SUPPLEMENT TO TEE
SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
Friday, October 2 1896.
NORTII PLATTE, - NEBRASKA.
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3
PATRIOTS.
republic and in no part an idle vrorking-
man who wanted to wort, (-tremendous
applause.)
AN EXACTING PATIENT.
Prominent Stump Speakers on
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor,
RECENT CAMPAIGN ORATORY.
Makers of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages.
tt'hat the Republican Part' Stands
For.
MA J. McKINLEI.
"The political situation of the country
Is peculiar. We have had few parallels
to our present political condition. Wc
have but one political party which is
united, and that is ours. (Applause.)
Discord reigns in all others. Our time
honored opponent, the Democratic party,
is torn and divided. Two national con
ventions have been held hj it and two
national tickets presented, and their plat
forms arc totally different on every sub
ject and in almost every section. The
Papulist party has merged its organiza
tion into that of the Chicago Demo
cratic and St. Louis silver organizations,
and their allies are for the most part
harmonious except that each one has a
distinct and different candidate for vice
president. (Great laughter and ap
plause.) "Happily the Republican party was
never more closely united than now, both
in fact and in spirit, and there were
never better reasons for such union, and
lever greater necessity for it than now
(Cheers and cries
Bryan Tor Fiat Money.
EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER.
Mr. Bryan at heart cares nothing for
the free coinage of silver. Sir. Bryan
is first and last a believer in fiat money,
and he is only using the free coinage
of silver to arrive at that finally. This
is a serious charge to make, but it I
cannot prove it I will apologize publicly
for it.
In the September number of the Arena
just last month there is an article on
the currency by Mr. Bryan, in which
ho criticises Mr. Cleveland severely for
using bonds in time of peace, and espe
cially for selling them to a syndicate.
Ho says: "When the United States,
without waiting for the aid or consent
of any other nation, opens its mints to
the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present legal ratio of
1G to 1 it will bring real relief to its peo
ple, and will lead the way to the restora
tion of bimetallism throughout the world.
It will then be prepared to perfect its
financial system by furnishing a paper
money invested with legal tender quali
ties and sufficient in volume to supply
the needs of the government. Its paper
money will not be loaned then to favor
ites, but will be paid out in the expenses
of government, so that all may receive
the benefits."
This is fiat money, pure and simple.
Mr. Bryan proposes to stop taxation and
pay the expenses of the government by
printing fiat money. This government
once launched upon that boundless sea
would as certainly fall and go down as
did the French republic, which was set
up at the close' of the last century by
a lot of theorists and revolutionists.
They issued during a few years forty
thousand millions of francs of fiat money
called assignats and mandats. They
gave a legal-tender quality to it, but
while it could pay debts they could
not compel people to take it in pur
chase. In other words, they could give
legal-tender quality to the money, but
thov conlfl not civn nnrnhasinc nower
to it. From day to day it was issued, loolcs as large again, doesn't it ? "
uuu. maii.vuai. u i uiw uui, TT1 C tfltr j, ... . , ,
worthless. iNot a single franc of it was "'- uax. wc, xo uoesn c wcigii any Jieaner."
ever paid or redeemed, and the people
who had parted with their property
for it were rendered paupers. Their
property was gone and the money they
had received was valueless.
Shall this be a lesson to us? And
silver
Double:
WETAi-TH
11 1 Jf3l 4lOlx
'i wt
Y1? fiVh t?M . . AAWW spectacles
II III J'
which may be intended to be a conserva
tive body, may be a revolutionary bedr.
we take comfort in the fact that we ca
rely upon the patri6tism, upon the wis-,
dom and upon the fearlessness of the
judiciary. (Applause.) The man wh
makes it his business in public or pri
vate life to destroy the confidence of the
people in the judiciary is a public ene
my. (Applause.) It is a cowardly thinff
to do. It is the next meanest thing t
whispering something about the charac
ter of a woman: and nothing on eartle
can be meaner than that. (Applause.)
It is the next thing to it, to pass un-
inenaiy comment and impeachment upoa
judges, and the integrity of their pur
poses; because a judge cannot comr
down from the bench and resent an if
sult like that. I say the people in thk.
election ought to see to it that no Pre
deut is elected upon a platform whict
c;umij proposes, Dy unmistnKahie suae
gestion, to make the Supreme court of"
the United States, and other courts ia
our system, the mere football of politics.
