THE NEBRASKA INDEPEITDENT.
July 10, 1902,
Zh Nebraska Independent
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The" Met
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 Lands and
Bufldings J. C. Brennan
(Democrat, Douglas County.)
Supt of Schools Claude Smith
(Populist, Dawson County.)
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New Jersey gets an income of a lit1
tie over, $2,000,000 a- year, from , the
trusts she has chartered to prey upon
mankind. It is a good republican state.
' A king is not the biggest man on
earth. The doctors can order a kin?
around, . chop him up, dose him, tell
him what he must eat and drink, and
he is as submissive as a lamb.
Tom Johnson was one of the leading
democrats who was invited to the Hill
Cleveland "harmony" banquet and
didn't go. Tom says that after reading
what was said there he is awful glad
that he didn't go.
All the forces of the republican par
ty are now at work to establish a bank
standard. But whether they call it a
bank standard, a gold standard, or
, "sound money," it goes with the crowd
that votes 'er straight and believes
that the administration makes good
crops.
4 The republicans are very fond of
making book agents United States
( senators. They have the requisite gall
and swindling propensities to qualify
them to manage republican policies.
Beveridge was a book agent and so
was Carter, whom the republicans once
put in charge of the national cam
paign, svsxss
After fixing up his own fences so
they were in good shape, Quay made
the remark: "I will now have to see
to it that the democrats have a candi
date that can be easily beaten." Quay
thinks a great deal of the democratic
reorganizers and no doubt he will be
. able to keep them in the saddle in
. Pennsylvania.
The prohibition state convention is
called to meet in Lincoln, August 7,
1902. Candidates for state office will
be nominated. Total representation Is
604 delegates. Lancaster county is en
titled to 27. The chairman of the exe
cutive committee is C. C. Beveridge,
Fremont, Neb., and Mrs. C. C. Bever
idge is secretary.
The populist state convention neg
lected one thing which leaves the dele
gates open to the charge of inhuman
ity. It should have passed a resolu
tion of condoience with Whitelaw Reid
in the overwhelming sorrow that he
Buffered on account of the postpone
ment of the crowning of King Ed.
That was a very heavy blow to the
. special ambassador.
The republicans started out pro
claiming that they were for a gold
standard and they have ended up with
a bank standard. When they get the
Fowler bill through congress they will
" have the thing complete. The banks
'will fix the value of money by the
amount they will issue. When they
want money cheap, they will make it
so. - When they want it dear, that will
be just as easy for them.
The Philadelphia Ledger in its ignor
ance talks "of the passing of the pop
Tilistic craze." If its editor had been
at some of the state conventions held
by the populists lately in the western
- slates he would have known something
of the facts. Conventions of all par
ties, everywhere, are putting popul
istic planks in their platforms and
that does not signify that populism is
passing.
Lieut Hagehorn of the 28th infantry
has been tried and dismissed from the
army for embezzlement. This is the
same officer that tortured some Fill
pinos by feeding them on salt fish and
then refused to give them water. Wo
know that it is "attacking, the army
to publish facts like these, but The
Independent will continue to print the
facts in the future as in the past with-
put fear orJavQr,.fir.JippejoXj:e.5c.ard.
PERSISTENCE OF POPULISM.
' Among some old magazines which'
had not been disturbed since 1893 the
editor found what was evidently the
first draft of an article for publication
in his own' handwriting. - The cor
rected article was likely published in
some paper at the time. It is of inter
est now because it shows the persist
ence of populist principles and recent
events have proven that the principles
then advocated were sound. It was in
part as follows: . , . .
"It is passing strange that the meii
with patches on their pants who are
selling corn for 10 cents or ' less ' a
bushel should take up the catch word 3
of the bankers and go about declaring
that they want 'sound money 'money
good in Europe, and all the rest of it.
As near as any one can arrive at their
meaning, the thing that they are de
manding is 'dear money.' One is driv
en to this conclusion because they fre
quently denounce 'cheap money', and
from their talk it is evident that they
believe that the cheapening of money
would be the greatest disaster . that
could befall the world. .'.The strangest
thing about it is that these same men
will say that the price of corn, -hogs
and wheat is altogether, too low. ani
ought to be higher. No one can con
vince them that if prices, go higheiv
that of necessity money must become
cheaper.
