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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
January 30, 1S9G.
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Tde populists haye sounded forth a
Jtrarapet that shall never call retreat.
One can borraw stacks of trouble
nowadays, but not a cent of money.
i Tub Progressive Age says "the social
ists will place a ticket in the field in
Minnesota."
The Independent makes war only on
robbors and thieves. For these it will
have no mercy.
When the pop editor gets through
scisoriug the National Bimetalistit looks
like a step-ladder.
The National Bimetallist says: "The
Will ll.l ill ii. I .in. .1, ii Pi III I
I '' n n m 1 'i i ,4- wina.1.. ta IrtAmlnn .in net n l, n
questioned power in American politics."
The new Utah senators are in Wash
ington and are for free silver. The silver
majority in the senate will now be
fourteen.
Without the farmer1 there could be no
other business, and the whole race of
man would disappear from the face of
the earth.
If we should have a war with Great
Britain would the A. P, A.'s prohibit
Catholics from fighting in our ranks,
cither as officers or privates?
Tom Ashley, Fremont Everet, Judge
Norris, Willie Peeples and about ten and
a-half more republicans are announced
as candidates for congress in the third
district.
It will be impossible to overcome the
free silver majority in the senate for
some years. Now let us elect a house
and president and bring prosperity to
bur native land.
A good many are beginning to ask who
is going to be your candidate. Mr. Free-coinage-of-silver-and-government-issue-of-money-is-the-man.
We don't know his
other name yet.
A full list of the officers, executive
committee and all the members of the
state central committee of the peoples
party in Nebraska will be found in
another column.
Carlisle is going to coin some silver
at last, It is only $7,000,000 bnt it
shows that the government can coin
silver when it wants to without any
change in the laws.
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A Colorado paper, rejoicing over
woman suffrage in that state, remarks
that a woman is as good as a man in
Colorado. Well, she is a great deal bet
ter than a man in Nebraska.
When any foreign power plucks at the
American eagle we look at his picture
on the silver dollar and read: "In God
we Trust" and say with this motto and
this dollar we can whip the world.
A good part, and the best part too, of
Nebraska will go to St. Louis on the 22d
day of next July. There will be over 200
delegates and alternates from this state
to the two great conventions held there
that day.
The Independent desires to remark
that if Senator Davis' resolutions in re
gard to the Monroe doctrine are adopted
that act will forever wreck the Queen's
English whether it has any effect upon
her pretentions to American soil or not.
The Associated Press says: "Mr. Frye
(rep., Me.) made a fierce and patriotic
speech, in which he lauded the English
government." That is the kind of pa
triotism that always lies deep down in
the gold bug heart.
We not only want happy hunting
grounds in the hereafter, but to "build
houses and inhabit them and plant
vineyards and eat the fruit thereof"
ourselves in this country in which we
now live. . i .
The Associated Press announces that
Senator John Union Pacific Thurston is
going to make a speech. Let every one
stand still and listen. The sun will be
darkened, the moon turned into blood,
the whole creation wtl groan and tra-
u i nam t.ncarhv And will hrinop
boms common seise.
The populists of Minnesota are coming
to the aid of their state paper in a mag
nificent way. They will carry that state
next fall as sure as the election occurs.
Every populist township and county
officer is subscribing for from twenty to
600 copies of the paper and sending them
to doubtful voters for three or six
months. That is good common sense.
That work will tell. It will make more
votes than all the speakers however elo
quent they may be. though they cost ten
times as much.
Now let the populist office holders in
Nebraska do the same thing by their
state paper and Nebraska is ours at the
next election. From a business point of
view, it is the best investment that any
citizen of Nebraska can make. To carry
this state will be more than a million
dollars saved to the citizens thereof, in
stopping the stealing in the state,county
and municipal offices and getting some
where near reasonable freight and pass
enger tariff rates in the state.
GOVEBNOB HOLCOHB.
Populists and all other men who want
an honest and efficient state governor
may well rejoice over the administration
of Governor Ilolcomb. In this long and
persistent fight to prevent the stealing
of many thousands of dollars through
the manipulation of the funds belonging
to the penitentiary and the wages of the
convicts, he has had against him every
plutocratic influence in the state, yet he
has defeated the thieves at every point,
and preserved the funds of the state
from the annual looting to which they
have been subjected ever since Boss
Stout first got control of the prison.
