Sept Io, 1896.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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Will tome gold standard roan please
tell us what ia the value of a 100 cent
gold dollar?
The silver dollar was the "unit of ac
count," tbe dollar of the contract, and
the contract will be held sacred.
We expect to see the republican school
boards ordering a change in the arith
metics. The arithmetics say: "One
hundred cents make one dollar," but the
remiblicans ear "fifty cents make one
dollar.' Tboarithmetics will have to go.
The average production of gold, taken
from the D. S., official estimates, from
1871 to 1875 was f 115,577.000. Last
year it was a little over $200,000,000.
Will some gold bug editor please tell us
why this enormous increase in produc
tion of gold did not result in a fall in its
price.
John Sherman says be is in favor of
the best dollar, the dollar that will buy
the most food and clothing. That was
what the silver dollar was when John
Sherman stopped its coinage. It would
then buy three per cent more food and
clothing than the gold dollar. John
Sherman, you are a self confessed fraud.
, Mark Hanna tells the people through
- the press dispatches this morning that
he is immensely pleased with the result
of the Indianapolis convention. We sup
pose Mark labors under the impression
that everything is smooth sailing from
now on, but if his powers of perception
'Were as keen as they are given credit for
being, he would see that he is in as bad a
pickle as before if not more so.
A correspondent writes that he knows
of six lunatics running at large all over
the state of Nebraska. He says they
magine that they are going to be elec
ted members of congress. He gives a
personal description of them, and says
their names are Strode, Cady, Mercer,
Andrews. Hainer and Hammond. He
doesn't think the authorities are doing
their duty in allowing these men to wear
themselves out in such vain efforts.
The Outlook, a dowu east plutocratic
magazine says:
"The cry of the farmers! It is doubtful
if the farming classes will ever be satisfied
with conditions, be they what they may.
Farmers must learn to adapt themselves
to the changing conditions. What our
farmers need to learn today is to pro
duce cheaply, to keep out of debt, and to
live within their inocmes, be they what
they may."
That is what these McKinley mag
azines think of farmers and there are a
few farmers in Nebraska who wear Mc
Kinley buttons and vote for the gold
standard only a few.
The speech of "Ajax" Weaver, former
congressman from this state, on the sil
ver question, which appeared in this
paper recently and was subsequently
copied in the World-Herald of Septem
ber 4th is causing no end of comment
among the goldbug republicans of this
state. Congressman Weaver was a man
whose head was acknowledged to be
pretty level on all public questions, not
only by the members of his own political
party but all others as well, and his sen
timents with regard to silver are carry
ing great weight just at this time. Were
Mr. Weaver alive today he would be
found championing the cause with all
the vigor at his command and all old
timers will remember that he was pos
sessed of a large amount of that article.
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LANE ON FREE SILVER.
Some weeks ago C. D. Lane, one of the
wealthiest gold mine owners in California,
ublicly announced his allegiance to the
rinciples of the free coinage of silver at
16 to 1. In the belief that the readers of
:his patter would be interested in learn-
nsc Mr. Lane's reasons for this action,
Thk Post requested him to write a letter
in explanation of it. Following is the
reply:
I favor silver restoration because:
1. While my gold has double purchas
ing power, outside of mining I cannot
invest it anywhere except upon a falling
market.
2. Underpresent conditions production
gives no reward to producers.
3. With no profit to production, pro
ducers can give no wages to labor, and
the country is filling up dangerously fast
with idle men.
4. Because with every man driven to
enforced idleness, protection to capital
grows less.
5. Enforced idleness breeds hatred of
the suffering masses against the few who
have means.
6. Because the working men of Amer
ica are brought into unjust competition
with the laborers of silver countries.
7. Because the whole continent south
of us needs vitalizing with American
brains, muscle, and such vast amounts
of money that no mines can supply it
fatt enough.
8. Because through the growing pov
erty of the humbler producers, like the
farmers, the morals of the country are
becoming tainted, and crimes are in
creasing alarmingly.
9. Because I believe the Almighty
made no mistake when he placed silver
in the hills.
10. Because I love my country and be
lieve I would do better myself if my fel
lowmen could be made prosperous, which
they are not now.
I have the honor to be respectfully
yours, C. B. Lank,
, Angel's Camp, Cal.
Cost has nothing to do with value.
International Encyclodaedia, Boston,
1804. When demand altogether ceases
the value is altogether gone. Aristotle.
