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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

and rs general laborers elsewhere
within their territory the Yaquis have
even now retained an independent gov.
eminent, with chiefs to decide accord.
ing to their laws and to mete ont nm.
ishment to the guilty, and SO perfect
mas been their method of self-coyern.
ment that the Mexican government
has had no occasion to Interfere. The
Yaqul is by nature moral and indns.
trious and no complaint can be made
against him on that account All over
Sonora there are found Yaquis in time
of peace working in the fields and in
the mines and even as laborers ON tbo
railroads. In the latter capacity they
are more valued and more trusted Than
any Mexicans, and we know OF In.
stances where railroad agents have
preferred Yaqui section bosses to those
of other nationalities.
Font Want Land Divided.
AS laborer the Yaqui is hard-work-
Ing and faithful and can always be re.
lied on. He does not shirk his work
when his foreman turns his bacl, and
az WIS NV SiOl lGa Ills Jay WORK Inv
continued cigarette smoking. No Won
der, therefore, that he is highly valued
for the work he can and does perform.
AS do many other laborers, lie gets
drunk when pay comes on Saturday
evening but he confines his carousing
to the rancheria in which lie lives and
keeps his family and when Monday
morning comes around every man is at
his work. The Yaqul country from
Buena Vista to the gulf has always
been held as common property by the
Yaqufs as tribe and has never been
portioned out to individuals as in other
communities. The reason for this is
found in the nature of the territory IT.
self. The fertility of the Yaqui delta
depends entirely upon the overflow of
the Yaqul River. In times of heavy
rains the delta and adjacent river bot
tom lands are covered by water or
made moist by sub-irrigation. while in
dry seasons the contrary is the cause.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13
That Germ, a n Vote.

Whistling to keep their courage up,
the Republican managers are an
nouncing that "thc German vote is all
right" True, the German vote is all
right, but not in the sense that our Re.
publican friends imply.
But the New York Independent,
which is not independent at all, SO far
as its political belief is concerned, but
is rampantly Republican, sees danger
to the party in the disaffection from or
of the German vote. Imperialism has
no claims for the German-American
citizen, and lie knows too much about
Its workings in the fatherland to APP
prove of Its importation to the United
States. He does not approve of the
Philippine war, nor does be like the
attempts of administration advocates
to establish great standing army.
Undoubtedly there will be large ex-
odus Of thoughtful German voters from
the Republican party in the campaign
of 1900. Promises are never made good
by the Republican machine politicians,
and the German voters are getting
tired of those who make pledges only
to break them. However much the
thick and thin Republican press may
protest that "the German vote is all
right" the fact remains that the Ger
man press of this country almost unan.
imously oppose the war and denounce
unstintingly the doctrine Of imperial
ism. Truly the German vote is all
right, but not from Mckinley point of
view
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

The percentage Of illiteracy is higher
in the Southern States and New Mex
leo and Arizona than in any other Sec
ton of the country. That is due in the
former to the large number of unedu-
Gated colored people; in the latter to
the Mexican population. Nebraska is
the banner State for education. Only
3.11 per cent. of the population OF over
10 years of age are unable to read and
write. Wyoming is second, with a
percentage of BAL; Iowa third, 3.G1,
and Kansas fourth. 800. Compared
with this the percentage of illiterates
in Massachusetts, is 622, exactly
double that of Nebraska. In New
York State 1t is 5.53 and in Connecticut
little less, 5.2S. In Ohio 1t is 5.24 and
in Illinois 5.25. This is due chiefly to
the foreign population in the large
cities and in manufacturing centers.
The farmers of Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa never fail to send their children
to school, while the slums of Boston,
New York, Chicago and other large
cities are filled with Bohemians, Hun
garians. Italians and other immigrants
who do not value education, and can.
not read and write.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

