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DAILY AND WEEKLY.
C. W. SHERMAN, Editor.
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Published very Thursday. Payable lu advance.
Tins patronizing announcement of
London bankers that they will take
United States bonds to the amount of
$2."j,000,000 must be highly gratifying
to the officials of the United States
treasury. And it is very likely to set
the people thinking whether it would
not be better to coin the 353,000,000 of
unrepresented silver bullion in the
Utiited States treasury than to pay
$750,000 a year to British bankers for
the temporary use of British gold.
The people of Ohio are singularly
given to hysteria. News from Wash
ington that the flag which flapped over
th portico at Washington was worn
out and the custodian of the building
had no money wherewith to purchase a
new one, led one Ohioan to telegraph
the governor, demanding an army of
5,000 to raise a flag on the capitol and
hang the man who palled the worn-out
one down,whle a second patriot called
clamorously for transportation for 32,
000 Grand Army of the Repuulic men
to Washington to accomplish the same
end. It would appear from this sud
den outburst of flag patriotism that
there is a chance still in Ohio politics
for Bloody Shirt Foraker.
Ever sinco the 19th of last Decem
ber the local democracy have had their
ears on the ground waiting for news
from the national capital concerning
the appointment of a democratic post
master for Plattsmouth. But up to
dato no news not even an intimation
has been received from the "great
fat her" at Washington, and today the
adjectives "scandalous," "outrageous,1'
"preposterous" express the views of
common democrats on the condition
that confronts them. During the past
thirty-two years the democracy have
had control of the local postoffice for a
period of a little more than three years,
and in view of such a condition of af
fairs it is to be hoped that ere long
Grover will conclude to distribute the
pie in eight among the faithful.
Sold
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Extent. Times are never so hard that you cannot afford to trade with
CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 17, 1894.
The sensations of the week thus far are
the president's presentation of the
Hawaiian matter to congress, the sen
atorial rejection of the nomination of
Hornblower for U. S supreme judge,
and the unhorsing of Czar Reed in de
bate on the floor of the bouse by the
superior debating power and eloquence
of Bourk Cockran. The latter event
occurred Monday afternoon and was
highly enjoyed by all except the czar's
republican friends. From the stand
point of the press gallery it was a
veritable picture the battle royal be
tweeu these giants of the two systems
of governmental economy protection
and free trade. The victory lor Cock
ran was pronounced and emphatic as
all spectators admit.
One thing is very evident as this
tariff debate goes on the protectionists
are outmatched every day, and are
fighting a losing battle. Every day
makes this more and more apparent.
Tb simple fact is the protection doc
trine won't hold water; it is indefensi
ble when it comes into open debate.
One by one their fortresses of defense
have been blown into ruins by the more
effective cannonading of truth from
the guns of free trade. They were
forced to admit that the tariff is a tax
whenever they plead for compensatory
duties. Next they were forced to ad
mit that the consumer pays the tax by
the same state of facts. The men who
wanted duties levied on wool and eggs,
for instance, under the pretense of
favoring the farmer, must admit that
the average tariff of 92 per cent on
woolen goods is a heavy burden on the
users of woolens.
Another thing: When a republican
urged, as he did on the house floor yes
terday, that those few democrats who
were interested in saving tariff duties
on articles in which their districts were
interested should join with the repub
licans to save the whole line of pro
tected interests, he let the cat com
pletely out of the bag. It is only by a
combination of these robbers of the
people that the Bystem has been main
tained. The cotton, woolen, iron, steel,
crockery and glassware interests are
the front and center of the system.
To succeed they were obliged to take
in all the others that now make up the
net-work of the protective system.
Lumber, wool growing, salt and the
products of the farm have all been
taken in to enli9t the help of these
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several classes so that they could con
trol the majority tf the congressional
districts, if possible. But the people
have wakened up to the i.i rmity of i
paying a thousand minor's or more a
year to the barons of this system, under
the pretense of paying higher waget to l
labor. They now are driven from the
ruling to the minority side in both
houses, and can only say that the sys
tem enables the manufacturer to pr.y
better wages, but that these wages can
only be enforced by trades' unions,
which, in the case of Carnegie at
Homestead, was nulliOed by the aid ot
bayonets at the beck of the boss of the
mills. The natural laws of supply and
demand are upset to favor a class of
capitalists who dole out only what
they must of the plunder t keep the
workmen satisfied with thtir share.
