The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE NEGRO Shortly after the inaugurating of James Buchanan as President of the United States, the United States supreme court handed down its famous decision in the Dred Scott case and the comment upon it was universal. In no uncertain language it conveyed the idea and impression to the American People that the Negro was nothing more than a piece of merchandise, therefore he was not a human being and did not or could not consider himself worthy or deserving of the same treatment accorded to human beings. Chief Justice R. B. Taney has been severely condemned and criticised for handing down that more than celebrated opinion but his critics must bear it in mind that he simply followed in the path of judges who were far abler than himself. Furthermore it must be remember that Judge Taney was born and raised in the Federal school of politics and like James Buchanan did not join the Democratic party until late in life; not until he had become thoroughly saturated with federalistic ideas for he was a firm believer in the federal doctrine that Congress or the United States government is absolutely supreme in all things and that the various states are only a cipher, as it were, and the people residing in them possess no rights which congress or the general government are under the slightest obligations to respect. Holding such views it required no stretch of the imagination on the part of Judge Taney to arrive at his deductions and conclusions in the Dred Scott case. Two of his associates, Justice Curtis of Mass., and McLean of Ohio, the latter being an unswering Democrat refused to concur with him and they rendered opinions entirely opposite to those entertained by the chief justice and the great majority of the people. There is another very important point which we must not overlook namely, that during the time that Queen Anne swayed over the destinies of England and the English people her solicitor general and attorney Messrs. Talbot and York were instrumental in causing the Lord Chief Justice of England to solemly declare that no slave had any rights which his English master could not with impunity trample upon and in the eyes of the law negroes or slaves were nothing more than pigiron or cotton, and as the early settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts, of Georgia and Pennsylvania and of the other New England and southern states were all from England, all of the same blood, the same education, the same religion and they all received their law from the same source, viz.: the common laws of England. And inasmuch as the Lord Chief Justice of England had decided over one hundred years prior to March 6th, 1857 that negroes were only common pieces of merchandise and inasmuch as lawyers, judges, and orthodox theologians always make splendid wheel horses because they are always in favor of pulling backward and adhering to the old musty and mouldy traditions of the past. Therefore the leading and the most learned judges of this country have never hesitated in rendering verdicts which are adverse to the best interests of the negro and in doing so they simply followed in the same footsteps of some of the most eminent and illustrious judges of England, for we know that judges and lawyers generally are loth to depart from established precedents and they are continually hunting up and referring to cases which have been passed upon two or three hundred years ago in order to maintain the position which they assume and to justify their actions. This being true it caused no outcry on the part of the lawyers when Chief Justice Parker of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, handed down his infamous opinion to the effect "That it was not necessary to use a bill of sale in order to transfer the property of a slave which is a mere personal chatel, but might pass as other chattels by delivery." Remember this decision was rendered in 1819, long before the opinion handed down by Judge Taney. The same court further says "At the time of his birth Caesar was a slave and as such was the property of his master as much as his ox or horse, he had on civil rights, he could acquire no property, nor dispose of any without the consent of his master, his children of the issue of his marriage with a slave, would immediately upon their birth become the property of his master or owner of the female." For many years the laws of the great state of New York were such that if a white person committed a slight offense such person was fined five dollars, but if the same offense was committed by a negro he was fined ten dollars, the laws of that state also compelled colored people to pay poll and other taxes, and all the money collected from that source was used for educating the children of the whites but no colored children were permitted to receive any of its benefits nor to put their heads inside the school houses of that state. Other eastern and middle states enacted similar legislation in relation to the negro. In some of those states it was a penitentiary crime for negroes to roside in them longer than three months and if they were unable to pay their poll taxes they were imprisoned at hard labor, and given ten stripes upon their bare backs. The foregoing ought to convince the most sceptical that the majority of the people residing in the northern and eastern states with all of their boasted superiority over the southern people, were not in favor of the moral and intellectual development of the negro and they were not horrified nor shocked, but were rather in harmony with the decisions respecting the social status of the negro which were rendered by the very highest courts in the christianized and civilized world. (To be continued.) THE NEGRO NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE. July 4th, 5th and 6th The Negro National Democratic League will convene at Kansas City, Mo., for the purpose of formulating plans to further the cause of Democracy among the colored voters of the United States during the coming presidential campaign and for the further purpose of electing new officers, and for the transaction of other business. Edward E. Lee of New York is the president of the League, and Gao. E. Taylor of Oskaloosa, Iowa, secretary. The Broad Ax has been informed by the latter gentleman that "full preparation will be made in due time in Kansas City for the accommodation of all delegates and that Illinois will be entitled to twelve delegates." This will be the most important convention in the history of negro Democracy and we hope to see a large number of Afro-American Democrats present from all sections of the country. At the Wednesday meeting of the Phyllis Wheatly Club, it was decided to discontinue the open meetings which have been held once a month on account of the small attendance. This is to be regretted as these literary entertainments were conducive to elevating the race intellectually and otherwise. It is estimated that there are one thousand Afro-Americans, living almost within a stones throw of the Phyllis Wheatly Club rooms, and some of our most learned professional men have unselfishly given part of their valuable time to talk on and discuss important subjects that would be of great and lasting benefit to the race, and it certainly is to be deplored that there has not been enough of interest shown to encourage them and the promoters to continue to carry on this good work. Ex-Alderman Wm. E. Kent's prospects of election are growing brighter each day and his friends feel sure that they have his big-headed opponent done up. Mr. Kent stands for uniform reduction and lowering of taxes, improving the streets and sidewalks of the various wards. For electrical and better lighting facilities Public improvements for the several wards without special assessments. He is the friend of labor and his candidacy has been indorsed by the Building Trades Council, Stone Cutters Union, Boiler Makers Union, Horseshoers Union and other labor organizations. The ex-Alderman is a friend of the colored race, and we take pleasure in making a kindly word in his