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... h: - . - . - em'" ' if fir WW " "-. ; . V- . - ".Ft-- 1 '- .ft?. - ' " J -f 1.-- - f , - I1. - J " 4x1! wWWm$& I I VOL. XIV. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 21, 1902. NO. 1 . i-. i J !l THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION Mr. De Hart Reviews President Schur mu'i Recent Address The Question Dying Out In the East ' Editor Independent: The Philip pine question is dying out in the east. Imperialism, as an i3sue, is disappear ing. There are many facts to prove this; not only, facts, but there are rea sons for taking the Philippines out of our politics. For instance, Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell university and ex-president of the first Philippine commission, in an ad - dress to the Chautauqua assembly at Chautauqua, N. Y., said, August 2: "If imperialism means government without the consent of the governed and anti-Imperialism the contrary, then it must be asserted that in the first conflict of those forces over the government of the Philippines the anti-imperialists have won the day. After 1904, when the new Philippine legislature comes into existence, no bill can be enacted into law in the Philippines without the consent of - the governed duly given by their rep resentative legislative assembly. Mean time the act of congress creating that assembly secured to the Filipinos all the civil rights specified in the bill of rights of our own constitution except the right to carry arms (which is at present a prudent reservation) and the right to trial by jury (which is for eign to the laws and legal traditions and ideas of the Filipinos). New York World. You will notice that Mr. Schurman says that the anti-imperialists have won the day. If this is so and Mr. Schurman mentions the well-known facts to prove it why should not the imperialists go out of business? Carl Schurz, one of the vice presidents of the American anti-imperialist league, said a few days ago, that he was satis fied that the American people are tired of the Philippine business. Why are they tired? In the first place, it is on account of the action of the two great political parties in the recent session of congress. The republicans prepared a bill, a , very elaborate one, and after more than two months' debate in both houses, it passed. The democrats pre pared a substitute and presented it in lieu of the bill. All the democrats voted for the substitute and all the re publicans, with two or three excep tions, for the bill. If we look into . the substitute we find that it does not differ materially from the bill itself, . especially on the great question of glv- , Ing them their independence, or prom ising their independence. The language of the democratic sub-' stitute is: "Sec. 2. That the United States shall continue to occupy and govern said archipelago until the peo . pie thereof have established a govern ment in accordance with the provi sions of this act, with sufficient guar anties for the performance of our treaty obligations with Spain, and for the safety of those inhabitants who have ' adhered to the United States, and for the maintenance and protec tion of all rights which have accrued under the authority thereof." You will notice that there is no promise of independence at all here. They are not to have it "until the people have established a government in accordance with the provisions of this -act." This might not ever take place. It is not only to be a govern ment established by the people of the Philippine islands, but they are to es tablish such a government as the act requires. This is giving them inde pendence upon condition. Then they are obliged to give sufficient guar anties for the performance of our treaty obligations with Spain. This is giving them independence upon an other condition. Then they are to give guaranties for the maintenance and protection of all rights which have accrued under the authority of the United States. This is independence upon another condition: and we, the people of the United States, by our congress are to decide when all these conditions have been performed. What would our forefathers have thought of such conditions of independence? They certainly would have spurned them, as not amounting to anything. It must be remembered that the demo crats proposed to "occupy and govern the archipelago" until all the condi tions are performed. This is equiva lent to governing them forever, and there is no more independence for the Philippines, under the democratic pro gram than under the republican meth od. This can be seen by any one who will take the trouble of reading the bill as it passed, in connection with the democratic substitute. The republicans did not promise- in dependence, but they provided that a census should be taken and that two years after the completion and publi cation of the census, the Philippines - should have a right to elect a legisla tive assembly and that thereafter no law could be made by our congress ' for them without their consent. This will give them their own local self government in 1904, which will in clude tht right of petition for more rights, if they want more. They now have all the ciyil rights known to our constitution, which includes the right ' of petition for more. If Imperialism means acquisition of foreign territory by congress as we will suppose It does then imperialism 13 a matter of history in this country. The recent acquisitions were the re sult of the treaty with Spain made at Paris, December 10, 1898. The war was Inaugurated for the purpose of driving Spain out of Cuma. Porto Ri co was not thought of, which less the Philippine islands. But when Spain asked for terms of peace and commis sioners had been appointed by eacr- ' government to arrange the terms, the Idea seemed to be to take all the col onial possessions of Spain except Cu- ba, which we could not take, because we had expressly . declared that we would not. We were prevented from taking Cuba without being looked up on as a lot of pirates by the rest of the world. As Spain was the defeated party she was obliged to give us all we asked fcr. which' was Porto .Rico and the ' Philippine islands. , Accord ingly a treaty was made by which Spain, in the first article, "relin quished all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba" and. In the second article, "ceded to the United State's the island of Porto Rico and other isl ands under the Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies" and, in the third ar ticle, "ceded to the United States the archipelago known as the Philippine Islands." In the second and third ar ticles we find that the spirit of con quest had come over our people. Wi only required Spain to "relinquish' her sovereignty and title to Cuba by the first article, but, -in the second and third articles, we required Spaic not only to relinquish her sovereignty and title to Porto Rico and the Phil ippines, but to "cede" all these islands to the United States. This was ac quisition of territory ty conquest,' a thing not thought of at the commence ment of the war' and as Mr. Schurmau says, "Whether -by will or not the Philippines are burs. The destiny of the Filipinos Is in our hands, and great as our responsibility may be to humanity and to Providence, our sov ereignty itself is absolutely unim peachable." I might add, In this con nection, that the treaty which gave us the Philippines and Porto Rico was made and ratified by the two great po litical parties of the country. The treaty had to be ratified by a two thirds majority in the senate, which the republicans did not have, and. could not be ratified without the help of some of the, democrats, which they gave Mr. Eryan himself approving of the bargain. It was therefore not a partisan matter, but the work of the United States . as , a nation. A treaty under our system has all the force of the constitution itself and cannot be undone by congress or any other de partment of our government. Our supreme court may interpret the trea ty, but it cannot set it aside any mor! than it can set aside the constitution itself. ' The atrocities in the Philippines, as a political issue, also belong to his tory. The president put an end to this by reviewing the whole matter and ordering that General Jacob II. Smith should be dismissed from th. army or at least suspended from active duties. Would that the president had teen as prompt in ordering a suit to be commenced against the coal trust. He was r quite prompt, in ordering a suit to ne commenced 4 against the 'meat combine. There is the same necessity for a suit against the coal barons ac against the meat barons. As five or six companies and , corporations mo nopolize the meat business, so five or six railroad companies have monopol ized the coal business In Pennsyl vania. In some way these railroads have possessed themselves of more than three-quarters of all the anthra cite oal mines and they charge what they please for coal. For three months they have been in a dispute with their employes, and they have refused to arbitrate the differences. It is a sin gular thing that the same persons" own the railroads and the coal mines at the same time, so that they are not only coal-carriers, but coal-owners. This was a thing not contemplated when the railroad companies received their charters as common carriers. The pub lic would like to know how It is that railroads have become owners of so many coal mines. Is it because they have refused to carry coal for Indi vidual owners of mines on the same terms? The public have a right to know all about the inside workings of railroads because they are common carriers. It is not necessary for thr? president to have absolute proof of violations of the federal anti-trust law; it is enough that