Nebraska Newspapers

    HARRISON PRESS-JOURNAl
GKO. D. CANON. Editor.
HARRISON, - - NEBRASKA
DENIAL BY SGHURMAN
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES.
Revival meetings at Tecumseh.
Miles will case resumed at Falls City.
Supreme court gives Attorney General
Smyth permission to docket his peti
tion instituting quo warranto proceed
ing against Omaha fire and police
tviiiiiiisaiun.
MAKES ANSWER TO SENATOR
PETTIGREW.
Denies Charge that the Philippine
Commission Tried to Bribe
the Insurgents.
Mayor of Madison issues an order
soousning slot machines.
nystan & son of Pattonsburg, Ho.,
uuiiu a, nun at St. Kdward.
Schuyler Creamery company is pay-
-m auuuai dividend or S per cent.
ratra annual meeting of Nebraska
tooferenee of charities and corrections
oeia at uneoin.
rue residence of J. C. Johnson at
Chappell was burned Wednesday. Loss
no insurance.
im voage county Farmers' insti
tute was held at Fremont Thursday,
R. B. Thomnson nenniitori xArt
He was charged with obtaining J4,300
huk pretenses.
The body of Albert H Runi nt
"y H- First Nebraska, was buried
xeiaou weunesoay.
oaxa of directors of the Nebraska
.uicory company met at Schuyler Sat
urday, and elected officers.
r" ui cioe county s
K-uiers, aied at his home in
rn ta&a. uuy Wednesday.
Recently organized Nebraska Speed
asociation avet at Hastings, Tuesday,
"""cu a. scneauie ol races.
coring a runaway, near Ashland, on
,7r y-"r walker was thrown
u siuunii, DreaKing his neck.
The recent frosts and thaws have, be
tween tnem, very nearly spoiled the
bu ueris ac iTemont for
making.
sugar-
The disappearance of the ballots at
uuueruon. is still a mystery. It is now
eiteved that Attorney J. w. Cole had
uuMuig 10 uo wun tnem.
During the month Of JanllOrv nlnotn
Ave chattel mortgages amounting to
iea ana nrty-one, amount
toe to J19.766 were released.
The Fremont board of education
fceld a secret meeting Tuesday to let
the contract for the construction of the
new high, school of that place.
Burglars) took advantage of an easy
thine at Aima and entered several
xores ana residences. Two gold watch
en ana several pocketbooks comprised
uie uooiy.
Washington, D. C. (Special.) A llve
.y tilt between Mr. Depew (N. Y.) and
Mr. Pettigrew (sil. rep., S. P.) was the
feature in the early proceedings in the
senate today. Mr. Depew read a letter
from President Schurman ol the Phil
ippine commission, flatly contradicting
statements made by Mr. Pettigrew in a
speech several days ago, and then com
mented caustically upon the methods
of the South Dakota senator in intro
ducing the evidence of such men as
President Sehurmand Admiral Dewey
through the statements of Aguinaldo
Mr. Pettigrew replied sharniv
In gmuch that he has said heretofore
but principally retteratine- the state
ments which had called for the denials
of both President Schurman and Admi-;
rai uewey.
TV . . . ,
men resumed, speeches being made by
mr. .turner (dem., Wash.). Mr. Hate
(dem.. Tenn.i. and; Vfr ah,. trwr.
Neb.), all in opposition to the pending
measure.
Early in the session Senator Vest of
Missouri proposed an amendment to
the pending financial bill, providing
mat me secretary of the treasury shall
have prepared HOO.OOO.OCiO of treasury
notes, to be Known as "bond treasury
notes." They shall be full legal ten
der for all debts and shall be loaned
by the secretary of the treasury who
may deposit Cnited States bonds for
them, the note to bear the same inter
est as the bonds deposited.
At the conclusion of routine business
Mr. Depew. of New York called atten
tion to some remarks made a few days
ago by Mr. Pettigrew, in the course of
which he quoted an alleged interview
with President Schurman of the Phil
ippine commission, which appeared In a
Chicago newspaper and in which he
was quoted as paying that Aguinaldo
was honest. In his remarks Mr. Petti
grew said Mr. Schurman tried to bribe
the insurgents and failed.
