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THE ITEBItAOKA 3HDEPBITDEIJT.
Juno 26, 1902.
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Ths Ticket
For Governor. ..... .W. H. Thompson
(Democrat, Hall County.)
Lieut. Governor.. E. A. Gilbert
(Populist, York County.)
Secretary of State. John Powers
(Populist, Hitchcock County.)
Auditor C. Q. De France
(Populist, Jefferson County.)
Treasurer ..J. N. Lyman
(Populist, Adams County.)
Attorney General ....... J. H. Broady
, (Democrat, Lancaster County.)
Commissioner Public Land3 and
Bu.'ldlngs.. ....J. C. Brennan
(Democrat, Douglas County.)
Supt of Schools Claude Smith
(Populist, Dawson County.)
"It women scoffed at soldiers,
There would be wars no more."
S. E. Klser.
Samar Smith has been vindicated for
the issuing of the "howling wilder
ness" order. Upon his arrival in the
United States he will be assigned to
the command of the department of
Texas.
Norris Brown's speech as temporary
chairman wa3 marked by his inability
to distinguish between the truth and
fiction; and Permanent Chairman
Davidson's speech showed his inabil
ity to distinguish between his own and
the language of others.
"Washington dispatches say that Sen
ator Hoar, discouraged and disheart
ened, has left Washington and retired
to his home in Worcester, Mass. He
will not return to the senate during
this session. What his future course
will be, he refuses to say.
The republican state convention at
Lincoln was characteristic of the clan.
The chairman stole his speech and the
delegates made large contributions to
the school fund through the police
court. All of which will have a ten
dency to keep the rank and file voting
'er straight
The. crowning of a king will not
prove such a profitable commercial
venture as the London shop and hotel
keepers hoped. The agents of the
trans-Atlantic steamship companies
say that travel has not increased this
year over last year, and, in fact, is a
little less.
It Is said in Washington that Gov
ernor Taft is going to issue a general
amnesty to all Filipino prisoners of
war on the Fourth of July and try ths
virtue of conciliation. Will Aguinaldo
be included? Nothing is said about
him although the prisoners confined oa
the island of Guam are mentioned.
All the Washington correspondents
of the great dallies unite in declaring
that the sugar trust has bought a con
trolling1 Interest in the beet sugar com
bine and now Havemeyer don't care a
cent whether the president wins or
loses in his fight for reciprocity with
Cuba. It's heads I win, tails you lose,
with the sugar trust.
Do the republican dallies that tell
us of the statesmanship and wonder
ful wisdom of Hill and Cleveland in
tend to abandon MarkfHanna and sup
port these ancient democrats in the
coming campaign? If Hill and Cleve
land are the embodiment of political
wisdom, as all the dailies declare they
are, then the dailies ought to make
them their standard-bearers.
Every time that Cleveland or Dave
Hill appear before the public announc
ing the course that the democracy
should pursue, all the republican lead
ers are delighted. Theyt well know
that that is what will lead to repub
lican success and democratic defeat.
. Therefore they pat Hill and Cleveland
on the back and tell us what great
statesmen these -relics are.
: The most disreputable assaults ever
made upon the army4 and navy have
been made by the republican party, it
has tried to bring disgrace upon tho
heads of both departments of the mili
tary defense of the nation, army and
navy, by its bitter assaults upon tha
great commanders who have won the
THE STATE CONTENTIONS
The result of foe state conventions
held by the populists and democrats
at Grand Island is that there will ba
closer co-operation between the two
parties than ever, although at one time
libpe of any fusion at all was almost
abandoned.
Both of the conventions were ..the
largest held in years and the . charac
ter of the delegates was of the best.
When one looked over the populist
convention he saw there a grave and
thoughtful assembly of the very best
citizenship of this state. The bench
and bar had many of their best men
there, the number of judges being
very large. Every line of business ex
cept that of the great corporations had
delegates there, farmers, of course,
largely predominating. "For the most
part it was a convention of gray
headed men. . When one sat upon the
platform and studied the faces of those
delegates he saw written on them
honesty, intelligence, earnestness and
fixed determination. , There was nev
er an assemblage In the state of the
same size composed of men of higher
character or inspired with more lofty
purpose.
