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HOW THE ! STOOD. > 'aotsand Figures Relating to Pensions , Showing the .Votes on the Various Bills Introduced and Passed L ' by Congress. Read and Ponder. By Ex-Commandcr 11.0. Jlussollof the Grand Army ol tboRoyubllcoi Nebraska. . . .Comrades , two dayt > atter the June meeting of the State Veteran associa tion , Comrade Harrison signed the disability bill , which wiJut 400,000 of our disabled comrades -ml 100,000 widows , orphans , fathers ai7d mothers on the pension roles. This bill was passed against the de termined opposition of the democrats in both houses. The vote when taken in the house stood as follows : Republicans for the bill , 117. Republicans ng-dnst the bill , none. Democrats for the bill , 118. Democrats against the bill , 56. In the senate the vote stood : Republicans for the bill , 31. Republicans against the bill , none. Democrats for the bill , 8. Democrats against the bill , 18. On the stump nil democratic and in dependent orators are in favor of lib eral pensions ; when they get to con gress they are always for the bill that is not before the house. Let us look at the pension legislation of the past. 1 give below the record of the two pjtrties on the pension question &s shown by the Hou B. M. Cutcheon , of Michigan , In tue liouse September C , 1890. 1890.The The Law upon which our present pen sion system was based was enacted July 14,18(52 ( , while the republican party was in undisputed control of every branch of the government It provided a generous system of pen sions. From 1802 to 1875 congress remained . . . . vn 4 riu imvHti0 sf 4-l-m / - ltl ! * - M4. WAJ.W UlUV4t3 UA bUO A OJJ U UlllsililO. The principal acts that foiled were : 1. Act of April 0 , 1864. 2. Act of July 4 , 1864. 3. Act of March 3,1865 , 4. Act of June 6. 1806. 6. Act of July 25,1868. 6. Act of July 27 , 1868. 7. Act of July 7,1870. 8. Act of July 8 , 1870. 9. Act of February 14 , 1871. 10. Act of June 8 , 1872. 11. Act of March 3 , 1873. 12. Act of June 6 , 1874. 13. Act of June 6 , 1874. 14. Act of June 14 , 1874. Each and all of these acts wore passed by a republican congress and approved by a republican president , but were bit terly opposed by a niajority of the dem ocrats in both , ft one of them took a backward step. At the election in 1874 the house of representatives passed into the hands oi the democrats. The first act xmder democratic rule was that of February 28 , 1878 , allowed separate pensions of both a hand and a foot , passed by a solid republican and a minority of the democrat votes. The act of March3,1877 allowed pen * sions to disabled soldiers in certain cases , although they had engaged in re bellion against the United States. For the above act the democrats were a unit. The act of March 9,1878 , amended the republican law of Feb 14 , 1871 , grant ing pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812. It reduced the term of service from sixty to fourteen days. It provided that a widow's pension shoul cease if she should remarry. But the "milk in the coconut" is found in the following : Sec. 5. That the secretary of the in terior be , and is hereby , authorized and directed to restore to the pension roles the names of all persons now surviving heretofore pensioned on account of ser vice in the war of 1812 against Great Britain , or for service in any of the In dian wars , and whose names were stricken from the roles in pursuance of the act entitled "An act authorizing the secretary of the interior to strike from the pension roles the names of such per sons as have taken up arms against the government , or who-have in any man ner encouraged the rebels , " approved February 4 , 18G2 , and that the joint resolution elution "prohibiting the payment by any officer of the government to any person not known to have been op posed to the rebellion and in favor of its suppression , " approved March 2 , 1867 , and section 4716 of the revised statutes of the United States shall not apply to persons provided for by this act. Section 6 provides pensions for the _ i'dows of persons stricken from the role ? , as above , and who died while their names were so stricken from the rolls. This was a democratic act and received their entire vote. On the Wth of June , 1878 , Mr. Haskell , republican , of Kansas , moved to suspend the rules and pass the act introduced by a repub lican , Mr. Cummiugs , cf Kansas. This was knoSvn as the "arrears act. " Upon this motion the rules were suspended and the- bill passed by a vote of 1C4 to 61 , distributed as follows : Democrats for the bill , 48 ; democrats against the biUt 61' republicans for the bill , 116 ; republicans against the bill , none. On the vote on ting bill in the senate Janu ary 16,1879 , the vote was yeas 43 , nays 3 nays were all democrats. The arrears act was not introduced by a democrat' was not moved by a democrat , was not passed by democrat votes. Every vote cast against