The Athena press., July 24, 1896, Image 2

THE PRESS has the circulation, its advertising rates are within the reach of all. THE PRESS "touches the spot." $1.50 per year
ATHENA PRESS
Published Every Friday Morning
By J. W. SMITH, Proprietor.
F. B. Boyd, Editor.
Entered at Athena postofflce a second-claw
mall matter. S " " ,
..." Subecrlptlon ftetesi!
Per year. In advance, ' - W.60
Single copies. In wrappers, 6c
Advertising "Rates l
Local reading notices, first insertion, 10c per
line. Each subsequent insertion, Be.
All communications should be addressed to
he PRESS, Athena, Oregon.
ATHENA. JULY 24,1896.
.. Having received inquiries as
to the meaning of free silver
coinage, sixteen to one, we publish
the following explanation of the
subject: Sixteen to one means
that a silver dollar weighs sixteen
times as much as a gold dollar.
In other words, of weight between
coin of gold and coin of silver of
the same denomination is sixteen
to one. The reason why bime
talliets in this country prefer the
ratio of sixteen to one to any other
is that it is the ratio now estab
lished by law. Our standard sil
ver dollars weigh just sixteen
times as much as our standard gold
dollars. All the obligations of the
United States are payable in either
silver dollars or gold dollars. Sil
ver dollars of the weight of 412 J
grains of standard silver or gold
dollars of the weight of 25 8-10
grains of standard gold were the
coin in existence and in circulation
at the time the act of July 14,
1870, was passed, under which all
the bonds of the United States
have been issued. These bonds
have written upon thei" face that
they are redeemable in coin of the
standard value of July 14, 1870.
Consequently if the ratio were
changed the bondholders might
complain that Congress was viola
ting the obligation of contracts
The silvermen, above all others,
are desirous of maintaining in
violate all the contracts of the
United States. Consequently they
would not think of changing the
ratio between the two metals,
which could only be done by chang
ing the amount of silver in the
silver dollar or the amount of gold
in the gold dollar. Besides, six
toen to one is the natural ratio of
production. There is about six
teen times as much weight of silver
in the world as there is of gold, and
this is the result of mining during
all the ages. Although- the ratio
established by the United Skates is
arbitrary, as all ratios of coinage
must be, still it corresponds very
accurately with the relative
quantity of the two metals which
has been accummulated since pre
historic times.
The ignorance in the east of the
sentiment of the west is strikingly
illustrated by the plea of an eastern
domocratio newspaper for Mr.
Cloveland to say a word and Mr.
Carlisle to make a speech to arrest
the tide of the silver sentiment.
Many eastern people imagine that
the "wild and wooly west" contains
no brain and no culture. They
have only to send on a few of their
great guns, such as David B. Hill
and Whitney to a place like the
Chicago democratic convention,
and the west and south will lay
down at once. No matter what
the question at issue, a little hot
shot from eastern intellectual lumi
naries will silence all the little
guns of the west. This is what
they think. But one would im
agine that, their late experience at
the Chicago convention would open
their eyes & littlo. Tho goldites,
headed by Hill, came there with
the evident determination of stam
peding the silver people out of the
- convention. But they ran up
"against the wrong crowd.
All other human weaknesses pale
into insignificance beside that of
holding office. When there is an
office in sight, the bald and pitiful
nature of the human bosom is re
vealed. A man who has been
assured position that will keep
him and his family for life will
throw it up without a sigh or re
gret to take some wretched little
oflico that will only hold him for a
couple of years and that will cost
him more to get it than it will
yield him after he has it. The
office holding weakness is the most
lamentable in the whole category;
it has spoiled so many good fellows,
it has made desolate more homes
than the rum fiend has done; it has
made defaulters of so many honest
men; it has chucked the graveyards
full oi Euicides' and the asylums
full of maniacs,- and has filled the
neighboring countries with fugitives
from justice. That ever this should
be.
The gold reserve went below the
90-million mark Tuesday, for the
first time in many months, so the
dispatches tell us. The New York
bankers, who heretofore have been
pulling the withdrawal strings,
volunteer with amazing alarcity to
come to the government's rescue
by furnishing gold and taking in
return National bank notes. The
New York bankers do not want a
bond issue at the present time.
Why? JFor the simple reason that
an election occurs this fall.
A man down in Georgia wants an
office and he states his position in
the following succinct manner: "I
never was in the war, never holler
ed at the surrender and never kill
ed anybody that let me alone, and
the only thing I know about the
financial Question is this: I need
money." ,
Boss Hanna has instructed his
men not to say "gold standard"
but "sound money," the latter ex
pression having the obvious advant
age of not meaning anything or of
meaning everything. It can be
noted that the orators who Bhout
for "unsound money" are com
paratively few.
