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April 18, 1601
Zhz Uebraska Independent
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fort or reait a tf.fattat tamest taea was
Sft wttk taaat. aad IM atbectibae fail to gat
A4kUa all wreesirsiioat. aad saaka all
siraft, momT . -. veyaW to
Zb Betrjsks ladtptndeat,
Lincoln. Neb.
A&ocfncc coaswasiraUaas wtil ot ba no
ticed. Ejeiad maaaerisa tvot be ra
wm4
Tbe nine anll-Tcomrnlies had not
committed sui-ide op to the n-jar of
solas to press.
It U only the common people who
build railroad, civilize and Improve
wfcole continents and trins i:nccm
tsoa thlrjcs te pa.
Slzttf pr rest of all the appro-,
prtatict vetoed by Dietrich were for
lis c!ncl-. Tie God and morality
party la empire up lt record.
The Fc&atoa ethics have Ions been
la Tojae ia tae republican party and
It la sly catcrai that they ahojM
tare the indorsement of the whole re-p-iLIIcaa
pre.
The editor ia Iowa. Illinois. Ohio
and Isdisaa all ecn to highly zppre
ela the N'ekraaka Independent. If
cce la to j-adse from the way they In
sert tta matter la their editorial col
cna rIitJi credit.
The acta of Thompson" choice so
IrrltatM the P Street Idiot that he al
lowed two or three cclunm to W de
voted to ahttaiDf the J&st fusion legis
lature. Trat wm the only way he
coald relieve hit fecliccs.
Way McKlalty haa the power to
foree a arorensmest oa a foreign people
10.009 miles away and haa to power to
rex-slate, check or control the trust
la one cf tho thine that no pop can
Zz.4 out.
United Stairs treasurer and their
alt2ita :o aa regularly from the old I
gray building at the head of Penn
sylvania avenue to Wall street as the
tas go to rooru The lt one to find
a racist there is VasderlSp.
When McKInley. Mark Ilaaaa, Hart
ley's partner ac4 Thompson's choice
get tiwir heads together over the ap-J
po4atxser.tt to which Nebraska ia en
titled, the as 1 1-nice will stand far o2.
weep, wail and gnash their teeth-
McKinley Lai sent for Hartley"
partner and Thocpaco's choice to
come to Washington. The object of
the visit f the heavenly twin to the
national ca&.'tcl is said to be the dis
tri'outloa of the pork that Is coming
to Net rex ka.
No power has recognized the annex
ation f the Soalh African republics
by Great Britain, but the state depart
ment ia Washington la a sneaking
sort of way nadertook to do what no
other power, wocid do;hy pabliihlng a
consular report la which the anaexa
tioa waa anaoaj&rd.
Uorica devoted about two-thirds of
the space ia the Conservative last
week to puScg himself and telling
what great ea he and Crover Cleve
land are Said Conservative is pub
lished at Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Eubserlptica price, nothing. If yoa
will esly take ft out of the oee that
settk-s the bill.
Think cf th'fae mid-road pop papers!
How they fioarishei like a gren bay
tree dorirg the esmp&Iga and as long
aa the eortrit-iiioaj from the Mtrk
Hasaa hoodie land t:rr.d cp every
wetk! WhT are they row? Whar
ton Barker's American, printed on the
ttt cf paper ?t oit Is the Saett
atyle, where- is It? Even thr echoes
giv ao rerpsrse.
Th British taviag exhausted all
ether a venae, oi rerer.ee to sustain
tfcefr raii la South Africa, now pro
P?m to i the pric cf bread by
S-sttirg a duty os wheat aad Cour. The
Hoclfgas who were so boisterously
happy over the fight ca the Boer that
they mad a bedlam out f Londoa
can itw yrmUr up and pay the fiddler
for th dene tat they had- Wonder
how they Tin like It?
Th petferrrLi-cfs f J.
Morfaa is relation to the
canal iadlrate tht if the
Pierpost
lsthralaa
railroads
caat rreveat tit fclildlag f a canal
ty will sae ia ots way to own
It. and la that rvesi tranacestinental
freight wo-sid ttiil fee j&n what the
rHrod eh4a to make thira. Per
mrh tire . tt.t Moffaa can
eensrst tr tw Mi.rUl vo.fc frrn
XralL
FOI.JTICA I. -INDEPENDENCE V
Louis R. Erich read a papsr before
the Philosophical society of Denver
which was afterwards printed In the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican, on po
litical Independence. From beginning
to end it was a valuable and sound dis
cussion of what The Independent has
called 'partisan Insanity." Ia it he
takes the ann position always held
by The Independent. Mark the fol
lowing words: -.
