Juno' 6, 1901 4
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R:-rt4 ateucrit will be re
This is the land of the fre and the
Lome of the "subject."
Id the order of fcUtory they tu&d:
Taney, StSras. Rrown. !a the order of
Isxasy they Hand: Brown. Sh'ras,
Taaey.
Ton "subjects of New Mexico, what
tort of Eseditatiocs are you indulging
la the days? How do you like being
object?
Why cast the supreme court decide
that the southern rtates are outside the
fifteenth aaeniuiect and eettle another
art ax diStulty?
The term "United States" inu to
car several meanings and it depends
entirely upon west you are talking
a tout what it means.
What do the "crown colocifts" of
Oklahoma think cf a supreme court
that can make their country a "de
pendency with a stroke of the pen?
The goreraor of Arizona and the sul
taa cf Sal a stand upon exactly the
same level now. They both rule "dependencies-
and draw salaries from
the "states.
The plutocratic editors say that the
"new possessions" are "Intrinsic" and
not "extrinsic dependencies." That Is
along the same lines of fog as their
Ideas of "intrinsic value."
Those who lire tn the territories are
no longer free American citizens, the
proudest title ever borne by man. With
a stroke f the pen the supreme court
transformed them Into "subject liv
ing la "dependencies
It has always been considered a
truism that "once a citizen, always a !
citizen." The supreme court can take j
the citizenship away from a native
bora American who goes into a terri-
tory j3lckT than a man can say Jack
Itoblcsoa.-
Jiza Kean can be seen every day
strewing salt along Wall street la the !
endeavor to toll back the lambs who
all fed after so many of them were
beared. Jim says: "Come back.
Stocks are going to rise again." They
will all come back. They always do.
The only man In the United States
and Its "dependencies' who is thor
oughly sxtisSed with the supreme
court decision is De Lima. He got hie
mosey Lick that he tad paid for duties
oa sugar that he shipped to the United
State.
The territories of the United States
are part of the United States la a geog
raphical sense, hut not la a constitu
tional sense, which seems to indicate
thai there is a conflict between the
constitution and geography and la such
a contest the constitution must take to
the rear.
All men are created equal whea con
gress says so; all raea have unalien
able rights after congress says they
have. It is congress and not God who
bestows these blessings. If anything
should happea to congress the world
would be throwa into chaos. So say
eta the supreme court.
Mr. Wu. la his address at Grant's
tomb oa Memorial day. said that it was
a favorite saying la China that "Stat
esmen azd generals do not come from
aa exclusive stock So It seems that
Minister Wu is cot a beever in the
plutocratic doctrine that "Acquired
characteristics are hereditary."
With the republican state govern
zsett came vetoes of over & hundred
thousand dollars appropriated for the
schools, a cutting down of the appor
tionments to the ccsaon schools JSO.
C0. and now Spanish bull fights are to
be established la South Omaha. It Is
all along the sass line cf degeseracy.
.Whea as inhabitant of the Philip
pices is travelling la Europe he is aa
Axaericaa citizen, whea he Is t home
he Is tot. That was the grave con
clusion arrived at between Secretary
Hay asd Minister Choate after many
messages tad passed over the Atlantic
cable between them. Oh! Ye DacleU.
A POLITICAL COURT
For fifty years the supreme court of
the United States has been the political
adjunct of the administration in pow
er. It begin with the Taney decision
which was tendered according to polit
ical policy of the administration then
In power. Then followed a greenback
decision which was likev!se. and re
versed and rendered asain in accord
ance, with the ideas of the ftdniinlstra
tion. Next came the income tax deci
sion which reversed, at the demand of
the administration, the uniform de
cisions of the court for a hundred
years. Now comes this imperialist de
cision la accordance with the demands
of the administration. There has never
been a decision yet on any important
subject upon which the policies of the
different parties In. the United States
had been denned and made a question
la politics that the court did not sus
tain the admlnlftration io power, even
if it had to reverse the well-defined
policy of the court for a hundred years.
