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OVILY AM) WKRKLY. C. W. SHERUAN, Editor. TERMS FOK- DA1LT. One ecpy one year. In advance, by mail.. .15 0 One copy alx month. lu advance, by mall, 2 60 one copy one month. In advance, by mall, N) One copy, by carrier, per week 10 Published every afternoon except Sunday. WEEKLY JOUIIXAL. S'njtlecpy, one year fl 00 Slnjr't copv, x months. .. .. W rublthed eTery Taura-lay. Payable la advance Kntred at the potofflce at Platumouth, Ne braska, as second-casa matter. We believe that the rank and file of the party fehould at once asert themselves tit the demo cratic party and place It on record In favor of the Immediate restoration of the free and tin limited coin ai;e of gold and silver at the present ratio of lfl to 1. as such coinage existed prior to 1ST3, without wailing for the aider consent of any other uaUon, such gold and sliver coin to b a full legal tender for a't debt, public and private. The ruling question now is, have you read 4,Coin ?' Tiik bog crop is two and a hlf mil lions short and stil! hops do r.o: bring a big price. liov. McKinlky is booming himseli for president in Georgia and Florida lie already has captured both of tho state delegations. You can set it down that the bankrr or business inan who speak? of silver as dtshouest money and jet pays it out over his couuter at par, is a dishonest liar and fraud. He'd $ ell his country for a mess of pottage. TriE republicans generally concede that the democrats have put up the best nominations in this city this spring and this is the maiu thing, after all. Good men will make good official, and poor men poor officials, uo matter what party they belong to. The greed of Shylock for his pound of tlesh. wheu he gleefully whetted his knife on his shot?, in contemplation of his savage satisfaction, was no more supreme than the greed of the money ctagers as exhibited by their opposi tion to the rehabilitation of stiver. It is altogether probable that if thr silver mines and the Ucky mountains belonged to the btnk of England there would be no opposition to free silver. If the R Jthshilds owued those mines twenty-five ears ago it is saf to say silver would never have len demone tized. KvEit since Mr. liliine smashed bis silk tile with his fi3t while denouncing the McKinley bill, in the house ways and mean committee room, the fate of IM! McKinley has been sealed. Without UUine's reciprocity scheme attr-f-htfd thejrepublicitn party would have ban wiped out of existence in 1S02. TiiE:tKis one thing which may be said of Mrs. Mary E. L.ease. The A. P A. :s tihting her, because she was born in Ireland. Mrs. Lease is likely to be the d-?mo-pop candidate for mayor of Wicbit.i. Whatever may be said of her idea, it, is a fact Miat she ia the most bit ii.iiit, forceful and dramatic woman orator of her time. ::;:ai -i..L'oiiTEU,ex-United States in vvhiii, and his bondsmen have been s ted in the federal court at Omaha under direction of authorities at Washington, to recover between 34,000 and 53,000 of fees claimed to be due the government. These republican government officials, it appears, claim everything they ever get their hands on. . Tub republican legislature, by the vote of every member of the party in the house, has voted a bounty of $1 a ton to the igir beet business. The s ime body has voted to cut down the rate for leg il advertisements In the newspapers. Itobbing Peter to pay Paul, you see; but it's a saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung. The republican legislature has ai iei a bounty on chickory to the beet euar bounty bill and have pushed it through. Now if they will only add a bounty on wheat,corn and oats the list will be nearly complete. TVe fact is, tvery man who v tes for a bounty of this kind is committing perjury as well as violating every principle of j u:i :e and equality, and it only needs it revolution of the politics of the state t orove it to them. Has our good neighbor across the wayloit faith in nfli iavils, that he dare not or does not print that from O. M. Peterson? Last week he. asserted that that affidavit proved how much Representative Davies had paid for The Joukxais lufl lence. Since then he has not chirped about the affidavit. Bee mis that admission proved that he was either too cowardly to expose Mr. Davies or that he was a hypocrite, and had no faith in h!s own