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Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
THE SILVER PROP TUMBLEs.

Chicago Times Herald (rep.): The wheat
market continues to heap earth upon the
grave in which a few weeks ago 1t buried
the fallacy that the price OF farm products
and the price of silver go hand in hand.
On August / silver was 6Sh cents an ounce
in New York and wheat 5Sh cents a bushel
in Chicago. On September silver was 67
cents and wheat 5S. Yesterday Saturday
wheat was 75B cents and silver 655s cents.
Baltimore Sun Cdem): Stocks and grain
command better prices on account OF an in
creased foreign demand. The stocks are
wanted in the belief that the silver cloud
which has so long hung over them is break
ing away, letting in the golden sunlight;
wheat is wanted to eat, and the worlds short
crop makes the foreigner eager to get 1t
before 1t goes higher. 1t is obvious that the
defeat of Mr.. Bryan is growing conviction
in well-informed circles.
Philadelphia Times (dem): The great
market for silver Is in Asia. India usually
contributes a considerable share to the food
supply OF Europe, and imports silver I'm ex-
change. But this year the grain crop is
partial failure. and India not only can
supply no wheat to Europe. but Is actually
Importing wheat from Australia and Cali
fornia. The worlds supply being thus dmln-
ished the price of wheat rises everywhere
At the same time. while importing food
India must import less silver and the de-
mand for this metal to exchange for Indian
wheat is proportionately diminished.
New York sun (dem): Owing to the
vigorous discussion on silver coinage the
citizens OF the United States are In a
peculiarly advantageous situation to observe
intellgently the recent aud still progressing
fall In the price OF silver The prices OF
other articles haven't fallen noticeably
Wheat, the staple which the free silver men
have sworn to be inseparably fastened to
silver. rising or falling as silver rises or
falls. has gone high up. No great staple has
declined In price but silver; only silver. The
Jumps OF silver which the Bryanites would
coin without limit into dollars arc to-
day worth less than half dollar each. But
while silver has fallen In price and purchas-
ing power. has any corresponding change
been reported In the wage standard In silver
using countries? Have wages risen In
Mexico and In China? Not silver.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
BRrAN AND 7HE TRUSTS.

In nearly every speech made by vii.
liam Jennings Bryan in his tour of "the
enomy's country" all the changes have
bccn rung upon the menace to American
institutions by corporate combines and
trusts. AS the self.choscn champion Of
the masses Mr.. Bryan proclnims to all
the world that he will wage eternal war
upon trusts which, next to the money
power, are the great dragons which the
modern ST. George has set out to com
bat.
But men are to be judged by their
acts and not by their professions. What
has Mr.. Bryan ever done as citizen
or as public man to protect the people
from the aggressions of monopolics.
combines aud trusts? What is his
record as regards antitrust legislation?
If Mr.. Bryan ever raised his voice or
pen against trusts before he entered
congress nobody in Nebraska has ever
heard of it. If Mr.. Bryan ever grappled
with the minions of monopoly nobody
in these parts knew anything of 1t up
to the time he was elected to the ma
tional legislature.
William Jennings Bryan was In con
grcss four years. but the Congressional
Record fails to show single instance
where Mr.. Bryan made any effort to
promote antitrust legislation. Among
the bills introduced by him during his
four years in congress we look in vain
for a single bill to prohibit the forma
ton of trusts or curb their power.
In 1893 national antitrust conven-
ton was held in Chicago. That conven-
ton was made up of known anti
monopolists from all sections of the
country regardless of party. 1t was
presided over by Governor Knute Mel
son of Minnesota, now senator from
that state and its discussions were par
ticipated in by General James B.
Weaver Ignatius Donnelly, Henry ID.
Lloyd, John ID. Howe, Edward Rose
water, Congressman Tawney and
score of other men more or less known
in public life. But Mr.. Bryan was not
there, although congress was not in ses-
sion and he might have been n dele
gate If lie had wanted to be.
SO far as the records show nearly all
the antitrust legislation on our statute
books, state and national, has been
placed there by republicans. although to
their credit it may he said democrats
and populists have also contributed
their shares toward repressing monopo-
listic abuses.
SO far as Mr.. Bryan is concerned his
war upon trusts has been war of words
only, and that, too of only recent date.
His denunciation of trusts may be said
to have begun with the Chicago con-
vcntion, ald judged by his previous
career 1t will end on the day of election
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
WE'LL STAND BY THE FLAG.