The law as denned by the supreme
court la one thing under one admin
istration and another thing under an
other administration and is always just
what the party in power wants it to be.
During the last fifty years the court
has destroyed all confidence in it as a
great non-partisan judicial body,
which would construe the law and in
terpret the constitution according to
settled principles. It has no principles.
It varies more than the political par
ties. It Is for an income tax for a
hundred years, then at the demand of
an administration it is against an in
come tax. It stands for the rights of
man when the administration is for
those rights and it abolishes them
when the administration so demands.
It decides that it is constitutional for
the government to issue paper money
and make it a legal tender when the
administration go believes It de
clares it unconstitutional when politi
cal exigencies so demand. It extends
slavery when the administration calls
upon It to do so and becomes the ad
vocate of liberty when the administra
tion changes.
It is only natural that this should
be true. The men who compose the
court live at Washington. For the last
few year they have been surrounded
by an atmosphere of plutocracy, im
perialism and militarism. They see it
in every paper they take up and every
man they meet Is under its spell. They
are but men and are controlled by such
Influences as control other men. They
are as far removed from the common
life of the nation as it Is possible for
men to be. The very atmosphere they
breathe, the men they meet, the papers
they read, all combined bear upon
them and influence them, it may be
unconstitutional, but nevertheless In a
most Powerful way.
There is but one member of the
court Justice Harlan, whose opinions
nave always been consistent. Taken
together they form a body of law
based upon settled principles. His op- i
inlon la the John Elk case twenty i
years ago Is perfectly in accord with i
tna rendered Tvr,Pk Administra
tlona may come and administrations '
may go, but they have no effect upon )
Justice Harlan. In interpreting the i
constitution and construing the law, j
he Is guided by principles well defined j
and well understood. Those principles j
are based upon the first thirteen ;
amendments to the constitution de- j
daring, as may be said, the rights of i
man.
The worst fears of the patriot father
who opposed the establishment of the
supreme court as it was afterwards en
grafted upon the constitution seem to
be realized. That five men. who never j
mingle with the common people, who ;
are aa far removed from them in all i
their associations as it is possible to '
be, can by their dictum change this :
republic, founded by Washington and !
Jefferson and dedicated to the defense !
of the natural rights of man. into an j
empire, holding part of its citizens as !
subjects, may well cause the most con
servative to have grave fears for the
future.
C2CSETTLF.S EVERYTHING
The position taken in the review of
the supreme court decisions in last
week's Independent seems to be coin
cided in by eminent writers both here
and in Europe. Several London news
papers assert that "the court has con
tradicted itself and unsettled every
thing without settling anything." The
Chicago,, Record-Herald, whose prop
rietor was one of the principal con
tributors to the fund subscribed to get
McKInley out of bankruptcy, says:
"It must be a matter for the sincerest
regret that the decision of the moment
ous national departure involved in the
passage of the Foraker act fhould rest
on the apparently contradictory atti
tude of Justice Brown."
It la generally, conceded that the
principle laid down In the first deci
sion where the taxes on goods going to
and received from Porto Rico are de
clared unconstitutional and must be
refunded to those" who paid them", is
overthrown in the secend decision.
The fourteenth . amendment, to the
constitution which in many decisions
has always ieen considered to apply
to the whole United States, including
the territories, -wherein the word
"state has always beeu accepted as
meaning just what Chief . Justice
Marshall declared that it meant, when
be said that the territories west of the
Mississippi were as much a part of the
United States as Delaware or Penn
sylvania, declares that: ,
"All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to its
jurisdiction are citizens of the United
States."
Many writers have already called
attention to the fact that under the de
cision in the Porto Rican cases all
persons born in Porto Rico or the Phil
ippines after they became n part of the.
United States, are certainly citizens
and that the most that these decisions
do is to put off the protection of the
constitution to these subjects or chat
tels or whatever they are, who reside
in the territories, for one generation.
The more these decisions are studied
the more it appears that the London
writer hit the nail on the head when
he said: "They unsettle everything."
Justice Brown declares that Porto
Rico is not a foreign country. If it is
not then it must be part of the United
States and persons born there must be
citizens of the United States.
