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PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. The following proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of Ne braska, as hereinafter set forth in fall, are submitted to the electors of the State of Nebraska, to be voted upon at the general election to bo held Tues day, November 3, A. D. 1896: A ioint resolution proposing to amend sections two (2), four (4), and five (5), of article six (6) of the Constitu tion of the State of Nebraska, relating to number of judges of the supreme court and their term of office. Beit resolved and enacted by tbeXegis lntnre of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. That section two (2) of article six (6) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended so as to read as fol lows: Section 2. The supreme court shall until otherwise provided by law, consist of live (5) judges, a majority of whom shall be necessary to form a quorum or to pro nounce a decision. It shall have original jurisdiction m cases relating to revenue, civil cases in which the state shall be a party, mandamus, quo warranto, habeas corpus, and such appellate jurisdiction as may be provided bv law. Section 2. That section four (4) of article six (6) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, be amended so as to read as fol lows: Section 4. The judges of the supreme court shall be elected by Che electors of the state at laree. and their term of office. except as hereinafter provided, shall be for a period of not less than live (5; years as the legislature may prescribe. Section 3. That section Ave (5) of article six (C) of the Constitution of the State of Ne braska, be amended to read as follows: Section 5. At the first general election to be held in the year 189G. there shall be elect ed two (2) judges of the supreme court one of whom shall be elected for a term of two (2 years, one for the term of four (4) years, and at each ceneral election there after, there shall be elected one judge of the supreme court for the term ot five (5) years, unless otherwise provided by law; Provided, That the judges of the su preme court whose terms have not expired at .the time of holding the general elec tion ot 1896. shall continue to hold their office for the remainder of the term for which they were respectively commis sioned. Approved March 29, A. D. 1895. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to section thirteen (IB) of article six (G) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to com pensation of supreme and district court judges. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska; Section 1. That section thirteen (13) of article six (C) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended so as to read as follows: Section 13. The judges of the supreme and uistrict courts snail receive ior tneir ser vices such compensation as may be pro- viaea Dy law. payame quartern'. The legislature shall at its first session after the adoption of this amendment, three-fifths of the members elected to each house concurring, establish their compensation. The compensation so es tablished shall not be changed oftener than once in four years, and In no event unless two-thirds of the members elected to each nouse or the legislature concur therein. Approved March 30, A. D. 1895. A joint resolution proposing to amend section twenty-four (24) of article five (5) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to compensation of the officers of the executive depart- nunl. Be it resolved and enacted by the Legisla ture oi tnc state or iMeurasKa: Section 1. That section twenty-four (24) of article five (5) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended to read as follows: Section 24. The officers of the executive department of the state government shall receive lor tneir services a compensation to be established by law. which shall be neither increased nor diminished during tne term ior wnicn tncjr snail nave been commissioned and they shall not receive to their own use any fees, costs, interests, upon public moneys in their hands or un- uer tneir control, perquisites ot omce or other compensation and all fees that may hereafter be paj'able by law for services perrormect uy an omcer provmea lor m this article shall be paid in advance into the state treasury. The legislature shall at its first session, after the adoption of this amendment, three-fifths of the mem bers elected to each house of the legis lature concurring, estaoiLsn tne salaries of the officers named in this article. The compensation so established shall not be changed oftener than once in four years and in no event unless two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the leg islature concur therein. Approved March 29. A. D. 1K5. A joint resolution proposing to amend section one (1) of article six (6) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to judicial