Nebraska Newspapers

    SUPPLEMENT TOTH E
10UP CITY NORTHWESTERS.
Friday, September 11,1896. J
It is Heard in New YorY on the
Vital Issues of the Great
Campaign.
PERILS OF POPOCRAT SUCCESS.
A Stirring Address in Which All
Questions Are Handled in a
Masterly Way. ^
New York, Auk. 28.—At Carnegie hall,
Thursday night, an immense and enthu
siastic audience gathered to hear the
Issues of the campaign discussed hy • x
IVcsident IScnjrnnin Harrison. lion.
Chauticcy M. Depew presided over the
Meeting. Until Mr. Harrison and Mr.
l>epcw were the recipient* of ovations
when they entered the hall. I'pon call
ing the gathering to order, Mr. Depew
delivered an address on campaign issues,
at the close of which lie Introduced cx
I’residcnt Harrison, who at once entered
Into a discussion of the Issues. He spoke
at conaidcralde length, heing very fre
quently interrupted Iiy nppinuMe. Re
ferring to bis appearance as a campaign
speaker he said it Was due to ids sense
ol the duty he owed to the country to
combat the fallacies sought to be foisted
upon the pcojdc by tin1 Democratic party
aud its allies, lb1 acknowledged bis re
atMM't for the feelings which act tinted
the gold Democrats in occupying the po
sition they do, but said they must not
expect the Republican party to reorgan
ire liMt'ii m'niitxi1 tIn* I h/iuornitIt* puffy
fcad disorganized itxelf. The iiemo
«ratk party had once more exhibited it*
capacity to be ruptured and n party that
cannot lie split was a public menace.
When the leaders of a party assembled
In convention depart from its traditional
principles und advocate doctrines that
threaten the integrity of the government,
the soda! order of our communities and
the security and soundness of our
finance, it ought to be split, nnd it digni
fies itself when it does split. A Isilt
from any party is now nnd then a most
reassuring incident and was never more
reassuring and never had better cause
than now. The Republican party fronts
(be destruetlonists nnd trumpets its de
fiance to tbe enemies of ‘‘sound money.”
It will tight, however, without covering
•ny of the glorious mottoes and inscrip
tious that are upon it* banner. Con tin
jfiing, Mr. Ilairitron'raid:
CsJ.-Jl}111! I* X leading issue of a cam
paign which most agitate* (lie people.
In my opinion there is no issue present
ed by the Chicago convention more itn
Crtaut or vital tliun the question they
ve raised of prostituting the power
nnd duty of the national courts and na
tional executive. The defense of the
constitution, of the Supreme court of the
^Jnlted States and of the President’s
Bower and duty to enforce all of the
laws of the United States without await
ing the call or consent of the governor
of any state is an important and living
Issue in this campaign. TurilT nnd coin
age will lie of little moment if our con
stitutional government is overthrown.
{When we have n President who believes
(bat it is neither his right nor his duty
to see that Ihe mail trains are not ob
structed and that interstate commerce
nas its free way, irrespective of state
lines and state court*, who fear* to use
our ancient nnd familiar power to re
strain and punish lawbreakers, free
trade and free silver will be appropriate
accompaniments of such an administra
tion and cannot add appreciably to the
national distress or the national dis
honor. (Applause.)
. “The atmosphere .of the Chicago con
vention was surcharged with the spirit
of revolution. Its platform was car
ried nnd its nominations made with ac
companying incidents of frenzy tiiat star
tled the onlooker* und amazed the coun
try. The courts and the President were
arraigned for enforcing the laws, and
government by the mob was given pref
erence over government by law enforced
by the court decrees and by executive
orders. There was no calm deliberation;
(here was frenzy. There was no thought
ful searching for the man who from ex
perience was must able to direct public
affairs. There was an impulsive re
•pouse to an impassioned speech that se
lected the nominee. Not amid such
•nrroundings ns that, not under such in
fluences. are these calm, discreet things
done that will commend themselves to
the jndgineut of tbe American people.