INTENTIONAL DECEPTIONS -
The P Street Idiot re-echoes the
phrase: ' Congress has plenary power
to legislate for the District of Colum
bia and the territories." Nothing else
could be expected from that source.
He probably never read the constitu
tion of the United States and don't
know any better. This phrase was
started out on the same kind of mis
sion that catch phrases have performed
for the republican party for the last
twenty years among their unthinking
and ignorant followers. This connect
ing of the government of the District
of Columbia with the government of
territories is a villainous endeavor to
deceive the people. The writers who
do it, with perhaps the exception of
the above mentioned cheerful idiot, well
know that congress was given exclu
sive legislative powers in the District
of Columbia by the original constitu
tion itself, before any amendments
were engrafted upon it and there it has
remained by the common consent of
all the people ever since. They know
equally as well that there Is nothing of
the kind in the constitution concerning
territories. Section 48 of the constitu
tion reads as follows:
"To exercise exclusive Legislation in
all Cases whatsoever, over such Dis
trict (not exceeding ten Miles square)
as may, by Cession of particular Stat
es, and the Acceptance of Congress,
become the Seat of the Government of
the United States, and to exercise like
Authority over all Places purchased by
the Consent of the Legislature of the
State in which the Same shall be, for
the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Ar
senals, Dock-Yards, and other needful
Buildings."
There it is, capitalization, punctua
tion and all, just as it has stood since
the 17th day of September, 17S7, when
the constitution was adopted by "the
unanimous consent of the states pres
ent." The writers who would lead their
readers to believe that the power of
congress over territories is the same as
its power over the District of Colum
bia are dishonest and intend to de
ceive. The constitution grants to con
gress to exercise "exclusive legisla
tion" over only ten miles square of ter
ritory and forts, arsenals and dock
yards.
PATIENCE EXHAUSTED
The Independent can have a great
sympathy with the mullet head editor
when he displays bis ignorance of the
commonest facts of history, because he
don't know any better. But when they
get to lying like the P Street Idiot
did last Sunday, it finds its patience ex
hausted. Read the following concern
ing the decision of the supreme court:
"The fact is that nothing has been
changed either in law or practice and
the decision merely means that the
same interpretation of the constitution
under which congress has passed laws
for the regulation of new territory for
nearly a hundred years will be held
good for the future."
It has been the practice for the su
preme court to hold for a hundred
years that export and import duties
can be levied on the territories has
it? The ignorance of the P street chap
we know is past all comprehension,
but it is not possible to believe that
he did not know that he was lying
when he wrote that. If he will pub
licly declare that he did not know
that he was lying and really believed
that statement to be true, the situation
will be somewhat changed. The Inde
pendent would be glad to furnish him
with some primary works on the his
tory of his country.
The British object to doubling the
Chinese tariff because they say that it
will add that much, to the price of the
goods that the Chinese will have to
pay and reduce the quantity which
they are able to buy. McKInley, when
addressing John Bull, says "me too."
Rut when McKInley addresses the Am
ericans, he says that the foreigner pays
the tax. Why the foreigner does not
pay the tax in China and always pays
It in the United States is one of those
things that no pop can find out.
- 4 ' SUSTAINED DY FALSEHOOD
.A cause that must be forever and al
ways sustained by falsehood and mis
representation is an evil cause. False
hood, outright, half truths, tergiversa
tion is the stock in trade of the repub
lican writers. One of them will write
a lie and then the others will add to it,
embellish it and repeat it untlU an
other Is manufactured and ready for
use. Some one started the lie that the
United , States was borrowing money
cheaper than Great Britain could, and
that the British had to pay a higher
rate of interest than the people of the
United States. Some of them make the
statement without any explanation at
all and give all the glory to McKInley.
Of such Is the following:
"British consols that pay to the
holder 4 3-4 per cent interest the first
year, 2 3-4 per cent the second year
and 2 1-2 per cent every year thereafter
are sold now in open market at 94 1-2,
while plain, straight American 2 per
cent bonds bring 106 1-2. German im
perial 3 per cents go at 86, French 3
per-cents bring 101."
