July 3, 1902.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
THE INS!DE HISTORY
OF A RELARKABLE CASE NOW
PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST
TIME
Mrs. XlehoU Maka m 8tatemnt, Tlllny
t th Beat of Hr KnwUUjf th
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Stat of Affairs
The following: facts, says the Bel
fast, Me., Republican Journal, hav
never before been published. The In
cident caused much comment at th3
time and it was thought worth while
to make an Investigation. With this
end in view, a reporter called upon
Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols at her home in
Searsport, Me., and obtained the fol
lowing information. She said:
"About six years ago my nerves
broke down completely and my whole
system became a wreck. I sufferet
' dreadfully from Indigestion and my
eyes were very weak. I had frequent
fainting spells. Finally my sight failed
me entirely and I had to have my
eyes bandaged all the time."
"This state of affairs," she contin
ued, "lasted for a year, when I was
forced to go to bed and stay there
constantly. I became so weak that I
could only take two tablespoonfuls of
milk at a time. I could not feed my
self end sleep was almost Impossible.
This lasted another year and I was
then In such a state of nervous ex
haustion that when my people wanted
to make my bed they could move ma
only a few inches at a time. I h.d
become extremely thin and was still
losing flesh. I had tried nearly all the
medicines In the market, but failed to
find any that helped me."
"But how were you cured?" askel
the Interviewer.
"I'll tell you. My condition finally
became so critical that my family ex
pected me to die any day. Then my
husband bought some Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People, and thren
days after I began taking them I couli
eat without assistance, and in a week
I could sit up and be dressed. After
I had taken five boxes of them I be
gan to gain flesh. I continued the us"!
of Pink Pills for Pale People until I
had taken ten boxes and was able to
help my family pack up and move to
a new home. After reaching there I
took two more boxes of the pills and
have been able to work hard and take
care of my family of five people ever
cine
Dr." Williams Pink Pills for Pal
People are sold at fifty cents a box or
six boxes for two dollars and fifty
cents, and may he had of all drug
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liams' Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N. Y.
THE END IN SIGHT
The Trml Dominated Congress About to
Adjourn The People Have Paid
Dear for Their Whistle
Washington, D. C, June 30, 1902.
(Special Correspondence.) The near
approach of the end of . this session has
caused congress to relapse into con
sideration of mere pet measures of
Individual members.
The most important events of the
week were the passage by the house
of the iniqultuous Philippine govern
ment bill and the acceptance of the
senate canal bill, which means the Pa
nama route, if any at all. The rail
roads put up a strong fight agalnPt
the whole matter, and, through their
influence with republican senator?,
came near defeating it.
The American people had as well
prepare for the inevitable. Inside of
one year, the Philippine islands will
be teeming with scandals caused by
the chicanery of American plunderer;?
and carpet-baggers. That there win
be a repetition there of the Sir War
ren Hastings type of rule is as certaiu
as any event of the future could possi
bly be.
Congressmen Neville and Robinsos
of Nebraska each made a creditable
speech on the Philippine question
during the debate of this week.
Senator Quay's political methods
may not be all that decency could
ask, but there are many things the
roan does that deserve commendation.
He is at least honest in his dishonesty.
The republican leaders of the sen
ate, through fear that Arizona, New
Mexico and Oklahoma would return a
democratic membership to congress In
both branches, refused to report from
the committee the bill passed by th
house to admit these three territories
to statehood. .Quay immediately es
poused the cause of the people of these
territories and threatened on the floor
of the senate to block all legislation
unless something was done. His
threat was of some avail, as the com
mittee on territories agrees to make
a report on the bill on the third day
of the next session.
The democratic members of tho
house held a caucus last night, and,
with considerable enthusiasm, adopted
the following resolutions unanimously:
"Resolved, first. That we condemn
the republican majority In congress
for their failure to pass a measure
providing reciprocity with Cuba.
The bill which passed the house of
representatives was heartily supported
by the democratic minority after the
protection to the sugar trust had beea
removed by the solid democratic vote,
aided by a small minority of the re
publican members. As it passed the
house, the bill carried relief to Cuba,
reduced the price of sugar to American
consumers, and struck a heavy blow at
the notorious and obnoxious sugar
trust. The refusal of the republican
senators to consider this measure un
less the protection of the sugar trusts
should be restored gives evidence that
the president and republican party In
congress are willing to refuse relief
to Cuba and totally Ignore American
consumers than abandon their alliance
with the trusts.
