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THURSDAY, FEUUUAUY 41581
WILL SOME FREE TRADEH REPLY?
Inter Ocean.
Mr. W. Fnrrar Ecrovd. h member of
the uiunuluctuiiii nriston nt of Gr a
Britain, commences u 1. mr ti the Lon
don Tiroes in tlu.se word:
To the editor of thu Timo: Sir: The
grievous injury ii.ilicu-d ly Hie McKi
ley tMiiil on many of our nid.tri will
probably hasten the decline ov the Cob
den Cluli; fur it will be dillieuU to go o.
much longer pro-laimii the .pprich
in world wide tiiuinpti of -trie trade, or
tho niiji ndin rui 1 of pmt.-cti:nist
nations, in fMce of the t;r !it and contin
uing prosperity o! the United S ates
the most resolute and iinp-niteiit of them
all.
Will our American free traders wh(
predict ruin and. diastcr to this licpub
lie "on account of t.uiff" take notic.
of these words? Mr. Ecioyd in a f ri
trader and muniifaniun-r who pr- poses f
retaliatory taiitT on tlx- patt of Enuland
He does not t' in'; that, the McKiuh y bill
Trill ruin American industries. What 1
prophesies is "'the decline of the Cobden
Club in face of the groat and
continuing prosperity of the United
States of America." Won't some Amer
ican free trader convince th.s British fr e
trader of the rror of Ins ways and say
ings?
Mr. Ecrovd in another part of his let
tcr confesses that he does not object to
a 15 per cent tariff on English imports to
any country. Fifteen per cent can be
paid by the English manufacturer as toll
for entrance into a market where he can
compete with the American manufactu
re whose profits, owing to higher wages
and higher interest on money than are
paid in England, are but 0 per cent on
an investment of hundreds of thousands
or perhaps millions of dollars. Won't
some American free trader explain to
Mr. Ecroyd, who is a British free trader
that he is telling the truth at a time
when th success of free trade in America
depends upon telling lies?
Mr. Ecroyd also speaks of "China and
Turkey, whose fiscal policy is a liberal
one," admitting foreign goods free or
nearly so. Won't some American free
trader tell this English free trader to
keeD silent? F-r in America there are
many school houses, in each of which
it is taught that "China and Turkey,
whose fiscal policy is a liberal one," are
about the most poverty stricken nations
on the face of the earth, while the United
StateB, whose fiscal policy is the antipode
of that of China and Turkey, is admitted
by Mr. Ecroyd, on behalf of the British
free traders, to be in poES -ssion of "a
great and continuing prosperity."
Who of our American free traders will
be first to reply 10 this British freetrader.
The typical newspaper man of today
is well-dressed, well housed and well
fed. He has learned that Bohemianiem,
as exemplified by irregular hours, infre
quent baths, and incessant rum, does
not pay, and he has left that sort of Bo
hemianism to chronic bumroerg and
greenhorns. The tone, the morale of
the profession have changed within the
last twenty years, and the public is only
just beginning to find it out. Educated
pepple who keep their eyes open realize
that their notions of the "typical news
paper mat." are sadly out of joint, and
they are revising their types. The pro
fession is sUwly moving towards its
rightful place in public estimation, and
the time :s not very far distant when it
will stand not on e par with but ahead
of tba law, the pulpit, medicine, and
the other liberal professions. In the
meantime we will be obliged to endure
with what grace we may the would be
, brilliant sketches of playwrights and
novelists and the unintentionally stupid
conclusions of misinformed outsiders
who see in every whiskey-sorcbead scrib
bler a typical newspaper man. Printer's
Ink.
Senator Mandebson is said to have
indignantly denied that he ever admitted
that James E. Boyd was entitled t the
governorship. Ho says Boyd was elected
by fraud, and is an alien to boot. A
very considerable number of Nebraaksas
share with the senator in that view of
the case. The election was all covered
over with fraud and intimidation, al
aaott si bad as the southern election
ratsds.
PAYMENTS
FOR FARM
DEBTS. .