he has reason to suspect that there Is a monopoly in restraint of interstate trade, in which case he has a right, and it Is his duty, to order the attorney gen eral to commence suit and to charge the suspected monopolists with all the crimes known to the law, whether he has the proof or not' In his posses sion. He has a right to commence suit for the purpose of getting proof, on the equity side of the court. And this proof, when obtained in an equity suit can be used in a criminal prosecu tion. Many think that publicity is a cure for monopolistic trusts. If this is so, the president cannot be too lib eral in bringing suits for the purpose of opening up the inside workings of these corporations to the public gaze. Coming back to the Philippine ques tion from which I have digressed: I will not undertake to summarize the provisions of the measure establishing civil government in the islands. This would take too long. The bill covers twenty-three pages, and I doubt whe ther or not there is interest enough In the matter to Justify an extended re view. I have examined the bill with th view of ascertaining whether or not there is a promise of Indepen dence, and I find that the Filipinos are more likely' to gain this under the republican plan and at an earlier day than If the democratic substitute had been adopted. .TNO. S. DE HAJlT. Mt. Freedom, N. J. Just as a reminder of the way the republicans msnared the school funds of this state It will be well to remem ber the time when their board by a resolution refused to take $85,000 of 4 par cent Otoe county bonds, al though at that time there was $690,000 lying Idle in the hands of the state treasurer. The populist reforms In the management of the school fund saved to the schools hundreds of thou sands of dollars. The present repub lican administration haa not dared to go back to -the old wav of doing things. Althoueh the pppullsts are out of power, the. people still reap the benefit pf their administration. 3 DANGER AHEAD The Republican Leaders Understand the Dangers of Inflation Just as Well as the Readers of the Independent. Walter Wellman quotes a member of the cabinet as follows: "There is widespread belief that no danger of panic or hard times exists in our country now. Prosperity is so great and so general that the people are unable to see any end of it. I am not an alarmist, "and 1 am not expect ing trouble, but it is true that we have today all the conditions for a sharp reverse. There is a general supposi tion that both the banks and the people have so much money they do -not know what to do with it, and that therefore a panic is an absolute impos sibility. "Let me give you some facts without comment. You go out to the farmers and ask them how they are getting on. They will tell you that they were never before so prosperous. They are out of debt and have plenty of money. Ask them where their money is' and they will tell you it is in the local banks. Call at the country banks and inquire Into their condition, and their officers will tell you they are all right. Money plentiful and reserves above 40 per cent. 'Where is your money?' 'Oh, It is in the banks of Omaha, Min neapolis, Kansas City, etc' "Next you go to the bankers in Omaha, Kansas City and Minneapolis, and they will tell you the same thing. They are in good shape; reserves .35 per cent. 'Where is your money?' 'In Chicago.' Now go to Chicago. Same story. Banks all right. Reserves 30 percent. But the money is in New York. "Finally, pursuing your inquiries in New York, you will find that both deposits and loans have been enorm ous. The money is not in the banks. There are only six national banks in New York that have not been below their legal reserves since January -1 You want to know where this money is? Well, $450,000,000 is loaned by na tionakbanks on the bonds of indus trial corporations. These corporations issued bonds instead of stocks be cause the national banks can take the former and can't take the latter. In trinsically they are no better than stocks. In most of them there has been a lot of water-curing. Here you see where $450,000,000 of the country's surplus stands against a; lot of undi gested, promotion-produced securities. The trust companies have put out mil lions more in the same way. "That is where we stand. It is all right as long as it is all right. But I don't want to see anything happen. I don't want to see these Industrials begin to topple over, to fall against one another and come down in a heap like children's play-blocks. And this is one reason why I am opposed to . tariff revision agitation that mi?ht start things going the wrong way." That statement could be duplicated almost word for word, except the la3t sentence, from articles that have fre quently been" printed in The Indepen dent. One would be justified in saying that this member of the cabinet read them from the columns of this paper. But the