APRIL 30, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT,
HOT GUILTY
Captala Aahbjr Kpli to tb Charge of
Plagiarism Mada by Mr. Tbaabald
Editor Independent: Returning
from Oklahoma and Kansas where the
exigencies of my profession as an at
torney took, and detained me, I find
two communications from a person
announcing himself blushingly as an
economist, and James Theobald of
Hackensack, N. J., (populist) by
name.
Aside from the charge of plagiar
o m-jHo hv this nerson. there is
431X1 Ulttuw J " , I
nothing, which, standing alone, would ,
call for any repiy irvm mc, va
his confused mutterings upon the sub
ject of "value," do not rise to the dig
nity of criticism, and are the mere
xnouthings of one who advertises him
self as a retailer of hearsays, and a
slave of an ignorant past. His only
intellectual aliment consists of hear
says which he finds in print, and any
absurdity is satisfying to his appe
tite if only he can find it set forth au
thoritatively in the writings of cele
brated men from the Stagyite to Del
Mar. A great name is the only guar
anty demanded by him as a condition
to his acceptance of any theory, whe
ther rational or absurd.
He says: "But while thus disagree
, Sng with Mr. Ashby's premises, I cor
dially assent to his conclusion that
"money and coins are widely distinct
(different) from one another, the lat
ter being merely the symbols of the
former.' " .
The reason this economist assigns
for this cordial assent to that doctrine
is that thus it is written in Del Mar s
'Science of Morfey" at,page 47.
Now the fact is I have never yet so
much seen a copy of Del Mar's "Sel
ene of Money." The fact that this
critic never- saw the chapters deal.ng
with "coin" in "Money and the Tax
ing Power," because they have not
been reached in The Independent, con
stitutes no impediment to his asser
tion that my theory of coin as set
forth by him was stolen from Del
Mar. ' . t lT
With me, the case is different Nev
er having read the work referred to
I prefer not to accuse Mr. Del Mar
of advancing such nonsense unless
upon something more convincing than
the report of this modest economist bf
Hackensack, N. J., (populist).
The quotation he pretends to make
from my article in The Independent of
March 5, is a bald falsehood. He can
find no such foolish statement in the
chapter referred to nor elsewhere. My
chapters dealing with "coin" are now
and for nearly three years, have been
in the custody of The Independent.
They have not been published; but
this libeller could not restrain his
egotistical desire to display his stock
of hearsays, which he mistakes for
information, until he can have oppor
tunity to read what I have written
concerning coin. He slanders me
much more by attributing such fool
ishness to me as that coins are mere
ly the symbols of money than by ac
cusing me of literary larceny; and
Del Mar, I hope, for his own reputa-
S c ant?, lor! tn ATI RDOlOiiy. If Del
Mar advances the doctrine set forth-
by my libelous critic, 1 venture to bay
that James Theobald is the only econ
omist in Christendom, who will accept
it For my own part I repudiate such
a doctrine no matter by whom it may
be championed. ,
The distinction between the device,
"money," and the physical object
"coin" and its substitutes, which- I
have attempted to set forth, is for me
at least an original discovery.
Whether Mr. Del Mar has reached
the same point, I am not able to de
clare because I have not read his
work, and unlike my critic I do not
possess the gift of inspiration enabl
iRg me, as he claims it does him, to
linow the contents of writings I have
not seen or which are not yet pub
lished. , ,
I am perfectly willing to acknowl
edge that the epithets to which this
person objects, had they been applied
by me in a mass to the persons he
says they were applied to would have
been objectionable; .but it should not
be forgotten that the human race has
produced many Theobalds in the past
who have seen fit to "darken counsel
by words without wisdom," and the
mass of epithets referred to, if fused
into one, would but faintly express
the contempt which such have de
served at the hands of mankind. These
creatures know nothing except the
reports of things as given them by
others. They concern not themselves
with realities,, but only with what
some one; else has said about them.
This man's criticism is not honest,
and his objections do not arise from
any want of conformity he is able to
perceive in any theory of mine to any
living reality. He cites no, such in
congruity. He has read books, he
says; but reading books is not neces
sarily a means of acquiring knowl
edge. It is not so Important to know
what men have said of things, as it is
to know something of the things
themselves. It is because I have at
tacked the class to which Mr. Theo
bald by nature belongs, that he mani
fests such bitterness toward me. It
is this which makes him willing to
perpetrate a libel by charging me with
having stolen an idea from .a book I
never saw. His rancor also leads him
to falsely ascribe to me conclusions
nowhere to be found in any utterance
of mine. He seems to be one of those
natural serfs, who, having a great
man ah lord, feels it to be his duty
Xo that lord to resent any encroach
ment upon his domain. As the Dorn
thrall of all the celebrated writers
upon the subject of money from Aris
totle down to Del Mar, he feels that
my attempts to set forth some ideas
which cannot be found In any of their
books, is an affront to him, and he
resents the thought that any idea can
be drawn from the realities, unless
confirmation of it can be shown in
the books which alone furnish him in
formation. The coarseness and brutality of; his
attack discloses the fibre of his mind,
a? well as the servile quality of his
spirit, and manifests his pre-eminent
qualification as flunkey for men whose
ideas have obtained ascendancy over
him. Legitimate criticism is benefic
ial to writers as well as the public,
and I should welcome discussion of
the 'positions taken by me, if such dis
cussion be directed to the elucidation
of the matters involved: But when,
as in the present case, the motive,
born of a supercillious egotism, is to
display what the critic mistakes for
his extensive knowledge, and to noti
fy the world that he has read many
words;" and when, as In this case,
there is no purpose to investigate
with a view to arrive at the truth, it
looks much like a waste of time to
give it attention.
One who will fabricate a quotation
for the purpose of predicating thereon
a libelous charge of literary larceny
is not a person who should receive
much consideration at the hands of
the public; and such a person Is James
Theobald, of Hackensack, N. . J.,
(populist).
In closing I desire to express my
appreciation to Mr. De Hart, for what
he has brought out upon the subject
of free coinage, and the fact that my
manuscript dealing with that subject
has been so long in the hands of The
Independent, will be the only protec
tion I shall have when It appears in
The Independent against the charge
by some Theobald of plagiarizing from
Mr. De Hart W, H. ASHBY.
Enters a Protest
Editor Independent: I read in Th?
Independent last week wherein it
stated that a republican lady of Oma
ha had been appointed to a clerkship
by Judges Holcomb and Sullivan. Tf
so, Mr. Editor, I, for one, enter a pro
test I for one lent my little mite to
help place Mr. Holcomb and Mr. Sul
livan where they -now are. Cite me
an instance, Mr. Editor, if you can,
where a republican has appointed .'i
populist or a democrat of the Bryan
stripe to a position in the state. 1
appeal to 'all readers of The Inde
pendent in Nebraska to write a pro
test against the appointment of a re
publican to any position of public
trust by fusion officeholders. You can
publish this if you wish, Mr. Editor,
in the next issue.
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