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sS -S?? "Lii S4i skWixSSsi- sslliSSSSSSSKSSXKKSSftKKKHKHKKUBtlKBtHK Ht '- . - :? :?' 5'!j8&?S ." - ., -, . :- I.M.2rMMiMM..,.Mi,.M.M...lLajiiiataeiMaMamMBiBBwafafaBBia 4 "Jjfcff it olttmlmsgountaL M7LB8. EmUt tiltiM, CkiBflM lfllie Narci. bus, Hyacinths, etc, for fall and winter forciafcT. Balba all soud and of the beet Yarieties. 4t a a aa gkat. TO THE LADHS. . A - - jm-j -"- .j-' ijw m TT" k l- YOU WANT FALL' AMD WINTER I ; v A HU .tv M XvMBav fswajeait Nehw Dear SireThe hhjh etaadiaf yo have feat ossified in the eoaactW of state and party end the fact that yon hare DRY GOODS-AND I-WAKT YOUB MONEY. RESPECTFULLY, E. D. FITZPATRIGX. Jxiday Teeiag, Sept 4th. Bagalar Henry Fit of Genoa was in the eity Monday. Wm May Davis visited in David CStj japv-Wh. i : WEDXE8DAY. SEPTEMBER,. 18H. wOl be held oa Wedaeedey eveniaa; of each week at the reeabKeaa neadfmarvn at the Meridiaa hoteL- A ,. ill.! T...TI.H.I T lltl'll-I'Mll II a smsmi atndy of the nsatnee whkh today.eoafroat the oonntry JC iakaHMpe)KMiaMMMB. 1 r -rsj v - - A.&N.TIMETABI Pi teiiaa' WurieliT flea I - aeaat aatr Meaalac. I' WmttmrnAMt WKW V ? .1. rV A btbTIbTV n .Wr- t&m "i 9 V- "m-- I - i - 52lS?fJ''S ,LF" . w'X l'tfc-vi. i ?'-- ft-r-ji".-V" - 1'flif.BlauVj ' 5lar ga;r 1- IiTl. bV" at-'larl' rf J ' " H orgamiaea jowaw ooi .w.b. wii iaia, xieoi wiyuww waiwvww j i . , um ar- w E-a7 n ! " - 35sH BJIa aM B B BB BJ T BB mm fl BW BBJ SH iiruuvi luiuiiiii uu., i T f I- 1 it i t 6 P" . n ir ( if - T I! Bi-.' m I. III' U. tt'. .fc :. M. . . . rIfcsL' . "- "i if : if LjavetCohrabBs Bellwood . " David City Seward Arrive t Lincoln 7J0OI 7 7:4,' fi3 9 A3 .ThepasaeucerlaTa Lincoln arrives at Colaiabaa 95 p. m; t L nroln at 7:55 iu m., and arrives 4 03 p. m. J UNION PACIFICTIMB ' . . ' OPISQEAST. 1 OC Col. Local.... 600a. ml Atlantic Ex... 5.30 a. m I Unite Or. Is. Local. 0.-04 a. m Nr. Pli . Nr. PI. Local. 1:00 p.m Fa .FaotMaU 2:15 p. m 1 Or. IaJ So. 3, Fart Mail, carries through point. Going west . i-ivea.afDenvr 7:40 a.m. No. I riea passengers to Fremont. going east at 2:15 p. m. 1 .llie freight trala-leaving here. .rieit paeaengers from here to Val COLCKBOS AND KOK "tfasseniterarrivea (mm Sionx 01 leave for Sioux Citf SI ixed leaves for Sioux City.. -S Mixed arrives ." .; FOIf ALBION AND OEDl Mixed leaves ........--.....--? , Mixed arrives ..... ? , -. P4fwnper leaypa .. . arrive..... gatielg FAH notice under this ! churned ai the rate of flayearg . JL LEBANON LODGE Na . IWgtilar meetings 2d W "1L monui. All brethren b . a . j. d. . W. It. NoTga-rciN. Sec'y. f WILDEY LODGE 1 meets Tuesday et Fweelc at their hall atKMt. Visiting br . invitwl. W. ' W. K. Notemtmn. Bec'y. j COLUMBIAN CAMP No. 35. t ho World, meets every eei Ttiuralais of the month, 7 JO ( Hall, Eleventh etrnet. Kpguli -.- frr desirable, and all viting I . diall invited to meet with oa. j "- REORGANIZED CHURCH Oi . Saint hold regular aervie .at 2 p. m., prater meeting on W "at their chapel, comer of North! . -Avenue. All are cordially invit lSiulsf Elder H. J. Hum EltMAN REFORMED CBT . School at HJW a. in. Chan - . at 10 Jfli a. m. Christian Endea' . Ladies' Aid Society every first J . Month at the church. I .iMNtlillllllHlHHIHHIttMIIIHIilHi : :NoW LOO i Pleasant m-m F- ' i WE HAVE 1 ' appointee ! umbus agents celebrated Eastman K( e Price from $5 $12.00. ' i ED. J. NIEWO 4 . - ''IIIIIIIIIHINIHUHillllllllllllllllll . GOOD TIMES CO AI IMMENSE CROP THE COUNTY, AM) AI .STOCK OF DRV GOOf PATRICK'S. FOLLOWS j-lFine jejb work done at otlic?.- I ' .Dr. Nnumaun, UentK Vatreet, tf I : "'.House to rent, inqt !. Eusden. Hi . -Rev. Mooro is in Chici J" . Hess trip. " 1 i ' Last Monday was a 1 I'.LHborDay. ... .Tr. T. R. Clark, Oil . .. ..office at nigh ta. I .. . . Miss .Minnie Meagher " -.". slowly in health. I . ", -All kinds of goods fo s r t sedond-hand store, tf I .. After the little bit of it is warming up again. I .1 .... New invoice of pictc mouldings at'Herrick's. J . Ladies' McKinley ell ;. the fashion in Nebraska. " Drs. Marty n, Evans three-doors north of Fried tumu 'J dbal . Now is the time to rnillinarr nntf in stock Au ....u.., .. Dr. L. C. Voss and C.j ".Homeopathic physicians,G . Mrs. Walters can sni "with anv of the latest fall .linery. 1 Miss Mary Duffy re from a business trip to ',' St. Joe. . Mrs. Anderson of V C, Is visiting the Blodgi . Duncan. I . Mise Dovie Becher v. who attended the Ak-3 Omaha last week. i The U. P. Beauty's a they ever were. Patront Sold all over .town. 4 i -The public schooli . opened Monday with go-J the next year's work. I Mioa Mamie Enfflifill returned here to continwj . St. Francis Academy, IMlaa AliHtn TTnrrl Rapids, Iowa, where f ' school the coming year, j Miss Florence Gle the com'uig year either! Boston, stvdying mnsi&l - Max Adlar of Lineal ' ' - - German on the gold qa phrey, Wednesday evens Mm Walters has i. latMt styles in fall milli William Ernst of the vicinity of Dnacan has refused an offer of $35 an acre for his farm of 350 acres. ' Rev. Lipphard, the German Baptist nunister north of the city, has returned 'from n trip to Ellen wood, Kan. QUERIES i I in Uit BRIAN An Open Letter to the Popocratic Candidate for the Presidency. SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS. Apprehension Excited by Campaign Utterances Refuses to be Allayed. The New York World, in an open let ter to Candidate Bryan on Tuesday norning, puts some grave and important questions To him. and urges him to answer them if he wants to be elected, as the people are pondering those very points, and their votes will turn on how ther are answered and explained by him. The readers of the Tribune should peruse this editorial, which is reprinted here in connection with Bryan's speech at Madison Square garden last night. The World save, under the caption "To .Mr. Bryan:" To Mr. Bryan: On the 10th of July, the very day of your nomination for President, you addressed a communrca tion to the World in the following words: To the Woild: The restoration of silver to Its ancient place by the side of gold will. In my Judgment, restore the parity between money and property and