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February 13, 1&02. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 88 83 83 88 S8: 83 88 ss Letter i Clark's ! 00 Abdication of the Howe of Repre tentativei "Paciiication,' In the OO Philippines Current Comment 00 83 88 Special Washington Letter. .0 clear sighted men it has been apparent for twelve years that the senate is ab sorbing or usurping all leg islative functions and pow ers, while the house of representatives is being curtailed of its usefulness and Influence. More properly speaking, the house of representatives has been for the period named engaged in the un wise and self Imposed task of curtail ing its own power and minimizing its own influence. The decadence of the house dates from the first electl6n of Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed to the speakership. His great ambition, or, rather, one of his great ambitions, was to change the house from a delibera tlve Into a business body. He succeed ed so well he ' and his successors that the most Important measures are now rushed through the house with no a deq ua te discussion full of imperfec tions, crude and "misshape nT to be dumped into the senate, which Is a de liberative body and which it is hoped will amend these half baked measures Into a form presentable to the public and the courts; consequently the sen ate takes a sort of fiendish delight in remodeling the house bills to such an extent that- their authors would not recognize them if they met them in the big road. The Democrats have from the begin ning been restive under this despot ism, which has reduced the influence of the house to zero,-and they will never be satisfied until It is overthrown and the house is restored to its an cient high estate. ' Richardson's Resolution. ; Jan. 31 Hon. J. D. Richardson of Tennessee, Democratic leader, intro duced the following resolution as a matter of privilege and as the bgm" ning of a systematic fight to rehablll-. tate the house: Whereas, There are now pending before the senate numerous treaties proposing commercial reciprocity . with other na tions by which customs revenue duties wiil be changed from those established by acts of congress duly- approved by the president of the United States; and Whereas, There, are bills originating In the senate noAr pending before that .body, regulating the duties Imposed oh articles from Cuba and ' the Philippines imported Into the United States; and Whereas, Resolution- have been intro duced In the senate and are now pending In that body declaring that the doctrine ol reciprocity as stated in the act of Oct. 1. 1890. known as the McKinley bill, and the act of July 24, 1S97, known as the Dingley bill. Is the trite doctrine, and that the various treaties pending In the senate should receive consideration and action at the present session of congress; therefore Resolved. That it ' is the sense of this house that the negotiation by the,, execu tive department of the government of. a commercial treaty whereby the rates of duty to be imposed on foreign commodi ties entering the United States for con sumption should be fixed would, . in view of the provision of section 7, article 1, of the constitution of the United States, be an Infraction of the constitution and an Invasion of one of the highest preroga tives of the house of representatives. Hon. Serer.o E. Payne, chairman of the ways and means committee, and ex officio floor leader of the majority, raised the point of order that Mr. Rich ardson was premature in rising to a question of privilege and that the sen ate had not infringed the rights of the house until it had actually ratified the treaty or treaties. Mr. Speaker Hen derson, taking Mr. Payne's view, sus tained his point of order and ruled against Mr. Richardson. Clearly Mr. Speaker Henderson and Mr. Chairman Fayne aro statesmen who believe in the eflicacy of "locking the barn after the horse is gone." But the fight for the restoration of the prerogatives of the house is begun, and begun by Dem ocrats, and will be waged to a success ful issue. It is passing strange that all menibers, Republicans as well as Democrats, are , not jealous of the rights, prerogatives and Immunities of the house to which they belong. But while Democrats are the Republicans are not. ; Too Bad. ;- Certain benighted denizens of Chica go are incubating a, plan to get up a petition with 10,000,000 or 20.000.000 signers asking Oom;-Paul Kruger to visit this country at the time King Ed ward VII. is coronated. It goes with out saying that these traitorous Chica goese ought to be yanked up and sum marily