PAUtt A
DECEMBER 22. 1904
Nobraslux Indopondoxvt
Judge Fitzgerald
Editor Independent: We can not
read all of the books and this is well,
for many are worthless, but there are
many that we should read, but, for mul
tiple reasons arc unable to do so, which
is regretable. The work entitled, "The
Thirty Years' War against Silver," by
Judge Fitzgerald, is undoubtedly one
of the latter kind' and The Independent
is to be thanked for giving its readers
even a brief review of the salient
points covered in the work which may
serve to put "laymen," i. e., the ordi
nary man, upon inquiry and take some
of the conceit out of professional mon
ey scientists, especially those whose
clamor has been for "free silver" bi
metallists, gold standard votaries, flat
i mi ,V.
money aeprecators, eic. muse wuu
are denounced as "visionaries,"
have long been telling the peo
ple who are clamoring for a reform
which they seemingly do not want,
. j
that all real money is nat money ana .,Th Hocus Pocus Money Book"
that the word "flat" means the decree snow3 how the people can save the in-
of a law making body, or or one ciotneu tere3t on $(j,ouO,000,0(K) compounded
with sovereign authority. Aitnougn several times a year. Send to Albert
Nevada is a silver producing state and Griffin Topeka, Kan., 25c for 1 copy,
also the home ot Judge Fitzgeraia, me or $i for 5,
terlal It is composed is not all that 13
necessary to determine, even for a lim
ited period of time, the exchange value
of jnoney,
So, in conclusion, I submit to Judge
Fitzgerald that the congress of the
United States is the sole arbiter of
what material shall be coined into
money, or rather, upon what material
. . aj. n Ufl 1 1 V, 4 svl
Lilt U-UUCJ uai ouau urj ,ujihjoov,u
coined of stamped, whether it be paper,
tin, leather or what else. There is no
need to change the constitution, as
Judge Fitzgerald hastily assumes; all
we need to do to correct the seeming
crudity or congressional nescience, is
to get rid of the brazen-faced rascality
that now. and for years back, has
stalked with unmasked effrontery, the
halls of congress, trampling with
mailed heel tue confidence of an out-
taged people under their feet.'
E. C. CLARKE.
Syracuse, Neb.
HER PHYSICIANS DESPAIRED.
ADVISED CHANGE OF CLIMATE.
Pe-ru-na, Used as a Last Resort, Cured Her of
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a Severe Attack of Catarrh of the Lungs.
. prospectus of the judge's book i3 large
. ly handicapped from the fact that there 0 1 OId ,
lu ?r" r"' " - Editor independent: The persistent
l"1"""; of the American people to j
:ZL Trif.-- Z-J;ZZ niVrut Uneir Political parties is in pitiful con-
Sot srhowever witt sucor trast wif? the very uncertain devotion
t l l, " U..a t xroA vnrhi uhn Mv ., of the political parties to the people.
B 10,1UO " ' - p . T me exnreions of devotion to
rru ,, xjn y. f nf nnv n in h i people which are annually, made by th
Philosophy of Freedom talk to readers two dominant political parties are in
f Th mJpnendent in the last issue as manner as flattering and obsequious as
,, VLi. -.i. u ci....-. was Fagius devotion to ' my aear
Weil aS lilt! leal Ul mc rmiuouvu ui I ,, , . -. . , , . .
vam wiv that Th.Tnd.nident is boys" in Dicken's Story of Oliver Twist.
giving its readers. The sidelights given And In their Persistent partjr loyalty,
ri, nf jndm Fitzeerald's, book, toseth- the dear people themselves , have-by
er with the beacon lights always seen means or tariff schedule and by. rpe
on page 6 of The Independent, should cial legislat on of their party, repre
aJa n vcmnva thA - hnmAniPR fmm sentatives in government - picked
tha hMM.nr "hi-TYiPtfliiiata." frpe sil- pockets, to enrich favorite clinents of
. Mr.. 'VniH fitnnrisird npnniA .inri the .political parties, as nimbly as
decorticate the moss from the backs of Jagms . "Artful Dodger, and have, as
those reformers who propose to fool Jd Oliver Twistr under leadersnip of
- the people a little while longer with Fagm burglarized the premises and
an "income tax," the benefits of which violated .the personal rights of the
nn nno nnt hvpn in thp latft cSmnaism American citizen. .
