The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Horace Greeley was unremitting in pleading the cause of the slave through his paper, The Tribune, and he continued to urge Mr. Lincoln to take an advance step forward in the conduct of the war. In the meantime many prominent people from all sections of the country visited Washington for the purpose of urging and persuading President Lincoln to issue a proclamation which would emancipate all the slaves throughout the South. But Mr. Lincoln replied to a great many of his visitors by saying, "What good could be secured by pursuing an aboliton policy? It is a pope's bull against the comet," suggested the President. He brushed the arguments of many others aside by replying: "I admit that slavery is at the root of the rebellion, or at least its sine qua non. The ambition of politicians may have instigated them to act, but they would have been impotent without slavery as their instrument. I will also concede that emancipation would help us in Europe and convince them that we are united by something more than ambition. I grant, further, that it would help somewhat at the North, though not so much, I fear, as you and those you represent imagine. Still, some additional strength would be added in that way to the war. And then, unquestionably it would weaken the rebels by drawing off their laborers, which is of great importance. But I am not so sure we could do much with the blacks. If we were to arm them, I fear that in a few weeks the guns would all be in the hands of the rebels. Let me say one thing more. I think you should admit that we already have an important principle to rally and unite the people in the fact that constitutional government is at stake. This is a fundamental idea, going down about as deep as anything." President Lincoln continued to adhere to his "Border State Policy," in spite of the Northern press and regardless of the remonstrances of those who marched in the ranks of the Abolitionists, and Mr. Lincoln, with all the pressure and eloquence which was brought to bear upon him in favor of emancipating the slaves, still refused to do so, but at last he finally yielded through the fear that enlistments would cease, and that Congress would refuse the necessary supplies to carry on the war, if he declined any longer to place it on a clearly defined antislavery basis. Consequently President Lincoln saw no way of escape, and the demand for the promulgation of such an edict had become so widespread that on September 22d, 1862, after a great deal of humming and hawing, and with many misgivings and forebodings upon the part of President Lincoln, the following proclamation was promulgated by him: "I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relations between the United States and each of the States, and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed "That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave States, so-called, the people whereof may not then be in rebelion against the United States, and which State may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits, and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the government existing there, will be continued. "That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any effort they may make for their actual freedom. "That the executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall in the absence of strong counterailing evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States. "And the executive will, in due time, recommend that all citizens of the United States, who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion, shall, upon the restoration of the constitutional relations, shall have been suspended or disturbed, be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including the loss of slaves. By very carefully perusing the above proclamation it will be observed that President Lincoln made no distinction between property and slaves, and his views in that respect were in harmony with the majority of the Southern people. (To be Continued.) MEETING OF THE PHYLLIS WHEATLY CLUB The members of the Phyllis Wheatly Club met at their rooms, 5058 Dearborn street, Wednesday afternoon. It was decided to give an entertainment and have a sale of aprons, Tuesday, July 3, aftrnoon and evening, also the members and their invited guests will picnic at Jackson Park July 19. After the order of business an elaborate musical and litterary program was carried out. Dr. Anna R. Cooper read a paper on "Train the mind to think," she impressed upon her hearers the very important fact to pay more attention to cultivating and training the intellect so that we may be able to grasp the great problems that are confronting us more readily. Miss Flower, representing the Baptist Home Mission work and Fireside Schools, gave an interesting talk, and described on an illustrated map just where the work was carried on. The speaker said, pointing on the map to the State of Utah, that even out there among the mormons, where polygamy is still supposed to exist, the mission was doing good work. When polygamy was touched upon by the speaker, Dr. Jeffery was asked to give his views regarding it, whereupon he threw a bomb in among the women by stating that, "He had lived where polygamy reigned supreme for 6 or 7 years and the women were contended and happy and the men were looked upon as gentlemen'and to his mind there is no system of one wife nowhere, unless it is among the extremely poor, that the rich and the middle class of men with very few expectations have three, and four concubines and then put on sanctimonious faces and rail against polygamy." In closing the doctor said, that he was in favor of every man marrying as many wives as he could easily support." Cries of, No! No! from the women. The program was interspersed with vocal and instrumental musical selections by Mrs. Anna Ellis, Mrs. Ruth Raddon and Mrs. Eliza Harris. ADVANCE NOTICE. The next issue of The Broad Ax will contain a very able and profound article entitled, "Facts for the Afro-Americans."From the pen of one of the leading writers and advanced thinkers of the age, who is an honored citizen of Missouri, as well as a respected member of the Anglo-Saxon race. We urge upon the readers of The Broad Ax to read the article in question very carefully. It will be a historical treat and feast. The writer, who is a deep student, is in his 84th year, and was HEW TO THE LINE. ADAM ORTSEIFEN, CANDIDATE FOR NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS, prominently identified and connected with the Anti-Slavery movement. He has, therefore, always championed the side of the weak and the oppressed. And in conclusion we again admonish all to read "Facts for the Afro-Americans," by Col. Holt, in our next issue. ADAM ORTSEIFEN Everybody throughout Chicago and Illinois are familiar with the fact that some forty odd years ago Chicago's worthy and honored city treasurer, Adam Ortselfen, first saw the light of day in Germany, which is pre-eminently the land of education, statesmen, and wise philosophers, and while ADAM OF CANDIDATE FOR NOMINATION he was nothing but a mere lad, as't were, he conceived the idea of bidding farewell to his native land and started out empty handed for this great a glorious country. Only a short time after h's arrival upon these shores, Mr. Ortseifen found his way to Chicago, which was then nothing more than a fair-sized country town, and being full of hope, pluck, and determination, which is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Germans, he very soon accumulated a sufficient sum from his small earnings to launch out in the painting and decorating business for himself, which he very successfully conducted. His great business and executive ability and keen foresight, as well as hindsight, was soon recognized by the leading men in other walks of life, and as a result Mr. Ortseifen found himself gradually ascending the ladder which leads on up to honor, integrity, wealth and fame, and today the name of Adam Ortseifen is a tower of strength and greatness in the social, commercial and political world. Mr. Ortseifen is cool and level headed, and he transacts hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of business in connection with his duties as city treasurer and as secretary and vice president of the great institution which owes its success chiefly to his master hand, with more ease and less noise than many men who step into a cigar store to purchase a five cent plug of tobacco. With the enormous amount of business which he, transacts, it can be truthfully said to his credit that he treats those under him with due consideration, and if an ordinary pe son, black or white, German, Jew, Irish, or any other