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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1886-04-07

Ell mismo:
"La separation de mandos Sc hara,
pese 4 quien pese, y quiera 8 no quiera
Ell gobierno."
Lo dijo Bias, y punto redondo.
iNada! Cesar de Bdsdn Sc
empefia, y basta.
Ese caballero va 4 ser terrible
en- las Cortes.
va pueden poner Ia piel en-
remojo los gobiernos!
No les arrendamos ID ganancia.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1886-04-07

,on los que parten de nuestros princi-
oios Observation-Disclosures y de nuestras
loctrinas reformistas.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27

CHAIRMAN or TIE INVALID PENSIONS COMMIT
TEE OF THE FEDERAL HousE or REPRESENTA-
TIyEs.
Congressman CORTLAND C. Matson, of
Indiana, has been appointed Chairman OF
the important committee on Invalid Pen
sions. He was a member OF the House OF
Representatives at Washington during the
two Congresses preceding the present one.
The Chairman OF the Invalid Pensions
Committee was born at BrookYille, Ind,
April %, 1S41. He was educated at the In
diana Asbury University, and received de-
gree from that institution.
AT the outbreak of the civil war CORTLAND
C. Matson enligted as private soldier IN the
Union Army. His regiment was TIE Six
teentb Indiana Volunteers, in which he re-
manned about year. Alter that time he
Joined the Sixth Indiana Cavalry, in which
he continued to serve until October. 1865.
He was Colonel of the regiment during the
last part of the time.
When Colonel Matson returned to civil life
he read law
He began practice at Greencastle. where
he still resides. promptly after his admission
to the Bar. His public services previous 20
his present membership IN the Forty-ninth
Congress. comprise three terms as ProsecUt-
ing Attorney OF different courts IN ''the
HOosier State" and membership in the
Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.
He is on the Democratic SIDE OF the House.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27

less destructive and arbitrary because il was
accomplished through the law, or even done
through ignorance of the effect it would have.
This city, nor in fact any other city where
"boom" has been mistaken for business
boom that has destroyed the actual capital
and compelled our business men to borrow
is not by any means over the effects of old
debts. Year after year they have struggled
painfully to pay them honestly. and yet they
have hardly ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have in the
aggregate increased, because money was so
continually rising in value, and their prod
ucts, through which they earn money, were
so continually sinking in value that if man
had paid up one-half OF an indebtedness con-
tracted in the seventies the other half would
still require as much of his products TO COM
plete the payment of his debt as the entire
amount originally called for. To remedy
this is precisely what is meant by continued
silver coinage and legislation compelling
bankers to observe the law in common with
other people. 1t has so come about that the
business OF money lending is the only bust
ness that Is profitable. This state of things,
if continued, can only end IN one way If al
lowed to 90 on acknowledgement bank
ruptcy and ultimate reputation of the great
er part Of it. In the long run it will bring
disaster to capital-in truth 1t is capital
that Will in the end be de-
stroyed. The process by which banks
have disposed of the city funds entrusted to
them by the late Republican City Treasurer,
and entailed loss that is nearly equal to
ruin upon a number of innocent bondsmen,
viii be repeated on a larger and, in fact, ma
tional scale if the process by which property
is decreased and money is increased is not re-
versed. 1t is asking more than il is possible
to accomplish. 1t is to a reversal of these
conditions that the attention of Congress is
directed, and If ii fails to reverse them it will
fail to relieve the situation. Not all Of these
conditions are within the reach of any legis-
lation. Human nature is not equal to every
thing; but il is in the line of justice to the
entire country that the monopoly and power
of the bankers over the business of the coun-
try shall be reduced to a common level, and
so far as this can be done it should be done.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
SIX weekly sentinels for 50.
NOTICE.

The following named persons have remit
ted money TO the Sentinel without giving
pOstOfhce address and we are therefore una
bic 70 give proper credits. Those whose
names are printed below can, by identifying
Their remittance. obtain due credit for the
same by notifying rs promptly:
John L. JOHNSON, 3; Lewis Long, II; no
name, New Harmony, soc; Abe Laughman,
81 John McKellens. 81; w. r. McFuoid, p;
10 name Upton, 81; Chas. Huffman, 81;
Thomas A. Sharp, 81; no name, Augusta,
$50; George Mcdonnell, 81; f. B. Parker,
81; II. Long, Postmaster, 81; II. Shey, 81;
Charles Hickey, 81; no name, Button, 81 ;
Charles Newkirk, 81; George w. Murphy,
81; John Concord, 81; Sam Dunn, s1.60; A.
!. Hainbaugh, 81 Adam Guntle, 81 JAG T.
Baker, s.; August Jinhoff, 80 cents; Selma
Van Buren, County, Iowa, 81; Eli Pence
SI.75; Rev. William 5. Stinart, or Stewart,
81 no name, Markle, Ind, 50; Harry Leach
per Z. $50; G.. II. Giddes, Oliver Wallace,
no town given, 81; Fred Benzenbaner. no
tOwr. s. H. Burget no town. 80 cents.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
Get five of your neighbors to take Sentine
and your own win be paid for.
WHAT ~ RANKER KNoWs-


