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Tina DAILY THURSDAY , JULY no , isoo. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE B. MOStnVATKIt , Killtmv KVKIIY MOHNIMJ. TBHM3 OP Dully IVa ( Without flundny ) Ono Year . t t 00 Dully Heft nnil Sunday , One Yenr. . . . . . . . 10 W Blif Month * . , . . . . . . . . BOO Three Month * . . . . . - . J"2 Htinday Itw , One Year. . . , . ZM HnHifilar Oft , One Yo.ir . . , . , . . . 1 " " Weekly llm. On Year. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K Ot-TKtlCHl Omnlia , Tim llrc lliilMlnr , Bntith Omnlm , Hlnnnr IllK. . Cor. X nn'l 21th St * . Council IIIUITB , 1C Nor Hi Main Street , Chlrnffo Office , 31J Chnmher of Commrree. New York , linntnx 1 . II nml JS , Trlbuno Bid * . Wanhlimton , M07 1' utrpct , N.V. . OOimKSI'ONDKNCne All rntnmtmlriUInn * relating In new * mul edi torial matter ( litulil te aUilrtxtd : To the IMItir , All biulnosft iMtern nnil romHtnnrr.i nhotiM to Hddrcmcd to The Hep ptiljllrhliiR fompftny , Omnhn. DraTtH , clieplsi mul pontolllpe onlers to bo1 m do pnynble lo tlm enter nf tlir compimy. 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Sworn to before mo nml mili'crlbed In my tireFencn thin 4th day of July. ISM. ( Seal. ) N. P. rrctr , . Notary Public. Turtles going out ot tlie city for the Etinmior may Imre The BPP sent to their address by leaving nn order nt the Imslnosa offlco of the Boo. Telpphonn EJ8. Mr. Hi-van's blcyclo will hive : to be built for three. Anil the 1803 national cmiventloiiH keep n-rointng right this way. That second $10,000 stock subscription to the TraiisinlHslssii | > I Exposition whore Is It ? The moro Iho jail Job Is exposed to the liKhl of day the bljwer appears to bo the African in the woodpile. FIllbiisterliiK lu .South Africa will no longer be popular now thnt Jameson and his fellow raiders are behind the b'ars. Uncle Paul Kruger's reputation as a far-weeing statesman will not sulVer by th conviction of the South African rnltlers. Totho Police Commission : Why not apply the retrenchment ax to the ng- RTeKiitlon of alleged detectives whenever never detect anything ? In the Interval. Major McIClnley Is pursuing , the- , even ttenor of his way. making friend's WYiimgeU and votes for the- republican ticket. < No ono wJio voted for Congressman Mercer two yours ago will have any reason to vote against him this year. Mr. Mercer two years ago polled more votes than all of his competitors com bined. Every stop the Board of Fire anil Po lice Commissioners take In the direction of genuine economy and retrenchment In the police department will have the hearty approval-oC the taxpaylng citi zens of Omaha. We are surprised that Governor IIol- comb should christen the two love birds that were presented to him at St. Louis Kansas and Nebraska. Party devotion should have dictated the names of Bryan and Watson. Putting a man on a ticket and gel- ting him off are twi > distinctly different things. The sllverites who mid them selves supplied with one candidate for president and two candidates for vice president are having this demonstrated by experience. Having flim-llamnied the populists Into accepting Bryan , the free silver. Uo democrats are bitterly reproaching the populists for not having accepted Bewail , too. This Is the thanks the populists are getting for going as fai ns they have gone. Mexico has almost ns many beggar. * nml paupers to Its population as It lias Industrious workingnieii. Laborers gut HO little thijro that they cannot do much worse by relying upon alms for a living. Yet tliV free sllverltea would like to drag the United States down to the standard of Mexico , There Is a fair prospect of getting the International Typographical union in an nual meeting here In 181)8. ) A eordlal In vitation has been extended. So far as tlm city Is concerned no special Inducements will have to bo offered to national gatherings to visit the city In 1808 save the great exposition , for the of wltli'h the people IOT laboring. State fair- managers \ \ \ session In Omaha are hiytah In their predictions of an unprecedented show this year. Quite as much attention will bo paid to the comfort and convenience of visitors ns to any other one feature , The managers - agers know the lack of proper facilities for handling people last year cost them many dollars In absentees. They mean to cure this defect. From tlm reported proceedings of tlie British Commons , it would not bo sur prising If another complication /hould noon arise In Samoa. Tlie questions ' asked there indicate thnt Great Britain f.s not satlstled with the Increasing Ger man Intlueiu'o In the Islands. Should thu Bamoan iiuestlon be raised , It would necessarily Involve the I'lilted States , because our government Is a party to the arrangement under which Samoan affairs have been uUuiliitatercil lu recent - cent yours. WHY UANKKItS OWWfM FHHH HlhVKlt , OMAHA , July 20 , 1896 , To the Editor of Tlio nee : Why Is It tfiat most of the banka are BRalnit free and unlimited coinage ot Mlvcrat the ratio1 ot IS to 1 ? Accnrdlng to what your paper declared ! It would boto thnlr Interest to have freocolnase , na they then could pay In money that waa only worth 6.1 cents on tlio dollar. Please. , answer this In your paper. C. P. COX. Thl Is simply another way of put ting tlio ( ino.MIoii , Wh.r should bankers object to being compelled by law to pay their debts In iiO-cont dollars ? The In- tlnmtlon Is- that the bankers whw are opposing. li ( to 1 unlimited coinage tlo not know what Is good for themselves and are standing In their own light. If this were true It would be a staggering blow to the prevailing- Impression that our "bankers are for the most part drawn from our most Intelligent citizenship and possess the shrewdest business sense. It Is because our