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Cc Jltbraska fndtptadtnt mSS BlfcG, CW OTU AND N HI , trt n SI. GO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE wi m i pottUr,tU.i r ra 6Lrt Uuui vts Soft irlUk UMt, m4 Ct hUIW f&Us to A air U MatlMUu, u4 atk il Cfr Ethrstkm lmitptmitmt, Lincoln, Neb I7rery I? Ltat arrives from Alaska the days brings ft million or more of goii to 4d to the larg amount of motey la circulation. Senator Kyle Is dead. He WSS elected as m. pcpsllst and Ilea vest over to the republicans. The vacancy -will be jLlk4 by aj-pointnent by tie governor. Tie last ti from tie penitentiary vu that another rootlet, who had been sect up for rape, fcad escaped. It was ia broad daylight and he Just cot cp ard walked away. The tot weather has been a great toon for the editors cf the republican country weeklies. They now have a thetae for editorials. It fa entitled: Ia t hot enough for you?" Hanna declared that there were no trust and the whole republican party denied that there waa any danger of Imperialism. The question now la; Who did the lyitg la the last cam paign? Does Secretary cf State Marsh hare the same opinion regarding the re publican railroad assessment cf 1901 that Editor Marsh of the Falls City Journal held regarding the populist railroad assessment of lJrOO? Haa anybody ever heard of the con Tlctioa of Neeley and his partner who stole many thousand dollars from the Cuban pcetal funds? If they hT. please report to this See. How are those two distinguished republicans enjoying themselves these days? The British landed a ship load of Boer prisoners In Bermuda last week. There is one consolation for the burgh ers who are thus sent 10.000 miles from thtir nstlre land. They are n-ar a good many sympathizing friends in these states. It ia announced that that chap that zaid-roaders called Prof. Itoyce, a part Tier of Clem Deaver, has been rewarded fcy McKinley with a good oSce. The tho-assnd men who Toted the mid-road ticket last fail were buncoed in a fash ion that was never equalled. The principle of no taxation without representation Las been killed by the auprem court. The thing that will take its place is taxation without any return to the taxpayer. That would tot be a greater change than the su preme court haa wrought in our sye tem. It matte s not who is nominated for the presidency by the republican party. ."Whether it be McKinley, Hanna. For aker or come on else, it will make no dilerence to most of the millions who vote th republican ticket. Thejr woull "rote er straight if the nom inee came from Sing Sing. The republicans around Lincoln are exceedingly happy. They all fel that the good old times ere here again. The state Seers hare let a lot of contracta tor stone. Now they fancy that they will fcare "stone plugged to sire," con Tlct labor and everything aa it was In the good old times, so they are very t?rry. The DoQglaa county delegation to the next republican state convention, which will be held In August, will number HI, On that day the courts la Omaha will have to close, for all the Judges and lawyers will be detailed to go to Lincoln and nominate a tn ' jrme Jdge and two regents of the .state university. If this editor had a chance to "play the part of an unstrung bow" for about six week on a vacation, he might aft erward har energy enough to tall the readers of The Independent Just what he really thinks cf thla McKinley ad ministration and bankers who issue certified enecks to men who hare no money on deposit. One tad better dwell ia the regions ruled by the husband cf Prosperlne than In a city ruled by a republican cocncil. Last week the city council of Lincoln parsed aa ordinance forbid jdicg the ue cf acetylene gaa within the city limits. Cf course, that ordin ance. didst cos; th gf rempasy a ee.t The foundatioat fw tbe comfort and happlatat of those who will in the fd tor inhabit h!a stata hare been firm ly laid. Thoss who coms'aftor us will reap where wa have sown and lire in the houses that we hare built. But greater and more Important than all else there will be a population of tho moat generally educated and intelli gent in the whole world. The state today haa the lowest per cent of illit eracy of any spot of lta size in all the world. There la leas illiteracy In the United States than In any other na tion and there la leas illiteracy in Ne braska than in any other state in the union. ... ,. , The foundations of wealth is in the Intelligence of the people. A' popula tion of ignorant ' dullards will never create any great amount of wealth. From Intelligence comes the over whelming preponderance of tho wealth of the United States among the, na tions of the world. If one goes out among the farmers of Nebraska and they are the real wealth producers of the state, he will, see