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6 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT January 2, 1902 V Mr. Bryan on Madden. ; The postoffice department is discriminating against newspapers published in the interest dC political reforms. The Challenge, a socialistic paper published at Los Angeles and plater at New York; the Appeal to Reason, a socialistic paper published at Girard, Kansas; the Farmers' Advo cate of Topeka, Kansas, and the Pawnee Chief, of Pawnee' City, Nebraska, (both the latter antagon istic to republican policies) hare recently been asked to show cause why they should not be de nied second class rates. The postoffice de partment justified its action in regard to the Chal lenge on the ground that that paper was violating x the following provision of the statute: "Provided, however, that , nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to admit to the second-class rate regular .publications designed primarily f or ; ad vertising purposes or for free circulation at nomi nal nates." .' It was asserted by the department that the Challenge wi s the personal organ of its owner and publisher; that it was a vehicle for his articles on public questions, the announcement of bis lecture subjects and their places and dates; the printing of those lectures or speeches after de livery; the printing of newspaper comment theri on, and also the minting of letters and invita tions to speak and the replies of the editor; thereto. The department alleged that these things filled the columns of the publication; that it contained little. or no matter which did not pertain to the editor, and that he confessed his intention to ad vertise himself, his sayings and his doings. Whether the editor conducted his paper; in, a modest way or -whether he unduly injected him self into his paper is not a question with which the postoffice department has anything to do. The third assistant postmaster general is not a censor i:i the sense that i.e is to supervise the editorial management of a paper. If the editor of the Chal lenge advertises himself in sucha way as to make the paper offensive ,to his readers, the readers have their remedy; they can refuse to receive the paper. , - In regard to the Appeal to Reason the post office department claims that it violated the' ruling requiring approximately half of the circulation to be composed of subscriptions paid for by bona fide subscribers. The department resorted to the-test which is customary in such cases, namely, it sent out inquiries to one, hundred of the readers ask ing whether they were bona fide subscribers, and received answers from sixty-six. ' Out of sixty-six. ihirty-seven claimed ; that they were subscribers, while twenty-nine denied that they were sub scribers. Thirty-four did not answer at all. Upon, this showing an order was issued deny ing the paper second-class privileges until it could show that approximately half of its readers were bona fide subscribers. This test is not a fair one. Because a letter to a subscriber was not answered or because the answer was delayed until the de partment had already acted does not raise a pre sumption sufficiently strong to justify the depart ment in putting the publisher to the expense of a trial.' The answers re wed furnish information, but unanswered letters ought not to count against the publisher. ', -' - , In the case of the Appeal to Reason a clear majority of those who answered claimed to be subscribers. '!,.. The charge made against the Farmers' Advo cate was that it did not comply with the law re quiring that a majority of the circulation be com posed of bona fide subscriptions. Just how the test was made is not known, but if it was made as 't was in the case of the Appeal to Reason, what has been said in that case will aply to the Farmers' Advocate. It may be added that the Advocate has been put to this trouble so often that it smacks of persecution. ' The charge against the Pawnee Chief was that i: was conducted primarily for advertising pur poses. As the editor has presented his proofs on the subject it is probable that the case will be de cided in his favor and that he will be relieved from further embarrassment. But there is evidence of the purpose of the department to discriminate against political papers. While it is perfectly proper that there should be a reasonable proportion between the number of actual subscribers and the total circulation (and the proportion fixed is reasonable) the department has issued an order which is unjust to papers which are published in the interest of legislative reform. According to the ruling of the department a "reasonable number" of papers can be subr scribed for by others and counted among bona fide subscriptions, provided the paper is not subscribed for "because of the doctrines it advocates or be cause of the goods it advertises." In other words, it a man is interested in a paper because it gives the most foreign news or the most domestic news or the best report of prize fights or the most com plete review of criminal doings or of divorce pro ceedings, it is perfectly proper to send it 1 to a friend, bu. if he subscribes, for the-paper because it discusses political questions, in .which he is inter ested, the subscription cannot be counted In the "legitimate