it in either house was cast by a democrat. It was approved by President Hayes January 25th , 1S79. It repealed the Arrears .limitation ab solutely and for all time. It created no new limitation. It was a measure of full relief. It was a republican law. The new limitation was forced by the democrats by being tacked on to an ap propriation bill at the close of the ses- The bill was reported from the dem ocratic committee of the House by Starks ( democrat ) entitled : "An act making appropriations for the payment of tye arrearages of pensions granted by the act of congress approved Janu ary 25th , 1879 , and for other purposes. " The act was sections 1 made the nec essary appropriation for the payment of the arrears ; section 2 first subatan- tially reenacts the Haskel-Cummings foil ! granting pensions from the date oi ieatn or discharge and then adds : "If tie disability occured prior to discharge , and if such disability occurred after the discharge , there from the date of actual disability , or from the termination of the right of the party having prior titl.i tosuch pension ; provided the applica tion for such pension has been or is hereafter filed with the commissioner of pensions prior to the first day of July 1880 otherwise the pension shall commence from the date of tiling the . Thus the application. reenactment ment ot the limitation of arrears of pen sion law of which we complain was forced by our democratic friends upon an appropriation Jaw for the payment of pensions. During the Forty-eighth congress , in which the democrats had a majority ox seventy , bills covering almost every phase of the pension question were in troduced and referred to the proper committee. There was a great abund ance of material went to the committee but very little ever came back to the house. But a bill to pension soldiers ol the Mexican war was promptly passed , granting a service pension to every soldier who served for fourteen days in the Mexican war. This act repealed the law which pro hibited pensions to persons who h-.i'l borne arms against the United Stares , regardless of the fact tj' l they may have been disabled lighting against the United States. This bill went to the republican sen ate and was there amended so as to con fer pensions upon all honorably dis charged union soldiers who had become disabled since the war , and to increase widows , dependent parents and child ren's pensions. It was returned to the house with the senate amendment. Mr.Howcttof Alabama movud to sub stitute the original Mexicuu bill. Upon Hewitt's motion the * , yea ? were 84 , all democrats , nays-126 , of which 87 were republicans and 89 democrats. When the bill came up for considera tion Mr. Hewitt inaugurated a filibuster which was kept up to thejionr of final adjournment , thus "killing the bill for that session. At the next session of the same con gress. Mr. Keifer , hvpublianX on Jan uary o , 1883 , moved li'Mi.sp-'iii ! the i > i < and take up the bill as amended by te ! senate ana concur in me senate amend ments , which required a two-thirds vote. On the call of the roll the vote stood : Democrats for the bill. f > 7. Democrats against the bill , 84. Republicans for the bill , 72 Republicans against the bill , 1. The one republican agxinst the bill was Mr. Bisbee , of Florida. Thus 84 democrats defeated this just legislation. In the Forty-ninth congress , upon tiie question of increabiug widows pensions from $8 to S12 per mouth , the vole ias as follows : Democrats for the bill , 80. Democrats against the bill , GO. Republicans for the bill , 118. Republicans against the bill , pone One of the GO wl < voted ajrfrinst this bill was Colonel BIVI JJ , of Wisconsin , who had been a uaiuii soldier. This is the only bill wherein the rights of the union soldier was involved where a majority of the democrats voted for the bill. About the same time the senate passed a bill to pension disabled uo- pendent soldiers. Democrats for the bill , 7. Democrats against the bill , 17. Republicans for the bill , 27. Republicans against the bill , none. This bill went to the house and died in Mr. Matison's pocket. Mr. Matison was a democrat and an ex-union soldier ; he had bo'en appointed chairman of the committee on pensions by a democratic speaker who had been elected by the democrats and independ ents , who , while on the stump before election had time and again declared their love for the ' -Old Soldiers , " .a la McKeighan , Kern , Thompson , Bryan and Root. "Boys , " its the old story of the spider and the liy. The vote on the dependent pension bill in the hcuse was : Democrats for the bill , 66. Democrats against the bill , 76. Republicans lor the bill , 114. Republicans against the bill , none. Republicans not voting , 25. Democrats not voting , 38. The act went to the president and on February 11,1887 , was returned with his objections. On the final vote to pass the bill , not withstanding the president's objections , the vote stood as follows : Democrats for the bill. 87. Democrats against the bill , 125. Republicans for the bill , 138. Republicans against the bill , none. Democrats not voting , 16. Republicans not voting , ( paired ) 2. In order that these votes may be more readily understood I herecappend them in tabulated form. o 55g.5-2.ii H P B P crc & aa sg P 0) I rfS t 3.ffl 03P . .fflri ri- riO 5 2 3 ft O O 5To as s- 5To Cj & o eeg 5H o ui en C " 3 3 CS 3S 3o 0) ) 3w 3o 5 o 2- : 3 - 2a3.iT : 3CO 5" ° : r- i- s : f i5 - 5"n 3 a. : jr = ? 