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August 22, 1901
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Ertd Moewrii will act to tm
To Peaverize or not to Deaverize Is
, lie -aetitioa over which a few demo
crats seem to I cogttatlcg.
They say that Kitchener Is sick and
etuis;; Lack to England. The work
rllat he has been engaged la is enough
to make anybody sick.
Tie editor of the Ft. Paul (NVj.)
2re says that it has rained all around
tiiat toa and tot a drop In It. He is
.disgruntled because the Christians of
tie town didn't do more praying.
Ii,r are t;!l burning negroes down
i south although tte more they burn
the rr:re rapes are committed. Lynch
'.J&cs always fcare and always will re
tuH la tie inrieae of crime.
f If a certain Jot of democrat down
jia Jo:i?ri&s and Cai counties should
'yet their mid-road scheme into opera
tion. ill they be able to make so good
thins cut of it as Clem leaver did?
t Don't feel bad about the shortage of
,rcra. You will et more for the crop
, thaa you did in the day of Cleveland
, sop house and banker' conspirac
ies, although in those horrible times
yoa bad plenty of rain and big crops.
The republican platform adopted at
the late state contention in Iowa re-
ceires tte csqualiSed indorsement of
tvll the barkers and every one of the
trusts. Therefore the republican farm
ers of that state will vote r straight
this falL
A Jafy write to The Independent
leaking if there will be any more land
;rJren away Ly the gorerament after
that W disposal of in Oklahoma. There
'.re ir.ore Indian reservations and
liore Indians to rob.
The Kijt National bank of Austin.
"Tex., failed the other day and left
'the ftate in th ho! to the tune of
,$rK.C;0. This yoa know is the best
tasking system that the world ever
(tit.
The patent inside of son- of the
'jjopylist papers devote a good deal of
'rpar to praiiing fJovernnr Savage's
iChrtitiaa art ia pardoning Hartley.
A pattnt intiie is a grat thing for
X lutocrary.
' TUzntmUr that the republicans In
Jevyinr the war tax- exempted the !
xpr companies and the telegraph
trtiit whl they Iw down in many
' !i?erent i ri upon tl;o-e who toil
v .:h their Land.
Fots cf thes-e days the judges who
are dnyitg th rteht of fr- speech.
4tbe us of th- paiJic highways and
, vca the right to tpak to a fellow
worksas will curse the day that they
were bom. The world don't go back
Vard. Mr. Hyatt, who has spent a month
Sa the aorth-rn part of the state, re
jorls that the crops are fairly good np
there fend that If the men who voted
tte mid-road ticket could get their
tands oa Clem Ieaver there would
- likely be a lynching to report.
It is beginning to dawn a some of
tbe wag workers that they did not
vote for a full dinner pail, but to sub
sidize the steel trust with a tariff. It
day finally dawn upon their minds
that It is cot the b tt way to fight the
trust, to first rote subsidies to them
ax4 then strike.
For two years the war has been de
clared ended la the Philippines, but
there are abrwat as many skirmishes
and fights rerted every week as there
ever was. Hno pays the bills? The
jTodnctrs. Vlo gt the profits? The
carpet-bar ofiee-fcoldera. Nice scheme,
flow do you like It?
fkrme of the Illinois. Ohio and Penn
sylvania editors have more cheek than
the tifctorte rovemaaent mule. They
will actually send their papers to this
oSce with the editorial columns
cramed with matter taken from The
Icd-pesid-ent without a tflga of credit
and pab!ith-d as original riatter. Per
haps they think that this edltvr never
krka at his exchanges, but 1ft that
tLtj art 3, tot Le does. "" .
LIVE AND DIAD ISSUES
The Associated press dispatches in
regard to the Virginia democratic state
convention are of the same character
that are always sent out when the
question of the' rule of gold comes up
before a political body. They consist
in stating the fact that some demo
crat denounced free silver and that
the convention broke up in a row.
If the fight In 1896 and 1900 had
been made on the strictly populist
theory concerning money, these chaps
who are now assaulting the Chicago
and Kansas City platforms wouiu not
have an inch o ground to stand upon.