statements. Which horn do you take, neighbor ? NOM K SOLID TKUT1I3. In the preliminary remarks to his address Tuesday evening on the topic "Jefferson Still Survives," Mr. Uryan called attention to some things the late congress hud done, in which he stated that the 53d congress which has just adjourned has been charged with in competency and its end has been hailed with joy; but I tell you that the his torian of the future will assign to that congress a place as the peer of that of ny congress of late years. It lias re duced public expenditures; it has passed an income tax measure; a bill for the coinage of thesilver ehinioragc. and a bankruptcy law, the only otu- we have had just and lair in its earnings. It has, besdles, pas.-tid a bill for Ifce taxation of greenbacks', equalizing Ihe uurdens of taxation on the rich hid poor; it hs refused to retire the green- i.tcks, to issue gold bonds and extend the Union lcitle liens. It passed u resolution providing for the election of Unite! S'uS-s senators by .direct vote the people, which was defeated b he senate. lie also t:iid that "any uan who is to good to participate in politics, municipal n.i national. Is rot worth the naiue of an American citi- . a &r a in. iieaiosaiu: tins n iin'ii uu not so much lofe.tr from the man who votes twice as from the man who dors not vote nt all." Such fads cannot be iwelt upon too much. Some v?ry excelleut people, and tmong them so able a man as I. Ster ling M rtoa, bslieve that the govern ment cannot create or increase values; and yet, if rumors that have been in circulation for lo! these many years are to be believed, Mr. Morton gained much of his wealth by re tson of values created bv ac. of congress. The said rumor is based on the stalemeut that years ago, when the I Joss Shepherd regime was in control at Washington, everal million in I -on da of the Ii. 'rictwere issued lo pay for the im provements carried on then; that these bonds were of extremely doubtful pay ment and consequently they went dow n in price and were hawked about at bout half their face value, and at such low prices a syndicate was formed hicti had influence in congress (and if which, it is rumored, Mr. Morton was a member), and bought up these district bonds quietly, and then by the persuasive eloquence of its members. induced conjress to reorganize thedis trict government and assume itsdebts. including the bonds. This done and it was marvellous how quickly the value of these bonds rose to and above par ! Why, the boud hol lers got r ch so rapidly they could hardly contain themselves. Now, the truth of the main facts here stated cannot le gain said. 'Whether or not Mr. Morton wat- t beneficiary of the pcheme is, of course, only based on rumor. Hut the endorsement by Uncle Sam created a value in those district !wnds which has been of the most permanent char acter, lu fact bialwry is full of illus trations of the creation cf value by law. Yet, such philosophers as Morton and the whole gold standard crew deny that the government can by law estab lish bimetallism - a thing which gov ernments did do for many centuries. In making such denial they simply deny patent facts. They admit that if all Europe were to adopt a double standard it would be an accomplished fact, and yet that admission upsets their former deuial. If a half-dozen governments can maintain bimetallism (which is in effect the creation of val ues that can only be created by law) the burden is on them to show why the United States, the greatest nation on earth, cannot do so alone and without their aid or consent. And we believe if these gold-bugs had a little more pa triotism and a lit tie less greed and sel fishness they would admit it. The city ba lly need3 a straightfor ward, honeat, economic government. The ejection of the democratic conn ciltnanio nominees in the several wards will have a strong tendency in that di rection. 2o stain of dishonesty rists upon any of them, but all have records that will bear the closest inspection. W. J. White is a man successful in his business and always true to the public as well. ('has. Grimes is now in the council. Ilia friends point to his record with pride. lie originated more busi ness than any other member. He has been true to his convictions aud to his professions. lie needs no euloey or vindication. Chas. C. Parmele has been in public life and is both capable and honest. He is a man of business and no job will stick to his fingers. John A. (Jutsche is a man cf ability, hiving served in the council with credit to himself and for the good f tlr .:ity, every man in town knows he can b trusted to work foreconomy and hnne.sty. He don't have to appeal to nationality for support. Ho will go into U:o council with experience and knov.