5 : : o ei . &i § to O i ° g : m- ; i mn . : CO o - pre- I o TJo ? JOJ BJBJOOtnOQ oo t5MClCOOOC > 3O o IS carf- & * - - O (0 0 1-1 OOOOI-tOO Senator Mandeixm Introduced into the senate the Grand Army disability pens-ion bill and the same was passed and went to the house , where it was smothered with the arrears of pension repeal bill , by the democratic commit tee. There was no general pension law Kissed during the fiftieth congress , r. Miitison , an ex-union soldier and a democrat , was chairman of the. com mittee on pvnsions and noverpermittcd a bill passed by the republican sunutc to see the light of day in the house. The fifty-first congress , Mr. Reed of Maine bwing speaker , appointed Mr. SIop-HI of Kansas , an ex-union soldier , a republican chairman of the commit tee on pensions. With a bare working majority , the first pension legislation oroughtforward in this fifty-first congress was to correct an error or oversight in the act of June IGth , 1880 , by increasing the pension of those totally helpless , allowed since that date , from S50 per month to $72 per month , in accordance with the original intent. _ The bill passed both houses without division. As it became a law it was the result of a conference , and was ap proved March 4th , 1890. This was a republican measure re ported by a republican committee. The next pension legislation of the presept congress was the dependent pa rent's bill , and provides for dispensing with proof of the dependence of the parents on the soldier at the date of his death. It first came up in the senate March 31 , 1890 , and passed by the following vote : Republicans for the bill , 32. Republicans against the bill , none. " Democrats for"tho bill , 10. Democrats against the bill , 12. On the democratic vote alone the bill would have been defeated. -This finally became a law as part of the act of June 27,1890. April 7 Mr. Merrill brought up in the house what was known as the < MorrUl bill. It pensioned four classes : First. All soldiers sixty-two years of ago who had served in the army , nary or marine corps in the late war for ninety days and .were honorably dis charged. ja.ilviiu uuvu prebeub uis- ability equal to $8 per month , whether contracted in the service or not. Third. All widows of soldiers sixty- two years of age. * Fourth. All widows under sixty-two .years who have no dependence except their personal labor. This bill was liberal , simple and easy of administration. It was a purely service bill , coupled with an age dis ability. It was brought up on a motion tossuspend the rules when it required a two-thirds vote to pass it. The follow ing was the vote : Republicans for the bill , 136. Republicans against the bill , 1. Democrats for the bill , 34. Democrats against the bill , 86. So it was defeated for want of a two- thirds vote. It will be seen that only a little more than a quarter of the demo crats voted for it , while only one re publican yoted against. On April 30. under a special order of the committee on rules , Mr. Merrill , chairman of the committee on invalid pensions , called up the same bill and put it on its passage. After a debate of four hours a vote was take'n on the mo- hon of Mr. Cheame to reduce the a s- Umit to sixty years. The vote resulted as follows : Republicans for the amendment , 14. Republicans against the amendment ; .none. Democrats for the amendment , 40. Democrats against the auieudViuut 71. 71.The The republicans solidly for if. and ns- most two-thirds of the dcmocr.it- against it. The vote was then ( April 39) ) taken on the amended Merrill Mil ( asre limit : : > sixty years ) with the following reg-uis 'Republicans for the bill , " 111. Republicans against the bill , none. Democrats for the bill , : j-3 Democrats a < rainst the ! -il ! 7 ! . Every republican voting for. a'i \ seven-tenths of the democrats \ctnu against. The senate and house having pv t different bills , a conference was ! i t-i and a compromise was gr ed ir- , ! which has since ( June 2 ? ) bWosne a .1 * . That act pensions all who have an e\ - ? ing disability equivalent to SO p r month and up to $12 permonth withm , ' proof that it was contracted in the -IT vice , provided they served ninety d.n- and received an honorable discl'urge It also pensions the widows of ail such , and all soldiers' widows dcpund ent on their labor. Thin conference report came to a vo'e in the House June 11th , 1SDO and w. s adopted by a vote of 14-3 to ,16as follow- : Republicans in favor of the report , 117. Republicans against the report , none Democrats in favor of the report , " . Democrats against the report ] 50. Every republican in favor and just two thirds of the democrats against. This was a republican measure. In the senate it came to a vote June 28 , 1890with the following result : Republicans for , 31. Republicans against , none. Demorats for , 3. Democrats against , . 