Tin: wi:i-KLViii:itALi): vi.vn smpith, m-isiiaska.sk i-tkmuku -j-. im)2. THE HERALD. I I IM. I -II Hi 1, VII V I IT -I NOW OSMON M. PETERSON. Editoh. KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. li VII V l.l'l I ! i. t mo Year (in iit atieci - yi fi Six in t Mil liy Currier, per n k j i i k i.v -: i 1 1 nv. One lear in iuIviiiii o, Jl "'i I f mil : i I in in! v iinrr. 'i Six 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 . . . 7.'i 'I II roc iiiiml li- Vi Ti lrpliunr Xiitulicr H MokfoN isj.m lining t 1 1 1 1 1 1 y dem ocrat and there are many l them in this ruiuitry. If tlic Ii-ii 1 1 n' ra 1 ic hoii-e can mt' pass a free silver I i ' I with it' present majority, it will have ti wail, a ron time licliirc it get' another one a hi"-. Tm.m W'ATsoN is said Id believe that if the democratic inaiurity in congress returned tliis fall the only thing left for them to ilu to express their feelings is to go t f and get lieastly HuhVr. As the proceedings of n T il 1 1 ' 1 ii-;i II eon vent inns in one state after another came to hand, the lat'tinnal squabhlos ami Contentious the democratic press has been telling ahout fail to material i'.e, M IV. JoN'KS of the Second said at last night's meeting of the council that the newspapers were "not run nine; this council." We know of no reputable newspaper which would care to assume that honor. Till: council seems to have recog ni.ed puhlic opinion in one case, hut compulsion made the economy numbers so mad that they retali ated liy stopping Ilu work on the water main extrusion. Till-; unnecessary expense in vol veil liy the council's, extra meeting on the paving question eat up ;dl that "caving" on the city printing made liy robbing the newspapers of their just dues. Great economists! TlIK public schools have leen and will continue to he a great aid in maintaining u sound government and thereliy the republican party in control of (he government, lidiicatinu always aids the republi can party. TlIK mugwumps have given up trying to show that hard times are due to protection, because there are no hard times. They have to sat isfy themselves with Hie assertion that the universally conceded pros perity in not due to protection. The trouble with the democratic free trader is the source of his sta tistics. Instead ot inquiring of the retail dealer at hisii.vu door he sub scribes for C'obijcn club literature. Of course the cost of living in creases with each free trade pam phlet. The democratic legislatures which enacted gerrymanders in Michigan, Wisconsin and New York were apparently believers in Un celebrated sentiment expressed by the Hon. Timothy J. Campbell of New York: " The constitution don't cut no figure." Xo new public buildings, no new river and harbor improvements, no new ships for the navy, no appro priations for mi) thing that can, by any possibility, be shifted on the future as a deficit - that is the policy of the overwhelming majority ut the democratic party. I'm: New York Sun claims to have forced the retirement of the "Force" bill as an issue. Tin's claim is sandwiched into a frantic adjura tion not to allow the force bill is sue to be obscured. The Snn should pause Ion-- enough to in quire: "Where was I at KlUTiilc (iunKlN.ot The New York .livening Post, has sutlered the pains of tpiarantine. lie is con firmed iu his laisser fain- theory of the taritr on imports a. id would probably like to extend it to cholera ho long as the protective tariii (MI cholera keeps him iu (piarantine. It MAY be a hardship for tlie un fortunate people who are aboard the infected steamers, but it is bet ter that they sutler a little than that U'j.OOti.iX.n men. women and chil dren should be exposed to the chol era. It is one of the inconveniences that attend the rich on their trips to liurope. Till-: 1 1 i:kALI today again gives roomttiitseditori.il columns to a democratic sermon in regard to free trade by Dr. Dana, the greatest editor iu the democratic party. We commend it to the careful and prayerful consideration of our democratic free trade friends in .Nebraska. DEMOCRATIC FALSE PHETENSE Ilmi. W.I. . Wil-on, congressman from West Virginia. h.iJ written an arti.'le for tb.e oi t h ni-iicau Re view on "the iariif plank at Chi cago," ili icli ci nta in- Miine ast.ui-i-hiug admis-ions and some highly significant assertions A- Mr. Wilson is really the leai'cr of bis side of hoii-i- iu in itters of the tar ill, and a- he was chairman of the convention w hich nominated (Tc-e-l.iixl, his utterances must he ac corded authority. Here is one of bis admissions regarding the Chi cago platform that the people should think about'. "There is need fur little coitum nt upon the paragraph" oi the report of thecomiliittee which were trick eii out in tin- fight (namely, tho.