To reform any political party the
pressure must come fioin without. The
man who protests, but who keeps with
in the ranks of his party, is never
feared by the practical politician. Sen
ator Hoar's arraignment of the Phil
ippine policy troubled the administra
tion very slightly so long aa he was
wllllrg to say that McKInley was the
best beloved president who ever sat In
the presidential chair and fo long as
he was ready to work for his re-election.
The man they feared was he
who had been a Cilia ted with the re
publican paity for half a century, who
had been the recipient of distinguished
honors from that party, but whose
high -sou led sense cf risjht and justice
compelled him in his 83rd year to part
company with hie old political asso
ciate and to ally himself with the
opposition. As I scan the public men
of our time I can recognize no nobler
type of citizen, no purer example of
the true patriot, no higher -model of
the political Independent, than George
S. Bout well of Massachusetts."
The official name of the populist
party of Nebraska Is "People'3 Inde
pendent," and It has always been true
to It name. Its voters are independent
vcters. They hr.ve never been trou
bled with partisan insanity. They will
as quickly vote r.nd as earnestly work
for a man bearing another party name
as if he called himself a p.pu!l3t. pro
vided he represents their principles
and they have confidence that he will
stand by their principles when the day
of temptation comes. They proved
that when they nominated their candi
dates for the presidency and vice pres
idency, these men were not of their
party. They belonged to two other
parties, but they had just as hearty
support as If they had been populists.
Populists . are simply independents.
Their aim has never been to build up
a political machine. They despise par
ty machines and will not serve party
bosses. They care no more for a party
name than they do for a dead kitten.
They would Just as soon vote a ticket
labelled republican or democrat as to
vote one labelled people's party, pro-
'Wed the principles that it advocated
coincided with ' their views of public
policy and the men nominated had
their confidence. It has sometimes
nominated candidates from its own
ranks and sometimes taken-its candi
dates from other parties. It will run
-a straight populist ticket" when it
Relieves that there is no choice offered
between two evils presented by the
other parties. It will not run "a third
party" ticket when by so doing it will
aid in establishing the greater evil, or
when by nominating men outside Its
ranks it can escape by taking the less
er evil. It never plays the fool I'ke
those antl-Impcrlallsts did who wanted
to start a third party because they did
not like cither Bryan or McKInley and
by that much aid In the election of
McKInley. In other words, the peo
ple's party Is a oirtv of Independent
voters, none of whom are afflicted with
partisan lnr.iaky. They are sane, con
servative and uncontrcIIaMc by party
machines or political bosses. The
large class of mn la the eastern states
who call themselves "Independents"
would act much more rationally, if in
stead of vilifying the populist party,
they would give it aid and comfort
H 1111 EN A TED DAILIES
The consolidation of the Chicago
Record with the Timee-lIeraJd shows
that there are too many plutocratic
newspaper in that city to pay. The
weak attempts cf the R?coid to de
ceive the people into believing that it
was "indepf ndeni" failed to pay ex
penses. To avoid a dcuble hyphena
tion the Times was dropprd out and
that Js the end of that great paper.
The comblr.tlon has produced a paper
that line tp w.tii . ti.shwater journal
ism. The cdiiorltlc cir.p.y .epcat the
new found in other co.ur.us and Is
only a wafts of :pjce. This eSort to
i make a daily pjper colhlnj but a tele
graph ticker. Mfhlch produces nothing
that can be called literature, which Is
not an argumentative force and never
attempt to reason. Is a product of
modern plutocracy. The frequent
hyphenation ct such papers shows that
they soon rua tbelt course, no matter
how much cold cash there Is behind
them. ITo hire ed tors at $3,00 a year
to stand on their heads and twiddle
their toe Is a plutocratic amusement,
but like most amusements it costs
money and zooa becomes tiresome-
A MEAN I-ULI1ICAL TRICK
The popuiicls always did all that was
possible fcr the Nebraska university.
