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SATURDAY... SEPTEMBER 19, 1896
GOLD GOES ANYWAY.
One of the stock ' arguments of the
gold press of the- country against the
free and unrestricted coinage of silver
is that it would drive gold either out
of the country or out of : circulation
Possibly this might bo the result, but
the driving out process could scarcely
beany more rapid than it has been
:. durinc the Dast thirty years, for dur
ing that tin? e we have driven both
geld and silver out of the country very
rapidly.-in fivct at the rate of about
.40,000,000 a year of each metal, or
aSout $80,000,000 of both.
The mint reports show that from
1860 to 1894 we produced, from our
mines, $1,337,800,000 of gold and $1,395,-
200,000 of silver. It is generally esti-
I mated that we have in circulation and
horded in the treasury some $650,000,-
000 of 'gold and about $575,000,000 of
silver .'a total of 81.225.000,000. Allow
ing that we had $500,000,000 of metalic
money in I860, and we really had more
than that, and that since then we have
produced $2,633,000,000, and now have
only $1,225,000,000 of metalic money,
we haye lost $2,408,000,000 in thirty
years. -
Whether this drain has been caused
by our monetary system or whether it
has been through the balance of trade
beinir against us. , we leave for the
goldites to explain, but certain it is
that the metalic money that has been
due from our mints has gone, and if
statistics are of any value, it has gone
more rapidly since we have been on a
purely gold basis than during any
other period of our history. Can it go
any faster if we open our mints to free
coinage? , is the question that con
fronts us. It seems not. If our mints
are opened to silver we will at once
begin the coinage of that metal, and
bv causing an increased demand for
that metal will increase its production,
On the other hand our gold, even
thouch it croes to a -premium, will be
in demand as the basis of commercial
. ! J , I . An
profitable investment here, would not
necessarily be attracted abroad any
f. more rapidly than it has been in the
J past. If it goes into hiding at home it
t . will AA&oa tn raa.li7.n a. nmfifc to its own
ers, and since there is no hope of its
becoming more valuable when another
metal is allowed to take its place as a
basic money, it would soon find its way
back into the avenues of trade.
THAT PBOSPEBOUS EBA.
. Something like one hundred thous
and newspapers in the United States
are telling us that- the most prosper
ous times this country ever had was
from 1880 to 1893, and the prosperity
. was 'Checked by a change in the ad
ministration. Tbey persist in telling
their readers that a return of that
-prosperity can be had by the election
' of Major McKinley to the presidency,
the adoption of a little higher rate of
taxation and the maintenance of the
. gold standard. Let us look backward
and see if we want to return to that
season of boasted prosperity.
Total number of business failures in
. the United States first half of 1880,
2,399; -assets, $14,727,907; liabilities
$31,000831,803. Total number first half
1890, 5,466; assets, $30,025,116; liabilit
ies $62,867,963.
Total number of strikes in United
- States in 1881, 471; affected 2,528 es
tablishments and threw 129,521 men
out of employment, causing a wage loss
of $3,372,578. Total numbtr of strikes
'- in 1891, 1,718; affected 8,117 establish-
ments and threw 299,064 men. out of
. employment with a wage loss of $14,-
801,714.
' Acres of land mortgaged in 1880,
42,743.013 for $710,888,504. Acres of
land mortgaged in 1889, 70,678,257 for
$1,226,323,000. .
'. Mortgages of town lots incurred in
, 1880, 429,955 for $368,322,037. Mort
gages incurred in 1889, 1,282,334 for
; $1,166,838,555. Percentage of increase
- of real estate debt incurred in 1889
over 1880, 146 53.
Rate of taxation per capita in United
States in 1880, $6.20; in 1890, $7.53.
- This is the effects of the "prosper
ity" caused by the retention of the
gold standard and the operation of the
high protective policy. Do the people
of America want to continue being
thus prosperous?
: NOT A THEORY.
More ton Frewen, one of the best
known authorities on finance in Great
Britain, being interviewed in London
. recently by a representative of the
"New York Journal, gave the following
as his opinion of the effect of free coin-
age in America upon tne price or
silver: '
.- personally agree vr.th Mr. Bryan
- - that if the United States should open
her mints at 1 to 16 she can raise the
'exchange value of silver all the world
- over to her rating. I hold this opinion
-not upon mere grounds-of theory, but
upon what we actually saw during the
month of June, in 1893. We saw the
mints'of India closed and we saw the
effect of that closure; the price of sil
ver fell more than 25 per cent in five
days. If the closing of the Indian
mints singlehanded had such a colos-
"-Bui-Effect as that upon the price of
silver bullion, how great would be the
." effect experienced if the United States,
with her enormous exporting power,
were to open her mints to free coinage?
It seems to me almost a 'rule of three'
sum that with the mints open in the
United States silver would go to 129
cents an ounce and remain there. I agree
in holding this view with President
Andrews of Brown University, and
with a number of authorities on this
side of the water, including Mr. H. B
Gibbs and Mr. Grenfell, both ex-gov
ernors of the Bank of England, who
stated this view explicitly in the evi
dence they gave before the royal com-
- mission on currency in 1887."
BAKBVPTCY CERTAIN.
1 One of the contentions for the re
taining of a gold standard is that it is
a benefit to the borrower, since it
lowers the rate of interest he is re
quired to pay for the use of money.