question arises: Who got the country into this dangerous situation? It was the republican party. They listened to the bankers and passed laws allowine: the banks to loan their reserves. When they did that, they put in peril every legitimate business in the whole country. This statement from the cabinet shows that the ad ministration knows that there are no bank reserves in the whole country ex cept in New York city and that there only six banks are obeying the law. Who allows these things? The repub lican secretary of the treasury and comptroller of the currency. The republican financial system is a house of children's play-blocks. That is what this member of the cabinet says. There is no question about that. The only question is: How long can we keep them from toppling over? They will topple over. There is no doubt about that. If the republicans let the democrats get control of ttie house they can blame it all on them, "liquidate" and come into power again. That seems to be the plan. BEET SUGAR Capr. Rilllngsley Asks the State Journal Some Pertinent Questions Regard ing the Sugar Beet Indus try In Nebraska. The case of Nebraska Senators vs. President Roosevelt continues to agi tate the republicans of this state. Many of them seem to think the real controversy is over the subject of. su gar, but the fact is, as The Indepen dent views it, that a coterie of re publican senators, with Elkins openly and Hanna secretly leading, deter mined to prevent the nomination of Roosevelt in 1904, and the question of reciprocity with Cuba was used as a pretext for disagreement. Thus far Roosevelt seems to be ahead but . it Is a long time until 1904, and Hanna and Elkin3 are a very resourceful pair. ....... x - Some days ago the Omaha Bee took occasion to say: . "An attempt is made In some of the eastern papers to belittle the beet su gar industry by comparing the acre age of sugar beets reported for the current year at 259,513 acres, with millions of acres planted to wheat, corn and oats. Every Industry, how ever, has to have a beginning. Ten years ago the suear beet acreage was infinitesimal. When discussing the prospects of the beet sugar industry It will be well, to keep in mind the tin plate Industry which has been built up from nothing before the McKlnley tar iff until today the entire home de-i rnand is met by the home-made sup ply." " .'.v--::.! This B6t Capt. L. W. Billiagsley ea edge and. he addressed the. following ( letter to the: State r Journal. , Up to datij the Journal has vouchsafed an answer. " . ' ' - "To the Editor -of The State Journal: The above ; paragraph from the Bee would indicate that the development of the oeet sugar Industry in the last ten years - has been phenomenal in this country ; and cites the tin plate indus try as a; similar example of what the tariff , has: doneJ If you' have the data at hand, would" like t6' know to what extent the parallel is irue. To some it appears that the similar example is very misleading," and ..will not shield or Justify some, of the insurgent sena tors for sustaining the contentions of Mr. Oxnajd.ihstead of President Roose velt. Probably'-at an early day - this country will begin. to reap the fruits of the failure to pass the bill for Cu ban reciprocity. ! Many, of the articles the Cuban president asks hjs congress toput a- high tariff upon, that -would bring his government the greatest rev enue,' will directly; affect the. great middle west. . Some states after ten years' "trial, are not "congested' with the beet . . sugar, product. President Palma ' recommends that Cuban tariff on flour, onions, peas and potatoes be raised 100 per cent r on meat; . 50 per cent ; on f corn, , $33 j per cent. These western products are now largely im ported into Cuba. It ii only a short time until the . west more than . any part" of our country will begin to pay for the protection ; of 'the Oxnard product. There Is probably less than nine square miles of TNebraska's ; 76, 840 square miles devoted to beet su gar culture while this year the state will have, over 330,000,000 bushels on its over 20,000 square miles of, corn, oats and wheat land.";lr now has over 5,000,000 head of hogs, , sheep and cat tie. " All , these products, of the . state will soon -have to; pay -directly or in directly tribute for the less than nine square miles devoted to sugar. It seems safe and fair to estimate that Nebraska's probable burden on .the products named will be more than the value of the entire beet sugar. pro duct; which was $520,301 in 1900, (and will not exceed $600,000 in 1902); on ac count of the forthcoming.Cuban tariff. This burden would, have been nil if the recommendations of President Roose velt had not been defeated by the in surgent senatprs. Some senators cer tainly .defeated the wishes of an over whelming majority of their constitu ents. Their conduct must have been prompted by misinformation as. to the