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THE OMAHA DAILY
n. IlOSBU'ATKit , n.lltor.
isvnnv MOHNINO.
THUMB OF BUIlBCKll'TION.
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Dully He * mid Hunday , One Year . . . 10 00
f\K \ Months . COO
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Sunday llcp , Ont Yenr . . . . . . . . . * 00
Ralurilay Hc , Un Yenr . 1 Ml
Weekly lie * . Ono Tear .
orricns :
Omaha , Tlie Ttfv llullillnR.
Bouth Omnhn , Winner Illk . Cor. N' nml 21th Kit.
Council Hindu , 1C North Mnln Street.
Chicago Oillce , 31" Chamber of Commerce.
Nw Yorfc. Honm IJ , 14 ami IS. Trlbuns Mdg.
Wellington , HO ; F Ktrcct. Jf. W.
All commnnlcnttnnii rrlnllnr ; to npw nnd fill-
lorlal matter ahnulil le nddr < eil : To th JMItcT.
IIL'SI.S'ICSS LKTTHttS'
All tiuxIntM iMIerii nml remltlnncps nliouM be
ntlcJrpii f < l to The lice I'ubllnhlnir Cotnimny ,
pmahh. Drnfta , checks nni ] piutoincc orilcm to
o mn < Ii > rnynblc to Ih * oriler of the oomimny ,
TUB 1IKK 1'UUUSHINO COMPANY.
STATEMENT OP CIItCUrATION.
Blntf of NVIrni kn , |
DouRl/u County. |
Oforije II. Tzfchiicfc. * ecretiiry of Tlie Hep Pub-
HahliiB company , heirs duly pwnrn. fny tliat the
notunl number of full nml comiilete roplrs of the
Dnllr , Mortilnir , livi-nlnc nn.l Siin.lny lice tirlnteil
during iho montn of July , ISM , , ns fnllow * :
2 < > .N7 17 19.8M
2flM7 1S J0.2S8
SO. HI 19 20510
. . M 19,811
ft . 20.MX ) SI S0.01J
C . I ! ) 7K > 22. . 1I.M' ! ' !
23 19.WI ?
21 20,105
. , 2.1 50.SM )
10 . 21,7311 2i ! 20.700
Jl . . . M.M3 27 20. OW
12 . ? < ! , n < n 21 2007S
H . 22,323 29 20 119
30 20 , IM
. . . ; . ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .11 20,101
1C 19,701
Total M7.7M
Ijffn clcilncllons for untold nml rcturneil
copies 12,1123
Net tntnl Rnlw , c5v270
Net iliilly nvi-niRc 20,170
ononnj' ! 11 TKsrinvK.
Sworn to before mo nml BUh'crll > cil In my
nreietice this 1st dny of Alisuat. UW. !
( Benl. ) . N. p. VHIU
Nntnry 1'ttlille.
rurtles Kolnjj out of Iho oily for the
mimntcr may linvo The HOP sent to thi-lr
address l > y leaving nn order tit the 1ms-
IIIL'SS ofllco ot Tlie Hoc. Telephone li.S. !
"What In do , " oh ?
Mr. Ilrynn iniKht Just an well
his "rest" ti iieniinniMit lonvi ; i > T ah-
8C11CC.
Chalrninii Jones 1ms siicceeileil In cork-
Ins Mv. Itryan. Clialriiian Jones Is n
corker.
.Tolin Kheriimn still stands lienil and
Hlionhlnrs nbovo nil tlie pigmy free coin-
njo Hiiuiiclers that tin.- silver party IIILMI
have prodnci'd anioiif ; their ranks.
The iiii'en's ] Hiieech Is never spoken by
the. queen. An Kn > ; llsi ] ciiHloin that
mlKlil liiul favor in this country if
adopted by some of our loquacious can
didates.
Chicago will be the headquarters ; of
the democratic national committee. The
World's fair city will provide all the
accessories for the Interment of the for
lorn hope.
If the ratio of 1 to Hi was dishonest
In 18 ! > . ' 5 , how did It become an honest
ratio In 180(5 ( ? This question is directed
at Mr. Itryati'g former personal orpin.
We pause for a reply.
In another column we reproduce an
editorial1 from the Omnha World-Her
ald the local Bryan silver Organ
which was published in that journal
August I ) , 18Ki. ! Head It carefully.
Our junketing city councilmcn will
be back before another week shall
have expired and may be relied upon
to bring with them another choice lot
of jobs and schemes.
"The only honest bimetallist Is lie
who believes In the free coinage of gold
and sliver , each taken at Its market
value. " The Omaha World-Herald ,
Bryan's personal organ.
Harper's Weekly In its last issue has
nu article entitled "Hot Days Out
"West. " We suggest that it would be
strictly appropriate to amend the head
ing to make it read "Hot Days Down
Kast. "
The Omaha Fake-Mill Jealously de
scants upon "tho weird fakes" pub
lished In the New York newspapers.
When It comes to fakes the Omaha
li-M. occupies a peculiar and unique
field of Its own.
A large Iron and steel company , with
works at Harvey , Illinois , assigned last
week. In justice to Coin Harvey It Is
only fair to state that no blame attaches
to the name of the town where the
mills are located.
Mr. Bryan's organ suggests that It was
wrong In ISO : ? , when It opposed "the dis
honest ratio of 1 to HI. " We might , per
haps , suggest that it was right In 380 ! !
and Is wrong now in supporting "the
dishonest ratio of 1 to 11 ! . "
Walt till the sound money democrats
assemble in convention at Indianapolis
iie.tt month and look for an arraignment
of the free sliver movement and can
didates that will outshine all the denun
ciations of debt-scaling and repudiation
to date.
