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VOL. i. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JUNE 29 , 1899. NO. 51.
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Unless we receive a renewal the expiring
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list after that issue.
The census of
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1890 tabulated
OF 1000. was
lies. Never before
had the census been deliberately falsi
fied for a political purpose. In the
Northwest where republican majorities
were deemed certain the population , as
a basis of representation in congress ,
was nominally increased by systematic
padding. Thus Nebraska jumped from
a representation of three in the lower
house of congress to six. Thus Omaha ,
which never saw a day in which it out
numbered Kansas City , was made , by
that most infamonsly false count , to
contain about thirty thousand inhabi
tants more than Kansas City.
Nebraska City was reported at eleven
thousand five hundred population and a
conservative estimate at that time made
it six thousand. .
But the penalty of telling lies in 1890
will be visited upon the state of Ne
braska and many of its towns and cities
iu 1900. The truth will out. The
growth of our cities since 1890 if we
have a conscientiously counted popula
tion in 1900 will be shown to have been
phenomenally small. In some places
the population of 1900 will appear less
than ten years previous.
It is hoped that Mr. Merriam , the
arithmetician , banker and expert politi-
"JTJ
ciau of Minnesota , who is to boss the
census of next year , will employ only
intelligent tellers of the truth. We wish
to have the number of people in each
areciuct , hamlet , city , county and state
given correctly , truthfully , precisely.
The moment one finds errors in the
count of the people themselves one real
izes that all industrial data as to per
capita production , wealth and taxation
are also erroneous. Let the census of
1900 differ from that of 1890 by telling
the truth , the whole truth , nothing but
the truth.
Napoleon made
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TOAUYIbM.ft J0"ru ° y from Sfc-
Cloud to Belgium
in 1804 , which occupied three mouths.
He visited the towns along the Rhino
and received the plaudits and adulation
of his own appointees much as , in later
days , partisan presidents in republics
accept the worship of those to whom
they have given lucrative postmaster-
ships and other paying positions.
Many of the numerous speeches and
editorials relative to Napoleon McKinley -
ley during some of his recent innumer
able tours for rest from vast blunders ,
remind one of the French extravagance
of flattery bestowed during that trip to
Belgium upon Bounparte. Hero is one
which even the Ohio platform or Emory
Smith might emulate and imitate on
occasion.
It is from a speech made to Napoleon
by M.do la Chaise , prefect of Arras , who
like an Ohio republican , said :
'God made Bonaparte and then
rested. "
And then Count Louis do Narbourue ,
who liked Bonaparte as Foraker does
MoKiuley , remarked :
"That it would have been well had
God rested a little sooner 1"
The foregoing is given without any
suggestions to the praise-makers of the
McKinley imperialists , but with full
confidence that the art of adulation in
America is visibly expanding.
IIUILUKUS.aVG ° r mallV
generations boon
delving in the lore of the Mound Build
ers. All sorts of scientific theories have
been evolved as to the origin and pur
poses of Mound Building.
In Wiltshire , England , is the largest
artificial mound in all Europe. It is
called Silbury Hill and is near Avebury.
It covers five acres. Its base measures
two thousand and twenty-seven foot ,
and its top one hundred and twenty
feet in diameter. Its slope is three hun
dred and sixteen feet. The perpendic
ular height is one hundred and seven
feet.
In this ago of dreamers and talkers
are no Mound Builders. But the globe
is almost covered
Mouth llttiltltii-H.
with orators , as
are ant-hills with ants , who majes
tically build with their months.
The Mouth Builder constructs out of
mere words new systems of finance ,
social life and of government. The
Mouth Builder manufactures mountains
of words to mark the progress of his
vagaries. He does nothing with his
head or hands. Mouth work is his
trust !
From a trust iugab the Mouth Builder
evolves populistic politics , and from
populistic politics "a trust in offices , "
state and federal. The Mouth Builders
have piled up a great many words , and
no bricks , in Nebraska. They are crit
ics always and never authors.
The Timos-Her-
PITIILJCANS. OHIO KK- a 1 d of Chicago
knows the cost of
an Ohio republican. It has experience
in syndicating an Ohio presidential can
didate. Therefore when it devotes col
umns to Senator Joseph Benson For-a-
cur the Times-Herald may bo excused
for being dogmatic.
It promises more about anotherrepab-
lican Kerr and the public will soon be
informed of canine methods in the state
of Ohio generally and especially as to
republican purity as depicted in the Mo-
Kiuley camps. .
TIIK IlKAI. MOTIIKK OF TItUCTS.
WELLS FAUQO & COMPANY , /
OFFICE OF PUESIDENT.
SAN FUANOISCO , CALIF. , )
Juno 15 , 1899. i
DEAH MK. MOUTON :
Referring to yours of Juno 7 , doubt
less you noticed Havomoyer's testimony
before the Washington commission yes
terday and his romarksjupou the matter
of trusts , namely , tliat the protective
tariff is the mother of trusts in the
United States of America. I am with
him every time on that statement. I
think his observations in general were
based on facts and good sense.
Very truly yours ,
JOHN J. VALENTINE.