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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. October 18, 1900. li v l i .i Hat$1y tiibrssks rtSSt CORSE 13TH AND N STS Ptauiacx tar TieiAr St. CO RER YEAR IN ADVANCE . . . it fm fcy lira. Tl frq07 for t r tmmtt 4iMermm uwaat Ihu Ufl vita tMa. 4 tlM Vrrifer fJU u ftt proper A 44; all eaat.kfcMft. ! Mki U ArmfUb mvmrr e., 7a fc Dibrstk Irndtptadtat, HtXMin, Nebrmkm. rrr- rrrrrrTrr ,;' ',.' ",. j iMtiMm wmmKM wOi be - tvsmd. Btj Mtwru W r-1 Ka-PTldst Harrison dont like im perlaikia, lut he ha such admiration for injunction and the gold standard Ikat fe 5 goizg to vote for MrKinley. -raua. who U that lonely man plod- tiftC down the mldd', c th road ail t himself?" TThat, my aos. U Wfc.rton Barker." - . w . rtt kilult Ifr.i v&ere a uutt ; a man earned Eaaa who sold his birth right for a fall dinner pail, and he has bea tell in derision ever inee. W. 3, Pryas. One might aa well try to capture a bear with a monae trap as to make a world power oat f the United State Willi a -rough, rider like Roseevelt dtrectirs ita policies. Boork Cochran tried the Bryan jrtaa ef campaigning in a special car. Ha ma4 to lay ep for repairs before ha hMA bn oat a week. There is but est Bryan, there iw was one be fore ard probably tver will b one a rln The poor axe constantly blamed by ih republican press for their laxiness, inters perance and Improvidence. There is tea tizaea aa much of thoae vices to N found among tie rich aa anont the poor, bst these editors fcav. never a word to ssy to the rich on thoe sub ject. The riae in prices caud by the coinage of ton of silver and flooding the cocctry with bank paper baa all gone to the trusts. The Standard Oil irttt got 110,000,000. the Sugar trust atxwat fSO.000,000 and Carnegie got tH.000,000. The remainder of it has gone to the other treats. Mr. Carnegie got a llS.OOO.OuO' con tract by the grace of the republican party and the good oSces of Secre tary Hoot for manufacturing armor iLil at a cost of 100 a ton more than be sold the same stuff to Russia, and therefore Mr. Caroegla concludes that fee can lay aside his antl-imperiallssi 9i support McKinley. Tbe republicans discovered the fact that there could be a dollar that had only flfty cent la it. Now Congress man Crosvenor has made a discovery of eqnal Importance, lie saya the slav ery la the Sola Ulards is -voluntary fcUvery. That Is one of the "new t rings" that Solomon tiifia't have la mind when he penned that famous passage so often soted. Tf nt vncs im t air t,l -, eF-wawr w n wmw mm - av aame sort of trouble with Its republi- ran state treasurer that Nebraska had. iie has been rae4 for the embeztlemer t f t tZStfft cf state money. That is the sort new blood" that the reformed republican 'of Kansas Injected Into the party. It is the same sort that the republicans brag about in Ne I'laska. If all of the republican bulldozers close their factories the day that Bry an la elected as they say they will, what will their foreign friends do to whoa they have been selling their prod acta at half what they charged the Asericaa consumer for them? If they win have no mercy oa their fel- low citizens, perhaps they will recon- sider and keep their factories open for lb benefit of the poor foreigner. . The Tail "commission la the Philip- pices has introduced a bureau of for- ratrr with a lot of high paid oficials. The teed of such a bureau In a lot of islaadi covered ty Impenetrable for - ets will strike the average American as rather 'peculiar Btll 'ther reflect that the bct of holding the Philip- ptnea ib to zaaae piaee ror taowands of carpet-baggers- They might as well be railed forettry commissioners aa anything tbe. Donnelly's paper is a curiosity these iay. The last one looked over had J3t twelve lines of Donnelly's writing ia it. iDonielly always signs his ar ticle with his initial), and the re mainder of it was given over to re publican cartoon reproduced from re publican papers and abuae of Bryan, It may be trethf ally, said to be a red te foend in tt againrt McKinley or the ' rj3Mraa party. uoli) stasdakd COWABD8. - In a recent address. Gen. Bragg, u Cleveland democrat, speaking for the republican arty aaid: "r . ttwrlnf fif t(tt farmer. j erery business man and every wage ! earner has taught him that every , prophecy, every statement of financial I economic-, made and . believed in by Mr. Bryan, are 'Wholly; false, and were Incorrect. Will you trust the finances of this erf At nation in the Dower of such an ignorant economist because he has winning ways and is an estimable gentleman T"" When ' Mr, -Bryan mado the state menu attributed to him he had a right to expect that th gold standard ad vocates would have the courage of th'lr convictions. They had stopped the coinage of silver dollars in the United States and closed the