10
THE NEBRASKA. INDEPENDENT,
IS HE A DEMAGOGUE?
Several republican leaders continue
to declare that the panic of '93 was
caused by the victory of the. democ
racy. The democracy took charge of
all branches of the government on
March 4, 18D3. Within a few weeks
the panic was in full force.. Every
republican leader and newspaper that
i3 in that party today, then declared
that the cause of the hard times was
the coinage of silver and that the
Sherman act under which the coinage
was done must be repealed and the
coinage of silver stopped. They de
clared, one and all, that the Sherman
act was the sole cause of the distress.
But the Sherman act was a republican
measure and Cleveland was in no way
responsible for it The distress, ac
cording to every authority in the re
publican party at that time was caused
by an act passed by a republican con
gress and for which every republican
congressman voted. After that, all
the republican senators and represen
tatives In congress who are in public
life today in that party, joined Cleve
land, advocated and voted for the pol
icy which he recommended, succeeded
in their efforts and then followed four
years of the greatest distress that
this country has ever known. Now
Senator Hoar, and other leaders of the
republican party, are saying the same
thing. Senator Hoar declares:
"The men who proposed rag
money to get rid of the burden of
the national debt, and Dr. Bryan's
financial policies to cure the hard
times which President Cleveland
had brought on, are filling the
yellow journals with their adver
tisements now."
It was not Cleveland who brought
on the hard times, though he adder
to their severity ,and the relief from
them has come from adopting the
prescription of "Dr. Bryan" and coin
ing more silver than was ever coined
in the same length of time before,
then adding to that an enormous quan
tity of "rag money" issued 'by the na
tional banks.'
It seems incomprehensible that .Sen
ator Hoar does "not know'how much
silver has been coined since 189G and
how much "rag money" the national
banks have issued. He certainly does
not, for if he does, the above state
ment with all that it infers, would
brand him as a demagogue.
"FACILITATE"
Imperialism has created some new
terms and there will have to be a revi
sion of the dictionaries. An "appur
tenance" now means a man without a
country, governed by a commission ap
pointed by the president, and who
was bought for $2.50 cash down. Jus
tice Brown is responsible for that
"Facilitate now means 10 aDoiisn a
tariff duty without the consent of con
gress or any other nation on earth.
When hard coal began to be imported,
the customs officers collected 67 cents
a ton duty on it The secretary of
; the treasury issued an order to "facili
tate" the" importation of coal. Since
that day no duty has been collected on
anthracite coal, no matter how much
it lacked having "92 per cent carbon."
' The secretary of the treasury is re
sponsible for this bit of imperialism.
He abolishes duties according to his
' own sweet will. In any constitutitnal
government he would be impeached for
an act like that But as this is no
, longer a constitutional government,
' nothing will be done about it ' If any
attempt were" made to bring the secre
tary tp account for this, then up would
rise Justice Brown and declare that
the constitution did not follow the
tariff.' From this on, "facilitate" means
to abolish a tariff. The Independent
hopes that there will be a lot of "facilitating"-done.
THERE ARE OTHERS
.."An .Old Democrat" writes to the
editor that ."the pops needn't howl so
Joud. about traitors m tneir. party.
We democrats have had ten traitors
Where you have had one." After that
he goes on to enumerate .(hem, begin
ning with Cleveland. lie. says' that It
was democratic traitors of the supreme
court that made Imperialism possible.
If the democratic judges had been
true to the doctrines of Jefferson that
there would have been a majority
against imperialism. When the demo
crats held all branches of the govern
ment, traitors like Gorman killed all
tariff reform. Democratic traitors
killed the income tax after it had
passed both branches of congress. He
declares that the populists, while they
have suffered in this regard, have nev
er had anything to endure that com
pares with the work of the traitors in
the democratic party.
A NATION Or GAMBLERS
There is more gambling now done
each and every day of the year than
was done in any ten years before the
republican party demoralized the peo
ple of the United States and judges
fined boys for playing craps in an al
ley, while millions were bet on the
stock exchange and boards of trade and
the betters protected , by the courts
and police power of the cities, states
and nation. This sort of gambling has
spread all over the nation. Farmers
and merchants, mechanics and farm
employes engage in it in every little
town. The millions of money thus
employed are beyond computation.
When disaster portends, even the
treasury of the United States rushes
to the aid of the gamblers to prevent
losses so heavy that thgy would pre
cipitate a panic. The government and
the courts foster and protect gambling.
