The Sunset Route.
F orest G rove to T illamook by Q uickest , C heapest , and B est
T he W ilson R iver R oad .
R oute to P ortland .
rhe best mountain road, the nioai magnificent
Mel,cry OU the Pacific coast. Cheapest rates of
loll lu the stale.
Four horse team, fi oo Round trip, >3.25
Two....................... -So
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a.50
Horse and buggy, 1.00
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1.50
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eart, 1.00
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,.50
Saddle or pack horaeso
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75
iawse horae or cow 11%
Sheep or swine
05
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days aud
' ialt
Sunday«, Tues-
’'-'day,. Wedncla,-., ,,U11
Fridajr
telephone fro,,, I'orllan.i
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reached by
Take the Sunset Route for Tillamook. Hew Wagons, New Stock, Safe Driving.
A. W. S everance , Receiver.
most P opular B each
SORT ON THE COAST.
Good aecomiuodadous en route.
A Mechanic who was trying to invent
Mecca of all
Address i>. j.
Best Road
Coast Tourists. a Machine which would run without
haui . ev ,
Tillumook.
Best Beach
The Alderman
Prices to Suit
the Times:
Leading Hotel of
Tillamock—
BOOT?
Headquarter* for Commercial
men and the traveling public.
Sample rooms. Kleetrie lights
throughout. Stage and boat of
fice,. K ites, |i oo to p.oo per
day, American plan.
Made lo order.
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Repairing done ns cheap as the cheapest.
Come and be convinced.
Advocate Building.
NEW MANAGEMENT
P. F. BROWNE
Especial attention to the cuisine
depa riment.
H A. WOODFORD, Prop r.
KNOCKED HiM uul.
How One Alan Felt the Influence of Free
Silver Agitation.
Beach!
The finest coast resort in
Oregon.
Pleasure seekers,
when on the beach should cal
j on J. 0. Campbell, or at the
Netarts Store fishing excur
sions or boating- Excursions to the sea lion rocks whi r ■ thousand* of sea
lions can be seen, and birds too numerous to mention,
eggs can be gathered. Mr. Campbell being a skilful seaman insures you a
safe and pleasant trip.
“The Sea Lion ’
NETARTS. OR
is the fastest anil safest l>o»t on the Netarts Lay.
"Hotel
äno
RESTAURANT
First class in every particular, anil
special attention to coast tourists.
ßlamft Figh, and tag ¡Served A la Mode.
J. O. CAMPBELL,.
N ETAR I S, OK,
Noted for its Fine Cuisine Department.
NEW H0USE-:-NEW FURNITURE
Best Meals in the C ty.
TILLAMOOK, OREGON
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M. H. LARSEN, Proprietor.
I ARSEN
A little local story has come to light
bowing how this free silver agitation
has hurt business for one man in the
city of Jackson. Some months ago a lo
cal life insurance num went to one of the
rich men of the city with a view to get
ting him to insure his life. By dint of
frequent visits anil much talk the agent
got the gentleman to promise to take out
a policy in his company, the premiums
uii which would have been something
like *1,000 j>er year.
The day was set to close the contract
and sign the papers. Now it is well
known that this agent isagreat free sil
ver man and talks it wherever ho goes
When he went to close the bargain, the
rich man said to him: “1 have been
thinking about this tree silver business
.mil I dislike to take out such a large
policy. I don’t know but that this free
silver will carry, mid then my people
will be paid off in cheap money. It is
too much of a risk at this time. ” The
agent, who had had visions of a big fat
commission looming up before him, be
gan to get uneasy mid talked with might
and main mid told the rich man that
this free silver business was all talk and
there was not the slightest danger in
the world of its ever becoming a law.
He put up a mighty pretty talk, mid
tried all persuasions at his commandon
the prospective policy holder, but all to
no avail. The gentleman was firm and
said miller the condition of things now
existing he could not afford to have his
family paid off in depreciated currency
mid refused to take out the policy. This
is only a sample of what rhe free silver
agitation is doing for the country —
Jackson Evening News.
