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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT March 13, 1902 ZJ) e Nebraska Independent Lincoln, nebraska JRESSE BLDG., CORNER !3TH AND N STS Published JSvery Thursday $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Whn making remittances do not leave money with Dews agencies, postmasters, eto to be forwarded by them. They frequently forget or remit a different amount than was left with them, and the subscriber fails to gat .. . . i proper credit. . Address all communications, and maka all drafts, money 'ers, etc., payable to Zb Htbraska Tndtpendent, ' Lincoln. Neb. POPULISTS AS LEADERS Anonymons communications will not be no ticed. Bejected manuscripts will not be re timed. . General Roberts has not put down the war in South Africa and all the honors he received for the assumed job are Ill-gotten goods. . The Chicago Tribune accounts for the decrease in the population of Oma ha as announced In the census by the , fact that it is the residence of Rose "water, Roosevelt hay is not becoming to the American mules as regular diet. In the language of Kipling they pre fer "English oafs." The most patriotic and heroic peo ple: The Boers. But our silk-stocking administration prefer the Brit ishers, neither heroic nor patriotic. In answer to several correspondents The Independent replies that the Stor- month dictionary can be obtained at any book store. The publishers are Frank F. Lovel & Co., 142 Worth etreet, New York. Even our sires of the revolutionary 'days, great as were their achieve ments, do not equal Botha, DeWett and Delarey. Meanwhile we are look ing on and assisting the British. Gods, what has become of the spirit that ani mated Americans in '76? . Even the American - mule is more patriotic than the Roosevelt-Hay com bination. Whenever he stampedes he plays smash with the British crockery. 'Rah for the mule! Within the last month two signal Boer victories be came British panics because of our mules. vssv- Governor Taft confessed to the seu - ate committee that it would have been better if , the United States had never occupied the Philippines. The censor cut that out and the people do not know it. It would hardly do to let them know it. That is exactly what . the populists have said all the time. Lord Pauncefote's note to the pow- ers at the breaking out of the war 'with Spain would make a very good : precedent for President Roosevelt to lact upon in regard to the Boer war. England could have no excuse to ob . Ject to a note to the continental pow ers suggesting a united protest against , its continuance. Joe Parker and Clem Deaver made 8f much out of their middle-of-the-road tickets in the last campaign that the grafters are determined to get an other pull on their Uncle Hanna's leg. Here in Nebraska it don't seem j to . work. The attempt to organize the , "allied party" at Omaha last week was a most dismal 'failure. Uncle Hanna arid ' Colonel' Dick wilL not shell out much unless they can do better than : that. ' It is altogether probable that some of the little bankers out west who . have been backing, up Wall street for the past twenty years will get their eyes opened when 'they read the cur rency biir favorably reported to the house. If they want to descend from independent business men to the posi tion of bank clerks let them go on whooping it up for the republican'par ty. Wall street would swallow every one of them in less than ten years Un der the provisions of that act. Most horrible stories are coming from the Philippines about the viola tion of the laws of war of both par ties. A large number of American offi cers have been court-martialed for cruelty to prisoners. Over 500 Fili pinos have been court-martialed and hung after military trials during the last year for violations of the laws of war while all the American officers have been let off! with light sentences. Privates convicted for these crimes have received long imprisonment sen tences, some as long as twenty years. So the bloody work goes ' on. The worst of it is that it will continue to go on as long as the United States re mains in the islands. The thing for us to do is to, get out of there. If the Filipinos want to keep on fighting af ter we are gone it will be no affair of ours. There is no clainr made any longer that there is anything in it for us but an eternal expense and the loss every year of some thousands of young 35$ ; There" is a clutjfin .tiae city Lincoln made up for the moat part of profes sional men, many of them being law yers and professors in the university. A majority of them are populists and Bryan democrats. Some hot discus sions take place upon current matters. One of the ' republicans lately re marked: "How is i.t that while the republicans often take different sides on questions, you populists and demo crats are sure to all line up solid?" He was told that the reason was that these men all had certain fundamen tal principles which they never for sook. When an5F new. question arose they applied these principles and the result was that they would naturally all come to the same conclusions, while the republicans having abandoned all the fundamental principles upon which the party was founded were always at sea, without chart or compass, and no one, not even themselves, could tell where they would land when any new thing was broached. The populist press is of the same sort. The editors get no orders from any headquarters, - If they did they would pay no' attention to them, yet with a rare exception, they will be found taking up new questions and discussing thera with almost perfect