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The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04

defaulter, or even to . common pick.
pocket"
Then Jefferson in his turn Was tax
en- in hand, and it Was said in the
campaign of 1900 that he "had obtain.
ed his property by fraud and robbery;
that in one instance he had deffauded
and robbed . widow and fatherless
children of IN estate, to which he was
executor, of $4,000 by keeping the
property and paying them money at
the nominal rate. when it Vas worth
more than forty to one" And he wa
also charged, and it WAS published
broadcast, with having . family Of
negro children by . slave woman nam
ed Sally; with having been turned out
of the house Of . certain Major Walk.
er for writing . secret love letter to his
wife, and with having swindled his
creditors by paying debts in worth
less currency"
Then came John Quincy Adams,
who was depicted q . corrupt poll
tician and as having been guilty Of
infamous conduct, unfit for publica'
ton, while minister to Russia. The
New York Evening Post declared that
Andrew jackson had violated al laws
human and divine, and not only VA
his own character assailed, but those
of his wife and mother. The baboou
at the other end of the avenue" and
the damned idiot in the White
House." were gentle muck-raker ex'
pletives of Lincoln's time, and it wa
said of him in the Chicago Democratic
convention: Ever since that usur-
per, traitor and tyrant has occupied
the presidential chair, the party has
shouted: War to the knife, and the
knife to the hilt!" Blood has flowed
in torrents and yet the thirst of the
old monster is not quenched. His cry
Is more blood" -Atchison Globe.
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04
THE RECORD AT PANAMA.

The small army Of diggen 1t Pam
ANA are still making the dirt fy.
According to . report just Published,
the excavation has reached . total
corresponding to the amount Of earth,
which it was originally thought nee
essary to remove. If orders had not
been issued to widen and deepen the
canal to accommodate the greater war
ships of recent construction, the dig.
ging would now be complete. The
total is now 10S, 795, 900 cubic yards,
under the revised plans, the amount
remaining to be removed is 0.S7l, 594,
and the digging is going forward At the
rate of more than 5000, 900 cubic
yards . month. In less than two
years, that part of the work should be
completed. Thus far, it Is . record Of
accomplishment which is described q
without precedent in engineering
undertakings" So smoothly has the
work been going latterly that there
has been little mention of it at Wash.
ington or in the newspapers. Most
persons have to think twice to recall
the name of the man at the head Of
the great enterprise, but there Is . day
coming when Colonel Goethals will be
more popularity honored than any Of
the living heroes of war.-Columbus
CO., Dispatch.
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The democrats in the senate have
invited the insurgents to come into the
fold and openly espouse the principles
of the party of Bryan and Baily. just
what the principles of the democratic
party are, even the: insurgents have
failed to discover, and they have de-
clined to accept the invitation.
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04

Mr.. Bryan wants Governor Shall
lenberger to call a special session Of
the legislature to pass some reform
measures the democratic leader had
turned Down at the last regular session
of the state law makers. A few months
ago the governor refused to bow down
to Bryan and submit to his dictation.
Will he assert his independence again,
or will he crawl in the dust of humilia.
ton and obey the order from the Fair
view autOcrat?
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ed America from one end to the other
to put yourself in the way of receiving
it. = = You have - many ad-
dresses in your chest as james IL.
Monopolies of every kind marked
your administration almost in the
moment of the commencement. The
lands obtained in the Revolution were
lavished upon partisans; the interest
of the disbanded soldier Was sold to
the speculator. Injustice was acted
under the pretense of faith, and the
chief Of the army became the patron
Of fraud. = And to you, sir,
treacherous in private friendship, and
hypocrite in public life, the world
will be puzzled to decide whether you
are IN apostate or an imposter; wheth-
er you have abandoned good princi-
pies, or whether you ever had any"
Referring to these attacks. Wash.
ington wrote: They are not only
meant to impede the measures ofGov-
erment generally, but more especially
to destroy the confidence which it is
necessary the people should place Gun
til they have unequivocal proof of de-
merit in their servants, for in this
light I consider myself whilst 1 am IN
occupant of the Office. To this may
add, and very truly, that until the
last year or two l had no conception
that parties would, or even could, go
to the lengths have been witness to,
nor did l believe until lately it Was
within the bounds of probability
hardly within those of possibility
that while I was using my utmost ex.
ertions to establish . national char
acter of our own, Independent, as far
- obligations and justice would per.
NIT, of every nation o" the earth, and
wished BY steering . steady course to
preserve this country from the horrors
of . desolating war, should be &C
cused Of being the enemy Of our na-
ton and subject to the influence of
another, and to prove it that every act
of my administrator would Be tortur.
ed and the grosest and most ins;dious
MISREPRESENTATION of them be made
BY giving one side only Of . subject,
and that, too, in such exaggerated
and indecent terms - could scarcely
be applied to . Nero, to . notorious
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GROWTH IN FARM WEALTH.

