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January 16, 1896. 4 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT Bl Nebraska 3nbcpcnbcnt Contlidatitn ef THt WEALTH MAKERS LINCOLN INDEPENDENT, mm nn PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THB IndeperjdErjt Publihiijg Go. At 1120 K 8tr..t, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 538. $1.00 per Year in Advance. Address all communications to, and malts all drafts, money order, etc, payable to THB INDEPENDENT PUB. CO., Likcolm, Nib. The schemes being concocted at Wash ington are treason to the human race. Did you ever think of it twelve ma jority of the U. 8. senators ore "silver cranks?" Carlisle and Cleveland chorus: "We are coming, Wall St., ' with a hundred thousand more." , On Monday of this week "that great wave" from the east overtook four busi ness firms in Omaha. , Gold was IK per cent premium last Wednesday in New York. What has be. come of the Sherman-Carlisle "parity" scheme? We say 16 to 1; but the exact legal ratio is 15 85-86 to 1. The fraction was made to save long rows of decimals in mint calculations. The "patriots" who were making such a noise about putting flags over the school house were invited to put up or hut up. They shut up. Tbe Power to tax is the power to take without the consent of the owner. When exercised for any other purpose than the common good, it is robbery and nothing but robbery. The preponderance of free silver sen ators is greater than in the last congress and our own senator Wm. V. Ailen seems to be the giant of the situation. Polk County Democrat. One Morgan once made a raid into Ohio. He was captured and sent th the penitentiary. Another Morgan recently made a raid on Washington. He should be nerved the name way. Will our children be under any moral obligation to pay the fraudulent debts contracted by Sherman, Carlisle & Co., before they were born? Thirty year bonds will have to be paid buy our chil dren, A death of one democratic member o' the Kentucky legislature seems to as sure the election of a gold bug republi can senator from that state. The re publicans will have one majority in the legislature now. Carlisle calls his new scheme to enr ich bondholders and impoverish the people a "popular" loan. According to the ideas of this writer it is the most "unpopular" thing that has been done in these United States in the last hundred years. Gen. A. J. Warner in an article in the National Bimetallist says: "Let the greenbacks alone. Tbey are better than bank currency can possibly be," Not only Gen. Warner but all economists o' any reputation say the same thing. Mr. C. L. Talmadge one of the most popular young Democrats in Lincoln has been appointed to assist in windiug up the affairs of the German National Bank, which failed a short time ago. If we must have Democrats he is as good as could have been selected. Is it because the people twice elected Grover Cleveland to be president; that he acts on the principle that they all are fools? It is very strong grounds for such a belief without doubt. Nevertheless the fuRtiathev didn't know the man and were deceived. In one breath the sold standard re publicans will declare that value can not be made by law, and the next they demand a law for the express purpose of making values for manufactured pro r1nrt bv increasing tariffs, ibat is why we call them hypocrites. The House of Representatives held session one day last week to fix up the rnl. The first thing they did was to make a rule ordering the clerk to pay them. The next thing was to anuul the old rule requiring the sargeant-at-arms who holds large sums of money to give bonds. ' Congressman Spaulding wants Hawaii annexed right away and has introduced a bill for that purpose. Perhaps when Hawaii looks things over and takes nnint at the mountain of debt that Cleveland and the Republican party piling on us, sbt i won't want Wtake' band in paying p. THE PENITENTIARY If the citizens of this state could be truthfully informed of the state of affairs in regard to the penitentiary there would be a protest which even the thieves at the state house would heed. When Th Independent says that Churchill and Russell are planning a robbery, it means exactly what it says without any quali fication. If such a thing bad been at tempted before the whole public admin istration had been honeycombed with corruption, the villains would have been tarred and feathered and ridden on a rail. Churchill and Russell, the State Jour nal and other republican papers, which by their open advocacy or by their si lence are urging on these villains to rob the state of money that has to be bought with ten cent oats and twelve cent corn, do not even pretend that it would be a saving to put a $3,000 agent in control of the penitentiary. It is open, unadulterated stealing, and nothing but stealing. If tbe men and the papers engaged in this dirty business do not like this state ment they can make the most of it. The convicts in the penitentiary are all employed and tbe state is receiving forty cents a day for their labor. There is good order and discipline among them, a superintendent is not needed, and to hire one and put him in control of the prison at a salary of f 3,000 a year is stealing? The kind of a man that Churchill and Russel want to put in charge of the penitentiary to handle its funds can be learned from the follow ing official documents. Copy. WABBAMf HO 84003. TbtStattofNibruik; . To A. D. Beemer, Dr. January, 1894, conducting remanded pris oner, Ureen S. Gravely, No. 2204, to Lin coln, Neb. eelf and guard one day $5 00. Mileage - J Conveyance..