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SUPPLEMENT.
PLATTSSiOUTH NEWS.
Plattsmouth, - . - Nebraska
Saturday, October 6, 1900.
WHAT BRYAN'S ELECTION
MEA8S TO LABOR.
Only Question Is Whether Wage
Earners Want Hard limes.
Democratic Policies Drove Thousands to
lketreets Before and Will Do So
Again if Bryan Is Successful.
In the eddying fight, amid din and roar
of the fallen guns of imperialism and
militarism, there is danger the people of
this country may lose sight of the fact
that the election of Mr. Bryan moans the
overthrow of the protective tariff system
and the introduction of a free-trade pro
gram into the policy of the government.
Our people have short memories and thoy
Kouictimes forget and need to be remind
ed. Mr. P.ryan was a member of the Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses and j
took a very active part at once upon tak- J
ing his seat. In the Fifty-tnird Congress. !
of wloeti T n nreilir ihe Wllaor: Kill f
was under consideration. It was the pas
sage of that bill which plunged this conn
try into ruin. It does not make any riiJer
ciiee what people say about the origin of
hard times, the intelligent laboring man
of this country knows very well that he
ceased to earn a living for himself and
family because of the demoralization of
business caused by the repeal of the Mc
Kinley law and the passage of the Wilson
act. It was that which yrpfirjfzZzi
wages h. !wW"nrtnrtna' tliey have
,. v bf etrTorTSaay a year. It was that which
.. - Bi-.tt ; marching columns of hungry men
o it the country demanding food. It was
"; thfpassage of that bill that made it pos-
eible for. any intelligent man to listen for
a ruement to- the speeches of such men as
Br. Tin in 1896.
C4 the floor of the House in the de-
batc on the Wilson bill Bryan took the
vextrejne free-trade ground. His speeches
J;are on record and the. laboring men i of
' utho iUtfUtff y eaa- Sbitj ).ii and-v' nd-i
' lie especially announced himself as in fa
vor of absolute free-trade upon many1 of
the leading products of the farm, notably
woo!, which he insisted should' be put
upoi. the free list of the Wilson bill.
When! that bill was passed by the con
currence of the House in thesix hundred
amendments of the Senate it was Bryan
and Hon. Jos. Bailey, a representative
from ihe State of Texas, who in their
ecstasjt seized the champion, who was the
putative father of the law, the Hon. W .
Li. Wilson, of West Virginia, and carried
him on their shoulders in a triumphal pro
cession through the House of Representa
tiveg it to the cloak-room and a saturnalia
of joy resounded from those premises. It
was Biyan who favored the introduction
of foreign material into this country free
of charge. It was Bryan who demanded
that all taw material such as wool, coal,
iron, arij everything wnlc-h entered into
the manufacture of goods, should be im
ported tree, and it was his influence.
more than any other man's, that brought
about the) terrible re-su't with which we
are so familiar. . -
It vras-JkvrnS Earnest demand that
put wool on the free hsr, and in that de
bate he declared that he did not care
whether it benefited or hurt the wool
grower. It was Bryan who drove the
tariff on coal down to such an extent as
to flood the Eastern markets with coal
and stimulate the growth of the develop
mcnt of coal in the British possessions in
the northeast, and practically drove us
out of the seaboard markets with the soft-
coal of Central States. It was Bryan
who advocated the low tariff on agricul
tural products and utterly refused to dis
criminate or allow discrimination in favor
of the products of the West and Middle
West. The laboring men of the country
and the farmers of the country, before
they plunge themselves into the vortex
that is being held out. should get Bryan's
record and read it. It is a very interest
ing chapter in the personal politics of that
gentleman. The platform made at Kan
sas City is very adroit in laying the foun
dation for an enactment in Congress,
should Bryan be elected, satisfactory to
his history and record. Not daring to as
sail protection directly he came at it in
the platform which he personally con
ducted as follows:
"Tariff laws should be amended by put
ting the products of trusts upon the free
list. We condemn the Dingley
tariff law as a trust breeding measure,
skillfully devised, etc."
That is the platform of the party de
nominated the Democratic party . and
whose nomination Mr. Bryan accepted.
The original Populist party, whose candi
date Mr. Bryan now is, I refer to the
Sioux Falls nomination, also places itself
on record in a similar attitude. So Mr.