Yaquis are pacified or exterminated
dire disaster is sure to befall that beau
tiful State. The determination of the
Yaqui Indians simply means the de-
struction of the manual labor in So
nora. The Yaquis are not only the best
and most trusted workers in Sonora,
but they constitute the largest number
of able workingmen in that State. The
Yaquis can in no way be compared
with the Indians of the western part of
United States, except, perhaps, the
Cherokees and few other tribes
known for their peacefulness and for
their love Of application to agriculture.
Since the very first settlement of So
nora by the Spaniards the Yaquis have
inhabited small triangular territory
situated in the delta of the Yaaui River
and extending from the Gulf to a place
inland called Buena Vista. A few
Yaquis are settled as far up as Comu.
rita, but the principal Yaqui country is
MS just stated further down the coast.
In this territory the Yaquis were found
by the Spaniards, and their tradition is
that here they have resided from I'M
memorial times. For centuries the
Mexican government acknowledged
the right of the Yaquis to live in and to
cultivate this territory and for cen
turtles the Yaquls remained peacefully
at their work of cultivating the soil
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

There is absolutely nothing In what
Mr.. Bryanis quoted as saying that will
not be heartily Endorsed by every good
Democrat. Instead of its being shelly.
ing or descrtion of the silver issue, 1t is
anything but that. 1t means no weak
ening in support of the Chicago plat
form, nor the abandonment of single
principle. It's nothing else than SEN
sible understanding of political condi-
tons as they exist, recognition of which
Mr.. Bryan has given in many previous
speeches; not in exactly the same lam
guage, perhaps, but in substance. There
is not one man in America-that is, no
man of any intelligence whatsoever
that does not understand exactly where
Mr.. Bryan stands on the currency ques-
ton and every other issue.-Atlanta
Constitution,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

For the first time in history" writes
Hon. A. w. Tourgee, "the worlds Ia
Dor is able to produce more than the
world can consume" This result has
been reached by the application of
skilled industry to the development of
the ample resources of nature-the gift
of the All-Father to His human chill
dren. Inventive genius-planting, har-
vesting and manufacturing by me-
chanical methods-has made it possible
for one mans labor to supply the
means of life and comfort to hundreds:
and the same inventive genius, calling
to Its help vast combinations of capital,
has created conduits for the distribu.
ton and exchange of commodities over
large spaces of the globe, by land and
sea. Naturally, the nations that are
most intelligent and enterprising rem
der the largest service and reap the
largest benefits. Naturally, also, a
small minority of any population be-
come captains of industry, and direct
ors of the great financial operations
which fill the sluices of business, and
make the mighty wheels go round.
This situation makes two things posi-
bic. The strong and prosperous ma
tons have 1t in their power to crowd
and Cypress the lower or slower races
that still make up the large majority
of mankind, and the few men whose
genius for management, or advantage
of position, places them in the lead,
can compel their fellows to pay them
undue tributes and to depend on them
for permission to live on the planet. In
short, we nave reached condition
where the human multitudes by gen
erous, equitable dealing, might live
with less exhausting labor and more
rational happiness than ever before:
and yet 1t is condition where the self
ish use of power may easily create new
and cruel forms of tyranny and serf-
dom, which must be the seeds of con-
tict and revolution. 1t is good time
for men and nations to ponder the
principle of noblesse oblige.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13
Carlisle In 1878.

Shall not enter into m eyamina-
ton of the causes which have com
bined to depreciate the relative value
of silver and to appreciate the value.
of gold since 1873, but nm one Of
those who believe that they are tran
sient and temporary In their Nlt;,re..
and that when they have passed away
or have been removed by tile separ-
ate or united action Of the nations
most deeply interested in the subject.
the old ratio of actual and relative
value will be re-established on n firn,er
foundation than ever. know that the
worlds stock of precious metals ia
none too large, and see no reason to
apprehend that it Will ever become SO.
Mankind will be fortunate, indeed. IL
the annual production OF gold and sill.
yer coin shall keep pace with the nm.
nual increase Of population, commerce
and industry.
According to my view of the subject.
the conspiracy which seems to have
been formed here and in Europe to de.
destroy by legislation and otherwise
from three-seyenths to one-half the
metallic money of the world is the
most gigantic crime of this or any other
age. The contamination of such a
scheme would ultimately entail more
misery upon the human race than all
the wars. pestilence and famine that
ever occurred in the history Of the
world. The absolute and instantane-
GUS destruction of half the movable
property of the world. including
horses, ships, railroads and all other an.
pliances for carrying on commerce,
while 1t would be felt more sensibly
at the moment, would not produce any,
thing like the prolonged distress and
Reorganization Of society that must
inevitably result from the permanent
humiliation of one-half of the metal.
lie money of the world.-Jolln G. Car.
isle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

