THE NEBRASKA 1NDEPEDEN
Oct. 8, 1896
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Talk About Tyranny.
"Don't ask any question,'' said Supt
rr.ly Lawlor as be handed Joseph Hop
tnser his walking papers Thursday
c!UL Hopflnger has been employed tor
Icras time pat in D. E. Thompson's
Cta and electric light works and it cams
to his ears the other day that Hopflnger
Lad been talking for Bryan and he "
csdiately ordered an investigation.
Eapt. Lawlor inquired around a little
and experienced no difficulty whatever
ia learning that the charge was true and
each as he liked Jo he was compelled to
give him the bounce, so on Thursday
night Jo was summoned into the super
intendent's office where the following dia
logue took place:
"Jo, I guess we'll have to get along
without you after this. Here is your
time." "
"Why, Billy, hat do you mean, am I
fired?"
'Tea, jou are flred."
"But what have I done to warrant it?
Haven't I been performing my work
properly?" '
"Yes, your work Is perfectly satisfac
tory but we will have to give your place
to someone else."
"Well, ain't you going to give me some
reason?"
"No, I can't do thai Jo and I would
rather you wouldn't ask any questions,"
Jo persisted, and seeing that he could
get no satisfaction left the office for
home where he told his family of his mis
fortune..; ' '., '
It seems that Jo was one of the very
few men who would not be buncoed into
declaring that he was going to vote for
McKinloy. Nearly all the others had
thus declared themselves but Jo wasn't
made of that sort of stuff, consequently
he had to take his medicine. It further
develops that Jo never talked politics
around the gas works, but had confined
what little be had to say to his home or
elsewhere and in no instance had he made
" himself obnoxious or offensive to anyone.
Here is simply another instance where
tyranny is being exercised by these
political bosses and it's the same old
story every day.
Ibia man Hopflnger is an honest,
s'ober, industrious man who has been
employed at the gas works for over
three years. He, lives at H and Third
streets where he has a wife and four
children. He has been getting the
munificent salary of $45.00 a month
to support them on and now
is compelled to find another job,
a very difficult thing to do in times like
these. The man who takes his place is
a lazy, goodfor nothing chap named
Hanneman, whose father is a well known
republican ward heeler, The son has
previously held a position in the gas
works, but was let out for incompetency
and laciness.
This is the way they do business at the
gasworks.
ABOUT TELLER'S MINES.
He Never Had a Silver Mine but is In
terested in Gold.
It has been frequently charged by the
none too truthful republican press that
Senator Teller's action during the past
few months and years has been prompt
ed by a personal consideration growing
out of his ownership of silver mines. It
has also been charged that he was in the
employ of the silver syndicate. A num
ber of like charges have been mode. As
an answer to these, Senator Teller, in a
speech last week at his old home at Mor
rison, 111., said:
"Why in the name of heaven should I
come here to talk to you unless I have
an interest in your welfare and the wel
fare of the American people? Somebody
some newspaper may tell you that I
am an agent of the great silverproduc
ing corporations. Some of you have
been my neighbors, many of you knew
me more than a generation ago. You
kuew me in my youth and in my early
professional life. I believe in the years
that I lived in your commuuity I estab
lished something of a character for de
cency and truth.
"I have endeavored in all my life, pub
lic and private, to deserve the commen
dation of my fellow-citizens, because I
was honest and truthful, and outspoken
in my opinions concerning publio mat
ters; and let me any I have no more in
terest in this question than you have.
"I never mined an ounce of sil ver in
my life; I own no silver property. Al
most all my fortune, be it little or great,
is involved and invested in gold mining
in my state. I have been connected with
gold mining for thirty-five years, and if
I had any personal interest it would be
in the appreciation of gold."
A FEW CONCISE REASONS.
Why the Free and Unlimited Coinage of
Silver Is the Proper Thing.
The following communication is from
a student of Rush Medical College, Chi
cago. It is written to a friend in tin
coin, and the points in the same are so
good that we herewith publish the same:
Chicago, Sept 30, 1896. Dear Sir:
There are lots of excellent chances here
to study the financial question. There
have been two great times in the history
of the world when conditions were just as
they are now wealth against the com
mon people. One was in Rome. The
wealthy became so intolerable to the
masses that the poorer people, the labor
ing classes, left the city in a body "went
on a strike" and would not return until
decent laws were enacted.
The other is recorded as occurring dur
ing the French revolution, when the
poorer classes, ground down to absolute
poverty, arose and put down the tyranny,
but only after a terrible struggle.