{Applause. I
“They denounce in their nlntfnrm in
terference by federal authorities in local
affairs ns n violation of the constitution
of the United States and n crime uguinst
free institutions. Mr. Tillman iu his
apeeeh approved this declaration. It
area intended to be in words a direct
condemnation of Mr. Cleveland a* Presi
dent of tbe I 'tilted States fur using the
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the way every ol<*taile to the free pnaa
mgr of the mall train* of the United
mate* nml the Interatnte eoniineree, and,
any frlenda, whenever our people np
ftrove the cbok* of a I'reaident who
believe* he muat a»k tlor, Allgeld or
■ay other atate i.riiiiaaliui to *uforce the
taw a of the I oiled Stale*, we bar#
■arreodered the vlelory the buy* won
«a I MU. I Applause I
"My frlenda. tbi* ■-.•uatitutbinal qnea
«|oo, tbi* diviaiott between the general
■ad local autbortllr* la a plain and raty
•a*. A dlaturbnuer which la purely be
ral la a atate la a atate affair. The
fSaaldrnt cannot tend tn«.|» or lend any
■14. on 1*** the lomalatur* valla up..u
to at for http, or the governor, If the
acalalaliirr la not in •.-••ton. Hut when
• MW of the rmtevl State* I* Invaded
■n4 broken. It i* the awurn duty of the
■Neotdent to eiecut* it. and this r.u.t.n
tiaa arraign* the l*r« .. bui for dutua
arbal bu oath oopilol bint to do
fcjD•a»r•4e* for tbe great war for lb*
•Jabot. *uHa of Iboae who went out to
Ilk that the Hag »i>gbt not to** it*
•t*r, mil «>• *•>«»»• at after the** year* !
4*fka of *.\«*!*» I bat live do. It in* w bo b
agg« abut ta .hath In the great war *t<wit
be aiiiel aw l nva.k *M«r •** lit a titti
aawttuvigwr tb"»i** «»t •.Sort
"put the a ton oil dm* w>-t end there
flap supreme trt «.l lb* I wit. I Miaiet
and tbe fedota) kmr wm* are ar
twlawe.1 bv-.aua* they warn! the fttoliUr
at til of lwjan»tb»w la »>n.p.» »v «kb.ee,
to teal .a in wow ll> ot !>«■ .blag tbe U»
nod tbit pb*lt « I'itioi* »t. >••» I wdi
abag 104 that It ta t* umkvatoml in
g be « ant
iv. 'hat it*. I1
gang that when lb. ** U'l. Mt t• ■ 11 . ter
gtaiug it* cvoattloti mi l"»«f ami doty,
lev an littery > tatkn U a *»* nf tho
Batted St*'** that wag e l tdcaaing to
CvM«.*a *b«y ta .4bl iactaato tha i«« I
HIS CURIOUS WAY OF SHOWING IT
/•ami If *Jr-:;*"-'lvA.
J/r, 1 trynn amaortm that ho Ih opposed to foreign domination In our nffalrm.
her of Judge* and park the court to get
a decision to please them. (Applause.)
"My friends, our fathers who framed
this government divided It* great pow
er* I,ctween three great departments—
the legislative, executive and the judicial.
It sought to make these independent,
the one of the other, so that neither
might overabudow or destroy the other.
The Supreme court, the most dignified
judicial body In the world, was appointed
to interpret the laws and the constitu
tion, and when that court pronounced
a decree as to the power* of Congress
or us to any other constitutional ques
tion, there is but one right method if we
disagree, and that is the method pointed
out by the constitution—to amend it to
conform with our views. 'J'hut is the po
sition today.