"The price of corn and other farm
products is so low in this state that
but little can be shipped out, and, in
fact, corn is burned for fuel, for it is
cheaper than coal. ' If a farmer should
haul a wagon load of corn to market
and exchange it for coal, the coal
would not keep up a fire in his stove
as long as would' the corn. As to the
facts, there is no dispute. But little
money comes into' this state, for on ac
count of the low prices the products
cannot be shipped out, and much mon
ey goes out of the state to purchase
those necessities which are not here
produced, as well as to pay interest
cn debts and mortgages,
r "It should be evident to any man
after a short consideration that if the
price of the products of Nebraska were
doubled, that the farmers of the state
would be immediately relieved of the
great distress that they now suffer.
But the only way to double the price
of farm products is to. cheapen money.
Yet these men say to cheapen money
is to ruin the whole country. . 1 -.
"Their contention seems to be that
prices ought to be higher and that
money should continue to purchase
just as much as it does now, which 13
an absurdity.
"Let us reflect what effect would fol
low from making ' money one-half
cheaper. The farmer would no longer
burn his corn. He would sell it. That
would give the railroads the freight f n
the corn and the freight on the coal
the other way, while now there is none
either way. The running of more
trains would employ more men on the
railroads, in the shops, the mines, and
a long list of trades. The farmer then
instead of wearing canvas cotton coats
and the cheapest apparel would pur
chase better and more goods. That
would give business to merchants in
the towns and work to hundreds of
thousands of far away men and women
in the mills and shops who make the
goods. We should then see the farm
er riding to town in his spring wagon
or buggy, houses being built, furni
ture purchased and the smell of burn
ing corn would disappear from these
prairies, where now it can everywhere
be detected."
That is what the populists taught as
far at least as 1893. Since that time
tLe amount of money has been enorm
ously increased and. the populist pre
diction of the result that would follow
has been more than fulfilled. But
the price of. economic independence is
eternal vigilance. The financiers
whose fortunes were then in interest
bearing bonds have- since largely
transferred them to industries. At that
time they had money cornered and
made it scarce and dear. Now by
means of trusts they are attempting to
play the same game in industrial prod
ucts that they played with money, and
while that is going on, they are lay
ing the foundation for. another con
trol of money that will far surpass
anything in the past. The passage of
the Fowler bill will give them that
control and it is pretty sure to pass.
Instead of populism having passed
away, as the Philadelphit Ledger as
serts, it is more persistent and ener-;
getic than ever before. Many of its
principles are now appearing in planks
in the platforms of both old partiesl
The Philadelphia, Ledger is to be ex
cused. An environment of Quayism
distorts the vision and dulls the in
tellect. REPUBLICAN PROMISES
Years of failure to fulfill their prom
ises to the people by the republican
party will have its effect in the coming
election, but how much of an effect it
is hard to say. There are many thou
sands of men who would continue to
vote the republican ticket no matter
what the party did or failed to do. If
it should establish an absolute despot
ism In the Philippine islands, they
would support that. If it should de
clare for the Independence of the isl
ands, they would support that. If it
shpuUU?asa-A-Jasc .legalizing Aud..,
tablishing trusts in every line of pro
duction, they would favor that. If it
should make a raid on the trusts and
utterly overthrow them, that would
also suit them. We all knowr of these
men. They can be found in every city
and town. There are some others who
have supported the republican party
who are not of that kind, how many It
is hard to tell. In the last campaigu
the republican party started out with
this plank in its platform: v :
We condemn all conspiracies and !
combinations intended to restrict
business, to create monopolies, to
limit production, or to control
prices, and favor such legislation
as will effectively restrain and
prevent all such abuses, protect
and promote competition and se
cure the rights of producers, la- -borers
and all who are engaged in
industry and commerce.
Not only no legislation in this line
has been enacted, but the party has
refused to enforce the laws already
on the statute books and the growth of
trusts and combinations has been
greater, than the world ever saw be
fore, .
