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LOUP CITY NORTHWESTERN,
Loup City, .... Nebraska
Friday, August 31, 1900.
18 NOT FOR BRYAN.
ECKELSTELLSWHY HE’S AGAINST
THE NEBRASKAN,
Ez-Comptroller of the Currency Under
President Cleveland Will Vigorously
Oppose the Election of the Demo
cratic Candidate.
I did not support Mr. Brynn in 1886,
and I do not intend to now. I shall op
pose his election this yenr with all the
vigor and ability I possess. I do not feel
that T could stand to my convictions by
remaining merely passive and contenting
myself with simply voting against hint.
Ilryan the Issue,
No lastie set forth in any platform, no
matter how cunningly devised and ar
ranged, in this campaign can Ik- made
paramount to the issue of Mr. Bryan
himself, his erroneous views of public
questions, his numerous vagaries and his
demonstrated desire to find popularity
und votes in a never-absent appeal to
class prejudices and supposed race ha
treds.
I am still n Democrat, if believing in
Democratic principles correctly interpret
fed and properly enforced ns an agency
for good constitutes true Democracy; but
I am not one if the utterances of the plat
form adopted at Chicago four years since
and just reaffirmed and re-emphasized at
Kansas City are the rightful expressions
of what modern Democracy stands for.
lams of I’opulisni.
The many isms of Populism were ab
horrent four years since to my sense of
what Is safe and sound in the operations
of government and the general well
being of the people, because I viewed
them as being fundamentally wrong, and,
being so, neither lapse of time nor er
rors of the party in power reconcile me
to their adoption or make it possible that
I should support a candidate who not
only approves of them, but is their best
(P fpnbodiinent and most vigorous champion.
I have not read all of Mr. Bryan's
utterances during the past four years,
but I have taken note of enough of them
to know that his views have not changed
on any important question since IHini,
and his determination to stir up class
strife is not less manifest. Throughout
all his addresses, public and private, is
a shown uniformly an apparent pleasure in
F preaching the desirability of discord bc
L tween employe and employer, class and
class. No appeal ever comes from him
which is not tinged with advice to those
who must work to distrust those who
must employ.
liar infill to Labor.
1 All tills is not only lin-American, hut it
is unjust, unfair and harmful, most of all
to the laborer, for whose well-being be
yond all others it is necessary that com
plete harmony between capital and labor
%|0d not continual antagonism should ex
ist. Tiie interests of labor are never in
such great jeopardy as when intrusted
to a man who lias the gift of oratory
coupled with unbounded political ambi
tion and no business judgment or train
ing.
No man is fitted for the presidency who
day in and day out proclaims, in the
midst of a demonstrated better condition
of affairs, the reverse to be true in order
to foment a discontent, which will gain
to himself and party a political advan
tage.
Ignorant or Bllml.
Mr. Hrynn, without the statesmanship
to analyze the conditions ns they exist,
and find u remedy therefor, gives utter
ance to nothing that would improve them,
but only to that which would make them
worse and cause greater injury to the
great mass of the people, whose fate lie
constantly bewails. 1 do not believe in
the public value of any man who is, un
der any and all circumstances, u fault
finder and mere protester against all ex
isting order of tilings.
Mr. Bryan’s friends insist that he is
nothing if not intellectually honest and
^Tearless. Granted that their contention
#!■ true, the inquiring public must then
r be forced to conclude that he is either
woefully ignorant or willfully blind. At
no time since his coming into political
power has he made an economic predic
tion which has not failed of fulfillment,
or laid down as truth ail economic doc
trine which has not in the course of quick
events been demonstrated to be an econ
omic fallacy.
kh Itictution of Platform.
If lie does not study grave public ques
■t- tb i s In the tight of past history mid
represent facts and human experiences, lint
l^ouly views them in the glare of his own
pha'oueeived notions and flame of his own
fiery politicnl oratory, he is unsuited eith
er to advise the public ns u teacher or
guide them ns a lender.
