, GUILTY S
•••INNOCENT?
By AMY BRAZIER.
CHAPTER IX.—(Continued.)
“You will llnd It very hard to get
nny one to believe your story In the
fate of the gashier's sworn testimony,”
be says coolly. “My dear Barbara,
Bouverie was proved guilty. He was
tried for drugging the cashier and rob
bing the bank, and he committed the
crime without a shadow of doubt. I
dare say you were weak enough to
hand him over a hundred pounds, hut
he robbed the bank as well."
"He did not!" breathes Barbara des
perately, “and It was I who begged
and pra_ycd him to take the money. 1
was to be his wife; there was no harm
in It, and it saved him from dis
honor.’*
Mrs. Saville takes Barbara's hand.
“My dear, don't make a fool of your
self! We don't doubt that he took
your money—it was exactly the kind
of thing a man like George Bouverie
would do, but he was guilty of the
hank robbery as well. It Is hard on
you, Barbara, but he Is not worth a
regret.”
Barbara's breath comes fast. Her
eyes fill suddenly with tears at the re
membrance of an interview between
herself and George that bad been sol
emn and almost sacred. He had knelt
beside her, with his face sorely trou
bled, and she had prayed to God to
give him strength to begin a new life,
end give up the poison of the mania
for gambling. Was It likely after that
he would have committed the siu lit
was found guilty of?
She draws her hand from her aunt's
clasp.
“You are all against him you and
Sebastian most of all, but I will save
him.”
Barbara carries her point, and smarts
on her Journey alone.
Sebastian shrugs iiis shoulders.
“What a high-flown piece of busi
ness! But 1 seo now why she went
out to Tasmania second class.''
"Barbara is an idiot!” responds Mrs.
Ravilie irritably. ”1 would like to lock
her up! I suppose we may as well go '
back to the Court till she comes to her
senses.”
“Not so. Voit can settle anywhere
you like, and when Barbara finds that
her tragic explanation of George Bou
verie and the hundred pounds won’t
geL him out of prison I'll fetch her
over myself, but let her do all she can
now.”
Barbara goes straight to the Grange.
Who should she go to with her news
but to Georges mother? And nevpr
for a moment has she the slightest
doubt that her story will unbar the
prison doors and let George free. It
was her money he had. She had
brought it to him in a little bag, and
made him take it; and now, with tier
pretty face full of sympathy and hope,
the gathers poor, sorrowful Mrs. *#ou
verie in her arms, and half weeping,
half laughing, tells the whole story.
And no doubt crosses the mother’s
mind. Trembling with Joy and ex
citement, she clings to Barbara, and
the two women weep together, drawn
to each other by the link of love that
is between them.
“God bless you!" sobs Mrs. Bou
rerie. ”1 knew my boy was innocent,
but what shall we do, I am so ig
norant ? Ought we not go to the law
yer who defended his case? Come,
Barbara! Oh, darling, you love him,
too; do not let us lose a moment! We
can go to Dublin this evening, and
then—oh, surely tomorrow they will
set him free?”
Neither Mrs. Bouverie nor Barbara
have the slightest idea of the red tape
and the endless formalities that can
keep even an Innocent man under lock
and key.
T’pon this tearful scene of excite
ment Doctor Carter enters. He pays
many a visit to cheer up his old friend,
and he alone knows of the calendar
that is so full of sorrowful interest as
across each day a trembling line is
drawn, one twenty-four hours nearer
the end of the time that is only begin
ning now.
He is fully as much excited as Mrs.
itouverie and Barbara, and, like them,
sees no difficulties lu the wav. It is
only when. In answer to an urgent ap
peal, Mr. Jarvis pays a late visit to
the Hotel Metropole, where Mrs. Bou
verie engages rooms, thut a little
doubt damps the ardor of their hopes,
the man of law looks at Barbar.i's
Hushed eager fate with a dawning of
comprehension.
■Quixotic,” he think* "Now 1
know why Itouverie held hi* tongue 1
thought there was something behind
the scenes."
To Mrs Bouverle he says:
"This Is most Import »ut evidence, I
wi*h It had been produced at the lliu«
•f the trial It accounts for the
money, but how are we to get over the
fart* sworn to by Mr Urey when He
‘•(entitled Bouverle a* the mm who
ftugged him ' That is the nut we have
to crack “
The look of Joy died nut of Mrs
Itouverie*! e)es, tears roil down her
cheeks.
