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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
March 20, 1902
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John Bull expects that American
flunkies will put up a'goodrsized slice
of the Boer war expenses for the priv
ilege of looking at a king on bis "''way
to be crooned and his expectations are
.well founded.
As soon as the British get those
American mules onto South African
soil they should build a high and tight
board fence around them barbed wire
is no goodso that they shall not get
away and go to fighting for liberty.
While Hanna's ship subsidy bill has
got through the senate it is not at all
certain that it will get through the
house. Congressman Burton who
takes to himself the honor of having
defeated it once before is on the war
trail again.
There are two ways to get an in
come tax. One is by a constitutional
convention and the other is to wait
until two or three of the aged judges
of the supreme court die they never
resign and then appoint as their suc
cessors men who believe that an in
come tax is constitutional as the con
stitution now is.
The Independent acknowledges ,with
thanks a copy of the Blue Book of
Wisconsin for the year 1901, sent with
the compliments of Almeron Eager,
member of the Wisconsin assembly.
The Blue Book is a volume of over 800
pages, compiled under direction of the
secretary of state, and filled with val
uable statistical and historical : matter
relative to Wisconsin and thie United
States.
The "reputation of the United States
senate as a center of piety and relig
.ious devotion was somewhat lowered
when the newspaper men 'reported that
the other morning a blind chaplain of
fered his formal prayer with not a
senator present. To relieve the shock
that the public would sustain they
added that there were usually eight
or ten senators present at morning
prayers. vss-
: There is a report current In Wash
ington that General Funston will be
called to account for his recent
speeches. If Roosevelt wants to keep
up any sort of a "parity" of action he
will be forced to reprimand Funston.
But will he? It is certainly a much
graver offense to call nearly half of
the senate and house "copperheads"
"than to announce an opinion on the
finding of a devided court.
. The Fourteenth amendment to the
United States constitution is always
the last refuge of the corporations,
just as Dr. Johnson was wont to say
that "patriotism is the last refuge of
the scoundrel." That little provision
that "no state shall deprive any per
son of life, liberty, or property with
out due process of law" is the founda
tion of innumerable lawsuits when
ever any community attempts to re
gain any of its rights which have been
thrown away so recklessly in the form
of franchises.
That there is a fight on at Wash
ington against Roosevelt among the
big tariff grafters and railroad mag
nates can no longer be doubted. The
man whom the trusts and railroads
willback is Hanna. Having these at
his back to start with, he is now play
ing for the labor vote and he will get
a large' slice of it. ' A great many of
. these men go about denouncing capi
talism and capitalists 364 -days in a
year and on the other day spend their
time , voting.f or the ', capitalists. It is
on that fact that Hanna is building
his hopes.
This American imperialism is worse
by a good deal than that of -the Brit
ish. This is a republic and it has de
stroyed a republic in. the Philippines
and still keeps ah army .there to pre
vent one from, being" organized, while
England, is a monarchy and in at
tempting to destroy the South African
republics, is only going . on in the
same line that that nationthas always
pursued. ; , In the United States it is a
reversal of all the ideals -.of the last
hundred years and " is maintained by
the constant exercise of the baldest
hypocrisy.' American imperialism is
the meanest sort that the world has
wun
ttf the ways and means "contmgentl rjh
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. GOVERNOR ALTOELD. ,
Governor Altgeld was attacked more
fiercely for the pardon . of Fielding,
Schwab and Neebe than for any other
act of his life. He Issued that pardon
because he believed that they had been
convicted without evidence and upon
vicious instructions from the court.
He knew that the pardon would re
sult: in ending his political career,
but it did not in the least Influence
him. It was his sense of justice that
animated him. In the vindictive as
saults that the republican papers made
upon him, they were always careful
to hide the fact that to the petition
for the pardon of the three men were
Inscribed the signatures of the presi
dent of every railroad, save one, run
ning into Chicago, and of the presi
dent of every national and 6tate bank
in that city. ; And it was presented
to him by Lyman J. Gage, president
of the First National bank of Chicago,
who was but recently secretary of the
treasury.
