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THURSDAY, MAY 2S, 1S9C.
Another issue of government bonds
is in sight, and still the goldbugs won
der at the growth of the free silver
sentiment.
Gov. Altokld is a leader who fills
his friends with admiration, and al
ways meets his enemies in an open
field. He has the courage of a lion.
It is ungenerous, at least, to assume
that every gold standard man is a thief,
even if their champion, Kosewater, has
been caught stealing another man's
speech.
Tut: present congress ought to suit
Mr. Heed's idea of a "business' con
gress. It has passed a river and har
bor bill involving au expenditure of
seventy-five million dollars, allowing
but forty-five minutes discussion.
California republicans passed re
solutions favoring free coinage of gold
and silver and endorsed McKinIey,and
the Hamiltion County Register wants
to know "what's the use of being a
fool unless you are a considurable of
a fool."
Iowa democrats have done the right
tiling by electing L. T. Genung as one
of the delegate at-large to the national
convention. Mr. Genung is essentially
a man of the people, one of nature's
orators, who makes friends wherever
he is known. His Nebraska friends
send him greeting.
Counting the states as solid the
present outlook indicates that the vote
of the gold and silver wings of the
Chicago convention will stand about
as follows: For free silver, 560; for the
gold standard, 334; majority for silver,
220. This majority will be made up in
part of every democratic state but New
York and New Jersey, if they can be
called such.
The so-called sound money demo
crats of Chicago are endeavoring to
strengthen themselves by appealing to
the public in the name of "honest pri
maries.' In view of the situation all
over the country this is about as bare
faced a piece of impudence as can well
be imagined. An honest expression
bv the people is the very thing these
shouters for "sound" money do not
wTant.
Look at Mickigan, where the whole
power of the administration was
brought to bear to reverse tbe ex
pressed will of the people. It is a
most noteworthy circumstance that all
the miraculous changes of sentiment
on the money question have been from
the silver to the gold side. Ti ue,they
may all be perfectly honest, but it is
also true that there are many elements
of suspicion involved. v
If Benedict Arnold had, in the full
uess of his fame, resigned his commis
sion in the American army, announc
ing his belief that the revolution was
unjustifiable, giving some good reasons
fcr the change, and then retiring to
the seclusion of private life, while the
t;Iory of his name would have Leen
considerably dimmed, he would, never
theless, have occupied a very different
place in the world's estimation from
what he now holds. So with Carlisle,
Herbert, Hoke Smith and a great army
of cuckoos, to be found wherever there
are federal otlices.
These men are suddenly converted
from free silver to the gold standard,
and not satisfied to observe a discreet
silence, or to modestly give their rea
sons (?) for changing, they turn almost
like mad dogs and drive their fangs
into the very vitals of their brother
democrats who do not change 60 sud
denly as themselves. After advocat
ing free coinage of silver for a lifetime,
all at once they make the startling dis
covery that it means a "fifty-cent dol
lar," that such a dollar would be "dis
honest,'' and hence that the advocates
of free silver are either idiots or
knaves. The position of many gold
democrats is so exceedingly delicate
and vulnerable that they should be
very careful how they impugn the mo
tives of others.
Air. Illaine Wih for Free O.inage.
On Feb. 7, 1S78, Mr. Blaine gave his
reasons for favoring free silvp r, and
also told of the effect of adverse legis
lation on silver. He sail). "The Ger
man government the very :j ear after
we made our specific declaration for
paying our bonds in coin, pasted a law
destroying, so far as lay in its power,
the value of silver as money.
"1 do not say that it was specifically
aimed at this country"--the Rothschilds
do not aim at the wind," but it was
passed regardless of its effect upou.atid
was followed, according to public and
undented statements, by legal invest
ment on the part of the German ov-
eminent in our bonds, with a view, it
was understood, of hoi. ling them n a
coin reserve for thawing goiil from us
to aid in establishing their new gold
s' andard at home.
"Thus by our move, the German gov
ernment destroyed, so f ar as lay in its
powers the then existing value of sil-
Tiie Nebraska City News says
"The World-Herald puts Nebraska in
the free silver column, which is as mis
leading as its free silver arguments.
