í
SCIO, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1,1896.
NO.
15,
i
i’egard to xMexico than I . ever THE AMERICAN FARMER AND THE States—were today confronted only
silver Q uestion .
thought could be conjured up by
with the labor vote, then the exist
ing confidence of Wall Street in
mortal man, all to deceive the VOt-
Major McKinley’s success would be-
er.
ÎJÏ MOBlSÎOR FREWËÜS
entirely justified. -But more than
One most heard is that you can
Your request for a “short
take one American silver dollar in ment” of the causes which state- anything else “freesilver” in Amer
have ica stands for agrarianism. There
Mexico and get two Mexican silver
forced the ^silveh Question to the fire some seven million farm votes
dollars for, it or that you can get a
ureal and throw down an American front in American politics is not in the United States, a vfist scatter
very easily met. In writing for the ed host, quite undisciplined, diffi
dollar and they will give you back
Daily
Chronicle, Ishould have wish cult to combine, and therefore im
a Mexican ■ dollar. I brand this as
ed
io
deal
particularly with the lab possible to buy. An advance guard,
Utterly false in every respect, a lie
manufactured out-of whole cloth. I or aspects of an issue which during over a million strong, of this vote
assert that,a Mexican will not ac the past four years has proved a lib calling itself “Populist,” has been
cept an American dollar, either gold eral education to the American for six years past the terror of the
m
silver or paper, for any amount; but working man. The interest of labor, political “boss.” Already the Pop
will refer you. to fi broker where you in the silver question, has been ad ulist party holds the balance of pow
can sell your silver dollars as bullion mirably summed up, in a speech to er in the all-important Senate, and
for Mexican money, then they will his constituents, in 1894, by the pres now that for the first time one of the
free silver preferable to
Th are is no question but what the
TARIFF.
trade with you. The largest hotel ent Spt'ukcrxjf the Ilotise of Bepre- two great historic parties has come
business ronditions of the country
in the City of Mexico will not ac rentativee.—of Maine, out for free silver, which.,.cven in
Vis a whole are growing better. The
The republican campaign mana cept American-money under any Referring to Ihe closing of the In the eastern seaboard States can be
flow of gold from Europe towards gers have placarded the country all
circumstances, bat will invariably dian mints, by the government of reckoned safe, with the “Granger”
this country which was’ started in over with flaming posters, the lead refer you to a broker.
India, and-the gréât fall in the price on the war path?
the first place for the -political -pur- ing lines of .which are “Do You By paying the mintage anyone, of silver, which followed, Mr. Beed
“What is the value of a bushel of
Vose of avoiding another issue of Want Free Wool,” and in smaller can take silver bullion to either of said: “We have learned from that wheat?” runs the Granger catech
bonds, Continues. The country, as type they, endeavor to show the the mints in Mexico and get Mexi object lesson that the yellow man ism. “An ounce of silver bullioh.”
a whole, is getting good from what farmer the benefit of a tariff on wool. can silver dollars for it, and for two using the white money, holds at Why? ‘‘Because an ounce of silver
was only intended by money lencl- Of course' we desire the wool grow hundred and fifty, years silver bul- his mercy the industry of the white is three rupees, and three rupees,
ers in Europe and America, to add er to get a good pi’ice for his wool, lion has never fluctuated up or down man using the yellow money.” represent the cost of .producing
This now historic sentence crystal wheat in India arid laying it down
' strength to the.gold standard senti but we fail to see wherein the tariff to exceed two cents.
lises the position admirably-. The in London.” The agrarian- curren
ment. “Confidence,”, that much on wool wil' raise the price of wheat. I assert that Mexico in
talked of fickle ‘goddess, has again Unless the wheat farmer can be decade is making strides of advance .value of their silver coin for the cy creed is simple enough; silver at
teoucluded to visit, our shores and ere compensated in some-way for the ment greater than any natiou on Chinese, and Japanese races, for 5s, an ounce spells wheat at 5s. ti
eartn; Twenty-five years ago we the Indian and the Malay-, is t-odaj’
long we may expect gold to creep additional price he must pay for his had eighty miles of railroad; now as great as ever. That is to say, bushel and cotton at 6d. a pound
clothes,
with
fth
increased
tariff
on
Silver at 2s. 6d. an ounce spells
out from its secret hiding places in
wool, wè think it-unjust for him to we have nearly 8000 miles of rail I while silver has fallen one half in wheat at 2s. 6d. and cotton atfid.
