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convention, and for tb transaction of snob
other business a may properly come bfor th
committee. Ho proxies will b admitted unless
a writing and unless those by wbom tby are
prevented are aetnal resident of tb respective
counties which tbey seek to represent.
J. A. isoEBToa. Chairman. .
Tm D. Kaoib, Secretary. '
It Is man that make this government
what it is and not platform.
We are in the Valley Forge of the bat
tle now. We'll make it a Yorktown next
November.
We hare eight kinds o! dollars, seven
of them discredited by the government,
and that is what gold bug idiots call
sound" finance.
The Arkansaw Kicker has got to kick
ing the right parties. Now blaze away
until you wear your copper-toed boot
out, and then get another.
Boodler Russell appearing in the Unit
ed States supreme court in behalf of the
farmers againnt the railroads was a
eight for gods and men.
You must have garden seeds and you
can get a dollar's worth for 80 cents by
ordering through the Independent in
accordance with the advertisement on
other page.
The national banks held as reserves on
the first of February, fll0,378,360 in
gold, $143,866,885 in greenbacks and
Sherman treasury notes, and only $33,
312.020 in silver. They discriminate
against silver as much as they can.
Whenever a politician begins to rave
about "national honor," put it down
that he is contemplating some dishonor
able deed. Wbeu he raves about "pa
triotism," mark him for a disreputable
coward. Men of honor and patriotism
never rave about either.
A great Loudon daily nsks parliament
to pass a law forbidding the ownership
of English papers by foreigners. If that
principle was enacted into law in this
country every prominent New York daily
would have to shut up shop within
twenty-four hours.
The Progressive Age criticises very se
verely the coarse language of Senator
Tillman, and then heads its leading edi
torial with these words: "A Damnable
Conspiracy." "Thou hypocrite.flrst cast
the beam out of thine own eye, and then
Bhalt thou see clearly to cast out the
mote out of thy brother's eye."
A busy editor hired a stout young man
under a contract to read every word in
the Congressional Record every day, and
mark 'the pages of interest. The youug
man died after five days, and three
hours, another took his place and he
lived four days and seven hours,
another tried it and he suecombed after
two days and one hour. The place is
now vacant.
The editor of one of our republican ex
changes says he's as 'independent as a
hog on ice." That's the way of it ex
actly. Did you ever see a hog on ice?
He can go neither backward, forward or
sidewise. All he can do is to bqueal until
some one pulls him off the ice. That's
the fix of the republican editors in this
state. Some squeal for Manderson and
some for McKinley, and the best they
can do is to squeal.
The first thing the republican city cen
tral committee did to open the spring
campaign was to assess each candidate
for a city office $20, and each candidate
for a ward office $10. No doubt the
State Journal spent the whole night in
prayer after hearing of that sinful act.
Its recent editorials on populist subscrip
tion papers show that its soul would be
all harrowed up over the thought of
such a thing.
Donnelly fonnd some irritating typo
graphical errors in his paper. He got
even with the type-setter after this fash
ion: "We sincerely hope that if Pirrine's
comet does run into the earth it will hit
a few hundred compositors a chug that
will knock them, iu a sitting posture,
over onto tbe planet Mars. We wouldn't
want to hurt them much, but simply
knock their intellectual apparatus into
their heads, where it ought to belong."
M THERE NONE TO HELPT
8TBI.L. Nebr March 4, !.
Editob Ihobpmdixt. Tb sentiment of free
slWer among tbe distressed fannereof both old
parties is almost nnlTersal. Theeeare evil tlmee
for them. Tbey are told by tbe patriotic bank
ers that tbey have a mnch money a ever they
had. and anllmlted resources, yet not a dollar to
loan on the very best security nntll certain erl
dence was shown of a return of high tariff and
the election of Wo, McKinley. I wish It was
poeslbls to place In tbe bands of the people at
least ons hundred eoplee of the Independent,
where only four or ore come to this postofflce
now.
I am satisfied If a good solicitor would go out
among the people with no other business In band
except to secure subscribers a large number
could os secured. I saw a Lincoln Journal man
on tbs street Saturday getting renewals and
pushing this corporation sheet, I also see a gold
bug paper clubbed with some local sheet at J6e
per year. So It goes. Tbey are crowding tbe
malls with material like this, to the exclusion of
snch facte as should Justly alarm the friends of
free government, and prepare them to arrest th
hand of plunder that Is certainly bringing want
and ruin to the people. It would be a very asy
matter her In this farming community for an
organisation from all tbe parties on tbe matter
of tbe restoration of silver, 16 to 1, to be mad.
