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The Intelligencer.
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Entfr4 at the Leslnfrton poatofflce
second diss mail matter.
I. 0. NEALE,
Editor and Proprietor.
Sattrdat. November 30, 1901
"Nigger in the Toodpile."
Impositions taken at Independence
Wednesday in the so-called Cardwell
libel suit against the St. Louis Re
public, judging from the written
evidence presented, disclosed "the
Senegambian in the woodpile." While
Secretary of State Sam B. Cook, who
wrote the article for the newspaper
named which was alleged to be
libelous, was on the stand testifying,
according to even biased press reports
coming from Kansas City, Cardwell
name was never mentioned, but Frank
P. Walsh immediately began an
inquisition into the affairs of the
democratic state central committee
during the time that both Cook and
Seibert were chairmen of that body,
with the apparent view of bringing
out statements that would injure
memliers of the present state admin
istration and necessarily, also, the
democratic party. Cook's open and
frank answers to the intensely inquis
itorial interrogatories of Walsh, who,
be it rememliered. is also a member of
the state committee, showed that he
had nothing to hide. He unhesi
tatingly admitted that the democratic
committee had received contributions
fn mi men connected with corporations,
but denied emphatically that such
were accepted with any understanding
to the effect that such contributions
would render immune the donor from
legislation that might effect bis inter
ests adversely. And these answers
were voluntary on Mr. Cook's part. In
fact, his presence in Independence at
all was of his own volition.
To the people of Miss uri this pro
cedure on the part of the men behind
"the Cardwell suit" is pregnant with
inti i)e amusenieiut. Think of a line
of searching interrogatories propound
ed for the purpose of throwing the
search-light of truth on the acts of a
set of men who are charged with
profiting through the medium of cor
poration influence by another set of
men who are depending, in order to
sustain their footing, on the testimony
of Col. William II. Phelps, the bell
wether lobbyist of the state who
admits that he sucks eggs and doesn't
even take the precaution to hide the
shells. Since when did Col. Phelps
become desirous of showing up to
public gaze the doings of the lobby of
which he is at the head? Ye gods of
purity: has the millenium arrived in
Missouri politics?
The democracy of Missouri must
view with deepest sorrow the indig
nities that are being heaped upon
these paragons of political rectitude
up at the Kaw's mouth and pray with
them in their struggles for freedom
from the grasp of the life-destroying
octopus that has reached out and
gathered them into the clutches of its
mighty arms. Their's is a righteous
grief and it is to be regretted, indeed,
that this Jackson county faction
should even have to live in a state
where men travel on free railroad
passes. !
In the meantime the democratic
party of Missouri will continue to
give its support to Gov. Dockery and
the present state administration,
realizing in just what particular part
of the Jackson county woodpile the
Senegambian is located.
Surely these self-righteous Jackson
county disorgani.ers must have
world of faith in the gullibility of the
democratic party of this state. Their
action is a reflection on the Intelli
gence of the people of Missouri.
Minister Wu, representative of the
Chinese government at Washington
is to visit Kansas City. The great
Mongolian, if he exercise his usual
wisdom, will be careful of his asso
ciates when he readies the Kaw town
The charge of Ix-ing a factlonlst might
le preferred against him.
A gigantic sugar trust has Im-cii
organized in Germany, so strong that
it threatens the sugar industry of
other countries. If it will annihilate
the infamous sugar trust in tills conn
try then will we say "Amen!'' at the
risk of taking our coffee bitter,
future.
in
A lot of I'nited States naval oMceis
spent a comfortable night under tlx
feet of water while a man at Kansas
City spent several nights comfort ably
under tlx feet, of ground. Verily,
peace hath its victories as renowned
m war.
The Co min( Congress.
The coming session of congress,
which convenes at Washington next
Monday promises to be one of the
most Important In the political his
tory of this country. With an untried
and erratic man at the head of the
executive department a man who
entertains Ideas that In reason cannot
be made to find favor with Hannaism
wrangling among the leaders of the
republican party may possibly create
divisions that will frustrate unfair
legislation; but of this wre have little
hope. It Is seldom that the republi
can party fails to centralize at times
of so-called party need and the lash of
the whip of the boss is usually effec
tive. However, should Mr. Roose
velt persist lu turning down men
recommended for place In the army
and navy by republican senators that
body may more than likely refuse to
confirm those he does appoint leading
to a tow that may possibly have some
effect in the direction of enabling the
democratic minority to more success
fully carry out its work in favor of the
masses of the American people. This,
illustrative of the figure of speech
that "when rogues fall our honest
men get their dues."
