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THE PRESS has the circulation, its advertising rates are within the reach of all. THE PRESS "touches the spot." $1.50 per year THE BIG CLEARANCE SALE OIT ; : lacks, Buggies, Carriages and Road Garts, gons Wa McFADDEN ATHENA PRESS Published Every Friday Morning By J. W. SMITH, Pbopkietok. F. B. Boyd, Editok. Entered at Athena postofflrc as second-class mall matter. Subscription 'Rates: Per year, In advance, .... J1.60 (Single copies, In wrappers, 5c. Advertising Rates: Local reading notices, first Insertion, 10c per line. Each subsequent Insertion, 5o. All communications should be addressed to he PRESS, Athena, Oregon. ATHENA SEPTEMBER 18, 1896. fob r resident: WILLIAM J. BRYAN, OF NEBRASKA. for vice president: ARTHUR SEWALL, OF MAINE. Wo Crown of Thorns, JVo Cross of Gold." The New York World (gold or gan) reminds Mr. McKinley in a fatherly sort of a way that he is making a fatal mistake in continu ously casting reproach upon the Wilson tariff law, and as persistent ly exaulting the McKinley tariff law. But Mr. McKinley cannot help this and retain his human nature. The only groat achive ment of his now somewhat extend ed life was the creation of the tariff law that bears his name, and though it overturned the republi can partv, he is nevertheless filled with vanity because of the product. Still the world is not reconciled to his course. It reminds him that his only hope of success lies in the victory in the Btatcs of New York, Connecticut, New Jer eey, Maryland, Deleware, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, and that to succeed in those states he must win over democratic votes, as they all went democratic in 1892. Abuse of a democratic tariff law will not accomplish this. It would appear to a disinterested on-looker that the World is correct in its conclu sions. It has come to this that the states named by the World are the battle ground of alleged repub licanism then the cause of McKin ley has become a desperate one. Five of them are normally demo cratic and one other so close thai the slightest event may change it either direction. It is evident that the class of democrats in the east represented by the World are tir ing of republicanism. The alliance entered into has become irksome and their petulance breaks forth in most incousiderate utterances. The republican national commit tee are blessed with plenty of mon ey for unrestricted use in this cam paign of the corporated classes against the masses. The contribu tors to this vast political fund are men who count their accumulated wealth by the millions. The forty five men who compose the repub lican finance committee, have an SsHn5ted wealth in the aggregate, 0000. The least wealthy -p,000, and the wealth- forty-five comuiit-V-th iriWfm & GORMAN, ceases to be a wonder from whence comes the vast amount of money required for the tons ot gold bug literature that daily flood the mails, and which moves excursion trains on to the mecca, Canton. with the hope that the passengers will bow at the shrine of McKinley, when we read in the associated press that Vanderbilt, the aristo cratic plutocrat, drew his check for $100,000 payable to this finance committee. This is the benev olant act of only one of the vast ar ray of believers in a golden god, who are organized under a banner that is hoped will carry to victory principals, that mean no good to the working and producing class, but which on the contrary will serve to forge the fetters of bond age closer still. Republicans insist that the gold reserve must be maintained. At the same time they denounce Presi dent Cleveland for issuing bonds to maintain it, and denounce Bryan for proposing to redeem the treas ury notes and greenbacks and other coin obligations in silver. Will some able republican financier tell the people how the gold reserve is to be maintained under our present financial system without selling bonds to buy gold or redeeming treasury notes and greenbacks in silver? No republican has hinted to what device a republican 'ad ministration would resort to keep the endless chain from doing its work on the gold reserve whenever Wall ptreet wanted to make a raid, without taking Mr. Cleveland's way or Mr. Bryan's way, both of which the republicans have con demned. After all the blow and the blus ter that the bolting democrats made about nominating a third ticket, when the critical moment came not one of them who had any hopes for a political future, could be induced to accept the nomina tion, and it was therefore saddled off onto poor old Senator Palmer, whose old age and feeble physical condition precludes the possibility of his ever filling another official position. The vice presidential nomination went the same way, the only redeeming feature about the convention being that neither of the men nominated can loose anything politically, by being the leaders of an unpopular party movement. Poor old men, they are more to be pittied than