-JeJgo at his back, and boodlers know enough to give him a with berth. J. W. Burwick is a man of mature years, of good education and good habits, who can be relied on to do his duty conscientiously and always in the public interest. It now looks is if all five of these gentlemen will be elected, and if they are, every citizen may rely on having elected a set Of splendid men to attend to the city's business. Spring time is at hand. The rest and recuperation of winter is passed. The frost-locked earth has been re leased from the grasp of ice. Nature is springing into the vigor of youthful life,and it becomes man and communi ties to take on lh energies of the season awaken, like natuie, from the uleep of winter. The men who c raipjse the active elements of life in this community must realize that niuglv nnd alone each man can do a little toward advancing the IntereM tf the whole; tint that if all will unite tor a dtfinite purpose the little that each man would contribute might make a mighty effort which wo.iM at complhh much for the city u a busi ness center. Th community its n who'e is like men in n I'O.tt, going tij stream Tht-y must share each others bur lens and help eac'i other, acting us a unit, or they and their craft will drift d v. n stream; but if each one plies an oar, wl'.h I ho rudoer kept in proper order, the craft will move up stream villi ease and satisfaction. With such an effort this town eau have n prosperous season before her. A UANKEItnf this city calls in ques tion the proposition that the govern tneul can create value in a thing, and says the proposition made by "Coin,' that the government could add to the value of anything by creating a mar ket for i:, is ridiculous, ami that cucli valueM would only be temporarily. We pre urn I the fact with due deferenct to the gentletnau'a wisdom an moderation, that he is mistaken. If Uncle Sam offers $o0 apiece ftr a certain quality and kind of horop, aud keeps that offer open always the price of such horses will be fixed per manently. If Uncle Sim opens his mint to the fire f-oiti;i?e of si'.ver putting 'Sil 1 grains o" pure siher into a dollar, making it th- unit of value with full legal tender power, that fact will fi the price of silver bullion thi world over, and even ?o good a man s our banker friend cannot, d are not. gaiusav it. riK m wen-n. to repopulate Africa witli negroes from the Unite i Stales is. for the soiul time, taking shape in the south, a shipload of colored people having left Savanah recently for Liberia. The plans seem to have been well-matuied, and an abundance of land for farming purposes secured for all who make the undertaking. It is believed to depend for success on the problem ns to whether, uuaidtd, the colored man h is the elements o.' enter prise and indepemler-ce sufficiently de veloped to Mirceed in caring for him self and living in a civilized and en lightened state or condition. Judged by the results as shown by ih history of thai race for many centuries Ihe prospects are, to say the least, not very encouraging. An old contributor toTnr. Jouunal admits that he is in favor of the use of silver, but is opposed lo free silver, be cause, he says, he has some money out atiuterest and he wants that interest, when he gels it in, to "have a large purchasing power." We re afraid our old friend has let the bankers' cat out of the bag. They are not so anxious about an honest dollar (which is of the same purchasing power always) as they are for a dollar with a "large purchas ing power." Free silver would not give us a dollar with as large a pur chasing power as tho present dollar, but it would bo quite as honest and would help the poor man instead of crushing him. Tjik republican party has always professed a great deal of love for the old soldiers aud said they should be given every position possible. That is they way they talk, but when an op portunity presents itself the old sol dier is forgotten. If anyone doubts that let-them look at the legislature. During the entire