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i , u -1 r December 28.11899 m - ; J I TU 3 OF W A w comes the tuff of war. We have just finished the mast lo iiay trade of our burfioe-m career. ' I perfectly satisfied with it, and we're satisfied that you're satis nujrhjthe crowds were larger than we expected, everyone seemed e j-wtlintf, and good humor prevailed among the happy gift JTe have endeavored to give the best possible men and women's , fjjejthe least po-t-ible ou'lay; we leave It to you whether we sdt d r not, and now we must make ready for inventory. We're to gi4 anything away, neither are we going to cut and slash tlUCC9i-.fi . w tied. Al to enjoy hunters. clothes, a have su( not goini prices, atnany ill te I you, but we as possitip, acd he task of re-arranging and getting into shape half a ruiilion d,'1an orth of Clothing, Cloaks, Shoes, Hats, Furnishings, etc, has comujrncid,! If there is anything you have negltc ed to buy during your hurf sdlj shopping tour, remember our stock is never short of hund redsof invert si'itab e presents at the lowest possible prices. If you knew of the Lakes' Cloak values that are here you'd surely make an attempt to select soilj of tffonu, You must not forget the fact that there are no old. ibloaks tdnial ojyour selection from Please Pen lin The Nebraska t, in'9G, olpr : t iu out ad red thousand more votes than th Hntny n, tf')rTgl, had men 21 ye.1r.-4 old. Mouey 1X9 it No colonv kf ISrrkland or any other nation on eartp evt rude nu tne pro. gres in art.'glitet afore, science, inven tion. diMjoverr. o: industry, in forty yenr that Me j'uo , lis. The republic of America has dLhe more to e.'eviue and happy fy the IfcumHtf race than all the -kingdoms 'an4eires of. the world Then why . net tiiri our attention to making republ )n rather than dependen cies? h 1 J Bryan is oufplatfofrn and candidite both in one.j; Wi are not 10 have a word written. He, himself, is the firstly and lastly. He nevjrllhart flopped. The doctrines he 5jdvccaed on the floor of congress he airfooatetoday. We can't say that of Mcj&inlt ydf He and his con pre-s have flopped eioee '96. Read Mc Kinley's speeeljes mode in c n,'res and compare theiri wii t4 his labt message, read the plalfuf, n oh which he waseleot d and co in par it itl the bill that has i'inr i'H faiA Immik o KfiiitiA 1 rPriA UV ayMiioA ,- UfM it ivn A Aw republicans don't dare to publish bt-iore election ' illj they - calculate after they get in. ; iran does it. He did it alter he Was eloated to congress. Abraham Linceln it. - Everybody, north and south, kced! what to expect from him. He Sold ill the world inopen speech where he stood, and he stood there to the last ' J -Lincoln's patrioti c statement is fast oeing turned uWd 4uva. : After this it will be read,fgovi'rQUientof a foreign power, by a for rn iiover and for a tor a for j;n of er ' -'. V ' eign power. . NEWS CpJCE WEEK. Things are coring: m light through ' -correspondence fcy a au that make things in .the Philippaes afpear in very strange light to Ame -i(fctn eyes. It ap pears that Otis s emptying the starva lion process in is s' ujfe a manner as ver Weyler did an il which was the cause of the war witl iain. The most pitiful stories an beial printed of tne sufferings of thuf peoj 1I9 on some of the islands because M Uu't strict blockade that has been maintained. On some of the Islands scarcily tufood is raised at all, the industrial beiobf another sort altogether. Imperii isin is the same thing the world lover1 and at all times and places. f j xne censorsmp naa ton so severe in the Philippine islandi. fiiat many of the local papers are Inspeniing publication altogether. Not the tulhtest criticism is allowed of anythin j 4hat the army does or any of the depjments that Oiis his inaugurated. ref a suggestion about the adtilbistrat&n of charity OiiiTFL'Tl'"!''