punished for having such gall and bad manners as. to invite theigrand old Boer to be among us at the very instant when the universe is supposed to have its eye fastened on Whitelaw Reid and company as. they are ko towing before the great-grandson of George III. It is really too bad that that immortal scene should be marred by these simple minded Cbicagoese. The Most Unkindest Cut. Precisely how sincere is. the new born love of John Bull for Uncle Sam may be Inferred from this question pro pounded to all creation by Mr. Cunningham-Graham in The Saturday Evening Review; "I wonder how many men our dear cousins have shot in the Philippines without the formality of a trial?" To borrow a saying from Wil liam Shakespeare. "That is the most unkindest cut of all." He continues, "If we therefore are assassins, what epithet belongs to our 'dear cousins?' " All of this arises out of Senator Tel ler's remarks in the senate on the Scheepers mprder, wherein he " de nounced the perpetrators ofV that foul crime as assassins. Our anglomaniacs will be greatly' worried by Mr. Cun- At last our stake and ridered high protective tariff system is in real peril. The ladies God bless them I have ris en in revolt, and they are proposing to make it hot for President Teddy and all the rest qf the high and mighty functionaries who believe that a man can lift himself over the fence by tug ging at his own boot straps and are committed to the proposition that the way to make people rich is to tax them within an inch of their lives. The par ticular grievance of the ladies is that "impertinent questions are asked and remarks are made which are humiliat ing and intolerable" by the customs of ficers. It may be who knows? -that the anger of the ladies may accomplish what all else has failed to do a change in the tariff system regulations. Tod Inquisitive. Everybody has read of the hot Indig nation of the old colored preacher who was explaining the creation and said, "God made Adam out of mud and lean ed him up against the fence to dry," and who was interrupted by a small colored boy with the question, "Uncle Rastus, who made that fence?" If Senator Eugene Hale of Maine, who is said to be the best judge of terrapin and "sich" in Washington, keeps on asking impertinent questions of Governor General Taft, the jingoes will be as much perturbed as was that colored preacher. If Senator Hale does not keep his optic peeled, he will dis cover there is such a thing as being too inquisitive. While the governor gen eral was telling a senate committee bow completely the Philippines are be ing pacified (for the hundredth time), the senior senator from Maine marred the harmony of the occasion by rudely asking the governor general: "Within the past ninety days I have observed by ' the newspapers that there were fortyKne small fights within the space of, thirty days. Where do they occur?" Now, Senator Hale ought to know bet ter than to Insinuate by such a prepos terous question that the islands are not completely "pacified" when the battles average one and a third per diem. As another proof of "complete and permanent pacification" Governor Gen eral Taft naively admitted that "three men associated in the government had affiliated with the Federal party." Queer "pacification" that! What is the Federal party in favor of, anyway? Why, It demands independence or ad mission to the Union as a state! Yet "three persons associated in the gov ernment" have joined that Federal par ty! Governor General Taft did not di vulge their names for prudential rea sons perhaps. It will doubtless cause a thrill of patriotic pride to animate the hearts of divers Americans who have no wads to speak of to learn that our paternal government has spent over a million dollars in providing roads for the bare foot Filipinos to travel over. What be comes of the old saying that "charity Should begin at home?" If charity, why not roads also, Mr. Governor General Taft? Our Profits? For the last three years when any American has had the courage, nerve, patriotism and good sense to object to a continuance of the Imperial policy in the Philippines we have heard the sav age roar of the commercialists that "we must have the Philippine trade," an answer which was accounted sufficient for all purposes. It must be taken and accepted that the readers of these let ters, as well as other citizens, under stand the simple process of addition, subtraction, multiplication and divi sion. Here is what the old field school masters used to call a sum: In one year we spent $90,000,000 in the Philippines, to say nothing of loss of life, of de struction of health