IThls position seems difficult to sub
Wntinte. for the price of money, the
interest charged for its use, is governed
mainley by the supply and demand
and the nature of the security pledged
rlor its repayment The purchasing'
power of the money cuts- little figure
in the amount of hire demanded for its
any other property, and since the
value of any other article does not al
ways determine the rent charged for
use. Money Is but slightly different from
its use, the purchasing power of money
will not dictate its interest. To illus
trate, a horse kept for hire may be
worth only $30, which is a low price,
yet the owner may charge $2.50 a day
for its use, a very high price. And
the position that the value of a thing
is distinct from the value of its use is
as true witn regard to money as any
thingelse. But suppose an appreciated
money does reduce the rate of interest,
is the borrower benefited? His inter
est must be paid in the same article
borrowed money and if it requires
more of his products to buy the ap
preciated money with which to pay the
interest, and 1 the money continues to
appreciate each year it becomes more
difficult for him to pay the interest.
If money is dear and hard to get, in
terest is necessarily dear and hard to
get also, and 5 per cent of dear money
will be harder to pay than 10 per cent
of money that is more plentiful and
easy to get, and will continue to get
harder as money appreciates. So the
contention that the retention of a dear
standard of money is in the interest of
the borrower is fallacious. Instead of
benefiting him, it will make the pay
ment of interest more difficult, and the
payment of principal impossible.
With a continuance of a money stand
ard that is constantly appreciating,
bankruptcy stares every borrower in
the face.
THATINPEBTINENT LI.
Li Hung Chang, the great Chinese
statesman, is not out altogether for his
health. He is pokinsr his nose into
everybody's business, and learning
everything he can that will be of bene
fit to his government. His inquisitive-
ness is indeed admirable and leads
almost to impertinence, but he is a
"heathen Chinee" and is excusable.
The S. F. Examiner very appropriately
portrays his search for knowledge
when it pictures him having a private
interview with Boss Hanna, and puts
these questions into bis mouth:
How rich are you? Did you make
any of your money reducing working
men's wages? If . the free coinage of
silver would, as you say, tend to re
duce the wages of workingmen, why
are you opposed to it? Who gives you
all the money you are spending now?
What do you promise in return for it?
How do you make Mr. McKinley do
what you tell him? Will be keep on
doing it when he is president? How
did you get hold of him first? Do you
consider those notes are a good in
vestment?" Although these questions are put
into the mouth of the great Li, and
are about the catechism he would put
Boss Hanna through, they are ques
tions the American people would like
Mr. Lanna to answer just now.
ENGLAND WILL FOLLOW.
A correspondent to the New York
World, had about the right idea of the
effect of the adoption of free coinage
in America when he said: "Let us sup
pose just for argument's sake, that
such would be the case, that our trade
with England for instance would be
completely paralyzed; what would be
the probable effect on the two coun
tries? We get nothing from England
that we cannot produce ourselves. Our
tourists, instead of spending $200,000,
000 or $300,000,000. annually abroad,
would go to Wyoming, California or
Alaska, where their dollars would pass
for 100 cents. China, who sells us teas
and silks; Brazil, who sells us coffee,
and Argentina, who sells us hides and
who takes comparatively nothing from
us in return, will buy from us when we
receive their dollars for 100 cents while
England allows them but 50 cents for
it. Our surplus cotton we would make
intofabrice and send to China, Brazil,
Argentina and other silver conntries
instead of sending cash. '
"England could not produce the cot
ton, wheatand meat she gets from us.nor
could she get tbem elsewhere, but then
she probably would not want them
With her trade with the silver couu
tries cut off she would have no market
for her fabrics and wares and no work
men to consume our wheat and meat.
England will say all sorts of mean
things about silver and keep us in the
gold standard column as long as possi
ble, but when we once cut loose, when
we get the bit between our teeth and
go rearing and tearing like your old
white mule after free silver, England
will be so close on our trail that it will
be hard to tell which is really ahead,
Yes sir; let us elect a free-silver pres
ident and congress and England will
adopt free silver before we can get our
president and congress together.
THE EAST AGAINST THE WEST
The result of Monday's election in
Maine, when compared with the demo
cratic landslide in Arkansas, to some
extent, illustrates the sentiment of the
peopln of the different sections of the
nation with reference to the issues
that divide the two great political
parties. However it cannot well be
taken as a safe index of what the vote
in Maine will be in November. The
democrats were seriously handicapped
in the recent campaign in that state,
Eeiore . ttie cnicago convention was
held they nominated ' a gold man for
governor and adopted a gold platform
The nominee subsequently resigned,
and the platform was reversed, where
upon a bolt of the gold democrats oc
curred, and a gold candidate and plat
form were put out in opposition to the
regular ticket.
The 50,000,000 plurality for the
republican candidate for governor,
under these circumstances, cannot be
looked upon as much else than a
victory of a well organized party oyer
a party that was disorganized, more
than it tends to show that in the ex
treme East the sentiment is strongly
in fayor of the republican ticket, while
the result of Arkansas' election shows
the sentiment in the South and West
is the opposite.
Even the apparent republican vic
tory is not discouraging to democracy,
for two years ago Maine gave a repub
lican plurality of 38,978, and in 1892,
when the republicans weie anihiliated
in the presidential election, Maine, in
its September election, rolled up a good
majority for the republican state ticket.
Maine and all other Eastern states
will of course give McKinley a large
vote next November, while the Soutn
and West, whose interests are with the
democratic nominee, will cast their
votes solidly for Bryan. It is expected
that the coming election will be larerelv
sectional, and that it will be an array
ing of the East against the South and
West.