The populist theory has always been
that it made little difference upon
what material "the printed legal de
cree making the thing money was im
pressed; that the whole Importance to
the people at large was the "quantity."
Populists advocated the free coinage
of silver for the sole reason that it
seemed at the ..me the only means of
Increasing the '"quantity" of money
in circulation. At the same time they
always asserted that the issuing of
money was the supreme act of sov
ereignty of any government and
should never be delegated to private
parties. It was to be expected that
those who lived in the mining states
would insist upon the free coinage of
silver with a great deal of vehemence,
for It Involved the fortunes of those
engaged in mining silver.- Their argu
ments were along the "line of republi
canism. They said that the demone
tization of silver would destroy one
of the greatest of American industries
and throw many thousands of men out
of employment, a thing which it
actually did do.
That was the populist position and it
was as firm and unassailable -as the
everlasting hills. On that ground
they are prepared to fight with as
much enthusiasm and vigor as ever.
They have no apologies to make and
nothing to take back. They still main
tain that the difference in exchange
between gold standard and " silver
standard countries acts as a tariff
against the former to the great dam
age of the farming interests. The pop
ulists never Indulged in the talk about
silver being one of the metals ordained
of God to be used as money.
The quantity of money having been
very largely increased, by the coin
age of silver, the increased output of
gold and the Issue of considerably over
$100,000,000 of paper through the
banks, the demand of the populists has
measurably been granted. The amount
of money in circulation is satisfac
tory, except that so large a part of it
is redeemable in some other kind of
money. That is a thing to which every
populist is opposed. They believe that
every dollar of money issued should
be as good as every other dollar. They
believe that Issuing money through
the banks Is not only a robbery of the
people by granting a special privilege
by which bankers are able to draw
interest on their notes, but also upon
the bonds that they put up for col
lateral security, and' they declare that
at the first general Gisaster or threat
of a panic, these outstanding redeem
able notes will be returned for re
demption at the very time that an in
crease of the currency should be made
and the result will be a financial
cataclysm.
That is the position of the populists
and the Bryan democrats and it is an
unassailable position. The statement
that gllver is dead or alive does not
enter Into the present situation. "It Is
not the silver question." said Senator
John P. Jones at the very beginning
of the fight. "It Is the money ques
tion." That was the question in 1893
and it remains the question today.
The effort to make It the "silver ques
tion" gives to the advocates of plutoc
racy the only opening for assault.
The Cleveland-Hill democrats may
shout as much as they please: "Sil
ver Is dead." But the money question
remains as it always will remain, the
thing that is of paramount importance
to the human race. The improvement
in business that has come during the
last three or four years is the result
of an enormous Increase in the vol
ume of money. Four good crops In
succession would have given but lit
tle relief to the mass of the people if
corn had been sold for 10 cents a
bushel and wheat for 30 cents, as It
was under the Cleveland regime and
that would have been tte price without
an addition to the volume of money.
Other questions of vast Importance
press for solution the concentration
of wealth in few hands resulting from
the organization of trusts, wars of
conquest, the overthrow of. the con
stitution by construction of a pluto
cratlc supreme court, the corruption
of the lower courts which never fall
to decide that a rate imposed upon a
railroad by a maximum freight bill is
rnconstltutional, the putting of the
tsilroads under the management of
three or four men with Increased pow
er to,rob the people, make discrimlna
tlons. build one man or one community
up and tear down another, and the
threat that always hangs over us from
the circulation of an irimense mass of
redeemable paper money, with the ad
ditional threat of making $600,000,000
I of silver also redeecjahle-rtliese things
are all of importance and press for
solution. They must be decided or
this nation of free, Intelligent, prog
ressive and independent citizens will
become dependent hirelings to a few
trust managers.
If there is anything that Is dead
dead passed resurrection it Is Cleve
landism. Paid agents of the money
power may scour the states and set up
.conventions, but the mass of voters
in the democratic party have left
Clevelandism forever. Clevelandism
is deader than a door nail and that, is
the deadest thing that The Indepen
dent knows of unless it be a coffin
nail. Such conventions may denounce
Bryan, trample his picture under their
feet, but Bryan remains the leader of
all the true Jeffersonlan democrats,
the same honest, upright friend of the
common people that he always was
and those who have fought for him
and with him in his onslaughts upon
plutocracy and believed in what they
fought for, can never be forced to vote
for the traitors who twice defeated
him. The row in the Virginia conven
tion shows that so plainly that a blind
man could see It.