unanimity. What is more surprising is that the general public finally come to their views. They are leaders in economic thought because they have certain fixed principles. That populists do lead no one can truthfully deny. They were the first to demand the election of senators by the people. They were the first to declare for the public ownership of city franchises and the public utilities of city life, which may seem somewhat strange for most of them were farmers. All these things are now advocated by prominent men of ' all parties and many others which the populists first brought to the public attention re ceive almost universal public ap proval. When the gag rules were first adopted in the house of representa tives every man who is now a populist protested and foretold the result. Years after the populists made their protest and gave their reasons, some of the republican papers that at the time were denouncing populists as lunatics are now reproducing the same arguments and among them is the Chi cago Tribune which in a late edition said: The house rules which enable a majority to. gag a minority also enable a majority of the party which is in control to gag a mi nority of its wn party. Much is said about "the oligarchy of the senate." There is a house olig archy, small in numbers, but en joying, thanks to the rules of that body, almost despotic power. It is intolerant of opposition from members of its own party or of the opposing party. It is averse to the full discussion of measures on the floor of the house. It prefers to "jam" them through. Had - there been such an oligarchy in 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska bill would not have been debated for weeks, but would have been de bated for two days. The abuse of the rules of the house has lowered that body in the public estimation. Speaker Reed said, proudly, that the house did not debate, but legislated. Today it neither debates nor legis lates. The senate does both. It is to the proceedings of the senate that men go to learn what is said in congress about public meas ures. It is to the senate they turn to ascertain what legislation is to be adopted. The house proposes and the senate disposes. The pop ular branch of the national leg islature has ceased to be the pop ular branch. There are able and eloquent men on both sides of the house. Fifty years ago the country would have heard from such men often. It now hears from them seldom. They are the victims of a misuse of the too rigid rules of the house. HURRAH TOR WILD CATS The house committee on banking and currency have been cogitating for a long time and have at last brought forth a .scheme of banking and cur rency that will turn everything finan cial topsy turvy if it is ever enacted into law. Every disreputable and dangerous policy that has been advo cated for the last fen years seems to be incorporated in this one bill. Branch banks, redeeming silver, re tirement of the greenbacks, asset cur rency and every other sort of finan cial deviltry which their wild brains could evolve is "favorably reported" to the house. Of course there will b? given no chance to discuss this meas ure. The republicans are opposed to discussion.; The rules committee will bring in a rule and fix a time to vote and that will be all there is of it. New York bankers have determined to wipe out western banks and center all financial affairs in their own ring. Branch banks will do it and so they are for branch banks. They want to go into the wild cat issue of money on assets and their tools in congress obey their orders just as jumping jacks respond to a pull of the string. What do these two-by-four congressmen know about banking, and money? Did any one of them ever read a work on banking? Did any one of them ever study a work of authority on political economy? Let them flood this coun try with bank promises to pay if they deem silver in gold. Let them retire the greenbacks and put bank promises to pay in their place. These congress men think that a bank promise to pay is much better than a promise of the United States government. That is the way a mullet head reasons. But this bill is not passed yet. It Is probable that these congressmen will hear something from bankers who do not live in New York before many days. The bankers of the west have learned something about money and finance in the last few years. The Independent says, go ahead and pass the bill. Let the $800,000,000 ot trust funds in the United States treas ury be turned over to the banks at 1 per cent interest. Let the banks on that deposit inflate their credit, (they are running ten to one now) $8,000,000 000. On that let them issue credit cur rency and let us all get rich on a flood of paper money. Nothing easier in the world. Hurrah for wild-catting! Be sure and vote the republican ticket. The banks are rich enough to give you all a cord of paper money. They'll have it to give if this bill passes. THAT ISTHMIAN CANAL A farmer writes to The Independent: "I have read your paper for five years and your judgment of the policy likely to be pursued by the republican party has always been so accurate that I have come to rely upon it without much thought or investigation. Do you remember what you have said about the action of the republicans on an isthmian canal? It has turned out just as you said it would." It did not take much knowledge or foresight to tell what they would Jo. The party holds power on account of the support that is given it by the railroads. Letthe railroads withdraw their support and it could easily be beaten in almost every state in the union. It follows that