The Nebraska papers are represented
here by some of the capital's best cor
respondents Perry S. Heath of the
Bee. Wm. E. Annin of the Lincoln
Journal, and Mr. Schrader of the
World-Herald. As news-gatherers
they rank well with the representatives
of other papers in the country. Mr.
Anniu is, perhaps, the most industrious,
as well as the most strongly partisan,
while he is also the best fellow, socially,
of the lot.
Washington, L. C, Jan. 19, ISM.
That the senatorial election in Iowa
has been concluded is apparent by the
re-appearance of Hepburn, Perkins
and Lacey, who were, up to the final
vote, all satisfied that they were in the
fight with Mr. Gear, the successful
man. It may have taken management
to elect Mr. Gear, but to do so simply
argues that republican judgment if
easily to be biased by the wiles of the
lobbyist and politician; because any
one at all acquainted with the relative
merits of the men would decide in
Gear's favor without hesitation every
time. Although Gov. Gear is not a
lawyer, he is a very acute mm of busi
ness, and has so long been connected
with the management of public affairs
that he is more thoroughly equipped in
states-craft than either of his com
petitors, while every one recognizes the
fact that Mr. Gear is a far broader and
greater man than the others, and one
possessing more of the elements of
greatness in -v-ry settee. It is signifi
cant, however, of the rottenness of
that party that the railroads are said
by his opponents to have controlled the
result.
The senate, after launching into a
discussion of the election bill, became
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FURNISHER OF CASS COUNTY.
k filleted with a fit of laziness and ad
journed over from Thursday till Mon
day. The five minute rule debate in the
house this week has been productive of
many interest ing and exciting incidents
notably the debates between Ccckran
and Reed on Moiula. in which the
boss was clearly vanquished, between
Cockran and Walker on Tuesday, in
which the latter rather got the laugh
on the great .New Yorker, and the sharp
contest over the proposition f Tom
Johnson of Ohio, to put steel rails on
the- free list, with Dalzeil of Pittsburg,
the representative of the steel rail pool.
Johnson is largely interested in steel
rail production at Johnstown, and pro
testing that he was not trjing to put
money into the pockets -i his stock
holders, wanted to know the reason,
if there was any, why his amendment
should not prevail. This discusMon
largely took on a personal character,
and it was a diamoud-cut-diainond sort
of an affair, in which the good-natured
Clevelander came off first best, and
drove the champion of the pool into a
comer. His argument for free steel
rails was based on the fact that the
steel rail pool were paying one mill
51,000 a day for closing its mill thus
throwing 1,200 men out of work.
The latest bout of this interesting
sort came off today, in which Congress
man Bryan successively silenced Dol
liver, Walker and Boutelle and came
out of the fight with Hying colors.
This was not so much of a battle of wit
as it was over the princip.es involved in
the protective theory, snd, without
boasting, he drove every one of them
to the wall and made them very porry
they interrupted him. I wished that
the men of his district could have been
here to have witnessed the fight. They
would have been prouder of their mem
ber than ever. C. W. S.
It would appear that the board of
supervisors of Mills county, our Iowa
neighbor, was desirous of creating a
monopoly uf the ferry business across
the Missouri river between this city
and tho Iowa bottoms. It may be that
our trans-Missouri neighbors wish to
destroy feiry competition, and thus
maintain tolls at such a figure that
they will be prohibitive on their own
people coniinj; to this city to market
their produce and do their trading. Or
they may simply be giving an exclusive
franchise to one of their own citizens
to the exclusion of all others. In any
event, the action of the .Vills county
authorities will cause the people of
Plattsmouth to do some tall thinking
on the subject of a wagon bridge.
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