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Lincoln. Heb.
AavocraMMM es6lcetio will a be M
tk4. rtJ vt will cot be re
rami.
Jloosevtlt one eald something about
the anarchism cf wraith. Will Wall
. street lay that up against him?
Tbe battle of Santiago Is bWng
foadt oter ajrir with iScLly on cfck
4 &mpou forty miles away. Jllr--rTj
rejata Itself.
Jttdf Ilollecbeck elated before the
papniut convection tbat be would re
ceive uo pa&a or otber favor from any
corporation.
If chlralry and good breeding count
for anything, then tbe opposition pres8
la tbe United State undoubtedly de
ntrs to be promoted to tbe bead of
Tbe xact moral, standing of a party
bat forre a jroveriior of a great state
to repudiate a contract made with a
convict la one of those things tbat no
jop caa E.S4 out.
Tbe democrats and populists In Kan
sas continue to fuse iu their county
conventions with great regularity not
withstanding tbe action cf tbe demo
cratic stite committee.
Five vice presidents bave succeeded
to tbe cmce of president, but not one
of tbf a as able to even get a nomi
nation from bis party as a candidate
for election.
Tbe position tf iea by Tbe Indepen
dent tbat those who advocate murder
bould be coaSned la prisons as we
bare lor. dor.e with these afflicted
witb bomic'dal mania. Is being in
dorsed If many prominent journals la
tbe east-
It is recorded la tome of the papers
that while wse of tbe politicians
wiped tbelr eyes with one hand be
cause cf tbe death of tbe president.
htli o-t the othT to tbe nrw presi
dent for aa omce. The king is dead.
Long Use tbe king.
Tbe latest dispatches announce tbat
fusion has not only been effected in
Philadelphia, but for the whole state
of I'esnsyivacU. Kastern reformers
are everywhere adopting tbe practical
politics of the populist party and "fu
sion is their war cry.
It sterns that tbe republicans of New
York city, after weeks of anxiety, bave
at last effected a fusion and will go
into the next campaign with a fusion
Sfcomia for mayor. Fusion in New
York, ia tbe eyes of the republicans.
Is bl?My respectable, tut out here In
Ntira.iia it i Immoral and rrimlnaL
la all tbe tbe eulogies concerning tbe
-dead presidents devotion to bis wife,
little or nothing has tea said of tbe
devotioa of the wife to the husband.
If ibe bad be a a less helpful compan
ies bad beea a carping critic of hla
Actions would the president bave
jaade tbe succes that he did?
la Ne Zealand te working people
tave snse enough to vote together
.nd tbey control the government. la
this country a gJod many of them seem
to think whenever their rights are ln
raded the proper thing to do Is to or
ganise a new party and divide up their
rotes to tbat they count for nothing.
New Jersey is the borne of tbe trusts
nd what naturally follow the
spawning ground of the anarchists.
" They are very similar. Tb anarchists
telier la no law and tbe trusts seek,
without aa open declaration, to defy
J tbem. Tbe one bas the support of the
republican party, why not the otber?
'-: .We bave bad two weeks of tbe one
thing la tbe dally press to the exclu
sion of everything else and now the
i weeklies are coming, packed from mar
ja to margin with the same thing, but
tbat is not tbe end of It by any means.
lTb montbhea and quarterlies are yet
' to be received.
Aa Alabama Jury sent a man to the
penitentiary for life for lynching a
ucro for stealing chickens. When
sost cf the northern .states that bave
i fca black mea burned at tbe stake
befla tc Uke similar actioa agalrst
' lynchers, there will b some prospect
: cf auppresjing this sort of anarchy.
Tbe Schley court of inquiry was
and 4 en! r adjourned Tuesday morning
ca account of tbe suddea death of
Jedre iere Vlloa. senior counsel for
Admiral Schley. It is said that the
cause of death was acute Indigestion
and kidney trouble. Another adjourn
ment will be taken oa the day of the
fuscrab
Tbe New York World asks: "Could
there t anything commoner than the
populist party V We think not. Lin
cola said tbat Cod must bave loved
the common people because be made
m many of them, Tbe common people
r vry common." You meet thm
everywhere, aad nothing could be more
cc&ESpa fbzs te p;xty. of tie people.
I5COMFKTEKTS ;
It will be well for all the people of
tbe abate to take Into consideration
what bas happened from the change
of the government from fusion control
to tbe control of the republican party.