HOUSE
UMesr house
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Headlight and ©regoijian $2.00
L. W GL/5SER
The Barrel Maker,...»«
.bop *. »«»in,
¿11 work warranted first <****.
Firkins, Kits, Tube, etc., at modern prices. A-
Tillamook, Or.
any Motive Power announced one day
that lie had Solved the Problem. "It is
Evident," he said, “that if a Siphon
will draw Water out of one Cask into
another, it will also draw it back again.
All that is Necessary, therefore, is to
Utilize this continually flowing water
to run a Motor, which will, in turn,
drive Machinery.
Moral.—When farmers can make wa
ter run up hill, they will lie able to
add to their wealth by increasing the
quantity of the material by which
wealth is measured.
The Wise Sage, Har Vee, advertised
that for Eight Shekels a lesson he would
teach Everybody how to get rich. There
came to hint a young man called El
Bunkoed, or the Soft One, to whom the
Sage said, “The true way to become
Wealthy is to Borrow all you can, and
then Repudiate one-half of your Debts. "
“Alas,” said the Soft One, “I have no
Debts, nor will men lend to me. Thou
hast taught me Nothing.” “Not so,"
replied the Sage. “Have I not Shown
thee how to Do a Chump out of Eight
Shekels?”
Moral.—Even though the Silverites
do nothing to help the people of this
country they will at least get offices for
themselves.
Confidence, Net Money.
During the panic of 18113, when cur
rency was at a premium, there was
practically just as much money in the
country as there is now, when banks are
complaining of being unable to invest
their surplus funds. The real difficulty
two years ago was not so much the lack
of money as lack of confidence. What
the cheap money faddists should do is
to agitate for an issue by the govern
ment of $50 worth of confidence per
capita.
Bflbe*.
T
Free coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1 would, under existing conditions,
put into circulation silver dollars intrin
sically worth about 50 cents each, while
the gold dollar would continue to be
worth here and everywhere else in the
markets 100 cents, or the equivalent of
100 cents, in the purchase of property
and in effecting foreign exchanges; but
here at home the debt paying power of
the gold dollar would be no greater than
the debt paying power of the depreciated
silver dollar, and consequently every
body would pay in silver, and gold
would cease to be used as money. This
is what has happened in every part of
the world when the difference between
I the intrinsic or commercial values of the
two metals and their legal tender values
was large enough to make it profitable
for bullion brokers and speculators to
deal in the undervalued coin as a com
modity. A small percentage of difference
has always been sufficient for this pur
pose, as our own experience proves.
From 1792 to 1834 the legal ratio be
tween the two metals in this country
was 15 to 1, which was anovervaluation
of silver, and dining all that period the
difference between the commercial ratio
and the legal ratio never amounted to
more than a very few cents on the dol
lar, anil yet all our gold left us, and wo
had practically silver monometallism,
but in 1834 Andrew Jackson, John C.
Calhoun, Thomas II. Benton and other
Democratic statesmen of that day de
termined that tho people of the United
States should have gold for use in their
business, and congress changed the ratio,
making it 16 to 1. This was a very
small undervaluation of silver in tho
coins, and the result was that, although
there were times when the commercial
and legal ratio were very nearly the
same, legal tender silver went out of cir
culation, and we had practically gold
monometallism. If these results follow
ed the establishment of legal ratios,
which conformed very nearly to the ac
tual commercial ratio, call there be a
shadow of a doubt as to what would be
tho effect of authorizing the free and
unlimited coinage of legal tender silver
at the legal ratio, which won Id overvalue
that metal about 100 percent? In other
words, can there lie a doubt as to the ef
fect of a law which would enable every
holder of gold coins or gold bullion to
exchange each dollar’s worth of his
metal for two legal silver dollars and
pay his debts with them?—From Secre
tary Carlisle's Receut Speech at Louis
ville
CHEATING THE WORKERS.
How the Silver Men Propose to Fine the
Workingmen MAO,000,000.