Mr. Depew said he had received a let
ter from Prof. Schurman with regard
to the charges of the South Dakota
senator, which he desired to lay before
me senate.
The letter is as follows:
'Ithaca. N. Y.. Feb. 3. Dear Senator
Depew: 1 see from page 1,362 of the:
mission offered Aguinaldo what amount
ed to fS.OOU a year. If he would lay dowr
ois arms.
1 charge, salt Mr. Pettigrew "that
K. ....... ..0 ihj- .........I ' .
kiiir la. u ui nun iiurcuun lire DfrlnK
withheld, and what Information Is sent
to us is garbled, and I charge that we
atiacKea an any ana made a compact
with slavery."
Mr. Pettigrew thought it unfortunate
for the administration that the whole
of Admlial Dewey's letter to Senator
Lodge had been published, as in It the
aumirai, he said, had admitted Just
wnai ne o&u cnargeu.
HOAR REMEMRKRS IT.
Mr. Hoar (Mass.) asked Mr. Dcnew
if he had understood that President
Schurman did not regard Aguinaldo as
honest? He had read a verbatim ad
dress or president Schurman in which
he had said Aguinaldo was honest.
Mr. Depew replied that he had no fur
ther information than was contained in
President Schurman'a letter.
It was the intention of Mr. Chandler,
chairman of the committee on privi
leges and elections, to call up the Quay
case today, but he yielded to the unan
imous consent agreement to take up
the pending financial bill, simply an
nouncing that during any lull in the
financial debate he would bring up the
Pennsylvania senatorial case before the
senate.
Mr. Turner (Wash ) then entered upon
a discussion of the financial bill. He
maintained that the passage of the
pending bill would be a deliberate blow
to silver. The bill was put forward, he
said, by the republican party In the
Interests of the moneyed daises. Its
result would be the enhancement of the
value of money and the depreciation of
the value of things produced by the
farmers and laboring classes.
He praised the democratic national
platform of 1896 and declared the leader
of the convention of that year was
himself an Incentive and platform and
that the next campaign would be thai
of over again.
ALLEN'S A RG CM EXT.
Mr. Bate (Tenn.) fallowed in a speech
In favor of bimetallism and In onoosi-
tion to the proposed gold standard. He
urged that the jiendlng bill was formed
in the interest of the national banks
and of the bondholders who were the
stockholders in the national banks. He
urged that the pledge of parity of gold
and silver would not be kepi that it
would be broken as soon as those who
profited by this bill should assert their
power and demand the sacrifice of silver.
Mr. Allen, who spoke next, said the
money question wus the most moment
ous before the people today and declar
ed hla adherence to free coinage at the
ratio or jt to l. He asked Mr. Aldrb h
if he had not admitted in 1S93 that
ninnev could affect prices.
Yes." replied Mr. Aldrfch. "I never
expressed any other opinion, here or
elsewhere."
CAPTURE A BOER HILL.
BUT ADVANCE TO LADYSMITH
IS CHECKED.
Boers Drive English Back Across
the Upper Tugela, But Only
for a Short Time.
Spearman's Camp, Feb. 6. General
Buller commenced the advance for the
relief of Ladysmlth Monday. The na
val guns opened at o'clock in the
morning and a feint attack was made
in front of our position. Three bat
talions advanced toward the Brakfon-
teln with six batteries. At 11 o'clock
the Boers opened with artillery fire and
sent several shells among the British
Infantry, which retired an hour later.
Meanwhile a vigorous attack was
made on the exi.eme right, where the
engineers expeditiously constructed
position. Several pieces of cannon
hidden amimir tne trees on Z warts Kop,
bombarded heavllv. The British infant.
ry advanced ana the Jtoers were en
tirely surprised.
At 4 o clock a high hill, a contlnua
tlon of the Brakfonteln, had been tak
en. The operations were excellently
planned. The name of the hill taken
Is Krantz Kloof.