GROWTH IN FARM WEALTH.
Few people realize the phenomenal
increase in the wealth of farm lands
and farm products. In the last 70
years there has been . gradual tend
ency toward . more substantial val
uation. There have been reasons fol
this. With the improvement ofroads
with the building up of small commu'
mites, with the growing of the coun'
try, the farm has come to be more and
more recognized As the eventual saliva
ton of the country. As this impres
sion became certain, values began &
natural increase.
Figures carefully prepared by thu
statisticians of the department of az
riculture show that there has been q
legitimate increase in the value Of
farm productA and that since 1873!
the increase has amounted to Sc, 500,
100000. This looks, on its face, a.
most unbelievable, but the figures ar
verified and are substantiated by
official reports for the last twenty-on'
years.
In 1889 the value of the wealth
produced on farms in the Unitet
States was 81, 100000. Ten year
later it was s4,7l7,OOO,OOO and las
year, according to the department, tn
estimate, as approved, was So, $50. OOO,-
600.
This speaks well for the farm, fo'
as the value of farm products increase
the farm lands themselves accumulst.
in value.-Commercial Appeal.
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04

. Capital removal campaigns are ex.
pensive, and the city that enters the
list of candidates, in the event an
election is called to remove the seat Of
state government from Lincoln, must
be prepared to expend 100000 in
order to make a vigorous fight. Is
Columbus prepared to enter contest
that would demand a campaign fund
Of such magnitude?
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04
MUCK RAKING LONG AGO.

MUCK RAKING LONG AGO.
Representative Kahn, of California,
in q speech on muck.rakers of other
days, makes public the result of much
research among the musty files of
newspapers and political pamphlets in
the Congressional Library. Begin.
ming with Washington, . writer of q
little later date said that his enemies
"threw aside all reserve and assaulted
bis fame with q virulence not inferior
to that with which they could have
attacked the meanest defaulter. His
military, his civil, his political, his
private domestic character were all
arraigned, and he was asserted to be
destitute of merit, either As . man or
q soldier"
A paper called The Aurora said:
"Ifever q nation was debauched by .
man, the American nation has been
debauched by Washington. If ever .
nation has been deceived by q man,
the American nation has been de.
ceiyed BY Washington" When his
services Is president were ended, the
same paper said: The man who is
the source of all the misfortunes of
our country is this day reduced to .
level with his fellow citizens, and is
no longer possessed of power to mul.
tiply evils upon the United States.
Ifever there was . period for rejoic-
ing, this is the moment. Every heart
in unison with the freedom and happi-
ness of the people ought to beat high
with exulation that the name of Wash
ington from this day ceases to give .
currency to political iniquity, and to
legalized corruption"
Here Is still another extract: after
bringing the country to the very brink
of ruin, Washington has fled from the
gathering storm. Having run the
ship between the rocks and the shoals
he has abandoned the helm and left
the vessel to her fate"
Tom Paine wrote: Elevated to
the chair of the Presidency, you as-
sumed the merit of everything to your.
self, and the natural ingratitude of
your constitution began to appear.
You commenced your Presidential
career by encouraging and swallowing
the grossest adulation, and you travel.
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04