BOl'KKE COCHRAN'S BLOODY SO IRT.
This is conspiracy among the profes
sional farmers, the farmers who culti
vate tbe quarrels of their neighbors,
farmors who labor with their laws popu
list agitators of the west, aud the oa-
reconcile slaveholders ofthe south
Bourke Cochra 1.
It has always been said that the
goldites of the old parties were as much
alike as two peas in a pod. Just hear
this copperhead, draft riot New York
goldite democrat talking about "the
unreconciled slaveholders of the south,
He is as good as Lodge or Chandler at
waving the bloody shirt.
THOMAS E. WATSON.
Thomas E. Watson, populist, vice
presidential candidate with Bryan, is a
man that fears no one. His record is
pure, his character without a stain. His
honesty has never bred a doubt. Dan
Quin, in a letter to the New York Jour
nal thus speaks of him: Industrious to
the point of overwork, with an indom-
inable bent of labor and dig, bookfed to
a degrees. Watson is always bitterly full
not to say brilliantly aware of his sub
ject. He has, moreover, a lancet-like in
vectiveness that cuts. And if interfered
with by a taunt or jeer or contradiction,
Watson can talk like the thrust of a
bowie knife. Mis rhetoric stabs. For all
of .these reasons most men prefer to
give the pale, overtrained young man
from Georgia a wide berth in debate,
They get no victory, no honor, and only
wounds from collision with him. Mr.
Watson is well-to-do; he has farms which
pay, a law practice which pays, and a
paper, populist, which is a very popular
paper. He held a seat in the Fifty-sec
ond congress.
LOOK OUT FOR TRAITORS.
During the last week, three popuiist
editors have been offered full control of
a large daily newspaper plant in this
city and $25 per week salary to come
to Lincoln and start what was to
be called a middle of the road populist
newspaper to fight Bryan, Holcorab and
the whole ticket. Every one of these
men rejected the offered bribe with scorn
There is a project on foot to start such
a paper in Omaha during the last two or
three weeks of the campaign. Let every
populist in the state keep watch from
now on for these Mark Hanna tricks.
There is not a populist editor in the
state, however poor he is, who can be
bribed. There is not one of them who
would not prefer death by starvation to
that kind of dishonor.
WATCH MARK'S SMOKE.
Now look out for something new.
Fighting under cover of republicanism
has proved a failure. The McKinley
army is to be recognized. Two many
republican papers, all firing direct at the
enemy, has become a waste of powder.
New positions are to be taken. After
the IndianapoliB convention the Bryan
forces are to be treated to a cross fire.
Two local papers are to be bought by
eastern McKinley gold, the former is to be
loaded with gold bug democracy and the
latter with middle of road populism,
while the Journal is to keep up a direct
fire, as now. This plan may not be car
ried out. Nebraska may be given up as
hopelessly lost to McKinley. In that
case the two printing establishments will
be moved into Texas, Georgia, Kentucky
or West Virginia. Look out for
acts of desperation in the near future,
WHO ARE THE REAL REPUDIATORS
The "wise men of the east" who for so
many months past have been endeavor
ing to tell the people of thiscountry that
this talk about the free coinage of silver
was simply a "craze," etc., and that its
supporters were soreheads, anarchists
and everything else under the sun are
having their memories jarred so violently
of late that it is really amusing to watch
them squirm. -
If is in exeedingly poor form for the re
publican party to call the advocates' of
bimetallism "repudiators" when the only
organization before the people today to
whom this term can be applied is the
very party in question. The silver ques
tion and the question of bimetallism is
by no means a new one. The founders
of the re?Iican party and every man
who had the interests of his country
truly at heart was in favor of the use of
both gold and silver placed on a parity
with each other and of its use as legal
lender money.
During the , past few days this paper
has quoted extracts from speeches made
by various men who were once and ever
have been the idols of the republican
party in which they declare for the use
of these two metals and against the sin
gle gold standard. And right in this
connection it might be well to quote
from Vice President Schuyler- Colfax, a
letter which he wrote to the Chicago Ad
vocate November 26, 1877. He said:
1. This is in theory, and should be in
practice, a government of the poople, for
the people, by the people, where the pop
ular will should be obeyed.
