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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
October, 10, 1901. .
Incompetency,
Extravagance.
A COMPARISON.
There are thirteen etite institutions.
Mid frorj lhow which are purely du
rational fa their-character. These are
tte ttre hospitals for the icsane, lo
cated respectively at Hastings. L4n
rolc. and Norfolk; the home for the
frtadfc at Lincoln; Industrial home
tt Mi'ford; the two soldiers homes at
Grand Island and Milford; the insti
tute for ft L!-minded youth at Bea
trice; the Institute for the blind at
Nebraska City; institute for the deaf
at Omaha; the two reform schools at
Kearney and Genera, and the state
penitentiary at Lincoln.
Under the administration of Hol
cotsb and Poynter these Institutions
were brought up to a high state of ef
feciesey and the cost of maintaining
them was reduced to the lowest Ag
ere co3lstent with good service. Gov
ernor Poynter. In his last message to
the legislature, gave a complete table
showing the amounts expended on
these institutions, by years, from 1SS2
to
Pcarcefy a word has appeared In the
cewspaper relaflre to the cost of maln
tsisi&s these state institution since
the present republican state officers as
sumed control. An investigation of
tM records tn Governor Savage's office
espiains this fact It is because the
prefect republican administration has
gone back to former republican meth
ods, snd inaugurated an era of extra v-agar-ce
in caring for the state's un
fortunate wards. It is right that every
inmate of a state institution should
have the ti of food and clothing and
Use best of medical attendance and
care; but there is no good reason why
ran be kept at the lowest figure,
the cost of this maintenance should
Although the statutes require that
the head of each institution shall make
a report to the governor each six
months, these reports being due Im
mediately after the 21st of May and the
2inb of November In each year, it ap
pears that no report has been filed
frr the penitentiary, institute for fee-tle-misded.
and industrial home; and
the report for the soldiers home at
Grand Island is unintelligible. These
reports (for the six months ending
May 21. 191 should hare been filed
la Jane at the latest.
Fcppoee we compare the cost of this
first six months under republican ad
ministration with the last six months
ender Governor Poynter:
Fusion. Republican,
month ending Six months ending
Nov. iO. 1W. May 31. 190L
Cost, Inmates. CosL
f 42.727.37 715 $ 57.23S.0S
27.CC25S 2 27.032.SS
nZHM 278 28.676.86
J.l 43.75 9 6.127.03
I.23S.0S 11,199.59
ll.7H.S0 ICS 15.023.51
19.419.1J 131 25 .870X3
7.0CL97 42 8.250.13
C,2S2 78 8.217.49
J149.v44.f4 1919 $197,664.17
H3 149.644.54
50 S 48,019-53
Blx
INSTITUTIONS.
Inmates.
Insane asylum. Hastings 702
Insane asylum. Lincoln 378
Insane asylum. Norfolk 265
Boilers' home, Milford 3
Institute blind. Neb. City.... 52
Institute deaf. Omaha 159
It form school. Kearney 130
Reform school. Geneva 2
Home friendless. Lincoln 5
Totals 1869
r us ion totals.
Republican increase
Is it any wonder the republican
state Seers were backward about
tiring oat figures showing what they
were doing in the matter or main
taining these state institutions? It will
be observed that the Increased popula
tion of 5 inmates at these nine state
Institutions, under republican rule,
cost the taxpayers over 148.000. or
practically one thousand dollars each
for six motths maintenance.
How do you like it. you taxpayers
who were bent on making a change
U? fall? You got the change no
doubt about tbat. The way to rebuke
this administration Is to elect Hollen
beck. Bayston and Hawxby.
THINGS ACCOMPLISHED.
Among the many things accom
plished by the reform forces under the
administrations of Hoi comb and Poyn
ter. th may be mentioned:
Increased school apportionments.
Better Investments, of the educa
"""tiocAl trust lands.
Prompt attention to duties. .
Greater revenues from office fees.
Prompt and careful attention to the
leasing of state school lands and col
lection of rentals thereon.
