THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
May ,30, 1901
ttTPER YEAR III ADVANCE
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to l Iofrd4 by tkes. Tby frqutly
forjrel e rit a diit moaat tkuwu
loft tWm, s.3 ti ateiiWr fail to get
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Zht Tltbriska Imdeptndtnt,
Lincoln. Neb.
Aoc7m roataaiftkw will not fco no
ti4. Eic4 octtcr:H will sot bo r
nd.
Tie rt result of the republican re
demption is 1Z3.ti0 less for the com
mon schools than, the fusion govern
stt gave thni.
Whenever a rebate or pass Is given
a rbery Is committf-d. What Is giv
n to os, is robbed from another.
Sombiy must pay the bill.
Vte.i User declared during the
asr?" that "there are no trusts'
erery mullet head in Nebraska believed
tt and probably tlieres it yet-
A Chicago dally says: "In the opin
ion of Professor Starr everybody else
is a degenerate. Professor Starr has
t-een giving the trust magnates some
hot talk lately.
The, railroads have killed so many
people a cd expert to kill so many In
the fnture that the Union Pacific has
resolved to establish schools of sur
gery all aloes the line.
Every time a national bank Is or
ganixH from twenty-five to a hundred
thousand dollars more money is Issued
and there are three or four new ones
chartered each week. On with the
dance,
The fair; has teen hauled down In
China ty the orders of William Mc
Kisley. Does it cot make one feel
ashamed when he thinks of some of
the campaign cries that were so pop
ular is the Jast presidential campaign?
-Wholl haul down the Sag.
The street car strike in Albany. X.
Y cost three lives, atd $70,000 in cold
cash, and then the corporation gave in.
Street car corporations are expensive
things, but the republicans must have
ifaert. Popullfta thick that they could
fjet along very e:i without them.
Is the beginning populist victories
were all is the country. The spring
elections thow populist victories in a
large nsmber of eitis. That Is, the
cities have n camM on purely pop
tlrt principles. When the cities and
the country get togther then we shall
rwjpe the whole thing.
Attorney Shields got a judgment
against Eowater the other day of
7.0C0 for libel. That don't disturb
Rosewater In the least. The more
juegments that are oa file against him
in the Douglas county court for libel
the happier he fa. Nore of them will
ever he paid.
All the Kansas papers report the
people's party cf that state is more
cnited and enthusiastic than ever be
fore la all Its history. The law that
prevents them from appearing on the
ticket under the party name unless
they act as middle of the roaders Is to
te tested !n the courts.
Lord Kitchener continues to-spread
desolation through South Africa. Even
the chickens are killed, the fruit trees
est down, every live thing destroyed
or driven off. He says he 2s going to
make such a desert of the country that
the Boers cannot live In it. In the
language of the republicans that Is
threading civilization.
When the Cleveland-Sherman soup
house reign was Inaugurated by stop
ping the coinage of silver and the de
struction of the credit money of the
country by an order from the Wall
treet hankers, there was no strike
among the wage-workers for shorter
hours. They were not allowed to
work any hours at aiL
The army hill that has just passed
the English parliament contemplates
the formation of a standing army
many times larger than has ever ex
isted la that country before. It pro
vides for a military establishment of
V3 men, and this does not in
clude ZZj00 yeomen who are to be en
listed to srve in Africa for $L5 a
day. The next budget that comes up
before parliament win make the hair
cf the British taxpayer stand on end.
It em to The Independent that
Chamberlain nd Salisbury are pro
Tiding for the bankruptcy of the Eng
lish people. Yet thty still have a sub
tsntlal majority la the home.
- - v - w ... m
nstitutioD, .to defend which
pillion men have poured out
Id on a thousand battle fields,
I all. Some millions who have
their lives under the folds of
&-bomS spangled banner have been
told by the supreme court that the con
stitution does not protect them. They
no longer have unalienable rights.
Congress can take every one of them
"away. Five men who live. at Washing
ton, surrounded by an atmosphere of
imperialism, militarism and v plutoc
racy,, have. changed the whole form of
our government. .' All men--not even
all white men born in the United Stat
es are no longer equal before the law.
