THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
Sept. 14, 1899
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. STATE TICKET.
For Judge of the Supreme Court
Silas A. Holoomb, of Custer Co.
For Regontsof the State University
J. L. Teeteiih, of Lancaster,
Eoson Rich, of Douglas.
LANCASTER COUNTY TICKET.
Judges of the District Court
OEO. E. HI USER.
T.J.DOYLE.
ROBERT WHEELER,
Clerk of tb District Court
A. E. LINDELL, Lincoln.
Treasurer
WILLIAM M'LAUOHLIN, Lincoln.
Sheriff
P. II. COOrER, Lincoln.
County Clerk "
II. C. REDDICK, Bethany.
County Judge
FRED SHEPHERD, Lincoln.
Commissioner
J. J. MEIER, Hallam.
Sunerintendf nt of Schools
MISS ERNESTINE LYONS, liormal.
Coroner
DR. BENTLEY, Lincoln.
McKiuley has established a provision
al government in Porto Rico, but there
are no provisions.
Brown University has received its re
ward for bouncing Andrews. Rockefeller
presented it with f 1,000,00 the other
day.
Now that McKinloy has subsidized
polygamy in the Sulu islands Mark Han
na cannot see why his subsidy bill should
not go through with a whoop.
McKinley hoists the flag over a harem
and then cries out "Who'll pull it down?1
The mullet heads declare that that is
the highest sort of patriotism.
Bud Lindsay Bays that his interviews
with men in the south "showed a re
markablc change of sentiment against
democracy." That settles it. The dam
ocratic party will dissolve.
The New York Sun was first republi
can, then democratic, then Clnveland
goldbug, then republican, and now it is
a rat ofllce. Moral Never have any
principles and never stick to them.
The redublican convention was put off
to a late date. The republican man
ageas probably reason that if they
bought votes too early they might have
to buy them over again before the cam
paign closed.
How many times is McKinley going to
buy those South Sea islands? He bought
them once of Spain and now he has
bought a part of them again from the
the Sultan of Sulu by giving him a big
subsidy. '
There are some preachers in Lincoln
who preach sixteen political sermons to
one on religion and then declare that
they are against 16 to 1, first, last an
all the time. Where is the "parity" in
that sort of doing?
Ibe State Journall still advertises
Paul Yandervoort as " a leading popu
list." It might as well try to make the
people of this state believe that Joe
Johnson is a leading populist They
would believe it just as toon.
There is a common saying among the
the shyster lawyers: "When your case Is
lost and you have nothing else that you
can say, abuse the witnesses." The
publican managers In this state, when
they can't attack the principles of their
opponent, slander the candidates.
Slaves under the Jurisdiction of th
United States are now permitted to buy
their freedom for f 20.00. Some blun
denng copperheads have teen asking
how a slave is to get 120.00 when his
hands, his head and his feet all belong
to bis master. But the asking of any
such question as that, only shows that
the man has treason in his heart.
Wharton Barker seems to have failed
to make the connection lately. Perhaps
it is because Mark Hanua has staid over
in Europe longer than he eqpected when
he left At any rate the American has
failed to put in a regular appearance
any more. It is published only semi oe
casionaily. That is a bad state of
. affairs for the personal organ of a presi
dential candidate.
MKINLEtS FALSEHOODS.
The more carefully MeKinley's speech
at Pittsburg is examined the more as
tonished every honest man will become.
There is no escape from the conclusion
that be told two absolute falsehoods.
The Outlook had a stenograpnio re
port made and then sent that report to
the president for correction. It was re
turned to the Outlook with the correc
tions of the president and then printed.
In that reDort are two sentences that
every man of intelligence knows are
false. The first one in: ."These loyal vol
nnteers in the Philippine islands said:
'We will stay until the government ean
organize an army at home.' They
did stay cheerfully." There are docu
men ts on file at the state bouse that
prove that statement to be false. The
First Nebraska petitioned to be allowed
to come home and every officer but
three signed that statement. Of course
the privates Just as unanimously signed
Itlor they were the originators of it.
That document never got further than
the headquarters of General Hale, but
there are documents on file in the adju
tant general's office of this state that
prove that the statement of President
McKinley was false. The same was true
of the volunteers from Dakota and other
states. They all demanded to be sent
home when the treaty of peace was
signed with Spain.
