Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O fAITA DATTA' BEE : PATITUBAY , JULY 18 , 1800.
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COUItnsi'ONDl'.NPE :
All communication" i-flallns to newi nnJ c < ll-
lorlnl tmttor plmulil he nillr'rami To the CJItor
All ljmln s IMtcia ar < ] tpmlttnnoM should be
iiitrn ! ej to The ! ! < > e I'uhlMilnic C inrnny ,
Omaha lian died. * nnd | K t < > ni ( " oriiera to
bo made tmvnhl * tn the onlcr of the company.
run IIM : ITUUHHIMJ COMPANY.
BTATUMnNT or cmcui.ATioN.
Btntc of Nebraska I
Douglas county. (
George II 'lz crmck. sccrctnry of T'16 ' nec 1 > ul ) "
llshlnc comptin } I * Ing duly sworn. pros Hint the
nLtunl mimlKr of full nrul uimlilete cnplrs of tlio
Daily. MnnilnB , Ilvcnlm ? nnd Bumlay U'o printed
during the month of Juno , 1805 , a us follow *
Net dally mirage . . . . 13 44J
onouan it TZSPHUCK
Snorn tn before me nml Mih crlued In my
rrcfence tills Itli iln or July. IF'if
I ) N I' mil.
Notary I'uldlc.
I'm ties poliiR out of tlie city for the
summon niny linro The Hoc sent lo fliolr
mltlrcss by Icmvliifj an oidur at the
biisliK'ss'olllco of the Ueo. TelfMihone 2.1S.
Tin1 to 1 free Mlvoiltc who en IN
himself tt bimeUrlllst N sailing under
false colors
riftj-seven % oti's will rn.il.o tbo No-
biaskn populist ( k-lcfratlon to St. Louis
one to bi > cotldlotl niul cultivated.
The next piosldont of the United
States \\lll bo a lawyer by ptofesblon
Wo me confident no one \ \ 111 dispute tin.1
nccur.iey of tills staleini'iit.
Bland Aoiu-lies for I'.rjan and IJijan
vouches toi Hland. Hut tliose me the
kind of - \ ouclieishleh the public al
ways , accepts with a discount.
Pilvatc firms and business houses monet
not inislnt ; sal.ules of emjiloyes hist at
present. Why should the lio.nd ol Kdn-
catlon tieat Its einplojet. any dillei-
eutlyV
Its a Aviso child that knows its own
father , and vice voisn. The populists ,
liowo\oi\ seem wllllnj ; to iecoKiil/o the
democratic pl.itfoim as their own off-
The exposition is noinK to bo a suc
cess. Vut jour name down on the stock
Mibseilptlon blinks and insino for join-
self some of the ciedlt for milking It a
success.
If Bryan is "the .Silver Knkbt of the
West , " as his spokesman and chaiini.iii
of the Nebiaslv.i delegation lofuirod to
him In the C'hlivjjo coinention , Sew all
must bo "the Golden KnljIit of the
Kast. "
If Jefferson weie biought to life what
u hoi i Hied look lie would have as soon
as ho le.uiH'd the chaiaeteis of the men
\\lio aio loudly iiislstiiif ; Unit they me
following the onljJeffcifeonian doc-
t lines.
Iowa republicans piopose to in.iKc a
campaign that will vindicate the claim
of the state to bo one of the staunches !
of staunch icpuhllcan .slates. Iowa has
n loputation as a icpublican stionghold
that It cannot vi ell afford to lose at the
end of this nineteenth ccntmy.
The fight for the presidency this fall
Is to 1)0 between McKlnley and Iliyan
anil no amount of sideshow tickets put
up by other p.uties will enable the
people to evade the leal Issue , which is ,
Shall wo have honest , sound money , 01
lepudlutlon nml debt scaling tlnough a
depreciated single silver stand.udV
Bryan's reference to Bismarck's speech
In which he said the funnels must stand
together and piotect themselves fiom
the drones of society who pioduce noth
ing but laws is Imidly the appiopilutc
thing coming 1'ioni him. I'loduclng
laws , or rather tijing * to produce hiw ,
seems to have been Bryan's chief occu
pation In locent yeais.
The county toiniiilssionei.s rinrdo n ( orir
of Inflection over tire county I'otuN to
learn tliehcoiiilltlon and to e.Minilne
the iniieiidiirrrl/eil roadways beyond
Center mid Dod o .streets. It Is hoped
the commissioners vvlll , ns the reMiIt of
this tour , jiay special attenllon to the
i matter i.t' roadway Impiovemeiit he-
g , tween the city and the .state fair
grounds. .
The mayor and counell across the
river linvo about determined to return
to llr.st principles and put city prlsonem
to woik upon the stieotH. Thlh was
done until l.ibor oii airi/.itlons piote.sted ,
whereat tlio pi nut leu was ab.indoiied
But when \airants are made to woik
they boon conclude to leave the city ,
Urns lellevlii } , ' the taxpajeis of the e\
punso of fcedlni , ' them and protecting the
ri'sldents frorrr theft and petty depieda-
tlons.