The party also declared for and so
licited votes by a declaration in favor
of reciprocity, for "more effective re
striction of the immigration of cheap
labor from foreign lands," for the "ex
tension of opportunities of education
for working children," for "the raising
of the age limit for child labor," for
"the protection of free labor as against
contract labor," and for "an effective
system of labor insurance."
This congress has repudiated every
one of these promises. Now the mitx
who have acted in this manner will go
on the stump and make some more
promises. Any man who is so simple
to put confidence in them deserves all
that he will get.
Besides repudiating their promises,
they have favorably reported and have
ready for passage some of the most in
famous laws ever introduced into any
congress, as, for example, the Fowler
bill and the ship subsidy bill. If they
secure an indorsement at the polls.
these bills will most certainly be en
acted into law.
IMPERIALISTIC PATOIS
A correspondent of a Canadian pa
per says that the 1,000 school teachers
which have been sent to the Philip
pines do not teach the pure and un
defiled king's English at all, but i
sort of . patois, the chief words in
which are as follows:
Anglo-Saxon race, plain duty,
providential leading, hand of des
tiny, fingers of fate, spreading the
gospel, letting "the flag stay put,"
supporting the administration, im
perialism, expansion, absorption,
. assimilation, annexation, pacifica
tion, extending benefits of clviliza-
' tion; colonization,' industrial su
premacy, extension of territory,
dominance of the race.
The Independent is inclined to give
credence to the story because the re
publicans have been running just
such a school in all the dailies for the
last three years. That sort of patois
was not known in these United ' States
until a few republican politicians in
Washington started this republic on
an unknown voyage of conquest after
having thrown overboard the chart
and compass by which it had been
steered for more than a hundred
years. This sort of patois became still
more necessary after Justice Brown
wriggled through the constitution and
abolished the Declaration of Indepen
dence. We will have to have a new
dictionary pretty soon. All these
words and phrases have meanings that
were not known to the citizens of this
republic ten years ago, and some of
them are absolutely new.
Rosewater seems to be in very grave
doubts this time whether the demo
crats swallowed the pops or . the pops
swallowed the democrats. - He had
quite a lengthy editorial on that sub
ject not long since in which he argued
both sides of the question without
coming to any conclusion. He should
put his massive intellect to work on
that important question and come to
some settled conclusion. How are the
republicans to begin their campaign if
they do not know whether the pops
swallowed the democrats or the demo
crats swallowed the pops? If Hose
water can't settle it all by himself, he
should call the state central commit
tee together and submit the matter to
them., M'ssss-sX
The introduction" of coal oil as fuel
on the railroads of California has
caused an Immense saving to the farm
ers. Every year heaVy- losses have been
suffered by fires caused by locomotives
burning coal and farmers have carried
heavy Insurance. The wheat stands
in the fields in California where it is
raised under irrigation until it is dead
ripe and the fields will burn like a
prairie in autumn. Now there is no
possibility of a fire in the fields set by
the locomotives. ' .
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The cause of the "long down pour
of rain all over the United States re
mained unknown until one philosopher
announced that he had discovered it
The trusts had been "watered until the
dams had all given away and the coun
try was flooded. Whether that is It pi
not, it can be put down as a fact that
the time is not far distant when the
water will, be let out of the trusts and
the disaster will be far greater than r
wet summer can be..
DISTINGUISHED HYPOCRITES
The republicans of, Nebraska and a
few reorganizing democrats make con
stant charges against fusion office
holders for taking money that the
courts have decided belonged, to them
and try to establishan ethical stand
ard to which they themselves and no
one el3e ever lived up to." Every ho.n
est man wants to look but for the holy
fellows. Clem Deaver was one of
them.When an officer takes only what
the law entitles him we shall have
made a very great advance on present
conditions and it is all-' that the people
have a right to demand of their pub
lic servants. - If they can get them
to stop there, they will do better than
was ever done in this nation before.