hqw Inte-Ulgence'. aide them In the . production " of ' all those things that are sold in the mark ets of the world. . In. Nebraska11-itVaJ man la engaged in the production 'of butter, his herd will be found to be composed of ' animals that, from a given amount of feed, will produce the greatest amount of butter fat. If he la engaged in the. production of: beef, his herds are made up of another class of animals. If he is raising horses, he keeps the best stallions of the best draft or fast-going strains. In the cultivation of crops he employs the most scientific methods. It did not take ' the Nebraska farmer long to learn the value of top cultivation and a blanket of dust to preserve the mois ture In the ground. He did not follow traditions of cultivation and do as his father did, but availed himself of the latest discoveries. It was intelligence that enabled him to do that. The su perior intelligence of the Nebraskan has added millions on millions to the wealth of the state that never would have been created except for that in telligence. In laying these foundations of per manent wealth the Nebraskan has looked forward to the welfare of those who should come after him as well as to his own personal Interest. Living In a semi-arid climate, he has studied the sources of moisture. He has planted out millions of trees and ' he haa conducted experiments to utilize the underground flow of water. To day thousands of windmills are pump ing water from beneath the surface, which when spread over the soli adds enormously to the wealth of the state.' He has so far succeeded that the scien-' tists say that the state will never again be visited by such disastrous drouths that have afflicted us in the past. The Nebraska farmer makes a pond. The' hot sun that evaporates the water makes clouds that shed down water In some part of the statu. Trees spring up about the borders of the pond and their gentle influence mod erates the seasons. The stolid and un intelligent would never do such things as these. "What has made the citizens of Ne braska the most intelligent body of in habitants in the whole world? It is the common school system and our splen did university. From the high schools of the state there go out every year to become a part of the citizenship thou sands of young men and women, whose intellects have been trained so. that they are keen observers and good thinkers. They know the elements of the practical sciences and how- to ap ply them to the production of wealth. From the state and other universities there go out hundreds more who have a thorough knowledge of chemistry, geology, botany, entomology and other sciences that give them an acquaint ance with the composition of soils, of plant life and insect life which Is ap plied constantly and everywhere to the increase of comfort and - the enjoy ment of all those who now live or will hereafter live in Nebraska. It is the sort of men and women that we raise that is the base, not only of all wealth, but of all those other things which tend to the elevation of mankind and toward making this world better, t If any one will read a little book published three or four years ago,.' entitled "Nebraska Redeemed," there' they will find the facts and , figures taken from the public records at the state house that wilt show how the re publican party was for many years un dermining the sources of wealth In Ne braska. Over $200,000 was traced which was taken from the common school fund and given to partisan workers for the republican party in the non-collection of rents snd inter est on rehool lands. One state sen ator had thousands' of acres on which be had not paid a eent for years, and all thla besidea what their state treas urer, Bartley. stole outright. No ooner had they got into power again than they made another assault upon the educational ayatem of , the state. Their governor vetoed over a hundred thousand dollars of appropriations for school purpotts, An attempt immedi ately followed to make the I'eru Nor-' mal aekeoi, a large amount of appro priations for whlea had been vetoed, a political t&tUtuUeu, ly refusing to rcappal&t && but kagwa republteana &I teat&ers la that institution; the appointment! of all the fusion profes sors being passed overt The next thing, that followed un dsr this new republican regime was the outtlng down of the apportion ment for the common schools by fifty thousand dollars. The tendency of the republican party in this state is to constantly steal the money belonging to the educational funds and to cut down to the lowest possible point the support of the whole school system. The main reason why these rascals ever got back into power again in a state of so much intelligence Is that they captured the sources from which information got to the people. The great dallies of all kinds have not fur nished the facts and the patent In sides of the weeklies are edited in the interest of the thieves. The people do not know the facts. If The Nebraska Indepentnt had a circulation of 50,000 in the state, not one of these thieves could get within five miles of the state house or ever again get a chance to even look at a dollar of school money. The voters would then know the facts.' Now they don't. 