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4 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT February 6, 1902 Zfyt Uebraska Independent Lincoln, Hebraska PRESSE BLDG., CORNER I3TH AND N $T$ Published ISvery Thursday $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE When making remittances do not loar money with news &rneii, postmasters, ate. to be forwarded by them, thtj fraquantly forget or remit a different araoaat than was left with them, and the subscriber fails to get proper credit. Address all communications, and. make all drafts, money ers, etc., payable to V Zbt Rebraska Independent, Lincoln: Neb. Anonymous communications will not be no ticed. Rejected manuscripts will not b ra vrned. . , . INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL FORCE Thanks to our many friends and the unselfish patriotism of our reader? The "Liberty Building Postals" at the rate' they are going will soon provide a fund to purchase and construct a plain, unvarnished home for The In dependent. In response to the efforts of the friends and patrons of the paper ev ery effort will be made to give as well as to receive. The Independent will be Improved and strengthened by add ing to the editorial staff. All the work on the paper, as incredible as the statement may seem, has been done by Mr. T. H. Tibbies. He has labored long into the night searching scien tific and literary magazines and quar terlies as well as the dailies, collect ing and condensing the news of the world for the benefit of The Indepen dent's readers. Under his editorship. The Independent has had its great growth. He has fought fearlessly and faithfully as all who have read the paper will testify. He has now passed his sixty-second birthday and is stronger in the faith and battles hard er than ever before. But from now on he will have an assistant. Mr. Chas. Q. De France, chairman of the state committee of the people's party, has accepted a place on The Independent. Mr. De France has long been recog nized as one of the ablest and most forceful writers in the state. This addition is made for the benefit of the readers of the paper and to enable the management to give to them a better paper a paper prepared with the greatest care in all its departments. If The Independent has been a power for good in the past, it will now be made a greater power in the future. Everything that can be done to show a full appreciation of the generous support the readers of The Independent are giving it, will be done by giving them everything in return that is, pos sible. From time to time during the last few years The Independent has an nounced improved facilities for pub lishing the paper. The returns of in creased patronage have been devoted to making the paper better. It has a Mergenthaler linotype machine for setting the type. It has a full line of job and advertising type everything necessary for the economical publica tion of a weekly paper defending the Interests of the plain people except a home. Thanks to our many friends and the unselfish patriotism of our readers, the "Liberty Building Postals" will soon erect a fortress here from which The Independent cannot be driven by the orderof.any pluto cratic land owner. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. The decent men of England are ex pressing their horror and indignation over the murder by order of a court martial of the Boer Commandants Scheepers arid Loiter in scathing words of rebuke and shame. James Bryce reminds his fellow countrymen that "slaughter Ui the field is forgiven, but the scaffold is neither forgotten nor - forgiven. Its memory rankles for gen erations to come." Truer word3 never were spoken. The memory of Robert Emmet and Nathan Hale are held sacred in millions of homes because they were hung by British military au thorities and they ever will be. When the Boers who met death on Spion Kop and hundreds of other battle fields are all forgotten, the names of Scheepers and Lotter will be household word3 among all the nations of the earth where there are men who love lib erty. The ..liars hired by the Associated press to send dispatches from Wash ington as well as the special corre spondents of the dailies certainly try to -earn their salaries. General Miles publishes' a letter in which he de clares that the stories sent out to the effect that he was a candidate for the presidency and as actively working to that end are all absolute . falsehoods. The Independent paid no attention to them when the stories appeared. Long practice has enabled the editor to spot these lies at first sight and he does not lumber up the columns of The Inde pendent with them. This Item is writ ten because he got a letter asking why I'he did not announce the fact that Gen- TWO MONUMENTAL SCOUNDRELS It is a well-known fact, one that is not denied by the imperialists them selves, that one reason of the many insurrections in the' Philippines has been the monopoly of the land by the friars and the oppression of the ten ants. No one claims that the friars have a title tlat would be recognized either in law or equity. Now comes Senator Lodge and introduces a bill which in the first place forces the Filipinos to pay the friars for the land and in the second . place provides for the issue of about $400,000,000 of United States bonds which are to be turned over to the bankers. The bill provides that the bonds shall bear 4 per cent interest arid shall be used for banking purposes. .That is to say the bankers can take their money to the treasury, get a bond bearing 4 per cent interest and then have every cent that they have paid for them back in national bank notes that are a partial legal tender. Since the days