I Oct. i, 1896 THE NEBR SKA INDEPENDENT. THE BIG BOND DEALS. BRYAN'S SCATHING ARRAIGN. MENT OF CLEVELANDISM. Tfca Administration That la Now rials d by Mark Bu ana Cons pane" Want Another ful Ukt ItPacs-laini ' Taka Hoed. ' Mr. Bryan said to ten thousand peo ple at Milwaukee: Since the public officers are elected to carry out the will of the people, it is essential that the public should know two things. First, for what poli cies does a candidate stand? Second, will he carry out those policies if elect ed? While thee may be things in a platform with which you cannot agree, and things out of it which you would like to see in it, it is necessary that the candidate should believe in the platform upon which he stands. I believed in the principles of our plat form long before it was written in Chi cago. We have suffered some desertions. Why? Because the paramount issue of the money question. It is easy enough to hold a party together when a plat form means nothing, but when any party stands for a great principle, ft must expect some people who do not believe in it to leave it. My friends, this great money question has been forced upon the people, not by the advocate of free coinage, but by the gold standard people. After the election in 1892, a money combine was formed for the purpose of repealing the Sherman law. They did not take the democratic platform and live up to it, but they took one sentence which de clared for the repeal of that law and demanded its repeal. They said the law was a make-shift. What 1b a make shift? Something that will do until we get something better. The demo cratic platform declared for the repeal of the Sherman law and the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver. The money interests combined to re peal that law and leave nothing in its "place. They claimed gold was going abroad. Did they stop it? No. They started an issue to furnish bonds. They had $80,000,000 issued, and then had $50,000,000 more issued, and then en tered with the Rothschild contract My friends, while. the administration entered into this contract, I want to say that all the leaders of the republican party were in favor of it The republican party did not de nounoe it in their convention. Now, I want to say that it was the most in famous contract ever entered into by any nation. That contract employed oertaln firms in London and New York to look after and protect the govern ment's interest They purchased the good will of these people. When you purchase the good will of any person, it is because you admit you are in his hands. I am not willing to admit that the government must purchase the good will of anybody. I am not willing to admit that 70,000,000 of people are permitted to govern themselves by the aid of any syndicates, but that they will govern themselves in spite of them. ,'; ' -"v '. I am not surprised that the members that syndicate are opposed to the mocratic party. I believe that the mocratic party can get along with out them. I believe that they ought to be treated as any other conspirators. A man said to his sons: "Don't go into the retail business; go into the whole sale business. That is respectable." This applies to you. If a man at tempts to do the government a small injury, it is contemptible. If it is a wholesale injury, it is respectable. Mr. Bryan then told the story of the successive bond deals and the plan to again issue bonds to a private syndi cate which was defeated, and how, when the bonds were sold in open mar ket, the president of that syndicate paid more for them than he paid at secret sale. Mr. Bryan continued: . What does it mean? It means that the people who would pose as the guardians of the treasury would rob the people. This fact did not excite the indignation of the officials of the gov ernment, and a short while later the chairman of that syndicate was present where an official of the government was the honored guest at a banquet. If we believe in equality before the law, we cannot make any distinction between the man who takes $500,000 and the man who takes $100. Now, they talk of honor of the gov ernment I believe that the honor of the government can be better maintain ed by 70,000,000 of the people than by ' beginning with a handful of financiers. The republican party does not denounce the bond syndicate. The democratic party does. The Grip of Gold. - Chicago Special. -Five assignments were made in the county court today. They are: The Chicago Iron and Steel company; Harry M. Hosick, wool mer chant; Chicago and Western Soap works; Louis Sibers & Sons; Geo. O. Bertie. On ,the 14th inst three other prom inent failures occurred in Chicago, and yet the business men in Chicago say we must preserve our country's honor and continue for another four years, the present prosperous era, by electing McKinley to continue and carry out Preside at Cleveland's financial policy. But the people are now thinking for themselves, and by their ballots in November will decide they have seen enough of the prosperous gold standard era. ' ' ' Perennial Lore and Biennial Banco. If the laboring man was perennially loved Instead of being biennially bun coed by the politicians, he might be hanir-yet. Chicago Dispatch. THE RAILKOAD MEN. WANT NO MORE GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION. Whatever