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VOL. XIL
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MARCH 28, 1901.
NO. 441
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Tfee 44rM f C K'-v-Mmaa treats Wbkh
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teal Kerd.
Tte readers cf Tie Independent will
rnfnUr lie bitter discuf sion in the
house. bkh canse car being a Hot
before It wu end-d. over the fact that
Sjx-akT Henderson i&sued an order
profeiMtJt.; tte printing in the Con
gressional lie-ecrd the remarks of Hon.
Jcha J. Lecu upon th army bill. The
fo!!owir.g S a rcpy of that famous
address, which was entitled "Hanna
im and Mc Klnleylitn in the Philip
pic' are Blood Cousins to Weylerism
in Cut."
Mr. Ictz said:
Mr. Speaker : To be or not to be
free ii the ju-tion Cuba is asking in
the lis:s::lr.g of ISkJI. just as she was
aking this question about three years
aeo. But when she was asking it in
Ib'j she ha4 in mind the question of
freedom from a hereditary despot. To
day asking it she has in mind the
tyranny of a majority, and that ma
jority harice been -curd by bribery
and fiih' and other means of cor
repticg" tte- ,ters of the land. To lie
or cot to lie s the question before the
American people. We told Cuba and
the world that our war against Spain
was neither for conquest cor for the
acquisition of territory, but purely in
the cause cf liberty and humanity. In
that declaration we care the Filipinos,
just as much as the Cubans, a bond
that we would use our strong arm to
ecare for them the right cf self-gov-rnQtt.
Why is it that thoe who
are to fattening in the land because
this government k its bond to pay
principal and interest on government
debts express no concern or solici
tude mhateer that this solemn bond
should be kept, as we pledged our
selves to 43 on that night when we
declared that the people of Cuba "are,
and of right oaght to be free."
I am no alone concerned about the
-if.r of our own character and re
putation in this betrayal of the people
of Cuba and of the Philippine islands,
tut I am much more concerned about
the gradual dry rot that is taking place
ia the American conscience. We could
afford to b guilty of sacrificing un
necessarily some of our young man
hood, but me cannot afford to violate
j rat: 'ally all of tLe ten command-rn-Lts
in this brutal and murderous
warfare whkh we are making In the
Philippine ifclands. The lack of moral
growth and the absolute hardening
and degrading of American conscience
that i manlfett today is the greatest
menace to American liberty and Amer
ican progress that this republic has
ever seen. The encroachment made
upon liberty Ly Nicholas Biddle and
his gre-edy aociat-s in the days of
Andrew Jaektoa and the threatened
destrartiou of the union by the slav
ocracy in th- day of Abraham Lincoln
are d:aN of micor importance when
ccmpr-d with the tyranny and crim
inal ajrgreflon now manifest in every
act and every word of those who favor
th prew-tt policy of the federal gov
ernment. For some time I have been accus
tomed to liken our wickedness in the
Philippine islands to that of England
ia South Africa. Bat, speaking of the
matter a day or two ago to a gentle
man and his wife, placing the conduct
of the to nations on the same level,
the good wife of my friend Interrapted
ts to suggest tiat the conduct of
.England in South Africa was far more
honorable than our conduct in the
Philippine islands. She suggested, and
I think with entire justification, that
England tad the advantage over us.
In that she U honest enough and frank
enough to admit to the world that she
is making war to the dath on the two
South African republics not because
of any purpose of benevolent assimila
tion, bat parely and simply because it
is her habit to go about the face of
the earth seeking whom she may de
vour. England admits that her pur
pose is to secure possesion of the rich
gold fields and other property which
th Boers, in thtir search for liberty,
had discovered.
We. the good wife arrued. are mak
ing war on the Filipino for tie benefit
of a few of otjr speculator and gov
ernmental Jobbers, and have our high
er cScials in the national govern
mrt prating to the world that we are
daring it for the purpose of Christian
civilization and for benevolent assim
ilation. The difference between the
policy pi England and th policy of
America Is as wide as the difference
between frankness and hypocrisy. In
that conversation I tad commented on
tbe iamefa!Ees and the barbarous
brutality manifested by Great Britain
In the last battle in which the lion
hearted Cronje participated. 1 bid
made comparison between what took
place in Cronje s last fight and some
of the pictures of Rome in her pagan
daja. when the threw the Christians,
men and toretn, Into the arena to be
torn and fed upon by lions, tigers,
4rs and oth-r brutes. In that conver
sation I read and here submit a de
scription given In the Washington Ev
ening Time of the rTth of February,
1"0. which is as follows:
"Crcraj surrendered. saying he
wUfced to ave the women and chil
dren. Throughout the week the grim
old African lioa Cronje, with 3,000
n,es. held o3t arant the persistent
aae'ts cf Ito.-ert 4- rj men. The
Boer laager was on are mot of the
time after the third day's battle from
British lydiite shell. Fhot and shell
were pvured into the laager by the
British, and the condition of affairs in
the causp of the iioer was something
frightful. They had run entirely out
of Vm. their ammunition tad given
out. and the laager was strewn with
the rcrpes of the dead. lying la the
t-road light, unburied and festering.