W wUI undertake It II we can have Instructions
and arrangement for literature.
Please let us bars yonr views, especially a to
Increase In circulation of our state organ, The
Independent. For your encouragement, w bear
nothing but a vole of prais In regard to th
ability and fearlessness of tb Independent.
T. B. Pksiiks.
The suggestions iu tbe above letter
are good, hard sense. The old monop
oly organs have sufficient capital to put
canvassers in the field and keep them
there. The Independent has not Its
income is only sufficient to pay for tbe
mechanical work, white paper and carry
tbe hundreds of delinquent subscribers
who beg not to be cut off, without any
salary to the editor, who works about
fourteen hours a day. Ws must depeud
on the unselfish devotion to principle of
men in the state, who will each go out in
his own neighborhood and get a few sub
scribers.
Reader, will you do it? Let us go
back to the time of which the prophet
Isaiah speaks when he says: "They
helped every one his neighbor, and every
one said to his neighbor 'be of good
cheer'." Editor Independent:
WHAT SOME EDITORS THINK.
Some editors seem to think that tbe
one thing of importance in tbe tight
against plutocracy is to make a plat
form. If they get a platform to suit
them, then the thing is done. The In
dependent believes that the thing of
greatest importance is to get the govern
ment out of the hands of theehylocks
who are grinding the life out of the
workers of this land by creating debts
and collecting interest by law, and to
put men in charge who will administer
the government in the interest of the
workers and not that of the idlers. The
editor of this paper is the most radical
man in the state of Nebraska, but he
knows if he put all his ideas of reform in
to a platform and went before the state
in a f on test upon it, in the dense ignor
ance that prevails among the people on
economic subjects, not a single county
would be carried. They must come to
these principles by slow evolutions. It
is not always the best way to get a
thing done to put it in a platform.
When John Sherman wanted to demon
etize silver he did't put it in a platform.
If he had, it would never have been done.
Remember the saying of the greatest Re
former: VBehold, I Bend you forth as
sheep among wolves; be ye therefore as
wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
COTRACTION IN LETTERS OFHLOOD,
The claim made by Mr. Lambertson in
his speech to the University Economic
club, and various other representatives
of the gold standard, that we have now
a larger circulation, per capita, than we
ever had before, is only vain imaginings.
The following table taken from the offi
cial records of the United States Gov
ernment, shows the various kinds of
money and the per capita circulation
during that period of wonderful prosper
ity among farmers and laborers the
years intervening between the period of
the close of the war and the demonitiza-
tion of silver in 1873. From that time
contraction began, and the miseries of
the American people have been written in
letters of blood.
The following is a table of money in
circulation between I860 and 1870.
Old tame demand notes t 200,440 76
New Issue legal-tender notes 6,764,870 f
One year 5 per cent notes.... 6,316,104 50
Two year 5 per cent notes 2,606,427 60
Two year 6 per cent cupon notes. 33,363,097 60
Six per cent compound Int. notes. 81,246.829 50
Gold certificates 64,13,800 00
First tSBoe fractional currency .... 2,397,307 83
Second Issue fractional currency. 7,598.479 73
Third issue fractional currency... 6,414,844 49
Discounted In above tor mnttlla-
tlon 17,813 37
Demand notesredeemableincoln. 288,121 00
One year 6 per cent notes 2.151,187 00
Two year 5 per cent notes 6,209,333 0 0
Two year 6 per cent cupon notes. 1,078,650,00
Three year compound interest
notes 172,369,511 00
Add amount ol notes outstanding
secretaay's report (or 1886 1,600,000,000 00
National bank notes 170.000,000 00
Total money In circulation 1866.. ,2,062,336,319 91
Divide this amount by the population
in 1866 which was 3o,46a,00U and we
have a per capita circulation of $58.01
It is useless to deny that all these
various issues were issued and used as a
circulationg medium, for Mr. F. E. Spin
ner, treasurer of the United States in the
report of this year says (page 244) under
the head recapitulation:
"All kinds of government papers, that
were issued as money, or that were ever
iu any way used as a circulating medium
and that remained outstanding and un
paid on the 30th day of June 1869."