"You uro to answer, then, my fellow
citizens, in all the gravity of a great
crisis, whether you will sustain a party
w ho pro; ose to d< rtioy the balance which
our fathers instituted in our system of
government, and whenever a tumultuous
Congress disagree* with the Huprcinc
court and a subservient President is in
the white house, that the judgment of
the court shall he reconsidered and re
versed by increasing the number of
Judges nml packing the court with men
who will decide as Congress wants them
to. (Applause.) I cannot exaggerate the
gravity and the importance ami the dan
ger of this assault upon our constitution
al form of government.
"I do not intend to spend any time in
the discussion of the tariff question. That
debate bus been won, and need not be
protracted, it might run on eternally
upon theoretical lines. We had had some
experiences, hut they were historical and
remote, and not very instructive to this
generation. We needed an experience of
our own, and we have had it. It has
been a bar I lesson, but a very convinc
ing one, and everybody was in the school
II'MIIM.- V* II* II II (.1 II Mini. * * 1'“*'*'- 1“
1803 of most extraordinary character has
hecn succeeded by a gradual drying up,
less and less, until universal business dis
traction and anxiety prevails over all of
our community. I do not believe there
has been a time, except, perhaps, in the
very heat of some active panic, when
universal fear and anxiety and watchful
ness, even to the point of desperation,
has characterized this great metropolis
as it does today. (Applause.) Men have
been afraid to go away for a vacation.
They have felt that they must every day
in this burning heat come to the city and
watch their business. That is the situa
tion.
“What has brought it about? Gentle
men. who is there to defend the Wilson
tariff hill? Who says it is a good tariff
measure? (A voice: "Nobody.”) I dou’t
believe a candidate can be found to say
that it is. Mr. Cleveland repudiated
it. It was so had that he could not
attach his official signature to it, aud it
became a law without it. He said it
was full of incongruities and inequali
ties. What has been the result of that
measure? It has failed to produce rev
enue enough, supplemented by our inter
nal tuxes, to maintain the government.
There bus been an annual debcit ap
proaching $50.000,(KX) every year, and
the national treasury has been contin
ually in a state of embarrassment. Our
manufacturers, left without adequate
protection, have been successively and
gradually closing up and putting out
their tires. Hut not only lias this pro
duced such an effect, but it has nructi
caily contributed to the buauciul depres
sion that we are in. The inuiiitcuaiicc
of tlie gold reserve up to $100.U(X).OUU
by tlie government for the redemption
of our notes was essential to confidence
ill the stability of our finances. When
the government reserve runs down |k*o
ple begin at once to say: 'IV* may come
to u silver basis if gold is going out.’
list... ..A.*... iu aitiu.vollv Jauih AI..I
fear la greully Increased, but bow eun
you keep a gold reserve of 91tm.INI0.IMa)
when you bare not got $1U),UUU,(IU0 lu
the treaaury all told'/ How can you
maintnin lbi» gold reaerve for redcmp
tiou of note* when you have an annual
and contluuoua deliclt and your Income
not equaling your deficit> Mo that, uiy
frieuda, Ihla tariff bill haa not ouly con
tributed, by Increasing iinoorlattoua, by
taking away the ueedful aupix.rt fur our
own manufacturer*, but It ha* contrib
uted lu the way of Increasing the silver
■.are to bring na Into the present condi
tion of dlatrual ami diamay which now
prevalla. tApplauar.l
“Hul I d» not Inland to follow that
quralton further. I am quite a* touch
opt»» >1 lu • hra|H-ulug the Amen.au
workingman and working woman a* I
am lo cheapening our dollar*. iA|>
piauaet 1 am quite a* strongly la favor
of keeping day a _ work *i home aa I am
gold dollar*. I Applause).
