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The only Republican Daily Newspaper
Wasco County.
MONDAY.
OCT. 26. 1896
EASTERN OFFICE 230 to 234 Temple
Court, N. Y. City. . E. KATZ, Agent.
MOM REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President,
WILLIAM M'KINLEY Ohio
For Vice-President,
GARRET A. HOBART New Jersey
For Presidential Electors,
T. T. GEEK Marion County
B. M. YOKAN .: Lane
15. L- 6M1TH Wasco
J. F. CAPLES. Multnomah
THE PROSPEROUS TIMES.
The following letter, written by a
gentleman now past 84 3'ears of age,
recites his own personal experience
and observation during the good old
days when we had free coinage.
His statesments bear more weight
than all the combination of figures
ot statisticians or the tables of prices
prepared by politicians. "Good old
days" are not at all what they are
represented to be by politicians.
Prosperity under free coinage is a
beautiful myth.
Editor of The Chronicle:
The Popocratic party find the explan
ation of hard times low prices, low wages,
scarcity of money, scarcity of work, all
in the crime of 1S73, when the wicked
Republicans Btruck down silver, made
sold the standard by which to adjust the
value of greenbacks, the purchasing
power of wages, and the worth of com
modities, of securities, of everything.
This crime of '73, committed in political
conclaves, surreptitiously, clandestinely,
and with the eyes of the people all blind
folded, is now the stock in trade of all
the campaign rhetoric of the boy orator
and his echoing satellites. "Before the
crime of '73," say they, "we had bimjet
allism, we had the 'silver dollar of the
daddies,' we had free coinage, we bad
good times."
To a man like the writer, who bas
been personally present, a living witnees
of all the events of contemporary history
for seventy-five years, all this political
slobber and campaign rot, if it were not
so offensive, would be specially amusing.
Before the crime (?) of '73, in the days
of the dollar of tlie constitution, who ever
saw an American silver dollar or the
lesser coirs of the constitution? There-
were some made. The record shows
that silver dollars to' the amount of some
$8,000,000 had been coined previous to
1873; bat silver was so scarce and so
dear that it could not float as money. It
was converted into watch. cases, spoons
and plate. We didn't have any silver
money of our own coinage, we had Span
ish, Mexican, French and German coin,
bnt not our own in general nse.
- Since 1873 silver has become cheap by
reason of overproduction, and instead of
being "struck down" by so-called de
monetization, has been coined in our
mints . by hundreds of millions and
stamped as dollars and held up to the
full value of gold dollars by the strength
of law when not worth much more than
half their face.
But about the good times before '73,
when we had the dollar of the daddies,
the silver tf the constitution, free and
unlimited coinage. . The writer lived in
those days, before the Erie cacal wag
finished, when farmers drew wheat from
the' Genesee river to the Hudson river,
250 miles, more or lees, on wagons, and
loaded back with goods for the country
merchant. ' Wheat wae worth at Albany
sometimes fifty cents and sometimes a
dollar. It fluctuated as now. But the
silver of the constitution (.if he got It,
which he did not) would scarcely grease
the wbeela of bis wagon. .- Later on, after
the canal was in nBe, when Rochester
was the market town of Western New
York, then bow bard the times of the
farmers who hauled 'their wheat thirty.
forty, siztv miles. Then what were the
-wages of labor?. Fifty cents a day. Not
79 Second Street.
in money; but in porK, in canaieB, in
flour, in maple sugar. In harvest time
a good cradler could get a dollar and his
... .
board; but in haying time mowers got
seventy-five cents. The writer, who was
a teacher many years, taught his first
school in 1831 for $12 per month and
"boarded around," had an average of
sixty pupils, and was considered doing
well. Since "the crime of '73 and the
slaughter of silver," teachers get from
$50 to $100 a month and complain of
hard times.
The writer has been personally cogni
zant of the settlement and development
of the West since 1826, when he was a
boy 14 years old in the Genesee valley,
and in his retrospect of the past and its
comparison with the present, he can
truly say that the people of the latter
end of the Nineteenth century do not
know practically the A, B, C of hard
times. He went to Illinois in 1845,
i when Chicago was a lake port of possi
bly 8,000 people, and settled at Rock-
ford, 100. miles west, a half-way stage
station between Chicago and the Miss
issippi river. That was the day of "the
dollar of the daddies," when "the silver
of the constitution" bad not been
"stricken down;" but about the only
money then in circulation was the paper
currency of the Wisconsin Fire and Ma
rine Insurance Company, and in Rock
river valley the only way to get any of
that was to haul wheat 100 miles on
wagons to Milwaukee or Chicago and
sell it for from 45 to 62 cents per bushel
Carpenters could get $1 a day ; not in
money, but in goods at the store at ex
orbitant prices, or in farm products at
ruinously low prices wheat 37)g cents
corn 12 cents; oats 10 cents; pork :
cents or 24 cents. Money was scarce
but times were good. Farmers didn't
expect money for anything; they
learned bow to have good time's without
money. They could raise good horses,
cattle, swine, sheep and poultry without
money, and were rich in their poverty,
When they must have money for taxes
they -hauled wheat 100 miles to get it
Other grains wonld not bear transporta
tion. Then they felt the pinch of hard
times, and when tbey were forced to
borrow at 25 per cent interest, which
was the current rate on cash loans.