If he was unfit 1 tec#use of his errone
->tis views and economic heresies, to be
fleeted to the presidency in 1.V.MI, he is
equally an unfit man now, for he bonsts,
with triumphant self-satisfaction, tlint
be stands to-day on all these questions
exactly where he stood then, and to make
more manifest and clearly defined his po
sition fie compels his party to hlntuit such
fact in a platform so constructed as to
gecord with his views and wishes.
Alliance with t'roller.
I can conceive of nothing more pitia
ble than the sight of accredited dele
gate* of a once great |Militieal party in
a national convention supinely surrender
ing their awn views on a vitally ini|*>r
talit economic qtvewllon at the behest of
a once di tested presidential candidate.
wb» only had brought that party into di*
grace and disrepute, unless n |.<- the sight
uf that presidential candidate and t« l-e
nomine• appealing through his coiifid.-n
tial agent. Itirhnrd Crtihrt, '1‘aiuinaut da
Into*, la be hit chief Bid, trust. 4 file ml
and lieutenant in the emergency whhb
eenlroi t. d him
Here' -fore |lemoevattv presidential
candid.'' « have gains.! public re ages t and
eirva*'! by hating I he ,>p«* enmity of
Tamutif, Mr Bryan who imoe than
any of them ha* boasted «f his stand f r
prUMtirlr and hi* intsgiity f charade
ha* da tie what Mr w. in.- ur Mr TH
•ten and Mr Cleveland w -wid a-’ d.
It* ba> forms4 *a . | .a nttingrr. df.h ..e
and defensive, with Tamo any sad that
M at • ikw when (Mi wrganiMtwa ta
known to be thoroughly corrupt, and a
constant menace to all the best interest*
of good government.
Unity with Populist*.
Mr. Bryan hardly appeals to the
thoughtful citizen, with whom political
parties are only agencies for public good
to the extent that they stand for funda
mentally right principles and honest ad
ministration, when upon the one hand he
is presented by the Populists and on the
other by Tammany. The joining hands
with one constitutes an offense against
safety in governmental administration,
the alliance with the other an offense
against political decency, making it
doubtful as to his ability, no matter how
strenuously he might try, to secure hon
esty in the conduct of public affairs in an
administration over which he presided.
l't is not difficult to predict what would
be the outcome of any administration
bused upon the socialism of Populism and
the rapacity of Tatnmany.
Heafflrnaing of 10 to 1,
I am told that not a few Democrat*
who refused to sanction the nominee and
platform of the Chicago convention will
aid the nominee presented nt Kansas
City. I doubt if there are many who will
do *o. Why should they? The same
candidate has been named, the same doc
trines announced, only in a more offensive
way.
It must not be forgotten that the re
affirming of the principles of the Chicago
platform was the repledging of nn inten
tion, when opportunity is afforded, to de
base the country's currency. It wns re
assaulting the Supreme Court of the
country. It means a realliance with the
elements of disorder, ns against the prop
erly constituted authorities of peace, in
tegrity of property and person. It is the
announcing once more of a desire to get
into power that the sacred right of pri
vate contract under the guaranty of law
may be abrogated. It is the acceptance
of those elements of socialism which work
injury to both government and people.
In fine, the reaffirmation at Kansas
City was tiie re-asserting of the utter
ances made at Chicago, which, revolu
tionary then, are none the less so now.
A source of menace to the country then,
they arc c(|iiully so now; and every mun
The evils and burdens of the present mo
ment growing out of the S|»anish war
are to Ik* laid as much at the door of Mr.
Bryan and his party as at that of Mr.
McKinley and his. llis explanation of
his reason for wishing the treaty ratified
is wholly superficial and does not bear
analysis.
Policy on Philippine*.
I imagine that self-government will
come quite as readily through the admin
istration of Mr. McKinley as through
that of Mr. Bryan. It will not come un
der either until the Philippines are fitted
for it, property rights safe and personal
ones protected. I hardly believe Mr.
Bryan could do more than send a com
mission there, as the President has done,
in order to take steps looking to sup
planting the military government with a
civil one.
