Nebraska Newspapers

    ACHIEVEMENTS OF
REPUBLICAN
Shall tlio Brilliant Party Record He
Endorsed?
Haa Mndo Amorlca Ono of tho Great
Natlonn of the Earth.
In IiIh Toledo spocrli tho other day,
Secretary 'J'nft nimln tlio bulls-eye,
when ho wild tlinl I ho mil Ihsho of
this campaign Is whether Uio voters of
IIiIh rountry will give their ondorso
input to tho Roosevelt policies nnd tho
deeds of tho Republican purty or turn
to the Democratic party, with its un
trled promises. It Ih not, whether tho
people kIiiiII nilo, iih Ilrynn stated the
other hiy, because tho people already
rule iih iniich iih the DciiioctiUh will
permit them. The hundreds of thous
iiiiiIh of dlsrriinehlHed negroes In the
South, together with tho many poor
while people, stand up and point the
linger at the guilty Democratic party.
ItH HtateineiitH iihont popular rule are
hollow pretenses. ItH professions hypo
critical claptrap.
Jlity'o Trlliiil lo llciiiildlciiii 1'iirl)'.
The distinguished American state
man, John Hay, In an iiddrorH at .lack
noil, Michigan, commemorating the With
anniversary of the Republican party,
declared that the Republican parly had
it nohlo origin, that It sprang directly
from an aroiiKcd and Indignant Na
tional conscience. Ojiostlniw of llnnnce,
of political economy of orderly admin
lHtratlon, piiKH out of Hlht for tho mo
ment to ho taken up and dealt with
later on. Hut In 185 I tho question that
brought thinking nieii together, wiih
whether there Kliould Iio a limit to the
uggresHloiiH of Hlavery ; and In 18U1 that
solemn Inquiry turned to one Mill more
portentlouH: Should tho nation live or
die? 'lift: humbleHt old Hepubllcau In
America Iihh a right to bo proud that
lu tho diiyH of IiIh youth In tho prenence
of thcHo uiometitouH questions ho Judg
ed right; und If he Ih HlecpliiB In his
honored grave, IiIh children may JiiHtly
bo Rind of IiIh declHlou.
Tho Heimbllcan arty Iiiih a hlHtory
which Hluco Hh birth In 1851 Ih the
history of progrcsH and proHperlty, Hh
leaderH lutvu ulwnyB had tho welfaro of
tho country at heart. It Iiiih never
taken n backward Htep, but Iiiih alwayH
been tho supporting pillar of tho Na
tional government. Hh cardinal prlii
dpi cm liavo been the inalutenauco of
tho Declaration of Independence, Inter
nal Improvements, a tarllT to protect
our labor and IndiiHlrlcH and to pay
Kovcrniuent expenses, tho building M ot
our navy, preserving purity lu electloiiH,
for tho dlffiiHlon of knowledge and hap
piness among all the people, for an lion
cut medium of oxehnnge. It Iiiih Htood
for honor, dignity, Integrity, patrlot-
Iniii, progress, proHperlty, happiness,
law and order.
Vo-lii Dcitiuernllo Illuli Prion!.
The high priests of tho Deinocratle
party hnvo for tho laHt llfty yearn tried
to terrify tho people with linnglnury-
political bugaboos. When Lincoln wiih
llrst a candidate, they pit up tho aw
ful bugaboo they called "Abolitionism'
and deceived multiplied thousands of
tho people. When Urnnt wiih our can
dhlato for tho Presidency they maim
fiictured twin hiiKabooH, called "Con
trnllzatlon," and ".Military Despotism,"
and scared many timid persons Into tho
belief that our HhcrtlcH wero about to
lie taken away. When HuyoH wiih our
candidate they paraded before the pub
lie tho caricature denominated "A
Itloateil nondholder," nnd tried to make
us believe that It wiih tho Republican
party In disguise, and that If Hayes
wero elected tho bondholders would take
all of our property from us. When
(larlleld was our candidate, they Invent
Pd a fcnrrul evil devil called "The Force
Hill," and terrllled the Southern people
by declining If (larlleld wero elected an
army would bo sent to tho South to
hold elections and noun but Republicans
and negroes would be allowed to vote.
