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THUKJOAY. MAY li, 189S.
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Oaflf Otic Tear S3.00, fa Advance
Diflr Fcrar fdo3ths 61 00 in Advance
Wes'ily, On Year SL00, in Advance
UNION T'CKET.
BUte Ticket
OMrernor W. K. KINS.
SisnUry of Sfawe II. It KIXCAID.
State Treawer J. O. BOOTH.
Sapr-en Jrtdir- W. M. RAMSBT.
Atfnjr-CeneraJ-J. L. STOUT.
SUte Printer OHAR A. FITCIL
gup. of Public lastnKtIoR II. S- LY
MAN. Cvngre!enaL.
First DtoUfct-B. M. VBATCH.
SsOTnd District C. 51. DOXALDSON.
PVst Judicial DUtrtet.
Judge E. a WADE.
Judge-JOHN' A. JEPFRETS.
PrscutlDS Attrny A. Jf. SOLISS.
Jlember imid of BflualteatteB C E.
W0RDBN'.
Second Jodlctal District.
Judee-J. W. HAMILTON.
PrMfcaUng Alt'y IIBNHY DKV-
LINGEH. Jr.
Third Judicial District.
Jadre-. I. BOIHB.
JudBC P. If. D'AP.Ci. .
Proscuttag Att'y S. L. 11AYDMN.
Member Board or Equalization J. P.
IlOBEHTSO.S.
Joint Senator
Ctttleama and Marion If. L. DARK-
I EY
Marlon County Ticket.
Ssnator-CBO. W. D1MICK; U C-
GMFFITlL
Rrpreseniatrves JAS. A. KNIGHT;
F. A. MYBIIS; II. L. BENTS.
CIIAS. F. HEIN'; GEO. If.
CUOISAN.
Sheriff FRANK W. DURBIN.
Cletk-KING L. HIBBARD.
County Commissioner C. MARSH,
lleeordsr C. P. STRAIN.
AssSMr T. C. DAVIDSON.
County Shool Supt W. II. EG AN.
Tiearurer-C. J. SIMERAL.
Surveyor T. CJ JORY (People's).
Coroner T. L. GOLDEN.
SALEM PHECUfCT.
Juutlcc-JOHN M. PAYNE.
Constable -C. M. CHARLTON.
Dates for the Joint Canvass in Marion
County.
Saturday, May 21rt Turner, 10 a m.;
Marlon, 2 p. m.; Jefferson, 8 p. m.
Monday May 2M AumsvlIIe, 10 a.
m.: ffcitiUmlty, 2pm.; Stay ton, 8 p. m.
TiiMtlav. Mav 2h Detroit, 8 p. rn.
AVedneday. May 2Sth Gates, 10 a.
m.; Mill City, 2 p. rn.; Meharna, S p. m.
Thursday. May 20th Victor Point, 2
p. m.; Kllvertrm. S v. m.
FriHay, May 27th Scott's Mills, 10 a.
m . M"nlt'jr, 3 p. rn.; Sit. Ansa!, 8
D. m.
Saturday, Slay 2Sth Gervals, 10 a.
m ; Wood burn, 2 p. m.
Tuesday May 3lt St. Paul, 10 a. m.:
i'hnniK. 2 p. rn.; Uuttevllle, S p. rn.
Wednesday, June 1st Aurora. 10 a.
m.; Iluhbard, 2 p. m.; Brooks, 8 p. m.
Thursday. June 2d Howell, 10 a. in.;
Maeloay, 2 .. in.
Friday. June 33 East Salem, 2 p.
m.; Salem. S p. m.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF
SCHOOLS.
I'ruf. AclccrmaD, the Kcpublican
candidate, Id scndlni,' out tlion.sands of
tyr written letters to tcaclieis
and kiw odlcerH, telling tlictu that
the cilice he seeks is not a political
oflicc and askinc for vol's on the
ground that he in not a iolltlcIan and
that there are nopolttlca in It. Now
this U a fraud on the face of the mat
ter. He id the -Republican norulnpe
and should not disclaim his connec
tion with a nartv LliaL has several
tirnrA hnnnrcil him with nlEccs. Tliel
truth is well known, that Prof. Ack-I
ennan Is a shrewd ambitious man,
who came from Wisconsin to Oregon
nbout eight years ago. He lias shown
ability as an educator and would be
perfectly unobjectionable as acandi
diitc but for his close relations to the
Amerlwtn Hoo'i 'Company. This In
Itself 1 no rellectlun upon his ability
or Integrity, but makes him objee
tlonauh a-a cundldato ;beforo the
peoplo of 'Oregon. -The American
Iiook C mipaiiy is furnishing some In
farlu" books at higher pricos than the
Bi.ue company charges the people of
Oregon, and reports from the various
counties indicate that the peoplo can
not even gut the books ut the high
prices.
