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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18
SCARCITY OF MONEY.

When times are hard money Is
scarce and sometimes the hard
times are attributed TO the scarcity
of money. AT present the scarcity
of money is confined to the masses
OF the people; money Is scarce with
the farmer, the laborcr, the mo
chanic, the professional man and
the small tradesmen; this is brought
about by general staguation in
business and the consequent flow
of money to the money centers.
The banks have more money than
they want and are only too glad to
loan it on easy terms, but those
who are most pressed for money
have no bankable security to offer.
Money can be had in New York at
2 per cent. on call and 1 per cent.
on time. Tho advance sheets of
the forthcoming mint report show
an aggregate of S47,OO0.00O gold
and silver coin, and this steadily
increasing. With all the money
prices of all commodities used by
human beings are unusually low
and with n tendency to still lower
prices. Prices arc low, trade is
dull, wages are depressed. labor is
drug and manufactured goods and
brcadstuffs have been tending
downward in prIco for the past
three years. The st. Louis Repub-
lican says this state of affairs
shows, not that money is too
abundant, but that there is INSULT
cient demand for it. The monetary
centers arc gorgod with 1t, and they
are eager to loan it at low rates /;
but enterprise is paralyzed, indus
try is sluggish, and experimental
investment is unhcard of-all be-
cause of the downward tendency
in prices which the position and
growing scarcity of money has
brought about. The Edinburgh
Review for January asserts that
the distress now prevailing through
out the enlightened world is due
to steady and memorable decrease
in the supply of money brought
about by the demonstration of
silver by the great nations of
Western Europe.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The st. I.euis GloDe-Democrat
seldom says anything that meets
with the approval of the Demo
cratic press of Texas. The Fort
Worth Gazette quotes from it as
follows: '.Tho Globe-Democrat is
the organ of the knights of Law
an order to which every American
citizen should bolongin preference
to all other orders whatsoever"
In this connection the Gazette pro-
nounces the strike trghttul MIS-
take. 1t may also be SAID that
whatever wrongs or grievances of
the Knights of Labor they have no
legal right TO interfere with the
property of railway companies, or
to kill engines or otherwise disable
any railway property.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The supreme court, now in ses-
sion at Galveston, has rendered a
decision adverse to the Santa Fe
road in the matter of the subsidy
notes given by citizens of Bell
county. The company agreed to
run its road and establish depots
within halt mile of the court
house in Bolton. 1t subsequently
changed IFS routo and established
ITS depot outside of the CITY limits
and more than q mile from the
courthouse. The court held that
the consideration having tailed the
notes are null and void.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat takes a hopeful view of the
present great strike. 1t thinks
the strike means the beginning OF
better times. 1t says the last
business depression in this country
ended with a series of gigantic
strikes, in which the men now
foremost in the present strikes,
the railroad, coal and iron men,
took a prominent part. Let us
hope the present movement will
have the same sequel and intro
duce us 10 a new era of prosperity,
which the experience of the past
few years will enable us 10 fully
appreciate and enjoy.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The Marshal Herald says the
all-absorbing theme at present is
tho strike and that tho public and
the general reader of the newspa-
pcrs will read about nothing else.
1t proposes to reserve its powder
until the present conflict is over
before it touches upon any other
subject.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The following is from the Waco
Day: "The Texas Tribune, an
organ of tho Knights of Labor,
says Stetson is boycotted because
he employs boys TO make his hats,
under the supervision of a few
men. The prevailing imp. ession
was that Stetson employed only
the worst kind of convicts.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

THE discussion in the Senate
upon the issue between that body
and the president will be contin-
ucd during the present week. Mr..
Edmunds, who has been worsted
in debate, expresses desire to
bring the debate to a close within
a few days. 1t is said tho resolu'
lions will finally be adopted by a
partisan vote.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

Ex-eov. HAHN, of Louisiana, a
prominent member of congress
from that state, died suddenly at
his hotel in Washington on Mon
day morning. He had lately been
suffering from pneumonia.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

THERE are l1S6 convicts at work
on plantations and 200 on railroads
Tho Fort Worth Gazette asks; al
convict labor is so bad a thing, why
don't farmers strike against ltF'
There is in Texas probably 2OO,'
900 men working on farms II
would be a nice calculation 10 tell
exactly how much each individual
loses by coming in competition
with 1lS6 convicts.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The express car of the Chicago
and Rock Island train which leaves
Chicago at l p. m. was boarded
at Joliet at II o'clock Saturday
morning, after a desperate fight.
The robbers were masked. Kel'
Iogg Nichols, the express messen-
ger, was killed. The express safe
was robbed of between $4,000 and
s25, 900. A reward of $4,000 has
been offered for the capture OF the
robbers.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