* My (rood*, a* a If publican. I am
l«r»u<f uf many thing*, but I caw *um up
a* llta htghral satisfaction I have had
la lb* party amt I*• ce -r (hat Ike
protpet t of ll-pubb in au- • eaa m r did
disturb hoc .•«• tApplause), 4 • ton
get ilon with tbt* ttwamtal mailer, do we
all realise b«w uopwftaal the ihoice of
a president al I*" you know that, a*
I he law la peW, n Ilk. at the pa*-4g* of
any free coinage of stiver al ad. it I*
)« Ik* pewet »« «ke Preeident of the
failed w»*l*a t-> kti»| Ike lodit of
ike country to a silver banal All k*
haa to do la * * let Ike gold reserve go,
l« pay »ut atlvar wkeu men o»k m
g..td. md w# am there already It la
only kniaat the pr««»t> *i« of the .
j mivd Plaiea that w* kave had. and Ike ,
one We have new. have regoidd It '
nedar the law a* ku public duty t« j
aaa<«■«■» the (eld ban*, ntamie.mgg I
that parity between our (diver and gold
coin* whirl) the law declares is the
trolley of the government, ntid because
lie has the courage to execute the pow
ers given to him by the resumption act
to carry out that declaration of public
law. I undertake, therefore, to say
that if Mr, Bryan, or a man holding his
views, were ill the presidential chair,
without any legislation by Congress, we
should lie on a silver busia in a week's
time. (Applause).
"The silver question—what 1* It? Do
you want silver because you want more
money, a larger circulating medium? 1
have not beard anybody say so. Mr.
Bryan is not urging it upon tliut basis.
If anybody were to seek to give tliut as
a reason for wanting free silver he would
be very soon confounded by the state
ment that free silver would put more
gold out of circulation than mints of the
I'nitcd States could possibly bring in in
years of silver, and that instead of hav
ing more money we would have less. (Ap
plause.) With our six hundred mid odd
million of gold driven out of circulation
we will reduce our i>er capita money of
this country between eight and nine dol
lars. So it is not for more money. We
have an abundant supply of circulating
medium- gold, silver, national hank
greenbacks, treasury notes, fractional sil
ver. We have something like |ht
capita of our population. What is it,
then, that creates this demand for silver?
It lx openly avowed. It is not more dol
lars, but cheaper dollars that are wanted.
It is a lower stundard of value tliut they
are demanding. They say gold bux gone
up until it has ceased to lie a proper
standard of value, und they want silver.
But how do they want ft.
‘'.Vow, my friends, there is a great
deal of talk about bimetallism and the
double standard and n great deal of con
fusion in the use of those terms. Bi
metallism is the use of the two metals
HH inline V w lie re thev n re Imtli iimixI
Hy n double standard they mean that
we shall have a gold dollar nud a silver
dollar which will be a unit of value,
by which nil property and all wages
and everything is to hi- measured. Now,
our fathers thought that when they used
these two metals in coinage they must
determine the intrinsic relative value of
the two, so that a comparison of the
markets of the world would show just
what relation one ounce of silver hore
to one ounce of gold; how many ounces
of silver it took to lie equal to one ounce
of gold in the markets of the world
where gold and silver were used, and
they carefully went about ascertaining
that. Thomas Jefferson nud Alexander
Hamilton gave their great powers to
the determination of that question, and
they collected the market reports and
they studied with all their power that
question, and when they found what
appeared to be the general and uvernge
relative value of these two metals they
fixed upon n rutio between them. Now,
what was the object of all that? Why
did they lump it all? Hecuiise they fully
understood that unless these dollars were
of the same intrinsic value that both of
them could not be standards of vulue,
and both could not circulate. (Ap
plause.)
“As things are now the silver dollars
that we have are supported by the gov
ernment. and the government that sup
ports this silver bullion lias issued these
dollars on its own account—not for the
mine owner—and it has pledged its su
ored honor it would make every one of
these dollars as good ns a gold dollar,
(tireut applause.) And that is a power
ful support. Our l’optilistic friends pro
mise that the man who digs silver out of
the mine tuny bring it to the mint and
have it stamped and handed back to him
as a dollar, the government having no
responsibility nliout it. Those men
would reject with contempt the nroiMisi
turn tiiut free coinage waa to route with
a pledge on behalf of the government
to mniutnin the parity of the two dollara.