nationality, approaches Mr. Ortseifen, he will bid them welcome, hear what they have to say without contemptuously strutting away from them like a puffed-up and empty- ```markdown ``` headed fool, and if he cannot consistently comply to their requests or demands, he will very candidly and frankly acquaint them with the fact. This is one of the reasons why Mr. Ortseifen has been designated as "a good mixer in politics," and by pursuing this method it has made him extremely popular with all classes and nationalities. Every day Mr. Ortseifen receives letters of encouragement from the prominent leaders of the Democratic party residing in all sections of the State, and they assure him that he will be nominated for Governor, and they themselves and many others of less RTSEIFEN, FOR GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS, prominence have begun to climb into the Ortseifen band wagon, and it is the opinion of The Broad Ax that if the leaders of the party should honor Mr. Ortseifen with the nomination for Governor that he will be elected, for he is eminently fitted to wear the Governortorial mantle and discharge all the duties pertaining to the office to the entire satisfaction of all the people of the great State of Illinois. Dr. Allen A. Wesley returned the first of the week from an extended trip through the east and south. While in New York City he addressed the "Association of Military Surgeons, of the United States" at its meeting held in New York City May 31st to Jure 3d. The doctor's address was entitled, "The Spanish-American War as Seen by the Military Surgeon." From New York he journied south to Nashville, Tenn., and participated in the commencement exercises of the Fiske University, of which institution he is a graduate. While addressing its students, he contended for the higher education of the Negro, and his oration woke up the professors and students, and he very plainly and pointedly convinced them that the higher education is more beneficial to the Negro than industrial, and if he is capable of drinking in the first it will be no trick for him to easily come into the possession of industrial training or education. The doctor is firmly of the opinion that after all that is said and done, the south is the natural home of the Negro. It is there where he must work out those problems which confronts the race, and will continue to confront it for many years. Congressman Wm. Sulzer, of New York, will be one of the leaders of the Tammany braves to the Kansas City convention, and it would not be surprising to The Broad Ax to see Congressman Sulzer chosen as the running mate of Col. W. J. Bryan. LARGELY ATTENDED MEETING. The Democrats of the 6th primary district, 30th ward, held a rousing and largely attended meeting at Nugent's Hall, 53d and Union ave., last Wednesday night. Thomas Vaughn, district chairman, and engineer for the Board of Education, presided, and spoke as follows: "Fellow Democrats: The time has arrived for us to commence with the program. I shall endeavor to explain as briefly as possible the object of the meeting. "There is a tendency in some quarters to find fault with some of the ward organization officials. In other words, a few leap-year Democrats have been circulating reports derogatory to the character of the very men who made it possible to elect Democrats in this ward. "Now, my fellow Democrats. I have no desire to appear unduly forward or say anything which might be offensive to others; but without fear of contradiction it is only those who are unfamiliar with the political situation in the ward who accuse the officials referred to, of doing only that which is intended for the upbuilding, the elevation and advancement of the party. "Gentlemen, let me ask you if any body except a fool or dreamer could expect the Democrats who have at heart the best interest of the party, to follow the advice of a few striplings in preference to that of those who are socially, commercially as well as politically, interested. During the past week these disruptors, having no regard for truth or decency, some of whom have voted but once in their lives, and none of whom have resided only a few years in the ward, as a matter of fact, their ring-leader is ready to pack his satchel and migrate without neglecting any of his interests, for the simple reason he has none. "These men mailed an anonymous circular a few days ago for the purpose of misleading the honest Democrats, telling them they would have no voice in the selecting of delegates, etc. "After listening to a barren political discourse by one of those I allude to, a number of the old staunch supporters of the organization concluded to call this meeting in order to expose their disreputable methods to which I have referred. Only recently some of this bunch put forth their best efforts to have it appear that I was opposing the administration. They would, if they could, have it appear that I was such a rash, reckless and ferocious creature that I should not be permitted to run at large. "In conclusion, permit me to say, that the best evidence of the success of "The Regulars" at the coming primaries is the presence of so many of the old war-horses here tonight. I am glad to know that some of our opponents have already deserted the treacherous few who still remain. I do not believe in over-confidence, because that is the chief weakness of any party; but I do believe that half of us could go fishing and win out with the remainder." John J. Feely, Capt. Bradley and John W. Sweeny were the other speakers, and their talks were highly enjoyed by the large assemblage, at the conclusion of which cigars and refreshments were served. Walter A. Lantz, who has ably and faithfully represented the people of the 7th Legislative District in the assembly of Illinois, has the fight of his life in on his hands in order to retain his hold upon the people. His wealthy opponent, it is said, will open his barrel and spend money as freely as water for the purpose of knocking Mr. Lantz out; but Mr. Lantz believes his clean record before the people, they will continue to stand by him. The Hon. Ben T. Cabel, of Rock Island, Ill., who was instrumental in switching Illinois over into the Democratic column, has again put on his working harness, and Mr. Cabel will attend the State Convention at Springfield next week. There are many leaders of the party who would like to see him selected as one of the delegates at large to the Democratic National Convention. The black man's burden is the jack-leg preacher.—Ex. NO. 35. THE NEGRO NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE. OFFICIAL CONVENTION CALL Having recently been advised by the Hon. Edward E. Lee, president of this League, that he is not in favor of holding the next biennial convention of the League July 4th, 5th, etc., and in lieu of the fact that the League in convention assembled, did on the 10th day of August, 1898, unanimously adopt a resolution directing the president and secretary to, in due time, "issue a call for the next biennial convention to meet at the time and place of the holding of the regular democratic national convention in the year 1900," I the undersigned secretary, by virtue of authority vested in me by the constitution of the League, do hereby issue this OFFICIAL CALL To the members of the Negro National Democratic League, and to all Negroes of the United States who oppose the reelection of President McKinley: Notice is hereby given, that the enxt annual biennial convention of the above named League, will be held in the city of Kansas City, Missouri, on the 4th, 5th and 6th of July, 1900. Among other important measures which shall come before the convention are the following: The election of president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, the appointment of an executive committee and a literary bureau; also, a campaign committee. Under the constitution the term of all offices and committees is two years. The maximum number of delegates to which each state is entitled is twenty-four, (24); the maximum number of delegates allotted to each territory is ten, (10), and the District of Columbia is entitled to six (6) delegates. The first session of the convention will open at 12 o'clock, noon, July 4th, for enrollment, after which adjournment will be taken until 9 o'clock a.m., of the day following the adjournment of the regular Democratic convention. Respectfully. GEO. E. TAYLOR. Secretary Negro National Democratic League. Dated at Oskaloosa, Iowa, May 24. 