the party will do nothing to which the railroads are distinctly opposed. The building of a canal across the isthmus is opposed by the trans-continental railroads. It follows, as The Independent has often told Senator Morgan, that such a canal will never, be built under republican auspices, as long as the leaders be lieve that they can hold power by the aid of the railroads. The canal commission seems to be under railroad control. They have had an opportunity to study the ques tion for years. They knew just as well as the general public now knows, when they made their last report rec ommending the Panama route that the United States could get no clear title. They knew of the international com plications and the title by which the Panama company held its franchise, and knowing all that, they made a re port in favor of Panama. The only re sult that could follow and which every one of them knew would follow, was to defeat the passage of any bill to build the canal at this term of con gress. To make certain that the Nicaragua route should not be chosen, the rail roads have kept a large diplomatic force at the seat of government of Costa Rica and Nicaragua that has in duced those governments to withdraw the propositions that they made con cerning the right to build the canal. The men who have been engaged in this are traitors and should be prose cuted under the United States statutes which completely cover such transac tions. It is as flagrant treason as was ever committed against any govern ment, and if there was anything but a railroad government at Washington every one of them would be shot or im prisoned. The people of the United States might as well understand now that there will never be a canal built acros? the isthmus while the railroads rule the republican party and that party stays in power. The roads can hold the party up to that as long as the leaders believe that they can succeed with makeshifts, prevarications and pretenses. When the prevaricating plank was adopted at the republican national convention The Independent called attention to it and said theu, and it says now, that the great rail roads will never allow the canal to be built as long as they control the gov ernment at Washington. It is proba ble that the last plan announced will be perfectly satisfactory to the mul let heads and they will support the party with as much enthusiasm as ever. It said that congress will pass a bill without any appropriation and leave the whole thing in the hands o the president. The way to get an isthmian canal is to beat the republican party and put men in control of the government who are not dominated by the great rail road corporations. Secretary Hay Is very energetic In his protests against Russian monop olies in Manchuria, but he has never had a word to say about the hundred and one monopolies in this country. Why not apply some of this energy at home. It is now said that the secre tary is worrying himself about a min-1 Ing monopoly that Germany has se cured in Shantung province of China. The steel trust has a mining monopoly up on the great lakes that beats that two to one, but no member of the cabl- SUGAR BOUNTIES European countries have been trying subsidies for the last decade or two and just as they have been forced to abandon them after having thrown the commerce of the nations into confu sion, Hanna and Frye want the United States to start out on the same road to destruction. At the meeting of the several nations interested In sugar bounties recently held in Brussels, it was resolved that the whole subsidy business should be abandoned after 1903. The paying of these immense subsidies was the great factor in the depression that recently swept over Germany and they were becoming so onerous that they could no longer be endured. There is a contravailing duty In this country on all sugar coming from nations paying a bounty and when the counties cease, the tariff to that extent in this country will be reduced. There is therefore a prospect that the price of sugar will fall one or one and one-half cents on the pound. When the European countries re solved to go into this bounty scheme every economist in the world protested and foretold just what has happened. The bounties can no longer be paid and when they are withdrawn those countries will be thrown into an other convulsion. The immense fac tories and farms that have been de voted to the business at the expense of the rest of the inhabitants will be in great distress, and it will take some years to restore trade to its natural channels again. English diplomacy has had a great influence in encouraging the conti nental countries in this foolishness for it was all to England's profit. Su gar was so cheap in England that the coarser grades of it were fed to stock. Of late England's sugar raising col onies have been making strenuous pro tests and demanding aid from the home government. Bounties on sugar in Germany ruined their trade in su gar with the mother country and just at present England is very anxious to preserve the good will of her colonies. That has been one factor in the aboli tion of bounties. From the very beginning of the pop ulist party it has fought bounties and in this state it killed them. On this, as on other economic propositions, the populist party has always been right. THE BORN THIEVES The rich in this country as in Eng land steal everything of value that was intended for the poor. All the great schools of England were founded by philanthropic men who intended them for those too poor for an education, but they have been taken by the rich, the lords and the dukes, and