The nation is given over to it as no
nation ever was before. Against this
tendency the populist party has al
ways protested and still protests. The
gambling on the boards of trade not
only demoralizes and ruins many
thousands who engage in it, but is a
detriment to every honest farmer
whose products are there traded in
rid the prices affected by the bets
made on the rise and fall of prices.
CiET MONEY FOR IT
The kind of economic education
thai the readers of the great dailies
get can be inferred from the following
paragraph from the Boston Adver
tiser: "We call it the 40-cent dollar,
because we are disposed to be
charitable; but, in fact, the latest
London quotations make its bul
lion value precisely 39 cents.
We are willing to give the advo
cates of 16 to 1 the benefit of a
pc sible doubt whether, since yes
terday, the white metal may not
have risen a fraction of a point
At latest quotations, the ratio be
tween silver and gold is just about
40 to 1."
The ratio entered into the discus
sion of the money question during the
last two presidential campaigns from
the fact that the ratio determined the
number of dollars that could be coined
from any given amount of silver. If
the ratio was 16 to 1 a certain number
could be coined. If the ratio was 32 to
1, only half the number could be
coined from the same weight of sil
ver. It was the "quantity theory"
that was under discussion. The Bryan
democrats and populists adopted the
theory a3 expressed by John Stuart
Mill and the republicans denied that
the "quantity" of money had anything
to do with its value. The fact is that
all the silver that is mined is still
coined into money except what goes
into the arts and manufacture. There
is no considerable amount of silver
bullion anywhere. The republicans
still coin it by the ton in this country
at the ratio of 16 to 1 and in Europe
it is coined at the ratio of 15 to 1
and 15 to 1.
Six hundred millions of silver dol
lars coined at the ratio of 16 to 1 are
in circulation in the United States,
ami the republicans are coining mil
lions more ot them at the same ratio.
These f liver dollars, coined at the
m
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AIDS 10 THANKSGIVING
It won't be hard tot' anyone
to find reasons for giving ' thank
this year. However, there are
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Sitting down to Thanksgiving
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With an Armstrong hat on.
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ratio of 16 to 1, are the foundation of
the present prosperity. Take them
out of the money of the United States
and there would be a panic beside
which the days of Cleveland soup
houses would be a paradise of heaven
ly prosperity.
If the Boston Advertiser has any
"10-cent silver dollars," as hard up as
The Independent is with the putting
up of thi j Liberty Building it will take
a few thousand of them and pay for
them in "one hundred-cent gold dol
lars." It could easily manage to get
the moLiy for a speculation like that.
The fact Is that the editor of the
Boston Advertiser and all other edi
tors of that brand are innate scoun
drels, and know that they lie when
they talk about 50 or 40-cent silver
dollars. Their depravity is the de
pravity of satan and is as black as the
midnight of hell. They write such
stuff in the interest of the trust and
tariff robbers and because they get
money for doing it.
CONSERVATIVE BRYAN
The absolute and contemptible fail
ure of the democratic party in those
states where the reorganizers ruled is
attracting attention everywhere. Look
at the states of Connecticut, Wiscon
sin, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
and contrast the result with what the
democracy did under the leadership of
Bryan. Now, what was called the
radicalism of Bryan, has become con
servatism. The question now forcing
itself into American politics beyond
hope of dodging passes under the gen
eral description of the labor problem.
It is a question, in the last analysis,
of Intrusting the industrial concerns
of all, together with the award among
all of the net product, to the man
agers of concentrated capital fast pos
sessing themselves of widespread mo
nopolistic privileges, or substituting
for privileges, wherever they appear,
public control or ownership. The man
who gets control of the democratic or
ganization and marches into the
breach as did the republican party un
der Lincoln, will be the hero of a new
revolution. The day of the old moss
backs has passed. Call it the labor
question or the trust question, which
you please, it has to be met by radical
measures. But can the old democratic
party rise to the occasion or will it
go the way of the old whig party
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which died of compromises? If it does
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drag its slow length along," there is a
party ready and willing to take hold of
these questions along radical lines. It
requires no change in its platform or
leadership. It is not a large party, but
every man in the ranks has kept his
powder dry and is ready for the fray.
The year 1904 will telj the tale.
The whole world of business wor
ships one god only, and at no other
shrine does any member of it bow.
That god is money.