When Harrison wuh ii candldato these
Kamo Deinocratle high priests pit to
gothcr and invented a new lot of hob
gobllna which they denominated "Rob
her Harons," and rushed them all over
the country to the terror and dismay
of millions of unsuspecting Democrats
who actually elected Cleveland l'resl
dent.
When McKlnley was our candidate
for President, tho bugaboo makers
brought out a stupendous crawling men
Htor, of antediluvian proportions, ami
branded It a "(lold Hug," and swon
that It was the Republican party and
that If .McKlnley wero chosen President
this uuuister would devour the sub
Htnnco of wo Americans as tho cater
pillars anil palinerworms devoured the
crops of thu children of Israel In the
days of old. When Roosevelt was nnm
luated these perennial alarmists, said
that tho republic would bo. strangled
nnd bo merged Into "Imperialism," that
tho "Hlg Stick" would embroil us lu
perpetual warfare with foreign nations
and that tho Llliorty advocated by our
fathers had vanished from the land.
Wo hnvo been constantly told by
them that tho Republican party could
not bo trusted, that all the usurers, all
the money sharks, nil tho bloated bond
holders, nil tho robber barons, all tho
Kohl bugs, all tho Imperialists and war
lords, all tho corruptloulsts, nil tho
enemies of tho laboring man nnd all
tho focu of thu farmer wero In tho He
inibllenu party and that If that party
(Copyright, 1008, by tlio Mali nnil Ex press Company.)
elected Roosevelt as President, awful
and mnulfold would bo tho calamities
that would Inevltnbly frill upon the
American people and tho salt of liberty
would loso Its savor, that our very free
dom woukj bo like tho blazonry of silks
and Jewels In thu gloom of tho grave.
Falun I'roplirU All.
Hut out of these nettles of direful
and dangerous predictions have sprung
uio iteautirul blossoms of safety and
prosperity. Instead of money becom
ing scarcer, It has become more plen
tiful. Instead of agricultural products
going down to nothing) they have great
ly Increased lu pried; Instead of la
borers' wages being cut down to pauper
rates, they have been greatly raised;
Instead of railroads having nothing to
do, they have not enough cars to carry
their passengers und freights; Instead
of our business men being ground to
powder In the bankruptcy courts, they
are happy and Increasingly prosperous;
Instead of our manufacturing establish
ments going out of business, they are
doing an Increasing business. Wo have
more money lu use and circulation than
ever before; inoro money per capita
than ever before; more money In Hav
ings bunks than ever before; tho dollar
Iiiih a larger purchasing power than
ever before and the laboring man lives
better than ever before.
Ili'tmlilli'MMN I.Iiii'oIii'h Helm.
If there Is one thing more than an
other lu which Republicans aro entitled
to legitimate pride. It Is that Lincoln
was our llrst President, that wo believ
ed lu him loyally, supported lilm while
he lived, and that we have never lost
the right to call ourselves his followers
There Is not a principle avowed by tho
Republican party to-day which Is out
of harmony with his teaching or In
consistent with his character. Hut only
those who believe In human lights and
aro willing to make saeiillees to defend
them, who believe In the nation and
Its bonollcent power, who bellevo
the American system of protection,
championed by n long line of our great
est ami best running back from Roose
velt to Washington only those who be
lieve In equal Justice to labor and to
capital, In honest money and the right
to earn It, hnvo any title to name them
selveH by the name of Lincoln or to
claim a moral kinship with that august
and venerated spirit.
