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i The Plattsmouth Journal DAILY AND WEEKLY. C. W. SHERMAN, Editor. TERMS FOR DAILY. One copy one year, in advance, by mall . .15 00 One copy alx months, in advance, by mall, 2 50 One copy one month, in advance, by mall, SO One copy, by carrier, per week 10 PubliHhed every afternoon except Sunday. WEEKLY JOURNAL. Single copy, one year II 00 Single copy, alx month 50 Published every Thursday. Payable lu advance Entered at the postotfice at Plattsmouth, Ne-1 braHka. as second-class matter. Official County Paper. PRESSING THE TARIFF FIGHT. Appreciating the fact that the fight for free trade has only just begun, and that the present status of tariff reform is but a short step iu the direction of the goal toward which the destinies of the American republic are tending, some of the most eminent advocates of the doctrine of free exchange of com modities are preparing to extend the plan of campaign in various ways and to wage war upon the forces of protec tion and special privileges in new direc tions and new quarters. One plan which has been adopted involves the invasion of the very headquarters of the protectionist camp. This plan comprehends the organiza tion of a manufacturers' free trade league. The very name sounds para doxical at iirst.so accustomed have the ears become to the republican yawp that "protection benefits every Amer ican manufacturer.'' Hut notwith standing the prevalence of the falla cious idea that most manufacturers are protectionists, the new league has al ready been organized and the Hon. Tom Johnson of Ohio, himself a millionaire manufacturer and an enthusiastic free trader, has been elected the first presi dent of it. This league can do good work fur the cause of free trade. The very organization of manufacturers for the prosecution of a campaign having for its object the addition to other free American institutions of the right of free exchange of commodities is in it self a refutation of the ridiculous pro tectionist claims that all manufacturers desire the retention of high protective tariffs. The necessity of strong, sustained and united effort on the part of all friends of free trade at this time and during all the time between now and the next presidential election is ap parent. A step has been taken in the direction of tariff reform in the adop tion by congress of the amended Wil son bill, but a long stretch of hard road ia yet to be covered before the desired consummation of absolute free trade can be arrived at. The difficulties which attended even the passage of the Wilson bill were terrific, and others nearly as formidable will have to be surmounted at each succeeding step in the direction of the abolition of all protective tariffs. Hut these difficulties were all foreseen and taken intoac count by the earlier advocates of tariff reform. In May of 1S93 the Hon. David A. Wells, an eminent supporter of the free-trade doctrine, wrote a letter to the editor of American Industries, which was truly prophetic. Every pre dictiou he made has since come to pass Among other things he said: It would be a great mistake to sup pose that the contest on behalf of this great principle of human liberty bad been fully won, and that its friends can afford to relax anything of effort in its behalf. There are more than fitty corporations and trus's in the United States to whom the ex penditureof $1,000,000 each would be a matter of small importance, pro vided all tariff legislation during the next twelve months can be prevented mere is nocning mat ngnts more strenuously against any interference than privilege, especially privilege created and maintained by a perversion of the taxing power by government; and it is also certain that every device which unlimited money and fertility of resource can put into action will be used in the next congress to prevent the will of the people, as expressed in the last national election, from taking shape in tariff reconstruction. And this was written in May of 1893! The handwriting on the wall at Bel shazzar's feast was not half so clear, nor was the prophecy it set forth ever fulfilled more completely and exactly than have been the predictions that Mr. Wells made over a year ago. Mr. P. J. Faltbk, of the precinct, is mentioned by his friends as a suitable candidate for county commis sioner in this district on the demo cratic ticket. Mr. Falter is well quali fied for the office, and his popularity makes bim just the man to give Candi date Dutton a good beating at the polls. The democracy could make no better choice. esc tom-eai,Kuu " T Mn HenryHenffpei iinu " culiuiCU 21 . Tnaifliiv marnintr for a 'or the best lading inds. I mrtrha piBit at Ashland "THEY FAVOR A PARITY." Crete Democrat, The following is the resolution adopted by the Saline county republi can convention at Wilber the 11th on the money question: "Resolved, That we favor a parity of gold and silver as the coin of this country in such amounts as shall fully meet the requirements or commerce and the needs of the people." This takes the cake. They want "a parity of gold and silver, in such amounts as shall fully