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3MNC3N. - - NEBRASKA
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NEWS NOTESL
U to have a publ library.
held a big rally at Bertha.
Mlnden had three Inches of rain in
w afternoon.
Joseph Roesler, an old resident of
Schuyler, ia dead.
Columbus will soon have
Methodist church.
a new
West Point has organized a Bryan
dab. with 175 members.
Goring; is to be connected with the
outer world by a railroad.
West Point experienced the heaviest
rain of the year last week.
McCook is busy preparing for "Rough
Rider Teddy," who will speak there on
October 1.
Arlington will soon be benefited by
the establishnvant of a rural free de
livery service.
The Swedish-Americans of Nebraska
held their third annual national fes
tival at Wahoo.
The twelfth annual reunion of the
Cass county old settlers was held at
Plattsmouth last week.
The bondsmen of Sheriff Kemsoe ,of
Chappcll have instituted impeachment
proceedings against him.
A heavy Tain made the tents uncom
fortable for the old soldiers and their
families at the Interstate reunion fat
Superior.
The storm which wrecked Galveston
cut a wide swath through Nebraska
' Monday night, the high wind doing
nach damage. -
Mrs. Barnhardt of Flattsmouth has
een adjudged insane. It is reported
that she "went daffy" as the result
of slanderous gossip.
Allen Telfer and Charles Sheppard.
both colored, were arrested at Platts
tsouth on complaint of John Schiappa-
e, charged with the theft of $100.
The fortieth wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Fisher of Table
Bock, was celebrated by a pleasant
fathering of their friends and relatives.
Burlington freight train No. 73 was
ditched at Harvard. Nobody was in-
fared, but considerable damage was
done to some of the cars and to the
track. .
The Mead saloon case was called up
again and hearing continued until Oc.
tober L" The Anti-Saloon league has
been to lots of expense and the end Is
ot yet In sight.
Much land la being purchased and
transferred at Trenton. A number of
farmers are buying adjoining lands,
thus giving them more good pasture
I cultivated lands. t
George Noe of Beatrice Is under ar
rest, suspected of being one of the
Sends who tortured and put to death
Evid Jones, a wealthy farmer of that
tlaee, three years ago.
There was more business none try the
i Pacific at Osceola last week thtn
before In the same number of
There were 128 tickets sold to
the Lincoln state fair.
The tenth annuo! conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church convened
ta Nebraska City last week. A large
amber of ministers and laymen of
the church were present.
George W. Gates, who was committed
to Jail at Geneva some time ago on a
charge of criminal assault, upon his 10-year-old
daughter, was released from
JaB by two unlnrown men.
stranger who was fond running
asouch with a pitchfork in Loup town
ship, aear Columbus, stark mad, was
Judged Insane and will be taken to
the home for incurables.
case af the Grain Growers' Mu-
. Hall association of Omaha against
Relmers at Fremont waa decided
In favor of the defendant no cause
sf action. The case will be appealed:
.. Jans Creesman of Syracuse beat
. Harry llbur In a footrace, and Wilbur
so chagrined that he soothed his
spirit by taking a few falls
asjt of Creesman aad Is now in Jail.
James Pethoud of Beatrice was
trampled to death by horses.
mt la to saddle one and the oth-
frightened at something,
their haiurs aad kicked bar In-
will die.
Y "Cst Rev. Albert Bettles of Lincoln,
- mmmIImI Makv.nlki(." Ia Avlnr of
t 2z2WM poiaosing, aad should be
m reoever, he will have to
$ a charge of seducing aad at
U aaurder the daughter of a
I':'., i tw7 wtaas aad rata of hurt
j t74 havoe wHh the booths
)T the sserehaats of rremoat
yfDMU aad loft saaay ta a di
J aaarasa, but hod no eet
1 tt: laas ar mtereot la the
i tri of a
-rxtt. Ca M
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? THE FATrlER-What wii my boy do7 Things have indeed changod,, Vour
; outlook Isbluereventhan when I began life. J
: SLAVERY UNDER OLD GLORY. :
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(From Imaha World-Herald.)
THE St'LU AGREEMENT.
Following is the agreement entered
into between John C. Bates and the
sultan of Sulu and appro--od by Mr.
McKlnley:
KEEP THIS IN MIND.
First, this agreement provides that
the sovereignty of the United States is
extended over the Bulu islands.
Then it is provided that the United
States flag shall be the official em
blem. Then It is provided that any slave
shall have the right to purchase his
freedom.
The thirteenth amendment to-, the
constitution provides that "neither
slavery nor Involuntary servitude . . . .
shall exist within the United States or
any place subject to their Jurisdiction.
