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VOL. XIII.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY 25, 1901.
NO. 9.
THE GREAT STRIKE
Jl f to L4Mk m If There Is to fee a
Surrf le Hetweea Ler UrialMti
4 the Trust Sack m Mae vr
IWfore Heea a
At the present time there are more
d a out ca strike than there ever
were before in all the history of ttis
country. The courts are becoming fctill
T'.'iTf tyrannical in their rulings and
era to be detemiced to crush labor
orcanLraUocs. 'ne juJje has gone fo
fir as to iry the tisjht to converse
wstk nea-union men. Another juage
ha ituprifconcJ ronie girl for mak
ing fact's. Two ia-n have been ar
letted for saying that "three more
writes ha toae to tow a."
Judse Gaser. at New Haven, has fol
lowed up an injunction Ly which he
declared free tpe-ech Illegal in Con
necticut ith the punishment of three
wien who ventured to talk despite the
injunction and 'thus Incautiously is
j. liyed the ccmempt which every man
ly man muit 5 .re I for snth a court as
hi.
The pr tided of the boc-rd of alder
pea at Ansoaia, the president of the
palstr union and a member of the
tar' r.t'i' unit,r vntitred to e;ir ad
vice to a striker ato-it his con .
TLe, vrif arrtsud and fld in flXH)
tail each.
The Chicago Aa ri an says if a
IntiJ r- .oiift in the first quarter of
the lh c ntury had committed such
ar tHitrare oa fre speech in Connec
ticut & that perjK-tratM by Judge
Ia r the revolution would have be
run f fty nr earikr than it did.
It ii nid that :!:rt is ssnipiy mat
ter in ti e v r .ic ;!.-:. That is the
f -IX wttii Judr G j'r. Hx? is
i:r ir C-ji'ctirvt. tut he would be all
risht Iii i u -a t r the Sultan has
jvit f:rhlI4f n tb importation of type
writer oa -he ground that they might
turn out Jitiou matter which could
tot i- traet-d to the author. Gager
mould 5'j'ttfc Sultan to a dcL
rre;ier ShulTVr, the head of the
strike araiLt the steel trust, says:
1 wa-s Urn a r pu:.i:an and have
a r-T-hljc2.n all my life; but if
the l'r :!-! zte,s -t-l corioration is
ta J ' t-raJte.4 to w?re war en orj:an
U' -1 lt,r to :- that !t will net rr
:i..t i'x ec?p!o tc nnite for their mu-tui-!
l a-St. L-'tt ! cresh them if they
-sttftr.pt to ftirm union whtcn will try
to pmtct : t m an, rive thera better
.sr .r 1 .-oaiition then I will seek
atvo h r f irty.'
Th' neo who are i-ow striking !
nct nsanimousiy vct for McKlnley
ar,d the tnift. The full discer pail has
tio rv-iulte-i as they thought it would.
The reult of the cohxjli-
li!r.ti ; vi:,-itis ! hz.s come in an at-?-r;piM
rr:,ndat;on of lator. The
rr-cney try.-r. in control of the bulk of
J '. I 1j. iu-trr l confronted by a
:!3.-eat UUr trust coverlts the same
' -5 h "-' !tunjtely this natural 1e
el.p . has come through the nation-
ttumitr cf a general trike.
. wr liir.r ir. New Zeak-nd
.cis could not have happened. The
d:pute ttweB the steel tnust and its
men woi2d hate Den arfnied out be
fore m t-oard of arbitrators and both
Mes moild have to slide by the de
i?:aa. That law hat eiven New Zea
lard ia!ctrial pa-re and contentment
for ix years.
Is th prser.t cae the trouble arises
frt?m the attempt of the trust rainasers
to eat their cake snd have it. They
are trying to combine th- advantages
of tor.so!idstion with thoe of indepen
dect phints.