meet the re quirements of commerce and the needs of the people." If they had started out with the intention of not letting the rank and file of the party know what position they intended to take on the money question they could not have adopted a better plank,for it absolutely says nothing and contains nothing but ambiguity. They use the word rAitrry, as the doctors do the word malaria, in applying it to "commerce and needs of the people." It is nothing but wind and gall. It is enought to disgust any republican who has an honest opinion on the question. If the convention was iu favor of the use of silver why did they not say so? If it favored a gold standard, a double standard, a free coinage of both metals of home product, why not say so V But this would not mislead the people, so it jumped astride of parity and rode it into a fog or jumble of words that mean nothing. There can be no "parity of gold and silver," except by law, any more than there is between a pound of pork and beef, a bushel of corn and wheat, a pound of lead and iron or a horse and cow. The ratio is made by the law fixing the unit of value the dollar to contain so much of gold or silver and an unlimited mintage of such dollars will fix the value of each the same as the other, which is "parity." There can be no parity between the units of different things unless the market price happens at some time to be the same. It takes the edict of authority or legislative enactment to fix a ratio and parity be tween given amounts of gold and sil ver, otherwise the whims and caprices of men would cause constant and vio lent fluctuations in their prices and tnus destroy their usetullness as a measure of values, a standard money. a medium of exchange. REFORM IS DEMOCRATIC. St. Louis Republic. Republicans took the sugar trust to Washington. The work of a tariff lobby, the insertion of an increased rate, the substitution of specific for ad valorem duties are as blackly repub lican as the presence aDtl vote of a re publican congressman. If republicans bad not dissipated the surplus, tariff reform would not have been beset with the many difficulties which arose from the necessities of im mediate revenue. If the democratic policy, which, from 1846 to 1S60, had almost entirely separated the question of business prices from the question of federal taxation, had not been interrupted by the rush of republicans to excessive protection under the guise of war taxes, there would be this year none of the disturbance and immorality which have disgusted the people. Every tariff trust which threatens, buys and persuades legislators is a creation of the republicans. Under democratic rule such vampires could never have been begotten. There might have been trusts, but not trusts for tampering with the tax power. Give the democratic party ten years of consecutive power and it will purify the revenue from scandalous bargains, as it did in the ten years ending with the law of 1857. Legislation on great controverted questions has always responded to reason somewhat Blowly. Legislation which involves manifold interests on one side and reason on the other is seldom better than a comDromise. Aware of this rule of events, the next generation will wonder that the demo cratic party could accomplish so much for tariff reform in 1894. With a re publican bankrupt treasury and a horde of powerful republican tax-eaters, high tariffs and everything their way except the honest resolution of the democratic party. Iieform could not put its finger on a schedule without calling out protests, influences, money and casuistry. There is scarcely a schedule of the McKinley bill which could not number tariff re formers among its friends. Iieform everything else, but don't touch this such is the story the democratic legis lator hears from friends whose spirit is willing but whose flesh is weak. That is the curse of protective taxes. They breed in all men the habit of corrup tion. They dull the instinct of free and equal government. If a business has no government bounty, it expects none and Bees the Omaba atrpr.- Constipation and sick headache incurable iniquity of the bounty sys tem. Confer a bounty, and the bounty becomes a part of its assets. Try to take the bounty away, and it rallies all its strength and all its friends, lie form is forced to contend not only with the business itself, but with every so cial and pecuniary connection it can bring to bear. Republicanism has been busy wher ever there is a bounty in a democratic district or state. The influences of the bounty receivers have been gathered (o menace and entice the democratic con gressman or senator. iot in all cases has duty to democratic doctrine out weighed these concentrated influences. Nor will it be until the tariff is for revenue only that the bounty disease will be eradicated. All the violent and insidious foi ms of corruption will appeal to the weakness of legislative character until the republican partner ship between the government and pri vate wealth hunters is dissolved. Each session of reform will make the next easier. This session has wit nessed the heaviest battle. Repub licanism