Boss Hanna has arranged for fiftv
tree excursion trains to run into can
ton tomorrow, and na expects to get
50.000 people to ride in and look at the
major and listen to His generals talk
politics.
A NATUBAL BESULT.
Major McKinley, in his letter of ac
ceptance says: "It is a cause for pain
ful regret and solicitude that an effort
is being made by those high in the
councils of the allied parties to divide
the people of the country into classes
and create distinctions among us,
which, in fact, dojnot existand are for
eign to our form of government.
These appeals to passion and to preju
dice are beneath the spirit and intel
ligence of a free people, and should be
met with stern rebuke by those they
are soue-ht to influence, and I believe
they will be. . Every attempt to array
class against class, 'the classes against
the masses,'- section against section,
labor against capital, the poor against
the rich, or interest against interest
in the United States, is in the highest
degree reprehensible. It is opposed
to the national instincts and interests
and should be resisted by every
citizen."
Every word of this is true. Classes
and casts should not be known in a re
publican form of government, but sad
to relate.-they do exist in the United
States, and-it is to put an end to this
distinction that the allied parties of
whom Major McKinley complains, are
laboring. By a long system of class
legislation and paternal form of gov
ernment, classes have been created.
An aristocracy has grown up in our
midst, in practice, if not in name.
Through legislation favorable to
their interests, the aristocracy has
been enabled to, step by step, build
themselves up to affluence, and grind
down those who have been unable to
control leglsiation. By these methods
they have created classes. It is they,
not tho masses, who have drawn lines
between the rich and the poor. It is
this favored class that is at the found
ation of the sectional strife of which
Mr. McKinley complains. Had they
been satisfied with letting well enough
alone, and not have sought to enlarge
their powers and tighten the bonds
with which they hold the less favored
classes, the cry of sectionalism would
never have been heard. They are the
ones who are responsible for the con
ditions that now exist. The actions of
the St. Louis convention in turning
over the management of the party
that Mr. McKinley represents to these
favored classes made it necessary that
the lines be drawn between those who
seek to manipulate the government
io(their own interests, and those whom
they sought to oppress.
These lines were drawn by the
actions of the Chicago convention.
The toiling masses sought through the
declarations of that body to free them
selves from the oppression of the
favored classes. Though in those dec
larations there was little of "bitterness
or sectionalism, simply a demand for
justice and right. And how was this
met? By a united voice from the
classes that the tolling masses were
anarchists, socialists and traitors.
For demanding their rights and lessen
ing the powers of the favored classes,
they were denounced as howling dema
gogues and a lawless mob. Nor was
this all. Fearing the efforts of the St.
Louis convention would- prove ineffec
tive in arraying the classes against the
masses, another move was set on foot,
and the Indianapolis convention re
sulted. It had no other object than to
more firmly cement the power of the
favored few and further subjugate the
wealth 'producers of the country. "
If there la.; an arraying of labor
against capital it is the outgrowth of
the systems adopted by interests which
Mr. McKinley represents. It is the
result of wealth ' having become too
ayoricious and having undertaken to
enlarge its powers at the expense of
the majority of the people. It is only
a child of necessity, brought into ex
istence by the acts of those who now
condemn it most bitterly.
LABUBS- "FB1END:
The republican nominee for the
presidency is being made to pose as
the Mead of laborers, and his election
is urged in oehalf of the wage earners
of America, it being asserted that the
policies that will be adopted, in case
of his asoendency to power, will set the
mills and mines in operation, thus af
fording employment for the great
army of workers. Were Mr. McKinley
standing alone in this campaign, 'such
a contention might be accepted with a
degree of credence. But behind - him
is Mark Hanna, and his hand will be
the one to wield the power, hence the
question arises, what position does
Mr. Hanna hold toward labor? The
following dispatch, dated at Ishpenn-
ing, Mich., on Sept. 11, will tell:
"Robert Askew, president of the
Mineral Mine Workers' Progressive
Union, arrived today from Chicago
where he had been to make a special
plea to Mark Hanna in regard to the
unjust treatment received by employes
in the mines owned by the chairman
of the republican national committee,
Mr. Askew is not satisfied with Han
na's attitude, as the latter is ap
parently fighting for delay..
'For several months Superintendent
McMasters, who is employed directly
by Hanna to manage his mines in this
district, has been discharging members
of the union on the slightest pretext
Members of committees who waited
upon him to have certain abuses cor
rected have been instantly discharged,
The condition of the miners and their
families is deplorable, and it was
thought if Hanna was appealed to di
rectly some change in the arbitrary
methods of the superintendent would
be made. The horrors of the situation
are sensational in the extreme. If it
were not for the charity of the miners
for each other, deaths from starvation
would be of frequebt occurrence.
None of the men employed in the
mines dare object to these conditions,
as the loss of his position would be
the penalty.
Hanna is said to have requested
Askew not to mention the matter, but
to return home and prepare a written
statement of all the grievances and
submit them for his consideration.
This is regarded by the miners as a
scheme to delay the matter until after
the election, as in the meantime they
would be expected to -remain, quiet.
After November the old order of t&ings
would be renewed, it is claimed, and
for that reason the miners will issue
an ultimatum that Hanna must right
all wrongs suffered before October 1st.
If he does not the union will notify all
labor organizations in the country of
the situation."
