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[|)e Oldest, '¡]f> Leading, Official Paper, QFillamooh [irgest Circulation, eadlinlit mlr Job Printing flint in the County TILLAMOOK. OREGON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1895. $1.50 Per Year Independent, Fearless, Outspoken Lively, Newsy and Recognized as the Organ of the People. PROFESSIONAL cards . ■V BI-METALLISM BOOK STORE IíwTwihEV’ M. D., ^pILLAMOOK NEWS Co. pHySIClAN, 8 U RG EON AND ACCOUCHEUR, C. LAMB..... Aliali« promptly «»tended to ,i>. alp «««« k - tillamoor . OMK School Books Best Novels Periodicals Stationery Etc., Etc. U' HAYDON, M. D, Special attention to Surgery and Chronic l>ineam»a. BAY CITY. ORE. E.8ELPI1, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ^(y Prosecuting Attorney, 3rd TILLAMOOK, Oil. Next Door to Bank. P. 0. Box 123. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TII.I.AMOOK. OREGON. TILLAMOOK LUMBERING CO. I T. MAULSBY, attorn ey - at - l aw , Mirr Public «nd Real Estate Cotiv«vanc«i . Spruce, Fir, and Cedar Lumber TILLAMOOK. OREGON. pl.AUDE THAYER, Mouldings, Brackets. Turning to Order. A’lTOIlNEY-AT-I.AW, Proprietor« of the Electric Light System TILLAMOOK, OREGON. TILLAMOOK, OKE. I W.SEVERANCE, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, « TILLAMOOK, OH EGON. MISCELLANEOUS. DRUGS C. & E. THAYER •ivuerel Bunking «nd Exchange Imaineas William^ I inttreatpaid on time deposits. Kicbange on Englund, Belgium, Germany, '•ultn «nd all foreign countries. Tillamook, Deal fr i» Drugs, ¡'aleni Medicines, /'allei Articles, Fancy Nations, &c. I prescriptions Oregon G W. KIGER, DEALER IN Exchange and looney ^ecuritiep. Compounded Opp. Bank. TILLAMOOK ORE Collections Receive Careful and Prompt Attention. BAY CITY, OREGON. H b ^ efoi ^ d . II ■•tary Public aid CoRvcyaacar ■ General Real Hítate Susine««, •yt taxes for non-residents. Bay City, Oregoq. fe; _ “ " Come and Seal PER™1!i1‘’.'i’l<hlntCo"wllo,‘» ”«<'«. Ae- b,.Mlor»‘„ Adjusted; or those wishing to r'»P«t, or "D<e R”1 «■»•»» or terin.l T«*ch.r, Desiring po,i,|ont •chool Board« Dsslrlng Teacher«, "''"“•"oi' o’irittii' ,,,d. •’•ryone desiring '•*"’<«rl.wb,ri“i,n4“^oI,o"V' -”«>««<» c«ir J. E. „ the United States appealed to tiiat metals of commerce, lead, copper, etc., more than imperial banking bouse, and are more or less silver-bearing. the amount is a mere bagatelle as coin Although there was a good deal of WHA T STL VER WOULD DO pared with the sums advanced to the shrinkage in the production of silver in German Government. If silver waits 1894, as com pare, I with 1893, to get a FOR THE FARMER. for the initiative to lie taken by that proper idea of the shrinkage it is neces- The following opinions are from government it might as well compose sary to go back to 1892. The yield that itself for an eternal sleep But the ! year was $74,989 900 The year before the leading republican newspaper very attempt of the Rothschild to get the yield was a little more, $72,416,565 in the United States, the Chicago America in chains is likely to have The totals of production for the world strengthened the purpose of the people in 1894 were about $175,000,000 gold ami Inter Ocean. If yon want a fair to demand and secure bimetallism. $100,00»),000 of silver, coin value On and impartial understanding of the Mirbach put his advocacy of the re the ratio betweeu the two metals which habilitation of silver on the ground that had obtained for centuries until the dis- proposition read it: tlie question is one of life or death for: crimination of modern times against sil- The North American Review for Jan husbandry, as well as for the export' ver, the product of the white metal uary contains an article from the pen industry, adding: ! would be $200,000,000. Of this shrink Bimetallism would cause the rise of age in value more than one-third falls of the Ear) of Winclielsea ano Notting- all prices in England, where gold was on the United States. ’ ham, in which it is stated that land in the currency. Agriculture would he I At the time America was discovered | England touched the Zenith of its pros- ruined if the present system was main tained. America would either absorb the annual yield of both metals was less I perity in 1874, albeit there were at that Germany*» gold or adopt a pure silver than $5,000,000, about three-filths of time signs of the reaction which soon standard and capture the whole Eastern which was gold and two-fifths silver. trade. The known mines of the Old World I set in. In dwelling upon this broad There is a depth of significance in I generalization he sets forth the reasons this argument which deserves especial j were then pretty nearly exhausted. i The total output of gold since then lias of llie decline. The first of the great consideration in tins country, but most _ bee„ atwut js . sqo . o OO.OOO, and of silver, cause was the fact that several years of ot all in Chicago and the prune States of $10,000,000,000, making in all $18,500,- ; bounty had at last resulted in reducing which it is the metro|K>lis. This city is | 000,000. The present stock of gobi and the heart of the best agricultural do silver money in tlie world was computed the price of farm products. This de main to Ire found under the sun, and cline, he says, was “hastened and ag our products, cereal and meat, are last year to lie: Gold, $3,901,900,000; silver, $3,931,100,000, about