THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
Sept. 7, 1899
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STATE TICKET.
For Judge of the Supreme Court
Pilai A. Uolcomb, of Custer Co.
For It gents of the State University
J. L. Tiitihs, of Lancaster,
Epson Hku, of Douglas.
LANCASTER COUNTY TICKET.
Judges of the District Court
OEO. E. HIHNER.
. T.J. DOYLE.
, rodert w heeler,
Clerkof the Dm' riet Court
r A. E. LINDELL, Lincoln. '
Treasurer
WILLIAM H'LAUQHLIN, Lincoln,
gberitf-
P. H. COOPER, Lincoln.
County Clerk ;
H.C.REDD1CK, Bethany;
County Judge , . ?
FRED SHEPHERD, Lincoln.
Commissioner
J. J. MEIER, Ballam.
Sunerlntenfbnt of rtehoni
MISS ERNESTINE LYONS, Normal.
Corouer
DR. BENfLEY, Lincoln.
Tbe way the republican party ia fight
ing traits could be seen In last Monday'
State Journal It had four editorial in
the tret column all defending them. '
It ii announced that Hanna has par
chaaed in Europe an outomobile. He
probably intends to put McKinly In it
when he starts him out to run for the
presidency the second time.
The republicans should not lay , tbe
whole responsibility of this war on
"Providence." The moat casual inves
tlgator cannot fail to And that McKIn
ley had something to do with it ,
Tbe republicans are for a British finan
cial policy, a British colonial system, a
British alliance, the old flag and an ap
propriation. Tbey are sure the combi.
nation will win if they can get the ap
ptoprlatlon In advance.
A Canadian paper saje, in speaking of
the Filipino war, that the American bird
of freedom is dead. Not by a long shot,
He got pretty sick through an overdose
of thffg'.ld cure, but he is rapidly re
gaining bin accustoms J vigor.
'
Since the protests in the foreign papers
against the claim that nations can be
bought and sold like cattle without
their consent, Spain declares that she
did not sell the Philippines, but only
gave an option on the fighting.
McKinley took by force the Philip
pines or as muob of them as he could
and intends to take the whole. After
that, he is for tb "protection of prop
erty, peace and charity for all." That
program would secure the assent of the
worat thief that ever lived.
Melting Pot Morton is at it again but
' as usual be brings up tbe rear. Bixby
rode the ''boar black pig' until he wore
all the hair off bis back. Now that Bix
has demounted, Morton with bis melt
ing pot has mounted It. Tbe old man
. thinks he can ride a pig as well as any
body. Hurrah for Morton and the
boar black pig!
The way the unrepublicane can tangle
np the Euglieh language is an astonish
ment to all tbe world.' Tbey talk about
dear money making! biiil) price and de
clare that men are rebels against this
government who were never citimns and
whom they assert never shall be citiiens.
Tbey are a creiy lot.
General Mandereon in his speech be
fore the American Bar association calls
the common people "groundlings."
That's right general. That's Jost what
they are. Out of tbe earth comes all of
. the wealth of tbe world. Tbe men who
pi od uce It may properly be called
groundlings or earthlings. But wbat
are the other fellows? Qivs us a nam
for them.
T. L. Adams who was nominated to
succeed J udgs Deal Is one of tbe best ee
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by tb populist party in this state and
tbey have bad som Judges who would
rank in ability wVn any men on tb
beach any where' is tb nomination hi
equtvoltnt to Section tb people of that
district bav reason for congratulations
all around. ,
THE CAMPAIOW.
Within a week the campaign as far as
as the popullet are concerned will be in
full awinir in this state. The chairman,
Mr. Edmisten, has already secured many
speakers, among them Cyclone imvis
and General Weaver. The meeting of
the state committee was tbe largest and
most enthusiastic that baa been held for
many years. Many of the old Alliance
workers were there and this campaign
will be conducted largely on tbe old Al
ancenlan.
Tbe republicans are still at sea with
no harbor in sight. They first proposed
to run Judas Harrison but he positively
declined. Then tbey applied to Judge
Reese and be would have nothing to do
with It Judge Dickinson was then solicit
ed to take op the burden but be thought
that it was altogether too heavy for
him to carry. Every prominent lawyer
of good character in the republican par
ty who ha been solicited to take tbe
nomination has declined. There remains
nothing but the small fry for them to
make a selection from, t
This is the result of tbe failure of the
republican plan to prevent tbe nomina
tion of Uolcomb. Tbey had great faith
in that plan. They called on their sniff
ling committee; they filled their papers
with lies and slanders, tbey did every
thing in their power to prevent the nom
ination of Uolcomb. When tbe three
conventions met in.Omaha and nominat
ed him on tbe first ballot their whole
Dlan was ruined and they had to begin
anew and under distresssing circum.
stances. . .V,.-."' - V.
