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THE BROAD AX OUR TICKET. For President—Col. Wm. J. Bryan, of Nebraska. For Vice-President—Congressman Wm. Sulzer, of New York. OUR PLATFORM Equal and exact justice to every man, woman and child—special privileges to none. Down with trusts, monopolies, unlawful combinations, mob and lynch law, militarism, imperialism. Secret alliances with foreign countries. America for the Americans, Cuba for the Cubans and the Philippine Islands for the Filipinos. THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE NEGRO. IX The final result of the Presidential election of 1852 was more than a great surprise to the leaders of the Whig and the Democratic party. Franklin Pierce was triumphant, and Gen. Winfield Scott, the last regular Whig candidate for the Presidency was overwhelmingly defeated. He received only forty-two electoral votes as against two hundred and fifty-four for Mr. Pierce. So far as the Whig party was concerned it was hopelessly and forever buried beyond resurrection. John P. Hale received a fraction over one hundred and fifty-six thousand votes, thus showing that in 1852, or a little more than twelve years before the Negro gained his freedom through the fortunes of war only one voter out of twenty was in favor of sweeping slavery from the land. Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Thurlow Weed, Wm. H. Seward, Horace Greeley and many other noted Wihgs deplored the death of their party and Daniel Webster stood up in the midst of a vast concourse of people and exclaimed "Where! O, where! will I go?" and four years from that time or until the formation of the Republican party these distinguished Whigs were like a ship lost upon the high sea, or a mariner without a compass, for they were unable to find a political haven. President Pierce was inducted into office, March 4, 1853, and while delivering his inaugural address he expressed the fervent hope that the slavery question was "forever at rest" and it appeared that the President's wishes would be filled for the anti-slavery element was not as formidable in the Thirty-third Congress as in the preceding one. But on the twenty-third of January, or shortly after the session was under good headway, President Pierce was shocked by the proposition of Senator Stephen A. Douglas to repeal the Missouri Compromise Measure, and after a very exciting debate in both branches of Congress, which lasted four months it was finally repealed on the thirtieth of May, 1854. By repealing the Missouri compromise the whole question of slavery was thus reopened, for some one has said that "The sacredness of the compact of 1820, and the wickedness of its violation depended largely upon the character of slavery itself and our constitutional relations to it." The surviving leaders of the defunct Whig party and many other people severely censured Senator Douglas for scoring the rppeal of the act of 1820, they maintained that by so doing "all the sectional feeling between the North and the South would be revived, so the demand went up from the people in all parts of the North. Restore the compromise act of 1820, but it never occurred to them that if it was morally wrong for slavery to exist north of the southern boundary of Missouri, it was equally wrong for it to exist south of the line which pretended to seperate slavery and freedom. Speaking in behalf of the Free Soil Democrats, John P. Hale gave expression to these sentiments: "We are radically opposed to slavery upon principle, and irrespective of any compact or sompromise. We do not demand the restoration of the Missouri compromise, and while we rejoice at the popular condemnation of those who voted for its repeal, but we have long regarded it as a false issue. It has long been an instrument upon which many different tunes could be played. "To restore it would prevent the spread of slavery over soil not free; but it would re-affirm the bind- ing obligation of a compact that should never have been made, and from which we are now offered a favorable opportunity of deliverance." "Moreover it would be recognizing slavery as an equal and honorable contracting party, waiving its violated faith, and thus perclude us from pleading its perfidy in discharge of all compromises." "Our cause is just but it would degrade it to the level of those who have washed their hands of all taint of abolitionism, and only wage war against the Administration because it broke up the blessed reign of Peace which descended upon the country in the year 1850. We insist that the breach of this compact is only a single link in a great chain of measures aiming to place all the states and territories under the absolute control of the general government, so let us continue to insist that this breach should be the oxodus of the people from the bondage of all compromisees." The Free Soil Democrats further argued that to cut down the issue between slavery and freedom to so narrow, equivocal, and half-measure as the Missouri compromise was practical infidelity to the cause of Liberty; it would be sporting with humanity, and giving to the winds an inglorious victory for the wrong. (To be continued.) FATHER F. L. REYNOLDS ON GEO. WASHINGTON. It is rather late, but we gladly reproduce a synopsis of the address which Father Reynolds delivered before the American Council of "National Union," in honor of Geo. Washington. Father Reynolds said in part: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: On February 22d, 1732, was born into the world the Immortal George Washington. Never since the birth of the Saviour of mankind has there been a child born that was destined to play such an important part in shaping the future destinies of the world. On the date of Washington's birth Liberty was born and the tyranny of kings and emperors began to expire. In the words of the immortal patriot, Robert Emmet, "Liberty is the child of oppression and the birth of the offspring is the death of the parent." Whatever liberty, civil or religious, European nations enjoy today is but a reflection from the glorious "sunburst of liberty," which George Washington established in the firmament of America. With mighty sword in hand he destroyed here forever, the galling yoke of English tyranny, and gave to posterity a free and independent Republic. For years the colonists in America were ground under the yoke of British misrule and robbery. England, ever true to her national characteristic of plunder, tyranny, and confiscation, had evidently determined upon a wholesale robbery of her subjects in America. She forced upon them the most infamous and unjust system of taxation as she had done in Ireland centuries before. By acts of parliament she destroyed commerce and industry. Every kind of manufacture that could compete with the manufactures of England she crushed out by law. She would not allow the colonists to set up iron furnaces or slitting mills. She forbade them to establish woolen factories or send their goods to any other country or even from one colony into another to make their own hats. They were obliged