THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
December 19, looi
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Lincotn, Tltbraska
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W,hat has become of Rathbun and
the other Cuban thieves is one of those
things that no pop can find out.." Sena
tor Feveridge could tell, but he won't.
England has lost much ' by her war.
upon the Boers, but she has gained one
' thing, namely, the hatred of all Eu
rope and all except the Anglophiles in
this country.
When Dietrich used to lean Up
against the bar and make his famous
speech, he was certain that e was ace
high. Since he got down to Washing
ton he has learned that he isjiot even
deuce low. ' -
Congress is flooded with anti-anarchy
bills. Nine-tenths of them are
copies of laws long since in force, in
Russia and other continental countries
where they have utterly, failed to erad
icate anarchy.
It takes a long time to get the fight
out of a Dutchman when he once starts
on the warpath. The Duke of Alva
and i the Spanish learned that after
eighty . years of trial. Perhaps the
English may learn it somewhat sooner.
- If silver dollars are fifty-cent dol
lars as Eckles declares, then national
bank dollars, by the same mode of rea
soning, are one hundredth of one per
cent dollars. Yet Eckles declares that
the silver dollar is dishonest' while'
the bank dollar is "sound money," v "
The descent of Nordica was as fol
lows: Grand opera, song recitals, coon
sngs, Hot Springs, roulette. .First
moral: A person trained for grand
opera and having followed that busi
ness up to middle life -is unfitted for
anything else. Second moral: Don't
try to change your trade after you are
fifty .years old.
The boy who asked his mother, "If
I ate a lot of dates, would I become a
calendar?" was talking just as logical
and sensible as Eckles when he dis
opuxsps t,about fifty-cent dollars. He
. always flunks when he is offered 95
cents for all that kind of dollars that
he will furnish. "He never ,can scare
up any on such occasions,
Eckles and Stickney are still advo
t eating their plan for what they call
. a great "central reserve bank," which,
when fully understood, means bank
ing without any reserves. What they
want is for all the other banks in the
country to send their reserves to one
central institution and there let them
'be loaned out. .That would mean no"
reserves at all. c
Belgium has concluded to encourage
ship-building, but she did not copy the
Mark Hanna plan to acomplish it. She
proposes to admit free of duty every
; sort of thing that goes into the con1
struction of a ship. , If such a proposi
tion were made in -the United States
the protectionists would rise up and
tear their hair and declare that the
country would be ruined by the pauper
labor of Europe. '
' . The republicans haver a majorityrof
37 in the, house. They have often had
greater majorities than that, butynever
before has it been made an excuse for
- -cutting down the minority on commit
tees. In the senate their majority is,:
not so certain, there being three or ,
four unclassed members, among them
McLaurin of South Carolina, whom
neither the democrats nor the republi
cans will acknowledge, but it will run
from 20 to 24. '
The good work done in Nebraska
spreads in every direction. Dr. Elwood,
who organized , charity here in,Xiucoln
and afterward reccivc;dj a call ' to; the
state-university of Missouri, has begun
the good work down there by another
organization with the same cdnstitu
tion and by-laws of the Lincoln So-
ciety, which is doing suclr effective
work in this city under . the present
management of Prof. Prevey. Up. to
this writing the Lincoln society; has
had fifty-six new;cases on its hands
for this month, which goes '; o show
- that "prosperity" -f is - not universal.
There were only sixty 'for the whole
month last year.
crease even in
perity. What will it be when the
Poverty is on the in-
these ' years of pros-
present boom bursts?
, ADMIRAL SCHLEY
The finding of the court of ; inquiry
which is published in full elsewhere
in this i3sue of The Independent has
attracted the attention of the whole
country. The press with one excep
tion has taken but one view, of the.' mat
ter. The people and the press are al
most, a unit in concurring , with the
finding; of Admiral- Dewey The .two
old admirals, now'on the retired . list,
neither of whom, ever fought a battle,
may be very estimable gentlemen, but
the environment ,jf Washington and
the active work" Of Secretary Long and
the pink tea 'naval clicks evidently had
great influence upon their mInds4The
social ; influence of Washington vis "a
powerful factor and it makes its influ
ence, felt in a thousand different ways.'
It is malignant." cunning and Machive
lian in its methods'' So insulting did it
become 'to ; all who were disposed J to
do justice to Schley that several prom
inent' men resigned from the. aristo
cratic clubs of the city where the main
part of Us work was done. " Dewey
and Speaker' Henderson - both, resigned
fronr the Metropolitan club. All this
influence was brought to bear on the
old, retired admirals from the moment
they took their seats upon the court.