"I thought this would Have set hint
frew," she muimurs. pressing her
Hand* together
And Barbara s fare i* full of eor
rowful anstetv.
■ ft# must he ter free*" she eri**s
looking eagerly nt Mr larvt* ' Mr
J«rvia. I aw to be kls wife and how
piiH illy she mi I* »* though *h»
• v« gio*}tng tg the <« t tsl 4
want to work for him”—the color
flooding her cheeks. "I have money—
oh, more than I know what to do
with! You will know what to do! Oh,
you will help us, won't you?”
Mirs Savillc, I will do all that I can.”
the lawyer says earnestly. "If you
wish to leave the case in my hands, I
will do my very best. You may de
pend upon me.”
After that the days go by In an
agonized time of suspense and anxiety.
It scents so hard to sit still and wait,
so cruel not to be able to rush to
George and tell him to hope. For,
after all, there seems to be very little
hope, for how are they to prove that
George Bouverle did not rob the hank
as well as take Barbara's hundred
pounds?
Barbara stays at lhe Grange, and
she Is all energy and excitement. She
will never rest till the whole ease Is
brought to trial again, and Mr. Jar
vis' policy of waiting is Just wiiat Bar
bara cannot bear to do.
The greit lawyer lias come to Port
raven, hoping to find out some clue,
hut there seems nothing to find out.
Nobody can throw any light on the
mystery till chance discloses what the
brains of men have failed to find out.
Mr. Jarvis, walking down the street
of Portraven, puzzling out the case
that occupies all his thoughts, meets
a sharp-fttced-looklng lad, who accosts
him.
"You he the gentleman who Is for
Mr. Bouverle?" he says, touching his
C nil.
■'Yes, my boy, I was his counsel," re
turns Mr. Jarvis, alert in a second.
The boy looks at him.
"I don't believe It were lie took the
money, 1 air. the hank messenger, sir,
and I see Mr. Grey taking a hag out
of the chimney In the bank. It was
this way, sir. Mr. Kelly was out, and
I’m fond of reading, anti there was a
book Mr. Grey bad, and I hid to get a
chance to nab it, and I saw him with
my own eyes taking down a wash
leather bag the day before he left the
office for good.”
"And where Is Mr. Grey now?” Mr.
Jarvis asked sharply.
"Gone to Queenstown today to catch
the steamer for America,” the hoy
says, with a glance of cunning. "I
told him I suw him take the bag. and 1
thought he might give me a fiver to
say nothing about It, but he kicked
me down stairs, and I don't care now
if I tell on him or not.”
Mr. Jarvis puts his hand on the
boy's shoulder.
'Come and tell Mr. Kelly what yon
have told me, but take care you tell
the truth.”
The whole rase seems full of per
plexity. Mr. Grey may have robbed
the bank a second time; that remains
to lie seen. It is a mystery inneed!
"You can't get over the chloroform
business,” thinks Mr. Jarvis. " and the
fellow positively swore It w'as Bou
verle who did it. Still there seems to
be a glimmer of daylight somewhere.”
The Lucania is getting up steam, the
tender is alongside, and the sun .t>
shining brilliantly across the dazzling,
sparkling water.
Mr. Grey, the cashier who had bepn
the victim of the Portraven tragedy,
stands on board with a grey, anxious
face. His wife is beside him—a loud,
ftashy-looking young woman.
"We're just off," she is saying, when
she catches sight of a look of horror
on her husband’s face. A police officer
and a private detective are coming to
wards them. The late cashier is seized
with trembling, and remains as if fas
cinated.
An arrest on board one of the out
going American steamers is not a very
uncommon occurrence. Mr. Grey and
his wife are condueted on board the
tender, and the Lucania steams on her
way.
There is guilt on the face of the mai
who sits staring with wild, desperate
I eyes lieforo him, deaf to I he angry
protestations of his wif**.
Only once he speaks as he turns to
her.