bank Vaults, safe deposit cells, old
be' taxed for the benefit of his neigh road. We are building factories on gold value, yet the purchasing pow
Said Mr. Bryan to the Chicago
stockings, etc., and be invested in bor. We desire to increase the every hand. Twenty-eight years er at home of the tael, the Straits
,
$10,
Convention, when referring to the
the. purchase of various properties price of wool, of wheat, of cotton, of ago, when the French army was dollar, the yen and the . rupee, for
attitude of the Wall Street Demo
arid investments that are believed, corn and every other commodity or driven out, the Mexican govern seven hundred millions of Asiatics,
crats:
—SEVERAL STYLES.
generally, to -have reached their product as well. A tariff will only ment was left penniless, not a dollar is no whit diminished. The result
“You come to us and tell us that
lowest notch. This is the wisest raise the price of the article upon in the treasury. We can now pay is that the fall in the gold price of the great cities.are in favor of the
and only course that could nave which it is laid, and this will be at our entire national debt any day a silver occasioned by the closing of gold standard. I tell you that the <THE L. E. BLAIN
the Indian mints, the repeal of the great cities- rest upon these broad
been pursued by the goldites to pre the expense of the consumer. So it demand would be made for it.
vent the election of Mr. Brvari to can- be seen that the uncompensated I am now on the way to Mexico Sherman Act, and those other ex and fertile prairies. Burn dqwn
to spend the rest of my life. Any cesses of class legislation intended, your cities, leave us our farms, and
ORN.
the presidency and the inauguration American consumer is treated very one can find me by addressing a
in the stock phrase of the day, to your cities will spring up again as if
unjustly
when
his
burden
is
in
of the free coinage of silver by the
letter to James H. Kennedy, Sinal “appreciate gold,” and enrich bank by magic. But destroy our farms
United States. Had this same pol creased for the benefit of his neigh va, Mexico.
ers and other money lenders, is to and the grass will grow in the streets
bor;
As
his
neighbor
woblgrower
icy been resorted to months ago, it
grows rich, he (the wheat grower) In conclusion I invite an honest, day creating in the far East a mush of every city.iu the land.”
Would probably have prevented grows relatively poorer,' for a tariff and thorough investigation into the room growth of industrial eh#ei-
Let me only add; in concluding is now prepared to do any and all kinds of. Carpentry
thousands from embracing the cause ca'nhot increase the price of wheat facts of my statement and I defy jarises, in mine, in field, alid in
of silver, that-are now firmly fixed' under any circumstances. But successful contradiction. I am not factory, thé exports of which Orien this1 brief arid imperfect summary work at bed - rock prices. Will fu-rnish estimates and plans
in their opinions that both of the where is the justice of aiding any the owner of mining stocks and no. tal industries compete with the pro of the silver issue in America, that free to those employing him. First-class work guaranteed.
precious metals must be used as ba. special class with a tariff tax and re personal interest has caused me to ducts of white labor, in the markets I can imagine no more serious Brian Give him a trial and be convinced.
sic or redemption money at the es fuse to aid the silver miner by ad make this statement, but have giv of Europe and America, on terms of ci’al catastrophe for the English in
vestor than to be lulled into a sense
tablished ratio of 16 to 1. Whether mitting his product access to the en it by request of an old com great-advantage,, because of the fall of
false security by the daily assur
J as . H. K ennedy .
in the pri^Rif silver.
the change on the part of those who. mints? Sil ver is: the only product, rade.
ances of New York correspondent^
Subsciibed
in
my
presence
and
Cheap
silver
in
thé
East
—
silver
control the world’s supply of gold, the price of which can be increased sworn to by Jas. H. Kennedy th is
that Mr. Bryan’s candidature is
E AST and SOUTH
cheapened By
Ics^i.-tBit ion —
wlthoiit thin Inonenso '
Tiie
balance
between
is not too la.to to prevent a mnjerity by
involve»
ana women in
cne-ziucn uay or Auguaiifiovo.-
being
at
the
expense
Of
the
Ameri
•American
parties
is
infinitely
nar-
o£ the voters from marching under
[Heal.]
