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Zbe tlebraska Independent Lincoln, Uebraska , , PRESSE BLDG., CORNER I3TH AND N $T$ Published Every Thursday - S.O0 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE .whfea making romfttaaces do not 1mt oney with nerrs ageneivs, postmasters, etc.t to be forwarded by them.'. They frequently forget or remit a different amount than was If UK Kn mwsA ankitiih faila tn fft proper credit. Address all communications, and make all M t i V. 1 " . r; Hebraslta Independent, . ' Lincoln. Neb. ' Innnvm rTi a iAiAmnnir!)tion wilt DOt be HO" tieed. Rejected manuscripts v,-ill not be M mrned. , ' The collapse-of reciprocity at Wash ington la hailed by the German pro tectionists with delight.' They, say now that German "high tariffs against American goods is a certainty. The London papers continue to talk about the "dogged determination" of the English, but at the same time they say, that new troops must be sent to South Africa to relieve those who have become discouraged. - The revolt against the extravagant appropriations for the navy, led by Dr. Everet Hale of Boston, is bearing fruit. Senator Hale, who is chairman of the senate naval committee, declares that "the appropriations for that pur pose shall not be excessive. The imperialist editors are, jxot writ ing any glowing editorials about our trade with our "new possessions" since the official statistics have been printed. Their thoughts seem to be roaming in ci'.Z-ely different fields. Not one of them since they read the figures has even remarked that "trade follows the flag." The army regulations say that the senior offieer present in a battle, or at any other time for that matter, is the officer In command. The two old naval barnacles who sat on the Schley court of inqujry say that that should be Interpreted to mean: "The Junior offi cer absent is in command and is en titled to all the glory." Judge Youngblood of Chicago re cently rendered a decision that opera tions on the Chicago board of trade was gambling and debts thus contract- A --v 1 1 ! nor r ".! 1 e,rfk- rtA of low TV o 4 Is in accordance with-thje facts in the case. It is rather queer that the courts took so long a time to arrive at the facts. The Pretoria correspondent of thi London Times declares that there Is Sio good reason to be given why the Boers cannot carry-on-the war indef initely. He says that the commandos are scattered all over the country and if the British succeed in killing a few now and then, the remainder only fight. me uaiuei auu uaus mure iruuuie. The friends of Schley never accused Sampson of being a coward because he was not . present at the battle. But Jie -friends -of Sampson have contin uailycharged Schley with cowardice fceeaushe w.'.s present and fought the Spaniards' vntil he sank r every one of , their, ships. That, is the. difference ba tv een the two sets of men in thi3 con test, y The British say that the Boers are an uncivilized lot. So were the Swiss when they beat back the hordes of im .perialism " launched . against them. These, uncivilized, barbarians who in sist on liberty and independence ' are sometimes very hard to subdue. If they are finally successful in their de fense, all the world calls-them heroes ever after. . .. .. A.-.j . If any man thinks of heroically serv ing his country m this age of the world with the hope that his heroism will be rewarded with the appreciation of his government and people. lie would" do well to reconsider the matter. Gen eral Gomez was hissed by the Cuban people the other day, and both Dewey and Schley are disgraced by the gov- pmmpn t wViirV Jhov cn hravafv cori-s.' One thing that is characteristic of a republican daily is that when, it; tells a lie it will stick to it. Some of-them are still talking about a round cotton L - ie trust and Senator Jones , as the great t-ust magnate. There is a pat ent covering the round cotton bale and St the part ownership of a patent makes a man a trust. .magnate then; Jones is Six weeks ago The Independent' pub lished the facts about the refusal of the railroads that hjad Standard Oil di- JCurnish c: , TARIFF WALLS j 1 Truth never lies qn . the surface. Those who find it must dig for it. Tp.e apparent is almost " always the false. The sun "appears" to rise and setrbut we all know that appearance is false. It took thousands of years of digging for the wisest to find' out the 'truth about that matter. Just so it is con cerning every economic proposition. If i yone arrives' at the truth in re gard to anyone of them he must dig for it. To the ordinary farmer en gaged in raising sugar, beets tt appears that any reduction in the tariff on Cuban gained there completely changed their opinions. Most prominent among them were Blaine and McKInley. In the latter part of their lives thTy both abandoned .the views that they held in the days of their youth. There ar many others besides these. They learned that no trade could be Carried on between the United States and other nations unless the other nations were allowed to send their goods here. If such a condition a3 tljat could exist and we sell goods and never buy, the result would be that all the gold and silver of the world would be piled up uban sugar mist come out of hm. i here and the other nations would have But if , he digs for the truth he . wul j none. What would we do with it af find that idea i3 as false as any con- I ter we got it? We couldn't eat it. wear nected with the building up of tariff j it, clothe, feed or shelter ourselves walls. The farmers engaged in the with it. If the proposition is true as production of sugar beets are ah n- all economists say, that money is not finitely small number when compared to all who are -engaged in agriculture and .every one of them are more largely interested in the production of other thingsj.han they are in the production of sugar beets. " What they need is a market, for all their products, hot m curtailment of all for' the sake of one product. An arrangement with Cuba which will fill that island with active work ers at good wages will make a mar ket for millions of dollars' worth of all kind of products raised in these northern states, besides the manufac tured articles that they will pui-chase. If the Cubans cannot sell their pro ducts they cannot buy goods of us. If that island is to become the resi dence of a poverty stricken people who cannot buy goods the loss will b ours as - well as theirs. Both coun tries can be filled with a happy and prosperous people if all the Inhabi tants can be kept at work and" there are no restrictions pon the , siwif t exchange of their products. The old theorem of the political economists that anything that restricts exchange prevents the creation of wealth. Is as eternally true as the law of gravita tion. . ... ' . r; r, , The whole theory , of protection -Is wrong. Putting difficulties in the way of exchange produces the same results in large transactions as in small ones. Any man can see that' if In a primitive community tariff walls were raised be tween the man who made shoes and the man who made hats, so that the man who was trained to make shoes should have to make the hats for his family and the man who was trained to make hats had to try to make the shoes for his family, that there would be fewer fcats and shoes made. It would take the shoemaker a' long time to make a hat and the hatter a long time to make a pair of shoes. When they got them completed they would be sorry looking products. If it is not wise to put up a tariff wall between the hatter and shoemaker in a primi tive community, whv is it not also un- - wise to put them up anywhere? i" But they say look how rich we have become because,' of the tariff! Any one who has ever read Henry George's demolition of that fallacy needs no further instruction. He says that every prosperous and rich city in the United States has a theater, and in the little poor . places there is never a theater. Therefore to be ; prosperous and rich it is only necessary for eyery city to build a theater. "This "post hoc ergo propter hoc" argument has always been relied upon to deceive the unthinking. It has come down to s from the dark agts where it was the main reliance of the governing powers and the priests to keep the people in due subjection. There .was an eclipse. After the1 eclipse the prince died. Therefore the eclipse was the cause of the death- of the prince. The ignorant rabble of the dark ages as firmly believed that be cause the prince died "after" tile eclipre occurred, that the eclipse caused his death as the modern protectionists believe that' because we have produced a great deal of .wealth out of this vir gin continent, after a tariff was en acted, tLat that wealth "was all on ac count of the ts riff." Before tlie doc tors discovered, the "bacteria, we bed scourges of smallpox and' typhoid Since we had: those scourges the tia tion has become very wealthj',' there fore the wealth ' exists because of the smallpox and typhoid scourges. , - Down.Vin Australasia there,, was on colony, New South Waie3, that stuck to free trade -while "all the f others' en acted protective tariff ws. She pros pered and grew, wealthy -without bein? a country of millionaires and a wage working population always : on the ..verge.';,! ot ,( starvation. . These wage workers in the, high tariff colonies sev eral times had to be fed by the ten thousands upon charity - to keep ttiepi from dyiiiig p,t starvation but they be lieved as firmly that their very exist ence depended1 ori keeping np a high tariff wall1 against "the pauper labor cf Europe" as ever did the New Eng land factory