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April': 3 11902. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. LIBERTY BUILDING POSTALS Location for th Building Selected Sal f Card Continnes lu a Mont En-t-ouraglng Manner-More Than 4,000 Uiipoted of Oa the first page will be found a picture made from photograph of the location selected for Liberty Building. We are anxious that all our readers should let us know as soon as possible vha,t assistance we may expect from them in order that we may know ex actly how to proceed with the con struction of the building. Under the terras of the option which we have se eurcxl upon the lot there is a large payment to be made May 1st. Can we depend upon you to sell at least one block of five before that time? We would not attempt the construc tion of this building except we felt certain of the enthusiastic support of nil the readers of The Independent. Th-j plan adopted to accomplish the undertaking is to sell "Liberty Building Postals" in blocks of five for $3.00. Each postal is good for a year's subscription to The Independent to je sent to any address in the United States or Canada. What we ask of our friends and patrons is their co-operation in disposing of 2,000 blocks of 5. 10,0D0 cards. We have made the pric- low to make it easy for them to dispose of the cards. When you ask youj neighbor to buy one of these carie you are not asking him to con tribute or donate anything. You are in reality offering to sell him a year '3 subtcription to The Independent at 40 cent less than he could buy the sub scription direct. We can afford to make this low rate for these cards in blocks of five for three reasons: First, we do not have to pay an agent his wages and traveling expenses to secure the subscriptions. All that expense, which is usually heavy, we avoid by this method. Second, we will use the mon ey to build a home for The Indepen dent an ' quit paying rent which now costs us $65 per month. Third, we wished to make it easy for our friends to sell the car-ls. Those are the plain : easons why we are selling "Liberty Building Subscriptions" in blocks of five at the low figure we are. We have been as liberal in our offer as possi ble. It costs more money to publish a paper devoted to the defense of tne plain reople than to publish one ad vocating the cause of plutocracy. The money power would gladly furnish material to fill all our columns free of charge if we would accept it. They would be liberal with their advertis ing patronage and generous to a fault if we would indorse their legalized jobberies. That's why plutocratic sheets cost so little. Shall we give you that kind of a paper? Never! We will print the truth and sell the paper as cheaply as we can. Invite your neighbor to try it for a year. Ask him to compare' it with the hand-me-downs and ready made stuff furnished him by the organs-of plutocracy. : Here is the roll of Liberty Guards and what they have done to date. Let us add your name to the list: No. cards ordered. Previously acknowledged. . . . . . . . .1542 Jno Moles, Fairbury, Neb 5 Herman J. Parmley, Mineral Point, Wis 5 J. B. Vaughn, Ft. Calhoun, Neb 5 Wm. Fessler, Garnett, Kas 5 F. U. Barnard, Fremont, Neb 5 J. C. May, Buck Horn, Wyo 5 Mrs. R. D. Stewart, Cortland, Neb. 5 Amos Wilson, Lexington, Neb 5 D. W. Lamberman, Broken Bow, Neb 5 Jno Barnes, Clarks, Neb.. 5 1. S. Merrick, Brainard, Neb 5 G. L. Ditto, Brady, Neb 5 Jno Peters, Peters, Neb 5 C. A. Skoog, Holdrege, Neb 5 C. L. Bridge, Savage. Neb 5 Geo. II . Masonhall, Homestead, Okl. 5 L. D. Sturdevant, Cedar Rap., Neb. 5 J as. Seaman, Norden, Neb 5 Jos. Krebeck, Fairbury, Neb 5 J. E. Evans, Sargent, Neb 10 Geo. A. Millspaugh, Atkinson, Neb. 5 E. R. Woods, Burwell, Neb 5 D. E. Gilbert, Burwell, Neb 5 J. S. Williver. Weeping Water, Neb. 5 L. Q. Bails, Taylor, Neb... 5 Jos. H. Chambeon, "Dawson, la 5 Alph Andrews, Overton, Neb 5 To state committee of Neb 2500 Grand total.. ...41S STATE COMMITTEE Chairman Da France Reports Progrre of Kale of Liberty Building 1'ostals To State Committee, People's Inde pendent Party: I deem it advisable at this time to make report of what has been done in the Liberty Building pos tal matter. Shortly after Col. Eager announced li is plan of giving a block of five sub scriptions for $3. I decided to take 500 blocks of them on behalf of the com mittee, and send a block of each to 500 populists with instructions to dispose of the cards as advantageously as pos sible; otherwise to return them. Be sides the mere fact of extending the circulation of The Independent (which I believe would add to our party strength), I had in mind ascertaining a number of other facts which might prove useful to us in our coming cam paign. Sufficient time has elapsed so that a fair report can now be made. Feb. 15. 