The bombardment of the Boer posl-
was resumed this (yesterday)
A QUESTION OF
ABI
CAK1.
ere Is the Talk of a Great New
York Journal Which Vividly R
calls to the Minds of the Mem
bars of the Old Farmers' Alllanc
the Time when They were Hold
Ing School House Meetings by
the Light of the Moon on the
Western Plains.
tlon
morning. The Boers worked a dlsap
pearlng cannon from the high Doorm
Kloof range, on the right of the cap
tured hill, but the British shells ex
ploded its magazine and the gun was
put out of acllon until late in the day
Musketry fire was Intermittent until
the afternoon, when the Boers made a
determined effort to retake the hill.
Reinforcements rushed up cheering.
the Boers were repulsed and the Brit
ish advanced along the ridge.
I he war balloon has proved a most
useful adjunct, making ascents daily
and getting Information as to the Boei
positions. The Boers directed a heavy
shrapnel fire In the endeavor to destroy
the balloon apparatus.
The artillery behaved splendidly
throughout, ably covering the infantry
retirement from the front attack at
the face of a heavy Boer shell fire.
H Is said that the Boers sufferec!
very heavily, as their ambulances were
hard at work.
The Boer position consisted of a lint
of kopjes, strongly intrenched, extend
ing three miles from Splon Kop, and
curving sharply at the eastern end to
the south, to about opposite Zwartf
Kop, which is a steep hill south of th
. l. Sweeney of Courtlandt has
brought suit against Gage county for
IH.Sel damages for injuries received by
falling through a bridge on the public
uiguway.
Two men who said they represented
the Nortaern. Life Insurance company
ef MarshaJltown, la., hve been arrest
Mi at Alma for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
All York turned out to honor the
memory of Private Frank Glover, when
he was buried. He was a member of
company A, First Nebraska, and was
killed in the Philippines.
The Rll Milling company at liar
shall has secured the contract for fur
nishing Ice for the northern division
of the Burlington. It will take more
than 100 cars to fill the contract.
Dick Savory, recently found guilty of
murder in the first degree, tells how
he broke Jail and escaped in Novem
ber. His story implicates a Jail mate,
William Cox, who was acquitted of
highway robbery.
Harry Howard of Shelton is In hard
lines. He has Just been convicted of
running a gambling room and of allow
ing gaming to go on in his place of
business, and now he is waiting to be
tried for dispensing liquor without the
necessary certificate.
' Attorney General Smyth has filed
damage suits against the Burlington,
Elkborn and Milwaukee railroads.
There are Ave suits against the Bur
lington for damages agregatlng $25,
0M; four against the Klkhorn for 120.
IM, and one against the Milwaukee for
Crete, Neb. (Special.) As Mr. Fred
Frense was driving near the railroad
ene mile northeast of town his team
became frightened from some cause
and ray away with him, throwing him
out and killing him. He was brought
te the undertaking establishment of
Henry Boyle and a coroner's inquest
held. He lived six miles north of town,
was an elderly man and well-to-do. All
the members of his family are away in
the east on a visit. They have been
wired for since the accident.
Aa John Rothmuller and his brother
Reuben were driving on North Maine
avenue, their horses became unman
ageable, and ran away, throwing both
men out and breaking Reuben's leg
badly and otherwise injuring him. John
had his jaw broken, but is otherwise
Dot so baaly hurt
QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE.
This sign Is displayed on a building
In a small Georgia town: "Teeth pull
ed cheap for cash. Also music teached
an the planner. Coffins on the Install
ment plan. Now Is the time to bury
your friends at a reasonable cost. We
eJao dig graves."
John Brady, happening to see his
name on a Long Island soldiers' monu
aoent, went indignantly to the authori
ties) and said: "I think you may a
well take my name off the soldiers'
monument. I'm not dead; no. and I
was not dead thirty-five years ago,
awr any other time." It did not occur
te him that there were other pebbles
a the beach of glory.
It h proposed to change the civic
charter of Vancouver, B. C, so that
WBOse wive own property may
t-f tV votes. Thus the henpecked
t ""txnl whose voU has always here-
. styrspaM his wife's opinion at
v cvKaVWUI mam be able to nullify
ft tf t ewn votv without fear of a
' '7 tV. What pveviakM h to bs
I if jWQwrtr to In the
i i i e 4m m sopalar tn
rf otygjsre net rei
rhe Verdlct-The Millionaire Olive
H. P. Belmont Owner, and Alfred
Henry Lewis Editor.
One often marvels at the American
patience. Or is It a decline of Amer!
