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The Ticket
For Governor.. W. H. Thompson
(Democrat, Hall County.)
Lieut. Governor . .E. A. Gilbert
(Populi3t, York County.)
Secretory of State John Powers
(Populist, Hitchcock County.)
'Auditor C. Q. De France
(Populist, Jefferson County.)
Treasurer . J. N. Lyman
(Populist, Adams County.)
Attorney General J. H. Broady
(Democrat, Lancaster County.)
Commissioner Public Lands and
Bu.'ldings. .' J. C. Brennan
(Democrat, Douglas County.)
Supt, of Schools Claude Smith
(Populist, Dawson County.)
CONGRESSIONAL.
First Howard H. Hanks
(Democrat, Otoe county.)
Second Gilbert M. Hitchcock
(Democrat, Douglas county.)
Third John S. Robinson
(Democrat, Madison county.)
Fourth William L. Stark
(Populist, Hamilton county.)
Fifth..., Ash ton C. Shallenberger
(Democrat, Harlan county.)
Sixth ...Patrick H. Barry
(Populist, Greeley county.)
The Wisconsin bankers are
Bet" against asset banking.
'dead
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The republicans make of politics a
syndicate of selfishness instead of a
science of government.
Schwab has broken down in health
and gone to Europe. He will continue
to draw his salary right along.
Trusts, tariffs and Imperialism are
a devil's trinity, as true "a three in
one" as ever John Calvin imagined.
The talk now is for $15 coal and 20
cent corn. Vote 'er straight or the
democrats and pops will ruin the
country.
The military censorship still con
tinues in South Africa and the Phil
ippines. It is one of the necessities
of imperialism.
The modern corporation capitalists
have the same love for the labor or
i ganizations ; that the old-time slave
holder had for the abolitionists.
The one object of the money power
Js to use the people everywhere.
whether .white, black or brown, to fill
the pockets of those who ride on
.the people's backs.
1 New York must be the prophetical
Kew Jerusalem, where the gathering
of the tribes was to be. According to
,the Jewish World there were in that
city on the 1st of August 584,788 Jews.
' The auditor's office of the war de
partment , has discovered that the
bonds of quartermasters in the Phil
ippines are worthless. It will perhaps
discover a number of other things be
fore it gets through with accounts of
'our Insular possessions."
'-' Of all the despicable creatures on
the earth, these little free-pass crea
tures in the towns of Nebraska, who
work the year round for the corpora
tions and republican party, are the
most contemptible, base, sordid and
low.
The republican administration is so
delighted with the coining of silver
that even the war department has gone
Into the business. It is announced
that the war department is purchas
ing the machinery to set up a mint in
Manila to coin the new Filipino silver
dollarwhich they call a "peso." They
say that they are going to turn out
millions of them.
The proceedings in any court Is
nothing more nor less than compul
sory arbitration. It would be only ex
tending the system and not introduc
ing any new principle to apply it. to
the anthracite coal barons. Thoy are
engaged? in a brawl that threatens the
public welfare and it should be set
tled on the same principles that all
other such things are settled.
An eastern daily remarks that "spec
ulation has drawn down bank re
serves to a very narrow margin." Why
could not that paper have used plain,
every-day English and have said:
"Gambling has so Increased in the
United States and so much money is
employed in that business ' that the
hank reserves have nearly disap
peared."' " v : . i
TO EASTERN READERS.'
Several letters to the editor of The
Independent from somewhat recent
subscribers in the New England states
express astonishment at some of the
things that they see in this paper and
they conclude that the doctrines of
the populist party have .completely
changed within the last three or four
years. There was never a greater
mistake. The principles that ,The In
dependent advocates now are the very
same principles always advocated by
the populist party without : variable
ness or shadow of turning. These let
ters show that outside of the portions
of the country where the populist pa
pers have circulated that the people
are in profound ignorance of the prin
ciples of populism and the necessity
for the extension of the populist pres3
if these principles are ever to be un
derstood by the mass of voters.