To-day the Russell-Churchill crowd are
a eang of whipped curs: They have
been beaten at every point. They have
been prevented from stealing the money
of the taxpayers, from taking control of
the prison, in fact from everything that
they attempted, by the calm, firm, and
persistent action of the governor.
Al. Beemer has been driven from the
city and he will not pocket $ 3,000 drawn
from a treasury already depleted by
many robberies, and which has to be
filled by raising 10 cent oats, 12 cent
corn, and 85 cent wheat.
Russell and Churchill have been forced
to audit the pay accounts of the govern
or's appointees at the penitentiary. Not
once have the filching hands of these
state - house thieves been allowed to
clutch the hSrd earnings of the oppressed
people of Nebraska. Every man, except
actual or would-be thieves, in the state
of Nebraska will honor the name of Silas
Ilolcomb. '
KILL THE THING
If ever a lie wore seven league boots, it
was the lie startedon the rounds some
two years a2;o that there was somebody
in the reform forces who wanted to make
the next campaign on the free silver issue
alone. Now there never was such a pro
position. Even the Bimetallic League,
voted it down by an nnanimous vote,
and put out a platform demanding the
issue of all paper money by the general
government alone, said money to be a full
legal tender.
The leading free silver democrats would
have nothing to do with a "single silver
plank." Senator Vest, who "will not
leave the party of my father" said:
"1 would not under any contingency
give the enormous power to the national
banks which is proposed by this scheme.
I would give to no corporation invented
by mortal man the power to control the
volume of money in! the United States.
It is a temptation beyond description
that I would not for one moment think
of hazarding.
The writer of this was two years at
Washington, attended all the populist
caucuses of the members of Congress and
was every day at the populist head
quarters, and he never saw or heard of a
populist who wanted to make the fight
on the single silver issue.
And still this lie is going the rounds.
Honest populists everywhere are afraid
that somebody is planning to make the
populist party simply a silver party.
Good populists have been asking since
the meeting of the national committee
at St. Louis, if an effort was made there
to commit the party to the single silver
issue. The subject was not even men
tioned there. The whole story was a
fake. The men who have been accused of
wantiug a "single silver issue" have been
for years the foremost advocates of
scientific money. Now kill the thing.
Kill it so dead that it will never even
kick.
P&OFESSOB FISHEB ON COIN.
Prof. Willard Fisher has a long article
in the Quarterly Journal of Economics
entitled "Coin and His Critics." He says
of Coin's Financial School that "The
work is just about what ought to be ex
pected from an untrained thinker of con
siderable more than average ability.
Mr. Harvey has some sound thoughts
which might well be pondered by those
who pass unqualified condemnation on
his teachings."
The professor shows up Coin's eco
nomic errors, for there are some in the
book, and then he goes for Coin's critics
with an unsparing hand. His objection
to Harvey is the same as that of the
populist, that he gives Tfue prominence
to unimportant matters, and passes
over the really crucial aud fundamental
points with a word.
He takes up all the attempted replies
and goes through t,hem one by one, and
in the reading of these criticisms there
Of Prof. Laughlin's reply, called "Facts
About Money," be says "it is a very in
ferior work and utterly unreliable as a
guide in the study of the money ques
tion. There is so much that is false that
the whole is quite untrustworthy. After
Profrssor Fisher has pointed out ten or
fifteen misstatements of facts, facts that
should be within the knowledge of any
one attempting to write on the subject,
be turns on Professor Langhlin his own
criticism, which Langhlin thought was
a crusher when be nsed it against
Harvey. It is as follows: "These errors
are not, of course, very vital to the
money question, but they are vital to
the trustworthiness of the book. A
book which does not contain a true
statement on its first page is certainly
open to suspicion."
But the funniest thing of all this busi
ness is, that Professor Fisher seems to
think that silver was demonetized in
1873. After the raking he gave these
other chaps for their misstatements, he
denies that the act dropping the silver
dollar was pass surreptitiously. If any
one will come to the Independent office
aud read all that occurred in the senate
the day the act was passed, he cannot
fail to acknowledge that the act drop
ping the silver dollar was smuggled
through without the knowledge of any
senator save John Sherman.
Silver was demonetized in 187f by the
use of perjury when the revised statutes
were accepted and enacted by congress.