Notice now that William McKinl-y
approved an agreement whereby the
Sulu Islands were made subject to
United States Jurisdiction and at the
same time purchase was designated as
the method whereby slaves were to ob
tain their freedom.
Here Is the Sulu agreement In full:
Article I. The sovereignty of the
United States over the whole archipela
go of Sulu and its dependencies is de
clared and acknowledged.
Article II. The Uuited States flag
will be used in the archipelago of Sulu
ind Its dependencies on land and sea.
Article III. The rights and dignities
of his hlgness, the sultan, and his
datos shall be fully respected, and Mo
res shall not be interfered with on ac
count of their religion; all their relig
ious customs shall be respected and no
3ne shall be persecuted on account of
bis religion.
Article IV. While the Unlttd States
may occupy and control such points In
the archipelago of Sulu as public Inter
est seem to demard, encroachment will
not be made upon the lands Immediate
ly about the residence of his highness,
the sultan, unless military necessity re-
Quires such occupation In case of war
with a foreign power, and where the
property of Individuals is taken, due
jompeneatlon will be made In each case.
Any person can purchase land In the
archipelago of Sulu and bold the same
by obtaining the consent of the sultan
and coming to a satisfactory agree
ment with the owner of the land, and
tuch purchase shall be Immediately reg
istered! In thp proper office of the
United States government.
Article V, All trade In the domestic
products of the archipelago of Sulu,
when carrle don by the sultan and bis
people with any part of the Philippine
Islands, and when conducted under the
American flag, shall be free, unlimited
and undutlable.
Article VI. The sultan of Bulu shall
be allowed to communicate direct with
the governor general of the Philippine
Islands m making complaint against the
commanding officer of Bulu or against
any naval commander. 1
Article VII. The Introduction of fire
arms and war materials Is forbidden
except under specific authority of the
governor general of the Philippines.
Article VIII. Piracy must be sup
prisssd and the sultan aad his 'datos
agree to heartily co-operate with the
Baited Slates authorities to that end
aad to make every possible effort to ar
rest and brlnf to Justice ail persona en
gaged m piracy.
Artiste IX. Where crimes are com-
by Morog against Moros the
of the sultan will bring to
trial Ml puntahroeat the criminals and
eOrsders, wfco win be delivered to the
tsvtrsusent of the talun by the United
at uOorttiM If la thai possession.
t"3 3r tz"i ntrsoM charged with
eas'"ssssspeejsp"orP"ea'lr"V"e"'a" ''F "fr"' O
WHAT WIUU OUR-BOY
crimes or offense will be delivered io
the United States authorities for trlai
and punishment.
Article X. Any slave In the archipel
ago of Sulu shall have the right to
purchase freedom by paying to the
master the usual market value.
Article XI. At present Americans or
foreigners wishing to go Into the coun
try should state their wishes to the
Moro authorities ar.d ask for an escort,
but it is hoped this will become unnec
essary as we know each other better.
Article XII. The United States will
Kive full protection to the sultan a,nd
his subjects in case any foreign nation
should attempt to Impose upon them.
Article XIII. The United States will
not sell the Island of Sulu or any other
island of the Sulu archipelago to any
foreign nation without the consent of
the sultan of Sulu.
Article XIV. The United States gov
ernment will pay the following monthly
salaries:
To the sultan ; 1250
To Dato Rajah Muda 75
To Dato Attlk 60
To Dato Calbe 75
To Dato Joakanian , 75
To Dato Puyo 60
Tn TV.tn Ami U.I. .In
To Hadji Buter 60
To Habib.Mura y , 40
To Serif Saguin 15
Signed In triplicate. In English and
Sulu, at Jolo, this 20th day of August,
A. O. Wit (13lh Arakull, 13ST).
THE SULTAN SULU,
DATO RAJAH,
' DATO ATTIK,
DATO CALfcE, .
DATO JOAKANIAN.
Signed, J. C. BATES, Brigadier eGn
eral, U, S. V.
Approved by the president,
WILLIAM M'KIN'LET.
"UNCLE SAM'S SLAVES AND
WHERE THEY COME FROM."
On June 24, 1S00, a number of repub
lican newspapers throughout the coun
try printed an interesting letter from
Frtnk G. Carpenter, the well known
correspondent. This article was enti
tled; "Uncle. Sam's Slaves and Where
They Come Frm."
Does not this have an odd sound to'
people who have been told that slavery
could not exist under the stars and
stripes?
