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About The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1895)
June 13, 1895 THE WEALTH MAKERS 5 Mr. CarlWe in hia recent speeche, and orgs tbe silver men to earnestly consider them. They arc as follows: 1. There is not a free coinage country In'the world that is not on a silver nasi. 2. There is not a gold standard country in the world today that does not use silver along with gold. 3. There is not a silver standard country in the world that uses any gold as money along with silver. 4. There is not a silver standard country in the world that has more than one-third the circulation per capita of the U.S. . 5. There is not a silver standard country in the world today where the laboring mnu receives iair pay for his day's work ? Inasmuch as you claim that bimetal lism necessarily implies a silver standard, in considering these "points" we will take the two- as synonymous thus, for the sake of argument granting your first "point." The second "point" we yield as true. The third is not true. We offer in evi dence of our claim the fact that both Mexico and Russia, each an acknowledged silver standard country, coin gold, and that all bi-metallic standard countries, which your first "point" claims are on a silver basis, coin gold. Would they coin it if they did not use it after it was coined? The fourth "point" is true if you take only the strictly silver countries into consideration. But if your first point is true this one cannot be, for the country having the highest per capitacirculation is France, with $36.81, or 180 per cent of that of the United States. Here let us parenthesize the statement that the country with the lowest per capita ex cept China is Turkey, a gold standard country with but $2.39. Now please consider the following ta bles: GOLD STANDARD. Nation. Gold. Silver. Paper. c' Austro Hungary 124 85 187 9.59 Canada 14 5 29 10.00 Eirypt 120 15 19 85 Germany 018 215 84 18.56 United Kingdom 540 - 113 127 20.44 Portugal 40 10 49 21.06 Turkey 60 44 2.89 Total.... 1506 486 476 14.56 BI-METALIC STANDARD. Nation. Gold. Silver. Paper. Belgium........ 64 65 64 26.70 France '800 600 110 86.81 Greece .6 8 23 12.22 Italr 96 16.6 179 9 69 Netherland ........ 18 '" 56 37 24.34 Spain 40 155 105 17.14 Switzerland 15 . 15 12 14.48 Total 1024.5 80O.5 620 20.18 When you have examined and noted that the seven gold standard countries with a total circulation of $2,468,000 show an average per capita of a little less than $14.56, while the seven bi-me-talic standard countries with a total cir culation of $2,345,000 show an average per capita of $20.18, you must perforce admit that if your first "point" be true your fourth cannot be. Further, if you hold that the per cap ita is a true measure of a nation's pros perity, you must admit that those coun tries which have a bi-metallic standard, which is what we are contending for, are the more prosperous, as their per capita exceeds that of the gold countries as 20 is to 14. About the fifth "point." It may be true; buthow about Austro-Hungary, Egypt, Portugal, and Turkey all single gold standard counties? Does the laboring man in these coun tries receive "fair pay for his day's work?" Now we have considered all your "points" with the following result: The first point granted for the sake of argu ment; the second freely conceded; the third proved false in itself; the fourth proved inconsistent with the first and the fifth emasculated. Falsvs in unus, falsus in omne. Try again. You may succeed better next time. Ekgo. Corn Hollow, Seward Co., Neb. Cleveland's Faith in Whitney President Cleveland is turning toward Whitney as a successor.not wholly on ac count of old friendship or gratitude for what Whitney did for him three years ago, but more because he believes Whit ney is the man to hold the Democratic party together and lead it to success. As the Democratic situation isviewed in this city and by eastern politicians generally, there is just one chance to defeat the-free silver coinage in next year's national Democratic convention. This chance lies in the direction of internation al bimetallism, with a sop to the silver ites, a plank broad enough for everyone to stand upon, and the nomination of a candidate in whom the businessmen of the country will have implicit confidence. Whitney is believed to be that man, and he has himself boldly and shrewdly in dicated the method by which the Demo cratic party may escape destruction. It it well known throughout the east that this is the policy of the Republican managers. The leading men of that party thoroughly understand the pro gramme. Every possible concession is to be made to the silver Republicans of the west in order to keep them