2. If today gold and silver were both
equally legal tender, as when we incurred
the war debt and suspended specie pay
ments temporarily, a proposition as a
preliminary to resumption in 1879, to
now demonetize silver and pay all debts,
public and private, in gold alone, could
not carry the popular vote of any dis
trict in the land, north or south, east or
west, and if submitted to a popular vote
would be voted down by millions.
3. No canvass was ever made in any
district of the nation, prior to the act of
1873, forth d demonetization of silver;
no popular assemblage or convention of
the people of any party ever asked for
it; no political platform of any organi
ration demanded it; no petitions from
the people of any section of the onion
sought it; and of the hundreds of the
financial plans for the relief of the coun
try, for the payment of the debt, or for
coin resumption which were published
and advocated, none of them proposed
such an act for the amelioration of our
financial ills not one.
4. Tbe demonetizing act, therefore,
was passed not at all as responsive to
any demand, or desire, or petition of the
people, and was so ingeniously concealed
in a coinage act that neither the presi
dent who signed it nor the present presi
dent who has to execute it if not
repealed, knew what had been done till
long after it bad gone tnto effect.
5. If this is really "a government of
the people and by the people," an act
thus passed, though it may have legal
effect, is a popular wrong that should be
corrected by the servants of the people
promptly and cheerfully not haltingly,
or grudgingly, or reluctantly, or evasi
vely. 6. If the explicit language of our na
tional constitution means anything,
gold and silver are equally the coos titu
tional coin of our land.
7. If the explicit language of tbe first
act of General Grant's administration,
"the act to strengthen tbe public credit,"
and which did strengthen it with our
creditors and the world, means anything
the nation pledged itself in March, 1869,
to pay its debts "in coin or its equiva
lent," not in gold alone.
8. If the explicit language of the fund
ing act of June, 1870, means anything
the nation again pledged itself to pay
the bonds funded under it in "tbe stand
ard coin of that date," which was gold
and silver and not gold alone.
9. If in 1861, 1869, and 1870 corn
and oats were both and equally lega
tender for debts "between man and
man," as the phrase is, no consideration
of equity, honor, or conscience would re
quire that debts incurred under and in
lull view of a promise Bhould be paid in
the dearer of these products, because the
other happened to be cheaper from over
production or any other cause whatever.
10. If the demonetizing act was a
popular wrong, if it was neither de
manded, desired, or petit.oned for by the
people, if it could, not now, were a new
and original proposition before tbe peo
ple, who ought to be the rulers of the
land, command even a quarter of their
votes ought it not to be promptly
corrected?.
THE FARMER THEN AND NOW.
Some years ago the farming occupa
tion was looked upon as the most hou
orable in the land. Poets sang about it.
Orators praised it. Presidents and states
men were proud to call themselves . farmers.
Where is that farmer now?
He is the gibe and tbe sneer of every
clown who can get on the city stage in
spotted breeches. He is the butt of vile
okes in the city saloons. He shares
with the mule and the mother-in-law,the
plantation darkey, the rusty stovepipe
and the tramp as the stock material for
cheap paragraphers. He is brought on
tbe stage of every low theater as the
stock victim of all the stale old practi
cal jokes. "Hayseed" and "Waybaek"
and "Jay" are his regular titles, even
among cultivated people, and in the
slums "farmer" is one of the vile epithets
which provoke a fight. He figures in the
illustrated comics as a half savage.
Look at the pictures of the typicul far
mer in the New York papers and see
something like this: A long, lean, lank
monstrosity, with bones showing horri
bly prominent through his clothes, a
face like a pointed Gothic front, a nose
that describes an irregular arc from the
lowest point between .the eyes down over
the mouth, and on his chin what is sup
posed to be a whisker, but looks like a
wisp of weather beaten hay.
This is the farmer of today as the peo
ple of the cities are taught to consider
him. .. .
And why this change? . It is because he
has been systematically robbed for 30
years and has submitted to the robbery
and has voted for more of it. He is de
spised because he has consented to his
own degradation.
As long as the fanner fails to defend
bis own, as long as he votes for the men
who have robbed him, just so long will
he be despised. When be votes for 40
cent wheat and 10 cent corn he is not
worthy of respect. As long as he does it
he will be the laughing stock of the
world, and he ought to be. -
Cnlae proved by the statements of lead
WI05 jng druggists everywhere, show
that the people have an abiding confidence
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THEY PLANNED WELL.
