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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1896)
fr The Nebraska Advertiser W.W. JJS'iUtHH rmhUihtr. bUBSCniPTION.. 8l.r0lKU YKAlt FRIDAY, OOTOHEU 0, 1800. Beginning next Sabbath evening, Iter, Gllmore will preach three ser raona on Ihe "Fato of ancient and mortem republics." All students of he tendency ef the times ought to utw tend the M. E. Church and hear this series of sermons. 41. V JISBBBflBBBBBBBEr kjbVbiHHbbbhbbbHsbz! NEBRASKA'S MEXT GOVERNOR. Jack MhcCoII took a horaesetud ad joining what is now the city of Lexing ton, in 187, Ills ancestors were Scotch, and his early manhood was spent on a' Canadian farm. He left home in 1801) ,,,u), and immediately set out for the We'. I MftftWs first work was as a laborer for the ti . Union Pacific R. It, Co.,and the fallow ing year he took up the homestead where he now lives. From the first hefsucceeded, becauBt ' he' h d tamed business method as "Well as farm rou tine; l'he first couuty clerk of Dawson county as removed for cause, and MaoColl was appointed in his place.' He held the office thirteen years, uN though he took it' in the beg nuing under protest. He has never been an office seeker, nor a politician in the ac ceplep sense. He served one term in the Nebraska legislature, and was a capable conscientious member. In 1800 hie' friends in western Nebraska urged him to become a candidate ' for the republican nomination for gover nor, and be reluctantly consented. L, I). Richards was nominated. Four years' later he was an active candidate, but the nomination fell to T. J. Majors. In ldtfO his friends were as loyal and enthusiastic as ever, and they wont inio the state convention with many new recruit and nominated him July lit. ''Jack MacColl is called the Nebraska c9mmonot."Such he is in fact. He is 'plain and easily approachable. .Ho is, sympathetic, cordial and warm-heart ed. He is a friend of the laborer as well as the man of business and is loved by one and esteemed by the ether. Personally he' Is close-mouthed aud conservative, but all the time strictly business. He will make an ideal gov ernor. Newspapers in the Campaign, In the present campaign, newspas pers will be the greatest of educators, in teaching the Vetera of the land the proper way tofvlew the political quesi tlons of the day. The Republic, of St. Louis, is without doubt the most able instructor published en the Democratic Bide, as it explains in almost every is sue, by editorial or learned article why the mass of the people should vote for the Democatlc Presidential candidate. Inaddition.it prints all the nows of the doings of both parties and all the speeches of statesmen. The Republic is only SO a year, 1 .50 for 3 months, orC5 cents a month by mail. Semh Weekley Republic $1.00 a year. . m i m The Boy Tramp Will speak at Hoover's epera house Saturday night of this week. Every body is invited. SCHOOL LAND FUNDS HAVE BEEN PROPERLY INVESTED BY STATE OFFICIALS. Genera! Fund Warrant Not "gecnrltle" end tho Supremo Canrt So Dec I tie Gov, Uolcomb HUH Harping On the School Fund No Vernon Need lie Deceived by Fopullit Clnp-Trnp. Lincoln, Nob., Oct. 0. A number of Populist aud Democratic conventions have adopted resolutions censuring tho state ofllcors composing tho board of educational lands and funds for rof using or failing to invest tho money in tho per manent bchool fund iu stato securities. Populist, speakers also touch upon it occasionally, and Governor Uolcomb not infrequently refers in his talks aud in terviews to tho troublo he has had to got the board to invest the funds as di rected by law, the iufcreuco being, of course, that tho purpose is to keep f nods idle in tho treasury for tho bone fit of the state treasurer. Your correspondent has taken the pains to examine tho records closely, and to acquaint himself with the facts from other sources, tho result being that the governor is convicted of being a cheap pettifogger and that the allega tions are absolutely and entirely with out foundation. Governor Uolcomb coutended for a long tirao that a warrant of the state general fund was a stato 'security," and could therefore be mado tho basis of investment of the school funds. Tho board took tho opposite view, which is sustained by the supremo court, which has declared that suoh a procedure is the equivalent of making a transfer from oue fund to another, a course that is un constitutional and contrary to law. This is tho courso that the governor insisted upon following, and that ho blames the board for not adopting, in the face of tho decision of tho highest court of tho state that it can not be dono. It is u fact that the board of educa tional laudB and funds has invested in all bonds of tho various counties of Ne braska that have boon presented, except in ono instance whoro tho action of the govornor oompollcd it to buy a block of bonds from a broker and pay a bonus of $2,500 which could have been Raved to tho stato if tho governor's action had not caused the salo to brokers instead of to tho Btate