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THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1596.
A few more joint debates, such as
that between Rosewater and Bryan
and Resey and the goldbugs wouldn't
have a peg to stand on.
.Like Hancock on the tariff question,
McKinley is trying to play double on
the money question. He will find to
his sorrow that the people don't want
straddlers.
On'e of these days Rosewater will
discover that he cannot get the support
of western people while standing up as
the representative of Wall street and
the east. He has already lost seven
thousand subscribers to the Bee by his
dough-faced course.
Rosewatek's idea of cheap money
is that which i3 loaned at a low rate of
interest. The answer of Rryrn tothat
proposition was a scorcher. Hereafter
the silver men can not be charged with
advocating cheap money. They want
money so plenty that the wheels of in
dustry will start again and it will com
mand a better rate of interest.
Since February l,last, the U. S.
treasury has lost forty-niue millions
in gold coin. And still there are men
in this country who want as a stand
ard a money that is so Heeling that it
cannot be held in the treasury better
than that I It is safe to say most of
these men have more interest in mak
ing the dollar dear than they are in
the independence and prosperity of
the people.
The objection to the rules adopted
by Czar Reed was, not that they did
not assist in pushing business, but that
they were essentially tyrannical, and
worked to the overthrow of every right
of the minority, and in derrogation of
American ideas and principles. Under
Reed's rules he has been able to push
such business as he chose to completion
in a hurry. The czar of Russia could
guarantee the same thing.
Toe term "honest money" as used
by the gold standard people, is simply
another form of saying bank money.
Under their definition one of the pres
ent silver dollars nor the greenback is
not honest money. They do not repre
sent the dictation of the greedy hands
of Shylock, and that's what hurts. A
silver dollar, under free coinage, with
a full legal tender quality would be as
honest as any dollar ever issued.
Is sorrow we have received intelli
gence that the talented Dr. Devries, of
Fremont, has fallen a victim to the
cocaine babit, and that his mind has
become hopelessly unbalanced. All
Nebraska newspapermen recall with
admiration the brief career of Dr. De
vries as editor of the Fremont Herald,
which, under his hand, was one of the
brightest journalistic lights within our
field. We sincerely hope his condition
is not as bad as reported, and that he
may be restored to health and strength.
Papillion Times.
The State Journal and other thick-and-thin
protection organs are worried
very much lately over the fact that
treasury statistics, recently published,
show that the McKinley act during the
four years while in force turned a sur
plus of $105,000,000 into a deficiency of
72,000,000, while the Wilson bill, dur
ing the three years of its existence has
turned a deficiency of $72,000,000 into
a surplus- With all the howls raised
against the Wilson bill, in practice it
is shown that it is, as a revenue pro
ducer, far superior to its predecessor.
The so-called "sound money" com
mittee off era to furnish free of charge
to the Times a full page of plate mat
ter each week, and we understand the
same offer has been made to every
country newspaper in the United
States. These plates cost 1.50 per
page, and as there are some ten thous
and country newspapers to be supplied,
the kind offer of the gold-bug com
mittee, if accepted by all the papers,
would entail an expense of 15.000 per
week 60,000 per month, or three
quarters of a million per year But
Wall street has money to burn when it
comes to fighting the "crazy western
cranks" who believe in free silver, and
Se expenditure of a million in the
cause o? "education" is a small matter.
Papillion Times.
There are strong indications that
the goldites have a well-laid scheme to
capture the national democratic con
vention by organizing bolt9 in enough
of the silver states to keep the honest
delegations from voting in the or
ganization, so that they can admit the
bolting delegations and thus obtain a
majority. They have put out a mint
of money from the New York and
Chicago banks into Illinois, hoping to
swamp the state into the gold column,
and in the event of failure at the pri
maries and in the convention, will call
a new convention, and go through the
form of electing delegates to the na
tional convention. They even now
profess to have an organization af
fected throughout the state for that
purpose. The goldbugs are desperate.
They have the people by the throat
and don't mean to looseu their grip il
there is any means at their command
to prevent it. That power has now
complete control of the republican
party, and they want to exert the
same power over the democracy. Will
they do il? We shall see. Meantime
they must not forget that the worm
may turn; the democratic masses may
conclude not to submit to such bare
faced robbery of their rights. The
country is ripe for a political resolu
tion. The grip of poverty and distress
is felt at too many hearthstones be
cause of the conspiracy of the gold
power to calmly submit to a spolia
tion of their rights in the national
convention. That convention will
either give the free silver stales their
rights or they will forever wish they
had.
An Apt I'outrast.
