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(I I f Oct 8, 1896. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT EI Nebraska 3nuqjcnucnt Cnlt4tiia of THE WMALTH MAKERS and UffCOLM INDirSNDSNT. rJ2LISHED EVERY THURSDAY n m Inixpsijrleiit Publijhiig Go. At 1UO X Street, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 638. 51.00 per Year in advance. Addnaa all eommmloatlou to, and maka all traita, aoaay orders, ate, pajabla to TH INDEPENDENT PUB, CO, Limcoli. Nia. NATIONAL TICKET. For President, . WILLIAM JENNINGS BRIAN, of Nebraska. For Vice-President. THOMAS E. WATSON, of Georgia. ' STATE TICKET. For Governor....,..........Sila A Holcomb For Lieut. Governor.... J E Harris For S.retary of State... W F Porter For Auditor Pub. Accts J F Cornell For Land Commixsioner ....-J V Wolfe For State Treasurer.............! B Meserve For State Sopt........ W R Jackson For Judge, long term Wm. Neville For Attorney-General,........C. J. Sraythe For Judge.short term....Tno. Kirkpatrick For Regent .............Thomas Rawlings For Congress, 1st dist J. II. Broady Tom Watson's speech lor sale at 2 cents a copy, $1.50 per hundred. Send your order to. Nebraska Independent, Lincoln, Nebraska. tf The contest in this campaign has nar rowed to money against monhood. In every claim of electors put out by the goldbugs, California is counted for them. Read the letter in this issue from Los Angeles. , The railroads are not running their free excursions to take people to bow at McKinley's feet for nothing. They will make you pay every cent it costs in the near future. Hurrah for the railroadsl Hanna and McKinley. The State House thieves have robbed the penitentiary, robbed the insane asy lum, and robbed the school children, and any man who opposes their contin uation in office is either an anarchist, a repudiator (of thieves) or a lunatic. That ia what goldbugs sar. To indorse thieves is patriotism. To repudiate them is anarchy. Hurrah! for the thieves. All obligation of what ever sort or kind are payable in "dollars." To double the figures in a note made payable in dollars, is in nature exactly the aame crime as to leave the figures the same and double the value of the dollars. To double the figures in a note makes a man a criinnal. To double the value of the dollars is an act of patriotism and statesmanship. This is a queer world. The republicans held one of the biggest meetings of their party during this cam paign in the Funke Opera House on Sat urday night. Gen. Paul VanDerVoort waa the principle speaker assisted by the Hon. Bill Deck. All the old republican stand bys were there. The populist can didates were roasted from Uolcomb down to road supervisors. The repub lican crowd was delighted and cheered the speakers vociferously. Keep right in the middle of the road and win this silver fight. After that we will get after the railroads, the tele graphs and the trusts. Let us get this free silver business disposed of and then the flield will be cleared for action on the main principles of the populist party. Keep in the middle of the road. Down the VanDerVoort traitors. Stand by the party organization. Repeaters are begining to arive al ready, It iathe duty of every patriot to look out for tnem. Make a close scrutiny of registration lists and look up the pre tended residences of these scoundrels. Some one mnst be appointed for every polling place in the state to look after this matter. Let the county committees go at this work at once. ' Don't let us be counted out eenin. The 665 000 contributed by the Ar mour Beef trust to the Hanua corruption fund will be taken out of the pockets of the people with the raise of a cent a pound on beef in . jess than a week Walk up and pay your share through your butcher, then go home and thank God that all the blood of the martyrs shed that you might not be taxed with ont representation was shed in vain. Then go to the polls and vote for Hanna and corruption. ; From the days of Peter Cooper until now, this writer has kept right in the middle of the road, and he is going to stay there. He has Been bo many trait ora that he can tell one when he is a mile away tell one when he is talking free silver just as well as if he kept his mouth shot, tell one when he hires an Optra house just as well as when he bobs in a convention and yells "I am a jr"i no, a populist." " VAKDKHVOOKT ON WAM io the State Journal's report of Van DrVoort' speech this passage occurs: "As for this man Tibbies who wrote for Governor Holeomb's newspaper Mr. VanDerVoort had little to say. He meiv. ly Marred to Tibbies as the man who had, wavered hi support of polHical friends, as the man who went off on an Indian expedition and brought bnck no , . I , , - I, iu ..