1900. CHIPS. The Kings Daughters will give a pin cushion bazaar at Douglas League Hall, 5058 Dearborn street, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and evening, June 27th and 28th. A cordial invitation is extended to all. All the railroads running between Chicago and Springfield, Ill., will, on account of the Democratic State Convention, which convenes in that city Tuesday, June 26th, sell tickets for one fare for the round trip, which is $4.75. Tickets good until June 30th. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Organ, 4019 Indiana avenue, were among the great concourse of people who attended the County Democracy picnic at Burlington Park last Saturday. Mrs. Organ, who is a reader of The Broad Ax, is one of the finest little ladies in Chicago. We want it distinctly understood, that The Broad Ax will stand by the the Hons. Chas. K. Ladd, Samuel Alschuler, Adam Ortseifen, Carter H. Harrison, Wm. R. Morrison, Ben. T. Cabel, Judge Nicholas E. Worthington, Gen. Alfred Orendorfi or any other Democrat who is nominated for governor at Springfield next week, providing the nominee is unswerving in his support to Col. Wm. J. Bryan. President McKinley and Governor Tadpole Roosevelt, of New York, were nominated for President and Vice President at Philadelphia, Thursday. Some time ago, Governor Roosevelt declared that he had to pull his pistols and threaten to blow the heads off the "nigger" troops at El Caney, be'ore they would do their duty and we wonder if the governor thinks it will be advisable to blow the heads off the Negroes to compell them to vote for him. Later on we will devote a little more time and space to Tad. Roosevelt and his treatment of the Negro. Colored American, Mr. Freeman and other boosters of Massa Roosevelt please copy. re Pe - q Pa oS ot oe A . ee pe ed a ee ot a ee eee ge ee eee ee Gee ee PE eR ee : - REARS arate ee ee es eee Ne NT won ete en : : ne PS RS ple Sa a ee i ec : : Bee te Be eon ee Be - 3 : eat ee Tare ee eS ee wae eo Saat wupecnirTions (e¢vence)! Se Se advertising rates made known os application rt pn ete ase juidiada Soume Ohad vain: Liliana Russell indignantly denies Chat she-is enguged to William C. Whitney. Miss Russell's denial was ‘the Grst news of the matter that got tato general circulation, A military expert says, in Harper's ‘Weekly, that the number of wagons end animals required to supply an army increases in geometric ratio with ‘each day's march from the base. The statement makes it easier to under- stand why forces can be moved so msuch more rapidly in the offices of sensational newspapers than im the Heavy is the burden of poetic ances- tors which weighs on the little son re- ‘cently born to the Hon. Neville Lyt- ton, heir-presumptive to the earldom of Lytton. Through his father he is grandson of Owen Mered:th and great- grandson of Bulwer Lytton, and through his mother great-grandson of Lord Byron and grandson of Wilfrid Blunt. The establishment of international telegrap?s and telephones has made possibly direct dialogues between the foreign offices of different govern- ments. A writer in the National Re- view sees herein a lightening of the duties of diplomatic functionaries and @ possible diminution of their tmport- ance. The world is becoming one neighborhood. During the past winter, which has deen marked by uncommonly high temperatures in the Northern Hemis- phere, a similar elevation of temper- ature appears to have occurred in the Southern Hemisphere, which, of course, has its summer when we have ‘eur winter. In Gouth America, South Africa and Austriia exceedingly hot ‘weather was experienced while our part of the world was enjoying a mild winter. ‘The studies of the sodiacal light made at sea lead Mr. F. J. Bayldon, formerly of the British mavy, to re- mark that the air over the Pacific Ocean appears clearer and better edapted for celestial observation than ‘that lying over the Atlantic Ocean Honolulu is admirably situated for clearness of air, and it may become an important outpost in astronomy. It has already been selected as one of the chief points for the study of the vibrations of the earth A very large attendance has charac- terized the Paris exposition ever since the formal opening. The American at- ‘tendance is much larger than was an- tictpated. President Loubet of the French republic, attends every tiedica- ‘tion made necessary by the delayed completion and throwing open to the public of the various buildings. The two palaces of fine arts were opened, ‘with pictures by several hundred Am- erican aftists prominently displayed. American sculptors have a fine dis- play, while architects, engravers, and eminiature painters have a separate section. Ht is claimed that America excels in all the arts except sculpture. It is well known that Mrs. Emmons Blaine has made munificent provision for establishing the Chicago Institute, with the twofold object of providing ideal. educational conditions from kindergarten to college and offering to teachers the best advantages for pro- fessional training. One feature of the enterprise which is not often men- tioned is of much importance. After ‘the staff of instruction was appointed, the twenty-six men and women who comprise the staff were placed under salaries and were allowed a year for maturing their own qualifications be- fore being calied to their respective ‘hairs. Most of them are now pursu- {mg special studies at universities. In alittle western town, originally gettied by Quakers, stands a church in ‘which the practice of seating men and women apart still prevails. A few years.ago, a newcomer mustered cou- rage to cross the aisle and sit bes! bis bride. The second Sunday ancther ‘man committed the same offence, and the third Sunday saw a generous @prinkling of bared beads alongside ‘pring bonnets. The aged minister, ‘with outraged sense of propriety, ‘come upon him at unawares; and let his ‘met-that be hath hid cetch bim- elt; Inced no words in exposi- thon.” The mer: who had dared to stray ae 3 re aie being cternally doomed sitting b a body, Th pequit is thst today in that 3 m stands two church ce ef pa aio me es ~~ the sexes are-divided by a middle le, while in t “promiscuous tin P grevaile. 3 © trivislities = es apgermyaewr eee we ser ee eee Ee, “= MSENING CLAIM Wor Mastoden Bones Filed by ® Califor ‘hie ae Ay, pesos ‘Los Angeles (Cal) correspondence ‘New York Sun: One of the most re markable mining claims ever filed has recently come to light in Los Angeles. A well-known attorney has on his ta- ‘ble sone parts of enormous tusks of mastodens, literally a bunch of three, found Dy a client in Death Valley; ‘and it was on the bones of this animal ‘that the claim was filed. Death Valley isa well-known depression in the eastern and central part of California. Im winter it is not @ particularly at- ‘tractive region, but in summer it is eeveral degrees more disagreeable than almost any other spot on earth. The beat which is radiated from the Rocky mountains bere ts unbearable, and in midsummer the vast sunken pit is the home of the sand storm, and given over to the elemental terrors. Mil- lions of years ago this region, fm al! ‘probability, was covered with a forest growth and was frequented by large 8nd powerful mastodons. The valley offers few inducements to any but the owners of borax mines and gold, silver and copper prospectors. It so happened that one of the latter entered the val- ley late during the present season and wandered through the mountains look- ing for treasure or signs, when he stumbled upon some curious bones. In- vestigation showed that they were merely. the indications of others be- neath the surface, which had aot been washed away, and a little work re- sulted in uncovering some enormous tusks, which could delong only to an animal of the elephant family. Fur- ther investigations showed that in some way three gigantic elephants had died and been covered up here. It was impossible to take them out without appliances, and as the prospector did not wish to remain there, he adopted the ingenious expedient of taking out 8 miner’s claim and having it filed ‘with all due ceremony, bringing one of the tusks to Los Angeles to exhibit. The excavations made showed that the remains of three mastodons were lying together undisturbed where they had fallen ages ago. The three mastodons thus staked out will soon be taken out, bope by bone, and mounted; and if they prove to be perfect will be as valuabie as a good big nugget. SHIPS WITH AIR JACKETS. Shey Eedece Frictien sod Benda Greater Speed Possible. The air jacket for ships is the iatest thing out. It is the invention of « Seotchman, and, it is claimed, greatly reduces the “skin friction” and as a consequence enables 2 higher speed to de attained. The “aspirator,” as the machine is called which supplies the air, is described as being self-acting and without any moving parts. It isa ‘V-shaped air channel, which passes Gown the vessel's stem as far as the keel, and in most cases goes a