The writer was a teacher, and estab
lished the first academic school in Rock
tord in lino. Kates of tuition were
nearly nominal; less by the quarter
than now by the month in private
schools of the same grade, and there was
almost no money in it, bnt other things
in profusion. He never lived better in
bjs life; bis house was full of flour
meat, butter, eggs, poultry, fish every
thing good, and he never was happier i
his work; but did not see as much
money in a year as some teachers now
see in a month. As for "the dollar of
the daddies," there were none of them
in eight. Sekox
The Spokane Review denounces
Maine and Vermont, and declares
that they are the "money power
models." Jt then proceeds to prove
the allegation by showing the slijht
increase in population and the small
advance in property valuations,
The Review forgets that both Maine
and Vermont were thickly populated
before the state or territory of Wash
ington was heard of. Every afire of
land which can he profitable tilled
has been under cultivation for fifty
years or more; During the period
from 1880 to 1890, when the West
was developing so rapidly, these old
states, lost in population and prop
erty wealth; but their loss was one
of the greatest factors in the rapid
development of .the western states.
Corporations are far less numerous or
powerful in either Vermont or Maine,
in proportion to their populations,
than in Washington, and in Vermont
almost the entire population consists
of intelligent and thrifty farmers,
the same class who how till the soil
of .Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
In the latter states they will vote just
as they did in Vermont and Maine.
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Citation.
In the County Court of the State of Oregon, for
the County of Wasco.
In the matter of the estate of Mary M. Gordon,
decetBed, citation.
To Mary Gibon, Susie E. B'ckf'rd, Maggie A.
Gordon, K te J. Stogsdill, Ueore B. urdon,
Williams Gordon, h- in at law of fcaiddece Ken,
a- d ail other liein- at law and next of kin of
Btfid oeeeHHed, known or unknown, greeting:
In the name of the State of Oregon, You ate
hereby cited and rvqulred to ap(iear in the
County Curt of the S'ate of Oi-gon, for the
County of M at-'Cn at the Court Room thereof, at
Dalles City, in the County of Wxeoo n Mondav,
the second dy of November, 189ti, at two o'clock
in the afternoon of tnat day, then and theie to
appear and show cause, if any there be, u rn an
order should n-t b made, directing the admin
istrator ot the estate of Mary M. Gordon, de
ceased, to ell The real estate bel -nging to said
estate, dtBCribed in his petition, and described
as follows to-wit: 1 he 8 uth-w st quarter of
Section Tbirty-two (32) In T wnship Four '4)
South of Range Thirteen (13; East of th- M il -aineite
Mert 'i n.ln co County, Oregcfn. for
the pun os -of sati-fjing the debts and claims
against said -state. ,
Witness, the Hon. Robert Mays, Judge of the
County Court oi the 8tt- o oretnm, for
sxal the County of Wasco with the Seal of
said t ourt affixed this first d-y of Octo
ber, A. V., 1896.
Attest: A. M. K ELS AY, Clerk.
By biMEOK Bolton, D.putr.
octSii '
Executor's Notice of Final Account
Kotice is hereby given that George A. Liebe,
executor of the estate of Richard G. Clofter, de
ceased, has filed tbe final accounting of the es
tute of Kichard clostcr. deceased, with the
guardianship es tats of Albert Lehman, an in
sane person, of the pe son aud e-tate of whi-b
said Albert Lehman, an insane per-on, the fcaid
Richard G Closter, deceased, whs at the time of
his death the duly appoint- d, qualified and act
ing guardian, with the clerk of the County
Court of the State of Oregon for Wasco County,
and that said court bas appointed 10 o clock a.
m. of Monday, November 2, 18. being tbe first
day of the reeular November term of said court,
for the yea 1896, at the county courthouse in
Dalles' City, Oregon, as the time and place for
the hearing o said final accounting and objec
tions thei etn if any tht re be . '
1 his notice is published by order of said
County Court, entered October 2d, 1896.
GEORGE A. LlEbE, txecutor.
Condon & Condom, Attorneys-for Executor.
oct3-5t-ii "... i -
Guardian Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
bas been duly appointed by tbe County Court
of the State of O egon for Wasco comity, guar
dian of the person and estate of Albert Lehman,
an insane person. All persons havintr claims
asaint said estate aTe "hereby required to pre
sent them to me at my residence in Dalles City,
Oregon, with proper voucher-.
, . GEORGE A. LIEBE.
Guardian of the person and estate of Albert
Lenman, insane.
Dated this 26th day of September, 1896.
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