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Show NEWS SUMARY. glory with you !u the fruits of ths 4. i77S. Hut it Is time a new and grander declaration of IndeDIRECT LEGISLATION IS THE pendence, and It is curious how nearly the former document will answer MEANS. for the preseut crisis. JOHN WOOLLEY. It Wonld Overthrow tho IteniotLm of and KepUee 1tilltlcsl Folltlrliins POINTS FROM THE PRESS. I'owor In tho IIsiiiIh uf ilia Iooplo Themselves. Many poor wretches, the worst victims of the gold standard nuiuiipcly 'At the outset it ou:;n! to be rememand extortion, will vote the Republican bered not for boasting, but rather fur t because it is the party of the abasement that American liberty by Such are the wuif kind of slaves rii!. its first conscious action put eunsrieucij and possess no qualifications wiiatever in command of all its I'oivrs. No greed for citizenship in a repuliiic. of gain, no love of adventure, no hope of conquest, no lust of power, drew our In this warfare upon the Filipinos fathers to the western wilderness. Conis safe to assert that the president it science drove them down to the sea been guided h.v the Aimighiy-Dul-lahas und pushed them of.' and beat them J Ublict-her with away wings until they caught the spirit and the rhythm, and fixed What would Christ think of imtheir eyes upon the sun and followed it to perialism? Whut would ho think of west, where there was Cecil Rhodes? What would he think worship God unwatched. Pride and avarice sent out their colonies, and of the English Blums, of the English they dieu or are dying. Hut every set- paupers, of the English millionaires, of tlement Queen Couseii-iu-planted the Indian and Russian and ItusB'un boat, the grew and muPIplieu and in its season famines, of the submarine bore the Union of the Fourth of July. quick-firin- g gun, the melenite shell and the torpedo? What would he What do you seek, John Carver, with think of the disgraceful plots and Inyour leaky shlpB and motley company? trigues of imperialists in Africa? What Freedom to worship God according to would he think of the dismemberment of China, the slaughter in the Soudan, the dictates of our own conscience! Leonard Calvert, what brings you the kidnapping of Finland, and Kaiwith your 200 Catholic emigrants, into lyard Kipling's hymns? Ixmdou the savage forests? A chance to serve Clarion. God unlet except by conscience! James Oglethorp, what fool's errand The great trusts and monopolies Is this of yours, with your 500 ragged levy tribute from every man. woman poor? Conscience! and child in the land to satisfy greed, Who sent you, William Penn? Con- while the great mass of the jieople science! must sell their products in tho comWhat ails you, Roger Williams? Con- petitive markets of the world. Nuck-ol- s science! Robert Green, who have you County Conscience! brought to Albemarle? Sam Adams, Franklin. Hamilton, JefThe only argument the Republican ferson? What Is up in tlie colonies? press has against the people who are Conscience! pointing out the mistakes of the MGeorge Washington, what are you cKinley administration. Is to cry doing on your knees in the snowy It don't prove anything, traitor!" woods of Valley Forge? What is on and Is a position that canuut he mainyour mind? Conscience! tained. Ord Journal. TO NORTHWEST NOTES. curious report gained credence In II. J. llannan, who ia under arrest in Mexico City Christmas that Aguinuldo Man Francisco on the charge that he had arrived in Mexico. committed a murder in (Ireensbury, A school for training railway experts has just been established in Berlin. It will open next month. The Chilcat Indians, who it is claimed murdered a man named Elkins two years ago, are again raising a disturbance. No more Indians will le permitted to leave their reservations for Wild West exhibition purposes. They cannot secure the consent of the Indian bureau. Tlie urgent deficiency appropriation hill, the first of the important supply bills for the government expenses, is practically made up, ami tile total will amount to about S7 1,000, (KM). The bank uf Montreal has subscribed $10,000 to the relief fuud uf the British soldiers in South Africa. The directors if the bank added 5?7..MHI to this amount in personal subscriptions. A John E. Robson, the bridge contractor, who was murderously assaulted by a burglar in liis oil ice in Sioux City. Is., last week is dead. There is no satisfactory clue to the murderer. The United States supreme eourthas rendered decisions in two cases involving land grants in New Mexico, both opinions Wing ly Justice I'eckliam, and Ixjth adverse to claimants. Captain 11. W. Itjornstcil, formerly of the Thirteenth Minnesota volunteers, who has been apMiiited Captain iu the Fif infantry, nnw in the Philippines, has reported at llie Presidio. The stories regarding a Fcniau invasion of Canada telegraphed to Ottawa from the United States arela"ghed at hr the militia department, the gov eminent and the people there gener- allv. Representative Derry of Kentucky, a me m her of the river aud harbor committee, does not agree with the view of Chairman Hurton of the committee that there will he no river and harlior bill this veir , An agent of the Doer republic is in E1 Paso. Texus, for the purpose of enlisting men for the present war with Great Hritain. He is well supplied with funds and claims to have come from tlie Transvaal. Former Congressman Hen Clover committed suicide ut his home near Douglass. Huller county, Kan., last