To all this vindictiveness and mis
representation. Governor Altgeld nev
er made any reply. He went on with
the work that his hands found to do
and i devoted himself more than ever
to the service of mankind. Now he is
gone, and we who stood by him dur
ing all those years revere his name.
His life and character will ever be an
inspiration to us and to all those "who
love liberty . and believe Jn . the doc
trines of the Declaration of Indepen
dence. INTERNATIONAL ANARCHY.
The precedent that this government
is making In allowing the British to
make it a base of war supplies will
come home to roost some day, and
then the folly of this administration
will be cursed by every living man in
it. No one can tell when we shall be
at war with some nation of Europe,
for the war spirit is abroad in the
world. Then, when Canada and ev
ery South American republic is made
a base of supplies, and military offi
cers of the enemy's army rake the
countries over to obtain whatever of
war material they can use in fighting
us, the folly of the Hay diplomacy will
be very apparent. This administra
tion's diplomacy is sowing the wind
and it will not fail to reap the whirl
wind. The mills of the -gods grind slow,
but they grind exceedingly fine. It
may be years before we will have to
pay the penalty of aiding in the de
struction of the two little Boer re
publics, but pay we will in the end.
The history of England teaches that
she would be. the. first to take advant-
age of such a precedent as this ad
ministration is making and she will
do it the first time that It is to her
advantage. Spain may take a notion
to get even with us by adopting the
same policy. The Filipino junta may
send military officers to her territory
to purchase war supplies and Spain
may allow them to be shipped from
her ports and what will Hay have to
say in reply? If an administration
may violate a treaty as is being done
at present without protest, what will
all The Hague agreements amount to?
The safety of this nation as well as
the fate of the Boer republics are at
stake. If there is no honor, if sacred
treaties are to be violated at the whim
of a secretary of state and a political
administration, then we have intro
duced world-wide anarchy. Against
all this The Independent protests. It
is for our own safety and honor that
the protest is made. The Independent
is for obedience to international law
and against international anarchy.
ETHICS AND LAW.
The Independent has no desire to en
ter into any controversy with pop
ulist brother editors over the ethics of
the Meserve case. It has no quarrel
with those who insist that he is guilty
of a moral crime. That is a question
that each must decide for himself;
he must be judge, jury and counsel for
himself; he must furnish his own law
and construe it as seems right to him.
Argument on the ethics involved is
really time wasted for, as Justice Ire
land said, in Calder vs. "Bull, "The
ideas of natural justice are regulated
by no fixed standard; the ablest and
purest men have differed on the sub
ject.'. . , ;
The duties of a public officer are de
fined by statutes and the constitution
of the state, supplemented to some ex
tent by the common law of England
and America. Whether he has been
faithful to his trust must be ascer
tained by reference to these alone. He
ought not to be tried in a court of law
upon ethical questions public opinion
is the forum in which such are de
cided, and even there the judgment is
frequently swayed by passion and pre
judice. Much as', we may smile or
frown when a court of law reverses
itself, the fact remains that reversals
of judgment in the forum of public
opinion are much more frequent than
in law courts. When the passion has
cooled down and ; the prejudice been
removed, the judgment is reversed.
? Our populist brethren who insist In
accusing Mr. Meserve of being gnilty
of a crime, in spite of the fact that the
laws of Nebraska hold him guiltless
of the charge made in the indictment,
ical j grounds. As was said before It
would be idle to discuss this phase of
the question for there is no fixed stand
ard to guide the disputants, and after
being convinced against his will each
would be of the same opinion still.
In its broadest sense the word crime
means: "The violation of any law,
either human or divine; an omission
of a duty commanded, or the commis
sion of "an act forbidden by law."
The forum in which is tried a viola
tion of divine law, is before the bar
of God; few of our counsellors have
teen admitted to practice in that court
and each individual must construe
end interpret the law as laid down in
the Bible, act accordingly, and await
the final judgment.