The second statement is just as false.
It is as follows: "A body of insurgents
in no sense representing the people of
the islands disputed our lawful author
ity." That the insurgent army and
government does represent the people of
the islands no man of sense doubts. It
is the universal testimony of afl the
officers and men in the island. They
say that not only the Filipinos within
Agniualdo's lines are supporting him,
but that the "amigos" or supposedly
friendly natives within our lines are giv
ing him all the aid and comfort that
they dare to do. That is the universal
testimony of all the soldiers who have
returned, the statement also of all the
press correspondents and to a large ex
tent is confirmed by the official reports
of General Otis.
This in tho firnt limit in t.tm tiintorv of
" " " " - - - - - a
this country that a president has spoken
absolute falsehoods, revised them and
bad them printed. There is no escape
from the position.
GARBLED DISPATCHES.
Sometime ago the Independent an
nounced that the dispatches of Otis
were garbled and sent out far political
effect. That statement was made on in
formation received in a private letter
written by a man who has the best op
portunities of getting information of
perhaps any man in Washington. The
statement is now confirmed by Con
gressraan Lentz. He says:
"The war department gave out the
dispatch as follows:
"Volunteers willing to remain."
I went to the war department and
asked for the original and it read:
"Volunteers unwilling to rc-enlist, but
willing to remain till transports arrive."
The psople must remember that it is
not Otis who is responsible for the con
duct of the war in the Philippines. Otis
is simply a soldier and must obey orders
as strictly as any private in the United
States army. The responsible party is
President McKinley. One might as well
blame the privates for shooting when
ordered, as to blame Otis. The presi
dent is commander-in-chief and Otis
must obey, auk to be relieved or resign.
MR. PERKY. BELMONT.
The announcement of Perry Belmont
that he will support Bryan is a matter
of very treat importance. Remember
that it is Perry Belmont, not the one
that publishes the Verdict. Why does he
makeruch an announcement? He has
not one thing in common with Bryan
He is a plutocrat and a banker and has
nothing in common with the doctrines
of the Chicago platform.
These men who are at the head of great
financial institutions in New York have
the best intellects in the world in their
employment. They have opportunities
of gathering information, learning the
trend of coming events, the condition of
tho public mind that ordinary mn kno
nothing about. There can be bnt two
reasons for the course that Mr. Belmont
has taken. Either he expects by this
action to gain admittance for his friends
to the democratic national convention
and so alter the platform on the money
question that Bryan would not accept
the nomination or would be defeated if
he did, or he sees that Bryan is sure to
win and that it would be better for him
and his big financial house to be with
the winaing crowd than on the outside
It will be well for the democratic mana
gers to keep their eyes npon Mr. Perry
Belmont
DEGENERACY.
The Wayne Republican says: "The
highest aim of the government is a mer
cenary one." senator tarter says mat
it is the only aim. Some ot us old fellows
who fought along with John Brown and
helped to organize the republican party,
never dreamed that we should live to see
it degenerate until such sentiments aa
that would be uttered by a republican
as - n .
press and a republican unuea scales
senator. When we were laying the foun
dation of Uhat party we believed that
the highest aim of government was to
protect the weak against the strong, to
administer justice, to maintaia the
right of all. There has never been a
time since free government waa first es
tablished among men that snch senti
ments aa the above were pnblicly pro
claimed. If, in the sixties a man had
ottered such sentiments as that, even in
the slave holding states, he would have
been mobbed. Obi for a day of Sumner,
of Garrison, of Phillips, of Andrew. The
very foundations of civilization are be
ing undermined. The day when money
is put above man, above righteousness,
above the love of God, above everything
that the good have held sacred has
arrived. A standing army and the day
of might is looming up in the near fu
ture. As the Massachusetts patriots
say there is something more In this con
test than money systems or tariffs It
is: Shall civilization decaj?
THE BORDEREAU.
People have heard a great deal of late
about the Bordereau. That document
was never printed in the American news
papers until a few days ago. Here is the
famous document:
"In the absence of any news indicating
your desire to see me, 1 nevertheless
seDd yon, sir, certain information ot in
terest: '
"1. A note of the hy draulic brake of
120 (method of operating this piece.)
