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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT December 26, 1901 o Zb t llebrasha Independent -v Lincoln, ricbraska 7" PRESSE BIDG., CORNER 13TH AND- N $T$ Published idvER.T ThcesdAt , $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE When making remittances do fit UT money with news ageaciM, postmasters; to.a U-.b forwarded by them. They fluently forcet or remit a different'amoont than was left with them, and the snbsciibsr fails to vet BTpper credit. , Address all communications, and make all drafts, money 'ers, etc., payable to Zbt Tlebraska Indcptndint, ; -' . Lincoln. Neb. ;. 'Anonymous communication will not be no tlced. Rejected manuscript will not ba re turned. ' ' The form of prayer now in universal ns in all England is: "Good Lord save from the Irish, the Dutch, and the evil." -. - - -- - - " The Independent pays twelve or fourteen hundred dollars to the Lin coln postoffice every . year, and yet Madden wanted to suppress the paper on the plea of a saving to the' govern ment. ,. ... ... ; ;-' """A fearful penalty has been inflictel upon Mac-lay. for denouncing' Schley as "a coward; a catiff and a paltroon." He has been politely requested to re sign his two-dollar-and-forty-eight-cent job.' .' 't :iK . ' . ' ' ".. ' The Philadelphia Ledger says that "Texas is now sending us strawber ries at 75 cents a pint and isn't getting rich at that." We never thought that the grave, old, sound' money organ would acknowledge that it didn't pay its bills.- ' Another honor has been conferred by the. United States senate on Bartley's partner. He has been made a member of the committee on revolutionary claims. , Think of the profound influ ence such a prominent position will give him! ';'" r- The Independent; has as large a staff of Washington special correspondents as the 'great - dailies. What is better, they send what the Associated press suppresses. If you want to know what actually transpires in Washington you must read The Independent. It seems that the custom hous? frauds in Newt York had something to do. with the resignation of , Secretary Gage. Every .one knows that custom house valuations on which the amount of the tariff to be collected s based, is one of the very best grafts in th3 Unitei States. " "A house divided against itself can not stand.!' "This nation , cannot en dure half slave and half free." Those wbrds were once -the campaign cries V the republican party. Now they de- ' claw, Wat it ran endure half rp-nnhlie ina Lalf empire, but The Independent don't believe them. Homestead, Pullman , and Carnegie. Rockefeller, capital and labor. Schwab, Hanna and conciliation. The great dailies want to make us believe that Hanna and the capitalists are about to rush, in 7. the millenium. : Don't ' take any stock in' it. It is watered worse than the steel trust. . - ; Capitalistic prosperity, struck:Oma ha, with such force last week that the , , mayor i ordered the police to collect supplies for the starving and .freezing people: of .that city. Nevertheless, the railroad - 'corporations and franchise grabbers of that town are very pros perous as well as the banks. - It won't do to trust the special Wash-: inaton' correspondents of. the great daily any- more fully Uhap the' Asso ciated press. Governor Crane did not .-' accept the appointment as secretary of the trasiirv. PerhaDS his sense of what was decent, when he" remembered that paper contract, was the reason. Tho e-PAat. - dlenlfied. v learned" and powerful senate of the United States in secret session, behind locked; doors, with guards stationed at every, possi ble entrance, last week confirmed D Clem Deaver as receiver of the land office. It - went through "pro forma, only one or two senators saying "Aye' and thev were seen out in the -bath room rinsing out their mouths shortly afterwards. The imperialists? of Lincoln are. all of the opinion that a poor man ought to pay mor per .1,000 gallons, for wa ter than the rich man and they have been making long arguments in de fense 'of their position. The object is to get the waterworks out of public ownership and into private hands This cityls in thasame. condition: of every other city that is ruled by y te; publican ' council. The citizens - must watch eyery session of, "the; body as a rat watches a mouse; to, prevent bein TOinitiAfi .nut of their property and their natural' rights; THE KINO CAN DO NO , WKONO ' As Boon as, it wasrecognized that, there would be an, attenpt made to de part from -the principles upon which this government was founded a ad- sub stitute in their place imperialism; pa triotic men in the republican, demo cratic and populist parties raised their voices in protest, some.', of the ;moat vehement of which j, came from?, men who are still calling , themsel ves tre ptiblicans. These'men; fully, tjompre; herided what these insidioua advance? meant.'