July 24, 1902.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
A PLEA TO MR. BRYAN
Mr. Taylor Think II Stood In th Wy
of Pro re Urges That Both Tree
Colnag and Tariff b
Dropped
Editor Independent: Loyalty to the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms
does not mean unending support of
every plank in those platforms in the
face of changing conditions. In the
very nature of things as time goes on
certain of those planks will have to
be modified or dropped out altogether.
He who stubbornly refuses to recog
nize changing conditions and demands
those platforms in their entirety for
all time and without change is an en
emy to progress. Those platforms
should be the starting point and foun
dation of our next national platform,
but some changes, , eliminations and
additions are inevitable. It Is folly to
read everybody out of the party who
cannot at the present time subscribe
to everey plank in those platforms.
We ought to welcome the support of
all (even gold democrats) who in the
main indorse those platforms in pref
erence to the republican platform.
At the present time there is need of
more tolerance and less bosslsm In
both wings of the democratic party.
A man is not a traitor to the party
because he honestly believes that
changing conditions require the aban
donment of any single plank of our
past two national platforms. He is
still a good democrat if he honestly
adheres to those platforms in the
main, and we want the continued sup
port of all such. I am a thorough be
liever In tho Income tax, inheritance
tax, public ownership of public util
ities, the election of United States sen
ators by popular vote, the initiative
and referendum, Philippine indepen
dence, the strictest national regulation
of trusts, the better regulation of rail
roads through a stronger Interstate
commerce law, and I oppose the Fowl
er banking bill, and ship subsidy bilL
This places me per force In the demo
cratic party, as so many of these things
are in its last two platforms, and I ob
ject to being read out of it because I
also honestly believe that changed
conditions require the abandonment,
for the present at least, of the enact
ment of free coinage laws. Yet it
seems that Mr. Bryan is putting the
brand of treason upon everybody who
does not believe in keeping up tle
fight for free coinage. This is not
right I gladly voted for Mr. Bryan on
the free coinage issue ana I am proud
of it. The times were then ripe not
only in thi3 country, but also in Eu
rope, lor the restoration of bimetal lism.
If Mr. Bryan had been elected,
together with a free coinage con
gress, bimetallism would have been
restored throughout the world by this
time. His defeat was a great mistake
on the part of the American people.
But the conditions have greatly
changed since then. The gold of the
world has now been concentrated in
the gold standard countries; the
world's production of gold has in
creased to three hundred millions of
dollars worth per year, and when the
South African mines are opened up it
will be at least four hundred millions
a year; we have an abundance of gold
for redemption and business purposes;
gold has not only ceased to appreciate,
but because of a surplus of gold in
the world it is now depreciating in
value and thus lessening the burden
of debtors and taxpayers. We have
fought two wars on the gold standard
and had no difficulty whatever in
maintaining specie payments. It will
thus be seen by the most obtuse that
the ir -rease in the world s production
of cold of from about 100 millions ir
1890 to about 300 millions in 1901 has
removed most of the objections which
we formerly urged against the single
gold standard. The people "have there
fore lost interest in the coinage ques
tion. They have ceased to discuss the
""estion and do not want to hear 't
discussed. With all his eloquence, Mr.
Bryan could not now draw a good
sized audience on this question, and
he average speaker would only have
empty benches. The people determine
issues. Politicians and even great
statesmen should quietly submit. Ours
is a government of the people. They
made a mistake on the coinage ques
tion at the last two national elections
and they will f.ee it after a while, but
they do not and will not see it now.
Gold Is now losing value more rapidly
than it gained value during the twenty-five
years after Europe and America
went on the single gold standard. Its
instability In value will be demon
strated to all in a few years and even
the creditor classes will be glad enough
to tie gold to silver again. And a
restoration of the par of exchange with
the silver standard nations will also
become more and more desirable. But
all this will take time. Mr. Bryan's
day of victory and justification is sure
to come. Let us have patience.
In the mean time let us not jeopar
dize living questions of great import
ance to the people by chaining them to
this now dead issue or free coinage.
Man's principal duty Is to the present
Let the dead past bury its dead and
let us meet future issues as they arise.