to wear English made hats. Every saw, ax, hammer, or anything else in daily use, had to be brought over here from England. King George III., according to almost all historians, was the worst monarch of modern times. According to Ridpath, he was a "stupid, stubborn, thick-headed man in whose mind the notion of human rights were entirely wanting." His reign of sixty years was as odious, as it was long. He defiantly refused to assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the common good. Every person sent to him by the colonists was indignantly refused and greater burdens imposed upon the people. He plundered their seas, ravaged their coasts burned their towns, and destroyed the lives of their people. He sent over here large armies of foreign soldiers to complete the work of each, desolation, and tyranny with circumstances of cruelty an perilly scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He tried to incite domestic in- HEW TO THE LINE. surrection among the people and employed the wild Indians to butcher and tomahawk the defenceless women and children. In vain did the colonists plead for parliamentary representation. In vain did they plead for justice. England was determined to crush them, but the American people would no longer stand it and they resolved to stand up on their feet like men and fight and die for Liberty and Justice. In the words of Richard Henry Lee they had determined that the "United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states. That they are abolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political communication between them and the Kingdom of Great Britain is, and ought to be totally dissolved." They felt that parliamentary representation, even if they got it, would be a failure and that nothing but the strong right arm of any people is competent to repell injustice and achieve the glorious standard of national independence and liberty. They also felt that America would forever remain a British Province of they waited for redress from parliamentary representation, instead of the crack of the musket and the thundering boom of the cannon. And so America, under the leadership of the immortal Washington, rose in her young and glorious manhood, asserted her God given rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;" shook off forever the galling yoke of English tyranny and gave to posterity a free and independent Republic. You here tonight, by anticipation, are celebrating the birthday of Washington, "the father of his country." On next Thursday this mighty nation from shore to shore, in music and speech and cannon roar will celebrate the downfall of tyranny and the glories of civil and religious liberty. A few narrow-minded bigots and designing politicians would fain destroy this glorious inheritance, but the vast majority of the American people will never sanction any policy that would deprive any people of the blessings of liberty. The speaker drew an analogy between the Boers of South Africa under Paul Kruger and the colonists of America under George Washington and said: In the conflict forced upon them by the unscrupulous greed and tyranny of England, the entire sympathy of America, and of all liberty-loving nations ought to be with the Boers. He said that Chicago ought to feel proud that it was the first to send to South Africa an ambulance corps to nurse the sick and wounded soldiers of the Transvaal. If it is our duty to offer kindly assistance and sympathy to the ordinary sick; with far greater ardor should we hasten to assist the wounded soldier of the Transvaal who has taken up arms and gone out to fight and die for fatherland and freedom. It is the same bloodthirty tyrant who tried to rob and plunder and oppress the colonists of America until she forced them into rebellion that sent over here large armies of paid assassins to cut the throats of the American people; that employed the wild Indians to butcher our defenceless women and children. It is the same tyrant now tries to rob and plunder and oppress the brave citizens of the Transvaal and Free State republics; to rob them of their peaceful homes and possessions, and deprive them of every mean of existence. But the Boers of Africa like the colonists of America are determined to sell their liberties at a very high price and have already displayed a wonderful bravery that is bound yet to drive the robber, England, from their territories forever. The speaker concluded his splendid oration with a magnificent appeal to the patriotism of Washington amidst the applause of the large assembly. Wednesday evening, March 7th, the Phyllis Wheatly club, of 5058 Dearborn street, will entertain its friends and admirers with a symposim which will be participated in by Dr. Joseph Jeffery, on "Biology." Dr. A. W. Williams, "Hygiene"; Dr. George C. Hall, "Pure Food"; Dr. W. R. White, "Sanitary and Ventilation." The people for blocks around should flock to the club rooms on this occasion to listen to the four able doctors. Read and subscribe for The Bread Ax. LETTER FROM CURTIS OR COLE TO COL. JOHN F. WATERS Hon. John F. Waters, Chicago, Ill. My dear sir: I was very proud indeed to see you and when learning your mission there are not words sufficient to describe my delight. It is true I am in custody yet, but hoping, trusting that I will soon be a free man again and if so I will not only pay you for all your trouble but anything I could do for you I will be at your service for something whispers me that I have found a friend in you who will perservere until something is done for me. Mr. Waters will you please see that my family gets on pretty well. I would that they need not for anything. As for food and raiment: Oh, Mr. Waters! My family, my family! who is so near and dear to me, oh, the thought of being seperated from them overwhelms me with sorrow. But through your counsel and proceeding the good Lord will restore me to their bosom again, and will bless you and your family for lending a poor fellow a helping hand and being instrumental in restoring to a bereaved family its husband and father. So many thanks to you, Mr. Waters, many thanks, I will be glad to hear from you at any time. I am, my dear sir, EDWARD COLE (alias Curtis). P. S. Please give my regards to all enquiring friends. E. C. MISSOURI DEMOCRACY (By Geo. Wright, Hannibal, Mo.) After a continuous struggle, Kansas City has secured the National Convention. All of Kansas City's citizens are going to do all in their power for the great men who have made the history of Democracy so great. Hon. John Knott is the able candidate for secretary of state. Mr. Knott is a strong man of the Democratic party and his future is bright. The question that presents itself to the Democracy is, will Dockery be the nominee of the Democratic party or will Ball lead the Democratic party to victory? It is a question of great importance to the state. The St. Louis Republic has espoused the cause of Dockery. The Republic is not, and has never been a pro-silver paper. Dockery's position on the silver question has been on the shady order. Dave Ball