certain distance along the keel. This chan- nel may be either inside or outside the vessel, and is provided with certain protected openings or ports construct- ed'in such a way that the water rush- {mg past them produces a minus pres- sure within them and consequently draws out a continnous stream of air, which, passing along the submerged surface of the ship, cuts off the imme- diate contact with the water, and, therefore, the water friction. It is the elaim of the inventor that by means of his process a steamer makes her voy- age in a continuous air jacket The sir, of course, ultimately rises to the surface of the water, but if the ship be going st a fair degree of speed she ‘will pass ber whole length through the air current before it escapes. It is said that in the experiments made with steamships on the Tay there was an imcrease of speed amounting to from 21 to 26 per cent of the ordinary speed of the ship, and it was noted that the greater percentage of increase ‘was in ships that had the greater ‘speed to begin with—Chicago Chron tele ‘The azicients considered horse meat as a delicious food and offered it to their guests as a mark of honor, says the Detroit Free Press. Pliny says that the ancients Killed their horses and ste their fesh raw. The Sarma- tions, when hungry, never hesitated to cut a vein of the animals on which they were riding, drink his blood and then bind the wound to save the pre- cious Suid. An embassy sent by the King of France on a mission to the Khan of Tartary, ate deliciously smoked horse sides at his exceliency’s table. While horse fiesh was eaten gemerally among Germans until the days of Chariemagne, it was regarded with aversion by the early Christians. At that time there was a crusade against this meat because of its being “unclean, unwholesome and unfit to eat.” The present revival of the use of horse Gesh, concerning which the French papers have had so much to say, is the result of a movement among Prominent men, the principal object ef Which is to add to the feod resources of the world. Z Fist Fight Amid Boll te During the fight at Colenso thers @ccurred a truly Irish incident. The gallant Dublins, in en attack en the enemy's le:: flank, paused st a spot for cover and also in order to regain their breath. Here twe of te enldiers had & dispute, and before one could say Jack Robimson they were em their feet banging their fists inte euch others faces, with tremendous vehemence, while bullets whistled by their ears and kicked up the Gust at their fest Whea the best msn had won the Dub- ins left their cover and went fer the DEMOCRATIC LETTER, THE REIGN OF CORRUPTION “ “TAKES A RECESS. Shameless Profiigacy of the Republican Administration — Starving the People te Fatten the Purses of Political Heelers . @f Bigh and Low Degiee. ‘80es upon which the presidential elecr tion is to be fought in November have been joined. Three years of McKin- Jey’s administration have proven that ‘the Republican leaders are drunk with ‘imperialism, mad with militarism, Profiigate with government funds, reckless in foreign relations, and cor- rupt in thelr dealings with corpora- tons. True only to the trusts, the Republican party has abandoned the constitution and the principles on which this government was founded. ‘The Democratic party will appeal to the country to bring the government back to the paths of truth and sober- ness, to stop the radical and reckless expenditure of public funds, to give an honest and impartial enforcement of the law, to bring the nation out of its entangling foreign alliances and wars of conquest into a condition of peace and open-handed friendship with all the world, to take steps toward remov- ing the dangerous control of the na- tion’s finances from the national banks, to pass laws that will curb the trusts and take from them the special Privileges whereby they have grown 80 great, and last, but not least, to “turn the rascals out.” On such a platform, and under the leadership of Bryan, the Republican party can be swept from power in every branch of the government by a combined, united and harmonious opposition. The most important and patriotic duty of the Democratic party will be to defeat the Republican ticket: next November. The details of reform in administration can safely be trusted to Bryan and of reform in the laws of the congress which shall be elected with him. The country is more concerned in bringing the government back to safe and sound principles of administration than in any single law which might be enacted, however important such law may be to the welfare of the country. Honest administration of the govern- ment on constitutional lines is the foundation upon which reform of the law must be erected. No law, however good and salutary, can be of avail un- less it is honestly administered. There are good laws on the statute books now which have become dead letters at the hands of the present administra- tion. The Kansas City convention will give earnest of its purpose to meet the Gemands of the country. Every honest and patriotic citizen wants a clean government, whether he be a Republican, Democrat or Popu- list. He wants an impartial applica- tion of the law. He wants an econom- ical expenditure of public funds. He wants the public service to be free from scandal and corruption. He wants: an equitable adjustment of taxation. He still believes in the constitution. He is opposed to a huge standing army | and to eptangling foreign alliances. He is opposed to trusts and the spe- cial privileges which have created them. McKinley has not given a clean ad- ministration. Hanna's political hench- men have filled the public offices, have openly and flagrantly violated the civil service law and have stolen public funds. The Cuban scandals in the pos- tal service, in the customs service and in the army are merely the surface in- dications of & corruption as wide- spread as the government itself. MilHons have been taken from the public treasury under the fiimsiest gloss of regularity ana legal form. No one who knows will attempt to deny that political favorites were permitted to make contracts for army and navy supplies at prices out of all propor- Yon to the value of the articles fur- pished. Scores of vessels were sold 0 the government at three times their sctual value, with commissions to po- itical favorites quite equal to the price which went to the actual owners of be vessels. Worse yet, legislation was jorced through congress, like the ar- nor trust grab, for the sole purpose of urnishing Mark Hanna with a Re- yablican campaign corruption fund of nillions. This notorious and flagrant pisnse of legislative power is alone mough to condemn to political de- truction the party which has permit- ed it. ‘Taxation has been so adjusted as to al! almost entirely upon the shoulders f the Isboring and producing masses f the country, while wealth is prac- ically exempt from shering in the urden of government. A general demand that taxation hould be reduced to a safe and con- ervative basis has been refused, and 11 signs indicate that expenditures | ven in a time of peace will equal the s . : - Fe ween, “Hiad sot certain, Eserae eens se = a the beary pT . wee Min sheagmed ok -m npr crease in army appropriations over the figures for 1396. That is all to be thrown Into thé Philippine rat hole, where the entire trade of the United States for. the current fiscal year 1s less than, $3,000,000. The $35,000,000 in the naval expenditure wil! benefit a few ship-building firms, who will di- ‘vide. with the armor plate trust enor- mous profits on their political con- tracts, There is a $32,000,000 increase ‘in the sundry civil bill. That goes entirely to feed taxeaters of high and low degree. A smaller indication, but a charac- teristic one, is found in the bill now reposing on the Senate calendar with & favorable report from the Republic- an majority of the judiciary commit- tee to Increase the pay of all federal judges from the chief justice of the Supreme Court down. The chief jus- tice now gets $10,500. It is proposed to give him $21,000 a year. The other justices of the Supreme Court are to have their pay doubled. Taking the whole list, an increase of salary amounting to half a million dollars annually is to be put through. The army reorganization bill, which is hung up to see whether McKinley is to be re-elected or not, involves an increase of the standing army to 65,- 000, with a trebling of the expense of its maintenance. These are a few brief samples of what a continuation of Re- publican control means to the taxpay- ers. The Democratic party will put the issue squarely before the people JACKSON DAY. DEMOCRATIC EXPANSION. The Republican newspapers . have been doing the people a real service by