1902. mailed 500 letters. March 27, 1902, received 223 replies to date. 23 blocks sold, wholly or partially. 102 blocks returned. 2S5 blocks not heard from. THOSE WHO DID. L. A. Beltzer, Osceola: W. J. Wer han, Fairbury; J. W. Ellis, Max: J. Heiser. Paxton: Wm. Beatty. Brady; D. W. Baker, Franklin; W. W. George, Fairbury; E. R. Reece. Greenwood; N. V. Anderson, Swede Home; each a block of five. P. C. Larsen, Holstein (1): Scott McFarland. Liberty (4); J. P. E. Carlson, Stromsburg (1); J. P. Hardin, Huntley (2); W. H. Palmer, Hastings (3) ; F. B. King, R. F. D. No. 1, Ederar (2): Frank Meuret, Venus (1); G. W. Pepoon, Table Rock (1); C. E. Wright, Allen (1); James Walk er, Dunbar (1); F. Purdy, Overton (1); N. Fablinger, Gandy (4); S. Le Blanc, Sutton (1); James A. Muir, Swanton (3). Total ,71 cards; total receipts. $54.36; for The Independent space . to give the names of the 192 persona who have returned the cards sent them. One letter was returned undelivered. One person addressed had died since last fall, and his son returned the -cards. Eighty-four cards were returned without any com ment whatever, and 106 wrote letters explaining why they could do nothing. The latter may be roughly classified about as follows: 10 Hard times. 13 Moved or moving away. 10 Poor health. 30 No time to attend to it. 29 Failed to sell the cards. 14 Miscellaneous, Including "roasts." THOSE WHO MAY DO SOMETHING. To the 285 persons who still have in their possession the blocks of cards, I would say: Take your time to the work if you believe you can dispose of the cards; otherwise, kindly return them to me soon, so I may send them out to others. C. Q. DE FRANCE, Chairman. FORGER FUNSTON Senator Patterson Show II lm up Breach Among Republicans Grows Wider Oar Duty to the Philippines Ship Builders Lobby Washington, D. C, Mar. 31, 1902. Special Correspondence: Two incidents of more than ordi nary interest engrossed congressional attention this week, one in the house and one in the senate. The various interviews of Gen. Funston of Kansas, who has placed himself in training for republican stump oratory by denouncing as trai tors and threatening to hang all those who are opposed to administration imperialism in the Philippines, and who has declared President Roose velt to be in sympathy with such talk, led Senator Patterson, of Colora do, to take these as a text for some remarks in the senate Thursday. Pat terson is a scrapper from Scrappers ville and is developing Into a sena torial leader, with the prospect that he and Tillman will be amply able to expose the iniquity of the powers that be. Mr. Patterson read Funs ton's own account of his capture of Aguinaldo, and then quoted from va rious standard works on international law and the proceedings of The Hague peace conference to show that Funs ton violated every rule- of civilized warfare and encompassed the capture of the Filipino leader by methods that would shame savagery. Every au thority on the subject, as . well as every consideration of good faith, con demns the use of the enemy's flag or uniform in military operations among civilized powers, and yet this is what Funston admits he did. No one doubts the Funston courage, , but reasonable men will not fail to condemn the rep rehensible way he "had of showing it. Military strategy is' one thing trickery and a violation of civilized war methods is still another. - The same afternoon, minority lead er Richardson presented in the house a resolution directing investigation of. the charge of one Capt$ Walter. Christ mas, an agent or; uenmarK, tnai ne was to receive $500,000 as a fund from the proceeds of the sale to the United States of the Danish West Indies with which to bribe and bulldoze the Ameri can congress into a ratification of the treaty. -' The report of the negotiations made by Christmas to the Danish govern ment is a lengthy one and implicates in charges of general crookedness a number of men prominent in the offi cial and business life of the country. Among these are Senator Hanna, Ab ner McKinley, Congressman Gardner, Rogers of the Standard Oil company and other prominent republican lead ers. The report goes on to say that through the late president's brother, Abner, he gained the entree to the White house and from there conduct ed his negotiations and received in structions as to how to best "ap proach" those members of congress who needed to be "seen." The whole matter has been exposed through the quarreling of those who wanted to share the half-million swag. Rogers demanded his shatre, declaring that his company absolutely con trolled 29 members of the upper house of congress and that he would defeat the treaty of ratification unless he was included in the distribution. Hanna, Gardner, et al, were very useful, the agent says, in arranging meetings and interviews and dinner parties to win over various members of eongresa. The