. The foundation ,r of Jmpelalism whether inv a so-calledrepubl autocracy or a monarchy ia thej'doc-: trine 'that "the king can dp no rohg." The king must not vbe' criticised. 5 ;His orders must be obeyed. If he sees fit to disgrace 6ne man and . promote an other, the action niust be praised or at least received 1 in silence. It matters not whether that king be called em-' peror or president; imperialism - exacts this humble, and unquestioned;' bbed- ence from high and ; Jow. That ts what we find in the. United States to? dayr That Ms the 'principle that has been adopted at Washington and which will be enforced J, by ; all the power of the government.? If ;therparty who . dissents from the doctrine ? that the king can da ho wrong, is" of . humf ble station ana no Influence, what - he saj'S Will not disturb tlie imperial pow er,.', but lit tie, (is bf"Hfeh station and commanding influence the heavy hand will be laid upon him. General Miles arose from the ranks to -be commander-in-chief of ,tnc American army. He has 'because' of that fact : been looked upon with con tempt by the snobs ancL aristocrats of the navy and army.' The other day he expressed the following opinion on the Schley verdict: I am willing to take the judg ment of Admiral Dewey in the matter. He has-been ,a comman der of a fleet, and as such has ' known the anxieties and responsi bilities which rest on a man under these circumstances. He was in strumental - in the destruction of one Spanish fleet, and knows and realizes the feelings that encom pass an officer under such condi tions. " "" , ' ' " - 2: I think Dewey' has summed up ' the matter in a clear and concise , manner, and ' I believe his coht elusions will be indorsed by the patriotic people of . the United ' States. I have no sympathy with the efforts which have been made to destroy the honor4.of "an ofllcer under such circumstances. ' Now that was a violation of the fun damental principle of imperialism,' to- wit,' that "the king can, do, no wrong," and summary punishment as visited upon him. The king," as embodied, in the-imperial authority at Washington; had seen fit to degrade Admiral Schley and honor. Admiral Sampson, and Its very existence and future power, de pended upon preserving' intact the principle upon which" it is based. Criti cism of the imperial, authority, if al lowed to . go unpunished .would in .the end overthrow that authority and the republic would come back to the point which it occupied before free "speech was suppressed. If the general of the army were allowed to express an opin ion impeaching, the absolute righteous ness of the supreme authority,! what would become of ' the fundamental principle of imperialism?; Punishment must be administered, and that immediately. A civilian, jthe secretary of war, who ranks first in the court at Washington, administers, a re primand to the highest military, au thority "in the-land. That is exactly the way things were done in the courts of France before ihe. revolution. Im perialism, must of necessity adopt the same methods at all times. v" General Miles' reply to the repri mand given by Jthe lawyer who is at present secretary of" war, will be com-; mended by the American ? people : as unanimously as was Dewey's minority feport. He said: , . ' Headquarters of the Army, .Washington, D. C, Dec. 20, 1901. viThe - Horforable, the Secretary of, , War,- Washington, D. C. Sir: Ite ' ; plying to your - pote of the 19tk. - inst., I have the honor to . state v.. .my observations, as substantially "reported, had no reference to the . ' action, pending or otherwise, -of i a co-ordinate branch of the ser i vice. They were merely my per-' sonal views, based upon matters J; set forth in various publications which had been given to the world, and concerning which I conceive there was no impropriety in expressing an opinion the same as any other citizen upon a mat ; ter. t of such public" interest. My observations were in no sense, in- tended as a . criticism1 of ! any ac- tion taken by a co-ordinate branch of the service, hd the statement that I had no sympathy with any - : efforts tending to disparage a disr : tinguished and gallant officer like- wise had .no such ref erence. ; ; ' In order that there -. may -be no misunderstanding I desire to say that for several years a dlstln- guished and .gallant . officer has ; been assailed by parties who. have. ' endeavored to wVite him and other . high officials down, until finally he appealed against such assaults to : a co-ordinate ; branch of the '. government. That . co-ordinate V" branch of -the government granted ' " him a court of inquiry, and,' as " I Understand it, they unanimotisly -, exonerated him from feach epithets , J as coward, paltroon, "etcetera, Jand '' their ' opinions were given to. the public for the information of all -citizens. - When I said that .1; had no sympathy with those who had endeavored to destroy , the reputa 1 ' tion of a high officer who, like all f : other v, Officers,, regards his honor more sacred than life, I had in mind and referred to those assaults made -. against which the admiral had appealed for protection and , justification, and certainly not to a co-ordinate branch of the gov ; ernment. '.-'-; - .-- " ,-. . '"V. I request that this note be laid . before the president, and have no "Objection to it being made public. Very respectfully, . 'y-- NELSON A. MILES, V 0 v . Lieutenant General. ''Jit is, needless, to say that the. de fense of . General Miles was treated with scorn. To have done otherwise ;wpuld necessitate a reversion from im perialism, to the doctrines of the Dec laration of Independence and the over thrown bill of rights in the constitu tion, it. would have been, to acknowl edge that, the king could do wrong, and thai would be the end of imperialism. Favoritism is a necessary constituent of imperialism. t For that it is, insti tuted and maintained. It is the op posite of the doctrine that all men are equal. From the inauguration of im perialism in this country, favoritism has been its chief means of promulga tion. To that end the great' historians iike Prescott, Bancroft and others of renown were cast aside, and an em ploye "of the navy department was delegated to write history for the stu dents at the naval academy. In - that history he denounced one of the high est officers of the navy as a "paltroon," a "coward" and av "catiff." Sampson and Crowninshield, officers of th. navy, read the proofs and approved of the words used. They . were ever reprimanded. They have been the fav orites Of the authorities. But Gen eral Miles for expressing an opinion on a verdict is publicly degraded. The American people now have as the result of imperialism in the first years of its adoption a glimpse of what is still in store for them. Newspap'ers have been suppressed by imperial or ders, a war of conquest is on hand that has already cost $450,000,000 be sides the sacrifice of over 3,000 lives and the two admirals who fought. the battles and the general who com manded the army in the war to liberate Cuba, making as glorious a record as adorns , the history of this republic, denounced and spurned by imperial authorities at Washington. One would think that was enough of imperialism to satisfy even the most ardent re . DON'T TOUCH THE TARIFF The plate glass' trust is the result of the combination of a great many con cerns engaged in that business and controls 80 per cent of the entire out put of plate glass for the whole coun try. -It fixes prices, and the few inde pendent companies with a limited out put, regulate their prices by those of the big' producer. They do not" seek to compete w:ith it. The sizes of glas3 chiefly in demand are one by five feet and two by five feet. From December, 1897, to -April, 1898, glass of these sizes sold for 15 cents a square . foot. In August of 1898 the price was raised to 30 cents' a square foot. y There it remained for a year, when it was ad vanced to 27V2 cents, being a , total advance of 150 per cent. Recently the price has been lowered a little, but is still intolerably high. . " . Labor has benefited but little by these higher prices. According to the statement of one of the manufac turers wages had been advanced 5 per cent in three years, while the average increase in price of all kinds of glass has been 60 per cent. There are several other trusts that by the aid of the tariff are doing busi ness in the same manner. The cost of living to the wage-worker has risen at least 20 per cent, so they find them selves at least. 