H, H. E nglish ,
trie West; aDiFnOt .merely cheap
—VIA—
trie bannei of true bimetallism, the can consumer; and when you raise Notary Public in and for Polk Coun men and women, .but indeed great row. Had Mr. Blain in 1884 obtain
We take your milk, sepa
the
price
of
silver,
you
will
raise
the
third of November alone will
ty, Iowa.
masses of men and women, who ed only 520 mugwump votes then rate It, make the butter,
teli. We sincerely hope that this price of every other product of the
can
get no employment- at all. The cast in the one city of Ne-w York for pack and ship it; and pay
—of the—
Us.t effort on the part of the money farm and factory as well. In time,
manager
of the Pahang tin mines, Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Blain and not the patron all that the butter
you farmers and others who have
M
’
KINLEY
IN
1892
kings will fail, for if they now suc mortgages on your properties, will
when giving-évidence recently be-, Mr. Cleveland had' been President brings less 3i cents per ft,
ceed. In preventing bimetallism to be enabled to raise your mortgages
fore
the Singapore Currency com And it is the gravest mistake to blink Or we will contract with any
become the established policy of the and have a free farm or other pro In 1892 William McKinley deliv mission, pointed out tnat Pahang I the fact that a million Populist votes, .one for their milk for six .Express Trains Eeave Portland Daily.
country, they will but pu| off or de perty to'compensate you for voting ered a speech and from it this en could always sell a ton af Straits tin together with a great mass of seced-
months at 60 cents per hun South.
I North.
in London for thé gold equivalent ers from the Republican party in the
lay the battle, to be fought out in fu for free coinage of silver. We be tire paragraph is clipped:
T-50P.ÍÍ, Lv.
Portland........ Ar | 8:10 A. ST.
“During all of his (Cleveland’s) of 650 of those silver dollars, with Granger States, and the Pacific and dred.
12:10 P. M. Lv
- ........ Albany...........Lv I 4;50A. M.
ture years. Our financial system to lieve that the free coinage of silver years at the nead of the govern
10:45 A. M Ar..San Francisco. .Lv I 6:00 P. M.
Rocky Mountain States, will gravi
become permanent and prosperity and laws excluding foreign emi ment he was dishonoring one of our which they pay their wages at Pa tate at the coming election toward
The above trains stop at. East Portland .Or,
<’gon< itv, Woodburn, Salem, Turner, Marion,
to be of a fixed nature for our nation gration will in a very few years in precious metals, one of our great hang. After remarking that West the new Democratic platform. . Un
Jellerson,
Albany, Albany Junction, Tangent,
products,
discredi
jng.silver,
and
en
Shedd, Halsey, Harrisburg, Junction City,
the absolute control of our money augurate the most abundant pros hancing the price of gold. He en ern legislation had in a few years re der these circumstances it is surely
irymg,
Eugene
Creswell, Drains, and all sta
duced
the
exchange
value
of
that
tions from Roseburg south to and including
system must be taken out of the perity that the American people deavored evferi before his inaugura
Ashland.
;
.
dollar by one half—that is to say, the very first duty of the British
have
ever
enjoyed.
-We
believe
tion
to
office
to
stop
the
coinage
of
hands of selfish humanity and
Press to prépare our investors for
Roseburg; Stall Rally. J
that to’ raise the value of silver will silver dollars, and afterwards, and from five dollars to the sovereign to the coming change. That change,
8:30 A. M. |Lv.. ..Portland
lodged in the hands of congress, raise the value of every thing pro to the end of his administration, ten dollars to the sovereign—he
.Ari 4:40 P. M-
12:25 P. M. Lv... ......Albany.. . Lv 1:15 P. M.
