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Scio Weekly Press.
Speaker CrUp Dead.
tender in payments of debts.’ The
years. Of this amount $3,500,000,006
Charles F. Crisp, ex-speaker of the
IN A NUTSHELL.
system of bimetallism is here estab­
was coined in Mexioo during the past
house of representatives, died in At­
lished. Gold and silver coin here find
350 years. Mexico, as a silver ooun­
lanta, Ga., His death was not alto­
equal recognition.
Facts for Consideration for the Voters
try, is one of the most prosperous in
gether a surprise in political circles, as
“As Demooarta, we believe in honest
of the Country—Written by a
the world.
it has been known for some months
money—the money of the consittution.
Gold Mine Owner.
At present there is but $4,000,000,-.
SCIO...................................... OREGON that he had not long to live, and never
We
attach
deep
imp
irtance
to
the
The Former Answers Henry Clews’ Revolutionary Letter-=-Vice-
000
in use.
Why
are
90
per
oent
of
all
the
mil
­
again could be an active figure in pub­
words of Thomas Jefferson: ‘I concur
You
ask what has beoome of the
President
Stevenson
’
s
Speech
at
St.
Louis.
lionaires
and
the
ten
thousand
national
lic affairs. The speaker had several
with you that the unit must stand on
bankers of the United States in favor $6,000,000,000? It has been consumed
spells of illness in Washington. He
both
meatls.
*
It
was
during
the
ad
­
Henry Clews’ Letter.
chants, Chicago, say: ‘The price of
by abrasion and the arts. This is con­
suffered from asthma and later from
The Wall street threat reads as fol­ wool has reached a climax; the mar­ ministration of Washington that the of the gold standard?
The question is easily answered. I tinuing. Art is increasing the use of
heart trouble. His ill health, how­ lows:
great
seqretary
of
the
treasury,
Alexan
­
kets are glutted with wool, etc., etc. ’
silver until today art consumes an
ever, did not become a matter of publio
New York, May 24, 1896.—“Wall It costs the farmers of Illinois to raise der Hamilton, said: ’To annul the use will first state that 90 per cent of the amount nearly equal to the production.
men
who
become
millionaries
and
Comprehensive Review of the Import- : notoriety"until the past spring, when street continues to lack any fixed basis 78,324,916 bushles of wheat during the of either of the two metals as money is
Supposing all the depositors having
he was compelled to abandon a series of confidence for transient operations. past three years $54,398,410 or 69.4 to bridge the quantity of the circulat­ bankers possess no souls. Their hearts money
ant Happenings of the Past Week !
in the banks of the United
of joint debates arranged with ex-Sec- Material conditions are satisafetory, cents per bushel, and they received for ing medium, and is liable to all the are ossified. Avarice and greed for States today should call at one and the
Culled From the Telegraph Columns. retary Hoke Smith by reason of the ad­
gold
is
paramount
in
their
composi
­
objections
that
arise
from
a
compari
­
such as the prospects of the crops, the it $37,705,974, or 48.1 cents per bush­
same time and demand gold coin for
J. H. Rook, white, was shot and vice of his physician. Crisp had been earning of the railroads and the move­ el, causing a net loss of 21.3 cents per son of the benefits of a full with the tion. They seem hypnotized at the the amount of their deposits, how muoh
sight
of
the
yellow
metal
and
become
in
the
sanitarium
for
five
weeks,
suffer
­
evils
of
a
scant
circulation.
’
Have
we,
ments in the larger departments of bushel. They receievd 5 cents less per
killed4by a negro near Sunnyside, Miss.
blind to the interests of all would they get. There is not suffi­
A posse hanged the negro. It is said ing from malarial fever. The immedi­ merchandise, and the exports of gold bushel for 326,012,952 of oats than it in the advocacy of bimetallism, depart­ willfully
cient gold in the United States to. pay
but self.
that in consequence the negroes have ate cause of his death was heart failure. are viewed as.but a natuarl movement. cost to raise them; they lost 4.2 cents ed from Democratic teachings, from
5 per cent of the deposits, and yet the
And
these
are
the
men
who
only
a
the
Democratic
faith
on
this
question?
challenged the whites and a riot is im­
Virtually the sole obstacle in the way on their crop of 167,687,971 bushels of
gold bugs demand a single gold stand­
Suicide of a Minister.
short
time
ago,
on
Wall
street.
New
“
We
believe
in
honest
money,
the
of an attractive .and rising market is corn in 1893. Our secretary of agri­
minent.
«■ Rev. Thomas Stoughton Potwin, M.
York, subscribed twenty million dol­ ard without gold to uphold it.
culture, J. Sterling Morton, reports gold and silver coinage of the constitu­ lars for Mark Hanna’s campaign fund.
They advise the selling of bonds in
Saturday, October 31, has been de­ A., one of the best-known Congrega­ the condition of politics.
