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vironments are far more to be1 pitied
than those rugged and ragged young-
'stors who first saw daylight in the
rude cabins and dugouts of the Ne
braska frontier. Here they had the
stimulant of poverty which braces
"mankind to self-helpfulness and keys
up to self-reliance and plucky inde
pendence. Poverty is a plain but
practical teacher. It gives great les
sons. It teaches the value of self con
trol and self-denial. It writes on hu
man life as on a slate the proverbs
and rules for usefulness and happi
ness. The children born in Nebraska
thirty and forty years ago very soon
came to understand that life was a
battle. They speedily saw that each
individuality must win because of its
ov , 11 disciplined strength and persist
ency or fail and lose because of its
own weakness and purposelessuess.
The rough asperities which surround
ed the pioneer children of the terri
tory and state impressively and stern
ly taught them that they must rely
for fortune and fame entirely upon
themselves. Their parents were
obliged to impose burdens of labor up
on them. Those burdens were larger
and heavier than are imposed upon
children of similar age in the older
and wealthier states. And so the pioneer
neer childhood came to understand
that a good home and its comforts
where'the .family should be domiciled ,
necessarily meant self-denial on the
part of the then dwellers in dugouts
and cabins. They soon comprehended
the fact that if parents did not deny
themselves desired things , which
they seemed to really need , no fund
could be accumulated with which to
buy schoolbooks , pay for the preemption
tion claim and build the hoped-for
dwelling. All through those early
years of the settlement of Nebraska
every child and youth had the ad
vantage of a primitive object lesson
environment. It told in acts of self-
control , self-denial , self-reliance and
self-respect the despotic necessity of
those virtues in the attainment of sub
stantial and solid success. The vis
ible truth , that every human home ,
every vast manufacturing plant , every
grand railway system , all incorpor
ated capital , represents self-reliance
and self-denial on the part of some
human being , or human beings , eith
er in this , or some preceding genera
tion , stands out an economic Gibral
tar , against which the waves of de
clamatory socialism and communism
roar in vain. The pioneers of Nebras
ka and their children stood on this
great fundamental fact in sociology
and from it very many climbed up to
competence and the satisfying com
forts of contented and refined homes.
There are few
BLIND CONmen who would
DUCTORS. risk traveling on a
ra i1 road train
drawn by an engine in charge of a
jlind engineer and a blind fireman.
There are few lovers of music who
would entrust the conduct of an or
chestra to a deaf and dumb leader.
But a railroad train managed by the
blind and an orchestra led by a deaf
man would be as safe and successful
as a financial system founded by the
fanatics of free silver at sixteen to
one.
one.Only
Only those who can see may man
age engines and run railroads. . Only
those who can hear and speak may
conduct orchestras. Only those who
have learned by diligent study and
experience that the circulation of a
country must be pure and sound as an
essential precedent to national , health
and prosperity may be permitted to
prescribe laws relative to money.
No man who dreams and talks in his
sleep , to the effect that law is the
sole creator of money and that law
can evoke value from nothingness ,
should be elected to any legislative
body in America.
No man .who has not thought enough
and read enough to know that in all
its civilized career the race has never
successfully used for money anything
which did not have value as a com
modity before it became money is fit
to help make laws in this country.
Too many blind men , too many deaf
men have been running the lawmaking
ing business and leading the indus
trial music of the United States.
Only men of merit whose eyes
have carefully reviewed history and
economics ought to be elected legisla
tors. And all those deaf to the
voices of the past which recite the
woes of fiat finance from France to
Mississippi should be excluded from
the list of law givers.
The one quality
COURAGE IN which above all
PUBLIC LIFK. others wins the
love and admir
ation of man is that thoroughgoing
independence of thought , speech and
act commonly 'illed civic courage. It
is the prevailing characteristic in the
life of every man who has won dis
tinction in the public service of his
country. Without it no man may hope
to be a leader in the highest sense of
the word one who discerns the true
lines of his country's development
and labors energetically , faithfully
and hopefully to accomplish his pur
poses. Intense energy , profound faith ,
abiding hope require nothing so much
as civic courage a power to sustain
and strengthen in the face of every
difiiculty and against the most dis
heartening opposition. Commercial
Advertiser.
The standard
THE UNIT. unit of coin which
measures the value
of all exchangeable property must bo
made of only one metal. And that
metal should be gold. It should be
coined unlimitedly free from all
mint charges. In this way the value
of the bullion and the value of the
coin in the country doing the minting
must remain precisely the same. The
owner of the bullion pays no seignior
age. The government has merely
transmuted his bullion into coin and
certificated its weight and fineness.
But the government 1ms added no
value to the metal. The fact that
government stamping confers no value
to gold is daily demonstrated by the
bank of England. It handles and treats
all gold coins , except those of Eng
land , as bullion. The Bank of Eng
land pays for United States gold coins
7(5 ( shillings , 4 and * < > ponce an ounce.
It sells the same at 7(5 ( shillings , 8
pence per ounce. But the Bank of
England pays for gold bars ( .999 fine )
77 shillings 9 pence an ounce and will
not sell said gold bars at less than 77
shillings and 11 ponce an ounce. Thus
it is seen that .999 fine gold bullion ,
in the greatest monetary center of the
globe , is worth more than coin governmentally -
mentally minted and stamped by the
United States or by any other power
foreign to Great Britain. Gold makes
the best unit of value.
The consummate
THE END OP fruit of civilization
PROGRESS. and Christianity
and the culmina
tion and end of human progress is to
approximate justice. An immutable
law of the intellectual advancement ,
and the moral advancement of man
kind , is that we must nearer and nearer
come to the right interpretation and
dispensation of justice.
Therefore the advocates of a just
cause may with sublime faitli predict
its ultimate triumphs. The conscious
ness of being right ; and the unfaltering
belief that their words and works will
have certainly achieved benefactions
for posterity , anticipate all the happi
ness and satisfactions of the praise of
posterity.
The intellectual exultations of right-
doing are a feast to the soul an invisi
ble and everlasting luxury. The denun
ciations of the mob cannot lessen this
supreme felicity. The plaudits of the
multitude cannot enhance it.
The coward may live and enjoy today.
But the brave and the wise live for to
morrow and for the betterment of those
who shall then exist. Justice for all
humanity in all the world is the aim
and end of progress. When justice
shall have encircled the globe , Heaven
will have begun upon earth and man
will have reached the highest possible
evolution.
