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THE NEBRASKA IITDEPEITJDENT July 18, 1901 t t tbt Uebraska Indtptndtnt ZAnfln, IltbrMMka PRISSE BIDO. CORNER UTfl AND N $T$ PrSLUBEO liVEBT THCB8DAT SI. CO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE rut klsf rrmittsM 4 m Uav to fc forward by tfem. Thr fx ! tlj j3Tfrt r fit 4iffrt aakOat Uuvtl Ufi wltfe ti. 4 tfc nUerlktr fail to ft petm er4it. JL(Cl all roBaaicatiozka. asd mak all raTla. Mr le-. payabla to Cd Rebrssk Jmdeptmdent, Lincoln. Neb. Aftotrmcva aBiAitiosa will fc mo tif4L tit4 aeripta will bo ra It ii LIgh time that the wrong done elm (Bartley) be corrected. Blair rilct and State Journal. Not dishonesty, but undefined friend it!? actuated him (Bart ley). Blair Pilot and State Journal. Mr- Hartley never took a dollar with the intention of wrongfully appropriat ing it to bis own use. Blair Pilot and State Journal. There netcr was. therefore, any oc casion or jut cause of Joseph Bartley' arrest. Blair Pilot and State Journal. Some of the mid-roaders have got along far enough to fay that "Clem Dearer la a low-lived hypocrite.- Will the next rascal tfcat comes along fool them just as easy? Hartley says that he is going to re main In the state of Nebraska. He well knows that as long as the re puilicanc are In power that it is the safest place for crimlnals'on the whole earth. Republican government makes em bezzlement the most profitable busi ness in the state. A million dollars is big pay for attending to the floral con servatory tor four years at the peni tentiary. Restitution should precede a pardon, but under republican rule defiance of the law and a pride in successful em bezzlement is ground for setting a criminal free. How far is that from anarchy? If a thief only steals a large enough sum and has prominent republican politicians to back him, stealing Is the safest business a man can engage, in while the republicans are in power-in Nebraska. If the people will arise en masse In a protest against the pardon of a defiant embezzler, they may force the leaders of the republican party to make at least a partial restitution of the money stolen from the Nebraska school children. There was never more than $2,000, 030 of silver coined a month either un der the Bland act or the Sherman act, but McKinley has been coining over fifmm a month. That Is what Mark Hanna calls establishing the gold standard. What sort of a show does any one suppose that the populist principles set forth In the platform would have with the fellows who hissed Bryan's name In the Ohio democratic state conven tioa. even If they were elected to rorcLisr x,ooio The Omaha Bee quotes In one place In the paper The Independent's editor ial which said that the pop farmer laughed and grew fat since McKinley had adopted the populist financial principles, coined silver and Issued money until prices had adranced, then lnanother place it says: "Here is populist logic for. you! Why not! ask the Nebraska farmers to ex plain how it comes that eggs get hard er, the longer they are toiled, while all other substances expand by heating until they reach a melting point Would it not be much more pertinent for the chief expounder of populism to explain to Nebraska farmers, why their products sell at high prices for gold standard money In spite of the fact that we have no free coinage and sil ver is bought for, the . mints at the ratio of 30 to 1." : It is very evident that Mr. Rosewa ter Is suffering from the delusion that we have the gold standard and does not know that the magnates have per- business. Improvement Is everywhere visible. There are more houses being built in Lincoln today than at any t other one time In all Its history. Ev ery sort of mechanic can get work at good wages.. . ; Think of the contest . we went through when we were asserting these things. How we ; were denounced as lunatics. How the old State Hypocrite used to talk about 'the per capita.' It. was tne populist agitation . taat brought it all about. If it Had not been that we fought lor these principles and refused to consent to the doctrine of 'intrinsic, value" arid dear money, dis tress and destitution would now be seen every where. - Take out of the cir culation today the' silver that has been : coined and the paper money that has J been issued In the last few years and we would have '93 and the Cleveland soup houses over again. Populism has secured the great thing which it was organized . to - accomplish an - increase in the volume of money. As an organ ized body of independent, right-think; manently abandoned all hope of insti- Ing men, it has done more for. the pros- The wild-eyed, long-haired republi cans down la Topeka.. Kas are excit edly demanding that the city establish a municipal ice plant. They have at last come to the