The following is the list which Mr. Spin
ner eays was used as a circulating med
ium: Seven and three-tenths notee,
(that is to say, the 7-30 notee, old issue)
7-30 notes new issue; temporary
loan certificates; . certificates of indebt
edness; 6 per cent compound Inter
est notes; gold certificates; 3 per cent
certificates; old two year 6 percent notes;
one year 5 per cent notes; two year 6 per
cent n$es; two year 5 per cent cupon
notes; demand notes, payable in gold;
legal tender notes; fractional currency;
first series; fractional currency, second
series; fractional currency, third series."
It cannot be denied that Treasurer
Spinner was the best qualified manin tbe
United States, at that time, to give an
accurate list of the various kinds, and
the amount of money in circulation dur
ing his terms of office.
When the gold bug orators appear on
the stumps claiming that we have a
greater circulation per capita now, than
at any previous period of our history,
read to them tbe testimony of Senator
Plumb, and Treasurer Spinner and show
the above table, taken from the official
reports of the United States Govern
ment. The Clay County Patriot was exceed
ingly bright and readable last week. Its
illustrated article on John U. P. Thurs
ton, Parson Andrews, and the congress
men who went back on their silver
pledges, would be reprinted in tbe Inde
pendent if we had the cuts.
The new republican free silver Senator,
Brown, from Utah, has flunked. In a
letter he says he will vote for the tariff
bill, "no matter what becomes of silver."
That's right, send some more free silver
old party senators to Washington. That's
just what the gold bugs like.
Cleveland turned preaoher! Dr. John
Hall presided at the trial sermon. The
sermon was criticised in the house and
disapproved. No one would defend it.
Cleveland ordered a new brand of whis
key and will try again. Cleveland thinks
tbe west needs regenerating. The west
thinks he needs damning.
The Moorhead (Minn.) Daily News, a
strong republican paper, has quit and
joined the populists. Like all new con
verts it is extremely radical in its de
mands. It wants a platform that will
contain free coinage of silver, govern
ment issue of paper money, and govern
ment ownership of all monopolies.
The farmers' institute in mariy places
are discussing the question of debt.
That's a wise thing to do. There can be
no interest without debt, and interest is
the thing that is making paupers of us
all. Read your Bibles and follow the in
structions there laid down: "Owe no man
anything."
The Red Cloud Nation says: "We don't
blame the The Nebraska. Independent,
for kicking when some editor appropri
ates its editorials as his own without
due credit. The Independent has a
world of bright things that deserve
credit." We would'nt kick at all if we
were not so distressingly poor that we
needed every line of advertising we can
get.
The Southern Mercury tried to boss
the wholepeoples party, and got knocked
stiff and cold. Furthermore, lfcgot so
well converted that it now devotes much
ts space to warning populists against
bosses. It is wasted mk and paper.
Bosses have been taught a lesson and
will not show their heads at St. Louis.
The chairman of the republican com
mittee, Senator Carter, the man who
was chosen to lead the republican cam
paign, charges his party with abandon
ing its principles and with being guilty
of the grossest dishonesty, in a speech
on the floor of the senate. The old thing
must be pretty rotten when the leaders
talk about it that way.
On the tariff question Tom. Reed, John
Sherman and their followers have gotten
clear over onto the democratic platform.
The tariff bill that Reed whipped through
the house and Sherman, Aldnch and
Morrill tried to put through the senate,
was, according to their own statements,
a tariff for revenue only." It repudia
ted every tariff principle heretofore ad
vocated by the republican party. Tariff
campaigns are all a sham anyhow.
The official report of Charles M. Pres
ton, superintendent of banks of New
York, shows that the total resources of
all the moneyed institutions under his
supervision is $1,538,522,894, and that
the increase of resources since Jan. 1,
1890 is $281,615,680. No wonder the
New York banks like the gold standard.
They can contribute $80,000,000 to
campaign funds every four years and
still get $200,000,000 clear profit out of
the game.
The Bankers Magazine, in speaking of
the Sherman bill, to increase the revenue
by tariff legislation until there is a sur
plus, and then take in greenbacks and
not pay them out, says: "Senator Sher
man is very shrewd. By this process, as
they now are the greenbacks would
be as surely retired as if they
were fundedi nto bonds." Yes,
Sherman is very shrewd. No one denies
that. That is the way he got silver de
monetized. But the people are "onto his
game," and he can't work it as easily as
be once did.
TH E LOGIC OF THE HIRELING.
if one takes any of the great maga
zines of tbe east and examines them
critically be will see that they work into
their arguments every material fallacy
which is noted in the text books on logic.
