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THE NEBRASKA IITDEPENDEIIT tbt Debraska Jnftependent Lincoln, llebrasfta. PRESSE BLDG., CORNER I3thAND N STS. PUBLISHED EVERY TEOXRSDAY. FOURTEENTH YEAB $1.00 PER 'YEAR Iff ADVANCE WheQ making: remittances do mot leave money with news agencies, postmasters, f etc, to b forwarded by them. They' frequently forget or remit a different amount than was . left with them, and the" subscriber! fails to get proper credit. ' Address all communications, and make all drafts, money orders, etc, payable to Zhe tlfbraska ' Independent, Lincoln, Neb. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscript twill not be returned. 7 t Birds appear to have more sense In some respects than men. The grove around the house is full of birds of several different varieties. All at once there was & terrific clatter among them. Cries of warning were heard in every direction. Investigation-showed that there was a pirate" bird bent on robbery and spoliation sailing around above the trees. Some of the braver little birds prepared for attack on the pirate in defense of their homes and circled out around him to drive him away. When a great financial pirate appears among the common people, who by special privileges robs them, they do not act in that manner. They fawn upon him, they are subser vient, they flatter him. All of which goes to show that in some particulars birds act more rationally than men. The private ownership of railroads Is a corrupting influence everywhere and among all classes and organizations. It not only drags the judicial ermine In the mire, makes a political cesspool of legislatures and congresses, but it enters religious bodies and employs the same means there to desecrate the very holy of holies. It was openly charged on the floor of the Presbyterian gen eral assembly recently held in New York city that a railroad had malnj tained a lobby in that body to secure the holding of the next session at Los Angeles, the farthest point for most of the members to reach. If the rail roads belonged to the government and a stated fare was in force everywhere In the TJnited States, there would be none of these corrupting influences found In the courts, legislatures or congress. The effort of ignorant and unlearne l millionaires to perpetuate their names by founding universities Is having a full demonstration at Leland-Stanford university in California. The readers of The Independent are fully informed of the occurrences that happened there a year or two ago which resulted in the resignation of Dr. Ross, now of the Nebraska state university, and five other professors. Recently Professor Pease of the chair of Latin resigned, and it is said that one or two others are finding the domination of an ignor ant old woman so unbearable that they, too, will soon retire. While Mrs. Stanford controls millions, she Is wholly uneducated, and her ideas bow science should be taught do not ac cord with those of the distinguished men which the big salaries offered in duced to accept positions in that in stitution. One by one they are leaving. The disaffection in the ranks of tho republican party in the eastern states Is so great that the republican national committee has resolved to establish its headquarters this year in New York instead of Chicago. The wiiy repub lican politicians fully comprehend the truth of what The Independent has said all along about the heavy hand of the trusts and money power falling on the east instead of the west in the next depression. The west, thanks to the teachings of sound political eco nomy by the populist press and speak ers, has in a great measure thrown off the yoke" that they wore before 1893. As the yoke now begins to press sorely upon the shoulders of the east ern wage-workers, the best work of the skilled experts In the republican party Is required there to keep the dupes "voting 'er straight." Meat riots continue all over the eastern states. A copy of the Alliance-Independent, the precursor of the Nebraska Inde pendent, was handed to the editor a day or two ago. It was dated Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 13, 1892: One sentence un der the head of "Remedies" was: "Laws against trusts and combinations must be enacted and enforced." Two others were: "The telegraphs and railroads must be owned and con trolled by the government." "A Just and equitable system of taxation." All of which goes to show the statesman ship of the men who founded the pop ulist party.. Those remedies, first pro posed by the populist party, are burn ing demands of the present hour. The equitable taxation of franchises is oc cupying the attention of nearly every state In the union and will be one of the most important Issues in the fall -campaign. r -nfflnHN4 f $ .if H t : .. -. - i r f : ? Juno 5, 1902 THE COUINO COKTSVinONS ' During 1895-6, the first year of tho McKJnley administration, and , until after i the mints had been running night and day for some months" coin ing t, silver, corn was sold, in large quantities at Bancroft,; Neb., for 8 cents a bushel. . In those days a farmer got $4.00 for a load of corn Now he gets $25.00. , The republican press i bias kept the republican farmers in 8uch.absolute ignorance that many of them honestly believe that the coinage of .silver ' was stopped when McKlnley was inaugurated and that thei Sherman act was the cause of the lowpriceiof corn. They, will not be lievethatany silver has been coined under .the 'sr.epubllcan administration. One former republican member of the Nebraska- legislature positively denies that-either Roosevelt or McKlnley has allowed) any i silver to be coined. There are millions of, voters In the eastern and V middle states who are