The law that Is, the constitution
provides that some of them' shall not
have , soldiers quartered upon them,
shall not be subject to unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be held
to answer for crime except upon the
presentment of a grand jury, shall'
have the benefit of counsel, shall be
confronted with the witnesses against
him, shall be tried in the district
where the crime waa alleged to be com
mitted by a jury of his peers, shall not
be subject to excessive bail nor twice
be put In jeopardy for the same of
fense. Now some sixteen millions of
people are living within the jurisdic
tion of the United States who have
been deprived of all these rights. Now
Christian men can be transported ten
thousand miles away from their
homes, tried in secret, denied counsel
and be deprived of life, liberty and
property without any process of law.
This is the ending of the great party
founded by Lincoln which drew its in
spiration from the declaration that "all
men were created equal" and in whose
ranks so many of us were glad to serve
for many years. It i3 the beginning of
the battle, not the ending. Another
battle for "the rights of man" will
Nhave to be fought. It may be longer
and bloodier than any that preceded it,
but it will be fought. The love of
equality before the law and hope that
springs eternal in the human breast
makes it a necessity. The day shall
come when all men Ehall be equal be
fore the law.
TBE'PORTO' RICA if S
The plutocratic dallies, and the Mc
Kinley office-holders in the island, one
and all, solemnly aver that the Porto
R leans were never so prosperous and
happy as they have been since benev
olent assimilation began to get in its
work down there. On the other hand,
all- the petitions sigaed and sent to
this country and the universal testi
mony of the inhabitants is to the effect
that the island is in the depth3 of pov
erty. The dailies themselves in their
news columns give the lie direct to the
assertions made in the editorial col
umns. Stories are printed there of
thousands of Porto Ricans fleeing
away from the land of their birth and
going half way round the earth to get
work. The reporters tell of scenes on
the wharfs before the ships sail that
should make the hardest hearted shed
tears. Numerous marriages are cele
brated just before the ships sail. The
couples join hand3 in the marriage
ceremony and then part to meet per
haps no more.
There is no necessity for all this suf
fering. The first and most forceful
cause of it Is the ruin of the trade of
these people who greeted General Miles
with shouts of Joy and tore up their
garments to make flags out of them.
That destruction was done with malice
and forethought by two trusts. The
next cause 13 the excessive-taxation
that has been levied to support McKin
ly office-holders who are twice as
numerous and paid twice as high sal
aries as men holding similar offices in
the states get. If the people of Por
Lj Rico are suffering the truth ought
ti be tcJd. The people of the United
States will render them any assistance
that they may need. If the farmers of
this country knew that people in Por
t Rico were starving, they would send
them shiploads of food and be glad to
do it. This suppression of the facts is
the foulest and most cruel thing con
nected with the whole matter.
A mullet head Is a mullet head and
nothing else can be made out of him,
especially the Lincoln mullet head.
Several of that kind got red In the face
on account of the official document
that appeared on the first page of the
last issue of this paper. One of them
cursed te editor of The Independent
for half an hour for publishing such
an outrageous document. Well the
document was first published by the
treasury department of the McKinley
administration. If any one has lied
about the vast Increase In the circula
tion. It Is Secretary Gage and Treas
urer Roberts. A mullet head don't
know the difference between an official
document and a last year's crow's nest.
THE SAME OLD FLAK
The idle " permanent educational
funds are crawling up toward the half
million mark. At the end of April,
Treasurer Stuef er had over $300,000
"on hand" of these idle trust, fundst
which ought to be invested in securi
ties and drawing an income for the
cause of education. We say "on hand"
because there is no doubt that every
dollar of this idle money is in the
hands of the bankers and being loaned
out by them at cent per cent rates, and
that Treasurer Stuefer does not in fact
have it in his possession. It is not un
reasonable either to conjecture that'
this immense sum is "deposited" in
the banks managed by the gentlemen
who kindly acted as Treasurer Stuef -er's
"committee" at the time he as
sumed the duties of his office. It will
be remembered that when Treasurer
Meserve turned over the office to
Treasurer Stuefer, a coterie of silk
stockinged Omaha bankers came down
to see that "Hayseed" Meserve should
make a proper turning over to his suc
cessor in office and to prevent the un
sophisticated and unsuspecting states
man from Cuming county 'from being
imposed upon and wheedled into ac
cepting "cigar boxes, gold bricks," etc.
Meserve had on hand some $90,000 of
trust funds (that being all which he
was required to turn over in cash) in
gold, silver and notes. The "commit
tee" carefully counted this money,
sniffed disdainfully at the musty odor
of some of the bills and gazed ruefully
at their erstwhile lily white, but now
woefully soiled fingers; smoked "Chan
cellors" at Stuef er's expense; finally
made out "deposit slips," which they
delivered to Treasurer Stuefer, called a
hack and carried away the $90,000 of
school money. It's ten to one Treas
urer Stuefer has never seen that money
since. And during his short period in
office he has managed to add more
than $200,000 to the amount already
Idle and drawing no Income to. assist
in the education of'Nebraska children.