Gradual reduction of the state's
f oailBc Indebtedness, due to fusion
economy In expenditure of public
fads and to the business methods of
the fusion state treasurer.
Payment and cancellation of every
Cellar of the state's bonded debt.
The utmost publicity regarding pub
lic business. -
Increased efficiency at the state In
stitutions, at decreased cost to the taxpayers-Vigorous
prosecution of public
pltisderers. ,
party better deserve! indorsement at
the hands of the people this fall?
As to the first proposition, it is not
hard to settle. The republican candi
dates are no doubt qualified for the
offices to which they have been nomi
nated. But they are not In any par
ticular better qualified than the fu
sion nominees. In the selection of can
didates, both parties have been for
tunate. Judge Sedgwick, the republican
nominee, sat on the tench one term in
the Fifth district, but was defeated foi-re-election
in 1S99 by Judge Good.
Judge Hollenbeck is now on the dis
trict bench in the Sixth district.
L"ut Judge Sedgwick is an ardent re
publican and weighted down with the
monojKjly yoke. He cannot escape it
(and be a republican) even If he so
desired. He Is a B. & M. republican.
Judge Hollenbeck Is an old-time,
anti-monopoly democrat. For years
be has been fighting- monopoly, side
by side with the populists. He is a
member of the G. A. R., having entered
the civil war when but a mere boy. Of
German stock, he has the cool, calcul
ating, unexcitable temperament of the
race, not easily swayed by passion or
impulse.
Being so well matched as to legal
learning and fitness for the supreme
bench, each must stand upon the rec
ord of his party in the state, and win
or lose upon such record. .
The question is not so much. Which
is the better man for supreme judge
(for both are eminently qualified,
from the standpoint of legal ability)
as it is. Which party, more than the
other, deserves indorsement this fall
at the hands of the people? Does a
careful study of the record made by
the fusion administrations under Hol
comb and Poynter -warrant indorse
ment of the fusion forces by the elec
tion of Judge Hollenleck and Regents
Hawxby ,and Dayston? Does a care
ful study of the republican adminis
tration under Dietrich and Savage
warrant further indorsement of that
party by the election of Judge Sedg
wick and Regents Goold and Ernest?
These are questions to be answered
on the 5th of November by the people.
Last year republican papers were
making much ado over the muddle at
the Institute for feeble-minded at Bea
trice. The trouble there was no credit
to the fusion administration, that Is
certain, but the partisans of each side
were prone to exaggerate what the
other had done; and Milt Metzger, the
State Journal correspondent, wasted
much white paper stiring up all the
strife he could.
Metzger is now steward at the in
stitution where he caused so much,
trouble. At present, like Old Mrs.
Johnson, he "has troubles of his own."
So many, in fact, that Governor Sav
age and Pardon Dispenser Bob Clancy
have their hands full keeping the vol
cano from erupting. The death rate
has increased alarmingly; the super
intendent and steward are at logger
heads; and everything is in a criss
cross condition. About the next thing
Governor Savage will have to do is to
select another fusionist to keep this
Institution in any kind of order, just as
he did at the penitentiary.
WHICH PARTY.
Tbere are but two main features in
this campaign: (1) The personality
of the several candidates. (2) Satis
factory answer to the question. Which
Criticism of the republican adminis
tration of Dietrich and Savage will In
clude, among other matters, the fol
lowing: Decreased school apportionments.
A constant increase of the educa
tional trust fund balances, showing a
state treasurer unable or unwilling to
keep these funds properly invested
and drawing an income for the school
children of Nebraska.
Lax attention to duties. State offi
cers difficult to find at post of duty,
and still more difficult to approach on
business.
Smaller revenues from office fees,
caused by rulings of republican offi
cials In the interests of corporations
and against the interests of the people.
Improper and illegal use of appro
priations. "
Inattention to leasing and collect
ing rentals or. state school lands, so
that in the first six months of repub
lican rule these receipts dropped off
about $40,000.
Gradual increase in the state's float
ing debt, both by extravagant repub
lican appropriations and expenditure
thereof, and the lax business methods
of a republican treasurer.