HAYSEEDS VS. THE PBOFESSOBS
That "Coin's Financial School" greatly
disturbed the equanimity of a good
many gold bugs is proven by the numer
ous attempted replies that have been
printed and sent out by the great pub
lishing houses. Among them, but not
all of them, are "Sound Money" by John
a Frazer, "Money Gold, Silver, or Bi
metalism" by Eli Perkins (acknowledged
to be the biggest liar on earth), "A
Freak of Finance," by John F. Cargil,
"Answer to Coin's Financial School," by
Stanley Wood, "Farmer Hayseed in
Town," by L. G. Powers, "Report of
Uucle Sam's Homilies on Finance," by
Chas. Elton Blanchard, "Real Bimetal
ism or True Coin versus False Coin," by
Everett P. Wheeler, "Coin's Financial
Fool," by Horace White, and "Facts
About Money," by J. Laurence Laugh
lin. The best of them all is Prof. Laugh
lin's work and how reliable that is may
be seen from the following statements
which he makes without any qualifica
tions at all.
He says that bimetalism never existed
in the Uuited States, that the demoneti
zation of silver was a myth and had no
effect on the condition of thecountry.that
prices have, not fallen because of any
change in the money, but because of in
dustrial improvements and the fall in
prices is a great blessing, that there is no
demand for more money, that the free
coinage of silver would do no good but
much harm and many more things of
like nature. ..
Now, that is the very best that the
learned professors of the millionaire en
dowed universities coin do in discussing
the money question. There are five
thousand old Hayseeds in Nebraska that
can go on. a platform and knock out
any one of these gold bugs professors in
three rounds and come out of the fight
without a scratch.
A FALSE CLAIM
The republican claim that the Wilson
bill was the cause of the necessity to issue
bonds, is a falsehood and every republi
can leader knows that it is. If Harrison
had been re-elected and if the McKinley
law had remained on the statute books,
the same condition would have existed.
On the 20th day of February 1893 the
republican Secretary of the Treasury,
Hon. Charles Foster, issued an order to
prepare and print bonds. Here is the
official order itself:
Tbbascrv Department, Office or the
Secretary. S
K'asifnfffoD, D. C, February 20, USS.
Sir: Yon are hereby authorized and directed
to prepare designs for the 3 percent bonds pro
Tided in a Senate amendment, to the sundry civil
bill now pending. The denominations which
hould fl ret receive attention are 100 and $1,000
of the coupon bonds and S1U0, $1,000 and 110.000
of the registered bonds.
This authority Is given In advance of the
enactment. In view of the pressing contingencies,
and you are directed to hasten the preparation
of the designs and plates in every possible man
ner. I inclose a memorandum for your guidance In
preparing the script for the body ot the bonds.
Respectfully yours,
Charles Foster. Secretary.
"In view of the pressing contingen
cies" says the republican Secretary of the
Treasury. That was before Cleveland
was inaugurated. That was while the
McKinley bill was in full force. That
was before the Wilson bill was ever heard
of, and yet it was the Wilson tariff that
made the deficit, the Wilson tariff that
drove gold out of the treasury was it?
That isn't the song they sang during
the extra session. It's another song
altogether. Then they said it was the
Sherman act. "Just repeal this act,"
said John Shermra, "and prosperity will
return in ten days." A cause that has
to resort to such tergivesation is rotten.
Truth has no need to use such means.
FLUNKY WALC0TT
Senator Walcott in his English flunky
speech against the Monroe doctrine said:
"Wherever you find the religion of Christ
and the dominance of English speaking
people, you find communities where free
dom exists and law is obeyed," than
which notning cbuld be further from the
truth. Venezue
and New Guiana, the
countries of wh
h he was speaking de-
In the British province of Guiana the
suffrage is restricted to about 2,000 men
most ot whom were born in Europe. The
remainder of the 288,000 inhabitants
are mostly negroes and East India cool
ies. They are practically serfs without
righto.' Across the Orinoco in Venezuela
the suffrage is extended practically to all
classes of people, negroes and Indians, as
well as white men. Is this an evidence
that English domination brings freedom?
THE STATE JOUBNAL'S TWIBTIHOS
The State Journal had a leading edi
torial on last Sunday that has set the
whole state to laughing, although it was
not intended to be a numerous article at
all.