18. Ever republicau fqr , six-sevenths of the democrats against. So this most liberal and beneficient law was passed in the House by a. vole of 148 republicans for , and none against ; 31 democrats for and 71 against. The next pension measure to be con sidered was the ' 'prisoners of war" bill. " This bill , in addition to pensions for prisoners oP war also provides ih.t prisoners of war who were prisfu : * i - for thirty day.s or more , should rv ( i\ < - a per diem allowance of S2 a d.-u mi every day they were held as priMhier.- of war. This measure was brought up on mo tion to suspend the rules and pis : ) .H- bill and required a two-thirds voi'i. The vote resulted as follow.- : Republicans for the bill , 110. Republicans ag'iinsl th bill , none. Democrats for the bill , 'J4. Democrats against the bill. " 8. So the bill was defeated. rm n l' ' . . three-quarters of the democratx'oijuj ; against it. This is the hist genera ! ii-cM--- that has been acted r.noij at ( , - - . . sion. sion.That since March -5th. i.-Njj.Hi. iv : ' . < > been no pen'-iiia v--t--t- That ui : ! ; present adnun5.-tn iion. Thuivi h.ia L . no ordt-r to return the liu s. 1 now present in tabuU > i d form Un votes upon pension legislation in tlus first session of the ifty-firfec uotigre&i * STB _ .n ft . o 5 2.2.2. ° " B " " < * "acsss" . 2. | § § Q J c * 2 C. * * I * 3 * * O O * J3 A3o Q o 10 S o c 2 , J 5 5 3 c' ScrPSsS I essK ! O Oa i Sen c < | i H 5. = 52.3.2.3 r M o o H M liopubllcans tor Licptiblieasis HI I OOOOO'-'O * iiirninst. Democrats. for ii' 013 * All tnis has been doncf.ga.inst the de termined opposition of the democratic party. Boys , if the next house is'dcinoer-itic you who served three 3'ears in the \vjtr will never live to see a ervict , pension law. law.Comrade Comrade ? , every other class of pjn ; > Y arc looking after their o\vn iuiun,1s. . why not we ? Boys if after reading the above 1'icfb you think you can trust the demouv.-iiU party do it , but if not , if you iin i ti , republican party has stood by you h the past , I ask you to stand by it , asl your neighbor to do so. "NEBRASKA IS. BUSTED. " Iowa Says "Nebraska is LosIng - , Ing Her Grip. " Iowa's Claim of "Hard Times In Ne braska" Refuted With Facts. These are some of the texts which eastern papers are using from which to preach to their people of the re'ited poverty and financial distress in Ne braska. These things are damaging , beyond all power of language to express , to the genernl prosperity of our state , and are lowering our values every day. Read from the Iowa press and see the effectthat this agitation has on our credit abroad. It is useless to appeal to the Omaha World-Herald and the deino- .cratic press to stop their howling about farmer oppression and farmer poverty. They care more for the success of the democratic ticket , for the election of a democratic governor , for the election of democratic congressmen , and for the election of a democratic hou-3e and sen ate , who will redistriet the state in the interest of the democratic party , than they do for the financial reputation of the state or the value of our property. It is useless to appeal them. They will continue till election day to inllanip the ' feverish public mind , 'it is unless to appeal to McKciganandKemms. They have nothing to lose and all to gain l-y the agitation. They now live m poverty and want , with empty pockets. If elected to office , they 'will live a short time at least , in luxury , asi-i have money in their pockets Ic is useless to appeal to them. They vail continue to lilt their voices from ex ery stump in the state , and their apje.i.s to the prejudices of the people wii ! oo heard across the land from ocean to ocean. It. is useless to appeal to these men. What does McKeighan care if ! is speeches depreciates the value of il.- ; farmers home. . It costs i 'un nothing. Yon might as well appeal to Qiii itv.o who sacked Luwrriicw or to iho n.o ! > that burned the eily of London. Y u might as wull appeal to a } > aek of hungry wolves with empty std'.imehs. But there are men to ulnniie m.ty appeal to the . - i'ron - ' peal save st.-ne : wm-U'iig itself on the rock" uf im-mci-il . ' .i a.-tvr. We may appeal to ilie > n.Miie-s i . - u , the honJst laboiii'ir man to tlic level hea'k'U thristy laiim-r , w'no h-.is a home to protect aiid property iuten-t < r > flofrxitlVi in.