THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
April lo, 1902
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urned.
From the reports from Washington
there seems to be something rotten
in the state of Denmark.
It was a republican Cannon from
Illinois, the home of Lincoln, who
shot the light out of the torch of lib
erty. From the constant reports in the
financial magazines it appears that
the trusts are mainly engaged in
manufacturing stocks and bonds, and
the market continues to be a good one
- for that product.
The operations of the British army
In these United States as told in the
- News of the Week in another column
of this issue, will perhaps cause a few
republicans to doubt the Americanism
'pf the cabinet of President Roosevelt.
From the assaults of Roosevelt upon
' General Miles it would appear that he
really believes that there is no other
man in the United States who had a
right to presidential aspirations be
sides himself.
IT. Clay Evans was discharged from
f the pension office that Is the truth
about the matter but his employer is
hustling around to find a better place
for him.
Many of the same signs of a rotting
civilization are appearing both in Eng
land and America that Junival thrust
his lances at when Rome started on
her downward course that 'ended in
the dark ages.
- The greatest monopoly in the United
. States is not the steel trust or any
: other industrial organization, but the
railroads. They have something to
sell that all the people must buy and
' can fix the price to suit themselves.
Joe Parker, having nothing else re
spectable attached to his aggregation,
undertook to steal an honored name
. and attach it to work of the most dis
reputable set of political fakirs that
ever showed their heads in the dirtiest
pools of politics.
President Roosevelt seems to really
believe that there is not enough room
for more than one military hero in
the United States at one time and that
',he is the man. Therefore he has or
dered Dewey, Schley and Miles to take
back seats while he performs.
The oleomargarine bill as it passed
' the senate seems to place that article
and adulterated or process butter both
in the same category and a tax is
i levied upon them both of 10 cents a
'pound. On uncolored oleo the tax Is
; one-fourth cent a pound.
"" Gambling on horse races has be
, come so general and demoralizing in
i England that the London Daily News
! has excluded all news of the races and
gambling of all sorts from its columns.
Is there a great daily in the United
1 States that would dare to do a thing
,llke that?
' The workingmen of New York held
a' large meeting in.Cooper institute in
memory of Governor Altgeld last
week. Resolutions were passed ex
pressing respect for his memory as
one who "fought valiantly and died
gloriously in the greatest of all causes
, that of humanity."
, ; Teddy may retire General Miles, for
under the law he has the power to do
it, but The Independent predicts that
it will be a long time before he can get
' a successor confirmed by the senate.
; Every man who ever saw service in
i the army in the senate is hot over the
way Roosevelt acted in regard to Miles'
' t testimony before a senate committee.
The labor organizations all over
; the United States are not only making
vigorous objections to the oleomar
; garine bill, but to the excessively high
price of meat. As to the latter, they
can find the cause by taking a glance
at the dividends declared by the meat
trust. That small body of- philan
thropists has distributed to Its stock-
! holders over $100,000,000 in profits dur
l ing the last year besides greatly en-
IMPERIALISM AT HOME
L The operations of imperialism in
the United States should : teach the
people a lesson and give them some
idea of' what it is when it gets 10,000
miles from home.' When It once gets
hold, it Is ' almost Impossible to get
rid of it. The Indians of the United
States have been governed on this
principle and every one knows the re
suit. The legislation that was se
cured some 20 years ago was an at
tempt to change the system. But look
how it hangs on. The Indians in Ne
braska are citizens entitled to all the
rights, privileges and immunities of
any other citizens. They vote and
hold office. But the imperial authori
ties at Washington insist .on appoint
ing an agent for them. Then they
have evolved a scheme that provides
a government trader, who can live
on the reservation to the exclusion of
other merchants and has privileges
that are denied to others in the col
lection of bills.
But on account of the Indians In Ne
braska having votes enough in one
district to control the election of a
congressman, one in two years, just
before a congressional election, the
politicians wake up to the importance
of obtaining Justice for them'and gen
erally about that time there is an
overhauling of things at. the agency
and enough is accomplished to pre
vent all the schemes of the carpet
bag imperial employes from being put
into execution.
