The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, September 17, 1896, Image 1
J L it 1 1 The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated. VOL. VIII. LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 1896. NO. 15. 7 r CABEMi MB.' BRYAN The Tremendous Strain Beginning To Tell On the Silver Candidate. HE VISITS LOUISVILLE, KY. Makes Three Speeches Before Un known Thousands of Admirers. The Ovations Continue. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 15.-Tired al most to the point of prostration after a fatiguing journey of fourteen hours from St. Louis, his voice nearly gone from the effort expended in a score of speeches, Hon. W. J. Bryan reached Louisville at 7:50 o'clock last night in a special train over the Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis road. The day had been extremely hot and the wear and tear on the demo cratic candidate's system began to show shortly after he crossed the Ohio into Kentucky. He had intended to not make many speeches, but the enthusiasm of the crowds at every station where a stop was made carried him away, and his op position went for naught. As a conse quence, he had hardly voice and strength enough left on reaching Louisville to comply with the requirements of his pro gram of the evening. An enormouscrowd cheered him on his arrival at the union depot in company with Urey Woodson, democratic central committeeman from this state; Senator J. S. C. Blackburn, Congressman John Allen, the MissisBippi humorist, and oth ers of prominence. A salute of forty-five guns, fired by battery A of the Louis ville legion, told the people of Louisville that the young Xebraskan had reached their city. It was with difficulty that the candidate md the members of his party were pushed through the howling enthusiasts at the depot and enabled to enter the carriages in waiting. Chairman J. H. Headly and the local reception committee met Mr. Bryan there, and un der their escort he was taken through streets crowded with cheering people to the Willard hotel. Here there was a mo mentary wait, and then the line of the procession, consisting of a score of car riages was taken to Phoenix Hill park, where the first speech was made. Phoenix Hill park is a summer garden Last night it was jammed and packed with many thousand people, how many cannot be resasonably estimated. Every seat in the enclosure had been taken out to provide for the crowd. With policemen (forming a solid phalanx about his person, the wearied nominee was forced through an eighth of a mile of wide lunged humanity to the big cov red stand from which he spoke. It was ten miuues before the tumult was quelled. The democratic candidate be gan to speak at 9 o'clock and his voice was so hoarse that not a tenth of those present heard his words. Another great demonstration took place at the Haymarket, a spacious open square, where the second meeting held. The crowd there numbered at fast 15,000, made up largely of excur- rarsiomsts. who had been brought to Louisville from neighboring points on the ten railroads centering here. The last two speeches were very brief -and contained nothing new. Mr. Bryan was too tired to say much and acknowl edged it to the crowds. WHERE IS THAT SCHOOL FUND. 8hall the State Again Accept Checks and Other Truck for Cash How about that state treasurer's 1 bond? Is it all right? What will be the result if the republioan candidate is elected? Will the retiring treasurer be allowed, as usual, to mix cash with checks and other truck to fill the figures? We here give the names of the bondsmen who are behind the treasurer, with the amounts each qualified for, or is said to be worth: N. S. Harwood, $200,000; F. M. Cook, $100,000; Mrs. A. B. Clark, $300,000. J. H. Ames, $200,000; C. A. Hanna, $50,000;' Mary Fitzgerald. $300,000; Ed. J. Fitzgerald, $200,000; C. C. McNish, $120,000; E. E. Brown, $200,000; Thomas Swobe, $100,000; . W. A. Paxton, $300,000; Cadet Taylor, 25 cents. This is given to 'the Journal by a man who claims he knows what he is talking about. It can do no harm to look into this matter a little. Where is our school fund? . x With J. B. Meserve as treasurer we Vf could easily tell where it would be. , It would be safely invested according to f v law. Hastings Journal. The Missouri Union. The democrats and populists of Mis souri have made arrangements for a division of electors; the democrats tak ing 13 and the populist 4, which is con sidered an equitable division. A union may be perfected later on' several con gressional candidates. AN INJUSTICE. W. F. 8chwlnd Denies Most Em phatically a Charge In the Morning Journal. In its report of the speech of Bourke Cochran at the Coliseum in Omaha last evening, Tuesday's Journal accuses W. F. Schwind of this city among others as being a party to a conspiracy to disturb the meeting. Such a statement will not be believed by any of that gen tleman's friends and that it was a de liberate lie is proven by a number of Lincoln gentlemen who were present at the meeting and who saw Air. Schwind from the moment he