Our fienzled contomporatj- , which
onlj' n few weeks ago raKcd the state
In < iuest of free silver republicans , has
nothing to say about the large niimbei
of sound money democrats who do not
liebltato to denounce the Chicago plat
form , nor to say they will not \ole for
Bryan. But the storm of demociatle
dlsnppiovnl has only begun to gather.
Within u few days the old line wheel
will get together and decline
in no mice.tain ! terms. And
declaration will come fiom men
made the democintlo patty In No
ii , mwi without whoso counsel and
0Ul > j > ort It LOU Id not have existed.
TIIItKK Qt
O'NUIM * Neb. , July IS , 1S95. To the
IMItor of Tlio Dee : "Will you plcnso Inform
mo
1 \Vliy dlil congress ilcmonctlzc slher In
1S73 ?
2. Whnt benefit , If any , hag tills country
derived from llio demonetization of slhcr ?
3. Who did receive any benefit from the
demonetization of silver ?
C C. McHUOH.
I.'lt t fongross did not deinonetl/.e
silver In 18751. Webster's dictionary
defines the word "domonetixe" ns "to
withdraw fiom u o us money. " There
was no silun coin in use as moiipy In
1ST. ! . The o called demonoU/atlon act
did not < l' > pilve any silver coin of Its
function ns inoiioy. The act of 1S71 !
merely discontinued tbo coinage of the
silver dollar of H2V& grains , the half
dime and the J'-cpnl piece. The mint-
ime of nil other slher coins was not
Intelruptod and all outstanding slher
coins , whether dollars or minor coins ,
retained their money functions. The
slandmd silver dollar bns always been
full legal tendei , and now has the same
debt-pa.\lng power that gold has.
Second Theie being no deinonetl/.a-
tltm In the Ktilct sense of the tenn ,
this countijlias neither deilved bene-
Ills nor Inclined losses fiom demono-
tlxatlon. We piesume , liowever , that
Hie infoimatlon souijht Is whether the
Hulled States gained anj thing by the
act of 1S7II discontinuing the fieo and
unlimited coinage of silver dollars at
the old lallo of 1C. to 1. To this -\\o \
answer that no matoilnl benefit or loss
would have been sustained M > long as
the pioductlon of silver and Hie cost
of pioduellon of silver kept pace with
Its value lelatlvo to gold. But A\heii
the two metals pa i ted company un
limited coinage of silvei at the old la-
tlo would soon have i educed ( ho coun-
tiy to a sliver basis , as It has Mexico.
The assumption that fieo coinage would
h'ne maintained sliver at the pi ice of
91.2 ! ) an ounce eontiavenes all past
expeiieiice. In the I00 ! je.n.s fiom
lt)2 ! ) the latlo of silver to gold had
changed liom 10'/j to 1 to 15 to 1
although all the nations of Iluiope weie
coining sihet without limit. The aboli
tion of the unlimited coinage of slhei
has benefited tills country by main
taining the p'lilly of all its mono )
with gold , by raising public and pil-
vate ciedlt by low ei ing the 1.1(0 ( of In
Iciest and bj giving us a cunency that
pusses at Its face \aliie the woild over
Above all things , it tinned the tide of
investment fiom Bmopo to the United
States , by which we were enabled to
build 100,000 miles of i.illio.ul within
twenty years and develop the losoiiicej
of the gieat west as they could not
possibly have been developed In twice
the time unaided by foreign capital.
The answer to the second question
also answois the tiitid. The Ameilcan
people have been tbo beneficial ies , not
fiom demonotix'ition , which Is a fig-
men I of the imagination , but fiom lim
ited silver coinage and the maintenance
of an honest monej standaid.
A It
The Chicago plalfoim is justly de
nounced as in spliit and puiposo io\o-
lutionarjMr. . Bijnn declaies It to be
leinociatie from the fiist sentence to the
last. Men who h.no bwi domoci.its all
their lives and still udhoio to the tia-
litlonnl piinelples of the paity ladicallv
lifter Horn the Chicago nominee In theh
view of the chaiacler of the pl.itfoim.
I'he fieo silver plank is not the onlj
mo which these demociats condemn.
One of them , Intel viewed by The Bee.
-aid : 'I would not suppoit a platfoim
which avowed its pmpose to looigani/e
the supio'iio ( .01111 of the United .States
mil which contemplated an op n opposi-
ion to the life teniiio ot fedeial judges. "
Itofeience Is made to that plank in the
llatfoiin ) wliich toveitly attacks the su-
nieme couit and openly Intinutos that a
way must bo found to lovoise its recent
tidings.
