The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, July 02, 1896, Image 8
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. July 2, 189b. AMEHlCANSiLVI MON (Continued from ltage .) party in its late convention adopted the existing gold standard, but recognized the importance of free coinage by pledg ing its best efforts to secure it through international agreement, knowing per fectly well, as Wall street and as every ih atnnrinrd advocate knows, that such national agreement is an impossi bility under existing circumstances. Knirland. through her Rothschilds, says bo, Germany, by her emperor.says so. Thaaa o-r..ftt creditor nations may not be expected to aid in the depreciation of their money demands while the debtors are able and willing to pay, and neither they nor their Wall street representa tives have shown any disposition to lighten the burdens imposed on our peo ple by an appreciating money standard. Independent of all agreement, let the mints of the United States be opened to the free coinage of silver, and let Eng land understand that the people of the United States are perfectly willing ana able to pay all their obligations accord ing to contract, and that contract reads "in coin." and an international agree- mnnr. will immediatelv be urged by Lug- laud, and all creditor nations in their nwn intm-PAtn and silver will again be come the "money of the most enlight niied nations of the earth." Oiwn the United States mints to free coinage, and New York and not London will fix the price ou every ounce of silver bullion in the civilized world, and that price everywhere will be the mint price loss the cost of carriage. , Not that all silver would flow to our mints for coin acre anv more than all wheat must be shfpped" to Liverpool to learn its price in Nebraska. It is admitted that by act of congress silver was demonetized in 1873. That the people of this country did not ask to have this done, That thev did not know when it was done. That members in congress in 1873 did not know it. That the president signing the bill did not know it. It is also admitted: That coin was not in circulation as money in 1873. That the only money in circulation at that time was depreciated paper money worth less than fifty cents in coin. That that paper money was convert ible into bodds at par, interest in gold." That these bonds were then payable in "lawful money." That by act of congress in 1869 these bonds were made payable in "coin." That by the demonetization act of 1873 these bonds became payable in "gold coin." Hence it is true: That these fifty cent dollars became gold bonds at par. That each gold dollar invested in "law ful money", and converted into bonds prior to 1869, is now worth four dollars in gold as compared with wheat, corn, oats, cattle and horses. It is also true: That each change made in the stand ard of money payment of these bonds, added hundreds of millions to the wealth of those who hold those bonds, NewYork and London capitalists, and took hun dreds of millions away from theearnings of those who have to pay those bonds, the people of the United States. And now the people of this country are asked to ratify and confirm these proceedings as right and proper, and to perpetuate the rule of those who have perpetrated these wrongs. The people of the United States are asked to retain .an appreciating money standard which has doubled the Eower of money and money demands and as divided the value of property and the price of labor; a policy that would bank rupt our cities, impoverish our people, lose our schools and degrade the civili zation of this age and country. Will the people submit? Let us hope not. Writers on political economy say: That price of commodities depends on demand and supply. That this principle applies to money the same as to commodities. That scarce money "sound money" means dear money. That dear money means cheap proper ty, cheap wheat. And we know that cheap wheat means hard times in Nebraska. The effort to attribute present depres sion, industrial and commercial, to a change of our tariff laws in 1894 has failed, signally and rightfully failed. Depression in many industrial depart ments prevails in all the great gold stan dard commercial nations of the world and the dnprRHsion is by those nations dated back to the demonetization of sil ver in 1873. Not a gold standard country of the world today that is not suffering in most lines of her industries. Not a Bil ver stan dard country today anywhere that is not as prosperous or more prosperous than prior to 1873, M the statement of the fact be the argument, being all that is necessary. l"1 """ XI is insisted tnat our currency muse oe made and kept the same as that of the most enlightened gold standard nations of the earth and at the same time ask for protection against the labor of paupers which that standard has produced. Shall we abandon the American doc trine, "the greatest good to the greatest . number," abandon the money of the people and imitate those aristocratic na tions where poverty, degredation and meaness are synonomous terms? Shall we continue a money standard that will soon degrade American labor to the level of European pauper labor? Shall we make it possible for less enlightened silver natious to una cause to fear Amer ican cheap labor? The people of the United States are honorable, honest and patriotic and no less willing than able to take care of their national credit and national honor. They will see that all their obligations are paid in the world s best money with' out debasement or depreciation. Three fourths of the people now inhabiting this ' earth use silver as primary money and the assertion that the free coinage of silver by the United States alone will de base and degrade our