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February 6, 1902 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 1 4 'I f i CHAAP CLARK'S LETTER & 0 0 PROGRESSING LIKE THE CRAB. ti:e most idiotic SCHEME. A SUPERFLUOUS PIECE OF FLUN- 0 .0 'if "ft rv Special Washington Letter. It. SCnURMAN, president of Cornell, president of the first Philippine commission, the be loved of William McKinley, may thank his stars that when he re cently made his famous Boston speech declaring that ultimately we would grant their freedom to the Chris tians of Luzon and Visayas when they j ask it and when they show themselves! cnpabio of it he was not within the j Jurisdiction of. General Wheaion, fori that irate warrior declares that in the! ; i . i i . i a . s i x miijIine uivu nuvr ueen iu pris on for just such treasonable jabber aa Schurman uttered. Senator Carinack of Tennessee stated on the floor oZ the senate chamber that a high officer of the United States in the Philippines said to an intelligent and j reliable American newspaper man that 'the American Declaration of Inde pendence is a d d incendiary docu ment!" an opinion identical with that held by Georse III; touching that im mortal state paper. Evidently some of our army officers entertain sentiments differing widely from those gloried in by such soldiers as George Washing ton, "Mad" Anthony Wayne, Light j Horse Harry Lee. Francis Marion, George Rogers Clark and other Revolu tionary heroes who fought eight years j to make Jefferson's declaration good; but, then, we must remember that this is "a progressive age" and "we are a I progressive people." Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles' was publicly and scathingly reprimaud-j ed for agreeing with Admiral George j Dewey In declaring that Admiral Win-1 field Scott Schley was the real hero of j Santiago, but there is no reprimand for I General Whraton for intimating that; Dr. Sehurman ought to be clapped into I jail for uttering a peculiarly Amer- j lean doctrine; no reprimand for a ! high officer of the United States for j uecianng that tne .Declaration or in-1 dependence is a "d d incendiary document!" Yes, we are "progressing" back to j the rank of Toryism of George Gren- ville and Lord North. When Henry M. Teller, the venerable senator from Colorado, once secretary of the interior under a Republican pres ident, suprgested that by progressing ! much further on the Wheaton plan it ! would scon come to pass that a senator ; would be al'jaid to read the Declara- j tion of Independence in the senate ; chamber, Senator Lodge of Massachu- i setts denounced the statement as "sil- ly." True, when Senator Lodge cooled off he apologized for using the word, j but he could net rub out the fact that he used it! O temporal O mores 1 j Plantation manners from Massachu setts! Nobody denied Carmack's statement made in open senate. Nobody defend ed "the high officer of the United States" for uttering words which would disgrace any citizen of the republic, and no Republican senator wagged his tongue in condemnation of him. Yes, we are "progressing" rapidly. If any high officer of the United States did say. as Carinack avers, that the Declaration of Independence is "a d d incendiary document," he ought to be stripped of his uniform, broken of his commission and banished for life to the Dry Tortugas. Such punishment ; ought to be meted out to him as to cause all incipient traitors to keep de cent tongues in their heads. Rushing Things. The big Republican majority in the house run things with a high hand. They obey no rules, even of their own making. TLee cure for neither con stitution nor law. Most people have had an idea that the Reed rules were drastic enough for all purposes. Not so, however. When "Uncle Joe" Can non, chairman of the appropriations committee, wanted to put through a grab of $500,000 to build new barracks at Manila in the urgency deficiency appropriation bill, and when Mr. Hull, the Republican chairman of the com mittee on military affairs, raised the point of order that It was new legisla- j tion and therefore could not be had on t an appropriation bill, "Uncle Joe" beat j the devil around the stump and indue- j ed the presiding ofScer and the Repub- j lican majority to override the rule i which they themselves had established to protect the treasury from Just such raids. "Forever and a Day." The other day when I prodded "Un cle Joe" Cannon in debate he "let the cat out of the bag" by vociferating, "We intend to hold the Philippines forever and a day!" which I then and there declared to be "the most melan choly declaration ever made in the bouse of representatives," and it is. It means, if his idea is carried out, ceaseless scrrow and unending expense o the American