Differences They May Haso a to Tariff and Flnaaea. . TJhay Are . Determined ' to Vote Against Injunc tions A. B. U. l"rocln motion. National Democratic . and Silver Headquarters, Chicago, Sept 23, 1896. With a single exception, the Chicago "newspapers" did not regard the re cent proclamation of the American Railway Union as of sufficient impor tance to deserve mention. The one ex ception was the Chicago Record, which published the address in full, and thereby demonstrated that it was will ing to perform the common duty of a daily newspaper. Every American workman should read and study this address. . It makes no difference whether or not he be longs to a labor union. In plain, can did terms it throws a flood of light upon the attitude now assumed by the great railroad corporations. In scores of small cities you will find a mail car, which once in a while is used as a "trailer" to a trolley train. In other Instances a slot Is cut In the side of an electric car, and it thus be comes a United States mail car and the little trolley road becomes a part of our national postal system. Do you know why this has been done? Here is the reason: Whenever the street car company gets ready to reduce wages which will be just after Mr. Mr. McKinley is elected, if such a cal amity ever happens they can do so and by a"n Injunction restrain the men from quitting work. If they quit .work "they interfere with the United States malls." Do you -see? This is called government by injunction. It is an other name for white slavery. There is nothing imaginary about this. It is not something which may happen. It is something which has happened and which will happen again unless the American people put a stop to it by defeating the men who are spending millions to elect Mckinley, with a cry of sound money. If you like the scheme vote for it Here is the ad dress issued by the men who were the first victims of a government by in junction: Address to Railway Employes. To Members of the American Railway Union and all employes in the Unit ed States: Greeting: The undersigned, consti tuting the board of directors of the American Railway Union, desire to ad dress you upon a matter of momen tous import In connection with ' the great political campaign now in prog ress. You have no doubt been struck with the unprecedented activity arid astounding tactics of railway owners and managers In this campaign. High officials are going up and down the lines addressing employes and warning them against the frightful conse- quences of free silver coinage. Round : houses, depots and shops have been ' temporarily changed into political J wigwams. "Sound money" clubs have Been organizea ana employes intim idated to join them. Circulars and campaign documents are being deliv ered to employes with their wages, and in many instances employes are given plainly to understand that their con tinuance in service depends upon'their supporting the gold standard candi dates. In this proceeding, the money question only is permitted to be dis cussed, and only one side of that. Now, what of all this? The rail road managers are overwhelming em ployes with predictions dt frightful dis aster which will follow in the wake of free coinage. Wages will be cut in two, they say, thousands will be thrown out of employment, and the country ruined. This one issue is forced ; upon employes to the exclusion of all others. Their minds are not to be di verted from the free silver calamity a single instant. It is to command their united, ceaseless and terrified gaze to the very election booth, so that by no possibility may the discovery be made that "sound money" is only a pretext for deceiving and hoodwink ing employes, and that railroad man agers have a totally different motive for transforming the corporations they represent intoMiuge Republican ma chines in this campaign. The money question has been in American politics in all its various forms since the foundation of the gov ernment. When have railroad corpora tions organized, drilled and openly commanded their employes to vote the company's ticket? Never before to an extent that would even remotely com pare with their brazen activity in this campaign. Employes have yielded up everything, and now they are to be stripped of their votes and deprived of their last means of protection against oppression and. in justice. And now, we ask, why thl3 unheard of activity on the part of railroad man agers for Bryan's defeat and McKin ley's election? How is it to, be ac counted for? We appeal to railroad em ployes to pause and think. The like of the present situation has never been witnessed. The country Btand3 amazed in the presence of such bold, bald and shameless intimidation. Again, we ask; what does it mean? What can be its significance? Why Such ceaseless, stupendous and desperate efforts to eontrol an election? Is it on account of free coinage? No! The. absurdity of the position is evident upon the very face of it. That railroad companies have some interest in the money ques tion is conceded, but" that they would turn earth, heaven and hell on that ac count, to prevent an injury to the poor employes," Is not only ridiculous, ; but an nault to every employe of com j mon Intelligence who Is not wholly the property of, the company. They have been cutting the wages of 