'THE LILLY HEARTED The republican press of this state has for years piled epithet upon epithet whenever it mentioned populism or populists Every man that was nomi nated for office or was ever elected to office by them was called every vile and scandalous name that the ingen uity of skilled writers could Invent. We were called hogs in the parlor, anarchists, repudiators, demagogues, lunatics, vagabonds, hoboes, swash bucklers, sap heads. We were fol lowed year in and year out with sneers, calumny, scorn, ridicule, conteir.pt and downright falsehood. The Independent stood that sort of treatment for years and tried reason, logic and. the presen tation of facts, all of which made no impression upon these men whatever. Then it took another turn, did not mince its words and in the plainest, bluntest English at its command, be gan to tell just what sort of men com posed the republican party and de tail the vileness of their methods. That soon brought a very large num ber of them to their senses, but there are a few lilly-hearted men who now begin to plead for The Independent to let up. To them, The Independent says that soft words have no effect upon the crew who robbed the state treasury, sent twenty thousand men into thi3 state to carry it for Mark Hanna and who began all their old practices . oyer again as soon as they captured the state house, A man who will forever stand and be called a fool, a repudiator, an anarchist and a hair brained madman without fighting back Is not fit to belong to the ranks of the fighting reformers in this age of greed and gold. LIFE TENURE OF OFFICE Once m a great while some editor of a republican country weekly tries to write an editorial, but a& sure as he does, he attacks some of the principles upon which the republican party was founded and came into power. Thirty years ago in the republican party there was as firm a belief that to ob tain good and honest government there should be frequent changes in office holders as there is in the fusion party tocay. So when Tim Sedgwick con cluded to write, an editorial, not know ing of any other of the old Lincoln principles that he could attack easier, he went for that doctrine and this is what be said: "There is no more reason for con flnlng7the presidential term to four or eight years than there is for a firm to discharge its manager at the end of four years. It would be just as easy for the manager of a railroad to ac quire absolute control and ownership against the wishes of the officers and directors, as for a president of this country to usurp authority that does not belong to his department of gov ernment." That idea so pleased the other re publican editors of the state that most of them copied it. So they all seem to be of the same mind. It is only the be ginning of a plan to set up life tenure of office such as they have in all other plutocratic governments. Neither Tim Sedgwick nor Joe Johnson have a friendly feeling for frequent changes in office. Joe thinks it is terrible for him to give up that fat sinecure that he has held for the last four years. It took a long time1 to smoke Brer Rosewater out of his hole. It was an awkward predicament, to be sure. He had denounced the fusion railroad as eessment of 1800 In unmeasured terms; he had aroused a number of little re publican papers over the state. They echoed his yowls and he repeated their yelps. And in 1901 the republican railroad assessment proved to be about 144.000 smaller than the one he and his paek had yowled oyer so long and YBleeeuely, Wh&t eeuld the pear man do? Well, he tried hard te say neth-. ing, but finally, after many days ef Eileneo, waa feie6d te admit that the "target praetiee begun by the swash. bueklep ef the Nebraska Independent" THE tTEBBADHA IITDEPENDEirr Last week one of the best known sociologist! and economists in tho world called at The Independent office and discussed trust! and the forces op posed to them. - This distinguished scholar pointed out that there were forces opposed to monopolies con stantly at work and that the contest between them would never cease. As soon as a trust obtained a monopoly these forces became active and fre quently resulted In their overthrow. He regarded the advance of science and the work of the inventor as the constant and powerful foe of monopo lies. As instances he referred to the gas monopolies. Science ; had created a