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THE HERALD. T.J.O'KEEFE. Publisher. HEMINQFORD. - NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. Herbert, the 4-yenr-old son of Elmer Hall of Julian, was fntnlly Injured from frilling from a home. The horse stepped on the child's head, crushing the skull. Lieutenant Hobson. the oftlcer In chargo of the Mcrrlmac, which wan flunk In the cntrnnge of Santiago bar bor, Is n cousin of Messrs. H. II. and J. S. Miller of Nebraska City. State Treasurer Meserve has made a call for $63,000 worth of outstanding Reneral fund state warrants. This call, which Is for June 16, will take up all the warrants against this fund Issued prior to December 1, 1896. At Nebraska City, during a severe thunder storm, Bert Dew and Homer 1'rlddy, while standing In front of the Commercial, were struck by lightning. Mrs. Dew was killed, while Mr. Prlddy was only badly stunned and will re cover. The family of Phil McDonald, a farm, cr living near Tekamah, Ib In a critical condition, having been poisoned by tri china from eating sausage. For n time four of them were not expected to live, but at present slight hopes of their ecovery are entertained, Frank Hnrrls Ensign", alias Morrill Olendenlng, Summervllle and Damon, a noted Arkansas forger, was captured nt Norfolk by city ofllcers. He was wanted at Bentonvllle, Ark., where he had broken Jail recently. Ensign had plenty of money and offered the offlcer $650 to release him. The Omaha postofflce officials are re celvlng numerous applications from business men of eastern cities, and from all parts of the United States for Trans-MlsslsslppI stamps. Deputy "Woodward has a stnek of several hun dred letters regarding the stampH, and when thoy nrrlve, June 15, will begin to fill the orders, which ho thinks will provo a very large Job. Arrangements have been completed for the establishment of a creamery separator Btatlon at Hemlngford. The plant will be owned by residents of Hemlngford and vicinity, and will be operated by the Beatrice Creamery company of Lincoln, Work will bo commenced on the building Immediate ly, and the plant will be In operation by July 1. The plant will cost $1,7G0. Lightning struck n barn belonging to Peter Bures, three miles east of Kdgar, killing two horses, knocking down four more and a young man, Fred Zlegler, who was nt work In the stable nttendlng the horses. The barn was set on fire and burned, with two harvesters, 800 bushels of oats and some other minor farm Implements. Total value of property destroyed, $1,200: In surance, $300. The young man and the four horses that were knocked down were rescued. purlng an electric storm lightning struck the residence of J. N. Davis, 2128 Sixth avenue, Omaha. Mr. Davis wns at the Union Pncllls round house, where he works. Mrs. Davis and their chil dren were nt home. Two of the chil dren were thrown down and all were greatly frightened. The lightning tore n hole In the roof, knocked the eaves troughs off, nnd did some other trilling damage. A horse staked on the open ground near the Union Pacific round house wns struck by the lightning dur. Ing the storm nnd "killed. John C. Tlerney, who wns re-elected president of the Nebraska Retail LI quor Dealers' association, after the meeting nt Omuha Wednesday after noon. Incited the delegates to a lunch at his place. After the lunch his guests, upon starting for home, saw at Six teenth nnd Capitol avenue u blind n' cordeon player on the sidewalk. "Let's help the poor fellow out," proposed one of the party, nnd dimes, quartern nnd hnlves were dropped Into the cup until It ran over. The poor, bewildered fol low pulled out his old hat and still thi rain of Hllver continued. When the fiftieth man had contributed his mite, the happy accordeon player was the richer by $17.C0. The Judicial mind is still exercised over the peculiarities of the dance du ventre, or muscle dance, performed nt the Streets of Cairo on the Mldwny, The first production of the dance before the Douglns county district court, repre sented by Judge Scott, was of such a delicate and elastic nature as to open up a path of roses, but the second dance, witnessed by the court, Incog nito, opened up n rough-hewn pathway of thorns and briars, the termination of which hns not yet been reached. Tln arguments In the oriental litigation were concluded, nnd Judge Scott an nounced thnt he would hold with the streets of Cairo nil but one thing. The aroma of orientalism which Is too strong for the nasnl organs of the American court, must be expunged. Otherwise the Streets of Cairo will not receive the Injunction for which It nsks against the Streets of All Na tions. The court holds that the Streets of Cairo have the exclusive right to an oriental exhibition, but refuses to en ter a decree to that effect, until It re. celves assurances that the little Egyp tian dancer retires her muscular ef forts from public view. How long the case will stand In this condition ennnot be foretold by the attorneys, who say they will have to consult their clients before accepting the conditions Imposed. . The native of Manila Is a