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VOL. i. NEBRASKA CITY NEB. THURSDAY APRIL 6 1899. NO. 39.
I'UlILISnEI ) WEEKLY.
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HOPKFUI ,
SIGNS. low-citizens , east
of the Alleghanies ,
who will admit that we may be truth
ful iu stating that the buffaloes uo
longer come and eat the geraniums out
of our parlor windows , are still incred
ulous of our claims to have made any
material advance toward that high de
gree of civilization which .prevails in
their own communities. And yet it is
undeniable that there are signs in many
parts of the West of a mighty move
ment toward intellectuality and the
higher education. We note with pleas
ure that the legislature of New Mexico
( which is about the same thing as Ne
braska ) has by enactment made it oblig
atory on all school-teachers in that com
monwealth to be able to read and write ;
and we are proud to learn that a Ne
braska City merchant is forming the
nucleus for a private library by having
his file of Police Gazettes bound ; the
Police Gazette being the pink publica
tion with legs in it which occurs in bar
ber-shops.
TUX NEW PAKTY.
the suggestion
was made by THE CONSERVATIVE that a
new political organization which would
unite the better intelligence of existing
parties in the common defence of econ
omy and honesty in adminiotration would
be a blessing to this republic.
This idea has been variously treated
by the newspapers of the United States.
Some , especially the rock-rooted party
organs , have ridiculed the possibility of
principles and patriotism becoming the
dominant features of either an old or a
new party. The low-browed disciples
of Quay ism , among republicans , who
believe larceny from the state a perquis
ite of politics , oppose a new alignment of
decent voters. Their opposition is simi
lar to that which ordinary and more
commonplace thieves cultivate for all
laws whioh provide penalties for stealing
ingAnother
/Another large mass of citizens who
believe that the maintenance of law and
. order through the
L UryanarchlhtH. . , .
T\ use of the writ of
injunction and the federal troops to en
force the mandates of the federal courts
is inimical to good government oppose a
new party. They oppose it because
they know it would be pre-eminently
and courageously for the upholding
of the courts and enforcing all their
orders. These deluded disciples of
tlieT doctrine of discontent who have
been massed and fused together because
they in the cities hate law and in the
country hate temperate and industrious
thrift very naturally antagonize a new
political party. More than that these
persons and the newspapers which repre
sent them attack the personal character
and public record of every man whose
name is associated with the proposed re
alignment of American voters. And
this is complimentary. No man who
hns not character and record enough to
withstand such assaults can be of any
value to the community.
That honesty and courage , delibera
tion and good judgment and wisdom
are needed in pub-
Neccled. , . , . . ,
he men this day
and hour , no thoughtful patriot will
deny. The republic is threatened. Civil
and religious liberty is endangered.
Conquest and enforced submission of
foreign barbarians are a menace to all
citizens. This government cannot exist
upon the consent of part of its people
and the subjugation and degradation by
force of arms of another part of its pee
ple.The
The present allegedly democratic
party which at Chicago in 1896 issued a
platform which re-
The Alleged * , ,
Democracy. nounced , repud
iated and de
nounced nearly all of the doctrines and
principles of real democracy , was very
badly whipped then and will be as badly
whipped again if it reiterates the same
fallacies. In 1890 the silver lunacy and
the sizteen-to-oue mania were at the
height of their intensity. The populace
was wrought up to a burning frenzy
over the imaginary wrongs inflicted by
plutocrats upon plain people. Fervid
oratory served from every stump
warmed the multitude into zeal that
know no fatigue and a faith in all kinds
of fallacies that never fainted. But
with all the brass-bar. * ! enthusiasm , all
the prophetic oratory , and nil the mil
lions of money put up for the campaign
by the silver mine and silver bullion in
terests that year , the false democracy
was defeated. Never again can there
be mnssed so much of discontent and
fused so many fads , isms and ologics
into one blazing , bellowing , forceful and
dangerous political party. Never again
will populism and democracy be soldered
together by free silver.
The Indianapolis platform upon which
Palmer and Buckuer stood is true dem-
ocracy. It is true
Democracy. conservatism. The
new party can
stand upon that set of principles.
Every prophecy of disaster , of twenty-
five cent wheat , foreclosed mortgages , re
duced wages and
Propheclex. , . , ,
distress made gen
eral by Bryan and his apostles has been
proved absolutely false. There never was
so bountiful a supply of money to loan at
low rates. There never have been better
demand and better prices for farm lauds.
There never before have been so many
great facts in prosperity and develop
ment to stand up and look the abashed
and discredited prophets of evil iu the
face and give them the lie.
Having failed with their fallacies in
1896 there is no hope for the sixteen-to-
oueites in 1900.
Never. . _ . ,
Never can they
succeed until they have renounced , re
pudiated and denounced the Chicago
deliverance of 1896. Never will the
two to three millions of gold democrats
in the United States cast their votes for
Candidates who stand for the money
fallacies and Bryauarchy.
Never , never again , can the American
people be PO much deluded on the
money question as they were in 1896.
Whether a new party is to be formed
at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on
July 4,1899 , or not , the fallacy followers
of the Chicago convention of 1896 ought
to know enough to know that they will
never get the votes of gold democrats to
support the silver fetish and worship
sixteeu-to-oue.
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