hand. England hs" been a free trade country, too, and jshe has become more wealthy than any of her continental, competitors who- have built up tariff Walls. , ' ' my fnsi who have had tar wealth, the end would be, that often we had toiled through Ihe heat of summer and the cold of Winter for years and years and at the end found out that we had produced enormous amounts of wealth and then exchanged, it for something that-was i6t wealth. We would have arrived at the same state as Dean Swift's Yahoos who spent their time accumulating useless bright stones. If, however, we had exchanged our products with other countries that they could produce, on account of their environment, with less labor and sac rifice that we could produce them, we would have accumulated wealth. This shipping of wealth out of the country at the rate of a billion dollars worth a year more than is shippeil in, has only been possible because of the rich ness'of our soil, the advance of science and invention and the great intelli gence and universal industry of our people. It is not "all on account of the tariff." General Wood, military governor cf Cuba, in his annual report concerning Cuba, says: All far-seeing business men real ize that Cuba's prosperity and ad vancement depend absolutely upon her commercial relations with the United States, where her two main products have their principal mar ket. High duties against Cuban products mean that the develop ment will be slow, ifat all. The importation of United States prod ucts into Cuba, while it is increas ing, is yet considerably below the total importation from other coun tries. The establishment of rec iprocity in commercial relations between Cuba and the United x States means everything to Cuba,, her development will be imme diate. Cuba must now market her prin cipal products in the United Stat es. New conditions have changed her old commercial relations, and t if she is to live "and prosper, she musthave lower duties on her su gar and tobacco. With such re duction, the development of the island will be rapid and imme diate. -It that is true, then the Cubans would be able to buyv our flour, our beef, our pork, our agricultural im plements, the products of our factories, and we will. have created a market in stead of having destroyed one. THE POPULIST IDEA In answer to Mr. E. W. Furguson and some others writing on the sub ject, the Independent says vthat all money is "fiat" money. Gold would not be money if it were not for, th "fiat" of the different governments that make it money. If there were no demand for gold for the purpose of discharging debts, which the "fiat" of the governments says that it shall do, no one can even imagine what its value would be in exchange for otjier commodities. In regard to regulating the value of paper money, Ricardo 's the best authority. No economist be lieves that there is any such thing as ."intrinsic value." If anything had an "intrinsic value" its power in exchange would alwavs be the same. All econo-f mists recognize the Injustice in the variableness of the purchasing power of 'money. " Mill suggests what has become known as the "tabular plan." These enornious bank credits are the curse of the world. To a certain ex tent they do the duty of money. The first breath of adversity wipes them out.- There is no such thing as "bas ing money on anything. It r,ests in the sovereign power of government. It rests on the same foundation that all law rests upon. Only in the sense that laws and constitutions have a base, can money be said to have a base. B'asing money on labor or any thing else is only a vagary. Money is a thing that the law says you shall take in full satisfaction, of a debt. The law says so and that. ends it. If the law Js the "fiat" of the government, so also is money. Many attempts have been made to fix the price of com modities by the direct enactment of law Ind they have always failed. It is only in an indirect way that law can fix prices and that is by. the in crease or. the decrease of the volume of money. Absolute stability in prices would most undoubtedly put a stdpto panics- The primary contention of populists is for stability, of prices. They think that can be done byf the regulation of the., quantity of money. In the old countries 'when cabinet irotold to get out, they I. ' , ,.. . ; .MORE IMJPEKJALISM As imperialism begins to feel sure of its f ooting in; these states it com mences little annoyances just to . show its :'power to which, the, people of Eu rope have so long been subjected. For a great! inany years, in fact ever since the postal service; was established, it has been the practice to write the words "book," . "printed ; matter,; "photo," '"mdse,"etc, on 'packages to denote . that they were either third- class or fourth class matter. This was j done for the information and conven