Local Banker in the columns of a
contemporary, thinks that the delay OF ac-
ton by Congress in the proposed suspension
of silver coinage Is having. an ap-
preciable influence for evil in this city.
Contributing to this effect are such
resolutions as were offered in the Senate by
Van Wyck to make void any contract paya-
BILE in gold" Now, If this ''Iocal Banker is
not an editorial cob house, built for the
purpose OF knocking 1t down. but an actual
flesh and blood banker, no one will know the
falsity he conveys better than himself. He
speaks for himself and his class, and not for
the city" If he is banker he will well
know that the causes of depression in this
city are not influenced by actions OF Con-
gress, but by an abstraction of the capt.
tai of the city by bank failures which, in the
past five years. have aggregated over s. COO.
600. If he is a banker he will know that a
large amount of the capital of this city has
been sunk in the maelstrom OF era in
and pork speculation. lie will also
know that speculation in suburban
farms. bought at $500 per acre. aud
worth one hundred, both by individuals and
by the city, and not business is what ais
this city. He win also know that waste of
capital has compelled business men who
were once doing business on solid basis to
become borrowers, or to so much reduce
their business operations as to make il al
most tantamOnt to a suspension. His banker,
if he be banker, will also know that sales
have decreased in gross aggregate. and greatly
in net profit, in common with all the COM
modities of the country, with one single ex-
ception-gold. If he be banker, and not a
sham, he can probably tell to cent the con-
dition OF every quotable business man IN the
city, how much they owe, and why the bank
viii not advance them money, or take their
acceptances. or accept their products as Sc
curity for discounts on a gold basis or on
any basis. In discussing a situation it is
wholly unnecessary TO falsify it by overt in
situation or open falsehood Bankers bust
ness is to sell money, and he naturally, like
every one else, wants to sell it at the highest
price. We have no fault to find
with banker" on this score; but
for him to assert that because certain sort
of legislation, or the want of il is predis-
posing cause Of our city's business depres-
sion, when the cause Of it is so greatly due to
careless or dishonest banking, and universal
and enormous shrinkage Of values that has
taken place throughout the country, is a
manifest absurdity. We make no conceal
ment of the fact that the propositions before
Congress are not favorable to the bankers, or
that species Of property represented by
money. In fact it's tendency is to reduce its
value, and of course could not be looked
upon with favor by that restricted class.
This high value has been artidcislly assisted
by legislation until every time contract and
every debt, if paid faithfully on its face.
yeprsssnis AZ act Of rebbsry, that IL aeae ths
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
HALT

With due respect We would suggest TO the
powers at Washington, and all Others con-
cerned therein, that the time has fully come
when a halt should be called in the business
OF appointing unworthy characters to office
in this State.
An our opinion the seeming attempt to
rival the Republican party in making and
maintaining bad appointments to Office is an
unworthy ambition, and the sooner it is
abandoned the better.
The honest Democratic masses of the State
have already been sufficiently Inundated
the grand old party of the people dam
aged quite enough, surely, for halt.
With becoming modesty we would venture
to suggest to the forces inspiring and con
trolling appointments here that there is no
lack OF honest, competent Democrats in our
State In view of this fact we confess TO our
inability to make out any sufficient reason
for the selection and appointment OF thieves,
highwaymen, bribers, deadbeats and the
like Give honest, competent Democrats a
chance.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27

melting effect on the Alpine glaciers will be
lost, and besides the moist air. encountering
the coolest Alpine ranges will deposit at
the heaps of the glaciers a larger mass of
snow than now falls these, and thus a
double effect will follow-the glacier streams
OF movable ice will be increased in volume,
and there will be less melting power TO re-
duce them in their descent into the val
leys. So the final result. it is
feared - in scientific speculation will
be the protrusion OF great rivers OF ice from.
the mountain gorges into the cultiyable val
leys, and the abandonment of the latter
sooner or later. This will be a serious change
for the hardy shepherds of the Alpine pas
lures, and may cause. among other changes,
the very serious sentimental loss of the cele-
brated "Ranz De Vaches" the home tune of
the Swiss mountaineers, which is said to have
so greatly affected the 'Swiss Guard" OF the
French Kings, after Louis lie Grand (Louis
XIV, that the bands were forbidden to play
it, lest it might provoke wholesale desertion.
If these speculations are not wholly fanci-
full, they teach us that the inter-dependence
of the nations of the world is much more
extensive and important than We have been
accustomed to regard ii.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
MORRuLyS TWADDLE