:an spirit? Sure! our forefathers of i
century ago, by this and that! blow
nigh, blow low! would rid themselves
it such government as that we bleed
with, today. It was a tea tax of
paltry million or two which culminated
n seven years of blood and revolution
Now we sit tame and close while up
pressions, frauds and open robberies
pillage us for billions. Such rule as
that of the greed-encrusted Ilanna
eulgar wilh his avarice would not have
anted in that other day. It was last
week when a cool philosopher of men
made these remarks to the Verdict;
'Folk as a rule will get such govern
ment as belongs to them. Be they dogs
they will be governed like dogs ken
neled and fed and beaten to their work
Ike dogs. Curs will ever Inherit a cur's
portion, he deduction is that what-
ver be Ihe villainies of government, the
governed, the people, are to blame
therefor. It was not necessary for
Jefferson to declare that government
ierived Itself from the consent of the
governed. That was ever, and ever
nill be, true. Be the fabric of control
i tyranny, a monarchy, an aristocracy,
i democracy, or what you will: b It
honest or venal or criminally wicked
n Its administration, the people i-on-
ent to It or it could not exist. Vile
sr good, that government fits their ia-
ures, fills their demands, line should
never forget that in spite of cant and
hypocrisy and moral snivel; In the
ace of argument or precept announc
ng a theory, in government as In
ature generally, might is the dominant
nd the dominant Is ever right. There
i no virtue like the virtue of force.
someone once said that vigilance Is the
price of liberty. He should have arnpll-
ed his remark. Vigilance alone never
urchased nor preserved a right. And
berty In the lust solution of lis dc
nce culls for vigilance wedded to
orce. Not always the force of bullet
ar bayon-t; thos- are last remedies.
ather lh" force of right-thinking, and
n our American case the courage of
lght-voting. AIho, one should have that
rivlc wit and valor which, while detect
ing wrongs of registration and crimes
if ballot, meet them, and artist them
ind clap them In Ihe pillory of strict
punishment.
"What we cull commerce or trade or
buMne.'s' is gem-tally toil, rue-ely that
greed -scheme by which chance sn-kM to
teed and fallen. And the moral differ-
i ?nce boiween pure burglary and pure
I business has grow n to be slieht. It Is
la difference, uls, in no sort to favor
j to favor the victim. Lockwood, before
the industrial commission, asked a"fulr
ijiiestion (n'it as yet replied to) when
I he said: 'What is the materia! differ
ence between being roMn-d by a footpad
with a pistol and being robbed by the 1,-hk f..r labor -while the laborer puys
1 .-A i' v '
at
THE SAME OLD STORY.
Congressional Record that Senator Pet
tigrew, speaking of myself, says:
" "The fact of the matter is, that he
tried to bribe the Insurgents, as near
as we can ascertain, and failed; but
they would not take gold for peace.'
"Had this preposterous statement
been made anywhere else I should not
have paid any attention to it, but as
It has been made In the senate of the
United States, I desire to say to you
that it is absolutely without foundation.
Very truly yours.
"J. G. SCHURMAN."
Senator Depew, in commenting on the
matter, said that at the time this
speech of the senator from South Da
kota was being delivered President
Schurman was in the city assisting in
the preparation of the report of the
Philippine commission and was com
petent to be summoned as a witness.
Admiral Dewey, whom the senator
quoted In support of his charges, was
also in the city at his residence and
was most easily accessible. President
Bchurman and Admiral Dewey might
have been summoned! and any state
ments they made with reference to the
matter would have been unquestion
ably accepted by the American people
is true.
THAT DKWET LETTER.
Mr. Depew referred to the letter of
Admiral Dewey presented by Mr.
Lodge, denying the statements of
Aguinaldo, saying that both Dewey and
Schurman had absolutely denied the
Statements attributed to them, and
said that before the statements of
Dewey and Schurman the charges of
Pettigrew disappeared as Agulnaldo's
army vanished before the American
troops.
