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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. February 28, 1901 Zht Rcbrjska Independent Eisc!a, Rthrstks fKtSSE &UXL. CORNUfc OTM AND H STJ KjLEVtTH Yea F7? YEAR ttl ADVANCE Vhm taai& rmniw 4m mm lr DOT?- wiU S pMUMiMn. u.( t t forward W tkm. Tt-T froUy ferra remit rvt ta w left wnh thmwt, a4 i vsbKrlW fails to t Spe AMtvm H eeBeskta, a4 stale all skaA. t -far, payable C ntirssk Tmdtptndemt, . " Lincoln. Neb. Aaee?s9es cleti will no to - E2rtS MaatcHyU will Ml to r The heathen Chinee is peculiar. It tmj Impossible to drive into his Le ntirtted mind tn rut diJference be tween I oxer outrages and orthodox Christian lootin. Wba is to be done triih iucii Ignorance and superstition no one seems able to say. - 1 - Senator Petticrew did a very appro priate thing the other da 7 -when be of fered aa amendment to the array ap propriation bill declaring that the president sLoaM hereafter be desic cated ""President of tbe so-called An erlean Republic asS Emperor of tbe PblUppiaea. There always tare been Bore fools la the world than wie men, .hereto fore osj o the foola were always -wlIliSLS to listen to the ad rice of the wise and so the wJrld caa been trrow !rr better, bat of late the foola hare cxsre to the conclusion that they know more than the wise. The result U that hit OTeramett baa adopted tbe plan and principles of that Id lunatic, Georjre IIL. and abandoned the advice of Wafchlnjrton. Jcleraoa and Lincoln. McKinley sho about as much re spect for a decision of the supreme court as would the Sultan of the Turks. The supreme court . d- 4 without ral vocation ua was a fcrefrn country In the face of that dectfloa JfcJKfc.ley foes on giving or ders tJ Caban constitutional con rtrtn and demanding that the con stitution of a foreign country shall be ctsi?td" to the rorijress of the Unit ed States for approval beiore it can go into effect. The position taken by Fetor Citseros is la exact accordance with the decision of the court. But JIcKlnley has adopted the principles of George III. nd the supreme court will lay down. V A ubrritr writes to ask-what is the real cause of McKinley' persistent effort to degrade S-hley by promoting Sampson over his head. The real cause is that McKinley dare not dis obey the order of a trut- What a trust orders goes, whether it is to send a squadron of the nary to Venezuela under the command of a trust attorney or to promote a xaaa over the head of another. The armor plate trust is be hind the orders of McKinley to pro mote Sampson orer Schley. Samp son Is the man who put the armor plate trust on its feet. Sampson pre vented the government from manufac turing Its own armor plate. The trusts now Ker Sampson's promotion and tie crier mutt be obeyed. S;h!ey has proved himself the hon orable can ani patriot again. He bnght the great naral battle of the war and destroyed a wen appoint 1 Spanish squadron of armored battle ships. Because ScLey was rot a court favorite, McKinley undertook to give the credit of the victory to his fav orite. Sampson, who was cot present when the battle was fought. He there fore seat to the senate appointments promoting Sampson over Schley Schley being Sampson:; superior. ae senate refused to confirm the appolnt- cents. This urevented the promotion of other worthy oScers. Schley now writes that fee t wiping that Sampson stall be promoted orer him so that the other Seer may be duly rewarded. If a beaeSt L conferred without com pensation It is cause for gratitude. If a beneit is conferred and compensa tion is forced, there is no cause for gratitude, for gratitude is sense of ben efits bestowed where no compensation Is expected or will be received. Gen- eral Rivera's statement that if the United States ' demanded coaling sta tions, control over Cuban debts and the privilege of keeping troops la the island, there could be no cause for gratitude on the part of the Cubans, is only the asrtloa of a fact of a con dition of mfa4 that could not be other wise. There Is no use making any re ply to the writing la the plutocratic pre denouncing General Rivera -for his isgratitads. These writers, al though many cf them are graduates of universities, do not submit to reason. Tiey will not attempt to meet their oppo&ents In argument, Tfcat U 009 cf the method cf its pt,Ul.lbc7 have abolished- STARTLIMJ STEWS. The following special die patch was printed la the New York World. The writer knows the correspondent who wrote it and vouches for his truth and veracity. He has been for many years one of the leading Washington corre spondents and knows the inside work ing of the government perhaps more thoroughly than any other man in the United States. The dispatch Is as fol lows: -President McKinley wants a stand ing army of 150,000 men. He has just been authorized to. Increase the army to 100.000. Unless conditions in the Philippines change materially he