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prrs-eneo this 1st day of September , 1MHJ.
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Notary I'ulillc.
Tlie c'ltlziMiH mid tn.\i > ! iyi > rrt of tills
county Insist on n business
for tin- coming legislature.
tVlor denied tins Master throe times ; .
Ttut soinu of the Cocknin meeting dis
turber.- ! are trying to deny themselves.
M.r. Kllrlu'ii will have tli. ? Hour In a
diy : or hvo. And llu < lioor will li < >
tiioiH'd | | clean wlii'iiv > are through
with 1dm.
The plunk In tln > Chicago platform
ngalnst civil service reform wna prob-
jibly Intended .solely for tin ; benullt of
that great reform organization , the
Tammany society.
Senator .TOUCH of Arkansa.s was an
original Illnml man In the Chicago con
vention. That Is why It has taken
so long for him to work up a real un-
for Jtrynn.
No boodle men on the. legislative
ticket. The republicans of Douglas
county cannot afford to sacrlllco the
national and state tickets In defending
men with questionable records.
If tlio populists everywhere turn out
loyally to grr > e.t Bryan wherever he ap
pears , why Is It the democrats refuse
to Join in welcoming Watson on his
campaign tour ? We pause for reply.
It would not be a bad -dea for the
} t Hoard of Education to commence llg-
tiring to learn just where it will come
out at the end of the year if expendi
I tures are kept up at tin ; present rate.
Hr.van will not dispute with Coxey
iK
the notoriety of walking on the capitol
grass. Hut he has managed to get as
much fake advertising out of the dodge
as an actress does out of : i diamond rob
bery.
Judging from his long , lingering ill
ness , that "sick man of Knrope" must
have excellent medical attendance , or
Turkey would long ago have made its
exit from the uiitonoinic states on the
continent.
Hath , the home of Sewali , the popo-
cratlc candidate for vice president ,
gave the republican ticket the largest
plurality ever given in the city. AH a
vote getter for the other Bide , Mr.
Sewall deserves a prize.
Of course the populists don't want
Mr. Bryan to proclaim himself a popu
list , at least not before election. If
be should announce Ids adherence to
populism , would they renounce him as
their candidate ? Hardly.
If it has taken tifteen months for tne
Holin bondsmen to offer $1S,000 In set
tlement of n claim for $1ritK)0 ( ) ) and in
terest , how long will It take : lii > council
to decide to reject this absurd proposi
tion and order proceed Ings instituted
for recovery on thu bond ?
The state oil Inspector' * olllco seems
to have a dead cinch on the popocratie
Htate chairmanships. With the state oil
Inspector at the head of one committee
of the fusion kite and his chief deputy
at the head of the other , the popocratlc
machine ought to be well oiled.
Mr. Cockran may have been gallant
enough to forget the unseemly disturb
ance of Ills Omaha address by the
9)ryan hoodlums , but that does not
blot out the fact of a preconcerted ar-
ningemenf on the part of the local nll-
verites to break up the meeting.
The difference between Maine and
Arkansas is the difference between lit
eracy and Illiteracy , Intelligence and ig
norance. Maine ranks well toward the
top of the list of states arranged ac
cording to thu education of their inhabi
tants , wlilie Arkansas takes Its place at
thu bottom.
Mr. Kitchen has needlessly rushed
Into print , as lie will presently discover.
There wan no necessity of his writing
personal letters to the editor of The
Hee and publishing them In another
paper. Common decency would have
suggested that he wait a reasonable
time for Ids answer , If ho really wanted
nn answer.
Kvon the silver democrats are getting
tired of some of the extreme sliver men.
When such a good Dry an paper as the
St. Louis Ilcpnldlu remarks editorially
that "Tinman has learned that a polUI-
cal frwik never lasts long In this coun
try , " there is a bare possibility that
the rcpudlators may dually bti repudi
ated In their own camp.
TIW VAHMEIl'S INTKHKST. *
A largo delegation of Poniifiylvnnlft
Twiner * visited Major McKlnloy on
Tuesday and pledged him their sup
port. In the address of their .spokes
man were some Nlgnlflcaiit utterances
which farmers everywhere would do
well to seriously consider. Ho said
that by far the largest ( importIon of the
money that Is employed In the business
operations of the country Is paid for
labor and from the wage earners of
the land the largest pioiortlon In ( tie
end goes to pay for the products of
the farm. "Not only must the wage
earners. " he said , "come to us for the
means of subsistence , but all other
classes are subject to the same depend
ence. Who then can be more In-
ti'rcsted ' in keeping the money of the
country good than we are ? We want
n dollar that will lose none of
Its value In our hands a dollar
that will bo just as good when
we come to pay as when wo received it.
We want a dollar that can be ex
changed for nny other dollar at any
time or place that we may want to use
It. Those of us who are unfortunate
enough to be paying Interest know that
Just as certainly as the value of the
dollar decreases , so certainly the rate
of Interest will iucreast' . "
It Is to be presumed that every In
telligent farmer understands that the
principal demand for his products
comes from the wage workers , who con
stitute by far the largest body of con
sumers. It Is therefore of the tlrst
Importance to the farmer that the pur
chasing power of this numerous
element shall not be in any
wise reduced. It Is to Ids
Interest that all who work for wages
shall be employed and that their wages
shall be Increased rather than dimin
ished. Ills welfare will be promoted
whenever the laboring classes are so
well employed and so well paid that
consumption will be largely Increased.
