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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY NEB. THURSDAY OCTOBER 5 1899. NO. 13.
PUBLISHED -WEEKLY.
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, T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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The rumor that
The Standard Oil
Company which brings from Europe
a daily average of one hundred thousand
dollars in gold and pours the same into
American circulation , is about to liqui
date and die because the attorney-general
of Nebraska has brought an action
against it , is not credited except by
Blarney Smyth.
Mean and malicious men remark that
Smyth brought the suit against The
Standard Oil Company because that
corporation had boasted that it owned
"the greatest gusher" on the globe. This
boast Smyth regarded as a reflection
upon Bryan to whom and sixteen-to-
oneness the attorney-general is devoted
with more than Blarney Castle fidelity.
The attempt-
FAILURE.
upon the part of
The Chicago Times-Herald and other
hide-bound McKinley organs to make
the naval career of Dewey equal in valor
and victories to the military career of
Colonel William Jennings Bryan is a
most miserable failure.
All these efforts to shut out from the
gaze of admiring and dazzled citizens
the refulgent and incandescent achieve
ments of Colonel Bryan upon the field
of battle , by hoisting the Devvoy record
must fail. Thus will Colonel Bryan go
down the corridors of the ages , in full
uniform , his flag aloft arid emblazoned
with the legend "Invincible in Peace !
Invisible in Warl" All attempts to
belittle Colonel Bryan as a military hero
will fail fail utterly.
The red'hot re"
A rorm IST
tormor who iiame-
CERTIFICATED ,
lessly edits thp
central organ of populism , fusion , illu
sion , confusion nnd delusion at Lincoln
proudly proclaims in a recent issue that :
"Tho editor of The Independent began
his public life under the severest de
nunciations of the pulpit and public
press. Ho was once court-martialed
and sentenced to be hung upon charges
of being an abolitionist. There was a
reward offered for his capture and a
warrant was issued by the federal court
upon an information charging him with
being a traitor. "
Certainly that man is properly certifi
cated to express the thoughts , uphold
the fallacies and give circulation to the
theories of Bryauarchy.
If that "court martial" which sen
tenced him "to be hung , " because he
was an "abolitionist , " had unfortunate
ly carried out th execution , what would
Bryanarchy in Nebraska be doing today
for a leading editor ?
By the way , when and where did that
court martial convene ? Who were its
officers ? Why was the hanging
omitted ?
AN INDIAN
LEGENJD.mau > speaking of
the cattle business ,
pointed out that the raising of cattle on
ranches at the present day is a different
thing from the raising of buffalo on the
same plains , since the cattle have to
spend the entire year in one more or
less circumscribed locality , whereas the
buffalo used to range from Texas to
British Columbia , keeping abreast of
the green grnss and making the migra
tion twice in each year , once north and
once south. He also told a curious and
obscure legend of the Arapahoes , which
he said he heard from them , some time
in the 'GO's.
He said the Arapahoes told him of a
wonderful stone image on a river to the
southeast , which , as he understood
them , was the Smoky Hill. Not far
from it was another stream which was
great medicine , of which they told him
something he could not clearly under
stand , about its making men's legs and
arms out of salt ; he supposed this to all
be a reference to the Saline river. The
wonder-working image was in the figure
of a buffalo , which stood astride of a
great boulder , its fore legs being on one
side and its hinder legs on the other.
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There had formerly been a demon or S'rf1 '
malignant spirit of some kind , which
had haunted this spot , and getting upon
the stone buffalo would kill any Indian
who was so bold as to approach it. This
demon was finally overcome by the
warriors , who assaulted him in such
numbers that ho was overpowered and
slain. The magical power of the stone
buffalo consisted in this , that as soon as
the returning sun in the spring had
called the grass to lifH again it would
turn its head to the north , whereupon
the countless hosts of the buffalo would
take up their ponderous journey north
ward ; and when in the fall it was time
for them to return to a warmer climate ,
it would turn about and head south
ward. By reason of this influence over
the buffalo , the figure was held in great
veneration by the Indians , and they
made it one of their places of pilgrimage
atter the destruction of the evil spirit.
General Victor
PATRIOTISM.
Vifquaiu , an old-
time friend of President Cleveland's
administration , is as generous in poli
tical life as he is game in war life. He
has certificated the patriotic purpose
that moved the great and unselfish mind
of Colonel Bryuu when ho reluctantly
resigned , gave up all "the big ambitions"
that make war glorious , and denied him
self the fierce felicities of battles and
bullets in a hissing , tempestuous torrent
about his courage inspired person.
General Vifquain writes rather at
length but he sums up tersely and de
clares :
"Colonel Bryan resigned because he
wanted the treaty of peace ratified ; that
treaty was in danger , he saved it ; and
this has been acknowledged by all the
leading papers of the country. "
When any experienced military chief
tain really desires peace he can always
secure it by the strategy of resignation.
Joniini in his art of war may not men
tion this method of deploying one's self
out of danger but it is nevertheless
practical.
' Colonel Bryan wanted the treaty of
peace ratified 1" Therefore lie resigned.
Colonel Bryan "saved the treaty ! "
Without his presence at Washington all
would have been lost. Ho made this
second hand war , and the payment of
twenty millions of dollars therefor a
possibility. "This has been acknowl
edged by all the leading papers 1" In
vincible in peace I Invisible in war !