list of subscribers." It would be dif ficult to conceive of a more unfair discrimination against reform p:.pers. ' It would be difficult to imagine a rule mor.. capable of misuse and tyran nical abuse, and the present congress should im mediately take sue1, action as will ta necessary to correct this ruling. .To say that a paper whicii has no political principles shall hav e an advantage over a f paper which has political principles is worse than ridiculous. To say that an editor who ii, more interested in current. news than he is in' the science of government ' should have 'an ad vantage over an editor who endeavors to make his paper instrumental in securing good government is a reflection upon the intelligenc - or the pa triotism of the man who is responsible for the oider. , x" v - -. At this time the rule can be used to discrimi nate against democratic papers, but under a demo cratic administration the same rule might be used to discriminate against republican papers. The fact that it is just now used to discriminate against socialistic papers , does not alter the case.t The Commoner is not an advocate of the doctrines sup ported by the Challenge and the Appeal to Reason, but The Commoner is an advocate of free speech and of a free press, and it does insist that dis-1 cussion is the only means of arriving at the truth. If an editor has anything, to say in regard to po litical principles or public policies let him say it. If his reasoning is sound, his cause will grow; if his argument is fauity, his cause Will fail. Let him appeal to public opinion; before that court ail questions are finally settled, and we must as sume that under free discussion they will be set tled right. If a man reads a paper and likes it he ought to be permitted to subscribe for it for his neighbor; .if his neighbor accepts the paper he is a subscriber as much as if he paid for it himself. If he does not want the paper he can refuse to receive it, and then the paper cannot bo counted in the list of legitimate subscribers. It is necessary that we should have laws de fining am" limiting the pefstal privileges, but in construing them the department should observe the spirit of the laws and not pervert .them to suit the whims or prejudices of the man at the head, of the department KNOX MADE PROMISES That is Why the Opposition to His Confir mation wat Withdrawn Tddy Has Fist Fight Washington, D. C, Dec 31. Spe cial Correspondence.) Washington has been principally interested this week in the aftermath of the Schley trial a trial that only proves con clusively the favoritism of the navy department. Admiral Schley very justly, although very injudiciously protested1 to the secretary of the navy and in return received a most sting ing rebuke. It was first of all the Intention of Long to write the word "approved" on the back of the ma jority report and attach to it the opin ion of Admiral Dewey. But Schley's protest brought forth from the pen of Secretary Long a note containing one of: the most sarcastic jibes that ever emanated from a cabinet officer. He not only took in Schley in the censure, but in a way not at all am biguous, condemned Admiral Dewey for his opinion that Schley was in command at the battle of Santiago. It seems that the unmerciful war is never to cease and that Schley is to oe continually hounded by that coterie of unprincipled corruptionists. But this is not all. Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles in a published interview Etated that he concurred in Admiral Dewey's opinion and that. "he had no sympathy, with the efforts which have been made to destroy the honor of ?n officer under any circumstances," and from this remark thunderbolts of de partmental wrath have been heard. Secretary Root today publicly and severely reprimanded General Miles, and in no unmistakable manner chowed that the department intends to make life miserable for any officer Avbo has taken Hiie just and popular side of this great controversy. But liere matters did not stop. Miles, feel ing that he had been censured un justly, went immediately to the White house, .hoping to get relief from the president who, by the way had to un dergo the same sort of treatment when to was assistant secretary of the uavy. He was hounded day by day un til he sought relief in a resignation. So Miles sought President Roosevelt. The large reception room at the Whito bouse was crowded with eager office seekers.' when General ; Miles wa3 -ushered in. A moment's talk with Roosevelt and the crowd marveled. "Your action in this matter was un pardonable," he said. The spectacle of the commanding general of the United States army being called down in a thundertone voice led the startled crowd to wonder. General Miles had been reprimanded. He had sought re lief from one who had to bear the same rounds of favoritism and had been denounced. This action of the president was en-4 tirely uncalled for and severely re flected on his honor as a gentleman. If he was to rebuke General Miles ro Eurt should have been taken to the president's office, but instead, in a voice that was heard all over the room, he was told that' his action was un pardonable. What a spectacle! Will this ever cease? Will the department ever cease its policy of reprimanding every officer who has opposed the de