- w $7 00 WARRANT MO. 84004. Tbt SUU ot Nebraska: To A. D. Beemer, Dr. January, 1894, conducting remanded pris oner, James P. Palln, to Lincoln, Neb. null and guard one day $8 00 Mileage JO Conveyance.,. 93 00 There lie before the writer copies of nu merous other vouchers and warrants of like character drawn by this man A. D. Beemer and sworn to by him. The following is a copy of the oath he made: The Btatc or Nirrarka, ) M County ot J I do hereby eolemnly wear that the above and foregoing account and voucher Is a true, correct, and complete statement ol tbe ac count of for supplies, or services for the State of Nebraska, as therein recited, and that the Items, or services therein, were fully de livered or rendered to said State, and that th charges therein made are the legal, ust, and usual charghes tor said supplies, or services; and that said bill, nor any part thereof, has not been paid heretofore by the State: bnt that the same Is now wholly due and unpaid; and that I am the of tilt Hi m or mi (nrnl.uii signing said voucher, nixl lhut 1 inn fully con versant with the Ih'intt churn ml herein, iiurl tint !b ail uianssrs sad thirds t!:.x is a tiar. Ja.-t s::d correct charge and Item of luilebteclnetM unnlust the State of iiebraslsti. Now there are living witnesses w ho will swear that when A. C. Beemer took the two prisoners Gruveley and Paiin from the penitentiary to the court house in Lincoln, that he had no guard and hired no conveyance, but took them unguard ed on the street car at a cost for each prisoner of 15 cents. The following is a copy of a voucher for the same service put in by urdun Leidigh: The State oi Sebrakn . To Geo. W. Letdign, ur. October 113. 1895. For conducting remanded prisoner Samuel Wood No. 248 to Lincoln, Neb. two motor car tares from Lancaster to Lluroin, and one motor car far frnm Lincoln to Lancas ter at 5 cents eucb, 16 cents. The man who made the above oath and received $7.60 for that service is the man whom Churchill and Russell appointed as superintendent to take eutiie charge of the penitentiary and to handle all the money belonging to it. Thereaeon that Al. Beemer has not been arrested and brought to trial for these crimes is be cause the prosecuting officers are all Re publicans. There should be some citizen patriotic enough to file an information and secure his arrest, for the above thefts are onlv samples of many others that can be found on the public records. But the crimes of AU Beemer are not greater than those of Churchill and Rus sell, although they are of a different form, as will be seen from the following facts; When Warden Leideigh took charge of the plant on the 8th ot August, after Dorgan was bought out. and the stuff on hand turned over to him, he found every thing in ruins. All the steam boilers ex cept one, were condemned by the boiler inspector, although Broatch had paid an enormous price for them. Only steam enough could be made to run the broom factory and harness shop. The board authorized the warden to make the necessary repairs so as to start the machinery and put the convicts to work. When the warden uudertook to buy the repairs Churchill and Russell put a notice in the papers forbidding all persons to sell him anything, and did all they conld conceive of to prevent him starting the machinery, Notwithstanding the notice, the West ern Supply Co. finally furnished the warden the needed material The boilers bad to be practically mads over. All the steam piping had to be re newed. Every cock and Joint was leak ing steam. With almost superhuman energy tbe warden went to work to put the plant into condition so that the convicts conld ot to work and save the. tax payers ost ol their malntw 1 'dlensss. To prevent this, t'burcbiil and Russell refused, not only to pay for these sup plies, but also refused to pay the em ployes of the prison, and for five months tbe warden, guards and attendants of all kinds have not received a cent of pay. The people of Nebraska ought to remem ber these men, not one of whom forsook bis post, although many of them and their families were in great need. With ceasless vigilance they kept guard over the convicted fellons committed by the courts to their charge. The prison is now in excellent condi tion. There were yenterday, 174 con victs at work for various