-e repeating the language of the plat form ot is I, pledging the party of revise the t.iri'.l iu a spirit ol fair ness to all interests, and protesting an intention to promote tie' hearty growth ol domestic industries!. They were no longer aid", hut eu iiinlirani'es in the light. I he tem per and the courage ol tin- parly arc mightily different in JV'L' liom what they were in 1.1; wii.it was iicccss.-y prudence then would be cowardice now." It was on the platform of 1-M that drover Clevel.ind vci- elected presi dent. Hi re is a trunk a hnission from high democratic authority that that platform was a false pre tense, used as an "aid" by masking t he real in lent ions of the party be hind protestat ions of regard tor tlu great interests it was intended to attack. Mr. Wilson must have orgoiion the following words, uttered by Grovcr Cleveland in reply to hi own notification to that gentleman iu Madison Square garden that he had been nominated for president again. Said Mr. Cleveland: "Ours is not a destructive party. We are not at enmity with the rights of any of our citi.ens. All are our countrymen. We are not reckles.-ly heedless of any Ameri can interests, nor will we abandon our regard for them." 1 1 was precisely this kind of talk in the campiign ol ls4 that Mr. Wilson says: "What was necessary prudence then would be cowardice now." lividently M r. Cleveland has (pialms of something very like what Mr. Wilson frankly calls cowardice, and, like Falstatf on the battlefield, is inglorioiisly disposed to lie down upon any signs of life in the adversary, and to flourish his potent sword over him when he appears dead. . Hut Mr. Cleveland's "prudence" will not avail to obscure the bold and uncompromising utterance of the Chicago platform, indorsed by the overwhelming majority of the convention on ;i delibeiate vote by states: "We denounce republican pro tection as a fraud, a robbery ol the gnat majority of the American people lor tin- benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the democratic party that the Federal government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only." No man doubts that M r. Cleveland once elected, would give his hearty approval to a measure em body lug these principles, and that he would lend his influence to securing its enactment by congress. TlIK majority of working men in this country can now read and write. That is the one great secret of the loss of prestige among work ing men by the democratic party. The democratic party must change its present policy if it desires the confidence of the intelligent and in dustrious working man. I l. Mi una nominees for con gress in I'l un-y hii.iia are declining- to rim, through fear that they w ill be opposed by Chairman Harrity ol the democratic .National committee. Harrity leads a ileum cratie faction in Pennsylvania, and is apparently determined to exter minate l-.is opponents iu his own parly. What with running the New York legislature, suffering debate in the I'nited State senate, an 1 try. ing to prevent the National house of rcprcsenulivcs from unseating democrats who were never elected. Havid II. Hill h,,s his hands full. I!v careful inquiry of the leading tax payers the members of the council could get some valuable information in regard to the esteem in which their recent actions are beld by the public. Tin: talk about the presidential contest being thrown into the bouse is all nonsense. It will be decided at the polls, and very em pliatically, too. The Journal's attention is respect fully called to the speech of the Hon. J. Sterling Morton at Liucolu last eveuin CONNECTICUT. NEW JERSY, AND NEW YJKK. New V. ,irk Sun ,t. 17 . I lein.it' rat n). 1 be experience of those who have been under lire iu an engagement i- usually to In- preferred to the sentiments of fair-weather warriors who.