Mr. Carpenter writes from the Sulu
Islands, and says h was offered foul
slaves for fifty gold dollars. This Is
considerably cheaper than the market
price as fixed by Mr. McKlnley at
which the slaves may purchase their
freedom. '
Mr. Carpenter says: "According to
our treaty, as I understand It, any
slave In the Island ruled by the, sultan
of flulu can be freed upon payment of
$20 by him to his master."
According to tbe rates fixed by Mr,
McKlnley, these four slaves would have
been required to pay 10 for their free
dom, but Mr. Carpenter could purchase
them with a MO discount
Concerning bis opportunity, Mr. Car
penter says:
. "They were owned by a woman, who
claims she Is a Christian, and not by
one of tbe Mohammedan Moros. I went
Into tbe woman's house and chatter
with her for some time about the
human flerh on sale, and later on per
suaded her to bring; the slaves out In
the yard that I might make a photo
graph of them. Three of them were
boys, ranging In age from it to I. The
other was a girl of 12, the age at which
girls are sometimes married down here
on the edge of tbe equator. The small
est boy had nothing on hut a shirt,
which barely reached ta bis waist, and
the other two wore only coarse panta
loons oxttadlaf from the waist to tbe
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knees. The girl was half naked, her
only garment being a wide strip of dir
ty cotton cloth wrapped about her
waft and fastened there In a knot. I
had a photograph made, with myself
standing beside her, and she reached tc
my shoulder. As I stood thus, the Slavs
owner evidently thought 1 wanted the
girl and said 'Mucho bueno,' or 'very
good,' and told me that if I bought hei
only she would have to charge me more
In proportion than she ayked for the
Job lot. She said the little girl should
be worth at least $15, and seemed sur
prised when 1 dii uot jump at the bar.
Kain.
"I asked her where the slaves came
from. She replh-d that they had beer
brought in fiotn the mountains, having
been captured by one of the savage
trlbt-s In a recent war with 1th neigh
bors." Then Mr. Carpenter shows the wide
latitude which slave owners have with
Uncle Sam's slaves" of IDCO. He saya:
"Had I bought them, 1 am told I
would have had, according: to the cus
tom which prvali la the country about
here, power of life and death over
them, and that I could have killed them
without risk of a criminal investiga
tion." To show the extent of slavery under
the stars and stripes in the Sulus,. Mr.
Carpenter says:
"Slavery is common among the people
of Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago.
(titti l am lea tv mrirvc triat tnertr ta it
form of debt slavery In some of ths
islands further north. Here in Min
danao there are not only debt slaves,
but slaves by birth and by conquest. I
have been told at every place I have
slopped that slavery is common and
that women especially are bought and
sold. All of the Moro datos have nu
merous slaves and the richer of their
subjects have as many as they can sup
port. "The Vlsayans of this island, at least,
have slaves, although it is nominally
against the Spanish law. Still human"
beings are bought and sold, and even
the officials have been accustomed to
own them. I met this afternoon the
ex-presldent of the town of Davao, He
ia a rich Vlsayan, who has a large farm
not far from here. He owns a number
of farms not far from here. He owns a
number of slaves and keeps several In
his family for servants. I have been
told that the Christians seldom sell
slaves, although they buy them, and
that It Is common for a man to pur
chase children to bring them up for
work about the house."
Mr. Crrerir also deals with an
other vice. He says:
"The question of polygamy la a more
serious noe. This Is connected with the
Mohammedan religion, and of the Unlt-
ea mates attempts to abolish it we
shall have a war on our hands which
will probably last until the Moro pop
ulation Is wiped out."
Republican party leaders frequently
boast that the McKlnley administration
Is a "business administration." Is It
"business" for the American pepple to
hoist their flag and assert their sov
ereignty where slavery must be toler
ated among Christiana as well as
among Mohammedans and where polyg
amy must not be disturbed for fear of
warT Tbe American people will not
forget that It was William McKlnley
who signed an agreement wherein pur
chase wss made the method of eman
cipation, and wherein 120 per head was
Used as the price of human freedom.
The situation described by Carpenter
will bring tbe blush of shame to many
American cltlsena,
Holders of confederate bonds In Eng
land have held a meeting and express
great faith In the early redemption of
the bonds, "based on tbe well known
honesty of the American people." Very
nattering Indeed, but the grest Ameri
can people are not In the habit of re
imbursing purchasers of gold bricks.
PRICES IIP.
8UOA.R TRUSTAOAIN PUTS UP
PRICE OF SUGAR.
CONSUMERS TO SUFFER
fho Havomeyers and Arbucklea
Alono Receive Benefits of the
Republican Legislation.