The lnitr-i State tfe corporation
cor tain tnuts within trueu. Each
' f its iul4.dit.ate companies is Itself
a trvit, eon-pot ed Jn turn of dozens of
s.-n4n-r ua;t. In dealing with its men
the trtin wishes encb of thee little
tsrt!t to 1 treated iejsarately. Not
celt tt liited states steel cor-
pori:-'ia rtfue to make a general
arrt--me;t ceriir all its works, but
even its t ujrdinate trusts the An
eritin Shet Sti ron.;-t.y. th-? Am
eriras Kteei Hcop company and the
American Tin riate omrtny refuse
to make mch irrem-ut for their own
plants They go back to the Individ
ual cell cf which they have been
bcilt cp. i; ot.e plant has been a un
ion plart they re willinf to sign the
Ke Tor thit. but if another has been
Cf-ia-srioa they decline to change its
etAtu.
If y.r. Morgan wer- really the Napol
eon he U credit-rd with bein? he would
rot have alio ed this strike to break
i. n stjch grounds. He would have
discarded technicalities and would
liave fcaid to the hundred of thousands
tf workm-n of the rteel trust: I
Th!s ss a?e of combination. We
have comhtsd the msna semtnt of the
stei works of the exuntry because In
dividual actior. is out of date, V
wlcome the combination of labor for
th wci reason. , I -atbor and capital
make the tel Industry. Let each
hooe Its re pre-seatatives end then let
those rrr tat! res rM to-ther in &
rooa and quietly settle the terms on
which the irdurtry Is to be carried on."
That wotild JiTf been order and civ
ilization. It would have- been th
peaceful acceptane of what will b
accepted sooner or later, perhaps after
deeades of rxhaustlcg stmgrle.
AVahaa Lincoln raid that this
cojr.trr wi'd cot ecdure half slave
ad half free- No more can It endure
J.lf la order and half in anarchy
c!th capital organized and labor In a
ftate rf rzture. The consolidation of
eipital secjxs the union of labor, and
tie sooner that fact Is generally recos
tiied aci accepted the sooner we shall
lire permanent industrial peace.
"Tie eopallst ptrtr nai sn honest
tZr to 711 lator on a equality with
&L tut th srar-vro'r preferred
js eroiis cf f-H dinner paiL
tcIJ thee vLat would
happen. The man who marched In the
McKlnley parade In Lincoln with a big
dinner pail which had a piece of sau
rage and a slice of bread in the top,
while the rest of the pall was full of
thin air, accurately represented the re
sult' of voting the republican ticket.
The Independent described it at the
time.
They Hats Americans.
A dispatch from Washington, dated
July 3. tells the true story of the Fili
pino's attitude toward the Americans:
Civil government will tomorrow su
persede military control throughout all
of the Philippine islands not in actual
rebellion against the United States.
Rear Admiral Rogers in command of
the naval forces in the Philippines, re
ports to the navy department that the
insurrection has been practically put
down in every part of the archipelago,
but there has just been laid before Sec
retary Root information of an entire
ly different character.
It Is a review of the situation by an
officer who has devoted especial atten
tion to the attitude of the Filipinos
towards the Americans and it indicates
a belief on his part that civil govern
ment for a long time at least will be a
mockery. This officer finds that in
many cases the officers who have been
in command of the posts and districts
have lacked tact in dealing with the
natives and that despite orders from
headquarters that the treatment to
which the Filipinos have been sub
jected has been cruel and harsh. He
goes so iar as to assert that in some
cases the villages have been burned on
slight provocation and that some offi
cers have even resorted to torture in
trying to extract information from
natives.
He is not specific in the3e statements
though he says that in many cases the
o Hirers who improperly treated the na
tives were youcg volunteers without
e xp?rien e.
This officer says that while large
numbers of the natives have taken
the oath of allegiance it is not because
they are reconciled to the rule of the
United States. They hate the Ameri
cans, he says, more than they ever did
the Spaniards, and they would rise to
morrow if they thought they could
drive the Americans out, but they see
that resistance is hopeless and submit,
many of them believing that they will
soon have a complete local self-government
as communities in the United
States and as full individual civil
rights as citizens of the United States.
He does not believe that there is much
probability of these hopea being real
ized, though he considers the Filipinos
are as well fitted for self-government
as the inhabitants of the South Ameri
can countries. He says they will al
ways hate the Americans worse than
they hated the Spaniards, for the rea
son that under the Americans the feel
ing of race exclusiveness will be more
constantly and offensively emphasized
than it was under the Spaniards.
Of course they hate the Americans.
