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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22
THE TEMPER OF THE BRYANITEs.

THE TEMPER OF THE BRYANITES.
The South Omaha Daily San is one
of the leading Popocrat organs in Ne
braska. In its issue of Oct | it said:
A car load of old bummers called Cen
erals u are now touring the country on Tree
passes. and their other expenses are being
raid bv s Hannah, telling the people now to
vote. They were in Omaha last night.
When the people stop TO consider why such
skunks are so terribly interested, 1T IS
enough to settle the matter that 1T is not
any love for the poor man or the laborer
that prompts these " GineIals " 10 thuss swing
around the circle. But then the rotten old
shin is sinking so fast that the crew Is be-
coming desperate; and to he fair with them,
they hardly know where they are at.
In Its issue of Oct. 8 it said:
Those hired pups, touring the country
under the pay of Mark Hanna, styling them
selves Union Generals" ailude 10 Mr..
BRYAN as repudiator and an Anarchist.
Were the people they addressed as con-
temptible Anarchists as these Generals are,
who have sold every atom Of manhood they
ever did possess, their speeches would be cut
very short when they utter such treason as
TO call Mr.. Bryan, or any of his supporters,
an Anarchist. They are simply lot OF Old
econd-hand. run down-at-the-heeI bummers,
living off the people and still trying to keep
up strife-ior the pay they are getting
from the managers of John Bulls American
office. But for all the efforts of these hired
Generals, there are thousands Of old soldiers
who were patriots, and not bathrooms, who
are to-day in the front rank for freedom aud
Tor w j. Bryan. They are true patriots
bat not Generals.
The Lincoln (Neb.) Independent,
speaking of the arrival of the "Gen-
erals in that city, said:
The Republicans forced old, gray-headed
white women 10 march in the Generals
parade from the railroad station over the
rough and dusty streets to the Statehouse
and back. Black Cyprians, attended by
drunken white men yelling for Mckinley,
rode in carriage. Both of these scenes
the marching gray-hared white women and
the black Cyprians. escorted by white men
were enough to make any decent man blush
for the age in which we live
This is the true old Copperhead ran
cor. The coarse epithets will at once
rouse indignant memories of the Ian
guage applied to soldiers during the
war.
The veterans as a body are not SO
characterized now, because their votes
are wanted. But let Bryan once get in,
and these will be the general terms in
which the veterans Of the war will be
described.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22
PERSONAL

Chicago Chronicle: Brother Leander comes I'D
from Notre Dame occasionally to visit friends
in Chicago. He is one OF the black robed menu
bers of the big educational institution of that
city. He is a man of infinite jest. and one
would naturally expect of a man of prayer, he
is man of peace, but his memory runs back to
time wnen he was marching and fighting and
foraging and bivouacking and that time en-
braces the whole period of the war. He was
an officer of the 18th Inf of the Regular army
until there was no more fighting worth men
tioBing to be done, and then be became a
brother in orders and has been teaching ever
since. When he was here last week visiting
some of his old pupils he told a story of another
brother in orders at Notre Dame who was also
soldier fighting for the Union. This is
Brother Sebastian, who carries in his anatomy
several ounces of lead which he picked up at
odd times during the war. One day Brother
Sebastian was talking about the war, when
someone asked him if he was ever wounded.
ooh, yes" he replied, Il was hit IN few
places"
Were you ever wounded seriously?" his
auditor asked.
me, thank God, I was not. The worst in
jury / received during the war was made by .
minie-ball that struck me in the chest and
came out at my back"
Lieut. Col. VIM. C. Carroll, for many years in
the Pension Bureau. in various responsible posi-
tions, wrote the first account of rhe battle Of
Shiloh which reached the public, and it was 43
hours before any other account. He was then
a correspondent of the Louisville Journal, and
a Captain on the staff of Maj,-Geu- John A.
Logan. He received a brevet for meritorious
services at the battle of Shiloh. He subse-
quently served as Major and Lieutenant Colo
mel Of the 18th iii. Cav.
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AN accurate statement Of Bryan's
pension record is given in another col
umn by Capt. w. H. Michael, of Ne
braska, who has not only known Bryan
ever since he has been in public life, but
has had unusual opportunities for watch
ing his course. If Bryan has any real
friendship for the veterans, it is amazing
that he has been able to make so little
manifestation of it in all the years that
he has been before the public.
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WHY, anyway, the ratio of 16 to :?
1t was on the statute books but 80 years,
and was dead letter from the first, and
but 6,705,S24 dollars we're ever coined
under it. On the other hand, the ratio
of Is to 1 was on the statute books for
AZ years.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22
A "CALAurY CON-"