is the choice of the people and the commonwealth and will be a commendable candidate for governor. Lon. V. Stevens in a letter to Barthaldt at Washington, D. C., upholds the bill which employes 1800 men in various trades at the Missouri penitentiary. Hannibal Bimettallic Union will hold a celebration in honor of the late Richard P. Bland, the father of the free silver issue. AN EDITOR'S WARNING Last week a delinquent subscriber said he would pay up if he lived. He died. Another said, "I will see you tomorrow." He's blind. Still another said, "I'll pay you this week or go to the devil." He's gone. There are hundreds who ought to take warning of these procrastinators and pay up. GONE REPUBLICAN Norwood Times: The Minneapolis Threshing Machine Works, at Hopkins, are shut down. It is alleged the employes struck because during the last campaign the company promised a raise in the scale of wages in case McKinley was elected. The Negros of St. Louis, and for that matter, of the United States, should quit howling about recognition and lynching and patronize race enterprises. How can we expect recognition so long as our lawyers visit barrel houses and free lunch stands and help fill the chop houses of our city. Ex. Alderman Smith Robertson, colored, of Jackson, Miss., died a day or two ago, and the white mayor and aldermen acted as pallbearers. It is a tribute never before paid to a Negro there.—Ex. Miss Clara Green, of the Phyllis Wheatly club, is seriously sick,but the doctors believe she will improve from now on. CHIPS. Hon. Edward H. Wright returned home from Washington, D. C., Monday. Mrs. Agnes Moody sails for Paris on March 24th, where she will remain until the close of the exposition. S. B. Turner who is Gov. Tanner's right hand man has decided to become a candidate for county commissioner. Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett is touring the east in the interest of the antilynching bureau of the National African-American council. Turner B. Ashby is back in his old place in the assessor's office and he will continue to faithfully discharge his labors as of yore. M. P. Byrne, Esq., who has spent the past two months in traveling through the South arrived in the city Wednesday, and he is back just in time to take a hand in the Spring election. The women of the Negro city of Langston, O. T., lately raised money and have lighted the streets with fifteen gasoline lamps. The funds were secured by the giving of socials and the selling of fancy work made by the women.—Ex. The Evening Sun, which is published at the stock yards claims that F. A. Hart and M. J. Bohan have withdrawn from Aldermanic contest but we understand Mr. Bohan has not or will not withdraw and he has stated that he will remain in field until the close of the contest. A conference will be held at Montgomery, Ala., in May, to consider the race problem. Some of the very best white citizens of the South and several Northern men will take part in the conference. The present condition of the Negro will be discussed and plans laid out for his improvement. The ladies of the Mothers' Council were entertained Monday last by Mrs. S. J. Hart, 4841 Armour avenue, and in the absence of President Taylor, Mrs. L. A. Davis presided. The meeting was well attended and highly interesting. The Mother's Council meet at the same place Monday afternoon at 2 p. m. Ex-Alderman McInerney of the 29th ward will, it is said, cross swords with Alderman Thos. Carey and run as an independent candidate and it is claimed by many of the Ex-Alderman's friends hat thousands and thousands of Republicans will work and vote for him and that the chances are ten to one that he will be elected. Mrs. Matilda S. Wilson is one of our leading women of Southeast Georgia. She holds a state license as school teacher, and has taught in the public school of Darien for the past ten years. In 1894 she was elected by the board of education as assistant principal of the city school. She is highly educated and estimated to be worth about $2,500.—Ex. Last Wednesday a large delegation comprised of some of the leading citizens of the 30th ward called on Mayor Harrison and urged his honor to cease from trying to dictate to the people of the ward whom they must nominate for Alderman. 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It is stated that owing to the Boer war no London theater is playing to more than $100 a night. Blanche Bates has signed a five-year contract by which she is to appear in a series of plays written for her by David Belasco. Odette Tyler's real name is Bessie Kirkland. She is the daughter of Gen. W. W. Kirkland and a god-daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Louis Mann does not contemplate a production of "The Merchant of Venice" this spring, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. John J. Ransome, the well-known impersonator of public men, has selected a play entitled "The Politician," in which he may shortly make his star debut. Charles Frohman has secured a lot in London near Wyndham's Theater and will build a theater of his own with all up-to-date American improvements. William H. West, the well-known minstrel manager, is seriously ill of Bright's disease. He is in New York and the minstrels are continuing without him. Scenery and costumes are being designed for the elaborate production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in which Maude Adams will appear before the close of the present season. M. Coquelin, the famous French actor, has revived the dramatic version of "Les Miserables," familiar in Paris, and is credited with scoring another great hit there as Jean Valjean in the play. "In His Steps," a religious novel by George Sheldon, has circulated more than 4,000,000 copies. Now it is to be turned into a play by the London melodramatists, Sutton and Vane and Arthur Shirley. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. A motor cab service is about to be introduced in Cologne, Germany. Steel ties on the Mexican Southern railway has given so much satisfaction that they will be adopted for the entire line. Abyssinia has a telephone line 300 miles long connecting the capital and the important city. It was constructed by a Franco-Russian company. 