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GITA VOLUME 13. GARNETT, KANSAS, MAY 1, 1903. NUMBER 48. KANSAS OR. i 4 fa 1 6'; I li II fV ft 1 1 r.

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iHMUifltue Uluy 5. 18v. WHAT MILES SAW IN THE PHILIPPINES. 1 Tortures Were Practiced Upon the Natives. Prisoners Shot and Bayoneted to Death.

General Nelson Miles' report of what he saw in the Philippines has never been made public until now. The report is now made public in answer to a heavy pressme fiom Boston. General Miles' report on his Philippine observations is dated February 19, 1902, and it is addressed to the secretary of war. He says that in going from. Calamba to Batangas last November, he noticed that the conntiy appeared tlevasta'ed.

and that the people were very much depiessed. Stopping at Lipa, he says, a party of citizens headed by trie acting presi-dente met him and stated that they desired to make complaint of harsh treatment of the people of that community, saying they had been concentrated in towns, and had suffered great indignities; "that fifteen of their people had been tortured by what is known as the water torture, -and that one man, a highly-respected citizen, named Vincent Lunn, 65 years of age, while suffering from the effects of the torture, and unconscious, was dragged from hid house, which had been set on fire, and burried to death. They stated that these atrocities were committed by a company of scouis under command of Lieutenant Henaessey, and that their people had been crowded in'o towns, 600 being crowded inio one building." A doccor of the parly said he was ready to testify that some of the 600 died from suffocation. General Miles says he looked at the building, which was one story in height, eighteen or twenty feet wide and possibly sixty or seventy feet long. He says he ha no reason to disbelieve their statements; in fact, the instances of torture in the case of the man Luna having been tortured and burned to death are confirmed by other reports.

He reports numerous other cases. He reports that at Lagoag, on the island of Luzon, two natives were whipped to death. At Tacloban, Leyte, Major Glenn ordered Lieutenant Caul field to take eight prisoners out into the country, and if they did not guide him to the camp of the insurgent Quizen, he was not to bring them back. It was stated that the men were taken out, and that they either could not or did not do as directed. One of the men, who had a son among the scouts, was spared, but the others were separated into two parties, numbering three and four respectively, and, while tied together, were all murdered by being shot or bayonetted to death, some' being in kneeling position at the time.

And these are only a few of the cases cited in General Miles' leport, showing our inhuman treatment of -the Filipinos. Bui, then, we must Christianize them, even if we have to kill them to do it. After 1,900 years of Christian teaching, are still places in this country where human beings ate taken out and publicly killed in the name of law and justice. There were three such cases in Missouri last week. With these examples before it, is there any wonder that the mob occasionally takes the matter into lis owu hands? It it is right to kill human beings, it is not difficult for some people to reach the conclusion that it doesn't matter who does the kilting.

It is safe to say that lyucbings will continue as long as the taking of human life has the sanction of law. State Journal. I DO NOT ASK FOR EASE. Life of mine, yield me great work, great work! Let not my sentence be a weaklings victory! Give me the formost rank, I shall not shirk! Grant thot the foremost rane, I shall not shirk! Beyond all gulfs and misty miles of mirk! The years of ease I do not ask for me. Or peace from pain, but just a brave man artery, Beating the onward march where pale threats lurk.

I ask for great result and beauteous deed, The strength to give, and human helpful gain. To hold the one word Freedom for my creed. To sow In virgin soils the Future's seed, Eloquence to speak, and courage calm to bleed; I do not ask for ease or peace from pain. J. William Lloyd In The Vanguard.

EAT AT THE RED LIGHT the. best place in town. The Producer vs. Steel Trust. From the Chicngo Socialist.

The Scientific American in its last issue gives the figures of the last year in the earnings of the U. S. steel corpoiation. This great combination employs 168,127 meu, and paid them for services for the year $i2t ,528,343, or an average $716.20 each. The total production of each man averaged $3 25; nearly $5.00 for every 00 paid in wages.

These 168,127 men produce a value amounting to $561,000,000 and the combination- finds $133,000,000, net dividends. This average $791 for each employe--which he did not get. The net dividends were divided out to 58,624 stockholders, giving each cne $2,292, $3,00 for every $1.00 paid in wages to the men who produced the whole amount 561 million dollars. Under Socialism the workers owning the tool of production and getting their full producteach one of these men could have received nearly $5,000 a year instead of a beggarly $716 20. Or they could have worked only two hours a day and received the $716,20 they donated 10 the capitalists 8 hours' product a day.

hen they worked two hours they had produced their wages. These same men if asked to join the Socialist yarty and vote its ticket would fly in a rage. It is because they are so foolish that the capitalists have such an easy time. It is because these and millions of other producers get only a part of: their product in wages that we have panics. The capitalists call, it.oyerproduction surplus.

It is nothing of the kind. It is underconsumption. A community can buy no more products than the wages of its producers make possible. To-day the American wage earner gets 17 cents on the dollar of hia product. This is all the community can The other 83 cents, if sold at all, must be sold in the outside- market.

When our commerce goes across the sea to find a market, the' same industrial conditions largely prevail there that are in existence here. The result a panic. Millions of people are turned out into the already large army of the unemployed. Their purchasing power is almost annihilated. Starvation stares them in the face.