that public robberies began, there has been no scheme so absolutely disreputable as this introduced into either branch of congress, and by this act Senator Lodge ranks himself down along with Matt Quay in attempting to engineer a scheme that is fouler than the Phil adelphia business by ten to one. Bonds that can be used for banking are now bought and sold every day at a rate of less than 2 per cent interest and the suggestion that these new bonds should bear 4 per cent interest is a fraud on the very face of the transaction. The Independent has never indulged in any harsh criticism of Senator Lodge, but this transaction places him alongside of the most dis reputable scoundrels who ever held a seat in the United States senate. The bill will likely pass. Any man with the temerity to criticise it is ; traitor and a little American. Lodge and Quay will rank in history as the two monumental scoundrels that im perialism produced: BUSINESS AND BUSINESS "There are corporations and cor porations, but there are no trusts and trusts. ... A business which can not stand competitive markets has no right to live." "Flashes" in Massena (N. Y.) Forum. "Flashes" seemingly overlooks the fact that "some" lines of industry are monopolistic in their' very nature;, that in such lines competition is not' even desirable. Take the telephone for example. One telephone system in an ordinary city or town is all that is needed. Two such systems in one city or town do not give as good service as one system; the reason is obvious and need not be discussed. The competi tion resulting lasts for a very short time; then one of two things happens: Either the two companies agree upon a living schedule of prices and com petition thus ceases, or one kills off and absorbs the other. The business has a riht to live, notwithstanding it is essentially monopolistic and cannot brook competition but the question of who is to own and operate it is the vi tal one. Being by nature a monopoly, the telephone business should be owned and operated by the public for the public good. The same may be said of electric light plants, water works, street cars, and railroads. Pub lic ownership and operation of those lines which in the very nature of things will not permit continued com petition, and private ownership and operation of those in which competi tion may be freely exercised. That is the populist program. SOMETHING HIT HIM The republican editors of this state do not dwell together in sweet har mony. Out in York they have two of them. Tim Sedgwick edits one and Mr. Dayton the other. When Savage par doned Bartley, Tim thought that it was the most heavenly and lovable act that any executive invested with the" pardoning power ever performed. The other editor sings another tune. Listen to him: The Bartley gang is rallying around Governor Savage. It is stated that "now he has the sup port of Bartley and his friends, he will be a strong candidate for gov ernor." Good Lord! has it come to that? That the convicted thief and the men who excuse him for the theft are looked upon as prob able dictators in the next republi can convention? It is not true that the republicans . of Nebraska will lie down before the gang that has debauched the state and disgraced the republican party. True, Mr. D. IT. Thompson is dictator in fed eral affairs and will be so long as the present senatorial condition exists. To him we return thanks for Ed Gillespie, and Elmer Stephenson, and Bob Dorgan, and Bud Lindsay, and Ed Sizer. But should the same influence be found in control of the republican state convention, then the plain -God's truth is that the republicans of the state will deserve to be beaten by forty thousand votes for allowing it. The truth about the situation is this: The "Bartley gang" has just as firm a hold and is in just as complete control of the republican party in Ne braska as the national bankers and trusts are in that of the national or ganization. .Nothing will ever shake them lose from that hold as long as to get rid of the "Bartley gang," Wall street and the trusts is to beat the re publican party in both state and na tion by overwhelming majorities and if Editor Dayton really wants to get rid of them he will turn in and help to do it. AMERICAN HONOR Secretary Hay is such a thorough tory and worshipper of all things Eng lish that in his invitations to his daughter's wedding he spells the word "honor" after the English fashion. No other American has spelled the word "honour" for a generation, while the English always spell it that way. This sort of sycophancy reminds the editor of an occurrence that happened while he was in England some years ago. He received an invitation to a "smoking concert" which the then Prince of Wales was expected to at tend. It was at a time when heavy watch chains were in fashion. Of the two or three hundred gentlemen pres ent, every one wore a more or less elaborate watch chain. But when the Prince of Wales entered he had no watch chain. Within two minutes there was not one to be seen in the whole audience. Every man present had unfastened and hidden his. A few days afterward if a man were seen on the street with a watch chain, every street Arab or hoodlum he met would ask him what time it was. Watch chains had to be abandoned. Hay wants to introduce such sycophancy into this country. THE TRUE JEFFERSON The Independent has often wondereJ why so seldom there is any mention made of the "blue laws" of Virginia which took all the genious of a Jef ferson to overthrow, while we are never allowed to forget for any length of time the "blue laws" of the New England states. Those that were en forced in Connecticut and Massachu setts were mild when compared to what