Mr. Pettigrew, who had listened at
tentively to Mr. Depew. replying, said:
"It is well known that this govern
ment through the Philippine commis
sion, offered money tow the rifles ef the
Insurgent, but no rifle were turned In
sotnt a few that had been captured
Mdgrvsn to friendly flHpines by
SnVrtana snVirs. to oeder that they
rbtbe tuned ha, no M to get the
fJU eslered for tfean. lt U ait as
VU linsnn that Me Bchurman com-
"It was maintained by the republic
ans In 1896," said Mr. Allen, "that there
was no power in the constitution to
affect or create values."
"That is quite another thing," inter
posed Mr. Spooner.
Mr. Allen: "Oh. I beg your pardon."
Mr. Spooner: "The power to destroy
does not Involve the power to rreate.
A potato bug may destroy a potato
vine, but it cannot create one."
Mr. Allen (speaking with some feel
ing): "I do not like to be made the
butt of a Jest of this kind. This Is a
serious question with me."
OSKOF SPOLIATION.
Comparing the house bill and the
senate substitute. Mr. Allen said: "The
man who drew the house bill at least
had the courage of his convictions; but
the man who drew ihe senate mtasur
had great craft and no moral coutage.
The bill is one of spoliation and con
fiscation and to Increase and perpetu
ate the national debt. I have no hesita
tion in declaring It to be my solemn
conviction that it is the purpose of this
bill to forever perpetuate the national
debt."
In answer to a question from Mr. Al
len, Mr. Aldrtrh said: "This bill does
not change the status of our silver
money, our greenbacks or our treasury
notes, and It confers upon no bank or
Instution or bank currency any rights
or privileges which they do not now
possess."
Mr. Allen (sarcastically): "It's a very
harmless measure."
Mr. Aldrleh: "I should hsve said,
rather, that It Is a very beneficial meas
ure." Without having concluded his re
marks Mr. Allen, at 5:Z0 p. m., yielded
the floor and the senate adjourned.
SOCIAL PBRPLBXITIES.
"It Is rude for a guest to loko at his
watch." .
"Ten."
"And ruder for host to loek at the
clonk."
"Of courst."
"Well, bow do BwJit pssf)l evr gst
sway (rem each ether 7"
Tugela that the British occupied be
fore the seizure of Potgieter's Drift.
After the capture of Klantz Kloof lti4
heavy fire prevented an advance Mon
day. The next morning the Boers in
dulged in long range shell fire, but in
the afternoon they made a vigorous at
tempt to recapture the position. Their
assault was made upon the northern
end of the kopje and at first It was suc
cessful. Reinforcements were, however,
hurried up, and the British recarried
the position at the point of the bayonet
and advanced along the ridge. As the
British have the larger force of troops'
the outlook is hopeful.
HO Kit STOKY OP FIOIIT.
Boer Head l.aager, I-adyemilti. Feb. 6.
Since yesterday the British, with na
val and other guns, have bombarded
our positions on the upper Tugela,
Their troops crossed the river at the
ponl and at Kolen drift with the object
of storming our positions. At the for
mer Oenerai Burger beat them back
and they recrossed in, great confusion.
The fight continues at Kolen drift, with
the Htanderton and Johannesburg com
mandoes. There were no casualties on
our side.
The cannonade was the fiercest yet
experienced. There was a continuous
roaring all day long. This morning It
recommenced with an Increased num
ber of guns.
Further reports of yesterday's fight
ing at the I'pper Tugela river show
that the British lost heavily at Pont
drift, but took an important position on
a small kopje on the Molen drift side.
Pour Boers were killed. The British
loss Is unknown. They are still In pos
session of the kopje and the big gum
have ceased firing.
be challenged nor denied. How one of
common honesty or common thought,
on reading it, can vote for McKinley. is
more than one may see. McKinley of
a verity! should lie beaten; not uo
much by a Bryan promise as a Mc
Kinley past.
"Run rapidly over the years sine
March of 1S97. How is such wrong to
escape the lash? The MaJne is kliiwl
and drowned wjlh 206 of her people.
Sigsbee's dispatch, "The Spaniards
sunk me by treachery.' is suppressed
by long, and a new on covering the
Spanish atrocity Is forged and put lr
its place. Ilanna says; 'It wa the
carlessness of the crew and not th
Spaniards that sunk the Maine.' Dep-w,
that parrot of money, repeats the state
ment. Long puis forth a lying interview-
and 'works' the stock market.
