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Sept. 24, 1896.
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NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President.
THOMAS E.WATSON,
of Georgia.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor ..Silas A Holcomb
For Lieut. Governor..... .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 Supt ..W R Jackson
For Judge, long term Wm. Neville
For Judge,short term...Jno. Kirkpatrick
For Regent.......... A. A. Munro
For Congress, 1st diet........ J. H. Broady
Patrons of this paper should not pay
money to agents without a receipt
Tom Watson's paper carries Bryan at
thehea of the ticket.
Does any one know what has become
of a man by the name of Jack McColl,
who at one time resided in the western
part of this state?
Will some gold bug please tell ns what
would indues men to flood this country
with silver which would be worth no
mora coined than it was before?
John L. Webster has a new name at
tached to him, and he will never be able
to Vhake it off. Hereafter he will be
known as Cheap Wheat Webster.
The Evening Call would hardly in
dulge in another fake interview with
Tom Watson if it knew he was going to
make a speech in town afterwards?
Bryan has quit handshaking He says
that he believes in equal rights to all
and special privileges to none, and as
he can't shake hands with every one he
will shake with none.
Col. Norton, who received the middle-of-the-road
vote for president against
Bryan at the popultat national conven
tion, is stumping for Bryan. There is
nothing the matter with Norton.
There were not 5,000 free silver votes
in Maine before the Chicago convention.
They polled more than 50,000 at this
election. If there is anything to rejoice
over in that state of affairs, let Hanna
rejoice. "
John C. Black refused to run on the
yellowcrat ticket for governor of Illinois
against Altgeld. John looks forward to
the time when the yellowcrats will have
come to judgment.
Two or three carpenters were seen en
gaged at work on a house in Lincoln
yesterday. The sight was so rare a
thing in these gold standard times that
very one who passed stopped to look at
them.
Will tariff raise prices? Then you are
going to reduce the purchasing power of
a day's labor, just like a silver dollar
lunatic. Will tariff lower prices? Then
down goes wheat, corn and cotton still
lower. Will it not affect them at all?
Then what do you want it for? Tom
Watson, that was a good one.
The free silver people of this city seem
to be neutral on the subject of the vice
presidential candidacy. The Hannacrats
put up the pictures of both McKinley
and Hobart. The free silver men put up
Bryan, but if there is in the window of
any private residence of this city a
picture of Bewail or Watson, we have
not seen it.
As a specimen of goldbug reporting of
political news an item in the Bee the
other day should receive the prize. In
giving an account of a populist meeting
in Dawson county, after saying that the
procession was over a mile long, further
along the reporter says an actual count
showed there were only 130 voters
n it.
The goldbug editors and orators say
that the law cannot give a piece of silver
more value than it possesses. Well,
there are about 430,000,000 irredeem
able silver dollars in circulation and
each one of them is worth 47 cents more
than the silver that is in them. If the
law which says that they shall be a legal
tender doesn't add that 47 cents to their
value what does?
HOM.TIIOS. K. WATSON.
The oration delivered at Lansing
theatrs yesterday by Hon. Thomas E
Watson of Georgia was an intellectual
treat which is not enjoyed many times
in a lifetime. The writer of this has had
the good fortune to hear Lincoln, Doug'
lass. Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Glad
stone, Labourchre, Ingersoll, Bradlaugh
nni Phillina Brooke, but never was he
at an intellectual banquet where food
for thought was served more bountifully
than at this feast of reason and flow of
soul tendered the people of Lincoln by
our guest from Georgia.
In elegant diction, in incesive state
ment, in convincing logic, in that
trinmnh of all oratory, the power to
gain the good will and sympathy of an
audience, Thos. E. Watson has no sur-
perior in the United States.
He began with an acknowledgment of
the generous and kind treatment he bad
received from the people of Nebraska,
and then came the frank statement that
he was a populist standing upon the
populist platform. He spoke for over
two hours amid almost constant thunders
of applause, yet the time seemed only a
few minutes. There were keen flashes of
wit, rapier like thrusts of sarcasm, de
monstrative logic, beautiful word pic
tures, pathos and sentiment.
His discussion of the principles of a
just system of taxation was full of learn
ing and scholarship, and his conclusions
the same as are arrived at by all stu
dents of that subject, viz., taxes should
be laid on property and not per capita
on men.