queer mix ture of Malay, Chinese and Spanish characteristics, and you find him com bining the looks and traits of these three types of people In all sorts of proportions. He lives on rice, cigar ettes and cock-fighting, and rarely ever tucks his shirt Into his trousers. Be ing, as he Is, a born gambler, he sub stitutes the fighting cock for the dog, and makes aa much ado over his pet rooster Us we do over a clever terrier. Jn case of tire It Is the first thing res 4 cued and removed to a place of safety. The Manila tram-car Is a thing by itself, as Is the one lean pony that pulls Jt. It takes one man to drive and one to work the whip; and If the wind blows too hard, service Is suspended. The' conductor uses a valise suspended from' his neck, and whistles through his lips up hill to stop, and down hill for the starting sign. Smoking "goes" every-" where, and everyone smokes, even to the conductor, who generally drops the nsh off a 15-for-n-cent cigarette Into your lap as he hands you a receipt for! your "dos centavos." No one is allowed: to stand inside, and If the car con- tains It full quota of passengers the. driver hangs out the sign, "Lieno" (full) nnd doesn't stop even for the archblstu op. Sit at the front end of the carj please, if you fear" smallpox, for It Is" no stranges Ight to see a Philippine mamma brush Into a seat holding a scantily clothed babe well covered with evidences of that disease. 1 WOULD ENSLAVE AMERICAN PEOPLE SENATOR ALLEN DENOUNCES THE ATTEMPT TO ENSLAVE THE PEOPLE WITH A PERPETUAL DEBT. THE PROPER WAY TO RAISE REVENUE FOR THE WAR An Inoomo Tax Law Should bo Substituted For the Scheme to Issue Hundreds of Millions of Gold Bonds. Mr. President, If we authorize the Issunnce of $100,000,000 more of bonds we will have placed the bonded Indebt edness of the country at over half what It was nt the close of the late civil war. We will mnke It almost thirteen hun dred million dollars, and I think In round numbers It was only twenty-three hundred million dollars at the close ot the war, making something like twenty eight hundred million dollars with the non Interest-bearing obligations added. But senators t-ay It would not be a wise thing to do to coin the seignior age. Why not, Mr. President? Can any gentleman point out In what re spect there would be a lack of wisdom In coining the silver selgnlorngo In the treasury? No, Mr. President, that man does not occupy a seat In this chamber, unless he shall adopt the hnckneyed and exploded theory that there Is a dif ference betwean coin money and a lim ited volume of paper money having the same legal functions. I heard a senator say this morning In this chamber, possibly It was yes terday, that silver had depreciated: and wo hear It nil over the country among a class of men who would enslave thb American people by a perpetual Interest-bearing debt. They say thot silver has depreciated. Mr. President, Bllver has not depreciated In the slightest degree. There has been no practical depreciation In sliver nnd gold and enst Ing all the money work upon gold alone, gold has rlssn and silver has stood still. It Is the appreciation of gold and not the depreciation of silver that has made the difference. Even the present secretary of the treasury, whose financial career has been confined until recently to the back parlor of a bank In Chicago, In a circu lar recently Issued, Circular No. 143, on page 16, says: "Gold coins and standard silver dol lars, being the stnndard coin of the United States, are not redeemable." He goes on Into quite a discussion of the standard silver dollar and standard gold coin. Does any man doubt that. If we will give sliver the same olllce we give gold, If we will coin silver with out limitation and make It a full legal tender for all debts public and private, It will stand as coin money upon a parity with gold In all respects? Mr. President, It Is the olllce or func tion of circulation nnd exchange per formed by money that gives It its value, I have no patience, absolutely no pa tience whatever, with that class of pseudo financiers who argue that the value of money resides in the commer cial value of the material employed. We enn displace every dollar of sliver and gold In the United States and replace them with full legal-tender paper money, and if we limit that volume, every paper dollar will be equivalent to a dollar In gold. Gold nnd sliver nre valuable over paper only In so far as nature has regu lated the output and made It Impossible for man to Increase It; but regulnte the volume of paper nnd coin at the sume point and the paper dollar will be worth us much, will buy as much, and pay as much wages nnd Indebted ness as the gold dollar. And yet. Mr. President, we hear goldbugs calling for gold nil the time nnd thoy tell us that we must have the money of the world, when they know there Is no such thing as money of the world. There Is but a single instance I can now re call, where. In modern times, there was anything like the money of the world, and that was paper money that was issued by England and the Joint powers In the wars against Napoleon, and from