partment's favoritism while they honor with positions of credit and trust thosb who have called Schley "coward" and have cudgeled their brains to mak3 his life unbearable? And this is pre cisely what they . have done with Crowinshield, the chief of the bureau of fabrication, whom they have dele gated to represent the United States at the coronation of King Edward the Seventh. The house has passed the Philip pine tariff bill and in one of the most hurried debates that has ever , been heard on a subject of its importance. There was a split in the party vote of both of the large political parties rep resented in the lower house. Such men as Littlefield of Maine and McCail of Massachusetts opposed the bill from the republican side, while the democratic delegation from Louisiana favored its passage. There were sev eral very impassioned speeches made on both sides of the house, but the republicans refused absolutely to dis cuss the morality of , the bill, preferring to look, at it from a "commercial" standpoint. The senate has at last confirmed the nomination of Attorney General Knox, and the fight upon him has apparently closed this is the view of those wbo are not in touch with the fighting qual ities of the men who have made war upon him.. They do not know of what stock the American anti-trust league committee is made. The fight has just commenced and the league has done more than its most enthusiastic members had even hoped to anticipate. Yes! He was confirmed, but it was with the promise that came from him who controls all, that as soon as con gress sits again that the attorney genr eral will take up the cases presented by the anti-trust league. It was for this promise that the democratic sen ators refused to hold up his nomina tion any longer. So that if at the open ing of the new year the attorney gen eral has not taken up the fight against these five great monopolies the anti trust league will speak 'in a much louder tone, and they will have behind them the entire democratic delegation in the senate and several prominent members of the majority party who had exacted these promises from the powers that be. The fight is by i.o means ended. The anti-trust league was organized over two years ago to make war on those combinations con ducting business "in restraint of trade," and it will not at this time cease its war for the suppression cf these criminal combinations. There has been a change in the cabinet of President Roosevelt since I last wrote you. Charles Emory Smith has resigned. Well, that is a very mild way to put it, for there art those who assert positively that It was a case of "have to." But however this may be, the president played a strong game, and evidences of why it was done do not seem to be lacking. That "Teddy" is conspiring for t nomination for the presidency in 1904 no one can doubt. The man whom Roosevelt has appointed to succeed Smith as postmaster general is the vice chairman of the republican na tional committee, and next to,Hanna had entire charge of the last cam paign. Roosevelt has appointed this man and soon we will hear that Payne will make Avar on Hanna to be his suc cessor as chairman or the republican national committee, in order to make it a Roosevelt committee before the convention meets. These are strong evidences. But there are other reT sons. Among those prominently men tioned as a presidential possibility in 1904 is Senator Spooner of Wis consin, and a conspiracy is on to draw the vote of Wisconsin from him and to Teddy by the appoiritment cf Payne. , . That there are to be other changes in President Roosevelt's cabinet is beyond the shadow of a doubt. If there was ever cause for the removal of a cabinet officer, Long should be removed. His maladministration ol the navy department has brought our navy into disrepute in all parts of the world, his allianceagainst Schley, his gene- il misconduct of affairs has made us look upon his department as a school for scandal. The department should be rid of this conniving ring- ster. There are still reports that Sec retary Hay is to be sent back to the court of St. James at London as United States ambassador to England and that he-is to be succeeded by Joseph Hodges Choate, the present representative at London. This" report has nothing positive back of it, however. President Roosevelt is said to have had quite, a little experience while out walking' one evening this wesk. He 'is said to have been accosted hf two men, one of whom made an at tempt to strike the president, but ono blow from "Teddy's" powerful right arm sent his fcsailant sprawling Into the gutter. The' president refused to discuss ther roatter, but the incident was witnessecL.by Sir Julian-Paunce-fote. ambassador, from England. Ie probably reported' to his majesty that "Teddy" knocked his opponent out in less than one "round. Among the5 important bills intro duced in the house this week was one by Representative Shallenberger pre paring the way for the settlement .)f the trust question.' WILLIAM W. BRIDE. Population of the World Some interesting estimates of the world's population are given in the Current Cyclopedia for December. This is placed at a billion and a naif, dis til.. ed as follows: Persons per Population. sq. mile. Europe t 372,925,000 99.66 Asia , 830,558,000 48.57 Africa 170,050,000 '14.77 America 132,718,000 ' 8.96 Polynesia ..... 