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I ir irnii orr ti tit j IF YOU DOfiT READ ir ruu anc 11 in t.. i The Plaindealer The Plaindealer '1 i IT IS SO. j f ! i You Don! Get the News. Vol. XXVII. ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, i8g6. No. 45. A. SALZMAN, (Successor to J. JASKULEK.) Practical : Watchmaker, : Jeweler : ant! : Optician. DKALKR IS VTCUES, CLOCKS, JKWELUY. AND FANCY COOPS. twotitituo lEz-iivslllsiit JByo GIiikkck mill iu-Iom J COliriJCTE STOCK OK Cutlery, Notion?, Tobacco. Cigars and Smokers' Articles. Also l'n)5rtul.r ami Slnuner of ttosolmrg's Famous Harmful Storo. STRTE -r NORMHL SCHOOL- KlcvcutU Ycir tie-ins September 7U1, 1896. Three Distinct Courses: Normal, Academic and Music. Slate diplomas, conferring tho Jeered of Bachelor of Scientific Didactic?, awarded to those lio complete the Normal coarse, and pay the required fee. Diplomas from the school to those who finish the other courses. Thorough work and teachers.training department. -Expenses low. A limited amount of work will be given those who wish to thus pay a part of their way through school. Drain is a quiet, healthful little. town, situated 30 miles north of Roseburg, and has no saloons or other places of viea. The people are moral and true friends of the student. The year jest closed has been a prosperous one for the school. For fall particulars! tend for new catalogue, which will be promptly mailed to yen. Louis Bakzee, B. S., President. H. T. BLUMB,. Proriletor of The City Meat Market, And Dealer in PRIME BACON, HAMS, LARD, AND FRESH MEATS Orders Ukcn and Delivered Free to tzj juri of the City. K0BCB8S8BCB8B3B8B9B8E0Bft0S6BCB9B0flCBSBtS6BB8B8E0B A. C. MRSTER5 & Co ... . -fG SJ "W"a;ll Paper f.' A Choice Collection, at Prices that Sell. LIME PLASTER AMD CEMENT. A FULL LIflE OF WIflQOW GLASS ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. Real Estate Bought and Sold Farms, large and small, to Rent, AND IMMEDIATE POSSESSION GIVEN. Stock Ranges, Timber Lands and Mining Properties Prune and Hop Lands of best quality, in choice locations in quantities to suit intending purchasers, at reasonable prices ana easy terms, inquire 01 ID. S. .EC BUIOK, ii I'oultrjr, Klsli utitl Cmuc In Season. OP ALL KINDS. Roseburg, Or. 5 The new yenr opens Kept, formatloii ntlUrcHH, 14. Sacrifice Sale Now ;-iM. R Rapp, LEADING. 2 PE INSCRIPTION S DRUGGIST, JacVson 5trcet. Roxbarz. Oregon. Patent Medicines, Perfumeries. Toilet Articles. Z1GLER & PATTERSON,. D ot Q DEALEIls IX STAPLE . AND . FANCY . GROCERIES. COUNTRY PRODUCE Give us a call. Goods delivered to Corner Lane & Sheridan Streets. The Collins House Flm Stiett cait of lX'iot, one block north, First Class $1.00 per Day House. f.u nil)- rei.;oJe'.eil, renovate! and rcfumiwiel. JDST- KKED AM) UVIJUY HXAIII.K IX CONNKCTIO. -8i MYLIE PILKINGTON, 'Successor to O. W. NOAH, General Blacksmithing TROTTING AND RUNNING PLATES A SPECIALTY, REl'-VIKING OK ALL. KIND3 I'KOMITLY DOSE. HIioii on Corner Washington ROSEBURG Marble and Granite Works B. W. Murine Estimates Furnished on Olllcc ami HalcNroom SOUTHERN OREGON 1111 aoi ASHLAND, Oil. The only Normal jfclinol fouth of Monmouth which hni a four year Xormal cuurt of tlmbj nml urants unlimited Mate Normal School DipIoiDHS roo1 lor life. (i rail nates ot thla hcIioijI arc allowed crc.llts ly the Uni versity of Oregon ami are nil mittcd to the Freshman clan without examination. Training school throughout the yenr in charge of mem ber of Senior clou anil critic teacher. Other Courses: (JoN leiro l'repnratory, Kusincjg, ;?Vi MhsIo, Art, Teachers' Jtcvlew Tuition,-. liall board II.7S, idintiy loam yrro to lodjtluic in dormitory v' vVCS. '&', Vv. so cents, siuueiu lurnwning Mf&B-'tS. IH-Klothins. Vsrttr TT. WCifSi Fine winters, pure water, and Rood society. For new Cntnlojjue or special in. W. T. VAX SCOY, ITCHltlcilt. gress A COMPLETE LINE OP Holliday Goods FOR Gentlemen, Ladies and Children. rocers ALL KINDS OF BOUGHT AND SOLD. cny part of the City in short order. KOSEBUKG, OREGON nml ICane HtH., KoHcbnrg. AGH1S0N & CO., ProprsJ Deitlcrsln all kinds ol am! (Jrmiilc ioimimi'iits and Hemlstoncs, Pro Portland Cement Curbing iVr Contetery Juls.- all kinds of Cemetery Wor 7" Oak Street. LET US CONSIDER IT. It lias lioen (said by rm iiljh; v.jiter:, "He who will no', n.ieoti i3 a hiol, ho i wtio dare nut reason is a coward :.:id hi who cannot r. ason i. ;i fool " As 11 foundation upci which to ti ar a logical struc'ure, knwIoHge id factp, ' thenries f.nd lelutioii uf causea -ii I rf (ml iimaL 1 u (.ltattieI lie uliu U el)- -louf fr im invftii; Ui a I tii'-jr fn). 