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Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Mexican Silver and United Stntcs Gold
Paid W~orlSinSmen.

New York Trade Review
"Object lessons in which the Mexican sill
yer dollar is utilized are becoming a famil-
lar feature of the present presidential cam
paign. The Atkinson Furnishing company,
with headquarters at Boston, and five
branches in Maine, has for some weeks past
been paying its employees alternately in
Mexican dollars and SIS gold pieces. Every
employe who received his pay in Mexican
coin got with it a letter in substance as
follows: ITO Our Employes-The company
pays your wages this week in Mexican dol
lars. We bought them in the open market
at a cost of So cents each. We pay them to
you at the rate of two for one of United
States money. When you come to pay your
bills with these dollars you will have a
good illustration of the real value and act
ual purchasing power of the 42O grains of
| silver contained therein" With the gold
coin the employees received a letter in part
as follows:
ITO our Employes-Last week we paid
you in silver dollars, at about the real
value of silver contained in them. You re-
ceived twice as many as you do this week
your wages, measured by the number OF
dollars received, were increased 100 per
cent. We have given you what the silver
orators say you ~need-cheap money and
plenty of it. This week we pay you in gold
coin. = = If any of you believe that
the silver party will be successful and you
want to make money on the plan which
they advocate you can keep this gold until
the good times coming when the new plan
becomes law, then exchange your gold for
silver bullion. carry it to the mint, have 1t
coined without charge and get twice as
many dollars as you had before. II you
find you can not buy any more with them
than you could with half that number be-
fore, don't mind a little thing like that.
You have got more dollars, and that is
what You want. Any of them you don't
spend Immediately will be found useful In
the household as stove lids and dinner
p~lates.' .
1t is humiliating, indeed, to our national
pride to be obliged to admit that such OBJ
ject lessons are necessary among a people
who have boosted so much of the efficiency
of our public school system and the SUI
perior intelligence of the average American
as compared with the average European.
But the spread of the free silver coinage
craze seems to show that when brains are
lacking no school books can be of much
SarVipp
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

MR.. HOB1RTS LETTER.

The letter of Mr.. Hobart, republican
candidate for vice president. presents Il
practical discussion Of the currency
issue which commends ii to the careful
consideration of all citizens who are
studying thiF question. Mr.. Hobart is
a man of affairs and therefore speaks
not as Il theorist. but as one having
Il knowledge of the operation of linan-
cial laws.
There is one very strong point pre-
scented by Mr.. Hobart which has not
before, so far as we have observed.
been brought forward. He observes
that the consequences of the free coin
age of silver would probably be cumu-
lative in their effects. "The crop of
silver, unlike that of hay, OF wheat, or
corn-which being of yearly produc-
ton can be regulated by the law of
demand and ~supply--is fixed once for
all. The silver which has not yet been
gathered is all in the ground. Droutll
or other accident of the elements can
not augment or diminish II. SIS it not
more than probable" asks Mr.. Hobart,
that with the enormous premium of
fered for lis mining the cupidity of
man would make an ~ovcr-supply con
t%inuous, with the necessary result of II
steady depreciation rs long as the silver
dollar could be kept in circulation at
ALP There is absolutely no doubt that
the free coinage of silver would stimu-
late its production, not only in this
country, but throughout the world.
Mr.. Bryan has said hat this Is con
lecture, but the substantial reason for
the opinion is the fact that past l"giS-
lation in the interest of silver conduced
to increased production, although the
demand was limited, as under the act
of 1873 and 1890. Certainly making
the demand unlimited could not fail TO
have n like effect. 1t manifestly would
give greater encouragement to produc-
ton of the white metal.
Now as Mr.. Hobart points out, silver
is not like wheat or corn Il commodity
which is consumed and that is perish
able. The annual production of grain
and other food products, OF the greater
part of it, is consumed from year TO
year. There is never any very great
surplus of these commodities in the
world for any great length of time.
There Is not n continuous accumula-
ton. But whatever amount of silver
is added from year TO year TO the
worlds supply remains. 1t is not con
sumed and it does not perish. 1t goes
on accommodating. The amount of coined
silver now in the world is over $1,000
100000. This vast sun will not dimin-
ish, as will the supply of wheat and
corn. On the contrary II will be steadily
augmented. If ii be admitted that the
supply Is not now excessive. the ques-
ton is how long, particularly in the
event of a largely increased production,
the augmentation can so on before there
Is an oyer-supply, with the necessary
result of depreciation? 1t ought to be
perfectly clear 10 any Il of ordinary
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11
FACTS FOR THE FARMERS.
DO They Come In, In the Free
silver Dealt