Today the eastern dailies speak of
the "populist idea of an unlimited is
sue of paper money," and the people of
that section, judging from the letters J
above referred to, still think that is the
"paramount issue" with populists. At
one time the Century Magazine pub
lished, what it declared to be a sum
mary of populist principles, every word
of which was a misrepresentation. Sen
ator Hoar read that article, which
was published as a pamphlet, in the
senate and gave it his sanction. When
a populist senator denounced it and
undertook to read the populist na
tional platform as evidence of its
falsity, every corporation lawyer In
the senate was on his feet to prevent
the reading. It took a long and fierce
fight to get the privilege of reading
that platform, and the shrewd cor
poration lawyers so managed that it
was only read sentence or part of a
sentence at a time, with much irrelev
ant matter interjected in between, so
that when it appeared it was practical
ly useless.
The Independent wishes to say to
its eastern readers that the principles
of political economy that the pop
ulist party now and always has ad
vocated, generally speaking, are those
to be found in the works of John
Stuart Mill. On the negative side it
has opposed from its very birth, trusts
and combinations of capital in re
straint of trade, the concentration of
wealth in few hands, the watering of
stock, gambling in grain on the boards
of trade, government by injunction,
and the issue of mbney by private
corporations. It now opposes asset'
banking, branch banks and most per
sistently assails the undue expansion
of credit money which is a house of
cards liable to tumble over at the first
unfavorable breeze. -
Long before any other organized
body demanded them, it favored the
public ownership of what are now
called "public utilities," and the
referendum.
Its financial policy has not changed
in the slightest degree. It began by
de clarlng that all money was the crea
tion of law, out of which the pluto
cratic press evolved the term "fiat
money." Populists have always de
clared that it made no difference to
what material the money function
was applied, that the value of money,
like everything else, was fixed by the
"quantity" available to supply the de
mand, and that the "quantity" should
riot be left to the haphazard output of
mines, but be fixed by an intelligent
government so as to maintain it at a
stable value and consequently to re
sult in stable prices. To the sneers
of the capitalistic press- when the
writers thought it enough to render
the party discreditable simply by say
ing "fiat money," populists have re
plied that no one would maintain that
anything could be made money withL
out the authority of law, if that was
the "flat" of the government, then all
money, whether gold or anything else,
must of necessity be flat money.
The charge that populists ever fav
ored an unlimited issue of paper mon
ey was conceived in malice and pub
lished with the Intent to deceive. The
largest per capita amount of money
ever favored by any populist, Includ
ing gold, silver and paper, was fifty
dollars. That never had the indorse
ment of a majority of populists, al
though It got into some of the plat
forms. What may be called the gen
eral opinion of populists concerning
the amount of money was that enough
should be issued to raise prices to the
point existing when the great national
debts were contracted. That alone
they argued would produce justice
alike to bondholder and taxpayer.
It is true that populists look upon
metallic money as a relic of barbar
ism. They hold with Ricardo that if
all the metallic money was annihi
lated and the same quantity of paper
money issue in its place, fhat the paper
dollars would have the same value and
purchasing power that the eliminated
metallic money had had. They be
lieve that such a money , could be so
regulated that prices would remain
stable, and that all kinds of business
could be conducted under such a sys
tem with justice to both-creditor and
debtor, and that it would, to a large
extent, eliminate the risks that must
now be assumed, , which amounts to
nothing less than gambling in' many
Industries. When" the manufacturer
ahead of the time it appears upon the
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retail counters , he must take all sorts
of risks as to what prices will be at
that time. If a mountain of gold
should be discovered or a new process
invented whereby tons of it could be
extracted from old dumps and low
grade ores now rejected, prices would
rise. If, on the other hand, the mines
should fail, prices would fall.
On the ethical side, if ethics can be
said to enter into either political econ
omy or politics, the populists have
maintained the highest standard.
Wherever they have had power they
have given the most hearty support to
education. They stand to a man in
defense of the doctrines promulgated
by Thomas Jefferson in the Declara
tion of Independence. They look with
horror upon wars of conquest. They
have been unswerving friends of the
wage-workers although but few wage
workers have ever voted the ticket
Nearly every populist is a student of
political economy as taught by the
great founders and expounders of that
science. In thousands of populist
homes in these western states there
are small economic libraries which
have been diligently studied. Populist
papers always contain economic ar
ticles discussing those questions of
present interest Take for instance
the discussion of , the balance of trade.
The Idea that a country could grow
rich by forever shipping more wealth
out of it than came into it, was de
nounced in every populist paper,
while millions of people believed that
a "favorable balance of trade" con
sisted in shipping every year five or
six hundred million dollars' worth
more of gold, silver, merchandise and
raw material out of the country than
came into it. They as quickly and
unanimously denounced the idea that
we could forever sell goods to foreign
nations and buy none in return.