a poor boy is no longer to be found among their students. The same thing is oc curring in this country. When a school gets well established and ha3 procured costly laboratories, libraries and other helps to a finished educa tion, the rich step in and take it all for their sons and daughters. When Ezra Cornell founded the great university in New York he in tended it for the poor. But now only the rich can obtain its benefits. Tui tion has been raised to $100 and $159 a year. For a good room near the campus a student must pay from $7 to $9 per week. Besides this, a stylo is made for the student that he must live up to or forever feel himself an inferior. He must attend the cotil lions, the junior ball, the masque and help support eight of ten "fraterni ties" whose houses are fitted up in the most costly style. There are some poor students there but they feel themselves out of place. What good old uncle Ezra founded for the benefit of the poor has been stolen by the rich. They are born to steal and they follow the practice from the cradle to the grave. The born thieves are not the tramps and the klepto maniacs. They ride in special trains, live In palaces and send their sons to Cornell. SHIP SUBSIDIES There was never a more indefensible attempt to convey the earnings of the common people to the pockets of a few millionaires without compensation than the ship subsidy bill. All the arguments in favor of it can be summed up under three heads: 1. It costs more to build ships in the United States than in other coun tries. 2. The wages of American seamen are higher and that makes the cost of operating American ships more than those belonging to foreigners. 3. Foreign governments subsidize their merchant marine and we must do likewise. One may read the five-hour speech of Senator Frye clear through from end to end and that is the sum and substance of the whole of it. If the postulates were true, it would not be sufficient grounds for such legislation, but an examination of them will show that none of them are true. As to the cost of building ships, the Americans have the cheapest and best material in the world. They have the most improved machinery.. Actual in vestigation shows that the "labor cost" of ship building is less here than elsewhere. For that reason the Am- work, some of them having orders that will keep them busy for three and four years. Ships have been built for foreigners in many instances during the last few years. Recently one was built for. the German emperor and others have been built for Russia. If the American ship builders could not build them cheaper than foreigners the . orders, would not come here. So the first assertion that it costs more to build ships here than abroad is evi dently untrue. As to wages of seamen, the state ment is ridiculous on the face of it. Ship masters hire crews at any port, in the world and the American ship mas ter is at liberty to hire them any where. If he prefers to hire Ameri-' cans at a higher rate than foreigners can be obtained, it is for the reason that they are more efficient and that their labor in the end is :he cheapest. As to subsidies to foreign merchant marine, the statement is equally fala cious. There is no general subsidy to the merchant marine granted by any foreign government. Great Britain's payment for that purpose last year was less than $300,000. Payments are made to the owners of a certain class of ships which are in fact a part of the British navy and were built with that end in view. They are fast cruisers subject to the naval authori ties at any time. The facts in this case -re that the ef fort to pass this bill is for the purpose of granting to a few men, already mil lionaires, many millions of dollars out of the taxes collected from the people and for which no return whatever will be made. It is another gift to the rich and a further concentration of wealth in the hands of the few. "Protecting infant industries from the pauper labor of Europe" has some very comic features. The heavy duties on works of art is for the protection of our young art industry, but every real artist in the country sends up a constant protest against it. The "art ists" who favor it, are the ones that make plaster of paris casts of pigs and sheep and zinc statuary. The idea that we could create great artists who would confer honor on our country by a Dingley bill is certainly as laugh able as anything that was ever seen in a comic opera. It is perfectly over whelming. A man needs to hold his sides every time that he thinks of it. The fight in England for liberty is essentially the same as it is in this country. In a recent speech Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the liberal leader, in speaking of South Africa, said: "The war was only a transient interlude and that after the war the great question would come. He con cluded by declaring that the only so lution of the South African and Irish questions would be government by as sent of the governed." There may be a difference between the "assent of the governed" and the "consent of the governed," the latter being the way we express it in this country, but if there is any difference, this editor can not see it. The power of money over the courts never had a better exemplification than the action of the New York grand jury that held the management of the New York Central blameless for the tunnel accident and indicted a poor. raw engineer. The heads of the cor poration who maintained the tunnel in spite of all agitation for an Im proved system, and moreover toler ated conditions of train and tunnel management which made such an ac cident