The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, January 01, 1903, Page 4, Image 4
4 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT, JANUARY 1, 1903. FOWLER VS. FLANAGAN Mr. ! yi. Mr. Bryan-Gold v. Silver Bask Motes vs. Greenbscki Review of Mr. Lease's Book Editor independent: I am, now. In Mr. Fowler's district' ' I find one or two more facts that may be of interest to your readers. For instance, Mr. E. E. Potter, an old-time greenbacker, made an arrangement with the demo crats of the district to stump for Flanagan , and to speak against the Fowler bill as the best method of get ting votes away from Fowler and de livering them to Flanagan. The next arrangement was for Mr. Grover Cleve land to be invited to speak at Morris town, the most central part of the district, and, as a part of the pro gram, Mr. Potter was to be invited to sit on the platform. But Potter found that he could not sit on the same platform" with Cleveland and, there- 4Vitn nni4 r9 4 i n vvn n cram anf Vi 1 A y to be omitted. It was very wise in Potter to re fuse to have anything to do with a meeting, at which Cleveland was to be the chief actor. Their politics was antagonistic on both the tariff and the currency. Having been an old-time re publican before the civil war, Potter was in favor of protection; and, after the war, having separated from the republicans on the financial or cur rency question, he could not listen ap provingly to a sermon on free trade or tariff for revenue only, especially ' if the "gold standard" had to be add ed to the dose. Consequently Mr. Cleveland had to make his speech with nobody but the old "dyed-in-the-wool" democrats to listen, that is, the demo crats and their ancestors, who, before the civil war, had been brought up in the faith of tariff for revenue only and cheap negro ; slave labor, two things that used to go well together. Mr. Fowler opened the campaign, on his part, early by sending out a document in the form of a local news paper, filled with the details of his offer, to give $150,000 towards erecting a free public library in the city of Elizabeth, the city of his home. I understood, from one of his oppo nent's living in the said city of Eliza beth that Fowler always made this offer when he was running for con gress. I don't know whether this 1 story , is true or not, but it at ieast illustrates h6w the people of his own town talk about him, when he is run ning for office. , I have no doubt that Mr. Flanagan would have been will ing to give the same amount of mon ey to his town of Morristown for a free public library, , if he tad thought that this would make him , a con gressman. For, 1 instead of spending his money in this way, it is reported, that he divided his "boodle" into lots and distributed them among the lit tle local bosses in the various towns and villages; and that they, instead . of putting it where it would do the most goodly getting up public meet ings and lecturing the people through Mr. Potter and others on the Fowler bill and "tariff reform.'; spent the money in the "gin mills;" or some por tion of it, the rest, the greater part, remaining in the pockets of the bosses. - , . , .. . . " The next move of Mr. Fowler was to seai out a pamphlet containing all the newspaper notices of his bill, the ad verse criticisms being omitted. This was in the summer soon after con- part of the "country, received a copy, but it was all Greek to them, be cause not one in a thousand had heard of the Fowler bill; and a smaller num ber cared, any thing about it (if they happened to take interest enough to ask for an explanation and what it was). The result was,. that the argu ment, so far as there was any, turned on Mr. Cleveland's ; ' "tariff . reform,' which did apt come until the last week of the campaign. . Mr, Cleveland went from Princeton to Morristowa in a special cars .for- himself, made his HOW'S THIS? We offer One. Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh tLat can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.. Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo. O Hall's Catarrh "Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, i Price, 7oc per bottle. Sold by all drug-. gists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills ara tnesbest.' -' speech and went away the next morn Ing in the same. No votes were made, as the result showed. Fowler car ried the district by 1,200, although' many thought that he could not be elected, on account of dissension in his own party, that is, in his own town. This dissension was probably more personal than anything else, for I believe that Fowler fairly repre sents 4he political sentiment of his party! he has certainly made a faith ful study of the tariff and currency; and, if he is wrong on these points, he is honestly wrong. Fowler's small majority shows that he will have to fight hard for his seat in 1904. It will be Protection vs. Rev enue Tariff. During the summer I met, here, for the first time, Mrs. Mary Eliza beth Lease. I suppose she is better known in the west than here. Two or three weeks ago she made an address befon the federation of women's clubs of New Jersey, and is becoming favorably known to the women of the east' She is living in New York city and is lecturing and enlarging her acquaintance through her books. Her book, entitled "The Problem of Civ ilization Solved," is a unique affair, something different from anything I have ever seen. It is socialistic in its tendencies, and yet very different from any socialistic literature I have ever, as yet, met with. The chapter en titled "The American Party," gives us the substance of the book. I quote as follows: 1. "We are rea,dy for a new move ment. Let us lay aside our prejudices, and unite in a patriotic effort to raise the masses of mankind in the scale of humanity. Arbitration of national dis putes. 2. "Let us place America at the head of a federated continent. The United States the leader. 3. "Let us inaugurate the most stupendous migration of races the world has ever known, and raise the Caucasian above want, despair and an archism by giving a home to the homeless on a tropical plantation, and thus forever put an end to poverty. Tenants, but no slaves. 4. "Let us for the time being merge our republicanism, our dem ocracy and populism in the one grand movement of Americanism. Govern ment aid to colonists. 5. "Nationalize the railroads, tele graphs and all labor-saving machin ery and end the cause of industrial strikes and business disquietude. 