publication of a map sent out by some one of the imperiajtst “committees— very likely the Cuban annexation jun- ta of Washington—which map shows how the United States has grown and enlarged by Democratic expansion. Louisiana is marked ‘Democratic ex- pansion,” and so is all of California, Texas, Oregon, the Gadsden purchase and Florida. é Cuba is also included in the list. It is an instructive map. If we had one of them we would publish it. Every voter ought to see a copy and study it carefully. By this map it is shown that the present great area of the United ‘States of America is due entirely to “Democratic expansion” save and alone the original thirteen states and Alaska. This is a record which the ‘Republican party dare not “point to with pride.” There was no “Repub- lican expansion” known until McKin- ley got in his work. The growth of the United States so as to cover a large part of the continent and include homogeneous states -working togeth- er in harmony has been due to the Democratic party. We are glad that the Republicans have called attention to the fact that the expansion we have known before has practically all been “Democratic expansion.” is a point we have pea suhag UE dove, oan: tae Bo- publicans refuse to acknowledge it. President Schurman of the first Phil- ippine peace commission, acknowl- edged it. He was among the first Republicans to declare that the expan- sion under this administration differs im every essential from the expansion of the Louisiana purchase. Then Sec- retary Root stated the distinction plainly. Since then the administration has acted entirely upon the theory that expansion which includes islands in distant seas is entirely unlike the ex- pansion which the Democratic party brought about. In fact, every thing has been done to make it evident to all that the “Republican expansion” of 1899 is entirely different from the “Democratic expansion” which has made ours a great and glorious nation. The truth is that “Democratic ex- pansion” is in accord with the spirit of our institutions, while “Republican expansion,” or imperialism, is along the lines of European colonization.— Sioux Falls Press. Se Det Fine Not only did congress adjourn with- out declaring any Philippine policy. but it was equally non-committal in regard to Cuba. a Not a step was taken by the McKin- Jey majority looking toward the with- drawal of the American troops and the fulfillment of the peldge made by con- gress, now more than two years ago, “to withdraw from Cuba,” after expel- lng the Spaniards; “and leave the people thereof to govern themselves.” This action—or, rather, the non-ac- tion of congrese—justifies Senator Hale’s doubt as to whether tho United States will ever withdraw from that island—i. e., so long as McKinley is fm the saddie—Grand Rapids Demo- crat, ‘ General MacArthur reports over ten thousand Filipinos killed so far in our war of conquest, Who is to answer for this butchery at the bar in the judgment day? And will not every man who is cognizant of these facts become guilty in the eyes of the Crea- tor if be in November votes to con- tinue in power the men who hare caused this needless waste of life— There are several varieties of fish that cannot swim. In every Instance they are deep sea dweilers, and craw! about the rocks, usiag their tatis and fins as legs. = ee ae eee =NOGLAND LOVES M’KINLEY. Lords of the British Empire Commend Our Fickle President. President McKinley's coldly formal reception of the Boer envoys, and bis eliberate failure to express sympathy with the republics they represented, have delighted the aristocracy of Eng- land. Among this class he is recog: at ne te a how. Tek apes cablegrams to a New number of barons and earls and dukes express their appreciation and thanks eae S ee “1 highly appreciate the president's friendly action. CAMBRIDGE.” “| consider President McKinley's ac- tion as an example of deep forethought and extreme patriotism and respect for the country over which he presides. . . “ABERCORN.” | = “| greatly appreciate the friendship of the United States. “SOMERSET.” “I highly appreciate the attitude of the American government, notwith- standing the difficulties of its position. I hope the good feeling between the two countries will continue. “NEWCASTLE.” “Tt is evident that President McKin- ley’s action in definitely informing the Boer delegates that neutrality made in- terference impossible will be accepted by many in this country as a token of the friendship existing between the two governments, and it is gratifying to see that in the face of considerable opposition the United States govern- ment hes accepted a similar policy to that of England in the Spanish-Ameri- can war, an attitude which can only strengthen the friendly feeling now ex- isting between the two countries. “LONSDALE.” “Having always looked hopefully to friendly union of the Anglo-Saxon race the world over, I gratefully welcome whatever tends te amity between Eng- Jand and America. WEMYSS.” “I never doubted the good will of President MeKinley toward this coun- try, which at the preset moment is evinced by his correct attitude. This friendly feeling, as well as the sym- pathy of the American people, is much appreciated by the entire English na- tion, which cherishes sentiments of sincere attachment to your country. “ROTHSCHILD.” “I warmly appreciate President Mc- Kinley’s friendliness toward England at the present moment. “STANHOPE.” “The course pursued by the presi- dent is in accordance not only with his personal friendly disposition toward this country, but also with that of a large majority of his countrymen who have studied South African questions. “LOCH.” “Our league would have been much surprised had McKinley done other- wise. We should be slow to believe that America was anything but friend- ly toward England, because America has more to gain than lose by such friendship, and the oneness of purpose of both nations ought to cement the understanding. “W. C. CRUTCHLEY, “Secretary of the Navy league.” McKinley is the first president of the United States to elicit commendation from such sources. No other president ever elicited them, because no other president ever was false to the prin- ciples and traditions of the republic. Impartial history will record that he was the only chief magistrate, from Washington down to himself, to with. hold a word of cheer to men strug- gling for liberty; and the only one capable of withholding it to win the plaudits of titled lords. Were McKin- ey really neutral British nobles would not so highly praise him. Their ad- miration is excited by the evidence that he is a British ally.—Dubuque Telegraph. ; McKinley Lacks Judgment. From the New York Herald: Dr. From the New York Herald: Dr Charles H. Parkhurst sailed for Eu- rope yesterday by the White Star steamer Germenic, and, as his custom when leaving these shores, commented freely on things political. When seen at his home prior to his departure for the steamship pier he is quoted as saying: “As long as the Republican party under the present administrative forces goes on in power, the further it will move to the promotion of po- litical and monetary combinations which will continue to discredit the country, destroy our moral prestige abroad and work toward the impair- ment of the interests of the rank and file of the people. - “Enough national harm has already been done by the present administra- tive forces. The only way that I can see out of the difficulties is to place in power, as the head of a new adminis- tration, a man of mature intellect and judgment, who will not be swept off his feet as McKinley has been, and who will not go back on his publicly Emenee present administration Fepeat- eity done.” = According to a German publication, a chemist of that country has prepared @ Guid that has the power when in- onan te oe ite roots, of anaesthetizing plant— pending its vitality. HOMESEEKERS EXCURGIna. ‘Vis Chicago & Eastern Tlincts Rares © Om the first and third Tuesdays o July and August the Chicago 4 Eastern Tlinois Railroad will place oy gale Homeseekers’ Excursion ticks to various points in Alabama, Aria. sas, Florida, Georgia, Indian Terr, tory, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis. sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, sou, Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. One fare plus $2.00 for the roung trip. Tickets are limited on going trip fifteen days from date of sale with stop over privileges in Homeseekery territory. Returning tickets are lim. ited twenty-one days from date of sale “Remember that we now have in sery. fice a new wide vestibuled train be tween Chicago & Waco & Ft. Worth, Texas, leaving Chicago daily at 159 p. m. Through Pullman sleeping car and free reclining chair cars. For further particulars call on or address any agent Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad or C. L. Stone, G. P. & T. a, Chicago. $30.30. N. BE, A. Convention at Charleston, 8. C., in July. Tickets good going vig Chattanooga, Knoxville, Asheville ang Spartansburg, and returning via Nor folk, Old Point Comfort, Richmong and White Sulphur Springs, Va. For maps, time cards, etc., address J. ¢ Tucker, 234.Clark street, Chicago, Chicago's Big Paving Jobs. The second letting of the Chicago contracts for street improvements for 1900 involves work estimated to cost $520,000. When they are let there wil) be $2,310,000 worth of work contract. ed for. In 1899 the cost of the work done was $1,470,000. The streets un- der contract aggregate seventy-eight miles. @old Medal Prise Treatise, 25 Cts. Ss ete engra’ +, Paper overs tom. nano mail. shock a le-aget million Address The P. Body Medical inwicate, Ra, Baltes Sc, Mass.. the oldest and best institute in America. pee Six cts. for Write to-day for these books. ave the keys to health. vigor, succe=* and 2 ‘Where Some of the Gold Is. 