It is a' wonder that it did not produce
a unanimous feeling in all unpreju
diced minds from Maine .to California
and even forced the old admirals to
declare that Schley was a. brave man
and an efficient commander. on the.. day
of the battle, though they were of the
opinion that he committed errors' be
fore the Jlghting began. The opinion
of the verdict was well stated by Sen
ator. Foraker,' and,""with him concurs
nearly every member of the house and
senate who. has given, his views to the
public. Senator Foraker said:
"The Schley verdict disgusts me. I
don't see how the majority could have
arrived at any such verdict. It is dis
graceful and shameful. I read every
word of the testimony, and there is
nothing in, it that justifies that censure
of Schley. Admiral Dewey's verdict is
the one that I accept. ' It is exactly
what I think. I don't , think it neees-4
sary to investigate Schley : . again.
Somebody else : ought to be investi
gated. If the administration is anx
ious to drop the controversy, as has
been said, it could make a good be
ginning by dropping Maclay." , ' ....
Two hundred and twenty-three edi
torial opinions have been examined, in
the dailies, a very large majority; of
them being republican; and all except
one indorse the finding of Admiral
Dewey. That paper " is located on P
street, Lincoln, Neb., and is edited by
a cheerful idiot, . whose vagaries are
sometimes very amusing. He said
"The last finding of Admiral Dewey
as to who was in command of the fleet
during the battle is also an apparent
obiter dictum. That question was not
raised by Admiral Schley, in asking
for the inquiry, was not made a part,
of the inquiry by; the secretary of the
navy and no testimony was taken
bearing upon it, during the session of
the court." . , . - '
It would not be hardly fair 'to ac
cuse the cheerful idiot, of premeditated
lying, for it is altogether, probable
that he never read a word of the testi
mony which was so extensively
printed in the great metropolitan dail
ies. He did not know that D$wey took
particular interest in that part of the
investigation and frequently asked
questions of witnesses, from the bench
about the signals that were made from
the Brooklyn during the battle.
This vei'dict does not settle the mat
ter at all. Resolutions have been in
troduced into congress to tender the
thanks of that body to Schley for the
great victory, which' would be an offi
cial sanction of : Dewey's verdict. To
that the republicans will probably ob
ject as it would lead to an investiga
tion of the naval clicks and in the end
expose some very Inasty business, that
these pink tea chaps have been, en
gaged in. The Independent, would like
to see a full investigation made and
especially the true story of the collier
Merrimac . made public. The news
paper men around Washington - have
told in a private way some pretty
black stories." about that business, . al-,
though they have, not,. incorporated
them in any of their correspondence,,
well knowing ' that if they did they
would be blue-penciled ; in the Asso
ciated press as well as in all the edi
torial rooms of the great dailies; t '?
That story runs about as follows:
The Merrimac was purchased of a
friend of a naval officer of high rank
and the price paid was from ten to fif
teen times the value of the vessel. The
purchase" . tinder ; the circumstances
came nearvbeing "high treason s for it
made a whole fleet dependent, on a
collier for coal supply that(was known,
when purchased, to be a rotten old tub
with broken downj machinery. The re
sult was that the Merrimac was the
cause of constant delays and the vessel
was such a, wreck that it was about
to be investigated. Then Sampson or
dered it to be sunk in the mouth of
the', harbor of ; Santiago to get rid of
an investigation which, if the rest of
the story is true, would hate resulted
very disastrously; for the famous ad
miral. ' i ' '. -'v ' A.
j There are many other things of the
name sort that ought to be looked
into, for these pink tea chaps not only
wanted all the . glory with which to
adorn themselves as theyJwaltzed and
sported with the beauties of the diplo
matic corps in . Washington and when
they were abroad, but they wanted
cash as .well. It is no doubj. good poli
tics for tne repu oilcan side to put' up
a protest against any, further inves
tigations. - ". ', ' ' t j : . .
JThe j; industrial commission which
was created by an act of congress June
18 1898 was composed of five senators,
'five representatives and nine appoin
tees of the president and has been rov
ing; around . over, the country ever
since. ; Its commission expired on the
15th of December, but it has been ex
tended to the middle of January! The
portion of its report, already printed, is
comprised of S volumes of 1,000 pages
each and more : to come. , It has been
the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on
the people of the United - States. Of
course no man living or yet to be born
will ever read those 18 big books, but
the people will have to pay the bill
and it will mount high up in the thou
sands. .They wiil be given away by
congressman , to their constituents,
that is, if they . can find any constit
uents, who will take them. .