He defended the populist idea of the
public ownership of all public highways.
In reply to the question of how we could
buy and pay for the railroads, he said,
we paid for tbem.as things noware.every
twenty years anyway, and after they
were thus paid for we did not have even
a hand-car to show for our money.
He told the story of the Georgia cen
tral railroad. It was the pride of the
state. The money of widows and or
phans was invested in its stock as a safe
investment. Retired merchants, after a
business life time in trade, put their
money there. Then Cal. Brice and a syn
dicate came down in a palace car and"re
organized it." When they got through,
it was bonded and mortgaged for f 50,
000,000. The stock was worthless and
the widows, orphans and old retired
merchants were beggars. He thought
the government could run the road bet
ter than that.
In speaking of the tariff question he
summed it up this way: A protective
tariff will either raise, lower or not ef
fect prices at all, and asked the republi
cans which it would do. The republicans
not being inclined to answer, he said
that if it raised prices, then these gold-
ite republicans were worse than the free
silver men, whom Bourke Cochran de
nounced, because they wanted to raise
prices and make the wage worker pay
more for his food and clothing. If a pro
tective tariff lowered prices they could
see the effect of that all around them. If
it did not effect prices at all, what was
the use of having any thing to do with it.
There was a littlecrowd of republicans
at the back part of the theatre. When
Mr. Watson said that the real gold
standard meant that all taxes and all
debts must be paid in gold, they seemed
inclined to make a disturbance as the
free silver men began to yell back at
them.
No public speaker ever showed more
tact and skill than Mr. Watson did at
this junction. He had the who le thing
quieted inside of a half a minute. He
said: "If I am wrong I wish to be cor
rected and if you prove that I am wrong
I will make an apology. What do you
mean in your platform when you say
'the present gold standard?' Then he
went after Grover Cleveland and the old
democratic party with a few savage
thrusts that set the republicans all to
laughing. But in an instant he was
back at that gold standard again and
the republicans learned more about it
than they ever knew before.
When some one called out, "How
about that $188,000 that McKinley
owes Uannar be replied: "lnat is a
personal matter and I will not indulge
in personalities," at which there was
round after round of cheer",
When he undertook to read an extract
from one of McKinley 's speeches, the re
publicans began to howl again, at which
Mr. Watson said that he was surprised
that the Lincoln republicans refused to
listen to one of Major McKinley's
speeches. That brought down the house.
He closed his speech with a brilliant
peroration, saying that Hanna and Mc
Kinley stood for the money power and
special privileges and Bryan against
them, therefore he was for Bryan. Then
the top of the theater came near being
lifted off with the force of the yells that
the audience let out. Hundreds rushed
to Mr. Watson to shake hands with
him, after which the great crowd slowly
dispersed.
Hanna seems to be hiring all the de
faulters and renegades in Lincoln and
sending them out to tell the people that
they "lived next door to Bryan," and
Bryan was so poor he had scarcely any
thing to eat, and was really a vagabond.
Hanna seems to think that the people
never heard that Bryan was elected to
congress from a strong republican dis
trict, went to Washington and attained
a national reputation during his first
term. These Ike Lansing stories only
disgust intelegent people.
Tom Watson's speech for sals at 2
cents per copy, f 1.50 per 100. Send
your order to Nebkahka Independent,
Lincoln, Nebraska. tf
MONEY OF THE WOULD.
lean take the dollars of my country,
gold or silver or paper, and go into the
four corners of tbe habitable globe. I can
transact business with all peoples, civil
ized, semi-civilized and barbaric, without
fear of discount, depreciation or dis
credit. I want the dollars of the United
States to go around the world as the
flag goes, honored and respected by all
mankind. I can take the dollars of my
country into every gold staudard nation
of the earth, and I can buy as much in
any home store of those countries as the
most privileged citizen of the community
can buy with the dollars his government
gives him for use. John U. r. 1 burston
at Cooper's Union, N. Y.
The above is a broadside of goldbug
lies, and if John U. P. Thurston was
ever outside of his own county he knew
they were lies when be uttered them. He
knows that he cannot go into a store in
any foreign land and buy anything with
American money and any man who was
ever in a foreign country knows be can't,
He can take an American gold piece, sil
ver dollar of greenback to the traders in
money and sell it and get in exchange
the money of the country and then go
to a store and buy goods.