It is natural that they should. God
bates a liar, hypocrite and tyrant, and
why should not man? The treatment
to which the Filipinos have been sub
jected by the Americans is enough to
embitter and make resentful the soul
of Infinite forgiveness and love. They
have been robbed of their country,
plundered, humiliated and otherwise
harshly used. The colonist hated the
Englishman for the same treatment of
them, only not quite so bad, as their
sons are now Inflicting upon the im
potent Filipinos. I can't understand
who will undertake to defend such a
policy. It violates every precept and
principle of the Sermon on the Mount,
repeals the chief commandment given
by the Man of Gallilee, outrages every
preconceived Idea of man's duty to
man, and holds the Declaration of In
dependence up to the world as an out
worn and obsolete document. Yes, they
hate us worse than they did the Span
iards, and will continue to hate us. The
Americans have treated them worse
than the Spaniards ever treated them.
Not alone by the infliction of physical
punishment, the destruction of proper
ty and taking human life, but by
wounding their pride, and the base de
ception which the Americans have been
guilty of. A prond, 4brave man may
suffer the loss of property, be re
duced from affluence to penury, and
forgive the author of hla misfortune;
but when you humiliate him, bruise his
pride, in a word, insult his manhood,
he will hate you to the end. Ages
may obliterate, or rather eradicate,
that feeling, but not until many gen
erations shall have pa3ed away, ... I
ijjfound sympathy " ant! commisera
m for the Filipino. The Commonwealth-
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THE MORGAN COAL TRUST
Bat Ohio Platform
It seems to me that Columbus lat-
; irm la quite as radical as the Chicago
ifatform. Does any one imagine that
TTilliam C. Whitney and the other
democrat who opposed the platform
ad candidates in 1S36 and 1900 would
ote for any candidate running on the
declarations of the Columbus platform
!;they thought those principles would
t sincerely put Into eifct, any more
tTjan they would vot for William
Jijjbnlngs Bryan? So far an Indorsement
o non-indorsement of the national
,i!form by state conventions is con
wrrned. that is largely a matter of
7 atom. Logically, state campaigns
th quid be conducted on state issues.
Thtre will be no new formulation of
dtocratic doctrine until 1904. Until
thit time the declarations of the last
democratic national convention will
coiiitltute the creed of the party.
1 NORMAN E. MACK,
The Very Worst Features of Socialism aro
AdoptedAll Incentive to Active
ISusiness is Destroyed
A few years ago the prudent and
forehanded householder was accus
tomed to buy his winter coal in June
or July to get advantage of the cheaper
summer rates. Usually he could make
a contract then for future delivery, hut
under the most untoward circum
stances he could put the coal in his
cellar at once and rejoice that he had
saved a respectable sum.
That was in the days when the "lit
tle economies" of the trusts had not
deprived the individual of the oppor
tunity for his own little economies and
profit due to forethought. The era is
rapidly vanishing.
Today if one goes to buy his winter
coal he will find the summer rates
what would have been considered ex
ceptionally high winter prices three
or four years ago. Moreover, the trust
announces that its winter rates will go
into effect about midsummer, and its
agents the independent dealer has
practically disappeared are usually
unwilling to make sales at current fig
ures. Contracts at summer rates for
winter delivery are no longer known.
A curious illustration of the effect of
the trust system in stifling individual
activity and enterprise came to the
knowledge of the writer recently. In
a considerable western town the school
board advertised for bids for the coal
supply for the coming winter. Word
came from the coal dealers that there
would be no competitive bidding; the
price at which anyone could sell ccal
was fixed by the trust, none dared sell
lower, and the board might let the
contract as it wculd Thereupon the
oflicial having the matter in hand
awarded the contract for which two
years earlier there would have been
a fierce contest to a dealer with
whom he happened to be friendly.
What was his astonishment when the
favored ono piteously besought him to
take away the contract.
"We all must pay the same for our
coal," explained the dealer. "We must
all sell at exactly the same price or the
trust will cut off our supplies. There's
no use hustling for business under
those conditions, so we've just formed
a retail pool. All the coal sold in this
town goes into it, and each dealer gets
a fixed share of the profits. Now, it's
a heap of bother to deliver that coal
to the schools, teams are -hard to get
and the dealer getting the .contract can
only charge his actual expenditures to
the pool. He gets nothing for super
intendence and worry. If you will
give this contract to some other fel
low I shall get just as much money
with no work."