The electric street Illuminations dur
ing the Ak-Har-Hen festivities were one
of the most taking features of fair
weolc last year. They will this year
bo repeated and Improved. The elee
trleal display alone will repay a visit
to Omaha and the Slate fair.
An Important feature of the eonveu
tlon of the Young 1'eople's C'hrlstian
union will be the choral volce.s under
ablu leadership. There will be 3W 3 I
volcps In the chorus. The program i I
arranged Is somewhat elaborate and
promises to be one of the chief attrac
tions of the week. Omaha singers
nave repeatedly distinguished them
selves In choral work and they may be
expected to do so again.
What would happen now If the popu-
llstd should suddenly take It Into their
heads that they ought to have a notifica
tion meeting with speeches of acceptance
anco from their nominees for president
and vice president ? Would Uryan dare
to repeat the operation he has just gone
through ? If he did , would hu have
any democratic adherents left ? If he
did not talk as long In answer to the
populist notification committee , would
Uo have any populist adherents left ?
Ol'KK A11U.3 ItATJIKtl THAN MIXTS.
Ill a brief speech l y Major
IriHt week lie nmilo this striking declaration -
tion : "I believe It IH n good deal bel
ter to open the mills of the. United
.States to tlie lulior of America than to
open up the mints of the United .Stntes
to the sliver of the world. " It Is not
surprising to find that this utterance hns
elicited gt-nt'inl commendation , for It
Is thp language of n statesman , who
lias nt heart the Interests nnd welfare
of nil classes of his fellow citizen * .
Opening the mills would mean augment
ing the natlor.nl wealth , providing labor
with employment. Increasing the pur
chasing power of the people and Creat
ing general prosperity. Opening the
mints would not only accomplish none
of these things , but would produce con
ditions Inimical to nil of them.
This ought to be obvious to working
people especially. They know that
opening the mills menus a demand for
labor anil a demand for labor Insures'
good wages. This Is not a theory , but
an established fact. Kvery man knows
It as n matter of personal experience.
OpVnlng tlie mliitw. however , would add
nothing to the we..Ith of the nation ,
would make no demand for labor , would
help nobody but the owners of sliver.
Let the worklngmaii seriously rellect on
this. lie has no silver lo take to the '
mint. All his capital Is In his capacity
to lalmr. lie wants n market for this.
\VII1 tin1 silver mine owners furnish the
marketV Certainly Jiot. When they
have taken their silver to the mint anil
received their money for it they are not
likely lo Invest In mills and factories.
They have not done so In the past ami
It Is not reasonable to suppose they
would do so In the future. They would
extend their mining operations and that
is all , hut this would not make an appre
ciable demand for labor. A dozen
large mills and factories in full
operation employ more people
than a hundred mines. The ad
vocates of free silver tell the workingman -
man that that policy would benefit him ,
but they never attempt to explain how.
It Is a theory that has no substantial
bnsls.
11 Is amazing that there should be
anywhere an Intelligent wage earner
supporting the cause of open mints for'
( he silver of the world rather than open .
mills for the labor of this country. It
is surprising that there should be any
worklngmaii who cannot see that self-
interest dictates the support of that
policy which experience has shown to be
essential to the national development
and prosperity the pulley Unit will open
mills , expand productive enterprises and
create and maintain an active market
for labor. One would think that the
severe experience of the last three years
had been sufficient to warn the work-
liigmcn of the United States against
trying any new experiment , particularly
one of so revolutionary a nature as that
of free sliver. Of all classes of the
people the wage earner can least afford
to have a great financial disturbance
that would stagnate all industries and
demoralize all business. With .such a
condition labor is the first to suffer
and the last to get relief. Its interests
are best conserved 'when there Is Ilium-
elal stability and industrial eonlldenee.
The utterance of tlie republican standv
artl bearer Is wise and statesmanlike
and should receive the thoughtful con
sideration of the men of labor and indeed -
deed of all classes of people.
SUl'l'lY AXn J1K3lAn. I
Mr. Bryan said in his New York
speech that the best known law of com
merce Is the law of supply and demand.
We recognize this law and build our '
argument upon It. " But while recog
nizing it hi relation to money , Mr.
Bryan and all the free sllverites en
tlrely Ignore It In connection with com-
modules. They have not the fairness
and the candor to tell the farmer that
the law of supply and demand has
something to do with regulating the
price of what he produces and that this
law will continue to operate whatever
our monetary standard may do.
Everybody knows that there has been
a great Increase In agricultural produc
tion during the last twenty years. The
United States produced last year almost
double tffL' quantity of wheat It pro
dnced in IS" ! ! , more than twice the
quantify of corn , three times the quan
tity of oats and the yield of all other
grains was largely Increased. The most
notable expansion took place between
18 ! > 0 and 1805. During tlie eight years
from 18(1 ( ! ) to 1870 , Inclusive , the wheat
crop of the United States exceeded
: ; o < ) .000,000 bushels only once ( in 187-1) )
and the annual average for those years
was only tiiSr ! > 7r > ,0 < M ) bushels. Kor the
§
four years Imnit'dlateiy following 1870
the average was llW.OOn.OOO. In ISS'J a
crop of more than Wf ) > ,000,000 bushels
was harvested for the first time. The
period of greatest output begun In 18S9
and for that and succeeding years the
production of wheat in this country was
as 'follows :
18S9 < . . 490,200,000
1899 , 430,000,000
1891 , 075,000,000
18 2 550,000,000
1893 475,000,000
1891 515,000,000
1S93 467,103,000
rVlthongh I hero was an extraordinary
foreign demand for our wheat in 1S01 ,
owing to the partial failure of the crop
In Karope. still a large quantity was
carried over and 1lu yield of the next
year being heavy served to depress the
price. At the samu time other surplus
wheat countries Increased their produe11
tlon. Thiw Utissla produced KiS.OOO.OOQ |
bushels of wheat In ISiU and : i
bushels In ISDH , while Argentina nearly
doubled her production. In regard to
the competition of the latter country In
the European market , a statement re
cently made hi tlu * London Mark Lane
Express shows that the exports of wheat
from the Argentine Kepubllc Increased
from 1',0 < K,0X ( ) bushels In 1S ! > 0 to US.-
000,000 bushels In IS1. ) . " , this wheat comIng -
Ing into direct competition with the
American product ,
The annual average pro'luctlon of
wheat from ISSil to 18)5 ! ) , both Included ,
was over r > 14,000,000 bushels and taken
111 connec'tlon with the Increase la other
cereals and the enlarged production of
other wheat surplus countries presents
a perfectly clear explanation of the fall
In iirlccs. The supply has been steadily
for yenrs In excess of the demand alid
while It Is true that the latter has not
been so good In this country as It would
have been If democratic policy had
not so seriously Interfered with the
purchasing power of the people , yet
there Is no reason to believe thai In
nny case prices would have ruled much
higher.