companies. They are earning for the state 40 cents a day. Many more are employed in doing the work of the prison in the laundry, in tbe kitchen and various other duties. The cooper shop, the broom factory, tbe harness shop and tbe stove foundry are all running at their fullest capacity. What good could a superintendent do there? The contractors who hire the men are satisfied. There was never as good discipline in the prison before. Every cent 1b being saved to the state that it is possible to save, a fact that no one de nies. What do Churchill and Russell want to appoint an agent for? For no other eeason than to get hold of the wages of the convicts and tbe 1 100,000 appropriated by the legislature. It is the most bare faced plot to rob ever planned by conscienceless politicians. And they say they are going on with it in spite of the decision of the supreme court. Was ever a state cursed with such a gang such as these? 8TAND UP FOB NEBRASKA The World-Herald, the State Journal, the Bee and all other great papers are making desperate efforts to induce immi gration. Now while the Populists stand first and all the time for the growth of this state and for all the people in it, and all who shall come to it,he knows that tbe plan pursued by those papers must fail. Advertisements of our wonderful natural resources the healthfulness of ourclimate and all that may be said upon those subjects will not induce men to come, unless they can see a prospect of making a home for themselves, their wives and their children. Immigrants would pour into this state by the thousands if there was a reason able prospect for a living and a Bpot free from debt where the aged workers, after a life of toil could spend their declining years in comfort and peace. The way to induce immigration is to make condi tions that will produce such results. With oorn at 12 cents per bunhel, oats 10, and wheat 35, immigrants would not come to this state. Why should they come? At those prices they could per haps, by incessant toil, maintain a bare existence. But with corn at 40 cents, oats at 30 and wheat at $1.00, they would people tbe bare prairies, of the state in a short time. As it is now, men are leaving the state. Colonization societies are organizing everywhere, to go south, to the moun tain states and to Old Mexico, and they will continue to go as long as prices con tinue to fall. The men and the papers who have stopped immigration to this state and are driving away some of those who have been here for years, are the men who have enabled the railroads to take all "the traffic will bear." They are those who have sent men to Congress to vote more bonds and increase taxation, the men who put corporation attorneys in the United States Senate and the men who have make the dollar dear and corn wheat, beef and pork so cheap that a man cannot make a living producing them. The great dailies are pursuing a policy that tends to the depopulation ot this state, while they cry, "stand up for Nebraska." They are the men who ruin business, break our banks and wreck our prosperity. ABOUT CONFIDENCE "We must restore confidence." "Busi ness will not revive until confidence is re stored." "Confidence is the source of all prosperity," All of these quotations are from recent editorials in the great dailies. It iB a very terse way of stating the ex act opposite of the truth. The one thing that has ruined the people of this United States is too much confidence. Peo. pie had confidence in Mosher's bank What was the result? They are im poverished. The people had confi dence in the Republican party. It load ed them with public and railroad debts. They had confidence in the Democratic party. It prooeeded to further bond us and the children that come after us to Rothschilds and Wall Street. Still mill ions of poor deluded mortals are bearing about with them unlimited amounts of confidence, while they steadily march down the broad road to serfdom and slavery. Out with your confidence. It is the ruin of the world and not its salva tion. CAN'T DO IT ALL Mr. Edward Stout Atwater, president of tbe Farmers and Manufacturers Bank ot Poughkeepsie, N. Y., sendB the editor of this paper a letter containing "a plan to secure an adequate and safe circula tion for the United States." He says he has also sent a copy of his plan to the finance committee of the U. S. Senate, He wants us to urge its adoption. Well we can't do it. It is about as unsafe and tnadeauate a plan as a banker could dream out after a big dinner at Del monicoa. , , j He wants the banks to furnish all the paper money, mat is a government function and is no part of the banking business, and the government can't turn it over to them any more than it can the army and navy. He wants to base his currency on the debt of the nation, state, cities, counties and school districts. We can't agree to that either. The Populists are going to get hold of this government pretty soon and they will make such conditions