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t r I i THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT f Dec, 17, c8g6. D Icbrac!:a Jnbtptnitnl K3 WMALT9 KATMKS mmd IWCOUf i OfBUtJfBMJfT. ZZZUZZZD EVX3.Y THURSDAY tl:p:iit Publibixjj So. UNCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 533. 01.00 per Year in advance. Address SO WMBsaalntloM to. Md alt nits, money m4m. eta payable to TH1 DtDlPENDENT FOB, CO, LtnooLl, Km, Politic these days, an condcuted by be money power, is all "business" and no principle. The New York Suit Hiiva that Huiiua is no coward. Neither wan Captain Kidd or the James Brothers. A If sugar beet factories are to be sup ported toy lorced contributions from the public then let the public own them. The difference between a horse and a bicycle is, a horse is tired after you have ridden him, and a bicycle in tired before you ride it. . The murky weather of the last few days was not caused by the smoke from the numerous factories started up by the Advance Agent. The trouble with Mark Hanna's Ad vance Agent seems to be that he is so far in advance of prosperity that it will never catch up with him, The best way to settle the Cuban difficulty is to send Mark Hanna over . there. He'd bold an election and count Weyler out in the first round. Wanted Some one to take, charge of country populist paper in a county where populists are in control. Good opeuing. Address this office. The statisticians say that the corn crop of this year will net the farmers 180,000,000 less than last year, and so we go on the road to desperation. Several goldbug senators are calling loudly for the independence of Cuba but they are unalterably opposed to the in dependence of these United States. II Uishop Newman were put out on a farm and forced to raise ten cent corn he might cease to be such a lover of the gold standard and in time get religion. There is much excitement in Kansas over the senatorial contest. Only one delegate is instructed for Peffer, and the many papers are culling for an express ion from the people, According to the Associated press, there are six parties represented in the seuate now, populists, republicans, dem ocrats and lilverites. That Associated press is "one great institoosbvin." General Coxey has formally withdrawn from the peoples party and resigned as national committeeman from Ohio. He will now organize a party and endeavor to get 7,500,000 votes to endorse his bond issuing scheme. A state conference of silver men of all parties has been called to meet in Lin coln at the Lansipg theatre at 2 p. m., January 6, 1897. Populists of every county in the state should mnke an ef fort to be represented there.' The official count of the vote in Cali fornia has at last been announced, and that big republican majority that the Associated press told us about has been whittled down to a plurality of 1,822 The prohibition vote was 2,573.. That wave of MeKinley prosperity rolled so high over the United States last week that it completely submerged S80 business firms and drowned them out forever it being an ? Increase in the number of failures of 47 over the same week last year. Last year according to the agricul tural department, our wheat crop was 467,102,947 bushels. This year it is a little less than 400,000,000, and most of it sold from the farm before the rise. So the farmer will get no more for his wheat this year than last. ? The New York Independent prints the statement that in 1,400 Congregational and 1,750 Presbyterian churches there was not a single member admitted on confession of faith last year, from all of which it seems just to conclude that the .modern plutocratic preacher is not an expert soul saver. For three years, the republicans as erted that the cause of the hard times was the repeal of the MeKinley bill. They snouted it to us on the streets, from t!s stamp, in the storee and in our l-.zzu. Now after they have won the i' :t!on they say that they never intend-' 4 to rt-enact the MeKinley bill at all. WHAT HI RT COVSTT VOTED f OR. Mr. W. X. Haywood, one of the first settlers in Burt county, as reported la theTekamah Herald, looks back with longing eyes to the happy times the farmers then had. He says those days were the happiest of bis life. Dance and parties were held frequently when the settlers would load their entire families into a lumber wagon, and with their ox teams would go miles to attend them, and often be gone several days. Mr. Haywood savs it was fnn to farm in those days. Immense crops were raised and high prices ruled for everything but land. He raised one crop of corn of ninety acres and sold it for $40 an acre in the field. One wheat crop he raised yielded forty bushels to the acre and he received $1.75 a bushel for it, delivered in sacks on the river bank where it was taken by a steam boat. A good team brought $400 and more. Mr. Haywood says he would like to live his pioneer days over again