The free sllverites carefully avoid
facts of this kind , because they are
fatal to their muse , yet their standard
bearer says they recognize the law of
supply and demand and build their ar
gument uiKii It. Their recognition of
this Immutable law Is as narrow and
superficial as are all their positions.
TIIH KWKCT OF IT.
OMAHA , Neb. , ADR. 14. To the Editor
of The UPC ; ICtndly answer the following
questions :
1. How will the silver mine or silver
' bullion owner double his Income under free
and unlimited colnnf ; of silver , unless the
'
bullion value of silver Is doubled ?
2. It the bullion value of silver Is doubled
under Tree nnd unlimited coinage of silver
( thereby doubling the income of the silver
miner or owner of silver bullion , ns your
iraprr has claimed ) , liow will savings bank
depositors bo forced to receive B3ccnt dollars
lars ' ' In return for 10U-ccnt dollars de
posited ' ? JAY tnmxs.
The silver men do not agree as to the
probable effect of 1(1 ( to 1 free coinage.
Mr. Mryan and those who speak as he
does say It will Increase the value of
J.
sliver bullion to Jl.-J ) per ounce. If
Mr. Itryan is right , the price of silver
bullion would be doubled , the silver mine
owner and speculator In silver would
alone be lieneflted and savings bank
depositors and other creditors would not
be directly alTectud.
Another class of sllverites , on the other
hand , insist that the purchasing power
of silver has always been stable and
will remain the same under free coin
age , but that gold will be brought down
to the mint ratio. In that vase the
silver mine owner would be benefited
only In opening a. larger market for his
product , while the savings bank depositors -
itors and other creditors would be de- |
frauded of half what is due thorn.
The Bee has met the arguments of the
free sllverites on both the assumptions
which they make. It has , however , ad
mitted neither of these claims. The
Hee doe's not profess to be able to say
.
just what the purchasing power of the
silver dollar would be under It ! to 1
free coinage. It does say that it will
be no greater than the purchasing power
of the bullion which It contains. Silver
might and probably would go up some ,
as it dirt after the enactment of
j1
the .Sherman silver purchase law.
but the rise would be temporary only ,
as it was under the Sherman law ,
In the Interval the silver owner and
mining stock giiinbler would be the
gainers , and the wage wor.ker , salaried
man and creditors generally the losers.
It is not the place of The Bee to 'recon
cile the eonlllctliig assertions of , the 11 ! j ?
to 1 free silver coinage advocates.
i\'iir \ IT wuuitn
According 'to the local Bryan organ
the ratio most favorable to- silver established
j
tablished by any one country al > vays.
'
prevails all the world over except when
it does not prevail. According to that
eminent authority , that is alwslys right
when it is not wrong , the only reason
for the failure of the United States to
raise the market value of silver to $1.1. >
per ounce , as required by its mint ratio
of 15 to 1 from 171)12 ) to ISM , , is that
the country was small and in Its In
11f
fancy. : "During most of that period , "
it informs us , "our population was less
than 10,000,000 , and even at the close
of the period we were only about as
large as Mexico is now. In wealth and
business we were still more strikingly
behind the world. "
The Bryan organ , however , neglects
to ' state that from 1702 to 181 the task
of holding up the market value of the
world's silver to an artificial ratio was
not precisely the same as it Is today.
Before 1S.10 the silver product of the
United States was hudgnlllcant. The ,
silver product of the whole world , esti
mated In SoL'tbeer's tables , averaged
annually only 1 ! > ,17. > ,8 < ! 7 ounces , worth
JjM,7n,0)0 : : ! ( ) , during the period from 1SH
to ' 1810 , and for the entire period from
1"- ! ) to 1SIHliever exceeded an average
of : > S,7-Hi , ! ) ± J ounces , worth . ' . "
'J
The silver product of the United Stati-p
alone for 1S')5 ) was nearly 70,000,000
ounces , while.the total silver product
of the world for 181)5 ) was nearly 100- ,
OoO.tXH ) ounces. During the period from
1792 to ] $ 'M the highest average quo
tation ; of silver was lli to 1 , In 17 ! ) , ' ! , and
the lowest was HPto 1 , In ISl.'l. During
.
ing this period , too , Franco was coining
silver at 15VG to 1 in amounts averaging
? ' _ > riX,000 ( ) ( a year practically equal to
the total current production of the white
metal.