money is based on nothing more substantial than the as sertion of the gold standard advocate and the theory of the pedagogue, and both are refuted by the experience of ceu tunes. Our civilization has been challenged Shall we maintain it? A halt has been called in our national progress. An enemy is in our pathway, to destroy or be destroyed. Shall we remove it? The battle is the battle of the standards iintisn guns have been captured or silenced in the past. Shall we now sub mit to British gold? Shall we use gold alone as standard money or shall we use both gold and sil ver, the products of our mines and the mnnftV metals of the world. This is the- one issue before the pople of the (Jutted States, forced upon thm by the repre sentatives of Lombard and Wall streets, who arrotrantlv claim superior intelli gence for themselves and a higher and nobler civilization for their constituency. We have reached a period in our na tional historv when the word "people does not mean the same it did when in serted in the preamble to our national roiiHtitution. "We. the people" then and them meant ALL the people, now "the neoole" means only the plain common people as distinct from the rulingclassos. Hence, this battle is to be fought and won by the plain common people the poor people of this country nsagaiust the favored classes. But, let it be remem hered. that in all time the common peo pie have been the strong right arm of civil government, of civil and religious lihertv and. though these common peo- tile mav not have attained to the high standard of civilization, the boast of our adversaries, the toil and sacrifices of the common people have made that civiliza tion possible and they are now canea upon to defend and sustain it, and they will do it. Some of us have Btood side by side, shoulder to shoulder, elbow to elbow with men of all creeds and colors, red, white and black, in the defense of our common country. Along the lines of burnished steel where danger was and death came, I saw no man flinch or hVe. Our only duty then, obedience to law and loyalty to the flag. So now, we are lining up under the same flag but with increased stars and a broader field and in as holy a cause. It was the purpose of conflict then to make men free. It is now to keep them so. Legal subor dination is not more galliug to the slave than social and financial subordination to the free. As chattel slavery was destroyed by the bayonet in 1861-5, so will slavery to Wall street be destroyed by the ballot in 1896. But to accomplish this, brave, honest, wise and independent action must be had now. Sailors weigh anchor by a single swing as one man, on the anchor line. Victories are won by closed ranks and a firm step in the presence of the enemy. Waste no ammunition, cast no idle ballots. Jackson's orders to his soldiers at New Orleans was not to fire till they could see the color of the eyes of the enemy. Yes, "God hates a coward," Peter Jan- sen, and all honor to thee for the plat form without a straddle. Wall street and her adherents against the middle and industrial classes. Wall street against the plain, common people of the United St a ten, is the issue. Let Nebraska send fifty-one gooa, non- est and capable men to the meeting of the American Silver organization 10 ue held in St. Louis, July 22, to aid in unit ing all friends in selecting a candidate ' for president who will be to the silver forces of the Uuited States what Sheridan was to his soldiers at Winchester, an in spiration, able to turn a patriotic army of voters, divided only in name, into a solid, victorious column in November, 1896. U. Li. IjAWS, Provisional Member American Silver As sociation, Nebraska. The Knights of Pythias in Norfolk have been singularly fortunate, in one respeet at least, since in the nine years of their organization they nave not burled resident member. J. P. Houston of York county got rid of the army worm by digging a ditch around his field and mashing the vermin with a log as they marched in grand procession along the pit prepared for their destruction. David E.. Jones of Platte county will be taken to the asylum. He labors under the hallucination that some one wants to hang him and the constant fear he manifests renders life a burden to him and his friends. The woman's club of Omaha propose to erect a $50,000 three-story building of brick and stone for a permanent club house. It will be located west of Sixteenth street and not more than two blocks from Farnam, Samuel Hogg of Hampton is in hard lines. His team ran away and when he was finally thrown from the carriage he didn't do a thing but land on a barbed wire fence. He was cut up and will be a long time recovering. We could never understand, says the Deshler Citizen, why a road overseer, when he puts in a drain box, sets the toD of it from two to six inches higher than the road level, unless it is to jolt the back teeth out of those riding over ' them. Two rears ago Charley Spry of Sher man county injured his hand in a corn sheller so that a portion ot it naa to be amputated. A few months ago it was found necessary to make anotner amputation, and the other day the of fending member was entirely removed. T. P. Sheets, a farmer near Pierce, lately lost his wife and was himself too ill to do the work on his larm. a. no other day thirty-two of his neighbors eave him a surprise party, iney - ... . a & turned out witn teams ana cumvavui nA cleaned the weeds out of his 125- acre cornfield as slick as a whistle. Are You One of those unhappy peo ple suffering with weak nerves? Remem ber that the nerves may be made strong by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which feeds them upon pure Diooa. Hood's Pills are the best after-dinner nill: assist digestion, prevent constipa- 