in line, but all these concessions will be in the reso lutions. The candidates will be known of all men to stand squarely and safely for honest money McKinley, Harrison, Reed or some other. Perceiving this tendency of the Republicans toward har mony within their ranks, Democrats everywhere are asking themselves and one another: "Why should we not do the same thing?" It is wholy accurate to s".y that the leading men of both par ties have no notion of yielding'to the free silver demand. They look upon that movement as a craze, skillfully nurtuied by the mine owners, and making head way through the country largely on account of the hard times and the pre vailing demand for a change. They be lieve this movement has renched its flood and will soon recede; that it is even now receding before the growth of reason and the approach of better times in all parts of the country. The great desire of the managers of both parties is to temporize . with the sil ver craze, to mollify its sup porters, to hold their organization intact to prevent bolts and splits. Walter Well man, in Times-Herald. NEURALGIA cured tv Dr. Miles Paim Fills. "One cent do." At all druggist IS MONOPOLY'S TOO L Sot. Altgald Denounces The Action of the Snprema Court L DANGEEOUS PEE0EDEST ESTABLISHED The Right of Trial by Jury Taken Away Autocratic Power Placed in the Hande of Judges Capital Enthroned and All-Powerful Springfield, 111., June 2. Governor John P. Altgeld is of the belief that the supreme court has established a danger ous precedent in remanding Eugene V. Deba and his friends to jail. He express ed himself in a very caustic manner to day regarding the decision, and accuses the court of trampling on the rights of the people and of being the tool of monopoly. He gives his views for pub lication in the following signed article: "The remanding of Debs is in itself a matter of small consequence compared with the principle established, which is of transcendent importance. This decision marks a turning point in our history, for it establishes a new form of govern ment never before heard of among men that is, government by injunction. Un der this procedure a federal judge sitting in a rear room can, on motion of some corporation lawyer, issue a ukase, which he calls an injunction, forbidding any thing he chooses to, and which the law does not forbid. Where the law forbids a thing no injunction is necessary. In other words, he can legislate for himself, and, having done so, can then turn around and arrestand imprison as many people as he pleases, not for violating any law, but on the mere pretext that they had disregarded his injunction. And mind you, they are not tried by a jury, according to the forms of law, but the same judge who issued the ukase and who claims that his dignity was offended himself tries the case, and whether any thing is proved or nothing is proved be can send men to prison at pleasure and there is no remedy. The provision of the constitution "that no man shall be de prived of his liberty without "a trial by an impartial jury' ia practically wiped out by the decision of the United States supreme court and the theory that ours was exclusively a government of law is now at an end, for every community is now subject to obey any whim or caprice which any federal judge may promulgate And if federal judges can do this, then it will not belong until state judges will follow this example. "The constitution declares that our government has three departments the legislative, judicial and executive and that no one shall trench on the other; but under this new order of things a federal judge becomes at once legislator, court and executioner. For over a cen tury our government Has moved along the lines of the constitution, and we be came great and powerful. Life and pro perty was protected and the law was en forced. Now we have made a departure. The bulwark of liberty has been under mined; trial by jury has been stricken down. TWO CASES AGAINST DKB8. "You know there were two separate proceedings against Debs. One was according to the established forms of law. He was indicted by a grand jury for acts alleged to have been done dur ing the strike, and he was regularly tried by a jury and it turned out there was absolutely no caseagainst him. Nothing was proved. It is true the jury was not allowed to bring in a verdict, because near the end of the trial one of the jurors became ill and the prosecution refused to go on. Debs' attorneys offered to pro ceed with the remaining eleven or to add a new man and proceed, but the railroad lawyer, who also represented the govern ment, feeling that he had no case at all would not consent, and he thereby pre vented a verdict of acquittal aud had the case