In tends to ask the Fifty-seventh, con gress, which will assemble in special session some time in April and in reg-, alar session next December, for 60,000 more. 1 His reason will -e that officers and men cannot stand more than two years of service in. the. Philippines without serious injury to health.; and the extra men are neededrto keep the forces In those islands at full strength The military committee' of the house and senate ' have already : dis cussed this proposition "informally. Even the republicans admit ' privately that it will be necessary to keep a great army in the Philippines for years to come. After a service of. two .years in the tropics an army becomes inef ficient. Officers and men cannot stand the hard work. Under the new .law about 70.000 men can be kept in the Philippines, and the remaining 30,000 are to be scattered throughout this country. Porto Rico, Cuoa, Hawaii and Alaska. Tbe republican members of the house committee on military affairs do not relish the problem they will have to face in the next congress, for most of them have been re-elected and will undoubtedly, go back on the committee. The republican majority in the next house will be about forty-five. Any sort of a measure can te passed. Al ready democrats have decided that when this matter of giving the presi dent 50.000 more men comes up they will walk out of the house and let the majority do as it wills." The Independent heartily indorses the announced action of the minority. There Is no use of attempting argu ment with persons suffering from a mania. The president nas already an? nounced that he will not furnish from tbe departments the necessary infor mation to qualify members to intelli gently legislate, and he has been sus tained by the cabinet andihe' republi can maJoritv.tat2Kth houses. There ...... .. - . can be houseful purpose accomplished by the minority-remaining and giving sanction by their presence- to a course of legislation that defies the constitu tion and tramples all la,w and all pre cedent under foot. There Is no way to get at tbe voters. The press is sub sidized and censored.' The facts that should be submitted to the voters to enable them to form an intelligent opinion are withheld. The majority refuse to meet their opponents in open discussions before the voters. They make a boast that they have carried two elections without making an argu ment and can carry future elections In tbe same way.- The ordinary course of the opposition to appeal to reason and to the Intelligence of the people through the press and from the ros trum, has been made Impossible by the Imperial acts of the' president sap ported by his followers in congress. It therefore" follows ' that " some other course must be adopted.' The Independent has from the be ginning o posed any factious opposition to the republican party either in the state or in the nation. This resolu tion of the minority in congress is only another rtep in the same direc tion Nothing will bring these parti san maniacs back to reason but the heavy hand of oppression. Let it oe laid upon them until they are forced to stop and think. Let the army be in creased to 00,000 men if the republi cans so desire. Let taxation again be doubled. Let them have their fill of Imperialism. Tbe craze will spring to heights unknown before, . then there will be a reaction. Then 'Will be tbe time when conservative men will find a work not to arouse the unthinking multitiude but to prevent the multi tude but to prevent ,the , multitude from going to the other extreme of an archy and disorder. The student of psychology and sociology understands these unreasoning crazes very well They come with ever recurring reg- Urity in religion, in government, in finance. In medicine and in everything that affects society. AX EAST THIJiO TO DO. The ease with which a partisan re publican can be taken in Is astonish ing. Many of them honestly believed that this congress was going to do something toward regulating or sup pressing the trusts. When they were told that the introduction of the fam ous constitutional amendment and the anti-trust bill that followed it, was mere buncomb they would get so angry that they grew red la tne face. Thu poor, silly creatures, really, thought that the trust-run party was going to do something about trusts. Stranger still, some of them believe It yet. -That bill, when It EOt to the senate was safely stored away la the pigeon I holes of a committee where it could do no harm. There It remained. The other day the senate had the matter brought before H by the persistency of Jones of Arkansas, He made A desperate effort to get the bill out of that committee and U) dq so moved, to discharge the Judiciary commute front further coafidgxatlQn of tije bJU, What did these republicans-who were going to suppress trusts all the time during the presidential campaign do now. They were all to the front in a