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Cf BttrtMki Imitftnitnt,
Lincoln,
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tU. Eete4 MxiU will Mt fc
Jsge Browa has settled the quo
tient it !nprtllia jntt like Judge
Tssey settled the slavery question.
Jobs Wanamaker addressed the
mayor of Philadelphia ' as Your
toner." Did "ofid! coartey" force
Mat to ce stsch a misnomer as that?
CI era rvv-r smiles as be thinks of
the Trot Popalif. but Joe Johnson
foea tot. Cleta fathers In the perquis
ites and Jo wonders what a "red p
jle tastes like.
There ran be no farther doubt of
tea gsaolnenema of the conversion of
Xrs. ta republicanism. She not
only west Into bankruptcy, bat im
mediately afterward - took trip to
i-uroje.
fveder was twelve years old the
ether day aad the Pencer Times de
clares St la time that the residents got
together and organized an Oid Set
tier' Association." Tender always
was a push-place.
The citisess cf this country Py
twice as much for telegrams and con
siderably rac-re for American goods
than da the people of Europe. Thy do
It Just because the g." o. p." says they
nisi. They sever think of kicking.
X. V. Harlan, who divided honors
with Elmer Stephenson as a boomer
for Thompson, Is to be paid by a three
thousand dollar ofS.ce in Alaska. The
lepnbltcaa patriots -who bung aronnd
the legislature last winter were not
there for the .(u of the tMcg.
The newspapers announced a few
days as that the Christian scientists
hd t54 churches-and 1,009,000 raem
bers. That would man members
to" church.. Where d!4 those writers
get their InXortBatJon from? A church
srith 540 members It ceasidered pretty
large. " " .e r
Tt constitution as it is and the
nskra as it was was the war cry of the
patriots la 1UI and. right there The
Independent still stands. Meantime
th Hark Hasnas and the McKInley
fcaea put tbemselres in direct antag
onism with every principle that the re
publican party then advocated.
rtoaewater has aa astral body nhkh
he sect on a trip down to Cuba last
week. Tfcat jsusfbe the case as be an
totctft that all the Cuban people are
perfectly satisfied with the Piatt
amendment 'and he could not have
known that fact unlets he had sent hfrs
astral body down there and asked each
nt of the Ei.
There is general mourning about
Llnccua oa aceottnt of the small at
tendance t the old settler's reunion.
All sorts of things are suggested as
reasons why the seople would not at
tend. If these writers would stop to
think for a jsoment thy would soon
see the all saSelect reason. J. Ster
ling Mortoa ri sdvertisd to iznke
the principal address.
The Judges are raaklng a whole lot
cf . new lavs the days. One down at
.Washington recently decided, "that an
act of congress will repeal a prior in
corstant act of congress. That is
good, eotsmoa sen and has always
r-een the rule In England, but never so
la' this country. If the same rule coull
be spplled to state legislation. It would
reduce litigation one-half and be the
rain of the lawyers.
At a meeting of the Kansas demo
cratic state committee It was resolved
that the democratic party of Kansaa
would aro ft alone this time, thus put
ting the finishing touch oa the work
cf the Ka&um republican legislature.
There Is great rejoicing in tbe republi
can camps, of Kansas and the g. o. p.'s
feel certain tht they have Kansaa
pegged dowa for keeps.
The mtnnt cf Russian sugar im
ported into this country last year was
Tie manufacturers aasoc'a
titra. ' say that ozr exports to Rusela
t mousted to t!3,C),0K). The sugar
treat wasted to sell that 343jDOO worth
ct tugar aad ordered aa extra duty
pt on Unsstaa sugar to keep It out of
tit market whether ether American
rsactiacturfrs sold anyth'fcg to Russia
or not, As.4 igtr trtJrt erdert mutt
bs obryM.
HAif V p. aoaiicht tusj sjbar -Tht
Hits aepartneat Aht war de-
partmittt and the treasury department
hart Alt been having IctM of trouble
Iht last thttt or four wssks. The csar
got After lUtst and they have beta
feeling very uncomfortabJt. The beginning-of
the trouble wi when the
ugar trutt ordered Otje to raise tht
tariff oa Huetian rugar. It wasa't ling
xxntil this sorernmsat hsard from tht
etar thnrjh 'tht Russian zninitttr.