1'inii or a ft u ol lac a as- stime ! to -s!st, liecan-- t'aey an- ilis tah'.cfnl to liia predel:c:inc3, i.!ota or no tions of things, is illy fi t"d to i-orreclly 1 iue of tin truth or fnlt-itv of :i rutittur. In the domain of politic in ilic ''nited Stat ; t' ero ii force-.! iijk.h titer copies qvitition preKnaut with mighty reEtilts the queftion of mott&y. Money, in its proper iense, is a medium of tram-fen iog one kind of property fcr another. Aside from this use of gold or silver, as money, they have but little intrinsic value, i. e., value in and of themselves, such as food and drink to nourish the and fuel and clothing to protect the body from inclement weather. 15nt the ex- srience of men has shown theul that two mcta's aro better suited to be used as money than any other obtainable in Euflkient quantities. These ate gold and eilver. For the reason that these meluis are ss destructible and !eF3 liable lo corro- on from contact with the elements an-I tther destroying S'ibstance?, thece meials ara tho best adapted for money es. It Las Leen found also that of le two gold is the n.ost indcftructihle and less cortosive, ar.d probably for that reason it is the more valued cf the wo. But whether that be so or not. it a fact beyond controvert', that an ounce of gold at the time of the eatab- sbment of this covernment in 1702, as considered rqual in va'ue to 15 ounces of silver, and on th3t rutio, the cocsress fixed the relative value of the t;o!d and silver coin. This ratio continued in law till 1S31, but the commercial ral:o3 fluctuated kept widening till by the decreasing ilue ot silver bullion compared with the gold bullion wes nearly 10 of silver to 1 oi gold. Now it is neatly 32 ol sil ver to 1 of roIJ, in their bullion state. It is also a fact that as cemmoditie?, uncoined pure gold is worth as ninch as coined void, while silver bullion i not worth bat littlo more than ha'-f what it is coined. This fact of coined silver being wcrth in tho United States about double what t is in the bullion seems to lead our sil- ites to claim it is the government stamp that c.ives it its value, i. e., fiat of law males an ounce of eilver now worth a dollar, while unstamped it is only worih cents. If, then, the government tamp makes an ounce of silver bnllion woith one dollar, why stop at one dollar an ounce? Why not stamp it twenty dollars instead of one? Then we would soon have 10 billion dollars of silver money instead of 500 millions. That woold give U3 a big i-er cajiu of money about fl4U per head lor man, woman and child. We could do business on that we think. But such a preposition is too absurd for even silverites to entertain. Such a proposition would not be maintained for a minute by the wildest free stiver coin- ageite. WAGES AND PRICES. The desite ot the hsart and tlu bur den of the song of the popecrat is to bet ter the condition of the common peo ple" or "tho masses," but he does not make it quite clear whom he means bv common people" or by "the masses. Strictly speaking, we are a nation of 'common people," if titles oi nobility are evidence of superiority. Nobilitvof character and dignity of labor are th basis of our social and political life, but they are attribues of lofty manhood and cannot be conferred by edict. .More over, we are a nation of capitalist?, and every capitalist is a sovereign. It must be, then, that the popocrata mean to better the condition of si! tho people and not a particular class, but do they mean the people generally when they task about the "common people?" Cer tainly not. They mean workiugmcn a class of citizens or sovereigns whom plutocratic class are said to be trving to en.-lave. Assuming that we have a plutocratic class that is bent upon makipg indus trial slaves ot .the common people, are thev Iikelv to succeed when, there could not be more than one "plutocrat" to ninety-nine "common people?" 15ut it is tho wage-earners lliat the pppocrats are to solicitous about, and it is fir thei gieat, glorious nnd e'erunl good that they would open tho mints of tho nation to the free and unlimited coinage of il ver without any safeguards whatever, Without .stopping to inquire to what ex lent these pojocrat orators are. moved to champion the cause of la'ior by the hope of ollice, wo would ask th-jui how labor is to lie benefitted by their monetary theories? It would not be benefitted at all, but it would be greatly damaged. Tho workinginairs capital is his me chanical (kill, brain and linucio. lie employs his capital and his wages are his interest, and his interest money re munerates his capital exactly in ratio to its puichaso power in tho maikut where hu buys his