that sprang the English pound note that Is so popular today. Mr, President. $42,000,000 of additional silver money weuM be absorbed without nnyone noticing It. There Is not a state In the union where It would not be absorbed without creating a wave In commercial or Industrial circles. The people would take It readily. The man who holds the plow nnd wields the nx nnd the hoe nnd spade will tnke It nnd be glad of the opportunity. It will bring relief to hundreds und thousands, yea, millions, of oppressed American citizens today. Hut the bnnker does not want It, the stockbroker does not want It, the gambler In money does not want It; and as the money gambler rules politics and controls the political throne, he Is to be consulted and his wishes followed by the party In power. Then, Mr. President, we can raise $40,000,000 more by Imposing an Income tax. It mny be that the supreme court have decided the Income tax to be un constitutional, and therefore we should bow to the decision. I would give them nn opportunity to decide It ngaln. The supreme court left the Impression In their decision that In the event of war or of unusual conditions congress would have the power to Impose an Income tax. Here exists the exact condition described by them, an exceptional con dition, a great public exigency created by the existence of war with a for eign country. Let us revive the In come features of the tariff act of 1S04. and by that mennsjnerease the annual revenues $40,000,000. Mr. President, I have proposed and shall offer at the proper time the fol lowing substitute for section 27 of the pending bill "That so much of the act of August 27, A. D. 1S94, entitled 'An act to re duce taxation, provide revenue for the government, and for other purposes,' as relates to the levying and collec tion of an Income tax be, and the same Is hereby, revived and re-enacted; and It Is hereby made the duty of the sec retary of the treasury to collect the Income tax therein Imposed, beginning with the fiscal year commencing the first day of July. 1893; and all provi sions of said act necessary nnd proper to carry out the purpose hereof and to administer said law are hereby re vived and re-enacted." Let that be done, Mr. President, and It will remove any necessity for the Issuance of any kind of Interest-bearing obligations. The supreme court have said it can be done. If they say It shall not be done, they will be required to overrule the latest decision they have made on the subject. For one hundred yenrs an Income tnx has been held constitutional by the supreme court, beginning with the Hylton ense In 3 Dallas, and ending in iS2. i tninu. with the Springer case. In 102 United States reports. In five different enses the supreme court has passed on the constitutionality of an Income tax and held It to be constitutional. Mr. Teller Unnnlmously every time. Mr. Allen Unanimously every time. The income tax had passed success fully in review before every chief jus tlce of the supreme court excepting Ellsworth, I think, who had not taken his seat when the Hylton case wus de cided. It had pnssed successfully In re. view before forty of the most eminent associate Justices who have ever oc cupied seats on the supreme bench. They reviewed It carefully, and held the government had the constitutional power to impose nn Income tax; but It was reserved for the present distin guished Jurist who occupies the olllce of chief Justice, and a bare majority of his associates to discover that all their predecessors and all the great lawyers of the nation for a hundred yenrs had been mistaken, nnd that the congress did not have constitutional power to Impose a tax on Incomes, and therefore the tax was void, And whoever yet has discovered the marvelous change of opinion In that court within a few weeks? Has that been explained to the world? One Of the Justices held the act to bo con stitutional In nn elaborate opinion, and within a few days thereafter discov ered that he was wrong nnd changed his mind and voted to hold the entire act unconstitutional. Marvelous change of Judgment! Marvelous change pf heart! Mr. President, the fact that a man occupies a. position on the supreme bench of the United States, or on any other bench, does not make him a true man unless he Ib such before he goes there. No man has ever discovered, or, If he has, hus explained to the world, that marvelous change of opinion. I would rather take a pick and go upon the highways and earn my living by digging In the streets at a dollar a day than to have rest on me the bus plclon that In a Judicial position I had changed my mind on a question of law for the accommodation of any particu lar Industry In this or In any other country. Who were Interested In pre venting the Income tax from being eniorceu The great manufacturers nnd corporations; and rumor has It that the Justice who changed his mind comes from one of the most highly protected states In the union. What synthetic relation there may be be tween that and his change of opinion i uo not Know and I do not care to suggest. Mr. President, It Is deplorable when the people of a