Sweden had bitter experience in the
last century trying ,,to keep copper on
par with silver. The' copper dollar was
at the outset worth about one-third of
:, >, piv 81
the silver rix-dollar. bl
The brilliant Charles XII. had for a
Minister of Finance, aiman named Gortz,
the Bryan of his datya,,2a snowy, talkative
fellow, utterly ignorant of the laws of
political economy. He thought the
copper coin was the coin of the poor
the debtors dollar, ETC., and he started
In almost the same way that Bryan pro-
poses, to make everybody rich by great
issues of the copper dollar, which he
was to make as good as the silver dollar,
by the authority of the Government. )"
He used precisely the same arguments
that Bryan employs about silver being
in the hands of the rich, and copper
being product Of the mines of Sweden.
He would Coin this copper, its value
would rise by its being declared money,
the mine owners would employ more
workingmen, the farmers would receive
higher prices for their produce, and
general prosperity would result.
Charles XII. had strong misgivings,
but he let Gortz have his way. Then
followed the most doleful times in Swed-
ish history-times that are yet remem-
bered in poetry and song as the days of
the Calamity coin," as the copper dol
lar came to be named. The copper
dollar was made legal tender, it was
stamped with the arms of Sweden, and
severe penalties were enacted for those
who should refuse to receive two of them
for silver dollar Merchants were pro-
hibited from asking more for goods in
copper dollars than in silver, and every
device that imagination could suggest
was employed to keep the copper OH a
parity with silver. Everybody having
silver in his possession was ordered to
ity coins !" in exchange. If he did not
do this, the Government would search
his house or store, and confscate his
silver The people Immediately began
to send their silver abroad, OF conceal it
by burying. Persons igoing out of the
Kingdom were searched 20 see if they
carried any silver with them.
In short, the whole dreary round OF
expedients usual TO make people take
money that they do hot want was EN-
ployed to bolster up the debased coin.
There was the failure that invariably
follows such efforts.
The Swedish farmers suffered most
terribly in the course of these expert.
ments, and a sickeningly large proper
ton of them lost their farms, and were
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

IT would be just as sensible for us to
try to fix the price of wheat or wool for
the whole world as to try to fix the price
of silver. Instead of going roundabout
to raise the price of wheat by raising
that of silver, who not go straight at it
and say that the price of wheat must be
ST a bushel?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

SINCE Bryan was nominated silver
has gore down 5 cents an ounce, and
wheat has risen "a cents bushel. But
the freshet of Bryan's eloquence ripples
merrily around powders of fact that
would dam up any other mans. He is
never embarrassed by facts.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

MAJ. MCKINLEY has been true to
every duty and obligation since he first
held up his hand and swore fidelity to
the country. He will be as faithful to
the Nations best interests as he was in
the trying days of 1861-'65.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22
"MAssES AND CLASSES.

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal, the
leading Bryanite paper in Tennessee,
thus enumerates Ga few of the classes
in the United States against which the
masses are arrayed in the present cam
paign":
"The Federal pensioners.
Tine ministers of the Gospel
The capitalists.
The bankerS
"The salaried men.
"The rich.
"The brokers.
The protected manufacturers"
This confines the masses" to COM
paratively small number. "The Federal
pensioners number nearly 100000,
or about one person in every 70 Of the
population. "The ministers of the Cos
pei" number about 100000 more.
"The capitalists include everybody
who has deposits in savings and other
banks for it is their accumulated savings
and funds which furnish the entire CAPT
tai of the country. There are about
10000, 900 Of these. "The rich means
anybody and everybody who has accu-
INFLATED any property which he can call
his own Riches are always compare
tive. A man who has a s5,000-farm,
in many parts of the country, is justly
esteemed erich" He is comparatively
and actually richer than man with
100000 in large city. He has more
of the real good things Of life for him
self and his family. There are about
100000 men who own farms, Of whom
about 100000 have no mortgage or
other incumbrance. These men are
properly erich" In addition to these,
there are 100000 men who own their
own homes, Of which over 100000 are
without incumbrance. More erich y
men. OF the men who till the soil, 79
per cent. own their farms, and over 70
per cent. of these are free from incum.
brance. Forty-one per cent. of oul
wage-earners own their own homes
which is the largest percentage outside
of Germany and the Scandinavian coun
tries
"The bankers and brokers'" are com
paratively few in numbers and of little
influence.
"The salaried men" necessarily in
clude everybody who works for fxet
wages Of any description.
This would reduce "the masses" t,
the men who don't work and won
work, and the professionals, like lawyers
doctors, ETC., who have no fixed incomes
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