behalf. CHICAGO, MARCH 31, 1900. ALDERMAN CHAS. J. BOYD. As the aldermanic contest progresses in the 30th ward Alderman Charles J. Boyd is undoubtedly growing in strength with the voters and his innumerable friends and admirers, entertain no doubt or fear of his re-election and they believe that he will best his opponents. Alderman Boyd has without the least doubt, worked and did everything that an Alderman could do, for the advancement and improvement, not only of the 30th ward, but for the entire city of Chicago, and since his election to the Council, he can point with pardonable pride, at his past record and the work he has accomplished for the betterment of the ward and all the people. Within the past two years, Mr. Boyd has succeeded in securing the erection of more school-houses and larger appropriations for educational purposes for the Town of Lake than all the other Aldermen who preceded him put together. It has been through his efforts, that the following schools and additions have been built or ordered built. Beale school, Englewood High school (addition), O'Toole school (addition), George Dewey school, one at 53rd and Loomis street, another at 53rd and Sawyer ave., $519,857.98, has been expended for building purposes in the 30th ward within the last two years and it exceeds the school appropriations, for the whole Town of Lake in the nine years previous to annexation. The Special Water Power Committee on which Mayor Harrison selected Alderman Boyd to serve has concluded a contract with the Drainage Canal Board, whereby the latter is to furnish power to the city at $4 per horse power per year. The rate at present is $35 per horse power per year and this new contract will mean an enormous saving to the taxpayers. Alderman Boyd has worked early and late in the interest of electric lighting, and the new system is now in force on Ashland avenue, Halsted street, Wentworth avenue and other leading thoroughfares of the ward. The Judiciary Committee has no better nor harder worker than Alderman Boyd, and he is also an active member of other committees. He has been endorsed by the Municipal Voters League, and it says: His general record is commendable and he should be re-elected. He has gone on record as favoring the day labor ordinance, not only that, he was on the right side of the Franchise question in the memorable struggle of December 1898, in the council and he stood up for the people as against the franchise-grabbers and boodlers. He has voted and favored track elevation and has the full confidence of Mayor Carter H. Harrison and his Democratic and Republican colleagues who know him as a man of ability possessing most excellent traits of character. Like several other Aldermanic candidates whom we have mentioned. Alderman Boyd stands very high in the estimation of the Colored people of the 30th ward, and since his election to the council he has been ever ready and willing to serve them and a large number of them intend to work and vote for Chas. J. Boyd on the 3d day of April. John E. Traeger, chairman campaign committee, after carefully viewing the situation confidently believes that Alderman Chas. J. Boyd, who is the regular nominee and the entire Town ticket will march on to victory next Tuesday, The Colored Democratic League met at South end Academy, 3347 State street. Wednesday evening, notwithstanding the unpleasant weather a goodly number were present. Short speeches were mode by Chas. Calman, candidate for South Town Collector, Edward J. Maher candidate for supervisor, D. Van Hess Person, candidate for Alderman, 3rd ward, John Lyon candidate for Alderman, 4th ward. Capt. Hannibal C. Carter, Wm. K. Crampton, Harvey A. Thompson and Julius F. Taylor. President L. A. Newby presided and R. B. Cabbell secretary. ALDERMAN CHAS. F. GUNTHER. It is conceded by those who pretend to know anything about the composition of the present City Council, that no member of that body has a better cleaner or straighter record, than Alderman Chas. F. Gunther, who has honorably represented and served the people of the 2nd ward for two terms, and they have learned to trust and honor him for the efficient and faithful J. Alderman Chas. F. Gunther of the 2nd ward who will be re-elected April 3d. services which he has rendered all classes in the past. Alderman Gunther has been endorsed for re-election by the Municipal Voters League and kindred organizations. For they recognize in him a faithful servant of the people. One who can be depended upon to perform his duties fearlessly open and above board. One who has never mixed up with those who are in favor of robbing and plundering the tax payers and the city of Chicago. The Alderman is very popular with the Afro-Americans residing in his ward. He has held many meetings among them and he is known by them as their friend. On many occasions he has performed acts for them which has gladdened their hearts, and on next Tuesday they will assist in re electing Alderman Gunther. STILL IN THE RING. The report has been extensively circulated throughout the 20th ward, that Fredrick A. Hart, Independent candidate for Alderman, had run in his hole and pulled the hole in after him, and given up the fight or contest entirely, that he has no ghost of a show of polling but a few votes which consists of sore heads, disgruntled and cold-footed Democrats. But such reports are untrue and on the contrary, Mr. Hart will remain in the race to the end. Many of his friends and supporters assert that his chances of election seems to be a certainty, 1 FREDERICK A. HART. Independent Candidate for alderman of the 30th ward. judging from what the people in the east, west, south and north ends of the ward say. For they claim that "it seems to be all Hart." His leaders are thoroughly convinced that the vote rolled up for him on election day, will surprise the oldest politicians of the Town of Lake. For it is admitted by those who are bitterly opposed to Mr. Hart, that he is one of the best campaigners in Chicago, and is personally and intimately acquainted, and can call more people by their names, than any other single individual residing in the 30th ward. Consequently this adds to his popularity and causes all classes and nationalities to speak of him in the highest terms and to sound his praises. As it has been stated before, Mr. Hart prides himself on keeping his word, and his word is as good as his note or bond. He also is desirous of letting it be known that he is not the candidate of some corporation, which would naturally expect to have a mortgage on his vote and to own and control him in case he succeeded in pulling through. Mr. Hart believes that those who have spread such reports abroad, have only done so, for the purpose of injuring his candidacy. But he is of the opinion that the people know him too well to believe these statements. Many Afro-Americans residing in the west end of the ward and in other sections of it are still engaged in working and doing everything in their power to further the candidacy of Fredrick A. Hart. CHIPS It seems to be a forgone conclusion, that Al F. Gorman will come out ahead of his competitor on election day. Alderman Thomas Carey, is laboring very hard for the re-election of Alderman Chas. J. Boyd and the Town of Lake ticket. Alderman Henry L. Fick is on top in the 7th ward and if he lives, he will continue to occupy his seat in the Council Chamber. Harris F. Williams, candidate for Alderman in the 32d ward is forging ahead in his fight. The Brood Ax believes that he will win the day. The enemies of Alderman Charles Martin are after his scalp. But he is a sure winner, for they cannot muster sufficient strength to lay him out. D. Van Ness Person,Democratic candidate 3d ward, has made a thorough canvass of the ward and being a forcible speaker it will not be surprising to see him win. Hannibal C. Carter and L. A. Newby addressed a large meeting of colored citizens of the 13th ward in the interest of Alderman Maypole Tuesday night, who will be re-elected. Nicholas R. Finn is making an extraordinary good fight in the 11th and he is backed by many of its leading citizens who are