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9 Sw,'.; 7 Yj J. JkJ Consolidation of Zhe Wealtbntakers and Zhe Lincoln Independent, i ' i LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 4, 1M0. NO. . H ' : , ' V Mo Jck,. UP vol. xi. f. TT GAGE BE fc Engineered a Steal that In Urmlty Eclipses anything ever Before Attempted. n. Teller. Burr!. Tillman, tenta and Other are after Him with Four Tlned Pitchfork. I' ' "'7a-hington. D. C. Jan. 1, 1900. (Spe- f "WonrMn0 Th deal undertaken Wf Secretary Gage to place 8300,000,000 ? i government money in the Rockefeller , 'i'k, tne uny maiionai vi . jitifi nnianiDir diuiD ouoiuiau wuv. , "id die of Jackson's day both combined, n jroi" up ine populists, aemocraui mw h,free bilver republicans, They seemed fall at once "to get a move" on them, flW. Vnn. itfcA WTk ailO.K A. TOW that AUVJ iiv v.-. Hj, a hna hackad down. He first sata tbat any bank putting up bonds for e ourity could have the money, but that it taunt first be deposited in the Uty tnnnl find ha dividad out from there. fn mt still hotter ' lUCII luo tuiug b"" i.d ljio made other arrangements. Some Iv-iathe senators even go so far as to say 1 fr.Ao ontrht to be imneached ani that M2.'4M is good grounds for impeachment . is a large stockholder in a bank in licago which is in close relationship LfJ the New York City National in Fvflfct it is said that the stockholders of ivv'-. two D&uKa are urauntniij mo ciu f-bCtQ DanKS oemg rwcueieiier lusvitu- jonn. ' A good many republican senators were 1K disgruntled at this favoritism oi Jaire for they are interested in otner national banks and wanted a slice of the U us well as the Rockefellers. It was ;?ihfi nicest bit of Die dished out to Mc- f iin!ey favorites. Just think of it! pver $300,000,000 to be given to the ashanks to loan, and in the nrefent state lof the money market they cou,d loan it. f for 6 per cent and compound the inter- jfcwt,- every sixty days. Figure' it up f w'aat the deal would give to the bankers. I No wonder that there was a scramble to j get a slice.-, v-'fj Alk n. Teller. Harris, Lentz and sever l alr tbera are on - their metal over the mallur. There will bo no lack of resolu- tions cailiqg for an investigation when ' Crtiipresfi Biffts on Wednesday. There will he three or tour presented in the seu- t. One of these will coiue from bena j " "'iliianof V. Allen, of Nebraska. St natur Allen s resolution calls upon lp hecretary of the treasury to submit r,l the facts respecting the deposit of Mifclic funds with the National City and ' i!uvei' National Banks of New York ;. v MembeMi of congress now in WashiDg- -ton ere vory frank with their criticisms L of the denl between the adoiinisUation 1 and the fJtaridard Oil bankingsyndicale. k Senutor Henry M. Teller, of Colo I r do, t aid, "Of course I am opposed to i this wtioie an;air. J ne treasury aepart i tiieet U'dH no authority to delegate such t au e-tucui and far reaching authority I' to o( fiioglt' 'private banking institution. i '. It is iiiiwt jihe principles of a republi han Mfa " government." f ' LsJawr itarris of Kansas, said, "I will ji. adiy ot! for a resolution demanding a I congressional investigation. Heretofore I She treasury department has played all the Wall street bankers a favorites. I Now that it selects one particular insti- 'Ution as the object of its favoritism, I f uannot see why others there should pro -:ist. -Jole c I think that in selecting a bank as a s denositorv Secretary (Jiiere is prosti tuting his authority as a public servant. It is all wrong. It is a notorious fact that the deportment has all along stoop ed to the nod of Wall street No such deference is shown to other interests in the United States. The nianufucturug or agricultural interest!, for instance, may cry for aid until they get black in face, but it is never forthcoming." Representative Marion Devries, of California, snid, "I hope that a resoiu tion will be introduced calling upon the secretary of the treusury for all the facts. Wall street has been running the tjroasury long enovgh, but this latest sche. eof Mr. GageV eclipses even, the worst in the past" I Representative Edar Wilson, of Ida t.o, said, "Let there m a congressional investigation, when v can get at all the i acts, i win warrant mat tne country ill be astounded whoa it, loams every ue aspect in the matttr. It is but an- ber demonstration ofao completely an street nus uie ireasuit by tiie nape me necK. i benator Tillman paid, "AIR comntrol lers of the treasury since tha oflice was (treated nave graduated out af their po t lions and oecon.a toe beads ( a trust company or president