S
the mere tool of passions. (Applause.)
i tnmK Air. sryan thus far in
1II. J l T -1 . .
liiiKs mm ne savs. i understand. tn?
he never sees a crowd without wanting
to talk to it and I sympathize with him.
a little in that respect: I used to feel that
way myself daughter), but it was whon
I was a good deal younger than I am.
now, and didn't know a great deal;
when I was about 3G years old (laugh
ter), although I never expect to know-
as much as I thought I knew the
(laughter) Mr. Bryan in his speeches
has n6t much to say about this packin
of the Supreme court, but it is in theae-
iiuitiuixii. xiiat iact useit is anotnq
reason which justifies the Democrat
of character and respectability in a re
volt against the nomination made an4
platform promulgated at Chicago."
Dr. JBryan: "There, sir; gaze at any object, your wallet, lor instance; it
Chicago Iuter-Ocean.
Congress, can you go, thus far and no
further, as laid down in this written doc
ument. Wn nnmoil nn nfflnoi" ir nTOcntn thn
can we contemplate the probability of laws, called the President, "conferring
nlitino- Snfrw Tiriit'at. na Trnctlmif .f tnn I 1 . : x . x 1
j'uiiiufe ivi,i-. no -m. .o.v..k xj. uyun mui cerium powers 10 execute auu
United States a man who holds such carry out the provisions of Congress,
views? In my humble opinion there is His powers wero ponfnrrnd and limitnd
but one way to bring us back to prosper- by the written constitution; it had never
ity and to the path of progress, and that been done before. What then? Still a
is to return to the system of adminis- further check in this new experiment,
tration which has been of such great To what tribunal or what umpire shall
benefit to us in the past, and to follow it be referred to decide upon the question
nf 4Thit'? rJhf ') Tt m that path, to follow the lamp of ex- wnetner uongress goes beyond its wnt-
wedded, to ;arty vmpr,vnn nitizon. without distinction of United States, and to what umnire shall
is wedded, devotedly
principles. It stands as it has always narty. should unite in this attempt at it be referred if the President shall go
- - . i i i
stood, for an American protective tariff restoration, and should by an overwhelm-
which shall raise enough money to con- '"S majority stamp out now and torever
j..a t. i ,i i i c i ""'j y- "
uuti mt: sctKiui uqtuiuucuia ui mc t;u- i Hphqsivi rurrencv
ernment, including liberal pensions to
the Union soldiers. (Tremendous cheer
ing and hurrahs for McKinley.) A tariff
that will stop debts and deficiencies and
make the treasury of the United States
once more safe and sound in every par
ticular. (Applause.) It stands for a re-
Bryan as an Orator.
HENRY D. ESTABROOK.
But Mr. Bryan I know somewhat, and
find in his habits of life many things
to admire. He is a man of undoubted
beyond the powers conferred upon him
by tuis constitution of the United
States?
We had created a congress independ
ent of the President; we had created
a President independent of the con
gress, within the powers conferred by
the written instrument. Then the fath
ers decided that another check was
necessary; tnis President and this Uon-
lutions, who represents neither the old
heroic South of Lee and Gordon and
Buckner and Hampton, nor the new
South of enterprise and energy and activ
ity and increasing manufacture, stood
up in the Chicago convention and pro
claimed a new sectional issue, the South
and the West against the North and the
East. A new sectional issue between the
North sad the South! Why, God forbid!
Illinois sent out the llower of her man
hood to the nation's battlefield under
Grant and Logan and Oglesby and Palm
er to put an end to sectionalism be
tween the North and the South forever.