.! iit-w - brought down oij the paper that pub lished it the severest, punishment. The government in the Philippines is an ho solute despotism of thj Kiost objection- - ' able kind . i Otis cables anotht r victory. Mrs. Aguinaldo is deaii. S levied from fa I tigue and exhaulonVnaied by the vig I ' orous pursuit of t linos by Otis' 1 generals. She recent); - give birth to ; a child which the met I Ceorge Wash- ington and had from her confine campaign ended lever ftllly recovered nt. 0tis' strateeiio l hei lenth as she fled before his victorious ot lumna It is one of the great victories f ihe McKinley administration. ' .J J 1 John T. McCutcheoi has got an ac-, o int through by mail jifing the details THE MOSTi til from tnv fall of I CHICKS. SURE HATCH IMCUBATOR Vwifn4 to pfo4mm,mi Wlt tttl Krs4 Mtfsiarlty. t-SJri4l . U4qwt toll pnelleal iMM'tr m'nral'n. V ailMti a, v rsuMv,ciwKfi tUTCU INCUBATOI COF KI.ClMf CaUr, Htbt. ThnlMPBOU a VICTOR Incr : I mplr. rtuntl,l. mnt) tMl ; liM iffratakirr I n I n rnrmai Kn and M C- 1 i . ' 11 . - ,M . IT II r " f "MUftwuj H to It. I. -CIU. J W . " A anni. tn.nl. I fliii tl . M r--f!r,L- 1,,- . 3 -a At ' ' are g ing to inventory as few goods all new, clean, stynsli garments. Independent when answering of Major Logan's de4th, which" Otis- re fused to let come over the- cable., i&s says: ) ; ( ,, , ,( , In the very first mometfi of flVhting corporal lell a few feet from Loiran Keen called out, asking Logan if he had a '-first-aid package.; Loiian answered: "Yes, I'll look out fr this felkiw." - m1 i These were the last woords ne ever utteied. Keen started back for a doc tor. and Logan beui. over the corporal who was already dead. An instant later (he stooping figure uoJaped and sunn down by the body of the corporal bullet had struck him in the temple, and. ranging upward, came out ' of the Up of his head, inflicting a mortal wound 1 n i instantly cutting oti all conscious lle.-8. ' ' - . - The troops were responding to trie in sureeijt riie. and the roadway and woods were ringing with the crash of volleys, while mingied i i etween these echoing roars were the sinister pops from the rifles of insurgent sharpshooters. Capt. 'At-uty and a hospital steward ran up to where Logan and the corporal were ly ins 1 in - the mud. ,i ihe - hospital man leaned over and grasp d. the legs of the wounded bfBc preparatory to carrying aim to a safe phce where he could , be treated. He never straightened, up again, for that merciless sharpshooter had sent a bullet through his heart, and tiis body dropped heavily upon Major Logan's body, A sergeant sprung to ijake his place and was shot through the Back in the road behind where this Sragedy was being enacted other men rere dropping in , their tracks. One man was moaning piteouslv, for he had been pierced through, the lungs. The water that filled the ruts of the road was red in many places from the blood of men who had fallen in tne mire, for nearly all . the casualities occurred in tne hrst few minutes of tne tight. Fif teen men were wounded and lay along the roadway. Heven were killed or mor tally wounded, and the sight of all this slaughter, distributed over such a small area, made the scene look for awhile as if it nuxht be a defeat Our men we're steadily advancing, though, and were en deavoring to dislodge the sharpshooters from the treetops. . Logan's body was carried into the lit tie. shack, where a field hospital was quickly established. The wounded were hurriedly carried into the hut and "first aids" administered. But there was no hope for Majr Logan, the doctors at- once seeing that the wound wasnecessa rily mortal, and it became a simple mat ter of how long he would live and wheth er he would regain consciousness. - vv nne tno!-e in the little sbactc were busy with surgical dressings the soldier were steadily driving the insurgent baeH. liie sharpshooters were dropped from the palm tree tops and the retreat ing Filipinos were leaving a wake of dead and dying men as. tr.ey fled. in an hour everything was quiet again, and once more the heavy silence hung over the ricehelds. The enemy had been driven back, but a melancholy depression settled in our ranks when the men realized what a disastrous fight it had been. Orders were given to return to San Fabian. Major Logan was placed on a litter, but after a lew minutes he breathed bis last. This wasaboutnoon