The wtcusdr-d were la awful plight.
fce hospital corps waa Insufficient to
atttsd to thcci, and tLey Ujr about the
laager in heaps, some crying piteously,
others shrieking in their pain, many
silently enduring their agonies."
Is it possible for anyone claiming
membership In any one of the Chris
tian churches to gaze on this picture
of fifteen Britons murdering one Boer,
and say that this picture is not far
more disgraceful and savage than any
thing ever perpetrated upon any hu
man being by even the vilest or most
brutal of the pagan Romans? Is there
not much in this to justify Buckle's
deduction when he says that civiliza
tion had developed Intellectuality, but
not morality: and If it be true, as my
frleftd argued, that England has the
adrantage over America In being frank
in st pad of hypocritical, then what lan
guage can be found strong enough to
describe the crimes which we are per
petrating in the Philippine Islands?
Evidences are coming thick and fast
that we are perpetrating outrages in
many forms against the Filipinos, and
that in those outrages we are violating
individually and collectively the com
mandments. "Thou shalt not steal;
thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not lie;
thou shalt not commit adultery." What
a legacy will be coming home to Am
erica in the spiritual and physical
wrecks that are to return to us as Am
erican soldiers. Comment need not be
enlarged on this subject. I insert here
a statement from the issue of date
February 23. 1D01, of the Bulletin of
the American Iron" and Steel associa
tion, of Philadelphia, which is as fol
lows: "Three soldiers from Johnstown
and vicinty, who enlisted a year or so
ago to go to the Philippines, are back
at their homes, having been returned
as invalids on the transport Sherman.
They were not much more than sha
dows when they arrived. All declare
the climate in which they served to
be something horrible, and that white
men cannot serve in it over a few
months and keep their health. The
Sherman carried 800 souls, of which
297 were invalid volunteers, including
16 insane.
"John W. Kissel of Edenville,
Franklin county. Pa., who was a mem
ber of the thirty-ninth regiment Unit
ed States infantry. In the Philippines,
has returned to his home on account of
bad health. On the 6teamer in which
he returned to this country there were
400 soldiers, the majority of them be
ing ill. and 200 bodies of soldiers who
bad died on the islands or on the way
over Kissel says he has had enough
of war in the Philippines.
"A dispatch from Washington, dated
February 18, says: General MacArthur
has informed the war department that
the transports Hancock and Kilpat
rick left Manila "yesterday for the
United States. The Hancock has the
thirtieth volunteer Infantry on board,
and the Kilpatrlck carries 400 sick
soldiers.
It may assist some to understand the
real conditions in the Philippine isl
ands If I quote from a letter recently
received from a soldier who has been
there long enough to speak with au
thority and whose language is suffic
ient evidence of his Intelligence.
One extract Is as follows:
"I wish I could tell you in person my
impressions of this country and its
people. You would be astonished and
pleasantly surprised at some things.
The people are constantly misrepre
sented by men who have their own in
terests to subserve and by men also
who can see no good in anyone here.
"In the communities below the
mountain sections the people are law
abiding, industrious, temperate, moral
and religious. It is true they are in
arms, shooting and being shot, but
hep one considers they are fighting
us as invaders and despoilers one can
not blame them for continuing to hope
for what Is theirs, or should be, if
Justice prevailed.
"Concerning their aptitude for self
government, no sane man will doubt
it. for they are, in fact, governing
themselves at the present time, except
In the untutored savage portion of the
archipelago. The least government is
the best for this people. To change or
force a change to the American plan
would be folly. These people are sat
isfied to be let alone and to live as they
have been living. Give them proof
that we are riot here to despoil them,
and peace Is assured.
Tbe morality of the people has suf
fered through the soldiers. The sol
diers look upon the women as common
property. Even some of the officers
appropriate women to their lust; yet
the people stand It, for they fear to
offend by complaining. The Ameri
cans have brought the drink habit to
these islands. They have promoted
immorality, and their conduct has
brought shame to many, but they say,
"That's the way with the invaders of
every country." and there Is no re
course for those who come under their
control. The commission Is the whole
thing In Manila. Everything is done
in the name of the president of the
United States. Great is the president!