Out in Arizona, that being a terri
tory, the inhabitants being subjects
to congress and having, uncier tne de
cision of the supreme court, no con
stitutional rights whatever, the thing
is different. The Pima and Maricopa
Indians of that territory have beon
farmers for hundreds of years raising
their little crops by irrigation, hav
ing held their water rights for many
generations. Parties have come in
and cut off their water supply and the
whole tribe is starving. There is no
court to which they can appeal, and
the bureaucrats at Washington have
other things to attend to. This is im
perialism at home. It produces famine
and death, and that is the final result
of H everywhere.
IT CAN'T ME HELPED
It Is astonishing how the people will
quietly submit to robbery in all sorts
of ways. They allow their representa
tives to make gifts of hundreds of mil
lions to the already rich in the way of
franchises and then allow another set
of their representatives to exempt
these gifts from taxation, while they
pile the taxes on the poor. Cornelius
Vanderbilt for many years paid taxes
on $400,000. When he died and his
will was probated it was found that
he was worth $53,000,000. The fact of
this amount of wealth being officially
determined it would have been reason
able to suppose that thereafter it
would be taxed at the same rate that
the little accumulations of the work
ingmen were taxed. But that was
not the case at all. The inheritors of
the fortune went on paying taxes at
the same rate as before, notwithstand
ing that the most drastic laws were on
the statute books declaring that all
property should be taxed equally. As
with the Vanderbilt fortune, so with
hundreds of 'other great fortunes in
the city of New York and all the other
great cities. In Cook county, Illi
nois, in which Chicago is situated, the
assessors returns showed farm im
plements to be of greater value than
all the immense wealth of the great
bankers. This fact was published in
most of the dailies, but the people of
the county went on electing to office
the same men who perpetrated this
fraud upon the poor.
The District of Columbia is governed
by congress. A few years ago a com
mittee, composed of an equal number
from both parties, was appointed to
investigate the subject of taxation in
the District. The value of the prop
erty as returned by the assessors was
$75,000,000, but this committee re
ported that its value was $750,000,000,
and further that nearly all the taxes;
were paid by the poor and those in
moderate circumstances, while the
rich went almost free. What is true
of Washington is true of the whole j
country.
The rich being the ruling class and i
paying but little of taxes that are
levied and collected, accounts for the ,
extravagant appropriations made by 1
congress and the state legislatures, j
The rich do the appropriating and the
poor pay the bill. If the rich had to
pay in proportion to the value of their
property and at the same rata that
the poor pay, there never would have
been $60,000,000 appropriated for the
improvement of the unknown creeks,
rivers ?.nd bays that we find in the
river arid harbor - bill neither would
a ship subsidy donating $180,000,000
to a few millionaires have ever re
ceived a majority in the United States
senate, for upon the announcement
of the introduction of such a bill, com
mittees from boards of trade, banking
syndicates and railroad corporations
would have flocked to Washington and
overwhelmed congress with their pro-testations.-
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But the most unaccountable thing
poor seem to like to pay the taxes and
exempt the millionaires. The poor
outnumber the rich a thousand to one
and could enforce equal taxation with
in two years if they made an effort
to do so. They will not even sustain
a set of officers who make an attempt
to reduce taxation. The fusion state
government reduced the cost of main
taining the several institutions of thi
state nearly 50 per cent and in les3
than four years reduced the state debt
$670,000. The people didn't like that
at all, so they turned them out and
put the republicans back in office,
who will increase the state debt not
less than $000,000 during the first two
years of their administration.
The Independent believes that the
majority should rule and as long as a
majority insist upon the rich being
exeiript and the poor paying the taxes
and constantly increasing the state
debt, the rest of us will have to ac
cept the condition of affairs and do
the .best we can.