Bryan, without any apology for the past,
stands upon a series of platforms all
squinting in the direction of free trade,
and in the event of his election, with a
Congress subservient to his dictation, as
was the convention at Kansas City, we
may look for just such legislation as pre
cipitated this country into the condition
with which we are all familiar. It is
therefore very unwise for the people of
the country to be led away from the two
great propositions of Mr. Bryan's life,
the two propositions for which he stands,
the two propositions which make up Bry
anism, to wit, free and unlimited coinage ,
of silver, and free trade, and follow off
after the illusion and delusion of im
perialism.
If the Intelligent agriculturist will take
the prices of his products in 1S98 and
compare them with the present prices of
the commodities, and then take the Ding
ley tariff law, he will at once discover to
what he is indebted for the advance in
prices. If the laboring man will take first
the price of his labor in 1S9G and then the
rriee of his labor in 1900 and then take
the table of imports of foreign manufac
tured goods in 189(3 and back of that time
and then take the imports of foreign
goods now, as shown by the statistics of
the Treasury Department, ho will at once
discover that the present advantage
which is accruing to him comes absolute
ly directly from the tariff law now on the
statute books of the United States. And,
then, if he desires old tii.T-s. with old
prices and old short days of employment,
he had better vote for William Jennings
Bryan.
But if the laboring man wants a con
tinuation of the present prosperity of the
United States, he certainly cannot, with
out inconsistency, vote for Urvau. An
other view of it. Let the laboring man
take the present price of Lis labor and
take the present prices of rdl the things
he buys upon which his family is sub
sisted and supported and educated, and
then take the price of his labor of 1S1K5
and the prices existing then, he will dis
cover, without any hesitation of intellect,
that present conditions aro far better
than old conditions, that, waiving the lit
tle increase of cost of living, the balance
sheet shows favorably to him. No man
can deny that and there is no man in the
United States, who has done more to
break down the interests of labor by pro
moting and cultivating unfair and unjust
competition than has William J. Bryan,
of Nebraska. C. II. GROSVEXOR.
Athens, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1900.
mm aim sided
HOPES AAD FEARS.
Prosperity for Wheat Growers-
When the Democrats were experiment
ing with free trade in the United States
the consumption of wheat was 3.41 bush
els per capita. That was in 1S94. Ta
1899, under the McKinley p.lniinistration,
the consumption was o.9." bushels per
capita. This is amide denyjnstral'ion to
the farmer as to how prosperous manu
facturing interests bring prosperity to the
wheat grower.
His Expectations Cased on Hopes that
Others Will Forget.
A CHALLEYGE TO
SENATOR TETTIGREW.
A Cowboy Resents the Insinuations
Made Against Cel. Roosevelt.
Bryan argues that the Constitution ex
tends in full by its own force to every
foot of land under the American flag.
He hopes that the American people won't
find out before November that the United
States courts, from the lowest to the
highest, have decided by overwhelming
and irresistible decisions that be is
wrong.
He is running on a platform declaring
for the fraud of free silver. He hopes
that the gold Democrats who have re
turned to the Democratic party on the
issue of imperialism will not cease to
believe in his readiness to betray it.
He is running on a platform on which
imperialism is said to be the paramount
issue. He hopes that the silver men
won't take this portion of the platform
seriously.
He is running as 'a Democrat. He
hopes the Populists woa't lay it up
against him.
He is running as a Popult. He hopes
the Democrats will forget it.
He is running as a silver Republican.
He hopes that the silver Republicans,
mainly men of the West, won't give him
up because of their belief in expansion.
He is running as th avowed friend of
Acuinaldo. He hopes that this won't
drive the American votes against him.
So every Democratic hope of 1901) has
error or humbug back of it. 1
YXV 1 f I t I ,1 f II f
Sioux Falls, S. D., is Senator Fetti
grew's home, and the Senator said in a
recent speech there that Col. Roosevelt
did not lead his regiment at San Juan
Hill, but was six miles in the rear. At
the recent Roosevelt meeting in the town
many of Col. Roosevelt's old regiment
came to greet him, some of them trav
eling quite a distance, and one rough
rider came loO miles. This particular
cowboy heard of Senator Fettigrew's ut
terance for the first time while in Sioux
Falls, and mounting his horse he would
ride to a street corner and issue this chal
lenge: "Ladies and Gentlemen I have heard
that there are people in this town who
say Col. Roosevelt was away In the rear
at San Juan and did not lead his regi
ment in the charge that was made that
day. I was in that regiment and follow
ed Col. Roosevelt up that hill. My cap
tain was killed and several of my com
pany. I saw that fight. I was in it.