The advocates of free silver do not at
tempt to show that their policy would
produce this condition. Some of them
assert it. but they offer nothing to sup
port the assertion. The foremost
champion of free silver has said that
the opening of the mints to silver would
lie followed by the opening of the mills ,
but he has never undertaken to show
how this would be accomplished. On
the other hand , everybody whose
opinion is of any value admits that the
opening of the mints to free silver
would bring on panic , which would close
mills and increase the army of Idle
labor. This would operate to the dis
advantage of the agricultural producer : *
to tiie extent that it reduced the de
mand for their products. It is esti
mated that the reduction in tiie pur
chasing power of the labor of the coun
try during the past three years has averaged
about ) . ( ) . Double
eraged aboutKX,000.00 a year.
ble or treble the unemployed labor and
if the above llgnres are approximately
correct it Is easy to estimate * what the
agricultural producers would lose.
Their home market , which under nor
mal conditions takes more than 00 per
cent of their products , would be very
greatly curtailed , rendering it probable
that even with a cheaper dollar the
prices of their products would decline
rather than advance , under the opera
tion of the law of supply and demand ,
which has always proved omnipotent
over currency jugglery.
The true interest of the American
farmer is in building up his home mar
ket and this involves giving full em
ployment to labor at good wages , ( lay-
able In the best money. Any policy
which does not assure tills is unbound
and unsafe. The proposed free coinage
of silver holds out no such promise ,
but on the contrary , in the opinion of
the ablest statesmen and llnanciers ,
would have results especially disastrous
to the wage earner and the agricultural
producer.
main' UF CONTHACT.
In one of Ids Kentucky speeches Mr.
Bryan wild that the free silver man in
tends "that tiie silver dollar shall be just
what It is today with one addition , and
that is that whereas today you can
contract against the silver dollar we
propose when we restore bimetallism
to prohibit any future contracts for any
particular kind of money , because that
is permitting the citizen to dcmoncti/.e
by contract what our government makes
money by law. " This amounts to a
confession that the free silveriles expect
that under free coinage silver would de
preciate and that forbidding gold con
tracts is therefore necessary for the
protection of those who want to pay
their obligations with a cheap dollar.
It Is to bo remembered , also , that the
Chicago platform declares in favor of
government issues of paper , so that , the
anti-contract plan would also protect
the paper currency which the popocrats
contemplate as a part of their iinancial
scheme.
Hx-Scnator Kdimmds , In a speech de
livered n few days ago , said In reference
to the demand for an anti-contract law
that tlio principle involved strikes at
the very fonndatlln of civil liberty. He
declared that the very foundation , es
sence and sprit of a republican govern
ment Is that of providing for the se
curity of private rights and , as a part
of them , the liberty of every one to
sell his labor or Ids products for nny
kind of compensation that lie chooser
to agree upon. "The Chicago proposi
tion , " said Judge Kdmunds , "is that
tlio laborer , In time of depreciation and
collapse , shall not agrci * with his em
ployer to be paid in tlio best money ,
but that his employer shall have the
right to pay him In thu poorest. And
so of all the other transactions among
men. " Never before has a political party
attacked the right of prlvato contract ,
but It Is quite In keeping with the bold
advocacy of repudlaton and thu threat
to reorganize or pack the suprcmo court
of the United States for the purpose of
sustaining popocrutlu legislation. It is
not probable that the courts , If free
from constraint anil political inllucnce ,
would sustain such a luw as the Chicago
cage platform demands , but with the
popocrats in control of the exec
utive and legislative branches of the
government they wouljl not hesitate to
reorganize the judicial branch * to unit
their purpose. This Is u matter that
should wet be lightly regarded by con
servative men who can understand what
Is inennt by this extraordinary and ut
terly Indefensible demand , which would
destroy a right of every citizen never
before questioned.
THAT CDLISHV.M IKSTUItnAXI'K.
There were fully 12.000 people In the
Coliseum Monday night before Hon.
W. Hoiirke t'ockran made his ap
pearance on the stage. The mo
ment T. . ! . Mahoney rose to Intro
duce the chairman of the meeting
Mr. Mahoney's voice was drowned by
yells , hisses , shouts and cat-calls. The
same treatment was accorded Secretary
.1. Sterling Morton , who had been se
lected tt preside , and the disturbances
were continued for fully thirty minutes
until the police cleared the aisles. . The
disgraceful conduct of the Hryunllo mob
has very naturally caused a reaction
among respectable law-abiding citizens
who believe In free speech and fair play.
And now the organ of the mobocrats
Is trying to make light of this outrage
ous exhibition of Intolerance ami seeks
to shift th" odium of it from the
shoulders of the instigators and leaders
who were detected engineering the
dcmoiMtratloii. Such tactics will de
ceive only those who want to be de
ceived. The Bryan organ might as well
deny that there was any disturbance.
Everybody who was present at the
Coliseum knows that at least l.fiiK ) to
-,001) ) persons were active In trying to
break up the Cockran meeting. Nobody
will contend that these people were pro
voked. Into this exhibition of lawless
ness by anything that was said or done
by the speakers. Nobody will contend
that it was a spontaneous outburst of
Bryan enthusiasm. It must have been
and was the manifestation of a prearranged
arranged plan. The fact that the re
port was current on the streets Momlay
afternoon that an attempt would be
made to prevent Mr. Cockran from
speaking and the police had been ad
vised of it , proves tills conclusively.