A new contract fur text books will
hivo to to made during tlio term of
the state superintendent of schools
now to be elected and the American
Book Co. wants Ackurmun because ho
as county superintendent of Multno
mah county voted for the present sys
tem of textbooks, nearly the entire
list he clioc being thoe of the Amer
ican Book Co. If Oregon is to liayo
better and cheaper textbooks Acker
muu mutt be defeated.
Keep
ay to say, but n am m m
bow thall I do It? W All
I tuo only com-
won miho waykeep your head cool,
your feet warm and your blood rich
mi purely taking Hood's Sarsaparilla.
. Then all your nerves,
III thC muscles, tlstuos
and organs will bo
U t ! H tt properly nourished,
r ' " llood's Baruapnrllla
hiHtU up the system, creU a ap
pelte, tope the s4oma(i mni gives
ueMgUi. It m tlio people's Spring
Ue, bu 11 tftrfer Hie ftud cf
imn mum Umw 4i oUwm.
Hood's
artaparllla
das. e. L 00., LwH(
AmerteVs i
imteMHtdt
, jwewta. hh,
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PflU
st Urn tevtrlM foiatiy
Annual Safea evev0,Mee Bo
jjpHg
FII1S
ZtS HUOOS ATO KEEV0U3 irOGBIJEBS 1
?rtT$ll?Zg .
Btb. Dizziness. PtovvIimm. FlasblnKt
&52 KfT SHiMS
Blctebes en Us Bkln. Cold Chills, DU-1
tarbed 8lep. rrlzntfal Dreams and all
aerroas and Trembling Sentation.
THE FI23T DOSE WILL CITE HELOT
15 TWE5TT XTjnJTES. Ererr siUTerer
will acJmowIedce tfaem to to
A WONDERFUL MEDICINE.
nr.VCUXm VlVUi, taken Mdlrect
cd.will'iuteklrr'vioro Females to eom
pleto health. They promptly remoT-e
oMtrtJctlonorlrrnilnti'-5 of the sys
tem and enrr Iek Ilcad&ebe. Fort
Weak Si
Impaiic
IK MEM, WOMEN
ch
'gestfon
zred Liver
OR CHILDREM
Bcocham'3 Pilfs aro
Without a Rival
Anl hT lh
LARCEST SALE
ofsnyralentMcdtelne In the World
25c at all Dros Stores,
Ills opponent Is County Superlo
tendent H. S. Lyman, of Clatsop
county, Union candidate for superin
tendent of Kbool. lie Is a Christian
Renlletuan, a graduate of Pacific uni
versity at Forest Grove and Oberiin
college, a man of culture and refine
ment, wit'i thrre tl'i.is the education
that Ackemian has, and wliai is still
better he is a man the American Iksok
Co. was unable t persuade Itilo car-
rjiDK out its Vk UUm.
Tuk Journal dlwlalnis all prejn-dic-j
foror-aittl' sttlie Aniericau Hook
Co., or any other clioo! tetbonk lirn,
in dfcuiui; tlilsnutsiiot' of the rel
ative nines of the canoidjte for
state suDcriritcndet t of fchoul. Tin
Journal would rather not hate tin
American Hook Co. take any part, li
the campaign for state superintend
ent of schools. It probably considers
that Mr. Lyman Is not k'oIok to be
fair to the American Book Cc.
Mr. Lyman is candidate on the
Union platform which pledges him to
oppose all trusts and combinations
that oppress the people, at.d there Is
abundant proof that the American
Book Co. has not treiterl the people
of Oregon fairly. The people of
Oregon are entitled to have the
best and cheapest textbooks that
money can buy and the benefit of
open competion of school book pub
lishing houses as other states have.
KING AND SOVEREIGN.
Their Itinerary Arranged for Two
Weeks.