The Sacramento Bee, one of the
most influential republican papers
of the Golden Gate state, says the
adoption of the gold standard plank
at St. Louis will cause California
to be lost to McKinley by 40,000
votes.
SILVER SENTIMENT.
Said Mr. Bryan in his famous
convention speech: "I want to im
press npon your minds two things;
I want you to ask two questions
which ought to be asked over and
over again in this campaign, each
time with increased emphasis, and
the two questons are these: 'If the
gold standard is a good thing, why
ought we try to get rid of it?'
And, 'If it is a bad thing, why
should we keep it until some other
nation helps us to get rid of it?' "
Frank Singleton returned Mon
day morning from Boise City,
where he took a number of horses
to sell to the United States cavalry
post. lie participated in the big
free silver ratification meeting at
Boise Saturday night. He says it
was the largest and most enthu
siastic political gathering he had
seen for years. The republicans
almost to a man joined in the dem
onstration, and the way in which
all citizens united in the affair it
was more like a Fourth of July
celebration than a political gather
ing. Walla Walla Statesman.
"When you go to Spokantj" said
J. H. Lawrey, who has just return
ed from a buisness trip to that city,
to a Pendleton reporter, ''Don't
talk politics unless you are for free
silver. If you want a decent bed
to sleep in, a square meal or hope
to be respected at all, don't let it be
understood that you are anything
but a free silverite. The people
there are so wrapped up in the sil
ver idea that they talk nothing
else, think of nothing else and
dream of nothing else. They talk
it at the hotels, in their homes, at
the saloons, at the theatres, on the
street, everywhere. The lawyers,
doctors, merchants, laborers,
negroes, Chin&raeu, boys, girls and
babies talk about it, morning, noon,
night, all the time. The whole
population of Spokane seem to
have lost sight of everything else
but free silver."
Congressman Towne, of Minne
sota, one of the silver republicans
who walked out of the St. Louis
convention and announced the
severence ot his allegiance to the
republican party, says: "The sil
ver movement in Minneeota,is grow
ing" by leaps and bounds. Among re
publicans I am amazed at the wide.
spread defection in favor of silver.
Republicans and populists are en
thusiastically for Bryan. An ia-
dependent nomination, in my
opinion, is impracticable. Bryan
should be endorsed. I am for
Bryan."
THE DEMOCRATIC MOSES. "
An Ohio Paper's Description of the Ef
fect of Bryan's Speech.
From the moment William J.
Bryan mounted the platform all
was changed. It was evident that
the new master had appeared and
he was recognized. He was the
first man Who had really been
able to hold the attention of the
convention. But he talked as
though he understood the situation.
He gave confidence. He spoke
with wonderfal eloquence. There
was nothing of the Southern Patois
in his pronunciation, neither was
there the narrow New Englandism
which goes so grandly in Faneuil
hall, but sounds a trifle stilted in a
national convention, even when
pouring from the eloquent tongue
of a Williamsor Russell. There
was the broad Americanism, with
period? as free and untrammeled
as the prairies. It stru;k the key
note. Strong men cried, women
waved their handkerchiefs, every
body cheered and everybody was
refreshed and made happy. They
had been captured. The people had
been fed. The consolation had
come. The gratitude that was ex
pressed knew no bounds. There
have been few such exhibitions in
all history. It is seldom in this
great land of ours, with its remark
able political conventions, that any
thing of this sort can occur. There
has been no such speech in a dem
ocratic convention for a generation.
There was not a single utterance
in the St. Louis convention that
will live beyond the day in which
it was first printed. . No one talked
about these speeches. There were
no remarkable historic comparisons
like this orator's reference to Ci
cero and Napoleon. Teller's action
created a great deal of talk, but
his speech, though pathetic and
strong, was forgotten as .soon as
delivered.
But here was a speech that will
live as an historic effort side by
side with that of Ingersoll in nom
inating the Plumed Knight in
1876, and that of Conkling m nom
inating Grant in 1880. But it was
much greater than either, because
it was th$ solemn plea for a cause
that the speaker believes in with
all his heart, and not a mere
eulogy of a man. It was a speech
that was worth the waiting to hear.
It was the keynote of a great
movement. It was well considered,
grand, and furnished convicting
proof that eloquence and oratory
are not dead and that they have
the same old power that they al
ways had to stir the hearts
of the people when the oc
casion is ripe and the subject is
one in which the speaker and the
audience are alike interested.