has been defeat d in the open fight and in democratic caucuses. It the people will stand firm by the party of reform, the next congress will have a healthy revenue situation to deal with and can push out republicanism with clean principle. The fraud of specific duties can be rectified. Raw materials can be freed and manufac tures be enlarged. All opposition to logical reform this year has been republican. It makes no difference whether a fesv democrats listened to the purring voice of the tempter or not. There is weakness of character among soue democratic politicians, and an era of bcunty-sell- ing cannot last thirty years without affecting all weak moral supports. As long as they can find excuses in cus toms around them, there will be legis lators in every party who will succumb to the pressure of self-interest. It is the business of the people to remove the semi-respectability of the law and custom. Remove republicans and re publicanism. Remove McKinley ism as McKinley was removed. Give democ racy the power to enact a tariff for revenue only in order that the ghastly scandals of bounty deals may no more disgrace the land. PROTECTION'S FET FRAI I. St. Louis Republic, Tom Johnson of Ohio is a radical free trader who cannot bring himself to apologize for the tariff bill. Tariff reformers do not apologize for the protection that is in the bill, but for the free trade that conscientious effort managed to fasten down in spite of the trained opposition of long pampered protection forces. With Tom Johnson the southwestern free trader is grumbling at the defeat of the Wilson bill. Rut he takes what a protectionist majority in the senate would give and is glad that a reduc tion was affected. The McKinley law would be a disgrace, while the new bill is only a disappointment. The southwest will thank Mr. John son if he will unrestingly teach around his Cleveland home the great fault of the bill. It is not a sugar tax or a raw material tax, but the maintenance of specific duties. That is the shame of the senate and of the bill. Anybody can see how specific duties are frauds. For example, they defeat the advantages of modern improve ments. We are sure that improved processes will cneapen production every year. But a specific duty re mains the same until repealed. At the time of adoption a duty of 50 cents a yard or pound may seem a fair impost on an article that cost $2. Hut if new machinery, new transportation or something else reduces the cost in the world's markets to 50 cents, your duty of 25 per cent becomes one of 100 per cent and your people are outrageously swindled. Specific duties are frauds also in grouping several grades of goods under one rate. It may seem moderate to charge 25 cents on all goods of a cer tain kind which cost not more than $1. But when you come to look closely you will see that the great bulk of the goods cost only from 25 cents to 50 cents often not more than 10 cents. So that the tax is really 50, 100 or 150 per cent. The senate perpetrated a gross fraud when the ad valorem principle of the Wilson bill was changed to protection's favorite friend, specific duties. Dwell upon the specific duties, Mr. Johnson. A sincere free trader will surely make converts by exposing how the fraud works. Well and Cistern Work. Chas. Edgerton is now prepare d to do work in the line of digging, clean ing and repairing wells and cisterns, and guarantees first-class work. Leave orders at Geo. Weidman's. Atkinson's famous "White Rose" perfume at Gering & Co's. JBEESC N &i ROOT. he per-j A CULDKN O I'I'OKTl'NIl Y. Democrats in Nebraska have the op portunity to break down republican domination in that state forever by proper fusion with the populists. Will they do it, or will they give additional currency to the charge that the two old parties are dominated by the same forces by refusing fusion, putting an independent ticket in the field, and electing the republican ticket headed by "Tattooed Tom? "--Chicago Times. The theorists who are speculating , as to the cause of the suddm advance i in the price of silver i:eed not look to the war in the east for the reason. That grand declaration for the free coinage of silver which organized labor sent to congress the other day deserves more credit for the boom the white bullion is justuow enjoying than all the gossip about a proposed Chinese silver loan. 0 NEV DtFORE afterw Or. E. C. West's Nerve anil Brain Traatmcnl Is 1J un'ler positive wrilt.'n puiiriuit.", bynuthor- Izeil u'ciils iiny, to enre Wt-iik Jlemory: JyOi-s of llrain a:nl Xcrva Pov.t; I..-t XImtUMxl; (,'ui''knoK-; N'Urht ls.fs; Kvil I'fum; Iiu-k of Ciilllni-; Nervoiw; I u-Mtu.le; ml Dim!".-; of l'nwtr of the Oi'Ufrative Ort-uii in tilh- r e-x, Ciir.-i-.l by over-exf rtlon; Youthful llrrorn, or Kii'rivi l"t e of Toimct-o, Opium or l.iiU. ,r, vhi.. c.x.u lcatl to Misery. Consumption. Iij.iiiit v utpI lx-iuh. liv until. f 1 a box; fur (.'; with wrilten srminnitcw to cure or refund money, M KM SCiil iil SYKT I. A e rtum cure f'ir C miitIik, 0M, AMnmn, limm-hitis, Croup, Whooping '"U;:h, Sort, Thrtwrt. lJ:is.iit 1o take. 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