The Platts mouth Journal
DAILY AND WEEKLY,
C. W. SHERHAN, Editor.
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We believe that the rant and Cle of the party
should at once assert themselves In the demo
cratic party and place it on record In favor of
the Immediate restoration of the free and un
limited coinage of gold and silver at the present
ratio of 18 to 1, as such coinage existed prior to
1873, without waiting for the aid or consent of
any other nation, such gold and silver coin to
be a full legal tender for all debcs, public and
private. Alaress or Democratic congressmen
Tns new Chicago democratic daily
is sure to be popular here from the
start.
They call gold "sound monej."
Yes, gold monometallism is the sound
of financial distress; of the sheriff's
hammer; of the clods on the coffin of
progress and individual liberty.
If no chilling frost comes to kill the
buds, Cass county fruit-growers will be
the happiest men in Christendom this
year, for indications are that all kinds
of fruit will be the most abundant
ever known.
Any risitation of frost to be effect
ive in killing the fruit crop of Nebras
ka must come pretty quick and be very
severe, or from present appearances
the state will have the biggest crop
ever grown in the state.
The Bee gives it out editorially that
David B. Hill Is an abler man than
either Govs. Boies or Matthews or
Wm. R. Morrison. He may be in art
ful cunning, but in statesmanship he
is far inferior to either of them.
Whek bimetallism is established
the visions of gold fleeing to Europe
will never hang like a horrid night
man) over the commercial prosperity
of the country. Giving the govern
ment the option of paying out gold or
silver would prevent such a condition.
Some queer appointments are made
under this administration. C. B.
Channel has been appointed deputy
U. S. surveyor of Nebraska. He re
sides at Kearney, is a republican and
has been accused of official malfeas
ance by the Democrat of that place, to
quote an instance.
Toe proposed increase of the num
ber of arc lights under the new ordi
dinance is a clear indicator of the in
adequacy of that ordinance as a
settler of the lighting question, and
shows that the late council was not
near so anxious to economize as it was
to make a good contract for the light
company.
"Still harping about my daughter!
Secretary Morton is out in another
screed against free coinage, in which
he speaks of it as a (4vagary of the
populists and others. Isn't it about
time that he would evolve some new
thought from that tremendous brain
of his. We confess that that seunds a
trifle familiar.
James F. Wilson, ex-senator from
Iowa, is dead. Like a candle, his light
shone for a time, but it has burned to
its socket and gone out forever. He
was a man whose chief eminence grew
out of the office he held, and who left
no mark of greatness behind. He was
useful to certain railway schemers and
they kept him in office. That tells the
story of his public career.
Mb. Eustis, U. S. minister to
France, went over to London the
other day to attend a banquet given by
Americans, at which time he took oc
casion to very pointedly set out the
difference in the conduct of the
European nations in parceling out the
countries of the earth at their will,
while Uncle Sam took no part in such
demonstrations, and making a very
pointed allusion to the methods of
Great Britain in her conduct toward
Venezuela. It was a good hit.
Richard P. Bland has been inter
viewed as to the president's letter, and
expressed himself strongly. "Gold
monometallism, said he, "is a stench
In the nostrils of the plain people. It
may do for bondholders (and bankers,
but the sufferings of the industria
masses consequent upon its adoption
will not be endured longer without a
struggle the like of which the country
ba3 not seen since the late civil war.
It Is gold monometallism that has made
the present administration hateful to
the masses of the American people."
IN ENGLAND'S HOME MARKET.
The following interesting remarks
about American competition in the
England home market are published
by the Iron and Coal Trades Review
of London:
"The dangers of American compe
tition have long been preached by the
initiated and far-seeing, but they have
been ignored or ridiculed by those who
were not equally prescient. It Is, how
ever, clear that "the danger cannot be
very remote, and it Is now less so than
It was. Indexed, at this moment the
American works are sending con
siderable quantit ies of wire into Great
Britain; they have commenced to send
hoop Iron, and I am credibly iuformed
that contracts ..have beeu signed for
the delivery of 20,000 tons of Ameri
can coal at Liverpool within the next
month or two. It is true that the coal
is cannel, and thatcannel is so far ex
ceptional that It may be disregarded
in any estimate of comparative na
tional resources, feeing that our houue
supplies are ho limited, but the fact is,
nevertheless, worth noting. What,
however, is most startling of all is
the fact that for some time past steel
billets have been sold in the United
States at less than 15 per ton, or say,
approximately, at 3. I may be
wrong, but I doubt if any English
works can produce billets at this price,
much less sell them.