In tbe first place the legislature made
such extravagant appropriations that
if all the taxes are collected, or that
proportion that is usually paid, there
will be a deficit of a quarter of a mil
lion of dollars. That wfll be a bur
den upon tbe people for many years.
Next the penitentiary was burned
and now the asylum at Norfolk has
gone up in flames .entailing together
upon the people of the state another
loss of half a million dollars. The re
publicans could not run the peniten
tiary and had to call upon an old fu
sion employe to take charge of Its af
ter prisoners had been escaping in
squads, 6ince which time none have es
caped. .
Tbe loss of the main part of the pen
itentiary and the almost total loss of
the asylum can be attributed to in
competency. Both of these buildings
are filled with guards who are sup
posed to be at their posts of duty night
and day and if they had been. It would
have been impossible for a fire at
either place to have gained such head
way aa to be uncontrollable before it
was discovered. The appointment of
ward politicians to places in these In
stitutions in payment for political
work has introduced into the service
of the state a lot of Incompetents
which has cost the people half a mil
lion of dollars. That is only a part
of the loss that the people will suffer
from having turned the state over to
the republicans. The reduction of the
taxes upon railroads is just that mucif
loss. The tying up of over $90,000 of
money appropriated for the support of
the university which had already be
gun to come into the treasury under
laws passed " by a former legislature,
allowing it to draw interest for the
treasurer or favored bankers, has
made necessary an assessment upon
students, which is taxing those least
able to pay and letting the great cor
porations escape their just share. The
loss to the people by having the re
publicans in control of the state will
not be less than a million dollars.
What bave they gained? They have
Bartley's partner for a senator.
t DOXT SAY A WORD
The editor of The Independent
walked up to V.,? captain's office and
paid over $1.50 the other day as the
first installment of "Le forced tribute
to the hard coal trust that all must
submit to. The price of coal has been
raised $L33 per ton ani this is the
first of three or four like anijjt.t'j that
will have to be handed over during
the next six months. This monarch
levies this tribute on American citi
zens only. The Portland (Me.) Press
recently called attention to the adver
tisement of Lehigh coal In St. John, N.
B.. at from $5 to $5.35 after paying a
duty of CO cents a ton, while at Port
land, Me., also at tidewater and 303
miles nearer the coal fields, the price is
$6.25.
It appears that a man who is not an
American citizen has considerable ad
vantage over one vho is. The foreign
er does not have to pay tribute to Am
erican trusts. After a while perhaps
the facts will get to the people in spite
of the great dailies and the Associated
press, and when the poor creatures find
out that certain millionaires have been
laying a tribute upon the people of
the United States greater than any ty
rant of all history ever dared to at
tempt, there may be trouble. Mean
time walk up and send in your con
tribution to the millionaires and try
to feel good over the fact that you are
able to addto the millions that they
already own. Don't say a word, at least
not at present, or you will be de
nounced as an anarchist and told that
the blood of the dead president is on
your bands, in other words, to be
truly respectable, you must be a sneak
and a coward, and never dare to com
plain or assert your rights.
THE FUSION TICKET
The state convention occurred too
late in the week for any comment in
tbe last issue of The Independent, but
it was one of the most harmonious ever
held by tbe populist party in this state.
There are always disagreements among
earnest men concerning the "policy"
of the party, but as to Its principles
there is no longer any disagreement
whatever. When it come to nomina
tions populist candidates had about
the same number of supporters in the
democratic convention tbat democratic
candidates bad in tHe populist conven
toin. Tbe populist candidate came
within one vote of having a majority in
tbe democratic convention very earlj
In tbe proceedings and the democratic
candidate had a large number of sup
porters in the populist convention from
the very beginning.
As a final result the democratic can
didate was at last chosen by the unani
mous vote of both conventions. Judge
Hollenbeck, who beads the ticket, is a
man eminently fitted for the position
of a seat upon ths supreme bench by
his learning and the judicial , cast of
his mind. lie hai never been a par
tisan. In the darkest days of the fight,
whea populism .was struggling to get
on its feet, he often supported the pop
ulist candidates in opposition to the
democrats. Finally, when W. J. Bry
an got control of the party, Judge Hol
lenbeck cast -in his lot with Bryan.
He has always been known as an anti
monopolist and no corporation has
now, or ever has had, any string at
tached to him. He will make a fit as
sociate for the two eminent jurists that
the fusion forces have already seated
upon the supreme bench.
