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What' has become of Crazy Snake?
-The government does not intend to
let Haskell escape.. Another grand
jury has been summoned to probe the
Muskogee town lot land frauds.
The time is now ripe for the organ
ization of a Men's Christian Temper
ance Union in Albion. Of the thirty
free holders in that town who signed
saloon petitions, ten of them are
women.
The Daughters .of the Bevolution
quarrel is worse than '.Washington's
generals. Women are much like men
when it comes to seeking office. There's
usually charges and counter charges,
bosses, rings and hot air. .
Ton can find almost anything in
Oklahoma from a horse thief down to
Governor Haskell, but about the worst
thing aside from the latter that has
been unearthed is the law governing
election returns. The precinct inspec
)m is responsible for the election
returns. If the vote cast in his pre
cinct fails to make a return the next
day after election, the inspector loses
$2 of the $3 salary he receives; if he
fails to make a return within a year he
may be fined $25. The law makes it
possible for the inspector to defeat the
will of the people of any county, if
the contest happens to be close, by
holding back the returns if the result
does not favor his party, and the only
penalty for his act would be a fine of
$25. This is Haskelliem, to which
Mr. Bryan points with so much pride.
At a Sunday meeting of farmers near
Oomstock, in Caster coanty, there was'
aa almost unanimous expression of sen
timent in favor of trading with the
merchants who had opposed licensing a
saloon in that village. It ia this senti
ment among the fanners that makes the
brewing interests fearful of county
option. Lincoln State Journal.
The above sounds like a veiled sug
gestion from a farmers alliance organ
of twenty years ago, when members
of that organization instituted the
boycott against business men in South
Dakota, Kansas and in some parts of
Nebraska to' force them to vote for
alliance candidates ,for office. In
Kansas scores of republican news
papers were crippled by the alliance
organization. Merchants who adver
tised in republican papers were noti
fied to withdraw their advertisements
or the alliance would boycott them.
The notice copied above from the
Journal is nothing more than a gentle
hint for the prohibitionists to get busy
and use t the old alliance weapon to
pound into submission all who do not
agree with them. A boycott is a wea
pon that -sometimes cuts both ways.
In -2,000 cities and 100,000 towns
and villages in China men are being
. drilled for service in the army; mili
tary schools are being erected; arse
nab and powder nulls are being built
and other preparations made to equip
and place in the field an army of four
nullion soldiers. For centuries China
has been a. standpatter, but she is
aaoving at last The ancient kingdom
took a, long stride forward when she
resolved' to wipe out the opium traffic
which Christian England forced upon
China after a bloody war. England
wanted a market for the opium grown
in -India, and looked upon the four
hundred million human beings in the
Flowery Kingdom and resolved to
sake them slaves to the deadly drug.
First, England sent her missionaries
and bibles, and then followed with her
hips of war filled with fighting men,
and these in turn were followed by
k'a opium. The world knows the
The Chinese became an opium
and opium smoking people.
China places four million sol-
t the field armed, with modern
, puts in commission the battle
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Since his last defeat for' the presi
dency six months ago, Mr. Bryan has
been somewhat at loss for a new
issue. v He has been taking an inven
tory of sentiment in strongly demo
cratic states and discovered that the
prohibition sentiment is very strong,
and that there is a possibility that the
sentiment may spread to such .an
extenfctaat the states which usually
cast theic-votes in the electoral college
for the, democratic nominee will 'de
mand a plank in- the" next national'
convention of the democratic party ibr
national prohibition.
Here is one issue, at leastthat Mr.
Bryan cannot truthfully claim to
originate, - but if the future is to be
judged to some extent by the pastMr.
Bryan will insist that he, and not Neil
Dow, is the first "statesman" that ever
advocated the prohibition of the sale,
and manufacture of liquor. "'
As a preliminary step in the direc
tion of prohibition, Mr. Bryan, in his
Commoner, denounces the republican
party for licensing the sale of liquor in
prohibition communities, and prates
about local self-government, or "home
rule" as it is called in the last plat
form adopted by the democrats of
Nebraska. Mr. Bryan believes that
the Payne tariff bill should be amend
ed so that it would be impossible for a
man to secure a government liquor
license in a town or county which has
been voted dry.