bankers look forward further than a da.v that they are almost , unanimously ngalnst currency debase ment. The most cursory examination of a bank statement showing the re sources and liabilities of the Institution will disclose the fact that the bulk of the bank's business Is transacted with other people's money. Banks ns com mercial factors arc merely in- toniiedlarloH In the loaning of capital. They receive deposits from hundreds and thousands of depositors and merge them Into one larg > fund , from which loans are made to other patrons. Tile prollts of the bank come from the loaning of money. The money necessary for reserves or kept Idle In the vaults yields no Interest. The dividends of the bank depend upon tlio ability of Its olllcers , llrst , to tit- , tract large deposits , and second , to keep tlie greatest proportion of the funds entrusted to their can ; consonant with safety constantly loaned for short periods of tlmo on ample security at remunerative rates of Interest. The essence of the banking business , therefore , Is credit , and the foundation of credit Is confidence. In order to se- citio deposits banks must have the con- lldencc of depositors that they Will pay back dolUir for dollar of the same pur chasing power every dollar conllded to their keeping. They can not do tills un less they esn loan this money on com mercial paper to parties wha in turn will pay back when due dollar for dollar lar the stuns advanced to them. The bank'i-s plainly see that with the assurance of a free silver law that the election of the free silver candidates would give not one bank In 101) ) would bo likely to withstand the shock. De positors would hasten lo withdraw their accounts while the dollar in use was still worth 100 cents. Under stress of such universal run no bank * would bi > ableto realize at once upon its assets. liven 1C it did survive , Its business would bo destroyed. With business conlideiico rudely shaken and credits sadly impaired , the normal condition of affairs could be restored only after the lapse of months , and , perhaps , years , and the complete re establishment of business confidence would bo deferred , indefinitely- Bankers , 'then1 , are not totally ob' livious of" their own , interests" But In this instance the interest of the bankers and the interest of the people in general - oral are not divergent. Prosperous banks bespeak a prosperous country. They mean that capital borrowed from the banks is being prolltnbly employed by merchants- and manufacturers and that the Industrial Held Isso Inviting that business men are not only able but glad to pay the cur rent rate of Interest In order to expand their enterprises , increase their employment of labor , and thus Insure . sure for themselves greater prolits. On the other hand , a. country whoso banks are In the hands of receivers is a coun try where financial stringency prevails , where people fear to ttust their savings to the bunks , where merchants are im- abli * to meet their obligations , where ' investors see no opening for ventures that require borrowed1 , capital. Pros perity , in a word , belongs exclusively to no section and to no class. /IS TO 1'HO'fKCTlUX. It Is very generally conceded that the money question is the foremost Issue befoie the country. The great majority of citizens recognize the paramount im portance of maintaining the financial Integrity and honor of the nation , be cause they understand that with the success of the party of repudiation it would be of little consequence what the economic policy of the country should be. With the currency debased ami our monetary system on a silver basis , no kind of tariff legislation could avert tlio calamities inevitable to sui-li a con dition. That revolutionary change would bring panic , depression arid do- monillxallon , wllh a severity unparal leled in our history , whether we had free trade or protection , a high tariff or a tariff for "revenue only. " The moment this countiy should dee-lare for .a . po-licy of sil ver monometallism I lie work of ruin and disaster would b < > gln and Its course would not be affected hy any sort of tUu-nl system. Therefore the question whether the United Slat.-s shall main tain the monetary staii'Lird of all Iho enlightened commerclnl nations of the world , or shall depart from Ihar fttand- ni'd and descend to the financial piano of Mexico and I'hlnn , is miiilfetly of the llrst and highest imporl.-inw , Tl-t'iv is Involved in it the welfare of ill' * people , the credit of the governnv'iit and In the opinion of many the p tulty of our free Institutions. There are some , however , who think the republican candidate and manager. * , should glvo tlio llrst place to the tariff should make the cause of protection tlm loading Issiie. It ought to be obvious to everybody that this cannot now bo done , nor would it bu wise from tlio > lew point of practical politics to con- 'Mlder the matter no more closely to at tempt to do It. For tlie republican parly to seem to undervalue In the least degree the money Issue could not fail to have the effect to strengthen the ranks of the party of repudiation , Tlio republicans must everywhere meet that Ibsuo earnestly ami aggressively , not as secondary , but as before every other question. In doing this It does not fol- Hint the tariff shall be wholly IB- nored. Its recognition as n still living question , In which tlio great body of the Amcrlcnn people Is profoundly con cerned , will be proper and Judicious. It may be nceessnry , notwithstanding the severe experience1 of the past three years , to remind American wage-earn ers that there can be no lestoratlon of prosperity nntll then1 Is a return to the economic policy under which for more than thirty years the nation made mar velous progress In Industrial and