Senator W. II. King, the Union
candidate for governor, spoke at
Ileppner Saturday night. He will re
turn at once and lie and J. II. Sover
eign will sneak at Med ford at 1:30 p.
rn. on Mond-iy. Their Itinerary has
been arranged as follews:
MedforJ, May 0, 1:30 p, m; Grants
Pass, May 10, 1:30 p. in; Hoseburg,
May II, 1 30 p. m; Eugene, May 13,
1:30 p. m; Albany, May 13, 7:30 p. in.
Corvallls, May 14, 7.30 p. in; Toledo,
May 10, 7:30 p. m: Independence, May
17, 2:30 p. 111; Dallas, May 17, 8 p. in;
McMinnville, May 18. 8 p. 111; Forest
Grove. May 10, 1:30 p. in; Illllsboro,
May 10 8 p. mj.Oregon City, May 20;
Portland, May 21.
"Cyclone" Dayjs, the Texas Popu
list, arrived Saturday morning and
will begin the campaign at once, td
STAYTON.
W. Y, Richardson and wife,
Salem, visited friend and relatives
tllls P1ICC
Mrs. J. W. A. -.Mayor
has returned
Improved in
from Portland, much
health.
E. Ray the Jeweler Is permanently
located In his new quarters on Third
street.
A coat of paint Is adding value to
John Gcods residence property.
G. B. Trask has gone to Vancouver,
to purchase additional stages to opcr
ato the mall line between Turner und
Mchama.
Adalbert Balselcy has returned to
Stayton, having finished his course In
the Business college at-Salcm.
Miss Delia Alrlch of Sodavllle, Is
visiting friends here.
The speakers on the Union ticket,
gave us a very Interesting talk Frl
day night at the opera house.
Contractor M. McCoy of Salem, Is
putting In a now bridge over tho
Mill race adjoining the saw mill of
Leo Bron & Sons.
Frank Dutbln the Union candidate
for sheriff, passed through here bound
for tho upper Sautlum, canvassing for
yotee.
A Splendid Reception. It was
exactly 0.05 Wednesday evening when
tho first section of tho southbound
California overland, consisting of
eight coaches aud currying tho first
Battalion, Oregon Volunteers, num
bering In ull 330 men, reached this
city. Tho platform was crowded by
hundreds of Salem's citizens who had
assembled to cheer the boys onward,
and they cheered and that Quito lus
tlly too. The train mudo only a
brief stop nt the water-tank and
then continued its way to San Fran
cisco, From tho fact that nono of
the troops 011 last nights train were
from Salem, tho big demonstration ut
the depot only attests tho popular
enthusiasm that &bounds In every
part of America. Tho Second und
Third batalllons will pass through
this city cither Saturday or Sunday
oYcnlug,
When Nature
Kecrts assistance it may be best to
reader It promptly, bub one should
remember to use even the most nur-
feet remedies only when needed, The
best und inot sluinlo and gentle
jremcay is lue Dyrun vl aius, uiaiiu-
.... . - Yi
fact u ivd by tho California Fig Com-paoy.
ON LAKK BEWETT TRAIL.
1'
I Ad In eretttne Luter F10 the
Frozen
Nrtn.
Lake Bennett, Alaska, April 24.
II ha been just four weeks since we
started out on tie trail. We bare
" slow tluie compared wlib our
expectations, altlHMigli we are doing
" well as our neighbors. ho bare no
better facilities for transportation.
Kay one who has ptenty of money
to hire their goods packed over and to
buy a boat, can make this trip with as
much ease and pleasure as any sports
man would want. There are no hard
ships to encounter to tar as we have
come, except the labor of packing our
goods. The trail is good and the
weather is pi ease nt.
The Bracket company is baullrrg
goods from Stag way to Lake Bennett
for twelve cents a pound. A man
wltb a horse can make good wages
freighting; seme make as ruaebasSdO
per day with only one horse.
Hay is worth 15 cents a pound at
Bennett lake, meals SI; duughuuts 0
for 25 cents.
We found tbe police at the summit
very accomodating. They pay no at
tention to goods bought in Canada,
except to sump the invoice bill. They
only watch for goods that come from
the United Slates and they arc very
lenient with them, They usually
charge duty only on lumber and pro
visions. The people on the trail rcscmtlc a
swarm of bees, all In a hurry going
and coming. All have as much as
they can do attending to their own
business, therefore goods are unmol
est?r,,that arc coached along the trail.
