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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-19

pledged by its unvaryfng policy FOR
three-quarters of a century, and by
the firmest convictions of its people,
to the maintenance of the Monroe Doc
trine.
When the Monroe Doctrine is at
tackled, as it will be unless the United
States make itself so strong and ready
that none will dare attack it, the at
tack will be made by sea power. To
ward OFF such attack the United States
must have sea power.
Yet the United States to-day ranks
only fifth among the nations of the
world in sea power. And of the four
nations whose fleets surpass that OF
the United States three would gain
greatly by breaking down the Monroe
Doctrine.
These are the fundamental facts of
the situation. These facts were never
more widely appreciated by the Amer
lean people, nor were the consequences
clearly understood, than they are to-
day.
Yet the national Democracy, through
its repres entatives in Congress, now
attack the sea power of the nation and
seeks to prevent it's growth. Under
pretense Of working for peace Demo
cratic Congressman advocate policy
that would make war certain.
The question that forces itself upon
every thinking American is:
Can the Democratic party ever prove
itself worthy to rule this nation?
Can the Democratic party ever get
right?-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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that instant a cannon ball passed over
head.
Tell me-" the grizzled veterans end
their tales; tell me, will you, whether
Abe wasn't protected by Providence.
At Alexandria "Old Abe" emulated
the example of the ducks at Rome, and
gave warning of the approach of the
enemy at nightfall. His whistle sent
out scouts, who caught a spy, whom
they forced to give up the counter
sign and lead them into the besieged
city.
The bird seemed to bear a charmed
life. Not one of his bearers, conspicu-
Gus marks as they were, was shot
down. The soldiers declared that the
bird lodged the bullets. In his last
battle, where a rout seemed imminent,
"Old Abe rallied his regiment Dy de-
vouring a rabbit on his perch, needless
of roaring cannon and shrieking shell.
At the close of the war the bird be-
came a pensioner at Madison, having
a room to himself in the basement of
the capitol. He was exhibited at
gatherings of soldiers all over the
country, and was side attraction with
such celebrities as Generals Grant,
Logan, Sherman, Sheridan and other
Union leaders. Feathers from his
glossy plumage sold at fabulous prices,
and sculptors made bronzes of the ia
nous bird.
At the Grand Army reunion in Chi
cago May IL, 1875, the bird was an
honored guest with headquarters at
the Grand Pacific hotel, and later he
placed the stamp of superiority on
his character by three months so
journ at Boston. A cold caused his
death March 26, 1881. With a few
feeble flaps of his wings he expired in
the stout arms of his keeper, George
Giles. George said Abe seemed to
know that he was about to die, for
when he asked, solicitously, Must we
lose you, Abe?" the bird looked visit
fully into his keepers face and then
sunk back into his arms. Around him
were one-armed and one-legged veter-
ans whose tears showed that they had
lost a comrade.
Besides the war eagle Lucius Fair
child Post, G. A. r., loses many high
ly priced mementos. Tattered stan.
| dards of every company, blood-stained
banners captured in the war, weapons
Indian relics and large library. There
/ we're books of camp incident and scrap
| books, picture albums, things that can
| not be collected again.
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TIE HEARST BOOM.
MOVEMENT FOR FREE TRADE
BEHIND 1T.
CaIamitous Results That Followed the
Adoption of This Policy in 1892
Would Repeat Observation-Disclosures
inemen Will Do Well to Remember.