15 per cent behind the condition . that existed before the trusts were formed. Yet these wage workers iff the eastern states will vots for the tariff magnates 'and dream nights of the threat of the "pauper la bor of Europe." The announcements continue to come fast from Washing ton that the tariff must not be touched. Every trust organ in the country, and they include all of the straight re publican papers, re-echo the cry: Don't touch the tariff." ' Imperialism is a deadly poison. Un der it free speech and a free press can not exist. The patriots -of England have fought for free speech for a thousand years, and inspired by their noble example Americans thought they had it established here. But t both here and. in England, since imperialism has crazed the people, it is no longer the heritage of the Anglo-Saxon; race. The other day a member of parliament tried to make a speech, in Birming ham. Joe Chamberlain, well knowing that error was sure to be vanquished in a combat with truth, set his Brum magem toughs to batter down - the doors,, break the windows, of the hall Where, the address was to be given and assault the speaker. "-Madden's as saults on the country weeklies of this country is cut from the same piece of cloth'. Imperialism does not enter in to debates. It rqles with the bayon-H and the power of money. . FUNNY OLD TIMES The editor of The Independent often smiles as. he thinks of the times when we had "sound money," "the best money," "money of the greatest put chasing power," when ten cents , of that money, it was so good and ' so sound," would buy a bushel of corn and two cents would buy a pound of pork on the- stoek scale.- Then was , the time, when the Nebraska mullet head declared that he didn't want any "cheap ; money," but wanted to get more money for his corn and hogs, and the village merchants sat around the stove, no time being required io show goods, for the farmers could buy only twenty , pounds of sugar for a wagon load of corn, and scolded ; the farmers because they didn't know how to farm. "L They declared the farmer left his machinery to rot in - the field and did not build a shed to protect it when it would have taken 1ialf his cdfn : crop to buy lumber enough to build a shed. To hear, some of thos village merchants discourse on farm ing after they had exhausted them selves ' .denouncing "cheap money," was i better than going to a ' circus. Sometimes some .pop - standing by would remark that if the said vil lage merchant should go out n a farm : and raise corn ;at ten .; cents r u bushel after the plans - laid down; it would not be five years I before the said merchaht would f find Himself .'n the poor house' or in the penitentiary for selling , mortgaged live . stock ; cr something of that sort.' Then j the merchant would get hot under thebqllar .and declare that the said pop was a socialist "and aharch IstTa lunatic. . ah.d. a. repudiator. That, he thought, was the most masterful argument,' that could be niade The pop farmer would say that if he could get 25 cents a bushel for his corn and five1 cents, a; pound for his hogs he could build a shed for his ! machinery and have moneV left to come and buy goods of the ... village . merchant, but that would be making money more than one-half cheaper and as the mprr chaht "would have nothfng of the kind, the result would be thaf he could not build a shed ' and hei&er could he buy any goods. At the end of a speech of; that sort the village crowd would' grow, furious and declare that any man who wanted "cheap money" was a Scoundrel : and a villain. They, txl though they all wore patches on their pants, wanted no "cheap money," they wanted money thatf was good in Europe.--'.'; '-r.-x; - ;'.- -;. ' Many:such scenes ?as that does this writer remember".-- In those" days he oi teh, asked the village solons if they rdid'i not- think that .: the price of corn and hogs was too low. Most of them would say that they did, but with the answer they would always declare that they didn't believe in ''cheap money." WTtien asked that if corn were 20 cents instead of 10, and hogs 4 cents instead of 2 cents,- would not money then one-half Cheaper, they would reply: "It's no use to talk to a pop lunatic." When- we -remember the profound look of wisdom that those village economists-were wont to assume as they talked about "sounds money ".and the scbrn' which -they; assumed when they condescended tOf enlighten the man who wanted a ; higher price for his corn and hogs, one can only smile. But it was.no. laughing matter then. The farmer knew, that if there was.no sil yer to be coined and no addition t the volume of money to be made, that it meant eternal slavery and hardship for him. . Higher prices for his prod ucts was his only salvation and higher prices cbtiid come only with more money ;.ih circulation. So he bore the insults of the village economist with what patience he could and endeavorei "in all, possible ways to enlighten hl3 dull mind. ..', ,., - - - . '. . -. ' : After the republicans began to coin more silver than was1 ever, coined lie- fore and inflate the paper, money, while vast sums were added to the money in circulation by a tremendous increase in the output of gold, he would sometimes remind the .village sqlon of Ahat fact and say to him that the result was just . what' the pops had predicted. 