entered the audi torium until the meeting was over. A reporter interviewed the gentleman Tuesday afternoon and In the course of his remarks Mr. Schwind said: "I wish to deny most emphatically the published report as to my connection with the reported disturbance at the Cochran meeting at Omaha last night. Any disturbance which may have oc curred there was entirely without any previous knowledge on my part and I was in no way a participant or sympa thizer therein. I know absolutely noth ing about the disturbance except what I have learned from others since it oc curred, as I did not arrive in Omaha un til 7:45 p, in., and having taken supper after my arrival and before going to ths Coliseum, did not reach the meeting til about twenty minutes before 9 o'clock At that time large numbers of people were leaving the hall and admission tickets were no longer being taken up Mr. Manahan and I proceeded to the front of the hall and secured seats within forty or fifty feet of the speaker's stand and remained there until the close of the meeting. At the time we arrived, Mr. Mahoney was appealing to the audience to become quiet, from which we in ferred that the confusion had continued for some time. A few minutes after our arrival, Mr. Cochran began his address, and aside from several questions put to him by Bome gentlemen in the audience, the order which pre vailed was as good aa could be expected from so large an audience. I regret that I should have been given publicity in such a connection, as the re port is entirely unwarranted and unjust. 'To my friends and neighbors among whom I have lived in this city for a num ber of years, a denial of my reported connection with a disturbance in any public gathering is unnecessary, but for the benefit of those to whom I am not personally known and who may not con sider the partisan spirit which prompted the accusation, I deem it simple justice to myself and those whose names have been connected with mine in this matter to make the above statement." A VOICE FROM THE HEART. Veteran of the War Tells the New York ', . , Tribune What He Thinks ' About It. The following letter needs no explana tion: Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 15, 1896. Editor New York Tribune Dear Sir: Discon tinue sending to my address your paper, I have not subscribed for it. I do not intend you shall daub me over with the untampered mortar of republican vil liany or goldbug democracy, which you appear to be advocating. I knew John M. Palmer as a soldier. He was my division commander at Stone River and Chicamauga and part of the Atlanta campaign. I respect and honor his record as a soldier, but despise,! his unpatriotic, un-American efforts to fas ten upon his countrymen a European gold standard. I speak the measured words of truth and soberness when I declare that I would many times rather bury my body on the battlefield than have the gold standard permanently fastened upon my country. I will exhaust my last re source in opposition to it, and if as a last resort we must go down, we will go down as did the Cumberland with the flag of our country all uulurled, waking the last echoes of life with the tbunder ings of battle. Respectfully, I. N. Leonard. A veteran of more than four years. THE BANK OF EN'GLAKO SCARED. The English goldbugs are looking out for their gold pile. They have a very effective way of doing it without issuing bonds. A cablegram dated September 10 says: "The directors of the Bank of England have advanced the bank's rate of dis count from 2 to 2 per cent. This is the first time that the bank has increased its discount rate since February 22, 1894." They will keep on raising the rate of discount .until they pile up what gold they want if they break every business man who has been trading ou money furnished by the bank. It will also stop the temporary shipment of gold to America to pi event a bond, issue uutil after the election. Mark Banna's Labor Eecord Special to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. New York, Sept. 7. The labor record of Mark Hanna, the manager of the McKinley forces, wag condemned by the Central Labor Union yesterday. The record was placed on file for future reference. It was briefly compiled in the fol lowing letter from the Secretary of the Central .Labor Union of Cleveland, 0 to the secretary of the New York body, in response to a request: "Cleveland, O., Aug. 29. Dear Sir and Bro.: In reply to yours of the 24th instant, in which your desire to learn the attitude of M. A. Hanna relating to labor unions, I will say that previous to the republican convention at St. Louis, the Central Labor Union of this city propounded a number of questions to the republican workingmen of this city to ask of M. A. Hanna. In that manifesto it was charged that Hanna wrecked the Seaman's Union of the Lower Lake Regions; that he had. smashed the union of his street railway employes and refused to allow them to organize now; that he had assisted in destroying the Mine Workers' unions of Pennsylvania; that he had attempted to break up the