that these debts, after a few years, will all be paid. Then where will be his basis of circulation? Then we don't like money based on debt any way. We prefer to base it, if it is to be based at all, on what we own rather than on what we owe. Mr. Atwater's idea is that there is to always be a great perpetual interest bearing debt. That's a banker's idea. It is not ours at all. We are very sorry, Mr. Atwater, but we can't urge your scheme. We think it is a villainous scheme, a scheme to rob, a scheme for you to get interest on what you owe. In fact, we are down on the whole plan. THEY 00ULD NOT SEASON A large business house in Philadelphia, the Keen-Sutterle Co., failed on Saturday and a whole line of other houses went tumbling down like a row of cards, and by night, the shoe, leather, dressed kid and morrocco business of Philadelphia was practically annihilated. This Mr. Keen was one of the Philadelphians who was red hot for the repeal of the Sherman act, he was one 'of the chaps that took the contract of forcing Don Cameron to vote for tbe repeal of that act. When Cameron asked him what business he was in and he replied "kid and morrocco" Cameron said, "I shall not do what yon ask, but the bill will be repealed and houses in your line will be among the first to go to the wall. Very little kid and morrocco leather will be used by the people of the United States after the establishment of the gold standard. They will be too poor to buy that kind of goods." Mr. Keen will, in his future poverty, learn a lesson that he refused to learn in the days of his prosperity. Experience is an exceedingly dear school, but gold bug fools will learn in no other. Some of the "leading men" of Lincoln who sent petitions to Congress asking- for the re peal of the Sherman act, have since gone into bankruptcy, and now walk the streets with nothing to do and no hope for the future. They were of the class that can only learn by experience. They cannot reason and logic is an unknown science among them. RUSSIAN FINANCES Russia has more gold than any of the continental nations. She does not use it as money. The fact is she puts it in (a big vault and keeps it locked up. She don't take any out, but she is constanaly putting more in. The more she puts in that vault and gets out of circulation, the higher price she gets for her exports. Russia uses silver and paper only for money. The dearer she can make gold the better it is for her, and bo she hides every rouble of it she can get. If gold should become so dear that two grains of it would buy a bushel of wheat or a barrel of coal oil, that would only help Russian wheat and oil producers, and ruin those of America. Russia produces a bushel of wheat and sells it in the London market for 60 cents in gold which converted into Russian money is about $1.30. The American farmer sells a bushel of wheat in Liver pool for 60 cents, and when he gets home he has but 60 cents. This gives the Russ ian farmer substantially a 100 per cent advantage, and the dearer gold gets, the greater the advantage would be to the Russian farmer. There are no gold-bug idiots in Russia. - KID GLOVE STATESMEN What has become of that set of egotis tical economists who could be seen some timesince marching up and down this state, proclaiming in their shrill, un cultured voices that the railroads made Nebraska? And where is the other crowd of silk hat, kid gloved statesmen who proclaimed in strident tones that the capitalists were the men who made the state great and prosperous? Where are these gentlemen now and what makes them so extremely quiet? In those days, it a farmer modestly suggested that his work had something to do, in some small way at least,witb the creation of wealth, he was asked with a sneer how he could have the egotism even to hint that it was possible for an old hayseed to have ideas upon so obtruse a eublect as political economy. Where are those silk hat, kid gloved gentlemen now? Why are they so exceed inirlv auiet? There has not been a word heard from them for a year. Under present circumstances it would hardly do to proclaim their peculiar vagaries. It has dawned upon the people that the doctrines taught by the Farm er's Alliance were right. Railroads can not make a state. Capital cannot make a state. Yoa might gridiron the plains with railroads, and pile thecapital of the Rothschilds in pur bank vaults and you cannot have a state if the farmers can not bring forth from the earth corn, whnti. oata and vegetables. If the far mer fails all fail. What then made this state? Was it railroads and gold in the bank vaults? Not at all It was the brains and muscles of th hardy sons & toil who tilled the land and brought forth wealth from tbe bosom of mother earth. If tbey think the railroads and capital can make e. state and that the farmer has nothing to do with it, let them go to tbe deserts 'of Asia, where there are no farmers and never will be, and try the experiment. The drouth has taught