At that turning over, too, the new
treasurer thought he better not ac
cept the general fund. warrants which
Treasurer Meserve held as custodian
for the educational funds, because, as
he claimed, Meserve had unlawfully
paid a premium for part of the war
rants. But the long-whiskered gentle
man from Red Willow has a head as
long as his whiskers, and he promptly
informed the new treasurer and his
"committee" that they could have the
whole amount in coin of the realm in
side of 36 hours if they were not satis
fied to take the warrants. That meant
over $1,200,000 of hard cash and they
were a little afraid to risk it In gam
blers' parlance, they were afraid to
"call" Meserve. So they took the war
rants. At this time Treasurer Stuefer pre
tends to be moving heaven and earth
to get warrants as an investment for
the educational trust funds, but he
can't get them fast enough, to keep the
balance of idle money from growing
steadily. In no great length of time he
will have on hand half a million dol
lars of this money. He may be making
an honest effort to get warrants but
his action in inducing the senate to kill
Representative Murray's bill, which
sought to reduce interest on state war
rants from 4 to 3 per cent, should not
be allowed to pass unnoticed. Had that
bill become a law, he might now Tae
securing practically all of the general
fund warrants as fast as they are is
sued, and without the payment of any
premium.
Three hundred thousand dollars is a
large amount of money to be lying idle
when it ought to be at work. The dif
ference between this republican ad
ministration and the fusion adminis
tration which preceded it is apparent
on every hand. The recent school ap
portionment is $50,000 less than the
apportionment in May, 1900, partly be
cause of the lack of diligence on the
part of Land Commissioner Follmer to
keep up the pace set by "Uncle Jake"
in collecting interest and rentals on
school land; but in great measure due
to the failure of Treasurer Stuefer to
keep the permanent school fund in
vested and earning interest. Educa
tion must suffer for the lack of $50,000
because of republican incompetency.
The taxpayers must pay nearly $20,000
a year additional interest on the state's
floating debt because a republican sen
ate listened to a republican treasurer
and refused to reduce the rate of in
terest. Great is republican adminis
tration! It's fun for the office-holders
but mighty tough on the taxpayers.
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INTELLECT MAKES POPULISTS
A plutocratic writer in a plutocratic
daily unwittingly pays a very high
compliment to populists generally and
to Towne and Pettigrew in particular
In a paragraph in which he acknowl
edges that it takes intellect to make a
populist. It is far easier to become
rich than to acquire the intelligence to
make a populist. This writer says: :
"It Is reported here that Charles A.
Towne, the handsome and eloquent
populist of the Zenith City of the Un
salted Seas, has been making a big
pile of money down in the Texas oil
country, and must hereafter be num
bered with the plutocrats. Everybody
who knows him is glad of it, because
he is an able, honest and genial man,
full of kindly feelings and bright ideas.
If he had been born rich instead of
smart he would never have been a pop
ulist, but itls easier to acquire riches
than smartness, and if the reports from
Beaumont are true he will hereafter
have both. I wonder what will become
of the populist party if all its leaders
become millionaires like Towne and
Fettigrew." ' '
HOW THE TRUSTS DO IT
A recent article In The Independent
explained the new scheme which is
said to have been evolved from the fer
tile brain of J. Pierpont Morgan. We
now give it again the words of Am
erica's two most famous financiers. J.
J. Hill says: :
"A property Is not necessarily worth
only what It represents in the way of
real estate, building, and plant.. It:is
worth lather what it represents in
earning capacity; and, if, under a com
bination, its earning capacity is treb-.
led, because of the economy of producr
tion, it is not unreasonable to say that
its value has been trebled, even though
nothing tangible has been added to its
material rsscts."
Russell Sage illustrates one feature
of industrial combination by taking an
imaginary factory worth, say, $50,000.