This ievolutlonaiy piopositlon or sug-
'estlon is leceivlng wldespiead alten-
'lon ' , as It should do , for nothing like it
has e\er botoionppemed in the platfoim
of a great political paity in this coun-
dy. Decisions of the supieine judicial
( lilunal have boon ciitlclsed and con-
lemned , but wo do not let-all an in
stance of a paity platfoim suggesting
the leorgiini.iatlon of that couit in the
way suggested by the Chicago platform
V New Yoik dispatch says that the dis
tinguished lawyer , Mr. C'oudeit , looKi
upon this as the most dangoious and
portentous Indication of what Hot be
neath all this agitation. Othois think
that In this assault upon the .siipiome
court lies the gieatest danger in thl.i
new cius.ide , for if that Institution can
bo niado the victim of momentay ! pas
sion and leoiganlyed at the will or
ciijirlco of any paitjIhon the gieat
anchor to the constitution , the gioat eon-
seivatlvo foico which all students of
American Institutions believe to have
been that which made for the pcimn-
nencj' of the American nation , will be
shuttered.
This attitude of the Brynn-Altgeld
party lowaid the siipiemo couit of the
United States , will , It is said , beantago-
nl/.ed In the campaign in the eastern
stales as eauiestly , it not ns conspicu
ously , as the fioo silver pioposition. It
should bo oveiywhoio , for It Is a matter
that must sliongly appeal to every clti-
/.t'li who b 'lloves It to bo absolutely o.s-
sonllal to the pieservallon of constitu
tional govoinmont that Jho highest judl-
ilnl tribunal shall be kept aloof fiom
and wholly Independent of patty passion
and political iulluoncc. It miiy bo said
that It has not always been free from
those , but If this ho admitted It fur
nishes no valid loason In Justification
of the dangoious and revolutionary sug
gestion of tin * Chicago platfoim. For
men who gho their approval to sucb an
attack upon the highest Judicial tribunal
to cla'in to bo followers of Thomas Jef
ferson and Andiew .lackson is an tin-
pardonable Insult to the momoiy of
those Illustrious men an insult Mndred
to that of associating their names Avith
the cause of cnuency debasement and
icpudlntlon ,
The Chicago platform , after referring
to the decision against the Income tax ,
say.sVo ; declare ( lint it is the duty
of congress to use all the constitutional
power which remains after that deci
sion , or which may come fioiu Ha ie-
vcrsal by the court ns It may horenfnr ( bo
constituted , so that the burdens of tnxn
tlou may bo equally and linp.it tlally
laid , ( o the end that wo may all hon
our proportion of the expenses of ( he
goeminent. . " The success of the Hrynn
Altgeld paity would threaten a reor-
Kit libation of the upreme couit of the
United Slates for the ptupose of making
effective nil the loactlonmy and lovolu-
tlonaiy sehouips of ( hat political cle
ment. It would mean the possible
subordination of that tilhunal to the will
and dictation of a pmty. No good citi
zen can contcmiilale such a possibility
with complacency.
T/J/B 10jtj < \ A HALT.
1'ubllo buildings constructed w lib pub
lic funds are Intended solely for public
uses , To this inlo no exception should
bo made. While It might be appro-
pi late to hold leceptioiis in public
buildings for men who have been hon
ored with positions of dust In city ,
state or nation , It Is manifestly a sub-
vor-loir of the public Inteiest lo giant
the use of public buildings to pilvate
occupants or place thorn at the dis
posal of partisan political oiganlza-
llons. It would bo eminently pioper to
receive a president of the United
Slates In a public building , fcdoi.il ,
stale or oily , but It Is decidedly im-
piopcr to open such buildings to the
leceptlon of a candidate for the presi
dency. The same is duo legiudlng
United States senators , congiessinon ,
goveinors and judicial olllcors.
inning the term of Major Bpmls
rooms In rho city hall weie Impioperly
given over to a mu.slc teacher for pri
vate sliming classes and other tenants
who pay no lent and ha\o no claim
upon ( lie public and aio In no way
connected with the public service. Moio
iccently the city hall has been used
for the reception louderod bv a polit
ical club to its preferred candidate for
governor , and its use has boon ofleied
for 11 reception to the dcmoeiatlc can
didate for president. It would perhaps
be justly considered an act of discour
tesy to withhold 1 lorn Mr. Bijan the
pilvilego that was accorded Mr. Mac-
Coll. But the pioposed Biyan iccep
lion In ( lie city hall should be Hi" l.iot
political demonsdatlon in tint build
ing. Theie is no reason why the pee
pie of Omaha should be taxed lor light
ing and decoiatlng the city ball foi
any partisan gathering. Its u--e should
bo exclusive for non-partisan public
gatbeilngs and such entertainments n.
the city may fiom time to time be
called upon to extend to dislinguisbed
visitors fiom abioad.
b ! ? UliJKCTIOXS
The fanners in the western prrt of
this county bavevoikcd themselves
into : i lien/y over tire pioposed amend
meiit to the constitution that provides
Unit the goveinmcnts of cities of the
metropolitan class may bo moigod in
part or lu whole with the goveinmentH
of the counties in which they uie lo
catod. These f.rmeis aie uuneeossardj
alarmed over an Imaginary increase of
taxes. They do not compiebeiid the
scope of the amendment , which Is 10
ally intended to i educe their taxes in
-.tend of incieasing them. They appar
ently o'voiloolc the clause in the pie
posed amendment wliich makes the
cons"nt of a m.ijoritjof the \oteis
living outside of the citja condition
piocedent to its being put into eiiect.
