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Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

Neigh Leader; As the time Of Bryan's
burial approaches the price Of farm
products 40 up.
Geneva Signal 4 vote for MIR. Bryan is a
vote for free trade. Haven't we had enough
Of free trade in the last two or three years?
Cambridge Kaleidoscope Bryan banquets
with Sewall az his palatial home. hut he
never throws even q picked bone to poor
hungry Tom Watson
Stuart Leader: Billy bryan by his vote
In congress hclpcd ~ cripple ;Ee twinc
factory at Fremont ana She two beet sugar
factories in this state
Weeping Water Republican: Have YOU
heard Of any factories waiting until after
Bryan's election to resume business. II
so they will not resume
Genoa Leader: Bryan Acknowledged that
the success Of free silver would create q
panic and cause ilrCC or four years vt he
increased hard times Can sou stand ~
Clarks Leader: It must no; he forgotten
that Bryan is pledged to do away with
civil servcc-a reform that the people lave
been lighting Tor Tor the past twenty Years
Auburn Post: Nearly o9ery intelligent
populist VIII frankly admit he believes
that In case Bryan IS elected 1t VIII
cause ore Of tho greatest paniCs hat Tho
country has ever seen.
Creighton Courier: The free silver women
had the following painted on h transparency
which they carried in The parade Tuesday
night: 1--WE will not marry man Who dent
vote for Bryan" There will ne q large
number of old maids in Creighton in the
near future unless they depart soon FOR
greener fields.
Fairbury Enterprise: Some of the :usion-
lists are trying to make themselves believe
that Bryan will carry Nebraska. We fell
sorry for them, but they are doomed to
disappointment. This, however, will be
nothing new to them, for they are ever set
ting their pins too high, and this case
will he no exception to the rule.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

thirly-dyc ycars aud he had supposed that
his debtor was killed during the war.
Lloyd Osbournc who has been appointed
United states consul at samoa. Is step
son ot The late Robert Louis stevenson. .
A remarkable ability for. remembering
names and faces Is possessed by Logan Car
Isle, chief clerk Of the federal treasury de-
partmcnt.
SylNauus Dodge Locke who has lust died
In HooSlck Falls, New York was the in
vcntor Of the first grain binding machine.
lie was for many years connected with tho
Walter \. Wood company c! Hoosick Falls.
A kinsman OF John c. calhoun has discov-
cred in the home OF the statesman great
mass Of letters hitherto unnoticcd There
are some 600 OF them and 1t Is suggested
that the state OF South Carolina have them
sirtcd over edited and published
Dr. Seward webb. one OF the new mem
bcrs Of the Vermont legislature, Is causing
some Of the rural solons TO stare In aston
ishmcnt He has engaged a suite Of nine
rooms at the chief hotel In Montpelier, and
has arranged for a special side track for his
private ear.
II may be remembered that the two sons
OF the French field marshal, Bazano (of
Metz capitulation celebrity. volunteered for
service In the Spanish army In Cuba at
the time OF the outbreak OF the insurrec-
ton in the Antilles one of them has just
died OF yellow fever, while the other, who,
In addition to being Frustrated by the same
disease, has been severely wounded In the
Held, Is now iuvalided back to Madrid
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13
BRYAN TO THE PENSIONERS.
Queer Confession of the Popocrntie
CnndidHtp.

Philadelphia Record Mem)
In his speech in indianapolis Mr.. Bryan
, undertook to console the pensioners for the
prospective 5S-cent dollar with this happy
suggestion: III the soldier looks at the
money question merely from the standpoint
OF his own interest he must remember that
his pension is only property. and that If
he legislatos the value of the dollar up
while he raises the purchasing power OF his
pension he will decrease the value OF what
ever other property he has" This is the most
naive and candid confession that the pOpO-
cratic champion has yet made of the effect
OF free silver coinage 10 decrease the pur-
chasing power Of the soldiers pension To
have been entirely candid. however, he
should have added that the value of the sill
yer dollar, or its purchasing power. would
be decreased to the value of the metal in it,
That value is about fifty cents today; but
neither he nor any one else can predict
that it might not fall still lower after free
coinage
But to the veteran who may be fortunate
enough to own a small farm, or a horse and
COW, or "o;her property" Mr.. Bryan gives
the pleasing assurance that this "other
property would be enhanced in value by
free coinage, and that he would thus be more
than compensated for the decline in the
purchasing power of his pension. The value
OF the government pension of $12 OF SIS a
month would be small matter in COM
parison with the inflated prices which the
popoCratic candidate promises to the farmer
pensioners Of Indiana and Illinois for their
wheat and corn. The inflated prices which
these pensioners would be Obliged to pay
for farm implements, household furniture
and clothing for their families are OF
course excluded from the account.
To the pensioners who have no farms or
'other property Mr.. Bryan presents the
higher consideration that by raising the
purchasing power of their pension they must
remember that they are condemnnE their
children and their children's children to
the injustice Of a gold standard" Such an
appeal to the benevolent impulses ought
not to be lost on the veteran pensioners.
Mr., Bryan eNhorts them to gently submit
to the chipping Of the purchasing power Of
the money with which these pensions are
paid in order that the blessing of deprecated
currency ana the like relief from the gold
standard may be transmitted to future gen
rni I'm
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13
rnn rnnr sILvrn nlrrrnn.
hts ShnutS Increase ns the situation
Grows Desperate.