1 their employes by all the means In-i genuity could suggest and if they be lieved free silver would "cut in two" the wages they are now receiving, we know of nothing in their past record that would warrant the assumption that they would oppose free coinage. . Oh, no; it is not free silver that has unloosened and enraged this railroad Moloch. Then, what Is It? Here Is the answer: The attack in the democratic platform on government by injunction. Here is the milk in the cocoanut For years, railway managers have been wrestling with the problem of cutting wages and controlling their employes generally. But the employes were more or less organized. "There was more or less friction, and sometimes strikes occurred, and these were em barrassing and expensive. The dread of a strike restrained the managers and kept them within uncomfortable bounds. Something must be done to overcome these organizations and re duce employes to submission. Experimenting began in various di rections. Finally the right lead was struck. The federal court would Bolve the problem. The strike of the en gineers and firemen on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan was paralyzed by a federal court Injunc tion. Other disturbances followed and were settled in like fashion, until Judge Jenkins actually restrained the employes of the Northern Pacific from quitting the service of the company, because of a reduction of wages, under penalty of being adjudged guilty of contempt of court and committed to Jail. The railway companies exclaimed in one voice "Eureka!" The problem of problems was solved. Hereafter they might reduce wages, treat em ployes as they saw fit and they would have to 4 submit Government by in junction was now established, and the managers were supreme,whlle the em ployes were helpless. How perfectly the scheme worked, the great Pullman strike bore haggard testimony. The federal courts, the federal soldiers, the deputy marshals, In fact, all the tre mendous powers of the government, were promptly brought into requisition to crush the employes, and it was all done by the application of government by injunction. ;There has been sweep ing reductions of wages since, amount ing to millions, but there has been no protest There Is not likely to be any protest while government by injunction continues. Unconditional submission 18 the order of the day. Even arbitra tion is denied, and, in fact, has been made Impossible. Railroad managers have things absolutely their own way, Should employes quit work in a body, injunctions would probably, be issued and they would be sent to Jail without trial. Employes know this, and however galling the yoke, they submit They can do nothing else. Managers are no longer annoyed with committees. Agreements have been ar bitrarily abrogated and men reduced to slavish conditions. - The election of McKinley means the perpetuation of government by injunc tion, the supremacy of corporations, and the helpless, hopeless subjection of employes. It will not be confined to railroad corporations In its enslaving operations. All other corporations, trusts and combines will claim its ben eficent protection, and therefore i all workingmen, especially those who are organized, are profoundly concerned in this issue. ' American railroads consist largely of British gold and American labor. Gov ernment by injunction crowns the I former king, and makes the latter his subject. The platform upon which William J. Bryan stands is pledged to aboli3h this despotic usurpation of judicial power, and restore to railway employes their lawful rights to resist reduction and Injustice by the lawful means provid- j ed by their organizations. The railway corporations are united and have massed all their tremen dous powers to crush him. This in it self is indisputable proof that he is the friend of the workingmen. In saying this, the genuine keynote of the rail road campaign has been struck. It startles like alarm bells at night. There is no mistaking the issue. Its gravity cannot be overestimated. It Involves the very existence of organ ized labor, the bulwark and defense of workingmen against corporate tyran ny, which, if swept away leaves them Shorn of every vestige of power, and totally at the mercy of corporate capi tal. , ' The one federal Judge who has proven himself to be immeasurably above the corrupting influences of cor porations, who has earned the confi dence and gratitude of all railway em ployes for his unyielding defense of their rights, upon whose fair name there Is no scar or blemish, Henry C. Caldwell, has declared that the nom ination of William J. ' Bryan is the greatest since Lincoln. We heartily concur in the declaration of this hon est, fearless and distinguished jurist In view of all these facts facts of tremendous Import which cannot be successfully controverted we pledge our united and unwavering support to William J. Bryan for president, and appeal to railway employes , and all workingmen to Join with us In rebuk ing corporate tyranny which attempts to wrest the sacred right of suffrage from employes, In abolishing govern ment by injunction and in securing and maintaining every right of citi zenship vouchsafed by the constitu tion of our country. EUGENE V. DEBS, JAMES HOG AN, SYLVESTER KELIHER, R. M. GOODWIN, M. J. ELLIOTT, WILLIAM