Cyclone Davis will begin his series of
speeches on September 16th and from
that time on until tbe close of tbe cam
paign tbe fur will fly for the populist
party has its war paint on this time and
means busluess. Let no one think how
ever that the republicans will be inactive.
They will fight with tbe desperation of
despair. Tbey bave unlimited means.
Tbev know all the tricks of politics and
will not (ail to apply everyone of them.
This campaign can be won and will be
won but every populist must do bis
whole duty.
The fight is not for offioes. It Is to
gain control of the Judicial system of tbe
state which has so long been simply an
adjunct of tbe corporations, It ban dooe
the principles of reform bub little good to
elect distrlot Judges while the supreme
court has been owned and controlled by
railroad corporations. Tbe corporations
always bad the money and the lawyers
to appeal every case and when it got to
tbe aupreme court they felt perfectly safe.
Tbe election of Holcomb puts the whole
Judiciary in tbe bands of reform and tbe
railroads willpnt up such a fight as they
have never put up before. Tbe railroads
bav never yet been .defeated when tbey
have laid themselves out to win. That
makes this tbe crucial fight tor the reform
forces in this state. Up and at them
and never let wp until the last vote Is
1 son tod. -
, HOT THAT KIND. ,
Here is the lacts known of 'all men.
An effort was made by tbe military
authorities to induce the volunteers to
re-enlist in this new war against the
Filipinos. There were extraordinary in
duoements offered besides a cash bounty
in travel pay and ration allowances that
would average about $500.00 for en
listed men up to . f 2,000 for officers.
Circulars were" sent to each company
setting forth tbe inducements so that
all tbe men might be acquainted with
them. Privates who had seen service
were told that if tbey re-enlisted that
they would be made non commissioned
officers as the new recruits that would
come in would need them. After, all
this effort, but on man in the First Ne
braska re-enlisted. All the other regi
ments refused to re-enliet. Tbe most re
cruits were obtained from a T nneesee
regiment that bad been stationed in one
of the southern Wanda where tbey bad
seen no hara service, and only about
100 were obtained from that regiment.
Now what does all that mean? Does
it mean that ' tbe volunteer regiments
from ths various states want this war
to go on, but for somebody else to do
the fighting? No more dishonorable
suggestion could be mad concerning
the volunteers than such a suggestion
as that. Whenever a republican editor
claims that the returned volunteers are
In favor of this war, be makes just that
charge against , their honor. We claim
that 00 percent of them are against
this war. That their action ia refusing
to enlist can not be honorable under
any other hypothesis. If they were in
favor of the war and believed that the
Filipino were savages that were not en'
titled to sell-government, if they be
lieved In the doctrine that one nation
could buy another . nation, land and
people, without the consent of the in
habitants, if tbey believed that the flag
should not be hauled down in tbe Pbil
pplnes and the flag of a self governed
people rassed in place of it, if they be.
lieved that shooting Filipinos was de
fending the principles of this govern
ment, they are brave enough to fight
for such a belief. Tbey would not come
home, lay down their Arms and ask
som on els to do t be fighting. Tbey
ar not that kind of men. Especially
tb men of tb first Nebraska were not.
FILIPINO -8 ATAuES., ' '
Naval cadet, Leonard R. Sargeant,
whom Dewey sent Into tb interior of
Luson along with another officer
4d whose report Dewey highly com-
mended has an article in the Outlook
upon tbe Filipinos that will bave a ten
dency to open tbe eyes of Theodore
Roosevelt If be rends it "The rough
rider will find that his celebrated speech
in which he denounced tbe Filipinos as
savages was a mass of falsehoods from
beginning to end. Roosevelt claims to
be a man of honor. He will prove that
he is if he will make a public correction
of that speech. . .
' Mr. Sargeant spent the months of
October and November 1898 in tbe in
terior of the Island and ; traveled all the
time. He says that "many millions" of
tbe inhabitants at that time bad no
government but tbe provisional govern
ment established by Aguinaldo. There
was peace and good order everywhere.