and he has also heard W. W. Latta and others of his comrades express the same wish, The popalist party made an effort to bring those happy days back again. It pointed out to the farmers of Burt county how they could get the old prices for their wheat and corn, paid in precise ly the same kind of money Mr. Haywood received in the happy days of which he speaks, but Burt county farmers would have more of it. They preferred to vote for ten cent corn and two cent hogs. ' j The farmers, while those prices rule, will have no time to visit their neighbors or get up dancing parties, and no com radship and brotherly feeling will have a foothold among them. If one should take his family and visit his neighbor for a week he would not be as welcome ns in the old days, for the one visited would be bankrupted by the 'end of tneisit. The gold standard kills all comradship. It makes men tigers and wolves, That is what Burt county voted for. POOR 1UN & COMPANY. The Advance Agent is becoming in humanly cruel to poor Dun & Co., input ting such awful burdens upon them. They will certainly have the sympathy of all right thinking men in their ardu ous task of making the American people believe that they are prosperous. Last week they had a harder task than they ever had before, iu that they were forced to record the fulfillment of the forecast of every populist speaker during the laBt campaign. We said that u the mills were opened, there would be no increased demand until the price of corn, cotton, wheat, beef and pork advanced, and now come R. G. Dun & Co., in last week's report and testify as follows: f "While industries have gained in work ing forces, they are waiting for commen surate gain in demand." "The volume of business shown by clearing has been for the week 5.2 per cent smaller than Inst year." 1 , "Cotton has declined 3 1-16 in spite of all the stories that the crop has been nearly marketed, and continues to come forward steadily." "The wheat market was weakened with less gloomy, news from other coun tries and larger western receipts." "Failures for the week are 380 in the United States, against 333 last year." Here is testimony from an expert em ployee of the gold standard, that the re sult of McKinlev's election and the es tablishment of that standard is just what the populists said it would be a decree in demand and a further fall in prices. Have the republican farmers of Ne braska, Iowa and the west still faith in the doctrine that; dear money will make high prices and bring prosperity? GIVE V8 MORE TARIFF. There seems to be a growing senti ment among populists everywhere, that the republicans should be allowed to raise the tariff to just as high a point as the most radical protectionist can ask, and that instead of hindering high tariff legislation, we should rather assist, for the reason that there are thousands of voters who honestly believe that a high tariff is the only thing that can bring prosperity. - Tbosa voters will not read our literature and will not listen to our speakers, and they can never be induced to vote for their own interest until, by an actual experiment, it is demonstrated that a high tariff will not bring prosper ity. Let this congress or the next put on 75 or 1()0" per cent tariff if it will, and two years from now the utter failure of that scheme to bring prosperity will gi ve us a two-third majority in congress. lo make it tnorougniy convincing, the tariff should be very high, so that the plutocrats cannot go before the peo ple and claim that it was not high enough. That seems to be their plan now. Dingley, Aldricli and Hawley have all been 'advising a 'moderate tariff" with that very end in view. Uive us more tariff, give us a great deal more. Give it to us at once. Put it away np toward the sky. Make an effectual test of it. We in the west and south can't be any worse off than we are now. , Try it. Let us see if we can get rich by increasing taxation and building up tariff, trusts and combinations. POPULIST EDITORS. I ne Beacon Light, in commenting on an item that appeared in the Independ ent, say that "Genuine populist papers are just as much and ! as necessary an adjunct to the patty as the sheriff or any other county officer, and just as ab- solutuly -entitled to their patronag3 as they are entitled to draw . their salaries and fees, and that nominating conven tions should demand it of each and every nominee, and that any officer violating such demand should be blacklisted in every countj in the state. If it hadn't been for the old line reform papers put ting iu years of bard work there would have been no populist party nor popu list sheriffs. Now if the Nebbasiu Indepesdekt can induce the legislature to pass a law making it a felony for any officer to ask, demand or receive, or in any other man ner accept as a gift from a publisher any part or per cent of bis publication fee or its equivalent as an inducement for said