It has taken Mr. Bryan seventeen
years to discover that a law of this
kind is sorely needed. It has not yet
been forgotten that Mr. Bryan was a
member of congress when the Wilson
tariff measure was passed, and that he
was a member of the committee that
had the bill in charge and reported it
to the house. Now Mr. Bryan has
thrown a fit because the republican
party is "in league with the liquor
interests of the country," and criticises
them from the standpoint of a prohibi
tionist for not enacting legislation he
refused to champion during the time
he served in congress.
Mr. Bryan will shift his position
a year from now and advocate county
option, and three years hence will
throw aside the mask he now wears
and become the outspoken champion
of national prohibition. With him it
will be the paramount issue of the
hour and the "fearless leader" will
attempt for the fourth time to break
into the white house on the "para
mount issue" mule.
All this talk of stamping out the
liquor traffic by one decisive blow will
not come to pass. If national prohi
bition is adopted there must be a grad
ual curtailment of the business until
the last brewery is closed and last
distillery goes out of business, and
when thatrtime comes, provision must
be made for raising revenue by taxa
tion to reimburse the government for
the money now received by taxing the
manufacturers and venders of liquors.
Immediate prohibition one week from
today would bring a panic upon the
country. 'According to figures pre
sented by William H. Lee, president
of the Merchants-Laclede National
Bank of St Louis, state-wide prohibi
tion would wipe out an investment of
8100,000,000, throw 195,000 persons
out of work in Missouri, and would
cause the state to lose annually $9,
000,000 in wages,84,500,000 in rentals,
$21,000,000 for material, $3,000,000
for freight and express charges, and
$30000,000 for contingent expenses,
besides reducing taxable property
$3,000,000, and cutting off $4,400,000
revenue. If this would be the result
of prohibition in one state, what would
follow when all the states mounted the
water wagon. Up to the present time
the prohibition leaders have' not come
forward -with a reasonable plan for
raising about $250,000,000 in revenue
which the government would be cut
out of by prohibition. The suggestion
has been made that a government tax
of ten cents an acre would yield, more
than enough revenue to make up the
deficiencyr This is the idea of some
of the prominent prohibition leaders of
the South, who .are now at work in
their party creating a sentiment for
the adoption of a plank in the next
national convention of the democratic
party in favor of prohibition. This
question of taxation cannot be separ
ated from the prohibition question, and
the leaders in the democratic party of
the South, realize it; they know that
the same platform that contains a
national prohibition plank must also
contain a declaration in favor of, a
government land tax or some other
form of taxation to provide revenue
for the government.
We Touch One Another on ATI Sides.
No individual can he happy unless
the circumstances of those around
him be so adjusted aa to conspire
with his Interest For, In human so
ciety, no happiness or misery stands
unconnected and independent Our
fortunes are' interwoven by threads in
numerable. We touch one another on
all aides. One man's misfortune or
success, hi wisdom or his folly, oft
en by Its ' consequences reaches
through multitudes. Blair.
DEMOCRATIC
Thetlemocratic party In thepational
legislature is just as strong on princi:
pies, just as devoted to principle as it
ever was, when it is a matter of speech
making. The unprincipled republi
cans of the sixty-first congress have
had democratic principles, the princi
ples of Jefferson. and -Bryan, waved in
their faces until they would be sickof
them and ashamed of themselves for
not -having any if it were' not for the
difference between making-speeches
and casting votes. On the roll call an
ounce of republican protection seems
to be worth- a ton of Jefferson or
Bryanized principles to the represen
tatives of many democratic districts.
It is a question, indeed, whenever a
democratic congressman's name is
callecTon a tariff vote whether princi
ples or protection will kick the beam.