carpenters' unions of this city by employing scabs on a new mansion at a critical time this spring when the eight hour day was being put into effect; that he had a strike of laborers in the shipyard in which he is in terested this spring,- and told a committee of the men who demanded the same scale of wages paid in a competing yard, viz., $1.35 a day, that if they voted for McKinley they might receive higher wages, and dodged the issue. "Neither Mr. Hanna nor apy of his satellites have dared to meet this question, and they are unanswered today. Here in Cleveland he is so well known as a labor crusher that not a solitary member of a labor organization, or, in fact, any other citizen, will attempt to defend theman's maladorous record. I will add that several weeks ago Mr. Hanna attempted, through a third party, to have the president of the Central Labor Union, or myself, wait upon him to have a 'talk,' but his overtures were treated with the scorn that they deserved. "If Hanna has anything to say he can come before the Central Labor Union and say it. He has been challenged to do so.. Yours fraternally, M. S. Hayfs, Cor. Sec'y C. L. U." Insurance Department. Conducted by J, Y, M. Swtgari. Correspondence solicited. To the members of all mutual insu rance companies, we ask that you lay aside your partisan politics and defeat two nominees of the republican conven tion, viz: Churchill for attorney general and Hedlund for auditor. In 1892 the legislature passed a law whereby mutual companies could be in corporated. Since then forty-five com panies have been incorporated, with not less than fifteen thousand members. From the auditor's statement for 1895 we find that they were carrrying 124,578,682. This means that that amount of insurance has been taken from the stock companies that do bus iness in Nebraska- It also means that in three years more not less than $100, 000,000 will be in the mutuals and the saving in money to the farmers will be annually not less than $100,000. Hence it stands us in hand to see to it that our good law is not changed to in terfere in any way1 with the full working of the mutuals. There is a combination of stock insur ance men who are determined to repeal our present law and also the "value in policy law." ' But if they fail to in that they want men for attorney and auditor who will abrogate the law to such an extent that the life of a mu tual will be a burden. The attorney general was a candidate in his own county convention, but he failed to get a delegation for the state convention, although the whole of the stock insurance men stood to his back from Douglas county, but in the state convention this same old lobby that has nearly always bad its own way in the insurance matters rode overj all wno lavorea mutual insurance and nominated the man who will (at least he has) interpreted the law to mean any tbipg that the stock companies asked for. Now, if they could override a good majority of the convention that favored mutual insurance and push on to them a man whom they did not want for at torney general, it is entirely presuma ble that they placed in nomina tion a man for auditor , whom they can depend upon to help ' them at any turn in the road. Therefore every one of the 15,000 members of mutual companies should vote for C. J. Smyths for attorney-general and John F. Cor nell for auditor. I'll tell you good rea sons for doing so during the campaign. TE BBEMCE V. POWDERLY, That unmitigated scoundrel and traitor toevery cause he ever advocated, one of the loudest shouters at the Oma ha populist national convention four years ago, who was then for free silver as the means of bringing relief .to wage workers, but who has since been repu diated by his own and every other labor organization, that bribe-taker whose re ceipts are in the hands of a United States senator at Washington on file, that fawning, cringing beggar at the politi cal headquarters of every party for the past fifteen years who was always try 'ing to sell the "labor vote" to any plu tocrat wbo would buy.that sneaking spy in the halls of labor organizations, Ter ranee V. Powderly, is out in the New York World as the bold advocate of the single gold standard. Mark Hanua was the only man in this campaign who had money to give to this creature. ' ' Here are a few sentences from his let ter to the World: "Those who make light of what is termed the silver craze cannot, I imagine, have given the subject a great deal of thought. For many years the silver men have been active in spreading the gospel of free coinage. By incessant labor these silversmiths have succeeded in committing some industrial organiza tions to the advocacy of free and unlim ited coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. They have so industrionsly circulated the story of the "crime of 1873," that the belief that silver was stealthily and surreptitiously demonetized has gained great headway. Had the memwho dis covered the "crime" not been owners of silver mines, or did they not wish to un load stocks in silver properties on the unwary, no