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Zbt Utbraska Indtptndtnt , Llmcitm, Utbratka mSSC tt&G, COtfE DTfl AND H STS 1 PrsuHzi JiTT Thcbsdat 31. OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Mtkit rsittac dm ' t lart iorgv mm rmxt m mmmmat Ubo m ltt vttfc tb. 4 tit ntiUrr fU to ei petr&er KTm&ii. AMrm mU &aictoa. e4 mk all drafu. Mrr ta. tc pyli to C$f Htbrssks Indtptndtnt, Lincoln, Neb. Aeonyakoc txtmmnuirmtymt mill tot b ao- EJe4 Mssacris will Will 12.000 a year for four years blot out ! isfaray that will forever be associated wit!i tie ca.ce of Clem When will Ronewater make the an nouncement la his paper that McKln ley fcaa appointed Clem Dearer to a 13,000 cce? "Will tie dependent old ladles all get a free outing this year? There being bo Celled State senator to be elected, aorse people deutt it. McKlnley la 7tnTco?n!ng a third mere ailver every month than was eTer colnt-d under the Sherman act- Who are tie silver lunatics now? How caa a man be a traitor to the United States when bj is neither a citiwa cf tbe United State nor living ia a part cf tbe United States? The general concensus of opinloa among mid -road populists since Clem Dearer rot bis b!g oLce from McKIn ley Is that Clen played them for suck ers and woa oat. Tbe Ruftlans hare an absolute mon archy, tempered by assassination. Tbe Filipinos bar a government by com cissioa. tempered by drumhead court martials. As between the two, tbe Jtuesiaa style Is tbe preferable one. A recent bulletin Issued by the de partment of agriculture shows that there has been aa enormous increase la the price of almott all agricultural Implements since That is tbe trib ute that tie farmers pay to the imple ment trust How those silver dollars still come pouring out of the mints! Hurrah for 2 to 1! It has turned a country of Cleveland soup bouses Into "a world power with a productiveness so great that the oil world stands aghast. We told you- so. The Bee and several other republican papers are coddling the fond hope that Mark JIanna aud his followers can evolve a non-political tariff. That U more lsionary thaa the idea that prosperity produced more money and I ct iiore money prosperity. Llncola Issued bis emancipation proclamation and after that tbe Cag j waved oniy over the free. McKlnley issued his benevolent assimilation proclamation and since that the Cag Laa waved over subejects. McKlnley cr Lincoln, which was right? The Cannuck are onto this irriga tion business all right. They put CCO.000 acres cf land under cultivation last year by building IZZ miles of ditches la western Canada. Tart of It was settled by citizens of the United States and subjects from the terri tories. There is one blessing that the re publican tariff on wool gives to the American people that should not be cverlocked. A maa caa buy a set of heavy underclothing ia the fall and by spring all the shoddy will drop out of 1L ' Then he has a summer suit of light cotton. The Prtsbyteriaa general assembly resolved the other day to order a re Tisioa of the creed. It Is said that & good many of the deacons and elders have so far adranced as to denounce lha doctrine of endless punishment except ia the case of free silver demo crats and pcpulista. The republics a party of Nebraska haa reformed. Elmer Stephenson has beea appointed Internal revenue col lector for this state. The reformation consists la this: Whea Stephenson turned up short some $20,000 as city treasurer, the city lost the money, but now he has put up a guarantee bond In the days cf the carpet-bag and jtegro. rule la the south which has be come a warning to the whole world, there was never worse government and more outrageous public robberies than ia the state of Pennsylvania at the present time under republican rule and a few years ago under the same party In Nebraska. "Vote er straight. Just think of the awful disasters that would come upon this country If a party should get into power that would go to coining silver and issuing paper money 1 FOUNDATION OF THINGS The Independent has for years tried to drive home the fact that agriculture la the basis of all wialth of whatever nature. Let there be a total failure of crops for two years arid the inhabitants of these states would be close to an nihilation. As aa example of the dif ference even ia the permanent wealth of the country take Nevada. While in the last few years it has produced J COO ,000 ,000 of gold and silver more than one-fourteenth of the entire stock of gold and silver In the' whole world today yet its" Inhabitants are few in number and poverty-stricken. If they should dig gold and silver there for a thousand years the population would still be mostly poverty-stricken and miserable. But Nevada is not without hope. Its soil is barren for want of water. If the government will build reservoirs out there and agriculture is encouraged, it will not be many years