Do tho people of this country really
consume the amount OF whisky that the
prohibition seitators claim? According
to statistics furnished by the government
the American people spent $4,000. 600
for whisky in 1903. The professional
agitators claim the amount was one bill
lion dollars. The professions; agitator
also claims that one man ont Of every
twelve in this country is q confirmed
drunkard Does any sensible man BE-
lieve this statement? Look around you;
count the men in your neighborhood.
Is ono out Of every twelve q drunksrd?
The fact OF the matter is the statistics
used by the prohibitionists we're taken
from "Fowler's Essay on Alcohol" writ
ten half . century ago. and il they were
correct then, and intemperance has in
creased in proportion to the population,
then one man ont OF every four 10 q
drunkard today aud the amount OF mon.
ey expended last year for whiaky was
three billion dollars. While Q large
amount of money is annually wasted for
liquor in this country, yet conditions are
not one-third % bad - the prohibition
lists claim. A prohibition politician is
like other politicians in some respects-
he does not hesitate to deceive when he
thinks be can gain point.
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Whsrs They Ought 70 es.

Whsrs They Ought 70 es.
81 WONDER" said the wild looking
man, with the multiplied whiskers.
"YOu wonder what:'' asked the meek
looking boob with the concentrated
eyebrows.
IF the man who figured out the
length of a week was referred to a. .
weekling."
Sure" said the boob. They also
called the man who discovered ink an
inkling."
Whereupon the driver from the asy.
lum backed his wagon up and the pair
were dumped Inst. Louis Star.
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I've got u boy In my employ VINO
will be u king Of finance some day..
said q man who has factory In New
York, "a few weeks ago be sold
pair of hOming pigeons to q man In
Brooklyn. Two days afterward the
pigeons appeared at his window. An
other BrOOklynite bought them. and
again the birds came back. The boy
has lust made u third sale. am Won
dering II I had not better get rid OF
him before he tries to sell me my own
factory"
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04

Although Platte county democrats
claim to be opposed to county option,
nevertheless they will do exactly as
Mr.. Bryan dictates that is the bosses
willard the democratic bosses run
the party in Platte county.
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1t is said that petitions have been
prepared for circulation among the
county optionists to place w. j. Bryan
in nomination for u. S. senator.
What's the matter with Price? Hasn't
he endorsed all the optionists demand?
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04
THE COUNTRY CHURCH.

HE OOONlN1 OHUNNd.
The difficulties of the churches in
making Roadway with the "laboripe
man" is perhaps the most familiar Of
all subjects Of religious discussion.
Mondays discussion at the Presbyter.
ian conference in this city hints that
the farmers present q similar problem.
They, too, are not making the use Of
the churches that the churches would
like them to make.
The reason cannot be quite the same
in the two cases. The city laborer
has no great need of the church as q
means of social diversion, since social
life of a sort is all about him all the
time. This may be one reason for his
tendency to stay out of church. The
reason oftenest heard is that the city
churches is not supported by laborers,
but by their employers, and tends 10
reflect the views and interests of the
latter rather than the former. Meth
er of these conditions applies to the
farmer. He is famished for social
life. His church is supported, nearly
always, by himself and his neighbors
and is in his own control. Why
should he be cold?
All that seems to be known is that
it doesn't attract him. With this con.
fession goes some extremely interest
ing and promising suggestions. Rev.
L. D. Young of Beatrice held, for in.
stance, that . country minister should
be versed in agricultural matters in
order to be of the fullest usefulness.
His suggestion recalls that foreign
missionaries make Roadway best by
teaching hygiene and improved
methods of working and living to pro-
spective converts. In . word, they
preach their faith by their works.
1t would at least be interesting to
see what would happen were the
country and village church to be OPP
Grated on principles suggested by Mr..
Young and the experience of mission.
aries. The old plan Of holding the
church too holy for anything but
prayer meetings and preaching from .
scriptural text has had its trial.
What would happen were it decided
that anything that helps men and
brings them together in harmonious
cooperation is religious, and on that
assumption the churches made Gen.
ters of social life and even of efforts
at industrial progresss To a layman
the experiment seems worth trying.
Journal.
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04
Won't Stay Retained.

