JANUARY 8, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
WASHINGTON NOTES
... Mr, Klley' Ltler-Whlt Honi Kcep-
I tior Foreign Trad Stock of Gold ...
w Cabinet Officer
, -.. Washington, D. C, Jan. 5. 1902.
(Special Correspondence.) Nearly 8,
000 people were present at what is de
clared to have been the most success
ful and satisfactory New Year's day
reception at the White house in the
, history of the country. The custom
of the president keeping "open house"
on this day is as old as the govern
ment itself and is an event looked for
ward to with expectancy, particularly
at the capital.
- Any protectionist will tell you that
one of the strongest arguments fo1
the continuance in force of the Dingley
tariff law is that it builds up our for
eign trade. This statement will be
all the more interesting, now that the
last report of the government shows
that for the first eleven months oi
1902 there was a decrease of $115,
000,000 in exports and but $74,000,00
increase in imports over the corre
' sponding period of 1901. Agricultural
products, to the amount of $715,771.
314, was, of course, the largest ex
port item. Manufacturers' materials
' to the amount of $318,110,083, was the
largest item in the line of imports.
Uncle Sam is rich in gold these
days, far richer than ever before.
There is now in the treasury building
in this city and in the various sub-
treasuries throughout the country
$615,319,307 in gold, a sum larger than
'.. any government has ever possessed.
These holdings are four times as muc."
as those of the Bank of England
twice as much as the Imperial Ban'
of Russia, four times as much as the
Imperial Bank of Germany and on.
and a half times as much as the
Bank of France. On December 1, a
month. ago, the stock of gold in the
United States was $1,230,673,772, show
ing a mooithly increase for the last
half year of $7,615,636. Since January
1S98, there has been an annual aver
age gain of. $107,783,639 in gold. This
stock and" this increase 'are beyond
romps risoto with any records else
where. Only five countries other
than r.ur own has in their stock ol
money so much ae $300,000,000 in gold
The average snnusl gain of the United
States for the last four years is $36,
5C8,6?i) in gold more than that of th3
five great powers of Europe, and $12,
358,639 more than that of all the coun
ter of Europe taken together. Not
only 1'as thec been this enormous in
crease in the supply of gold, but since
McKinley's inauguration in 1897 there
has been more silver coined, at the
ratio of i6 to 1, thaa in any similar
period " in the country's history. So
noticeable has been this increase that
whereas in 1897 our per capita circu
lation of money was about $21, it now
is nearly $30. The country is enjoy
ing a fair degree of prosperity, but,
in iew of the?.;; faefs may we not
venture io as?rr: t!:tl the contention
of t ho bimcitajlists in IS90 that an
increased volume of money would con
tribute to prosperous conditions has
ben sustained?
In the past year 4,239.273,096 ordi
nary postage stamps were issued by
the posteffiee depaitn ent, ? on pi red
with 4.603.200 issued from June, 1817,
to June, 1852. Postage stamps were
first issued under the act of March 3
1847. There were 772,839,000 issued
last year, and the number of pieces of
nail of all kinds mailed was 7,424,
390.329. The latest bit of gossip in official
life is to the effect that Associate
Justice Shiras will resign from the
United States supreme bench and be
succeeded by William H. Taft, now
- civil governor of the Philippines.
It seems probable that the bill to
' establish a . new cabinet office will
, pass this congress and in that event
Secretary to the President Cortelyou
, will likely become a member of the
president's official family.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding of the
; - "easury - department has resigned his
poswon om account of failing health
and olo,oge and will be succeeded by
It. B. Armrong a former newspaper
reporter.. Mi. Armstrong is but 29
years of age. biit sa to have th3
heid of a veteran, ' .
Friction between SecYus,ry Qf the
Interior Hitchcock and Bitir jiPr
mann, commissioner of the 4-gt.erat
land office, has caused the resignation
of the latter. He will be succeeded, of
course, by an Ohio mm. About three
out of every four of the government's
eron'oves are from Ohio, Virginia or
Mrvland. None others need. apply.
More. scandal in the pottoffice de
partment. is dilv being brought to
iicbt. Superintendent Machen. of the
rural free delivery service, went into
, office a poor man on a $4,000 yearly
si-sa1arv and in five years is rated a
$200,000. By virtue of being one of
. the officials in the postoffice combine.
ff he is enabled by "farming out" con
. tracts on mail boxes, and his fellow
conspirators cn wrapping " paper,
twine, etc., to make a $4,000 position
pay ten times that amount Machen
was appointed by Cleveland, and,
hence, it was not hard for him to fol
low his maker into the republican
camp and support McKfnley. By so
doing, he has been able to hold onto
his own job, and incidentally get twj
brothers, a nephew and a brother-in-law
all on Uncle Sam's pay roll. - The
higher officials are trying to hush
these revelations, but have done noth
ing looking to an investigation of th
charges. The president is just now
having considerable trouble with th.
allottment of federal offices in th;
southern states. Nine out of every ten
republicans In Dixie are negroes, and
the movement to establish a "white re
publican" party there has nearly caus
ed civil strife. The bulk of the south
ern delegates to republican national
conventions are negroes, and, as is
well known, are purchaseable; hence
the danger to Roosevelt in the distri
bution of federal pie.