6,000,000 1.73 Polar regions.. 82,000 0.05 000,000 are Asiatics and 40,000,000 are Africans.-.--'' . ' - - -'-: According to an estimate of the Washington bureau of statistics no less than 500,000,000 of the earth's inhabitants are colonials, and of these colonials less than 15,000,000, or 3 per cent, are composed of the people of tha governing country." This 3 per cent, however, is of British stock, scattered throughout the English . colonies In various parts of the globe.- Roughly .speaking, the English speaking population of the earth num bers 1133,000,000, .being - outnumbered only by the inhabitants of China and India. ." , ' . ,' . -.. The population of lands under the British flag is about equal to that of China. - . FOR FARMER'S SONS Total ....w. 1,512,333,000 28.89 The population of the leading coun tries of Europe, according to , recent censuses, is given as follows: Austria-Hungary 46,900,835 Franze 38,641,333 Germany 56,345,014 Italy ..... . . ..... .. 32,449,754 Russia ..... . ; : . I . . . . : . . 106,154,607 United Kingdom .. 41,454,219 The totals for the empires with large dependencies represented in The foregoing table are: France, 94,781. 014; Germany,,' 71,032,014; Russia. 123,932,173, and United Kingdom, 390, 000,000. From which-it appears that the British flag flies over more than one-quarter of the inhabitants of the earth. Of these, however, nearly 300,- They Should Flock by the Hundred to the University School of Agriculture and Learn'Iiow to Succeed The' department of animal hus bandry, 'University of Nebraska, is making a special effort to give a high grade of instruction, to the students who enter the winter course in agri culture which begins December 31, 190L The leading beef breeds are so represented as to show the best types of beef cattle. These animals will be made use of for class room instruc tion. The fact that the steer winning the second prize in the grade Hereford two-year-old class at the fat stock show recently held in Chicago, was bred and fed at the Nebraska experi ment station, shows that cattle of a high order are used for class room work in the school of agriculture, and also demonstrates that intelligent methods of feeding are practiced by the department of animal husbandry. The ring in which this steer took the second premium contained forty ani mals. These animals were produced by the best breeders of beef cattle in the United States and Canada, yet Ne braska succeeded in winning the sec ond place. This, victory for the Uni versity of Nebraska school of agricul ture speaks for itself. The instruc tion in the department of animal hus bandry seeks to teach the student how to select animals for the feed lot and how to feed them to the greatest possi ble profit. Instruction is also given in the breeding and feeding of sheep and swine. On November 22, a small lot of grade lambs raised on the uni versity . farm were sold in Omaha. They averaged 98 pounds and brought $4.25 net. They had been fed grain only twenty days. Last year the pigs used for experimental purposes were sId when they were seven months old. They weighed 215 pounds each and were on the market before winter weather set in, thus showing that it is possible to produce, and feed swine for the market without having to car ry them through the most severe sea son of the year. These are but a few illustrations of some of the practical experiments being carried on at the university farm. Students in the school of agriculture become thorough ly familiar with the methods of feeding used in the experiments above named. Experiments are now beingcarried on to determine the. relative value of wheat and corn for food stuffs for cat tle and hogs, and in a short time there will be one for the purpose of finding out how Ismail a grain ration can be used in fattening steers for the mar ket. It is confidently expected that a method of saving a considerable amount of grain will be devised as a result of this last experiment. Never in the history of the school af agricul ture have such opportunities been of fered for the instruction of farmers' sons as are being offered this year. Much good will result to the state if a large number of you-g men should avail themselves of the advantages of the course. 1 1 He Was the Whole Thing The position 'of the supreme court on the insular cases is graphically and truthfully described by Sidney Web ster, the well-known lawyer. He says: "Eight of the nine justices retired into opposite corners, four In each, where they remained throughout the con sultations fixed and immovable in their convictions. The ninth flitted to and fro, tipping the judicial balance as his mind inclined. The practical effect was much the same as if the court had consisted f of only one justice. Pie makes music wherever he goes, but hi3 music is law." Never before in the annals of the court has a single jus tlce managed in a series of great; judg ments to constitute himself essential ly the whole court as Judge Brown has in these cases. Educate Your Uowuls With Cuscareta. Candy Oatbartic, euro consiinjuicn forever. 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund moner- nz 2SS WW iMIrrfi MriiM h. pu iwm m . 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