In other woids , the piopositlon to con
solldate any prit of the county gov-
oimnont with the city government will
have to bo submitted for their ap
proval befoio any change can bo m.'de.
Bofoio setting their laces again.- !
the adoption of the pioposed constitu
tional amendment , Douglas conntj
fanners should acquaint themselves
with its true objects There are now
two treasmors collecting taxes In
Omaha. One has his ollice In the city
hall and the other in the county coin I
house. The Omaha taxpayer Is , there-
loie , obliged to make sopai.ite calls
upon two deasiiH'is. The city of
Omaha Is at the expense of something
like V-0000 "I'd ' the county about
> 10X ( ) ( ) a year lor a double tio.isurj
force , and thousands of dollars aie
squandered in addition for unking
needless duplicate tax lists and audit
Ing of accounts which should bv
lights bo done bjoijo force. The
Loui'ty is at Imjjo expense lor pieclnct
assessments , both in and out of the
city. If these afsossmcnts wore all
umdu under the supoi vision of one
genoial assessor wo would have moio
equitable assessments with gie.iter
totals of assessed valuation and theie-
foil ? lower tax rates.
The pioposed constitutional amend
ment does not contemplate or permit
the annexation of the county outside
of Omaha to the city of Omaha or the
levying of city taxes upon county
lands. It is designed simply to con
solidate ceitaln county and city olllcej
and to do away with a system ( hat Is
ciimbor.somo , costly and Inconvenient.
It Is a move in the dliecllon of economy
nnd not In the direction of waste. In
any event , every change that may be
pioposed will have to bo 1,1 tilled by
the voteis of the city as one body and
the voters ontsldo of the city as an
other.
The local labor unions have gone to
work In earnest to get subscriptions for
tliu exposition. We ventuio to piedlct
thoj' will smpriso ovcijbodj' by the
success attained , for ovoiy mechanic In
Omaha stands rondy and willing to con
tribute according to his moans to an
undertaking that must ceitainly bring
an Incalculable amount of employment
to craft-mon. The pioposltlon Is a
simpjo 0110. Any man Is willing to invest
$10 In a piojoct that piomlsos certain ,
speedy mid tangible rotunis to him and
his neighbor.
It is light and pioper that ( ho people
of Nebraska , without regard to puty :
atllliatlon , shall do homage to a citizen
who has received the piesidontlal nom
ination , but the demonstration at Lin
coln can In no sense bo inteipieted ns
an Indication of vhat the electors of
this state will do In November. In the
language of Candidate/ Bryan , "the In
dividual Is but an atom ; ho Is born , he
a eta , he dies , but pilnclplos me eteinul , "
and ( hoJiufris of JCobrnskn will this
jenr of nll others act upon principle.
Mr. Kuan , attributes his nomination
for the itiWrleiioy solely to the outcome
of a pec til Mr eoinblnaUon of clicum-
stances. 'Tills Is a very coinfor table
philosophy , , u will explain his over-
1. , . _ . , next November just ns
easily nsj. It explains his convention
triumph. Nryarr further takes no credit
for lnlnii | | nbotit fire pin-ullar com
bination nof clreiimstalice ! ? , and will
similar ly'tk'ijv all blarrre for the circum
stances tliatadeternilne the election.
/ -M M i
The natlniinl silver convention nt St.
Louis Is expected to have 12'H ' ) delegates
'ami an equal number of alternates In
attendance , and the popiilNt national
coin out Ion In the Mime city and at the
same time will have neaily ! , " ( ) ( ) dole-
jcates on Its uiombcishlp loll. The
.smaller the number of votes cast by
these politicnl pintles lln * lingoi ap
parently are tlie conventions which do-
teimlno tire paity policy and name tlie
parly candidates.
It Is becoming moio mid moio manifest
that our people me in earnest In their
offoits to piovlde me.riis tor tbo exposi
tion. No mgumcnt Is requiiod to Induce
the aveiage man to sub-crlbo. lie bad
awaited the miival of the committee
and cheorlully put down his name. It
would be woith many dollars to the
fund to have the big men's subscilp
lions announced. The question Is , AVI11
they give in piopoitlon to their moansV
Mr. Biyan was nominated on Uil-
duyand letmned to his home in Lincoln
on riidny , but ho will bo defeated for
election on Tuesday.
A Ittu'c riinriu'lcflMlU- .
Kansas Cll > Ktnr
The German-Americana aio maintaining
their reputation for thrift and financial
sagacity by their unanimous opposition to
tlie Ideu ot free coinage.
Oul ii f 'I'll ilc.
Ncvvi.
Thoio was never so vvldo a revolt of the
press of a great party of the country.
Hardly a paper of national importance and
high standing Is left to tlio democrats east
of the Mississippi nnd north of the cotton
states.
ri-KlitK riiiiinelnl
Ilnilil-Mf-Dnu us.
