The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, August 27, 1896, Page 4, Image 4
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT Aug. 27, 1896. EL Nebraska jfabtpenbent TBt WZAITH MAJCSRS mmd LINCOLN INDir&NDENT. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY T TUB Indspsijdsijt Publijhirjg Go. : . At 110 M ttmtt LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 638. $1.00 per Year in Advance. Address til oommanleatloa to. til ak aU tnfta, bmj order, etc, payable to TUB IXDIFSNDENT FOB. CO, Luooi.1, Mis. NATIONAL TICKET. For President, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, of Nebraska. For Vice-President. THOMAS E. WATSON. of Georgia. STATE TICKET. For Gorernor....... Silas A Holcomb For Lient. GoTernor... J E Harris For Secretary of State.... ..W F Porter For Auditor Pub. Accts.........J F Cornell For Land Commissioner ..J V Wolfe For State Treasurer J B Meserve For State Sopt.. ...... W R Jackson For Judge, long term Wm. Neville For Judge.short term....Tno. Kirkpatrick For Regent A. A. Munro For Congress, 1st dist J. H. Broady Grant wanted mints established in the west to coin silver in 1875. Yes, that bill was "fully discussed." It is not the fact of Bryan's election that has caused hard times, It is tbecon tinnal robbery of the taxpaylng debtor class. The incomes from American great family estates, instead of promoting en terprise and thrift, promote immorality, idleness and waste. ; This "sound money" plan enables our foreign creditors to exact two bushels of wheat and two pounds of cotton where only one was due. Why is a silver dollar worth 100 cents in gold in London, less cost of exchange to New York? Will some gold standard man please reply? There are some people who will assert anything, even to saying that General Grant knew when he signed the mint bill that it stopped the coinage of silver. The old Boldier who took his musket and went out to save the union thirty' five years ago and now takes his ballot to save the money power has changed sides. Candidate McKinley says that he would rather open the mills than the mints. Why not open a few under the present gold standard if it is such good thing? Why not? When England established the gold standard in 1815, the people were not represented In the English parliament When it was established in this country the people knew nothing about it. The McKinley policy is inaction and humble submission to foreign dictation and extortion, while the foreign own era of property and debts carry away the wealth of this country by means of dear dollars and cheap wheat and cotton. ' A stiver certificate, the material of which is worth less than one cent, which is not a legal tender for any amount, and which is redeemabl in a silver dollar only, is worth 100 cents in gold. Will some of the goldite-intrinsic-value ed itors please tell us why? Mark Hanna ban gone into the poster business, and the walls and barns are to be covered with McKinley posters and cartoons. Because the English politi cians do that in a population half of whom can't read, Hanna thinks it is the thing for America. "Its English you you know." A poll was taken at the United States penitentiary at Fort Smith, Arkansas, last week. The vote stood 176 for Mc Kinley and 4 for' Bryan. Rather sig nificant, isn't it? We are frank to con fees that were the presidential question to be left to the vast army "doing time" for the state there would be no question of McKinley s election. If the material in the dollar determines the value of the dollar how is it possible that the silver dollar now in circulation is worth 100 cents in gold, when the material in it is worth only fifty-three cents? It is no answer to say that it is redeemable in gold, for tbat is a lie and very one knows that it is a lie. Neither is it an answer to say that the govern ment has announced that it will freely exchange gold for silver, for that is also a lie, no such announcement ever having CONTEMPTIBLE WRITING. ' It ms impowible for the Journal to make an honest, straightforward state ment on any subject. In its edition of August 20th it says: Oak cm i'm enmrrosi atatemrats of Mr. Br an In lila New Tork addres reada aa lollowa: Railroad rati bar aot bo reduced to katp paca with 'ailing price. Tba farmer baa thna found It mora tad mora difficult to lira. It theu goes on to show that freight rates have fallen since 1873 and asks these questions: . What object had Mr. Bryan In mirepreseutlng tba facta? Did ba sot knev me facta? Wbat aort of man la ba? A ma wbo will de liberately falalfy history In order to array oe rlaae of people against anotber, and to manu factore a grlevane tbat baa no axletence beyond tbe Imagination, la a very dangerous member of the body politic if be occoplea a poeltlon tbat Klvea weight to bia utterance. A more contemptible piece of writing never appeared in a partisan journal. Mr. Bryan did not say that freight rates bad not fallen sineel873,buttbatRAlL ROAD RATES HAVE NOT BEEN RE DUCED TO KEEP PACE WITH FALL ING'PRICES. Did