powerful foe to this monopoly In acetelyne gas, which, could not be mo nopolized, for each man could put in a separate plant. When the street car systems became .oppressive monopo lies, the bicycle, and later the automo bile,, appeared, which cut - under them and had had a large influence in modi fying oppressive rates. The electric car- itself had been a check- upon ex, cessive monopoly rates of the steam railroads, for in the eastern states it was spreading all over the rural dis tricts and one could now go from New York to Boston on the electric cars. In the course of an hour's talk he enum erated very many things of this sort that were a check upon the monopolies' created by the trusts. These were the views of a man whose; hole life has been devoted to science and research. The same week the editor of The In dependent received v a letter from a farmer who had been thinking upon the same subject. His ; whole life has been devoted to toil in the fields and his hands are hard and stiff. It is in teresting to note the similarityof . the conclusions that these two men came to upon this subject, .the. farmer thought it out while' he was following the plow and the scientist in his study. The two points from which they look at the same subject are as wide as the east from the west,' yet the con elusions are practically the same. The farmer's letter was not for publica tion, but The Independent takes, the liberty to make a few quotations from it. He says: "I find it very hard to take a pen and write in these days when work so presses upon every man, and woman. too, on the farm, so I have, asked my daughter to write this letter for me. I have been thinking a good deal of late over the prospects of the. common people andt hardrwprking: jnen: )ike..: myself. At first, when I thought of the attacks that were being made upon all1 the old principles of government, such as we were. alltaugh.t to revere when I was a boy, and the machina tions . of' what i",rna've beetf accus'-' tomed. tV'call the 'monVy icwer' f very' much feared "for ' the" future of 1 my children, but Ir havecome? to" the 'con clusion that the : Lord is' on our side and that Herhas got it in for the gold grabbers and oppfessors of the poor. He heads them off every time. ' "Their attempt to'corner the money of the world afid' red uce'its volume until they became-masters" and all the rest of mankind slaves, was" beaten by nothing that we aid? although" we did our best, and the Lord came to our help In a most astonishing and unlooked-for way. News gold fields were opened up and new processes of gath ering the gold from old dumps, as I have read in The' Independent, were invented, and the result was just what we wanted, 'a great- increase " In the volume of money and higher prices for the products of the farm. "This did not come about by the wisdom or foresight of man. No one had ever even thought of such a solu tion of our-difficulties. Relief came, and came in a way that the wicked men who had- brought the distress upon the people through the stoppage, of the coinage of one of the money metals could not resist ; I saw an ar ticle in your paper which said that these great financial magnates could control kings, presidents, parliaments and congresses, but that, they could not control the output of gold, and that was true. Those who had under taken to monopolize money s were the worst whipped lot of men that I ever heard of In all my life. .In that way the worst . monopoly . that the world ever saw was overthrown. . "Now I begin to think that other mo nopolies may be overthrown in a simi lar way. Next to the money monopoly, the one created by Rockefeller was the greatest. I have heretofore thought that that was unassailable and that the immense fortune of Rockefeller and his associates might be a threat to our form Of government as he was continually attempting to monopolize railroads, banks and many other things. 1 "now begin to think that the Lord is bigger than even Rocke feller; and that in some way which the wisdom of man cannot' devise, he will go the way of the money trust. .New oil fields may be discovered and the output may become bo great that his monopoly will be destroyed. I have wondered whether the . oil - fields of Texas .which I understand are on the shores of the ocean, where Mr, Rocke feller eannotv crush out their compe tition by rebates en the railroads, may net be the entering wedge that will finally eenquer Rockefeller, J 'The more I think en the eubjeet of i truest wUUb if W M a rignUtiui government would not be allowed to exist, the mora X believe that, the Lord will In some way bring us through all right in the end. The telegraph trust, which has been such an oppression andsby means of which the people are largely kept in ignorance, through the control