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IF YOU SEE IT m lr iuu uun i ncnu Tlie Plaindealer The Plaindealer I You Don't Get the News, j IT IS SO. Vol.. XXVII. ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 1896. No. 53. . . .... tsafC A. SALZMAN, (Successor to J. JASKULEK.) Practical : Watchmaker, : Jeweler : and : Optician. DEALER IN H TCIIES, CLUCKS, JEWELRY. AND FANCY CUUDS. Ueilrlitl a BS js -.. Uoiiuinu LJ rnv.lllaii JEj'o GIiibsum mitl SpcctucleH A COMI'LKTE STOCK Or Cutlery, Notions, Tobacco, Cigars and Smokers' Articles. Also Proprietor :unl Uunucor of Rosoburg's Famous Itargnin Store. i T .If I- fi . , .J SCHOOL Kleventli Ycir necliis September jtti, 1896. Three Distinct Courses: Normal, Academic and Music. Stale diplomas, conferring tlie decree of Bachelor of Scientific Didactics, awarded to those ho complete the Normal course, 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 thud pay a part of their way through school. Drain is a quiet, healthful little.town, situated SO miles north of Roseburg, and has no saloons or other places of vice. The people are moral and trne friends of the student. The year jost closed has been a prosperous one for the school. For fall parlicuiarst ead for new catalogue, which will be promptly mailed to you. Lous IUbzee, li. S., President. e roniirj'i i-ihu una name, ft In Hcnson. H. T. BLUMB, Proprietor o! . I The City Meat Market, And Deader in PRIME BACON, HAMS, LARD, SOUTHERH OREGOH NORMAL Tlie ucw yenr opens Sept. 14. fonuntioit nddrcHs, ASHI.ANI), OR. Tho only Normal.School south ol Monmouth which has a tour -year Formal oturte of tturfii ana (r rants unlimited State Normal School Diplomas gooa ior inc. (Iradnatcs ot this school are allowed G2 credits by tlie Uni versity 01 ureeon and arc ad mitted to tho freshman class without examination. Training school throughout the year in charge of mem bers oi Senior class and critic teacher. Other Courses: Col lege Preparatory, Business, Music, Art, Teachers' Review Classes. Tuition hall board 1.7, family board JZ50 to 13.00. lodging in dormitory SO cents, student furnishing Doa-ciommK. rino winters, cure water. and good society. For new Catalogue or special W. T. VAN 8COV, PrcHldcut. Sacrifice Sale Now in Progress. 2 M. F. Rapp, Z LEADING PERSCR1PTION DRUGGIST, COMPLETE LINE OF AND FRESH MEATS OF ALL KIND. Roseburg, Or. EeBesB05BEeicHssiiieiaiiieBaaiBieKaB Orders Uicn and Delivered Free 10 aay part oi the City. A.C.MAR5TER5&C 0 JjcWioo Stmt. Kovcburg. Oregon. 5 Patent Medicines, Perfumeries. Toilet Articles. Holliday Goods FOR Gentlemen, Ladies and Children. ZIGLER& PATTERSON, Depot Grocers DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF STAPLE . AND . FANCY . GROCERIES.- COUNTRY PRODUCE BOUGHT AND SOLD. Give us a call. Goods delivered to r.ny part of the City in short order. Corner Lane A Sheridan .Streets. ROSEBURG, OREGON. OFY'-IC, HTj "Wall Paper A Choice Collection, at Prices that Sell. LIME PLASTER AND CEMENT. A FULL LIME OB WlfiDOW GLASS ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. Real Estate Bought and Sold Farms, large and small, to Rent, AND IMMEDIATE POSSESSION GIVEN. Stock Ranges, Timber Lauds and Mining Properties Prune and Hop Lauds of best quality, in choice locations in quantities to suit intending purchasers, at reasonable prices and easy terms. Inquire of 3D. S- K. BTTIOKI, Wfc9RvjeL, 2Lmaa&JI mm CJ aaaty, Ojx calujtK The Collins House First Hticct east of Depot, one block north, First Class $1.00 per Day House. Recently rcmo-lclvl, renovatc-l and refurnished. ami uvkkv htaiilu in connection. WYLIE PILKINGTON, 'Successor to 0. W. NOAH,) General Blacksmithing rROTTINQ AND RUNNING PLATES A SPECIALTY, KE TAMING OF ALL. KINDS PKOMITLY DONE. HIiop on Corner WnHliltiKtou nittl Itnnc 8tn., Roscburg. ROSEBURG Marble and Granite Works. B. W. AGHISON & G0.3 Projrs. Dealers In all kinds ot Marbic and Granite Monuments and Headstones, Portland Cement Curbing For Ccmotory LotH. Estimates Furnished on all kinds of Cemetery Work OIUcc uud BalcHreom. 711 onk Hired. REPLY TO At. LEMHER. II. Sin: In my last I promised you that I would produce substantial and irrefu table evidence that many of the leading advocates of free and unlimited coinage of silver, being influenced by personal motives, aie not honest in advocating it as a national necessity. I hereby present you with an extract from a speech made by tho Hon. John .Sherman, the ablest financier our coun try has produced, who was present in the senate when the speeches were made, and parts or extracts from which, he quotes as follows : "It has been eaid that the dropping of the silver dollar in the coinage act of 1873 was surreptitiously done. This charge is shown to be false by tho debate in congress and especially by the declara tions of the 'men who make the charge. Sixteen months after the passage of that act Senator Jones, of Nevada, in debate in the senate, June 11, 1874, said : I am oppoeed to any proposilion, in whatever way it may come, that attempts to override what God himself has made for money. I believe the sooner we come down to a purely gold standard the