Both conventions met with the fixed
determination to have the candidate
for governor. The truth was that the
populists were astonished when they
first heard that the democrats would
claim the office. They supposed, that
that matter was settled last year when
the populists nominated a democrat
for tho head of the ticket. Their de
termination to insist that the gov
ernor should be a populist was in
creased when the democrats proceeded
to make a nomination without consul
tation with the populists and before
any conference committee had been
appointed. The truth of the matter Is
this: The Hill-Cleveland democracy
formed a plan to defeat fusion In these
western states. Their paid agents have
been working in almost every county
in Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas and
Minnesota. In the democratic dele
gations there were one or two and
sometimes more of these men from
each county. They did not care who
was nominated for governor. Their
object was to defeat fusion. They had
a very active and efficient leader in
Ed. P. Smith of Omaha. Men like W.
H.. Thompson, P. L. Hall, Metcalf and
several others who thoroughly under
stood the animus of the whole affair
could not get the delegates in the con
vention to understand the situation.
The consequence was that the dead
lock grew firmer all the time. If the
populists had had any candidate of
prominence there is no doubt that at
several stages of the proceedings the
deadlock could have been broken. But
there was no prominent man in the
populist party who wanted the office.
The most tremendous pressure had to
be brought upon M. F. Harrington to
get him to allow his name to be used.
The corporation democrats in Oma
ha who started out to defeat th3 elec
tion of C. J, Smyth managed the affair
with consummate skill. There is no
man more highly esteemed in the pop
ulist party than C. J. Smyth. His
nomination by the democrats before
the populist convention had fairly as
sembled and thrown at them in the
manner that it was, was not the work
of Smyth or any friend of his. Its re
jection by the populists was not on
account of any dislike they had for
Smyth. Every one of them would
have been pleased to see him governor.
But that was not the question before
them.
This fight went on hour after hour
through the long, weary night, both
conventions growing more determined
to hold out until at last a happy
thought seized the delegates to the
populist convention and they cast a
unanimous vote for W. J. Bryan, amid
a scene of excitement and enthusiasm
such as is seldom seen in any conven
tion. But it didn't work; Mr. Bryan
would not accept the office.
All night long while the balloting
was continuing, the leaders in both
parties were holding conferences try
ing to reach some agreement, that
when presented to the conventions
would furnish a solution.
At 30 o'clock in the-morning the
strain on the conventions was simply
terrific No solution of the problem
seemed possible. Both were on the
point of nominating separate tickets
and turning this state over to the re
publican party and the corporations.
All had been said that could be said
on both sides. Then a happy thought
struck both conventions at once. It
was to nominate a populist who had
been connected with the Bryan dem
ocracy. It was adopted and by 11
o'clock W. H. Thompson, the "Little-
Giant" of Grand Island, had been
unanimously nominated by both , con
ventions. The clouds rolled away and
the sun of peace shed its effulgent rays
over as happy a crowd of 2,000 men as
were ever found together on the face
of the earth. The relief from the aw
ful strain so suddenly removed threw
members of both parties into an ex
tacy of good feeling all but the little
crowd of Dave Hill democrats who
had come to Grand Island to defeat
fusion.
victories of which the nation is proud
When talking about "assaultine the
army," the hired writers on the great Y Out of this turmoil and excitement
imperialist aames never mention how
Dewey, Schley and Miles have been
assaulted by the republican leaders.
WJ. Bryan came forth a greater idol
of the populists than ever he was be
fore. "Ste visited the populist conven-.
tlon several times and made short
speeches In that inimitable way that
Bryan only can. The great address
that he made, however, was to the
democratic convention when the clouds
hung the thickest and darkest. There
Bryan rose to his greatest height
That little band of traitors in the con
vention was blistered from head to
foot with his burning words. It will
be Impossible for any man, especially
any democrat, ho heard that speech
ever to forget it.