officer to publish legal notices in his col umns, and upon proof of such extortion, exaction or corruption declaring said office vacant, then said paper will have accomplished a good turn for the poor, half-fed and balf-paid newspapers in Ne braska of all parties. It is time the pop ulist press of Nebraska would pull itself together and demand its rights.',' The Valentine News remarks that: "Our party leaders may consider '.it wis dom to ignore the men who do battle every day in the year for the cause at a bare subsistence, but we prophecy a day of reckoning. The men of tfie quill do not ask the earth for they have not a thing, politically but the time is at band when they demand fair treatment and are going to have it." Now let these two populist editors and about 100 others of like faith, attend the meeting of populist editors at Lin coln, January 4, 10 a. m. and we will talk over these tilings and several others and see what can be done about it. A NEW DISCOVERY. That shining light of Jhe republican party, the Blair Pilot, whose editor be lieves that the free ' coinage of silver will double the value of silver bullion as long as it is in the mine owners hands, and as soon as it leaves them, will turn itself into 50 cent dollars, that the scarcity or plentifulness of money has nothing to do with its value, that dearer money is, the higher prices .will be, that the only way to create wealth is to go in debt by borrowing money of eastern capitalists, that to turn thieves out of office is to ruin our good name, has finally announced another discovery. It is that the Nebraska. Independent is a first-class anarchist. Hear him: "Among the state papers which are devoting their time to working up dis cord and class hatred among the people, the Nebraska Independent published at Lincoln, shines forth as a star. It has such an overdose of that tired feel ing, caused by its populistic viows, and in reality is a first-class anarchist sheet" The republican party cannot expect to escape the ridicule of which the Pilot complains, as long as it , continues to advocate such ridiculous theories as it did during the last campaign. ANEW PARTY NAME. Senator Stewart discussing the propo sition of a union of all the reform forces says in the Silver Knight: - , "IteCehtly, quite a number of our ex changes have discussed this important subject, and all have argued that such a union is desirable, and further that it is the only hope of monetary or - any other reform. Not a few have suggested that a national conference, composed of silver democrats.populists and silver re publicans be called at an early date for the purpose of agreeing upon a line of action, upon which union can be had, and ifjneed be, merge all three of these elements into one compact organiiation with an entirely new party name, adopt ing such a platform of principles as all could indorse and support. So far as our observation has gone not a single democratic paper has mentioned the subject. "It is our candid opinion that sooner or later the silver democratic leaders will be confronted with the alternative of meeting the populists and silver re publicans as their equals on common ground or seeing the rank and file of their party go boldly into the populist ranks." It is our opinion that not only the rank and file of the democratic party will come into the populist organization but thousands of the republican party also, including many of their most bril liant and brainy Pien. All we have to do is to give good government in those states where we are in power, stick to the principles of the populist platform and not go to advocating all sorts of vagaries outside of it. TOO MANY OFFICERS. The South Omaha Sun says: "One of the worst features in this country at present is too much government.; Just think of it, a school board, a city coun cil, a board of county commissioners, precinct officers, state officers,' county officers, and federal officials. We are governed to poverty to support the great and ever growing gang of 'para sites. All the business they transact could as well be done by one-third the unmber at present sucking the public teat. Yes, we are governed entirely too much. But how is this matter to be remedied, no officers are ever abolished, but new ones are being constantly cre ated." --vw- : ,, ' There is a whole lot to think about in that little item. DEBASINGOl'R CURRENCY. I Wharton Barker, the great Philadel phia economist, makes it very plain how a dear dollar impoverishes the farmer. He suys: "Twenty years ago a farmer raised a thousand bushels of wheat. For this wheat ho got a round $1,000, out of which he bad to pay $200 as taxes and interest on a mortgage be had executed to get the money needed to buy himself needed tools and machinery and place a roof over the beads of his family and bis stock. Of the money he got for his crop he had eighty per cent for his own use. He prospered. In the year