MMI» *° ci«ty ••»Xr*« f£&f. f *:i3iyk^i -f* v -•« ■ * ,•••• •• • •- -4 - PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. VOLUME XVII. SUBSCRIPTION, SI.60 PER ANNUM. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 15, 18967 O. H. CRONIN, EDITOR AND MANAGER. NUMBER 15. NEWS SAIWHISIERS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED , Local Happening* Portrayed Por General Edification and Amusement. D. Sammons, of Amelia, is in the city today- _ If you have number 673 call at Bentley’s. __ H. A. Allen was down from Atkinson Monday. ._ Sanford Parker was over from Spencer yesterday. _ Mrs. O.O. Snyder visited relatives at Allen last Saturday. ir-f Nat Lucia visited over Sunday with relatives at Allen. Attorney C. L. Tahnage, ot Lincoln, transacted business iu the city Wednes day. * Jim Gallagher is down at Neligb this week where be has charge of the station during the absensc of the agent. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Long of Amelia, died yesterday and -was buried today at Chambers. Thomas Kearns, of Park City, Utah, was in the city yesterday. He left for the east this morning. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Chapin, of Wake Held, Neb., were in iu the city last week visiting '.heir daughter, Mrs. S. Barnard. T. J. Birmingham, of Galena, 111., president of the First National bank, is in the city looking after bis business interests. ___ You are going fishing? Well, before you start get your fisbing tackle of Neil Brennan, who keeps everything in the . sporting line. 44-tf . James N. Blakeree, of Diller, Neb., Mrs. Bettie Klinetob, of Inman, were married by Judge McCutchan yesterday. The groom was 53 and the bride 56. Those wanting to buy winter apple toy the barrel will do well to see us be fore buying. 14-15 O’Neill Grocery Co. The Ladies McKinley and Hobart Club will meet Friday evening, October 16, at tine club rooms. All members are earnestly requested to be present. Corbett’s photo studio and dental parlors will be open from October 23 (to 30, J896, inclusive. .9-5 A. H. Corbett. Walter Phillips, of Knoxville, who went to California a couple of years ago has returned and will again take up his residence in this section. He is an uncle of Frank Phillips, of Star. A quaiter section of clear land in Madison ceunty, Mo., assessed valuation 4B7 per acre, to bet against $1,000 that McKinley will b« elected. For further reformation call at the billiar d hall. Don’t trifle away time when you have cholera morbus or diarrhoea. Fight them in the beginning with DeWitt’s Colic and Cholera Cure. You don’t have to wait for results, they are instantaneous, and it leaves the bowels in a health condition. Morris & Co. There is no flour, at any money, as good as White Satin, and there is no flour for the price that equals G. A. It. .‘They cost no more than other flour of cans 12} California Egg Plums, grapes, gages 12} Pie Peaches 31L can 10 Eastern cherries, gooseberries and blackberries three for 25 And many other good drives. O’Neill Grocery Co. STUDENT AGAIN IN8TBUCTS. Mr. McCafferty exhibits the qualities of an apt scholar in at least one respect, the power of imitation. Like his chief, Mr. Bryan, although not in so high a degree.be possesses a peculiar faculty for evading questions that would lead to the utter overthrow of his doctrine. In answer to a question, the foundation for which was laid by himself, and a direct answer to which would involve either an anbandonment of his theory of unlimi ted coinage or place him in the light of an advocate of an almost endless chain of absurdities, he replies that he will answer by asking another. Here, in substance, is the question put to him: "If it is the height of nonsense that the bullion value of a dollar affects its value as money, why, under a system of unlimited coinage, might not gold and silver be coined at a ratio of 1 to 1?" He answers the question by asking authority for the assertion that the government keeps gold and silver at a parity on condition that it be allowed to limit the coinage of silver! A most pertinent answer indeed! It is about as easy to trace the relation between Mr. McOafferty’s "answer” and the question as it is bis kinship to Adam and Eve. But Mr. Me. must admit tbe facts, as he tacidly has done, that the government is pledged to maintain the parity, and that it is possible to carry out this pledge only by powff tp cpntro) silver coinage. It i6 a principal of law that an auO)oi>itar tive act implies the necessary means tq carry it into effect. This I will leave to any attorney of repute in town, regard less of his party affiliations. But, as before stated, this has not one thing to do with the question pnt to Mr. Me. He has merely takeu umbrage un der it to avoid a direct answer. Mr. McCafferty wastes a large amount ot space in rehashing the opinions of commissions and individuals upon finan cial quest|on«|. He tplglit spend aljfp time transcribing the opinions of the most eminent men who have ever ex pressed themselves upon either side, or upon both sides, of the question, or upon any question, and still he would not baye furnished sufficient material to support a ya|id poppjqgion—a conclusion capable Qf enforcing a conviction. J don’t wish to be understood to mean that the opinions of others are of no value, or