half ami gravated by the appreciation of gold among the few great staples oi export half, with silver in the lead. Together which followed the closing ot European If the rehabilitation of silver is needed they may lie set down as $8,000,000,000 ■ mints to the free coinage of silver in by the agriculture and exports of Ger How in itch of these two metals there many, then sniely it is needed by the 1873,” ami lie might have added of the agriculture and exports of America, and was extant when Columbus touched these shores we do not know, but, i United States, also. w hat their interests really need they are broadly speaking, it may be set down If the farmers of England were injur- pretty sure to work for until actually that during the last four centuries the , iously affected, much more were the far obtained. world lias used up in the arts and lost about $10,000,000,000 wortli of gold ami THE REHABILITATION Of SILVER. mers of the Continent and oi <>ur own j country The Earl does not dwell upon The Berlin dispatches published Hal silver,or an average of $25,000,000 a year. this appreciation of gold, but it is sig- urday announced the introduction in to Were it not for the adverse legislation I nificaut that he mentions it at all, and the Reichstag of a resolution looking to of Europe and tlie United States the the rehabilitation of silver as money, in a way which seems to say to the old ratio of 1 to 16 would have held its reader that no discussion is necessary, and that good news was supplemented own without any difficulty, and the yesterday with tlie still more important because the proposition cannot be con coinage of one metal might have lieen troverted. It may he -et down that the and encouraging announcement that the just as free as the coinage of the other I landed interest of Great Britain de resolution had been actually adopted. 0’1 HER oriNIOXH. Couplet! with this intelligence is the mands an abandonment of the creditor Colonel Ingersol «Hid recently: policy of good appreciation. The agra statement that tlie newly formed Ger rian unrest of Germany also is largely man Bimetallic la-ague will meet to- j “For my part I do not ask for any in morrow It will !>e remembered that a terference on the part of the govern | due to the same cause. Not long ago a member of Parliament few days ago it was reported that the i ment except to undo t he wrong it has from one of the great centers of manu Premier of France, who is also Minister done. I do not ask t lint money be made factures made an elaborate appeal for of Finance, M. Ribot, was strongly in out of nothing. I do not ask for tlm bimetallism, contending that the abnor favor of returning to bimetallism. This prosperity liorti of paper. But I do ask mal appreciation of gold, while it ben- is substantially repeated in a Berlin dis j for the remonetization of silver Silver etitled the creditor class, was the espe patch of tlie 16tli inst , with tlie addition was demonetized by fraud, was an im- cial cause oi the industrial depression, that Ribot declares that Germany is re : position tip«>u every solvent man; a lie concluded that England’s industrial sponsible, because she first began I he : ■ fraud upon every honest debtor in the * prosperity was being undermined by use of the gold standard. This is true United States, it assassinated labor and sacrificed to the greed of surplus in the sense undoubtedly meant. Nei ft was done in tlie interest of avarice capital, lie warned the government ther France nor any other Latin nat'on ! ami greed, and should be undone by against i>ersiBting in such a policy and wou'il have adopted the single gold : honest men ” | contended that while England was, it is standard Imd it not been for Germany, ! John M. Thurston, who has recently true, drawing interest money from all which, in that sense, was first. But I been elected senator fron Nebraska, uml parts of the world, it was also selling England really began the attack oil sil who for years lias lieen one oi the re the products of its looms and lathes to ver by deimmetizing it nearly eighty publican leaders in I hat stale, all the world, and the profits of lalior years ago, fifty seven years liefore any when acknowledging the I ioiioi and the returns oi enterprise •.v“ie of other country did ii This action on the ferred ii poll him : “1 am in favor of American bimetall vastly more importance to England's part if England did not disturb the general prosperity than the ad vantage monetary equilibrium of other coun ism, ami in this the United States its coupon clippers could derive from an tries. ft was early in 1873 that the U. should lead tlie world. I do not admit appreciation of gold. Evidently causes S adopted the single gold standard by tlie claim so persistently made by advo are at work in England which give the methisla taught in Fagin's school of cates of free ami unlimited coinage of promise of a reaction against tlie heart crime, ami a few months later < iei-many silver, that our present evils are llie re I less and short-sighted monometallic did the same, only without any secrecy sult of the so-called silver demonetiza Then France did the same, and all Eu tion; nor do I believe Unit the remone policy that now prepails. tization of silver would produce tiny rope became monometallic. GERMANY AND SILVER. startlingclninges in existing conditions Ill view of these facts it is