The battle of the present is now on.
Let us do our part like men.
In many respects Mr. Bryan is the
most wonderful man produced by thi?.
country since Lincoln. His purity of
character, his honesty of purpose, his
fearless courage, his love of the com
mon people, hh great ability and h
matchless eloquence are acknowledged
by the great mass of the people of all
parties. But great ability brings with
it corresponding great duties and re
sponsibilities. Mr. Bryan has admitted
that an abrupt change in our standard
of value of from 25 to 50 per cent by
free coinage would produce a panic.
The people have decided by two elec
tions that there is no necessity of the
enactment of such a panic producing
law, and under the changed conditions
that I have mentioned, they would
again decide the same way ny an over
whelming majority. Then it is your
duty, Mr. Bryan, to admit that the free
coinage fight is over for the present
and is it not your duty to declare in
favor of leaving it out of the demo
cratic platform of the next national
campaign?. Such a declaration would
be hailed with delight by the great
mass of the common people who want
to give undivided attention to livins
issues. By such a declaration you
wuma give me peupie an opportunity
to discuss and adopt the other reforms
.mentioned In the last two democratic
platforms and you would take from the
Cleveland democrats their most' dan
gerous weapon against those reforms.
I say that this responsibility rests
upon you because you are the recog
nized leader of the liberal democracy.
Will you not make this declaration
and make it at once? If not, then de
clare your reasons why you cannot do
so. We are entitled to them. If there
are good reasons for "keeping up the
free coinage fight then we will be with
you. I have been a steady reader of
The Commoner for the last few months
and I do not remember to have seen
any such reasons. What have you to
say to the changed conditions and
changed public sentiment? '
In the interest of the great, live re
forms enumerated in, the first part of
my communication I want to make
another suggestion. That is that the
business disturbing tariff question be
not raised. One of the very best
planks of the Chicago platform was
that one relegating the tariff ques
tion to the rear until other reforms
could be discussed and adopted. Our
nation is in favor of a protective tar
iff. It Is more firmly established by
repeated elections' tnan Is the gold
standard. Even the democratic party
is in favor of it. When the Wilson bill
was before congress there was not a
democratic congressman but what
wanted and got protection for the in
dustries of his district and state. The
result was only a slight reduction of
tariff duties. The declaration of for
mer democratic platforms in favor of
"a tariff for revenue only" is both
meaningless and dishonest. It can be
construed in many different ways and
it presents no definite issue. The mon
ey raised by republican tariff laws is
used for "revenue only." Sensible
people are getting tired of the ever
lasting see-saw discussion of a little
higher or a little lower tariff to the
exclusion of many other more import
ant reforms. Yet the Cleveland dem
ocracy Is trying to muddy the waters
and prevent genuine rerorm by com
mitting the democratic party to this
old fraudulent and siiam Issue Per
sonally, I would like to see a reduc
tion of tariff duties clear along the
line, but such an issue (like the coin
age issue) has such a vital bearing
upon business interests that it ob
scures all others, and I therefore favor
leaving it out altogether. Like the
coinage issue, it has had its day in
court. It can wait.
The declaration In favor -of removing
tariff duties altogether from trust
made goods means practical free trade
for there have been combinations in
nearly all branches of Industry, and
it raises the tariff question in the most
radical form. Let there be absolutely
no meddling with the tariff until many
other more important reforms have
been achieved. These reforms ore
nearly all embodied in the Chicago
and Kansas City platforms. I hava
outlined them above. Let us stand by
them and relegate the tariff and coin
age questions to the rear and victory
is ours. Mr. Bryan can do more than
any other man in the nation to bring
about this grand result. But with Mr.
Cleveland muddying the waters with
a fraudulent tariff Issue on the one
hand and with Mr. Bryan doing the
same thing with a dead coinage issue
on the other hand, defeat is certain.
They are both standing in the way of
progress, unity and victory. We can
not expect anything better from Mr.