ience of the postal, clerks, although tho packages were, of course, unsealed and subject to ; examination in case the clerks cared to take' time for that pur pose The imperialists in the postoffice department at Washington, just tp show their authority, sent out an or der it the beginning of the holidays that packages r, having these words written on them must pay letter post age." A good many postmasters- did not receive the order, or, if they did, th-.y paid no attention (to the matter, but at some large offices it created an im mense amount of confusion and delay.. It was not only a specfes of petty rob bery, but an unwarranted piece of im pudence on the part of tl Washington authorities. ; But if we are to have im perialism in this country we must get accustomed to such things. That the order was in direct violation of law made no difference to the Maddens. Imperialism recognizes no law. The postal laws and regulations governing third and fourth class matter expressly J provide that" the sender "may, write or print upon the wrapper: or cover- 'thereof or tag or label covering the sapie his - name, occupation, residence or, business address, preceded by the word 'from,' and any marks, num bers,' names or letters for purpose of description, or may print or write thereon any matter not In the nature of a persona correspondence." The Declaration of Independence, the constitution and the acts of con gress are oniy regarded as waste pa per by these Washington imperialists. Thatis just what "the abandonment of the theories of government upon which this nation was founded was intended to result in, and .The Independent has been telling its 'readers so everv since the chart and compass of the ship 'of state was thrown overboard by the present pirate 'crew. ternity. , What they want is sope wfy of issuing all the promises to pay, tbt they can and then get interest on wipt they owe. - A note issued by a bank 3 not different - in character from a other promissory note, When any oDe else t issues such a noje he expects' $9 "pay" interest on it, but thekban&s want some plan fixed up so they can "get" Interest on their notes. ,Thatfi all there, is to this cry about an "eiis tic currency,' It is. the , sort of c y rency that has produced all the pantos that the world has ever seen, jit Is jo the nature of things that it will pro duce the same results in the future as in. tha . past. A little while , ago M . GEN. MILES ' . .I-". s ' It turns out that the reprimand giv en to General jMiles by the. president and secretary of war was an act of im perialism -pure and simple. The Army and NayJournal and the Army and Navy Register, ;both of which pa pers are regarded as the highest au thority on military' matters in the United States, geclare unequivocally in their issues of , December 27 that such action was without the authority of law or any provision of the army reg ulations. General Miles has thus bean made the subject of an imperial act without the authority of law. That being the case, we have the fact before us that te president has been exer cising imperial;' authority in -the most flagrant manner. The Journal says: According to the army regula tions a reprimand sucn as .was administered to v the . vlieutenant , " general can only be administered on the verdict of a court-martial. Even a non-commissioned officer is under the protection of the regula tions, which 'direct officers to be cautious in reproving him in the ; presence or hearing of private soldiers. -- . : - The Register says: The impression prevails that the tone of the Root letter is unneces sarily severe all out.of proportion to the offense. There are even those who think the language em ployed is brutal. " ' Military men. in Washington and all over the country were astonished be yond measure ' when they ' first read tbe report. All they could say was: "I never heard of such a thing, be fore." Someot; them have , said in private that King Edward or Emperor William-would hardly have dared to do such a thingl as toj)ublicly repri mand Jais commander-in-chief without a court-martial or some sort ,of an investigation upon which to base ic.1 Imperialism is making mighty strides in these United States at the present time. But If that is what the people want-they are entitled to have it. Af ter a. while 'they may not like It as well as they think they will. At pres ent it is much further advanced than in England. Imagine what would hap pen in the United Kingdom if . King Edward some day should take a na tion to publicly reprimand Lord Ro ti er ts. Would the people' over there take it as gently as they have the same act In here? - . ELASTIC CURRENCY ' The new secretary of the treasury, Governor; Shaw of Iowa, seems to be tarred, with the. same stick as all who have preceded him, except ' that he seems a little shakey about issuing notes payable on demand with; onl bank assets as security. At Washing ton it is said that Gage was forced to resign on account of the speeches he had made in favor of these chaDS were declarine that' had "the best banking system that the world ever saw." Now the hslve ct'tne to the conclusion that it is no goc'a all and the whole thing must be re modeled. Did thjy lie then? bo.thy He now? Ordid they. lie, all the ti ne? The Independent leaves it to Its ri'ad crs to decide. ? . -! , I WHAT THE PEOPLE WANX Aside from the bill to build an isrhT . 