He had lived scarcely three hours after the bullet had struck him, and had not regained consciousness. The enormous expense of sustaining 65,000 soldiers 7,000 miles from home, the war supplies and the waste is not all th burden that the people willhaxeio bi-ar tu carry on this unholy war inau gurated by McKinley. A report of the pension office shows that another grenl bill is growing day by day that will be a burden for generations to come. The records of the pension office show that one out of every twelve men enlisted in the army since the Spanish war has ad- puea.iora pension. There have been bout JOO.OOO Individual en istmenU during " the last two years, and of thi Oar Incubators tin a II tin !Mfm'ivvvwisvBart4eM si vrry w priv mm trn n rat tt wr 1 :? f owr aniMirt ib M Wtte b to rmtM Multrv flnllf Hut fr pmltry iftd snwatwrn DISC HARROW 1 nm (ir(tntAM ktfftm.it wmr I'im I). Ill 21 mini wr application, have brrn tiled bv 25,000 soldiers, or their widows or or- Pay by day it seems more certain that v. tt'j'jiyH ifrp- received . an awful rouocing-tBiiJouta Africa and it is of much more jU us nature than at first supposed. eun himself is now be ., The irs have him up against Iver with an impregnable M UUlUt , line of enti thuients in a semi circle reaching from ) Iwnjt of the river above, ks.u ir !.. s to the bank b 4. tiu. tAO 49 UUVY iu an bad a fix as G c Whfat Idysmith whom he star outWrei.'ve- The distressHfithe money ma "ket In Wall Street isjno means relieved na what the final ult witl be no man chi. tell. V A financf writer in a gold stand ard paper saysf f .- "'Merry Chrti,ias' is a contrratula- tion not much to 4 ken thiB vear in Wall street. ' Forlor I weed, is the record. A. thousand m Kfrii dollars have been :f' valuta, and wholly cut, lroiu mar apart from thi j uatiob, as it cruel y tig; list of whys and intrudes, is the wherefores. F t i a Variety of causes we have had srmpseft. A year that mi whjoi-e every pros Jloailencfi and briirht started out wel peut last sprin enetf jnto an w 'f prutit-mnking glori ous beyond confcitre tppionches C hrist mas iu tatters. . .1 ouJy hts it -taen a vay the erft3f the . est a idinary urofperity whittiiad bfetiii remirueil as the spring find KUiume departed, but ChriNtmas marfetl values as coinpared with recent li Is malt e an exhibit , might, be reckoned a have really huddur it adversity. " ' w i-h1, taken al as eviuence thalA'J ing 189y nothinil There is one jpaightfUl thing- about this buhiness aif hat U that the effect of this panic wi fill' mostly upon riqh men. , The RocPillr have run up against a los of: 2,000.0)0. They were in for IOOCOOfi rd then put up f 10,- 000,000 mor to iep ' hold the market and lost that. 'Cw sart.e writer says that there is nblfriiiriey enough in the world to do the Si iness' set up by the trusts on the jsd.le that thov have planned it. So tt sems mat mere is quantity theory of while ago these same something in t money after all. chaps were sayinjf; hat tfie quantity of money had nothiii to do with prices; It would be a gofj time? now for Mr. Lamberfcon to rpfat his speech to the students of tne usrersity in which he took that learneti A-isiiion. Oom to Appeal' Qoovernemknwi.antoor. Pkktobia. Nov. 10. I send w greeting to the pres ident and people W the United States. The main uue-tioi in dispute between this government rt England was in re- gard to the franab e. I have always been willing to hi this question and nitration, but Kng- others settled by land has always 1 ined arbitration at the verv start.. I We still made $ attempt to induce the president of J.tt erica to intervene as arbitrator. buUlh s wa unsuccessful owing to our havfef no one to represent us officially theret I 1 it The franchise law adopted by the leg-' lature at the comftiA icement of this year would, according lo .he existing lists of field cornets, giveltha vote to 50.0JO new electors, and as thfer are only. 30,000 of the older inhabitnitt- on the voters' li-ts this would immedfctbly have given a su periority in numbing to the new popula tion. ; ' "' f i Instead of accelttig this the British