This speech of Bryan's was in a
marked degree lilfe that of Gar
field in 1880, which made him
president. There was, however,
this distinctive difference between
Bryan's effort and Garfield'B;
Bryan spoke for a cause; Garfield
for a man. Bryan pleaded for the
people. He urged the justness of
the plea. He poured oil upon the
troubled waters. Cleveland Re
corder.
The Albany woolen mills havj put in
their own electric lipbt plant.
The Scio Press estimates that not more
than one-fifth of the usual crop acreage
ot t at locality has been cultivated, and
as far as can be learned, the same con
dition is true in other portions of the
county. Many people who nave hitherto
laid in their stock of groceries by means
of picking hops will this fall have to look
to other means to supply tneir laniuy
larder.
Charley Innis, of Silver Lake, has
found a rare Indian relic. It is a pestle
five inches long and three across the
base or lower end, the point terminating
In an oval shape, like an egg. It is
commonly called granite. It is the first
seen thereof that formation, and it is
thought that it Jmnst have teen need
principally on a tray instead of a mortar,
as its length would indicate. -
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion oi the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus
tachian Tube. When this tube is in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entire
ly closed, deafness is the result, and
unless tue luQammaiion can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out ot ten are caused by
Cfttarrh, which is nothing but an (inflam
ed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred lollars for
any case of deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars ; free.
F. J. Chknev & Co., Toledo, O.
-8old by Druggists, 75c
The Democratic Platform.
The platform which has been heralded
to the people of these United States by
the f! imocratic party in convention as
semble, on which it is predicted the
brilluat Bryau will be swept to victory
by a tidal wave is as follows:
We, the democrats of the United States,
in national convention assembled, do re
affirm our allegiance to these great essen
tial principles of justice and liberty npon
wtiicn our institutions are founded, and
which the democratic Dartv has main
tained from Jefferson's time to our own-
freedom of speech, freedom of the Dress.
freedom of conscience, the preservation
of personal rights, the equality cf all
citizens before the law, and the faithful
observance of constitutional limitations.
Recognizing that the money Question
is paramount to all others at this time,
we invito attention to the fact that the
federal constitution names silver and
gold together as the money metals of the
United States, and that the first coinage
law passed by congress nnder the consti
tution made the silver dollar the unit of
value and admitted gold to free coinage,
at a ratio measured by the silver dollar
unit.
We declare that the act of 1873 de
monetizing silver without the knowledge
or approval of the American people has
resulted in the appreciation of gold and
a corresponding fall in the prices of
commodities produced by the people ; a
heavy increase in the burden of taxation.
and of all debts, public and private ; the
enrichment ot tbe money-lending classes
at home and abroad ; paralysis of indus
tries and impoverishment of tbe people.
We are unalterably opposed to the sin
gle gold standard, which has locked fast
the prosperity ot an industrious people
in the paralysis of hard times. Gold
monometallism is a British policy,
founded upon British greed for gain and
power, and its general adoption baa
brought other nations into financial ser
vitude to London. It is not only on
American, but anti-American, and it can
be fastened upon the United States only
by the stifling of that indomitable spirit
and love of liberty which proclaimed our
political independence in 1776 and won
it in the war of the Revolution.
We demand the immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present legal ratio of 16
to 1, without waiting for the aid or con
sent of any other nation. We demand
that the standard silver dollar shall be a
full legal tender, equally with gold, for
all debts, publio and private, and we
favor such legislation as will prevent the
demonetization of any kind of legal
tender money by private contract.
We are opposed to the policy and practice
of surrendering to holders of obligations of
the United states any option reserved by
law to the government of redeeming such
obligations in either silver coin or gold
coin. '
We are opposed to the issuing of
interest bearing bonds of the United
Btates in time of peace, and condemn
trafBcing with banking syndicates which,
in exchange for bonds at an enormous
profit to themselves, supply the federal
Painting .. . .
In all Branches
Neatly done by Chapman.
HOUSE PAINTING AND DECORATING.
J. W. CHAPMAN, Athena.
ATHBNA PRBSS
-as AMD 5v-
HL
vovovovovovovovovo
HANIILITQHOUBKE WAREHOUSE SYSTEM
GRAIN AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Dealers is
Grain, Grain-bags and do a general Warehouse and Commission busi
ness; pay the highest prices for all kinds of grain. Handle grain on
either road at the same price.
BE SURE YOU SEE THEM BEFORE
DAQID TAYLOR, Agent,
treasury with gold to maintain a policy
of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has power to coin and
issue money and President Jackson
declared that this power could not be
delegated to corporations or individuals.