of a bat in New York. But 1 bad supposed k Gage was a higher man than tL at Mr. 11 hiru self to any scheme of favoi m like Uiis. -"I have always contended ti street controlled the govern ti this seems to be further evidce The present deal reminds me'of c Cleveland's bond deals by which ml ot tax money was transferred to body's pocket" f:0 REBATES w Zealand' Uallway Beat Oi limpect. : A capital article on New Zt Henry Demarest Lloyd, a "Wealth Against Commonwe! pears in Ainslee's for January this to say about the railroadil "The Nw Zealand railrcj 'ad bonds proTod saleable ill the Londi n market and a airaam otrailroad iroa nd other t"1 a railway equipment began poi ring across the Atlantic in eichance tor .ce ooiiga tions of the colony. The rail ond a jtera was never developed as pyriimet'.cally nor on as business-like a p'an as fcir Ju lus Vrgtl had intended. Xne colony was divided into a number of ptovinces, and each province did all the u'e-pull ing that it knew how to securu the lion's share of tne new tugnways lor itself, There had to be all sorts of compromises to carry the railroad bill t hrough the Colonial parliament, and nl. hough the railroads that have been bu it are near ly all of them essential, the symmetry of the system has been marred by this log rolling local jealousy. "An intelligent traveler w iula not ex pect to find the state railror.ds of New Zealand able to sustain any comparison with the private roads of America. The comparisons would not be fair. If any conclusions are to be drawn from the New Zealand experience as to the com pnrative methods of public and private ownership, the comparison must be not between the state roads of so conipara tively new and undeveloped a country as New Zealand and the private roads of so much older and wealthier a com munity as the United States, but be tween public and private roads in New Zealand itself. This comparison can be made. There are two private railroads in New Zealand, and the observation of the traveler confirms the verdict of the public that the state has been fully as successful as the corporations in the management of railroads. "There is one fact which alone makes the governmental administration of rail roads in New Zealand a matter of envy to the American observer. Such a thing as a rebate or a discrimination in favor pf one shipper against another i-i un known in New Zealand. No would-be commercial conqueror can get the traQIc manager of a New .ealand railroad to make him a rate which will drive his competitors out of business. "In discussing this matter with one of tbe government railroad officials, I astt ed mm what the unit of shipment was in coal. The rates for coal, he said, were made by the ton. "Could a man,' I asked him, 'ship 10, 000 tons and get a lower rate than the man who shinned 1,000 tons? ,n, he ronlien, 'not If tie slilnnwl 10,0Wi,000 tons. "In a great many ways New Zealand roads show the superiority of public ownership over private. The principle on which New Zealand roads are oper ated is that they shall only n ake profit enough to pay the interest on the debt incurred in bmldintr tliera, ond as rapid ly as any surplus nccrues, the rates shall be reduced. In other woras, they are not run to make mouey. '"it to serve the people. - "1 he public administration of roads also takes cognizance of special circum stances in the condition of the people. When there was a great ilrouth in New Zealand, and the grazing districts, the government reduced the ldli a on the movement of sheep in order to assist the settlers to restock the country opecial rates were made to facilitate the development of the export business, "The railway department lias organ ized a regular svstem of free .school children's excursions. The children of one district, on some appropriate holi day, are carried in large train luads into another district Childrf , fur instance, in the up country are can fd to the sea shore that they may see a harbor and vessels, and all the in? ignia of com nierce, and get a taste of the variety ot metropolitan life. Town children are carried up into the cot .mry to the foot of the mountains ond among the water falls, that they may hear the tui -bird ring his silver bell and feast their eyes on the glories of iSew Zealand scenery. SECRETARY.. ?E A litt le "over Ten Time Worm tliuu Old nirtille ami the United Ktntea lUnk f Jackson's Day. Six weeks ago Mr Gugo said that to lend the government's revenues to par ticular banks would be an unwarranted favoritism.' Since then he has decided to turn the entire internal revenue about $300,000,000 a yearover to a pet hank, without