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Cm ' ft mm VOL. XIIL LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 5, 1901. NO. 15. t 1 EIT TKEIH'OWH NOSES OFF. n Gml BmhhIiI, Mw, 7Ui Hew thm Cl4bc Wre rle Inal UkM tl Ir(.r( ef tk Xbr Ct ef Cield. Tb following is a ltter from the great K5ecoit Alex Lvl Mar. It w docu Kect well worth preerr icg nd ha not appeared heretofore in print, Mr. Del ilar ay: JNx Sir: I hate just completed the Mm4 tuition of my "History of the lrcouf MttK" and in the course of a few Ntk it will bo published by the Cam bridge KneycloT-wiia Co.. of New York. The first edition, published in 1J, i knj lance out of print. 1 can carcly do better for a meeting of the United Statea Monetary League than to prrrat you with tumm of the results. After tracicsr the hulory of gold and ilt er is the hiates of the ancient world: ladia, Kirypt, iireece, Ilame, eta. the tuode of ti. occurrence of these metals, the coed i Uon of their production, the ytettja of iarery employed to win them from the earth and the war of conquest wagd to plunder them from their own ens, 1 eoe to the Discovery of America and the new eircu instance under which the preetoua metal were produced be tween the period of that great event and the Spanish-American revolutions of mo. At the period of ths Discovery there etite4 in the lkruan world a cum equal to about 170 null ion of dollars in gold and isilver coin and bullion; in the Ori ectal world about million; in all, say a UKmaand milliona. Between the Dis covery and lslO. there were produced in the Iomaa world from the mines, chief ly ia America, about IJU0 million; in addition, there were acquired by con quest, chiefly from Aia, about 1000 fcUllocv and there were obtained from cvnacerce with Ana and Africa about rJ millions cuore; total GoOO millions. Not a dollar' worth of metal that came from America was obtained through free labor; it was all the product of plunder, cruelty and slavery. The cost of its pro duction cannot be reckoned in dollars, but in human life, in blood, in tears, and in the agony of de-pairing aDd expiring racest. Between 110 and the present time, there hate been produced from the mine of the llvman world, chiefly from the ruin of America, Kuia, Austral aia. British India, and South Africa, about 13.UUQ million dollars, that is to say. in a tingle century, twice as much as in the tare centune- previously. Of tht atuoust about 4."0Q million! were ob tained by mean of slave, serf or peon labor; while the remainder was the pro duct of free labor, chiefly in North A eerie and Antra!aiia.crof commerce with Aia and Africa, The product of native Aia i a neglicable quantity, be-ca'i-e it ha nearly all been consumed in Asia, and in addition, 4UO0 million of western metah Let us now recapitulate: Trees the Discovery of America to the prewest time, the Human world ha ac quirrd Y$Ui million, of which 1000 taiilioo were obtained by conquest, ldJj Btillioa by slavery, and IO0U mii in chiefly by free mining labor. Important reflection are suggested by the re-searche. To begin with, they destroy the theory o often proclaimed by writer ignorant of mining and needle- of the circumstances under which the precious metal have been produced: Th absurd theory i-i that "the value of guld and ;ier i due to the cot of their pridu.rti'o." Who will undertake to say what it cunt to plunder the 10U) millions tit gold and filter acquired from Asia by conquest? How i it possible to deter ge what it cost to produce U-XXJ mil i yutii by slavery? Are the lives of the tsenty millions of aborigines whom the tIs.iard and lurtugu"- destroyed in America, by condemning them to mine Eatery, redurable to dollars and cents? Today the mines of Nert Achinsk and others ia Ku.ia are worked by convicts and fterfs; the mine of Witwatersrand in South Africa have been worked by JOO.OuJ negroe. involuntary laborers, contract-laborer, naked African labor er, bought from their chiefs at so much per head and thrut into the subterran eaa caverns of Johannesburg, to win coi i far distant shareholders in London and Pari, Will any one pretend to aay that th cot of committing this gigantic crsr.e i reflected in the value of the f". 2? Nc. it is net; and the very Mime class cf men who, when it suit their purpose, bring forward thi lying theory, are well aware of it When the Californian and Aattralian mine threatened Europe with a sudden and large increment of gold, one cf the men, to-wit, liichard tolden, wrote in his preface to Cheva lier's "Kail c f oid' "There must be a fall is the value of gold, ia consequence . f it greatly increa-ed quantity." Here it i quantity, or demand and-supply. ti.at csa-es value; cot cost ol production What a pity it i that the truer source of ai-j only ar iiear to the plutocratic tbind in momentjs of alarm. Anithsr reflection relating .to this ubject i-i thi: That of the 1900 mil lions acqnired since the year llfrZ, only ti.Mi millions now remaia on hand in the farm of coins and bulhon. Of the re mainder, million have been lost by tr end-tear, or