This factory, falls into the hands of the
consolidators, who issue - $150,000 of
stock against it, and ask banks to loan
$60,000 or $70,000 on the same property
that would rot in the hands of the or
iginal owner been considered good se
curity for ivore than $10,000. "Under
these civGumstances," he says, "a
'squeeze seems to me inevitable. The
clearing house is reporting, from week
to week, an expansion of loans far be
yond anything that was dreamed of
heretofore. This cannot go on forever;
yet, from all appearances, the era of
consolidation. hasronly-set in. A reac
tion must come as soon as the banks
realize the situation. . A property is not
worth $50,000 one day and $150,000 the
rext simplyi 'because a company of
men, no matter-how big and important
they are, say so." -;
That there , is a large class of men
in the United States who have become
so insane as to believe that real wealth
can be created by writing words on a
piece of paper--and that is what these
certificates of stock are is past com
prehension. Into these certificates hun
dreds of thousands of men are putting
their hard-earned . dollars by the million.-.
The ide.ai that the earning .-capacity
of a plant -can be capitalized and
made a permanent and -real investment
that ; will produce an ;- income, to . the
holder of the certificate -forever, is a
new idea. It-has less foundation in
anything real than faith. healing. Yet
the whole east has taken up with it
and the savings of years are being thus
invested. That the ord.of a man or a
set of men can create . wealth, is the
firm belief of a great part of the pop
ulation of the eastern states. Beside
that, the Tulip craze, was absolute
sanity. ,
A DIVIDEND TO CITIZENS
A
Henry Watterson published a story
about a mythical city In Sweden where
the cities paid . no, taxes and each in
stead thereof received large dividends.
It turns out . Watterson only made the
mistake , of locating the cityx in the
wrong part .of the. globe, .olorado
claims it. They say that the. City of
Leadville, Colo., , presents the novel
and interesting spectacle of a dividend
paying municipality. Instead o as
sessing the citizens for the support of
the municipal corporation they will
share in a distribution of profits after
the politicians have had what appears
to them to be a reasonable rake-off.
Taxpayers in American cities expect
no dividends. They are more than
grateful if they are not robbed by the
politicians. The reason the town' of
Leadville will be able to distribute be
tween $200,000 and $500,000 among tax
payers is because its streets happen to
be full of ore. By a recent decision of
the supreme court it is estimated that
the city will derive over $2,000,000 an
nual royalty from ore extracted from
beneath streets, and alleys to which the
city is given absolute subterranean and
surface rights. This means free light,
....
free water, free paving and many
other municipal luxuries and a surplus
in the treasury for distribution.
According to Rosewater logic fat
ness produces food and not food fat
ness. The Independent acknowledges
that that is an imprdvement upon the
logic of the republican spell-binders in
the campaigns of iS96 and 1900. If
these "chaps had only condensed their
speeches into the Rosewater sentence
that prosperity produces money and
not money prosperity, they would have
had a bigger majority than they did.
A correspondent asks if it is a fact
that an Insane man, confined In a hos
pital, was nominated and elected to
congress by the republicans at the last
election. The Independent answers
that it is a fact. Congressman Bout
well is probably referred to. That was
not half so bad as sending a lot of
lunatics to congress who were not con
fined in asylums which the republi
cans do at every election.
SCARCE MONET AND PLENTY OF IT
Nearly all the catch phrases -that
were used with so much effect to de
ceive the people in the campaigns of
1896 and 1900 were invented by John
Sherman. They were used as sports
men use decoy 'ducks and the galoots
who never think5 for themselves were
easily deceived by them. Since events
have dealt such crushing blows to the
gold standard and dear -money advo
cates, they have been forced to resort
to some of these old catch phrases
again. The New York World says:
"Sound money which means abundant-money
prevented the panic from
spreading." . That is only another form
of John Sherman's phrase: "Sound
money and plenty of it," which Senator
John P. Jones handled in such a way
that it convulsed the senate with a
roar of laughter. Sound money means
dear money and money to be dear must
be scarce. The phrase is therefore
equivalent to the "assertion: - "Scarce
money and plenty of it." Such an ex
pression as that is perfectly satisfac
tory to the unthinking multitudes who
vote the republican ticket. That state
ment by the New York World Is of
the same-character as the Rosewater
assertion . that prosperity - produced
abundant money and "not abundant
money . -osperity. The whole fight for
the last twenty years made by the gold
standard crowd was against "abun
dant money" and against "cheap mon
ey." Now when they find that they
cannot make money scarce and dear
on account of the increased output of
gold, and because their failure has re
sulted in abundant and therefore cheap
money, they are driven to the ridicul
ous assertion that "sound money
means abundant money."