mints in India. They proclaimed that they were going to establish the gold stand ard and limit the legal tender money of the" world to the output of the gold mines." We all believed them. But when it came to: doing that, and the awful . consequences of such an act WM brought-face to face with them, j tb had not the-courage to do it. If 'they had (and every prediction of Mr. j ' b on the opposition that they would do It) the world would I have been overwhelmed with disasters. a thousand times worse than Mr. Bry an ever, described. He told what would happen if the legal tender money of the world should be limited to gold alone. Every economist in the whole world said the same thing. Had the gold standard nin done what they said they were going to do and what they no doubt intended to do, Mr. Bryan's predictions of the disastrous results would have fallen far short of the reality. These gold standard men when they came to face the awful calamities that would result from their proclaimed policy, had r.ot the courage to attempt it. Instead of stopping the coinage of silver In the United States, they have coined more silver and put it into cir culation than was ever coined before in the same length of time. The In dia mints have "been reopened, not to the free coinage of silver, but to the coinage upon government account, and tons of it have been coined there and in the United States. In fact, to save the world from" a revolution, the hor rors of which no tongue can tell, they have adopted the very policy advo cated by Mr. Bryan They ha.ve not stopped the -coinage of silver. They have vastly increased it. They have not only done that ,f but they have gone even further than Mr. Bryan ever ad vised, adopted in part the populist theory and issued in' the United States one hundred millions of paper money through the banks. Had they not changed their tactics, every civilized government would be bankrupt today. Even the unprece dented output of gold would not have saved them. The only ditfei-ence between what Mr. Bryan advocated in 1S96 and what the gold standard men have, done, is that they have put the control of the paper money in the hands of bankers Instead of in the control of the govern ment, and have so managed that the profits of nearly all the industries have gone into the coffers of concentrated capita by the organization of trusts. It was the wonderful campaign made by Mr. Bryan in 16 that saved the whole world from disaster. When he began that campaign, no feiiver was I being coined in the United States and the mints of India had been closed i O of the first acts of the republican congress was to provide for the coin- are of silver. The India mints have been re-opened and coinage upon gov ernment account has been resumed. If It had not been for the sound political economy taught by Mr. Bryan, the mints of the United States and India would doubtless have remained closed. Any man can readily see what dis astrous conditions would now con front the world if all the silver that has been coined in India and the United States in the last three years was suddenly withdrawn from circu lation. In the administration of gov ernment, . the gold standard men have j abandoned all those theories that they ! advocated In lSi'i and have put into J operation the theories of Mr. Bryan. That alone h?s saved the nations from ; what might have been a duplicate of. I the French revolution. . j nt llkt head bankers. ( Of all the bullet heads in the land j some of the bankers are the worst. They are into this game of threats j that If Bryan is eLjcted. disaster will .weep over this land. They are try- j ics to make the people believe thatl the sun will not shine, the seeds will not sprout when placed in the ground, the streams will dry up. the family cow will not tgive. milk and the "hens will refuse to' lar -eggs If -'.Bryan Is elected. After; spreading such stories as that for political effect, they should have sense enough to know that if they succeed In starting a panic, they will be among the first to suffer from It- They got .a. preliminary dose of their own medicine the other day in Baltimore. A dispatch from that city was as follows: Baltimore,. Mr.. Oct.. S. There was i a big run on the Provident Saving 'bank in Eaat Baltimore tonight by ) the women and children who had luiiui mere, utratuse ui a. iejwri eyirau by a woman this morning that if Bry an was elected the savings bank would burst." We want to say one thing to these fool bankers. If a panic does come, it will not prostrate the west like the last bankers' panic did. We are pre pared for them this time. It will fall with crushing force tipon the people of th eastern states. They have no such cinch on us as they had in 1893. West ern bankers have learned a thing or two since then. The millions belong ing to the west will