Whoever says that Col. Roosevelt did not
lead his regiment iu that charge is a liar,
a scoundrel, a coward and dare not tell
me so to my face."
Then he would wait a minute, ride to
the next block and repeat the same chal
lenge.
The incident will keep Senator Petti-
grew quiet for awhile, lie may be kept
busy iu explaining what lie meant.
SIMON CHHTS FAIL!
A Story of Country Lite.
BY ALMA L. PARKER. GUIDE ROCK. NE3.
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THIRTY T0.S OF I'E.V.MES
SAVED BY ClilLDREY.
Chicago's Penny Savfngs Society has
only been established for a few years,
but its deposits have increased as fol
lows: Year ending June SO, 1S9S $19,140
Year ending June 30, 1SH9 33,90
Year ending June 30, l'.0 71,793
William C. Hollister. who is acting
president of the Chicago Fenny Savings
Society, says that it is operated entirely
on a pniiantnropic basis ana supported
by rol'untary contributions. There are
only two salaried officers, young ladies,
at the office in the Schiller building.
This system is in operation only in half
the schools in Chicago, yet the amount
of money deposited by the children last
year averaged 30 cents for every child
in the Chicago school district, and (50
cents per capita for all the children in
the schools in which the Penny Savings
Society is operated.
The weight of last vear's savings was
thirty tons of American pennies, an enor
mous mass of money for the little ones to
put by in the banks within one year.
It will be noticed that the Increase be
tween the amount deposited in 1898 and
t 1899 was 70 per cent. But between 1899
and the year just ended the increase in
the amount of pennies deposited was con
siderably more than 100 per cent.
The children would certainly not be
able to save their pennies if their par
ents did not have the money to give
them, and the exhibit made by the Chi
cago Penny Savings Society is certain
ly a straw showing that the people of
Chicago have experienced more and more
good times and prosperity during the Re
publican administration of President McKinley.
HARD TI3IES ITEMS
REEDED BY BRYAJ.
Adversity of Others Will Be Welcome
News to Democrats.
"Wanted Hard times items" is a
"Help Wanted" ad Bryan ought to put
in the newspapers to aid him in his la
borious search for instances of indus
trial and commercial distress. Probably
nothing would more please him just now
than to hear of workingmen in the coun
try whose dinner pails are not full.
In his speech in Milwaukee he gloated
over the fact that a dock man in New
naven had discharged some employes,
that pig iron production is less now than
at the high point of last year, and that
Massachusetts cotton mill men are said
to be thinking of reducing wages.
After exploiting on these items, he said
cxultingly: "Even the prosperity that
the Republican party has boasted of has
not reached all the people, and even that
which we have is on the decline.'
The reason Bryan is so anxious to
know of misfortunes befalling working
men is because he fears that they will
perversely consider the maintenance of
their present prosperity to be the "para
mount" issue with them instead of "im
perialism." If some great calamity could
only happen to the workingmen between
now and election time it would perhaps
make it really sound plausible to say
that "there is no prosperity now; there
fore maintenance of prosperity is not the
Issue, so you can vote for me and Agui-naldo."
Mistaken.
He said: "You shall not toss
Mankind upon a cross
Of shining gold."
"Nor press his brow with thorns,
Nor tread upon his corns
When he is old."
He said: "No fires will burn,
No wheels, no spindles turn,
Without my hand
Is at the nation's helm;
Dictator of the realm
Chief of the band."
He said "the metal white
Is strictly in the fight
(I lugged it in).
We're on free silver bent.
Without the world's consent
And it will win."
The voters heard him shout.
Then straightway went about
To give him fits;
They said "we want no stuff
Half money and half bluff,
A dollar worth four bits."
It took his breath away
When the people had their sar
In N O V.
But he's got his second wind.
Thinks he'll not again be skinned";
Wait and see.
C. I,. FRAZER.
Highland. Cal.
Cotton Consmnption Double.
The cotton consumption in the United
States in 1894 was 15.91 pounds for ev
ery man, woman and child. Good times
brought by the McKinley administration
have raised the per capita consumption
to 27.14 pounds. The people dress bet
ter and buy mnre articles made from cot
ton than ever before in the history of
the country.
CHATTER IV. (Continued.
"Certainly; 1 Avant good tirnos, but if
we got them I'd never thank a Repub
lican administration for it."
"Suppose Bryan had bovn elected and
times improved, would you thank him
for it?"
"Indeed, I would."
