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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
May 23, 1901
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The crat rise In scores of railroad
flocks that never paid a dividend and
prob&Uy Dter mill. hows just tow
crazy a sold bug lunatic can get.
Tcc2tc is th- first southern state
to put a stop to tie horrible child la
lor in the t &ctoris and nines. North-
era cipltalitts will hare to look else
where for child slate hereafter.
Dietrich says Joe Johnson is a thief
and J- Jobnsca'aays but it wont do
to print what Joe Johnson says about
Dietrich. Populist know all about
both vt ttetn without b-ing told.
This nation can never be driven to
contract lb currency again, tut there
yrill be tb t'iggest fight that the world
ever taw with the trusts, who by the
tew scheme intend to take ail the
profits cf Industry.
The Lincoln ire trust has a jolly
time. The town La an overwhelming
republican majority and no one dares
to object for that "would injure the
purty." The irire is about twice as
high a it vm last year.
The foreign troop have learned to
to love the city of I'ekin that when
they leave they will take nct of it
along with tbn. Th?.t is if they ever
do leave. Upon false rumors that
they were icon to depart they shipped
a greater part on ahead.
Mark Twain says that the persons
who went to the recruiting ofSces to
c2Ter their service in the Und-stealing
and Ifberty-ercicifyins crusade in the
Philippines had names that no Ameri
cas could pronounce without danger
to his jaw. cor rpeil them without a
foreiga education.
t."n!e all rintits are suffering
from delusions and imagine that they
e thing that do cot exist, animals
ruffer from many cf the same diseases
that aviSict man. Tuberculosis Is found
ia eowa and other animals. Do cows
suffer "from mortal errors" and sim
ply -believe"' that they are sick?
The heavenly twins have become
separated. The last heard of Thomp
son" choice, fce w& bumming around
la the Black Hills with the D. & M.
railroad officials. Hartley's partner
fcas set up a pie counter in the Millard
bote! at Omaha and says that he will
remain there dividing pie until con
gress meets la the fall.
Brad Slaughter has lost his job and
has been discharged from the United
Elates army. It Is to be toped that
will return home and take his old
place In charge of the republican ma
chine la this state. The pops used to
fcave lots cf fan carrying elections
when Brad ran the republican state
cemmittee.
General Fred Grant is back from
the Philippines and is proving him
self to be a bifger fool and worse cad
than when he went over there. The
first thing thrt he did was to ruth
Into print and declare that Bryan was
responsible for the war in the Philip
pines and that on his hands was all
the blood that was ever shed In the
li lands.
ilcl-aurin knowing that he would i
soon be a statesman out of a job. has
been laying his plans to land in the
dead deck haven prepared by Mc
Kinley for all such creatures. The
dead duck have a Is a membership on
some commission at a salary of 13.000
& year. There was wnere Coil Oil
Johnny landed alongside of half a
dcaea more, and that Is the hope of
McLaarta.
Whea a wage-worker does a heroic
act la saving life, by which he loses
his own, as one did the other day.
or Is disabled, there Is no promise of
promotion or pension for himself or
widow to spur Lira on. as there Is In
the amy whea a soldier risks his life
la the esdeavor to kill someone else.
The soldier's heroic act is made a
matter of record and Is proclaimed
frca n end cf the country to the
other. That of the hero wage-worker
!j mentioned once and then forgotten.
Nevertheless, the wage-worker hero Is
the greater of the two.
OS E WATER 7
if the state ia client
n the fall-down of
JacDaiug iuo l ail
?arty press may
ssue now, but it
3 evade when It
le In the form of
L headed by the
maha Bee, May
Although a careful analysis of the
question at that time revealed the fact
that the railroads would pay a larger
percentage of the taxes In 1900 than
they tad ever before paid, yet the re
publican strategy board, assisted by a
cumber of fusion editors who, too lazy
to give the matter proper investiga
tion, jumped at conclusions and joined
In the howl of the republican wolves,
evidently succeeded in making the peo
ple belkve that the fusion board in
19v0 did net perform Its full duty. The
election returns seem to Indicate that
the editorial note above quoted, along
with hundreds of others of the same
tenor, had, considerable effect. After
careful study cf the question at that
time (19i0) The . Independent believed
that the assessment of 1900 was high
enough when compared with the valu
ation of all other property, and It held
to that view. But the people seem to
have thought differently, and The In
dependent will accept their ultimatum.