The only democratic daily newspaper In
the Twin Cities OF Minnesota friendly to
the free silver cause is the Minneapolis
Times. But it does not swallow the claims
of free silver advocates regarding the cura-
tive value of free coinage. On the con
trary 1t discusses the question with due
regard to history and economic truths. As
a consequences, the Times frequently pulls
the props from under the cardboard struc-
ture reared by the advocates of the white
metal.
In its issue of the 9th inst. replying to
the following questions: Would you
kindly state in your next issue what the
prices were Of wheat, oats and corn before
the reconciliation of silver and the prices
now; also the wages of the laborer then
and now also if there is a direct answer
to a direct question put to me today by a
farmer, viz: How will the free coinage Of
silver benefit me?' " the Times says:
The "greenback price of wheat in Septem-
Der, 1873, was IS cents, corn. % cents. oats,
q cents. At the present time wheat Is
AZ cents, oats, IA cents and corn, II cents.
1t is impossible without great labor to
prepare a table that would fully answer
the question relating to wages. 1t must
suffice to say, as to the rise and fall of
wages at various periods. that the bricfest
information on that point which we can
find at this time Is the following table of
average prices Of 246 articles and also Of
wages from 1910 to 1891, the prices of 1860
being represented by the index number 100
as the basis of comparison, and the index
number for each year indicating the rise
or fall from that basis. This table was
prepared by United States Labor Commits
sioner Wright:
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11
Personal AND OTHER WISE.

The new shah of Persia is anxious to open
the country to international and
fayors the introduction of electricity and
steam.
The new Shah Of Persia is anxious to open
the country to international and
fayors the introduction of electricity and
| steam.
Vienna will celebrate the Tooth ami
yersary of Franz Schubert next year by
an exhibition of objects connected with
the composer and a series of performances
Of his works.
The Key Monument association of Fred
erick, Md, now has a total of 50, 81 to-
| ward the $4,000 required to place a suit
| able monument over the grave of the author
of THE Star Spangled Banner"
In Boston, San Francisco and New Or
leans are Portia clubs, each one of which
has a large membership. and for the past
three years Prof. Cornelia Hood of Brooklyn
| has conducted large and enthusiastic law
| classes for the Brooklyn institute,
Errazuriz is declared president-elect of
Chilli by a vote Of 81 to 60. The result
seemed to hang on the curious question
should be counted. II is dificult at this
distance to see how they could have ruled
otherwise.
Nine. Modjeska has 900 hives of Italian
bees on her California ranch. They collect
their store from the flowers of the ex-
NHA 'i'f' . ''HN' 49,
abundantly in the mountain meadows OF that
state. Nine. Modjeska thinks these flowers
are producing the finest honey in the world,
: Captain william Long, II. ~, now in
command of the guardship Devastation, at
Davenport, has been asked to take again
the chief command of the Chinese navy,
which he held from 1886 to 1890, and will
probably accept. He is a mandarin OF the
peacock feather and wears the star of the
third grade Of the second order OF the
Double Dragon.
It appears that there are only six surviving
army chaplalns, tO-wit: Bishop Fallows Of
Chicago, Archbishop Ireland Of 81, Paul, DR..
j. j. McIntire Of South Dakota, Rev. II. M.
Crayath of Nashville. Tenn; Rev. d.. ii.
Fisher of Kansas. and Rev. T. IL. Hagerty
of st. Louis. The fact is to be remembered,
however, that most OF the chaplains were
comparatively old men when the war began.
Rabbi Pereira Mendes has been appointed
by the grand master OF Free Masons In the
state OF New York TO the office OF grand
chaplain OF the grand lodge. He is the first
Israelite who has received this honor since
the institution of the grand lodge OF the
Masonic fraternity over a hundred years
ago. says the American Hebrew. Rt. Rev.
Bishop Potter of New York is the associate
Of Rabbi MeLdes.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11
A VIEW.

