
to be prepared and all will not g-3t
away before two days, it is expected.
This alone will indicate the enormous
length of the list.
Another thing is practically certain.
People living in the higher priced,
more exclusive sections of the borough,
as on the fashionable Heights streets,
Clinton, and Washington avenues, will
almost all be found on the list, many
for the first time. The deputies who
made the personal assessments took
as the basis for their estimates as to
any man his general style of living,
house surroundings, occupation,
amusements, in fact, anything that
would serve to indicate his wealth out
side of real estate.
The real estate deputies were also in
their , rounds to get much valuable in
formation, useful for estimating per
sonal assessments. . This was all
turned into the bureau of information
and records.
President Feitner intimated today
the possibility of the board making
public personal assessments as a
whole. He would say nothing definite
on the subject, but the intimation was
received as evidence that the board ex
pects a storm of protests and vitupera
tion to rise from the personal assess
ments and is considering the advisa
bility of defending itself and meet
ing the storm by publishing the lists.
Mr. Feitner would neither affirm nor
deny this report.
The deputies brought in the books
last Friday. Supreme Court Justice
Jenks took the oaths of the Brook
lyn deputies and Justices Dugro and
Giegerich those of Manhattan. No
taries officiated in the other boroughs.
It is perhaps true that a great many
of these people are not subject to tax
ation under the present laws. They
have no property - either personal or
real, except costly outfits of clothing.
Thousands of them are salaried peo
ple. Their salaries may run up into
the thousands, but they spend it all.
They may live in brown-stone fronts
or at high-priced hotels. . They may
spend vast amounts of money for
costly apparel, but they have very lit
tle if any property subject to taxa
tion. That state of affairs will con
tiaue to increase more and more '?s
the trusts become more numerous anil
powerful. This nation will become a
nation of hirelings . working for the
trusts. These people will draw, many
of them, large salaries and live in
grand style, but they will have no
property for taxation. As our supreme
court has decided that an Income tax
is unconstitutional, there is no other
way to make them pay taxes. But be
sides these, there are undoubtedly very
many thousands who have taxable
property who pay no taxes at all. The
worklngman who ownes a little cot
tage or the farmer cannot escape tax
ation, but this kid-gloved, silk-hatted
crowd can and do escape.
RAILROAD PASSES
Why They are GlTen to Members of the
Legislature and Why They are
Sometimes Wltheld.
The following story published in
the editorial columns of the Chicago
American points its own morel:
A member of the Illinois legislature
read on the floor of the house yester
day the following letter from the gen
eral attorney of a railroad: ,
"Your letter of the 22d to President
Ripley requesting annual over the rail
road of this company has been referred
to me. A couple of years ago, after
you had been furnished with an an
nual over this line, you voted against
a bill which you knew this company
was directly interested in. Do you
know of any particular reason, there
fore, why we should favor you with an
annual this year?" ;
Two facts in connection with this
letter stand forth for the painful re
flection of the average citizen that does
not desire to see his country ruled by
absolution in the form of corporations,
nor by greed in the form of hardened
and insatiable legislators.
1. The man that read this letter had
no compunctions about making it pub
lic. He did not think it was disgrace
ful for a member of the legislature to
be a mendicant and proffered slave
before a corporation.
2. None of the legislators that
heard it thought it was remarkable or
important that a railroad company
should so brazenly avow its bribery of
legislators.
Incidentally a bill to stop the whole
pass infamy was defeated by 115 to 22.
This might be added to the brief
catalogue of facts as the most sugges
tive of all.
Lay aside for a moment your parti
san prejudice and your resolute and
inveterate optimism, good citizen, and
cast your eye over these acts.
How do you really like them? -
How do you interpret them?
DEFENDERS OF LIDERTY
The Great Debt That This Country Owe
to Dutch Our Chart of Freedom 1
Copied Mainly From
Them.
A Chicago paper has been running
columns of matter lately giving credit
to England for all our liberties. It
maintains that our constitution was
wholly patterned after English models.