"Hold your tongue’ You brought
me to Oils! It Is all your fault!” Then
lie looks at the officer In charge of
him. "I will make a dean breast of it
there is nothing else to be done ”
Anil It is before Seb.csti in Suville he
makes his confession, a* lie stand*, a
shrinking, riaven object, wailing for
mercy
Mr, .lari is listens, with a well
I pleased smile on Ills face
"I took the hundred pound*." Mr
| Grey »ays, with sullen rninpoaur**.
Mv wife thought of the pi,mi; I was a
' tool to her hands I stole the money.
; and that day after I hud raahed Mr.
j Moinerli s check. I to#o*l all the
j things a limit, and myself stuff* d the
haudkrrehief a auked In chloroform
! Into mv mouth I swear I n.i telling
the truth I swot* It was George lion
vert* who had attacked me I did not
iare who suffered for mv stu lint
gentlemen," he riles, hts agoiiue.l
■ Isnee wan<b'Ang round I am hap
pier today than I have been for
month* I have n**ver kit *wn a mo
trial * pea* e tt*i«iir»* has a mv
I 'mis* day an I night wb*n I used to
think of lk« mail suffering In mv
piste, an I his eyes as they looked me
through and 11*> ask have hvtklel
me **
Mt Jafvi* •mile* •{ Itir'n a • t»»r
»at la w. I tv kt caigw H overt#
will And a sweet compensation for all
his troubles,” he says, as he promises
her to hurry on all legal formalities.
George Bouverie is innocent after
all! Who can measure the mad anger
in the mind of Sebastian Saville? In
his rage and disappointment he says
hard, hitter things, but Barbara does
not cjre, Before long she meets her
loverwgain, and. In the sunshine of
her love, he forgets all the sorrow and
shame and desperation that had been
his lot.
With rare delicacy, Barbara has
willed that his mother shall be with
him first: that they two shall go to
some haven till the first trouble shall
have passed away. Afterwards she
will go to him herself.
And so those two who have suffered
and sorrowed meet together again, and
Barbara once more looks Into the face
that still bears the shadows of the
trouble.
*T am not fit for you!” the man
groans.
But her eyes are full of smiles.
"There is a great estate tit Tasmania
to be looked after, and it is waiting for
its ‘manager,’ " she says.
THE END.
Croat Cavalry I.railer.
While (’.rant was rutting and selling
rordwood. and Sherman was teaching ,
school, there was a man In Memphis
who was having no preparation what
ever for war,and yet who was destined
to make no end of trouble for these able
soldiers. This was (Jen. N. D. t orrost,
whose life by Dr. J. A. Wyeth has re
cently been issued Forrest was an
un dueated man and belonged to that
proscribed class in the south known
as "poor whites," Moreover,he was still
further handicapped in any effort to
stand on un equality with men of posi
tion by having been a slave trader.
But by native force and by a genius for
action this unlettered man became the
most successful cavalry leader In the
south. He enlisted as a private, but
before he really went into action had
been made a lieutenant colonel. In this
capacity be proved that he could move
men through the country with a celer
ity most remarkable. He knew noth
ing whatever about the principles of
war,and probably never read a book on
the subject in his life. It is unlikely,
Indeed, that he ever read many books
of any kind. He was essentially a man
of action, and for more than three and
a half years he kept the federal com
manders guessing as to where h* was
and what he was going to do next. To
ward the close of the war Forrest'i
wonderful capacity was appreciated ir
Richmond, and he was made a lieu
tenant-general and put In command of
all the cavalry west of the Mississippi.
It was too late, however, for him tt»
do much. Hood's army had been all but
destroyed before Nashville, Sherman
was marching through Georgia* and
Gen. James H. Wilson was after For
rest with the strongest cavalry com
mand ever placed In the saddle. He
defeated Forrest at Selma—the first
time, by the way,Forrest had ever been
completely beaten—and shortly after
ward the war ended. Saturday Even
ing Post.
I.jiH'm! from the Front.
At the war office the other day an
elderly gentleman of somewhat chol
eric disposition was making inquiries
after a relative in South Africa. An
noyed at the inability of the official
to give him any tidings, he began to
charge them with willfully keeping
back intelligence. In the midst of
his expostulations a telegVam was
handed him, and he Immediately asked
the official If It concerned South Af
rica. The official replied in the affirm
ative, but said it was not of public
interest. Thereupon the old gentle
man alternately raved and pleaded.till
at last, to keep him quiet., the official
consented, as a special favor, to show
him the wire. It read as follows:
“More nose-bags wanted at the front."