Decreased efficiency at state institu
tions, caused by making appointments
as a reward for party services, with
out reference to fitness, with a result
ing Increased death rate, Immense
losses by fire and otherwise, and in
creased cost to the taxpayers.
Feeble prosecution of state cases by
the republican attorney general,
where any corporate Interests might
be compelled to do right.
The scantiest publicity regarding
public business. Everything conducted
on an "under-the-hat" plan. A state
treasurer openly defying the wishes
of his state convention and persistent
ly refusing to divulge the wnereabouts
of state trust funds in his control.
Two republican governors (Diet
rich and Savage) whose records have
never been equalled in the matter of
pardoning dangerous criminals upon
the slightest pretexts.
Don't Accept a Substitute !
Wbea yoxi ask for Cascarets be
sere rots pet the genuine Cascarets
Candf Cathartic! Doat accept
frandtstemt substitutes, imitations or
counterfeits! Genuine tablets stamp
ed C C C Never sold in bulk.
AJJ CTistS, IOC.
Here. then. Is the real Issue. From
what you know of the various state ad
ministrations, which do you prefer?
lt the public acts be compared. Judge
Sedgwick himself i3 not responsible
(further than his own vote and influ
ence) because his party has 60 signal
ly failed to give even a passable ad
ministration; but his election would
be an indorsement of that administra
tion. He must stand or fall with his
party. Judge Hollenbeck himself is
not entitled to credit (except so far as
his vote and influence went) for the
excellent administrations of Holcomb
and Poynter; but his election will be
an indorsement of those administra
tions. He. too. must stand or fall with
the parties nominating him.
matter what may be the local condi
tions in any county, no populist or
democrat can consistently vote against
Judge Hollenbeck and Regents' Bay
ston and Hawxby he would thus de
clare his disapproval of former fusion
administrations. Every vote cast for
these gentlemen i3 not only a vbte for
men eminently qualified for their re
spective offices, but' also an indorse
ment of the past fusion state admin
istrations and the record of the junior
members of the supreme court. Don't
forget this.
If one were to examine the books
and papers in the auditor's office, he
could find a curious case of misappli
cation of an appropriation perhaps,
more than one. Suppose we look at
the 1899 appropriation for "refunding
state taxes illegally collected." Seems
rather odd, doesn't it, that this should
be used to refund to certain insurance
companies moneys they had paid into
the state treasury to pay for certain
services to be - rendered by the insur
ance department? Just inquire about
thsl some day you are in the auditor's
office. Might ask Attorney General
Prout what advice he gave the auditor
on this score.
. . - ,
Any reasonable man will concede
that even In the best regulated fac
tory or state institution, an occasional
small fire will t, eak out.. But no sane
man believes that anything short of
almost criminal carelessness on the
part of republican officers and em
ployes ever permitted the disastrous
fires at the penitentiary and the Nor
folk asylum. Small fires are unavoid
able; but disastrous ones are sure in
dications of negligence. The cry about
insufficient water at Norfolk is the
veriest bosh. A barrel of water would
have put out the fire if applied when
It ought have been. What are night
watches and guards for? Why was the
fire allowed to reach an uncontrolla
ble stage before being discovered? It
was simply republican negligence.
Just to gratify a little personal spite
and to show his contempt for our
chief educational institution, Governor
Dietrich vetoed about $90,000 of appro
priations for the state university. A
majority of 133 legislators said the
appropriation ought to be made and
they made it; but the one said, "I
forbid." As a result of this veto, 1,400
university students are obliged to pay
a tax or fee of $6 per school year.
But the taxpayer pays one mill univer
sity tax on the dollar valuation just
the same and it piles up in state treas
urer Stuefer's hands jto swell the de
posits of some, bank. The boy or girl
who is making his way through the
university cannot have a very kindly
feeling for the republican administra
tion which causes him this additional
$6 tax.
SOCIETY PEOPLE WHO USE PERU N A.
