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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT January 23, 196. SMART ON 'FIAT Fir Two Handrail Tears Boms Had 5o Other Kind of MoueT ESGLA5D GREW BIOS OS IT With It She Supported Her Own Annies and Her Continental Allies Venice Had It Six Hundred Years On January 8th, Senator Stewart made a most forcible and patriotic speech in tbs Senate. Two million copies of it ought to be put in the hands of demo, cratic and republican voters, so they might find out the reunou of their im poverishment. The following is on ex tract from it: "Here in the greatest nation in the world, with more resources than any other, with eerentr million people, and It can make the best money, for nobody will believe that the United States will break up. The difficulty with the money of the South was that the people was afraid the Confederacy was . going to break up. The quality of money depends upon the trenjith and the stability of the government. Rome for two hundred ysars had flat money, aud she had no other money. The Itomaus bad simply a metal piece with the value fixed by the government, and the quantity was con trolled by law, and Home grew from nothing to the greatest republic the world has ever seen. She used nothing else in her better days. It was not until she made conquests and robbed other nations of gold and silver that she used the precious ' metals. Gold and silver then came into her treasury until she got nearly two thousand millions of gold and silver in circulation, according to Jacob aud Gibbon. Eighteen hundred millions is about the estimate as the best they can get from the Roman writers. Then the mines failed; they were work ed out. The Romans bad falling prices. The money lenders demanded more and more collateral until they got all the property of the people, and the grand old Romans,' who bore the eagle from the tropics to the frozen zone, became feudal slaves and were sold with the land. Take our money away from us and we will share the same fate. It is not a question of manhood or bravery. Every man will make sacrifices to get bread for his children, and the terms grow harder and harder on each generation, until the peo ple become accustomed to slavery. Thus were civilations blotted out. The dark ages came. There was only one star that appeared during the fourteen hundred years of gloom, and that was the star of Venice. There the Romans bad to flee, on account of the ferocity of the savages. They took their ships and their jrold and their Bilver and settled upon the marshy islands of the north east of Italy. They were without money to accomplish nny purpose. They formed a republic, and they took what money they had and put it iu a government trust. They allowed interest at 4 per cent upon it for a time, and they made it legal tender for all debts, public and private. They exempted it from mort gage or execution, so that it could be transferred only on the books of the gov ernment They took in gold and silver and sold them. They did not keep any of them. This went on for six hundred years, until all the world believed that it was the best money in ths world; and it was, so long as the Republic of Venice lasted. But Napoleon with a rude hand overran Venice and captured the bank, expecting to get great treasures; and all lie got was the books. That was flat money, with the power of Venice behind it; and so long as the government lasted the money was good. Take the experience of Great Britain. When Napoleon was overriding the world and all was gloom, she declared the paper of the Bank of England legal tender and suspended specie payments for twenty-two years. During that tune her co miner cu extended all over the world, and she was able to loan money on the continent, to conquer Napoleon, and to take fhe first place among the nations of th world. She did it by the fiat powr of t"he government. But when that was done there was a vast s'um owing by England and the English peo ple. Then the Rothschild syndicate was formed, and it secured the passage of a law that all these obligations should be paid iu gold alone. The misery that was entailed Upon the people blotted from the face of the earth the middle class that had given the constitution to Euuland. The yeomanry was no more. The aristocracy that were in the deal were saved. All the balance were lost. A moueyod aristocracy was created as heartless as sin, as grasping as the devil, and it has been preying upon man kind ever since. That aristocracy has reached out its octopus tentacles and grasped the United States. Great Brit ain cannot meet us in arms. We have had two wars with her, and each was a blessing to mankind. An English syndicate now dictates terms to us, aud it is said that the credit of America must be protected by a set of English gold gamblers. Have we come to that? Is there no other relief? If our civilization is to be destroyed thus, let it be known. Is it not lamen table that congress should meet and see the country languishing, see it euffer more than at any time during the war, while we are offering inconsequential bills, playing for position, trying