postponed. "The other proceeding was by injunc tion. A federal judge, on motion of somo railroad attorneys, issued a ukase against the people of all the states in that judicial circuit, in which he forbade nearly everything that the ingenuity of man could thiuk of and which the law did not forbid, and having thus legislat ed he then turned around and had Debs and others arrested, not for violating any law, but for failing to respect his ukase or injunction. - And then this judge not only refused to give a jury trial, but he himself proceeded to deter mine whether his own dignity had been offended, and the judge being legislator, court and executioner. Had there been a jury trial the defendants would have been discharged, because it was not proved that they had violated any law. This would have been in harmony with the constitution, with the law of the land and with eternal justice. But the corporations wanted the constitution brushed aside, and the federal judge kindly obliged them and the supreme court has now approved hia acts. "For a number of years it has been re marked that the decisions of the United States courts were nearly always in favor of corporations. Then it will be noticed that no mau could be appointed to a federal judgeship unless he was satisfac tory to thoseiuterests. Over a year ago the New York World talked about a packed supremo court, and that court lias within a few days rendered two deci sions which unfortunately tend to con firm this charge. A week ago it did violence to the constitution and laws of the land by holding that the government had no power to tax the rich of this country. Now it has strickeu down trial by jury and has established government by injunction. ,4 CAPITAL ALL-POWERFUL. "Forty years ago $ie slave power pre dominated; today it is cupitalisin. George William Curtis described theslave power of forty years ago as follows: 'Slavery sat in the White House and made laws in thecapitol; conrts of justice were its minmterfl, and legislatures were its lackeys. It silenced the preacher in the pulpit; it muzzled the editor at his desk, and the professor in his lecture room. It set the price upon the heads of peaceful citizens; it robbed the mails and denounced the vital principles of the de claration of independence at treason. Even in states whose laws did not tole rate slavery it ruled the club and the drawing-room, the factory and the office It swaggered at tbe dinner table aud QeadMhelxutf Get Dr. Miter Pain PUia, wourgwl with seord n cowardly nociety. It tore the golden rule fnnnwimol books and the pictured benignity of t hrist from the prayer book.' Now substitute the word 'capitalism' for the word 'slavery' and the above is an exact picture of our condition today. The Americun people crushed the slave power; they washed its stain off our flag, and saved our institu jioiiS. Can they rescue them again? Many say yes, but they have not reflect ed that the crushing force that now con fronts them is greater than was ever the slave power. Besides, slavery itself was sectional, and in the end it was possible to unite the rest of the country against it. But the corrupt money power has its withering finger on every pulse in the land and is destroying the rugged man hood and love of liberty which alone can carry a people throvgh a great crisis. "What, then, is the situation today? For over twenty years foreign and domestic capitalism has dominated. It sits in the White House and legislates in thecapitol. Courts of justice are its ministers and legislatures are its lackeys And the whole machinery of fashionable society are its handmaid. "Just see what a brood of evils has sprung from the power of capitalism since 1870. First, the striking down ot over one-third of the money of the world thus crushing the debtor class and para lyzing trade. Second, the Rrowing of that corrupt use of wealth is undermin ing our institutions, debauching public officials, shaping legislation and creating judges who do its biddiug. Third, ex emption of the rich from taxation. Fourth, the substitution of government by injunction for government by the con ssitutionand laws. Fifth, the striking down of trial by jury. Never has there been so much patriotic talk as in the last twenty-five pears and never were there so many influences at work strangling re publican institutions." John P. Altgeld. THE MEDDER-LARK See the yaller-throated cherub, Flittin' free as feathery foam, From the tallest, rankest grasses, From his flowery, bowery home; See him pick the tallest fence-post, Hear the melody of June That's the medder-lark a-singing, An' hia soul is in his tune. See him give his wings a flicker, See him flirt his tail an' nod. Now he's listenin' an' lookin' To'ards