The two candidates for regents
Hawxby and Bayston were selected
for their eminent fitness to fill the posi
tion. They were elected by acclama
tion after the vote of a few counties
were called and it was found that they
were casting their ballots solid for
them, although there were several
others who had been placed in nomi
nation by their friends.
The Independent is proud of tbe per
sonei of the ticket presented to ihe
voters of this state by the fusion forces.
Every one of them is a man of high
character and intelligence. It is an
honor for any man tc have the privil
ege of casting a vote for theni.
POPULIST BANKING THEORIES
Populist banking theories are sup
ported by all writers of authority upon
that subject both in this country and
in Europe. No less an authority than
the immortal John Stuart Mill has this
to say respecting the regulation of cur
rency: "The exclusive privilege, there
fore, of issuing bank notes, if reserved
to the government or to some one body,
is a source of great pecuniary gain.
That this gain should be obtained for
the nation at large is both practicable
and desirable; and if the management
of a bank note currency ought to be
completely mechanical, so entirely a
thing of fixed rule, there seems no
reason why this mechanism should be
worked for the benefit of any private
issuer, rather than for the public
treasury."
This gain of which Mill speaks has
been so great to the banks of issue in
this country that one of them the other
day declared a dividend of 1,900 per
cent while the dividends of others
mount high up in the hundreds. These
banks not only control the issues of
paper money, but by it they increase
their political power to an almost irre
sistible point. All of this, from be
ginning to end, is condemned by all
authorities upon political economy and
the populists have behind them every
man of brains who has ever written
upon the subject.
EUROPEAN RULERS CONFER
The czar paid a visit to the president
of the French republic during last
week where he was received with the
glad shouts of the whole people. Ev
ery device was employed to make the
ovation the grandest ever given to any
ruler who ever visited the republic.
The result was a public statement by ,
the czar and President Loubet that an
alliance had been formed between Rus
sia and France, the czar stating that
it was one to establish and maintain
peace.
Out of the mass of stuff that has
filled the papers concerning the inter
views between Emperor William, the
czar and the president of the French
republic, there comes one often reiter
ated, to the effect that a conclusion
was reached concerning the Boer war
and that The Hague court of arbitra
tion would soon be called together to
take the matter up. Meantime, nearly
every day Kitchener has to send his re
grets for the loss of men and material.
The Boers have been successful in
nearly every fight of late and one oc
curs almost every day. In one of vhe
engagements a colonel, a brother of
Lord Mansfield, was killed. While the
members of .the government in England
still declare that the thing must be
fought out to the end there are many
signs that the people are generally get
ting tired of the war and the calling of
the court of The Hague may be very
acceptable to King Edward.
SOMEWHAT COMICAL
The situation in South Africa is
somewhat comical. It will be remem
bered that Kitchener issued a proclam
ation that every Boer who was running
at large on September 15 in the two
republics would be expelled and de
ported from the country. On the 19th
of September Kitchener sent the fol
lowing dispatch. It did not relate to
the deportation of Boers, but to an
other subject, and was as follows:
"The Boers, September 17, ambushed
three companies of mounted infantry,
with three guns, commanded by Major
Gough, in 'the vicinity of Scheeper's
Nek. After severe fighting the British
were overpowered and lost their guns,
the sights and breech locks of which
were first destroyed. Two officers and
fourteen men were killed and five offi
cers and twenty-five men were wound
ed. Five officers and 150 men were
made prisoners. Major Gough, who es
caped during the night, reports that
the Boers numbered 1,000 men and that
they were commanded by- Geneial
Botha
"General French reports that Com
mandant Smuts, in order' to break
through a cordon, rushed on a squad
ron of the Seventeenth lancers at
Eland's river poort, killing three offi
cers and twenty men and wounding
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- v JfUSION A SUCCESS
The republican dailies in Chicago
have so far advanced as to become ad
vocates and defenders of fusion. The
Record-Herald says:
"In selecting Seth Low as the standard-bearer
for the forces of good citi
zenship in the coming municipal con
test the conference committee of the
fusion forces presents to the voters of
Greater New York a candidate whose
name has stood as a synonym for good
government for two decades."
It will be seen that the republicans
of New York have adopted "three
ringed circuses," "conference commit
tees" and all the forms that have so
horrified these gentlemen when ap
plied by populists and democrats in
Nebraska and other western states.