Human laws may be divided into
two classes: Civil and moral. As
stated before public opinion is the
forum in which are tried and decided
all violations of the moral code. In
the civil tribunals are tried cases in
volving the civil laws. While it is
true that many of the canons of the
moral law have been enacted into the
civil law, yet in a court of justice we
must be guided by the civil law be
cause the moral code is unwritten and
trying as the sands of the sea.
Penalties for the infraction of law
vary with the law. The violator of di
vine law may search the scriptures to
find his punishment announced. Vio
lators of moral law are punished by
public contempt. Violators of civil
law may know by examination of the
statutes what punishment may be
meted out.
As was said before, the duties of a
public officer are defined by law. If
he does what he is commanded to do
and coes nothing he is forbidden to
do, then he has done all that could
reasonably be expected of him. No
reasonable man expects him to do
more.
Few havo the hardihood to accuse
the governor of being an embezzler
because he lives in an executive man
sion, furnished by the state, m the
very face of the constitutional provi
sion that he shall not receive to his
own use any "fees, costs, . . . perquis
ites of office or other compensation."
Few would charge the clerk of the su
preme court with being an embezzler
because he receives to his own use
several thousand dollars of fees every
year in addition to his "constitutional
salary' of $1,500 per annum, in Spite of
the fact that there Is not a line of law
which says that these fees are for his
use.
Few would go so far as to say that
the chief oil inspector and his deputies
are embezzlers because ' they " render
scarcely any equivalent for the salaries
they receive. True, the governor might
refuse to live in the mansion, the
clerk might turn the fees over to the
state treasury, and the oil inspectors
might resign and refuse to take pay
they do not earn. But if they should
do so, they would simply make them
selves ridiculous in the eyes of nine
tenths of. the people of Nebraska or
any other state. If the people want
these things changed they must change
the laws not try to remedy them by
appealing to moral laws which every
man interprets to suit his own ideas,
as he has a perfect right to do.
Of course Meserve might have pur
sued a different course. He might
have done what the law does not re
quire him to do. He might have re
fused to accept any salary whatever
He might have insisted upon a trial
on charges of certain things which are
not criminal under our laws. But how
many of his critics would have done
or could have done better than he
did?
The imperialists have sprung a new
thing. They now declare the presi
dent cannot withdraw the troops and
turn over the island of Cuba without
an act of congress authorizing him to
do so because the United States is the
lawful sovereign in that country by
the conditions of the treaty of Paris
with Spain. It is true that the United
States supreme court has decided that
the United States is not the sovereign
of that ' country, but it would not be
much trouble to get another decision
if the administration so wished. That
court has never yet in its whole his
tory decided a case against the wishes
of the party in power.
The efforts of the post check cur
rency bureau to secure a postal , cur
rency ought to be crowned with suc
cess; but it is extremely doubtful
whether the bankers will permit the
passage of any law which will deprive
them of more revenue in the way of
issuing drafts. The idea is to have
United States notes printed with a
blank in which may be written the
name of a payee. These circulate as
any other bill until it is desired to
change them into a draft of the United
States treasury; then the payee's name
may be written in, and what was a
note payable to bearer becomes one
payable to order. A fee of two cents
(payable by ' attaching a postage
stamp) is charged on sums of a dollar
and , over, and one cent on sums less
than a dollar. This subject is treated
at length in another column. Read up,
and if you favor it, write your con
gressman urging him to support the
DIFFERENT VTAY8 OF EDUCATION.
It is strange how many people have
an entirely wrong idea concerning the
process of education. If a mother
should take her daughter with her
when she went to the meat market and
explained to her .what was loin, what
was round, what was porterhouse
steak and the parts of the animal from
which they were cut, most people
would declare that it would be ridic
ulous to say that that daughter was
being educated. The other day the
editor of The Independent went into
a Lincoln meat market and was as
tonished to see the counter crowded
two or three deep with young ladies
while the butcher was holding forth
to them an eloquent address, describ
ing the different: parts of a carcass of
beef, telling, them, of shank, round,
flank, loin, porterhouse, shoulder cuts
and rib roasts 'with the things them
selves laid out so that all could see.