The country will not sanction the im
mediate abandonment of those islands to
disorder and pillage. When a time comes
thnt there is safety in a constitutional
home government, only remaining within
the sphere of the influence of the I’nit
ed States, and public sentiment is to this
end, it can l»e put down that Mr. Mc
Kinley’s administration will readily grant
it, for I believe it is generally admitted
that no one is more ready to put himself
in touch with public sentiment than the
President, or act in accordance there
with with more alacrity. If Mr. Bryan
means an immediate abandonment of onr
control in the islands he must certainly
fail of support, for no thoughtful person
will sanction a policy which will make
the country ridiculous iu the eyes of the
world.
Would Not Trust Him.
If Mr. Hryan and his party iiad stood
out as they should have against the Span
ish war and had opposed instead of as
sisted in ratifying tlx* Paris treaty, they
would be iu a better position to confront
Kepublicnn plnns and purposes, for they
would at least be consistent with their
action. As it is now, they urged the war,
but now wish to avoid the consequences
in order to gain political power by so
doing. As it is, I don’t see that Mr.
Hryan is less of an expansionist, through
force of circumstances which he assisted
in creating, than is Mr. McKinley. The
and protesting against any debasement of
the country's coin, will aid and abet
such a proceeding tiooaiise of a ticlief iu
any injustice done by t»reat Britaiu to
some affiliated race ten thousand miles
away.
If Mr. Bryan was a statesman and not
a mere declaimer, and dealt in a states
manlike manner with American problems,
we would not be treated to the floods of
petulant fault-finding and appeals to pre
judice which arc manifest in all that he
says, hut would have instead suggested
solutions, grounded upon principles, and
in accord with the facts of national his
tory and national experience.
Distrust His Wis'lom.
I atn sure the American people rightly
distrust the wisdom of one who thus far
in life has been a living expression, in
every address he has made of that best
definition of the essentinl elements of
stump speech, namely, to claim every
thing and denounce well.
I am not unmindful of the fact that
there arc many conditions in this country
requiring careful, thoughtful and stutes
manlike dealing with. There are many
evils to which labor is subject that need
to be remedied. Likewise there are many
prejudices unjustly entertained against
capital, hut in neither instance can they
be dealt with to the good of all by any
one who brings to them none of the ele
ments of a statesman and all of those
which wholly make up the successful
stump speaker and campaign orator.
Where Hvinedica Lie.
1 believe that more of the remedy lies
without the pale of enacted legislation
tliun within it. and that neither labor
nor capital is benefited by public utter
ances on the platform, in legislative halls
and through the columns of the press to
the effect thut there is un irrepressible
conflict between them.
1 do not believe any man benefits his
country by Iteiug a preacher of discon
tent, strife between classes, social and
political pessimism, financial disorder and
continuous financial gloom, despite sur
roundings and widespread prosperity, and
therefore I’do not believe in Mr. Bryan.
There are sonic things hi President Mc
Kinley’s administration and official acts
I am not in accord with. I do not accept
THE NEGRO DISFRANCHISED
_ _ THE FIRST STEP EM TO A NSW SLAVERY
iJSNFl
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Senator Tillman in Congress-"^ do our best to beep ererp negro in our State from voting "
who stood out against them then ought
not on some new issue, which does not in
any degree lessen the danger of these for
harm, fail to denounce nnd defeat them.
1 do not think that the fact that here
and there may lie some elements more
conservative in the party than seemed to
be the ease in IStHt, makes any difference.
Mr. Bryan still gives official voice to the
party's views, maps out its campaigns
nnd writes its platforms. Mr. Bryan’s
intimates nnd advisers are still Populists
and self-seekers, with the added contin
gent of Tammany bosses. He lias neither
use nor care for any man who is con
servative in his views or careful in his
utterances.
Kffect on Gold Hauls.