—London Express.
F»*w ifm« lii I riigimy.
Few houses in Fruguay are provided
with stoves for heating purposes. No
chimneys or fireplaces are provided, a*
a rule, one house recently built at a
cost of $14,000 having for ils only
chimney a stovepipe from the kitchen,
('.attic graze in the open all the year
round, hut during the winter season,
from April to October, the dampness
is conducive (o the spread of pulmon
..z~j iroubles. Only one dealer in Mon
tevideo sells heating stoves, and these
are of American make. Oil stoves find
some favor, as coal s**lls at from $10
to $14 per ton
N| mil nil "Whiles <**«•.“
At a church recently there was a
song service, and one mother took
her little Ace-year-old daughter to it. ■
One of the selections was “I Love to
Steal Awhile Away." It was drawled
out lu the good, ohl fashioned way tu
the end. and the little miss, after th>
tltst line, seemed to he lust in study
In the midst of the prayer that fol- !
lowed, she rliltih tt up on the seat be
aide h.r mother, and in a stage whls
pei asked Mamma, what are 'whih**
aways' and what do good p*-opl* want
to steal them In-?'
la>*t* % twlior* I Itr *!»!«» <1
The Monk of Franc, has an lageni
tuts arrangement hr which auspicious
Visitors I all tie photographed without
(hell knowledge lie fund the desk of
the cashier U a hidden photograph - j
studio, ant at a signal from any of ths ,
employes of the hank a phtura of the
• i ■ ,*1*00*0 i net ant l * taken
I h«- C4.il, I IS also M..«d ti l ilete ting
|> 4n Is in ar-ssur« on a * he-k Whl h
mat no* he vl.thla to Ike »>e using
Vtdi ■** I hie In c likat gtspn
THE GERMAN VOTE.
GEN. DICK SAYS IT WILL BE
CAST FOR M KINLEY.
Democratic I mprriulUm Scare of No Kf«
feet—Ten tonn Stand for Sound Money
mid Don’t Fear l arge Incrriis In Our
Milllary Force—A Question of I'ollc*.
“Our friends, the Democrc'.s, arc try
ing." uald General Charles Dick. Secre
tary of the Republican National com
mittee, "to make everybody believe
that the German vote this year will
go lo the Democratic party, but there
is not tha slightest likelihood of this
being the rase.
“In 1896 the G*ruiaiis voted for
President McKinley. They are strong
believers in the advantages of a gold
standard of currency. Thin the Repub
lican party lira giv< u them. They know
that should the Democrat candidate
for president he elected, which, of
course, would mean Democratic con
trol of congress, then th» gold stand
ard law would be repealed and free
coinage of silver will be foisted upon
(he country. The Germani do not
want this. They are probably the most
lev. 1-headed Kuropean people who
come to live here. They know that
they fare better here, can make and
save more money than they did in
the Fatherland, and they are not a
people who are lead away by iligbta
of the Imagination.
"An effort Is being made to bring the
Germans Into the Democratic line by
scaring them with the bugaboo of
Imperialism, which It is claimed would
compel a large in< rease In our mili
tary forces. Many of them have come
here to escape tlm strict military laws
(hut are in force In Germany, and
naturally they would not favor any
thing tending In the same direction
in this country. I am glad this sub
ject has developed thus early In the
campaign, because the Germans will
have time to read and study what the
actual conditions are as to our military
forces, comparing them with their
Fatherland,
“Germany has over 52,000,000 peo
ple, |iu standing army is 600,000 men,
on average of 11% soldiers to every
1.000 people. The United States ts
76,000,000, and a standing army of
65.000 men, which is equivalent to 1.86
of one soldier to every 1,000 of our
population. While Germany has near
ly eleven soldiers more per 1,000 of her
people than we have, there cannot he
the slightest chance of the effect of
imperialism being experienced in this
country.