But the Bryan organ prints two
allldavits from men who say they did
not see any one of the delected leaders
behave In an ungentlemaiily manner.
Such allldavits may be taken for what
they are worth. A man does not have
to throw a. bomb in order to be ideiitl
lied with anarchists. If he gives the
signal for the bomb-throwing by rals
ing Ids hand lie Is. . just as guilty us If
he had thrown a bomb himself. An
abundance of reliable testimony can be
produced that the men charged with
being the ringleaders of the disturbance
luivo not been the victims of misrepre
sentation. The Beu has no disposition
to do anyone injustice , whatever his po
litlcal views may be. But it certainly
voices the sentiment of the great body
of respectable men and women who
went out to the Coliseum to listen to
Mr. Cockran's speech when it denounces
the rowdy-like conduct of the Bryan
interlopers and deplores the discredit
into which it lias brought our city and
state.
T11K TljllKlXH MUDDLE.
What seemed a few days ago to be an
aggressive movement on the part of
Kugland against Turkey now appears
to have had little real significance. At
any rate nothing more has been done
and manifestations of dissatisfaction
by the oilier powers , as reliected in the
European press , suggests the probabil
ity that nothing further will be done
at present. Meanwhile the situation at
Constantinople does not Improve and
Iho sultan is pursuing his policy- re
garding the Armenians without re
straint aud with apparent indifference
to protests.
The .suggestion of a London paper ,
that the United States might be In
duced to enter into an alliance with
England and Italy to compel the Turk
ish government to respect the British
demands , Is of course absurd. That
would be utterly opposed , to our settled
policy and if it could be supposed that
England would Invite such an alliance
It would receive no consideration from
this government. Great as American
sympathy Is with the unfortunate Ar
menians , the United States would under
no circumstances co-operate with any
European power fii an attempt to coerce
Turkey into obedience to the demands
of the powers. That Is a matter with
which tills country lias nothing what
ever to do and any Interference on our
part would doubtless rather tend to
complicate than to settle the trouble.
Mr. Bryan would not ho bothered with
the maintenance of the gold reserve. His
secretary of the treasury would redeem
grecnbnckH and Sherman notes In silver and
Immediately proceed to utilize the solg-
iilorago on the bullion purchased under the
Sherman act. St , Louis llenubllc , Drynn
Organ.
Coming from one of the leading
Bryan organs tills Is an Interesting
admission .that tlio election of the popo-
cratlc ticket means the Immediate
transition of the United States to the
single sliver standard. Abolish the gold
reserve and all pretense of a doable
standard disappears. Why , then , should
the Brynnltes masquerade longer under
the guise of blmetallists ? Why not be
frank and come out openly for silver
monometallism ?
Citizens who attended the Cockran
meeting at the. Coliseum and who read
the World-Herald's account of the re
lease of an alleged McKlnleyite
charged with disturbing the meeting ,
will resent the attempt of Hut paper
to make it appear that Bryan Hhotitcrs
had no part In the riotous proceedings.
Tlio fact of the matter Is that li the
police force had done Us duty twenty
or thirty leaders of the mob would
have been arrested and carted \ > ( t to
Jail. ilteiorts ( are rlfo of instances
where olllcers on duty at the meeting
winked at the disturbance and smiled
approvingly "t the deinouatrutluus of
the mob ,
Congressman Mercer la not content
to let Fort Omaha be abandoned to
the vandals and Insists that the War
department shall maintain a guard
over tlio properly until congress shall
have settled thu question of transfer
ring the title to the state. It Is ex
pected this point will be determined
during tlio next session and that all
objections to the plans In hand will be
met to the satisfaction of all con
corned. TTTe'Trovernment should pro
tect this irrt > iNrty or authorize the state
to do so. ' * "f
We vciij-t ( thc opinion that nine out
of ten of thej'nsplrntits for seats ti : the
legislature , not know the demands
of our pcnplej for charter amendments
which aruv Imperatively necessary for
the welfare : of this city , and they care
less. Many'of them are men whohiiM *
either faltfjIJ'Tn business or made their
living out"f politics. This year of all
others th ltjr needs high-grade men to
represent Its > Interests In the legisla
ture. Will -party managers concede
tills to bi true ?
ruder thu constitution of the state of
Nebraska no one who holds a lucrative
olllco under authority of the Htate is
eligible to a seat In the legislature.
The olllco of councilman is an olIUv
created by virtue of state law. Itepub-
Means of Douglas-county cannot afford
to risk losing representation iu the
legislature Just to satisfy the ambi
tions of men who have already been
favored with places In the council.
When a sllverlle gels excited he
really does not know what this people
around him are doing , That is the
only way to account for tlwo good
Bryanites who failed to see or hear
any disturbance at the Cockran moot
ing.
Tlio DrjniiKf Outrun" ' .
Kloux City Tribune ( dciu. )
Mr. Ilrynn's Omnha friends inailo a sad
mistake when they insulted Uourko Cockran
and outrnRcd the community ho had honored
by his consent to address It.
Tin * Fall III ArlciuiNiiw ,
Indlanupolls Journal.
And now It appears that thu democratic
majority in Arkansas Is 6,000 less than In
1S92 , which Indicates that the deinocratlc
counters failed to do their duty to thu
party.
J.oulsville Courier-Journal.
The opening of the mints to free coln-
ngo of silver would mean thu closing o
many mills to tlio worklnginnn , and the
payment , by those which remained open , o :
wages in a DO-cent dollar.