A pcpulltt ifjiklature provided the
library buUdins ar.d looked aficr every
Interest of tfce lii:tu.oa. Fopulisto
alway lookM upoa approp.Iailoas for
the un: vet ray la an entirely dllfereat
way tha4 upon epprcprlaila: fe: aay
larss and reaiveailarles. Alon-y'peat
for th BBira.alty Is n lareotmeat
that returns to the state many fold
above what has ever" been, appro
priated. Hardy winter wheat is now
being raised in many localities where
winter wheat was always a failure be
fore the university took up the matter
and introduced the right varieties. The
treatment of blackleg and hog cholera
furnished by the university has prob
ably alone saved more to the state than
the unlvcrsjty ever cost. Over 76,000
doses of blackleg virus was sent out
last year, The work of Professor
Bruner has saved perhaps millions of
dollars to the farmers of the state in
preventing insect pests. The fact of
the matter is that the university has
been :he best investment that Nebras
ka ever made.
All its work has been done at less
cost than in any ohxr srate univer
sity In the whole country. Look at the
following table of the per capita cost
of students at the state universities in
other states: ,
California .$121 00
Colorado 152 00
Illinois 105 00
Indiana , 211 00
Iowa 140 00
Kansas 140 00
Michigan 151 00
Minnesota ., i 105 00
Missouri '. 165 00
Ohio 144 00
Wisconsin Ill 00
Nebraska 87 29
Now this Nebraska university, the
pride of the state and run the cheapest
while doing the best work of all the
state universities, is attacked by the
republican governor. He strikes a blow
at It without cause, for the effect of
his veto is only to put the money al
ready raised for its support in the
hands of the republican si.ate treas
urer and favored banks for them to
speculate on for two' years and does
not lower the rate of taxation one cent.
It was as vicious, contemptible and un
derhanded a trick as was ever played
by a politician.
POSTAL IMFEKIALISM
For several years there has been
effort after effort made in congress to
so amend the postal laws as to greatly
cripple the weekly papers. Each time
the project has been defeated, but it
took almost superhuman efforts to do
Iti Now these papers are to be at
tacked from another direction. The
third assistant pastma'ster has sent out
a circular to 400 publishers asking
how they would treat an arbitrary or
der from the postal authorities forbid
ding the use of the mails to any paper
that offered a premium to subscribers
and Intimating that such an order will
be issued if too much opposition is
not manifested.
Such an order, after congress has
refused to enact such a law, would
be an act of pure imperialism. The
Independent has long warned Its read
ers that this government could not
long endure half imperial and half
free and this threat cf the postofllce
department Is only the result of the
policies pursued by the administration
for the last four years.
There are millions cf property that
would be almost wiped out of exist
ence by such an order. Nearly every
daily and weekly in this state as well
as in all the other states would be
stricken with a blow from which it
would be hard to recover, for nearly
all of them secure subscribers by of
fering premiums. What is the differ
ence in olfering a premium from pay
ing so much cash to the person who
spends time in getting subscribers?
There is one class of papers that
would be greatly benefitted by such an
f order and that is the great dailies in
the large cities. Their editions are
now largely distributed by the express
companies with whom they have, spe
cial privileges. The result of such an
order would be io transfer much of
the business now done by the post-
oflSce to the express companies which
would Immediately take it up.
Such a policy would put every pa
per at the mercy of the postofllce au
thorities. It would open a wider path
to favoritism and bribery than is now
found anywhere on earth. It would be
the end fof even a pretense of a free
press. But such is. the policy pro
posed by the present administration
The editors of the state would better
wake up. Some day they will receive
a notice from the po3tofflce that their
papers are cot mailable. Then it will
be too late for they can no longer
reach the people. Write a letter to
the third assistant postmaster and tell
him what you think of this sort of im
perialism brought from the Philippines
Into the United States. If congress
won't pass a law to suit, just issue an
imperial order and the thing is done
That Is the point to which we have
arrived.
The only excuss for this business is
that there is a deficit in the postal rev
enues. Every one knows that that
deficit wculd be more than wiped out
If the government insisted that the
railroads 6hould carry mail matter at
the same rate that they carry ex-
press matter. The result of the order
would be to trancfev the distribution
from the poatofflce to the express com
panies a largo part : of the second
clase mall matter, There jtvould- be
Insnicsie profit to the cxpreaa com
paaico oa account of the lower rates
that they get from tho railroads.