Great is republican statecraft! Just
think of the Joe Burns well at the
state house, and then ponder over the
fact that the state has invested near
ly $5,000 in this well to escape paying
the city of Lincoln some 15 to 20 cents
a day for water! But Joe needed the
money and, being a persistent sort of
a fellow, the republican legislature
had to give him some kind of a job.
During six years of fusion admin
istration, the people of Nebraska
learned more about state business
than in all the years preceding. The
fusion state officers were always ready
to assist the newspaper men in every
possible way to present matters in a
clear light. Some representatives of
certain republican papers were prone
to garble facts to suit their employ
ers, but, on the whole, the people ac
quired a fairly' accurate idea of what
was being done.
It's different now. Treasurer Stue
fer is about the only one who gives
out much to the newspapers, and he'd
be glad to quit if he could. But he's
under fire now from every side and if
not very careful will say a good deal
he may be sorry for.
Last fall a combination of circum
stances brought defeat to the fusion
forces, and, seemingly, made the peo
ple appear to have repudiated the good
work accomplished under the admin
istrations of Holcomb and Poynter.
It is hard to believe that this apparent
repudiation was done by the residents
of Nebraska. A careful study and
analysis of the ve of 1900 as com
pared to that of 1899 seems to indicate
beyond a doubt that between 8,000 and
9,000 voters were brought into the state
by the republican machine.
Be that as it may, the people have
had ample time to know whether their
choice of state officers last fall was a
happy one. They have ample oppor
tunity to compare this republican ad
ministration with the administration
of Holcomb and Poynter. There is no
necessity to refer to republican ad
ministrations previous to those of the
fusionists, further than to suggest that
the present republican administration
is wonderfully like the republican ad
ministrations of some years ago.
Certain would-be wiseacres smiled
knowingly, and on the quiet predicted
all sotrs of trouble when Governor
Poynter appointed Dr. Lee W. Edwards
as prison physician at the peniten
tiary. But Doc took hold with a will
and his record there is remarkable.
Doc's own language best describes the
This Is. briefly, the situation. No
For over sixty years Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup has been used by
mothers for their children while teeth
ing. Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by a sick child
suffering and crying with pain of Cut
ting Teeth? If so send at once and
get a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth
ing Syrup'r for Children Teething. Its
value is incalculable. It will relieve
the poor, little sufferer immediately.
Depend upon it, mothers, there is no
mistake about it. It cures diarrhoea,
regulates the stomach and bowels,
cures wind colic, softens the gums, re
duces inflammation, and gives tone
and energy to the whole system. "Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for chil
dren teething is pleasant to the taste
and is the pfescription of one" of th
oldest. and best female physicians, and
nurses in the United States, and is for
sale by all druggists throughout the
wprld. Price, 25 cents a bottle.: Be
sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup."
MR. TEFT. JOHNSON AND MISS ABBE JOHNSON, OP WASHINGTON, D. C. '
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R. TEFFT. JOHNSON, a well-
known society man of Wash in g-
ineton. D. C. who played last sea
son as leading man in "The Heart of
Maryland ' company, writes the follow
ing letter to Dr. Hartman, of Columbus,
Onin which he gives his opinion of the
catarrh remedy, Pernna. Mr. Johnson
cays: ?
"la alt my experiments with medi
cines la the effort to Improve a condi
tion Impaired by overwork, I have
found nothing thai has done so much
good as Peruna. As a tonic It is grand.
I take pleasure la recommending it to
professional people and to the public
geaerally."
His sister, Miss Abbe Johnson, a tal
ented young actress and society woman,
also of Washington, D. C, speaks in the
highest terms of Pernna. Sheays :
"I take pleasure in recommending
your Pernna as an excellent remedy. I
heartily . join with my brother, Mr.
Tefft. Johnson, the leading man in "The
Heart of Maryland," in testifying to
Pernna as a fine tonic. Professional
people who are traveling from city to
city should not be without Peruna.'
The above letters were written from
Washington, D. C,! Fourteenth and I
streets.