power. Be it resolved and enacted by the Legisla ture oi Lae.aiate oi reorasKa: Section 1. That section one (11 of article six (6) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended to read as follows: Section 1. The judicial power of this state shall be vested in a supreme court, dis trict courts, county courts, justices of the peace, ponce magistrates, ami in such other courts inferior to the supreme court as may lie created by law in which two- tniras ol the members elected to each house concur. Approved March i9, A. D. 1895. A joint resolution proposing to amend section eleven (11) of article sis (G) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to increase in num ber of supreme and district court judges. Beit resolved and enacted I13- the Leg islature of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. That section eleven (11) of ar ticle six (6) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended to read as fol lows: Section 11. The legislature, whenever two thirds of the members elected to each house shall concur therein, may, in or after the 'ear one thousand eight hun dred and ninety-seven and not oftener than once in every four vears, increase the number of judges of supreme and district courts, and the judicial districts of the state. Such districts shall be formed of compact territory, and bounded by county lines; and such increase, or any change in the boundaries of a district, shall not vacate the ofllce of any judge. Approved March 30, A. D. 1895. A joint resolution proposing to amend section sis (6) of article one (1) -of the Constitution of the State of Ne braska, relating to trial by jury. Be it resolved and enacted by the Legisla ture of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Thatsection six (6), article one (1) of the Constitution of the State of Ne braska be amended to read as follows: Section 6. The right of trial by jury shall remain ihviolate. but the legislature may provide that in civil actions live-sixths of the jury may render a yerdlct. and the leg islature may also authorize trial by a lurv 01 a less numocr man twelve men, in - -- 1 . . , - courts inferior to the district court Approved March 29, A. D. 1895. A joint resolution proposing to amend section one (1) of article five (5) of the Constitution of Nebraska, relat ing to officers of the executive depart ment. Be it resolved and enacted bytheLegislaturc of the State of Nebraska: Section I. That section one (1) of article I1VC S Ul uic "braska be amended to read as follows; Section 1. The executive department shall consist of a governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor of public accounts, treasurer, superintendent of public iHstruc- r 71 .. 1 i. r..nfiitniinn nr I fi .,1.1 1 1 1 1 . uon, aiiorucyBcutiai, ... lands and buildings, and three railroad com missioners, each of whom, except thesaid rati- road commissioners, &nn Xi. J term of two years, from the Srst Thursday -,,- t,o firct f nutria v in January, alter his election, and nutil his successor is elected and I qualified. Each railroad commissioner shall hold his office for a term of three years, be pt fining oa the first Thursday after the first Tsesday is January after his election, and un til his s'uccesRoris elected and qualified; Pro vided, however. That at tke first general elec tioETkelG after the adoption of this amendment there shall be elected three, railroad commis sioners, one for the period of one year one for the period of two years, and one for the period of three years. The governor, secretary of state, auditor of public accounts and treasurer shall reside at the capital durinir their term of office; they shall Veep the. public records. books and papers there and shall perioral sncn amies as may be required by law. Approved March jO, A. D. 1895. A joint resolution proposing to amend section twenty-six (2G) of ar ticle five (5) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, limiting the num ber of executive state officers. Be-it resolved and enacted by the Lepisla- : ture of the state uf Nebraska: Section 1. That section twenty-six (26) of article five (5) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, be amended to read as follows: Section 26. No other executive state officers except those named in section one (1) of this article shall be created, ercept by an act of the legislature which ts concurred m by not less than three-fourths of the members elected to each house thereof; .Provided. That any omce created by an act of the legislature may be abolished by the leg islature, two-thirds of the members elected each house thereof concurring. Approved March 30, A. D. 189a. A joint resolution proposing to amend section nine (9) of article eight (8) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, providing for the invest ment ol the permanent educational funds of the state. Be it resolved and enacted bv the Legisla ture ot