-c knowledge of actual warfare is obtained at second hand. We are reminded of this by what seems to be a breach (may it extend no further !i separating the democrats of the west and the democrats of the east by the maintenance of two political headquarters, and the progress ,4 the tight on two dif ferent issues. Our democratic friends iu the state of Connecticut who know what it is to fight valiant battles for their party's cause, who meet their republican foes lace to face and usually overpower them, and in two memorable years of demo cratic success. l-7ti and 1SI, were found at 11. e head of the successful column with their electurial votes on lb- right sue. d d in it have any thing to say tuv on tig free trade iu their plait adopted on Tuesday. "In r.ii-ing- the iii'i'i'-siry icvcnue," (let lure thi-M- h ir I headed Nut meg democrat, wi.ithy successors of Sey niiiiir, Katun, and liai niuu, 'taxes colli eled at I ie cu-toin houses should be the chief source "-I'pply." Then they add: " There should be careful regard for the interests ol our domestic in dustries and tor the just wages of American workingmeu." No free trade in theirs ! The democrats of Nw Jersev, true-blue members of a parlv which does not know what it is to be deb uted there, iu their Trenton convention on Wednesday had much to say about riparian lauds, Ihe Saturday half holiday, the Slate Agricultural College, free reading rooms in towns, the estab lishment of a commission of mines, anil othcrcognatc matters; but they were silent about raxing custom houses and supporting the govern ment by any of the vagaries pro posed elsewhere, such as a tax on matches, a tax on incomes, or a single tax on laud. Nobody needs to be told where New York, with the democrats iu the majority, stands ou the tarilt issui. Its fa dories and workshops and the labor of those iu them, enormously product ive and steadily increasing, answers that question and points out the utter folly of a fight ou free trade lines here. A somewhat different view act uates some of our radical free trade friends in the west, it would appear. They desire to sol, merge all other issues, to affront all other interests, and to affright the whole voting public by going in for all they are worth for free trade.double distilled and warranted to kill at fifteen paces, Hut when it comes to considering on the one side claims ,,f the earn est democrats in the east, who look with ihe confidence of hope unap peased to Mr. W. F. Harrity as their political guiding star, and, on the other, those earnest democrats of tbe west, this fact is to be consi dered: the iliinocrats of the east bave a record of victories in the past, which is the best pledge of triumphs in the future. They"have uief tin- eiieinv, and th-v have repeatedly knocked h i m out . They are ready to do so again. Our western democratic friend bave, so to speak, no record what ever. They have never carried a presidential Contest successdilly in one oi their states. h,,t ,u. ,-',.,. c-cr.us ,,f Illinois, Wiscon-in. ()'.;.c Iowa, Kansas w nld be able to do if there were a lew thousand.- lewer rcpu'.lieaiis iu th,.-e stale-, cannot be known; but they have m er car ried one of them i,, ,, National con test for thirty year-. More than tin-. tl. republican candidate iu the present , leetion j a uestciii man, feivenlly supported for rem. mm. Hi, ni ,;, the deleg.aes in nearly all the stale- which sanguine democratic Hi, nds pro pose contesting, lathe live st. He id Illinois, Indiana, Kansas. Iowa and Wiscon.-in, Mr. Harrison re ceived in the Minneapolis council tion 111 votes, iiiul his opponents, eollei lively. Id. The republicans of those states manifestly desired bim as the,,- standard bearer, and presumably they would ii-.t have done so had not he represented is sues and purpose- nio-t favorable to their success The democratic can I d. He for president wi- chosen from the east. All other things apart it cannot therefore be the course of w isdom for the democrats having their head in the present contest an eastern man, and having the best prospects of success in the eastern states, to abandon them to gi political wool-chasing in the western states. That's why we think the judg ment of the democrats of the three decisive states of the east, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, is sound and defensible when they avoid, as they would an ill omened epectre, the issue of free trade. I s-is known to be the hot bed of the calamity party. One y ear ago their p-oniises of reform were long and loud. Several counties in the state elected peo ple's party commissioners, and are now being awarded tor so doing. In nearly every instance the county printing and other public patron age iu these counties has been let to the alliance organe at full legal rates against the bid of the old party papers to do the work for fifty per cent, or even less. The people who pay the taxes do not appreciate this subsidising of these so-called r.