REPUBLICAN IDIOCY
One of Secretary Hay's underlings
at the state department says: . "Our
home market no longer consumes our
manufactured oods, and the time can
never come when it will do so without
bringing widespread distress." . That
is the constant assertion of socialists
and republicans all over the United
States and it Is the worst kind of po
litical and economic rot. If the peo
ple of the United States have all the
goods that they want they must be
very easily satisfied. There are not to
exceed 10,000 families in the whole
country who have all the goods they
want. Every factory run at full speed
ten hours a day could not supply the
goods that the American people would
buy if they were able to buy them. We
would all have automobiles, fine car
pets,. Persian rugs, beautiful houses,
great barns . and ten thousand . other
things if we could buy them. That the
consumption of all the goods that our
factories could . produce would pro
duce widespread distress is the . most
idiotic notion that ever entered a
man's head. . .What this country needs
is a better, distribution of wealth so
tnat all the people will become lib
eral buyers. That will not only keep
the factories busy, but create a demand
for more factories.
Another gold and glory writer says
that a Britisher told him that "Ameri
can boots and shoes are largely sold in
the principal stores in London and
elsewhere, and are the favorite foot
wear for ladies on account of the
great flexibility of the sole and the
tastefulness of the shape. During the
last ten years the sale of your boots
and shoes in this country has risen
from $23,943 to $1,050,000. The British
operative earns on an average $5 or $6
a week, while I believe the American
maker receives about $12 to $15. But
yet a dozen pairs of shoes can be pro
duced cheaper in the Unitea States of
America than in England."
If the protected American manufac
turer had been willing to sell the shoes
h'3 sent to London to Americans at the
same price he got for them after trans
porting them across the sea, every
pair, of them would have been sold in
the United" States. Not so many per
sons would have gone around with
holes Tn their shoes. The arguments
of the above writers is just average re
publican" Idiocy.
"WE MADE A MISTAKE"
One of the proofs that there is some
thing in the wind down at Washing
ton concerning'nmperialism is the re
cent statement of President Schurman.
Schurman has simply been an echo of
the administration. Whatever the ad
ministration favored was the firm be
lief of "Schurman. Ha was one of the
first to advocate the "colonial policy"
especially in regard to Porto Rico,
ffow he says:
"We made a mistake in Porto Rico,
I am sorry to say. The Porto Rican
tariff was a mistake, and. We should
have endowed the citizens with all the
privileges and immunities of United
States citizens."
That he got an intimation from
Washington to say that before he gave
utterance to it, no one who knows he
man will attempt to deny. That is just
what the populists' said when they
were denounced as "little Americans.'4,
Every mullet head in Nebraska was for
the colonial policy and a tariff on Por
to Rican goods then. As soon as Mc
Kinley speaks. ' they will all be
against it. That Is the nature' of the
"critters." They have nothing to make
by it as Schurman has. The simple
minded creatures just can't help it. .
When the present redemption from
the Sherman-Cleveland soup house
reign is generally understood by all the
people to have resulted from an in
crease1 in the volume of money and the
fact becomes so plain that it can no
longer be denied, will Schurman come
around and say that "we made a mis
take in regard to the gold standard.?"
The next we may hear from Schurman
will probably be that we have made a
mistake about "protection." If Mc
Kinley gives him a hint, he will do it
in the next Interview that he gives
out. Nebraska can boast that she nev
er had such a head to her university
as Cornell sports in this man Schur
man. .
t- IT IS EVOLUTION
One of the most distinguished social
ists in the United States says: "The
formation of trusts is a good thing in
asmuch as it is .a necessary step in
evolution toward government owner
ship." It does not appear to The In
dependent that Rockefeller's present
income inclines him toward socialism.
Neither has Carnegie, Morgan the Van
derbilts or Goulds given any Indica
tion that they are inclined to go over
to the theory of government owner
ship. These men and some 5,000 more
like them who have been engaged in
the formation of trusts, who own and
manage the republican party, have so
far given no indication that they will
favor government ownership. It ap
pears to The Independent that the
more trusts they form and the more
powerful they become, the more they
will fight government ownership. The
statement that the formation of trusts
is a "necessary" step toward govern
ment ownership seems to be planned
after the same kind of. logic that Rose
water uses .when he declares that pros
perity produces money and not money
prosperity. The . trusts will advocate
government ownership when it set
tles that they are the government.
HURRAH FOR THE MINER
The Colorado miners seem deter
mined on settling the money question
and settling It right. The Denver
News says - that F. Hermann, leasing
on the original dump of the Stratton's
Independence mine, is making an ex
cellent thing . out of it, averaging 300
tons a day, which yields a gross out
put of about $2,500 a month.