Illinois gave Lincoln to the restoration
of the Union, that in his hallowed mem
ory the hearts of all the people might
grow together in close and lasting friend
ship. My father went out under Wis
consin's flag, and gave his life that there
should be and should remain a united
people. I have crossed the old Mason
and Dixon's Hue. Two weeks ago I
went from Washington to Richmond in
tour Hours it took some of you four
years to make the same journey. I have
gruss, iuui we nave set up, may go ine v-"1 i" aac ouiut juuruu. jl uuve
dnrocitv that s stage, perhaps, way of the French republic, or tie in rpt good fellowslnp the
ciprocJiy . tnat seeks out tne markets or - effnff ' ; t: Roman renubhe. and of other svstoms hands of the men who fouuht unon the
tne world tor pur surplus agricultural 'induTccnt father He of government that have been formed; I other side. The heroes of that great
nun liiiiiiiii iii-i. in iiiir in nil in i 74 v 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii i Mir i . i . zi.x- i:i..ir xi i n
and manufacturing products without sur
t be
We will set up here a tribunal, far re-
- L ""TuA u does not smoke or chew, drink or swear, "(m witn a written constitution they
ii-uuy u,, eiufeic uaj o ubw uim ui- nrm 0,K1- cllii. i,. i,c f may agree unon'a certain construction.
longs to the American workman,
Elause.) It believes
ome market for the
(applause), in the opening
in nrpsprvinp a i
AmwipTn hrmnr unless it might be lying; 'and even there uuui J''"1"' ul'- o-
American tarmcr I t , i r .,;',.! . I nromi pnnrf nf tho Tmitoff Stntoa Inn.
nf tha Amn,i I i nave uaa spens ot tuiuKing ue oeneves . .-r . . ,v
01 tne Amcri- I , , . - r -r rl I nlnnsoV with nnxror in snr tn tho riihli
can factories for the American working- J Tare elcuenVe a
IaPPlaHs the Senate: "Thus far shall you
wlrt , rST m . li thr "nit int.rta It doubting the assertion. Reduced to SO m dealing with the rights of tie peo
with profit to all the groat interests ef mU h:a nrHa htlMma morft rnnt pie, thus far and no farther, and w
the United States.
cold type his words become mere rant
and bombast, while those self-same
"Tt io tnn fnt. nnr,,l Tnnnov (wat . uwuiUMl, . ttuilB u
t,o;t.V aSV .Iu Yc- "Ir.t- words, spoken in iiryan s voice a voice
cheering), every dollar worth 100 cents no m 'ii;iim,0 C0 cotnot r-; ;
Ele, thus far and no farther, and we
old that you are forbidden to do ihese
things by this constitution of the United
States." (Applause.)
They said further that the Prcsfdwit
occupying the office ef the greatest po-
(renewed cheering), every dollar as good "jrSln m,w ITu .
as gold (continued cheering), and it if op- 7ild!r. SSfiL6' I0" 5e?
posed alike to the free and unlimited Zl ;i"u'" i"X. .L 4 a tentate on earth, with these great now
otmna9lffotlt-l9S; 7aZAZ1XB conferred upon. him. he may traw-
reaeemaoie paper money to wmcn .uie S -- f nMi ." ! this constitution of the UmtoS
Allien nnrrv Rppmrn nrmitr nnmTnirtpn i : . .
i.3
) nas always Kept " with him as it
with cold. It nroDoses r. Bryan s audience what Mr. Bryan nv of immkflf.hmpnt
rr, ; :.,i: s&jb, eo long as ne Keeps on saying it. ' j :V VZ c r
and preserve side by side gold and silver Cr0TaX ai" 5 agree, that power would be futile, to
and paper, each the equaf to the other. rY r t? ?? that we will name this great tribunal,
atid .each the equal of the best, ana fA ffhr?rfenV for away from partisan politics, far
the best never to beiaTerior.tothe best. S5-2TSS L&J?0 WflS lcft away from the passions of elections, far
money known to the commercial nations H 0 mB I?enta makeap. fro the rfjpfotn nf na- fflnTm.
allied party seemed firmly committed.
