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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1904)
"H tV"s 4 .. The Commoner. JANUARY i5, 1904. If Lsh n i iA m ft !f-r yyB Grandfather Traded With Us" 32 years ago wo occupied one room with two clerks and publlaped a cata logue a quarter the sizo of a hymn-book. We Want You to Try Us and test for your3olf our ability to pleaso you. Tell U3 what kind of eoods you are interested in and we will seh'd you without charco any of the following Illustrated special catalogues quoting wholesale prices. Merely mention tho number or letter of tho catalogue you want. One of tho greatest Joys of this great business Is the many kind letters wo receive dallv from our customers express ng their pleasure and satisfaction with our goods and methods you ?eaCrs aeo lH?rnlLtI;?,JCtter ,s,embdle.d ln tho fcw Trda: "My grandfather traded with you years ago. it is the complete confidence of our customers n our honesty, born of oast exnerience In dealing here, that enables us to hold their continued trade. wiyi orn oi past experience in ,..-....., zywim dbiow cosi onenngs- to catch an occasional customer, and making up the loss on subsequent orders, would never build a business like ours. It is the constant saving and steady stream of pleasant business relations which maKes our patrons eager to speak a good word for U3 at every opportunity. Our prices are 15' to SO per cent below regular retail figures. 100 Artlota' 8n.p- 170 Kitfchon Sup- 235Stovon PUGS 105 AthlctlcGooda 110 Blacksmiths' and Machinists' Tools 115 Bulldors'Unrd- waro and Sup plies 120 Cnrpontor and Bulldora' Tools -"and. Matorinls , 125 Crockery' and Glasswaro 130 Cutlery 135 Dry Goods HO Fan cy and Novolty Goods 145 Farm Implo- rapnts 150 Flsljlnc tacklo 155 I'opularpricod Fnrnituro ICO Harness 165 Jowolry wilds ,175 LactR.Embrol. dork's, Ribbons, Trimmings 180 L a jn p s and Lanterns 1E5 Llnolonmn. C a r p o 1 8 and Curtains 190 Mon's Hats and Ulovos 195 Mpn's Shoos 200 Mon'ff Wear ing Appnrol 205 M u s i c a ii d Musical Instru ments 210 Notions 215 Saddles and Saddlory 220 Sllvorwaro 225 S p o r 1 1 n g Goods 230 Stationary and Of 240 Toys, Doll 8 arid Games 245 Underwear 250 VohicloB 255 WaconMnkora' SunnlloR 260 Watches fllco SupptloB Cut this slip out and send it TODAY and UIOCKS 2C5 W o m o n a Shoos 300 Womon's Cat- nlocuo (Cloaks, Fnrs, Suits, Skirts, Waists, Hats, etc.) B Bicycles O Baby Carriages I Dairy Supplies G Drujjs and Pat- ont Medicines J TelophoneR and ElectricalGoods K Camorna and Photo Supplies M Books R Fancy G rado Fnrnitnro T Trunks U Youths' and Boy's Clothing VI Mon's Mado-to-ordor Clothlne with samplos of fabrics. SultB 910.50 to (10.50 V2 Sumo as VI ex cept suit prices $18.00 to $30.00 VO Mado-tO'Ordor Overcoats with samples W Mon's Ready Mado Clothlne Mackintosh Cata loguo Buttorlelc Fash ion Catalogno GL Grocery List (pu b 1 tsh od ovory CO days). Enclosed find 15 cents for partial postage on Cataloguo No. 72, four 2c stamps for Wall Hanger or 20c for both. Namo. Postofflco Routo No.. (Bo suro and wrlto vory plainly.) County .State. Our Big Catalogue fT sale prices on Groceries, Dry Goods, Crockery, Hardware, Furniture, Harness, Implements, Ve hicles, Clothing (all kind3 for Men, Women and Children), Millinery, Musical Instruments, Sewing Machines, Bicycles, Sporting Good3 practically everything that anybody could want. It also contains freight ratc3, full instructions for ordering, and tells you everything you might want to know about us. Ordering i3 easy from thl3 wonderful book, which costs us almost one dollar apiece to print and send out. Send for It today and savo the profit you pay your dealer. You can get your money back if your purchases are not satisfactory. Fill out this slip, enclosing 15 cents for partial postago as a guarantee of good faith. Send four 2 -cent eUmps for cur 10 Color Wall Hanger ahowlnfr the Inside of thU building, with the eoods and the clerks at work One cf the most complex and complicated ptecescfllthocraphy ever attempted. Very InteresMnc and directive You can cellt for what It cojt us four 2c stamps. mim, S? iHOrffGOMEKYll Zfi v li immT' m iiiir "ti i ft il vMmMm 4mm Today, we occupy more than 200 times as much floor space, employ over 3000 people and our cataloguo con tains over 1100 large pages. Montgomery Ward y Co., Michigan Ave., Madison Z? Washington Sts., Chicago 48 Complete satisfaction or money refunded without question. Mr. Bryan on the , . Democratic Party. . (Continued from Page 3.) lending class at home and abroad; tho .prostration of industry and im poverishment of the people. "We' are unalterably opposed to monometallism, which has looked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other na tions into financial servitude to Lon don. It is not only un-American, but anti-American, and it can be fastened on the United States only by the stif ling of that spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our political inde pendence in 1770 and won it in the war of the revolution. "We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. Wo demand that the standard silver dollar shall be a full legal tender, equally with gold, for all debts, -public and private, and we fav or such legislation as will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract. "We are opposed to the policy and practice of surrendering to the hold ers of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by law to the government of redeeming such ob ligations in either silver coin or gold coin. "We are opposed to the issuing of interest-bearing bonds of the United States in time of peace and condemn the trafficking with banking syndi cates, which, in exchange for bonds and at an enormous profit to them selves, supply the federal treasuiy with gold to maintain the policy of gold monometallism. "Congress alone has the power to coin and issue money, -and President Jackson declared that this power could not be delegated to corporations or individuals. -We, therefore, de nounce the issuance pf notes intended to circulato as money by