and of the resultant pension roll. In the same time our ex ports to the Philippines amount to $3, 000,000 In round numbers. Ten per cent is fully enough to allow for profits. ! which would he $300,000, which, sub tracted from the $90,000,000 expended, leaves us in the hole $89,700,000. How long at that rate will It take for us to get rich out of this Philippine invest ment? No such stupendous idiocy was ever known among men. Nevertheless, , as the Now York World, truly says, 1 1 "Yet we have the reputation of being the smartest business people in the . world, impossible to beat In a trade." i Establishing public baths for the Fi lipinos when so many of our own peo ple need to follow Mr. Dick's advice, "Take a bath;" establishing schools in the Philippines when millions here at home can't read and write this is phi lanthropy run mad. After awhile the people will wake up, and then there will be a great rattling of dry bones. A Straw. It is an old saying that "straws show which way the wind blows." If that be true, then a very significant thing, though little noted, is happening In England, Indicating in what stress the bloody Britishers find themselves to prolong the murderous war against the little republics of South Africa. It is this: Lord Roberts- and Secretary of War Brodrlck are advocating a change in the war regulations so that men un der five feet in stature may be admit ted to serve in the army, which means that the supply of taller men has been exhausted. This is enough to make Frederick William of Prussia, grand father of Frederick the Great, restless in his coffin. His fad was giants.' The In South Africa, who are unable to conquer a handful of farmers. So they are willing to take anybody into serv ice who Is willing to serve. Job In Congressional Debate. When the man of Uz wrote his Im mortal epic, he had no idea indeed he couldn't bave had that thousands of years after his wondrous sufferings he would be quoted in the American house of representatives in a hot debate as to our doings in the Philippines. Never theless and notwithstanding he was so quoted, and by a no less distinguished personage than Charles Fremont Coch ran of Missouri. The colonel snatched from Job this thunderbolt and hurled it at the ducking and dodging heads of j the Republican jingoes: "Should a wise -man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he' reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches wherewith ' he can do no good?" which the jingoes construe, as a personal reflection. A Queer Caper. In a recent issue of the Washington Post Mr. E. H. Newman of Kentucky, Who writes brilliant articles under the nom de plume of Savoyard, in speak ing of "the fathers of the house" says that after Hon. William D. Kelly of Philadelphia, nicknamed "Pig Iron" Kelly, had served one term in the house he refused a unanimous renom ination on the ground that it required so much of his time in looking after the claims and wants of his constitu ents that he had no time left for the discharge of his public duties, where upon his constituents forced him to accept the nomination and then hired a competent man at $5,000 a year to do the outside work for the Hon. "Pig Iron," so that he could devote all his time and energies to the work of the house. Sensible constituents! Mr. Kel ly served them with distinction till he earned the title of "Father of the House." Dead Congressmen. My good friend, Hon. Kos Harris of Wichita, Kan., once wrote me: "Send me some eulogies. I like to read about dead congressmen." Whether Kos was in earnest or only funning, one thing is cocksure, and that is that living congressmen do not like to listen to ; speeches about dead congressmen. The i announcement by the speaker of "the j special order to" eulogize a dead mem ber empties the house as suddenly as a dinner gong empties the public room of a country hotel empties it of all ex cept the chosen few who are to orate. But nothing will ever change the rule that a day must be set apart for eulo gies on every member that dies in service. Benjamin Augustine Enloe of Tennessee devoted much time and energy to devise a better plan, but Benjamin Augustine is in private life, and the eulogies still continue. Fat Salaries. One of the most scholarly and in dustrious men in congress is Hon.,Wil lard D. Vandlver of Missouri. He was a college professor and president many years before he entered congress and is still a most indefatigable student. Consequently there is always "meat" in his speeches. In his recent remarks on the "Permanent Military Estab lishment For the Philippines History of Colonialism," among