< u0tcr ( Jo , Pnbll li il oYcry Thnrel jrj t U e County Boat. . 91 , AMBMKKIIV , Kflltor in Cantor Block , Fourth Atc.-fi , * Bntvrtilnt lli postoBco st Breton How , Nob. , i looond-claiilinnttor for truuuiltilon through h U. S.HnlU , _ 8UB3CimT10N PHIOK : On * YOM , In advance . " lw THURSDAY , MARCH , , 8 , 11)00 ) , In the year 1800 the per oapity money circulation was $4,09. In 1860 it was $13.80 , and 1000 it is $26.98 , the highest in the history of the country. The one time Bookless Jerry Sim pson 13 now accused of having sold out the populist party to the silver barcns. In fact this in assigned as the reason why Jerry now regularly wears Books. The exports of the country con tinue to increase , and the democ ratic orators , who used to tell us that BO long as wo had a protective tariff foreign markets would bo closed to American manufactures , are now very silent on the subject. and the I-told- The calamity men - - you-BOS ore considerable disappoint ed at the record in Cuba during the past year , under American admin istrations. The island has not only been in ado self-supporting , but has to her credit for the year 1809 a surplus of $2,200,000 , It must hav boon a deep mortifi cation to Col. Bryan , although it may have opened his eyes , when the South Carolina House of Rep resentatives , alter listening intently to his eloquent address , voted down by a heavy majority , resolution of eympathy ior the Filipinos , on the expansion question , Mr. Bryan finds the South an "Gnomics' country. After Him. The demo'popu are already after D. Clem Deavor's scalp , The arty whip is to bo applied with merci less fury. It is all well enough to talk about honest dome pops , but the fact is , tuoro is no longer any intention to show tavor or respect to any one who will not como un der the democratic yoke. The pop- uli&t party exists only in name' , and in name only to doooivo. It is the bight of folly and hypooracy for any one to pretend that thcro is a distinct populist party. How sublime - limo it is to read in the CHIEF that D. Olom , Doavor is under the influ ence of Mark Hanna. Wo wonder what mllnonco the CUIKF is under. Better got back into the republican prrty where you can do some gbbd , Mr , Deavor ! Ilorr It Looks. The populists and democrats combined do not carry the majority in Ouster county that they used to , They have about coated to campaign tbo county for want of issues and speakers. They have ceased to grow , and are already falling off. They oau't make a live homo cam paign again. The republicans are already becoming aggressive. They - have proven false the statements made by demo-pops , and prosperity is hero and still coming. Every thing is favorable to a republican victory m this county next fall. A hot campaign is just what republi cans should invite , There is tal ent and argument enough on our aide to take our county back into the republican rank. Lot us push the war to a finish in Nebraska and the atato is republican as sure as 'the local ropublioan talent is roused to work for the fasts , and against demo-pops falsehood. Jackson and National Banks , The demo-pops are never weary of refering to Jackson and Jefferson as the saviours of the country , and yet all their references are wholly groundless in fact BO far as their acts refer to present affairs. It is true Jackson vetoed the bill to ro- ohartor the old national bank , and no republican today would OOUBUIO hia aot. The old national bank act was an rank a monopoly as waft over conceived and no republican admin istration would tolerate it any more tlmn Jackson did , The national bank of the present is not a mon opoly , Any onw can go into the business who haa the capital. But under the old bank aot , there vra a limited amount of capital which , when taken , no others could outer the business. It was this condition of the national bank that Jackson abhorred , and not the fcyitoui of na tional banks , If domo-pops would only put in na much of their time in searching for the facts of history , as they do in denouncing their country and the patribtism of their follow mon , they would grow wiser and less boisterous , We doubt if one demo-pop in Ouster county ever read the old national bank aot , or knows what it was. This writer re members very well hearing James G. Blaine denounce the old nation al Bank and commend Jackson's aot. It is disgusting to hoar those blantant onconiuma on Jaekson and Jtfforson by mon who scarcely know when those 'statesmen lived. Congressman Sibloy of