STUDENT'S JOLLIFICATION ; '
Now is the ! time for that student
university club to get out and hold a
jollification. They whooped it up for
Dietrich and helped to elect him. Ev
ery republican student in the univer
sity who would agree to vote the re
publican ticket was given a pass to go
home and return. They went and
plunked in their voto for Dietrich.
The twenty thousand men who came
into this state and voted the republi
can ticket all rode on free passes com
ing and going. The populists have
been pointing out to these ninnies fpr
ten years that the railroads did not
make a gift of these passes and that
they always got their money back
many times over. This student busi
ness Is a very good demonstration of !
the way it is done. They were all
given passes and they thought that
they were that much ahead. Diet
rich's veto compelled the regents, to
evy a tax of $15,000 on the students
to preserve tho property of the state
on the university grounds and at the
agricultural college from destruction.,.
The passes given students would have
cost them less than $5,000 and now
they have to put up $15,000 or more
than 200 per cent above what; they
thought they got out of the railroads.
That is the way it always works, but
t is not always as plainly to be seen
as in this case.
When the regents met after Diet
rich's veto was announced, the whole
ground was carefully gone over. It
was plain that to preserve the prop
erty of the state and keep up repairs,
that either a deficit would have to be
made or at least $15,000 in money
raised in some way. The -only way
open 'was to put a tax upon the stu
dents and make them pay it. So for
the first time in the history of the uni
versity, tuition fees were levied in suf
ficient amount to produce the neces
sary $15,00C.
This is a tax levied upon those least
able to pay it, "but there was no other
recourse. Hundreds of the students
live upon the poorest fare and deprive
themselves of every comfort of life in
their effort to get an education. Many
of thsm work for their board in res
taurants and other -places, while the
girls serve in private families.
Dietrich's famous veto which caused
all this, will not lessen taxation one
cent. It win-only enable the state
treasurer and a few republican bank
ers to handle a hundred thousand dol
lars for two yeara without Interest as
the tax has already been levied and the
money will come into the hands of the
treasurer anyhow. ".'11 ; -?
It is calculated that this tax on the
students -will produce $15,000, but The
Independent has doubts about it. It
would If all the students come back.
There are a good many here who can
not pay it, especially among the young
ladies. It is with the utmost difficulty
that they can now maintain them
selves and It. will be utterly impossible
for, them to raise 'the money to pay
the tax. ,
Now is a splendid time for the stu
dents' university Republican club to
get out, hire a brass band and have a
really enthusiastic jollification. Why
don't they do it?
THE GREATEST EDITOR
Every newspaper man knows that
there has long been a practical censor
ship of the news sent out by the Asso
ciated press. During the last two yars
the establishing of a military censor
ship both by Great Britain and the
United States has greatly increased the
evil. The result has been such a de
morallzation of the press that no one
can any longer put the least reliance In
what he sees in the daily newspapers,
and the editors of the weeklies and
monthlies, who carefully scan the hun
dreds of columns of lies, are put to
great trouble and worry to not appear
ridiculous by publishing some story
that has already been denied.
All the readers of the dailies have
been entertained for days with stories
from Russia about riots, rebellions and
assaults made upon the Czar. It Was
told in great detail how the Czar lived
in an armor-plated room and that he
had six desks at which he worked,
moving from one to the other so that
the dynamite miner could not locate
his mine with any certainty. One time
the czar's- flight from St. Petersburg
was described and an account given' of
the very great precautions taken to
guard against the nihilists on the jour
ney. This stuff appeared in what was
headed "special dispatches" from Mos
cow . and St.; Petersburg, presumably
costing about three dollars a word for
transmission.
Just as the magazine editors had
prepared their articles for the coming
month and after the weeklies had all
published the story "with their editor
lal comments thereon there appeared
in a Paris paper of world-wide circu
lation a private letter from the United
States consul general in St. Peters
bufg. saying:.
"Almost every item in the foreign
newspapers concerning the recent dis
turbaaces' between students" and the
police are grossly exaggerated or false
"The crowds that ftssambled oa the
Ncvcky Frecpckt, where - my ofilce is
locaied. on Feb. 17 and 24 (March?)
were attracted by curiosity. Cossacks
were employed in preventing their
blocking the streets.
"The statement that a 'number of
persons were run down by the Cos
sacks is absolutely false. The chief of
police is master of the situation. No
one fears trouble.' St. .Petersburg is
as quiet as Paris. The emperor nd
empress drive about unmolested."
Now there was a pretty situation.