-iv Mriii > -il Ii > tlif c ) < i to raise up and exert ltiir ! infiijenc - and save the tiiiauei : : ! ivpu'.ation of our lair state , and ivdeem the vastierot usir- property. Ki-a l from i'ijc lva l > -r ' . * and noie the effect of MoKyighan and Keni and their agitation. Nebraska a Losing Her Grip. For years the people of lov.-a have been regaled with pleasing stories of the prosperity of the Nebraska farmer. Land there , was suppose to be the most valuable thing on earth , and evervbody wanted Nebraska land. Everybody wanted to go to Nebraska , and thoii- sands of Iowa people did go there. But nov according to dispatches from Sen ator Paddock , the Nebraska fanner is reported to be the poorest man on earth. The senator telegraphs recently from Washington that the report is rife throughout tby east that the farmers of Nebraska are mortgaged for more than they are actually worth , and will be ob liged to give up their land to the money sharks and railroads and leave the ftate. If the situation is really serious with the Nebraska farmer , he would show good sense to not make it public and parade himself before the world as a pauper. Heretofore Nebraska has enjoyed the highest confidence of the eastern capi talist and the home seeking emigrant. A few more farmer conventions out there , and a few more Van Wycks , will soon settle the destiny of Nebraska as to immigration for a terra of years at ieast. A new state must either progress or go backward. Values of property depend 011 keeping the boom in motion. When immigration to a new state ceases , val ues go down rapidly. Mt. i'leasant Journal. Hard Times In Nebraska , Pleasantvillo Telegraph. From the reports , it looks as if the leretoforo reputed prosperity of Ne braska was all a great joke. Some of he democratic papers there represent ; ho farmers as being in a condition of DOVOrtv and ahsajiitn cla carv to fcho tanks and railroads , j ana mat was held thorn at $2(5 ( per acre one year ago is now ottered at $15 and no buyers at that price. There has been no emigra tion there during this season owing to the general dissatisfaction among the funnel's. No one will go to a state where the farmers are dissatisfied , as all lines of business depend largely on the fanner's prosperity. In the state alliance they nave resolved to reduce railroad rates as low as those of Iowa , wher there is three times as much pro duce to .iiove , and they propose to pass a usury law this coming winter , that will drive out much of the monicd cap ital This will necessitate much hard ship among the poorer farmers of the state as they will not be able to borrow. Altogether the outlook is gloomy and the owner of Nebraska land will not bo able to pass it off for valuable property as clibly as ho used to. ' Nebraska Is Busted. " Knoxvllle ( Iowa ) Journal. And now it turns out after years of bragging on Nebraska that the farmers of that state admit that it is a failure as an agricultural state. From the recent reports that come through the press of that state it seems that they are in a very destitute condition and will bo obliged to give up their .homes this fall to the money lender , who. as a rule , has loaned more money than the land is worth. Five years ago Nebraska gave it out to the world through her news papers that she had great advantages to offer to the emigrants seeking a home , and thousands of Iowa people went there , and until recently were supposed to be doing well. But there is no dodg ing the fact , Nebraska is a failure as a place for farmers , or else tne farmers Assembled in their recent convention there are the biggest lot of liars on earth. Our Iowa people who went there years ago may be expected to re turn in prairie schooners between now and winter. Let them come. We will welcome them back to a state where every industrious man can do well. The above article is but one of the many articles being published in the press of the east , rein ting to the dc- prcs.-ed condition of affairs in Nebras- the. made some time since that the people of Nebraska will suffer far more from the present uncommon and uncalled far agitation within the next year than t y will gain bv it in the next ten yeaVa. The causes which are claimed to be sufficient to warrant a revolution in the affairs of the state are largely imaginary , and only held before the people by such men as McKeighan , who has been a disgruntled politician for years , and J. Burrows , who imagined he saw a chauce to make a stake , and perhaps a national reputation as a newspaper man by exposing the imagi nary wrongs of the people. John Pow ers , McKeighan , Kern , and a crowd of like political failures , all expensed the cause and assisted in proclaiming the poverty of the state , injuring the credit of the same and the individuals whom they profess they are trying to benefit. Of such people wo demand silence , unless they can show a more , practical remedy than they have ever done before for the alleviation of the so imaginary ills. We want such men to tell the people how long it will take them to restore to the farmers of Phelps