Step by step the republicans fought
against a war with Spain. They dil
this to protect the Spanish bondhold
ers. American honor ar.a American
lives were nothing. Spanish bonds wre
all In all. It was a democrat's (Tur
pie) resolution that declared the war.
Then enme the crimes of contracts.
Railroads were fraud-fattened. i he
Merrlmao was bought at three prices
and sunk to hide the crime. The beef
ring and every other ring rioted in. evil
profits. As a result, 3.1)00 soldiers died
of camp pest and beef pst, while ory
30 were killed on the field. These are
but specimen foul deeds. Alger is cast
out; 1-iigan is cast out (on full payi;
the startled sheen of the public, un
easy of fraud smells and odors of war
rottenness, are calmed and driven on
to fresh fleeclngs We win the war. We
pay three millions to Cuba and no one
knows why. We pay twenty millions
to Spain and none knows why? The
kings riot on their contract, We are
or an 'open door In the east, whatever
that may be. and prow-cute a fake war
n the Philippines. We fight a year at
a cost of 200 millions. The whoJe com
merce of the Philippines, Is 17 millions.'
At the year's end, Lawtnn, as If to
mark our progress towarda conquest,
Is killed within eleven miles of Manila,
ho city Dewey look two years before.
And the rings wax rolling fat In the
profits of that war which still Is. The
American heart swells over Manila and
Santiago. The McKinley gang take ad-
antage to project a billion dollar navy.
That's where the Cramps come in. And
armor plates at ?400 a ton, when U'i
would be well up to their worth. With
out and Long to their elbows In the
public money, and McKinley (Hanna)
verseelng It all, such as Griggs and
age are not Idle, urlggs, the trust -
ecUon, muzzles the law, and" put
right In check and Irons, (irlggs bu k-
rs the trusts In their otillawry and
he department he betrays becomes, not
he department of Justice, but injustice.
Gage negotiates, on his spiral part, with
Standard Oil. the vast hog trust by
comparison with whjeh ali other traM
are piglings, tlage 'sells the Standard
Oil bank the custom house for halt
price. The bank k-eps the money. The
nation keeps the title, so that Ihe tax
gatherer moy be cheated. The nation
pays the Standard Oil rent for the cus
tom house. Tlie whole being a f wr
angled swindle, which, In one of its
phases at least, makes the crime em
bezzlement. (Jnge. loans the Standar-1
Oil bank 40 millions a year, and other
banks UW millions more, and a'J without
Interest. The moneys' woith 6 percent.
Who gets the is milllntis? Do you up.
posi' the McKinley ring lets It fall un
noticed to the ground? It would b
insult to 'Brother A oner to say so.
"With (he multiplication of trusts t
over eight billions of capital In two
years (water a standing nrmy of IOO.IkW
Is U!ked for. The trusts, owning us.
are to control (by connivance of Mc
Kinley) our money and our rummero
in every form. .Since they are to pav
Never In the history of modern wsr
fare have artillery guns done such
damage aa In the fighting In South
Africa. The destruction wrought by
tbe gum throwing lyddite and other
wansrn explosives has been fearful.
Correspondents at the front speak of
tbn bllKopn on which are both British
and Boer troops aa "vomiting volcanoes
f art." .
.Standard "Ml with a railroad." o. tru
ly! business Is greed. And greed, which
ach day lowers moral standards, find
Una! expression in the slavery of every
one too weak to resist. You end your
government docs with the sliong few
as masters and the weak many as
wrfs. In this money age, when gold
is power and poverty limp mid sick,
ane need not wend far alleld to find
me's ruler. Vet It need not be thut
money should conquer freedom, if
freedom would but gird up the loins of
her courage, face money and fight for
her light to live, her triumph would be
fasy and swift. But therein lies the
trouble. Americanism, coming to our
own sad. apathetic case, would seem
as a spirit to b? paralyzed, lxiok at
the outrages of the Hanna government !
They crowd one another in a very lock
jtep of corruption and fill each dripping
day. Yet resentment burns slow and
!old. There would appear to be no
more or fire in the public breast than
might be found in the bosom of a wet
bath towel, and public courage shows
rater-logged and sodden. It is a wrong
figure, however, to speak of the public
as dogs. Rather are they sheep to be
driven. On their way to the shearing
iheds, In charge of those who fleece
them, It now and then falls out that
the antic ignominies of some under
shepherd of an Alger or a fluge, or if It
be an Kagan, alarm the ttlock. They
'bunch up' and stand at dubious gaze.
