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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JULY $ , 1900. NO. 52.
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.T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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The cold and
COOL. . . , , „ .
glacial style of the
effrontery which will characterize the
condemnation of "trusts" by the Kan
sas Oity convention will glitter like an
icicle , even in the torrid light of a July
sun. The denunciation of "trusts" by
the only national convention which con
tains delegate at largo from the Now
York Oity ice trust is refreshing and
refrigerating. It touches the zero of
demagogic gall.
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TO UPLIFT SILVER. .I
silver mines , sil
ver smelters and silver bullion have a
direct personal , pecuniary and political
interest in the reafflrination of the Chicago
cage platform of 1890. That declara
tion in favor of special silver legislation
received the support and the enormous
contributions of the producers and
owners of the silver mines and bullion
in all the Kocky Mountain states. The
cheerful proposition made time and
again by that profound student of
finance whom the silver trust nominated
for the presidency that by the enact
ment of a law , in the United States , to
compel the free coinage of silver at 10
to 1 , the value of every ounce of silver
on earth would be raised to $1.29 , cap
tivated Colorado and other states in
control of smelters and other plutocratic
combines.
The entire campaign , so far as the
currency question was involved , was , on
. _ , . the part of Bryan
A Class.
and his disciples , a
campaign of the class owning silver
bullion and silver mines against the
mass of voters who did not own silver
property. All the arguments , all the
flabbergastic oratory of 1890 , in behalf of
the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 10
to 1 with gold , represented a paid-for
plan , a corrupt plot , to uplift the price
of silver in behalf of the few and to the
wronging and wrecking of the many.
Deliberate and unified effort to put the
government of the United States into
the hands of a silver trust , in the year
1890 , ignominionsly failed. The cam
paign of 1890 will be repeated by the
silver trust in 1900 and the American
people will bo again implored to debase
the currency and debauch the credit of
their country.
POLITICS.Thedopulpitized
PIETY m POLITICS.
preacher , who pro
claims his piety and politics in the Lin
coln Independent , reproduces from the
"Peoples' Champion" the subjoined
specimen of popnlistic piety and prin
ciples. Here you have the animus of
the entire organization. It is for place ,
power , plunder , piracy and the defile
ment of the public credit. Anything to
get office anything to win an oppor
tunity to loot the national treasury to
make it an adjunct of Orokor and
emptier than the heads of the deluded
followers of populism :
"Some fusionists seem , to think that
Towne's nomination by the democrats
at Kansas Oity may be assured by con
vincing the democrats of his eminent
fitness. Let us whisper a word. It's
victory those fellows want. Assure
them of that and fitness may take its
chances. The more you convince such
men as Hill , Oroker , Van Wyok , et al ,
of Towne's fitness to be Bryan's mate
the less they will like him. Convince
them that they can win with Towne ,
but will fail without him , and they'll
every one whoop 'or up for Towuo.
That's practical politics. "
Because the law
. . . . . . . . ,
reestablishing and
reaffirming the gold standard was
enacted last congress many good citizens
disgusted with the present adminis
tration think they may vote for Bryan
without danger to the monetary system
of the country.
In this they are mistaken ; Bryan and
all his followers are pledged to repeal
that law , if they can get the power to
do so. It is not safe , for those who wish
the gold standard to permanently re
main , to vote for Bryan , bitter as the
other dose may taste ,
orgeFred Wil-
AN ECONOMIC
PRINCIPLE.Imms , the noted
political economist
of Massachusetts , advances the follow
ing economic reason for reaffirming
10 to 1 and his opinion will probably
have much weight in determining the
result at the Kansas Oity convention :
"To make concessions now , would
mean that Cleveland was right and the
greatest man in the democratic party. I
do not believe this convention will do it. "
Ho no longer insists that 10 to 1 is
right. He does not assert that experi
ence has demonstrated the correction of
the financial plank of the Chicago plat
form. His interview implies the con
verse , that the party was wrong in 1890 ,
but to admit it would be to admit that
"Grover Cleveland was right and the
greatest man in the democratic party. "
The Bryanarohists are certainly in a
deplorable predicament that they declare
this the only reason for reaffirm
ing the fallacy of 1890.
It will bo noticed
HARDLY.
that the "demo
cratic" doctrines now promulgated by
J. Sterling Morton receive the unani
mous commendation and approval of
the McKinley press. Omaha World-
Herald.
Hardly as generally endorsed as the
supplications of Bryan in behalf of the
ratification of the treaty of Paris which
made imperialism possible ! Hardly
as universally commended by republi
cans as the continued efforts of Bryan-
arohy to debauch the currency and
destroy the credit of the United States !
In a letter to the
THAT TREATY.
Knoxville Senti
nel , Mr. Bryan asks : "How can we
justify the sacrifice of American soldiers
and the killing of Filipinos merely to
show that we can whip them ? "
Everybody who roads cnything or
knows anything about the constitution ,
the laws and the treaties of the United
States knows that the latter , having
been ratified by the senate , are as bind
ing , as sacred and as much to be
defended as the constitution itself. And
even Bryan knows that ho and his
friends boasted that they secured the
ratification of that treaty which made
the Filipinos amenable to the authority
of the United Skates. Justification is by
that treaty which Bryan advocated.
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