thus permit a re turn of general jirot-perlty. The World, which did such effective work In behalf of an Income tax, will find a still larger field of csefiilnes in supporting the gold and silver coinage of the constitution. WILLIAM J. BRYAN. The World has conscientiously consid ered your courteous request. It has carefully studied your speeches made dunng and since the Chicago conven tion. It has htudiously examined your record in Congress. It has impartially traced your career as a politician, a lawyer, an orator and editor, in order to obtain an understanding of your real character the hardest thing in the world to ascertain concerning any man. It has published every word that could be obtained from your eulogists and as sociates, with the same end in view. It has done all this in the sincere hope that the knowledge gained or impressions re ceived would relieve the fear and appre hension excited by some of your utter ances, and particularly by some parts of the Chicago platform, on which you stand. In this connection it is only just to remind you that the plank in the Chica go platform seeming to reflect upon the integrity of the Supreme court and in dicating a purpose to pack that tribunal in order to secure a desired decision, and the other resolution denouncing "government by injunction," have been severely criticised by conservative and law-abiding citizens. The people have a profound and abiding respect for their highest court, even when they are dis appointed in their decisions. They would be glad to heat your interpreta tion of the resolution, which is generally accepted as a stupid and intemperate attack upon the Supreme court and the avowal of the purpose to reconstruct it hi accordance with the beliefs of the platform makers should your election present the opportunity. Is this your snderstanding? Definition is also called for of the resolution denouncing "arbitrary inter ference by federal authorities in local matters." This is generally believed to mean "free riot with free silver," as well as sympathy with lawlessness and disapprobation of President Cleveland's action at the time of the Chicago strike. Yet all who believe in law and order as the very life and root-basis of civil ized government regard this as one of the most highly creditable acts of his administration. What is your view of Are you, Mr. Bryan, for actual and practical bimetallism the equal coinage of gold and silver at a ratio that will permit the free circulation of both money metals, as the ratio of 1G to 1 has never done? When you say that you favor free coinage by the United States with out waiting for the aid or consent of any foreign government, do you mean that the concurrence of the great com mercial nations with which we trade is sot desirable and even indispensable if the country is not to sink to sit hasis? Do you really favor the mone-J 'j ., "" " "c uuueu Elates in the family of great nations? Do we not want our money to be accepted at its face value all over the world? You in sist upon "the right of the peo ple of the United States to legislate for themselves upon all questions." Tbjs right is not questioned by any, so far as we know. But the right does not imply the duty or the wisdom. Con gress has the right to declare that our ,m? I agricultural products shall be sold abroad. But would such an asser tion of national independence benefit the country? Would it have helped the e of the United States tohave Aid the aX,000,000 of exports in the last ten years kept in the home mar ket, or to have sold them for a depreci ated currency while buying in return 'at gold prices? If you would not favor the """ vi uie uuueu states why should you desire its financial isolation? Is the interest of a clear understand fag of your position, and to allay if pos sible the fear and apprehension which you know to exist, will you answer these Suestions in your acceptance of the presi enUal nomination, which you are about to deliver? lou must perceive in the preparations for a second Democratic ticket, and in the divisions and distrac tions among your Populist and Demo cratic supporters at the South, a growins danger to your cause. We assume that I?18iLV,be elected. These are some ef the points upon which you can se eare votes by allaying apprehensions. You may also be able to do this by renly isg to these questions, suggested by Tour telegram to the World: r 1. When in the historv of ,:. -. has silver occupied "its ancient nlae y the side of gold?" Has there Pever seen a time when the two metals circu lated upon equal terms as fall lesal tender money, with the mints open to the free and unlimited coinage of both? If so, when was it? 2. You say that the restoration of that eondition w& is your judgment, "re- twrn i- ?n mney and 3. You point ns to "a larger field of usefulness in supporting the gold or sil ver coinage of the Constitution." But what is "the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution?" In what clause of the Constitution, or in which of the fif teen amendments, does the fundamental law prescribe a gold and silver coinage or any other coinage? In which does it mention any coinage further than to au thorize the general government to "coin money" and "regulate the value there of?" Acting under that authority Con gress at first authorized coinage at 15 to 1. Was that the "gold and silver coin age of the Constitution?" If so, how has 16 to 1 come to be the coinage of the Constitution? Under the first ratio silver was undervalued and refused to circulate except in the form of worn and abraded foreign coins. Our own silver coins, even the subsidiary pieces, were melted down for bullion because they were worth about 3 per cent, more than gold dollars. In all the period up to the time of the great silver discoveries Con gress sought to make the coinage ratio the same as the commercial ratio. It never authorized coinage at any other. Was that the "coinage of the Constitu tion?" If so, will it be a return to it for us now to establish free coinage at the ratio of 1G to 1 when the commercial ratio is about 31 to 1? 