The story that comes from the Klon-
dixie is not SO rose-colored as We're the
stories told about this FL Dorado when
the boom was on. The gold product of
the last year is reported to have been
only 100000, 600. or one half the amount
estimated, and sickness and destitu-
ton are thinning out the adventurers.
The gamblers are apparently the only
successful gold seekers in the region.
The statement that reports from Alas
ka indicate that more gold will be
found there than will ever come out
of the Klondike may, however, only
mean that the transportation com
panies reaching Alaska are endeavor-
ing to work up boom for themselves
at the Klondike's expense.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13
were married they came to this coun-

were married they came to this coun-
try. playing in concerts together.
Concert-goers found Nine. de Pach.
mann beautiful woman. They saw
fine head, splendidly poised and
crowned with soft brown hair, loosely
coiled. Her face was classic in It's fea-
lures, her figure 1.-THE and graceful.
She played superbly, too, with a fin
ished elegance and marvellous bril-.
liancy. Her touch was at all times
smooth, and often dainty. 1t was a
great disappointment to music lovers
In this country and in Europe when
De Pachmann's infidellty forced his
wife to sue for divorce. When this
was secured Nine. de Pachmann re.
tired from the concert stage. and short.
ly nfterward married NJ. Labori
whose confidante in all his great cases
she since has been.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

Already census statisticians are spec
ulating on the new center of population
of the United States to be revealed by
the coming census. The steady west
ward course of this invisible point for
the last half century makes it practic-
able to determine within reasonable
exactness its location next year. In
1850 it was in West Virginia, south of
Parkersburg. Thence it crossed into
Ohio at the next census and trayersed
that State by slow stages until in
1880 1t had reached Cincinnati. In
1890 1t crossed into Indiana, still close
ly following the thirty-ninth parallel,
and reached point few miles south
of Greensburg. Its rate of progress
westward has been at about the aver
age rate of five miles per year, having
travelled sos miles since the taking of
the first census. AT this rate of prog
ress during the coming century it will
cross into Illinois. Some claim, how
ever, that this Western march OF popu-
lation will be checked soon and that
possibly the next census will mark
nearly, If not quite, its extreme West
ern advance. Considering the growth
of Western States and Territories,
however, this does not seem probable.
1t is more likely that the limit will be
reached somewhere in Illinois the COM
ing century. Within n few decades
Chicago will be the nearest the center
of population of the United States of
any city of consequence, and thus the
star of empire will shine in the zenith
of the inland metropolis of the coun-
| fry I.H
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

Cunninghame Graham, himself n
saucy Scot, thus gives the genesis of
the modern Englishman: Saxon sto-
lidity, Celtic guile, Teutonic dullness
and Norman pride, all tempered with
cast wind, baptized with mist, narrow
ed by insularity, swollen with good
fortune, and rendered overbearing by
wealth, have worked together to pro-
duce the type" Not by any means
good-natured sketch, or strictly
truthful one, but IL moral and mental
heredity is insisted upon, the multiplex
origin of English character must ac-
count for what is strong and good in it
as well as for what is weak and bad.
AS for English-America the daughter
nation, 1t has become the great ANAL
gamator of the world, absorbing almost
every strain of Gentle blood. Yankee
character is British plus two hundred
and eighty years.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