In the republican primaries and con
ventions it is purely a conihct of rival
personal ambitions. The vital issue of
the day, the great money problem, is
ignored. On the other hand the demo
cratic party has grappled with a
mighty question and two well-defined
factions are contending for the mast
ery not in the name of personal ambi
tion, not for the promotion of personal
interests, but for the final settlement
of a problem that involves the pros
perity of the people and the salvation
of their DroDertv. Rent ami torn as
the democratic party is by the great
struggle it slands in tavorable contrast
to the republican party, pulled and
hauled as it is by contending political
leaders for personal interests. Omaha
World-Herald.
Rosewateivs argument, based on
the statement that silver was the
dearer money that it was at a preu.
ium of three per cent when silver was
demonetized, that therefore it was to
the interest of the Rothschilds' to
demonetize gold instead of silver, be
cause they would lose 30,000 out ot
every million by that process, was very
thin. The fact was that the ratio be
tween the two metals in France and
the Latin Union was at 15 to 1, and
therefore the only silver that was at a
premium was the very little that was
in use in the United States, where the
legal ratio was 10 to 1. and the reason
why American silver was at a premium
was that it was more valuable for re
coinage in Europe. It is the boast of
the goldbugs that only eight millions
of silver dollars had been coined in
America and that was a mere bagatelle
of the world's coinage up to that time
The real reason why the moneyed class
sought to demonetize silver and go to a
gold standard, was that they could
corner gold and make bank notes a
necessity and they being the bankers
would reap a harvest. Mr. Rosewater
was very lame.
One hundred and twenty years ago,
coming Fourth of July, a feeble line of
colonies, containing scarce three mil
lion souls, spread along the Atlantic
coast of America, declared tbir inde
pendence of rich and powerful Great
Britain. The cowardly and unpatriotic
goldbugs, like Rosewater, are today
telling the American people that we
cannot adopt a financial policy of our
own, independent of that same Great
Britain. Today this is the most power
ful nation on earth, yet they would
make people believe that we must de
pend on the Rothschilds for our money
standard. It is dollars to dimes that
the men who make that claim found
their counterparts in the tories of the
revolution, who would have seen their
neighbors hung at the yard-arm rather
than help them gain their independ
ence. Their patriotism is measured by
the size of their pocketbooks.
Rosewater has the gall to assert
that the "prepared" assertions he read
in his recent "debate" with Mr. Bryan,
"will give republicans all over the
state material with which to refute
the specious arguments of free silver
cranks." Why I bless the poor little
ignorant creature, there is not a silver
crank in the land that cannot knock
his "prepared" speeches galley west in
one round. Just as Bryan did him last
Friday evening in every round. South
Omaha Sun.
in 1S78, when the silver restoration
question was up in congress, and Hayes
occupied the presidential chair, th
Chicago Tribune was on the side of the
people. What it said then can almost
be accepted as prophesy nowsajsthe
Butler County Press, so truthfully does
it portray the conditions, after eigh
teen years: "To undertake to do the
business of the world on a single gold
basis of measurement and equivalent
means loss, bankruptcy, poverty and
despair. Debts will grow larger and
taxes more onerous. The farmer will
receive smaller prices for his crops;
labor will be forced down,down,duwti.
and there will be a long series ot
strikes, lockouts, and a suspension of
production. Those who own property
but owe for it in part, will see then
moi tgages increasing in proportion as
gold acquires new purchasing power.
while the property itself will be shrink
ing in value. There will be no relief,
it must be kept in mind, for gold will
be the only recognized equivalent of
values. The stock of gold, with its
power will be constantly growing, and
the Gircle of wealth will be uniformly
contracting." Ihe evidence of its pie
dictions is ever present with us, yet.
the Tribune, like Carlisle and others,
who have had a change of heart, and
are trying to explain away the evil
effects of a cause which they once
clearly foresaw ana cotdemned for the
wrong it would do and misery it would
create. They are not above the sus
picion of having changed their minds
for other reasons than the good of
their countrv.
Joux SiJEKMAN sajs: "There can be
oodfubtas to the opinion of Major
McKinley on the money question, lie
is committed in every form, and other
wise to the republican policy of main
taining the present gold coin of the
United States as a standard of value."
And yet some of the republicans strad
dle the question by electing McKinley
delegates and declaring for free silver
when they must know that with Mc
Kinley there is no more hope for the
recognition of silver than With Cleve
land. Scribner News.
Accoicihso to an interview given
out by Senator Faulkner, the contest
between the gold and bimetallic forces
at tke Chicago convention is likelv to
turn on the Nebraska delegation. II
that should turn out to be true, then
is no doubt but silver will triumph.
The gold delegation from this state has
no legal standing.
