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The prohibition state convention of
Illinois passed a resolution endorsing
W. J. Bryan for president in 1912.
If Norris is such a "strong" and
"popular" representative why doesn't
he stand for re election in his district?
Although Platte county democrats
claim to be opposed to county option,
nevertheless they will do exactly as
Mr. Bryan dictates that is the bosses
will and the democratic bosses run
the party in Platte county.
It is said that petitions have been
prepared for circulation among the
county optionista to place W. J.Bryan
in nomination for U. S. senator.
What's the matter with Price? Hasn't
he endorsed all the optionists demand?
The democrats in the senate have
invited the insurgents to come into the
fold and openly espouse the principles
of the party of Bryan and Baily. Just
what the principles of the democratic
party are, even the insurgents have
failed to discover, and they have de
clined to accept the invitation.
Capital removal campaigns are ex
pensive, and the city that enters the
list of candidates, in the event an
election is called to remove the seat of
state government from Lincoln, must
be prepared to expend $100,000 in
order to make a vigorous fight. Is
Columbus prepared to enter a contest
that would demand a campaign fund
of such magnitude?
Mr. Bryan wants Governor Shal-
lenberger to call a special session of
the legislature to pass some "reform
measures the democratic leader had
turned down at the last regular session
of the state law makers. A few months
ago the governor refused to bow down
to Bryan and submit to his dictation.
Will he assert his independence again,
or will he crawl in the dust of humilia
tion and obey the order from the Fair
view autocrat?
"Are you in favor of Theodore
Roosevelt for Emperor?" shrieks a
democratic organ. Such talk carries
the mind back thirty years, when
Grant returned from his memorable
trip around the world and the bourbon
organs of that time were warning the
country that the regular army (con
sisting at that time of 25,000 officers
and men) would attempt to place
Grant on a throne in Washington and
declare him "King of America." It
makes some of the old bourbon demo
crats warm under the collar when the
daily papers print reports of Roose
velt's tour through Europe. The
bouibons hate Roosevelt, and all this
"emperor" and "king""talk ii-dulged
in by them over the courtesies extend
ed to a former president of their coun
try cannot prejudice the mind of any
fair minded American against the man
Henry Watterson says is the greatest
the world has produced since Napoleon
passed away at St. Helena.
Do the people of this country really
consume the amount of whisky that the
prohibition agitators claim? According
to statistics furnished by the government
the American people spent $300,000,000
for whisky in 1909. The professional
agitators claim the amount was one bil
lion dollars. The professional agitator
also claims that one man out of every
twelve in this country is a confirmed
drunkard. Does any sensible man be
lieve this statement? Look around you ;
count the men in your neighborhood.
Is one out of every twelve a drunkard?
The fact of the matter is the statistics
used by the prohibitionists were taken
from "Fowler's Essay on Alcohol," writ
ten half a century ago, and if they were
correct then, end intemperance has in
creased in proportion to the population,
then one man out of every four is a
drunkard today and the amount of mon
ey expended last year for whfoky was
three billion dollars. While a large
amount of money is annually wasted for
liquor in this country, yet conditions are
not one-third as bad as the prohibition
ists claim. A prohibition politician is
like other politicians in some respects
he does not hesitate to deceive when he
thinks be can gain a point.
THE RECORD AT PANAMA.
The small army of diggers at Pan
ama are 'still making the dirt fly.
According to a report just published,
the excavation has reached a total
corresponding to the amount of earth,
which it was originally thought nec
essary to remove. If orders had aot
been issued to jriden and deepen0 the
canal to accommodate the greater war
ships of recent construction, the dig
giug would bow be complete. The
total is now 103,795,000 cubic yards,
under the revised plans, the amount
remaining to be lemoved is 70,871,594,
and the digging is going forward at the
rate of more than 3,000,000 cubic
yards a month. In less than two
years, that part of the work should be
completed. Thus far, it is a record of
accomplishment which is described as
"without precedent in engineering
undertakings." So smoothly has the
work been going latterly that there
has been little mention of it at Wash
ington or in the newspapers. Most
persons have to think twice to recall
the name of the man at the head of
the great enterprise, but there is a day
coming when Colonel Goethals will be
more popularly honored than any of
the living heroes of war. Columbus
(O.) Dispatch.