John U. P. must take the voters of
this country to be as great ignoramuses
as tbe editors of republican weeklies who
reprint such stuff. The money of the
United States is not even current on tbe
trans-Atlantic)Bteam ships. The moment
the ship is thrse miles from shore, and
the passenger offers to pay for anything
in the money of the United States, be
will be told to go to the purser and ex
change his dollars for pounds, shillings
and pence, if it is an English ship.
There is no such thing as the money of
the' world and every man of ordinary in
telligence knows there is not.
It does not require half the mathema
tical skill to tell the value of Mexican
dollars or Japanese yens in the'money of
the United States as it requires to tell
the value of United States money equiv
alent in pounds, shillings and pence.
The writer of this while traveling in
England and Scotland more than a hun
dred times offered money of the United
States in exchange for goods at shops
and stores and in no case would any one
take it, so he says, that in a fair contest,
John U. P. Thurston can beat Eli Per
kins lying two to one.
A H ANN ACR AT DISPATCH.
A Dallas, Texas, dispatch to the
Chi-
cago Chronicle August 5 says:
'Mr. Norton of Illinois, who was
the
middle-of-the-road candidate for presi
dent at the St. Louisconvention against
W. J. Bryan passed through Dallas to
night en route to Galveation to attend
the populist state convention, which
meets Wednesday. It is given out by
local populist leaders that Norton's mis
sion is to try to induce the Texas con
vention to take steps looking to the
holding of another national convention
to place bimself on as traigntout ticket
with Tom Watson."
Col. Norton has not been in Texas fo r
ten years, and at the time the dispatch
was sent was in Joliet, Ills., whooping it
up for Bryan in the Joliet Sentinel. That
is the kind of news service that goldbug
dailes have.
REDEEMING SILVER DOLLARS.
It is not doubted that whatever can
be lawfully done to maintain equality in
the exchangeable value of the two metals
will be done whenever it becomes nec
essary, and although silver dollars and
silver certificates have not up to the
present time been received in exchange
for gold, yet, if the time shall ever come
when the party cannot be otberwise
maintained such exchanges will be made.
Extract from Secretary Carlisle's letter.
So Mr. Carlisle lets the cat out of the
bag. They are going to begin redeem
ing silver dollars in gold pretty soon.
What a good time the bond buying syn
dicates will have when that time comesl
With about 500,000,000 silver dollars,
$150,000 Sherman notes and $346,000,-
000 greenbacks to be redeemed in gold
and only $100,000,000 of gold to do it
with, won't there be a bappy time? There
will be a $100,000,000 bond sale to buy
gold every month. The very thought
of it will set the fat sides of Hanna and
Pierpont Morgan to shaking.
LET HANNA REJOICE.
The efforts of tbe Hannacrats to re
joice over the Maine election is the most
ridiculous performance in the history of
politics when the facts are taken into
consideration.
The Maine democrats after open and
fair primaries sent delegates to a demo
cratic state convention, who, carrying
out tbe wishes of their constituents, nom
inated gold standard candidates, pro
mulgated a gold standard platform and
sent a gold standard delegation to Chi
cago, where the new democracy from the
west and south as good as kicked them
out. Then they went home, called a new
convention and declared that they were
silver men. This sudden reversal of
doctrine knocked the party machine to
pieces. A new organization - bad to be
made. Chairman and committees were
all for gold. New men had to be found
to occupy official positions, old speeches
had to be thrown away and new ones
concocted, campaign funds had to come
from new sources, and before all this
could be done the election occured. Tbe
gold democrats voted with the republi
cans; the unorganized free silver vote
or what there 'was of it in a goldbug
state, was divided between the new dem
ocracy and the populists,
WHAT HANNA BATH.
The Hannacrni delight to say that
the populists have been sold out to and
swallowed by the old copperhead, moss-
back, democratic party. Not much, Mr.
Hanna. Six or seven hundred wide
awake, loyal young Americans went to
Chicago, threw off their coats, rolled up
their sleeves and pounded that crowd
into jelly. Then they nominated the
brightest, brainiest young hater of plu
tocracy in the United States for presi
dent, and every pop in the land is going
to vote lor him. -
Then the old democratic party leaving
their dead unburied on the field of battle,
retreated back on Indianapolis, made a
rally and reorganized. That Indian
apolis gang of English goldbugs and
American traitors is all that is left of tbe
old democratic party. They are the fel
lows the pops have been fighting, and
they are still hot on their trail. With
Bryan in the White House they will
make mince meat out of them too.