Tit lcfomitJoa that h brought over
to tht Itlits department was tbtt Rus
sia, thinking 1hat one goad tufa de
served another, had raised the tariff
ca American bicycle, firm 'machinery
cad a whole lot cf things. Tne other
day tht affable Russian ambassador
extraordinary called again to Inform
this government that after ten days
from date the Russian tariffs on many
other things would be raised.
Following him came a lot of Ameri
can manufacturers who kindly ex
plained to th authorities that this
rise in the Russian tariffs was ruining
their business and would throw nvidy
American workmen out of employment
as the European nations would take
all the trade. Then there, came cau
tiously In some republican politicians
who taid that their constituents did
not like this new deal at all. They
wanted the whole thing put back to the
original status. They were informed
that the suar trust order stood la
the way and that the board of ap
praisers to whom. the matter had been
referred hd t:cidetl that the order
was all right and that there was no re
lief poksihlf except an appeal to the i
courts. - Wha the politicians reflected
that It woula be three or four years
before they couid get the matter to a
final liearlti. they went away with
$Ioomy countenances.
Then some statesmen called states
men wearing the genuine republican
brand. They said if this thing went on
It would likely disturb the friendly re- j
lations that had always existed be- j
taecn this country and Russia that
things had already begun to look bad.
They got bo comfort. The order of!
the sugar trutt stands. It is now the I
czar and the sugar trust. Car. the su- j
gar trust knock him out?
COMMENCEMENT ORATORT
1-aat week was tbe commencement
meek for the state and other universi
ties and schools located in Lincoln.
Over 190 graduates went out from the
state univeraity alone. Those who at
tended mere favored with much ora
tory, ranging from good to indifferent
and. bad. Brooks Adams, m ho came all
the way from Quincy, Mass., occupied
one-half of his time in a review of
history with which nine-tenths of hit
audience was as well acquainted as
he himself, and the remainder of his
time was spent in an argument that
had no conclusion. It mattered little
what he said for all that the audience
could hear of It was the distinct enun
ciation of the Boston broad "a." This
writer sat within four feet of him and
It was with difficulty that anything
that he said could be heard. If Bos
ton oratory is of that sort, it would.be
a good thing for that city and its sub
urbs to send their orators out here and
let them attend the English depart
ment of the state university for a few
terms.
Governor Thomas address to the
law class was in its delivery distinct
and clear. Every word and every syl
lable of every word was clearly enun
ciated. From the first sentence of the
oration to the last the English was
refined, elegant, perfect. It will be
long remembered by all who heard it.
SOUTH DAKOTA -.REPUBLICANS
The republican victory in South Da
kot last year was secured by flooding
the state with money and Hanna came
himself to look after the manner of
its expenditure. Hanna was after Pet
tlgrew, because Pettigrew had placed
In the Congressional Record the evi
dence of the bribery by which Hanna
secured his election to the senate. As I
soon as the republicans were back in
power they began their old practices.
Just as they did in-Nebraska. The ap
propriations by the republican South
Dakota legislature were, about 90 per
cent more than those of four years ago
by the populists. The appropriations
for the maintenance of state offices
have been increased in nearly all cases
from 50 to 100 per cent, and a multi
tude of additional offices have been
created. The legislature Epent $211 a
day more for maintenance than was
spent by the legislature of 1897. If
these things are indorsed "by the voters
of South Dakota, the neit legislature
fully 12.000,000, very nearly as much
may be expected to increase taxes to
as Is collected In Iowa with six times
tbe population and ten times the
wealth.
Tht g. o. p.'s In this state who hart
been attacking the university and com
mon schools should resd an article re
cently written by the great English
scholar, Frederle Harrlsoa. He seems
to bast the grest advancement xaadt
by tht United States whereby it hat
become the leading commercial power
of tht world upon tht gtneral sduea
tloa of all the psoplt. He sayt that
tht education of boys la this country
staB&fl at tea le o&e it tbaS of Caf
iand . tad mt gltis twinty tt ; oat.