The people believed that the rail
road assessment of 1900 was not high
enough, and expressed their displeas
ure by electing republican state officers
who promised relief And how have
thee promises been fulfilled? Why,
by reducing the valuation $44,000 on
the Identical property which the peo
ple said was assessed too low by the
fusion board last year. It Is plainly
a case of "out of the frying-pan into
the fire. How do you like it? And
now will the Friend Telegraph, Rush
vllle Recorder, Tekamah Herald, Nor
folk Journal. Norfolk News, Alliance
Times. Falls City Journal, York Times,
and divers and sundry other republi
can papers, who howled themselves
hoarse last year, please step up to the
rack and tell us what they think
of the 1901 railroad asiiessment? In
view of the fact that B. &. M. stock is
now selling at 200, there is much more
reason for a raise in the assessment
this year than there was last but the
republican board reduced the total
$44,000.
Come now! Look pleasant and take
your medicine. What possible excuse
have you to offer?
When the railroad assessment was
up to Governor Savage, Treasurer
Stuefer and Auditor Weston, they
found they were up against it and cap
itulated to the railroads. Adapted
from the Omaha Bee of May 16, 1900
And the republican state board of
equalization, headed by Governor Sav
age, has fixed the state assessment for
all the railroad property in Nebraska
fc-r 19U at $44,000 less than in 1900.
Behold reform. Adaptc-d from the
Omaha Bee of May 18, 1900.
For fear that Treasurer Stuefer has
forgotten about that quarter of a mil
lion of idle school money the Bee again
suggests that the public be taken into
his confidence and Informed if it is
still deposited with the Omaha bank
ers who acted as his "committee"
when he took charge of the office, and
who is getting the interest which is,
or should be, accruing on it. Pat
terned after editorials which appeared
in the Omaha Bee frequently during
Treasurer Meserve's term ,but which
apparently have lapsed into inocuous
de-suetude since the advent of a re
publican state treasurer. Why, Mr.
Rosewater?
In the face of the notorious fact that
the railroads have added millions of
dollars worth of rolling stock to their
equipment, and made millions of dol
lars worth of terminal and roadbed im
provements, and In the f jce of the fact
that their earnings have more than
trebled within the past nve years, the
sham reform officials have fixed the
railroad assessment for 1901 at $44,000
less than the figures for 1899 and 1900.
Adapted from the Omaha Bee of
May 19, 1900.
THE RAILROAD TRUST
The atteirpt of railroad magnates
wLo bae Ixen trying to consolidate
all the transcontinental lines under'one
cnanagement and issuing stocks and
bonds to quadruple the" cost of du
plicatint; those routes with the hope
of permanent returns upon that much
watered capital. Is bound to end In
general public disaster. There can by
no possibility be any other end to it,
not even if the republican party re
mains in power. This is a country of
vast productive and wraith creating
power. It Is not conceivable that
there will not trise men outside of the
trust who will have the money and
business ability to parallel those lines
and make a big Income upon a capi
tal of less than half of the capitaliza
tion of the consolidated lines. The
only thing that can prevent such an
ending Is the establishment of a dicta
torship In this republic. Perhaps that
Is what these magnates rely upon as
they announce that they are going to
run McKinley for a third term.
The geniuses In finance as well as in
literature always come tip from the
ranks of the common people. There is
hardly a magnate, today who does not
brag about1 having begun his career
as an office boy. The next generation
will produce more like them. They
will not come from the families of the
trust owners, but from the farms and
shops. Their interests in the begin
ning will be antagonistic to the trusts.
They will not fail to see that the great
trust roads are making quadruple in
terest on their investments In rail
roads. They will build a parallel line,
reduce the rates on half and make
double interest. on their investments.
Then If railroads still remain in pri
vate ownership, the new generation of
magnates will combine again and the
increase in population and business
will enable them to play the . old or
some similar game. The mullet heads
of that generation will continue to
wear patches on their pants and vote
the republican ticket and for the
trusts. The ever-recurring panics will
continue to intervene.