Ye veterans who bravely fought under the
flag
When the. nation was thought to be
broken in twain;
In this hour of peril why will We lag,
When the flag is assailed with dishonor
again?
Would you lose all the blessings you won
long ago
In fierce raging battles like men brave
and true,
And permit destructive and terrible foe
To plant their red flag with the red, white
and blue?
No! a thousand times no! the answer goes
forth,
Wen be true to our country, we men of
the north:
And when our proud flag is assaied by a
foe,
Wen spring to the rescue as we did long
ago.
But our guns they are stacked. and wo
muster no more,
No longer we face the fierce cannon's
roar:
But the, third of November with spirited
souls
With our ballots-we'n stand by the flag
at the polls.
JOHN l.. STALEY,
Late Co. j, 11th Regiment, o. VI.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The New York thief who stole a feather
bed probably knew that he had soft thing
Du Maurler said popularity killed him; but
there is not a novelist anywhere who would
not risk like fate for the sake of having
the disease.
The silver In silver dollar is now worth
so cents and will buy about three-ffths OF
bushel OF wheat. Chicago price In 1873 the
same amount OF silver would buy bushel
OF wheat, with cents over
Emile Zola spends money with lavish
hand. His house at Milan cost 100000
francs. and the objects Of art which II con-
tans are worth 100000 more. One table
in his drawing room cost $4,000.
John j. Scannell Tammany politician,
who has killed his man, declines to be a
candidate for congress because, as he says,
my record Is bad and would - brought up
against me-" This bashfulness has probably
never been known before in the class to
which Mr.. Scannell belongs.
George du Maurier's last portrait OF him
self pictured a man family resembling the
author OF "Trilby," and provided with the
wings OF sSI angel and the tail and hoofs OF
something else, over II he wrote: "Some
seem 10 think he's got wings like an angel
some, that he's got a cloyen foot and a
forked tail He is quite an ordinary little
man. assure you" and in French. "An old,
little. commonplace chap, neither good nor
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
THE 2OO-CENT DOLLAR.
Existing Money Too Good for the
Average SiIvcritcs.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The free silverites never tire OF proclaim
ing that the present dollar has appreciated
until it is really worth 200 cents In proof
OF this assertion they produce figures to show
that said dollar now buys a great deal more
than II formerly bought. This is their way
of dealing with the fact that the prices of
all kinds of commodities have fallen. They
insist that in reality these prices have not
fallen at ALL but that the value of the dollar
has gone upward and is now twice what II
purports to be. Therein. according to their
theory, Is to be found the explanation OF
hard times. The dollar paid for wages and
products has been growing better from year
to year, and, by curious and mocking con-
tradiStion OF logic the result Is visitation
OF MISFORTUNE upon those VINO receive ana
eXpehd TINS appreciated money. They go on
10 declare that the ohly way 10 regain our
prosperity Is 10 substitute LOT TINS so-called
zOOc dollar the klhd OF dollar that VIII buy
only halt as much. mus the equilibrium
would De restored they argue the mistake
ABOUT iaillhg prices would De corrected, and
good times would come quite as a matter OF
course. In snort, they claim that the whole
diihculty lies IN the policy OF doing business
with dollar that buys too much
This Is an ingenious sophistry' but the
average voter can easily see through IT,
Granting II to be true tnat the existing
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
THE EXPOSITION As AN ISSUE.

Who has dragged the Transmssissippi
Exposition into politics? Surely
not The Omaha Bee. Nor any
of the managers of the eXposi-
ton. 1t has been forced upon the
people rs an issue by the threat of Tom
Pattcrson's Denver News that Colorado
would boycott the exposition If omaha
should give majority to Mckinley and
Mercer. That threat was given great
prominence in the Omaha Bryan organ
in one of its Sunday issues and is now
reiterated in the same paper
The people of Omaha are therefore
brought face to face with the question
whether they are to have no exposition
in 1898 or whether they VIII take their
chances on Colorado staying out while
Iowa. Kansas, Minnesota, California.
Oregon, Washington and other trans
mississippi states will be vying with one
another TO make the most impressive
exhibits of their resources. The condi-
tions with which we are confronted have
been presented by The Bee candldly
anu WITHOUT pdTtlsdH Dlis' No one can
estimate the financial necessities of the
exposition in the face of an impending
change in our monetary system. No
contractor can risk bidding on construc-
ton work without having n reasonable
idea of what materials and labor will
cost him and he can not know If n
change to n deprecated money stand
ard is to intervene. The necessary
foundation of this great enterprise is
business confidence, and the way to re-
establish business confidence is to give
an emphatic majority for sound money
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
CONDITIONAL ORDERS.