While the house is marking time and
waiting for the senate to send back the
Alderichized Paynebill, the. Congres
sional Record is filling up with the
tariff speeches which democratic rep
resentatives are going to circulate in
their constituencies, and it is painful
to read these and then turn to the
tariff votes which have so far been
taken in the house to note how prin
ciples yielded to protection when the
roll was called.
Democratic principles were glori
ously celebrated by Representative
Choice B. Randall of Texas, in an
invective against the fruit of repub
licanism. 'He said:"
The promised delivery of the people
from the Pharaohs of, protectionism has
not even begun. The Payne bill is only
a refinement and a flagrant reinforce
ment of the enormities of the Dingley
act.
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Probably, therefore, it was to give
the republican party a 'push in the
direction of its doom that Mr. Randall
voted to put a protective duty on hide?.
Nothing less than the death of pro
tectionism was the text of an eloquent
speech by Representative Burgess of
Texas. He said it again and again,
as for example:
I repeat with all emphasis possible
that we have reached a period at which
the doctrine of protectionism is doomed
to death by the changed conditions,
which make its continued-application
more and more unjust and injurious. I
have said, and I repeat, that this bill
makes the clock of protectionism strike
12; that this policy has reached its
fruition, and that the process of dissolu
tion as certainly awaits it as ultimately
it must await every other development
policy.
Then Mr. Burgess satisfied his dem
ocratic principles and helped along the
dissolution, of protection by voting for
protected hides.
Another Texan, the Hon. Alexander
Gregg, was inspired with mortuary
thoughts by the Payne bill. He said
in effect that he rose to bury it, not to
praise it.
The sadness of the republican heart at
this funeral is aggravated, because it
feels and knows that the party is bury
ing its idol of protection through prohi
bitive tariff rates.
It must Have been sympathy for the
republicans that impelled Mr. Gregg
to vote for a protective duty on hides
and against free lumber.
Representative Bell of Georgia, out
of his democratic vocabulary, called
the Paye measure such hard names as
these:
This tariff bill is nothing short of an
outrage. The witches whom Macbeth
-ExGovernor Taylor, of Kentucky,
has been pardoned for. a crime he
never committed. He was indicted by
a partisan grand jury for complicity in
the murder of Governor Gobel, and
sought an asylum in Indiana, where
he has since been engaged in the prac
tice of law. Requisitions for Taylor
were repeatedly refused by two gov
ernors of the Hoosier state and. he was
not molested. Immediately after the
death of Gobel the Keotucklegisla
ture passed a bill appropriating $100,-
000 for the arrest and conviction of
the murderers of the notorious execu
tive, and presumably innocent men
Were arrested and others for whom
warrants were issued fled from the
state. The large reward offered for
Gobel's assassins caused wholesale
perjury, and the pardon issued to for
mer Governor Williams meets with
approval in Kentucky now that the
passions and prejudices caused by the
crime have become tempered with
sanity and justice.
The American citizen is prone to
thump his chest, and exclaim: "I am
the people." as though he reitmed
supreme. 'And this idea of the power
ofthe people is good for the country,
and an incentive to patriotism. But
it should be tempered with a knowl
edge of the facts, and a little judg
ment The facts are that the people
do not rule, whatever the intent of the
constitution. They have a say In
things, to be sure. They elect their
agents, but after thatthe agents run
things. The people, for instance, do not
sppruvc ui we way weir money is
wasted through official channels, but
with all their boasted power, they do
INCONSISTENCY.
met on the heath never brewed a hell
broth half as vile as .this legislative
compound.
In so far as he could Mr. Bell tried
to make the Payne bill more outra
geous by voting against free lumber.
The democratic principles of the
Hon. William A. Ashbrook of Ohio
were in fine working order whence
got up to speak. Here is a specimen:
1 am a democrat, I am proud to say,
and believe in the principles of democ
racy, but I am here to first represent the
people of my district
Accordingly Mr. Ashbrook voted
for 60 per cent increases in the protec
tion which the Payne bill originally
provided for barley and barley malt.
One ofthe grandest of all the prin
ciples of democracy rang in the house
as Representative John A. M. Adair
of Indiana cried out
In the consideration of this bill I
insist upon equal rights to all and spe
cial privileges to none.