The next1 week the weeklies had to
contradict all that they said the week
before and the magazine editors had to
go hurriedly to work to prepare new
matter. Some of them let the stuff
already prepared before this letter go,
saying to themselves that the last
story was as likely to be a lie as the
ones that preceded it.
As for The Independent it did not
publish any of the stories at all. Long
experience in . reading "special dis
patches' and Associated press yarns
had made it cautious. Yet it is im
possible to detect them all. Every man
is dependent upon the news as fur
nished. He has to form his judg
ment of , current events from what, is
printed. All that he can do is to form
a judgment of the probability of the
truth from what appears. The great
est editor of the day is the best de
tector. When one appears who . can
spot a lie every time, he will be the
genius of the age.
All this Is the result of the press
censorship. The news is controlled by
two monopolies working in harmony.
Every man of common sense knew
when the thing was first begun some
years ago that this would be the re
sult At first the manipulators made
some gain by it, but the result is the
same as recorded in the old faole about
the boy who cried "wolf." The result
will be that the power, of the prss,
once so formidable, will be completely
destroyed. The whole world will be
come agnostic. Men .will no longer
believe anything. The only relief that
can come will be from the re-estab
lishment of the freedom of the press
by the destruction of censorships and
news monopolies. -
It is genuine Funston politics to keep
a lot of spies in the enemies camp.
The republicans do that by the gold
democratic dodge. They would have
us to believe that a man who supports
every republican theory and always
votes the republican ticket is still a
democrat and entitled to a seat in dem
ocratic , conventions and at the most
secret councils of the democratic
party.
A lady asks Jhe Independent; why
the republicans .are called '"redeem
ers." It is hard to say, unless it was
because they wanted to "redeem" sil
ver and they . wanted to "redeem"
greenbacks. It seems that they thought
everybody could get rich by swapping
dollars turning in one dollar and get
ting another dollar for it. They made
several campaigns on that proposition
and therefore it was thought. very ap
propriate to call them "redeemers."
The republicans were no sooner out
of one internecine row than they find
themselves in another. There is About
one million of clean cash in the way of
salaries to be distributed by the heav
enly twins and there is a bigger row on
hands about that than over, their elec
tion. They say that- Thompson is to
be, minister to Mexico where he has
very large investments. That Is the
biggest plum In the whole pudding.
Meiklejohn, Curry . and Hainer all
made contracts rorpie before they laid
down, but Rosewater swears by the big
horn spoon that neither Meiklejohn
nor Curry shall have a smell. That
makes trouble, and Mark Hanna and
McKInley want to see Bartley's part
ner and Thompson's choice right away.
The Crete Democrat, after giving an
account of the insane soldiers brought
home from the Philippines, remarks:
"Upon the head of our pious president
fails the direct responsibility for these
madmen, and when he crosses that
dark river, the ravings of these pitiful
souls ought to torture, his wobbling
sheow a million years. His hypo
criUi cant about plain duty, benev
olent assimilation and our code of
morals, has made the name of this
country a synonym for perfidy, fraud,
corruption, greed, deceit and hypoc
ricy the world over. There Is not a
weak nation that would trust this ad
ministration with anything pertain
ing to its rights, liberty, public fran
chises or property, over night." :
There are scores of congressmen
from the thickly populated states of
the east who have never seen the Mis
sissippi or Missouri rivers and are as
ignorant of this great empire of the
west as the ordinary Englishman. But
they are the men who legislate for the
west. The republican sycophants who
are sent from the west never dare to
say that their souls are their own nnd
tremble at the slightest frown from
the brows of their neighbors from the
east who may sit in the next seat.
These western republicans are almost
inrariably elected by boodle sent from
tho cast and never daro ask for more
lhaa tho eruinbs r that fall from the
appropriations table. If they are so
ronunfttortaB to gii oniy one little
crumb, they come, homo ana brag
about it for two year.
SOBBOWS OF A POET
The profound melancholy and deep
sorrow that has pervaded. the ranks of
the republicans since their redeemer
legislature adjourned and their gov
ernor began, as they say, "to rant
around like a bull In a china shop,"
ean hardly be conceived out in the ru
ral districts. It weighed so heavily
upon the soul cf poor Bixby that after
a few days : of sorrowful contempla
tion he could hold In na longer, so he
seized his pen and unbosomed himself
as follows: J t - . . '
'"'Tired of the. hollow, the. base, the
untrue,' r . : . " . . :
Sick of the pops and the democrats,
too: .