The plutocratic editors have been
writings a -great deal lately about how
to keep the farmers on the farms and
stop the rush to the. cities. They know
very "well that when, the farms decay
that the source of all the wealth which
has made the millionaires will be cut
off. One way to keep the farmers on
the farms as well as their song and
daughters, ; at least until they are
grown up; is to put a good high school
in eacii township. When the children
begin to grow, up a good many farmers
move 'into the' towns so that their
children can attend the high school.
Hundreds have moved into Lincoln for
the sole purpose of educating their
children. , ;
One of the most prominent men in
Pierce county writes that he once "sent
The Independent for one year to forty
different persons in the county nad the
result "was all that could be desired."
He further remarks that while fu
sion in the first place might have been
a mistake that "until after the "next
national democratic, . convention index
jiendent action by' us would be a great
er mistake. tie trunks ' that Bryan
has thte fight5 of his1 life on his hands
now and that if ' he- can bring about
the noimination of an honest man on a
platform of progress by the next dem
ocratic national convention, it will be
tb& hardest feat that any man ever per
formed.'' ..:.t ,;,
Once '-in & while a republican will
remark that "the corporations rule
the country," . and seems to dissent
from such government. Now this gov
ernment is run by parties and before
the 'corporations run the government
they must get control of some party!
That is a proposition that every man
nust know is true. If the corporations
now run the government they must
control the republican party. But re
publicans who make remarks like the
above never were, able ta put two ani
two together and tell what the sum
was. The result is 'that while they do
not like the idea of the corporations
running the government they vote
constantly to aid them in doing it.
Admiral" Schley, who discovered the
Spanish fleet in Santiago and held it
there, arid who fought it when it came
Out and destroyed- it, has been awarded
the pittance of $3,334, and up to this
time has received $149.53, being his
share of the prize money for one small
schooner. Admiral Sampsony who was
not in the fight,, was awarded" $14,132
and has received payment in full. But
Admiral Schley, if there is another
kind of wealth as some of us believe
a", wealth that is ' to be more highly
prized than gold is far richer than
Sampson. His name will be cherished
by school, boys a hundred years from
now when that of Sampson will hot be
mentioned.
The editor has received a letter from
a lawyer in New York city asking for
a : statement in a few words of the.
distinctive Tprinciples of the populist
party and says that many others in
that city and , state would be glad to
have such information. Inanswer it
may be said that the populist party
stands for brotherhood and against
greed,' for liberty arid against despot
ism, for democracy and against aris
tocracy, for high ideals and against
degrading materialism, for equal rights
and . against special privileges, or, to
um it all ,up, for God and against
Mammon. C ; v':
Several , inquiries , have . been ire
"ceived making inquiries about , the
"leanings" " of the judges of the su
preme court who have recently handed
down another decision on "our new
possessions." While some of them have
been appointed as democrats and soma
of them as republicans it is hardly
worth while to atteinpt to tell which
is which. As regards "our colonies'
four of them -lean ' one, way and four
of them lean. the other, way and one
leans both ways. , V
. ( WORSE THAN OLD HEROD " ,r
: Old Hero4, so the story goes; :sent
out arid slaughtered all the children in
a portion of his dominions, because he
was afraid that he would lose a part
of his territory:" He has been held in
detestation by all mankind for eigh
teen centuries. The Chamberlain-Salisbury
gang in England have attempted
to outdo Herod. They have been en
gaged in the slaughter; of many 1 thou
sand ; of children, not that they riiay
keep their own territory, but that they
may grab more. The" Blue Book just
issued , by , the English government
shows that in the concentration camps
of South Africa there were 3,516 deaths
of whites in Octobei'of which number
2,633 were children, and 2,807 deaths of
whites in' November,-of which 2,271
were children. This makes the, total
number of deaths " for the last six
months 13,941, or'adeath rate approxi
mating 253 per 1,000. 1 .. "::
This awful record has so shocked the
world and the protests of-the better
part of the English people Jiave be
come so insistent, the government now
promises to break up these camps.