T1UBD TICKET PLATFOBM.
In discussing the platform princi
ples of the boltercrats, on which Pal
mer and Buckner stand, the New York
World calls attention to some features
that are important to the voters of the
country and particularly to democratic
voters who are considering it a duty to
vote for the third ticket.
Tho World says, a " democratic plat- j
form of 2000 words surely had room
! ormwli frvt- a KiiwSfin declaration
ui,-ii " - i
against trus'ts," but it says not a word
for or against such aggregations cf
the money devil. Why? Because the
Indianapolis convention was under tho
control of those who servo trusts, syn
dicates and monopolies.
"Even more important," says the
World, "is the financial plank. In
setting up tho single gold standard
and having no word in favor of an in
ternational agreement or any other
means of increasing the use and en
hancing the value of silver, one of our
country's richest products and consti
tuting over one-half of Its store of
money, the convention simply gave
new point and edge to the free silver
arguments. It is a banker's plank,
written by bankers' attorneys, and
hence is both selfish and short
sighted." There you have it! The
World frankly admits the plank was
written by bankers' attorneys. That
is why it is so undemocratic and yet a
few democrats are deeming it a "prin
ciple" to vote the ticket.
The World concludes its article as
follows: "Messrs. Flowers, Belmont,
Fall-child and their associates are ap
parently too closely identified with
the Well street view of finance to un
derstand the depth and strength of the
popular belief In blmetalism. In op
posing the disastrous descent to a
cheap silver basis they lose sight cf
the possibility of reconciling the
country to the single gold basis" -
"The people of the United States
desire an honest and actual bimetal
ism, gold and silver dollars of equal
Intrinsic value. This is the tradition
of the country. This is the demo
cratic principle and practice. In fail
ing to recognize it the Indianapolis
convention made a bad mistake."
This is exceedingly interesting, com
ing from a journal unfavorable to the
Chicago platform because It is undem
ocratic and opposed to McKinley be
cause of his weathercock record on
money and his one advocacy of high
protection.
As the election draws near and
nearer it becomes apparent that the
voter, believing the people should rule
and not the rich and opulent, will
cast his ballot for Bryan and thus
settle the doubt that exists concern
ing the capacity of the people to dis
cuss public questions to such an ex
tent as to use their votes in their own
interests.
BESENTJNG COEBCION.
The members of the American Rail
way Union have come out boldly and
declared their rights and privileges as
American citizens to exercise their
right of suffrage as tbey see fit, and
will resent every effort to coerce them
into voting the gold ticket. On Sept.
9 the directors of the union issued an
address to all its members and to all
railway employees in the United States
denouncing the coercion of railway
employers to join McKinley sound
money clubs, and calling on all West
erners to vote for Bryan. The address
is signed by Eugene V. Debs, James
Hogan, Sylvester Kelliher, William E.
Burns, R. M. Goodwin and M. J.
Elliott.
It Bays the coercion practiced is of
momentous import, and describes the
methods practiced as "astounding."
The round houses, depots and shops,
says the address, - have temporarily
been converted into political wigwams,
and employees are intimidated to join
sound-money clubs by - the railway
managers.
1 "We know of many instances," says
the address, "where employees. .are
given to understand that their con
tinuance in servioe depends on their
supporting the gold standard candi
dates. - The country stands amazed at
such bold and shameless intimidation."
The address declares that it is not
free silver alone that has enraged this
railroad monopoly, but the attack in
the democratic platform on govern
ment by injunction. This, it says, is
the milk in the cocoanut.
The Injunction history on the Tol
edo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan
road, and the injunction restraining
employees from quitting the service of
the Northern Pacific because of a re
duction of wages, under penalty of
being committed to jail, are reviewed.
The election of McKinley, it says,
would mean the perpetuation of a gov
ernment by injunction, the supremacy
of the corporation and the helpless
subjection of employees. The demo
cratic platform is commended. In
closing tho address says:
"We pledge ourunited and unwaver
ing support to William J. Bryan for
president and appeal to railway em
ployees and all workingmen to join
with us in rebuking corporate tyrany
which attempts to wrest the sacred
rights of suffrage from employees, in
abolishing government by injunction
and in securing and maintaining every
right of citizenship vouchsafed by the
constitution of our country.
The one federal judge who has
proved himself to be immeasurably
above the corrupting influence of cor
porations, who has earned the con
fidence and gratitude of all railway
employees, Henry C. Caldwell, has de
clared that the nomination of William
J. Bryan is the greatest since Lincoln.
"We heartly concur to the declara
tion of the honest and distinguished
jurist."
THE MKINLEY PBESVBIPTION
The medicine that Dr. McKinley
and his supporters prescribe to make
the country more prosperous is taxes,
taxes, taxes. "Increase the duties,
give us a return of the 1890 tariff law,
make the farmers, the great mass
of producers, pay a little more taxes,
discriminate in favor of our manufac
turers, our coal and iron minors, our
coal oil trusts, our glass and tin plate
makers and our sugar planters" say
Dr, McKinley and his henchmen, and
then we will return to prosperity.
To raise the price of wheat, they
would give more protection to the
manufacturers of wool and cotton
cloths.
To raise the price of beef, mutton
and pork, they would give an extra
protection to the manufacturers of tin
plate and glass.
T raise the price cf wool, they
would extend more protection to lum'
ber men and the manufacturer of agri
cultural implements.