The sugar trust has again victimized
ihe helpless and defenseless household
ers by advancing the price of refined
sugar five points, which makes the
present wholesale cost of the granulated
sugar 6.15 per cwt. This Is the ninth
mine that the trust ha made In the
price since It obtained absolute control
jf the market six months ago. On May
2Jd the price of sugar was $5.20 per
jwt., and the raises since that have
been as follows:
May 23 $5.20 per cwt
May 26 5.40 per cwt
Viny 31 0.50 per cwt
lune I 5.00 per cwt
(une 26 5. SO per cwt
luly 3 5.90 per cwt
luly 9 , 6.0V per. cw t
July 30 , C.15 per swt
The laft raise means an added tux
on the susar uxors of the United iHaU
of more than $50,000,000 annually. Ev
ery cent of this goes into the pockets
of the sugar trust. Were it not for the
competition of Germany and Kuia,
sugar would soon be 10 cents per pound
In New York. The tariff on uar pre
vents competition below the 13.S0 per
cwt. rate. European sugar could be
placed in the New York market for a
much lower price than this, hence It Is
that the tariff Is equivalent to a na
tional grant of hundreds of millions to
the Havemeyers and Arbuckks.
This money comes from the pockets
of the people, who spend their money at
the corner grocery. The corner gro
cery in turn gives It to the Havemey
ers and Arbuckles, who spend It on
Fifth avenue caetles, on steam yachts
and diamonds and Paris drcsf.s for
their wives and daughters.
Sight should never be lost of the fact
that this last ralne would never have
bun possible but for the trust The
penile of the United States pay twice
as much per pound us Ihe pexplr of
England and Germany do for nugar.
Of the sum paid by Amerleutis, less
goes to labor than of that paid by the
Germans anil the ISritlsh. The mar
ket price of sugar In Europe is so low
that It might be Imported from there
and sold here at a profit were It not
fur the Jack Turpln methods of the
trust. Mr. Havetneyer is again mas
ter of the situation, as he always hu
been for that matter, and can advance
the price of sugar at will. The ques
tion Is, what are you isoine to do
ibout It?
REPUBLIC REPUDIATES PARTY.
Prominent Mlssourlan Cannot
Stand Present Pa-ity.
St. Louis, Mo. fSpec!al.)-Frank V.
... ... . uMi.mim, tu.,- tt nie-iong
republican and a business man, who Is
R'fdely known beyond the confines of
all own state, has announced that he
will support Mr. liryan in the coming
;ampalgn. Mr. Buffum has never voted
the national democratic ticket In his
life, and he comes from a family of re
publicans. His mother was the sister
Jf the famous seven Washburn broth
ers, who were chiefs In the republican
councils for many years. Mr. Buffum
fives these reasons for supporting Mr.
Bryan:
"The war In Cuba I considered a
warrantable procedure, and I also be
lieve those Inlands so close to us
ibould be our property, or, at least,
)ur rights there be ahead of any for
lgn power. But the war with th
Philippines has been unwarranted, ex
pensive, and the loss of life unreason
lble. The Filipinos will always be In
-evolt and the expense of keeping them
lubdued will be very great
"Finally, the acquiring of property
oy force' Is, In my opinion, Improper,
unjust and unamerlcan.
"Another reason that I shall vote the
Jemocratlc ticket Is because of Ihe
trusts which have flourished under re
publican administrations, and which
many of the republicans now openly
tate are all right and good things for
V " . w.cn is iry-
mg io muse an unreasonable profit on
watered stock Is a menace to any
:ountry.
"The very low price of farm products
ind of labor compared with the unrea.
tonabte price of things manufactured
by trusts, and which the farmer and
laborer have to exchange for the same
already has, to a considerable extent,
drained this country of money,
"For years 1 was a protectionist of
the strongest kind, and yet 1 believe In
protection of honest labor, but I am
convinced that the laborer does not get
one-tenth of the amount that It Is In
tended be should have when tariff laws
are passed, but It goes to the trusts, for
whom It was Intended."
The eminent German oculist, Rlchsrd
Uebrelch, recently celebrated his 70th
birthday In London, where he has lived
ever since the Franco-Clerman war,
which drove him from Paris. Among
his scientific works the one which most
Interested the general public wss that
In which be pointed out that many
strange thlags In the pictures of certain
painters arc due to defects la their eyes.
CAXX3T sum nmti mi.
Manager of Chicago Woolon Mill
To Bo a Democrat.