certain that he will be successful and represent them in the council. Hon. M. J. Butler has been confined to the house with very sore eyes for several weeks. But they are now improving and he expects to be able to be around again among his many friends shortly. Chas. J. Byrne Democratic candidate for Alderman in the 9th ward, has the very best element in that ward behind him,including such men as attorney Scully, D. J. McMahon, M. J. Roach and John J. Hayes, and Mr. Byrne is sure of election. W. H. Clark of the Corporation Councils office, who stands at the top notch of negro Democracy, has been doing telling and effective work in the 2nd ward for the re-election of Alderman Chas. F. Gunther and the entire South town ticket. Sunday at 2 p. m. a meeting of Colored citizens will be held at Hannibal Hall, 51st and Armour avenue in the interest of Alderman Chas. J. Boyd. It is expected that the town candidates the Alderman and others will be present to address the meeting. John Lyons, Democratic candidate for Alderman of the 4th ward, is making a good fight, and he has addressed three or four meetings of Afro-Americans residing in the ward, and being honest and clean, he stands a splendid chance of being elected to the city council. The Democratic candidates on the West Town ticket are bound to triumph. John J. McLaughlin, John J. Klein, V. E. Cerveny, who has made a first class collector and Edward B. Warwick, who has in the past conducted his office acceptably and satisfactory to all the people of the West Town. will lead the ticket. James J. Gray, the people's friend, Julius Solomon, that courteous Southern gentleman, Vincent H. Perkins and Fred Rinderer all have the confidence of the voters of North Chicago. They have been tried in their various official capacities and have not been found wanting. As a result of their honesty in office they will land on April 3d. Chas. Callanan, candidate for South Town Collector, Edward J. Maher, can- NO. 23. didate for Supervisor and the present clerk, John B. Ryan, are sure winners The past week, Mr. Ryan has addressed several meetings of Colored voters who know him to be all right and they want to see him and the other candidates on the South Town ticket succeed. The ladies of the Phyllis Wheatly Club are preparing to give an apron bazaar about May 1st, which promises to be the leading event among club women this season. All ladies who have the welfare of the club at heart and those who wish to aid a most worthy cause can do no more generous act than by donating an apron for the bazaar. Irvine E. Sproul, candidate for assessor, for the Town of Lake, is desirous to inform the readers of The Broad Ax, that he knows no man on account of his color. He has been censured quite severely, by members of his own race, for employng or giving work to Colored, workmen in preference to white workmen. Therefore, we urge the Afro-American voters of the 31st, 30th and 29th wards to stand by Irvine E. Sproul for he is a friend of the race. HQME-MADE PHILOSOPHY. Mad addz a skrew to a nold invenshun, and then thinks he dun it awl. It iz safer too win the love ov a dog than the admirashun ov a thotless wurld. A grate manny peepul bekum silent and moroze becaws no wun will agree with 'em. Every stranger iz lookt at with suspishun until he kin prove his credit at the bank. A hull lot ov peepul will wink a li at yoo, hoo haven't the courage to speke it out loud. The ritch may corner awl the sunlight, but the poor kin not be robd ov thare shadders. Peepul hoo di yung escape the agony ov finding out later on how the old fokes lide to 'em. Old age iz werry often the reward for them az live awl thare life on the charity ov thare frends. Men doo a hull lot ov thinking on problums that ware thot too deth yearze and yearze ago. Every little komunity haz got its little tradishun that iz laft by the peepul ov the nearest village. Sum men jine a church and a perltickal party soze thay needent do any thinkin on thare own hook. After we are ded cumze the new generashun. Thare iz no end to the cumin and goin ov the endless chain called life. Man gitz hiz munny and he bize his purty wimmin. This iz the hull ov life's picktoor with awl the varnish left out. If you tetch a manze religyun with anything but the downy brush ov praize, heel want too tetch you with a brick-bat or a klub. The coldness ov the wurld haz frozen up manny a charitabull hart so tight that a beggar can't drive a flax seed intoo it with a poll ax. Peepul are alwaize ashamed ov thare big feet, but thay hev the big head and never notice it. Yoo never even heard a peecock say he wuz proud. PROGRESS AND REFORM. Syracuse university gets $40,000 for endowing a chair of Biblical literature. The increasing generosity of individuals toward individual churches is indicated by the $5,000 gift of Mrs. G. A. Pillsbury to a church in Minneapolis. The Chicago Bible society in the past sixty years has distributed 800,962 copies of the Bible, published in various languages. Last year 25,333 Bibles were sold and 5,169 given away. The retail grocery and butchers' clerks in a large section of Chicago have brought about Sunday closing through their organization. The movement is extending to druggists' clerks and other similar organizations. Rapid Time to the Orient. From London to Bombay in eleven days is the remarkable program laid out by the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship company. The journey will be made by the Brindisi route and involves faster time than is usual on Italian railways. The chief item is the voyage from Suez to Bombay, which is made at the rate of seventeen knots an hour. 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The house has again declared that it believes the passage of the Loud bill to amend the law regulating second-class mall matter will not result in the saving of $20,000,000 and upward annually, or that the saving, if made, would be at the expense of the enlightenment and information of the people by means of the publications that now find admission to the mails at the rate of 1 cent a pound. The bill has three times been before the house—once, in the fifty-fourth congress, it was passed; in the fifty-fifth congress, and again last week, it was defeated. After adjournment, Mr. Loud, chairman of the committee on postoffices and post roads, said it was three times and out as far as he is concerned. If it be brought before the house again it must be by some one else. The house spent four hours in its consideration. Mr. Moon (dem., Tenn.) made the principal speech against it, and Mr. Moody (rep., Mass.) the closing speech in its favor. Two hours were spent in amending the bill, and from the ease with which the bill was changed to meet the views of the opponents and the refusal of the house to order the yeas and nays on one proposition, it was believed that the bill would finally pass. But a motion to recommit prevailed by a vote of 148 to 96, a much larger vote against the measure than even its opponents had expected. DEATH OF OSMAN PASHA. Osman Pasha, the famous Turkish general, is reported dead, although full confirmation of the news is lacking. Although in recent comparative obscurity, Osman Pasha, as the hero of the siege of Plevna, will live in military history in a rank attained by very few of the world's greatest generals. One of the peculiar facts in his career was his alien birth, all of his biographers agreeing that he was not a Turk, although none of them agree as to his actual nativity. All Turkish generals of note, by the way, have during the last fifty years been foreign born. This is a curious reflection upon Turkey's weakness in producing great generals of her own, but is also a tribute to the shrewdness of successive sultans in drawing the best talent from other European armies. As the Ishmaelite of nations, Turkey has been a refuge for exiled military geniuses of other continental armies, and to this fact we may ascribe her present military prowess, which is still sufficient to command the respect of those nations that would make a meal of her if they dared. FATE OF THE BOER REPUBLICS. The