u-ed up in the arts; whi 4CMJ millions have gone to Asia, where they have been buried, lot, or conur:.ei; for they are not to be found there; the entire precious metal circula tion of Aia being le than 5X) million duiiars. I'ractically, two thirds of the cutptit cf the mine, whether produced by slave labor or free, ha.s disappeared; f cobabiy never in be recovered. And this projiortion continue. We can trace year by year the disappearance of 70 per rent of all the current produce. It is lost; it wears out; it goes into the arts; it is ecippea vo am a. wnere it is used up. er Duneu. i nis movement nas been eo- ing "Q for four centuries; yet there is not eo csiieh vu-ib.e goad and silver coin in Al today as there was when asco da tiasna Crt rounded the Cape of Good The present rapidity of production is another theme for the economist and Jegi-lawr. Today; with free labor, the hydraulic monitor, dynamite, and the cyanide process, we are producing the precious metaU thrice as rapidly as they were produced under slavery. There are machines and processes now being de vised which will still further accelerate this movement.. The plutocrats cut off their own noses' when they demonetized silver. They have literally put mankind on its metaL More gold is being produc ed today than silver and gold, in value, together, were produced oefore the de monetization. The laborer is aroused. Not only have the silver miners become gold miners, but so have thousands of other laborers. ' The contest over demon etization has rendered it impossible to return to silver money; and the laborer is going to take advantage of this condi tion of affairs by producing-gold ad nauseam. Alaska has already yielded 1U0 millions. She will yield many times a hundred millions during the next ten or fifteen years. These views indicate' what I venture to think of the future. I look for more and more gold; I look for higher prices; I look for the equalization of fortunes by the most practical and effectual of all processes the multiplication of gold from the mines. Let me add that the "Stocks of Money in the Principal Countries of the World," as published by the United States Mint Bureau, are full of egregious blunders and, so far as concerns the Orient, must not serionsiy be taken as a guide to the subject. For example, the Mint Bureau asserts that India (563t) China (750) and Siam (213i) possess a combined stock of 1532 million dollars in gold and silver money; whereas, the highest local au thorities and best estimates on the sub ject do not credit them with more than 1TJ5 millions, a difference of 1237 milllions. In 1S33, Mr. F. C. Harrison, the Ac countant General of Madras - and Sir David Balfour, both estimated the metal lic money of British India at 115 crores. In 1893 Mr. Harrison estimated the mon ey of India at 120 crores, equal ii value to about 240 million gold dollars. In China there is practically no gold or silver money, except in the Imperial treasury and at ..the seaports, for the purpose of trade with foreigners. A lib eral estimate of these stocks is 35 mil lion dollars; and of this amount some portion has recently been plundered by the invading allies. Siam, with an im poverished population of 5 millions is credited by the Mint Bureau with 213 millions in gold and silvsr money! This would be more than t'ltX) to every family in the kingdom; it would exceed the me tallic resources of London, which con ducts the exchange of the commercial world ; a claim too preposterous for ar gument. The practice of the Buddhic religion, the employment of , rice for money-payments, the prevalence of slav ery, the petty character of its commerce and revenues, and ths low scale of prices m Slam, warrant the conclusion that 5 millions, instead of 213 millions, will fully cover the circulation of that coun try. The gsneral result is: India (add ing something for the native states) 2o5, China 35, and Siam 5 millions; total 295 millions; instead of the-1532 millions credited to these countries by the extrav agant Mint Bureau. Indeed, its poverty of gold and silver is what has saved the Orient. When the Germans were aked the motive of their "punitive" expeditions into the in terior of China, ther replied that they were looking for the 70 millions of silver hich the American Mint Keports as per ted were to be found in that Empire. W elL they looked for them, they tortur ed and slew 50,000 of her people they tore down their houses and dug into the graves of the dead but tney found no hundreds of millions; and forthe best of reasons no such millions were there. The currency of China consists of over valued sapeques greenbacks printed on copper; and when the Germans, French, British and other foreign invaders of China became fully satisfied of this fact, they declared that the war was over and witudrew their predatory bands. Had China possessed the millions assigned to her by our credulous Mint Bureau there can be little doubt that the invading ar mies would have remained long enough to destroy the Empire and appropriate its treasures. Wise, indeed, were the ordinances of Buddha, which forbade his followers to touch the precious met als (App. Cyc 1859, IV, 68). The Chi cese have only themselves to blame if they have not always strictly observed them. I am, dear sir, Yours very truly, ALEX. DEL MAR, Formerly. Director of the United States Bureau of Statistics. June 29, 1901. 