4. Will not free coinage at 1G to 1 re duce the value of the dollar unit by about one-half? 5. Will it not be in fact a repudiation of about one-half of all our debts, public and private? G. Is there not danger that it will cause the return to u of all the .Ameri can securities held abroad government. railroad and industrial stocks and bonds would be relieved to have its apprehen sions allayed and its misconceptions, if they are misconceptions, corrected. he Democrats in vast numbers who share this curiosity and these apprehen sions stand by what they believe to be the historic policy of their party in re gard to the currency. This policy was declared in 1STG and reaffirmed in 1892 in these words: We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal o'r charge for mint age, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international areenient, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debt; and we de mand that all paper currency shall be kent at par with and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of un stable money and a fluctuating currency. These Democrats still hold to the doc trine of dollars of both money metils of equal value, that the country may Lave the benefit of a concurrent circulation of gold and silver, and paper redeemable jn the same. Why not give these Demo crats a chance to vote for you? Why continue the alienation of so large a body of intelligent, honest and -on.-'ol-entions voters? -If yon are ready for bimetallism, and would welcome inter national agreement, if it can be secured, to effect a change without possibility of thus precipitating a panic of giant pro- disaster at home, why not say so? Yon portions, with !nn- nnre nf tniiroinn ti surely cannot ohiect to an established fn j 1 on1 n.i.l.l :.!- :. i l M.. """ Muwu-iviue parity 01 nunc urinccu gold and silver money. Why refuse and reject international agreement? store the property." Will you kindly explain what you mean by this? WhatuAtpariS Between money and property?" Do von mean that the "restoration" wHl put ud prices, undo the cheapening effects of im proved machinery, transportation, etc and increase the cost of livinc to afi classes of the community? if , J-n ysu kindly explain how this increa'se in the cost of all commodities is likely to lm0w-iwi.retur?-of seneral Prosperi ty?" Will the workingman, whose wajres are stationary or nearly so, be made more prosperous by having to pay more lor his flour, meat, groceries, chickens ggs, fruits, vegetables, clothing, housed sold utensils, rent, and all the rest of it"9 Will even the farmer be better off with a double price for his produce, in the wholly improbable contingency that Eu- wpe win consent to pay it, if he must nay double for everything he has to Say? follow t. VTil not your election upon the Chi cago platform cause the calling in. be tween November and March, of all col lectable debts, all loans, all mortgages that have expired? And will not this produce such a distress as this country has never Known, particularly in the est and South, where capital and credit are most needed and depend upon confidence as their basis? 8. Will not free and unlimited coinage drive all the five or six hundred millions of gold and gold certificates out of use as money or as bank reserves? Will it not cause a currency contraction of the most disastrous proportions, inasmuch as the utmost capacity of the mints to coin silver cannot make good this with drawal for several years to come? 9. Will not free coinage place us at once on a financial level with Mexico, India and China, and can we afford to go upon that level? 10. Is there any country in the world today which gives free and unlimited coinage to silver? Mexico does not. India does not. None of the Central or South American States does. We know of no country that does, of no example that can be studied. 11. Is there any country in the world now on the silver basis which is as pros perous as the United States, even in this time of depression? Is there any in which wages are so high as they are here, or in which the dollar received in wages will buy so much? Is there any silver-basis country that has a large commerce, prosperous manufactures, or a well-to-do agricultural class? Is it not a fact that in every silver-basis coun try in the world abject and hopeless pov erty on the part of the masses is the rule; 12. Will you explain to us for our en lightenment and guidance how our coun try is to escape like conditions if we go to "a silver basis, or how we are to avoid the lapse to that basis if we adopt free and unlimited coinage at 16 to 1 when the commercial ratio between the metals is about twice that? 13. And if you tell us, as many free coinage advocates do, that free fjoinage will raise the commercial value of silver to the coinage rate, will you explain to us how in that case free coinage is to make money cheaper or easier to get, how it is to relieve "the debtor class," how it is to increase the price of wheat or any other commodity? 14. You may be aware that there was last year on deposit in the savings banks of this state alone $643,873,574. This enormous sum belonged to 1,615,178 de positors, giving an average to each of $398.63. It represents mainly the small savings of the thrifty poor. Nearly all of it has been deposited since the pres ent standard of value was adopted by the government Do you think it fair or just to impair by 47 per cent, or by even 1 per cent, the value of the money in which iucm: ucpuaiiB cre rarncu ana in which today they would be paid? 15. There are in this state 88,719 pen sioners. They drew from the govern ment last year nearly $14,000,000. Con sidering the nature of this debt of honor when justly due-;-can you look with fa vor upon any policy that might result in paying them in a depreciated currency? 