THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1896.
The Weekly Ghfoniele.
BTATK omCIUS.
Bjvernor
Secretary of State . .
Treasurer
Bupt. of Public Instruction.
Attorney-General
Senators
Congressmen
State Printer....
W. P. Lord
HB Kincaid
..Phillip Metschan
G. M. Irwin
CM. Idleman
(G. W. McBride
- jj. H. MltcheU
(B. Hermann
" (W. R. Ellis
W. H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.-
County Judge...".. viKSbM87S
Sheriff. T.J. 'Driver
r-lerk ...A.M. Kelsay
Treasurer... ...C. I Phillips
Commissioners IT), a. Kimsev
Assessor..... W. H.Whipple
Surveyor .. ' ...J. B. .olt
Superintendent of Public Schools, . . C. L. Gilbert
uomner
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For President,
WILLIAM M'KINLEY Ohio
For Vice-President,
GARRET A. HOB ART . . . .New Jersey
For Presidential Electors,
T. T. GEEB Marion County
8. M. YOKAN Lane
E. L- SMITH Wasco
J. F. CAPLE8. Multnomah
bullion and receive his dollars, he
will reap a profit not necessarily of
47 cents, but of a sum equal to the
difference between the actual bullion
value of silver and the coinage value,
whatever that difference may be
These dollars he can and will use to
pay all existing obligations, except
those calling for gold coin. Ta that
extent he will reap a profit. He will
use them to pay the labor which pro
duces from his mine the , bullion.
The price of this labor, may advance
somewhat, but not in proportion to
the depreciation of the money by
which he is paid. To this further
extent the mine owner, will reap a
further profit. Now, will the kin
dergarten disciple, who through the
Mountaineer seeks knowledge at our
little schcol, come around and pay
his tuition before sl'ver will be the
only money in circulation.
OUR CIRCULATION.
We have in circulation about
$498,449,000 in gold and gold certi
ficates, aboui $443,444,000 in silver
and silver certificates, and about
$567,840,000 ' in other currency
Drive the gold out of circulation by
permitting it to go to a premium
and the result will be a contraction
of our currency by over 83 per cent.
But "what will we . get in exchange
for our gold ?" "WillX we not get
for that gold twice as much silver?"
These questions are the only solu
tion of the difficulty we have seen or
beard.
The Chronicle thinks we may
-get some silver, but a great dear
Mnore in securities upon which we
-have borrowed money in Europe.
These securities, if due, will be col
lected, and the money paid to take
them up will not be reinvested here,
but will be skipped to Europe. If
the securities are not due, they will
be placed upon the markets and
those interested in the properties will
be forced to buy them in for self
protection.. This collection and sell
ing of American securities in Europe
has been one great cause of the ship
ment of gold out of the country
since the silver agitation began.
The capital which built our railroads
is very largely European capital ; the
capital which has developed our
mines and other resources has, much
of it, been borrowed in Europe by
the sale of stocks and bonds. As
these mature, or the investors be
come alarmed, the investment is
withdrawn and the money shipped
to Europe, and actually withdrawn
from ciaculation.
But if silver should be shipped in,
as is claimed, it would require many
-years to coin and get into circulation
an amount equal to the gold coin
now in circulation. The time re
quired for this is estimated by the
mint officials to be fifteen years.
Now is a eood time to begin an
active campaign by means of speak
. . ' . mt
ers tnrougnout our couniy. J.ae
camDaisn of reading: matter has
been well conducted, but many
men have not the time nor the
opportunity to iead. Such would be
glad to hear the issues discussed.
We have in our own midst many
men who have studied the questions
carefully, and who doubtless could
aid those who have had less time to
give to them, by public discussions.
If speakers from abroad cannot be
had, send those we have in our
midst; let there be an earnest cam
paign conducted in every commun
ity. There is no time to lose. The!
Republican party has nothing to lose
by a full discussion of the issues. If
the Republican position is thorough
ly nnderstood, there will be no ques
tion about the election of the Re
publican ticket.