5;20 P. M. Ar
where the constitution evidently duced in the entire country except persistently used his power to that proceeded to assure the Currency if panic-mongers in the Press, who
Roseburg
Lv i 8:00 A. M.
He was determined to con
are expecting to get rich by im
Salean Passenger, »ally r.
intended it should be placed. We ing g.old and your debts, and this, end.
Commission
that
at
the
present
re
tract the circulating medium, and
4:00 p, m. i lv...... ..Pvrtland... .... ar I 10:15 a. m,
should make it impossible for Wall too, without becoming, a burden to demonetize one of the coins of com duced price of silver Pahang could mense ’’bear sales” of American se
8.15 p; m. I ar...... .. Salem .. ...lv| 8:00 a. ml
and Lombard streets, to bring about the American consumer. This prop merce, limit the volume of money “supply all Europe with tin, and curities, can only be defeated in their
intention to organize panic apd dis
Lebanon Brandi.
among the people, make money
a repetition of the times of the past osition is practically admitted by scarce and therefore dear. He close every tin mine in Cornwall.”
The Fastest and Most Styl
Daily (except Sunday.)
aster, is likely to restore a prosper
I
understand
that,
the
closing
of
the
three years, whenever it might. our opponents, aqd the only real op would have increased the value of
ar. i Lv... .... Albany.... ....Ar 1 10:40 A.M.
ity now long absent from American ish" Rigs kept by any stable 8:20 a a . M.
1 Ar . . Lebanon . ..Lv i 9:40 A.M.
. please their fancies to do so.
position to the free coinage of silver money and decrease the value of Indian mints has been, as the Pa finance. “Free Silver”, will at once in tne county can- be found 9:10
4:30 P.M, 1 Lv.... .....Albany.... ... Al’ I 6:45 P.M.
everything else—money the master,
. This end, in our opinion, can only comes from the money loaners and everything else its servant. He hang manager pointed out, t he sig raise the exchange rales between here. Secial attention given 5;20 P.m. | Ar .. . Lebanon .. .. Lv 1 5:50 p.m.-
WooiBbnrn -Springfield ISraneli.
be secured by the election cf Mr. operators in stocks and bonds.of Wall was not thinking of the poor then. nal for the closing of the Cornuh Europe and all Asia, and also be-, to boarding horses.
Stock
Daily (except Sunday.)
He had left their side. He was not tin mines, and for â great restric tween Europe and South Ameriea,
Bryan and a congress that will have street. Of course it will limit the standing
coral and scales connected 2: 30p.m. , Lv. .Woodburn . Ar 1:55 p.m
forth in their defense.— tion.of the tin industry in Tasmania
operations
of
these
fellows
and
de
the courage to resort to the neces
20p,m. Lv. ..West Scio. . .Lv i 10:55 a.m.
Cheap oats, cheap labor, and dear and New South Wales. It is the thereby greatly stimulating bur ex with the barn. Charges rea 5:
9: 00 p.m. 1 Ar . .... Natron.. . .Lv 1 7:00 a.m .
sary heroic measures that will se crease the demand for money, but money; the sponsor and promoter of argument growing out of evidence, port trade to four-fifths of our in- sonable? '
as they are a very small proportion these professing to stand guard over
haoited world, and enabling us to
cure that end. Should McKinley be
of the people th.ey will have to sub the poor and lowly. Was .there ev from all parts of the world; of the
Ellsworth & s. Dining Cars on Ogden Route.
successful, aud a congress selected mit. We, therefore, feel satisfied er more glaring inconsistency, or sëyerity of this exchange crisis, purchase much more largely from Senders
¡Pullman Buffet Sleepers
which has now, »1 l^st, awakened America. It will also, at the same
that aderes to the gold standard that if any one will thoroughly feck less, ass u m ption ?’ L
—AND—
time,
secure
an
expansion
of
exports
If
McKinley
was
honest
iu
his
ut
the American nation; and this awak
they would doubtless, do all they study the matter, they will become
SECOND-CLASS SLEEPING CARS
of
the
United
States
to
Europe,
at
* Attached to through trains.