(lireat applause,
filver at a parity
to keep that silver
tates, and there is no power to infc-
stands, except by
before the Senate.
and the President
i why from the nictation of nartv
of the world. (Loud cheering.) It . lfcTJ .r .!. flnd thc decision of this tribunal
will vintlnno tn fn mr n r w tLt w;n in tnis encomium which would not with I l,. u A
ive work to American citizens (ap- ftLt "J. ?Priatenes aPply not be done, by the President or the Con-
leerWs and dries of HnrrB for
inleyf) We are now convinced after
uiaiurj. oj. vmuuR, wnose nsuits arc as rteonle
as impeccable as Bry&fi'S own, whose Now
what have wc today? In the
V a I UU 1 U.U U &. L. I . - . a ' I AWIll II UUt Ul 1 V. IUUUJ LUL.
three years of experience, whatever may Pfencc is just as handsome, whose firat place, we have this extraordinary
have been our political relations in the Pwcrs of speech vere formerly just as proposition made. We find the powers
past, of the truth of the observation of Bral uaye rougnt many an audi- conferred upon the President of the
Webster, made more than half a century ence to tears., to laughter and to f ren- United States to execnte the laws of
ago. ion win recau mat ne said: ' , . ,, . j J " "ua io-i congress m inesc iwo uimgs; w nnu
That is the truest American policy scssed of a talking devil, and who today, that by thc law of Congress the Presi-
wnico ouaii most useiuiiy employ Amen- I ; i1. V ' t iUl iuui i uuui uium see 10 it urai lue mans 01 me
can capital and American labor and best bourne froin which po isebraskau seems United States, thc communicatitns be-
-sustain tne wnoie American population l.1" iccuing DreaucrumDs i tween our commercial people. sns oe
lirreat applause.; g iue opurrowa. j. oat man is ueorge j Kept open; tnat tne mans scan go at all
"Agriculture, commerce and manufac- Francis Train. And it must be remea- I hazards. (Applause.)
tares will prosper together or fail to- bered that Mr. Tram once ran for the Wo find Congress providing, as be-
gemer. equally true also were . the frequency, jUS as air. .Bryan is doing, tween the states, that the President shall
woros ot donn yumcy Adams, "inat the I u.u1a ucsei "l ,UIS own. 1 say tnat the execute tne law regarding the free trans
creat interests of this agricultural, min- l ticket on which Mr. Bryan is runnine mission of freight and merchandise from
ing and manufacturing nation are so for the presidency is essentially his j state to state. We find this power re
linked in unison that no permanent cause ?wn, although two other gentlemen have I sistod, and find in the declaration of the
ui iirusutrrii iu uuc uj. uium can operate 1"3unuJ muuiioucu in connection 1 party piatiorms maae at ijnicago a state-
without extending its influence to the th it one trying to get off and tho ment in effect that the President of the
other.' (Applause.) We cannot have other trying to get on. Here, you ob- United States cannot execute the fed-
commercial growth and expansion with- serve, is a sort of political cerebus. with al laws; cannot execute the power
our uanouai unu maiviauai nonor. i" "i ot ieenng uetween the ca- I conierrea upon nim dj congress ano tne
"We cannot have commercial prosperity nine collaterals. Mr. Bryan's predica- I Constitution of the United States, except
without the strictest integrity both of nent is not without embarrassment. He j br leae of the governor of the state
government ana citizen, (itenewed ap- must ieei as Dewiidered with these two (appiausej. ano tuis is declared, fellow
plause and cries of 'That's, right') The appendages as the proverbial cat with citizens mark it well this is declared
financial honor of this government is of a like number of tails. He has probably ky a body of people that came together
too vast importance, is entirely too sa- prevailed upon Mr. Sewall to stay where at Chicago and declared that they were
cred to be the football of party politics. ?e 1S whereas Tom Watson wants to Jncksonian Democrats. (Laughter.)
(Great applause and cries of 'Good H00!?- ?e wants to know where he is Why, gentlemen, in 1832, John C. Cal-
t;uuu. ; a.ue Aepuuiicun party nas main-1 io Know wnetner he is I lIUUU uu8-u i tuiivuiiiiou guuier
tamed it and is pledged to maintain it a candidate tor the vice-prcsidencv or
it una uiuru luuu uuix BIOOU uetween I "ti.iiiii.ui.iu uppeuuix.
good faitn and dishonor and when it
war South and North will never again
uuiist m anotner sectional strife.