240 West 23rd St, New York. OIL MAGNATE'S TYRANNY. He Dsolat a Whole Town to Satisfy m Whim and Tbomaidi of People . Made Homeless. All of us remember reading in our boy hood of the acts of feudal lords and kings whereby people were made homeless and paupers to satisfy some whim or ven-1 geance. in tnose days we congratulated ourselves that we lived in a country that was governed by the people themselves i and that such things could never be in our loved land. But it is different now. I The money lords are more cruel and ; tyrannical than the feudal lords and tyrants of old. Town after town has been desolated by the order of some j trust magnate. The other day the papers j told us of what happened to two quite large cities in Pennsylvania, because the inhabitants sympathized with the strik ers against the steel trust. Now the New York World tells the following tale of the doings of one of the standard oil magnates: "Cold Spring Harbor, for years rated as one of the most beautiful and popular summer resorts on the north shore of Long Island, is greatly dejected by the action of its wealthy resident. Walter Jennings, son-in-law of William Rocke feller, and himself a standard oil mag "Down in the village, a' half mile from his palatial country seat, stands the Glenada hotel, with accomodations for (XX) patrons. "Adjoining the Glenada is another hotel the Forest Lawn house where 200 guests can be entertained. "Around these two hotels and largely depending upon them for support has grown up a thriving little village. H-ight hundred free-spending summer visitors virtually maintain this small cluster of picturesque shops. 'JLiarly this spring the shop keepers of Cold Spring Harbor, confident of a good season, were actively laying in their sup plies when a startling fact was announc ed both, the Glenada and the Forest Lawn had been sold. "The double transaction had been effected so quickly that the first public intimation came with the formal filing of the transfers. 'Still more startling to the villagers was the news that Mr. Jennings .and his sister were the purchasers. The price paid for the two hotels and the beautiful casino on the shore point - was $55,000 less than the actual cost of construction. "Investigation revealed that venture some patrons or the two hotels had on several occasions strolled in through the gates of Mr. Jennings estate and looked admiringly at his rare flowers and blood ed live stock, despite the , placards at every gate warning off trespassers. ''Annoyed at these summer visitors, Mr. Jennings quietly bought the hotels, as a necessary preliminary to their de struction. "Mrs. Gerard, former owner of the Glenada, shares the bitterness of Cold Springs sentiment. The town folks would have cheerfully purchased her property at a much higher figure than it brought had they suspected the Stand ard Oil magnate's purpose. "Mr. Jennings will not destroy the handsome casino. He has tendered this building to the town as a gift, provided that it is put on rollers and moved to the other end of the village as tar as possi ble from his home. The magnates of the Standard Oil trust and all other trusts exist and issue their inhuman orders by the grace of the republican party, livery victory gained by the party local or national goes to ward increasing the power of these mag nates. No one can tell whose turn will come next. The only way to stop these cruelties is to put the republican party out of power. Every man serves God and benefits mankind when he works for the overthrow of the party under whose auspices the wealth of the country passes into the hands of a few magnates whose power surpasses that of the kings and potentates of the past. killed, the whole National Guard of ennsylvama was called to arms; and in consequence of this controversy Mr. Cleveland was elected president instead of Mr. Harrison. " , "Further disturbances of this kind are sure to follow persistency in the attempts to annihilate the rule of competition in business which has governed production and commerce since the dawn of civili zation, and thus to revolutionize human affairs without any. provision for keep ing down the prices - of commodities to the consumers, and keeping up the rates of wages for the laborers. The ancient and natural law of . the business world which" has ; protected consumers and aborersis to be abolished in favor of the capitalists; and no method is to be pro vided by which the latter are to be kept back from raising -prices and lowering wages at their pleasure. "Wild words are not wise; but it may be usefully said that there should be a earful looking forward to judgment on the part of the men who are doing these things, v. v- . . 