When an inquiry was made as to what
it all meant, the reply was made that
these young ladies constituted a class
in domestic science in the university.
It was added that that was a practical
way of getting an "education." Un
der these circumstances that was "edu
cating" those young ladies, but in the
former case where the mother was
giving the same instruction it was
not.
When a farmer takes his son with
him to a sale and walks around among
the blooded stock, telling the boy:
"This is a Shorthorn, that is a Here
ford, that a Jersey, that a Holstein,
that an Ayreshire and that a Polled
Angus," and then goes with him
among the swine and says, "That is a
Poland-China, that a Berkshire, that
a Duroc," or takes him to the stables
and says, "That is a Clydesdale, that
a Percheron, that an English Coach
and that a Hamiltonlan trotter,"
these people never think that that
farmer is educating his boy. But if
they should go out to the agricultural
farm, which is part of the university
of Nebraska, , and go into a large
building, one corner of which had a
cement floor, and see these different
breeds of cattle, horses and hogs
brought in one by one and placed on
that cement floor while a professor
stood up before a large class of young
men and pointed out the different
characteristics "of each breed of ani
mal, telling whether cows were good
for butter, steers good for beef, and
the hogs good for large hams or im
mensely long sides from which bacon
was the chief product, they would in
stantly declare that that was a splen
did way to educate the young farmer.
No man i ever attained an eminence
who was; hot educated, but very many
of these eminent men got their educa
tion outside : of colleges and universi
ties. The educated are few in compar
ison to the5; uneducated and many of
these latter, as strange as. It may
seem, have .spent all their youth and
early manhood in schools, colleges and
universities. ' They remain all their
lives uneducated. You can teach a
pupil for years, but you can't "learn"
him anything, although one often
hears that expression. He must do the
"learning" himself. It is much easier
to learn in a school or university than
anywhere else for the facilities for ac
quiring an education there are better
than anywhere else.
When the professor brings a Short
horn or white-faced steer, or a Jersey
or Holstein cow and puts the animal
in that corner while the young men
sit in their seats and listen, he has a
very, great advantage over the father
farmer. He has a command, of Eng
lish and can impart his ideas with per
fect clearness. He has made a study
of the particular animal that he has
before the class and he knows every
point of the breed. When the Perch
eron or Clydesdale horse is brought in,
another man who is an expert in
horses appears. He knows more about
them than any ordinary farmer can
.know and has been trained to impart
that knowledge. So these young men
have a very great advantage over the
farmer's son in that particular and In
many others. .
Educate your children. Without
education ' they are but a little above
the brutes. It is not absolutely essen
tial that they should go to college.
That i3 a great advantage. But edu
cate them to the very best of your
ability.
WORSE THAN CHAMBERLAIN. -
It seems that the Yankees can beat
the English at the game of imperial
ism just as badly as in industrial pur
suits. Even the mullet heads begin
to wonder why we get so much more
information about the Boer war than
we do about the war in the Philip
pines. It will be remembered that a
year or so ago there was a good deal
said about the insane soldiers returned
from the Philippines. AH at once
and after the matter had attracted at
tention in congress all reference to the
subject was dropped. Never after
ward was there a line in the Asso
ciated press about insane soldiers. Yet
they kept arriving at San Francisco
at the old rate. No one ever heard
anything more about the young men
sent from the United States, hearty
and strong, going insane by the score.
The censor received instructions to cut
copperheadism to mention it, for It
might discourage enlistments. f
For months every paper, in the
United, States has been as silent as the
tomb on that subject. But the other
day a reporter was nosing around the
union depot in Omaha and he saw a
sight that chilled tin blood in his
veins. In a car there were eighteen
soldiers returned from the Philippines.