SHOULD Bryan be elected'what would
the poor people do during the Winter
months between election and navigation,
when everybody would be paralyzed
with fear as to what the gang behind
him intended to do?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

ALTGELD wrecked his own party in
Illinois, and inflicted incalculable injury
upon his State. Do we want that malie-
nant wrecking the United States?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

BRYAN's speeches are Indignantly
un-American, because heretofore no idea
has been more sedulously cultivated in
this country than that it offered equal
chances to all, and that the poorest boy
had as many opportunities as the rich-
est to become wealthy. This has been
practically demonstrated. Out of every
1000 men in this country who own
property, 99S Of them began life with
out anything at all, except clear brains'
good principles, and willing hands.
Every Township in the country is filled
with men of this class. Are they Grim
inals, because they have worked hard,
saved, and were provident? IT MI
Bryan is cornered he will say that he
does not mean the moderately rich, but
"the very rich" But where is he going
to draw the line? He may think
to-day that a man worth 100000 Is
very rich," and should be made to dI-
vide, while his followers may think that
the rule ought to apply to men worth
$4,000. A man in one Of the farming
Counties of Virginia worth $4,000 over
and above his debts is relatively richer
than a man in New York WORTH $780,
600. If the Bryanites in New York
insist that all the 100000 men shall
be made to divide, their colleagues In
Virginia will probably claim that all
the $4,000 men in their State shall be
treated the same way. This is grossly
un-American. The American idea has
always been to encourage and honor In
dustry, sobriefy, and thrift. Mr. Bryan's
idea is that these are crimes, and should
be punished by taking away their ac-
cumulations for the benefit of the lazy
and thriftless.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

BRYAN admits that pensions will be
cut down, by being paid in deprecated
dollars, but says that the pensioners will
be reimbursed by the advance in "what-
ever other property they may own
This is sorry hope for the poor men
and women whose little pensions are all
that stands between them and the poor
house.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22
IoU cannot afford TO do without

loU cannot afford TO do without
copy of No. 13, NATIONAL TRIBUNE
LIBRARY, entitled Chronological Rec
ord of the Battles, etc, of the War of
the Rebellion. 1t only costs five cents,
but If is worth dollars to you, for the in
formation it contains.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

"THERE are no public poorhouses in
Mexico" Certainly not. Each work.
ingman has most abject one of bis own.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

Do we want to put these wild-eyed
cranks and malignants in again, as in
1892, only in ten times worse shape, and
have the country paralyzed with doubt
and fear for four years more?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

THE wretched serfdom of the laborers
of Mexico shows to what condition Free
Silver would reduce our wage-earners.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

ALL men are fools who try to be
swindlerA They cheat themselves worse
than anybody else.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22
McKINLEY-McK NLEY-AIcKINLEY.

We viii send 100 copies to any adj
dress, postage prepaid, for So. Ought
TO sell 100 in a short time in almost any
community.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

DOES any pensioner now find that
the dollars he receives shave too much
purchasing powers"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

MENTION a single man behind Bryan
in whom the country has ever had any
confidence.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22
TRIBUN ETS.