THE executive board of the
knights of Labor, in session at
Galveston on Saturday, revoked
the order to local assemblies not
TO handle freight coming from or
going to the Mallory Steamship
company. In Galveston this is
regarded as a breakdown, though
the Knights hope ultimately to
enforce the boycott through moral
snasion.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

THE fine ocean steamship Oregon
was sunk off Fire Island, N. Y, on
Saturday last by collision with
o schooner. The crew and pass
cngers were all saved, The Oregon
was one of the finest ard largest
ships afoat.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

DISPATCHES from st. Louis lndi-
cate that the strike on the Missouri
Pacific road Will terminate in a few
DAYS. 1t Is to be hoped that if the
strike is settled it will be in such
a manner as will in all probability
prevent a recurrence of it any time
an employe may be discharged by
the railway company. During the
period of great strike, the strik-
ers, the general public and the rail
road companies are all suffers,
iome, however, to greater extent
than others.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

THE Waco Day CURLY says ::
"0n with the bust. That is let us
get up a few moro strikes and
boycotts, and have a HI of a
time" We are having it right
now.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The Marshal Herald OF ihu IIth
inst, publishes a card dated March
Q IaS6. signed knights Of Labor
in which the, claim The primary
cause of the present ;, real ''f'A'
was the discharge of Hall, foroma~
of the car shops. They further say
that Judge Pardec, of the United
States court promised to send n
man to Marshall to investigate the
case, but that he failed to keep his
promise, hence the strike.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

THE preachers at Minneapolis
have decided to boycott the Sun
day papers. The Sunday papers
will not suffer any serious lncon-
venience therefrom.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The Dallas News says the lease
system should bo abolished and
tho school lands put'on the market
and sold as soon as possible. The
sooner the public domain in Texas
is disposed of the sooner will a
fruitful source of pickering and
trouble be finally disposed of.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

IT is a very common thing to
hear the railroad companies
abused as giant monopolles, but
strange as it may seem there is
hardly a railroad town in Texas
that does not want more monopo-
lies IN the shape of railroads.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18
The Texas Alliance Standard

THE Texas Alliance Standard
published at Waco, the official or
gan of the McLennan, Hill, Lime,
stone and Comanche county ALL
ances, halfway endorses Judge
Terrell for the senate. The Aus
tin Statesman is also o Terrell pa
per, but it will hardly succeed In
getting him elected to the United
States senate.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

TEXAS YETERANs.-A citizens
meeting was held in Dallas, and
committees were appointed to
give the Texas Veterans n fitting
reception on the goth and 2lst of
April. A programme has been
arranged to give the veterans the
grandest reception ever rendered
them since their organization.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

THE condition of the great strike
remains practically unchanged.
The strikers are confident of sue
cess and the railroad managers are
firm
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

DALLAS, San Antonio and Gal
weston all want the coming Dem
ocratic State convention. AS
Brenham is not likely to get it, 1t
is immateriaI where 1t is held, the
delegates from each county, if
consulted, would select the city
most convenient to them. The
majority of the executive COM
mittee will select the place and
the delegates will have to go where
the convention is held.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The labor problem is the most
important now before the public,
and its early settlement is most
anXiously look for.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

IT seems that this is not o free
country. Men who are willing and
anxious to work on some of the
railroads are not permitted to do
co
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

The appointment by the presi,
dent Of Matthews, colored law.
yer of Albany, n. T., 10 bo re,
corder of deeds for the district Of
Columbia to succeed Fred Doug,
lass, resigned, does not give salts
faction to the Democratic. There
we're number of prominent white
Democrats of the district who
sougn.
classCd as 4 carpeL-U"Sger.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18
Thursday, March Is, 1856.

UNDER the head of "Bcastly Bru-
taIity1 tho Fort Worth Gazette
dovotes two columns to an account
of aprize fight. 1t is safe to say
that those two columns were care
fully read by great many people
SIMPLY 10 crafty their curiosity.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18
Tuesday, the 18th Day of May, 1886.

of eowig described pay
Sale to continue from day day until the list completed
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

THE Waco Day supports Ross
for governor, but 1t does not go
into spasmS over him. 1t says it
is willing to leave Gen. Ross in
the hands of his friends.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18
COLLECTORS TAX SALE FOR 1886.

