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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1905)
ni"j VV 'V J'1 T "W l,,i' 'W 'T7- "Wf F ipummup injuu'Wiiijuptiiinmiinii uw l HHWJT11" '" I1 vjpr T-rHTr"'T""T' c-w-'- - t & A1 The Commoner. charged into tho crowd, firing right and loft and tho police and others dragged away the dead and wound ed, numbering more than 130 into tho neighboring court yard while tho ter ror stricken demonstrators fled, pur sued by a mob of ruffians who at tacked them as they ran." Dispatches from other sections show many horrible massacres in which hundreds of Jews liavo been brutally beaten, and many killed out right, i President Itobbins of tho Armour car line, and Trafllc Manager Sproule, of the Southern Pacific company, de clined to answer questions put to thorn in tho private car lino inquiry November 3 before the Interstate Commerce commission. An effort was made through Mr. Robbins to show that tho Armour car lines through Armour & Co., or other firms are interested in business other than that of leasing cars to railroads and refrigerating perishable shipments. Mr. Sproulo was asked regarding an alleged pooling contract between the Southern Pacific and Southern Cali fornia railroads. Both witnesses declined-to answer, and dispatches say that the hearing adjourned "indefinitely." Greenbacks and Silver Dollars Charles J. Devlin, widel known as a coal mino operator, and who recent ly went through bankruptcy with lia bilities of more than five million dol lars, died November 1 at a Chicago hospital from a stroke of paralysis. Michigan members of the national manufacturers association, at a meet ing hold November 1, adopted resolu tions endorsing President Roosevelt's position on railroad rate regulation. . Tho New York chamber of com merce has adopted resolutions favor ing the admission of Chinese of the "better classes" to this country on the same terms as now applied to trav elers from any other country. Walter Wellman, Washington cor respondent for the Chicago Record Herald says that there is little likeli hood for any action on tho tariff at the next session of congress. Charges have been made involving an alleged graft of $320,000 from the Korean government, which charges are said to implicate a former Ameri. can minister and a number of Ameri can contractors who built a street railroad in Seoul.- ARTISTIC ARRANGEMENT The directors of the Louvre are being urged to get rid of the many spurious works of i -t which have found their way - into the galleries. It is pointed out that the clearance need not mean - -a financial loss to the institution, as such objects- could easily be sold to wealthy Americans. Punch. Can't. Do It Heart affections will not get well of them- selves; neither do they remain Innotlvo. If the cause Is not removed, they continue to grow in number nnd severity, They are the outtrrowth of exhausted nerve force, nnd the heart cannot stop to rest, as do until completely dlsaHed. and-thnt's the end. On the very first Indication of heart trouble you can stop all progress and effect a cure bv the use of Dr. Miles' Heart Cure the most effective heart remedy known. It builds up. feeds and strengthens the nerves and muscles of the heart, and restores it to perfect health. tu "I had Sertoli's heart troublo; for two month . nay life seemed to hang by a thrond. when my attention was called to Dr. Miles' Heart Cure I commenced talcinpr tho Heart Cure, and Nb vine, and n two months they restored mo to comparative pood health." . REV. W. A. ROBINS, Port Elgin. Ont The first bottle will benefit, if not, the drug Slst wil) return your money. b The United States Monetary league, Joseph N. Stephens of Denver, na tional secretary, has issued a protest against the proposed retirement of tho greenbacks and the destruction of the silver dollar. This protest has been widely circulated and tho offi cers of the league will see to it that a copy of this protest is placed upon tho desk of every member of congress. Mr. Stephens asks that newspapers generally reproduce tnis protest, and that the same be circulated for sig natures in every county, after which it should be forwarded to some mem ber of congress. The protest follows: "To the House of Representatives and Senate in Congress Assembled: "We desire to enter our respectful, but very earnest protest against the congress of tho United States as suming tho manifestly unconstitu tional authority recommended by the president in his late message to con gress, in the following words, to-wit: 'The attention of congress should bo especially given 10 the currency question, and that the standing com mittees