CANADIAN TRADE
No greater proof of the insanity that
has been developed at Washington in
regard to foreign trade could be fur
nished than the wildness with which
the subject has been discussed in con
gress and the statements made by cab
inet ministers. The idea that this
country could forever have a balance
of trade, running up into the millions
every year, while foreigners could be
prevented from sending their goods
here in exchange by prohibitive tariffs
and the balance be forever paid in
gold, is too absurd for discussion. That
is the theory that is advocated, not
only in congress and by the members
of the administration, but by every
ninnie that edits a republican paper.
They never stop to think that if that
policy was long continued, every ounce
of gold in the world would have to be
sent to America and the foreigner
would be left without anything with
which to purchase our goods.
The same sort of insanity has per
vaded their discussions of our trade
with what they call "our new posses
sions." That these people, living as
they do in tropical islands where most
of the goods we manufacture could
not be used by the inhabitants, who do
not want them and wouldn't use them
if they were given to them, could ever
become great buyers of our products,
is absurd. On the other hand, there is
Canada whose inhabitants need our
woollens, our stoves, our agricultural
instruments, our products of every.
sort and kind and no thought is taken
of that trade that would amount to
more than we could by any possibil
ity force upon the Malays of the south
seas or the inhabitants of tropical Cu
ba. A writer in the New York Com
mercial Advertiser in speaking of the
Canadian trade, says:
"Remarkably little attention is paid
in the United States to Canadian af
fairs, and this is fully realized by the
Canadians. Many government reports
and columns of space in the public
prints are devoted to a discussion of
the best way to gain a few dollars of
trade in Cuba, the Philippines, China
or other out-of-the-way countries.
whereas within twenty-four hours'
journey of nearly every state in the
union lies a market capable of absorb
ing $100,000,000 worth of American
goods more than are now shipped in
that direction. The people of Canada
are of one and the same race, speak
the same tongue, and have the same
habits and customs as do the people of
the United States. That there should
be any drawback to a fair exchange of
commodities between the two nations
is certainly a political mistake."
A STRANGE STORT
The Independent has received a
statement from Washington from a
source that has always been proved
reliable to the effect that a lot of multi-millionaires
have put up a big pile
of money on silver. They have made
an arrangement with the smelting
trust so that a prospective rise in sil
ver will go principally into their pock
ets. The writer believes that the great
banking interests whose money has
largely been transferred from bonds
to the stocks of the Industrial trusts,
will favor the larger use of silver as
money and possibly become advocates
of the free coinage of silver. If that
Is so, there will be no benefit to the
people, for the trusts will control all
production and the profit on the rise
In prices will go to them. Everything
points to the fact that the multi-millionaires
are basing all their future
transactions on the perpetuity of the
trusts. Their gains have become so
enormous that bonds no longer fur
nish them with a place of safe invest
ment, and they seek for the control of
Industry. The tremendous and unex
pected output of gold upset all their
calculations and they have adopted the
trust route instead of the bond route
in their effort to own the world.
The song birds about Lincoln must
have watched the proceedings ' during
the last legislature. At any rate they
show themselves more freely and are
more numerous than ever before. They
evidently rely upon the law for their
projection.
WHO WAS MISTAKEN
In looking back over the contest
that culminated in the United States
senate in 1893 in tne repeal of ; the
Sherman law, it may be well to ask:
"Who was mistaken?" The econom
ists, and by that we mean every man
whose writings are accepted as author
ity in the whole world, were all bi
metallists and were opposed to the
elimination of silver from the money
of the world, were certainly not mis
taken in the theories that they advo
cated, for recent events have proven
beyond contradiction that they were
sound. They based their argument
wholly upon the quantity theory of
money, and claimed that a contraction
of the currency would decrease prices,
and an increase would raise prices.
The sudden rise in prices upon anjn
crease in the quantity of money soon
afterwards has settled that question
beyond dispute. :
The economists were mistaken in
one thing.' They reiled upon another
branch of science for certain informa
tion and adopted what that science
furnished without question and with
out investigation. Every geologist
from Austria to Australia gave it as
his opinion that the great fountains
of gold had been exhausted and that
the output , of gold would tend to de
crease rather than to increase. All
parties accepted this testimony as true
and the men who advocated . the e
limination of silver believed it more
firmly than their opponents. It was
because they believed it that they
made the fight they did. Both sides
were mistaken about this and the tre
mendous increase in the output of gold
has been more disastrous to the theo
ries and plans of the gold standard
men than to the advocates of bimetal
lism. It has forced the great capital
ists to change all their plans of in
vestment and to start out on entirely
new lines to capture the wealth of the
world. Before 1893 tbese men had all
their investments in interest-bearing
bonds and their object was to make
bonds and the" interest that they re
ceived more ' valuable of greater pur
chasing power. The Rotschilds were
never known to invest to any extent in
any industry before 1893.