Pennsyl vania , never told a braver truth than when ho told his fellow demo crats that they were drifting far away from the democracy ot Jack- sou and Jefferson. If these demo- pops keep on with their hero Wor ship , they will Boon insist that the president of the United States must ride to Washington like Jackson and Jefferson , on borsobaok , Of course they would not want such a stricture on the president of the United Statob to interfere with the privilege of their official connec tions with the railroads. Really , is not all this fuss about Jackson and Jefferson lather stale. la not'a party of today hard up for issues and brains that oau't find men and measures suited to our own times ? Gold Standard. Between Bryan democracy and the populist idea of finance , there ifi an impassable gulf , which no sensi ble populist can over hope to straddle - dlo , The populist party was com mitted to a domestic money , a money simply as a medium of do mestic oxohnngo without intrinsic value and irredeemable Bryan dem ocracy declares for redeemable money and of intrinsic value , The difference between Bryan democ racy and republicans on finance is to a great extent duo to the means to be used in securing the iiso of silver and maintaining a sound cur rency and plenty of it. Bryan sup poses that Congress can force , by law , the commerce of the wor.'d to bow to its edicts , and accept as a medium of exchange just what it says , In abort , ho presumes that our Congress can compel the world to trade with us and accept just what we may choose to dictate. 'Iho ropublioan party' ' , oh the other hand , reoognikes that commercial interest" will dictate the condition of its trade , just as two neighbors will decide for themselves what they will accept in the exchange of property ; hence , in order to facili tate commerce , our laws must ad just our raodinm of exchange to suit the demands of trado. In short , the republicans recognize that money is made for commerce , and not commerce for inonoy. Now , what is to be tbo outcome of the gold standard ? Simply this ; that the United States under a pro- tootivo tariff , and with its marvel ous resources and genius , oan foroo every commercial nation to pay it tribute in gold , So long as our expert - port values exceed , as they are now , our import values , BO surely must the commercial nations bo at our inoroy. This fact is being illus trated continually. Our money IB rapidly increasing , and our values likewise enhanoing in the world's measure of values. It is not simply a domestic inflation to oanool debts , or a forced loan to destroy values. Now , what will bo the end of this ? Simply the result the republicans have insisted ou. A return to the use of silver by a request of for eign powers. The United States will have forced commercial interests to sue for international arbitration on tmoh toitns as the United States m ! y grant. Bryanism can never effect any terms but that of humiliation , It would wreck the splendid nohiov- monts already begun. It would put American valor and silver forever at the diotatos of foreign comnmoo. It is pitiable to notice how utterly void of manly oourage the policy ot Bryan would leave us , Ho stands for commeroialjintoroats on a do mestic ouirency , or rather repre sents nothing , on nuy platform that appeals to prejudice and political oowardioo. If the populiBls believe in a strictly domestic currency , let them say BO , and ooaso to wander after every change rung in by Bryan , We would like to see political is. BUGS , clean cut and distinct , and then something could bo tested. The real financial issue IB shall wo hive a domestic currency , or a com mercial currency. The pope had an issue , the democrats have none , Might n 1'op Err ? The populist party bid good bye to "both old parties" and assorted that good times could never again return till fiat paper money was es tablished. Anything short of fiat money as robbery , and they loud ly assorted that they would never abandon tn principle of irreem- able paper monoy. At Omaha they accepted free failvor as a compro mise for numerical gain , but in do ing BO they had serious fears of the result. Ono year passed and fiat money was dropped and free coin age of silver was the main issue They were then just as sure that there could never again be good times without coining all our silver at 16 to 1. Another year passed , and then they accepted the issue of gold and silver , the money of re demption , and utterly condemning their first ideas , Still another year passes and now , free coinage of pil- vor , fiat money , government owner ship of railroads , etc. , are all gone glimmering for the new issue of "Imperialism , " and worse than all , prosperity is hero and still coming. Now couple all these facts together and juet stop Mr. demo-pop , and think seriously awhile. May you not bo in error ? You must have erred somewhere , ior your predic tions have all proven false. If you ever held the truth , when WPS it ? you have tacitly admitted your for mer issues false by abandoning them. The differences between your party issues now and when you Blurted , are as wide as they wore at first from the republican party. Yet at first you called the ropublioan party a ' "traitor , " "rob ber , " and many other like na'moi. Will you now adhere to your early epithets and brand yourselves as "traitors , " "robbers , " etc. ? You now stand on a currency of re demption gold and silver. Is it possible you have so soon joined is sues with that aroL-traitor John Sherman as you used to call him ? Would not a little political modesty bo a virtue just now ? Are you not ooming faoo to face with yourselves on your crooked political wander ings ? Do you not feel just a little shame when you road such woeful propheoios as Dr. Rhodes sent out just prior to your late convention ? Lot us suppose that some of your early platforms were true , and con tained aorno vital issue of "reform , " have you not been traitors to your men who refuse to bo led astray any longer ? la it not a most humiliat ing condition to bo forced to admit that you have boon making fools of yourselves ? Don't you think it about time for you to go out of the "reform" business and study the elements of political economy awhile ? Can't you see that the only difference between your party and the republican , is that you are five or six years behind and yelling for reforms which republicans have al ready achieved ? You can't fool the people with your lion skin over you , your long ears and braying con tinue to give you away. MoKinloy will bo the next president and then Bryan will bo forced to put off his disguise , Never have honest and sincere men boon so foully deceived and led astray as the men who sin cerely wont into the populist party , Job printing at this office , Washington Loiter. ( Special Corrcipondonco. ) WABIHNOTON , I ) . 0 , , March 3,1SOO. The people of the oity of Wash ington are not allowed to vote , except on puiely local affairs , and those who have always lived hoio occasionally raised the ory that they are "taxed without representation. " They think it is a great hardship , In the meantime the city trios to live on the general government It gets Congressional appropriations for the pay of iU policy , for the paving of atroeta , for local hospitals and for almost everything. And iu the face of any calamity or incon venience the oity is absolutely help less. Laat winter when a heavy snowstorm blockaded the streets , all business suspended while del egation after delegation wont up to the capitol and bogged for money to pay for cleaning the snow * off the strcoti. At first the congressmen failed to rise to the dignity or grav ity of the situation. To the mem bers who oamo from the north or the west there was nothing remark able about a heavy fall of snow , and many of them oven suggested that the Wasbingtons go ahead and shovel snow themselves. In a few days the situation was dofiporato. The people who ride iu closed coaches , , who are waited up on by uniformed servants , and who spend two hours at "dinner" in the evening , wore in despair , The oars wore stopped , the drays could not run , and a famine was imminent. Butter ard eggs wont up to 80 coats ; coal was sold by the gallon , and the blockade actually caused great hard ship. It never occurred to the people to go ahod and clean off the snow. They left the drift * alone , and they would have remained there until spring if Congress had not come to the relief. It cost the government 930,000 to clear off that 8uow. This sort of "taxation with out representation" is not without its charms. Congressman Maxwell was not a very frisky member vihen ho was" hare , but ho had a good many warm friends. It is often remarked hero that as long as the district was going to send a f uaioniat it ought to have returned Maxwoll. The story of how Allen , Robinson and Co. act up the job to knife Maxwell and gather in the soooud term for a member of the office trust , is well known here , and there