“With suoh an issue as now pro­ that in 1893 the farmers of the United tion and the circulating medium con­
times of peace to get gold to pay for
clared as flag day by the national tional olerymen of New England, has
This
was
but
the
work
of
one
day
chairmen of the Republican, Demo­ committed suicide at his home in Hart­ foundly agitates the country from end States received $5.32 less per acre for vertible into such money without loss. among the money kings. On other Asiatic labor while our own laborers are
oratio and Populist parties. It is re­ ford, Conn. Rev. Potwin had been in to end, an unsettled and waiting feel­ their wheat crop, and $3.50 less per In 1888 the platform of the 1 st pre­ days five, ten and fifteen millions have idle and starving.
Think for a moment of the present
quested that the national colors be dis­ poor health for some time, and, since ing in speculative circles is perhaps all acre for their corn, than it cost to pro­ ceding convention was unanimously been subscribed for the same purposes
played on all residences and places of the recent developments of melan­ that may be expected. Wall street is duce these cereals. The state comp­ reaffirmed, and in 1892 the platform in order to hold this country to a. gold condition of the country. Want,
declared for the ’use of both gold and
business on that day.
cholia, had been under the care of Dr. the point at which the greatest sensi­ troller of New York reports a decline silver as a standarchmoney of the coun­ standard. One hundred million dol­ suffering and starvation brought about
The Berkey & Gay furniture factory, Stearns, of the insane retreat. While tiveness of the silver agitation centers. in the value of farm lands of 33 1-3 per try.’
lars will be subscribed if necessary. by Grover Cleveland. Under his gold
of Grand Rapids, Mich., the largest in his family were away he went to an The mere fact that a large portion of oent within a few years.
They have promised this amount and bug administration we will have sold
“
This
declaration,
”
continued
Mr.
$400,000,000 in bonds without just
“The ‘responsible property-owning
the world, has resumed operations upper room and hanged himself with our people should be intent upon forc­
the promise will not be broken.
Stevenson,
“
met
my
earnest
approavl
ing the acceptance of a debased and citizens,'farmers of our country, are '
cause or reason, for we are at peace
after a period of enforced idleness dur­ a rope fastened to the door knob.
Why
have
those
facts
not
been
dis
­
fluctuating metal as standard money rapidly becoming the tenants of New then, as it does now. Can it be that covered by the masses—the laborers, with all nations. The compound in­
ing the business depression. The fac­
is a discouraging symptom, for it York and Boston money owners; 70 per those of us, who four years later sitll mechanics, farmers and artisans? It terest on this for thirty years amounts
The Tables Were Turned.
tory employs more workmen than any
hold to the use of both metals as stand­
Dr. T, W. Bowman, of Savannah, shows to what dangerous ends an oent of them now being their tenants, ‘ ard money of the country have aban­ was the policy of the banks to keep to one billion, one hundred million
other institution in that city.
ignorant free suffrage may be prosti­ and conditionoare being made that no 1
dollars. If Grover Cleveland has run
Ga.
,
tried
to
kill
his
wife.
He
was
It is now certain that the lumber
faith and are no longer quiet. These vast sums of money are the government in debt over one bil-
tuted. That alone is enough to pro­
will ‘disregard.’ The doned
' worthy the
readily put up because if MoKinley is Tio ii dollars during liis1 aclmin t stialiun,
oombine, known as the Central Lum­ prevented from so doing by W. T. duce a- deep unsettlement of feeling congress
to
be
called
Democrats.
New Ydr^a reivew of the con­
ber Company, of California, will have Haskell, a commercial traveler. Has­
“Is it too much to claim that in giv­ elected and a gold standard remains what will the result be with Mark
a new lease of life January 1, 1897, kell seized Bowman’s pistol and among responsible property-owning ditions existing concedes that our farm­ ing our support to the nominees of the every dollar and millions more will Hanna and his money kings in posses­
citizens;
for
the
same
incapacity
for
ers
could
puichaso
$1,450,000,000
more
'
and that it will early in the spring wrenched it from him. Mrs. Bowman
Chicago convention we are ‘keeping flow back into their coffers.
sion of the government?
I will endeavor to show why the
attempt to hold prices at a higher fig­ and her mother then assaulted the doo- judigng upon complex money questions manufactured goods if they received the faith.’ The charge of recreancy to
The question might be pertinently
may
easily,
at
any
time,
imperil
the
tor. They blackened his eyes and beat
the prices prevailing in 1875 for their party does not lie at our doors. It is gold standard will be retained if money asked,
ure than they have been for years.
“How much has Cleveland made
country
under
the
settlement
of
other
him
about
the
head
very
badly.
Bow
­
products
in
1895,
br
oould
pay
that
will
buy
such
conditions.