It may be said that while both sides
were mistaken in their estimates of
the future output of gold, the theories
advanced by gold standard advocates
to sustain their position have been
completely demolished by subsequent
events. The arguments presented by
them in 1896 and 1900 have been so
entirely destroyed that they will never
again be presented to an intelligent
people. On the other hand the state
ments made by John Stuart Mill, Faw
cett Jevons and' all other economists'
of authority 'concerning the quantity
theory of the purchasing power of
money, which was the basis of every
bimetallic argument; stand and will
stand for all time to come.
Some of the economists feel like
kicking themselves for giving implicit
faith to the statements of the-geolog-ists.
Every one of the geologists
claimed that, all the great gold fields
had been exploited and that what gold
there remained would have to be ob
tained by deep and costly mining.
They said that gold was the heaviest
metal and had been thrown to the sur
face when the world was In a molten
state and the face of the world had
been searched for it. That nothing
remained but the molten metal that
had afterward percolated down
through the rocks In small veins
which would be exceedingly .costly to
mine. They acknowledged that while
the placers were exhausted that there
was no process by which it could be
gathered. The economists now say
that they were at 'fault in that they
did not investigate this matter for
themselves instead of relying on the
geologists. If they had, they would
have taken Into consideration the fact
that the greater part of the mountain
ous regions of the world at that time
were unexplored. No investigation
had been made of Alaska, the im
mense regions .of Siberia and the con
tinent of Africa. Of course neither
the geologists nor the economists fore
saw the inventions that have made
the gathering of flour gold profitable
and the old dumps in Colorado and
elsewhere of immense value. The
cyanide process was undreamed of.
The question now arises what would
have happened if the free coinage of
silver had been adopted in 1896. Would
there have been such an inflation of
the money volume as to have started
the wildest speculation and unset
tied all values? All the economists
say: "No." In the first place they
would have prevented the issue of the
immense volume of paper that has
been put out through the banks which
amounts now to about $110,000,000. In
the second place, much of the capital
that has been put into gold mining
would have been invested in silver
mining and the output of the two met
als would not have been much greater
than the output of gold and paper un
der this administration.
Then in answer to the question "Who
was mistaken," it may be replied that
both parties were mistaken in their
estimate of the output of gold the
.gold standard men much more so than
the bimetallists,. As regards the econ
omlc theories advanced, the gold
standard men much' more so than the
bimetallists. As regards the economic
theories advanced, the gold standard
side has been completely demolished
and that of the bimetallists stands,
demonstrated by actual experiment,
and probably will never again be as
sailed. NEW ROTHSCHILD'S PLAN
What made the great banking Inter
ests controlled by the Rothschilds al
low the increase in the volume of
money? For years they had striven to
make money dearer so as to increase
the value of bonds and the purchas
ing power of the interest on them.
They held the republican party in the
hollow of their hand. "The reason was
the sudden increase in the output of
gold. That was a thing that they did
not expect and could not control. Colo
rado Alaska, Australia and the Trans
vaal began to pour out gold in un
heard of quantities. There was no way
to stop it. Money was bound to become
cheaper in spite of all that they could
do. They could control parties, parlia
ments and congresses, but could not
control the stream of gold that came
pouring in like a mighty river.
Under these circumstances they re
considered their policy. They went
into industrial investments and these
would be enhanced by an increase of
the volume of money. They saw that
the way to increase their wealth and
power was to get hold of the indus
tries. That could be done by the
formation of trusts and the hint was
given to McKinley. Trusts were to
take the place of the power of the
bond-holders. From that day to this
there has not been a move made in
Washington against trusts. Trust at
torneys were at their command; they
made members of the cabinet and ev
ery opportunity given for the estab
lishment of trusts. From this on, the
trusts will have as absolute control of
the republican party as the bond-holders
have had in the past. Instead of
interest-paying slaves, they intend to
make the people hirelings of the trusts.