other things, he gave this astounding information: Mr. Chairman, only a short time ago the congressional party, returning from the Philippines, brought us this list of salaries of our colonial satraps, who gov ern the country by authority of one man and fix their own salaries: Governor Taft, president of the commission $20,000 Each of four commissioners 15,000 Secretary to the commission 7,500 Chief Justice, a Filipino 7,500 No wonder the gentleman from Califor nia Mr. Kahn was able to quote this afternoon the approval of the Filipino chief justice, because, drawing a salary of J7.500 a year from the United States government, it Is not to be supposed that he would want the job to come to an end very soon. Six justices, two of them Filipinos.. $7,000 Treasurer 6,000 Auditor 6,000 Collector of customs 6,000 Head of department of posts 6,000 Chief of bureau of education 6,000 Right here, Mr. Chairman, I want to call attention to the fact, which seems to me to be a significant one and by compari son, at least, a shameful fact for us to have to face, that the commissioner of ed ucation for the Philippine Islands draws a salary from this government of $6,000 a year, while the distinguished educator who presides over the bureau of education for this great country of ours, a man who has given his life work to the cause of education and whose distinction in his profession is recognized in every civilized country In the world, draws a salary only half as large. Up to Sept. 1 last Governor Taft was receiving a salary of $12,000 a year, with $15 per diem for incidental expenses, I suppose. Senator McCreary. Much has been said in the public prints about the return of Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland to the senate, but little about the reappearance in pub lie life of James Bennett McCreary of Kentucky, yet one event is just about as important as the other. McCreary j Is a valuable addition to the Democrat j ic contingent in the house of the con ! script fathers. He is an able and experi ienced statesman, a Democrat without I the shadow of turning, possessed of as much tact as Gorman himself. Ho was a colonel In Morgan's cavalry, member and sieaker of the Kentucky legislature, elected governor of Ken tucky in 1S75 at the early age of thirty-seven, served twelve years in con gress, was chairman of the great com mittee on foreign affairs and served in the Brussels monetary conference. 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INTERNATIONAL AURALCL1NIC, 696 LaSalU Ave., Chicago, III EDITORIAL OPINIONS Ideas of the Writers for the Weekly Papers Some of the Things They Think and Writ About No Bumdazzlingr r This big Sixth congressional dis trict went republican last fall and now republican candidates for congress are thick as fleas on a negro baby's blanket, but Savage and his Bartley pardon has knocked out all chances of them carrying it now, unless the pops let the democrats bumdazzle them as they did ot the last judicial con vention. If the populists are wise and nominate the right man it means an easy election. R. L. Miller in Bur well Mascot. Broad Gage Financiering: Gage is out with the statement that since April 1, 1901, the treasury has redeemed and cancelled United States bonds to the par value of nearly $59, 000,000. They cost him a little over $72,000,000. Now, these are some of the bonds that Cleveland sold Pierpont Morgan at 104 and Pierpont. eold them next day or so at 119.... Any United States bond in these times of stag nant money is really worth more the longer it has to run, no matter what the financial reports in the papers may say. So these bonds were worth more the day Grover sold them than they are now - when Gage redeems them. But Gage pays $13,000,000 above par, or about 140 for them, of which about $2,500,000 is accrued interest and $10,500,000 premium.,; ? So - between Grover and Gage, twin fellows in finance, the taxpayer loses pretty roundly. It is usually a: good thing for any debtor to square up his obli gations as soon as he can, but not at 140 when by waiting till the debt Is due and enforceable ..he -oli Id settle at par. This case showshow the wealthy are taken care of by the re publican secretary of the United States treasury and the common -man i3 made to suffer. "Flashes" in Massena (N. Y.) Forum. , Opposes Bureaucracy The mania to appoint various com missioners to regulate different occu pations and businesses has struck the Iowa legislature. Nebraska has had plenty of experience along that line and can give the Iowaites some point ers on its ability to reduce the sur plus. Brer Porter can also give some of , the beneficial results. Jason L. Claflin in Ord Journal. A Great Campaigner , Ex-Congressman Sutherland has been- mentioned in connection with the nomination for governor on the populist and democratic tickets. He is a clean man and would make an ex cellent run and if elected, an honest and unright governor. Jason L. Claflin in Ord Journal. Abolish Discriminations In order to restore the equal rights of the people and deliver them from the criminal despoiliation of monopo listic combinations, it is imperative that the special privilege which created and foster them be uprooted and forever destroyed. J. R. Dodds in Wymore Arbor State. 