BADLY FRIGHTENKD
The Cheerful Idiot who edits the old
State Hypocrite says really funny
things once in a while. His childlike
innocence of what constitutes honor
and honesty among reputable men is
amusing. The dismal outlook for the
republican party must have frightened
him last week or he never would have
written the following editorial. Listen
to him:
"The proclamation of Mayor Galla
gher of O'Neill, warning politicians to
cease their persecution of D. Clem
Deaver, is a joke that has some grim
ness at its bottom. It indicates a pop
ular feeling against paying for certain
political services with public office in
stead of from a secret service fund of
hard cash.
"The coarse work of some of the
present leaders of the republican or
ganization in this state is in accord
ance, perhaps, with their open declar
ations that 'politics is business' and
business is politics, but after all it is
better to have their business methods
In politics concealed beneath a drap
ery of some sort, even if it isn't much
thicker than gauze. The decencies
should be observed in public as far as
possible."
It will be seen that the bribing of
men to turn traitor is not objected to
at all, but the "coarse work" that
made the whole matter public. If Clem
Deaver had been paid in cold cash it
would have been all right. That is the
topmost notch of republican morality.
Bribe, induce men to turn traitor, but
keep the thing secret. Conceal it be
neath a drapery of some sort and then
it is all right. That is the morality
of the men who "redeemed" Nebraska.
If the convicts at the penitentiary pay
anything to be allowed to escape by
ones and twos and squads, don't al
low any "coarse work." Keep it "con
cealed beneath a drapery of some
sort."
INCONGRUOUS FACTS
The plutocratic papers are printing
long and eulogistic accounts of how
Chaplain, now Bishop McCabe, sang
Mrs. Howe's hymn In Libby prison
and how the tears ran down the faces
of the men as they listened. The clos
ing words of that hymn were as fol
lows:
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was
born across the sea, ' . ,
With a glory In his bosom that trans
figures you and me,
As he died to make men holy, let us
die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
None of the said editors mention
the fact that the same McCabe now
advocates making men subjects, or
that he wrote a letter on the eve of
the last election in which he compared
McKinley to Jesus Christ, while the
said McKinley was bending every en
ergy to make subjects of ten million
people who were fighting to make
themselves free. Perhaps they think
that relating ttie two facts in the same
article would appear incongruous.
RIGHT TUB WRONG
No truer or more honest man ever
fought for a cause than Charles A.
Towne. The Independent asks the
populist editors to announce that the
interview sent out by the Associated
press in which he was represented to
have said that free silver was dead and
that Dave Hill would be nominated
for president at the' next democratic
convention, was a pure fake a lie
made up out of whole cloth. MV. Bry
an told the editor of The Independent
that he had received a telegram from
Mr. Towne denying the interview and
saying that he had not spoken to a re
porter for three months. Some of the
populist papers are printing that in
terview and making comments upon it,
Mr. Towne is as true as steel and has
not changed his views in the least. Be
sides doing justice to Mr. Towne, hon
est journalism demands that this de
nial should be made known. Not a
plutocratic daily will ever do it. Let
the weeklies do what they can to right
the .wrong.
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DO NT BE RIDICULOUS
If the public ownership of railroads,
telegraphs, telephones, postofflces, pos
tal savings banks and parcels posts is
socialism, then King Edward, he
czar, the German emperor and all the
other kings and potentates of Europe
are socialists, and Marx, Owens, Las
salle, Kfngsley, Groenlund and the
Fabian Society don't k'now what so
cialism is. It will be seen that the
popular idea in regard to socialism is
greatly at fault. In Germany the so
cialist vote against the state insur
ance schemes of the government and
all sorts of state ownership. The dif
ference between populism and social
ism is like the wideness of the sea.