better it will be lor tho country. ''April 1, 1874, he said: Does this congress mean now to leave entirely out ot view and discard forever a standard of value? And what t.ut gold can be that standard? What other thing on earth possesses the requisite qualities? Gold is the articulation of commerce. It is gold that has lifted the nations from barbarism. It is the common denominator of values. It makes possible the classification of labor and the interchange of commodities. Gold has intervened in bargains made between men since the dawn of civiliza tion and it has never failed to faithfully fulfill its part as the universal agent and servant of mankind The valne of gold is not affected by the stamp of the government. "Senator Stewart, of Nevada, on the same subject, on the 12th of June, 1S74, said : Sir, the laboring man and the pro ducer is entitled to have his proJuct and his labor measured by the same stand ard of the world that measures your na tional debt Give him such a stand ard ; give him such money as you require from ttim. You require it from the pro ducer. You require it from tbe laboring man; gold to par the interest on jour national debt, which is right, which can not be avoided if you mean to save the national honor, but then give him the same money with which to pay that debt. The question will never be settled until yea determine tbe f imple question whether the laboring man is entitled to have a gold dollar if he earns it, or whether you are going to cheat him with somethicg else. That is the upshot of the whole thing. Everybody has to say that tbe laboring man is entitled to a good dollar. That was fought over. They will fight it over again and the same party will win. There have been a great many battles fought against gold, but gold has won every time. Gold never has comptotnised Gold has made the world respect it all the time. The Enclith people thought they could get along without gold for a while, but tbey bad to come back to it. "On June 1, 1S74, Senator Jones and Stewart and all the representatives and senators of the silver stales were urgent and honest in saying that gold was the best and only standard of value, but they changed their minds when the largely in creased and increasing production of silver in Nevada and other states re duced the market value of silver below that of gold at the established ratio of 1G to 1. They then wanted a matket for their silver. They wanted to pay exist debts and obligations contracted upon the gold basis in silver, but took care in their contracts to stipulate for the payment of gold on them, and this has been and is now the general practice in the silver states." "When these seeches were delivered, tho persons who made ttiem, were, in whole or in part, owners of silver mines, and are so now. At that time silver was worth 103 in the markets of the world. They didn't need the nssistanee of ths government to seep it at par, conse- ouentlv spoke tho honest sentiments of their minds; conditions are changed now. Silver, itheir tilver) is quoted in the markets of tho world, at nearly 50 per cent below par. They can't afford to mine it at that price, or if they do mine it. tbev loose nearly half of it, conse quently, we, the people, by making it a national affair, must assist them must agreo to take it, their private property, at par to prevent loss to them. AYith as much justice and propriety might our farmers demand that tho government make their wheat a legal tender at $1.00 per bushel? Each is the private prop erty of tho owner, boing the product of their labor, and should receive like treatment by tho government and if we may discriminate in f.ivor of any class of our citizens, let it be the farming and laboring classes, rather than the million aire miner. I am convinced that a law making a silver do'.Iar.untrinsically worth only 50 or GO cents, or any other sum be low 100 cents) belonging to private indi viduals or miners, a legal tender for all debts, would bo class legislation, there fore unconstitutional, consequently void; but as tho platform of tho demulist- popocrntic combination proposes to re vise tho Supremo Court to suit them selves, I suppoEQ a small thing liko that, if correct, wouldn't stop tho circus. Unfortunately, they have persuaded many honest, but deluded minds, to 1 lievo that there is a deficiency in the amount of money in circulation, where with to transact the business of tho coun try, and tho only remedy for which, is to coin, and make legal tender of this private properly, which intrinsically is worth only half as much as we must take it at, thereby enriching them, al ready millionaires. How are you and I and all of our neighbors or any other man who is dependent on his daily labor to get any of it, if we have neither property or labor with which to possess ourselves of it? Read carefully, the following truthful and common senfe remarks, made at NASBY'S VIEWS. Great Truths Related in a Humorous Vein. The following was written for the To ledo Blade in 1878 by Petroleum V. Nasby: Confederate X Boads (which is in the State of Kentucky), Jan. 22, 1878,-1 ain't so certin that