Don't you forget that Mr. Hanna.
The pops know what they are about,
Mr. Hanna. They are after you and
they are after the old democratic party,
and they will down you both. You can't
buy them, you can't scare them and you
can't deceive them. They are long-haired,
wild-eyed and woolly, but Mr. Hanna,
you will wish you had wool all over you
a foot thick before they get done ham
mering you.
TRY AGAIN, M'KINLEY.
McKinley in his letter of acceptance
says:
"Tbe meaning of the coinage plank
adopted at Chicago is that anyone may
take a quantity of silver bullion, now
worth 53 cents, to the mints of the
United States, have it coined at the ex
pense of the government, and receive for
it a silver dollar, which shall be legal
tender for debts, public and private.
The owner of the bullion would get the
silver dollar. It belongs to bim and no
body else. Other people would get it
only by their labor, the products of their
land or someth ing of valne. The bullion
owner, on the basis of present value,
would receive the dollar for 53 cents,
worth of silver and other people would
be required to receive it as a full dollar
in payment of debts."
He also says:
"The republican party has declared in
favor of international agreement, and, if
elected president, it will be my duty to
enjoy all proper means to promote it."
According to McKinley, it would be a
dishonest and dishonorable thing for
this government to allow a miner to
bring 53 cents' worth of silver and have
it coined into a dollar, but if England
says it may be done, it is right and
honorable and will be his "duty to em
ploy all proper means to promote it."
Now, Billy, that wou't do. 'You will
have to try again.
CAN'T LEGISLATE VALUE'
On page 111 of tbe Revised Coinage
Laws will be found this sentence.
"At the date of the passage of the
silver law of July 14, 1890, the price of
silver in London was 49J pence, equiv-
olent to 1.07 per fine ounce.
The highest point reached since the
passage of the act wbb in New York,
Aug. 19, 1890 $1.21 per ounce, and in
London, September 3, 1890 54 pence
equivalent to $1.18 per fine ounce."
On the next page we read:
"On the 26th day of June it was de
finitely annouueed that the legislative
council of India has passed a bill closing
her mints to the deposits of silver by
individuals for coinage. The quotation
on that day in London was 36 pence,
equal 0.784 (78 cents and 4-10th) per
ounce fine, and in New York 0.780 (78
cents.) A rapid decline took place daily,
until, on the 30th of June tbe price in
London reached 30 pence, equal to
0.664 per ounce fine, and in New York
the price was quoted at from 67 to 65
cents."
This shows how directly that the
value of silver bullion depends upon
legislation.
WATSON'S GREATEST SPEECH.
The New York World prints two and a
half columns of Watson's great Lincoln
speech, sent it by telegraph, under a two
column wide displayed head. It heads
it "Watson's Greatest Speech." Another
headline reads: "Tax tbe Rich, Open the
Mints. Stop the Waste." It was not
only Watson's greatest speech, but it
was the greatest speech ever delivered
by any man on Nebraska soil, as Chair
man Edminsten truly said.
SICK REPUBLICANS.
The most heartsick, disconsolate lot of
republicans that were ever seen on the
streets of any city, were the gang that
went to the Lansing yesterday to hear
Tom Watson roast Sewall and create a
split in the suppprters of Mr. Bryan
They got the worst lambasting that ever
a set of men received themselves, and
found out that Tom Watson was giving
heartv and earnest support to Mr.
Bryan. Oh! but they were sick.
The news colums of the great dailies
are more reliable and more nearly ap
proach the truth than their editorials
columns. The following recently ap
th nhirairo Times-Herald:
Mexico City, Sept 5. Finance Minis
ter Limantown win soon tas:e up me im
portant work of the revision of the fiscal
ootam nf thin nonntrv and the tariff will
be cautiously reformed. The president's
message will show that in every direction
the country had made remarkable ad
vance and that the government was
never nuauvuuij iu o wvw. vu.
Tom Watson's speech for sale at 2
cents a copy, $1.50 per hundred. Send
your order to, Nebraska Independent,
Lincoln, Nebraska. tf
TIIEYXL WISH THEY HADN'T.