A K < ii' ot < < 'ii Knrl.
OhlcuRO Tribune.
Mr. Bryan Is still ashing the rhetorical
rjuostlon : "What would be the result If the
gnldbURS should force India to Htop the free
coinage of sliver ? " Somebody should tell
him that India stopped the free coinage
of silver in 1S93.
3iiilt ! > for Kiu-h Oilier.
New York Sun.
Tom Watson .Isn't polite , but ho Is the
fittest man In the country to be on tiie
ticket with Mr. . Uryan. The two men are
nearly of nn age. ami one Is as wise , calm ,
and thoughtful , as the other. They were
manifestly made for each oilier.
SIlvorltPM "M-ltli Yellow Fever.
Chicago Chronicle.
A law of Nevrfda provides for the division
of disputed hoirfcstead claims. At the set
tlement tlio" difference Is to be paid In
"values of gold coin. " Old Senator Stew
art's state : ls on a gold basis of homestead
rights as Altgeld's Unity building Is In re
gard to leases.
'I'lit ; .Stallof .TOUCH.
Ktnoif City Slnr ( < lem. )
Complete rdturns from slxly-ono out ol
sixty-flvo countiis' In Arkansas show a com
bined democratic , and populist majority of
f.6,000 overknee republican Vote. Ill 1S91 thb
combined democratic and populist vote was
73,000 greater than the republican vote.
There Is In this comparison a good deal of
Juicy consolation for the opponents of free
silver , even from such a sucked orange as
the state of Arkansas.
Ovormiiiiily tit Silver.
ClilciiKii Chronicle.
Every farmer knows that by Increasing
the production , of wheat or corn or potatoes
In excess of the public demand the price of
these commodities In the market will be
lowered. Every manufacturer Is careful
that tiie output of his factory In each line
of goods Is regulated by the requirements
of trade. The law of supply and demand
governs tlio price of all the products of
nature and art. Will that law bo suspended
for the benefit of silver ? There is already
an oversupply of the metal upon the market ,
and It Is absurd to claim that by Increas
ing that supply the value of the silver dollar
will bo Increased.
Where IN Kiiinitclitatnr Grout ?
New York Sun.
Docs anybody know the present post-
otllco address of Hon. George Emancipation
Greet , Silver Sage , now or formerly of Ohio ?
Is Mr. Greet resting after tile prodigious
intellectual effort of his notification speech
to Mr. Bryan ? No ; Mr. Greet Is not the
kind of a man to rest. Ho has no time to
rest. Ho has n contract on his hands. "We
are now entering , " bo told Mr. Bryan , "upon
the greatest struggle for the emancipation
of the people from Industrial bondage , In
dustrial slavery , that was ever engaged In
by man. If wo fall our country will be
despoiled , our Institutions will be destroyed ,
and our civilization will perish. " Mr.
Greet must bo somewhere , emancipating.
Ho Is knocking off shackles and throwing
clanking chains and fetters In the pale
face of plutocracy. As Mr. Uryan Is now
emancipating tn the south , It Is reasonable
to hope that Mr. Greet Is emancipating In
the north. Will ho not como to the Hotel
Dartholdl , and show a few specimens of his
emancipation work ? Mr. Slnjun Is lonely
and would welcome- great silver sago like
Mr. Groot. Greet , the emancipator ; Greet ,
who Is going to save the country , our In
stitutions , and our civilization by means of
the Infallible remedy , 1C to 1.
I'OI.ITIO.VI , XOTISS. :
Michael Doran , tbo democratic boss of
Minnesota , has declared for Senator Palmer.
Judge Fnxlerlck Smyth , the sachem of
Tammany , Is ono of the warmest opponents
of Bryanlzed democracy In New York City.
It Is a fact pt &omo significance- thcro
have been but two occasions since Mr. Bryan
became a cwjtHV ( to about which ho tins de
clined to talk. These were the elections In
Maine and Jairrnont.
The "huge" democratic majority In Ar
kansas has fallen down from the 80,000
claimed by tht > Little Rock Gazette to 38-
G40 , with only two counties to hear from.
Tlio countltipjn.a ; hlno slipped a cog.
Speaking of wages In Mexico , the Hallway
Ago p'ubllshra "inirt of a letter from a loco
motive cngllfcjiiri who had left his place in
this countrj r'to.'tro to Mexico , where ho waste
to bo paid $5 per day. This letter was an
appeal to fouifujcu back by his old road ,
"even at ? 2 per-day. " Ho would rather , he
said , earn ? CO-a month In the Unttod States
than $180 In Mexico , because the $ CO In the
United StatoB&oiild buy moro comfort.
Four years agq.Mr. Bryan did not bollcvo
that the gold standard had any lufluenco on
the fall of prlcoa , This IB the way ho ex
plained the decline ; "You must attribute
It to the Inventive genius that liau multiplied
a thousand tlraoa , in many Instances , the
strength of a slnglo arm , and enabled us to
do today with ouo man what fifty men could
do fifty years ago. That is what brought
prices down tn this country and every
where. " If it waa true then , is It not true
today t
The Chicago Chronicle , the leading dem
ocratic paper of the west , editorially de
tails the degeneracy of popocracy In Chicago ,
At 1ho primaries to ccloct delegates to tbo
Cook county convention , loss than 500 votes
wore cast In a district which cast 144,000
votca for Cleveland and Stevenson In 1892.