'What is the remedy-for the threaten ing evils? It is easy and sure; the exer cise of legislative control of corporation organizations. No abolition of compe tition in any. business can take the place through agreements of individuals or partnerships of individuals alone. Cor porate powers are indispensible. Bonds and stock must be issued and thrust upon the maiket. But the legislatures can decide what shall be the quantities of bonds and stocks, and can limit the business which each corporation may. do. congress can absolutely control the interstate commerce railroads. The State legislatures can also govern them and in all other corporation monopolies, and force them back to the ancient ways. The people have the remedy in their own hands; and- if the suffrage is not over come by corruption, fraud or violence, success will attend the coming counter movement against the twentieth century attempt to revolutionize the laws of pro duction and commerce by organizing huge combinations of wealth in the form of corporations, by abolishing competion, by oppressing consumers and laborers, by making the rich enormously richer, while the poor stand still in their pov erty, and above all, . by arousing the many poor voters in our republic into a dangerous crusade against the compara tively few rich voters, which will endan ger the stability of the republic itself. JUDGMENT IS COMING. Ths State Fair. The wisdom of locating the state fair at Lincoln has been demonstrated by the abundant success that has at tended It up to this writing, Wednes day. The attendance has been large and everv denartment of the fair is full of exhibits of the very best class. One thing that Is rather amusing is the digs that are made evrywhere at McKinley'a secretary of agriculture. Mr. Wilson some time ago officially announced that Nebraska and Kan sas were In the arid regions and out side the corn belt- At the fair there are many fine corn exhibits and they are all labeled: liaised in the arid region outside the corn belt." There is a wonderfully fine exhib ition of cattle, Including herefords, short horns, polled - Angus, Jerseys, Swiss brown cattle and others. The horse exhibit is equally fine and there never was a finer . or larger display of blooded swine of all atanard breeds as well as of sheep. There has never been a finer display of Nebraska's wonderful agricultural products of all sorts. The crowd was so great that the railroads and street cars could hardly handle the business. The man agement deserves the gratitude of all Nebraskans for the effort that they have made and congratulations are heard upon all aides over their great success Xx-Senator Chandler Is Excited Over the Tyranny of the Trnsts and Says They Endanger Stability of the Republic. It seems that since Chandler left the senate he has seen a new light. A little mingling with common people has worked a change in his views. If he had engaged in discussions like the following while he was in the senate he might have done something to stay the power of the trusts. It is better late than never. In an article in the New York Independent he now says: "Necessarily such a huge combination as the Steel Corporation, employing thousands of laborers, will cause the for mation of a huge labor organization. The power of the producers of any o the great staple commodities constitut ing the necessaries of human life at the present day to fix the prices for the con sumers, and the wages for their workmen without competition, will not be tolera ted. Bargains of all kinds should be mutual. There is no mutuality where . 1 m the consumer can Duy oi only one pro ducer, and where the workman has only one employer through whom he can earn the daily bread for himself and his family. "So we are to have gigantic struggles between vast aggregations of capital and vast bodies of organized laborers.' The last are inevitable if the first exist; and are legitimate and justifiable. If all the manufacturers of iron and steel can com bine, then all the labors skilled only in that kind of work have the right to unite in one labor organization and agree that no one will work unless the wages for al are fixed by the organization and assen ted to by the manufacturers. Neither employers nor laborers have a right to resort to illegal or unfair means; to vio lence of anv sort. But we all knnw th tendency. fi "In 1895 Mr. Carnegie's employe! struck, he ran away to Europe, riots took place. Mr. Frick was shot, and others INDIANA TRAITORS. DREAM OF INDOLENCE. Tounr Hen Mast Put Such Notions Aside If They Ever Expect to g-et an - --",. Education. The state and rtaer: universities m Lincoln will soon open their doors for the incoming of thousands of students. There will be all sorts of characters among the young people who will come here, the intelligent, the dull, the indo- ent and the energetic Some will come with ideas that are wholly impracticable. Many think that all they have to do to get an education is to attend the classes, and drink in knowledge asone drinks water from an upturned glass. To all such should be