to fool the people again, trying to make an Ibsus of the tariff, trying to make an issue of money without grappling with the money question, discussing how we can get the money from Europe. If we continue to agree to pay the money of Europe, wnicn we nave done, Europe will continue to make us slaves. Let us have en independent policy as Venice did. Let us have an independent policy as England did during her strug gle. Let us have an indepennt policy for the United States. VV hen the war broke out the legal tenders, the treasury notes, which were, receivable for all dues, were at tmr, and remained at par all during the war. But when the fatal stab was made at the greenbacks, then the gold board was established. That gold board is working upon us now. It was more damrerous than the foe in the field. The gold board found a foothold by destroyfng the greenback in 1862, by denying to it the power to pay custom dues and interest upon the' public debt. That cost the people thousands of miL Thnd. Stevons. w hen he L.tm in t h ronf.-renoe committee. according to Judge Kelly came from the room shedding tears, tie naa to euu mit, and we have constantly been sub mit t iug to such ou t rages. Conducted by J. Y. M. Swig-art. Correspond ence solicited. For several months we have looked forward to the time when we would meet as representatives of different com panies. The time was set for Wednesday, January 16. The time came and it was the universal sentiment of all present that the meeting was a success and all were profited thereby. There were many subjects talked of and as mauy ideas given as to how different subjects should be treated. For instance, in answer to this ques tion: If a man has $150 on horses in a mu tual company and he should have 9100 damage done by lightning, should the company pay the full f 100 or two-thirds of that amount; and again, suppose the company should pay f 100, what would be the value of the policy in the item on horses? Would it be worth fioo, or would it be worth as much less than f 150 as the policy holder had been paid for damage done. To these two queries there was a differ ence of opinion, some holding that any payment on the policy reduced the policy that much on the particular item upon which payment was made, others hold ing that a man paid his fee to become a member aud held himself ready to pay his assessment on, say f 1000 on stated items for five years, that be should have that protection and further as the only object for him to reissue would be to pay the officers for policy and survey fees, the company could as well carry him on the old policy as to make him renew un less his damage was of a kind that would make different description of property to be carried as in the case of the burning of a building. The query, "How are we to get people interested in mutual insurance?" It was stated that you must educate them by giving them statistics on both sides, first get all the reports of the oldest mutual companies and compare with stock com panies. If every member of the mutual companies had read this column for the last five years and had tabulated the the statistics he would have known that any who insures in a stock company was worse than wasting his money as he was making a rich corporation richer and helping to down the mutuals by giving aid to the common enemy. I will continue to give you statistics on insurance subjects, on both stock and mutual companys and it you are desir ous to know how the mutuals are work ing in other states during the year we will try to tell you. In next month we will try to compile the reports of all mu tual companies to the auditor and we hope that secretaries will on receipt of this paper, send me the names of all the officers and directors of their respective companys and in return I will send them the above named compiled reports, also send the names of all agents or persons who are interested in mutual insurance. But to return to our meeting. A com mittee was appointed to invite the auditor to be present tut as his assistant was not in the office, ite could not get away but bid us God s, ed in our efforts, as mutual men. It was thesenseof those present that a legislative committee should be provided and Samuel Lichty of Falls City, A. P. Job of Tekamah and Henry Eishe of box 41 Omaha, should compose said committee. There are some changes needed in our state laws but the prime need of a committee is to keep our mutual laws on tbe statutes and it is recommended that each mutual company help defray the expenses in this way. ll the company sees fit to do so to pay to the secretary of this association as membership fees, next January one dol lar for each $100,000 or major fraction thereor. 