until It will have a large, wealthy and happy population. Only farming can do it. Nothing makes a great nation but a population which. .tills .the. soil. Upon the farmers shoulders rest science, religion, law, medicine and ev erything that makes thi3 world worth living in. We suppose that if one of these sun tanned farmers should tell a city man that a country full of gold mines never added wealth to the community, he would look upon that son of the . soil with contempt and immediately con clude that he was a populist lunatic. Dut who is the lunatic? One who comes from the farm to live in the city and finds himself surrounded by men who believe in all sorts of ridiculous fads, from astral bodies to ghosts who talk to him in the midnight hours, but nev er tell him anything that is of value, finds himself in a strange world and soon begins to long for the association of sane people once more. The Inde pendent repeats Its of t-toid reasons for saying that the farmer is what makes a nation. There is where the strong, sane men grow. There is the source of supply for the brains of the cities. The greatest glory of The Independent is that it is able to furnish reading mat ter that is appreciated by the farming population of this and other states. DOUGLAS COUNTY REPUBLICANS Under the republican party in Penn sylvania, the politicians get their money direct, they yote franchises to themselves in the legislature and in the city councils and the United States senators and congressmen take them in their own names. Down in Douglas county, Nebraska, they accomplish the same thing, by indirection and it has become so oppressive that er en some cf the republicans, who don't get any. part of the rake-off, are beginning to kick. John C. Cowin calls attention to the fact that the assessors have failed to list I3.6S2.952 worth of property be longing to the big corporations, while all the property belonging to ordinary citizens is assessed to the full limit. Cowin thinks that way of doing things makes him pay more taxes than his share, so he has made a kick. The In dependent has no sympathy for Cowin. He has done, as much to bring about the subserviency of . the state to the corporations as any other man In. it. He is only reaping what he has sown, and he should pay his extra taxes and take his medicine like a little man. He will never "do anything effective 'to overthrow corporate rule in this state. His little personal loss is a small mat ter and the people at large are not in terested In It. But they are Interested ia the system of government which has made such robbery of the ordinary citizen the rule and which John C. Cowin has done his best to force upon the state. It is such men as he, who have led so many citizens who have no time to investigate systems of tax ation to vote to rob themselves by un holding the republican party in this state. Douglas county is suffering from just the same kind of rule that is at tracting attention in Pennsylvania. Republicanism is very much the same wherever one finds It THE REPUBLICAN- KECORD The other day $925 was paid over to the state by the comptroller of the cur rency. It being three per cent of the money deposited by Bartley In the Alma bank and that is all . that the state will ever get. This is a re minder of what republicanism has done for Nebraska. The republican leaders established a business system at the state house that was an invita tion and a temptation to every county treasurer In the state to become a de faulter or a thief; they handled the funds In a way that no business man uould ever have thought of handling them by depositing them la small po litical banks all over the state; 'they accumulated nearly a million dollars in the hands of the state treasurer when there was a large amount of debts drawing interest which they re fused to pay and finally they stole the whole amount. The school Interests of the state were neglected and the money paid in for the education of the chil dren was stolen outright. They left the taint of fraud on everything that they touched even to the census, which they stuffed so that the county officials In the three large republican counties could draw enormous fees. Th whole thing was rotten from top to bottom. After six years, by importing 20,0CO voters, they managed to get back Into office again and they have adopted their old practices in every particular. They have lowered the taxation of the railroad corporations; they , have, cut down the school apportionments $50, 000; they have adopted the old system with the county treasurers that Me serve abolished; they are accumulating enormous sums ot money in the hands of the state treasurer and are doing business after the same methods that Bartley transacted, it. The fusionists paid off the state bonded debt and the last republican legislature provided for a quarter of a million more at the end