Oct. 15, i8q5
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Every Patriot Should Bead It.
The ladies of the Mary Bryan Silver
League ol Tecumseb, Nebraska, have Is
sued toe following valuable and scholar
ly address to the voters of this state:
We are living today under conditions
and circumstances that are frightful to
contemplate. The thought of contin
ued life under these conditions is appall
ing. Poverty is increasing. With in
creasing poverty, vice and crime in
creases. Suicides are more frequent, and
despair is fast displacing hope. The
wealth of the world is drifting' under the
control of the few. Syndicates manipu
late our industries. The farmer is be
coming or has become a hopeless toiler.
The day laborer sees nothing ahead but
a band to hand struggle for existence.
Hungry tramps abouud.
"Where field produces free and fair
The golden waving corn,
And fruit grows plenty, rich and rare,
, And fleecy flocks are shorn;
While thousands roam with aimless
feet y
And sing the careless song,
We starve, we die. give us to eat,
There must be something wrong."
Many of our sisters, wives and mothers,
are forced into the ranks of the brad
winners, in order to sustain tne tamuy.
Thus driven from the home they add to
the already fierce and fearful competi
tion in the ranks of labor. The young
aud tender children too are forced into
the same or worse channels.
"Do you hear the children weeping, 0.
- niy brother,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning ' their young hearts
against their mothers
And that does not stop their tears.
The young lambs are bleating in the
meadows,
The young birds are chirping in the
nest,
The young fawns are playing with the
shadows,
The young flowers are blowing to
v wards the west. .
But the young, young children, 0, my
brothers,
They are weeping bitterly;
They are weeping in the spring time of
the others,
In the country that is free."
From the homes thus made desolate,
husbands, fathers, sons and brothers oft
seek and find cheer and comfort in the
saloon. From cheerless, homeless homes,
and cheerful, comfortable saloon, toe
school and church get few recruits and
small support
Something is wrong. The days are
jest as long, the sun shines us brightly,
and tne rain and dew are jut as reireen
ing. Our people are quite as industrious.
House wives are far more economical
and the opportunities for bettering our
condition should not be fewer. Still
pricea are falling. Real estate is a poor
investment. Business enterprises pro
duce fur more receiverships than profits.
Mortgages are being foreclosed and de
ficiency judgments entered up. The
courts are busy running railroads at th'
instance of bondholders. Money at I
per cent is more profitable than employ
ing labor in industrial enterprises. The
nation is a constant borrower and
though taxes are excessively burden
some the public revenues are insufficient.
This sort of thing has been going on for
more than 20 years. Unless there is a
change there is no certainty for the fu
ture but universal bankruptcy.
The cause for this deplorable state of
affairs, as stated by the advocates ol
the gold standard, is that there has
been overproduction. That is tosaj',
an unusually large proportion of the
people are poor; and nearly all are
poorer, because there is too much wealth
in the land. People are starving be
cause there is too much to eat. Rail
roads are going into bankruptcy because
there are too large crops to move. Men
are in rags because the sheep have pro
duced too much wool. According to
this theory mankind should do less
work. Droughts should dry up the
crops and make breadstuffs scarce. Fac
tories should be closed. Universal
laziness is what is needed and impover
ished soil is a blessing. We have been
teaching our children wrongfully when
we have taught them the duty and need
of industry. At the same time these ad
vocates loudly declare that the closed
factories must be reopened. This in the
face of an over supply and in the face of
continually falling prices. But they ar
gue that thefall in prices can be checked,
that they can even be advanced, and the
advance maintained by an increase of
taxation. Can one litt himself by the
boot strapx? Cau he hold himself out at
arms length? Is it not a fact that the
whole trouble is caused by a contraction
of the money volume? Is not that the
experience of mankind, the teaching of
history? How clearly this has been dem
onstrated by many of America's most
eraineut statesmen and thinkers. Men
whom the present advocates of the gold
standard have delighted to honor, and
in so doing have honored themselves.
