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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1895.
"I am clearly of the opinion that gold, and sil
ver at rates fixed by congress constitute the le
gal Btandard of value in this country, and thai
neither congress nor any state (under the con
stitution) has authority to establish any other
standard or to displace this standard. " Daniel
Webster.
"According to myviews onthe subject tnecon
spiracy which seems to have been formed here
and In Europe to destroy by legislation and oth
erwise from three-sevenths to one-half the me
tallic money in the world, is the most gigantic
crime of this or any other age. The consumma
tion of such a scheme would ultimately entail
more misery upon the human race than all the
wars, pestilences and famines that ever oc
curred in the history of the wor!d." John G.
Carlisle. In 1878.
It is noticed that while not every
usurer is a goldbug, about every gold
Lug is a usurer.
Quay and Cameron seem at last to
have gone down before popular clamor
in Pennsylvania and the Hastings
crowd is on top.
Gov. Stone of Mississippi joined
his fortunes to Cleveland goldbugism,
and has been literally snowed under at
the democratic primaries. He is sorry
he spoke.
Omaha citizens are doing a great
deal to advertise the comingstate fair,
but they should see that the country
press is not treated shabbily, or their
work will not meet with the success it
deserves. '
"Just likeLincoln" is the remark one
hears after some one has read the Lin
coln Journal's comment on the state
fair coupon business, "to charge that
Omaha had anything to do with that
business. If Lincoln were not a hog
she might have always retained the
state fair."
Chicago has a grand jury investi
gating her city council which gives
pretty fair evidence of being a nicely
organized band of boodlers, second
only to New York's Tammany brigade.
Plattsmouth News.
What a sad confession this must be,
after the claims made at the last elec
tion that the republicans were going to
put in a reform mayor and council!
The democratic party by its tariff
reform bill although a crippled one
performed a great work in behalf of
honest, economic government, and
now, if it goes ahead to the undoing of
republican rottenness by restoring sil
ver to its proper estate, its mission of
perpetuating the liberty and equality
of men will be further accomplished.
The democratic state central com
mittee met at the Pax ton cafe in Om
aha Tuesday evening last and fixed
on Thursday, Aug. 22, at Omaha as
the time and place for holding the dem
ocratic state convention, and that the
representation should be based on the
vote cast for W. J. Bryan for U. S.
eenator, allowing one vote for each
100, no county to have less than one
vote.
If Americans would stop speculating
and rely on the more substantial ev
ery day earnings of honest labor to
push them ahead, they would soon be
able to compel the usurers, who now
have such a fearful power in the land,
to go back to honest work for a living.
The leeches who sit behind bank
counters in city banks and plunder all
who fall within their power, would
soon find their trade unprofitable, and
the wen who labor would stand a bet
ter show of getting full pay for their
work.
There are at least a dozen books in
circulation which attempt to answer
"Coin's Financial School." The latest
of these is oneentitled "Sound Money,"
which pretends to be a "complete ex
posure of the forged and falsified
statistics" of Coin's' famous book, by
the Charles II. Sergei company, Chi
cago. The book is before us, and we
shall read it with interest. We hope
ft will make a better stagger at truth
than its many predecessors. Other
wise its publishers will have taxed the
usury crowd quite uselessly for the cost
of its publication.
THE ISSUK DEFINED.
Chicago Dispatch.
The Illinois currency convention has
served the excellent purpose of clearly
defining the issue before the people
and stamping it officially as a demo
cratic principle. There is no dodging
either side of the question.
The issue is not merely the free coin
age of silver at the ratio of 1G to 1. It
includes that, but goes much further.
What, then, is the issue? It is this:
THE
RESTORATION
OF THE DOUBLE STAND
ARD MONETARY SYSTEM AS
IT EXISTED PREVI
OUS TO
1873.
This will give to the country silver
as primary money. It will restore the
standard silver dollar to its place as a
unit of value in fundamental money.
This does not mean the iree coinage of
silver, the value of such coins to be
thereupon and thereafter determined
by the single gold standard. It does
not mean a 50 cent dcllar; it does not
meau an unsafe currency; it does not
mean unsound money; but it does
mean safe and sound money.
It does not mean the abolition of
gold money, but it does mean the dis
continuance of gold monometallism or
the singl gold standard. It does not
mean silver monometallifcm, butitdoes
mean the restoration of the silver dol
lar to a co-ordinate position with the
gold dollar. It does not mean that the
gold dollar shall be measured by the
silver dollar, nor that the silver dollar
shall be measured by the gold dollar,
but it does mean that the two
shall stand side by side, equal, as the
respective units of value of primary
money, co-ordinate in power, linked
together in the bonds of equality and
common brotherhood. It means that
they shall reign equally in the realm
of fundamental or value-giving money,
just as they did from 1792 to 1S73.