(Applauae.) Hut thia feeling ia well
adapted to touch the prevailing American
buuintiounncaa and welt adapted to
touch that prejudice agaiuat England
which many have, hut eau we do thia
thiug ouraclveaf la it a queation wheth
er we will do it, or aak any body'a eon
at-lit whether we may, ur aak the ..
erntiou of ■oiuclMHly? Not at all, I
tell you what thia government ran do
alone It can In ita uioui-y uuit. It
can declare hy law what ahall be the
relative value of au ouure of gold and
an ounce of ailvrr, hut It .annul make
that Inal declaration good. tApplauac.l
It ia uiMiwcatlouabiy fully within the
power of thia government tu bring thia
country to a ailvrr haaia by ruining ailver
dollara ami making them lege! tender.
They can do that.
•'Tbte government might »ay you ahall
take one of iheae .MU re, l ot It cannot
aay and rwfotv* ita ilmv* If you ahuttid
call out the naular army or navy ami
muaier our grot n itu • hip* and Ibe
miiitia, ami nut William J. Hryan In
couimaml of lb» it »annul enfurie the
,lr* «ee that one »*nae of g<d>l ia Inc
•ouivaienl of aivlvcn alMMM of ettvar,
• lltval (M-lauae and > hevio Sol only
ibal. not run* ami KngUmt and ller
mahy can d» lhal unb •» ike Mntikvle
i* m -ml i ki i lM.cc i We van of «»*■
aeivea, of aat *•# w iadom, dwetaie the
null of value We cea now alivvt five
|», but we .annul make atvlveu »wu< • a
of a.l.vr ««|oal to one owm* of guM uu
baa it U. «A|-idwwael And If la n»|
ui.t.aa the meivhanl* lake if af ikal
■ 1
“W bat ia |b« nett •uggealk.a, It l*.
my friewdai, tu ike mm* wl free ailver,
wkal ia tie inan ini and mviel a>|«iva
lent of n declaration that BO-cent pieces
ure dollars. Tliey might just ns well
piiKs u law that 50 cents is a dollar.
That would not make it so, would it?
It would lie n legal dollar; Imt it would
not buy a dollar'* worth of anything.
What is the effect of that? The mer
chant would tuko cure of himself.
“A man keeps n store down here on
Broadway, anil that law is going into
operation tonight, lie summons all hi*
clerks and buys 115 cents’ worth of pen
cils, and before he opens hi* store in the
morning he has marked up his goods to
tin1 new scale, lie can do all that, lint
there are great numbers of people, num
berless people, who enlist our interest,
and some of them enkindle our sympa
thies, who cannot use the pencil. Take
tlie work of man. He cannot go to the
■pay roll with a pencil and mark it up.
lie has got to consult somebody. He
lias to enter into art argument, lie lias
got to get some other man's consent be
fore he can mark up hi* wage*. Then
there is the pensioner, those that are re
ceiving pensions from this government
for gallant deeds done in the war, and
other* for the loss of beloved ones. He
cannot take his pension certificates, and
when it reads eight dollars make it read
sixteen dollars. He must wait for ail
uppcul to Congress, and a Congress that
is populistic in character would bo un
sympathetic. (Applause). Take the
men who have life insurance. Cun they,
where tho policy reads $5000, mike it
$10,000? No. Can the munugcr* of
these institutions make it right with
them? No. This policy coerces integ
rity. (Applause).
“My friends, the men surely do not
contemplate the irretrievable and exten
sive character of the disaster and dis
turbance and disruption which they sve
proposing for all of us in all our biisinei.s
affairs, great nnd simple. Take the la
boring man; bow full of sympathy they
are for him. My countrymen, I never
spoke a false word to the laboring man
in my life. (Great applause). I have
never sought to reach his vote or influ
ence by appeal* to that part of hi* na
ture that will pollute the intellect and the
. • _ ... T 1_ 1_ft.. -_1_I f *
lleve today that any system that main
tain! the prices of labor in this country,
thut brings hope into the life of the la
boring man, that enables him to nut by,
thut gives him a stake in the good order,
the prosperity of the country, is the pol
icy thut should he our American policy.
