AN OLD GEEEUBAOKEE'S IDEAS.
There is nothing gained by fusion,
even if it results ia victory. Whoso
victory is it, and what principle has
been vindicated?
The independents are fighting for
principle, and that is more than repub
licans and democrats can say and speak
the truth. If aDy republican or demo
crat favors the free and unlimited coin
ago of silver, let him como and vote
for the people's ticket. Then his
mouth and his ballot will both shoot
the same way.
Thero was an old fellow down cast a
good many years ago who was asked
what he thought about the tariff. He
suid ho 1 'never saw a tariff but that he
always had an idea it was hard on
sheep. They put the tariff on to make
good sheep (goods cheap) and they
take it off for the same reason." There
are lots of fellows who know as little
about the tariff as this one.
Let the people of this country under
stand that thero hangs a cloud over the
title to millions of homes in this land
of the free, with the threat: "Your
money or your property." And the
samo hand that holds the cloud, con
trols the money and consequently con
trols the value of the property.
The only hope of the farmers and
laboring men of this country is in the
ranks of the people's party. If you are
an Abraham Lincoln republican, or a
Jeffersonian democrat, your place is in
the ranks of the people's party. We
propose to begin where their respective
parties left off doing good and carry
the principles they taught on toward
perfection.
"Honest money" is the rallying cry
of the g. o. p. We are a1! in favor of
"honest money," and every counter
feiter in the land is too no doubt, to let
him tell it, but when it comes to defin
ing "honest money" we part company?
Gold for the bond-holder, and
depriciated paper for the gun
holder is . the pink of honesty in the
estima'ion of the g. o. p. politician.
Can anyono explain wherein the ser
vices of the usurer were more valuable
to the government, than the life-blood
of the gun-holders?
It is no doubt the opinion of money
that Uncle Sam borrowed of the Shy
locks, gold to put down the rebellion,
and therefore should havo paid them
back in gold. Nothing i futther from
the truth. Uncle Sam made his own
money, greenbacks. It was paid out as
so much real money, and eo understood
and used at the time. And all
the bonds that were sold were
paid for with these greenbacks.
At the close of the war the publ'c
debt was principally held by the people
in the form of legal tender notes circu
lating ai money, and it ought to have
remained so. But the Shylock thought
thero was too much good usury going
to waste. Ho must have this debt
gathered up and converted into interest-bearing
bonds, and the bonds made
payable in gold, and also made the
basis for a banking system, so as to
make more debt and less money. They
want to make debt and usury perpetual.
And they have had their own way for
nearly thirty yoars. Isn't it about
timo for the producers of this country
who have all the debts to pay to waken
up and look a little after their own in
terests? John Buchanan,
Valparaiso, Neb.
THE VOTE ON IEEE SILVER.
The vote on Stewart's free coinago
bill in the senate was as follows:
YEAS.
Democrats : 16
Republicans 11
Independents 2
Total 29
NAYS.
Republicans 18
Democrats . 7
Total 25
Majority for the bill 4
All tho republicans who voted for tho
bill, with one exception, wero from tho
silver states."
Tho test voto on tho motion to mako
tho Stewart bill a special order in tho
house stood as follows.
YEAS.
Democrats 118
Independents 10
Republicans 8
Total 130
NAYS.
Democrats 94
Republicans GO
Total 154
Majority against 18
It will be noticed that tho peoplo's
is the only party that stands solid for
the free coinago of silver. Let the
voters of the United States take hoed.
WE need more money in the pockets
of tho ieoplo and less in the vaults of
tho vultures.
The mortgago records of Nebraska
send up a greater "calamity howl" than
any of tho alliance cranks.
EVEKY man who has been declaring
that tho farmers arc getting out of
debt, is proved a liar by tho official
mortgago records of tho state.
If the street car companies in Kan
sas City can stand a yearly license of
$25, then tho Lincoln street railway
company can surely stand a yearly
license of $15 on each car.
WAS it recsprocity or tariff that re
duced tho wages of workmen at Home
stoad and resulted in the lock-ont and
tho attack by tho marauding Pinker
tons? .
Nearly sovontcon million dollars
added to tho millstono of mortgago
debts which hangs on the neck of
Nebraska industry last year. How long
can she keep her head above water at
that rate?
If there is any man in Nebraska
who thinks that tho mortgago question
affects tho farmers alone, let him ob
servo that tho town and city mortgages
are growing faster in proportion than
tho farm mortgages.
To THE state board of transpcrtation,
Greeting: Lot us havo a low rate on
harmony between Bushnell and Rose
water around by tho way of tho Lincoln
postofiice. Thero ought to bo heavy
shipments between this and November.
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