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The Nebraska Advertiser
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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LUKE BKOrilKRM COMPANY,
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it a national organization advocating
"Protection ta American Labor and
Industry" aa explained by its constrtu
tien, as follows :
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Amerioan labor by a tariff on import, whioh ahal
aaiqwataly aaoura Amsriaan Industrial ria'am
again aha oomeatiiisa of forecn labor."
There are no personal or private
profits in connection with the organisa
tion and it is sustained by memberships,
contributions arte! the distribution-efrte
publication.
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eantale eoay of the " Amertaaw Coonomlot."
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