Cleveland, for he is opposed to so
many planks of the last "two national
platforms, but we have a right to ex
pect a large measure of "sweefci rea
sonableness" from Mr. Bryan. Ht.
ought to at or.ce declare In favor of
dropping the coinage question and of
giving a cordial invitation to voters
cf all parties and all factions to join
with us on the many living Issues now
before the people for settlement. Will
you not do this, Mr. Bryan?
NEWTON M. TAYLOR.
Indianapolis, Ind.
Th8 Germ Theory
Editor Independent: I have re
ceived a number of sample copies of
The Independent and I have distribut
ed them wherever I thought a sub
scriber might be secured. Up to the
present time the only result I know
of is two votes for the fusion ticket
former republicans. There may be
more, but it takes more medicine in
some cases. I have been working orj
some of the hardest. With The Inde
pendent properly administered to a
mullet head, it will within three
months create a germ called thought.
It takes only a little more time until
this germ develops and takes the place
of his mullet propensities and he be
comes a good citizen.
JAMES SEAMAN.
Norden, Neb.
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a . u. juiissui, niDiisner, Marion, lowa.
biting and jumping on a man if they
can get him down, so that every con
test with them is really a question of
Ife or death. The Wild West will ex
hibit here August 1.
The strike on the Union Pacific.
shows that the general officers of that
road have had a thorough training in
the Snnermost circles of republicanism,
for their arguments are made on the
exact plan of the arguments used bj
the republican party in the last two
presidental campaigns The men re
Del against the piece system and tho
managers come in and say that the
men can make more money than they
can at the old regular wages. There
fore the piece system is not lntn
duced to lower expenses. When asked
why the road insists on paying more
for the work than it has paid before
when the men do not ask it, they re
ply is that it is wholly for the benefit
of the men. The managers insist that
they are simply philanthropists ami
that the men are too ignorant to know
what is for their best Interests, there-
ore they go into a contest that will
cost the company many hundreds of
thousands of dollars purely out of
sympathy for the poor worklngmen.
Do not think that this is a prejudiced
statement. It is an accurate summary
of the offiial statement made by the
railroad authorities put-out by themselves.
A New Lot
As for the new lot of "bucking
mustangs." They will never have such
training, their share in the perform
ance being limited to a Short, fierce
combat which always ends in what.
from their point of view, is the defeat
or tne obnoxious persons who bestrid
them. Being lassoed, saddled and
mounted by a man who manages to
retain his seat. desDite all frantin ef
forts to dislodge him, is exceedingly
exasperating, almost humiliating ;
the brute, but when at . the end oJ
five or ten minutes, the man gets off
the mustang feels that he has tri
umphed and is all the more encour
aged to stubborn and mailman r r
sistance the next time a renewal of
the abhorrent experience confronts
him. In this way the "buckinsr bron
cho" and "buckine mustansr." -wrhirh
is even more vicious, instead of being
ultimately broken, only grows worse
as time goes on. It would hardlv seem
possible to make worse the equine
oevus added to the outfit this season
They have been selected, from far ant-
wide over the west and southwest,
for their individual notoriety as "bad
ones. Three of them are noted as
"killers," from the Bavage tricks
News of the Week
There is a tremendous row In the re
publican camp in Wisconsin which
Dortends the retirement of foenator
Spooner. Spooner hod cast his fortune
n with the railroad and federal gang
and the recent republican state con
vention sat down on that crowd very
hard. In the nlatform they denounce
the interference of the federal officials
and the corporation lobyists who de
feated bills for equal taxation. Gov
ernor La Follette was renominated.
W. E. Curtis, the most partisan re-
nublican writer in the country, is
firmly convinced that if Hill and Gor
man get the control of the democratic
nartv that the republicans will !e
overwhelmingly defeated. That is, he
says, he is. He also says that he
has talked with a great many leading
republicans and they all say the same
thing. Now Curtis and these leading
republicans must have a burning de
sire to see their party defeated for
they do everything in their power to
heln Hill and Gorman to set control
of the democratic party. The republi
can press all the time and every day
holds up Hill, Cleveland and Gorman
as examples of the greatest statesmen
that America ever produced, while
they as continuously denounce Bryan
and all those who supported him.
