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0 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT Ocjt 15, 1896. H Nebraska Jnbcptnbml CnuttUmtirm f TWM WtALTH HAKKXS mmd LINCOLN OrDMfMNDMNT. fTCLISHXD EVERY THURSDAY n tmm Izispsijdsijt PublUhiijf Go. At U M Street, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 638. 51.00 per Year in Advance. Addrws 0 MMMlsttlOM to. m4 all rafts, erdar. te pay abl to THB INDEPENDENT PDB. CO, LixcoLa, Neb. NATIONAL TICKET. For President WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, of Nebraska. Fop Vice-President THOMAS E. WATSON, of Georgia. STATE TICKET. For Governor ........Silo A Holcomb For Lient. Governor............l,.J E Harris jf or wcroary 01 oijate n r r oner For Auditor Pub. AccU..-.....J F Cornell For Land Commissioner. ..J V Wolfe For State Treasurer .......J B Meserve For State Supt ......... W R Jackson For Judge, long term Wm. Neville For Attorney-General. ........C. J. Smyths For Judge.short terra. ...Tno. Kirkpatriok For Regent...... .....Thomas Rawlings For Congress, 1st diet.,... ...J. H. Broady Tom Watson's speech lor sale at 2 cents a copy, $1.50 per hundred. Send your order to, Nebraska Independent, Llnooln, Nebraska. tf Here goes for a vote for "great con solation throughout the world," as Gladstone would say. The labor unions now have a chance to get even with Mark Banna. Any one who thinks they are not going to do it will be badly disappointed. The Mark Haun a crowd believe more in the argument of force that in force of argument. Hence the railroads make their employees wear McKinley buttons. Railroad corporations are a constant peril to tree government. There will be no certainty of the perpetuation of free government until their charters are an nulled tie nation takes charge of them. 1 ' The arrogance of plutocracy has been considerably toned d6wn in this city since the republicans employed a special negro policeman to arrest a reputable dticen for asking a question, and em ployers stood on the street corners loudly proclaiming: "I have no Bryan men in my employ, you bet." Yes, they have abated their arrogance a good deal. The logic of events is more convincing than all appeals to reason. Take, for example the following from the Silver Knight, "We have been opposed to government ownership of railroads while thu railroads own the government. when It becomes evident to the people of the United States that the railroads must be taken out of the hands of their present owners or their elective franchise must be given up, it is not difficult to imagine what will happen." The republican party was emphatical ly right in the financial plank of its plat form in 1892, when it declared that the American people, from tradition and in terest, favor bimetallism. It is safe to ay that three-fourths of the voters of the United States are in favor of the double standard, and today want free coinage of silver. We shall see how many of these voters can be coerced, intimated, or hired to vote against their own in erests and convictions of right. GOLD ST1IX COMING. The strongest evidence of Bryan's elec tion is the iufiow ot goid. Foreigners who have money are convinced that we are going to begin to coin silver again, and that prices will rise, so they Bend their money here to invest itin property. Wheat has already begun to advance, and as the certainty of Bryan's election , becomes more apparent other things will follow. These chaps did the same thing in anticipation of the passage of the Sherman act and made a lot of money. Silver then wentup to 1.2l an ounce, and wheat and other farm proi ducts followed. The better day is dawn ing. Get out and shout. Yes, he's the advance agent of pros perity for the railroad corporations and trusts. No one denies it. He's their agent, not ours. Gold is already pouring into this country to be invested in property in anticipation of the rise in prices of pro perty which foreigners know will take place as soon as Bryan is elected and we beirin to coin silver. They did the same in anticipation of the coinage of silver tinder the Bland act. Many people would be very grateful if some one of the John Sherman economists would tell us how many "units"' make "one value" They are always talking about "a unit of value" but they never tell os what it is. WHICH WAS ITT Mr. Bryan said at Cedar Rapids, Iowa: "I stand upon a platform, yes, I stand upon three platforms, which agree on one thimr and that is that the golditand ard onght to be driven out ot the United States (great applause) aad that in Its place ought to be substituted the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 (ap- olause). without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. Prolonged applause. The populists have f joined with us. I will say that' they are joined with ns, they may say we are joined with them, but I care not how you express