This article isWitten in answer, to
questions in several letters received
from the eastern states where the Ne
braska Independent has obtained such
a large circulation within the last
year, but there is a lesson for west
ern populists to learn in regard to it.
An earnest and universal effort should
be made to put such papers as the Ne
braska Independent into the hands of
every voter. Populist principles are of
such universal application, so ground
ed in science, so appreciated by ev
ery thinking man who understands
them, that to bring them into accept
ance by a very large majority of the
people of the United States, it is only
necessary that th people should be
come acquainted with them. To make
them acquainted with them, what
other way can be suggested that will
accomplish it with the economy of
sending to them weekly, a paper that
in an able and fearless manner is an
expounder oi them? One man in this
state a man who is not a candidate
for any office or a seeker for office
has sent since last January 100 copies
of the Nebraska Independent for a
year to as many different men. Some
scores of others have sent from five
to twenty copies. Populists generally
are men of good common sense and
they adopt the most expeditious and
cheapest way of spreading their opin
ions. '
CASH VALVE,
It "is simply a waste of breath to
talk about assessing property at full
or fair or actual or any other kind of
"cash value." It will not be done.
The present law demands all that is
necessary along that line -but it is
not enforced and never will be, be
cause the framers of that law over
looked a very important element, pe
culiarities of human nature. The av
erage man rarely thinks or asks any
thing about the rate of taxation. All
he notices is the assessed valuation.
If that Is high, he kicks; if it is ridic
ulously low, he feels satisfied until
he comes to pay his taxes.
Now, it Is much easier to nicely ad
just rates on a full cash valuation
than on any fraction but the diffi
culty is to get the full cash valuation,
especially when it is known that taxes
will be levied on that valuation. All
modern tax legislation taxes into con
sideration this peculiarity of human
nature. Over in Iowa valuations are
madejon what is supposed to be actual
value; but the taxes are levied on one
fourth of that. One-tenth would be
better still. One-tenth is the ideal
fraction because our money system is
a decimal system, and the calculations
would be more easily made.
That there is no honest hard work
or real thinking done on the great
dailies is shown by the fact that the
statistics of the beet sugar industry
which were published in The Indepen
dent two months ago have just got
into the Chicago dailies The Record -Herald
makes a first page scare head
article of them. When the thing was
up before the senate such an article
would have been appropriate, but to
have got it up then would have re
quired some real work and original in
vestigation. But. the dailies are only
for the entertainment of the rich andJ
idle, the gambling class and the sat
isfaction of the morbid craving for
criminal news. All that can be sup
plied with very little labor and no
serious thinking at all. It is not so
with such matter as fills the columns
: The Independent. ; . . .
A WORD TO DEMOCRATS.
The ; Independent fails to see how
the democratic leadership can retain
the respect and confidence of the mass
or the party unless it takes some meas
ures to inform the rank and file con
cerning the facts in regard to the sil
ver question. They are asked to re
affirm the Kansas City platform and
their chief knowledge of that plat
form consists -in knowing that it de
manded the free coinage of silver at
ths ratio of 16; to 1. They are some
what familiar with the statements
made by' the principal speakers of the
party concerning the necessity of the
coining more silver to prevent a fur
ther decline in prices. They have hot
been informed that the republican
party has been coining more silver
than was ever coined before and yet
they see a rise in prices. One of the
old rank and file of the democratic
party a man who had always voted
the democratic ticket, who takes a
democratic daily paper and presum
ably may be taken to represent thou
sand:: more in the: party said to the
editor of The Independent a few days
ago:
"I am a democrat and still believe
that Bryan is a good man who advo
cates only what he sincerely believes
in, but he was" certainly mistaken
about the free coinage of silver. I
voted for him, but the republicans got
in and stopped the coinage of silver.
What Bryan predicted did not come to
pass. Prices have pntinued to rise
ever since. I am getting three times
as much for my hogs, corn and cattle
than I got before the coinage of silver
was stopped."
He was asked if he would vote the
democratic ticket this fall and he re
plied that he "thought" he would, but
that he had lost all interest in poli
tics. He said that he believed Bryan
was right about the trusts, but then
he might be'"Ssf badly mistaken about
them as he was about the coinage of
silver.