blamed for allowing Whitney, Vilas, Flow er and the other political tricksters to make tools of them. Mr. McKinley has not shown the frankness and courage that have characterized Mr. Bryan. For months he presented a sphinx like silence considering what would win him the most votes. Nor are some of the forces behind McKin ley such as to encourage a lover of good government. The trust we still have with us, and Mark Han na, his chief backer, is the em bodiment of the trust idea. Does it not look as if the government, in case Mr. McKinley should be elect ed, would be administrated by the trusts for the trusts' and with the trusts? Mark Hanna don't want Mahom et to go to the mountains, so he hires railroad trains to carry the mountain to Mahomet. And he can afford it. That 110,000,000 contributed by Wall street will v for aheap of transportation to pv's home. XT iho was willing to let i paint tho fence line These Vehicles Must be (Successors to Knapp, Burrell& Company) any color he chose, provided he painted it green, has a rival in the man who says that England will buy our wheat for silver and sell it for gold, thereby doubling her money on it. The arrangement is beautifully simple, but what would be the effect when every man in this broad land becomes a wheat buyer? "What's the matter with Han. na," he's all right, Hanna is pull ing the republican string of this campaign. He tells McKinley to stay at home, while he rustles money to pay excursion trains to run to Canton. Thousands ot dem ocrats who will vote for Bryan, take advantage of these daily ex cursions, to visit the Ohio town, for which they duly thank Hanna for the free transportation accord ed them. The McKinleyites have nothing very great to boast of in the Maine election, when it is taken into con sideration that there were five tickets in the field the republican, gold democrat, silver democrat, and populists. This, of course, gave the republicans their oppor tunityand they made the most of it. Ths snob is the child of aristo cratic societies. Perched on a step of the long ladder, he respects the man on the round above him, and despises the man on the Btep below, without inquiring what they are worth, solely on account of their position; in his innermost heart he finds it natural to kiss the boots of the first, and to kick the sec ond. If you go to Chicago and stop among the wealthy class, put up at first class hotels and restaurants, you will think MjKinley has Chi cago. But if you talk to the car driver and artisan, the common people you will know that Chicago is for Bryan. Sheehan, the Tammany leader, decleares emphatically for Bryan and Bewail. He says the new tick et is even worse than McKinley. The Indianapolis convention might have laid a claim upon de cency had it thrown Breckinridge bodilv from the convention. FROM THE OOUNTRY. An Old iM&t First Visit to Geaae CUT. The last passenger to leave the 4:30 train on the Michigan Central railroad after it drew to a standstill one after noon recently was a little old woman In black. A wisp of gray hair strangled from under an old-fashioned polto bon net, and a pair of kindly blue eyes looked out from behind her steel- rlmmed spectacles. In one hand she carried a huge, shiny valise, the key of which was tied to the handle with a strip of calico cloth. When she was part way up the platform she stopped with a troubled look and watched the baggagemen toil by with their loaded trucks. Presently she dropped the va lise and opened a big black fan which was fastened to her waist by a velvet ribbon. After she had waited some time, one of the depot ushers came along and asked if he could be of any service to her. 'Why, thank you, I think not," she answered; "I'm waiting for 'Dick Rob inson." Tho depot usher hurried ou and paid no more attention to the littlo old woman. When he came back a half hour later, she was still standing where he hud left her, gently fanning herself with the black fan. "Has your friend come yet?" asked the usher. "No," ishe answered. "His wstch must have been slow." "Did he expect you by this train?" "Well, you sec, it's this way. Last summer, Dick and his wife came over to t'.riprgsburg to visit tho Coo perse a. Whilo they were there they came over often to my place to get a drink of but termilk. Well, we got friendly and Sarah told me a lot of things about Chicago, and that she couldn't, by no manner of meann, get buttermilk in the city, llefore 'Dick' wt.il .back he came arouud nnd says: , hH Iteggs just take a tv" v"-""1 s-n- INSURANCE Other Companies mcr and visit us. Let us know when you're coming, and I'll meet you at the depot.' And so I'm here, and I've got three jars of fresh buttermilk for them in that bag." The depot usher helped the little old woman to a seat in the waiting-room and then he searched the directory for Richard Robinson. His charsre couldn't help him much because she didn't know S Dick s occupation. "All I know," she explained, "Is that he's a genuine