..,. L r,,r.h woo simnnri tn h nt With the threat to reduce wages
i hod thP tpmpritv tn "ris and and even a threat of the . loss of op-
explain" its merits. But the world does Portumty to work (for the masters) the
. move and evolution insists that "single PePle. have-been frieghtened repeat
tax" on land values go along with it. edly mto domS thinS3 they knew to
' tvia nnntHhnt.nns nf such men aa Mr. be wrong; and they have been, by mis-
x.-irY.ar TTiP-pmid. Van Vnrhis etc.. representations, buncoed.... into doin;
iiever forgetUng the mention of the Srea.t wrongs which they believed, to
greatest of" economic philosophers, be right . ''
TTonrv npnrsrp havp startfid the whppls In platforms, campaign speeches and
of progress with new impetus and it is through their subsidized newspapers,
' now to be hoped that all those really the politicians, political parties and
hnt rpfnrn.Prs who have hastily re- self-constituted patriots, continuously
iorir0d that thP hnrsp was spvpnt.ppn proclaim their love for the people.
tee hisrh will hP candid enouch 1.0 TaQ republican party is going to pun-
oAmit t-neir hnstp rPfnimizP thpir Prror ish the trusts, the criminal trusts!"
,nd that it. should read "hands" in- The democratic party, just longs for
Rtpnd nf "fppt " an opportunity to get at the trusts,
nndpr the maviTn. "humanum est er. and to'put a stop to the "crimes of
rare" not even Judge Fitzgerald need Predatory wealth. Is anxious to wt
blush at errorand to "hasty conclu- August Belmont at the work of anni-
sions often, nay. even so commonly hilatlng the trusts and monopolies.
. fr,,i in th p)ncinr naraPMni,.! crnrw. The socialist party also "love3 the
KivP of advance thought in economic People, and innocently but frankly
or.,1 tw en.pnno. n withn.it tho Pnnr. proclaim their purpese to surrender
pv nf a "Me nardon." we ssuespst that, our old idea of "personal liberty" and
the judge is mistaken when he say3 t0 completely centralize the goverij-
(if The Independent quotes him right- auu lu au 'uulluuai
. ly) that "if anything beside silver and energy with the hateful powers of op
. gold coin is made a legal tender, the Passion in a sort of "merger " called
constitution must De cnangea." xna w FVi.v
TTnitpd RtatPs constitution nrovides The past conduct and present atti-
that "Congress shall have power to tude o "the political parties" invites
rnin monev and reeulate the value the suspicion that these old rival lov-
. thprpnf and nf weights and measures. ' ers of the people are insincere. And
Judge Tiffany, on constitutional Jaw, some substantial proof is required that
says: "there is really no such thing as these old parties love the people dis-
gold and silver money. Money is the interestedly and better than they love
cnvD,.0ioT. nnthoHtv imnrpsspd nn th.it their party, their party bosses and
which is capable of taking and receiv
ing . the impression. That upon which
the stamp is placed is called coin;
thp rnin mav hp metal, narchment. or
: paper." In jthis connection the United alarm for tae safety of "Miss Liberty,-
States supreme court says, 12 Walace, their conduct has been salacious and
page 552: "here we might stop, but nasty- Insinuatingly obsequious in h-r
will briefly notice an argument pre- Presence, but prompt to defame in an
RPntPd in sunnort of the Dosition that aside. Why, these two old rival loveo
; the unit of money value must possess of the PePle. at the simple mention of
intrinsic value. The argument is de- the name of a people's party have fal
- rivpd from assimilatins ' the constit.11- len into hysterical fits of denunciation
tional provisions respecting a standard anr abuse, have roared a very tempest
of weights and maesures to that con- of misrepresentation, and succeeded as-
' f erring the power to coin money and tonishingly well in making the people's
regulate its value." Idem, page 533 Party contemptuous in the minds of
- states, "It is said that there can be no partisans (most of us are partisans)
, uniform standard of weights without and nave declared authoritatively that
wpifht. nr of mpasure without leneth "populism" and "the pops" are ' in
or space, and we are asked how any- principle and in personel beneath the
. thing can te a standard of value which notice of either republicans or demo-
has itself no value, . . . It is hard- crais.
ly correct to speak of a standard of
value." This language reveals the fact
that, the court saw the Inconsistency
of attempting to authorize congress to
. 'fix the value" of money, which they
can no more do than they could fix the
course of the wind.. The f ramers of
. that clause of the constitution seemed
to think that to fix the volume of mon
ey issued would also fix its value, but
the volume of money of whatever ma-
The Sensational Cure of Mrs.
Caldwell Is the Talk of Her
Acquaintances.
Mrs. Ida Caldwell, GOG Pearl Btreet,
Sioux City, Ia.f Vice-President Order ot
Washington, writes:
"I suffered with catarrh of the res
piratory organs oft and on for the last
three years until I thought it was
chronic. My chest and lungs were ir
ritated and 1 had to use the greatest
care Hot to exposo myself to chilly air
or dampness as it increased my troubled.
t'Mv nhv&lcian advised me to try a
change of climate, but I was unable to
leave my family. Reading of the won
derful cures performed by Peruna, I
bought a bottle.