Reports from trade centers state that
orders received by manufacturers and
wholesale merchants are in many cases
made conditional upon the result of the
election. They are to be filed in the
event of republican success, otherwise
not. The New York Commercial Bulle-
tin notes that in one line of trade and
orders have been given in that city
within a short time aggrcgating between
100000 and 100000 conditional upon
Mr.. Bryan's defeat. Commenting upon
this and the fact that mills have been
shut down and building operations post
poned till Mr.. Bryans defeat, that pa
per says: "AIr. Bryan is the first can
didate for the presidency whose defeat
has been prayed for almost unanimously
by the merchants and manufacturers of
the whole country. Mr.. Bryan is the
first candidate for the presidency in the
presence of whose possible success bus
mess stands still and merchants and
manufacturers shorten sail, as sea cap
tain does when West India hurricane
approaches"
This holding up of the business of the
country by the mere possibility of Bry-
ans election ought to be most instruc-
tive object lesson even to the more intel
ligent of his supporters, for II suggests
what would be the effect of his actual
election. 1t may be thought such re-
suit is already discounted, but that is
n mistake. Thousands of business men
all over the country are holding on in
the hope that the popocratic candidate
will be defeated. His success would
compel them to close their doors. Manu-
facturers who are employing more labor
than they really need in the present
condition of the market would in the
event of Mr. Bryan's election curtail
operations or shut down altogether. The
industrial and business depression
would be very greatly intensified by
popocratlc success 1t is impossible TO
compute with any degree of accuracy
what loss the country has suffered from
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21

bad. and very much annoyed because 80
much fuss Is made about him"
citizen OF Blg Rapids, Mich. loaned Esra
smith s. when the war broke out In 1851.
Inc received letter from Sedalia, Mo. the
other day with So bill incloscd. THE was
the hrst he had heard OF Ezra In thirty i've
years, aud he had supposed that his debtor
was killed during the war.
William II. West once famous and stiu
known all over the country as the blind
orator." Is now old aud infrm. but no ha,
rallied his waning energies to take part i'm
the battle for honest money and national
honor Hc has been speaking In the towns
near his home In Bcllefontane. o.. and
though he Is now forced TO deliver his aruu.
mcnts from a chair, they are stil as incisiyo
and clear as were the addresses which he
made while conducting his own canvass for
governor OF Ohio in 1871
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
CAN 1T DE POSSIBLE.
Candidate Bryan Admits that He is
Not InfnIIibie.
Indlnnanolls News nnd.

Indianapolis News dnd dem.)
Bryan made a curious admission yester-
Gay (Thursday) He acknowledged that he
is not infalllble. He must have made this
confession by inadvertence; all his utter
ances have been of the prophetic and
oracular sort. He has scorned argument.
He has been innocent of logical processes.
He has asserted "belefs" and promulgated
prophecies with the tone of one with some
special authority. The facts of history and
experience have no weight with him, the
teachings of men that have really studied
the questions about which he dogmatiZes
with the assurance OF aggressive and sym
metrical ignorance, are brushed aside with
as jaunty an air as the Sentinel assumes
in disposing of Prof. Laughlin. Edward At
kinson, John Sherman and other insignif
cant men of equal repute in the world; and
now, after all, Bryan himself says that he
Is not infallible. Not infallible On what
then rest his "beliefs" and his "prophec esp
knowledge, history, science. experience,
give them no basis. They have rested here
tofore ON Bryan's colossal assurance. And
now Bryan says he is not sure OF his az
surance, Perhaps after all, fundamental
principles and laws OF political economy
and of the human mind are still potent and
can not be got around" by any device OF
the young orator from Nebraska
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
AssAILING THE JUDICIARY.

