Oct. 22, l8q6
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT,
The report that Governor Altm-ld had
dropped dead seems to have twen sired
as was the recent rumor that Mr. Bryan
nad broken down, by the wish of the
Uaunacrats.
ANOTHER STRAW.
The srnldbojra are constantly shouting
anout toe business men all twins; oppos
ed to bimetallism. Like nearly all th
declarations of the froldite it in false in
every particular. The sound business
men of the country, those who rely upon
legitimate trade for success, realize that
their prosperity is dependent upon those
to whom the5 wish t sell. The. bulk of
their business comes not from the
millionaire but from the great middle
class of people, the farmers and working
men. When agriculture languishes, busi
ness houses languish or go into bank
ruptcy. When the farmer prospers it
has a like effect upou the man who is en
gage in trade.
This is the way the business men of
the country are beginung to look at the
matter and they are rapidly falling in
line under the leadership of W. J. Bryan.
In support of this statement we wish to
quote the following despatch tJ the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Toledo, Ohio, October 5. An elo
quent reply to the statement that busi
ness men generally are for McKinh-y iaa
been made by means of a recent mail
ballot. J. W. Gunnel Is, of this city,
publisher of Gunnells's Monthly, recently
sent out 10,000 returned postal cards.
On them was the request that the re
cipient would simply give their pre
ferences for President, without going inJ
to tne issue involved.
These cards were sent to business
houses with which Mr. Gunnells ha J
dealing, advertising agencies and to
many subscribers for the Monthly. Mr.
Chinuells has received 8,395 replies to
date. Eight thousatid three hundred
and thirtv-tour are for Bryan and only
161 for McKiuley.
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.
Everone who favors the free coinage
oi gold and silver at the present legal
ratio is also in favor of free coi tinge by
international agreement. They believe
that the only way to get free coinage by
international agreement is to declare in
favor of independent free coinage, and
by so doing compel international agree
ment. That is the only way in which
international agreement can ever be
secured. If this country should declare
in favor of free coinage, England and
the other gold standard countries would
foe compelled to adopt' free coinage to
protect and preserve their commercial
interests. It would be better for the
United States if this country would
adopt free coinage and the other gold
standard countries were to decline to do
so, as it would soon enable this country
to control the commerce of the world,
but if this country were to declare for
free coinage tho other gold standard
nations would break their necks
clambering into the free coinage bund
wagon in order to enable them to pre
serve their commerce. The foreign sold
standard countries will never declare in
favor of bi-metallism until they are com
pelled to do so. Their governments are
dominated by royalty and aristocracy,
who profit by the appreciation of the
valueof mouey and the depreciation of the
value of property. There is not a foreign
nation that dares oppose the will of the
Rothschilds and their confederates. The
common people, the middle and indus
trial classes, have little to say in decid
ing the financial polices of monarchies.
fcven in Lurnps tuOwt-Sttseni are inclined
to free coinage, but they are pnwerl ss
to secure it. The money dealers have
the upper hand on their lawmakers.
Hence it is that the European countries
win never declare for tree coinage until
compelled to do so to defend their com
merce from therivalry of other countries.
Many of the cpief advocates of the
platform which nf tr asks that free coin
age be delayed a til other nations con
sent would, if a on test therefor arose,
be as hitterlv opt need to free coinage by
international agreement. American
money dealers, and the American agents
of foreign money dealers, would fight in
ternational free coinage just as bitterly
as they are now fighting independent
free coinage. They do not, want free
coinage of silver nnder any conditions,
nor do they want any change in govern
mental finances that will make money
more plentiful and cheaper Their con
stant aim and desire is to diminish the
world's supply of money and make
money dearer. Cheap money and dear
labor and property are their soul's ab
horrence, it the fight against independ
ent coinage does not prevail in this coun
try, we shall never see free coinage by In
ternational agreement All who are sin
cerely in favor of free coinage by Inter
national agreement onght to be able to
see that they are allied with those who
will nfver concent to free coinage under
any circumstances, and are opposing the
patriotic efforts of those who are fighting
for the restoration of silver coinage the
world over.
A WORN OUT FAD.
'Spring Medicin.s," "Blood purifi-rs"
and "Tonics' an Old Fashioned Idea.
