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VOL. i. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , MARCH 30 , 1899. NO. 38.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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.T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898.
The American
ways given ear
and a receptive understanding to the
teachings of public men with recorded
deeds in behalf of the public weal. The
devotion of their contemporaries to such
men as Beuton , Cass and Lincoln origin
ally grow out of the efforts of those men
in a broad and non-partisan way for
their respective states , localities and
homes. They were respected , beloved
and followed not because of what they
said but because of acts accomplished ,
public good achieved.
The man who has held public place in
this form of government for a term of
years , and has utterly failed to make a
mark in favor of economy ; has never
impressed his individuality upon govern
mental methods , either legislative , exe
cutive , or judicial , so as to show that he
has bettered them ; has never originated
or advanced a theory that has been tried
i and found usefully practical is not the
man whom the people should hearken
unto and follow.
No public person who seeks without
any record of good accomplished for the
state to instruct "the plain people , " or
any other sort of people , as to the "du
ties and destinies" of this republic
should be accepted as a judicious , qual
ified adviser and guide.
These are perilous times and menac
ing environments for self-government.
Patriotic men of experience , students of
the history of the United States and
adepts in knowledge of its constitution
and laws ought to come to the front
and counsel the administration and the
people.
Mai-administration , wasteful extrava
gance and unconcealed flagrant favorit
ism are the rule and there is a growing
and general distrust of this form of gov
ernment and its perpetuity in the hands
of its present managers. Men who have
honorable records , like Edmunds of Ver
mont , Olnoy of Massachusetts , John G.
Carlisle of New York , Grover Cleveland
and Carl Schurz records which show
benefits conferred by their acts upon
their countrymen are by experience and
learning , patriotism and courage , capable
of advising and worthy of being relied
upon with unwavering confidence.
"Experience teaches us again and
again that there is nothing men have
less command over than their tongues ; "
and for this reason the counsel and ad
vice'of hysterical men who have no
records except of talk and no experience
except as speechmakers should bo re
jected by sensible citizens everywhere.
What have you accomplished for the
plain people that you should assume to
know their mind and be their counsel ?
What law ; what repeal of a law ; what
act , either legislative , judicial or execu
tive , caused by your influence , jan you
point out as a warrant for the assump
tion that you are a safe leader of men ?
These are practical questions that
should form on the lips of all deliberate
and conscientious citizens whenever and
wherever callow statesmanship tenders
theories , policies and advice. Give us
men with good and sound records men
who have deeds to their credit not
words. Bad beef for the army is not
worse than vealy statesmanship for the
republic.
The organized
' ofthe
J'
United States ,
made up of men who have , either by in
dolence , bad judgment or extravagance
and intemperance , made failures in com
mercial , agricultural , manufacturing or
professional pursuits , is led today , as it
always has been , by malignant dema
gogues who seek political prominence
and position. These declaiiners against
the established order of things , who de
nounce the federal courts , and descant
with fervor upon the iniquity of the
writ of injunction , call themselves re
formers. They tumidly pose as the pro
tectors of the plain people and exhort
vehemently to arouse envy and malice ,
in'the hearls of those who have notlifng
virg
in the way of property , real or personal ,
against jail those more successful ones
who may have earned and saved capital
or property.
Such men mon who deory the right
of industry and frugality to acquire and
hold property are a menace to society.
They propose chaos and call it reform.
But they would reform nothing and de ?
form everything. They are deformers ,
not reformers.
All laws aimed
SPECIAL LEGISLATION. at i 11 c o r porated
capital with the in
tent of making its earnings less than that
of capital in individual hands are the
very worst kind of special legislation.
All burdens unjustly and unwisely
laid upon capital in banlring institutions ,
manufactories , railroads , insurance com
panies and telegraph and telephone com
panies , are ultimately unloaded upon
their patrons , the'plain people , the gen
eral public.
The man who borrows money pays
more for its use , the man who consumes
the product or employs the service pays
an increased price. Equality before the
law for all capital is the true policy for
Nebraska and all the other half- '
developed sections of the Northwest.
Welcome intelligence and means to our
vast and fertile areas of undeveloped
and inexhaustible soil.
The Chicago
AN EVERLAST
ING liLIGHT. platform upon
which Bryan and
Sewall and Tom Watson ran for office
in 1896 destroyed the democratic party.
That platform is an everlasting blight
upon the party that promulgated it , and
upon the republic which it threatens.
When the democratic party from
within itself repudiates that platform it
will be possible to elect a democrat to
the presidency. It is not possible to so
elect under any other conditions.
Merely ignoring the Chicago deliver
ance against sound money and against
the lawful and righteous functions of
the federal courts will not do. Real
democrats , men who believe in popular
government ; , will never support the fal
lacies and vagaries of that pronuncia-
mento so long as they retain breath and
reason , nor will they vote for allegedly
democratic nominees until after the ,
Chicago manifesto of 1896 shall have
(
been , renounced as a heresy and de
nounced as a menace * to good "order !