AN ASSOCIATED PRESS FAKE
For the greater part of last week
the Associated press ran a fake that
occupied a column or so in all the
great dailies. It was the most dis
graceful and bare-faced fake ever per
petrated on the American people. The
substance of it was that the people's
or populist party was holding a fu
sion convention in Louisville, Ky., in
connection with a job lot of other par
ties when in fact there was not a
member of the people's party there.
Jo Parker is not chairman of the na
tional committee of the people's party
and has no connection with it what
ever. The officers of the people's par
ty national committee are ex-Senator
Marion Butler of North Carolina,
chairman; J. H. Edmisten of Nebras
ka, vice chairman, and J. A. Edger-
ton of Colorado, secretary. These gen
tlemen and the whole national com
mittee were elected at the convention
held at Sioux Falls and will hold
their commissions until the meeting of
the next national convention. Not one
of the persons whose names appear in
the Associated press reports from
Louisville attended the Sioux Falls
convention or are members of the
people's party. Yet this aggregation
was exploited in the Associated press
as "dominated by populists."
An examination of these reports,
even by one not familiar with the
populist party and its membership,
shows it to be a mass of falsehoods.
It is claimed that there were 250 dele
gates present representing twenty-six
states, but an examination of the lists
of committees shows that there were
not enough there to fill them, the same
names appearing over and over again.
The men who organized and car
ried out the farce are the same old
Clem Deaver-Joe Parker gang who
operated as assistant republicans dur
ing the last presidential campaign.
The absent ones are those who took
their pay in offices instead of cash.
Of course the railroads did all they
could to help the political fakirs by
granting the half fare rates from all
parts of the United States. Besides
that the convention was called during
the Louisville sale of blooded horses
Some fifteen or twenty Nebraskans
took advantage of the low rates to at
tend the sale, but the name of only
one appears in connection with the
convention.
The Associated press writers know
very well who are the officers of the
popuist national committee and when
they paraded Joe Parker as chairman
and others as members of that com
mittee, they intended to perpetrate a
fake in the interest of republicans.
That is the sort of news-gathering
that the people of the United States
have to rely upon for .their facts.
This convention was of exactly the
same character as the one called dur
ing the last campaign at Grand Island,
Neb., by Clem Deaver, andsfor which,
and other work, he was rewarded with
a very lucrative office by the republi
cans. The railroads gave free trans
portation to every man who would go
to Grand Island and doubtless the
same favors were shown to Joe Parker
as were extended to Deaver. This
Louisville scheme was a Mark Hanna
side show to fool the unwary and
ignorant voters and to such schemes
the republican national committee is
always willing to furnish all the finan
cial aid that is necessary.
The main point, however, and the
one to which The Independent would
call attention, is this fake press asso
ciation. When it will go into a scheme
like that it discredits with honorable
men all that it may furnish to the
public. The people should take warn
ing and give no credence whatever to
any news of a political nature that
that organization sends out. Another
campaign is about to begin. There
will be scores more of just such fakes
appearing during the next six months.
.The Associated press report was a
fake, the -convention was a fake, but
the worst fake of all was when this
aggregation of republican assistants
resolved to organize a new party and
call it the allied "people's" party, thus
attempting to steal a name that is
honored and respected by two million
THREE "WARRIORS
General Miles was clearly within the
army regulations when he wrote the
letter to Secretary Root proposing a
plan of campaign. He is the lieuten
ant general, nominally in command of
the army of the United States. The
letter of course went to the president.
It would be well for the editors of the
Associated press and imperialist dail
ies, before indulging in sarcastic re
marks to remember the records of
these three men which is as follows:
War record of Nelson A. Miles:
-Entered United States army in
1861 as a volunteer; saw field ser
vice in some 20 battles and en
gagements, many of them the
greatest and most sanguinary of
the civil war;, rose grade by grade,
for highly meritorious service, to ..;
the rank of major-general of vol
unteers, and commanded an army
corps in active service at the age
of 25; conducted several success
ful campaigns against hostile Ind
ians, notably the one against the
Apaches in 1885-6; led fn person
the army which Invaded Porto
Rico in 1898, and conquered the
island without bloodshed, at the
same time winning the confidence
of the people, his military
strategy- in making a landing on
the south side, contrary to the
plans of the war department, be- .
ing universally commended; made
lieutenant general of regular army :
in 1900.