minute. Spooner, Piatt and a lot more of these anti-trust senators (during campaigns), declaring tftat the bill was u: - nstitutional. As the reserves fell into line, they declared that it was preposterous to call up the bill for the senate had more- business to attend to than could be disposed of without fooling with anti-trust bills. They finally compromised by allowing it. to go to the foot of the calendar, where In the due course of business it may be reached in six years., . " But just think how easy it was to ool the mullet heads with a little ruse lu;e that! -They haven t learned any thing since and will be ready to be de ceived by something Just as silly nei.t time.' GLOBE-DEMOCRAT FLOPS. There has been 'no more spiteful de ender of overproduction . and every fad and fallacy of republicanism than the t. Louis Globe-Democrat. In 1896 t weighted down its columns with statements to the effect that all our woes : came about from over-produc tion. It declared that warehouses were filled with goods that could not be sold because there were too many goods. It said that the low price of wheat was caused by raising too much wheat and so on to the end. What does it say now? This is wh&.t it says: "Director of the Mint Roberts made a good point in an address delivered last week. . 'It is the common error of those who attack the existing order of society," he said, "to treat of distribu tion as of more importance than pro duction. But the real problem is to get more from nature. Careful statis ticians have estimated that the total production of wealth for even so ef ficient a population as that of the United States, including the yield of the soil, the output of the mines and all the earnings of capital scarcely ex ceeds $2 a day for every person en gaged in gainful occupation." An equal division all around at the close of each day would greatly c.isappoint the so cialistic theorists. Mr. Roberts points out that the amelioration of condi tions must come from Increased pro duction." Mr. Roberts' statements are very nearly in accord with the facts as ev ery economist well knows, but the di rector of the mint didn't talk that way during the years from 93 to '97. Then he talked just like the socialists did, as The Independent pointed out then and ever since. The density of intellect is very ap parent in the above article. According to the Globe-Democrat the distribu tion of wealth Is a very insignificant matter, -if production is only: equal, to $2 per day for every person engaged in gainful occupation, is it not of some importance that some men like Car negie, Morgan and the Vanderbilts have an income of $15,000,000 per an num? When several ' men in United States get $48,076.90 for every working day and then have eight dollars left over for pin money for their wives, it must mean that the want of just distri bution .of wealth leaves very many thousands without any income at all. Tnerefore we have paupers. Mullet head ' political economy is a system that . no conglomeration of crude ideas ever before equalled. Superstition, if we are to understand by that, the belief in what is absurd, is not confined to the unlearned or the unlettered. Some of the most absurd superstitions that ever invaded the mind of man are accepted and defend ed by college graduates. There is more superstition today in what is called cultivated circles of society in Lincoln and other cities than can be found in the midst of any illiterate community In the back woods of Ar kansas. A man who considers himself well educated told the editor of The Independent the other day that there was no such thing as an epidemic of siallpox, it was only an error of the intellect to think so. If a man can no longer believe the evidence of his senses, if feeling, sight and sme'.l can not be relied upon, then we are indeed in a world of chaos, greater than we used to read about In the fourth read er under the title of "World of Chance." The belief in hob goblings and ghosts was a mild delusion in comparison with a statement like that man made. There is a man with pus tules all over his face and body. If we can see anything we can see them. Then this man comes along and tells us there is no such thing, that it is an error to think there is such a thing as smallpox. Shall wo believe our senses or shall we believe that this man is somewhat disordered in his own intellect? Jn answer to ft request, one of the best newspaper . men in Washington writes that it la utterly impossible to get the names of all the sons and nephews of congressmen WhQ have been made officers Ja thg new army, The names will nej all appear in the public, records for more tnan a year from this time, There are. a great number of them, Nepotism, is one of the things that peceEBarily accompa nies, imperialism, here is no ust making a fus Ul tnese appointi raehts. Thai; j wlja.l t.he people voted. j?? ?