Nebraska's sixteen votes will be
counted for sound money." You bet
they will, but not as the sheeney shy
lock counts on. Sound money is
American money, and not the money
oi jonnny Bull that tbe .News is
hurrahing for. South Omaha Sun.
Samuel Wauoh ot this city, who
attended the Bryan-Rosewater debate
at Omaha on the 15th, says he recog
nized Rosewater's very first utterance
as a plagiarism from Aldrege's speech,
and that not only were long passages
stolen bodily from the Texan's speech,
but hi3 whole argument was inter
woven with passages from it. That
was probably the boldest piece of
literary thieviery ever prepetrated on
an audience. It was at the time ac
cepted as a strong argument, but it
loses all its merit because it was stolen
goods.
TriE remains of Col. Addison Coch
ran. one of the oldest residents of
Council Bluffs, were laid away yester
day. He was a veteran of the Mexican
war and a grizzled old hero who made
fame for himself in that war as the
colonel of an Arkansas regiment. He
was a man well along in life when the
rebellion broke out, and must have
been almost ninety years of age at bis
death. He left a large amount of
property the cash from which is to be
equally divided among descendants of
his sisters, having no children of his
own. '
Tiik spectacle of the McKinley
ites pretending to be peculiarly
American while they favor a pro-English
gold standard, is one that would
make a horse laugh. They are hypo
crites from start to finish. A high
tariff permits England to supply the
world with cheap manufactured goods
and monopolize all its commerce, while
it prevents the American people from
buying anything but shoddy New Eng
land manufactures except at high
prices. At the same time the gold
standard here prevents Americans
from dealing with China and Japan on
terms of equality and encourages the
building up of manufactures in those
countries.
Some Democratic Uistory.
The Chicago Chronicle turns to thr
record to prove what are democratic
principles. It finds: "In 1S40 the
democratic party adopted the follow
ing quotation from Thomas Jefferson
as its platform: uongress Das no
power to charter a United States bank;
we believe any such an institution
one of hostility to the best interests
of the country; dangerous to our re
publican institutions and the liberties
of the people and calculated to place
the business of the country within the
control of a concentrated money power
and above the laws and will of the
people.' "
ine piattorm was re-atiirmeu in
1S41-4S-52 and I8U). It was in accord
ance with, the views ot that sturdy
old democrat, Andrew Jackson, who,
in 1832, smashed the United States
bank by his veto, for which he was
rewarded by the democracy of New
l ork and Massachusetts, subservient
then as now to the money power, by
being ridiculed in doggerel and pictur
ed as an 'epauletted donkey.' "
THE KKKNC1I PR! M I Kit Fill! SllVWt.
Gold standard men like to give out
' he inijr'-Mnii that the advocates of
(imt t:tjsi. are cranks and "crazy
lunatics." wli know nothing of finance,
and ilint statesmen of the word are for
irold. In this view of the case the re
cent utterances of M. Meline, the new
French premier, are worthy of note.
A dispatch in Sunday's Bee from
1'aris, gives a brief account of an ad
dress delivered by Mons. Meline, be
fore a bimetallic club, in which he ex
presses regret at the renunciation of
i he old (bimetallic) monetary system
which secured piosrerity It) the people.
Me slated that the long contiuufd com
mercial stringency dated from the
time when Europe and America
abolished the double standard. The
remedy, h insisted, was a return to
himetaHiMu. He was rejoiced to note
that the bimetallic movement was
spreading rapidly through England,
Germany, Belgium, France and Amer
ica. All that was n quired to bring
ver as money, enhanced consequently t!1s monetary reform was an electric
the value of gold, and then got into I spark, which was soon bound to appear,
position to draw gold from us at the j
moment of its need, which would also
be the moment of our greatest distress.
One Hanker Who Ha n Soul.
The Omaha World-Herald recently
published the following letter:
Humboldt, Neb., May 17. To the
Editor: I received circulars from the
Bee soliciting subscriptions. I return
same with the following indorsement
thereon: "I will not 3upport any gold
standard organ, not even as a gift, be
cause I consider such papers traitors to
western interests."
If the above is of any use to you
you may use it. Very respectfully
yours, J. F. Walsh.