KILL IS A CANDIDATE
If W. J. BrTsn Was Ever is Earnest Tie Is
la Earnest Now and He Will Fight
Hill to a Finish
A tremendous fact on the horizon of
national politics is the admission of
David B. Hill to several of his inti
mate friends that he intends to make
a fight for the democratic nomination
for president. And the next most tre
mendous fact is Mr. Bryan's statement
to his intimate friends that he will do
everything in his power to prevent
Mr. Hill's nomination.
This divides the democratic party
into two great camps.
Mr. Bryan is convinced Mr. Hill is
the only man capable of organizing a
serious opposition to the radical lead
ership which has controlled the dem
ocracy since that thrilling and pic
turesque week in 1896 when the old
democratic policy was deserted at Chi
cago and the sceptre of power passed
to the united west and south.
He is also satisfied that Mr. Hill is
a determined candidate for the demo
cratic nomination two years hencev If
ever Mr. Bryan was in earnest he Is
in earnest now in his opposition to
the influence and ambition of Mr.
Hill. He makes no secret of his hos
tility and intends to use his whole in
fluence to defeat the New York leader.
The opening gun in the new national
fight was the Ohio state, convention
last week, controlled by John R. Mc
Lean, who is Hill's friend. It repu
diated "Bryanism."
It may surprise those who are not
aware of the real situation to find Mr.
Bryan in bitter antagonism to Mr.
Hill so soon after the struggle in
which MV. Hill supported the demo
cratic ticket, but the facts explain, pha.
Member of the nemocraHe gjfpjtl x
Cvl.TBttteo T?tS"TrrW"rorK.
Two days before the Kansas City
convention Hill visited Mr. Bryan at
his home in Lincoln, Neb. It was
the first time they had met since the
memorable campaign of 1896. Mr. Bry
an told Mr. Hill that if the free silver
plank was omitted from the : party
platform he would refuse to be a can
didate. He declared in the most em
phatic and explicit language that
nothing could induce him to accept
the nomination if the convention
failed to reassert the free silver doc
trine. Mr. Hill thereupon went to
Kansas City and did everything in his
power to kill the silver plank. Mr.
Bryan 'and his friends - believe that
Mr. . Hill's motive was a desire to be
nominated himself. ' -
' Mr, Bryan has within the past few
days declared that Mr. Hill supported
the democratic ticket last year sim
ply because he was a candidate for the
presidency and was compelled to re
enter the party forces in order to
gain a position of party regularity
which would feerve him this year, next
year and thevyear after in his strug
gle for the nomination that his heart
was not in thf campaign and that he
was really pleased by the defeat of
the deocmratlc candidates.
Bfyarr and
struggle that has occurred in the dem
ocratic party in modern times. MV.
Hill Is denounced as a "corporation
democrat." : On the other : hand Mr.
Bryan is sneered at by the Hill man
agers as a leader who has driven al
most every democrat of substance out
of his party and has placed the dem
ocracy in the, position of an enemy of
property rights and progress.
A prominent , state committeeman
who was shown the foregoing state
ment, authorized by. a close friend of
Mr. Bryan, said Saturday: "Yes; it
is true. Hill represents everything
that Bryan does ntot." He is a demo
crat, not a populist. He is," outside
New York state, the best known lea
der in the party except Cleveland and
Bryan. Hill saw Dan Lamont last
Sunday. He has reason to expect the
support of the old Cleveland democrats
In future." New York, World.
ROBBING INDIA
Another Famine Is Threatened Authori
ties Say That the Suffering: in India is
Caused by Taxation
There is every indication that there
will be another famine in India this
year as severe as any that has af
flicted that down-trodden and op
pressed country in the past. One of
the best authorities in India has re
cently made a statement in regard to
the depopulation by starvation of that
country. He says that the whole de
pression comes from a government de
termined on taxing the people all that
they possibly can get out of them a
government composed of foreigners
wholly unacquainted with the charac
ter, needs and wants of the people,
and, in fact, caring nothing for them.
The people are worked to limit of en
durance and everything taken from
them that they raise, not leaving
enough to keep them from starvation.