it, bo that we are together now." Great ap plause.') THE WOMEN IN THIS CAMPAIGN. Considerable space is given is this issue to the work of women in this campaign Tbey are wielding a greater influence, b.v ten times, than they ever have in any previous political battle. They realiie that the hearthstone and all that sur rounds that sacred place is in danger. With a limited acquaintance in the city, the writer personally knows of fourteen votes that have been won for Bryan by the work ot women. But the winning of votes is not the only work ot value that they are doing. They are carrying on a magnificent edu cational campaign, the result of which will be felt for years to come in laying deep the foundation of free government. Tbev seem to take to economics like a dock to water. The papers read and the discussions engaged in, in the women's free silver club in this city are of a very hitch order. Specialists in political econ omy would be astonished to hear them. Free silver masculine orators on the stump, while right on the main question, have a habit of mixing up economic terms in a most astonishing way. These ladies handle them with the precision of an Andrews or a Walker. The campaign authorities could do no better thing than to have one big meet ing to be presided over and addressed by free silver women. We promise that the addresses would be of such a sound and scientific character that they would be of lasting benefit to the state and na tion. Let us have a woman's day. THREE GREAT PANICS. We had an awful panic in 1807. Why? Because the bankers had the following act which had been on the statute book since the 9th of February 1703, repealed. "That from and after the first day of July next foreign gold and silver coins shall pass current as money within the United States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands at the several and respective rates following and not otherwise, viz: The gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents fof every twenty-seven grains of the actual weight thereof; the goldnoins of France, Spain and the dominious of Spain ot their present standard, at the rate ot one hundred cents for every twenty-seven grains and two-fifths of a grain, of the actual weight thereof. Spanish milled dollars, at the rate of one hundred cents for each dollar the actual weight whereof shall not be less that seventeen pennyweights and seven grains, and in proportion foi the parts of a dollar." That demonetized three fourths of the silver coins then in circulation. It made useless the redemption fund of the small banks which was largely made up of foreign coins and they all tumbled down like cob houses. There were hard times In those days but tbey would have been much harder if the gold and silver ot California had not begun to pour in to revive business. The bankers stopped the coinage of silver in 1873 and demonetized it in 1874. Then we had another panic which lasted until 1878 when we began to coin silver again. That checked the fall ot prices, but as population increased faster than the supply of money, we went to living on money borrowed from England and had a fictitious prosperity for a time. The bankers stopped all coinage of silver in 1803 aud we have had a panic ever since and we will have until we be gin to coin it again. When we stopped specie payments in 1861, it did not produce a panic. When we began to coin silver in 1878 it did not produce a panic. When we doubled the amount of silver in 1890 by the passage of the Sherman act it didn't make a panic. Now the goldbugs tell us that if we begin to coin silver again we shall have the greatest panic the world ever saw. The gold bugs lie. A POINTER TO MOTHERS. In one of the English consular reports from Japan, in speaking of the cotton mills of ' the little yellow men who use white money, occurs this passage: "It is stated that in some mills a consider able number of spindles are lying idle in consequence of want of hands. The scarcity of hands is principally due to a return of prosperity throughout the country, and people are, therefore, re luctant to send their girls to factories." There is a pointer tor the mothers of America, who would rather have their daughters in school with free silver, than working ten hours a day in a factory for a mere pittance under the gold standard. Tom Watsou is seriously ill with sore throat and nervous prostration at his home, Thomson, Ga. THE WOMEN OT 1890. It was a nice ball, steam heated, com fortable armed chairs, a grand piano on the platform, and filled with beautiful, highly cultured, tastefully attired ladies. They had access to the works of all the great standard writers on economics. All the scientific and economic quar terlies, reviews and magazines were at their disposal in one of the finest univer sity library halls in the United Slates. They were eai nest, conscientious, good women who