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DEAD AND
ALIVE/ era of trusts , Bryan
and Smyth , Bay
any corporation transferring its property
to another corporation is , under the
statute , by that act , dead. Bat im
mediately they propose , as legal fakirs ,
to revivify the dead and compel it to
reassume ownership of the alienated
property and operate it. "The Quick
and the Dead , " by Amelia Rives , was
not GO fall of romance as this "Dead"
and "Quick" in the law as expounded
by Bryan and Smyth.
A TEKRIHLE
POSSIBILITY.SEKVATIVE calls to
mind the courage
ous alacrity with which the valorous
Colonel Bryan resigned the colonelcy of
the Third Nebraska regiment as soon as
it was ordered to Cuba , the danger of
making him president and commander-
in-chief of the army and navy of the
United States jumps into ghastly promi
nence. In case of war he would at
once promptly vacate the White House.
To avert this terrible possibility of an
acephalous republic we shall reluctantly
forego the felicity of voting for 16 to 1
and the immediate abolition of the gold
standard.
ARE THEY TH ?
WANTED ? T1VE na" eacl1 an ( *
every word of
Smyth and Bryan stenographed at the
Nebraska Oity meeting. The work was
accomplished , in duplicate , by two
experienced and accurate stenographers.
If the fusion committees or the repub
lican committees desire copies of these
speeches the Morton Printing Company
will furnish them cheaply and by the
thousands.
Who will buy Bryan's and Smyth's
Nebraska Oity speeches against incor
porated capital , against wage-earners
against thrift , against prosperity and in
favor of envy , malice , slander and
calamity ?
FEAR."I tell you , my
greatest concern is
not the fear that I shall not be elected
president [ he seems to have that
tired feeling ] but lest I might do some
thing to alienate myself from the people
who have done so much for me. "
Thus hypocritically closed the great
denunciation of capital in general , and
of that in the Nebraska City starch
factory particularly , on Wednesday
night , Sept. 26th , 1900. A pretty perora
tion after having falsely said that the
citizens' meeting protesting against the
malicious suit of Bryan and Smyth , was
a partisan meeting , a meeting of lie-
tellers and not in the interests and for
the advancement of Nebraska Oity 1
Who believes Bryan and Smyth as
against the hundreds of citizens who
have.signed their denunciation ?
B * * B *
ANTITRUST. .
Smyth declare that
no man , firm or corporation can sell
property to a combination of capital in
Nebraska and have the sale stand
because all combinations of capital , they
declare to be "Trusts. "
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GLORY.
n "I
Bryan : glory
in the courage of the attorney general
to come to Otoe county to drive this out of
your community I" Drive out capital ,
drive out starch-making , drive out the
wages of two hundred and fifty women
and men , now happy in comfortable Ne
braska City homes 1
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STATE RIGHTS. ,
speech at Nebraska
Oity reiterated his plan of licensing cor
porations organized in one state to do
business in any other state , by the Fed
eral government. Ho declared that
plan to be the only feasible one for
abolishing the rights of the states. No
federalist of the ancient days of the
Republic could have gone further to
wards a centralized government.
A PROPHET.
folks say that the
starch trust will close up this factory if
this suit is prosecuted. They are talk
ing prophecies 1"
The above is verbatim from the
Nebraska Oity speech. It contains two
lies :
First. "The folks" referred to by
Bryan never said , nor did anybody but
Bryan and Smyth say , that under any
conditions "the starch trust" would
close the Nebraska Oity factory.
Second. "They" were not "talking
prophecies , " because they recognize
Bryan as the monopolist in prophecy ,
whose assets are a job lot of decayed
forecasts , made in 1896 , and smelling
badly in 1900.
TAKE NO CHANCES.
People take no chances with a Presi
dent unless they are forced to do so , and
then the least possible. Nothing could
be more damaging to a candidate than
the appearance in ordinary business
contracts of a clause conditional on his
election. This is a common occurrence
in various parts of the country now ,
reading substantially as follows : "This
agreement to be null and void in case
William J. Bryan is elected President
of the United States in November , 1900. "
There is no politics in a proceeding of
that character. It is a simple business
precaution arising from a situation in
which there is an element of risk. The
moral effect of it is incalculable. It
carries to the mind of every person
who hears of it a realization of what
Bryan's election would do in the very
first instance it would destroy confi
dence and thus paralyze business and
enterprise.
In other words , Bryan asks to be
elected to the presidency in order that
he may upset existing conditions. He
comes before the country in the midst
of a period of unexampled prosperity
and development and says : "Pat me at
the head of the government and I will
change all thatl" Is it strange that
the American people are not enamored
of his offer ? And yet it is the only one
he can make , for change is his only line
of business. Commercial Advertiser.
LAST PINE TREE IS GONE.
Cadillac , Mich. , Sept. 14. The last
pine tree in Wexford county was out
last Saturday forenoon at Oumner &
Diggiu's camp northwest of the city.
What has for so many years been the
chief industry of Cadillac and vicinity
will soon be only a remembrance. This
one tree was left standing for several-
days in order that photographs of it
might be taken. There was a large
crowd in attendance upon the ceremo
nies incident to its destruction. It is
said there are three or four large pine
trees near Harrietta , bat they are on the
Ann Arbor right of way , and therefore ,
are not considered when speaking of
timber cut for lumber.
Without a doubt daring the past
thirty years , Wexford county has pro
duced as much , if not more , pine lumbar
than any other country in the state. It
has been the principal source of employ
ment to the residents of Cadillac and
the camps have furnished labor to many
of the farmers of the county during the
winter months. It will be only a short
time now until all the pine logs that are
boomed in Olam lake will be out , and
then will bagin the cut of hardwood
which promises to be nearly as long as
the pine has been.
JOHN M. PALMER.
The death of John M. Palmer , the
grand old man of Illinois , removes
another hero of the armies of the North ,
and one of the picturesquely sturdy
figures in the politics of this country.
General Palmer had very well defined
ideas of right and wrong. He may have
erred in judgment , but he was not in
the market for any man's money or
influence , and it was very seldom in
deed that he landed-on the wrong side
of anything. When the democracy
went astray in the days of the early
sixties he was on the other side , and
there was no braver man in the Union
army than the hero of Stone river.
When the republicans got off the track
in the tariff matter , as well as others ,
he was a democrat. When the demo *
oratio party wentpopulistio he was a
gold democrat , and as such he died. He
was a type of the man whose principles
cannot be controlled by mere allegiance
to a party name , right or wrong. The