War record of Theodore Roose
veltPresident New York police
board, 1895-97; assistant secre
tary of the navy, 1897-98; lieuten
ant colonel and colonel of "rough
riders" in campaign against San
tiago, June and July, 1898.
War record of Secretary Root
New York corporation lawyer.
The letter of General Miles was not
written for publication and its con
tents was given out by the war de
partment. The plan of General Miles
was not Funstonian and in conse
quence of that, fact the president was
very much irritated, but after all is
said the fact remains that General
Miles had a legal right to submit his
views and "is not responsible for the
giving of his letter to the public.
SUBSIDIZED MORTON
In the last edition of his paper
we were going to say "newspaper,'
but that would be altogether too ridic
ulous Morton says that the republi
cans can beat the best populist in the
state who may be nominated for gov
ernor, but "it is a serious question
whether the republican party can de
feat the best honest-money democrat,"
and Morton, of course, is that best
honest money democrat. It was . the
Innate modesty of the man that caused
him to publish that fact. The modesty
of subsidized editors Is something re
markable and Morton's modesty is the
most remarkable of all, because his
subsidy is the whole thing, the paper
having no appreciable income from
any, other source. A glance at his ad
vertising pages will disclose that fact.
He has a half page ad. from the Stand
ard Oil company for libricating oils.
the factory being located at Franklin,
Pa. Next comes a quarter page from
the Chicago National bank, the Wells
Fargo & Co. National bank of San
Francisco, one from the salt trust,
the Colorado Fuel and Iron trust and
a quarter page each from the Commer
cial National and the American Trust
and Savings banks of Chicago.
One of The Independent force re
cently went into the office of a na
tional bank and solicited an ad. Both
the president and cashier declared that
they did" not advertise at all. When
shown one of their ads. in Morton's
paper they said that was another mat
ter altogether, that the ad. was not
inserted for any business reasons, but
because Morton was a hard money
man and the ad. was placed there for
the purpose of advocating those prin
ciples' and not for any returns that
they expected to get.
That is the way the plutocratic press
is subsidized everywhere. Not one of
these firms, and also many others,
would place an ad. in such a paper as
The Independent, so The Independent
must rely upon its subscriptions for
most 'of its income. Thousands of its
readers understand that fact and some
of them do all in their power to ex
tend the circulation.
VERY AMUSINO
It Is amusing to read some of the
remarks of republican editors con
cerning money that are occasionally
printed these days. Some of them
say: "Yes, money will purchase more
now than it did in 1896, but that Is be
cause it is better money and there is
more of it." The Kansas City Jour
nal rsmarks: "Yes, a dollar would
buy more in 1896 than it will now, but
there are so many more dollars and
not so much buying then as now."
Another erudite editorial writer for
one of the republican dailies sayst
"As money grows more plentiful un
der the republican administration, it
grows better." It would have done
for that editor to have said: "As
money grows more plentiful under the
republican administration, It grows
cheaper," for that is what the reform
forces and Bryan said, and that same
editor had been denouncing "cheap j
money" for years. The enormous j
coinage of silver under the last two j
jpmihllcan administrations. tQgelfrerJ
made money more plentiful and cheap
er just as the populists said it would
but these republican editors have so
long practiced prevarication and false
hood that it has become impossible
for them to make a frank and truth
ful statement. Their twistings, turn
Ing3 and tergiversations are immense
ly amusing.
