V Eirrlsd Press- Jcrrnal a. a. pairr, rubiiener. HARRISON, NEBRASKA Performing less than you promise tears down credit, but performing more than you promise builds it up. ' Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens. Probably the most extraordinary lournai in the world is published weekly In Athens. It is writttsn in Terse, even the advertisements. Our lives make a moral tradition for Dur individual selves, as the life or mankind at large makes a moral tra dition for the race; and to have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. Mrs. H. P. Van Cleve, "the first white baby born in the Northwest," lives in Minneapolis, and though 82 years old, is still mentally vigorous and much interested in the world's af fairs. The daughter of one regular officer and the widow of another, she first saw the light of Fort Crawford, .Wis., on July 1, 1819, and has passed through many trials, hardships and adventures of military and pioneer life. Once realize what the true object Is In life that It is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, "that last infirmity of noble minds," but that it Is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building up of the per fect man and then, so long as this is going on, and will, we trust, go on foreveraiore, death has for ua no ter ror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning. A political festival, which is becom ing more and more Important, is the "opening" of the campaign, that Is, the first public meeting for the presenta tion of tne issues to be decided. In what city to fire the "first gun" is usu ally a question of interest; so is thai of the date when the shot may be mcst effective. An early opening obviously makes a long campaign. This year In most of the state political interest Is so light that the campaigns will be short. : Mrs. Cora Dibert, a woman of AI toona. Pa., escaped death by one Inch of water the other day. She was pumping water when the platform on which she was standing collapsed and he dropped to the bottom of the well. She was Just able to keep her head above water by standing on her tip toes. When unable to stand longer she covered her mouth and nose with one hand and went under for as long 'a she could hold her breath. Her oc casional shouts were finally heard and he was rescued just in the nick of time. She says that one more dip un der the water would have been her last. One can accomplish much in forty years, remarked Professor Haeckel, the scientist, in whose library at Jena Is a good-sized case filled with his own works. His vocation has demanded the labor which mcst men would deem a full measure of toil, while his avo cations have revealed a capacity for work of a remarkable character. It ia said that he has a collection of more than two thousand of his own paint ings, mostly water colors, besides thou sands of other sketches in ink, crayon and pencil. Dividing men into pro ducers and non-producers, It Is not dif ficult to say to which class Haeckel belongs. Frederick Ring, awaiting trial for highway robbery, attempted to roast himself to death by setting fire to his bed in the Essex County Gaol of New Jersey. He is now In the gaol hos pital under close guard. The prisoner, who Is known as a desperado, had re ceived a visit from his mother. Dur ing the interview he had wept bitterly. After she had gone Ring wrote a long letter of confession. This was found by the warden when he searched Ring's cell. In the letter Ring con fessed to having committed a murder In South Jersey about two years ago. Since then, he declared, the fear of ar rest and banging made his life a tor ment The statistician of the Department of Agriculture bas lately returned from a trip to Europe undertaken for the purpose of arranging with the Euro pean governments for an interchange of crop reports with the United States. Tbe negotiations were successful, and It is expected that tbe plan will be In operation next autumn. Tbe step Is a Terr Important one. Heretofore this country has bad to depend upon pri- tm MiirnM tnr (nfArmaHnn nf fnrmivn sometimes inaccurate. Tbe value cb reporta to tbe American farm- X considerable, since tbe prices ol r- Van form srodneta are larrely in- m so-called Malaga grapes H Malaca. Tbey used to flour- rlclattr many yean ago, i - ts a blight that killed oft V ' Tines, and that special It in chiefly grown via. u known species bit Ram bo at swelling re- re! ling extended to Bad Mfertd tar ilted trass Mood- HEPUBLICAN HULE. HAS BOUGHT A COSTLY BRAND OF PROSPERITY. The Good Tlmse Being- Enjoyed Hal? by the People Who War Mem In Wut Was Karnsra Ko Batter OS Tkaa, Tttej Ware I'ade I'levclandlam. The Republican party bas so many ins of commission and omission to answer for that it is hardly possible to enumerate them all, but it ia well to bear in mind some of them, especially as it is constantly with Pharisaical airs denouncing others in platforms and on the stump. It has defied and violated the anti trust law and has allowed capital to combine and its chosen servant the attorney general of the United States, whose duty it is to see that such laws are executed, has taken no steps to do so. Through the protective tariff It has given