the regions of his God. Thar's another bird a-comin', Hear him twitter out his life That's the medder-lark a-sparkin' An' his sweetheart is his wife. He's not edzackly purty, . An' his clo'es is kindertame; He don't make much pretensions, But he gits thar jist the same. Tho' he sings an' flirts an' twitters Till he's fairly in distress, You kin see his body's bustin' With the things he can't express. The medder-lark's an orator, Without a touch of art; The medder-lark's a poet, an' He's got his lines by heart; The medder-lark's a prophet, With a message to transmit He's a songster an a psalmist, An' his music can't be writ. He's an angel dressed in featHers, He's a animated kiss. . If I could have one hope fulfilled, My idee would be this: Dou't give us fame nor riches Don't give us anything, But jist some friends an' medder-larks An' never-endin' spring. Dan De Foe, in "Sports Afield." Now for a strong pull for '96! All to gether! Get up a club for this paper, only 80c. till November lstl Mary had little iamb. How fast Its wool did prow; In spring she sold ber Unify fleece To bummer, Morrison & Co, II . A farmer, when he heard of It Said "By Jack b'leve I'll try "em:" And when he counted ont hia cash Said "Yon bet, I'll stay by 'em." Ill He straightway told his neighbor Jones About his lucky hit. When Jones had heard him through, h said, "Sam Brown, I'll never quit." IV "Till all this whole blamed naberhood Has heard that from my lips; An' every farmer here around Turns In right off and ships," V "His own blame wool to that air firm That treats us all so fair; That gets us every cent they kin. An' settles on the square." VI So here and there among his friends This honest farmer went: And those be couldn't see himself One of tie boys he sent. VII Miss Smith went out and told Miss Ayers, .. Miss Flynn told Mr. buret II ins Marks already knew It for She'd heard It down at church. VIII 'Twas all the talk the whole week through In every set and faction, Tbey were not making any noise. But they were taking action. IX On Saturday they came to town, As if there were a thow; That day a car ot wool went oat To Summer, Morrison A Co. 174 8. Water St., Chicago. All rights reserved. Beware of Redeemable Dollars Editor Wealth Makehs: The remonatizatiou of silver as advo cated by the great mass of agitators will no more give us a true financial system such as is contemplated in the Omaha platform than the licensing of double the number of women would have to remove the social evil or the doubling the num ber of gambling houses to stop gamb ling. Any money of a realm made re deemable by some other money of the am realm is a fraud of which the money dealer will in tbe future ae in the past take advantage. Silver a money, gold as money and paper as money, has some great weaknesses, but is preferable to the redeemable in gold fallacy, and re deemable in gold and silver is preferable to gold alone, as the redeemer becomes more powerful. If our silver advocates have proved anything at all they have proved the cuesedness of the redeemer principle. The mass of humanity has yet to learn that Instead of the argu ment that there must be intrinsic value in the unit the very opposite isonly true, i. e., no possible commodity value, for thus stripped it must be used for the sole legitimate purpose of exchanging the varied products of labor and paying taxes. To do this tbe government must have full aud completecontrol of all issue and loans. Anything outside of this is only a bolster, a putting off for a short time the evil day which must either hurl us into a frightful revolution, or biud the mass into tbe most debasing slavery The question today is as of old, whom will you have, Christ or Barrabus? A just monetary system dictated by and in the interests of the great American peo ple, or one dictated by autocrats and despots for and in the interest of droues aud legalized thieves? Redeemable dollars, . Redeemable dollars. Whether In silver or gold Pat on all tollers collars ot Iron; But encircle the waists. Necks and ankles as well, , Of wives and of daughters Of bond-holding swell With gold. It gives to the toller Brown bread aud water . And calico dresses To wives and to daughters: While It gives to tbe robbers Champagne and roast beet, Klch silks and rare jewels To tbe folks ot the thief. Saunders Co. Jane 3. W, H. Decs. According to a Chicago daily there ar only 1,200 holders of inside property in the city of Chicago. In twenty-five years the number of real estate owners then has been reduced sixty per cent. A Big Drop in Sugar Sears. Roebuck & Co.. better known as the Cheapest Supply House on Earth, at 171, 178 and 175 W. Adams St., Chicago III., are selling 40 lbs. of the