loved their home and their country. The spoke in elegant English. There was wit, logic, eloquence, grace and beauty. That is what one saw and beard at the Mary Bryan ' Silver club in Lincoln last week and was a sight that gave one hope for the oppressed and wronged. These are the women of 1896. It may seem strange, but this sight in stantly brought to mind the women of 1800. They were gathered, not in a steam heated hall filled with comfortale chairs, with a grand piano on the plat form, but in a dingy school house, dimly lighted with one or two coal oil lamps, sitting on most uncomfortable seats. Most of them were very plainly dressed. Their faces were tanned by the sun and their hands were bard with toil. They bad ridden miles in a lumber wagon after a long day of hard work. All the books tbey had were a few paper covered pamphlets like "Ten Men of Money Island," or "The Seven Financial Conspiracies." Their periodical litera ture consisted of one or two weekly pop ulist papers, badly printed and full of typographical errors. On ail their faces was a look of care, and only afaintglim- mer of hope shone forth from their eyes. What were these women gathered there for? To study, aa best they could, the science of economics. The beautiful, brilliant and cultured ladies who assem bled last Saturday at the conservatory of music to study economics were fair to look upon and a delight to hear; but this writer must confess after all that his heart is still with the farmers' wives, who six years ago, first took up the work. They were the first to urge their husbands and sons to vote for free silver. Iney were the first to raise the banner of revolt against the money power, baptize it with tears and consecrate it with prayer. Yes, our heart is still, with them, the women of 1890. JOHN SHERMAN'S STATEMENTS. Senator Sherman asserts "that many pages of the Congressional Record show indisputable proof that the clause jn the act of 1873 stopping the coinage of the silver dollar, was not surreptitiously and clandestinely passed through congress." If many pages of the Congressional Globe (for there was no .Record at that time) are devoted to the discussion of the demonetization of silver, why is it that the goldbug dailies have sever printed a line of that discussion? It si because there is not one line of discussion ot that subject to be found in the "Con gressiooal Globe, and John Sherman knows that there is hot one. He is the monumental liar of the world. He has never denied that he is a liar. When Henry M. Teller told him to bis face on the floor of the senate that he had .been in the habit of rising in his place, for twenty years and making false state ments, he did not deny the charge, f M'KINLEYS HONOR I McKinley stands on his Iront porch and prates about "honor," until the resonant air revolts at the oft recurring sound. It is the nations honor of which he talks, not of his own. Where are those 1118,000 of notes? Where are they? Hear McKinley shout for honor! "I greet you at my home as friends and as allies in the great cause in which the honor of the country is involved I have great affection for your old county and your common wealth. Both have stood lor tbe nation and its honor in every crisis ot our history." "It is not often given to a political party, as it is this year given to ours, to stand between national honor and dis honor." "Moved by the same sentiment of patriotism, you unite with the republi can party because it carries the glorious banner on whtcu is inscribed American honor." "Good men this year, irrespective of their old affiliations, are breaking away and uniting upon one great platform to sustain the national honor." But how about McKinley 'sown honor? How did he become bound to a million air syndicate who still hold his notes? Was there any "honor" in that trans action? Is , not this talk, canting hypocrisy of a terror stricken slave of dishonor?. MORTONIAM ROT. Every time we hear a publict speaker use the term "intrinsic value" we feel like swearing a great big swear. A man who nas not conquered enough of the science of political economy to know that there is not now, never has been and never can be such a thing as "intrinsic value," don't know any more than J. Sterling Morton, and should keep his mouth closed until he has some just idea of the meaning of the words he uses. How much J. Sterling Morton knows can be inferred from a sentence in one ot his late speeches where, in his great solic itude lest congress should enact a free coinage law, he said: "in that event, the farmers when they sold their products for silver dollars would receive less in trinsic value than they gave in exchange therefor. , Thus the farmer would be robbed of some intrinsic value every time he made sale ot his crops." May the good Lord deliver us hereafter from such Mortonian rot as that' What Is that thing "in" the crops or '"in" the