As most of these writers are university
men, it is impossible to believe that it
is accidentally or ignorantly done.
Take the fallacy known in logic as the
Foat boe, ergo propter hot argument.
There is scarcely an article written for
these publications that tbe writer does
not purposely and skillfully use this
fallacy. One thing happened after an
other thing. Therefore the thing that
happened first is the cause of the thing
that happened afterward. There was
an eclipse of the sun. The prince died
immediately afterward. Therefore the
eclipse was the cause of the death of the
prince.
A fair sample of the use of this fallacy
by the learned literary hirelings may be
found in tbe American Economist of last
week. It is printing a lot of tables giv
ing the price of farm products in 1892
and 1895. It says: "We thought that
we had given sufficient evidence during
the year 1895, to prove to farmers the
intense loss they have suffered since the
republican policy of McKinley protection
was abolished.'
like this:
Then it prints a table
Jan I ,Jan, 1.
189J 1H99
, $1 0BH
0 62 OSett
Los
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Wheat.
Corn...
The argument is: The McKinley bill
was repealed. Afterwards prices o! farm
products fell. Therefore the repeal of
tbe McKinley bill was the cause of tbe
fall in prices.
Now remember it is not unlearned men
who are pressing this fallacy, but men
who have been trained in the science of
logic. Tbey saw in the text books many
illustrations of this fallacy, picked it out
and used it to deceive the unlearned.
It would be just as good logic to say:
"Harrison put on his grandfather's hat.
Afterward the prices of farm products
fell. Therefore the putting on of his
grandfather's hat caused the fall in
the price of farm products." Or this:
The tariff on foreign imports was re
duced 3 per cent. Afterwards the price
of wheat and corn fell nearly one-half.
Therefore the reduction of a tariff three
per cent causes the reduction of the
price of wheat and corn nearly one-half.
Another fallacy which these learned
literary hirelings use is known in logic as
petitio priucipii, or begging the question.
The New York Independent prides itself
upon the learning and scholarship of its
editors and contributors, yet in its last
issue it deliberately makes use of this
fallacy. It takes a conclusion for a prem
ise. It says that in consequence of the
silver agitation large quantities of Amer"
ican securities were sent home, which we
were "obliged to buy." Reduced to a
syllogism it is this: We are obliged to
buy American securities when sent from
London to New York. American securi-
ties were sent from London to New
York. Therefore we were obliged to buy
them. The premise is also the con
clusion.
Did a London owner of American rail
road bonds come over, go down on Wall
street and say to the Dauters mere:
'Here, I have railroad bonds, you buy
them," then pull out his gun and tell
them he would shoot them full of holes if
they hesitated, and "obliged" the bank
ers to buy the American securities? It
appears to an unlearned western editor
that this is hardly the way business is
done oil Wall street. If the Wall street
bankers bought returned American se
curities, they did it of their own free will
and were not "obliged" to do it at all.
They bought them for the same reason
they buy anything because they could
make money on the transaction.
In the writing of these; hired scholars
during the last week, besides these falla
cies, we have noted also the argumen,
turn ad popvlum, the non sequiter, and
several others, and it struck us that the
cause must be very weak indeed when
the acutest intellect can only support it
by using every fallacy pointed out by
Aristotle.
WHAT IS BIMETALLISM
John U. P. Thurston says he is a bi
metallism B. M. Manderson says, I am
also?' John Sherman says he is a bimet
allism Grover Cleveland is a bimetallist
As Rothschilds belongs to the same gang
m snnnose he claims to be one too.
What then is bimetallism? The follow
ing is John Sherman's definition:
"I believe that the policy of the United States,
adopted in 1853, of coining fractional silver coins
n limited quant ities from silverbullion purchased
at market price, and making them a lenal tender
for small sums. Is the only way to preserve the
parity of gold and sliver coins at a fixed rntlo.
This is propperly called bimetallic money,
All the rest of the world accept the
definition of the Royal commission given
years ago. They said:
A bimetallic svstem of currency, to be com'
pletely effective, must, in the view of those who
advocate It, include two essential features:
An open mlut ready to coin any quantity of either
gold or silver which may be brought to It; (b) the
rlKht on the part of a debtor to discharge
bis
liabilities, at his option, in either of
metals at a ratio fixed by law,
the two
That is the definition of bimetallism
accepted by English speaking scholars
And writers evervwhere. and when the
above enumerated chaps say they are bi
metallists, they are just common every
day liars and nothing else.