4 - a. y mian canal, the legislation that lsbe ing pushed in Washington has fieyr been asked for by the people. There" have never been any petitions forHbe, enactmeiit of a ship subsidy bH.vbr destruction of the greenbacks," , f jr : a bank currency based on assets, I to make the silver dollars redeemab i' vin gold or any of the other schemes that are tcTbe pushed by the men sent o Washington as representatives a,nd senators by the railroads and t Ul:s to make laws for us. What the p sople want, can be gathered by locking j'OVer the NCongressional Record. -.That shows that thousands of petitions have been sent there by the people "asklag for legislation that they do want, ?'To summarize these petitions we . find that they come as to numbers i i tho following order: (1) For eleeti.inof United States senators ay the p jojple. (2) For the extension of the Cl iine-je exclusion act. (3) For the public 'town ership of telegraphs and ftelepiiones. (4)' For a constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy. (5) For the construction of war vessels by th j gov ernment instead of by contract.1 There have been hundreds and thousands o! petitions for these things with a: imall er numrer asking; for other ber.eficlal legislation. . They are all chuckVdln a big box down in the house nd that 's the last of them, not eveq the . titles are read, although they are prir- ted in the Record. -' " THE PATIENT AMERICAN ' ' The Americah peopled will ; sndure more . outrages and annoyances jfw4th out protest than any other onicarth. They "will for years pay alcorp-sration twice as much for goods as they now the corporation sells them for tc. others and never say a word. Th,e other day there was a wreck On a Nebras"iaroad and a passenger train was , he ld j at a little town for hours. Not ;a growl was heard from any one. v After :it -while the car began to get very hot. Jxst as the men were pulling off the' rcoatd and the ladies began to fan. themselves with anything they could get lild off, the intelligent corporation brajseman came through, closed alt the" ventila tors in the jtop of the car and stirred up the fires; 'Thenrrhe' .'went htti .t( take" a visit in the town. The Car had dou ble windows "arid the puts! Je ones could not be raised. As the car got hotter and hotter the men put on their coats and got out on thetrack. where the "chill wind whistled tnrouglv their garments. The children and' tlie babies cried. Theladies mopped th jlH faces with their handkerchief a ancf fanned themselves, but no one rnadetia, com- tM sor osevelt ,cat banking, for, Roose? &-it at all. '-Shawi- howev sort of wild- did not r, is vo- plaint.. The patient American, suffered it all without a protest. fPert aps they had all learned that making protest3 against corporations infthfs country never resulted in good, and iSometlmes the protestor got in jail; forj contempt of court. Four hours behind 'time, the train arrived at its destination The passengers meekly got put ;irucl went under the dominion of anothcj- corpor ation that ran the street cars. - There they stood up and held on : straps when they had paid for.-seati; fit not one of the said a wordl Ll g in a country where corporations Tin. every thing, including courts, ' le gislatures and congresses, they had learned by sad. experience that to comphiin -would not help them in theleast .s0 thoy patiently endured it H.': The old phrase, "The Patient ox," i hould i e abolished, and the "Patient 7. merican" should take its place, f The McKinley bill, allocuisiht upon which all republicans si' oyer their most sacred oaths, admitted! raw sugar free. What is the mitterj with that crowd npw? They seern to Lhink that such a measure v-ouldbe.t ie ;ruln of the whole American, people.f fheywere never before so excited a out "the pau. cr labor ofEnrpj ' ., "in the days of ancient Imperialism there was always a court foor to amuse the people and keep them WAei. Modr ern imperialism follows th t fashion. Every great daily keejj - ai court fool and gives hira a colu'mn on x& editor ial page. Hi singles oj .ron(j talks nonsense for the amtfu.,.... nT who tae it. That important po- ale by all 4dmggists" tnroufeuVA--i -one Dr, PLAGUES AND PANICS i ' Whether the"; amount sajnerstition in