on the matter in the two houses charged with the duty take up the matter of our currency and see whether it is not possible to se cure an agreement in the business world for bettering that system. The committees should consider the ques tion of the retirement of the green backs and the problem of securing in our currency such elasticity as is consistent with safety. Every silver dollar should be made by law redeem able in gold at the option of the holder.' "We protest against the power of congress being perverted in the man ner indicated in the message. The congress is authorized to create money. Currency proper is not money; it is a substitute for money, a wicked, vicious device by which corporations inflict upon the pro ductive industries of the nation some thing in lieu of money, by means of which the producer of wealth is com pelled to contribute of his earnings to fill the coffers of unholy greed. "We protest against the retirement of the 'greenback' and the substitu tion therefor of the national bank note. A promise to pay is not, nor can it be made, monev. "We protest against the introduc tion of a largo volume or any volume at all of corporate credit into the 'currency' of the nation. We deny and repudiate the claim that corpor ate credit devices are necessary or beneficial, or that such substitutes for money can in any manner pro moto the general welfare, which should be the only purpose influenc ing the congress of the United States. "If credit promises to pay are a necessity in the money system of the nation (which we emphatically deny) that credit should be national, not corporate, and national credit with out interest is far better, uifer, wiser, more acceptable to the people than is .any corporate credit, no matter how diligently fortified by deposits or other devices, or of so-called securi ties. "A government promise to pay, without interest, rests upon precisely the same element of security that the interest-bearing bond has; both are bottomed on the faith- and credit of the nation. One is as good, as safe, as valuable, as the other. Neither the interest-bearing bond nor non-in-terost-bearing note can be collected by judgment issued out,of any court in the Innd. "We protest against the congress of the United States .'wasting Its time m an uuomnt to legislate in relation to an 'elastic currency,' whatever that may bo ponstrued tp.'mean. We protest against such absurdity. 'An elastic currency is an irridescent dream. To put the control of the enlargement or the contraction of the volume of paper substitutes for money into tho hands of the bank trust, upon tho supposition or theory that such power would be used to promote the general welfare, rather than to use it in the interest of greed and avarice, would brand the congress as incompetent or corrupt. "An emergency 'money, issued and controlled by the secretary of the treasury, administered in the interest of productive industries of the nation, to the exclusion of the corporate stock jobbers, pools, trusts, and of all other combines, who contribute nothing to the wealth of the nation, would; if well thought out, prove bene ficial. But probably no such purpose is suggested in that portion of the message referred to. "It is claimed that the large and unprecedented production of gold has justified tho wisdom, as well as the expediency of the 'gold, standard.' We protest against this half truth being accepted as the basis of the legislation for the whole people. We readily admit the fact of the phenomenal increase in the produc tion of gold in the United States. But such production is in no way due to the gold standard. It is due to the indomitable will, energy and per severance of the American people, and in spite of the hostile legislation by congress, and of administrative acts. w t "On tho other hand, corporate credits have increased in the same years in a ratio ten, twenty, and in some cases perhaps one hundred per cent greater than the production of gold. And in this connection, we call upon the statistician of the treasury department to prepare and publish for general information a table of the increase In credit de vices, such as capital stock, preferred and common, bonds, first, second, and third issues, and all other forms of credit issued, appropriated or se cured by the promoters thereof; and we suggest that ho commence with Standard Oil, United States Steel, Amalgamated Copper, together with all and -singular the bic and little imitators of the captains of finance,, tne pirates or tiie stock exchanges. "We protest against further legis lation by congress at the dictation of the banking trust; the prolific mother