-Br J5?y. ssri .y iti " ! ; OK WITH THE DANCE. I For ten years, from a thousand plat forms and in innumerable publica tions, populist orators and public speakers have been telling the people that the leaders of plutocracy, the di rectors of the money power, had no politics, no religion, no patriotism. Now they are themselves avowing boldly Ihe same thing. When it was for their purpose they shouted for the flag. When it suited them they ex alted the constitution. : When it ad vanced their schemes .they were the most ardent patriots. Now that it suits' their purpose better, they scoff at love of country and at the institutions that, we have all held to he the foundations on which liberty rested. 4 -1 Last week Collier's Weekly diag nosed the present situation of imper ialism. But it had .no condemnation for this' complete "departure from the tradition of a hundred years. It only J said : that those who "loved the old forms of government must stand to one side it might be with tears in their eyes and an ache in" their heartsrbut. those things had all passed, away and could never return. iThe Saturday Ev ening Post pointed out with precision and force that it was unconstitutional for any legislative body to transfer to another the power to legislate. . No one will deny that statement. It has been upheld by the decisions of the highest courts in all the states and by the su preme court itself. Does the Post pro test? Not at all." It says that we have entered into a new era and old things have all passed away. . The constitu tion is no longer to be obeyed. If con gress sees fit to confer power upon Mc Kinley to legislate for ten million peo ple the thing is done and the constitu tion must not stand in the way. Plutocracy has been able to have the constitution constantly construed in its favor and under its sheltering wings the. rich have been able to avoid the payment of an income tax. But now that that instrument seems to stand in their way, It is ruthlessly trampled underfoot and without the slightest compunction of conscience. Into a vor tex of greed, loot and robbery the whole nation has been flung. The con stitution, the declaration, an unbroken line of decisions from the highest courts, are all cast 'aside as carelessly' as a smoker does the butt end of . a cigar, and these navigators of the ship of state sail to unknown seas declar ing that they have neither chart nor compass and that they don't want any. Pomp, glory, tinsel, gold lace, and a saturnalia of extravagance is the condition at Washington. If any ona protests or asks,he revelers ifthey, have heard of, a .protest, they" answer back: . , - .5 -. -.i . ... . "On with the dance, let joy be uncon- fined, - : No sleep 'till morn when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet." But this protest will -gather force and after a while there will be "Hurrying too and fro And gathering fears and tremblings of -. distress, --' And cheeks all pale which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness." ' They trample on ' the . Declaration of Independence, they disregard the pre cedents set up by the courts, they shat ter the constitution but "Even as the broken mirror, Which the glass ': In every fragment multiplies and makes A thousand images, of one that was, The same and still the more it breaks." So the constitution; it lives and ever shall live. There is the seed- of life in our very despair. Let them "on with the dance" at Washington; let them keep it up. Finally gone mid with the greed of gold and the show and tinsel of power some one will cry out: : "But hark; That heavy sound breaks in once more It is It is the cannon's roar.", ; ' FREE SPEECH ABOLISHED. Free speech and imperialism cannot exist side by side; if th6 former Is al lowed the latter w:ii die. The great magazines, the costly Illustrated weeklies and the plutocratic dailies all speak of imperialism as finally estab lished and declare it to be the future policy of this country. That being the case, some things that we have held dear, yes many things, must be changed. r That free speech is no long er to be allowed in this country was plainly foreshadowed in congress the other day when ihe republicans raised a shout of approval of the following statement made on the floor of the house by Congressman Cannon, Mr, Cannon In speaking of some criticism ot the war made by Mr, Lentz, replied in these words; "Protected by his position in the American congress, the. gentleman from Ohio has uttered ords which If he had uttered as an American citizen in the Philippine islands he would have s been subjected to drumhead court-martial and sentenced to be shot and properly so," ' That proclamation of eeraing tyran ny was enthusiastically indorsed by every follower of McKinley and import ialism in congress, A man who differs from the imperial policy ef William McKinley should he "subjected to drumhead eeu-martial and. sentenced to be shet-raad