GROWTH IN FARM WEALTH.
Few people realize the phenomenal
increase in the wealth of farm lands
and farm products. In the last 20
years there has been a gradual tend
ency toward a more substantial val
uation. There have been reasons for
this. With the improvement of roads
with the building up of small commu
nities, with the growing of the coun
try, the farm has come to be more and
more recognized as the eventual salva
tion of the country. As this impres
sion became certain, values began a
natural increase.
Figures carefully prepared by the
statisticians of the department of ag
riculture show that there has been a
legitimate increase in the value of
farm products and that since 1889
the increase has amounted to $6,300,
000,000. This looks, on its face, al
most unbelievable, but the figures are
verified and are substantiated by
official reports for thejast twenty-one
years.
In 1889 the value of the wealth
produced on farms in the United
States was $2,460,000,000. Ten years
later it was $4,717,000,000 and last
year, according to the department, the
estimate, asapproved.was $8,760,000
000. This speaks well for the farm, for
as the value of farm products increase
the farm lands themselves accumulate
in value. Commercial Appeal.
THE COUNTRY CHURCH.
The difficulties of the churches in
making headway with the "laboring
man" is perhaps the most familiar of
all subjects of religious discussion.
Monday's discusion at the Presbyter
ian conference in this city hints that
the farmers present a similar problem.
They, too, are not making the use of
the churches that the churches would
like them to make.
The reason cannot be quite the same
in the two cases. The city laborer
has no great need of the church as a
means of social diversion, since social
life of a sort is all about him all the
time. This may be one reason for his
tendency to stay out of church. The
reason oftenest heard is that the city
churches is not supported by laborers,
but by their employers, and tends to
reflect the views and interests of the.
latter rather than the former. Neith
er of these conditions applies to the
farmer. He is famished for social
life. His church is supported, nearly
always, by himself and his neighbors
and is in his own control. Why
should he be cold?
All that seems to be known is that
it doesn't attract him. With this con
fession goes some extremely interest
ing and promising suggestions. Rev.
L. D. Young of Beatrice held, for in
stance, that a country minister should
be versed in agricultural matters in
order to be of the fullest usefulness.
His suggestion recalls that foreign
missionaries make headway best by
teaching hygiene and improved
methods of working and living to pro
spective converts. In a word, they
preach their faith by their works.
It would at least be interesting to
see what would happen were the
country and village church to be op
erated on principles suggested by Mr.
Young and the experience of mission
aries. The old plan of holding the
church too holy for anything bnt
prayer meetings and preaching from a
scriptural text has had its trial.
What would happen were it decided
that anything that helps men and
brings them together in harmonious
co-operation is religious, and on that
assumption the churches made cen
ters of social life and even of efforts
at industrial progress? To a layman
the experiment seems worth trying.
State Journal.
pow an DAi1
About 1894 the Kansas state en
campment of the G. A. R. was held in
Atchison. It was well attended, vet
erans' from Brown,Nenmha, Doniphan,
Jackson and Jefferson counties being
present in large numbers. There were
lots more veterans then than now.
And they had good times about their
campfires, singing war songs, and tell
ing stories and recounting incidents in
the great conflict in which each had
played a part I attended a campfire
at Apollo hall one evening, and enjoy
ed it very much. There were many
interesting stories told that night, but
one told by Colonel Greene, then
commander of the Kansas G. A. R.,
made a deep impression on me, and
the others who heard it It is one of
those stories of what might have been,
and wasn't; sadder words in this in
stance than when Whittier applied
them to Maud Muller.
During the early part of the Civil
war, Greene was a paymaster's clerk,
and, while they were on a boat on the
Tennessee river, the boat money, pay
master, clerk, everything, were cap
tured by the Confederates at Muscle
Shoals. After a little rough handling,
they were paroled. The war dragged
its weary length, but when it ended,
the paymaster was called to account
for the missing money; the money lost
to the Confederates. Having been the
paymaster's clerk, Greene was the
principal witness in the case, and was
called to Nashville, Tenn., where the
trial was held. While waiting for the
trial to come up, Greene became
acquainted with the judge, who had
been close to the men in high places in
the Confederate government Oneday
they were discussing the relative
merits of great orators and military
commanders, and the judge told this
story on United States Senator Yancy,
of Alabama, one of the ablest orators
ever in the senate:
Yancv was a strong advocate of
secession. His motto, as older people
will remember, was "Fire the Southern
heart; one Southerner can lick six
Northern Mud Cats." By this con
stant agitation, he finally got the South
united in support of the cause. Many
of the Southern states had withdrawn
from the union. Jeff Davis and his
cabinet were in session at Montgomery,
Ala., all sitting around a long table.