We heard of only one or two cases of
parties 'lotlng goods. They are all
quiet and aud obliging. We saw a
tight one day between two employes
on the Bracket trail. Fully 100 men
witnessed ft; S3 quiet were the peo-
le that not a sound was heard or a
word ipoken u'llil the fight was over,
when ill continued their travels and
one niiuM not have known that any
thing had occurred.
We are now camped eleven miles
from the summit, but haye our goods
five miles further over. We will
move camp In the morning. By Sat
urday night we expect to have all our
goods on Lake Llnduman, All kinds
of machinery from a buck saw to a
steamboat can be seen here. There
are several good sized steam boats be
ing built to run on the lakes.
It will be fully a month before we
get our boats made, us the timber
that is suitable for boat building Is
getting scarce. They are sawing logs
that only make boards six inches
wide. Lumber is worth from 20c to
30c per foot now. A good many have
bought light, white pine cacoes that
will carry 1500 pounds, that arc mada
In Ontario, Canada. Rough boats
made at the lake are worth from $150
to $200.
Benton.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured,
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the deseased portion of the ear.
There Is only one way to cure deafness,
and that Is by constitutional remed.
les. Deafness Is caused by an In
tlamed condition of the mucous lining
of the Eustachian Tube, When this
tube gets lnilamcd you have a rumbl
ing sound or Imperfect hearing, and
wiieti it is entirely closed deafness Is
the result, and unless the Inflamatlon
can be taken out and this tube re
stored to Its normal condition, hear
ing will bo destoryed forever; nine
caves out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an Inllamed con
dition of the mucous surface.
Wo will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafncs3 (caused by
catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure, Send for circulars,
free.
F. J. Chenuy & Co., Toledo, O.
USTSold by Druggist., 75".
War Measure Ready.
Washington, May 12. With the
exception of a few administrative
features, the war revenue bill Is ready
for report to the senate.
With the ussistanco of Senator
Jones, of Nevada, tho Democrats had
control of the financial part, and
adopted their amendments, winch In
clude a corporation tax of one quarter
of one per cent.; u provision for the
coinage of the seigniorage, and tbe
Issuance of $150,000,000 of greenbacks.
Of
Mr. A. II. Crausby, of 158 Kerr St.,
Memphis, Temi., says that his wife
paid no attention to a small lump which
appeared in her breast, but it soon de
veloped into a cancer of the worst type,
and notwithstanding the treatment ol
the best physicians, it continued to
spread and grow rapidly, eating two
holes in her breast. The doctors
soon pronounced
her incurable. A
celebrated New York
specialist then treat
ed her, but she con
tinued to grow worse
and when Inlonned
that both her aunt
pudgraiultuotuerbad
died from cancer he
gave the case up as
hopeless.
bomcoue then re
commended S.S.S.
and though little hope remained, she
begun It. and n improvement was no
ticed. The cancer commenced to heal and
when she hud taken several bottles it
disappeared entirely, and although sev
eral years have elapsed, uot a sign oi
the disease has ever returned.
A Real Blood Remedy
S.S.S. (ruaranteeJ furly vtglable)
is a real blood remedy, and never faili
to cure Cancer, Uczrma, Rheumatism
Scrofula, or any other blood disease.
uur uooks
will be mailed
free to any ad
drcsa. Swift
Specific Co.,
AllfrsU G.
sss
Cancer
the Breast.
X9k Ik VisV
iff (r Bw
T.T. GEER'S GOLD STANDARD
Placed Under the Searchlight of History
and Science,
Spain and Portugal Fixed the Ratio for Three
Hundred Years
Complete Analysis and Refutation of His Toledo, Lincoln
County, Speech.
In Mr. Geer's statement of his pres
ent financial views he makes at least
one positive statement. His state
ment was carefully written out for
publication and furnished to the Oi
cgonian as the important part of his
opening campaign speech at Toledo
Lincoln county, and 1 suppoe It will
be repeated by him In
bis tour of the
cow counties.
This positive statement embodies
the Republican candidates, position
on the silver question, and was im.
mediately endorsed by the leading
editorial in the Oregonlan; so It
must stand as the accepted state
ment of the gold standard politicians.
It Is as follews: "There has never
been a time when sliver was cot
growing cheaper. If this were not
true the ratio of one to one, which
prevailed in early ages, would still
be the recognized ratio, because, the
first change from that ratio could
have been for no other reason than
to prevent the coinage of too many
sliver dollars from a given quantity
of sliver bullion. No other reason
has ever been given or ever can.