Tlio Chronicle declares that the ofllcea were
farmed out l > r the county executlvo commit-
tea and the candidates wcro obliged 1o put
up in , advance certified checks for the
amount of their political ausuasment. One
nomination went begging for } 2GOO.
MA1MV.H TIHJMHilI.\O : VO1CI3.
Atchlson Olot ) ( > ( p.s Vermont was n
i-AW , na was Arkansas , but glorious old
Maine sccma to bo n whole haystack.
IndUnaMIs News ( dem. ) : It nppcnrs that
Mr. Uryan wns wlso in keeping out of Maine
The majority will bo big enough without a
few thousand more votes which his upeoches
might have added.
Chicago" neconl ( lnd.1 : The point of Inter
cat concerning the outcome In Malno now Is
what wilt bo the effect on Sewall ? Shrcwi
politicians predict that the- crushing defeat
means hh retirement from the democratic
ticket In order to make room for Watson.
Chicago Times Herald ( rop. ) : Mr. Sewnll's
stnto hns told what It thinks of the tlekc
of which he Is a part. The result lit Maine
crushes the last hope of the repuillatlonlsts
and shows how futllo Is the cheap money
appeal to the Independent worklngmen It
field , shipyard , shop or factory. It Is nn
omen of overwhelming triumph In Novcnv
her.
Indlaiia.r ollR Journal ( rep. ) : Alt things
considered , the result In Malno Is most sat
Isfactory mid Inspiring. A state In whlcl
a largo majority of the voters are smtil
farmers has declared ngnlnst Hryanlsm
repudiation and revolution with an em
| > hasls which Indicates the drift of populni
sentiment In the country and what Its ver
diet will bo In November. Urynnlsin Is
doomed.
Minneapolis Journal ( rep. ) : It Is plait
enough that the people of the country are
only waiting for a chance to get to the
polls In order to administer to the Bryan
Altgcld-Tlllman outfit the rebuke they de
serve. Maine polled the largest rcpubllcnt
vote yesterday In Its history , and .1 larger
republican plurality by from IFi.OOO to 18,001
than wns ever cast for nny party In tin
history of the state.
Globe-Democrat ( rep. ) : Maine's majorltj
wcs not entirely republican , nor was Vcr
inonl's. Thousands of honest money demo
crnts In both states voted the republlcai
ticket to make thu overthrow of the re
pudlators and the mobocrats complete nut
decisive. Hundreds of thousands will fol
low this example in the real of the union
In the face of the present peril to Ih
nation's honor and stability party line
are effaced. That compound of Idiocy nni
villainy which men call Bryanlsm will
crushed In 1SU6 finally and eternally.
Chicago Tribune ( rep. ) : The Malno vlctorj
Is a straw of largo dimensions Indicating
unmistakably the drift of the political cur
rent. H shows that there Is no sllve
craze In that state , and that when the at
tempt was made to Infect the Maine farm
era with It they rose In their might am
overthrew the popocratlo horde , just a
the Vermont farmers did. H foreshadow
the result nil over the country at the poll
nevt November. H means also , as Mr
Malno hi > a prophesied , that In Novembc
Mnlno will cast her largest republican voti
and largest republican majority In a prcsl
dentlnl year. So say wo all of us. Wei
done , republicans of Maine.
Kansas City Star ( dcni. ) : The decision Ir
Maine Is very clear cut and perfectly Intel
llglble. Thcro are no excuses or apologle :
to offer for the defeat except the stifllclen
ono that one side was overwhelmingly
stronger than the other. There weiu no dl
versions , no local or false Issues. The qucs
tlons were plainly presented and full ;
argued. Thcro was no bulldozing ; there I
no reason to believe that there was an )
corruption. Congressmen as well as state
and county olllcers were chosen , so thaf
national politics were presented , and Malm
gave from 40,000 to 45,000 more votes foi
the political platform on which William Me
Kinley stands than the platform on whlcl
AVIlllam J. Bryan stands. This Is the plait
truth , and nothing Is to be made by avoiding
or attempting to avoid It ,
HOW AIIOl'T ' WAOKSf
Important FIKM \VorkliiKlilcn it
CniiHliU-r.
Clilc.iKo Chronicle.
The average rate of wages In the Unlte <
States has bcon higher for the last twenty
years than for any period In history. Dur
lug .that , time wages payments have been
made under the gold standard.
The general rate of wages In all the prln
clpal employments Is as high as It was In
greenback times , when paper money was
worth from 40 to SO cents on the dollar In
gold. In many branches of labor the ratt
of wages Is higher now In gold than i
was In depreciated greenbacks.
The free coinage of silver would not ma
tcrially Incrc-ase the rate of wages in tin
principal employments. If a po&slulo In
crease should come it would como slowlj
and bo small in amount.
In very many employments It would
practically Impossible to Increase wages
There nro 1,000,000 railroad employes it
the country. Their rate of wages Is fixed
It cannot bo Increased.
Laws and regulations in all the states
establish railroad rates for freight and pas
sengers. The railroads could collect no
higher rates In cheap silver than they now
collect at gold rates. Of course they
could pay no higher wages and salaries In
silver than they now pay In currency as
good as gold.
The same rule applies to street railway
employment. It applies to telegraph oper
ators , to the employes of great express
companies , to every employment and occu
pation In which the rate of wages Is regu
lated under existing laws fixing rates of
publlo service.
