Sept, 18, 1902. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 5 THE TRUE STORY "What Actually Happened Then the Trolly Car Kan Into ttio President's Carriage The accident which happened to the president at Pittsfield, Mass., just as The Independent was going to press last week and which startled the whole country, is most graphically described by the Springfield Republican: The death of one man saved three lives in the deplorable and indefensi ble disaster that overtook the presi dential party at Pittsfield, Wednesday the one dominant and universally discussed happening of the past week in this region. It has not been appre ciated that William Craig of the gov ernment secret service, the man whose duty it was to guard the president of the United States, in the end and in the line of service, though through an involuntary happening, saved the lives of Theodore Roosevelt. Governor Crane and Secretary Cortelyou. Such is Governor Crane's conclusion, as ex pressed in private conversation. Let us review the facts in demonstration of this central and hitherto overlooked fact that poor Craig's life was not sacrificed in vain. His mangling real ly saved the head of the federal gov ernment and of the state of Massachu setts. Not its brakes, but the body of the guard, checked the speed of that car sufficiently so that the men in the body of the carriage escaped as fortunately as they did. Horrible, but fortunate to all save Craig it was, and he was in the end. in a high an 1 tragic sense, the guard of the presi dent. Fate made him faithful in dQath as in life to the trust reposed in him. Like a soldier he fell, and his memory deserves all a hero's honors. The governor of Massachusetts, sit ting beside the president of the United States, heard the gong of the car ap proaching the carriage. On the in stant Governor Crane rose to his feet, and. looking back, saw the car ap proaching at a very rapid rate of speed. He raised both hands and waved them frantically in an effort to make the motorman stop. The car was under such headway, however, that it proved impossible to stop it. When the gov ernor waved his hands, the ear is esti mated to have been 1F0 feet away from the carriage. The governor saw the driver. i). J. Pratt, Agent Craig and Secretary Cortelyou go. leaving the president and himself the last occu pants of the carriage. The president was then thrown out. and the gov ernor supposes that he went, too, but does not know. For all of them there was a period of oblivion, momentary or longer. In the opinion of the gov ernor, all that saved the lives of the president, the secretary and himself was the fact that Craig was thrown first and hurled immediately in front of i..e car. The car passed entirely over Craig's body, and this obstacle broke the force of the shock. But for that intervention it is fair to suppose that all in the carriage would surely have been killed. This understanding and analysis of the situation will deepen the popular sense of the nar rowness of the escape at Pittsfield. Only this human sacrifice, precipitated by the narrowest chance at the exact point where it could be made to ac complish the salvation of the others, intervened to avert a national calam ity and tragedy and sorrow of which even the thought is best avoided. ganlzed a rival force, the Volunteers. Six of General Booth's sons are now in open rebellion. Senator Scott of West Virginia, a stalwart republican, says that the strike may cost his party three con gressmen in his state and several in Pennsylvania. With the drift, as it is, against the republicans for other causes, the outlook for the dominant party is iar from being rosy. The coal miners' lockout may register it self in politics in November with a de cisiveness that may surprise the coun try and contound the republican party. The editor and the proprietor of the Manila Freedom are both languishing in jail after having been denied a trial by jury or the right to appeal. After cogitating for a few months in their loathsome cells, they may both come to the conclusion that the title of their paper is a misnomer. They ought to be happy out in Colo rado and have "an era of good feeling" such as was announced in Iowa. The democratic state convention and the republican convention of Arapahoe county, in which Denver is situated, tried to outdo each other in proclaim ing populist principles. Roosevelt has made the round trip to the southern states and back with out once mentioning reciprocity with Cuba or any other nation. It seems that the tariff league and the trusts are too much even for Teddy. Per haps he has heard what happened to I the witnesses and prosecutors of the I Northern Pacific merger and does not I want to go to jail. , The republicans are determined to have "more money." The coinage of silver, the increase of gold and bank notes has not satisfied them. Secre tary Shaw has therefore determined to buy more national bank circulation. He will increase the government de- posit3 in those banks only that put out j more circulation. The cry for "more j money" that the republicans are rais I ing is louder and more persistent than any that was ever heard before. Think wnat they said