Schwab, Dietrlfib mad tat board of ft
puhlf aans who tut dowa tat appropria
tion if tht comnaoa school weuM ttp
dtnalat this Atasrloan supremacy t!
thty bad thai way. Atrlo leads
England a accouat of Its bright, latel
Hgtat and quick-witted working class
tad thty wtrt male watt thty art by
our syetam of education. Upoa that
system, republicans. of high aad )o
dtgret are making tht most Insidious
assault. The populsts stand for tat
common schools, for tht higher educa
tion and for tht general diffusion of
Intelligence. He don't btlitvt that tht
millionaire la tht tad of evolution nor
that tit is tht highest product ot civil
Izatlon. , UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
In 1873 the republican party stopped
the coinage of silver.' For five years
this country, filled with hard-working,
energetic, intelligent men and wom
en, was swept With the besom of de
struction. Disaster and distress in
creased until tbe coinage of sliver was
resumed in 1S7S. Twenty years after
ward in 18&3 the republican party, as
sisted by a minority of the democratic
party, again stopped the coinage of
silver. Five years more Of suchr dis
tress cs the world nover before saw
followed and there was no let-up to it
until McKInley began to coin silver
and coin It in larger quantities tl.an
ever poured out of tbe mints since the
mints were established. Then timet
suddenly changed.. Prosperity came
back to the desolats homes of tolling
American citi?ens. These are facte
known of all men. Tet there are "mil
lions of mer so p.irtlsftnly insane that
they "vo'rld wr.lk up to the pol'3 to
morrow and cast a ballot to stop the
coinage' of silver egain if the republi
can party shouJd put such t demand In
!tt platform and ask them to do t.
The Independent asks every sane man
to stop and think over this matter. Ia
there any answer to the known facts?
Can any man make a reply? Why is
it that millions of men In tht most in
telligent nation on earth will vote to
bring destruction upon themselves and
their wives and children for the sake
cf a party name? Why la it lhat, thty
seem to go insane when" one tries to
reason, with them? They get excited,
yell at the top of their voicet, grow
red in the face and act Just like luna
tics? .
Twice has congress stopped tht
coinage of silver. Twice has panic and
destruction followed. Twice has tht
resumption of the coinage of silver
immediately relieved the distress. " No
sane or honest man will deny these
statements. Yet millions would again
vote to stop It. The Independent con
fesses that It is unable to 'give any
reason why men so act. It confesses
Its ignorance of the psychological law
that moves men when they do such
things. There is a reason for tht
politicians doing such things. They
hope to get office. But the millions
who never expect to get office, why do
they act that way? Perhaps the whole
matter bad better be referred to the
psychological department of some of
the great universities and get a report
upon it.
mass icHusETTi o.ari,
Any one at all acquainted with cur
rent avents knows that corruption is
everywhere cropping out in every state
and every department of the general
goverr sent under the control of cat
republican party. Republican legisla
tures are seething dens of corruption.
A few of the eastern states have kept
a tolerable clean record, but the ras
cals are getting footholds even in
Massachusetts. That - legislature re
cently passed some franchise'bll.ls that
rank well up to Pennsylvania legisla
tion, and the same saturnalia would
have followed had not the governor in
terposed with a veto. When the legis
lature of Massachusetts becomet to
corrupt as to pass such bills, what I
must be the moral condition of the
party elsewhere? "
These republican legislatures are a
true reflection of the moral degeneracy i
of the republican party. They art all
dominated by tht real republican lead
ers. Hanna. Quay. Piatt. Elklcs and
Lodge are all members of one and the
same, party and are all equally re
sponsible fcr the degeneracy that is
everywhere so plain to be seen. The
truth about the matter' is that tht
party Is rotten to the core, and the
few men in It who art personally hon
est, are so cowed by the overwhelming
majority of thieves that they hardly
dare Say that their souls are their
own. .
Never such an oratorical Skatt ap
peared tn a Lincoln platform -and
we have had some tough specimens
here as the Wiltshire who had been
placarding the tcwa for week with
posters, six feet long end four feet
wide, at a cost of hundreds of dollars,
challenging Bryan to a Joint debate.