The failure of all reciprocity legis
lation with Cuba rests upon the repub
lican administration, which is willing
to reduce the duty on the raw sugar
of our producers, but unwilling to de
stroy the sugar monopoly.
Second. That the republican major
ity in congress is dominated and con
trolled by the trusts and monopolies
which have the -great-Industries o on
action iu passing an anti-trust bill
through the house of representatives
In the Fifty-sixth congress In the clos
ing hours of the session, the senate re
fusing to consider the same as a sub
terfuge to tide over the election of
1900. That bill has been abandoned
and they have ever since refused and
do now refuse and fail to bring in any
measure to suppress the trust3 or to
favorably report any of the numerous
anti-trust bills introduced by demo
cratic members during this congress
Third. That we favor the immediate
passage of a measure to amend the
present anti-trust law so as to more
fully protect, trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and mo
nopolies, and also a measure to reduce
the duties on all articles and commodi
ties manufactured and controlled or-
produced in the United States by a
trust or trusts so as to destroy such il
legal combinations, and to reduce Um
rate of duty on any article or copj
modity manufactured in the United
States and sold in a foreign country
more cheaply than in the Uniteu
States.
Fourth. We oppose the adjourn
ment of congress until the measures
mentioned above have been enacted
into law," ' " '
The republicans of the west are face
to face with the record of their paity
in being so wedded to the sugar trust
and it3 allies that it refuses to grant
any concessions to the needy and the
deserving.
The facta are that the party in pow
er is in deep distress. This reciproc
ity business has split the party Into
two badly disorganized sections, each
struggling for leadership. Charles
Emory Smith, until recently postmas
ter general, has this to say in a re
cent magazine article:
"During the present session the
house has been well-nigh paralyzed.
Instead of standing boldly and ag-8-esal"vely
for a righteous public sen
VJient, it has been half-hearted, di
vided and irresolute. In the only real
debate and battle of the session the
sceptre was wrested from the noml
nal leadership and the house arrayed
against the prevailing public feeling.
The majority was broken; a segment
struck hands with the minority; and
the coalition made a new majority on
a minority line. Had the situation
been grasped early; had the first false
step been averted and a firm right
stand been taken at the out3et; had
there been a commanding voice, clear,
resonant and inspired, for a great na
tional policy of justice and honor
which should encompass this western
world-as in a circle by itself of fra
ternity, reciprocity and mutual bonds
under American hegemony, how diffe;
ent might have been the result!"
Mr, Smith admits the utter Incom
petency of his party and unconsciously
presents one of the strongest argu
ments for a democratic majority In tHo
next house a probability which now
seems more than likely, and to which
result the fusionists of Nebraska
should do all In their power to contri
bute by re-electing Messrs. ShalleD
berger and Stark and the nominees of.
the allied forces In the First, Second,
Third and Sixth districts.
After many years of untiring effort
6n the part of the men. who have sup
ported such a measure, a law provid
ing for the irrigation of arid lands has
been placed on the statute books of
the United States,
The credit for the passage of this
law is, in a very large measure, due
to the hard fight made by Congress
man Shallenberger and his three fu
sion colleagues from Nebraska. Mr.
Shallenberger was the man who led
the fight In congress for national con
trol of the enterprise, which fight was
finally won.
In this improved system of agricul
ture the United States has been woe
fully behind the countries of the old
world. The Japanese have practiced
irrigation for thousands of years and
the Chinese have been able by such
methods to retain the fertility of their
soli for centuries.
The English government has spent
millions of pounds sterling in further
ing the interest of the cultivators of
the soil in India through irrigation
and in doing so not only benefited the
250,000,000 people of that country, but
their prosperity has seriously affected
the market of the American farmer
and It is the American farmer who will
primarily benefit by the bill which
President Roosevelt signed a few davs
ago, for it means that it . is possible
in the future to actually reclaim for
cultivation an era about equal to tha
area of the two states of Illinois and
Iowa.