Yes, grave questions will come be
fore this congress questfons that not
only effect this country but the world
at large. There is the question of
Philippine government involving the
saeredness of the Monroe doctrine and
the threatened usurpation of repub
licanism by imperialism. Some action
wi'l have to be taken regarding the
government set up over there through
the fiat of the president and the ques
tion k weight v enough to command the
most careful handling if we would not
drift away from the safe rock upon
which we have been pillowed for all
these vears.
The Isthmian canal treaty is up for
onsideration, a measure involving the
ommerce of the world; and then to
deal w ith congress will have the Culwn
piestion, carrying with it the intri
cate sugar interests of the two coun
tries: the Chinese exclusion act,
which must 1k renewed Ix-fore May
r, next, if we would not have the
floodgttes of undesirabie immigration
pencil up and an inpouring of
hjeetionahle foreigners. And just
here it might lie said, and that truth
fully, that other countries than China
should have placed upon them the
mark of American disapproval as to
the matter of dumping into this
country their outcasts from society
and organized law-breakers who come
here to breed anarchy that stops not
at bloodshed at the point of the assas
sin's gun or the thrust of his stiletto.
The Alaskan boundary dispute is to
be settled and will require both
diplomacy and firmness. The settle
ment of this question was merely post
poned by the modus vivenJi now in
force.
And then there is the matter of the
great railway consolidation, forming
the most gigantic trust the world has
ever known. Its relation to interstate
commerce must be decided, and with
care for the Interests of the people.
The iVanish West Indies question is
also one of great importance.
By far the most important question
to the toiling masses of this country,
however, is that of trusts and their
god-father, the tariff. Americans are
awakening as never before to the trade
destroying and manhood killing tariff
schedules in vogue in the land and
such a howl has gone up from the
mouths of an outraged people that
even some of the republican leaders
are beginning to see the handwriting
011 the wall as plainly as when 'twas
flashed before the gaze of the atten
dants at Belshazzar's feast.
At the same time we are of the
opinion that the country can look for
no relief as appertaining to tariff
reduction at the hands of the domi
nant party. So interwoven are the
interests of republican campaign man
agers with those of the tariff looter
and trust nblier that a line of demark
ation will be difficult to establish.
But the people are watching. They
realize that the republican party is in
full control of every branch of the
government and they will hold that
party to a strict accountability.
The coming session of congress is
rife with possibilities. The many
great questions up for settlement will
Invite corruption and jobtierv. It is
merely left to the leaders of the
republican party as to whether or not
they are to continue their schemes of
public plunder, among t he many of
which is the ship subsidy steal. If
such is their Intention a more fruitful
field has never la-fore presented Itself
to Uiem. Just and righteous rebuke
must follow at the polls later on
Pot and Kettle.
A lot of swindlers have been arrest
ed at Webb? City, Mo., who hate
succeeded In fleecing "sucker" out
of thousands of dollars on falce foot
racing. Several prominent men haw
been apprehended and their flgrht for
freedom from the law's clutcUes will
have to be a strong one if tliy suc
ceed In getting out of their trouble.
Their scheme was to Induce men to
bet money on a sure thing, guaran
teeing that the race had been "fixed"
and that the get rich quick scheme
could not fall. The race would be
called, sprinters started, tho sure
winner would fall down and tho other
fellow win. In some cases men mort
gaged their farms In order to secure
ready money.- w ith which to rob the
unsuspecting. Instead they invariably
got robbed and can have the sympathy
of no decent man. It Is a bad mess
all around and in charging eacl other
with crime it Is a case of pot oalllng
kettle black. One party, a Texan, Is
said to be out 120,000 and a traveling
man lost several thousand dollars
belonging to the firm he represented
and will be sent to the penitentiary.
Just how this gang could have opera
ted so long and so successfully w ithout
detection is to us a great mystery.
Courage of Conviction.
John G. Sims, '02, of Wartrace,
Tennessee, one of the best deba tiers In
the university at Princeton, anci who
was chosen as one of the allege team
to debate with Yale refuses to serve
because he would have had to take the
affirmative side of the question, ''Re
solved, that the adoption of the
fifteenth amendment to the constitu
tion of the United States has been
justified." Sims does not believe that
the affirmative of this question can be
sustained by truth and: justice and
hence threw up the honor that had
been given him rather than stultify
himself. Now look out for editorials
breathing of treason by the repu tilican
newspapers of the country. Let us
hear from Booker Washington's
special advocate, the Star, tip at
Kansas City.
Enterprising Dr. Hicks.
In ninety percent of the newspa
pers we pick up the headline "Marl 1!,
Hicks Is Not Dead" presents itself.