Pketkxded democrats, who have
given adherence to a bagatelle of bolt
ers in Nebraska, without a shadow of
a legal existence, are wonderfully wor
ried because the democratic committee
of Chicago does not surrender its
authority and prestige to the gold
standard bankers and money ohacgers
in that city, and agree to let them
manage the primaries in their way. It
makes a heap of difference whose ox
is gored. These hypocrites ought to
take the beam from their own eyes be
fore they demand the removal of the
mote from other men's eyes. Let
them come into tbe fold first.
According to the teachings of
Itosewater the advocates of the gold
standard are for cheap money. He
said money was cheaper now than ever
before, and that was the result of the
maintenance of the gold standard, and
that was what was wanted as a perma
nent condition. If that is true, mav
the good Lord save the country from
cheap money! Let us, rather, have
dear money, even if it does bring
higher interest; money that will permit
property to be rated at a higher valuation.
Mr. IIoskwatek seems to be having
a mint of trouble these days, but he
explains that his sin has been a very
small one, like the young wenaau who
was the mother of a child born out of
wedlock, "it was a very small one,
mum."' But the fact that he stole
only a small portion of Judges Al
drees speech did not excuse him for
purposely misquoting the constitution
of his country, as he did in his open
ing speech in the debate with Mr.
Bryan, to make it fit in harmony with
his argument. He then said: "The
fact that the constitution prohibits
states from making anything but gold
Oil silver coin a legal tender does not
necessarily abridge the powers of con
gress," etc. The ti uth is that the con
stitution says no such thing. It tloes
say, however, that the states are pro
hibited from making "anything but
gold AND silver coin a legal tender."
A man who has the pretentions of
Ilosewater ought to know that he can
not pervert the language of the con
stitution without being caught at it.
Is the public to conclude that Hose-
water is a forger and liar as well as a
literary thief?
from the force of the circumstances in
which the commercial world found
itself today. Mr. Meline is at pres
ent at the head of the French cabinet
and his words ought to have weight
with thinking men. That electric
spark has been struck in America, and
it promises to revolutionize the country
this venr.
Amkrican steel rails are on their
way to Japan. The Illinois Steel com
pany sent 500 tons from their mill on
lake Michigan last week, part fulfil
ment of an order from a Japanese rail
way, at $2130 a ton. The route will
be by lake Michigan to Buffalo, thence
by Frie canal to this city, where they
will be loaded on a steamer for Japan.
When here those rails are worth, if put
on the maiket, S2S per ton, but they
are invoiced to a Japanese company at
S'G. 04 less than the greatest road in this
country can buy them. In other words
the steel trust punishes the people of
this country by an addition of one
third of the real value of the rails be
cause we protect the steel industry and
submit to the exactions f a monopoly
created behind that protection. New
York Journal.
"Tuk tit of generosity which impelled
congress to vote to its members a
sheer gratuity of $1,200 a year, osten
sibly for clerk hire, has developed the
fact that the average cost to the coun
try of our modern statesmen is tour
times what it was when Adams, Clay,
Webster and their compeers sat in the
halls of congress. And the worst of it
is, says the Philadelphia Beeord, that
while the price has gone up, the qual
ity has as steadily gone down." Fx.
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A resolution is now before the
senate for discussion prohibiting the
issue of any more bonds without the
positive authority of congress. It will
probably pass the senate, as the vote
to take it up stood 34 to' 20. Ihe re
publican house will hardly dare refuse
to pass it. The measure would prob
ably meet with a veto at the hands of
the president, but in the present feel
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passed over the veto. If it became a
law it would have the effect of breaking
Mr. Cleveland's "endless chain" in
stanter, and would compel the redemp
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gold, at the convenience of' the treas
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will probably prolong U e session into
the summer. It is a part of the fight
for free silver.
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Dakota Wednesday. The Chicago
Times-Herald, a thick-and-thin gold-
bug organ, ezplaijis, editorially, how j
manner in which the adminis
tration invaded the free silver cohorts
in Michigan and kode uouon siioi
to victoky ought to give fresh courage
and strength to weak-kneed sound
money democrats in other states. A
few weeks ago it looked as though the
free silver democrats would be in a
large majority in the Michigan state
convention."
TnEKK are excellent reasons for be
lieving that if the United States re
turns to bimetallism all Europe will
hasten to readopt the double standard.
In fact if they didn't the United States
would at once capture all the trade of
the silver-using countries of the world,
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