THE GREATEST ISSUE,
Since January 1, 1896, we have
coined $11,212,412 in silver dollars
of 41 2 grains each, a larger amount
than the entire coinage of silver dur
ing any one year prior to 1873. The
largest coinage of silver by the
United States in any one year prior
to 1873 was in 1853, when the total
silver comsge was a little over nine
million dollars. Since 1873, and
prior to 1896. we have coined $544,-
142,477 in silver, and never has one
dollar of it passed for less than $1 in
gold, and it has always been readily
exchangable with gold. What better
treatment should silver ask?
Attorney-General Harmon speaks
the words 6f truth and soberness
when he criticises Mr. Bi yan's implied
promise that, if elected, he will do
nothing to maintain the authority of
the federal government until called
upon so to do by the government of
the state where the insurrection ex
ists. We . quote the Attorney-Gen
eral's words:
"This is, in my judgment, -a far more
eerioua matter than the money question
or any of the other questions now before
the people, crave as they are. Uur form
of eovernment may survive a wronede
ciaion on those questions, and the people
may endure for a time the evils which
result front fal?o systems of finance and
taxation, but if the president has delib
erately disregarded the instrument upon
which the onion is founded by supple
menting the authority of a sovereign
state by armed force, a precedent has
been made which threatens our form of
eovernment, while if a candidate for
president pledges himself in advance, as
Mr. Bryan has done, to do nothing to
protect the property, maintain the au
thority and enforce the laws of the
United States, unless and until the
officers of another government request
or consent, then we really have no fed
eral government; for a government
which is not entirely free to use force to
protect and maintain itself in the dis
charge of its own proper functions is no
government at all. .
"It was under the power conferred by
the section last named (Sec. 5298 R. S.)
that the late rebellion was suppressed.
Mr. Bryan's doctrine that this law is
unconstitutional is more dangerous than
that of secession. The latter, at least,
left the government some power and
authority in the territory which chose
to remain. Mr. Bryan's would reduce
it to the idle mimicry of the state.
"It must be that Mr. Bryan, amid the
many demands -on nis time ana atten
tion, has fallen into an inadvertence.
I cannot believe that be really thinks
the president has no power under the
constitution and laws to maintain the
government entrusted to his' charge.
Nor can I believe that Mr. Bryan means
to promise or to make or permit others
to think he has promised not to interfere
it he should be elected, and the situation
of the riots of 1894 should arise dnring
his term. I will not lightly question
either his knowledge as a lawyer of his
sincerity as a public man. Certainly,
bis letter is generally misunderstood un
less it means either that Mr. Bryan
thinks the president has no power, or
that he would himself not use it if
elected."
FALSE BY HISTORY.
We very
campaign managers
Free coinage of silver, at 16 to
will drive gold to a premium and
. keep it, there so long as the bullion
value of silver is less than $1.29 per
onnce. We think this is not seii
; onsly controverted, even by free
coinage advocates. Wages are al
ways the last to be affected by an
. upward tendency in prices; the em
ployer of labor will continue to pay
the same wages, but, will pay in the
depreciated money. Thus labor will
be paid in "53-cent dollars ;" not
necessarily in dollars worth 53 cents,
but in tne dollars which are now
worth 53 cents in bullion, and will
then be worth only their bullion
value and this is all that is meant
by the assertion that laborers will be
paid in 53-cent dollars. The Chron
icle i3 of the opinion that the elec
tion of Bryan will drive gold to a
premium at once, the disparity being
perhaps slight at first, and increasing
as the probability of free coinage
legislation increases, y-" When the
mints are opened and the bullion
owter is permitted to present his
much regret that our
allowed Gov
ernor McConnell of Idaho to come
and go without giving the people of
The Dalles an opportunity to hear
him. The people of this city would
have been glad to hear him, and we
believe he could have done much
good. He spent an evening here
few days ago, and left without being
invited to speak.
The per capita consumption of
wheat in the United States in 1890
was 6.09 bushels; the average for
1894-5 was 3.97 bushels. With the
same per capita consumption in 1895
that we had in 1890 under a Repub
lican administration, the quantity of
wheat exported in 1895, 164,000,000
bushels, would have been consumed
at home.
From now until election there
should be frequent public discussions
of the questions at issue in this cam
paign in evtry schoolhouse in the
county. The campaign of public
speaking is less active than it should
be, and this is the formation period.
What is the matter with our county
committee and our McKinley club ?