Since wars began there has never been
anything more inhumanly" cruel than
this starving to death of thousands of
the children of the brave men of South
Africa who are out on the veldts fight
ing for liberty and native land. Worse
than that and most hunfiliatirig of all
is that our government is adopting
these same methods in the Philippines.
A. recent cablegram .; announces that
General Bell has notified the natives
in Batangas that on December 28 he
purposes to concentrate them in the
neighborhood of the towns. He will
move their live stock, rice, etc.,; to
within the limits of concentration. Af
ter that date everything outside these
limits will be confiscated.' 'y$'J? i
That is exactly what Weyler did in
Cuba and what Kitchener has done in
South Africa. When the Declaration
of Independence was abandoned and
he supreme court, went . over to im
perialism, that is justwhat every true
American said would follow. Is.:-this
the end of all that durf fathers fought
and died to save? Has the wOrld'gone
back a thousand years?, .Are the, dark
ages to come slowly 'back upon us?
Let every 'man ask j himself the ques
tion. .....
MUST PAY. THE RILXS '
Lincoln's. ;fire chie-Us an .efficient
officer and since he took charge of the
department there has been no great
fire in the city. . lie. always manages
to put them out before they, get much
of a start. It is the little fires that are
impoverishing the people";;-AH ; oveif.
the" pity, they burn every day and set
tlement has" to be. iiiade w'ith the gas
trust that, charges from 75 cents to a
dollar a thousand : more for gas tthan
the citizens of any other city have' to
pay. The company has recently' reor
ganized .arid filed articles with$2,Opo,
000 capital. The interest on that
amount will be far more than the loss
from all the big fires and it is to go
on forever. Meantime:the citizens have
voted to establish - a gas and r electric
plant to be owned by the public and
bonds have been issued, to pay for the
same. A republicaril city, council re
fuses to offer them, for sale and goes
on as the humble servant of the corpor
ations. That is republicanism and it
costs money; comes high just as it
does in the state government that is
about to saddle;a million dollars more
debt on the people. fAs long as the
people will ha, ye republican govern
ment they must pay the bill. The fu
sionists gave them; honest, efficient and
economical government, but they did
not want that kind. They wanted the
high-priced kind and they, are getting
it in both city and state. The bill may
stagger them when it' is finally pre
sented, but it must be paid. The pop
ulists are dead set against any sort of
repudiation. No repudiation will find
favor with them. They will say to
the republicans: ;"You insisted on
contracting the billST-you would t have
high-priced governmentr-and you must
pay." ' ' J
THE HEAVENLY TWINS
The Independent commented on the
fact that the heavenly; twins, selected
by the railroad corporations to repre
sent the state of Nebraska in -the
United States senate, had been left
without; chairmanships and committee
rooins. The special correspondents of
the republican dailiesnow. inform us
that special, committees have beenor
dered created so that each of them
may have a chairmanship. Senator
Millard Is chairman of the important
committee on the .condition of; the
Potomac river and Senator -Dietrich of
the committee" to investigate prespass
ers onvIndian lands. The republican
special ' correspondents : expatiate on
the luxuriance of the rooms assigned
to them v..:.;-'... ' ;..-, ;; AA .O'l'. .?
The hard-headed old "imperialists of
the senate have evidently taken a
mental measurement of the ability of
the heavenly twins and given them
assignments up to the quantity of their
brains. ? Investigating , the Potomac
river and Indian trespasses' is air that
they are qualified to do. The Iude
pendent has received a-i letter front an
old. pop who is inclined to slander
Dietrich and not give him credit for
the ability that he really possesses
He says that Dietrich, can't make" a
speech on any subject, "That is a
siauuer. uiemcn am deliver one
speech all over the state when he was
a 'candidate for governor. ' It was not
verbose, but to the point To show
that this old pop . slanders Dietrich,
that speech is here printed in full. It
was -as follows: - '
; "Walk up, gentlemen, and have
something at my expense." ?.
TRUSTING THE PEOPLE
The Independent has received a let
ter from England asking if it is true
that New York merchants send goods
to be paid for in monthly installments
all over the United States, simply on
orders from people of whom they know
nothing? The writer says no merchant
in Europe would dare to do business in
that way. Well it is a fact, The "com
mon people" whom the plutocrats are
in the habit of calling the "dangerous
classes" are almost Universally hon
est. What are called the "mail order
houses" do all their business or near
ly all of it this way. Some of them
send goods only to" collect on delivery,
but hundreds of them send them sim
ply on orders. Hundreds, of thou
sands of . dollars worth of books are
soldrinually in -this way, such as
biographical dictionaries and encyclo
pedias. There has never, been any
complaint" that tbe people did npt pay.