But : while these sanctimonious hypo
crites are calling down curses upon
their opponents in this siate, they have
nothing to say about their own men
who take all that is -in sight. There
used to be a good deal of criticism be
cause the Dolphin, one of the revenae
cutters, was always at the service of
the president and his friends for a -sea
voyage, at the cost of the people,
whenever they thought that they need
ed a little recreation Now a steam
yacht has been fitted up for that ser
vice and with her crew of United Stat
es officers and seamen lies at her
wharf awaiting the pleasure of His Ex
cellency, the president of the United
States, who is supposed to draw only
$50,000 a year salary out, of which he
is to pay his household expenses an i
summer excursions. For the conven
ience and comfort of the president the
Mayflower has been practically remade
and more than $50,000 has been spent
on fitting up her interior in a style
that rivals the royal and Imperial
yachts of European princes and po
tentates. Not the HohenzollenT itself
can outdo the presidential yacht :n
splendor; luxury and. beauty of ap
pointments, upholstery and decoration.
The president's personal apartments,
in the aft of the vessel, are a dream
of princely beauty and comfort. He
has six staterooms , for. his own use
and for the use of his family. . Silk
hangings, soft carpets, the most ex
pensive of fancy wood, fine mosaics,
glittering art bedsteads . and other
equipments of this kind wait on the
presidential pleasure when he sees ' fit
to take the sea air. v Similarly with
the culinary department. The kitchen
and dining room staff can serve on
short notice a feast fit for a king." The
Mayflower was formerly the property
of Mrs. Ogden Goelet. It was , pur
chased by the government at the time
of the Spanish war. and had been lying
idle since then. Recently the presi
dent decided to havTit I fitted for. his
personal use. .The presidential yacht
has a displacement' of 2,690 tons, is
equipped with twin screws, and has a
horse power of 4,700. It is one of the
fastest steam yachts afloat.
The cost of thatyacht. while in com
mission cannot be less than $1,000 a
day. Get out in the cornfield to work
a little earlier and be sure that you
are at the polls to vote 'er straight on
election day. 1
In one day during the last week of
June the degree Of LL. D. was con
ferred on Theodore Roosevelt, Henry
Cabot Lodge and Leonard Wood by
different colleges. That all of them
had the decree conferred upon them
before did not interfere with the per
formance "in the least. Now we sup
pose that each of them has a right to
write after his name LL. D. LL. D. If
not, what was the use of the perform
ance? In the imperialistic colleges the
degree of D.D. is still supposed to have
some connection with theology and
the clergy, but they have cut the LL.
D. loose from all connection with the
teaching of law. The colleges should
invent a new set of letters to confer
honor on -those who have abandoned
the constitution and relegated the Dec
laiatiou of Independence to the waste
basket one that would have some re
mote connection at least with distin
guished ; services for which It is con
ferred! The letters D- I. would be
much more appropriate for they would
represent "doctor of Imperialism." Let
us have a D. I. degree by all means,
so that those who work in the fields
and raise corn and wheat and the oth
ers who toil in the factories or the
mines can be truly proud of the great
men of this republic. "
One can make a political point, by
bookkeeping about . as cheap as any
other way. When; the railroads charge .
up taxes as operating expenses ihe
trick costs very little. , So it is with
imperialism. Secretary Root's book
keeping of the cost" of the Philippine
war is after the railroad style. He
says that the war in the Philippines
has only cost about $174,000,000. There
has bee'n over $1,000,000,000 appro
priated for war purposes since the war
with Spain was declared. Did it cost
$800,000,000 to whip Spain? , That
seems somewhat ridiculous since Dew
ey's testimony. What became of that
enormous amount of money? Has
$500,000,000 been stolen by the repub
licans? v i
Corporations defy the law whenever
it is their interest to do so in the most
arrogant manner. The Providence, R.
I., street car company forced a strike
because- it refused, to obey the .state
ten-hour law for employes. The man
pagers said that they had passed upon
the law and it was unconstitutiinal.
But the supreme court promptly hand
ed, down a decision declaring the law
constitutional. Then the managers said
that the state supreme court was no
good and they would appeal to the
United States courts, meanwhile they
would defy the state court and the
workingmen. If that isn't ' anarchy,
what is it? They will do as they say,
for Rhode Island is governed by the
high tariff imperialist barons and the
population is mostly mullet heads.