If , in ISIH , when it bad in.OW.OOO
population the United States failed to |
maintain a ratio of 1T > to 1 , which varied
only 73 one-hundreths from the
actual market value , and when
the total silver In the world
used as cola was less than $1,000,000-
000. nml the total annual silver product
of the world less than UO.OOO.OOO ounces V
and when it was aided by tici
free coinage at ir > V > to 1 by citl
Franco and all the principal tl
countries of continental Europe If the tln tlw
experiment failed them , does It stand n
to reason that the United States now. Uti
alone and unaided , can raise the mar- ti
la-l value of the world's sliver from ( iS |
cents an ounce to $1.2 ! ) an ounce , when p
the total coined silver of the world has Ell
reached the colossal figure of ! ? 1,000,000-
000 , with as much more la use In the
arts , and an annual Increase from the
silver mines of r.00,000,000 ounces ?
The city authorities of St. Louis have
promulgated a decision that the audito
rium was erected on public property In
that city on a permit for conventions
only and not for amusements. Wonder
how they succeeded In bringing the pop
ulist national nominating fundaiigo out
of the exception , so that It could legally ' ll
occupy the convention hall.
The local Ice trust may well put the
screws tight this year and get the last
dollar out of the business , for it can
bo put down as a certainty that our
consttintix ulll not pay ( H ) cents pei
huudreilj-ljit far lee another season.
Only 0110 other city In the country
dares tiQirrViulaln such extortionate
rates anfrtlmt Is In a southern latitude.
No ilortlisjruj'lty tolerates tiie excessive
rales cliSwll ) u Oinnlm. This could
not be done but for the local trust or
ganized last winter. There Is a statute
forblddlifl : pAmbrnatlons to corner prod
ucts aiiil e ort high prices from con
sumers. ( * > i < i
Any mf-aHft'or ' showing eastern people
samples IX-ihe agricultural products of
Nebraska this year cannot fall of bearIng -
Ing rich niftirns. Kvcry year there Is
In states p'ast of us n large class of'
Itn
men ready to come west ami rent or
buy land. They.go wherever the prom
ise Is brlglitest o'r inducements greatest.
Nebraska , railroads will this fall carry
sample ! products free to county fairs
.
In Iowa and Illinois , so the people may
see for themselves the wonderful fertil
ity of Nebraska soil and the products
thereof.
The local Bryan organ prints an ar
ticle taken from the market review of
a Chicago paper and tiles to palm it
off on Its readers as an editorial ex
pression from Hie New York Sun.
Wlit-ii the fraud Is detected and the
Imposture exposed It complains that
the clmmplojm of sound money are re
sorting to desperate methods. The re
sort to dr'xperatt' methods and down
right falsehood Is exclusive with the
Bivan organ.
Air. llr'yan's personal organ admits
tliat. It is the exponent of "radical" free
silver views ami that. Mr. Bryan's edi
torship of. .that paper was intended to
emphasize Its "radical" position. The
question 1. Are the citizens of tlie
United States prepared to entrust their
government to .the administration of a
man who glories in being "radical' ; "
In \i > On n KIT.
ChlcaKO Tlnies-IIernlil.
The Nebraska man who offers to Rive
110 of our silver dollars for 100 gold dollars
ono yc-ar - alter the election of W. J. Hrynn
to the presidency will never be called on to
make good his offer.
A Ktloclf-Oiit
Coin lor-Joumnl.
Speaking ot unlimited coinage and
"plenty of money , " the United States , with
limited coinage of silver , has a larger per
capita ot silver money than Moico , with
unlimited cctnago of silver , has of alb sorts
of money combined.
\o Hmiuilii t ( > .4tri > iil > lirnn MiltIniMlilNin.
Ouzel tc.
The amount-of republican enthusiasm dis
played all''over Nebraska doesn't Indicate
that the Mly orator of Salt creek has got
any big fires started over these prairies.
Ho will not' get as big a vote in his own
state as somU'OUtslde fellow could. ,
Yo o for McKtiilcy.
Arlington NC\VB.
The Oinalha 'Dee. ' the greatest Ticwspaper
th IK side 'the'MlsslsslppI ' , Is doing excel
lent work fohMlttj national and state repub
lican tickets Its editorials are ably written
and contain "mufcli that Is bound to make
votes for McKlnley and Hobart. Long live
The Bee. / n
. . ,
t TI - - .r > -
to fis by cable that the Ger
man omwrnort climbed ia Jilll last Friday.
Th dispatches are ; strangely silent as to
what happened afterwardjvbyt we presume
he followed the very excellent example of
the ] kins of France , who marched up a- hill
with 10,000 men.
mm- Old llrokfll 1'rolnl.sc.s.
Hardy Hornl.l.
Do you not recognize the men who are
malting such lavish promises for free silver ,
as the same men who made such elaborate
promises for free trade In the last cam
paign ? He's a democrat from choice and
principle and would be performing the
same act for the single standard if his parly
championed It.
\ < MV Yf > rk mui tinDciiioc'rncy. .
New "York Sun.
Now York Is as friendly ns ever to the
friends and the policies of democracy ; butte
to schemes of sectionalism , to efforts in be
half of a debased , dishonorable , and lluctu- .
atlng currency , to war upon the supreme
court , nnd tof the Immunityof riot and dis
order. New Ycrtc Is and will not cease to
be a determined opponent.
TinCJoliI I Ion rill ii r Movoinrnrf.
SprlnBllclil ( Mass. ) Jlepulillcnn.
It has been the custom of the local treas
urer of the Union Pacific Railroad company
at Omaha for many years to pay employes
in gold , but last , week paper mouey was
used , and the same Is true of the Santa
Fe company at Topeka. This seems to in
dicate that the gold hoarding movement fs
spreading through ; the far west , as It long
since spread through the cast.
llo v .Vhont tlic Silver HaroiiMf
Plillnilelplilit HecnrJ.