inevitable, go scot free. That is the sort of government that plutocracy has always given the people and t never will give any other sort. If you like it go and vote the republican ticket. The Independent has taken several "whacks" at socialism and the single tax. Doubtless every reader of the paper has noticed the very great dif ference in the style and character of the replies that have been made by the followers of these two cults. The single taxers all seem to be able to give a reason for the hope that i within them and to do it in a gentle manly way. It may be that after a while they will be able to con vince the editor of The Independent of the soundness of their views. But the socialists will never accomplish that fact by calling him names and declaring that he is a villain in the service of capital. JOHN P, ALTGELD Just before closing our forms for the press, and too late for any extend ed comment this week on his; life and distinguished public career, comes the news that John P. Altgeld, former governor of Illinois, died of apoplexy Wednesday morning at Joliet, 111. Governor Altgeld was stricken right after the close; of a 'speech he had made and died within a few hours af terward. V .. , . .. . , His death, deprives true democracy of one of its strongest advocates in America. A man of undaunted cour age in everything he .undertook, abso lutely fearless, his convictions were his guide in every action. In all his official and public career no man could accuse Governor Altgeld of being in the slightest degree a trimmer. He was without doubt the profoundest philosopher and most earnest student of the principles of reform and true democracy to be found in all America. His work will live after him, it is true, but in his death the cause of re form has sustained a loss incalculable. TVHO SHIRKS? A republican paper asks: "Would Abraham Lincoln, if he were president, shirk the responsibility assumed by the United States to protect life and property in the Philippine islands." Would Abraham Lincoln protect lif a by shooting 30,000 Filipinos? Would he protect property by burning towns and devastating rice fields? Would be uphold free speech by making the reading, printing and circulation ct the Declaration of Independence trea son and provide for the conviction of the party upon the testimony of one witness? Say, you old hide-bound mul let head, do j'ou really think that he would? Of course you do. You think anything that the bosses tell you to think. WHO GOT BEATEN? It is amusing to reflect upon the question of who really got beat in the last presidential election the bankers or the pops. The bankers declared that the coinage of silver must be stopped and spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars to effect that pur pose. The pops declared that we must have a greater volume of money and the coinage of more silver was the best way to get it under present circum stances. The administration as soon as in power went to work to carry out the pop theory and coined more silver than was ever coined in the same length of time before. As a sop to the bankers they were allowed to in crease their promises to. pay 10 per cent and get interest on them. . It might be said that they, both beat. The pops got more money and higher prices for farm products and the bank ers got leave to issue more promises to pay. But that only went to grant more money and help the pops along. Taking the whole under considera tion, it may be said that the pops beat the bankers at their own game. There are a good many things about Teddy that The Independent liksa. His decision that his daughter should not be paraded over Europe as an Am erican princess was sensible. His or der to bring the railroad corporations under the control of law was another. His determination to keep the written treaty with the Cubans, made to get them to accept the Piatt amendment is still, another. It is evident that if Teddy keeps doing things of this sort that the railroads and tariff grafters will drop liim. Already reports come from Washington that schemes are being laid by the republican leaders to get rid of him. They say the plan is to nominate Mark Hanna and that a large number of congressmen and ""U'"L'tr"'L--- A GOOD L.AUGII The editor of The Independent wel comes with delight anything that brings a good laugh into the work room where he toils and therefore he wants to acknowledge his obligations to the Phonograph-Press. The editor of that paper was the cause of the best laugh that this writer has enjoyed for many a day. His article on the prose cution of Meserve was excruciatingly funny from beginning to end, but the best part of it was v.here he found himself unable to decide whether the editor of The Independent was a gold democrat or a Mark Hanna republi can. He got into that entanglement because he did not see that when writ ing about courts, grand juries and indictments and the word "crime" was used, it necessarily meant a statu tory crime. The Independent declared that no "crime" was charged in the in dictment of Meserve and the court has so held. The grand jury that brought in the indictment knew well enough that it did not. Everybody except the distinguished editor of the Phdno-graph-Press knew that it did not. It was no wonder that he was unable to decide whether the editor of The Independent was a gold democrat or a republican. posited the permanent school fund In banks. It is a little too much to ask a man to confess in writing that h has committed a felony. The Ind -pendent has not spared Stuefer for his county bond deals. For those trans actions he ought to be