Why the democratic press and cam
paign committees are as silent as the
tomb about the coinage of silver,
grows more Inexplicable every day. It
is probable that the democratic cam
paign book which will appear this
week will not say a word in the sub
ject. No democratic newspaper will
mention it. Yet what could be more
effective than a page or two of that
book giving the official reports of the
director of the mint of the amount of
silver that has been coined since 1896?
It would be effective although not a
word of comment was added to the
official reports.
The Independent wishes to say to
the democratic leadership in this state
that they are going to lose votes if
they do not take some measures to in
form their voters of these facts. It is
true that a few thousand Bryan demo
crats take The Independent and know
the facts, but the mass of the party is
In utter ignorance of them. The In
dependent has done all that it could
do to get the democrats to publish
the facts and it now makes this last
appeal to them.
When the democrat above referred
to, and he was a man of more than
average intelligence, was informed
that the republican party had been
coining more silver than was ever
coined under the Sherman act, he
would not believe a word of it. The
conversation took place in a country
town, but at last one report of the
director .of the mint was found at a
bank. When he was . shown the fig
ures he was astonished and angry
angry at the leadership of his party
and at the editor of his paper. One
remark that he made was: "What Is
the use of pajring six or eight dollars
a year for a daily paper that don't in
form you of a thing like that?"
After that, it did not take this pop
ulist editor ten minutes to change
that man into an as enthusiastic work
er as he had ever been in all his life.
Things became clear to him. He was
shown the increase in the volume of
money in circulation caused by the
coinage of silver, the increase in bank
notes and the output of gold and how
that Increase had exactly the effect
upon prices that Bryan said it would
have. The Kansas City platform be
came a new and living document to
him. An hour afterwards he was seen
on the streets giving every republican
he met hot shot for having adopted
the financial principles of the Kansas
City platform that they had sworn by
the holy horn spoon would bring de
struction and misery upon the whole
human race.
When the democrats have such an
effective weapon as this to use and
will not use it, causes The Indepen
dent to wonder why they will not?
OUR. NEW SUPEKME HULEB.
It is said in the eastern papers that
Teddy has intimated to Justice Shiras
that it would be a fitting thing to re
tire. If that is so, it Is the first time
that a president of the United States
ever assumed such powers. It would
be just as proper for Justice Shiras to
intimate to Roosevelt that now Is the
proper time for him -to resign. The
Boston Herald and New York Post
declare that it was not Justice Shiras
who changed his vote on the income
tax decision, but Justice Gray. This
starts a lot of rumors to the effect that
the Income tax decision will be re
versed when the new Justice Holmes
gets on the bench. From all this It
appears that a new ruler tor the
United States has appeared who will
change the whole trend of the govern
ment. If imperialism and the Income
tax decision are to be overthrown, a
tremendous change would be made in
the form of government under which
we live. So it appears that neither
congress nor the president rule this
country or form its policies, but it is
the fifth judge on the supreme bench
who makes this nation an empire or a
republic, that taxes the rich or lets
them go free. That is what Mason
and some others in the convention that
framed the constitution of the United
States said would be the end of put
ting on this third wheel to the gov
ernment cart, called the judiciary de
partment, with power to override the
acts of congress and formulate the
policies of the government. Whether
our new supreme ruler will proceed
to change the form of government or
not, we will have to wait to see.
THE REPUBLICAN MACHINE.
In every town in this state thereWe
three or more persons who are subsi
dized by the railroads with free trans
portation. They go and come without
ever paying a cent of fare. These men
make an active working force for the
republican party who are always on
duty. They attend the primaries,
county and state conventions and by
that means the railroads have com
plete control of the party machinery.
That sort of organization- makes the
republican party a great fighting ma
chine, with paid agents In every town
in the state always on guard and al
ways ready for active work. Through
the whole year they are at it. They
always speak of a populist or demo
crat as an anarchist, a socialist or one
determined to ruin the country. They
keep a stack of the most outrageous
falsehoods always on hand ready to
dispense at a moment's notice. They
will declare that the populists dou
bled the cost of the state government,
and when shown the official reports
that the populists reduced the ex
penses of the ' state nearly one-half
and the state debt about $600,000 dur
ing the years of the hardest times that
we ever suffered, and that without
raising taxes, they declare that these
official reports are simply pop lies,
published by the populist state com
mittee and not official reports at all.