' Mr. Robert B. Al&ntsH, the great ro
mantic actor, says : ' Peruna Is re
freshing to the nerves and brain. It
makes me feel like a new man. "
PERUNA HAS MANY FRIENDS
among society people everywhere.
They all recommend it as a fine
tonic, excellent for coughs, colds and
hoarseness to which thev ara so liable
Late hours, irregular meals, the cease
less rounds of social duties, the conse
quent sapping of nervous vitality, make
the society man or woman especially
liable to affections of catarrhal origin.
. Vice President Roxa Tyler, promI
nently connected in Chicago, and Vice
.President of the Illinois Woman's Al
liance, in a letter written from 910 East
60th street, says: "During the past yeat
I gradually lost flesh and strength until
I was unable to perform my work
property. Peruna gave me new Ufa
and restored my strength. " " -
George Backus, in "Way Down East"
Co., says: "I know of nothing so effica
cious in the speedy relief from hoarse
ness as Peruna. It is invaluable to all
persons who use their voice in publio
work. It almost immediately relieves
huskiness and renders tho voice strong
and natural,.'
Miss Maude Lillian Berrv. one of tha
f
leading opera singers of America, wri tes s
"Long ago my nerves were in danger of
absolute and hopeless collapse from the
strain of hard work, study and excite
ment. A friend sent me a bottle of Pe
rnna and prevailed upon me to take it.
I did, with marvelous results."
A book on catarrh sent free bv The Pe
runa Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio.
situation: "Had only two deaths dur
ing my term;-one died before I came
and the other committed suicide.
There may be a whole lot of doctors
who know. more about medicine than
I do, but there aren't many of them
that attended more closely to business
than I did," There have been a good
many deaths at the penitentiary since
the . republicans took possession, to
say nothing of a big fire and numerous
escapes. : '
A Record Breaker .
The Nebraska Mercantile Mutual of
Lincoln, Neb., commenced business
April 7, .1897. During its four years
of existence, it has attained a standing
envied by all other companies, and se
cured a membership of over six thou
sand of Nebraska's best citizens, with
eight millions insurance in force.
There is no company of its kind on
record in this country that can make
such a showing.
Its officers and directors are as fol
lows: .
E. M. Coffin, Lincoln, president; E.
M. Bartlett, . Omaha, vice president;
W. B. Linch, Lincoln, secretary; C. E.
Coffin, Ord, treasurer; Dr. B. L. Paine,
chairman executive committee; D. C.
Stratton, Pawnee; R. M. Taggart, Ne
braska City; Jas. H. Casebeer, Blue
Springs; Geo. L. Loomis, Fremont; J.
L. Mabie, Omaha.
This company insure sagainst fire,
lightning and wind storm.
1241 O St., Lincoln, Neb.
ANTIQUITY OF MAN
Written Records That Go Back for More
, Than Kin Thousand Years of His
Activities
Mr. Flinders Petrie, the great Egyp
tologist, has just been summing up the
progress that has been made by the
exploration societies in Egypt. He
says that we have written records of
the Egyptian kings who reigned since
5000B. C. down to the present day, and
wherever it has been possible to check
the records by means of the monu
ments of the period they agreed with
the written facts.
. Therefore, if we find the written his
tory agreeing with the facts wherever
discovered, we are bound to accept it
as a . whole. We cannot pick and
choose. For a long time it was held
that the first two Egyptian dynasties
were mythical, but in the last two
years I have discovered the graves of
every one of the kings of the first
dynasty, and several of the second
dynasty.
So far as written history carries us,
it tallies to the. smallest detail with
the works of men of the same period.
The art of Egypt crystalized into its
permanent form under the second king
of the first dynasty about 4720 B. C.
and the extraordinary perfection of
mechanical work to which the dwell
ers in the country attained was evi
dent even before that time.
History recorded from hand to hand
does not carry into the ages before
writing, but there the remains of
man's work are as abundant as else
where, and show constant change and
development.
One important fact established re
cent is that some pottery which I dis
covered' in the tombs of Egyptian
kings of the first dynasty is of Greek
pattern, the materials, the polish and
the color being the same. This seems
to prove that there was not only civil
ization going on in Egypt at that time,
but in the Mediterranean as well.