A pie 1MTEU sa s: A man canntu
be a democrat and fail to stand by his
party oilieers." This is a good deal
like the law laid down by the leader ot
a gang of highwaymen. It is the duty
of the officers elected to stand by the
party and people who elected them and
not go back on all promises made and
join hands with the ancient political
enemy to bring about legislation never
contemplated by the party. Crete
Democrat.
Rose w ate it's statement that the
cause of depressed times was that
"there are too
many Bryans in the
country" is nbout all there is to the
goldbug argument. If there were more
Bryans men who have the courage of
their convictions and the ability to
present them to the people and fewer
Rosewaters men who have not the
patriotism or intelligence to advocate
the rights and interests of the people
the people would be on the high road
to prosperity.
The position of the two Colorado
senators is a striking illustration of the
respective power of principle and po
litical servitude. Both believe in the
free coinage of silver, and each con
siders the financial question the para
mount issue before the people. Teller
brushes aside the political associations
of years and declares he will fol'ow
where free silver leads. Wolcott ex
presses a willingness to brush aside
principle and keep in the wake of party
The result is people respect Teller and
repudiate Wolcott. World-Herald.
"The threat of protected capitalists
to close up shop unless the people vote
them protection is an old dodge," says
the Utica Observer. "The manufac
turers of pig iron, of cotton ties, of
steel rails and steel billets, all protest
against free trade. We were told
that foreigners would deluge us with
pauper-made products. Cotton ties
were put on the free list. The other
articles mentioned were sufficiently
protected. Yet the foreigner has not
deluged this country with cotton ties.
On the contrary, our manufacturers
are deluging soreign markets with
them. We ship pig iron to England,
steel rails to Canada and Japan, wire
nails to all parts to Europe, and iron
goods to all parts of the world. Yet
we are threatened with closed factories
if we do not vote the manufacturers
the right to charge American cus
tomers more than foreign customers."
oiikA'llili iliiiiUAN, the boSt pri)1
found statesman in the senate, has
proposed a joint resolution for the
recognition of war in Cuba, and arirues
that it is a duly congress owes to the
country and to common humanity to
pats the resolution, and leave the re
sponsibility with the president to issue
the proclamation. The people of the
United States ai e in accord with the
sentiment of Mr. Morgan.
Bkfome he goes into another debate
with Bryan, Rosewater had better
study up the money question a little.
He duln't seem to know what money is
or wlint it is used for. Niether did he
meet the question so often asked him
"what iaterest the money lender has
in a dollar that rises in value, and why
he wants that kind of a dollar V" His
philosophy would make times harder
for the poor man and make the rich
man richer.
That there has been for years a fear
ful stagnation of business and a hard
struggle for the masses of working
people to make both ends meet every
body v ill agree. For this condition
the advocates of bimetallism offer a
speedy and certain remedy, while the
advocatfs of the gold standard can
promise nothing. "Stop agitation," is
their only slogan, and it is as deceptive
as their promise was that the repeal of
the Sherman act would bring immedi
ate prosperity.
It is daily becoming more apparent
that the administration, backed up by
Wall street mouey,is encouraging
bolts in the silver democratic states for
the purpo-e of controlling the national
convention. They could do nothing to
defeat their ultimate purpose more
thorouchi). Hie whole body of silver
democrats will bolt that convention if
the gold men control it that way. There
is no question on that score. The silver
men in the democratic party aie far
more in favor of free coinage than of
the democrat party when it becomes
an empty name or means only gold
bugism. DrcorHtioil Day lrogrli.
The following program has been ar
ranged for Decoration Day. the excer
cises to b held at White's opera house
at J:OOp. m. on May oOth:
Heading of General Order, by Adjutant.
Sonir.
Invocation, ly l.'ev. Fot.
Address, l? Kev. Cuufler.
Sonjr.
The parade will form on Main street,
between Fourth and Sixth, and will
march to the eemetery in the follow
ing oi der:
Mayor and Council.
Ditlci ent OrKanizHtionv
Woman'. Helief Coij-k 8iil G. A. II. Pott.
Citizens In Carriages.
The exerrises at the cemetery will
conMst ot the reading of the W. R. C.
and (. A. II rituals, followed by the
decorating of the graves of the de
parted ven rai s hy the G. A. It.
The Memorial Day sermon w ill I e
preached hy"R-v. Freund, of the Ger
man Luthei an church, at the Presby
terian church on Sunday. May 24, at
11:00 a. in. All other churches in the
city are lequested to suspend services
on that worn in and attend the union
services on trial morning at the Pres
byterian chinch.
Bv ordr of the committee.
Titos. Wiles, Chairman
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