The latest article of French political
faith is, that "the army is the life of
the State" Nothing could better illus
trate the bewilderment Of the Gallo in
tellect. Among really self-governing
people the life of the State is supposed
to reside in the brain and Drawn of
the citizens, without whose labor the
army would be as destitute of life as n
forgotten theological heresy. This in
version of the truth is, however, con-
genial to the Frenchman because the
army is spectacular, and nothing is
dearer to the average Partisan than n
show. Whether there is any reality or
sober truth behind the show is a ques-
ton which does not interest him.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

governed by union, which shall reg
ulate hours and scale of wages, and by
which the rights of employers and EN-
ployes shall be defined and protected.
1t Is more and more becoming recog-
nized fact that no advance can be made
In domestic service until the assumed
degradation which at present attends
it is removed. Should servants not re-
side in the house, but come daily to the
duties which begin and finish at regu.
lar hours, 1t would give the sense of
freedom and independence now lack.
ing and convert the alleged tyrannized
servant into a self-respecting employee,
with n better defined social status.
Perhaps the time has come for men to
take up the solution of problem
which women have failed to find, and
If more college men will give their
time to it, as has Professor Cummings,
we may look for happy ending to a
perpleXing controversy.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

and forced to retreat for the time, they
have never vet been subdued. Already
In the Instruction now on the Yaquis
have routed forces of Mexican soldiers
seat against them, and the government
Is mohlizing n large army to pit
against the willy warriors. The va
quis' method of fighting is one taught
them by nature and experience. When
beaten they retreat into the almost in
accessible Businesses of the Sierra Ma
dres, whittier the government troops
dare not follow them, and there await
the departure of the troops, when they
again descend and clear out the people
who have established themselves on
their lands. Though the population of
the Yaqui country does not exceed
$4,000, the male portion combine to
make q formidable foe, and the Next
can government anticipates a war of
six months or more.
story of the Y.qnis.
The Indians inhabit the valley Of
Sonora. They are good agriculturists
when allowed to till their farms in
peace, and their valley being rich and
fertile has tempted covetous men with
little regard for right to take advan-
tage of the peculiar features of the
Mexican laws in regard to taking up
land and filing claims on the Yaqui
holdings. These. of course, under
standing little of law and moved by n
sense Of injustice, have resisted the
seizure, and troops have been called
out to enforce the law-that is. put the
new claimant in possession of the
Yaqul land taken under the law. The
Yaquis have stood together and made
good fights after their fashion, and
when compelled to do SO retired, only
to return when the troops were with
drawn to take forcible possession of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

Naturally enough, the Republican
editors are deeply exercised over the
silver question. They know that there
are gold Democrats who We're assist
ant Republicans in 1896, and they are
anxious to keep open the split in the
Democracy and secure the aid of the
gold faction. With this object in view,
they are busy declaring that the regu-
lar Democracy has abandoned silver
hoping by this means 10 arouse the pug
naclty of the silver Democrats and
cause them to antagonize the faction
which went over to Mckinley.
1t Is true that the regular Democra-
cy desire TO harmonic differences in
the party, but it is not true that II is
prepared 10 abandon principles 10 Sc
cure this end. This fact has been de-
monstratcd by the action OF the Iowa
State Democratic convention, which PC
affirmed the Chicago platform and re-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13
NEXT YEARS POLITICAL ISSUE.