cession the halls have been crowded with old soldiers who were competent to fill many posi tions, but out of the 1C4 places only fifteen were rewarded by the party of "patriotism, progress and prosperity." Mr. HuYANs iid the other evening that the little book "Coin" is destined to exercise as great an influence In con vincing the people of the error of monometallism and of converting them to bimetallism as had tho "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of Mr. 8'.owe it awak ening the conscience of tho nation to the enormity and wrong of human slavery. Tli it was a true prophesy. V tnHr With n l.n-c- rur li!lnr I'iiwit. ! The bioux iJity etevaud rauio.ul was sold last week titul-r the hammer for $50,000. 1 1 is said to have cost $100,000. Do you see the beauty of a dollar vdth large purchasing power V Do you see who is benefited by a panic? Not the little stock-holders, because tl.ev lost iheir "Wild" because they could not protect their property L"t tho dance of death and htukruptcy merrily pro ceed. Th fes:ive noiso may In time awaken the victims who are being robbed by the conspiracy of wealth. Till-: wheat crop of the world is shorter than usual, nod yet the price is lower than it was ever known to be. Will tho go'd standard people tell us why? It is the general opinion ttmt a mere wasteful and extravagant legislature has never met in Nebraska than the present, and it Is only prevented from showing its band fully by the, fact that the governor will not join in the looting of the treasury. Witness the effort to a Id another half-mill to the levy for the state university, the claims of every state institution for additions and improvements, the sugar bounty, Sai and heartrending as were the details of the recent terrible mine explosion at Kvanston, Wyoming, wherein 0 men lost their lives, and nearly all of whom were the husbands of large families, it Is some comfort to know that some 30 of them were mem bers of the A. (). U. W., and conse quently left to their families the 32.0"0 insurance. fnrnUhed by that order. Very few, if any, of them could afford to insure in nny of the old hue com panies. J.J. Hill, the great railway finan cier of the northwest, has just re turned from a tour of some months iu Kurope, w belt lie has been a close observer of the trnd of events, and he con' s back certain in his own mind th.f. siUer will b- reft tbihtat d at the ratio o? 15 or 1G to !, aud that before a gteat while. He thinks Europe is obliged to come to it for self-protection aud Kngiaml will have to accept the change because she is f.tt losing ;rade in India aud the east, which she can never regaiu so long es the price of silver is so low. Mr. Hill is a valuable convert to bimetallism. Fa km Kits of Illinois are complaining that their lands have of late years re ceded iu value $10 to $15 per acre. They ought to sell out there and c nie to Nebraska. Here in tlass county, in quiries at the register of det-ds' office, much to our surprise, discloses the fact that farm lands have not decreased in value to any precepib'e degree, not withstanding the great deprtfrsicn In busine.-s all over the country and throughout the world. The fact i that lands of such excellent quality rs Cass county affords aie a scarce ar ticle in the world's market, and like .old ut;d-r tn oioin-lalltMu, th-y are getting scarcer every d . TilK lighting of the streets ot cities :as been found to be in the Ui: of public economy as well as public morals Such lights have a direct ten dency to le.-sen th commission of crimes, such ns i!i"ft ai d a!.s ". It is a veri!i:atio'i of tlor scriptu.tl saying that bad mMi love darkness rather than litht bram- their deeds are evil." So it is in hue with this doc trine for the city council to provi ie ample light for the city. The abroga tion of the gas ordinance and the sub stitution of electric lighin will probably be unsatisfactory before a great while, but r.nder present circumstances the afiliction will have to be born with for a time. Tiik report fr m Saturday night's two fires Is that after stretching over 1400 feet of hose thero was no water pressure, has made a good many people wonder why, and to think that the city is paying pretty heavily for its whistle. W o are told that the record at the pumping stall n shows that there was a pressure of 07 lbs. there on Sunday morning befor the pumps were