Social Unity, an organ of the social
ists, truly says: "To call anybody a
socialist who believes in nationalized
railroads, is to confuse." There are a
few men in this state who should re
member this statement from SocialUn
ity, and not make themselves ridicul
ous by going around saying that they
are socialists because they believe in
the public ownership of public utili
ties. ,
The horses in Buffalo were nearly
all provided with straw hats during
the torid" spell, but the city council
would , not ' let the policemen wear
straw helmets. They evidently thought
that the skull of a policeman was
harder to penetrate with heat than
that of a horse.
The republican party does not deem j
It necessary to deserve success. It
firmly believes that it will always,
by the help of Mark Hanna and the
railroads, be able to buy it. It has i
as an additional resource in the re
marding of traitors that it finds In
the other parties.
Senator Vest declares, so the papers
say, but they lie so no one can be sure
whether he said it or not, that the
graduated income tax will be the par
amount issue in the next campaign.
The populists made it a paramount
question a long time ago, but the su
preme court declared that it w3 un
constitutional. What is Senator Vest
going to do about that?
The only argument now made In
England for the further prosecution of
the war on the Boers is that the em
pire is in danger and a united front
must be presented to save it. A
"united front" for folly and crime will
not strengthen the empire and the
longer that it is persisted in the weak
er will the empire be. The same rea
soning applies bft our Philippine folly.
Some of the Bryan papers talk a
good deal about "the return of the
prodigals." These prodigals have im
poverished themselves and wrecked
the whole estate and now they want to
come back and kick the old man clear
off the place, set the house on fire and
make a present of the land to their
progenitor's ancient enemies. They
are a different sort of prodigals from
what the world ever saw before.
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There is a big political muss down
in the newly opened lands in Oklaho- j
ma. The men who have drawn claims
find that they cannot vote at the elec
tions for town officers or anything
elsf; thjs fall unless they have been
in the territory for six months. That
being the case, the "sooners" will get
all the offices. In the new city of Law
ton which had thousands of residents
the day the lottery was over, there
seems to be a rich haul for the favored
few.
What have the residents of Nebras
ka got out of the tariff on tin? The
price of tin has doubled and the qual
ity depreciated until a tin pan won't
last a summer through without the aid
of a tinker and soldering iron. That
is what you have got. But there are
mullet heads who will go . out and
shout about the McKinley tariff on tin
and tell what a wonderful blessing it
has been to the people. The Bee en
gages in that sort of thing about once
a week.
The dispatches say that Kruger's
mind Is giving away. It could give
way a good many degrees and still be
a hundred per cent brighter than the
Joe Chamberlain-Cecil Rhodes sort of
mind. The continuance of the war in
South Africa does not depend upon
Kruger or any other one. man, and if
the British jingoes are laying the flat
tering unction to their souls they will
be disappointed. There are a hundred
embryo generals still left among the
fighting burghers. If one is killed, an
other just as able takes his place.v
There never was a bigger fraud on
earth than this so-called industiial
commission. It has sent circulars to
all the country newspapers asking
them to furnish evidence that the
trusts sell goods for less to foreigners
than they do to American citizens.
That is a piece of shystering that Is in
accord with its whole career. If it
wants such evidence at first ; hand
and there is oceans of it let it sum
mon some of these globe-trotters who
have been over in Europe and know
from personal experience, or let it
take some of the catalogues of the big
firms engaged In foreign trade and
compare the prices in these which are
printed in German, French, Italian and
Spanish with the prices in the cata
logues circulated in thiscountry. It
was a great scheme to send circulars
to country editors in the center of the
continent asking for evidence. Let
them send for the export traders and
make them bring their books. Some of
the tricks of this commission wouldn't
fool a blind horse.
Will the wage workers remember
what party gave aid and comfort to
the big steel trust in the fight that is
now on and what party sympathized
with them in the biggest battle ever
waged by the toilers, or will they for
get all about it when they go to the
polls to cast their next vote?
The Independent may be deceived,
but from several things that have hap
pened of late it is inclined to believe
that the administration is finding
Sampson too big a load to carry. Tnis
selection of another admiral to take
his place as commandant of the Boston
navy yard without any request from
him has a suspicious look.