For this' reason, then, Mr. Adair
voted for the imposition of a protective
duty on hides, taking his stand with
4he Hon. Courtney W. Hamlin of
Missouri, who stirred the house with
this:
I prefer to follow bim whose heart is
big enough and whose intellect is broad
enough to take in the interest of all the.
people, him who stands tat "special
privileges to none" and whose lead will
bring me to the shrine of a happy and
contented home where the ruler thereof
worships, not Mammon, but the true
God and who is willing to sacrifice his
life upon the alter of the country he
loves. ...
Wherefore, said Mr. Hamlin in
effect, count me as opposed to the ini
quitous proposal of the Payne bill- to
let hides come in free.
Said the Hon. Eaton J. Bowers of
Mississippi, placing protection in one
scale and democratic principles in the
other
I am expected, because I am a demo
crat because I am opposed to the prin
ciple of protection and believe in a tariff
for revenue, to illustrate that abstract
idea by voting to put lumber on the free
list and destroy one of the great, inter
eats of this country and the greatest one
of my district.
Needless to say, Mr. Bowers did not
see it that way. His vote helped to
kill free lumber.
The very spirit of democracy spoke
through representative Edwards of
Georgia thus:
I yield to no man in my loyally to the
democratic party, and to the principles
of Jeffersonian democracy.
Accordingly, in obedience to the
dictates of Jeffersonian democracy, Mr.
Edwards voted against free lumber.
There was democratic belief to spare
in the speech made by Representative
Martin Dies of Texas, as witness this
specimen:
We regard taxation in every form as a
burden upon the people, and the greater
the tax the greater the burden. Under
the republican doctrine the greater the
tax the greater the blessing, while under
the democratic theory, the greater the
tax the heavier the burden o those who
must pay and bear it.
In order not to be consistent, how
ever, Mr. Dies voted against untaxed
hides and lumber.
All the speeches are not in yet The
Record is printing a fresh batch in
every issue. Still enough have ap
peared to show that the democratic
party is much in need of a new set of
principles. The old stock does not
wear well. New York Sun.
not. stop it. A change of administra
tion or legislature does not turn the
trickysince all those who play politics,
play a similar game. And, until the
people find a way to regulate this
matter, and a number of others not
run to suit them, or for the best, they
have small reason for conceit concern
ing their power. The power of govern
ment, lies largely with the politicans,
and it might help the people to find it
out, although they have other things
to learn. Atchison Globe.
The people of this country were eat
ing poisioned food. The president,
the secretary and the treasurer met,
discussed the matter and the Pure
Food association, greatly to be sniffed
at by the entrenched forces of culinary
poison, began its work. It had no mo
ney. It had no newspapers. News
papers and magazines ten years ago
were tuiiig minions oi aoiiars m ad
vertising from manufactures of impro
per foods. But the pure food show
began to appear in American cities
and towns just as the tuberculosis ex
hibit is moving over the country to'
day. The people learned the truth.
The wholesale grocers' associations
took up the fight, and in. spite of all
the money behind the manufacturers
ofthe adulterated and poisonous food,
the pure food and drug act passed
congress and became a law. The
sacrifice of hundreds of men and wo
men who were willing to give their
time, their service and their names to
the cause of pure food for the masses
was more potent than all the legisla
tive machinery, all the lobby of retail
ers, all the flood of telegrams from
growers and all th, forces of selfish-
William Allen White.
THE INCOME TAX IDEA.
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The iacomujtax provision ofthe rev-,
enueact of 1894, was nullified by the
supreme court of the United States
upon a constitutional technicality. To
frame a new measure which would a
void the criticism encountered by that
enactment would not be difficult
In the senate two bodies which' final
ly mayjally themselves in a common
cause propose. income tax amendments
to the . Aldrich tariff bill. .These are
the democrats, who will support Sena
tor Bailey's measure 'and the socalled
"insurgent" republicans who num
ber perhaps" 18, who are believed to be
pledged to the Cummins proposition,
which is said to be ready for immedi
iate introduction. ' ,
If these two followings can and do
combine, they will carry any measure
in that senate they agree upon, even
against the opposition of the regulars
led by the redoubtable and imperious
boss from Rhode Island.