In this so-called arid region He
wholly or in part thirteen states anl
three territories and, excluding Alas
ka, they consist nearly one-half of
the superficial area of the republic.
It is estimated that they contain 60,
000,000 acres which may be irrigated
If the water, supply Is properly con
served and distributed. On first con-
sideration it would seem that the irri
gation bill possessed only sectional ad
vantages to the west, but it really
means much to the eastern markets
of this country.
Speaking on this subject today. Sec
retary Wilson, of the department of
agriculture, said:
"In developing these arid lands the
product of the western country will
simply increase the great aggregate
of wealth which the American farmer
is bringing back to this country fur
our agricultural exports. Irrigation
creates home markets and It will de
velop a market for our products in
Asia which will absorb the whole sur
plus of farm products in the west, no
matter how many additional acres of
arid land we may reclaim and culti
vate. ;
"It will have a material Influence
on many of our farmers who are now
flocking across the line into Canada In
the vicinity of Assiniboine, and they
compose an element .we should keep
here, for they represent the best class
of settlers the United States possess.
These arid lands can be so enriched by
Irrigation that you can grow anything
on them that you plant."
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock,
when interviewed on the subject this
morning, was very enthusiastic:
"I am very proud that this bill has
become a law," he said. "In the first
place it is admirably constructed and
surrounded with safeguards from cor
ruption and land monopoly; It opens
a wide field to settlers and assures
them the creation of prosperous homes,
and I know of no function in the flow
er of government higher-than that,
"ThPse nubile lands." continued the
secretary, "are the heritage of the na
tion and should be held for homes, be
ing reserved for actual settlers under
the homestead act. The area to be
taken by any one man should be re
duced so that when water has been
conserved by the government thi
homestead shall in certain parts of the
country be limited to eighty or even
forty acres,"
The secretary is responsible for the
further statement that the president ia
well pleased with the measure, since
It provides for national control as ad
vocated by Nebraska fusionists, In -stead
of state control as championed
by Senator Dietrich and other repub
lican leaders..
It is estimated that the proceeds of
the sales of public lands for the next
three decades will be $150,000,000, to be
applied to the construction of irriga
tion works and enterprises, and the
Fifth and Sixth congressional districts
of Nebraska will get their full shara
owing to the good work of the two. inea
who now represent them In the house.
More "civilization" in the Philip
pines because of the administration's
extreme anxiety to spread it. Read
the following Associated press dis
patch: "San Francisco, June 24. Returned
soldiers of the Sixth infantry stata
that Tcerosene cure is more effective
than the water cure in the Philippines
and has supplanted the latter to con
siderable extent. It Is applied in the
same manner as the water cure."
This Is a sample of thousands of
cases.
The senate committee on the Phil
ippines has had the evidence befoi-e
it of between three and four hundred
court-martials of ' American soldieit
for atrocities and infamies committed
upon Filipinos men, women and chil
dren. These records disclose the fre
quency of these infamies and atroci
ties, as well as the utter demoraliza
tlon of the officers who have served on
the tribunals summoned to try the or
fenders. Here are a few examples from hun
dreds on the printed lists:
Julius Arnold, a member of company
M, Twenty-fifth infantry, was con
victed of murdering a Filipino woman,
by shooting her with a pistol in Jan
uary, 1900, and sentenced to impris
onment for life. The reviewing au
thority remarked that he should hae
been hanged,
Lieut. Bissell Thomas was convicted
of using violence to native prisoners
and striking one of them who lay,
helpless on the floor and was bleed lag
at the nose and mouth. Sentenced to
be fined $300 and reprimanded. The
reviewing authority said that the con
duct of this officer could not be too
much deplored nor too emphatically
denounced. But he was retained, per
force, in the service. Who had reaV
respect for the "uniform" the mem
bers of the court-martial who passed
such an inadequate sentence, or the
reviewing authority, who expressed
his Indignation at the cowardly and
atrocious crime? According to admin
istration senators, he should be ar
rested for "slandering the army."
Capt. George Brandle and Lieut. Al
vln S. Perkins were tried for tortur
ing prisoners, "entitled to protection,",
by causing them to be hung by the
neck with a rope for ten seconds, more
or less, thus Inflicting wounds and
great bodily pain.