supplies. Now, tho workitigtuati buys everything ho uses, lie produces nothing whatever Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report DrAtl Batons ABSOLUTELY PURE for h'uiself but his wages. And not only w, but ho ia a creditor man. The ntouient he begins U employ his skill or muile i-n -Monday morning, he becomes his employer's creditor, and the debt in creases every hour nntil pay-day comes when the account is settled. Hut the populist tell him that if the mints were open to the free coinage of silver, inde pendent of the labor that produces very many of his supplies, and which buys much of his employer's product, his wages would bo higher. Lst that be granted, but would not his supplies ad vance in price too? "Would not every thing he bays cost more? And does the industrial or commercial world give any account of wages ever rising higher than commodity price? On the contrary, there is cot a line of history that does not prove that advances in waeea are never in proportion to the advance in labor's supplies. The history ot labor and prices is that prices move up quickly and often vi !ent!y, whereas wages are the last to ad- vacce and the first to decline. What the "common people" and "the masses' require is a circulating money medium that is free from value fluctua tion When the workinzman goes to work on Monday morning and credits his employer until pay-3ay he wants to know that he will be paid in dollar?, whose stability is as firm as the ever lasting hills. The monetary system of this country makes all forms of money terchangeable on their own merit, but their merit is obtained from their abil ity to exchange themselyes for a stand ard of money which is recognized every- vhere as possessing full redemption ower whether in the form of money or os a merchantable commodity. fc. b. Call. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. In 1S92 Mr McKinley said: "The tariil is now eighteen months old and doing its own talking." The demo cratic tariff is now two years old, and has been talking long enough to talk a great many flourishing industries to death. Kansas City, Mo., Journal. Toe popular demand for McKinley for president is evidence that the country will lie satisfied with nothing less than thai the question of protection must be pus!. el to the front and kept thete. It is bound to be the issue once again, and under the circumstances it will be the heading issue. Wheeling, W. Va., Intellisence. The depressed conditions of trade and labor demand speedy return to a policy of high protection to American indus tries. It is scandalous that this country, which during thirty years of republican administration had been steadily reduc ing a national debt that was swollen to huge proportions of the war engendered by a long period of democratic ascend ency, again has been forced to become a borrower from foreign nations. The in crease of the national debt fn a season of peace is the result of that deficiency of revenue that low tariff never tails to bring about. In the time of protection and prosperity the currency question was nt troublesome. There is no rea son to beliere that it will be troublesome when protection and prosperity again prevail Chicago, 111., Inter-Ocean. So far as the worktngmen, business men, farmers and manufacturers are concerned, silver is a little issue like the last paper on the tail of the kite. They all think that what this country needs is moic work, nioro business, better mar- kets and a solid home market for home manufactured goods likewise more rev enue, so that the government shall not run behind many millions of dollars a year. Tribune, Tiffin, Ohio. Tho thousands of wool growers who have suffered a loss of many millions of dollars during tha post three yeare, the millions of artisans who were out of em ployment durinn the democratic panic and who have been employed since at reduced wages, the hundreds of thou sands of manufacturers who have seen the fires die out of their furnaces because of tho industrial depression, the other thousands of merchants who have seen their business dwindle during the past three or four years, and the millions of pjople who have felt in one way or an other the effects of tho depression all these are satisfied with tho present monf v ttiunlard of the country. All they want is to get more of (lie money we have, as much, for instance, as they got in the prosperous days of 1S02, when thd United States was on the high tide of prosperity under the oporation of the Mckinley law. These are the people who are iieiiiuKunig a restoration ot re publican protection, the enactment of a tariff law that