The New York Sun is very anxious
that the Democratic party shall go into
the Presidential contest next year with
the money question as the principal,
and practically the only, issue. 1t
thinks that II this Is done the Republi-
cans can win as easily rs they did in
1896, when, by means of enormous mis-.
representation and huge campaign
fund contributed by the trusts and
monopolies, they managed to elect Nc
kinley by a plurality of 100000 in II
total vote OF nearly 14,00O,000.
Our contemporary will not admit that
the failure of the Republican party to
undertake reformatory currency legis-
lation has induced the great majority
of the gold Democrats to return to their
former party associations, and by clos
Ing Its eyes to this patent fact 1t sees
another triumph of the syndicates and
the national banks ahead, il only the
trusts and imperial expansion and the
attendant dedication of militarism can
be kept in the background during the
campaign that is to be waged year
hence.
Careful observers OF. the political sit
uation to-day who do not try to deceive
themselves believe that il the election
We're held next month, with the money
question as the principal issue and with
Mckinley as the Republican candidate
for the Presidency and the Democracy
led again by William ]. Bryan, the lat
ter would win by as large plurality as
Hanna managed to get for his man
three years ago.
The truth is that the American peo-
pie cannot be scared by the same false
cry in two successive Presidential cleo
lions. The Misrepresentation of the
Democratic position on the money ques.
ton that the Republicans INDUCED in
during the campaign of 1896 will fall
very fiat on the ears of the voters next
year, If repeated.
The voters do not want old straw
threshed over again by the stump ora
tors. They want an intelligent discus
sion of new issues as they arise, and
the party which undertakes to look
backward instead of forward is sure to
rue 1t. The monetary system of the
country, 1t Is true, still needs reform
Ing, but the Republican party will moi
undertake the task, and the only hope
of having the work done properly rests
in the return of the Democratic party
to power, and the Democratic party
cannot be kept out of power by the
reiteration of the untruths that were
used in 1896 or any other year.-New
York News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13

General Diaz had hopes the Indians
would remain friendly, and become CIV
ilized. Not long ago lie sent thirty
school teachers into their country to
instruct them and to establish schools
and colleges. These may have been
murdered for all that is known, for
some of them went into the outlying
districts. So far as can learn, the In
dams are well armed. They have, In
fact, been buying weapons ever since
their leaders signed the treaty of peace,
and do not believe they ever had any
idea of keeping the truce. The murder
of their own chiefs who had accepted
Office under the Mexican government
indicates that they have grown desper-
ate and that the contest will be fierce"
The tactics Of the Yaquis are to attack
suddenly and to ambush and imme-
diately after the assault to run back
into the mountains, where no one can
follow them. After a Yaqui has
fought for some time lie suddenly be-
comes peaceful Indian and leaves the
territory in which the war RACES. This
happens when his ammunition is all
spent; he must then provide himself
with more. This he does by working
in Arizona and New Mexico. as in
these places he can procure arms with
his savings and return when he has
enough. When he has accumulated
enough lie returns by passing from
Arizona through the Sierra Madre will
derness, where lie is free from SOL
diers' bullets and from observing eyes,
and when least expected lie turns up
fully equipped with munitions to
carry on the war. The Yaqui is not
the blood-thirsty beast that some re-
ports have made him out to be. He Is
brave, Industrious and peaceful; he
does not torture his prisoners, but
neither does lie allow them to escape.
In 1897 peace was made with the va
quis. The government promised them
Il certain sum of money and they in
turn agreed to have their land survey
ed and partitioned. During the last
two years the Yaquis have quietly been
working in the mines of Sonora and
Arizona and have saved their earnings
In order to procure arms to renew the
war. Whatever will be the outcome OF
the war, it will be n most ruinous one
for Sonora. If the Yaquis are exter-
minated, as the reports tell us is the in
tention of General Torres, then the eff
feet will soon be felt. 1t will mean the
determination of the manual labor in
Sonora; it will mean the Gripping Of
her wheat ana mining industries. The
Mexican government could well have
afforded to allow the Yaquis TO remain
In possession of their land, as their
value as laborers is many, many times
greater than the price that can be real
lied by selling their land. Sonora is a
country with immense resources, with
enormous tracts of fertile soil where
almost everything might be grown
profitably. Such crops as wheat, sugar.
cane. beans. corn, oranges, dates,
peaches, apricots and many other fruits
are hardly surpassed anywhere.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13
Hand Organs as Civillzers.

Congo Free State negroes are being
Christianized by II hand organ. Cap
tain Becker Free State official,
tlioughtfully took one with him to his
post, and, finding that the natives en-
joyed the music, and being also desir-
GUS that they should marry in Chris
tian fashion, lie announced that the
organ would he played at every Chris
tian wedding. The result was that
weddings took place almost daily, aud
1t was discovered that many couples
got married more than once in order
to procure the music.