Another commissioned officer was
sentenced by one of these propost.er
ous courts to be merely "reprimanded"
for causing, without sufficient provoca
tion, shots to be fired from a gunboat
on "peaceable natives."
The reviewing authority indignant
ly declared that ignorance of general
orders were no defense in such a caw
that "the accused, having been con
victed of offenses among the most
serious and flagrant known to the
rules of laws of war, should have been
adjudged a sentence commensurate
with his guilt, as established by the
evidence." We have come, indeed,
to an appalling pass in our subjugation
of the Philippines call it "plain
duty," "benevolent assimilation," "pro
vidential mission," or any other or
blasphemous phrase when the mili
tary judges are In such sympathy with
such crimes that they practically give
Immunity to the criminals the com
manding generals being our authority
for this statement.
But the worst feature of the official
list to which I have referred is the
prevalence of erimes against the per
sons of women and mere children, and
the growing inadequacy of the punish
ment, on conviction, since the late
president commuted the sentences and
spared the lives of so many of tha
convicted offenders.
Benjamin Stanley was convicted and
sentenced to be hanged by court-martial
for rape, committed in April,
1899, but the president commuted the
sentence to twenty years' Imprison
ment at hard labor which some other
amiable statesman may some day
shorten or terminate altogether, on
the petition of the prisoner's fellow
citizens. Frank Miller was sentenced to be
hanged for rape committed in Octo
ber, 1899, and again the president de
prived the gallows of its prey. .
A few months later, "Willie Wil
son" was sentenced to death for mur
dering a native woman, and again th
president took the properest kind of
work out of the hangman's hands, and
disheartened the courts-martial, who,
it will be noticed, were proceeding
bravely in maintaining discipline
among the enlisted men.
In May, 1901, Charles Hose wa3 con
victed of rape and sentenced not to b-j
hanged, but to be Imprisoned for thir
ty years, and the penalty was reduced
not by the president this time, but
by the reviewing authority to con
finement at hard labor for five years.
In the same month, Ernest A
O'Neil was convicted of rape and sen
tenced to imprisonment for thirty
years, which was al3Q reduced by the
reviewing authority to confinement at
hard labor for five years.
A few months later (July, 1901)
James A. Darling was convicted cf
"f eloniou3 assault upon a native wo
man, with Intent to commit rape."
and was let off with twelve years' Im
prisonment, which was afterward re
duced to seven.
Den Wallace was convicted of shoot
ing at two prisoners, not in his charge,
with an intent to kill them, and was
sentenced to imprisonment for one
year,
John Janke was convicted of making
insulting propositions to a native wo
man and trying to intimidate her, and
was fined $60 (afterwards reduced to
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$40) and six months' Imprisonment
(afterwards reduced to four), and,
worse than all, was retained in the
service of the United States.
But for robbing natives of money
and jewelry, in company with other
soldiers of ours, Sylvanus Cobb was
dishonorably discharged and sentenced
to five years' imprisonment. He as
sisted, however, in the apprehension
of his fellow thieves, gave evidence
against them at; their trial, and his
imprisonment was reduced to three
months.
Roscoe F. Goodfrey "did assault a
native woman seventy years old, July,
1901," and was fined $10, imprisoned
one month; and T retained in the mili
tary service of "this great and glor
ious republic."
But Jeff Grisby forfeited his pay and
allowances, and was dishonorably dis
charged for "taking five chickens from
a native by force, and giving for them
$1 Mexican without his consent."
Henry Bruce was convicted of as
saulting two natives "one a youns
girl," for which he was fined $20, im
prisoned for two months, and retained
in the service of the United States.
What do our patriotic editors and
Christian ministers think of this "li
bel on the uniform?"
Elmer V7. Placy, convicted of "as
saults upon native man and woman
without provocation," was retained iu
the service of the United States and let
off with a fine of $60 and six months'
imprisonment.
William Harvey, convicted of "rap
ing native woman, aged sixty,; throw
ing her to the floor, and bruising her,
February, 1901," sentenced to ten
years imprisonment. This was "go
ing" President McKinley . ten years
"better," ; . ;: -
Frederick A, Washington, convicted
of "entering a native's house and as
saulting a native woman, March,
1902," wa3 fined $20, imprisoned two
months, and retained in the service.