From the beginning silver has grad
ually grown more ubundant, and
therefore cheaper, until In order to
sufficiently restrict the number of
silver dollars the ratio of 10 to 1
was reached. I have never heard of
any unfriendly legislation causing
the commercial ratio to change from
1 to 1 to 10 to 1, although many cen
turies elapsed during that time. It
Isso well understood that the discov
ery of increased quantities 01 silver,
as compared with gold, made it de
sirable to restrict I the number of
silver dollars that the stale cry of un
friendly legislation was never heard."
"The necessity of limiting the num
ber of silver dollars has always been
recognized. That end lias heretofore
been reached by charoCag the ratio
to keep pace with the relative produc
tion or silver and gold, but during
the last thirty years it lias been done
by closing the mints Instead of chang
ing the ratio."
I do not propose to discuss Mr.
Geer's present utterances from the
standpoint of party politics. To do
so would disclose a complete change
of the Republican party's position on
what is now considered the para
mount national issue.
As a devoted partisan Mr. Geer
would reply: "Party first, party last:
right or wrong, my party." It would
be an useless appeal to his sense of
justice, his Ideas of consistency or his
devotion to principle to call his atten
tion tD the Republican platforms ad
opted by his own votes In conventions
which enunciate statements of finan
cial science exactly tho opposite from
those now proclaimed by him as can
didate for govercor. So I will treat
his statement from the standpoint of
political economy, and trust to the
sense of honor, intelligence und pat
riotism of all persons who have In the
past called, or who do now call them
selves blmetullists.
Let us take up his first statement of
the alleged ratio of 1 to 1. He cites
no authority for the assertion that
there ever was a legal ratio fixing the
bullion value of gold und silver ounce
for ounce. The bullion ratio of gold
and silver ivhloh Is referred to in the
sacred scriptures has been figured out
by some mathematicians as being ex
actly 10 to 1. But wo will not claim
that to bo a lact. Certainly his au
thority must antedate the mosaic
scripture, und ills ulleged parity of 1
to 1 was probably confined to the
Garden of Eden tho first few years It
was occupied.
There are plenty of authorities du
ring the mlddlo ages citing ratios of
8 or 10 or 12 to 1. In Spain in tho
fifteenth century the ratio was 101 to
1, Iu tho sixteenth century Spain
monopolized the supply of precious
metals and fixed tho ratio for tho en
tire world at Yi to 1. In tho seven
teenth century Portugal obtained
control of tho gold supply, nod the
gold product of Spain fell otl to almost
notulug. Portugal now governed the
ratio and in 1C8S raised t bo value of
gold to 10 times that of silver. A
century later Spain got control of the
ratio and as her product was chiefly
silver sho raised Its value, In 1775,
from 10 tol to 151 to 1 In Europe,
but loft it 10 to 1 In her colonies.
That act of legislation fixed tho orig
inal ratio of the standard American
dollar. Franco had a ratio of 14J tol,
prior to 3785, when she adopted tho
standard ratio of 15 to 1.
TI1C80 figures are taken from the
Enclycopaedla Brlttunlca, yolumo
XXII, page 73, concluding in these
werds: "These threo historical ra
tios und the bearing nt each upon the
others , liavo lutluc -ca all U-gMaf Inu
on the subject, m 1: n ihpro wus
no legislation tli i ebul
lion market for more than two centu
ries." Mr.Geer's statement that silver
has grown constantly cheaper, and
that this is due to over-production, Is
completely refuted by Mr. Laughlin
In his work on poll tical economy, ne
shows that the value of the world's
production of gold from 1493 to 1850
was 53,314,550,000 and the value of sil
ver produced during the same time
was 27,353,450,000, or more than twice
as much silver as gold during 357
years,
The same authority shows, that tbe
value or gold produced from 1850 to
18S5 was W,425,525,000, and that the
value of silver produced during the
same time was 42,397,475,000, or only
a little more than one hair as much
silver as gold durine the last named
period or 35 years. The commercial
value and coinage ratio for nearly 400
years was not affected by "over-pro-duction,"cr
either metal. Fjr three
and one ha't centuries, when twice as
much sliver was produced as gold, the
ratio remained as fixed by law. For
over one third or a century, when
there was twice as much gold pro
duced as silver, the ratio remained
virtually unchanged, until partial
adoption or the gold standard by tbe
United States and other nations be
gan to givei gold a fictitious appre
ciating value, or purchasing power.