one would have heard more of the act of 1873." When the Knights of Labor downed this traitor and put Sovereign in bis place they knew what they were doing. Debbs and Sovereign belong to another class of human beings from this cringing bribetaker. WANTED AGENTS in every county for the oldest association in the world paying weekly benefits for both sickness and accidents; "beware of new schemes, run by experimenters; work for the best only." Address Universal Protective Association, 901 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo. 15. Breeders of fine stock can find no better advertising mediant than this paper. SEN ADDRESS He Talks to the Farmers at Their In stitute at Omaha Sep tember 3. A TREAT TO THE YEOMANRY Speaks of the Blessings of Education Which All May Now Enjoy. The Farmer' Institute Great Boone to Those for Whom It Wm Instituted. Gentlemen of the Institute: I desire at the outset of my remarks to return to you my thanks for this opportunity of addressing the Farmers' Institute of Nebraska. It is a pleasure to me to ap pear before you at this time, not to in struct you in the science of farming for farming is a science and not merely an art, as I am incapable of doing that but for the purpose of submitting some observations that have been made by me in a life now extended over nearly fifty years. My boyhood was spent on a farm, and as farming was then conducted I am fa miliar, and 1 cannot forego the tempta tion of noting some prominent points of progress that have been made in the cultivation of the soil during ray life. I well recall the wooden mould board plow that was in general use among the farmers when I was a boy, the iron mould board that succeeded it, making its appearance in the neighborhood where I was born, when I was quite young and just enteringing the field as a laborer; and from that period until the present great progress has been made, and now our farmers have the magnificent gang plows that are drawn by horses or operated by steam. Plant ing was done by one person dropping the corn in a hill on land that had been marked out by the single shovel plow and another covering it with a hoe. It was a common thing for the young wo men to drop the corn and the young men to cover it with hoes, and many a love match, resulting in subsequent mar riage, owed its inception to the planting of corn. I recall, also, that corn was cultivated first with a single shovel plow drawn by a horse, passing three times between the rows. This method was improved by the introduction of the double shovel plow, and it was a thing of earnest comment among farmers that one should be rich enough to own so complete an implement for farm culti vation. The ordinary farmer could aot support such an expensive luxury. Corn was cut with knives made of worn out scythes and sickles. It was shocked and hauled to the barnyard in winter on low wagons or sleds, and husked, the ears being thrown into a crib, the fodder piled in ricks and fed to cattle and sheep. Wheat was sown by hand from an open-mouthed sack thrown loosely over the shoulders of the sower, and it was dragged or "harrowed in" by a wooden drag, as the process of covering it was called. Harvesting was done, first by the sickle, then by the cradle and then by the Manny reaper, the first known horse harvesting ma chine, and thus progress has been made to the present, when the improved self binder is in general use. Many of those present can certify to the correctness of my statements. I bear at this time on my hand a scar made by a sickle when taking my first lesson in reaping. Let me recall the process, then in use. of threshing grain. The poorer class of farmers, I do not mean the poorer in the energy or the skill essential to success ful farming, but the financially poorer, were compelled to thresh by making a circle or track on the ground, like the circle or track of a circus, throwing down the sheaves and tramDinsr out the grain with horses or oxen. I have my self, ridden a horse, many a day, leading others, in this process of threshing grain. After that the flail was intro duced, and finally we have progressed from the threshing of grain by horses and oxen to the present steam thresher. Such means of planting, cultivating and harvesting were crude, and it is not surprising to us when we read the his tory of agriculture to note that in all the ages it has in its means of prosecu tion, production and harvesting, and in its various stages of development, met with singular growth. I remember when the gauge of the average farm wagon was wider than the present, and when a hoe that weighed less than six pounds was not thought fit for use. I recollect when the present field hoe was introduced among farm ers and when it was the subject of se rious discussion, it being finally agreed that it might do to cultivate a flower garden, but that it was not fit for field use owing to its lightness end flexibili ty. One of the most animated discus sions I ever heard was respecting the present farm wagon. It was the gener al sentiment in the community