Look
up
the
W. T. Rambusch, the defaulting
well now to inquire what has been,
out of the deal and how much more
large
questions
affecting
the
welfare
man
was
arrested
and
taken
before
a
much
more
of
their
lebts.
government
statistics
and
draw
a
bal
­
banker of Juneau, Wis., shot and killed
and is, the attitude of the Republican
will Hanna have to make to get a re­
of the nation.
“These ‘ignorant producers and party upon this question. The finan­ ance of imports and exports for the turn of the millions he is expending in
himself in Fredericksburg, Vt. He judge who gave him twenty-four hours
“
The
danger'from
popular
prejudice
voters raised 498,549,868 bushels of
silver standard countries, Japan, Chi­
left a note expressing a desire that he to get out of the state.
and ignorance in connection with this wheat in. 1880 and ’sold it -for 95.1 cial plank of the Repulbioan national na, Mexico, South and Central Amer­ this campaign?
be identified in order that his wife
convention
of
1892
declared
in
favor
of
Who is putting up this campaign
Must Release Sun Yat Sen.
silver agitation is, however, something oents per bushel. In 1895 they raised
might get his life insurance. About
bimetallism and demanded the use of ica, 'India and the Southern Islands.
money?
The
Marquis
of
Salisbury
has
de
­
more
than
a
conceivable
evil
possibil
­
467,103,000
bushels
of
wheat
and
re
­
You
will
find
the
balance
against
us
$10Q.was found on his person.
It is not the money kings of the Re­
manded the immediate release of Sun ity. It is threatened actuality. It is ceived for it 50.9 cents per bushel. both gold and silver as standard to the amount of one hundred and six­
While the Dunham family was do­ Yat Sen, the Chinese physician, said up for immediate deoision; and, at this Thirty million bushels less of wheat, money. In 1892 both parties favored ty millions per annum. This balance publican or Democratic parties alone
who are advancing the vast amounts to
ing its aerial bar act in Barnum’s cir­ to be a British subjeot, who was, ac­ moment, no one can feel absolutely cer­ 15,000,000 more consumers and yet | bimetallism and demanded gold and has been paid in gold.
enslave our people. The major portion
cus, at Chicago, one of its members, cording to the statement of his friends, tain that this worst curse of a nation were compelled to sell at half price. | silver as the standard money of the
This is why bonds have been sold in comes from the combined moneyed
John, met with an accident that is kidnaped while passing the Chinese may not be brought to a conclusion In 1890 the cotton producers of the oountry. The Republican platform of times of peace to get the gold baok.
1896 is a departure from that of 1892
powers of Europe that the gold stand­
likely to prove fatal. He dropped legation in London, and is held a pris­ within a comparatively few months.
United States sold 4,316,043,982 ■
This is why $13,000,000 goes to Eu­
eighty feet into a net, alighting on his oner in the legation on a charge of
“Wall street is not in any degree in­ pounds of ootton for 10.1 cents per1 It reads: ‘We are, therefore, opposed rope each month—to settle the balance. ard may be maintained. The Roths­
childs will undoubtedly have the stubs
head. His spine was injured and low­ having been engaged in a conspiracy to sensible to this orisis. It oan under­ pound, while in 1894 they received 4.6 to the free coinage of silver, established
These banks buy our silver as far as to show for it.
except
by
international
agreement
with
er limbs paralyzed.
stand
that
the
danger
may
reach
an
overthrow the Mantchu dynasty.
cents per pound for 4,516,736,000
they can at fifty cents on the dollar,
for a moment of Japan gain­
T. P. Farnsworth, of Cresoo. Ia., ac­
acuter stage than it now presents; it is pounds. Official reports note a de­ the leading commercial nations of the and place it at par when settling the ing Think
on her exports 102 per cent in four
world,
which
we
pledge
ourselevs
to
A
St.
Louis
Broker
Assigns.
cidentally killed his wife in that city.
quite prepared for the possibility that cline of 22 6 per cent in the value of
balance.
years; every wheel turning, every man,
L. A. Coquard, a well-known St. managing politicians may go further farm animals in the United States promote, and until suoh agreement
Just as they were going to dine Farns-
This is one plausible reason why the woman and child busy making all
worth*Was in the act of loading his re­ Louis broker, has filed an assignment. than they have yet dared in the way from 1893 to 1895 and a decrease can be obtained the existing gold European money kings and their kinds
of manufactured goods which are
volver, when the cartridge exploded, He gives his assets as $100,000; liabil­ of saorifioing sound-money policy in or­ of 5.3 per cent in numbers. The Lon-1, standard must be preserved. ’
United States emissaries desire the sold for gold in gold standard coun­
I
“
Here
we
have
an
explicit
declara
­
ities
not
stated,
but
may
exceed
the
as
­
the ball striking his wife nearly in the
der to secure votes for their candidates; don price for wheat declined fiom
gold standard.
tries.