Great sums of money are spent here.
Some day great scandals will grow
out of the whole business; It is Inevit
able." What American can read such a let
ter as this, bearing such evidence of
fairness and keen observation, with
out feeling that Hannaism and Mc
Kinleyism In the Phyippines are blood
cousins to Weylerism in Cuba?
What American can read this and
feel like voting for hundreds of mil
lions of the people's money to be ex
pended in criminal aggression and
murder in the Philippines?
Less than a year ago I warned the
country that when you cut down the
military appropriation from 128,000,
000 to $112,000,000 it was done to de
ceive the taxpayers. I then asserted
that $128,000,000 would not cover the
war expenditures. A few days ago,
when we passed the deficiency bill, af
ter tedious interrogatories I succeeded
in forcing the chairman of the commit
tee on eppropriatlons to admit that It
was necessary to make an additional
deficiency appropriation of $21,000,000,
which, added to the $112,000,000, makes
the appropriation for this fiscal year
ending July 1, 1901, $133,000,000, or, in
round figures, $110,000,000 more than
was appropriated for war purposes
four years ago. In other words, we
have entered upon a policy which in
one department alone will require
more than $100,000,000 of additional
expenditure from year to year for
many years to come, to say nothing of
the additional expenditures of scores
of millions that will be required in the
naval establishment.
It would have been far better could
we within this congress just closing
have spent our time discussing and
developing the post-check system,
which would have facilitated and sim
plified the sending of money by mail
an urgent necessity, as every business
man well knows. But we have been
so extremely mad with this business
of taking on the title of "world power"
that we have gone abroad minding
everybody's business and neglecting
our own. I introduced in the house the
post-check bill, and Senator McMillan
introduced it in the senate, which was
a measure indorsed by the business
men throughout the country and in
dorsed by the leading newspapers
throughout the country, yet we could
not get for it even a moment's consid
eration. Many other bills have been
pigeonholed and our homes and our
families have been neglected while we
have gone to the other side of the
earth imitating the monarchs of. Eu
rope, and with them pretending that
in some way we have received a divine
commission to attend to the business
of governing the other nationalities of
the earth.
WHITE SLAVES OF THE SOUTH
Their Condition Hundred Times Worse
Than That of the Black Slave Before
the War.
The condition of white labor in the
south, especially in the cotton mills, is
horrible beyond the power of words to
describe. The labor unions have not a
membership large enough there to
force the passage of factory laws as
they have in the northern states. The
result is that capitalism in its most
horrid form rules without a law to
check its greed. Democratic legisla
tures seem to spend all their time to
secure themselves from "nigger dom
ination" and let their own race be
come the slaves of northern capital
ists. Mother Jones, who has been
making a visit to the southern fac
tories,' describes some of the things
she saw as follows:
"The miners and railroad boys of
Birmingham, Ala., entertained me one
evening some months ago with a
graphic description of the conditions
among the slaves of the southern cot
ton mills. While I imagined that these
must be something of a modern Si
beria, I concluded that the boys were
overdrawing the picture and made up
my mind to see for myself the condi
tions described. Accordingly I got a
job and mingled with the workers in
the mill and in their homes. I found
that children of six and seven years
of age were dragged out of bed at half
past four in the morning when the
task-master's whistle blew. They eat
their scanty meal of black coffee and
corn bread mixed with cottonseed oil
in place of butter, and then off trots
the whole army of serfs, big and little.
By 5:30 they are all behind the factory
walls, where amid the whir of machin
ery they grind their young lives out
for fourteen long hours each day. As
one looks on this brood of helpless hu
man souls one could almost hear their
voi6es cry out, "Be still a moment, O,
you iron wheels of capitalistic greed,
and let us hear each other's voices,
and let us feel for a moment that this
is not all of life."
"We stopped at 12 for a scanty lunch
and a half hour's rest. 12:30 we were
at it-again with never a stop until 7.
Then a dreary march home, where we
swallowed our scanty supper, talked
for a few minutes of our misery and
then dropped down upon a pallet of
straw, to lie until the whistle should
once more awaken- us, summoning
babes and all alike to another round
of toll and misery.
"I have seen mothers take their
babes and slap cold water in their
faces to wake the poor1 little things.