Ill defining this campaign as a conflict of
"tho masses against the classes. " where do
the populists range the silver barons of the
Hocky mountains ? liy all accounts the
bonanza mining "clnsa" Is supplying the
popullstlc "mass" with Its war supplies In
this campaign.- The fact Is that the free
coinage agitation has been maintained from
the beginning by the millionaire mine own
ers , without whom the movement would
long since luivo expired of Inanition.
Fnt'lx I'lini'liirc .Soplilntry.
Ni-w Yorl ( WoiM.
It Is hardly possible that the advocates of I
free coinage know what they are talking
about In asking for "a restoration of the
conditions prior to 1873. "
IJcforo 1&73 we had coined only a little
over 6,500,000 silver dollars. Since 1S7S we
have coined ovpr120,000,000. .
During 1873' only 20G.300 silver dollars
were coined. J''roni January 1 to June 30 ,
this year , tpe ) ) were coined 7COO-U2 , or
more than during the entire eighty-one ,
years of thiTRDVfTnment up to 1873.
lSl ! ) ii ml 1SDII. I
tepulilluan Mem. ) | ,
CaiidlclateJU'Hni8 appearance in New
York City Bcrvrs-to exhibit still further the
fact that ho ilocs not stand for the demo
cratic partyiwMio country has'known It.
Contrast tht1.--preliminaries to tlie notifica
tion of Candidates Cleveland and Stevenson
with those whlclg attend on this same cere
mony : In tliB Bi ift city nnd hall , four years
later. No dfrtifJShils of state or national
reputation 1QJ V. turned out to meet the im-
tlonul comnfli/f'v which convened In Now
York City yefj'rrilay. It was Impossible to
secure any llf'ty i"aa ° f conscejwnco to
preside over flje great notification Tncetiim.
surely nn oi yrtunlty not likely to bu re
jected underlydluary ( circumstances by men
desirous of ItCJiiR lu the public eye.
- -f ? a >
. . . . . ! < Tartli'iil Illiiiulfr.
Km > sa8 CttJSt r dlcin. ) .
Whatever nijrit Mr. Hryan'a speech of
ncceptanci ) niay pqhscss in n rhetorical
sense. It iimlffHMliu tactical mistake of as
suming a ili-ft'iislvt ! tone. Opening In an
apologetic spirit , It proceeds from ono
point to another to parry the thrusts of
the opposition , thus sacrificing the su
preme opportunity to pitch the battle on
aggressive linen and wage a Napoleonic
warfare from that obvious coign of van
tage. It was Samuel J. Tilden who said
that "a defensive warfare never won a
political fight , " and Senator Gorman Is
credited with the declaration that' "de
fensive political battle ) Is lost lu the be
ginning. " Mr. Uryan Is himself aggres
sive in the superlative degree , as all
young , capable and self-confident men
are , and tbi > surprise is therefore magiil
fled because of the conciliatory course
adopted by him at Madlsou Square garden.
IF TRUE THENJSIT TRUE NOW ?
CONFUSING TWO DISTINCT IDEAS.
( Omaha World-Herald , August 3 , ISM. )
lliTnn's vrrronnl OrRtiti.
Thp silver agitators who Insist on free coinage upon T1IK niSHONKST
HATIO OP I TO 1C. and refuse to accept it upon the honest ratio of t to 'Jo are
very anxious lo delude the public Into the bellof that the demand for more cur
rency and the demand for coinage upon the ratio of t to It ! are identical.
They biaud as goldbugs all who decline to advocate Til-cent sliver dollar * .
lu truth , however , the only honest blmetalllst Is he who believes In the free
' coinage of gold and silver , eacli taken at Its market value and so coined that
100 cents worth of goltl shall bo In the gold dollar and 100 cents worth of sil
ver shall bo in the silver dollar.
The blmetalllst who advocates free coinage of gold and silver OH a ratio
of 1 to : , ' is ns much believer
n in an increase In the circulating medium s\a \
the man who demands coinage on tlie ratio of 1 to 10.
Tlie sllverites lu Chicago lieed not arrogate to themselves the champion *
ship of nn Increased currency. That Is not their real purpose , nor Is it the
real effect of their agitation. They are only the champions of silver.
MCllllASKA'S XKXT CUVIIH\Oll.
HloomliiRton Kcho : Jack MacColl will
come under the wire next November some
20.000 lengths ahead of SI Holcomh.
Sidney I'onlnrd : Jack MacColl will poll
a big vote In this county. Ho will not only
receive his full party vote , but \vlll gather
In unite a number of votes from admirers
In other parties.
Lexington Pioneer : MacColl , according to
reports from all parts of the sink- , will re
ceive a big vote fa almost every locality.
And he will make one of the best governors
Nebraska has ever had.
Holdrege Citizen : While engaged In the
work of making votes for McKlnley , Jack
MacColl and the rest of the republican ticket
should not be lost sight of. It should be a
republican sweep from beginning to end.
AVcepIng Water Republican : The people
hero were well pleased with the appearance
of Jack MacColl , our next governor. Ev
erybody can tell from his face nnd the warm
grasp of his hand that ho Is an honest
man.
"Wallace Tug : In lSt ! ) the republican ticket
In Nebraska was elected from the bottom
up to within ono of the top. J. H. MacColl
Is at the top this year , and It will bo n
complete victory. Harmony Is to be found
only In the republican camp this year.
Tobias Gazette : Jack MacColl , the repub
lican candidate for governor , is a sclf-maile
man. One of the pioneers of Nebraska , he
knows what the perplexing difficulties are
Incident to frontier life. He is a friend to
the laboring man as well ns the merchant ,
and no one will have a cause to regret It by
voting for him this fall.
MInden Gazette : The candidates upon the
republican state ticket are out among the
people getting acquainted and doing some
missionary work toward swelling the major
ity which will result from the ballots cast
on November 3. A cleaner , better lot of
men were never presented to the people of
Nebraska for their votes.