nation has declines jind forced us into war. - l We have been farctd into war because the British goveAient was bringing thousands upon taocsands of troops in to South Africa aid J p to our borders with the avowed oiiict of forcing us to do whatever it coilfcilers right. The great America 1 nation, who had more than a h 11 n died years ago tj fight this same British fai'on to secure their lilierty, will know thu'W to sympathize with a little sittes I'public, though far away, wnich has nnw to tight a mighty power in order to dial') tain its indepfnd- ence. fA'JU UKUEUEK. This address by President KruegeV to the American peoil was, obtained by Edward Kugene rlstm, the New York Journal's war corfc-Lwidect with Oea. Joubert's army in fcfa al, the only Amer can newspaper tn f ith the Boers. The address was sent tdj & r. Easton through Dr. F. W. Reitz, sffiU secretary of the South African repifbtc t j We sell all kind- if content poor coal, trcmiiM & Hyatt. 1040 O st, Ljnco 1 Neb.;. Five Timas AQ eat As Gold ,1 me world sou tp t f gold in 1898 was 1287,429,000, and a in the United States was 6MG3, The value of the cotton crop in the, 3hited SUtes, that is the raw cotton, i was W19.491,. 412. The cotton in, the United States is therefore fleen per cent great er than the gold opt) ut of the world, and five times as gfea- as the gold out put of the United Mia e. 4 To this great valifii.Oowever. we must add the value of til ft-ed products, and we nave a loiai want mum hkh tnree u dred and sixtyr it nilons of dollars. But the grand totalS-fnot et r-a;hed, for we are working Fi'O.OOu spindles in the United HtatesIiV making cotton loths. The outpu'Jof these minus the raw cotton consumnB, nustbe added be fore we have the irraV to'alof the value of the product ami Jnf th industry of hetienple. .-Then, n, are the print works we mut nil 1 ''rel the print works which dewifti" thefco cloths in such attr cilve fHBhl4 thafe they make most imwildering ti-.irti ''nts for our fair: so bewildering that old fashioned ainonir us. the old fib oned just not old enough to have liveJ m the days of the periwig ana short ciai es, nave no more gallant comment to Mike on a woman ho pleases them triff 1 sue is a tine bit of calico.' 1. -Ainhlne 4 ft r ' January. i in IIP Ml WEB New Feature In the Lec ture Business, CLAEK-DOLLIVEB DEBATES, Tbcy Deliver Joint Lectures oa Imperialism. 1HD L0PTT, TUMBLING. The iVntfoa of the ftetiabllea fmrir ' on tl1 Moaer Qfllou Ar Hard te KeeV'Ti'' or-Tfc1 StrndUl of 1HUU Tbe Sl'-J1' Kuoli oa Wklch De niocrniy In netirvmeat ml , the Gret-nbacUti.. . w i , ,, ' ' Special Waahingbftttf Irtt'er. ' I '" King Solonuin 1 said that1 "thin U nothing new13' tinder the Bun'," biitf J niu gather lht'iliii''tl to bellevi thai Hon1. Jonathan 1. Luilllver of Iowa UU'.I iny ef.,.Jiav inuugurnted a new feature of ,th lii'utuietbusiui'Bs., (Wt'.have n tei-ed Into an niraugeuu-ut; to deliver Joint h-etures on "Kxpauslou't or "lm-pt-rtalisin" at fucli times' and plu'cea as our services are desired, ' provided we ciin' do so -without iieglectlug our con'gressi'dtini ' duties!' 1 This'' joint ap peurauce In the lecture Hue baa a. dou ble, ptiiposeedtifatloual and, tinuuchih Iteilevlug Unit Ueuiocruts ore right In their position. 1 suggested this unusual lecture procedure, rJnulyv persuaded that the more it Is debated the stronger we' will tie.' We hud our Initial per fohnauce" at t'liatnliei'sburg. Pa., re cenUy" before a niMguiflceiit audience, composi'd 'of about ohe-fourth Demo crats and 'three-fourth Republicans, the, vast, miijorlty of that community being Republicans. ' From the manner in which the dAlte was received and from newspaper comment thereon 1 feel absolutely certain thu we have everything to gain and 'absolutely nothing to Ipse by forcing the fighting and by 'roarageoualy 'inulutnlulug the patriotic pdsitmn that Amerituu liberty shiill not be rect'ieHsly Jeopardised by taking to our bosoms several millions or savage and semlsavage Asiatics and thnt Aniericuu laborers shall not be brought Into' ruinous competition with those siime millions, who are willing to work