' Now comes the next great struggle,
similar to the above mentioned. The
raonleare divided into thren cIarhm
The lenders, the borrowers and the mid-
1 file close, who both borrow and lend
The borrowers will be benefited by free
silver at the expense of the lenders.
wLile the condition of this middle class
1 more or law unhurt, since their
borrowing will make up for the liwe
from lending.
Now the wealthy clas iir sending
millions of dollars in trvtng to mak the
people believe that the r (the people')
condition will be injured by the free coin
age of silver! Preciou little they would
gpend for the people's mike! It means
rather that if free silver comes in the
wealthy class cannot equeez' out extra
millions from the people in exchange for
these thousands they nre now upending.
I can't see how any laboring man can
beo easily blinded by such bluffs a
"sound money and prosperity." There
is no effort being made to show how
"sound money" is going to bring "pros
perity. " .
Another high sounding phrase is:
"McKinley will open thefactones." How
will he do this? Why are the facto-ies
closed? Because they can't sell what
they have already manufactured. Why?
Because the people who need the manu
factured articles have no money to buv
with. Why? Because they uet such small
prices for their produce. Why have
prices gone down? Because the volume
of primary money has heroine so small
since sil ver was demonet ized th at weal t hy
men can get and control it. Three men
in the world could, together, corner and
control all the world's gold. "
Rothschilds of England is one of them.
One of the Astor family of Njw York city
is another, and the third, I think, is John
Morgan of the same place.
Prices of produce of every description,
as well as the prices of land and build
ings have decreased about the same way
that silver bullion has decreased; show-
ing that while all these things have been
decreasing with silver in value the buy
ing power of gold (which is held and con-
troled by those already weal toy 1 11 as
nearly doubled.
Since gold is our ''best money" people
want it It is now scarce so they can t
get it as easily as before. What then?
They have to offer more of tbeir goods
to get it. Since silver is not scarce, it
could not be controied so easily, and
would, therefore, tend not to diminish in
value, but to raise in value and bring
prices of the farmer's produce, the value
of property, up with it, decreasing only
the buying power 01 the gold dollar.
When farmers get good prices for their
produce then thecouutry is prosperous,
and this would be the ultimate result of
the opening of the mints to free and un
limited coinage qf silver.
Of course the banks and goldbug
classes will try to spread a panic at first
if Bryan is elected so they can say "I
told you so!"
Well here is politics for you. Perhaps
not interesting but tbey are facts as I
Bee them and are the reasons why I shall
vote for Bryan. 1 am not a democrat
but a silver-republican. Some things in
the Chicago platform I don't like, but I
believe the silver question is now an lm
portant.
Let us pay attention to facts and
watch for the truth and not be misled by
high Bounding phrases such as I have
mentioned, unless it is shown how a
sound money advocate is "patriotic" or
bow all these things are to bo, and it
this is brought before such people they
will shrink from the truth every time.
N. P. COLWKLL,
251 Winchester Ave,
FELL FROM A HORSE.
STATE'3 ATTORNEY 8WITZEE TAK
EST HOME BY HIS FRIENDS.
One of Illinois' Moat Prominent and
Highly Honored Men Suffers JBrom
Injuries Sustained in a Fall His Col
leagues and Fellow Citizma Testify to
His Integrity and Publio Spirited oess
From the Journal. Macomb, III.
Theodore B. Switzer is the senior mem
ber of the law firm of Switzer & Breeden ,
of Macomb, III., and will this fall (1896),
close a brilliant four-years term as
State's Attorney for McDonough county,
III. Years ago he was severely injured
by a fall from a horse, sustaining a hurt
m tbe right Bide in the region of the sci
atic nerve, leaving this portion of his
anatomy weak and susceptible to disease.
When last February's term of court
came on he found himself, from close ap
plication to bis business, sadly run down;
in fact he was on the very verge of nerv
ous prostration. Mr. Switzer told the
Daily Journal reporter that while laid
up, with no possible signs or prospect of
relief from his family physician, be read
a testimonial wherein Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People had cured a case
parallel with his own, and he immedi
ately made up his mind to try the rem
edy. He sent for a package aud com
menced their usa immediately according
to directions, with the result that he be
gan rapidly to mend and was soon at
tending to his business once more.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain in a
condensed form, all the elements neces
sary to give new life and richness to the
blood and restore shattered ner.es.
Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will
be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50
cents a box, or six boxes for 2.50 (they
are never sold in bulk or by the 100),
by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
DOWN ON DECK.
Pol jr.
County Populists
Vigorously
Denounce him. ,
To the Editor: By request of the
County Central Comitee. I send you the
inclosed resolutions which they desire
you to publish in your paper and there
by show the people of the state where
we stand.
The following resolutions in condem
nation of W. H. Dech were adopted at
the Peoples Party primary in Osceola last
Saturday and also at the county conven
tion Monday.