According to tbe constant assertions
of the bankers if Mr. Bryan is elected
there will be a panic and a crash. Now
they bad better stop that kind of talk or
some of them will go into a receiver's
bands before the election occurs. There
are a great many foolish people in tbe
world, and some of them may believe
these campaign lies and go to withdraw
ing deposits. If they do the bankers will
wish they hadn't talked so much.
The Custer County Chief, a large, well
edited. enterDrisinar paper joined the
populist ranks last week. We extend to
it a hearty welcome to tbe reform ranks.
HOW TO WIN.
There are hundreds of republicans in
Lincoln who have renounced the party
since the St. Louis convention and who
will vote for Bryan on the 3d day of
next November. Many of these have had
the moral courage to openly assert this
fact regardless of what former party
associates may say. But on the other
hand there are any number who, through
fear that they will be called traitors, an
archists, repudiators, etc., etc., have re
frained from making their positions
known. These same men are conscien
tious in their convictions. They hope
Bryan will win, because they know that
he stands on a planform of principle and
right; yet they are afraid to come out
and declare themselves, when by so do
ing they could greatly aid the cause in
this city and state.
While these gentlemen should be given
all credit for determining to vote for the
restoration of silver and its distinguished
representative, much more credit would
be accorded them were they not so
extremley ''modest." Gentlemen, this
is not the way to do. You say that you
are in favor of Bryan and that yon want
to see him carry Nebraska. You must
realize however that the electoral vote
of this state cannot be obtained for him
without a systematic and united effort
on the part of every man.
These days it is tbe same in politics as
it is in business you must hustle and
hustle hard if you would get what you
are after. The electoral vote is
not to be given to Bryan for the
simple asking. Our opponents are re
sorting to every method known, to
modern politics; they are turning heaven
and earth and expending millions of
dollars to advance the interests of
Maj. McKinley. A little more of the
same energy without the low and under
handed tactics which characterizes their
actions will land Mr. Bryan a winner
without a shadow of doubt. The free
coinage wave has swept Nebraska during
the past three months to such an extent
that the republicans have' long since
ceased to claim the state and many sil
ver advocates are becoming afflicted
with the political disease known as "over
confidence." But "over confidence" has
many a time lost an election and the
only way to cinch Bryan's victory in
this city, state and . nation is to work
early and late and assert yourselves
whenever you have an opportunity for
doing the cause good.
TWO THOUSAND REPUBLICANS,
A correspondent writes us from San
Francisco, Cal.:
"I have just made a tour of tbe state
and I feel sure that Bryan will win by at
least 20,000. At Los Angeles alone
there are 2,000 republicans in one Bryan
club, and it is tbe banner republican
county of the state."
Bryan s election is beyond question.
POPULI8TS CAMPAIGNING.
The populist state committee is mak
ing one of the grandest campaign fights
ever made for any cause. It has in the
field under its management thirteen pop
ulist speakers who are speaking most of
the time twice a day. Besides the popu
lists, it manages and makes appoint
ments for eight free silver republican
speakers, viz: Judge Ambrose, Col.
Pace, Messrs. McCheery, Kirkpatrick,
Price, Zimmerer and three or four others.
Besides these free silver republicans
who travel at large over the state, there
are over 100 other republican speakers
who to a greater or less extent take
their assignments from the populist
state committee. These latter speakers
do not as a rule go out of their own
counties.
The work in Lancaster county has
nearly all been arranged by the state
committee. All the speakers who have
been considered attractions and likely to
draw a crowd, aside from Mr. Bryan
himself, who have spoken in Lincoln so
far have been populists, viz.: Donnelly,
Groot and Watson.
The work has been a heavy strain on
the physical endurance of the the officers
of the committe and many of the speak
ers. Chairman Edminsten shows signs of
breaking down under the strain. Secre
tary Weber is overworked. Governor
Holcomb's voice is almost gone, and un
less he lets up be will not last to the end
of the campaign. It takes about as
much physical endurance to make this
fight as a military campaign. The only
one engaged in tbe contest who seems to
have a soft job and an easy time is Geo.
W. Blake. All he has to do is to take
care of the money, and if be did not take
a lively interest in trying to raise ir, as
well as act as treasurer, he might lie in
bed every day until noon.
BISMARCK FOB BIMETALLISM.