was, not theoretically, but act ually imposed on the settlers in the Old Dominion. There Baptists, Quak ers, Methodists and Presbyterians were forbidden to teach or hold meetings either in private or public. Lack of respect to a clergyman was punished by a public whipping as was the lack of attendance on Sunday services to receive instruction in the catechism. It took Jefferson nearly a dozen of years of hard work to get embodied in the new Virginia constitution the principle that "all men shall be free by argument to maintain their opin ions in religious matters." In writing of this and other work done by Jeffer son, Mr. William Elroy Curtis, in his new volume on the "True Jefferson," says: Thomas Jefferson was the great experimenter of the creative epoch of our national life, and it Is an evidence of his genius that the experiments of this pioneer, who in his own time was counted so rash and radical, have achieved so great results and have been ac companied by so little injury. A WORLD OF LUNATICS The latest statistics show a fright ful increase in insanity. The situa tion is grave beyond the comprehen sion of the average citizen. If it goes on at this rate the next generation will be nearly half lunatics. When one thinks of the fandango of horrors that is served to every family that takes a daily newspaper, there is no wonder that the children land in in sane asylums by the hundred thou sands. In those papers they read ghastly descriptions of the mangled victims of railroad wrecks, mine ex plosions, electrocutions, tunnels blown up, of desperate combats with crim inals, salacious write-ups of the ten derloin district, the scandals related in the courts and thousands of other things of the same sort. The wonder is that they do not all finally find homes in the institutions for lunatics. The grandfathers of these children were healthy, energetic, sane human beings. They were brought up in quiet contact with nature. Birds, beasts, flowers and trees were their companions. They never engaged in anything more exciting than a sleigh ride or a coon hunt. Now the grand children of these sturdy men sit in steam-heated rooms and feast their minds on the details of a thousand horrors that are brought to them ev ery morning in the daily newspapers. Is it any wonder that they go crazy? The great daily newspapers as now conducted are a curse and a greater curse than even those men think they are who are willing to confess to the evil results that flow from debased literature. The yellow-backed dime, novels were safe reading for the young in comparison' with modern metropoli tan dailies. To read them is not only time wasted, but it is time employed in debasing the morals and destroying the intellect. What sort of a world will this be anyhow when the ma jority of the inhabitants become luna tics through reading plutocratic pa pers and the excessive use of alcohol? The republicans of the state now generally admit that "Bartley has a pretty tight cinch" on them, . They, have to do what'he says or he will tell HARDY'S COLUMN The Independent again desires to emphasize the fact that it is not re sponsible for the views Expressed in departmental features or insigned communications. While as a rule the ideas put forward by correspondents doubtless meet with editorial approval, yet our. readers should understand that the position of The Independent on any given-question will be found on the editorial pages. It is not necessary to make this statement to our old sub scribers, but it is done for the benefit of the thousand of new readers who have recently subscribed for The In dependent, and for'' the purpose of set ting aright any readers who may have been misled by a certain paragraph in last week's paper under the heading, "Hardy's Column." Old subscribers to The Independent have for years read with interest the many bright paragraphs of Mr. Hardy published in his column. On the whole The Independent has heartily approved his writing; but occasionally his position is opposed to the views of The Independent, and on such occa sions, in order that there may be no misapprehensions, it seems necessary that The Independent call attention to the fact that it is not editorially re sponsible for the utterances of corre spondents, and is sometimes obliged to oppose such utterances editorially. The item which calls up this ques tion appeared in last week's Indepen dent, on page 6, being a part of "Har dy's Column," and relating to the in dictment of ex-State Treasurer Me serve. The language used in that item is so at variance with the good sense and fairness usually exhibited by Mr. Hardy In his writings, that The Inde pendent feels called upon to comment on it. Mr. Hardv seemingly fails to distinguish between just criticism and virulent attack. And his reckless as sertions, made without qualification as statements of fact, ifnot really action able, come dangerously near being li bellous. The Independent has no hes itancy about criticising the acts of any public official, whether fusionist or re publican, but believes in the good old saying, "Give the devil his due." Doubtless the searcher for things to complain about can always find some thing in the acts of every public offi cial to attack; . but an administration, after all, is to be viewed as a whole and in the light of results. There nev er has been and never will be a per fect state officer or a state administra tion without a flaw, because there are neither, perfect men nor perfect laws and. doubtless never will be. The In dependent" has always' held that it is possible "to give a better administra tion of state affairs than was given by the fusion ' state officers; that there was room for