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There must be
GOLD STANDAKD. , , . . . .
no dodging by the
real friends of the single gold standard
for the United States. To be sure it
was established in 1873 when congress
declared and the president approved the
act of February 12th , reading as fol
lows :
"That the gold coins of the United
States shall be a dollar piece , which , at
the standard weight of twenty-five and
one-eighth grains shall be the unit of
value. "
The act then enumerates the other
denominations of gold coins and ex
cludes and precludes the free coinage
of silver. That was , is , and may remain
the crime of 1873. It was discussed by
both houses of congress until columns of
the Congressional Record were filled
with reports of the debate. There was
no secrecy about it , no stealth and the
gold standard then as now was ad
vocated by the best ability known to
American citizenship , including lawyers ,
merchants , manufacturers , bankers and
farmers. THE CONSERVATIVE is for its
reaffirmation.
THf
VAX.UES.TIVE has witnessed
the enhancement
of lauds in Otoe county and other parts
of Nebraska for forty-four years. Stead
ily , in spite of the of ten-repeated false
hood'that "farming does not pay" and
in the face of hundreds of calamity
orators , who each autumn pity the
farmer's fate and ask for his vote , the
price of land has marched onward and
upward.
This advance has been made with most
celerity where lands are located con
veniently to railroad depots. The nearer
a good farm is found to the station and
grain elevator of one of the robbing
railroads the higher the valuation.
After hearing House Rent Holcomb ,
Bryan and Allen depict the extortions
of railroads in Nebraska one would con
clude that the further from railroads
one could get a farm the better and
more saleable that farm would be. But
the facts tell us that nearness to ship
ping points makes farms worth more
than remoteness from such points. In
the sound of the voice of disaster , with
in ear-shot of the long-time talker of
calamity , extortion , corporate greed and
the tyranny of "the money power , " the
Hon. Wm. Vincent Allen , Nebraska
lands which he says are ravaged and
robbed by railroads continue to enhance
in value. Capital seeks them. It pays
higher and higher prices for them.
These lands are among the most fertile
and productive of the whole globe. The
surplus product per acre of a Nebraska
farm well tilled , after feeding , housing
comfortably and clothing an ordinary
family , is bigger , better and more re
munerative to the farmer than the
similar surplus in any other state in this
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republic. Labor seeks these lauds also
and the relatively poor man buys of
railroads on long time aud with the dis
tinct understanding and agreement that
his payments are to be earned out of the
land itself. Intelligent men of good
muscle and good mind abound in all
parts of Nebraska who have acquired
large estates by the surplus productions
of the estates themselves.
There are more acres of land in Ne
braska which have paid for themselves
out of themselves , built good houses and
barns out of themselves aud made pros
perous men and women out of the till
age of the soil than in any other state in
this Union.
And all this before our eyes , all this
forcing the fact of advancing land values
nto notice does not halt the everlasting
amentations as to the hardships , woes ,
penury and squalor of Nebraska farm-
rs by a lot of pot-hunters for office
every autumn.
They are just now getting into tune
aud keying up for concerted action.
The season for howling and calumniation
of the state and its people is at hniul.
Coin Harvey , Allen , Bryan and Bill
Dfich will begin the itineracy at once
and exhortations against the value of
farms , in favor of anything and every
thing that does not exist , and against
everything which does exist , will be
frequent and fervid until after all
gudgeons and suckers shall have been
caught by their snares.
The average citi-
LABOR COST. , , ° , .
zen too frequently
confounds wages and labor cost. With
higher wages in the United States than
are paid in highly protected Germany
the assertion is made that the labor cost
in American products is greater than in
German products.
But that does not follow. The man
working for three dollars a day in the
United States , by his superior skill and
intelligence , may produce more of
finished article in one day than his Ger
man competitor , working at seventy-five
cents a day , can produce in four days
The highest and best wages are paid in
the United States because the workmen
operatives and artisans of the United
States are the best educated , disciplined
and skilled in the world.
They are so superior that with big
wages they make the labor cost less in
all woolen and cotton fabrics than it is
in Europe. They are so skilled and
deft in handling metals that notwith
standing higher wages , they make the
labor cost in railroad bars less hero than
in England.
A man who gets ten dollars a month
and board and husks forty bushels of
corn a day gets more labor cost into
corn than one who gets twenty dollars a
month and board and husks one hun
dred bushels a day.
The conspiracy
THAT HAI-
I.OT TKUST. aud combine under
the silver-plated
dome of the capitol at Lincoln by which
the populist managers proposed , as has
been proved , to count in some amend
ments to the organic law of Nebraska
and two members of the supreme court
has not yet been prosecuted by Attor
ney-General Smyth. But as soon as
the legislative committee officially pub
lish their report and the evidence upon
which that report is based , proceedings
will no doubt be instituted against the
ballot trust , made up of several populist
office-holders. "Whether House Rent
Holcoinb , who seems to have been
governor for "the money rather than
the honor" appertaining to the position ,
will be sued is a question. Did ho ever
say with Bryan , "it is the money that
attracts me rather than the honor" of
an office ?
ASft WCaver Of
FUSTIAN
FOR FUSION. fustian there is not
one in Nebraska * *
superior to the chairman of the state
ornmittee of the office-seekers' trust ,
Mr. J. H. Edmiston.
The three corporations which com
bined at Omaha on August 22 , 189 ! ) , to
make this office-seekers' trust were the
Chicago platformers , the silver repub
licans and the populists. This trust is
supported by the silver smelter trust
which it recognizes nnd regards as its
own twin. Mr. Edmiston issues ap
peals , manufactures war-whoops and
originates paroxysmal rhetoric , for the
inspiration of the conglomerate forces.
In a recent address to the ballot-casters
Edmiston says :
"The magnificent record of Silas A.
Holcomb appeals to every thinking
laii. "
"Every thinking man" who wishes to
employ a rent reducer , rent collector
and voucher maker will apply at once to
Silas A. Holcomb. Ho has no peer. He
is without a parallel. Compare him '
with Cronnse. The latter did not get a
cent where Holcomb got dollars.
William J. Bryan had a big meeting
in San Francisco last evening and an
enthusiastic one. He is a man who can
count upon attracting an audience
wherever he goes , and he possesses a
great deal of oratorical ability. But
neither in his speech last evening nor in
any other made by him which wo can
remember do wo discover much evidence
that he is a man who would stand up
and fight for ideas which ho believed
were very unpopular. Oakland En
quirer , September 7th.
.iiiiSJiaisk , . .
When the trust is so conducted as to
threaten its entirety , that is , the welfare
of the individuals comprising it , it is no
longer an ethical organization.