The republican party will bend all Its
energies to carry out this new Roth
schilds plan, just as it has in the past,
to carry out their former schemes.
The trust is to take the place of the
bond-holder.
Now is the time of the year when
the republican farmer begins to com
plain about the twine trust. Novem
ber is the time of the year that he gets
out to work and vote to sustain it. The
republican farmer is a queer chap.
With more than a thousand millions
of paper and silver in circulation,
Rosewater still talks about the "gold
standard." If the old man gets much
wilder, Governor Savage will have to
provide a place for him out at the
asylum.
Time and again The Independent
told its readers during the last presi
dential campaign that the trusts would
make of us a nation of hirelings with
a few arrogant employers to rule over
us. Was it not the truth? Yet the
people voted to become hirelings.
The way the republicans tax railroad
property is a caution to the saints.
The Omaha Interstate Bridge and Ter
minal Co. is capitalized for $5,000,000
and the republicans fix its valuation
for taxable purposes at $18,000. When
the railroads have two members in
congress, two United States senators
and the whole state house gang, noth
ing but that sort of work could be ex
pected.
An interesting letter appears in an
other column from Mr. Frank L. Mary,
president of the Independent Home
Makers Company. He explains that,
owing to circumstances, he was un
able to send any letters to The In
dependent while on his tour of inspec
tion; but for the next few weeks he
expects to give our readers a pretty
clear idea of the different places he
visited while on his tour of inspection.
Applications for location stock are
coming in at a very satisfactory rate.
Read Mr. Mary's letter.
Mr. Gaffin closed up his accounts last
week and turned over to the state all
the funds in his hands. The record
shows that he has turned over during
the last two years from the oil in
spection office the sum of $11,142.51,
being more than double the amount
ever before received from that office
in tho same length of time. Now that
the redeemers have control and the
celebrated Ed Sizer has' been put in
charge, we will see how much Is turned
in for the next two years.
The soldiers in the Philippines say
that there is no other way of account
ing for the disappearance of so many
native guides and scouts when they
get a little in advance of the column
and out of sight that they are swal
lowed by the boa constrictors that in
habit the brush. These guides have
all taken the oath of allegiance and
are generally paid partly in advance.
When a Malay once hears of the great
and good McKinley, that he would af
terward disappear unless he was swal
lowed by a boa constrictor, is not to
be believed. -
The tactics of plutocracy has al
ways been the same in every age of
the w world; " When Jefferson under
took to make this a democratic, in
contradistinction " to a government by
an aristocracy as advocated by Hamil
tbn, he was denounced In almost the
same language that was used In the
republican press during the campaigns
of 1896 and 1900 when Bryan tried to
bring the cbuntry back to Jeff erson
ian principles. They, in Hamilton's
time, said of Jefferson and his adher
ents that . "Every dissolute intriguer,
ioose liver, , forger, false-coiner and
prison bird; every hair-brained, loud
talking demagogue, every scoffer and
atheist, was a follower of Jefferson,
and Jefferson himself was an incar
nation of their theories." Every man
who in these later days has made an
effort to hold the government to the
doctrines enunciated in the Declara
tion of Independence has been assailed
in similar language. That is the way
that plutocracy has of expressing It
self whenever its special privileges
are assailed.
Every once in a while there is a
claim made that the American Indian
is disappearing and soon the plains
and the mountains where his fathers
lived will know him no more forever.
There Is not a word of truth in these
statements as every scientist of the
Smithsonian Institute who is con
nected with its ethnological or anthro
pological sections well know. But
there is a race down east who need
the sympathies of these sentimental
folk much more than the American
Indian. It is the New England Yan
kee. Vital statistics in New England
show a continual decline in the birth
rate of the native population. They
indicate that but for foreign reinforce
ments that part of the United States
would be losing ground. ' If the old
Puritan Yankee is to disappear it
should be the cause of just as many
sentimental tears as the fading away
of the aboriginal inhabitants.
A dispatch says that the last pen
sioned soldier of the war of 1812 has
just celebrated his 101st birthday. The
war of 1812 ended fifty years before the
civil war began and if the record is
kept up there will be pensioners of
the Spanish war on the list in 1951
who were actual soldiers, regularly en
listed. Besides that there will be
many widows. The records show that
there are still twelve pensioners on
the rolls fcr the revolutionary war.