people. I also charac terized his proposition as "the most idiotic scheme ever hatched in the brain of man, and it is, for there is no conceivable way In which we can gain from this Philippine business either glory or profit. We have been assured time and time again that the Filipinos are "pacified" and that the "cruel war is over," and every time, just as we were settling ourselves to enjoy our dream of peace 3 o & KYISM. o would come to torture us again. Now we have the doleful statement from the commanding general that 50,000 troops are necessary and will be neces sary for years to come to hold the Fili pinos down. Jones, on the floor of the house, extracted from Colonel Benja min Franklin Marsh of Illinois the fact that it costs $1,000, per annum to maintain a soldier at home and much more (probably twice as much) to maintain him abroad. That would be $100,000,000 a year, to say nothing of the loss of life and the huge pension roll we are saddling on ourselves. In view of these facts I was thoroughly Justified in characterizing "Uncle Joe's" scheme aa "the most idiotic ever batched in the Uain of man" and his "forever and a day" declaration as "the most melancholy ever heard in con gress." Holding the Philippines "forever and a day" is the old, futile and condemned performance of "shearing a wolf," ut terly profitless and void of glory. Perhaps the illustrious Sucker spoke unadvisedly in the heat of debate in enunciating his "forever and a day" programme and when he cools off may renege. Wise men change their minds; fools never do, and "Uncle Joe" is not a fool, whatever else he may be. So there is hope for him. Un-American. The appointment of a especial em bassy to attend the coronation of King Edward VII. is a distinctively un American performance. We went out of the coronation business July 4, 1776, and should not enter into it again. So far as I am concerned I will never vote one cent of the people's money to pay the expenses of anybody to help crown any king in England or else where. This embassy is a superfluous piece of flunkyism. We are already represented at the court of St. James by our embassador, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, popularly named Joe Choate, who is vaunted by his friends and ad mirers as one of the most brilliant of mortals and who for some three or four years has been swinging the cen ser under the nose of British royalty by advocating an alliance betwixt the United States and Great Britain. If it was absolutely necessary that we stul tify ourselves by having some Ameri can aid in holding up the train of Ed ward VII., why not let Mr. Choate per form that un-American function? Did we send any special embassy to help crown George IV.? Not any. One James Monroe was president then. He was a disciple and bosom friend of the immortal Jefferson, who hated kingcraft as the devil hates holy wa ter. Did we send any special embassy to help crown William IV., the sailor king? Not much. One Andrew Jack son was in the White House then, whose chief glory was that at New Orleans he had trounced the British army in most astounding fashion. Did we send Americans to kotow before royalty at the coronation of Queen Victoria? Not that anybody has heard of. Martin Van Buren, "Old Hickory's" favorite pupil, was at the helm then, and we were not then engaged in the un-American caper of aping royalty and aristocracy. We are progressing after the manner of the crab back wardgrowing like a cow's tail down ward. It is all right to welcome and enter tain Prince Henry "Unser Heinrich" of Hohenzollern. He is our guest, and American hospitality demands that we receive him cordially and that we foot the bills. Another reason is that for a long time a little coterie of auglomaniacs in this country have been endeavoring to commit us to an j English alliance and to get us into a row with Germany. Our kindly recep tion of Prince Henry will demonstrate that we are not the enemy of Germa ny, but desire to be on good terms with her. The entertainment of Prince nenry and the sending of a special embassy to King Edward's coronation are cases which are not on "all fours," as the lawyers say. They are in no way sim ilar. The American people will be glad to entertain the German prince, but they will not indorse the special em bassy to London. The Exeoution of Scheepers. By ruthlessly hanging Scheepers Lord Kitchener has succeeded in doing two ! things first, "damning himself to everlasting fame;" second, making a martyr. Since the bloody Britishers hanged General Hayne of South Caro lina no more beastly or idiotic per formance has been done by any mili tary commander than the murder of Scheepers, for that is precisely what his execution was a dastardly mur der. Think of