If elected President the public must Ik*
prepared to see Mr. Bryan as chief execu
tive and those associated with him as
cabinet counsellors construe every law
bearing upon the currency and the pow
ers of the Treasury Department in such
a manner as to nullify as best they can
its provisions in so far as they bear upon
the question of the maintenance of the
gold standard, llis Populist allies boast
that they seek power that they may bring
about the repeal of the existing laws and
to this end they are Mr. Bryan's cham
pions end defenders.
lie can and will keep the country in a
state of ferment and uncertainty in an
attempt to bring about the larger use of
silver as a redemptive money. The ex*
pi liincut is too dangerous a one to he en
tered u|Miti by any on the grounds that
the gold standard is so lixed in law that
it eannot Ik* disturbed, no matter who
may 1m* President or Secretary of the
Treasury. The law ought to Ik* executed
with n construction favorable to It to
fully carry out ii* provisions and not In
a manner antagonistic to them. It is
not a perfect law. but cau Ik* made so by
its friend*. It can Ik* made alsirtive by
its enemies once firmly entrenched In
power.
ItrTan anti Hftfnt Wart
It will hardly du fur mi) wound B»tir|
I *t ni'H-rnt or l(t'|>uiill<'nli to •iipiMirt Mr.
Hr) an twanuiu* of a wuppoaad lattrr |ni
titioti hr ott ii|iif« than Mr. McKinley oil
• hf »|Uf*tit>ti of rohiuial |unu>f««ioit» de
pute hi* aunt |tttuition on the <|i»t«tion
of tha monetary ctantlaril, tha Huprauia
f lirt, tha ritfoft tiiont of law ainl tha
i till of pruata rMltrart. Mr lh)
[.o-.l.oit tan hardly U- a* watiafaetory ■
mm on an nuaiyTi* crowing ont uf tha
Mpaniah war.
lit and hi* friend*. In «fdar to put tha
•dioinhH ration tu n politknl d tad tan
t.iga, urged »n tha deelaraun uf war
with W| *.u. and whan it u«* otar Mr
lirtun, prr*t.unlly at \\ *»htugi «,
through Mfuanat adttev and •uittUatton,
to.•tight tutu liua u .nth lent n anther of
IH'Noit ratio Htnaiurr to ratify tha traaly
of fall*, deaptte tha furl that It yrntUxI
f r tha part haw and tabling wtaratgn
poaiaa* --■•» ttf I'urtu Itiru. and lha I'biiip
l.iue*. without any pro«no.n for git mg
tb*w any boma go tat ament wbatauatat
difference is certainly not great enough
to make any man surrender his convic
tions on other great Questions to accept
him upon one.
It may also lie fairly doubted whether
a man with so many erroneous ideas as
to the conduct of the domestic affairs of
the nation enn lie trusted to have right
ones when it comes to managing our
foreign properties.
Aa to Porto Hico.
As to flit* question growing out of the
Porto Itican tariff, I believe the admin
istration made a most egregious error, hut
as Democracy is now constituted and con
trolled it stands for nothing so fur ns a
tariff policy is concerned. It has aban
doned all the advantages of its position
ou this question, by advocating in its sil
ver policy the very worst kind of protec
lion. Mr. Bryan stands responsible for
making it a party unnlile to manfully
advocate a Democratic tariff doctrine.
It is to-day under Mr. Bryan's leader
ship, a party emphasizing a desire for
special privileges and class legislation, ap
pealing for the Slipixirt of every element
of discontent by falling in with ami ad
vocating the particularly special legisla
tion which such element stands for. Its
demagogy is manifest on every baud.
Knitting tile Boer Issue.
What thoughtful am) inquiring person
can possibly believe thut either Mr. Bry
an or the delegates at Kansas City arc
really deeply solicitous to the extent
which it is made to up|>car that they are
as to the alleged wrongs of the liners iu
Mouth Africa? is it not mauifest, through
the thin disguise of a love of human
freedom, rights milI republican form of
government, that Mr. Bryan and his fol
lower* ho|ie for the tierinau and Dutch
vote a* a determining factor in the elec
tion because of racial affiliation* with the
ItiH-rs and a »upp.*o-d rats* prejudice
against tlrest Britain, aud not liecause
the question or the integrity of the Boer
republics is ao dear to them?