the Mate ol Nebraska: Section 1. That Section nine (9) of article eight (8) of the Constitution of the State of Ne braska be amended to read as follows: Section 9. All fnnds belonirinir to the state lor educational purposes, the interest and in come whereof only are to be used, shall be deemed trust funds held by the state, and the state shall supply all losses thereof that niac in any manner accrue, so that the same snail remain forever inviolate and undiminished. and shall not be invested or loaned except on United States or state securities, or registered county bonds or registered school district bonds of this state, and such funds, with the interest and income thereof, are hcrebv sol emnly pledged for the purposes for which they are granted and set apart, and shall not be transferred to any other fund for other uses: .provided, 'J. he board created bv section l of this article is empowered to sell from time to time any oi tue securities belonging to the permanent school fund and invest the oro- cccos arising tnereirom in any ot the securi ties enumerated in tms section bearintr a higher rate of interest, whenever an opportun ity for better investment is presented: aho provided lurtner, 'mat when any war rant upon the state treasurer reeularlv issued in pursuance oi an appropriation by the legis lature, and secured by the ley of a tax for its payment, shall be presented to the state treas urer for payment, and there shall not be any money in the proper fund to pay such warrant the board created by section 1 of this article may direct the state treasurer to pay the amount due on such warrant from money's in his hands belotipriiip to the permanent school i una oi tnc state, and ne snail hold said war rant as an investment of said ncriuaucnt scnooi tuna. a - Approved March 29, A. D. 1895. i. joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Nebraska by adding a new section to article .twelve (12) of said constitution to be numbered section two (2) relative to the merging of the government of cities of the metropoli tan class and the government of the counties wherein such cities are lo cated. Be it resolved n nil enacted bv the Legisla ture ot tnc btatc ol fvebraska: Section 1. That article twelve (12) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended by andinjr to said article a new sec tion to be numbered section two (2) to read as ioiiows: Section 2. The government of anv citv of the metropolitan class and the government of the tounty in which it is located may be merged wholly or in part when a proposition so to do has been submitted by authority of law to the voters of such citv and county and received the assent of a majority of the votes cast in sucn city and also a majority oi the votes cast in tne county exclusive ot those cast in such metrojHiIitan city at such election. Approved Alarch K, A. JO. u$85. a joint resolution proposing an amendment to section six (fi) of article seven (7) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, prescribing the manner in which votes shall be cast: Be it resolved and enacted by the Legisla ture oi tne btate ot Nebraska: Section 1. That section six (6) of article seven (7) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended to read as follows: cction it. ah vcites snail be by ballot, or such other method as may be nrescribed bv . . ..... ? . . - law, proviaea inc secrecy oi voting be pre- leryeo. Approved March 29. A. D. 1MV3. A joint resolution proposing to amend section two (2) of aiticle-four- teen (14) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relative to dona tions to works of internal improve ment and manufactories. Be it resolved and enacted bv the Legisla ture ot the htateoi Nebraska: Section 1. That sect'on two (2) of article fourteen (11) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, be amended to read as follows: Section 2. fto city, county, town, orecinct. municipality, or other subdivision of the state. suaii ever make donations to any works ot in tcrnai improvement or manufactory unless a proposition so to do shall have been first sub mitted to the qualified electors and ratified bv a two-thirds vote at an election by authority of law; Provided, That such donations of a county with the donations ol such subdivis ions in the aggregate shall not exceed ten per cent of tne assessed valuation ot sucn county: Provided further. That any city or county may, by a three-fourths vote, increase such in debtedness five per cent, in addition to such ten per cent and no bonds or evidences 01 in debtedness so issued shall be valid unless the' same shall have endorsed thereon a certificate signed by the secretary and auditor of state, showing that the same is issued pursuant to law. Approved .March 29, A. D. ldUo. I,. 