of the first two years of their return to power the appropriations being that much more than the taxes will produce. It is the same old thing and the same men are running the state government who ran it ten years ago when the people entered their first protest. "RECIPROCITY" The Independent told its readers months ago that the republicans hav ing stolen the poulist financial policy the next thing would be an attempt to steal its tariff policy. They are al ready hot after it as will be seen from the following extrat from the Bee: "From present indications, by the trade reciprocity. We have hereto fore noted the friendly attitude of Sen ators Cullom and Fairbanks toward that policy and now it is announced that Senators . Frye and Allison will take an active part in support of re ciprocity. It is stated that in the Iowa senator has found that in the Missis sippi valley as well as in other parts of the west a strong feeling has been developed, not partisan, and yet most conspicuous in the republican party, in favor of the principle declared-by that party to be the 'twin' of pro tection." They are going to call tariff reform "reciprocity" and run the thing under that title. All the difference between them is that a general tariff bill would fix the thing at once and reciprocity will require treaties with the . differ ent nations and a confirmation by the senate. That will save a good deal of j trouble to the party and be in line i with their imperialistic program, for the house, the direct representatives ; of the people, will have no voice in the matter at au. This thing of selling American goods to foreigners for half what the American citizens and subjects who live in the territories have to pay, is getting to be so well known, after many years of the sub rosa practice, that the republicans will have, to do something, and the best way seems to be "reciprocity." Again they fear that fighting tariffs will be put up by all the European nations and shut off their foreign trade. Under all these circumstances something must be done and "reciprocity" seems to be the thing agreed upon. The mullet heads will shout for it as loudly as tney ever did for prohibitive tariffs just as soon as they get the word from headquarters. Reciprocity is a queer sort of a twin" to protection, being born forty years afterwards and of another race and color. That, however, is a good catch phrase and will take just like the phrase "sound money" did. SANE PAPER FOB SANE PEOPLE Insane crazes of various sorts are becoming so common that some prac tical means of their suppression must be discovered or no man can tell what the end will be. It is generally conceded that they spread by what the psychologists call "suggestion," upon which mind healing is based by its various votaries. There is no doubt that the great increase in divorce comes from the detailed and sensa tional accounts constantly printed in the newspapers. At Emporia, Kan sas, a suicidal craze set in and two dozen suicides resulted. Finally the mayor issued an order to the papers forbidding them to publish the details of suicides and said he would enforce it with all the power at his command. The papers agreed to stop their sensa tional , articles and immediately the craze disappeared. This sort of jour nalism is the cause of untold misery and slowly works degeneration in any community. None of that sort of thing ever finds place in The Inde pendent. The Independent is published by sane people for sane people and its columns are never disgraced with sen sational appeals to the weak minded. Too many populist editors give cred ence to the fakes sent out "by the As sociated press and waste their space in commenting on them. Columns were wasted on the story that Mc Klnley was to run for a third term. If the republicans wanted to run Mc Klnley for a third term nothing would have pleased the populists better than to have them try it. Much more was said about Morgan's billion-dollar bank. That was one of the Associated press fakes and populist editors should not have wasted a line of space on it. The fact is that all these stories should be received with caution. The fake mills are run for the amusement of mullet heads. Such stories are just the calibre of their minds. The aver age populist don't want to waste time reading them. . . . . THE NEBRASKA. - INDEPENDENT .. : t m THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT Slowly and surely populist ideas are percolating through the. skulls of the provincial inhabitants who reside along the shores of ten Atlantic. Af ter a while they will send commis sioners out. to Nebraska to study po litical economy and carry what they learn back to .those "sitting .in, dark ness" along theseN shores. They have persistently refused to listen to the gospel as it has been, sent to them for years in our country weekly papers and continued to denounce