Stood lilt' Supremo Tent,
Ih the Republican party entitled to
public conlldenceV Its record speaks
In no uncertain tones lu answer to this
question. After slavery had been abol
ished by It, the war ended ami pence
restored with no damage to the struc
ture of the government, but on the con
trary with added strength and with
Increased guaranties of Its perpetuity,
It remained to be shown whether the
power and success of tho Republican
party Were to be permanent, or whether,
born of a crisis, It was titled to
copo with tin problems of dally
national life. It had destroyed
slavery, but In tho absence of this great
adversary, could the party hold to
gether against the thousands of lesser
evils that besot tlio public tho evils
of Ignorance, corruption, avarice and
lawlessness, the prejudices or race and
or class, the voices or demagogues, the
cunning of dishonest era ft, the brutal
tyranny of tho boss, the venality of tho
nieanV H Is not too much to say that
the last llfty years have given an nn
swer full or glory and honor to that
question.
The Republican party In the mass
LOST!
and lu detail has shown Its capacity to
govern. Hy the homestead law, with
oqual generosity and wisdom, it distri
buted tho Immense national domain
among the citizens who wero willing
to cultivate It nnd who have convert
ed wide HtretcheH of wilderness Into
smiling homes. It built the Pacific
railroad, which has bound tho union
together from east to west anil made
tho States beyond tho mountains nmong
our most loyal and prosperous com
monwealth. It redeemed our paper cur
rency and iimdo all our forms of money
exactly of equal value, and our credit
the best In the world. Hy persistent
honesty lu our llminces In the race of
obstacles which might have daunted
the hardest statesmen It has reduced
our Interest charges so that In any
mart on earth wo can borrow money
cheaper than any other people. Wo
have by the patient labor of years re
formed und regulated our civil service,
so that patronage has almost ceased
to cast ItH deadly blight upon the work
of our public servants.
II t-l 1 1 lit it t iiikI rjlorloua llrcortl.
ItH record Ih but a succession or bril
liant nnd successful uchlevementH
which have raised tho nation to a
world power of tho llrst rank and which
have vouchsafed to our people the niaxr
imum of benellts with a minimum of
cost. Some things It has accomplished
may be mentioned hero:
The homestead law passed by a Re
publican Congress and signed by Abra
ham Lincoln.
The national banking lnws, which
gave the people a currency stable In
all partH of the country.
The system or Internal revenue tax
ation by which approximately one-hair
of the ordinary expenses of tho gov
eminent have been raised from malt
and spliitiibus liquors, tobacco and
cigars.
The constitutional amendments,
which abolished slavery, created cltl
zeushlp of the United States, as (lis
tlngulshed from citizenship of the sev
era! states, and established equality of
suffrage.
The Civil Rights act. which extended
to all persons the equal protection of
the laws.
All existing laws for pensions to war
veterans.
The resumption of specie payments;
the reduction of postage; the money
order system; the establishment of tho
railway mall service.
Rural und city free delivery.
The endowment of public schools,
agricultural colleges, etc., by grants or
land from the public domain.
The establishment of the Circuit
Court or Appeals to relieve the Su
preme Court and no longer require
litigants to sutler a delay of three or
four years lu securing a decision on
appeal.
The principle or reciprocity, by
which we reduce the duties on cortalu
Imports rrom countries that oiTer cor
responding advantages to our exports,
and thus extend our foreign market.
Statehood for Kansas, Nebraska,
Nevada, Colorado, North and South
Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming and Oklahoma.
Tho Sherman anti-trust act.
The national tmnuruptey law of
ISO" and 1SDS, which relieved many
thousands of unfortunates and restor
ed them to commercial or Industrial
milvlty.
The establishment oi the gold stand
urd which placed our monetary system
on a stable basis, lu harmony with the
great nations or the world.
A protective tariff In the Interest of
American Industries nnd American la
bor. The building of the Pannma cnnnl.
The national Irrigation act, which Is
transforming the West from n desert
to the most productive area of Amer
ica. The Puro Food Lnw, stopping pois
oned foods.
Tho Uallroad Rate Law, nbollshlng
rate discriminations.
The Emergency Currency bill nnd the
National Monetary Commission.