Chicago, Ill.Spec!al.)-C. P. Umstot.
manager of the Chicago Woolen Mills
at Fifth Avenue and Madison street, a
life-long republican and of a family
traditionally republican, will-vote for
Bryan. So. he says, will his father
and brother, whom he has convinced of
the righteousness of the democratic bal
lot this fa!!. Mr. L'mtot lives at Silt
Kills avenue.
Mr. t'mstot says:
"If any republican really doubts that
his party has swung away from Its an
cient moorings, let him carefully study
the statement of party principles aa
shown in (he omctul report of its na
tional conventions. Let him, for in
stance, contrast the first with the lat
ent platform of bis party, and If he
fails to note the radical difference be
tween the republicanism of U56 and the
peculiar brand that pusses current ia
1M, he Is lost to li-sic aud a stranger
to reason.
"The firet plank In the platform,
adopted at Philadelphia 1 June, 1S56,
reads as follows:
" ltesolved, That the maintenance of
the principles promulgated In the De
claration of Independence and embodied
in the Fidi ral Constitution is essential
to the preservation of our republican
institutions.'
The fecund plank reads:
" 'Hi solved, That with our repub
lican fathers we hold It to be a self
evident truth that all nun are endows!
with the Inalienable rlj;ht to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness.'
"The Philadelphia platform of June,
IfiMi, contains no reference to the De
claration of Independence or to rtie
great constitutional principles underly
ing our system of free government.
There Is a necessary reason for this
very slgnlftiant omission, and it may
be found without the aid of glasses In
the following passage relating to the
Philippines:
" 'The largest measure of self-government
consistent with their welfare
and our duties shall be secured to them
by law.'
"Shades of Abraham Lincoln! The
largest measure of self-government
consistent with their welfare!' This
reads like an extr.icl front one of
George tne Third's edicts aKulnst the
recalcitrant American i-jlonhu aiong
about I'TO-lTTa. Docs any thinking re
publican (who Is neither holding office
nor looking for one) m-ed further or
more convincing prf that Mark
Hanna and John C. Fremont utand for
essentially different propositions'.'"
Mr. 1'ir.htiit says he la satisfied from
the report of his acentj throuxUout
the country that there is a w I lesj reaj,
dlssatlafactl i!) with the present admin
istration, and he believes Bryan wiil
win without trouble. He says most of
the scvcial thousand employes of his
house have announced their ilrrn pur-i-ise
to vote for th democratic candi
date, and merchants in small cities are
outspoken for him.
DEMOCRATS JUBILANT OVER MAINE.
Democratic Cain In Maine Esti
mated at 23 Per Cent,
Chicago.!!!. (Special.) There was re
joicing today at democratic national
election In Maine. Secretary Walsh and
National Committeeman Johnson pre
pared a set of figures baited upon their
per cent gains In Maine, upon which
they claim the following states for
Bryan:
Maryland by a majority of 8,000; In
dianaiM.OOG: Michigan 311,000; Minnesota
2.000; Kentucky 75,000; West Virginia
20.000; California 4i,000; Delaware 2,000;
North Iiak .ta 2,000; Illinois 37,000.
"The democratic gain In Maine was
23 per cent." said National Committee
man Johnson, "and the republican loss
was 12 per cent, based on the vote cast
In IW. If similar results are obtained
In other states now claimed by the re
publicans, Mr, Bryan cannot fall of
election. The ratio If maintained In
New York would not give us that
state, however, but t would cut down
the republican majority to 163,000 from
the majority of :&i,y)0 In 1K06. The re
sult Is more than gratifying, coming
after the repuliHcan slump In Vermont.
It shows that the republicans of Milne
are dissatisfied, "
William Jennings Bryan, who re
mained in his room at the Auditorium
hotel all day, Is preparing a number
of speerhes. which he will Inaugurate
Thursday at Fort Wayne, Ind. He de
clined to dlscue the Maine situation,
further than to gay that the result was
no more gratifying than he had expect
ed, and more gratifying returns would
follow alt over In the November elec
tion. Kenator Hanna, whose time was oc
cupied In Informal conferences with
members of the national advisory com
mittee, declined io express an opinion,
but Vice Chairman Payne of the repub
lican national executive committee,
speaking for him, said:
"The result In Maine has no bearing
on the national election and was In no
sense a disappointment to the republl
cana. We are confident as ever and our
confidence is growing. I do not pretend
to say what la the cause of the ap
parent republican loss." ,
Russia's note on Chinese affairs
touches a chord In the' United flutes.
Bo did the Russian note sent lo New
York harbor during the dark days of
ths civil war.
Aa a matter of fact, Collls P. Hunt
Ington will be remembered longer tat
the 1700 he spent In poetry prises than
for anything else he ever did.
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