for lit ceuts a day. A' detmte on the subject drives the Republics u prupoueut of expansion and Imperialism, whoever he may be. luto doing a great deal of explaining as t6 polygamy, slavery, press censor ship, etc.. aud the party which must put In Its time explaining Is doomed. Consequently I greatly enjoy the Joint lecture business with Brother Dotllver, On Monday, the ISth of December, one of those curious coiucldeaces la human affairs which startle all wue witness ft and furnish abundant food for philosophic reflection occurred In tl" bouse of representatives. Just as the applause among the goldbugs, by reason of the pnssasre of the Atlantic City money bill, subsided a Missouri representative arosu. and amid pro found silence announced the death of Hon. Richard P. Bland and moved that "as a mark of respect to bis memory the bouse do now adjourn." which It Immediately proceeded to do. As one object of these letters Is te furnish campaign material for stump speal ers. nt the risk of being some what dry I propose to recall briefly to human memory some of the grand and lofty tumbling done by the Republican party on the finnnclal question Itepobllean Flaonvlal I'lank la 1806. Iu order that there may be uo mis take about It I here quote the Umiuclai pluuk of the St. Louis plat form: "The Republican party Is unreservedly for souud money. It caused the euactmgnt of the law providing for the resump tion of specie payments In IST'J. Since then every dollar has been as good as gold. -"We are unalterably opposed to ev cry measure calculated to debase our currency or Impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by In ternational agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved. AH our silver and pnpe currency must be maintained arparlty with irold. and we favor all measures designed to maintain Inviolably the ob ligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth." , - . The Ohio Plnaaelal Strangle of IftftS. As for months prior to the St. Louis convention Mr. McKinley was the leading Republican presidential candi dateIndeed., the Inevitable nominee It Is not . unreasonable to assume that the financial plank of the Ohio plat form of that year reflected his senti ment on I Vat subject, It has been de nound and ridiculed as a most skill ful straddle." but such as It Is It must have met with his approval. What ever else It may be. It Is not a declara tion In favor of the single gold stand ard. ! Having quoted his message to show his position now. I quote the Ohio financial plank of 1S!M to show his imsltion then. (Jnze upon thnt pic ture, then 00 fhls: "We contend for honest money, a currency of goM. sll- rer and pajter. with which to measure our exchange; that shall be as sound as he government Itself and a untar nlnhed as Its hnnnr. and to that end we favor bimetallism and demand the use " I 'tandard of both goM fco'Wv. with a ra money either la iviirtilM -atlonal tla te be Jxed1 by an' HtH , or ailwiniJL If that sir h blrt'0' under such restriction and frv ions to be detertniaed by IfcV as will eecui's the malnteoanee paritlM ef values of the two metala, netata, so that the purchasing and debt pay tag, power of the dollar, whether of aold, slher or paper, shall at all time be equal," ; ' With considerable rhetorical flouTfih that "straddle" was Intended to be "all things to all men." hoping thereby te wlu votes for Ohio's favorite son nt St Louis. But the convention kicked that utraddle" out of the door and got up a "straddle" of Its. own sufficiently In genious to rap" Iu enough of the un wary to elect Mr, McKinley. Truly lSUd was good year , for catchlug gudgeons! The Democrat! Position. ' During Ihe debate 0(1 the Atlantic City money bill, knowing that certain eastern Democrats were going to vote with the fU'puhllffltt. J took occasion to fully and clearly set forth the Dem ocratic position, on gold and silver and did It as follows: . ' , , (Yttiin rifrfflipruitive from the ntt, rttrd 11 Drrtiorrctt in thr dirrrlorr and newjpfr, ivow tlittr puijniF iu ml (or this bill. In to dolnf thrj out ot fmirli lih llii (rrpit Iwrtjr of thf pnMv. The