The boom of William Randolph
Hearst for the Democratic Presiden-
tial nomination in 1904 may be said to
have been launched at mass meet
ing held in Washington on the 18th of
August The ambitious individual in
whose behalf this movement has been
organized is the reputed possessor OF
a fortune of several millions of dol
lars, represented, in great part, by
number of daily newspapers, whose
columns appear to be chiefly conse-
Grated to the destruction of wealth
belonging to other people. 1t is upon
this platform that Mr.. Hearst hopes
to reach the Presidency. At present
he is merely a Tammany Congress
man from a New York city district. In
Journalism he enjoys the distinction
of issuing each day in four different
cities the very worst lot of newspa-
pers of large circulation and vicious
influence known in any part of the
ci yilized world. Upheaval, revolution,
anarchy, assassination if need be.
seem to be the guiding principles in
these publications.
The mass meeting of August IS in
Washington was ostensibly eng1-
neered by persons claiming to repre-
sent organized labor. In the name of
American labor the Hearst presiden-
tial boom is thrust forward. By ap-
pea1ing to the unreasOn and the pas
sions of American wage-earners it is
hoped to realize the political ambition
of man whose program and platform
involve the ruin of labor and industry.
Down with All Trusts" That is the
battle cry of the Hearst boomers. How
shall the trusts be downed? By the
repeal of the Dingley tariff and the
establishment of free trade. That is
the trust remedy chiefly relied upon,
almost wholly relied upon. When the
protective tariff is swept away the
trusts will disappear. Such is the
Hearst promise and plan Take free
trade out of the Hearst propaganda
and nothing remains.
Workingmen who are now employed
all the year round at the highest wage
rate ever known in this or any other
country, wage earners whose deposits
in savings banks have increased in the
past six years of a protective tariff
from less than $4,000, 100000 to nearly
$3,0O0,000,000 are expected to rally to
the support of a political movement
whose ultimate aim is to wreck all
industry ana stop ali prosperity Inc
work people and wage earners did
something of this kind in 1892, and
paid the penalty in loss of employ
ment and wages, in the melting away
of accumulated savings, in the power
ty, hunger and untold sufferings of
themselves and their wives and chill
dren. Evidently the Hearst boomers
think American workingmen have
short ACCOMPLISHMENTS EconO-
mist.
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SIGNIFICANT ADMISSION.
British Acknowledgment of the Value
Of Protection.

We confess that we never expected
to see the officials of Great Britain
deliberately furnish the Republican
party of this country with the most
convincing arguments in favor of pro-
lection. The Golden club is knocked
into a cooked hat, and the Anti-Cobden
club of the Nineteenth ward-that pat
riotic band of intellectual political
economists, should at their next meet
ing make a minute of the subject. Inn
portant as was the announcement of
Premier Balfour, the official state
ments of the board of trade, which is
government institution, are much
more So They announce that protec-
ton does protect; that. in spite of the
fact that wages in this country are
more than double those in Great Brit
ain, the amount of exports of manufac-
tured goods to this country has great
ly decreased, while our manufactured
exports to that country are increasing
rapidly. The same applies to all pro-
tected nations, SO that Great Britain
is declared to be in a Instantaneous
position, especially as the United
States can. SO soon as there is a lull
N local demand, flood Great Britain
with goods at much lower rates.
The first duty of a nation is to look
after the welfare of its own citizens.
That IS what we have done. In estab-
fishing protection we have not only
accomplished all that the Republican
party ever claimed, but have confound-
ed our opponents here and abroad.
The British government oficially an
nounces that our policy has been a
successful one and will be of great
injury to its own people unless retalia-
tory measures are taken
Which is why we remark once more
that we never expected in our day to
see Great Britain, the apostle of free
trade, acknowledge it's own defeat and
our own success. What will tho
Democratic party say to this in the
next campaign? 1t seems cruel that
they are deprived OF their ONLY stock
argument, but facts are necessarily
cruel things when opposed to falla-
cious theories.-Philadelph Inouirer
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A Phxsician,s Advice.

Yorktown, Ark. March 7th.-Dodd's
Kidney Pills must not be COMPOUNDED
with the ordinary patent medicine.
They are a new discovery, a specific
for all diseases of the Kidneys and
have been accepted by physicians
only after careful tests in extreme
cases. DIR. Leland Williamson, of this
place heartily indorses Dodd's Kid
ney Pills "as a remedy for the vari-
Gus forms of the diseases of the Kid
neys. pains in the back, soreness in
the region of the Kidneys, foul-smell-
ing urine and cloudy or thickened con-
dition of the urine, discharges of pus
or corruption. Gout, Rheumatism, In
flammation and Congestion of the Kid
neys and all kindred complaints"
Continuing he says:
81 could mention many cases in
which I have prescribed Dodd's Kid
ney Pills with success. For instance,
Mr.. Robert Weeks, farmer, malaria,
haematuria or swamp fever three
times, kidneys weakened, continual
pain and soreness in back, which
made him very nervous, had little
fever and sometimes chilly. Urine
changeable, but generally very high
colored; an old chronic case who had
taken much medicine with little eff
feet After taking Dodd's Kidney Pills
about six weeks he was entirely
cured and had gained fifteen pounds
in weight. The last time 1 saw him
he was the picture of perfect man
hood" t.---
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-19
PROSPERITY AND SAVINGS.
Deposits Have Increased to Nearly
Three Billion Dollars.