reasonable The Congress of the United States to sup|sjse that if Germany, the United 1 am satisfied, however, Hint tlie de- dues not monopolize the discussion of States, and France should I >rni a triple inonetixation of half of llie world*» sup the money question in its large ami gen alliance to restore silver, or rehabilitate ply of the ultimate money oi i. ileinp- eral aspects. The Reichstag of the Ger tion was not for the beet interests of man Empire hud under consideration it, it would be successful, quite irrespec the world, and I think we should do tive of wliat Great Britain might do. It Friday a resolution instructing the fed is this fact that gives such significance every thing in our power to hasten llie eral governments of Germany to issue to tlie resolution of Count Mirbach and return of bimetallist! among the nanons invitations for an international mone of tlie earth. To those who (oar the ei- tary congress to take measures to dring the declaration of Premier Ribot. It is possible that this congress will I ’ of tlie American silver coinage, I have about the rehabilitation of silver as a semi some sort of greeting of sympathy tliis to «ay : We aren’t realizing financial circulating medium. and co operation to the German Reichs prus|>erity under existing gold mtMio- This resolution was not introduced by nietallisiii. a Radical Unionist, or a Social Demo tag. It certainly ought to do so The silver in .> <e IN time is short, but long enough for that crat, but by a memlier of the Conserva The Yokohama correspondent of tlie But, whatever this Congress may do, it tive party, Count Von Mil bach, fit fact New York Drj- Goisls Economist, notes the class <>f men everywhere who be is reasonable to ex|>ect Unit the Fifty an increase of our impor s of Japanese Fourth, with its good round Republican lieve that the hope of the world lies in nianiifaetiireil silks dining tlie purl turning things upside down are not su|»- majority in the House and its Demo year. cratic minority in the Senate, will show porters of the demand for the restora Tlieii gieal siicceao is due to llie cl.sap to tlie German statesman that a res|wn- tion of silver to its rightful place in the tiiireiiei they use muie Ilian anything sive chord in the American heart lias else, fur if silver hail maintained us o|.| currency of the world, This is true as The Tommy been struck, uml that any feasalile plan j | ratio with gold they i vultl not have iniub a general proposition. of lehabibilitation for silver is sure of it,e rapid progre-i tliey have. A dullai Morgans, w he her in Chicago, New the cordial co-operation of the American with lliein will 'my alnioai as inui'h la or öt York, Jxmdoii, Faria, Berlin, fair, food, and clothing as it would ten years ago, and 1« slill tlie only dollar to Petersburg, are coiuq'icnoiis for their people. IHODCCTIOX or THE I'BECKH'H METAL them, ami >et wlu-ii it .is eonveited into alieence from this silver movement According to unofficial advices from gold it loses hall its original value, so Not that they are in love with monomet tttet their goods, while they cotnniand allism, but they remember the diciples Washington, the prisluction in this the same |rflees to them »» tliey did alien who were rebuked by the Master Ire- country during the last calender year of I|i« «liver dollar was WO! til Ilk) cents, can cause they forbade the casting out of the two precious metals was, in bullion now lie sold in gohl-ua ng eoiiiitnes lor value, $78.fMM,ODO These figures are half tlie price, the dollar lieing wurlli devils except in oue particular name. now little more than fifty cents Mirbach insisted that the lime had notexart,, but approximate. The gold That is to say, when they sell their come for Germany to take the iniative was $43,0.10,000. In the case of that goods to a foreigner they value silver at ill settling this question. So it has, if it metal the bullion ami the coin values its depreciated rets—they exact conform can, but here is a great big if right in are one and the same, but with ailver ity to a gohl st«nd«r.l—but when the sil the middle ot the road. It is very the bullion value is $35,000,1)00, the coin ver lies Income Japanese pmperfy in ex- doubtful if any great military power can value $60,500,00O This ij an increase . change for silk they wisely make it “le siiake off the shackles of the of $7,000,000, in gold, as compared with gal tender at face value.” great bond buyers. Germany has 1803, ami a decrease of silver for the ,101.1» To ASIA an enormous national debt, ami is un same period to the extent of $8,000,000 A dispateli from Itenvcr aiinouiicea der the thumb of the Rothschilds. The The decrease would have been very latest bond sale made by our own gov much larger were it not for the tact that I that arrangements have teen made I t »'■Hitinued on 3rd page.) ernment is the only instance in which a great many of the ore« of the other HOSMER, * m ' lufor,,’«tion Bareau * Kachan«« Notary Public. Till«meok City, Oregon. ‘«'loorUG. A. KUMUNtmaco. BUREAU SALOON ^tL*MOOK C. H. SMITH. Prop'r. bread ,,|e* and cakes, fresh «'•ry day. gj’" Freeh home ------- made • *» supply Vtshl-L" 'upp,y of fmit, .„J ,eg br «very boat. ICE CREAM Restaurant In Connection. „D ress -M aking alni“**-*** A0*» **<« Jolnuon hav» • ***•”■ ' U,7.:,0."‘,",d <lr»»m.kin« w »Atrw nTt« )n mtl|iu»rr Tillsmeofc. Ore. W ines , L iquors and C igars .