of 1896 this farmer raised a 1,000 bushels of wheat. His fields yielded him as bountifully as ever. He took this 1,000 bushels of wheat and strive as be would, $500 was all that he conld get for it. Still he fancied if wheat had so fallen, every thing else had fallen so that his 1,000 bushels of wheat, though bringing but half as much money as twenty years be fore, would provide him with as much of the products of others as before. But not so. Two hundred dollars was the sum still required to meet taxes and in terest on his mortgage. Instead of hav ing m) per cent of the money received for hip crop for his own use he had but 60. So his share in the crop was cut down by one fourth. Moreover when he came to supply his wants be found that the prices asked bad not fallen propor tionately with the prices received for the products of his soil. He bought at re tail; he sold at wholes ile, and retail prices as is ever the case, adjust them selves much more slowly to changed conditions than wholesale. It would be well to show thia to some of our republican farmers, who have innate prejudices against populists and popocrats. , Wharton Barker is the great high pro tection economic writer of the world. Perhaps his words can bring them to see that we cannot have higher prices until the purchasing power of money is reduced, or, in other words, until we de clare our currency, a thing which these republican farmers have been taught to look upon with infinite horror. MAINTAIN THEIR CREDIT. Scene, class room of the department of economics, plutocratic university.! Prof. What is credit? First Senior. It is the power' to bor row and nothing else. Prof. How does it promote happi ness and increase wealth? Second Senior. A man with unlimited Credit can borrow himself rich. The more a nation borrows, the richer it be comes. - Prof. Why should "the national credit be maintained?" Third Senior, So that the nation can go on and borrow and borrow until it gets awful rich. Professor. What ' reply should be made to those who deny that a nation or a man cannot borrow itself or him self rich? : Fourth. Senior.-t-Call them anar chists. " ". ' Professor. Is credit both capital and wealth? . Fifth Senior. It most certainly is. The only way for men or nations to get rich is to go on forever borrowing and getting deeper in debt. Frofessor. What is the best way to make a community prosperous? Sixth. "Induce capital to come in," that is, get some tine to lend it money so it can get in debt. Unless a commu nity has credit and gets in debt, it can not prosper. Professor. I am surprised at the pro foundness and depth of your learning. It shows the value of a plutocratic uni versity. Tomorrow there will be issued to each of you a first-class diploma from the department of economics, and a gold medal and each of you will be ap pointed a professor of economics in some western or southern college where you can enlighten the heathen of those dark regions,, so as to enable them to see that their only hope in life is to bor row money, or in other words, "main tain their credit." " . A NEW NAME. T, here is a great deal of discussion going on about a new party name. Populists care nothing about a name. They are too intelligent for that. But if we must have a new name, just call us reformers and the party j the reform party, because we strive for the amend ment of what is defective, vicious, cor rupt and depraved, and - we shall within a year, "re-form" our forces, prepara tiou to the greatest , battle ever fought for humanity in the history of the world. Some may object to being called a popu list or a popocrat, but who can object to being called a reformer? AN OLD STORY, When will these vexing impediments to commercial and industrial prosperity become extinct? The commercial agen cies are constantly discovering new rea sons why business is dormant. A little while ago it was because of the fear that populism, anarchy, repudiation, nat ional dishonor and a dishonest dollar were about to possess the country, but the promise was given that everything would be lovely as soon as these dangers were destroyed. Election day came and the falsehood fulfilled its mission.. The people declared for "hon est inouey." But the promised revival of business came not and something new must be invented. Dun's commer cial agent supplies it. Its weekly report starts out: "Approach of holidays and doubt about the action of congress put off further improvements until the new year." As soon as these impediments have been passed, it will be donbt about the action of the next succeeding con gress that will be held responsible for the non-revival of business, and it will not be a year before the goldbugs will be shouting that doubt about the result of the next national election and the fear of the triumph of anarch is paralyzing business. And all the time the people will be finding out that it is nothing else than the gold standard