improvement; but that in the very nature of things it would be difficult to find a set of state officers who would perform their duties any better than did the fusion state offi cers from the days of Governor Hol comb's first term to the 7th of Jan uary, 1901. Even were every officer a Mr. Hardy, it is extremely doubtful if any better state government would result. Reposing confidence in Mr. Hardy's usual good sense, the editor, being at all times overwhelmed with work, has given Mr. Hardy a free hand and his "column" is rarely seen by the editor until after it appears in print. But the item in question is so replete with innuendo and misstatements that The Independent feels called upon to tako issue with. Mr. Hardy's very first statement is incorrect: the indictment charges .Mr. Meserve with receiving some $3,000, and not "ten or fifteen thousand dollars," as Mr. Hardy puts it an immaterial exaggeration, per haps, but nevertheless a misstatement. Doubtless Mr. Hardy is "glad a muss has been kicked up on- that question." A good many people will welcome soms legislative enactment or constitutional provision which, will make 1 the state treasurer's duty plain and without question. But few people, except an occasional republican and .' Mr. Hardy, will feel delighted that the good name of a man like Mr.. Meserve be smirched in order that attention be called to our inadequate laws respecting the care of state, funds and the investment of the trust funds. : ..' A His statement that "the state treas u ;r's office has been a perpetual home for. thieves for thirty years" is rather too sweeping to be ' taken seriously. Arid his statement that "all the state officers have always stood up and de fended everything done by all the other state officers" is not true. , During the fusion administration there were a nunVber of matters upon which the state officers1 did not agrees and these disagreements were freely aired in the public prints at the time. Naturally all: these oncers united in defending the administration as a whole and they, had good reason to, because it was by long odds the . ,best ever given in Nebraska.;;: ''-V v - A good deal might be said for and against the "one honest deputy" to which Mr. Hardy ; refers who Was so lgnominiously kicked out as soon , as he' began "to criticise the dishonesty of the ; state house." ': Honest men, as a rule, when they discover they, are in "a nest of thieves, resign and make tion of a boot toe. Mr. Hardy is en titled to his opinion, but If the person in question is his ideal of an honest man, it need never be difficult to keep the state house overflowing with hon est men. "It has always looked as though tho treasurer," says Mr. Hardy, "did not want to invest the school money ac cording to law, but loaned it out and put the interest in his pocket." Can Mr. Hardy point to a single instance where the fusion board of educational lands and funds failed or refused to take any available constitutional in vestment for the trust funds? Did he ever offer to sell a general fund war rant and have the treasurer refuse to buy it? Does he know of any issue of county bonds that the board, repre sented by the treasurer, was not after promptly and vigorously? Only one other avenue was open to the board, namely, United States bonds, and these sell at such a high premium and bring such a low rate of interest that no board in recent years has consid ered them available. The premium is so high usually that it would eat up all the interest for from four to eight years after their purchase. United States bonds are valuable to bankers' at their market price because they car ry with them special privileges of is suing the face of the bond in bank notes which can be taken advantage of by the bankers, but these privileges would avail the state nothing. Mr. Hardy's criticism in the past has been that the state should have but one fund but one pocket and pay ev erything out of that, and he seemingly at times confuses his ideas of what ought to be with what really is. In the past he has urged that the treas urer call registered general fund war rants and pay them off with the trust fv.nds and cancel the warrants. This would not be investing "the school money according to law," but on the contrary would -be a direct violation of the law. It is rather inconsistent in one breath to urge a public officer to violate the law, and in the next to call him a thief because he refuses to do it. The charge that "the balance of the state board seemed to sanction the course and UNDOUBTEDLY RE CEIVED a part of the INTEREST MONEY" is too serious to pass un challenged. Does Mr. Hardy mean to state as a fact thai; Governor Hol comb, Governor Poynter, Porter, Wolfe and Smyth received interest money from Mr. Meserve for seeming to "sanction the course?" Before the law was made requir- ing the treasurer to put the state money into banks with -bonded se curity the treasurer never had any money in the fund on. which any warrant was presented. There was always someone there to cash the warrant at a discount then after dark the money would come out of the treasury. The fusionists had an opportunity to correct those wrongs, but they did not do it. ' They run things too much the same old way. Mr. Hardy's ignorance of the facts, as displayed in the paragraph quoted above, is truly , lamentable. Doesn't he know that warrants jumped from a discount to par and then to a prem ium almost immediately after the fu sion state officers assumed control? Doesn't he know that this was accom plished only because the fusion board of educational lands and funds at its very first siwling passed a resolution authorizing and directing the treas urer to buy general