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■__ £_PLEMENT TO THE HEADLIGHT, TILLAMOOK. ORE MERELY A MATTER of MANUAL LABOR. f A DAKOTA FARMER’S VIEWS. DOLLARS IX SKUNKS. “Well, sonny, listen at me. I got a stable to build fer dat ole mule er Populist Ketchum (formerly a real An A. 11. C. Lesson in Finance. mine. I’m a wuckin* nigger’ I is. I estate speculator of Boomtown, Minn.) gits a dollar a day. Now sposen I goes Editor Register: -iJ> g d mornin’ uabor; hard at it, HE OPENS THS EYES OF THE CHI ter git dem nails? I wants a keg. Hit’ll The following is a conversation , efe; Wel>. work suits some fellers, cost me now cordin’ to yo’ figgerin* overheard in one of the cloak room« CAGO WORKINGMEN. but it never did me, nohow.” two ounces er silver wuth fil.20. When of the House of Representatives be Growsum, (who is plow- dat free silver Krismus comes every tween a Populist Congressman-elec* I jug)—“Guess yeh don’t. iff teh work, Coin Has Wheels in His Head —The thing gwinter to jump up. Dem nails from Kansas and a New York repre Old Man Saj-s Senator Stewart but yeh dress well, and got a good Pulls the String—Plain Facts for will oobs me 8'2.40. But how 'bout sentative : team and buggy there.” my wages? Is dey gwinter jump? Kansas—“Are your people inter Wage Earners Who Toll. i J?8’ PreHv fair. Got ’em on a Who's gwinter double dat kyarpen- ested in the money question?” (By Grapevine to the Atlanta Journal.) and deal just afore Boomtown busted, ter’s wages wen dat free silver comes, New York—“Yes, and a great many and (with a wink) I thought I’d got a C hicago , May 18, 1895.—The ap wen he'll hatter pay double fer his of them think there is not half enough leetle further West. How’s times in pearance of Uncle Rastus in the Windy hammer, his saw, his nails, an* his in circulation to do the business of th» this low-cality?” City with hi3 homely way of putting lumber; who's gwinter to do dat, I country." Bad, mity bad. Drouth last year; questions to Professor Coin hue been say?” Kansas—“I am surprised; that ie gophers et up most everything year the subject of much comment in the “That old man has got some sense exactly what my constituents think, afore; thet Ru‘liin thissel’s spreadin' hotel lobbies. like white folks, remarked the hired but 1 had supposed that you Eastern Workingmen, those who are de butler, who had come up to the door ers were all gold bugs, and wanted like mad. Got to hussel to get a liv- pendent upon their daily toil for to listen. 1B’ here. Gee roun there, Gray.” less money instead of more.” 'Hard time», eh? Youre one of the bread, but who had been misled by “My ole 'oman wants a new calikor New Y’ork—“Well, there has been, men I m lookin' lur. Calkilato to run the plausible statements made in the dress. De way I Agger dresses now, some change of sentiment in that for Congru« this fall, and thought I’d school of finance, have begun to think an’ de way you puts hit down in dat direction in my village. You se» take a run through this part o’ the for themselves sinoe they read the re air book, I can git sixteen yards er we’ve got a literary society there that State to ki i.ler get acquainted. Look* port of the interview between the old caliker fer sixty cents, 'nuff to mek de has been giving entertainments for like 1 m goin’ to get the nomination negro and the teacher, a report pub ole ’oman an’ my lil gal a dress. No the benefit of the village library. all right. If I do, spose I can count lished in nearly all of the papers, ex- body ainter gwinter double up my Some of its exhibitions didn’t prove to on your vote?” j cept the Inter-Ocean and a few others. wages wen dat free silver comes, but be very attractive, and instead of mak ‘‘Well, I dunno. What mout yer dat caliker’s gwiutter git doubled an’ ing any money got behind, and, cast ,prinserpils be? So many fellows dem same dresses gwiuter coss mo a ing around for a w ty out of its trouble, roun’ now, all wantin to go to Con- dollar an’ twenty cents. Wat in de it was found that old Dr. Mo----- of grus, a man don’t know who’s who.” name er Gawd, boy, does I want wid ----- College had a lecture on finano» 7 CRAWS aP. “Oh, me? Why I'm fur the only yo’ free silver ef hits gwinter do me that he would deliver for 850. Th» party that’s fur