the people some needful lessons. Of all the political idiots on earth, these capitalis tic, kid glove, railroad statesmen are the worst. POSTAL SAVINGS BANK ' Tbe necessity' of this measure outlined in the preamble to and platform of the Populist party is being forced upon many unwilling minds. Take, for in stance, the demand for postal savings banks. A large number of bills to estab lish postal savings banks have already been introduced at this session of Con gress, some by Republicans and some by Democrats. If we had had such a bank in Lincoln, many a family in this city, now suffering the most pinching poverty and some now in actual want, would be enjoying comfortable and happy homes When the demand was first made, it was only referred to by the well-to-do with a sniff of derision. Some of these same men are now paupers because there was no postal savings banks. Mosher, Ault calt and others of their ilk, have the money of these sufferers, while they starve and shiver. The Populists want ed to save them, but they would not listen. PIN0HBE0K PATRIOTS The despicable hypocrisy of the pinch beck patriots who assaulted Professor Fossler, could not be more fully proved than it has been by the failure of those who were flaunting their patriotism so conspicuously, to subscribe to the fund to purchase flags to float over the school houses. Prof. Fossler, when these old-flag-and-an appropriation fellows attack ed him said: "I can't vote to iucrease the school debt, but I will subscribe five dollars out of my pocket to help buy flags." Then the powerful State Journal undertook to raise the money by public subscription and appealed to these vaunting patriots to put uptheirmoney. After some weeks the Journal reports that it has in unpaid subscriptions, be sides Prof. Fossler's five dollars, twelve other dollars. That is the amount they are willing to sacrifice for patriotism. These chaps are patriots for an office or an appropriation and nothing else. When it means a sacrifice for the flag they are silent. REPUBLICAN ANARCHISTS The man who runs for an office and fails to receive a plurality of votes and then attempts to take the office by force or fraud is an anarchist, and nothing but an anarchist. If, the man who receives the largest number of votes is not to hold the office then our form of govern ment is overturned. Judge Norris failed to receive the larg est number of votes yet he is willing to take the office by fraud. ' W. C. Bailey of Aurora was defeated by 10 votes but be refuses to give up the office to the man who was elected. J. F. Baird of Chadron was defeated by over 100 votes. He refased to give up his office, and the Populist who was electedbad to go in and pitch him out by physical force. All these men are trying to overthrow our form of government. No other word than anarchy will describe what they have done. JOHNNY DIDN'T LIKE IT. It will do no harm to often reprint the following resolution offered in the United States senate by Senator Call of Florida. Ri solved. That a select committee of five sena tors be appointed by tbe president of the senate who shall be charged with the dnty of investi gating the subject of the efforts of corporations In the state ot Florida, or ot tne president ana directors thereof, to control the election ot mem bers of conitiens from tbe state of Florida, or to Influence the legislation of congress; also, to inevstigate nnd report to the senate whether corrnpt means, bribery, or free transportation have been or are being used to Influence such elections in the state of Florida; also, to Inquire and report to tbe senate wbether tne use of sucn lgSences or means Is consistent with the pres ervation of the republic of the United States and the rights and liberties ot the people, and to re port a bill for the prevention of such practices. It is not to be wondered at that our senatorial Johnny did not like that at all and did all in his power to defeat it. He knew by what means he got into the senate to represent Nebraska himself, and he did not want the ways corpo rations have of putting , their tools in the senate exposed. The old farmers who voted for Johnny are proud of him. The following is the bill that nine tenths of the American beople want en acted forthwith, and it was introduced by a populist, Marion Butler: "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of tbe United States of America in Congress assem bled, That the issuance of interest-bearing bonds of the United States for any purpose whatever without further au thority of congress is hereby prohibited.' John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., says in the Arena for January, of our national debt. "The people have paid and paid for thirty years, and at the end have paid iust this nothing." The purchasing power of the national debt at the end of the year 1895 is greater than it was at the end of the year 1866. So while we have paid $2,000,000,000 in interest, we owe more