of sending out the news, may find a foe too great for even it to grap ple with. This system of telegraphing without wires may do it. Anyway, be sure. the Lord is after them and in Hs own. good time h'e will bring them to account. . "I don't write this letter for It to be printed, but just to cheer you up, for you have fought so long and so hard, that I wonder ; sometimes how you keep it up. It seems that every new edition of The Independent is better than any that was ever before it. -Keep it up if you can, for i tell you that the Lord is on our side." The view point of these two men could not be farther apart. - One eay3 that invention and science are foe3 of i the trust and the, other says that the Lord is after" them, but the con clusion of both is that the trusts are not to have undisputed swav over mankind. The Independent thinks that both of them are right. ANOTHER BANK TAILED Another bank failure has" been re ported. This time It 13 the Ctiy Na tional of Buffalo and the cause ex actly the same as that of the Seventh National of New ; York loaning ti e depositors money - on watered stocks and bonds The row of cards that the "financiers' have set up is beginning to be shaky. This "capitalization of earning power" that has received the indorsement of Hill, Morgan and oth ers, begins to show signs of weakness;- In regard . to Comptroller Dawes The Independent has no fault to find with him. He seems to have acted promptly whenever Information has reached him. It is the bank ex aminers who fail to look into the character of the securities held by the banks that The Independent condemns. Some .'months ago Mr. Dawes in an official report took exactly the iane ground in regard to bank reserves that The Independent has all along advo cated and the whole of Wall btreet jumped onto him with both feet. He pointed out ? that the banks In reality have no reserves, that reserves depos ited in other 'banks and loaned out, are rot reserves at all, and Comptrol ler Dawes wanted that practice stopped. Then men who use deposi tors' money in the way that these two banks have done are worse by far tban highway' "fobbcrsr . " They violate the most ;sacred,i trust at - the same time tat they. ake-thousands from the con fiding, and helplessly . . A GOOD IDEA : Several"' days 1 after the criminal transactions of ' the Seventh National bank of New York' became generally known and the people were informed that all the New York banks, were en gaged' in the same , sort of business, the New York dailies ventured to make a few mild remarks upon the subject. The Journal spoke as follows: "The Seventh " National came to grief i through over-certification to an extravagant "extent for a single firm. Perhaps no other bank has over-certified so recklessly, but it is known that the practice of certifying that custo mers have money on deposit when they have not is a common one. It is also known to be against the law, at least as far as national banks are concerned. Might it not be a good idea to try the effect of running banks on a legal basis?" ' . No doubt it would be "a good idea" for these New York banking pirates to obey the law, but they never will un til two oi three bunches of them have been sent' to the penitentiary for good long terms. - IDLE SCHOOL MONET "As regards the schools: There is more smoke than fire in the charge of the reform fusiliers. A careful com parison of the figures must convince aiy. unbiased person that the patri mony of the school children of Ne braska is in excellent hands and the course pursued by State Treasurer Stuefer and his associates needs no de fense." Omaha Bee. . , . Why not give some of those ''care ful comparisons?" There are a number of Mlssourians In this state who need "to be shown." It is a fact that the May, 1901, school apportionment is practically $50,000 smaller than the one made by fuslonlsts in May, 1900. It Is a fact that the' republican school ap portionment of May, 1901, is practical ly $30,000 smaller than the average of the f four May ' apportionments made under fusion1' administration. No smoke about this It la real fire. Trot out 'your "careful comparisona." A goodly portion 'or the patrimony of the school children of Nebraska Is doubtless "in excellent hands." But it is Idle. .It is doing no work, draw ing no ineomo for the school children. Again we are from JopUn: We'd like to bo these "excellent hands." Lest we fergat will Treasurer Stuefer kind ly take the people into his confidence end tell where he keeps that enormous amount ef sbeot meney 7 OOtiD iTAKDAttU FAILURES Those who read the told standard and sound money literature that flood ed the country during the campaign of .1896 will readily recall the name of William : C. - Cornwell. He waa the great authority. on finance upon whom the republican