Both in the north and south, the
black people cling to the republican
party with singular tenacity. 'They
nearly unanimously vot6 the republi
can ticket in national, state and locl
campaigns, and this fact is very
largely responsible for continued re
publican supremacy. 1
In the following table are included
ill the republican states of the north
having any considerable "negro popula
tion, .and also certain border states
now held by the republicans, or which
ire considered sometimes doubtful, in
which there is a heavy negro vote
Indian territory and Oklahoma are se1.
down because there is some probabil
ity that they will be admitted as
Hates before the close of this congress
The total negro population of each
-tate, by the census of 1900, is stated
nd all colored males twenty-one years
nf age and over, or voters, as shown
by the same census. None but per
sons of negro descent are included:
Negro. Negro.
Population. Vote.
States- " J?0
Massachusetts 31.974 10,456
Rhode Island 9.092 2,76o
Connecticut 15.M6 4.B7u
New York 99232 31,425
New Jersey 69.844 21,474
Pennsylvania 156.84a 51,668
Delaware 30,697 8,374
Maryland 235.064 60,406
Ohio 96.901 31.235
Indiana 7. 57,505 18.185
Illinois 85.078 29.762
Michigan 15.816 0.193
Iowa 12,693 4,441
Missouri 161-234 " 46,418
Kansas 52.003 14,695
Nebraska .". 6-269 2,298
Oklahoma 18.831 4,827
TnrHan Territory 36.853 9,146
Colorado 8.850 3.215
California -11.045 6,ni
Kentucky 284.706 74.728
West Virginia 43,499 14,786
While the total elimination of the
colored vote would not have affected
the result of the presidential election
of 1900, an analysis of the returns in
dicates that it would have elected ev
ery democratic candidate for the presi
dency since 1872 and placed Bryan in
the White house in 1896 with a com
fortable margin to spare. While ii
would not have wiped out the present
republican majority in the senate, it
would have given the democrats con
trol of the next congress.
It is obvious that if the blacks in
the north would abandon their blind
idolatry of the republican party, the
long domination of that party in sev
eral states would at once cease, and
become precarious in as many more.
Such sweeping political reaction is not
anticipated by either party, however
It is apparent that republican suc
cesses in Delaware, Maryland, West
Virginia and Kentucky have been
wholly dependent upon the black vote.
whle in a number of close contests in
the last thirty years the loss of the
negroes would have lost the republi
cans the election in Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, an''
Illinois, and with them congress and
the presidency. The secession from the
republicans of the black vote in New
York would have disastrously defeated
Roosevelt, for governor in 1898, and
also Odell at the last election. Even
in Iowa and Michigan there have been
years that even their small negro con
tingent could have changed the result
bv coiner over to the ODDOSition.
And yet the northern negro gets
n"'frnsideration from the republica!
party" to hjs loyalty, and, despite the
Folicitude'bf republican papers for
the oppressed -negroes of the south,
lynchings in the Wih of negroes aro
becoming as common a.s in the south.
A negro was lynched in Kansas bir.
two weeks ago for an uhsoeakablf
crime ,yet when the southerner at
tempts to avenge a woman's honor ,he
is accused of violating the constitu
tion by denying to the blacks all the
privileges of American citizenship!
- H. W. RISLEY.
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4 lbs. Fancy Muer Peaches. .'. .50 .
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The Independent has always held
that the fundamental thing in all sys
tems of education was the formation
of character and inspiring students
with noble ideas and aims. An edu
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than no education. A training of
youth to4be quick at perception,
brightening every intellectual faculty
and then start them out; in life thui
equipped with sordid aims and low
ideals, is as bad for humanity as no
education at all. What student trained
in the elegant halls of Rockefeller's
Chicago university can fail to be In
fluenced by the fact that the money
to erect those buildings was obtained
by the defiance of law, by midnight
conspiracies, by extortion, by the ruin
of thousands of honest business ' meTi
and the suffering of thousands more
of women and children impoverished
b the acts of the man who founded
the university? Any man who wishes
his son to be trained to high and
honorable manhood will never allow
him to attend Rockefeller's university
Dr. John Bascom, former president of
the Wisconsin state university, has
had the courage and such courage in
these days is a rare thing to speak
the truth on this subject. He says:
"When an institution, founded anl
maintained for the benefit and educa
tion of the youth of the public, ac
cepts money which has been gained in
t.irect defiance cf laws and principled
laid down by that public, it vitiates
its influence on the mind3 of those
students upon whom it is its duty to
exert a good and moral influence.
"I do not feel the same about An
drew Carnegie's gifts to the colleges
and to communities at large. He
gained his money according to 'rules
which were - recognized 'by the public
and by a protection which the 'public
aiforded him with its full consent. andt
though I do not believe it ought to'
have given that protection, still it
made his gains perfectly lawful
Therefore the same stigma cannot b-':
attached to them as to the enormous
gains made by the Standard Oil com
pany. "1 never go near the divinity school
in Chicago without wanting to tel.
them what I think of their aceptinc
money made bv the trader? is of
poor men, crowding them qt ,i busi
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of wares which you will not allow
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