Stanton Picket : Jack MacColl will come
out of Douglas and Lancaster counties with
tremendous majorities , which cannot be
overcome by every populist and democratic
county in the state , even should they give
as heavy a vote to Ilolcomb as they did two
years ago , which will not be the case by
nny means. In fact , many of the western
counties which gave Holcomb majorities
then wjll give MacColl majorities In Novcm ,
ber , a'nd the same may be said of some of
the more eastern counties. Stanton county ,
for .Instance , gave Holcomb a plurality of
lg(5 ( then , and will this fall give a majority
against him.
Gerlng Courier : Now that Jack MacColl
Is to bo at Gerlng novt Tuesday evening , It
may interest some people to learn of his ca
reer. He cameto this state In a very early
day , penniless , and- went to work as a sec
tion hand In Dawson county. A little later
ho was appointed county clerk , and made
sonic money in buying land cheap nnd hold
ing it for the rise. The Union 1'aclflc was
at one time back about $5,000 on Its taxes
to that county and refused to pay. Jack
was appointed ns collector , and he went
down to the station , chained a freight train
to the sidewalk and stood guard over It
with Winchesters for five days , when the
railroad company Was glad to pay up and [
get Its traffic running again. Jack MacColl
Is a self-made man , and western Nebraska '
Is proud to have a chance to put him in the
gubernatorial seat.
WHAT IU-AIM : SAID.
Sninplc Instil life of Free Silver Fuli-
rlrnllon.
Chicago Chronicle diem. )
The sllveritcs are circulating garbled portions
tions of a speech made by James G. Ulaine
in the senate In 1878 to show that ho was
hi favor of free silver coinage ,
Mr. Hlainu took an active part In the
debate on the Bland bill , but opposed free
coinage and any coinage at the ratio of
1C to 1.
In the speech from which the Imperfect
extracts arc taken Mr. Ulaine made an
earnest argument for "bimetallism , "
which WHB not altogether as visionary a
scheme then as it is now.
The commercial ratio of silver to gold
was a little less than 18 to 1. The silver
lu a coined dollar of 112'/j grains was worth
i)2 ) cents.
It was not a lack of wisdom for n states-
mail at that time to suppose that a nearer
approach In the value of gold nml silver
coins was possible. Mr. Ulalne moved to
amend the llland bill by providing that
425 grains Instead ofHUH grains should
be coined Into the silver dollars. At the
same time he used some tritu arguments
against a single gold standard.
Dnt no vision of statesmanship could havr
then foreseen that , owing to the vast over
production of slh-er to comu In 'a few years ,
Its value would fall from $1.14 au ounce ,
which was the price then , to CD cents , which
Is the prlco at the present time. The value
of the silver In a dollar has decreased from
92 cents to C3 cents. Mr. Dlalnp's argument
for bimetallism must be construed In the
light of these facts.
IliH no speaker of that nor the present
tlmo has made a stronger argument than
Mr. Dlalno made against tha coinage of
depreciated dollars. He said :
"At current rates of silver thp fri-o coinage -
ago of a dollar containing -II2',2 grains ,
worth In gold about D2 cents , glvrs an Hie
gltlmatu profit to the owner of the bullion ,
enabling him to take 92 cent ! ! ' worth of It
to the mint and get It stamped us coin and
force his neighbor to take It for a full del
lar. This Is nn undue and unfair advantage
which the government has no right to give
to thu owners of sliver bullion , and which
defrauds the man who is forced to take the
dollar. "
Mr. Fllalno also predicted the loss of gold
in case of free tolnngc. He said that "It
would flow out from us with the certainty
and resistless flow of the tlilrs. "
This wan Mr. Illajno's stand when silver
dollars were worth 9i ! cents each. What
would he say If he could xprak now , when
they are worth 53 cents each ?
I'uHHllillll ) anil Iti-nlll ) ' .
l'lillutl l | > lil.i Uvlk-rr.
If ( hi ) mere poeslblllty of a free coinage
victory is sufllcli'in to depress trade anJ
embarrass credit , how much graver will be
the sltuatlo-j should this evil come to pass.
Uefore Mr. Uryaa could lake hU fceat busi
ness would bu ulmotit at a standstill. CJulil
withdrawals would begin Immediately. En
terprise would be halted and labor would
flnil a stagnant market. Doubtless the first
thlpff Mr. Hryan would do would be to sus
pend the redemption of treasury notes In
gold , and thus cast the country on a sllvrr
basis without walling for any legislation.
Kven bboulJ prices rise for the farmer ,
would this be likely to continue with fac
tories lillo and hundreds of thousands u'
\\orlunrii without the means of huyltig Ihc
necessaries of life ? The greet army of
wage workers have , at best , nothing to hope
for from a silver basis , except the cheapen
ing of the purchasing power of their earn
ings , and until the country became scttlcJ
on a silver bns's there must bu a creal
dearth of employment because of thu un
uilllngucss of capital to take risks.
IP l.M T DISHOM2STV , WHAT *
Ili-llulou ami Morality In tlie Present
( 'llllllll ) lull.
Nelv YniU Inilrpnnilimt.
One of our Catholic exchanges of this j ;
city It Is not necessary to say which one
gives the following reason for counseling
the clergy to keep sllunco ns to the Issues
of the campaign : i '
"Religion lias no more to do directly with 1
the Issues of the coming presidential camA
palgu ft mn It has to do with any other
of nur numerous political campaigns , whether j '
local , state or national. There Is no doh ! .
niaiiil for any intervention of thu clergy , .