"It was with the greatest satisfaction
that I found it the one medicine among
them all which cured me. I was re
lieved within three clays and after, two
months and a half the irritation was
gone, my lungs perfectly healed and my
health restored," Ida Caldwell.
Thousands of women owe their live
to Peruna. Hundreds of Ihouaand owe
their health to Peruna. Hundreds of
thousands are praising Peruna in every
state of the Uuion.
Wo have many thoURand of lotterf
from grateful women, with permission
to use them in public print, whlcfc can
never be used for want ofspaco.
Catarrh would not be such a cum
In this country If the people thorou.My
understand Hs nature. It must b
treated at once to prevent It from oak
ing Inroads upon vital organs.
If you suffer from catarrh, buy Pe
runa to-day, for a day gained on Us
enemy, catarrh, means a day nearer
recovery. ! "
We have on file many thousand testi
monials like the one Riven here. We caa
only give our readers a slight gltmpa
of the vast array of unsolicited endorse
men ts we are receiving. No other phy
sician in the world has received such ft
volume of enthusiastic letters of thankf
as Dr. Hartiuan for Pruna.
their selfish interests.
As to the two chief rivals the two
"grand old parties" their conduct- has
been such as to fill the people with
Confronted with this contradiction
of conduct, this loving abuse, this con
fusion of preach and practice, we are
led to inauire how and when doss
the "sovereign American citizen" come
into his royal significance? Their con
duct has made the American sovereign
look more "like thirty cents", than a
sovereign. They would maKe "loreign
agreement" necessary to determine the
status of the American sovereign. Alas
who will appear now to "speak up'
for the little spectacled scare-eyed fel
low whom Mr. Opper pictures as "The
Common People?" Who is he any
way, that he should expect to be con
sidered; that even under the name of
a neonle's oarty. he should ask to be
heard, amid all this lovemaking by the
two old rivals, amid this clamorous
claim Of desire to better the condition
of the common people?
Reneatedlv. here and there, groups or
the people have united in effort to ac
comDlish some much needed reform in
government, and they were promptly
rallied at and maligned as crauKs Dy
hoth the old parties: unless one of the
parties cunningly chose to annex the
citizens, in a single campaign to cieieat
the other old party and then having
squeezed the citizen's lemon dry, and
nromDtlv threw it into the garbage,
with a laugh of derision. "Citizens
union! Bah!" Ah. how earnestly, how
sincerely and unselfishly these two old
political rivals do love the people?
STILLMAN DOUBLEDAY.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
der high state of cultivation, the barn
is 24x32. hay loft for 12 tons of hay,
has nice cupola on barn; wagon shed,
12x24; granary, 12x28; chicken house,
8x12; "LL" on east of barn for calves,
12x24; "L" on north of barn, 16x24.
These buildings are all compact, every
thinr huilt substantial, shlneled and
painted. All stock can te fed from
inside. Frame house, 24x28, 5 rooms,
shingled, painted and plastered. Good
well and windmill a nd cistern; good
garden, fenced; nice plum grove; bear
ing strawberries, gooseberries, etc.
Rock reservoir, cemented, to irrigate
garden; outdoor cellar, 12x14, all built
of rock and plastered Inside. Large
corral, 80 acres pasture. ' If sold be
tween now and February 1, price $1,800,
$1,200 cash. $300 in one year, $300 in
2 years, 8 per cent interest. What hay
is left will go with place and noma
machinery. Write me.
J. W. MILLH-K.
Venango, Neb.. JJox 182.
HEADACHE
IK U
Ranch for Sale
nnA and one-half miles from rail
road town, with good school, church,
on a eeneral store, hotel and livery, de
not. and other railroad buildings, with
first class stockyards. The ranch con
sists of 212 acres with miles of range
on three sides, enough for 300 head
of cattle. 160 acres of ranch are un
The chairman and secretary of tha
people's party national committee say
of "The Hocus Pocus Money Book,"
As we believe its circulation will
greatly help our cause, we trust all
friends of monetary reform wm pro
cure conies for themselves, and call the
attention of others to it." end to Al
bert Griffin, Topeka, Kan., 25c for 1
copy, or $1 for 5. .
NOTICE OF ATTACHMENT PROCEEDINGS
M. A. McLaughlin, will take notice, that on
November 30th. 1004, in an action then pending
before him wherein one William W. Handry
was plaintiff and the said M. A. McLaughlin
w&a defendant, W. T.Stevens aiusticeof the
peace in and for the city of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Nebraska, Issued an order of attach
ment against said defendant for the sum of
fifteen (15.00) dollars, and costs of action, and
that property of said defendant consisting of
merchandise in the possession of and under the
control of the Adams Express Co. a corooration
has been attached under said order. Tuat said
cause was by said justice continued to January
14th. 190ft at the hour of Dine o'clock A. M. of
said day. W,'UAM w HENDRY, Pli
Dated December bid. iw,