11 tion. aoc While you are not busy, suppose yon get up a club of subscribers lor this Send ns three yearly subscribers with f 3 and we will send you this paper free lor one year. 0 "Thurston on Silver" fine million conies advertised and cir culated from Maine to Alaska. A genu wanted everywhere to sell this power ful pamphlet in favor of free coinage at idealized by the chairman of the late Kepuoucan national vunrcnuuu. t It contains 16 pages. Copiclby mail 7 W. B. CROMBIE, PUBLISHER, Lincoln, Neb Insurance Department. Conducted by J, solicited. Y. M. Swlgart. Correspondence In an editorial in last Sunday's Bee under the caption of "The Coercive In surance Policy," after calling attention to the arbitrary raise of 5 per cent of the present rate in Chicago, we find this sentence: "The business of fire insurance is a quasi public business which, unles con ducted by the existing companies with due recognition of the rights of the pub lic, will eventually have to be conducted by the state for the benefit and protec tion of its people." To which we say, amen. The sooner the better. But in this state the stock companies have had a set back for the last five years on farm insurance, be cause the 1891 legislature gave us the farm mutual insurance law. If that law bad included all kinds of property there would be fifty thousand policy holders today instead of twenty thousand. In the coming legislature there will be two distinct objects in view one to pass a law that will allow mutual com panies to organize to insure any and all classes of property on a mutual plan. The other will be to repeal the present farm mutual insurance law. The first will have for its object the permission of our people to do their own business in their own way, and will be urged by the common people without any regard to their political faith. While the second will be urged by a paid lobby, to curtail the rights of the people and compel them to insure with the stock companies at any rate they may choose to levy. With the above facts staring us in the face it is the duty of every man who car ries insurance to see to it that no one is nominated or elected to the legislature who is unfavorable to mutual insurance. (It does not always follow that because a man is a fraternal man that he is a mutual man. A hint is sufficient.) If the policy holder wants to insure in a stock company the rates will be kept down if there is a mutual company in competition, but if there is no mutual companies, the rates can and will be raised at thj, will of the insurance com bine. Again we say that every man who car ries any insurance is interested in the election of men who favor the rights of the people in preference to the arbitrary rule of the corporations. If every member of the coming legisla ture is a member of a mutual fire insur ance company, I do not believe that one could be found who would favor the passage of a law that would prevent stock companies from doing business. But it is not necessary lor me to say what would occur if the other fellows were elected. SUPREME COURT. On the 16th of June the supreme court rendered a decision on two points per taining to Mutual insurance: First. 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It is needless to explain that the minister of war is a civilian, for a soldier would never have made the mistake of Imagining for one moment that the feelings of self-respect of a private or non-commissioned offi cer would he affected by the use of the familiar pronoun tu." "Tu" and 'du" and "thou" are terms not of contempt but of familiarity and Intimacy, and their use Implies no lack of considera tion for the person to whom they are applied, but, on the contrary, a feeling of affeotlonate regard. In monarchical countries the sovereigns have always made a point of addressing their troops with the pronoun "thou" In the same way that they apply the word "chil dren" to even grlziled and battle scarred veterans twioe their age. The men like to be addressed thus and feel a sort of sympathy for those whom they regard as displaying In this way affec tion and interest in their welfare. By forbidding the use of the word "tu" the new French minister of war has done far more harm than good, since he has rendered the relation between French officers and men more distant and formal, and has, in fact, raised a new barrier between those who hold commissions In the army and those who do not. Of course, this, new departure has been prompted by the spirit of re publicanism, the minister's idea being that a soldier is just as much a French citizen and entitled to as much respect as an officer. In the Qerstan, Austrian, Italian and Russian armies, the officers not only use the word "thou" to their men, but among themselves as well, and the youngest lieutenant may use It to his colonel, or even to his general when off duty, the idea being they are brothere and comrades in arms. Officers meeting for the first time use "thou" even though one be a prince and the other the son 'of a petty shopkeeper, one the colonel of some crack cavalry regiment, and the other a subaltern in a mere line of regiment In the aristocracy, that Is to say, among the old nobility, whence the parvenue of the nouveau rlche element is severely excluded, every one calls the other "thou " even young girls styling old dowagers thus. Monarchs and royal personages in their intimate intercourse with one another, invariably use the pronoun "thou." The prince of Wales addresses the em peror of Austria as "du," and the em peror of Germany makes U3e of the same pronoun when writing or speak ing to King Oscar or any other mon arch. "Tu" and "du" and "thou" imply social equality among the persons who use them to one another, and if the French minister