Perhaps oar innumerablegoldbogand
bolting friends will be ready now to call
Prince Bismarck an "anarchist" and all
sorts of naughty names.
Governor Culberson of Texas, some
weeks ago, wrote to the prince, asking
for his views as to the policy of the
United States adopting bimetallism as a
government financial system.
The governor, in due course of mail,,
received a reply which he read to a polit
ical meeting in Dallas Saturday night.
Prince Bismarck said:
Fbiedbichsbche, Aug. 24. Honored
Sir: Your esteemed favor has been duly
received. I hold that this is the very
hour that would be advisable to bring
about between the nations chiefly en
gaged in the world's commerce a mutual
agr euient in favor of the establishment
nf himoalliam Tho ITnifofl Rfntpa nTA
freer by far in their movements than any
other nation of Europe, and hence if the
people of the United States should find it
compatible with their interests to take
independent action in the direction of bi
metallism, I cannot but believe that
such action would exert a most salutary
influence upon the consummation of an
international agreement. Bismarck.
So the prince agrees with Mr. Bryan
and the national democratic platform,
as adopted at Chicago last J uly, in be
lieving that independent action on tbe
part of the United States would exert "a
most salutary influence upon the con
sumation of an international agree
ment." A wise prince.
Ignorance is the mother of intolerance.
That accounts for the mass of epithets
hurled at free silver men.
The republicans announced a campaign
of education, but they have left off dis
cussing and gone to cussing.
The west has the gold and silver mines
and the east the farm mortgages and
government bonds. In that lies the es
sence of this whole fight.
J. Sterling Morton says that every fool
in America is advocating free silver, but
that can't be true for Morton is himself
opposed to free silver.
They have a repocratic party out in
Colorado endeavoring to beat the popu
list state ticket, the republicans and
democrats having fused for that pur
pose. Tbe republicans are now pinning their
faith to Bill Dech and Paul Vandervoort.
One thing is certain, if Bill and Paul
can't pull them'through they are goners.
If Tom Patterson wants to help beat
Bryan in Nebraska, let him write two or
three more editorials on Tom Watson
like tbe one that appeared in the News
September 21. '
A FREE BALLOT.
To the Editor: 'A free ballot and a
fair count has been the slogan of every
campaign by the republicans but the one
now in progress. The mask now is off
and they make no bones of it either.
Coercion and intimidation is the chief
order of the day.
Go among the railroad employes and
all seem to wear the same kind of badge
(collar). This certainly is remarkable.
It is reported that many men have lost
their places for no other offense than by
asserting their choice of Mr. Bryan for
president. It is not right for a railroad
corporation to thus antagonize the inde
pendence and interests of the people from
whom they draw the profits of their
business. The farmers are their best
patrons and yet these corporations pros:
titute their franchises and consequent
power in order to continue a system of
finance that has well nigh broken up the
yeomanry of the country financially.
This is a fact patent to any observing
man, and is a flagrant abuse of a privi
lege granted by the people.
When great corporations assume to
override the will of the people to whom
they are indebted for their business and
even their existence, they develop a hos
tility and menace which are utterly at
variance with free institutions.
As a matter of reciprocal advantage
the railroads cannot afford to antagon
ize the interests of the farmers. The
paramount interest of the farmer is to
obtain paying prices for his products.
This he cannot realize under a gold stan
dard when all told there is but $2.52 in
gold per capita. Are the railroad cor
porations of this country connivingwith
the great money powers of the world to
reduce the producers of this country to
the condition of serfs? It certainly looks
so. Farmers must have more money,
and as the experiment of having gold to
fix our prices, nothing can be more evi
dent than that silver money must be
added to the stock of gold, and thus we
will be better able to obtain a bimetallic
100 cent dollar than the 200 cent gold
dollar which we are now obliged to make.
This simply means only half, or bank
rupt prices. If the railroad company
says, "We have to pay our interest and
principal in gold, therefore we must have
a gold basis," there never was a greater
mistake! With silver as an equal compon
ent part in our stock of standard money
gold can be more easily obtained by far
if the obligations are to be paid in fold.
The bimetallic system being the best for
all producers, it certainly must be best
for the railroads. ' No fair minded man
can doubt this. Why then do the rail
road men play "the dog in the manger?'
S. M. Benedict.