E. BURNS, Board of Directors American Rail way Union. HUETSTHE CHURCHES EMBARRASSMENT OP THE WORK UNDER GOLD STANDARD. Ro. Dr. A. J. Kynatt of Philadelphia Who Has Charge or tha Methodist Church Extsnaloa Fund, Baa Been Seriously Crippled by Disuse of Silver. Advocates of the gold standard, In their attempts to array the church on their side Qf the financial issue, are promptly met by the managers of church enterprises themselves in refu tation of their claims as to how church work would be disastrously affected by the free coinage of silver. We take pleasure in reproducing in this con nection the following article from the Rev. Dr. A. J. Kynett, of Philadelphia, who has charge of the Church Exten sion 'work of the Methodist church throughout the country. The article Is taken from Christianity In Earnest, which is published by the church for the special purpose of aiding the work of church extension. "Churches Affected by Silver Their extension work seriously interfered with." In a heated political campaign all parties gather all sorts of argu ments In support of their views. This is well for an "educational campaign," as intelligent people will be thereby as sisted to right conclusions. This re quires, however, that when anything unauthorized or false appears it should be promptly challenged. An article, under the above heading, drawing .the churches in for partisan uses has been going the rounds of the papers. We now find it quoted, with Implied approval, in Zlon's Herald, of Aug. 26, from the New York Sun of Aug. 22. It Is too long to quote, but we feel called upon to refer to certain passages in it It says: "The Methodists have about $1,000, 000 which Is used for church extension throughout the country, under the di rection of Rev. A. J. Kynett, of Phila delphia. This money is loaned on mortgages on church edifices, through out the country, at a low rate of inter est Much of this money is loaned in the west and the struggling new churches have, through the hard times which have followed the agitation for free silver, in many instances, been unable to meet their mortgage obliga tions. The result has been that the work of the church extension has been greatly hindered, and the mission fund will have to remain idle to tide the new churches over this distressing period. The churchmen have not been at a loss to place the blame for this condition of affairs where it belongs, on the free sli ver agitators. t O course the proposition to pay one-hundred-cent debts with fifty-three- cent dollars is a moral question which might well arouse the religious element of the na tion In opposition." - Similar statements are made as to the church edifice fund of the Baptist Home Mission society; also the Presby terian Board of Missions. The Impres sion sought to be made is that the free silver agitators are, by these church men, held responsible for the embar rassed conditions referred to. Those in charge of the church funds can answer for themselves, or allow the statements to pass unchallenged. On questions of fact, as related to Methodist church extension, I speak of ficially. In matters of opinion, on which persons composing the manage ment may differ, I speak only for my self. , - On questions of fact I have to pay that our treasurer's reports for years past indicate no great change in the condition of churches borrowing, un til within the last four years, and, with the exception of that period, the diffi culty alluded to has been of gradual growth. There Is no' greater acuteness of the trouble perceptible as a result of "free silver agitation." The interest received on loans was greater in 1895 than in 1894 and the same is true of the amount of loans returned, and the present indications render it probable that the receipts of loans returned and of interest during 1896 will be about equal to those of 1895, and in excess of those of 1894. I find, in the facts shown by the treasurer's report, absolutely no justification for the statement that "the blame for this condition of things belongs with the free silver agitators." Now, as to questions of opinion, I speak solely for myself. The difficulty with our Methodist churches, including those indebted to us for loans, that !mo resulted In the serious embarrassment of missionary, Church Extension and other benevolent work, arises out of the great reduction that has taken place within the last twenty years in the value of farm lands, and farm products and the paralysis of manu facturing and mining industries throughout the country. Churches in debted to our loan fund are chiefly in farming, manufacturing and min'.ng communities, and of course suffer In their ability to pay debts or make benevolent contributions. Whatever may have been the cause of this great reduction it has been coincident with the disuse of silver and the establish ment of a single gold standard. This general condition Is, at the same time, the cause of our embarrassments, and f the free silver agitation. It is an outrageous and cruel wrong to accuse directly or by implication, the great body of the people thus embarrassed and seeking relief, with dishonesty, or with a disposition to repudiate any ob ligation, personal, corporate, or of the state or nation. To demand payment of old obligations in money of a new and higher