will be fair to the people of all sections of the country, and which will not. only atlord protection to the' capital and labor of ILo United States, Powder bnt at the same time ,make good the democratic deficite in the treasury and provide money with which to pay the running expenses of thagovernment. Cleveland, Ohio, Leader. GOLD, SILVER, MONEY. A popnli3t orator asserted in the Mis souri state convention the other day that "The government fixes the value ol gold by making 22.23 grains of fine met al equal a dollar. If the government can do that it can make a silver dollar by legislation." The trouble with oar populist friend is that he is ignorant. The government of the United States does not fix the value of gold by assert ing that a given number of grains are a dollar. The grains in a dollar are put there by international commerce and were our populist orator to melt a gold dollar and take the lump to the mint of any nation he would get the equivalent of an American gold dollar, less a small charge for coinage. The stamp of a na tion upon gold coin is to certify to its fineness and not its quantity. If 371.25 grains of pure silver, that is, an Ameii can silver dollar, were melted the lump would be worth 54 centajind no more at the mint of this or any other nation. Mr. Bryan and his popocrat follow ing say that an act of congress would close the gap in yalue between 54 cents and 100 cents, which is the difference in the value of 371.25 grains of fine Bilver in bullion and in an American dollar, but they do not explain how they are going to make the people ofother nations ac cept such dollars in payment for com modities purchased by us. The reason why 371 .25 grains of pure silver in the form of an American dollar is the equivalent of 22.23 grains of pure gold, either in coin or bnllion, is because the faith, the integrity and the moral sense of the government are pledged to maintain silver dollars not silver bnllion at par with gold, but were the issue of silver and paper dollars unlimited the government could not carry out it pledge. The republican party's plan to close the gap between silver and gold is to bring the nations with whom we do bus iness together and enter into an agree menta mutual agreement that silver dollars or bnllion stall be held in like esteem with gold dollarr or bullion shall be held in like esteem with gold dollars or bullion, and that either one or vboth shall be accepted in the settlement of balances. The republican party does not believe that the American Congress has the right or the power to establish a monetary system as the basis of trade relations with other countries without consulting them, nor does it believe we could maintain trade relations with other countries without ah international monetary system. "We have a system now which makes 22.23 grains of fine gold the unit of value and the dollar of final redemption, but it is desirable that the valns of redemption or balance settlement money be increased by an amount equal to the production of silver, and -'the republican party is pledged to accomplish it by a conference with the nations in interest. S. F. Call. The secretary of the treasury. John G. Carlisle, purchased and had on hand Dec.l9,lS93, $140,699,760 fine ounces silver bnllion purchased nnder net. nf July 14, 1S90, costing 126,75S,2IS worth at legal ratio 15.9SS to 1 of gold and worth ?1SI,914,S99. The act provided that after July 1, 1S9I, the secretary should coin as much of the bullion pur chased under the act as might be neces sary to provide for the redemption of the notes and cannot be lawfully used for any other purpose. To coin this bul lion, senioraga and all, it would require the mints, run to their full capacity, five years to coin, so said the secrstary. The conditions of 1891 can be brought back, as they surely will be, under a re publican president and congress that an impatient hut patriotic people will re store to power in the coming election. False economic policies, first threatened and then carried out in the Wilson law, had more to do in depressing the price of wheat and of all prices than the de monetization act of 1873. Hon. Robert J. Gamble, M. C, of South Dakota. In 1S92, under McKinley tariff laws, a hundred pound sheep would buy 137 .9 pounds of sugar in Chicago. In 1896, a similar 6heep will only buy 67K pounds of sugar. This fact farmers will do well to think over before they vote for Bryan, free silver and free trade. Under a McKinley tariff in 1892 a good horse would sell for $162 in the city of Chi ago. In 1S96, under the Gorman Wilson tariff, a horse equally as good sells for $60. 3