16. There are in the country 5838 building and loan association, of which 418 are in New York. These associa tions have 1,745.125 shareholders all of the working and saving classes. Their assets last year were $450,667,594, repre sented chiefly by mortgage loans to homeseekers, of whom 455.000 are mem bers of the associations. These asaooia- tions have nearly all been organized with in the last fifteen years under the exist ing money standard. Can you think it fair or beneficial to the working people to reduce by 47 per cent, or any lesser sum, the value of these investments of the thrifty poor? 17. Is it not a fact worth consideration in proposing a descent to the silver stan dard that the thirty-nine old-style life in surance companies alone doing business in this state last year nad in force here nearly 2,000,000 policies, insuring over $5,000,000,000. The assessment compa nies and various benevolent orders have a vast amount more. Would it not be an injury and a wrong to the beneficiaries of these polices the widows and orphans, whom a provident love had sought to protect to compel them to re ceive in payment depreciated money? 18. The "rise in prices" which yon predict as a result of free silver coinage would, of course, mean an increase hi the cost of living to all the people to wage earners, salaried men, and the whole body of consumers. Do yon know of any case in which a rise in wages or sala ries has been parallel with the rise in prices? Is there any way to render it certain, or even probable, that the wage earners will be compensated for the in creased cost of living? 19. You attribute the decline in sHtpf to the demonetization of the silver dol lar in 1873, though that dollar was not then coined in any considerable numbers, and was not in circulation at all, owing to uie iaci uibi. sitter uuiuon was worth more in the market than at the mint. Do yon consider that the increase in the world's silver production from 61.100000 ounces in 1873 to 165,000,000 ounces in 1895 had something to do in causing the decline, even though gold, the standard money of all the great commercial na tions, and the most soaght after of mon ey metals, has also increased its yi.-ld meanwhile? 20. You speak of the "crime against silver" involved in suspending the coin age of noncirculating dollars. Has your attention been called to the fact that the government coined only 296,600 silver dollars in 1873, but that from January 1 to June 30 of this year it coined 7. 500,412, or 908,691 more than in the entire eighty-one years of its history np to 1873? These questions are asked in all sin cerity. The World would be rejoiced to BBYAS'S CREED. have it made clear that the policy of free and unlimited coinage at 16 to 1 in imlrM no daneer to the mnntrr hn ay? I promises prosperity to all the people. It I The Gist of His Long Argument In a Few Short Para graphs. I believe it will be a blessing to the United States Jo lose five hundred mil lions of gold. I believe it will be a blessing to the United States to take half the purchas ing power out of its five hundred millions of silver dollars. I believe it will be a blessing for the United States to take half the purchas ing power out of its billion dollars' worth of paper money. I tielieve that to cut a dollar in two is to double its value. I believe that 50 cents is twice as much as 100 cents. I believe that the farmer will be better off when he sells half as much of his produce as he does now at the same rate. I believe the farmer will be benefitted by having to pay twice as much as he does now for everything he does not raise and must buy. Since I hold that the farmer would be better off if he sold half as much as he does now at the same rate, it follows that I hold the farmer will be still bet ter off if he sold quarter as much as he does now at the same rate. Therefore, it follows that I hold it would be better for the farmer if be sold nothing at all, but let his produce rot on his farm. I hold that the city workingman would be better off if he earned half as much as he does now. I believe that all the widows and or phans whose means of support is invest ed in loans will be blessed by getting back 50 cents on the dollar their bread winners toiled for at 100 cents in the dollar, and that they would be still bet ter off if they had to go to the poorhouse. 1 believe it would be a blessing for 5, 000,000 depositors in savings banks who have laid up $2,000,000,000 by toil at 100 cents to the dollar to get back half the amount of their savings instead of the whole. I hold that the country would be bet ter off if half the value of the capital of the 4000 national banks, amounting to nearly $700,000,000, were extinguished. It would help business all over the conn try. I believe it would be a blessing on the states of the American union if the $600, 000,000 deposited by private persons. in 4000 state banks were reduced to 50 cents on the dollar or largely lost alto gether. This would encourage thrift and animate enterprise. I hold that the states would he fur ther blessed if half of the $250,000,000 capital in state Danas were shrunken to half their debt-paying power. This would help the farmer. I believe it would be a blessing to towns if the fire insurance companies were so crippled that they could pay only half the face value of risks. I believe that it would fall like a bene diction upon the holders of thirteen bil lion dollars' worth of life insurance, on which they had paid 100 cents to the dol lar, to learn that they can realize only 50 cents on the dollar of their policies. I believe that it would be an en couragement to home makers to know that the fonr hundred and fifty million dollars in building association shares were to snnvei to nair their valn. I believe that, although owners of silver would not permit the metal to be coined into dollars for Americans when it was worth more to export than to coin, although coinage was free and un limited, owners of silver are unselfish patriots in desiring to coin unlimited sil ver into dollars now when they can get a chance to do so at twice the worth of the silver at the market price and half the value in the dollars to the people. I hold it to be a solemn duty to the 800,000 invalids and the 220,000 widows and orphans on the pension roll of the nation to deprive them of half the amount paid each monthly. It will be especially heroic for those who get along now on $10 a month to contrivo tn ha on $5 a month. I believe that it is