center of the forehead, killing her in­ sets. It is claimed that daring the last it is aware that startling results may $1.25 in 1891 to 76 cents in 1893. tion for the gold standard. This is an
This is why we have 3.000,000 idle
The 50 oent dollar is used to produce
'
undisguised
declaration
—
the
first
of
six months he lost heavily in-wheat come out of either of the party conven­ Cotton sold in London in 1891 for 9 88
stantly.
men
in
the
United
States
today.
these goods. Remonetize our silver
any national convention—in favor of
and
stocks,
the
total
amount
being
esti
­
tions;
it
would
hardly
be
surprised
We are paying this $160,000,000 in
cents per pound and in 1895, with over
Hamlin J. Andrus, president of the
they will have to accept it at par
should silverites be able to block sound­ 130,000,000 Jess pounds of cotton to gold as our sole standard money. By gold to Asiatio and Peon labor for and
Arlington Chemical Company, Yonkers, mated at $300,000.
with
gold, 16 to 1, or keep their goods
,
this
declaration
the
Republican
part?
money legislation in the next congress; sell, it brought but 6.7 cents per pound. J
products we can produce with our own at home. This will be the case with
N. Y., was instantly killed by the ex­
A Missouri Bank Looted.
stands
pledged
to
the
maintenance
at
all these things may be classed among The overproduction theory can’t ex­
plosion of a bomb in his office. He was
1 all hazards of the gold standard, un­ labor at good wages while the gold bugs all silver standard countries.
Robbers entered the bank at Cass­
alone when the tragedy occurred. ville, Mo., and blew open the safe, se­ the possibilities of the next few months. plain this great and continued decline less by international agreement the are forcing their goods and wares
Exports form the United States dur­
“But Wall street has learned to be­ in prioes.
Who placed the bomb in the office, or curing its contents. The amount was
leading commercial nations of the upon us and we are compelled to take ing the past four years having de­
lieve
that
there
are
greater
potencies
“The ‘ignorant free suffrage’ citi­ world will consent to the return to bi­ them.
whom it was intended for is unknown. large, but the bank officials refuse to
creased 22 per oent under the gold
This is why we have so many idle standard furnishes sufficient proof of
John Andrus, a brother of the victim, say how much. The robbery was the than party platforms, than leigslative zens of the West conclude that our metallism.
subserviency to popular ignorance, present financial system—the destruc­
was generally the first to enter the work of professionals.
“In what party platform at any per­ laborers. We cannot compete with the cause for idleness among so many
than the madness of a partisan infatu­ tion of one-half of our metallic money
offioe. and as the dead man is very well
iod
of our history can there be found labor paid for with 50c dollars as of our people.
ation. There are situations and events and the contraction of our paper money
liked, it is supposed that his brother is
Oriental Question Settled.
Ten to twenty years more of the gold
i
so
humiliating
a proposition? Did against a gold dollar which we pay.
which can instantly coerce and convert
Silver remonetized at 16 to 1 is equal standard will equalize the Asiatio la­
the one whose life was desired.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon­ the most reckless legislators into the —is the main cause of the fearful con­ ■ the Republican leaders who formulat-
ditions now existing, and it is proposed ; ed that declaration really expéct Eng- I to 100 per cent duties put up in all sil­ bor element with the gold standard
The loss occasioned by the burning don News reports that he hears the
countries. This /will elevate the Asi­
of the flouring mill and wheat ware czar’s visit to Queen Victoria at Bal­ willing servants of a conservative sen­ to restore more equitable and juSt con­ ! land, ’the leading commercial nation ver standard countries.
Is Mark Hanna, ohairman of the na­ atio laborers or the gold standard coun­
house at Weston, Or., has been placed moral resulted in Russia, England and timent that represents the real inter­ ditions throughout the country—East j of the world,’ to consent to an interna-
ests
and
safety
of
the
nation.
It
will
and
West,
North
and
South.
We
con
­
at about $20,000. The mill was owned France agreeing on the basis of a policy
' tional agreement, looking to the re-es- tional Republican goldbug committee, tries will be compelled to work for
principally by I. E. Baling and P. A. in Japan and China, while the Levaht, not be neoessary to wait for any after cede that Wall street understands the I tablishment of bimetallism in the two doing anything to prevent the debase­ lower wages or remain idle.
effects
of
silver
legislation
to
remedy
ana you may rest assured I great English speaking nations? Or ment of our labor?
Worthington, and there was no insur­ Mediterranean and Afrioan questions its mischiefs, although that would be situation^
I ask you to think seriously before
that wo
Jundorstaxid the situation I ~wa.s thia proposition aim ply to plaoate
Is he no* doing* everything in his
rnnr ll lJ.lt.
-..... ....