Much OF the address delivered by Gov.
ernor Altgeld in New York last Satur.
day was devoted to an attempt to dis
credit the federal judiciary and If what
he said may be accepted "a voicing the
sentiment of his party there can be no
doubt that the authority of the federal
courts would be greatly impaired If that
party should be given an opportunity
to do so. Governor Altgeld'S TRADE
against the judiciary was entirely char
actcristic of him. And it is entirely safe
to say that its effect will not be favor
able to the cause he represents. He fol-
lowed Mr.. Bryan-though it is quite
possible the idea originated with him
in attempting to Justify his assault on
the judiciary by republican precedent,
but no intelligent reader of history will
be misled by this. Altgeld may be given
credit for having offered the best apol-
ogy for the Chicago platform in this re-
spGct that has been made, but the hos
tile attitude of the popocratic party to-
ward the federal courts is utterly indie
fenSible. The vast ma jority of the Amer
lean people still have confidence in the
general wisdom, integrity and patriotism
of those tribunals as n whole and they
will not be induced to abandon this faith
by the assault on the courts of such
men us John p. Altgeld. Nobody ques-
tions that the judiciary is subject to
criticism, but this should be fair and
not take the form of an arraignment de
signed to bring the courts into popular
distrust and discredit.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
THE CONSTITUTIONAL DOLLAR.
Defined by Daniel Webster nnd the
Federal Supreme Court.
Roger NJ shearmon at New York.

Roger NJ. shearman at New York.
The advocates o. the unlimited coinage Of
silver speak OF the silver dollar as the
money OF the constitution. They appeal to
us In the name OF patriotism TO cut loose
from the moiey standards OF England. The
greatest constitutional lawyer OF the coun-
try was Daniel Webster, Listen to his
opinion OF the money OF the constitution.
Webster sald The circulating medium
OF a commercial community must be that
which Is also the circulating medium OF
other commercial communities. or must be
capable OF being converted into that medium
without loss. II must also be able not only
to pass In payments and receipts among
individuals OF the same society and nation,
but to adjust aud discharge the balances
OF exchanges between different nations. II
must be something which has a value abroad
as well as at home, by which foreign as
well as domestic debts can be satisfied.
The precious metals alone answer these
purposes"
A constitutional dollar and patriotic
dollar in the opinion OF that great ex-
FOUNDER of the constitution, Is not one that
ceases to be a dollar and becomes nifty cents
when 1t goes out OF the United states \
patriot, one would think, would desire the
same honor accorded to the coin with which
he pays his way as to the flag OF his coun-
try, How can one be honored when the
other Is debased?
1t is true that a silver dollar was pre-
scrlbed by the FIRST coinage act But what
Kind OF silver dollar? The supreme court
answers the question In the case of Bron-
son against Rodes:
THE design OF the minuteness and strict
ness in the regulation of coinage is easily
seen. II indicates the intention OF the leg
islature to give sure guaranty to the peo-
pie that the coins made current in pay
ments contain the precise weight OF gold
or silver OF the precise degree OF purity de-
clared by the statute. II recognizes the fact
accepted by all men throughout the world
that value is inherent in the precious met
ais; that gold and silver are in themselves
value and being such, and being in other
respects best adapted to the purpose. are
the only proper measures of value; that
these values are determined by weight and
purity, and that form and impress are sim
ply certificates of value, worthy OF abso-
lutte reliance only because of the known
integrity and good faith of the government
which gives them"
The dollar of the constitution was a dol
lar containing intrinsic value in bullion for
its face. 1t was worth 100 cents anywhere.
1t received no value from the mint mark
or from legislation. The mint mark was
only evidence that II was an honest dollar.
The present standard silver dollar Is an
honest dollar only so far as the credit of
the government is pledged to make good
any deficit.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
The Old Deception.


