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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1896)
THE COURIER. a. &. S-V V' KM 1 ON THE STREET CORNERS. f &&? ::&?: "Look at all the people that flock see Bryan whenever he appears? to No candidate has been so popular since Abraham Lincoln." "Huh! Do you suppose that all the people who reach for Bryan's hand are Bilverites? You might as well say that everybody who goes out to Burlington Beach to see a balloon go up is an aero naut." "I tell you it does not make any dif ference if the newspapers are against him, the people are for him." "My friend' and a man never says "my friend' when he feels friendly "newspapers ara as directly dependent upon the people as a butcher shop is up its customers. The editorials and the jokes are the beef the people want or they would not be printed. It is con ceded that something like 161 demo cratic newspapers, from all parts of the union, from the Empire state out to the wilds of Arizona, have bolted the demo cratic ticket on July 10th last, or within twelve hours of the nomination being tendered to William Jennings Bryan. Thus, five weeks have elapsed, and not one of the 'Hoppers' has turned. What is the deduction? These newspapers represent many millions of readers. The editorial department is necessarily dependent upon the business depart ment, which is directly in touch with the subscribers. Journalism is, after all, a business, and the managers will not court martyrdom. If the course that they have adopted and since pursued did not meet with tho approval and favor of their subscribers and readers, the fact would have been shown by a dwindling circulation and a market! falling off in the advertising columns. That this has not taken place must be accepted as prima facie evidence that those that have espoused the cause or Bound money have the backing of their constituents and their readers generally. The silverites, in making their idle boasts, should take the foregoing and absolute facts into consideration. They tell a tale that the opinions of a few men, or. for that matter, of thousands of shcuters, cannot gainsay. In no country in the world have the working classes more in their favor than they have in America. Think one moment and count the consequences that would result from the defeat of the gold standard. At a very fair, albeit not exaggerated estimate, we owe some thing like $4,000,000,000 in Europe. Mark you. this has been for money lent, either directly or indirectly through the purchase of goods or through the bal ance of trade, and if we were to go on a silver basis, instead of paying back $4,000,000,000 gold, or selling our secur ities, or giving to Europe our cereals, our cotton, or the results of our manu. facturers, we should, because or the contraction of credits, have to return nearly $9,000,000,000 in silver. With our crops, which promise the largest prospective harvests of com ever raised, a yield of upward of 2,000,000,000 bush els, and cotton, on an average crop, sell ing at gratifying prices, we should, nevertheless, be unable to liquidate the claims that are against us. It is only a generation or so ago tnat a Ssoutn Amer- ican republic repudiated its obligations, or in other words, passed from a gold to a silver basis. What was the outcome? Panics in the civilized world. It was a panic caused by the loss of confidence that shook the business centres of the world to their very foundation; but bit ter as was the experience of twenty vears back, it would be as nothing com pared with what would be seen if worse . , , ,i :i u should come to worso and s.lver be hailed king here. "If we have free silver all the i5i5S?iJ2S5iKS?535K nations of the earth will send their silver bullion to America to receive gold for it. In such a case we should have silver to burn and no gold at all. Emmens, the chemist in New York city, who made Emmensite, says that he and his assistants have made three-fourths of an ounce of gold out of one ouuce of silver, and that the chemi cal process was a very cheap one, tho cost beiug for energy rather than for chemicals. He and Ave assistants made the gold, each one working on the silver at different stages, so that no one man knows the whol process. The sold thus produced stands all the laboratory tests for gold, and, except that it has not been dug out of the earth, it is gold. If this be so, then instead of 1G to 1 it will be 5 to 1. Silver can come nearer to gold by eleven places." "O where are you from, and wheredid you get bo much information? Emmens may be an eminent chemist, but his statements sound like the crazy prom ises of an alchemist. In short, he is a fool and you are another for quoting him." This was on the American Exchange bank corner in the morning. The de bators on this particular corner always get redheaded before the subject is ex hausted. The Capital National bank corner has been given over to fakiis in the after noon. A man stood there the early part of the week selling a grease extractor. He held up a vest covered with grease spots, and selecting a hopeless one, ap plied his sponge to it, dried it. and held it up to an unbelieving audience as fresh ana clean as when it came from the slop shop. "If you buy a bottle of my preparation your suit will look neat sixteen times as long as your neigh bors." But he does not sell anything. Capital is painfully timid on that corner. But Bonn ell's corner is for free silver. Slosson's Harley's, Richards and the other corners are occasionally ard belig gerently free silver. Bonnell's corner never changes its politics. Tho farmers have made that corner their own. Free dom of speech is allowed on the four corners of Eleventh and O, but Tenth and O is the people's, and a cold buc must sing low or keep still altogether in mat locality. A colored man in one of these experi ence meetings, last week, said "Mo'bul lion has been shipped into the United States of A-may-i-ca enduin'dish yer agitation on de silver question than in ye-ahs befoh." And no one contradicted him. First Pub Aug 22. NOTICE. The Vermont Marble company, and me i-oraeroy uoai company. Non-resident defendant will take notice that on the 17th day of August. 