"2. A note on the troupes de couver
ture (outpost troops). (A few modifica
tions will be made by the new plan.)
"A note on modifications in artillery
formation.
3. "A note relating to Madagascar.
"5, The scheme relative to the manual
of field firing (March 14, 1894).
"This last paper is extremely difficult
to procure and I can have it at my dis
posal only for a very lew days, the min
istry has issued a definite number to the
corps, and these corps are responsible
for them; each officer is obliged to return
his (copy) after the maneuvers. If, there
fore you wish me to take from it what
ever may interest you and hold it after
wards at my disposal, I will take it.
Unless you do not want me to make a
copy in extenso and address it to you. I
am just leaving for the maneuvers."
This document was found in the waste
basket of a German diplomat by a ser
vant and turned over to the French
government. Upon it the prosecution of
Dreyfus was based. Esterhazy has de.
dared that he wrote it and there has
never been any proof offered that Drey
fus wrote it On the other hand there
is the strongest circumstantial evidence
that Dreyfus did not write it Drejfus
was an artillery officer high op in his
profession and one of the best artillery
officers of France testified that the docu
ment showed such ignorance ot guns
that it was impossible to have been
written by an officer in that branch of
the service. The officer who testified
pointed out how it would have been im-
possible for an artillery officer to have
shown such ignorance as is shown in the
first sentence, "A note of the hydraulic
brake of 120." The last sentence also
shows that Drey ins souid not have writ
ten it. The note says: "I am just lea
ing for the maneuvers." It was proved
that before that time the officers of the
class to which Dreyfus belonged had
been ordered not to attend the maneu
vers. The last resort of the military
scoundrels was to say: "Dreyfus might
have been an accomplice."
The republican county conventions
this year in a great number of instances
omit the declaration of principles alto
gether. They meet and nominate the
candidates for office but pat forth no
platform at all. That was the case in
Douglas where Rosewater ran things to
suit himself. The republicans have be
ceme so hardened and they have such
confidence that the mullet heads will
"vote 'er straight" that they no longer
take the trouble to promise not to steal
All that is necessary is to head the ticket
"republican." With the great questions
that are agitating the people they will
have nothing to do. All that they want
is the offices, That is the lowest point to
which a political party ever sank in all
the history of the world.
Morton has taken his cereal mills into
the trust. It goes in on the same old
plan doubling its capitalization, which
is put at $400,000 and taking pay in
cash and preferred and common stock
The price of the product will be put up
to pay interest on this excessive capital
ization. The result will be that the
people will only buy the same amount
in dollars and cents, (for how could they
buy more when they have no more to
buy with than they had before), there
will be an "overproduction," some of the
mills will shut down, run awhile that
way, fail to pay interest on their enor
mous capital, then a receiver and a reor
ganization. About that time the "boar
black pig" will begin to bock, and Mor
ton and his melting pot will go rolling in
the duBt.
Treasurer Meservo still continue to
take in and pay off those outstanding
warrants. Monday he ordered warrant
from No. 50,772 to 31,131, to be
brought in. He will pay them off and
the interest from date will stop.
Meserve keeps doing that sort of thing
every few days now.
Has this nation lost its sense of right
eousness wnicn has been its crowning
glory and made it great and honorable
among all the nations ot the earth?
Must its flag henceforth be the symbol
of conquest and commercialism instead
of being the symbol of liberty? Most It?
Let the people answer at tbe ballot box.
In regard to Dun's reports of failures,
every reader should remember that all
the weaker firms failed and were wiped
out in the years from '03 to '96 and it
is the stronger ones that are now
tumbling.
And now comes Henry Clews to the
defense of the Independent in its state
ment regarding the bank reserves and
says in the New York papers; "A word
of caution seems desirable regarding
the money market. We are corfronted
with low.bauk reserves just as the annu
al crop requiremnts begin to assert
themselves." It will be in order now for
those bankers to hold another meeting
and denounce Henry Clews as well as the
editor of the Independent They ought
to keep op the "parity."
For a mixture of words the socialist
can really beat the gold bug. The New
York socialist paper, The People says:
"In Kansas the principal occupation is
farming and the industrial 'population,
the working class proper, is so small
that it cuts but a small figure in Kapsas
elections unless the vote happens to be
very close." According to this "class
conscious" political party farmers are
not of the industrial population nor do
they belong to the working class. If one
of those socialists was ma-I to run a
Kansas farm for a while he would find
out whether he had to work or not.