prepeFiy bo,' is grown in congress.. It will continue to grow. ; ' - -'' " The crime charged against Mr. Lentz w .3' that his talk would "discourage enlistments." Enlistments Is a very tender point with republicans just now. If they can't coax (enough fools to enlist to fill up their army of con quest, there will have to be a draft and that will be very awkward. Mr: Cannon' says that Mr. Lentz is pro tected by his position as congressman. A congressman cannot at present be called to account for anything that he may say on the floor of the house, but that - will not last :very long. This thing grows by what it feedsrupon. If the Declaration of Independence can be violated, if th constitution does not protect,' how long will ii, be before men will be called to account for what they say on the floor of the house or senate? ; However that.mayv be the words of Cannon are a very-significant sug gestion . to, those of ; us : who are not members of congress." Pop editors and other old' lovers of tae. declaration, the constitution and the government hand ed down to v..-: by our fathers, . better have a care about- what they say or print Some of them are "already tak ing the matter into consideration. In an article in the Yeoman last week, the editor in printing a letter from a Nebraska soldier now serving in the Philippines had .this to say: "The following letter is from a Ne-ligh- boy who went out to Manila to try his hand, at soldiering. He would give a good deal to be-placed back in his Nebraska home in. as good health as when he left. ...The name is with held for obvious reasons.- He did not say we should withhold it, but it is best that it be not printed. Our read ers will see that it corroborates one of the worst charges yet made against the management - there and one that the administration organs have pooh poohed as though it were a fiction." After making these remarks he prints the soldier's letter,' from which we extract the following: "I want Jto give a little acrvlce to the patriotic young men. Thousands ot young men leave happy homes to en list .in an army, thinking that they are patriotic and that they will get honor for it. But they are mistaken. They come over here expecting to see active service, but in nine cases out of ten they are stationed in some little, out-of-the-way place where the com manding .officer is supreme, and in some cases compels the men to do hard labor which is more than they can stand in this hot climate.. "Take, for instance, this place. The troops here have built quarters that cost about $50 for materials, and the government appropriated. $2,000 to complete - the work. , ... Perhaps I shouldn't blame the officer for making us do the work while he put the money in his pocket; hut, as a matter of fact, the money was .sent here to pay for native labor. " V 1. 1. V- - "In several of the posts the com manding -.officer "allows and regulates the- running of Japanese houses of ill fame and . . puts In his own pocket . a share of the proceeds. Is this properly representing a 'Christian , nation?' "I will, not say .any more, because such things are a disgrace to the Am erican people. , I could tell of a great many similar things. "A man lays himself .able to every disease: from malarial fever, to leprosy by coming into this country. I have so-far escaped everything except ma lria of which I am having my share. The people at home know very little of the actual, trials of the boys here." It was for reading a letter from an other' soldier in the Philippines like that in the house that Mr. Cannon de clared that Mr. Lentz should be court- martialed and shot, at the same time intimating that the only reason that he was not,' was because the rules of the house protected him. The editor of the Yeoman acted wisely in not printing that soldier's name. That soldier was doing exactly what Cannon declared Mr. Lentz deserved death, for doing he was discouraging enlist ments. . . This editor has been discouraging enlistments for some ! time and pro poses to keep it upr He has written a letter to Mr. Cannon informing him of that fact. He proposes to continue doing so. Mr. Cannon; can come on with his drumhead court-martial just as soon as he pleases. The trial will be short for he will not deny the fact. He has said publicly and privately" and proposes to keep on saying that any yuung man who will enlist in McKin ley's new. army of conquest and im perialism is making a fool of himself, and if he don't' die before he gets to the Philippines he will wish that he had very soon after he arrives there. This editor is a little past the fighting age, but he is willing to 'enlist to fight for liberty at any time, but he will do all that lies in his power to prevent any one from enlisting to fight for im perialism. " r- - Dear reader, did you receive a bill for your subscription recently? If no, what did you do with It? Have you