J. P. ALLEN. Prop'r.
Patient Toil, gathered a large store of
Food for the winter, was urged by a
Slippery Eel to allow the latter to bore
a Hole through the Dam which protect
ed the Beaver’s supplies. “By doing
this," said the Eel, “you will be able
to Double the Quantity of your food by
the addition to it of a Circulating Me
dium. ” The Unfortunate Beaver con
sented, and his entire Store was ruined
by the water.
Moral—Breaking down our financial
standard may Hood the country with
cheap money, but it will not increase
our wealth.
Vuole Sam—Gosh all Hemlock! I'll kill myself tot in sfvill for this new howl
To the query how unlimited silver
coinage would affect the working men
GOOD MONEY MUST HAVE VALUE.
MORTON ON SILVER COINAGE.
and women who make up the great laxly
of depositors in the savings banks, Pres When 50 Cent Wheat Make« Dollar Flour, Scarcity of Hold Make» It tlio Iiest Me
dium of Exchange.
ident James MacMuhon of the Emigrant
We Can Have Free Silver.
Industrial Savings bank of this city has
But what does Mr. Harvey mean by
Secretary of Agriculture Marton re
made a plain answer. The loans made cently wrote thiscanstio letter to a buai- saying there is not gold enough in the
by the savings banks for their depositors nesa mail in New York:
world? It is simply because gold is not
would be repaid in “silver dollars actu
as abundant as iron or copper that it
W ashington , June fl, 1W5.
ally worth 50 cents. ” They would be
D ear K ir —I haste«*' to acknowledge the re has been chosen us a medium of ex
compelled to give these to their deposit ceipt of your communication of June 6 and change, and a small bulk of it is suffi
ors. In this city alone these loans (not would be pleased to have you explain to me cient for the world's business on ac
including United States bonds) amount the “principle» of binn taliism” about which count of its great value. Should lie lie
to the enormous sum of $527,813,700. you write. It will be gratifying also if you able to make gold as cheap tut iron,
The loss on them would be $263,906,- will illustrate to me how the farmer in to bo then gold would be us inconvenient us
benefited by having 60 cents’ worth of silver iron for purposes of currency.
895.
pass for a dollar in the purchase of hi»
This is money lent by the working bullion
Again, if the contention of onr silver
wheat and other farm products. Tell me like
people of New York. They are to this wise why the farmer should advocate a mone friends be true that by “demonetizating
vast extent members of that hated "cred tary system which will compel the gold miner silver" half the money of the world has
itor class” whom the silver orators de to labor until he produces 100 cents’ worth of been extinguished and therefore prices
nounce. These are their “hoards," and gold bullion before he may have it coined into cut in two, will somebody explain why,
a dollar and at the r;an»e time will permit the
the interest on them is a part of the silver
miner to stop w »rk and demand the free with prices at that basis, the one-half
"cancer” that these cranks say is “eat coinage of every 50 cents' worth of silver bul of the money remaining is not just as
adequate for the piirjsiHcH of business as
ing the heart of industry” in our un lion which he digs into a dollar.
Inform me at the same time, if you please, would be twice that amount if each
happy bind. And the silver men pro why
you uw; the phrase “16 to 1” unless you
pose, if they can, to fine these working desire to acknowledge yourself a gold mono piece were worth half as much as meas
men $250,000,000. Can there be any metallist. Is not the unit “one " which you ured in the price of goods? And how is
possible justice in a policy which inflicts mention gold, and by your phraseology do you the effective volume of circulation—
declare against two units?
such monstrous and irreparable wrong not When
the silver miner and bullion owner that is, the amount of money availa
on multitudes of men and women whose shall have established by legislation govern ble in proportion to the business to be
only fault is that they work hard and ment grist mills which shall convert every 50 done—to be increased by any process
cents’ worth of farmers’ wheat into a dollar which proposes to increase the amount
save their money?—New York Times.
of flour, it will be time enough for the farmer
to advocate laws which shall convert every 50 of currency in order that prices may be
Mexico on a Silver IU m I h .
