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LITTLK IJETTI3U TIIA.X TUKASON.
"We fail to see how our imperialist
friends can look upon the resolution
adopted by the republican state conven
tion of Massachusetts on the Philippine
question as much better than treason
able. It doesn't oven refer to the
Philippine insurgents as "rebels. " It
does not demand unconditional sur
render. It does not declare that where
once the flag has been raised it must
float forever. It does not even qualify
the liberty and self-government that it
favors for the Filipinos with , the phrase
"as much as is good for them" or even
"as much as they are capable of. " It
asks squarely and without any equivo
cation that a government be given the
Philippines "as free , as liberal , and as
progressive as our own. " No govern
ment can be as free , as liberal , and pro
gressive as our own which leaves any
body but the governed to determine the
kind of government. It demands also
that the government to be given the
Philippines shall be "in accordance with
the sacred principles of liberty and s < If-
government upon which the American
republic so securely rests. " The liberty
and self-government upon which the
American republic rests is the kind
specified in the declaration of indepen
"V dence liberty which is inalienable and
Sflf-government which rests upon the
consent of the governed. Few anti-
imperinlists in this country have asked
more for the Filipinos than the Massa
chusetts republicans voluntarily concede
should be given them. To their honor
be it said the Massachusetts republicans
have shown themselves true to the great
and underlying principles of their party ,
true to liberty , self-government , and the
rights of man. Portland ( Me. ) Press
J/,1 ( rep. ) .
There is a remarkable
UNIFOKMITY
markable uniformity
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OF SOIL.
ity in the soil of
north-western Missouri , south-western
Iowa and south-eastern Nebraska. In
the Iowa counties of Mills , Fivmont ,
Page and Montgomery , the Missouri
counties of Atchison , Holt , Andrew and
Nodaway and in the Nebraska counties
of Cass , Otoo , Nemaha and Richardson
the same soil covers all the fields. It is
a rich , black loam. It is like the loess
! < ( ' > > ' ' " " formation along the Rhino and therefore
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fore , phenomenally fertile and pro
ductive.
During the last fifty years the
Nebraska counties have only been
opened to hottlement since 1854 there
has never been a total failure of crops
in any one of the counties named in
either state. Their average crops of
corn have been , no doubt , during a
half century , the largest per acre in the
United States.
There are more well-fixed farmers in
the counties named and fewer farms
under mortgage than in a similar area
anywhere in this republic. There are
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very few mortgages roprespnting any
thing besides deferred payments of the
money agreed to be given for the lands.
In Fremont county , Iowa , and Atchison -
son county , Missouri , are two of the
largest cornfields in the world ; the
former is the Payne corn patch of eight
thousand acres ; and the Atchison
county , Missouri , rejoices in the Dave
Riuikiu cornfield of eleven thousand
acres , the same being one of the fields
in a farm of thirty thousand acres.
And in all these counties the season ot
18)9 ! ) has been propitious and bountiful
Calamity howlers are aghast ! In the
presence of the matured corn crop , fat
cattle , fat hogs and high prices for beef
and pork even Bryauarchists are tongue-
tied. There is nothing upon which to
base discontent. The people are prosper
ous. The honest , temperate and in
dustrious are happy.
HANK CIRCULATION.
[ From the New York Journal of Commerce. ]
In 1873 , the bank circulation stood at
$ ! J40,000,000 ; now , notwithstanding the
increase of 55 per cent in population
during the interval , the volume is only
about GO per cent of what it then was.
in 18715 , the bank notes outstanding
constituted 45 per cent of the total stock
of money ; today , the proportion of that
form of currency to the whole stock is
only about 10 per cent. Twenty-six
years ago the bank issues were § 8.00 per
head of population ; now they are $3.00
per head.
A "WEAK" AND "CLOUIJEIV VEUDICT.
Two occurrences of the year made
consideration of the civil service laws
suitable ( in the resolutions of the Massa
chusetts republican convention ) the
president's order removing a largo body
of officials from the protected lists and a
determined attempt in the Massachusetts
legislature to repeal the state laws.
What is the verdict of the convention ?
In the first paragraph a weak affirma
tion of allegiance to the cause , clouded
in'the second paragraph by a plea for
"adaptation" to changing conditions.
Is the president to consider that in the
eyes of Massachusetts republicans his
order was right or wrong ? Are the
enemies of civil-service reform in the
next legislature to be checked or to be
comforted by the platform's declaration ?
Boston Journal ( rep. ) .
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