handed the following words from Henry Ibsen, the Norwegian poet: The education, morVl and intellectual. of each individual, must be chiefly his own work. It seems to be supposed that, if a young man be sent first to a grammar school, and then to a college, he must, as a matter of course, become a scholar. The pupil himself is apt to im agine that he is to be the mere passive recipient of instruction, as he is of the light and atmosphere which surround him. But this dream of indolence must be dissipated, and the student must be awakened to the important truth that, if he aspire to excellence, he must be come an active co-operator with his teachers and professors, and work out his own distinction with an ardor that cannot be. quenched, while anything yet remains to be done. Every man makes his own fortune, both in morals and intellect. iow often does it nappen . that young men, who have Mad presciseiy the same opportu nities, are continually presenting different results and rushing to opposite destinies? Differences of talent will not explain it, for that differ ence is very often in favor of the disap pointed candidate. There are graduated from the same college aye, often there issue from the bosom of the same family -two young men, of whom one is admit ted to be a genius of a high order, while the other is scarcely above the point of mediocty. Yet, you shall see the gen ius . sinking and perishing in poverty, obscurity, and wretchedness; while, on the other bond, the mediocre one plods his slow but sure way up the hill of life, gaming steadfast footing at every step, and, often gaming eminence and distmc tion. In whose control is this? Mani testiy in their own. xne best seminary of learning that can open its portals to a student can do no more than afford an opportunity for instruction. It depends wholly on the student whether he will be instructed or not, or to what point he will push his instruction. There is no progress without great labor. It is the fiat of fate from which no power of genius can absolve man. Genius, un- exerted, is like a poor math that flutters around a candle until it scorches itself to death.' There "a a gr jwing . dimfind In 111 republican party which is constantly advocated in many of the big dailies that the right to vote shall be based upon property. As the multi-million aires who now own most of the wealth of this country swear off their taxes and the corporation managers escape by the payment of the widow's mite. the result of the scheme would be that the poor would pay the taxes and u'i cte ?nd th- rifh would vote and not pay taxes, ay the time the : publicans get that done they will have things fixed so as to suit the magnates. The Democratic Machine was Goldbuy They Set Out to Carry the State for . McKlnley. and Did It. . Editor of Indkpendent: A systematic attempt is being made . in Indiana, as well as other states, to create the belief that the democratic masses have repud iated the Chicago and Kansas City plat forms and deserted Mr. Bryan. Fake interviews are manufactured and re ported every few days. Words are put into the mouths of men. never uttered by them. Sentiments are attributed to them they never entertained, and they are credited "with intentions, of which they never dreamed. Papers that publish and circulate such misrepresentations will not allow corrections to be made through their colums. The columns are to create, not to correct false impres sions. There seems to be no effort either to get the truth or to impart it. A special from Indianapolis to the Cincinnati Enquirer of August 18th re ports that the sentiment of thys state is overwhelmingly in favor of abandoning the declarations in the last two demo cratic platforms on the money question. Dollars to doughnuts, that the writer of that special does not know what consti stutes the money question; that he does not know anything, at all, about the sen timent of the democratic masses in In dianna. This special has all the marks that indicate, what is generally known to be the desires of the men in the city of Indianapolis that had charsre of the state committee during the last cam paign. The expressions in this special are accompanied, as such expressions always are, by the assumption that the question of '-coinage of silver" is the money question, and all there is of it. It is lamentable, that there are so many men in both the democratic and republican parties who have not been, and are not now, able to understand the relation of the act of 1873, which stopped the coinage of full legal tender dollars, sustained then . or sustained now to the financial system of the country. They do not understand, the relation to the money question, or the effect of the sub sequent acts of congress, by. which the coinage of silver dollars was resumed, or how in this resumption their relation to our currency and their position in our financial system was changed, from what it had been prior to 1873. In attempting to explain to such men, how this off spring of knavery and ignorance has en riched the creditors