Over the nation a war cloud hovered,
with the storm threatening to break at
Ft Sumpter. General Beauregard,
the Confederate commander, had taken
charge of Castle Pinkney, and another
little fort controlling Charleston har
bor and Ft Sumpter, which was com
manded by Major Anderson for the
United States. Anderson was expect
ing supplies and reinforcements every
hour, and Beauregard only waited the
MUCK RAKING LONG AGO.
Representative Kahn, of California,
in a speech on muck-rakers of other
days, makes public the result of much
research among the musty files of
newspapers and political pamphlets in
the Congressional Library. Begin
ning with Washington, a writer of a
little later date said that his enemies
"threw aside all reserve and assaulted
his fame with a virulence not inferior
to that with which they could have
attacked the meanest defaulter. His
military, his civil, his political, his
private domestic character were all
arraigned, and he was asserted to be
destitute of merit, either as a man or
a soldier."
A paper called The Aurora said:
"If ever a nation was debauched by a
man, the American nation has been
debauched by Washington. If ever a
nation has been deceived by a man,
the American nation has been de
ceived by Washington." When his
services as president were ended, the
same paper said: "The man who is
the source of all the misfortunes of
our country is this day reduced to a
level with his fellow citizens, and is
no longer possessed of power to mul
tiply evils upon the United States.
ITever there was a period for rejoic
ing, this is the moment Every heart
in unison with the freedom and happi
ness of the people ought to beat high
with exulation that the name of Wash
ington from this day ceases to give a
currency to political iniquity, and to
legalized corruption."
Here is still another extract: "After
bringing the country to the very brink
of ruin, Washington has fled from the
gathering storm. Having run the
ship between the rocks and the shoals
he has abandoned the helm and left
the vessel to her fate."
Tom Paine wrote: "Elevated to
the chair of the Presidency, you as
sumed the merit of everything to your
self, and the natural ingratitude of
your constitution began to appear.
You commenced your Presidential
career by encouraging and swallowing
the grossest adulation, and you travel
ted a Wai1
word from the rebel president at
Montgomery to begin the fight. Im
patient at the delay, he. wired Presi
dent Davis, asking why he was lot
given orders to open fire on Sampter,
as the supply ship was reported to be
in the outer harbor. Davis read the
message, and looked sad and gloomy;
overawed, perhaps, with the portent of
the issue. He passed the message
around the table, and the gloom fell on
his cabinet All hesitated to start
what all expected: the, opening of fire
on the flag that had been theirs. Soon
another message came from Beaure
gard: "Why don't you answer? Make
haste to answer." This message fol
lowed the course of the first around the
long table, but still the Southern cab
inet sat in gloomy silence, hesitating
to loose the war dogs on-their country.
Others came and noted the sad faced
silence of these men bent on making
two nations of one. And other mes
sages came from Beauregard, straining
at the leash in Charleston. From 9 in
the morning until mid-afternoon, the
cabinet had been in session, awed by
the very nearness of the conflict they
were about to start
At this time Senator Yancy entered
the cabinet meeting, with his hair
unkempt, looking as if he had just
arose from a drunken sleep. On the
table he saw the messages from Beau
regard, read one, and, looking on the
cabinet with scorn, as if they were
cowards, began a fiery secession speech
that struck the heart of everyone in
the room. President and cabinet fell
before the sway of his oratory; the
order was given, and history has given
us the rest But for Yancy's arrival,
this judge believed the cabinet might
have adjourned until the next day
without taking that fatal step, as they
had already been in .session a long
time. Major Anderson would have
received his relief in the night, and
the spirit and power of rebellion might
have been nipped in the bud.