There is no such thing as real pros
perity in this country when the gen.
eral public is short of surplus money.
There is no abatement of real prosper
ity when the general public goes on
making money and saving some of it.
The speculative gambler may be roll
ing in wealth or ne may be abs olutely
poverty stricken, and neither the one
condition nor the other reflects the
situation of the general public and the
country. Something that does, unfail-
ingly and emphatically, is the total of
the savings banks deposits-the sur
plus wealth of the general public.
when we had hard times" with the
advent of the Wilson law, savings
banks deposits first ceased to increase
ard then actually decreased. From
1898 to 1894 they fell nearly SAC, 000,-
900, or to a total of $1,,747, 961 900.
By 1902 they had risen to $2,750 ,000,-
900. Controller Ridgley's report
showed that the total of the savings
banks deposits is now $685., 204, S45.
From the experts who went broke
in speculative excuses we hear that
national prosperity turned downward
in 1901 In that year the savings
banks deposits were 81, 597, 100000, SO
that since that time to now there has
been a gain of nearly $500 900, 900.
This gain, since the turn of prosper
ity," is larger than the gain from 1893
to 1898. 1t is as large as the gain
from 1895 to 1899, larger than the gain
from 1898 to 1900, when the boom was
indeed booming, as no one will deny.
Nearly three billions of savings
banks deposits to-day-nearly twice
what we had in 1894-does not look
as if the general public were yet quit
of prosperity. Nor will it be, if this
nation continues a policy which keeps
our industries protected against for
eign industries and our wage earners
against foreign wage earners.-New
York Press.
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More Work for the Policeman.

The Journals prediction that the
United States would soon have to ex-
ercise police power over the semi
savage republics of San Domingo and
Hayti is being swiftly fulfilled
A delayed cablegram from San Do
mingo says that marines from the
Newark and Columbia have had a
pitched battle lasting three hours with
the Insurgents, who were routed with
out the loss of even one American life
The insurgents began the trouble by
firing on the launch of the Newark and
on commercial steamship owned in
New York. Four hundred marines
were promptly landed under cover of
the guns of the Newark and the Co
lumbia, which shelled the insurgent
camp; and they engaged the Domin-
gans, who lost two of their generals
killed. one wounded, several officers
captured, and sixteen men killed and
wounded.
After inflicting this punishment the
United States forces withdrew and the
Newark sailed for Guantanamo.
Evidently the situation in San Do
mingo is becoming intolerable. The
barbarian degenerates who inhabit
that part of the island are only one de-
gree better than the negroes who COM
pose the population of Hayti. They are
not fit to govern themselves. and they
are becoming menace to the peace of
the whole Caribbean region.
The United States can not long per-
NIT this state of affairs to continue al
most within hailing distance of its
island possessions. 1t is bound by
every consideration of selfish interest,
as well as by every moral obligation
to the family of nations, to put an end
to it. We do not want the island of
Hayti, but for the sake of our COM
merce we must take such police meas
ures there as will prevent any further
disturbances.
1t is a satire on our civilization that
at our very doors one of the fairest
and richest islands of the sea is be-
come the prey of savages in perpetual
riot, many of them sunk in supcrsti-
ton and barbarism not found else
where on earth outside of the Austria
liam bush and the interior of darkest
Africa.
1t is time that the United States in
terfered to police this island. We can
not permit any other nation to do so.
and 1t must be aone.-Chicago Jour-
nal
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Can the Democracy Get Riobt,

me democratic party in Congress,
under the leadership of Senator Cor
man, has engaged in systematic opno-
sluon to the increase of the navy-to
any increase of the navy.
The Democrats admit that their pol
Icy Is futile 1t is astonishing that
they do not see that it is also suici-
daily foolish
The United States has a greater or.
tent OF seacoast than any other na-
tion except the British empire.
Furthermore. the United states 4.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-19