I have watched them all day long
tending the dangerous machinery. I
have seen their helpless limbs torn off,
and then when they were disabled and
of no more use to their master, thrown
out to die. I must give the company
credit for having hired a Sunday
school teacher to tell the little things
that "Jesus put it into the heart of
Mr. to build that factory so they
would have work with which to earn
a little money to enable them to put a
nickel in the box for the poor little
heathen Chinese babies.-
"I visited the factory in Tuscaloosa
Ala., at 10 o'clock at night. The su
perintendent, not knowing my mission,
gave me the entire freedom of the. fac
tory and I made good use of it. Stand
ing by a siding that contained 155 spin
dles were two little girls. I asked a
man standing near if the children
were his, and he replied that they
were. "How old are they?" I asked.
"This one is nine, the other ten," he
replied. "How many hours do they
work?" "Twelve," was the answer.
"How much do they get a night?"
"We all three together get 60 cents.
They get 10 cents each and I 40.' "
In the old days of African slavery
there were many northern Christians
who would not eat sugar or wear cot
ton clothes because it was produced
by slave labor. In these days the apos
tate sons and daughters of these old
fashioned Christians take the divi
dends wrung from the toil and very
life of white children and go to Paris
to spend the season. Where is the
spirit that animated the church when
it fought black slavery?
A POP PHILOSOPHIES
He is Pessimistic mod Fears That Capital
and Organized Greed has a Cinch
on Things.
Dr. W. P. Brooks of Cook philoso
phizes thus: "However much we, of
the people's party, have reason for re
joicing over the good works done, it
appears to me that the candid observ
er must see and feel that to achieve
the reforms sought for through any
political party, under whatever name
it might chance to bear, must ever be
futile while the enemies of reform re
main so strongly entrenched behind
the battlements that are wholly imper
vious to the searchlight of Intelligent
reasoning.
"When we take Into account the fact
that 25 per cent of the voters are de
pendents, I. e. they look to the com
bines of corporate capital for their
daily bread as well as the rags that
partially cover the nakedness of their
wives and little ones, how ridiculous is
the idea to think for a single moment
that you can get any considerable pro
portion of this vote by argument or
reason, when the word of their masters
goes down the line, 'Do not let your
vote dampen the fires under the fur
naces.' "In one large factory, I am reliably
informed, where over 3,000 were em
ployed, 37 asserted the right of free
men and voted as they pleased; on the
morn.ng of November 7, they were
called into the office and found their
discharges waiting them.
"Fifteen per cent of the voters are
owners of the corporate wealth of the
country (about 83 per cent of all the
wealth); 60 per cent are small traders,
farmers, etc. Were it possible for us
to hold more than 90 per cent of this
class of voters, it might then be possi
ble to accomplish needed reform; but
this even is out of the question, be
cause of the fact that the 15 per cent
class can put money in the hands of a
few sell-outs, sore-heads, and aspir
ants for office, and draw from the 60
per cent class enough to make their
majorities as large as they wish.
"And mark you, my dear sir, the
dependent voter is increasing much
more rapidly than the others and
they are being drawn from the 60 per
cent class so it Is only a question of
time before It will be unnecessary for
the 15 per cent class to spend any of
their money to elect whomsoever they
choose.
"I want to say right here that par
tyism is the poisonous upas tree where
hang the bones of all the world's
greatest reformers. Parties are breed
ers of dissension, snd discord and rey
the shield of the greedy gourmandizer
who devours widows houses and way
lays the confiding and the unwary. Our
government is really nothing more
than individual rights surrendered for
the common good; and when these
rights are dispensed -by the govern
ment (people) so as to make the burd
en (if there is a burden which there
should not be) no harder for one to
bear than for another, then every
member of the government should be
satisfied.
' Everyone who believes in the prin
ciples of the people's party platform,
adopted at Omaha on the 116th anni
versary of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, knows, if he knows enough to
know anything, that the only sensible
and legitimate meaning that can truth
fully be put upon that instrument is
that everything of a public utility
should be operated by the government
(people) for all of the people; and that
"equal rights and equal privileges be
securely established for all the men
and women of this country.
"This is the. exact doctrine taught
by the fathers who forced the adoption
of the Declaration of Independence;
and, though we have listened to its
reading on every recurring Fourth of
July from that day to this (except
since McKinley brought it into dis
repute) , there are fewer people propor
tionately who believe in the self-evident
truths therein, than there were
on that memorable day when the old
Liberty Bell rang out the glad news
to the then anxiously watching and
waiting people.