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ance. The mill was equipped with are . being arranged. The czar wants
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r
rl
wmwtrwwiw; uuiii1 ' him maiimii;
■nr eele t'M"11 ami"1 wuu -irluj i jiati
It you vote for Bryan, you will not
pect or the authorization or Tree oom-
level
with
the
cooley
slaves
of
China?
constantly operated. It had 100 bar­ says the correspondent, and is support­ age—a counting of heads showing cer­ United States will send Wall street such members of the party as still be­
only vote for yourself, but for your
A Western merchant says that while wife and ohildren and your children’s
rels daily capacity. The warehouse ed by Italy and Austria. The sultan tainty of a two-thirds vote in the house their answer to your ungracious taunts, I lieved the interests of the people could
contained 10,000 bushels of wheat that is likely to die hard, but he will be and senate for 16 to 1—would evoke in your autooratio threats, your greater I best be subserved by the use of the two in New York recently, he overheard a Ouildren that they may be kept from
conversation between bankers of that perpetual slavery.
were insured for half their value. obliged to yield.
Wall street the kind of conditions that potencies, and ‘the reserved power’ on precious metals as standard?
city and London capitalists, wherein
The origin of the fire has not been dis­
“
I
repeat
the
inquiry
of
our
candi
­
On the other hand a vote for McKin­
no
congress
has
ever
yet
dared
to
dis
­
which
you
are
now
reposing,
in
No
­
Filibusters to Be Tried.
one of them said: “Our laboring men ley ia a vote for the money powers of
covered.
date
for
the
presidency:
‘
If
the
gold
regard,
and
the
cause
of
free
ooinage
vember.
Admiral
Navarro,
president
of
the
are
getting
too
independent
—
they
are
General Carlos Ezeta has taken quar­
Europe, headed by the Rothschilds and
would be overthrown at the moment
“The silverites have no desire to standard is the best, if it is desirable,
ters in Oakland, Cal., and says he is naval court of Havana, has caused no­ when its success seemed most certain. block sound money legislation in the why even this thought of a change?’ getting too much money for their work. their emissaries in the United States,
prepared* to meet his enemies. He im­ tice to be served upon forty-one fili­ It is this reserved power on which next oongress. They will insist and I Why even the suggestion of an inter­ What we must do is to reduce wages. the gold bug bankers; the Vanderbilts,
We must keep them down or they will
agines he is being pursued by hired busters and others, including the crew Wall street is now reposing.
see to it that we have real sound money national agreement? Why humble control our legislation. Keep them on the Astors, the Carnegies, the Pull­
assassins in the employ of Mr. Lopez, and passengers of the Competitor, that
mans, Rockafellers and the hundred
“
HENRY
CLEWS.
”
legislation,
and
shall
elect
a
president,
|
___
*•
_______
,
i
Ourse
^
ves
at
fck®
feet
°f
England
that
level with the poor of Europe and other millionaires; men who are seek­
the minister from Salvador. Lopez as­ they must answer charges of piraoy
W° J. Bryan, who will approve such ' 8110 may consent to something that will I a they
and
rebellion
against
the
government.
will
be
more
submissive.
”
Mr. Bowen’s Reply.
serts that the general is a bluffer and is
■ - - ■__________________________
ing to destroy one-half of the wealth of
legislation.
Why not point us the way J not redound to our benefit as a people?
Consul-General Lee, in an interview in
Mark Hanna’s record with his own the world.
Henry Clews has brought forth a tor­ to national prosperity? No threats are ¡This clause of the Republican plat-
afraid to make a move.
a Spanish paper, denies having insisted
laborers proves conclusively that he
Being already in possession of the
The board of supervisors of San upon his recall to the United States, nado of protests. We quote the fol­ needed for that. Tell the farmers how I form is a confession of weakness, endorses suoh sentiments as the above.
gold, if they can but suoceed in pre­
Francisco has appropriated $600 for and says his relations with Captain- lowing from George S. Bowen, of El­ they can get prices that will sustain i Either the single gold standard is the
In
William
Jennings
Bryan
we
find
gin, Ill., as expressive of the very best life; tell us how to put the idle wheels best for our country or it is not. If
venting the free coinage of silver the
the purchase of a supply of the Goto General Weyler are cordial.
American sentiment. Mr. Bowen is and unemployed men at work; tell us j the best, why ask the oonsent of Eng- a man so different from Mark Hanna masses will be at their mercy, and na
remedy for leprosy. It will be used
known ‘all through the United States how humanity may be elevated in the ! land or of any nation that bimetallism that comparison would almost be a mercy will be shown.
for the relief of the thirteen men and
A Fatal Gas Explosion.
a man of great integrity, a scholar scale of a higher oivilzation; tell us I be restored? If not, as its maintenance crime. In Mr. Bryan we have a poor
Pleadings, tears, misery, starvation,
two women in the leper colony at the
In Chioago George McWhorter turn­ as
pesthouse. The remedy as far as tried ed on the gas in his room and lay and a Christian. The letter is as fol­ how the ‘ignorant free suffrage’ citizen bodes evil and only evil to our people, ’ but honest man whose hef. t and soul orime or death has no influence with
is
in
the
cause
of
right
and
justice.