Catholic or Protestant , us clergy. " |
Whether that ' be true depends upon 1
whether religion and morals have anything 1
to do with each other. If religion means
going to church , and kneeling down before
God nml saying "Our Father , " and nothing
more , then religion may have nothing to do 1
with thp Issues of the coming presidential
campaign. Hut If whatever things are lion-
cst , purp , and nf good report are a part of ,
religion , then this campaign Is not without j |
Its religious side.
Three years ago the Independent signed n
lease promising to pay $10,000 n year , more
or less , for the rout ofthe premises It oc
cupies. That gave the owner of the build
ing a fair Income from the nmount of
money which had been Invested In It. That
$10,000 which wo promised to pay was the
money nf thp country , which bus been kept
equal with gold ever since the resumption
of specie payments. H was perfectly understood -
stood that thos3 dollars would be dollars j
equal to gold , as the government had kept | i
them equal to gold. The $10.000 , more or i
less , we paid last year and the year before j
was of the value of 10,000 gold dollats
in London or Berlin or Paris , as well as
in New York. The proprietor of the build
ing could take the money to Europe- - and
exchange It for 2,000 English pounds , or
10,000 German marks , or 50,000 French
francs.
Now the democrat and populist platforms
propose that we thall pay that rent next
year not In $10,000 in New York , such as are
worth 2,000 in London , -10,000 marks In Ber
lin , and 50,000 francs In Paris , but In sil
ver dollars , which shall not bu kept up to
the value of gold , and which the owner
of this building can exchange for but a little
more than 1,000 In London , 20,000 marks In
Berlin , and 25,000 francs In Paris. What
they propose that we shall pay Is about
$5,300 value In gold , but calling It $10,000
In silver. They ask us to vote that we
may be allowed to rob the owner of our
premises to the extent of , say , $4,700 a year.
Now , as we understand It , they are asking
us to steal ; and stealing wo consider irre
ligious , and we do not propose to do It.
" \Ve shall do our best to have our rent con
tinue payable In gold dollars , worth $10-
000 anywhere In the world , worth the same
in London , Berlin and Paris , as It was when
wo made our contract , three years ago ; ami
we decline the temptation to pay a sum of
money which would be worth in the markets
of the world only $5,300.
Wo are told that there Is no religion In
this. It Is a part of our religion.
HOHSF.S.
IIiT , IN SomctliiiiK' 'f "Crime" uiul
tinJniiKc Tlierrof.
KnnKHR City Journal.
What has been the matter of ) atc with
the horse ? Ho can pull Just as much and
eats no more. There are horse races now
just the same as before , and men stand
around the speed rings in the hot sun nnd
jabber and lie and swear just as they always
did. And they pat winning horses on the
neck and kick losing jockeys just as they
always did , And they go out one side and
squirt tobacco juice Into the Jlmson weeds
and put up Jobs on each other as they al
IJ ways did. Why then the decadence of the
horse ?
The following statistics show the number
of horses and their value In the United
States for the years named :
1S9J , ItqrsOR , ir.49HO ; value . JlCn7M3G1H
isri : > . l irpi > . ir.Ki3. IIS ; value . r,7n,73H.Gio
1SK1 ! , liurecx , 15iiOSTi vulue . WW.UO.HC
Those statistics show that while the num
ber of horses remain practically the same ,
the value has declined over one-half. Here
is one-half billion of wealth wiped out In
four years. This is of itself alone enough
to make a panic and bring the country into
financial stress. The farmers who consti
tute about one-third of the population of to
the United States have suffered about one-
half of the loss arising from the demoneti
zation of the horse. n
What has caused the decline of the four-
logged Othello whose occupation Is so nearly
gone ? Why Is he no longer stolen ? Why
lias the horse thief become an antiquity , anil
why has the Horse ceased to be a "medium
of exchange ? " Why are there no more of
lawsuits for breach of warranty ? Why are
oats down to S cents per bushel ? These are
hard questions to answer. It certainly can
not bu owing to any decrease In popula
tion of the United States , concerning which
the facts arn aa follows :
Population , 1R'I2 . ( ,403,000
Population , ISW . , < i , : iS,004 ; i
Population , ) ! > : . G9"ai,0'JU '
Hero Is an Increase of over 4,000,000 people
ple added to the number of those who In /
1SU2 worked honse.f , stole horses , swapped
horses and plotted In the jimson weeds ,
and In addition to this there are many mil
lions of people In the United States who go
fcre four years older now than tlu-n. Thcio
never Nvas a time in the history of the
United States when the value of Its hurscs it
was so great as In 1802 , and thu horses for
that yrnr In the Vnltcrt StnVj
over jf'5 cnch. There wa * then In clrcu' ]
tion In the t'nltcd Stntrs monoto t
mount of ? 1. < ! 01,847,1S7. When In ISM t
bottom lias dropped out of the horse fto > .
fipcnk , thpro w * Just * much inonpy ( J *
60l.9CS.4T3) ) . but not so much horsp. Tl
corned beef factories seem to linvp lic
unnblp to keep up the price or to stem tl ,
tide of depreciation. .1
From the foregoing It would seem 111 1
possible to connect thp foundering of tl
horse. If wo may usp thp expression , wit
the "groat ctlme ot 1S7.1. " Slnco 1S73 th I
per capita calculation has been In rour
numbots 20 per rent greater There In mor
than Jl , 000.000,000 of coin In circulation no\
than then , anil yet thp horse hns balked , 01
to Bprnk more nccurntrly. has snt back In
the breeching and refused to go forward ,
financially.
\ \ l i : 31OMCY IS
lint Mlulitj llnr.l lit Cot , i\eeit nt
IIluh Inli-reM.
Olilrnsn 1'ost
One of the chief arguments of the Hrynn- .
lies and the Srwalllti's and the Wntgnnllcsr
la favor of the free coinage- silver at thv
rntlo of 16 to 1 Is that It will give us cheap
money.
