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Lincoln, Nebraska.
HEIALLISM
The father of the Silver ucsllon Adtlart
Prominent Democratic Htetetman
Readers of The Independent have
doubtless noticed references from
time to time to the books of Hon.
Alex. Del Mar, who has the distinction
of being the first to make the discov
ery that the coinage laws of 1873
dropped out the silver dollar. From
tht time until 1900 Mr. Del Mar has
been a consistent advocate for the
free coinage of silver and gold at the
established ratio yet strange to say
his economic researches have con
firmed his belief that there should be
ao "free coinage" of either of these
metals. He believed that if gold is
to be coined free, silver should- be
treated in the same way. But his stu
dies teach him that all money should
be coined on government account, for
in no other way can congress "reg
ulate the value thereof." Mr. Del
Mar's "Science of Money" should be
carefully studied in this connection.
(The Cambridge Encyclopedia Co.,
N. Y.)
A meeting was held at Cooper In
ion, New York, a few nights ago to
discuss affairs in the Philippines. Ed
ward M. Shepard and Prof. J. G.
Schurman were the principal speak
ers. What they said about the mon
ey question may be inferred from the
following letter:
Editor Independent: In view of the
interest in the monetary question
which your 'reading columns evince,
we have asked and been accorded
"permission to quote the following
passages from a letter addressed this
day by Hon. Alex. Del Mar to a dis
tinguished democrat, relative to the
Philippine mass meeting, held yes
terday at the Cooper Institute in this
city. '
To appreciate the significance of
this letter it should be premised that
Mr.. Del Mar is the father of the sil
ver question, he having started it in
1875 and adhered to it faithfully down
to the geenral election of 1900. He it
was who first made the discovery that
the coinage laws had been altered;
who called public attention to it by
preparing some of the first speeches
on the subject which were delivered
in congress; and who drew up several
of the bills which were offered in
congress for restoring tho law. Mr
Shepard was the recent democrati
candidate for mayor of New York and
enjoys an excellent reputation for sa
gacity and probity. Dr. Jacob Gould
Schurman of Cornell was a member of
the Philippine commission and is uni
versally esteemed for his private vir
tues and public spirit. Both he and
Major General E. S. Otis, who spoke
on the same subject on the same ev
ening in Chicago, are believed to be
independents in politics.
Mr. Del Mar writes as follows: "Mr.
Shepard says we have a 'sound mon
ey,' meaning gold; and demands the
same for the Philippines. Dr. Schur
man says the Philippines need a 'sta
ble currency,' evidently meaning gold.
General Otis says the Philippines need
a 'reformed currency,' meaning also
gold. In default of the full text of
these speeches it is difficult to say
whether this unanimity discloses the
real object of these meetings, or is
due to the partiality of the newsgath-
prprs and pditnrs in BplKHnr tViocn
' extracts. Assuming the former
which seems most likely it looks like
an attempt to identify democratic and
Independent politics with the so-called
'gold standard." These attempts do
not stand alone. There have been
many similar ones; and it cannot be
denied that they have taken root.
' As an economist, lam opposed to
them; believing, for the reasons set
forth in my 'History of Money in
America,' p. 65, that such a 'reform'
swould, result in causing a flow of the
Philippine gold to New York and leav
ing the islands practically destitute
u m . j i ...
vi money, as a statesman ana in your
place, I would favor these attempts.
It is 'good politics' to take advantage
of them. To restore silver to the
sixteen-for-one relation is now no
longer practicable. Even if it was so
restored, it. would not compensate
those who suffered by its degradation,
but an entirely new class of individ
uals and of nations. Moreover, the
quickest way to demonstrate the un
soundness of the metallic, theory, em
bodied in the so-called 'gold stand
ard,' is to run with it, until it runs
itself which it is sure to do into
the ground. In your place I would
simply drop the silver question as
having been definitely rejected at the
polls; and I would substitute in its
place the demand that government
shall issue or control the entire cur
rency of the United States and its de
pendencies. I would not antagonize
the proposed bank currency expan
sion, which, although as unsound as
the 'gold standard' theory, appears to
be as inevitable; but demand that,
for safety's sake, it shall be firmly
subjected to congress, who alone shall
have the power to augment or re
strain the issues. If the people ac
cept this, the battle for an equitable
measure of value is practically won;
if they reject it, then the contention
is hopeless; and government for the
people and by the people is at an
end: for usury will soon find a way
to mould the government into an aris
tocracy." CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA CO.