- Thn .iwolruf mp t-Awpt 11 1" - f hoped Mr. Tibbies would retire to his reservation and there consorting with bis tribe reflect on the reason why he had hired himself to write against peo ple who were the be t ters of h is eni ploj ers. The truth is that when Tibbies went af ter the scalps he came oack to his res ervation with the scalps of the whole Indian ring dangling at his belt, includ ing those of Carl Sihurtz, Commissioner Haytand Senator Allison and the great est glory ever ascribed to John L. Web ster and Andrew J. Poppleton is that they argued a case which Tibbies pre pared, secured the funds to prosecute and procured the witnesses to sustain in the courts. Of the results of Tibbies' going on the war path after these scoun drels who had infested the lobbies of congress and every Indian reservation in the United States every intelligent man knows. ' That Mr. Tibbies won the scalps of the Indian ring fairly and honorably is proven by the fol lowing excepts from the Omaha papers, to which could be added Bvo-ies of similar notices from every great daily in New York, Boston, Phila delphia and all the other great cities of the United States. ' "Mr. Tibbies deserves the gratitude of every lover of fair play and justice for his part in the matter. It is the first glimmer of common sense that has been shed in an official manner upou the In dian question in the country." Omaha Republican. "The News desires to publicly acknowl edge the gratitude which every lover of justice owes to Mr. T. H. Tibbies who has been the motive power iu the Ponca habeas corpus case from first to last. We know something of the difficulties under which this gentleman has worked; something of the petty jealousy which has confronted him from a source where sanity would consider hearty as sistance to be almost the only possibil ity. If the Ponca Tribune of Indians re ceive their rights, they may give their thanks most of all to this gentleman, whose tfiorts have been put forth with out hope of greater reward than a con sciousness of duty well performed. Men have become famous for doing less." Omaha News. "The press of this and other states have referred n just terms to the fact that Mr. T. H. Tibbies, of the Omaha Herald force, personally brought the now cele brated Ponca habeas corpus case into the courts of the country to test the rights of ' human nature and brown col ored native Americans to the protection of the writ of liberty and of the national laws. From the circumstances that Mr. T.H.Tibbies was connected with the Herald, it has deferred until now to say that he is entitled to great credit, and to tha lasting gratitude of the ' friends of humanity everywhere, for the step he took, by the aid of Messrs. Poppleton and Webster, to vindicate a great prin ciple of human rights and liberty in the person of Standing Bear. If this kind hearted man had never done anything else in the world for the good of men, this single act, as it insures, also entitles him to signal honor and grateful remem brances. This much we say for Mr. T. II. Tibbies and his acts and efforts in the Ponca case without his knowledge." Omaha Herald. To this urght he add the following from Gen. Crook: Omaha, June 2, 1879. I have known Mr. T. H. Tibbies for years. He is A MAN OF HONOR AND INTEGRITY, deeply interested in the welfare of the Indians, and thoroughly understands what is required to relieve them from their oppressors. I wish him success in his present , endeavors in be half of the Poncas, and commend him to all who desire justice done to the Indians, who have been so long robbed and wronged, with none to plead their cause. George Crook, Brig. Gen. U. S. Army." If "General" VanDerVoort has any scalps like thete let him exhibit them. A FLEA OF GUILT. The ominous silence that has pre vailed about that corruption roost from which the State Journal issues, in re gard to the attempt to bribe D.J. Poynter to play Deck and VanDervoort, is a plea of guilty. The old thing has the cheek of a government mule, but it hasn't the cheek to deny that the repub lican state central committee made an op n offer to bribe a reputable citizen. Was there anywhere on the face of the earth ever discovered such a set of black legs, corruptionists and all around scoundrels as are trying to re-elect the State House thieves and Bend a few gold bug congressmen to Washington from this state? They are a disgrace to the age, to humanity, and would be run out of a tribe of Zulus. A PLUCKV EDITOR. 