interest, the bank to lend it out for its own profit at whatever ex travagant? interest rate: it can squeeze out. of Wall street exij-erieies. Se retnry Gage and Treasurer Robert declare that this is "a confidential ar- nRement between the treasury and the bank" concerning which the people are entitled to no information whatever4. Yet the money thus leot without interest the peoples money. The treasury odlcers are the people's servants. Why are they under no obhgatun to tell the people what use they are makingof their money T - Jn Jackson s time t deposit of ouly 9000,(XK)in tbe Unitad States bank made that institution so dangerous an institution for the corruption of politics that the people decreed its overthrow. the danger lera now, when, instead of t ;t.000,000, a bank enjoys the use of t-'KX).-000,000 a year of government money T If the Unit d States bank, in order to pre serve its privileges, corrupted congress men, bought senatorial seats and inter fered with presidential elections, is there no political danger in the endowment of the National City bank with the entire internal revenue receipts by an adminis tration that is asking an extension of its lease on iower? CORNELL'S VICTOTY. Why shouldn't Auditor Cornell feel pond of his success, Mr. Tribune? He has been one of the most abused men in the state house. The reason for this is very plain to those who aro not struck by the persistent efforts of Auditor Cor nell to protect the state treasury against grasping contractors, republican uncon stitutional bUls and other nimilar repub lican ways to irrab the tax payers money on the old republican plan.- Scribner A DEBTOR NATION Koine of the Gold Standard Paper are Driven at lat by the Wall Street Panic to Print the Truth. Ever since '93 the populist papers have been calling attention to the euormous amount of wealth that is every year sent to Europe and never returns. It Is pay ment of interest on the debts that we owe over there, the money spent by the globe trotters, the support of dukes and lords who have married rich American girls, the charges for freight carried in British ships, and that sort of thing. It was pointed out that about 1400,000,000 were sent over there every year because we were a debtor nation. This whole subject was thrashed out in the free silver speeches made in congress in 1803. To the utter astonishment of all well informed men, about six months ago the republican press, as if actuated by one mind, started out, pointing with pride to tne excess of exports over imports ana claiming that that was a demonstration of continued prosperity. When we showed that the shipment of more wealth away from our shores than was returned was a demonstration of any thing else rather than that we were called calamity howlers. The fact that we were pending to Europe something like 1100,000,000 a year more than was returned to us was denied. It was even claimed that we had all at once become a creditor nation through the working of the gold standard. Necessity has at last driven some of these gold standard newspapers to tell the truth. To the astonishment of every one who has watched this matter the following article appeared the other day in the linancial column of the Chicago Record: Accurate and comple statistics of in ternational trade would fill an urgent want At the yresent time half the for- ein exchange experts in this country ar. trying to formulate some theory which will fully explain the disparity be tween the balance of trade account in the United States and the movements of coin and bullion across the Atlantic. According to the best figures obtainable from the ollkial statistics it would seem. that the flow or gold this way should be steady and enormous, notwithstanding the high discount rates which have been maintained in all European centers for many months. - Various offsets are takeuj. Ur" fc T . , t'T- i inueA ln' into nl,rMu,n to lain th anoinaT . W(,il to? bread, coffee, into consideration to explain the anoma lous facti of the case, but they do not greatly lessen the difficulty. It appears from the reports I the treasury department that the States has exported goods of the value of 81,f)00,00i),000 during the last three years over and above the amount of imports. In a rough way this represents America s due bamnce In barter with the world. Ac cording to the cannons of trade, this excess of sales over purchases should have brought many hundred millions of troid bars and coin. The official figure.! of the treasury, however, show that the net receipts of gold against the balance due have fallen below $115,000,000. What about the difference? For the eleven months of this year covered by the sta tistics it appears that tho balance of trade in favor of the United States is about 1420,000,000, to settle which only a trifle more than 812,000,000 net of gold has been sent this way. 