mw wmjurliy of Dcmcxvuiii irf u a. . . . . miV'li In fvor. f Hi Irw nd unMmilnl lnj( f lllvfr I rViVV wen. Not .11 1 mMef al r pinhftirT. tiut'a of rlnclilc, tdrv unci I bt HcYf tn I he H-vid; ni'rlirailon (if lndcp-ndf nr tUi our liol hl'nttiR Ttw iroe almailmi miirMi U wisll r c'lnifljf URilcrMood litM. as mn, and It : la tliia: U iiitcivrl to reailopt irot aitmily rutftrrn, j dim rwiopi ute nnanilal1 plana of the Chiracs platform wnf.l for' wird.? ayllabte by.' avllable, Iwtlng nvitlii'r m tor tlttl uf (but gtfeat.eoo fissmon ot pvoMMtttl fith,( 1 . . . v ,,-; .' Th frrr and .unlimited mtnafre of gold ami all rr at Ihr tiistortcl railo' of 18 to l; wiilioiit 'waiting -for 1 Hit' romt'ni ot any other iui)od oa aarth, will t tha juprrmtv lnn ! 1WK).. an M a, l. iwt ,' Vpon. that platform w will plaet Bryan and'rlcet him. Srlf arrliinjr pollihUna, tiinoroua aotil, 'maj tall away from oa, bin th paramount Unue and ihr prt-rlca. ncUdai tn remain. I'oliili lana do not fliikr Inuti; the pen plr make lli.-ni. And they maktijnelhlnn else; they make piiilllr-lam. And when politlilana clt not do to iuIi ihi'm they unmake the Voliliviana and. make a new.ae who will do lo au It them. The plain Dfmorraia lhe wliq aerk no office and who expeci none know exactly what they trant, They! want Bryan and the tree and unlimited colnajre of told and allver al IS to 1. and thru they intend to have. We wyuld nullify .ouraelvea by rhanitin posllion In front of the enemy. Kven aa a matter ot expediency we would' loae by aura a move, for etery time we gained one vote In the MM we would loae two or three of a half down tn the aoulh and weal. To abandon Ihe Chiraito platform Would not only be wrong. It would be auletdal, - . ' Of courae other lamrt will be preaented, but they will be aubsidiary to that of thr fret and un limited coinage of gold and silver at 10 to 1. We will hare airong antitrust and antl-lmperlalinile planks, strong as language can make them; alx plank in favor ot an Income tax and another in favor of economy in the pubiie aervire that latior may be lightly burdened, but the overshad owing Issue, the one on which the decisive battlt will be fought and oa which the victory will b won. Is free coinage of gold and ailver al thr old ratio of IB to I without aaklng anybody's consent r waiting for anybody's assistance. This la tlM programme, and gentlemen may aa well govern themselves acfoniliinly. One swallow does not snake a summer. The desertion of a soldier now and then does not portend that the silver boats are either dejected or disintegrating. We know we are right, aad we will persevere until com plete victory perches upon our banner. The average rltiien luia mora sense thai he la credited with, and he know that the prosperity so widely bruited her grows out sf accidental and ephemeral eausea which have tamed Ihe bal- ne ui trade In mir favor, which have lm ma il ur clock of gold; that should the balance of trade ' turn against us. as It may do next year, this ' country will be drained of Its gold, and timet . I.Im kA4m m u!m.mI. ' tity of basic money, conditions will be worst lhaa during the panic ot UU. Therefore he is for sti ver, all we caa get of It by free and unlimited eeinagr at II 10 L Consequently he doe not la tend to permit that issue to be aide tracked. shunted out of the way or overshadowed by any titer Issue, and the Democratic politician who tries to plsy him that trick will get his seek broken off aa short aa you ran break piece el glasa. if we were right in lave, we are right bow. and we propose to atand by our guns, aeiiher aak lng nor giving quarter. Ceaeral Oroavrnor and the Wilson nut. General Grosvenor of Ohio having In the debate repeated the threadbare Ac tion that the Wilson bill was a free trade measure, I replied as follows: Out in my county there dwelt a lawyer, Colonel George W. Anderson, who for four years was memlwr of this house. He waa always a brilliant orator, but In his younger dsys not well up In the technicalities ef his profession. On one occa sion he was shout to be knocked out of court, srtiea Judge Porter, who waa