Mr.. William A. Carney, first vice preSi-
dent of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers, was the spokcs-
man of Il delegation which recently Wis
tied Major Mckinley. In the course of
his address Mr.. Carney said: 81 am
a workingman and know the hard work
ingmen of this country will not be
carried away by the balloonists in this
campaign. | know and they know that
no matter whether we have fifty bill
lion dollars in silver or one dollar, to
get money we must earn it by honest
toll and when we do get it we want it
to be equal to the best in the world"
Here is Il man who has evidently given
this subject intelligent consideration and
has arrived at the only conclusion that
such consideration can lead to. which
is that coming silver free for the pro-
ducers of silver will give nothing TO the
masses who labor for a living. They
must continue to toll for what they get.
though silver dollars We're piled as high
as Ossa. They have no bullion to take
to the mint. Their capital is their la
Dor. The only commodity they have to
sell is their ability to work and when
they offer this in the market they want
to receive for it the best money there
is and not n debased currency of un-
certain value from week to week. They
want dollars of the greatest purchasing
power, dollars which if laid aside for
the "rainy day will not shrink and
deprcciate, dollars which will not rob
them and their families while they sleep,
dollars that do not deceive and lie to
them, dollars that are good everywhere.
Mr.. Carney is right and the working
man who will not heed his counsel is
blind to his own interests. Free silver
holds out no promise of benefit to labor.
1t will not start up the industries of the
country or create Il demand for work
for the hundreds of thousands who
are idle. On the contrary the Inaugural
ton of that policy would produce CON
ditions more disastrous to labor than
any vet experienced. The loss and pri-
walton which the millions of working
people in this land AVE suffered from
the effects of democratic tariff policy
would sink into insigniticance in com
parison with what would follow the
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11
HOW MR.. BRYAN WOULD ACT.

HOW NIX. BhlAN VOJLD Z
Mr.. Bryan says the issue of interest
bearing bonds during the last few years
was without excuse and explains that it
could have been avoided if the govern
ment had Used silver instead of gold
for the redemption of its paper obliga-
tons. This suggests what Mr.. Bryan
would do if he were elected president.
He would put the country at once on
II silver basis by using such silver as
the treasury could employ for the pur-
pose in redeeming greenbackS ana
treasury notes, the amount available for
use in this way being no more than the
seigniorage. He could not employ for
this purpose the already coined silver
against which certificates are outstand-
ing. Consequently he would be able to
redeem only Il small part of the legal
tender paper money with silver, but
zone the less we should be precipitated
to Il silver basis.
With this assured, what might be
expected to take place before the in
auguration of Mr.. Bryan, four months
after his election? The treasury would
be depleted of all its gold and gold
would 90 to Il premium, how much can
not now be foreseen. This would
happen even should the congress elected
be opposed to Mr.. Bryan. Financial
panic would ensue, with complete in
dustrial and business prostration. A
vast army of workingmpn in every
department of labor would be thrown
on Of employment, thousands of mer-
chants would be compelled to close their
to suspend by the clamor of depositors
for their money, mortgages due would
be fOreclosed: in short, Il tidal wave
of ruin and disaster would sweep over
the land, carrying down before it all
classes of the people, but innicting the
greatest injury not upon the rich, not
upon the capitalist, but upon the poor,
upon the working classes, upon the
upon those who have II little savings,
upon the people who have mortgages
due they canno pay.
There is Mr.. Bryan'S own word that
the adoption of the policy he advocates
would cause panic. Nobody doubts it
and everybody understands what panic
means. Do we want to go through so
terrible an experience without the prom
Use of benefit to anybody except the
millionaire owners of silver mines?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