just as densely ignorant. The ques tion of he most practical importance to those who will manage the coming campaign Vis .how to dispel the dense clouds of ifenorance that envelope the voters ' whot,read only republican pa pers. If 'the managers of the coming campaign kriow of any better way than extending! the circulation of re form papers, tbtey should make haste to put it into t execution. No doubt many excellent speeches have been made during this session of congress that : can be printed and franked to the people; But is.it best to spend all the money; and energy that way? Speeches, however good they may be, are often thrown away, but a newspa per, besides what it , may. have to say on political. Issues and government policies, contains other 'matter, which being read J may Induce a reading of the reform matter. One of the most prominent republicans In this state said , to the i editor of The Independent last winter: "We know very well if we could get control of The Indepen dent, change its politics or stop its circulation, there would be little trou ble in us holding the state for years to come. We could 'have a solid re publican delegation in congress, In both house and senate, as well as the whole of the state offices, and have them at very little cost and trouble." Then followed a very flattering offer that was declined, not with thanks, but a few incisive adjectives that are not generally seen in print. It will be seen that (the republican leaders understand the power of the reform press, whether the managers of the opposition do or not. Immense sums of money are spent by the re publican committees in getting, not only their weekly papers into the hands of their voters, but they sub sidize at a cost of millions the great dailies and some of the magazines. The managers of the reform forces do not have the millions of money which are given to the'republican par ty managers by the railroad corpora tions, the trusts, banks and tariff ben eficiaries, but they can do work just as effective in another way If they will, without money. If the national, county and state committees will ap point persons to make plans and put them into execution to extend the cir culation of the national, state and county organs of the reform forces, they will not only rapidly build up the party, but place it on a firm and enduring basis. In that way they would make a political fighter out of almost every man supporting the prin ciples advocated. He would have the facts and arguments with which to fight. The Independent would impress upon the conventions soon to meet and the new committees to be appointed, the fact that their most effective work can be accomplished by extending the circulation of the party press. Neither money nor time can be spent more ef fectively in gaining votes than in this way. The men in the ranks have seen this and many of them have been do ing their utmost to extend the circula tion of The Independent. "They have added some thousands to its subscrip tion list since the first of last January. The least that the men who are se lected as leaders on committees and chosen as managers of the coming campaign can do Is to emulate the ex ample of these unselfish workers. CONTEMPTIBLE The course pursued by Senator Lodge In regard to the witness O'Brien is about as contemptible as any shyster ever employed in a police court. O'Brien had been on the stand but a short time when Senators Pat terson and Rawlins both objected to his testimony and wanted it stricken out. But he was one of Lodge's wit nesses and the majority of the com mittee insisted upon his giving further testimony. To all this Rawlins and Patterson continued to protest. When O'Brien began to make vile charges against certain officers of the army based upon heresay evidence, Patter son made a most vigorous protest. But Lodge Insisted upon leading the witness On. After the witness had been led by the questions to make the most serious charges, he was dismissed and the officer accused was subpoenaed. When that officer ap peared on the stand and said that he wanted to give evidence"; in vindica tion of himself, Patterson replied that he needed no vindication against such evidence as that of O'Brien Lodge is now attempting to use the vindication of that officer as a vindi cation of every officer in the army and sustain his own charges that the ml nority have been "attacking the army.' Much is made of it in the Associated press dispatches and an attempt is be ing made to discredit the testimony of every private ' soldier who has given evidence ; before the committee. A cause that requires such chicanery and pettifogging to sustain it, must be rot ten to the very core. A DANGEROUS DISEASE Partisan insanity is a disease that can be as accurately diagnosed as smallpox or measles. Its outward vis ible signs are just as apparent. Take the situation in Nebraska. Its one in dustry on which all other kinds of business depends is farming. To- a sane, man it would appear that its representatives in the United States senate should be men in sympathy with agriculture, but the fact is that its two United States senators are na tional bankers elected through thi connivance and assistance of railroad corporations. If there Is any class of men by Interest, environment and oc cupation farther away from the farmer than another, it Is the national banker. Yet this disease of partisan insanity is so prevalent that two national bank ers are chosen for these important official positions, simply because by voting for them, a vote can be cast for the republican party. The most dis tinguishing feature of this disease Is the insane delusion that a man must vote for the republican ticket or something awful will happen