Despond- week, by shouting himself. .siekne.sb and pov- eucy resulting from Pa., has applied for a writ of lialieaa corpus. K hearing on the application will lie held in the superior court. Au iuvitatiou signed by Mayor Phelan of Sau Francisco and the grand officers of the Native Sons of the (iolileii West, has been sent to Ad mi ral Dewey requesting his presence in thin city on Admission day. Sviteiulcr it, liiix). Ataspccial election held in California it was decided to bond the city of San Francisco in the sum of .SL.Vin.ooo for About Itu.oOO public park purposes. votes were cast, and the proposition curried liy a vote of four to one. Due of tlie most disasterous floods in in thchistory of the state of Washington is raging along the Xooksuck river in Whatcom county. It is estimated that ftlli.'i'Ki worth of ilumage has already been douc to farms and buildings and still the waters show no indication of subsiding. While engaged in digging a cut for a miners ditch oil lliitte Creek, Chico, Cal., Frank Cable and a man named Conner were buried uuderseveral hundred tons of ruck and earth. After several hours work the terribly mutilated body of Conner was recovered. Cables body has not yet been found. President John W. Springer of the National Live Stock association has issued tlie otlicial cull for the big animal convetitiou of the association to meet in Fort Worth. Texas, on Febru- ary lii. The convention will be com-- ! posed of delegates representing all of the largest Live Stock associations in the country. The boiler of a locomotive on the Denver Rio Grande railroad blew up j at Mintiirn, olo. . last week killing Engineer S. II. (piaekeiihush and in- juriug Fireman Suldeti so badly that he die(, R few ,,ou.s luter Alexamler Wilson, roundhouse foreman, and T j, j,u.liardtont caUeri were aiso in- jured but IMjt 1 he rela,',ves of nyde - Rickey, son of J. K. liickev of the Hoffman Ilous, Xew Yorkf ar; anxioU!i to dis(.over hia whereabouts. lie was a guest of the Palace hotel, Sau Francisco, for a short time last month and left there, ostensibly to go to a sanitarium to undergo a surgical operation. He has not been seen since. A dastardly attempt was made last week to wreck a Chinese Methodist mission church at Victoria. H. C. While tlie congregation, principally Chinese, was worshipping, n hoinh made of lead pipe tilled with gunpowder, was exploded. No one was injured. The deed is ascribed to heathen Chinese jealous of the introduction of Chris-Fai- r tianity uuiong their eoiiutryuien. The Carbon Hill company gave $.VK to each widow and Sinn to each child of a miner killed in the recent explo-worksion at Wash. Mot tiers dependent upon lost sons for support were treated on the same basis as widows. This donation of tlie company represents a total of about Relief fund contributions from all parts of the slate will uinount 1o a sky-roo- . I i I only skim the history. Nothing more Is needful for my purpose, for I do not seek to Instruct, hut to remind you. Read It again, if you have for- gotten. Read it all, and teach your children from thiB day that the thing which came and saw and conquered Ban-- j here, and made the ner possible, was steel- con-- j thewed, unfettererd, mountain-to- p science, and that is the American eagle. The highest plane will not be reached by sad gunpowder, and an alliance with England, but by con- science and truth and an alliance with common honesty at home. j , j ; ; i j Star-Spangl- ed wide-winge- sea-pow- j j s, Carl-oriaudo- . $10.-00- 0. ff ff d, er But that is Impossible unless and until the people get back into their own hands the power which they had at the beginning by whatever changes of method in our politics will enable them effectively to express the popular desire and the popular disgust. The American people are capable of self-- i government, but only serfs and thieves can live long under the present government of the boss, by the buss, for the boss. Our people are not the stuff for slaves. They are conscientious, chivalrous and brave. But they are dazed and stunned by the damnable Impudence of the machines. j and wiio was taken sick at Omaha re-- j cently. while playing with a Vanity Theatrical company. is dead at the city hospital. Kansas City. Taking effect on January 1, 1900. common labor at the Carnegie steel Iittslnirg. was increased to 51.50 per day, arni all other day turn aud tonnage labor (with certain ex-- 1 cepliens). will lie increased in proportion. Sheriff Thefatal wounding of William Eainliolt of Chevaz. county, N. sum. M., by two desperadoes whom he and large J. L. Johnston, of Laramie. Wyo., a posse were trying to capture, is reis serving a life sentence for the who had been others bolt with Rain ported. iu pnrsuit uf the outlaws for several murder of Willis Strang, a hoy whom he killed at a ranch in Brown's Park, days. been granted a new trial. has Young A resolution expressing sympathy while on his deathbed stated Strang Great war with in their Doers with the did mean to Johnston not that shoot one tlie with identical adopted Britain, him and that it was an accident. The last Aldermen of board week, tbe by oas been offered in the New York city judge wlio tried the ease would not council. President Gugjrenlieiiner ruled admit this statement as evidence, but that the resolution was nut of order, the supreme court now orders that the statement be admitted. This evidence and it was laid over. alone will doubtless acquit Johnston. Cauadii