the farmer. The free dat a way? I kin wuck lil moren haff price was low, the cause popular, and silver party, of course. Ain’t it time a day now and mek nuff munney to as the people wero all interested in th» that you, the toilers of our farms, rose buy dresses an’ go fishin’ an’ ketch a money question.it was thought to be » against the the giant money powers mess er fish fer supper, but wen dat good idea to hire the Doctor, make a. which like a huge octupus—” free silver comes, bless Gawd, de ole special effort to rout out a good audi “Hol on. I ain’t seen no jints out nigger’ll be wuckin’ moren a day to ence and liquidate the society’s indebt here in Dakoty. Its the thissels, and git it, an’ he won’t git no time to fish, edness. So the Doctor was engaged, drouth thet’s worryin’ me. Octupusses hatter wait twill fall an’ hunt ’possum and on the appointed evening the hall ain’t botherin’ us roun’ here half at nite fer ter git sup’n to grease de was packed. The President of the so as muoh as gophers. But wat yeh skillet.” ciety introduced the speaker, who- coin’ to do for me if I help sen* you “But, Rastus, you must not forget took the floor and delivered himself to Uongrus?” that dear old gentleman, Senator of the following: “Do? I’m agoin’ to break the Stewart; just think of how much he “ ‘Ladies and gentlemen : This sub chains thet the blasted British gold has suffered. He owns n silver mine, ject, finance, is one that I’ve given a. bugs hes got on every farmer. I’m and at one time he was worth five or lifetime of study to. I have written HOW RICH WE WILL BE WHEN ALL THE SILVER IN THE WORLD BEARS OCR STAMP) goin’ to give you free coinage at 16 six million dollars. Since the fall of several works that have become text “No greater act of patriotism can be performed for the South by its to 1. I’m goin' to put silver up to a silver he has lost so much that I dare books in the schools and of recognized own leaders than keeping up discussion of the money question in an open doller’n twenty-nine cents an ounce. sav today he is not worth moro than a authority, so I think I know some “WAT GOOD DAT GWINTER DO ME?” «nd non-partisan domain, where men shall not call themselves Democrats Thet’s wat I’m goin’ to do.” million. Think of how happy tho old thing about the subject. I am not a. or Republican«, Northerners or Southerners, but honest-money men and “Mebbe yeh are. An’ mebbe yeh They had been told by Coin that all man will be when Bilver is again made rich man, nor ever expect to be. For men who do not dream they can make something money by merely put ain't. But wat I want ter know is free, and he and his loved ODes aio years I have been supported by would increase, would double, lifted from the depths of poverty in many ting a stamp on it.”—Chicago Times-Herald. my college, and suppose I always will how that’s goin’teh help me? (Hist, values but they had overlooked tho fact that which they have been plunged. ” be. And thus, having neither money darn yeh, Bill, git yer leg over that he had made no assertion about wages “He loss lots er rnunny is he?” or tho want of it, I am an unprejudiced trace.) I see how goin’ to Congrus’s doubling. SMALL CHANGE. INTEREST AND FREE COINAGE. Oh, there’s no telling how much witness. I understand this matter goin to help you wear good close and Many of them wanted to see the col he “ has lost I” thoroughly myself, but to make it a team without workin’. Whered’ ored A great many people who are clam The chief grievance of which the I drive philosopher, the financier in “Well, I speck I kin tell whar hit’s clear to you, like the sleight-of-hand oring for free coinage say they don’t Western farmer complains is high in come in?” homespun clothes and black skin, but gone. ” performer, I need a confederate; so if “I’m afraid, my friend, you don’t Uncle Rastus, being a nogno who knew quite see what good it would do, but terest on the money which he is com “Yes. yes, it’s painfully evident. It yon will sen<l up from the audience, anyhow it would bring a big change. pelled to borrow. At least it is the see that if silver goes up, wheat’ll go his place, had sought some humble has gone into the maw of that blood some one with money in hiB pocket 1'1) Yes, and it would leave them without