prosecuted. Btr to blame him for not pleading gui!" to a felony in advance of forma! charges Is a little more than any de cent newspaper will do. What is any treasurer to do wih the permanent school fund when tr. securities for their investment whicn the law prescribes cannot be found" The supreme court has decided that to deposit them in a bank is a felony, if the treasurer keep3 them in the oi l iron safe in the capitol he will lc guilty of criminal negligence. No bank would receive them and berom" r. sponsible for safe keeping withou being paid for the service. What is i be done with such funds? To say thr t the treasurer carries thourand? :r dollars around on his person Is a fi -tion. To say that he keeps them in the old vaults at the state hou?e is an other fiction. Yet the treasurer an ! hi3 bondsmen are responsible for ev ery cent of this money. How much wonld any reader of the Bee ask t-) safely guard, night and day. $6r.(or There is reason in all things, but snm men have not brains enough to find ir. The editor of The Independent h.i received three or four letters from men who say that they are socialist, but that they do not believe in th common ownership of everything by : long ways. They had better c;rt to gether and come to some conclusion about what they do believe. If thrv only want the common ownership oi certain things let them say so. and then let them tell us what those thtnp are. If they believe, as their plat form says, in the collective ownership of all means of production and distri bution, which, if it means anything at all, means the common owr.ership of everything, let them stick to that. There is no indefiniteness about pop ulist principles. Populists believe n the public ownership of , railroads, telegraphs and everything In which competition is impossible or injurious and in the private ownership of every thing else. From these letters It ap pears that the writers believe in pop ulist principles and not socialism at all. For a whole generation social ism has been presented by a series o: able writers. What they have taught in their works must be accepted as so cialism and not what any private In dividual may say. BE REASONABLE Rosewater continues to give Stuefer underhand digs. Now The Independent has no sympathy with that kind of work. Look at this: The uninvested balance in the permanent school fund has again risen to nearly $65,000 and the treasurer repeats the shallow pre tense that this money is being kept in the treasury vault. As long as the law limits the Investment of these funds, as at present, it is impossible to prevent an accumula tion of cash on hand. Why not be candid and include it in the ex- hibit of bank balances? Rosewater knows very well that if the state treasurer should report that he had deposited that $65,000 in a bank that it would land him in the peni tentiary. The supreme court has de cided that a deposit in a bank is a loan, and if he loaned the permanent school fund In any other way than provided by law he would commit a crime. The Independent has never criticised the present treasurer be- . It is instructive to note how the re publicans everywhere use almost the exact language of the old slave-holders in defending the slavery that now ex ists under the American flag. Judgo Taft, governor and despotic ruler o? the Philippines under the republican administration, in defending the slav ery that exists under his rule, when be fore the congressional committee was very apt in revivifying these old de fenses of chattel slavery. He re marked that the slaves did not under stand the advantages of liberty. That was what was heard every day at th time the republican party was organ izing to overthrow slavery. Had thai theory been acted upon, slavery would still be the ruling power, not in th United States alone, but in more than half of the world today. The most Ir ritating thing about such talk is the sublimity of the hypocrisy that pre tends such arguments are based upon the principles enunciated by Abraham Lincoln. Since satan tried to palra himself off for an angel of light, noth ing equal to it has ever been known. Recent changes in classification will have the effect of raising railroad rate in Nebraska from 2 to 18 and 20 cenu per hundred pounds according to dis tance shipped. How do you like it? Mr. A. J. Gustin of Kearney, who han probably made a more careful study of freight rates than any other man In the state (aside from railroad offi cials) tells The Independent that by abolishing both distance and classifi cation, a flat rate of 5 cents per hun dred pounds could be made for the en tire United States so that any com modity could be shipped any distance, whether long or short, at that rate and that the income of the railroads would not be diminished. However, the trusts would be compelled to pa? much more in freight rates than they do now. For the state of Nebraska alone a flat rate of 10 cents per hun dred pounds could be made. There is fraud in every department of the dailies, even in their illustra tions. The other day two Chicago dallies each had what purported to be a likeness of a great London preacher. There was about as much resemblanc between them as between a Hottentot and the Venus of Milo. As the edi tor of The Independent was once er tertained for a day or two at the resi dence of the celebrated Tabernacl orator, he can testify that neither of the pictures looked any more like Mr. Parker than General Funston looks like a Macabebe scout when In full na tive dress. There is not a thing in the great dailies that a man can rely upon, from a picture to a report of a club 0