THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
December 26, 1901 o
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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.
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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
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. 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
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