New York, Jan. 30, 1903.
GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE
Nebraska's Plutocratic Courts - No Man
With rollticaJ Influence in Danger
of Conviction
The Independent has on several oc
casions had some remarks to make
concerning the veracity of W. E. Cur
tis, and is glad to have the opportun
ity at last to republish something that
appeared in his column in the Record
Herald that is true. It is not the pro
duction of Mr. Curtis himself, but a
quotation from a letter which he says
he received from "a prominent lawyer
of Omaha." He says that, this lawyer
asserts with confidence that "no man
of prominence in politics, society or
business affairs: no man with money
or friends has been or ever will be
punished for robbing the government
of land or timber in the western
states." He declares that the special
agents who are appointed to detect
violations of the laws and secure evi
dence to prove them are politicians de
pendent upo'n political influence for
their positions; that the district at
torneys who conduct the prosecutions,
the United Slates marshals who sum
mon the juries and perform other ser
vile, and the judges themselves arc
creatures of the political parties and
factions and are controlled by the
United States senators, the members
of the house and the chairmen of the
republican committees. And that even
when a" conviction is unavoidable the
defendant can always obtain continu
ance after continuance until the pub
lic has forgotten about his case and
the district attorney can let it drop
without exciting unfavorable criti
cisms. The gentleman from Omaha predict
that the grand jury now in session at
that city will not indict anybody fo
violations of the land laws, although
everybody connected with the govern
ment from the secretary of the inter
ior down, knows exactly how many
acres Bartlett Richards and other of
fenders have fenced in, and exactly
how long and how far he has violated
the laws. He declares that Richards
and the other men who should be de
fendants in the criminal courts are in
Washington "hobnobbing'- w'ith tho
secretary of the interior and the sena
tors and members of congress from
Nebraska instead of sitting in the
prisoners' box and that the district
attorney dare not indict or prosecute
them for fear of losing his job.
That is not only the state of affairs
now, but it has been ever since re
publican appointees rah the federal
courts in this state. Years ago when
the editor of The Independent was an
editorial writer on an Omaha daily,
he drew attention to the way of do
ing business that ,chOcterizd tbt
offices of the United States marshal
and district attorney. They were in
the habit of going away out to Al
liance, Crawford or Scotts Bluff and
arrested a poor homesteader or two
and bringing them to Omaha charged
them with stealing timber from th(
government lands, when the man had
cut a few cottonwood poles to buil 1
him a shanty or bit of fire wood to
keep his wife and children from
i reeling. At the same time the rail
roads were denuding thousands of
acres and the rich mining corpora
tions thousands more and never a man
was arrested. Most of these home
steaders were fined small sums, but
that was not the meat in the cocoanut.
The marshals piied up fees amounting
to thousands of dollars for mileage
-nd this practice grew to such an enor
mous extent that appropriations for
the expenses of the courts were not
only exhausted, but large deficiencies
were created. Whether the deficien
cies were ever paid or not this depo
nent sayeth not, but the expenses
were so enormous that it attracted at
tention at Washington.
Lately the same game has been
played in another direction. Numer
ous persons are arrested before each
term of the ourt for selling whisky
to the Winnebago and Omaha Indiana
i.mi a horde oi' witnesses summoned.
The court down there is a fee mill
that grinds out handsome incomes to
a great number of republican office
holders. The bootleggers are fined a
dollar and sometimes a day in the
custody of the marshal. That is just
enough to keep up the business. If a
few of them were sent to jail for good
long terms and fined to the extent of
ihe law, that would put a stop to the
whole thing and wreck the business.
As it is, the bootleggers increase year
by year and the fees grow larger and
larger. It's as good as a gold mine.