about populists in when they demanded "more money:" And in 1893 there was not half the money in the country that there is now. Republicans are "queer critters." I Those Faneuil hall (Boston) resolu I tions demanding government owner ' ship of the coal mines rather startle ; the New York Times, which reflects j that "the incident is instructive and i may well set the student of the ten j dencies of thought in this country to studying the nature of the forces at I work in New England to shape public opinion." Well, it can at least be said that the growth of the public owner ship idea in Boston is not due to the Boston newspapers. They would as soon yell for anarchy. News of the Week The other day all the plutocratic dailies took particular pains to let the people know that a "new high wa ter mark had been reached in the amount of gold in the treasury." There were $576,622,324 of gold in the treas ury. Then they exploited their ignor ance of financial questions to all the length their space would allow. They cast new slurs at populism and con cluded by trying to impress upon their readers what great financiers and uni versally wise men they were. The truth was that only $f7.000,0'o of that gold belonged to the government. It being piled up there was a demonstra tion of the populist claim that paper money was more convenient and more desired by the people than any sort of metalic money. Most of that gold was held for the redemption of gold certifi cates. Gold certificates being paper money are much more convenient than the gold coin. As the bankers can store the gold without cost in the treasury and the shipment to and fro of paper money costs much less than when metallic money, they put their gold in the treasury and use paper. A pop ulist can see no reason why paper money, limited in quantity, should not be used exclusively. Every year several men are killed in the Adirondacks by the dudes who go out there to hunt deer. Two were killed last week. The state of New York should appoint a board to ex amine every dude who wants to go hunting in the Adirondacks and if he does not show intelligence enough to distinguish a man from a deer he should not be permitted to carry firearms. The New York Post says that Sara toga, favored by special legislation, has become the Monte Carlo of the United States. The season closed last week and one special train carried away among its passengers 300 hun dred women and 2,000 pieces of bag gage. The Post further remarks: "Our modern restoration is more raw than that of 1660, more crude, lacking grace; but altogether this old min eral spa, with its dignified history and ante-bellum tone, has been turned into a close American variation of the Turnbridge v ells of the reign of Charles II., when the leaders of the mode, the wealthy merchants, the gen try, and the 'frail and jilting beau ties' brought to it all the luxuries and vices of London." Roosevelt grows fierce when he de nounces the critics of the army in the Philippines. When the officers over j there take him at his word and acquit j other officers charged with cruelty, j Teddy writes on the findings: "The j proceedings and findings in the fore- j going case of Capt. James A. Ryan, j 15th regiment of cavalry, are disap- j proved." prepared by both factions presented. No agreement could be reached as to the form of the resolutions and as a compromise it was decided to make no reference to resolutions in the con vention." When the men who got up the farce announced that Boies would be nominated they expected a big crowd, but more than one-third of the delegates refused to come. Wonderful fellows are these Iowa gold bug demo crats! The crowd was very small. A dispatch from Newport says that the grand duke Boris arose and hast ily left the table where he had been Invited to dine because the waiter helped the "lady who was hostess first. His royal nibs didn't like that, so he left The international salt company, known as the salt trust, is in difficul ties. The other day a judgment was rendered against it in the amount of $238,098. It made no defense. Pre ferred stock, common stock, water. Then comes the receiver. The trusts have been falling pretty fast lately, but just wait a few months more and see what will happen. We have an international parcels post in this country. It is run by the British government on one side and the American express companies on the other. A parcels post has been one of the demands of the populist party ever since its organization. But Mr. Loud, the agent of the American express companies, is chairman of the house committee on postoffices and won't let us have it. MENDACITY CONE MAD If it is "the destiny" of the United I States to go about setting up "stable j governments" as the republicans told j us in the last presidential campaign. there is a large field for oierations j just at present. Hayti, Columbia, Venezuela and several other countries need immediate attention. Teddy -must be neglecting his duty and run ning contrary to the "direction of di- ! vine providence." The wars in Hayti ; and Columbia are raging with more j bloodshed and slaughter than ever be fore. Just think of it! How silly some of the republican propositions have been. Another editor has been found guilty of libeling a native member of the Philippine commission, fined $2. 