The honesty honor, integrity and pa
triotism , of. this country is to be found
among the common, people and not
among : the 5 Wall Street crowd. It is
probably true of Europe also, but the
idea has so long been promulgated over
there that the laboring class are dan
gerousthe merchants have become to
believe' it.. If the merchants of Eu
rope would exhibit the same confi
dence in the common people as mer
chants do here, The Independent has
not the- slightest doubt that the result
would be the same, except in those lo
calities where all the honor and man
hood' has been crushed out by the mon
archical, oppressions of the past cen
turies. : .There are millions of them
over here and they do not prove to be
dishonest. The statesmen who dare
not trust the people with a referendum
vote on their legislation would do well
to take a lesson from the merchants.
;' ' ' "SOUND MONEY"
Some years ago' every good republi
can insisted that the volume of money
should, be regulated : by the ' output of
the gold and silver mines. At that
time they were all advocates of "hard
money." Then they said that the sil
ver, mines ,must;be i -eliminated and the
volume be regulated by the output of
the gold mines. Then they changed
again and said the , volume of money
must 'be the gold t output plus the is-
ue of paper secured by government
bqrids. ' Now they change once more
and say that the volume of money
must 'te regulated ; by the output of
gold and bank assets, for at present it
depends upon the price of government
bonds., If the .bonds get so high-that
there will be no profit, the bankers will
not issue notes to keep up with the in
crease in population and business. The
republicans have "evoluted" from gold
and silver hard money,- to gold, to bank
issues on bonds, to paper money se
cured by the amount that they owe
their depositors. "Bank assets," aside
from what, little capital they may have,
is the money of depositors. The final
evolution-therefore is paper1 money se
cured by what they owe. The Inde
pendent is ,glad to find out just what
"sound money" is. It has madethe
inquiry hundreds Of times, but no one
would answer. Now we have it. It is
paper money. issued by the banks with
a-debt for security., That is the end
ofthe republican evolution. Perhaps
there may be what , the scientists call
a "reversion."' We, must wait and see.
A CORPORATION PARTY
That corporations run the republi
can party in this city is at last ac
knowledged by the State Journal. In
speaking of the; reduction of street
car fare in- the city council, it says:
Let the traction company and
the gas company and the railroad
managers come to terms and the
councilmen: would suddenly find
r some serious obstacles in the way
of ;the passage of the fare ordi- .
nance. . . . v - .
It is said that children and fools
are liable to tell the truth at-the most
embarrassing . moments. The Cheer
ful Idiot here says in substance that
the members of the city council of Lin
coln are wholly subservient to the
traction company, ' the gas company
and the railroad managers. The fu
sionists will agree that that is one time
that the State Journal told the truth.
The citizens of Lincoln voted to issu'e
bonds and buy the electric light and
gas plant' This delectable corporation
run city council printed the bonds arid
then, locked them up and never put
them on the' market. Meantime the
company has" gone on selling watered
stock and issuing bonds until the scan
dal of it has raised a protest as- far
away as New York That is the way
a corporation governed city does busi-1
ness under , the republican flag, and
there is not a. republican in the city
"with ; sand enough in his gizzard" to
say a word in protest.
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Secretary Gage, who is a banker an i
put' in his present position for the pur
pose of assisting banks to make more
money, declares that the "fcoirden of re
deeming ' the greenbacks ought to be
placed on the banks instead of the gov
eminent." That kind of talk would not
fool a Mexican greaser,"; although it
proves very convincing ta' 'a, Nebraska
mullet head. The banks are always, as
everybody knows, very anxious to as
sume additional liabilities. They are
simnlv ' philanthropic institutions
created for the express purpose of re
lieving the government of financia
burdens.. Now that wouldn t fool ,a
greaser, but the P Street Idiot swal
lows it all without a grain of' salt. -
The papers have had a great deal to
say during the week about Marcotsi
having sent signals across the Atlan
tic by his wireless telegraph system
The Independent has very grave doubts
about the matter. All that is claimed
is that from the signal station in Eng
land to the one established at bt.