3. A. Piper, secretary of state of the state of Nebraska, do hereby cer tify that the foregoing proposed amendments to the Constitution of the Stale of Nebraska arc true and correct copies of the original enrolled and engrossed bills as t assed bv the Twenty-fourth session of the legisla ture of the state of Nebraska, as ap pears from said original bills on file in this office, and that all and each of said proposed amendments are sub mitted to the qualilled voters of the state of Nebraska for their adoption or rejection at the general election to be held on Tuesday the 3rd day of No vember, A. D. 189G. In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the state of Nebraska. Done at Lincoln this 17th day of July in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Ilundredand Ninety Six, of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Twenty-First, and of this state the Thirtieth. SEAL J. A. PIPEK, Secretary of State. Buoklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, 6alt rheum, fever sores, teter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion Qr money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by A. F. Streitz Wkt Stml-Wittily Wxlhmt IRA L BARE, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year, cash in advance,. .$1.23, BlxJKoQths, cash In advance 75 Cents Entered at the North Platte (Nebraska) postofflce as second-class matter. THE WINNERS OP 1896. NATIONAL TICKET. For President WM. McKINLEY, of Ohio. For Vice President G. A. HOB ART, of New Jersey. STATE TICKET. For Governor JOHN H. MacCOLL. For Lieutenant-Governor ORLANDO TEFFT. For Secretary of State JOEL A. PIPER. For Auditor Public Accounts P. O. HEDLUND. For State Treasurer CHARLES E. CASEY. For Sunt. Public Instruction HENRY R. CORBETT. Fr Com. Lands nud Buildings HENRY C. RUSSELL. For Attorney-General ARTHUR S. CHURCHILL. For Supreme Judge, Long Term ROBERT RYAN. For Supreme Judge. Short Term MOSESP.KINKAID. For Regent of State University W. G. WHITMORE. LEGISLATIVE TICKET. For Congress, Gth District E. A. CADY. For Senator, 30th District J. S. HOAGLAND. For Representative, 51 District J. H. ABBOTT. COUNTY TICKET. For County Attorney, T. C. PATTERSON. For Commissioner, Third District, JAS. S. ROBBING. FINANCIAL PLANK OP THE REPUBLI CAN PLATFOBM. ADOPTED AT ST. LOUIS. "The republican party is unre servedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing" for the resumption of specie pay ments in loy. bince then every dollar has been as good as sold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreemer with the leading" commercial nations of the world, which we pledge our selves to promote, and until such agreement can be- obtained the ex isting" gold standard must be pre served. All of our silver and paper cur rency must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold. and we favor all measures designed to maintaiu inviolable the obliga tions of the United States and all our monej whether coin or paper, at the present standard, , the stan dard of the most enlightened na- tions of the earth." The democratic national com mittee has refused to allow Bryan to make speeches in the New Eng land states. The committee does not propose to allow Tom Reed to make a "monkey" of Bryan. o . o The free silver democrats of North Platte have been swallowed by the populists. This simplifies mat ters in the local campaigns. There will be but two parties in the future the republicans and the populists. s Chairman Jones, of the demo cratic national committee, says Bryan cannot carry any state north of the Potomac and east of the Al leghanies. North Platte free sil verites, who apparently know more of the political situation than does Mr. Jones, are confident that Bryan will carry every state in the union. Mr. Whitney says the republi can maiontv in New York will be 200,000 and Mr.' Dana places it at 250,000. Col. McClure estimates the republican majority in Pennsy lvania at 300,000. If these eminent democrats and veteran observers are near the mark the credit ana business of the this country are go ing1 to have a splendid boom in November. Ex. The Indiana Farmers' Associa tion has 50,000 members, compris ing- 27,500 republicans 20.500 demo crats, 1,000 populists and 1.000 pro hibitionists, and 42,250 ot them are going1 to vote for McKinley and sound money. This indicates a re publican gain of 15,000 over the presidential vote of 1892. "The silver sentiment is swiftly disap pearing," says the president of the association, "and the Indiana far mers don't want any of your cheap money. Mr. Bryan says: "It is as easy to justify a bounty as a protective tariff, and it is impossible to justify either." Those who are interested in the production of sugar beets should bear this in mind. It is the sugar bounty that has made beet raising- possible and Mr. .Bryan does not propose to protect the in dustry. He wonld rather see our sugar, as well as nearly all other articles produced, in foreig-n coun tries, and American factories are closed and American labor is unem ployed. North, Bend Republican. The