A crowd turned out to heat htm, but
it was tht worst sold crowd that tvtr
got inside of a theatre's vails. Ht bt
gaa by declaring that ht was not a
public speaktr and tfien proeefdtd to
demonstrate tht truth of tht asser
tion, which ht did to .tht eomolttt tat
i if at tloa of tvsrr on in tht building.
vcspsrYABtA kxArActc3 .:
';, Tht; reyutllcsa etaclraey In Ptaa
ylvasia to rob tit fteyta rtidata froa
tht tialttd Ctttu ttaata dowa tarotisa
tht governor, tie' statt legislature to
tat tUy souaclis Tat whola rttthlt
ea g$aeai& fifesi tcp to ; bottom li
rotUA. v Ca? Cat ptopls et tha ttirte
art) g4 nadir Ot tuflasnct of partisan,
lc9xhr that thty would ouch rathtr
bt rfihbtd uadtr rt?ttbUoaaim than
to .hart good govtrnmsnt' undtr any
other aanit."" It $1 generally bain eon
ceded tht world ottr, that tht people
of tnatyltanla aft pfovtna thttn
selvet lneapablt of tslf-govtrnmeht.
If there was any tftttttrt pubiio spirit
In Pennsylvania, the criminals who
have conmitted the robberies could
not lltt tn the state a week. Tht trou
ble with iht pspple of tht state Is that
they have not given Quay. and. hit
lieutenants any rtaeot to suppose that
they object to his kind of rule. They
elect him and rt-f lect him to onict
and thoat whom ht names year after"
year." .Is that not: an Ind6ratmtnt of
his piracies? , j John Wanamaker, who
offered $2,500,000 for , tht franchises
which were . glttn to Quay and his
tools, voted, for Qua?, at the last elec
tion ahd he .will tote for him at the
next just as long s Quay and hia men
are .the regular;' republican nominees,
tt Is. not a Question, with Wanamaker
whither these men are pirates and ut
terly unfit to gdvern.'but whtther they j
art tht republican candidates.- If they
are republican candidates thn John
Wanamaker and all tht goody-goody
meh like him. walk Up to tht polls and
caat their votes for tht public robbers.
Is that anything short of Insanity? Is
it; not prodf that - John Wanamaker
and his followers art just as incapable
of self-government as anybody of men
in; the Thole world? 1
llohn O. 'Veiser' started J6ut to have
some fun ''with tht redeemers , and
wrote an V article I declaring ' that Ne
braska had no governor and that 'one
must be elected this ralL Some of the
brethren seemed to think that t John
was in earnest and have given a good
deal of space. t thts discussion of the
subject. : Mr.-Teieer made a lawyerlike
argument In favor of his proposition
and quoted, section "iOT, of . chapter 26,
of tht Nebraska -statutet,. which - pro
vides: ' ''When vacancy occurs In
any state, Judicial district, county, precinct,-
township of. any public elective
office thirty days prior to any general
election it shall be filled ihtreat,"
MV.4 Ttiser'sjcltitions' art all cor
rect, hot lawyirllke, ht stopped wrhen
ht. might have madt a further citation
that would have' put an tntlrtly dif
ferent look uponTthe affair. ' Section
of artlclt'5' ofthe " statt constitution
reads thtt wayz't "In tht cast of tht
death, impeachment and notice there
of to the accused, failure to qualify,
resignation, absence from the state, or
other disability r of the governor,1 the
powers, duties, and emoluments of the
office FOR THE RESIDUE OF THE
TERM, or until the disability ehall be
removed, shall devolve on the lieutenant-governor"
: v
How anybody can work out a nec
essity for the election of a governor
this fall under that section ot the con
stitution is somewhat pustling. -
TH MILl-IO?Atlia'S pa .
As The Independent has often poiflt
4 out the rich are tho worst beggars
on earth. They haunt the halls of
congress and statej. legislatures, .hold
ing out thsir skinny hands, saying:
"Give, give.' . from one year's end ; to
another. Not only that, thty steal T
ery ln"ltit.i!tion,i intended, far the poor.