With B. M. Manderson president and
it p Thurston senator, wouldn't the
railroads of Nebraska have a jolly time
of it?
England for green lawns, and smoke
making manufacturies, Germany for
science and lager beer, France for fash
ion and politeness and America for Roth
schilds and Wall street. That is the way
the world wags these days.
The deficit in the revenue for 1894 was
$29,803,260.58 and for 1895, $52,805,
222.18. The McKinley tariff was in force
for part of tbe year 1894, and now the
gold grabbers are howling for it again,
so they can issue more bonds.
In 1892 a barrel of potatoes would ex
change for 28 pounds of sugar. Now it
will exchange for only 14 pounds, and
tbe farmers who voted for that sort of
thing don't seem to like it. A republican
farmer is the most unreasonable creature
God ever let live. He will vote for a
thing, get it, and then growl about it
Tbe . American Economist has taken
the figures from Senator Jones' speech
of '93, which he compiled with such infi
nite care and labor, showing tbe loss
suffered by the farmers on account of the
contraction of the currency and demone
tization of silver, prints them and says
"that it is all on account of the tariff."
Tbe Independent returns thanks to
its contributors. They materlaly aid in
making the paper what it is. The editor
is greatful to yon all. To those whose
communications are crowded out as well
as to those whose articles are used, but
like all other newspaper offices this one
cannot return rejected mauscript, unless
return postage and an addressed envelop
isenclosed.
The general postofflce appropriation
bill as it passed the house the other day
is another sop for the rich. The com
mittee inserted in it a great many inno.
vations, involving large expense for the
benefit of the large cities, and turned a
deaf ear to every appeal for something to
be done for the rural districts. The plu
tocrats who run congress have no sym
pathy with the men who live on the wide
prairies of the west and its all on ac
count of the tariff.
John U. P. Thurston says that "the
old tin dinner pail in tbe hand of the
American workmen is the badge of Amer
ican nobility." Suppose he joins the
"American nobility" for while, instead of
keeping his membership in the "railroad
nobility," and see how he will like it. Of
all the bombastic, gas-bag orators who
ever undertook to prate in the United
States senate, John U. P. is the most im
becile and witless.
The Cincinatti Commercial Gazette
asked all the republican candidates for
the presidency by telegraph: "Do you
favor a decided expression by the repub
lican party of the national convention
on the money question?" Quay and
Elkins openly favored equivocation.
McKinley, Davis, Manderson, Allison,
Reed, Cullom and Morton make no re-
ponse whatever which is a worse kind of
equivocation.
Wool is shipped from Australia to Bos
ton and New York, including commis
sions and all other charges, for one cent
a pound, while the freight from the Pa
cific coast and mountain states, is from
two to five cents a pound. The tariff
lunatics say the way to equalize this is
not to make reasonable freight rates,
but to increase the tariff, or in other
words, take it out of the pockets of
the farmers and laborers instead of the
vaults of the millionaire railroad barons.
We want a financial system in this
country that will put a roof over the
family, paint the cottage, music in the
parlor, good literature on the center ta
ble, something good to eat in the dishes,
carpets on the floor and peace, happiness
and contentment in the hearts of the oc-
upants. Then when all have all they
want and there is something left of the
beautiful or useful things that art, labor
and science have produced that no one
wants or will have, then we will believe in
overproduction.
A correspondent asks of the Indepen
dent a list of the different kinds of mon-
ey in circulation. We may not be able
to think of them all on the spur of the
moment and our library is ten blocks
away, but here goes for as much of the
liotchnotch as comes to mind. The
reader must remember that they are all
different kinds of "money," not simply
different materials on which the money
function is stamped, but each sort hav-
ing a different legal tender power. They
are greenbacks, treasury notes, national
bank notes, coin certificates, currency
certificates, silver certificates, old de
mand notes, gold, silver, copper and
nickel. That makes up at least most of
John Sherman's hotchpotch.
These literary hirelings who fill the
magazines with their bought and paid
for opinions are getting to be snch per
feet verbal gymnasts that it is a great
pleasure to watch their performances
One of them in the North American Re
view speaks of paying savings banks de
positors "in money which had lost part
Ol lis iniriuttiu venue
trinsic," how could it get out of
! j '. 1 .i n " if ,oliii ia "
ln-
the
money? This same writer says: "There
is nn wl mnnev exceot gold." Who
made gold money? Was it money while
man was differentiating himself from
the Simian" by slow evolutions? If not,
when was it made money, and who made
it?