country like this lose confidence In their Judiciary. Does any man doubt that politics rules the su preme court of the United Stntes In some cases us much ns It does In this chamber and In the other branch of congress? Decisions nre made and handed down by that tribunal which rest upon nothing but mere party poll tics. Law is abandoned, Justice Is abandoned und thrown aside, and the court renders n decision, n political decision. Just as our republican friends and a few of their democratic allies will In a few days vote bonds upon the country through political motives The question of Justice has nothing to do with It. It becomes a question of expediency and pnrty policy. Is it not deplorable, sir, when the little boys and little girls of a nation nre taught at the fireside to suspicion high Judicial tilbunals of being actuated by un worthy motives? How long can n gov ernment exist In its original purity und Integrity where such a suspicion exists? And have they cause for suspicion? Go back, if you will, to the electoral deci sion of 1877. Mr. President, I do not believe there Is an Intelligent human being in the United Stntes who does not believe that Mr. Tllden was honestly elected to the presidency nnd wns entitled to his seat. The great musses of the people I think, believe so. They certainly do In many sections of the country, re gardless of jxtl,x3. And yet some of the Judges of the supreme court were taken from their high position nnd placed upon nn unconstitutional com mission for the purpose of deciding a question over which they nnd no other trlbunnl but congress hnd Jurisdiction. Who does not remember the result? Election return nfter election return wus overturned nnd their force de stroyed; every rule of evidence made to safeguard the administration of Jus tice was Ignored, and the tribunal stood eight to seven, just nccordlng to the partisan politics of the persons com posing that commission. Mr. President. I do not believe there Is any man who has any respect for the decision of thnt commission. It was partisan; It was intended to be partisan; It wns created for the purpose of defrauding the man Justly elected out of his position; nnd It succeeded, und yet It has apologists even today. So the Judges of our courts are called from their designated duties to perform others entirely distinct from the olllces for which they were selected. A short time ago, within the last two years. there was created what Is called the Venezuelan commission, to nscertuln the bounbary between British Guiana and Venezuela. Who does not recall the lurid message sent to us by the late prophet of the White house? We voted on the spur of the moment $100,- 000 to authorize him to create a com mission to determine where the true boundary line was, and he formed It. He took two justices, one of the Jus tices of the district supreme court nnd one of the justices of the supreme court of the United States, from their duties nnd made them a part of that commission. The $100,000 has melted to a very few thousand. There are ten or twelve useless clerks drawing money from It constantly: doing noth ing, absolutely nothing, and drawing salaries all the time. No report has been made. Do you suppose there will be a dollar of the appropriation left? No, Mr. President, It will be squandered. That money was Idly spent, nnd It was 111 advised to take a member of a court from his proper duties and make him a member of the commission. So we had a treaty of amity, and it wns sought to transfer some members of the supreme court to It, or ndd to their duties the duties of Judges of a great International court of arbitration, to be contaminated by enstern policies. Mr. President, is It not surprising under circumstances such as these that the people are becoming suspicious of the highest judicial tribunal In the United States? I do not speak of these things for the purpose of saying that the supreme court Is particularly dif ferent from any other tribunal. I speak of It to show that our highest national organizations are becoming honey combed with what I regard as political decay. It Is so of congress. No man can walk Into this chamber and not feel the heated political atmosphere the moment he opens the door. Mr. President, he knows the Instant he enters one of these doors thnt con gress Is not legislating for the people He understnnds thnt here It Is a game of party politics from the opening of .ongress to Us closing; a sparring for political position nnd advantage; an at tempt to put forwnrd this parttoulat party, or to put that particular party In a hole. The legislation of this nation for two years could all be done In four months' time. It we would come here as a business organization, forgetting politics for the time, nnd sit down nnd legislate for the country, four months would be ample time to ennct every law necessary for this govrrnment lor two yenrs; nnd yet we 1 avp a long session running six) nnd H"ven and eight months ut n time nnd at other times longer, and then a short session of three months: and congress Is always behind, because It wustes Its time in considering