They have stolen the church -and all
the schools and 'collet founded for
poor boys and girls, both In this coun
try and England. They art also tbe
most arrant cowards. The ralillafi-
ilres never fight ; any .battles except
with their tongues and those that can
be won by cunfiing. ,; They are like
the whlnlng boy en tht street. If an
other boy saya anything to him he be
gins to. cry and enlfflet: r "I'll tell my
pa." Every time there is any trouble
between the worktngtatn and the mil
lionaires; the millionaires run and tell
their, pa the courts. V Their pa imme
diately . replies, "Don't cry. Ill fig
thoat chaps," and straightway Issues
an injunction:.; Two , or,' three of the
most extraordinary character have
been promulgated during the last two
weeks. The millionaires' pa says that
tht workingmen must not strike, must
not ask ethera to strike and must hot
donate anything of value to those who
do strike. - The millionaires have a
very Indulgent paf : Ht never denies
any of thttr requests, no matter how
absurd ; thty nky';.bt.' : "-; f "'; "" ""
A Filipino? bsb waa born on the
Midway at Buffalo the other day. and
his arrival hat created a great disturb
ance. Dost he v come under the four
teenth amtnd&eitt which declaret thtt
all persona porn in tht United States
are eltlsent thereof and irt tntltltd
to ail tht rights,; prlTliegta and l
munltlts of any other ettlstn? . Thtn
the peond parent teld tht superinten
dent ef aa tffttitien that thty had
nsmtd the child after hltn. Buchanan.
After awhile It was neticed that tht
parents always pronounced tht camt,
ftuthana," and further famtlsatloa
showed that -huthaaa" waj a Ttgalog
word, xatm&tnj prttty. - Then the , iu
ptrinttnda'nt daclartd that ht had beta
bnneood by ( -tht;. heathen m of tat
preetat that he had' made to what he
nppostd was his namesake. Whsth
tr tht ity ot Buffalo will go to war
over tht - matter; Or submit it to tht
court of The Hague has hot been re
ported. " " I ' ' ." ' ''
The English papers take pride in
pointing but . that America has as many
heggara now a they have. They, how
ever, failed to list two American beg
gars, the most disgusting that ever ap
peared in any country -Frye ahd Han
ha. They hung around Washington
alU last winter stretching" out; th8lr
hands and whining: "Please give us
19,000,000 a year for twenty years. We
are so poverty-stricken that we can't
get "along without it."' :
' ; ' , - i2Sfc " -
The real cause 6f the awful suffering
in Porto Rico was the change of the
money systeni from the silver standard
to the gold standard. The redeeming
of the silver money at nearly its face
value did not. lessen -the evil. The
change of tbe monetary standard from
silver to gold if, what caused the mis
ery and emigrations. No one could get
the great dailies or the Associated
press to say a word about it, but that
is what did it ,
A fool pop editor In the sand hills
lays; "Some 6f theee republicans had
better mako up their minds about tax
ation without representation and. gov
ernment without the1 consent of the
governed. If vuoae principles are
wrong let them say so." Now that Is
tidlculous. How can he exject repub
licans to make up their minds? That
pop editor should furnish tbem with
some minds before he demands that
they, make them up.
Many of the country weeklies have
notices of the return of young men or
women who have graduated at the Ne
braska state unlversltr. There 1 hard
ly a town but what is bragging over
one or more. They enter life well
equipped toward making this a state
of . prosperous, happy and : cultured
people. When Dietrich struck that
foul blow at the university In hie veto,
did he remember that every city, town
and county In the state felt It?
Sena tor' Jones remarks: "We Jlved
for some years in the south under a
carpet-bag government and I don't
want any people to suffer as we did."
But that sort of government is" just
what the republican leaders intend to
inflict upon our new dependencies. To
day there are hundreds of republican
workers, too vile to bt appointed to of
fice in the United States, wnb have
been sent to be paid off for their work
holding office In those far away isl
ands. ' V
The Britisl parliament by a. vote
of 253 to 134 resolved to stand by the
South African . reconcentrado system
after proof was submitted showing an
enormous death rate among old men
and wmen and a plague death rate
among the children. That vote give
the lie direct to all British claims of
being a leader among the forces of civ
ilisation. The English have stepped
down to the level of the Latin races
which they have heretofore denounced.
As tor Christianity, it has been wholly
discarded. - .
Latest - reports , from Washington
show that the volume of exports tor
the current year will exceed those of
1889-1900 by some $200,000,000. For
the'eleven months already completed
tht exports are 1600,000,000 In excess
of Imports, and a margin of $100,000,
000 more may be confidently counted
on before the end of Juike. Even it
there is no gafrCtht total exports wiil
be $1,800,000,000, and our aggregate
foreign commerce for the year about
$3.!00,000,060. .