Does any sane man believe that Curtis
and the other ereat republicans whom
he quotes really want the democratic
party to secure a leadership that will
overthrow the republican party? Does
Curtis think that any sensible man
reads such " writing with any other
feeling than that of disgust?
Once in a while a ncn man voluntar
ily proposes to pay his share of taxes,
but the cases are s& rare that? when
announced they are an astonishment
to the whole community and the dall
ies publish editorials about tnem. A
Chicago assessor valued Stanley Mc
cormick's personal property at $250,
000. McCormick was away from home,
but when he returned he sent in a
schedule which footed $450,000. When
the Chicago board of review saw it
they were so astonished that their first
thought was that the man was crazy.
However, they accepted it.
The czar called The Hague confer
ence In the interest of the peace of
the world. He has now done something
still more astonishing. He has sent
a note to all the powers proposing ar.
international conference to devise
means to suppress the trusts. The
proposal came to Washington as well
as to the other powers where It wa3
received with scorn and the announce
ment was made that the United States
would have nothing to do with such a
conference. The reason given was
that congress would attend to that
matter.
Revolutions are so frequent In South
American republics that no one is
longer interested in them. Venezuela
is at it just at present. What they
need down there is a federal judge to
issue a few. injunctions. They could
forbid men from walking on the pub
lic highways and that would force
the combatants into the jungles where
they would soon tire of the fun.
The newspapers say that J. J. Hill
declares that as he came into a Ca
nadian port on his yacht he saw a
sea serpent 125 feet long. Perhaps it
was only the Northern Paclficoctopu?
taking a bath.
Roosevelt finished up "attacking the
army" by retiring Butcher " Smith of
Samar. The sentence of the court-
martial was that he was to be admon
ished. The president approved the
findings and of his own motion ordered
Smith to be retired.
The crushing argument that capi
talists have always used when work
ing men have had complaints to make
was: ''If you don't like your job
or the pay, you can quit." But when
a thousand or two machinists of the
Union Pacific road acted on that ad
vice it did not seem satisfactory to
the capitalists at all. In Chicago when
the teamsters quit, all the capitalists
there seemed to be of the same way
of thinking as the managers of the
Union Pacific.
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The Isle of Pines, which is a coun
try without a government and a people
without a nationality, was made so bv
the glittering statesmanship of the
imperialists at Washington. One of
the Piatt amendments which was
forced upon the Cuban constitutional
assembly was as follows: "That .the
Isle of . Pines shall be omitted froM
the proposed constitutional boundaries
of Cuba, the title thereto being left
to future adjustment by treaty." As
no treaty has been made, that part
of the earth is not given any gov
ernment and the people there are not
permitted to set one up for themselves.
, Senator Burton of Kansas has been
telling tales out ox school, in a speech
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WHITE and
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$3.75 Silk Waists, now .............. $2 98
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$1.00 and $1.25 Covert Skirts, one lot
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Shoes,Slippers& Oxfords
PRICES STILL LOWER
A lot of Oxfords and strap Slippers
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$1.15, now a pair ............... 50o
A lot of Oxfords and strap Slippers, s
SV2 to 11, worth 90c, $1.00 and
$1.10, clearing sale price ........... . 7901
Kid Oxfords for Women excellent
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' $2.00, now .... ......... . . ..... . , $1 355
Special discount on entire line of
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Infants' Kid Shoes red and black, 2
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Children's Shoes, good quality kid.
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$1.00 and $1.10, clearing sale price - ,
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Misses' Shoes, kid stock, button, 11 to
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.79o
...97c
One, lot 25c Ladies' Vests at, ....
One lot 40 and 50c Ladies' Vests "at.