The farmers of Klickitat are not
likely to bring much wheat to The
Dalles this fall. The road from the
river to the foot of the hill is in very
bad condition, and as the report is
generally circulated that the boat
company has entered into a traffic
arrangement with the railroad, there
is no encouragement to make the
long haul through the sand. Fifty
dollars expended in covering the
sand with straw would obviate one
difficulty. A positive and unequiv
ocal denial on the part of the boat
sompany of the rumor would lemove
the remaining difficulty. The city
cannot afford to lose the business,
and the boat company cannot afford
to lose the good will of the farmers.
The, declaration of Mr. Bryan,
made at ' Madison Square August
12th and reiterated many times, that
the opening of the mints to the free
coinage of silver would bring the
price of silver up to $1.29 per ounce,
is proven untrue by the history of
silver in this country and in other
countries. The silver dollar, as
made by the act of 1732, was worth
less in the market than a gold dollar,
and gold went out of circulation
Uur silver dollars were even super
ceded by the worn, and therefore less
valuable, silver coins of other nations,
and in 1806 President Jefferson or
dered a suspension of the coinage of
the dollars. The undervaluation of
-silver by the law of 1792 was less
than one-sixteenth. To remedy the
difficulty the law of 1834 changed
the ratio to 16 to .1. This ratio
slightly undervalued the silver, and
it in turn went out of circulation, the
commercial ratio being about 15 to
1. The act of 1837 changed the rel
ative fineness of the two metals, so
that the ratio became 15.98- to 1
Still silver continued to be. exported
In 1853 the free coinage of coins
less than the dollars was stopped,
(This was a half "crime") and the
amount of silver in these smaller
coins was reduced, making them
about equal to their bullion value.
In the latter part of the fifties both
silver and gold went out of circula
tion, in the face of the lessMesirable
paper currency which came into
vogue.
The same old law that the cheaper
money will replace the dearer is older
than the boy orator, and much more
constant. We could not change the
value of silver from 1792 to 1834 by
the free coinage of silver at 15 to 1,
when the real value was 16 to 1. Is
it reasonable to suppose we can do
it when the value is only 32 to 1 ?
Staddard silver dollars are issued
by the treasarer for silver certificates
and treasury notes of 1890, and are
sent, at the expense of the govern
ment,' in sums or multiples of $500
Upon deposit of an equivalent sum
in U. S. currency- or national bank
notes with any U. S. depository,
fractional silver will be sent by ex
press, in sums of $200 or more, at
the expense of the government, or
by registered mail, at the risk; of the
consignee, in packages of $50, regis
tration free, to any one in the United
States. Yet on July 1, 1896, we
had $394,344,019 in silver in the
treasury.
At a recent meeting of Democrats
and Populists in this city, called to
organize a silver club, a number of
prominent Democrats were present,
A proposition to invite Mayor Pen
noyer to The Dalles to win followers
to the cause, was under discussion
when a prominent Populist, who evi
dently thinks Pennoyer is less friend
ly to the cause than he pretends, ex
pressed the real situation of the
Democratic party as follows: "Mr,
Chairman, I suggest that we get
somebody here who can catch the
Republicans; we've got all the Dem
ocrats already." - The Democrats
looked as a dog feels when it is being
wagged by its tail.
: .III
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A Patient Ctfrcd who was Afflicted with Rheu
" matism, Lotdikotor Ataxia in the Legs
and Paralysis of the Throat
It was in Prescott, Mich., the Patient was an Old
Soldier and has Hundreds of Friends.
The Case Reads Like a fliracle.
From the Zaketide Monitor, Au Sable, Mich,
entrust our govern-
Is it well to
ment to the party who selected the
rulers of the past four years? Is it
well to believe the promises of those
who four years ago promised pros
perity to the producer and manu
facturer? Is it well to place in the
White House a man who advocated
the last administration?
Mr. Bryan's campaign is based
upon the proposition that the inter
ests of. the laboring man aie adverse
to those of the employer of labor.
This is as absolutely false and perni
cious as was his claim four years ago
that the interests of the laborers of
this country would be best subserved
by free trade.
Subscribe for The Chboniclk.
Among the poor people who are
being stirred up by Bryan to prevent
them being enslaved by the gold
bugs, are the poor silver mine-own
ers John Mackay, Senator Wm.