and robbed the debtors is about as effective as reciting Latin poems to the house dog. tThe man who knows enough about the money question. to know- that silver by reason of these acts became a very prom inent incident to our financial movements and management.will know enough to un derstand that the money question is mora than the coinage and use of silver, and that it must always be an important and dominant question in the minds of men, who are more interested in the welfare of the Country than they are in the success of any party. Ihe unholy partnership between knavery ignorance that is responsible for this congiessional legislation is the same partnership that now talks about abandoning the princi pies contained in the two platforms. There were behind the "silver ques tion" certain fundamental principals of financial economics and of government. It was these principles, for which the intelligent supporters of the platforms of 1896 and 1900 contended. The man, who has so little understanding of the elementary and controlling principles, that he concludes the increase of gold, or the increase of any other kind of money followed, of course by the natur al results of such increase make . the principles unimportant and the aband onment of them of no consequence, will in his ignorance suppose it to be possible to abandon, and will talk about the abandonment of the declarations of 1896 and 1900. He will in his folly say, "The issues of 1896 and 1900 were logical be cause of conditions that existed at the time, but conditions have changed.' When did ever conditions change funda mental principles! When did everevents change philosophical truths? When did the conduct of ' men change, or set - at naught, the laws of morals? The fact is, such men did not then nor have they yet comprehended what were the issues of 1896 and 1900. Changed conditions often give new views of prin eiples and of the application to the affairs of men and nations, or open to us new warnings of results to be expected from new and different violations of them, but principles remain for ever the same. The men who supported Mr. Bryan, intelligently and because they believed in the principles embodied in the Kan sas City platform were not in control of the democratic organization in this state Such democrats had no influence with the state committee and had nothing to do with the management of the cam naicn. Democrats who had any clear conception of the issues and preferred principle to expediency, and who could not be induced to sacrifice conviction for profit were generally, persona non grata, at headquarters. The brains and honesty of the party in Indiana were not, during last campaign, nor are they now, to be found around headquarters in In dianapolis, but in the shops, in the fields and in the smaller towns of the state, The organizations of the party located at the capital, and at the county seats are with some exceptions under control of court house rings, that are delightfully non-partizan by reason of their business relations with their political opponents. Such organizations have been controlled by men who have fattened on taxes, and grown rich from the proceeds of fran chise, by which they have assisted in robbing the people. This organization is the source of the "overwhelming sen timent" mentioned in the special to the Enquirer. These are the men who . "see the necessity" for abandoning the prin ciples 1896 and 1900. These were the organizations and all the organizations there were in the capital county and in a large majority of the other counties of the state during the last campaign. This was uie Kina ox organization - so much boasted about in Indiana during the last campaign. The silver republicans and populists of the state knew about these conditions, and were naturally slow to allow them selves to be absorbed by the democratic organization. They were in full accord, and are yet, with the Chicago and Kan sas City platforms, but they knew and distrusted too many of the men, who had control of the party organization in this state, to feel that it was safe to allow themselves to become too closely identified with this rotten framework left over from the Cleveland administra tion. Our fealty was to principles and not to a party. Our ympathy was with the democratic masses, who were and still are. true to the platforms, and not to. the organization, that in this state, never has been true to Mr. Bryan or to its voters. This organization did not desire the election of Mr. Bryan, and se cretly exulted at his defeat. .They knew that Mr. Bryan, if elected would be true to the platforms. ;' This is why they did desire his election. To come to any conclusion except that the campaign in Indiana was not man aged with a view to elect Mr. Bryan would be to accuse the management of idiocy. Nobody but an idiot could have supposed it possible to succeed in this state without the forty thousand or more silver republican and populist voters. Nobody but an idiot could even believe it to be good policy to coddle Mr. Bry an's