Che Conservative.
VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , OCT. n , 1900. NO. 14.
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" 'IF I CAN PREVENT THE MAINTEN
ANCE OF THE GOLD STAND
ARD , YOU CAN RELY ON
MY DOING IT. "
"They any that I am begging for votes.
Not at all. I never asked a man to vote for
me. In fact , I have told some people to vote
against me. That Is more than most can
didates do. I have said that If there was
anybody who believed In the maintenance
of the gold standard until foreign nations
came to us and graciously permitted us to
abandon it , I said that if anybody should be
lieve that the gold standard was absolutely
essential to the welfare of this country he
ought to not vote for me at all. I do not
want any man to vote for me and then object -
ject to my doing what I expect to do If you
elect me , and if I can prevent the mainten
ance of the gold standard you can rely on
my doing It the very first possible oppor
tunity given me. "
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
Philadelphia , Sept. 23 , 1896.
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"If there Is any one who believes the
Gold Standard is a good thine : , or that It
must bo maintained , I warn him not to
cast his vote for mo because I promise him
it will not be maintained in this country
longer than I am able to get rid of it. "
Hon. William Jennings Bryan , Knoxvllle ,
Tenn. , Sept. 10,1800.
MUSCLE AND
of the United
MONEY.unions
ted States are
muscle trusts. Every one of them is
endorsed by Bryan and all the small
and cross-road follow
bore - politicians who
low at his heels.
THE CONSERVATIVE has nothing to
say against organized labor. But if it
is right for labor to organize itself into
muscle trusts for the avowed purpose of
putting up wages , or maintaining
wages , or preventing men who do not
belong to the trust from getting wages ,
THE CONSERVATIVE would like to know
why it must necessarily be wrong for
capital to combine for the purpose of
maintaining its profits , either in banks ,
railroads , manufacturing plants or
elsewhere. A money trust is all right
if a muscle trust is all right. Let Col.
Bryan and some of his deluded disciples
explain why it is wrong for money to
combine to maintain reasonable profits
and at the same time right for muscle
to combine to get satisfactory wages.
In the state of Nebraska during its
thirty-four years of existence the price
of the use of
Tyranny. ,
money has con
stantly declined. During that period
legislation has been invariably against
those who loan money or have large
money interests in their control. Every
sort of enactment to stave off the col
lection of debts , to prevent the "money
power" from getting its grip on its own ,
has been brought into vigor upon our
statute books. In these years the in
terest rates have declined from three
per cent per month to five per cent per
annum. In the same period wages have
increased 25 per cent. During the
thirty years the people of Nebraska
have been taught by actual experience
whether tyranny has developed most in
muscle trusts or money trusts. Twice
the militia of the state has been called
out to protect wage-earners who were
willing to accept compensation which
the trades-unions , the labor' muscle
trusts , had declined. Human life was
sacrificed at Omaha by men carrying
the state arms in order to protect wage-
earners who were trying to work for a
per diem allowance which the trades-
unions had declined. It is admitted
everywhere that non-union men can
not with safety , attempt to work upon
jobs which have been declined by the
muscle trust or any of its members.
And yet during all these years , while
money has been flowing into the state ,
and competition by
The Money Side. . j , . . /
agents desiring to
loan money has grown to the hottest in
tensity , while rates have been cut year
after year and month after month , until
farm loans are now made all along the
eastern edge of Nebraska at five per
cent per annum , there has never been
an injury to the person of one banker
by the assault of another banker who
had refused to take the rates accepted
by his competitor. At no time have the
state authorities been called out to allay
mobs , to put down riots , or to prevent
insurrection caused by cutting rates or
by competition among money loaners.
The tyranny of money , then , has not
been so pugnacious , over-bearing and so
expensive to the people of this state as
the tyranny of muscle. Never have
the authorities of any city or county
or of the commonwealth been asked to
intervene to prevent bloodshed between
money loaners for cutting usurious rates.
This being a fact , why is a money
trust any worse than , or even as bad as
a muscle trust ?
The twin down-
TO COMPEL.
pullers of Nebras
ka City industrial plants , generally , who
on Wednesday night , September 26 ,
1900 , made speeches in the court house
square , particularly favorable to closing
the starch works , pose as anti-im
perialists.
Yet Bryan and Smyth each insisted
that they would compel a dead corpora
tion to live again ; compel its stock
holders to rehabilitate , capitalize and
operate it ; compel the payment of wages ,
and compel the employees to accept
them. What superior despotism Bryan-
arohy teaches and what law Smyth
pleaches !
WEAVER. In 1892 Bryanthe
populist nominee
for the presidency in 1900 , was pos
ing as a democrat and running for office
as a democrat ; but at the same time as
a populist , voting for the Weaver elec
tors and against Cleveland. He now
claims the support of democrats for the
pretense of 1892 and the aid of populists
for the service actually rendered in self-
sacrifice for principles. Bryan is indeed
peerless.
It is reported that
DETECTED.
Bryan's sleuths
have detected skilled jewelers , in New
York , at work on a gold crown which is
adorned with a pint of diamonds , two
quarts of rubies and sapphires galore.
The crown is already initialed , but
whether the letters' "Mo" stand for
"MoKinley" orMike Oroker" is not
yet determined. "Imperialism , " how
ever , is imminent and it will become
epidemic in New York and infect the
whole country unless vaccination from
Tammany virus is successfully entered
upon , in every state , at once.
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