Johns on this side a signal represent.
ins the letter "s" in the Marconi code
was received at regular intervals for
two days at specified times. If the let
ter "s'f .could be sent why. not any
nther letter -of the alphabet? : If one
letter could be repeatedso often with
the accuracy claimed, why could not a
message have been sent? It is also ob
served that this signal, which is rep
resented by three dots, is the . same
thing that was noticed by Tesla in his
experiments which led him to. suggest
th,at it might be a signal from Mars,
The whole story needs confirmation.
-The postoffice department announce?
that the surprising facts which actual
experience with the rural mail deliv
ery has brought out is that it is a great
economy compared with the star
routes and fourth-class postoffice s
which it supersedes, the saving by the
rural delivery being $173,040.41 on star
routes and' $120,221.43 on postoffices
discontinued. ; " -V . x.
If the postoffice department wants to
learn the actual profits of the star
route business they could, get all the
information from Senator Steve Elkins
provided he did not enter the plea
that he could not be forced to give evi
dence that would incriminate himself.
It is somewhat surprising that iri all
his strenuous efforts to reduce, the de
ficit in the postoffice department. Clerk
Madden has never had his attention
drawn to this star route business. Per
haps he thinks that that rake-off " Is
the natural and lawful perquisite of
republican ward workers and United
States senators
CRANK COMMUNICATIONS
Since The Independent begari to gt
a considerable circulation in the east
ern states, the editor has been deluged
with . letters from cranks who seem
to thrive and propagate their species
to an alarming extent in that part of
the country. Not a dozen "crank let
ters have ever been received from the
west in the last five years, but during
the last year there has been a shower
of them from the middle eastern and
New EnglandStates. The latest was to
th effect that the common school must
be abolished.. That one came from j
Maryland. V
Another crank sends a long article in
which he attacks vaccination and, a
crazy lingo concerning what he calls
liberal medicine. Another declares
that "occultism" Is the only thing that
will save. The former of. these two is
dated ,at Philadelphia and the - latter
at Boston. Another enlightens the
editor of The Independent on "drug
less healing." He writes, from - New
York. So it goes. There may be
cranks here in the west of the same
sort, but if there are, they do .not 'Im
pose their communications upon this
pop editor, enclosing a two-cent stamp,
with the request that if the communi
cation is not printed to please" return.
and if , it i is printed to send -two or
more copies of the paper free to the
crank who wrote the unsolicited com
munication. . ' - -.
The Independent announces once for
all that it is a saSie paper, edited by a
sane man who has no manner of use
for crank communications that they
alUgo into the' waste basket and the
two-cent - stamp which accompanies
them is taken as part payment for the
time wasted in reading them.
The fact has 'been long established
that there are sounds that the human
ear, cannot' hear arid colors, that the
human, eye cannot see. Some recent
experiments with dogs prove that somo
of these sounds and colors are heard
and seen by them. The logical result
of this discovery is that dogs find this
world a very different place from what
it appears to human eyes and ears.
To them it, is full of sounds, that ws
cannot hear, and colors that we can
not' see. The faithful dog knows that
his master is coming when the master
is a block away, though the street Is
roaring with traffic and the . air is
filled with innumerable cries of men.
The sound waves that affect the dog's
ears, pierce -through all this, just. as
the X-rays do through the walls of
houses. Another conclusion arrived at
is that the mind of a dog is of the.same
kind, as that of the human, differing
only in quality, not at all in kind and
that animals to. some extent actually
reason,' that is that they deduce infer
ences from established facts. That is
beyond the power of some of the mul
let heads of Nebraska.
TREATY RATIFIED
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty in, re
gard to the Nicaragua canal was rati
fied by the senate by a vote of 7G to 6.
Those voting in the negative were Ba- .
con, Blackburn, Culbertson, . Malory,
Teller and Tillman. Very few senators
were wholly satisfied with the treaty
and the state department was severely
criticised, but it was thought best to.
ratify it.and trust to the future father
than longer delay the beginning of the
work on the canal. It will require tea
or twelve years to construct the canal
after work is once begun. Meantime
Morgan and ris conferees will be able
to complete their ship trust so that
rates will, be maintained and the
through freights on the transconti
nental roads will not be lowered. All
that is certain to happen if plutocracy
and trusts are able to hold the gov
ernment, that many years. Neither
canals nor railroads will ever stop
charging ay the traffic , will bear as
long as the republican party remains
in power. The government must own
the railroads as well as the canal be
fore there will be any reduction in
rates. Before the canal is finished per
haps the people wll find that out.
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