How truly and forcibly they have stated
the proven fact. We quote. "A sinking
volume of money is the most, insidious
foe with which civilization has to con
tend." "Its baneful effects are intensi
fied as civilization advances." "It is
my firm conviction that the inexpress
ible miseries inflicted upon mankind by
war, pestilence and famine, have been
less cruel, less unpitjing and less unre
lenting than the persistent and remorse
less exactions which this inexorable
enemv has made upon society." A
shrinirage in the volume of money is the
prolific source of bankruptcy and ruin.
It Is the canker that uuperceived and
unsuspecting is eating out the prosper
ity of our people." By reason of the al
most universal inattention to the nature
and function of money this evil is per
mitted miotwerved, to work widespread
ruin and diater. So sulitle is it in its
operations that it eludes the vntilence of
the scute. It buttles all forewlgut and
calculation. It sets at naught all in
dustry, all energy, all enterprise."
Obviously then the proper thing to do
is to put a slop to the further contrac
tion of tne money volume; to put an end
to this continuous fall in prices with its
iuevirabie bankruptcies, repudiations,
confiscation, ruined fortunes, blasted
hopes, bleeding hearts and miserable
miseries incalculable and inexpressible.
Obviously too the first step in that di
rection is the restoration of silver to its
ancient piece by the side of gold as a
money metal. How can this be doner
Oolyby opening the mints to the coinage
of silver on equal terms with gold at the
old rati . The act of congress that will
do this will constitute a decree of eman
cipation as veritable as any that ever
freed sen from tnralmom but more uni
versal io its application. It will pro
claim the freedom of the white race the
world over. It will lift the bowed head
of labor. It will hush the threnody of
toil. It will innugurate the true ren
aisance a renaiseuce of prosperity with
out which industry, learning, science,
literature, art are but as apples ol
Sodom." .
The election of William J. Bryan to
the presidency of these United States,
with a congress pledged. to the enact
ment of such an act, is the only present
way of accomplishing such a glorious re
sult Dear Brothers and Sisters, the
members of the Mary Brjan Silver
League of Tecumseh, Nebraska, hereby
earnestly urge you to so labor and vote
that this desirable result may be ac
complished. We do this in the confident
belief that if success crowns our efforts
there will be established at least one es
sential condition precedent for the in
coming of God's Kingdom on earth,
when his will can be done on earth as it
is in Heaven: That a distinct advance
will thus be made toward that time for
which we are ail working and praying;
that time of peace on earth and good
will from man to man, concerning which
the Angelic hosts so sweetly sang that
wonderful night some nineteen hundred
years ago. Mrs. Maby A. Ward, .
Bklle U. Heilman, Pres.
Sec.:
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Arcadia, Neb., Oct. 10, 1896.
To The Editor: Here is one of the
best arguments for free silver that we
have seen, and taken from a gold stand
ard paper where it appeared as gold
standard argument. The Mexican dol
lar must indeed seem cheap beside a do!
lar that is worth f 1 .90. The paper says
"The Mexican dollar buys as much of
products as when it was on a par with
gold." While the United States dollar
with 47 cents of fiat and 90 per cent of
gold basis in it, buys from throe to five
times as much as it did. Is this what
the farmers of the United States are in
favor of? .
If the Mexican dollar buys as much of
Mexican labor as it did when on a par
with gold, and as much of products
then he Mexican laborer is as well off as
he ever was.
"The Mexican continues to work for
from twenty-five to fifty cents per day,
although his wages are worth only half
as much."
Will some goldfte kindly explain why
it is only worth half as much when by a
previous statement it buys as much as
itever did?
The writer of the above must have a
great deal of confidence in the credulity
of the average voter in this country t if
he thinks this wl be swallowed at Us
face. If the Mexican greaser were such
a fool as to work for fifty cents per day
when he could go across the line as this
writer says, and get $1.25, then certainly
he is worth only fifty cents per day.