-fiirmed papers. In two judicial districts iu the state of Kansas, people's party judges now occupy the bench. Many of the farms in the counties comprising these districts were mortgaged in '"-i and 'ss. These mortgages are now becoming due. The loan com panies holding- the old securities are refusing to renew the same, ow ing to the un just disi'i iminat ion. In some instances the partiality shown the farmer by these judges result virtually iu the repudiation of the debts. TlIK bibs which the democrats have oil'eied iu congress will be ollered to the couuPy as the plat form of t lie party on the tarilf ques tion. Yet the authors of those bills have been frank iu their avowal that if the democrats are given power on that comparatively mod crate plat lorm their purpose is to break down the w hole tariff system. The action by which the house de clined to consider the island bill will be pointed to as proof of the moderate sentiment of the ileuio cr.itic party is known to favor free coinage of silver, and their leaders are frank to acknowledge that if they are put in power at thecoining election they will consider them selves authori.ed to rip up the financial sy stem of the country by passing a free coinage bill. This is the characteristically dishonest ami straddling position if tie demo crat ic party for many years. " TlIK maintenance of party lines." say s Cardinal i: bbous, "is an in dispensable means for preserving political purity." The warfare between good and evil in this world is incessant, and it is, there fore, necessary to have a democrat ic as well as -4. republican party. If all were republic. ins good govern ment would be so well assured that the people would sink into apathy and indifference While there is a function for the democratic party ti till, it is, however, important that that party should not grow too 1 urge TlIK free-silver coinage people who have the payment of their own securities tightly insured in gold, think the territory of Arizona ought not to be allowed to secure to her creditors the same good payment, "because it tends to discredit one of the money metal.-." Arizona will thereby be obliged to pay just twice as much interest on her bor rowed money as she would with the gold security. Tin: "Columbian party." like a crowd on the horizon, i-- no larger than a man's hand. Hut if. the Chi cago convention having failed to nominate Cl-velau I, the "Colum bians' should, the plot would thicken like smir milk with corn meal stirred in. Why tu.tr Cleve land was always and entirely a mugwump rather thali a democrat. I l the democrats shouted 1 " There is a siirnlns in the iiv:ia.rv K-'duce tbe tarilt and the revenue-.'" Now the cry is. "ihe sur plus in the trea-ury is exhausted, 1 reduce the tariff and the revenue-.'' Whiih mean- that th- principal point with tbe democrat-, is to re duce or abolish the t iriif without leg, .id to the nee 1 of the r Vei;le. I ! I I ,. VI I SMI I II. of Arizona, is a free 1 uiii'igc advocate; yet be save the striking' out of the territorial law of the prov is'.on in,, King inter est on Arizona's bonds pay. ,Me in gold will oblige the people 1 1 1 that territory to pay ju-t double the amount of interest 011 their debt that they would have to do with the gold provision. If drov er Cleveland goes b.u k on the National platform tariff plank what will be the situation of our Willie ltryan '.- To be off color on the tarilf and mom y que stio., both, will be interesting -although we suppose nothing will tmharass that "Young Man After Office. ' The cholera is in New York and now the World-Herald of Omaha with our own livening Journal have something substantial to charge opto the McKmliy bill. Cillis.-ii!.iv' Pixk wasindotsed by the democratic labor committee of the forty-eighth cjngress; but that was before he had made a record for speaking the truth. I TO RESTORE THE SUCAR DUTY One of the leading magnates of j the democratic party declares that I ju.