"Then you are pirtial, Simon. Why
not think if such were tho case that
it was a Populist scheme to deceive the
people:"
"Because Bryan's an honest man."
"How do you know ?"
"How do I know anything? My paper
nays he's honest."
"But bow do you know it's the
truth?"
"Sep here. How do you know he's
dishonest?"
"I don't. Neither do I know be is
honest. I am not personally acquaint
ed with the man. but I do know that
he lias charged outrageous high pay for
making speeches over the country. It
seems to me that a man who hate- ihe
rich, and o dearly loves the poor.
would not care to aecump"iia-s"rfr ro
iaJsijaJiM!-niro uoiiars out or trie labor
er's pockets. I tell you, Simon, if
times get better, you ought to change
your politics."
"Just wait '1111 they get better. You'll
have to wait 'till doomsday for times
to improve under Republican rule."
Political Simon then walked into the
store and placed his basket of eggs on
the counter.
"What are eggs worth to-day?" he
Inquired of the clerk.
"Two cents more than they were be
fore election," the clerk quickly re
sponded. "Well," said Simon, who knew the
elerk'Was Republican, "you needn't be
so d d glacj to tell it. I see that Re
publicans like yourself are dreadful
haughty bcaiLeIre a little bet
ter, but yoyll grlT? ,':. JfTuIer Vay wln-ja
this little McKinley wave breaks." '
"Hr. Grey, whenever this wave, as
youcall It, breaks, it will turn into
foam of prosperity. Just notice."
"How easy," said Simon, "some peo
ple are deluded. I see some fellows out
there on the street a-Phakin' gold coin.
I expect they inherited the pieces as
an heirloom In the family, and they
have been keepin them all these years
to get a chance to show 'era now, to
prove that all our gold isn't in Englaud
or the Government vaults."
"Why, Mr. Grey, everybody can have
gold how. Confidence Is restored, am
gold will once mere cucuiate. Jnst take
a ehecii to the bank, and see if the
banker won't cash it in gold."
Political Simon doubted very much
what the clerk said, and resolved with
in his own mind to go back home and
bring two or three hogs to town, if they
weren't very fat. just to prove in his
own mind that the clerk was mistaken.
Sooner than Cynthia expected. Simon
came home. During the campaign It
had been his custom to stay so long In
town that she was surprised to see him
return In an hour.
"Cynthia." he said, as he entered the
house. "I have decided to sell two or
three hogs while thl McKinley wave
lasts, for no tellin' what they'll be
worth after a while."
"What did you get for the eggs?"
"Two cents more than before. You
make the hens hurry and lay before
they go down."
"Maybe times ain't goin' to be as bad
as predicted." said Cynthia.
"Now, Cynthia, women as a rule have
weak minds, and are easily influenced
and I want yen to be on your guard.
Better prices for a few d.nys is the bait
the! goldbugs set to catch tropic on
their hook, but I trust none of my fam
ily will bite."
"I suppose you are right. Simon, but
time will prove all things. Accord in'
to your brother Ezra, success of the
Populist ticket would not bring nny
benefits."
"Cynthia, don't you ever mention
Ezra's idea of things. It has made nie
enough trouble without alluding to it.
In an indirec t way, Ezra's Republican
ism is the c ause of my sore head. If he
knew how I have suffered for him. for
the honor of the Grey family. I have an
idea that he'd t;:rn Populist."
"Maybe we had better write and tell
him then."
"Great heavens, no! If I'd have licked
the daylight out of Harrington, as I
first intended to. It might do. but as
he's able to be up and around it would
be better not to refer it. Just let bard
times prove his mistake to him. He'll
be a Populist mind. lody and soul
'fore many years roll by."
Simon and his wife continued to talk
for some time, and then Simon went
back to Boonsville with his hogs, re
turning In the evening with a T0 gold
piece.
"We'd better keep it for a curiosity,"
said Simon.
"And bogs are a better price, too, are
they, father?" inquired Yinnie.
"Yes. everything is improving to de
lude ieopIe."
It seemed to Vinnie a very pleasant
delusion, and four months later it
seemed to her to be lasting a long
while; that the McKinley wave must
be a large one, for times continued to
improve.
II A ITER V.
The Road t the Puurhouse Micl.
Inauguration day had paM d and
Wm. McKinley of Ohio was President
of the Unite. i States.
Yinnie Grey bad acted in the capacity
of County .v'uperintenib-:it of Public
Instruction Mr.ee tie l.-t of J.i:i:i.-iry
aiid fdio was delighted vi:'i her new
work and W.irbb 'nn?y v. as proud of
IVliticnl Simon's daughter.