I want the silver bill Canton. O , by McKinley, toa delegation j to pass ez I was. The fact is, the thing of farmers a few days ago: I don't work ez I sposed it wood, and I "You cannot help the farmer by free coinago of silver. He can only be he) ped by more consumers lor his products. Better a thousand times enlarge the markets for American products than en largo the mints for tbe silver products of tbe world. You mignt just as well understand now that you cannot add value to any thing by diminishing tbe measure of value with which the thing is sold or exchanged. If you can do so, and yon want to benefit the farmers, then make the bushel smaller, the pound lighter, and declare a dozen less than 12. The home market is the beat friend of the farmer. The best consumers for the American farmer are those at home. They consume 13 times as much of the products of the farm as the foreign con sumer. When be has customers he wants his pay for -what he sells in Bach unquestioned coin that be will know it is good not only today, but will be cer tain to be good every day of the year and in all parts of the world. Free sil ver will not cure overproduction nor un derconsumption. Free stiver will not remove the competition ot Russia, India and the Argentine Republic, ibis com petition would remain if you would coin all the silver in the world. Free silver will not increase the demand for your wheat or make a eingle new customer. You don't get customers through the mints, xoudoget them through tbe actones. 1 on will pot get them by in creasing the circulation of money in the United states lou will only get them by increasing the manufacturing estab- isnmcnts in tbe United fctates. 'Plant the factory by the farm," said Jackson, and that is as wise and applica ble now as when the hero of New Orleans eaid it years ago. The printer saja halt, again. Hoping to see you later I remain yours for more work, wages, prices and our present dollar. cook Nik. THE LAW OF 1878. Silver Dollars a Legal Tender to any Amount. 1S77-73. Chapter XX. An act to authorize tbe coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its lteal-ten- der character. Be it enacted, That there shall be coined at tbe several mints of the United tares silver dollars of the weight of 412,1;; grains, troy, of standard silver, as provided in the act of January IS, 1837, on wnicu snail ce ine uevices ana super scriptions provided by said act; which coins, together witli all saver dollars heretofore coined by the United States of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal tender, at their nominal value, for ail dells anddoes, public and private except where otherwise stipulated in the contract. And the secretary of the treasury is authorized and directed to purchase from time to time silver bull ion, at the market price thereof, not less than $2,000,000 worth per month, nor more than $4,000,000 worth per month. and cause the same to be coined monthly, as last as so purchased, into sucn dol lars ; and a sum sufficient to carry out the foregoing provision of this act is hereby appropriated out of any money in me treasury not otnerwise appro priated. And any gam or seigniorage arising irom una coinage snail be ac counted for and paid into the treasury as provided under existing laws relative to the sub-idiary coinage; provided that tlie amount ot money at any one time invested in such silver bullion, exclusive of such resulting coin, shall not exceed fo.OOO.OOO And, provided, further, that nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the payment in silver ofcer tificatei of deposit issued under the pro visions of section 254 of the revised stat utes. Sec. 2. That immediately after the passago of this act tbe president shall invite the governments of the countries composing the Latin union, so-called, and of such other Eutopean nations as he may deem advisable, to join the United states in a conference to adopt a common ratio between gold and silver, ior tlie purpose oi establishing, interna' tionaiiy, the use oi bimetallic money, and securing iixity oi relative valne be tween those metals; such conference to be held at such place, in Europe or in the United States, at such time within six months, as may be mu tually agteed upon by the executives of the governments joining in the same. whenever the governmeuts so invited. or any iLree 01 tnjru, snail have signi fied their willingness to unite in the same. Tho president shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, ap point three commissioners, who shall at- teud such conference on behalf of the United States and shall report the doincs thereof to the president, who shall trans mit the same to congress. Said commissioners shall each receive the sum of $2500 and their reasonable expenses, to be approved by the secre tary of state ; and the amount necessary to pay such compensation and expenses is hereby appropriated out of any money in tbe treasury not otherwise approjro pruned. sec. o, mat any bolder 01 tbo coin authorized by this act may deposit the samo with tlie treasurer, or any assist ant treasurer onne united states, in sums not