1 He would tell the mer chant: i"t have -built a shed for my machinery; I haveepaired everything abovit the farm and now I have qulto a sum left with which I intend ty pur chaca goods of you. ...This miney to be sure is "cheap money" -and lias less than halt the purchasing powr of the mohey I got when "I sqld corft for ten' cents a , bushel, nevertheless? ! think that ycu tvill agree with me that we are both more prosperous than when We . had ,r tha "good .money" and I couldn't buy any goods and . you couldn t sell any goods. . Then . the old farmer smiles as he watches the Village economist wriggle bad trying to in reply. . At 'replies: "W6 and that ac- spend all his and twist, and rub his think of something to 6 ikst :he" thinks of it aii have the gold standar counts for; it." ' J The .farmer must no .time chutkling over his ifhproved con dition under . the present reign ; of "cheap mohey." If thej Overstfeet bill slips through congress l and silver dol lars are made redeemable in gold, the farmer pay again feel the pinch of a ibid price for corns ajid hogs. The couhtry may revert ; to the "sound money" condition and instead of get ting, fifty cents 4 bushej foV his corn and six cents for his hogs, he.wlll haveJ to take ten cents for his corn and two cents for his hogs. It will be a good business proposition for him to , try to instil some common sense 'into) these village 1 economists , for thousands of them today' do .not-believe that the re publicans have s cpineii s any silver. thtt the volunje ff ! mbny- has?l)eenin creased or that money is any cheaper'' than when thefarmer rwas careworn 1 3k d hmer by his counter aU day because no one came to buy goods.. To say that we have the : gold standard ; while there are in circulation 500,000,000 of silver dollars, "standard money of the United States and not "redeemable, in any other kind of money,"; satisfies 'nil their desire for knowledge. - Those were funny old times, but we don't want .any more of - them. One experience with "sound money" was enough, : .: " . ; '''l.'l - ::.- ENJOINING THE AIR ..When this writer used to deliver lectures on political, economy, and-he came to question of "what is value," he always insisted that there could be no value to anything unless the quan tity was limited. As an illustration he was accustomed to refer to the air. There was a thing of the utmost util ity, but it had no value because the quantity was, unlimited "and it could not be cornered. He would say. that men on the plains of India wbuld give nothing In exchange forair, but when a small .number were confined in,. the black hole of : .-Calcutta . -where, the quantity of air was limited, they would have paid almost any price a cubic foot for, air, the limitation, of the quantity making it valuable. One time he received a letter and the writer thereof said.he knew of another illus tration where by limiting the quantity of air men were made to pay exorbi tant rents. In a certain building con taining many flats, some of the rooms were ' supplied vfth . air by a blower., If the tenant did not pay his rent on the day it was due, he had to vacate in a' hurry, as the air. would b.e shut off. During all this discussion no one ever dreamed that any corporation would ever become ' so powerful as' to . deny the V.3 of afr. to. any human being. But the corporations and trusts have been making mighty strides since that time and now one of them lays claim to 'all the air that floats over the At lantic ocean. Of course it . was t no trouble for this corporation" to find a judge ready; to issue an injunction pre venting anybody, save this corpora tion, from "using that air. Wonder if Lincoln had this :class of judges in mi&d when he talked about "the sap pers and miners" engaged in the at tempt .to overthrow liberty?; The story of this famous injunction is as follows: Marconi set up a sta tion on the shore, of one of the British North American colonies and at tempted to send messages through the. air without the use of a wire, from Eng land to America The company own ing; the cable monopoly immediately applied and secured an injunction against this daring scientist, com manding him to stop all that sort of telegraphing as the right to send tele graphic messages between England and American belonged exclusively to