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In Nebraska Oity
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nncl elsewhere the
Bixteeu-to oneites are threatening to
withdraw their money from the banks
and their capital from industrial plants
unless the vote for Bryauarchy is main
tained at , or placed above , that of 1800.
This is terrifying. If every advocate of
free silver in Otoe county should with
draw his wealth from banks , manufac
tories and farms , there would be not a
ripple to disturb the tranquil depths of
our flush prosperity. The damnable
gold standard men own the banks ,
plutocracy runs the factories and the
man who has dollars and sense too
operates the farms and bays more laud.
The men who place work above talk
think that no dollar is too good to com
pensate them , and
Work , not Talk.
no dollar too poor
to pay off the living-getter-by-talking
whether he is a walking delegate to stir
up wrath among trades-unions people era
a presidential candidate who sows dis
cord between those who employ and
those who are employed. The exercise
of the mouth is not to be placed above
that of the muscle and mind any more
than the dollar is to be exalted above the
man.
The populism of
GKT TOGETHER.
the Omaha'World-
Herald wishes to get to-gather plums
political. How would it do to recom
mend bequests and inheritances for the
Bryauarchy cause ?
Why not petition Olark of Montana ,
and Wetmore of St. Louis and Belmont
of New York , who are plutocratioally
for Bryauarchy , to die and leave their
vast estates "for Bryan's sake and the
glorious ratio of 16 to 1 ? "
Any fool can inherit money. Wise
men may make and leave it to be squan
dered in bad causes. Why not ask
somebody to die and bequeath funds to
the Bryanarchy campaign ? It requires
no ability to receive gifts or inherit
ances.
On the fifth day
DEMOCRATS IN
NEBRASKA. of September , in
the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-five a state demo
cratic convention , with more than eight
hundred members present , proclaimed
principles , truth and patriotism in these
manly words :
The democrats of Nebraska , in con
vention assembled , congratulate the
country upon the sure signs of returning
prosperity. In spite of the evil predic
tions alike of protectionists and silver
inflationists , the country is steadily and
surely gaining ground , thus justifying
the wisdom of the reversal of the repub
lican policies of protective tariff taxes
and coinage of a redundant quantity of
token dollars. The fact that the wheels
of industry , so long silenced as a consequence
quence of these policies by a long and
depressing panio , have resumed their
wonted motion and that more than 300-
> *
000 laborers are receiving an increase of
wages of 12 per cent proves this asser
tion.
tion.We
We send greeting and congratulations
to Grover Cleveland and his cabinet , not
only for their wise and prudent course
which has aided so much in bringing
about the better financial condition , but
also for their firm and fearless adherence
throughout the long depression to sound
principles of economics ; for their just
conception of the rights of the whole
people , and for their unswerving fidelity
in upholding and protecting the honor
and integrity of the nation against or
ganized mob violence.
We indorse the National Democratic
platform of 1892 and the interpretation
placed thereon by the president , and we
declare ourselves unequivocally and un
reservedly for that metallic money as
the standard unit the bullion and mint
values of which are approximately the
same , the purchasing power of which ,
regardless of government mintage , is
the least fluctuating in all the markets of
the civilized world. We insist upon
this policy as especially necessary for the
protection of the farmers , laborers , and
property-owning debtors , the most de
fenseless victims of unstable money and
fluctuating currency.
Free coinage of silver , 16 to 1 , means
silver monometallism ; it means poorer
money and less of it ; it means less
wages for the laboring man and less
actual money for the farmer and very
much less credit as well as money for
the business man. It means bankruptcy
for all save the mine owner.
We recognize in the issue and reissue
of our treasury notes a serious menace
to the stability of the national finances ,
and we favor the retirement of all
treasury notes at the earliest possible
moment with proper and safe guarantees
for maintaining the necessary volume of
the currency which shall be devised by
a competent nonpartisan currency com
mission.
The constitution of this state provides
that no religions test shall be made as a
qualification for office. That provision
we accept both in the letter and in the
spirit. We condemn every attempt by
secret societies or otherwise to proscribe
any portion of our citizens on account of
their religious beliefs or affiliations.
( Signed )
N. S. HARWOOD , D. P. ROLFK.
JOHN A. MCSHANE , HENRY KCEHLEE ,
GEORGE P. MARVIN , Jos. J.MONTOSH ,
G. M. SHALLENBERQER.
I hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is a true copy of the platform
offered to the state democratic conven
tion held at Lincoln on the fifth day of
September , 1895 , by the committee
whose names are given above , and
adopted by the unanimous vote of the
convention.
N. S. HARWOOD ,
Chairman of Committee on Platform.
Then , with the pride and strength of
honest faith in an honest currency , the
Nebraska democracy said we are "un
equivocally and unreservedly for that
metallic money as the standard unit
the bullion and mint values of which are
approximately the same , the purchasing
power of which , regardless of govern
ment mintage , is least fluctuating in
all the markets of the world. "
Strenuous , courageous and absolutely
logical were the assembled democrats of
Nebraska at that time I Where are they
now ? Who are they now ? They are
in the stomach of populism. They are
only Bryan and Oldham. How have
the cohorts dwindled 1 How are the
mighty fallen I
BRYANARCHY ANI >
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THE NEW VOTER , shows quite clearly
that Bryanarchy is
not popular with the young men of the
country. With the nid of populists ,
free silverits and democrats Bryan re
ceived but 81.48 per cent of the new
vote (1,868,160) ( ) between 1892 and 1896 ,
while Cleveland , without populist assis
tance , received 89.14 per cent of the new
vote between 1880 and 1892. If we
deduct the populist vote of 1892 from
the Bryan vote of 1896 , Bryan received
95,014 votes less than the vote of Cleve
land and lost the entire new vote.
G' Apaoible ,
THE VOICE OF .
THE FILIPINOS , representing the
Central Filipino
committee , has issued an address to the
American people on behalf of the Filipinos
pines , dated at Toronto , June , 1900. It
is an official statement from the stand
point of the revolutionary government.
Speaking about the government the
Filipinos had established for themselves
prior to American occupation , the ad
dress says :
"That we are progressive , was well
shown by the conduct of our whole
country when , at the time of the capitu
lation of the city of Manila , the inhab
itants of our islands , supposing them
selves to have entered upon a career of
national independence that was to be
assured to them by the United States
government , instead of abandoning
themselves to any revolutionary fever
and excess , established with careful
thought and scrupulous regard for jus
tice a prudent government which re
spected all rights created legitimately ;
they convoked a congress whose legisla
tive work has not been justly criticised
by anybody ; they reorganized the ad
ministrative machinery which had been
disturbed by recent struggles ; tele
graphs , railroads and means of commu
nication began to work regularly ; we
had adopted the electric light in some of
our towns ; and we had established a
new university , four high and several
primary schools. In brief , the new na
tion had entered upon a path of progress
which already promised a bright future.
All this progress' the imperialists have
disturbed ; all this progress have they
destroyed. "
If this indictment of our government
is true who is responsible for the action of
_ . the United States
, ,
Brynii'sResponslblllty . . . , . .
in thus "disturb
ing and destroying all their progress. "
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