stock assertion of the free coiners that the prices of wheat and silver began to fall in 1873, the 3rearof the "great crime," and have fallen continuously ever since, is easy to answer. It is'but necessary to sayithat the statement is-untrue. The market records show that wheat did not begin to fall until 1883. In 1882 it was several points higher than in 1874, 1875 and 1876; and in 1881 it was higher than it had been at any time during the past ten years, with a single exception. But in the same period, while wheat was keeping its price and frequently rising", silver fell more than 12 per cent. It is absurd, tnereiore, to talk aoout a connec tion between the two Globe Democrat. thinjrs. A good comparison of the exports of western farmers' products be tween the republican administra tion with the McKinley law and the present administration with the Wilson bill is given as follows by a writer in the Staie Journal: In 1892. the last vear of the republican - 1 administration, mis country ex ported bread stuffs in value S299, 363,117. In 1895 the last year of the present administration, this country exported bread stuffs to the value of $114,604,780. As ad ditional comparison in the last three years ot the Harrison admin istration this country exported 1,165,000 head of cattle and 318, 6a head of hogs. In the last three years under the present adminis trations the exports of cattle were 935,000 head and the export of hogs 35,058. On February 11, 1874, Senator Stewart of Nevada said, and the speech is to be tound on page 1392 of the Congressional Record: ,4Let everybody know what a dollar is worth. Then the man who goes west to buy produce will be under no necessity to insure himself against the fluctuations of the cur rency. He can pay the full value of the wheat then without fear that a change in the price of irold will oreaic mm down oeiore he rets back to New York. The wheat will be measured by the same standard gold in Illinois as it is in Liverpool, and aii3r man can fig ure it up. But it is a mystery; the whole subject of finance is a mys tery; and what do we see every dayr We see those who are mak ing large fortunes out of this mys tery." The argument for a stable currency is as good in 1S96 as it was in 1874. The fact that Sena tor btewart has a few mountains of silver to sell does not chann the truths contained in this extract fry t -w j. he umana wono-rieraid, now &u iauipu.uL ior iree snver, naa tue following to say on the free coinage . . i. C . f 1 , i, question in its issue of August 3d 1893: The silver agitators who in sist on free coinage upon the dis holiest ratio of 1 to 16 and refuse to accept it upon the honest rath of 1 to 25 are very anxious to de ude the public into the belief thai the demand for more currency and he demand for free coinage upoi- he-ratio ot 1 to 16 are identical. mi. i i iji 11 xiiev oraiia as iroiaDuirs an who decline to advocate 54-cent silver dollars. In truth, however, the only honest bimetallist is he who believes in the free coinage of gold and silver, each taken at its mar ket value and so coined that 10( cents worth of gold shall be in tin gold dollar and 100 cents worth ol silver shall be in the silver dollar. The bimetallist who advocates free coinage of gold and silver on a ratio of 1 to 25 is as much a believer in an increase in the circulating medium as the man who demands coinage on the ratio of 1 to 16. The silver ites in Chicago need not arrogate to themselves the championship of an increased currencv. That is not a their real purpose, nor is it the real effect of their agitation. They are the champions of silver. WHY COBN IS CHEAP. Corn is the most important crop of the great states of the mid-west which are the battle ground, ot the present presidential fight. The farmer is therefore vitally interested in knowing why he is getting from 12 to 15 cents a bushel for his corn aud in knowing how this may be remedied. In the first place the farmer must kuow that his corn market is the home market. He sells very little corn abroad because foreigners have not learned to consume corn. In 1895 wc exported only 2 36 per cent ot our corn crop, tue remain der being consumed here. In 1890 we consumed in this coun try 32.09 bushels of corn ior every man, woman and child, whereas, in 1895 the consumption dropped to 16.68 bushels per head. The farmer can't vote to restore his corn market by voting for free silver. He can restore it only by voting to restore a tariff that em ployes home labor and sets silent factories and idle men at work. Fremont Txibune. BLAINE MISQUOTED. HE WAS PLAINLY AND UNEQUIVO CALLY FOR HONEST MONEY. His Koported Declarations Concerning the Bemonetlzation of SUver Were Garbled ' to Salt the Purpose of the Politicians. I The Speech as Found In the Record. The Populists recently have distri but ed in Indiana a large number of hand bills containing the purported expres-1 sions of Secretary Blaine