standard of value is worse than' Shylock, for it Is not- "so nominated In the bond." These debts are all pay able la "coin" or in "lawful money of the United States," and the creditor has no right to demand payment 1 gold. When, in 1893, we were can- strained to borrow $50,000 to tend distressed churches, five out of ix of the money lending corporations to which we first applied wanted obliga tions payable in coin. We simply an ewered, "Gertlemen, lawful money ol the United States is good enough foi us, and ought to be for you. We will give no gold coin obligations." Such we have never asked, and never will. "To coin money and regulate its value" is the constitutional right of the American people, by them vested in! congress, and should not be invaded by private contracts or otherwise. On questions of policy, or the best possible relief from existing conditions, we think and let think. We make no partisan plea. Our plea is for charity, thoroughness, honesty and courage. Neither partisan clamor, nor abusive epithet, nor self-assumed and self-as serted honesty, soundness, or anything of the kind, should weigh a feather with intelligent and patriotic Ameri can citizens. The partisan slogan "sound money," "honest dollars" Is a bald begging of the question and an of fense of millions of men as honest as the sun ever shone on. The intensity of factional and partisan spirit is true- ly a revelation of the magnitude of the issue and of the Interests involved. The terms and history of the promise to pay must have due recognition. If the creditor, after the relation is es tablished, requires control of gold bul lion he has no right to ask that coinage be limited to gold. If the debtor ac quires control of silver he has no right to demand free coinage of silver than existed when his debt was incurred. The law of immutable righteousness, therefore, requires that the govern ment, under which the relation of debt or and creditor exists, shall "coin money and regulate its value." Money so coined and regulated, wheth er gold or silver or both, Is "sound" and "honest money" and neither debtor nor creditor can Justly complain of a law which makeB it legal tender for debts. ' " So far as the administration of our church extension work is concerned we shall do our best, under the unavoid able difficulties, and will give those in debted to our loan fund the best pos sible opportunity to meet their obliga tions. We will most gladly receive In full payment of principal and Interest the so-called "flfty-three-cent dollars," or any other lawful money of the Unit ed States. A. J. KYNETT. HELPING THE CAUSE. New fork Journal Receiving; Funds for the Democratic National Committee. From, the New York Journal: The Republican National Campaign Com mittee is a very active organization. Having no particular substance on which to rest its political faith this year, and no candidate of any import ance to make a noise about it must be stir itself otherwise. As one means of attracting attention it rushes madly into print Any per son with a political theory not neces sarily a logical or even a novel one that seems to bolster up the decadent gold standard fallacy has only to com municate it to the campaign bureau and dicker for a price. The bureau at tends to the printing of it and sees that it gets circulated. Thus is the nation flooded with various appeals to the ignorant more or less plausible or nakedly absurd. And, not content with appealing to the ignorant, this active organization lays Itself out to ensnare various c! iss interests and enlist the sympath'- of the several foreign ele ments. To this end pamphlets are be ing printed In French, German, Italian, and even in Hebrew. That such a method of conducting a campaign Is unworthy of a great party and degrad ing to our Institutions does not deter these employers of it- All this per nicious activity must be counteracted with the force of clear facts set before the people in a candid manner. And every contribution to the Journal's edu cation fund will do something in that direction. P. S. The Journal is receiving funds in sums of from 10 cents up. : The to tal receipts are added up daily, the amount Is sent to Senator James K. Jones, chairman, Chicago, with an ad ditional check from W. R. Hearst pub lisher of the Journal, duplicating the amount subscribed. Thus every per son sending $1 makes it possible for the national committee to realize $2. No matter how small the amount, it is du plicated by Mr. Hearst !L The Rotten Undemocratic Administration The administration will doubtless be able to stave off another bond issue until after the election, and then Mr. Cleveland's financial friends wHl en joy their last pick-up In that line. In case the country should vote to con tinue the bond Issuing policy Mr. Hanna would superintend the work of forming the syndicates and apportion ing the desired things. Not Afraid of Bryan. The business firms which are bidding for the new battle ships are not In the least alarmed over the fifty-three cent dollar cry. They have implicit confi dence In the ability of the govern ment to discharge its legitimate obli gations, and well understand that when the United States is back of a dollar it Is worth a hundred cents. That's What It Did. 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