NO MORE GREAT SPEECHES
The London newspapers are talk
ing about "the deterioration of the
house of commons." They say that
there are no great speeches in the
house any more, that the discussion
when it does not deteriorate into call
mg one anotner a a liars, pro
Boers," "malignant slanderers," never
rises higher than an attempt to catch
another in some unguarded phrase
and twist it into something that the
author of it never intended. That is
the condition in the American house
and senate. A common cause pro
duces the same effect in both parlia
mentary bodies. It is the result o!
the infamous proposition: "My gov
ernment, right or wrong," the uni
versal censorship and the degradation
that always accompanies imperialism.
Such situations inspire neither noble
thoughts nor patriotic, utterances. Ev
ery great address that has come down
to us from the past was delivered in
defense of liberty. Not one of them
was inspired by wars of conquest, and
while wars of conquest are being
waged by the British and American
governments we can expect nothing
from the parliamentary bodies of the
two countries other than what is now
criticised.
SIXTEEN AND AN EIGHTH TO ONE
The following amusing article ap
peared" in the Chicago Tribune and
shows to what straights the adminis
tration has been driven by the mone
tary situation in the Philippines. It
was as follows:
In the Philippine bill reported
to the senate today there is a
specific provision for the coinage
of a special Philippine dollar to
take the place of the Mexican dol
lar which is now the retail coin .
of the islands. The provision
adopted by the committee pro
vides that any one may bring sil
ver to the mint and have it coined
into these Philippine dollars.
This has led many people into
the belief that the senate has
adopted free coinage of silver out
right for the Philippines. This
Philippine dollar, however, is real
ly nothing more nor less than so
much silver bullion minted by the
United States to determine its fine
ness and weight. Beyond that the
government of the United States
assumes no liability for it. It is
made a legal tender in the Philip
pines, but as a Philippine dollar
only.
The United States does not guar
antee to redeem the coin in gold or
greenbacks, and the Philippine dol
lar will not even be a legal tender
at its bullion value in the United
States. It will not, therefore, pay
people to bring silver to the mints
and have it coined into the Phil
ippine dollars because they are
worth practically no more so
coined than when in the form of
bullion.
Mr. Bryan's free coinage idea
was to bring silver to the mints at
its bullion value, and by the mere
process of coining transmute it
into legal tender value on a fixed
proportion to that of gold.
There is absolutely no 16 to 1
in connection with the Philippine
dollars. They will circulate for
what they are worth, and are ex
pected to drive out the Mexican
dollar only because the latter are
badly minted, frequently vary in
weight, and are not always above
suspicion as to the amount of al
loy used.
Even the ordinary reader will de
tect about a dozen contradictions in
it. The Independent will point out
one or two. "This Philippine dollar
is really nothing more than so much
bullion minted." "It is made a legal
tender in the Philippines." Bullion
is not legal tender, but this dollar is.
Yet it is nothing more than minted
bullion! ,
It seems that the republicans, al
though compelled to establish free
coinage 'of silver in the Philippines,
could not quite bring themselves to
16 to 1. They made it 16' to 1, and
so went Bryan one-eighth better.
The charge made against the mints
of Mexico Is an insult to that nation
and if it came from a responsible
source the state department would
likely hear from the Diaz government.
Mr. Bryan's idea is to be enacted into
law in the Philippines which was to
bring silver bullion to the mints and
by the process of coining transmute
into legal tender money, the only dif
ference being that the coinage in the
Philippines will be at the ratio of 16
'to 1 instead of 16 to 1.
The Boer general, Samuel Pearson,
has finished his investigations at New
Orleans and returned to Washington
prepared to sustain his charge that the
British-authorities, in defiance of the
laws of neutrality, have set up a reg-
ular military establishment in Louis
iana. General Pearson says there are
one British general, two British col
onels, and sixty British captains and
lieutenants in this country iow, with
headquarters at New Orleans. He al
leges that the United States has con
tributed 42,000 men to aid the British
RAILKOAD COURTS
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Mr. Charles A. Prouty of the Inter
state commerce commission, declared
In his speech in Chicago that the rec
ords of the commission showed that
five men in New York controlled 125,-
000 miles of the 200,000 miles of rail
road In the United States and fixed
the rates thereon. The other 75,000
consists of small roads dependent up
on the larger systems. Here is a
state of affairs such as the world
never saw before. It has been built up
by the decisions of republican courts
which rendered all attempts to reg
ulate charges on the railroads futile.