charges are among the most sensational that ever involved official life of the country. When the reso lution was introduced by Richardson, the republicans were" thunder-struck and clamored to have the matter ruled out of order. Failing in this, they did not dare to vote down the resolu tion and a committee was appointed by the speaker to investigate ' the charges. The democrats undoubt-edly scored a good political point on their opponents and republican chagrin was manifest. The conviction is growing that the democrats, populists and f usionists are bound to make substantial gams in the next house and very probably control it. The republican breach is growing wider every day and democrats are more confident than for many months, fully believing that the country at large will not endorse this fall the Saturnalia of corruption which the majority has inaugurated. The army appropriation bill was dis posed of this week by the house and attention is now being devoted to the revenue cutter service measure. Congress will adjourn when is a prominent query and various guesses are hazarded from June 1st to July 15th. The congressional elections of the fall will have a tendency to hasten the end of the session. Jacob Gould Schuman, president of the first Philippine commission," con tributes to a late issue of the Christian Endeavor World a symposium of his views on the oriental question or "Our Duty to the Filipinos." Schur man's position as an educator and scholar was so high that the late President McKinley entrusted -him acts of our own, are really enemies. Schuman declares this question to be the greatest now confronting the re-1 public, and continuing says: - ' "If we are to discover what we ought to do, it is essential to discern what we ought to avoid. The straight and narrow path steers clear of sins of omission on the one. side and sins of commission on the other. And we shall be able to thread our course with more certainty if we note the seductive but forbidden prospects which it passes and leaves behind. I mean that what it is our duty to do to and for the Filipinos will become clearer if we consider what our own moral sense and Christian conscious ness tell us it would be wrong to do to and for the Filipinos. "First, then, it is wrong to think of the Philippines or their inhabitants as the property or posesslon of us Americans. , "It is true that we have lawful sov ereignty over them; but sovereignty means responsibility for government for peace, order, and international behavior. Sovereignty over a coun try does not signify a property right in it. England has sovereignty over Canada; but England does not own a foot of land in the Dominion, nor has she any right over the person or property of any Canadians. The country in its entirety is owned by private individuals or it is held by the Canadian government for the public in general. In the same way the rice fields, the sugar estates, the tobacco plantations, the hemp farms, of the Philippine islands are the property of the indi vidual Filipinos; and the unoccupied areas, though now controlled by the United States, are held in trust for the people of the Philippine islands; and, when a central government is established there, this trust will un doubtedly devolve upon it. as the control of the public lands within their own borders has been devolved by congress upon the several states of our own union. "All the natural resources of the Philippines lands, minerals, forests, fish, etc. belong thus to the inhabi tants of the Islands. Our sovereignty, so far as its affects these, is simply a trust on behalf of the people until the people are so organized politi cally that they may undertake it for themselves. "Consequently any exploitation of the Philippines by the United States would be the grossest violation of a trust; it would be the robbery of an orphan ward by executors, an out rage on humanity, and a sin against high heaven. "Yet, strange to say, there are Americans who point to the Philip pine gold, coal, hemp, lumber, tobaa co, and lands as means of enriching the United States or its citizens! Of course you may go there, and buy these things, and develop trade, and make money; but so may a Spaniard, a CO QQ boMoor BREECH LOADING, AUTOMATIC SHELL 0i90 EJECTING SH0TQUN. The JLongKanire Win ntr, one of the strongest shooting' and best made 12- gauge pnotguns mace, equal to guns others "10.UO. 