1 The populist editors of Nebraska have reasomto feel proud of their whole mem- in this state, and especially proud editor of the Beatrice Tribune. poor man, and the n publican Voort gang thought his poverty need to force him to join their I traitors under the guise of the I bersbip I of the He is Y VanDeY I could Jbe I crew 6 middle-of-the-road deceptiou. He waa of fered heavy bribes and when he rejected them with scorn, legal process was pro cured which.althoKgh heowed them noth ing, would serve to stop the paper until after election. The plucky editor gathered up a little type and by the use of plates got out a half sheet of genuine middle-of the-roal defence of the homes and fire sides of American citizens. The Vanuw Voort gang have captured most of bis type, but with what is left he is still fir ing hot shot into the ranks of the cor ruption propaganda that is trying to make us all serfs and slaves of the money power. Hurrah I for the loyal and true editor of the Beatrice tribune. Somebody ought to send him some more type. Surely some free silver committee will do it. THE EIGHTH WORLD'S WONDER. Every one will remember that when the Harrison boys took the Chicago Times and run it in the interest of the people, how its circulation increased by leaps and bounds, and that in a few weeks it had more than doubled its cir culation. Another illustration is that of the New York Journal, which in the last few months has achieved the largest circula tion of any newspaper ever printed in the Entrlihh language, having at present over 400,000 paid subscribers, besides its exchanges and complimentry list If there was any proof lacking that the money power owns and controls all the other great dailies, the history of these two great papers is a demonstra tion of the truth of the charge. Tbej are the only two great papers that ever turned their batteries on the money power. The moment, the people found it out they subscribed for them by the tens of thousands. If papers were published as an honest business venture, , they would insert the matter thattbe people want and are willing to pqy for. The course of the New York World, shows that itis willing to sacrifice its pres tige and ruin itself as a property, rather than furnish to the people the kind of matter they ask and are willing to pay for. Why? Because the niouey power demands it. When the money power, at an enor mous cost bought the Chicago Times and turned it into an advocate of the Interests of foreign bond holders, its new subscribers stopped it instantly, and the money paid for it was sunk. That was the price paid to suppress it. If the New York Journal continues to persne its present course, and stands by the common people, it will not be long until it will have a million subscribers, and will be the wonder of the whole world. The common people of the United States and there are 60,000,000 of them will stand by the Journal as long as it stands by them. It will have the same influence in shaping the deetenies of this natifffi that the New York Tribune had at an earlier period of our history. The New York Jourual is the world's eighth wonder. OUR RAILROAD MASTERS. The fight with the railroad corpora tions of this state must be waged with the very bitterness of death from this day forward. There can be no compro mise made and no quarter given. Either the people of this state must give up free government or the railroad politi cal power must be crushed. The railroads have gone into politics. They propose to control the government of this state that they may tax the citi zenes thereof without let or . hindrance. The question before the people is: Shall we turn over the government of this state to the railroads, or shall the peo ple govern themselves? Look what they have done in this campaign. Every goldbug editor in this state has an annual pass. Free trans portation is given to any part of the state to every goldbug public speaker, campaign manager and committeeman. If the goldbugs want a big rally, clubs, brass bauds, speakers, and those who will attend men, women and children are transported free. Ail this is done for the goldbug party. On the other hand, if a free silver meet ing is attempted, the same railroad magnates refuse to furnish special trains when the money is tendered them to pay for them in advance. In some in stances they have prohibited the sale of free silver literature on their trains and news stands. They force their employes, by a threat of discharge, to join McKinley clubs, to wear McKinley buttons and march in McKinley parades. Every man whom they discharge is a Bryan man.. They allow their employes no choice of how to vote. In this way they overthrow free government. Their employes are no longer free men. Will the people of Nebraska allow this overthrow of the free state government? Will they permit these worse than feudal lords to rule over them and make slaves and serfs of the Boil out of them. ONE OF THE SILVER BARONS. Mr. J. J, Hagerman of Colorado Springs, one of the largest owners of sil ver mines in the Uuited States, announ ces his opposition to the election of Bryan and declines to make any sub scription toward the circulation of silver literature. Mr. Hagerman occupied a prominent position in the recently pub lished list of "silver barons" who were subscribing numerous millions to secure the election of Mr. Bryan. We trust that due apology will be made by the gold press for a publication that must nave hurt his feelings. Denver News. HOW THE ritiHT GOES OH. Judge Gregory, who has just finished a list of appointments beginning at Te curoseh and ending at