to him, his state and the whole country. He is as firm in that belief as any China man or Hindoo In his most cherished superstitions. While a republican naturally is for liberty and the doctrines contained In the Declaration of Independence, his party having come into power in de fense of them, yet he will vote for des potism and government by force in spite of all that, if by so doing he can vote the republican ticket. The delu sion is tremendously strong in him that he must vote the republican tick et. It is no use to reason with him. It is simply an insane delusion. What he needs is careful watching and med ical treatment. The whole medical fraternity unite in declaring it to be a very dangerous disease. Lodge and the other speakers at the unveiling of the Rochambeau monu ment in Washington were mostly of the imperialist sort. The consequence was that while the language used was the most elegant English, there was nothing' to warm the hearts of those who listened to or afterward read the speeches. It was mere formalism. With an American army in the Phil ippines lighting to destroy the very principles for Which Washington and Rochambeau did such gallant deeds, the occasion was such as to make the very few references to the "cause" for which the great Frenchman fought ap pear as the vilest hypocrisy. If the position of Lodge and the other lead ers of the republican party is the true one, then the cause for which Washington and Rochambeau fought was wrong. To erect statues in mem ory of men who fought for a wrong principle cannot inspire enthusiasm and listening to speeches on such oc casions, however refined and elegant the language used, can only excite a feeling of disgust. The supreme court and the imper ialists have created a condition of things among about ten million people such as was never known in all the world before. The practical result 13 that this multitude are declared to be men without a country. The matter has come up in regard to passports several times and now it is presented in another form. Antonio Opisso y de Yeaza has applied for naturalization in the District of Columbia. He says he is a Spaniard, but born in Manila, Philippine Islands, which country passed into the control of the United States by the treaty of Paris. The clerk of the court refused to issue the papers, because while Mr. Opisso is not a citizen of the United States "he cannot renounce allegiance to any for eign prince, potentate or government, he . not being a subject of any such foreign prince or state." Mr. Opisso has appealed to the courts. Now watch Mr. Justice Brown rip up the con stitution, some more. One of the New York clearing house banks, having exchanges aggregating over $1,300,000 one day last week, came out of the clearing with a cash bal ance of 10 cents. Many such instances as this were quoted in the debate on the money question in 1893. The con clusion that the gold bugs drew from such transactions was that money had very little to do with the trade and commerce of a civilized nation, and the amount in circulation had still less effect upon the general level of prices. Since the enormous increase in prices following directly upon the vast In crease in the coinage of silver and gold, they do not make such asser tions with as much positiveness as they did at that time. PEACE IN SOUTH AFRICA H The Hooligans of London have been celebrating a great victory, which was in fact about the worst defeat an em pire ever suffered.' A careful study of the peace conditions made with the Boers will force any unprejudiced man to so regard them. England has agreed to repair all the damage she has done in the two little republics by a direct grant of $15,000,000 and loan of money without interest for three years, and afterwards at 3 per cent. She abandons a war indemnity and pays all the costs herself which amount to about a billion dollars. There are to be no executions for re bellion, the provision being that no such prosecutions shall be instituted except in case of the violation of the laws of war. Every one knows that Boers have scrupulously regarded the rules and regulations of civilized war fare, and in case there had been any violations, a treaty stipulation was not necessary. The provision for tJae partial surren der of arms Is a farce. It never can be enforced except as to large guns and if at any time the Boers want arms it will be no trouble for them to get them if they have the money to pay for them. 4- General Crook and General Miles always opposed such terms when treating with hostile Ind ians. It was impossible in the first case to get the arms, except old and useless ones, and inr the second place the Indians could always get arms when they wanted them. There was never any dearth of traders willing to furnish them. What England has gained is the nominal right to float the union jack over a hostile population and the one thing that an imperialist gloats over more than anything else, the destruc tion of two republics. The brave fight that the Boers have made will live in song and story for a thousand years. De Wet, Delarey, Botha, Steyn andof;Kruger will be household names in every nation of the world, while the names of the English generals who fought them will, pass out of mind during the next decade, or, if remembered, it will be only by those who hate liberty and love empire. London celebrated the conclusion of the war. That is part of London. The cablegrams say that the throngs who crowded the streets were made up of "women, many of them carrying ba bies; boys, drunken loafers and oth ers glad of any excuse to defy law and order, were the principal elements in the ragged processions passing and repassing through the principal