It does not matter whether the Ameri
can cradle is rocked to the music of
Yankee Doodle or the lullaby of Dixie,
if the flag of the nation is displayed
above it; and the American baby can be
safely trusted to pull about the floor the
rusty scabbard and the battered canteen,
whether the inheritance be from blue or
gray, if, from the breast of a true moth
er and the lips of a brave father, its little
soul is filled with the glory of the Ameri
can constellation. A new issue between
thp West and the East! why, God for
d! I am a part of that mighty West
I mow its brave, enterprising, pioneer
people. I have seen them rescue the
wilderness- and convert it into a garden.
They haTe been greatly aided by the as
sistance of the East bythe-use of .money
wmcn represents thc accumulated sav
isgs of two centuries and a half of East
ern thrift The creat West cannot liro
nd thrive without the cordial co-operation
and support of the strong East and
the East cannot live and grow and thrive
as it ought and should without the cor
dial eo-operation. friennship and support
of the mighty West United, we are a
nation powerful for the welfare of nil
sections; divided, we are at the begin
ning of the downfall of the republic.
Nebraska put one star in the azure of
the flag, and Illinois put another, but
when they took their places in the flag
they were no longer the stars of Illinois
and Nebraska, but the stars of the great
est nation of the earth, shining for the
welfare and protection of every section
and all the people.
they went on, I think, to the amount of
$8,000,000,000, and finally the whole
structure collapsed. The government
would not take them, the paper became
absolutely worthless, and when that pa
per uecame wortniess it was found, not
in the hands of the speculators; no, it
was found in the hands of the manu
facturers, of the business men, of the
workingmen of France. It was on them
that the loss fell, because they had ex
changed their labor and thoir pnrnin.i
for this worthless paper. That is the
history of all attempts to juggle with the
currency. The loss lands always in the
same place, and we can form no ex
ception to the great natural laws.
in the state of South Carolina to con
sider the question whether President
Jackson could execute .the law for the
collection of tariff, this high protective
tariff, and to execute the tariff law in
the state of South Carolina. That con
vention declared that the federal gov
ernment, through its President had no
power to execute that federal law in that
state without the leave of the govern-
ina.
do? These people
fTJivA llTi thn nnntrnl nf tho oTn,-nmAT. I An AcemfU . . - .
r " ' - A - v. V - m J I l.X II 1 I -XA XiaflU 1X11. II.. 1 1 I TT. r. 1 n
, i.., v - , uuiuru
uui uaiiuiiai uuuui uuu uoer ociore oeen i ment
so Inch and unnuestioned. fAnnl nncn i I
The Republican party is pledged to main- D0N M- DICKINSON
tain the credit of thc government which Let us sec what confronts us Wlnt
is intimately associated with its spotless is this free government that we heap
uouic auu uuuur, uuu lUIS It Will OO Un
der any circumstances and at any cost.
"It taxed the credit of the novemmnTit mental expression. TT,. tn il cali themselves Jncksonian Democrats,
in the days of the war to its utmost ten- Hshment of the American government ?n 1 SIea? -,lthTe ?ard' Before the
sion to preserve the government itself, governments had failed on the face of e-JX i UL.-100-' uuchmhi oroereauen.
which, under God. it was happilv en- the earth for the object for which gov- "-j" command of the United
abled to do. Following that mi-htv ernments are formed. S ,Stat,cs armies, to establish his military
strusrcle it lifted our rrndit h.fhor thnn The theory is that this is th. hnct
ft had ever been before and made it government and the only free govern-
equai to tne oldest and wealthiest na- meut wmcu ucuieves ior tne people
tne largest amount ot nappiness, com
fort and prosperity for the greatest
number. Now. they had tried pmnnr.