it take half tbe corn crop to pay tbe freight from Nebraska to Chicago at any time previous to five years ago? Tbe trick of substituting another and entirely different statement from that made by Mr. Bryan, then proving the substituted statement false and then de nouncing Mr. Bryan as a liar, is so con temptible tbat it places the man wbo does it outside the pale of gentlemen. . GRANT DID NOT KNOW IT. It has often been asserted that when Grant signed the act of 1878 be did not know that it stopped tbe coinage of silver, and his letter to Mr. Cowdry written some time after, has been cited in proof of the' 'statement, but here is proof positive that he did not know it and also that the next congress did not know it, for in his message to that con gress he says: "It would take a period probably beyond that fixed by law for final specie resumption to COIN THE SILVER necessary to transact the bus iness of the country." Tbe democratic committee will publish an extract from this message of Presi dent Grant, sent to congress January 14, 1875, announcing his approval of the act for resumption of specie pay ments. The extract is as follows: "In fast, to carry out the first section of the act, another mint becomes neces sary. With the present facilities for coin age, it would take a period probably be yond that fixed by law for final specie resumption to coin the silver necessary to transact the business of the country. "There are now some melting furnaces for extracting silver and . gold ores brought from the mountainous territo ries, in Chicago, St. Louis and Omaha three in the former city and as much of the change required will be wanted in the Mississippi valley states, and as the metal to be coined comes from the west of these states, and as I understand the charges for transportation of bullion from either of the cities named to the mint in Philadelphia, to New York, amount to $4 for each $1,000 worth with an equal expense for transporta tion back, it would seem a fair argu ment in favor of adopting one or more of these cities as the place or places for the establishment of new coinage facil ities." We suppose tbe State Journal will come out tomorrow with its usual asser tion that the bill was before congress for five years and the discussions filed forty- eight columns of the Congressional Rec ord when the first edition of tbe Record did not appear for years after ward, and Mark Hanna's paid howlers will still assemble at Eleventh and 0 streets and pompously declare that "tbe bill was fully discussed." QUESTIONS ANSWERED. SYRACUSE, Neb., Ang. 19. 1896. To tba Editor : I" lease give an answer' to tbe following question throngb this week's leans: Why was silver worth more than gold from 1S84 to 1878? Why was gold wortb more than silver from 871 to 18.14? Did we ever have bimetallism (in re ty) In the United States. Tours for Bryan and Holcomb, E. 8. WH1TTAKER, AN8WER. Silver was worth more than gold in the United States from 1834 to 1873 be cause France would pay f 1.32 an ounce for it and the United States would take it at only $1.29 an ounce, tbat is, the United States was coining silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 and France was coining all that was offered at 15 tol. Pre vious to that, from 1792 to 1834, the United States coined silver at the ratio of 15 to 1 and France and other Euro pean countries at 15 to 1. That made gold worth more 'than silver at our ra tio- . The "market price" of gold and silver, as tbe gold bugs say, had nothing to do with tbe matter. "It was not a "market price" at all. It was a law made price.' When the "law" changed, the "price' changed. Bimetallism existed in the United States "in reality," and all over the civ ilized world, including England, previous to 1873, although in England silver was not a legal tender after 1816, for all the silver mined, except what was consumed in the arte, was coined into full legal tender money, and this held up the gen eral level of prices the whole world over. It the mints are open to tbe free coinage of silver.thatis bimetallism. One country may use gold and another may use silver, but neither will be on a monometallic basis if the mints are open, but if the mints are closed to either metal, then hey will become monom , The money of one or tbe other countries will be annihilated, and it will bave to begin a struggle to obtain a portion of wbat tbe other county has. It must buy tbat m oney from tbe other country with com-moditi-s and pay in commodities just what the country which has the money pleases. Tbat is nearly our condition today. . We bave some money. for when the mints were closed to silver we had some of tbe other metal, and we mined some, but to do business, we must buy money of foreign countries, or, as tbe gold bugs say, "induce foreign cap ital to come here." When any one of the larger civilized nations opens its mints to the unlimited coinage of silver, and tbat silver goes to swell the volume of iegal tender money in the world, we shall bave bimetallism, even