Once again Mr.. Bryan declares that he
is in favor OF bimetallism. At Minneapolis
the other day he quoted that portion of the
republican platform of four years ago, in
which 1t was stated that "the American peo-
pie from tradition and interest favor bmetal-
lism." Then he asked, "Do traditions change
in four years." His theory is that the re-
publican party was for bimetallism four
years ago and that 1t is against bmetallism
today. Yet he has said many times over,
as though the remark contained profound
truth. that the republican party did not
really believe the gold standard was a good
thing because in It's platform 1t pledged
itself to get rid of it as soon as possi-
BILE and to substitute for 1t bimetallsm
The truth is that thesrepublican party is for
bimetallism today as much as 1t was four
years ago. 1t is not the traditions which
have changed. 1t is the democratic party
as represented by Mr. Bryan which has
changed
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
McKinI& versus Bryan.
Iowa State Capital.

ioNh 4St'ite Nhplthl'
In his talk at 6anton one day last week
Major Mckinley save his estimate OF true
womanhood
ITO wife and> mother is mankind in
debted for those high moral qualities, gen
tleness, truth and virtue, which are so in
dispensable to good character, good citizen
ship and a noble life. Our whole political
fabric rests upon the sanctity of the Ameri-
can home. where wife and mother preside
They teach the boys and girls purity OF life
and thought and aim the way to usefulness
and distinction. The world owes them more
than 1t can ever repay. The man who loves
mother and wife requires no bond for his
good behavior and can be safely trusted In
every relation OF life"
At Duluth, Mr.. Bryan addressed an audi
ence OF women as follows:
american women who have never sub
mitted to the dictatlon OF American men will
never submit to the financial dictation OF
foreigners The financial question is not
difficult one to understand. The comparison
OF dollar to a yardstlck is not a competent
one. One measures values. the other guam
tity."
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
Sanitary Condition of Bakeries.

1t is only lately that the public has begun
to take an interest in the inquiry as to the
sanitary condition of the bakeshops al
though 1t is so intimately connected with
the bread that everybody eats. The sta
tistlcal and other information now being
gathered shows a state of affairs unpleasant
to think about and unutterably disgusting
when taken in connection with universal
article of food. If the people who are so
scrupulously nice about the handling of
bread after it comes TO the table could see
the way in which it is handled in the bake
shops and the circumstances under which il
is put together, there would be a revolu-
tion within twenty-four hours
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21

Every sound money democrat can find
in the speeches and writings of the
popocratic candidate not only justifica-
ton of boiling, but admonition to bolt
whenever the voter is at variance with
his party on the vital point in its decla-
alton of principles 1t i'll BELTS a man
who has openly favored bolting to take
the sound money democrats to task
for their conduct.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21

If there is one thing the people of
Nebraska need more than another 1t
is an honest, reliable and efficient ad-
ministration of their state treasury
The candidate for state treasurer on
the republican ticket, Charles Il. Casey
is man of experience in financial mat
ters and of unquestioned integrity
The people of Nebraska will make no
mistake in electing Mr.. Casey.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21

The inclination OF the Omaha
Woman's club toward the erection of
club house especially adapted to its
needs should meet with hearty ap-
proval and substantial support from all
who have the interests of the city at
heart. The club treasury is under
stood to be in plethoric condition, and
a building constructed for women and
adorned by woman's taste could not
fail to be an ornament to Omaha in
general
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21

Wheat cannot go up 80 per cent in
price without affecting the price of corn.
People who can't afford wheat at pres
ent prices will resort to corn and corn
bread. The demand for food products
Is correspondingly augmented. The
farmer who is home manufacturer
realizes what 1t means to encourage the
diyersifying of crops. With n home
market for every bushel of every kind
of grain harvested, the farmers of Ne
braska would not have to depend upon
crop failures in foreign lands to sell
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21

Nothing is to be gained by undue
haste in altering the present system
of land transfers in Nebraska. The
old method is too firmly established
to be superseded in hurry. But in
the meantime n thorough investigation
of the Torrens plan and its workings
where it has been adopted cannot fail
to bring about change for the better
in point of security to landholders.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21

We never did credit the story that
Bryan applied only few months ago
for the position of press agent for some
dramatic organization. Mr.. Bryan has
been otherwise and profitably engaged
since he became the mouthpiece of the
silver mine owners syndicate.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21

Some political fences are so sub
stantially founded that even with the
loss of a few pickets they are tight
enough to stop the depredations of the
smaller animals. Hon. David II. Mcr-
Ger Is handicapped in his campaign for
reelection by his enforced absence
from the scene Of action; but he is so
firmly entrenched in the good will of
his constituents that even with this
picket down he has no cause to fear
the result