The frauds perpetrated in the New
York custom house amount to millions
every year. Gen. O. L. Spaulding,
first assistant secretary of the treas
ury, has been, so mixed up with them
that he is to be retired on account of
frauds discovered in the importation of
silks. Advalorem duties furnish the
greatest inducements to fraud, and the
republican tariff fixers always see to
it that there is plenty of them in ev
ery tariff bill.
The British have concluded that inr
stead of hanging the citizens of Cape
Colony who sympathized with the
Boers, as they swore by the holy horn
spoon .they would ' do, have concluded
that the severest punishment to be
meted out to them will be disfranchise
ment. That is not much of a punish
ment since the British cabinet has es
tablished the precedent that it can
proclaim martial law and suspend the
constitution when every South African
objects to British policy. What is the
franchise worth in such a country as
that anyhow?
They seem to have the same sort of
railroad magnates in Canada that
flourish in this country. The commis
sioner appointed by the Canadian par
liament to investigate rates reports:
"Rates on short distance traffic have
been so high that commodities have
been moved by wagon. In the case of
many commodities there is an extreme
disproportion between the carload rate
and less than carload rates." All these
evils exist in the United States and
will continue to exist until the govern
ment owns the railroads.
.Western bankers have giving Wall
street so many digs in the last year or
two that the financial pirates down
there are determined to stop it by the
passage of the Fowler bill. Only a
few years ago every bond issue, county,
state or municipal was, as a matter of
course, made payable in New York.
The .cent per cent bankers who were
always .whooping it up for. Wall street
did not have sense enough to demand
their rights until after The Indepen
dent began poking fun at them. In
these days a very large per cent of
bond issues are made payable in some
western. -city.
Some of the eastern dailies have be
come so English that the editorial
writers indite sentences like the fol
lowing: "The corn harvest in Kansas
has been greatly delayed by the heavy
rains." Doesn't that sort o Jar you?
That is outdoing the English them
selves, for they use the word only In
the generic sense. When an English
man writes the word "corn," he means
grain of all kinds wheat, barley, rye,
maize, etc. If he means wheat, he
says wheat. These ignorant persons
really think that they are "English,
you know," when they make such
idiots of themselves.
A few months ago the British press
was telling us what a disgusting, dir
ty, cowardly and treacherous set the
Boer leaders were. - Now the British
correspondents at Pretoria unite in de
claring that "it would be impossible
to get together a finer body, of men"
than these same Boer leaders. There
must have been a marvelous transfor
mation wrought in the Boers in a few
weeks, for as one of these British cor
respondents remarks: "It is surprising
how intimate is the friendship which
has sprunk up between the British offi
cers and the Boer leaders." The fact
is that the newspaper press of both
hemispheres is a disgrace to the age
in whlchwe live.
Star Route Elkins, who by the nar
rowest margin escaped serving the
United States In the penitenriary in
stead of the senate made a
speech, the other day in advocacy of
the annexation of Cuba in which he
declared that its admission as a state
and the removal of all tariff on sugar
would do our sugar interests no harm,
but a 20 per cent reduction on sugar
from a Cuban republic would ruin us.
Then this sanctimonious person, who,
like certain Nebraskans, belongs to the
"holier than thou" crowd, attacked
Senator Teller for the resolution de
claring, that "the people of the island
of Cuba are, and of right ought to be
free and independent," which was
passed at the beginning of the war. It
was perfectly natural that this old
monument of crime should attack the
announcement that every lover of lib
erty throughout the whole world hailed
with shouts of joy. But Elkins Is only
a specimen of the political cattle that
go to make up the republican majority
in the United States. There are many
more just like him. : : ' t ' ' ' -
STRUCK A WOMAN j
There are several kinds of cotirags
in this world. One kind that is much
admired is that which enables the.
man who, surrounded by friends and
when . he knows that the eyes of all
the world are centered upon him, dares
to charge a, fort while the shouts of
battle and roar of trumpets sound in
his ears. Of that kind of courage
the president is not lacking. There
are also several kinds of cowardice.
One instance of political cowardice oil
the part of the president was noted a
week, or two ago in The Independent
He seems capable of a much lower
and mean kind of cowardice, j The
president made an imperialistic speech.