Stewart, J. B. Haggin and W. A.
Clark, each forty millionaires; Sena
tor Jones, a twenty-five millionaire,
and a dozen ' other silver mine-owners
whose wealth ranges from ten to
fifty millions. A man in a glass
house should keep his missiles in
active. .
Under the unlimited free coinage
of silver from 1792 to 1873 we
coined in all $143,813,598.70, of
which only a little 1 over $8,000,000
was silver dollars. Since 1873, and
up to June 30, 1896, we have coined
$552,650,744.40, and we have not
demonetized gold either. '
The following table, compiled
from official statistics shows the dif
ference to' farmers of protective
and free trade policy:
Corn...;.
Oats .....
Wheat...
Eye.
Potatoes.
Hay
1888-92
39.8
, 85.2 '
87.2
68 0
59.0
9.54.0
1895.
26.4
19.9
50.9
44.0
26.5
8.86.0
"Open our mints, a demand will
be created for all the silver, and
there being no silver upon the mark
et' which cannot be converted into
money, there will be no silver which
can be purchased for less than $1.29
an ounce in gold." Thus said Bryan
at Kansas City. A more ridiculous
assertion never escaped a Populist's
lips. . ' ,
If employers of labor would go to
the silver standard today and pay
nothing but silver, as did the Carbon
Hill Coal Company in Washington a
few days ago, the free silver craze
among the laborers would vanish as
a silvery mist before the golden rays
of the sun. -
Where was Sewall then ?
Vermont
Next?
39,000; Maine 50,000.
But, then, is not Maine a state of
money lenders ana corporations r
Yes, Sewall lives there.
Maine speaks for McKinley 50,000
strong, and no shot guns are used in
elections up there, either.
Forced to Inoreana the Number of
Teachers. '
The public schools of this city have
been in session during the past week
and the attendance of pupils has been
so largely in excess of last year's enroll
ment as to tax to the utmost the seating
capacity of the school rooms, as well as
the efforts of all concerned, to prevent
overcrowding. "With the best arrange
ment possible to make, it has been
found necessary by the board of directors
to employ another teacher to relieve the
pressure, and at a special meeting of the
board, held last Saturday, Mrs. Ellen D.
Baldwin was engaged as an additional
teacher at the academy park building
for the present term, or for such time as
the number in attendance may require
her services.
The publisher of this paper having some
business to transact at Frescot, Ogemaw Co,
Michigan, Monday last, repaired to that ham
let. While there he chanced to learn of a
remarkable recovery from an illness of thirty-
four years standing, the fortunate person
being Thomas F. Gal vin. The writer hunted
that gentleman up, introduced himself, and
requested Mr. Gal vin to give a brief history
of his terrible disease and some history of
himself. Mr. Galvin's trouble culminated
three or four years since in three diseases
Rheumatism, affecting the general system ;
locomotor ataxia, affecting the legs, render
ing him unable to direct his course in walk
ing, and paralysis, rendering him unable to
use lips, throat or palate.
In giving a history of his trouble, Mr.
Gal vin said:
" In 1861 I enlisted in the army and was
made captain of Co. H.. 40th Illinois In
fantry. I was stationed at Paducah, Ky.; in
September of that year and while there
caught cold and contracted rheumatism.
was in the hospital there three months; when
1 recovered sufficiently to report for duty,
although far from well. Previous to this
time I had never been sick a day in my life
and weighed 195 pounds. I continued in the
service during the war, although suffering
all the time from rheumatism. At the close
- of the war, I was discharged and a few
months afterwards granted a pension of $9
per month for my disabilities. I was never
free from pain for thirty-three long years un
til late last tan or early in the winter.
continued to grow, worse all the time during
the entire period until last November. I was
then in a citable condition. I had been
stricken with paralysis and locomotor ataxia
in addition to my rheumatism, i or three
years I was helpless. I could not talk because
of paralysis. I could not walk because of the
locomotor ataxia, and my hands, arms and
. legs were all out of shape, withered and
drawn, trom rheumatism, iou see my
knees now. Just as limber as yours. Last
summer I could not move my knees, nor
could I tret them together within six inches.