Wilbur, writes that the meetings were "exceptionally "enthusiastic, and "the most successful meetings that had been held at any time in tb respective Minnties," He adds that "the ticket, both state and national is reasonably safe," and that lie is going to Iowa to make a few speeches to help them out over there. Judge Ambrose who has been making a series of speeches beginning at Lex in e ton and coming, down the Union Pacific, writes: "Had great meetings every where. No tronble for Bryan in this state. Make the fight from this on, for state ticket and congressmen." Governor Holeomb's meetings have been enormous, and enthusiastic beyond anything ever before seen in this state. The populists, in addition to the state speakers, are making a school house campaign in every county in the state with local speakers, most of whom re-, ceived their edbcation and acquired the art of public speaking in the Farmer's Alliance. Never in the history of politics has eh universal hard work been done in a campaign as is being done in this. If Bryan is doing more work in this campaign than any public speaker ever accomplished before, there are also thousands of humble workers, scattered all over the United States, who night after night tramp from school house to school house, without pay or hope of reward, preaching the gospel of salva tion for the common people. MORALS OF THE MONET QUESTI ON. Mr. M. H. Wart of Creighton, Neb., sends a copy of the Sandy Creek News, of Oswego county N. Y. and asks us to reply to an article in it, so he can send it back to New York and make some voters for Bryan in that state, where he has many friends and acquaintances ; The writer of the article says he wants to talk about the moral phrase of the money question. Here is one sentence which seems to have neither morals or sense in it. , , "This difference in the intrinsic value of the two metals as measured by the cost of labor in producing each, naturally caused the fixing of a ratio or proportion determined by weight of value between the two metals. If the value of the metal is ''intrinsic," how does the labor cost of producing them have anything to do with fixing a ratio? If the value is fixed by the cost of production the value is not intrinsic, it does not inhere in the metals but de pends on something entirely intrinsic. Another sentence is as follows: "The nominal Unit of value up to 1834 was the silver dollar, but the real uiijt or measure rf value has been the gold dollar since 1816 wheu England refused free coinage to silver and made gold the standard or measure of value." , Granting for the moment that there is such a thing as a "unit of value," we would like to know how an act of the British parliament could fix a unit of value for the United States after we had made good, on many bloody fields, the Declaration of Independence? But there is no such thing as a "unit of value." The fathers of the republic never made use of such a nonsensical term. They talked of a "unit of ac count," but of a unit of value never. That term was invented by John Sher man and inserted in the statutes by him. Suppose congress should meet to morrow and declare that the silver dollar was the "unit of value," and did nothing else, what possible effect could it have? What effect could it have on gold, silver or commodities? Simply none at all. What is value? Economists define it as "power in exchange." What is the value of a 100 cent gold dollar? To reply that itis 100 cents is to talk like an imbecile. Then what is the value of agold dollar? Its value is what it will ex change for. Its value in wheat cut here, would be about three bushels. Its value in corn would be about eight bushels. When one talks abont the value of a thing he must always inquire: Value in what? . The value of commodities is usually given in terms of money, i. e., in dollars. But what is the value of dollars? How can you find that out? What is the value of dollars? It is what they will exchange for. It cannot be given in cents, and a man who has any sense will never run around in a circle like a cat chasing its tail, by telling the value of dollars in cents. What would you think of a farmer if asked what was the value of a bushel 6 wheat if he should reply: "Four pocks of wheat." There is not a farmer in America idiotic enough to make such an answer. But men who pose as great financiers when asked "What is the value of a dollar?" will solemnly reply: "One hundred cents," and look at you as wise as an owl. Whenever any great nation, with a considerable foreign trade, will open its mints to the unlimited coinage of .silver, the mint value will always be the com mercial value, regardless of the ratio of production. The commercial ratio of silver to gold was 15 to 1 for the eighty years that the French mint was opeu to the free coinage of silver, although the ration of production, according to Sec retary Carlisle's table, varied from fifty two ounces