The latter part of his statement is as
follows:
"The landlords and cultivators have
no voice in settling the amount of the
land tax. They - have no right of ap
peal against illegal levies. A further
and possibly a more serious Injustice
to India lies in the fact that one-half
of the public revenues of the empire
is spent outside' without any direct
equivalent. Subject any prosperous
country in the world, such as the
United States, Great Britain or France,
to similar conditions, and it would in
evitably follow that fthe country would
be reduced to famine within a few de
cades. "England has forced India to pay for
wars in China, Afghanistan, - Persia
and the Soudan. A vast army is main
tained in India for. Imperial purposes,
which costs the . people of India in
salaries and pensions for English offi
cials $70,000,000 a year and for native
officials $17,500,000. .
"India . having but little trade or
manufactures, virtually the whole
pressure of taxation falls on the pro
duce of the soil the food of the peo
ple. Famines In India are directly due
to the failure of rain in particular
districts, . but as the rains never fail
throughout the whole of India, the
food supply, is always sufficient for
the whole - population. The people,
however, ' are so hopelessly impover
ished that they are unable to buy
when the crops fail. To remove the
economic causes of the nation's pov
erty would be to remove the causes of
famine."
Mr. ' Hill promises to be the bitterest
Bartley's Partner
The following items are translated
from the German Free Press of Lin
coln, Neb.:
"The governor of Nebraska has
paroled ex-State ! Treasurer Bartley,
who has robbed the state of more than
half a million dollars, temporarily for
60 days. This is undoubtedly the in
troduction to his complete pardon. It
is true that all kinds of mysterious
remarks are made about certain con
ditions which Bartley is to-lulfill in
those 60 days, and it is believed that
he may possibly make restitution of
some of the money that has disap
peared; But neither he nor the gover
nor are saying a word. On the con
trary, Bartley was insolent enough to
say that he never ran up the white
flag and that he is not going to do so
in the future. Bartley ought to have
completed his full term. During the
trial he did nothing but cause difficul
ties to the estate. It is known that
very prominent persons have profittecf
by his crimes. He never divulged their
names, and ifher4ritmmg ITIST
isaay-ic Would be of little use, as the
participation in his crimes is beyond
the statute of limitation. But even
that her would name them today is
doubtful, as he himself says that he is
not lgoing to run up the white flag.
The pardon had to come In order to
prevent Bartley's telling stories of the
past. That the principal organ of
democracy in Nebraska commends
Governors Dietrich and Savage for
pardoning the embezzlers Bolln . and
Bartley is astonishing. It seems that
even in democratic circles there Is good
reason for rejoicing over Bartley's si
lence.., ..." ,, .....
Governor Savage has pardoned ex
State7 Treasurer Bartley who had been
sentenced to twenty years in the peni
tentiary, after he had filled three years
of his ; term, Bartley's partner. Mil
lard, having been elected senators, this
was "certainly the least thing that
could be done for Bartley.
There are some things in this world
that a man should see and a woman
should not, and the book issued by
The Von Mohl Co., Cincinnati, ,0., is
one of those things. It Is not intend
ed for small boys, but if any of our
THE SCIENTIFIC VIEW
All Practitioners of Medicine Employ
Mental Susfestlon It Is no New or
Untried Force
Dr. Wm. M. Polk, dean of the Cor
nell medical college, in a recent ar
ticle comments as follows upon men
tal suggestion as a healing force:
"Consciously or unconsciously all
practitioners of medicine employ
mental suggestion, more or less, in
the treatment of disease, and it is now
not only acknowledged to be a re
source, but the laws which govern its
employment are being " sought after
with a view to placing it upon the
same plane as other accredited reme
dial agents. But we must know its
dangers as well as its blessings before
we can give it unqualified indorse
ment. This is our duty and our rule
in all allied questions.
"For the present the best working
formula in our possession is one to
the effect that, owing to graduation,
it can be used in a major and in a
minor form; the former being that in
which the suggestion is conveyed to
the patient previously put in a quies
cent state resembling unconsciousness
though really conscious so far as men
tal suggestion from the operator is
concerned; the latter being merely a
state either of mental negation or ac
quiescence on the part of the patient.