This editor wants to make a confes
sion. He has taken an active part in
every state convention ever held in the
ftate save one. He never went away
from one that he did not have some
thing to kick about. The convention
always did something somewhere in
its proceedings that he did not ap
prove. This time there is not a thing
in all its proceedings that he does not
approve. One or two delegates did
things that were in bad taste and one
member was a bore from the beginning
to the end. But that was not the fault
of the patient and gentlemanly dele
gates who refrained from protesting.
The editor of The Independent, after
bflng in constant attendance from the
time the convention was called to or
der tlntil it adjourned, is forced to con
fess that he cannot find a single thing
to kick about. It was the greatest
convention the populists ever held in
the state of Nebraska.
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
Those short-sighted individuals who
have been proclaiming that the pop
ulist party is dead, "that it has out
lived its usefulness" and ought to dis
band, etc., etc., might look about them
and ask themselves, In what condition
will the democratic party be by 1904?
The "reorganizes" were In the saddle
at the Indiana state convention, and
the same is true of the Illinois state
convention. Down in New York it was
so apparent that the Hillites would
dominate the state convention that
the believers in the Kansas City plat
form took time by the forelock and
nominated a ticket of their own, un
der the name of "liberal democrats."
From a private letter the editor of
The Independent learns that "the
democratic party of Indiana i3 In for
a most humiliating defeat on the state
ticket this year. The friends of Mr.
Bryan are incensed at the treatment be
received at the hands of the conven-
tion, and while some of the candidates
are very popular men, yet there is a
disposition on the part of many demo
crats to refrain from voting the state
ticket, although they will vote the lo
cal ticket." This will occur In the
farming districts especially. The rank
and file are well informed on the plat
form as well as on the intention of
the leaders to deliver them over to the
eastern interests, and they will resent
the insult. All this comes because the
"reorganizers" were determined to re
pudiate the Kansas City platform."
At the Illinois state convention sim
ilar tactics won out. For a time it
looked as though Chairman Hopkins
and his "reorganizer" band would bo
whipped but they finally controlled
the convention. The platform con
tains a number of excellent planks,
but it wholly ignores the Kansas City
platform except in the remotest de
gree. The reaffirmance plank brought
on a hard fight, and from reaffirming
the "fundamental principles of th3
democratic party as laid down in the
Declaration of independence and the
constitution of the United States af
firmed at our last national conven
tion" the convention amended the
plank to say, "repeatedly affirmed it
past democratic conventions," becau3r
it was feared that the first expression
might be construed as a "too specific
declaration for silver."
Talk as they may about other issues,
it is the financial plank of the Kansas
City platform that makes the millions
of democratic voters pronounced in its
favor. It is that plank which the plu
tocrats hate, because it is aimed at
them and they know it. The old twee-dledee-tweedledum
tariff issue will
arouse no enthusiasm now, yet these
"reorganizers" think they can with
with it and that is where they make
the greatest mistake of their lives.
The ' democratic party deserves a
most humiliating defeat wherever such
treachery is shown as at the Indiana
and Illinois conventions. The great
mass of democratic voters did not ask
for a cowardly evasion. They did not
ask for a change in the financial plantc.
And a victory won on the platforms
enunciated and with the men nomi
nated would be worse than defeat be
cause defeat might pound some sense
into the heads of the democratic lead
ers, or cause them to be deposed and
their places taken by men of honor
who could be relied upon to uphohl
democratic principles as laid down in
the Kansas City platform.
With the Kansas City platform spat
upon and denounced by democratic
leaders in so many states, the future
of the populist party is not hard to
discern. Instead of being an ally to a
giant party of the people as the dem
cratlc party has been since 1896 the
people's party will grow to be that
giant itself. Its recruits will come
from the ranks of tho democratic par
ty, men who now believe sincerely in
the Kansas City platform.
3CACHIA.VXX.IAK GOVERNMENT
'The Machiavelian diplomacy wa3
based on expediency and deceit, as op
posed to right and justice, and a per
fect indifference to the ethical element
in human nature. That seems to be
the policy of the present administra
tion. In a republic it is the right
the citizens, who are the real ruler
of the country, to know all the facts
and to have access to the public rec
ord3. In no other way can the voters
know i how to intelligently cast : their
ballots. If that Is notdone, whatever
name may be given to the government
matters but little. It Is not a republic,
but an oligarchy. That Is what the
government of the United States is
tending towards. This : war in ths
Philippines wag started by a few re
publican politicians- at Washington.