I deduce from the heads of ancient
men, and women, with full foreheads
and "aquiline noses, as depicted on
slabs of stone, etc., that In the early
man of Egypt we had to deal with a
European race more or less mixed
with the negro.
A country's pottery is one of the
simplest methods in tracing the prog
ress of a people in art. Pottery, by the
very naturejof it, is not likely to be
handed down from one generation to
another in any large quantities.
Having had a very large amount of
the earliest pottery of Egypt pass
through my hands, I am able to pre
sent a .classified picture of the many
ointment vases discovered in the
tombs of the dead, all of which show
in a striking manner the continuous
changes of style.
In one of the royal tombs I discov
ered the mummified arm of a princess,
which on being taken from its swath
ings revealed a set of bracelets of
great value, composed principally of
gold and turquoise, and wrapped in a
cloth woven as finely as a cambric
handkerchief of modern times.
We have an unbroken chain of his
toric record handed down from hand
to hand from 5000 B. C, and a chain
of actual objects made and handled,
going back about two thousand years
more, giving us a view of about 9,000
years unbroken in human history.
Yet we are far from the beginning.
There are traces which still show
that civilization must have come in
from another country but from where
we have not the slightest idea with
copper and fine work and stone and
good pottery.
In the earliest graves figures of a
race of the bushman type were found,
similar to those found both in France
and Malta, "proving that the race ex
pended over Africa and into Europe.
These were1 figures of women captured
from the earlier race, which was prob
ably palaeolithic.
The climate was totally different to
what It is today, and the rainfall fer
tilized what is now a desert, and ani
mals of which all trace is now lost in
habited the country.
Other lands might show an age of
man more remote by physical evi
dences, but nowhere can we feel more
plainly the certainty of Jhe age of
man than where 9,000 years of con
tinuous remains does not bring us into
the vast periods of those climatic and
geological changes through which man
has kept up the chain of life to the
present day. ,
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA
TARRH THAT CONTAIN MER
CURY as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable phy
sicians, as the damage they will do is
tenfold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury,
and is taken internally, acting direct
ly "upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. In buying Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine
It is taken internally, and made in
Toledo, O., .by F. J. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free.
Sold by druggists, price 75c per bot
tle. Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Alaskan Agriculture
The outlook for gardening and some
agriculture in the cold interior region
of Alaska, "along the Yukon, is made
quite encouraging by official reports
recently received at the U. S. depart
ment of agriculture at Washington.
Prof. C. C. Georgeson, who is in charge
of the Alaska experiment stations,
has spent the summer in the interior
and along the Yukon valley, visiting
the experiment station established by
the , department of agriculture last
year at Rampart, just outside the Arc
tic Circle, and other points where ex
perlments were arranged for. Good
gardens were found all along the route
especially at Eagle City and Holy
Cross Mission. Although the season
was unusually late this year, new po
tatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, beets and
other vegetables were ready for the
table before the middle of August, and
lettuce, radishes and turnips grown
in the open had been in use for some
weeks. Flower gardens containing a
large variety of annuals grown from
seed furnished last year were in full
bloom. At the station at Rampart,
rye seeded the previous fall wintered
perfectly and was ripe in July. Spring
seeded barley had ripened about the
middle of August, and there was quite
a prospect for oats and wheat to ma
ture.
Extensive areas of excellent land
were found on the Lower Yukon upon
which there was an abundant and of
ten luxuriant growth of grasses over
six feet in height. The abundant mois
ture and long days during the summer
months account for the surprising lux
uriance of vegetation in that far north
region.
One of Professor Georgeson's assis
tants will make a trip overland from
the Yukon Valley to Prince William
Sound, taking the trail from Eagle
City. This will afford opportunity for
a reconnoissance of that region, which
is reported to contain large tracts of
land well suited to agriculture. A re
port of this trip and of the season's
operations of the AlaMa stations as a
whole will be submitted to congress in
the early winter.