POLITICAL. KINDERGARTEN
Some kind-hearted pops are raising
funds to establish a' kindergarten in
Lincoln where the republican editors
can be taught such elementary finan
cial principles as their immature minds
can master. A young lady has kindly
consented to take charge of the two
little chaps who are editors of the
Omaha and Lincoln republican daily
papers. She says she will be very
kind and patient with Willie and Ed
die. The 'first lesson will be some
thing like the following:
Now, Willie, look up and don't be
frightened. Remember now what I
say. The government at Washington,
you know what I mean by the govern
ment, don't you?"
Willie "Oh, yes! I know that."
Teacher "Quite right. Well, there
is a law that says: 'The value of the
standard coins in circulation of the
various nations of the world shall be
estimated annually by the director of
the mint, and be proclaimed on the
first day of January by the secretary
of the treasury.' Did you know that,
Willie?"
Willie "No. But then I never see
the reports of the secretary of the
treasury." -
Teacher "This estimate is published
in many ways.' It is generally attached
to the volumes of consular reports.
Lately the director of the mint has
published such an estimate quarterly.
Now, Willie, what is the value in
American money of an English shilling?"
Willie "I know that. I wrote an
editorial in which I stated that it was
51 cents." f
Teacher "Oh! Oh! You didn't do
that, did you?"
Willie "Yes, I did."
Teacher "The , i wicked pops .will
laugh at you." u
Willie "Why?". ; v ;
Teacher "Don't you know any bet
ter than that? (Willie sulks and makes
no reply.) Willie, do you know what
a pound sterling is?"
Willier-"! have seen ihe word in the
papers."
Teacher-r'It is the monetary unit of
the government of Great Britain. This
estimate of the director of the mint
which I hold in my hand says that the
equivalent of a pound sterling in the
money of the United States is four
dollars eighty-six cents and six and
one-half mills ($4.86 6). Now, Wil
lie, there are 20 shillings in a pound,
so if you divide that amount by twen
ty you can find out what its equivalent
in American money would be."
Willie "That is an awful hard sum."
Teachei" "Well, never mind. The
director of the mint tells what the val
ue of an English shilling is and I will
read it to you. - He says it is twenty-
four cents, thirty-three and one-quar
ter mills ($0.24.3325). How in the
world did you come to write down,
read in proof and then publish the
statement that it was 51 cents?"
Willie "I'll tell you the truth. I
didn't know -any better. I never at
tended even a kindergarten in finance
and I just guessed at it."
Teacher "Willie is a very good lit
tle boy to own up and if he will study
hard after a,while he may know some
thing about the subject and be able
to write articles that the wicked pops
won't laugh at."
"Now, Eddie, dear, It is your turn.
What is the equivalent in United States
weights and measures of the English
quarter?"
Eddie "I know. A quarter is a
quarter.
Teacher "Now, Eddie, don't be
naughty. That is no answer at au.
Did you study your lesson?"
Eddie "Bit I've been in England
and I know that a quarter is a quarter
of anything."
Teacher "What is a quarter of
wheat?"
Eddie "I know, but I forgot."
Teacher "I don't think you know if
you have forgotten. It is eight bush
els and two-hundred and fifty-thou
sandths of a bushel (8.252)."
Eddie "Willie didn't know what a
shilling was and he couldn't divide
$4.86 6 Vs by 20, so as to find out how
manycents there were in a shilling
and then you went and said that he
was a good boy."
Willie "Eddie didn't know that you
couldn't buy wheat at 20 cents a bushel
in gold in Argentine when it was sell
ing for more than 80 cents a bushel in
New York." , -
Eddie "That idiot better shut up.
A boy. of his age who don't Know, that
an English shilling is about 25 cents
had better keep his mouth shut." '
Willie "And one who don't know
that he made a fool of himself when
he declared that in the same country,
using the same money, the farmer had
to pay twice as much as the wage
worker for articles bought in the open
market hasn't any grounds for calling
other people idiots."
Teacher "Eddie, did you do that?"
(Eddie sulks and won't answer.) .
Teacher Come now, Eddie, be good'
and don't sulk."
. Eddie "Suppose I did." -
Teacher "Why did you do it?" -
Eddie "I was writing for a lot of
mullet heads who wouldn't know any
better and I wanted to make them vote
'er straight."
Teacher "That was very wrong.?