Some of them say that the difference
in this rate is first on account of Mc
KInley, second because the English
government collects an income tax,
and, third, because England has a larg
er debt than the United States. Now
every one of these scoundrels knows
the reason why there is such a differ
ence In the price of English and Am
erican bonds, but not one of them ever
mentions it. The American bonds can
be used to bank upon and the English
cannot. The holder of an American
bond can go to Washington and get
back in just as good money as he paid
for them, every cent that he paid. Give
the English bondholder that privilege
and there would be no difference in the
price of the bonds of the two nations.
Every man knows that a difference of
one-eighth of one per cent in the Inter
est rate will at any time transfer mon
ey from one side of the ocean to the
other.
The final result of this way of hand
ling bonds is that the American people
pay a much higher rate of interest
than do the English. It does not make
a particle of difference to the people
whether they pay 2 per cent to the gov
ernment and then 3 per cent to the
bankers making 5 per cent in all or
whether they , paid 5 per cent to the
government in the first place. The
bankers get interest on their bonds,
get their money back and then get in
terest on that.
THE OLD AND THI XKW
First we had, the Dred Scot decision,,
then the Income tax decision, and'now
the Porto Rk?odecIsions. All these are
work of the supreme court and what
that court has done for liberty and
equal taxation, The first was wiped
out on a thousand battlefields where
American patriots poured out their
blood. What will be the fate of the
two latter? May it not be well to
turn to some of the words of Lincoln
in these times that try men's souls.
Hear what Lincoln said in a speech
delivered In Peoria, in 1854:
"Little by little, but steadily as
taan's inarch to the grave, we have
been giving up the old for the new
faith. Near eighty years ago we be
gan by declaring that all men are
created equal; but, now, from that be
ginning, we have run down to the oth
er declaration that for some men to
enslave others is a 'sacred right of
self-government. These principles
cannot stand together. They are as
opposite as God and Mammon; and
whoever holds to the one must despise
the other. When Pettit, in connection
with his support of the Nebraska bill,
called the Declaration of Independence
'a self-evident He he only did what
consistency and candor required all
other Nebraska men to do. Of the
forty odd Nebraska senators who sat
present and heard him,, no one rebuked
him. Nor am I apprised that any Ne
braska newspaper or any Nebraska
orator in the whole nation has ever
yet rebuked him. If this had been
said among Marion's men, southern
ers though they were, what would
have become of the man who said it?
If this had been said to the men who
captured Andre, the man who said it
would probably have been hung soon
er than Andre was. If It had been said
In old Independence hall seventy-eight
years ago, the very doorkeeper would
have throttled the man and thrust
him into the street."
PROFESSOR HEBRON
Professor Herron has arrived at the
logical result of the theories of social
ism. It is there, that every logical
miad has at last arrived that ever em
braced it. Accepting the premises of
socialism as true, no other conclusioh
could be arrived at. If no one is to be.
the individual owner of property and
all must belong to "the state," th6
family as it exists in Christian nations
can not endure.' If a man has no
property and only an undivided share
In all property, he cannot control his
children and direct them they must
be supported and educated by the state,
and individual and independent fam
ilies cannot exist. Prof. Herron left
his wife and children and then mar
riedIf a 6imple statement by the two
parties without other forms can be
called marriage another woman. The
agreement made between him and this
other woman as reported in the press,
is to live together as man and wife as
long as it is mutually; agreeable to
both. Prof. Herron having accepted
the premises of socialism as true, has
the courage to practice them, wherein
he rises above the' average socialist
and in so far he is to be commended.
Prof. Herron is the most brilliant,
scholarly and logical socialist that has
ever appeared in the United States.
A RIDICULOUS COUBT.