us as anar chists and socialists, but as the . re sults of their, sins begin to press heav ily upon them, they are inclined to re ceive the gospel of populism and in it find their only hope of relief. For years the populists have been asking the attention of the people to the enor mous value of franchises. They have often declared f that a railroad fran chise was the. most real property that the road possessed and should be, taxed as all other property is taxed. When we first announced this self-evident truth, the New ' York Independent, a politico-religious paer, denounced pop ulism and all its followers as the most dangerous kind . of lunatics. Now it proceeds to state the populist prin ciples regarding franchises as, clearly as they were ever stated in a Nebras ka weekly or by a sod school house orator. It says: "The essential factor in the value of every railroad steam or electric of every telegraph line, of every water or gas service, is the franchise. The ma terial construction, rolling stock or machinery, is a secondary factor, al ways fluctuating with cnanging condi tions of Invention or method. It may become valueless in a day, like the old junk of the Metropolitan Railway company cables,- wheels, and drums which, a few months ago, would have been listed, at six millions of dollars. The franchise alone is permanent, and of ever-increasing value. . ''Now franchises are not created bjr individuals . or by corporations. They are created by the state, and until the state sells or gives : them away they belong to the: public. The pertinent question, therefore, is not whether the public shall become an owner of public utilities, but what; being an owner, it shall do with its own. And yet this really vital question is precisely the one which our most conservative news papers persistently refuse to discuss." It will be seen that the New York Independent has" not only discovered thealue of franchises, but has stum bled, in a blind Way, upon another great truth. It c- hints that the great plutocratic papers refuse to dlsctiss the things that most vitally effect the common people of this country. It is itself one of 1 the guilty ones, but as it shows signs of repentence, it may alter Its course in the future. There fore the Nebraska Independent ex pects soon to see in the columns of the New York Independent a discussion of the causes of the present prosperity. It will tell Its readers that when it predicted the disasters that would overwhelm this country if the coinage of silver were - not stopped, it was mistaken and now it takes it all back. That the truth is that as soon as Mc Klnley began to coin silver, times be gan to grow better instead of worse. That McKlnley- has been coining a third more silver than was ever coined under the Bland or Sherman. acts and the more he has coined the better the times. It will , point out that when Grover Cleveland stopped the coinage of silver, the treasury became bank rupt, gold had to be bought with bonds, soup houses were established in every city to feed the starving, houses in the cities ran down for want of numey to keep them in repair, the buildings on the farms went to ruin, reports of broken banks reached the ears of the people every day, railroad earnings above operating expenses dis appeared, that armies or half famished men tramped through the country hunting work which they could not find, while their wives and children suffered, horrors such as no tongue can tell in desolate homes, where, deserted and alone, they faced famine in si lence. After describing these horrors in the forceful English which it always employs, the New York Independent will tell its readers that as soon as the volume of money was increased there was a . change, so marked that every man noticed it. The dilapidated houses in the cities-began to be repaired and new one sbuilt. Old pavements were torn up and new ones made that all htis employed the idle men who began to draw wages and as soon as they got their wages they hastened to the stores to purchase goods. Then the mer chants began, to make money, which changed them from gloomy misan thropes to happy, energetic business men. 