The courts have issued injunctions
against ministers 'of the gospel, have
forbidden people to walk on the pub
lic highways, have denied working
men the right to use persuasion with
other workingmen and enjoined' tveryr
hlng that an ordinary man could think
of, but now they have discovered some
thing else to hurt their injunctions at.
Judge Heoecy of Chicago the .other
day ' issued an injunction against the
police, forbidding tbem to raid a no
torious gambling house. On with the
dance. , ; . t '';., .."v
Tbe Hebron Champion it publishing
a lot of plutocratic rot these days
the '."Soliloquy in a Nebraska Sanc
tum" being, a sample and it devotes
nearly a column of its editorial space
to telling its readers that they can't
stop the paper and it win be seat to
them till the Judgment day unless Jhey
pay up all arrearages. It further de
claret that It don't know what ticket
it will support at the ntxt election.
Perhaps if it had gone oa to tell tht
other things that It didn't know, thdse
dtllnqutat subscribers whose paper
will not be stopped would hart blown
up tht oflet or committed sulcidt,
Thtrt has never been any augar tent
from Italy to this country, but the au
gar trort fear that there "might be,
b it am Ixautd another order through
Secretary Gaga putting a prohibitory
duty on Italian sugar. The result will
bt that Italy will raise the duties on
tome American artlclet that are im
ported Into; that' country in retalia
tion. Then the manufacturers will
protest and Secretary Oage will again
inform them that augar trust Orders
are never revoked.
When J. Sterling Morton tees some
thing in The Independent which goes
to the heart of things and to which
ht can make no answer, he resorts to
calling names. 4 He knows that it is
generally conceded that he Is an ex
pert in that business and so he in
variably falls back' on his speciality.
It might be Suggested that he could In
vent some new fishwife expressions to
apply to the editor of The Independent.
The last ones that he employed are
getting stale he has employed thnm
so often.- " . V : v
The Germans were nearly all op
posed to Imperialism, but they were so
opposed to the coinage of silver that
they nearly all voted for McKInley.
Now that McKInley has given them a
bigger dose . of silver than the , pop
ulists would have done, if they had
been able to elect a president to their
own liking, how do they like tbe sit
uation? They got Imperialism and
coinage of silver, to both of which they
Were . opposed. If Mark Hanna did
not bunco - them good ' and hard then
thereja nothing Jn the bunco game.
General Bates, who made the treaty
with the Sultan pf Sulu,'has been as
signed to the Command of the depart
ment of the Platte with headquarters
at Omaha. Populists .harbor no re
sentment to General Bates on account
of that treaty which provided that tbe
old starry banner should hereafter
float over slaves and harems. He was
simply a soldier excepting the orders
of his commander-in-chief, McKInley.
General Bates ha been a brave soldier
for many years, and The Independent
welcomes him to the command of this
department. , ;
A Chicago dally announces that the
workingmen are eating more beef
than they ever did before ' and It is
very much' disgruntled over the situa
tion, for It declares that this new ex
travagance has a tendency to raise the
price which is a tax upon those who
live upon Interest, for they have to
pay more for their, nice porterhouse
Steaks. No Wonder they art mad, for
that is a tax that they cannot tfblft
upon some one eitt and ' haye to pay
it themselves. Meantime the old pop
farmer, strokes his whiskers and
smiles." : ,'
The g- o. p. papers live, move and
have their being in deception. They
either lie outright, tell part of the
truth, or tell the truth In a way that
deceives. The people of this country
believe that Carnegie gave $10,000,000
to the Scotch universities. He didn't
dO( anything of the kind. He gave them
bonds ot the United States Steel com
pany, the face value of which was $10,
000,00;), but the last quotations ot those
bonds in tht stock market Vs OH.
This gift therefore was less than $5,
000,000 instead of being $10,000,000.
That Quay knows the moral callbr of
the degenerates over whom he rules Is
proven by the fact that not an indigna
tion meeting has been held In all the
state ot Pennsylvania to protest or
even signify . a disapproval of the
wholesale stealing that, he has been
doing. Wanamaker ha ranted around
a little, but It seems that he ha no
substantial following. Everybody
knows that he would vote the republi
can ticket at the next election even It
tht recent thieves were the only can
didate upon it, in preference to vot
ing for any honest man if he was
called by some other name than repub
lican. Two. great commercial ware have
been inaugurated during the last few
weeks Which will cost this country
mbre than an ordinary war with shot
and shell would have cost fifty years
ago. The New Tork World protests
against the common charge that Secre
tary Gage began them. It says that it
was McKInley and not Gage, for the
secretary would make no move like
that without orders from his superior.