that is responsi ble.' . v" : PARTY TREASON. "The Journal believes the best way Is to abolish the bond system altogether, make the treasurer personally responsi ble for the safe keeping of the funds en trusted to h is care, pay him u good sal ary for km ability which should be of the first order, and his reputution, which should be without a stain, and put him in the penitentiary if he is a defaulter when his term closes." State Journal. If the Journal means what it says, it has gone buck on the precepts and tra ditions of its party. Its utterances are the rankest treason to its party. Who ever heard before of a republican paper in Nebraska demanding that public de faulters be sent to the penitentiary? How many of the numerous defaulting republican treasurers, -state, city and county, has the Jonrnnl asked to have sent to tfie penitentiary? Which one of them was it that the hypocritical old granny has not defended to the utmost of its ability? It doesn't mean what it says. The Journal is still republican. STARVING WOMEN AND CHILDREN- While there are hundreds of women and children in N. Y. city starving to death, as described iu the great .dailies, the denunciation of the west comes with poor grace from the men who have con ducted government so as to produce such a result to the part of the human race under their control. If the suffier ing there increases at the rate it . has since the Advance Agent was com missioned, it will not be four years until they will be calling upon us, whom they now call anarchsits, to send men east to help keep order and enforce the law. THE NEWBERRY CASE. The management of the case of the the Newberry bill clearly calls for the disbarment of one of the attorneys engaged in the case for the abandon ment of the interest of his client, and Messrs. Webster and Russell should settle that point between them. Mr Webster has been paid $5,000 a year by the people to look after the case for the last two years, and yet the whole thing has gone by default, as it were, and still there is no relief in sight. ' We received at this office a letter con taining $1 for subscription. It read as follows: "Stop my paper after February 15, 1897, as I expect to leave here." Thare wasjno name signed and no marks to indicate where it came from. If the person who wrote the letter will send his name and address we shall be glad to give hiirywoper credit on his account. , FAVORING CONCERT OF ACTION Populist State Executive Committee Endorses the Silver Conference. Recognized the Union of Forces, At a special meeting of the executive committee of the people's independent- party for the state of Nebraska, held at Lincoln, Monday, December 14, 1806, the following expression was author ized to be made: We are pleased to see and heartily en dorse the call issued for a state confer ence of the bimetallists of Nebraska, to be held at Lincoln ou January 6, 1897. The union of the forces had during the campaign just closed clearly demon strates the wisdom of the proposed con ference for a more complete union of al the electors who agree upon the essential principles involved. The proposed state conference of bi metallists is stated to be strictly non partisan and in that sense all populists can meet their co-workers with an earn estness and enthusiasm which will result in great benefit to the cause of the com mon people. In view of the fact that no means for putting into effect the call for the state conference of bimetallists referred to above, have been suggested, and bearing in mind the short time at our disposal, and with all due respect to all others, we would suggest the fol lowing: That the. officers of the various free silver clubs of the counties throughout the state unite at once in calls for coun ty bimetallic conferences, at which dele gates shall be selected to attend the state bimetallic conference according to the call heretofore referred to. The matter of local and county organ izations may De penectea at the county conferences. C. W. Hoxre, A. J. Williams, Warwick Sackdkbs, I. A. Shrridan, P. H. Bakry, B. R. B. Webbk, J. H. EOMISTKN. Rlpans Tabulea curs dyspepsia. GIVE IS A GOOD LAC The regularity with which bondsmen who have offered themselves as sureties for state and county officials have escaped liability on their bonds is not a very strong recommendation of the effi cacy of existing laws for the protection' of the public from dishonesty or careless- ness on the part of its servants. There is not a cose on record wherein the state or county has ever recovered from a de linquent official or his bondsmen. Of couse every official somehow manages to give a bond that looks as good as coin but somehow or other, whenever any thing goes wrong with the official it i invariably found, either that his bond is defective in itself or else the bondsmen haven't a dollar that is not hedged about by some technical point that prevents the public from getting