"This being true and I fearlessly
assert that it is how in the name of
common sense can you ever expect to
win a victory over a capitalistic foe
who has no love of country, except for
the amount of dividends he may be
able to declare? Think of the absurd
ity of going up and down the land
preaching the doctrines advocated by
Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln,
under any political party name, when
the 15 per cent class, who own the
wealth and control nearly all the ave
nues through which we receive intelli
gence, ridicule any doctrines we
preach and denounce them as vision
ary, chimerical and impracticable.
And, too, when many of us who have
for years tried to organize communi
ties and put in operation miniature
governments practicing these princi
ples taught by the fathers and incor
porated in our own platform.
"Many of the preachers of equal
rights and equal privileges have joined
in the cry of our enemies and say the
scheme is visionary, proving conclu
sively that they themselves have not
faith in the doctrines they pretend to
advocate." -
; THE CASTELLANE INSECT
American Plutocrats and Their Silly
Dartghers are Responsible for the
Creation of such Creatures.
Little Boni Castellane went into the
home, of an editor whom he accused, of
allowing a paragraph to appear in his
paper in Paris and slapped the editor's
face. Then there was a duel and the
editor, who weighs something like 300
pounds, was wounded in the thigh.
That is a way they have of doing over
in Paris, but if that little French count
who Is less than five feet high had
come Into .The Independent office and
undertaken such a performance as that
we should have laid him across a pair
of knees and spanked him until he
blubbered. After that we should have
wiped his eyes and told him that It
pained us more than it did him to
have to chastise him, but it was to be
hoped that tho infliction would help
him to lead a decent life. The Chica
go American in commenting upon the
affair says:
Little Mr. Boni Castellane is not an
admirable human insect.
A young and vigorous man selects
a fat man of sixty, slaps his face and
brags that he slapped him "thirty-five
times." Next he shoots the fat man
in a duel. After that he strikes an at
titude and announces that he "reserves
similar slaps and similar duels for all
who may offend him."
There is no doubt that Mr. Boni de
Castellane is , a preposterous human
chinch bug.
Yet there is also no doubt that we
Americans are preposterous when we
laugh at France because of this Cas
tellane insect.
Not France, but the United States,
Is responsible for Castellane.
Wise Frenchmen long ago decided
that "nobles," prancing about, brag
ging and dueling, were not worth hav
ing. The French revolution cut off
the heads of a good many of those
foolish nobles, and cut the combs of
every one of them.
If we had left things as the French
revolutionists arranged them the curly
headed Castellane would never have
been heard of. He would at this mo
ment probably be taking twenty cen
times' worth of absinthe up at the
far end of the Boulevard St. Michael,
hurting nobody, damaging nothing but
his own poor little alimentary canal.
It is our stupid, rich, snobbish re
public, with its foolish, rich, snobbish
girls and driveling society, that is re
sponsible for the Castellane insect and
many similar types of nuisances.
American "society" loves such crea
tures; American girls admire and mar
ry such idiots; American dollars give
them an opportunity to make nuis
ances of themselves.
American citizens, instead of laugh
ing at France on account of having its
Castellane, should apologize to every
Frenchman they meet.
The Black Flag
The tree of corruption is bearing its
fruit.
The governing classes
Have raised the black flag and are
looking for loot.
Their prey is the masses.
The peace of the world may. be riven
asunder. " -5
What of it? The nations are out after
plunder;
And those who oppose may as well
stand from under
Until the storm passes.
J. A. Edgerton.
THE WORLD'S IRON.
Our Race with Great Britain fr Leader
ship in the Commercial World.
"Four, hundred years ago the entire
world produced and found use for six
ty thousand tons of iron annually; to
day it produces and uses forty million
tons every year, a growth so marvel
ous as to surpass belief were it not
verified by figures which cannot be
disputed. Four hundred years ago the
United States were not in existence;
in 1585 iron ore was discovered in
what is now North Carolina and the
first attempt to manufacture it was
made in Virginia in 1619. In 1643-45
a blast furnace was built at Lynn,
Mass., and three years later a forge
was erected. Interference by legisla
tion of the British parliament stopped
the work for a time, but it was re
sumed later, and in 1740 one thousand
tons of iron were produced. In 1790
the United States gave to the world
30,000 tons of iron, and was exceeded
among iron producing countries by
Great Britain, France and Germany.