While this is in a measure true, it is
far from the whole truth. It was Hol
land that furnished a home for the
Pilgrim fathers, before they sought
refuge in America. It was from Hol
land that the ereat chart of liberty
came. From Holland our forefathers
took the idea of a written constitu
tion, a body of legislators chosen by
the neonle. a sunreme court, a capital
situated in a district independent of
one of the component states, lana
laws .rpp-iRtrnHnn nf deeds and mort-
eaees locatiself-s:overnment" from
town and state to the government of
governments ai wasmngiuii, me cum
mon school system, freedom of relig
ion and of the nress. as well as num
erous other details of the Dutch sys
tem. Yet many of the faults or the
Nederland plan were avoided.
.In the United States both difficulties
are avoided, yet, politically, the Unit
ed States of America are more nice
Holland than any other country. .
The Dutch declaration of indepen
dence, called the "act of abjuration,"
was passed July 26, 1581, and -Is in
many ways a remarkable document
and one with which the American peo
ple should be more familiar. Written
at a time when the divine right of
kings was unquestioned and the criti
cism of the established religion was
dangerous and heretical,' it contains
many striking phrases. While more
prolix than our own declaration and
having not that pointed, direct, force
ful diction that is so significant, it is
unmistakable in its intentions.
As it is anDarent to all that a
nrince is constituted by God to be a
ruler of a Deonle. to defend them from
oppression and violence as a shepherd
his sheep; and, whereas, uoa am not
create the people slaves to their prince,
to obey his commands, whether right
or worng, but rather the prince for the
sake of his subjects (without which he
could be no prince), to govern them ac
cording to equity, to love and support
them .as a father his children or a
Rhenherd his flock, and even at the
hazard of life to defend and preserve
them. And when he does not behave
thus, but, on the contrary, oppi-b3e
them, seeking opportunities to la
fringe their ancient customs and priv
ileges, exacting from them slavish
compliances, then he is no longer a
prince, but a tyrant, ana tne suDjecis
are to consider him in no other view,
rticularlv when this is done de
liberately, unauthorized by the states,
they may not only disallow his au
thority, but legally proceed to tho
choice of another prince ror tneir ae-
f ense. -
"This -la the onlv method left for
subjects whose humble petitions and
remonstrances could never soften their
prince or dissuade him from his ty
rannical proceedings; and this is what
the law of nature dictates for the de
fense of liberty, which we ought to
transmit to posterity even at the haz
ard of our lives.
Tt. is difficult to refrain from quot-
ine- further Surely the same blood
that flowed in the writers of this dec
laration flowed in the veins of those
vrho penned that other famous declar
ation of independence two centuries
later.
Tird Somers. the Enelish statesman
who framed the declaration of rights
which nroclaimed the abdication of
James II. and the divergence of suc
cession from his sons to William ana
Mary (under whom the crowns of Eng
land and Holland were united) used
thia declaration as his model.
Snrelv this should be more familiar
to every American who is proud of his
own country's achievements, for here
e finds much that prompted and sug
gested it.
Republican congressmen are a queer
lot. One day . last week one of them
rew eloquent in a Washington hotel
denouncing the disfranchisement of
nesroes in the south who could not
read and write and a few minutes af
terward, the subject being changed, he
was denouncing In just as vigorous
language the Cuban constitution be
cause it provided , for universal man
hood suffrage. How the thinking ap
paratus of a republican congressman
is constructed is a thing that no pop
can understand.
PUT HIS FOOT IN IT
Resewater Is Always Doing Something tOi
Make the Fight Against Xiim More
Firece and Persistent
The other day the Bee published an
account of the taking over of the Can
adian telegraph lines by the govern
ment, seemingly In total unconscious
ness of the fact that such talk would,
bring the Western Union telegraph,
trust down on him along with all th
other corporations which enjoy spe
cial privileges. vat made the mat
ter worse was that the article ap
peared as an editorial. The Bee said:
"The information is given out that
the Dominion government has mada
all arrangements to purchase the tele
graph systems of Canada, extend them;
in all directions and operate them a
part of its postofflce department. Ii
pursuing this policy the Canadian:?
will only be following the example of
the parent government In Great Brit
ain, which for many years has con
ducted the telegraph as a branch of
its postal service. One of the prin
cipal objects aimed at in promoting
government ownership of telegraphs in
Canada is to satisfy the general desirci
to have transoceanic communication
by cables owned by Great Britain un
der both the Atlantic and the Pacific
and joined at each end by wires owned
by the Dominion crossing that coun
try, thus practically girdling the globa
by a cable and telegraph service en
tirely under British imperial control.