fate of the Boer republics when the settlement shall be made in South Africa, assuming that England will defeat the Boers, is now a subject of discussion in England. The pertinent suggestion made by James Bryce in the Manchester Guardian the other day is attracting much attention and must give pause to the excited jingoes, who are for settling affairs in South Africa in a summary imperialistic fashion, without regard to the feelings or racial susceptibilities of the Dutch. Mr. Bryce calls attention to the fact that when the mines have yielded up their richest harvests, which must happen within a few years, the miners, stock jobbers, speculators and all the adventurers who have caused the present conflict will abandon the Transvaal, and then the British who remain will form but a small minority of the inhabitants and will be at the mercy of the Boers. Any harshness, injustice or narrowness exhibited in the terms of peace imposed upon the Boers now will inevitably lead to reprisals in the future and cause confusion and bloodshed. THE PACIFIC CABLE. There is general unanimity of sentiment both in congress and among the people at large in favor of a cable across the Pacific ocean. There is sharp difference of opinion, however, concerning the method of construction. It seems that no private corporation is willing to undertake the work without promises of assistance. The believers in the policy of private construction and control want the government to grant a subsidy, the size of which was fixed by the majority of the house committee having the matter in charge at $800,000 a year for twenty years. This would make a total subsidy payment of $6,000,000. The estimated cost of a cable running to Honolulu and Manila is $10,000,000. The believers in the government-ownership policy, prominent among whom is Congressman Mann of this city, think that the United States government should construct and operate the cable on its own FOREUNNER OF THE KANSAS CITY ONE. It Will Bring a Glorious Victory to the Democratic Party in November—Money, Trusts and Other Issues—The Planks Adopted. The Democrats of Nebraska covered themselves with glory when they adopted a platform from which we copy the following planks: We pledge ourselves to wage an unceasing warfare against all trusts—the money trust, the industrial trust and the international land-grabbing trust. Instead of a system which would chain our nation to the gold standard and compel it to participate in all the disturbances which come to European nations we demand an American financial system, made by the American people for themselves, to be secured by the immediate restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. The republican administration has admitted the gold standard to be unsatisfactory by appointing a commission to solicit foreign aid in restoring the double standard and a republican congress, even while trying to make the gold standard permanent, has confessed judgment against the standard by attempting to revive the delusive hope of international bimetallism. Instead of the system favored by the Republican party, under which national banks are to be permitted to issue and control the volume of paper money for their own profit, we reiterate our demand for that financial system which recognizes the government's sovereign right to issue all money whether coin or paper, and we demand the restoration of the greenbacks as they now exist and the retirement of national bank notes as rapidly as greenbacks can be substituted for them. We believe that private monopolies are indefensible and intolerable and we condemn the national administration for its failure to enforce the present law against the trusts or to recommend a more effective law. We favor a state constitution which will prohibit the organization of a monopoly within the state and also prevent a monopoly organized elsewhere from doing business within the state; but we further believe that congress should supplement the efforts of the state by legislation which will require every corporation, before engaging in interstate commerce, to show that it has no water in its stock and that it has neither attempted in the past nor is attempting to monopolize any branch of business or the production of any article of merchandise. We believe, with Jefferson, in peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations and entangling alliances with none, and we regard with apprehension the doctrine advocated in some quarters that this nation should in its dealings or diplomacy show partiality toward any of the European nations. Not because of hostility to England, but because we believe in the principles of a republic, and reject, as did our forefathers, the theory of monarchy; we sympathize with the Boers in their heroic efforts to preserve their national integrity. The failure of Republican leaders, who four years ago expressed sympathy for the Cuban patriots, to feel an interest in the struggle of the Dutch in South Africa shows the paralyzing influence of the imperial policy to which the administration is now endeavoring to commit this country. A CLUE TO A MYSTERY. Why does Mr. McKinley refuse to say to the British government: "Gentlemen, is there any way in which the American republic can assist you to restore peace to the world and stop the bloodshed and waste of vast resources in war?" If Mr. McKinley cannot now make this friendly, humane appeal to England, then when is it or will it ever be proper for any power to be the peaceful, friendly spokesman for civilization? Are there any conceivable circumstances more favorable to such a plea than those now surrounding Mr. McKinley and urging him on? If the British people do not wish to stop the war, the English government can politely decline Mr. McKinley's offer, just as Mr. McKinley politely declined the British government's offer in April, 1898, in regard to Spain. If, on the other hand, the British people so wish to restore peace, the English government may be forced to consider Mr. McKinley's offer. Are we here on the track of the secret of Mr. McKinley's strange silence? Does he fear to embarrass his and Mr. Hay's friends who have plunged England into war? Are they counting upon his silence as a factor in convincing the British people that the war is just? Is it that they know that so long as the American republic refrains from doing what it has the legal right to do, what it is under moral obligations to do if the war is unhecessary, just so long will they be able to convince the British people that the continental outcry against the war is mere hatred and jealousy of Britain?—New York World. Lawless Charity. According to Mr. Payne, his desire to violate the constitution in opposing a tariff on Puerto Rico is entirely based on the motive of philanthropy: He wants the starving islanders to have a revenue with which to maintain academical institutions. In the case of so good a man it would be invidious to remark that formerly he wanted Puerto Rico to have free trade so that its people could get something to eat, and that he only changed his mind and consented to let them starve in the interests of the higher education, after the oil, sugar, tobacco and rum trusts rushed upon Washington and swore that they would refuse a penny to the corruption fund of 1900 unless Dingleyism were firmly fastened upon all outlying parts of the United States. The Payne variety of philanthropy is hardly respectable enough to cobble alleys in that place whose streets are paved with good intentions.