dollar which he calls "intrinsic value." Can you see it, feel it or taste it? How do you know when you have hold of it and when yon have let go? How do yon tell how much of it there is "in" a thing? Can yon weigh it on a pair of scales? Do you measure it with a yard stick or a foot-rule, that thingfthey call "intrinsic value?" Say Mr. Morton, please tell us con fidentially, do you talk that kind of rot because yon are a natural born economic idiot, or to hold your job? Which? It's a good job you've got, but even f 8,000 a year would not hire some men to play the idiot. HOW TO GET MONET. Buffalo, N. Y, Sep., 7, 1896-To the Editor: 1 received your paper today and nave lor a lew weeks. "Thanks. I notice you appear to be "down" so to speak on all moneyed men and m stutions. Now will yon kindly tell me where the money came from to build railroads, large buildings and the like property in your place and the west. Do you want all that money called in? Kindly auswer tnrougb your paper. - Edwabd Newell. answeu. We do not want "all the money called in" but we know that most of it will be "called in" if prices continue to fall and they will continue to fall as long as tbe attempt is made to "preserve the present gold standard." We want money to be put out, but it never will be, until prices begin to rise and prices will never rise until there is an increase in the volume of money in circulation. ' Tbe money to build railroads and large buildings in this purely agricultural state must come from the corn, wheat, oats, beef, pork, flax seed, bay, potatoes, sheep and horses we raise and sell. That is all tbe way we have to get money. But when tbe prices of these things are so low that they sell for less than the cost of production, then we have no money with which to build railroads or large building, and none have been built since prices fell so low that there was no profit in production. If your letter is a covert threat to call in eastern loans by a rapid foreclosure ot mortgages, we defy you. What is 160 acres of Nebraska prairie worth to an eastern money loaner after bis mortgage is foreclosed, with wheat at 35 cents and corn 10 cents? How much will he get out of it? Take the mortgaged farms if you want them. The occupants will be better off when you have to pay the taxes. The money you send out here to pay taxes will be the reverse of "calling it in" When you get the land you will begin to howl for free silver, just as the land owning aristocracy of England now are. The products of all the labor of Ne braska above tbe bare subsistence of the laborer, at thepresent range of prices, will not pay the taxes and the interest on the public and private debts. We have no money to buy tbe products of your mills and manufactories. We can raise enough, to feed our population, and you can't. Perhaps when you have a few more millions of idle workingmen to support, when a few thousaud more of your mills closebecause we can' t buy your goods, you will take up some work on economics like that of John Stuart Mills, Walker or Andrews and find out what the matter is. When you have read them, you will have learned that no peo ple ever got rich by going ever deeper in debt to money lenders, either foreign or domestic, which your letter leads one to believe is the foundation principle oi your political economy. If the democratic and populist nation al committees don't get a move on them pretty quick, the Florida railroads will send a gold bug senator to Washington in place of Call. ' A suggestion Pay your subscription. A Bepnblloan Nominated. Lsavenwobth. Kan., Oct 14. Tbe Democratic county central committee last night nominated M. H. Peck as the fusion candidate for the legis lature in the Seventh district Mr. Peck, who was present, accepted the nomination. The nominee is a life long Republican, but in the present campaign has allied himself with tbe free silver cause. NO SPEECHES FOR KANSAS tfn Bryan Regards the Sunflower Stats as Safe for Him: Topeka, Kan., Oct. li The fusion ists finally have given up hope of get ting Bryan to make a tour of Kansas before the campaign shall close. Chairman Love of the Democratic committee has received positive infor mation that Bryan regarded Kansas and Nebraska as safe and therefore would spend the remainder of the campaign in the Middle states. He will stay in Illinois and in Chicago the last three days of the last week. Straw Tote of Railroads. Sedalia, Ma, Oct A secret ballot is in progress in this city which, when concluded, will show the pref erence of Missouri Pacific railroad men for president A ballot box has been placed in the office of Yard-master Grow, and in order that it cannot be discovered how the men voted, the ballots are not numbered, but each man registers when he deposits his vote, the registration preventing other than employes of tbe company on the division between Sedalia and St. Louis