By of the rolls County year
will proceed
city Brenham Washington
md
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

SUBSCRIPTIONS to the New York
Grant monument have been roll
ing in at the rate of nearly 81 a
week since January l. AT tsis
rate it will take several hundred
years to raise money enough to
begin building the monument.
The Americans are not n mon
ument building people.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18

THE Knights of Labor at Sedalia,
Mo-, have boycottcd the st. Louis
GIobe-Democrst.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14
THE Memphis Avalanche saws:

''The South is solid in its sympathies with
its Northern brethren in their endeavor to
crush out their twin relics-Mormonism and
socialism. The twin relics must CO."
This is aighly commendable sentiment.
It would also be extremely praiseworthy if
the Southern brethren would carry the prin-
ciple into practice and endeavor to extermi-
nate that one of these ''relics" which has its
strongest hold in the South. According to
the testimony of Mormon elders nearly all
the American converts to that so-called re-
ligion come from below the Ohio river aud
the frequent transportation of carloads of
emigrants from that region to Utah indicates
that the Mormon missionaries are covering
the ground pretty thoroughly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14
Purdue University.

The twelfth annual catalogue of Purdue Uni
versity shows total of 315 students, of which
i59 are in the college classes and 156 in the pre-
paratory. Thirteen belong to the school of
pharmacy. The students are from Sc different
counties Sixteen seniors will be graduated
upon June from the regular classes and seven
from tho school of pharmacy. The pharmacy
course is two terms of Eve months each. The
courses of study include agriculture and horti-
culture. mechanics and engineering general
science, industrial art, pharmacy. Each of these
courses requires two hours daily of hand work.
The alumni roster shows II graduates-60 of
these since $780, The Sunday chapel lectures for
the coming year. 80 in number, in
clude the leading educators, clerical gen.
tlemen, attorneys and editors of the State
The faculty are twenty in number and also FIVE
assistants. The catalogue of nearly one hundred
pages, contains all that parents and educators
desire to know about Purdue, and may be had
By application to President j. Fl. Smart and also
a special catalogue of the school of pharmacy
Tuition is free to all residents of Indiana. and
board and incidentals amount to less than $3.50
for the year, making Purdue the cheapest and,
at the time, the most efficient school in the
State for sciences. mechanics and engineering,
as we'll as agriculture.
AS an example of TIE kind of work going on
at Purdue, the subjects Of the senior graduating
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14
COMMENT AND OPINION.

If the tariff thinkers want to make ten. strike
let them bring in a bill putting prohibitory duty
on Anarchists. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
THE boycotter must CO. The free institutions
of America have atmosphere in which petty
depotism can thrive.-Philadelphia Times.
THE red flag of the Anarchist. like that of the
auctioneer, should be signal that everything
under it is to be knocked down.-Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
AFTER so much trouble and excitement it
would not be bad idea for every body to go
peacefully to work and try to get up business
BOOM Baltimore American.
THE great need of the strikers: An under
standing of the laws of trade as well as of the
laws of the land. The latter can be amended
and changed to suit themselves, but the laws of
trade are inexorable York Sun.
THE right of man to work is substantially
limitless. The right Of man not TO work is
frequently limited by his Obligations to his
family and his duty to himself Boston Herald.
A STRIKE for eight hours work with ten hou RS
pay is not only absurd, but preposterous. Scarce
ly less so, in fact than it would be for employers
to demand twelve hours of labor for ten hours
wages. -Philadelphia Press
MARTIN Irons b;gamist; Herr Most captured
under woman's bed in house of ill-fame; Par
sons married to a colored woman-a nice gang to
set themselves up as representatives of honest
labor Cincinnati Enquirer
THE Republican candidates, in the Eagles
opinion, were elected in Hamilton county (Ohio),
and they have been seated irregularly but eff
fectively through Democratic stupidity. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14

theses are significant. Such as these occur
"Bessemer Steel; It's Practical Manufacturer
"Steam Engine Indicators; the Various Forms
in Use and Their Applications Methods Of
Testing Steam Boilers, with the Results of Such
Determinations of Pair of Steam Boilers"
'The Experimental Determination of the Phys
ical Properties of the Building Stones of In
diana Experiments Regarding the Efficiency
of Wind-mills as Sources of Power on Farms"
The originals of these extremely practical es-
says are bound and preserved in the college IL
brary. The catalogue has on the whole busy
and CHEEKY tone, as though Purdue meant bust
ness and is doing it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14