conclusion that noth ing bet populism can save them from the Ice trust. The governor of South Dakota has filU-d the vacancy in the United States senats caused by the death of Senator Kyle by appointing a railroad attor ney to the place, which is according to the eteixal fitness of things in the republican party. The first act that congress ought to jm when it assembles is one to make It compulsory for Schley's fighters at the naval battle of Santiago to wear the medal with Sampson's head upon it. If it don't, all the money spent In making them will be lost. The C2evelind-HlU papers In the east are all In a state of ecstasy over the Ignoring of Bryan and the Kan aaa City platform by the Ohio demo cratic convention. Before they shout too much It would be better to wait until tfter the Totes are counted. Gc of the great religious weeklies of New York remarks that the recent robbery of ti city of Philadelphia by Quay and his lieutenants "Is unac countable." The republican plurality In Pennsylvania In 1526 was 204.944, nnd In 1SQ0. 2SV433. Teat accounts for tie whole thing. tuting a money system in which noth Ing but gold would be legal tender. Silver is still a legal tender, green backs are a legal tender and even bank notes to a large degree are legal ten der. If that is what the "bankers wanted when they talked about sound money, they never said so. They claimed that gold was the only honest money and that to make anything else a legal tender was dishonest. 'As, soon as the republicans got hold of the gov ernment instead of demonetizing sil ver they went to coining it in larger quantities than before and instead of making gold the only money, they even made bank notes a partial legal tender. Before that they denounced the quantity theory of money and said that a redundant currency made low prices. The populist logic was the logic of every writer of authority on political economy in the whole world. They de clared that, other things being equal, prices would rise or fall as the amount of money in circulation increased or diminished. They, ."point with pride" to the undeniable demonstration of the soundness of their logic in the rise of prices which followed the increase of the amount of money in circulation, which has come about by the Increase in the output of gold, in the coinage of silver and the Issue of paper money under the McKinley administration. No economic theory ever had such a convincing' demonstration before. T Mr. Rosewater could write no article for his paper that would be read with such general interest as one telling just how he really feels when lie "re flects that for -years he fought for the gold standard and predicted the worst of calamities if the coinage of silver was not stopped and now Veesr that "In stead of the . calamities that he pre dicted the increased coinage of silver has been followed by prosperity in stead of calamity. ' ' " ' ; " : ; , As far sis its effects upon prices are concerned, it makes not a particle of difference whether there is free coin age of silver, or whether the govern ment buys the silver and coins it into "standard dollars. United States mon ey, not redeemable in any other kind of money." The volume of money in circulation is increased just the same. In another way it does make a great deal of difference. The par of ex change witn countries which have a silver basis, gives to them an advant age over the American farmer the equivalent of a tariff of a hundred per cent. That still remains and the pop ulist logic would obliterate it. All the silver that is now mined, aside from what goes into the arts, is coined. It Is said that McKinley Is going to es tablish a mint in the Philippines to hasten the coinage. There is no silver bullion uncoined anywhere. The only effect that the present system of sil ver coinage has. Is to lower the price of American farm products below what they should be, for the benefit of Eu ropean nations who have to buy from us. The countries that come into com petition with the American farmer are all free silver countlres. Raise the price of silver bullion up to $1.29 per ounce and the American farmer would laugh more and grow fat faster than he does now. Sixteen to one would do it. Mr. Rosewater will have to write an other article and explain more fully what hard boiled eggs have to do with the volume of money and the general level of prices.. That part of his "logic" seems somewhat obscure. WILL MARCH RIGHT OK The financial year closed on; June 30 and the final figures concerning the amount of money circulation is official ly stated to be 12,483,567.605. The act ual circulation per capita is now $28, based on the treasurer's estimate, of a population of 77.i54.000. Since 1897 there has been an - increase in- the money circulation of about $5 per