THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
Oc:. :
SILVER GOOD AS GOLD
OPEN MINT8 AND MAKE WHITE
METAL GOOD A8 YELLOW.
( V 50-Cen Dollar This Is Wot Qnee
tSoa ef Bullion, bnt of Remonetlsed,
Debt-Paying Coined Money.
Austin, Tex., Oct 5, 1896.
One of the scare crows used by the
. advocates of the single gold standard
is the false representation that If the
policy of the free and unlimited coin
age of silver should be adopted it would
cut in two the wages of laborers and
, compel them to take 50-cent dollars
without an Increase of the rate of their
wages; that those receiving salaries
would get but one-half the pay they
now receive; that those having money
on deposit in savings banks would only
receive from the banks in return for
their deposits, 60- cent dollars, which
would be but the one-half of what
would be due them; that the endow
ment funds of colleges and universities
would be reduced one-half In value;
as would all trust funds.
This frightful statement is repeated
day by day by the newspapers and
other advocates of the single gold
standard, as a controlling argument, to
prevent the people from voting for the
candidates who represent the policy of
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
The newspapers and men who are urg
ing this statement know it to be a
stupendous falsehood. They make It
look as plausible as they can, and ring
the changes on it in every possible
form. And by this means have de
ceived and are deceiving and mislead
ing thousands of honest people, who
may not be able to detect the fraud
which is being practiced on them.
"What are the real facts as to this?
The gold standard advocates, as the
basis of their false statements, com
pare silver bullion divested of the qual
ity of money, uncoined and not a legal
tender, with gold, which is by law
coined into money and made a legal
tender in payment of public dues and
all debts, to the amount stamped on
. each coin. Is this an honest com
parison? Does it speak the truth?
Does it not, in effect, assert a, thinly
, disguised, but gross and monstrous,
falsehood? Let us see. If congress
and the nations should prevent the
coinage of gold bullion, as has been
done as to silver bullion, depriving it
by law of the qualities of money, tak
ing from it Its debt-paying quality,
then the gold bullion would not be
money, no more than silver bullion is
now. And the gold bullion would be
come a commodity as silver bullion is
now, and would simply bring what it
would be worth for use in the arts.
The same, is true as to silver.
To make an honest comparison of
gold and silver," and to tell the honest
truth, we must compare gold coin, in
vested with the legal tender quality,
with silver coin invested with the aame
quality. Doing that, we find the silver
coins in the United States, not silver
bullion, worth as much in the purchase
of property and in the payment of
debts as the coins of gold. And we
find that more than one billion of dol
lars of silver coins in circulation in
Europe are at par with gold. Why Is
this? Simply because both are coined
with the value of the coins fixed by law.
Has any one ever seen a 50-cent dol
lar in this country? Of course not.
And why not? Because our more than
1400,000,000 silver dollars, or their rep
resentatives, are the coined money of
the United States, their value fixed by
law and they are made a legal tender
for all debts. Hence, those now coin
ed are as good as gold.
' No laborer, no person drawing a sal
ary, no depositor in a bank will be
paid, nor will any offer be made to pay
them, with silver bullion. They may
. be paid in coined silver, as they may
now be lawfully paid in coined silver;
but the dollars in which they could be
so paid would be 100-cent dollars, and
equal to gold, because they would buy
as much property and pay as much of
debt as the same number of gold dol
lars. If it be said that the stamp of the
government and the mandate of the
law make the coin of greater value
than the bullion, the answer may be
made that the present value of gold is
fixed by law.
( An act of the British parliament
passed in the year 1844, fifty-two years
ago, requires the Bank of England to
purchase all the gold presented to it
at 8 pounds, 17 shillings and 9 pence
per ounce. That fixes the price all
over the world, less the cost of trans
portation to London. So that its price
Is not governed by its intrinsic value,
but by an act of parliament; and this
makes it in that senee fiat money.
Money is the creature of law. The
material of which it is made is not
money until made so by law, whether
It be gold or silver or paper. The
government or the banks issue their
notes to circulate as money. These
notes have no intrinsic value. Their
being money arises from the fact that
their issue is authorized by law, the
promise to redeem them in coin, and,
In some cases, the making of them a
legal tender. So that it is the opera
. tion of Uhe law which makes money,
and not the material of which it ia
composed; though gold and silver are
recognized as more suitable materia
out of which to make money than any
thing else.