What made the article so amusing was
that Mr. Gere went to work and col
lated all the illegal acts of Churchill and
and Russell, ascribed them to Gov. HoL
comb and then read him homilies on
obeying the laws and thus avoiding
mistakes.
There was a time when that game
could be worked in this state, but that
was before the people had a press of
their own through which they could get
the truth.
The brazen cheek of the thing was
never equaled in corporation journalism
before. The courts have decided that
the Governor had obeyed the law and
that the whole scheme of Churchill and
Russell was illegal.
Then the Journal reads homilies to the
Governor on the sin of violating the law
and pats Churchill and Russell on the
back and says they are very good little
boys who have an unwise Governor.
Is it any wonder that the peoplesmiled
a broad western smile when they read it?
THEY OWNED THE WOSID.
The gold standard dailies used to tell
us that it was only the unsuccessful men
men who did not know how to do
business that were howling, and that
that class of men should not be trusted
to make our laws. Nowiook at the
record of the bankers in another column
and see how they have managed their
business. They are the chaps who made
the financial laws under which we live
and it turns out that they did not'kuow
how to run their own bueiness, let alone
that of any one else. They used to pa
rade the streets in their silk hats, broad
cloth, and kid gloves, and thought they
they owned the world. Now they find
that they don't own anything. The
bank is shut up. The receiver or the
bank examiner has the key. Let them
get on the road and tramp awhile it will
do them good. Perhaps bye and bye
they will get a work on . political econ
omy and read it. If they ever do they
will spend the remainder of their lives
in cursing the gold standard editors ol
the daily papers, who caused them to
lose their fortunes. As one of them re
marked to the editor of The Independ
ent not long ago: "Banking aint no
funny business any more."
INCURABLY INSANE
Brother Hardy will have to write a
letter to the New Era, the great prohibi
tion organ or take measures to have a
commission in lunacy examine into the
sanity of the editor. All that would be
necessary to get the commission to com
mit the said editor to a hospital for the
incurable insane, would be to read to
them the following, clipped from an
editorial in the last issue of that paper.
No one ever saw anything from our pen
to the effect that "the purchasing power
of each dollar depends on the number of
dollars available." That is a common
idea, but it is a common error. When
potatoes are rated in the market at 25
cents a bushel, the purchasing power of
a dollar is the same as that of four
bushels of patatoes. When potatoes are
rated at 50 cents per bushel, the pur
chasing price of a dollar is the same as
that of two bushels of potatoes. And
this will be true whether the number of
dollars available is ten or ten billion.
ALLEN AND THURSTON.
Extract from the Congregational Rec
ord. Mr. Thurston. My father fought and
died a private soldier.
Mr. Allen. Mr. President, I had some
experience during the late war following
the brigadier generals, sometimes follow
ing them and they sometimes following
us.
The sycophantic followers of the pluto
crats who haunt the senate galleries
cheered Thurston whose "father" was a
soldier, but the real soldier who carried
a knapsack and musket they did not
cheer. Nevertheless, as he stands there
battling for the rights of mankind with
the same unflinching bravery that he
faced the storms of shot and shall on
many a hard fought field, let him remem
ber that hearts of the great common
people cheer, although he hears it not.
Several prominent men, all old citi
zens of Omaha, declare they will, leave
the state if public robbery cannot be
stopped. They say the city aud state
will become hopelessly bankrupt, prop
erty valueless, and life unsafe, if the
political jobbers and thieves are allowed
to conduct the government. Mayor
Broatch recently appointed a ward
heeler inspector of boilers, who has no
license and the boodle council instantly
confirmed the appointment, although it
was in violation of the city charier and
laws of the state. This act endangers
the lives of thousands of the citizens.
But men like Broatch and republican
ringsters generally, care nothing for life
or property. The owners of buildings
containing steam plants are not the
only ones affected. The men and women
who work in mills, and factories, the
occupants of steam-heated tenements
and office buildings, and the teachers
and children in the public schools are all
exposed to the danger of defective boil
ers and steam-fitting. But what do
republican politicians care for life or
property?
MOBS AN HOT A POPULIST.