forgotten the old adage: '"Do. unto others as you would like to be done byr - - ' ' - ' , i Carnegie's income is $16,000,000 a year, and. all of tfi great dailies de clare, that H la mi less than that, then he receives $48,076,90 for eaeh. working day in the year almost as raueh. as the salary of the. president for A whole year, And pow comes, the puissant mullet head who fs . director ef the. United States, mint and declares that the distribution, pt wealth. pe tb Yilal luestian, but; wUet i fif edeS the greatjeg ef weat6i -.TV .', LOOK FORWARD, NOT BACKWARD The Gage County Democrat says: "All who ar6 hot republicans are dem ocrats. Those "who propose to hang out i.nd maintain a pop or free silver republican party are weak." The Pierce County Leader, another demo cratic paper takes to the Kansas City Star's idea that the democracy should return to the;TiIden platform of 1876. Some other democratic papers in the state seem to also come 'to the con clusion that' there is no pop party In this state any more. The Independent will not quarrel with them. These two papers are a demonstra tion of the old saying that the demo cratic party never learns anything and never forgets anything.- They haven't forgotten Tilden and-: they haven't learned that' there, is something - else necessary than an opposition to re publicanism. That is about as far as an old -fashioned :.: emocrat can get. With new issues pressing in upon lis from every direction, with wars in China, the Philippines and a new one coming . in Cuba, r these mossbacks would go back twenty-five years to find issues to insert in a platform for the coming-fight. Let The Independent suggest that it would be better to -look .forward in stead of backward. ? Trusts, standing armies, a censorship of the press, wars of conquest, railroad . combinations, l.ockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan and Carnegie were not known and active forces when Tilden wrote the platform. If they had been ue might have writ ten differently. That idea does not seem to enter . into the noggings of these democratic editors. The populist party stands for some thing besides opposition. It has a clean cut and progressive policy to suggest. Opposition to republicanism may perfectly describe a democrat, but it is very far from being a description of a populist. He not only opposes re publican policies, but he has policies of his own which he would substitute for. them. The Gage County. - Democrat 1 also kindly reminds us that "There are a lot of pops who want to hog all the offices, while . the democrats do the voting." Suppose that we take some evidence. of the voting strength of the democrats next fall, by' each of us vot ing for pur , own party candidates? Whatever results, the populists will not go back twenty-five years to find issues for the coming battle. THE BIGHT TERM. A reader of The Independent asks the editor if he does not think that the appellation "political, pirate" is too strong when'applied to" our opponents. Let us see if the analogy made in the use of the term.is true.. A pirate sails the sea in a ship. Whenever he comes in sight of one able to. defend itself the pirate hoists a flag. Under such circumstances it is never the flag ot piracy, but of some lawful govern ment. The republicans sail today un der a flag with the name of Abraham Lincoln ori' it, when their object is to sink to the bottom of the sea every thing that Lincoln defended and up held. It is a pirate craft manned by pirates and that is the name that should be applied to them. Again the pirate often hoists a friendly flag to lure the innocent into its clutches. That is the exact plan or the republi can party. They hoist the flag of "benevolent assimilation" when their object is exploitation. They hoist' a flag bearing the words: "Cuba is and of right ought to be free and indepen dent," when they mean to make it a subject nation. They hoisted the flag of bimetallism, when they intended to permanently establish the gold stand ard. This old republican ship is a pirate. That is the truth about the matter. Call a spade a "spade" and not "an instrument of agriculture." BRIGADIER GENERAL BARRY. ... There has been an election for brig adier general of the state national guard and Adjutant General Barry, who for six years has had control ot the state forces has been almost unani mously elected to the office of brigadier general. This has come about from the efficient manner in which he has conducted his office ever since he has been; adjutant general. The rapidity with which he mobilized the, state militia and prepared them for active service when the war with Spain broke out was not equalled in any other state in the union. The reorganiza tion of the troops after the war was Just ae efficiently performed. It has shown that General Barry was emi nently qualified' for . the highest com mand and the officers . of the state