head. This increase In the volume of mon ey has had exactly the effect that the populists said It would have. It Is a demonstration of the soundness of the populist financial theories such as nev er have been given to any theory be fore. Farm products have risen In price. Merchants are doing a. better perity of this nation than all the other parties have done since the founda tion of the government. ' Is Its mission ended with the victor ies that it has gained? Not at all. It starts out with renewed vigor to gain still greater victories. - MARK HAMNA'S LATEST Mark Hanna came out to Nebraska during the last presidential campaign and gravely announced everywhere that, he appeared that there . were no trusts. Every mullet head In the state immediately swore by that statement and thousands of them believe it still. Now he has made another announce ment. He put it in the republican plat form of the state of Ohio. It is as follows: The republican party, by Its mone tary legislation, has established the gold standard, thereby removing the menace of an inflated currency and its attendant repudiation of financial obli gations, public and private; and raised our credit above that of any other na tion." ; It is probable that if Mark Hanna should announce that the moon was made of green cheese, every republican would be reaching up with a cheese knife trying to cut off a slice. Such a statement would not be half as ridic ulous as that the republican party has established the gold standard and re moved the menace of an inflated cur rency. If coining silver at the rate of $3,000,000 a month and issuing paper money at the rate of over a million a year, is establishing the gold standard and stopping inflation, then the repub lican party has done it. Any sort of a statement goes with the republicans. There are thousands of them in Nebraska who do not be lieve that McKinley has coined a dol lar of silver. They say that such stories are only pop lies. Official re ports of the treasury department, they denounce as pop documents issued for political effect. That is the sort of peoplo who make up the republican following and who cast a very large majority of the votes that the party gets. There are a few men in the party who are well enough educated. They make their millions by preying upon the Ignorance of their followers. They will "vote 'er straight every time.' This latest yam put out by Mark Han na they will believe. Not one of them will have a shadow of doubt about It. The experience that Seward county has had with the redeemers Is the same that all the other counties .have had. Their getting into Dower has cost each of them about a thousand dollars in excess of what they would have had to pay under a fusion gov eminent. ii ii remains as not as it is now when the men who believe that the foreigner pays the tax and that Mc KInley produces the crops get together to nominate a supreme judge and two regents of the university, we shall probably behold some very long and sad faces in the crowd. It may appear a little strange to an old hayseed that a distinguished law yer-like C. O. Whedon should send his eloquent and forcible literary pro ductions to a little country paper like the Blair Pilot. Why they act that way is one of those things that no pop can find out. The idea that a permanent balance of trade paid in gold would - enrich country or in any way add to Its wealth Is just such a fallacy as attracts the attention of the republican voter If we got all the gold in the world transported by such means to this country how much better off would we be? But the thing could not be done as every man of sense knows. Whenever the oppression of the trusts and corporations become unen durable, then the whole population. especially the republicans, fly to pop ulism for salvation. That is the case down In Topeka. Kas., just as it was In Boston, Mass. In Boston they insisted on the referendum. In Topeka the re publicans are demanding a municipal ice plant. OHIO DEMOCRATS . : The performance of the Ohio demo cratic , state convention equals ; Dan Rice's mule act In the palmiest days of that celebrated quadruped. It adopted the most radical populistic platform "ever adopted by a democratic conven tion and then hissed the name of Bry an and trampled his picture underfoot. If Mark Hanna had ordered the pro ceedings of that-convention "aild his orders had been -carried out to the let-. ter ,., he could - not have been better pleased. If the MacLean. following, suppose that they canx poll the full democratic -vote of' Ohio by hissing Bryan, they-.are the biggest fools that ever ran loose. ..- The result of . this thing will be that the republicans will, carry Ohio by 500,- 000 majority,; more or less. : Mark Han na won't have; to call on anybody for election f unds.