.Hero Is another instance. In Chicago at
least 8,000 or S.OOO voters are employed
In livery stables or drive cabs or express
wagons of which they are the owners. Liv
ery , cab , and express charges nro fixed by
ordinance. The ordinance rates could not
bo Increased under free silver.
If the charge for public service could
not bo Increased by the street car , the cal
and express proprietors , of course wages
could not be Increased. The wages In de
predated silver would be the same as now
under the gold standard or would bo but
slightly increased.
In the meantime Iho cost of every neces
sary of life would bo increased In silver
prices. That which costs $1 today would
coat $2 under the free silver standard.
\Vaires would not Increase. Every ar-
tlclo and commodity bought with wages
would Increase. The greatest possible
disaster to wage earners would bo a silver
money standard ,
11AII.WAY .11KX AM > SII.VI5II.
Kriu Coliiuwri * n OriiviMj'iHu'i - < < > ( In *
HallrouilH.
New York Press ,
Free coinage of silver threatens a graver
danger to men who work for railroads than
to any other body of our cltlxena. The rail
ways of the United States have a bonded
Indebtedness of over $5,000,000,000. The
principal and Interest of this enormous debt
must bo paid In gold. Under free coinage ,
all the receipts of our railways would be
In silver money , becauuo every man would
pay for his passenger ticket or for thu trans
portation of his freight In ullvur.
Now , the railways cannot Increase their
rates , because they are fixed by law. Even ,
therefor' } , should thu transportation business
of our railways not diminish , their receipts
would not bo enlarged ; but whereas every
dollar that is now paid to the railway will
dlschargo ono dollar of Its gold obligation ,
under free coinage of silver It would talco
two silver dollars to jmrchasu ono gold del
lar with which to discharge ono dollar of
gold Indebtedness. Since tlio railways could
not Increase tht'ir earnings , It would take
twice as much of their receipts an It now
takes to pay their gold obligations ,
\Vlitro would Jhls money comu from , ulnco
It could not comu out of Increased receipts ?
U would have to como out of decreased ex
penditures , would It not ? Now the heaviest
item of expenditure * that u railway has IH
wages. When a railroad sols out to reduce
expenses It cannot make much progress
in this direction unless it takes Its heavi
est outlay , which Is thu payment of wages ,
and cuts that down sharply. When rail
ways are discharging employes and cutting
down the wages of thoio men who are not
discharged In order to be ahlo to buy enough
gold at a premium of 100 per cent to pay
their gold obligations , what will become of
thu railway employes ? How will these who
aavo been discharged and thrown on the
labor market get any of the wonderful ben
efits which Mr. Bryan promises free coin
age will bestow on us ? How will those men
who are retained In their situations enjoy
getting , Instead of the dollar which they
flow re.ce.lvw , a dollar which will buy only
half what our present dollar will buy If
FAI.SlfYI.MS HISTORY.
Illiltindi Ci.nl.l Not I'lnil Any Ohm
AVhrii Up Wrotr HI * Flrxl llo.iU.
Imllnnnpolld Jnurn.it ,
Ono of the most , jealous advocates In In
dian * , of debasing currency by the free ami
unlimited coinage of silver Is Prof.'John 0
Hldpath. the present ] > opoorntlp candidate
for congress in the Klftli district. There
Is no noisier denouncer of "the crime o
1S73" In the state than he. 1'rof. llldpatl :
l.i the author , or compiler , of some histori
cal works , Including "A Popular History
of the United States of America from the
Aboriginal Times to the Present Hay. '
As the work wns published in 1SS1 It pur'
ports , of course , to bring the history o
the United States down to that dale. It
his prcfnre the author says ho has alinct
"To give an accurate and spirited narra
tlve of the principal events In our nntlona
history , " and to "give to every fact
whether of peace or war , its trno placi
mid Importance in the narrative. " Thl :
history wns published eight > enrs after tin
passage of the coinage aet which const !
lutes the so-failed crime of 1S7.1. yet tin
author does not so much as Intimate tha
n crime- was perpetrated or that any wrong
was done or contemplated. The only nllusloi
to the so-called "crime" Is In thu following
language :
"In the years 1S73-T4 , at n time when
owing to the premium on gold nml silver
both metals were out of circulation , n series
of acts were adopted by conqrcss beail
upon tin- standard nnlt nf vnlui'hcroh *
the legal tender quality of silver was Mrs
abridged and then abolished. These enact
incuts were completed by the report of tin
coinage committee In 1S74 , by which tin
sliver dollar wns finally omitted from the
list of coins to be struck at the nntlonn
mints. The general effect of these aets waste
to leave the gold dollar the slnglo atnmlan
unit of value in the United States. "
This Is nn Incomplete , but , considering
Iho condensed character of the work , no
an unfair statement of the fcopn and effect
of the act of 1S73. but there Is no Inllmatloi
of anything sinister or wrong In tin
legislation. On the next page the hlstorlai
says :
"Early In 1878 a measure was passed b >
congress for the restoration of the lega
tender quality of the old silver dollar , am
providing for the compulsory coinage o
that unit at the mints at the rate of no
less than $2,000,000 a month. The prcsl
dent returned the bill with his objections
but the veto was crushed under a tremendous
deus majority ; for nearly three-fourths o
the members of congress , without respect ti
party affiliations , gave their support to th
measure and tlio old double standard o
values was restored. "
Hero again wo have a very mattcr-of-fac
statement without any Intimation that n
"crime" was perpetrated In 1S73. The two
prlmo duties of n historian nro to know the
truth and to tell it , to ascertain facts am
to state them. If In 1873 a legislative crime
was perpelrated affecting the rights and
Interests of the people and the proapcrlt >
of the country , it certainly was the duty
of an alleged historian , writing eight years
afterward , to expose and denounce It. 1
the act of 1873 wns "a crime , " that was
the essential and paramount feature of the
case , nml to allude to the act without stat
Ing that fact wns unpardonable. If n ci'lmi
was perpetrated the fact that I'rof
Hldpath , writing history tn 1SS1 , made n
allusion to It shows that he did not know the
truth or was averse to telling It ; that he hai
not ascertained the facts or was willing tc
conceal them. There Is one other condition
viz. : That no crime was committed , and tha
is the conclusion all Intelligent men liavi
reached. To these who ore disposed to nt
tach any Importance to the present assevera
tlons of Prof. Ridpath and other free silver
lies on the subject the Journal commend !