“The following tabic shows the lead
ing countries of the world, with their
population, their standing army, and
the number of soldiers each country
has per 1,000 of its people:
fold lets
per 1,000
po|)u
Country. Population. Army. Union
Prance . 39,500,000 560.000 11.05
Germany .. 52,300,000 ouo.ouo 11.05
Austria-Hungary 11,900,001 290. lUO 6.07
ItuFslim Umpire.. 129,300,061) 700,000 6.01
1*1 rkey . 33,600,000 240.000 7.01
Great Britain- 39.000,000 210,000 B.oS
Italy .29.7ou.Oiii) °21U,t»iM» 7.01
United States_ 70,000,090 *65,000 .96
“I’eare fooling, ‘War fooling.
"France has H soldiers to every
1,000 of its population; Germany more
than 11; Austria-Hungary and Russia
more than six each; Turkey and Italy
each more titan seven; Great Britain
more than BV#, while the United States
has less than one soldier per 1,000 of
its population There can surely he
no chance of tlie miltary strength of
the United Stales ever being increased
to the proportion that exists in Euro
pean countries.
"As a city grows In size and extends
its area, the first thing for which the
citizens living (here ask is more police
protection. Our country is like a large
city, and the bigger it grows,the better
it should be protected. But the United
States lias been growing and growing
year after year, and its,population has
doubled since the civil war while our
standing army has been kept nomi
nally at 25.000 men year after year.
Even our present increase above 25,
000 men Is but temporary, as the law
authorizing it expires on July 1, 1901,
just a year from now.
"As a matter of fact, this country
has not been affording sufficient pro
tection to Its citizens In proportion to
their increase. If our German friends
will study the matter In this light,
they will see that we are as far re
moved from miUturyism and imperi
alism as we were fifty years ago."
A lirmt National Itsugerl
The present distill bed condition of
Europe, with reference to far eastern
complication*, us well as those aris
ing in Moroi co and elsew here ha*
called attention to American tepend
t nee upon foreign shipping for the
carriage of their foreign commerce.
If the nations of Europe should lie*
come involved lii a great war. which
many belle'e to he imminent, there
would lie a wholesale withdrawal of
foreign ships from the channels of
t ,tde to provide t run# pot t for troop*
and munition* of war,
A* ntiii tenths of our foreign rum
meffe is cart »d In foreign bottoms, It
Is obvious ti lt the withdraw si of *
luge iHirtmu of that shipping for oth
er than tonimmiul uses would de
prive our people of their only mean*
fur suppiv n« out ••instantly growing
foreign markets Freight tale* would
rise to a pihliibifite amount in ra
• pet t <i* many of our tommotilliea. Our
surplus pr<xi'U tIons would accumulate
upon our hands In eatomoos quanti
ties prt'ts wo tbl fall, wage* would
he reduced anti Industrial stagnation
and In-- of employment would he wide i
The lOndltlops enisling be
tween I til *nt IfH would he re es j
■ «t - t a i* s • •. * d
teeny
This country is the leading export
cation of the world, anil the future
growth of that trade seems Illimitable,
provided, always, that we have an
abundance of ships in which to send
our products abroad. But a check at
this lime, wheu the broad foun lation
for an enormous export trade is being
laid, would have a most serious and
far-reaching effect upon our people
and our resources.
The gtfti. lity of our foreign vrsde
can never le assured so long as 90
per cent of it is carried in foreign
ships. Wc send three-quarters of all
our exports to Europe, and American
ships carry the ridiculous proportion
of but 1.30 per cent! Foreign ships
carry a billion dollars’ worth of our
products to Europe, and our own
ships carry less than thirty million
dollars' worth.
N'o greater danger confronts the
1'nited States today than that caused
by our dependence upon foreign ships
for the carriage of nearly all of our
exports. Of our exports to all the
world, less than 7 per cent carried in
American ships. Apart from the com
mercial calamities possible, and, as
some people believe, probable, through
the withdrawal of the larger part of
tin? vast foreign shipping upon which
we are now dependent for the auxil
iary naval and military uses of the
great powers, our great weakness upon
the sea emphasizes our only real na
tional danger.
congress caunui renieuy mis i raur
tlon too soon. Proper provision must
he speedily made for the attraction of
American capital Into shipbuilding
and shipowning, so tluH at the earli
est moment possible we aha 11 become
possessed of the ships we may require
for all of the necessities of our foreign
commerce. Our export trade is close
ly approaching a billion and a half
dollars in value. At its present rate
of growth less than a score of years
will find It valued at three billions and
requiring double the shipping of to
day for its carriage. Foreigners wHi,
then, nave us all the more at their
mercy if we do nothing to establish
our own ships upon the seas.