Mr. Hermann gives the mine 30 per
cent of all the gold he gets out of the
old dump and is making a fortune for
himself. By the time all the old dumps
have been worked over, there will be
more , money in circulation than the
wildest-eyed pop ever dreamed of and
the farmers will be getting ten dollars
for their hogs, fifty cents for their corn
and two dollars for their wheat The
more gold the miners can dig, the
cheaper money will be, and the farmer
will grow fat, buy automobiles, silk
dresses for his wife, have broad cloth
for his Sunday suits, build a fine resi
dence, set all the factory wheels going
and make plutocrats out of the wage
workers in them. Hurrah for the Col6
iado miner!
The shallow pated individuals who
run the schools down in the provinces
bordering on the Atlantic oceah have
a fad of inviting the great trust mag
nates to address the pupils. What in
spiration the young men and women
can draw from the appearance of such
individuals before them toward form
ing characters that go toward making
a nation of good men and women is
known only to the pedagogues who
manage these affairs. One thing is
noticeable in all the speeches made by
these men Depew, Schwab and the
whole lot. They all tell the young
men when they hire out to be sure to
do more work than they are paid for
doing. To The Independent that sort
of advice seems wholly superfluous.
The working men always have done
from two to three times as much as
they were paid for doing, and out of
that work that was never paid for
Schwab and his millionaire conferees
have gathered the wealth that they call
their own. If instead of Inviting such
men to address their pupils, these pro
vincial pedagogues should invite some
one who would tell the young men and
women how to retain the fruits of their
labor instead of passing it over to the
millionaires, they would do something
much more sensible;"
Just to show what they can do when
they want to, the Chicago Tug trust
gave a little exhibition the other day.
A ship owner hired a tug that was not
in . the combine to tow one of his ves
sels out of an unimportant harbor.
When he had two of his ships which
were located far up the Chicago river
loaded and ready to sail, no tug in
Chicago would tow them out. There
they lay at last accounts tied to the
wharf. eThis gentleman found his In
vestments destroyed by the order of a
trust. The business man as well as
the wage-worker must obey the orders
of the trusts or dire vengeance is
speedily visited upon them. Strange
to gay, the most of both classes always
vote to perpetuate the trusts.
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THE INDEPENDENT,
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'months.
The map-makers have recently put
out maps in which Kruger's country is
marked "Vaal River Colony." Now let
them get out a map showing the part
of the;world that Is owned. by Rocke
feller, Morgan, Harriman, Gould, Van
derbilt and Hill. It would be a satis
faction to know where the little spots
that are left are located.
Those "most enlightened nations"
which stick to the gold standard are
having a terrible time in taking care
of their paupers. In Berlin the city
has to provide for the lodging of 3.
000 men every night and the number
is constantly increasing. The "sub
merged" increase in numbers all the
time..
Dewet evidently thinks that the
"price that staggers humanity" has
not yet been paid in full, for the other
day he turned up in the very heart of
Cape Colony, killed six colonials and
wounded eleven more, when, according
to all the rules of grand strategy he
should have been in the heart of the
Nauwpoort. mountains, six hundred
iniies away, meditating on a surrender.
"The Independent has always called
the transaction on Wall street gam
bling. Now comes the supreme court
of that state and backs up The Inde
pendent, declaring In a recent decision
that stock selling is gambling and that
debts thus incurred are not collectable
by law. You see that you can swear by
whatk The Independent says every
time.
While in California the working men
presented to McKinley a petition or
address concerning-the expiration of
the Chinese exclusion act which soon
expires and upon Its expiration the
Chinese and other Asiatics can. pour
into this country by the million. The
Associated press, following its usual
policy, does not tell us what reply, if
any, McKinley made. Asiatic Immigra
tion is a question upon which the pop
ulist party is ready to make an ex-
- " yuiivk uuauiuiii;. j
There will be a plank in the next state
platform on that question. '
Conger not only defends all the ac
tions; of the missionaries in China,
but those cf the armies as well. 1U
says that the looting was done by pri
vate soldiers without orders and there
fore the foreign nations are not re
sponsible. That is just what Li Hung
Chang said about the boxers, but the
invaders would have none of it and in
sisted on $300,000,000 damages. ,vWhen
Li wanted to put in the looting as a
set-off,' the foreign nations would have
none of that. The "most enlightened
nations" seem to think that it matfes
a good deal of difference whose ox is
gored. v . t-
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