started. This should give 04 feet of water In the stand-pipe after the fire was over, so that tha fault cannot be attributed to the Inc k of water or pressure from the stand pipe. The only conclusion that is reasonable is that the system of laying the main is faulty, or that the mains on the outer circuits are allowed to clog up with sand. The situation demands Inves tigation, and An believe that if a prac tical engineer were plnc-d iu charge of the works the fault could not only be located, but remedied. In these times almost everything which ia the product of labor is greatl reduced from form r price-. True it Is that corn and pork, which hp- tin usually scarce, aie h'gher in prico than usual, and in fact, the former locally brings a higher price than the wot id'- Carpets and Rugs For the Spring Trade we have replenished our Stock of Carpets and Rugs at prices to tempt anyone needing goods in this line. We Have the Stock To select from in Cotton Chain 2-plys, all Wool 2 plys, all Wool 3-plys, Body Brussels and Moquettes. Our Rugs are well select ed and lower than ever in prices. LACE CURTAINS, POLES and FIXTURES and WINDOW SHADES. Newest Goods at Hard-Times Prices. E. 6. DOM & M. market affords. Lands ar kept up in price because the accumulations of other years are used to invest in lands adjacent to farmers homes for their sons and daughters, but this does little t relieve the monotony of tailing prices. Fewer men are emp'oyed in all sorts of manufactories ar.d lower wages paid. Abo it the only things that do ih go down j;te otlb'ial salai irs and the ir.tei'.-t oi dehis already Incurred. A man hore may shrink iu value, hut '.he del; I and inteiest he owes mvrr becotrcs Icm. Who ever heard of a tnoue-Io n.er voluntarily rtduciug the rat cf interest on the note he holds ? Ilul :hi is aliunde to the mala qu-sti-n:. the rcacity of money, the 1 tok of ctitcrpi Le, tte con stant reduction in prices and the in creasing misery of the poor. The la mentable results following ti e con traction of the currency consequent upon the establishment of th". single gold standard were predicted by John Sherman back in lSGy, before he had so! I himself to the enemies of his couutry. Then he pictured the pres ent time thus: "To every M?ron except a carlulJH out of iJelL,ora ahiriM ofcer or annuitant. It Is a perUx! of lom, danger, larMtuda of trade, fall of wec, nunjieiiBion of enterprije. bankrupiry anl tllnaiiter.' The increased scarcity of gold, the sole standard of value, is fast bringing the ruin upon our country so vividly predicted by John G. Carlisle, when he said that the destruction of silver would "entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars, pes tilences and famines that ever oc curred in the history of the world." Does It not become men who love their country and their kind, and especially every laboring man, to unite to over throw the present condition and bring about bimetallism V Syrup of Tar and Wild Cherry will cure that cough or cold. Sold only by (Jering&Co. A SURE AND SAFE WINNER. A tore euro for Oonorrhcea, Uleet, Leuoorrho (whitea), and all un healthy dlacliarirea. 1'oaltlT pre entltlve for Stricture, l'rleo, 60 eta. Sent prepaid on receipt of price. Add rent, RELIANCE C1IEM. CO., P.O. Bos 634, Omaha, Neb, 4 MM t'rldrtt of the lioiDf j LIt Stork Com pany Write Maguel Chemical Co. Gentlemen: I have for months bten a sufferer from Itching Piles, and tried numerous so-called remedies which oid me no gotd I procured a box of Mao.net Tile Killek, and I conless :he tirst application save me great re lief, and while I feel I am not entireiy cured. I believe that before I have the entire tox u-ed I w ill be well. To every one suffering with this un pleasnnt disea?f I sincerely recommend Maonet File Killer. Yours Truly. Sam Gosney. South Omsha, Neb. l'res. (iosney Live SfcU Company. Nine davs later Mr. Gosne rites: I am entirelv cured of the Piles and Maon-et Pile Killet: did it." For ssle by Gerlne Co o CJ o o o s o o s s S ? o s s a o o o a cut in clothing? Particularly in our ChlM- ren's Department. 5 2 1 0 I" ?ou have a umall amount of money 10 bihmiu, anu ytnir (ouu rj q need some clothing, lit will - - O o - - Surprise you How far a little money will go at 2 o I MORGAN'S, gThe Leading Clothit:r. BYRON CLARK, Attorney at Law, rLATTSMOUTH. NCH. OFFICE Second Boot of tLc 'I odd L.Uc eatt of the cu"t hnr.w,