—Washington Times. THE REPUBLICAN REVOLT. A careful reading of the Republican protests against the Puerto Rico tariff indicates that they are due in about equal proportions to sentiment and to policy. "It is an injustice and a shame," say one-half of the kickers, "to discriminate against the poor islanders who welcomed our army of deliverance and are anxious to become full-fledged Americans." "It is a dangerous first step toward real imperialism, sure to hurt and perhaps to defeat us in the elections," say the other half, "to assert that the new island possessions may be governed outside the constitution and taxed and exploited for the benefit of home trusts and monopolies." Both these contentions are just. To put a tariff tax on the food and clothing required for the hungry and destitute people of Puerto Rico, and to hamper with this country by requiring duties to be paid on the few products they have to sell, is inhuman, ungrateful and unconstitutional. To impose a tariff upon the plea that it is done to secure revenue for the island and avoid an appropriation, and then to appropriate $2,000,000 paid by our importers of Puerto Rican products, that is as much a part of the general treasury fund as are duties collected upon imports from Europe, is a stultifying hypocrisy and humbug. As to the political danger involved in this recession from what the president truly called our "plain duty" it is too clear to judge. Republican independence in recent years has unhappily stopped short of the polls. And yet it is reasonable to assume that this wide division and strong protest in the party against the first logical fruit of imperialism will hurt in the elections the candidate who is responsible for it all. The Republican dilemma is the Democratic opportunity.—New York World. A Crials at Hard. "We are in the midst of the gravest possible crisis," said General Isaac R. Sherwood in a recent speech at Columbus, Ohio. "The dominating force of the McKinley administration if continued will wreck this republic. All patriotic men who love free institutions and believe in constitutional liberty must unite in the battle of 1900 to swing the old ship of state back to her safe moorings. As Thomas Jefferson came to the rescue in the dawn of the nineteenth century to kill the deadening power of federalism and set the young republic on its true career, let us hope that the dawn of the twentieth century may find in the matchless leader from Nebraska a second Jefferson to kill the far more deadening power of imperialism and vampireism." McKinley Needs a Club The reciprocity bureau in the state department needs reorganization. Mr. Kasson, the gentleman now in charge, may be a zealous officer enough, but he lacks authority. His Argentine treaty has gone up the flume, and his French treaty promises to follow it. What Mr. McKinley needs in the place is not a commissioner, but a trust censor—one named by the various trusts and the protective tariff league, which control national policies and legislation. No treaty not affirmatively and satisfactorily in trust interests has a ghost of a show of ratification under his administration.—Washington Times. Shall We Return the Statue? In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor a heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror? Or shall our nation so act as to enable the American people to join with the Filipinos in placing in the harbor of Manila a statue of Liberty enlightening the orient. W. J. Bryan. Drug Trusts It appears that the manufacturers of drugs and chemicals in this country have for years been doing business on the trust basis, though the most of them are not in regularly incorporated trusts. On hundreds of articles, many of them most important medicines, prices are fixed by agreement among leading manufacturers. Tariff duties prevent foreign competition and enable the manufacturers to fix unduly high prices. Apparently these duties serve no other purpose; they certainly produce but little revenue.—Albany Argus. Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights. American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.—W. J. Bryan. A PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT. Senator James K. Jones, through the National Watchman, among other things, concerning the Puerto Rican bill says: "The government of the United States rests fundamentally in the people themselves. The government is a creature of the people through the constitution, which confers upon the government all the powers that it possesses and defines the limitation of that power. The government has no power not derived from the people through the constitution, and the idea that the government is something of itself independent of the people, with the power to do things not conferred upon it by the constitution, is an assumption which, if carried into effect, will be subversive of the government founded by the fathers. "Congress has no power except what it derives from the constitution, and where the constitution is not operative congress has no power. "This bill is a declaration on the part of the Republicans that this government has the power to make an Ireland of Puerto Rico or the Philippine islands, or any other country that we choose to overpower and control. "If the principles of the constitution are just and right and proper in New York, they are just and right and proper in Arizona and New Mexico and everywhere else that the American flag floats as an emblem of sovereignty. The flag represents the doctrines and principles contained in the Declaration of Independence, and the constitution is the concrete expression of them as a policy of government. "The Puerto Rican bill is an express declaration in favor of imperialism, and shows plainly to what the Republican party means by its policy which it is inclined not to call imperialism, but to call expansion. No matter by what name it may be called, the thing, in my opinion, will stink in the nostrils of all lovers of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and all genuine Americans." Can't Be Hoodwinked. "The people of the United States cannot be hoodwinked into believing that when the nation acquires territory the constitution does not at once extend to it," said Gen. Lew Wallace. "I have viewed the Puerto Rican measure with profound astonishment and sorrow, and have no hesitancy in denouncing it as a high-handed outrage in the interests of the trusts and against the interests of the people of this country." A Consistent Whirligig Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is a skilled orator, and can very often make the worse appear the better reason. He did this yesterday in his speech defending McKinley's imperialistic Philippine policy, but he went the least bit too far when he said that the president's course has been consistent from the beginning. This is a "whopper" that the American public will not stand.—New York News. Shall We Rule by Love or Fear? Plutarch said that men entertained three sentiments concerning the ancient gods: They feared them for their strength, admired them for their wisdom, and loved them for their justice. Jefferson taught the doctrine that governments should win the love of men. What shall be the ambition of our nation; to be loved because it is just or to be feared because it is strong?—W. J. Bryan. Deafness Among School Children The fact that myopia is frequent among school children is well known. It is not so well known that the impaired hearing is also frequently met with. The children thus affected are often accused of being lazy and inattentive, when in reality their ears are at fault. Helot shows that these cases are quite common, are easily recognized, are generally curable, and when cured a large number of children are transformed, so to speak, both from a physical and a moral standpoint. According to Weil, of Stuttgart, the proportion of school children with impaired hearing is 35 per cent; according to Moure, of Bordeaux, 17 per cent. Helot agrees with Gele and other aurists that the proportion is always 25 per cent, or one-fourth. All the children in a class should be carefully examined, and these semi-deaf pupils will always be found among the "poor scholars." The cause of infirmity is to be sought for—naso-pharyngeal catarrh following measules, scarlatina, whooping cough, adenoid vegetations, hypertrophied tonsils, etc.