In lbOO it produced 40,000 tons, tieing
with Germany; then it went forward
at great leaps until 1870, when, with
an output of 1,670,000 tons, it had
passed France and stood second to
Great Britain, the leader of the iron
world for four hundred years. For
about twenty-five years the two great
nations stood in this relation, the Unit
ed States gaining a little one year to
lose it another, but in 1890, after a
Titanic race of over one hundred years
we forged to the front and led the lead
er of the world of nations with the
production of 9,202,703 tons, an in
crease over the British output of 1,
308,489 tons. We held the lead for
three years, but in 1894 we lost it to
gain it again in 1895, to lose it in 1896;
but in 1897 we led again, and again in
1898, and in 1S99, with our output of
13,620,703 tons, exceeding that of Great
Britain by 4,315,394 tons, we have put
our great competitor out of the race.
This excess over Great Britain's prod
uct is greater than our entire annual
output of but fourteen years ago. Ver
ily, for the youngest of the great na
tions we have done exceedingly well,
and we shall hold the position we have
reached because our youth gives us the
advantage of illimitable fields of fuel
and ore which are as yet practically
untouched and easy of access, while
those of the old countries in compe
tition have been worked almost to the
limit. Under such conditions, it is
safe to predict that the United States
will not only lead the world in iron
production, but in time will supply all
the nations of the earth with their
iron. That this country has so rapid
ly reached first place and already pro
duces nearly thirty-five per cent of the
world's product is earnest of what it
can do when its full energies and re
sources are brought into active opera
tion." W. J. Lampton in AInslee's.
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
Urges all Workers to Make one Earnest
Final Effort te Wipe oat the Party .
Debt.
TO PRECINCT COMMITTEEMEN:
No letters have been sent to you
since those dated February 1, 19oi,
unless, perhaps, you received one of
the letters sent to workers asking for
pers.nal contribution. The returns
from the letters sent out the 1st of
February were barely sufficient to pay
postage on the whole lot; hence, I can
not afford to send you another letter.
But here is a suggestion: There are
1,420 populist precinct committeemen
in Nebraska; a small part of that num
ber have already sent In collections;
the remainder have done nothing at
least, no remittances have been re
ceived. Will you make an earnest ef
fort in the next two weeks to collect
and send to me not less than 1? And
make it just as much more as you can.
If you have already done your part,
pay no attention to this; but if you
are one who has done nothing THIS
i iEANS YOU. Whatever you do act
promptly.
CHARLES Q. DE FRANCE,
Secretary.
1836 So. 25th st., Lincoln, Neb.
Mr. Whitfora's article relative to the
party debt, published on page 6 last
week, deserves a second reading by
every person interested in our-future
success as a political party. He justly
points with pride to the record of Ar
lington precinct, and remarks that if
each "county would do no more than
the litl".s twnship of Arlington in
Warnington co"1 -w'w.
have enough to pay cVeT J," ,;,. '"A3
our indebtedness, but a nice little ruw
to begin the fall campaign with." An
inspection of that part of the following
report headed, "Total Receipts by
Counties," shows but ten counties with
a credit of over $20 each: Antelope,
Clay, Cuming, Hall, Kearnay, Lancas
ter, Polk, Saunders, Washington and
York. Twenty counties have contri
buted nothing; eleven have a credit of
$1 or less; forty counties have a credit
of more than $1 and not to exceed $10;
and nine counties have a credit of over
$10 and less than $20. Or, in other
words, nineteen counties have a credit
of $10 and upward, and seventy-one
have contributed less than $10.
There are fifty counties in Nebraska
that can do as well as 'Cuming county
has done contribute over $40 each.
That would give $2,000. And the re
maining counties can certainly raise
enough to wipe out the balance of the
debt.
Suppose we list the forty counties
as follows: Banner, Blaine, Boyd,
Box Butte, Brown, Chase, Cherry,
Cheyenne, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel,
Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Garfield,
Gosper, Grant, Harlan, Hayes, Hitch
cock, Hooker, Keith, Keya Paha, Kim
ball, Lincoln, Logan, , Loup, McPher
son, Perkins, Phelps, Red Willow,
Rock, Scott's Bluff, Sheridan, Sher
man, Sioux Thomas, Valley, Wheeler
with a toss-up between Custer and
Thurston as to which shall be the
fortieth. (Just now, too late for this
week's report, comes a remittance of
$34.70 from E. Taylor, chairman ways
and means committee for Custer coun
ty, with a list of 56 contributors. Hur
rah for Custer. She will be one of the
forty.)
Now, the forty counties named can
raise, of course, as much as possible,
but suppose we rely on the fifty others
to each raise not less than $40. Can
they do it? Will they do it?
Louis De Wald, fn a late letter to
The Independent, says: "Don't you
think old Cuming has done pretty well
toward paying that debt? I wish you
would wake our workers up a little. It
is a shame if those accounts are not
settled. I am willing to go begging
here once more If necessary, although
I hate to do it." Would that there
were a DeWald in every county!
