Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

test against that autocratic Outrage Upon
tumid defamation. Either the Columbus
statement or the record Of Jefferson's adj
mnistration as to his action in stopping
the coinage OF silver is a lie. There Is no
stealth" in the order of Jefferson.
An act OF the. congress OF the United
States In 1894, which anyone may read In
the statutes at large. is false or The Co
lumbus statement is untrue. Which is
most credible-the candidate or the authen-
ticated law of the, land, which was ap-
proved and signed by Andrew JacSson2
DEMoNETIzATIoN IN 1853
The act of 1853 openly and without pop
ular protest, began the demonetization of
silver And the act of 1873 dropping the
reaffrmed. improved, amended and accen-
tuated the statute of 1858. And the fact
that both acts were debated in congress,
then passed and at once published by au-
thority of the government does not imply
stealth when taken in conjunction with
the truth that the act of 1878 was pending
three years, and the bill and It's amend
ments were during that time published
thirteen times in Congressional Records
from the state of Nevada-which area of
sage brush and argentlferous rocks and a
population of less than 10000. illustrates
the possibility in its near future of only
sixteen citizens to one senator-voted for
the "crime of '1SI' And all these printed
and notorious facts ask preference as to
crediblty over the calm and premeditated
mendacity of any and all candidates, either
at Columbus or elsewhere
pales before the manifold mental acquire
ments of the candidate of three conyep-
tons, with but single. silver thought
For, besides knowledge of the art OF war
which puts Jomini, Napoleon, Lee, Sher-
man and Grant to shame, IN addition to
his genius for truth, facts and figures
which remind one of Baron Munchausen,
he has scientific attainments of immense
magnitude, and not least among them
looms up his knowledge of entomology.
The knowledge of insect pests is of great
value to agriculture and horticulture, and
at Springfield. O., on September 3, the poyl-
glimpse of his capabilities IN this line, say
ing, after having referred to the potato
bug, the chnch bug and the army worm,
But let me tell you the gold bug is de-
stroying more crops than all of them"
The scientific precision of the informa-
ton thus conveyed and the deliberate
and didactic style Of the utter
from every citizen. who desires to see
a learned man of accurate habits of
the, presidency. The dignity of diction
which, thus adorns the truth of science
wisdom to the students of coming genera
ti9ns. CRITICISM may, however, wonder
bugs the he sRulatop I'M ia''1I of Washington. @ tn LIN
coin and Jackson did not describe and de
hne the rayages of the "humbugs' of this
country? The cheap-money humbug has
frightened traders. depressed prices dis.
rrupted business, and, with its warble of
earners farmers and artisans of all sorts
TO the rocks and shoals of dshonor and dis
osis of the humbug fail to define his own
depredations? Did he consider his manner
and his oratory. his humming, an object
lesson which needed no comments?
hearted philanthropist the candidate be
voice in behalf of the plain people. the poor
PEOPLE .e hs Ri rings out t. amid the cormorants Of
where like a foghorn at sea. His sympa-
thies are for, the thriftless. his condemna-
Tnon tor the dentess II he S per cent or
United States who have no mortgages upon
their farms he would tax and burden with
debased Dc aa currency in order to encourage the
2S22 per cent whose farms are mortgaged
to cheat their creditors He would reverse
vival of the ffttest and by statute murder
the, interests of the, Industrious, the frugal
the indolent, the wasteful and the unfittest.
FINANCIAL FORCE BILL.
The free and unlimited coinage of 412Ih
grain, legal tender silver dollars in tho
financial force bill. 1t would place the
inferior power, expatriate the superior and
leave silver the sole measure of value and
mediator of exchanges in the United States.
And Al all this Is proposed by those friends
of humanity" who are perpetually hys-
Se and the OF pae he
''toiling masses and others upon whom
they lavish their benevolence. They gen
eralize, they deindividualize these classes
and appeal to the emotions on their ac-
count. proposing aid by legislation and a
change of national finance in their behalf.
those who have money to those who do not
have money. And massed capital-without
which civilization cannot advance, or even
exist-is to be dispersed, scattered redis-
tributed. Thus the wages, reservoirs of in
dustry, are to be destroyed. Thus capital
assassinated and the sole source of indus
trial sustenance destroyed. And all this
not for the majority which Is solvent and
significant minority, whose self-constituted
attorneys declare them insolvent and dis
tressed.
For generations thoughtful parents have
taught their sons industry, temperance and
economy. That teaching has resulted in
capital and capitalists. And the smoke of
harvests in every field, are the sequence
of the sound instruction in economics which
States have been imparting during the most
wonderful hundred years of mans civilized
career. That hundred years which, not
ard" have developed this continent
republic which, in mental strength, moral
worth and money value, and honor and
And no communist can here make individ-
ual prosperity an offense. capital crime
and capitalists malefactors by melting
wage earners to hate and destroy the men
who pay them Here the laborer of today
may be the capitalist of tomorrow. Chi
cago and all of the northwest are alive
and energized with enterprises, the capi-
tai of which belongs to the laborer of yes
terday. And in the vicissitudes of affairs
the capitalist of today may tomorrow be-
come day laborer. And If much money
large capitalize a crime where will these
declaimerS against the public peace and
the contentment of the country mark the
limit OF innocent accumulation? How much |
money may q man or corporate be al |
lowed to possess? What amount is crime? |
How little is virtue?
MONEY BY TRICK OF A STAMP.
And yet some agitators and revoutionsts |
industry, proclaim their intent to create |
money galore by the mere trick of a stamp |
and to make millionaires by mere statute
They declare the dollars too good and com |
modities too cheap for the plain people and |
by the free coinage of silver at 16 to / they |
propose TO make the money cheaper and |
goods higher. By statute they propose TO /
double the price of silver, thereby making |
1t more easy to enhance all farm products |
and confer cheaper food and clothing upon |
Ia aborers in all our great centers of popu- |
lation. And In a recent speech at Nebraska l
City, from the rear of n Missouri Pacific |
railroad car the most distinguished expo
nent OF these economic vagaries and finan- |
cial fallacies said: IF am elected presi-
dent the gold standard in the United States
will not last twenty-four hours"
What then? How will he state his case? |
He cannot declare that he is for the free |
and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to !, for the '1''-the standard by
which he proposes to measure his 16-has
been abolished. VIII he say sixteen to
nothing?" What can he say?
But the whole theory that money creates