A . woman made a criticism of that
speech and : the high and mighty
president reached down from hia po
sition of power and struck this wom
an. Struck her a blow that deprived
her of a living." The cowardice of the
act has seldom ; been equalled. She
was a clerk in a department at Wash
ington, and the president had her dis
missed. The president in that speech
had referred to the "splendid work"
of the army in the Philippines. The
woman replied in the following words:
Is it "splendid work" to hold up
a people and rob them of country
and nationality at the point of the
bayonet? Is; it "splendid work" ,
to turn the cannon upon allies be
cause they decline to yield their
inalienable rights? Is it "splendid
work" to sweep thousands from
the earth -because they take up ,
arms in defense of home and lib
erty? Is it a "splendid work" to
apply the torch to the homes of
earth, while helpless women and
babes and tottering age flee be
fore the flames that blot out those
hallowed spots? Is it a "splendid
work" to make God's fair isles a
"howling wilderness?" Is it a
"splendid work" to slay tho
wounded on the . battlefield, to
spare no prisoners of war, but to
make them a target of a three
days' shooting match? . ...-Long',
will Theodore Roosevelt drink to
the health of those who wrought
the "splendid work" of death ere
, the spirit of liberty shall be ';
crushed from the souls of the in
fant heroes of the Philippines, but
rot till the land is left desolate -v
not while humanity lives in tho
American heart, not till the doc
trine of the brotherhood of man
dies in Christendom, not until God
forgets his "brown children, will
the flag "stay put" on the blood
soaked soil of the Philippines.
The degenerating effects of imper
ialism on the citizenship of America id
shown in the-president as everywhere
else. Ten years ago Theodore Roose
velt would have blushed at the thought
of such an act. Today he commits it
without any compunctions of con
science. His act in taking from this
woman her livelihood, was. not only a
cowardly act, but it was anarchistic)
for he had to flagrantly violate the law
in doing it. In a few short years im
perialism has made a coward and an
anarchist out of the splendid Theodore
Roosevelt. A few years of it will end
this republic.
THE ELKINS PLAN
The deviltry of the Elkins plan to
which Dietrich and Millard have given
their adherence is well described by a
New York writer, who says:
These sugar monopolies propose
to withhold concessions until the
island is ruined, until the planta
tions and refineries are abandoned,
and their owners bankrupt. Then
they will purchase all such proper
ties at the merest fraction of their
real value. Finally, they will, in .
one way or another, drag Cuba
into this union as a state, for they
expect the ruined Cubans will be
glad to accept negotiation as their
only hope, or will revolt again as
they did against Spanish commer
cial oppression, and then appeal -to
the United States to come in
forcibly and take control. This is
the scheme, and the allied sugar
trusts will first ruin Cuba, and
then steal the Island. . ;
That the two mullet heads from Ne- J
braska in -the- United States senate
should take up the, cause of Elkins has
astonished even the republicans them
selves. The giving oyer of a party to
the control of railroads, as was done
in, Nebraska, is liable to develop in
anything, but never in anything worse
than Dietrich and Millard.
Mr. O'Brien of the Manila Freedom
has been convicted by the court that
tried him. He was refused a trial by
jury and when he took exception to
that, the judge told him that "the
president of the United States, as commander-in-chief
of the army and navy,
is the supreme authority in the Phil
ippine islands." If therefore follows
that if His Gracious Majesty who pre
sides at Washington did not see fit tc
grant O'Brien a trial by jury or allow
him to prove the truth of the charges
which he made in, his paper, he had no
remedy and must take whatever pun
ishment was meted out to him. . The
mullet heads in the United States truly
believe that the party that sets up that
sort of despotism is following in he
footsteps of Lincoln. -
The wage-working vote of Massa
chusetts is probably larger than in
any other state in the union. The rep
resentatives' of labor went before the
recent legislature with three requests.
They asked for some protection against
government by injunction which has
gone to a greater extent in Massachu
setts than anywhere else. They asked
for the payment of wages in cash and
for the referendum on Important laws
affecting them. Every one of their re
quests have been refused. Now whi'.e
they have votes enough to elect every
state officer and every member of tho
legislature, there is no doubt that they
will return to office the men who have
refused to grant them any relief what
ever. Why such a state , of affairs
should exist is one of the things that
no . pop can find out.