(Applause.) 1 have resisted iu many
campaigns this idea that a debased cur
rency could help the workingman. The
first dirty errand that a dirty dollar does
is to cheat the workingmen. (Appluuse.)
“My friends, a cold statistical inquiry,
non-partisan in its character, was made
by a committee of the Senate in 18!M)
and some following years. The commit
tee wus composed of Democrats and of
Republicans, and they set out to study
us statisticians the relative prices of com
modities and wages at different periods
in the history of our country. This in
vestigation covered the years of the war.
It showed how prices of goods went up
and in what proportion labor advanced,
(foods went up rapidly because the pen
cil process is a quick process. Wages
went up haltingly and slowly, ticca use
the employer lias to he persuuded and
the pencil wou’t serve.
“Now, I have here a memorandum of
some of those facts resulting from that
investigation. Labor in one period ad
vanced 3 per cent.; goods, the things
the men had to buy out of their wages
for their families and their living, ad
vanced 18 per cent. Through another
period the laborers’ wattes advunccd 10%
per cent., and the price of goods ad
vanced 40 per cent. Iu another period
the wages of the laborer went up .3 per
cent, uud the prices of merchandise ad
vanced 00 per cent. In another perl
nl the laborers’ wages went ttp
4.'i_pcr cent., and the price of good*
117 per rent. Now. these statistics are
the result of a solid scientific inquiry
made liy men of both (larties to deter
mine what the truth was, nod the truth
they found that the enormous disparity
between the advance of the cost of liv
iug and tlie advance in wages falls in ex
actly with what we would conclude in
advance. Laborers, men who work,
whether with head or hand in salaried
positions, would do well to take these
facts to heart and settle the question
after that broad, deep inquiry to which
Mr. Bryan invites you, as to whether
you want to enter Into another experi
ence such as you had during the war.
when wages advanced so slowly and
tediously und the cost of your liviug
moved on so swiftly.
“I have sketched very hastily some of
the evils that will result from this
change to n debased dollar—ft contrac
tion of our currency by the exporting of
our gold ami a readjustment of every
thing. Now, who will get nny benefit?
Well, the man who owes a dent that he
contracted upon a gold basis and is able
to pay it with a fiO-cent dollar, lie and
the mine owner who gets an exaggerated
price for the product* of his mine arc
the only two people, or classes of people,
that 1 can see that would have any bene
fit out of it. They make it strong ap
peal to the farmer. They say it will
put up prices. Well, in it sense, yes,
mnm.'i m.v , *• .
goes from BO cents to $1.20 tho |>n< e
ha* la-on increased. you will sny. Imt if
tin- price of everything else has gone up
in the sh me proportion, it Imshel of
wheat won't buy for the farmer any
more sugar or coffee or farming imple
ment*. or uiiything else that he has to
purchase.
"It invoke* the Idea that till* govern
ment of our* shall pay not only It* debt
of honor but that they pay the Interest
on its bond* and the ‘circulating note*
in a debased currency. My country
men. this country of ours, during the
troublous times of the war may have
had severe trial*, but these financial
questions ore scarcely loss troublous
than those. Doe* not every instinct of
pride, dm'* not every Instinct of self
interest, doe* not every thoughtful, af
fectionate interest in others, does not
our sense of justice and honor rise tip
to rebuke the infamous proposition that
till* government and it* people shall be
come a people of reimdiator* ?” ll’ro
longed applause and cnecr*,)
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
One of the anomalies of this cnin
patgu is tliut the business man whose
wisdom iiml experience is sought for by
farmers uud laboring men in their private
matters, is considered by many of them
ns an unsafe adviser in political matter*.