"The Canadian government already
owns several short telegraph lines and
has had the foresight, in granting
charters to private companies, to in
sert in most, cases clauses providing
for purchase of the lines on agreed
valuations. At present the control of
practically all the wires in Canada 1:1
in the hands of two great corporations,
the Great Northwestern Telegraph Co.
and the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.,
whose property is now being quietly
appraised. Each has lines roughly
estimated to cost from $7,500,000 to
$8,000,000, while the Bell Telephone
company of Canada has a capital of
$5,000,000, so that the aggregate in
vestment if all are taken would ex
ceed $20,000,000. Of course, the Do
minion government would have no dif
ficulty, in. financing the transaction.
"The same- forces that are making
for the postal telegraph in Canada
cannot fail to exert thelf Influence In
the United States. If it is to the ad
vantage, from commercial, milHary
and civil noints of view, for Grftt...
Brltain xU haveAelegraph and cabla
service through all ts world-scattered
possessions, It will be equally Impor
tant for the United States to be sim
ilarly equipped for current trade, as
well as for emergencies. The success
of the postal telegraph in Canada,
moreover, will remove the ground for
the objections urged in this country
that it would be a hazardous and cost
ly experiment foredoomed to failure,
because no one will pretend that tha
United States cannot establish a suc
cessful postal telegraph if Canada can
do so.
Now that is a pretty sort of talk for
a candidate of the republican party for
United States senator. All these cor
porations, whether controlling tele-
graph lines, telephones or railroads
have a community of interests and
when the existence of one is threat
ened all the rest fly to its aid. The cor
porations live and move and have their
being in the republican party and ev
ery one of them will be up in arms
against the author of such an article
as that. Rosewater Is to be congrat
ulated for not going any further than
he did along that line. He well knows
that the Western Union has bought
ud and suppressed many patents in
the last few years, both in this country
and Europe, that had a tendency to
cheapen telegraphy. He knows that
those inventions would cheapen the
sendlns: of telegrams perhaps 75 pr
cent. He knows all that and he didn't
say a word about it. Before the cor
porations put up a fight against him
they should take that fact into con
sideration.
Soim Sound Sense
Senator Teller in SDeakine upon tho
shin subsidy bill the other day made -
the following sensible remarks:
"The chairman of the committee sa a
it cost 25 per cent more to build a ship
here than it did in Europe, and it cost,
annnrrH-ner to his account, more ths.n
twice as much to manage and run it.
if an vnn have eot to bring down the
cost of building ships and you have got
to bring down the cost of the labor on
ships and the expense of running them .
before you can compete with foreign
countries. How Is it that tne aweauin
merchant marine goes all over the
world without any subsidy? Hav9
they got more brains than we, or have
they got more wealth, or nave tr.;y
got some advantage that we do not
have? Not at all.
"I do not agree with the chairman
of the committee when he says It costs
25 per cent more to build a ship In
American waters than it docs abroad
But if he is right about it, I am not
in favor of meeting that disadvantage
bv takine out of the treasury the
money of the people of the Unitid
States, collected by such a bill as Re
passed today, which taxes the mecii
cine the sick man takes, which taxps
practically everything that enters into
the consumption of the American peo
ple, and putting it into the pockets of
a few shipowners, and some of thein
shipowners who have not had patriot
ism enough to run their ships under
the American flag, but have been run
ning them under foreign flags, and
who, if they put them under the Am
erican flag, will put them there only
when they are paid to do so. Thsy
will run, their ships not for the glory
of the flag and the benefit of the coun
try, but for the benefit of their pockets."
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