ABOCTPOPCLIHT CONVENTIONS.
Word comes from the populist bead
quarters at St. Louis that tbe national
committeemen from all over the Union
are writing to the national officers ask
ing them to urge upon populist every
where not to make any nominations,
either local, state or national, until after
the national convention.
It seems to the Independent that the
national committeemen do not take into
consideration the good hard sense of the
populist masses, and are unduly anxious.
Populists know enough not to hold con
ventions before they know who our can
didates for president and vice president
are to be, or what the form of our plat
form of principles will be, without any
body telling them not to do it.
However, it seems that so many let
ters have been written, that the executive f
committee have passed a resolution reo
omendng that no nominating con
ventions be held until after the national
convention, As there is no good reason .
for holding them before, and a hundred
why they should not be held until after
ward, which any average populist could
give, it is not very probable that any
will be held.
As far as a campaign in the populist
party is concerned, tbe candidates cut a
very small figure. The populist party is
not in existance for tbe purpose of . elect- .
ing this man or that man to office. Its
mission is to secure legislation that will
relieve tbe miseries of the people. The
campaign is always on, with us. What
ever the result, as soon as the ballots
are counted, we begin again. We have
all enlisted for the war and shall fight till
we die.
BRYAN ON PAPER MONET.
Mr. Bryan delivered a very able ad
dress to the students of the State Uni
versity on Tuesday night on the subject
of paper money. In discussing the theme
he took the same view as that taken by-
John Stuart Mill, Jefferson, Calhoun and
populists generally of the present day
His strongest point against banks of
issue, either state or national was that
any law granting the right to issue mon
ey to any group of men was granting by
law a special privilege.
This he illustrated very strongly in the
same way that populist speakers and
economists generally do. But he seemed
to take it for gran ted that no one, living
under our form of government would
openly advocate the granting of special
privileges. In that assumption Mr-.
Bryan is mistaken.
The Independent calls Mr. Bryan's
attention to the testimony given before
the housecommitteeon Banking and Cur
rency in 1894 where some of the bankers
claimed that a government could not
exist without granting special pnvi-
ledges.
Mr. Bryan's inimatable stories and
illustrations of the "endless chain" ar
rangment by which gold is drawn out of
the the treasury brought down the house
in round alter round of applause, but he
settled a deep conviction on the mind of
every one by a concise statement of facts,
that the destruction of the greenbacks,,
instead of stopping the work of the end
less chain would only increase it. The-
theory upon which treasury department
is run i. e. thevpayment of gold to evrey
one who presents a government obliga-
tion.and the "maintainance of the party,
if the greenbacks were destroyed, would
immediately bring up the question of
what is to be done with Sherman treas
ury notes, Bilver certificates and silver
dollars. If silver is to be only a "token
money" there must needs be a gold re
deemer for silver also. There is no way
to stop the drain of gold except to obey
the law and pay silver, or to destroy
every treasury note, and contract to a
minimum the amount of silver in circu
lation.
The voracity of the money grabbers in
New York has accumulated billions of
property on that little island'. Now they
want to tax the farmers $100,OUO,UIK
to build forts to defend it. Tbey won't
pay taxes to do it themselves. Every ct-
tempt to make them pay their snars ol
taxes they defeat. If they can't "beat it
in congress, they can in the supreme
court as they did the income tax.
The man who denies that the amount
of money in circulation affects its value, ,
would deny that the sun rosein the east,
that man wasia biped or that chickens had
feathers on them. To claim that, if unlim
ited tons of gold were discovered, every
ounce of it would have the same value it
has now, is so extremely idotic that we
doubt the possibility of any sane man
believing it. So we say, that these mag
azine writers who attack the quantity
thonrv nf mnnpv. being sane, are a set of
lying jjcoundrals, who lie for pay, anditis
all on account of the tariff.
Chairman Edgerton ha issued the cal 1
for the meeting of the state central com
mittee. It is hoped that every member
will attend. The cost of attendance will
be too much for some of the members to
bear and they ought not to be called up
on to do it. Let every neighborhood
from which a committee man comes, be
manly and generous and chip in, keep
good the word of Holy Writ where it is
said: "They helped every one his neigh-
Kni. " Thorn nm mnnv rpMRnnn wh v there-
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should be a full attendance. One of them
is that this campaign should be laid out
attar nlnna mnHohv direct representation-
of the people. They should all hae a.
hand and a share in it. Let every Cne
make it a point to be there.