000 and sent to jail for six months without trial by jury. This time it was the editor of a Spanish weekly and his name was Vincente Valdes. It seems that the native members of the Philippine commission suffer a great deal from libels. The steel trust took a twist on i some of the smaller concerns last week that made them howl. In com- j bination with the railroads it ran th? j price of coke up to $13 a ton. The small pig iron manufacturers say that j they will have to quit. I There is a probability of 70,000 train- j men striking for an increase in pay. ! The men say that they are doing dou- ble the work they used to do for the j same pay. which is a fact that The In dependent has often commented upon. The building of big engines, the im provement of road beds, the elimina tion of many curves and heavy grades have enabled the managers to double the size of trains which are handled bv the same number of men as before. Teddy is employing the secretary of the treasury as a campaign spell binder and rushing him from state to state with great celerity. It used to be thougnt that the duty of the secretary of the treasury was to attend to finan cial affairs of the United States, but we have outgrown all that. His duty is to make party speeches and let the finances take care of themselves. The three Boer generals. De Wet, Botha and Delarey, were, in Holland last week. In answer to an address General De Wet said: "We have lost our independence and have endeavored to obtain compensation from the new government for our burned farms. We have every reason to believe no compensation will be forthcoming. Help is absolutely necessary to pre vent the ruin of thousands." General Booth, the head of the Sal vation army, has had better success in governing the vast numbers of that organization than he has in ruling his own family. One of his sons, Herbert Booua, has recently left the army as five previous have done. Ballington Booth not only left the army, but or- The anti-Bryan fellows in Iowa have inaugurated a new deal in politics. They got together and nominated ex Governor Boies as candidate for con gress in Speaker Henderson's district without any mention of a platform at all. the telegraphic report of the af fair says: "A feature of the conven tion was the fact that no mention was maae of a platform or resolutions. A conference of friends of Boies and sup porters of the silver wing of the party was held this morning, and platforms Profe(or Vlncnt of the Central Farmer Pays His Respect to The State Journal It is not often, even in the heat of a political campaign, that newspapers or party organs will stoop to flagrant falsehoods. The tactics generally adopted to cover a party crime are in direct, and it is rare indeed that a state organ so far loses its self-respect as wantonly to falsify facts that are easily shown, thus laying itself open not only to the attacks of op ponents, but to distract of all asso ciates. When such paper does this it exposes its weakness and becomes an object of pity and scorn. But when it brazenly persists in the lie (as it probably will, for party reasons), it becomes a public enemy and all good citizens of all parties should exclude the vile thing from their homes and other editors should cease to advertise it in clubbing rates with their own. This foul thing the Nebraska State Journal has done, as follows. In its issue of Sunday, September 7, 1902, on page 12, second column (editorial), occurs the following: "SAME OLD BILL." "The Omaha World-Herald, has 'em again. Every year about this time when the summer is ended and people ! begin to think about their winter coal, the World-Herald gets into a panic about the Fowler bill. The Fowler bill it seems was a measure introduced by a gold bug some years ago in the lower house of congress to do some thing to the currency. The World Heraid itself .like the rest of us, seems to have forgotten what the Fowler bill was a., about, and does not brush up its memory by reading its old files. However, it calls upon Burkett and McCarthy and Hinshaw and Norris and Kinkaid to come out immediately and tell the people 'yes' or 'no' wheth er they will vote for the Fov.ier bill. But the Fowler bill is dead. It expired by limitation with the congress that didn't consider it. It is quite prob able that Burkett and McCarthy and Hinshaw and Norris and Kinkaid have forgotten like the World-Herald what the Fowler bill was. "Bills to the number of nearly ten thousand were on the calendar in the last house when it last adjourned and they all went up the flume with the adjournment. The candidates for the j next congress do not know really how j they stand on those ten thousand bills, : as they never heard of most of them ! and never read many of the others, j But supposing the World-Herald is j really concerned about the Fowler j bill, ought it not to tell us just what is the matter with it? Perhaps it j wasn't a good bill. Who knows? Was 1 it intended to crush freedom to earth j and disembowel that divine ratio of sixteen-to-wun?" j Note in this