enemies and insult his friends. No body but an idiot could have believed that it would make votes for the party to treat the men who remained with the republican party and were opposed to the principles and policies of the demo cratic platform with more consideration than they did the republicans who be lieved in such policies and principles and indicated their purpose to vote the dem ocratic ticket. Nobody but an idiot could have believed that sowing the seed of discord and disorganization was the road to party success. Nobody but an idiot could have believed it wise to send the deserter of 1896 to speak in localities where: they were not wanted, and to refuse to send speakers for whom requests had been made. Nobody but an idiot could have believed that the party vote could be increased by re sponding to the declared intention of former republicans and populists to vote the democratic ticket, with reiterated warnings that they were not democrats. The particular special referred to was probably written by a democrat of Owen county, Indiana, who gave his influence to the republican party in. 1896; who came back in 1900 expecting the demo cratic -party to apologize to him, . and who had - personal charge of the state chairman and who. prepared all his pub lic utterances for him. This will account for the particular tone of the article. It is a complete confession of duplicity and bad faith on the part of the state com mittee in their relations with the silver republicans of this state. It is an at tempt to justify this duplicity by creat ing a false impression about the attitude assumed by the silver republican chair man. It is not necessary to refer to the personal allusions in it. The writer overlooked the fact that the people of this state, will most them know quite well, how much of the article in question is true and how much is false. ' Flavius J. VanVorhis. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 30. THAT SHIP SUBSIDY. Some Ugly Questions. The following questions were printed in the republican paper at sewara Some of them are stingers. The editor did not answer. ; The same old gang that robbed the treasury, looted the school fund and furnished 144 tons of coal to keep the asylum warm during the month of August, are running things, and this republican seems to be somewhat dissat isfied. The questions were as follow: Editor Blade: As a republican voter I desire to ask a few questions, which to me are pertinent ones: 1st. ' Why are notorious . politicians like Dorgan, Deaver, Stephenson, Sizer, and Gillespie appointed to the important places in this state as the gift of Diet rich and Millard r '2d. is it not , because they were Thompson strikers who are now placed in positions where they can travel over the state, issue orders to the county pol iticians, and thus build up a permanent Thompson machine? 3d. Are there no republicans worthy of reward, except notorious characters at Lincoln, whose records are a stench in the nostrils of honest men? Are these, legislators who traded off their man hood, the only ones who are to be recog nized? 4th. Why is it possible for even a ru mor to exist that this man Beekly, whe so rankly misrepresented Seward county last winter, is to be rewarded with the cost office appointment? 5th. Why has Bartley been released? 6th. Why is every newspaper which whooped for D. E. .Thompson last win ter. now applauding the release of Joe Bartley? 7th. Is it not evident that the fellows who were in the penitentiary contract frauds, the fellows who wrecked the Capitol National Bank, and the fellows who robbed the state treasury and the Lincoln city treasury, are now seeking to control state politics? 8th. Is it not evident that they will succeed in all their schemes it the people ao nox. wave up ana protest r 9th. Isn t it a fact that in the past people have become disgusted with the rottenness of the party leaders and quit voting the ticket? And is not the same course being invited now? 10th. Isn t it our plain duty to de nounce the bargain sale of legislators, and the Dorganism, D. Clem Deaverism, Bartleyism that now confronts us? : Mark Uanna is Active In Laying Plans te Rush it Thronfh Congress In the Early Part of the Session. A vast amount of literature issentouA every week by the ship subsidy literary . bureau. The patent insides of the re- publican weeklies is stuffed full of arti- cles declaring that it is a great patriot io scheme,. and that ships cannot be built in America on account of the pauper la bor of Europe. Meantime the shipyards are overwhelmed with' orders and they, are building ships by the score without any subsidy, both for Americans andt foreigners. The German government sent Dr. Von Halle to this country to. investigate and in his official report he says: The shipyards of the United States are incomparably equipped for thorough, economical and rapid production. This is due primarily to the splendid trans-' portation arrangements of the yard areas, the employment of the most im-. proved type of hoisting , machinery and the widespread