better for the United States to grade down with China and Mexico than np with Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary. Holland, Belgium. I hold that expulsion of all our gold and contraction of half our silver and paper is expansion of our currency. I held that the law of gravitation can be suspended by act of Congress. I believe a financial quicksand ix rock bottom for a nation. '. I believe that the best way to build np s country is to destroy it I believe my wife has mnn nnlMMi .sense than all the politicians in the Conn or, ixoa oiess ootn or as. Asses. Chicago Times-Herald. Will Hare to Work for It. After Mr. Bryan shall bnnm im.l dent and free coinage shall be accom plished the people who were so eager to establish such a conjuncture of circum stances will finally discover that they are no better off than they were before Not a man of them will be able to g-n a dollar, whether worth 50 cents or other wise, except in the same way that money has always been got. It must be obtained in some sort of honest busi ness or earned as wages. There is no other way in which an honest penny can be got. New Orleans Picayune. MOT STAND ALOE Fcwlishness of the Declaration in Fayor of Monetary In- dependenca POPULIST IDEAS OF FINANCE. Feeble Attempt to Invoke the Na tion's Fathers in Support of Free Coinage. Maj. McKinley's talks to the old vet erans who call upon him are models of short, patriotic speeches, as have been all his short speeches since his nomi nation for President. There are few people criticising McKinely as a one-Idea man in this campaign. Among all the crazy assumptions of the Pooulistic platforms, perhaps the most foolish is the one that we can cre ate and maintain a monetary system in dependent of that of other nations. To make this stroke of idiocy more prepos terous, the spirit and the example of the fathers of the republic are invoked to sustain it. The efforts of the fathers were most earnestly and steadily directed to bringing the young republic within the commercial brotherhood of nations, and nothing was further from their thoughts than the idea that the progress of the country could be facilitated by a declaration of financial independence. For sixty years after the passage of the mint act, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese coins were freely circulated in the United States, and were a legal tender for the payment of debts at cer tain values fixed by act of Congress. In his celebrated Mint Report, Alexander Hamilton endeavored to co-ordinate our monetery system with that of other na tionsnot to make any violent departure from European practice. The only strik ing departure that was made in the legis lation framed on Hamilton's recom mendations was in fixing the coinace ratio between gold and silver "at 15 to 1, and the result of this quickly demon strated what the Populistic Democrats call our "financial servitude." That is to say, it showed that while the mints of b ranee were open to the free coinage or gold at the ratio of l,i. to 1, we could not keep our gold from going where it would have most value. The difference was only about 3 1-3 per cent, but it was sullicient to drive gold out of the country so that in the words of Senator Benton its extinction was complete. If the establishment 'of a ratio of their own was a strike for financial independ ence of Europe on the part of the "fa thers," it was a manifest failure, and established for the first generation of the republic a regime of silver mono metallism. But this was not in the least what they desired; in fact, so little were they impressed by the necessity for keeping silver as a part of the circula tion that the coinage of silver dollars was suspended by executive order in 1805 and was, for domestic purposes at least, never resumed. That is to say, the fathers were so determined to get back the gold that for thirty years they had been shunting into European mints that they fixed a new ratio, which of fered 3 per cent, more to the possessor of gold bullion than he could get in France or Holland. That the bullion in the silver dollar thus became more valua ble than the bullion in the cold dollar did not trouble them much, for they, appar ently, did not want the silver dollar halves, quarters and dimes of this metal being sufficient for their wants and all the subsequent coinage of that much-talked-of but little known piece, "the dollar of the fathers," was for export to the East. Here, again, if monetary in dependence was -what they are aiming at, the result was a failure, for Europe diverted into its own mints the silver of the United States as peremptorily as it had done the gold, for the simple rea son that no law could compel the own er of bullion not to take it where he got most for it in returned coins. But the Populists are determined to have "an economic and financial system which shall make us masters of our own affairs." Among the preliminaries of such a condition of things, they are at least logical enough to recognize the ne cessity of interfering with the freedom of private contract. That was a cure for financial lameness not thought of by the fathers of the republic, and is one generally deemed to be contrary to the letter and spirit of the constitution which they framed. But the transformation of the Democrat into the Populist seems. among other changes, to work a surpris ing indifference to the value of the safe guards of the constitution. From old habit, there is the customary profession of allegiance to "those great essential principles of justice and liberty upon which our institutions are founded," only to be followed by a series of propositions destructive alike of the principles and institutions. On whatever other points the makers of the constitution may have differed, they were entirely at one as to the obligation both of nations and of in dividuals to make an honest provision for paying their debts. Rochester Post. The Diflcnlty is the Tariff. In s recent speech at La Grange, Ind., Senator Burrows said: "With all the vagaries of the three Bryan platforms they all unite in the de mand for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and