The Negro problem in the south
would settle itself if the office-seekers
would let things alone for awhile. The
fear of negro domination is knocked
out by the last census. It shows that
the whites have large majorities in
many southern states and that every
where those majorities are increasing
at a rapid rate. The "black belt" will"
soon be a thing of the past.
As a sample of the lying done in the
great dailies take the assertion by all
of them a while ago that De Wet had
shot a peace commissioner by the name
of Wessel for presenting peace pro
posals to burghers under his com
mand. There was column after col
umn written denouncing the barbarity
of De Wet and the Boers generally.
The P Street Idiot stood on his head
he was so shocked at the inhumanity
of these desperate Boers. It now turns
out that Wessel is alive and well. The
great dailies make no apologies for
their lying. They never do.
The Buffalo Times remarks that "it
is going too far to say that the issue
of free silver is dead forever. For the
time may come when the gold supply
will become contracted and acquire an
abnormal .value and then there will be
a renewed demand for legislation
bringing a larger proportion of silver
into circulation." But what is going
to be done with the more than half
a billion of silver that is now in circu
lation and the additions to it which are
constantly being made by the coinage
sent forth by the mints? Populists
would like to know something about
that.
A great many editors of weeklies in
other states are sending their papers
to The Independent asking for an ex
change. The exchange list of this pa
per Is getting to be a pretty heavy bur
den and the treatment that The Inde
pendent has received at the hands of
some 'of the editors in other states
does not make the management feel
good natured. There is one paper in
Illinois which has for more than a
year made up its editorial columns
from The Independent and never yet
given one credit. The matter is taken
from the columns of The Independent
and published as original editorial.
That makes this editor mad.
This Philippine horror grows more
horrid every time it is looked at. Ap
pended to the report of General Mac
Arthur is the report of Colonel
Greenleaf who says that venereal dis
eases have increased among the sol
diers 11.45 per cent in the last eight
months. Colonel Greenleaf advocates
the licensing of the vice and segrega
tion as a remedy. That has always
been the remedy advocated by mili
tary men, but wherever it has been
tried it has always resulted in in
creasing the trouble instead of pre
venting it. This Filipino business
will be a curse upon the people of this
country for the next hundred years.
Who has got anything out of it be
sides the carpet-baggers?
A republican farmer was seen lean
ing up against a lamp post in Lin
coln the other day. He seemed to be
carrying on a conversation with him
self in which he was very much in
terested for he did not stop when quite
a crowd gathered around him or pay
any attention to their side remarks.
His talk ran ..something like this:
"His that pop shaid which I like
best, fity-cent dollars and dollar wheat
or hun'red-chent dollar and fifty-cent
wheat, flty cent, yesh, his, thas right,
wheat ish fifty cents, ten drinks 6ne
bushel, now, taint right, twenty drinks
bushel of wheat. Hundred cents
twenty drinks, bushel wheat only ten
drinks, somethin's wrong; twenty
. drinks for bushel wheat, thas right.
that pop's an 'anarchist, only ten
drinks for bushel of wheat." Having
settled the matter he walked on, al
though he found the pavement hardly
wide enough.
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Wiltshire tells in his paper about de
livering a lecture down east in a free
lecture hall and says: : "When I had
finished there was not a sound from
all the assembled professors, and the
meeting , adjourned with no word of
dissent. This was all rather remark
able, because at all the other lectures,
no matter what the subject may have
been, the evening always had ended
in a state of great controversy. I am
almost as cocksure that I won't have
any opposition as I am about the
soundness of my logic' There was a
fellow down in Omaha some years ago
who went around wanting anybody
and everybody to debate with him.
He never succeeded. No one would
debate with him. . For several years
past he has been a resident at the in
sane asylum.
If the trust principle is a good thing
then all the telegraph and telephone
lines in this country should be con
solidated and put under one manage
ment with power to fix rates to suit
the managers. v Why don't the repub
licans advocate this outright? What
is the use of whipping the devil around
a stump? They say combination re
duces prices. Why do so many of
them give encouragement to Indepen
dent companies? If the trust is right
let us have no more opposition to it.