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Address all communications to THE BROAD AX, 5040 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. CURRENT TOPICS All the world's war departments are going to school in South Africa. Under the pressure of actual modern fighting the British army has been compelled suddenly to adjust itself to conditions but dimly foreseen. How much better the other armies of Europe would have fared under the same circumstances is an open question. In any case, the Boers, with the start they were careful to preserve, could not have been easily handled by any power. Within the last few years military writers have been describing what would happen in the next war. It must be confessed that they missed the essential points. One of their favorite themes was the supposed decline in the comparative importance of cavalry. Even horses were to go out of fashion. But there has never been a war in which horses were more freely and effectively employed than that in which mankind is now so deeply interested. It has been the Boer effort to put all their forces on horseback. Each militiaman was expected to own his horse and equipment and to fall into ranks for immediate action. ANGLO-TEUTON WAR PROBABLE. The Leipsic Tageblatt, representing in its constituency the Nationalists, Pan-Germanists, anti-Semites and Saxon exporters—who, taken together, form a considerable proportion of the country's population—foresees a war with England in the not too distant future. It says, in a remarkable editorial: "Disappointment over the cool reception in Germany of Secretary Chamberlain's alliance proposal perhaps partially explains the English seizure of German ships. Still, these seizures would not have happened if England were not convinced that the fear of a continental alliance against her was unfounded. England felt that she could drop the mask of friendship. Events, then, have proved that our relation to England is the most important feature of our international politics, and that this problem can sooner or later be solved only in one way. England understands the situation thoroughly. Her thoughtful politicians are familiarizing themselves with the idea that war alone can restore the equilibrium in the Anglo-German relations." NEW ADVERTISING DODGE Olga Nethersole, the actress was a prisoner in the Tombs police court, New York, the other day, where she was arranged on a charge of violating section 385 of the penal code, which relates to matters offending public morals. The actress' latest play, "Sapho," now running at Wallack's, was the cause of her arrest. With her were arraigned Marcus Mayer, her manager, and Hamilton Revelle, the leading man of her company. When the complaint had been read to the defendants they answered the usual formal questions as to their ages and occupations. Mayer and Revelle said that they had committed no offense, and demanded speedy examinations. Miss Nethersole, when asked how she pleaded, said: "I have committed no offense against good morals or the laws of this or any other country. I especially demand to know the source of this uncalled-for attack on me and my property. The court cannot give me a too speedy examination." BURNHAM AND ROBERT& Some credit for the recent British victories is being given to that American scout, Burnham, who is on Lord Roberts' staff. This may or may not be deserved, but it is certain that in the sort of fighting that the British have had to do in the hills of South Africa, the Americans have had considerable experience in the wars with the Indians, the difference being that the hills in South Africa are a little higher than those which the Indians occupied in the fights in Kentucky and Tennessee long ago, but the forests which the red men were in gave them a great deal of protection. Then, too, there were the campaigns against the Seminoles in the everglades of Florida and against the Modocs in the lava beds. Americans have done a good deal of fighting against hidden foes, and, on the whole, have done it pretty successfully. ANOTHER WAR IN PROSPECT. Strange rumors are afloat in Vienna and still stranger things are undoubtedly occurring. Rumors point to impending hostilities between Bulgaria and Servia. There is no doubt that both are massing troops on the frontiers. It looks improbable, however, that war should occur, because neither country possesses the necessary financial sinews, and neither Russia nor Austria would sanction such an outbreak. break. PEOPLE AND POLITICS PROSPERITY WOULD MAKE LITTLE DIFFERENCE THIS YEAR. Even Were It in Evidence-The People Determided to Kill the Gold Standard National Banks and the Anglo-American Alliance. There is a general feeling that good times brings votes to the party in power, and the republican party, which claims credit for the improvement in trade conditions, expects to keep control of national affairs on its pretended production of good times. Experience proves that the people as a whole do not pay much attention to such claims and that they vote pretty much as they please, says the Illinois Democratic Press Bulletin. In 1884 times were good. Arthur had made a very acceptable president, apparently. The republicans nominated Blaine and Logan, the strongest ticket they could find, and yet they lost the election. In 1888 Grover Cleveland, running for a second term, was thought to be sure of an election. The times were good, work was plenty and wages good. Yet Cleveland was beaten. Harrison was the most capable president the republican party had selected for years. Under his administration times were still good in 1890 and 1892. Labor was employed and everything seemed in his favor. Yet both in 1890 and 1892 the republican party was shamefully beaten. In 1896 times were bad, labor unemployed and the people voted for McKinley, who was nominated on a platform pledged to carry out the policy of Grover Cleveland rather than for Bryan, who was pledged to a policy in opposition to that which had brought on the hard times. The fact is the change in the elections from year to year comes largely from the men who work for wages, and when labor is well employed they vote for whom they please. When labor is scarce they vote for the men who employ them. In 1896 three-fourths of the laboring men in the country were for Bryan, but nearly all of the employers of labor were against him. The laboring man with a job for which two or three men were waiting did not dare hazard his place by voting against the wishes of his employer, while the man out of a job was willing to vote any way in the hope of getting one. Capital was in absolute control of the labor vote. In previous years laboring men could afford to be independent, for labor was in demand. This campaign the greater demand for labor the greater the democratic vote. A Republican Bimetallist. No democrat ever went further in championing bimetallism than Senator Chandler did in his speech the other day in opposing the gold-standard-national-bank-trust bill. However rank a thick-and-thin republican partisan he has been on every other strictly party measure, Chandler has always been an outspoken opponent of the enemies of silver coinage. He is still as firm a believer in the final triumph of bimetallism as the most sanguine democrat could be. "In truth, in spite of the present conditions," he declared, "the case in favor of bimetallism still remains unimpaired." He says the republican party ought not to do any such grievous wrong as to forever discard remonetization, which it is about to do in the gold standard bill now on its passage. He entreats his party associates not to burden the American people with gold monometallism, but to renew in unmistakable language their oft repeated pledges to remonetize silver. Entreaties in this case are as futile as to entreat a burglar caught red-handed with his stolen booty to give it up, surrender to the law, and join the church. The only way for republicans, like Chandler, to achieve bimetallism is to turn their backs on, and their influence against the party that is the political agent of the money trust. But Chandler is too little a patriot and too much a partisan to do this. He will talk bimetallism till the election rolls around and then he will vote the other way.