gentleman, and if he had got my letter he'd a been here." The usher made a list of two or three addresses and put the woman in charge of a trusty cabman with instructions to find "Dick." Two hours later the driver came back with the report that his fare was delivering her buttermilk. Chicago Record. Women and Tobaooo. Smoking, when indulged in by per sons who are not physically very ro bust, may produce temporary color blindness. Such is the conclusion at which Capt. Abney, the photographic specialist, has arrived, and which he recently explained before an audience at tho Royal institute. We may be thankful for this fresh argument de rived from science against the adoption of the tobacco habit by ladies. Ob viously, if smoking renders people un able to distinguish between different hues in silks and satins and stuffs, the pleasant ceremony of "shopping" would be at an end, as far as womankind is concerned. It seems that those who are "tobacco-blind" can correctly pick out and name the blue pellets in a number of different ones, but all other colors they inaccurately describe as white. This would bo singularly em barrassing to a lady whose heart was set upon some delicate greeny-yellowy tint for a dress. Senator HarrU' Plain Living. Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is not one of the bon vivantsof the higher body of national legislation. He is very democratic in his gustatory tastes; a pair of hard-boiled eggs and a bottle of beer off the ice is his favorite lunch in summer, and during the R months he eats raw oysters covered with red pep per, never forgetting the cold bottle of beer. The Democratic Platform. The platform which has been heralded to the people ot these' United States by the democratic party in convention as sembled, on which it is predicted the brilliant Bryan 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 there great essen tial principles of justice and liberty upon which onr institutions are founded, and which the democratic party has main tained from Jefferson's time to oar own freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, the preservation of personal rights, the equality of all citiiens before the law, and the faithfnl observance of constitutional limitations. Recognising that the money question is paramount to all others at this time, we invite attention to the (act 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 under 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 1373 de monetising 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 of the money-lending classes at home and abroad ; paralyaia ot indus tries and impoverishment of the people. We are unalterably opposed to the sin gle gold standard, which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrious people in the paralysis of hard timet. Geld monometallism is a British policy, founded cpon Brilish greed tor gaia and Sold at Once I write Insurance only with the very best Companies. When you want Policies written on your house, barn, or grain, see that they are in the Aetna, Palatine or Caledonian. Represented. J. W. power, and its general adoption has brought pther nations into financial ser vitude to London. It is not only un 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, public 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 each obligations in either silver coin or gold coin. We are opposed to the issuing of interest bearing bonds of the United States in time of peace, and condemn trafficing with banking syndicates which, in exchange for bonds at an enormous profit to themselves, supply the federal 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 cot 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 issued direct ly by the treasury department. We bold that tariff duties should be levied solely for the purpose of revenue and tbat 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 home 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 further changes in our tariff laws ex cept such 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 daring the last two years but for the annulment by the supreme conrt 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 bad laid hidden for a hundred years, mast be removed, to the 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 tbat 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 borne market to our American farmers and artisans is greatly reduced by a vicious monetary system which depresses the prices of their product below the coat of production, and thus deprives them of the means of satisfying their needs. We denounce the profligate waste of the money wrong 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 no longer repay the cost of production. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which best befits a democtratic government, and a redac tion in the number of useless offices, the salaries of which drain the substance of the people. 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