it a sick man, drag ged out of bed in a hospital, tried for his life by a drumhead court martial, convicted and summarily executed for the crime of fighting for liberty, home, wife, children and native landl Some years ago I was at Charleston, and the house in which General Hayne was confined and from which he was led forth to die on the gallows was pointed out to me as "a shrine of freedom." Hayne is among the American mortals. So will Scheepers be among the Im mortals of South Africa. ' ) the South African war of conquest, and some of them predict that the re sult will be disastrous to the British. Among the latter is Professor Bryce, M. P., and author of "The American Commonwealth" and other valuable works. Upon being asked recently to aid in raising revenue to t endow a chair of history in a South African col lege he made this caustic reply: It seems almost a mockery in th fright ful state of thing: in South Africa, with martial law everywhere, all Interest in education paralyzed, the people unable to move from place to place, an intensity of passion aroused which threatens bitter ness for generations to come and the probable loss of South Africa to Britain to g-o on the platform with smooth generali ties about history a history which has not saved us from repeating the blunders of 1775 and the dulcet notes of peace where there is no peace. Not Generally Known, but Very Rich. The morning after the New Jersey legislature elected Mr. Dryden to the senate of the United States the Wash ington Post headed its account of the proceedings with the suggestive col location of words "Not Generally Known, but Very Rich," a descriptio persons! which might be properly ap plied to most of the senators elected by Republicans in these lata? days. Somebody perhaps it was Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll dubbed the sen ate "the millionaires' club," a name likely to stick. Mr. Dryden may be a most estimable gentleman. Most like ly he is. He certainly has made a great success of his business of . con ducting the Prudential Insurance com pany, but no doubt ex-Attorney Gen eral John W. Griggs would have been elected but for Dryden's millions. New Democratic Whip. That handsome, faithful, able and in defatigable Missourian, James Tigbl man Lloyd, has achieved a new and onerous position, that of Democratic whip in the house. It is a place of ex treme difficulty, great labor and vast Importance. Few men are willing to assume its multifarious responsibilities and fewer still are fit to discharge its duties. He must know not only the Washington residence, but also the Washington places of recreation and the Washington habits of every Dem ocratic representative. His chief busi ness is to keep tab on members, see to it that they are in their places to vote or are duly paired, all of which neces sitates the constant attendance of the whip himself, but also his sleepless vigilance in looking after the others. That Lloyd was selected for this del icate and arduous position and to lead this strenuous life for the party's and the country's good is a high and well deserved compliment to the young Mis sourian. He will not have any "time to throw at the birds," as "Uncle Joe" Cannon would say, while he is whip. He will not have much leisure for or atory, but will probably accomplish more good for the party than will all the orators in the house. Lloyd is the second youngest member of the Mis souri delegation. He is universally rec ognized as a rising man. No better Democrat walks the earth than the new Democratic whip. Economy. It is an old saying that even the worm will turn at last. Now, the sa vants of Boston are not worms far from it but ,they are growing weary of the riotous extravagance of Repub lican congresses. Consequently they have sent a remonstrance to congress against the $100,000,000 estimate for the navy for the fiscal year ending June 30, A. D. 1903. They state quite truly that that is' about five times as much as it was only ten years ago. The petition does not appear to be at all partisan in its nature. The first name appended is that of Edward Everett Hale. Then Robert Treat Paine, George S. Boutwell, Charles Francis Adams, John T. Morse, Jr.; William T. Sedgwick, etc., embracing all shades of political opinion and faith. Pet Names. Shakespeare says: What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Down in Quaysylvania the Republic ens are hurlng pet names at each other as sleepy folks throw bootjacks at noisy and yawling Thomas cats. The Phila delphia North American's latest name for Governor William A. Stone is "the amiable pachyderm occupying the ex ecutive mansion at Harrisburg." It re quired a good deal of ingenuity and some humor to originate such a title as