These are young women who married
very old soldiers. One authority says:
"There is every reason to believe that
in 1951 the. civil war pensioners will
still constitute a body formidable in
numbers and in voting strength. Very
few persons now living will see the
pension roll disappear. The pension
ers themselves are likely to be among
the last survivors of the present gen
eration." Imperialism puts its word in ev
ery department of literature. In a
purely scientific article in a current
magazine the following sentence oc
curs: "The discovery of the Roentgen
ray is, to those that understand, as
little surprising or abnormal as the
spread of American power in the east."
There, in the middle of a purely scien
tific article, is thrown in a sentence
which atfirms, when taken in connec
tion with what precedes and follows,
a statement that McKinley's antics in
the Philippines' were the unavoidable
result of logical, scientific advance
ment. That is a trick that these fel
lows have been playing for the last
ten years. They attempt . to force re
ligion, science and the laws of nature
into a seeming support of their im
perialistic and plutocratic ideas.
The industrial commission is made
up of fraud and fat salaries. That
combination has a fascination for re
publican editorial ninnies. It is the
same sort of thing as the commission
appointed in the eighties for the pur
pose of making statistics to prove that
there had been a phenomena! rise in
wages. The way they did it was to in
clude among the wage-earners all the
high-priced superintendents and scien
tists who were engaged in the indus
tries, some of whom got as high as
$50,000 a year. After counting all these
chaps in as wage-workers they struck
an average, and lo and behold, there
were the figures to prove an enor
mous rise In wages. They have been
quoting those figures ever since. They
prove the beneficence of the Dingley
tariff.
D. E. Thompson returned from quite
a stay in Mexico the other day. He re
ports everything booming down in
that free silver country where he had
the good sense to invest his money In
stead of "gold standard" Nebraska.
Therein Thompson made a big mis
take. He only read the republican pa
pers and thought we had the gold
standard here. A copy of last week's
Independent has been sent to him and
when he finds out that there is a great
deal more paper and silver, money in
circulation at home than there is of
gold, he may conclude to Invest some
of his money here Instead of taking It
all to free silver Mexico.
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The times when we burned corn for
fuel, when a man shipped a carload of
corn to Chicago and had a bill pre
sented to him of eight dollars, which
was. the cost of hauling, handling and
selling the corn above what it brought
in the market, were republican times
when the republicans ran everything
and did as they pleased in this state
and nation. Don't you remember those
times when it was misery to live.
Those were tho days when John Sher
man was fighting greenbacks and sil
ver. Since that they, have learned bet
ter and flooded the country with pa
per money and silver. Now corn is
worth 50 cents in Chicago and hogs
are away up. There Is more paper
money and silver dollars in circula
tion than there ever was before. The
republicans call It the gold standard.
Unless the suckers grow on the trees
and hang to the eves of the houses
down in New York, the price of stocks
will have to come down so that an in
vestment' will pay some rate of inter
est. The New York ninnies who edit
the papers down there get very Indig
nant when -any reference is made to
John Law, South Sea Bubbles or Hol
land Tulips. It may be that the people
have become so crazy that they will
continue to buy stocks that never paid
a dividend and never will, or "xa.y $500
for a share of stock that only pays
4 per cent interest on $100, but it
hardly looks probable. There is no
way of telling what the provincials
who Inhabit that part of the country
majr take a notion to do. They were
unanimously in favor of ruining the
country with the gold standard.
The galoots who had no more sense
than to go around shouting for dear
money in 1896 and 1900 who thought
that it would be the right thing when
money was so dear that 5i nts would
buy a bushel of corn and dreamed
that the dearer money became the
more chance there was for the poor
to become rich, have so impressed the
writers who furnish matter for the re
publican weeklies that they have now
gone to writing stories about the "bear
men" who carry off girls In Texas and
the "hairy men" of Wyoming'who can
hurl a horse and rider fifty feet. The
mullet heads believe those stories just
as they used to believe every word
that the Mark Hanna campaign ora
tors uttered.
It is now announced that about 140,
000" barrels of beer have been exported
to the Philippines from the United
States and that every gallon of it had
to be especially prepared to make it
stand the long voyage and keep in that
climate, or, in other words, it was "em
balmed." There is no wonder that so
many insane soldiers have been sent
home from Manila. Formaldehyde is
not good as a steady diet either lu
beef or beer. .
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