In several elections since the populiet
party came into existence the voters
have neglected to a large extent'to vote
for regents of the state university.
Since the great universities of the east
have begun to pass under the conttol of
the millionaires and trust managers,
many of the populist voters have seen
the error of their ways. In the coming
election there are two regents of the
state university to be chosen. The vote
for them should be as large as for the
head of the ticket Boih Mr. Teeters
and Mr. Rich are eminently qualified to
fill the position.
Guy T. Graves the fusion candidate
for judge in the Eighth judicial district
ought to be elected for a good many
reasons. First, he will make an excel
lent judge because he has the calm judi
cial quality ot mind without which no
man can be a good judge. Id the next
place he has been in this reform move
ment from the very first without varia
bleness or shadow of turning. Last but
not least he is a thoroughly honest man,
a good lawyer and has the respect of all
who know him. That district has been
a republican district, but the candidacy
of Graves will change the political com
plexion of the next judge of the Eighth
judicial district.
For years the populist party has de
clared that it was the object of the re
publican party to retire the greenbacks
and make gold the only legal tender for
debt McKinley denied these state
ments from bis front porch and the re
publican leaders always said that the
charges were false. Now whenever the
party in its nominating conventions
has dared to put out a platform at
all, it demands these things. The pop
ulist declarations have been a true guide
to the people ever since the party was
founded. The mass of ignorance in the
United States is now all within the re
publican party and the leaders hope by
hurling it against the intelligent to es
tablish the trusts, a big standing army,
a big navy and rule like the nabobs of
imperial Rome.
Tbe bankers bad a great deal to say
in their late convention about '"sound
money" and "currency reform." By
"sound money" tbey mean the gold
standard, and by "currency reform"
they mean the withdrawal or destruc
tion of the greenbacks and the issue of
all paper money by the banks with no
other security behind it than "bank as
sets." Tbey do not tell us what is to
happen to the depositors when the bank
assets are taken to redeem their prom
ises to pay. The depositor is supposed
to look out for himself. If there is not
an overwhelming rebuke given to Mc
Kinleyism in tbe fall elections, congress
will proceed forthwith to destroy the
greenbacks and give the money trust
complete control of all the paper money
They will do it sure. A vote will have as
much influence upon this present con
gress aa upon tbe one to be elected next
fall. Get out and vote.
The probabilities are that Ilolcomb
will get practically the unanimous vote
of Washington county. There ia one of
the old sort of county boards op there
and they have undertaken to refund and
legalize 100,000 of fraudulent bonds.
A suit waa brought to stop it and Judge
Baker, tbe judge who sent Bartley to tbe
Denitentiarv for twenty years and
whom the republican state convention
sat down nryrn very hard immediately
afterwards, baa decided that tbe bonds
are fraudulent An appeal baa been tak
en to the supreme court The people op
there know very well what becomss of a
case In a republican supreme court when
bondholders are on one side and the
neonle on the other. When that case
cornea ud in tne supreme court iney
. . . . a t
want judges who will do exact justice in
such cases. Tbe probability therefore
are tnat tne people 01 nasDiogion
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county will be solid for Holcomb. 0
A GOLD STANDARD DOC CM EXT.
Mr. John Robinson of Smyrna, Ark.,
sends to the editor of tbe Independent a
pamphlet issued by a gold bng crrency
committee containing 20 propositions
in which it says that Mr. Bryan has not
answered and asks the editor to make
reply to them. It seems strange that
any man can believe that a publication
like this, which is made up of assump
tions and positive falsehoods could in
fluence the political action of any voter.
The first question is a sample of all.
1. When In the history of this coun
try has siiver occupied "its ancient place
by the side of gold?" Has there ever
been a time when the two metals circu
lated upon equal terms as full legal
tender money, with the mints open to
free and unlimited coinage of both? If
so, when was it?