to that question Mr. Bryan devoted a goodly portion of bis time hi bis speech of acceptance. He declared that 'times are hard, prices are low, and something is vitally wrong.' It is not the crime of '73, however, but the folly of '92, when Harrison was defeated and the prosperity of the United States destroyed. "Mr. Whitney says: 'Don't talk about the tariff.' But the whole difficulty to day is tariff. When McKinley is president tne money aueauon win seine ltsoir "More silver dollars were coined dur ing Republican administrations than dur ing all of the other eighty-three years of our history. "Panic always accompanies free trade. During the thirty years from 1861 to 1892 we had unbounded prosperity wealth advanced; this republic took a lead in manufacturing and stood ahead of all other nations until March 4, 1893. The public debt was reduced during Re publican administrations, and increased under Democratic. There is not a single day but the government is running be hind. The deficiency during Jaly. 1896, alone was $13,000,000. "The results of the Democratic policy are so evident that a new issue was nec essary to give them even a fighting chance before, the people in this cam paign, and so they say that in 1873 the Republican party caused the trouble by demonetizing silver. If that is so why did it not show itself before 1893? We were prosperous in '92, and the crime had been committed before then." It is a plea for bimetallism and in strong opposition to the gold monometallists. He says, though, as every other true bi metallist says, that the attempt on the part of this country to coin silver in unlimited quantities free, without an un derstanding with other nations, would be an assault on the cause of bimetallism and practical suicide for the finances of the United States. In 1878 Gen. Walk er said: "For us to throw ourselves alone into the breach, simply because we think silver ought not to have been demonetized and ought now to be re stored, would be a piece of Quixotism un worthy the sound practical sense of our people. The remedy of the wrong must be sought in the concerted action of the civilized states, under an increasing con viction of the impolicy of basing the world's trade on a single money metal." inis is his opinion today. As to the possibility of free coinage without an immediate fall to a silver basis, and the strident claim that this country is big enough to "legislate for it self," Gen. Walker points out two facts. The stock of precious metals has so greatly increased in the world, and com munication and transportation are so much more rapid than of old. that even France found it impossible in 1873 to continue free silver coinage. Since there is vastly less money metal used in the United States than in France, the in fluence which this country can exert upon the money market of the world is less than the influence of France. And yet no one accuses Gen. Walker of be ing less a patriot or less proud of the country for which he fought than the youngest orator of the far West. The difference is that he is a student and a man of sense. Syracuse Post. The Money of the Constitution. What wild talk is this of the "silver ites' ,v convention, "in favor of restoring to the people of the United States the time-honored money of the constitution gold and silver not one. but both?" The constitution prescribes no such money, nor any form of money what ever. But if it is "gold and silver not one, but both" that they want, why are they not contented now? Both gold and silver are in circulation now. on equal terms, in larger quantities than ever before. In the twenty-two years since the blood curdling "crime of IS"."" was perpetrated more than fifty times as many silver dol lars have been coined as in the eighty years preceding. The simple fact is that the United States has a very much larger actual supply of full legal-tended silver money than any other country in the world, excepting India and China, and a larger supply in proportion to its population than any other, excepting France, Spain and Holland. It has more gold in circu lation, actuality, than any in the world, excepting only France, and more propor tionately than any European country, excepting Great Britain. France and Germany. It also has more money of all kinds in circulation, and all at par, than most nations of the world. Less talk and more reflection would convince these would-be currency re formers that we already have what they talk of as "the time-honored money of the constitution." in abundant supply, for every man who is willing honestly to earn it. New York Tribune. Mills, Not Mints. More truth cannot be crowded into an equal number of words than is found in this passage of Maj. McKinley's speech in reply to a congratulatory address from some of his old comrades in arms: I do not know what yon think about It. but I believe It is a good deal better to open up the mills of the United States to the la bor of America than to open up the mints of the United States to the sliver of the world. This goes hard and straight to the root of the matter. Times are not dull in Pittsburg because there is no mint coining silver or gold dollars in that city, but because the great iron works are not running on full time. There was no mint at work in South Chicago when the rolling mills were at work by night and by day. but there was a wage roil ot u.uuu.mju a year. It was not lecause of the activity of the mints that Louisiana nearly dou bled its sugar output, but because of the McKinley bounty. It was not because the mints were more active in 1891 than in 1893 that in the first year men were striking because they could not earn more than $3 per day, and in the last were hunting for work at 75 cents, and. for the most part, not finding it. The mints were turning out as much money in 1893 as in 1891. But the mills were not turning out so many yards of cloth or tons of iron. Start the mills and the mints will be come active. Return to protection, and the currency will settle itself. Chicago Inter Ocean. HALSTEADS LETTER Writer Introduces Himself to. fkt Fanners