A full . report, of , the resolution
adopted by the republican, state con
vention of Minnesota shows that tho
Republicans of that state fully indorse
reciprocity with Cuba and also greatly
rejoice over its defeat. That is tho
old republican way. Once they were
all for scarce money and plenty of it.
Milwaukee merchants are importing
sugar from Austria and after paying
tariff duty greater than the original
cost, get it cheaper than they can buy
it for from the sugar trust. Any mpa
is free to form his own conclusion,
after viewing a situation like that Th
mullet head, after cogitating over tho
subject, will undoubtedly come to tba
conclusion that the only , remedy is to
vote 'er straight. The Austrian sugar
comes via Montreal.
The Independent has no sympathy
with the attacks on General Wood
which have been made in some oppo
sition papers. While General Wood
was a military governor, he was bound
to administer the government in the
interest pf the Cuban people and not
the sugar trust or beet sugar combin.
He spent about. $15,000 of the Cuban
revenues in circulating literature In
this country advocating reciprocity
with Cuba, and it was. properly spent.
The fault lay with those persons In
the war department who undertook to
apply their theory that the people
should be kept in ignorance while they
ran things. If there had been no at
tempt at secrecy, there would have
been no criticisms.
Hosea Bigelow was a populist The
only difficulty with that statement 13
that he was born nearly a century be
fore the populist party was organized.
Nevertheless his statements on all
public questions are those now enter
tained by all populists. More than
100,000 Filipinos dead, makes his words
on war and fuss and feathers exactly
to the "p'int" in these days. Listen
to him:
'Taln't your eppyletts an feathers
Make the thing a grain more right;
'Tain't a follerin' your bell-wethers
Will excuse ye in His sight; . "
Ef you take a sword an dror it,
An', go stick a feller thru, .
Guv'ment ain't to answer ter it
God'll send the bill to you.
Wut's the use o' meetin'-goln',
Every Sabbath, wet or dry,
Ef it's right to go a-mowin'
Feller men like oats an rye?
STIRRED Til EM UP
Bryan's article on Cleveland has
created more stir in the eastern pa
pers than anything that has happened
of late. The Springfield Republican
misrepresented Bryan's language ind
as good as accused him of lying out
right. Afterward it laid the blame on
the Associated press and apologized.
A good many of the dailies make the
remark that it Is tho first time that
the gentle Bryan has shown any tem
per or vindictiveness. The Boston Ad
vertiser says: ,
" Under the 7 guise of criticising .
the ex-president, the ex-candidate
goes to the verge, to say the least,
of accusing members of the fed
eral court of sitting on the na
tion's, judicial bench for corrupt
purposes. .Even if he says he does
not mean to imply that those
judges do what he says they were
appointed to . do, he cannot help
realizing, we should hope, in his
calmer moments, that it is an un- -seemly
thing for a man.who has
twice been the candidate of a
great national party for the pres
idency thus to revile, with damn
ing accusations, which are Incapa
ble of proof, a man who has twice
been president of the United
States.
When a man who has been twica
president appears in public to advo
cate the very policies that ruined not
only his party, but tens of thousands
of business men and threw the greater
part of' the workers in the nation into
the direst distress of hunger and war.t
for years, he is no more exempt from
criticism than any other man. The at
tempt to make a saint of the vile old
wretch who disgraced every attribute
of manhood, shows that there .Is some
thing wrong with the men who do it
Not one of these men is ignorant of
the career of Cleveland during the flr&t
two years after his second election.
It Is about vtime that the facts weie
known. Henry Watterson could gtvj
an account of an episode in the WThite
house, of which he was witness, if he
had the mind to do so, that would for
ever damn the old Stuffed Prophet in
the eyes of every decent man. Ever
charge that Bryan brings agalr.3t
Cleveland is true and he did not teli
half the truth either. This writer was
in Washington at the time and knows
something of Cleveland himself. How
ever, it is perfectly proper that Cleve
land should be the saint of the men
who foster trusts and would make the
independent men of this nation Ml
hirelings of moneyed magnates. Ho
is a very fit saint for them, " :