If the following words from the su
preme court decision does not declare
that part of the constitution follows
the flag while part of it does not, then
there is no meaning to English words:
"Whatever may be finally decided by
the American people as to the status of
these islands and their inhabitants
whether they shall be Introduced into
the sisterhood of states or be permitted
to form independent government it
does not follow that, In the meantime,
awaiting that decision, the people are
In the matter of personal rights unpro
tected by the provisions of our con
stitution." There is no sort of subtility that can
make this appear other than a self
contradiction to other parts of the de
cision, and no court indulging in such
demogogism can expect to retain the
confidence of reasonable men. The
court has made itself ridiculous.
SOUTH AFRICAN PATRIOTS
The Commoner, Mr. Bryan's paper, is
printed by The Independent and con
sequently many of the affairs con
nected with it are well known In our
office. Here is a little item that will
be of interest to all the readers of The
Independent. It is an order for sub
scriptions from South Africa and reads
as follows:
"Consular Service U. S. A., U. S.
Consular Agency, Johannesburg, 19
April, 1001. Hon. W. J. Bryan, Lin
coln, Nebraska, U". S. A. Sir: I have
the honor to enclose herewith draft for
25 7 shillings 6 pence to cover 25 sub
scriptions to The Commoner, as per
list herewith. These men are all resi
dent on the Witwatersrand Goldfields,
and are admirers of yours. I have the
honor to be, obediently yours.
"WM. D. GORDON,
"U. S. Consular Agent."
If this news comes to the ears of
John Hay, that consul will be apt to
get a rap over the head. Think of it!
A consular agent in South Africa tak
ing subscriptions for Bryan's paper!
But com to think of it every consul we
have sent to Pretoria has turned out to
be a. red hot Boer sympathizer, includ
ing Hay's own son. Monti gue White,
who was the consul preceding Hay's
son, is now Kruger's special agent In
this country.
It will take five weeks for The Com
moner to teach Johannesburg after
leaving the Lincoln office, but these
lovers of liberty In South Africa want
to know what their, friends in this
country say concerning the heroic
struggle for liberty that v Is going on
there.
In this connection it may be 'well to
relate a little anecdote concerning
Kruger. In a conversation with a man
who was trying to persuade him that
he ought to order Botha and De Wet
to surrender because the effort they
were making was entirely hopeless,
Kruger replied that the cause was not
hopeless, that the Lord would yet re
veal his strong right arm in behalf of
his people. The gentleman replied that
the day of miracles was past that In
modern times the viotories-were always
on the side of the strongest battalions
and heaviest artillery, that in all mod
ern history none of the angels of the
Lord had been found fighting on the
side of his people. The last incident
of that kind recorded in history was j
when St. Georte was seen fierhting in f
the ranks of the Crusaders and that
was a long time ago, which was all
proof that we must no longer expect
miracles.
Kruger replied: "When you reflect
that fifteen thousand farmers, mostly
boys, have been able to hold in check
for two years a well appointed army of
250,000 men made up of the best armed
soldiers in all Europe, what do yOu
call that?"
A certain republican who seems to
have seen one or two copies of The
Independent, or what is more probable
some extracts from it printed in other
papers, writes the editor that while
h6 likes "to see a man use forceful lan
guage In defending his political prin
ciples, there is no sense in opposing
everything that the opposite ' party
does, Just because It is the opposite
party." The Independent has never
been guilty of that sOrt of thing.
Wherever this administration has done
a commendable thing The Independent
his approved of It. It has supported
the administration policy, In the main,
in China. It has given the administra
tion unqualified approval for increas
ing the volume of money by the coin
age' of large amounts of silver dollars.
It has commended the administration
of the agricultural department. If this
republican will subscribe for The In
dependent and-read it every week, he
will find that he s mistaken and that
"The State Pop Organ," as the repub
lican dallies call it, is all right
, . EFFECTIVE PREACHING
Rev." Byron Beall of Lincoln has been
holding" a symposium with Nebraska
editors on the question: "In what way
can the Gospel ministry become more
effective in reaching the people." Many
of the editors have treated the matter
In a jocose and humorous Way" which
seems to The Independent not rto be
exactly fair. , ; s
The church is a great institution,
hoary with age and there is no sign of
its disappearance. .It has existed among
all people, savage, barbarian and civil
ized. It is one of the forces that no
thoughtful man will ignore. Its influ
ence is still powerful in state . and '.so
ciety, although the question seems to
imply that it is . waning.