'fhey made large or on the manufacturers and the manufacturers set many thousand more men to work and these men began to buy more goods from their' local merchants and brought cheer and comfort to all alike. The New York Independent will also tell its readers that on the farms there was the greatest change. The dis spirited farmer and his lonely, hard working wife whose home had become so desolate that all the grown-up chil dren had fled, began to get a better price for his wheat, corn and hogs. He brought home from the increased amount of money that he got first the necessities of decent home-life of which they had long been deprived and soon afterward began to fix up the house and barn, get better clothes and repair the' run-down old farm un til a new hope and high inspiration was everywhere evident. The. slip shod farm hands who had spent, their time loafing around the villages soon began to get work on the farms and bought themselves decent clothes and put cn an air of respectability. They bought their supplies in the village stores and the. village began to prosper. The village board thought it was time to beautify their town and public im provements . were inaugurated which gave work to all who lived in the place. At last they thought of the half starved - minister and his family and raised his salary. The music in the church ' was more Inspiring and the prayers of thanksgiving with which the minister then opened ' his services made all rejoice. The New York Independent will tell all this for they are matters that are within the knowledge of all men. Af ter, that, it will not refuse to "discuss" th subject. It will tell its readers that coincident with all this, there was a tremendous Increase in the volume of money. That the output of gold was more than equivalent to what the out put of both gold and silver had been, and that at the same time- the admin Istratl6h" had coined more silver than had ever before been coined in the same length of time; that it had issued a larger amount - of paper money through the banks than had ever been issued' in any year save one during the civil war. The New York Indepen dent will say: "These facts being within the knowl edge of all men, we take this occasion to apologize for the fight that we made in 1896 against the coinage of silver and an 'increase "in the volume of money. The disasters that we pre dicted would follow the further coin age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 have proved to be mere chimeras of the brain which were produced by the environment in which we lived. We were completely mistaken. Instead of-producing disaster, the coinage of silver and a large increase in the vol ume of money has had the most bene ficial effects. The populists were right and we -were wrong. As an honest journal the New York Independent is under bbligations to say so, and it does say so, without , any mental reserva tion whatever." . V THE .NATIONS A6TONISHED ; Mr. Brodrick, British secretary of war, made the most astounding state ment in the house of commons the other day ever listened to by a body of civilized legislators. He said the reconcendrado camps, South Africa, patterned exactly after those estab lished by Weyler in Cuba and on ac count of which this country went to war with Spain, contained during May 40,299 persons and that during the month 416 of them died. Of these 98 were men and women and 318 were children. This is at the rate of 5,000 a year, and more than three times as many children as adults. It is esti mates that the British have more than 200,000 soldiers in South Africa, and that the number of Boers in the field is about 17,000, yet to this pass has the British campaign come, that the Brit ish are herding together all the Boers who are not under arms, women and children, and subjecting them to epi demic and starvation. When Weyler established this prac tice of the starvation of women and childreh, all the world, including Eng land," protested. Now England has adopted it as part of her war policy. The statement of Mr. Brodrlck has caused astonishment In all the capitals of Europe and the question must be soon settled whether the civilized na tions will sanction the starvation of women and children as a war policy. The subserviency of this administra tion will prevent McKinley from mak ing any protest, although he went to war to prevent such cruelty himself. Joe Johnson and Thunder-Maker Harrison are often seen in quiet cor ners about Lincoln holding long" and solemn conferences with their faces as long and solemn as their confer ences. It is supposed that when they look away toward the northwest that they are talking about the "true popu lists" and Clem Deaver, who got a lot of' swag when they didn't get any. The Independent agrees . with them that it was outrageous to reward a traitor like Clem, Deaver, , and leave long-tried, hard-working, prevaricators like Joe Johnson and Harrison out in the cold. The circulation of the clearing house banks of New York was $30,875,000, but they were not satisfied with that amount of inflation, so last week they went to work and issued $29,000 more of bank paper. Paper money is a great, thing as long as the banks can issue it, but is a horrible thing when the government issues it. About four new national banks are organized ev ery week and the smallest of them each immediately issue $25,000 more bank paper and the larger ones in propor tion. On with the dance. RECKLESS MANAGEMENT " "When, the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be" you. recollect. how it ended. One of the most amusing things