The Issues of this national election are
business issues. The question is, how
can the industries of the nation be re
vived? It would seem ns if the judgment
of the men who niunugu the industries
should be consulted.
It is an odd spectacle to see a free sil
ver orator who never did a duy’s work
in liis life, who lias hud no experience
in managing business affuirs, who has
never organized or managed a labor em
ploying Industry, who has never paid n
laboring man a dollar for work, nnd who
never evolved a practical plan which
resulted in giving employment to unem
ployed people, delivering an oration over
the “fallen ruin* of u dead industry,”
telling how it can be revived.
It took liryun nnd the other Democrat
ic orator* two and a quarter year* to
pass the Wilson bill, although they hud
been telling the American people for
thirty years that they knew the tariff
ti in-kt inn nil liv rt tint! W4U,4t ntfrsxwl
ns to wlmt they were going to do. How
long will it take these same Democratic
free silver orators to pass u free coinage
bill? And what will huppcu to the coun
try in the meantime?
The Democratic orator* talked tariff
reform thirty year* before they got the
consent of the American people to put
their plans into effect. When at lust
the people consented to let them try their
tariff reform, it took those orutors two
und a quarter yeurs to agree upon the
exact wording of their tariff law. In
the meantime, while they held the coun
try in suspense, the industries of the na
tion became paralyzed from doubt and
uncertainty. If it took these tariff re
form orators two and one-half years to
make a law after thirty years of study, j
how long will it take these free silver
orators to make a low after only five I
yeurs of study? And if these two and
one-half years of dispute and uncertainty
on the tariff paralyzed the industries,
what will become of these industries if
another series of free silver speeches
is hurled against them, seeing that these j
industries are more afraid of free coin- I
age than they were of free trade?
The crop now in the fields of Nebraska
would under ordinary condition* be worth
$100,000,000. If the laboring men of
the country were at work there would
lie a demand in the Kust for this crop.
In every town of Nebraska the process
of loading this crop into curs would be
going on all over the state. As fust
as the cars were loaded sight drafts
would lie drawn on Chicugo, New York,
liultimore and other market centers and
by means of these sight drafts the bal
ance of credit would be transferred from
the Kust to the West. Every bank in
every Nebrasku town would be easy,
money would lie plenty and we would
cull thut good times. Hood times will
come to the Western farmer when the
Knstern luborer goes to work, nud not
till then. What would it avail the
Western furiuer to see trniuloads of sil
ver bullion passing through the country
on its way to the Knstern mint to be
coined, if the factories in the Kust were
still idle, and the people out of employ
ment. Would the mere coining of these
Western silver dollars make a demaud |
for hr end nrd moat? The demand for
'''•■«»ern fond must originate in the Hast.
If the West unites with the Mouth In
forcing n)imi this country a policy which
frightens the Knst, how will Knstoru !«
Iror he employed and liow cau it bay
Western food?
'It is heranse it is,” says Bryan.
" hoover heard a statesman use such
Words?
Ihnt was n very adroit rnmpnign wall
' inirmnn Jones issued for funds. The
s'lvcr kings will see to it that Jones has
•'ll the money he needs, hut he eonslders
it strategy to make “a poor mouth” alt
tile same.
ltev. I>r. McArthur of New Tork
sweetly says that the free silver move
ment consists solely of ‘‘lungs, lunacy
and larceny.”
\\ hen Bryan had a chance to help (ho
farmer he did what lie could to down
him. He voted in Congress for free
wool. That alone hit over 2,000,000 of
American sheep raisers.
I* is, nn insult to the poor man to say
that silver is the poor man's money. A
mail is entitled to us good money os
the rich man.
'I he old soldiers will rally once more.
It will lie on November D, and McKinley
" ilj im* tlii' color lu-nror.