the trusts a monopoly, thue al lowing wealth to accumulate in the hands of the few until the power that accompanies money is greater than the power of the people. By the lack of enforcement of laws both federal and state, those vast mo nopolies called trusts and corporations generally refuse and do not pay their share of the taxes, either state or fed eral, thus throwing the burden of pro tecting those immense interests upon the middle class, the farmer and the wage-working and poor. Under its fostering care the banks and trust companies have grown so great and their profits so enormous that even more than one hundred per cent dividend has been paid by some of them, and this was in a great meas ure made possible by the manipula tion of United States bonds and the use without Interest of the money loaned to them by the United States treasury. Under Republican rule the striking wage-worker has been denied a trial by jury, by introducing a system of is suing injunctions by which the courts forbid them to do what the law does not prohibit and when they have Ig nored the Injunctions have Imprisoned them for no crime. If a thing can be legally done by a workman, the Judge has no right to forbid by injunction. If he has committed a crime, he should be arrested and given a trial by jury. Under Republican rule railroads have been allowed to violate law and go Into combinations that leave whole cities, communities and states at their mercy. One can be favored and another de pressed. Under Republican rule the nation has been forced to abandon the foun dation principles upon which the gov ernment was founded, and an empire has been made out of a free republic, in which class distinction are more clearly marked than in any monarchy of the old world. These are part of tbe things- and only part that the Re publican party has done, and. has left undone. OCB BOA8TKD FHOSPKRITT. That vast wealth is being accumu lated by banks, trusts and individuals is apparent to every one, that the rail roads and corporations are paying large dividends and laying up reserves is evident from the statements they issue and the great advance in the price of their stocks. The newspapers and public men are loud in their boasts of this class prosperity, and those of the Republican persuasion are trying to make us all believe we are equally prosperous. An article in the Piigrim Magazine, after noting this, says: In the face of such a clamorous celebration of the national wealth it has been difficult for individuals to secure a bearing long enough to say they are not getting their share of it If a Kansas or Ne braska farmer sees his corn shriveling under the hot wind3, be has only to pick up the paper to read that Secre tary Wilson, ex-Secretary Vanderlip every officeholder and supporter of the administration says that the damage to corn has been greatly exaggerated. If a farmer In Ohio, Michigan, or the far northwest notes that the operations of the woolen trust have forced down the price of wool to a point at which it la scarce worth clipping, he can still read in the newspapers of farmers buy ing automobiles with their surplus gains and deserting populism as all rich men should. The emblematic full dinner pail looms so big that It makes many a man ashamed to speak of his empty cupboard, while with the biggest per capita circulation of money the country has ever seen, a man Is ob viously himself alone to blame If his share has not correspondingly in creased. It Is so flattering to know that Mr. Rockefeller and you made over $10,000,000 last year, you natural ly hesitate to identify your share as tbe $600. Probably never In the history of the world has so much money been made by a few men as In the last year Perhaps never did the men who made so much money give so little useful service In return. In earlier ages of our Industrial life man bas worked a lifetime to crest business, adding a little to bis plant as event justified it, extending bis trade, and heartily content if after en Joying a comfortable Income as tbe tnrtU of his industry himself, he was able to leave a sound, remunerative business to his family. But that Is not the Ideal of business life today; the men who are making the most money and notoriety oat of the steel business, for example, never saw the Inside of a silll. Where the old-time manufacturer built op his own mill or factory, work ing ta It and understanding Iter every doUU, these men by juggling slips of faer called stock and bonds, eonsoll- ert the proal FKKK TKADeX tjtfu TO TBCSTS. The ProtectivAriff League bas taken a great deal of pleasure In try ing to magnify the number and im portance of trade combinations in free trade England, thus trying to show that It Is not the protection given tbe trusts in the United States that is one of the main causes of their monopoly, as in free trade England trusts are likewise numerous. Even this prop of he League his now tumbled down, rot tbe few combines that have been formed in England have with one ex ception all failed or are practically bankrupt. Commenting on this state of affairs the Boston Transcript Bays: "The cause of this decline is not far to seek. In the first place the free-trade policy of the