They were hand-cufied, had leg irons
and straight jackets on them. They
were haggard. Their faces were
drawn and pinched. There was a wild
glare in their eyes. They shrieked and
moaned most piteously. One man who
saw the horrible sight was so over
come by it that he nearly fainted and
had to retire to a couch and lie down.
These were the wrecks of men .who
had gone to the Philippines a year or
so ago after having passed a most
rigid physical examination. That was
a part of the price that we pay to carry
on a war of conquest in the tropics.
But the American people are not al
lowed to know anything about it. The
censorship established by means of
the Associated press which refuses to
send any news of such things, keeps
the people in ignorance. It is a much
more effective censorship than the
British have been able . to establish.
Joe Chamberlain and King Edward
can. take lessons from our imperialists
at Washington.
. Every time that a transport arrives
at San Francisco it brings Its comple
ment of raving maniacs. The local
dailies there say not a word about it.
They are the subsidized tools of plu
tocracy and imperialism. If the Asso
ciated press agent there sends any
thing it is cut out.
In regard to the fighting in the
Philippines we are just as ignorant
while much more news comes from
South Africa. The censor of British
imperialism is not nearly as efficient
as the one who has the office in Ameri
ca. In America the work has been
done with such effectiveness that mil
lions of people in these United States
do not know that slavery flourishes
under the American flag in the Phil
ippines or that the distinguished men
whom we have sent there to civilize
and Christianize, "the people of those
islands have enacted law.s that make
it treason to have in their possession,
circulate or read the Declaration of
Independence, and that the congress
Of the United States and the president
have sanctioned those laws with a
slight amendment concerning the pun
ishment of failing to inform the au
thorities of any attempt to establish
their independence.
rWe have been fully, informed .of the:
shooting of Commandant Scheepers
and the imprisonment of Kretsinger
in South Africa. But there have been
over 500 Filipinos shot and many hun
dreds have been imprisoned and we
have never been given the particulars
In a single case. It is evident that the
American censorship is much more
efficient and that the American im
perialism is far more cruel and in
human than the British kind of which
we hear so much. The Independent
raises its voice against both of them.
It will fight wars of conquest and gov
ernment by force as long and as hard
as it can whether here or elsewhere.
It believes that "all men" have cer
tain inalienable rights, among which
are life, "liberty" and the pursuit of
happiness. The fact , that expressing
sympathy with the bravest people
who ever shed their blood for liberty
may lose a few British votes to the
party which it represents would not
affect it in the least. It would con
tinue to defend what it believes to be
the right if it lost every vote and had
to stand alone.
Cecil Rhodes at this writing lies at
the point of death. There rests upon
him the responsibility of the whole
Boer war and all the blood that has
been shed. He organized the Jami
son raid. After that he went to Lon
don and persuaded the English that
Kruger could be bought and all that
was needed was to begin the war and
in six weeks the Boer authorities
would sell out and quit. It was on
that supposition that the war was be
gun. That supposition was the great
mistake of Rhodes. He judged other
men by himself. He took exactly the
same position that the republicans of
Nebraska have long maintained, that
there were no honest men. They have
preached all over this state that doc
trine and have said that it made no
difference who was elected to office.
All alike were thieves. They also
judge other men by themselves.
There are enough well written ar
ticles sent into The Independent ev
ery week by the Intelligent readers of
the paper to fill every column of its
space. The reading of these manu
scripts is a great labor, but that is
not the worst thing connected with
the matter.' The popular ignorance
of economics calls for the publication
of them all The people are hungry
for information on all the subjects so
ably treated by these writers, but
there !s not space enough In the paper
to print them. The only prospect of
relief that the editor can see Is for
the subscribers to sc extend its circu
lation ) that the size of the paper can
SOME POPULIST HISTORY.
When the populists began their
work of reform in thi.3 state every
cour.ty government was run for the
Interests of the political grafters
Many of the county treasuries had
been looted, the most flagrant example
perhaps being Holt county. As the
populists got control of county after
county they brought order out of the
financial anarchy existing everywhere.