Willie "Yes, he is a rascal."
, Eddie "And you are a fool."
Then these little boys went for each
other and the lesson had to be closed.'
STRANGE TIMES ARE THESE
The Record-Herald gives the follow
ing account of an Incident that oc
curred in the Virginia constitutional
convention. Judge B'erryman Green,
in addressing the convention, said:
"Ever sice the days of King Alfred
freedom of speech has been the pre
rogative of the English-speaking races,
but one of the strongest evidences of
its abuse is the noble victim now ly
ing dead in the nation's capital, sur
rounded by weeping thousands."
The Record-Herald, after giving this
extract, remarks as follows:
"The members caught fire at the
reference and made the occasion more
dramatic still by granting the judge's
plea and striking out from their bill
of rights the words 'freedom of speech'
where 'the liberty of the press and
freedom of speech' were guaranteed.
The great southern commonwealth,
home of the leader of the confederate
army, could have given no more nota
ble illustration of the disappearance of
sectionalism under President McKin
ley's harmonizing influence, no better
proof of its love for the builder of a
new union."
These are strange times, indeed.
Would any one have even imagined in
his wildest dreams five years ago that
a leading republican paper would de
clare that "no better proof could be
given of love to the builder of the new
union" than striking out from the bill
of rights of a great state "freedom of
speech." That right has been fought
for on the hills and valleys of England
and America for a thousand years.
Now it is a "proof of love" to blot it
out! Strange times are these.
WHERE POWER ABIDES
Russell Sage says: "I have talked
with practically all of the representa
tive financial men of' this community,
and all agree in their determination to
uphold President Roosevelt. We feel
it is our duty to stand by him and to
show our faith in his ability to success
fully carry on our national govern
ment." But suppose the financial men of
Wall street should have concluded not
to support the president of the United
States, what would have happened
then? The statement implies that
Wall street will decide for itself wheth
er it will uphold the constitutional
ruler of this republic or not. If it con
cludes that it will not, it undoubtedly
has the power under the present finan
cial system to throw the country into
a state of anarchy. An order would
be issued to nearly 5,000 national bank
ers to refuse to loan money and force
every patron to liquidate within six
ty days. Then we should have soup
houses and Coxey armies from one end
of the land to the other and the Asso
ciated press would announce In every
daily in the United States every morn
ing and evening that it was all the
fault of the president. To the power
vested in the hands of a few men in
Wall street to destroy the credit money
of the nation in one day and bring woe
and want upon millions, The Indepen
dent has been calling attention for
years. When Wall street resolves not
to uphold the president In administer
ing the government, then universal
disaster follows. What are congresses,
legislatures and presidents in compari
son with such a power as Wall street
holds? Wall street, not the president,
rules. .
The Independent calls attention to
the letter of Dr. Edward Everett Hale
in regard to the Boer prisoners now in
Bermuda. A little souvenir from them
would be a good thing to show to your
neighbors and hand down to your chil
dren as a memento of the bravest fight
for independence ever made by man
and made by one of the men who
fought fcr liberty on the velts of South
Africa. y
The Bee talks about "the sound fi
nancial condition." How did it come
sound? By adopting the . populist
financial principles, coining silver, is
suing paper and greatly increasing the
quantity of money in circulation and
that is just what the Bee and all the
gold-bugs declared would bring ruin
and destruction, and that every one
who advocated such principles were
anarchists, socialists and repudiators.
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INCIPIENT ANARCHY
There was a strange performance at
the court house the other day such
a performance as was never witnessed
in the United States before. The
character of the men engaged in it was
such as to bring disgrace on any city.
The principal actors in it were J. H.
Ager and Captain Hill and Major Mc
Clay, who ,by the way, would never
have been a major but that a populist
governor made him such.
A set of resolutions in regard to the
murder of the president were presented
by Henry V. Hoagland that were a
credit to the gentleman : introducing
them declaring the sentiments of the
people in regard to the murder of the
president and his assassin in a digni
fied and forceful way. But there were
others and different ones for political
effect at home.
Men who can get so low as to try to
further their political fortunes by us
ing the tears of a widow and the blood
of a murdered president are just as
despicable as men can get. Many of
the leading republicans of the city so
expressed themselves. These men
brought in what were called "resolu
tions by a supplemental committee."