'llie money to be paid out as the association may direct. During the year we will discuss this subject fully but at this time say that as all companies are benentted by the law all should join hands. Those present favored several chances in the law among which was that coun try school houses country churches and country parsonages should be added to the list of insurable property in the mu tuals. Those present by a vote said that any company that paid their agents by a commission on the amount of insurance writteu should not be considered a strictly and purely mutual company. Among the reasons given was that when that manner of payment wns used there was a tendency to over insurance as the larger the amount of insurance the more the solicitor received, and fur ther when the solicitor was paid in that way the members were not informed as to where their money went because the agent would not truthfully tell how much he received for his services as agent. If you read this paper and like it. send your subscription at once to the Inde pendent I'vb. Co., Lincoln, Neb. The Reason for lb "Come around next week Saturday. Hawkins. My wife and I are coin? to celebrate our silver wedding." "Silver wedding Why, you haven't been married more than twelve years." "I know It; but silver has depreciat ed. It's only worth twelve where It used to be twenty-five." Life. Tuition at the State University Is free. It is simply the 12, 13, 14, and 15th grades of our public school system. write for catalogue. J. V. Wolfe & Son's great winter "brood sow" Bale comes oil Januarj SOth. Bear in mind the date and send to them for catalogue. The man who asks God to give hlo food, knows that he has no right t expect it, unleea he does all he can ti earn It. Ram's Horn. Send us in a list of names to whom we may send sample copies or tnis paper. Patronize those persons who advertise in this paper. DEPARTMENT VICTOH II CCO, POPULIST By JlLK SniOEXHEIT. The works of Victor Hugo form one long populistic wail. His stories tell of terrible suffering, of the masses oppresssd by the classes, of glorious utopiaa times to come, and of heros who sought to better the condition of mankind, but who received only condemnation, suffering and death at the hands of those whom they would elevate and make happier. In "By Order of the King" he describes a poor laboring man becoming, by acci dent, a member of the English House of Lords centuries ago. He was a cyclone pi that august body and his speeches were like those of our own Senator Allen and the other populists who are awaken ing the American House of Lords to a ralization of the distance of mankind. Here is a quotation from that speech: "My Lords, I am he wbocometh out of the depths. Poverty Igrew up on; winter has frozen me; hunger 1 have tasted: con tempt I have suffered; pestilence I have undergone; and shame I have drunk of. Do you know of these? No. If you knew what goes on, you would not dare to be happy. There are mines, where men chew coals to fill their stomachs and deceive hunger. Every place the ex haustion of the poor is horrible. At Stratford they cannot drain the marsh for want of money. The manufactories are shut down all over Lancashire. there is enforced idleness everywhere. Do you know that the herring fishers at Harlech eat grass when fishery fails? At Ailesbury town, of which one of you is lord, destitution is chronic. At Penk ridge, in Coventry, where you have just endowed a cathedral aud enriched a bish op, there are no beds in the cabins, and they dig holes in the earth, in which to put the little children to lie. so that in stead of beginning life in the cradle they begiu it m the grave. I have seen these things! My Lords do you know who pay the taxes you vote? The dying. Vou are going the wrong road. You augment the poverty of the poor to in crease the riches of the rich. Why take from the worker to give to the idle, take from the tattered to give to the well-clad; take irom the beggar to give to the prince? My Lords, you cannot realize all this. You have power, opulence, pleasure, the snn ever shining in your zenith; authority unbounded, enjoyment without asting, auda total forgetfuluess of others. Be it so. But there is some thing btlow you, above you, it may be, My LordH; I bring you news; news of the existence of mankind." We have men in the populist party who are spending their, time and their money to elevate the people and make humanity happier but who will receive no credit or commendation for their la bor. The Great Unappreciated should take comfort in the following extract from Lea Miserables: "The whole army of Paris is out, and we will be attacked in an hour; as for the people, they were in a state of fer ment yesterday, but this morning they do not stir, there is nothing to wait for, nothing to hope for, we have been abandoned. Be it so. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet and all fall upon it. Citizens, let us offer the protest of corpses and show that if the people abandon the republicans th re publicans do not abandon the neonM The name of the man who spoke thus was never known, he was some unknown blouse-wearer, an unknown man. a for gotten man, a passing hero, that great anonymous always mixed up in human crises who at the given moment utters the decisive word in a supreme fashion, and fades away into darkness, after hav ing represented for a minute, in the light of a flash, the people and God." What populist could better portray the contaminating influenn of the sold standard upon civilization than the fol lowing words of the great Frenchman: "By friction cold loses everv vear a fourteen hundredth part of its bulk. Ihis is called wear. Hence it follows that on fourteen hundred millions of gold in circulation throughout the world, one million is lost anually. This million desolves into dust flies away, floats about, is reduced to atoms, charges, drags, weighs down couscieuses, amal gemates with the souls of the rich whom it renders proud, and with those of the poor whom it renders brutish." Populists believe that the home is the foundation of the government and that the little family circles though gathered round humble hearthstones becomes a great circle of protection encompassing the entire nation. It was the populists who first pointed out and bewailed the growing mortgage indebtedness shown by the Inst census. Hutro has this evil of homelessuess down as pat as Senator tetter as is shown by this short extract: 'One of England s early statutes classi fied the man without a home as more dangerous than the asp, dragon, lynx or basilisk. A tramp was a possible public enemy. The modern thing, the lounger, was then unknown; that ancient thing, the vagrant, was alone understood. A suspicious appearance, that indescribable something which all understand and none can define, was sufficient reason 'that society should take a man by the collar and usk where no you live: How do you get your living? and if he could not answer, harsh penalties awaited him." How does this suit the old time rabid populist for a description of poverty:. "I saw a little boy, about so high, his father was dead and poor people had taken him in through charity, but they had not bread for themselves. The child was -always huugry.it was winter time, but though he was' always hungry he did not cry. He was seen to go close to the stove, whose pipe was covered with yellow earth. The boy detached with his fingers a piece of this earth and ate it, his breath was hoarse, his face- livid, his legs soft, and his stomach swollen. He said nothing, and when spoken to made no answer. He is dead, and was brought to die at the Necker hospice, where I saw him, for I was a student there. The poor brat I can remember perfectly: I fancy I see him now, and when he lay on the dissecting table, his bones stood out under his skin like the tombs under the grass of the cemetery. We found a sort ot mud in his stomach and ashes between his teeth. Come, let us examine our conscience and take the advice of our heart; statistics prove thnt the mortality among deserted children is fifty-five per cent. AH drottists sell Dr. Miles' Nerve Plaster You who have daughters and sisters listen. It is terrible when girls have no bread, for a man begs, a woman sells. Oh, those charming, graceful, and gentle creatures with flowers in their caps, who fill the house with chastity, who siug, who prattle, who are like a iiviug per fume, who prove the existence of angels iu heaven by the purity of virgins on earth. Think of poverty from which you cannot save them. There is a human flesh-market, and you cannot prevent them entering it. Think of the street, think of the pavement coverad with strollers, think of the shops before which women in low-necked dresses come and go in the mud. Those women, too, sere pure. Think of your sisters, you who have any; misery, prostitution, the po lice. This is what these delicate maidens, these fragile marvels of chastity, mod esty and beauty, fresher than the lilies in May, will fall too." How wonld the following extract do for the preparation of a populist speech: "Yes citizens, equality, liberty and, light. Everything comes from light and everything returns to it. The 19th cen tury is great, but the 20th century will be happy. Then there will be nothing left resembling ancient history, there will be no cause to fear, as at the present day, a conquest, an invasion, usurpa tion, and armed rivalry of nations, an interruption of civilization depending on a marriage of kings, a birth in herdi tary tyrannies, and division of people by Congress, a dismemberment by the colapse of dynasties, a combat of two religious, clashing like two goats of dark ness, on the bridge of infantry; there will be no cause longer to fear, famine, exaus tion, prostitution through destiny, misery through stoppage of work, and the scaffold, and the sword, and battles and all the brigandage of accideut in the forest of events; we might almost say there will be no events, we shall be happy; the human race will accomplish its law as the terrestrial globe does its law; har mony will be restored between the soul and the planet, and the soul will gravi tate rouud the truth as the plauet does round light." Dr. Miles' Nbv PtiAsranscure RHEUMA TISM. WEAK BACKS. At druKglsta, only 25c. HAVE YOU FIVE OR MORE COWS? If so a" Baby" Cream Separator win earn ltseost for jou every year. Wby continue an Interior system another year at sop-eat a loss f Datrylngisnowthe only profitable feature ot Agriculture. Property eon ducted tt always pays well, and must par you. Ton need a Separator, and you need the BEST, the "Baby." All styles and capacities. Prices, $7rX00 upward, send ior