Notwithstanding the record that their
governor has made concerning the
pardon of -convicts, beginning with
that of Bartley and ending with the
ministerial bigamist, they declare that
the populist governor pardoned half
the convicts in the state penitentiary,
when the official reports show that he
did not issue a single pardon during
his whole term.
Some years ago when this writer
was urging a certain lawyer to accept
a nomination for supreme judge, and
he was a man of the highest charac
ter and one of the recognized leaders
of the bar,, he replied: 'To elect any
man to a state office in this state whom
the railroads oppose is almost an im
possibility, no matter what his quali
fications or ability may be. The rail
road corporations all working together
form a force that it is next to impossi
ble to overcome. They have paid
workers in every county, they can
send as many .secret agents to any
part of the state as they wish.' Through
their printing bureaus the railroads
do an Immense amount of printing
they can circulate tons of literature.
They can bring hundreds of voters in
to the state at any time. They can
induce hundreds, by the offer of free
transportation, to leave the state who
would vote against them. They will
supply the republican campaign com
mittee with all the money that it can
use. Now what chance has a - man
ii
WRITE TO US
"We want a postal card from you giving us your
name and address. We want it so that we
can send you our fall catalogue;
If we offered to send you a dollar if you'd
' ask for it, you'd sit down and write J. or it
as soon as you could get hold of a postal
card; and still we offer you more than that.
Our catalogues contain samples of cloth.
The samples are cut from the same cloths
that our fall and winter clothing will.be
.. made out of. We give you our prices
show you in plain figures how to save a dol
lar on a pair of pants a dollar on a knee
pants suit for a boy $2.00 on a long pant
'suit for a big boy $2.50 to $10.00 on a
man's suit. , .
Write to us for Our Tall Catalogue;
Nebraska
Clothing Co.
Omaha, Nebraska
H
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against a combination of men and
money like that? I think that we will
have to wait until there is a little high
er ethical standard among the voting
population or until the course pursued
by the railroads ends in some great
disaster to all the people."
The condition described by this law
yer years ago is practically the condi
tion today. Only one or two things
'are different. A large hody of voters
in this state have educated themselves
in political economy since then and
thousands of honest men have since
that time left the republican party,
joined the opposition forces and are
the most earnest fighters against cor
poration iule In the state. . These two
conditions alone should give us the
victory. A corporation literary bu
reau, whether it prints its matter as
paid advertisements in fusion papers
or circulates them in pamphlet-form,
will not have the effect that such
work formerly had. The orations of
the town corporation hireling will be
estimated at their true worth.
The Independent would like to ask
some of these western bankers who
have at last got up courage enough to
resist a Wall street demand for branch
banks and asset currency, if govern
ment credit is necessary in the Issue of
bank notes, wh$r not let the govern
ment issue the notes on its own credit
without going through all the for
mality of Issuing bonds and then tak
ing them back and giving the banker
all the money he paid for them?
REPUBLICAN DAILIES.
The Chicago Record-Herald and Tri
bune united. 'in denouncing Altgeld.
They called him an anarchist and ev
ery vile epithet that they could invent
while he was governor and insisted
that the government of the state must
be returned to the republican party
or devastation and ruin would sweep
it from the lake to Cairo. Their cir
culation was large and the people were
induced to elect their man Yates, who
was to give Illinois, with the aid of the
corporations, good government. But
corporation rule has proved to be the
same in Illinois that it is everywhere
else. So foul has the state government
become that these papers the 'Record
and Herald having since hyphenated
that they are now compelled to repu
diate him. The republican govern
ment in Illinois is as foul a thing as
ever cursed any state in the union.
The Record-Herald says of the gov
ernor that It helped to elect:
"He is responsible for the In
humanity and degradation at Kan
kakee, for the mean and oppres
sive extension of the spoils sys
tem. He is, in fine, an unmasked
Pecksniff, whose pious platitudes
and promises before the election
increase the contempt that is felt
for his present conduct."
After Altgeld was dead these Chica
go papers that slandered, him while
he lived, said that he was a philosoph
er and thinker of the highest class and
a perfectly honest man. From this bit
of history the public can form an
opinion what value the editorial writ
ing in the great republican dailies
really has. The most of it is simply
malicious drivel.
IOWA DEMOCRATS.