less man $iu, and receive therefor certificates of not less than $10 each, corresponding to the denomina tions of tho United States notes. The coin deposited for or representing the certificates shall bo retained in the treasury for tho payment of the same on demand. Such certificates shall bo receivable for customs, taxes and all public dues, aud when so received may be reissued. Sec. 4. ah acts and parts ot acis 1 consistent with tho provisions of this act are hereby repealed . I Note. Tho above act having been returned by the president of the United States, with his objections, to the house ol representatives, rebruary !:, 1S7S was passed by both houses and became law on tho samo day. ain't clear onto it. There is Buttle prin ciples in these finanshel questions wich requires a great deel uv thought, and there is underlying principles wich a man has got to undeistand afcre he is competent to Eet hisself up ez anthority. One thing I'm certain uv, Bascom ain't no finaneeer, nor never will be, and 1 told him eo. Wat is a finanseerV" asked he. A finanscer," sed I, assooming the look of Dan'l Webster, "is a man wich kin pay his debts with notbin a man wich kin git suthin with nothin." "The Corners, then, is full of finan- seers," he remarkt, bitterly, casting a casual glance at his slate, which wnz jist full enuff to turn over and begin on tother side. But he hezn't "any uv the science uv it. wuz argooing with him the other day in favor uv my noshun uv a leather cur rency, though I told him silver wuz much the same thing, and, for .example, would assoom that silver wuz to be the currency uv the fucher. "Now, don't yoo see, Bascom, that ef bed twict ez much money, I coold drink twict ez much whisky and pay for it?" "How Much is Twice Nothin?" wuz the urjfeelin' answer uv the tyrant who holds the destinies of the Corners in his hands. "That's wot yoor capitle hez bin ever since I knowd you.' "Parson," sed he, "I don't see what arthly difference it's goin' to make whether silver is currency or anything else. How are 3 00 goin' to git silver el it is made legal tender? Ef silver wnz ez plenty ez bricks, what hey you got to get any uv it with?" "Troo, G. W" wuz my answer; "but can't yoo Eee that to hev silver wood re lieve the dettor class? Even now, aforo it is legal tender, it's only wnth 92 cents on the dollar, and whep the country is floodid with it, it will go still lower. Then we or rather sich nv ua ez hey property to raise money on kin pay off" Eggsactly so," retorts Bascom; "you kin pay me for the Ood, honist likker uv mine, wich you hev consumed, in coin, wich is lets than the dollar you promised. All rite. But look here come in here, all uy yoo. I want yoo silver men to know exactly What Yoo are Rushin' Into." And this feend led us into the back room that back room wich contanes the subsistence uv the Corners. There, in long rows wuz Bascom's etock. There, in barrils, piled one on top uv another, wuz the delishus whisky uv Louisville, uv different ages, rangin' from that uv two weeks old to that which hed jest left the still and was scarcely cold yit There it lay, and ez my eye ranged affecishnn- ately over it I felt ef I could hev the drinkin' of all that likker I wood be con tent to lay down and die when the last drop wuz gone. Bascom p'inted to the immense tank wich he had erected within a few days, with a pipe runnin' in from the roof. "1 shan't raise the price of likker in consekence of being paid for.it in depro- shtated currency," sed he. I fell on Bascom's neck, in an exstacy uv delite, while the others shouted, "rah for Bascom." "G. W.," I remarked, while teers suf- foosed my eyes, I never placed von much below the angele, but thi3 gener ous act has lusted you a hundred per cent in my estimashun. Bless you, G. W., bless you." "But 111 tell you what I shell do. Do you see that tank?" sed he. "May I ask what that is for?" I sed. "That tank Will Fill With Rane Water." sed he. "The moment yoo git to payin' me in silver, I shell take out uv each uv them barrils jist epgsackly three and one-fifth gallons uv likker, and fill it with water." "Merciful hevings," we all exclaimed, "and yoor likker so weak now I" And when silver gits down to 75 cents on the dollar, I shel take out 25 per cent uv whisky and fill her up with 25 per cent of water. And so on down. Ef silver goes up I shel add whisky egssaekly in proporehen. In short, my whisky is jist agoin' to fo'.Ier currency and nothlu' shorter. Y00 fellew wich work for wages may swet, but 11 won't." "But yoo'l increase tho size of yoor glasses?" ted I. "Not any. But you may driuk twice ez many times to git tho same amount uv drinks ez before, by payin' for each drink." And Bascom stalked hawtily back and took hii posishen behind bis bar. Ther wuz cousternashun in the Corn ers sich ez I hev never seen. Ther wuz a hurried consultashun at the Deekin's house and I sejested that we emancipate ourselves from the domiuyun uv this tyrant by startin' a grosery uv our own on the joint stock principle, which wuz agrojd to, each man agreein' to contrib bit $10 to the capital stock, which wood Coucluded on 4th page.