sentiment of their people. There is a higher view of the question that would have, prompted them-to have sustained the ? president, j Cuba, ; lying in the shadow of , the gecat. republic, was set up in, the government business by our people and we have no moral right to so frame , our' tariff laws as to starve its people and drive ttiem. Into bank ruptcy and anarchy. , ; - "L. W. BILLINGSLEY." CUBAN MISERY. The Republican Campaign Text Book Telling What "we Hare. Done for Cuba" Don't Tally with the Facts The provincial press of Cuba is filled with details of the Increasing distress in the island. In Matanzas work is suspended on so many plantations that 25,000 laborers are out of ' employ ment. From Pinar del Rio comes the report of dozens of the best-and larg est mills closed: In Las Villas the peasants are killing their cattle for food. So it goes. To add to the pre vailing misery, the Cuban company is laying off hands. In some towns the funds for public works are exhausted, and even street cleaning is abandoned. Beggars are multiplied in .field and village, .and the people are everywhere giving their first', and most anxious thought - to the question, not how . to make their new government work well, but how to escape" starvation. v This is the actual picture which we have to look upon in Cuba itself, at the same time that our bureau- chiefs at ;Wash ington are putting out their smug re port on "What We Have Done for Cuba." The beet , sugar congressmen sniffed at the talk about threatened Cuban misery. Where was the evi dence? Now they, may see sign3 enough of suffering, but it is too late. New York Post. Regulation Editor Independent: The perfect way to regulate the issue of currency is given in . the constitution . of the United States In these words: "Con gress shall coin gold and silver and declare the value thereof." It does not say for congress to make gold or sil ver, legal tender,' but it does say the states shall make nothing legal ten der but gold and silver, thereby implying- that congress may make legal tender by issuing bills of credit to pay the debts of the United States. Now, a national debt has no just or moral right of existence, and no time and for no, other purpose is a national debt, created: but to deceive and op press the Industrious and honest peo ple. Every national debt is a, legal ized robbery arid tyrants live thereby. ; . NICHOLAS KUTH. Progress, O. . , . . . V; ..- ((Mr. Kuth's quotation Is nonex act.: Among the enumerated powers granted to congress Is the power, "to coin money and regulate the value thereof." Ed. Ind.) . ' ' ' About the only cash; business" done in the United States is gambling: Most of the rest Is done on credit. The rea son for that is that gambling debts cannot be collected by law while busi ness debta can be. If the credit busi ness expands much more arid there is no other way to stop these ever .re curring panics . which spread ; disaster and ruin . over whole continents, out lawing the collection, of all debts might., be tried. 1 That would reduce business to a cash basis pretty. quick. - A PURCHASED MAJORITY Mr. Miller, an Old-Tlme Populist Wheel t . Horse at Winslde, Warns bras kans of the Banger of a Purchased Majority Editor Independent: A sample copy of your -paper found me away out in this western world; and in that paper I found a full report of our fusion convention. Right here I want to say I am well pleased with the result a ticket composed of that class of men ought to carry everything before it. I often wonder If the people ever stop to" think what a purchased majority means, or a majority obtained by fraud or intimidation, it is all the same. Measures adopted by a major ity obtained in that way are not apt to redound to the good of the masses or be any more pure than the methods used to obtain the majority. I wish the people would study politics. In the last fourteen months I have been over some territory have met a great many people and have learned that the great majority of the voters go to the election to vote the demo cratic or republican ticket; they are not particular about the platform, if it Is properly labeled. David Bennet Hill's name at the head of a ticket branded democrat would create just as much enthusiasm as if he were a democrat, even though everybody knows he belongs to the corporations and did more than any onevman to convince the supreme court that the income tax was unconstitutional. And Mark Hanna's name on the head of a republican ticket would answer just as well as a 'republican; all the average voter asks for is the brand. I find we have all kinds of pollt'cians, even in the west. Mr. Cushman of this state is for a railway commission. He says if they fix rates too low the United States supreme court will protect them as they did in Nebraska. See; he knows whereof he speaks; government by In junction. We send a little army of men down to Lincoln