Bankiuptcy confronts the former employer of these same millions. If they could sell the things to these men the men are starving for want of, they cmld unlock the factory door and proceed to business. But the producers have no money to buy. Chaos, ruin, starvation, damnation, hell, reign supreme. Then this is called a Christian uauon.

It is insane. In its insanity it multiplies anti-trust laws, but it will not put itself in harmony with the economic law. There is only one way to settle the matte! The producer must get the full product of his labor. Be able to buy back all he prodnces. This can only be done when the producer the working class owns and controls the tools of production.

This can only be made possible by organizing the working class into a political party that will take over the powers of government. A party that will place the hitherto oppressed working class in power. Reform School Scandal. From the Topeka State Journal (Rep.) It is strange that the State Industrial School for Boys should be. such a fruitful source of scandal occasioned by the brutal treatment of the inmates.

There was a time, but it was long ago, when reports of brutality in this institution were never heard and when it was admitted that it was conducted in the best manner possible. But political changes swept the officers, and since then there has apparently been little effort to find men who know how such an institution should de conducted and are able to utilize their knowlege in its management. After repeated trials the school is in no better condition than it was after the first disastrous change was made, when Dr. J. F.

Buck and bis competent corps of assistants were dislodged for political reasons. Perhaps little Charles Barnet was a bad boy it is presumed he was or else he would not have been sent to the reform school, but what must have been the condition of bis mind whep be stood before. his tormentors and saw a ten-, pound shackle riveted to his leg a weight that made every step a painful one? His view of life must have been anything but pleasant when he dragged that heavy weight up and down stairs while it bruised and cut his tender flesh. It'is a peculiar method of developing the good in a boy's nature to submit him to tortures which would almost shame the inquisition. The minds of the boys in.the reform school are ic a measure unformed; their future development must depend more or less on their environment; and what has the future for a child who is treat as Charles Barnet was treated at the state in dustrial school? The writer has no suggestion concerning the ptoper punishment for the unruly Barnet boy.

He admits that he is not capable of conducting a reform school, but he does know that civilized Kansas and the advanced Twentieth century is neither the place nor the time to re establish the inhuman brutality of the Middle Ages. Perhaps some day the Kansas legislature will forget the. dluty it owes to. the "party" long enough to provide for the civil service control of our state institutions. When men are employed for what they know, and not for what they have done in the interest of a political candidate, then the people may be prepared to hear of fewer scandals in the slate insitutions.

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Residence telephone, 29. Bible Words Counted. It is well known that the number of letters, words, verses, contained in the Bible have been counted, but by whom, when or where is not generally known. Treat's publication, entitled "Curiosities of the Bible," speaks of the occurrence as being of Spanish origin, and that the Prince of Granada, fearing usurpation, caused the arrest of the supposed would-be usurper, and, by order of the Spanish crown, he was thrown into an old prison called the place of skulls, situated in Madrid, where he was confined for thirty-three years, with no other companion than the rats, mice and other vermin that frequented his dismal cell. During his confinement, he counted the letters, contained in the Bible, and scratched the several numbers on the stone walls with a nail.

When his work was discovered, he was furnished with writing utensils and ordered to make a copy of the results of his long and tedious task, and, on its being completed, he finally received his liberty. The following is a correct copy of his great work: The Bible contains 3,566,480 letters, words, 31,173 verses, 1,195 chapters and 66 books. The word and occurs 10,684 times; the word Lord, 1,853 times; tmj word Jehovah, 6,855 times, and the word reverend but once, which is in the ninth verse of the nth Psalm. The middle verse is the eighth verse of the 118th Psalm. The 21st verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet except the letter j.

The finest chapter to read is the 26th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. The most beautiful chapter is the 23d Psalm. The 19th chapter of II Kihgs and the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike. The tour most inspiring promises are to be found in the sixth chapter of St. John, 37th verse, and 14th chapter, second verse; also, nth chapter of St.

Matthew, 28th verse, and the 37th fourth verse: The longest verse is the pinth verse, eighth chapter of Esther. The shprtest verse is the 35th verse, itth chapter of St. John. There are ten chapters in the book of Esther in which the words Lord and God do not occur. The eighth, 15th, 21st and 31st verses of 107th Psalm are alike.

Each verse of the 136th Psalm ends alike. The 117th Psalm contains but two verses. The 119th Psalm contains 176 verses. There are no words or names of more than six syllables. It has also been discovered by some person unknown that in Joel, third chapter, third verse, the word girl appears, and in the eighth chapter of Zachariah, fifth verse, the word girl's is mentioned for the only time in the whole book.

The eighth chapter of Esther, ninth verse, contains 52 ts. The word snow appears 24 times 21 times in the Old Testament and three times in the New. Christanity vs Socialism. The Chicago Socialist S. L.

of. Knoxville, writing in a recent number of the Christian Advocate (Methodist) says: The aim and object of Socialism are, and ought to be, to make Christianity in its true sence possible, which (it mav as well be said without further parleying) is not the case to-day." The writer also sums up the Socialist philos-, ophy fairly accurately as follows: 1. The public ownership of all the means of production and distribution. 2. The making of things for use rather than profit.

3. The abolition of private (productive) property. 4. The progressive redaction of the hours of thus enabling all to have some time for. Concluded on editorial page V.J-.