mere pnrty questions. So this laxity, this moral laxity, exists In congress. In the supreme court, In the lower tribunals, and I presume In other departments. Now, we are told, and It Is simply a falsehood upon Its face, that It Is nec essary to Issue intei est-benrlng bonds wltfi which to conduct this war. There is no necessity for bonds. There 5s but one class of people who call for them and they nre the money power, Mr. President, which dominates both branches of congress. I say In absolute humiliation and In shame that this branch of congress und the other Is controlled by the money power and the voice of the people Is here stifled or treated with contempt. If heard at all. We might add $40,000,000 moie by the adoption of this amendment, and then we can supply $150,000,000, and I think It ought to be $200,000,000, by the Issu ance of greenbacks, thus giving a sur plus, as I snld a moment ago, of $289, 755,282.26. Who can claim that under such circumstances It will be wise to authorize the Issuance of bonds? (Continued next week.) FORTUNES MADE FROM WAR How the Rothschild's Financial Dynasty Secured Foundation. It was Waterloo that made secure the fame of Washington us a soldier. It was Waterloo that made secuie also the financial dynasty of the Roth schllds.. Shrewd old Nathan Rothschild had waited for Napoleon's downfall, firm In the faith that It must sooner or later come. His agents had followed the Cor slcan in his various campaigns that he might have the first news of his over throw, nnd during the days that Imme diately preceded Waterloo was himself with the British army. Indeed, he kept so close to the commander-in-chief that the "Iron Duke," not knowing him, fancied he must be either a spy cr possible assassin and threatened to hang him If he again appeared near headquarters.. The day of the great battle Roth schild from his horse on the hill of Hougoumont wntched the struggle be tween the nations, nnd when at last he saw that the French army was In le treat, posted off to Brussels as fast as his horse could carry him, from which point a can Inge in waiting conveyed him to Ostend. There he found a storm raging on the channel and the sailors fearful to cross. But he knew neither fear nor dnnger when he taw the glint of gold. He offered tfrst six. then eight hundred francs to be taken to the English coast. At last upon his offering twenty-five hundred francs a fisher man having greater courage or greater cupidity than his fellows undprtook the dangerous task. Before nightfall Roth schild had landed at Dover and with out waiting for a moment's rest was on his way to London. On the 20th of June he appeared at the stock exchange. He told his friends In confidence, or course, that Blucher's army had besn utterly destroyed by Nnpoleon at Llgny on the 16th and 17th and that as a result of this defeat there could be no hope for Wellington His whisperings pois oned the public faith on every side. The funds went tumbling Into the bot tomless pit of commercial panic, while private and public credit ceased to exist. As stocks nnd bonds went down Roth schild bought nil the consols, bills nnd notes he could raise the money to pay for. Then he waited secure In his knowledge of the reaction that would follow the news of Waterloo. On the 22d ot June this news reched London. Values went up more rapidly than they had previously gone down and shrewd old Nathan Rothschild counted as his some $6,000,000 more of gold. Uniform Contracts. There Is not the lenst prospect that the present carnival of contract in con nection with the war will come to nn end. Consider the single Item of army uniforms. The contracts were distrib uted among firms that had a pull with the administration, and the charge Is freely made that a bribery fund of $10,000 did Its work In connection with one lurge order of uniforms. A single firm in New York city noted for its sweat shops nnd for Its dubious meth ods In buying "seconds" at the cloth mills, has captured a large uniform con tract after having spent a large sum In Washington. Indeed, some of the stories regarding these clothing con tracts fairly surpass belief. Nor Is this the worst feature of this business. Nenrly all the firms that have captured contracts are noted for their tyranny to tnelr work people. Union moor le celved very little recognition, nnd we do not think it any exaggeration to say that scab labor will be employed upon three-fourts of the uniforms to be mnde for our troops. Perhaps the proportion will be even greater than this. Suppose. Suppose there were no war. Supose the United States govern ment should call for 200.000 volunteers to save their country at $15 per month and found. Suppose It should enlist that many men and put them at work building railroads, digging irrigation ditches and reservoirs, planting trees and draining swamps Instead of killing Spaniards. Supose It should pay these men In new legal tender greenbacks Instead ot Issuing bonds. Suppose Uie people over the union should turn out and cheer these men as they were mustered In regiments and brigades, should deluge them with flow