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Big Horn Basin Are you interested in the" Big Horn Basin of Wyoming? f It's a rich but undeveloped portion of Northwestern Wyoming. It con tains marvellous openings . for small ranches along good streams in the valleys, with one million acres of gov ernment land open to settlement under the United States land laws, v The Burlington Route has just pub lished a folder descriptive of the Big Horn Basin. It Js illustrated and con tains an accurate map. It tells about the lay of the land, character of the soil, products, yield, irrigation and opportunities. Tf vnn'rn jritPrpgf-pfT hptter writ German, or an Englishman; and the result does not in any way depend upon American sovereignty over the Philippines. Yet, undoubtedly, the American jingo 'would use American sovereignty " over the archipelago to exploit the Filipinos for his own sel fish end3. This, if ever permitted, would be the unpardonable sin of America against the Filipinos. "Do you ask, What is our duty to the Filipinos? I answer, our duty to the Filipinos is to help them to help themselves, to aid them to develop their own powers without undermin ing them, to enable them to get on their own feet' and gradually stand alone and unaided. "This is what I found in 1899 that nearly all educated and pi-opertied Filipinos wanted. They did not re gard .Aguinaldo or his so-called Phil ipine republic as the representatives of the Philippine people. But they never lost sight of the fact that there was a Philippine people, who had a country of their: own, and who want ed some day to control their own des tinies. Only, as the islands had been for , three centuries under Saanish do minion, all self-government had been destroyed ; arid they wanted the United States to . stay in the archi pelago long enough to organize the in habitants politically and get them well started in a career of self-government. That done, they wished a sovereign and independent republic of their own. - "The one all-embracing duty which Americans owe the Filipinos is to give them all the home rule they de sire, and independence as soon as they want .it and are-fit to exercise it as well as the average republic of Cen tral or South America. Of course this final step presupposes the political organization of the Filipinos, and an organic act for that purpose should be passed by the present congress. "Such a measure should provide for a popular assembly of represe' tives elected by the Filipinos them selves. When that' is organized, the Philippine people will . for the first time have. an; officialaorgan qualified to speak for them. At present there is none. And what that popular as sembly of the Filipinos petitions the United States for, we must be pre pared to grant; We .will grant it, first, because we believeiin government of the people by? the people, in the government of Filipinos by Filipinos, not of Filipinos by Americans; and, secondly, because what a united na tion like the Filipinos want they will eventually at any cost secure. In 1899 I found the Filipinos more or less disunited; but fighting against an other race and foreign domination has unified them and fired their souls with the idea of national independence.' All this is worthy the attention of those who are so ready to hang (by proxy) every man who agrees with Schurman that there is something higher and better in national exist ence than the making of money and the gaining of territory. v Can we do this?, is not the, real question of the hour. Ought we to do it? is the question and should be answered in an American way that would, haVe pleased and satisfied the founders and builders of the republic. ' It has been the practice of the ad ministration for a number of years, in return' for the large contributions of ship builders to the campaign fund, to farm out large government con tracts to these builders, and while our navy has been improved and is a gen eral source of , satisfaction to all, the government is being robbed of large sums, of money through the favorit ism of the agents of the party in power. A very considerable agitation has been raised all over the country, and this agitation is just and righteous, demanding that hereafter all naval vessels shall be ' constructed in gov ernment ship yards and the money expended there among the men rather than poured into the coffers of mil lionaire contractors. A few figures will be instructive. In 1890, when' the ship" builders had practically no competition, the price of finished ships1 to the government was $609 per ton. Since that time, three new contratcors have entered the field and the. same ships now cost the government but '$401 per ton. So much for competition and what it is now saving the government, and no wonder that these contractors are opposed to the building of ships in government navy yards. The net profit to private contractors has varied from $1,569,861 -.on the battleship Massachusetts to $1,202,072 on the battleship Iowa. Under the competition of the Mare Island navy yard, equally good work has been turned 'out at a saving to the government of over 30per cent "and in much less time. England builds 50 per cent of her ships in her own navy yards, France builds .63 per cent, ' Germany 60 per