The great Boston Herald sent a
strained newspaper man to Nebraska
under orders to write np a "truthful" ac
count of conditions here. The man
obeyed his orders, as a newspaper man
always does, aud here is a part of his re
port: "Financial conditions are bad and not
improving. In one of the richest coun
ties in eastern Nebraska oats are quoted
at 16 cents a bushel, corn at 18, wheat
at 43, hay at f 4 a ton and pork $ 2.50
to $3 a hundred. Such prices mean that
the farmers are selling their products at
loss than cont.
Eastern capital is drawing out. The
silver scare did not start it. The with
drawal began over a year ago. In Gage
county, a rich agricultural section, with
one town of 10,000 inhabitants, 800
mortgages a year are being forclosed at
about 50 cents on the dollar and judg
ments for the balance stand against the
debtors.
There is no sign that the pressure of
foreclosure proceedings will let up until
practically a clean sweep is had. When
a man who has been sleepiug on the idea
that be is worth f 1,000 over and above
the mortgage on his place wakes up to
find that he is worth nothing.and that a
judgment is bauging over bis head for
half the face of the mortgage, with inter
est running on the judgment, he is apt
to lose faith in the existing order of
things and turn populist.
The worst of it is that the man who
bids in the property puts on it a tenant
farmer. Lord Scully of Illinois notoriety
owns thousands of acres in Nebraska,
and bis tenant farmers are beginning to
know what "rack rent" means. Short
leases and hard terms tighten the land
lord's grip and chock the tenant's wind.
It will soon be "once a tenant always a
teuant."
The voters of the east are wholly ig
norant of tbe condition of this country.
The, great daily press has intentionally
kept them so. This press is almost
wholly owned or controlled by foreign
capital. However honest and patriotic
the writers on these papers may be, they
write "under orders." It is seldom one
of them gets such an order as this writer
on the Boston Herald.
There are hundreds of brilliant men
attached to the New York city dailies,
many of them Bpace writers, who, if
1 heir articles would be received and
printed would soon change the whole
state of public opinion, if once ordered to
investigate and write the "truth" about
present conditions.
Suppose that the Herald or World
or Tribune should send some of their
brilliant men, and they have many of
them, into northern New York to inter
view tbe farmer?, or into the smaller
towns to interview the merchants on the
condition of business, and print these ar
ticles instead of the mess of trash that
appears daily about dukes and lords,
courts, kings and princesses. Would
there not be a change in public opinion?
The money power knew what it was
about when it secured control of the
daily and religious press thirty years
ag0 v .. ,V-:;.:
Threat Agalnut the People,
Nearly every campaign document they
issue, nearly every speech they make
and nearly every editorial tbey write
contains a threat against tbe people.
They threaten to withdraw credits, fore
close mortgages, confiscate collaterals.
bankrupt industries and pauperize labor
if free coinage is adopted in this country.
They would invade the sacred rights of
citizenship by threatening to discharge
tens of thousands of working people for
their political opinions. On the 22d day
of last May the authorized mouthpiece
of Wall street, Henry Clews, in his weekly
letter, proclaimed the disposition of Wall
street to destroy the last vestige of free
government in America. He openly
boasted that if the people elect a two
thirds majority of congress in favor of
free coinage of silver Wall street will
evoke conditions and events that no con
gress has ever yet dared to diregard and
that the cause of free Bilver will be de
feated when its success seems most cer
tain. Then like the boasting edicts of a
king he said: "It is on this reserve
power that Wall street is now reposing."
J. K. Sovereign, Master Workman
K. of L.
Thegoldbugs say that we must adopt
the gold standard because the most en
lightened nations over the sea insist ap
on it. but they also say that those sama
enlightened nations produce so manv
paupers that we must have a high tariff
to keep tbe work of the paupers they
breed out of this country. The gold
standard and paupers seem always to be
found together.
London Chronicle's Interview,
London, Sept 7. The Chronicle to
day publishes a dispatch from Milwaukee
giving an interview had by its cor
respondent with Mr, J. W. Bryan, the
democratic candidate for the presidency.
It quotes Mr. Bryan as saying:
"I feel confident of carrying New York
state. About my election I have never
had any doubt. I have always felt that
the American people know that bimetal
lism is for their best interests. Knowing
this, they will vote , the silver ticket
rather than perpetuate tbe gold stand
ard." The Chronicle says that this is the first
time since his nomination that Mr
Bryan has permitted newspapers to
quote him.
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