from voting. Tbe ballots will be counted on the 20tb. , Attend the Chamberlain Commercial Collesre. room 1 Lansing theatre build ing. Day and night school. We make a specialty of shorthand and typewriting u - . . TO RAISE A FUND For tbe Free Distribution of Silver Lit- cratuie. Several prominent silver sen in Lincoln have authorized tbe Inde pendent to announce that tbey will duplicate every dollar contributed during tbe next ten days for the pur pose o buying silver literature for free distribution. The plan will be carried out as follows: Tbe Inde pendent will publish each week the names of all those making donations and the amount ot the donation. It will then collect from tbe silver men who have guaranteed it, a like amount, and turn tbe entire amount over to Hon. G. L. Laws, the nation al committeeman for the silver party and state secretary for that party in Nebraska, and take his receipt there for, and publish a copy of the re ceipt along with the names of the contributors. Note Those con tributors who do not wish to have their real name published may sign a fictitious name for publication; the publication of which would be a receipt to them for the monej . ' All donations and all drafts, checks, and post office orders should be made payable to the Independent Publish ing Co., at Lincoln, Nebraska. The Independent guarantees that the agreement above outlined will be fully carried out. The committe is practically without money, and those who can afford it should not hesitate to send in their contribu tions. This is jour opportunity to make one dollar of your buy two dollars worth of literature. Remem ber the donation mnst reach this office within the next ten days. Independent Pub. Co. The First Week. Received campaign donations as fol lows: . Martin Maloney, Pender, Neb $1 00 E. A. Rogers. Lincoln, Neb. .... 1 00 Silver Mau, Hastings, Neb 1 00 F. J. Drabek, Florence, Neb $1.00 The following is a copy of the receipt of the Hon. 6. L.. Laws: . Received of Independent Publishing Co. $8.00 for use in the purchase and free distribution of standard literature on the financial question. Oct. 8, 1896. G. L. Laws. v SECOND WEEK. Received subscriptions as follows: A. A. Munro, South Omaha ..$5 00 George Hert, Lincoln, Neb 1 00 L. C Hanning, Beaver City, Neb.... 1 00 E; S. Hayhurst, Loup City, Neb..... 1 00 J. T. Grandstaff, Bladen, Neb:......, 1 00 W.H.Hoffman,, " ....... 50 J. R. Horn, " " 25 William McDonald, " " 50 D. Byrne, " " .. 50 Charles Williams, ' " .. 25 V.S. Hall, , " . " 50 J. C. Hartman, " " 25 J. E. Yost, " " 25 Wm. Morrow, " " 50 Thomas Knox, Palmyra, Neb 1 00 P. W. Kinneman, Tamora. Neb 50 C. R. Walker, Benkleman, Neb 1 00 Traveling Man, " " 1 00 L. E. Walker, " " 1 0 Total $17 00 October 14, 1896, receipt from . G, L. Laws as in first week. ...... $34 00 We will continue this only one week longer, as the time after that will be too short to get the literature in time to have it read. A Valuable Suggestion. Do you need any kind of clothing? If so write to the Ewing Clothing Co., at Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Nebraska Clothing Co., at Omaha, for their cata logues. Compare tne prices ana Duy your clothes direct from these largt stores and save the dealer's profit of from $3.00 to $5.00 per suit. Tell them vou saw the ad in the independent and that you have written for both cata logues. ? , Notice. It has been rumored for some time that the republican machine managers were going to try a desperate game to save the state for McKinley and that voters would be imported and registered in large numbers. The fact that the sil ver forces were denied representation on quite a number of precinct boards lends weight to the rumor, and the supporters of Mr. Bryan have taken measures to checkm ite any such a move. An enthusiastic meeting of workers was held at the Lincoln hotel Saturday evening and various plrfns werediscussed. The result was the appointment of a com mi tteo of safety, composed of 200 mem bers, who will give the matter of regis tration and election their attention. A large sum of money has been raised and a liberal reward will be paid for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of any one attempting to vote or register illegallv. If we may judge from the de termination shown at these Ineetings and by the class of men represented, we think there will be little or no attempt at illegal work. A Business Opportunity. In this issue of the Independent there appears the advertisement of two of the oldest and best furniture stores in Ne braska. Both are reliable and respon sible firms. If you are m need of any kind of furniture it will pay you to write these firms for their catalogues. Com pare the prices quoted and buy from the one that will make you the best fates Stat" that you saw (he advertisement in the Nebraska Independent and that yon have written to the others as well. A word to the wise is sufficient PUNCTURED, n.. . iimi. vi- Their influence and power, And how the little pitted speok Made all the aDDle soar. V Be told how great big sturdy oak From little aoorne grew. And how the tiny little stone . The burly giant slew. Bnt the cyclist sat there unimpressed! By ah the speaker's Are, Until he went outside and found, ! Aplnhaiij)iercedhlstlre. Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer PITH AND POINT. The darkest hoar may be just after job get home from the clnb, if your wife happens to be that kind of a wo nan, Pack. At Whist: She "Isn't the rule when in doubt, play trumps'?" He "The nsusl rale is, 'when in doabi ask what are tramps.' " Pack. "How did to tine Danev nnmtt the title of Major?" "Why, 1 easily enough. Don't yon remember thai his father was a Colonel?" Judge. She has a man to make her gowns, And every one's a gem; let for one laek she often frowns A man to pay for themi Truth. He "My dear, the bank in whioh) my money is deposited has failed." She "What a mercy you've got your eheok book at home, love I" Tit-Bits-. "Aunt Hepsy, won't you come to Miss Innett's pink tea?" "Law, shild I I've tried those fancy kinds. bat I like green tea best" Brooklyn Life. "They say the bioyole is injuring art" "Yes;1 the man who owns s good wheel can't waste his life just spreading paint on canvas. "Uhioago Record. Mande "Would you marry Freddy if he asked you to?" Bella (airily) lean only answer that by saying? that he wouldn't be single now ere I so foolish." "Ball one!" yelled the umpire. "Good eye I" shouted Ohimmy. "Strike one!" the umpire called. "Date his odder eye,' explained Ohimmy. Indianapolis Journal. "Why does a woman always call her purse a pocketbook?" "I don't know, unless it is because she carries in it a memorandum telling her where to find her pocket" ChtcagoJRecord. Spencer "They told me at V office that you were only one of the clerks. And you said you were a di rector." Ferguson "So I am. I ad dress envelopes." New Tork Herald, "Awful accident at Jones's yester day." "So? I didn't hear of it"" "Jones hit his thumb with the ham- mer and immediately exploded with rage while his wife burst into tears."1 Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Devotee "They tell me that you preach very touching sermons." Rev. Dr. Gumma "Well, I flatter myself that I raise more money for ohurch work than any two' other min isters in the State." Truth. Benevolent Individual "Yes, sir, I hold that when a man makes a little extra money, his first duty is to make his wife a present of a handsome dress." Ordinary Individual "You are a social philosopher, I presume?"1 "No, I am a dry goods dealer." New York Weekly. "Henrietta." said Ethelbert, as our story opens, "what do you think of Shakspere as a poet?" "Nothing, Ethelbert," replied Henrietta. "I have-no time to think of any one but you." The rest of this entertaining romance can be more easily imagined than described. Harper's Baxar. There was a momentary lull in the noise at the great convention halL "What is it?" breathlessly asked one of the men standing on the outside I judge," answered a solemn police man stationed near the main entrance, "they have stopped a few minutes to let somebody weep." Chicago Tri bune. - Feat of a North Carolina Hen. Phil L. Spruill, a resident of Colnm bia, N. O., owns a hen that deserves a reward. She is a common-looking fowl of a Scotch Brahma breed and cackles contentedly when she has laid an egg. The other day she left one in, the nest It was a veritable Jnmbo among eggs, measuring five and a quarter inches around one way and eight and one-half inches the other. Mr. Spruill concluded to save the shell, so he broke holes in each end in order to blow out the contents. Then he discovered that there was an other egg inside the big shell. The inner egg was about the usual size and was perfect in every way. The two shells have excited much interest in Columbia, where they were placed on exhibition. There is no record that Mrs. Brahma cackled longer oi louder than usual over the double egg. A Wonderful Lamp. The London correspondent of the- Manchester Courier publishes a re markable account of a new luminant whioh, if all that is said of it is true. will ran botn gas and eleotrio light very bard. For its production no ma chinery is required save that contained in a portable lamp neither larger nor heavier than is used with oolza oil or paraffin. This lamp, it is deolared. generates its own gas. The substance employed is at present a secret ieal- lously gnarled by some inventive Italians. . The cost is deolared to be at most one-fifth of that of ordinary cas. and the resultant light is nearly ai bright as the eleotrio light and much whiter. A single lamp floods a large room with light The apparatus can be oarried about as easily as a candle stick, and seems both clean and aAnr, less, ' '