of silver to one ounce of gold to four ounces of silver to one ounce of gold. All official statistics of this coun try and Europe show that the ratio of production of silver to gold nas Deen less since 1873 than in any two decades for 400 years, and yet the gold price of silver has constantly declined. So something else than the overproduction of silver has been the cause. The claim that the free coinage of sil ver would produce a great contraction of the volume of money by driving out gold, and at the same time reduce the value of money one-half is too silly to reply to seriously. Destroy one-half of of the money and that will make what remains easier to get and one-Jbalf cheaper, will it? A man who will make an assertion of that kind is not a good teacher of either morals or economics. This New York instructor further says that "the scriptural standard of weights and measures must be sacredly main tained orChristianity will break down and be spurned by theci vilization of theages." Tuat statement startled us and we concluded we would hunt up the "scrip tural standards of weights and meas ures." In weights we I found that 10 gerabs made 1 bekah, 2 bekafas 1 shekel, 60 shekels 1 manch, 50 manches 1 tal ent. ' ' 7", " ' The long measure, the land measure, the liquid measure and the dry measure was just as unintelligible to us as the scriptural weights. If Christianity and civilization can only be saved by main taining the scriptural weights and meas ures in this country, we fear that we are lost. THE STATE TREASURER. As we have previously asserted the banks are mustering all their forces to elect the republican candidate for state treasurer. All the power of the whole ring of goldbug banks will be concen trated upon the defeat of Meserve. A large number of . bankers in this state are doing business upon that 675,000 of school money, which the state house anarchists refuse to invest as the constitution and. law requires. The banks want to continue to bank on it. If Meserve is elected they cannot do it. If it is not irretrievably lost Meserve will soon have it all invested as the law requires after he takes charge of the of fice. It is passing strange that that one honest man in the whole state of Ne braska could be induced to vote for the republican candidate for state treasurer. What good could be expected to come to him, his children Or his state by casting such a vote? The election of that candidate is to give sanction to the repudiation of the constitution, to violation of law and the robbery of the children of the state. Not withstanding all that, the banks really expect to elect their candidate. Tbey will trade off their whole ticketstate and national to do it. HE'S AN ANARCHIST. A short time ago we published the con tribution of the Beef .Trust to Mark Uanna's corruption fund. - . 7 Local retail meat dealers yesterday got a quiet joke to the effect that "meat had riz." The price was advanced from to 1 cent on every pound of meat by the combine and thus it is that people who eat meat must pay the campaign expenses of McKinley. And this ra se in the price of meat comes at a time when hogs and cattle are selling at a lower price than usual, about one half what they ought to sell for. This is one great country sure enough. If you undertake to levy a tax on a railroad, the managers will raise the rates and make the public pay the tax. If the plutocrats want a corruption fund, they will raise the price of coal and meat and make the people furnish it. Any man who says that way of collect ing taxes and corruption funds isn't right, why, he's an anarchist, and all the plutocratic bishops say, "amen, yes he's an anarchist." ANOTHER ANARCHIST. The following conversation occured at the corner of O and Eleventh streets. Rep. . What do you want to vote for free silver for when it is only a scheme of the mine owners to force up the value of their metal so they can make 100 per cent on it? Pop. It will do that. Rep. And yon are going to vote for it are you? Pop. I am. Rep. And you want to ruin everybody in the country for the benefit of the sil ver barons, and make the wage earners and every body else take a fifty cent dol lar when they are entitled to 100 cent dollars, do you? r Pop. I thought you iiist K said free coinage would force up the Value of silver 100 per cent. .1 Rep. Look here, you'r nothing but a d -d anarchist. That. wat you are. Iji&z WHAT IS A CENT, The republicans are all tbe lime saying that they want a dollar Orth a hun dred cents. To find out what dollar is worth, we must then find ou what a cent is. Under our law as It exists at present, a cent is a disc of bronze weigh ing 36 grains. It takes 160 of them to weigh a pound. A pound of bronze pre pared for the mint costs 20 cent. That is what the government pays the manu facturers for it in the shape that tley de liver it to the mint. li Now if a dollar is a hundred ceuV as the gold bug say, theu they believe