The great majority of tha loans now
n rr npr i i stt A 1 nn western and onth-
? 1 t - . - n.., -
rn farms and agricultural property ire
made payaMe in go d or at a gold yalua-
tion. Tliiu affects not only th interest,
but the principal. lhere is a possiouiy
that the b rrower may not. in all cases
be aware of this fct but his ignorance
on thu point will not help him if the con
tingency with the le-der is guarding
agiioai comes to pa s and the country's
monetary system drops to the silver
standard. The exi-tence o this stipula
tion will, of course, be news to the bulk
of the advocntes of free coinage. None
of the leaders in the crusade, though
are under any such disadvantage. Th
in u-t have been expecting this move on
t!ie p.trt of the ! nders all along, and
now thai it has come they are net
startied at it. It was inevitable from
the start. Capital will guard itsself
against possible loss to the best of its abil
ity wh never it receives sufficient warning
of approaching danger. In the present
juncture warning came last summer
when the senate passed a free coinage
measure by a large majority. Then the
peril, in the opinion of lenders, became
imminent, and they at once took such
steps as would afford them a reasonable
measure of protection.
A leading argument used by the free
silver demagogues in this part of the
c untry in favor of their policy is that it
will help the debtor at the expense of a
creditor. It is a discreditable and dis
honest p'ea, and, so far as it affects the
farmers, it is utterly false. Those who
contracted their debts long agomiglit be
benefited in this direction by the throw
ing of the mints wide open to silver, but
for the obligations now being entered into
or which will be entered into hereafter
thin policy can afford no relief. The
farmer who is now borrowing or will bor
row in the future must be injured by any
alteration which is made in the standard.
He contracts to pay in gold or at gold
values, and anything which would put
gold at a premium would hurt him. and
his losses would be directly proportionate
to the premium. The terms of his debt
make it payable in gold or its equivalent
if gold and silver part company. There
is a possibility, to be sure, that with free
silver there would be an advance in
price in the farmer's products propor
tionate to the premium on gold, but he
has no reasonable assurance that such
would be the case. In any e7ent, the
plea that free silver would scale down the
farmer's debts and add to his assets is no
longer tenable, and much of the popular
support which that project has com
manded in the agricultural districts of the
south and west will drop away from it
hereafter. Globe Dem.
Guovku Cleveland's refusal to state
his views on the silver questions reveals
a cowardice which nobody had suspected
of him before this issue came up recently
in its acute form. It is known that he
was strongly opposed, as far back as the
canyass of 1S84. to the coinage ef the
Bland dollar, and he took ground openly
against this policy soon after hiselection
and before his inauguration. During
his presidency he often showed his hos
tility to the white metal. There is no
reason to believe that his opinion on
this subject has changed since he left the
White House. But whether it has
changed or not the "private citizen"
dodge will not relieve him from the ne
cessity of declaring . himself on this
question before the delegates to the
national convention of 1892 are elected."
A short time ago an organization was
formed in the state of New York called
the "Anti-Kidnapiug League," whose ob
ject is to rescue sane persons confined in
asylums for the insane. The league now
reports that it has found that in seven
years 36 persons were confined in the
Buffalo insane asylum, and more than
100 in the Utica asylum in 30 years;
while the average at these, two asylums
is 11 a year. These are public institu
tions, and the facts are admitted by
their officials. But when sane persons
are imprisoned by designing relatives,
they are usually sent to priyate asylums,
not to public ones. When the league ex
tends its investigation to the priyate
madhouses, we may expect a terrible
state of thing to be revealed.
A newspaper is published at Prince
Albert, a small hamlet in the center of
the Canadian Northwest Territory,
called the Prince Albert Britic. Its
size is four pages. The paper has a
circulation of several hundred copies,
and is a specimen of what can be done
by an enterprising journalist without a
lent of type. The matter instead of
being set up in type is written in ink
with an electric pen on prepared paper,
the rest of the issue being imprints of
the original sheet. Lincoln Call.
FAIR FIGHT AND NO FAVOR.
BnCUlo Kx press.
i-Jlr. Sullivan, if you should desire to
fight Corbett, where would the battle
take place?" "Que we'd have it in de
Hiue of Representatives It's de only
place where geats kin fight widout de
autorifles iatrferla'."