Telling of His Own Bural 'Experience WHATIS WRONG WITH FARMING? Propounds and Answers This Question Advocating McKinley and His Policy as a Panacea. Free Silver and Wages. A correspondent attempts to explain how wages would be increased under free silver coinage by asserting that "trades unions, through strikes and other means, would force the price of labor to a higher standard." This is sheer nonsense. Experience has conclusively demon strated that wages, under a debased sys tem of currency, never increased in the same degree as the money cost of com modities. If there was ever a condition of affairs which was favorable to such an increase it was during the Rebellion. We were not only on a cheap money basis, but the ranks of labor had ben enormously depleted to send men to the front to battle for the republic Yet, what actually occurred? Judged by the purchasing power of his wages the la borer in 1863 received only 76 cents where he had received a gold dollar in 1860; in 1864 he received about 81 cents and in 18G5 a little over 66 cents. But bow do workingmen fancy the idea of being compelled to resort to "strikes" in order that their wages may have the same purchasing power that they do now? It will occur to sensible toilers that if free silver coinage is going to precipitate strikes, not really for higher wages, but simply to keep the wages that already exist, it will be the part of wisdom to let well enough alone. New York Commercial Advertiser. Gen. Walker's Bimetallism. Francis A. Wslker, president of the Boston Institute of Technology, may be called the leader of the bimetallists of the United States, so far as a man not in politics can be called a leader of a move ment which has become a political issue He has been an ardent advocate of inter national bimetallism for more than twen ty years. He speaks with authority on all economic questions, but bimetallism may be called his hobby. A new book, written without regard to the present situation, but singularly ap propriate, has just appeared, bearing Gen. Walker's name on the title par To Sonad Money Democrats. Here is s brief and simple catechism for sound money Democrats: "Do you want to beat Bryan?' "If you want to beat Bryan, do you know of any other way of doing it than by electing McKinIey?r "If yon want to beat Bryan, and don't know of any other way of doing it than by electing McKinley, why don't you take your coat off and wade in and elect McKinley?" Answers to these interrogatories are respectfully solicited from sound money Democrats who declare the currency the paramount iue auu yet reiuse to act as if they believed what they said. Bos ton Journal. Cariosities of Our Money. Few persons are aware that silver cer tificates are not legal tender, though re ceivable for public dues. The fact was recently, it is stated, forced on the attention of the postoffice department by a person who refused to accept the cer tificates in payment of a money order Thus, it seems, the government is obliged to receive silver certificates, but cannot pay them out to any one unwilling to re ceive them. Should our silver friends be come able to legislate, they will doubtless make the certificates legal tender, so as to force the unwilling patriot to take the paper representative of 53 cents at s 100 cent valuation. Special Correspondence of the Chicago Dally News. New York, Aug. 5. I desire to intro duce myself to the farmers by saying I am by trade one of them, though for a long time engaged in daily labor on the daily papers. There are still some frosty old friends of mine who can testify of their own knowledge that fifty years ago there wasn't a boy in Butler county, O., who could turn a furrow better than I. or was more expert in using plows left or right handed on hillsides or level lands, so as to leave less unbroken land at the turns than 1. and there is no light work I would like better now than plow ing corn when it is about as high as a plowboy. The trouble then is it is so brit tle, and it is very provoking to have the pretty stalks broken and many a horse I have lammed as a punishment for put ting his rude foot into a hill of corn. I was a great boy to bind wheat, rye. oats or barley with double bands, and once I tied up a blacksuake in a sheaf of wheat so tight he could not get out. and there never was a snake or a boy more aston-. ished. I could beat the girls dropping corn four grains to the hill and I know all about husking frosty ears of corn with a bone husking peg, held by a strap over the two middle fingers of the right hand; and the accomplishments of dig ging potatoes without cutting them, and mixing green and dry food for horses, and watching calves become cattle, colts evolve into horses, lambs and pigs bloom into sheep and hogs. are. with all the hopes and fears associated with them, fa miliar. The practical fanners will de tect in these observations the presence of a line of information not pulled out of oooks or picKeu up in schools. 1 know, too, about the way good old farms grow less valuable, in spite of faithful atten tion, and how it is that some farmers who do not buy pianos on the install ment plan find it a pleasant experience to borrow money. Farmer Are Disco araged. The news has been circulated a good deal and not conclusively contradicted that this year a good many farmers are so discouraged by the way their affairs have been going that they are ready to do something unexpected in politics that some of them think maybe there is something in free silver that would just fit their case therefore, that there are Republican farmers who if not en lightened are liable to vote for Bryan and Watson or Bryan and Sewall. They have heard so much about free silver as a patent medicine to cure the rheuma tism, heartburn, earache, fistula, dyspep sia and vertigo that they do not know but they will try it. If they do they will make the same mistake the workmen did four years ago and invite even a greater misfortune than they tumbled upon themselves. There is absolutely nothing in free silver for farmers. Whatever they want for relief it cer tainly is not depreciated money dollars debased. We