With few exceptions, the whole out
fit of republican officeholders in Ne
braska are cut from the same piece
of cloth, from Clem Deaver up. They
have engaged in these same practices
for y?ars.
civil service reformers? Of course it
does not follow that every specific
demand in a reform party can be en
acted into law and made effective in
administration through co-operation
with the regular parties; but in this
way the members of the minor par
ties may come nearer the attainment
of their ideals and at least they ma
be saved from a criminal waste of
valuable political influence.
JESSE MACY.
Iowa College, Grinnell, la. g
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Political Waste
Editor Independent: Enclosed please
find coin for three months' mailing
expense. I have read with a great
deal of interest the propositions to re
organize the people's party published
in The Independent. I wish there were
some way to forestall and prevent the
waste of political power and influ
ence which is involved in an effort to
organize a brand new party. It takes
at least, thirty or forty years to estab
lish a party organization. The two
organizations have monopolized the
field. There is how no more reason to
believe that reformers can meet and
extemporize a new party of national
and commanding proportions than in
the scores of former instances where
the thing has been attempted and has
failed. The thing has never been
done. It is ah egregious error to main
tain that the present republican party
came into existence in that way. Fo:"
my views on that subject I refer you
to my book on Political Parties (Tho
Macmillan Co.).
Nothing gives the corrupt element
in the two old parties more aid and
comfort than for the leaders of reform
to call out their supporters and corral
them in a so-called national party.
On the other hand, if the numbers of
all th third parties should give notice
that henceforth they intend to seek
the ends of reform through the two
old parties thon the corrupt elements
in each party would bo troubled. Let
all the members of third parties de
clare that no more energy shall b-1
wasted in seeking for themselves tho
spoils of office; but that all their pow
er and influence shall be directed to
the one end of keeping in office the
men most favorable to their sense of
right. Let third party people take as
a model the civil service reform asso
ciation. " The members of this asso
ciation remained as active member.!
in the old parties. They commande!
respect because, although few in num
ber, they were alike in close district!
to defeat candidates who were con
spicuously unworthy. The few reform
ers became a terror to spoilsmen be
cause they remained in the old par
ties as good and active members.
They persisted in offering resolution
committing th? party to the policy of
reform and then thev took real pleas
ure in defeating candidates of their
own party win were disposed to be
tray the professed party principles.
Through the influence of reformers
both parties were committed to civil
service reform. Then the organiza
tion was directed to the one end of
training and guiding enough voters
in each party to command respect fo.
party professions. What might third
party prohibitionists and populists not
accomplish if they could only be as
wise in their generation a? were the
Fcst Check Currency
It would seem like carrying coals to
Newcastle or bringing a shipload of
foreign anthracite to Seranton to tell
our readers anything further about
what the Post r-hock currency will be
if congress provides for its issue. It
will give fractional currency and bills
up 'to $5 each of which can be con
verted into an order for money by
writing, in a blank line provided for
that purpose on the bill, the name of
a payee, and affixing a one-cent or
two-cent postage stamp (graded as
to amount of bill) and cancelling same.
What was legal tender money then
becomes an order for money, payable
only to the payee or his order, like
any draft or nostoffice order, and it
can be sent through the mails with
perfect safety. The fractional cur
rency feature alone is worth fighting
for. Every person who buys goods
by mail and send small amounts by
mail, is or should be interested in
having the bill pass. The following
letter is self-explanatory. Every in
terested person should write bis con
gressman or senator urging support
of the bill.
Editor Independent: The house?
postoffice committee today voted to
favorably report the Post check cur
rency bill. It will now go upon the
house calendar and it is hoped will
shortly be taken up and passed by
that body.
The senate postoffice committee has
had the bill under consideration for
some time and it is expected favorable
action will soon be taken upon it by
that body. There is no reason to be
lieve the senate committee will not be
as favorably impressed with the mer
its of the Post check as the house
committee has been.
Meantime it is especially important
that both representatives and sena
tors be urgently requested by their
constituents to help along the bill in
every possible way and to vote for it.
If this is not done the measure may bo
side-tracked in the crush of business
at the close of the session. By al
working together there is a growing
prospect that this measure, of so great
consequence to the people and press
of the country, may be enacted at thi
session. Pleas urge your readers to
v-rrite as abov-3.
POST CHECK CURRENCY BUREAU
January 30, 1903.
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