of .all trusts. The system is danger ous. It is class legislation, hostile to the general welfare. Every finan cial 'panic which has devasted the in dustries of the people has been and will continue to be bank panics. With a sound monetary system in the United States, a money panic (really a credit panic) would be impossible. "With the immense nroduction of I wealth, the Industry of the people, leruiuy oi tne son, permanence and richness of the mines of coal, iron, copper, zinc, silver, gold, a money system that promotes financial panics is a shame, a disgrace to the nation's intelligence, honor and patriotism. "We. protest against perpetuation of a financial system which promotes panics, breeds paupers and tramps, fills the lunatic asylums, causes sui cides, ruins homes, encourages false hood and trickery; benefits a few and, robs the many. "We protest against the proposed retirement of the silver dollar. It is now money; it enters into the cir culation; it is the- only form of money, except the greenback, seen by the great mass of people, unless they gaze at a small pile of gold safe ly enclosed with steel bars. "To retire the volume of silver now in circulation in coin, or in coin cer tificates, and substitute therefor na tional bank notes, . would be an act of treachery to the productive in- VOLUME 5, NUMBER 4J HOG CHOLERA TfaNw rUthod of Treating thi n , treatment mailed Iree. The new treatment for now r-v, Swine Plague has now been thornuS? 8nd by a number of tho most cxneK, hl Jestca tical hog raisers and breeders n "P States. It has proven a success Lv,en,FDl,d tion. These men tried the remprt 1 nd es" mem. Its successes phenomena lind fni1 mains for our farmers and hoy ? Srs H -this now method of treatment to si i tnnr, ,. im aI restore his herd to thrift in a few dav X QH,r;aVfvSch0Uler' Worcester ilns.; A?n Stultz. Richwood. Ohio; O. D. im Kendal a nVn.,Xn,A:,flmesdal1' Lebanon. Oh o nnd Dr David Allrire. of Marco, Ind who is n "cteri narian of high standing and has practised hb Profession 1 orty years. These men La ve used this treatment for several years, and they are parasite, and putting them into such a perfect state of thrift that there is no material Ker of disease striking them. It is also an inexpen sive treatment, because it oiear a herd of every character of worm and puts him Into such a thrifty condition that the extra gain he will make from its effect in a few montlis' time will return the farmer live times, in this extra gain it produces, as much as this treatment has cost him. The Snoddy Remedy Co., of Alton. 111., is now putting up this wonderful treatment. Thoy ha.eabook which fully explains the process, tii at will be sent free to anyone who will bend their name and address to The snoddy Remedy Co., Box 22, Alton, 111. Every farmer should write at once for this free book. terests of the nation of such mo mentous consequence to the general welfare, that no sound economic law can be found to warrant, or to ex cuse it. ''The nation is now shivering on the .verge of financial disaster, nor can that disaster be long deferred, though the treasury department trans fers uncounted millions of national credit, together with all its surplus money, into the hands of tho 'pet banks' of the administration, and for the relief and support of the trusts, their combines and credit schemes of plunder and financial chicane. Tho system is vicious, and must go down, and out, before the rebellion of an "Ssnlightened public sentiment. And when that time comes, the sil ver dollar will be at a premium over gold as it was in New York City, in August 1893. "The silver dollar is particularly the money of the people; and we pro test against all legislation, or con struction of legislation, which shall impair the rights of the people to enjoy its use, receive the benefits and share in the prosperity which an abundant volume of money in use, in. circulation, not locked in banks and safe deposit vaults, but out in use, performing the beneflcient purpose for which money was created." Subscribers1 Advertising Department A GENTS WANTED TO SELL HIGH GRADE "- gas burners and mantles. Address. J. -Jennings, Milo, Ohio. WANTED-AGENTS IN EVERY TOWN vv in tho oountry to sell my new booh or travels entitled, "Forty Thousand Mies oi World Wandering." It is profusely niubtratco. elegantly printed and bound and Is ft reaw seller. Nothing handsomer for lioiWa Mi and trade. For terms, address Helen M. io gar. jjai ayeue, ina. T? OR SALE OR EXCHANGE-10 URES E choice land, one mile east f wn coin. Nob., nil in cultivation. NU-, una ing site overlooking city. 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