Tho political contest has now repchcd that
stage OF the game at which the campaign
buffer comes to the front with his prCpOs-
t,rous estimates and confident assertions,
Although the bluffer has never been known
to make any serious impress ions upon the
opposing forces. he always bobs up scrcncly
IN the last few weeks of the campaign with
his familiar and worthless devices. JUST
ROW Nc is very much in evidence on the
froc-sllvtr side and Is making desperate
efforts to keep up the courage Of his asso-
ciatos ana to trightcn his opponents by an
immense amount OF buster aud brag. lie
claims everything In sight declares his
party is going to sweep" the country and
that everything points to a Landslide" and
"cyclonc" In favor Of the populistic ticket
II is q fuvoritc trick of his to quote some
unnamed sound money democrat as "aban-
doniug the contest" or some prominent re-
publican, whose identity he discrcctly omits
to reveal, as admitting that the Jig is up
He delights especially to refer to polls OF
voters that he alleges have been taken in
this or that sections or In this or that
establishment, which ne asserts indicate
popular tidal wave for free silver. The
statements which he quotes and the polls
which he cites 1t is needless TO say, are
nearly always wholly fictitious and evolved
almost entirely from his own lively imagl-
nation. No one takes seriously the campaign
stories he cirCulatCs, because they are al
ways so absurd that they defeat their own
purpose His fahrications are regarded
with amusement. but they do not change
any votes. Nevertheless, he has his uses as
a political indicator. II is nearly invariably
the case that he appears in largest num-
bers upon the side that feels itself losing
ground and In danger OF defeat. The more
desperate the situation the louder he shouts
and the more ridiculous his claims. The ap-
pcarance OF the free silver buffer in in
creased force just at this time is an en-
couraging indication. IT is an evidence of
weakness a proof that he realizes that his
cause is in a bad way We are glad to see
him on the free silver side induging In
free and unlimited coinage of campaign
fiction at the ratio OF sixteen pounds of
falsehood 20 one grain OF truth. Nothing
could be more rcassuring to the advocates
Of sound money, for the buffer corps is al
ways sent to the front to make grand
demonstration as last resort by the party
which secs itself confronted by defeat.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13
BRYAS's LOVE FOR LABOR.
4 sample of II Given In n Committee
Room of Congress-,
Palladclphla North American,


William Jennings Bryan is now called
upon to explain some peculiar terms of en-
doarment which he used toward the work
ngmen, whom he is calling during this
campaign his beloved friends. 1t appears
that while the popocratic candidate was
member of congress and one OF the ways and
means committee to cut down the wages OF
workingmen by the framing of a free trade
bill, the committee was waited upon by
delegation from the Window Glass Workers
association to protest against a reduction of
the duty on glass. Mr. Bryan seems to have
objected to this effort on the part OF the
workingmen to save themselves from poverty
for while Sellels Mckee, a glass manufac-
turer, started to explain the benefit of a pro-
tective taEf, Nr. Bryan explained in his
frank loving, boyish way: "Oh, you manu-
facturers are fobbers." One OF the members
of the WORKERS. committee turned on Mr.
Bryan Indignantly at this remark and asked
If the manufacturers are robbers, what are
we?' This was the reply OF the man who
now expresses ouch ELUSIVE love for the
workingmen, william Jennings Bryan: you
are public hcggars, and SO is everybody else
that asks fpr a protective tGrif that viii
benefit him{
Mr.. Bryan was asked about this matter
~ public meeting IN Wheeling the other
day, and In his characteristic way he
eVaded tho question. Now State Factory
Inspector James Campbell president of the
Window Glass Workers associations: George
l., Cake, national secretary Of the Union
at that time, and every member of the
committee that called on the ways and
means committee, all OF whom heard Bryan
mako use OF these foul words not only re-
iterate the charge. but express a Willingness
TO face him and make allidavit to the fact
that the language quoted was used by lin
IN their presence. We can readily believe
tho charge, even In the absence OF aGl-
daylts for the false prophet OF the Platte
Is now engaged in the effort OF making
the workingmRn a beggar in fact as we'll
as In name. 1t Is well that the mask has
been stripped from him in time. That
eyer-smilng boyish face conceals more,
much more. than It gives utterance to, and
that La saying a good deal.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