Let everything be put into a trust and
all of us become hirelings and be done
with it. If the trust principle is not
right, then let us fight it morning,
noon and night and not pretend to op
pose it one day and defend It the next.
There is considerable discussion in
the papers about the universality of
perjury, especially in the courts and
swearing off taxes. Would it not be
well also discuss the almost universal
gambling indulged in by the Ameri
can people. Policy or bucket shops are
to be found in every little town in the
state and thousands of men lose their
little all in these places. Ex-Governor
Boyd runs one in Omaha where
many women have been In the habit
of betting. The Independent has been
talking of this degeneracy for months.
The press is subsidized, the highest
governmint officials from McKinley
and Gage down will lie like horse
thieves, and with no more compunc
tion of conscience, while the people,
rich and poor, engage day after day in
gambling. What is the church doing?
Nothing at all. Has anybody ever
heard of a sermon being preached
against board of trade gamblers, buck
et shops, peYjury in our courts or the
every-day lying in the daily press? If
they have, please get that sermon and
send it to The Independent for publi
cation. If this McKinley prosperity has
struck you so hard and the crops are
such a failure that you must give up
either your county paper or The Inde
pendent, stick to your county paper.
The populist editors of this state have
been the true heroes of the reform
movement from the beginning until
now. Stand by them. The Indepen
dent has many and large expenses that
do not pertain to a country office, but
it will pull through. Keep up your
subscription to The Independent if
you can, for you will get more than
your money's worth, but what ever
happens, don't go back on your home
editor. Stand by him. The crop fail
ur3 is harder on him than it is on you.
His advertising will be cut. down', his
job work will decrease and the wolf
will be at his door if you fail him.
There has been more than enough
raised In Nebraska to feed all its in
habitants. The farmers will gather it
during the fall and early winter. Don't
forget the editor.
Hardy's Column
The State FalrLucious Peaches
Holding Corn for a Dollar New
Sanitarium Spanish TheftSuffer
in Sympathy Midlingst Awful Fu
sion ? Slavery, Imperialism and
Trusts w
Our state agricultural fair is near at
hand. There is every prospect of hav
ing the best fair we have had in years.
The corn show may be a little short.
Garden vegetables will undoubtedly be
badly schrimped. Fruit may not be as
fine in appearance, but the quantity
was never greater and the flavor far
outstrips any from the south or from
the Pacific coast. Stock of all kinds
is in "fine condition. We hope farmers
will not come to exhibit sale stock or
to pocket a little premium, but mainly,
to learn something by talking with
their farmer friends from different
parts of the state. Ask questions and
note the answers. The most ignorant
farmer may be able to tell you some
things you do not already know. , We
never kept a tramp over night that did
not tell us things we did not know
before. Come to rest and learn and to
instruct others. Bring your, wife.
Our sight and our appetite calls our
attention to J. M. Russell's peaches
again this year. His peaches are good
eating any time of the day and with
a little cream and sugar they cap the
climax of good eating. We were in
vited to his eighty-acre peach orchard
the other day. Well, pigs in clover,
steers in corn and editors In a peach
orchard are all off the same piece. Or
der a basket of Wymore peaches if
you want a feast.
There is a farmer living near Lin
coln who has three or four thousand
bushels of old corn la his cribs, all of
his own raising. He told us last Jung
that he was holding for 50 cents a
.bushel. We met his wife only last Sat
urday; she told us they " were now
holding it for a dollar. Wheat at
seventy and corn at sixty 13 very much
out of proportion. We doubt whether
the present price of corn will be' main
tained. Let it be understood that any
article is short and going to be high
and everybody will save and use sub
stitutes and the article will turn out
better than expected Wheat will be
eaten instead of corn and distillers will
use rye. Cane and beet sugar will fill
the place' of corn. Northern Illinois.
Iowa and northern Nebraska are all
reported as having a fair crop of corn.
A little scare Is better than an ex
travagant boom.