'I he disparity between nominal bal a nee and actual settlement stems to be an augmenting ratio, and the question is. how can it be accounted for? The effect of foreign buying and selling of American securities is well understood, but it does not explain the matter satis factorily. Good judges estimate that the annnal draft on American credits abroad for the accommodation of tour ists exceed ?0,00O,00O in ordinary years: but in periods of remarkable prosperity more persons go abroad and Fpend more llxrally, hence the depletion of the nom nnl settlement balance is exceedingly heavy in such years as 1807, 1898 and 1800. It is a matter of regret that exact data on this point cannot be had, since such transactions come within the con fidential sphere of banking. In years ot great commercial activity and profit, too, immense drafts are made On the Americnn credit balance abroad by foreign born Americans, who are able to contribute largely to the support of relatives and dependent in the old countries. How great this offset is mny be roughly approximated in part for past years by reference to the statis tics of the postal-union money order bu reau, but there is no way to nnd out the amount of drafts bought for such remit tances, and the irrand total can on r be guessed at After all allowances are made for the impairment of the settle ment balance there must remain a po tential due bill, which ought to send much greater amounts of gold to this country than the treasury statistics show since 1897. This amount would lie greater or less, according as the nominal bal ince was more or less fictitious, ow ing to the undervaluations of imported merchandise, AGUiNALDO HONEST Prof, ftrhurman at I.at Acknowledge1 It and Much Other Evidence arenm ulallng to Prove It. Professor Schttrman in a recent arti cle in the New York Independent eays: I do not say that all of the insunront leaders wero dwbonost. I believe that many of those who fc lght against tho Americans were animated by the high est idea of loyalty to independence. I think probably Aguinaldo is one of this class aud that he is an honest man. The testimony of Lieutenant Oillmore who was long a prisoner in the hands of the Filipinos is to the same effect The New York Journal recently printed the statement of Otto Scheu, corporal com pany b, Third U. S. Infantry. Corporal S ;heu was taken prisoner by soniu bush wackors and was finally ransomed from them by officers of the regular Filipino army. The story told by this private soldior after giving the details of his capture and wanderings is as follows: We were taken on to Victoria. We were put into a sort of bull pen, and I heard our captors bickering and quarrel ing with the insurgent officers. The bushwhackers evidently wanted more bounty for bringing us in than the in surgent officers were willing to eive. The bandits got to raving ana cursing in regular Spanish style. ' This sounded very much like auction ins on slaves, lor we had nicked up enough Spanish to understand about all they said. , When the quarrel eot hottest the lead er of the bandits jerked open the door of our pen and rushed in with his gun raised to shoot If he could'nt sell his prisoners for as much aa he wanted he was going to get even by shooting us. we three men bound together by ropes tying our arms together stood up against the wall waiting to be shot down uue aogs, - At that instant an insurgent officer darted into the pen, sword in hand, and with the slash of a practiced fencer knocked the rifle out of tbe murderer's hands. . "Senor, these are my -men." he cried out in Spanish. l bat was iumilio Aguinaldo. I know that a good deal has been said against Aguinaldo, and I suppose he has done a good deal of wickedness, but we three men looked upon him as a herd1 as he dashed into tbat pen and saved our lives. We knew him at the first glance from tho pictures we had seen of him. 1 he three of us called out his name and tried to thank him in very bad Spanish. Mine was very bad indeed, I know, for whenever I try to talk Span ish I get my German mother tongue mixed up with it Aguinaldo smiled as he dropped his sword back into its sheath, lie made a polite bow to us, like a Spanish officer, and motioned one of his aides to take charge cf us. - - -: ,: From that moment our condition im proved. We were allowed to bathe and were given clean white coats