IHTI oCHUTA ; VHIVHBU "FVVVH'
1t is not my habit to boast of a warm
heart for the poor and suffering. But my
sympathy is no less sincere because | dc
not carry my love and solicitude for the
common people constantly at my tongues
end. If there be those who are satisfied
with everything hat exists, l am not one
of them. There are few, if any, who abhor
that which may properly be called plutoc-
racy or detest the arrogance of wealth
more heartily than | do. / know, also. that
the industrial developments of our time have
brought hardship to some classes of people
which only the more sagacIous, active and
energetic among them have been able to
counterbalance proftably with its benefits.
There are laws and practices which had |
the power | would promptly change, in the
interest of common justice and equity. But
because | am so minded. l must oppose to
the utmost a policy which | am convinced
will immesurably aggravate existing evils.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

Just as Ii Hung Chang is passing
through canada and British Columbia
the people of Vancouver are trying to
induce the Canadian government to in
crease the Chinese head tax to $500.
With this evidence of Canadian friend
ship for the Chinese thrust upon him,
Ii Hung will probably wish heartily
that he had accepted the invitation to
make his transcontinental trip through
United States territory rather than by
the Canadian route.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

There has been no material reduction in
the wages of most of the employments
above named. Day labor averages from
$1.10 to $1.25. The wages of plasterers and
blacksmiths have suffered some diminution
and possibly painters and wheelwrights are
compelled to accept lower compensation
when they can get employment, which is
by no means as regular as formerly.
The question whether free coinage of sill
yer will benefit the farmer is one no person
can answer positively, although there are
many partisan ~pleaders on both sides who
assume to be able to do so.
The Times can only give the figures and
facts and let's the farmer make his own de-
ductions. The average price of wheat in
the United States, as we have shown, was
70 cents in 1873. From 1879 to 1889 it was
S4.5 cents, and between 1889 and 1891, in
elusive, it was S1.5 cents. But between 1892
and 1894 it was IS cents. Now as our mar
ket reports show it is less than so cents.
But wheat at At cents per bushel is better
than the price it commanded prior to 1873
in Minnesota, when many farmers hauled
their wheat fifty miles to market with OK
teams and got As cents a bushel for it
in money known as wildcat money.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

a press dispatch telling of retrench-
ment on the Northern Pacific road con
tanned an intimation that the Union
Pacific would soon apply the AK. So
far us we can learn there is no founda-
ton for the report. The Union Pacific
is still in the hands of the federal court
and reductions cannot be made on the
system except by order of the court.
Local officials know of no such measure
of rctrcnchment, as the force is now
reduced to the minimum.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11
SEWALL MUST GO.
Some Reasons Why Watson's Demand
Must he oInpIie with.

SoIie he1tSOnS why watson } eTlaI Il
Must he Complied with.
Chicago Record dnd.)
Judging from the tenor of his latest speech
Tom Watson is a factor that must be
reckoned with if the democratic managers
mean to carry on their campaign peace
ably and with harmony in the ranks. The
Georgia %oratCr'S speech at Dallas, Tex,
leaves no doubt as to his intentions or as
to the way in which he will use his innu-
ence in case the free silver democrats re-
fuse to recognize his position on the ticket.
He insists that the free silver democrats
need the votes of the free silver populists
II they are to win the election, and he
points out that to- remove the populist vice
presidential candidate from the ticket is to
kill the populist party. Consequently, he
argues, all populists who want their party
to survive and all democrats who sincerely
desire to see Bryan elected will bend their
efforts to induce Sewall to step down and
make way for Watson.
There Is considerable force in what the
Georgia candidate says, and his arguments
are likely to have some weight with Mr..
Bryan's managers. The populist party in
recent years has grown amazingly, and it
is now an important factor in elections in
the south and west. This party in con-
vention assembled agreed to give its sup
port to a democratic silver candidate, ask
ing in return only that it be allowed the
privilege of holding the second place on
the ticket. The populists Endorsed Bryan,
but they nominated Watson, and now the
question is, shall they as a party vote for
Bryan at the cost of their own candidate
or shall they make the fusion complete, and
by voting for Bryan and Sewall run the
risk of eXpunging their party from the
situation?
This, at all events. is the question as 1t
presents itself to Mr.. Watson, and evidently
the Georgian does not mean to have his
party ignore it. He loudly demands that
Mr.. Sewall, who is "a dead weight to the
ticket" retire and make room for himself.
In case Mr.. Sewall refuses to step down,
he implies the populists should vote to save
their party. But whom can they vote for,
having endorsed Bryan? Mr.. Watson
seems to be quite dependent upon Mr..
Sewall's generosity.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