We called at Doc Bailey's new sani
tarium the other day and if there is
anything of the kind in the wide world
that fills the bill that institution does
it. They do not bleed or dose with
calomel as they did before the homeo
path system was brought Into use. No
healthier location can be found and
then all the health appliances are in
use. Bathing of all kinds, exercise of
every limb and joint and food of the
right kind are all mixed with medicine.
How such signal victories were won
over the Spanish navy at Manila and
Santiago is still a mystery to many.
They were not won so much by skill
and appliances of our own as by the
want of such things on the Spanish
side. It seems to be the general rule
of Spanish officers to pocket all the
money possible and get rich out of the
government in a few years. The mon
ey appropriated for target practice
went that way; so it were the wild
shots delivered by their gunners that
saved our men and our ships. They
had good war ships and good guns,
but did not know how to use them.
Thousands and tens of thousands of
dollars are spent every year in target
practice by our navy. England has
found it makes a great difference in
the field whether the men take aim and
shoot to kill or only shoot at random.
If the Boers had one-fourth the men
they would drive England out of
Africa.
If the labor organization men had
voted for Bryan the millionire trusts
would now be on a stfike. The labor
men seemed to have great sympathy
for the poor millionaires and chose
rather to be nailed to the cross them
selves; now they have their choice.
They will not have another such an
opportunity to choose. In 1904, if the
republicans succeed in reorganizing the
democratic party, the two big candi
dates will be Cleveland and McKinley
or men just like them. It will make
no difference then for laboring men
to choose. Perhaps In 1908 they will
be scorched bad enough to help reor
ganize a Bryan party and fight both
the old parties as the republicans did
in 1860.
The middle-of-the-roaders are quite
angry, to think they have not been
given a single place on any of the re
publican tickets thus far . this year.
They may get the supreme judge nom
ination. Clem Deaver and Grover
Cleveland stand at the head of the re
publican party. To them is due the
credit of success in state and nation.
Middle-of-the-road pops and middle-of-the-road
democrats make an even
team.
It is awful for silver republicans and
silver pops to fuse with silver Bryan
democrats. It is a great deal more of
a crime than for the black, white and
red races to amalgamate. But for the
middle-of-the-road pops, the Cleveland
gold bugs and the McKinley republi
cans to. fuse, mix and intermarry is
all perfectly proper and only carry
ing out the decrees of nature. Then it
is so honorable to pretend you are
fighting for principle when you are
only fighting for a republican land
office. Any way to beat the pops and
the great common people is honor
able. The test of republican states
men and worthy party candidates is to
talk one way and act another. The
chief fault found with Bryan is that
he talks and acts the same way year
after year. So of course he is not to
be trusted in public office.
The American people started out
with African slavery as the corner
stone of their republic. The first thing
was to drive England out of the way
and then establish a free government
and at the same time hold more slaves
than all the rest of the world. Talking
one way and acting the other has al
ways been a fault of American states
manship. The ruling portion of the
people in America have never been sat
isfied with ruling themselves, but have
always hankered for an opportunltj'
to subjugate and rule hundreds of
others for what could be made, out of
them. This was not only seen in slav
ery, but is seen today in other class
laws. There Is no more justice in
taxing the farmer and giving the
money to the manufacturer than in
compelling the negro to work for his
master. And yet many of the farmers
think it is patriotic to sell their pro
duce at less than European prices and
then pay double European prices for
clothes to wear. The Porto Ricans,
Cubans and Filipinos are hereafter to
fill the place made vacant by the abol
ishment of African slavery. The people
of those islands are to be ruled for
what can be made out of them. Gen
eral MacArthur admits that "the
moulding force in those islands must
be a well organized army and navy."
Spain had these instruments of civili
zation. England has had them in In
dia. Compare what these nations
have done with what Mexico and Ar
gentina have done in the last fifty
years. suDjugauon and slavery do not
develop or civilize the slave. If Mc
Kinley could have the honor of estab
lishing three or four independent re
publics he would stand right alongside
of Lincoln and Washington.
Such a Money Saver
Cobwigger "Things are Invented as
we need them."
Merritt "I don't know about that
I'd be much better off if somebody had
years ago invented a horseless r.,a
I track." September Smart Set;
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