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Editor Independent: I have been a reader of tie Granger, Voice and In dependent for many years and as a newspaper man can say for a slush eliminator you have few equals. You don't dwell on murder, suicide and prostitution that poisons the mind of youth, but use your valuable space for valuable matter, and in discussing na tional, state and municipal affairs you squeeze out the fictitious and leave cold facts that can be handed around without gloves for the benefit of think ing readers. As this Is my first com munication to you, I could not refrain from expressing a word of encourage ment. What is politics? A majority of the people seem to think it is to be a republican, democrat or populist; or some other ''can," "at" or "1st." That is merely partisanship. Parties are the growth of a demand by the people to represent their, sentiment or belief on certain well defined principles. Without this 'backing no party or or ganization of people can exist for any length of time. We understand that politics is the science, of government. and that without regard: to party seeks to direct a policy of government for the best interests of, not the governed, but the people who form the mass of humanity known as citizens of certain territory.- In the United. States we call ourselves citizens of the United States under a democratic form of government, and have so made an Im mortal declaration that we were a free people and gave the world our reasons for such a statement, and then in order that we might know our duty as citizens we enacted a certain set of by-laws that became known as our constitution, which defined and re stricted the duty of each . person who chose to subscribe willingly to . every requirement .of that document, the same as . any person would do if he wished to join any secret" or other or ganization. The first act the candi date must perform is to . become fa miliar with the by-laws (constitution), then he must take an. obligation to support it. How many citizens of the United States, either by birth or nat uralization (which means taking the oath of allegiance) have ever read our by-laws? Very few. And yet men who never glanced over these by-laws claim to be politicians. Ask them a tout a question that has been agitated from one end of this nation to the other for the past thirty years and in tensely for the past ten years ask what the by-laws -of their government say on that question the money of the country. If money is what all writers say it is a medium of ex change who authorized Its use? Didn't the old fathers use coonskins, shells, tobacco and beads with which to represent the value of the property or thing sought? Then who is the one to make changes? Why, our by-laws fixes that when it says gold and silver shall be metals that will represent values because coonskins are more val uable than , either metal and not as convenient to handle. But who is to say how much of . either metal how many grains, if you please shall rep resent a certain value? Again ,our by-laws say congress, which Is a con vention of men chosen by all the peo ple to assmble at a stated place, at a stated time to act for or represent their masters Well, who shall place a value or price upon so many grains of the meta: selected? Our by-laws say "congress shall coin money and pjace a value thereon and (place an exchangeable value) of foreign coins." Now, I can hear, a "cheerful idiot" or a "heavenly twin," "mullethead" or a half-baked partisan (politician?) say congress don't have a stamp and place that on the thing used for money, that Is done at the mint. Sure! but the convention (congress)" first coins It, that is, passes a law stating the size, weight and fineness and empow ers the director of the mint to melt the metals and mould "them into the size and weight required. The paper money 4s coined by congress the same way, only they designate the kind of paper, denomination and