And it continues through the whole
list in this line. To create prosperity,
to give the primary producers better
prices, tbev would increase the bur
dens of taxation for the producers and
give the favored classes more favors.
Tax the people for the benefit of tne
classes is the only prescription Me-
Klnlevism offers as a medicine to cure
tbe evils tnat now exist.
The Orezonian pi tne iztn, in a
flaming double-column notice, offered
"a liberal reward" for an answer to the
ouestion- that "Pascal answers for
Mr. Gourlav today. Unless the Ore-
gonian was simply bluffing it should
now put upxr shut up.
EDI7VRIAL NOTES.
The bankers are succeeding pretty
well in their "patriotic" effort to maic
tain the credit of the nation and have
succeeded in getting the gold reserve
up to $114,271,000. now long will it
take -them to deplete the reserve after
election day?
If tho gold standard is a good thing,
why do the republicans, in their
national platform, declare for bime
tallsm by international agreement?
which is an impossibility. Vhy are
they not honest, and declare for a gold
standard first, last and all the time?
Bryan had an audience of only about
45,000 to hear him in Kentucky yes
terday, hence the Oregonian aid not
see fit to mention his meeting.
Whenever less than 50,000 are out to
hear Bryan, the big daily down at
Portland considers it a sort of a
"frost" unworthy of mention.
A republican exchange says there
can never be but one stable money
standard, and that must be gold. In
another paragraph it savs it favors a
double standard whenever the con
sent of other nations can be secured
According to its fir3t proposition, it
favors something that is impossible.
The spectacle of Col. W. P. C,
Breckenridge of Kentucky making the
principal speech in the bolters' con
ventlon at Indianapolis leads some
people to wonder if Madeline Pollard
wouldn't be satisfied with even 53-cent
dollars in settlement of the judgment
she holds against the old sinner who
ruined her.
We are continually reminded of the
fact that the enthusiam in Bryan's
campaign is on the wane: that is the
republican press tells us so editorially,
but the dispatches report gatherings
of from 30,000 to 40,000 greeting him
wherever he goes. Only last Saturday
he addressed three meetings in St.
Louis, Mo., at each of which there
were from 30,000 to 35,000 people.
A large stock-raising corporation in
Crook county has given its employes
an "object lesson" by reducing their
wages to 50 cents a day, and seeks to
emphacise the lesson by informing
them that if Bryan is elected they will
be paid 25 cents a day. How does this
compare with the "pauper" wages of
Mexico? Only 50 cents a day for toil
ing ten hours in the sun under this
beautiful gold standard of ours.
Since tho Maine election the Ore-
gonian informs us that Bryan will
carry no states except in the "black
belt" in the south. This rather con
tradicts the statements of the Detroit
Evening News, which says Michigan,
which, by the way, is a long way north
of the "black belt," will surely go for
Bryan. Lenewee county, the strong
est republican county in the state, it
says, is given up to be solid for Bryan,
as is nearly every other republican
stronghold in that state.
Senator Mitchell is not proving the
"Moses" to lead the laboring vote to
McKinley that was expected. In his
speech at Independence the other day
he undertook to justify President
Cleveland's calling out of the federal
troops to put down the Pullman strike.
Organized labor generally believes
McKinley is the candidate of the rail
road -corporations, and when one of
his chosen speakers undertakes to jus
tify federal Interference in cases that
should be settled by state authorities,
it has the tendency to intensify this
belief. :;" , ";, j
or soma unexpiamable reason a
large amount of the Klickitat wheat,
which formerly come to The Dalles, is
now being hauled to Grants. Possibly .
this is owing to the fact that the road
leading to Grants is better than that
leading to The Dalles and also to the
fact that tho state portage has been
taken up, thus interfering with river
traffic. If it were only the wagon road
it could be repaired for $100, but if it
is for want of a portage road, there is
no power on earth to overcome that
obstacle. The Lord down at Salem
has ordained it shall be destroyed and
there is no appeal from his decree.
THE STATS UNCHANGED.
First Day of tit Sfeur York Democratic
Convention.
Buffalo, Sept. 16. The platform
of the democratic party in the state,
as drafted tonight, will have as its
first proposition this statement:
"The democrats of the state of New
York, in convention assembled, do
hereby unreservedly indorse aod ap
prove the platform adopted by the
national convention at Chicago, and
we hereby unanimously approve the
nominees of said convention, William
Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall,
ana pieage mem our earnest and coi
dial support,"
The oompleti. a of the first day's
Session of the democratic convention
has not disturbed In any great measure
the forecast that has been prepared.
The conditions tonight, however, are
rather interesting, because the inter
nal fights, which are good-natured
upon their surface, are not wanting in
internal . bitterness. The principal
strife tonight is to prevent the adop
tion of the unit rule, and to prevent
thereby the nomination of any candi
date withont a fair, open fight.
often
by the
mere fact that when treating the diseases of
women, they suireest and insist on " exam.