—Kansas City Times. The Hanna-Payne Subsidy Trick. One of the tricks in the Hanna subsidy bill is the pretense that the cost to the treasury will never exceed $9,000,000 a year. If this were true, the professed aim of the bill could never be attained. What the subsidy-seekers say they mean to do is to put our foreign commerce under the American flag. They point with astonishment and grief to the fact that only 15 per cent of it is now done by American ships. Well, suppose we advance to 30 per cent., or 60, or 90, what would the cost be under the Hanna bill? It has been carefully figured out by exCommissioner of Navigation Bates and he declares that, if 30 per cent. of the trade were done in American bottoms, the subsidy payments would be, the first year, $12,000,000; if 60 per cent, $24,000,000; if 90, $36,000,000. By the end of the twenty years for which contracts are to be made, and allowing for the natural increase in commerce, the treasury would have to pay out $45,000,000 a year in subsidies if only 50 per cent. of the trade were under the American flag. This is the richness on which Hanna has his eyes fastened. That $9,000,000 maximum would endure about as long as it took to get a bill through repealing it. At auy rate, the scheme is self-explanatory as it stands. If Hanna is to restore the flag" in the way he says he is, his limit on the sum available is obviously fixed far too low. There is no limit at all in last year's bill; the one inserted this year is plainly intended to deceive.—New York Nation. The Porto Rican Inhumanity. (From the New York Evening Post.) The humane people of the United States cannot too soon be aroused to the fact that the Republicans in congress are proposing to commit, in the name of this nation, an act of unparalleled and shameful cruelty. We refer to the bill taxing Puerto Rican exports and imports to the extent of 25 per cent of the Dingley rates. There are strong reasons for thinking this bill unconstitutional. They are set forth in the minority report; and also in the individual report of Mr. McCall of Massachusetts, a Republican who has the courage of his convictions and, what his Republican colleagues apparently have not, a sense of humanity. But we do not now insist upon the illegality of the measure. Chatham indignantly cried in parliament, "I come not here armed at all points with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute book doubled down in dog-ears, to defend the cause of liberty." So we say today, be the constitutional right what it may; let the supreme court reverse itself if it choose; rule out all questions of fiscal need and policy, the fact remains that this proposed legislation is so cruel, so heartless, so charged with disaster and starvation for 1,000,000 human beings, that to adopt it would entitle Spain, or Russia, or even Turkey, to send missionaries to us. Getting Their Eyes Open. The New Haven Register, which has followed the administration with scarcely a deviation in its expansion policy, has suddenly begun to scent imperialism in the administration's course. It now rejects the new constitutional theory that the territories of the United States are not a part of the United States and not within the scope of the constitution, as has been so persistently claimed by Senator Orville H. Platt. The Register thinks that Senator Platt and others will be thrown down by the Supreme court, and says so in this amusing language: "There are plenty of decisions on file to deny the power of this government, under its constitution, to hold men as subjects, or to put one territory to a use another territory is not put to. There is every reason to expect that should congress commit itself to the Platt error, it would soon reach the Supreme court. There is, moreover, every reason to expect a decision not only unfavorable to the idea, but one that will save the country from a policy of imperialism, which is the direct outcome of a colonial form of government for our off-continental possessions." Amusing it is because the Register is just beginning to call the thing by its right name—imperialism. It even talks of "saving the country."—Springfield Republican. How Do the People Like It? It appears from a response of Secretary Gage to a resolution of congress in regard to the expenditure of the $50,000,000 war fund that it cost the United States $105,144 to whitewash former Secretary Alger, and it was a poor job at that. Of this sum $42,500 was expended as compensation for the embalmed beef commission, some of whose members were also in the enjoyment of larger salaries. Besides this, $12,000 was expended for their meals, to say nothing of several odd thousands of cost for travel, Pullman car accommodations, cab hire, etc. Although a full report of this luxurious commission, which was printed by the government at the cost of $18,831, has never seen the light, the commissioners were supplied with fountain pens costing $18 each, in order that they might make precious notes of the testimony. Government commissions have become a rather expensive luxury in those recent times.—Schenectady Star. Usurpation. "If the governor of a state, with every vestige of his title above reproach, can disperse a legislature at the point of the bayonet, and in his character of usurper of legislative functions can hold, friendly intercourse with the command a ready and subservient indorsement of his partisans in other states, we have reached a serious stage, and one which should be taken under full advisement by the people for its bettering, if it be possible."—Atlanta Constitution. The principle strikes deeper than the governor of a state. If once accepted as a possibility, what is to prevent the president of the United States from resisting the seating of a Democratic president-elect? When the Republicans claim that the prosperity of the country is due to the election of McKinley, remind them that the year following his election, was the darkest in commercial circles ever known in this country. It was not till Joe Leiter's wheat deal raised the price of wheat and the war with Spain gave employment to a quarter of a million of men that the reaction came and prosperity became noticeable.—Ex. There is nothing wrong in instructing delegates to conventions. Democracy is government by the people, and the voice of the people should be heard in every Democratic convention.