that for the chief magistrate of the state founded by William Penn. Guess the governor is not singing "Call Me Pet Names, Darling." DCM Walking Plows, Riding Plows, Cultivators, Smoothing: Harrows, Corn Plant- ers, and Listers. you. Qualify anything in this We ask our friends and nrosneetive customers a f 3 up very careful examination of our goods. If you L uqffijsffg interested in such goods as are shown we are sure" jmmSSlmu if' that a perusal of these descriptions will please our watchword and this one feature will always appear pre-eminent in goods we handle. If there should be line that you desire, and do not find it shown herein, write us. We probably have it but have not catalogued it. The Whys and Wherefores Here are our Points of Merit On our Chilled and Steel Plows, both Biding and Walking DURABILITY, LIGHT DRAFT, EASE OF HAND LINO, SIMPLICITY, CHEAPNESS OF OPERATION, QUALITY OF WORK AND PERFECT FITTING REPAIRS. The lines upon which all of our plows are constructed are correct, and the material used in every part is the best and very finest that money can buy. All these FACTS WE WARRANT. PLEASE OBSERVE CAREFULLY. In ordering Walking Plows, Sulkies or Gangs describe carefully what you desire, give number, for what kind oKsoil and a complete de- wants in detail. You cannot make this explanation too long or Instructions scrip tion coverine your complete. A great many of our numbers are built on different styles, is why this is absolutely necessary. When you place your order always state number on parts, if it ha3 a number, where it goes and what it is for. For what Plow, Share or Mould. For what kind of soil. Always be plain and explicit. You cannot say too much in the way of an explanation Same rule holds good on cultivator extras. A fail ure is liable is liable to get parts to you that you cannot use, necessitating delay and disappointment. Always state if right or left hand. Repairs Special Notice PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING SO YOU MAY UNDERSTAND OUR MODE OF DOING BUSINESS. Breakage will be made good where manifest defect in ma terial is shown. We cannot rav for reoairiner nlows away from our store: return defec tive parts to us. Claims for shortage must be made within five days from receipt of goods or no allowance will be made. Consignees must look to carriers for loss or damage to goods when same are delivered by us and .-xeipted for in good order. Hardened Steel Shares are not warranted against breakage except when defective material or workmanship is the cause. These Shares should be ground when they need sharpening, and not put into a blacksmith's fire where they are liable to be spoiled. We pay no freight. Remittonces must be made by Bank Draft, Postofiice Money Order or Registered Letter. Charges on cash sent by express must be prepaid. "V H7 4. w guarantee that every PLOW will do good work in the field, subject to a two days' I inr W flr rHllL trial- lf the purchaser fails to make it work as above mentioned, and if after notice to T a ug and we fail to make it work ajJ warranted, it may be returned, but it will be consid ered sold if no complaint is made immediately after two days' use. Price of 16-inch ste 1 beam Plow only. $12 50 Price of 14-inch steel beam Plow only 12 3Q Price of 10-inch wood beam Plow only .-. 7 50 Price of steel Shares for 16 or 14-inch Plows, each. . . 2 40 : Li ncoln Su pply Com pany , 122 North Tenth St. LIGHT HEAVY HARDWARE, TOOLS, ETC. From Illinois The advertisement of the Nebraska Independent is inserted and paid for just as merchants and others pay for advertising. But we will add, with out extra charge, that The Independent is positively the best political paper in America. It bears the right name. It is truly independent. It has no fear of the trusts and money Interests, and that can hardly be said of any other paper. It exposes all the tricks and schemes of the monied conspirators, and every man ought to back it up. While It is the leading and best pop ulist paper, It is a, firm advocate of fu sion with the democrats. Any one who reads it will be surprised at the won derful insight into political matters, and the clear and attractive manner In which it dishes it up. It has also a vast quantity of other interesting mat ter. Democrats should pay for and send this paper to their neighbors. If each democrat would invest fifty cents a year In this way it would not be worth while for the republicans to nominate a candidate for president. Send for a month free, anyway. You will not regret it. Philo (111.) Budget. A Lincoln Republican I Editor Independent: I am a Lincoln republican and that makes me a Bryan democrat. Principles never change, but party names do. It is to be hoped that the young statesmen of