In one city where tbey stayed three days,
a dinner was tendered them each day
and the shortest of them was fifteen
courses. There was fine table linen,
napkins, silverware and imported wines.
He says that he never saw an intoxi
cated Filipino. They were liberal in re
ligion. Their heroes were not men of
war but men ot science and education.
Education bad been beyond the reason
of tbe poor because it was so costly but
it was the desire of all. One of the first
things that the provisional government
did was to establish common schools
and Mr. Sargeant thinks that if the war
bad not come on with the Americans
they would now be well established all
over the island. ' ,
These are tbe people that the' imper
ialists want to slaughter by the tbou
sand because they believe in the declara
tion of independence and believe that it
applies to all men and not to tbe white
race alone, taking exactly the ' same
ground that Abraham Lincoln did in
his celebrated contest with Douglas.
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- THEY DIDN'T KNOW. ; -j
The people should always remember
that economic forces act slowly. ' Tbe
change in tbe purchasing power of mon
ey does not begin to be felt until a long
time after the law passed to bring it
about is enacted. If silver had been de
monetised one day and next day. prices
bad fallen fifty per cent, there would
bave been a revolution, but when It took
twenty years to produce the full effect
of that law, there was no revolution and
it was hard to make the people see what
was the cause of the continual decline of
prices. The economic secondary tfftcta
are just as slow. Two years ago there
there was a rise in the price of wheat
caused by the famine in other wheat pro
ducing countries. There was a large
crop in this country for that year and
tbe year following. Now if the farmers
had begun, the next week after the rise.
to build barns, employ carpenters and
bricklayers, purchase lumber, new agri
cultural implements, buy hardware,
clothing, and house furnishing goods,
no one would have doubted that the rise
in the price of wheat and . other cereals
was the cause of increased employment
of labor and activity in every line of
but-iness. But the economic force mani
fested itself so slowly it was difficult to
make tbe people understand tbe real
cause of tbe fleet produced, Some peo
ple believe that what little of increased
activity has come about was tbe result
of the election of McKinley and that tbe
rise in prices of farm products was a re
sult of that election instead of the short
age of crops in other countries and good
crops in this. r
Tbe result of the rise in the price of
farm products is just wbat tbe populists
said it would be. They did not say that
that result would be manifested in every
line of business the next day after a rise
was started. They supposed that the
average man. would know that much
without being told. But it seem that
a good many didn't. "
'twould ruin a monkey.
The Grand Island Republican asks the
following question: ; 1"
"Will some populist priest of discon
tent rise up nd point out a time In this
country's history when a dollar would
buy more food, clothing, transportation
and other necessaries of life than it will
now?" ' ... -
May the Lord bave mercy ou your
poor ignorant soul. That is Juab what
tbe "populist priests of discontent" bave
been saying for tbe last ten years. A
dollar will buy more wheat, corn or any
thing else than it ever would before.
Tbe man who has the wheat and oorn is
painfully awsre of that fact every time
he takes a load to town with which to
buy money to pay bis interest, bis tax
and his debts. Tb fool caper , that
these mullet head editor do cut np
sometimes Is beyond all accounting for.
That editor bad better rely on the Mark
Hanna furnished editorials altogether
hereafter. Many such breaks as that
would ruin a monkey.
The steal plc.-JS by Mark Hanna in
that ship aut '7 1 bill is the most enor
mous that bather been attempted - in
the history of tbe United States, and we
bad some big stealing In the day of
the old Indian ring and Credit Mobilier.
But put all these steals together atd
they would not amount to as much as
can begotten ont of this tbing. , Tbe
Ohio stat democratic convention epeci
fieally denounced It and it should b de
nounced in every reform convention held.
It will be tbe biggest Issue in the next
session of congress for Mark expects to
put Ii through before tb presidential
lection com on.
The authorities in New York seem to
be having a big row with the Christian
Scientists. The Independent proposes a
compromise. The Christian Scientists
say that "there is nothing in matter.1
If that is so, drugs can do no harm. So
let tbe doctors come and give all ths
drugs tbey want to and the Scientists go
on with their system at the same time.
Tbe scientists ought to agree to this, es
pecially in all contageous and infectious
diseases. Tbey certainly cannot expect
the people of New York to allow them to
treat a case of yellow fever or bubonic
plague without quarantine regulations.