There is a natural and inherent
equal justice to all in the income tax
theory, which appeals to the fairness of
every democratic mind. As a man
hath, so should he give. The greater
his income, the more fitted it is to bear
increasing percentages of levy for gov
ernment support St Louis Times.
WHAT IS A SOUTHERN DEMO
CRAT. Mr. Bryan repudiates Secretary
Dickinson as a representative of the
south and of southern democracy. "In
sentiment he is entirely out of harmony
with the people whom he is supposed
to represent in the cabinet. If the
president wanted to appoint a demo
crat he ought to appoint a sure-enough
democrat, and not one in name only."
The World has never been able to
get a satisfactory answer to its question
"What is a Democrat?" Now that
Mr. Bryan has narrowed the issue,
perhaps somebody would tells "us,
"What is a southern Democrat'?''
Does he favor a tariff for revenue on
ly? Or does he favor a tariff on lum
ber? Or on rice? Or on sugar? Or
on hides? Does he vote With his party
in congress, or does he vote with the
republicans when they need his vote?
Secretary Dickinson may be some
what wabbly in the democratic faith,
as Mr. Bryan charges;, but does that
disqualify him as a representative
southern democrat? Does it not rath
er prove that he is? New York World.
NOT THE SPEAKER'S PROVINCE
Orator to Follow Waa Proper Person
to Comply with Request of
Enthusiast
Preachers of all denominations oc
cupied chairs upon the platform. They
were giving their voices and influence
to the overthrow of a political boss.
The Presbyterian clergyman had the
floor and most vigorously attacked the
enemy. He delivered some fierce, tell
ing thrusts, and the audience was
with him. The boss received some
cruel jabs.
"That's right soak him!" encour
aged a man with a stentorian voice
who had standing room in the rear.
As the clergyman warmed up to bis
subject the interrupting "soak him!"
came from the rear with greater pow
er and frequency.
The speaker paused. He was not
irritated, but gently threw the audi
ence into a good-natured hysteria by
saying:
'The intentions of the gentleman
in the rear are good, but wholly inop
portune and ill advised. If he'll kind
ly reserve his comments for the next
speaker, Brother Herrick of the Bap
tist church, he'll be accommodated,
no doubt"
Moving on Short Notice.
I was lying on the floor of an old
country loghouse one summer day,
near a big, open fireplace, when I
heard a peculiar, frightened squeak.
I got up to see what looked like a
huge mouse moving at a very rapid
walk across the room. When I got
closer look I saw that it was a mother
mouse moving her whole family. At
least, I hope there was none left be
hind, for very soon a small snake, but
large enough to put into a panic the
mother of four less than half-grown
children, came through the empty fire
place, and after the little fugitive.
The mother mouse had two in her
mouth, and fastened to either side of
her, apparently holding on with their
mouths and for "dear life" were the
other, two.- I killed the snake, and
watched the moving family disappear
through a hole in the corner. St
Nicholas.
Bean Milk.
"Pigeon milk is a myth," said a
milkman, "but there actually is a bean
milk. It Is drunk, put in tea and cof
fee, and even frozen for ice cream.
The Japs are its inventors. This milk
Is made of the Soja bean. The bean
is first soaked, then boiled in water.
After the liquid turns white sugar and
phosphate of potash are added, and
the boiling is kept up till a substance
of the thickness of molasses is ob
tained. Nobody could tell this bean
milkfrom condensed milk, and when
water Is 'added it can't be told from
ue rresn. rne Japanese poor
othing else."-
Georf Manners.
The Instinct of self-control; of gen
tleness, of consideration and fore
thought and quick sympathy, which
go to make up what we call good
breeding; the absence of noise and
hurry, and thousand and oae little
ways by which we can please people,
.or avoid displeasing them are an
taught us by our own hearts. Good
awns era are the ine flowers of culti
vation, and every body can have
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filR. johes m a;j emergency.