cent, while Japan and Russia are preparing to build all in the same way. It is not only good business judge ment and a practical saving to pro vide for governmental construction, but is a move of tangible importance in case of war when haste in construc tion is necessary.''"' The shipbuilders' lobby is here! in full force to bolster up the present contract system. The government navy yards have no lobbyists in the halls of congress, but they have the moral support, as numerous petitions presented to congress attest, of thous ands of American citizens who are not yet wholly committed to the idea that public patronage is a private snap, parceled out in return for elec tion day favors. H. W. RISLEY. either in the army, navy or in any civil department is to be allowed ; to express an opinion In conflict with the policies of the administration. Assis tant Secretary Taylor is to be reprir manded for expressing an opinion upon the Chinese exclusion act. "The king can do no wrong," and underlings must remember that fact at all times and conduct themselves accordingly. Congressman James M. Griggs of Georgia has been elected chairman of the democratic congressional cam paign committee. It is sr.id that Lewis Nixon, the new head of Tammany, will be the chairman of the finance committee. There is much suffering in New York city on account of the high price of meat. It has been rising grad ually for a year and is the highest ever known, the wholesale price to retailers being 10 cents a pound for the whole carcas. There has been a corresponding rise in all kinds of meat and now the most of the poor cannot eat meat at all. The price of dressed meats in New York is out of all pro portion to the price of cattle in the west and the meat trust piles up mil lions. Remedy: Vote the republican ticket. News of the Week .For a long time the old soldiers have been vociferously demanding the removal of H. Clay Evans, commis sioner of pensions, but they always got the . cold shoulder, both from McKinr ley and Roosevelt. Mr. Evans has now sent jn his resignation and it is announced that ; he will be promoted to a diplomatic position with more pay and higher honors. Mark Hanna has not so much need of the soldier vote, or at least; he thinks that he hasn't, so not so much attention is paid to their wishes as formerly. The Chicago Tribune in discussing the theft of a valuable wrap at one of Mrs. Roosevelt's musicales where no one was admitted except by card and all the guests were of the very highest standing, says that sort of thing is very common in Chicago and every other large city, which only goes to show that The Independent's asser tion that the rich are , naturally thieves is true. The oleomargarine bill has been up for discussion all the week in the sen ate. Perhaps the meatjtrust will find out before the row is over that the old maxim that honesty is the best policy applies to this product with special emphasis. The article is a cheap and" wholesome food and would have been a blessing to thousands of families. If the manufacturers had been honest and put the article on the market and advertised it for what it was. they would have created a large and lucra tive legitimate business. Now it is about to be taxed out of existence. The constitutionality of such a pro ceeding The Independent very much doubts, but the men who so persist ently undertook to, propagate a fraud deserve all that they will get in the way of punishment. Reports from Arkansas are to the effect that Senator James K. Jones, who was the chairman of the demo cratic national committee during the last two presidential campaigns, was beaten at the democratic primaries for renomination and that ex-Governor James P. Clark has carried all the counties in the state with the excep tion of five. Theological freaks abound in Kan sas as well as every other 'sort of freak. A Methodist conference down there has found Rev. Dr. Lowther guilty of heresy and expelled him from the church and ministry because he said the language in the Bible de scribing the temptation of Eve was figurative and that it was a real per son and not a snake that did the talk ing a person coming probably from the land where Cain got his wife. That caps the climax on all heresy trials that were ever heard of in these United States. Mr. C. D. Rudd, a partner of Cecil Rhodes, has just landed in London from South Africa. He says that there is no prospect of the ending of the Boer war. He intimates that the re cent embassies and armistice are-simply stock jobbing moves to let some of the fellows on the inside of the "Afrikander," as the South African mining stock is called, get a chance to unload. He sa3rs that the last fight ing in the war will be in Cape Colony where a large portion of the inhabi tants are Boers and are already in ac tive revolt against the British rule. The attempts to' collect damages for losses suffered by. the missionaries in China is causing the loss of thousands of lives. A cablegram says: "Re sistance to the payment of missionary claims is to be expected in localities where the population is poor and large sums are levied." Missionaries making such demands are of the im perial sort, and they and their de mands are travesty upon Christianity. It is about time that the supplies of societies sending out such men were cut off, and men representing somp other sort of a religion sent to take their places. 