Congress never declared a war on th?
Filipinos and the people were never
consulted. The whole thing was man
aged on the Mlchlavellan plan.
Recently another thing has been re
vealed of the same sort. It appears
that the Spanish government sent
formal information; to Washington
through the regular diplomatic chan
nels that there was a state of war In
Cuba, as early as 1896. That was kfpt
a secret. The Object of It was to pre
vent legal claims being made against
the Spanish government for loss of
property by private citizens and for
eigners occurring in the conflict. The
keeping of it a secret at Washington
was a very great ; advantage to th
Spanish monarchy for If the fact had
been proclaimed, this government
would have been forced to grant bellg
erent rights to the Cuban patriots. It
had another important effect. In the
treaty of peace with Spain the United
States assumed all liabilities upon
these claims and the persons who had
lost their property and those who had
suffered by the death, of near relatives
looked with confidence to the United
States to pay. A special court of
claims to settle these matters was
created by act of congress. About
130,000,000 of claims were filed in this
court. And now comes this govern
ment of the United States and pro
duces in that court this notification of
a state of war In Cuba which nullifies
all these claims, including those of the
relatives of the brave sailors who went
down In the Maine. !
The Independent submits to its read
ers the question If this does not outdo
Machlavelll himself.: If It were only
one Instance, the matter would not be
so serious, but the whole government
is run on this plan. The people are
kept In ignorance of important facts
facta that it Is necessary for them
to know to rightly govern. By this
means, instead of having a govern
ment by the people, we have a gov -ernment
by a few politicians. The re
sult is an oligarchy instead of a re
public. The other day the republican
party by a solid vote in the house re
fused to pass a resolution asking for
information from the war department
how the Cuban revenues had been ex
pended while the military government
was In power. In the senate the read
ing of an official report which the war
department had refused to send when
demanded by the senate, caused the
president to take extraordinary meas
ures to prevent the public getting any
more information of like -character
The republican oligarchy well knows
that If the people could get .all the
facts that there would sopn be a big
lot of republican statesmen out of a
job, so they are determined that the
people shall not have the facts.
A BANKER'S HUE REMARKS
One of the oldest and most success
ful bankers in the state of Nebraska
in a letter to the editor of The Inde
pendent on a matter of business took
occasion to make the following side
remarks: ,
"I want to tell you, friend Tib
bies, that the bankers of this state
are alarmed over the pending
Fowler bill. . . . A supercilious
egotism has blinded them to the
steady march of concentration,
and while they have viewed with
complacency the crushing of inde
pendent enterprise in "other lines
by mergers and combinations, they
stood blind to the fact that the
same relentless tendency was .ln
evidently reaching for the Inde
pendent banks. Already they feel
its poisonous breath In the Fowl
er bill. They listened to the siren
song of 'sound money to sudden
ly awake, confronted with wild-cat
In the worst form. If It comes, I
will get out and buy a farm in
the Logan valley along side of
yours, and in the evening Shade we
will sit together and complacently
view the wrecks we tried so hard
to steer to a haven of safety. I
have challenged local bankers to
show in their library a single,
work on political economy and
none was in position to call my
bluff. Per cent was all they knew.".
How many times has The Indepen
dent told the bankers of Nebraska
when they were strutting around hav
ing lots of sport poking fun at pop
ulists, that the time would come whon
they would be calling on the populist
party to save them from destruction.
They now begin to see the day of their
extirpation . approaching. If the laws
against combinations are not to be en
forced," little banks will disappear
along with all other sorts of indepen
dent enterprises. That will be trua,
whether the Fowler bill becomes a law
or not.: Two or three leading banks
in fifty or sixty "cities can form a cor
poration in the same manner that the
steel trust did. What Is there to hin
der them? The passage of the Fowler
bill would only facilitate the matter.