Nebraska has tried it and other states
have tried it and not one of them
has ever succeeded.. With these enor
mous properties in the hands of pri
vate individuals they can control leg
islatures, congress and the courts.
Nearly every federal judge on the
bench today secured his appointment
by railroad influence. However much
censure may be meted out to venal leg
islatures and boodling members of
congress, the. fact Is notorious that
the great triumphs of the railroad
corporatons have been secured through
the courts. AIL Nebraska knows how
the attempt to secure equitable rates
in this state was nullified by the
courts. The federal courts are rail
road courts and it is by their decisions
that the monopoly has become all
powerful.
HYPOCRISY
The Independent has frequently used
the I word "hypocrisy" because it was
a necessity. A distinguished profes
sor in our university a short time ago,
speaking on an entirely non-political
subject, remarked that all the other
nations of the earth frequently brought
the accusation against all Anglo
Saxons that they were unblushing
lypocrites. That was the opinion held
concerning us by the Germans, Dutch,
Russians, French, Italians, and all
the peoples of Europe. Could any
thing else be expected? The Declar
ation of Independence and the con
stitution of the United States are fa
miliar documents the whole world
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over. The great, patriotic ana liDeny-
nspiring orations of the past are
cherished in the hearts of all men of
all nations. The career of Lincoln,
the war for the freedom of the slaves
is known to every peasant. Now when
they see the United State3 abandoning
all the ideals of the past, repudiating
the Declaration of Independence,
trampling the constitution under foot,
engaging in wars of conquest, perpe
trating cruelties that only have an
equal among the Mogul conquerors,
elevating such men as Funston to
high command in the army, attempt
ing to disgrace such men as Dewey,
Schley and Miles, sending great and
costly embassies to help crown a
king, and at the same time claiming
to love liberty and free government,
what else is there to be expected than
that we should be scoffed at by all
Europe as a nation of hypocrites?
Beware of the leaven of imperialism
which is hypocrisy.
light plants the vote stoodfor,
190; against, 19,007. For nominal:
of candidates by direct vote at
primaries the vote was 125.0S2.
against, 15,861. While these vote
of no binding effect, none of the i
positions voted on being before
city in a legal way, they are
cant as showing what is going on
the public mind, and as indicating t
trend of public opinion on these qu
tions.
If a referendum vote were taken
any other large city the result wo-:
be practically the same. If a rof
endum was taken in the whole Unit
States there can be no doubt that t
people would run up just as great r.
jorities for the public ownership
railroads and telegraphs. It is o:
partisan insanity, the belief that
man must vote for a certain pi
name, that prevents populism f;
controlling the United States gov.i
ment as well as every one of
states. The things that populists
vocate are really the things that
very large majority of the p?o
want.
WASTE AND SAVING
Trust advocates are always dedal ;-
ing about the great savings effect
by consolidation and combinatio!
Here is a specimen of the "saving"
fected by the tin trust, quoted fi"
The Bookkeeper, a magazine for a
countants: .
Original salaries, 119 book
keepers, atl,200t.. $H-.
19 discontinued $22,800
100 reduced one-half. . . 60.000
82
Bookkeeping cost under the
trust $ GO.t'i
Salaries at headquarters, at a
high estimate 10.-
Total bookkeeping expense.! To
Net saving to the trust. $72,800
Net loss to the book
keepers 82,800
The trust "saved" $72,000 and
119 bookkeepers lost all told $S2"
19 of them lost their jobs and loo .
them had their wages cut down "o p.
cent. The Independent can't fepl
very sorry for those of them who re
tinue to vote the republican tick
knowing that it upholds that kind
'saving."