amount that shallbe printed. This writer believes in the: cheapest possible form of a medium of exchange, but while gold and silver is the recognized standard of money, demands that their mintage be free and unlimited, thereby making their value cheap. There is In my judgment no Intrinsic value in any thing i hat will not sustain life as a food product. ' ' r - In my judgment every populist and "educated" democrat should, at every opportunity, insist that money does not purchase anything, but . It is a medium of exchange, and is purchased for that purpose and for that alone. When it takes ten bushels of corn to purchase (and Insist always to use that term in your transaction) a dol lar one hundred cents then money Is scarce and high. If you can buy one hundred cents 'With one bushel and one-half of corn, then money, is plentl ful and consequently cheap. 'This is my theory in arguing the money question:-: ;- , 't " ' r f: "" .--v.- I !. In 1896; when the 16 to 1 Issue was I belnj;agitated &ni the suppression of silver was advocated by many, I used this homely Illustration. Money being: the blood of commerce, suppose " a farmer had two horses that he used to do his plowing and other farm work with, and he was feeding them oats and corn (16 to 1), and he went to a republican blow-out and heard a brief less lawyer 6ay that gold was all that was . needed and if you let. silver loose (free) " Your-op" would dump all the silver loose on every farm, merchant's counter and poor man's door yard and the dollars would only be 50-cent dol lars. . Before this speech the farmer had been feeding his stock and keep ing them fat on corn and oats and they were doing their work in a satis factory manner, but he came homo down on the 16 to 1 fallacy and that evening he cut off the oats from his team (the 16) and gave them only the one (1) and went on with his farming, but his horses got weak and poor, no matter what water he gave them, and flntlly they were unable ' to do hi3 work. This illustrates our nation when one-half the blood la taken from the body commerce and suffering and decay follows. H. D.. BARR. Plattsmouth, Neb. . A FINE CATTLE RANCH 900 Ton of Hay, 3,000 Acra of Pattnro 0 FlbwlMff Wells' This is known as the Tyrrell Ranch. and is located fifteen miles south of Atkinson, Holt county. Neb. . This ranch consists of 1,600 acres; 960 acres deeded land and mostly fine hay mea dow, the balance, 640 acres, h? a school section, the lease running for twenty two years at less than half whattbe taxes would be on the same tract. There Is some hay land on the school section, but it is mostly adapted to range, and this, with enough of the free range land adjoining to make 3,- 000 acres, is fenced with a substantial three-wire fence. A good six-room frame house, barn 35x80 with stanch ions for twenty-eight cows, granary, shed room and good yards, pens and corralls. Three small pastures of 20. 40 and 120 acres, fenced with good four-wire fence and each containing a fine flowing well, which flows a t,& Inch stream of the purest water, on earth the year around. Ten acres good timber. Dally mall delivered at door. Postoffice, store and blacksmith shop on adjoining farm. There Is no better ranch in Nebraska. Price, $16,000, $6,000 down, the balance in ten annual payments at 6 per cent in terest. Call upon or address, EDWIN S. EVES, O'Neill, Neb. &&&&&&& t&JtjjtjX&&Js & HOMESEEKERS ' 'jf EXCURSIONS v Jtjlt via THE NORTH & WESTERN LINE J February 18. 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Corresponding low rates from intermediate . points on the UNION PACIFIC. - Write for rates to points not given above. E. B. SLOSSON, Agent. J J J J J J J J J J - J J V J J J J J J J J JJJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJJJ j ., NORTH-WESTERN LINE.' ? 8791 Miles l J Of perfectly equipped railway . reaching j8 Norfolk, Fremont, Omaha, , t Sioux City, Redflold, Oaks, 08 Mankato, Tama, ' Clinton, & Ames, Huron, Pierre, - Yank- 8 ton, West Superior, Duluth, J8 Eau Claire, Minneapolis, St. " & Paul, OshkOsh, Two Rivers, 0 Milwaukee, Evanston. Madi- J & son, Racine, : Kenosha, New Ulm, Chadron, Lead, Dead- 06 wood, Iroquoise, Hot Springs, . Nelson, Crawford, Eagle Grove ; & and various points in tf J WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN, ' & ILLINOIS, IOWA, MINNE- SOTA, NORTH and SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA and J WYOMING. 0 j& For rates etc., apply to C. II. o Dean,, city pass, ag't, 117 So. . v v 10th st. E. T. Moore, depot . 6, ticket ag't, cor. 9th and S sts. & . R. W. 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