Except for Single Unfortunate Inci
dent He Was Just the Man to
Deal with It.
When Jones reached home the other
night he found Mrs. Jones huddled up
in a corner of the sofa weeping, and
about four inches of water on the
kitchen floor.
The Joneses hadn't been married
very long, so he contented himself
with a general remark concerning the
.nonresourcefulness of women and
asked how it happened.
"The water pipe under the sink
burst," Mrs. Jones told him.
Jones smiled pityingly, walked de
liberately to the kitchen closet and
.produced a wrench. Opening the cel
lar door with a confident air he de
scended to the region below.
After bumping at least seven ob
stacles Jie finally reached the wall and
reached out for the cock which he had
noticed in a pipe which traversed the
wall. He applied his wrench and shut
it off.
Patting himself on the back for be
ing able to cope with an emergency
he started back upstairs. Just half
way up the steps he bumped into bis
wife.
Mrs. Jones was the first to speak.
"O, dear." she said, "what In the
world did you turn off the gas for?"
Philadelphia Times.
Anger as a Virtue.
Anger is one of the sinews of the
soul; he that wants it hath a maimed
mind, and with Jacob, sinew-shrunk in
the hollow of his thigh, must needs
halt. Nor is it good to converse with
such as cannot be angry, and, with the
Caspian sea, never ebb nor flow. This
anger is either heavenly, vhen one is
offended for God, or hellish, when
offended with God and goodness, or
earthly, in temporal matters, which
earthly anger may also be hellish, if
for no cause, no great cause, too hot
or too long. Thomas Fuller.
A Turtle Which Doesn't Grow Up.
A Brooklyn boy who spent last sum
mer in Connecticut found a turtle's
egg in the course of his country wan
derings. He broke the shell and
found inside a perfectly formed tur
tie. He resolved to bring up the tur
tie for a pet and experienced no diffi.
culty in feeding and caring" for it.
To Prevent" Smoke.
Here Is a hint on preventing the
smoke- that usually accompanies ad
ding fresh fuel to an open fire or
grate. When adding the new wood
put it at the back, drawing the pieces
already burning to the front to keep
in the heat and prevent smoke.
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Queensland government expert.
Woods for cabinet-making and orna
ment, for boats, piles, railway car
riages, girders and many other uses
are among those found. The best lie
along the banks of the enormous Pa
puan rivers. The government at Port
Moresby has decided to make a
small charge for rent instead of leas
ing free, as in the case of agricultural
lands.
Not Our Discovery.
The Greek, Eratosthenes, 250 B. C,
taught the doctrine of the rotundity
of the earth, and the ideas of the
sphere, its poles, axis, the equator,
arctic and antarctic circles, equinoc
tial points and the solstices were quite
generally- entertained by the wise men
of that time. There were plenty of'
men in Rome, therefore, who were
prepared to talk about the earth as a
sphere and to make globes illustrating
their Ideas.
Fashion, Not Health.
In nine cases out of ten, says the
Iowa health bulletin, if a physician
tells a woman that in order to im
prove her health she must wear her
clothes in a certain way she will fol
low the advice of her dressmaker in
stead. Women and Mountaineering.
One of the chief difficulties In a
woman's undertaking an expedition In
mountain climbing is .that, whatever
her experience, every 'man believes
that be knows better what should bo
done than she. Harper's Magazine.
For Squeaky Boots.
Very squeaky boots may be silenced
by just allowing the soles to stand In
either olive or castor oil for about
twelve hours; then take out and let
them dry well.
Fork in Bullock's Stomach.
A steel fork, about seven inches
long and rather sharply pointed, has
been found in the stomach of a bul
lock killed at Longport, England.
Cheese Is Nourishing.
Cheese is an excellent substitute
for meat, and there is infinite variety
in the ways of preparing it, so that
one may not readily tire of it.
Matrimony.
At 40 a man may regret that he
married. At fiO a bachelor regrets bit
terly that he did not take a wife. t
Paris Figaro.
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