"The former is that to which the
term hypnotic state is usually applied
by the public at large, but in reality
both belong to it; the difference being
merely one of degree. I shall not
detain the reader by such specula
tions as are involved in a discussion
of the kind of mental forces brought
into play in these phenomena wheth
er there are such, mental entities as a
subjective and an objective mind, and,
if there be, whether all that has been
built upon such a theory has any bear
ing upon our question, for we cannot
afford to cloud the issue by departing
from what we know.
"I shall, therefore, proceed at once
to tell what we know this force in
medicine can and cannot do. Every
one is more or less amenable to it,
and when in a state of such mental in
stability as accompanies disease oi
lowered vitality in all of us, we can
be influenced to a greater or less de
gree; the personal equation, however,
faces us here, as in all our dealings
with our kind. But, quoting Tuckey,
one of the best exponents of the sub
ject of psycho-therapeutics, I think
we may say that 'the more a man's
actions are the result of impulse rath
er than reason, the more susceptible
he is to external influences, and, there
fore to suggestive treatment.
"Turning next to the class of dis
eases which can be favorably influ
enced by it, we find them comprised
almost entirely in what we designate
as functional disorders, mainly such
as have become chronic, and especial
ly such as we group under the term
neuroses such, for instance, as func
tional paralysis, St. Vitus' dance,
asthma, palpitation, nervous head
ache, spinal irritation, hysteria, neu
rasthenia, and many, forms of dyspep
sia, etc.
"That border land of insanity oc
cupied by dipsomania, the opium hab
it, and the excessive use of tobacco
and other narcotics, offers an exten
sive field which should not be over
looked, and in organic diseases, espe--cially
such as are chronic, where pain
is a potent factor, it has been used
with benefit, The cross, the disgrun
tled, those lacking self-discipline pres
ent a fruitful field, exemplifying ad
mirably the influence of mind in caus
ing disorder.
"I think I have said enough to show
that in Christian science we have no
new' or untried force in medicine. For
forty years it has been before us, and
the slowness of its progress is due to
the fact that, intrusted by the public
as we are with all that it holds best
and dearest on earth, we cannot con
sent to see a force, common' as it clear
ly is to all sorts and conditions of
men, let loose until its. dangers as well
as its blessings are more clearly de
fined, recognized and legislated upon,"
couldn't understand how the vehicle
was moved by an unseen propelling
power.
A curious crowd gathered in the
heart of the city to ' see the Youngers
and a throng of fully 300 followed
them around several blocks. Men fell
over each other to catch a glimpse of
the liberated twain, but the Youngers
did not offer a word of remonstrance.
They even said they had expected
worse antics on the part of the public.
Thi3 afternoon B. H. Bronson of
the board of prison managers, took
the Youngers on a steamboat ride up
the lake.
Their first day of liberty has been
one of great pleasure to the brothers.
They will remain at the prison a few
days until employment has - been se
lected for them. Warden Wolf er de
clares that their work will be entirely
free from notoriety. , Circus and side
showmen are anxious to get them and
fabulous offers are being received
from racing associations anxious to
secure their services as starters.
A Winchester (Ihd.) concern today
telegraphed an offer for them to offi
ciate at races, but the telegram was
consigned to the waste basket; to
gether with about fifty others of a like
tenor. While at the prison the Youn
gers will sleep in the officers quarters
and dine in . the officers mess, but
they will be permitted to go and come
when they choose. .
AFTER SCHLEY AGAIN
This Time the Assault la so Villainous That
Conspirators Defeated Themselves
A History of the Navy was duly In
dorsed as a text book for the naval
cadets. The author applies to Schley
the epithets of "coward," "liar" and
"caitiff," and charges him with having
deliberately "turned tail In the face
of the enemy." He characterizes
Schley's entire conduct as "most hu
miliating, cowardly and lamentable."