this class who are devoid of feeling
by the physicians has had good effect down to die. The odor of the gas was lows.
may be lifted out of his ignorance into why shall not our government, the
In Joel Vail’s book of Denver, Col., only for themselves; who know no
“Henry Clews, New York: Sir— a better citizenship. Save your taunts I greatest the world has ever known,
and many of the affiioted will recover. detected by Chalres Collard,who oalled
to your audacious threats and threats, Mr. Clews, for some other take the lead in accomplishing what ! page 4, 1 take the following statistics sense of justice, who are no respecters
Weyler and Blanco will be recalled, George Holt. Lighting the gas in the In replying
autooratio references as to the purpose than to try to frighten Ameri­ the Republican platform, by implica­ which are taken from Statesmen year of poverty; men who would make you
Premier Canovas will fall, and grave room adjacent McWhorter’s, they burst and
book:
their abject slaves to be held in ignor­
events will occur in Spain, Madrid dis- in his door. An explosion followed, effects of an ‘ignorant free suffrage,’ can citizens, who value this great re­ tion, admits should be done? In a
permit
me
to
remind
you
that
the
pro
­
Silver'standard Countries Export Trade. ance and bondage forever,
word,
is
not
the
clause
in
the
Republi
­
public
dearer
than
life
itself
and
in
­
patohes say, it is believed there, unless blowing out a section of the rear wall
of the West and South are not tend to leave it unimpaired as a herit­ can platform looking to international Japan, 1890-94, increase.......... 102 percent
J. K. CLARK,
the rebels in Cuba and the Philippine of the building, and burning Collard ducers
China, 1890-92, increase........... 65 per cent
islands are conquered within a month. badly. Holt escaped injury. Mc­ unmindful of the tender expressions of age to their children and a beaoon light agreement a feeble confession that a Mexico, 1890-94, increase......... 56 per cent Butte City, Montana,Gold Mine Owner.
return to bimetallism is desirable?”
The Madrid press openly attacks Cano­ Whorter died while being taken to the regard entertained for them by the hon­ to all the world.. Respectfully,
Gold Standard Countries.
est exponent of the power of Wall
In conclusion, Mr. Stevenson said: Great Britain, 1890-94, decrease. 16 per cent
Butte, Montana, Oot. 13, 1896.
vas and Weyler because of their in­ hospital.
“GEORGE S. BOWEN.”
street.
We
beg
to
assure
you
that
the
“I am firmly persuaded that in all the Germany, 1890-94, decrease ... 10 per cent
The above was written by a rich gold
ability to oheck the Cuban revolution.
A Millionaire Armenian,
conditions of politics will continue dis­
present contest the interests of all the France, 1890-94, decrease......... 16 per cent mine owner of this city, Mr. J. K.
VICE-PRESIDENT STEVENSON
Albert Hence Downing, a highway­
The most sensational trial ever turbed until the great issue now before
people are bound up in the success of United States, 1890-94, decrease 22 per cent Clark. He has given the subjeot of
man arrested in Denver, Col., has con­ known in Turkey has just been con­ the country is justly settled. We un­
This shows how the little brown finance a deep and thoughtful study.
fessed that he murdered Joel G. Ash­ cluded in Constantinople. Afik Effendi, derstand that we are now on a gold Says the Republican Platform Declares the Democratic party, whose creed
upon the pending vital issue, was the man of Japan is in the lead. The pig­ He is a man of brain and heart and
for the Single Gold Standard.
worth in that city and committed the millionaire Armenian, has been basis, and that it requires at present
living faith of the founders of our gov­ tailed Chinaman comes second. The filled with the highest regard for his
numerous robberies, besides having condemned to three years’ seclusion in three bushels of wheat to buy a dollar
Vioe-President Stevenson lately made
murdered a man in 1885 at San Jose, a fortress. He was accused of being of gold, instead of one bushel in 1880; a speech at St. Louis, Mo. He showed I ernment. Now, as in the struggles of lazy peon is third, but look out for the oountry. A firm believer that the
Cal., and committed other orimes chief of the revolutionary committee. that two pounds of ootton are required where the Democratic and Republican I the past, its appeal is to the judgment, field. In the latter are India, South United States of America are great
there., He promises to plead guilty to This latter was considered not proved, to buy as much gold as one pound parties stood until the money power ■ the patriotism, the sense of justice of and Central America, and all the enough to sustain a financial polioy of
their own. At present Mr. Clark is
all the crimes which he has committed but his connection with the movement would buy five years ago; that wool, obtained the control of the Republican ; the American people. Its candidate Southern islands.
for the presidency is the able and elo­
These are the countries that produce operating a gold mine, situated at
and says he wants to be hung.
party.