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25 dozen extra firie; Men's Balbriggan
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Groat Bargains in Boys' Shoes
One lot Congress and Buckle, 2 to G,
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Satin calf, lace Shoes, all solid, 13 to
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Mens Shoes and Oxfords
Men's Russian Calf, good year welt,
Oxfords, 7 to 11, regular $2.00.
sale price 2 45
Men's buckle and congress work
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20-1 49-1 97-2 47-2 85-3 48
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Shoes For Women
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$2.50, sale price ............ . . . . $1 89
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'Musline de Sole and . wool . Challiea,
' regular 40c, now
Embroidered and dottel silk Tissue,
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$1.00 Lawn and Percale Wrappers. . 69o
$1.50 and $1.25 Lawn and .Percale
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25c can K. C. Baking Powder 18c
15c can K. C. Baking Powder........ .... 12o
10c can K. C. Baking Powder . . ..... .7c
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12 H c can Sweet Potatoes ..........
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' Biscuits 10c
i lbs best Jap Rice ror 25c
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which he has sent out to his constit
uents he declares most solemnly the.t
a large majority of republican senators
were against reciprocity with Cuba.
He says: ' "I deny that the beet sugar
senators were in the minority. If any
one says anything eise he falsifies
If 35 republican senators had come to
us and said, 'We are going to pass that
bill,' they could have done so. They
never came to us with such' a declara
tion. On the other hand, they came
and encouraged us to keep up tne
fight. There are not 15 republican
senators out of the 54 who are in
favor of the present bill at heart. Beet
sugar is a republican question by au
thority." Senator Burton should name
the men who were guilty of that sort
of double-dealing and deceit. The fact
is that nearly every republican senator
holds his position by tne efforts of
tariff grafters, and the grafters were
all opposed to making any. kind of a
break in the tariff wall. That repub
lican senators . acted in that way will
surprise no one. The success of the
party has always been achieved by
duplicity.
Leslie's Weeklv declares that the
only Idea of government held by one-
tnira or tne people or tne east is po
lice control and their conception 'of
law is a policeman's will. It is in
these states where the overwhelming
republican majorities are found. Thty
are as certain to vote the republican
ticket as that election day comes.
As the statistics of the killed and
wounded on the Fourth of July grow
towards completion they show a list
of casualties as great as in some of
the heaviest battles of the war. Some
of the saddest are from the left-over
fireworks and other explosives not
used on that day.
Wu Ting Fang, who for several
years has been the Chinese minister
at Washington, has been ordered home
to codify the laws of China and get a
little of modern civilization into them.
He will be succeeded by Laing Chen
Tung, who is a graduate of Harvard
and has spent many years In this
country. The old Empress seems to
have given up her reactionary policy.
won any glory or done any deed that
will be remembered by posterity, no
one knows of it at present. That has
not been the fault of the commander.
A clique of republican imperialists
sent them on a war of conquest and
they did what they were ordered to do
to the best of their ability.
General Chaffee has been ordered
home and General Davis will now take
command of the army in the Philip
pines. "There has been a long list of
commanders in the Philippines. They
stretch from Anderson, Merrltt and
XOtis to Chaffee. If any of them has
It is said that immense coal fields
have been discovered in Alaska. They
lie only twenty miles from the route
of the northern line steamers going
to China, Hawaii, Japan and the Phil
ippines. If these coal fields are what
they are reported to be, the discovery
is of far more importance to the com
merce of the United States than all
the gold that ha3 been mined in that
territory.
from Michigan who fought reciprocity
with Cuba have failed of a renomlna
tion. . -
The New York Life Is holding u
'Senator Hoar as a dreadful example to
the young because he has not used his
official position to get money. It says
that a senator "not going for money
gives him an unfortunate cast of mind,
whereby he gets himself ill-thought
of by the intelligent and patriotic
classes. The young and ambitious
will do well to observe mat no sena
tor who has always gone In for money
Is having any of these dreadful things
said about him by the loyal press."
The New York Press says:
'In
The anomalous position of a Fili
pino who is without a country made
so by attempting to graft despotisiii.
upon the constitution of the United Ipctrlne of the infallibility and free-
States by a supreme court decision
has been defined by the diplomatic
corps in issuing the following docu
ment to Edward Fanciaxo, a Filipino
traveling in Europe: "Satisfactory
proof having been furnished me that
Edward Franciaxo is a native of the
Philippines and loyal to the United
States, he is entitled to be accorded a
protection by the diplomatic and con
sular officers of the United States. As,
however, he is not a citizen-, of tha
United States he is not entitled to a
passport." Eternal shame and dis
grace is blazoned forth In every line
of that document.