6. "Free trade in federated Ameri ca and tariff on alien products will solve the problem of the tariff. 7. "Free coinage of American gold end silver, and the issue of treasury notes, redeemable by taxation, will settle the financial problem. Bimetal lism in the ratio of 16 to 1. 8. "The initiative and referendum system of voting will, banish lobbyists and boodlers and give untrammeled freedom to public opinion. 9. "No free coinage of silver or gold, unless the metal is mined in America. This is the doctrine advo cated by McKinley. (A doctrine that ought not to deceive anybody, although McKinley was deceived or misled by it.)" These propositions constitute the gist of the book of 376 pages. The leading idea running all through, from beginning to end, is a mixture of the races of the north and south, a grand idea, but it cannot be carried Out in a peaceful or commercial way, as she as sumes.. It must be done by war. Rome united all races, but it was done by war. A strong race of warlike peo ple conquered the others less pow erful. ' Rome became the ruler, be cause she was more powerful in war. War was a business as politics is now a business. Everything was fair in war as everything is now fair in poli tics. Our politics is now almost as barbaric and destructive as was the military system of Rome. The present British empire has been built up by war. It has required about three centuries to do it ' The United States, .at 'the present time, is an empire. It commenced in 1803, when. Thomas Jefferson acquired Louisiana, done as a War measure. Jefferson saw that we could not be at peace with Europe, unless the United States controlled the Mississippi river; and we bought Louisiana, because we had a chance to buy it cheap, cheaper than Ave could take it by force. We would have taken it anys way, because we could not live and expand without Louisiana. We acquired the Pacific slope by war with Mexico, in the same way. Florida was acquired by war be tween 1812 and 1821, having previous ly been controlled by Spaniards ,-jnd afterwards by the British for nearly three hundred years. It changed hands several times and always by war. Colonization was impossible without ROSS P. enmrc e A Piano by Mail. We have developed an enor mous business in piano selling through correspondence alone and orders received in this way receive our most particular care and attention. If you need a piano or are interested in the subject, write to us. We shall gladly fu nish catalogues and all information desired. 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Ve don't understand each other, on ac count of differences of language. The want of an understanding causes war. If it had been intended by Providence that we should live without war. all peoples would speak the same language. The chapter on finance furnishes food for reflection. Mrs. Lease differs from Mr. Bryan, and, yet, they agree on some points. Mr. Bryan believes in t'.metallism: so does Mrs. Lease. Brv- an believes in legal tender treasury notes for paper money instead of oank notes; so does Mrs. Lease. Bryan be lieves that the treasury notes shouTd be made redeemable with coin, either gold or silver coin. Mrs. Lease does not believe that the treas. notes should be made redeemable in coin alne, but "redeemable by taxation" as well, that is, receivable for taxes. Here is a great difference. It is a radical dif ference. Mrs. Lease believes that the mints should be opened to free coinage of both gold and silver in the ratio of 16 to 1, (provided the gold and sil ver bullion comes from the mines of America), but she does not believe that the coins should be used as "redpmn- tion money," but only as ordinary money, not money any more than treasury notes (greenbacks) are mon ey. She insists that the only redemp tion of treasury notes should be by receiving them for taxes. Mrs. Lease's system is all very well, as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. She does not provide any method lim iting the quantity of treasury notes. Here is a ratal mistake The treasury notes must be limited or they will be worthless, at least they will have no definite value. Nobody will be able to predict their value or to assert any value for them. If, for instance, the United States should issue treasury notes for our paper money, and should make them as abundant as the autumn leaves are now, they vrould have very little value. The essence of money is in its limitation. I used to think that the essence of monej is in the legal tender power or qualifica tion; but if we make legal tender as abundant as water, then legal tender or money will have no more value than water. To say that money i3 anything that is a legal tender for all debts including taxes, is almost equiv alent to saying that money is money. Del Mar said, the essence of money is its limitation, and, in so saying, he declared a great truth. We shall never be able to get a good paper money, unless ve provide some way, by which it must be limited in quan tity. This we can do by appointing (or An some way constructing) a com mission, with power to regulate its quantity. Mr. Bryan, seeing this, pro poses to issue only so much paper money as can be redeemed with coin. This is the bank method of regulating paper money; the difference between the banks and Mr. Bryan being that the former propose to have all the pa per money (consisting of bank notes) redeemable with coin; while Bryan proposes to have the paper money (consisting of United States treasury notes) redeemed with gold or silver coin. The one system will require the banks to keep gold on hand for pur poses of redemption of their notes while the other system wil require' the government to keep a large amount of gold or silver on hand for redeem ing treasury notes. It will be noticed that banks pro pose to keep nothing but gold coin for redeeming their notes ( they be ing opposed to free coinage of sil ver), while Bryan proposes that the government shall keep both gold and silver coin on hand for redeeming treasury notes, (he being opposed to the issuance of any bank notes); and that the paper money shall consist of treasury notes exclusively. Mrs. Lease is inconsistent in favor ing bimetallism or. monometallism be cause neither gold nor silver coins are necessary for purposes of redemption if treasury notes are to be redeemed by receiving them for taxes. Bryan is consistent (or would be) in favor ing either monometallism or bimetal lism, because, according to his syS. tem, treasury notes are to be redeem ed with coin, that is, either gold or silver coin (at the option of the gov