today pause and ponder, study principles and especially the science of money. The writer was once a stock and money broker and has watched the present financial system with keen interest since before the civil war. As I look back over the many ruins, financially, socially, morally, mentally and spiritu ally, I can now plainly see that this system is manipulated by a few heart less men to the detriment of the masses and has caused more grief, sorrow, suicides and death than all the wars this country ever had or ever will have. These are the plain facts. S. A. MOULTON. Campbell. Cal. A Clerjrymnn's Callers. There are persons with requests for money for queer uses. For example, a woman once wanted to borrow $5, j which sum, she assured me, was suffi cient to stock and equip a candy store, the income from which would support herself and three children. There was a man who had long been out of work who wanted to borrow $1 with which to buy a stock of tin horns to sell on the street at profit on the night following election day. But here, again, perhaps the stran gest case was that of a man who came to tell me that, as a book agent, he had been canvassing for orders for the Bi hle. Not having met with success, he explained that the reason was that "the Bible was played out." He there fore wanted to borrow a quarter to Invest in some sort of a sample mouse trap, the need for which, he thought, would be "abiding, permanent, per petual and perennially recurring." Independent. The fare on the Kongo railroad for -- m ' M - m. Q u J 1 Change Their Tactics In the reply made by the prosecut ing attorney to Schley's appeal to the president there is a very plain change cf ground. The department has aban doned the position that the cotirt had no right to entertain the question of who was in command at Santiago. This admission contradicted its previ ous position to the effect that Admiral Dewey, in according to Admiral Schley the sole command, traveled outside of the functions of the court. The reply also makes the admission that "one side of the story" aa to the posi tion of the New York in the battle wag before the court. The only de duction the president can draw from this is that Admiral Dewey therefore had ample warrant for his conclusions. The lawyers who sustained the precept could have admitted the other side" if they wanted to, and they were chal lenged to do so by Schley's counsel. The reply denied that Admiral Schley gave orders during the battle, and yet quotes the signal book of the Brook lyn, showing that the orders' of an officer in sole and absolute command were given. Froo Mississippi Editor Independent: Enclosed I send you a newspaper clipping (New Or leans Picayune) which will explain itself. I have been to some trouble to find the sentiment of democrats here and find they, or a majority of them, will vote for any goldbug if he has the name democrat. Now, I am a way-back pop, and I don't propose to be switched off to goldbug democ racy yet awhile. I have voted for Bryan twice and I am willing to vote for the same principles many times more. I hope The Independent will stick to Its colors: Fusion is .good in some cases, but I want to choose my own company. E. SANDERS. United We Stand Editor Independent: I beg you for space in your great paper for a few lines. I say great paper, for Ithinlc that it has done more for fusion and reform than any other paper in this part of the United States. In my horns there are three readers of The Inde pendent and they all think that they can get nothing better anywhere in the United States. United we stand and united we must remain in order to win at the coming election. We have followed fusion In this county and last November we re joiced over the greatest victory ever won in Stanton county. As to the middle-of-the-roaders, I can count them on my fingers. Give us M. F. Harrington for governor and a fusion ticket and we will land this county safely. Yours for an overwhelming victory this time. PAUL KINGSLEY. Stanton, Neb. A Pleased Advertiser Manager Independent: T.he same advertising which has appeared in our columns during December an l January, offering for sale the stock of the Iowa-Nebraska-Beaumont Oil Co.. has apcared in over forty other pa pers, including many of the oldest and best known papers in Iowa and ad jacent territory. It is our pleasure to inform you that more inquiries have been, receive! from the advertisements in The In dependent than from any other two, and (eliminating a half dozen) than from any other five papers we have used. Cordially, D. B. LYONS, C. A. STARR, Fiscal Agents. Des Moines. Ia. of Lloyd George, the pro-Boer mem ber of parliament, that the war will eventually cost England some $2,000, 000,000, he makes the