All this means thebimetallismof the
fathers, for the restoration of which
we, the democrats of 1893, propose to
make the last half decade of the nine
teenth century glorious by a struggle
full of patriotic heroism.
The issue, as defined above, which
will restore a parity between the legal
and commercial values of gold and sil
ver money, and between all primary
money, and comoddities, will also give
back to the nation
THE
FREE AND
UNRESTRICTED COINAGE
OF BOTH SILVER AND GOLD AT
THE RATIO OF 16 oz. OF
SILVER TO 1 oz.
OF GOLD.
And this feature of bimetallism is as
truly in harmony with historic democ
racy as are the two units of value or
the double standard. We contend for
it all, for the full and complete restora
tion of the double standard monetary
system of the democratic fathers. And
we demand this in the name of the
masses,
NOW,
WITHOUT
WAITING FOR THE
PERMISSION OR AID OF ANY
FOREIGN GOVERN
MENT ON THE
EARTH.
Such is the issue. There can be no
twisting its meanirginto silver mono
metallism or into any sort of repudia
tion of national or individual obliga
tions. Tt will remonetize the silver
already coined and open the way for
millions more, until the people's money
will be fully restored, not only to exist
ance but to the hands and pockets and
banks of the people themselves.
Johj; M. Thurston is at present a
member of the U. S. senate and pre
sumably is drawing his pay as such,
although the formality of being sworn
in may not have been accomplished.
He is also drawing pay at $12,000 a
year as attorney for the U. P. railway.
According to the republican creed of
political morality there is no incon
sistency in this, although as attorney
he must stand exclusively for his cli
ent, when its interests and. those of
the government conflict. The word
"Honorable" as a prefix to his name
is a hollow mockery, however.
The Chicago goldbug organs do not
print full reports of the great Harney
Horr debate presumably because they
realize that it is a disastrous affair for
their champion, and they do not want
the truth to get to their readers. The
Record and Inter-Ocean give the most
accurate and complete reports of the
debate, and those who want to know
just how badly Mr. Horr, with all bis
smartness and years of experience on
the stump, is being beaten by his
young opponent should send for back
numbers and read the whole of it.
The position of U. S. Marshal Frank
E. White as state committeeman for
the bolters for Cass county is a very
strange one for bim. He knows that
there isn't more than a baggatelle of
the Cass county democrats who would
under any consideration have any
thing to do with that assistant-republican
outfit, and it is a mystery
why he should smirch his fingers with
the slimy crew. Even the corrupting
power of public pap would be little
aid in working for the demoralization
of the party in this county. He ought
to drop it like a hot potato.
TIIKKESTKONO POINTS.
New York Mercury.
Mr. II. C. Baldwin, a leading lawyer
of Naugatuck, Conn., makes three
strong points in a letter to the Mercury
in criticism of Mr. Frederick R. Ceu
dert's Fourth of July letter to the
Tammany society. Alluding to Mr.
Coulderfs remark that gold was sensi
tive and timid, Mr. Baldwin says:
"The simple truth is, the owners of
gold and gold obligations, fur their
selfish ends, take themselves with their
gold out of harm's way, and let what
they call 'cheap money' fight their bat
tles, win their victories, when forth
with they reappear and claim all the
emoluments and honor."
This is strong point No. 1 .
"One of the greatest bankers of Eu
rope was before our congressional com
mittee in 1876 and stated that "if
France, Germany, England and the
United States were to repeal the laws
making gold legal tender for debts
gold would fall in the markets of the
world 75 per cent in three weeks."
This is strong point No. 2.
"Every one of these so-called 'honest
money' fellows knows that to open our
mints to the free coinage of silver at
16 to 1 would cheapen gold by making
the demand for it less, and this is the
secret of the persistent fight against
silver."
This is strong point No. 3.
The I.ltlle Ulaut."
Everybody in Nebraska, whether he
be democrat or populist or republicau,
knows W. II. Thompson, "The Little
Giant," of Grand Island. The Central
City democrat has been looking about
for a favorite candidate for supreme
judge, and Brother Wells suggests W.
II. Thompson as the man. Editor
Wells, among other good things, says:
"I believe that W. H. Thompson, of
Grand Island, is the most available
man in the state at the present time.
He has every qualification necessary to
make a splendid run. He is a lawyer
of rare ability, a man of great personal
popularity, a democrat about whose
party standing there is nocontroversy.
All the democrats in the western part
of the state are proud of W. H. Thomp
son and each of them legard him as a
personal friend. Nominate him and if
the cuckoos dare make a fight against
him, which they won't, their vote this
year would run down from 6,000 to 2,-
ooo."