are many who hope that the "one term and out" rule will again bo applied in the third district this fall. An eastern man waa speaking of Nebraska the other day , and he saia : "Its a tunny place you have out there. I was in Nebraska ten years ago , and a big organization of farmer's alliance people hud control of everything. They talked a great deal 'about "principle" ana such like 'thingi , and they wore down on lawyers. If I remember right a lawyer oould not belong to their organization , and there was a case whara one member who was study ing law was expelled. Since then they scorn to have forgotten all about the "principle" talk , and the only persons they elect to office are lawyers. The politicians have cer tainly worked a confidence game on these old long-whiskered boya. " The national treasury again makes a good showing for February , The statement for the mouth allows that the receipts of thu government exceeded the expenditures by $7- 804,205,08 , representing a reduc tion of the national debt by prac tically that same figure. For the eight mouths of the present fiscal year the surplus receipts have amounted to $37,074,785.22. Con trast this with the way the national debt was increased when tug dem ocrats had full control. H. Burlington lloutc Through Sleeping Cars to San Francisco. No changes-no delays-no chance of missing conneotioiia-if you go to California via the Burlington Route. The Burlington runs through nlooq- ing oars Omaha , Lincoln and Has tings , to Salt Lake City and San Francisco , daily , Dining cars all the wey. Library cara west of Ogdon. Finest scenery in the world. See nearest Burlington ticket agentor write J , Francis , Q , P , A. , Omaha , Nebraska , 8 , 1. S , 19 , P. C. WOIINALL President. J. A. \HIU8 Cnshler. . . , . . . , . A. J. UOBKUTBON.lVlco-l'ros. W. D. BLACKWKLL , Afli't Oaehler. Farmers Bank ofi Ouster County , BROKEN BOW , NEB. Transacts a General Banking Business. County Claims and Warrants Bought , Has n full line ot Drugs , Paints and Wall Paper. Also a Fine Line of Books , Stationery , Toilet Artiolcs , etc. Store on oornor of Fifth avenue and Main street , Broken Bow , Neb. S. H. HUttNIIAM , President , Lincoln , Nob. It. 0 , HOGEU3 , Oashlor , Broken Bow. J. M. KIMllKULING , Vlco-Prcs. , Broken How. S. n. HOST , Aes't Caehlcrj STATE BAffi 1 BROKEN BOW , NEB. GENWRAL BANKING BUSINESS ] TRANSACTED. muKOToim : S. II. Uornuami J. M.KImbcrliug. S. II. Hoyt. n. G. Rogers. Jnltcd ] States Natloml Dunk , Omalm. Plioiilx National IJank , New York. Dank , Lincoln , Nebraska. loicnaiqru Ni c jOWi i'iidMt'itOi'ifaifliaE g [ Z e are still in Ute Lumber business and we | solicit a share of your patronage for the coming- spring and summer and if price cuts any figure , wecan sell you Building Material that will j | Ilj ' rn * * n not fail to please you. Also our Summer Coals are the best and clean. Look ou.t for our next A.cL , - . Poster & Smith , Limber Co. ? ppll | [ i l | p ] ITOl nKl vi t ! TOImJIo3CigiTOCTOI ! j lopll C a\ . . jmim iiiit""v"'M.'ntM"vu | ? I Once Was Lost , hit How I Have Found it. Where ? At my door. A t the Eagle Grocery. What in the world is it , my dear ? It is at the Eagle Grocery , a mam- motii stock ef Groceries , and at the lowest prices you ever hoard of. The Eagle has been reading the papers and keep ing posted on what was being offered for sale. They don't say any thin g about Terbacker and Candy , and other good things like that. It is not pickle dishes you want now , it is Candy. The Eagle has 2,000 pounds of candy for sale cheap. Aistmas committees are invited to call and get my prices , member the place , on the big corner , just east of First Nstional Bank. W. S. SWA3ST , - - Proprietor ! o I wish to bay to my Friends and Patrons that I am now located in the New Brick Building , on west side of Square , whore I will be better prepared to servo them than ever be fore. F. W. HAYES , Jeweler and Optician. o O We carry a We receive stock of goods from 10,000 to _ - valued at 25.000 letters * 1,500,000.00 every day We own and occupy the tallest mercantile building in the world. We I over 3,000,000 customers. Sixteen hundred clerks are constantly encaged filling out-of-town orders. OUR GENERAL CATALOGUE Is the book of the people It quotes Wholesale Prices to Everybody , has over 1,000 pages , 16,000 illustrations , and 0,000 descriptions of articles with prices. It costs 73 cents to print and mall each copy. We want you to have one. 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