streets. The" crowds concentrated In Regent street andthe Strand and let themselves loose. Women of the low er clas jabbed men in the faces with feathers, flung an, apology for con fetti and in turn were hugged and kissed by any man who found time for such a diversion. A few helpless policemen stood around and watched the fun." It is added that to the cry "Peace with honor," it wa3 replied, "Great Britain has the peace, but the Boers have the honor." The war in South Africa is over, but the war in the Philippines goes on. The jingo government having got out of this country all the help it needed, now watch for criticism by the Eng lish of our war in the islands of the Asiatic seas. The great journals over there will not be so mum as they have been in the past. UNTIL ONE GROWS WEARY What sort of literature is furnished the people by the great dailies and most of the magazines" in these days? What do the people think and talk about? To whom are the young pointed as the leading characters of these United States? Is it not one eternal round of Morgan, Gates, Rus sell Sage, Schwab, Vanderbilt, Gould, Rockefeller, Harriman and Jim Hill? Upon these characters the thoughts of the whole population seem centered. Of orators, scholars, poets and men who devote their lives to the service of humanity we hear little or nothing. What sort of men will the youths be who are now growing up after being fed" for years on such ideas as these characters inspire? In other days the youth were taught to reverence and emulate such men as Washington, Jef ferson and Lincoln, -and the poets and authors inspired with high ideals. Now nothing i3 thought worthy of at tention but men who have accumulated millions. If two farmers meet at ev ening tide they talk&f Morgan, Gould and Rockefeller. So do the ministers and professional men. It is money, money, money, until one grows weary. If attention is withdrawn for the moment from the accumulation of money then it is directed to ostenta tious giving. Nothing can be more de grading or disgusting than the parad ing of enormous gifts constantly be fore the people. Hundreds of thou sands are robbed of the product of their labor by unjust laws and the granting of special privileges. These live on the plainest food and coarsest fare. Their little children labor in the factories and mines that millions may be .accumulated by one man. Then the man, who by special privilege and oppression of the poor, has gathered these millions togethermakes enorm ous gifts very seldom to the poor but to the well-to-do. He endows col leges and establishes libraries. Then the dallies weary us with their con stant repetition of the doings of these men. They buy a yacht, they purchase a castle In Scotland, they are presented to the king, and month after month it is Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould, Sage, Schwab, Vanderbilt, Harriman and Jim Hill. A little poem by S. E. Kiser, printed in the Chicago Record-Herald, Indi cates that there is a revulsion among at least some of the people against the sordid worship of wealth and the deification of the "captains of indus try." It is in a simple way a reassert ing of the old and higher ideals of life, and is as follows: .'.' He stood at heaven's portal, And, doubting, hung his head; "I've never been a hero, I never fought," he said; "I never gave out millions For charity, I ne'er Sang songs to cheer the people Whose ills were hard to bear. "I merely toiled for little Ones who were sent to me; I strove to make them happy And guide them righteously" The gates before him opened, And as he passed inside A glorious One received him In gratitude and pride. A BILL A MINUTE The pension laws of the United States .were drawn up and passed by old soldiers. They embody what those who served in the civil war believe to be honorable and just. They are cer tainly very liberal. When a man can not get a pension under these laws, administered as they are by old sol diers themselves, it is very good evi dence that he is not entitled to a pen sion. Those in such condition that they cannot get a pension under the law apply to congress and bills a're in troduced to give them a pension out side of the law. Under republican rule this practice has been an exten sion of the ''pie counter." Many thou sands of persons have been pensioned who have no claim except that they are active workers in the republican party. That proves effective when they have none at all under the law. This congress has extended the pie AIDING MONARCHY - The Imperialists sneer at."senftl- mentallsm," but they make more use of it to further their ends than any other class. Recent articles written by the closest friends of Cecil Rhodes tell how he made use of It to further his imperial projects. He hired the best writers and subsidized the great est newspapers to depict the sufferings of helot outlanders They were wept over and rivers of Ink. were shed in telling of their wrongs. A "sentiment" In their favor was created in England which went to such extremes as to en able Rhodes to get the British govern ment to declare war on the two re publics. It was ;pure sentlmentalism that did It. Yet Rhodes cared nothing for the outlanders.1 In fact he hated and feared them more than he did the Dutch burghers. One of Rhodes' clos est friends was Syndney Low, and in a recent : article Mr. Low says that Rhodes said to him: "I was not taking all this trouble to turn old Kruger out and put J. B. Robertson in his place. I knew that in five years there would be 250,000 white settlers on the Rand. In ten years there might be half a million or more. Now, that large European population, with its enormous wealth and industry, would Inevitably become the politi cal center of