Pure blood, strong nerves and muscles.
firm healthy flesh can only come from
wholesome food well digested. "Blood
purifiers" and "nerve tonics" do not
reach the cause of the mischief. The
stomach is the point to be looked after.
The safest and surest way to cure any
form of indigestion is to take after each
meal some harmless preparation which
will of itself digest food. There is an ex
cellent prepacation of this kind com
posed of vegetable essences, pure pepsin,
Golden Seal and fruit salts, sold by drug
gists under name of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets and these tablets taken after
meals assist digestion wonderfully be
cause they will digest the food promptly
before it has time to ferment and sour
and the weak stomach relieved and as
sisted in this way soon becomes strong
and vigorous again.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are su
perior to any secret patent medicines,
because you know what you are taking
into your stomach. They are sold by
druirgists everywhere at 50 cents per
package.
Write Stuart Co , Marshall, Mich., for
book on stomach diseases. .
Dr. Sims gives special attention to ar
tificial teeth, crown and bridge work.
Burr Bl'k. 14.
SPIRIT OP OOLDUI OISM.
Laboringmeu can hardly fAil to appre
ciate the conception of free American
citsenship entertained by most of the
arrogant aristocrats who are strugsling
for thPnr;!!sirfja:iCGj tiieiroiiinranrtnrrf
This plutocraticconception of cititensuip
is exempl hVd in the recent utterances of
Dugald Crawford, the wealthy St. Louis
merchant, who, when be returned a few
daysince "from my summer residence
in Canada" and ascertained that several
of the men employed in his big depart
ment store had become convinced (hat
the best interests of their country de
manded the restoration of the free coin
age of silver and bad determined to vote
i.ccord ngly, promptly and angrily dis
charged them, lie did not attempt to
disguise his reason for dismissing them,
but was outspoken in ' his wrath. It is
true that after indignation meetings had
been held, industrial circles had inaugu
rated steps to emphasize their resent
ment of such a flagrant assault
upon the rights of citizenship and a
movement had been begun look
ing to Crawford's arrest for viola
tion of the law against intimidation
of voters, hen alized that he had made
a mistake and recalled, with an outward
show of peuitence, the men whom he
bad discharged. If he had stopped there
the world might nave believed .hat bis
unlawful, unpatriotic act was due to the
beat of sudden passion, which the law
recognizes as a human attribute entitled
to some weight in the mitigation of pun
ishment or censure. Subsequent events,
however, show that Crawford's expressed
penance was a measure only of cunning
precaution, designed to shield him from
the public wrath. This is proven by his
subsequent published interview, in which
he said that he simply exercised the
right he had to discharge or employ any
man whom he thought detrimental to
his interests.
"These men," said he, "seemed to me
like vipers that I had warmed find were
now awaiting an opportunity to sting
me. Many of them had been working
for me for several years and had
been living off my prosperity. My
interests should have been their
interests, and they should have
swn that they were bent on hurting me.
and through me themselves."
this is a lair expression of the spirit of
patriotism that animates the gold stan
dard bnuoo-ateerer the world over. He
will not recognize the right of the men J
who have built up his prosperity for him ;
as human being- endowed with brains;
which they are entitled to use to their
own advantage, to think except in lines'
laid out by him. According to the most !
zealous gold standard advocate all em
ployes who do not vote an their em
ployers prompt are "vipers" who have
been "warmed ' by their employers.
This tenet of gold standardism must
indeed touch a responsive cord in the
industrial heart. It must awaken a
spirit of resentment in the breast of
every patriotic American, and it will be
discovered in a few days that the woods
are full of "vipers." .
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O ROVER'S CURE-ALL.
President Cleveland and Secretary Car
lisle have, recommended as a cure for
present financial ills, the retirement ol
greenbacks. stMtig &s a reaMu for such
a recommendation that they are a con
stant men aim to the credit of the govern
ment, in that they are a credit issue, re
deemable in gold. They attribut the
whole financial depression, to the fact
that unpatriotic men collect and at the
most inopportune time force them
npon the treasury for redeaiptioa, and
thus withdraw the gold.
it was on account of the operations of
this endless chain that the president at
tributes the necessity for the recent bond
issues. Secretary Carlisle further argues
that if the greenbacks were retired, it
would not be necessary to maintain the
gold reserve and the gold circulation of
the country would be increased to that
extent.