The Philadelphia Times, an independent
Democratic paper, views the Ohio situation as
follows
"The Republicans are the upper dogs in the
Ohio Senate. The Democratic Senators de-
serted the Senate in body because the Re-
publlcans meant to resort to revolutionary pro-
ceedings to seat the four Republicans from
Cincinnati, who were undoubtedly elected
and that desertion gave the Republicans a
chance to seat their men by viva voce VOTE
whereby the record of the body does not re-
veal the fact that there was not quorum
present.
cit was a trick, but an excusable one under
the circumstances, and as there is no going
behind legislative record, and as the Repub-
licans have the President of the Senate, q
quorum of qualified members and the Su-
preme Court, they are safe at all points. They
have obtained only what they are justly enti-
tied to, and the Democrats have lost, as they
deserve to lose, by attempting to sustain a
palpable fraud, and to hold the political con-
troll of the Senate when it justly belonged to
the Republicans. 1t was revolutionary action
against revolutionary action, and justice won
on the home-stretch although it had TO come
in by severe cutting across lots"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14


HAVING boycotted the Chinese, the Cali
fornians are now taking the second thought
and trying to figure out how they are to get
along without them. Contrary to expectations
the American laborer, who was alleged to have
been ruined" and crowded out by Chinese
cheap labor, does not hasten to fill the vacant
place and the approach of the fruit harvest
calls for something to be done. The latest
suggestion is that the vacations of the public
schools be SO arranged that the elder pupils
may assist in fruit picking, This may be an
excellent plan; but by the time the grape and
orange growers have shipped their youthful
assistants to and from the orchards, have
boarded them and paid them wages, some dis
Advantages in the scheme will probably be
manifest. The Chinaman is not altogether
Iovely. but just at this juncture even Cali
lornians will admit that he has his good points.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14

The storm which visited Indiana on Wednes-
day night was the severest and the most de-
structive in the history of the State. Our
special reports give pretty full details of the
destruction it wrought, though naturally and
necessarily much is yet left untold from the
remoter and inaccessible places. The great
est destruction seems to have been wrought in
and about Attica, where the wind and
rain were extremely violent. Our
special correspondent estimates the loss at
more than two hundred thousand dollars.
One life was lost outright and five other per-
sons are supposed to be fatally injured. The
Mayor of the city has called upon the Govern
or of the State for assistance, and we have no
doubt but the response from the people will
be prompt and generous.
The storm also wrought severe destruction
and loss of life at various points in the State
of Ohio, particularly at Xenia, where more
than a score of persons were drowned. Spring
field, Dayton, and other places also suffered
Taken altogether the storm was unparalleled
in its ferceness and its destructive effect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14

This is the way the Northwestern Christian
Advocate, an impartial and on-political pa
per- speaks of Carter H. Harrison the
superb" Mayor of Chicago in connection
with the recent disturbances in that city:
Remember the twin facts: First, that MUIR
der of policemen was direct fruit of tolerated
incendiary speech; second, that outrage is
direct fruit Of political demagogy. The first
needs no proof; the second is obvious. The
Mayor appointed the Arbeiter Zeitung as tenn
porary city organ, and allowed policemen to
escort red flag professions through our streets
just as loyal professions are escorted. Our
city rulers did not dispense the Anarchists
simply because they are voters. Anarchy is
directly responsible for that police murder,
and demsgogues are accessory"
The attention of the Sentinel is called to
this paragraph. The Sentinel was thrown
into spasm because the Journal intimated
that Carter Harrison's demagogy was in some
degree responsible for the condition of things
in Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14

ga CHICAGO paper says that Socialist pro-
cession marched through that city the other
day carrying the red flag aloft and trailing the
American flag in the dust The same paper
was full of excited talk about the resurrected
rebellion in the South. Louisville Courier
journal.
And both the ''rebellions" are on par. The
confederate rag and the red rag are both
hateful to loyal and honorable men. The
press Of Chicago and of the entire North is a
it in un denunciation of the display of the red
rag Of the Anarchists. Has any Southern
newspaper-has the Louisville Courier Jour-
nal-ever uttered syllable in denupciation
of the display of the confederate rag of trea-
son2 We shall be glad to join, heart and
soul, with the Courier-J Journal, and any other
Southern journal, in like denunciation of
the red flag and the confederate flag.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14

once felt. Archbishop Gibbons has already
indicated what the course of the church will
be upon the question of selling liquor on the
Sabbath day; the masses of the church are to
be refused to those who persist in selling on
Sunday, and the full power of this great or
ganization is to be brought to bear on the side
of closed saloons and suspended traffic on the
Lords day. This is notable step forward in
the linaof true temperance reform and in be-
halt of public sobriety and good order. The Cath
Ollie Church has not troubled itself, and is not
troubling itself, with the question of the legal
prohibition of the traffic so much as it Is in
trying to assist in the development of pub
lie sentiment that will be strong enough to
put the traffic under such restraints as are
practicable and presently available. It looks
now as if the Catholic Church were to be the
leader in real effective temperance reform.