One of the most distinguished demo
crats of Iowa, one who was always
true and among the first to repudiate
Cleveland and all his ways, has writ
ten an open letter to the reorganizes
in the state. He takes up the Kansas
City platform , plank by plank and
shows them that they indorse, or pre
tend to indorse, every plank in it but
one and' that one declared hot to be the
paramount issue at that time. He
wants to know what they propose to
reorganize and what principles they
propose to substitute for ,those in the
Kansas City platform. The document
would have been a complete over
throw of the whole crowd of reorgan
izes if the gentlemen had gone one
step further and pointed out that the
monetary principles to which the re
organizers object, have been adopted
as the . policy of the nation and that
more silver has been coined than was
ever coined under the Sherman act. i
He could have wound up the letter by
asking them 'what they were kicking
about any way. Their friends, the re
publicans, whom they helped to elect,
have already adopted and applied that
part of the Kansas City platform, on
account of which they want to re
pudiate the .whole document.
PHILIPPINE SCHEMES.
A farmer asks The Independent to
more clearly define the schemes for
looting in the Philippines to which
reference was made last week. To
give a description of each one of
them would be an Interminable task
and the exact facts would be hard to
get. There are some things, however,
that all may know. The legislation
of the last congress provided for all
sorts- of looting ( and one would be,
foolish to Imagine that it would not
be taken advantage of. There are
promoters at work in every part of
the country, taking 'the money of the
people to open mines, build railroads,
construct street car lines, control the
output of hemp, to establish lighting
plants, and every other sort of thing
that one can think of. The Philip
pines are 10,000 miles away and the
supreme authority is in Washington,
exercised by the same class of mea
who have been legislating for the sala
of Indian lands. What will be done in
the Philippines can be guessed at by
what is done here.
Last winter a lot of republican
schemers met Senator Millard In Oma
ha. There a nlot was ronrnrtfxi tn
convey a large amount of Indian lands
to a syndicate, precautions being tak
en to prevent any of the hard work
ing men who have been renting land s
from the Indians from having a chanco
to buy, any of them and make homes
for themselves The bill was pre
pared and rushed through and It
works to perfection. In the first p!ac
it prevents the' Indians from getting
the full value for their lands and in
the second place secures them to th
syndicate for much less . than. the3'
could be sold for. The form of dee i
is imperfect and the whole amount
must be paid cash down, a thing that
wa3 never demanded before and which
makes it impossible for, the ordinary
farmer to buy. If they dct such things
as that in Nebraska, what will they
do 10,000 miles away in the Philip
pines? Congressman Robinson's vig
orous protests were of no avail. If ev
ery renter on the reservations does
not vote for Robinson, it is because he
has not good , common sense.
REPUBLICAN TARIFF REVISION.
Secretary Shaw, In the "cabinet
campaign" that has been organized In
New England, delivered a speech in
Vermont the other day in which he
gave his Idea of tariff revision. It
was as follows:
"Let these representatives of the
people from the manufacturing dis
tricts of New England, from the
coal regions of Pennsylvania, Ind
iana and Ohio, and the Iron-producing
regions of Michigan and
the iron-producing districts of
Ohio and Pennsylvania, the aeri
cultural districts of the middle
westr 'the stock ranges of the
mountain states and territories,
the rice and cotton states, of the
south, and the fruit "and-' lumber '
districts of the Pacific coast, get
together, and If they can agree
upon one or a dozen items In the
present tariff schedule that can
be reduced, let It be done."
That is to say, let the republlcar
members of conVress representing all
the tariff grafters of the United States
get together and after consultation if
they think that they can afford to re
duce the tariff on a dozen articles, W
them do it and everybody else keep
their hands off. That scheme "take?
the cake." But that is the only kind
of tariff revision that will ever come
from the republican party. If any
man wants the tariff revised In such a
way that he will not have, to pay
twice as much for American goos
that a foreigner can buy them for, he
will have to vote some other than the
republican ticket.
The republican party has claimed di
vine guidance while engaged in kill
ing the brown people of Asiatic seas,
but now the "cabinet campaigners" in
the eastern states go a step furthpr
and claim a "divine harmony" in the
present tariff schedules.
In northern Nebraska whenever one
of these little town republicans begins
to get . very active and rantankerous
the populists and democrats make ref
erences to passes or inquire what was
the last orders received from the head
quarters of the railroad corporation.
Tha: generally has a tendency to make
them more quiet, and civil.
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