Tbs germ of tbe bubonic plague or yel
low fever may be nothing but "mortal
error" but tbey have a way of getting
into the minds or bodies of every one who
is exposed to them. It is a little too
much for tbe Christian Scientists to aek
tbe people of New York to abolish their
laws against contageous diseases and
let the "errors"' of diphtheria, scarlet
fever, and yellow fever run riot over the
millions of that populous city. Make a
compromise. That's the thing to do.
The twist and turns of the gold bug
beat all the contortions of Chris Hart
man's celebrated suake "that wriggled
iniand wriggled out" with such swift'
tress. The Mew York Sun says that
"Bryan has two voices." Sometimes be
talks silver and sometimes he don't.
That Is a specimen of the fairness of the
best of tbe gold bug writers. It bases tbe
remark that Bryan talks for silver on
his action at Omaha and that sometimes
he don't on the fake interview sent oh t
from' Des Moines which Mr. Bryau
has positively denied several times. The
Sun still insists that those inter vie wa are
genuine that some unknown reporter is
better authority on what Bryan said
than Bryan himself. Republicanism is
the same everywhere, False, malicious,
deceptive and never honest and honor
able. The Sun knows very well that
Bryan never at anytime or anywhere
said he was willing that the ratio of six
teen to one should be dropped.
The veterans of '61 believed in that
war and were in favor of it. When their
terms of enlistment expired they re-en
listed by whole companies, regiments
and brigades. Every one of them had
seen as much hard fighting as any of the
troops in tbe Philippines. In this Me
Klnley war the volunteers had no heart
When their terms of enlistment expired
tbey dfd not re-enliet but came home in
a body. Not one per cent of them re
enlisted ' although they were offered
larger bounties than the government
ever gave during the civil war. Now
Busbnell says that they are all in favor
of tbe warl If they are, they have a
queer way of showing it.
1
Since another item was in print in which
it was announced that Bixby ' had
dismounted from the "boar black pig,"
he has denied tbe assertion and declares
that he is-still astride. That sore
backed, swine is to be pitied for be has
now not only to carry the fat Bixby but
the stout Morton and his melting pot
Morton has taken his seat in front and
Bixby has to ride behind. The sight of
them is expected to enthuse the republi
can rank and file as tbey were never en
thused before. ,
It is just as much the duty of the peo
ple to furnish campaign funds as it ia to
vote. You can'telecf? any body withont
votes and you can't carrry on a cam
paign without money. When tberepub
licans need money they go to tbe bank
ers, trusts and corporations and allow
them to dictate the laws that are passed
Why shouldn't they? If any one expects
anything else there is something wrong
in his upper story.
Attorney General Smyth has started
after another trust. This time it is the
school furniture combine. That trust
represents twenty two companies .that
bave gone into a combination to hpld up
tbe people ot this and other states and
make them pay exorbitant prices for all
kinds of school furniture. We ' will see
what the republican courts do about
that. Their papers already declare that
nothing can be done. '
Tbe commissioner of pensions has just
made his report, from wblch it appears
that theVe are 1,090.866 persons draw.
ing pensions. There are' four widows of
tbe revolutionary war which was closed
117 years ago, still drawing pensions.
Therein also on soldier and 1,998 wid
ows drawing pensions for the war of
1812. For tbe Mexican war, 9,204 sol
dh-rt and 8,177 widows still draw pen'
sions. 1
Even Roosevelt seen. to have "smelt
a mouse." In his speech at Little Valley
the other day he said "be boped to see
tbe day when the Filipinos would build
an independent nation of their own."
That is a complete flop from tbe speech
that he made a while ago when he talked
about the Filipino "savages." Teddy
bas had, his ear to the ground and heard
something.
Tbe Omaha Labor Bulletin got out a
uieguiflcent labor day Issus N On tb
first page was a cut of Abraham Lincoln
with the words: "An immortal friend of
labor.' When wilt we have another." It
was. printed on . floe paper and had
twelv pages.' Tb party that Lincoln
founded I the party ot plutocracy and
trusta now.
The Chicago Record winds np its ac
count of tbe reception to tbe First Ne
braska boys with these words: "Brbfly
stated, most of tbe soldiers of the First
Nebraska are opposed to tbe war." .
Some of tbe republican papers are ad
vertising for a new war song. The old
song "We'll rally 'round the flag boys,
shouting the battle-cry of freedom,''
doesn't seem to suit tbem any longer.
In an army bent on conquest it does not
enthuse the men. k ; '
The populist headquarters"this year
will be at tbe Windsor Hotel, southeast
corner of Eleventh and Q streets. Popu
lists having bulfnees with the committee
can get entertainment there for fl.25
perday and good enough for anybody.