The Employer's und Government
Liability laws.
Tho measures for the greater elllc
leney for the Army nnd Navy.
The model child labor law for the
District of Cojimbla.
I ue new statute for the safety of
tnllroal engineers and llremen nnd
many other acts concerning tho public
Welfare.
Shall tho Republican record bo en
dorsed? Triumphant millions of free,
enlightened American citizens will
answer YES, at tho polls November
itn, and overwhelmingly elect Taft nnd
Sherman.
PROTECTION FOR DEPOSITORS.
Postal Savlnga Banks Offer n Satis
factory Measuro of Protection.
Mr. llryan's scheme for tho protec
tion of depositors Is to mnko solvent
and prudently nmuaged banks pny the
losses ot the Insolvent and Imprudently
managed. It Is a plan to inako every
bank go security for every other bank,
nnd it may wolf be questioned If n lnw
Imposing such tin obligation without
the consent of the person charged
would bo sustained by the courts.
Mr. 'I aft, discussing this subject, said
that he favored postal savings banks ns
a protection for depositors rather than
the Hrya ns uicriieocciufwyp cmrwyp
Hie lirynn scheme ot enforced liability.
'i lie distinct advantage of tho postal
savings bank proposition Is that It
would provide for direct government
responsibility. Tho depositors would
no guaranteed against loss by tho
government, boenusi) the bunks would
no government Institutions. There
would bo no possibility of loss, and no
Injustice would be Indicted upon other
banks like that to which they would
tie subjected under the Hryan scheme,
IT they were compelled to pay losses
Incurred by banks over which they
Had no control.
Postal savings banks lu other coun
tries have given great nutisfnctloii, nnd
there Is no question that they would
bo conducted as safely and In every
other way as satisfactorily In tho Unit
ed States. The government be
ing tho banker, would properly be
charged vlth responsibility to the de
IKisltors and otliers doing business
with It.
On the other hand, the State has no
more authority to make a banker re
sponsible ror tno dents or another
bunker than It has to Impose a like
responsibility upon a uierehaut ror the
debts or other merchants. Suretv Is a
mutter or voluntary eontrnet, and the
essential element lu any tluauclal ob
ligation Is consent on the part or the
person to lie charged. To rorco
banker to Insure tho payment or the
debts of another banker Is to Impose
upon hint an obligation against his
will, which would bo manifestly un
Just. Denver Republican.
1. 0. HEARST RESIGNS
FROM IROQUOIS CLUB
In a Cleverly Sarcastic Letter Tells
Why He Withdraws With
Gratification.
"THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY."
Thero Is Only a Bryan Party and Its
Followers Don't Know When They
Go to Bed at Night What Thoy
Will Bo Called Upon to Be
llevo When Thoy Wako
Up in tho Morning.
The Iroquois Association, an essen
tially Democratic organization, of San
Francisco, a few days ago suggested
to Mr. William Randolph Hearst that
since he had decided to oppose the elec
tion of the Democratic candidate, Mr.
Hryan, he could not consistently retain
his membership In the organization. In
reply to this suggestion, Mr. Hearst
tins sent the following letter to the as
sociation r
To the Iroquois Association, San Fran
cisco, Cnl.:
Clentlenien I received your letter
with both pleasure and surprise. I
was surprised to know that Mr. Rognrt
was sending four dollars dues to your
organization, but pleased to learn of it,
us I am exceedingly ready to stop that.
I was pleased and surprised, too, to
learn that the Iroquois Club was still
In existence, for I thought that It had
been peacefully burled along with the
last remnants of the defunct Deino
cratle party of California.
Hut since the Iroquois Club still In
a way exists, I nm glad to resign from
It, and the situation suggested In your
letter seems sulllclent reason for me.
You Imply that I am not a Democrat,
nnd I strongly suspect that I am not,
according to the Deinocratle standards
of to-day. I worked hard for the Dem
ocratic party at one time and contrib
uted many thousands of four-dollar
checks, and cheerfully suffered much
nbuso and much Injury for the Demo
cratic party, but I believed In It then,
and I don't now.