if one-half of the countries nse gold only and the other half silver only. HERE'S A PREDICAMENT. We believe it is pretty generally eon- ceded that Senator John M. Thurston has demonstrated beyond all question that be is the champion political jump ing jack of the present campaign. His views on tbe silver question which he took such pains to dilate npon previous to and immediately following his election to the senate are too well known to need repetition here. Suffice it to say he is now undergoing the somewhat un enviable task of straightening out the kinks in his anti-republican convention utterances and telling the people why the injection of the triple extract of gold monometallism into thecerebrums of the voters of this country will cure all - the ills to which we are now subject. But this is not the half of it. William McKinley, the champion of goldbug republicans, is expected to de clare unalterably and unequivocably for the gold standard, or he will lose thou sand upon thousands of votes and cam paign donations which would approxi mate a number with six figure in it. Just bow Mr. McKinley can do this, and not appear ridiculous, is not plain in the light of the following: "From a speech in the house of repre sentatives, delivered by Wm. McKinley June 24, 1890, Congressional Record, Vol. 2, page 6,447. "I am for the largest use of silver in the currency of the country. I would not dishonor it; 1 would give it equal credit and honor with gold. I would utilize both metals as money and discredit neither. I want the double standard." A SEA OF FALSEHOODS. The State Journal is a disgrace to the State of Nebraska. If taken to repre sent the character of the people of Ne braska, no honest roan would desire to locate within its borders or bring bis wife and children to be surrounded witty a sea of falsehoods such as it constantly prints and circulates. If a man were to judge of the character of the citizens Of this state from the matter printed in the State Journal he could not fail to con clude that there were but few men in it capable of speaking the truth. No de cent man wants to come to a state where one of the leading dailies constantly prints in its editorial columns the most outrageous and unblushing falsehoods. Read the following from the edition of August 20: ALMA., Neb., Aug. 17 To the editor of the State Journal; Please answer the following question In your Nebraska State Journal as tbere Is a difference of opinion as to the answer of the same. Tbe sliver dollar of 1890 or 1891 is not a legal tender only as itis made so in redeeming in gold? If the secretary refuses to redeem the silver dollar of today in gold, what would the silver dollar ba worth? Respectfully, D. S. HARDIN. 1. The standard silver dollar Is full legal ten der. It is not "redeemable In gold, "but the gov ernment has declared tbat It will make it aagood by freely exchanging gold for it. 2, A refusal to make tbia exchange would cans the silver dollar to drop to its bullion vaiue, bdoui oa cents. The cool audacity exhibited in writing such an infernal lie as "that the govern ment has declared that it will make it (the silver dollar) as good as gold by freely exchanging gold for it" was never equaled on earth before. It is impossible that any one with in telligence enough to be a writer on a daily newspaper should not know that it was a lie. He has certainly read in the newspapers how the Wall street bankers gather up greenbacks and treasury notes whenever they want to draw gold out of the treasury. If the government freely exchanges gold for silver dollars why do they not take silver dollarsandget gold? Tbe State Journal may thiuk that per sistent and continuous lying will win votes. It may win those of the igno rent but it will drive away the intelligent and honest. QUEER STUFF. Any intelligent man must be amused who will take up a gold bug county weekly and glance at it. Take these samples from the Saline County Demo crat of August 18. If, as Mr. Bryan said, t,h demand for sliver nnder free coinage will bring the price up to $1.29 per ounce In gold, how la that going to Increase Its debt-paying power orralastha price of wheat? The argument of the sllvsrltes do not gloe some how. In th nature of things gold Is the standard and no legislation or anything else can make It otherwise. Double standard and silver monometalllst (Just like Mexico hat got) art th same thing. That editor, like J. Sterling Morton, must have a poor opinion of the intelli gence of Nebraska voters. Tbat is the ort of queer stuff readers of gold bug papers get for their money. The rural districts of the east are as badly impoverished as those of the west THE IIKNT DOLLAR. Of all the evils which a government can inflict none con be greater than chpap money, whether of coin or paper. Tbat dollar is the best dollar that buys tbe largest quantity of food and cloth ing. John Sherman's Speech. Is tbat true? Carry it to its final con clusion and reflect if it is true. "That dollar is the best dollar that will buy tbe