of little value. What I mean is that an "opinion" never loses its character until it is verified, and it then becomes a "fact.” Hence, all tbe opin ions advanced since the creation ot man upon any one subfect would be insuffi cient to disprove a single fact relating to the same subject. ft )t pqerllp, therefore, to offer naked opinion, po ujatter wliat ipay pe the character of the author, iu support of a theory disproved by every known faot relating to it. The history of the civil ized world, on the financial question, affords far more proof than is necessary to show the futility of attempting to keep gold $Dtl silver circulation under a system of unlimited coinage at aqy put their commercial ratio or one very close to that. It is not necessary, in fact It might be justly denominated pedantry, to fill up a newspaper by quoting author ities in support of this. It is known to every one who has given the slightest attention to the financial history of this and other oiviliged countries, yet, after the experience of centuries to the con trary, wc find a glibe-tongued dema gogue able to force the belief upon bis votaries that he is capable of overturn ing wnat is next to a law or nature. *Vnd he $ept forth a roan from Qmaha to show how it pan bp dfipp. The {lustra: tion is very simple and harmless in itself, but none the lesB deceptive. He told his dupes (and of course they applauded vo ciferously) that the ratio of value be tween the two metals would be governed by the same law which would preserve a level in two tanks filled with liquid and connected bv a pipe although you should turn the faucet loose in cither. Now this is certainly very simple and. in regard to preserving the level of (he liquod, it is true, being governed by a law of hydrostatics. Financial princi ples, however, are not governed by hy drosdatic laws. The principle govern ing the circulation of two metals of different commercial values under a system of unlimited coinage js what is known as the "Gresham Law.” It is, to put it in a few words, this: When the commercial value of! the two metals differs, the cheaper metal goes to the mint, and the dearer one to the market. It is easy to see that neither law has any similarity with the other. J think, however, that Mr. Mc Caffeity’s faith In the application of the tank fake to the financial question would largely depend upon the kind of liquid the tank contained. Omitting the numerous "opinions” (mostly of the forbidden foreigners) offered by Mr. McCafferty.as "immaterial incompetent and irrelative,” there is little left for consideration. Mr. Me. errs in saying that all agree that there is not enougtv actual cash to do the business of the country.' He can not claim a deficiency of currency while millions upon millions of dollars are lying idle, the owners being afraid to invest under the present disturbed con dition of the country. After the ides of November, when the tocsin peals the glad tidings of William McKinley’s election, then we will find that, once more, the hoarded millions, rushing into the channels of trade, whirling round the wheels of industry, thereby affording the laborer and mechanic an opportu nity to exchange muscle for food and clothing, this land of liberty will resume the accustomed condition of happiness and prosperity incident to republican rule, bringing peace and lov to the hearths and homes of even those who are banded together for its humili ation and, perhaps, destruction. The conduct of the Yale students Mr. Me., received the prompt condemnation of the republican press and people. It was otherwise with the Bryanite press towards the disgraceful conduct the hoodlum element of its party toward Bourke Cochran at nearly every place of note that he delivered an address. At Omaha it is said that Br/an’s private secretary was the leader of the ruffians, and Bryan's mouthpiece, the World Herald rather defended than condemned the rascality. If you enn establish equality of con dition among the people of the earth, Mr. Me., yop are just the man we want, provided the condition be a happy one. But you can’t, with the vast amount of experience before us, and which still continue to stare us in the face, make us believe that you can accomplish it by placing the country on a silver basis, which must inevitsbly result from your theory of unlimited coinage at 16 to 1. We turn in disgust from the condition of the unfortunate people of China, Japan and Jndia, and also from that of opr southern neighbor, Mexico, a« given in the report, just published, of the Trades' and Labor committee sent to ex amine into the condition of labot in that free silver country. It seems there were poor,, aiid wealthy in the time of the Savior—“the poor ye have always with you,” Jfe said- These conditions are likely to pontlnue. fyr a comparison of the condition of the people under a gold with that of those under a silver, stand ard, you pan very plainly see that your cure (silver basis,) if there is a disease, is worse than the malady itself. John acts like the finder of a she horses nest in his remarks on bimetal lism. Bimetallism, John, m any other sense than that of concurrent circula Mon may be bimetallism in pa^e, but that Is all; and I apk, whqt i$ tbe use of tbe name Without thp substancef Again: You say no silver standard