county by their method , or proposed method of legis lation , the three to five dollars per acre which the present agitation has knocked off of every farm. Such men have utterly failed to show how the ills complained of are to be remedied. They offer no tangible or practical relief. They have all * been failures , simply because they are im practical mon , "and they will if un checked , wreck the whole state by agi tating impractical measures. Aye say to the people , make these men give you a practical demonstration of the work ings and effect of their proposed legisla tion , be-fore you accept the theory. You cannot afford to waste your time , de preciate your own propert } ' , and lose your credit by adopting something which has never been proven to be tangible or practical. This is the legitimate result of1 the stories sent out broadcast by Boss Bur rows and others about the enormous number of farms loaded down with mortgages in Nebraska , and the impov erished condition of our people. The calamity orators of the McKeighan , Powers" and Kera stripe , who go "about the country with their tales of woe aud cries of distress , are doing the state and people more harm than all other causes combined. The doleful stories told by such papers as the Oma ha World-Herald and its imitators in almost every county in the state has created a wide feeling of distrust all over the east , and the farther east you crn flio nrnrvn Tliprp is tint n "P nr > l ( > c" or democratic orator on the stump in Nebraska today who does not try to make his hearers believe that they are a tax-ridden , mortgage-cursed object of pity and despair. It is a wonder such CBlumity shriekers are tolerate' ! among an intelligent people as inhabit Ne braska. We have lived in Seward county ele ven years , and we know many farmers who were in only moderate circumstan ces when he caine here , who are now in possession of a handsome competence. They staid on their facms , attended strictly to their business , and in due time were rewarded for toeif labor. In commenting on the above clipping the Wahoo Wasp , .says : The above is- one of the legitimate outgrowths of the agitation which is sweeping our state today. The press of the east is being filled with just this kind . .f bladerdash , much to the dis credit of Nebraska. If something is not soon done to counteract Nebraska which today are being sold at from S35 to 845 per acre will go begging for pur chasers at half that price. There are wrongs which should be righted , laws which should be righted , laws which should be appealed , others amended and new ones made in the interest of the producer is against capital , but the asser tion that our state , as a state , is bank rupt , is false and misleading. There are many men who are bankrupt , but laws as immutable as the laws of the Medes and the Persians could not put wealth in their hands and keep it there. Ow ing to the dry season in Nebraska tins year as in many other states , there will be some land in the newly settled parts of the west which will be sold for the mortgage , but we challenge the records to show that ten pieces of farm lands have been sold in this county under the hammer in the pastfiveyears ! If the far mer who can sell his form today for $10 per acru succeeds in forcing the untold millions cf dollars to remain in the east until his farm will brinji but half that amount , wno is to Diamo out mmsoixi Saunders county was never more pros perous than it is today , and wo eon. buy any county of our size in the state of Iowa and have a'good margin loft. Wahoo Wasp. "Nebraska Isn't Busted ! " Syracuse Journal. The wild balderdash which has been circulated and retailed by the stump orators of certain stripe in Nebraska for the last year concerning our mortgaged farms and bankrupt farmers , is bearing its legitimate fruit in more ways than one , much to the injury of the state and our people. It has unsettled values , tightened up the money market. cr < ated a wide-spread suspicion and afforded a text for eastern editors to advertise ua in a very uncomplimentary manner. In this instance we are not fighting any political party , but wo do most earnestly protest against this wholesale misrepresentation and these slanderous reports concerning our state. All wo have in this world is in Nebraska and we have no patience with any man , or set of men , who depreciate the value of our property by lies , or half truths , which are so o'ften worse than lies , and thereby render our lot in life neces sarily harder than it naturally would be , and when all this is done for per sonal ends , or to justify an itching for sensational notoriety , as wo believe has been and is the case with some of these agitators , our impatience descends to the plane of contempt. The truth is , Nebraska and Nebraska farmers as a whole are better off today than in almost any other state in our country , and especially is this true of Otoe county , which , taking our own precinct as an example , has today over a thousand dollars per capita for'overy man , woman and child in the county over and above all debts of ever > \ - : nd. If there be any exception to this nt.