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"1TITJ 4 VOLUME 10, NUMBER 3 The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Entered at tho PohIoHIco r.t Lincoln, Nebraska, an oocond-cliuin tnuttur. WlJ.MAM J. llnYAN ClIAW.KH W. MlYAH Ktlltftr mid I'roprlotor I'nblWier Hiciiahd lu Mutcai.kk Fdllorlnl Known mid Ilunlncta Aff.ocliito Kdltor Ofllco 32-1-350 Foulh 12th Street One Vcnr ft 1. 00 Nix MtmtliH r0 .In ClubH of Flvo or more, per year.., .75 .05 Three lfoniliN .Slnirle Copy Sample Coplofl Free. Foreign Post. Cc Extra. fillHSCHII'TlONfl can bo nont direct to Tho Com moner. Thoy can iiIho bo nont through nowspaporn which have advortlHt'd a clubbing1 rate, or through local agents, . hero mib-agontH have been appoint ed. All romlttanccH (should bo went by postofrico lnonoy order, oxriroHH order, or by bank draft on Now York or Chicago. 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ADVERTISING Rates will bo furnished upon application. AddrP5is all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob. thoy triad to bo statesmen and spent money to dofoat tho suggested legislation. The people, knowing that ovory saloon was a center of po litical work and agitation, took a pretty solid stand against tho greody brewers. The demo crats mot flrBt in stato convention and adopted a resolution declaring for township local option. Whon tho republicans met, nothing else be ing loft, thoy indorsed county local option. J. Frank I-Ianly, governor of tho stato, an earnest man -a crank, some say called the legislature togothor, right in tho middle of the campaign last yoar, drove a county local option bill through tho houso and senate, and now three fourths of Indiana is as dry as a desert. Yes answering your inquiry, I havo said that the browors must keop their hands out of our poli tics. Browing is one of tho special interests . that assumes tho function of lawmaking for its own. bonoflt." "I havo boon informed," I said, "that tho saTsrSseEr' (1 yUr leCti0n t0 tUe United "That is true. Tho democratic newspapers ?h fliSaTr nf Ind!nna fftVOml candWaT! the files of tho nowspapors aro open to any one and tho voters can bo seen and questioned Forty-four domocratic members of the legS turo openly gave mo pledges of their support-- tholr constituents required it. Forty-two votes wore all I needed. When I seemed sure of the nomination tho brewers suddenly manifested a wyf ,nnTSt in l!l sItuatIon " Proposed that tho democrats, mooting in caucus cZt secret ballot I understood what that moant- ?JSd?5 mmbGr? of th0 Mature coSd vote for the browors' candidate, whoever ho hnn ponod to bo, and no one would know it BteM men wore purchased, and the secret baiotwlnt through. I received thirty-six votes yet tho are forty-four mon who will make afhdavitha? they gave mo tiioir support. I can nSt nrovo bribery on any one, but I think I Snn ?i names of eight men' who wci-o bough? ur " MK. BRYAN AT PANA1HA. The following is from tho Panama Daily Star and Herald, issuo of January 9: Mr. William Jennings Bryan, tho disHn gushed Nebraska democrat, who 'ha beeT at SWA &ft theater was packed evorv ioAail,ovatlon' Th The Commoner. composed of tho most prominent people in tho republic and many representatives of officialdom from tho Canal Zone, and when the famous orator made his appearance tho applause that greeted him was long and enthusiastic. His excellency President Obaldia and several mem bers of tho cabinet occupied tho presidential box, and wore interested listeners while Mr. Bryan delivered his lecture. Tho Hon. Joseph E. Lofovre, secretary of Fomento, was master of ceremonies, accompanying Mr. Bryan to the stage and presenting him to tho audience. In introducing Mr. Bryan to tho audience, Mr. Lefevro made the following brief, but very ex pressive speech: "I consider myself honored by having been requested to introduce to this select audience one of tho most notable contemporaneous per sonalities: tho brilliant orator, Hon. William Jonnings Bryan, whose name is a household word throughout the world. "His unquestionable merit as a public man and the high ideals advocated by him, we Pana manians are not called upon to judge, because they are so intimately associated with the in ternal politics of his own country, but I can assure you, as an impartial observer, that al though it would not be surprising that he may not enjoy the rare satisfaction of seeing many of the principles advocated by him become ac cepted facts, and although Mr. Bryan has com mitted the splendid error of being ahead of his time in some of the fundamental truths which he has championed, nevertheless, history will inscribe the name of William Jennings Bryan upon tho roll of honor of illustrious Americans, giving to him the distinction which character izes great men who, like Moses, showed the route which others, more fortunate, follow until the work initiated is crowned with success. "The visit with which Mr. Bryan has favored our isthmus, which already has been honored with that of the undaunted and indefatigable Theodore Roosevelt; with that of the distin guished statesman, Elihu Root; with that of tho first magistrate or the United States, Wil liam Howard Taft, and with that of many other noted Americans, has particular importance at this time when an influential body of the sons of the great republic are nobly working for the mutual and better knowledge of the Intellect ualities of North America