"Bloody Brides" Waite, of Colorado. is one
of those financial geniuses who are never able
to make living. His sou-in- law is the editor
of Republican paper Shortly after the Popu-
lists nominated Waite for Governor friend
approached the editor and said:
.'Your father-in-law is Populist; you are
Republican. Are you going to support your
father-in-law during this campaign"
The editor pondered moment and replied:
"As / have supported him for the past five
years, / don't see any reason why / should
change my course now"
x*x
Tezas Siftings: MAMA, what is heredity?"
asked Bobby, shedding a few tears and labori-
ously tripping over the syllables of the long
word
"Why, it is something that you get from
your father or me-" replied the mother.
Silence of two minutes. and more tears.
"Then, ma, is spanking hereditary"
x*x
The public resolutely refuses to turn from
the consideration of the Chicago platform to
interest itself in the merits of Howard Gould s
dispute with the English yachtsmen. Keep
your row simmerng gently until after the cleo
| ton, Howard. and then we may get properly
mad and put in some hard licks for you.
Life: Howss-I can do my best work when
it's hot.
Cumso-What great future you have before
you.
Life: Helen-Are you sure God will forgive
me for slapping sister if / ask Him?
Mama-Certainly, dear.
Helen (refectivelyl-Then I wish I had
slapped her harder.
x*x
SILVER IN INDIA.
A new influence threatens the price of silver
As everybody knows. the Hindoos put all their
savings into gold and silver ornaments. The
price of skilled labor there is so low that orna-
ments can be fashioned out of the precious
metals at very small advance on the bullion
value, and consequently these can be turned
into money again at little loss. 1t is for this
reason that India has been known for centuries
as "the graveyard of gold and silver" Though
the people are very poor, every one Of them
NJ St nave some peTSOuai OrHAuentS, anu WHeu IL
is remem bered that about third of the people
of the world live in Hindustan it will be seen
that an immense amount of bullion is every year
swallowed up in supplying this demand. Now \
famine prevails over great part of the country
millions will have to sell their ornaments to
procure food. In London it is believed that the
quantity of silver which will be thrown into the
market from this cause will seriously depress
the price. All the great cargoes of wheat now
being sent from California to Hindustan will
have to be paid for, and the people have nothing
but their savings Of silver bullion with which
to pay.
-.
EASILY FOOLED
It is amazing how easily some people can be
fooled. A gang OF swindlers have been working
the Bryanites in Kansas, Missouri and Ne
braska, by fraud so Transparent that school
boy ought to see through it at once. They
represented themselves to DO in collision with
the Treasury officials to distribute among the
-
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

BRYAN is not only going to "repeal
the law of supply and demand when
he gets into power, but he els going to
hold manufacturers to strict accounta-
bility for running or stopping their
works." Why not also promise to con-
troll the tornadoes, abolish drouth, and
regulate the sunshine and the rainfall?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22
EASILY FOOLED.

It is amazing how easily some people can be
fooled. A gang OF swindlers have been working
the Bryanites in Kansas. Missouri and Ne
braska, by q fraud so transparent that school
boy ought to see through it at once. They
represented themselves to be in collision with
the Treasury officials to distribute among the
farmers great sums in greenbacks which are
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

The assertion that money owes its en-
tire value to law is sufficiently answered
by the facts that gold and silver had
monetary value before laws were en-
acted that they have same values in
passing from one country to another,
where the laws are diverse, and that in
all the larger operations of commerce
the metals are exchanged by weight, re-
CARELESS of the stamp upon them, except
in so far as it assures fineness, and that
in these transactions gold bullion is
preferable to coin.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

A VOTE for Bryan is a vote to fill the
country with public souphouses for the
suffering poor this Winter.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1896-01-17

B. b. Stevens, receiver OF the North
Dakota independent ,ofers thatpaper
for sale. The receiver says subscribers
have not paid up as promptly as they
should and he wants to sell the paper
in or,ler to pay outstanding indebted
ness. 1t is to be regretted that the
Independent has to be sold as it is
the official organ ofthe populist party
and ought to be literally supported
by populists. Some of the populists
who have been bowling for official
organs no doubt realize by this time
that in order to keep newspaper
running it takes money-and lots Of
it. Good wishes and praise are nice
things to hear in a newspaper office,
but they do not pay your prin ter's
wages, etc. "
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1896-01-17
P. A. Melgard was elected coun

P. A. Melgard was elected county
auditor of Griggs county in 1894 and
according to the old codes took pos
session the March following. The
new code provides that the county
officers shall take possession Of the
Offices to which they were elected on
the 1st day Of January next after
election. New then, supposing that
somebody is elected auditor next fall
in place Of Melgard and demands the
office on the 1st day Of January, who
loses the two months as fixed by the
new cede, Melgard or his successor?
Melgard was elected under the old
law for two years, so that either he
or his successor will only have one
year and ten months term. Which
gets the short term?
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1896-01-17
says.

We notice that in several countie:
in the state county commissioners
are giving bonds IN the sum of $500.
Will somebody please tell us wha,
section in the new codes requires
county commissioners to give bonds?
TO be sure the last legislature passed
bill to that effect, but the codifca-
ion committee or somebody else has
zen fit to leave it out of the code
.nless we are greatly mistaken. The
'ew revenue law as it appears in the
,ew code is a daisy and no mistake.
he next legislature should be COM
osed of good sound business men
$ it will keep that body busy recti-
wing sswoodchucks" which appear
luite numerous in the codes. We
re in favor of throwing the codes
, the fire and starting in new again
ext January.