the. worlcf is :lei, noyr than in the kdark ages is doubtful. It is changed in ,Torm, but the number of persona who express ideas that are absurd and fully believe in f them without evi dence, is probably as. great as at any thne in the history of the world. Some times it seems that every other person one meets isu afflicted with some delu sion. One thinks that he has an astral) body floating arotmd in spa.ee. ; An-i other th&t he sees ghost's. 8ind talks! with the dead Another . thafc there .! no nsuch thing in the world a.s dlseas'f nnA oi A nittiai. -fit-TYiltr haHovu' that you can have - dear,, money an high prices at the same time.. The superstitions are' without number a are just as,! ridiculous.' Vs ."a,; belief witches or any other of tee- foolish m tions of the dark; ages: -Th& quest the Holy Grail was no mofe absii than the modern.-hunt tor a rnaterf, "basis" for rmoney. PeVhaps the J. lief that overnroductioh "Will' Drodt starvation and want; is even more j H surd, than; any or'the'delusiims jf past. A wjiter on,. one toi tnki dailies, a paper ' tiat within, "th' t few years has of ten ascribed aiit.P ' -nrnno nf monlrinH tn OVPPnr' -r" 1117 nvc9' v.,a".v hii- rfl tie advancement ? and now 1 beg see aslnrougn a glass uurRiy, writes as follows concerning and. plagues: ' ' In the middle ages peoplf cepted plagues lis provides. tia; unavoidable visitations. ; D( si'ons in the modern bur j world have been regarded in l th cam manner. Placuesr1 - in time found to be, due to I'M tainable and preventable fif si v-and they' have practically ?" peared f rOm Edrope. B'usinc e" pressions continue to be pe c but the perception : ; is , s" spreading that they are d tc a , kink in the social mack rather than to any failure jnai ture or of human capacit jihaij tYiatr rrtn tin il A 11 rf is in ita impeachment of social foretiigi1 . and organizing ; intelligence at1 that to 'Obviate their recdenc -r should be a deliberate Jiim olous4 ness economy. - . y Germany Isthe latest viclm the "providential" busine d- pression the keen irony of Ivhujh is that while there has been lo famine and Ho loss of vital pefily able-bodied peOnle, thought eagir . to do so, cannot get a chance lo relieve their own distress by thtfir own labor. That Germany s m 3 fortune isian international one 3, " of course, as true as that tie nlaeue used to be an Internatioi al menace. ., The "self-contained" circle jof idleness and want 'Which "is fhe bank credits within reasonable. I its wilt nrouont n- niiD Tr. 1 t.. s . . . prices and limit bank cret its is a :v.. paratively easy; thlng.t The elglv 11- lion of bank credits now out is ai ?r. to end in a panic, unless graduallrvt. duced instead of being expanrtM,. a3 too much steam will burst a boil Many queer performances, ar lowed in the democratic parly. years the; pi g - iron democrats we. as good standing : as : any of the and voted; with the republicans ;v$ he time on fa) 1; national issues, f they allow the eugar democrats th in the fold f while -they vote for and ; imperialism.' ;-Why they neavvj them over the -transom th in .-st It ay Har 1 hi .1 ? U3 : characteristic, feature of busiriss depressions circle ; !n.-wl?ch each member is unemployed ind in need simply because the -others are so is a challenge to the mod ern business world which canino longer be met by the summsry, not to say siuperficial, reply' of "overproduction." If it Js an un avoidable social misfortune to pro duce beyond a given limit, taen ; that limit should be ascerta&ied ' and observed.! ''Tf,' on the' other hand, "depression" come not from having produced too much we<h but rather 'from having excitedly ignored ratio and proportion as be . tween different 'lines of productio 'and then from ah Individualist! and mutually disastrous scrambl by each proprietor to nave 'him l self when thhi fact is discovered- dences of imprudence tnen u certainly not chimerical to. e pect their disappearance. While there are signs of sanitf i the above, yet sad to say,, whenle wntet arfrlved at that point he overcome by " a worse delusion any that has been enumerated f lie declares that the oVeanization of Its will in the end be the cure for pi As reason begins to' return td' hh e wavers, and sass that sucban m not a reasonable hone."- Then fhi3 delusions begin to depart,! he s "Hard tiies" in the face of - and plenty betray a de:fectiv cial economy., and the progr business organization of toda emplified in this country, certpy promises to make agalnnt the e- ; currence. This is the best of the editoriA'f It ing that-appears in the great f lie?. On that ttort of trashj the "grepusi ness organizations" rely for rma tlon and guidance, ret he an Is f.