This is directly in line with similar
statements of journals in the woolen
and carpet lines, and indicates just
what free traders have held for years,
to-wit: Give the Yankee a fair
chance, with free raw materials, and
he can outsell the world.
Tnsgold monometallists are driven
from pillar to post in their denuncia
tion of silver. Awhile ago thy
sneered at silver as of no consequence.
"Why," said they, with a contemp
tuous sneer, "there were but a little
over eight minion silver collars
coined in the United States up to
1S73, while there were thirty million
of gold coined I" When an investiga
tion was made it was learned that
prior to 1373 a total of $143,405,750.70
of silver had been coined in the United
States, besides about one hundred
millions of foreign silver coin had
circulated here as a legal tender.
making a total in use in the United
States during that time of 243,4C5,-
150. Up to this amount almost
equalled the amount of gold coined In
merlca. These facts, which are
official from the mint, knocks that
prop from beneath the gold men's
feet. Up to 1S43 nearly as much sil
ver as gold was coined in this country.
Another favorite claim of the gold
men has been that there Is too much
silver in sight now and that this
county would be flooded with It. Offi
cial statistics show that there is less
silver in proportion to gold now than
when silver was demonetized in Eu
rope and the United States. It is also
proven that there is greater variation in
the amount of gold discovered than in
silver, one year with another. There
fore gald lacks stability.
Oun gold bug friend of the Nebraska
City News thinks It has struck a
mare's nest. Hear it squeal:
"Will the Plattskocth JocRSALorTecumseb
Journal please inform us why the decline in
silver should affect the price of cotton and
wheat and nothing else T What Is the matter
with corn, oats, barley, hogs, beef, etc."
It affords us pleasure to enlighten
our neighbor. The decline in silver has
not affected the price of cotton and
wheat alone. Griffin, a gold standard
authority, readily concedes that silver
has been demonetized by all the
European nations, gold has been con
stantly appreciating in value. Not
only this, but Sauerbeck, the German
financial investigator, has published
index tables of average prices of forty-
five principal commodities, and hi
tables (the correctness of which has
never been questioned) skow a declic
e
in the aver&go price from 1874 to 1892
inclusive, from 102 to 68. Silver, de
monetized, declined in the same time
from 03.8 to 65.4. Do not these facts
answer the News" first query ? As to
corn, oats, beef, etc., shortness of crop
accounts for their rise in price. If
such questions are all that kept the
News from espousing the cause of bi
metallism it need not hesitate a
moment. Come over on the right side.
The public will bear in mind that
when tho editor of the News stated
that he had an affidavit showing cor
ruption on the part of John A. Davies,
and The Journal asked him to pro
duce it, his answer was that the editor
of this paper had sneaked into church
and was a libeller. That affidavit has
never been printed. Why ? Will the
News man tell ? Has be got It, or is
he ashamed to print it because it de
famed the character of a man whom
ho supported for office last year while
ho had th 9 paper in his possession?
Perhaps itii publication might prove
that he Wf.s the libeller.
A SIGNIFICANT ALLIANCE.
China and Japan have finally con
cluded a treaty of peace. The terms
are that China shall pay an iudemuity
of 100,000,000 yens, which if paid in
gold would amount to about $50,000
000,'or if in sliver, to $15,000,000; per
manent cession of the island of For
mosa to Japan, estimated at 9,58,92
acres, and known by its fertility as the
"Granary of China;" Japan also retains
all the territory she has conquered, se
cures the absolute independence of
Corea and, by far the most significant
and important feature of all, secures
the sanction of China to a compact,
offensive and defensive. The money
consideration is modest to say the least
but the value of the property surren
dered by China would run up to mill
ions if not to the billion point. What
will attract attention quite generally
is the alliance between the two rival
powers. China has the forces and
Japan has the skill, courage and strat
egy and it will at once be observed
that a harmonious unity between them
would make them infinitely powerful.
This will at once give Japan a conspic
uous position in national councils, and
in the future it is more likely that in
the arbitrament of national differences
Japan will be given wider and more
general recognition. Council Bluffs
Globe.
English manufacturers of woolen
goods and carpets are just now greatly
stirred up over the competition they are
meeting in their ou markets by
goods of American manufacture this
com pet ion being made possible by the
free wool clause of the Wilson bill.