COLO
Boyd, th usurper, in still holding on
to be governorship.
The wf ather prophet My we will
haye ice making weather before the win-
j ier mioses. ..
Governor Thatkr is busy preparing
; ni8 meaage. to be delivered during the
first week of February.
It is whimpered that Mr. Cleveland
has a pained, uneasy look whenever he
glances at a nilver dollar in these days,
In Illinois, Kansas and South Dakota
there i- as lively a political contest
coins on as ever occurred in but state
before.
Twenty years he ce: "Paiffer, let's
see Peiffer. Ah! yes, that's the man
without socks, who was once elected to
the senate in place of John J. Ingalls.
Aoain the democratic treasurer finds
himself unable to handle public funds
without stealing. This time it is Town
ship Treasurer Vieth, of Banduaky
Ohio, who levanted with the contents of
the treasury, leaving nothing but a mass
of debts behind him. Next.
Bonanza Mckav and Mr. Bonynge,
an English millionaire, had a fistic en
counter this week in the Nevada Bank in
San Francisco, in which Mr. Mckay wip
ed the floor with the pugnacious Eng'
lishman who provoked the fight. Evi
dently Mr. Mckay knows how to handle
"his dukes" as well as his ducats.
A Richmond dispatch says that the en
niversary of General Lee's birthday,
which has been made a legal holiday in
Virginia, was celebrated "as no Inde
pendence Day has been since the war."
The average Southern idea as to the rel
ative merits of the struggle for American
independence and the effort to break up
the Union could cot be more clearly
shown.
It is said there are at least two men in
the "empire" state that do not think the
election of Gov. Hill t the United
States senate will shelve him in regard
to the presidential nomination in 1892.
One of them is David B. Hill and the
other Grover Cleveland. They are
unanimous upon that point, and tha'
is the reason the democratic, brethren do
r ot "get together" in unity iust now.
A Bill has been presented in the Kan
sas legislature giving the right to vote
and to hold office lo all women of legal
age, ine women ot Hansaa nave en
joyed tor several years the right to vote
in municipal and school elections and to
hold some offices. It will be noticed
before long that those old farmers in
Kansas are no sleepy set. They will do
up tue necessary legislating ana get
home in time for the 3pring crop. Other
states might learn a lesson from Kansas.
Speaker Elder may have lost pres
tige with the ruling element of his party
in the house, but he has not forfeited the
respect of the people. He has a genuine
respect for his oath of office, and con
tinues to show an old fashioned honesty
of purpose the eyin fellow reformers do
not appreciate. He is unlettered and
unfamiliar with parliamentary usage and
egislative tactics, but notwithstanding
these disadvantages he has held the rud
der so true that he has incurred the dis
pleasure of the independent leaders and
gained the confidence of those who
might have had reason nough for dis
trust. Kearney Hub.
TREACHERY AND WEAKNESS.
Des Moines Register.
The republican senate has been demor
alized by the treachery and weakness of
its own members. Don Cameron joined
the conspirators on Monday last and
thus enabled the bulldozers of the South
to ga;n a majority in the senate, while by
the instructions of the platforms on
which the senators were elected, there is
a clear republican majority of fourteen
votes on the questions at ;saue. The
democrats have been well organized,
have been well supplied with "boodle,"
have fought a strong battle, and gained
a dishonorable victory through republi
can weakness, treachery, and stupidity.
The Wild West and the 'Solid South
have joined in an unholy alliance for
pecuniary profit and powei, and the de
ciding vote was gained by the treachery
of one who "is in politics for what there
i in it." There has been no such de
feat for pure government, honor, intelli
gence, and justice since the first battle of
Bull Ran, aad it has all been lost by the
treachery and weakness of those who
have been placed in power with positive
instructions in jegard to the very mat
ters in which they have shown such con
spicuous and unequaled treachery. It is
disheartening for the present, but the
traitors will be retired aad the republi
can party will rise from the disaster all
the stronger and more powerful for the
purification in the tires of weakness and
treachery. Justice will yet gain tho
victory on the yery liae oa which the re
publicans have been temporarily defeat'
ed or the ' republic will be destroyed.