Foreseeing just such a possibility as
this, Thomas Jefferson as long ago as
17DJ, in a great state paper predicted
that a nation which allows foreigners
to do the great bulk of its foreign
carrying "will he disarmed of its de
fense, its productions will lie at the
mercy of the nation which lias pos
sessed itself exclusively of the means
of carrying them, and its politics may
be influenced by those who command
its commerce.” These words were pro
phetic of a condition that actually ex
ists in respect of the Fnited States to
day.
l.lv«« filock.
Nebraska's live stock affords an in
teresting object lesson lo the farmers
of that state. Compare the values:
Jan 1, 1895. Jan. 1, 1900.
Horses .117,715,202 *28,120,512
Mules . 1,794,246 2,384,G67
COWS . 9,474,974 24,329,499
Other cattle .. 16,333,731 46,220,249
Sheep . 339,783 1,090,807
Total .*45,657,896 *102,145,734
An increase of 125 per cent in the
value of Nebraska’s live stock Is good
evidence to the people of Mr. Bryan’s
state that they can get along pretty
well without either 16 to 1 or a Demo
cratic president.
National rinanfts.
The monthly statement of the pub
lic debt shows that at the close of
business, May 31, 1900, the debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to *1,
122,608,811, a decrease for the month
of *2,193,274, which Is accounted for
by the redemption of bonds.
The amount of bonds so far ex
changed at the treasury for the new
.2 per cent bonds of 1930 is *286,365,850,
of which *04,560,400 were received
from individuals and institutions oth
er than national banks. The amount
of old 2 per cent bonds so far re
deemed at the treasury is *510,500
Total cash. *1,104.261.826.
!.«»*«» 1’orHgi! Wool.
Wool was imported into the United
States aw follows:
1696 .£30,911,473 pounds
1699 . 76,736,209 pounds
The difference was 154,175,264
pounds, which represents the quantity
for one year sold in the American mar
ket by foreign wool-growers Instead
of by American wool-growers The
Democratic free trade tariff robbed the
American farmer of hiw market for
154,175,364 pounds of wool in a single
year.
The l.nlior 1 ouihi.talloii.
The organization of laboi in the
United Slates has grown equally us
fast as the organization of trusts. With
a membership of 1.004,000 on January
, 1, tlH)0. the American Federation of
l.ubor haw since enrolled 304.000 more
members, besldik iii.ullig 1.500 local
charters this year The past three
1 years have been those of greatest suc
cess for the consolidation of labor In
terests.
Hutto *u,l the,*,.
Duller was worth only 11 cents a
pound in the New York market m
| I%tt6. and ihecse. 7 cents Ijmi year,
on the aatoe date, July 1st, butter was
worth 174s c*gts, and cheese »t, cents
Factories Were lotsy people ha I money
| tn spend, and ituild afford to buy hut>
! tzr and riimn last year in IStM they
1 cool tn t,
% I llt««
It sasffM to bw "Bryan or bust wtib
1 tb» Ikaiu |mi|mi cilia delegations ibis
spring They will andsrstan-l bow
much a iotiss itas means eowettmec
when *bey ss* on lbs bwltsiln boards
n*vt Vtr.mW Bryan .«4
NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN.
lion. II. II. Ilmrcr dilute< McKinley Will
Brat Bryan.
Washington.—"in n y opinion there
is more than a fair change that tha
electoral vote of Nebraska will lie rc
corded tills year for the re-election of
President McKinley, even if Mr, Bryan
should be the opposing Democratic
candidate,’’ said the Hon. David H.
Mercer, member of congress from that
state.
“My reasons for this conclusion, at
which I have only arrived after a care
ful study of the conditions in Ne
braska, am several. First of ail comes
the general prosperity that has ex
tended to all cl arses of the people dur
ing the present administration. An
other reason Is, that the people out
there have seen for themselves that
the free coinage of silver at the ratio
of ltj to 1 was not necessary to brine
a bruit prosperity! Anmher reason is
because farmers have been selling
their crops at much better prices un
der llm gold standard than they did
when Hie silver agitation was at Pa
height. Another reason is that b«ttpr
wages are being paid all over Ne
braska, and it Is difficult to iind a man
out of work. The advertising columns
of tlie Nebraska papers are now tilled
with people who want labor. Four or
five, and six years ago there were col
umns of advertisements from peop’o
who wanted work.