It is not a necessity to enable the
magnates to accomplish their pur
poses. Either all kinds of trusts must
te prohibited or there will be a bank
ing trust and the independent bankers
will become clerks for the Wall street
gang. . If a trust in steel, coal, and a
hundred other things can bo main
tained, then so can a banking trust.
If the bankers continue to aid and
abet the party under which trusts wers
formed and are maintained, they can
not escape the fate that is awaiting
all independent business.
ROOSSVELT'S TRANSFORMATION
It takes a mighty man to withstand
the pernicious influences constantly
exerting their baneful effects upon ev
ery man who holds office in Washing
ton. Hundreds of men have gone
there inspired by the highest ideals
and in a few years they become sordid
plutocrats, their manhood degenerate?
and their ideals vanish. Some hold
out for a time, but most of them suc
cumb within a year or two. Of the lat
ter class is Theodore Roosevelt. His
transformation has been rapid and
complete. His opinions concerning
colonies have wholly changed since
1896. In an article in The Bachelor of
Arts, published in the March number
of that year, Mr. Roosevelt's opinions
on the subject of colonies were clear
ly stated. To show what a transfor
mation has been accomplished in the
president's opinions by his short resi
dence in Washington, The Indepen
dent makes the following quotations
from it and its readers can compare
them with his recently expressed
views:
At best, the Inhabitants of a col
ony are in a cramped and unnat
ural state. At the worst, the es
tablishment of a colony prevents
. any healthy popular growth.
At present the only hope for a
colony that wishes to attain full
moral and mental growth is to be
come an independent state, or
part of an independent state. No
English colony now stands on a
footing of genuine equality with
the parent state.
Under the best of circumstances,
therefore, a colony is in a false
position. But if the colony is in a
region where the colonizing race
has to do its work by means of
other inferior races the condition
Is much worse.
British Guiana, feowever well
administered. Is nothing but a col
ony where a few hundred or few
thousand white men hold - the su
; perlor positions,- while the bulk of
.. : the population Is composed of
Indians, 'negroes "and Asiatics. :
Looked at through the vista of
centuries, such a colony contains
less promise of true growth than
does a state like . Venezuela or
Ecuador.
That indefinable something which
pervades the very air of Washington
has In so short a time worked so great
a transformation in Theodore Roose
velt that it seems almost Impossible
that sentiments, such as the above,
could ever have been entertained by
him. This influence is just as power
ful upon senators as upon presidents,
and one of the most important reasons
why senators should be elected by a
popular vote Is that they would be
forced out of the Washington invlron
ment once in a while and compelled to
meet the common people face to face
in a campaign
"WHO WILL HELP 7
It must be apparent to even the cas
ual observer that the postoffice depart
ment at Washington that part of It
dealing with second-class matter is
losing no opportunity to crush out all
papers which do not truckle to the ad
ministration. In many instances no
assault can successfully be made, but
whenever there is the slightest oppor
tunity, Maddenization is begun. As
long as Mr. Murphy published his pa
per at Massena, N. Y., and called it the
Massena Forum, the department had
not the slightest pretext for suppress
ing him; but the moment he desired to
remove to Malone, N. Y., and change
the name to Malone Forum, then was
the chance to rid the country o an
anti-administration paper. Mr. Mui
phy was required to deposit $20 a week
postage until the department could
finally decide whether he is entitled to
entry as a newspaper. Being a poor
man, Mr. Murphy cannot long keep
this up and the department wlil un
doubtedly make a very long Investiga
tion before it is satisfied (?) of his
eligibility; by that time his paper will
have suspended unless some big
hearted Bryan democrat will help him
out. Here is an opportunity to do
something substantial for the cause.
Who will volunteer to help Mr. Mur
phy in his struggle against the pow
ers that would crush him?
Judge Davidson' amended Henry W.
Grady's speech by striking out tlie
Words "as Ellsha did" and by sub
stituting the word "commerce" for
"earth," and then palmed off the whole
paragraph as his own. It is probable
that Davidson didn't care to bend
down humbly and pray exactly as
"Ellsha did," and present republican
tendencies made the change - from
"earth" to "commerce" seem more In
accord with the eternal fitness of
things.