ers and cakes and pies as they pro ceeded to the tented fields of their labors. Suppose the "war" should go on until the people found out that conquering the earth for the use of mankind was the greatest military glory to be achlev. ed and that a standing army was ex actly fitted for that kind of achieve ment. Suppose but the possibilities of sup position are boundless. . i "Here Is a short poem taken from the French," said the would-be con tributor. "The French should be everlastingly crateful." snorted the editor as he open ed the door and bowed a series of low bows. Syracuse Post , . - . MAKINGJLAVES. A Complete Victory for the Bond Sharks Infamous Measure Passes Congress. FOUR HUNDRED MILLIONS This Enormous Sum Added to Our Already ' Bonded Indebtedness Work of Shylocks. DESPOILERS OF Find in Congress as it Willing and Profitable Ally. Washington, D. C, June 14. J. Plerpont Morgan & Co. nnd other powerful agents of the gold bond syndicate, the money power, have carried the day In both branches of congress. Party lines were closely drawn, every republican voting for the bonds, eight democrats (Caffery, Gorman, Lindsay, McEnerny, Mitchell Morgan, Murphy and Turple and silver republican Mr. Mantle) fall ing by the wayside, and one so-called populist, Senator Kyle of South Dakota, who has been under suspicion ever since he secured his re-election by a tie-up with the republicans, turned traitor to his professions and his country's welfare. The dastardly outrage has been committed and the sly, cunning, diamond studded Wall street lobbyist, headed by Cleveland's man, ex-Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle, have returned to their hotbed of high-handed corruption to gloat over their victory over the American people. The vote was taken In the house ot Speaker Reed Thursday afternoon, nnd In the senate hangman's day. Friday afttrnoon. At both houses the deal slipped through Just like It was "fixed" to go some time ago. All the talk and haggling for the past several weeks was a part of the secret program, It was to make a showing, to befuddle the people. There was not a time when the money power's conspirators were not able to count to a man their votes, and with them to allow the proposition to be discussed at all on the floor of the house or In the senate chamber was a huge farce. The bill has eliminated the senate provision requiring that no bonds should be Issued until $50,000,000 certificates of Indebtedness had been disposed of. The authorization for $100,000,000 of such certificates yet remains, but It is a dead letter. Not one will be Issued. Four hundred millions of bonds are authorized to be Issued, a compromise between the $500,000,000 proposed by the house and the $300,000,000 authorized by the senate. But $200,000,000 will be Issued lmemdlately, and the secretary of the treasury will feel surprised at his own moderation. In the ten years before they can be redeemed they will have drawn $60,000,000 In Interest. A hundred and fifty thousand blank tenders are ready at the treasury de partment. They will be poured in the malls In monumental bulk within forty eight hours of the time the bill becomes n law. There are several points of further amendment to the bond proposition In the conference report which may develop significance when the terms of the bids are made public. The provision that they should be offered as a popular loan Is modified by striking out the clause that the bonds shall be Issued at not less than par, yet any residue nfter the public Is satisfied may be other wise disposed of at na less than par. It Is evident that the small appetite of the public will be easily fed, and the tremendous residue will fall promptly Into the hands of the big banking houses which have succeeded In having the way cleared for the Issue. SPANISH SYSTEM. There Is nlso a success for Secretary Gage in the weakening of the Wol cott amendment providing for the coinage of the seigniorage. The bill pro vides for Its coinage at the rate of not less than $1,500,000 month, which Is a big reduction from the proposed $4,000,000 a month, and eliminates the plan to Issues certificates against the full amount of the seigniorage. There Is, more over, grave doubt as to whether the new proposition Is operative, since no pro vision Is made for the retirement of the Sherman notes. The bill as It stands Is a signal reversion to what a prominent member of the houses characterizes as the Spanish system of tnxatlon. Stamp taxes of every form and species. In infinite variety on thousands of articles, Instruments and documents are to confront the people. THREE DOLLARS AN ACRE TOO MUCH AN IMPORTANT MEETING TO CONSIDER FREIGHT RATES ON WESTERN PRODUCTS TO BE HELD IN OMAHA JUNE 23-21. GOVERNORS APPOINTS DELEGATES TO THIS MEETING. The Purpose Is to Devise Ways and Means to Secure to the Farmers an Opportunity to Ship their Produce over the Shortest and Cheapest Route to the Markets of the World. Columbus, Neb., June 15. The men of Nebraska who raise the produce and depend upon the markets to pay off the money lenders' mortgage and to get a little something