' The Capital Collection agency adver
tises a judgment for sale against Bud
Lindsay, That agency should employ
Wheedon to collect it In that way be
might get revenge for the time Bud beat
bim in a contest for delegate to tbe na
tional republican convention. ' -
A correspondent writing from north
ern China says that the Chinese np that
way "are big, strong, and independent,
many of tbem standing over six feet."
When tbe slicing up of China comes
among tbe great powers he looks for
lots of trouble for the white man.
There is a statement going tbe rounds
of the press to thetfffct that the state of
Nebraska has bought 3,200 voting ma
chines. That is a story that is made
out of whole cloth. There is not a word
of truth in it It ia not like most of the
republican lies which are usually hall
truths. ' ;r ;: "' ' J:-:
The republicans of Kansas have not
been in control much over half a year,
but the treasurer bas already begun to
stamp tbe state warrants: "Not paid
for want of funds." That is tbe ordi
nary way that republicans finance tbe
affairs of any government which they
control. ' ' ' : '
Pretty soon the trusts will get things
into so fine a shape that they will find
that they not only do not need any
traveling salesmen, but tbey do not
need to advertise any more.' In those
days tbe mullet head editors wbo bave
been backing tbem up will . wipe their
weeping eyes and take to counting ties,
The G. A. R. reunion will be held tn
Lincoln the week ending September 16.
The First Nebraska will be given their
reception that week and without doubt
there will b people here from every part
of tbe state. Information has been re
ceived to the effect that at least eighty
per cent of all those who enlisted in the
First Nebraska will be present
It is said tbat Oom Paul calls a prayer
meeting for every night In the week
these days. After the meeting is over be
sees tbat every mau bas 140 rounds all
in good candition and then he tells tbem
as soon as tbe sun rises to go out and
fire forty rounds in target practice.' Joe
Chamberlain adjusts his binocular and
watches, and then writes some more dis
patches.
At the meeting at tbe opera house
when the war first broke out, Dr. Row
lands remarked that this was tbe drat
war tbat tbe United States ever waged
where there were no opponents and tbat
all tbe people without exception were in
favor of it. Tbat was the war with
tbe Spanish. Of this other war with tbe
Filipinos he would hardly make any
such a remark. -
Dr. Wharton's address at the Y. M. C.
A., on Sunday as reported by the press,
would lead one to believe tbat the
soldiers ot the First Nebraska were very
much disgusted with some of tbeir moth
ers and friends when the said mothers
and friends sent them a cablegram advis
ing tbem not to enlist and which Otis
refused to deliver to them. How be got
the idea ia bard to tell. If don't seem to
be in accordance with tbe facta.
It is a very common phrase used by
all tbe imperialist writers tbat tbe Span
ish war made this nation a world power.
How that resulted from the Spanish war
I oneot the things tbat no pop can find
out. Power rests upon navies, flgting
men, guns and money. This nation did
not have e much of those things after
tbe Spanish war as it did before. We lost
one battleship, the Maine, which wa
worth more than all the ships we cap
tured. Will some Imperialist therefore
pleas to explain to ns long haired pops
bow tbe Spanish war made as a world
power any more than we were before.
We really want to know. '
The State Journal through its local
columns undertakes to maks an attack
on Adjutant General Barry for his man
agement of the militia. The whole man
agement ol militia from the time of the
first encampment under General Barry,
including the enlistment ol three regi
ments for tbe Spanish war has been so
eflVotive, energetically and skillfully don
tbat it ha received the commendation
of all tb military authorities. Ths
very first encampment ot tb milit'a
under General Barry abowed a great re
daction In expense and greatly Increased
efficiency. That record has been kept
up vr aino. 1 .
DEMOCRATS ADVANCING, -
Tbe democratic party continues to
make long strides in the direction of
populism. In the platform adopted by
the Ohio stat democratic convention
were these demands: "f ' . 1
"We favor tbe initiative and referend
um, the passage of tbe eight-hour labor
law, the more rigid inspection uf mines
and workshops, the prohibition of sweat
shops, and tbe abolition of the contract
system of prison tabor. v -
"We demand a cessation of national
bonded debt building to curse posterity.
. '"We recommend a constitutional
amendment providing for tbe election ol
president, vice president and senator
by a direct vote of the people.
, "Political bosses are to be. detested
and are inimical to our form of govern
ment Bosees represent simply a con
centration of political power, or a ring.