Republicans,
in
voting
for
a
was established. He was given the iron, cattle, land and labor are at the
quent statesman whose words have wheat, ootton, corn and sugar, to the Whitehall, Montana, that a short time
The people of Albuquerque, N. M., minimum penalty possible.
lowest point in our history, while gold firmly established gold and silver cheered the despondent, given hope detriment of our farmers. The sepoys ago paid $100 per day, for each and
paid their homage to a true hero at the
has doubled in purchasing power, and money standard -will uphold the Con- j and inspiration to his countrymen, and of India are working great injury to every man that worked in the mine.
funeral of John Braden, who sacrificed
A Cowardly Suicide.
shrinkage of values has been going on stitution ai^the money standard of i whose inauguration will be the earnest our farmers. India with its 250,000,- At present the gold is mined for less
his own life to save those of women
Alfred G. Andrew, a carpenter of and .must continue to progress in still their rev^ftnary fathers, and a of better days to the republic. ”
000 people takes from the world’s mar- than 10 cents for eaoh $1 worth of
and children. During a parade in that San Francisco, ended his own life be­ greater ratio, until we broaden the base former sound |potirne of that party.
ket 60,000,000 ounces of silver per an­ gold, and yet we never hear the term
city Barden was driving an ammuni­ cause of misfortunes that had reduced of our money structure by restoring The following are extracts from that
Making It Easy.
num. The money kings buy this at 50 of ‘‘Gold Baron” applied to the owners
tion wagon, the contents of which ex­ him to poverty, and left a widow and silver to its proper place in our money speech: 1
An American tourist recently tramp­
on the dollar, and coin it into of gold mines. Gold is mined much
ploded and set fire to the wagon. The three grown children to struggle for system. The ‘ignorant’ voters of the
“The financial question, however, ing through Cornwall met some mem­ cents
team started to run, in the direction the living he had grown weary of en­ West and South agree with Thomas overshadows all others in the present bers of a village church choir return­ rupees at a ratio of 15 to 1. At this cheaper than silver.
I heartily commend this pamphlet to
of a crowd of women and children, but deavoring to make for them. He took Jefferson and are in favor of sound, oontest. I have no hesitation in main- j ing from rehearsal. He asked one of ratio it amounts to 46 cents in gold,
Braden stayed at his post until he had carbolic acid and died in great agony. metallic money, thejmoney of the Con­ taiping my party allegiance and cast­ them what music they had been singing. but at the demonetized price of silver all the toilers of America, hoping that
checked the frenzied animals, and then His wife was a witness to his suffer­ stitution, and they understand perfect­ ing my vote for Brayn and Sewall, the The answer was “Handel.” “Well,” (50 cents on the dollar) it is 22 cents. they will peruse its pages, as every
fell from the seat, burned to a crisp.
ings.
,
ly that a contracted volume of money nominees of the Democratic convention. said he, “but don’t you find Handel Twenty-two cents is the price of a statement is of the most vital import­
Five outlaws appeared at the ranoh
lowers prices and they have concluded I 'deeply regret that many of those rather difficult?” - “Why, no, sir,” re­ bushel of wheat in India today, but ance to him whose sustenance is ob­
Fell Through a Floor.
of R. T. Brooke, an Englishman, whose
that we must change thebasis and that with whom I have been associated in plied the Cornishman, “not very. You with silver remonetized at 16 to 1, the tained only through the sweat of his
place is near Tonkawa, O. T., and
Robert Summers, of Tacoma, a gar­ the load of debt carried on eaoh gold former oontests now oppose the eleotion see, we alters him.’’—New York Trib­ money kings have to pay 46 cents in own face. A vote for silver at the legal
gold for the same amount of wheat. ratio of 16 to 1 will bring to the fire­
who is considered wealthy.
They dener, fell ten feet, through a flooi, dollar we have in . this country is too of the candidates nominated in aooord- une.
These indisputable facts explain why sides of all America’s great army of
called Brooke to the door and com­ and died three hours later at the hos­ great; that we must inorease the met­ anoe with the time-honored methods
It Has a Potent Charm.
our farmers have been compelled to workers prosperity and happiness. I
manded him to hold up his hands, pital. The fall fractured the skull, allic base, by the addition of the silver and usages of the Demooratio party.
That the life of the girl bachelor-has sell their produots for such low prioes remain, as ever, in the oause of the bet­
their apparent purpose being robbery. and congestion of the brain followed. dollar.