new laaa catalogue. THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO., Branch Offices : General Offices: ELGIN, ILL. 74 00RTUNDT ST.. NEW YORK. MONEY It) TOMATOES But You Must Plant the Right Seed. Mr new Seed Book tells all about the beet kinds of Tomatoes and much else of interest lathe Seed Line. Most attractive and instructive buyers catalogue ever published, illustrating these Tomatoes, free to all Intending purchasers. Address at once. P.O. BoiESS H. W. DUCKBEE, Rockford 8ee4 Farms, ROCKFORD. ILL. METAL WHEELS' a WAGONS. Any size yon want, SO L!jf2! to Win high. Tires 1 I if to 8 in. wide hubs to fit any ails. Haves Cost many times in a season to have est of low wheels to 8t your wagon for hauling grain, (odder, manure, bogs, to. No resetting of lire a. OaU'gtree. Address KflPIRB MFG. CO tyUncs 111 1 -itr -f .1 a 7A. W)x mm 11111111 STEEL nlAl,fll I WEB riblVGI LtUNITCIIbC Steel Posts, Steel Ralls and Steel Gates: Steel Tree. r lower and Tomato uuaros, t ad loo rieia ana nog Fence, 24 to 58 In. hlnh. Poultry. Garden and Rabbit Kimrm Stoel Wlro Fence Boara.eto. Catalosue free. OeKALB FENCE CO.. 149 High SL. DeKalb, Ilk Great Brood Sow Sale I J V. WOLFE 4 SON WILL MAKE THEIR GREAT WINTER SALE OF BROOD SOWS jaii.ovf! low, ai jiiiouiii, incu.( THE choirs ot tbelr 1895 crop bus been reserved (or this sale and to tbem will be added about a doien ol their tried breeders. Indifferent and doubt- ( (ul breeders have all been disposed ol for pork, but tbey wish to further reduce tbelr herd on account ot failure ot crop. The otferlna- consists of V 43 bead, nearly all bred and safe in pin by sons of such noted sires as Black C. 8. 18471, Orient 8181, Guy Wilkes 2d 1T777, Square Business, 8218. J H Sanders 2721V and Directum 2 847, and the sows are of equal breeding- Time till Nor. 14, 1BD6, will be given on approved notes bearing 10 per cent' In terest on sums orer I5. Sale under tent and no postponement. Write for catalogue and come to the picnic for you all will be welcome and (ret the best treatment we know how to give. When In Lincoln "Union College" cars land you at farm. J. V. WOLFE & SON, LINCOLN, NEB. COL. Z. S. BRANSON. WILL CRY. SEEDS The Alliance Store, 1008 P STREET, Is having a big sale of Lexington Patent Flour at $1.60 per 100. This is as good a Fiour as can be found any where. The Favorite brand at 50c. per sack. 5 cans Sugar Corn for - - - . 25 Battle Ax Tobacco, per lb., - . .20 Even change, 20 cents. 30 lbs. Dried Apples for - - . $1.00 and all GROCERIES CHEAP at 1008 P STREET. Results prove conclusively that by the use of fertilizers rich in potash the crops of ' Wheat and Rye and all winter crops are largely increased and the soil is positively enriched. We will cheerfully mail our pamphlets on Potash, its Use and Abuse on the Farm, . ret f cott. They will cost you nothing- to read, and will save you dollars. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York. Homes for a Million People I NO CROP FAILURES !"BMuUiADwinte Irrigated Lands of the Pecos Valley, in New Mexico. 'A country ol Magnificent resources, unexcelled climate and wondrtul healthfulnese; well adapted to general farming, lruit growing, and stock raising. Easy terms and other superior Inducements to tbose desiring permanent homes. For accurate information In regard to price of lands, terms of sale, location of lands, mane railway rates, etc., write to or call on F. E. ROESLER, Land Commissioner Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Co.. Office In Texas A Pacific Ticket Office. Hr 1 1 r. rp Trust Company Building, 155 Main Street. " UdLlldS. 16XLS Famous Texas Coast Lands. n 00,000 acres in tracts of twenty acres and upwards. Thirty miles frontage on Coast Healthful climate. Five vineyards aud vegetable farms on the land. 1000 acres Just sold to a Vineyard Company. Prices low One-fifth cash, balance long time. Special Inducements to eolonles. 185 AGENCIES IN 84 STATUS., Proposed colonies seeking locations write for lnformance to . . JAMES A Almo Insurance Building. lorentz I ttvwss.&rfttf PEACH. H. E. VAN DEM AN. TJ. S. Dent. SM5W THUITS a specialty. Buy direct. Don't pay double prices. Illus. Catalogue Free. i Illy Dill Best in the City. On account of Hard Times of our Celebrated Meals at IO - : And upwards. Remember the City for the Price. Everything Clean and JAMES UUV0 li"e your and Pig at farrowlnir! Use my new forceps ami save them. W1I1 ceim vuu tminile tc "HI I Introduce them at wholesale price. HOOK about plirsFKV.K. i. N. Wi-lnM-riv: h. t. iavemt.a l ti ud ti:i bonis are a There Is No ALFALFA SEED A SPECIALTY. Cane and Millet Seeds, Kaffir, Jerusalem and Milo Malse Corn Success and H aliens Barley, Seed Oats. All crop ot ls5 Write for onr "How to Sow Alfalfa," and prices on seeda MeUei tl U KIN.MsU.V, tiardeu Illy. Kansas. ANDERSON, San Antonio, Texas. FRUIT TREES, SMALL FRUITS, VINES, ROSES. ORNAMENTALS, Crates & Baskets. ELDORADO BLACKBERRY. BEID'S NURSERIES, BridgepottOhio. liiriirMmn a UVJUU we hare decided to make the pric lO we guarantee our Meals the Best in Neat. HENRY. 132 South Tenth. Doubt out the THE KKTOTOSE MERIT of KXIKK- S WILL LAUGH IF-