discovery that the whole of the Transvaal army might have been weighed out in tho scales and barely equal the weight in gold which will be required before they are all led into death or captivity. Amazed the World The few thousand men maintaining the Boer cause in the field have amazed the world by their euccess in not only avoiding destruction by vastly su perior force, but keeping the military strength of England strained to the point of breaking. There is no ap parent reason why they should not be able to keep up the fight on the pres ent lines for at least another year, and so wear out the patience of the British people with the policy of the government and the tremendous drain upon the military and financial re sources of the empire. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Their Weight in Gold An ingenious arithmetician, writing to the Speaker, makes the following colculatlon in comparing the weight in flesh of the Boers and the cost in gold of the. war: Assuming that the Boer army proper contained originally .abpjit22.00Q men, and the statement They Voted For Savage . Editor Independent: I enclose $1 for which renew my subscription for one year. The Independent is one o? the best papers printed in the United States. You are not afraid to speal; the truth, hurt who it will. I think every man who cast his vote for Sav age will feel like kicking himself. I hope that rou will always stand up for the right and keep letting the people know what is going on. JOHN BROOMFIELD. Indianola, Neb. Newspaper Man Wants It Editor Independent: I concluded that your paper ought to be in my reading list for 1892, and accordingly, after looking over the samples that you sent, mailed Mr. Bryan a renewal of my subscription and added enough for your paper and the Springfield Republican. I do most of the "Flashes" in the Masenna (N. Y.) Forum, somewhat in the style of you westerners. J. S. CORBIN. Govemeur, N. Y. By Wireless Telegraphy Editor Independent: I have had the cataract removed from my eye, but I cannot as yet see "to read my title clear to mansions in the skies." I ex pect to take the Commoner and In dependent during the remainder of my stay on earth and If I can see to read when I reach the stars I will try and get them over the wireless telegraph, L.. G.TODD. Union, Neb. - Pop Music Editor Independent: Find enclosed $1 for your valuable paper. I am a democrat, but your pop music just suits me. I always like to read after a fearless writer, the man who has the sand to denounce a wrong when he sees it, whether he be a democrat, a republican or what not. It was in The Commoner that I saw your advertise ment, which I took advantage of and send sincere thanks for the same. P. C. GRANT. Quincy, III. From Montana Editor Independent: I sent you 25 cents the other day for your paper and this coming fall I will renew my subscription again. I like it as well as any paper that I ever read. You are not afraid to tell the truth. Will the time ever come when the majority of the people will aret the scum off their eyes? P. C. ARNETT. Silesia, Mont. From Maine Editor Independent: I thank you very much for the sample copies that you sent me. We are very much pleased with it. It seems to me to be just the paper that is needed. k VAUGHN FOSTER. East Bethel, Me; !; From Michigan Editor Independent: We have re ceived The Independent and are high ly pleased with it and have sent our subscription. I assure you that we appreciate a paper that has the stamina to speak out In the interest of the people and against the ever in creasing greed of classes. We wish you abundant success. R.-H. SMITH. Howell, Mich. God Given Truths Editor Independent: I received a sample copy of your paper which 1 read with much satisfaction. I be lieve the principles which your paper upholds are God-given truths. They are a declaration of principles which every liberty-loving citizen ought to stand for. A. D. HALL. Benton Harbor, Mich. A Ray of Sunshine Editor Independent: I thought I would stop The Independent at least for a while, but I can't do without It. It is like a ray of sunshine in a storm. It is ahead of everything. This last number is running over with good things. s S. M. STANTON. Dryden, N. Y. From Washington Editor Independent: I take your paper because it is an able exponent of the people's party, of which party I had the honor up to a few weeks ago to be chairman of the county central committee. J. C. HARKNESS. Northport, Wash. John D. Rockefeller, jr., informs young men that success comes only to those who persevere. . Mr. Rocke- l feller has persevered for a number of j years now In being the eon of a very j rich father, and as a consequence hia prospects in life are quite promising. Nebraska State Democrat.
