The Portland daily press., 1896-09-28
A VOICE FROM NEBRASKA.
Bryan Can't Carry His State, His City or
His Ward.

$1,000
nent business man in this city last week:
My Dear Referring to your oon,-
ments, would say, we fail to understand
why eastern people should be of the
opinion that all western people or Ne
braska people are repudiators, and we
personally object to being classed as sup
porters of an act to legislate for the in
terests of the silver miners.
We look upon politics from a business
point Of view, and while the people of
Maine and Vermont, we are happy to
learn, do likewise and have asserted
themselves, you will find after elecJion
in November when we too are given an
opportunity. that "There are othsrs.''
If free aud unlimited coinage of silver
al the ratio of Is to l is good thing, is
possible and will put more money in cir
culation, then to make the ratio / to /
is still better and will put still more
money in circulation, but the silverites
do not go far enough, as I am in favor
of having plenty of remedy-in fact,
enough to make debts and poverty things
| of the past, relics of the Dark Ages
I am in favor (?) of the free and I'm
limited coinage of Pig Iron at the ratio
of 16 to with guild by the United States
| alone, Independent of all nations, and
can prove by the best possible authority
to be obtained that such a policy will
raise prices, "put plenty of money in
circulation" and give the honest debtor
a chance to pay his debts" and make
| the whole country prosperous, and il a
still better proposition than that of the
silver party, 'ifor who would part with
an ounce of this precious metal for any
thing else than the mint value"
"Wages would be compelled to rise,
since no man would be fool enough to
work for 81 day, who could make $1,000
day picking up rusty nails and sold
horse shoes and carrying them to the
mint for coinage"
''The crime of demonetizing Pig
Iron took place 1900 years ago, when
certain goldolators' and 'silverites' in
order to increase the purchasing power of
| their i'll gotten wealth, scarcely and
like thieves in the night with sthe
stealth of cat got the demonstration
act passed repeating the good old free
have been robbed by the WALL street
| sharks and the Bond street Shylocks,
but the acts are acts, and the best way to
right a wrong is to meet it squarely, and
the loss entailed upon the people by that
ruthless act is s21. 900, 000 000 600, 600, 600,
0"0, 000, 600. insist that the free coinage
of Pig Iron at the ratio of 16 to l. with
gold will do all that is claimed for silver
and many times m ORE
In 1894 silver was worth in the market
63 cents per ounce. If the price was
raised to $1.29 per ounce, the 16 to
price, it looks very much like all our
mountains would be blown upside down
to get the benefit of the..double price. If
railway engine would run ninety miles
an hour on sixty-three pounds of steam
pressure, how fast would ii run on ons
hundred and twenty-nine pounds pres
sure? The blasted thing would have t.
stop occasionally and wait for its shadow
to catch up.
Being thoroughly posted on the money
| question, / could not resist the oppor-
| tunity to offer up little ridicule te
show the position our silver friends seem
| to be in.
The 'Favorite Son. you refer to is moi
of our style, but being very much in
terested in the coming election, please
Iallow me to correct slight mistake
you seem to have made. Mr.. Bryan will
not carry hia own ward in the city Of
Lincoln, will not carry the city OF
Lincoln, will not carry his home county.
will not carry his congressional district,
] his state, and if all indications are good
for anything, after our Novem Der election
| will be buried tout of sight"
1t is said that Mr.. Bryan is a great ad
lmirer of Lincoln-Lincoln, Nebraska
and after election we will endeavor tt
keep him there.
| OF course it is natural for the siIveritei
| to claim 1.-THE earth,'' but our state hal
been carefully polled, and RETURNS are Oh
reliable, to be obtained, show Mr.. Bryan
a very badly beaten candidate, and thai
Mckinley will carry Nebraska by larg'
majority.
| Please in the future place Nebraska or
the list with Maine, and when Novembel
election comes off, we will endeavor no
to disgrace you.
| We do hope that the time will com,
before long when business OF all kind
Gan do once more carried on in some
thing of business way. Everybody i
heartily tired of these continued un
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