There are things that the ministry
can do to make the church influence
still greater and there are many things
which it is doing and has done in the
last few years that has enfeebled the
influence of the church in Its hold on
the people. Among the things that the
ministry should do are:
First, keep out of politics. There is
not a man with less influence Upon the
community than the one who has be
come known as a political preacher.
No ministry has a congregation wholly
composed of men who belong to one
political party. Any sermon on poli
tics must offend a part of the congre
gation and lessen the, influence of the
minister who preaches it.
Second, the minister should not show
partiality in his social intercourse, in
his preaching or in the standing he
gives in his church to the wealthy.
That is not only a direct repudiation
of the command of the man in whose
name he preaches, but is exceedingly
bad policy. The rich are few In num
ber and the poor are many. If the de
sire is to reach the "people" then such
favoritism is directly against accom
plishing the end in view. You-can be
more effective in reaching the people
by remembering the divine command
that God is no respecter of persons,
and that before God, whether before
the law or not, all men are equal.
The church has lost much of its in
fluence because of the impression that
it is a rich man's institution. There is
good reason for such ah impression
among the common people. The large
salaries paid to sensational preachers,
the magnificent and costly church
buildings, the show made in them of
costly apparel on Sundays, the lapses
from moraand ethical principles ex
hibited In the preaching and the dally
lives of the most favored members of
such churches, curtails-the influence,
not only of the church , that permits
them, but that of all churches.
Third, the "Tavbr 'given to war and
war policies' have been great factor in
reducing the influence and preventing
ministers from reaching the people. If
the Christian church or its great foun
der stands for anything, they stand for
peace and not war. It is self-stultifi
cation for ministers to preach blood
and thunder war sermons. : " It cau have mu"!uS . euu
no other effect than to bring them Into j ent ex known in -Nebraska, the re-
contempt and prevent them from
raoohlnr all th nonnl exc.ent those
who make money out of war. Even j members of the old gang of re
those who support war policies, feel j Publican Parasites that formerly looted
that it is a stultification when they j the tate trfea sury on every possible oe
llsteh to such sermons. The idea of ! cas on This was accomplished by the
extending the religion of the Man or ! stance of the mid-road pops, oeten.
Peace 'by war, is so disgusting that no
man of cbmmon sense can fail to be
disgusted byv the preaching of it.
During the lastrfew years there have
been organized innumerable fraternal
societies which are doing the work that
should have been done by the church
and which the church failed to do.
What may be called "the brotherhood"
which distinguished the early church
has been banished from it. That was
its great force and power. The' modern
church knows but little of It. The long
ing for that "brotherhood" is sought
for In the modern fraternal society,
when it should have been found in the
church. When the members of a fra
ternal society meet, they meet on a
common level, all are brothers and sis
ters. It was once that way in the
church, but is not so any more except
in the poorest and humblest churches.
The people always expect the minis
ter to be on .the right side of every
ethical question regardless of he in
fluences of wealth or powerful political
parties. The failure to do this has les
sened the influence of the ministry.
Every man has something within him
that enables him to distinguish, be
tween right and wrong whether he has
the will power to do the right when
powerful temptations assail him . or
not. A man may contribute to the sup
port Of a minister who preaches in ao
cordance with the practice of the grab
bers of what others have produced
but in his heart of hearts he despises
such a preacher. He knows that the
minister is not true to the ethical
standards set up by Christ and he looks
upon him as he would look upon a
lawyer arguing a case because he was
paid for such services.
The ministry can more effectively
reach the people by preaching the fun
damental morel truths laid down by
Christ. Don't be afraid of these broad
principles of the Man who was "cruci
fied for uttering tbemv Stand by them
first, last and all the time. They have
received the approval of all the good J
and great for two thousand years and:
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Will for all time to come;. ; They hava
had agreater in-aence upon the world
than any -other truths that were ever
uttered. .The man who stands by them,
who continues to declare them, , who
urges them upon men, who supports
them with appeals to reason and the
experience of mankind will directly
f reach the people, and reach them more
effectively.