The World is as much mistaken about
who ordered those wars as the papers
It calls to account. It was not Met
KInley whoigave the orders. It was
the sugar and Standard Oil trusts.
' Congress struck at the chief source
of revenue of the weekly papers in the
bill that was sneaked through the
house last winter. - The change bore
with , great' severity upon A them be
cause tht circulation of the large ma
jority of them Is almost entirely a sub
scription circulation, And chiefly local.
The local circulation of most month
lies is small as compared with the
whole, end Is in ail cases by a large
percentage a news agency or . news
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mall distribution; but the contrary Is.,
true of weeklies. Nearly all weekly
periodicals, especially social and re
ligious, are published on a very stuall .
margin,' and could not endure an in-
crease ot eipeufce. j
have bankrupted thousands of thorn
A pretty, business for the Amerlcau
congress to engage In. But it bsa
bankrupted thousands of honest bus!-'
ness men before at the dictation of
some great interest.
Mr. Schwabs attacks on education
and the assault made upon it In Ne
braska when Dietrich vetoed over a.
hundred thousand dollars of appro
priations and the republican 8Cboo
board cut down the appropriations f or
common school fifty thousand dol
lars, all seem to Illustrate the modern
Idea that the millionaire Is the very
highest product of civilization. Art,
poetry, learning count tor nothing. All
energies-should be bent toward pro
ducing millionaires. That is the ideal'
that has been substituted for the old,(
one that learning and character really t
made civilization. ,
'The levying: of $1,250,000 taxes on
the Rand gold mine by the British
parliament to help pay tht expense of .
the Boer war is likely to make trou
ble for England. ,The British parlia
ment can levy any kind of tax it
pleases upon British subjects or con
fiscate their property for that mstter.
for It is supreme. But when it comts .
to confiscating tbe shares of the Ger- .
man in the Rand mines, that is an
other . question and the kaiser If in
clintd to kirk. He says that tbe Eng
lish can take the mines if they want,
to, but the interests of Germans must ,,
be protected. ;
There never was a more idiotic or
criminal thing undertaken in the his-,
tory of the world than the English at-;
tempt to force the gold standard upon
India. Their whole per capita circu
lation, copper, silver and gold, only
amounted to $1.96, and the most of
that was In the hands of the few Kna
llsh officeholders. The attempt, which
has now been abandoned, cost millions
of lives from starvation, but the buUv
headed English were at last forced to
acknowledge that if they ever were
able to squeeze anything more out of
India they would have to provide a
money for the transaction of business
that tbe people understood and wanted.
The girls have so far outranked the
boys In scholarship In many of tht re
cent examinations that in some of the
Colleges it is gravely proposed to here
after exclude tht girls' from the schools '
altogether. The New York papers an
nounce that the boys at the Wesleysc
university were so disgruntled at the'
result of the examination that they r'
fused to sit In the classes with the
girlt or to participate in any class day
exercises where the girls were rtcogx
nised. . The degeneracy ot tht boys
probably, comes , from their ttndy of
modern law and political economy. A;
boy who would listen to J. Laurence
Laughlln for four years and have any
brains left would be a phenomenon.
The girl don't bother with law and
gold-bug political economy and they ,
retain their senses. '
, the Japanese have a battle ship that
has made nineteen and a quarter knots
an hour and can bt turned around In
water lest than one and a half times of
her own length. The fastest Amtrlcaw
ship yet planned can only mekt eigh
teen knots an hour. The "lesson of
Santiago" don't seem to have been
very well learned by the 6tmps6n put
it that runs our naval affair at Washington.-
The Japanese warship could
fight or not. Just as she pleased, If she
met any part of our navy, and as for
maneuvering, we would not w in it.
The only hope we would have in such
a contett would be "the man behind
tlta anin " .fan k ... .. ..
--.w m . mu um nas always won
all the batUes that have ever been won.
the man on the bridge having little td
do with It, except to maneuver the
thip so be could get a bead on the
enemy . -. . . , i . .,