is preparing to make a strong The Union Pacific is considering bid for that class of American corpoanother lag cut-oA project which will trusts. as reprerations known main line of the road the shorten Dominion the of government sentative has arrived in New York City to con- several miles and do away with one of fer with representatives of the largest the steepest hills between Omaha and A corps of surveyors are now companies having their main offices in Ogden. field east of Cheyenne. Wyo., in the New York. running lines west of Atkinsund enter Eugene L. Packard, who formerly the city from northeast instead of from conducted the Investment Security tlie east, as at with instrucinstitution, tions to make present, company, a a "straight line the lias been convicted in New York shoot and with Archer easy grades. of using the mails to further schemes hill, which necessitated on all helpers to defraud, anti was remanded for sen- trains or the to freights doubling" te nee. get over the hills, will be avoided. Secretary Iong has addressed letters A negro named Lucius Miller, emto Senator Hale and Representative ployed at a Union Pacific grading Bou telle who look after navul legislacut-oat ramp on the llanua-Dan- a tion in the senate and house, relative Hanna. Wyo., armed himself with a to the plan of refitting the historic old pitchfork, and swearing he would kill craft Constitution, as a navul training every limn in camp, sturted on his misship. sion. lie cracked the heads of several W. II. Gilbert, a bankrupt hardware graders and was having everything his merchant from II iiiston, N. C., has for- own way when he went to tlie contracComtors supply wagon, where he met Troy mally declared to United States in San Francisco missioner Heacock Pendleton, a white man. Pendleton that he will no longer resist tbe legal' watched his chance, when he wipped effort to send him to North Carolina out liis revolver and tired full In the for trial. negroes face killing him. m lh-rald- . Party government has proven utternot because it is intrinsically bad. but because the people hare not provided any means of present discipline of their servants. It might to he possible for the people suddenly to spank the fussy old babies in the United States Benate, and teach them that they are there to do business for the American eagle, and not to ly futile and hateful, j slobber over courtesies. It ought to be possible for the peoorder a plebiscite upon any question that seems great enough to them. But it is not possible now. The politician may be feared and despised and repudiated in the public mind, but he stays his time, and lays hiB mines aud places hts bribes, while the people he Is betraying have to work to pay his salary. They have no time to cir- cum vent him; nor get in training for It. Agitators use and give their time and teach the masses, but the busy people fear to quit the party, and really can not take time to think the situations through to a decision. But the vicious man has time, and though he is a trained thief of the people's power, his party machine stands by him. and he has his way. Usually no reform can be promoted without a party, and at the same time there is nothing the people distrust more than the man who proposes a new party. ple to The initiative and referendum, 1 think, would he, and the Imperative mandate would be dignified, conservative, simple, safe, powerful. Representative government would tie retained intact. Parties would still do the business of politics. There would be still. The people would still be slow to move and hard to change, but It would be clear that our politicians were servants and the people master, and any man or woman who had a vision of new truth would have a chance to teach It without the Intolerable handicap of party fear. office-seeke- rs . Can your soul he in peace. If when while you are dining at society's banquet., your brother is dying in societys cellar? Bayonet. The only points In the United States where you can lmy slaves now are the Hawaiian and Sulu islands. Indianapolis Sentinel. llrat bjr Winning. The workingman is a queer being. The plutocrat robs him of four-fiftof what he produces and tells him he Is not competent for yet he will vote for the plutocrat every chance he gets. He doesn't rare whether his mortgage is foreclosed and he loses his home or not; he will even stand It to see his wife and babies go shoeless and hungry for the privilege of voting the old party ticket and give the plutes a good time. They tell him that the city could not manage the street cars, water, gas, etc., and he believes it and votes for private monopoly. They tell him the government could not conduct the railroads, telegraphs, etc., so he votes for monopoly again. When the plates want a new lease of power, they call on him. und he hollers himself hoarse for the g. o. p. If they want to steal a franchise anil rob tbe people by monopolizing a public utility, he is ready again to serve them. He will He is a splendid slave. work for the plute for a bare living and go to the poor house when he gets sick or old. He talks a great deal about his party winning, but he does not know that he is beaten every time his party wins. He does not help to dethrone the people instead of his party. He thinks other people know more than he does and Is willing they Bhould govern him and gobble up his earnings, so they leave him a bare living. Some time he will know better. Coming Time. hs