This notice appears on FLUSHING
steamboat: Passengers should obtain
q receipt for all provisions taken ON
board this boat and are requested 70
retain the sumo"
Easier said than done. It. reminds
Us Of the old limerick:
There was . young man Of Ostsnd
Who said he'd hold out till the emo.
but when halfway over
From Ostend to Dover
He did what he didn't intend.
london Globe.
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04
How an Orator Started a War


campment of the G. A. r. WAS held in
Atchison. It was we'll attended, vet
Grams from Brown, Nemaha. Doniphan,
jackson and jefferson counties being
present in large numbers. There were
lots more veterans then than now.
And they had good times about their
camp6res, singing war songs, and tell
ing stories and recounting incidents in
the great conflict in which each had
played . part. l attended . campfire
At Apollo hall one evening, and enjoy
ed it very much. There were many
interesting stories told that night, but
one told by Colonel Greene, then
commander of the Kansas G. A. r,
made . deep impression on me. and
the others who heard it. It is one of
those stories of what might have been,
and wasn't; sadder words in this in
stance than when Whittier applied
them to Maud Muller.
During the early part of the Civil
war, Greene was . psymaster's clerk,
and, while they were on boat on the
Tennessee river. the boat, money, pay.
master, clerk, everything, were cap
tured by the Confederates at Muscle
Shoals. After little rough handling,
they were paroled. The war dragged
its weary length, but, when it ended,
the paymaster was called to account
for the missing money; the money lost
to the Confederates. Having been the
paymaster's clerk, Greene was the
principal witness in the case, and VA
called 10 Nashville, Tenn, where thu
trial was held. While waiting for thu
trial to come up, Greene became
acquainted with the judge, who had
been close to the men in high places in
the Confederate government. Oneday
they were discussing the relative
merits of great orators and military
commanders, and the judge told thi'
story on United States Senator Yancy
of Alabama, one of the ablest orator
ever in the senate:
Yancy was q strong advocate o
secession. His motto, rs older peopl,
will remember, was Fire the Southern
heart; one Southerner can lick 81,
Northern Mud Cats" By this con
slant agitation, he finally got the Soutl
united in support of the cause. Many
of the Southern states had Withdrawn
from the union. JEFF Davis and hi
cabinet we're in session at Montgomery
Ala, all sitting around long table
Over the nation q war cloud lowered
with the storm threatening to break a
Fl. SumPter. General Beauregard
the Confederate commander, had taker
charge of Castle Pinkney, and another
little fort controlling Charleston har
Dor and Fl. Sumpter. which was com
manded by Major Anderson for thu
United States. Anderson was expect
ing supplies and reinforcements every
hour, and Beauregard only waited thu
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04