could to give the country prosperi convinced that the free coinage of terances then what must people ening to the most imminent race the expense, of Asiatic exports. For
ty’; for we believe they are honest silver will-benefit ninety-nine of the think of what he now says when he danger.- which has ever confronted the lack of this expansion and a con
stands in the identical position of
West Side Division.
in their purpose to restore prosper American people where it will in the man he was then attacking? No the Western nations, : can be relied sequent favorable trade balance, that
Between Portland and Corvallis.
ity to the nation. But tney would jure one of them, and that it is only unprejudiced man cart evade the upon ere many days, to educate also great debtor nation, the United
$100,000,00 to loan on farm
Mail train daily lescep.t Sunday.___
^.s,tilL-:b.e s.urmundejdi.by,J4Iie.,g.QLd^n1 a question of,time when we, as a na~ conclusion that McKinley is for any the captains of industry in Great ¿hates, is to day insolvent, borrow lands in Linn county, orl fa, 7:3u am | Lv.........Portland......... at | 6:20 p m
Britain
to
Îlièû*>^>^erous
industrial
influence, and all legislation would tion, will see and adopt it.
policy that he thinks wil) make him competition, foSterem by cheap silv ing its way with difficulty and at vorable terms; no delay in 12;15 p tn , Ar .... Corvallis......... Lv i 1:85p m
Albany and Corvallis connect with trains
be in the direction of making gold
president, regardless of right or er—by silver “cheap,” because its high rates, and piling higher that furnishing the money. For of At
the O. C. & E. railroad.
debt,
the
burden
of
which
becomes
the one moving impulse of the ,A SILVER MAN’S AFFIDAVIT WHICH the best interests of the people.
Express train daily (except Sunday) •
historic money demand has been re
more and more intolerable with each particulars and blank appli I 45 p m I lv......... Portland.........ar I 8: 25 a m
SHATTERS THE MEXICAN
civilized -world.
stricted or even abolished.
7: 25 p m | ar ....McMinville.... iv I 5: 50am
fresh fall of prices. And whatever cations write or call on
OBJECT LESSON.
While on the contrary, with the
The McKinleyites are racking I return from' this digression, the United Slates in raising the level
C. G. B urkhart ,
T hrough T ickets r?hes11 piastser5
success of the cause of silver and the
their brains to find language strong which is necessary to account for of the silver exchanges with the
states, Canada and Europe can be obtained at
lowest rates from Mrs. M. E. Woodmansee,
inauguration of legislation looking V alley J unction , Iowa, Aug. enough to express the horrors that the rapid growth of public opinion
Albany,
Oregon.
Orient, accomplishes for her own
agent, West Scio.
R-. K oehler ,Manager.
20, 1896.—I, Janies H Kennedy, now
to the establishment of bimetallism a resident of the town of Sinalva, in will immediately visi^ us should in America since we closed the In benefit, that she accomplishes equal
E P R ogers , A ss L g F & Pass Agent, Port
land.
Or.
with or without the co operation of state of Sinaloa, Mex. declare that I Bryan be elected. Will some one dian mints in 1893, to consider the ly for every white farmer and
any other nation, our financial sys am an American by birth, and I of them please rise and explain how political forces behind silver—forces white working man everywhere. D rs . J. W. & M. T. C ole .
tem would be so divorced from Wall served three years in the Seventh this predicted disaster is going to be which appear to me to presage the All of us since 1893 have suffered
and Lombard streets, that a perma Iowa during the civil war; that I brought about? Will the goldbugs defeat of Major McKinley and the alike from falling exchange rates,
—AND —’
party of “sound money.”
nent prosperity for the nation would have.always been a republican. 1 do it? Then they deserve the ex
L have referred to the attitude of and the consequent competition of
ecration of all mankind. If it should
1. W. RICHARDSON,
PlWtor.
set in. 'The treasury of the United speak the Spanish language as well happen as they predict, it will be the labor organizations of the Unit myriads of Orientals, which has so
SOlO, OREGON
States would then become the prop or better than I now do the English. because of a deliberate corner on the ed States, which are, I think, with inevitably followed the deprecia
SCIO, - - OR.