Nearly every estimate that has been
promulgated from any quarter has
placed South Dakota in the Bryan
column. This is mistake. South Da-
kota may be II doubtful state, but the
most reliable reports are to the effect
that the changes are largely in favor
of the state going for Mckinley and
sound money. The sentiment in South
Dakota is said to have undergone n
noticeable change in the last few weeks
and if the state does not redeem itself
from the suspicion of being tainted with
the repudiation doctrine its most careful
and observing politicians will be very
much disappointed.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13
WE'RE THEY CoERCED.
Significant Incident of the Chicago
Day Parade.


A gang of men were at work digging a
trench when a detachment of the Chicago
day parade preceded by a band was seen
rounding the corner. OF course the men
dropped pick and shovel, scampered out
and walked to the corner to see the paraders
march past. Two of the laborers cheered
and the mounted marshal gallantly ac-
knowledged the plludit by tipping his hat
to the men.
Just then little flower girl approached
tho workingmen. One of them picked a
bunch Of golden-rod out Of the basket.
How much?" he asked.
only nickel" replied the girl
Selecting a spray he stuck it through his
hat rim and gave another spray to his COM
panion. Then one by one the other men
came up Each took the profrered spray
Of goldeH-rod rendered, and each stuck it in
his hat.
What Influenced these men to do this act ?
Politics or sentiment?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

ENPORTS or MiNtFiCTtRES.
A compilation just completed by the
chief Of the bureau of statistics shows
n very considerable increase i'm the cN-
ports of manufactures during the fiscal
year ending June 20, 1896 the total for
that time amounting. in round figures. TO
S22SOO0, 900. 1t also shows liberal eX-
ports for the first two months of the
current fiscal year, promising for the
whole year Il larger total than that of
last year These figures. MS we have
heretofore noted, are referred to by the
supporters of the present tariff law as
evidence that it is accomplishing what
its authors promised in cnlarging the
market for American manufactured
Mr.. Wilson and others who assisted in
framing the present law told the country
with an air of great confidence that
under its operation our manufacturers
would be enabled to invade the neutral
markets and readily dispose of their
surplus product Wonderful progress
was to be made in this respect, to the
great advantage of our industries and
labor.
The fact that some progress has been
made is gratifying. but when the gain
in the past year of about Sii.OOO.OOO is
arayZcd ii is not found to be so great
Il boon to American manufacturers Ms
some would like TO make IL appear. 1t
appears that $14,OGO,OO0 OF the increase
was in refined mineral oil and copper
ingOtS, leaving the balance to be distlib-
uted among twenty other Industries.
making the average gain for each about
S1.5Oo.O0O. UnqucSiionably this Is worth
having. but the progress made toward
capturing he worlds markets can
hardly be regarded as in the highest
degree encouraging. There is another
thing to be said in regard to this in
crease in the exports of manufactured
products and that is that no inconsider-
able quantity of them has been sent to
home market for them and sold nt IL loss
To IT, manufacturers. OF course if
American manufacturers want to get
into foreign markets on such terms they
will have little trouble in doing SO.
The truth of the matter is that there
is nothing in these statistics To warrant
any commcndatiOn of the present tariff.
Its agency in extending our foreign
trade in manufactured goods has been
very trifling and not to b. mentioned
in comparison with the damaging effect
upon our industries in stimulating for
eign competition in the home market
There is no defense to be made of the
present tariff law so far as American
cerned.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13
DO you WANT ANOTHER pANIcr
Frcwcn Agrees with bryan Regard
ing The Effect of Errc silver.