Montgomery to begin the fight. I'm.
patient 1t the delay, he wired Pres;-
dent Davis. asking why he vas not
given orders to open Ere on Sampler,
- the supply ship was reported to be
in the outer harbor. Davis read the
message. and looked sd and gloomy;
overaved, perhaps, with the portent of
the issue. He passed the message
around the table, and the gloom fell on
his cabinet. All hesitated to start
what al expected: the opening Of ere
on the flag that had been theirs. Soon
another message came from Beaure-
gard: "Why don't you answer Make
haste to answer" This message fol.
lowed the course of the first around the
long table, but still the Southern cab
met sat in gloomy silence, hesitating
to loose the war dogs on their country.
Others came and noted the sad faced
silence Of these men bent on making
two nations of one. And other mes.
sages came from Beauregard. straining
at the leash in Charleston. From 8 in
the morning until mid-afternoon, the
cabinet had been in session, awed by
the very nearness of the conflict they
were about to start.
At this time Senator Yancy entered
the cabinet meeting, with his hair
unkempt, looking Is if he had just
arose from . drunken sleep. On the
table he saw the messages from Beau
regard, read one, and, looking on the
cabinet with scorn, as if they were
towards, began . fiery secession speech
that struck the heart Of everyone in
the room. President and cabinet fell
before the sway of his oratory; the
order Was given, and history has given
Us the rest. But for Yancy's arrival
this judge believed the cabinet might
have adjourned until the next day
without taking that fatal step, Is they
had already been in session . long
time. Major Anderson would have
received his relief in the night, and
the spirit and power Of rebellion might
have been nipped in the bud.
But, the Judge continued, thi.
mighty orator Was forgotten, while
monuments came to honor Grant and
Lee, and other martial heroes. Yancy
of the silver tongue sleeps in = neg
lected grave at Montgomery, forgotten
by the country at large. Colonel
Greene later had business in Mont
gomery, and investigated this for bis
own satisfaction. Two people be
asked could not locate the senator q
grave, but the third one did-among
weeds three feet high, and marked BY
. marble slab but little higher. So
far q know, this bit of inside history
of the Lost Cause has never been
printed before; If, indeed, it is history
at all. At least, it is the sad story Of
what might have been, and wasn't
Glenn Rohr in Atchison Globe.
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04
The prohibition state convention OF
Illinois passed q resolution endorsing
w. ]. Bryan for president in 1912.

If Norris is such q "strong" and
popular" representative Why doesn't
he stand for re election in his district?
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04

When Mans Fifty.
After man reaches fifty ''all going
out and nothing coming in" describes
the condition Of his teeth. his af1ec-
lions aud his hair -AtchiS0n Globe.
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04

The One Time.
"YOu women would rather talk than
lsten.''
Not always"
when. for example,?
when a man IL about to propose. y
Judge
The Columbus journal., 1910-05-04

"Are you in favor of Theodore
Roosevelt for Emperor? shrieks a
democratic organ. Such talk carries
the mind back thirty years, when
Grant returned from his memorable
trip around the world and the bourbon
organs of that time were warning the
country that the regular army icon.
sisting at that time of $4,000 officers
and mem would attempt to place
Grant on throne in Washington and
declare him king of America" 1t
makes some of the old bourbon demo-
Gratis warm under the collar when the
daily papers print reports Of Roose-
velt's tour through Europe. The
bourbons hate Roosevelt, and all this
emperor" and king" talk iLdulged
in by them over the courtesies extend.
cd to . former president of their coun.
try cannot prejudice the mind of any
fair minded American against the man
Henry Watterson says is the greatest
the world has produced since Napoleon
passed away at St. Helena.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-10
TURNING THE MARE AND Coyr
On GRASS.

"heh the mare has been kent at
Work up 10 q short time before foaI-
lns ana mas been fed a grain ration
ana tnen after foaling is turned out
10 pasture with her foal it \: safe tn
say the foal's death warrant is signed
Mares hat have been worked mod
eaatety Up to the time they are due
70 ioai are quite certain to nave good
husky 1oais, and after the foa!s have
got a good start on the dams milk
that has been forrned from rich grain
1000, all goes we'll until she is turned
ont on grass.
Ihen the composition of the milk is
changed and the grass milk is like SO
much poison to the colt, its bowe}s be-
come loose, and he sucks more and
more. until at last he has the scours
and dies.
n result is not caused by eating
poison grasses or weeds, but by the
sudden change in the composition OF
the mares milk due to a change in
her food.
When it is desired to turn the mare
and colt out to grass, get them &C
c~ustomed to the change gradually.
When the mare is allowed to rin
in the pasture at night and fed a
full grain ration she may safely be
turned out to grass with her foal, bus
her grain food must be continued to
insure good results.
/ believe hat it pays to feed thf
mare and her foal a little grain foot
every day. although very few follow
! this practice.