You Imply, furthermore, that you are
Democrats, and I cannot help wonder
ing what kind of Democrats you think
you nre. Are you 1892 Democrats, or
1S0( Democrats, or 11)00 Democrats,
or 1001 Democrats, or 100S Democrats?
Are you Cleveland Democrats, believ
ing lu tho tariff reform that we didn't
get, and the military suppression of
labor Unions that we did got? Aro
you Parker Democrats supporting the
trusts If they contribute and opposing
them If they don't? Are you Hrynn
Democrats, believing In free silver
sometimes and in government owner
ship sometimes, and in the initiative
and tlio referendum sometimes? And
If you nro Hryan Democrats and be
lieve In these things, do you also be
lieve In a Hryan platform that contnlns
none of these things?
Denr friends and brothers of the
Iroquois Club, you all remember how
tno nomocracy or rreo silver was
taught you and how you got Intensely
excited over It, and cheered ror It nnd
marched ror It, and then were informed
that free silver was not true Democ
racy after all, but that public owner
ship was. Then you remember how you
threw your hats In the air over public
ownership and worked up an almost
hysterical enthusiasm for It, and then
were. Informed that this wasn't true
Democracy either, but tbnt the Inltln
tlve and referendum were. Then you
came nobly to tho front again and af-
llrmed undying devotion to tho ever
lasting principles or the Initiative and
referendum ; but now you have a plat
form In which there Is no free silver,
In which there Is no public ownership,
In which there Is no Initiative or refer
endum, and still you are Informed by
the old Dr. (Jiingle of Democracy that
only that platform with the owner's
trade-mark pasted on the front and the
owner's name blown In tho bottle is
genulno Democracy, and that If you
don't subscribe to that you will bo read
out of the Democratic party.
Friends and ex-brothers or the Iro
quois Club, there Is no Democratic
party. There Is only a Hryan party,
und the followers of that party don't
know when they go to bed at night
what they will be called uion to be
lleve when they wake up in the morn
lug.
Once there was a ninn who had an
old carving knife which bo said had
boon handed down to him from his
grandfather. A friend said to him
"it iooks raiuer new. liaveirt you
ever done anything to It?" And the
man said: "Oh. I've had tho blink
changed once or twice, and the
handle renewed a couplo of times, but
otherwise It Is Just the same knife r-y
grandfather hail.
Mr. Hryan tells us that his variable
doctrines are the Democracy or our
fathers, but I say Hint both the blade
and the handle have been changed so
often that there Is no recognizing the
original principles.
Once, again, there was a farmer who
had a balky mule and ho couldn't make
tho mule go. A stranger came along
nnd offered to help, and tlio farmer told
him to go right ahead. The strangpr
had a bottle of turpentine, and )..
opened the mule's mouth und pimheti
back his head and poured about half of
Hip bottle into the mule's stomach.
The mule gave one startled gasp ami
struck out across the prairie, and was
lost to sight. The surprised farmer
stood for a while lnimorsOjd in deep
thought, nnd then he said: "Stranger,
please give mo the rest of that turpen
tine; I've got to catch my mule."
Friends and ex-brothers of the one
time Iroquois Club, I have always
stood Just where I stand now, square
ly uiHJii tho principles of the founder
of the Deinocratle party and the
frnnicr or the Declaration of Inde
pendence; but the Democratic Donkey
hns gone galloping over the political
prairie until It Is lost to the sight of
Its original adherents.
I nm not In the race to catch that
donkey, nnd If you nre. you will find
that you have to keep plumb full of
n different kind of turpentine In every
campaign.
And so I received your communica
tion with gratltlcatlon and gratitude,
and so I withdraw from your club with
pleasure and without the slightest hard
feeling.