recently appeared In the Omaha Bee under a Lincoln date line, "from a staff corespondent." It is worthy of reprinting. s As a specimen of uncon scious .humor it Is almost Mark twainesque. Read it: "Lincoln, June 15. (Special.) Th6 state bpard of purchase and supplies this afternoon began an investigation of the extravagant and reckless man agement of the hospital for Incurable insane at Hastings by former Superin- tendent Steele, under the fusion reform administration. The matter was called up by the filing -of a claim several weeks ago for supplies furnished the institution.'' Pending an investigation this claim was held under considera tion by the board. "Owing to the absence of Treasurer Stuefer the board adjourned without taking any action or arriving at any definite conclusion, other than that un less some other evidence is produced the claim should be shaved down con siderable. The complaint originates in the manner of contracting for sup plies, swhich' "ere furnished in greater lots than necessary and at greater than retail rates." ' j; . "In greater lots than necessary and at greater than retail rates." Now, that is decidedly rich. Whenever the re publican management of the Hastings asylum can show as clean and neat an institution as it was under the admin istration of Superintendents Damerell and Steele, and show a material re duction in the per capita cost of main taining the inmates, then the people may be induced to put some faith in these charges of "extravagant and reckless management." Until that time comes, the people; will probably wish for a return to popocratlc extrava gance.. The records at the state house show that the fusion state government reduced the cost of maintaining in- mates at the Hastings asylum nearly one-half. In the minds of republicans that "was reckless management." It is safe to say that the present republi can management will not engage in any such "recklessness" as that. HOG EAT HOG Five manufacturers went down to Washington and induced congress to enormously increase the duty on paper made of wood pulp. Then they formed a trust and united under "the com munity of interest" all the paper mills in one tremendous organization. It was done under the plea of economy and "to lessen the cost of production There is no doubt that it effected those purpose. But another thing followed They put up the price of pap-3r, adding $4,800,000 to the cost of newspaper alone. The sychophants who publish the gteat papers had not . the courage to say a word and paid the bill. They thought that "it might hurt the party if they protested." Some of them see ing bankruptcy ahead, a few of them having been .hanging on the ragged edge of it for months, tried to escape destruction, (the Times-Herald and Chicago Record are examples) by hy phenating their publications and cov ering their indebtedness by big blanket mortgages running up into the mil lions. r Of late some of these chaps ' have been proving traitor to the trusts who furnished- the Mark Hahna boodle fund and have been working in secret to have the tariff lowered. It seems that they have met with a good deal of success from the interviews given out by some of the republican leaders. It is hog eat hog, and The Independent says go it", for after the hogs destroy each other there may be a chance for some higher ideals in legislation. The paper trust owns today 1,600 square mils of wood lands in the United States and 2,000 square miles in Canada. ' These forests they are de nuding in the most wasteful manner', making no provisions for a future growth of timber. So dangerous is this practice" ttia large sections of the country are in danger of becoming arid deserts of barren hills without a wa ter supply. The organization of the paper trust may prove a national dis aster, outside of the price of paper. OBSTRUCTION TO TRADE Some of the republican leaders have seen the wisdom of another populist, principle. V The Dingley tarflff is now declared to,' be an obstruction to for eign torade .by some of the very men who made it. The populists,; told them so when tMy were at it, and after some years they have at last found it out. Take all the manufac tures of iron and steel,' from locomo tives, steel rails and farming machin ery all the way down to typewriters, sewing- machines and table knives. From the largest to the smallest ar ticle in the entire list there is not one which American manufacturers are not making at less cost than any of their foreign competitors, and selling more cheaply to European buyers than to their American fellow-countrymen. It Is not possible that this state of affairs can endure always. It is be ginning to look as though the end of that sort of robbery was in sight, not because the robbers have repented, but they see that reprisals in Europe will be made. If these chaps are shut out June 201901 nf Eurooe altogether their