Senator Morgan made a splendid free
silver speech but he is far, very far from
being a populist. In his speech the other
day he said:
I for one would be willing to fund the
greenbacks in gold bonds if silver certifi
cates are issued dollar for dollar to take
their place in the volume of currency as
they are retired, and if the silver to se
cure their redemption is supplied from
the coin and bullion in the treasury, and
from the free coinage of silver under the
act of 1837.
That kind of doctrine will not do at
all. There could be no increase of the
currency under it for years. Populists
will not fund anything in gold bonds or
any other kind of bonds.
There is not a farmer, business man or
banker in the state who cannot in the
end make more clean cash by investing
in subscriptions in this paper or spend
ing time to work for it that in any other
occupation in' which he can engage, for
every dollar that comes into this office
will be spent on the paper in spreading
sound economic truths, upon the adop
tion of which depends the prosperity of
every business enterprise in the state of
whatever nature it may be. One general
effort will put the government of this
state in the hands of honest men, and
put it there to stay for some years to
come. Let us hold up the hands of
Senator Allen and Governor Holcomb,
who, one in the Senate and the other in
the State House, are making the bravest
fight for honest gonernment against the
greatest odds ever made by mortal men.
Hale, Aldrich and Sherman are getting
very uneasy over the valuable economic
speeches that are being made in the sen
ate on the money question and are try
ing to devise some scheme to stop them.
The only reply they try to make is to say
that the money question is an old worn
out theme on which they have nothing
to say. To the arguments presented by
the advocates of the free coinage of silver
and the government issue of all paper
money, no serious reply has ever been at
tempted, for none can be made. The
goldites can talk about Peffer's whiskers
or Jerry Simpson's socks, but on the fun
damental principles of money they can
not talk. They can only sneer and scoff.
The credit of this government seems
ndestructible. It has raised and paid
out in the thirty yearssince our civil war
more than $12,000,000,000 in current
expenses and more than $3000,0000 in
bonded debt and interest, and its bonds,
exempt from taxation, are still worth
20 per cent more than their face value in
gold. "Notwithstanding all this, Sher
man, Carlisle & Co. would have us believe
that they are sitting np nights trying to
devise ways and means "to preserve the
public credit," while about five million
fools in these states seam to believe that
it is in danger.
The tactics of Christianity were well
chosen for former periods of the world,
but now they should be changed and
new tactics adopted. The mass of ignor
ance, crime, and sin were then too great
to be attacked and overthrown. So the
church said: "Be ye separate from the
world." But now the situation is differ
ent. Go into the world. Be a part of it.
Be not afraid of its millionaires, discipline
them as you would the least of mankind
Withdraw from none of them. Stand
firm. Thus only will Christianity ad
vance. This is not a day for hermits
and recluses but a day to put on the
full armor and fight.
The State Journal by attacking and
slandering other states has done more
injury to Nebraska than can be offset by
six months of advertising and Nebraska
ilub work. The Arkansaw Kicker says:
"Judging from the number of requests
lately received from Nebraska for sample
copies, the State Journal must have
given us some good free advertising,"
The people of this state are accustomed
to take just the opposite of what the
Journal says as the truth. So when it
said that Arkansas was a howling wil
derness of despair, every dissatisfied man
wanted to go there, really expecting to
find an earthly paradise.
The populists would h ave the laws
conform to moral and ethical truths.
Wheu the Standard Oil Company, by
reason of the special privileges which it
has from the government, ruins a rival
concern and drives its owner into bank
ruptcy and to a suicide's grave, that is
not criminal in the eyes of the law, al
though, morally, the offenses of robbery
and murder have been committed. That
sort of law the populists would abolish
and all the preachers ought to help them,
instead of making the Standard Oil
magnate a leader in the church. Don't
you think so?
That music still charms the savage
breast, is proven by the attendance of
some gold bugs at the Hagenow Sunday
afternoon concerts of Rev. Mr. Cbapin's
church. If that music don't tame therm
no music wilj, for it is of the very highest
order.
THANK YOU GENTLEMEN
The Wealth Makers and Independent,
both of Lincoln, Neb., have consolidated
and are issuing a splendid reform jour
nal. Gainesville (Ga.)Outlook.
The Lincoln Independent and Wealth
Makers have been consolidated, and now
the populists have one of the ablest
party papers in the state in The Ne
braska Independent. Beacon Light.
