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first-class posts worth 26 ceuts each.
510 trees removed make 1,020 posts ,
worth $265 , being double original cost
with total expenses , leaving the planta
tion fully paid , including twenty years
interest and taxes.
The remaining 170 trees will , by the
twentieth year , produce 850 cross-ties
worth , at GO cents , $510 , or 260 feet of
lumber per tree , 42,500 feet , b. m. ,
which , at $20 per 1,000 , is $850.
The value of the land having been
greatly improved , and a permanent in
come assured from the continued
growths ( as the trees are quickly re
newed from the stumps ) equal to a capi
tal investment of $1,000 at 8 per cent ,
interest.
UNCLASSIFIED.
People never realized the terrible ef
fects of the drouth until Missouri sug
gested it was time to pray.
The Ohio democratic convention left
Bryan looking very much as if he had
held a seance with Came Nation.
The Commoner says : "Ohio republi
cans have learned that it is not their
part to think , but to accept. " A close
attention to the rumbling would have
caused the peerless to notice that Ohio
democrats have the ability to think and
the judgment to act. Their attachment
to ancient history is not pronounced.
Last year the republicans insisted that
the price of wool was directly caused by
the tariff. Today they assure us that
the price is depressed by "destiny , " the
"will of God" and other well known at
tributes of republican politicians.
"The identity of the democratic can
didate for president in 1904 is not yet
known , but it is known that
who ever he is , he will not
be a democrat nominated by populists
for populist purposes only. " The above
is stolen bodily from the Commoner
with the change of but two words. It
is gratifying to find that journal come
within two of being right.
Mr. Bryan does not seem to compre
hend how our currency has increased
$100,000,000 in amount of circulation
when he had figured that inflation was
the only method of increase. Once set
tled that he and his vagaries were rele
gated to the shelves of the antiquary ,
$100,000,000 of sound money came out of
hiding , where it was driven by the popu-
listic tornado of 1890.
Pennsylvania is the most intensely re
publican state in the union , and Phila
delphia its most republican city. As
we gaze at them , can we blame Croker
for rolling his eyes to Heaven with that
"I am holier than thou" look ! Quay
is doing his best to make Oroker respect
able , a thing the Almighty failed to do.
A corporation has been organized un
der the laws of New Jersey to do busi
ness hi the Philippines. This illustrates
how much superior to to the constitu
tion are the laws of Now Jersey.
The republicans are very nervous fox-
fear that any agitation of the question
of taxation will unsettle values and de
moralize business. One would scarcely
have expected the great slump in the
stock market that followed the July 1st
abolition of tax /oArc hewing-gum.
Gradually the.publicjirb'beginning to
seeKrugerin his'neW light. A stub
born , selfish , avaricious-brute. With
his twenty-five millions of'political '
plunder he is safely housed hi Belgum ,
and refuses to listen to the pleadings of
Mrs. Botha , who has come thousands of
miles to advocate the cessation of a war
that means only death and desolation to
those who did not follow the cowardly
president in his flight. Even his poor
wife , who had honestly struggled by his
side for years , was left to die alone amid
the horrors of a useless and hopeless war
While his precious body and fortune
are safe he cries frantically for all oth
ers to risk their lives and sink their all
in the struggle. From the very outset
of the trouble his obstinacy and covet-
uousness produced , he never ceased to
quote pious psalms and plunder. At
the first approach of danger he resigned
his commission , but left not one dollar
of his ill-gotten wealth to aid the cause
he claims to represent. Benedict Ar
nold and Aaron Burr at least had the
imaginary or real excuse that their great
services to the country had been re
quited by neglect and abuse. Kruger
was simply a South African populist
who had the temporary power to attach
by legislative robbery every species of suc
cessful enterprise within his grasp. Cor
rupt enough to amass a fortune of $25-
000,000 in office , coward enough to flee ,
and audacity enough to pose as a stand
ard bearer of liberty.
Even from Mr. Bryan's ' statement it
is evident that Aguinaldo and his
friends thought the contract would be
more binding if they could plead a
valuable consideration , A man who
would not make a speech in behalf of
his own candidacy except on a O. O. D.
basis , cannot blame the poor Filipinos
if they wanted to bolster up the prom
ises of the Kansas City platform with
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those tangible beauties so dear to the
prudent peerless.
It looks now as if nature , resenting
the presumption of the administration
was about to give us an object lesson ,
whereby we may judge whether pros
perity is the result of her bounties or
those dealt out to the steel and sugar
infants by the tariff , that well known
agent of the Almighty in distributing
blessings to such as contribute with
alacrity and sufficiency to the campaign
fund. There is somethiug sublime in the
pecksnifficau complacency with which
Mark Hauna and his lieutenp uts assume
that they are vice-gereuts of providence
carrying out the decrees and destinies
of the All-wise , who , until very recently
was compelled to forward the civiliza
tion of mankind unaided. The consti
tution being taught to know its place
and keep it , has removed a gretit ob
stacle from the path of the Almighty
and "destiny" and soft jobs can walk
hand in hand in the dependencies. The
administration following the example of
the patriarchs will "make a covenant
with the Most High , " and agree to not
interfere with "destiny" so long as the
soft'job's are as the sands of the sea for
( multitude.
O/'EtVtu , Brute ! " is said to have
been 'the exclamation of the peerless
when Charlie Towne became "satisfied
that silver is dead. " It is alleged that
Charlie is making good money in New
York , and does not want any foolish
ness to reduce it to a silver basis. How
often Bryan must think of those words
of Ney when Napoleon , on the retreat
of Moscow , asked him , "Where is the
rearguard ? " "I am the rearguard"
said the old hero as he remembered that
all but him had fallen in that awful re
treat.
As Bryan looks back and sees Hogg ,
of'Texas , a bloated millionaire , Petti-
grew , the headland front of a soulless
corporation , Charlie Towne forgetting
the "masses" as he rolls in the lap of
luxury , the New York Journal gone
over to the gold mammon , the holy
prophet , Croker , an exile in the laud of
the Philistines , Tillman politically dead
from a base imitation of his leader's
resignation , and so have fallen all those
who once waked the echoes when the
crown of thorns was torn from the
sacred head to do duty in the vilest ag
gregation ever gathered in America for
political plunder.
Well , con Bryan pose before the pub
lic after his political Moscow , and say ,
"I am the rear guard , " with all the em
phasis upon the rear.
T. M. S.
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