deceivers relied. He wrote books on banking, on "sound money," on every one of the schemes which the republican party, was then contemplating. " He " was for the gold standard in India and everywhere else, talked about repudiation, "fifty-cent dollars," and always maintained that he dwelt in the holy of holies of finan cial honor and uprightness. All who differed from him were anarchists, re pudiators and lunatics. That was the character of his books and his maga zine articles. Well this paragon of financial honor,: this defender of sound money, this right hand man of the republican politicians was the presi dent of the City Bank of. Buffalo and will not be able to pay the depositors who trusted him even fifty-cent dol lars or any other kind of dollars. :' 7 About the same kind of & thing was the' failure of the' Seventh National of New York. That bank has weathered the financial storms for more than seventy years. Then j Perry Heath and other big "sound money" magnates got hold of it v They-knew all about finance and banking and jthose- who differed with them were dishonest re pudiators who wanted to scale down their debts. The men and women who were so unfortunate aS to deposit their money with this gang of gold standard advocates . have found . that when it came to scaling down debts, that' there Is nothing on earth that will compare with a republican gold standard bank er. Perry "Heath "and his conferees would have been mighty glad if they could have obtained a million or two of these fifty-cent silver dollars to pre vent their bank from going into the hands of a receiver and their deposi tors would have been still more pleased to have received. them. THE MEPOPULIS3I The amount of populist talk that republican editors can get off between elections and when congresa is not J n session is astonishing: But when7 there Is an election on hand or when con gress has some imperialistic or pluto cratic bill before it, then the principles of the populist . party . are anarchy or socialism. Listen to Rosewater in these hot days when Washington is de serted and the nominations have not yet been made. He says: . "The United States has always gone on the theory that all the standing army needed is one sufficient to guard against emergencies.; For the great trials of actual war the volunteer has' always been the -'dependence ; of the' United States and he has never failed on call, either in . willingness or -ca--pacity." - Why didn't he. say that when-McKinley was demanding a standing army of a hundred thousand men? Never a word appeared in the Bee in those days against a large . stahdin; army. The assertion made in the above statement is . pure populism.' Every populist paper in the land made a fight based on ;those principles, but when fighting would do some good, Rosewater was as dumb ... as a clam. When the question comes . up again and the republican party . demands a bigger standing army, the Bee will be gin to talk the other way. THE TTIEVINGRICH The last thing that the rich have stolen from the' poor, are the bath'ng places established by the District of Columbia for that portion of the pop ulation who were not able to put baths in their own houses; The rich have" taken entire possession of them this summer. A Washington paper says: "The district commissioners are quite disturbed at the class distinction which is manifest at the' beach and they are racking their brains 'for some plan by which the society people will be prevented from keeping away the' very persons for whom the beach was opened. Any person, who does not ap pear in the water in a stylish suit is made the subject' of so many caustic remarks that he generally does not put in a sedond appearance." That is the way with the thieving rich In this and all other countries. Next winter a lot of these thieves will appear at the capitol holding out their hands and begging for an appropriation. The halls and- corridors - of congress are always filled with them. The rich are bpth thieves and beggars, v INFLATING THE CURRENCY Those fellows up in Alaska are the worst fifty-cent dollar men that the. world ever saw.: It Is said that the total season's clean-up of potential money In that country will be between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. The steam ship Dolphin, which arrived last week, brought $1,000,000 for the Canadian Bank of Commerce and $360,000 in In-V dividual dust. There was 'shipped via Sti.Mlchaels on the 12th lnst. $2,500,000 and there is on the way up ; the "river (estimated) $1,000,000. Over three tons of gold, or $2,iJ00,006, is on its way down the Yukon. It will be brought from St. "Mifchaeie probably on the Ro--anbke. On the JOth over $1,000,000 was on its way : up the Yukon " from Dawson, It will probably arrive on the. nt stoamcr. - July 