not be found in Wall street vaults. When the New York banks begin to fail, the west will be all right and the New York bankers will have to quell their own riots. - These chaps better do a little think ing before they push this cry any fur ther. They can open a Pandora box, but after that what? The people of the east are very much in the same circumstances that the people of the west were six or seven years ago. Let a panic start down there and they will not have a conservative, law-abiding population to deal with that we had in the west in 1893. They will have the mobs of the great cities. Perhaps that is just what they want to back up their cry for a great standing army and force a change in our form of gov- ernmant. What other idea can they have in view? If it starts, can they control it? Or will it turn into an other French revolution? These fel lows are fooling with fire and they may get their fingers burned. THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. A farmer in the . northern part of the state asks The Independent to give its views upon the financial outlook. He says he has "very grave fears for the future." There are two things to take into consideration. The first is: What will the great money interests do when Bryan is elected? Will they precipi tate a panic? There is no doubt that they can do it if they want to. But will they. The Independent hardly thinks that they will. There is al ready great distress among the labor ing classes in the east. If the bankers make a panic, there are several things that they will have to take into con sideration. Will they be able to main tain order? If the population of the great cities break out into riots and mobs how will they be quelled? Is there any money in such a situation for the money interest? Will the for tunes which they have already ac cumulated be safe? The bankers will not precipitate a panic unless there is money in.it for them. The present conditions do not indicate that there is. But there is a graver thing to take into consideration. It is well known that every railroad, every trust and all the operations carried on bycom bined capital, is over capitalized to the amount, most of the authorities say, of a hundred per cent. Now will it be possible to squeeze out of Am erican labor a sum sufficient to pay double the interest that was ever paid before? There is where the danger lies. American labor is the greatest producer in the world. It produces more than twice as much per man than that of European labor does. If we are to allow capital to take the in crement of all our colleges and schools, all the advance in mind, all that science has attained in reducing the cost of production, then perhaps, by this new scheme of watering stocks we may go on for a while in piling up immense fortunes. Will American labor stand that sort of squeezing? Will the time come when there will be a demand that dou ble capitalization shall stop? If such a demand is made and enforced a crisis will be reached. Every trust will go into bankruptcy, for they are all cap italized to more than double their value. The question is simply this: Shall capital take it all, or shall labor have a share something above what will sustain life and propagate the species. The Independent is inclined to be lieve that under the present money system that it will be impossible for the trusts and other combinations to collect interest on their double capit alizations except in a very few in stances and that there are storms ahead. One of the lieshat the republicans are circulating with great activity is that the Bacon resolution declaring that the Filipinos should be treated the same as the Cubans was defeated before the Spanish treaty was ratified. The treaty was ratified in executive session February 6, and the Bacon res: olution was defeated February!!. .The vote on the ratification of the Spanish treaty was taken-in secret session and has never officially, been made public. - -.- - - ' . -- v - -. In the coming, election . of members of the legislature, the republicans have enormous advantages. They can elect a state senator with 4,740 less votes than it takes to elect a fusion senator. On the ticket the names of republi cans come first, although' they are minority. After the election, when they are beaten, they will set up i howl about fution frauds and unfair ness. Thai is the sort of stuff the re publican leadership is made up of in this state. - SHALL LIBEETY EDCRE? Not only in the Philippines and in Porto Rico has McKinley aped the im- perator and proved the usurper. Right here in one of the states of the union, by the aid and assistance of the Stand ard Oil trust he has overthrown "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures," " he has denied the rights, which we supposed we had secured at the adoption of