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Mrs. Pinkham, who has the greatost and most successful experience in the world to quailfy her, will advise you free of charge. Her address Is Lyna, Mass. Write to hor. As S/ ‘ 7 ie AY me UE! ; HIRES Rootbeer ES =e = Washington Letter: Among the younger members of the house of representatives there is none who gives promise of greater permanent usefulness than William H. Moody of Massachusetts. This is really Mr. Moody's second term in congress. He was first elected to fill out a few months of the unexpired term of Gen. Cogswell, but had little opportunity then to do much more than look around and get his bearings, which he did to very good purpose. Mr. Moody was first chosen in his own right to the Fifty-fifth congress, and down in the Essex district they now say that he can stay in congress just as long as he likes. There is nothing sensational or superficial about Moody. He is as hard a working and as thorough-going a man as there is in public life today. He always inspires confidence, and that is something which must be of the utmost value to any man who maps out for himself a political career, no matter what party he belongs to. When Moody first came to Washington he set out with the definite purpose of making himself thoroughly familiar with the methods of legislation, and for months devoted himself solely to this task. He deliberately resisted the temptation, always strong with new members, to force himself upon the attention of the house by plunging into debate and making a hit with a maiden speech. He had confidence in himself and knew that he could safely wait and trust to time and to his native abilities to gain the influence and reputation he was after. He waited until he was sure of his ground and then when he ventured to demand the attention of the house he got it, and in such a way, too, that thereafter every word of his carried weight. He impressed himself upon his associates as a sound lawyer with a trained mind whose honesty of purpose could never be questioned. Mr. Moody has always been placed on hard-working committees. His first assignment was to the elections committee and his first reputation was made by his exhibition of independence in upholding the claim of the democratic claimant in a contested case. He had to break with his associates on the committee in this, but so completely had he mastered the details of the case and the law that he carried CONGRESSMAN MOODY. his point against the majority. He was afterward assigned to the appropriation committee, which is the most important committee of the house. Appropriation bills always have the right of way and members of the committee are constantly in evidence from the necessities of their position. Garfield, Randall and Cannon are some of the men whose congressional careers were identified with their work on appropriations and opportunities for reputation are just as great now as ever they were. Moody is a bachelor. He has always had bachelor apartments in Washington, and through one congressional session he and Representative Gillette hired a house together and kept bachelor's hall. He is a member of the Metropolitan club and such time as he spends in the club is about all the social relaxation he allows himself or cares for. At home in Massachusetts he ranks high as a lawyer, and during the long recesses of congress he devotes himself to his profession, although there is never a time when he is not studying legislative problems and trying to fit himself more thoroughly for his public duties. During one long recess he carried home all the books he could find on parliamentary usage, and when he came back for the next session he was so thoroughly grounded in that most difficult and complicated branch that only two or three men in congress, and those veterans, who have seen many years of service, can compare with him in parliamentary lore. Moody is short and stocky, with a fine head set on a broad pair of shoulders, and he looks the fighter that he is. No one can see him without recognizing the man of bulldog tenacity who is not afraid of tacling any situation which he may be thrown up against. He was graduated at Harvard four years before Gov. Roosevelt, but, unlike some of the other Harvard graduates who have come forward in public life, has never devoted himself especially to pure literature and there is little of the atmosphere of books about him. He is hard-headed and practical, unhampered with illusions, but in spite of his hard sense he figures little in practical politics—so-called—and is indifferent to the machinery of primaries and conventions. The helress may be homely, but if she waits for some young man to tell her so she will never find it out. WHAT BECOMES OF CANS? Made Into Solder, Can-Iron and Window- Sash Weights What becomes of all the old tin cans? is a question asked about as often as what becomes of all the pins. The end of the millions of pins has never been answered, but the first question can be, as far as New York is concerned. Briefly, 300,000 discarded tin cans, exclusive of wash boilers, basins, cups and other divers sorts of tinware, are collected in this city each week, and as rapidly as gathered are transformed into solder, can-iron and window-sash weights. Everything about the can is utilized, even to the paper. This, it is vouched for, provides a light and delectable dessert for omnivorous billy goats. At the works there is a veritable mountain of tin cans, where the recipient of delicate French peas fraternizes with the vessel which contained marrowfats, and where the can once containing aristocratic brandied peaches lies in helpless proximity to one once the home of plebeian beans. They are brought there by thousands, not only by a dozen or so hucksters, but by teams constantly in use. They are gathered from private places, ash barrels and dumps all over the city. Fifty tons a week are brought in, and as the average is three cans to the pound, one may easily see that there are tremendous numbers of them. The factory pays the hucksters $5 a ton, though they get them free. The first work of the day is taking these cans to an auxiliary stack of the furnace by means of a conveyer, consisting of moving buckets, which scoop them up and bear them into the receptacle. They are exposed to a heat of from 400 to 500 degrees. At this temperature the solder is melted off, and by a rotary screen sifted into a separate channel, to be afterward purified. The cans are left to go down another way. Then the cans are sorted. Those with sides intact are picked out for what is cailed "can iron." About one-fifth of a can's entire weight can be used for this purpose, while solder is yielded to the extent of forty pounds to the ton. An employee went into the building and pointed out something which looked like a clothes wringer. "Through this," he said, "the still useful sides of the cans are passed, so that they may be straightened out. They are put into bundles of fifty pounds each and sold to manufacturers of trunks and other articles where their use is required. They average 350 or less plates to the bundle, according to whether they are pint, quart or gallon size. Here is where the refuse tin, amounting to about forty out of the fifty tons' weight of cans each week, is melted after it is sorted from the solder and the can iron.