1 . T t 1 A - -
ors, lougmg ausomie power ot legisla
tion, the execution of laws, and nil
judgment upon laws in one man. and
it failed; the people were oppressed
and made serfs. They tried then oli-
garcliy, a government ot manv men;
it laueu ior tue iiurjjot's ior wiucu it
was founded: so that all monarcbv and
oil evetonis nml nrorr rmiihl? ;
X i j ! f I lunlinK thni l-lomnti lI.nlltlAH 1
party ever wont out of nmvnr,.hl' v. world nad iaiiea. wnen our fathers tlUfa"11-1 uuu
so magnificant a record as th RonX fmoii the Umte,tl States of America Piau
lican party. (Cries of 4Thnt' y.tuli UHU. H"1-. 13 "M1"": lu lamny or
Our great war debt was mnw ti,nT' tions. (Appiausc.j
thirds paid off, our currencvunn,,Pst nn;,r I wnat w?s P0. V1 Prt of the
t j a . . . x ""wi i rnrnrnmnnr n' nn nrnmivnc nofmnimnnf
our creaic untarnisned, tne honor of tho ? V- i
union unsulliod. thn ,nL tJ, 1 which promises a republican dt demo-
terial conditions stronger than it had gSc tEWtaWhhS
ever been before: the workin-mnn hot- .l!5i-x"was tms " t,stabii.shed a
tions of the world. (Applause and
cries of 'That's right.') It is pledged
to maintain uucorrupted the currency
of the country of whatever form or
kind that has been used by national au
thority. It made the old greenback as
good as gold and has kept it as good as
gold ever since. It has maintained everv
form of American money, whether sil
ver or paper, eonal to "rl. nna ;t tt-;ii
not take any backward step. (Great ap
plause and cries of 'Good, good.') No
r which left
the Repub-
hcadquarters in the capital of South Car
olina, in the first place. (Applause.)
On the same day he ordered the two
most powerful ships in the American
navy to Charleston harbor. Next he or
dered the troops of the United States
available on the Atlantic coast to con
centrate within striking distance of
South Carolina. (Applause.) And he
sent word to John C. Calhoun, .not bv
public proclamation, but in private they
had been good friends before: he said:
"You tell John C. Calhoun that if he
persists in this treasonable advice to his
state, by the internal, I will hang him
No New Sectional Issue will be
era ted.
SENATOR THURSTON.
My fellow citizens, there are othef
sons yet why the loyal peopl of
country snouid stand together atj
tunc. Senator Tillman of Sostn
7oI-
fore. with nroneritv in ovorv n,rt nf th "uura.'UH: powers ot tnat legislature by tunc. Senator Tillman of fiostn
xore, witu prosperity m ecry part of the J a written constitution-thus far, Mf. I Una, chairman of the committee on
Labor Needs an Unvarying .and Re
liable Currency.
FRANK S. BLACK. CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.
"No man's labor of yesterday or last
year can be preserved, except by some
X.-X? X 1
ruiiruseuiauve or lOKen ot it. and money
is the almost universally adopted agent
ior mui purpuae. looming in xne wona
should be so anxious as labor that the
token which represents it should be un
varying and reliable. who can
preserve until tomorrow the labor of to
day? It cannot be done, and the only
means of securing its benefits is to re
ceive and preserve some token which
shall stand in its stead and which may
be used as future needs may require."
And further on the speaker said: "If a
man is robbed, it is a crime and he may
have redress. If a bank fails and pays
him only 53 cents on the dollar, it is a
misfortune, and he is not yet without
hope of recovery. But if he votes away
47 cents of every dollar, it is his own
fault, and he has nothing to condemn
but his own folly, which will remain
with him much longer than his money."
Jugglers with the National Credit.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW.
"Bryan and Sewall and Watson pro
claim a revolution. These jugglers with
the national faith and national credit
with business and prosperity, with labor
and employment are recklessly endeav
oring to precipitate one of those crises
in which capital and labor and homes
and wages are inextricably involved.
The right of revolution is divine, hut it
must have supreme justification. Under
our constitutions and institutions and
laws as they exist there is before us
in the promises of the Populistic leaders
nothing but an invitation to embark
upon that sea of repudiation and dishon
or which has wrecked every nation and
every people that ever embarked upon
it This revolution promises to destroy
the Supreme court, to prevent the issue
of bonds and the use of the credit of
the country for any purpose, to debase
the currency, to issue, if need be, irre
deemable naner and fiat mnnpr. nd tn
destroy the validity and the inviolability
of pnntrnotn hntwnnn Inilit-iMol. T
proposes to seize the railways and the BU1 Bry,aa. niay his tribe decrease!
telegraphs, to enter upon a vague and Akac n,ght rom a deep dream
vast system of paternal government and And saw within the moonlIKht of his roo.