to make us some good wholesome laws; we undertake t(y enforce them; some little 7x9 law yer says, "Hold on; I think that law is unconstitutional." And sure enough after eight or ten years we get up to our $10,000 a year hired men in Wash ington and they say of course the lit tle fellow is right; and that is the end. Don't' talk to me about a republican form of government we don't get it. Seattle is to Washington what New York city is to New York; what Chi cago is to Illinois; what San Francis co is to California; what Portland is to Oregon, in a political way. As these cities - go, so : goes., the. state. :.. It . is thought by some that the church peo ple could find work for some of their surplus missionaries in Seattle, I see by the platform of the Iowa republicans that they are going to help Teddy smash the- trusts with their resolves. If a political speaker will misrepresent matters that evry one is 'familiar with, it is not safe to doubt what he says about matters we are not familiar with. . I remember In the fall of '96 when John M. was a politician he never failed to tell us that under g. o. p. rule we had had uninterrupted prosperity for thirty two years; and he actually made the people believe it when they knew he lied I undertake to say that our politi cal machine would be just as afe in the hands of republican democrats as democratic republicans; and a pluto cratic democrat is just as dangerous to. a republican form of government as a plutocratic republican, and I claim that no man can play democracy or re publicanism and plutocracy at the same time any more than he can plav plutocracy and Christianity. They will not mix. I once said to a leading democrat. "What of the political future of this country," and his democracy is so pure that he is almost a populist. His answer was. that truth must prevail. And now the auestion comes up, How are we to get the truth before the peo ple? That man is doing his part and more. But as a rule the average voter would rather believe a lie than the truth, and now I want to repeat one sentence and I want the readers of The Independent to ever remember, that a purchased majority is a dangerous proposition. And in conclusion I want to say to your thousands of readers, if you should be so fortunate 'as to have time and inclination to take an out ing, come to Lake Chelan for climate, scenery, fruit and vegetables it is a world beater. Hoping that you may achieve a last ing political victory in November, I am as ever yours truly, H. B. MILLER. 1 Chelan, Wash. " TEdDY WAS NOT THERE Roosevelt and the Rough Riders Were Not at San Juan Hill It Was the Reg ulars That Took It. It Is pretty hard to kill a good story; indeed, a really good story never dies no matter how far from the petty, unimaginative truth it may be. Such a story is "the charge of the rough riders up San Juan hill." Military men may grow apopletic and histor ians may rave, but Roosevelt at the head of his Tough riders storming San Juan hill will remain a popular and cherished picture in the public's eye for aye. Nay, more, the. picture need not remain in the mind alone; we see it at Buffalo Bill's show, and it has been put upon canvas and exhibited in all our states, territories and "places subject to our Jurisdiction." And to make the lesson more emphatic the great Verestchagln Is talking from day to day about the massive picture of this episode which he is building. Like the boy's fairy story, It's so whether it's so or not. And yet well, why say anything more about it? Still, possibly the his-torians- might be allowed a last desper ate chance at publishing their side of the case. Let them have it Meaning no disrespect to anybody concerned, they will whisper to their victims in some-secluded corner that neither Roosevelt nor the rough rid ers stormed San Juan hill! It was another hill, and it wasn't so big as San Juan. Let the historian tell it plainly. On the 1st of July, 1898, there were two fights, El Caney and San Juan. La wton commanded at El Ca ney, and Kent and Wheeler before San Juan. The "objective point at San Juan was a block house on the summit of San Juan hill. Between the Ameri cans' position and that block house was, first, San Juan river and then a knoll called Kettle hill, on which was a block house about one-third of a mile from San Juan hill's crest. It was necessary to take Kettle hill be fore proceeding to the larger point be yond. General Carroll was ordered to advance on Kettle hill, supported by Wood. It was a quick but bloody; fight, as sanguinary as that of Kent's divi sion at San Juan. The troops com prising the attacking force were: One squadron of the -First cavalry, the Ninth cavalry and the First volunteer cavalry (the "rough riders"). And, by the way, the first party to reach the top consisted of two troops of the Ninth cavalry, not the "rough riders." This crest gained, the main body of the