W. H. Thompson, "The Little
Giant," of Grand Island, would make
the dry bones rattle as a candidate for
supreme- judge. Kearney Democrat.
It is a significant fact that after the
election last fall the bolting democrats
concluded to give up their bolting or
ganization and fall in with the regu
lars. When Mr. Morton came to Ne
braska in January, and held a confer
ence with the crowd in Lincoln, how
ever, all this was changed. The free
coinage men in congress bad defeated
the goldbug program of retiring the
greenbacks by the issue of gold bear
ing bonds, and Cleveland and his cabi
net were mad. They saw that the in
dignation of democrats in general had
been aroused to such an extent that
there was every prospect that the bi
metallists would control the next dem
ocratic national convention unless
something desperate was done. Ac
cordingly all talk of reuniting the
party was instantly stopped, and from
that on the bolters, who are mostly
office holders or hangers-on, have
been busy at work bracing one another
up, and organizing with the very evi
dent purpose of holding together until
next year, so that they can send a del
egation to the national convention.
The boast was even been made that
Harrity, the chairman of the national
committee has already been consulted
and has promised to recognize the bolt
ers in advance of the national conven
tion. They forget that the committees
of the convention will settle this ques
tion and will end the conspiracy in de
feat. The democratic county committee
indicated its preference for October
12th as the date for the county nom
inating convention. If the delegate
convention of August 20 shall acquiesce
in this late date The Journal be
lieves it will prove fatal to the party in
its hopes to elect its ticket. Better
have the county ticket nominated
several weeks earlier, by all means.
Democracy has nothing to lose and
everything to gain by having its ticket
before the people in ample time for
the people's inspection and investigation.
TIIK UNIT OK VAI.lfK.
There has been a great deal of dis
cussion whether silver has ever been
the unit of value. Secretary Morton
and others contend that the unit has
been, and is, gold. A Inrge wager was
laid in Chicago, one side claiming that
the early coinage of silver was the
unit, while the other side claimed
that it was uold. The question was
finally referred to Ouief Justice Brad
ford L. Prince of New Mexico, who
happened to bn in Chicago, who said:
"The joke is this, that the people or
Chicago never thought of looking at
the coin itself to see whether or not it
said anything on the subject.
"Now, here," said the judge, taking
out of his pocket two finely preserved
specimens of early coinage, "here are
two silver dollais, one of 1705 and one
of 1802. On the obverse side is the
word 'Liberty,' and the date; on the
reverse, 4U. S. of America.' Now look
at the edge, where the milling is placed
on more modern coins. What do you
see? 'One Dollar Or Unit. Hundred
Cents.'
"If the Chicago brethren had only
thought of going to the coin itself as a
witness they would have seen in a
moment that the silver dollar was the
unit by this direct statement imprinted
in its very substance.
"You know the silver dollar never
varied in weight in the United States
from the foundation of the government
to the demonetization in 1873, when it
was worth $1.03 in gold dollars. When
the change in the ratio was made in
1834 it was the gold coin that was
altered, not the silver dollar. The
latter was always the immutable
standard of value till struck down by
the monopolists, who desired a dishon-
est, constantly increasing single stand-
ard,in 1873. When the unit question
comes up again, just remember to look
at the coin itself."
And Tliii Under Free Wool.
Dun's Weekly Review.
Wool is still advancing, with enor
mous sales. 12,714,000 pounds for the
week, and in two weeks of July 26,497,
614 pounds, as against 1 1,986,550 in the
same weeks of 1892. As the sales are
about four times the weekly consump
tion it is expected that the market is
essentially speculative, but the rise
abroad has set the country ablaze, so
that western holders are asking even
higher prices than heretofore.
The free and unlimited coinage of silver
would at once drive out gold and Inflate values
to a silver basis. Beatrice Democrat.
If it would drive gold out of circula
tion, it would contract the currency
and this would increase the purchasing
power of the dollar, unless the increase
cf the silver dollars was sufficient to
replace every gold dollar driven out.
If gold is driven out of circulation will
the Democrat inform us just what use
it will or can be put to, to be profitable
to the holder, should silver take its
place? If it poes to Europe it must be
loaned at a much smaller rate of inter
est than here. If it remains here, it
must be loaned or invested to yield an
income or profit. We say let them
hoard the gold if they want to. They
will, before six mouths are up, yet tired
of such methods of financiering. Don't
trouble yourself about gold in case of a
remonetizatiou of silver. It will march
along side by side with its white mate
and perform its part of the money
functions in this country. Crete
Democrat.