erty of the whole people and riot I have traveled through twenty- money of the country, and, if we few if any exceptions, in favor of tion of their currencies.—London B®"Offiee and residence on south
All kinds of fresh meats -constant
side of bridge.
ly on hand and will be sold at the
the creature of money sharks. Pres four of the twenty-seven states in are so completely in the power of “free silver.” But these organiza Daily Chronicle.
lowest living prices; also fresh fish,
:
Mexico
in
an
official
capacity
and
as
ident Grant established a precedent,
the money manipulators as that, the tions would be powerless when con
bologna, sou.sage, lard, bacon, etc.,
when he ordered the unlocking of an interpreter for numerous syndi sooner we reach the crisis, and for fronted, as today, with the profli
The Bryan campaign managers
for sale at bed-rock prices.
Nervous Diseases, Bhurna-
gold from the United States treas cates. I have had access to almost ever settle the question, whether gate electoral expenditures on be should send some speaker to camp
tism, etc.. Tumors, Cancer,
ury to prevent a panic inaugurated all the archives of the country. I the people or plutocrats are going to half of the Republican party, by on the trail of T. T, Geer in Tilla
and Facial blemishes remov
am better acquainted with the cus run this country, the the better.— that capitalist class, which having mook county. His chestnuts and
by these same Wall street patriots!?) toms and usages of that country
ed by Elect rolosys.
grown enormously rich by the ap ignorance on the money question
that is worthy of imitation. He than I am of my mother country. I Herald, Oregon City.
E. O. HYDE, M. D.
A. M, Shelton, Proprietor,
preciation of gold, is now preparing need only to be shown up to make
thought, as the treasury fund was left Mexico on the 2nd day of March
Scio,
-
-
-
-
Oregon.
votes
for
bimetallism.
Any
ordin
The
only
hopes
of
the
goldites
to
pour
out
its
“
unearned
incre
Sei®, Oregon.
created by the whole people, if it 1896, coming to this country to visit
now rests on carrying Multnomah ment” like water, lest the further ary intelligent man or woman can
Good turnouts at reashnable rates.
could he, used in an emergency to my friends, relatives and old com and Tillamook counties—one the appreciation of its gold and its gold do it.—Capital Journal.
WANTEtf-AN I DEA of some simple Stage line to* Munkers’. Commer
prevent a panic and wide spread rades. During the, last month in most corrupt and the other the loans should be interfered with. If,
thing to patent ? Protect your ideas; they may cial men conveyed to and from all
business disaster, he was doing the Iowa I have heard more false and most difficult to reach with speak therefore, capital—tjte gold capital
bring you. wealth. Write JOHN WEDDER- points. Horses boarded by the day
Patronize your home paper.
BUHN<& CO., Patent Attorneys, Washington,
or week..
Whole people a service in prevent- ulterly absurd statements made in ers,—Capital Journal.
ist and loan monger jn
works for your interests.
for thejr |i,80oprise ofier.
ing these Wall street shysters from
robbing them through a corner-on
is PUBLISHED ÌSVÉRY THURSDAY, BY gold, in a wholesale manuer. We
believe the federal authority and
. T. L. DUGGER)
ÌW titB CITY 'OF
treasury should be so conducted
SDÏO) LINN CO., OllEdON; that it would evei be a thenace to
any and all persons who through
THKMS':
combinations with their kind, at
*or àtinilm, invariably in aivàbce.
$1 50
1 00 tempt; to transfer money unjustly
Per ahuûrn if iiòtpàid ih àdv'àhc'èi
2 00
from the pockets of the people to
Advertising rates at. fair, living rates,to be
moiHhly.
their owrt Ubffefs. We bélievé with
Transient rtdxrertiseme.nts.mns.t be paid for
the election of Mr. Bryan such a fi
«Vhéii the brdëi* is given for their insertion.
nancial system would be inaugurat
ed, while the election of McKinley
WE MUST CHANGE OUR FINANCIAL will but fasten our present system
more securely upon the people.
SYSTEM.
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Can summon to your home, a complete
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The Suits
we have received are choice selections
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The Ayes
for these home-made materials ..the
best of their kind... .not only appear
to “have it” but they are gaining in
popularity daily.
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