ChlcnK" ] 'o t
Hven Costa Illra lias como to a gold
standard and \\ill Ime a great celebration
In honor of Its anlval at financial maturity
Sllverltts would like to have the United
States put oh the cast-off clothing of a
countiy like Costa Uica.
nllH Jonriul
Tlio free silver dogma that the half Is
equal to the hole is
v not geneiall > ac
cepted as gfiod mathematics even in tlio so-
called stiver states The more the American
people evei > where contemplate that pioposi
tlon the greater will be the dissent.
A i Miijitrlt > for Colil.
I'litlailelphla 1'rc * " .
The voters of the country .are pretty evenly
divided between' the republican and the
democratic partyv At St Louis about eight-
ninths of thb dolagates were foi the existing
gold standard. At Chicago one-third of the
delegates were for It. Putting these two
things together would Indicate that the
voters of tlru entire country are for the gold
standard by' ' aboftt 2,000,000 majority.
' Tlie Ho ft of < liY-'OrKniiN.
Chicago Tribune.
There Is .a rift In the lute The sweet bells
aio jangled and out of tune In their tintin
nabulations The organs aie plajing , but
the ensemble is caconhonous All over the
democratic orchestra , Instead of pla > lng the
1C to 1 march with swelling harmony , im
portant In-Jtiuments are pla > ing independent
tunes which would dlstiact the cart , of the
conductor If he were not all mouth.
The list of bolting democratic organs up
to dates n.imbers 135 Of these the south Is
first with n , the middle btates second with
37 , the west third with 31 and the New
England states fourth with 21 Of the total
number twentv-one arc Get man democratic
riOHspapcis , and the most Influential In the
vailous sections wheie they are published
AM In n Third Tlt-Kct.
New York Hun ( ikm )
The cause of honest moiuy and the de
feat of repudiation in other words , the
succcsb or defeat of MeKlnley cannot be
subordinated to any question of demociatle
organl/alion or regularity. It Is tbo duty
of every American to join the forc.ea of the
stiongcst and most hopeful opponent of the
populist convention at Chicago And the
Ohio cum'idato Is the man
I'atrlots must follow MeKinley against the
enemies of the republic who como from the
, as though ho were the icgular
commander for defense against nn enemy
from over the sea.
Sentimental Alloglnnco to the name of n
prostrated and now impotent democracy or
Insistence on the technicalities of Its or
ganization It Inimical to the most desired
end , the preservation of the national credit.
MTS ron srnuAirr TO CIIACIC.
Tlio 1'nrt 1lir Nrindn Svnnlnr llore In
tlii "fili.lp ( if ISTJJ. "
Senator Stewart of Nevada was a con
spicuous member ot the senatorial syndicate
In Chicago , and took an active part In turn
ing the democratic convention over to the
silver bulllonalres lu order to "avenge the
crime of 1S73 " Senator Stewart Is regarded
as an avenger from 'Wayback , but that Is
a mistake There was n time even since
the crime when lie talked differently , and
the facts and circumstances are cited from
the Hocord by the Washington col respond
ent of the New York Tribune as follows
It Is true that ho aided nnd abetted "tho
crime of 1S73' by voting for the coinage
act in all the vnrlrms stages through which
It passed In the two \cars and more during
which It was pending In congress nnd that
ho took a prominent part In the discussion
of the mcasuie but within tlie last few years
he has succeeded In con\lnclnc ! many credul
ous persons by bis solemn and repeated as
set tlons that he sinned through Ignorance ,
that ho did not know that the "dollar of the
fathers" was dropped by that act in which ,
by the way , It never had a place Mr
Stewart of couisp. has desired to Impress
everybody with the belief tlist If he bad
Known at the time that the art did not ail-
thnrl/e the coinage of the silver dollai , ho
would have fought It v.llh all his might
In a speech which ho delivered In the senate
on June G. IS10 , lie declared
"I repeat tint silver was demonetbed
without discussion In eltbei house of con
gress , It was dumonctlrcd without warning
to the people , and It was either a mistake
or something woise So far as I was con
cerned I was Ignorant of It , nnd I am reidv
and have been ever since I discovered It to
do all in my power to light the wrong 'llio
fact that I waa here when this great wrong
was perpetrated has been one of the reasons
why I have worked for the last sixteen
years In this cause"
Now , licio are two distinct assertions ,
both ot which nro flatly contradicted by the
iccord rirat , that Mr. Stewart did not
know- that the hllver dollar ( except the tiado
dollar ) was eliminated from the coinage by
the nU of 1873 , and second , that , as soon
as he discovered this great wrong , ho at
once began to try to right It , nnd had con
tinued to try for sixteen years pilot to
June , IS'iO The bill which became the coin
age act of 1S73 finally passed both branches
of congress and became a law In January
of that year Now evidence recently dis
covered or rcdlscoveiod by the Tiibunos
correspondent shows beyond question that
at least as caily as Kebtuary 11. 1S74 , Sen
ator Stewart was officially appilsed of the
fact ( If he was not cognizant of It prior to
that time ) that the act of 1S73 did not pio-
vldo for or authorise the coinage of a sllvci
dollar other than the trade dollar On Keb-
ruary 10 , 1S71 ho offoicd nnd the senate
adopted a lesolutlou lequebtlng the stcie-
taiy of the tuasury "to state what time
will bo u < | itlred after tbo resumption of
specie payments foi the mints to manufac-
tmo the amount of subsidiary silver coins
which will bo requisite to replace the fiac-
tlonal currency " In his reply to this reso
lution , which was read In the senate on
the following day , the secretary said
"The capacity of the mints for the coinage
of subsldlaiy Mlvcr coin in addition to the
gold trade dollnr and minor coinage , 1s
equal to about $10,000,000 per annum , and
that , if wo assume the amount of fractional
currency which will probably bo In circula
tion to bo from ? 10,000000 to $50,000 000.