the . constitution, which declares that "no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on the presentment or indictment of a grand jury, nor be deprived of life, iberty or property without due process of law" and "in all cases, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and mpartial trial, by a jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed." . ' . No one denies that he has done all these things and that" to enforce his mperial orders he : employed . negro troops. Out in Idaho he 'built a bull pen and confined American citizens in t, guarded by United States negro soldiers, where he held them without trial, without indictment V and even without charges being filed against them for six months at a time." Further than that, he issued orders through his commanding general : that no man should be permitted I to work in that region of country without first taking an oath : renouncing some of the rights guaranteed - to. him by the constitu tion, among which was a declaration that a labor union was a criminal or ganization. Having denied the right of self-government to millions in the Philippines : and in Porto Rico and even the right to labor in one of the states of the union, if he is re-elected, hoow soon will he extend his imperial power over larger sections of these states? If there, ever was a time when liberty was; at staked it is now. The question that "you will help to decide at the ballot box is: ' Shall liberty en dure in these states? WHO ARE "THEY?" A writer in the State Journal tries to be very bitter and sarcastic because democrats arid populists continue to quote from Abraham Lincoln and look to that great leader. for inspiration and guidance. "He says "they" called Lincoln- "a baboon," - and the soldiers ''Lincoln hirelings.'' Who does he mean by "they?" Was it W. J. Bryan? If so, he must have . learned to talk very youngand he must have had a very different Character in his baby days; than he:.has now, for notwith standing there has been applied to him-in these; later years, all the vile epithets that could be found in the English language, he has never replied in kind. It Seems impossible to so ir ritate him as to make him call names. Was it the old abolitionists every one of whom are supporting W. J. Bryan? Was it the .hundreds of old soldiers that fought for Lincoln for four long years and who are now denouncing McKinley? . -Who does he mean by they?" It. is simply the old trick which is so often played in politics of trying to hold living men responsible ' for the acts of dead men, simply because they vote under the same party name. It Is one of the tricks of Mark Hanna which he applies in various ways of appeal ing to the unthinking rabble. The logic of it is this. Because some men who are now dead, calling themselves democrats, opposed Abraham Lincoln, it is wrong for other men who are now living, calling themselves democrats, to advocate the same principles to which Lincoln devoted his life. Or, In another way of stating it: It is right for certain men to undertake to overthrow every principle that Lincoln held dear, because they vote under the party name "republican." That kind of logic may capture the rabble, but with men of sense it wiU have no weight whatever. IMPERIALIST ARGUMENT. If the imperialists ever undertake to make an argument in defense of a col onial policy and the government by force of conquered peoples "without their consent, it is something like this. We can manufacture jn six months more goods than "we can consume in a year. : ;k1 If we do not obtain foreign markets for our goods the wage earners must lie idle for at least half the time. " A colonial policy will enlarge - our foreign markets. . . ; Therefore a colonial policy is to the interest : of the United : States. -Laying aside the question of obtain ing foreign markets by bloodshed and war, let us look at the question of for eign markets from the. standpoint' of pure economics! . ; - " If we send goods outside of ; the United States we must: either be paid for them in gold and silver, in other goods which we take in exchange, or we must give them away. If we vastly increase our exports and get gold and 'silver for. them In large amounts; the consequences must be .that the money volume of this country will be greatly increased. The money in other nations of the world will be greatly decreased. If the quan tity theory of money is true, prices will constantly rise here and constant ly fall In the other countries and we must continually sell on a falling mar ket, , until the people of other coun tries' have no more gold and silver to send us and. in the end the selling of our goods to them must of necessity cease. " ; . -" ; ' ' . If the quantity theory - is not true," we will accumulate vast hoards of gold and silver. What benefits will that