If gold and silver-bullion were mon
ey, why the laws of this and other'
ountries denning the degree of fine
Bess of the metal, the f mount of alloy
la the coins, their w ight, and the
Value of each coin, and .naking them a
legal tender?
', The falsehood resorts to by the gold
standard advocates h? for its oblect
to deoeive the American people tnU
voting for a policy by whioh one-half
of the standard money of this country
was stricken down, thus reducing the
volume of the money which fixed he
values of all the other property, from
17.500,000,000 to 13.250,000,000; and
making a corresponding reduction in
property values; paralyzing Industry,
arresting 'enterprise, rendering agri
culture, the controlling industry of this
country, unprofitable; producing an
amount of financial distress and of
bankruptcy such as was never before
known in this country and causing tens
of thousands of men to be denied em
ployment and their families to suffer
for the want of the necessaries of life,
and causing those who still have work
to work on short time, and filling the
country with tramps. All this wrong
and suffering in order to Increase the
value of bonds and other credits and
money in the hands of the rich, while
sinking the great mass of the people,
the working people, the common peo
ple, the real creators of wealth, deep
er and deeper into poverty and wretch
edness. Will the people allow themselves to
be deceived by .such a device into help
ing to perpetuate the gold standard
policy, and to put themselves into a
condition of financial slavery to the
money changers and aristocrats of
America and Europe?
The man who talks about 50-cent
dollars shows his Ignorance on the sub
ject; or, If he is not ignorant, that he
is attempting by falsehood and fraud
to deceive others to their great injury.
Tou may inquire what Influence I
think the free and unlimited coinage
of silver, at the ratio of 16 to 1, will
have on the purchasing power of gold
and silver money. If such coinage
shall Increase the volume of circulat
ing money the effect will be, to the ex
tent of that Increase, to raise the prices
of commodities, and in the same pro
portion to reduce the purchasing power
of money. , Stated in another way, it
will make property dearer and money
cheaper in proportion to the amount
of the increase of the volume of mon
ey. And this is the reason why the
plutocrats so earnestly oppose free
coinage. It is their policy and to their
interest to have dear money and cheap
property and labor. While it is to the
interest and should be the policy of
the Industrial classes, who make the
wealth of the country, to have a suf
ficient supply of money to stimulate
enterprise and industry, and make the
country prosperous and the people con
tented and happy. And by restoring
silver as a part of the standard money
the demand for gold will be somewhat
reduced, and it will, to that extent
be less valuable as compared with the
property of the country. But the free
coinage of silver will cause no serious
disturbance to the business of the
country. JOHN H. REAGAN.
REV. ISAAC W. HIQQS.
National Party' Nomine for Governor
, of Illinois, Beil(oi and , Supports;
Bryan, Altgeld and Free Silver.
Rev. Isaac W. Higgs has resigned
the nomination of the National party
for governor of Illinois, and has ac
companied his resignation with an ad--dress
to his party from whioh the fol
lowing is .taken:
"I am also constrained to say that
I shall cast my vote and Influence in
support of the Chicago Democratic
platform and its candidates, and would
be glad to have every Nationalist in
the state do the same, as I believe that,
next to the National party, the Demo
cratic party best represents the inter
ests of the great mass of the common
people, and suffrage to the papapapa
people, and that in the future the
privileges and the liberties of a free
suffrage to the wage earners of th
nation will largely depend upon the
result of this coming election."
Rev. Mr. Higgs makes a strong ar
raignment of the great corporations
for coercing dependent labor, . de
nounces the political methods of Wall
street, as exploited by Henry Clews,
and closes with a strong appeal to the
members of the National party to cast
their votes for Bryan and Altgeld and
free silver.
NOT AFRAID OF FREE SILVER.
Free Colnag a Will Enable This Company
to Better Accommodate Its Patrons.
' The Swiss International Loan agency,
with headquarters at Mount Vernon,
has made many loans in Illinois. Mr.