189G, Mary Smith Cobb the plaintiff herein filed her petition in the district court of Lancaster county, Nebraska. against James F. Sheehy and Margaret sneeny, me Vermont Marble company, and the Pomeroy Coal company, the object and prayer of which are to fore- close a certain mortgage executed by "Z 'TJ;u"rT" ?3Z? Sheehy to plaintiff, then Mary A.Smith, now Mary Smith Cobb, to secure the payment of a promissory note, dated November 19, 1890. for the sum of thir teen hundred and twenty dollars (81,320) due and payable on the 1st day of De cember, 1896. That there is now due on the said ?te and mortgage the sum of 81,071.40, for which , sum, with ten oer cent inter- egt frQm the 17th day of August, 1896, the plaintiff prays for a decree that the defendants be requited to pay the same or for said premises to be sold to satisfy the amount now due. You are required to answer said peti tion on or before the 28th day of Sep tember, 189G. Makv Smith Conn, By Lamb & Adams, Her Attorneys. Sept 12 CHBAP RATBS TO DENVER. For the annual meeting of the Na tional Eisteddfod, Denver, Colo., Sept. 1-5. the Union Pacific will sell tickets at rate of one faro for the round trip, plus two dollars from points in Kansas and Nebraska. Tickets on salo August 29th to Sept. 1st inclusive. For further particulars call at city ticket office, 1044 O street. Aug 31 NOTICE. F. W. Marotz, Mary P. Marotz, Sallie E. Hyatt, Hyatt, whose first name is unknown, husband ot Sallie B. Hyatt, Thomas W. Pass mo re, Lewis C. Pass more, Orion C. Passmore and Howard E. Passmore, defendants, will take no tice that on the 12th day of August, 1896, Martha R. Meyers, plaintiff, herein filed her petition in the district court of Lancaster county, Nebraska, against said defendants and others, the object and prayer of which are to foreclose a certain mortgage executed by the de fendant Sallie E. Hyatt (by her then name Sallie E. Passmore) and one Isaiah D. Passmore, now deceased, to one W. W. Holmes, and by him assigned to Mary L. Runyon, and by her assigned to the plaintiff, being upon the east half of the northeast quarter of section num bered twenty.three. town nine, range seven east, in Lancaster county, Ne braska, to secure the payment of one promissory nota dated March 8, 1882, for the sum of five hundred dollars, and due and payable in five years from tho date thereof; that there is now due and payable on said note and mortgage the sum of $500, with 8 per cent interest from March S, 1895, for which sum with interest from that date plaintiff prays for a decree that defendants be required to pay the same or that said premises be sold to satisfy the amount found due, and that the interest, right and title of each defendant may be found in the said premises and in any surplus that may arise from the sale under iny decree in this ca:e. You are required to answer this peti tion on or before the 21st day of Sep tember, 1896. MARTHA R. MEYERS, Plaintiff. Dated August 12. 199G. 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Dates of sale Auguss .u and .11; limit September lo. 15. Exten- skhj of limit can be had to September 30 by depositing ticket with joint agent at St. Paul. For full information at depot, or city office, corner Tenth and O j?" :.- .Vn'-VKnT; Ti'r streets. Lincoln, Neb. George W. Bonnell, C. P. & T. Agt. Aug. 31. BENKE. the popular tailor has moved to 121 N 12th; for first class work and low rates give him a call. See the new Photochromes at Cran cer & Curtice Co.'s. 207 South 11th street, the newest thing in pictures. HALF PARE EXCURSION TO HOT SPRINGS. S. D. If you want to travel cheap, note the following round trip excursions at half rates this summer via the North western line: June 12 and July 3 to Hot Springs, S. D. June 14 and 15 and July 5 and 6 to Denver, Colo. June 15, 16. 23 and 24 to San Fran cisco. July 4, 5. 6. to Chicago. July 4 and 5 to Buffalo. N. E. A. July 2. 3. 4, 5. to Washington. D. C. July 14. 15, 16. to Milwaukee. Wis. Get Information and tickets at city ticket office. 117 South Tenth street, Lincoln. Neb. Every purchaser of $1 worth of goods will receive a cou pon worth 10 cts. to apply on future purchase, oc cou pon with 50c Rioos Pharmacy 12 & O JHERICAN EXCHANGE NATION BUNK LINCOLN, NEB. M. RAYMOND, President. . II. BURNHAM. Cashier. A.J. SAWYER VIcoo President D.G.WINO ,Wint Costlier CAPITAL, $250,000 SURPLUS $2? 000 Directors -1. M. Kiiymoml. 3. II. Rarnbam (. O.Dawes. A. J. Sawyer, Lewis Gregory X Z Snoll, (i JI Lambertsun. D 0 Win,;. S W Jurnam. XT'.' lime i Monef SRVE IT BY TIKI THE piCTOV Actual time traveling. 31 hours to Salt Lake. CI hours to San Francisco. 68 hours to Portland. 77 hours to Los Angeles. FROM- LINCOLN, NIB City office, 1044 O sreet. For a cooling, refreshing drink drop into Frank M. Rector's, 1211 O street New fountain, the latest drinks. The Flier will make better time by several hours to St. Louis, Cincinnati!. Washington, New York and to all east- em points, than any other line out of .Lincoln, it is a screamer. For information about rates, connec tions, ets, or for sleeping car berths, call at city ticket office. 1201 O street. F. D. CORNELL. C. P. & T. A. "Queen Victoria?' Ladies Favorite Her Majesty's Perfume, is the most lasting and perfect Perfuice. Ask Riggs1 the Druggist '," for a sample. -