But the judge continued, this
mighty orator was forgotten, while
monuments came to honor Grant and
Lee, and other martial heroes. Yancy
of the silver tongue sleeps in a neg
lected grave at Montgomery, forgotten
by the country at large. Colonel
Greene later had' business in Mont
gomery, and investigated this for his
own satisfaction. Two people he
asked could not locate the senator's
grave, but the third one did among
weeds three feet high, and marked by
a marble slab but little higher. So
far as I know, this bit of inside history
of the Lost Cause has never been
printed before; if, indeed, it is history
at all. At least, it is the sad story of
what might have been, and wasn't
Clem Rohr in Atchison Globe.
ed America from one end to the other
to put yourself in the way of receiving
it You have as many ad
dresses in your chest as James II.
Monopolies of every kind marked
your administration almost in the
moment of the commencement The
lands obtained in the Revolution were
lavished upon partisans; the interest
of the disbanded soldier was sold to
the speculator. Injustice was acted
under the pretense of faith, and the
chief of the army became the patron
of fraud. And to you, sir,
treacherous in private friendship, and
a hypocrite in public life, the world
will be puzzled to decide whether you
are an apostate or an impostor; wheth
er you have abandoned good princi
ples, or whether you ever had any."
Referring to these attacks, Wash
ington wrote: "They are not only
meant to impede the measures of Gov
ernment generally, but more especially
to destroy the confidence which it is
necessary the people should place (un
til they have unequivocal proof of de
merit) in their servants, for in this
light I consider myself whilst I am an
occupant of the office. To this I may
add, and very truly, that until the
last year or two I had no conception
that parties wouldror even could, go
to the lengths I have been witness to,
nor did I believe until lately it was
within the bounds of probability
hardly within those of possibility
that while I was using my utmost ex
ertions to establish a national char
acter of our own, independent u
as obligations and justice would per
mit of every nation o" the earth, and
wished by steering a steady course to
preserve this country from the horrors
ofa desolating war, I should be ac
cused of being the enemy of our na
tion and subject to the influence of
another, and to prove it that every act
of my administration would be tortur
ed and the grossest and most insidious
misrepresentations of them be made
by giving one side only of a subject
and that too, in such exaggerated i
and indecent terms as could scarcely I
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pocket" Then Jefferson in hie turn was tak
en in hand, and it was said in the
campaign of 1800 that he "had obtain
ed his property by fraud and robbery;
that in one instance he had defrauded
and robbed a widow and fatherless
children of an estate, to which he was
executor, of $10,000 by keeping the
property and paying them money at
the nominal rate, when it was worth
more than forty to one." And he was
also charged, and it was published
broadcast, with having a family of
negro children by a slave woman nam
ed Sally; with having been turned out
of the house of a certain Major Walk
er for writing a secret love letter to his
wife, and with having swindled his
creditors by paying debts in worth
less currency."
Then came John Quincy Adams,
who was depicted as a corrupt poli
tician and as having been guilty of
infamous conduct unfit for publica
tion, while minister to Russia. The
New York Evening Post declared that
Andrew Jackson had violated all laws
human and divine, and not only was
his own character assailed, but those
of his wife and mother. "The baboon
at the other end of the avenue," and
"the damned idiot in the White
House," were gentle muck-raker ex
pletivesofLincoIn'8 time, and it was
said of him in the Chicago Democratic
convention: "Ever since that usur
per, traitor and tyrant has occupied
the presidential chair, the party has
shouted: War to the knife, and the
knife to the hilt!" Blood has flowed
in torrents and yet the thirst of the
old monster is not quenched. His cry
is more blood." Atchison Globe.
NEW TARIFF LAW.
Since the new tariff law became
operative eight months ago the reve
nue receipts of the government have
increased $50,000,000 over what they
were for the eight months a year be
fore; a year ago our deficit, the excess
of ordinary expenditures over ordi
nary receipts, was $70,000,000; this
year it is about $15,000,000; the full
quota of labor is employed, industries
are running on full time and paying
the highest wages ever paid in the
history of the country and the total
advance in wages for the year, it is
estimated, will reach $500,000,000.