It Is altsurd that the great questions
with which we have to do affecting the
vital interest* of the I'nited Mtates shall
U- overlooked in n debate upon how Ureal
Britain shall conduct it* own affairs, es
pecially In the face of a proclaimed reaf
Urination of the M"«r.» d-o'trine, which
means, properly Interpreted, that the
people of the I'nited Mtates shall attend
to their own affairs and let Kur.qosn tin*
i ii.su took after their*.
tiiNkJiait in IIiimm
11 at mat »«u*4 nnk a •rtuiwM, Ik*
k i»«» t'lly <-«<*« *ati»n. uu4>r Ik* in
•pirattn* af %lr Itr; an, ikMnlialil|i pro
• **4«, for pulltk'al rffrvt. I» rtprro* a
, »>»k la Inirtki* *nk a k?*rup*an (•>«•
rrt*m. ui (a a mallvr •irmly iu »aa |
ikink •«*«'k pul III.-* rk*ip. a *4 Mililrt
Mtaaiik*. 4oil# kuralk Ik* 4>aaity of any
*r*al party «r Wa4»r
I skall k* >*ryri«nl if any Ikmtt
*r. k*r*l»l«»* Ik* kniaark «f Ik* <a«a
try. a«am»l ri*»| a»a«li »p* Ik* I*
Wgrlly of tk« itfHkir) a cauv*>y »tn*m
Republican doctrines iis against pure
Democratic ones, rightly interpreted and
incorporated into the administration of
public affairs. Hut ns between Repub
licanism and Populism, filtered through
the channel of Hryanisin, 1 prefer Repub
licanism.
Denies Hi* Democracy.
There in no Democratic doctrine pre
sented this year and no Democratic can
didate. Mr. ltryan was first named by
the Populists because be U-st stood for
Populistic doctrines. II** was only in
dorsed by the convention at Kansas Pity,
called under alleged Democratic auspices,
because Bryanism. Populism and Democ
racy as now made up are synonymous
terms.
The combined forces of the elements of
discontent of the country having gathered
in one fold and found without n dissent
ing voice a candidate so m.tii.s-sioeu as
to respond with an equal degree of satis
faction to each one's peculiar ism, it
seems to me the part of wisdom to meet
them in another election, and again dem
onstrate that tlic electorate of this coun
try in every critical time always stands
ready to do that which is wise, putting
down tile wrung thing and putting up the
right.
To Vote for McKinley.
I ant going to vote for President Mc
Kinley, and do whutc\er I consistently
eun to aid ill his election, not because 1
favor all his policies or approve of all his
political acts, blit because under all ex
isting conditions 1 ladlctc the affairs of
the country will U U tter off in his hands
than in those of Mr. Itryun.
! hope some time to see the Democratic
party re-created, advocating Democratic
candidates and Democratic principles,
but it cniinot be more than a disturbing
force In the country's daily history until
it rid* itself of a leadership which has
brought it to It* present luw estate and
ceases making itself the lying iu asylum
of those elements of discontent which,
if once entrusted with governmeutal pow
er would work Injury at home and loss of
standlug abroad.
Adeita la lUniwnl*
It ran lli» under defeat without mm
|detr and Ultimate drelrmti.in, bui a »»*••
lory gamed by it aitb a candidal* bolding
the *ie»* of Mr. (tryan and a platform
I'Mitai lbe party lu carry out ibr thing*
adrurated at t'htrago in )*!«, and In
Kan*** City tht* year, would work aurk
re* ul t a t« I be country that It would |t#*a
“Ut uf pnltliral (tower at a recurring rlac
ttoa. without the amalteat no non lie* tu
do M hoWof.
‘T'aweyt, uaho«of«d and utuung '*
The luni.er.il who wi»hva tu tat* hi*
party'• fuiur* will only aid that and by
def* »t mg VI. II. > ... I . I .01 ling hi •
tdatfwrwi It* nil I male recur fear* to y*«
at amt tnnlif* lie* la the tndepaadaar*
uf Iwta.erau who are *u> h »a pun* i(da,
and not through *»p*d.»a«*y,
J a M i.n u l.i hll.it
ASSENT OF GOVERNEb
ARMY OF A MILLION VOTERS
DISFRANCHISED IN SOUTH.