These statements are aa hard to rec
oncile as the statement of George W. E.
Dorsey in congress in 1890 in favor of
silver bullion certificates, when he gave
the per capita circulation in 1866 as
over $52, while the New York Commer
cial Advertiser In a recest Usne gives the
circulation in 1K57 as $18.X8. This is
qui te a falling off in the short space of
one year, is it not?
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THE GOLD CURB
MARK HANNA ADVERTISES FOR
PARMER VOTERS.
Kasoito Co the Pateat Modlelao DodgS
to Foist MeKlaloyUa Coos the Ammf
lean People Wants the Farmers t
Taka His Uold Gore.
perpetuate tne gum gianas.ro, and our
readers, be they agriculturists or
'home owners' of any kind, recognise
this as one of the pertinent 'facts' In
this campaign."
The Western Rural at length at
tacks and destroys in Ita editorial Che
paid-for-statements In Its advertising
columns.
Men advertise quack medicines to
float them, but this Is the first instance
on record Where the advertising col
umns of a newspaper have teen re
sorted to to float a candidate for tie
great, office of president of the United
States.
Chicago, Oct 1. (Special.) Mark
Hanna and his corps of assistants in
the management of McKlnley's cam
paign are becoming desperate.
Hanna has a large force of campaign
editors writing gold matter In the form
of editorials and special articles which
he has Bought to have published In
the press of the country supposed to
circulate among the fanners.
Falling In his efforts to bribe and
subsidize the great agricultural news
papers and periodicals, this man of
money, Hanna, has sought and paid
for pages in several weeklies, into
which he Inserts regular advertise
ments, detailing the alleged virtues of
the gold standard as though it were
Palne's Celery Compound or Carter's
Little Liver Pills.
In the last issue of the Western
Rural appears a full page advertise
ment labeled "A Few Common Sense
Facta for Agriculturists and Home
Owners. ' Beneath this heading bp
pears in big black type Ave reanons
why the producer should take the
Hanna gold cure.
Though the Western Rural prints the
advertisement, labeled such, It is true
to the masess of the people it repre
sents, and speaks thus editorially of It
"We invite attention," says the West
ern Rural, "to an advertisement cn
another page, paid for by Mark Ban
na's syndicate money. It is inserted
with pleasure for a number of good
reasons, two or three of which we will
mention: 1. Because we have confi
dence in the 'common sense' of our
readers, and believe they will apply
the test of common sense to this use
of money by the millionaire syndicate
Which is seeking to dominat American
money. -
"2. Because we are convinced that
those who have read our paper, in its
discussions on the money question for
four years past, or for four months,
or even for four weeks, know the dif
ference between 'facts' and bare as
sertions, and between facts that are
pertinent and mere platitudes.
"A vote for McKinley is a Tote to
BRYAN'S 8AVINQ3.
Extracts trow the hlldolhla tooonh
of the Desnoeratlo Candidate.
"The agitation of free coinage wl'.!
never cease In this country until the
gold standard is driven back to Eng
land." . .
"Every enemy of good government
Is against free; silver. You can know
a cause as you can know an individ
ual, by the company that It keeps."
"
"Our record is clear, The democrat
ic party never declared for a goli
itandard and no man In office ever at-
tated a gold standard after he was
elected until he betrayed the people
who elected him."
"When I find that my conscience will
not permit me to carry out the plat
form on which I was elected I will re
sign and let some other man have the
office."
"I deny the right of any public ssrv-,;.
ant to secure office upon a partisan
nlatform and then abandon the plat
form. My friends, I was reared In a
different school of democracy."
I do not use the word gold buz la
n offensive sense. I use the word in
that same kindly spirit In which the
gold bugs use the word lunatic wnen
they apeak of me."
"I would rather have It said that I
lacked dignity than to have It said
that I lacked backbone to meet tie
enemies of this government who con-
ipire against this nation's welSura in
Wall street"
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