I Ins free silver given Mexico or India or
China cheap money ? Not unless you call L
money horrowablo on gllt-eilgc security at ; |
10 to 15 per cent chenp.
Whete Is money cheapest In the world to-
ilny ?
In Lombard street. Money enn bo borrowed - ,
rowed In London today nt from 1\ to 2 j
per cent.
Where Is It dearest ?
In Mexico , China , India ami the South
American republics that stick for free silver. '
In British Gulann , with the gold standard ,
money Is loatn-d nt I and 5 per cent Across
thp I bonier In Venezuela , where they havoj
free silver anil frro revolutions while you.
wait , the rate Is from 10 to 12 per cent , niulf
hard to get nt Hint. In natural rcsoiirep ? ' |
VpncMiela Is richer than llrltlsh ( ittlnnn.
Why thp difference In fnvor of the poorer
'country ? They have n single stnmlarcl of
law nml finance In British Oulnnn , and n
double ' standard , thp synonym for no stiuul-
jnrd. of authority or nuance In Venezuela. .
Under the frep and unlimited colnngo of' |
silver will the workliigmnn or farmer In
the j ] United States ft ml money to build his
little ! honip or put Improvements on hli
: farm ' cheap ? Not If the capitalist knows
himself. . ; Where ho pays 6 per cent now
'he ' ' will have to nny 10 to 12 when the
natural , law that the cheapest money Is the
denrost money gets In Its invariable work
Money Is cheapest where honor nnd credit |
are highest , nud deatcst where they nro
lowest.
Money Is cheapest where courts arc free
nnd HIP Judiciary Is not attacked and
threatened by every rascal who feels the
halter draw.
IIHA'AVS SII.V13II KKVXOT13.
\n\s \ Son
„
C'hl < * auo TtmeH-lIenilil Irt'i- )
Assuming that the speech has bepn gpn-
crnlly read , tlie Times-Herald will ask Us
readers to consider briefly two points In
relation to It :
1. Bimetallism , It will be agreed , menus
the concurrent use of gold mid silver nl
a fixed ratio in a country.
-Silver single metnllism Is not bimetal
lism.
Mr. Bryan's speech from first to lastl
was avowedly In fnvor of bimetallism. ln |
fact , It was a detnnnd for silver single melal-
Ilsm.
Let Its renders recall the entire speech. 1 I
Whete Is the sentence In It which shows ]
that , in any age. In nny country , silver ]
and gold circulated concurrently at a fixed |
ratio with unlimited coinage of silver ?
1'nre A.SNiiiiiiitlon.
"Minneapolis Trllumo irop. )
Mr. Bryan comes out flat-footed with the
following declaration :
"We contend that free and unlimited coin i
age by the United States alone will raise
the bullion value of silver to Its colnnRCi
value , nnd thus make silver bullion worth ]
$1.29 per ounce in gold throughout
"
world.
Here wo have the plain , practical lsstu |
of the campaign In a nutshell. The Tribune
Is free to say that if .It. belcv ! d that frcci
silver coinage would accomplish this re-L
suit , wo 'would not only not oppose suchl
free coinage , but would advocate it wlthl
all the ability nt our command , Out we do )
not believe nny such thing. The most ex- ,
pericnced financiers and the most authorl-i
tatlvo writers upon financial topics do not
lielieve it. Tlie teachings of the most
trusted statesmen of the past nnd present
do not sustain any such contention. The ex
perience of the world in nil ages Is ngnlnst
It. Mr. Brynn has made the Issue so tliu
campaign should bo fought. Between now
and flection day there will be ample time
to bring the light of experience nml wis
dom and -probability to bear upon the as
sumption upon which thp democratic candidate -
didato rests his cause , and It will bo ciisyl
to convince the majority of the American )
pcoplo that it Is a pure assumption.
HOKIIH lUinetalllNiit.
JnOliumpollH NPWB (1ml. ( ilcm. )
Specifically as to Mr. Bryan's utterance
last night It Is to bo noted that he con
fuses bimetallism with free sllvcrlsm. He
professes himself a bimetnllist , and de
nounces the republican party as the '
friend of the single gold standard , But j
what right has ho to nrgue in fnvor of ,
bimetallism ? Them nro few men , even'
among those who believe In bimetallism ,
who do not acknowledge that under free
silver wo should have nothing but silver |
monomctnllli-m no bimetallism nt all.
Free silver means silver monometallism
nml nothing else. From the beginning of
our government until the present day we
have never had gold and silver clreulnthig
together when both metals were admitted
' free coinage lit a rntlo that varied a
hair's breadth from the commercial ratio.
This Is nut assertion or assumption. It Is
fact of inir history which cannot bo
gainsaid.
Tlie Silver Kin I.
Minneapolis Jouuml ( rrp. )
Silver Is now ono-thlrty-flrsL of the value
gold. The Bryanltes suy the government
can fiat It up to one-sixteenth the value of
gold. In order to accomplish this the United
Slates must bo ready to pay $1.2 ! ) per otintu
continually for all the silver offered. It Is
the same ae If thu government formally an
nounces that It will pay a dollar a bushel
for all wheut dcllveied. That could etart
strong gravitation nf wheat from ull wheat
producing countries hither , ami It li not
very dlllleult to calculate that oven the
I/tilted States government could not maintain - ,
tain that price very long. H would stuff'
miles of grancricH with wheat , but just BO
soon ns thu government wavers down would
the prleo to the market level. So aa lu
silver ; tliero Is only onu way for the United
States to boost the price up to $1.29 and keep
there , and that la to keep on paying $1.2 ! )
ull silver offered , oven If thu entire $1-
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