all South Africa. If we left things alone, the outlanders were certain, sooner or later, to turn out Kruger and his lot, to get possession of the Transvaal ad ministration, and to make the re public a modern, financial, pro gressive state, which would draw all South Africa after it. But they would have done It entirely by their own efforts. They would owe no gratitude to England, and, indeed, they might feel a grudge against the home government for having left them in the lurch so long. They would take very good care to retain their independence and their flag, with perhaps a lean ing toward some foreign power, and all the Afrikander world would gradually recognize their leadership. So that, in the end, in stead of a British, federal domin ion, you would get a United States of South Africa, with its capital on the Rand, and very likely it would be ruled by a party that would be entirely oposed to the English con nection. In fact, you would lose South Africa, and lose it by the efforts of the English-speaking minority in the Transvaal, who are at present anti-British as well as anti-Kruger." Rhodes' purpose was to crush out counter enormously. The fact was republics in South Africa and estab- brought out on the floor of the house the other day that during this session 1,169 pension bills had been passed. They were rushed through in a most scandalous manner, at the rate of one bill and a third for each minute of time while they were under discussion. It is hardly possible that the heavy taxation whlclr will result from -the war in the Philippines, the river and harbor bill, the private pension bills, the enormous amounts appropriated for public buildings, the increase in the army and navy and other extra ordinary expenses can be borne with out great distress. Its effect will come on gradually. Little by little the work ers will find it harder to make both ends meet. Debts will begin to pile up, and the inevitable result will fol low. Perhaps the sufferers will find some consolation in the catch phrases: "This is a billion-dollar country,' The flag must stay put," and others of like nature, but that will not pay the hills. Tha money to pay them must be ground out by the sweat and toil of the masses. General Chaffee has turned "copper head" and no mistake. In proof or that fact The Independent offers the Ush monarchical government In their place. To that unholy purpose the re publican party and republican admin-; istratlon in this country has given all possible aid. To help establish mon archy in South Africa this, and the preceding administration gave all the moral and material support that it was possible for it. to give. .. . THREE GREAT SPEECHES Three epoch-making speeches have been delivered in the United States senate by senators from Massachu setts. The first was by Webster in his reply to Hayne. That was the speech that killed the doctrine of nullification as advocated by Hayne and Calhoun, although others of the same sort fol lowed it. The next was a speech by Senator Sumner for the exclusion of slavery from the territories. That speech fixed the policy of the republl- can party and brought It into power. The last is the speech of Senator Hoar advocating the independence of the Filipinos. Time can only tell what ef fect that speech will have in fixing the future policy of this nation. There are many aoie men long connected with the republican party who believe that its influence will be as great as ollowing paragraph found in his or- that of the speeches of Webster and der disapproving of the acquittal of Major Waller and Lieutenant Day for shooting Filipino prisoners without a trial. General Chaffee says: "Above and beyond all personal consldera- Sumner. The things that made these speeches great is not so much the elo quence of them, as that they were made for liberty. Such speeches live and influence mankind long after the tions, officers must, guard the name lips that uttered them are mouldering and honor of the country. Had Lieu- in the grave. tenant Day been actuated by such con sideration he would probably have pre vented one of the most regrettable in cidents in the annals of the military history of the United States." If that don't prove that General Chaffee is a "copperhead," what will? States and promises of moral sup port at the breaking out of the war with Spain. Lord Cranborne's answer to a question in the house was very specific. He could find "no trace of any assurances, verbal or written, "having been given by Great Britain to the United States," "regarding the conduct or policy of Great Britain with reference to the war." The An glomaniacs in this country should re flect a while over that statement and remember what The Independent told them about England's love for this country. English statesmen are not talking very much; just now about the joint interests of the Anglo-Saxon race. . - : . Americans have been In the habit of laughing at what the English call the British constitution. , They. say there is no such thing, no . written document of tho kind being in exist ence. But what is the constitution of the United States? Is it the written document or the opinions of such men as Justice Brown? Recent events would seem to prove that the consti tution of the United States is the eupreme court and not the document drawn up in 1789 and the amendments since added. The Springfield Republican get3 off the following bit of sarcasm in regard to Roosevelt's recent order intended to "humiliate" General Miles: "The only adequate way of dealing with the general in command of the army is to follow the Chinese plan and glvo him an assortment of robes to be tak en off by way of disgrace. Then, in stead of telling General Miles, "Tho