about four years would bo required for the
purpose Indicated by tbo resolution of tlie
senate , should provision bo made for tlie
substitution of subsidiary sliver coin for
fractional currency. "
After the secretary's letter had been read
Senator Stewart remarked :
"My object In calling for that information
was this1 Whenever specie payment is re
sumed It will be necessity to have silver
coin on hand , nnd with the v lew of taking
some steps toward having the mints of the
United States manufacture this coin in time
I ask that the communication be referred
to the committee on nuance and printed "
Is any clearer or more conclusive evidence
than the foregoing necessary to show that
I Senator Stewart knew exactly what coins
were authorized and provided for by the act
of 1S73' The secretaiy of the tieisuiy de
fined them as "subsldlaiy silvei coin in ad-
I dltlon to the gold , tiade dollar and minor
I coinage , " and the senator fiom Nevada ac
cepted the definition Hut this is not all
t Senator Stewart not only know the scope
and effect of the coinage act of 1S73 , but he
heaitlly appiovcd it at least as late as Kcb
juary 11 , 1S74 , when be declared himself In
favor of the gold standard Ho did so In a
speech on a bill to amend the national bank
ing law. In the course of that speech he
said"The
"The only way to relieve the country is
to move right back to specie payments ; let
every man in the country know what , the
value of his money is ; let everybody know
what n dollar la worth"
Now what did the senator from Nevada
mean when he s > aid "specie payments ? "
Payments In gold and silver coin' Not at
all , foi In the same paiagraph from which
the above quotation is made he used this
language :
"Let us do as all the people of the world
have been doing fiom thn beginning , meas
ure our values by gold "
"What docs the senator want ? " asked
Senator Logan
"I want the standard gold , and no paper
money not redeemable In gold , " WAS the
reply tn part.
Again In a speech on llio * amo subject
In the senate on Tebruary 20 , 1S7I , Srnalor
Stewart declared : "Gold Is the universal
standard of the world. Kvervboly Kno\vs
what n dollar In gold U worth"
In those days , before ho h.id discovered
or realized the enormity of the crime of
1S73 , Senator Stewart was fighting against
the Issue or Inflation ot n paper currency
not redeemable In gold , nnd In the course
of his speech of February tt lie pointed
out some ot the evils of a depreciated and
fluctuating currency , In language which Is
as applicable to silver Inllitlou In IW as It
was to greenback Inflation In 1S71 In part
he said
"I2very country has found that a depreci
ated currency was attended with evils all
the time , and It has been the purpo e ot
every country to relieve Itself of It as
speedily as possible Om country Is able
nnd strong enough today to do the same.
Let us do It , and then we shall have some
measure of vnlue that the fanner can com
pute that the miner can compute , that any
nnn can compute. Then the man who
goes west to buy produce will bo under no
nec-'sslty to Insuio himself ngalnst the fluc
tuations of the currency The farmer will
then know hnvv to measure the difference
In pi Ice between his wheat lu llllonls nnd
the wheat In Llvcipool It will bo the
transportation nnd the necessary commis
sions without any Insurance on account ot
a fluctuating currency The wheat will bo
measured by the same standard g ld In
Illinois as it Is In Liverpool , and any man
can flruro It up "
H will bo thus seen that ns lute certainly
ns lYlmmty 20 , 1S71 Senator Stevvnit was
what ho now calls H "goldbus1 ami de
nounces with all the epithets la bis ample
nnd opulent vorabulaiy , ancf that he know
nt least ns early ns l'ibinary 11 , 1S7.T that
"tho etlmo of 1S73 , " In which ho bore n
share , had been committed , nnd that he did
not begin to denounce It until some later
period probably not before there had been
n considerable dec Hire In the commercial
value of silver bullion
M VI.IUMM ; , iirrinM : > v
llliof ( > lVriTfcil ( o s . .rUie J'lir-
| > IM < > ot 1'iiM1 SIU i-1 Ken.