- these organizations lb findj annedy for nanics. How can the ri who compose' them find ja rernek . J LI 'never read a" si:ahd?id wdrkj car economy Vi thej-j livs lieve in "intrinsic fraluei" lieve In dear monel anfM They believe In imifiense fp paper payable xm s everything that go tion of 'panics. , It pose-that from thein wil remedy. If some , of the dailies would read two-on political e read only the dalllies, tl them some Instruction, 1f, much to expect ofj The professors if they were net places, would ' be of those things that no pop caoi ?ntl .out. , , v ! "There is t6 be a meeting in Opia, January 6, to raise money fo;- starving women and children fait" British reconcentrado camps ofnf Africa. The world is continuallyi!ird upon to contribute to relieve sufrVskc; pfar-away peoples. caused by Bn ih Lgrped or British wars of conq;le!t., '."ho sufferins: must he nlipvintri if ;.i but The lndependest would likp tc:see the world, unite in stopping tl 01133 "In restraint of trade'? is a i that l3 often heard in the courts! 'md On it many a case has been argued m won.: to restrain trade has almvs been considered unlawful and ,Vc;me with which the courts could de i!. Ihi: a tariff is a "restraint of trade. kv ery decision of a court and ever; argu ment ever made against restrafc? of trade applies just as forcible agalint a high protective tariff as it ov-5 against any other combination . or ganised for that purpose. pi The New York Shipbuilding ,,ora- .1 J I panywi vanaaa s Diuiaing f ni ves sels for the American-HiKsViia a Steamship company the Nevadini the NebiSkan and theTexan au 1 jwill soorfhave ready for launching if.e-:1r-t nan( vessel. Every other Arise jem shitf yard is working over "llrpe Sand sewal of them have refused uVt or- J de.; Fry and Hahna should hurir up th ship subsidy bill or the flrni lln-, thj they know American shi: ;;ir:!s wf be ruined with the "nauncr. ihnr of2urope.V - ?ht. s tow is al i They -iioliti- I p be Uy be- jprice3. if baik vvocate ih crea- Hrlo sup- ILf fcorae a in ditoir.fs groat i 1 a starVJiforK cr nnnrrl .nil v w " 3 enator Elkins of West Virgifchi th Ifcgest criminal in the United! 3 itcs. we except Matt Quay, is clutUnan rthe committee on interstate! om. ferce and hasthe finest con:aitlco ,6m hi the capitol. ' That is tliteiay ie republican party takes care it j coundrels. He said to a rcfjrtcr Ihortly after he was appointed.! tl't fhainnanship: "It is a fact that . am Considerable of a railroad man'' Un just rates, combinations and I ools will-find' no opponent in this ilil of fthe senate railroad comrnittee.! Wherever wealth is cone mtcd there common schools suffer. rion aires are counted by the hunirs in New York and5 Chicago, but af olh cities the children are left inl large numbers without education. It fctijust rbeen announced that the fchrax school terni Spill be qui three i r4hs the coming-year for want of: lsnd3. Out amorig tjhe hard-working fa-.-ners in the country' districts all t chil dren have school privilege ) But where wealth concentrates," ri-Honly men " Vmt ' Rphonb. dprnv tit , - . In' the handling of crimitj:df and what are called" incorrigible ii lren. tne sociologists nave started outron a new line. Investigation . ha 4 vvown that very often it it the part nt who are incorrigible Inst id of the -h!irer:. To get rid of them kand to avoio ru?- porting them, thl3 sort brings the-childreii into ii of ri:irens cour and incorrlgibil Jy so t to soma ftstltu by the ta?- A e parents yoyJUl blisU charge them with that, they may be sew tion - and supported court for incorrigii be a very proper tr in the cities. f f i York I? -ng la "fen a uuieau wnere tiiiifai -j come to make com' hunaMo et Mayor Low of Ne I I suggestions. He asr shall be courteously plaints reduced to M ierrea to the var where they will rece is a most sensible ai Perhaps-there'may rj ft who will hayej enough to protest and wrong. Usualll, plaints trh offer ires them f jat all reated. tsll corn writing it 4 re ous df pafrnent fve attentjffft That id practitiljthln. ? a few ArJ Hcan orce of c jractcr gainst: opijssion they don r'say a ie. men t givi i. I V i p. ia too a plu'-S editor. f poMonomr,, fraid Yifg their ble .uct the people on these liJAies arnfabout a i remeds' One tflhe m?-khowii among tbW,toi lU a stjnPe other davSwho was brit4- jherin111 les- word, unless they.X.say a fswear woras as they walk"! a long. Stuart Mill sa:fSjIabou j have to bka pwjb:. Vorlt .you wBtT I" ' tion of A. .lon$ time turned gray and inclined to stay evening instead fellow, by the ha lican in good st holder -robbe'd and shipped a m (join to- the Un States mail, sac forgotten, all abi ouier day ,, that age before qJeUy o'ijpoln flding fit on sld i it the - before yof hair you wei mor at hotai of an j to a rnce. a att offiee- Julan ipstojT.c dollars 6f stolen States in! Unite Most .peo,e har matteii but, it ilisiiatres th? oOier day . that M"vo witnesieT by the imeof Fletchtf Hnd Holmes had gone