principal grievance which he thinks up, corn’ll go up, everything you lodgings and could not bo found. vampire, Wall street, and the make it so plain that children can un raise ’ll go up. Then you’ll be able even small change. Ho turned up again this morning, sucking can be remedied by Government, for to derstand it. ’ twice as much off'n your farm however, and paid a second call at the Shy locks of Europe.” ---------- >----------------- in many cases drouth, grasshoppers, as make “Charley G., tho Populist leader of you do now.” “Das wat you say, but we ain’ got residence of Professor Coin. frost, flood or thistles are tho farmer ’ s the town, elbowed his way through the “Will, hey? I ain’t so sure 'bout I Silver advocates say that we must greatest enemies. “How do you do dis mawnin’, none er dem kinder fish in de creek crowd and got upon the stage, and th» lave free coinage in order to compete When the agitation for more money thet. Th’ price of wheat’s fixed in sonny?” said the old man, as he speaker said to him : ■with the silver-paid laborers of India is traced to its loot among the far England, where ther’s the blame gold walked in and seated himself upon a “ ‘Young man, have you got any and South America. Is that a good mers, who honestly believe that their standard. How’s free silver goin’ to cane-bottom chair pulled in from the money?’ Charley said he had fifteen reason why the gold-paid American condition would be improved by an to change prices there? Anyway, if ball. dollars. workingmen should vote for cheap increase in the volume of currency, it prices do go up, won't I have to pay “Oh, I don't feel so well,” replied “ ‘Where did yon got it?’ ho was. jist twict as much for my sugar, glass, Coin; “thero is a heaviness about my money? IJ then will be found that a desire for lower nails, blankets an’ harness?” asked. And Charley tol.l him 1* that ho'd head, a sort of buzzing in my ears.” rates of interest is the origin of the just sold ten skunk skins at “Guess yeh will, but you can pay “Free coinage would not benefit the “Hit’s dem wheels in yo’ head, I various cheap money theories. 81.50 each. The Doctor then asked yer debts off in silver, and stead of speck,” said Rastus, with a sympa •ilver owner, as he would have to pay li him who ho sold them to, and ho said There are so many ways in which higher wages.” How truly unselfish the farmer can increase his crops havin’ to give a thousan’ bushel of thetic look upon his face. U j to a man that came along buying furs p wheat for five hnnerd dollars, yeh’ll fro all the silver barons who are giv- through “What do you mean, sir? Wheels the aid of more capital that only hev to give haf as many.” ami on boing interrogated as to where lg their money to the cheap money his wish for in my head I ” lower interest is perfectly tho buyer came from and wont to, h» “Think I get yer meanin’ now. propaganda funds I “Toobe sure, honey, ain't you got just and natural. Capital invested in You're one of these here fellers who said he came there from the first town I yo ’ pioter rit in dat book wid wheels drains, fertilizers, machinery, imple want to find some way of gettin’ out to the east and went on west buying; yu’ head? I speck Morse Senuiter peltries. The Doctor then asked ling “India can undersell our wheat ments, improved stock, etc., brings so of payin’ lawful debts, or cuttin’ them in Stewart got a holt er de string lass if tho man wanted to buy more wlieg growers because her people are paid much larger returns to the farmer’s down a hat. Mebbe if you paid yer nite an’sent dem wheels agwino to git SENATOR STEWART PELLS TnE STRING. ho sold him the ten skins, and Charleji In silver.” Is the condition of the labors that borrowing money for these debts bock in Boomtown yeh wouldn’t anur book, an’ deys still a zoonin*. said he did ; that he would buy all L h R tiindoo coolies that which the silver- purposes nearly always pay. have no team and buggy. Well, I’m But the question of low interest is poor, an' I work hard. Got to get Fum de way dat book er you’rn reads, down my way. You say in dat book could get. Ites want our farmers brought to, by buddy, I speck you’so got oner dese a lil pinch er dat golo, a lil dnss in “ ‘Say,’ said the speaker, ‘vhy didn't flooding the