and trousers, such as the Lest equipped insurgent troops wear. The officer - in charge gave each of us a peseta a day to spend. This means about ten cents in American money. W ith that we were able to buy i run, iooiicco ano other little things, pork and even chicken occasionally. VV e were even given a fair amount of liberty in the village, though always at tended by a guard. - We were told that we corId write letters to our folks if we chose and that General Aguinaldo would have them forwarded to Manila. On September 9 I wrote a letter to my brother in New York and took it to Agniualdo myself. One of his aids translated it to the general, and Agui- naiuo u.tv.eo it oy writing bis mitials.K. Al, in his big school boy-iike letters on one corner. He thon gave it to an aide to put with his own letters to go to Manila. A few days after this there was a big gathering ot insurgent officials. They camo in iroiu an directions to Aguinal do s headquarters, I found that these wero the insurgent caoineo omcers. 'inure was the secretary of war, Ambrosiua Florcs; secretary of foreign affairs, Filipe Buencamino; Governor-Gonornl Francisco Macabulus Soliman, commandante of the staff of General Ma -abulus, Artur Dancel; Col onel and adjutant of President Aguinal do, Jose Ley ba; Secretary of the Inter ior Severino Alas, Secretary of Public Affairs Maximo Paterno. Secretary of vomuierce Jjeon uuerrero, Secretary of Instruction Aguoda Velarde and Presi dent of the Insurgent Congress Pedro Paterno. When our guards told us these big names with their hih soundinc titles it seemed very funny to us Americans. I wrote them down just to nrause the fol lows, and when we were alone I would rend off the whole rigmarole of names and offices that meant nothing, - Aiwr a meeting -of this cabinet we three comrades and eleven other Ameri can prisoners who had just been brought in to town, were nil taken before a com mittee of these hizh insurgent officials. There were three of them, (ieneral Agui naldo, Secretary of War Flore, ond Secretary of the Interior Alas. Senor Flores spoke English the best and he did the talking. When we were lined up before this committee a taing happened tbat as tonished us all. Each of the Americans was neatly clothed in a clean insurgent uniform except one man, Private Paul Spillane, company C, Ninth Infantry. He had a ragged United States army khaki coat Honor Flore, with extreme politeness. pulled off his own coat and offered it to Spillane. The soldier ref ut-ed, of course. We were asked to promise that we would never again take up arms against the insurgents. I answered that 1 and most of my companions wto regularly enlisted soldiers and were under orders from our government, so wo could maKe no such promise. V e were then asked to use all ou in- flueuce to induce our country toftop fighting the Filipinos. After making his speech Flow took out a writing which he asked uV all to sign. It was a sort of parole. All the men signed it but myself nndSpillane. Aguinaldo then mode a little sneech to us iu a kind of Englwh that was hard to understand. He said that the Insur gent were in good righting order, and he put up t he bluff that they could keep right on lighting for threo years. In a day or two we were told to pet ready to be taken M Munila. We marched down to tho iwn of Aniroles. and there were turned'e W to General Otis on September 30. Ch " GAGE'S BIGJTEALIJJG lie Make a Prevent to Rockefeller' Ilaok ; of $1.19,337 and there I SI 1 11 More ''' to Follow. . On July 2 last the old United States custom house property, at Wall and Wil liams street was sold by the government to the National City for bunk $3,203,000. Within a short time after the bid of National City bank had been formally accepted by Secretary Gage, James Stillman, president of tho bank, went to Washington. lie took with him a certified check, drawn on his own bank, for 13,232,350, the balance due on the price agreed upon. . ' . . This cheek Mr. Stillman personally handed to Secretary Gage. The following day it was announced in Washington on official authority that the secretary of the treasury had for warded to the National City bank for collection two checks-i3,232,350and an other for $32,660. These were the checks which he had received from the bank in payment of the custom house property. In other words, none of the three and a quarter millions of dollars which the National City (Standard Oil bank naid the governmeut for the United States custom house six months ago has ever for one hour passed out of the bank's control. The bank has had not only the use of the money every day since to