use of pneumatic tools. . With the enormous expansion of trade - the time is not far distant when there, will be shipyards in America at every im-: portant ocean and lake point, The time is also not far distant when America will join Germany in occupying the same re lation to the world s vessel supply that has been held by England for so long. Germany's shipping needs are in excess of its own productive abilities, and while heretofore we have been supplied exclu sively by English boat builders, it is dis tinctly probable that we will shortly go to the United States whenever there is a deficiency to be filled. America's only scarcity is m native designing and engineering talent. That : this condition is both actual and urgent . I gather from the fact that the consult ing engineers of two of the largest ship yards on the Atlantic coast are English importations. Withall America is able , today to build as good ships as anybody, . and build them almost as quickly and aa cheaply. The New Camden yards m isew Jer- sey are line the new ivrupp woras at Hiel, and as they are backed by unlimit ed capital, are destined to be one of the model establishments of the world.' America's strongest advantage over Eng-' land is her freedom from the tyranny of the British workman, where mistaken ; hostility to modern practices may croVd J John Bull's dockyards to the realm l the obsolete. i - "The yacht builders of America ar;-, E re-eminent. The ocean speed laurels, owever, are not likely to be wrested soon from Germany, although the friend ly rivalry of the Hamburg and American and the German Lloyd lines insures us the premiership at least until the chani- pion uerman ngures are equated. it should be remembered that increases in speed nowadays come only a half-knot at. a time, so that America and England have much to accomplish before they can hope to distance the records of the Deutchland or the Kaiser Wilhelm der. Grosse. So far America is behind in the matter of speed, as it has nothing better than the St. .Paul of the American line, ' while Great Britian has produced the Lucania and the Campania. An officer ' of the Atlantic Transport Line told mo while I was in America that his compa ny proposed to build a thirty-knot ship within the next four years, but such , hope in the present stage of the Ameri can maritime industry is an idle dream." Lancaster Democrats. . The Lancaster county democratic con vention will meet in the Auditorium on Tuesday the 10th of September. The primaries will be held September 7 at 8 p. m. at the usual places. Each precinct will select a member of the county cen tral committee and make all precinct UUUUUBUVUOi THE SCHLEY INQUIRY. Official Records Mutilated and Others Slol enSampson Employs an ' Attorney. Washington, D. C, Aug. 31, 1901. The inquiry into Admirav achley s actions . during the Spanish war and especially just previous and during the battle of Santiago has not begun and when it doea begin will probably take more than two months to hmsh but the preliminaries are attracting a great deal of attention and they bear out the suggestion made in these letters some weeks ago that the naval ring in Washington would leave no stone unturned in order to complete through this board of inquiry what it has sought to do by innuendo and slander ever since Schley became the hero of Santiago. Every precaution 13 being taken to present certain evidence and exclude other testimony so that the board may find a technicality upon which to de clare Admiral Schley guilty or the charges which they formulated as a basis for the inquiry. If they cannot do that they will at least try to so becloud the issue that the public will get no clear idea of the real facts in the case. It is a case of labor wasted from the beginning The Amer ican public considers Schley a hero. He won the battle of Santiago and no amount of envy and slander can deprive him of that. For every injustice put upou him by the naval ring ten new friends will be raised for him among the masses of the people. It may be well, however, to note briefly what this administration ring is doing to besmirch the record of a brave man. When Admiral Sampson s legal repre sentative came to Washington to look through the records he was watched by a man detailed for that particular duty. The papers he desired were given out only after the greatest hesitation and no wonder for many 01 the papers and records had been mutilated and some where missing altogether. This in itself condems the ring which i3 supposed to keep official records as a sacred charge. If justice were possible under the Mc Kinley regime the offenders would be hunted out and properly punished. But they have no fear of detection or punish ment as matters stand. Now when it seems clear that Schley intends to push the inquiry in earnest, Sampson's press bureau first gives out the statement that he is ill and may not be able to attend the inquiry, next that he is rroresented by a legal counsel. A9 it hW been assumed all along that Sam p- wm not under investigation it is a 1 son V