cake will be dough. There Is no ' doubt that what the Europeans say. in regard to this matter is' correct. The enormous prices that the tariff barons charge Americans enable them to sell goods in Europe cheaper than they other wise could. There is ground for fight ing tariffs and they will be put up Just as sure as the practice Is not discontinued. " ' THE GLASS TRUST The glass trust is one of the beau ties of the "community of interest" concerns in the United States. The tariff on glass Is one of the beauties of the ""protective" system. They are "specific" duties and it is a problem to work out what percent they amount to, but it Is away up in the hundreds, varying from 100 to 500 per cent of tbe cost of production. The tariff on plate glass is comprised of the following specific duties: , Up to 16 inches by 24.. 8c per sq. ft. 16 by 24 to 24 by SO.. 10c per sq. ft. 24 by 30 to 24 by 60..22HC per sq. ft. All above 24 by 60 35c per sq. ft. In 1897, before the trust got under full headway, the price for glass was: 1 to 5 ft.......r ..15c per sqft. 5 to 10 ft. ...'.7........ .24c per sq,.ft. 10 to 25 ft.......... ....34c per sq. ft. 25 to 50 ft 56c per sq. ft. The price now is: " 1 to 5 ft..... 37c per sq. ft. 5 to 10 ft ....60c per sq. ft. 10 to 25 ft..... ,.85c per sq. ft. 25 to 50 ft ...90c per sq. ft. It is said that this trust furnished Mark Hanna with a bigger amount of money than any other trust of its Rlze in the whole United States. , Now that there is' talk in the high circles of the republican party of reducing the tariff, the glass trust magnates are in a great rage. They have cut off every dealer in the United States who has Imported any glass and refuse to sell him another square foot. MAKING MONEY ABUNDANT The mints are still running night and day making money more abund ant, chiefly by coining silver. The total value of coins produce! by the United States mints in May was $12,738,424. This was nearly $0,000,000 less than in April last, but. .tie total number of pieces turned oat last month was greater than in the month before. The increase in coinage was in the production of mrnor coins to meet the growing demands of retail trade in all parts of the country. For example, the total output of nickels and 1-cent pieces last month was about $4,000 more than in April, and the total output of silver pieces 'was up ward of $1,000,000 greater. The value of gold coins produced last month was $9,325,000, of silver $3,366,000,' and of nickels and bronze pieces $147,424. " Here is an addition to the volume of metallic money of $489,939 for every working day besides about $1.6,000 of paper money. Certainly money is "be coming more abundant," but is It pros perity that is coining metallic money and printing bank paper, or is it the mints and government printing and engraving bureau? Will Mr. Rose water or the Kansas City Stay please to inform us? PHILADELPHIA PIRATES Any man who has looked Into Pennsylvania republican boss rule knows that it is as much worse thaa Tammany as Tammany is worse than the politics of heaven. The readers of The Independent know what sort of an election they held in Philadel phia a while ago. The facta were given to the public by a republican paper, the North American. It was aa foul as any ever held In South Caro lina when they were trying to keep 'he negroes from voting. Now the city council has given away all tho fran chises -of the city of Philadelphia to a company composed of Senators Quay and Penrose and the congressman from the city. They were made a free gift to them. When the ordinance passed, John Wanamaker wrote a let ter to the mayor offering $2,iS00,00O for them and said that he knew that that was not much more than half their value. He said he had no desire to go into the street railway buijiness, but that he was willing to put up that amount of cash to get. the franchises. A Chinaman ; in New York, who got his skull cracked, when told by the doctor that he would have to shave off his queue so that he could get at the crack, replied: "I die," and refused to have the queue touched. . Now comes another story from the Philippines about a queue. An obstreperous China man, who was hauled up ' before a court-martial, stood with his queue rolled up on the tdp of his head. The officer knowing that that was intended for insult, as the Chinaman lets his queue down when he wants to show respect, ordered him to let his cueue down. The Chinaman replied: "I die," and refused to let his queue down. From all this there seems to be some thing about this queue business that no American can find out. The officer ordered the Chinaman sent to jail for ten days for contempt of court, the contempt consisting in the Chinaman wearing his queue rolled up on top of his head." -There are stramr Mrro going on in'"our new possession.' but we get to hear very little about them. . 1 . : , ' ; .. ( ,-