RECEIPTS.
Previously acknowledged $536 70
To" Tuesday noon 92 55
Total $629 25
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Previously acknowledged $ 70 49
(No receipts, except under head of
"Individual contributions" and "State
committeemen.")
LEGISLATORS.
Previously acknowledged $ 11 00
(No receipts this week.)
PRECINCT COMMITTEEMEN.
Previously acknowledged .$133 15
(Contributions under this head will
hereafter all be acknowledged under
head of "Individual contributions.")
STATE COMMITTEEMEN, STATE
OFFICERS, ETC.
Previously acknowledged $135 40
W. O. Dungan, st. com., Kear
ney county 9 50
(A. B. Norlin, $3, treasurer;
G. W. Tillman, $1, clerk; J.
H. Robb, $2, judge; Supt.
Baker, $2; Pat Hecox, $3,
sheriff, 50c; all Minden; $2 in
committeeman's hands.)
John R. Thompson, dist. judge,
judge, 11th dist 5 00
INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
(Contributions of 25c each, unless
otherwise specified.)
ADAMS Previously acknowledged,
$5.75. (No receipts this week.)
ANTELOPE Previously acknowl
edged, $27.65; J. D. Eckhoff, Bruns
wick; Edgar Elliot, $1, Neligh; E. W.
Briggs, 50c, Royal.
BOONE Previously acknowledged,
$6.95; Wm. C. Emery, 30c, Albion;
Henry Arp, Petersburg; Frank Kier
nan, 50c, St. Edward-.
BOYD Previously acknowledged,
75c:. A. L. Nickerson, Mankato.
BUFFALO Previously acknowl
edged,. $4.55; W. Stark, Nantasket;
John Holl, 50c, Shelton.
BURT Previously acknowledged,
$7.30; Robert Hanson, 50c, Lyons; list
of four by George Osborn, 50c, . (An-
drew Morell, 50c; C. H. Anderson,
Norman Kregh), all Oakland.
BUTLER Previously acknowledged,
$13.83; J. T. Feather, Ware.
CASS Previously acknowledged,
$7.50. (No receipts this week.)
CEDAR Previously acknowledged,
98c; -G. B. Campbell, Belden; W. C.
Kelly, ,55c, Laurel; Wesley Tinker,
Sam Peterson, St. James.
CHERRY Previously acknowledged
50c. (No receipts this week.)
CLAY Previously acknowledged.
$17.30; R. McFarland, Thomas Ken
nedy, 50c, Deweese; J. P. Nelson, El
dorado; A. Populist, $1; "Cash," 50c,
Fairfield; list of three by A. Wilson,
$2, (M. F. Herrlngton, Frank Casper),
all Harvard; Nils Anderson, $1, Ong.
COLFAX Previously acknowledged,
75c. (N receipts this week.)
CUMING Previously acknowledged,
$44.50. (No receipts this week.)
CUSTER Previously acknowledged,
$2.25; J. C. Pollard, Merna; W. D.
Hall, Sargent.
DAKOTA Previously acknowledged
$2.20. (No receipts this week.)
DAWES Previously acknowledged
$5. (No receipts this week.)
. DAWSON Previously acknowl
edged, $3. (No receipts this week.)
DIXON Previously acknowledged,
75c; F. M. Stewart, Allen; Nels Her
man, Wakefield.
DODGE Previously acknowledged,
$3.50. (No receipts this week.)
DOUGLAS Previously acknowl
edged, $2.50. (No receipts this week.)
DUNDY List of four by J. W. Kin
sey, for Indian Creek precinct, (T. C.
Kinsey, H. Fish, J. Wakefield, 10c; S.
Borderson, 5c), all Benkelman; J. E.
yiM-xs-e.,,.
tT . previously acknowl-
J 1 uo 3-g T r,kll'L",,50n, Geneva
".doz. 5-graint 'y acknowl
edged, V flirdul ; by John
Scheuneman, ooc, ,v.... r.S. T.
Doher, 10c; G. O. Miliei ..'v.,
C. Davis, D. Baker, J. F.'w it
W. E. Ewing, Ed M. Husso.. 39c
E. Whittaker), all Franklin; list 0c
fourteen by O. Pool for Antelope town
ship, 50c, (E. D. Jackson, S. Current,
H. Pool, D. Detrick, Neils Ostergaard,
Eric Dahl, C. A. Carlson, $1; Geo.
Hansen-,50c; H. B. Lorain, Hansen
Bros., 50c; J. L.- Cornell, 50c; J. II.