than we did in the beginning. Is it any wonder that ' both people and government are ne- bankrupt? JrDGB Bell, populist member from Colorado, crnt in n. minuta nr an fin th floor of the house the other dav bv the. courtesy of some other member, and pr ceeded to tell Tom Reed what be though of him and his rules. Among othe things he said, was that not since the session opened had a populist member been recognized by the speaker. He de nounced the committee assignments made by the speaker, described the present organization and management of the house as that of a body of bosses, and the result, tyranny. A man might arise in the house and address the chair every hour of every day of the session, bnt he cannot proceed until Tom Reed pleases to let him, no matter what is before the house.' The voters of Lincoln held one of theJ largest and most influential meeting! ever held in the state, and unanimously demanded tne free coinage of silver. Tnen the editor of the Lincoln Herald, a Clever land-Sherman, gold bug concern, issued from the First National bank building, sat down and wrote: "The silver excite ment is dying out and all efforts to arouse the people of Nebraska will be but a waste of energy. The people are coming wearied of tbe populism and s7 verism and are content to await prosperity that is sure to come with return of good crops." Tbe gold bi papers in this country are certainly nl paid so much a lie for their writing. they were, they would soon bankrupt tij whole Rothschilds' ring. Ma. W. J. Bryan says that tbe most astonishing thing that he ever met with in all his life was to see Mr. Hardy get up in meeting and Bay that he was will ing to drop prohibition and make a fight for monetary reform, and Mr. Hardy thinks that the most astonishing thing he ever heard of was the statement of W. J. Bryan that he was willing to vote for a high protective tariff if this was coupled with the free coinage of silver. But the editor of the Independent is more astonished than either one of them to think that two such intelligent men have been so long finding out what was causing the heretofore unheard of woe, want, and misery in these United Stat To Amorionns rtpsnine nvnoericv. no 1 V I 1 7 - firms .Tohnnv Thurston stand in thei fiHt.imar,inn? He fouzht Maxwell for armrema iudrre because he said Maxwell wafc too old to perform the duties that office. Then he went down r, . o- Washington and voted for Morrill f chairman of the finance committee, mil nli more important and laboriou nfflr-o Morrill is sixteen years olde than Maxwell, xne congressional aire tory shows that he was born April lis 1810. . Three hundred and eighty-five thous and dollars more of perpetual annual taxation has been added to the awful burden already upon the backs of thti people by the addition of 1000 seamen tcj the navy. The building of a navy, costlv as it is, is only a very small perceutagi of the taxation which that lnxury in volves. The maintenance and repairs. the bier salaries of the officers, maclia.e: and coal supplies, make, altoj heavier burdens than this nation eve had laid upon it in the past. Marion Butleb knocked out the plea ui uuui uiu mi lies tuai. lucjr tiieuu. sponsible for more bond issues, becaui neither have a majority in the Senat last Tuesday when he said: "It woui not do for either the Republican or Den ocratic side of the chamber to evade ri sponsibility by saying that it had nv majority, i pledge, six reopie s party votes in this chamber to either parti that will stop the further issue of bondsl and six votes will give a majority either side. In fact, either party can I have a majority in this body when it sires to pass any law in the inteTSstl the American people. ; The Japanese nave estaDiisnea a mercial trade journal in New York, ci the Japanees-American Comine Pioneer. It is printed in Japanese its object is to keep the merchants Japan posted on American prices. Gooi are still continuing to come from Jape' and the goldbug manufacturers are st ubbing their eyes and trying to find o what hit them. Japan's free silver a. improved machinery will drive the Defore another year. The Republicans thought tnatMaxw was too old to be a indue, biyt the not think Gov. Morton of N. Y., ti co be president, although M,brton running around the streets before Mi well was born. On that subject Twentieth Century remarks that 'T old lady who thought no one , was ev too old to fall in love bears a striking i semblance to Governor Morton,, in tb he thinks that a man is never top old be president." Al' Jvvvva v vuiiqivuu w M legal tender money, by repeated decisiof of the U. S. Supreme court, is as muchl part of our constitution anrl form 1 government as the abolition of chatti slavery. The abolishment of legal tend' paper money would be as great t" tion as the re-establishment ol slavery, and would produce av misery, mat is wny Cleveland, tr" and tne wnole goidDug crew are rew tionists and traitors. m - i v . - . V I A 7