presiding, a eery kind hearted man, undertook to help him by say ing, "Colonel Anderson, sre you taken by sur prise f tt hereupon Anderson electrified benck and bar by replying: "(lood God. your honorl I am not only surprised, but utterly astounded!" I waa likewise astounded when I heard the gen tleman from Ohio, Oeneral Groeeenor. my that the Wilton tariff bill was free trade mcssure. There Is nowhere on earth or under the earth or In the air above the earth scintilla of evidence en which te base that atatement. It Is absolutely preposterous. That bill carried an avrrace tariff duty of nearly 40 per cent on about 4.01X1 articles of everyday consumption. Surely no ssne man can believe or does lie II eve that such I bill wsa tree trade measure. Free trailers voted for It holding their noses. They voted for tt bersusr It wsa the best they could get and cut down the rates of the McKinley bill of abominations about I per cent. It ia a poor cause that becessliatet tuck wrenching of historic facta to support It and only shows te what straita Republicans are driven to defend their present course. A chsrscterlras, oliacure and ignorant stump speaker might be excused for making such s groundlrea iwrtion in the heat of debate out ia tbe backwooda of Ohio, but Oeneral Grosvenor cannot be excused on any such theory, lie can not afford to make suck I ridlraloua stslement. Mr certainly csnnot be excused on thr grounds ef Ignorance, for one of hla foibles la omniscience; nor 00 grounda of tnexperience, lor be has long since passed the effervescent period of youta. Sixty-sis winters hue frosted his head with ail ver, and he is a veteran, a conspicuous, an able, member of this house. He la great historic per sonage. Tounget men look to aim lor guidance. lie is the only real, Simon pure, major prophet now known to lie on terra firms. Thr public rerarda him aa a sort of walking delegate for the administration, ita mouthpiece oa this floor, the keeper of the king's conscience and groom of the presidential posset. . tie owes it to hut own time, te the dignity of thia house and to the cause of truth and Justice to expunsw that charge from his aueech. lor it is baseless st the labric of a vision. , ludece-ol llaatc. The, indecent .anil Inexcusable haste with which the Atlantic City money bill w-.ts railroaded through tntist for ever remain a blot upon the history of the Republican majority of the Fifty- sixth congress, and they need not be surprised If In tbe days to come this unseemly '. And butrageoti precedent ar!ss to plngtte Its Inventors. All sum mer the leaden of the majority have knorn the provisions of the bill and have had months n which to prepare ineir arguments. ' Tbe minority had tne weekday In which te prepnT V far battle on a hill which revolutionlaM tar entire financial ayatera. If It bad been simply aa antlnllver Mil. little nrpna ration would have brea f IHUk further ' Wrta $500,000 ruin ..r JL . f500.000.orjo of sil rer t kln rrnrfi srl r Wrr,nrq iQ gold, practically retire. IWtrer 9f the natioual banks. piadn the prfisperity of 7(lfXH),(KK) ersona within their keeping. It broadens tbe financial question and lifts It to the hllfh plane on which Andrew Jackson and the old Bank of the United Stares fought It out more than half accn tury api. Ui! Tor the Isi-unhIoq of this , DiohlentouH question, which affects the welfare and happiness of every man, woman and child In the republic and of all the teeming millions yet to bfl about .7 hours of duyliirlit has been : ruiltted, that, too,.wliout the bJl ever Larlti been referred to or consld-' ereU by any com iu It tee of the house, . Parliamentary .tyranny ctin go little further and do Utile worse, but It's an old saylugjhat "it's u long luue that him no turn," and history nhows tlia( majorities., frequently dwindle . into minorities, and our turn will come at lllNt. . ,. ., ;. ' , ."' .... , Do Ihe people want sliver coin con verted Jnto nu-re token money? They are not, mich idiots an 10 desire sm h wanton waste, for If It Is tp be, mere token money. ,releeniel,,ln; old, w'lif jvuste fifty odd cents iu sl,v?r to juuUo