....... , i'"iiiriii oi inr i niTPd nrniriv
lia« Im-cu either u lawyer or a soldier, or
both.
I lie people nre swarming to lionr Mc
Kinley. Itrynn travels about the country
to,find audiences.
I lie duty of every man is to mnkc his
Income eipini t<> his expenditures and it Is
llie siiinc with a nation.
And the Democrats are now complain
ing thin t|„, Itepubllenu plan of campaign
educates too mueh.
The IIiiinoriitis Hide.
In storming the citadel It begins to
look as if Tom Watson was to be left
“outside the breast works."
• • *
Bryan ha* been fishing too. Tt bents
all what an inborn penchant Democrats
und l'upocruti have for fishing.
* • *
It Is safe to say that what Mrs. Lease
and Helen Hangar advocate, the rest
of the country better »t«ee .dear of,
* • •
The managers don't seem to know
where to place Bryan so ns to do tho
moat good. lie might take a sea voyage,
• * •
Bryan is quite a talker. He rati wind
up liia vocal organs and go off and lenvo
them and no stoppage will lie noticed.
Bourhc t'oekriui is nlso something of a
talker himself, Dixon Star.
The Badge of Free Trndr. ■
Oh, times they are hard, and money Is
scares,
We're viewing the future askance; ' .
And thniinuud* of work men, all Idle and
poor.
Wear n patch on the scat of their panto,
pants, pants,
Wear a patch on the seat of their panta.
Abandon protection and hard thnea will
stay,
Onr troubles will only enhance;
And ndllloiis of people will wear the new
badge,
A puiih mi the seat of their punts, pants,
punts,
A puteh on the seat of their pauta.
There's many n man w ho wanted a change;
You i nii spot lilin the very Nrsl glance.
There's a look that Implies when you gaze
In his eyes
Kick the patch ou the seat of my puutfc
pants, pants.
Kick the patch ou the sent of my pants.
Bcrauton (Pa.) Tribune.
A i'opullMt Belief.
A resident of Poughkeepsie a few day*
npi received u letter from n friend in
Nebraska in which it is shown what
tin* mental cnlilici' is of sonic of the be.
Hovers in free silver. Tlie Nebraskan
who wrote the letter heard u Populist
explain the meaning of l(i to 1 to u.
group of attentive listeners.
He said that if Hrynn should tie elect
ed be would sell ids grain this full and
demand puyrneut in gold. Then he would
go to the mint and receive $1(100 in sil
ver for each $100 in gold, and with that
silver he would pay off the mortgage on
bis farm. He admitted tliat some of
bis neighbors did not explain the mean
ing of 10 to 1 in the same way, but be
wax quite sure he hud the right under
standing of it.
Such a story seems almost too absurd
to lie true, hut It may be assumed, log
ically, that ii man who thoroughly rnd
honestly believes tliut the carrying out
of the financial policy laid out at Chi
cago will believe anything else that
would reveal itself to uorninl minds at
once us nonsense.—Albany Express. _
Not in a Hundred.
Bill Bryan fooled the voters
In elghtecn-nluety-two;
The promises be made us
Brought xoup to me and you; ,
Again he would enchant us
lty xluglug hopeful tunes;
lie fed ux xoup too often—
He cannot feed us prunes.
Another.
The original and picturesque reason
given by a Hopper to Popocratic silver
ism, rexiding in this county, is that "the
price of steers went down while John M.
Stull was a state seuntor.”—Warren (O.),
Chronicle.
Hanger In the Other Foot.
Syracuse Standard: Bryan ia trusting
to the left hind foot of a rabbit. I.et him
look out for the right fore foot of an ele*
phuut.
Tho Heal Thing.
If It is true, os reported, that your
Uncle Benjamin llarrixon Is going to
make a Pullman tour, the country will
siMiii In' treated to nu exhibition of reax
platform work from a real artist.
S' **>*€, i
IIE CANT OET AROUND IT