—and normal conditions are to be restored by appropriate treatment. Man's Perfidy. Man's perfidy to woman is making a lot of trouble in Vienna. The society craze for poker has reached a point that called for the interference of the police. Warnings were sent to clubs that the game must not be played, and several leading society women were summoned to police headquarters and cautioned against allowing the game any longer in their parlors. They denied the imputation indignantly when the chief of police read to them the names of the persons who had lost money at their houses and the sums lost. After hunting around for a time it was discovered that the persons who had betrayed them were their own husbands, who found all other methods ineffective to stop their gambling.—New York Sun. Appropriata. "I hear the tenor is laid up with a sprained ankle," said the church choir baritone. "Yes," giggled the soprano, "he slipped up on an organ peal."—Philadelphia Record 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Images of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Alc. Sweet Ribbette Salt Jane Soup Pumpkin Oatmeal Worm Seed Cardinal Sugar Wintergreen Pharm. A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Char. H. Flitcher NEW YORK. A 16 months old 35 doses - 35 CINES EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. 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Write for catalogue and prices. Schaeffer Plano Mfg. Co. 215 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. THE OLD MINISTER. A Congregation Will Loss and Not Gain Under Him. Age has its advantages in the office of the ministry, but it also has very evident disadvantages, and when the balance is struck perhaps a congregation is right in the idea that it is losing and not gaining under the ministry of an old man, says the Ladies' Home Journal. For one thing—and it is a very serious one—a minister after a certain age is almost impervious to new ideas. Of course the exact age will vary with different men, and it is dangerous even to hint at, since the reader would always be able to mention exceptions. There are men to whose minds no new idea can find access at the age of thirty—men of hopeless dullness, who will be an incubus on a congregation all their days; and there are men whose minds will be hospitable to the latest ideas at the age of fourscore. With the average man there comes a time when his mind crystallizes and his beliefs become absolutely fixed. He may not resent the discoveries of younger men; he certainly will not assimilate them. He may not oppose new methods of action; he certainly will not adopt them. His preaching may be absolutely as good as it was before, because it will be the same, without any addition of new thought; but it may be bad, comparatively speaking, because it should have much new material. Bad for the Eyes. Among the sources of the greatest trouble to the eyesight are the excessive use of wine, spirits or beer, and the indiscriminate use of quinine. Another source of falling vision may be traced to impeded circulation. The wearing of tight neckwear, such as collars which are too small, or shirt bands or neckties tightly drawn,should be avoided, as they prevent the downward column of blood returning to the heart, and dilation and development of disease is likely to follow. The same rule holds good of constriction of other parts of the body. The Retort Courteous. It is not often that one comes across such a crushing retort as that which a Sussex husband received from his wife the other day through the medium of the public press. He advertised in one of the local journals that he, Thomas B——, "would no longer be answerable for the debts incurred by his wife." She seems to have been a truly amiable creature, if one may judge from the advertisement which she published next day in reply, which ran: "This is to notify that I, Elizabeth B——, am able to pay all my own debts, now that I have got rid of Tommy."—Spare Moments. In time of war France puts 370 out of every 1,000 of her population in the field; Germany, 310; Russia, 210. From Washington How a Little Boy Was Saved. Washington, D. C.—"When our boy was about 16 months old he broke out with a rash which was thought to be measles. In a few days he had a swelling on the left side of his neck and it was decided to be mumps. He was given medical attendance for about three weeks when the doctor said it was scrofula and ordered a salve. He wanted to lance the sore, but I would not let him and continued giving him medicine for about four months when the bunch broke in two places and became a running sore. Three doctors said it was scrofula and each ordered a blood medicine. A neighbor told me of a case somewhat like our baby's which was cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. I decided to give it to my boy and in a short while his health improved and his neck healed so nicely that I stopped giving him the medicine. The sore broke out again, however, whereupon I again gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla and its persistent use has accomplished a complete cure." Mrs. NETTIE CHASE, 47 K St., N. E. 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Not only has he figured prominently in national and international affairs for nearly a generation,but he has enjoyed personal relations of a peculiarly close character with more men of eminence perhaps than any other man of the day. Away back before the war, when a mere boy, he was attached to Abraham Lincoln in a way that gave him enviable facilities for studying the processes of Lincoln's mind. He was a stenographer and a newspaper reporter for the Chicago Tribune, at that time a great Republican organ of the west, and throughout the memorable debate between Lincoln and Douglas, preceding the latter's election to the United CONGRESSMAN R. R. HITT. States senate. young Hitt followed Lincoln, taking down in shorthand every word that publicly fell from his lips. These famous addresses, which made Lincoln's national reputation, and which more than anything else contributed to his election as president, owe their permanent and enduring form to the youthful reporter's notes, the originals of which the congressman still hoards among his literary treasures. Lincoln called him "Bob," and was fond of the boy. After the war Hitt went to Washington as clerk of a congress committee and had an opportunity to become acquainted with the great statesmen of the reconstruction era. His good luck sent him to Paris in 1874, just after the Franco-Prussian war, as secretary of legation and charge d'affaires ad interim. History was being made rapidly in the French capital in these days, and Hitt spent seven years in Paris, a period which was closely packed with important events. He returned to Washington in 1881 to become assistant secretary of state, and the next year was elected a member of the house of representatives. All through his career in Congress he has been conspicuous in the discussion of international questions, and now, as chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs, he is regarded as a diplomatic authority beside whom there is no peer. Hitt has had the good fortune to cement friendship more firmly than almost any other man now in public life. He was Blaine's closest friend in Washington. In the concluding years of Blaine's life Hitt was the man in whom he confided most often and was often to be found in the historic old mansion on Lafayette square. At the same time that he enjoyed these affectionate relations with the great secretary of state he was the best friend of Speaker Reed, Blaine's bitterest enemy in public life. And no finer tribute could be paid to the delicate tact of the Illinois representative than that he should have continued for years such a relationship with two such men without losing the confidence of either. In Hitt's house in K street is a room which is devoted to the memory of Blaine. The walls are covered with pictures of the Maine leader, with autograph letters and with all sorts of relics which bring Blaine to mind. Elsewhere in the house are Lincoln relics, and stored away somewhere in places where they will be found sometime and brought to light are scores and hundreds of confidential letters from men whose names will figure in history. Mr. Hitt is of medium height, of modest bearing and one of those in public life, not any tob numerous, who is a gentleman always. His voice is softly, modulated; his manner is frank and friendly, although he never forgets the diplomatic proprieties; his conversation is stored with information and anecdotes, and yet he has never been known to reveal a thing which was to be kept in confidence. He makes no pretension to oratory, and is not much of a politician. The Emperor's Expense Eight millions a year isn't enough for Emperor William. He wants ten millions. In his twenty-four palaces he keeps 1,500 lackeys and more than 2,000 maid servants, and there are his royal stables and kennels and covers and cotes and playhouses, etc., not to mention his family. His expenses would pay for three or four new battleships per annum. Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid looks most profound.—Landor. When the New York Yacht Club squadron was at Cottage City last summer, the writer met one of the most prominent members of the club, a man who had just returned from a trip around the world. The conversation turned on daring and courage, and this drew forth the remark from the yatchsman that a friend of his who was on board the Dauntless in her race across the ocean showed the greatest nerve of any man he heard of in years. It seems that when the boat was in mid-ocean a hurricane came on, and all about was blue. The Dauntless was hove to and making bad weather. The wind and sea were something fearful, and it looked for two days as if the yacht would founder. Capt. Samuels told all hands that it looked very bad, and he did not think she would ride it through. All hands were on deck for hours, save one guest below, who during all this time lay in his berth reading a novel. With the idea of intimating to the young man that he had better prepare for the worst, the captain sald to him: "We are all liable to be lost." The guest replied: "Under the circumstances, we are just as well here as in a lifeboat or anywhere else, and he resumed his reading. Capt. Samuels went on deck, and he told the other guests that the man down in the cabin was either the biggest fool he ever saw or the bravest man. "He has no fear, and prefers reading his novel to making preparations for a last chance. I don't know what to make of him. Besides, he wants to know when dinner will be ready." Happily, the wind and sea went down, and the Dauntless reached port. There were facts in the case that Capt. Samuels did not know. The fearless guest, it seems, had for a long time been a source of great concern to his friends lest he might do away with himself. He had melancholia, which the great excitement of the trip, it was thought, might cure. So, in fact, he did not care whether he lived or died; in fact, it is believed that he hoped the old ship would go down. He is now in excellent health and at present making a trip around the world.—Boston Herald. COSTLY POLITICS. Immense Sums Paid by Quay and Clark to Enter the Senate. Probably Clark, of Montana, and Quay, of Pennsylvania, have spent more money than any other two men in the country trying to get into the senate, writes Walter Wellman. It is said upon reliable authority that in his contest for control of the state of Pennsylvania five years ago, the contest which resulted in a Quay victory and the election of Boies Penrose to the senate, Quay spent $90,000. He had to go into debt for a good part of this money, and then attempted to recoup by speculation in devious ways. A sample of his methods is found in the fact that some years ago, needing the help of a man who had been appointed to a consulate in a distant land, he had that man brought thousands of miles, leaving his official duties, to control a certain member of the legislature of Pennsylvania. Another man was given $20,000 with which to take a trip to Europe in order to get him out of the way. In all such tricks as these in the working of corporations and sale of franchises and privileges, Quay is a past master. How much money Clark spent to defeat his enemies in Montana and gain a doubtful title to the senatorship is a matter of guesswork. Some estimates are as high as $1,500,000. At one time it is admitted Clark had from 150 to 250 men under pay at the capitol of Montane GEN, KELLY-KENNY. Major-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny, who has figured conspicuously in the south African war dispatches, is now engaged in the most important work he has had to do since he entered the army forty-two years ago. The general 3 GEN. KELLY-KENNY. is sixty years old, but he has had comparatively little experience as a fighting soldier. As a raw lieutenant he was attached to one of the regiments that took part in the Chinese war, and he was one of the officers in Napier's expedition to Abyssinia in 1867. These were the only two warlike affairs in which Cronje's pursuer ever engaged. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1897. His intervening years had been spent in administrative work, but when he was promoted to his present rank he was made inspector general of auxiliary forces and recruiting. He is now commander, of the sixth division of Gen. Buller's army corps. Within three miles of the town, going eastward, is the farm of Mr. W. Creamer, one of the municipality's largest and most prosperous mixed farmers. Mr. Creamer came to this country in 1880 and settled on a portion of the land which comprises his present enormous farm of 1,280 acres. In common with many others of a similar period, he experienced all the hardships and difficulties common to the absence of railway and market facilities. In no wise daunted, by energy, industry and indomitable will he was able to surmount all obstacles and has achieved an unparalleled success, and is known throughout the district as one of its pre-eminent farmers. His operations extend over 1,280 acres, two sections (the thought alone of so much land makes the eastern farmer dizzy); 800 acres of this is broken and the remainder is excellent pasture land and wood. This harvest he took off a crop of 500 acres of wheat and 200 of other grains. Four hundred acres are plowed and ready for wheat next spring. Mr. Creamer is, as has been stated, a mixed farmer of no mean proportions, having at the present time forty horses, sixty head of cattle and fifty pigs. The most modern farm buildings are found on his premises, the main building being a barn fifty-five feet square on a stone foundation, containing stabling for sixteen horses and a large number of cattle. The loft is stored with twenty-nine loads of sheaf oats for feed, and tons of hay; there is also a cutting-box. Another building of large dimensions is the granary, in which, after teaming large quantities to market, he still has stored 3,000 bushels of wheat. A crushing machine is in the building. There are a number of lesser buildings containing chicken house, pig pens and cattle sheds. The farm residence is a handsome frame structure of ample proportions; in connection with it is a woodshed. The water supply is unexcelled; besides house supply there is a well in the stables and a never-falling spring situate in a bluff, which never freezes. Surrounded by a thick bluff of poplars, extending in a semi-circle to the west, north and east, the winter storms are broken and accumulation of snow unknown. Added to his farming operations, Mr. Creamer conducts a threshing outfit for the season. His success is only one instance of what can be accomplished in western Canada.—Baldur (Man.) Gazette, Nov. 16, 1899. There will be thousands remove to western Canada this year to engage in the pursuit of farming. Charitable. At the conclusion of a charity concert a gentleman proposes that the famous and pretty singer, Miss Bellini, allow the highest bidder a kiss to increase the proceeds. She agreed to this, amid the applause of the public. The gentleman, stepping upon the stage, takes the baton instead of the hammer, and begins in a loud voice: "Twenty-five dollars for a kiss! Who gives more? To the first—to—" At this juncture rises Mrs. Shopperly, wife of a merchant, and calls out: "I'll give three kisses for ten dollars!"