com mercial development. It may be neces sary to remind American farmers that the greatest safeguard of their Inter ests and welfare Is In n steadily grow- hip home narkot , which Is attainable only through the policy of protection. It U necessary that all the people should understand that the party which Is striving1 for free silver also stands for free trade that while It prates about giving the United Stales llnancial Inde pendence of Europe at the same time proclaims Its purpose to subject thl. country to Industrial dependence upon Kurone. The shibboleth of the republican party In this contest Is Honest Money and P'ro- tectlon. but the llrst Is the paramount Issue and the party must meet It cour ageously and unfalteringly. It not only 1ms the weight of argument on Its side , but as we eonlldently believe the In telligence , the Integrity and the patriotIsm - Ism of the nation. If if shall win the battle for honest money there will be no dlllleulty In providing for the ju dicious protection of our industries and our labor. irm ; THK HKi'nnhWAtr GLUDS " \VMle- \ the local conventions for the i-oiiilnatton of legislative , county and city tickets are sllll two months off. It Is none too early for the republican ward clubs to discuss the proposed In troduction of the Crawford comity sys tem of nomination by direct vote If any move to inaugurate primary reform Is to be' made this year. The subject wan considered by one or two clubs previous to the recent delegate and state conven tions , but while favorably received , and even In some Instances endorsed , It failed to materialize Into : i practical pioposillon. "Why this was so It is un necessary now to explain. It was not because the Crawford county plan docs not. promise an Improvement on the present organization of party ma chinery , nor because. It Is not adaptable to conditions existing In this city and comity. Republicans can have a system of direct primary nominations Introduced here this fall if they really want It. But they must make their wants known. If after free and full consideration of its merits and demerits a large majority of the local' republican chilis give It their endorsement and demand Unit It be accorded a fair trial , the. Jo pal com mittees can not fail to accommodate- themselves to public sentiment. " The Wisconsin , free silver . in tlujlr , , risHlW sB.jto the. uddressnof- - honWt moifey democrats , . are'guilty of' ' the fault common 'with that eluirioijt of 'falsifying'history. . They assert 'that' there was prosperity from the ' 'blrthiWy1 ' of America to 18 .n under a bimetallic system of linance , " but since that thne the country has known no prosperity. Of course the men who made this state ment knew it to be untrue , so that their deliberate purpose was to mislead the uninformed. The worst panics tills country ever experienced were while It had the so- called bimetallic system of llnance and down to 1871 ! there was no extended .period of prosperity at all comparable with that from 1880 to 18r. ! ) ! Industrial development before ISliO was very slow and wages for all classes ot labor were low not very much better than the- wages now paid in silver-standard Mexico. Not only was labor dlieap in those "bimetallic" times , but it waa more or less degraded. The social standard of the laboring classes was far below what It is today and the. number of woiklngmen who owned their homes or were In a condition to look forward to such a possession wan extremely small. Wet a great many were able to wave anything , all their meager earnings bolng required for subiilstancc , so that there wereno large accumulations of the money of wage earm-is In savings banks and building and loan associations. The agricultural class was hardly any beNter tor off. The war gave an impetus to some In dustries and after its close there wan rapid industrial development , but at no time before 1S7I5 was the. general prosperity and especially the prosperity of tlie laboring classes , so great as In subsequent years down to 18 ! > , ' ! , when the democratic ; party came into power. According to Labor f'nmiiilssluncr Wright , whose authority in such mat ters will hardly be questioned , the aver , age wages In 187 ! ! was 14S.U an ad vance of18.n over ISO ) \vhllo In 18)1 ! the average was Kit ) . " an advance of (50.7 ( over the "blmi'lallic. " period of. 18HO. Wages were somewhat higher in 1802 than in 18)1. ! ) Nor Is this all , for while actual wages had thus risen Its purchasing power Increased to a much greater extent , not far from 100 per cent. Wages have declined since 18JK , In consequence of democratic ix > liey , but the average Is higher now than in 18715 or at any time "under a bimetallic system of finance , " Hut the f.vn silver advocates do not concern themselves much about the wages of labor. Indeed , some of them , like- Sen ator Teller and ox-fiovernor Holes , think it is too high. The greatest period of Industrial de velopment In this country has been during the past twenty years , and if the last three years ho left out of con sideration it has been the period of grcutavt general prosperity. The .years' of 1SH ! and 18915 were ; unparalleled in the extent of both our foreign nndf do mestic commerce and In the expansion of all forms of productive enterprise. Labor was In demand , the consuming' capacity of the people' was never no great * and the people as a whole were never more contented and satisfied , Our condition was ) the envy of the world and l c/eelnlly / of our great In dustrial rlv $ , nglnnd , into the hands of whose mjflwfoctnrers the ilemocrntle party playpij , § generously. In view nf these facts , how utterly absurd and Wtrofcnslblc are the asser tions of Uio iljtconsln free silver dem ocrats. FnlBMt-atton of history , how ever , Is a i\j-jjijpal ) , { feature In the free silver discussion and unfortunately there Is too.JjjtVgo p. number of iinln- formed poopVi who- are misled by It. ? A I'orresjfJfln'iJeiit at South Omnha writes to tlic..edltor of The Hoe to ask If the government could not be Inditcpd to buy 'J0i > ,00l > or SOO.OOO tierces ot lard at fi % to ( i cents per pound. Lard , he tells us. Is selling at South Omaha now at $ 2. r per htlndrcd pouiuK but If tlie government were willing to take all offered at twlee the present market price no one would sell lard for less than the upset price at Washington. Of course the packers would reap the bulk of the prollr , but then the farmer who raises hogs might got a driblet of it from the arllllclal hog market it would create. A fre- bird party to work this much desired reform Is suggested as the proper caper. Never before In the history of Ne braska politics has campaign work been biM n so early In the year. He- publicans have nothing to fear with re- pect to the slate -ticket , but they real ize the demo-pop fusion in presidential electors must be met by a solid phalanx of republican votes. The vim and en thusiasm which characteil/.es the work Is but the pie 'iirsor of victory. Kvcry voter Is tt > be canvassed and every pre cinct will have It organization. It will be the greatest speech-making campaign In the political history of Nebraska. High-sounding rhetoric will not go this time. Hard facts presented In simple form are demanded. Is it not about time the city council orders the relocation of arc lights on the outskirts of'the. city where there Is little travel mid place them upon well traveled streets 'where ' they would beef of constant service ? A good many men have had seats In the council since the electric light company began business. Every councilman , of course , had an arc light placed near his residence without respect to public'necessity. The coun cil ought at once to order a redistri bution of art .lumps so they may do the greatest good Wthe greatest number. The uKiiaJejibrt of a car famine that always ac.youiyanies a movement , of grain is aetttina abroad. It would bi supposed ittsitMho railroads would see to it that tji > .Viad ( cars to meet all de mands whrat'tlmy make a special rate to tempt grain' ' 'shippers , but to do so wom"d be iftj'pre'c.edented. The railroads huonuupneventeil from renewing 'rolling stotffefy \ the closeness of flieir Jlnanc.cs , wn Increased tram ? Jhey will prepare to take vare _ of _ It , and { rulJic. cannc/tIncreaso / ( 'too i-a'pidl for riUte- iii ! K a h r. i. . ! rf , " . . . ! < - . ' .ii. 1ft > I'in i l l"i'i.M To IMUII ri' * irtJ nliv i , \smWeI ! \ > hs ! "the motor mall servlc6 1 ' ' ji.qfso. . great utility to bu.si- men In both this-eityand South Oirjaha. its abandonment would prove detrimental. Rapid transit Is the order of the day. To discard It Is to take a step backward , which no city. can afford to permit. Certainly the street rail way company and the. government will not abandon the service between Omaha and South Omaha because a difference ban arisen over the price to be paid for it. J _ The wheels of time never revolve backward. The. time lost waiting- for business , men and property owners to make up their minds to sign for expo sition stock can..never be regained. A I'olnt We'll Titkcii. CJitc sii Times-Herald. Strange that the people who howl loudest against "watered stock" sliould wisli tc water the currency. Mmi-Mt > - of tin IInUiKMVn QnitntHy. Cfilcngo Inter Ocean. Four years ago Cleveland wns informed in Now York that ho was nominated for the presidency , end Bryan wants to follow the precedent and-havo u big time over It. Lin coln and Oinalia are places too small and In significant for such a dress paiade ; and yet they are larger thsn Canton , 0. A Mil tier fit .tlor Globc-Ucmccrat. According to the last United States census report the farms of New York and Penn sylvania are mortgaged for over 40 per cent of their value , while the farms of Nebraska and Iowa are mortgaged for less than 34 per cent. And yet thu east has not proposed a sectional crusade against the west. nf furliiffll M ( Mats , ) noyublloan. The penalties of being nn editor , even in cKigy , are now being severely felt by Can didate Bryqn. The western opposition press are reprinting all thu editorials of the Omaha World-Herald that appeared during Bryan's connection with that paper , and as suming that up wrote them. Any politician who joins thorjirezs deserves to bo treated that way , an < V so does any editor who be- corr.r.i a 'politician. It'a a just though awful retribution. i ! .Sou ixl .Honey , Tlmea-Herald. A large proportion of the Germans living in the Uriltt'LfloJetf were born In the fatherland - " land long "enough ago to have seen th3 ctfoct of free coinage of silver In actual operatloiu They have been witnesses of the bcne .ts conferred upon the industries end coiinneKB" " ' the new empire by sub stitution.of tbe-iold standard for the sliver standard. / Thesens fatt1 > fse Germans have profited by the cxpcribnco of their fathers. There arB.O T'pipers In the United States in the German language. Of this number there are onlyfortyseven not advocating maintenance of iho existing gold standard , no matter * totUieiil party aftlltatlous. MT A IKI lit War Ilt-conlx. rortluml Teleuram. "This campaign , " said Young Mr. Bryan to his Omaha audience , "will be marked with more feeling than any that- you or I have participated In since the war. " An YOUIIK Mr , Bryan was born la I860 , his reminiscences of the war period would doubtless bo Interesting , but whether they would provo valuable as campaign material is another question , t It can be urged , with tsomo show of truth that while tn e great unpleasantness was at Us most unpleasant