All these facts were pointed out by
Vice President Sherman in his St
Louis speech and they ought to con
vince any unprejudiced man that the
new tariff has gone a long way toward
ameliorating the conditions for which
it was intended and is fundamentally
sound.
But democrats and those others bent
on attacking the law for political pur
poses prate about not enough revision
downward. What is the purpose of
downward revision in a tariff? Is it
not to open our doors to foreign im
ports as a means to competition that
will affect domestic prices? Since this
law went into effect the imports of the
United States have increased in value
over those of the corresponding period
a year ago $200,000,000, or at the rate
of $300,000,000 a year. The fact is,
the downward tendency has been so
marked that u Vice President Sher
man says, we need now to think of
checking the decline instead of facili
tating it
Mr. Sherman did not go into the
maximum and minimum clause of the
law. and yet that is one of the strong
est elements it possesses. By virtue of
that clause, forced into the bill by
President Taft, from 50 to 60 percent
of American exports have gone into
foreign markets free of duty and nine
tenths of those paying duty have been
admitted at the minimum rate in those
countries.
More labor employed and at the
highest wages ever known, revenue
increased by stupendous susss, more
imports, more domestic products ad
mitted abroad at lower rates protec
tion for labor and capital alike, the
highest prices to the farmer and the
cost of living finally on the decline
these are things .brought about since
last August when this tariff law went
into effect What more could the law
have accomplished? What was it the
democrats expected?
Both President Taft and Vice Pre
ident Sherman have admitted that
even they want further revision of the
tariff and propose to secure it, but no
matter what the republican party did,
it would not affect the campaign plans
of the democrats and should not be
expected to. If they should suddenly
admit the truth about the new law
they would thatmomeat give up their
chief political subterfuge and the peo
ple should not expect them to make
that sacrifice on the eve of an election.
Omaha Bee.
Whera Thay Ought to .
"I wonder said the wild looking
man, with the multiplied whiskers.
"Yon wonder what?' asked the meek
looking boob with the concentrated
eyebrows.
"If the man who figured out the
length of a week was referred to as a
weekling."
"Sure." said the boob. "They also
called the man who discovered Ink an
Inkling."
Whereupon the driver from the asy
lum backed bis wagon up and the pair
were dumped In. St. Louis Star.
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B,-iCR TO TBE FMMM?
The greatest advertisement ever given to western farm
lands is contained in the present discussion regarding the high
cost of living. Our population and its demands has increased
beyond the ratio of increased soil products. The man who
owns a farm is surer today than ever before of its future value
and worth to him. Nearly a million immigrants come annu
ally to this country. The west is increasing in population at
the rate of half a million a year. The man who owns a 30 or
40-acre worn-out farm in Europe is considered independent,
yet THE WEST OFFERS YOU 320-ACRE TRACTS OF MON
DELL LANDS OR 80-ACRE TRACTS OF GOVERNMENT
IRRIGATED LAND, AT A PRICE THAT COMES NEAR
BEING A GIFT.
With the absolute certainty that these lands will be beyond
the reach of the homesteader
YOU TO GET HOLD OF A WESTERN FARM for yourself or
your son before it is too late.
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A Budaling Financier.
TTe got a boy in my employ who
will be a king of Inance some day."
safcl a man who has a factory in New
York. "A few weeks ago be sold a
pair of homing pigeons to a man In
Brooklyn. Two days afterward the
pigeons appeared at his window. An
other Brooklynlte bought them, and
again the birds came back. The boy
has just made a third sale. 1 am won
dering If I bad not better get rid of
him before he tries to sell me my own
factory."
Won't Stay Ratainc.
This notice appears on a Flushing
steamboat: "Passengers should obtain
a receipt for all provisions taken on
board this boat and are requested to
retain the same."
Easier said than dona It, reminds
s of the old limerick:
There was young; man of Oatand
Who said had hold out till the and.
But when halfway over
From Ostend to Dover
He did what he didn't Intend.
London Globe.
The One Time.
"You women would rather talk than
llsteu."
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"When, for example?
"When a man Is about to proposer
Judge. When a Man'a Fifty.
After a man reaches fifty "all going
out and nnthiug coming In" describes
the condition of his teeth. Iiis affec
tions and his hair.-Atchison Globe.
in a few years, IT WILL PAY
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