You see my fingers, straight and nearly re
covered from their stillness. At that time.
if I attempted to walk, I was as liable to go
backwards or sideways or fall down as I was
to go forwards, because of the lack of power
of locomotion. My God, how I prayed for
years to die ana De relieved 01 my sunenngs.
"Had it not been that our Government
saw fit to increase my pension from $9 to $17
per month and cay me $3,140 back pension.
I should have suffered for the necessities of
life.
"Before this time I had treated with the
best medical men of detroit, Cleveland, Mil
waukee, Chicago and several other northern
cities, but, as I said, grew gradually worse
until I would not have given $1 for my
chances of life last November, and, in fact
would rather have been dead than alive. I
only weighed 132 pounds. You see me to
day. I weigh 175 and am free from pain en
tirely, am slowly but surely gaining strength.
You see I get up stairs all right, and I come
up these stairs a dozen times a day now. You
would not discover that I was ever unable to
speak. I shall go to work with my tools as
a carpenter soon, so as to help me increase in
strength. I was so long unable to take a
step that I do not feel hardly safe on ' my
Sins ' yet although I have not. fallen down
l several months. I am learning the use of
my legs, hands, arms and tongue again. I
guess you will think I have recovered the
turn of the latter if I keep on, but I want to
practice up again and make up for lost time
and tell every one of my now nappy lot
" I want to say now that for ten years pre
vious to last November, I had been able to
perform but little labor, and was totally dis
abled for nearly three yean. My Godt
I was in an awful shape. Mr. Anthony
Stone's folks here, with whom I boarded,
will tell you that they did not expect to find
me alive any morning when they came to
wake me, for over two yean. But here I am
yet, and can walk six or seven miles any
pleasant day without discomfort. My appe
tite is good and I enjoy sleep. If I was taken
as bad as ever again to-morrow, I have en-
1'oyed life so well for seven months, that it
ias a thousand times paid me for the trouble
and expense I have been to get relief.
"You ask me how I got relief T Well I
had not forgotten that part of it by a good
deal. But I am so happy when thinking
and talking about my recovery, that I can
not get in everything at once. No one but
myself can appreciate my condition before
last November, and now I want to say to any
one who may be affected with either rheu-.
matism, locomotor ataxia or paralysis, that
if they will write me, I will make affidavit at
to the facts I have stated and to what I owe
my recovery.
" As I stated, last November I was at my
worst, could neither eat, sleep, walk, talk, or
use my hands or feet in any way. I read in
some newspaper of some one who had been
similarly affected as I was. This person had
sought cure everywhere tor years and given
to die, when ne commenced taking ur.
Wil
illiams' Pink Pills for Pale People and
was cured. I did not have any faith in
them, but was prevailed upon to buy a half
dozen boxes for $2.50. I commenced taking
them the first of November, and in 30 days,
by following directions closely, I could see a
marked improvement in my condition.
"Well, I kept right on following instruc
tions to the letter. I bought another half
dozen boxes and then a third, of which I
have left nearly two boxes. It has cost me
$7-50 and I am going to make it an even $10
before I stop. Not that I fear that I am not
cured, for 1 never felt better every way in
my life. But I don't propose to take any
chances on quitting too soon.
"Am I sure that Pink Pills cured me?
Why should I not be f Did I not suffer the
agonies of hell for years without relief? Then
I took Pink Pills and came out in the shape
I am, as you see me to-day and then ask me
if I am sure ? Is a man sure he is jgoine to
die some time? I am just as sure Pink Pills
cured me as you are sure that you are going
to a long rest some time. Sure Pink Pills
cured me ? Well, I am happy to remark,
yes t A thousand times yes ?
"I know positively that I was cured by
Dr. Williams' Pink. Pills, and I believe
firmly that it is the most wonderful remedy
in existence to-day, and every fact I have
presented to you is Known to my neighDors as
well as to myself, and they will certify to the
truth of my remarkable cure."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a con
densed form, all the elements necessary to
give new life and richness to the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are an un
failing specific for such diseases as locomotor
ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effects of la grippe, pal
pitation of the heart, pale and sallow com
plexions, all forms of weakness either in
male or female, and all diseases resulting
from vitiated humors in the blood. Pink
Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent
post paid on receipt of price, (50 cents a box,
or six boxes for $2.50 'thev are never
sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing
Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Scheneo
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