Lieut. Preston Brown, charged with
murdering "an unarmed, unresisting
native Filipino, name unknown, a
prisoner of war In his charge," con
victed of manslaughter and sentenced
to be dismissed from the service of
the United States and confined at hard
labor for five years, had his sentence
commuted to a reduction of fifty files
and one-half his pay for nine month?,
and he was thereupon released from
arrest, and restored to duty by Theo
dore Roosevelt, president of the United
States. This ofilcer's friends are, of
course, trying to have his punishment
entirely remitted.
Robert Porter, who was sentenced
by court-martial to be hanged and
whose life was saved by President Mc
Kinley early in our work- of "benevo
lent assimilation," had not only been
convicted of rape, but also of commit
ting an assault with a pistol upon a
Filipino, and of breaking into another
native's house, and escaping, after
his arrest, from the guard.
William Scarborough, who was also
saved from the gallows by President
McKinley, had not only been convicted
of rape, but of "entering the houses of
peaceable Filipino residents and terri
fying men and women and children by
discharging his rifle into and around
their houses."
George Danphoffer, whose life was
saved by President McKinley. had not
only been convicted of rape on p, mar
ried woman in presence of her daugh
ter, but of breaking into the. houses of
natives and robbing them oa different
occasions.
- Peter McBennett, whom President
McKinley saved from the gallows, was
not only convicted of rape, but also of
standing guard while two other sol
diers broke into the store of a native
at night and robbed him of his goods.
He was also convicted of breaking in
to the house of another native at night
and robing him of money.
These horrible erimes are but ft few
of the hundreds that are tabulated in
small type on pp. 2073-2096, and con
tinued more In detail on pp. 2097-2118
of the printed record of the testimony
now being taken by the senate com
mittee on the Philippines. . 1
Some of these official records of the
outrages upon native women and meri
children by our soldiers are too fcorri
ble to print. i ' .
In regard to one of the latest cases,
in which Henry Crozton was convicted
of "making indecent proposals to a
native woman and shooting and kill
ing a native man who came to hr as
sistance, at San Marcellno, P. I., No
vember 16, 1901," the sentence (It sure
ly must be misreported) was "three
months and $30" as to which the re
viewing authority says, "finding of
not guilty of murder disapproved." A
murder for such a. cause is terrible
enough, but not nearly so terrible In
its significance or consequences as the
demoralization of the officers , who
could pass such an Inadequate sen
tence. They might as well have mur
dered native men themselves for de
fending the persons of native women
from the most horrible of outrages.
Harry Ciine, who was employed as
a teamster, "rode out Into the coantry
some three miles on a bicycle, whero
he saw four small native boys gath
ering grass. r With no other apparent
motive than natural depravity, he pro
ceeded to shoot these boys with hl3
revolver, severely wounding three arid
killing the fourth." He was hanged
at Manila on the 29th of last Septem
ber. '
In regard to the murder of a Filipino
woman, after an attempt upon her
chastity, by Julius Arnold, a musician,
of the Twenty-fifth infantry, who was
sentenced to Imprisonment for life, th
reviewing authority remarked (page
2114):
"The evidence set forth in the rec
ord shows that the accused murdered
and killed a. native woman at Maga
lang, P, I., January 15, 1900. The tes
timony fails to show any Just excuse
for his action, or anything that would
serve as a basis for mitigation, al
though during the trial he was at
tended by, able counsel.
- ' "The murdered woman was a vlr
tuous married woman, and after of
fering her the grossest insult that a
man can offer a chaste woman, ha
killed her, and by his vile act left a
nursing infant motherless, when his
plain duty, as shown by the honorable
uniform he wore, required him to pi o
tect his victim."
This testimony Is not hearsay. It
is sworn and printed under authority
of the. government. It is the plain'
truth of the situation In the Philippine
Islands.
"Slandering the army" 13 howled by;
thlck-and-thln republicans.
"Slandering the army," indeedl It
has come to a truly indefensible state
of affairs If to TELL THE TRUTH IS
TO SLANDER THE ARMY!
H. W. RISLET.
. The Fitzgerald ad. on another pagd
should be read by every woman later
ested. in economical buying.