The free hide clause of the a;t of
1SS3 made it possible for American
shoe manufacturers to compete for
that trade in London and all England,
and to drive Euglisb-made shoes out
of every market in the world. They
are now afraid that the same thing
will occur in tho woolen goods and
carpet lines. "Give the Yankee a
chance and he will beat the world" is
an old and true saying. The southern
people thougbt they couldn't get along
without slaves, but they are now
doubly glad to be rid ot their slaves.
Just so the Yankee has clung to the
protective tariff. Now that it has
been partially abolished he dis
covers it was only a hindrance to the
enlargement of his markets. The
Wilson bill has thus far amply vindi
cated Itself in the woolen and carpet
Hues alone.
Mi:. Cleveland may think himself
a great man; that he has the influence
to stem the tide or democtatic senti
ment that is rushing toward free sil
ver coinage, but we'ean tell him that
he is a fool aud a great fool, too, if he
has any such idea. The great mass of
the people know more than any one
man or set of men, no matter how
rich or influential they may be with
their class. This tide is not the result
of fc sudden impulse, but it has been
growing for years, as men have taken
the trouble to study the money ques
tion. It is the resultof education, and
not of blind passionor prejudice. If
the president as well as the rich men
of the east were to put themselves in
the places of the men whose labor
feeds and keeps tho world of traffic
and manufacture in motion, they
would at once appreciate the motives
and spirit that underlies the free coin
age movement, and if they were hon
est men they would join in it.
TnE Omaha World-Herald of the
19th contained an open letter to Presi
dent Cleveland, in vhich he is asked
in terms as pointed as polite to define
what he and his friends mean when
they talk so fluently of "sound
money," "safe currency," etc., in his
recent letter to the Chicago gold bugs.
"If by 'sound money' you mean a gold
standard," says the letter, "why do
you avoid the use of the word gold
in your letter?" and thus he goes
through with the cant phrases the
president makes use of and sifts it to
the bottom, and shows that Mr. Cleve
land is afraid to avow himself squarely
a gold standard advocate, or, in fact,
to take any position which the public
can understand. The letter empha
sizes the fact that the friends of free
coinage-are fighting in the open while
their opponents even the chief of
them are in ambush, and are afraid
to say just what they are for. It is a
strong letter.
Frank T. Dubois, the republican
senator from Idaho, Is for free coinage
so strong as to advise republicans as
well as men of other parties to drop
other issues and unite on that; and he
predicts that if the next republican
national convention in '90 attempts a
straddle or favors the gold standard
and the democratic national conven
tion adopts a free coinage plank and
nominates a free coinage man on It,
that enough republicans will vote the
democratic ticket to elect it, beyond
question.
WHAT DO FA KM KKS THINK?
The assessors' returns for Cass
county for 1894 hhow some curious
facts, that are worth thiirking about,
now that a new assessment is in course
of preparation. For iustance: they
show that there were in valuation:
Ou wagon a aim! carrlnge ......
Agricultural tool ami machinery 20,394
Moneys of bank, hanker, broker etc 17,132
Credits of bunk, banker, broker etc. 8,144
This shows that the fatnerB of Cass
county pay more taxes on their tools
and implements than do nil the banks
and banker in the eighteen banks of
this county, whose combined stock is
really worth a half million of dollars.
This return also shows that there
were assessed:
On gold. Oliver plato and plated ware 114
On diamonds and Jewelry 150
- The Journal wonders what became
of all the plated ware and diamond.
Josiaii Patterson", the gold bug
congressman from Tennessee, is a fair
illustration of tho method or manner
in which some men were won to one
side of the controversy over money.
Elected on a free silver platform be
was lured into the belief that by voting
for the repeal of the Sherman act the
next step would be to enact a free
coinage law, and because of that vote
he got favors fro-n the administration
in the way of appointments, thus
viewiug antagonism of other mem
bers, and before the second session
was ended he was found clear over fu
tho ranks of the gold standard men,
basking in the sunshine of official fa
vor at the white house, lie is a great
big, wheezy, fat-witted, hard fighter,
who is now trying to organize a gold
bug party in the south.