A token doluir when one cent: worth of paper wiptild do as well' '. Do the people desire 10 convert iMNV 000.D0U silver dollars., now an awsei of the goyerntnentKood for the payment of .all obllKutlousniiubllc and private, luto a debt of that amount, thereby re ally diminishing their, wealth by twice the amount of .Hilver, coju, upw, outv staudiue? Surely, tbcy are not so In sane! ' x . . , . The Popular Greenback. Is there any popular demand for the retirement of the fMil.unu.0iMJ of green backs, thereby i-outructinR the curren cy to that aniouut? Who soys thait w have too much money nowV, le't It never be forgotten that this bill pine-, tlcally retires the greenbacks, that that Is Its prime object, for nobody hut a natural lioru fool will he deceived iy the euphemistic term "Impounding." The fondest dream of the natioual bankers, for years lias been to reilr the greenbacks, and at last their dream Is to.be realized. I make this pretllc- tlon now. without fear of successful contradiction- that after this bill tie comes a law greenbacks In the hsnda of the people will be as scarce as bens' teeth: like angels' visits, few and far between. A few of the $1 greenbacks, for the sake of auld lang syne, will be ' retained, framed am J displayed us curi osities to be shown to our children aa samples of tbe money that saved the life of the republic In the awful crista of the civil war, but nearly ail (ha greenbacks will remain forever In their loug home, the newly created "division of Issue and redemption.' Do the great body of tbe people wish the government to abdicate Its paia mounjt function and to deliver tbe aa tlon'a prosperity, perhaps Ita life, un reservedly and absolutely . Into tbo' bands of tbe National Bankers' asso ciation? There baa never been a day since Washington was first Inaugu rated when the; so desired. Thev dm -ot no . , , , y wru w uu air iwiuin-riug tueMP DnUHB now and surrendering to them tho ughts which we temporarily bold In trust for the people that tbey wIM some day rue this unwise action, t re call to their memories the startling fact that In lTD'i. when Great Britain was encaged In a death struggle with Na- 7 poleon. the governors of the Bank of England unpatriotically. treasonably and eurO In a three line letter In formed the younger Pitt that he could have no more money from thai institu tion with which to fight the wonderful warrior whose towering ambition waa universal dominion. Give to our na tional banks all power over our curren-- . cy. as this bad bill proposes to do. and perhaps, indeed most likely, tn some crisis of our country's fate, wbenajve are engaged In a death struggle with some great power It may be with all N the great powers of the world they, too. will play the traitor's part, with hold from the government the slnewa of war and thereby Imperil our liberty, our happiness and our prosperity. The Conner vat lam of Age. Age. says Thomas U. Ueed. Is a great conservative element. With age meat bate acquired also wealth and stand ing aud tbttueuce Ir, the community. Age. accompanied by wealth. Is almost always listened to. Age brings with It use and wont and unwillingness to grapple with new ' thoughts. , When Harvey proclaimed tbe discovery ot the circulation of tbe blood, no physi cian over 50 years ever became a con vert. They all of them died In their Ignorance.-Boston Herald. Arrives Before It Starte. All over Ireland clocks show Dublin time.' As time arrives over Dublin 'J5 minutes 22 seconds after passing Greenwich. Irish lime Is thus much be hind the English, and hence a telegram dlspaMied from Loudon at 12 o'clock gets to Dublin 11:41). according to local time that Is, apparently before It starts.. Strange, Isu't It? -Scottish American. , (. Rreaafaat, . Landlady - Well. . Mr. McGlnnla, I hope you bad something you liked for breakfast this morning. Boarder-Yes Imieetl. Mrs. Irons. I bad a magnificent appetite, Chicago Tribune.' . , . 7 - ' If .1 i I ! wfciJv ' ' ' WW jggjgaalLJUi" I1 u,f mi-mi) iiul a 1 1 11 111 1 1 " a'ir" 11 ' " i mutef 1 un.AtMjem tjsire1 iLincoln. Neb. 1-Bcho1 1 l f " av I J ays Una t 1 '. .