this'corporation. The plutocratic masters' whom we have been serving .for these many years, own the earth and all that is in it, the sea and the shores thereof, and now they have an injunction to pre vent the use, of the air. Santos Dumont and the air ship men would better get in with the judges be fore they spend any more money build ing; aiV ships. The rst thing that they, will .knbw when they get their ships ready to navigate the air, some already established trust or corpora- ' ' " tion; who has seen .to it. that the right kind "of men have been put on the, bench, will step up with an injunction and all their labor and money will go for nothing. Government by injunc tion does not apply only to the earth and everything on its surface, but to the air also. ; - The only potent foe of the corpora tions and trusts so far5 has been the in ventor. As soon as a trust . gets a cinch on a thing; the inventor gets to work and produces something better. After a long series of law suits, the trust gets it at last.' Government iftf1' der judge-made laws -and by injunc tion is more- far-reaching than any of the Inventors ever dreamed of. All that they can do is to worry the trusts for a while, and then the judge with the injunction comes along and the inventor hasto quit. It is said that Marconi is going, back to , England to meditate on judges and injunctions. If he will invent something that will kill that breed of judges and forever annihilate Injunctions, he and the rest of us may have "a chance in life. But with" the Injunction, forever looming up before us,: the prospect Is discour aging. . Ministers have been enjoined from preaching, workingmen 5 from speaking- to eack other, citizens from walking along the public, highways, laborers from uniting.to better the con ditions of life, and now at last they have got, one on the air "j v i t--' The; next day after the great indus trial catyclism appears some- of these injunction judges will curse the day that they- were born, for there will be no more ofilce-holding for them. FURNITURE SALE. AKE YOU THINKING OF CHRISTMAS 3 v; V v '" . ,-, ... . 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I - X" ' A republican in commenting in a let ter to The Independent on some, of the articles that have appeared in kthis paper in opposition to imperialism, says: "The Philippine' islands have .been annexed and the supreme court has made its decision Now fwhat are we going to do aboUtit?",- The Inde- pendent replies to him that "we will not live in an empire and he shall nOtJ" '. :.t ,' - . One of . the results , of imperialism which, will cause suffering for a hun dred generations to come will be lep rosy. No country in which it got a foothold has ever been, able to eradi cate ; it. ... Two, thousand years ago there were lepers in Palestine and they are' there yet. It liesdormant in the. system for years and then breaks out. A recent-medical mission .declares that there' are 10,000, lepers in the Philip pine islands and our .soldiers come constantly in contact with them. . In . New 'York city there are 7,0P0 children who cannotsgoto school for there . are not enough school houses, and there; in that city, is the greatest concentration of wealth that was ever known in 1 all history, That is .the. result of the gospel of commercialism and greed. The poorest, county In the sand hills of Nebraska provides school houses enough for all. the children. That is the result of a life of true man hood where . the . gathering of gold is not thought to be the highest ideal to which men can attain. ,A distingt.':hed .- citizen of "VS'ash ington, D. C, was in The Independent office not long ago. He said that some half dozen men of that: city, one of whom took The Independent, met ;ev ery . Sunday evening, at. an appointeJ place where one of the number read the paper clear through from begin ning to the end while the others list ened. When the business office heard of that remark, the manager observed that jsuch practices might be very complimentary to the. editor, but it was death on receipts. ?. . . ' The argument most. persistently urged in favor of a y ship subsidy Is that ' American seamen , must be paid j higher wages than foreign .ship own ers can get seamen for. .If, that is the case, eongress might make an appro priation to equalize . wages and 1 pay the money direct to the, seaman em ployed. If some one r should suggest that to Hanna and Frye,. what do yoa 1 suppose they would ' say ? If such an alteration in their bill were-made how. much time and "money , would they spend to get it through congress? , Oneof the latest reports