American army moved on, and af ter a desperate fight captured San Juan hill. None of this Kettle hill force "went up San, Juan hill," although some of them, including the rough riders, did join in the attack on San Juan ridge after the summit had been taken. Colonel Roosevelt's book makes this sufficiently plain. ' - If the artists and the orators wish to present the taking of San Juan hill, they must put the regulars of the in fantry, . who were under Kent, into their picture. If they wish to present the taking of Kettle hill they may put in the . rough' riders with Colonel Roosevelt somewhere , about, but not on horseback, for the cavalry In that battle had no horses. If they wish a true: faithful ' picture, let them give us the killing of Colonel Hamilton while leading the Ninth cavalry up Kettle hill, or the gallant Colonel Wi koff, killed while leading the Thir teenth Infantry up San Juan hillj The attack on Kettle hill was a daring, thrilling achievement; it was by no means so huge an event or so import ant - as the attack- on San Juan hill which followed. But no such compari sons need be made, and are only cited here to keep the record straight. There .wasglory enough, peril enough and bravery enough in both achievements-' without hopelessly befogging them in our minds, and by misplacing our cred its and our laurels. And yet we suppose "Roosevelt and the rough riders storming San Juan hill" will continue in popular- phrase , and fable for all our days. Why should we complain of the falsi ty of our histories when so soon after this Spanish war we are in such hopeless confusion over Its main facts? Boston Transcripe,(rep.). The Vagaries of Populism. Question. Republican farmer, where do you live? About 10 miles north east of Kearney. Q. What is your postofflce address? Kearney.' Q. You are very busy now, so you don't come to town for your mail very often? A man brings my mail out to me every morning. I read the market reports from my morning paper at the break fast table. Q. That is vefy convenient. How much does that service cost you? Not a cent. It is all done by '-Uncle Sam's postofflce trust. Q.' Your son and daughter attend the state univer sity free? Yes, but I do not get to see them often. It costs $14.28 every time they come home. Q. Do you know that in New Zealand all school children have passes on the railroads, that as big a man as you can travel anywhere on the railroads for one cent a mile, talk over a telephone any where for ten cents, send a telegram anywhere for twelve cents,-that freight rates .there are about one-third what they are here, that section -hands get $2 a day for eight hours' work and a half day off each week? No. Why, I used to send money over there to Christianize those heathen and they seem to have done pretty well upon it. Mr. Paperman, let me ask a question. Why is this? Oh, nothing, except the New Zealanders own the railroads and telegraph and telephone systems and they make nearly enough, too, to run their government, so that a farm er over there can be worth $2,500 be fore he is called upon to pay taxes. Let me ask another question. Have these. New Zealanders got the" initia tive and referendum? Yes. That grizzly animal got loose over there and you see what he did. And Mr. Re publican Farmer rolled up a copy of the Hub containing a fresh editorial on the "Vagaries of Populism," lighted his pipe with it and storlled off Jium m Ing, "I would not live always." Roy W. Rhone, in Kearney New. Era-Standard. , It Is announced that a New York syndicate has . made, a deal with the Philippine friars and bought out their land interests. All the money appro priated by the United States or taxed out of the Filipinos to pay for these lands, and to which the friars never had, a title, will go to the few good republicans down in Gotham who had inside information. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is the only republican paper so far that has the cheek to deny that the trust and protected' manufacturers sell' their goods for less to foreigners than they do to American tltizens. Perhaps it forgot that the chairman of their con gressional campaign 'committee had acknowledged the charge "to be true and then replied: ".What if they. do?" THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL Mr. Rockwell Reviews Ion Hlstarjr It gardlng the Actions of Money Cnaager In the Past Though Seo urged From the Temple, They Still Rule (Concluded from last week.) Editor Independent: In their con tinuous chain of corruption, the money changers wrought the demonetization of silver and destruction of green backs, to cause a vacuum in the vol ume or circulating medium which they want to supply with their bank issue. The latest step to aid them in that scheme is now pending in congress. It Is called the Fowler financial bill." (It should be more properly called the "foul-er" financial bill.) This bill la to give