Under their management county in
debtedness was greatly reduced and
in some places entirely paid off. In
Red Willow county a populist was se
lected to take charge of the county
treasury. In , one term a revolution
was effected of. so great importance
that it attracted attention all over the
state. This populist county treasurer
was then selected as the fusion candi
date for state treasurer. When he
came into office he found the state
credit well nigh ruined and warrants
selling away below par, the treasury
empty, over $700,000 having been em
bezzled by his republican predecessor.
The times were still hard and prices
low. With no increase in taxation,
this populist treasurer went to work
and in a short time inspired confi
dence to such an extent that state
warrants first went to par and after
wards to a premium where they stayed
throughout his whole term of office.
More than that, he paid off all the
bonded state debt and reduced the
floating debt $210,000, the whole total
reduction amounting to $680,000. At
the close of his term he accounted
for every cent that had come into his
hands, received his receipts and then
went into private business. Such a
record when compared with that of
past republican treasurers and with
the present treasurer who will leave
office at the close of his first term of
two years with an "increase" of the
state debt of not less than $600,000,
was a threatening thing for the repub
lican party of this state to face. As an
offset to it a corrupt republican judge
forced a grand jury against their will
to bring an indictment against this
populist treasurer that had no founda
tion in law and was of such a dis
reputable character that a republican
judge ordered, the jury to bring a ver
diet of not guilty , without hearing a
word of testimony. That is the char
acter of republican politics in the
state of Nebraska. If there is any
thing fouler on the face of the earth.
or ever was, it has not been recorded
NOT NEUTRAL.
No where in all history can there be
found a precedent where the military
officers of one of the parties at war
were allowed to enter neutral territory
and purchase war supplies, In one of
the official reports of the British gov
ernment it is said: "Horses and mules
have been the key to the military sit
uation at all times since the war be
gan." In connection with that fact
read the folowing Associated press
dispatch:
British Agent J. A .Conway, who
is buying horses for the use of the
English cavalry in South Africa,
bought a large band of animals in
the vicinity of Sheridan, Mont.
The horses will be shipped to Utah,
where they will be inspected by
the British officers. Later they will
be sent to New Orleans, where the
stock will be shipped to South
Africa.
In the treaty of Washington occur
these words:
A neutral government is bound
not to permit or suffer either bel
ligerent to make use of its ports"
or waters for the renewal or aug
mentation of military supplies.
This outrage on neutrality is notor
ious. This government is acting as an
ally of Great Britain in the war on
the Boers and without the aid that
the government at Washington Is giv
ing the British, that government could
not long carry on the war. The Inde
pendent has never asked that this
government should interfere in that
war, but it has demanded that it
should be strictly neutral.
GENESIS OF MULLET HEAD.
A gentleman called at the editorial
room of The Independent and wanted
a genesis of the term "mullet head."
He said that he believed that there
were some specimens of the species
in his neighborhood, but he wanted to
be certain before he exhibited them to
visiting strangers. He thought also
that for the benefit of the many new
readers of the paper a definition
should be given. Well, here fs a gen
esis of the whole matter.
"A man went fishing. He was a
Scotchman and he soaked his bread
In whisky to make It more palatable.
He threw some of the whisky soaked
crumbs In the water and the fish that
ate them first performed all sorts of
antics and then flopped over on their
sides and floated on the top of the
water. The Scotchman thought that
would be a good way to catch fish, so
he threw in quite a lot of whisky
soaked bread, the fish acted as before
and he wa3 able to .lift out a good
many with his hands. There was a
ravenous one that ate the bread and
everything else that came his way and
was not at all affected by the whisky
at which the Scotchman was very
much puzzled. At last a neighbor
came along and explained matters.
'That fish,- he said, 'is a mullet head.
If you should catch him and cut open
no brains at least not enough
speak of ? and nothing that you t
feed him would have the least err
upon him. He likes mud, and m.
and dirty water. He will bite i
hook baited with cast iron Just
quick as he would at the most no
ishing thing that could be put on i'
If the gentleman has any neighi
who have the above characterist
he can safely catalogue them as r;
let heads" and exhibit them to vill
as such.