—Pike County Times. (Ill.) Senator Gallinger (Rep.) of New Hampshire proposes to amend the rules of the senate as follows: "All resolutions shall be referred without debate to their appropriate committees, unless the senate by unanimous consent orders otherwise." The adoption of this rule would make it impossible for Senator Pettigrew or any other senator to speak during the morning hour upon any resolution which he might have offered, except by unanimous consent expressly granted, because any resolution offered would go without debate to the appropriate committee. The committees are in control of the majority party in congress, and would not report any resolution for consideration which did not support the administration. Thus, by the operation of this rule, the voice of free debate would be as completely stifled in the senate as is the case in the house, where nothing can be considered without the previous indorsement of the committee on rules. The senate, which has remained a deliberative body, where every state had the right, through its two senators, to be heard upon the general state of the country, would fall under the complete control of the men making up the majority of the committee on rules and practically under the control of the one man who might be chairman of that committee.—Springfield Republican. They Fear Him. In the minds of the Republican leaders there exists a strange fear of Bryan's candidacy for president. Unwilling, as they are, to admit it, their uneasiness as to the result of the election next year is evident from their utterances on the subject, and from their political movements. They would rejoice were some unexpected event to prevent his nomination and force the Democrats to select some other candidate. Why is this? They defeated him in 1896, and they profess to be able to defeat him on the same issues in 1900. And yet they feel in their hearts that they cannot do it. While McKinley's majority in 1896 was large, yet a few thousand votes properly distributed would have given Bryan a majority of the electoral college. It has been herefore pointed out that twenty thousand votes in California, Oregon, Kentucky, Indiana, North Dakota and West Virginia taken from McKinley and given to Bryan would have elected the latter, and this narrow margin, when figured on in the next election, creates almost a panic in the minds of the Republican managers. It is now regarded as certain that of these states Bryan will carry all but Oregon and North Dakota, while Maryland, not in the list, has swung back into the Democratic column to stay. The result in Ohio indicates that it is by no means safe for McKinley, and the opposition to imperialism in the great states of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan gives more than a fair promise of Democratic success in all of them. These calculations are not all that break the rest of the opposition to Bryan. They realize that McKinley has grown weaker and that Bryan has grown stronger every day since the last election. They have hunted diligently to find a flaw in Bryan's political armor, and they have found nothing. His pure private life, his sincerity, his honesty, and his patriotism have become more and more evident to the people as time has passed, and the young man who was nominated in 1896 is now regarded by the people as the ripe statesman and the safe adviser. His personality gives him a strength with the people that the chicanery of the politicians can not overcome. Money Question Not Yet Settled. The Democratic party is not to be caught letting go of the money question as long as the Republicans are holding on to it. Mr. Bryan said of this point in New York the other day: "It is not a settled problem. I can speak of a certainty now, because yesterday an amendment was presented to the bill now before the senate. The bill provides for a gold standard, but the amendment provides that it shall not be so construed that monometallism shall not be possible with international agreement. So that, whatever a man may have thought about the money question being settled the day before yesterday, he cannot say it is settled now. Much as I have tried to conceal my views on this question (laughter), it has cropped out again." "Don't Have to Be an Idiot." Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri puts it this way: "A man does not have to be an idiot in order to be a patriot. "A man is not a traitor because he is opposed to doing those things which jeopardize the life of the republic. "An American is not a pessimist because he is unwilling to see his country adopt as a settled policy the political principles of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon. "In the hands of political jobbers the American flag, like the mantle of charity, will be made to cover a multitude of sins. "I think more—far more—of the liberties of my children than of all the trade of the earth." The Porto Ricans are rapidly becoming civilized. These amiable people who ran to meet their American deliverers with garlands and huzzas of joy, have just been indulging in a bloody political riot. Fourteen of the gentle citizens of nowhere are in jail for murder. Your blood is poor and therefore you suffer from eruptions, pains and general debility and "that tired feeling." 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To bohemian tastes he joined marvelous business instincts and a genius for affairs that has few parallels. He stayed a year, gauged the situation, and went back to New York to organize a company to operate in the Butte copper mines. In 1892 he returned to Montana and immediately erected a smelter. At the same time he secured a lease and bond on the Glengarry, a mine that had been worked by several and abandoned as worthless. But the Glengarry proved a talisman for Heinze. In thirty days he was digging therefrom the finest ore in Butte, and in such quantities that he had to enlarge his smelting works. He purchased the Rarus in 1895 for $400,000, and as luck would have it, in a few years the Rarus had developed to a $10,000,.000 mine. He went over into Canada and purchased valuable mining property there. All his holdings have proved rich ones and today he is worth millions. GENERAL CHARLES WARREN. A strong man and accomplished soldier, Sir Charles Warren has had a more extended experience in South African warfare than any of the divisional generals already appointed, and his conduct of the Bechuanaland expedition of 1884-85 was conspicuously successful. A Royal Engineer of close upon forty-two years' standing, Sir Charles Warren did not see active service until 1877, when, after serving for a year as Boundary Commissioner in Griqualand West, he was given the command first of the Diamond Fields Horse and subsequently of the Field Force in the Griqua and Bechuana campaigns of 1879. Here he saw a great deal of "rough-and-tumble" fighting, and emerged with several mentions in dispatches and a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy. In the Egyptian expedition of 1882, Sir Charles was employed on special service among the Beduin in connection with the murder of Professor Palmer—a duty for which his previous experience in Palestine exploration was a useful qualification. 