hold, of it. When one looks back over the record4 of defalcations that bav robbed the taxpayers of this county and state of hundreds of thousands during the past half dozen years, he cannot find much to commend a law requiring the furnishing: of individual sureties on official bonds. Whatever the attorney general may think (of (the new law allowing the giving ot guarantee companies as surety, there is absolutely not one argument in favor of the old system that doesn't fall flat when one attempts to justify it by re sults achieved under it. This city and county would probably have been just as well off if no surety . bad ever been required on official bonds as it is today. Possibly the giving of sureties has had a restraining influence and may have prevented some shortages, but it has never remedied any that occurred and it may have been responsible for some of them. There is little Question that it was at, least partially responsible for the shortage occasioned by the- failure of the Capital National bank. If there are any defects in the law to permit the giving of a guarantee com pany as surety on an official bond, the coming session should speedily cure them. Let us have such a law. It will be easier to recover from a foreign cor poration than from a lot of local politi cians and capitalists. . If not, then the requirement of official bonds might as well be done away with, and some system ' of punishment more severe than anything ever yet suggested provided for the men who are chosen to positions of trust and turn up short on public funds. It would seem that, in any event, more stringent lawn should be- made for punishing public defaulters, The man entrusted with the care of pub lic funds should be held more strictly ac countable for them, and there'should be ' fewer excuses to offerfpr his defalcations. While punishment for default should be more certain. It should be some micrhtv potent excuse that could excuse a man for misappropriation or . waste of public .. funds. ' ' -." It would be a signal triumph for the- cause if the fusion legislature should de- vise some effective measure for guarding; absolutely against losses to taxpayers by careless or dishonest public servants, and for recovering such losses when once sustained. Republican ingenuity in escaping such liability has provided so many beaten paths for the escape of the embezzler and the defaulter1 that it will require some impregnable safeguard for public funds hereafter. Who will, furnish the plans for them? Watson's Letter. Senator Marion Butler says: "The letter was not written to be published before the election. Mr. Watson clearly wrote it to be used after the election to ssrve certain personal purposes. He sent the letter, however, to the commit tee so that the committee would b forced to take the responsibility of pub lisliingit, or holding it up till after the election." BANE ft, ALTS0HULT3K. In the District Court of Lancaster County Nebraska. , ' NOTICE. Andrew J. Howlaod, Plaintiff. ', VS Patrick Kelly and Mary Kelly, hie wlte, W. A. & G. L. Woodward, William M. Wilson, John L, Parson, John Cunningham, J amen E. Kinney, Fred Miller Brewing Company ot Milwaukee, Hilda J. West barer, William M. Selti and Jennie Chandler. Defendants. To the defendants, William M. Wilson. John . L. rarson, Jonn cannlngbam, James E Kinney, Fred Miller Brewing Company ot Milwaukee Hilda J. Weetbnrg, William M. Seitz and Jennie Chandler: - - The above named defendants wilt take notice that on the 17th day ot December, 18D6, Andrew J. Howland, plaintiff herein, filed a petition in the district court of Lancaster connty, Nebraska, against Patrick Kelly and Mary Kelly, his wile, and all ot the defendants in the above entitled case, the object and prayer of which are to lore close a certain mortgage executed by the defend ants, Patrick Kelley and Mary Kelley, to'W. A. ft O. L. Woodward, and duly assigned by raid William Hazlttt Smith to the plaintiff herein, said mortgage being npon the sooth one-third of the east, seven twelfths of lot numbered twenty one. of 8. VV. Little's snb division of the west half of the southwest quarter of section twentv tour, township ten, range six east of the 6th P. M., containing in till SO feet on 16th street, and 210 feet long, to sernre the payment of one promissory note of 11,000, with 10 Interest cou pons thereto attached ol the sum of $30 each,, the principal thereof being due on the first day of September, 1889; that there is now due and un paid on said notes and mortgage, the sum of $1,00, for which sum, with interest from Decem ber 1st, 1896, the plaintiff prays, for a decree of. foreclosure and sale of said premises, and that his mortgage be declared to he a first lien upon said premises. Yon are required to answer said petition on or before the 25th day of January, 1887, Andrew J. Holland, Plaintiff, By Bane Altschn!er, hlsattorneys. . fliiiilip J.LBALLikCO. A '