- Thething will just go tself.,. IX the populist party in Ohio had not been ruined by. the vagaries of the Carl Brownes ; and - Coxeys, now would be the .time for the populists to capture the state, -rThere: are tens of thousands of democrats- in; Ohio who can never be -forced by j.such : men as MacLean to go back on the only demo cratic statesman who has appeared in the -last decade,' who has.stood- by the ojd democratic,-Jeff ersopian doctrines. As between Mark Hanna and. .the, dem ocrats who . hissed - Bryan and trampled his picture - under - foot, this writer would be for Mark Hanna, ship sub sidies and all. Mark says he has estab- ished the. gold standard by coining silver, butthat-is not- half so ridicul ous as a democratic state, convention hissing the name, of their greatest lead er and, trampling his picture under their feet.. - v ; - - ..... All the republican dailies are emi nently satisfied with the action of the Ohio democratic;: state convention. They are unanimous in declaring that it was the wisest arid, most satisfactory body of democratic ' statesmen who ever assembled in the United States, There will probably be some more democratic state; conventions In the near future much, like it. The sooner they assembled and go through with their performances the better it will be. When the votes "are cast they will 1 . i.- - find that it will not take long to count them.. . . About this time it will-be well for the Kansas democrats who don't want any more fusion, with the populists to take some observations and try to find out "where they: art at, ' All there Is of democracy fri; 'Kansas are the men who believe in Bryan and his prin ciples. When"tEese i Kansas democrats get into close communion with the other kind who hiss the name of Bry an, will they join in the hissing? tIf they do, how many votes will they poll in Kansas? It looks to a man up a tree as if the democrats are clearing the way for a triumphant populist party in the near future. The Cleve-land-Hlll-MacLean outfit can control democratic state conventions, butcan they control democratic votes? There are too many honest men men of principle in the democratic party to make that "sort of a game a winning one The Independent ventures to make a prophesy: It will not oe long Deiore there will begin to appear humble apologies for that hissing perform ance. The apologies will not be ac cepted not by populists. The ignor ant creatures who did the hissing were only representing the feelings, not of themselves, but of the gang of politi cal pirates who have remained In the democratic party for the purpose of electing the republican nominees for the last six years. Many of them have become millionaires by the favor of republican, corporations and trusts. They propose to prevent the demo cratic party from ever being a danger ous foe to republican schemes. The Independent Is not at all de pressed by the action of these Ohio democrats. It rather rejoices over .it, for it presages the time when these sort of democrats will find that the number of votes that they can cast are so insignificant that they will cut no figure, in elections at all. Let them go ahead and prove it by an actual count at the ballot box. That will settle it and the country will be rid of them forever. That thing is needed to clear the political atmosphere. KEW SOURCKS OF WEALTH The great increase of wealth has re sulted in the last few years from differ ent sources. The discovery of new natural products like aluminum, the utilization of what was once thrown away, of which cottonseed is a good example and invention and scientific discoveries. The utilization of cotton seed and hulls has added ten per cent to the value of the cotton crop. The former waste of gas plants has devel oped a great line of industries. From what was once thrown away there are now made chemicals for sugar, an other takes the, place of quinine. Ani line dyes in myriad hues rivaling the rainbow, perfume which is the equiv alent of violets, and flavors indistin gulshable from burnt almonds and va nlla, are a few of the hundreds of sub stances made out of the refuse of gas plants. So important have these new Industries become that instead of be ing' a source of inconvenience and ex pense the by-products of. gas-making arej now an important element of profit. " . : t: ; ;" ' . .The result of these inventions and the utilization of former waste prod ucts .should be a general increase in the comfort of the whole people, not: its waste again upon costly yachts, palaces for cow stables and marble lined par lors for pet horses. In other words if the wealth ; which - the . people create under these new aid improved condi tions is somewhat equally distributed, the general happiness, and comfort of the people will results If