the statement of Hon. Carl Sclium In hi
recent speech :
"As a conscientious student of contem
poraneous history I am bound to say tha
in Iho forty years during which I h
been an attentive observer of public affair *
I have never witnessed nor heard of such tin
scrupulous , shameless , persistent , audacious
cumulative , gigantic lying as has been am
Is now done with regard to the act of 1S73
Its origin , its nature and Its consequences. '
'rilH . SH.VATOIUAI. I'AIIT OF IT
iliilp Ilrjaii nml HH | .Si'iiiilorla
IllM'l.I'l'M.
New Yoik World ( clem. ) .
The election of Mr. Bryan would moan tin
elevation to the presidency of nn untried
rather volatile nml flighty young man , who
has not been a marked success hitherto as
either lawyer , editor or politician , thong !
he has lately developed unusual nhillty It
the latter Hue. It would be nn experiment
of course , as nearly nil elections are to
some extent. The country could possibly get
along with Mr. Uryan as president. The
president docs not govern.
Hut if the election of Uryan should carrj
with It , as It pretty surely would , the con
trol of the senate by the innn and the in
llucnces that controlled it nt the last ses
sion , the country would have good reason
for grave apprehension. The populist nml
free silver combination that "held up" con
gress anil the president then would hnvo the
same power nfter the 4th of March. Tin *
senate Is one-third of the government. It
la more. The president cannot nppolnt any
man to office without Its consent. Ho can
not oven appoint his cabinet unless It con
firms his selections. And while the house
must originate measures of revenue the sen-
nto holds a veto power on them , as It proved
to the shaino and the dcnr cost of the coun
try In holding up the Wilson hill , and again
last winter.
As president , Mr. Uryan would bo In the
power of , as he now Is In sympathy nml
nlllllatlon with , these senator politicians.
Stewart and Jones of Nevada , Jones of Ar
kansas , Duller of North Carolina , Allen of
Nebraska , Tlllmnn of Pouth Carolina , I'ugh
of Alnbamn , 1'effer of Kansas , Kyle of South
Dakota and tlu'lr associates , If their con
trol of Hut senate paralyzed the government
nnd disgusted nnd disturbed the country ,
what would their additional control of the
president do ? And perhaps of the house ?
It Is necessary to look ahead In voting and
to consider all the posstblo consequcncca of
an election.
IIIIVA.V AMI Till' : 01,1) NOI.DIKHS.
K Tlii'lr Voti-.s Torn I'roiiiiHltlon
l < i Sealo Tlirlr IVilNloiiM ,
Ctilrneo Tribune.
Bryan appealed to the old soldiers In his
Milwaukee speech to vote for him and for
ni-cent : dollai-n so as not "to allow the host.-
of the gold standard to enslave seventy mil
lions of people , white and black , In this
country. "
What harm has the gold standard done
the old ttoldlen * that they should look on
themselves as slaves as long as It exists ?
The country has had thu gold standard con
tinuously slMco 1878 , and , according to
Bryan , the old soldiers nnd all other Amer
icans have been In a state of ulavery for
eighteen years without ever knowing It.
But during that period they have been re
ceiving gold standard pensions. Tht-y have
been paid their pensions in dollars never
worth less than 100 cunts. The government
did not show Its gratitude for their services
by bunding them chcnp , half-value dollars.
Biyan wishes tlu veterans to Join "tin ;
liosts of thu silver standard. " What woul I
Hint standard do for them ? It would give
.hem dollaro which would bo worth only
i3 cents. Then their pensions would buy
somolhlng llko half what they will now.
That is thu sacrifice which thu old soldiers
would have to inako If they did away with
the gold standard and thu slavery of re
ceiving good money. But at no tlmo has
Bryan mentioned this nacrlflco which they
would have to mnUii. Why hna ho con
cealed it ? Why has not hu put the facts be
fore them fully , so they may inaKo up their
mlndu intelligently ?
Dccausu the man Is radically dishonest.
Ho Is constitutionally unable to tell the
truth whern ho thinks It will clash with his
own iutoruxtB.
mi' : IIOMI ? OF uiirrni.vno.v.
\Vliy ArkaiiNiiN Tnlci'M Kliullx < > UK *
OJIi | | > i'il Dollar Si'liuinc.
ChlcaKO Chronicle ( ileinj.
It In reported that the epurlous demo
cratic and populist majority In Arkansas Is
oaring upward. It may reach 110,009 or
60,000 vote * or moro.