and of those of her southern sisters; because if it Is true that meet ing the mon of a country is the only way one can be able to form a just opinion of a nation, it Is more so that by intimately knowing its most conspicuous personalities is to tighten the links of the heart with those of the brain and Bpirit, and is the means of obtaining a more complete idea of its grandeur, thereby estab lishing this fraternity. "Ladies and gentlemen, the Hon. William Jonnings Bryan." Practical Tariff Talks One of the curiosities of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill is contained in the marble schedule. A tariff is supposed to be constructed for the benefit of the manufacturers, but the only re ductions made in the marble schedule are upon the finished or partly finished stuff. A tariff on manufactured marble protects, according to the republican idea, the men who flnishthe marble from the competition of foreign laborers and their interests would be best subserved bv free raw material and partly subserved bv a substantial reduction thereon. But marble r mains as it has been, protected by a tariff of 65 cents a cubic foot, and in that way VPB ia to the stuff in the quarries of ' the S TmAi cates now in possession of these rich mtaes" These quarrymen are also manufacture" whon an architect Includes in his RnS that Vermont marble shall be used thi lU Place where that can be securld 'exS Z the Vermont Marble company ThG LJ m hXul KE marM-"n5 3ft a BooMmabrblemceanBboVda iVTZl V Tenn cost of 05 ceite a cubic foot "?hila? aVerase the amount of the tariff The ,i eXaca which Is hold un by 1,,. S?1H?B Prtoe. cubic foot to tuo SnSSSSSSta,4f?ri,,1-B. necessarily a luxury its ,.!; JQme f not for decortlonsTgenrtnS S?ETJ tariff that gives the fortunate owners of marble quarries absolute control ofthe market can not be defended upon any ground. The principal competitor of the American marble is Italy, where large supplies are found in the Appennine mountains, in the vicinity of Carrara. Only the most primitive methods of handling it can be employed, the stuff being rolled down tho moun tains and taken on carts or boats to tile mar kets. In one place there is an antiquated rail road that does some service, whereas modern machinery is employed in American quarries for the handling of the blocks. The Carrara marble costs laid down in -New York; $2.5& per cubic foot, and sells for $2.70, while the Ver mont marble brings all the way from $1.90 to $3.40, for the same grades. It costs to produce about 65 cents a cubic foot. Ninety per cent of the marble work executed in this country is upon American blocks and 10 per cent, upon the foreign. The tariff is practi cally prohibitive, and only the fact that the high-grade Carrara is superior and is demand ed by architects in certain cases accounts for the use of the small percentage that comes in. When it is considered that the marble business of the country foots up about $20,000000 a year, the amount of the tax can be understood. The tariff enables the American quaTrymen to ask exorbitant prices for the products, and these high prices, in turn, restrict the use of the product. If there was a wider use of marble more men would be employed, but the prohibi tive, tariff gives steady employment to only about 10 per cent of the marble workers of the coun try, and at the same time deprives the govern ment of revenue. All this is done to give added value to the property of the owners .of quarries. This is not the only instance, however where congress deliberately voted value into the lands owned by private individuals with influence, tho Increment being taken from the pockets of the consumer. Tho zinc ore schedule is another case. Zinc ore has nearly always been free, but hereafter, the great bulk of the usable zinc will bear a duty of $20 a ton. The only competitor the Joplin district has is Mexico, and it is pro , d against that competition by a freight rate i6,l,a ton and the fact that it takes a ton and a half of the Mexican ore to equal in smelt ed value a ton of American ore. Under free zinc ore the price has risen at Joplin from $14 . a ton in 1894 to $44 a ton last year. Whenever the home market shows signs of sagging the zinc miners export the ore abroad for the express ST nLCr1ftin? a shortase in the domestic S f'f n,d US ,keep up Prices- They can afford to do this for obvious reasons, and now with SK? haS ?PSe nted the mine owns with $20 a ton protection exportation for this purpose will increase. In order to add $20 a ton LV? ?Iuof Jhe zinc in the mmes of Amer- hev .Lainiff;makerSere obliged t0 violate? as they did in the marble schedule, every rule of protection. Zinc ore at a cent a pound tariff is 84 per cent, and the pig zinc, the readv to use material, is protected only 20 per cent With every improved process by manufactu? to is -an increment of labor, more rinHni ?a 5 2 and additional duty, according To" tho protove theory, is demanded. Yet in this case to favo? vheerseTerS f JPlin mInes th A$ C. Q. D.' : MONEY nnrT? T f MississiPPI was chosen dem ocratic leader in the senate. Writing in t' Follette's Magazine, Senator LalleUe Says The selection of Money of Mississippi ' aa Bona to minority leader is less important ban the leadership of both house and senate by Money of Wall Street. Monov of MiHil, ,V dies, never resigns nnJ i VnL? V11 ?treet nQver political relgnf CeroUTstreeU..0 ?. MManaf JiZz&JA'&- .Uu'aflfa.