on the silver , question. "The greatest Kepublican states man," as he is called in the handbill, is quoted as unconditionally opposed to the gold standard, and it is made to an-1 pear in the two paragraphs that the dis-1 anguished statesman would have re pudiated the St. Louis platform if he had been alive today. The handbill purports to quote from j a speech delivered by Mr. Blaine in 1880, but Mr. Blaine mado no speech on tho money question in that year, and the author of tho handbill is mislead ing. Tho paragraphs in question, how-: ever, are found in a speech delivered by Mr. Blaine in the United States senate on Feb. 7, 1878. Standing alone, these paragraphs inako it appear that Mr. Blaine was a rabirl antii?nlfl mnn. hnfc Uhenreadiu the order in which they ! - j. . lji -i- . r ., appear ju uie rexc me aisnonesty oi uio authors of tho handbill appears. The senato had under consideration house bill No. 1098, to authorize the free coinasa of tho standard silver dol- lar and to restore its legal tender char acter. Almost at tbo outset of his speech Mr. Blaine said and this is part of the quotation iu tho Indiana circular: "No power was conferred on congress to declare that either metal should bo money. Congress has therefore in my judgment no power to demonetize silver any more than to demonetize gold ; no power to demonetize either any more than to demonetize both. Few persons can bo found, I apprehend, who will maintain that congress possesses the power to demonetize both gold and sil ver, or that congress could be justified in prohibiting the coinage of both, and yet in logic and legal construction it would bo difficult to show whero and why tho power of congress over silver is greater than over gold greater over either thau over the two. If, therefore, silver has been demonetized, I am in favor of remonetizing it. If its coinage has been prohibited, I am in favor of ordering it to be resumed. IE ithasbeen restricted, I am in favor of having it enlarged." What Mr. Blaine Said. Read by itself this appears to be a pretty strong denunciation of the action of congress, smacking strongly of the "crime of 18 3" order of oratory which has been flooding congress for years past. In the very next paragraph Mr. Blaine said : "However ineu may differ about causes and processes, all will admit that within a few years a great disturb ance has taken place in the relative val ues of gold and silver, and that silver is worth less or gold is worth more in the money marKets or tne world iu lor 8 than in 1873, when the further coinage of silver dollars was prohibited in this country. To renionetize it now as though tho facts and circumstances of that day were surrounding ns is to will fully and blindly deceive ourselves. If our demonetization were the only cause for the decline in the value of silver, then remonetizatiou would be its proper and effectual cure. But other causes be yond our control have been far more potentially operative than the simple fact of congress prohibiting its further coinage, aud as legislators we arc bound to take cognizance of these causes. The demonetization of silver iu the German empire and tho consequent partial or well nigh complete suspension of coin age in the governments of the Latin union have been the leadng dominant causes for the rapid decline in the value of silver." Mr. Blaine then gave his reasons why tho remonetizatiou of silveris im practicable and was so "unpatriotic" as to base his objections on tho noncur- rence and want of co-operation of the European nations. He" says : By our line of .policy in a joint movement with other nations to re- monetize is simple and direct. The difficult problem is what we shall do wheu we aim to re-establish silver without a co-operation of European powers and really is an advance move ment to coerce them into the same pol icy. Evidently the first dictate of pru dence is to coin such a dollar as will not only do justice among our citizens at home, but will prove a protection an absolute barricade against tho gold monometallists of Europe, who, when ever the opportunity offers, will quickly draw from us the 1(30,000,000 of gold coin still here. And if we coin a silver dollar of full local tender, obviously below the current value of the gold dol lar, wo are opening wide our doors and inviting Europe to take our gold. And with our gold flowing out from us wo are forced to a single silver standard, and our relations with the leading com mercial countries of the world are at once embarrassed and crippled. " Disparity of the Ratio. When Mr.Blaine delivered this speech, the silver contained in a standard silver dollar was worth 92 cents in gold in stead of 52 cents, as now. Although this was a difference of 40 cents in favor of the silver dollar of 1878, as compared with that of 1896, Mr. Blaine called at tention to tho disparity of the metallic ratio. He said : "Tho question before congress