Government by Force Imposed by
the Democrat* at Home! While They
Denounce Hrpnblican Administra
tion in Our Colonic.
- I
(From the New York Times.)
Four yenrs ago, in the ao-enlled Demo
cratic convention at Chicago, Senator
Benjamin It. Tillman of South Carolina,
in offering a resolution to denounce the
administration of l’resident Cleveland,
made an attempt to convert the conven
tion to hi* view that the campaign about
to begin was a sectional one, in which
the South and West were to In* combined
by a common sentiment against the North
and East, to overthrow those sections and
make their financial opinions odious, and
to destroy their domination in futnre
national financial legislation and opera
tions.
Tillman has learned something since
that day, when he was deservedly hissed
and hooted in a convention otherwise
none too sane or sensible, and the merit
ed rebuke administered by Senator J. K.
Jones possibly convinced him that sec
tionalism is ns hopeless an issue ns se
cession to divide the country. But he
was still a man of Impulse at Kansas
City. Restored to favor after a civilizing
ordeal of four years of service in the
Senate, he helped to prepare a platform
exposing hi* party to the charge of gross
inconsistency or insincerity.
To Tiilinnn was assigned the task of
rending tin* platform. He does not lack
dramatic sense, and he has n large voice.
With prodigious volume and vehemence
he rolled forth the references, in tin*
opening phrases to “the inalienable
rights" of men guaranteed by the Declar
ation of Independence and the Constitu
tion. As a sweet morsel lie mouthed the
language of the declaration that govern
ment a must "derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed..Any
other government," he shouted with so
norous intensity, "is tyranny, and to im
pose upon any people a government of
force is to sustain tin* method* of impe
rialism.” The case of the I’orto Ricans
was described ns appealing “with pecu
liar force to our justice and magnanim
ity."
These sentiments were prepared nml
emitted l>y Mr. Tiiiman for n|>i>Iiciiti<<n
solely to the question of imperialism and
the conduct of the administration in en
deavoring to deal with tile new problems
that vex tlie country. But they seem to
have a more interesting meaning, as ap
plied to Southern States, than they would
as interpreted only to denounce and em
barrass the administration in its effort to
establish free governments in the Phil
ippines, Culm ami I’orto itieo.
Alabama's population in ls:a) was 1,
513,017. There were upon the cmiimn
calculation of one voter in five, 303,203
voters in that State in lspti. Alabama
gave to all candidates for President 193,
053 votes, Bryan receiving 130,307. Lou
isiana's population in 1K!MI w as 1,118,507.
The State was entitled in 1890 to at least
223.000 votes, l't east 102.040, and Bry
an had 77,OtPO of these. Mississippi had
1.289.000 population in 1890, and pre
sumably 257,920 males of voting age. In
1890 there were east for President in
Mississippi 70,545 votes, Bryan getting
53,859. North Carolina was reported in
1890, in the census of that year, us hav
ing 1,017,947 population. The State cast
331,210 votes in the presidential contest
of 1890, or a little more than the reason
able ratio for 1890. South Carolina,
with a reported population in 1890 of
1,151,149, and with not less than 230,000
voters, eust for all eoudidates in 1890
0K,!N>7 votes, and 58,798 of them went to
Mr. Tillman's man Brynn.
What became of the tiOO.OOO votes that
appear to have Iweu missing from tin*
election returns of Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi and South Carolina? Were
these tMM),000 voters to lie governed, in
ease Mr. Bryan was chosen or defeated,
without their consent, thus subjecting
them to tlie "tyranny" referred to by the
Democratic platform? Have those miss
ing voters been since found and required
to give their consent to the election of
Representatives in Congress in order that
they should not lie taxed without nation
al representation fairly secured? Or has
their consent been obtained to new re
strictions of tlie suffrage? Has there twen
shown any tendency in any of those
States to exchange "tlie methods of im
perialism for those of a republic?"