IMPERIALIST DEGENERACY
From the very beginning of this im
perialist craze, . The Independent has
been warning the people of the effsct
it would have at home. Many times
it has quoted Lincoln's words, ."Those
who deny freedom to others, deserve
it not for themselves, and under a just
God cannot long retain it."
Saline county, Illinois, has 300 re
publican majority, and these republi
cans under the baleful Influence of im
perialism have been carrying on a war
upon the helpless and Inoffensive "nig
gers" just as the war has been car
ried on by that party in the Philip
pines. The Filipinos are "niggers" in
the eyes of the degenerate republicans
and have no right that a white man
is bound to respect. .The colored peo
ple of Saline county are considered in
the same way. So the imperialistic re
publicans began., a war upon them.
The Chicago Tribune (sftalwart repub
lican) sums up the victories so far
gained over these helpless people,
(and they are of the same sort that
have been gained in the Philippines)
as follows:
The Eldorado African Methodist
church has been wrecked and its
congregation, dispersed.
The Eldorado public school for
colored children has been closed
and the pupils driven out of town.
The Eldorado normal and in
dustrial institute, modeled on
Booker T. Washington's school
at Tuskfcgee, Ala., . has been
broken up.
Notice has been posted In Har
risburg, the county seat, that all
. negroes must immediately leave
town. .
The sheriff and county attorney,
both republicans, absolutely refuse to
protect these Innocent people, against
whom no charge is made except that
God made them black. When tho
campaign begins the republican office
holders will go out and denounce the
south for cruelty to negroes and de
mand that the congressional delega
tions from" that part of the union bo
cut down because the .negroes ara
cheated out of their votes. That is
what the party has been doing for a
long time. What they do to colored
men themselves when they get a
chance at them Is shown by the above
record, and the evidence given before
the Philippine ; committee.
The southerners may not treat the
negroes justly, but when a northern,
imperialist republican gets at them,
he treats them a hundred times worse.
If the republican party in Lincoln's
own state and where he made his im
mortal speeches for the liberty of all
men has so degenerated as to make
war upon the helpless blacks whom
Lincoln , gave . his life,, tcr make free,
what may we expect of it in other
states? Next to Illinois was Massa
chusetts, and Massachusetts furnishes
in Lodge the leader of imperialism.
The republican party . ought to die.
The. transformation In President
Roosevelt since he has been in Wash
ington ' is shown in various way i.
When he first assumed power he de
clared that no discharges should take
place on account of , political or re
ligious opinions. He now insists that
Miss Taylor shall be discharged be
cause of her criticism of the adminis
tration's Philippine .policy.
A school of economics and political
science has been inaugurated in Lon
don. An additional building was re
cently opened and the school now has
500 students composed of both men
and women. Leading men of the Eng
lish nation are interested in it. They
declare that if England is to retain
her trade , ascendancy that a thorough
knowledge of political economy must
be acquired.
A traveling European correspondent
of the Springfield Republican says of
Odessa, Russia: "Assembled on its
wharves we found great quantities-of
American harvesting machines ready
for shipment into the interior, and tho
American consul told us that one
American manufacturer alone had
sold $1,000,000 worth of these ma
chines in Russia last year." Those
American harvesting . machines are
sold to Russians for 50 per cent less
than the American farmer can buy
them. Vote 'er straight.
The reorganizing democrats had a
round-up in New York last week at tho
launching of what was called the Til
den club. Hill and Cleveland r were
both there and made speeches. It was
said that Bryan was Invited, but that
he made no reply to the invitation.
Cleveland declared that he had retired
from politics and Hill gave an outline
of what the democratic platform
should be. He was down on the trusts
and imperialism and waa "for hard
money as opposed to irredeemable pa
per currency." What ho would do
about national bank money, which js
the softest of soft money, he did not
say. -xvss-xv ' l:
The republican tendency to "crib
crops out at nearly every state convec
tion. Two years ago at the republi
can state convention Chairman Jenk
ins, the doughty colonel from Pete
Jansen's county, swiped a lot of sup
posedly brilliant sayings of Mark Han
na and used them without quotation
marks, and at the recent ra ilroad tour
nament Chairman Davidson, the law-
yer-chess-player-statesman of Johnson
county, rendered a sort of left-handed
yet sincere homage to Henry W. GraJy
by adopting Grady's language as tin
own. One thing Is certain Judi
Davidson at least showed better tast
than did Colonel Jenkins. It may be
a sin to steal, but why steal trash?