cents’ worth of silver bullion into a dollar of increased in proportion? Will not the
A prominent professor in one of the coin. Respect fully yours,
then volume of currency be equally a*
J. S terling M orton .
big universities of New England writes
restricted as is the present volume in
proportion to the amount of transactions
the Chamber of Commerce regarding the
Not For the South.
to lx, settled thereby?
silver question as follows:
The Huntsvillo Mercury does not be
If Mr. Harvey changes the figures in
“Tl.i- present free coinage craze is as
us to make each one dou
old as the days of Jack Carle, when his lieve that the people of the south will his liilger
illowcra la ped to bring on the milieu commit themselves to the unlimited ble what it is now and then doubles the
nominal amount of his money as ex
:iium by making ‘the pint measure hold coinage of silver. It says:
"Our people are honest if not wealthy pressed in dollars, will he have any
two pints, and the twopenny loaf sell
for a penny.’ His descendants today and want every dollar paid to them to more currency for his business on the
want 50 cents’worth of silver to pass for be worth 100cents. They have no silver new basis than he had mi the old? Or
L dollar. The sophistry is all the more to coin and cannot possibly feel an inter dtx-s bo claim that the denominations
app:u lit when it is remembered that free est in the western silver mines. If the into which money is coined make any
silver rloee not mean an unlimited de government is to go into the wholesale difference? If so, he and the rest of us
mand for that metal, but only an unlim business of guaranteeing prices, the can be made happy at once by getting
farmers of the south had far better work nmre 10 cent pieces, quarters and half
iterl supply.
for cotton than silver. This government dollars in exchange for onr fiat silver
■■’a cico has fr<e or,inage of silver.
has the same right to say thnt a pound dollars, eagles and half eagles.—Hou.
“Mexico is oil a silver basis.
“Tip' wag'M in Mexico in mining and of cotton shall be worth 10 cents that it John De Witt’Warner in Forum.
agriculture t ary from 10 to 30 cents a has to say that 871 % grains of silver
Cnn«pleaoa* by Al>..nr..
dav in Mexican money, which is from 3 shall be worth *1. ”
The press of the south is overwhelm
iff the makeup of the Memphis free
to'15 e dits in Unitrd States money.
“The average f ir far u lalmr a day tn ingly against unconditional silver coin silver convention the Memphis Evening
Jfexieo i* 20 cents in Mexican money or age because it would be silver mono Scimitar says: "There was not a single
metallism,and southern new,¡«per« have representat ive of the eastern states on
10 cents in United Ststes money.
“If free silver can raise prices, why sense enough to realize the disastrous hand. Tho middle states were them
does it not raise the prices of wages in results that would bring upon us.—At only in the dual person of Sibley and
hi* txxim ”
lanta Journal-
Mexico?"
firsturiN 1SHÉSI tivrewun ia ?
CURRENCY QUESTION.
Silas Upham Side« With Deacon Grigg«.
Wants Notes Bas«‘<l on Stones—Squire
Crane Explains the True Inwardness of
the Free Coinage Humbug.
IL
That the question whether Deacon
Abner Griggs is an inspired financial
genius or a muddled ignoramus contin
ues to agitate the people of Squantum
township, is shown in the latest issue of
the North ^quiuitum Gazette. From
that paper we copy the following ac
count of a discussion at Hopkins’ store
nt Squantum Center on last Saturday
evening:
“Public interest in the interference by
Mrs. Abner Griggs with her husband’s
attempt to put his new financial theories
into practice has increased during the
past week. The farmers and villagers
who were in Hopkins’store on Saturday
evening spent most of the time arguing
for and against the deacon’s financial
experiment. Among those who favored
the deacon was Silas Upham, who said:
‘ ’Pears to me there’s a good deal in these
new money schemes, and I’m kinder
sorry Deacon Griggs wan’t let go on till
we see how the thing would work.