Mr. Hicks is to le congratulated upon
this organized determination n the
part of the press to retain him rtinong
things mortal. Mr. Hicks is the man
who writes almanacs and while we
have not seen him lately we are of the
opinion, based upon the emphatic
assertion of the Missouri newspapers,
that he still lives. We should have
regular advertising rates for this pan-
graph but inasmuch as its long- about
thanksgiving time we have concluded
to donate this)ace to Mr. Hicks' life
boom. As an advertiser Mr. II icks in
a most pronounced success.
miss .settle lirannocK came up
from Pleasant Hill Thursday niori
intf to visit Miss Florence Hall.
Rich Richer, Poor Foorer.
While the recently arrived baby at
the Vanderbilt home in New York
found thousands of dollars worth of
wearing apparel In readiness with
which to clothe its little body ttiefact
remains that thousands of other
children throughout the land are suf
fering for the necessities of life
through the evils of class legislation
that has served to make the rich
richer and the poor poorer. W'c ven
ture this paragraph regardless of the
fact that the expression of the force
rut truth contained therein may suit-
ject us to the criticism of the
plutocratic Kansas City Star in effect
that we are endeavoring to array one
class In this country against another.
Church History.
In this Issue of the Intklligen
ceb will be found a history of the
School Fand Amendment.
The Globe-IVmocrat says that the
proped constitutional amendment
authoring an extension of the system
of school certificates Is submitted to
remedy the "unconstitutional" taint
Involved in their Issue. The Globe
knows that this statement Ir untrue,
says the Republic.
The constitutional amendment Is
submitted solely for the reason that
there is a provision In the existing
constitution which requires that there
be set apart annually for the sinking
fund to redeem bonds "not less than
2o0,000."
The school certificates are a part of
the public debt. Therefore, when the
bonds shall have been fully paid,
which will be during the coming year,
this constitutional provision, unless
amended, will apply to the school cer
tificates and require at least f2.10.000
of them to be paid every year.
There are just two ways of dealing
with this question under the constitu
tion, and only two:
First The adoption of the proposed
constitutional amendment, under
which payment will not be required.
This will continue the policy, which
has been maintained during the last
thirty years.
Second If this amendment is not
adopted the state must pay the cer
tificates and invest the proceeds in
bonds of the I'nited States, because
another provision of the constitution
says that the school funds "shall be
invested in bonds of the state of Mis
souri or of the United States."
The certificates being, in law, bonds
of the state, they are subject to the
provision of the constitution, hereto
fore quoted, which will require at
least 2.10,000 of them to lie paid
every year after the extinguishment
of the Imnded debt proper. These
having lice 11 paid, there will lie, under
the constitution, but one way of In
vesting their proceeds, and that is in
bonds of the I'nited States.
The whole question is, therefore,
"up to the people." If they desire to
continue the existing system, they
can do so by vot lug for the proposed
amendment. If they desire to pay off
the certiflcatesand invest the proceeds
11 I'nited States bonds, then they
should vote down the proposed amend-1
moot.
The investment of our school funds
in lxmds of the I'nited States will not
yield an income to exceed 2 per cent
annually, and the bonds must lie pur
chased at a premium equal to at least
four year's interest. The loss, there
fore, to the schools must lie made up
by local taxation.
To present the issue in the briefest
possible form the defeat of the pro
posed amendment means the continua
tion of the present tax rate of 10
cents on the 1100 until the certificates
are paid, and the investment of their
proceeds in bonds of the United States
at an annual loss to the state school
funds of fully $150,000.
If the amendment is adopted, it
means an Immediate reduction in the
rate of state taxation from 10 cents
on the 1100 to not more than 3 cents
on the loo, no increase In local tax
ation, and no decrease in the amount
annually apportioned to maintain the
schools.
The question Is "up to the people."
Financial needs of the Iiritish gov
ernmcnt have necessitated an early
session of parliament. If Britain
would pay less attention to the con
queringof a patriotic, lilicrty-loving
people through the power of might
and more to the building up of her
natural resources through the power
of right then would her coffers over-
now with money and these Hnanel.ii
Christian church of Lexington , from embarrassments would not confront
her. In her dire need we have no
sympathy for England. Through
greed she is writing the history of her
own doom with letters of blood.
its Inception up to the present, time,
and as nearly complete as it lua-s been
possible to make it. The facts were
gathered together by a churcli com
mittee appointed for the purpose and
the history was written by "NY. 0,
Musgrove, one of Lafayette county's
most versatile and reliable writers.