have been going on now with dollars of the same value as that of gold for eighteen years and a change in the purchasing power of a dollar will not help any honest man. unless it Is incidentally and in a petty and free tional way. What is the matter with farming? The owner of one of the finest farms la England, within sight of the forest of Windsor and the towers of Windsor castle, stated to me that wheat had got so cheap in England that the straw waa more valuable than the grain. The de pression is not exclusively American. The trouble is acknowledged what is the remedy? Whatever may be wrong, and however difficult it may be to right the wrong, there should not be a farm er in all America so ignorant as not te know that the man who has done most te frame a tariff law to help the farmers Is William McKinley. What McKinley Has Da. What did he do? Consider sugar boon ties, for one thing. If the law had been allowed to remain as he drew it Nebras ka by this time would have teemed with beet-sugar manufactories, every one a help to the farmers, and the soil of Nebraska is better for sugar beets than that of Germany only nteds a good start to establish an enormous and in valuable industry. The McKinley duty on barley caused the raising of millions of bushels additional to the average of former crops, and this reduced sensibly the excess of wheat production. This is an example of what we mean by the di versified industry that the protective sys tem promotes. We want more of it, sad that is McKinleyism. Why are wheat and butter down? As to wheat: The use of agricultural ma chinery and the improvement in trans portation has cheapened labor and ex tended available territory. Argentina is a prodigious wheat field. The soil is admirable, the rivers are deep, the plains give full sweep to the machinery, the ray roads have nothing else to do than car ry the wheat to market and the steamers carry the grain to Liverpool in huge car goes. Sailing vessels whose sails are pulled about by steam, saving bands, cheapen the cost of putting down Ar gentina wheat hi Liverpool, Egypt, Iadia, Canada, Russia, compete with as In the wheat market of Western Europe. The world is a sort of country neighborhood. What is the matter with butter? Let the price of butter go up in New York to 25 or 30 cents a pound a living can be made producing butter at those fig ureswhat happens? A cable message goes to Australia asd there are ship ments of thousands of tons of excellent butter st once. And it can be placed in New York and profitably sold at 13 cents a pound. It cannot be produced in New York at those figures. This il lustration is not imaginary. The trans actions supposed have occurred recently. What is the remedy? We can answer confidently that the coinage of more silver dollars will not be a help. We ought to raise our own barley, our own hops, our own eggs, chickens, onions and potatoes, to make our own sugar and our own tinplate, so as to give the advantage of our own markets, the most valuable in the world or that ever were in it, to our own people. The produc tion of articles -we nave just named would turn over to American working men 100.000.000 of gold dollars annually, and then custom would improve the value of the farms. There is no patent nostrum about this. Our records are full of the proof fnrnlshed by our own experience. The best thing the farm er can do Is to try McKinleyism. Murat Halstead. THREE pes (US, KM. tie are of ear Prices. :to foand in a ink- &C0 -.state IT IT? FRESH GOODS ER'S, cr's Ban. to Fulfilled! I another, and n child an thick mesas onr Uncle jeqaaL too, with ma. mono wan nominated for rhursday by the rennbli third dietriet. We eon the district and the noss sr nomination has been ikn this year. Mr.Ham- clean, able, and in every h represent the district is work an editor ot the me hen made that neper fone of the best in the ople of ta Third district rown interests by giving d n rousing saajority. torter. aa n reenblican, I am things, bat I can earn np i satisfaction I have had and its career that the epublican sac siness. Harrison. IBUS MARKETS. toasofthaiarkstaaraohtslBwi a.aad are oorract sad reliable j OBAIS.BTO. I SMaja I raoBUos. ............. 71 sets m .S4SSfJ8St U1 LIVESTOCK. H612K s as izatfzsa iiietitt it MM SB ttMlsra 'BATE NOTICE. ! the tMtat of Bride Marray. SnS givaa test thm eradtters ef at ta sflauaiainur or. namv a Skit. Sae Stta dlyofptas&kar.'tMS. "lot Deeatnbsr. less, sad oa the tn, MS7. at M o'etoeka st-aac aoati of BTCsaatiBS' UMirelaiaw .adjutaraadauawsae. Hz eadfor cradttors to a wait tarir gjaar tor thm adaiTilstrator to e,froai ta 24tadayoC I barUt,AD.iaa-L J.N.Kiuan, CoaatyJada. b-kaiaOaaa. Monal Ml, t-UMBUS. NEB. ! ick IWtaSIM.OM.il I: avntajniaactvti: 1 fJIWt. 'IIIVV WCT.MWI , VKOTCTW, O.T.BOCM. a. 1 mij.nn B,f P.ANDSnwON. icA ,. r. azKHEY. J nays that Be. G. 8. Brown's old parish ioners at Brooklyn "were delighted to have him with them again this rammer, and be has been greeted by uniformly large congregations in spite of the ab esBBBOf many members from the eity." coin's call for 75V0OO men for three months, April 16, "ol, end served daring the war; came to Nebraska with hie brother, the- late Bishop Cterkson, in March 1866 and has lived here ever this line of information. If yon had a $30 bill at snpper-time, yon had no aatniranee that it would be worth a dollar at breakfast-time. We want no nncertainty on the money hsrisssB, and therefore mo generai-nviuuoa'iexteacieorto-uie citizens of Boone and adjoining conn ties to participate in the festivities at Albion next Thnrsdsy. News. --Chiesgo Inter Oeean and Gox.tmnoa Jouwmxl, one year, ia advaaee feVOQ. tf oasaa a. imwm to jwmrmm .! pt H wii sec 17 (ao towaahip or raaas aivaa) wd Earily LOabora to Praak A. Mataoa. lota S aad 4, bl t,Osbora's add to Moaraa. wd M ft) amu eumm 'Twenty-seven yean of protec tion (1865 to 1893) decreased our public debt $1,747,301,878. Three years of free trade (1893 to 1896) increased our public debt 462329,630. arnica. ujabr c fei-: , -2r t ? -.-.-i,. s3w3la i ., ---!r2?'--3' irxi's afL41BSSi ?? -. &&&&&& .bi g3 cafe's jeS3w . itote- vS&'f.