..A project is on foot in the east to
boom Benuy Harrison as a compromise
free silver candidate for the presiden
cy in 1S00. It is said iu his behalf that
he is more pronounced for silver than
any other promiuent republ'can, and
be could carry the silver states It will
be a hard matter to make people forget
that it was Mr. Harrison's surrender to
the gold power in that caused the
panic of "U'J, by paying out millions of
gold, to redeem greenbacks, when he
had the authority to redeem them In
silver, and to have done so would have
kept silver on a parity with gold with
out atiy further effort. Harrison i J a
very dead duck.
AN official, elected vu the ticket of
his party, who cannot stand honest
criticism of his official conduct, in not a
true partisan in fact. He is a boodler;
a man who depends iion corrupt
jobbery for success, and is on the
downward road lo perdition. No
matter how smart hej esteems himself
or how much temporary success may
puff him upjust watch his course,
antl unless he reforms lie will either
land In the gutter or In jail.
The recent purchase of the Chicago
Times Hernld by . II. H. Kohlsaat is
likely to prove a poor investment, as
by turning it into a goldite and high
tariff advocate he has encouraged the
establishment of a real democratic
newspaper, a number of leading men
among them havlup formed a stock
company with a capital of $1,000,000
for that purposethe paper to be
called the Enquirer. Mr. Kohlsaat
will find no market for his hybrid
shet in a short time.
Partisanship in the city council is
unquestionably a bad thing, as the
mayor will douuless learnbelote h gets
through with his prefent scheme. He
should bu made to understand that the
council has f:ill authority to form its
own committees, and it is only by
courtesy that be is vested with that
power. He is not a member of that
body, has no vote, save there is a tie,
and should not arrogate too much to
himself.
resident of the Oosney l.lva Muck Com
pany Write
Magnet Chemical Co.
Gentlemen: I have for months been
a sufferer from Itching Tiles, and tried
numerous so-called remedies which
did me no good. I procured a box of
Maonet Bile Killek, aud I confess
the first application gave me great re
lief, and whil I feel I am not entirely
cured, I believe that before I have the
entire box used I will be well.
To every one suffering with this on
pleasautdlsease I sincerely recommend
Maonkt Bile Killeu.
Yours Truly, Sam Gosnky,
South Omaha, Neb.
Pres. Gosney Livestock Company.
Nine days later Mr. Gosney writes:
"I am entirely cured of the Piles and
Maonet Pile Killek did it."
For sale by Gerlng & Co.
JOURNAL OFFICE REMOVED.
The Jouknal office has been re
moved from the Fitzgerald block to No.
308 Main street, commonly known as
the Drew building, where it will have
more commodious and roomy quarters,
and to which place it cordially invited
all Its patrons. Come and see us, and
don't forget the place 3()S Main street
Drew buiHing.
Gorder
THE OLD RELIABLE . . .
. . . IMPLEMENT DEALERS,
Offer Special MONEY-SAVING BARGAINS for the Spring
Trade which the opposition cannot touch. Particular
attention is directed to
Our New . - . Planter
Moline Drill-Drop MalllOl, i
"New Departure"Tongueless PMtiiotnrQ
And Janesville DISC vUlllVdlUlo
THESE IMPLEMENTS CANNOT BE EXCELLED.
In the Harness Line . . .
We are, as ever, in the load. We are still making the same
line of hand-made Work Harness which gave such excellent
satisfaction last year. Our Light Harness is vastly superior
in quality to the factory-made stuff and the price is lower
than ever. Kindly remember that we use nothing but the
Genuine, old-fashioned, OAK-TANNED LEATHER.
WE GUARANTEE to save you money on good quality Wagons,
Buggies and Spring Wagons. Call and be convinced.
509 MAIN STREET,
New Store, New Goods.
Low Prices Sure to Win,
Has just opened his new stock of
Boots and Shoes in the
Gorder Block, 307 Main Street,
And invites the public to call and
give his goods and prices an in
spection. He will do the rest.
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OO OOO 4mOOW O o S
$100,000. $100,000.
We have $100,000 to loan at a low
rate of interest on well-improved
farm lands in Cass county.
The National Exchange Co
Office: First stairs east of court house.
First National Bank
PI.ATTS MUTI1. NKH.
Capital, paid up $50,000
OFFICERS:
V. K. White lc "'"J
H NDovT . ..' ' Assistant Cashier
DlKKCtOUS:
Oeorge K. Dover. E. White. l. lUwksworth
S. Waugh and II. N. Povey.
rfnl attention given to the Intcrents of
customers. Collections made and promptly
remitted for. Highest market price paid for
county warrants "and state and county bonds
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