Louisville Courier-Journal (dem)
Moreton Frewen, secretary of the English
Bimetalllc league, and the man most fire.
quently quoted by the advocates of the un-
limited coinage Of silver arrived from Eng
land on the American line steamship Paris
October T. He has come to watch tho free
silver fight in this country, having beeI
sent here by his organization for that pur-
pose. He is an ardent believer in the gospel
Of double standard, yet in speaking of the
political situation in this country he said
81 have no doubt the immediate effect Of
the election tt Bryan would precipltate a
tremendous psnir"
In this MIR. Frewen only agrees with Mr..
Bryan, who said at Mt Vernon, H., March
II. 1896 that THE free coinage Of s!lve
would produce panic at least for time
That MIR. Bryan used this language at Mt
Vernon has been proved by the ahidavits o
II. Il. Stevenson George l.. ore, J. +. Nc
Kolvy, John G. Varnell. l.. n. Beal anC
James Hepburn. all reputable and respons
bio citizens OF Mt. Vernon, who heard Mr.
Bryan's speech. Their afEidavits. each bear
ing the seal Of a properly qualified notary
public, are in the possession of the Courier
journal and can be inspected at any time
Haven't we had panic enough?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13
LODGING BACKWARD.
The Glorious Past n Beacon Light for
the Future.


Hon Thomas H.. Reed at Boston.
when ! contrast these last four years
with the years that preceded them, 1t seems
as II we lived in another land and were al
most another people. Think of those glor
ious years between 1860 and 1892 We fought
a great war, unhappily among ourselves but
with honorable results, for the good of the
human race. We passed through years Of
trouble and of pain. We had our period Of
depression, and a long, hard climb out of the
evils of a disordered currency and of Tecll
less expenditure We lifted ourselves to
great heights OF national credit. From 1863
to 1892 notwithstanding all our troubles
and the weary years between 1873 and 1879,
we paid our national debt at the rate Of
1858 900 600 for each and every year, reducing
it from 81, lS2 900 900 to SjS5 900 600 lower
ing our interest charge from Sl25 600 to
$22 900 .000 and showing an astonshed world
that government by the people was also a
government for the people, the like of which
was never surpassed on earth.
When ! think Of those great achieve
ments and those glorious years. whatever
doubts may come, whatever sorrows we are
enduring. | know beyond all denying that
the United States OF America under the
same control, win take not the old place
high as it was, but a loftier one among the
nations of the earth"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

CONDITION or MEXICAN WOREfN OMEN
No workingman who wants to vote in
tcllgently upon the issues involved in
the present presidential contest should
fail to read and digest the report upon
the condition Of labor In free silver Mex
leo which has Just been made by the
committee sent tn Mexico by tn Chicago
Trades and Labor assembly specially TO
Investigate this subject. Much has been
said by free coinage advocates about the
pretended prosperity" Of silver stand
ard countries Of which Mexico has been
cited as the chief representative. The
unanimous report of the Chicago Trades
and Labor assembly committee, whose
vcracity and on-partisanship is not to
b. questioned, StigmatiZcs this pros
pcrity" rs a myth so far as the wage
workers are concerned. and asserts that
tho toilcrs of Mexico from the time of
the Spanish invasion to the present have
had no change for the better.
According to this report Mexican la
borcrs are poems hardly grade above
human slavery. They have no labor
organizations and apparently no ambi-
ton to rise above the lot of day laborer
even If the avenue were open. Mexican
wages are a mere pittance. The MeNi-
can working day runs from ten
to fourteen hours, some, such as
bakers, working even twenty hours,
and the question of shorter work
ing hours is long way off for
country where labor is so cheap
and so plentiful. Everywhere in Mexico
among the luboring classes living is
from hand to mouth. There are no poor
houses simply because the people are
too ovcrtaxcd for other purposes to sup.
port them and the army of paupers Is
forced to subsist by street begging and
private charity. Among the nations OF
our advanced civilization" says the re-
port. "Mcxico has been marking time
while other nations have been marching
on"
More eloquent and most convincing
however, against the false claims of Mr.
Bryan and his followers Is the warning
given in all sincerity and seriousness
to American wOrkingmcn who might be
misled into imagining they can better
their condition by settling in Mexico.
"Your committee would caution Amcri-
can workingmen against going to Mex
leo without sufficient funds to bring
them back or to have employment Sc
cured before going there. or they will
he obliged TO SubSist on cactus and tn"
sap of the tcQuila plant while doing the
country" Compared with the working
man of Mexico the American working
man is prince. and this we are told
by members of wOrllingman's commit
tee selected by representative labor
organization, ana who describe them
selves as plain toiers Injured to the
hard knocks of the factory and the
workshop. than whom none are better
qualified to investigate or to feel and
sympathze with the workers of an
other country"
The workingman who will read this
report on the condition of the laboring
classes in Mexico and remember that
Mexico has for years had free and un-
limited silver coinage may be safely re-
lied upon to decide for himself whether
he wants the prosperity" of the MeXi-
| can silver standard or the prosperity of
America such rs he enjoyed four years
ago under the protective system and II
republican administration.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