direct. It is tiiern'ore sur prising to note that he still rofors to the mutter occasionally aud strives to get a little cheap glory through a distortion of the record. As a matter of foot tho state officials have acted conscientiously and accord ing to law in all matters during the two years that they have boon at the capital. Thoy have not only given tho stato faith ful sorvioe, but have also conducted tho business economically and thrown every safeguard around tho expenditure of publio funds and the transaction of pub lic business. Governor Holcomb knows this, but just at present he is making a campaign of self-glorification, and scea no way to build himself up except by tearing somebody elso down. M The Donkey's Fat. TENANT FARM. landlord llookwalter'a Farina la Pawnee County Tell Their Own Story. Pawnee county has one locality that presents a groat contrast. It 1b in that part of the county where tho thousands of aores owned by John W. Boekwalter are located. The Bookwaltor system of tenant farming, judging from appear ances, is not a success. The landlord and his mortgage system boars heavily upon the tenant aud whero homes and home improvements ought to be aro only the evidence of hastily cultivated fields and temporary improvements of the cheapest character. Surrounded as these 10,000 acres aro with sploudid farms owned by individual farmers, owned by farmors who have their groat red barns and commodious houses, who have herds of stock, fine groves and loadod Orchards, tho barrenness aud neglect that marks the Bookwalter acres stamps that land lord and tenant syBtom as a groator fail ure thau words easily pioturo. Tho owner of these lands, John W. Bookwalter, is a silvor mau and he has written a book upon tho silvor question. With a liberality not noticeablo in other A SILVER MAN'S 0 Our resident buyer is in the market every day in the year. He has made the cloak question a careful study for many years. When you buy our wraps you buy goods that are right in style, fit and service. Our pricos are lowest Twenty-five years' experience, a constant overy day attendance upon tho market, a perfect knowledge of quali ties und values, lightest expenses, largest business, buylnO and selling for spot cashthese are the things which out able us to knock out competition. Last season we did more cloak business than ever before. This teaaon, with prices 25 per cent lower than ever before and patterns more beautiful, we expect to doubto that record. Wo shall be glad to have the opportunity to show you these goods. A. A. Mclninch & Son, BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. dealings with his tenants he has pre sented them with copies of his book, bat they will maintain their independence iu voting this year tho same us thoy have done heretofore. Tho people of Pawnco who aro acquainted with somo of tho records at the court houso think that they kuow ono reason at least why tho proprietor of tho Bookwaltor acres is for silver. The State and County Ticket. In tho excitement of a national cam paign let us not forgot our stato aud county officers. Tho work of redemp tion must bo thorough, aud no offico is too small to bo of somo importuueo iu weighing results in November Hart ington Herald. SIXTEEN TO ONE." We'H coin the silver we have got and all that we can get. We'll muko the "dollar of our dads" a hummer, you con bet. Borne say 'twill bust the country, and the devil be to pay. "In God we truBt" we'll stamp on It, such luck to keep away. "We're sllvcritcs, says I, aays we, when all Is said and done, And we'll coin the bloomln silver, boys, At sixteen to one. And, furthermore, to set the pace and spite the eoldbug crew And prove that we are patriots and show what we can do, We'll copper coin and place the stamp upon our bloomln brass (If we have got no cents (sense) at all, wo've got no end of braus). So brannyltes we are, says I. Just let ui make the mun, And we'll coin our bloomln brass, my boys. At sixteen to one. And with the Iron and steel we find wher ever we may rove We'll coin the lucky horseshoe and the old cracked cooking stove. And when we've cleaned these scrap heaps up, we'll turn ourselves about And set the furnaces ablaze and run the pig Iron out. Plgltes we'll be, says I, says we, and then we'll have some fun Aa we coin the bloomln pig Iron, boys. At sixteen to one. And there Is paper, too, my boys, that may be made from rags; So we may coin our cast off duds and have some royal Jags. Of wood pulp, too, Is paper made; so we'll cut our foreBtB down And Into shady money make the shade trees of our town. We're pulpullsts or populists, ana If you want somo mun We'll Btamp the bloomln paper, boys, At sixteen to one. With this "sound money" talk we hoar that now is going round We do agree at least we like the very name of sound And so we'll spout and Bhout, my boys, to win the voting herds And fill them full of promises and words, worda, words. But worda are wind, and so with wind, when all 1b Bald and done, We'll liquidate eur bloomln debts At sixteen to one. Aryan's xw-Faead