Kt Louis ( Jlobo r > oinocrnt
"If Jeffeison tould enter this hall to
night , " said Senator Vest , In a speech In
St Louis Tuesday night , "he would , ay ,
'Stand by the Chicago platfoim1' " It Is
clear from this asscitlon tint the senator
either knows nothing about the Chicago
platform or he knows nothing about Jefferson -
son The Chicago platform dcclaicj for
the fieo coinage of silver at the 10 to 1
ratio Or , translated Into cveiyday lan
guage , the platfoim wants the government
to receive bullion fiom everybody who
brings It and to place upon each piece of
bullion which can be bought In the nuukct
for CJ cents the stamp 100 cents
Now let us-see what Jefferson did with
a sliver dollar which wus far honester and
better than the one the Chicago platfoim
wants coined in unlimited quantities Vv hen
Jeffeison enteied the presidency ho found
silver and gold coined at a ratio of 15 to
1 , the gold being eagles , half eagles and
quarter eagles , the clollni gold pieces not
being Issued fiom the mint until m.xny
years afterward. Hut this coinage latlo ,
which was nearly correct that Is , tloso to
the market ratio when it was established
In 1792 , had diverged fiom the market line
in the next ten yeais. Sliver
cheapened In the Interval , nnd shortly
after Jefferson entered the presidency
the bullion In the silver dollar
lar was worib only 97 cents or 98 cents nb
compared with gold at the prevailing latlo.
This was n veiy narrow gap between the
coins compared with the present gieat gulf ,
but it sent gold out of circulation Jeffci-
son , wanting to keep gold In ell dilation ,
stopped the colmige of silver dollars , and not
a silver dollar was Issued from a United
States mint between 1S03 and 1839 , except
1,000 of thc'in in 1836.
If Jefferson suppressed a coin that was
only 2 or T cents fiat , what would ho do
with a coin that Is 47 cents fiat , such as
many men pretending to be followers of
Jefferson are demanding s > hall be Issued
now ? H will bo noticed that the Jefferson
whom we mean Is Thomas Jefferson , the
third president of the United States Is
this the Jeffirson whom Senator Vest refers
to' If it Is the senator owes an immediate
apology to that distinguished democrat s
memory. A cause must be weak , Indeed ,
when It has to be sustained by slanders on
the illustilous dead It seems ama7ing that
Senator Vest could make this assertion be
fore an Intelligent audience of Jeffersonians
and go unrebuked There must have been
at least a score of persons among his hear
ers who know that when ho declared Thomas
Jefferson would endorse the Chicago plat
form the senatoi was beaiing false witness.
A IHM1I31.V I'lllI.OSOI'Ilint.
Atlanta Conitltutlon
Don't know If tlif world Is butter
Or glttln' a good do il VVU M ,
Hut , winter 01 spring , 1 know one thing ;
It's .1 Tiuity good world for us !
So tr Im up the roses , Mollle.
That climb to tbo lips o' vou
The vlolt-ts sweet ut the children's feet ,
And give mo , i rose or two.
Don't know If the world Is bolter
I'm out o1 the fret an' fnss ;
Hut I kinder think , as I cut nn' drink ,
It's a purty food world fer us !
So trim up the roses , 'Mollle ,
An' look to the violets blno ;
An' kiss the boys , with their lompln' noise ,
An' plvo me u kiss or tvvol
NHY STONH ,
A UKMiNismNon OF run nixo ,
11Y A. CONAX ixn I 13 i
A new "erlnl itory begun Ti .ter Sun
day to continue for sevenli n weeks
The tnle Is told bv the hero him elf ni
retired run U otllcer , nnd lie rec ills thol
Incidents of his rnreer v\hru x boy-I
The storv bns boon pronounced bv cotn-l
pi'tmt critics to bo ono written In Dr. !
'
Doyle's very best style
HOT CAMIin N3 br Tin : VAST.
Abridged hHroiv of the jno if evcltlriff
presidential contests simp the found
ing of the republic Prliu-lpnl UxIduiM
upon which mic'ret * en b r < i' nimcd -
IMHNnu sphit often pMiiMi < M in rx-
trornn foims c'inipnlKim Unit wunmht
Tiitn to tbo highest pitch of excite
ment.
SUNMCPN TKIJASUUnTN TI1I5 MlSSOtWIt
Sloiv of the He-nub now In ing piose-
ruled for the unlu n vvlo. k of a Mis
souri ilvor stpmnpr whloh ! > * > < lirrn
Innlul In tire winds of HIP run for
nliout thlllv Ji its-Tin oirun w is an
exorptlounllv Milunblo on nnd llio o
who hnvc taken up rim mnnh lire
busily elifragfd plosrontini : It by tlto-
nlu of old t-ovi rnrnonl ninjm The bent
rout | IH Impi'Hshnlde Roods wMeh
amount to u fortune should they bo
KUccessful lu Uniting It
I'NKUMATIC Tt'llTfT'OSTV.t , SI"HIC'15'
N\vv svlpin Invmllng tin | > lit . di < -
pnrlmpiits In nil pomitili-i l xn. > n niMttH
about to bo Mli-d In this pouiitiv How
llio tube xiivlro Is opi tut d nml win 10
It otTits ImpiovpttUMiH on the bllor
nnd tolciunph systems us now In vogue.