The detailed statistics and racts or
history will bear out this general
statement, which completely rerutes
Mr. Geer's assertion that silver has
been growing constantly cheaper, be
cause or over-production.
The Sauerbeck and Beerbohm stat
lineal iuomis oi inuex numbers are
doubtless ramillar to Mr. Geer. They
show that gold and silver bullion In
the London and Hamburg markets,
ror nearly a century prior to the com
plete demonetization by the United
States, maintained their parity at the
ratio or 15 to 1, varying but a rew
per cent either way, as the metals
were Influenced by the rate ot ex
change, with silver generally at a
siigut premium, owing to the greater
expense or shipment.
Thi9 commercial and coinage ratio
was undoubtedly maintained by the
Tree coinage law or Prance, where tha
mint ratio was 15 to 1. But these
tables reveal a rar more Important
tact, to wit: The Index numbers on
staple products In these markets ot the
world maintained uniform bimetallic
price ievtl during the century or bi
metallic rree coinage. In other words
products or the soil and or human labor
6old rrom 50 to 60 per cent higher in
standard money during all that time
than they now bring with tho gold
standard more firmly established.
But we need not quote these eminent
statisticians, who give the prices of
products In the world's markets where
the American farmer must sell his
surplus, and which, In the absence or
legislative Influence, fixes the selling
price at home. The coustant down
ward tendency or prices or rarm pro
ducts can be proven frrnn the United
States agricultural reports, compiled
by d"e year periods, up to 1890. In the
report ot the Wisconsin Bureau or
Labor statistics, pages 104 and 160,the
prices In every case are the cash prices
on the rarm. Tho figures quoted on
agricultural products for 25 years as
follows, to wit:
AVERAGES FAKM PKICKS, BY FIVE-
YEAR PERIODS.
Wheat. Corn. Ot.ts. nay
1870-1874.... $1 12 80 51 $0 41814 2
1875-1879... 100 30 31 9 4:
1880-1884 ... 01 45 33 0 91
18S518S9.... 75 35 27 8 05
1890-1895.... 05 39 31 8 19
The gold standard theorist treats
these statistics taken rrom a perfectly
reliable non-partisan source, with his
rumlllar cry or "over production."
When thero Isu rauiinc in India and
short crops in other countries, au ad
vance in wheat Is attributed to the
mongrel financial policy or theMcKln-
ley administration. The decline In
tho market prices or staple products,
affecting tho finances of the nation
and the debtor class In general does
uot concern the advocate of one-met.
allsm. He quotes Daniel Webster's
great speech before the New York
chamber of commerce, Murch 15, 1835,
in support of the single gold standard
und a currency confined to one metal,
when that able statesman was really
making one of the greatest efforts of
his life in protesting against confin
ing the currency of our country to
both gold and silver; and going
further ho declared that tbo world
would never see tho day when even a
bimetallic currency would supply a
sufficient circulating medium, and he
demanded then, as ho did on all occa
sions, that there should be, In addi
tion to gold and silver, a supply of
ruper currency suulcicnt for tho ne
cecities of business aud population.
An eminent American, President
'Andrews, of Brown University, some
years ago, said: "Our national debt
on September 1, 1863, was two and
three-quarter billions. It could then
hare been paid off wltb eighteen mil
lion bales or cotton, or twenty-five
million tons of bar Iron. When it bad
been reduced to a billion and quarter,
thirty million bales of cotton, or
thirty-two million tons of Iron wontd
have been required to pay it. In
other words, while a nominal shrink
age ot about fifty.five per cent had
taken place in the debt, it had, as
measured In either of these two world
staples, actually been enlarged by
some fifty per cent."
It is impossible to set forth here the
vat mass of evidence on the subject
of overproduction. All of it, bow
ever, was presented before the English
Royal Commission on Agriculture In
1697. and this is what they cenclude:
"Although some witnesses have
urged that the falliln prices is due to
overproduction, we have no evidence,
and wp greatly question if any such
evidence could be adduced to show
that, compared with tbe Increase of
population, tbe rood products or the
rorld todsy are mttcrially greater
than they were before the fall In
prices commenced.
"In the case or wheat, indeed the
commodity which has fallen more in
price thao any other the information
which we have appears to point in the
opposite direction."
(Quoted in Rothwell's "Bimetall
ism Explained," page 252.)