There are a lot of mullet head
tors who love their chains just as
ignorant old slaves did before the v.
Among the slaves there were h
dreds that always declared that ir
did not want freedom and stuck
their masters to the last. In the
torlal associations that have recer
met there, have been resolutions p
posed to petition congress to abo ,
the tariff on white paper and w
pulp, and' although the editors are
paying the paper trust about a cer:
pound more for white paper than
fair, they voted against the reso
tions. They are on an exact 1
with the old African slaves they I )
their chains. -
Mr. De Hart in his article, bes i
discussing a tariff for revenue and
income tax, gives space also the ?:
gle tax." He takes the position that
tax on land values exclusive of im
provements would not produce enoi
to support local government let alo:
the national government. But th
depends altogether upon the sepa
tion of the two values, land value a
improvement value. The lndepenb :
has been caling attention to t:
difficulty. It may be stated in t ;
way: A farm with all its impro -.
ments can be rented for $3 per a r
Now how much of that rental va
comes from the capital investfd. fr.
the improvements, and how much fi
the land Itself? Who can tell?
That in some respects this conn
is as much an autocracy as Ru :
has been made plain to the dullest :
tellect by the recent performances
the railroad magnates. For years th
uicu uavc uciicu iub tiins duu hm i.:
pools and combinations in direct
fiance of the law. The other day th -same
magnates got together and ! .--solved
all the nools. assrwi.it inn n
combinations and announced to t re
public that hereafter they would r
defy the law, but obey it. Why d:
they do that? Simply because t
president had ordered his attorney r
eral to bring a suit in the Unit
States court to enforce the law. !
eutu itu uruer iiau ueeu issued year
fr 4VkAr.n 1 n am J An t . ft ! . .
would have been dissolved then. Th
1 . li a. va .
nave Deen anowea 10 nourisn. r
rates, give rebates, build up one ?
of business men and ruin another !
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the United States. If that is not a ;
tocracy, what is It?
There is no essential difference b-1
tween subsidies and tariffs, th-
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the case of subsidies the people car
tell just how much they are forr-?
it is Impossible to find out under ta
iffs. The ship subsidy bill is to c
tend protection to another manuf.i
ti"nv InIn HH V A mI..am4 ... V, .
now reversed the celebrated maxim
Henry Clay, He said that high wa? -
made tariffs a necessity. Senat--Frye
now declares that high tariff
create high wages. That ships cu
be built cheaper in this country wa
testified to by President Hill ol t!
merger conspiracy the other day. U
has on the stocks in a ship yard i
Connecticut two of the largest shir
ever built. When asked how he cam
to give the order for these ships r
that yard he replied that he did so be
cause they would build them cheap-
than he could get them built anywhrr
else In the world. Two more of th
same kind are being built In anoth
American ship yard for his railrca '
company. These being the facts i:
the case the robbery attempted by thi
legislation becomes very plain.
IDLE INSINUATIONS.
Following on the heels of the Me
serve acquittal, the State Journal h:
busied itself in several issues tryin-:
to create the impression, without si
ing it, that Treasurer Stuefer is tun
ing into the state treasury the Interf
ile is receiving on permanent schoo'
fund. Now, the Journal well know
that Treasurer Stuefer is doing noth
ing of the sort. lie Is accounting for
interest received from the deposit - '
current funds in depository bank- -and
that is all. Neither the St .;?
Journal nor Treasurer Stuefer ca .
show any record where the latter e
turned into the treasury a solif:u:
red cent of interest received from th
deposit of permanent funds in am
bank. Treasurer Stuefer's report
always show the permanent funds "on
hand" and "on hand" money doesn't
draw interest. Of course he keeps
these idle funds in banks no one is
foolish enough to believe he doesn't;
and he may be receiving Interest
but he isn't turning any of it into the