country with cheap one which is not settled by the quan these thissels plow’d under and ain’t yere brains dat you kin setoff luk you dat de pan er de han’ soon be rich enuff you sell him more?’ end Charley told tity of money in the country at large. got no more time to argy. But if I'm money ? The idea of cheap money faddists that poor I'm honest, and I don’t want to does a watch, oner dese yere Water to buy a man’s soul er a statesman's him it was because ho had no more. berry fellers, an’ go off an' leave hit a honor. We ain’ got souls fer sale The orator then turned to the audi i Money is a tool of trade. The peo if the currency was doubled interest send no man to Congrus to pass laws runnin’. ” down my way, Jesus dun bought de ence and said: ple who have good tools can always would fall one-hall is a delusion, pure cheatin’ men who’s lent money. G’d The old man stopped to chuckle for lass ono in Monnt Zion Church, an’ as “ ‘There, ladies and gentlemen, lie» beat those who have poor ones. The and simple. After the war interest up there, dem yer picters. ” a minute and then, as he looked upon fer de statesman's honor, well, I speck best money is none too good for the was far higher than it is now, though Then Mr. Ketchum drove off to look tho little fellow liefore him, he said : ole man Htewart dun Hinged away tho whole question in a nutshell. Ther» is a wide diversity of opinion about th» most intelligent, industrious and pro there was then a great inflation of the for a greener farmer. “Is you ever seed dese yere Hital- sotner dat money er his'n buyin’ up amount of money required to do the gressive people of the world—the currency. The Argentine Republic yuns agwine roun ’ wid a monkey run dem sorter fellers. Dey do say he ’ s had recently more than 8200 per capi business of tho country, and what th» Americans. des Hingin' dollars rite an' leff 'mongst per capita circulation should be; aims ta, yet interest ranged from ten to Not to Be Estimated by Their Noise. nin’ up a string?” “ Yes, I ’ ve seen them, ” replied the dem newspaper fellers an* de men wet fifteen per oent. Here in Amu lea, Representative Tawney, of Minne professor, “they are wonderful littlo rites books. I wish he’d come down think it should lie at loast sovouty-flve A soldier who found his blanket too with the same financial system for all dollars, some fifty and others think sota, who is spending a few days in toys. ” dis away, bless ef I didn't gin him a that twenty-five is about right, but ihort, cut a strip off the bottom and the States, rates of interest vary from Washington, is of tho opinion that “Dey is dat fer a fak, an’ dey puts hatful er honor for somer dem dol everybody agrees that it should b» lewed it to the top. He was surprised four and five per cent, in some States I lars.” to find that it was no longer than at to ten and twelve per cent, in others. the sentiment favorable to the free me in mine er you.” more than fifteen. It is then perfectly and unlimited coinage of silver at the “How is that, Uncle Rastus?” The people who were present wore clear that this young man has not got first. A farmer who wanted to double the The explanation is that high inter ratio of 16 to 1 is not so wide “Well, Bah, dey’s got sup’n behine talking in an undertone and giving as much money iui ho should have, but price of his products by halving the est nearly always means high risks. ralue of the money paid for them, was In many cases, it is trie, bad banking spread as has been represented by ’em dat makes ’em clime. Ever time significant shakes of their heads ami the fault appears to lie, not in any one of them was heard to say, “Can it scarcity of money, but rather, in th» Astonished to learn that he would facilities are responsible for high in some observers. “In Minnesota,” he be possible?” have to pay twice as much for every terest. Foolish tax laws, which dis saio, “so far as lean judge, it is not paucity of akunk skins. This money making much headway.” “Yon talkin' bout street kyar faro is like a pigeon that flic th where it thing he had to buy. courage the investment of capital, also “You see what Mr. Moseley, Secre bein ’ de same, ” continued the old man listeth, and has no respect for per tend to make interest higher. But as tary