THAT SUBSIDY .
A look at the ship yards in the Unit
ed States will ' convince anybody ex
cept Mark Hanna and Frye that that
subsidy scheme which they are laying
plans' to put' through congress as soon
as it assembles is the most bare-faced
and Indefensible fraud ever attempted.
The new battleship Maine will soon
be launched from the Cramps ship
yards, probably the greatest plant of
its kind in the United States, covering
more than thirty-one acres, possessing
some of the most powerful machinery
in the world, and employing a force of
something like 6,000 men.' Many per
sons regard the firm as having a mo
nopoly of the shipbuilding interests of
the Delaware riven It is the greatest
one there, but there are others. With
in the past twelve months a new cor
poration with a capital of $6,000,000
has erected a flne plant. It has im
mense buildings. In one structure
alone there are four acres of skylights,
and there are forty " big travelling
cranes. The Delaware is also a river
of great ocean shipbuilding. From
Philadelphia to Wilmington there are
seven great concerns and several
smaller ones. Within the past few
months these yards haye had under
construction- more than seventy ves
sels, - representing a tonnage of over
200,000 and a combined cost of some
thing like $30,000,000. The Cramps
had considerably more than one half
of this, but there were enough millions
left to keep the other concerns busy.
While ships are being built at this
tremendous rate without any subsidies
and while the ship-bullders are making
fortunes out of the business, Hanna
and Frye come before the people plead
ing for grants to be made to them out
of the public treasury so that they
may be able to compete with the pauper-made
ships of Europe. If there
was ever another exhibition of pure
"cheek" equal to. this Hanna-Frye
scheme the historians have failed to
record it. McLaurin is so enamored
with it that he is trying to build up a
republican party in the south based
upon it, which goes to show that Mc
Laurin believes that "cheek can ac
complish anything,
''''irCtWI DEAVF.r"fAII OFF
"Virtue has its own reward," 5t is
said, and this is probably correct. In
fact, it does sometimes seem that it is
about all the reward it gets. Were it
not for the approval of one's own ton
science, the Incentive to be honest and
faithful might be counted nil. After
lorm iorces were turned aown last
fall and the state executive offices filled
sibly under the leadership of men hou-
estly opposed to fusion with the demo
crats, but really under the manage
ment of one D. Clem Deaver, who,
smarting under a fancied injustice be
cause he could not be nominated for
governor, and because Governor Poy ti
ter chose to remove him from au ap
pointive office, sold his birthright for
a mess of pottage, and, under the tute
lage of Edward Rosewater and assisted
by Red Apple Jo Johnson, began the
publication of the True (?) Populist.
It was money well expended by the re
publicans, and Clem's "pottage" Is not
to be sneezed at: a few days ago he
was appointed receiver of the U, S.
land office at O'Neill with a salary of
$3,000 per year. Verily, virtue is its
own reward; but deceit and treachery
much too often gather In the shekels.
It might be well to stop and reflect
that for sixteen years this country did
all ; its business with paper money
which was not redeemable in any other
kind of money and and that during
that time the people prospered, half
a continent was opened up, railroads
were built, a great war was fought, and
a foreign trade was carried on. Men
grew up from boyhood to manhood and
never saw a metal dollar. If that could
be done for sixteen years, why not. for
a hundred Or five hundred yeare? Sure
enough, why not?
The Empire is here. The Declara
tion of Independence is repudiated.
The Bryan prophesy seems to have
been fulfilled in a most remarkable
manner. The Fourth of July, unless it
is to be an exhibition of the rankest
hypocrisy, is abolished. All men are
not created equal before the law. Gov
ernments do not derive their just row
ers from the consent of the governed.
Men have no unalienable rights. So
says the highest authority in this land.
What unutterable hypocrisy it will be
to get up and announce these thin?
when they have been repudiated by the
hishest authnrlfv in tK i. ..
thoHtv tn '
tnority to which all must bow down.
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