be to us? We cannot eat it, drink it, cloth ourselves with it, warm our selves with it, shelter ourselves with it, or make any other use of it. We will be in exactly, the condition of Dean Swift's Yahoos. . If we exchange our goods with other nations for goods which they manufac ture, we will not decrease the articles of consumption in the United States. If we give them away well, even the imperialists do not advocate that. There is only one way-whereby an increase in exports over imports, can be maintained for any great length of time. It. is to get foreign nations in debt to us and make the interest charges which we, collect on foreign debts balance the accounts. Even .that in the end would result in the impov erishment of foreign nations after a while, so that they would be too poor to buy our goods,, and the accumula tion of gold and silver in this coun try, while somewhat slower, would go gradually on. " To get nations into debt we could foment wars among them and force them to constantly issue bonds which we might take at good rates of inter- est and collect the interest until they j is imperialism, which means ruling by become too poor to pay any longer, j force of bayonets over territories and That is what the great financiers did i peoples outside of the constitution, in Europe until the nations became so The republican party In its very first heavily indebted that no more interest platform declared: could be squeezed out of them. Since "That we deny the authority of con that time financiers have discouraged j gress, cf a territorial legislature, of European wars. The sum and substance of this whole imperialistic argument is based on the theory of over production. .. It has been the principal argument of the gold standard advocates and it is the foundation of the socialistic theory. Whoever will examine it, will see the complete absence of any truth upon which it can be based. With populists it will have no effect whatever. They have' long since investigated the doc trine of overproduction and rejected it. FIGHT THIS WAY. If The "Independent had its way, a new impetus would be given to the campaign and one that would bring complete discomfiture to the gang of millionaires who . undertook to estab lish the gold standard, and instead of doing that when confronted with the awful calamities sure to follow, aban doned' it and adopted the financial pol icy advocated by Bryan and the pop ulists, with the single exception of having the paper money issued through the banks instead of by the government. There never was a greater fraud on earth than the constant assaults now being made on Bryan concerning what he said in 1896. He never made a pre diction that was not based on the sup position that silver was to be refused further coinage. At that time they had closed the mints in the United States and India to the coinage of sil ver. Bryan and all the rest of us sup posed that that was to be the policy for the future. But no sooner had the republicans come into power than they immediately began to coin silver in Marger amounts than it was ever coined before. Their English allies did the same thing. They opened up 'the mints in India. Coined silver has been poured out in a perfect flood. Paper money has been issued in larger quan tities than ever advocated by the pop ulists. In addition to this there has been an unprecedented output of gold which has also been coined. McKin ley has adopted and put in practice the very policy, which during the cam paign of 1896 and up to this day, he and all his supporters have denounced as repudiation and dishonesty. This has not brought the. prosperity to the common people that Bryan pre dicted would follow, for the reason that McKinley has utterly refused to enforce the anti-trust laws which are upon the. statute books. By the or ganization of trusts, this same gang of pirates, who expect to profit by the demonetization of silver have been able to gather to themselves all the increase in prices produced by the in- crease in the volume of money and add more to the billions they had al ready accumulated. In addition to that, they hold the authority to stop coining silver at any moment and by that means, and the added accumula tions to their fortunes, now think that : they have the power to overthrow the ! constitution, annul the Declaration of Independence and make this republic ah empire. : : -.: . It seems to be next to impossible to beat political economy into the head of a lawyer. One of them insisted to the editor of The Independent that coinage on government account that is where the government buys the bul lion in the open market and coins it does not add to the circulation. What does that lawyer think becomes of the silver after it is coined? Or what be comes of the, money with which the silver is bought? Don't both of . them go into the circulation? If they don't what becomes of them? " A CRIPPLED CONSTITUTION. The doctrine that the United States could have jurisdiction over territories where the constitution was forbidden to enter,: was' never heard of until this administration resolved to enter on a scheme of Imperialism. The republi cans now fay that it was invented by Calhoun, who claimed that the con stitution carried slavery into the ter ritories. ' : - - " So far, back as 1 820, . w hen the great John Marshall was chief justice of the United States, the matter was formally passed upon. Speaking for the whole court, which included Bushrod Wash ington, Joseph Story and Livingstone in its membership, Chief Justice Marshall said: " "The power to lay and collect duties, imposts and excises may be exercised and must be exercised throughout the United States. Does this designate the whole or any particular portion of the American empire? Certainly this ques tion can 'admit of but one answer. It is the name given to our great republic which is composed of states and terri tories. The District of Columbia or the territory west of the Missouri is not lets within the United States thaw Maryland or Pennsylvania, and it is not less necessary, on the principles of our constituticn, that uniformity In the Imposition of imposts, duties and excises shoulcl be observed in the one than in the other." The neW doctrine of the 'republican party that the constitution is limited to the states, only is abhorrent to the principles of this government and to ! the line of. decisions by the United States supreme court. That doctrine any Individual or association of indi viduals to give legal existence to slav ery in any territory of the United States while the present constitution shall be maintained." Lincoln repeatedly declared that even congrf ss itself had no power to extend slavery to the territories be cause the constitution was there and prohibited it, and the above paragraph was part of the platform which Lin coln ran for president on. These lat ter day republicans now declare that the constitution does not apply to the territories. It is enough to make Lin coln turn over in his grave. The question before the American voter today is: "Shall we trade the Declaration of Independence and the constitution for some islands in the China seas and 10,000,000 Malays?" When iJovl go, to the polls you will answer yes or no. Shall that Tiope of all the struggling peoples of the world be torn in pieces and trampled under the feet of commercialism? Shall it be discarded until a more virile gener ation arises who, through blood and tempest, shall again resurrect it and once more make it the hope of the world? The New Voice is making a hot fight on McKinley, but it says that it won't do to vote for Bryan because there are bad men in the democratic party. When the Voice rustles up a party with votes enough-in it to elect a president and it has no bad men in it, it will be some time after Gabriel blows his trumpet. The Voice is do ing some valuable work In illustrat ing how benevolent assimilation works in the Philippines. For that it should be commended. x . Spain was paid $20,000,000 for a quit claim deed, to a. piece of territory of which she, at the time of the transac tion, did not have possession of more than fifteen square miles. The Hast ings banker who bought a gold brick would hardly have gocc into a trans action like that. Thst -in a specimen of the wonderful wise d;plon:ucy of the McKinley administrat e -,f which the republican press boast Perhaps they consider, it r gain because an endless thrown in free. much, .vul bar .". was There was a big row in Havana the other day between the police and members of the Second United States cavalry. The police shot two of the troopers and a civilian. A general slaughter was -only prevented by the quick action of Capt. Frederick Foltz, who hastily, threw two troops into line and prevented the enraged soldiers from breaking into the barracks and getting their, guns. There is great danger of more trouble. As long as the troops stay in Cuba we may look for trouble. ' . . V NEBRASKA COPPERHEADS If there is a more disreputable sheet on the face-, of the earth than the Wayne Republican, , the fact has ; not been brought to -the attention of this great religious weekly. - In its last edi tion it says: '. ; "Governor Poynter calls the soldiers of the United States 'hirelings. That is just what the old copperheads of the '60'a called the- soldiers of those days. They called them .'Lincoln hirelings.' It is a familiar sound to those of ua old enough to remember what was oc curring in" those dark days." ' The vileness of that thing consists in the fact that a denial of Roosevelt's slander waa published In all the papers and no attempt was made by the re publicans to