office boy will now do your work, and do it better, the president would sim ply ask the doughty general to send in his yellow shirt by return post. The Chinese have a fine civilization. If the "differential" tariff on refined sugar should be taken off as the house voted to do, the price of stock In the sugar trust would decline. The re publican farmer of Nebraska Who works hard these days, who never owned a share of sugar stock and nev er will, looks upon that as a great disaster. " He will never vote for any one who favors that. The reason the republican farmer acts in that unrea sonable way is because he is troubled with delusions. He would be only Ir ritated if one should tell him that if the differential should be removed he would get his sugar cheaper. Physically, no doubt Roosevelt Is brave, but politically he is an arrant coward. More than a month ago Col onel Crowder was sent in haste to In vestigate the British camp at Chal mette. With commendable speed ho made the Investigation and submitted his report. Roosevelt has locked up that report and refused to give It pub licity, not having the courage to let the people know the facts, and trust ing to luck that peace may be estab lished In South Africa, so that when the report is finally given publicity it will not affect his political fortunes. Why does not the senate or house call for that report? Catch phrases which have such an enduring effect upon those poor crea tures affected with the delusions of partisan insanity, have never had any influence upon populists. The old phrases, now seemingly worn out, such as "sound money," and "money good in Europe," which the partisans thought were the acme of logic, af fected populists no more than the more recent ones, such as "benevolent assimilation," and "who'll haul down the flag." In fact all of them have be come stale and have lost their power even over the mullet beads. Perhaps Mark Hanna has his experts now at work coining some new ones. A subscriber takes The Independent to task for quoting from the Holt County Independent a paragraph said Roosevelt Is proving childish. No One of the democratic senators re marked: "The truth is that some of the republicans feel mighty mean ev ery time they think of that Philippine to reflect upon Dr. C. E. Coffin and hl3 bill." The truth seems to be that candidacy for governor. The offend some of the senators nave never even ing paragraph appeared under tha -. : It. . 1.11 1 . . 4. a T rVA I 1 . . . 4 wni- m a. J m - reaa uie uin, uut nave uusicu iu neaaing, ine &iaie i'ress, in our and a few others to put everything in- issue of May 22. In the first place. The man can look upon the order recently to satisfactory condition. Lodge and Independent does not necessarily ap issued by him to the effect that when the majority of his committee have pr0ve of anything which appears un- the secretary of war and his assistant practically trusted Koot on many der the heading named; the column 13 are both absent from Washington that points, and Root has been under the I intended simply as a reflection of some subordinate shall be designated influence of the corporate interests what is appearing in the various state to assume the office Instead of the com- which want to exploit the archipelago, papers. In the second place, The In- mandlng general as has always been There has never been a man In the dependent sees nothing in the para i ... . i the case heretofore, as anything else cabinet so thoroughly in sympaiuy graph which could reasonably be con- than childish. It is said that the order with the money magnates and exploit- strued as an attack on Dr. Coffin. In was issued to further humiliate Gen- ers of labor as' this man Root. He is factt The Independent does not be- the moving power in the cabinet the neve there 13 any ground for attack man on whom Roosevelt relies. If ing him. His record at the head of the the instinct to accumulate money and Lincoln hospital for the insane shows use the power that accumulations give him to have not only executive abil- to oppress mankind makes a states- ity, but also the "ability, honesty and man, then Root is a statesman. Oth erwise he is not. eral Miles. It will not have that ef fect. It will simply cause all intelli gent men to smile at the order and designate it as child's play. Such acts as that go far toward showing that Roosevelt is too small to fill the presi dential chair of the great republic. A republican said to the editor the other day: "You organized the farm- backbone" which Mr. Eves Inquired about. As to his position, on the as sessment and taxation of railroads, The Independent Is not advised; but it has reason to believe that the doc- HOW BRITISH tOTE US It having become necessary for the ers' alliance to catch what you call English government to establish close tor has never earned the title of "pass- me in unci, ucauo auu juu uiuu t wi,i-u i reiauuus witu uptiuj. uu "vvvuui, vm. w.v, i grauuer. 1 no inuepenueni, Deing a one." He was told that that was true, recent approachment of Russia and state and national paper, does not at- The farmers' alliance only got the in- France, positive statements are being tempt to press the claims of any can- telllgent and patriotic republicans in- made by the British ministers in the dldate; but it feels free to say that to the people's party. The mullet heads house of commons denying all the stories so industriously circulated by the imperialist press In this country of the assistance given -to 'the United are all republicans yet. Then that chap walked away, seemingly some what discouraged. . r if Dr. Coffin Is nominated at Grand Isl and, he will be elected and will give the state an administration we can all be proud of. i ; G