cabled from the Philippines says: "Ah unorganized'. but tenacious resistance to the Ameri cans is 'still being offered by the in surgents." When Otis -used- to cable every othr day that "the war is over" and. that the hope of. electing Bryan was the only thing that prevented the Filipinos from becoming loyal. Amerit can - subjects, , The - Independent, ex pressed doubts about the truth of those assertions, for which it-was denounced by the republicans ns; a traitor. As perverse as it may seem, ;,The Inde pendent still' entertains doubts aliout "the war being over." j WThen the . imperialists headed the ship of state toward that stormy and tempestuous seas where so -many, re publics have been wrecked, thoy said it was for the money that .there' wa3 j . ... ... 1 in it that trade foiiowea tne nag. um it seems that trade refuses to follow the flag unless there are profiU to. be gathered in. ; That is what,, The Inde pgndrtit said ; at the time, when the chart and 'compass were thrown over board, the commander, put in chains and the pirate crew took charge. The official statistics show ,that there is "K i 1 t -'V'." " no money in it vNow4 the imberialists say that they .hav run the ship fast on th'e rocks.and they can't get her )ff , so she must stay .there. There seems to be' a grave discrep ancy , between, the official reports -of Generals Otis; MaeArthur and Chaffer. The two former wfere in the habit of declaring that averyarge majority of the, Filipinos were pacied and reconciled-to the military government imposed upon : them . by the United States and that the only opposition left were a' few "ladrones." Chaffee says that "the whole people" are. united in their opposition. Would it not be well to abolish the censorship in the islands and, let the newspaper correspondents who have been expelled -return? If they were permitted to write what they saw and heard without military super vision w might. get at the truth." The administration ..decided some time "ago that , '.'the war was over" in the Philippines,-. and that decision h as got things tangled., up. A board -of officers has been in session in -Washington for sometime to decide who among the officers that have served Its the Philippines should have the honor of ."brevets"- conferred upon them-for distinguished, . services. .The board reported the names and then it was discovered that no brevets could be conferred under the law except in time of war. As 1 the administration hai declared that' there was no war goins on, the board of distinguished mili tary men packed their grips and went back to their regiments. 1 Congress is to be called upon to amend the law. It is announced that , the recent speeches of Gage, Eckles and Stick ney, in which they have told of the beauties t)f issuing notes on bank as sets are to be put together and pub lished in book form, edited and revised by a committee of distinguished bank ers. When that book is printed it mi M-Vi 4. si y n .rs t h a fr i ! r tr 1 rt rr nmrn jC "This book is carefully expurgated of all reason, and anything that looks like logic, by a committee of Irre sponsible monetary, -idiots and Is a cyclopedia .of balderdash., ferocious fancies and' inconsequential vagaries than which nothing could be more ab surd. It will be freely distributed by bankers and form part of the republi can literature during the next; cam paign." - .: , ,' DVUdlUI Iiuai nouio a 'laigri num ber of Congressional Records prime 1 so that every, public library and all the great papers can have a copy. Th3 suggestion is a good one, but it woul 1 be still more f er the interests of the people if the great dailies could be in duced to give accurate reports of -wh.it is really said and done. in congress in stead of the garbled accounts and one sided things that they do print. A few years ago, importan. tspeeches deliv ered in congress were printed in thJ papers. Now the summary of some re porter with a few quips and jibes is all that ever sees the-light of day. . In England important speeches in par liament are printed in all the papers. The censorship established a few years ago in this. country changed all that. That accounts .for the enormous nam ber ;of ! mullet, heads in .the country who; do not even know that the re publicans have been coining silver or that the amount. of. mcney in circula tion has been ".Increased, but who are very certain that "we have the gold standard." There is not likely to b? any change until the Associated press and telegraph", monopoly is over The umitoner, tt TheIndependenf,tl)ioeJ Send your order toeither.papcr &t Lin ' coln Nebr. M : ; - ' V j' 1 (