that it was too light and too narrow for practi cal purposes: that it was not strong enough to hold as much as an ordinary team was capable of drawing, and it wai looked upon with suspicion by the most radical and its practicability absolutely repudiated by the most conservative, -t was finally thought that it could used to convey persona to church, social gatherings and like purposes, and I dis tinctly remember when it was ued ex clusively as a carriage. But I am not here to give you an ex tended history of my connection with farming or my recollections of it I have mentioned these things for the purpose of noting that the means of farming have greatly improved daring my life, and that the farmer is now pro vided with machinery of a very high or der. My friends, the farmer is an indispen sable factor In American society, aa well as a specialist in his particular call ing. He is not merely a mechanic, not merely an artist, not merely one of many millions of aggregated individuals strug gling for a livelihood, not a mere au tomaton, but he is an indispensable fac tor in the material, scientific, political, religious and intellectual world. He has very great duties to perform beyond those to be rendered in the field, or that are to be found in the mere marts of trade, for in a nation such as ours where every individual is a sovereign and owe his country duties which he cannot rightfully abandon, and which in the interest of his God and his family, he should discharge with intelligence and fidelity, the farmer is one whose duties are as weighty and responsible as any other member of society. The world of commerce, of industry, of science, of finance; the world of poli tics and progress, rest primarily upon the agricultural classes. The great cities, where commerce is the ruling occupa tion, the great fleets that plow the ocean carrying articles of exchange for foreign countries, the great transcontinental railways that speed across the moun tains, the woodlands, the plains and the valleys, would not be possible were it not for the agriculturists of this and other nations, and I have little faith in the judgment, and no patience with the practice, of those who look upon agri culture as an inferior occupation or on agriculturists as inferior beings, or who would place upon the latter an undue proportion of the burdens of life. Nor have I the slightest respect for thought less persons who speak disparagingly of the occupation of the agriculturist. I have the most profound consideration for all who engage in this necessary, re spectable and highly honorable occupa tion, not merely from choice, but from a sense of duty, and who perform their part as members of society with intelli gence and fidelity. Your progressive and praiseworthy eo ciety was organized to advance the science and profitableness of farming. You are engaged in studying the techni cal means of producing the best quality and the greatest quantity of farm prod ucts that can be grown in our soil and climate with profit, and your investiga tion, if limited to this point must, of necessity, to be of permanent value to you and those who are to profit by your researches, take into consideration the markets in which you are to sell. For of what value will it be to produce crops that are to be marketed at the mere cost of production, or at a point nom inally above it? . I beg, therefore, to express the hope that in your interesting, and possibly absorbing, studies, you will not over look the important fact that the farmer cannot meet with the highest degree of material prosperity unless he shall learn that inseparably wedded to his calling is the necessity of discharging with as much intelligence his political and so cial obligations as is required in the study and execution of the mere me chanical duties of hist vocation. He can not fully discharge his duty to himself or his family until his products have been sold in a profitable market, and an intelligent performance of the obliga tions -of citizenship has largely to do with the creation of a market in which he may sell advantageously. I come to speak to you, however, more particularly of the farmer's place in so ciety. I do not mean that light form of society of which we hear so much in our journals and which sometimes be comes offensive to us, if not positively nauseating, but that other and graver kind that makes every individual an in separable portion of the nation, and fixes his relations with others that must be reckoned with as indispensable fac tors in the affairs of a people. The true farmer lives a life beyond that of a mere machine. He has an in tellectual, moral and religious life, the constant cultivation of which must not be abandoned, for he cannot be a suc cessful farmer who does not possess a high order of intellectual force, and who does not bring to the discharge of his' duties the same ceaseless study, thought- fulness and aptitude required in other - occupations. Ordinary observation teaches us that men are social beings. They are found (Continued on page 5.), r