The story of the life of this church
is too lengthy for one Issue, h encc It
Is cut In twain and will be concluded
next week.
American snobliery has received a
set back across the water. The edict
has gone forth that none save Hrltlsh
subjects can witness Edward's corona
tion. It Is within the limits f pos
sibility, however, that siicrcessful
pressure may Ik? brought to tjearto
induce 'the crown to admit American
heiresses who are ambitious to rx-oune
the wives of and furnish the money
with which to replenish the purse
of England's pauperized nobility.
West Virginia is salrl to lemiow
covered and Ice ridden. It I h to lie
hoped that the freeze will extend t
Elklnslsm und successfully place It In
cold storage for all time to come
Jlopiitillcan editors of Missouri
recently held a meeting at St. Joseph
for the purpose of studying out ways
and means of again getting control of
the government of this state. In the
mean time there are a lot of so-called
democrats who are lending these con
spirators all the aid possible in the
consummation of tlieirdangerousainbl.
lions by creating dlssentlons in the
ranks of their own party. Democrats
forsooth! Disorganizes is the tM ttcr
name.
V,.,. .
" was wum ami iiuxl swept
I .... A . . I .... '
i.isi Miiiuay. 1 lie suggestion is per
tinent now that the republican press
cuargc tins visitation of destructive
. ..... ... ...
i-n iininn .u imuire to i He existence of
Tammany.
Kansas ( lt,y has added one more to
her many features of note In the
nature of 11 "dude rnblM-r." And Ids
mime ain't I'lnky ,15m z, either. Won
derful how that, town docs grow.
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MOTHERHOOD.
The nightthrobioo; but let me pray,delr
Lord! '
Crmb off hit name a moment from
mouth.
ay
To thee my eyes would torn, bnt they,
back,
Back to roy arm betide me where he ly
So little, Lord, so little and so warm!
I can not think that thou hadst need of him;
He ia so little, Lord, he cannot ting,
He cannot praise thee; all his li(e hi(1
learned
Was to hold fast my kisses in the night.
Give bim to me he is not happy there!
He had not felt his life; his lovely eyes
Just knew me for his mother, and he died.
Hast thon an nngel there to mother bim?
I say be loves me best if he forgets,
And runs not out to meet me when I come
What are my curses to thee? Thou hist
beard
The curse of Abel's mother, and since then
We have not censed to threaten at thy
throne,
To threat and pray thee .hat thou hold them
In memory of us.
See thou tend bim well,
Thou God of all the mothers! It he lack
One of his kisses Ah, my heart, my heart,
Do angels fcis in heaven? Give htm back!
Forgive me, Lord, but I am sick with grief,
And tired of tears and cold to comforting,
Thou art wise I know, and tender, aye, and
good.
Thon hai my child and he is safe, in t lice,
Anil I believe
Ah, God, my child stmlt go
Orphaned among the angels! All alone,
So little nod alone! lie knows nut thee,
He only knows his mother give bun back!
Josephine, Dudge Dasknui, in tho Novem
ber Scribntr'n.
A GENTLEHAN.
I knew bim for a gentleman
By signs that never fail;
His coat was rough and rather worn,
His cheeks were thin and pale
A lad who had his way to make,
With little time to play;
I knew bim for a gentleman
By certain signs today.
He met bis mother on the street;
Off came bis little cnp.
My door was shut; he waited there
Until I beard his rap.
He took the bundle from my bond,
And when I dropped my pen
He sprang to pick it op for me,
This gentleman of ten.
He does not push or crowd along;
His voice is gently pitched.
He does not fling his booLs about
As 11 he were bewitched.
He stands asldo to let you puss ;
He always shuts the door;
He runs on earands willingly,
To forge and mill and store.
He thinks of you before himself:
He serves you if be can,
For in whatever company
The manners make the man.
At ten aud forty 'tis the same;
The manner tells the tale,
And I discern the gentleman
By signs thul never fail.
Exchange.
And now comes the startling state
ment from the south that another
negro ha U-en lynched. Not by
whites, however. Men of his own
color strung a negro up near Shrove
port, L-t., for the murder of another
negro. We await with impatience
the outcry of honor on the part of
republican newspapers anent this
southern outrage. And Incidentally we
might remark wc will continue to
wait. The story ain't built, right, for
these defamersof the southern people
i Mark Haniia and hi
jwho arc hoping .
! themselves w '
' much talked of '' "
I rest assured of ''
cratlc party,
American n.anh'-
klllln'of the fox- ' w
Jstakald.v
should nc ii"' ...,. 1
help toward enact I.
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forcofulness on
both U""