-t a- soon as the democrats get I the power they will re-impose the j sugar duties and abolish the duties I wool, salt, lumher.coal and iron. nuouote liy such a program is popular among- the democrats says the it. Louis Cilobe-Deniocrat. It has been announced often and emphatically by democratic leaders. If they were in power iu the executive and legislative branches of the government today this policy would be pushed. It is the essence and practical application of what is theoretically called free trade. Free trade , lire and simple is not practicable iu a nation like ours. Nobody except a few wild men like Henry George and Frank Hurd ask for any such things. . hirg- part of tlie money to pay Ihe expenses of running- the government must come from the custom house as duties 011 imported good.-. It is on the question of the rate of duties and the articles on which they are to be levied that the difference between the two great parties comes iu. I he democrats would have the bulk of the duties lev ied 011 goods 1,1. .. ...1.: ... . . -oi,. 11 . on n ean not i,e pro- di need in this country at all. or pro duced only in insignificant quanti ties, letting nrtielessiich as are pro duced here in important quantities, wool, iron and lumber, either ome in free or under a low duty, bile the republicans would let the rmer articles in free and keen an idoquatc duly on the later. The emocratic policy is called free trade, or a tariff for revenue merely, while the republican policy is called protection. The republican idea, we feel con fident, has the favor of the majority of the people. I'nipiestiomibly this has been true in the past, and there is no room to doubt that it is true in the present. Sugar, a non competitive article, which for physi cal reasons, t-im m.v,.r . raised iu this country except in trivial quan tities in comparison with our needs, must continue to come in free, while wool, which is an important domestic commodity, constituting the chief means of support of hundreds of thousands of farmers, must retain the duty. The republi cans removed the duty from sugar, and the country appears to be pleased with this action. It ought to be pleased, for the removal leaves fcT .' . K) every year iu the pockets of the people which other wise would have gone into the treasury. To this extent every twelve months the people are ri .her for this policy. These being no domestic Competition in sitjiar raising the duty was added to the price, and the consumer had to pay it. When this article was placed on the free list it was instantly cheap ened to the extent of the duty taken off. Along to April, 1SU1. when the abolition of the duty took effect, only 1." or l'i pounds of sugar were obtained for a dollar; since then the same amount of money pur chases J1 or JJ pounds. The coun try will not submit to a return to the old conditions. The party which proposes it will be beaten at the polls. The calamity craze sprang into existence as the result of poor crops. It was most prevalent in the western and northern states. The farmers in these localities were poor men who were struggling to make for themselves and families homes upon the lands the republi can party had given them under the provisions of the homestead and pre-empt it'll laws. The failure of each succeeding crop reduced them financially lower and lower, until in their desperation they were willingtobelieveth.it the govern ment, and especially the republi can pa riy, was responsible for their inistoiTimes. Scheming politicians took advan tage of the si I uat ion and the result was the calamity party. K'e.ison wa- dethroned and fanaticism reigned supreme. With the year s'.i came good crops. Kansas alone released over S I.HHIi.ooo of mortgage indebtedness. Nebraska fell in line with nearly us much more. I he fanners prospered. U'eason returned, resulting in the gradual decline of the calamity howl. I he present crop prospects lor tbe western states were never better, and with returning prosper ity will return the old-time republi can majorities. Reciprocity has made a market in Cuba for over a million barrels of American Hour every year. In the year lvm the value of exported hams to Cuba was only !f.'ltf.. I'lider reciprocity, however, iu November, lso), these exports amounted to sx t.s," l. The farmers of the west and northwest can ap preciate these facts, as wheat and pork are the principal things they have to sell. Mk, Hk-yan' is such a perfectly lovely uiau to hold his temper (':) I THE TIN PLATE LIAR. miy inree years ago the vill. ' ot Llwood contained only al ''Ni inhabitants ay the Chi Inter-Ocean. It was in nowis tin. I'till... 1.1 . ...-."siiuuie ironi a great n little rural centers in Indian.,1 the Country generally. Now , a population of ver f..