No nation can permanently exist that is
founded or perpetuated on m wrrog.
'Tub representative of the Canadian
Liberal party who is vuiting this coun
try in the interest of reciprocity ought
to receive the assurances which he seeks.
A Parliamentary election in Canada is to
take place at an early day, and if the
Lilerals find that their policy for the
extension of trade witn the .United
States finds favor among leading repub
lic ins here they have a fair chance to
win Mr. Blaine and the other leaders
of the pnrty will undoubtedly be pleased
to state to the t nvov the rrpub ic.m po
sition on this question. Reciprocity
with the other countries of the continent
especially with Canada and Mxico, will
be the chief republican war cry in the
presiden ial and congressional canvass
uext year."
Thb democratic newspapers of Colo
rado are making a treacherous war be
cause it is charged that the state is hav
ing some of its printing done n the cast
Why not go to the cheapest market for
blank books and stationery as well as for
woolen goods and glass ware? If the
state can get a job done in Chicago or
New York cheaper than in Denver or
Pueblo, why not get it for the same rea'
son that the tariff reform democrats
want to go to Europe for everything
that can be bought there for a few cents
less than in America? Why tax the poor
people of Colorado for the benefit of tho
capitalists aad monopolists who own
printing presses in Denver?
The answer to these questions will in
volve a defense of the policy of protec
tion to American industries as cham
pioned by the republican party. No
other argument to justify the course of
the Colorado democrats is possible.
Lincoln Journal.
Annual
Meeting of the Nebraska
Press Association.
Editor Herald: Your correspondent
arrived in Beatrice this afternoon at two
o'clock and took up quarters at the Pad
dock, a very large and well arranged
.hotel, though not near so fine or well-
kept a hostlery as the Riley.
The editors are here from all over the
state, about forty of them having regis
tered at headquarters in the parlors of
the Paddock, and as many more are ex
pected in tonight. A brighter, more gen
ial lot of men could not be called togeth
er from any other profession.
The city is gaily decorated and the
Board of Trade and Beatrice Club are
tireless in their efforts to attend to the
comforts of the members of the editorial
association.
This is the nineteenth seseion of the
association, and unusual interest is mani
fested by the active newspaper men who
seem to realize that their services are
largely paid for in a very cheap article
of wind which cau not be utilized in
paying bills.
Beatrice claims 13,000 inhabitants and
is certainly a very progressive as well as
a handsome city. This county has been
torn asunder by county seat contests
many times, but they have finally settled
their differences, and are now putting
up a building that will cost $ 100.00U.
How long will it be until old Cass, the
banner county of the state can do like-
wise?
Tomorrow morning we take a free
train to the paper mill and a carriage
ride over the city.
There is no snow here and the two
days rain has cleaned up their brick street
pavements (which extend in all direc
tion), adding much to the appearance of
the city.
Tomorrow will be a busy day with the
fraternity which will wind up with a
grand banquet in the evening, P.
January 29, 1891.
The Wabash News says that last Sun
day morning Rey. N. M. Allen who had
tayed over night with Mr C. Le Mas
ters near Elmwood, arose from bis bed
found that bis vest, which contained his
watch had disappeared during the night
After a diligent search the watch was
found in the yard, but the yest did not
put in an appearance, and if it had not
been for a good friend, the clerical gen
tleman would have had to button his
coat to the collar when he preached to
our people Sunday.
The short duration of the cold wave
puts our ice dealers t their studies now
what to do fr ire fr the coming sum
mer. Mr. A. Hill, of King City, Mo, cousin
of W. II. Smith of Rock BlofTs precinct,
aarired last evening and will viiit Mr.
Smith far a week.
The job presses and other material f
the Independent office were shipped lat
evening to the Great Western Tjpe
Foundry of Omaha.
Hon. W. B. hrjock, of LouiTill,
took a brief leave of abseoea fron tha
turmoil mf Lincoln aad accompanied
Hoa. F". E. WTiiU to tat cilj last
mug. .
Tha tmtm MfutaaljT f th Illinois
tegTaUtur fcave decided to ttlck U
ttmtcr fw U. B. Senator, m that tha
prpbesy tka lcal 4eascratie ffu
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