Whereas, W. L. Stark of Aurora. Neb.,
has been nominated by the silver forces
of the fourth Congressional district, and
whereas, w. ti. Dech, 01 Saunders coun
ty has ftlod bis petition with the Secre
tary of State for the purpose of running
for congress, and whereas, it is patent
to every right thinking person that said
Dech cannot be elected, bat that ho ia
doing this in the interest of Mr. Huiner,1
and witn lull intent to cause tbe defeat
of W. L. Stark, therefore, be it
Resolved. That we hereby condemn
said Dech and tbe course he is taking.
and we further promise to do all in our
power to elect lion. W, L. Stark:
Polk County will give Bryan and the
State Ticket from 700 to 1000 majority,
- J.E. Peterson.
Sec. Co. Central Com.
Rlpan.8 Tabules: for sour stomach.
SIXTEEN
A fitting comparison between the
and that of his candidate.
Misleading and Deceptive.
To the Editor: The State Journal of
September 30, under the head of "Value
and Law," publishes statements credited
to Edward Atkinson, which from a sur
face view are correct, yet the statements
made as to fact are the most misleading
and deceptive that can be imagined.
The statements referred to ought to be
used by all the- speakers . who are for sil
ver coinage showing the adroitness at
deception that is resorted to in order to
deceive the people on the many issues
now before the country.
First Mr. Atkinson speaks 01 Hamil
ton as the framer of the coinage act of
1792, and that, after a full consultation
with Jefferson, etc. Tbe fact is that Jef
ferson gave us the unit of account, tbe
dollar. Jeffersonian statesmanship stood
for the people and humanity, Hamilton
statesmanship for aristocracy and plu
tocracy. Hamilton b efforts were direct
ed in the line of commodity value of the
future money of the nation, Jefferson in
the line of only legal value. Jefferson
won the fight. The law of 1792 says the
unit of account shall be tbe dollar of
371 grains pure silver or 416 grains
standard. Up to this date such a thing
as a unit of account or dollar as the
legal unit of all transactions of the peo
ple was not in existence. The genius of
a Jefferson spoke the ideal dollar into
existence. His far-seeing genius saw that
intrinsic or commodity value of money
would be a fluctuating value dependent
upon the greed and avarice of tbe rich to
control its value from time to time as
their interests dictated. Commodity
value was only a shorter cut in the bar
ter svstem of barbarians. To lift the
new born nation to a higher plane he
advocated and won the true principle of
legal value. From this resulted the
law of 1792, giving us the unit
of account, in which "all accounts
in the public offices, and all proceedings
in the courts of the United States shall
be kept," etc. Tbe Spanish milled silver
dollar was taken as a representative of
the "Ideal Dollar as to its weight. No
gold coin of the value of a dollar was
ever coined until the law of 1849 said a
coin of gold, of the value of one dollar or
unit, of 25 8-10 grains of 9-10 fine
should be coined. Then came into ex
istence the coin of the legal value of the
unit of account of 1792. Still thio gold
dollar is not a dollar unit, only of the
value (legal) of a dollar. This view of,
the legal value of the dollar instead of a
commodity value, was made plain in the
law of 1792., making the minor coius in
weight and fineness proportionately of
legal value to the unit. The ideal dollar
was intended by Jefferson to be the Jegal
standard to facilitate exchange of pro
ducts. To insure a fixed unchangeable,
non-fluctuating unit for the business of
the nation Jefferson knew full well
that a commodity unit of any kind
would be subject to fluctuations of value
produced bv greed And avarice of the
money power of the world, and his aim
was to so frame the coinage laws at the
start that only legal value of money
should be recognized. As the unit of ac
count as fixed by Jefferson it has re
mained in all the history of the nation
down to 1873, when a second Arnold in
the form of John Sherman changed the
term to "unit of value," at the same
time dropping from coinage the unit of
account (silver dollar) and substituting
bv fraud the unit of value (gold dollar.)
Jefferson's struggle to maintain in the
coinage law the legal value of the dollar
as against Hamilton's commodity value
idea, resulted in a sort 01 a compromise
between the two conflicting ideas. The
language of the law as to the dol
lar being the unit of account, shows
that the law. is the dollar, and
the silver is the material which
receives tbe impression of tbe law or
legal decree, the silver with its weight
and fineness being the commodity. The
silver dollar or the gold dollar, so-called,
cannot have as a medium of exchange
two value at the same time, i. e., a legal
and commodity value at one and the
same time, jenerson s genius loresaw
the attempt to enslave the producer
through the fluctuating process of com
modity value in money, and by fiat of
sovereign power made the law, the money
and the coin, which Judge Tiffany, on
constitutional law, says may by gold
silver, parchment or paper, the material
to receive the impression of law, and this
gold, silver, parchment or paper is the
medium of exchange and its only func
tion is, first, to pay the debts of tbe peo
ple either out of court or in court, and
second, to assist in CTC-bange of products,
Tbis view of what money is, and what
its functions are, is sustained by every
decision of the United States suprem
court, and by several of the state su
oreme courts.