They live and exist through jobs and
schemes loaded upon tbe taxpayers.
They substitute their rule in tbeir party
for (be rule of its voters and visit politi
cal death upon any wbo refuse to bow
to tbeir dictation. Tbey select the nom
inees wbo, if elected, remain their tools
and administer their official powers in
tbe interest of their boss and aot the
people." ; ; .
"We demand that the Cubans and
Filipinos not onl be permitted but en
couraged to establish independent re
publics, deriving ail their governmental
powers from theconsentof tbe governed.
"We are radically and unalterably op
posed to imperialism in . the United
States of America. When we bav
solved some of tbe race problems tbat
confront us at borne,' then by example
ftt .
we can proclaim tbe blessings tbat no
from tree institutions, and tbus procure
'benevolent assimilation without crimi
nal aggression. - , , ;
''We are opposed to entangling al-
liances with foreign kingdoms .and em
pires. ." v -v . ' l-,..'
i "We declare that all unlawful cornbin- -ations
of capital are the legitimate fruits .
of a gold standard and other corrupt re
publican legislation on questions of the
tariff, and we demand tbat all articles,
tbe prices of wbich are controlled by tb
trusts be placed on the tree list"
They have learned all that from th
populists and they will bave to learn a
few more things before the fusion be
tween and the populists is declared to be
permanent. They will have to come to ,
the point where they will demand the
government ownership of railroads and
all monopolies of all kinds. When ' the
democratic party has done that, then
we will take into consideration the pro-.
priety of making fusion permanent Now t
we are going with tbem, as Bryan says,
as far as we can and will, separate when
we must. We will help tbe democratic
party down the money power, " we . will
stand by Bryan because we think that
he can be trusted, but after he is iuaug-
nrated these other things will have to be
attended to.
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FOBGOT1T.
Russia has just placed an order for
$150,000 worth of farm maohinery with
a New York firm and France is said to
be buying agricultural implements her
in larger quantities than ever before. A
considerable shipment is also being
made to Holland, where the bulk ia
trans-shipped for us in the Dutch East
Indies. Press Dispatch. '''
Tbe above which appeared in thou
sands of papers is very stale news. The
shipment of agricultural machinery to
foreign countries has been going on for
twenty years, The one important point
in connection with it, the writer forgot
to mention. . These goods ., are sold to
foreigners for just half wbat tbe Ameri
can farmers are forced to pay for them.
When this writer was in England in
1887, he found all sorts of American
farm Implements being sold there at just
half what the Nebraska farmers bad to
pay for tbe same things. He remem
bers tbat just before leaving the farm to
start for Europe he bought a six tined
manure fork for wbich he was charged
91.25. At Jedbnrougb, Scotland, he
saw one of the same forks with tbe very
same trade mark on it He asked tb
price and it was offered for sale in that
far away place for twoshllling-; sixpenso.
or about 62 cents. Asb-al beam, six
teen inch plow, for which he paid 21.00
was sold in Glasgow for three pounds,
fourteen shillings and six pence.
That sort of tbing has been going on
ever since, although prices under, tb
gold standard bave been . very much -
lower. For the blessing ot paying twice
as much for agricultural implements a
tbeir competitors in foreign countries '
tbe American farmers are under obllga- f,
Hons to tbe McKinley tariff. Tbe mul
let heads think tbat that - is just what
tbey ought to do and go around brag
ging about it '
THAT BAM K STATEMENT.
The New York Financier takes sub
stantially the same stand in regard to
the conditions of the banks that waa
taken by the Independent and which
caused several republican editors and a
few mullet beaded bankers tn this state
to make such a howl. Tbs Financier
says tbat tbs banks in their tfiort to
save themselves have decreased their
loans since July 20 over $40,000,000 .
but ths reserves have only been increased
$5,000,000. It announces tbat the
banks can't "expand" any more. W
should say not. Tbey bav already ex
panded to the tune ol $10 of credit to $1
of money. Now they an in a quandary
nhout "bo w the crops are to be movd."
Tbe crops will be moved all right They
would be moved if there was only bait as .
much money as there ia now. Tbs
trouble will not be in "moving tb
crops, it is aoont tn -prior" at wti ch
1 bey will be movwi. vat million dollar
will move J.mw.tiUM bnetieia or wheat at
dollar a bunbel. It will move 9.K)0.-
000 bushel at 50c a bushel. So it i
ia with all th rest of tb crops.
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