How have Alabama, Louisiana, Missis
sippi. North Carolina and Smith Carolina
qualified themselves to reproach the ad
ministration for imperialism? Have not
three of those States formally and com
pletely and tlie two others by progressive
steps undertaken to deprive some ISOO,
009 of "tlie governed" of tlie opportunity
to give or withhold that consent guaran
teed ns u rigid according to the Demo
cratic application of tlie 1 Vclnratinti of
Independence, and secured by tlie Con
stitutiou?
Why waste hy|*oeritical platform M-iiti
llient on the people of I'orto Hh*o t«>
enuse they have "a government without
their consent atnl taxation without rep
resentation." when tkat.inai voter* in four
States, ull 1 kcinocratic States, are depriv
ed of the right to consent, ami about
1 .isnmssi altogether, if we consider Vir
ginia, tieorgia, Florida and Tennessee,
Bre in like manner subjected to "tyrau
uy.” V|r Tillman's platform also ilr
elnrea its opposition to ‘'militarism" for
the reason that “it means conquest
abroad and intimidation and oppression
at home. It means the standing army
that has always been fatal to free insti
tutions." What apology does, Senator
Tillman offer to the standing army of
l.tasMaat voters dUfrsm hised in South*
era States? Were ‘'intimidation and op
press low at liome" praettced to bring
sboiil that result, peculiar only to one
section of the country? |>,,cs not the eon
dltbm of these silctaevd voter* "appeal
with peculiar force la our justice and
magnanimity ?**
l.aUsr Prosper*** In Mew lark,
|u New V tk State tto Hwm of l.a
Ut Mtatisiie* show* that the number of
employes In 3 MVS of the largest factories
In the State ha* Increased in Ihe Iasi
threw years by M.XII. «r I* T pee cent,
while the mere*** in Wages I* f.M lin,
ed, or IA • fuel .cat,
vv ••** OM ihe Ur*si Laban.
W ige* uf employe* .<■*»• t, l with the
shipping sa Ihe liteal Lakes have been
generally adrasved,
GRYAN'O COULOQUY.
(Dedicated to soft citizens.)
I favor Free Silver and paper,
I honor Free Trade and Free Gold,
In fact, I shall play any caper
That brings me a vote, young or old.
I preach “the consent of the governed,”
And practice "Imperial sway,"
I’ll premise all things to the voter
Who stands on my platform to day.
I know I’m a talker from Way Rack,
And gifted with "gall" and with "mouth.”
It matters not how 1 maneuver.
I'm sure of the Red, Solid South I
I favor "Expansion" am! taxes,
Rul don't wish to Justify wrong,
And believe In the riot of "Red Shirts”
If they vote for me often and strong.
I'll promise all things If elected.
And do what 1 please when I'm In;
I favor all virtue In office.
But wink at tough Tammany sin,
I know I'm n Blower and Actor,
B.v hiding my "Sixteen to One"
Behind Anti Impel lal humbug,
That souu, like Free Stiver, Is gone.
1 know I’m a Howler and Iloodoo,
But the Farmer and Miner don't see
That my Anti Imperial clap trap
Is a I'urauiount Fraud, Just per se.
A Dictator, I'm bold to my party;
I force them to do what I think,
And still to the trough I ean lead them.
But can I Induce them to drink?
And when the election t« over,
If 1 should the White House attain,
I'll turn and twist with the Rabble—
Bamboozle and fool them again!
JOHN A. JOYCE, Washington, D. C.
| “Dear Boy” Letters |
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My Dear Hoy In your last letter ynti
say that old man Skinner, your employ
er, says that In* "doesn't see what a
farmer can he thinking of to vote for
McKinley when the trusts arc squeez
ing the life out of the farmers and the
country is drifting right into imperialism
every dnv.”
You want to know how to answer him.
Well, I will tell you wlmt to sny to him
and then 1 hove a few words to say to
you.