I challenge any man to show any de
cision of the courts to the contrary.
The agitation of the question of money
and its proper and just solution will
never be settled right and in theinterests
of the people until the majority of the
people plainly see that commodity value
of the debt paying ugent is slavery, while
the lege I value is liberty and freedom
from insatiate greed. W. F. Weight.
ONE.
importance of the Republican boss
Philadelphia Item.
DECLINES TO MAKE THE RUN
O. N. Humphrey's Name Substituted For
That ot C. W Leach.
Mr. C. W. Leach, candidate for state
senator of the populist tic'01; ! k n be
fore tbe committee at its last meeting
and asked to have bis name taken off
the ticket. He said that recent changes
in his business affairs rendered it impos
sible for him to make the race and do his
duty as a candidate.
After mature deliberation the commit
tee accepted his resignation and placed
the name of 0. N. Humphrey of this city
on the ticket.
It will be remembered that at the
nominating convention Mr. Humphrey's
name was among the first mentioned for
that place and he would have received
the unanimous vote had he not per
emptorily declined the honor which he
now reluctantly accepts.
Mr. Humphrey is one of the best known
men in the county and for honesty, busi
ness integrity and high moral and social
tanding has no peer in the state.
He has been a life-long republican, but
when he read the St. Louis platform in
which be found thas his party had gone
back on its record for free silver, and ac
knowledged their inability to run this
country without the aid of foreign pow
, he, like thousands of the best repub
licans in Nebraska, promptly severed his
connection with tbe c. o. o. and fell into
the ranks of the reformers wbo will rescue
the country in November.
The extensive personal acquaintance
which Mr. Humphrey enjoys in this
county insures him a large vote from his
former republican associates. He will
be elected by a larger majority than any
man on the county ticket.
FEELS CERTAIN OF VICTORY.
Candidate Bryan Dsclares His Cause
Has Already Won. ,
I New Yoiik, Oct. 3. The Journal this
morning publishes the following signed
statement from Candidate Bryan, pre
dicting bis victory, a month before the
election:
Cincinnati, 0., Oct. 2. To W. R.
Hearst, Journal, New York: I have no
doubt of my election, and I base my
confidence upon the fact that the free
coinage sentiment is growing every day.
The people are studying the money ques
tion and the study of it is convincing
the people that there can be no perma
nent prosperity so long as the gold
standard is maintained.
The gold standard makes a dearer dol
lar; a dearer dollar means falling prices.
and falling prices mean hard times. The
people who profit by hard times are rela
tively so few in number that they would
amount to nothing at all but for the fact
that they are are aided by a considerable
number of people, who, not having
studied tbe money question themselves,
have received instructions from a few
financiers. The number of republicans
who have declared for freesilveroutnum
bers the democrats wbo have deserted
the ticket, and while the number of silver
republicans is increasing all the time, the
number of bolting democrats is all tbe
time decreasing. .
While 1 have no doubt as to my elec
tion, I believe that every advocate of
free coinage should work from now to
election day to make the majority so
large that no party hereafter will ever
dare to propose submission to a foreign
financial policy. W. J. Bryan.
CERTIFICATES FILED
Of the Nomination of Candidates for Pres
idential Electors and State
Officers.
Ed P. Smith has filed with the secretary
of state the certificates of nomination of
the candidates for presidential electors
and state officers named by the demo
cratic statecon vention; these are the same
names as are contained in the peoples
independent party certificate aud are:
(iovernor, Silas A. Hoicomo; lieutenant
governor, J.E. Harris; secretary of state,
W. F. Porter; state auditor, John F.Cor
nell: state treasurer, J. P. Meserve; state
superintendent; W. R. Jackson; commis
sioner, J. V. Wolfe; judges of supreme
court, long term, William Neville; short
term. J. S. Kirkpatrick; for attorney
general, C. J. Smyth; for university re
gents. Thomas Rawlings. Presidential
electors. Fred Metz, sr., Douglas; O. W,
Palm, Lancaster; F. J. Hale, Madison;
X. Fiaeceki, Howard) N.O. Alberts, Clay;
L. Kostryxe, Saline; M. F. Harrington,
Holt; J. M. uampoeii, Nance.
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