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Free advice as to patentability. Send for Inventor's Primer, MILO B. STEVENS & CO., Established 1864, 817 14th St., Washington, D.C. Branch Offices: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. CHELSEY'S SEED CATALOG A valuable book for practical flower and vegetable growers. Free for the asking. Address J. J. H. GREGORY & SON, Marblehead, Mass. CARTER'S INK Is THE BEST Ink. SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1900. CHURCH AND CLERGY. The Young Men's Christian Association in Rome is now six years old and is in a flourishing condition. On being applauded with handclapping during a recent sermon the Rev. Dr. Lorimer of Boston, stopped, forbade the people to clap and requested them to say "Amen" instead. The Rev. W. J. Gillespie, pastor of the Union Presbyterian church, of Asplawall, Pa., has resigned his charge because he objects to receiving pay for his services. He will seek a church unable to pay a salary. The Philadelphia Sabbath School association will take a census of the city to find out how many children are in Sunday schools. The number of enumerators will be large enough to take the census in one day. Samuel B. Capen, the new president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, has just issued an address in which he urges an increase in yearly donations in all branches of work to $1,600,000. At the dedication of the First Lutheran church in Elkhorn, Wis., a bible is to be used which Emperor William gave to the Rev. Huga Stubenvall, pastor of the church, because he wrote a poem in the Emperor's honor. The English Congregational year book, which has just been issued, shows in Great Britain 4,851 churches and missions, 415,664 church members, and 3,132 ministers, with 290 churches seeking pastors and 289 pastors without charges. The Rev. Dr. C. R. Dieffenbacher has resigned the pastorate of the First Reformed church in Greensburg, Pa., after serving for twenty-two years. The church has had but four pastors for the last 117 years. One of them served fifty-nine years. RECENT INVENTIONS. A New York man has patented a screen door which can be used in the winter, the screen being arranged in panels, which can be removed and glass or wooden panels inserted in cold weather, being locked in place by buttons attached to the door frame. Spring castors can be used to lessen the wear on furniture and make it stand even on the floor, a New England man having designed one with a conical spring connecting the shank to the base plate, allowing the shank to slide up inside the base when the chair is in use. A Massachusetts man has designed a street car with double-end sections mounted on hangers to swing from one side of the car to the other, with a single door sliding through the center of the panel to close the opening on either side when the panel closes the opposite side. Oil can be used in place of gas or wood in a new fireplace heater, which has a feed-pipe leading from an oil reservoir into a large horizontal pipe, which is fitted with smaller outlet pipes arranged to bear the larger pipe and vaporize the oil, for passage through the outlets. People struck by a new car fender cannot roll under the wheels, the fender being held in a vertical position in front of the car, and pivoted in such a manner that a blow on its face causes it to fall backward and assume a horizontal position, with the front edge raised to hold the person. Rats and other small articles are automatically caught in a new German trap, which is of tubular shape, with a tube at one end to be inserted in the rat hole, the rodent crawling through a spring coil inside the trap, which drops down under his weight and rises again after he has passed in. LITTLE TRUTHS. Better knot straws than do nothing. —Gaelic Proverb. Climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.—Swift. Better be disagreeable in a sort than altogether insipid.—Goethe. Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.—Landor. Do the duty that lies nearest to you. Every duty which is bidden to await returns with fresh duties at its back.—Kingsley. Double, double, toll and trouble; that is the life of all governors that really govern; not the spoil of victory, only the glorious toll of battle can be theirs. Carlyle. Common men are apologies for men; they bow the head, excuse themselves with prolific reasons, and accumulate appearances, because the substance is not-Emerson. WISE OR OTHERWISE. The hardest thing to forgive is an act of undeserved kindness. Some men seem to be troubled with fatty degeneracy of morals. When money is tight it causes a good deal of sober thought. THE BROAD AX. Published Weekly, will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, priests, infidels, farmers, single taxers, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX, 5040 Armour avenue. Chicago. Julius F. Taylor Editor and Publisher. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor,Assistant Editor. (Entered at the postoffice, Chicago, Ill., as second class matter.) LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Az. Dear Sir-I am glad to learn of the work that is being done by your paper in behalf of Chicago platform principles. That platform stands for such a government as Jefferson and Lincoln favored, namely, a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and I believe that such a government will prove a blessing to the great majority of the people. Yours truly, W. J. Bryan. Julius F. Taylor, who comes to this city well recommended, has begun the publication of "The Broad Ax," which, I am informed, will disseminate Democratic principles and contend for the higher intellectual development of the Afro-American race and mankind in general. While he is thus engaged I bespeak for him the hearty support of all loyal and true friends of Democracy. Respectfully, Carter H. Harrison Headquarters of Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois, Sherman House, Chicago, Oct. 5th, 1899. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Mr. Julius F. Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax—a publication of this city devoted to the interests of the democratic party, and an able exponent of democratic principles—comes to us highly recommended, and I therefore take pleasure in commending him to the favorable consideration of democrats with whom he may come in business contact. Chairman Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois. NOTICE All friends and readers of The Broad Ax, who have relatives or friends visiting them, or if you give or attend social functions either at home or abroad. If you journey to other towns or cities on business or pleasure. If you know or hear of a marriage, birth or death. Or in short, if you know anything of interest pertaining to the doings or the movements of the people adduce such facts and figures as briefly as possible on postal cards or letters, and address them to The Broad Ax, and all such news items will find their way into its columns. But do not send us anything in reference to cake walks or Jim Crowism. If you give swell parties and receptions and desire that the same should receive mention, send invitations or tickets and a representative of The Broad Ax will endeavor to be on hand, otherwise no one should, marvel, if