Weary of all sorts of partisan cant.
No wise excluding republican, rant.
Plumb flabbergasted from caput to
. , . .feet, '.
Worn out j;ist working for something
to eat. ,
This is my earnest and only request,
Please let me rest, mister., please . let
me rest."
We all knew that thc whole crowd
felt very tired, tut no one" expected
that their official poet would break
out in tbe mournful cry: "Flease let
me rest, mister,' please let me rest."
However we may feel -toward the re
mainder of the gang, all will sym
pathize with the miseries of their sor
rowful poet. ' . .
. ? ' . ... '
Several of the republican orators
have broken out lately in panegyrics
over the final establishment of the
gold standard. Every one of them
knows that ths country Is a thousand
miles further from the gold standard
than when McKInley whs first elected.
He has been coining more elver and
issuing more paper money, especially
during the - last year, than has ever
been issued in any one year, since the
war. The ratio of silver and . paper
money to gold, grows greater air the
time. That Is what these partisans
call establishing the gold standard.
It is only necessary for the Asso
ciated press to denounce the commit
tees and delegates from Porto Rico as
labor agitators or natural revolution
ists to stifle all qualms of conscience
concerning people of that island, who
are fleeing away like rats from a sink
ing. ship, from that carpet-bag ridden
imperial possession of the villain of
the White house. Such a statement
published in all the dally papers on
the same morning settles the matter
and the people, of the United States be
lieve that Porto Rico is one of the isl
ands of the blessed and that the carpet-baggers
are simply philanthropists
spending their lives in a foreign land
for, the purpose.of xharity... ,. .
; The eminent and scholarly gentle
man who edits the Nebraska City
Conservative, in one short article of
about two sticks full of matter in de
fense of Grover Cleveland, used the
following elegant adjectives: "Flab
bergasted," "hlghfaluting," "soda
pop," "microbe," "nauseated," "pe
tulent," "puerile," "vain" "empty."
"unfortunate," "honest," "fearless,"
"righteous," "feeble," and a few oth
ers. The gold bug democrats are par
ticularly fortunate in having such a
conservative writer to edit the Conser
vative. - : .......
All the republican editors seem to
have simultaneously come to the con
clusion that any remarks that they
make upon the appointment of Knox
at the suggestion of - J. P. Morgan as
attorney general In McKinley's cabi
net might be misconstrued. So they
are. one and; all, as mum as clams.
They all know that it was the most in
famous act ever done by any presi
dent. Knox has been a trust attor
ney for ten yars. Does he give up a
lucrative practice for a position that
does not pay one-tenth as much for
pure patriotism? Are trust attorneys
that sort of men?
The position of populists in regard
to public ownership is very strongly
stated in the Buffalo Times in the fol
lowing words: "The policy of legiti
mate trf.de does not presume or admit
of an absolute ownership in that which
concerns the vita.1 interests of the
whole people, when that control takes
on the character of an individual hold
ing or operation at variance with the
public welfare." That has been th
position of populists from the begin
ning. It has taken all these years of
public discussion and the unparalleled
greed of the trusts to drive the idea
into the .heads of the democratic edi
tors. There Is one consolation. The
idea is getting there very rapidly.
Any man who can read English
knows that the Piatt resolutions were
a distinct repudiation - of the pledge
that when a government was set tip
by the people of that island that the
United States would . withdraw its
troops and leave the island. Those
resolutions are a statement that the
United States will never withdraw its
troops. They propose a cession of
part of the Cuban territory where
United States military and naval for
ces shall remain '.forever. But it
seem that the Cubans will have none
of it. The next thing on the part of
the imperialists will be to Increase the
force now in the island and a demand
for an unconditional surrender. - Af-
' ter that war, conscriptions and drafts.
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Pekin Duck eggs $1.00 per IS.
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Full patent..... 90
17 pounds granulated sugar 1 00
3 cans standard tomatoes ......... 25
1 cans corn 25
2 cans imported peas 25
3 pounds maple sugar. 25
6 pounds hand picked navy beans . . 25
6 pounds prunes. 25
5 pounds dried peaches.... . 25
9 bars Silver Leaf or Santa Clause
soap....... 25
Crackers by the box per pound ... 05
Good potatoes per bushel 40
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