No one has ever even intimated
that any possible harm can come
rrom over production ot silver. The
authorities quoted establish beyond
the mere dictum of the gold standard
candidate for governor that there has
been no over production ot silver, nor
or agricultural products and the
only question remaining 10 be de
termined is this: Has there been an
artifical fapprectation or increased
purchasing power given to gold by
friendly legislation ? I quote some
figures from a table published in the
London Bimetallic, giving the ex
changeable value at different dates
in gold and silver for a period or ten
years for bimetallism, and also for
the year 1893 when silver had been
almost completely demonetized. These
prices are in the Londou market
table 1.
Pounds
10 ounces ot silver would
Pounds.
buy
1867-77.
Wheat 429
Town made Hour .. ..299
Cotton 65.5
Wool 30
TABLE U.
123.27 grains cold would .
buy
Wheat 171
Flour 122
Cotton 26.6
Wool 12.15
1893.
541
319
I I
35
349
215
52
23.4
Anyone who will study the above
tables carctully can come to only one
conclusion that the purchasing
power ot gold has been artificially en
hanced, aod that silver has remained
the more stable measure or value.
ir the ratio had been changed to
keep pace with the relative produc
tlon or silver and gold during the last
50 years.the result would have been to
make gold cheaper instead ot dearer.
I think this completely refutes Mr.
Geer's language aboye quoted, where
he states just the contrary, because
the production or gold has been nearly
twice as much as that ot silver, ir
the little countries otSpain and Portu
gal, mere grease spots on the map or
Europe, couldestabllsh the ratio be
tween gold and silver for over 300
years, and which Is still the coinage
ratio or the world, because they con
trolled the supply or precious metals,
then why Is not the UnltedStates able
to maintain the ratio now, without
the consent ot other nations, when we
are the greatest silver producing coun
try ot the world? The Standard Oil
company can fix the price ot oil, be
cause It controls the product;-. the
sugar trust, with tho help oP,"rriendIy
legislation," can control the prices ot
sugar; tho rubber trust can fix the
price ot overshoes and baby nipples;
the cotlln trust can fix the expeuses or
our burial; the baby wagon trust can
determine whether tired mothers
shall grow humpbacked carrying their
offspring in their arms, Instead ot
having a psrambulator.
Every .one-horse trust and combi
nation can fix pikes which the Amer
ican people can pay with the help or
.rlendly legislation," but the igreat
Vmerlcan nation cannot establish and
nlntaln the coinage ratio ot Its own
primary money, Is not this conten
tion of the gold monopolist sham,
frivolous and irrelevant?
One of Mr. Geer's favorito Illustra
tions is directed exclusively at the
Populists. He says that It is a fun
damental Populist proposition that
tho volume or circulating medium
should bear some relation to the
total volume ot indebtedness ot all
the people.
neexplode3 this fallacy, us he Is
pleased to call it, by an illustration
liko this: ne says, let ua suppose
twenty men were each owing the other
w aua one or them has a dollar. He
pays half the debt ho ows to the next
man, and he pays it to the next until
each of tho twenty men has wiped
out half of his debt. Then Mr, Geer
passes me aouar around again, and
wipes out the rest of the debt. There
he exclaims, don't that refute your
popullstlo fallacy? One dollar has
cancelled 840 of debt.
This raises a lau'h with the
thoughtless, and for a moment would
seem to do away with the Ponulist
demand for a larger volume or money 1
aua oeari tig some relation in the vol
ume ot debt. But fit beneath the sur
face, consider the real circumstances '
or the people and look at tho euormitv I
of Mr. Geer's fallacy. What iftiml
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for Infants and Children.
The Fac-simile Signature of
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20 men be uses as an illustration,
each owed from one hundred to a
thousand dollars, and were paying
trom eight to ten per cent Interest,
and two or three per cent taxes on
the property for which they are In
debt, and the wonderful gold dol
lar failed to get around as fast as
tne Interest ran up on the debt, and
the men In debt were becoming
bankrupt and loosing their prop
erty, would he then consider
that the volume or circulating me
dium bore any relation to the condi
tion ot the debtor clashes? Would he
then consider that we had a sufficient
volume ot circulating medium? Don't
be know that the interest on the
national debt alone would require
twice as much gold as our country
produces?