Timothy Gruaz represents the agency
and has addressed the following letter
to his patrons:
"To My Many Patrons in Southern
Illinois In answer to numerous in
quiries relative to the probable future"
actlor. of this international loan agen
cy I beg to state that I represent sever
al Swiss oapitalists, true and steady
Republicans of the old school, all with
out any reservation favoring the free
and unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver at the American ratio of 16 to 1
as the shortest road to general pros
perity here and abroad, and further,
that should the free coinage of sliver
prevail -I expect to accommodate my
client much better in the future than
in the past Tours for free thought,
free coinage, and above all, free men.
"TIMOTHY GRUAZ."
The Intelligence of the World.
Senator Teller says "the coUge pro
fessors of Europe are all. on the side of
bimetallism; the , leading European
financiers of Europe those who have
made finance a study are on the 4de
of a double standard, and no silver
man need be afraid that the intelli
gence of the worlf is not on his side.
, "We fought Great Britain once under
the bimetallic system, we fought a
neighboring country under it, and we
rougnt unaer it me grsatesx nvu
ever wagteV .
.i Piper as Jurist.
Secretary of State Piper has decided
the contest cases which have been pend
ing before him tor several days, and in
his decision he gives to the goldbug
democrats all they ask for and shots
out the middle-of-the-road republicans
from appearing on the ballot. The sec
retary of the state iu his decision has
duplicated the act of the juggler who, in
full sight of the audience fills the bottle
with hydrant water and then pours out
a glass of wine or of bilgewater from the
some small-necked bottle as the whim
seizes him.
t Both the goldbug democrats and the
middle-of-the-road republicans were in
the position of bolting who refused to
acquiesce in the decision of a national
convention. Piper says that the gold
bug democrats are entitled to recogni
tion and the bolting republicans not.
The cases were brought before the sec
retary of state in the shape of protests
against the certificates of nomination
filed by the pretended democrats, who
allege that they held a convention at
Omaha October 1.
This protest was filed by James C.
Dahlman, chairman of the regular demo
cratic state central committee, and the
other protest was filed by J. P. Maule
against the certificate of nomination of
filed by F. L. Rose. Rose set up the
claim that the nomination certified by
him had been made by a convention o
republicans which assembled at Lincoln
on October 6.
The secretary has as yet made public
no formal written opinion or reason for
his decision. In his opinion the secre
tary has followed the theory that there
was a convention held by the pretended
bolting goldbug democrats, as certified,
but that the convention as certified by
Rose and the bolting republicans was
not a convention, but was a "farce."
In the testimony taken in the caBe of
the protest by Dahlman it was shown
that there were thirty to fifty republi
cans at the Rose convention. The testi
mony failed to show that anyone who
participated in that convention, with a
einglo exception, would fail to vote for
the ticket there nominated. In the case
of the bolting democrats, Euclid Martin l
testified to the manner in which the "del
egates" to the alleged democratic con
vention held at Umana, October 1, were
gathered together.
it was not shown that a single county
convention or district convention had
been held to select delegates. He named
over half a dozen men who were present
at this pretended state convention. He
did not show by his own nor was it
shown by any other testimony in that
case, that there were as many at the
Euclid Martin convention as there were
at the Rose middle-of-the-road republi
can convention.
v Martin acknowledged that the gold
bue democrats of Nebraska were not
recognized by the democratic national
convention as representatives of the
democratic party in Nebraska. He ad
mitted that there was no county organi
zation for the campaign maintained by
this pretended democratic faction, and
that he had called the "convention" after
the meeting of the convention of "nation
al democrats" at Indianapolis, and that
his call was in accordance with the
recommendation of the Indianapolis con
It was shown positively that the demo
cratic organization, which is recognized
by the democratic national committee,
is now represented in this state by James
C. Dahlman as chairman of the demo
cratic state central committee. At the
same time, this pretended goldbug state
convention was held at Omaha on Oc
tober 1.
It is shown by alleged certificates
which were filed with the secretary of state
that nominations were made by these
alleged democrats of candidates for con
gress in the Fourth congressional dis
trict, . R. E. Dunpby of Seward, and in
the Fifth congressional district, Ransom
Proudflt being certified as their candi
dates. These two were protested and
the secretary of state in his decision
holds that they are legally nominated
and that they as well as the candidates
for state offices and for presidential elect
ors certified by the Euclid Martin crowd
are entitled to go on the official ballot
with the party designation "democrat"
followed their names.