stage the Young Mr , Bryan ot today was among the Infantry , It may also bo pleaded that he was up In anus , and an assertion that he Btornu'd breastworks might go unchallenged. But neither the men who went forth to preserve the union nor the men who opposed them on the battlefield can be persuaded to be lieve that he was participant In that mighty atnigcle. The chenomcnon of the Platte should stick to studied phrase. "WIIRttH' AUB WH ATI" Kansas City Star ( dcm. ) : It Is evident that Tom Watson know * where ho is at and that ho has coma to stny , Boston Qlobo ( < lcm. ) : With Hon , Tom Watson on thn ticket the populists ougnt to hnvo no difficulty nt nny tlmo In knowing jtist whcro they nrc at. Cincinnati Trlbuno ( rep. ) : Hon. WllllAin Jennings Bryan of Nobrnslcn is becoming known ns thn wholesale denier In nomina tions and platforms , anil a retail dealer In votes. Chicago Times-Herald ( rop. ) : No man nominated by chicanery and frnud on Dial- forms of humbug and dishonor has been or over will bo elected president of tha United States. Louisville Courier-Journal ( dcm. ) : la It Bryan and Sowall , or llrynn and Wntson ? Its Is Immaterial. In cither case It Is Bryan and populism ! Bryan and repudiation , Urynn and riot , Bryan and ruin , Buffalo Express ( rep. ) : It Is a bnnutlful muddle In which Iho outcome of the cranks' convention at St. hauls has Toft the Bryan cruise , but no onu save a republican or a gold standard democrat can fully apprcclatn the beauties of It. Chicago Trlbuno ( rop. ) : The populists and popocrats have iirnntlcally become ono. The former nro a little more advanced. They want flat scrip mid the confiscation of rail roads , But If the coalition should win the principles of the more radical whig would become these of the cutlro party. Chicago Post ( rep. ) : Of course It Is not to ba expected that Candidate Watson will withdraw. According to htm , the papullHts have none to the extreme limit of generosity In forbearing to claim the first place on the ticket. They are unequal to further sacri fices and will Insist on "recognition. " Davenport Democrat ( denii ) : Bryan Is hound to be made miserable anyhow. Tha St. I.ouls populists did not endorse him ns the1 nominee of the Chicago convention , as they might have done ; but they gave him a squarn nomination. This puts him In the position where In common honor ho must either accept the nomination or reject It. Ho is sure to make moro oncmles than friends by doing cither. Kaunas City Journal ( rep. ) : Mr. Bryan will find a defensive campaign on hand be fore ho has progressed far In the canvass. It will not bo all a rush and a hurrah. Crosses of gold and crowns of thorns will not satisfy sober second thought. The principal business 'n ' the line of crucifixion will be the impalement of the fallacies of Bryan doctrines on the sword of truth. The effervescent period has about reached Ha close. The time for reasoning now comus on , and when Mr Bryan shall undertake to drop his specialty as a juggler In rhetoric ho will find himself nt a serious dis advantage , lib may get over the rock that Is In his way today , but if ho depends upon a mouth campaign to carry himself to victory , there are a thousand chances to one that he will put his foot In It before ho gets through hi ? task. INSULTING LINCOLN'S MBMOIIY. Chicago Times-Herald : Bryan's Insuffera ble egotism is exceeded only by the audacity of his backers , who try to liken him to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had humor and wit ; Bryan is dry as dust. Lincoln made no oratorical flourishes , but ho gave the world Immortal sentences , remarkable as much for strength as for beauty. Bryan is all whirlwind declamation and glittering generalities. As far apart as the north and the south poles are Lincoln and Bryan. Chicago Chronicle : Abraham Lincoln's opinion of American Independence was dif ferent from Bryan's. He appeared to bc- llevo that .the best method of maintaining American independence was to bavo a money system similar to that of tr-e rest of the worldin which we should have our "Bay" and our part of the control if proportion to oin\ population and commercial impor " tance. He asserted as a princlpl-i that the United States should maintain "practical relations" in commerce with other civilized nations. Pittsburg Dispatch : The Bryan managers are trying very hard to represent their can didate as a second Lincoln , ami they Insist that hiswillbe , another , emancipation cam- flilgn that isflii ! jeaiq'pclp.attoa .from w.lint 'thoy term the- money thraldom of .Great Britain. When Jt appeared ar one time that Mr. Bland1 would be the nominee a * Chicago comparisons between the Missouri farmer and the martyred president were very frequent. The same 'aiders are now engaged la attempting to draw parallels between Bryan and Lincoln. The managers , are handicapped , however. In their efforts , Inasmuch as young Mr. Bryan has so far ehown none of the ability or characteristics of Mr. Lincoln. He has no ainsi of humor at all , nor has he the record of a hard life on the frontier which put Mr. Lincoln in such close touch with tbe rnasbes of the propleHe has none of Mr. Litu.