United Kingdom subjects these combines to the competition of tbe whole world, and now that over-production in the textile industries Is se riously threatened, even if it has not actually arrived, they can no longer maintain monopoly prices. When many of the younger men associated with the private firms as Junior partners or simply as salaried managers and ser vants, have been cast adrift In the ef forts of the combine? to secure economy and have started business on their own account, only as a rule. In a mod erate way, but with the most modern machinery and careful attention to every detail, which more than coun terbalances any supposed cheapening, of production on an immense scale, and their competition is already being keenly felt." This shows that If our trusts here are shorn of the protection they en joy under the present tariff, many of them would find it impossible to main tain the enormous profits they are now making, for competition would com pel them to sell as cheaply as the for eign product could be sold here. It is also passible that in some lines of production similar competition will start up, as in England, from those who have been lot out of business when tho trusts were organized and again give them a chance to earn a living at work tbey have been used to. As the tariff is so high on most of these trusts productions that it bas been prohibitive In nearly every case, there will be no loss of revenue to the government as there is none now paid, as the trusts Is protected from competition by the 50 or 60 per cent or even higher duty that the custom house would demand. ANARCHIST AND ABCHISTS. There are some newspapers in tbe United States that would be greatly offended if they were styled anarchists and yet they are attempting to destroy all that they do not believe in and that is as much the teachings of anarchy as the miserable fulmlnations of Herr Most. Tbe Inter Ocean and tbe Brook lyn Eagle are examples of this, one styling itself Republican and the latter calling Itself Democratic God save the mark. Tbe Eagle says: "We are glad we never wrote a yellow editorial to the effect that law is a bloody shame, that a man who works with bis bands should rightly be killed by a man who works with his mouth, that sweat of jaw is better than sweat of brow." Commenting on this the Nebraska Independent says it is glad that it never had any sympathy with a man like the one, who under the present circumstances would write like that He is one of those who never did a day's work causing the "sweat of the brow" in all his life, and he never saw an editorial of the kind that he de precates. What is more probable he Is a patronizer of such papers as Herr Most publishes. It was there, and there only, that such writings have appeared, that thlB journalistic skunk would have his readers believe that such doctrines have been taught by all those who have not believed In the gold standard banks running this government, and hides his venom behind such state ments as the above. He rightfully be longs to the same class of degenerates as the one who assassinated the presi dent. KO RCI.EK IX THIS COCSTRT. In speaking of the President of tbe United States many newspapers and nearly all the preachers call him tbe ruler of the couutry. This Is a great mistake. Under our Democratic Re publican form of government there can be no rulers, the officers elected are the servants of tho people and not ihplr ruler, or arc wc advanced tut far towards Imperialism that our officials have In a measure usurped power that tbe constitution does not give and as sume to rule? Under our new colonial government In the Philippines tbe army Is tbe ruler, though tbe farce Is being enacted of a civil government, and the governor-general is a ruler with despotic power, which the mili tary execute, the power being derived from the President That Is Imperial ism. Ruling other people In that way may accustom tbe people of tbe United States to a despotic form of govern ment that In tbe end they may sub mit themselves to be ruled, but as long as grass grows and water runs there will be a Democracy to resist such usurpation. We want no ruler In this country, we must have honest ser vants of the people to carry out the work, for the time, for which they have been elected. Sheriff North of Alabama, who de fended his negro prisoner at the risk of his life, baa done the noblest deed for tbe South and Is entitled to tho thanks of the people of tbe whole country. Lynching la a remnant ot barbarism and must ho stayed. selves TT " and Dowel rus WARRING FACTIONS. BIG BATTLE GOING ON IN LICAN PARTY. REPOI- Leadere Are Working at Cross Fur poaea Tho Ilooeat Elenent, tba Dla boneet Element and the Ignorant Ele ment to Struggle for Maatery, Will President Roosevelt rulo Con gress or will the legislative department of the government be independent ef the executive. This is an Important question as tho outcome of much momentous leg islation depends upon the answer. The revision of the tariff is at stake, for President Roosevelt having declared for a continuance of the policy of the late executive which includes recip rocity In its full meaning, not only the reciprocity of the French and other