That question assumes as true a state
ment that every man knows to be ut
terly false. Silver and gold always cir
culated "upon equal terms as full legal
tender money" whenever they circulated
at all up to 1873. Sometimes neither
one of them waa in circulation. "When
was it?" It was from the beginning of
civilization until the fiat of govern
ment destroyed the legal tender function'
of one of them. If Mexico uses silver for
money and the United States uses gold
as full legal tender money, together they
help make up tbe amount of money i
circulation just as mum as it botn na
tions coined both silver and gold. But
if both nations use only gold and de
monetize silver, then is the amount of
money greatly reduced. Four-fifths of
the population of the world today use
silver and about one fifth use gold in the
exchange of commodities. Silver, in
spite of all tbe machinations of the bond
holding and money lending element, still
circulates. If the writer of this pam
phlet knows of a time when silver did
not circulate, when was it?
The next question in fact half a dozen
of questions ia numbered 2, and is as
ollows:
2. You say that the restoration of
that condition will, in your judgment,
"restore the parity between money and
property." Will you kindly explain
what you mean by this? What is the
"parity between money and property?
Do you mean that the restoration will
put up prices, nndo the cheapening ef
fects of improved machinery, transpo
tation, etc., and increase the cost of liv
ing to all classes of the community? If
bo, will you kindly explain how this m
crease in tne cost 01 an commodities is
likely to promote "a return of general
prosperity?' win tne working man
whose wages are stationary, or nearly
so, be made more prosperous by having
to pay more lor nis flour, meat, grocer
ies, chickens, eggs, fruit, vegetables
clothing, household utensils, rent and
all the rest of it? Will even the farmer
be better off with a double price for bis
produce, in tne wholly improbable con
tingency that Europe will consent to
pay it, if he must pay double for every-
tmng ne nas to buy t
The relief that resulted from the rise
in farm products, caused by the famine
in India and crop failure in Argentina,
is a demonstration that any one but an
idiot can understand, of the fact that
rise in the price of all farm products will
benefit every kind of business, because
in just as much as they rise, it lessens to
the farmer tbe cost of transportation
the burden of interest and taxation
When corn ia ten cents a bushel and it
costs ten cents to take a bushel to Chi
cago, the farmer has .to give the rail
roads one-half of his crop to take the
other half to market. But if corn is 20c
a bushel and the freight J ten he has
whole lot left over after he . has paid his
freight and fed his stock which he can
sell and buy goods which starts up every
other line of business. If he has f 100 of
taxes to pay with corn at ten cents a
bushel, it will take 1,000 bushels to pay
them. But if corn is twenty cents, i
will only take 500 bushels and he can
sell the other 500 bushels and buy goods
"Will the farmer be better off?" No one
but a pudding headed gold bug would
ask such a silly question. Then mark
the guile of tbe statement: "Will tbe
workiDg man whose wages are station
ary, or nearly so." ."So doubt this
writer, now that they have beaten tbe
wage workers down to a wage that
means simply enongh to exist upon
would like to make wages stationary
if he could. But if wages are stationary.
what becomes of the claims that are con
stantly made by tbe sameclass of writers
tbat since McKinley's inauguration
wages have been constantly on the rise?
The statement ..that "wages are eta-
tionary, or nearly so" is a new one. It
is put forth aa an indisputable fact,, and
it means tbat the wage workers must re
main in the condition which they now
are forever, and "be content with tbe
station to which it has pleased God to
call them."
In regard to the closing sentence, "If
be must pay double for everything tbat
ho has to buy," it is the old falacy which
has been reiterated constantly for the
last fifty years by tbe plutocratic writers
of all nations. It is a sufficient answer
to aay that the average prodacer pro
duces a little more than four times aa
much aa he buya. Tbat Is, he sella four
times aa much ashe buys. Tbat beingtbe
case if the priceof all things isdoubled,the
producer will be about 75 percent better
off than he is now. If the producers did
not produce a great deal more than
they consumed, what would tbe lawyers,
doctors, preachers, politicians, bankers
and money lendera live on? Where
would they get their bread and butter
and tbe clothes they wear? They cer
tainly do not produce any ot these
things themselves. They are not pro
ducers at all.
Tbe third question is about the "coin
age of tbe constitution" and has no
economic bearing whatever. There is
no such thing as a commercial ratio and
never was. A ratio between silver and
gold is the flat of law fixing it. The
orders in council of the Indian govern
mentwhich are simply legal flats now
fixes the price of silver. At least that
and the demand for coinage by the var
ious governments, for silver still circu
lates every where all over the civilized
world. Under free coinage, by any great
commercial nation trading with other
nations to any great extent, what these
chaps call the "commercial ration" is
the mint price.