“Nebraska's big c in crop has sold
lit excellent prices, and money has
been rolling Into the banks ihero to
the credit of the farmers. Bank de
posits In our state last year amounted
to almost $23,000,000, as compared
with less than $14,000,000 In 1S94. Di
vide this Increase of $9,000,000 among
our population of one trillion and a
quarter people, and they cannot but
feel that money talks.
“It is not so many years pgo since
corn was used as a fuel in Nebraska,
and only a few years slnr-o farmer
were fcetliug even wheat to their hugs,
But under the broad expansive policy
of the present administration, the
markets fur Atnerlean products are in
creasing, ami the demand for our food
stuffs Is becoming greater and greater
throughout tlie world.
“Only live years ago when Grover
Cleveland was president, anil when
free coinage of silver was being wide
ly agitated, tlie value of all the live
stock in Nebraska was $45,658,000. At
the beginning of this year our live
stock were worth, excluding hogs, as
much as $102,000,000. Tills alone add
ed $56,500,000 of wealth to farmers tn
ilte state which 1 have the honor to
represent. An increase like this of
-considerably more than 100 per cent
is remarkable. Mules are worth more
Horses have increased 60 per cent iu
value. The number of sheep In Ne
braska Is not large, hut they a:.*
worth Just three times as much money
this year ns they were In 1895 when
American wool had no protection. Thu
wages of the laboring man have in
creased in proportion and he always
has u Job.
“Now. let me give you the following
comparison of prices at which farmers
sold their products in 1896 and 190/.
The figures are taken from one of the
Democratic papers In our state, and
they represent the difference la a
farmer’s Income:
FARM PRICES IN 1896.
1,000 bu. of wheat at 50 cts...$ 500.06
1,000 hit. of corn at 16 cts.... 160.00
1.000 bu. of oats at 13 c-ts. 130,00
3.000 lbs. hogs at $2.85 per cwt. 85.50
10.000 lbs. steers at $3 per cwt. 300.00
Total .$1,175.30
"For these same products the farm
er received on April 27, 1900, as fol
lows:
1,000 bu. of wheat at 50 cts_$ 500.00
1,000 bu. of corn at 30 cts_ 300 00
1.000 bu. of oats at 23 cts. 230.00
3.000 lbe hogs at 91.93 per cwt. 148 50
10.000 lbs steers at $5 per cwt. 500.00
Total .$1,678.30
"Here is a difference of $500 in a
farmer's income from these small
<|uantltiM of his products. And the
figures are the actual prices that were
paid In the two years. On the other
hand what is there that the farmer is
buying for which lie pays more
money? Sugar and coffee are cheaper
now than they used to be. There ha*
been no advanc* in the price of cloth
ing. or in farm materials, and theso
are the principal articles that farmers
have to buy.
"The grain In the farmers income
represents much to him and to our
state. It enables him to pay off his
mortgage, or at least pay off a part
of it He can moreover borrow money
now 9 a lower rate of Interest. Hu
has been able also to Improve hU
property, and to add very materially
to the comforts of hU home, besides
having money to spare for the better
education of his children All these
things are fait* which the Nebraska
farmer ha* experienced, and It will
take mi almighty lot of talking ant
theoilxing to offset the benefits that
have been derived under the results
of practical experience,"
I'll*# iif Wifr Ndlli
lh<* ftvtmg* pfh* uf win? nail* lu
th<- l'nilcd Stale* last year was 12.$7
t per keg of luu pounds, ns compute,!
with an average of $2 .'*0 tn 1st*** The
ln> cease. therefore was only 7 cents a
keg notwithstanding the tom h higher
toe* of raw mulct u
% Pare IciwUr
Will the Itenos iuli dice S' the kl l
iss v ity convention turn up the p dill
ral pulley uombet Is 2 I Is the i|oei
lion thst is agitating some of the Hot I
IhUMM rath leaders if Mum’m l
On the 111 tg IMPS Miles tJf I ll
I Item's are* II is sai l, I,tin hut «t gntt
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