4 J. Pierpont Morgan has installed an electric plant in St. Paul's cathedral, London. Morgan looks after the up holding of imperialism on both sides of the ocean. Mr. A. P. Childs says: "Whoever declares that Mr. Cleveland profitted, in money, through his rigid adherence to the cause of sound money, has nothing but political suspicion and unwarranted aspersion to commend such assertions." It seems to The In dependent that there is something more than "suspicion" upon which to ground such a belief. Mr. Cleveland went into the White house a poor man and he came out worth about $3, 000,000. He made a contract with J. Pierpont Morgan and sold him bonds at, we believe, 104, when the same bonds were quoted on .the market at 116 to 118. The profits on that oper ation were about $9,000,000. Did they all go to Morgan? Herbert Welch sends up a wailing cry because the church papers will not print articles concerning the hor rors of the Philippine war. Mr. Her bert Welch Is an Episcopalian and he says that he wrote to 70 bishops of the sect and only twelve made any. reply whatever," and that all the protestant church papers. Including the Outlook, refused to print anything at all on that subject. The only papers that accepted articles on that subject were those published by the Catholics and Quakers. lie feels sure that if he could only get the facts before the people that they "would demand in tkn a me of humanity and justice th a t A B SPRING AND SUMMER o o o o o o o o o o o o o o CATALOGUE! Do You Want One? If so, send us your name and address at once and one shall be mailed per return. 64-page, Illustrated fully throughout and a MONEY SAVER to any person living in a small town. We ship all Catalogue orders free of any expense a big item in itself. Everything guaranteed and your money back if not satisfactory, THE PROGRESSIVE tffc tore o o o o o Reliable Dry Goods, Millinery, Drap.ries. - Q Lamps, Crockery and Glassware. LINCOLN, N5G. illlllllllllllllllillllilllIIIIII!llii:illllll!IISll!llllllli!l!lllillllllllll!lllllilllli!llllli;i 1 IN MARCH AND APRIL ITME NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. 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Irrefutable evidence has been intro duced before the committee on; Phil ippine affairs, some of it coming from Governor Taft himself, that the speeches of Beverldge and other im perialists in the senate have been translated into Spanish and Tagalog by the Filipino Junta and circulated all over. the islands and that it was those speeches that, have nerved the natives to keep tip the war and not speeches such as were made by Prof. Schucman and others. Beveridge introduced a resolution to investigate the effect upon the Filipinos of the speeches of anti-imperialists, but when he learned the trend of the testimony already given he withdrew it. It seems that the republicans gen erally are after the scalp of Speaker Henderson. The speaker told one truth and that forever damned him in the eye of every true blue republican. He said: "The press is being manip ulated to send out lies." Having found out that the speaker was capa ble of telling the truth once, the whole gang got frightened and they will-have no more of him. Paragraphs derogatory of him are printed all over the United States and as they appear in many instances, in papers as far apart as Alabama and Nebrska, it would seem that Mark Hanna's edi torial bureau is at the bottom of it. There is quite a lot of fresh baked pie to be distributed to loyal republi cans on the 20th of May when the Cuban nation comes into existence. President Roosevelt sent a description of its qualities to congress in a spe cial message announcing that at that date the government of the islands would be turned over to the Inhabi tants thereof. He says: "I therefore recommend that provision be forth with made and the salaries appro priated, to be immediately available to pay envoy extraordinary and min ister plenipotentiary to the republic of Cuba, $10,000; (b) secretary of the le gation, $2,000: (c) second secretary of the legation. $1,500? (d) consul general at Havana. $5,000; (e) consuls at Cien fuegos, $3,000; . Santiago de Cuba, $3,- ooo." The senate committee has finished the bill for the government of the Philippine islands. Nowhere in it