trusts and combinations of capital are to gather t into a few hands and waste it in riotous living, it might as well never be created at all. Populism stands for the general distribution of wealth, and against Its concentration in the hands of the few. Let some man try. to prove that populism Is not right and see what4 kind of an argument he will put up. But none of them ever try. They cant be . coaxed to .make a trial. They would much rather-get up all by them selves and talk about destiny. MILLION DOLLAR STKAL The profound and long-continued si lence of all the great: dailies concern ing the additional million dollar steal that Neeley accomplished and which would i never have been made public but for the appointment of a receiver for the Seventh National bank of New York, is like. the silence of the inter stellar spaces of God's vast universe. A few years ago, a steal of a million dollars would have caused some re marks to have been-made In the daily papers, but the press- has1 become so degenerate that it: prefers td devote its space to the description of pruient scandals of the divorce courts with their accompaniment of corespondents. The plain facts are that Neeley was sent to Cuba- as a . carpet-bag postal official with the indorsement of Perry Heath who was at that time in the gen eral-postoffice service, and when Nee ley got to Cuba he found nearly a mil lion jdollars in gold and silver in the postoffice at Havana, left there by the' Spaniards. The: said Neeley shoveled this large amount of coin into United States government, mail sacks and sent it to,;New York. It was sent to the sub-treasury and a check for that amount was deposited in the Seventh National of which the said Perry Heath -and his brother were directors and principal governing power. What became-, ot that million dollars? So far no man ans wereth. But McKinley has .issued orders that the financial pirates who wrecked the bank and took five million of the depositors' money, shall not be prosecuted. That 4s j the sort' Of t vileness that the God and morality party has descended to, and there is not a democratic, da II v in the land that has the courage to say a word about It. If anybody wants to know what is goir.g on in the ranks of the g. o. p. rascals he will have to read the Nebraska independent to find out. It is. the only paper in the land that dares , to tell the truth about them. ' According to the newspapers the farmers have been gambling at a rate that would make the biggest specula tion on Wall street the merest child's play. A week-oriso ago they made several hundred millions on a rain. Now they say that "the farmers have lost more on the hot winds and ex cessive heat than they made on ! the rains. So they are out of pocket sev eral hundred millions. $ At the last election the people of Omaha voted for the municipal own ership of the water works by a very large majority, but that don't count as long as Omaha has a republican mayor and city council. The citizens of Lin coln also voted by two-thirds major ity for the municipal ownership of the electric lighting plant and that counts for. about as .much as the vote in Omaha did. We will get it when the republicans are turned down. - The pops around Lincoln have, been having two baskets full of fun with the republicans lately. . Whenever they hear one. of . Mark Hanna's followers declaring that the - hot weather has ruined the crops and that we are go ing to have hard times, they reply that it cannot possibly be true for McKin-? ley still rules and it is he who grants good crops, and that the combination of "McKinley prosperity" must not be abandoned thus early in the campaign. "-The difference between a fusion thief and a republican thief Is somewhat re markable. . Nordin, a fusion thief, stole $10,000 from Kearney county. Then he-beat himself over the head with a sand-bag, made a restitution of $6,700, repented of his sins, asked the judge to call a special session of the court, plead guilty and was sent to the peni tentiary within twenty-four hours. Bartley stole nearly a million, fought the case , to the bitter end, tried to bribe the jurors, was paroled , by a republican, governor and as soon as he got out declared that he had not done anything of which he was ashamed.' There seems to be just as much differ ence between a fusion thief and a re publican, thief as there Is between an honest republican and an honest fu sionlst. - - BARTLEY WAS A SAINT , The old State Hypocrite had a col umn or two that shows what the line of policy, is going to : be in regard to Bartley; According to it Bartleywas a saint, and Judge Westover, Attorney General Smyth, Judge' Harrington, S. B. Howard and t Mike Harrington were the thieves. It appears also that Dr. Hall and his bank examiner, Coad, were also