burning of the Wisconsin state capitol,
with its boards of valuable archives
and chronicles, are heard the bewail-
ing of the "Old Guard mourning the
loss of "O1d Abe" the world famous
battle eagle. Hundreds of family
hearthS were turned into bivouac fires
while veterans foregathered to swap
yarns of the bird that led the Eighth
Wisconsin Infantry into thirty-six bat
ties of the civil war, from Fredericks-
town to Hurricane Creek.
The loss of the stuffed bird that for
two decades from it's perch under the
great dome had surveyed with i'm
perturbable gaze thousands of visitors
and sightseers has stirred a revival OF
stories of the old war pet.
"Old Abe was captured on the
Flambeau river, between Ashland and
Price counties, in 1861 by Chief Sky,
Chippewa Indian, son of Thunder of
Bees, chief of the Flambeau band of
the tribe. Chief Sky caught the young
bird after a climb to the top of a gil,
gantic hemlock tree, and a week later
realized on his adventure by selling
his captive for bushel of corn. The
bird was carried to Eau Claire just as
Company c was being mustered in.
voted in the eagle as a vlunteer, and
after a surgeons examination it was
added to the list of recruits and began
its course from obscurity to fame.
When the company marched into
Camp Randall at Madison in 1861 a
salute was fired in honor of the bird,
which became the mascot of the whole
regiment. 1t went through the war,
no Mt
from which it rose screaming to the
length of it's cord. At the end of the
| war the bird was placed on exhibition
once in Chicago. Its value had risen
from the original bushel of corn to IS
| for each feather that fell from it's
plume, while P. T. Barnum offered $780,
900 for permission to place it in his
circus.
In January, 1862, at Cairo, Ill, 'tOld
Abe" who was becoming cadaverous
| from a diet of bareback and salt
| horse scraped up an acquaintance
with Frank a dog, whom he taught
| to go out foraging for squirrels and
rabbits. According to the stories the
canine friend treated the eagle as the
| ravens did Elijah. One day the for
ager was unsuccessful, and "Old Abe
dug his talons into the dogs back and
| the partnership was over.
In the battle before Corinth "Old
| Abe was aloft in sight of the army,
''whirling and dancing on his perch. :"
Battles made him voracious by this
time. Thomas ]. Hill of Eau Claire,
| his bearer, unavoidedly entangled the
rope in a clump of bushes, when the
| eagle became exasperated and struck
his talons into his masters face. Blind
| ed, the soldier rushed down the line,
| followed by his comrades. who made
one of the most desperate charges in
the history of the regiment
| 1t was in a charge before Vicksburg,
| May p, 1868, that "Old Abe" per
formed his most renowned feat w.
Edward Homaston was carrying the
standard when he fell PROSTATE. His
comrades rushed by, and the eagle,
eager to be at the front, dragged him
in the direction of the battle until they
struck a log and were thrown back
| together into clump of brush Al
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-19
To tho housewife who has not ye'

To tho housewife who has not yet
become acquainted, with the new
things Of everyday use in the market
and who is reasonably satisfied with
the old. we would suggest that trial
of Defiance Cold Water Starch be
made at once. Not alone because it
Is guaranteed by the manufacturers
to be superior to any other brand.
but because each 10c package con-
tains 16 ozs, while all the other kinds
contain but IL ozs. It is safe to say
that the lady who once uses Defiance
Starch will use no other. Quality
and quantity must win.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-19

It L. announced that the treasury
ruling that frogs legs are fowl for
tarif purposes will be appealed. Still,
the precedents for queer rulings are
In the treasury's favor. You see
num-" said the railway porter in
Punch. explaining the company's tar
III to a lady travelling with her domes-
tic menagerie, "cats is dogs, and par
hinsect."
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statu. of the Tortoise.

Z. is announced that the treasury
ruling that frogs legs are fowl for
tariff purposes will be appealed. Still.
the presidents for queer rulings are
In the treasury's favor You see
num-" said the railway porter in
Punch, explaining the company's tar.
iff to lady travelling with her domes-
tic menagerie, "cats is dogs. and par
rcts is dogs, but tortoise. mum. Is .
himself"
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Macedonian Patriot.