His next question is: "Will not free
coinage 16 to 1 reduce the value of the
dollar unit by about one-hall?" No, it
would not, not by a long shot. What
ever possessed the man to ask such a
question is beyond comprehension. It
would take a large issue of paper money
besides to do tbat. To reduce tbe value
of money one-half, the amount of money
in circulation would have to be doubled
and business held down to the present
amouat. All the silver in the world
aside from what now is consumed in the
arts is coined and goes into the circula
tion of the various nations. Where is
there anyisuch an amount to come from,
which if it were coined would double the
amount of money in circulation? There
is no uncoined silver bullion on hand
anywhere in the world. If this chap
knows where there is any except what is
on the waytomarket, will he please to
tell us?
He next asks: "Will it (the free coin
age of silver) not be in fact a repudia
tion of all our debts, public and private?"
Well let us 'see about that. Is the
keeping of a contract repudiation? Every
bond issHed" by the United States, in
cluding those issued by Cleveland and
McKinley has printed on .its face these
words: .
"This bond, is issued in accordance
with conditions of an act of congress en
titled 'An act to authorize tbe refunding
of tbe national debt,' approved July 14,
1870 amended by an act approved Jan
nary 20, 1891 and is redeemable at the
treasury of the United State IN COIN
OF THE STANDARD VALUE OF THE
UNITED STATES ON SAID JULY 14,
1870." sa ,-
SThe claim of this writer that the bonds
should, notwithstanding the words of
this written contract, now be paid in
gold, wos a little too much for old John
Sherman to stomach in 1868, (although
since that time he has degenerated until
he can swallow anything except imper
ialism) for in that year he wrote a letter
to Mr. Mann of Brooklyn in which he
said: "If the bondholder can legally de
mand only the kind of money he paid,
then he is a repudiator and extortioner
to demand more valuable than he gave."
The next thing that the writer wants
to'know is: "Is there not danger that
it will cause the return to us of all Amer
ican securities held abroad-go vera ment
railroad and industrial stocks and
bonds, thus precipitating a panic of
giant proportions, with long years of
depression to follow?"
That is tbe same old scare cry that the
republicans raised when Silas A. Hol
comb 'was nominated for governor, by
the populists. Holcomb was elected
and instead;, or the dire results being
realized, a season of improvement imme
diately resulted in all lines of business.
So marked waa this, the business men
who opposed him seized the first oppor
tunity to apologize and as far as they
could make'amends.
Foreign.investors are not the idiots
tbat thisiwriter would have us believe.
If they undertook to flood our market
with securities what would happen? Just
what would happen f whenever a market
ia flooded with anything. Down would
go the price. Would these foreign in
vestors be keen to eell their bonds for
half what they paid for them and take
their pay in silver at that? Suppose
they-did. What would tbey do with
their money when they got it? They
have come to America ' to invest their
money because tbey could not invest it
at home. Would they pile it away in
fininlr vanlfa brimr'no. tlia It xxrnnlA nil
the time become lees valuable. If the
value of money is to be reduced one- '
half as this writer asserts, would they
not rather have their wealth in property,
which this writer assumes would double
in price, than to have It in money, which
be assumes would be reduced one-half in
its value? Tbat whole scare cry has no
foundation in common sense.
His seventh question is as follows:
7. Will not your election upon the
Chicago platform cause the calling in,
between November and March, of all col
lectible debts, all loans, all mortgages,
tbat have expired? And will not this
produce such a distress as this country
has never known, practically in tbe west
and south, where capital aud credit are
most needed and depend upon confidence
as their basis? .
Tbat is simply a repetition except the
assertion that business in the west and
south is based on "confidence." The
wealth of tbe west and sooth is based
on something much more substantial
than this intangible thing that he calls
confidence." It is based npon its pro
ductive soil, its mines, its manufactories
and above all upon an enterprising, in
telligent. Inventive and hard working
popolation. Let tbe crops (ail tor a
coople of years, let the soil become on
productive and he would see how much
wealth he could get out ot "confidence-''.
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