—New York Exchange. THE JIGGER'S JOURNEY. Pestiferous Little Insect Is Travelling Around the World. The very small species of the flea, commonly known as the jigger, whose native home is tropical and subtropical America, set out in 1872 to circumnavigate the world and has now half completed its journey. His arrival in India and Madagascar is almost simultaneously reported. On his conquering way he has badly frightened many barbarous tribes by his propensity to bore through the skin and find lodgment under it, and many villages and sometimes whole districts were abandoned by the natives during his journey across Africa. In September, 1872, a sailing vessel from Brazil dumped a quantity of sand ballast on the beach at Ambriz, a little south of the Congo. This event has historic importance from the fact that the jigger crossed the ocean in this sand and it is believed to have been his first introduction to foreign territory. His rate of advance across Africa depended upon the means of transportation at hand, for the jigger will not hop when he may ride. It was thirteen years before he struck the caravan route to Stanley Pool, and then he journeyed quickly and comfortably with the porters in the freight service to that starting point of the upper Congo steamers which carried him half way across Africa. Twenty years after his arrival in Africa, the jigger appeared on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza and six years later he was hopping along the sands of Zanzibar island. The jigger was thus established in 1898 at the busy mart whence many vessels sail for the East Indies and Oceanica. It was predicted that he would soon invade India, and sure enough his arrival at Bombay, whither he had been brought by coolies returning from Africa, is now reported. Le Tour du Monde says he may be expected in French Indo-China at any time and that he will evidently invade the whole of Southern Asia, and letters from Nossi Be, in northwest Madagascar, report his advent there and on the adjoining islands, where he is flourishing and multiplying in the sandy soil. We may next expect to hear of this persevering and successful traveler among the Pacific islands, and all regions in or near the tropics seem destined to make his acquaintance.—New York Sun. Good War Story Ritold. When Charles Dudley Warner was editor of the Hartford Press, back in the '60s, one of the typesetters came in from the composing-room one day, and, facing Mr. Warner, said: "Mr. Warner, I've decided to enlist in the army." With mingled emotions of pride and responsibility, Mr. Warner replied that it pleased him that the man felt the call of duty. "Oh, it isn't that," said the truthful compositor, "but I'd rather be shot than set your copy."—Hartford Courant. NO REMEDY EQUALS PERUNA, SO THE WOMEN ALL SAY. 1 Miss Susan Wymar Miss Susan Wymar, teacher in the Richmond school, Chicago, Ill., writes the following letter to Dr. Hartman regarding Pe-ru-na. She says: "Only those who have suffered as I have, can know what a blessing it is to be able to find relief in Pe-ru-na. This has been my experience. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and every bottle of Pe-ru-na I ever bought proved a good friend to me."—Susan Wymar. Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1214 North Superior St., Racine City, Wis., writes: "I feel so well and good and happy now that pen cannot describe it. Peru-na is everything to me. I have taken several bottles of Pe-ru-na for female complaint. I am in the change of life and it does me good." Pe-ru-na has no equal in all of the irregularities and emergenices peculiar to women caused by pelvic catarrh. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O., for a free book for women only. THE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. Prohibition, at Chicago, June 27, 28, 1900. Tickets, at sale, June 26, 27 Democratic, at Kansas City, July 4, 1900. Tickets on sale July 2, 4. The road to take to attend these conventions is the Chicago Great Western railway, the popular "Maple Leaf Route,"with its vestibulated trains, free chair cars, satisfactory dining car service, and its unsurpassed sleeping car accommodations. Only one fare for the round trip. For further particulars apply to any agent of the Chicago Great Western, or address F. H. Lord, G. P. & T. A., 113 Adams street, Chicago. Cheap Excursions to Colorado. Cheap Excursions to Colorado, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah, will leave Chicago, June 20; July 9 and 17, and August 1st, via GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE. Rate of one regular fare, plus $2, for round trip. Return limit October 31st, 1900. Special trains one night to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, will leave Chicago at 4:45 p. m. Tickets will also be good on regular trains. For full information and free book, "COLORADO THE MAGNIFICENT," address John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago. A New Scheme of Taxation. An increase of at least $250,000 a year to Chicago's income from corporations is projected in an ordinance which an alderman has drawn up. The ordinance provides that all telephones and telegraph companies not now taxed on their gross income for the city's benefit shall pay to the municipality $5 a year for each pole used by them. Try Grain-ol Try Grain-ol Ask your grocer today to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has the rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-fourth the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers. Advice Regarding Famine Relief. Corn is not food that starving men can be revived on, and if it were they would die while awaiting the arrival of these carloads. The corn should be sold and the proceeds cabled to India. Ladies Can Wear Shoes. One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N.Y. Admirers of "King Solomon's Mines" and "She" will hail with delight a new romance of African adventure published this month by the New Amsterdam Book company, entitled "An African Treasure." It is a thrilling story of adventure in Morocco. Mr. J. Maclaren Cobban, whose new novel, "An African Treasure," is just issuing from the press, will be remembered as the author of "The Red Sultan" and "The Angel of the Covenant." The famous siege of Derry and other events in Irish history are dealt with in Mr. E. H. Strain's new historical novel, "A Man's Foes," published this week by the New Amsterdam Book company. Examples would indeed be excellent things, were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. Washing Day Made Easy By using Maple City Self Washing Soap. Try it once and you will use no other. All good grocers sell it. The camera takes people as they are and the photographer makes them as they are not. Vienna's great municipal railway system is now in perfect running order. BABY'S BAWLS benefit. Try it! Send for a 10c box of CASCARETS to-day and you will find that, as we guarantee, all irregularities of the little and big childrens insides are CURED BY CASCARETS CANDY CATHARTIC BEST FOR THE BOWELS 10c. 25c. 50c. ALL DRUGGISTS To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. Hotel Keepers on the Grab. The floodtide of travel from Germany, Austria and Italy, has now set in toward Paris. Hotel and innkeepers have decided to raise their prices from June 1. Their terms will be about 50 per cent higher than the usual rates.—Indianapolis News. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunlons. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. "Even a clock is lots of company when one is left alone." "Oh, yes; you are not without one familiar face."—Philadelphia Bulletin. Lane's Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. A thorn in mire, a hound's tooth and a fool's retort are the three sharpest things in creation. Diseases of the Scalp should not be neglected. Coke Dandruff Cure will clean the head and cure the disease. Living the life as we find it is like a starving man eating what is set before him. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Lieutenant Hobson's home-coming is to be a strictly non-osculatory affair. Maple City Self Washing Soap works perfectly in hard water. It bleaches white clothes and will not fade fast colors. It is always well to remember that foolish fear may double the danger. Hall's Catarrh Cure is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.—Wendell Phillips. When All Else Falls, Try Yi-Ki. Cures Corns and Bunlions without pain. Never falls. Drug stores or mail 15c. Yi-Ki Co., Crawfordsville, Ind. Six hundred thousand pounds of tea are consumed in England daily. Mrs. Winalow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. So a bottle. Your efforts to please others will invariably afford you pleasure. is the oldest and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anything else. It is always reliable. Try it. Sir Alfred Austin should try a horseless poem the next time. A Book of Cholee Recipes Sent free by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass. Mention this paper. Order is man's greatest need and his true well-being.