nations" and "local treatment" A great
fuany ot hem do nqt (now that this is abso
lutely unnecessary. Many a woman has
oeen tnrown into a dangerous state of ner
vous excitement bv the mere nrmlioii nf
such treatment Many women lie to the
uucior. inai sounds bard, bnt it is nn-
donbtedlv trne. The know that If th
admit certain symptoms that the doctor
will lneVltablT insist on an "evaniinatinn '
They do not rive him all the farta in the
case, and so he works in the dark. Quite
often the doctor is too busy and too hurried
to maice tne necessary effort to obtain the
tacts. He frequently treats symptoms for
wuai mey appear to be on the surface, when
the real cause and the real sickness is deeper
ami moic o&ngerous. a derangement of
the distinctly feminine organs will derange
the whole body. The woman herself may
not know exactly what is the matter with
ner, out wnenever she is sick, there are two
things she should look out for first One is
wnat is called "female weakness;" the
other is constipation, for these two things
frequently go together. Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription is designed for the cure
of diseases and disorders of women, and it
does cure them. It has been performing its
healing mission for 30 years, and tens of
thousands of women have been made happy
by it. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are for
constipation, and contingent ills. Druggists
sell them, bnt sometimes in well meaning
ignorance, tbey will try to sell yon some.
thing else. There la nothing "just the
same " or "just as good." The druggist
who tells you there is, is either mistaken
or aisnonest. -
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end 21 One-Cdlt stamus to envr cmt nf mailtns
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WILL ACT IN UNISON
Ambassadors at Constanti
nople Form A' Plan.
SPAIN'S OVERTURE
She Offers Home Rule to the
surgents if They Will Lay
Down Their Arms.
In-
Imports and Bxports Have Increased Dur
ing the Past Eight Months float,!
Hake A Big- Deal tu Alines.
Constantinople. Sept. 14, via Sofia,
Bulgaria, Sept. 15. (Copyrighted,
1898, by the Associated Press.) Am
bassadors of the powers held a meet
ing today to lay out a plan for measures
of protection for the different om-
hassies and loreiirn population jreaer-
ally In the event of a renewal t.f the
disturbances here. The plan is un
derstood to include the united action
of the warships of all the powers, each
snip being assigned to a certain posi
tion and the men to be landed at a
given signal to protect the threatened
points. The defenses of ttie embassies
will also, it is rumored, bo consider
ably strengtnenea by an increase in
the number of men now guarding them,
and by other precautions which will
tend to make them capable of resisting
an attack for a considerable time. It
is also reported that in case of possible
contingencies a number of additional
warships of the powers will reinforce
tbo guardships now doing duty in these
waters.
IjIPORT AND EXPORT.
Merchandise and Coin Movement
Eight Months of 1896.
for
Washington, Sept. 15.-The month
ly comparative statement of imports
of merchandise, gold and silver, last
August, and during eight months end
ing August 31 last, which was issued
by the bureau of statistics today,
shows as follows:
Domestic merchandise exported dur
ing August, 1890, $66,732,453; August,
1893, $04,827,169. For the last eight
months, $575,279,427. For the same
period of 1895, $469,360,551. Imports
of merchandise during last August,
y,4ss,32o, 01 wnicn u,tH4,7i was
free of duty. Imports during August,
189o, 71,111,943, of wbicb about one
half was free of duty. Imports during
the last eight months, $471,222,434, of
which 8214,216,671 was duty free; for
the same pertod in 1S95 the total was
$.335,737,819, of which $254,409,427 was
free of duty.
The gold exports during last August
amounted to $1,971,544, as compared
with $16,667,261 during August, 1895.
For the last eight months, the exports
of gold amounted to $55,511,811, which
is almost the exact figure of 1895. The
gold imo-ts during last August aggre
gated $4,045,885, as aompared with
$1,534,086 for the same month last
year. For the last eight months tbe
imports of gold exceeded those for
the same period in 1895 by about $2,-
650,000.
The silver coin and bullion exported
during last August was $5,351,434, and
the imports $929,422. During August,
last year, the exports amounted to
$4,553,398, and the imports to 81,114,-
677. During tho last eight months the
silver exports amounted to $40,392,418,
and the imports to $8,712,959. During
the same period in 1895, the exports
aggregated $33,265,216, and the im
ports to $5,199,471.
HOME BTJLti AGAIN OFFKRED.
Spain's Latest Overture to the Cuban in
surgents.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 15.
Spanish Consul Salis, who says be
represents Minister De Lome, who
told J, A. Huan, representative of the
Cuban junta here, that if the insur-
gents would lay down their arms by
November 1, Spain would grant com
plete home rule to the island. Salis
said amnesty would be granted to
every man wno had been in the rebell
ion, and that Spain would recall Gen.
Weyler and name. a representative of
the crown in Cuba who would be ac
ceptable to tbe insurgent leaders.
Mr. Huan agreed to lay the proposi
tion before the junta, but told Salis it
would hardly be accepted, as nothing
short of absolute independence would
satisfy the Cubans now.
A Big Mining Deal.
Seattle, Sept. 15. Charles F. Fish-
back, one of the owners of the Seattle
Evening1 Times, today sold to the
British Northwest Gold Mining Com
pany property in Cariboo, is. C, dis
trict, the deed stating the considera
tion at $5,000,000. The properties em
braced In the deed are those of the
Maude Hydraulic Mining Company,
consisting of 880 acres; the property
of the Fishbac'j Hydraulic Gold Min
ing Company, consisting of 570 acres,
and the property of the Quesnelle River
Gold Mining syndicate, consisting of
20 miles of tbe main Quesnelle river.
It is said the men making the purchase
represent the millionaires J. E. Ad-
dicks and . F. 3. Gaynor, of New
York, representing the Gould inter
ests.
A Foolish Glrrs Crime.
Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 15. Ida
Buchanan, aged 16, committed suicide
by shooting herself. She dressed her
self for burial then went out in the
front yard, lay down on the grass and
blew out her brains. She was en-
gaged to be married, and her lover
was in the houso at the time. She
left a note saying her health was poor
and. that she did not wish to become a
burden on any one. Her mother is a
widow.
LIVELY TUSSLE WITH A MOB.
Chicago Laborers Try to Lynch an J
pressman.
Chicago, Sept. J6. An infuriated
mob of laborers battled with the police
of South Chicago at 6 o'clock last even
ing for the possession of a wagon-
driver whom they threatened with
lynching, because his runaway horse
knocked down several -of the crowd.
After a fierce struggle, in which clubs
and stones were freely used, the driver,
Peter Zisliski, was rescued from his
assailants. In addition to the half
dozen men trampled beneath the hoofs
of the frantic horse, a number of the
crowd were severely . beaten by the
police.
A passing engine frightened the
horse, which had been standing in
front of a bouse, and he dashed down
the street toward a orowd of working-
men who were leaving tbe steel com
pany's works. Zisliski managed to
overtake the runaway, but could not
control the horse, which swept into
the crowd. A dozen went down, many
of those who escaped its hoofs being
struck by the wagon. In an instant
Zislisai was surrounaea. in vain be
explained his helplessness, but his
captors seized him, threw him to tho
ground and were crying for a rope
when the police came to the rescue.
Fcsiou In Illinois.
Chicago, Spt. 15 The last obsta
cle t -the contemplated fusion on
presidential electors of Illinois be
tween silver democrats and populists
has been removed, and fushion finally
effected. At a meeting of the demo
cratic state central committee today,
Chairman Hinrichsen announced that
he received the resignation of three
democratic eleCOral candidates. Their
places will bo civen to populists. On
tho state ticket, W. F. Beck's resigna
tion as nominee for auditor was ac
cepted, and A. L. Maxwell, the popu
list nominee, named in bis place.
Quay Beaten In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Sept. 16. Tho re
publican congressional, senate rial, re
presentative and county conventions
were held in this -city today. Tbe
hardest contest in the history of the
party in Philadelphia resulted. A
light between Quay and anti-Quay
forces has been waged for months. In
the senatorial convention the anti-
Quay or administration faction won.
There was so much excitement that
the police were called out to preserve
' order.
Trouble Expected In Brazil.
Rio De Janeiro, Sept. 16. The
Jacobin party is preparing to inaugu
rate anew the anti-Italian agitation.
It is feared that grave conflicts will
occur.
It is rumored that a revolution is
being organized by tho Jacobins and
the monarchist party, and that the
Italian question will servo as a base
for an insurrectionagainstthe govern
ment. The authorities are aware of
the rumors, and are taking measures
to prevent the plans of the agitators
from coming to a head.
Faslon is Arranged For.
Buffalo, Sept. 16. Fusion of the
populist and democratic parties in New
York state is the important result of
tbe conference today. For active sup
port of the ticket to b6 named by the
democratic state convention the popu
lists will be given five representatives
on the electoral ticket and two congressmen,-
The populists assert that
the union with democracy will
result in Bryan and Sewall carrying
New York by a large majority.
His Lea- Crushed.
Arlington, Or.. Sept. 17 A young
man, named Boyer, met with a seri
ous, if not fatal, accident at Condon,
in this county, this evening. He was
working for a thrashing crew. In
stepping over a tumbling rod, his foot
caught and he was wound around the
rods. Before the machinery could be
stopped the bones of bis legs were
crushed in a terrible manner. Ampu
tation will be necessary.
Wild Stan of the Forest.
Astoria, Or.. Sept. 17. The resi
dents of John Day precinct, in this
county, report Xhat an insane man has
been seen in the woods there, running
about in an almost nude state. He is
dcr-i-ribed as being six feet tall,-with
lonir black hair and whishers. He
will allow no one to approach him
and, when surprised, seeks cover
the brusb. How be subsists is a mys
tery.
Guilty as Charged.
. Heppner, Or., Sept. 16. The jury
in the case of the State vs. Chester
Sargent, charged with assault with in
tent to commit rape, was given the
case yesterday noon. The case was
taken up Saturday morning, and occu
pied the entire time of the court for
two and a half days. The jury after
being out 21 hours, returned a verdict
of guilty as charged, recommending
him to the mercy of the court.
News From Constantinople.
London, Sept. 10. The Standard
publishes a dispatch from Constanti
nople that the young Turk party is
covering the city with placards incit
ing the people to dethrone the 6ultan
Serious trouble, it is added, is certaiu
to occur within a week. Turkish troop
ships are nightly deporting Armenian
to the Black sea, where it is believed
they are drowned.
A Woman Firebug.
Danville, 111., Sept. 17. Ethel
Woods, an unmarried lady of about 22
years, has been arrested for arson
Her lover, George Allen, deserted her,
and it is charged that lust Sunday at
the hour of midnight she attempted to
burn down the house in which he slept.
When the fire was discovered the
whole side of tbe house was in flames,
Kamed by Gov. Lord.
SALEM, Or., Sept. 15. The follow
ing ladies were today, by the gover
nor's appointment, added to tbe mem
bership of the committee having in
charge tbe preparation of a testi
monial for the battleship Oregon
Mrs K. A. J. Mackenzie, Mrs. Sol
Hirsch, Mrs. H. J. Corbett, Mrs.
Richard Nixon and Miss Failing.