" " "
IN WOMA"N"R" HUM UN
blvlos , materials nnd tiltnmlriRM np-
piopimtply Used foi sumiri-l mourning
'
e'ostUtnes-'VvniU of the' Kiiwhrn Sun ,
the woman's mljtmct to I'm Misomy-
lloiottlng ( iY\v < ! s n u-K-ular oemrtpnco
with iln > mirsorrs Vnshlon note's from
thp fii hioti CM ntots HPIUS of lute-rest
about well known women
THI : AVIIR IN snnrTv
Soclotv In Jnlv Is sufTiiin under op-
proiolon of tbo he it Pnl < i mnrm-nts
nro of the garden pnly ordoied -
dlrms etontlnrrc on the- list out of town
\KIIors Whetonbouts of rho Orniih l
soeletj frailer s
Tin : rnMiNcT"mNruATioN
"TbP Orldlion ling , " u storv of
Anerlpnn pilrlntlmn nnd SpiinlBh
Imtied of the Mtnrs nnd stripes A 10-
yeai-old Amrtlum prl/e winner ut the
London drawing exhibit-
- uilo of thp
youngsters nnd other bright bits for
llttlo nnd big.
WITH Tin : wimTiuNC winir
llot divs for the sroirhet llcnr-
ixtlvolv and liter nllv O'Or.ulv nnd bis
ball bearings Hlcvelos for army pay
trims The whcH-lninn ns n fieror In
politics Latest news among thp local
win el clubs -Oosslp of nroir nnd women
who aio devoted to tbo bicycle
IN Tin : WOULD or SPOUT
Intpnstlng explanation win birds
mlRritp Uevlevv of the ptlnclpil sport
ing i-ve nts of thewiik nt linim and
ulitnul Sit ivvs fiom tin1) isi bill dlx-
mond-Pios | ) ( ' ( is for the-eoll. KIitbli tes
-Nevvsv gust of uote-s on thru ly sportIng -
Ing topics.
Lr.DNi\vs SI : VICR
lull Assoilitcd pre > ss foiclRii entile
nnd ilomcstlitHcrinph sirvloc Tbo
Now " oik Woild's spi-eliil foreign cor-
1 1 sponde-npp Unilv xlptl special lle-WH
HOI v Id- from Nelir.isUa low x nnd the
western st xtes Well written nml ac
curate local news reports
THE Oi\iAiiASuNDAY BRE ,
_
Tim nnsT NuwsrArmt.
.IIN < ; MNC itm vnvs.
ChlcnRO Tribune
"SKtoeri to one , " she murmured ; " > eq ,
This d i77lltiK sehome. I oli-nily uuoss ;
It fnlrly makes my poor head whirl ,
Sixteen engagements for one girl "
Dmvlllo Chronicle
lie can't pay Ills bo ml , for his stnr o
MUCCOBS
Ilene.ith the horizon bns sunk ;
lie's nn oloplmnt now on his Ifindlndj'aj
Imrnls ,
And that's why sho's holding his t runic.
I. A W llulletln
' 'I'm onto you1" tlio mini pool tiled
'lo the trousers It Imil dotted
"Ab , jes , " the trousers s ullj sighed ;
"f see you h.m1 me spotte-il "
Detroit Tilbime
HP hud warm friends , *
So I've boon told.
Till be made thorn hot ,
And now thcj'ro cold
Washington Stnr
Oh. lightning bug , how filr your
Whit peaceful hours jou pusa ;
You lavishly Illuminate ,
And get no blllH for gas
CIeelanil Leader
She boarded the rur , nnd Into her eyes
C line a look of wild dospilr ;
For when nhe oji.rmlneil her ] > urso she found )
Only n milk ticket there.
Sim pleadi dVhon shall I have vogue ?
Ah , win li will my fiimo begin9'
And echo nnsvvend tlio giuedoss roguo-
"When you line .1 doublu chin"
Snincr\lllo lomnul
Hero lies a politician , In
Ills lust , conti.ii ted bed
Ho was a llur all Ids life.
And now lie'a lying dead
iriookljn I.ltV
A natural in inner vvns her aim ,
Slncoru anil simple , and all that ,
Slut failed but Kb" was not to blame ,
1'or hbo re-Hided In A lilt !
UR special odds and ends July sale. Positively the last opportunity you will have
to buy Ik ? bzst high grade clothing-on earth for a mere song.
Our 20 per cent discount sale left us with broken lots of all grades of suits and odd
pants in Men's , Boy's and Children's wear. We have decided to make a big reduction
in the already low prices and almost give them away to sell them all out , it would take
too much time and space to enumerate the many bargains that are here offered. But place
these lines before you , for your good , if you want a good suit cheap for now or next
year they are the best on earth for the least money , all our own make and every one
warranted.
Straw Hats § 1.25 Straw Hats
500
Dent Fail to read t/iis it will
for Men , TBoys and Children for for Boys and Children
never happen again. You will Jind
every 1/iwig on tables handy for you to SOc
see , and we want yov to come and see
750 Straw Hats them and satisfy yourself that this is $ i 50 Straw Hats
for Menj "Boys and Children for
i one of the greatest mark down sales
ever offered. 50c
WE ARE DETERMINED 'TO SELL THEM.
BROWNING , KING & CO. ,
' Reliable Clothiers , Hatters and Furnishers ,
Southwisi Corner Fifteenth and Douglas Streets ,
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