of war had been less hasty, and had taken the trouble of studying the history of his country, he would have found that during the early years of the great revolution at the end f the last century, when the doctrines of equality were really enforced,, every body made use of the word "cltoyen" and of "thou" in addressing one an other, no matter what might be the dif ference of age or official rank. LORD CROMER IN EGYPT. HIS Sneeaa Dae to Mil Having? a Few Picked Men. Lord Cromer's success is in particular due to his seeing that the only efficient way to rule Egypt was to have an En glishman at hand to say the final word in every department of state; says the Spectator. He has never wanted to flood Egypt with English administra tors after the manner ot France in Tu nis. Tunis has only a million and a half of people, but there are 8,000 French civil functionaries besides a large number of military officers. Lord Cromer has always preferred that the English heads should use Egyptian hands. The native cabinet and the native bureaucracy have gone un touched, except to be improved and itrengthened, but in the shadow behind every magnificent ministerial fauteuil stands the Englishman who controls ind directs. This means that our work has been done by a minute staff. Ex cept in the irrigation department, where high technical skill and the in ability to take bribes make it abso lutely necessary to have Englishmon, there are no visible English officials. Dne advantage of a minute staff is that ill your men can be picked men. And m Egypt, whether soldiers or civilians, ill the controlling men are picked men- men who can De trusted not oniy to sold on like bulldogs, but who are also sertain to win when brain power, lehether in the Turk, the Armenian, or ice Copt, Is matched against brain power, tact and adroitness. We do lot known whether Lord Cromer ever expressed the thought in words, but if le had said, "I will have no regiment of oorly-pald second-rate Englishmen ander me here, but only a few men of lie ablest kind in well-paid, responsl ile posts," he would have exactly ex pressed the principle upon which he las acted. Another reason for Lord 1 Cromer 8 success is 10 ue iuuuu m me 'act that he has always used young Cromer's success is to be found in the en. Egypt is the triumph of young nen. uen. JJumpzsiepuBH 'nil lonm ot eso( i.npinoM 8m rej oj ponaddsq train sq, ji u3non., j jaia.Avax ITOiJaraujoo .J3m0)sn3 XqBqs v eq 0; umouh bj oqM jpjuiqag 0, Baojjd moj qans e2qo 0 noX euiB3 moh (Pboj eqj umij Sajuin, -as idaxvri itjpjauimoa oT) idpuiJ,! 1)Jumoj,i mt 01 iqDaO Rlpans Tabules cure torpid" liver. fHE BOSSES VICTORIOUS The Republican State Convention is For the Gold Standard. RUSSELL AND CHURCHILL EN DORSED. School Fund and Penitentiary Thieves The Republican Idea. With McColl to Lead and Churchill and Kurwell to Boodle, They Sail Away. The republican state convention was held in Lincoln July 1, and nominated the following ticket: Governor..... . .....J H M'Ccll Lieutenant-Governor Orlando Tefft Secretary of state Joel A Piper Auditor P O Ilendlund Treasurer C E Casey Attorney-General.. . .... A S Churchill Supt. of Pub. Inst ......11 R Corbett Commissioner '. H C Russell Supreme Judge Robert Ryan Supreme Judge M P Kinkaid Regent W G Whitmore ELECTORS. At Large J E Houtz, Lancaster At Large .'. F J Sadilek, Saline 1? irat District A J Bnrnham. fMemaha Second District A C Foster, Douglas Third District Sol Draper, Knox J; ourth District (i A Derby, Seward Fifth Distsict J L McPheeley. Kearney Sixth District M L Friese, Valley lney adopted the gold standard after this fashion: "The republicans of Nebraska in con vention represented affirm their faith in the platform adopted by the national convention at St. Louis; th platform of a party not ashamed of its record and compelled to abandon no article of its ancient faith." Then they declare that they are for "a sound dollar, as sound as the govern ment and as untarnished as its flag a dollar that is good not only at home. but good everywhere trade goes." flow let the republican voters line up and work for a dollar that it takes six ten bushels of oats or ten bushels of corn to get, and not grumble because they can t raise enough corn and oats to get enough of those "untarnished" dol- ars with which to pay taxes, interest and buy bread for the family. Cong4eVlorjl Wnye. Higbee You women have a queer ideai of a debating club. When I looked in last night you were all talk ing at once. Mrs. Higbee We conduct our club on congressional lines, Henry. Phila delphia North American. Rtro Pub. Co LlHOOUe. Nln, This Great Book, by Jule Schoenbkit, is a collection of humorous anecdotes told by the author and all the great reform statesmen, orators and writers illustrating every phase of the money question. 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Monaco is a prin cipality within the borders and under the domination of a republic, and its Internal government is at the same time a despotism compared to which the prince has himself said that of the czar's is mild. His revenues from the gambling tables of Monte Carlo are very large. The principality is eight square miles in extent and includes the old and picturesque town of Mo naco and the wicked but beauti ful Monte Carlo. The prince leg islates with the aid of such ad viera as he chooses - and a law goes ' Into force by his decree only. The name 01 me royai tamiiy is urimraiai and It has reigned for 900 years. The present prince, Albert, is 48. He mar ried first a sister of the duke of Hamil ton. Eleven years later he was divorced for reasons that are not publicly known, the pope consenting to annul the marriage, a very unusual proceed ing. 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