The Independent and the Wealth
Makers, two good populist papers at
Lincoln, Neb., hare been consolidated.
It will be known as the Independent,
and will be a strong paper. Topeka
Advocate.
The Wealth Makers and Independent,
published at Lincoln, have consolidated
under the name of Nebraska Independ
ent. The new paper will be a thorn in
the flesh of the monopolist and money
king, both foreign and domestic Ex.
The Nebraska Independent, published
at Lincoln sails proudly forth to cham
pion the people's cause in Nebraska, and
keep tab on all political events state and
national. The new populist state organ
is a hummer, being the consolidation of
the Lincoln Independent and the Wealth
Makers. Red Cloud Nation.
The Wealth Makers of Lincoln has been
absorbed by the Nebraska Independent
The consolidated paper is in the hands of
able writers and its treatment -of these
truckling, timeserving policy politicians
of the two old parties will be watched
with interest Union Gazette.
The Wealth Makers and the Lincoln In-
deen consolidated under the name of The
Nebraska Independennt. This combi
nation of two strong populist papers
makes a paper of rare excellence both as
a news and political organ. Its faithful
watch of state and national affairs
makes it just such a paper as should be
in the hands of every voter in Nebraska.
The Monitor.
The Wealth Makers has been consoli
dated with the Lincoln Independent, its
former editor, Mr. Geo. H. Gibson -retiring
from the field. We notice a marked
improvement in the columns of that
paper since the change. We gladly wel
come the Nebraska Independent and
hope that in that publication, the popu
list party will always find an able and
ceasless ally in the fight for right and
justice. Atkinson Plaindealer.
The Independent and Wealth Makers
have consolidated with T. H. Tibbies as
editor and F. D, Eager as manager. This
is a strong team and if Nebraska does
not have the best state paper in exist,
ence we will miss our guess. Help them
out boys and build up a paper that will
strike terror into the ranks of Shylock's
crew and one that you will ever be proud
of. Come to the front and show the stuff
you are made of. Minden Courier.
The Lincoln Independent and the I
Wealth Makers, both of Lincoln, Neb., PrV
have consolidated, and came out under VI
the head of the Nebraska Independent, Y
with the editor of the Independent in
charge. This will give this paper a large
circulation and will give Nebraska a
paper they may be proud of. T. H.
Tibbies is a writer of national reputation
and we bespeak for the new paper a
standing among the national organs of
the party. It is a six-column quarto,
subscription price one dollar per year.
Utah Democrat.
An editor may work fourteen hours a '
day searching for news, haunting the
libraries for the best thoughts of the best
men, think, study, write and make a
paper that will be greedily read and anx
iously awaited for by thousands of sub
scribers each week and not one of them
will drop him a note to say that it is a
good paper or that he is pleased with it.
But just let him write some lonely night,
when the brain is tired out and the flesh
is weary and weak, a silly, four line par
agraph, or express a sentiment that is
antagonistic to some one's views and he
will hear from it by the next mail. But
that's the way of the world.
John Sherman and his followers are
never tired ot" saying that there were
only 8,000,000 silver dollars coined up
to 1873, and therefore silver ought to be
demonetized. There were never half that
many gold dollars coined since the'fcJwn-
aation ot the government and therefore
gold ought to be demonetized according
to their logic,
If fractional silver dollars are not to be
counted then multiples of the gold dollar
ought not to be. Gold bug logic is a
great thing when one comes to examine
it closely.
Mb. Hardy, Nebraska's great prohi
bitionist, says: "It is just like this: if
my house was on fire and it was all the
house I had and I had no money to build
another, wouldn't it be the wisest thing
for me to put that fire out first, before I
went to help a poor drunkard, however
much I might pity him. We are about
to lose, not only our houses but e
thing else we have through the RoftSr
standard. I am for reforming our finan
cial system first. When we get that
done it will be time to look after some
other things."
Banker Henry W. Tates delivered a
discourse before the Young Men's Chris
tian Association in Omaha last week in
which he compared the gold standard to''
Jesus Christ. What is most surprising
about it is, that the association is so de-1
moralized by corruption of tb j money
power and the corporations, that none
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of the members protested against such
blasphemy. Here is a literal worship of
gold. Christ and gold side byside on
tne same tnrond Let the Chinese
with their Joss It would be mol
sune
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