fund state war rants as an investment for the per manent school fund? Doesn't he know that the present republican board is compelled by public sentiment to do the same thing, and that a terrific clamor would go up all over the state if the republican board dared to go back to the old practice of not buying such warrants as an investment0 Doesn't he know that general fund warrants would go below par today if the state should cease to be a pur chaser of them? If he doesn't know these things, he ought to study them and learn before he ventures to write authoritatively upon questions of which he knows so little. The Independent has no desire to defend the fusion state officers against Mr. Hardy's charge that "railroad passes were just as flush as ever," but it objects to the sweeping charge that "they would ride on a pass and then charge, the -state 3 cents a mile for do ing it, under the head of expenses." Mr. Hardy should be more specific. He should name the officer who did this. The Independent stands ready to print the names, if Mr. Hardy will furnish the evidence, but objects to his wholesale manner of blackening the character of men who are not guilty of such practices. "They" is inclusive; it takes in all of the fusion state'offi cers. " Good will doubtless result from the political persecution of Mr. Meserve. Attention will be called directly to the crying -need of a constitutional con vention to remedy a number of matters which cannot be delayed iuch longer, and legislation will doubtless be en acted which will make the treasurer's duties less difficult of performance. As the matter now stands' he is charged with the safe keeping of the uninvested trust funds without any legislative di rections as to how he may legally care for them. He cannot legally deposit them in a depository bank under the I vi.--.--v-i 1 -J v. . - MOTHER OF .TRUSTS ; The most potent argument against the protective system is that it is the mother of monopoly. A protective tariff is utterly useless when it comes to raising prices if competition is free. One might put a tariff of a hundred per cent for instance on hats, but If competition in the haf producing in dustry was unfettered it would pre vent the price of hats from becoming exorbitant for others would invest their money in hat manufacturing if by so doing they could obtain exor bitant returns on the capital invested. The main argument made by protec tionists in the beginning of this high tariff policy was that it would not re sult in the raising of prices. The usual reply was that if the manufac turers did not expect to get higher prices for their products they would not spend the time and money that they were spending to get a tariff, but the real reply was that a high tariff would undoubtedly end in combina tions and monopolies. Having pre vented competition from abroad by a tariff wall too high to scale, the pro tected interests would undoubtedly combine in such a way as to prevent it at home. Any man who would stop arid think for a moment would see that a tariff would be of no benefit to manufacturers unless it did raise prices and the plausible claim of the republican spell-binders and editorial writers that it would not, needed some elucidation. The argument that com petition would regulate prices under a high tariff was sound, if there were no monopolies created. The tariff beneficiaries knew very well that if they could eliminate foreign competi tion that it would be an easy thing to destroy it at home. On this theory they worked. The result has been just what they desired. Competition wis destroyed in one industry after an other until the mighty trusts began controlling all industries. The mother Of all this was the protective tariff. There is where the destruction of com petition, the organization of monop olies and the great concentration of wealth which now threatens, our form of government and even civilization itself, had its beginning. The protec tive theory is the mother of all of it, but it has now grown to be bigger than its mother. The little infant has become a savage giant that fears neither God nor man. It dominates congresses, cabinets, legislatures, con trols the courts and openly defies con stitutions' and laws. MULLET HEAD STUPIDITY . - , There is something about a partisan follower of the republican leaders that is unique there cannot be found an other thing of the same kind in all of God's universe. The editor of The In dependent was walking along the street when he was accosted by a republican a business man of some prominence. That gentleman remarked that "under the prosperity created by the republi can party, the government had in its strong boxver $00,000,000." He was asked if he believed that there was that much money belonging to the United States in the treasury. He replied: "Of course it belongs to the United States. Who else could it belong to?" It happened that the editor had in his pocket several statements of the treasurer of the United States which he had just received. He stopped and showed the republican business man the following: Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, Division of Book keeping and Warrants. Form No. 166. Statement of the United States Treasury on the 21st day of Jan uary, 1902. Cash in the Treasury. In Divisions of issue and redemp tion. Reserve Fund. Gold coin and bullion in division of redemp tion $150,000,000 Trust Funds. Held for the redemption of the notes and certificates for which they are respectively pledged. Division of Redemption. . Gold coin $322,118,089 Silver dollars 455,284,000 Silver dollars of '90 50,000 Silver bullion of '90 38,183,000 $815,635,089 Division of Issue. Gold cert, outstanding. .