We therefore demand that the power
to issue notes be taken from the banks
and that all paper shall be iesoed direct
ly by the treasury, department. We
hold that t&riff duties should be levied
solely for the purpose of revenue and
that taxation should be limited by
the needs of the government, honestly
and economically administered. We
denounce as disturbing to business
the republican threat to restore the Mc
Kinley law, which has twice been con
demned by the people in national
elections, and which, enacted under the
false plea of protection to borne industry,
proved a prolific breeder of trusts and
monopolies, enriching the few at the ex
pense of the many, restricted trade and
deprived the producers of the great Amer
ican staples of access to their natural
markets. Until the money question
is settled, we are opposed to any agitation
for farther changes in our tariff laws exH
cept sucn as are necessary to make the
deficit in revenue, caused by the ad
verse decision of the supreme court
as to the income tax.
There would have been no deficit in
the federal revenue during tbe last two
years but for the annulment by tbe
supreme court of the income tax law,
placed upon the statute books by a demo
cratic congress. The obstruction to an
income tax, which the supreme court dis
covered in the constitution after it had
laid hidden for a hundred years, must be
removed, to tbe end that accumulated
wealth may be made to bear its just share
of the burden of the government. We,
therefore, favor an amendment to the
federal constitution that will permit the
levy of an income tax. We hold that the
efficient way of protecting American
labor is to prevent the importation of
foreign pauper labor to compete with the
home market, and that the value of the
home market to our American farmers
and artisans is greatly reduced by a
vicious monetary system which depresses
the prices of their product below tbe cost
of production, and thus deprives them of
tbe means ot satisfying their needs. We
denounce tbe profligate waste of the
money wrung from the people by oppres
sive taxation and lavish appropriations
of recent republican congresses, which
have kept taxes high, while the laborer
that pays them is unemployed, and pro
ducts of the people are depressed in price
until they do longer repay the cost of
production. We demand a return to that
simplicity and economy which best befits
a democratic government, and a reduc
tion in the number of useless offices, the
salaries of which drain the substance of
the people. Confiding in tbe justice of
our cause and the necessity of its success
at the polls, we submit the foregoing
declaration of principles and purposes to
the considerate judgment of the American
people.- We invite tbe support of all
citizens who approve them and who de
sire to have them made effective through
legislation for the relief of the people
and the restoration of the country's
prosperity.
YOU BUY SACKS OR SELL CHAIN.
Athena, Oregon.
Notice to
You can purchase our Drapers and Extras for all Headera
Threshers and Horse-powers from Will Mosgrove, Athena,
Oregon. ,
GILBERT nUNT & COMPANY, Walla Walla, Wash.
Machine
Zeiger'a Shop, at Helix, can repair Ma
chinery. General Blacksmithing.
W. L ZEIGER,
W. D. HANSFORD & CO.,
oXvvx Dealer I n Vw,
Hardware....
and Stoves.
TIN AND COPPER WARE.
Pumps, Pipe, etc., . - . - - Baker Barbed Wire.
PLUMBING A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
629 Main Street, Pendleton, Oregon.
J1SH'
W. P. LEACH,
r N. At MILLER,
' . the :
LEADING FURNITURE DEALER
8
HI Carp e t Store ,
Largest Stock ever brought to Pendleton. Better
Goods and cheaper Prices. Agent for the Standard
and White Sewing Machines. Carpets and machines at
about half former prices. Come and be convinced.
; JESSE FAILING, Pendleton, Oregon.
HI
111
THE ATHENA MARKET
FRANK BEAL, proprietor.
AFRESH MEAT ALWAYS OH HAKD
Ifighest Cash Price paid We buy for Cash and sell foi
forButcher's Stock. Cash strictly
YOU GET TILE VERY BEST AND. LOTS OF IT,
WHEN YOU SPEND MONEY WITn
BEALE
Main Street,
FIRST MT10ML
BMK
OF RTEEER. -
fays
E, U
At
ISCHER'S HEW
On both Harness and Collar,
You can save the dollar;
Wliile the pen nies take care of themselves.
North side Main Street.
Farmers
Shop -,
- Helix, Or
NOTARY PUBLIC
....
SUCCESSOR TO
Athena, Orego
South side Main Street.
CAPITAL STOCK,
SURPLUS,
$ 60000
$21,000
interest on time deposits. Proper attention
given to collections. Deals In foreign and
domestic exchauga.
Baksbtt Cashier, . . Athena, Oregon
. . , .
HARNESS SHOP
Atiiena, Oregc