editorial of the Journal j the bold falsehood: "But the Fowler ! bill is dead. It expired with the con- gress that didn't consider it." . j The bill is NOT dead. It is not j only alive, but is in position to do its mischievous work instantly on the re assembling of congress in December. The Fowler uill was not introduced ' in 1890 or in the "last" congress, but in the first session of the PRESENT congress. Mr. Fowler is NOW the chairman of the committee, in a re publican congress, of the "committee on banking and currency." Mr. Fowl er introduced a bill on March 10, 1902, entiled: "A bill to maintain the god stand ard, provide an elastic currency, equal ize the rates of interest throughout the country, ana further amend the national banking law." (See Con gressional Record, page 2757.) On April 3 he introduced another bill under the SAME TITLE. (See page 3865.) On April 4 he introduced still a third bill under the SAME title. (See page 3918.) All of these bills were referred to the committee of which he himself was chairman. The third of these bills (No. 13,363) was reported without amendment and with recommendation that it do pass on April 5 (Cong. Record, page 3959) the day following its introduction. The bill now stands on the calendar of the house ready for action. It is NOT DEAD. It cannot die by limitation un til the close of this congress, at mid night of March 3. 1903. All bills that were Introduced at the late session of the present congress are in the same condition now and will be in the same condition when congress meets in De cember, as they were just before con gress took its summer recess. It is very evident that the Journal is scared nearly to. suicide by the fact that fusionists are disposed to compel all candidates for congress to go on record on this Infamous measure. The Journal dare not attempt a defense of the mischievous bill and so it re ports to cowardly falsehood and as serts thta the bill is dead and there fore not an Issue. The' republicans !n congress DID NOT DARE pass the measure before election. Therefore they had it pre pared and reported favorably and neatly hidden (as they ostrich-like supposed) on the calendar. But some patriots had watched it pass to its hiding place and it is pointed out at the spot where it lies in wait to spring on a surprised public "after election." It has been the policy of the re publicans for years to "tinker" with the finance question "after elections" and all the while loudly protesting that no tinkering would be allowed. It meant that the "other fellow" should do no tinkering, but there ari few sessions of congress for many years when the republicans have not "tinkered" the finances while loudly proclaiming that no changes were needed and that none would be tol erated. The present bill was exposed by the Central Farmer on July 31, and since then scores of papers all over the state are demanding that congressional can didates go on record touching that measure. That is what scares them. We caution our friends not to be bluffed. Push the fight! Elsewhere in this paper are two questions that ev ery congressional candidate of everj party should be required to answer in every speech made during this cam I a' en The Fowler bill represents all the objectionable monopoly and branch bank features that were possessed by the old United States bank that Jack son crushed, and with those iniqui tious features it combines all the in security of the old "wild-cat" and "red dog" currency of the fifties. The at tempt to smuggle such a bill through iij such a disreputable manner should damn any party or any paper or any person who has a hand in the dirty job. If the Journal does not promptly disavow the above editorial and plead ignorance or incapacity as a reason lot its appearance last Sunday, everv j me will understand the mendacity of j t he sheet and will accept the article I as fresh proof of the low character of j that paper. It is told that some years o there lived in Lincoln a person whose office was unusually dirty. The scales of filth lay about on floors and walls, f inally it got so bad that even the owner decided to clean house. He moved the office furniture into the hall and prepared for a scrubbing. When ready, he sent the janitor for a quantity of concentrated lye. He soon returned with a copy of the Ne braska Journal, saying it was the "strongest li(y)e on the market." That observation will be proven true when the Journal fails to disavow the edi torial quoted above. J& yTO-v ot-n v- . Crops Every Year. Markets Alyvays Good. COLORADO POPULISTS A Peculiar Situation but They Will Stand by the Organization and Keep it intact The situation in Colorado is differ ent from any other state. The pop ulists have nominated a full ticket, but several of the candidates are the same as those on the democratic tick et. They will work for the election of Senator Teller and support Congress men Bell and Shafroth. The fact is that Teller and Shafroth never were democrats and Bell was one of the original populists and is now running for his sixth term in congress. The nomination of Mrs. Grenfel for super intendent of public instruction by the democrats did not prevent the pop