Among other statements occurs the
following paragraph:
"Farragut's great axiom was that
"the nearer you get to your enemy the
harder you can strike. Schley's great
contribution to naval strategy, as too
plainly shown by his conduct through
out this campaign, was 'avoid your
enemy as long as possible, and if he
makes for you, run." - ... - -
It suddenly dawned on the naval au
thorities that if that was history, the
world would' hold them as well . as
Schley in contempt. If an officer had
conducted himself in that way and
was then recommended for promotion
and kept in the service, what sort of
men were they? The Crowninshleld
Sampson crowd evidently overdid the
thing and the only way out of it was
for Secretary Long to order the His
tory suppressed. M'aclay, the writer
of these slanders, holds a sinecure in
the navy, evidently for the purpose of
enabling him to write more naval his
tory... The fact about the matter is th at
Schley was the commander at the bat
tle of Santiago, with Sampson twenty
miles away, and that the Brooklyn,
Schley's - ship, opened that fight, was
in from start to finish, was closest to
the enemy at every stage of the bat
tle, inflicted, more than 56 per cent of
the damage done the Spanish ships and
received something like 58 per cent of
the damage done to the entire Ameri
can squadron in that battle. No mat
ter who may have written the orders
or devised the plans, the Brooklyn did
the bulk of the fighting on July 3,
1898. Schley's flag was the senior In
that battle and if things had gone
wrong it is not difficult to guess who
would have had to answer for It. Sure
it is that Schley did not hide himself
in a twelve-Inch conning tower, but
like every other commanding officer
of the fleet, save one, who has been
vigorous In criticism of his seniors,
fought his ship from the bridge.
The friends of truth are not at all
worried by these Sampson-Crownin-shield
capers. The only result will be
that they will make themselves the
more eternally infamous. v -
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ly free of cost. Address The Von
Mohl Co., 579 B, Cincinnati, O. '
YOUNGER BROTHERS RELEASED
After Twenty-five Tears In the Peniten
tiary for the Korthfield Bobbery .
' They s;o Free
The following account of the release
imiSTbitheiT from the
Minnesota state prison wili be of in
terest: ,. . . . --
Cole and James Younger, the famous
Missouri outlaws, who were recently I
paroled by the state board of pardons
and the prison board, were released
July 14 from the state prison, and,
for the first time In a quarter of a cen
tury, , were permitted to breathe the
air of freedom.
. Warden . Wolf er had repeatedly de
clared for weeks that he intended to
keep the hour of their release a secret,
but he changed his mind this morn
ing and notified the newspaper men to
be present when the Youngers left the
prison. Shortly before 11 o'clock, they
were ushered into the warden's office,
attired in neat-fitting suits the first
citizens' clothes they had worn since
their arrival at the prison, November
21, 1876. . . : ,
:Warden Wolfer informed the Young- f its own hands. It doesMjot issue re
ers that they could go downtown.
Their actions were like those ol chil
dren whose parents ' have agreed to
take them to a circus. They scarcely
knew what to do. Both admitted,
when they reached the . outside, that
they would have to learn life over
again.
elder readers will BeiidQjismrag?:F37.s pointed to
a scene, common to the bystanders, as
one of rare beauty. He also gazed
intently at an electric street car' and
Tha Express Cinch
The express companies have a cinch
on legislation equal to that of the rail
roads. When the war taxes were levied
the express companies escaped. Now
that those taxes have been remodeled,
they get another big advantage. In an
important decision given out last week
the commissioner holds that while
congress exempted the stamps from
express receipts, it did so only as af
fects companies regularly engaged In
the express business and other com
panies not so regularly engaged, but
which carry on an express business as
a side line while deriving their prin
cipal revenue from other sources, must
pay the tax on all consignments. The
opinion was given upon the request of
a railroad mpany which for some
time has made a practice of running
milk trains in tha east. For a few
years the milk wis handled by an ex
press company, but recently the com-'
pany has taken the fcaanagement Into
ceiDts or bills of ladlns for th cans.
but collects and delivers them similar
to the express companies. It is held
that upon each shipment' a tax of 1
cent Is due, while express companies
in the same business are not required
to stamp their receipts. ;
Tore. PlattJiagfttAh iM a J not To
- Cole gtocjOajayeJ1anMjd p.t thi jSairmm now. All the companies do
ing express Dusiness except tnose in
the Piatt ring must pay a tax which Is
a direct discrimination in their favor
of just that much.