largest amount of food." Wheat is food. A dollar that would buy 100 bushels of wheat is the best dollar, is it? Dollars can be made to do that very easily. Destroy all the paper money in the world; all the silver money, all the credit money, all the copper and nickel money, and make a law forbidding their manufacture into money and take away all their legal tender power, and wheat would not sell for more than 1 cent a bushel. What of necessity must hap pen? The men who have tbe gold in th world could buy all the property in the world. What would land be worth that produced wheat wortb only 1 cent a bushel? A few gola pieces would pur chase the best farm in the United States. A man who owed $1,000 on a farm could never pay it. All mortgages would be foreclosed. Every man in debt would lose all his property. It is impossible for any sane man to believe that a dol lar that would do that is the "best dol lar." The man who said that is the prophet of tbe gold standard. That kind of talk is the best argument they can make. WS WERE THE FIR8T. No nation in Europe demonetized silver until after tbe law of the United States, passed in 1873, had done its fatal work. The United States made the attempt in 1868, renewed it again in 1870, and flnanally passed the law in 1873. The authority for the statement made as to the action and time of action of Germany in demonetizing silver is to be found on pages 18 and 19 of the re ports of the English parlimentary com mittee, appointed March 3, 1876, "to consider and report upon the causes of the decline of silver." As the United States, under the leader ship of John Sherman, was the first nation to demonetize silver, it is emi nently fit and proper that it should take the lead in righting the wrong. We did not ask the consent of any other nation to demonetize silver and will not ask the consent of any other nation to allow us to re-establish free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. NOTHING LIKE IT. There is nothing lika persistency. If you tell a lie, stick to it. Tbat seems to be the policy of the State Journal. Hav ing said that silver dollars were redeem, able in gold, and afterwards having said they were not redeemable in gold, itis going to stick to both statements. In this morning's paper it says: "Whether The State Journal thinks so or not it knows that in normal times Mr. Snellen berger can take ten thousand dollars in silver or silver certificates to New York and come back with ten thousand dol lars in gold, drawn from the sub-treasury." v ..-"v FOLLOWED ROTHCHILD'S PLAN. When England adopted the gold standard in 1816 there was no coin in circulation in the kingdom and had not been for several years. She fought her wars with Napoleon with irredeemable paper money, and did not resume specie payments until 1821, five years 1aters When John Sherman threw the United States onto the gold standard in 1893 there was no coin in circulation and had not been for twelve years. We fought the war of the rebellion with irredeem able paper money and did not resume specie payments for five years after wards. John Sherman followed the Rothchild's plan exactly and in both instances the same results followed, viz., bankruptcies, tramps and millionaires. WHICH? f The State Journal says that free coinage would reduce the value of silver dollars to 53 cents and rob the laborers of half their wages. It also says that free coinage would give the miner a 100 cent silver dollar for 53 cents worth of bullion, that is, the same silver dollar would be worth 100 cents in the hands of a miner and only fifty-three cents in the hands of a wage worker. Is that editor an idiot or a common every day liar? Which? Republican editors who are calling men anarchists because they criticise a recent decision of the supreme court, should remember that their own party was founded on opposition to a decision of the supreme court, and the men they hold in the greatest reverence, are tbe men who most severely denounced that court. Tbey have made a complete change of front since 1860. EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN. The campaign of education has begun. The republican managers have almost completed their study of adjectives. It was thought heretofore that the English language contained only about 60 mil lions but the campaign committee have greatly enlarged this number. Those in most common use are the following "popocratic, star demogogue, prattling sprout of the Platte, studied villiany, red handed anarchy." Let the campaign of education proceed. Let ns study prin- 1 ciples while our opponent are wasting their energies in abue of the men wbo defended this country in 1861 and are today the bone and sinew of this repub lic. The speaker or writer whose only stock in trade is abuse, is too narrow and weak to turn us aside from tbe main issue before the ' American people. The men wbo bave for twelve years paid tbe taxes of this government, bnilded its churches, founded its schools do not need to be defended from the charge of "anarchy." THEY ARE LOSING HEART. One of the best indications that the republicans are losing heart in the can didacy of Wm.' McKinley for president is shown by the fact tbat when Mark Hanna appeared among the republican gold bugs of Wall street on Friday last to solicit donations to the national cam paign fund he was met with a very cool reception. Mark passed the bat from early morning nntil the close of business hours and did not receive so much as a five-cent oiece for his pains. "But we must have the money," exclaimed Mc Kinley's manager again and again but the money was not forthcoming. At this Mr. Hanna became very wroth in deed. He showed the bankers figures from the west which placed Ohio, Mich igan, Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota in the doubtful column and told tbera that the party needed money and plenty of it or it would go hard with McKinley. As an excuse the bankers said that McKin ley had been too slow in putting out bia letter of acceptance and after giving the matter due consideration they did not dare risk their money until they had seen it. "If tbe republican candidate shall de clare unequivocably for tbe gold stand ard we might do something," they said. Be this as it may, the republican masses are doing a little more of their own thinking these days than ever before in the party's history and have come to the conclusion tbat the republican bosses have had their undisputed say just as long as they are going to. No city can better exemplify the above than the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, where life-long re publicans have openly announced them selves as opposed to the financial plank of the St. Louis platform and that they cannot consistently vote for McKinley. The same is true in every city in the land as anyone can see for himself by reading the telegraphic dispatches in the various large journals. "; Our esteemed (?) morning Journal would have the public believe that Mc Kinley sentiment was sweeping this state as one mighty wave and that Bryanisra and the cause of free coinage will be entirely lost sight of on election day. The facts in the case are, however, that while the McKinley advocates are unquestionably putting on a bold front and keeping a "stiff upper lip," as it were, in Nebraska they are meeting with the utmost disappointment at every turn of the road and despite the efforts of the Jonrnal and Bee, Bryan is gaining in strength with a firmness and vigor which will surpass the expectations of the most sanguine. His followers in Nebraska are able and distinguished men of all parties; men whose character and in tegrity cannot be called into question not withstanding the epithets of "anarch ists," etc., which the Journal has seen fit to apply to them, and the work which they are doing will bring Bryan's own state to the front rank of those which will have declared for freedom, inde pendence and prosperity next November. PLEASE TELL US. The change in the coinage lawin 1873, popularly known as "the crime of 1873," was not secretly made, as is sometimes claimed. Tbe bill bad been considered at five sessions of congress, and the omis sion of the silver dollar was explained to be because of the fluctuation in the value of silver as measured by gold. Litchfield Monitor.. Will the distinguished editor of tbe Monitor be kind enough to inform us on just what page of the Congressional Record it was explained, or where the evidence is to prove that there had been any fluctuation in the value of silver from the ratio of 15 to 1 for the pre vious 80 years. The Journal, with its accustomed re liability, published an account of a re publican rally at Malcolm last Friday night and claimed twenty-two members for the club, many of whom were popu lists and democrats. In this connection it might be Btated that not one populist or democrat in Elk precinct is for McKin ley or is a member of their club. Satur day evening C. M. Skiles and Mr. Rose preached free silver doctrine to a crowd not half of whom could find seats, andat the close of the meeting fifty legal voters came forward and signed the free silver roll, several of whom bave always voted the republican ticket. It is expected that the membership will reach one hundred. Politics is like a kaleidoscope. The slightest jar and the whole suenechanges. Now here comes news that fifty-three straight democratic papers in the south have bolted Sewall and; are supporting Watson. Then it is announced that Watson is going to Texas to call a halt in the "middle of the road" plan there to fuse with the republicans and gold bug democrats, and after that he will go to Kansas, where the popuplists have nominated all Sewall electors. Then he will come to Nebraska and make a few speeches in a state where things are running to suit both him and the chairman of the populist national co.