-oln's in tellectual equipment , and The dlffuroncc be tween his speeches and tho-se ot the man whom tha democratic manaynrs want Sim to Imitate Is that Bryan's efforts tpppar very tamein print , while those ot the great war president have become classic. The plan to parade Jlryan and Sewall as second editions of Lincoln and Humlin Is not likely to be very successful. SOUTH KEl'UIHATES ItHPUDIATIOX. Dovoli > i > in 'iit nf tinSoiitlMTii Country IinjiOH.slMc WltSiout Credit. Atlanta DUIc. Ordinarily It is not within the province of an industrial journal to discuss politics , but strange conditions warrant strange methods. We believe that the times are sufllciently disjointed to Justify the di gression which we now malte. The presidential campaign upon which we are now entering Is to be a battle between honesty and dishonesty , between law and anarchy , between wisdom and folly , crd between piospcrity and chaos. National intcgiity U at stake and Individual libeity I : assailed. A midsummer madness IT.S palsied the intelligence of our people , and they are wandering In strange paths. The situation calls for candor , and the manhood of the nation must respond. This silver craze was born of greed , nursed by Ignorance and trained by dema gogues. The cry of "cheap money" was started , and Its Round caught the car nf every Ignorant man and every debtor In the land , It was easy for these men to believe the cunning sophistry of the ora- tois who told them that "cheap money" would double wages and operate In every way to their benefit. It was easy for the debtors to believe that "cheap money" would enable them to compromise their obligations. These were the classes that heard and gave heed to the cry of "free sliver. " The Ignorant and the desperate became Its disciples. The Intelligent men of the south , the merchants , the manu facturers and the professional men , stand twenty to ono for the gold standard. As conclusive evidence of thl * fact , wo point to the policy of the southern press , There are thirty-six dally papers of consequence published In the southern states. Four of them have espoused the cause of "freo silver , " Thirty-two of them ore waging earnest war against the propagation of this Insidious evil. So n uch to prove that thn intelligent men of the youth have not gone wrong on tills question. This "cheap money" agitation Is par ticularly unfortunate for the south , For years the south has been crying out for capital to develop her resources , yet today she stands arrayed against the men whoso hands have always been outstretched to aid us. Whence came the money that has built the railroads , the factories end the magnifl- ent buildings that dot the southern land scape today ? Did any of It come from the weatorn silver states ? If today some mam moth enterprise were proposed in the south , where would Its promoters go for capital ? Would they travel to the far west and seek to place stock with silver mine owners ? Who are the purchasers of our products , raw and manufactured ? Are these products marketed In the sliver states of the west ? Years have been spent In creating the friendships and business ties that now exist between the people ot the south and the north. These two sections' have become Interdependent. The north has given the south a high testlmonal of her confidence ; she has sent her children to dwell among us. This once blighted land throbs today with Industry that has been made possible only by capital from the worth , Shall west ern greed and koutliorn Ignorance destroy the strong commercial ties that exist be tween the south and north ? Never. Our business men are neither fools nor rascals. Tills unhappy craze will waste its frenzy and calm reason shall rule our destluiea. HOW IIIIVAN HAS I'T.OL'l'Kn. frencnt Tlieorlen Cniuiinrril rvltti III * NotloiiN n l-'ciV YcnraKO. . fchlcxBO Tribune. Bryan lias not ah\rty been a free sllvcrltc. There \vfls n time when ho Old hot bcllcvo the purchasing power of the dollar could bo rcRtilatctl by net of congrrss. The flnnnrl.il Idcus ho advocates now were not these he advocated only few years ago. During the extraordinary session of con gress of 1S93 , called by President Cleve land , Bryan made a Bpccch In which lie de clared that "Willie the government can say that n given weight of gold or llver shall con stitute n dollar and Invest that dollar wllh legal tender qualities , It cannot fix the puiclmslng power of the dollar. That mint depend upon the law of supply and demand. "If the number of dollars Increases more rapidly than the need of dollars us It did Hftcr the gold discoveries of IStO the exchangeable - changeable value of oaoh dollar will fall and prices rise , " There was -i time , therefore , when Bryan knew that tha exehangcablo value of a del lar depended on something besides congres sional flat. Ho knows It now. He has not changed his tunn becaimo ot any now lighten on the. subject , but because he Is a shifty demagogue In search of nn ofllce. At present Bryan , like his fellow popo- crnts , ascribes the fall In the prices of eoni- modltlcs to the fall In the -price of sllvnr. Ho and they nnsnvorato tlmt "tho crime ot 1873" pulled silver down , and that it pulled everything clue down with It , In the spring of 1892 Bryan declared In a speech maila by him on the tarllT question that the fall In prices must bo attributed "To the Invontlvn genius that has multi plied a thousand times , In many Instances , the strength of a slnglo nrm , and enabled us to do today with one man what fifty men could not do fifty yours ago. That Is what brought the prices down In this country and everywhere. " Then ho talked sensible. "Inventive genius , " reducing the cost of production or transportation , or both , has brought down the price of about everything except human labor. That Is Increasing In value from decade to decade. Bryan Is as well aware now as ho was In 1S92 that the fait of silver has had nothing to do with the general fall of prices. Yet he denies In 1896 what ho affirmed In 1892 , be cause ho llituks his change ot front will help him Into the whlto house. POLITICAL MOTKSt A bonus of $10,000 was turned over by the business men of-St , Louts to the managers of the populist convention. By a vote of 24 to 12 the democratic stale committee ot Massachusetts refused to en dorse the Chicago nominees. After footing up the bills of the various