That smart Alec, Mr. Eckeln, the
controller of the currency, has been
getting himself into hot water with
the Chicago gold bugs by declaring the
Harvey-Horr debate to be a "hippo
drome" inferring thereby that Mr.
Horr was not intending to beat in the
discussion if he could. The fact is no
person in America could ho well hold
up his side of the case as Horr, but he
was compelled at the start to admit
himself to be a bimetallist and in favor
of the circulation of both metals as
money of final account. Eckels can
see that his friends have no show in
such a contest, but hasn't the sense to
keep his mouth shut about it.
The Omaha Hee, in common with
the other goldbug organs, has sickened
on the Horr-Harvey debate, and now
says "free coinage debates are getting
to be a bore," and then it proceeds to
misrepresent and slander the free coin
age advocates. It is no wonder that
these fellows are getting "bored" by
debates on free coinage. When
brought face to face with free coinage
advocates the goldbugs, where they
cannot lie at long range and where
they must combat the truth they
miserably fail, as Mr. Horr has done,
to sustain his cause on grounds either
of reason or science. The remark of
the Bee is, therefore, a simple ack
nowledgement of defeat. Could any
thing be more patent or apparent?
The reading of the report of Satur
day's Horr-Harvey debate on the
money question very clearly demon
strated that Mr. Horr was a badly
whipped man, and that most of his
time was put in trying to divert the
minds of his hparerR and his opponent
from tl)H point no r discussion, and
his tactics biTi nrn nutoi iously ap
parent that th" uu.ience could hardly
be restrained from showing in violent
terms its lis:ippnvnl of that course.
Mr. Harvey has proven himself to be
thoroughly aoquaintid with every fea
ture be has undertaken to discuss and
is making u wonderful itconl for him
self. Headers of the Plattsmouth News
often remark with what glee that
paper takes up the battle of the bolting
and goldbug democrats. The interests
of the goldhug democrats in Kentucky,
for instance, are apparently far nearer
to its heart than are those of the republicans.
The industry of hunting office seems
to be enjoyed by a large share of the
republicans of Cass just now. As it is
an enjoyable recreation, and in all
probability will be innocent of results,
there is nobody joing to quarrel with
the boys while their amusement con
tinues. The democratic county committee
suggests that but one set of delegates
be chosen for both conventions. We
don't believe that will be satisfactory,
and it should be left to the primaries
to decide what they think is best.
NKIIKAMKA HAPPENINGS.
Most of the new threshers purchased
in Nebraska this season will be mn ly
'.steam.
' Colfax county wants her assessment
reduced to correspond with that of
other counties similarly situated.
Phelps county is making prepara
tions for holding an old-fashioned fair
and has plenty of material to work on.
The old soldiers of York and Fill
more counties will hold their, annual
picnic at Parson's grove on August 1.
We shall stand up tor Nebraska this
year, says the Ashland Breeze, by eat
ing home grown potatoes at 25 cents
a bushel.
W. Barker, living near David City,
found Russian thistles growing in a
field of alfalfa, and is at a loss to know
where the seed came from.
A little son of E. Lamhofer of Schuy
ler was thrown from a bupgy by the
horse backing off a bridge and had his
leg broken near the thigh.
Lightning struck the bain of Mr.
l-utulen of Keene and it was burned
to the ground, together with a spun of
horses and other valuable stuff.
The fiw-year-old son of .Mm Bennett
of Long Pine tried to i ide the family
horse and failed. Nothing more ser
ious than a broken arm was the result.
Little Willie Salmon of ltagan was
kicked on the head by an ugly horae,
and the doctor, hud to take several
stitches to get the scalp toge' her t lie
way it belonged.
A good indication. Country banks
in many places are soliciting farm
loans again. A good crop prospect
uncovers the money and makes
brighter prospects.
David Hunter, living about a mile
north of Sutherland. I ins harvested
this season thirty bushols of red rasp
berries from a patch coverine about a
quarter of an acre.
A good time to pull the Russian
thistle, says the Fairmont Signal, it
just when you get your eyes on one.
And the next best time is just when
you get your eye on another one.
A supervisor in Nance county by
the name of Dobson has made up his
mind that the Russian thistle law is
unconstitutional and declines to serve
notice as required by the statutes.
From many localities come reports
of enormous yields of oats. Acreage
that early in the season'piomised little
or nothing is now placed at 50 to 70
bushels per acre. There is nothing
impossible with Nebraska.
A farmer remarked to the Norfolk
News the other day: "You have no
idea how fast corn will grow in this
kind of weather. I tested it lately by
driving down a stake beside a corn
stalk and measuring it, and twenty
four hours afterward I found it meas
ured just seven inches more, showing
that it grew a good seven inches in a
day."
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