ulists from nominating her also. She has always been a populist. The democratic platform is a pop ulist document from start to finish. Among other planks in the platform are the following: "The republican party, since its re storation to power, has swept the na tion from its constitutional moorings; it has pursued a policy of conquest; abandoned the great principles of our Declaration of Independence; imposed a government of force upon an unwill ing people and to that end vast sums of money and thousands of lives and made the flag an emblem of tyrannv nd injustice to foreign lands. "We condemn the policy of the re publican party in creating a national banking trust and demand that the na tional government shall at all times retain and exercise sovereign and ab solute control of our coinage and cur rency. We demand government own- HANEY'S FLY CHASER The Greatest Discovery of the 20th Century It protects the cattle and horses from flys, pests and vermin. A sure preven tive, perfectly harmless, easily applied, not expensive. This article is a sure preventive that kills and drives away the worst of all pests, the Texas, buf falo and horn flies. We can show posi tive proof that this fly chaser will do just what is claimed for it. We can add no stronger argument for its use. It is a liquid and may be applied once cr twice a day which will be found to be amply sufficient. By using the sprayer, the application is thoroughly made in a manner that is highly satis factory and inexpensive. It takes less than a minute to spray an animal. This will last 24 hours." 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The dam which holds this reservoir is 200 feet in width at the base, three-quarters of a mile in length and 58 feet in height, and has cost the com pany $175,000. There is a natural escape for the water 600 feet in width when the water comes within 12 feet of the top of the dam, which is ample protection for any pos sible rise during flood time. It is constructed so as to receive the waters from three streams during the flood season so that there is absolutely no question about water supply. Any man wishing to change his location or better his con dition will buy these lands if he will go and look at them. They are all in crop, many of them with good building improvements and possession can be had after November 1st if desired. Prices from $35.00 to $65.00 per acre according to lo cation and building improvements. Other improved lands owned by farmers cannot be bought for less than $100 to $200 per acre where their water is secured through the reservoir system. We will furnish you with a one-fare rate ($18.50), for round trip any day from Lincoln to Fort Collins, which will be refunded if you buy. Let us know when you can arrange to go and one of us will go with you. For further par ticulars address f. - is if Invest raent Co, v a; Burr Block. Lincoln, Neb. crship and control of all transporta tion systems. "The coal miners of Pennsylvania and West v lrginia have been engaged in a conflict with the coal trust, last ing for months, and as they are only asking for the recognition of the prin ciple of arbitration and living wages we extend our sympathy in their great struggle. "The democratic party is opposed to child labor. We recommend that the next general assembly enact legisla tion prohibiting the employment of children under 14 years of age in any mine, shop, factory, store or manufac turing establishment and limiting the hours per week for all children em ployed between the ages of 14 and 16 years. liVe demand that the initiative and referendum be enacted into law in or dc that there may be in truth a gov ernment of the people, by the people and for the people. "We demand that a primary election law be enacted in Colorado similar to that in Minnesota and other states. "We demand that all franchises shall be taxed the same as other prop erty, and that no franchise shall b3 granted without adequate compensa tion to the people therefor." The populists have driven the dem ocracy of Colorado to the point where it is forced to say, "We demand the public ownersnip or control of all transportation systems." In another year or two they will be forced to drop the worus "or control." That is if the populists of the state keep up their or ganization. Otherwise they will prob ably drop the words, "We demand the public ownership of all transporta tion systems." The Independent sends congratulations to the Colorado pop ulists and says to them: "Stand by your guns." 1 npg Favorite SB B cnil er St y SETTLERS' ONE-WAY RATES. Everv day during the months of Sep tember and October, 1902. FROM LINCOLN, NEB., via the UNION PACIFIC. $20 00 to Ogden and Salt Lake City. $20 00 to Butte, Anaconda and Helena. $22 50 to Spokane and Wenatchee, Wash. $25 00 to Everett, Fairhaven and New Whatcom, via Hunt iDgton and Spokane $25 00 to Portland, Tacoma and Se attle. $25 00 to Ashland, Roseburpr, Eu gene. Albany and Salem via Portland. $25 00 to San Francisco, Lou Ange les and many other Califor nia points. Full information cheerfully furnished on application to E. B. SLOSSON, Agent. Lincoln, Nebr. 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