conventions St. Louis business men IIml a deficit of $20,000 In the convention fund. Ex-Governor noswull 1 * . Flowler of Now York announces his readiness to stump the Kmplro state in opposition to the Chicago ticket. General Basil W. Duke mid James P. Helm , two Influential democrats of Louis ville , have joined the Kentucky host la op position to cheap money. Hiram S. Hewitt , William n. Grace and William Stelnway , three eminent democrats of New York City , have indicated their purpose to appear at a republican mass meeting in their homo city and advocate sound money and McKinley. A suggestion Is made which , If carried out , would go far toward scaling the doom of the silver ticket. The suggestion Is that trade unions send a committee to Mexico to Investigate and report on the condition of labor under free coinage of silver. Congressman Francis G. Nowlands , who was temporary chairman of thn silver con vention , is a strong advocate of silver. He owns a number of silver mines In the west , is worth from $5,000,0000 to $10,000,000 , and is classed as a disinterested advocate of IB to 1. The popocratlo ticket with Its pair of tails will contract that tired feeling when It collides with the election laws of Nebraska and Ohio , which forbid duplication of names. In other states party" emblems are required , and two emblems cannot 'bo used to desig nate the pdpo'cratlc fusion. , Many prominent sound money' Democrats of Connecticut have signed a call for a con vention to be held In New Haven , August 12. The purpose of the convention is to repudiate the Chicago ticket , and take such further steps as may be deemed necessary to stamp out democratic heresy. Talk about "discrimination against sil ver J" There is a room In the national treasury building in Washington 100 feet long by sixty feet wide , which is packed full of silver dollars to a height of fourteen feet. There are 93,000,000 ot them , and 'thoy weight 3,000 tons. In other vaults In Washington there are 68,000,000 more , and in addition there are 227,000,000 In the vari ous mints and subtrcasuries of the country. Mr. William Hi Michael of Iowa , writing to the Washington Post , furnishes proof that Mr. Bryan , In "a speech at Ackley , la. , last year , expressed the opinion that a panic would follow the triumph of silver. A Mr. Pleasants asked the lecturer this ques tion : "Mr , Bryan , will the adoption of free coinage of sliver at the ratio of 10 to 1 cause a business depression and panic , as Secretary Carlisle and other great financiers predict ? " Mr. Bryan answered promptly as follows : "Yes , In my opinion , it would have that tendency. But If a man is sick there is no use putting off giving him his medicine and letting him get worse. I think it will cause a panic. But the country is in a deplorable condition , and It will take extreme measures to restore it to a con dition of prosperity. " It has been shown that Mr. Bryan's "crown of thorns , " which aided In securing him the nomination , waa borrowed from Congressman McCall of Massachusetts. His hysterical deft was alee plagiarized a gross paraphrasing of Patrick Henry's famous words. Mr. Bryan said : "We have petitioned and our petitions have been scorned ; we have entreated , and our entreaties have been disregarded ; we have begged , and they have mocked , and our calamity came , " Compare that defl with the words of Patrick Henry : "Wo have petitioned , wo have re monstrated , wo have supplicated , we have prostrated ourselves at the foot of the throne and Implored Its Interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted , our remonstrances have bi-cn dis regarded , our supplications' have produced additional violence and insult , and wo have been spurned with contempt from tbe foot of the throne. " LIGHT AMI IIHICMT. Chicago rtecord : "So Mrs. Ullkcr has got a tHvorco ? " "Yes ; nh discovered that Mr , Bilker had been hiding his smiill chniiKP every night under n llower pot In the back ynrd. " Homervlllo Journal : An enthusiast declarPH thnt a man can llvu to the UKO of 110 yeuin by following n certain diet , but huvlni ? read his program carefully wo piefer to < Ilu yountf , Now York Press : Mother ( severely ) May , did I see Mr. Duslmway stroking your htiir on thu plaza limt evening ? jfny YCH , ma ; but that'll only force of habit. Mother Habit ? What do you mean ? May Why. ho Htioked his college boat , you ( mow. IndlanapollH Journal : Watts The cam paign Is not nn unmixed evil. The Hllver queatlon will crowd out a lot of thla weari some blcyclo gab. at least. Potts To my notion It la merely the ex change of ono net of wheel * for another. Puck : Politicians ( arranging for music at political meeting ) Isn't thnt a big prlco ? You may not have to play half u dozen tlnien during thu whole evening. ] ! i-a H JJnnd Leader Hut , my dear Blr , wo Iiuvo to alt and listen to the upeechon. Harpur'H Bazar : ' 'John , " said MM. Wnn- tano , "what U the meaning of this political saying- , sixteen to one ? " "Tliosa ura thu chances of my party , my dear. It'u sixteen to onu that vvu win. See ? " And the dear little woman confcsaijd that aho saw. Washington Star : What Is the baby'H name ? Indeed wo haven't onu ( elected ; we'ro waiting till November coinsu to ueu which inun'H elected , HKIl NOSH. Cleveland Leader. No sculptor ever chiseled out , No artist ever drew A nosa ux fair as my love Did erst present to view. I say "did erst , " because Just now Her nosa la sad to uea ; Upon It la the trade mark ot Xuo merry bumblebee. CAMl'AUJ.V llnrriili for 11111 nitri JneU. KONO BY n. H , I.ANOI-OUD. Tune "TinVfn liif ( ot Uie Owrn. " The democrats mny ulngtllolr songs ami tell their tnlcs oftoot , And on the staunch republicans nimtlioinaa IH'HtOWJ Hut when November days shall como , the democrats