to destroy those elements of American Making it rich and silver-like In bloom,
liberty by which the government governs A" angel wrIHng in a book of gold;
least and the individual has unlimited Exceeding gall had made Bill Bryan bold,
opportunity for industrial business, pro- "l,?? i?. tbJrooin, ?e Mld.:.
fessional and political honors and emolu- Whf8 wer'dest thou? The T,sIon ra,9fJ
hx- ' , , . . . x, . And, with a took of what he might expect
"No one has ever doubted the wis- Answered. "Their names who'll set It la
dom of the fathers of our republic. A the neck."
century of experiment has abundantly "And am I one?" asked Aboo. "I doa't
and overwhelmingly justified their fore- kno3" , .,.
sight, statesmanship and patriotism. ?? iw$n n.Kn i Ab?u sP?k rmore loS'
They saw the horrors of the French Bnt ePTlly stU' and sa!d- 1 pray
revolution, and they made up their minds -Write me as one not liable to err."
to guard their country against the ex- The angel wrote and vanished. The nerf
cesses of temporary madness. They night
created the executive and the legislative came again with a great November light,
branches jof the government and made Ancl Bnowea the names of those knocked gal-
tfB wTTSftn, , 3 (K Ai,i w Anl Dm Bryan's name led all the restl
..... ..... vx .HI WUU I
tney enacteu a written constitution un-
THE .ROOSTKIt HE WORE OX HIS HAT.
Come, pause for a while in your play,
. . x . My boy.
And put down your ball and your bat.
Attend to nie well
"While a story I tell
Of a man who was tempted to stray.
And the rooster he wore on hlshat05.
This man was a laborer skilled,
ily box.
Contented and happy thereat;
For his job was 'secure.
And his wages were sure.
But his heart with a longing was fllled,
r. x Mr hoy.
For a rooster to wear on his hat.'
One day some demagogues came,
(For demagogue read Democrat b
And spouted and braved
In behalf of free trade.
Till they set all his fancy allame.
ily bor.
For a rooster to pin on his hat.
He whooped like an Imbecile loon.
My boy.
For a candidate fussy and fat,
"Whose Inflated renown
. Soon collapsed and came down?
And It felt like a punctured balloon.
On the rooster that sat on the hat.
Now his partisans float In the soup.
My bor.
Along with the bill thev begat
The cuckoos all sigh
For their vanishing pie:
And the rooster Is sick with the ronp,
Poor rooster that rode on the hat
And poverty sits Jn the seat.
My boy
"Where competence formerly sat,
And tho laboring man, .
Through this fatuous plan.
Is now left with nothing to eat
But the rooster he wore on hhYiatf
Then take warning and never forgst,
A My dot.
Free traders are blind as a bat.
Their promise of good
Is adversity's food.
And the laborer long will regret
,, , My. boy.
The rooster he wore on his hat.
Indianapolis JonraaL
ABOU BILL BRYAN.
A
Effect of Inflation.
SENATOR LODGE.
Well, -it is'easy to mark up prices
man can go over his stock of coods in
the morning and mark them np with a
blue pencil; but you cannot go over the
salaries and the wages of this country
with a blue pencil in the morning and
mark them up.
During our war. when we had an in
flated currency and prices rose, the aver
age price of commodities rose S9 per
cent; labor rose about 40 nor nnt.
There was a net loss to labor of about
50 per cent, a net reduction of wages to
that extent Labor always, in case of
a depreciated currency, lags behind oth
er prices. It is inevitable; all historv
and all experience shows it. They tried
it in France in the last centurv: thpr
tried the inflation of -the currency to the
last extent. You read the his'torv of
that period; you find in the debates of
the French convention at the time of the
Revolution which resembled a frond
deal, in many respects, the convention at
unicago you Und it constantly said:
We are so great; France is so nnworfni
so civilized, so free, that she can raise
the price of money, she can mnintnin
any system she wants." And they issued
the assignats based on the public land;
there was land behind them all; they
were r-ot 2.srejy irredeemable paper;
der which the executive and the legisla
tive branches must act, and then they
createa mat new leature ot government,
that palladium of the rights of the peo
ple and the permanence of our institd
t:ons. an independent judiciary, a court
which could say to a wild Congress:
'You have overleaped the boundaries of
the constitution and you must bring
yourselves within its limits.' They knew
from the precedents of liberty behind
them that the judiciary can aiwavs ho
trusted. There are two places under
our constitution where neither wealth
nor power gives any advantage to the
individual, where the richest and the
poorest, the most exalted and the hum
blest stand on the same plane; one is the
ballot box and the other the court And
yet this Democratic and Populistic al
liance proposes to destroy this majestic
tribunal and make it simply the echo of
the party caucus which controls Congress
this year and may be driven into ob
scurity next."