of the Inter-State Commerce without noticing the remark, “but sons, State or National frontiers, po Populists complain that the wealth a rule the competition of the owners Commission, says about it,” was sug bow bout dat free silver time. Is dein litical or geographical divisions. produced in the West goes to the of capital for employment of their gested. fares gwineter double up? How’bout Where the mast is, there also is th» “That reminds me of the fellow in East without any return. To the ex money tends to bring down interest. dem fellows wat puts on de lectif pigeon. So I say to you wherever th» Agreeing with the farmers that they Duluth who, after walking about the tent that thia is true it is only because curnt' and twiss up de brakes, how skunk skin is for sale, there also is the property in the West is owned by «re justified in trying to get loans at swamps that used to surround the bow bout dem? Dey meks lil nuff tho dollar to buv it with. Good even residents of the East, and rents and as low interest as possible, let us see town, went to a hotel keeper and now, Gawd knows, fer de wuck ing.’ And the orator we’d paid 850 how the free coinage of silver would wanted to sell him a car load of frogs ’ interest are sent there. Instead of dey do, but when dat free silver to thus dismissed the audience and aid them. The first result of free legs. tampering with the standard of value comes dey gutter pay two dollars fer a the subject. Well, some of the peo “ ‘But I don’t want a carload,* said the people of the West would do bet ooinage, as generally admitted by all dollar hat, Io’ dollars fer a two dollar ple were disappointed, but I’ve no silverites, would be to put the country the landlord. ‘I can’t use them.’ ter to buy out the Eastern capitalists pair er shoes, an' two dollars feta dol ticed ever since that there’s great on a silver basis. Gold would at once “ Well, take a wagon load, then,’ and keep their interest and rents at lar’s wuth er meat an' bread. How deal less talk about finance, and mor» leave the country, as securities pay the speculator urged. 'bout dem railroad men. Is dey all trapping for skunk going on.” home. able in gold would be sold by foreign “ ‘That’s too many.’ gwineter git dere wages doubled up? Kansas—“Borne folks think they’r» holders. All over the country loans “ ‘Anyhow, you can use a bushel.’ Is dey railroads gwineter double up cussed smart. ”-*-F. M. Todd in Friend If some of the people are poor it would be called in, and instead of “ ‘ AU right; bring in a bushel.* fares? How ’ bout dem hotel niggers is because they lack food, clothes, money seeking investment on mort ship (N. Y.) Register. “The n‘vt day the seller appeared down my way ; dem niggers wat totes ahelter, furniture, books and other gage, nobody would lend except at with a little paper bag which on in diagrams, dem barber niggers, is dey I ' _____ forms of wealth. Doubling the quan interest high enough to cover the risk Why Silver Has Fallen. all gutter git de samo pay an’ gotter tity of money used in exchanging of being paid in cheap silver. Busi spection was found to contain just four .TTY-., Silver has dropped in vsluo sine» frogs ’ legs. pay uut two dollars fer ever one dey wealth won’t maKe any more, of the ness of ali kinds would be unsettled. .W.A- VW 1873 just as many other commodities “ ‘I thought you said you could get pays out now ?” things which people need. No poor Foreign commerce would fall off ; and “Well, really,” replied tho profes have dropped, bocauso tho supply of Xnan would be better off if there was the farmers would soon find that in a car load,’ the landlord remarked. / “ ‘I did,’ tho fellow replied in a sor, “you must not prolong this inter it has increased foster than the de pomewhere in the country twice as trying to make interest low by debas view as I am not at ah well to-day, mand. In 1873 the world's produc many counters representing wealth, or ing the currency, they had struck a mournful tone. ‘I thought from the COTN HAS BAD DRKAMA. noise they made that the awnmps were and have too much of a roaring in my tion of silver wa.