The secretary of the treasury now
takes the advanced position, a position
hitherto taken by no distinguished au
thority on finance, that the silver dol
lars are only kept at par with gold be
cause the government stands ready to
redeem them in gold. If the secretary is
correct, then unquestionably the silver
dollars are merely a credit issueand bear
the same relation to gold as the green
backs. The query then arises, what is to pre
vent the silver dollar, like the greenback
credit issue, from becoming a menace to
the financial integrity of our govern
ment? What is to prevent them from be
coming the links in the endless chain
process of which the secretary Bpeaks?
What is to prevent tbem from being
used, by designing individuals, to with
draw gold from the treasury and force
the issue of bonds? Then would it not
logically follow that the next step would
be a recommendation from the secretary
of the treasury requesting that silver
dollars be retired from circulation to
avoid the necessity for keeping a large
gold resesve for their redemption.
Are the American people ready to dis
continue, entirely, the use of silver as
money? Do they wish still farther to
contract the currency? The present low
prices, due to the scarcity of dollars,
would most certainly incline one to the
opinion that they do not. They only
way, and the business like way, to pre
veut such a contingency is to increase
the volume of primary money, the money
of ultimate redemption, by discontinu
ing the use of silver as a credit money
and placing it on an equality with gold,
a position it occupied prior to the de
monetization in 1873, a period the most
prosperous of our country's history. Or
in other words to restore bimetallism,
to open the mints to the free and un
limited coinage of both metals without
discrimination against either.
D. P. Sims, dentist rooms 42, 43 Burr
Bl'k., Lincoln. Nebraska. 14
Kad the advertisement of Summers
Morrison & Co., and ship your grain to
them.
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ASSESSMENTS AND APPROPRIATIONS
The state aluation of 1896 as re
turned by the assessors i falls short of
!ast year's valuation by more than 54,-
000,000. This means a hiuher rate
of taxation on our interest bearing debt,
or both. For years the average legisla
tive appropriations have exceeded the
legal limit of state levies by the state
board ol assessment. Hence, warrants
are issued on appropriations when there
can legally be no tax .levied to pay them
and these warrants are stamped by the
treasurer "Not paid for want of funds"
and begin drawing interest at from five
to seven per cent. But all taxes levied
are not collected for months or years
after the levy and large amounts of
these delinquent taxes are never collected
at all, hence an increasing deficit and an
increasing amount of unpaid warrants
drawlug interest at this time not falling
much short of $2,000,000. Yet the
treasurer's report shows that he has un
invested permanent school funds and
current funds of the stats more than
enough cash to take up these warrants
which are now selling for 95 to 97 cents
on the dollar. Why is this so? Not
withstanding the shrinkage of the tax
roll and the increased rate of taxation,
official salaries have not been reduced,
but have on the contrary, in some in
stances, been increased. But, not only
is this true but the number of employes
In our state house have been increased,
places have been provided for sinecures
who have no work to do until, with less
work to be done, the increase in the pay
rolls in. the state house amounts to more
than $10,000 a year, more than
2,00(1 of this annual burden
to the state, .occurring in the
office of the stater treasure. Iu addition
to the useless employes around the state
house some of our state institutions are
burdened with those who get board for
themselves and families (when they have
any) in addition to a good salary and
who occupy the best rooms in these in
stitutions while the children for whom
they were built sleep in garrets and live
in basements. An examination of the
payrolls and the management of these
schools will demonstrate that much
money can be saved by a change in
management.
Let ns make the change and save the
money by a change in these "Boards."
"Stand up for Nebraska."
One rallying cry of the gold standard
crew appears to have dropped out of the
campaign. One hears no more about
the silver of the world being "dumped
upon this country." Even the republi
can street corner claquer has realized
that this cry scares no one. People real
ize that no foreign country can "dump"
silver in this country without bmz'.l.
this country. A foreigner coold.tr
free coinage, bring his eilywe JhjjsJ,
and have it coined, but onlea he gate
away afterwards, be eonli not "da
it unless he purchased with it Amc"
property or product". Amerin t
stand all that sort of dair" j t; :t '
signers cars to attempt.
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