On this particular morning. Vinnie
was nioiie in her ot.'ico looking over her
morning's n ail. There were b;j-::ie.-
letters for her to answer; an. yes. and
1her was atother letter. It was from
Tier Rnoi:vii:c lover. How i; tilled h'-r
I heart with j y! It seemed to her the
I happiest morning of her life. Siie felt
that she had a thousand thing. to be
t!;a:i:.ful f.r. Gien Harrington re
turned her love; her folks at homo
were beginning to see belter ti:;:e;
prices were getting better for f.in.i-
cr' product-. "Yes." she med:;.i ted.
"there are a gn."t i:uiL.y thing to
thankful for." S!ic b.d great fain in
lU-jMibtfcnn" times, and she believed
that ia two years, at least, her father
would be able to pay the mortgage on
their home, without her asltnnee.
If he wasn't able, she would taki a
part of her salary and pay It for Lim.
The mortgage would never be allowed
to take the old home. As she s:.t in
her otHce, meditating over the pros
pects of the future, there came a tap
at the door, and then It flew open, and
Yinnie was t-nrprlsed to see her father
standing In the doorway.
"Good morning. Yinnie. Hovr are
you?" he said, taking her hand.
"Yery well, thank you. father. How
are the folks at home?"
"We're all well. I thought I'd coma
down to the county seat this morning
to see you on a little matter of busi
ness." j,
"Very well' what Is it?" j
"Wby.-Iir AY right, dowr there In
Boonsville. has some calves he wants
to sell, and I want to buy them.
Though extremely anxious. I bavn't
the money to buy them with. Thought
maybe I could get the money from you.
I don't know as there's any money In
'cm. or In anything else, as far as that's
concerned, but Joe Harrington Is
countln' on buyin these calves, and
that's the re.-tson I want 'em. I've been
a-lookln all this time for a chance to
get my revenge on that man, and now'
my chance. My! but he'll get mad. it
I step In ahiad of bin?, sd &uoek htm
cs ui the" bargain bv get tin' those
calves he's teen calculating to buy."
"You shall have the monwy." said
Yinnie. rather amused at her father's
method of revenge. "How much, will
you need?"
"Well, there's ten of 'em and lie
wants J?7 si."iece. It's really an out
rageous high price, but I won't stop
for that. Why last spring a man
couldn't get a bit ovr $." for sueh
calven."
"Maybe tl.ey are worth more thr.n
they were then."
"Well, the Republicans say they nre.
but I don't think so. We ain't bavin'
a bit better times than we bad. In spite
of their rr dictions. I've been think
In of writing to Ezra and telling him
that he Is a falso prophet."
"Have you received any letters from
Unele Ezra lately?"
"Yes; we received one Just the other
day."
"What l he write?"
"I don't n member exactly what was
in th letter. One thing that disaiv
polnted me is the faet that he's still
Republican. Every letter I get I ex
pect to hear that he's turned PopuINt.
but so far r.iy expectations have been
In vain. lie wrote that he thought
prices won! I get better for the farmer.
He said if I wished to make money
now was t! time to speculate. Buy
all the c;il"s and other stock that I
could. and h' Id them for higher prices."
"So you :it taking bis advice?"
"No, Vint, e; I am going to buy Bob
Wright's e:i!ves for the express pur
pose of on witting Joe Harrington.
What does I'.zra know afout running a
farm? He's lived nearly all bin life ia
a city, and green as a squash, whe.i
it comes to 'Oiintry life."
"Ills judgment Is good, though, on
almost every subject."
"It is on -ome subject, to b sure,
but still be doesn't know everything.
He has hi- failings like all other hu
man beings."
"To chni.-e Ihe subject," said Yin
nie. "have you planted your corn yet?"
"Yes. we j'tst finished planting a few
days ago."
"How does the wheat lHk?"
"It look -plendid. but I don't eip t
to get much out of It. for silver's going
down rigi;'- along, and Bryan ai I
whenever fc lver went down wh-at
went with :'. or when silver went up
wheat went up a No.
"I do wi-i P.ryan had len elected,
for if we lad free coinage of silver,
he sail s.her would rise In value,
therefore :ient would rl.se.
"If when: would be worth what it
ought to 1", there would be a go: 1
prospect for rue to py the mortgage
with It. 1 suppose now wheat will
tumble, an ! we all know it was lw
enough la-t year."
(To be continued.)
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