$322,118,089 Silver cert, outstanding. 455,284,000 Treas. notes outstand'g. 38,233,000 $815,635,089 After looking over the document the editor remarked: "You see that every dollar of that $800,000,000 is a trust fund dollar and not one of them belongs to the United States." Then the mullet head turned that document overlooked at both sides of it and said: "That is no official re port of the treasury. I know it isn't. Just ioo!: here." He took out of his pocket a Chicago daily and read a paragraph from its editorial page mak ing a statement that there was in the treasury over $800,000,000. The state ment" was concocted with a great deal of shrewdness. It' did not say out right that the money belonged to the United States, but that would be what every reader would infer. , - "But you "see ' here is the ; official statement of the government," re- by the democratic steering, committee down at Washington with which to fool you pops. Here is the truth right here in this paper." That man was rather above the av erage business man. He belongs to literary clubs, i3 the superintendent of a Sunday school, lives in a fine house and is a member of the best society. When such stolid ignorance is found in the republican following among men of that class, what is to be done? The Independent gives it up. A BASELESS ASSUMPTION The Chicago Tribune In discussing Professor Schurman's statement that we would give the Filipinos indepen dence says: But what assurance can he have that, if the United States shall ab dicate its proper functions in the islands, some nation, more master ful and less incompetent to rule . than the United States, will not step in and take up the task of government abandoned by Ameri cans? No such islands as the Phil ippines, ruled by such a race as the Filipinos, would remain long with out foreign masters. The Tribune takes it for granted that because that might be the case the American people must continue to send their young men there to die by the thousand and tax themselves with out limit trying to keep the inhabi tants of the islands in subjection to the United States. If there ever was a non sequiter, the Tribune makes one in that statement. If the Filipinos can not maintain an independent govern ment that is no business of ours. If any other nation wants to make war upon them, we shall simply be neutral and let them try it for a whjle. No interest of the United States would bo involved. The United States is under no constitutional obligations to set up or, attempt to prevent other nations from setting up governments and holding brown people in the Asiatic seas as subjects. But the Tribune takes it for granted that there is. and draws its conclusion from a base less assumption. CRAZE FOR OFFICE HOLDING The craze for office-holding is one of . the most unreasonable crazes that, ever afflicted mankind. Why does any man Avho is making a decent living want to break up his home, go to the cost of moving to the capital for tho purpose of holding an office for two years or four at the most, at a salarv of $2,500? Out of that salary must come the cost of living in a city, elec tion expenses, and he must devote fivn or six months to electioneering. You say the honor of it. Who can name the governors that Nebraska has had" Who, outside of those who have taken an active interest in politics, can even name the Nebraska's United State? senators? If there is any honor, it is of a very fleeting kind. Any man who accepts such an office, having a business to which his atten tion must be given, must abandon it and at the end of his term begin lifp all over again. What recompense i there in the "honor" that he achieve. and the salary that he gets for sacri fices like these? Of course all the suppositions fail unless we presume the man is honest. If he seeks office for boodle, then there is some explan ation for the action of the impeeuniou who ride over the state setting up th pins to get nominations and secure elections. If a man simply perform the duty of the office and draws hi salary there is certainly nothing in ft. He must also take some very ,ere;it Chances and suffer many indignitir--. He may have been perfectly houc: and performed his duties efficiently, and at the end of it all be attacked by a hundred partisan newspapers, hi good name blackened by every sort slander and his life made miserable for years. Why a man wants office is on of those things that the editor of Th Independent could never find out. Th only way of accounting for it is to say that it is one of those unfc: -.mat -crazes that sometimes afflicts sockty. WHY PRINCE HENRY COMES A private letter to the editor of T! 1 Independent from a person in Wash ington who has long been in a posi tion to know the secret workings of diplomatic corps, political schemer and bank manipulators and whose tp of which he has given many to T!: Independent in the past, have alwa turned out true, says that all th guesses made about the cause of tr. visit of the brother of the emperor '' Germany are away off. No one N lleves that his coming is simply to c ment the friendship between tl. country and his own. This correspv dent says that his coming is of ucrl wide significance, but for very i ferent reasons from any that have t publicly suggested. The main oby he claims are that he will undertaV to come to an understanding wit this country in regard to the war, and that an effort will be ma to inaugurate some plan to bring it t a close. It is intimated that the Enx lish diplomatic office is really at tl bottom of the whole thing, for t2. Engllsh are very anxious to get o?it of the trouble in some sort of a wa- that will not ruin their prestige. Th raagager . Pf .the, new organization