New Free Trade Adherents
The populist party will give as
hearty support to that section of the
republican party that has declared in
favor of reciprocity as It has to the
Bryan wing of the democratic party in
its financial views. If Roosevelt ae
termines to fiKht for the views enun
ciated by President McKinley in his
last speech and he is known as a
fightei- there will' be a row In the re
publican party that will put the Gar
field-Conklln contest in the shade
The news is to the effect that Presi
dent Roosevelt will Invite congress to
substitute reciprocity for commercial
retaliation against the nations or tne
world.
Between the United States and Can
ada there was a trial of reciprocity
under a treaty that was in force 12
years, from 1854 to 1866. The treasury
bureau of statistics has just compiled
the statistics of our trade under that
treaty, and they strongly sustain the
declaration of Mr. McKinley in his last
public address at Buffalo that "com
mercial wars are unprofitable."
The treaty of 1854 with Canada pro
vided for the admission free of duty
into both countries of breadstuffs, pro
visions, live animals, fruits, fish, poul
try, hides and skins, furs, stone, ores
and metals, timber and lumber, raw
cotton, flax, hemp and unmanufac
tured tobacco.
Within one year after the tariff bars
had been thus mutually let down our
exports to and our imports from Can
ada were alike doubled. The figures
for the , year before the treaty went
into force (1853) and the last full year
it was in operation (1865) tell the
story with striking force:
Imports from Canada, 1853..? b,527,559
ImDorts from Canada. 1865.. 33,264,403
Exports to Canada, 1853.... 12,432,597
Exports to Canada, 1865.... 28,829,402
Thus in twelve years of reciprocity
our total trade with our northern
neighbors rose from about $19,000,000
a year to over $62,000,000. In com
mercial controversies there Is no elo
quence so convincing as that of actual
results.
The fundamental economic theory
that is involved may be stated as fol
lows: Facility for exchange is. the
greatest factor in the creation of
wealth. Anything that interferes with
the rapid exchange of the products of
labor, to that extent hinders tne in
crease of wealth, exhorbitant freight
chareea or hieh tariffs, or anything
else. International regulations that
obstruct trade hinder the production
of wealth and are a curse to the world.
Anv effort that will tend to remove
them will receive the hearty support
of the populist party. That Is one
thing that has lead it to give aid to the
democratic party and if the republi
cans come over into the old camping
eround of the democracy, they will
receive the same aid.
Came Back at Them
The Chicago eas trust sued the Am-
prirnn for libel and that paper came
back at them in the following fashion:
Possibly the Robber Gas Trust or
Chicago thinks that it has not suffic
iPTit eround for its $500,000 damage
suit against the Chicago American.
Possibly it is not entirely satisfied
with the case as It stands.
Possibly it would like to bring more
suits of the same kind.
Wa rmmose. therefore, in our feeble.
inefficient way, to give the Robber
Gas Trust, meaning the Peoples Gas
Light and Coke company, all the oc
casion for suits that it can aesire.
Wa state now our deliberate convic
tion that the Robber Gas Trust, mean
ing the Peoples Gas Light and Coke
is an infamous plunderer
and bandit, preying on the commun
ity. .. .
Bring a suit on that.
Wa declare our conviction, based on
thorough inquiry,, that 60 per cent of
the money received from the people or
rhiM?n bv the Robber Gas Trust,
meaning the Peoples Gas Light and
Coke company, comes from watered
stock, extortionate practices, pur
chased legislation, usurpation of pub
lic rights, imposition on the helpless
people, and is therefore really more
infamous than the proceeds of the
burglar or highwayman.
BVing a suit on that.
Wa declare that" the Robber Gas
Trust, meaning the Peoples Gas Light
and Coke company, is a lawless insti
tution, that it exercises many of its
nriYilesres and pursues activities ' in
defiance and open violation of the law.
Bring a suit on that.
Crime on with vour suits and come
a-runninf. We want them all. We
have been trying for a long time to
get you people Into court. If we can
do it by being sued, please sue us
every minute.
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