A-k Mr. Skinner if he remembers that
in 13!Ml he sold that sorrel mare that used
to work on the nigh side with old Jim
for $45. Ask him whether the sorrel
wasn't a lietter horse tbnu that bay that
hi1 sold to Crawford the other day for
$30. Remind him tiiat he sold his wool
in 1N!)(1 for 14 rents and that lie sold this
year at -7 rents, and kicked like a steer
because lie didn't get 30.
Gently suggest that he sold a couple of
steers in 1 SiMI for $3.25 per hundred, and
that they were as good as those splendid
fellows that lie sold last week for $5.10.
The old man runs a huckster wagon in
to Neisonvilie and sells produce to the
miners' wives. Ask him if lie remem
bers that four years ago a woman would
come out to tlie wagon and say:
"Can you let me have a peck of pota
toes ami trust me till John gets work?”
Remind him that the same woman*
comes out now and says: “Give me three
dozen of eggs and two pounds of butter.
What are those peaches worth? I'll take
a basketful of them. Give me a peek
of those tomatoes. How much docs it
all come to? Here’s your money. When
are you going to living in some veal? Jobu
likes veal for breakfast.”
Ask him if he doesn't know that more
money has been paid out as wages to
working men during the past year than in
any other year in the history of the Hock
ing Valley. Ask him whether a consid
erable part of this money hasn't found
its way into his capacious pocketbook.
Remind him that lie told me that when
ever the Mnybew farm is put up for sale
he intends to bid on that upper eighty
that joins his, and that he has made
enough money in the last two years to
pay for it.
And then gently suggest that he doe#
not appear to be suffering much from
imperialism or trusts either. Tell him
that perhaps he had better let well
enough alone. Tell him not to vote for
what he doesn't want. Tell him that
when trade is good and business confi
dence strong mid healthful, it is not wise
to tear the whole thing down by giving
the administration Into untried hands.
1 think that this is the only kind of
argument that will touch old man Skin
ner, but you, my boy, have a larger
soul. I want to say some other things
to you.
My boy, thank God that you live in a
country prosperous at home and honored
abroad, and never so prosperous und
honored us now.
Wlieu you come to vote this full, re
member that the national credit ha#
reached its highest (mint, that tile work
of American la borers has gained its high
est reward, mid that the glory of Ameri
can arms on land and sea has liccn most
widely maintained under the wise,
thoughtful, patriotic administration of
William McKinley.
Remember that his administration i#
carrying out the principles mid policy ut
the Republican party.
Remember that the blood of four gen
erations of American soldiers runs in
your veins, und then vote so that you
will not lie ashamed of your vote on the
day after election. YOU It FATHER.
Karin Mnrtasat-a ami Interest.
In 1M!*I the farm mortgage* of the
State of Kanins amounted to the vast
sum of 9-ttiisHMMsi, ntiich of It bearing
the etorbitant interest of l‘J per ctnt,
was reduced in lM*tt to less tbau 9-11.tsst,
tasi certainly a remarkable evidence of
tlie prosperity of the farmer. The pres
ent rates of interest on Kansas farm
loans are the lowest ever known.
Prosperity Proof In Money Order*.
I’listiilth'* statistic* are tlgniAcant.
From June mi, IStV to June Jti. IhM*,
there was a gam of T.isst tsai iu the num
ber of money orders Issued, while their
value Increased by |3fiiyill,lMI. and the
average ano-unt of earh order frmu 97 <»•
to 97 ft). This is another proof of the
eiistence of .\1< Kiulry prosperity.
I.ahor In Hlikigta.
labor t'uiumisso.aer IV» of Michigan,
say* lu his !«•*» re|n( "Wags** show a
decided UMfease over those of Ivjtt. sad
an average of more than It* for *«■ uI in
huh over IVtl The greatest gala U la
the fact that ail idle labor ia bow vtendilv
employed at r*ts«*»f»litt wage*"
na**n Worth Money Mow.
Bheep are higher thaw for twenty yeara
a ad worth about doab is what they w * tv
font yeara ng>».
What loos Are Worth.
The total value of the former's sad
dsiryu.au s m «h rest la od pef test
greater than .a IMMl