then sharply defined in the pending house bill is whether it is now safe and ex- pedient to offer free coinage to tho sil- ver dollar or 412 crams, with the mints of the Latin union closed and Germany not permitting silver to be coined as money. At current rates of silver the freo coinage of a dollar con- fining 412J grains worth in gold fllinnf: 0.9. nlllfC rriVnt. m. i'Unmfiniifn about 92 cants gives an illegitimate profit to tho owner of tho bullion, en abling him to tako 92 cents' worth of it to the mint and get it stamped as coin and forco his neighbor to take it for a full dollar. "This is an undue and an unfair ad vantage which tho government has no right to give to tho owner of the silver bullion and which defrauds the man who is forced to tako the dollar. Andifc assuredly follows that if wo give free coinage to this dollar of inferior value and put it iu circulation wc do so at : tho expense of our better coinage in gold, and unless we expect tho uniform j and invariable experience of other na- The Old Man: "Sonny, you're a poor line o' goods." tTons to be fn some lnysferloos" way 8 suspended for our peculiar benefit we inevitably lose our gold coin. "It will flow out from us with the oertainfr and resistless force of the tulac f4nlil hni inflrf1 TmniTiPrT with "v'- " . : us in considerable amount during the circulation of the inferior currency of the leSal teuder, but that w:is because i there were two great uses reserved by law for gold the collection of customs and the payment of interest on the pub lic debt. But if the inferior silver coin is also to be used for these two reserved purposes, then gold has no tie to bind it to us. Cannot Afford It. "What gain, thfireibre, would we make for tho circulating medium if, on opening the gate for silver to flow in, wo open a still wider gate for gold to flow out? If I wero to venture on a dictum on tho silver question, I would declare that until Europe remonetizes wc cannot afford to coin a dollar as low as 412 grains." A little further on Mr. Blaine said: "Consider further what injustice would be done to every holder cf a legal tender or national bank note. That vast volnmc of paper money over $700, 000, 000 is now worth between 98 and 99 cents on the dollar in gold coin. The holders of it, who arc indeed our entire population, from the poorest to the wealthiest, have been promised from the hours of Us issue that the paper money ono day would bo as good as gold. To pay silver for the greenback is a full compliance with this promise aud this obligation, provided the silver is made, as it always has been hitherto, as good as gold. To make our silver coin even 3 per cent less valuable than gold inflicts a loss of more than $20,000,000 ou tho holders of our paper money. To make a silver dollar worth but 92 cents precipitates on tho same class a loss of well nigh 00,000,000. For whatever the value of the Eilvcr dollar is the wholo paper issue of the country will sink to its standard when its coinage is authorized aud its circulation becomes general in the channels of trade. Effect of Cheap Dollars. "And yet it is demonstrable almost mathematically that the same effect will follow inevitably from the coinage of an inferior silver dollar. Assurances from empirics and scientists in finance that remonetizatiou of the former dollar will at onco and permanently advance its value lo par with gold must go for what they are worth in the face of op posing and controlling facts. ' 'It is for us to bring tho continent of Europe back to the full recognition of the value of tho metal as a medium of exchange. "The question of beginning anew tho coinage of silver dollars has aroused much discussion as to its effect on the public credit. My own views on this qnesrion can be stated briefly : "I believe the public creditor can be paid in any dollar that tho United States can afford to coin and circulate. Wc have $40, 000, 000, 000 of property in this country, and a wise self interest will not permit us to overturn its rela tions by seeking an inferior dollar wherewith to settlo tho dues and de mands of auy creditor. The question might bo different from merely a selfish point of view if, on paying the dollar to tho public creditor, it would disappear after performing that function. But the trouble is that the inferior dollar you pay tho public creditor remains in circulation, to tho exclusion of the bet ter dollar. That which you pay at home will .stay there; that which you spend abroad will come back. "Tho interest of tho public creditor is iudissolubly bound up with the inter est of the whole people. Whatever affects him affects us all, and the evil that we might inflict on him by paying an inferior dollar would recoil on us with a vengeance as manifold as the aggregate wealth of the republic tran scends the comparatively small limits of our bonded debt." Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune. MISGUIDED DEBTORS. HOSTILITY TO INTEREST BEARING LOANS AND ITS FOUNDATION. Uoxr Scripture Has Been Misquoted If Creditors Would Forego Interest and Even Cancel Obligations, There Would Be No Free Coinage Cry. As we shall hear a great deal about 3ie grievances of the debtor class during She present campaign, it is worth while k inquiro what those grievances are, lays the New York Tribune. The cry for free silver is, of course, only a Jymptom, an extraneous issuo that cir tumstances have linked with the move ment -hich culminated in the Chicago convention. Back of tho question of sil ver lies tho fact that a multitude of honest but mistaken debtors believo themselves to bo tho victims of injus tice. Few of them could explain just what that injustice is. But if we as sume that their senso of wrong has something to do with their being obliged to pay interest on the money they have borrowed wo shall not bo far out of tho wav. If the men who havo money would lend it without interest to ail wormy people who need it, giving them their own tune to repay nt r liuikdiujb mo debt altogether if tho debtor happened to bo hard up, there would be no dissat isfied debtor class today, and therefore no free silver movement Now, it is an interesting fact that this good talker, hut you're pushin a durncd Chicago Inter Ocean. feeling" of Eositility fo loans at interest is not a new thing. Aristotle and other Greek and Roman thinkers gave expres sion to it, and for 17 centuries tha theo logians of Catholic and -Protestant Christianity reflected the same Tiew, on the ground, that the Bible forbade tho taking of interest for money lent. Among the early church, fathers who denounced interest maybe mentioned St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Ambrose, St Augustine and St. Jerome. Lactantius called the taking of interest robbery. Pope Leo the Great declared it to bo a sin worthy of severe punishment. Every great church council from fhe council of Elvira in 306 to that of Vienno in 1311 solemnly condemned money lending at interest Many sovereigns of Europe, under tho in fluence of the church among them Jus tinian, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great of England and St Louis of France issued decrees against money lending. Pope Gregory X forbade Christian bur ial to usurers. St Thomas Aquinas elaborated tho Scriptural argument against usury, and Dante placed money lenders in tho hottest corner of his "In ferno." This was the view of interest uniformly taken by the madiajval church, and as a result nearly all mon ey lenders wero Jews, since Christians could not go into the business without losing their souls. But, as it was be lieved that Jews wero to bo damned in any case, some canonists held that they might wisely be allowed to pursue the infamous calling. Nor did Protestants differ greatly from Catholics on this question. Luther denounced every usurer as a thief, aud Melanchthon agreed with him. In Eng land, during the reign of Edward VI, a law was enacted declaring that whoever lent money at interest should forfeit principal aud interest. Some of the Puritan preachers cendemned all inter est as un-ScripturaL In 1634 John Blaxton, an Anglican clergyman, wrote a book entitled "Usury Condemned," in which he defined usury as tho raking of any interest whatever and quoted as condemning it 6 archbishops and bishops and more than 30 doctors of divinity in the Anglican church. But even while this book was being read its teachings begau to be questioned, not in England alone, but all over Europe. The necessi ties of commerce overbore all tho argu ment against tho taking of interest, and both the Protestant and Catholic theo logians finally retreated from the tradi tional view. The texts which seemed to them to forbid uviry are still in the Bible, but they aA no longer taken to mean what they were supposed to mean for so many centuries. Similarly, in Scotland, at the beginning of this cen tury the use of fanning mills for win nowing grain was for a time condemned as uu-Scriptural, because tho Bible says, "Tho wind bloweth where it listeth," etc But as the fanning mills continued to be used a modified interpretation of tho text supposed to condemn them was adopted It would be erroneous to suppose that this feeling of hostility to loans at in terest is an evidence of dishonesty, mis taken though we know it to be. Tho theologians who fastened it as a dogma on the church were honest and conscien tious men, and so aro most of their fol lowers today in tho south and west who are denouncing th money power. They aro simply laboring under a grievous mistake, as were tho theologians, and instead of growing impatient with them it is our duty to show them, in all kind ness, wherein their mistake lies. The campaign upon which wo aro entering must be one of education, and not one Of brass bands and party yells. 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