The Salem Sentinel, which brought
out Mr. Geer for governor, a Republi
can gold standard paper, stated in an
editorial May 7, that the original
government bonds ot Great Britiin
and the German states covered the
entire gold stock of the world, which
Is four billion dollars, whereas the
government b'jnds ot the civilized
world amount, to thirty billion dol
lars. It the assertion ot Pror. Andrew,
which lias been quoted, Is ture, that
It takes more products to pay the re
maining hair of our government debt
than It would have taken to have
paid the entire debt at the prices of
products when it was first incurred,
the gold standard contention becomes
not only ridiculous but impossible as
a financial system.
Not Troubled Now.
"From my childhood I have been In
poor health. When I was 10 years old
I had salt rheum on one o! mv hands.
I got a bottle or Hood's Sarsaparilla
auu ouiore 1. uaa iaKen an my nana
was well. I have never beeu troubled
with salt rheum since.'' Mrs. Bertha
ueici, liaker City, Oregon.
Hood's Pills arc easy to take. Cure
indigestion, headache.
You can make old clothes look like
new, aod remain so as far as color is
concerned by using Perfection Dve.
But be sure you get them. tf
Team Wanted a span or ponies
for linht drivers. Innnlrn nt P V
Carey with Lewis, Stayer & Mitchell!
v.u., oaiciu, O-O- II
M. L. Yocuni, Cameron, Pa., sajs I was
a sufferer tor ten years trying most all kinds
of pile remedies, but without success. De
Wilt's Wuch Hazel Salve was recommended
tome. I used one box. It has effected a
peimamnt cure." As a psrmanent cure for
piles De Witt's Witch Nazal Jialve has nc
eqnal. Stone's drug store.
Excursion Rates.
To the G. A. R., encampment at
The Dalles, Or., via Steamer Altona
and the regular dine. Fare round
trip $2.50. Tickets good going Mon
day, May 10, returning until May 21.
5-ll-4t
The farmer, the mechanic and the bicycle
riders are litbh to expect cuts and bruises.
De Witt's Hazel Salve is the best thing to
keep on hand. It heals quickly, aud is a well,
kr.cwn euro for piles. Stone's drug store.
Children like it, it saves their lives. We
mean One Minute Couch Cure, the infallible
emedy for coughs, colds, croups, bronchitis,
B"ljl";, "" ii mroai ana
Stone's drug store.
lung troubles.
Thirty-five years makes a cenerMion
That is how long Adolph Fisher, of Zane .
vine, u, sultered from piles. He was cured
by using three boxes of De Witt's Witch
Hazel halve. Stone's drug store.
It you want the best when dyeing,
be sure you get Perfection Dyes.
They do not fade. tf
As good as, should not be accepted,
when you want a permanent dye.
iciuuuuu uyo nag no equal. tf
Heve You Heard the News?
Pure irum camnbnr nt Vrva r
store, 63 cents per pound. 10 2t
Rich and Rare Such may b3 the
banquets of the great, but In Salem
an every day citizen can always have
a superior meal at low cost at Strong's
uesiaurant. 10 3t
Experience is the best teacher. Ue Acker'
tngluh Remedy in any case of coughs, colds
or croup. Should it fail to give immediate
relief ouney tefunded. 2$ cents and 50 cents.
Co.VTE3T.-The W. c. T. U. medal
contest has been postponed until
Jionuay evening, May 23.
A Lady
tried Schilling's Best tea and
did not like it.
She tried it again and
made it according to direc
tions, It's her only tea now.
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FROM A SUFFERER.
How
A. Cooper Had a Ro n.
Healed After 35 Yean. '
Cheiialis, Wash., April 9. im
Dr. J. P. Cook, Salem, Or: ' ,
1 received your letter and wu y
to hear trom you. You want o, v...:
i how my leg Is getting alonu. iii.
ail right; the Ilesh is growing oatonr
the shin bone and is turning wht
It Is not straight yet, but I think I
will be as straight as the other bi
when warm weather comes on. Im
work most or the time. The otto
doctors told me 1 could neterk
cured without splitting Hand sens!
Ing the bone, but they are mistake
It is getting well without cuttinz
scraping, so they do not know as mod
anhey thought they did. but mm.
all right, for you have done ju3twhi',
you said you could do. I will ans
any questions you ask about mr b? '
A. Coopfb
Dr. Cook's office is at 301 Llbertj '
31ICCI, k7(llCUi,
Moki Tea positively cures sick htijid- !
diink. Removes all eruptions of the ib
producing a perfect complexion, ormocejie.
funded. 25 cents and 50 cents.
Arterone trial you will use no other
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