Without questioning their sincerity,
Brooke replied with bullets from his He lived in an old building, and entered
“Your oo-laborers, R. G. Dun & Co , the inquiry is significant:' What is, a subtle charm of its own, even for these and these conditions will work the terment of the wage earners of our
revolver, and shot two of his visitors a dark room adjoining his own, near in their weekly report of May 29th, tell there in the attitude of the Democratic' who are not urged to it by expediency, same with cotton, sugar or anything oountry, and shall do all that within
dead and wounded a third. The un­ the door of which was a 1 >rge hole, in us that ‘trade still waits,’ ‘exports of party upon’ the monetary question to i is shown by the fact that Miss Emilie else produced by silver standard coun­ my power lies to the end that the sov­
ereign oitizen of our great republio
injured outlaws fled, oarrying their which a wheel for cleaning carpets gold continue,’ ‘there is a general con­ jusitfy its abandonment by those who ' Yznaga, the youngest' sister■, of the tries.
Now, I will show where the gold of shall take his place in the very front
wounded oompanions. The dead men bad once been set. Into this hole he viction that destructive schemes will have loqg shared in its councils, and Duchess of Manchester, has, after sev­
eral years spent in the highest and most
have not been identified, but are sup­ fell, being unaware of the existence of not suooeed. ’
They say further, who have been the recipients of its re­ interesting society of England and the the world is to be found. Mr. Muhl- ranks of the oitieznship of the world.
man, of the treasury department of Very truly,
CHARLIE LANE,
posed to belong to the Dalton gang.
the death-trap.
‘Wheat has fallen, three cents;’ that wards and its honors?
continent, settled down to an independ­ New York, in his book of statistics,
‘low prioes bring larger Atlantic ex­
Gavin Dhu High, ■ late of the Los
“As the ‘parting of the ways’has ent life in a charming apartment in page 153, says: “Europe, with 864,- Ex Vice-President of the United Bro­
therhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
ports,’ that is to say more bushels of been reasched, it is well to inquire: Is the Avenue Marceau, one of the wide,
The Rebellion Not Suppressed*
Angeles Record, San Francisco Report,
000,000 people, has now $3,048,000,-
America.
Oakland Morning Times and Evening
Once again it is announced that the wheat are required to buy a dollar in their path, or is ours, the true one? beautiful streets which radiate from the 000 of the gold of the world today.
Item, received a genuie and woeful sur­ Mohammedan rebellion has been sup­ gold; ‘cotton has fallen an eighth in Are we recreant to Demooratio faith Arc de Triomplie like the spokes of a Four billion dolars being the total of
In Psalm Ixviii the passage, “The
prise, when Police Judge Wood, of San pressed, though the missionary reports spite of continued reports, that famine and .traditions in standing by the his­ wheel. Miss Yznaga, to whom the more the world, it gives but about $1 per Lord gave the word; great was the
Francisco, sentenced him to sixty days do not in any way agree with the offi­ is near;, decrease in manufactures, 30 toric organization, or they, in aiding formal side of fashionable life never ap­ capita for these outside of Europe.
company of those that published it,”
reads thus in the New Version: “The
in the county jail for libeling W. J. cial intelligence. Meanwhile, there is per oent; print cloths weak; nobody directly or indirectly in the triumph pealed, enjoys a simple life with her in­
The
best
authority
quotes
the
amount
Dungee in connection with the fight a lively rising in Chung Lok district, oan tell what quantities of goods have of its great antagonist?
timates, does a great deal of bicycling of gold coin in the United States at Lord giveth the word, and the women
between rival water companies. High about 100 miles from Swato island. been accumulating; wool sales 40 per
“By the constitution of the United and spends much of her time in needle­ $300,000,000. This is looked up in the that bring glad tidings are a great
had served six days on a former charge, This is the district where Hakkes de­ cent less than a fair week’s consump­ States, the congress is vested with sole work, of which she is very fond. The government vaults and banks of the host. ”
and had pleaded guilty on the second stroyed the property of the Basel mis­ tion? iron and steel markets are weak, power ‘to coin money, regulate the duchess and her little daughter, Lady moneyed kings. Such being the case,
Gradually all the little annoyances
charge, expeoting a light sentence. sions, for which act the German gov­ with lower prioes; pig iron has fallen value thereof and of foreign coins, Alice Montagu, have been staying with what earthly show have the masses to
of the toilet are being relieved. The last
He now intends to continue the legal ernment obtained ample reparation. 5 per oent since April; stoppage of and fix the standard of weights and her, as has also the well known beauty, get it for present or future use.
felt wont supplied is a belt grip which,
fight, his attorney stating that he So far, no mission stations are reported two-thirds of the furnaces in West I measures,’ and it is further provided Lady de Grey, formerly Lady Londale.
Statistics of the mints of the world attached to the inside of the belt and
would swear out a writ of habeas as being in danger, and the troops have Virginia; failures increasing!”
that ‘no state shall ooin money or make The latter is certainly “divinely tall, ” show that only $10,000,000,000 of sil- gripped to the waist, prevent»the untidy
“A. E. Beoker & Co., wool mer-' anything but gold and silver coin a, being over 6 feet in height,
corpus.
been dispatohed to the soene.
ver has been produced in the past 400 , sliding up of the former.