them a right to Issue bank notes on their assets, which is another confidence game. to swindle the people still more. Their bank notes would be a greater fraud on the people than the notes that were once Issued by one of their institutions, called Farm ers' Exchange Bank of Glouchester. R. I., which was found to have nearly six hundred thousand dollars of Its bills afloat, and only eight-six dollars of coin for their specie basis. Under the Fowler bill they can is sue bank bills on their assets, and if they close their doors on deposits, there would be no assets to pay de positors a few cents on the dollar for the assets would be more than covered by. bank issue. But this is not strange, as W. II. Smith, M. D., Ph. D., once said: "It is not strange that bankers, as a rule, are opposed to the restoration of silver. Their dividends largely come from loaning money which has no existence. To furnish them the opportunity to do o. it is to their advantage to have money scarce. They can thus lend , more wind; and get more Interest." At present the millions of, govern ment funds which the secretary of the United States treasury Is depositing with some of these banks, and many millions more which the people are compelled to deposit with them, as there are no other places for them to deposit and check on, it gives, the bankers the use of the people's own money to corrupt courts and law making assemblies through which they are granted special privileges and per mitted to plunder the masses in vari ous ways. Like the laws of Pennsylvania, it made It possible for the Standard Oil company to use the producers' own oil to down them with on every turn I was there, and know its history well by experience. r . Through the neglect, intentionally or thoughtlessly, of the government to open its doors for the people to de posit their money and check on when needed has left the way open to Shy lock, who was scheming in the conven tion that framed 'the constitution, a plan to rob the people, for when It was proposed In the convention which framed - the constitution to insert a clause empowering the federal govern ment to "enact bills" of credit," the proposition was rejected the state ment being made that "the moneyed Interest" would otherwise "oppose the plan of government." Jefferson fav ored ' the proposition, but Hamilton favored the moneyed interests that won. So Shylock, who is always scheming to get much f,or nothing, went into the banking business under the plea of accommodation to the pub lic. He learned that to create a scarc ity of money with the people Increased his business and rates of Interest. In the absence of gold and silver sufficient in volume for a circulating medium, the greater part of the volume had to be made up of paper, so he schemes to get control of the Issue of paper money. To issue It himself, it would only cost him the printing of the notes. To him, that would be Hk picking up in the road the greater part of the money volume (hundreds of millions) which he could loan, con trol the rates of interest, the prices of products, of labor, and the labor itself. He would eoon have control of the whole volume of circulating medium for when gold and sliver came, in he could hold it and pay out his own pa per instead. And in time he would really own all the gold and silver. He could at his own pleasure hold back the small coin which he did do dur ing the war between the north and south. In 1861 in the oil region of Penn sylvania we had to resort to Uncle Sam's issue of postage stamps for change, but as they were so easily, broken up and stuck together, we adopted l-inch tvoiigs and pieces of pasteboard on which were written the number of cents and the, name of the. party issuing them, but the govern-, ment soon issued scrip which relieved us from the confusion which Shylock had wrought by holding our subsidiary coin with other specie to extort from the government. For the government to leave the welfare of the people to the mercy of this class is like the shepherd leaving his flock with the wolves. Shylock has always been hostile to the government issue of money. He is vigilant and corrupt in his strategem to defeat justice, and Is ever seeking an opportunity to stab any laws that might lead to the release of the people from his grasp. He Is the first to de-" predate government money; he 13 the first to extort from the government when it is in need, and the first to ask favors of it by which he can rob the masses. He schemes to bring about spasms in business, in a way that most of the people cannot see through, and at tributes the cause to suit himself as he did during Cleveland's last demo republican administration then he laid the cause of the coinage of silver, and run his rates on money a3 high as 50 per cent in New York. When these spasms were . used to injure the manufacturing interests of the country, he attributed the cause IP' '