4, Woi That "most enlightened nation, Great Britain, has noflife boat service, although it claims to wn the sea. Life boat stations in that country have to be supported by charity. We suppose that that is one of the examples that the gold bugs who talked so much about the superiority of the old mon archies of Europe would like us to fol low. ' McKinley is going to set up the sil- -ver standard In that part of the United States composed of the Philippine, archipelago. Mac is advancing toward populism very, fast He began by coin ing silver by the ton and "now he Is going to establish, not the gold stand--ard or the bimetallic standard, but tho, silver standard in -part of the United States. . . . .. It is now generally conceded that the balance of trade in favor of the United States of about $650,000,000 is all spent in Europe by the millionaires and snobs who go over there to spend their money. Recent investigations . show that the amount spent by them is certainly over $500,000,00. Thaf ia the reason that no gold has b;en shipped to' this' country to ' settle b al ances. -t'.' .... ' v This great export trade that the. pa pers have been going wild over is near ly all on account of the farmer. He furnishes 67 per cent of it. The steel trust and the other tariff trusts make a great ado' about exports, but if it were not for the farmer's wheat, corn, cot ton, cattle and hogs there would be a mighty deficit when it came to set tling the balance of trade with foreign nations. Thi farmers don't do much, of the blowing, but they furnish most of the exports all the same. One great political party and its allies has accused the other of being in favor of imperialism tnd the ac cused party has vigorously denied ?ta intention of foisting upon this nation the admittedly horrible principle. Nevertheless we have had imperialism when everybody declared that they were opposed to it, that is if govern ment without consent and taxation without representation is imperialism. The moral to this little tale is: Never trust to the protestations of republican leaders. ' Speaker Henderson has announced to the world that be and King - Edward have fixed things up and no one need worry hereafter. After a talk with the king, he gravely announced to the reporters that: "I can assure my An erlcan friends that England may . be depended upon in any ordinary con- trpveray; that f may arise .between the United States and the" rest- of the worlds" Blessed be the name of Davd! Let all the people rejoice with exceed- " ing;great joy. . This land of the brave and the home of the Filipino Is safe. The holy, unimpeachable and im maculate -honest money men of the east who were horrified at the idea of paying United States bonds according to the written contract and called such payment "repudiation," now turn, up by the hundred and refuse to pay. their own, debts in any sort of money. They Induced the common people to trust them with millions of dollars dollars that were earned by the hardest toil and "now the sanctimonious, extreme ly holy chaps simply tell them that the bank is "busted" and that ends the matter. There is one thing that the Associ ated press has neglected to mention and which all the gold standard papers have failed to make any comment up on., . It is the way that gold fled, out . of the country as soon as the United States , government began to coin sil ver again. It must have gone out in a hurry, for gold standard papers and every republican spell binder declared that; it would and everybody knows; , that they never He. The. Independent has therefore concluded that the gold has gone, although the papers havo ' made no mention of the fact. There were frauds in Manila, embez zlements In Cuba" and wholesale steal ing in San Francisco and it was all on account of "destiny." No one is to blame. Neeley and Rathbone have not beeq. tried and the world power bus inesses working overtime." A five' to ipur. court runs things. Dietrich has gpne jto the Philippines. There 'ls a i xuuLiujr every oiner aay at tne peni tentiary. The convicts set fire to che shops and Savage pardons the felon who cries "fire." That is the wa v ihe world wags on, and it is all oh account of "destiny." 'Rosewater and one other republican editor who was-given due credit last week have owned up that the assess ments of the railroads by the republi cans is a little worse than the fuslon- !sfs 'dld and not to be defended. Rose- water declares that the republicans' are -better than the fuslonlsts for they . "neversaid anything against passes and never proposed to defend the peo pte against the. corporations, but the fuslonlsts did. He therefore concludes that'Tie will continue his efforts for re form by' standing by the party that doos not propose to do anything. v i i i It V .... II V a i ) (