Lincoln (Neb.) News.
COME HOME.
Integrity of thc Courts.
EX-SENATOR JOHN C. SPOONER.
"There is another proposition in that
platform which ought to strike terror to
the heart of every good citizen, what
ever his political affiliations heretofore
may have been, and that is the proposi
tion which even shocked David Bennett
Hill (laughter), whom I am faintly hon-
fit a. i
ing win come out nner a iittie tor sound
money, and that is the suggestion that
whenever the supreme court of the
United States, in the exercise of thn inri
diction vested in that tribunal by the con
stitution, renders a decision which is
not agreeable to Congress, they shall
proceed to pack that court in somn wiv
...:!. ...:n . "
Mini juuki-s uu win i fierce it, and who
will be more complaisant You recollect,
ladies and gentlemen that the Snpreme
court of the United States is nrnsitmi i.i-
.ui.- luiioiii.iiiuii. int.- iiiree suu-
divisions of our government, each inde
pendent of the other. The executive,
the legislative and the judiciary. The
Supreme court of the United States has
been, from the beginning, an honor to
this country; and its line of decision
the great men who have been upon that
bench shedding luster upon our jurispru
dence and upon the jurisprudence of
the tvorld, have abundantly vindicated
the wisdom of the framers of the
constitution in creating it. in making it
perpetual and in providing for the inde
pendent and fearless action by reason of
the life tenure of its judges.
"I do not like to hear men cast suspi
cion upon judges. Our last reliance is
in the integrity, the courage and the in
dependence of our judiciary.i When the
people are swayed by passion, when Con
gress may go wrong, when the Senate,
"From Thomas Watson."
O! Bryan, dear Bryan, come home with m
now.
The pops are all ready to run;
You said you were coming right beak to ih
P'atte.
As son as your talking was done.
Come'home, come home, Bryan, dear Bryax.
come home.
Poor Altgeld is dying and Boles has goa
flat,
Don't talk any more, but come home.
O! Bryan, dear Bryan, come home with me
now.
Why don't yon come home while yon can?
Free silver's all right (for thc heathen),
that s so.
But you can't stuff it down a free man.
Come home, come home, Bryan, dear Bryan,
oonic home,
MeKInlny Is ready to give you a blow,
1 hat will knock yon quJtn flat, so come
uume. Lincoln (Neb.) Call.
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
Is the story true that thousands of
laboring men are wearing McKinley but
tons who intend to vote for Brvan? We
rather guess not The laboring man is
not that sort of a hvnoeritn. if we PAN
roctly estimate him. and it is an insult to
him to say otherwise.
Mr. McKinley said: "Good money
never made hard times." Mr. Brvan
said: "Money can be too good." WW
the people of this country have difficulty
iu determining which is right?
Among the best .speeches being ma&a
in this campaign are those coming free
that little two-story porch at Canton.
It requires no argument t see wh.
Bryan and his followers do aot want t
talK about protection.
It is the mills and not the mists thai
millions of workers want opened. Stop
the wheels in the head and let the wheels
in the machine shops go around.
The most pressing money question Id
that of wages for the people and a rcr
enue for the government
Brjan is now being called the businoss
killer. He meanders through the Eas
making silver speeches and the mills and
factories close in his wake.
After reading Bryan's wool record in
Congress the fanner who votes for him
must either have a forgiving disposition
or in his wits be on the wrong ide at
the non compos mentis boundary line.
A farmer's illustration of the uO-eent
silver dollar is that it would be like offer
ing for sale a calf labeled "This iL
twins." and demanding double price for
it And still some people pretend to
think that farmers are not watching pub-
lie auairs.