point to "time .or place where any 3uch words weire used by the governor, ?o the ' editor of th Wayne republican must, h.ive known that it was a lie when tie wrote it. a the State Journal "certainly did when it republished it. Cleveland. Carlisle Eckles and the whole gang of copiu-i heads .who fought: Lincoln, are no supporting McKinley .and flghtiug Kr an, while the old abolitionists, win. Garrison and Boutwell at their hna i. are Bryan's earnest supporters. Tin State Journal and the .Wayne Repub lican have lined up along side of tin old copperheads and with all the trai tors to Lincoln's principles are lead ing a right against the Declaration of Independence. Their only mode of warfare is to lie about and 'slander th loyal men of. this republic. That just what the bid copperheads did, and just what the State Journal nnl Wayne Republican are doing now. V A republican speaker convinced u the other night that this was realh and truly a war of humanit y. He saM that there was only. one. email tribe in rebellion against the authority of thr United States in the Philippines, com'1'" posing about one-tenth of the inhabi tahts. After a while he aid it w;? necessary to keep the troops there to prevent anarchy. That;th rebellion? Filipinos would turn loose and kill everybody who had favored the United States. Now of course it Is pure hu manity and nothing else to send our boys over there to prevent one-tenth of the inhabitants from killing thr other nine-tenths. Who da.re deny it : When the war. broke, out in Chin. all "the republican papers from th great dallies in New York to San Fran cisco pointed with pride to the fan that we had a very great advanta over the other powers on account of having annexed the Philippines. Tho-. haven't had anything to say on tin' subject for some time. The Philip pines proved to be the greatest weak ness that we had to contend with. T: troops that were sent from thro i China had to be hurried back in she. order. Any man of common s-i;.-knows that the extention of our line i defense to the Philippines has weal, ened the defensive forces of the Unitf-i States to the extent of at least a hn;. dred thousand men . and a large sli of the navy. Mr. Bryan never predicted that when th3 mints of the United States were re opened and more silver was coine.i and put in circulation than was evet coined under the Sherman act, thai disaster1 and bankruptcy would foi ' low. That is what General Bragg an I the remainder of the republican speak ers would have the people believe that he said. The republicans had stoppM the coinage of silver In the Unite-t States and Mr. Bryan foretold what the results would be. But as soon a McKinley was elected,' they opened the mints, to silver and have colnyl more than was ever coined before in the same length of time. If there is any class of men wh should fight the imperialism of Mc Kinley harder than another it in th--merchants. .Suppose that that policy is adopted and these millions of Asia tics are annexed. The certain result will' be the lowering of the rate of wages in the United States. Just as wages are lowered, the buying capac ity of the people will be Teduced anil sales by that much diminished. It means the ruin of merchants as well as wage-workers. When the advance agents of Imperialism, headed by Mark Hanna and Depew. arrive la this state let the merchants speak. with the same ring in their voices that they will be greeted with, by the old pop farmers. Let--us ' make this thing practically unanimous. The McKinley anti-Imperialists, as those gentlemen are tailed who called a convention to nominate an anti-imperialist candidate and then concluded that. they wouldn't, have evolved an other scheme to help McKinley whil they denounce his policy. They pro pose the same thing that attention was called to in these columns a week or two ago,, that Is, to "scratch one Bryan elector and vote for. one McKinley elector. They think that in clo states they may catch an elector or two for McKinley and thus help to overthrow the constituticn and tram ple on the Declaration of Indepen dence. There never was a more dis reputable lot of politicians than the so-called goody-goody anU-iroperinl-Ists. .- " . " ... ... . WHAT HAN tfA SAID. The papers have -been-full of com ments about what Hanna said about trusts. Now here Is exactly what he did say:. " " "This hue and cry agarnat so-called trusts Is pure buncombe, It Is de signed to array class ags.lnst class, and to prejudice the minds of the Am erican people. I firmly believe that these legitimate combinations of capi tal will outlive the criticism against them and that - the people will soon see that these lawful aggregations of wealth are for the best interests of i mankind." . ' ; That Is exactly 'what Mark Hanna said about trusts.; He is .coming to Nebraska. - J -TV . t