troops have almost to a man by this actio', said to General Barry that they fully appreciate" his long and efficient services. . ' -. ' " ".' ' -: WHAT. COKGRE8S HAS DONE. In ft very few days this present con gress, will expire, It has been in ses sion during the two years since it was fleeted more days than any other con . gress of recent years, but what has it doner A1V the legislation of general character has ' been, distinctly pluto cratio and imperialistic, Jt h3 passe i the Pert Riean law and the Hawaiian aet and. ft financial ia,w establishing ft Eermaaeat g ti reserve of about f 150,- 000,000, fixing the ratio, between gold and silver, and recognizing the bond ing and banking systems of the treia ury. reorganizing the United Stilts army on a basis of 100,000 men, reap portioning the representation in con gress on the basis of the twelfth cen sus But the congress draws to a close with some of the most Important measures before it still In doubt and quite likely to expire without flnal'ac- tic n," including the. NIcaraguan canal' bill. '; '- . ..." . ' ; ' Th Indnenrtpnt has never believed 7 t ' that this congress would pass a NIcar aguan canal bill, and. has said so time avft mroln It Anaa tint holl OVfl that t H ft next congress- will pass such. a bill. The railroad power has ,been greatly strengthened during the last year by consolidations. ' After the government takes the railroads, it can build a Nic aragua canal. It will be seen, that the whole force of the legislation of .this congress has been to increase the pow- ai nf V KonVo ond hv the PstflVlHsh- ment of a great army to make imper ialism the ; permanent policyof thl3 nation. What has' been done for the farmer and the wage worker? Noth ing. Yet it is by their votes that this congress, came into power. That a re publican congress has done nothing for these two classes will not at all pre vent them from strewing again the path to power of these men .with bal lots as thick' as autumn leaves in the brooks of Valombrosia. There is one thing that this congress has done, it has appropriated ,ii?arljr rwr hilliirib rr H am g ra Thar h tJ a , W V OllliVUp , W A. UVItUtOt - A ' frightened .such men as Hale and Aid-, rich. They need not be f rightened. All that is necessary to satisfy any mullet head is to. say. that this is a two. bil lion dollar country. . .. MORE MISSIONARIES. . ' It is announced that, another mis sionary society has been organized in Boston. More missionary societies have been organized and have their home there .than in another city of its. size in the world. One would suppose tii there were enough, societies of that kind, without making any addi tions to them, but The Independent in- dorses this society and if it will send us a blank and the name of the treas urer a subscription will be forwarded. The object of this new society Is to send missionaries to the rich, pluto citic churches, and try to get them to return to the teachings of Christ.' It proposes to take the Lord's prayer for its creed and try to get the ministers to preach the foreglveness of enemies instead of shooting them. It' will try to get the millionaires who attend "those churches to belieVe that the best way to propagate the gospel is" to preach it,1 instead of organizing armies to shoot Christianity into the heathen with thirteen-inch cannon and auto matic guns. The Independent has the kindliest feelings for this new society, but it must say cat it has no faith whatever In its success. That old-fashioned gospel which it would restore is doomed..' It is one of the things -that' must go with others that we have held dear. We are sailing into unknown seas, except as they were explored by the ancient Romans when they started on the" same sort of .a voyage, but as their craft-was wrecked and never re turned we have no report. The P Street Idiot gets more silly every day. He now imagines that ev err one who stands up for self-government and liberty is his aunty and that word . appears many times In eve y edition of the old State Hypocrite. Great Reform Papers NATIONAL WATCHMAN, Washington, D. C. Published by Chairman National Committes !bditad by Senator Jones. THE COMMONER, (Mr. Bryan's Paper.) THE INDEPENDENT, Lincoln, Nebraska. National paper of the Peoples Party Endorsed . by Chairman Peoples Party National Committee. How to Get Them The Independent is prepared to offer to its readers three unequalled clubbing propositions. ' ; . . FIRST. ' r i V.!.'. National Watchman 1 year and the Independent 3 months for ' 1 ONLY 85c. SECOND. -The Independent 1 yearthe Na- . tional Watchman 1 year, and the uommoner air. uryan s ' i'aper) 1 vear. -.,... ......... ALL THREE ONLY $2.35. THIRD. The Commoner 1 year and the Inde pendent 3 months, RriTU AMI V An Above offers good until April lsi Ad dress all orders to w . INDEPENDENT: PUB. CO, Lincoln, Neb. 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