The cowardly wretches thus attempted
to use the Grand Army of the Republic
to further their contemptible schemes
and give local circulation for their pri
vate benefit to a set of resolutions so
disgraceful that but one paper in the
state, the old State Hypocrite, could
be induced to publish them.
The first resolution contained the vil
est attack upon the supreme court of
the United States that ever appeared
in print. It said: -
"That we condemn in the severest
terms those persons who, by falsely
representing our government as an em
pire, and our president as an emperor,
thereby fostering disloyalty, and ,the
growth -of anarchy, and giving encour
agement to anarchists to assassinate
our chosen rulers."
Every man of intelligence knows
that the supreme court in declaring
that this country was an empire even
went so far as to quote John Marshall
as having used that word, although
the dissenting "judges were of the opin
ion that the majority had put a con
strained meaning upon the word "em
pire" as used by Chief Justice Marsh
all. To openly declare in public res
olutions that the supreme pourt was
"giving encouragement to anarchy and
to assassination of chosen rulers" is
verging so close upon anarchy itself
that the best microscope would hardly
enable one to discover the dividing
line. These ward politicians did that
thing in their ignorance for they want
ed to appear as the great patriots and
statesmen of the state.
Another resolution seems to be aimed
at Editor Rosewater, for no man has
written more strongly against the con
viction of the Chicago anarchists in
violation of law and without evidence
to sustain the charges made against
them, than Mr." Rosewater did. In
thus condemning Mr. Rosewater they
make the same accusations against
many republican jurists and lawyers
who have published their opinions so
that all the world knew them..' These
pot-house politicians say:
"Resolved, That "we condemn any
and all persons who express, either di
rectly or impliedly, any sympathy with
the Hay Market anarchists who were
so justly convicted by the Illinois
courts, and a part of whom were, in
defiance of decency, and good govern
ment so unjustly pardoned by Governor
Altgeld." .
The Independent sympathizes with
Mr. Rosewater, for it is always an em
barrassing thing for an editor to be
charged with henious crimes by mem
bers of his own party.
After having disposed cf Mr. Rose
water and the supreme court of the
United States in this summary way,
this triplet of incipient anarchists then
make the following statement:
"Resolved, That the so-called 'yel
low journals,' as typified by the New
York Journal, and Chicago American,
by the use of indecent and slanderous
cartoons .of our public officials, by
their persistent lying and misrepresen
tation of facts; their open and active
sympathy with Aguinaldo and his fol
lowers, in the late Philippine insur
rection, and their advocacy of treason
to the American government, are, in
our opinion, largely responsible for
the existence of anarchy in this coun
try, and are not wholly guiltless of the
tyood of our beloved President McKln
ley, . the brave commanders, Stotsen
berg and Lawton, and the soldiers who
lost their lives in the service of their
country in ther Philippine islands."
The little vipers did not know that
the Journal and American had always
been rabid advocates of expansion
from the very first and that they only
made themselves ridiculous by their
fool , assertions. According to these
statements they engaged in the very
thing that they condemn, for they in
dulged in the same kind of talk which
they claim was the incitement to the
death of McKinley, Stotsenberg and
Lawton. According to them this coun
try is on the verge of dissolution.
Nearly one-half of the inhabitants be
ing advocates of treason. Among these
traitors are nearly one-half of the su
preme court, many prominent men In
the republican party, Including Con
gressman Llttlefield, Senator Hoar and
the venerable Boutwell. If there are
really that many traitors in the United
States, it will not be very long until
this government is overthrown. But
they are not. These three tailors of
Tooley street are simply common and
very inefficient , slanderers. The peo
ple of this country are not traitors to
the government, they are not anarch
ists, and they all denounce with vehem
ence these statements which give the
greatest encouragement to anarchy
that it ever received. If these state
ments were true, what could biuiKr
the anarchists from going on hi their
deadly work? With the assurance that
nearly one-half of the people of the
United States are behind them, what Is
to hinder the anarchists from entering
upon, a campaign of torches, boo.n3
and bloodshed?
The greatest encouragement that the
anarchists have ever t received in any
part of. the world has. been given here
In Lincoln by the "declarations - above
quoted. If all men who have doubted
the wisdom of any of the policies of
the republican' party during the last
four years are "advocates of treason"
and "are not guiltless of the blood of
our beloved McKinley," then ' bias an
archy a foothold here that can nevr
be eradicated. But the whole thing is
a lie concocted by three very small-
minded men three incipient anarchists.
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