There are two republican candidates
for governor in Vermont this yeur.
That state has given a republican ma
jority of about 30,000 every year since
1856. Percival Clement has bolted
the regular republican convention and
will run Independent, so there will be
three tickets in the field. The two
parties have remained almost station
ary for nearly 50 years. The vote in
1900 and 1856 was as follows: 1900,
publicans, 39,561; democrats. 10,5153:
republican excess, 29,719. 1853, re
publicans, 39,561; democrats, 28,992;
republican excess, 28,992. Increase,
republicans, 3,007; democrats, 2,280;
republican excess, 727, The cause of
the bolt was corruption at the primar
ies and convention to secure the nbmi
nation which was considered equivo
lent to an election. An enormous
amount of money was used.
...t
Four of the republican congressmen
I 17 "J"? :m'.lmf tlj ,'i-iter -v
its broader aspect the president is en
titled to thanks for destroying the
whole breastwork of misconception
and distortion with which ; our bud
ding imperialists were fortifying their
hbm from criticism of the army. The
Dreyfus trial showed the futility of
such an undertaking in a nation eaten
up and ruled by militarism." .
Ex-Senators R. F. Pettigrew and
Charles A. Towne have rented tem
porarily a furnished bouse In New
York city. , Both .of, them being ex
cellent economists, as soon as they
saw the tendency of the republican
party to adopt populist financial poli
cies by largely Increasing the volume
of money in circulation, running tb
mints as they did night and day for
three years coining silver, adding im
mensely to the bank circulation, to
gether with the great output of gold,
they went to work , to take advantage
of it and have accumulated consider
able fortunes. Neither one of them
have permanently removed his resi
dence from the states in which they
became famous.
To the charge that the imperialist
papers are making that Senator Hoar
is crazy, the Boston Herald replies:
"If Mr. Hoar is crazy here, so was
President Harrison crazy, so Is Gov
ernor Boutwell crazy, so is Senator
Edmunds, late of Vermont, crazy, so
Is Speaker Reed crazy. If there can be
found any four men In this country
who were less likely to have the
soundness of their intellect affected By
either enthusiasm or brooding than
Harrison,. , Boutwell, Edmunds and
Reed, we should like to know theni.
This Is to. leave out of account the
author: PI the most magnificezi.'
speeches made in the present era of
the nation'shistbry.
A Contemptible Press
Nothing in all history was ever more,
contemptible than the plutocratip, lrrv
perial press of the United States. In
another article the course of the cap
italistic press In regard to the demand
made for "more money" wnen busi
ness was prostrated, is discussed. In
that connection the following worrli
from The Watchman are very perti
nent: .
"President Schurman's utterances lu
regard to Philippine matters were
treated with the greatest considera
tion when they supported the admin
istration policy, and he was a heaven
sent envoy. No praise was too lavis'i
to be bestowed on his knowledge, in
sight and tact. But when President
Schurman as a result of larper ob
servation and more mature reflection
modified his views, all over the conn
try the cry arose from those who did
rot like these "later views. 'Who is
this Schurman, anynow? A college
professor and doctrinaire; what be
says doesn't count.' A little over, a
year ago to criticise anything that
President McKInley said was con
strued as unpatriotic, but after he ad
vocated a policy of reciprocity in re
gard to the tariff, which was the on
subject upon which he was an ac
knowledged expert, the word was
quietly passed around that his advice
was sealed and followed by hl3 death,
we have just seen the whole reciproc
ity idea shunted off the track of prac
tical politics. Whatever may be done
with regard to Cuba, the Kasson trea
ties are as dead as a salt herring. Only
a few years ago anything that Gen
eral Fltzhugh Lee said about the condi
tions in Cuba was the exact truth and
you were a miserable Spanish sym
pathizer If you doubted a word cf it.
But the same General Lee's represen
tations In regard to conditions In tho
Island as the result of our national
policy are largely repudiated by ths
very men who believed everything ce
said about Spain.
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