The- eastern rapers nnd magazine
are all talking about "the movement
to the country." A few years ago it
was a movement to the cities that at
tracted attention. At that time The In
dependent said that the rush to cltiei
was caused by the low prices received
by farmers for their products which
resulted in so much distress on the
farms that anything seemed preferable
to such unending and unrequieted toll.
It predicted that when the price of
farm products raised to such a point
that the workers on the farms could
enjoy some of the comforts and bless
ings of life, the rush to the cities
would stop. That is another of The
Independent's predictions that has
been fulfilled.
The senate has undoubtedly ben
listening to the unanimous protest of
the country concerning the officers
who did the fighting at Santiago. The
three men to whom the glory of th
victory belongs were Admiral Schley,
Captain Clark of the Oregon and Cap
tain Cook of the Brooklyn. Crownin
shield managed the naval clique so
well that officially all these officers
were disgraced rather than honorel.
Now Captain Cook has been made a
rear admiral and the senate committee
has reported in favor of placing Schley
on the retired list with the full pay
of admiral. It is said that In a few
months when Captain Wise retire,
Captain Cook will be made a rear ad
miral. ssssSSS
The democratic state . convention
asks the' republicans of that state a
question which is bound to make the
said republicans a lot of trouble. They
ask: "Why Is It that they permit tho
steel trust to charge the ship builders
of Maine $1.65 per hundred for the
same material which they sell to the
English builder for 95 cents, thereby
crippling one of our state's leading
industries?" There is a lot o! ship
building done in Maine. They get
some foreign contracts to build ships,
but Maine ship-builders have to pay
50 cents a hundred more for the Amer
ican made steel than their foreign
competitors. That thing goes to make
trouble for your Uncle Mark befora
this campaign is over.
: Government by injunction has mada
another advance, the tyranny of which
was never exceeded in any autocracy
on earth. Chief Justice Stlness of
Rhode Island issued an Injunction in
behalf of the American Woolen com
pany forbidding the strikers visiting
the homes or boarding houses of any
of the employes of said plaintiff. When
a court gets that far along as to issue
orders, which, If disobeyed, will send
the person to prison without trial by
jury, for visiting other persons of ths
same calling, it seems that tyranny
can go no farther. That is what gTOws
and grows under the government es
tablished by the republican party, it
Is fast making this the land of the
slave and the home of tyrants.
Corporation greed never had a bet
ter demonstration than the fight that
the railroads have made in almost ev
ery state In the union against paying
their just share of the taxes. They
haveput up the same sort of a con
test in every ctate that they have In
Nebraska. The more they get the
more they want They have increased
their net earnings enormously. The
Financial Chronicle's compilation for
May, covering 91,858 miles of road,
shows a gain in gress revenue, against
very large figures for a year ago, of
$4,619,227, or 9.18 per cent on a mileage
larger by only 1.76 per cent. The an
thracite coal roads are not included in
the returns, and thus the immediate
effects of the strike cannot be known
-at present. yyJs
It has always been accepted as a
fact and never denied that the nation
that had to pay was the beaten na
tion. The British had to pay and
therefore It is the beaten nation. Not
all the skillful, adroit and ingenious
writing in American newspapers
owned by British and pro-British
Americans can blind thinking men to
the fact that the British flag Is left
flying in Pretoria for Just the same
saving of a remnant of credit that wa3
the motive in displaying it on the bat
tery liberty pole while the redcoats
were going away forever from New
York. The plain fact that stares ev
ery man In the face is that $15,000,000
is paid to the Boers for the permis
sion to have the British flag fly a lit
tle longer in the Transvaal and Orangs
Free State. Lord Kitchener has
started for home and it will not ba
many years until the last imperial
British subject will leave the United
States of South Africa forever. Mark
this prophecy. It Is as certain to be
fulfilled as that men love liberty.
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