And now the World-lIerald prints still
n different translation of the Bismarck
letter, which is also certified as the cor
correct Culb2rson garblngs? We regret
very much that the World-Hcrald has
not yet accepted The Bees offer to loan
1t the cut of the original German text
SO that it might let such of its patrons
as read German convince themselves of
the mlstranslatlon with their own eyes.
Can It be that the good Bryan organ
is afraid to undeceive its readers with
the original German of the letteri
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13
THE PaNtCEA.
Chicago Record.

Chicago Record.
what II autumn, like a foolish
Aged woman, gaunt and vain.
Countcrfeits the bloom of summer,
Initiates the springs refrain,
Though her bright robes are bcdragglcd
And her checks are strenkcd with raini
What If pilgrim hordes to canton,
Madly march across the plain
And the sad-cycd Mr.. Scwnll
Gets an early frost from Maine;
What II you have daily hagEled
over bills that gave You pain
Bills for winter clothes and fuel
Fat with plutocratlc gain;
What II Watson boratcs Scwall.
Branding him a modern Cain,
And the fates seem cold and cruel
All of these eNCitemcnts wane
To pale, elusive, seeming;
To the strange, erratic dreaming
OF wild, dsoTdered brain,
When you taste the fragrant, stcamlnB
oyster soup that's here again.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13
Personal AND OTHER WISE.

Thomas A. Edison is said to be one OF the
most liberal giyers to charity. He seldom
refuses a request for assistance.
About the only European monarch whose
life Is not insured is the ear. the lnsur-
ance companies consider him too risky
A citizen of Big Rapids, Mich, loaned
Ezra Smith IS when the war broke out IN
1861. lie received a letter from sodGlia,
Mo. the other day with a s. bill inclosed.
This was the first he had heard OF Ezra In
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

The very reasonable ground on which
Nebraska postmasters refuse to accede Ia
the inSistrnt demand for tribute from
the popocratic state committee is that
while they might admit an obligation in
the case of the democratic party, which
appointed them and under whose ad-
miniStratOn they have not thriven, they
acknowledge no fealty to the populistic
crowd, which can never do anything
for them
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

The Manufacturers and Consumers
association has taken formal action en-
dorsing the pending constitutional
amendment for the encouragement of
manufactures and diversified industry
In Nebraska. Every one who is working
TO build up Nebraska has II direct in
tercst in the adoption of these amend
ments. The proposed constitutional
amendments must not be permitted to
become lost in the shuttle.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

So long as revenues exceeded eX-
penditures there was no apprehension
of the sutlicicncy of the gold reserve.
Re-establish n stable treasury balance
sheet and all occasion for further bond
issues will be ut once removed.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

Let tranSmiSSiSsippi states consider
well this matter: What states will de
rive most benefits from Omaha's cXposi-
tion, those east of the Mississippi or
those west of it? Where does the chief
interest lieY
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13
where Is the Difference.


farmer who had his crop Of wheat
stored in his granary or a manufacturer
who had his warehouse filled with the prod
ucts OF his factory. would think it an
outrage II the government should insist
upon confscating one-half of his wheat or
his goods What better is 1t by the adop-
ton of free silver coinage to coniscate
one-half of the wage of the laborer, or
one-half of his accumulated savings or one
half Of the dover OF the widow, or one
half the pension Of the soldier?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-13

1t is said that Bryan does not yet
know that his managers have given up
all hope of even making an effective
fight in behalf of his election Break ii
TO him gently. The shock will be almost
more than his self-confidence can bear.