Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-17
ODeratiOn of the silver law there were


coined $S,793,363 standard silver
dollars. On July first the treas
ury had on hand 81 Jos. 1899, there being
outstanding only $1,6S3,964. About
three-fourths Of the entire amount
coined has been used in the treasury in
the purchase of bullion and in point of
fact nearly that amount ofsilver dollars
have been placed in circulation in the
form of silver certificates, which have
come back into the treasury in the
payment of customs. There are now
outstanding onl v about 100000 in
silver certificates. The treasury has
already received nearly five millions in
silver for custom dues. Treasurer Gil
fillan is of opinion that by Jan. l, 1879,
the aggregate of customs will be nearly
fifteen millions, and by the same date
he expects twenty millions of silver
dollars will be in the treasury vaults.
unless some new means is devised for
getting them into circulation. ..
u ~ DOWN ON COMMUNISTS
Advices from Washington of the 9th
inst state that the honest workingmen
of Washington are becoming Disguised
with gang of adventures who call fire.
quent public meetings, where they use
most violent language and indulge in
extreme communlstic threats. Some of
the law-abiding labor organizations have
denounced them, but they still con-
tinue their work, and, in turn, attack
those who attempt to expose them. A
week ago the Capital which has truly
often proclaimed strong communistic
doctrines, felt called upon to hold up
these tramps in their true light. TO day
in reply to resolutions denouncing
it, passed at one of these lawless
meetings, 1t characterizes them
us G. a set of sensationalists, adventures,
and fy-blows on the honest meat of in
dustry foisted there by circumstances.
They are a set who have never struck a
blow of work and would not if they could,
and could not if they would. Being ig-
norant of how to live, save upon others,
and lacking the shrewdness or chance
to become capitalists, they attempt to
make themselves solid with the less
thinking of the masses. and so feed on
the results of their labor" These SEN
timents Of the Capital are shared by the
mass of the laboring element in this
city, and the indications are that the
gang which is attempting to support it
self at their expense, and magnify itself
in the eyes Of the workingmen' organi-
zation of the country, will be driven out
of Washington. .....>..
......t TIMBER THIEVES.
Government agents recently returned
from the Parish of Calcasien. in Ack-
lens district, Louisiana, represent the
actual facts about the depredations upon
the government timber there as being
more astounding than anything that
has been published. In one place
there were sixteen saw-mills whose sole
occupation was the manufacture of tim
Der from logs cut from the government
reservation. One old timberman testified
that parties had been engaged in cut
ting timber from the government reser-
Walton for fifty years. Very few mill
owners have taken the trouble to enter
Or purchase any timber-lands, and de-
pend exclusively upon logs stolen from
the government. The government
agents were followed everywhere by
spies of the thieves, were shot at and
both of them came back very much
impaired in health on account Of the
climate