1t is amusing to hear the local silver
organ eXtol the virtues of Judge" John
/. Martin. Martin was appointed
sergeant-at-arms of the Chicago con-
vention by the old goldbug democratic
national committee and it was only
after Il stubborn fight that the silver
ties consented to repress their eager
ness 10 kick him out on account of his
gold prOclivities. 1t was Martin who
was called all sorts of names by the
Bryan delegation because he gave the
admission tickets allotted TO Nebraska
to lobe Castor and his friends. But
now that Martin has buried his con-
victions and is talking for Bryan, he
has suddenly become IA great and good
man.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

intelligence that the world cannot go
on adding to the already enormous guam
tity of silver without forcing down the
price of that metal and it ought to be
equally clear that it is impossible for
the United States alone to hold UP the
price of silver under such conditions.
1t may be questioned, indeed, whether
1t could be permanently accomplished
by the combined action of all the great
commercial nations.
There are other practical and in
structive suggestions in Mr.. Hobart's
letter that make it well worth careful
rpa1jnp
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11
Why Not True To-day:

SIOUX JIty ITIDUft NuCTH.I
In 1892, while discussing the tariff CUES
ton, Mr.. Bryan used the following words
You must attribute it (the define of
prices) to the inventive genius that has
multiplied a thousand times. in many in
stances, the strength of a single arm, and
enabled us to do, today with one man what
fifty men could do fifty years ago. That
is what has brought prices down in this
country and everywhere.
1t was doubtless true in 1892, and we
submit that a brief space OF four years IS
not sufficient in which to shift the response
bility from inventive genius" to the "ap-
probation in the value of money" The
silver proposition is absurd.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

The democrats of Douglas county
have called their convention for next
week to name their Legislative and
county tickets. The plan is of course
eventually to reach a fusion agreement
and the democratic call is issued on
this short notice in order to steal n
march on their populist friends, If the
populists got together and put their
local ticket in the field first, as they
did their state ticket, they would be
In position to force the democrats to
swallow their nominees ms they did
with the state ticket. Douglas county
democrats would endorse a populist
ticket If they had TO do so, but If the
populists let them get ahead of them
and capture all the places they would
like II much better.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

W, L.. Greene. populist candidate for
congress-, declines to debate the deClara-
tons of the Chicago platform on the
ground that he is running on the st.
Louis platform and is not in accord
with the Chicago pronunciamento. But
Greene expects and hopes to have his
candidacy endorsed by the Sixth dis
trict DEMOCRATS at their coming conven-
ton. The democrats might do well to
find out where Greene is at before
they put the democratic stamp upon
him
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

Perhaps that's your wife,
but she'll surely bear us out
in the assurance that the fit
and style of a garment are the
important things, You can
not be we'll dressed, however
extensively, in ill-itting
clothes.
1t is in these respects that
the custom tailor is supposed
by many persons to excel.
But we make all our
clothing as he makes his, us
ing equally fine materials,
just as "exclusive' patterns,
sewing them as we'll and
shaping them as fashionably.
Our great advantage is
in the time and money we
save you. Our fall suits are
ready to wear when you buy
them and the volume of our
business enables us to beat
the tailors' prices by about
one-half.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11
Judge e. r. Dufie. demo.pop fusion

Judge f.. r. Dutiie, demo-pop fusion
nominee for congress in this district,
says he has not yet decided to accept
the %hippodrome nomination at the
hands of the unterriied silver hosts.
"A place on the ticket which men like
Gregory and Dunn We're willing to
resign Internationally does not seem
to hold out many allurements.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

New Jersey democrats refused to par,
ticipate in the Chicago convention after
the adoption of the free silver platform.
New Jersey democrats are also refusing
to participate in the silver primaries
and conventions in that state. New
Jersey can be put into the Mckinley
column right now without waiting for
the November election.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-11

That employe in the World-Herald
office who clipped the London Financial
News distortion out of a copy of that
paper received direct from London
seems to have been mysteriously lost
In the Shuttle.