THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
October 18, 1900.
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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
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TThat, my aos. U Wfc.rton Barker."
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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.
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-, 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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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-. 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.
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... ... . 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.
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