In the Fourth congressional district
there was a nomination of the middle-of-the-road
republican, Elmer Cohncour,
the certificate showing that he was
named by a convention of republican
electors of thit district. This is held by
Secretary of state Piper to have been an
"irregular convention and the nominee
not entitled to recognition or use of the
word "republican" as a party designa
tion.'..
A great deal of curiosity is being ex
pressed on the streets of Lincoln just now
about what kind oi reasoning toe repub
lican secretary used which enabled him
to declare all bolting republicans "irreg
ular" and all bolting democrats as en
tirely regular and entitled to whatever
they demanded. Last year it was Held
by the secretary that he could not in
quire into and determine which of two
contending factions claiming to represent
a party was entitled to recognition.
This year he inquired into and deter
mined between them.
There is a story going around the
streets to the effect that the republican
managers and the half dozen former dem
ocrats who are backing the JMiclid Mar
tin pretenders held a conference recently
at which it was decided what should be
demanded of the secretary of state.
This was that the goldbug democrats
were to be recognized and the middle-of-the
road republichns thrown out. It is
said that a committee was appointed to
wait upon the secretary of state and in
sist that this policy be pursued by him.
Whether this was actually the way it
was brought about or not, the secretary
has done exactly what this rumor por
tended. '
The cases will all be taken to the sr..
nremc court at once, and a decision w .U
probably be reached before the enJ of
the week. The middle-of-the-road repub
licans and democrats are determined to
not let the matter stop where it now is.
Attend the Chamberlain Commercial
College, room 1 Lansing theatre 'build
ing. Day and night school. We make a
specialty of shorthand ana typewriting
tf '
flliue Ui Cusfomnrs
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The past week our business was far beyond our ex?:: nj
store was thronged with customers and they all suasi t
well satisfied with their purchases. Catlandsee ustHa vitzU
WE WILL MAKE IT INTERESTING FOE. "
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20 pieces Colza extra fine Satins, 84 in'
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14 pieces Damaese Dress Goods; regular
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10 pieces Chameleon Mohair Brillian tines,
84 inf. wide; regular price 25c, this
week....
16 pieces Jamestown Novelty Dress
Goods, 86 inches wide, choice pat-
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Storm Serge, navy blue, brown and
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Of superior quality, the beet possible
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Special prices 17c, 22c, 82c, 40c, 45c,
56c, 67c and 89c; regular prices from
r 10 to 15 per cent more.
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Duck Lined Coats.'
11.12, 1.26, $1.68, fl.98, $2.25
and 2.70; regular prices, $1.25,
l- $1.40, $1.75, $2.25, $2.50 and 3.00.
TJNDERWEAE.
40 dozen Men's Sanitary Bhirts and
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80 dozen Men's Natural heavy
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75c, this week .
15 dozen Men's Sanitary wool fieeoed
Shirts and Drawers; regular prion
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Ladies' Ribbed Vc-t3.
15c. 22c. 29o and 43c; regular r .
. 26c, 25c, 85c and 50c
Bargains in Dhawb. 1
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2.25 all wool square Shawls, this week 1
2.50 all wool square Shawls, this week. i
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BR VAN ELECTORS.
Voters who desire to record their pref
erence for Bryan and free silver should
not be permitted to forget that another
than a Bryan electoral ticket will be plac
ed upon the official ballot as democrats by
collusion and conspiracy between repub
licans and goldbug bolters from demo
cracy. This is a scheme upon the part
of the allied gold standard conspirators
to create confusion in themindsof voters,
in the hope that men who desire to vote
for Bryan may by mistake vote for the
other so-called democrats. It is an out
rage upon the voters and a violation of
the spirit of the Australian ballot law
that this attempted deception is per
mitted, but as long as the forces of evil
prevail the battle of the righteous must
be the more vigorous. Friends of Bryan
and free silver must see that the voters
are educated as to which are the Bryan
electors, and that they will know how
to distinguish between the democrats
and the bolters when they get into the
election booths.
Rlpans Tabules: for sour stomach.