Norfolk A Western Bold.
New York, Sept. 15. A dispatch
from Norfolk, Va., says tbe Norfolk &
Western railway was sold under fore'
closure today for $3,000,000, subject to
mortgages of $22,000,000. The prop
erty was bought by the bondholders
represented by George Coppell, Ken
nedy Todd, W. E. Flinn and Victor
Morawitz.
Election in Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 15. Ofll
cial returns from 61 out of 6a counties
give Jones, democrat, 71,345; Reiqmel,
republican, 26,410; Files, populist, 11,
280; Miller, prohibition, 1643. Jones'
plurality Is 45,234. Jones' majority,
33,310. Jones' majority is consider
ably less than was at first estimated.
The Count In Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 17 Com
plete official returns from the recent
election shows the following vote for
governor:
Jones, dem 01.124
Remmel. reo 3o,836
Files, pop 13,989
Miller, pro 742
Oregon Agricultural College. ,
Coevallis, Or., Sept. 17. The Ore
gon agricultural college opened today
under the most favorable conditions.
The attendance promises to exceed
that of any former year, with more
students in the freshman class than
ever before. t -.
The Tote la Maine.
Portland, Me., Sept. 17 Complete
returns of Monday's election, are at
hand. The total vote is as follows:
Powers. .: 83.573
Frank 34.841
Republican plurality 43,732
Sawmill Bnrned.
Oregon City, Sept. 17 The saw
mill belonging to Eillyard Bros, at
Borings, burned to the ground Tues
day night, entailing a Joss of about
$2500,
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS
They Endorse the Chicago
Platform and Ticket.
AVEILER'S
PLANS
He Is Preparing for an Aggressive
Campaign and Will Reverse
Former Orders.
Complete Election Ketnrns From Maine
and Arkansas Astoria lias a WUd
Man as a Sensation Tried to
Cremate Her Lover.
Buffalo, Sept. 17. After the reas
sembling of the democratic state (in
vention today, business proceeded with
expedition. Ex-Congressman Bosea
H. Rockwell, of Chemung, was elected
permanent chairman. He made an
able speech in advocacy of the Chicago
platform and ticket. Tbe platform un
reservedly endorsed the platform
adopted by the democratic party in
the national convention at Chicago,
pledges William J. Bryan and Arthur
Sewall a hearty and active support and
declares as Its deliberate judgment
that never in the history of the demo
cratic party has a platform been writ
ten which embodied more completely
the interests of the whole people, as
distinguished from those who seek
legislation for private benefit, than
that given the country by the national
democratic convention of 1896.
John Boyd Thatcher, of Albany, was
nominated for governor; Hon. Wilbur
F. Porter for lieutenant-governor, and
Robert G. Titus for judge of the court
of appeals. Presidential electors were
chosen and the convention adjourned
sine die.
-1 ne state democratic committee se
lected Elliott Danforth chairman of
tho state committee to succeed James
W. Hinckley, and Frank Campbell to
succeed W. F. Sheehan as national
committeeman.
PREPARING TO FIGHT.
Vigorous Campaign to be Opened In
Cuba.
Havana, Sept. 17. There was much
animation in the captain-general's
palace yesterday. Captain-General
Weyler held a conference with various
commauders'of columns, also with the
commanding officer of marine and the
chief of tho medical department.
These conferences are the precursors
of an approaching campaign, which is
intended to be vigorous and resolute.
Captain-General Weyler will assume
personal command at Plnardel Rio,
Ahumidaand Pahneroa, taking charge
respectively of military and political
affairs at Havana. Among other
measures General Weyler thinks of
adopting as a prelude to the campaign
is the revocation of theedictof pardon,
obliging families having connections
in the ranks of the insurgents to move
into other provinces, and making con
centration in villages obligatory, con
sidering all persons found in the coun
try as enemies or supporters of the
enemy.
Captain-General Weyler's order re
cently issued putting line officers in
command of regular guerrilla and vol
unteer forces, is bitterly reonted and
in consequence theroyif many deser
tions are occurring.
Latest Returns From Maine.
Portland, Me., 16. Complete re
turns from 10 of the 16 counties give
Powers (rep.) for governor 53,712 votes,
and Frank (dem.) 23,014. These figures
bear out tho estimate heretofore made
that the republican plurality will not
be far away from 48.000.
Holmes Is Arraigned.
Tacoma, Sept. 17. County Commis
sioner Holmes was arraigned in the
criminal court this morning charged
with extorting money from tbe court
house janitor as a bonus for retaining
his position. The case was continued
to October 3.
Silver Coinage In Angust.
Washington, Sept. 17 A statemnt i
prepared at the mint bureau shows
that the silver coined during August
aggregated $2,650,000.
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Train No. 2 arrives at Tho Dalles
10:40 p. M., and leaves 10:45 p. M.
Train No. 8 arrives at The Dalles
12:i:5 p. M., and west-bound train No. 7
leaves at 2:30 P. m.
Train 23 and 24 will carrv Dasseneet-a
between The Dalles and Umatill.-t.
leaving The Dalles at 1 P. M. dally and
arriving at The Dalles at 1 P. M. dail-,
connecting with train Nos. 8 and 7
from Portland. E. E. Lytle,
Agent.
HARRY LIEBE,
AND DEALER IH
Clocks, Watches, Jewclrv Efe.
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY..
VOGT BLOCK,
THE DALLES, - - - OREGON'
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