Peto Guieff, one of the chief lead
ers of the Macedonian rebels, took an
oath when he was a boy at school that
in later life he would go to the noun
tains and devote himself to the liberia
ton of Macedonia. Some of his school
fellows took the same vow, and are
now members of his band.
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WENT TO WRONG PLACE.
Lecturer Mistook Penitentiary for Col
Iege Hall in Pittsburg.


Iege Hall in Pittsburg.
For nearly two hours the large audi
ence which had assembled at Pittsburs
the other evening to hear DR.. H. H.
Rusby, professor of botany and me
terra medica in the New York College
of Pharmacy. sat patiently awaiting
his arrival until the announcement
was made that the lecturer had been
lost somewhere in Allegheny. 1t
transpired that the professor had got
off the train at the penitentiary, and,
attracted by the bell of the institution,
had gone there, announcing to the
guard that he was due to deliver a
lecture there. The guard demurred
and the tangle was not unraveled un-
til it was too late for the learned gen.
tleman to keep his Pittsburg engage
ment.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-19

Among the inventions in the osd
times for fixing the hair in position
was advertised as follows: "A new
method of stuccowing the hair in the
most fashionable taste, to last with
very little repair during the whole ses-
sion of parliament. Price only S
guineas. N. Bile takes but one
hour to build the head and two for
baking it,
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Charles Frohman's Wit.

Charles Frohman, the theatrical
manager, was talking to a friend about
the Russo-Japanese war. recalling that
Putnam Bradlee Strong and May Yohe
had gone to aid the Mikado. Put
nam might get an engagement from
you after the war is over" said the
friend, but what about May?" Mr..
Frohman reflected for a moment and
then said: We might bill her to
sing Way Down Upon the Yalu River,
Far From the Old Folks at Home,
How would that dot"
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Mexican airs.

Every city, town and village in Mex
leo has it's annual fair. not like the
county fairs in the United States. but
several days given to pleasure, usual
1y in celebration Of some religious
event, when it puts on its holiday at
tire, and all the people for miles
around congregate for business and
pleasure
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"What Is the kina?"

The Hereros, now in rebellion
against Germany, have a pretty fair
opinion of themselves and of their
chief. One of their songs begins:
What is the king of England, what is
the king of Germany compared with
thee, o Mahereo. first among all
princes? Have they so many thou
sand cattle as thou? No! Who is so
mighty as art thou?' The Hereros
despise Europeans The name for .
European is .'otyirumbo'-"vhite
thing"
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camphor Forest in Formosa.

A primeval forest, containing 1907
600 camphor trees. measuring from
seven feet to eighteen feet in cir
cumference. has recently been discov-
cred in FOrmOsa. The value of this
discovery is. however, greatly dimin-
ished by the fact that German chem
camphor.
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Golden Cross for Domestics.
There were IA German domestic
servants last year who were awarded
the servants golden cross for having
lived forty years with one family.
Oaly one was found in Berlin.
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Praise for American Bacon,

Nothing" says the Berlin Cham
Der of Commerce. in its last annual
report, "can take the place of Ameri-
can bacon as a cheap and nutritious
article of food for the masses of our
population. Therefore it would be a
matter of deep regret if the high inn
port duties of the new tariff law were
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Natives Of Panama.

Some of the native population of
Panama have retained their customs.
speech and physical type. especially
those In the western part of the prov
ince. and claim to be descendants Of
the natives found In that section by
tha 6paniarda.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-19
FORGET Your Wrongs.

In the very depths of yourself dig
a grave. Let it be like some forgot
ten spot to which no path leads; and
there, in the eternal silence, bury the
wrongs you have suffered. Your heart
will feel as il weight had fallen
from it and a divine peace will come
to abide with you.-Charles Wagner.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-19
. WAGES in Germany.

In a German factory, which en-
ploys 2,107 men, making agricultural
implements and traction engines. Is
per cent get II to 95 cents a day. SO
per cent get 95 cents to $1.31 and 16
per cent get above $1.31. This does
not include boys or apprentices, and
Is for a nine-and-a halfhour day.