The IlHiigernun Clt Urn. The thing that we call politics, which so many good, but misguided, people only regard with contempt and speak of with a sneer, has really to do with the most sacred relations of fife, and the man who piously says that he ia above having anything to do with politics simply says he is above having anything to do with adjusting the relations between his fellowmen. and to my mind there is no more dangerous citizen or dangerous class of citizens today than the Pharisees who. und of business religion, holier than themselves counting other men, are so absorbed either In g nr selfthe business of adoration that they frankly say they have no time" to meddle with polities. If it is true that politics are dirty, and good and pious men are too good and too pious and too busy to lend a hand in the work of cleaning up the political situation, what hope is there for our political institutions? I am one who believ there is no hope for political pea- - except as it is reached through political and social justice. I do not believe that our social and political problems are to be fought out; they are to be thought OuL Hon. S. M. JoneB money-gettin- CHAPTER. St. Loii.a Congress cannot do better than to investigata wars in Idaho betwee: the seven-yea- r the mine owners and miners uf th Coeur d'Alene district. The story ofl Warder's "Hull Pen" is an Infamous chapter In American history. On ap plication from tlie governor tlie federal troops were to "preserve order." This turned tint to mean to eoerre the strikers into submission. Martial law wai proclaimed, and the entire district hat for n long time been Virtually undei the government of an irresponsible military commander, working in conjunction with a governor who is himself said to lie under the inlliieucc ui the corporations. The "Huil Pen" it the ptisuit where the military authorities have confined the milters who wers not submissive. It is sui.l that as malty us 2.UW) men have been held in this pen. aud of the total mim litr incarcer ated only IS have been graciously granted a trial by jury. Justice, law, und every principle of civil liberty have been violated by the military an tliorilies. Post-Dispatc- h: e A; " AN INFAMOUS r. : I I act of July . i ; VEKMIENT th-ke- . ; SELF-G- O The Standard Oil is mixed up In the That mnuoMily owns the disgrace. principal mines in the district, and the ease with which the whole power of the national government has been thrown against the nit-- is another illustration of the bad of that infamous trust. Congress cannot evade the demand for an investigation. When the facts are brought out we' shall know more of trust methods, and' the chronicle of infamy will he cnriclied by another chapter. e" -, Thai 0mm Door. New York World: Mr. McKinley)' policy on tlie "open door must sug' gest to the European powers includ-- ; ing our dear friends and "allies, England and Germany the old confidence, game called "oppn and shut," or "now you see it and now you don't. lie. would have an "open door where we1 want to trade, but a shut door where; others want to trade with ub. We! would unite with European powers in punching a hole in the Chinese wall in the Celestial empire, but refuses to de-tach one brick or stone for our 52 per, cent tariff wall. He asks written, pledges from these powers guaranteeing Americans equal trade advantages with their citizens In the various "spheres of Influence" In China, and asks Ambassador (through Choate) "Who shall dare slam the door in our faces? but he will grant no corresponding privileges to Europeans in the Philippines or elsewhere. The chances are that the European powers, including our new "allies, will Bay to Mr. McKinley: You are asking something for nothing. Favors between governments are based on reciprocity. A commercial dour must swing out as well as in. j Auierlrn anil the. Trnnnvnnl. Why is Columbia silent, though the hordes Of hungry Hritain overrun the veldt Columbia, whose free h"art was wont to melt At every tale that history records Of down-tro- d peoples and oppressive lords Whose sympathy sad Kosciusko felt; While Bolivar and Kossuth, Greek and Kelt, Found her voice mightier than ten thousand swords. Why Is she deaf to cries for help today. Such as had rent her very soul in twain, In happier times? See how she turns away From Kruger, pleading for her aid in vain. Alas, no longer first of freedom's lands, She turns away to hide her bloody hands! Ernest H. Crosby, in Springfield Republican. Trim K.Urd by Triads. Trust apologists must explain away several facts before they can ask consumers to believe their reiterated claim that trusts are good for the country. Today the average cost of the necessaries of life is 15 per cent higher than it. was twelve months ago. Salt, which before the salt trust was formed, sold for 82 cents a barrel, now sells at $1.50. Carpets are 20 per rent higher than they were before the earpet trust was organized. Practically all the mills In New England are controlled by a trust Print cloths of every kind are selling for of a cent more per yard than they were a year ago. The average increase in the price of their products made by the Iron, steel and copper trusts is 40 per rent. The anthracite coal region is under trust control. This tniBt ordered an advance of 25 per cent about a month ago. and Bince then it has put on an additional five cents per ton. St Louis Republic. three-quarte- rs Worry often kills whers a shotgun wouldn't. |