treaties, but a general lowering of the tariff or even free trade upon trust production that are sold cheaper to the foreigners than they are to our own people. Nearly all the Republican leaders in Congress have declared against tariff revision, but this was before President McKinlcy made hia notable speech at Buffalo advising the opposite course. If he bad not been stricken dqwn by the bullet of the assassin he would doubtless have brought the majority of nis party to this reform. Can Pres laent Kooscvelt do as much, will he ever attempt it? That a large element, probably the majority of the lepub- lican party, are opposed to any med dllng with tbe tariff, even to the ratifi cation of the reciprocity treaties is cer tain, this same faction are controlled by the trusts and nothing but the fear of defeat by the people will change their trust prepossession and inclina tion. The leader of this trust faction Is Mark Hanna and his declarations on trusts and the tariff are well known. The New York Commercial speaking for this element of the republican party says: "We are Inclined to a be lief that it Is not easy not practical anyway to get at a consensus of re publican sentiment in this subject be fore another Congressional election. If It were to be precipitated In Congress next December, the result would be in our opinion that an acrimonious de bate would be stretched over the en tire session with no settlement of the question at the end, but a most deplor able unsettling of business for the bet ter part of a year. Let the republican Congressional conventions In 1902 determine approx lmately how the republican masses feel on tnis question of "tinkering in the tariff" then republican law-makers could proceed more Intelligently In the matter. This procrastination of course means that the trusts think that with a united effort they can control the eleclon next year of a majority of the fifty-eighth Congress and In any event as that Congress will not meet until December, 1903, and any legislation of this character would not be possible until the summer of 1904, they would nave a long pull at the tariff that they so loath to let loose from. THE REAL AIDS TO ANARCHY. It is well to note that in all this rampant rubbish that some of the re publican newspapers are using to prove that so-called "yellow Journal- Ism" is responsible for anarchism In the country, that those that are tbe loudest and most blatant have the most unsavory reputations and are the outspoken organs of organized polit ical robbery. Some of these are con trolled by the trusts and all are con trolled by the plutocrats who thus hope to throw discredit on every news paper that has dared to say one word against their monopolies. Others have been worsted In the keen business competition with the so-called "yellow Journals" and In trying to Inflame pub lic opinion against them they bope to get even. Of these the New York Sun is the most striking example and that most conservative of newspapers the Staats Zeltung says: "If the question must be discussed what causes and elements are working into the bands of anarchism we do not hesitate a mo ment to denounce tbe Sun and Its fol lowers as tbe most dangerous of these elements. Their nauseating cynicism, their derision of all nobler sentiments, their support of all most corrupted elements, now on this side and now on the other, their continuous perform ance In villlfying worklngmen on the one band and their unlimited advo cacy of capitalism based on the prin ciple of "might is right" on the other these are methods of warfare which al lied to calumny, distortion of the truth, aye, even barefaced untruthfulness, breed hatred among tbe classes, act as Irritants and conjure up blind fury against their own pompous insolence. We arc convinced that a single one of these contemptible articles on the problems of labor, ss they are to be found frequently In the Sun does more mischief than all tbe stuff thus sharp ly criticised by the Bun, tbst other papers are emitting for tbe "benefit of anarchism." , OHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES. The Boxer uprising completely upset all tbe carefully laid plans for the ex ploiting of tbe Chinese Empire. The buildings of railroads and the opening of coal and Iron mines will hare to be deferred to another generation. This opens op another question that will soon have to be settled, namely, the continued occupation of the Philip pines. These Islands were supposed to be the key to China and the proposed exploiters of that Empire were the power that forced tbe extraordinary change of front on the part of the late administration In Its final dealings with Spain. At the protocol shows tl.ere rte no Intention of annexing tbe Phllijpins nhen that instrument was signed, th'ir purchase was an after thought There being but small bope that the Chinese will allow our ex ploiting syndicate to Invest its monej in China, will the continued occupation of the Philippine Islands pay for the great cost it now is and will be in the future? Are the people of the United States willing to be taxed nearly $100, 000,000 a year for the sake of holding on to these islands. The proposed civil government will more