they fail to observe a notice in The Broad Ax. A Case of Female Imperson A remarkable case of female impersonation has (according to a Paris correspondent) just been discovered. A Brittany peasant girl calling herself Anna Fervac, was engaged as a servant by M. Lefebvre, a shopkeeper in the Saint Lambert district. She declared that she had sold her hair to a barber at Morlaix to pay her fare to Paris. The young servant appeared honest and industrious, but eventually Madame Lefebvre, who was frightened at her strange behavior, informed her husband. It then turned out that the pseudo bonne was a lad of seventeen who had escaped from prison, and had donned female garb to escape detection. He had betrayed himself by falling in love with his mistress. Diamonds in America Diamonds have been discovered during the last few years in the neighborhood of the great lakes, principally in the state of Wisconsin, and the first discovery recorded was at Eagle, Waukesha county, in 1876. Since that time seventeen well identified diamonds weighing from one-half a carat to twenty-one and one-fourth carats have been found about the great lakes, and their discovery has given rise to considerable speculation and the formulating of theories. CANDY.... Try the inimitable fine and pure candies, the best in the city for 15c., 25c. and 40c. per pound. All put up in beautiful boxes, suitable for presents. GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2625. Tel. Wentworth 516 Office Hours: 8.30 a. m. to 8.30 p. m. BEAUREGARD F. MOSELY LAWYER BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS A SPECIALTY. SUITE 1 AND 2 6256 HALSTED STREET COR. HALSTED & 63RD STS. MRS. LAURA DAILEY. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR STRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates and good accommodations. 506 State St., 2d floor, Chicago, Ill Room 28. P. J. FLYNN Wholesale and Retail Dealer in HARD and SOFT COAL WOOD AND KINDLING YARDS, Cor. 47th and Wabash R. R. 67th and Eastern Ill. R.R. Branch Office, 5301 Wentworth av. TELEPHONE 813 YARDS. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4858 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO Hours: 8-10 a. m., 2-4, 6-8 p. m. DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 5012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago HORSES. We pay the highest prices for horses for killing purposes. Will call. Telephone South 1005. McDONALD. 3234 Wentworth ave. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Forty acre chicken farm, 27 miles from Chicago, 1/2 mile from railroad stations. Fine grove 15 acres surrounding buildings, which consist of 8-room hous, frame, 2 barns, chicken house and poultry yard. Fine hog house and other outbuildings. 25 acres in crop this year. Hay, corn, oats, potatoes and beans. Price clear of incumbrance $4,000. Buildings alone cost $2,500. Will exchange for clear property in Chicago. If you have anything to offer, call or address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. 94 ACRE FARM FOR SALE Three miles from Geneva Junction, six miles from Lake Geneva. 94 acres in Walworth county, lies all in cultivation, good house, barn and outbuildings. 20 head milch cows. 20 head hogs. 500 chickens, 100 turkeys, 50 ducks, 3 hear horses, all farming tools and this years crops. Price $75 per acre. Crops last year over $1,200 net. Crop this year over $1,500. Sell cream $5 per day now. If you desire to purchase this elegant farm so indicate by addressing The Broad Ax. FOR SALE A lovely six-room cottage, modern improvements, lot 25 by 125, located on Elizabeth street, near Sixty-Seventh Price, $1,200. $150 cash, balance to suit purchaser. This is a bargain. Any one desiring to secure a cosy little home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further information address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue. AGENTS WANTED The Broad Ax desires to secure active agents and correspondents in all sections of the country. Liberal commissions will be paid. For terms and further particulars address The Broad Ax. 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago. A woman who died recently in Clermont county, O., at the age of ninety-eight, had taught school for seventy-eight consecutive years. In 1895 there were 1,030 savings banks in the United States, and the deposits in them amounted to $1,841,000,-000. In 1899 there were 942 savings banks in the United States and their deposits were $2,401,000,000. 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul., CHICAGO. J. F. KENNY, 5553 Green St. Tel. Yards 063 KENNY & CO., Undertakers and Livery, Open Day and Night. Lady Assistant . . . 5438 SOUTH HALSTED ST. Estimates and Specifi- cations Furnished . . . Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 914. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. Telephone Yards 797 Residence, 113 Garfield Bd JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO M. C. McINTOSH, COOK COUNTY JUSTICE... OFFICE, ROOM 616, ASHLAND BLOCK, Telephone Main 2711. HENRY STUCKART HARDWARE, STOVES and FURNITURE 2511-2519 ARCHER AVENUE, ONE BLOCK WEST OF HALSTED ST. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. ...TELEPHONE SOUTH 382... THE FALSE STAR. The agitation of the Mormon question has naturally aroused some interest in the minds of all classes of people throughout the United States, and much has been written lately, both pro and con, on Utah and the Mormons. The laftest literary contribution in that di- THE FALSE STAR BY A D GANN rection is "The False Star," by A. D. Gash, which deals with Mormonism in all of its ramifications. We will send this wonderful book, which is printed by the W. B. Conkey Company, and sells for $1.25, and The Broad Ax for one year to any address in the United States, for $2.50. Agents wanted everywhere. Address all communications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. GOLD WATCH FREE Anyone sending us ten yearly subscribers to The Broad Ax, or 20 subscribers for six months, we will present them with this beautiful goldfilled watch, fitted with New York standard movement, and warranted for five years, either ladies' or gents'. XAPOLEON This is a splendid opportunity to catch on if you desire to obtain a gold watch free. In all cases the cash must accompany the list of subscribers. Send for sample copies of The Broad Ax, go to work and earn a watch. Address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ave., Chicago, Ill. --- Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book ALL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon. W. J. Bryan's new book should correspond immediately with the publishers. The work will contain ryan has announced his intention of devoting all royalties to furthering the cause of. There are already indications of an enor- Address R. CONKEY COMPANY, Publishers, € 341-351 Dearborn St....CHICAGO. The Mutual Reserve Fund Life of New York... 200,000 PAID IN LOSSES. for the Protection of the family at actual cost M'g'r. JULIUS F. 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