Good luck and fJod bless you, nnd
may you all be able to keep up with
your mule. Sincerely.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
CURTAILMENT OP PRODUCTION
What Would bo tho Effect of Bryan'a
Plan for Curbing tho TrustsP
Now comes the suggestion that, by
aw, the operations of a eornorntlon
shall bo so curtailed that to the whole
output It shall not contribute more than
00 per cent. Those who have neither
the time nor the Inclination to go below
the surface of tilings may. acquiesce,
but eve.li they may not.
Presume u machine to bo Invented.
and presume Its promoters, not only to
establish a nlaiit for its mnmifticturo.
but to be fortunate to the extent that
the use of the contrivance becomes gen
eral. At the start they make the whole
output. Then-comes a rival, beginning
by producing 125 per cent. Down swoops
tno government, compelling contrac
tion by tlio pioneer.
What Is the result? It Is to reduce
tho total production, though the de
mand for the machine may be greater
than tho supply. The nloneer nlant
cuts off r0 per cent lu obedience to gov-
crmpntnl mandate, nnd Its rival makes
good but half of the deflelenev. Of
course, there are what may be called
secondary ellects, and they ensue imme
diately. Presume the first plant to hnvc cost
two millions and to eninlov 2.000 men.
No sooner Is the second plant estab
lished than 1,000 men nre thrown out
of work, nnd nronertv renresentpd hv
a million Is converted Into an Industrial
Junk shop. The author of this brilliant
idea suggests that the coinnnnv sell
wiint It becomes Illegal to use.
This is equally brilliant. It may
take the entire plant to produce one
machine, of which there may be many
parts. In that event, eomnlinneo with
law can come only by discharging 1,000
men or ny keeping 2,000 nt work ou
half time. Nor does tho nronosition
emanate from an occupant of a home
ror the rocble-nilinled.
It comes from the Democratic candi
date for the Presidency. It comes from
mental machinery which enjoys a mo
nopoly of that sort or thing. Of this
innchlnery the- aggregate output is
large, but no effort has been made to
restrict It. One of the choicest of its
products Is that monopolies be exter
minated. This Is n pet thunderbolt
but Mr. Hrynn has the crudest notions
as to Its significance. He seems to
think that lu some mysterious way It
would benefit the "plain people."
A big corporation produces on n big
scale. Exterminate it, and it stops.
Corporations become big for reasons
economists have no trouble In compre
hending. They do things by wholesale.
And part of what they save renminbi
the pocket of the consumer, who would
otherwise have to pay far more' for his
purchase.
Mr. Hryan says he would dissolve,
destroy, obliterate, extirpate, exter
minate. Sometimes, he soys, kill. Ho
llnds fault with Mr. Taft because be
will make no use of these terms or of
synonyms for them. Well, the Repub
lican candidate for the Presidency has
not lost his mind. He is not formulat
ing a policy of destruction. He knows
that evolution from the little to the
big was not only Inevitable, but bene
llcent. in declamation the Nehraskan Is r
reitive and Impressive; In elaboration,
In detail, in what are called specllica-
tlons, he Is out of his el cut. To ask
him to be exact Is to suggest that he
clip his own wing. The only known
equivalent for his Democracy Is De
struction. Rrooklyn Eagle.
.lolut I ntrrt-MN,
I.-ibor needs capital to secure tho best
production, while capital needs labor in
producing anything. The share or each
laborer In the Joint product Is affected
not exactly, but lu a general way, by
the amount or capital In use ns com
pared with the number or those who
labor. The more capital In use the
more work there Is to do, mid the more
.work thero Is to do the more laborers
are needed. The greater the need for
laborers the better their pay per man.
Manifestly, It Is In tho direct Interest
or the laborer that capital shall In
crease faster than the number or those
who work. Everything which legltb
mutely tendH to Increase the iiccuinu
hitlou or wealth and Its use ror pro
duction will give each laborer a larger
share In the Joint result or capital nnd
labor. Hon. Wm. H. Taft, nt Coopei
Union, New York (,'lty.