iu-J dollar the material in which is worth 12 cents. The republicans therefore are all flat lunatics for there is four times as much flat in that kind of a dollar as in a silver dollar. THE LEGISLATIVE TICKET. While the banks sre exerting all their efforts to capture the stat treasury, tho railroads are putting in their work on the legislature and expect to capture that. To aid them they have the old line insurance agents who are scattered all over the state and the sugar trust. Wherever a scheme can be put up to de feat a populist nominee for the legisla ture that will be done. The fight in this state is on the state treasurer and the legislature. None of Don't let any free silver man go to swap ping votes on any candidate, vote the whole ticket from presidential electors down to road supervisors. Don't pro tect part of your interests, protect them all. ' Revolutions never occur when the peo ple rule. A government by the people ia conservative. Columbus discovered America for Han- na and the trusts. Any one who denies it is an anarchist. What will betbecondition of the labor unions, and the country generally after four years of Uanna's power in the White House. The republicans have not dared any where in the whole state to carry a ban ner in a parade inscribed: "We are for the gold standard." Hobart has raised the price of coal three times in the last few months. Any farmer in Nebraska who will not vote for Hobart is a repudiator. The right of every citizen to cast a free and untrammeled ballot can never be surrendered by a free people. Once sur rendered, our republican form of govern ment is at an end. Republicans express great confidence that Mark Hanna's ten millions insures the election of McKinley. This is simply asserting that American manhood is for sale to the highest bidder. In behooves every true American to see to it that this insult is appropriately rebuked at the polls. If India, Mexico and Central and South America seat us all their silver money ana went themselves back to barter, they could not send us enough to double the amount of money now in circulation, and the money now in circulation would have to be doubled to reduce its purchas ing power one-half or make what the goldbugs call a "fifty-cent dollar." The "flood of silver" and the "fifty-cent dol lar" are both myths. ' About all the preachers in the million aire churches of New York let loose on Bryan last Sunday, among them Will iam Justin Harsha, formerly of Omaha. But those who were in the first Lincoln campaign instead of, being at all dis mayed at this torrent of pulpit wrath, are encouraged by it. They remember bow the plutocratic preachers abused and maligned Lincoln, We also remem ber that Lincoln was elected and made the greaiest and best president we ever ever had. The filing of the middle-of-the-road re publican ticket will have the effect of making the supreme court either fish or cut bait. The farmer decision that any set of men can file nominations under a well established party name and have them printed on the official ballott is too rediculous to command the respect of any one. The idea that three or four different tickets can be printed under the head of democrat, republican or populist is a deception of the voters, which no court but a political one wotld sanction. The Biker in the world is about $4, 000,000,000. All that is used in Europe has a greater purchasing power than gold at. 16 to 1, for all European silver has been coined at ratios of from 14 to 1, to 15 to 1. Outside of this Euro pean and Indian silver, there remains to day but $1,845,000,000 in all the world to be lifted by an unlimited coinage de mand from the Uuited States to the ra tio of 16 to 1. Admitting that it would all come here, does any man doubt that our 70,000,000 people could find a use for it? JUDGE SCOTT. A tremendous audience assembled at Beatrice on last Saturday night to hear Judge Scott. The judge was especially severe on the few republicans in this state who yet claim to hold membership in that party, while to do so they have to abandon the teachings of every great leader in that party from the days of Lincoln to the present time, with the single exception of John Sherman. The judge read passages from the speeches of Logan, Blaiue, Garfield and many others declaring for free silver and backed it up with the decisions of the Uuited States supreme court and opin ions of the great constitutional .nwyers, declaring that silver coins were a legal tender and primary money by virtue of the constitution, even without any act of congress declaring them to be so. The positive statements of McKinley when in congress and of every republican Dlatform until the Inst rcnnhlinnn rnnvon. tion, were read and then their leaders got siTVi an excoriation as seldom falls from thejip8 of mortal man. Every one of thenfrJeserved it, for such villainy was neveos Known on tne lace 01 the earth be fore1 1 7 11 1 ei4iW''