‘ of the valuo of 881,- twice as much metal in the bank blow at their own prosperity. full of them,but these were all I could ears to talk intelligently. You must 800,000. In 1892, even when meas de Hitalyun pulls de string de monkey faults. ured by its lower price per ounce, it catch. ’ come at some other time.” runs fer de top notch on de stick. Canada is a sparsely settled coun was of the valuo ot 8196,459,000, or “That’s the way the hunt for these Yon looks mitey pious Bittin’ here "Oh, das all rite, boss, I kin como Forced to admit that free coin try, with a colder climate and natural silver men will turn out,” concluded two and a half times as much. wid dat Jim swinger coat on, but agin, but you better lemme rub somer nearlv age, at a ratio of 16 to 1, by resources inferior to those of tho Mr. Tawney.—Washington Post. In 1870, threo years before the de nummine, jess wait till Marne Senni dis hier linniment bine yo’ years. monetization lhe United States would result in United States. Yet during the past two the freejnlverite» ter Stewart an' Marne Jones pull de Hit’ll sho atop dat zooniu, an’ wen yo’ claim is alone which Butting this country on a silver basis, years of financial panic in this coun to blame for the fall in go to bed to nite dem wheels in yo' silver strings on you an ’ off you goes, A common delusion among cheap ie cheap money men say: “Well, try and our hundreds of bank failures, gwineter run easy an’ yon won’t price, all tho mines in tho world only even if it does drive out gold, we can onlv one Canadian bank suspended. money advocates is their belief that peart ez a nigger boy dimin' a greasy head see nair gole bug ner money shark.” yielded silver to tho valno of 851,575,- pole. ” the creditor class of the country is a pay our debts in silver, and be so In our political institutions we are Professor Coin waived the old man 000, or only about one fourth of th» Rastus said as ho rose from the chair much ahead of our creditors.” A far ahead of Canada, but we can learn small number of rich men, while the and his bottle off and the butler value of the silver supply of 1892. and prepared to talk, “ In dat book er debtors are a large number of poor much simpler way to get out ot pay something from their banking and There is no commodity whoso pro men. The facts are just the reverse. yourn you say hit tuck three ounces showed him to the door and asked hie duction can be multiplied by four and ing debts, and one which would not currency systems. address as he said a committee of Chi er silver to git a keg er nails in 1873, The creditors are the millions who do half as much harm to the business cago working men wanted to call on its previous price maintained unles» The farmer thinks that it is our bad ' have a little money in the savings and but two ounces ’ll git a keg now; is him and get some of hie views, which the demand for it is also multiplied prosperity of the country, would be so?” to pass a law compelling creditors to financial system which makes interest I other banks. The debtors are the dat “That by four.—Baltimore Hun. ’s what I said, and the figures were so plain and simple. accept fifty cents on tho dollar for high on farm mortgages. Yet the < merchants, manufacturers and real They had been led to believe in tho I are there to prove it. ” estate owner*, who borrow large sums “The gold standard has made Eng their claims. This would not affect same svstem prevails all over the “Well das all rite, but you say wen free silver craze, because they had Lusiness and commerce after out United States, and interest od mort from the banks. In an average town dat free silver Krinmus comes every never studied the question for them land the richest Nation in the world,” standing debts had been liquidated, gages ranges from five to fifteen per there are ten lenders to one borrower, thing gwinter doable up in value? selves and had been misled by Coin say the silver monometallints. There while the silver standard would un cent in various States. High interest for the money is deposited in bank* and others who were financially inter fore. we American* who don't want to so?” settle all trade and Industry so long really means high risk or bad banking in much smaller amounts than it is Is “ dat ested in the business of silver mining. get rich should adopt the silver stand- Most assuredly. afterward* loaned ont. *a it lasted. facilities. IL x Jr UJ J