—Amiel. Age tends to kill the hair and turn it gray. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM renews color and life. HINDERCORN, the best cure for corns. 15cta. 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For maps and particulars write immediately to This Offer is Limited in Time and Must Be Taken Advantage of at Once. --- Use Certain Corn Cure. Price,15c. afflicted with Thompson's Eye Water Y'S BA S BAWI MAM-M-MA!! DON'T YOU HE Do you forget that all its dangers to the bred in the bowels. The summer's heat children because their good, clean, strong con Winter has filled Belching, vomiting up flushed skin, colic, res DON'T YOU HEAR BABY CRY you forget that summer's coming dangers to the little ones-all of the bowels. summer's heat kills babies and because their little insides are lean, strong condition. ter has filled the system with, vomiting up of sour food, skin, colic, restlessness, diarrh DON'T YOU HEAR BABY CRY? Do you forget that summer's coming with all its dangers to the little ones-all troubles bred in the bowels. The summer's heat kills babies and little children because their little insides are not in good, clean, strong condition. Winter has filled the system with bile. Belching, vomiting up of sour food, rash, flushed skin, colic, restlessness, diarrhoea or constipation, all testify that the bowels are out of order. If you want the little ones to face the coming dangers without anxious fear for their lives, see that the baby's bowels are gently, soothingly, but positively cleaned out in the spring time, and made strong and healthy before hot weather sets in. The only safe laxative for children,pleasant to take (they ask for more) is CASCARETS. Nursing mothers make their milk mildly purgative for the baby by eating a CASCARET now and then. Mama eats a CASCARET,baby gets the 0c box of CASCARETS to-day and you will find that, as we little and big childrens insides are Experience Begets Wisdom. Mrs. Enpeck—"Oh, you think you know it all, don't you?" Mr. Enpeck—"No, my dear, but I know a great deal more than I did the day I proposed to you. I'm sorry to say." CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Hitchens In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. C. A. GRETTUM RUGBY, N. DAK. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 25, 1900. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. AWLS AR BABY CRY? , poe ae Pe ; ds ie To. eS a Fe = “y - . es - P ce tO OO) Oe see re _ aS Ss ci aie eer oe rae Pogo oad Sie t : WW AE See ig : Reg eS - Sere Ai Se : ee ee : A re ete ss tae eg ed ]>- simpnn have ben end nie ‘tion; "W, %. ‘Carlmore and G. W. Har- ay ~ = Re - $ ExAlderman W. F. Mahoney will “without any doubt receive the nomina- “tion for Congress in the 5th Congres- sional district, as it is thoroughly un- “derstood ‘that he is in harmony and ‘stands close up to the powefs that be in that neck of the woods, and it looks ‘as though the present Congressman. E. T. Noonan, is a dead cock in the pit. The Hon.(?) James Miller, who is ‘all Wind and legs and who furnishes at the 5th street police station, does not like The Broad Ax, because it docs not slobber over ex-jail and peniten- tiary birds, and if we remember right, almost one year ago Mr. Legs and Wind Miller ordered The Broad Ax sent-to his clubrooms, but he has per- sistently refused to pay for it. W. H. Clark, one of the leading At- ro-American Democrats of Chicago, has the honor of being the first mem- ber of the race to serve as a delegate ‘to the Democratic State Convention of Tilinois of 1898. Mr. Clark is an at- tache of the corporation counsel's of- fice. He stands well with the party managers, and The Broad Ax would like to see him selected as a member of the city, county central or State committee, for he has earnt his spurs in the ranks of Democracy. The Palladium of St. Louis, in com- menting upon our article on “The Col- ored Democrats of New York,” thinks it very strange that no colored Repub- ea uientdi ante ncn naan $75 per which is on a par with the salaries paid to the leading col- ored Democrats of Chicago, and it will ever be thus until the Negroes learn to thoroughly organize in these two ‘western towns and fight those who are not friendly to them, and if the colored men of Chicago and St. Louis were up to snuff there is no reason why we should not have several aldermen in the city council. It could be done as easy as not if politics were played right. What say you, gentlemen, as to this idea? Are you ready to take @ bold stand for political indepen- dence? | SCRAPS. ‘The sulphur mines of Sicily yield ever 300,000 tons a year. ‘The Parisians expect that 65,000,000 persons will visit their exposition. ‘Nearly one-third of the beer con- sumed in the world is brewed in Ger- many. _ About thirty cities in Wisconsin are supplied with water from artesian welis. In Japan it is the custom to set food béfore guests at whatever time of day they call Oklahoma now has over 300,000 pop- ulation, while the Indian - territory claims over 400,000. Stock raising would be a profitable enterprise in Korea were it not that Tinderpest is endemic. A girl at Marion, Kas., died from a ‘wound on the hand made by the barb on the back of a catfish. Massachusetts was the first state to establish a free public library com- mission by the act of 1890. May 1, 1900, was the coldest day of that date of which the New York weather bureau has record. Leeds’ artist policeman, E. T. Jones, has had « landscape accepted at this year’s Royal Academy exhibition. ‘Thirty-five years ago the farmers of the country sowed one million acres of buckwheat. The acreage in 1898 ‘was 678,382. ~ Charity—“I ask you for -bread,” Siva you tounge = hme “and you found me a free li- .”"—Detroit Journal. 4 : ee ae eee 2s Mornceo, where | looked on as “a hairy man with four hands.” aE, ry authorities in Boston have ‘ealled onthe barbers for the steriliza-— ‘the use.of 4 clean towel for each cus-| _ Over one billion feet of logs were cut in sts of Minnesota during aera eee xe BeARC ist closed. The ‘The pupils of one school in Syracuse brought in in cne day 29,000 cocoon clusters of the tussock mc on 22 egpereagp =” Se ee ae ee: rips. with respect to quantity, is . ie obteot iv ality st ee ee ee eae ed ME See Sine ee ay Se ee aed . ed at West. sa it, N.Y n e eee aed eee 3 - ed THE BROAD aX. “ Published Weekly, wil' promulgate and at all times uphold the trne prin- ciples of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, priests, infidels, farmers. single taxers, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else cam have their ‘say, a3 long as their language is prop- er and responsibility is fixed. ‘The Broad Ax is a newspapér whoee 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. : Subscriptions must be paid in ad- vance. Six months ......<.....-.00-22202 LO Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communica- tions to- THE BROAD AX, 5040 Armeur avenue. Chicage. Julius F. Taylor Editor and Publisher. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor,Assistant Editor. (Entered at the postoffice, Chicage, TIL, as second class matter.) LETTERS OF COMMENDATION, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julios F. Taylor, Editor Broad Az Dear Sir—I am giad to learn of the work that is being done by your pape fm behalf of Chicago platform pria- ciples. That platform stands for sech a government as Jefferson and Lincoln favored, namely, a government ef the people, for the people and by the people, and I believe that such & government will prove a blessing te the great majority of the people. Yours truly, W. J. Bryan. July 15th, 1899. ‘Te whom it may concern: Julius F. Taylor, who comes to this eity well recommended, has begun the publication of “The Broad Ax,” which, I em informed, will disseminate Democratic principles and contend for the higher intellectual development of the Afro-American race and mankiné t= general. While he is thus engaged I bespeak for him the hearty suppert ef all loyal and true friends of Demoe- Gacy. Respectfully, Carter 1. Harrisea. Headquarters of Democratic State Cen tral Committee of Mlinois, Shermaz 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 pub- Mestion of this city devoted to the in- terests of the democratic party, and am able exponent of democratic princi- ples—comes to us highly recom- mended, and I therefore take pleasure tm commending him to the favorable consideration of democrats with whom be may come in business contact. Respectfully, Walter Watson. Chairman Democratic State Cantral Committee of Illinois. NOTICE. 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