loan out at interest for its own profit, but it has at tne same time been receiving rent from the government for the custom bouse. The old proverb that one cannot eat a cake and keep it is thus set at de fiance, for the National City bank owns the custom houso and yet retains the money it paid for the custom house. NEVBB DKI'OBITKD IK TBKARURY OBPABT- : MBNT. Secretary Gage has never turned the proceeds into the treasury, as required by section 4 of chapter 3117, under the terms of which the sale was made. This statement is mado positively upon information obtainod from tbe treasury department . As cloar profit the National City bank is not only receiving its 4 percent rental for the property at Wall and William streets, but it is receiving the benelit of the interest on the purchase price of that property, which at 6 per cent, since July 2 1SU days- amounts to !K3,3.7, in addition to the 4 per cent rental which the bank receives The Natioi.nl City bnnk has not taken formal title to the property, and does not intend to take title until the government vacates It, the obguct- being to. avoid state ond municipal taxes, which, with a regular assessment on a valuation of S3. uuu.uuu, would amount to ;a,uou a year. . .. FACTS. National City bank bought custom house property July 2 for $3,205,000. The act of congress authorizing sale required that money received should be deposited in the United Slates treasury. secretary Wage redeposited check in the National City bank not in the treas ury. Not a single dollar of National City bank money ever left its vaults and was deposited in the United Slates treasury Title to property not recorded as hav ing been transferred, although National City bank is receiving rental for it from the government National City bank thereby saves taxes due Pew iom city,, because United States government property is exempted from taxation. FIOt'BES. Interest for 180 days at 0 per cent on WXioyw, left by the U. 8. treasury de partment on deposit in the National city bank. $06,335. Rent from the U. S. treasury depart ment to the National City bank for use of the custom houso for 180 days, $04,. 224. City taxes saved by the National City bank by delay of the U. S. treasury de partment in transferring formal title of the custom house to the bank for 130 days rJC.000. Total prpdt to National City bank to date on interest and saving in taxes, $132,W. As long as the National City bank continues to enjoy these favors its profits will bo per day l,uv& Ihe new tax assessors' lists aro to he made up in, a few woeks, and if thn deeds to the custom house are not transferred to the real owner the National City bank will escape taxation. In four years, if the government's . unique favoritism should continue, the National City bank would pay no taxes on its custom house property, would receive $000,000 rental from the government and the use of tbe entire purchase price as well. This at tbe low estimate of 4 per cent would amount to $000,000 more. MORE ECONOMIC WRITING Ienide Matter Should be Purnlnhed Re form Paper Treating a poo Fonda mental Principle. ; The Independent has had some cor- resjKindence with Mr. Walter Johnson cinerning the fuller discussion of fun damental principles upon which the pop ulist party is founded. That is the sort of matter that the men who hare made the populist party want to get hold of. Of course the great standard works on political economy cannot be generally circulated, but the part of the science that is to 1 voted upon at the next gen eral election can be largely reproduced between now and next November. To make it interesting, it should be applied day by day, and from week to week in answer to the sophistries which con stantly appear in the daily papers. The following letter and resolutions are printed so that many of those who will attend .the populist conference oa January 5th in this city can have them in hand:, Editor Independent: I enclose you the resolutions of which I have been corresponding with you in the past few days, regarding the organization of our reform press. It should not be in fered by anyone that the action will, is the least, interfere with the working of the reform press, either editorially or financially. I have sent you the resolutions that they may be presented , to the coming conference which is to be held at Lin coln on January 5, 1000. I have written Warwick Saunders to be present at that meeting if possible, and have sent him a copy of the resolutions. Of course you will use your entire judgment in aking any changes you ee fit, or any addition ' that you may prefer to make. You will notice