FILIPINOS REBEL
A New Insurrection Breaks Out and tha
... McKlnley Civil Authority's
Overthrown
The populists remembering the his
tory of the Filipinos for the last two
hundred years have predicted that
there would be constant rebellions over
there as long as the - United States
should attempt to hold them as sub
jects. The Manila dispatches of July
18 say:
The United States civil commission
announced today . that after three
months' trial of a provincial form of
government in the islands of Cebu and
Bohol and the province of Batangas,
Luzon, control of those districts, ow
ing to their incomplete pacification,
has been returned to the militsjy au
thorities, it having been proved that
the communities indicated are back
ward and undeserving of civil admin
istration. The provincial and civil officials of
these designated districts will continue
their functions, but are now under
the authority of General Chaffee in
stead of that of Civil Governoi: Taft,
as heretofore. General Chaffee has
the power arbitrarily to remove from
office any or all provincial or civil
officials and to abrogate any section
of the laws promulgated In these pro
vinces. The residents of the island of
Cebu have protested, but without suc
cess, against the return of that Island
to military control.
Several islands near Cebu , are be
sieged by the insurgents. The insur
rection on the island of Bohol has been
renewed and insurgent sentiment in
the. province of Batangas is strong.
General Chaffee has ordered a bat
talion of the Thirtieth infantry to be
gin the occupation of the island of
Mindoro. The province of Batangas
will be occupied by the entire Twen
tieth infantry. (
H. Phelps Whitmarsh, governor of
Benguet province, who was recently or
dered to Manila for Investigation of
certain charges presented against him,
was before the Philippine commission
today.
HERE IS RICHNESS
The Republicans of Holt County Object ts
Giving: Clem Denver That Rich
$3,000 Sinecure
The following interesting article ap
peared in the old State Hypocrite a a a
special dispatch from O'Neill, Holt
county:
"The appointment of D. Clem Dea
ver as receiver of public moneys here
is received with some indignation by
some republicans. R. B. Dickson,
chairman of the republican county
committee, said:
" 'I think it is a great mistake, one
that will cause the party much trou
ble. It was a dirty political trick.
The appointment will not. meet with
the approval of a single republican in
the. state unless it be one who is feed
ing at the public crib or perhaps one
who is an applicant for appointment
who . is willing to stultify himself by
giving sanction to the appointment.
This is rewarding a traitor, is placing
a premium on political deception and
treachery and turning down a repub
lican and replacing Elm by a man
who has turned traitor to the cause
he espoused.
" 'I did what I could to prevent it,
and warned Chairman Lindsay, and
Senator Millard of the consequences.
No republican in this county Indorses
this appointment and I predict the
coming convention will condemn this
piece of political treachery and party
disgrace. Those high In the councils
of the party agreed to let the office re
main as it was until the convening of
congress. We felt we were dealing
with men of honor and men whose
word was good even in politics, and
ceased hostilities. The flag of truce
was not respected and while we rested
secure in this belief some one conspired
and connived to saddle on the party
this political Judas.'
"This statement was indorsed by
Secretary Bright. The populists de
clined to give an expression. Every
one here is lost to know who D. Clem
Deaver will affiliate with when he ar
rives." The difference between morality of
these republicans who are now talking
about "political treachery" and Clem
Deaver is so small that no pop can
distinguish It. Is Clem Deaver, who
took the bribe money to pay the ex
penses of a middle-of-the-road cam
paign, hold conventions and print a
fake populist paper any worse than the
scoundrels who furnished the money?
Is Clem any worse than the heavenly
twin who resides in Omaha and who
paid Clem for his treachery with this
appointment? Bartley's partner would
never have obtained a seat In the
United States senate but for Just such
treachery as Clem Deaver is denounced
for practicing. .Chairman Lindsay,
Mark Hanna and every republican
leader in the state were equally en
gaged in the plot and are alike moral
lepers. When these Holt county re
publicans advance to a point where
they denounce the whole gang of bood
lers and not only the lucky one who
secured the office that they wanted,
decent men may pay some attention to
what they say.
Excuse Not Valid
. One - excuse given for leniency to
Bartley Is that he has been made a
"jscrapegoat" that others are. more at
fault than he. This excuse is not a'
valid " oz unless specifically proven
and the gul.tj parties Identified. If
BaitlPUwa-'3 friends will furnish
the specific proof of this indefinite
claim and point out the guilty parties
the people of Nebraska will be only too
glad 'to have his sentence mitigated
or entirely suspended. Neligh Yeoman.
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