Bryan la lSSSl '
"Thn may think that you have burled
the cause of bimetallism; you may
congratulate yourselves that you have
laid the free coinage of silver away In
a sepuloher, newly-made since the elec
tion, and before the door rolled the
veto stone. But, sirs, If our cause le
just, as I believe It 'is, your labor has
been in vain! no tomb was ever made
so strong that It could Imprison a
righteous cause. Silver will lay aside
its grave clothes and Its shroud. It
will yet rise, and in its rising and iti
reign will bless mankind."
Beware of Ointments for Oatanb that
Contain Mercury.
u rn.rea.ry win surely destroy th. sense of im.ll
sad completely derange tb. whole system wh.n
entering It through th. mucous surfaces. Such
article, ahoold never ba need except on prescrip
tions from reputable physicians, as th. dr. nag.
they will do I. t.n fold to th. (rood yon can pos
sibly derlr. from them. Hall's Catarrh Car.,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney a Co., Toledo, 0
contains no mercory, and Is taken Internally,
acting directly npon th. blood and mucous sur
faces ol the system, In baying Hall's Catarrh
Cnr.be sareyoa get the genuine. It la taken
Internally, and made In Toledo, Ohio, by P. i,
Cheney A Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by druggists, pries 75o per bottle.
Insurance Department
. Conducted by 3. T. M. Swlgart. Correspondence
solicited.
If there is a member of any mutual in-
surance company in Nebraska who will
lend his influence to help put A. S.Church
ill back into the high office of attorney
general he is surely not a worthy mem
ber. Churchill has shown himself un
worthy the confidence of any mutual
man. Mr. Churchill's attitude on the
subject of mutual insurance was well
known by the convention that nomi
nated him and yet he was put on the
ticket through the influence of the stock
companies when the mutuals were well
represented and fighting him to a man.
If he should be re-elected would he not
fight the mutuals even if be had to go
out of his way to do so.
Every one knows that to be a popu
list is to be in favor of mutual insurance.
Hence every man who was nominated at
Hastings is in favor of our local com
panies doing our own business. J. F.
Cornell is a farmer and has held a policy
in mutuals for years and when he goes
into, the auditors office will no doubt do
his whole duty to protect the interest of
the members of all companies, stock
companies as well as mutual companies.
The attitude of the. governor is well
known and every member of every mu
tual company shonld see to it that the
name of Holcomb, Cornell, and Smythe
has an X opposite their names on elec
tion day. .
THEY WERE ALWAYS TRAITORS.
Read Ewing Clothing Co's ad on fifth
page and govern yourself accordingly.
From Washington Down. A Nest of
them in New York,
"We may not abide by the decision,"
said Edward Lauterbach at a million
aires' banquet in referring to the possi
bility of Bryan's election. The man who
uttered these words is chairman of the
New York republican committee, hence
their significance as voicing the senti
ment of the money power and of Wall
street.
Manhattan island has always been a
center of disloyalty from the days of
1776. It is dominated by the greed of
wealth, and the mouey-making influences
of the commercial spirit. There has
never been a day since the Declaration
of Independence was signed when it
would not sacrifice the national honor
and the national welfare in order to put
money in its purse. If now in the Bee
ond century of the republic its residents
attempt to set aside the verdict of the
American people, fairly and honestly ex
pressed at the ballot box, those whose
will it would thwart will take supreme
delight in digging up the island and
scattering its treasonable dirt into the
sea.
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And dressmaking
very cheap. We
have a large Btock
of fine millinery;
prices lowest.
Sadie Puckett,
1238 O street,
Up Stairs.
1 HAVE BEEN CALLED
A.RCHIST BECAUSE 1 1IAV.
ED THE TRUSTS AND ETI.
WHICH WOULD UAtUT
COUNTRY. I AM GLAD r.
THE OPPOSITION C? T
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FHERE, NOW PAY U3 1
WILLIAM JOTNINC3 I".T '
Bridge Koc
Notice Is hereby given that " '
received up to November 91, 1
office of the county clerk of k
for the construction oluH tu
brldxe across th. Key Paha r
tion line between section Iff and it
range 17. Bald bridga to beta
plans and specifications now oa t -of
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