that there was no amount stated for salary, and I think it best to sake the amount very conservative. Than is no one named for editors, and thai. too. should be inserted at Lincoln. Hoping for the good of reform and the naonle - you will push this with vigor at the meeting, and anything that you can see to do will be gladly accepted. ' Kesnectfuily, i Walter Jobxson. RESOLUTIONS. We, the representatives of the reform element of the United States, seeing that every effort is being put forth by l the representatives of plutocracy aad the advocates of the gold standard to misquote and misrepresent us in the re- form movement, give our assistance to mo establishment of an organization set forth in the following principles: 1 We believe that the principles of political economy, which we teaoh, shoald -be kept before the people through the reform press; that the principles of po litical economy which we tench are too much neglected by the reform press; that a-great majority of the people of the United States depend on the country presi for their information regarding the movements of the general government, and those things which concern us in j the reform movement; that the press has a great power in formulating the will of it0 pCGpiG; Mj3a any POWpF !OiiOu Li n leu i in organized effort is more effective than to be unorganized. 2 -And that our work iu thm move ment may be more efficient, wo suggest that editorinls on the subject of political economy be furnished those houes whose husiness it is to print "patent matter," and that said editorials be in serted in the "patent inside" of our coun try press, and furnished to all other papers at a reasonable cost; that the edi torials be stereotyped and appear . typo graphically Uie same in all papers that will use them; thnt we get the consent . of those houses whose business it is to to print the "patent inside" of eouatry ' papers; that we advise the appointment of - , who shnil write and stereotype the editorals, and deliver the same for publication; that tfya editor re ceive $ per morth ntfd expenses for his services; that all money derived from stereotyping, above salary and expenses, revert to the campaign fund; that all re form twists be reque-ted to u: e said ed itorials; that the editor establish his office at any place in the United States that he may prefor; that the appoint ment and removal of the editor be under the power of the national committee. 3 That committees be appointed ie present these resolutions to the dei.e- 1 cntic, populist nd free silver republi can national committers for their adop tion and ratification. The Exception Clause Editor Independent: I enclose fit and hope to be reinstated on the roll ef honor. My delinquency has not bee a a matter of choice, but that wave of pros perity failed to engulf me, b Mark eni Mac pmmi'Td. I'leae continue the In- pendent as long as the $2.00 holds out Perhap the wave will have reached me by thnt time. I think tbe Independaat the best paper in the state, because it tells them when they tell the truth and vice versa. 1 hope you will give it to them in the future as you have in the past O" cour-e V. . V. A Hi n is the man for the senute, and 1 henrtilv congratulate Governor l'oynter on bis cction. There seems to r e somn doubt amosg populists, or difference of opinion, as to U good or bad design of the exceptioa .use on our paper money. I speak mciimlly of the time of its adoption. lliiDK it was a rcbeme of the parties o owned gold and who though tbat b its adoption gold would appreciate. Was it not responsible for gold being at a premium? Gold went to $2.80 at oae time, did it not? What was the cause if it was not the exception clause? Would like to h lr'"'T "."'nron on the fore going. A. I. I ir. btromsburg, INeb. It was the exception and nothing but that As soon as they were received, by order of the secretary, for customs, they went up to par. A FLAG FOK SALE. Oh 1 tear the (mrreon emblem down r It gather Mom for etery eyo. Ami ilpxt mile and good niea frow When era WMe bv. . Sim me! hlmme! ltoxtarry Hplondor f low Alxir a Muter' UathMuie jail, It fold are ruffliiisr teu now Hicrimwmlljof wile. Whiltier - WHAT WOULD JACKSON DO? If Andrew Jackson were president does anybody suppose he would ' long permit Secretary Gajre to lie hobnobbing with money kings like Rockefeller, Mor gan, and Hsvemeyer, and to name as depository for receipts of the. internal revenue department a bank which is tie fiscal agot of the mrt. powerful of : ail the trusts, the Standard Oil? . Would Old Hickory have permittei this? No.'-by the Ktertisir-DnffaloTL -t. 1 ) rs i y: I