more to spend with the town merchants for his goods, should not allow the subject ot "how and where shall this produce be ship ped to market" to escape Ills attention. The farmers of Nebraska are paying twice as much freight as they should. Every dollar of excessive freight is a dollar lost to them. But unlike most of the great evils which make life a burden, there is a remeuy, sure anu certain, and one which can be soon put In operation. The remedy Is, ship your produce to the markets of the world southward via the great gulf ports, Instead of across the continent to the Atlantic ports. The farmers of the Trans-Mlsslsslppl states are Just one-half the distance nearer the gulf harbors than they are to the Atlantic ports, and if but a small percentage of these farmers will assert their right to have their nroduce transported southward at the same rate that they now pay on east and west bound freight, per ton per mile, they will save to themselves and all their fellow producers of the country Just about one-half of the freight which they arc now paying. To simplify these figures: The farm ers of Nebraska are now puylng at the rate of $6 freight per acre on every acre of cultivated lnad, and a saving such as I speak about would cut this enormous railroad tax half In two. He Is a poor farmer who does not know that this $3 per acre freight Is worth saving each year. That man Is a COL. W.J. BRYAN. What Kind of a Soldier Will He Make. The action of William Jennings Bry an In Joining the volunteers and plac ing himself at the disposal of the pres ident, Is denounced by the eastern or gans of thought as a piece of clap-trap. They say that Bryan Is merely playing to the galleries in his usual theatrical way, that he wants to keep himself In the public eye. and that, In a general way, his proceedings stamp his as a humbug. We do not see what bearing all this has upon the Immediate ques tion, which Is, what kind of a soldier William Jennings Bryan will make. If he knows no more about drilling and campaigning than most of our troops, it behooves him to Improve rapidly, and learn the practical details of a sollder's life. If he does this, and goes bravely to the front, fighting the Spaniards and aiding in the conquest of Cuba, It Is probable that the people generally will not ask what sort of a politician he Is nor whether he enlisted as a piece of clap-trap. Perhaps, If he gets killed, even the bankers will forgive him for enlisting. AMERICAN HOMES. is Now Constituted a poor manager who does not realize that so many dollars saved Is so many dol lars made. The United States government has spent millions of dollars deepening the harbors of the Gulf of Mexico, so that the great ocean going vessels can come In there nnd take away the produce of this country. But the big railroad cor porations have combined to force the tratllc eastward. This unnatural rout ing of our freightage Is brought about by the railroads compelling the produc ers nnd shippers to pay piactlcully more for shipping half the distance south than they do now on the whole distance east. On June 20 and 21 there will be held In Omaha a convention of delegates appointed by the governors of the sev eral stntes of the union, the purpose of which Is to devise ways and means to secure for the people tls natural ben efits which good shipping facilities on the gulf coast, together with a fair and reasonable railroad accommodation and freight rates would give them. The success or failure of this meet ing Is of great importance to Nebras kans. and nil western people. It is safe to say that the project will be handled In a commmon-sense and practical manner, and possibly a plan of action can be arrived at which will, within a year or two, revolutionize the entire freight business of the west. But all the American people ask for Is a fair chance, a chance to till the soil and a chance to market the fruits of their toll without being stripped of all their profits by being forced to ship their produce twice as far and twice as costly as It Is to the gulf ports. J. S. FREEMAN. PRIVATE ENTERPRISES. Why the U. S. Has No Modern Gun powder. Speaking of private enterprise brings us to the subject of gunpowder. All civilized governments of the earth have discarded the old red and black ngu powder and adopted the new smokeless kind all except our own government, which does not make Its gunpowder, but leaves the manufacture thereof to private enterprise. But as It costs money to equip a plant for the manu facture of smokeless powder, our pri vate enterprises refused to be at the expense, and our government, always alive to the blessings of private en terprlse. kindly consented to make use of the old kind. The result Is that such modern guns as we have, and which require the smokeless powder, cannot be supplied except from abroad. There are no facilities In this country for tho manufacture of smokeless gunpowder, without first equipping a plant, and that would take time. As the corpora tions engaged In the manufacture of gunpowder Including the Dupont works have a "pull," we have na modern gunpowder. - ' f X. Y