(Ki. It become a center of skilled iiidusl hvery farm thereabouts ha creased in value with the mark thus afforded for perishable pr, ducts, and ti e bcnef.tsof thi.-tran (formation ;.re shared by all tin I lieoiile ut 1l1.1t ri.'i.iiiv ri. . . -- ' oe par ticular industry which is niakhi. the town prosperous and spicious is tin-plate making, amount of capital invested this establishment is it'.H M,(lHt. grand rally of republicans at town Tuesday, with a speech l Coventor Mclxinley and a form recognition of the new industr have conspired to set the tongue . the tin-plate liar to wagging again hvery Cleveland organ in tl' country gives a yelp of pain gestive of the canine whose tail, I t-1 1 r , . . , ... 1 11 .-11 ppeu on. 111 an me 1 paign Iran, Is ol lS'.IO the tiu-pla liar dies tlie hardest, and is 1110 disdainful of the absolute denioi strations of actual facts ao leature ot the present tarii was entered upon with so miii timidity as this one on tin, or, to I ini'i e 1 aci, me 1 wo on till, it tin, W agieat deal ol courage 011 Maci Mclxinley's part to brave the bitter hostility which it aroused. The entire democracy cried out in mingled indignation and ridicule against it, and the opposition in the republican ranks was not confined by any means to such freetraders os the editor of The Tribune. liven genuine protectionists, iu many cases, drew the line at tin-plate. First, they believed that we could not find the raw tin in suf'fi cient quantities to meet the honn demand or any con.siderab part of it, and, second, tin did not think the plate con be produced at a low enou; rate tojustify the attempt. Tinwa' is such a universal necessity thai 1.1 I .. : , . . . . "oioii oe impolitic 10 taKe 1 cliances on making it dear. Iu tin face of this opposition the boos- cojsented. under McKinley'a lead, to go right ahead and levy protec tive duties. No one has had to pay any higher price for his tinware. The man's dinner pail and his wife's dishpati are as cheap as ever, with every prospect of a reduction, and a great industry has been create w here none whatever existed befo or could exist now were it not f pioicciive (nines. 1 tie capacity TC the mills already in operation is LW.IKNUXX) pounds of plate a year. I he old duty-1 cent a pound af forded no protection and was there fore "a tariff for revenue only. The capacity of our present mills about one-third the actual require ments of the country. It is safe to say, in the light of developments up to date, that before another presidential campaign tin will take its place with sjlt and many other staples, once almost wholly matter ost wholly matter I ilmost wholly of I ion, and cheaper 't than it was as irtation. of import, now a domestic production, as a home prodiu an article of import; 1 he governor of Ohio was not the only speaker of Tuesday who showed up the tin-plate liar. Gen erai ureeii it. ivaiim, l ommissioner of Pensions, delivered an address- that same day in Chicago. H stated, among other things, that wo have today forty. two establish ments interested in the maniifac Hire of tin-plate, twenty-six of them in full blast. There is no escape for the tin-plate liar. CALL (iall with a large "(1" will no cover the manifesto issued by the.1 National democratic committee this morning congratulating Un democratic party ovei the election in Arkansas. W hy not embrace the late Alabama election r Tbe deui. ocratie party is th- thankfulest or gan izat ion we know of. T 11 1: manner in which Col. Sher- man and the bottle holders of Mr ltryan insist that their (iladiatoi had the best of the joint debate 'int debate aiV ither evening! he fellow who- "The Lansing" Ilu puts us in mind of th ruined his whistle while travelling through the grave yard. It is a po litical grave yard that Mr. Hryan is travelling through and the fresh mound with a tin tombstone in scribed to the late Willie Hryan iu "The Cold Chilly Winds of Novem ber" will prove it. 1:vi:k-v day that the country puts iu good sober thinking increases the majority of President Harrison. A KEQUIEM. r" It i- -aid S, null ir Hill is tu nv-km Tin- Hill Unit nine tlirnuuli setmn- lialls. I lie sliiti'siiuiuV imisis shed, New luniks 11- mute on somite w ulls A- if Hint Hill wore (lemt. Snsloops the priilo of utlior duys, S, Klory'fi thrill isu'er, Tlie mini who once played hih for praise Now pluys his name 110 mure, PI f w Tt V f 1 V f