FUNSTONIAN IGNORANCE
Funston is hot over the newspaper
criticism of his imperialistic state
ments. He declared at Topeka, Ka3.,
that the editors who had criticised him
"knew a great deal more about the
articles of golf than they knew about
the articles of war." After that he
declared that "everything Is permissi
ble in a campaign except the use cf
poison and the violation of a flag of
truce."
Now there are thirty-eight rules of
war which put restraints upon con
tending forces which have been
adopted by all civilized nations and the house to stand by the Dingley tn
The tremendous emigration fror
the United States into western Cans i
shows that emigration does not folio v
the flag, but the best chance of mak
ing a living. There are great bodi-
of land, good for raising wheat. whi ;
Is given to any one who will come an-;
cultivate it. It Is said that if th
present rate of migration Is kept i;;1
at least 2,000,000 of Americans wtT
find homes there in the next few year
But unless the Dominion governmei;"
adopts a different policy towards th
railroads than what has prevailed '
the United States, these emigrants wi!
find that they have only gone thr-
to pile up fortunes for railroad ma
nates. At present they take "all t!
traffic will bear" in Canada the san
as in this country. The result is th .
farmers will cultivate the soil for -
bare existence while the milllonaJn
gather In the profits and add to thr
fortunes, while the most of th-r--spend
their time sailing In yactt !
hanging around the courts of En rep
ean monarchs.
What may be expected of a koI !
democrat can be gathered from tl
minority report of Representative M
Clellan of New York on Cuban r- -
iprocity. While hypocritically p:-
tending to be a democrat and in fav-
of lower tariffs, his report is so work
ed as to in?pire every republican i
among them are the following:
First Treacherous attempts up
on the life of an enemy, as, for
example, feigning to surrender.
Second Attacking an enemy by
concealing the distinctive signs of
an armed force.
Third Using improperly the na
tional flag, uniform or other dis
tinctive signs of the enemy.
Fourth Killing or Injuring an
enemy who has surrendered or is
disabled, or to declare in advance
that quarter will not be given.
Fifth Robbing or mutilating
the bodies of the dead.
in. uue sentence or mat report i n
followsr "The bill is an enunciation
of the democratic doctrine of recipro-
ity, It is a breach in the wall of pro
tection, and lowers in part the pre
posterous Dingley rates." That is t
great argument to use to induce a re
publican house to pass the bill. 1'
was intended to help kill the bill an.!
help the tariff grafters of all shad-
and kinds to continue their robbri?-.
Of such stuff are gold democrats mad-
The evidence given in the court -
The broad and unqualified statement I martial of Major Waller at Manila for
of Funston shows him to be an ignor- shooting prisoners is corroberative of
ant braggart, wholly unfit to hold the the statement of General Miles th .t
commission that was bestowed upon
him for the dirtiest piece of work
with which any officer of tie United
States army was ever connected.
. CHICAGO IS POPULIST
war had been carried on with
'marked severity." In his defend
Major Waller has introduced tcsti
mony to show that everything that h
did was inspired by General Smith
the commander of the department.
The Independent has frequently General Miles is a better judge of what
called attention to the growth of pop
ulism in all parts of the country. Pub
lic ownership of public utilities is dis
tinctively a populist principle, having
long since become one of the perma
nent planks in its platforms. The
voters of Chicago are overwhelmingly
in favor of this plan.
As a means of testing public opinion
in , the city of Chicago on the owner
ship of public utilities, a referendum
vote was had at the late municipal
election in that city. The total vote
cast on these propositions was 150.
constitutes "severity" in war than the
corporation lawyer, Root, who call
it only "benevolent assimilation."
It is stated that Mrs. Altgeld is in
very straightened circumstances an i
an effort is being made to raise a fund
that will keep her from want. W
should think that every time a repub
lican editor thought of the fakes that
they published about Governor Alt -gold's
gold bonds, that he would want
somebody to kick him. But republi
can editors have no regard to araeni-
581. On the municipal ownership of ties of life such as are common arroni;
street railways the voted stood for, gentlemen, and doubtless they chuckle
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