than eat up ail the revenues of the islands and if the same extrava gance is continued in the future, nd there can hardly help being more of it, as in the past, the people of the country will have to pay a large part of the bill for even the civil govern ment Then there is the army of oc cupation to be provided for; at the lowest estimate this will cost $50,000, 000 a year. The building of dock yards and tbe increased navy will largely increase the above amount. The islands must be fortified to pro tect the navy yard and arsenal and these bills will be a continuous drain on the United States. Will it pay, even looking years Into the future? ARE THEY FRIGHTENED? Nearly the whole of the dally press of the country have seemed 10 be unit ed In suppressing the facts about the trusts, combines, and monopolies, but under the stress of the election this fall the Columbus, Ohio, State Journal appears to have become frightened at the unanimity of the people In wish ing the trusts controlled and says In an editorial: "The public is witness to another deluge of watered stock whose only hoe of dividend lies In the ability of the manipulators to maintain a monopoly In all iron and steel pro ducts with all that monopoly makes possible. "Tbe new company swells the total capitalization of its constituent com panies from about $757,000,000 to II,- 100,000,000, or over 45 per cent. This would be monstrous enough If It came at the first flood of water, but It U water upon water. "Nobody pretends to believe that the Carnegie company was worth $320, 000,000 and yet it went Into the com bine at $510,000,000. It is notorious that tho other seven companies whoso apgregate capitalization is about $437, 000,000, represented an actual invest ment of not to exceed one-third that amount Even with the high price of their product during the last two years they were unable to earn enough to give their stock a market value in tbe aggregate of 75 per c.ut of Its aggre gate par valuation. Yet about $100,- 000,000 more water Is poured Into the outrageous over capitalization that al ready existed." This coming from a leading repub lican newspaper of the state where Hanna rules tbe roost shows that they see the retribution that is sure to come and that the trust load la even too heavy for the well greased Ohio machlDO. The republicans of Kentucky cer tainly do take the cake, If this tale that the Nebraska Independent tells about them Is a true one: "When a republican gets a federal office there Ir, no stopping him. Down in Kentucky one of them wanted a postofflce that was held by a woman vhose dead hus band had been a prominent democrat All the patrons of the office, both re publicans and democrats, were In favor of the woman retaining It Not one of them would sign a petition for the applicant One would suppose that the office seeker would have given up, but he did no such thing. He finally mar ried the woman and then she resigned and he got the office. United States Senator Clark of Mon tana, the only democrat that la a multi-millionaire, is having a tussle with the railroad trust or that part of it represented by Harrison, Gould and their clique. He Is trying to build an Independent lino from Salt Lake City to tho Pacific, this would afford great relief to the people of that territory from the almost unbearable extortions of the railroad trust The whole rail road trust Is flgl.tlng him wherever he has Interests in Montana, in Wall street and elsewhere, but Clark is a persistent fighter and the prospect seems favorable that he will succeed in getting his railroad completed. One of the doctors who attended the late President, when afiked about the deceptle bulletins, said: "We are un der martial law and hsve to do as we are told," and the facts are that Sec retary Root, who was In full control. had these bulletins Issued In the In terest of the Wall street financiers who were afraid if the whole truth about the condition of the President was known, that a financial panic would be precipitated, which with a little time they hoped to avert As It was the banks had to call on tho United States treasury for help. With new oil wells In Texas, Cali fornia, Tennessee and Wyoming the price of oil would naturally decline, for we have J. Plerpont Morgan's word fr It that supply and demand regu late prices. Perhaps it may with as steel trust and would with the oil trust If rebates and special privileges were abolished. The high protective tariff breeds frauds and smuggling and the enor mous robbery of the government by tbe silk Importations In New Tork art doubtless but one of n hundred, If the whole business was Investigated. Some of the gibbering Idiots who the trusts tmploy to edit their newspapers are claiming that to criticise or ear. toon the trusts It breeding anarchy. MRS. IDA L ROSEIU Drnnd-SIwe of Ex-PresIdSt James K. Polk, Writes ta Mrs. Pinkhtm Haying: ' Dt A Mas. Ptsan am : I have bees narried for nearly two years, and no Ur have not been bWsed with a child. I have, however, suffered with a com- fili cation of female troubles and pain ul menstruation, until very recently. ? OTA MRS. IDA I.. nOSEB. "The value of Lydia E. 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