national banks as in derogation of the consti tution, and we demand that all paper which is mado a legal tender for pub lic and private debts, or which is re ceivable for dues to the United States, shall be issued by the government of the United States and shall be redeem able in coin. "We hold that tariff duties shall be levied for purposes of revenue, such duties to be so adjusted as to operate equally throughout the country, and not discriminate between class or sec tion, and that taxation should be lim ited by the needs of the government, honestly and economically admin istered. We denounce as disturbing to business the republican threat to re store the McKinley law, which has twice been condemned by the people in national elections, and which, en acted under the false plea of protec tion to home industry, proved a pro lific breeder of trusts and monopolies, enriched the few at the expense of the many, restricted American staples of access to their natural markets. "Until the money question Is set tled we are opposed to any agitation for further changes in our tariff laws, except such as is necessary to meet the deficit in revenue caused by the adverse decision of the supreme court on the income tax. But for this de cision by the supreme court there would be no deficit in the revenue under the law passed by a democratic congress in strict pursuance of tho uniform decisions of that court for nearly 100 years, that court having in that decision sustained constitutional objections to its enactment which had previously been overruled by the ablest judges who have ever sat on that bench. We declare that it is the duty of congress to use all the con stitutional power which remains after that decision, or which may come from its reversal by the court as it may hereafter be constituted, so that the burdens of taxation may be equal ly and impartially laid, to the end that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expense of the government. "We hold that the most efficient way of protecting American labor is to prevent the importation of foreign pauper labor to compote with it in the home market, and that the value oi tho homo market to our Amcilcan farmfirn and artisans is xrreatlv re- fdiiced by a vicious monetary system which depresses the prices of their products below the cost of production, and thus deprives them of the means of purchasing the products of our home manufactories; and as labor cre ates tho wealth of the country, we de mand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights. "We are in favor of the arbitration of differences between employes en gaged in interstate commerce and their employes, and recommend such legislation as is necessary to carry out this principle. "The absorption of wealth by the few, the consolidation of our leading railroad systems, and the formation of trusts and pools require a stricter con trol by the federal government of those arteries of commerce. We de mand the enlargement of the power of the interstate commerce commis sion and such restriction and guaran tees in the control of railroads as will protect the people from robbery and oppression. "We denounce the profligate waste of the money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation and the lav ish appropriations of recent republi can congresses, which have kept taxes high, while the labor that pays them is unemployed nwl the products of the people's toil are depressed in price till they no longer repay the cost of production. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which benefits a democratic government and a reduction in the number of useless offices the salaries of which drain the substance of the reople. "We denounce arbitrary interfer ence by federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the constitu tion of the United States and a crime against free institutions, and we espe Piniiv obiect to government by in junction as a new and highly danger- laws of the states and rights of citl zenB, become at once legislators,,' judges, executioners; and wc approve tho bJJi. passed at the last session of. tho United States senate, and now pending In the house of representa tives, relative to contempts in fed eral courts and providing for triala by jury In certain cases of donteinpt. "No discrimination should bo in dulged in by the government of tho: United States In favor of any of its. debtors. Wo approve of the refusal of the Fifty-third congress to pass tho' Pacific Railroad funding bill and de nounce tho effort of the present re-' publican congress to enact a similar measure. "Recognizing tho just claims of de serving Union poldiers, we heartily in dorse th6 rule of the prccent commls-' f sioner of pensions, that no names shall be arbitrarily dropped from tho pension roll; and the tact of enlist ment and service should be deemed concluslvo evidence against disease and disability before enlistment. 'We favor the admission of the ter ritories of New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma Into the Union as states, and we favor the early admission of all the territorier having the ncccs-' sary population and resources to en title them to statehood, and, while they remain territories, we hold that tho officials appointed to administer the government of any territory, to gether with the District of Columbia and Alaska, should be bona fide resi dents of the territory or district in which their duties are to be per formed. The democratic party be lieves In home rule and that all pub lic lands of the United States should be appropriated to the establishment of free homes for American citizens. "We recommend that the territory of Alaska be granted a delegate in congress and that the general land (Continued on Page 13 ) Oil Cure for Cancer. Noneedofthcfcnlfeor burning plaster, no need ofpalnordJfilurcnient,thcComb!natIon01Icure fnr cnnppM 1h foothinir nnd balmy. safe and sure. ous form of oppression by which the write for free book to the Home Office. pr.l. m; federal i judges in concempt of the I Bye Co., Drawer m Dept 2, Indianapolis, lad. . if- "i