partlceps :criminis. Itv says that they together -wrecked Bartleyls bank and, squandered or stole the asj sets. Bartley was all right Tbes other fellows are the Criminals. .The truth about the matter is that Bartley stole $50,000 and deposited it in his own "bank. When the . fusion government came into power Dr. Hall sent a bank examiner out there to see how much of that , $50,000 ,was In the bank. -The examiner reported the bank Insolvent? The attorney general' be gan; proceedings to recover what was dW the state. Judge Westover ap pointed Howard , receiver and he woutid up the concern. The stale' we believe got back about . $8,000. ... Mike Harrington and Judge Harrington were, we believe, attorneys, but the old Hypocrite declares in substance that they were all thieves and. Bartjey was the only fconest one in the whole crowd. The redeemers are redeeming things at a lively .rate these days. nraiN TIMX8 BETTEB After long, and patient investigational uarroii u, Wright, and . he is one of McKinley's government experts, . says that the cost of carrying! passengers on the American railroads1 Is one fifth of a cent a mile. Jt makes a great deal of difference in these United States who says a thing. Such a state ment as the above made by a populist would be denounced as anarchy, but when the great Carroll D. Wright says it, it is different. You can rely upon it. The next time that you buy a railroad ticket just reflect ' that according to the very highest authority, you! are paying for that ride fifteen tlmaa as much as it osts the railroad. '- If you are a republican, after you have medi tated upon that fact for a while go out and denounce the pops: If you are a populist, jst resolve that you will help keep the fight until the rail roads are owned and operated by the government. In that happy day you can take a bushel of corn in your bug gy when you go to town and exchange it for money and with the money you receive from that one busriel of corn you can travel onUhe - railroad 200 miles.. Now with com at forty cents, you could only get enough money for one bushel to pay yout fare for thir teen and one-third miles. So you see that populism -is fifteen times : better than republicanism, butthe mullet heads like republicanism tie uest for all that. - . v ' WHAT PRODUCED OCR WEALTH? The Protective Tariff league Is mak ing desperate efforts these days, r It is spending more money and putting out more literature than it has ever done before. It is determined that the DIngley tariff shall stand un amended. The main effort that it is, making at the present time is to con vince the people that all the prosper ity they enjoy is due to the tariff. -It is using the same old argument We, had a tariff and after the tariff we were prosperous. Therefore the tariff produced prosperity. There was an eclipse of the sun. Afterward we had prosperity. Therefore the eclipse-produced prosperity, is just as good an ar gument This country has been pros perous in spite of the tariff and f not because of it The grounds of its pros perity lie in facts like these: It has inexhaustible supplies of coal and iron lying on the surlaoe of the earth. It has millions upon millions of acres of productive soil producing all manner of crops. It has an enVrgetic, active andj intelligent population who have -put even the forces of nature to produc ing wealth. If there., were no re strictions at all 4 on commerce they would produce wealth 'touch faster. It has not been protectlvv tariffs tnat have produced the wealth at this coun try. It was brains, muscleand intel ligence applied to a productive soil, filled with all manner of usiful min erals from gold to iron. j jrw.. .wit'! prohibited by the wise men who made our constitution. England tried it foi a long time. Men were hung, drawn and quartered for many, years and it did not result In the reduction of crime. A jscore or more of offenses, from "murder to sheep stealing, were punished, with death. It took a long time for the idea to get into the Eng lishman's head. that these exhibitions of brutality degraded the populace and made still greater, brutes out of them, but finally it gbtHhere and the thing was stopped. . A. decrease m crime'was the result. Of late years the-idea has become prevalent that crimes against women could be suppressed by burning men at the stakel The result has been that that sort of crime has Increased. Colorado tried this modern method of burning men at the stake for the crime of rape. The result Is that that beast ly offense has increased, at a terrible rate, Ttfe Denver ndpera declare that women no longer) dare to appear unde fended ori the. streets' of that city, and rape and murder of women has become so: common that it isv attracting the attention ' of the whol ; wprld. The other night a