Current), all Upland.
FURNAS Previously acknowledged
$6. (No receipts this week.)
GAGE Previously acknowledged,
$2.30; B. F. Baker, 50c, Liberty; Jos
eph Synovec, Joseph Gacek, Wymore.
GARFIELD Previously acknowl
edged, 25c; J. L. Coon, Burwell.
GOSPER Previously acknowledged, ,
$2.65. (No receipts this week.)
GREELEY Previously acknowl
edged, 25c; T. C. Phelan, 50c, Bray
ton;" list, of four by J. R. Swain, coun-.
ty attorney, (James B. Barry, G. C.
GilesMJ J. Kinney), all Greeley; John
Devlne and J. A. Foster, Greeley; list
of four by E. W. Jeffers, (J. O. Jeffers,
J. A. Jeffers, Clarence Jeffers), all
Horace; John Mcllduff, $1, O'Connor.
HALL Previously acknowledged,
$17.50; W. H. Mader, Grand Island;
Lewis RIckard, $1, Wood River.
HAMILTON Previously acknowl
edged, $6,25; Wm. Steele, Henry Smith
Hampton; collection of $5 by'F. L.
Munn, Trumbull, for Scoville precinct,
names of contributors not given.
HARLAN-rPreviously acknowledged
$2.75; E. H. Batty, editor Alma Rec
ord; J. M, Vaughan, Huntley.
HITCHCOCK W. H. Thornhill,
county clerk, 50c, Trenton.
HOLT Previously . acknowledged,
$8.25; John Alfs, jr., 50c, Atkinson;
S, L. Conger (second contribution),
Inman; S. G. Lambert, Little.
HOWARD Previously acknowl
edged, $18.45. (No receipts this week.)
JEFFERSON Previously acknowl
edged, $13.05; John Moles, Fairbury,
$1 for Independent collection.
JOHNSON Previously acknowl
edged, $6.30; "Box 56," Elk Creek.
KEARNEY Previously acknowl
edged, $26.25; S. M. Fann, Axtell.
KNOX Previously acknowledged,
$8; "Miller township"; list of three by
Joseph Kalas, (Anten Houzvicka,
Frank Grbss), all Verdlgree.
LANCASTER Previously acknowl
edged, $28; D. Hendricks, Bennett; B.
F. Springer, Firth.
'j9BjtL smi sdjaoaa o) i$ pa2pa
-IMOU210B XisnojAaij NlOONn
LOUP Previously. acknowledged,
$1. (No receipts this week.)
MADISON Previously acknowl
edged, $3.50. (No receipts this week.)
MERRICK Previously acknowl
edged, $1.50. (No receipts this week.)
NANCE Previously acknowledged, .
$4.75; Frank Downing, Fullerton.
NEMAHA Previously acknowl
edged, $5.50; H. G. Rhodes, (live stock
and grain), Howe.
NUCKOLLS Previously acknowl
edged, $2.25. (No receipts this week.)
OTOE Previously acknowledged,
$6.35; A. R. Malben, $1.50, Palmyra;
J. V. Moran, Christopher Schlitt, Geo.
H. Peterson, 50c, Talmage; list of
eight by W. A. Hickok, $1, (John Sie
mens, Geo. Doxtater, T. D. Sabin, 50c,
Joseph Hendrick, Chas. Cowles, W. P.
Reilly, J. E. Brisco), all Douglas.
PAWNEE Previously acknpwl
edged, $3.25; J. L. Clark, R. F. D. 3,
Pawnee City; C. G. Nash, Summerfield,
Kas.
PHELPS Previously acknowledged,
$2.75; Jacob Leacock. Bertrand; G. W.
Severns, H. E. Ericson, Holdrege.
PIERCE Previously acknowledged,
75c. (No receipts, this week.)
PLATTE Previously acknowledged,
$7.75; G. W. Phillips, Columbus.
POLK Previously acknowledged,
$20.15; list of eleven by E. A. Walrath,
$1, editor The Democrat, (Keene Lud
den, 50c; H. M. Powers, 50c; Wm.
Campbell, A. F. Nuquist, J. P. Heald,
50c; Geo. Ward, $1, G. F. Nelson, 50c;
"Cash," 20c; E. L. Hallquist, J. J. Kep
ner), all Osceola; collection of $5 by
J. W. Lanham, Stromsburg, for Pleas
ant Home precinct, names of contri
butors not given.
RED WILLOW Previously ac- .
knowledged, $3.30; G. C. Boatman. 50c,
McCook; R. A. Green, McCcok, $1 for
