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    THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
February 28, 1901
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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.
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- 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
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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.
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! ; 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
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, 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.
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