must foil. Then hurrah for Bill MoKlntoy nnil hur rah for Jack Miu-Coll. The. sllverite.M n-RUnnntf | KO llio golden bugs But they become moro numerous In splto of Biyan'n .skill ; Upon our sound financial scheme no evils shall befall , Then hurrnli for Bill \tcKlnlo ) > anil Iiurrnh for Juek MacColl , Choi us ; The democrats mid sllvorltos Are driven to the wall , Then hurrah for Kill McKlnloy And protection for un all. The populists -with downcast eyes tin eoumry's Ills bemoan. And tnllt of dlro citlumltle.i with loni" nnfl slKh And groan ; nut when election time rolls round their plans wo will forestall. Then hurrnli for Bill MoKlnley nqd liurrnh for Jiu-k AtnrCotl , The Wilson bill him proved N. O. the In- eonie tax knocked out- Then Roodliyo to Grovor' Clovctnndi wo'll put his roreo to route , For our name will bo culled legion when the leaves tiesln to full , Then hurrah for Hill McKliilcy niul lutrrnli - for Jnrk MneColl. Chorus : The democrats may toot their hornx , And on the voters call , lint thn masses want MoKluley And high tariff for us all , Our democratic silver friends their hclplew state bewail. And In thin they much rcsomblo a klto without a tall ; Oi-eitt drover vim not lead thorn , on Bryan they must i-nll. Then hurrah for Bill MeKlnloy , and hur rah for Jnclt MnoCall. Then rally round the Htnndnrd ot the Klorlilus G. O. P. And u e your best endeavors to gain Iho vletors1. Our battle cry h tnrlff high , good Union wo shall Install , Then hurrah for 11111 MoKlnley , Iho Na poleon of them nil , Chorus : Don't you hear thn mighty slogan King out from hut and hall ? Hurrah for Bill MuKlnley. And hurrah for Jack MacColl. Tll New ArltlniifUc * . Qoorse Kdwnnl JfrnitKomorj- New Yorlc Sun. I was taught in youth that two and two niakn four And that a hundred units make a dollar ; But I'm slow In arithmetic lore Or else too prone to scorn a servile col lar. Now , after years , I hold my teachers right , Fbr they were known na men clnar- bralned , sngnclous , Full or keen scriinlo to transmit their light In fashion simple , certain and veracious , I sat before them with wide open mind , And by the nncliMit procitss of trans fusion , All they had patiently Inarned or divined All sacred truth that dissipates delusion , Became my own , to treasure or Impart , ' To lie a guide through Ignorance and > folly , To make the brain fraternal with the heart And life less mendicant and melancholy. . Sophists are now abroad with speech and screed , With schemes at once rebellious anil neurotic , Which those who run straightforwardly may rend And so disdain blind Ignorance grown1 , despotic. f That two and two make four T am ns surnr As thnt our ancient earth Is still re volving : | j And patriotism that Is brave and 'pure i For this one problem needs no other C solving. I Honesty , too. Is worth Its precious naino. f * Sweet to tlu > soul as to thn palate honey. That man is not a patriot who "would , shame . His right with tratHc In dishonest money. Nor could ho , with clear conscience , add .1 his vote > l To those that swell a popullatlc clamor. And , casting his convictions with liU coat. Surrender to the' spell of party Kla'mour. Who servos his country best will nobly I serve , , , , , < { His'party ' best an axiom of progression1 If those who , seeing truth , will novcr1 ' swerve i In paths of pUlful , supine concession. Oh , . I would hnnff my bead and fly my | If I illsaster should heed a cry that shrill * | 1 And bo n freeman to no better ends Than those repudiation makes Us master. Hrj-nii'H "Crnnvn nt Thorn * . " Chicago PoHf. Oh , Bryan's "crown of thorns" resounds with forci * that la terrlllc ' ThrouRh all the states that lie between At- ' ' I.intlc and Pacific : | And all the people thoughtlessly at llrst thai il " words applauded , i 4 * And Bryan as an orator on ev'ry sldo was I lauded. 1 ' t But as we Rive bin soaring flights a littla calm reflection , The sentences that stirred us most wo find won't stand inspection ; And , llrst and Inut , Including- , too , the phrases Intervening , The oratory he affects has very llttlo mean- Ing. In consequence , we are convinced the les- l | son that's before him Will bring n soulful sadness that will hover ever o'er him ; And some time next November , In n. man ner most bellttliiK , < He'll suddenly discover tnat upon tlioao thorns ho's A I'olllliMll r , i > liliiviir. Chli-npm rtoponl. Bold Billy Brvan came out of the west , i Of the free silver rooters his voice was the > best ; A lawyer , nn editor. In coiiKTetw he sat And talked for free sliver throiiKh hlrt free silver hat. With his rabbit foot safety concealed In bis vest Ho Klrded his loins , turned his back to the west ; With' ' hlH famed sllvor toiiRue , his bold chcolc of brass , Ho departed from Lincoln on an editor's Around Miss Nomination the lovers did woo , f So Hold Billy Bryan pushed his face In t there , too. ' "Crown of thorns" ( though stolen ) , charmed thn vast throng ; ! 'TIs true there wnro others , but they lldn t ) ( last long. I Pattlxon'H boom dropped with a dull , Hlclt- 'nln thud , McI.eun'n name was Dennis , Matthews' was mud ; Hx-Governor Holes had to clvo up the rnco And Silver Dick Bland got tlio cold , frozen face , So T orhlnvar Bryan captured the day And with Miss Nomination rodu swiftly away. Small attention wns paid to the Koldhutr bloods , It was "swallow the pill or take to tha" woods. " The convention Is over and tha campaign , Will It bn honcHt money or IB to 1 ? Hold I.oohlnvar Bryan has plenty of fjrlt , Can ho beat Bill MoKlnley ? Well , I guess nit , WHITE HANDS i4Ta l T. lot lid , raurh , chipp d , or i4Taki ndi.iv > * " ' " " \atanat. \ hoi "i ol Cuiinm 8oA\drr IhoMUlthltadtppljT u- Tico > iolnlror l > , v rtn loT daril > ( Uiiiil bl Pum * l > * vu CU M. Cvr.r