Argument. When argument is baaed upon a wrong principle, ft in full of Ineonftist enclca. Candidate Bryan snya that our dollar is too valuable; that it has en hanced until two bushels of wheat are now required in exchange for a dollar, whereas one bushel of wheat waa ex chanffcnble for a dollar In days gone by. Mr. Bryan's remedy for this is to cheapen the dollar. ThlB is logical, and the dollar would certainly be cheapened by "free coinage," No doubt of that. Bo far Candidate Bryan is consistent, but wait a moment. He Rays also Mint the free coinage of silver by the United Btates alone would double the price of ullver bullion and make it worth $1.29 per ounce in gold the world over. If this advance should reault, the .silver dollar would rise In value to the present worth of the gold dollar, and there would be absolutely no change in, our ilnarclal system. These' two proposi tions are utterly at variance with each other. One of them must of necessity be incorrect. Atlanta-Dixie. Winter Tho possibilities of cash, light expenses, nhd years of perionce aro exemplified in our new line of winter wraps. 500 Cloaks and Capes now on hand. (Our Styles are Correct.) I THE FARMER'S REAL GRIEVANCE Mot a Lack of Money But of llaaklag , Facllltlea in Country Dlatrlota. Why has Canada no currency ques tion, no cry for cheap money, and no campaign against gold? These are questions which Mr. Thomas G. Shear man answers very effectively in the London Times of September 11. Briefly summarized, Mr. Shearman's explanation of the discontent among farmers, which has led to the ridicu lous demand for free silver, is that most farmers in tho west and south are de prived of the benefits of banking facili ties. They seldom see or use a check nnd nre unaquainted with the benefits of banks and bank credits. For this reason there is a gTcat scarcity of cur rency in most rural districts. The "country store" supplies In part nnd in a crude and costly way the credits which tide many fanners over from one season to another. Because of the great risk Involved, the storekeeper, by charging high prices for his goods and by paying low prices for farm prod ucts, really gets from 25 to 40 per cent, interest on the credits given to the farmers. Of course, such interest eats up all of the profits of a large class of farmers. The country storekeeper really does a banking business in a clumsy and cost ly way. Local bonks, such as exist in Canada, would furnish the farmers with credits at about one-fourth the cost of store credits. With such banks the farmers would sell their crops for checks, deposit them in banks and take up their discounted notes in this way. The farmer knows nothing of this method of conducting transactions, and thinks that his needs can be supplied only by making more money cheaper money, if necessary. The farmers, therefore, make no efforts to obtain better banking facili ties. Instead, they work nnd vote against banks and bankers at every op portunity. They tax money nnd' other loanable capital at two or 2 percent, while demanding that interest be re duced to two jer cent. They thus drive away the very money they are to eager to get. In some sections of the south it is 50 oi 75 miles to the nonrest bank. They prohibit branch banks, such as ex ist in Canada and Scotland, to the great advantage of remote country dibtriots. The fnrmera themselves are the great est enemies to what is most needed in their communities flrst-clasH banks of deposit and discount. Mr. Shearman makes this point clear. He hays that Canadian farm era "have suffered from I the fall of prices nnd from every other , alleged result of the siirjrle pokl stand- i ard to the same extent as the farmers I pouth of them. Yet there 1b no bimetal- . lie league in Canndn, and the cry for cheaper money is not hoard. Canada has not only enough money to supply nil of her own wants, but also lends such great amounts in the United States that jealous American bankers some times try to shut Canadian money out." Mr. Shearman sees what too few seem to see that the farmers havo a real monetary or currency grievnnce. lie has indicated what is probably the only woy of giving relief. He offers tomething positive. That the farmers aro not willing to take the only remedy for their ills and prefer the quack free silver and cheap money remedies only prolongs their sufferings and makes a rational solution of tlie money question more difficult and uncertain. W.W. Sunders. Notary 1'ubllo. Ten sions paper of all kinds made out acs otinitely. Legal documents drawa up All business given prompt und careful attention. Wraps. ex --L-vx- Yv pukes r VAND BEST k. HB BiM LESS TH AM HALF THE-PRICE- OF OTHER BRANDS -i-POUNDS.20 -f-HALVESJO QUARTERS SOI n in CANS ONLY Wauted! Air A ." to sell Canada grows Fruit JVLn.l nu Ornumeutul 'itet-H, '' Mlirulm. ItoHPH. Bnlbs and HulbouH Plants. Grape Vines, Small h rutin, Seed Poti toes. etc. we catalogue only the hardiest and most popular varieties that suc ceed In the coldest cllmatea. 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