young girl was assaulted in her home In' the fashionable part of thejeity and another woman was 'riiur derecU.. -r v. ' .v. The murder was committed by. an in sate man, and the other criminal has not'yet'been captured.' Strang to say, some of the papers are. advocating the r i 1 J, x 1 II 1 9 V. n I. .nrvTif lyncning oi me cuijjir. il jug j. ut,ui,, If they want a reign of terror to set-in out there let them continue their lynchings. All history bears; eVldence to the. fact that that is the way to in crease crime. They are now suffering for the "lynchings that they have al ready permitted. .It the,-criminal is caught let him have a trial according to forms of law and then" punished to the full ' extent; Do it Vith calmness, but certainty,, and that will have a ten dency to establish' order and decency. If the other course Is followed there will .be morei assaults upon wqniett, just , as these ; assaults ..h aye increased in the south since they began toburn negroes for that offense. - The labor organizations are.-finding that a monarchy ;is an. easlej. thing to nght thanthe trust-governed republi can party in this, country. The Aus trian government passed a law on M'ay "24, 1901, for the legal limitation of the houts of labor of coal rniners tonine per day. Thus- the memorable strike of the Austrian miners of last year has had its beneficent result, in spite of the ' bitter antagonism of the mine owners.' - f ' ! The retaliatory duties assessed by the sugar trust through the order of Secretary Gage on Russia simply means the establishment of the fol lowing policy: " Any " country that makes the attempt to furnish us sugar cheaply must be punished. Arrerican citizens must be prevented from profit ing by such endeavors at all costs. That Is the order and it will be en forced as long as the republican party remains in power. r : . An effort is to be made. in the next congress to -make Hawaii a. state, f such action is ever taken it will be. a kmenace to ;good government for Ha- .wali and would .become worse than one of the old English pocket bur roughs. What ought to have been done fwith Hawaii in the .first place was to attach; it to - Calif prniar and. inake (it part of that state. Rhode Island and Nevada, will supply the demand for small states with two senators for all time to come. t Dispatches have been noticed from several states saying that the returned soldiers all declare that the capture, of Aguinaldo was a putrup jobk Que dated at Urbana, III., says that mem bers of the 45th and 48th regiments who have just come home all say so. Sergeant Joseph Prestin , points to a similar case the reputed capture of Colonel Valez, the insurgent leader. Prestin says Major Case, who was giv en" credit for the capture, arranged matters with the Filipino and discov ered him sleeping in his hut on the hills. ' Mr. David Mills, minister of Justice to the Ottawa government says In a re cent letter of the New England Yan kees, that If it were not for the. influx of ; foreigners ; among them, "there would neither be children born nor fields cultivated. If left to themselves, the existence of a, 'descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers would be as rare as the great auk; and the race is aur-3 to share the fate of the dodo." It Is evi dently a land where wealth increases ;and men decay. As evidence of the decay, look at the recent antics of Senator Hoar. Mr. Ernest Bickriell Of the Chicago bureau of charities declares that there are hundreds of children in "thai city who have' never seen the .lakej' green grass or a tree growing. They live in the crowded slums and never go out are COLORADO'S MISTAKE The Independent has alwaysyield that lynchings stimulated men to tom mit crime instead of having' a tendency to suppress it That is the reason tiat cruel and barbarous punishments were f Der their millionaires every year. A of the neighborhood until they well grown up. A city that trains a large mass of its future citizens in that way may look for trouble, although -they may also add a few to the hum- 'few millionaires at the top and a 'mass of degeneracy at the bottom is not the fway to build a permanent city. t After reading a good many columns to the daily papers concerning the 'dis- order, drunkenness and want 'of dis- ciMlne at the army pOBts in this coun- I trr since the canteen was abolished it I It forced t6 the conclusion that the j United States army ' officer is a total failure and that by his" 'own authority and Influence he can't command at all. He nfust have some keg's of beer stored away, to back him up. If he has no VlPPT iYia nnc mmn4 Intnl.. . 1 I jfov luiuicuiaicijr guca iu ius I demnitbn bow-wows." The soldiers do nothing but get drunk arid all the offi-V cers"tirie is takeri up holding court martiala..