—Fliegende Blatter. Memories of Dwight L. Moody It was the wish of the late Mr. Moody that his biography should be written by his son. Mr. W. R. Moody, who has in his possession all of his father's papers and is preparing a very complete life of the great preacher, has consented to write especially for The Saturday Evening Post a series of anecdotal papers on his father's life and work, profusely illustrated with hitherto unpublished photographs. The first of these papers, entitled Moody as Boy and Business Man, will appear in the April 7 number of The Saturday Evening Post. Her First Thought. Husband (rushing into the room)—Come out quick, for heaven's sake! Wife—Why, what's the matter? "The house is on fire, and we shall be burned to death if we hesitate a moment! Run, run for your life!" "Yes, I'll be out in a minute, dear. 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Lily Hall Caine, sister of the Manz novelist, wil! take up the role of Glory Quayle when “The Christian” is sent om tour in the cities of Great Britain. arama based on a sensa- tional poisoning case in France, dur- tag the reign of Louls XIV., when ‘Mme. Montespan dominated. Mrs. Kendal comes of a family of actors, but she says firmly no daugh- ter-of her shall ever be an actress with ber consent, because the work is too tard and the struggle too great. Eleanora Duse's daughter has never seen her mother act, and that mother intends she never shall. Ghe wants ber danghter to be a cultured, think- img woman, but to keep off the stage. ‘The popularity of Alice Nielsen and “The Singing Girl" continues and the ‘vogue of the prima donna in her new opera appears to be greater than it was last year in “The Fortune Teller.” * Frank McKee, who has secured the @ramatic rights to Paul Leicester Ford’s “Janice Meredith,” and will ‘@hortly make a production of the piece, Wil engage Elsie Leslie to play the beroine. Mrs. Patrick Campbell has a new one-act play called “Mra. Jordan,” @ealing with an imaginary incident tm the life of the charming actress of ‘whom Charles Lamb wrote so elo- quently. Owing to the depression in theatrical business in London, consequent upon the Transvaal war, Manager Frank L, Perley has deferred until next sea- @on the engagement of the Alice Nell- fon opera company. Mrs. R L. Fernandes is to have q curious part in “The Casino Girl,” tha musical comedy to be produced at the Casino, New York. She is a theatri- cal agent and in the piece will play ‘the part of Mra. Fernandes, theatrical egent. SPRIGS FROM THE FAMILY TREE “They are brothers, but they never speak to each other.” “Family pride? “Pride?” “Yea, they wish people to think their father left a large estate.” —Detroit Journal. “Did I understand you to say that ene of your ancestors fought during the revolution?” “Yes, my great-great- great-grandfather fell at Bunker kop- $e."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “How comes it a woman of such proud Hmeage ts married to a map of tumble birtht” “Well, I understand ‘they are not rich enough to afford an ancestry for doth of them."—Detroit ournal. ‘Dismal Dawson—“I don't often brag about it, but me ancestors kin be traced back to the frst American set- Uers.” Hungry Higgins—“I an‘t never looked the thing up, but I woukin't be ‘wprised tf I could trace mine back to Joner."—Indianapolis Press. “Isat it strange,” remarked the movelist, “that so many of our rich people allow their children to grow ‘up to be eo utterly worthless?” “Ob, 1 don"t know,” replied the cynic, “when people get rich they're too busy look- fag after their ancestors to bother ‘much about their posterity."—Phila- @elphia Press. ‘The maiden drew herself up haught- fly, while the blve blood in her veins turned to crimson im ber face. “Marry your” she ejaculated with fine ecorn. “Never! Why, your grandfather was tm ade” “Tree,” replied the young man; “det had your grandfather paid my grandfather's bills my ancestors ‘would not have been forced to continee a tradesman.” And the incident was clesed.—Qhio State Journal UNCLE ESEK’S WISDOM. Revenge makes a hornet respectable, Sat & is dastardly in a man. “Nature abbors < vacaum™; there- @ore she fills some heads with sawdust. ‘The man who never takes a chance ‘ts beaten just as often as any one else ‘Very precise people have bat few @raina. That is what makes them so precise. No man cam expect te Hive with the virteous and mingle with the vicious end keep pure. - You cant be familiar withoat losing @ certain amount ef respect for your- gett, and for the other man, toa. ‘There are lots of people whe never know anything until they ren against and then they knew too mech. Abe high young man; thea attrac. ice of gravitation, if nothing ela ‘hay get your ball into the bells eye Every eve expects to be remembered efter they are dead. and yet not que in & milion can give amy good reason ‘The great misfortume with mast of wa & we are constantly looking abead fee cur experience. instead ef looking mhind, mes Siiewrs = ft Ge gure : 3 yu fens 2 plage gr ‘Stoet abd thea away for the Weeks will Bite ca anything, Ube a — .. ‘You caa catch them &3 Fou Pease. oe tan Stn wt Sivan Summa OT genes, eatinadly ogc ee San eet SN THE BROAD aX. ce'&t Domeweay, bat Callan ciples of Democracy, but C Protestants, priests, infidels, farmers, single taxers, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else'can have their say, as long as their langunge is prop- er and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is & 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 othe paper. Subscriptions must be pald in ad- vance. Advertising rates made known on application. Address al] communica- tions 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, TIL, as second class matter.) LETTERS OF COMMENDATION, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax Dear Sir—I am glad to learn of the work that is being done by your paper tm behalf of Chicago platform prin- ciples. That platform stands for guch @ government as Jefferson and Lincoln favored, namely, a government ef the people, for the people and by the people, and I believe that suck & government ‘will prove a blessing te the great majority of the people. Yours truly, W. J. Bryan. July 15th, 1898. ‘Te whom it may concern: Jultus F. Taylor, who comes to this @ity well recommended, has begun the publication of “The Broad Ax,” which I am informed, will disseminate Democratic principles and contend fos the higher intellectual development ot the Afro-American race and mankiné tm general. While he is thus engaged 1 Despeak’ for him the hearty suppert ef all loyal and true friends of Demoe- racy. Respectfully, Carter HM Harrisea. Headquarters of Democratic State Cen- tral Committee of Illinois, Shermas House, Chicago, Oct, Sth, 1899. To whom it may concern: ‘This is to certify that Mr. Julius P ‘Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax—a pub- Meation of this city devoted to the in- terests of the democratic party, and ap able exponent of democratic prinei- plee—comes to us highly recom- mended, and I therefore take pleasure tm commending him to the favorable consideration of democrats with whom he may come in business contact. Respectfully, Walter Watson. Chairman Desscratic State Central Committee of Iilincts. NOTICE. 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If you have anything to offer, call or address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue 4 ACRE FARM FOR SALE ‘Three miles from Geneva Junctica, six miles from Lake Geneva. 9% acres in Walworth county, lies all im cultivation, good house, barn and outbiidings. 20 head milch cows. 28 head hogs. 500 chickens, 100 turkeys, S® Gucka, 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 cle gaat farm so indicate by addressing ‘The Broad Ax Pom @alz A lovely sit-room cottage, modera improvements, lot 35 by 135, located om Elizabeth street, near Sixty-Seveath Price, $1,200. $150 cosh, balance t gait purchaser. This i a bargain. Any ome desiring to secure a cour Hutle home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further informa- Gen address Jolics F. 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