very best granulated sugar for $1. and other groceries at proportionately low prices: they ship their goods to any one any where; they will supply you if anywhere within one thousand miles of Chicago, selling granulated sugar 40 lbs. for $1. and everything accordingly. Send no money, but cut this notice out and send to Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, for full particulars. Constipation causes grief, But the trouble need be brief, For Ayer's Pills give prompt relief. HOMES IN THE SUNNY SOUTH, No hot winds, blizzards, nor crop failures. Na tuVal Clover, Timothy and Blue Grass. Fuel cheap. Coal fl per ton at bank. Dry wood 91.61 per cord delivered. All kinds of fruit that grow in this latitude. Yon will find all these advan tages In the country adjacent Calhoun, Henry ennntv. Mo.. 12 miles from Clinton, the county seat; population 6,000. Located on the M. K. A T. K. R. 70 miles southeast Kansas City. We have a list ot good farms for sale at from 10 to H0 per acre. Corn yields from 80 to 00 per acre. Flax from 8 to 18 per acre and other crops Id proportion. We will cheerfully give and Informa tion required, can on or aaaress, BABTHOLEMEW ALBION, Heal Estate Agents, . Calhonn, Mo, Nebraska Pant and Suit Co. 1 2 1 7 O Street. (West hall of Trunk Factory.) All Wool Pants Made to Order First-class and saarastced to fit. . S3, fi, Si, 0, and upwards. Business Suits, f 15, $18, f 20 And up. Popular Prices. Goods sold by the yard, and . Ends for Boy's Pants, Etc, FeVf uncalled for Pants and Suits at your own Price. Send for samples and prices. 0. H. OAKLET. O. N. HOLCOM, Cutter, HUMPHREY BROS. HARDWARE CO. Repository Buggies, Carriages, and Spring Wagons. We are over stocked with buggies,pha tons, and spring wag gons, Stude baker and Moline Bug gy Compa ny's make, all new goods and new prices. Goods warranted as represented. ' We don't sell Cincinnati buggies with somebody else's name on them. We have also one second hand exteusion top cu t under carriage, good as new, $125, cost $235; one full leather top buggy in use one year, $45; one top buggy $20.00, in good repair; one top buggy $15.00, in good repair; one three-fourth top buggy, allund, $50.00; one park wagon, two seatsrgood as new, $45.00, costs $'.10.00; one two seated open buggy in good repair, pole and shafts, $40.00; one leather top pha ton, $50.00, in good repair; one five eighths speeding wagon, $45, costs $125; one 3-spring Studebaker wagon, $15,00; one two-seated cauopy-topsurry, $15.00; one bakery wagon, Studebaker, $80.00, costs $140.00, good as new. We are prepared to sell better goods at a less price than ever. Four floors, power ele vator. No trouble to show goods. Humphhky Hitos. Hardware Co., Cor. 0 aud Ninth Streets. Creamery and Dairy Apparatus and Suppl'es. BUTTER PACKAGES of every kind. HAND SEPARATORS For Small Dairy Farmers. Every farmer having six or more milch cows should have one of these ma chine the saving of butter alone In a single year will pay for lb For Informa tion, prices, etc., address Creamery Package JWf 'g Co., -a- en, au. WriM k4ay. CAniiAGEs.Dusa!Zs,iAnt::ss n. ana "wjriM, M rmmmrr rilwt. work ruarmntrxl ud SB tn ) pr rent vtMi. our iwxis received the hlicbtwt aw arils al the World's i ri. uui iim mammilla ntuniritMta vauuogue is tree to all. Itahowe all the. Itet styles and improvements and reduced prices. Ilhulu Daces and bend for Ik is tlie largest and aioat romt.let rkt.ln.ii. v ir..,i Jfret. AlJIatatee twrUce .'., tlawlauuUl, Ufcto. WrlH Mu, rmsT-cLAts equipments AMO SCST ATTENTION. BOARDING, FEED AND SALE STABLES, rA fUr? T1e Windsor Stables. j ' W REESE, Proprietor. 'Phone 232. 1024 L Street, LINCOLN, NEB. Summer ScfyooL Mr. 0. I. Griffin, who Is well known to onr students aa a teacher ol Mathemntlcs for Ave years at the Lincoln Business College.untll a year ago, has attain associated himself with n. and will conduct a Summer School, devotlux bis time to special Instruction In Arithmetic and other stadias tauKht In the public schools. Tnltllon, ft per week. Tbe tuition In the Business, shorthand, and Penmanship Is reduced for the months of June. July and August to f IB for ten weeks. Call at the College, Corner 11th A 0, or address, Tfye Jjlicolq Jglisiijess College, D. R. LILLIBRIDGE, Pres. LINCOLN NORMAL TTNITIR8ITT. i SCHOOL FOR THE PEOPLE ni,M TU equipments ars mors somplati DSCdliSB. Itabnliaininar.b.tur. m MVUUUVVf it, fnonlty Is larger and abler aa the expenses lower than those ol any etfc Normal School la Nebraska. Tultlea 91.00 yet wmB Soar from SX0 to $8.00 Xoomi from . SBoitoTBe. - " .... We will have the , . heading Stonier School ir) Nebraska This year. Term opens June 4th, 1895. 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