Thereupon the Hanna at the head of all
cats out this disquieting shepherd. The
(lock at once forgets and goes forward.
The fteecing proceeds; ihe shearing
goes on the same,
"Surely It would seem." continued
this phllosopeh, "that given on the part
of the people one spark of that former
spirit which, kindled at Concord, burn
ed through a Valley Forge to blaze In
victory at a final Yorktown, McKinley
will, this year, be beaten from his
place. Yet so certain nr such as Han
na of the dull and stupid lameness of
the American voter, that they today
wager one two to one on McKlnley's
success. He should of a verity be
beaten. Conditions have changed In
four years. The fight of 1SK6 was per
force a battle of promises and plat
forms. Both sides, Bryan and McKin
ley, were out, while Cleveland held the
White House. Neither Bryan nor Mc
Kinley had a record to consider and
the contest was rather one of hope and
fear, based on the professlons'of can
didates and platforms. To this situa
tion of course one must add the nlne-teen-mllllon-dollar
corruption fund of
Hanna, and which bought and fought
on the side of republicanism. This
year's warfare is not one of promise.
Thre has been tn tbe black, illicit rase
of McKinley some four years of per
formsnce. The Canton cipher ha a
record. He has been tagged on to more
than one, yes, more than one hundred
numerals of villainy and greed to mark
Ihe measure of public crime. Todiy
McKinley has a record. And thereby
depends much decent public hope. That
record will be put before every volar
ef tbe land. Its vileness la Milker to
more for goods and wares. trnuhU in
looked for. Therefore, the loO.OOQ stand
ing army is craved by the trusts. It
will U- a good thing twice. It will
quadruple contracts. And It will act
excellently to hold )alor helpless, as
In the recent Cocur d'AP-ne, while
StandarrI till or some other trust robs
It of all It has even Its very hopes. The
abpve Isn't the record of the McKinley
administration. It Is but a handful of
specimens, chipped from that great,
dark mountain of public crime, and
left wilh the people for assay. It wilt
shop IW.WJ0 ounces of villainy to the
ton. Jf the people are a spiritless crew
to flatter the hand that robs them ami
cringe before Mom-y-turned-pirate, then,
we'll have four years more of McKin
ley. If even a half spirit of American
Ism survives, public resentment will
consume McKinley and Bryan wilt be
put In his place. n is all In the
peoples hands. They are the govern
ment, make the government. If they
are lit for Bryan and freedom, they will
have both. If they are only fit for Mc
Kinley and a money slavery, they will
yield to both. Thus do I read the fu
ture. Thus do I finish, us I began, by
urging that government is the natural
harvest of a popular sowing. Men will
be governed like men, dogs like dogs,
and might will be right to the last."
The Verdict.
Big Strike n Chicago.
Chicago, 111., Feb. 7.-At a meeting
of the Building Trades Council laboi
(llmculties reached what Is thought, to
be a crisis.
The business agent of the Hod Car
riers' and Building Laborers' union wat
ordered to call off men at work on every
building In Chicago where the new rules
of the Building Contractors' council
were posted. As nearly every firm of
building contractors in Chicago Is
bound by the rules of Ihe contractors'
council this means that 6.000 men will
be ordered, to strike. In addition to
this number, 8,W carpenters It is as
serted, will walk out next Saturday.
On that day the carpenters will take
the r usual Saturday half-hollday,
which, It Is claimed, is contrary to the
new rules formulated by the contract
ors' council. As this will. It u asserted,
be looked upon by the contractors as a
strike, the business agent was Instruct,
ed to inform the men not to resume
work the following Monday.
This action wss preceded by the In
dependent action on the part of the
plumbers' union, which railed off its
members earlier In the day. Two thou
sand plumbers refused to go to work.
A fierce struggle for supremacy be
ween employers and employes Is loke
revoke the edict of banlahinent Issued
smtlnst Roger WIHIam. .tveral cen
turies ago. The repnbucajia miv r