-- alor er. DIABOLISM. Bishop Newman wnn to be editing the Epwortb Herald, tbe national organ of the Epworth league, if we are to judge from tbe sentiments it expresses. Ilertx are one or two of its editoral ideas: , 1 'Tramp, tramp, the bojs are march iDg.' That may be sung of a great army ' of social vagrants who live npon the charity of the public. There are 100, people in the United States too lazy to work. Their home is where night over takes them. Many of tbera were origi nally fram good homes, and most of them are artisans with trades. Some ' are college graduates, physicians, law yers, newspaper men, and even preach ers. It is the duty of each member of society to help weed them out. "At present our laws are not sufficient ly stringent. Vagrancy should itself be regarded as a crime, and a sentence to bard work should, always be a conse quence. Any man who cannot give an account of himself should not be merely lodged in the pnblic jail for a few days to be well fed and sheltered from the storm. He should be sent for sixty davs to the workhouse." It is a queer kind of Christianity Bishop Newman's kind that demands that college graduates, physicians, law yers, newspaper men, preachers and even wage workers shall be sentenced to hard labor in a prison as soon as they are de prived of the means of making a living by this gold standard. That is not Christianity. Itis diabolism. We are glad to say that the members of tbe Methodist church of which this Ep worth organ is an official publication in this part of the country believe in Christianity and not in diabolism. CANT BE BEATEN. If there is a man in the United States who can beat this lie printed . in the Plattsmouth News, August 18, he should be given a cross of gold to distinguish him from all other liars. The News says: The erratic ex-banker, Mr. St. John, who has been helping to conduct Mr. Bryan's campaign and a well known so cialist sat on the platform. William P. St. John ex-president of the New York Merchan tile National bank "a well known socialist!" Annanias couldn't hold a candle to that man. In the parlance of politics we say that the free coinage of silver will bring silver up to the value of gold at 16 to 1. It will do nothing .of the kind. Sil ver will rise and gold will fall until they become at par at that ratio, but 16 ounces of silver will not have the purchasing power that one ounce of gold now has. Now, there is a paragraph that some goldite editor can make a good thing of by quoting the first two sentences, stopping at that point and say that it is from a free silver paper. That is tbe way they seemed determined to carry on this cam paign. . The goldbug press of New York first declared that Bryan's speech at Madison Square was a feeble effort, not even up to a standard of mediocrity. Finding tbat would not stand a test of an ex amination of the speech, they ; now say that John P. Jones and Henry M. Teller helped prepare it. Goldite Journals east and west are all alike. They never tell the same story a week at a time. The superscription on the silver dol lar ip: "In God we Trust." Wall street wants to change it to: "In Gold we Trust", and Bishop Newman will give tbem his hearty amen in support of their desire. The Tariff Cranks. A few cranks among newspaper writers and stump speakers who know nothing about any quention except tariff still think that is an issue in this campaign, but the people are under no such illusion. A speech on the tariff even in Pennsyl vania in this canvass would empty a hall as quick as would a cry of "fire." There are two reasons why taritl talk this year would be lunacy first, the people are not thinking about tbe tariff, and oonnnillv lm nilirAt. tnolnvifv in A are wouia - noia up" an lann legislation through the first half of the next presi dential term and probably during the second half also. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (rep.) Business Men Shonld Think. In four years the pay roll of the Union Pacific shops has" dwindled from f 101 500 to $42,100; the number of men em ployed has dwindled from 1.270 to . . i m til l . .. 7 1,050, and the number of days worked per man has dwindled from 18 to 14. With such a condition staring Omaha business men in tbe face it is high time that those who adhere to the gold stand ard without knowing wbat they are do ng should study the money question. World-Herald. ' Montana Republicans. A majority of the republican state committee of Montana have declared their intention to support Bryan. "When Judge Broady ran for mayor against Frank Graham he was defeated almost solely npon the stand which he took in regard to the wide open policy," remarked a gentlemen to a Post repre sentative this morning, "but I want to tell yon that the conditions are a mighty sight different today and tbe judge will be elected to congress over Strode by an enormous majority. Besides, Broady is one of the prime movers in the freesilver cause in Nebraska and be has never", ceased to speak bin honest convictions along tbat line. Naturally enough be will receive tbe combined free silver vote in the entire district, now mark what I say." 10 campaign robioriptioni 1.00. 8end in you order, taf v.-Sn- ft i f ilt'itlc1t