-i le nient it will be found in t'ie ' ei'v and not in che country. In Syracusi pre cinct we have just about 15,000 \ > < % no ! , and wo will engage to form a syr "ieuto- which will take all the property of the precinct , assume all the debts , public and private , divide out , SI.fill ) 000 among tlio inhabitants , am ! ' have left a haudsunvi i > ; ! ! as profits of the specn at-on. This is no buncombe. We have in-en looking up the facts , and otlte.r.KJVG been doing the same , and all who i-ava taken the pains to investigate t'i-- ' mat ter thus far. have arrived to th < xune conclusion. We. say therefore stick to politics , do the best you can for uuir parties , and your candidates , b t for the honor of your state , tiie love o' ymir country , the protection of your Immes , the eomfort of your families , anthe ! - succuaa of your own invcf-tinwjls and labor , don't make it worse than it is ; don't lie about yourselves , don't iriM-t- tle your own values or credit , an ! for God's sake don't fret any more Ui.-m is absolutely necessary to your apps-tito and general good health RESULTS WHAT IB WANTED. Lincoln Daily Call. THE LINCOLN CALL squeals lustily for lower freight rates , lower tariff , the Australian ballot and free coinage of silver , and then howls for the election of the republican ticket. Ye gods and little fishes ! There's consistency for you. Ulysses Dispatch. The above reference to consistency is a sufficient text for the Call to state this : That it believes the best possible consistency in politics is the consistency that brings results to the people. The Call has been .for lower freight ratea and is guilty , as the Dispatch says , of squealing lustily for them. The tariff sheets will show that in the past three years rates have come down in this state willingly and unwillingly over twenty per cent , and the ink is scarcely cold on the order of the interstate com merce commission that reduces the rate , on corn to Chicago from Nebrakaa points east of two hundred miles west of the Missouri river three cents per Hundred. The Call is for lower tarin . It is , as the republican platform of the First congressional district says , for the lowest possible tariff that will protect the wageworkers of the country. Dur ing me present session of congress the western members especially have fought for a tariff that will be in touch with the great west. Mr. Connell has made such a fight in congress , and he is run ning on a platform demanding inde pendent action on the tariff question. In the senate the Kansas and Nebraska senators have placed binding twine on the free list , have reduced the tariff on lumber one-half , have reduced the tnriff nn etT-nr HiT-nl irnn npfirlv txirn. thirds and free sugar will come if it is not used as an item in reciprocity that will bring even greater results for the northwest through opening markets for surplus Hour and provisions. The Call has been for free coinage of silver and it would have come this season if east ern democrats had not defeated it. As it is the western republicans both in the house and senate have made a splendid fight and as a result the currency of the country has already been increased five million dollars under the silver bill that is over half way toward free coinage. The Call has favored and continues to favor the Australian ballot system. The republican state platform endorses and demands it , and nearly ever } ' republi can candidate for the legislature stands pledged to the passage of thf law. That it will be enacted this winter is beyond question without the indepe-ndent ticket elects Jim Boyd as governorwho would very likely veto an election law that enforced would stop Omaha democrats from carrying that city as they pleased. In the fight "that the Call is making for results m politics this brief resume is the best possible evidence that results are coming through the channels of the republican party By a cordial approval of good work in the future and a vigor ous flagelation of inactive and inefficient officials the Call believes that result ? will come more speedily and rapidly than ever before in the "history ot the party. It must be admitted by the dul lest and most obtuse that the republican party in Nebraska is awakening from _ long sleep to new and vigorous action. Its platform this year is in striLing ccn- trast with the past. It demands and places the party on record for reforms as radical and far-reaching as thrso of any party in the land ; much more far- reaching than the promise ? of the inde- "enderit nartv itself. As between the congressional candi dates Mr. Connell stands upon a plat form radical in its demands for residts. ilr. Connell has shown the mettle of which he is made."for work iii this lin1