The result U not a surprise , It Is no
ndlcitlon whatever of the vote that will bu
cast In November in italiti which pay their
eljlB , the credit of which U unimpaired
> y thu stain uf repudiation ,
Arkansas is a defaulter to the "plain
icoplo" of tbo United States In a sum of
500,000 gold in 1829 , with thu accumulated
nterest ulnco that time.
A man named Smlthnou , an
who hnd never hern in the United RUleo ,
but who had Mudled our history nd ac
quired n love for our Institutions , died tn
1S29 , leaving n will by which ho bequeathed
to the Ui.lled States government 100.000 , or
f..OO.OOO , to found nn Institution dedicated
to the Increase of human knowledge. The
money was received by the United States.
A plan for Its Investment was formed
by which It was to be lo.ined to the stale
offering the hlRhe.it rate of Interest. Ar
kansas was the highest bidder nnd re
ceived the cash.
Incidentally It Is mentioned that Iho
sum was p.ild to the t'nlted States In sov
ereigns , gold fl.SS pieces , which were ro-
colned Into American $10 pieces. The $10
gold pleeca were paid to Arkansas in fllt-
Ing the terms of the loan ami Ark.ina.ig
gave Its bonds for the amount.
Not n dollar of the principal nor of in
terest has over been paid. The principal
sum , with the accumulations of interest ,
now amounts to nearly $2.500.000.
This is lln Mate which has given a sendoff -
off to the Bryan rampnlRii with a silverlto
nml populist majority of fiO.OOO votes or up
ward. U Is lit and appropriate that n re
pudiating stnto should glvo a ; najorlty for
the repudiation candidates.
TAUT TIUFI.F.S.
Philadelphia Iterord : Some inon who
lioast nbout p.'tylng us they go couldn't net
trusted It they tried.
Chleago Iterord : "Hon't you think tlioro
should be music In every home ? " "Ily all
iroiins ; what J object to Is music next
door. "
Chleago Tribune. : "It always tloprossofl
inn dreadfully to meet n bleyulo scorcher. "
"Why so ? "
"I Iwto to see n mnn'H legs work so much
butter 'than his Imilna. "
Cincinnati inquirer : "Pnxv. " snld the
llttlo lioy , "did you know that the hoiiHolly
lay.more'n a 'million I-KKH ? "
" .Mnyho he doe * , Willie , " nnswrrcd his
bald-heiidi'd parent , "but I'll lie eternally
( Uncoil If 1 can tell when she. takes the
time. "
IndlnnapollH Jotirn.il : "My friend , "
the earnest mnn who had been debating oil
thu street corner , "aro you for free silver ,
lllie my opponent bore , or nro you for nn
honest dol' ir and ix chance to earn It ? "
"AIo ? " answered Weary Wntklns. "Mn ?
Tin fer any old , dollar and u clmnco to git
Chicago Post : "Iioos ho offer nny proof
of hl direction ? "
"Proof ! " oxclnlme.il the bountiful girl.
"Well , I should say so. Why , ho says that
t hnvo set hl.s heart allre and It linn been
burning so that 11 Ima lit the cigars that hi >
carries In his vent pocket. "
"Hut the proof. "
"llo showed mo the half-burned cigars. "
Buffalo Kxpress : "llo my wife , " urged
Munibojuinbo , the young tVntrnl African
warrior , of n shy and darksome maid.
"I will llr.Rt have to receive some proof of
your devotion. "
Whereupon he chased her four miles
through the jungle , hit her In ( he back of
the'head with Ills war cluli nml bore lieiv
home over Is shoulder , unronvclous.
When .she came to nlio mulled upon him ,
tcndeily and said : " 1 now believe that you
love mu. 1 am yours. "
3NHXPI3UIHNCB.
Clc\oliiul ( Lender.
Sweet Alice hnd charge of "Tho Woman's
Own I'ago"
In the Sunday l\nlier of Light ,
And people who read what t ho wrote
Hccmed to think
It a constant source of delight.
Sweet Alice got married , nnd then It waa
found ,
Alas ! to her husband's surprise.
That she couldn't out the commonest skirt.
Or b.ilco the most simple of pies.
TUB XKW AIIM1 IA.\C SVM3.
llohton .
Should nuld .acquaintance bo forgot
And never more revive
Until n long-forgotten friend
Asks mu to lend him live ?
Then here's the V. my trusty friend ,
And glvo no note of thine.
And don't go take a whisky straight
For nuld lanjj sync.
For nuld IniiR syne , old pal.
For nuld lung syne ,
And don't repeat this borrowing net
For auld lung Hynu.
For I have had my leg pulled oft
Ily many a noapy line
Dropped deftly nbm the distant past
For auld Jang Hyne.
For auld lang syne , old pal ,
For nuld lang syne ,
And please don't touch mo once again
For auld lung synu.
and cooler times are at
hand , for which everyone
with a memory of the tor
rid summer rejoices ,
And fall styles in cloth
ing are ready , if you know
where to look for them.
Clothes , more clothesyou
can find at almost any
store , but there is only
one best place where
style is as much a consid
eration as the c'otli itself.
We want to clothe the
man who used to think
he must have everything1
Ciit to his order.rc would
like to show him his error
and put money in his
pocket at the same time.
For the man who knows
our kind of clothing , it is
only necessary to remind
him that our Fall Stocks
are ready for his inspec
tion.
S. W. Cor. ISthumi
Uoujjlas Sts.