There’s no use talking, we farmers are
in a bad way. Times is mighty hard,
wheat a-going down, wool lower than
ever, and so many men out of work in
the towns and cities that we can’t sell
half the stuff we raise What wo need is
more money. We want free coinage», so
that all the silver in the world can bo
used as money If that wouldn’t give us
$50 per capita, the government ought to
print enough greenbacks to makeup the
difference. Then we want the subtreas-
ury system, so as to let us farmers put
our wheat, corn, wool or pork in govern
ment warehouses, and get treasury cer
tificates for 75 per cent of their value
«And the government ought to lend mon
ey to the farmers at 2 per cent on the
security of their land If all that won’t
give us enough money, 1 don’t see why
we mightn't try the deacon’s plan and
issue notes on labor products, ’specially
stones, which won’t rust, and which is
abundant round here
“ ‘Some of what you say about hard
times may be true,’ spoke up Squire
Crane, ‘but more money ain’t going to
help matters Price's is low, but it^ lie
cause the cost of producing things has
been lessoned. Stands to reason that
wheat coining from rich prairie farms,
which cost about $1.25 an. acre, would
he cheaper than that grown on our
farms, which cost from $30 to $50 an
acre to clear Wheat grown in India
and Russia competes with ours in the
markets of the world. Then freight rates
has gone down, and that helped lower
prices Wool comes now from Australia,
and the great states out west, where it
can be raised far cheaper than here. The
fact is, tisn’t lack of money which has
made prices low, but new’ ways of mak
ing things, new places to get ’em from
and handier ways of hauling them than
we used to have.
“ ‘Besides, this thing’s as broad as
it’s long Everything we farmers buy
has gone down in price, and wo can get
far more for our money than we did 20
years ago So if we do get less money
for onr crops, and while Home of them
is lower there's a good many which
fetches as much as they ever did, we
can buy more goods of all kinds with
what we sell off onr farms.
“ ‘Anyhow, making more money out
of silver or paper won’t help us, but
would leave uh far worse off This talk
about tlm need of free coinage is all
humbug, stirred up by the owners of
silver mines and other people in a few
states who want to fool the farmers and
the rest of the people into doubling the
price of silver The rag baby plan of
the greenbackers is played out long ago.
It's the greenbacks we’ve got now that’s
making all the trouble about onr gold
reserve. If it wasn’t for them, we
wouldn’t have to borrow hundreds of
millions of gold at 4 per cent, and we
wouldn’t be threatened with another
panic.
“ ‘The rest of them cheap money
schemes is all alike They mean trying
to make something out of nothing And
Deacon Griggs’ idea of getting rich by
basiug money on stones is just as Benni*
ble or as crazy as the rest of them. ’
“.Joe Leffert, the old wheelwright,
thought the squire went a little t<x> far
in putting the people who wanted free
coinage down with the other cheap mon
ey faddists ‘ ’Tisn’t only the farmer
who needx more money,’ he said. *My
business ain ’t half what it was 20 years
ago These big factories <»nt in Ohio
und Illinois can make buggies, farm
wagons and carts and sell them here far
cheaper than 1 can build them. I get
enough repairing to keep me going, but
1 haven’t a third of the hands I used to
have. Seems to me if wo had free coin
age the prices of wagons would go up,
the farmers would have so much money
they could buy more of them, and I
would do a bigger business.
“ ‘1 see this all argued out in a little
U jo I c called "Coin’s Financial School,"
which one of then. Ixx/k agents give me
for mending a split whiffletree a few
weeks ago I’ll bring the book round to
the store next Saturday, and we’ll see
if you can answer that fellow’ “Coin’s"
arguments. ’
“Hero Storekeeper Hopkins began t<
blow out the lights, and with a promise
to bo on bund next Suturday evening
the crowd dispersed. A lively time is
expected, as Squire Crane and his side
will undertake to expose the fallacies
and foolishness of ‘Coin’s Financial
School.’ "
It’s proof positive a silver crank ha*
wheels in his head when he point* to
the pneumatic tire as evidence of the
benefit« of inflation. — Philadelphia
Time«.