is a hint that the Filipinos are ever to have independence, and we may as well make up our minds for a forcible occupation of the islands as long as the people are ' willing to keep an army of fifty thousand men there. The bill provides for the free and unlim ited coinage of silver which Is made a legal tender and for the establishment of a mint to coin Filipino dollars of 416 grains (the American silver dol lar contains 412 grains) and on the Filipino dollar to be inscribed "the sovereignty of the United States and that it is the coin of the, Philippine islands, together with the denomina tion of the coin expressed in English. Filipino and Chinese characters and the date of its coinage." This dollar is made full legal tender in the Philippines. In Burlington and Shenandoah, la., both long-time republican strongholds, the republicans were beaten out of everything at the city elections. The Philippine bill introduced into the senate reminds one of the charge given b a minister to another min ister when installing hf!m as pastor of a colored church. ' He paid: "Preach Christ and him crucified and leave this here complicated question of hen leave this complicated question of the rights of man, the Declaration of In dependence and the constitution alone." The Maryland legislature has passed a bill admitting women to practice Jaw in all the courts of that state with a clause declaring that no one shall be denied admission to the bat on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. That is pret ty good for an old slave-holding state like Maryland. Althoueh the City election in Chica go is said to have resulted in a net gain of alderman each for the republi cans and democrats, in reality" it is a gain of twenty-eight out of thirty-six for populistlc principles. Th1 new i 1 ...in m on . v. 1 1 UUUUUll Will CUIiBIM UI OV7 I rpULMIl 1 113. 80 democrats, and 1 independent: but of 36 aldermen recommended for elec tion by the municipal voters' league. 28 were elected, and that means 28 members committed to the principles of municipal ownership of public utll I'.Ids and direct legislation. George H. Shibley has been in Chicago a number of weeks and the effect of his good work is manifest. Press dis patches say that the backbone of some of the hardest fiehtlng done in the election was performed by the learn1. Direct legislation received a wonder ful impetus in this election. The vot ers of Chicago expressed themselves on the auestions of abolition of U various "town" governments; munic ipal ownership of street car svptem, gas works and other public ut'litis: and the nomination of candidates by vote at the primaries instead of by the usual custom of holrlini city co ven'. 'ons. All of these questions car-' ried. but none of them carries anv na tion except the vote on abolition of U town governments. The others -press the wish of the people, howevrr, and must finally become law, for. w'th 28 aldermen committed to the prin ciples there will be a strong effort made to conform to the wishes of the people. -Hurrah for populist Chicago! WEAK MEN Is your health worth' a 2-cent stamp? If so, then write u at pnee, enclosing a 2-cent stamp. f-r-our absolutely free offer. We will send absolutely free our Perfection Electric Belt, the most unique ai d perfect Electric Appliance in the mar ket for the cure of nervous and sexm-I diseases. This offer is made in good faith for the purpose of introducing, and advertising our methods of .treat ing a'.l chronic diseases. DON'T allow this opportunity to es cape you of regaining the health and vicor .vhich have been sapped away. We also make a specialty of curing rheumatism, liver, kidney, varicocele, hydrocele, skin and bladder diseases. PROVIDENCE MEDICAE INSTI TUTE, 59 Dearborn St.. Chicago. III. Hardy's Column At present there is quite a rush of cattlemen into Canada, on to the plains west of Winnipeg. There Is a tract of country - there, on the east slopes f the Rocky mountains, more than a thousand miles square, splen did for grazing. They have snow and rain enough to make the grass grow, then it dries off In the fall and makes good winter hay on the ground. Tor onto and Montreal markets are just a3 good as Buffalo and New York for everything to be exported. Wheat is always a little higher in those mar kets, because it is all English and the Yankees get no smell of it between the fields where it grew and the Liverpool market. For several hundred miles around Winnipeg the soil and climate is splendid for. wheat. The general impression prevails that it is a cold, frigid country, but the climate is much milder than Minnesota, or the Dako tas. It is down almost to . the sea level. A foot down is equivalent to a mile south. Lake Winnipeg is only three or four hundred feet above the sea. Canada,' Siberia and South America are getting the European 0