country ever claimed to have bimetallism. You also deny that gold standard countries have bimetallism. Where, then, according to your notion, can a bimetallic country be found? No where 1 The gold standard cotintrieg of tofiay tylefl fur years, as tbeir histories show, to maintain concur rent circulation under unlimited coinage. They tailed. But they have in use to day about as jnuch silver as they have gold, while there is not a single silver standard country able to keep one dollar of gold in circulation. Not only that, (hp gold standard countries heye several times more silypr in use, per capita, than the silver standard countries. These are facts, not opinions. What hope, then, is there of increasing the circulation,admitting it were insufficient, by adopting unlimited coinage at 10 to 1, Which WPH'd Unquestionably place us upon a silver basis, and consequently drive gold out of circulation? The facts are all to the contrary. The royal commission theory of bimet allism would be effective if the "ratio fixed by law" was the commercial ratio, and there were no fluctuations in the market. But one of the necessary con ditions (non-fluctuation) is impossible of affirmation; therefore the conclusion cannot follow. It must have been about bed time when Mr. Me. wrote that the value pos sessed by gold and silver over the baser metals was given them |bv law. It is strange why the law had not the same effect in regard to the baser metals—iron, brass and copper—when they were used as lawful money, vis: to make them more valuable than the precious metals. It seems it didn’t, though. You are wrong end to, this time, John. Gold and silver were selected for use, and re main in use, as money, because of the universal preference for them. After arousing from your lethargy, you seem to realise this fact when you state that "gold’s relative value of sixteen times (you should have said thirty-two times) as much as silver is nothing more than a fiction of the human mind ratified by law.” Das so, as the darkey said, first the preference, then its embodyment in .aw. The attempt to show that it is imma terial whether, in expressing a change in the prices of commodities, you say that the value of commodities has de clined or that of money has advanced, or vice versa, can be true only when the comparison is made between the stand ard of value and a single commod ity or when the , value ' of ail commodities are affected alike. The ' prices of some farm pro ducts, such as: the cereals, are said to have declined between ’78 and ’92, while the price of eggs and 'ojtter remained practically unchanged, and that of labor had considerably advanced. Now, under these circumstances (which are verified by the senate committees’ report of ’94) can we truthfully make the general assertion that "money has be come dearer,” during the period referred to? Evidently not. In the case of cereals, we might say it had becomo dearer, in the case of butter and eggs j etc., that it had remained practically the same, while, in regard to labor, it had actually become cheaper. The necessity for a standard is, that we may compare other things with it and thereby be enabled to give expression to their values in relation io it. The illustration of the boys playing "teeter," Mr. Me., is similar to that of the ‘two casks.” The paralell might be admitted it, in the case of commodities, as already stated, all should vary, in regard to the standard, in like proportion at the same time, and that one of the boys were regarded as a “standard” of position. I have already shown the fallacy of the proposition that “the prices of com modities are governed by the amount of money in circulation.” It is strange that any man possessing a grain of com mon sense would give credence to an assertion that is contradicted by almost daily experience. It ia plain to anyone not blinded by prejudice or hypnotised by demagogues, that prices advance and decline under copd|Uuna directly opposite to what is claimed by this doctrine. We find in our own country and right at home here that the prices of commodities de cline, without a contraction of the cur rency, and advance when it was said the currency was growing less. “Mi is un necessary to go any further for proofs although they can he furnished in abund ance, and easily. You seem to wish to leave the impres sion, Mr. McCafferty, thati you have done some tall reading on questions financial and economical. Perhaps so. But if you have, I submit that it has done you more injury than benefit. You seem to have grasped nothing but the grossest absurdities of your authors, and to have wasted valuable time which yov\ might have improved in doing a little studying yourself. One year spent in faithful study is worth a life time spent in cramming your brain with the undigested thoughts of others. The most powerful intellects of every age have very often been diametrically op posed on the most important questions that baye been offered lor solution. } This should teach us that we should not endorse the opinlou of any one, no mat ter bow eminent, without first digesting the question, impartially, for ourselves. I think, Mr. Me., that if you had acted upon this principal you would not have been led into such absurdities. Change at once, and I am satisfied you will make up yoqi mind to vote for William McKinley. Student. WE GLADLY ACCEPT SIEVES, gold, or any kind of U. S. currency when tendered in payment fer tickets over our line, besides making your money worth more than via other lines, for time is money, and we save you three hours time to Sioux City and beyond. Buy local tickets to O’Neill and rebuy there via the Pacific Short Line. Immediate connections every day except Sunday. BUY THE BEST. TTllJ *-'.r Every Pair is Warranted. J. P, MANN. L* V. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Micwlty for Adopting tin Amndawl Enlarging the Supreme Court. Of these there are twelve in namber. Provision has been made by statute so that a vote maybe cast upon these amendments as a whole or with refer* enoe to each separately, The first amendment on the official ballot is to increase the number of supreme judges of this state from three, its present number, to five. The necessity for this increase becomes dear when we reflect | that in the supreme court there are now undisposed of 1.675 oases and that the very highest average rate at which cases have heretofore been disposed of is 660 per annum. To clear the docket of pending oases would require the court as at present constituted, to work mare than two years.- The oases being com menced in the supreme court are at the rate of 740 annually, so that with a dear docket to commenoe with it would be impossible to dispose of oaaea as fast as they are filed There is no danger that a majority of those voters who vote upon this amend ment will vote against it. An amend ment to prevail must receive a majority of all votes oast at the election at which it is submitted. For example let it be assumed that at the coming election there will be cast the highest number of votes for governor. If the aggregate number of votes oast for all the oandi dates for governor equals 800,000 a con stitutional amendment to be adopted must receive 150,001 votes, for the re quirement is that the amendment must BBOBIVK A MAJORITY OF ALL THE VOTX8 oast at the blbotion lit which it is sub mitted. From the figures as to the con dition of the business of the supreme court above given, it would seem that this particular amendment will meet with no opposition. But this is not enough. A majority of the entire num ber of electors who vote in Nebraska on November third next must express them- * selves in favor of thia amendment or it will nos be adopted. THE CROS3 AND CROWN Written for The Boo. Spank not ao lightly of the orowu of thorns, It pieroed the temple* onoe of God’s own non t The leered emblem only all adorns, Profane association, do thou shun. Prate not too loudly of a cross of gold. The cross He carried was so sanctified nut bat to name it makes the blood ran oold, And shows the darkened field on whloh He Thy vain ambitions are too small for this, Par mortal oraying* let the earth soffioe; The crown of Christ, His oroas, are both a They lire to point the way to Paradis*. Isanab Bicut. 11 Business confidence,” says McKin ley, “is what the country wants.” It had business confidence when the Re publicans were in control of the govern ment under President Harrison. It will hare business confidence again when the Republicans are restored to power under McKinley.—Omaha Bee. The wooing of the old soldier vote by the free silver press is not likely to be attended with mnch success so long as . sneers and insults are continually hurled by these papers against the brave gen erals whom the old soldiers still love and reverence.—Omaha Bee. A vote for J. H. MacOoll far gover nor is a vote for practical business ad ministration of the state affairs, and Nebraska is sorely needing such an ad ministration.—Broken Bow Republican. “The idea that the government can create wealth is a myth. The only thing that oan create wealth is labor.”—Wil liam McKinley. What a Prominent Insrsnee Kukja H. M. Blosaom, senior member of H, M. Blossom & Co., 217 N. 3rd 8t. Louie | writes: I bad been left with a eery die- - treating cougb, the result of Influenza, which nothing seemed to relieve, until 1 took Ballard’s Horehound Syrup. One bottle completely cured me. I sent one bottle to my sister who bad a severe cough, and she experienced immediate relief. I always recommended this syrup to my friends. John Cranston 908 Hampshire Street, Quincy, 111., writes: I have found Ballard’s Horehound Syrup superior to any other cough medicine I have ever known. It never disappoints. Price 25 and 50 cents. Free sample bottles at P. C. Corrigan’s. What is a Qaranteef It is this. If you have a cough or cold, a tickling in the throat, which keeps you constantly coughing, or if you are afflicted with any chest, throat or lung trouble, whooping cough etc., and you use Ballard’s Hoarhound Syrup as directed, giving it a fair trial, and no benefit is experienced we authorize our advertised agent to refuod your money on return of bottle. It never fails to give satisfaction. It promptly relieves bronchitis. Price 25 and 50 cents. Free sample bottles at P. C. Corrigan’s. 4 LADIES ATTENTION! We have now open for inspection six nice decorated dinner sets, bought direct from the manufacturers at un- ' heard of prices for this kind of ware. One hundred pieces in each set for onl 97.50. Come in and look them over. 15-2 O’Nxnj. Grocery Co , .v.