And here is that old veteran, Morrill,, who,
if he don't know better than to teach such
falsehoods, should be relegated to his dotage,
and if he does should be impeached, telling
that old yarn about the continued silver
coinage driving gold out of the country.
The proposition is plain; foreigners will not
accept anything in payment of their bal
ances but gold and silver. Let us admit they
will accept nothing but gold. So long as the
balances are againss US the gold will flow ont,
whether it is at par or commands any pre-
MUM whatever. No more of it viii 60 out
than is required to pay that balance, and no
matter how gold may stand relative to our
own silver or paper currency, only so much
of II Will be paid for foreign goods as repre-
sents the relation of value between the gold
and the goods and that relation will be gov
erned by the supply and demand. As we
will accept nothing form foreigners but gold
and silver III payment Of the balances due to
us whenever the balance of trade is in our
favor. those metals will flow in and none
flow out. As this balance is and has been
in our favor, the precious metals are
flowing in, and we are increasing our
specie surplus. In order for gold or silver to
flow ont we must either buy more goods than
We sell and pay the difference in gold and
silver, or we must give it to foreign people as
a free Offering. There is nothing so silly as
this talk about gold flowing out, or, for that
matter flowing in, having any bearing on
any legislation we may attempt. All this
depends upon the activity OF trade. If ac-
tive. money will flow freely; If sluggish,
money viii few slowly; if dead, money viii
not iow at all. When it does flow, it will
flow to where it belongs-to the creditor. and
ia payment OF debt.
Ii, by continued acceptance Of silver, for
eigners would choose to pay in silver, our
silver surplus would increase faster than
gold, and IL this was continued long enough
it might drive gold and paper currency out
OF circulation. Ii it drove the former, il
would depreciate it, and in time they would
come together again. IL the latter, then il
would extinguish so much paper as the debts
represent. But as, in fact, buyer and seller
would usually stipulate which kind
of metal was to be paid, it
would result that gold and silver
would both be paid on their real bullion
value. 1t will be great day for America
when il learns that it is in the trade it does
and not to any particular figures we may
attach to piece of paper or gold or silver
that effects our wealth in its foreign -ela-
tions. So long as currency preserves GER
tain stable relation between commodities
and debts it accomplishes all that is possible
or desirable. II is on this point and not on
the flow of gold out of the country that the
present agitation is directed. In our foreign
relations we have nothing to fear so long as
the trade balance is in our favor
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27

same cause, and the same things and causes
are just as potent for disorganization as they
ever were. 1t comes to the surface whenever
its usurpation is questionable is at the sur
fsce now-and breathes fire and vengeance
at the very mention of the President-that
he would refuse to give them any reasons for
removal of any officer under his control.
Now, the Senate has invited this conflict
by a vicious and peremptory challenge. For
purely personal and partisan purposes it de-
ciared to the President that he shall in no
way interfere with this privilege
Constitution or no Constitution. We hope
the President will be firm enough, or
obstinate enough TO hold his position at
every hazard The Senatorial assumption
is the morass of political pestilence that
breeds all the corruption that has made Re-
publican institutions a farce. 1t controls
and debauches Legislatures on one hand
and controls and debauches the Government
on the other; it reaches from the primary to
the head. 1t is the all-controlling, ire
sponsible power through which our omnipo-
tent of rings take their rise and flourish.
The people will stand by the President.
They have power and organization sufficient
to support him, and the strong, unerring in
stinct of self-preseryation that went out in
universal popular appreciation of Lincoln
and Garfield will be forthcoming. If there
be any who suppose that the people do not
understand this issue, and understand it
mainly as we have here expressed it, it is be-
cause they do not mix with the people nor
attempt to learn their sense on it. 1t is of
ficially expressed in the platform of every
farmers grange in the Knights OF Labor; it
is the talk at the grocery store, in every
street corner and in every village. 1t is
heard equally in the counting-house
and workshop 1t is only in the
closets of the colleges and in the
recesses of the sanctums, where
one would expect to find the perception
in its highest development, that il is lack
ing; and il is lacking because the habit of
theOrizing las rioted like noxious weed at
the expense OF perceptive judgment. 1t is
as true now Is when Cicero formulated his
popui TOr del under circumstances almost
identical to those our Senate presents. No
matter what the ultimate solution OF the
civil service reform question may be the Sem
ate should. for every reason, be shorn of any
power over it; so long as it has this control
all the evils will remain, and be no less I'M
der one name than another.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
The Sentinel and the Farm Guide for s1.s5.
LOOK our FOR WHEAT.


There is a rumor that the biggest wheat
deal ever operated is being worked at Chica-
go. by a combination OF the Minneapolis
millers the various grain banks OF the
Northwest, and heavy Chicago operators.
Their programme Is to force wheat down,
buy up the country offerings. and then ad
vance the price % per cent Unless the
statistics OF the department of agriculture
are greatly al fault, 4 successful corner on
wheat IS extremely probable. The visible
supply is great and nearly equals, probably,
the invisible supply. This visible supply be-
ing already in the hands o. the millers,
elevator men and banks it would only re-
quire that they combine N order to control
the supply. They can freeze out weak hold
ers by continued bearing, and then choose
their price. Every farmer should hurry his
wheat to market on a ten cent advance, with
out delay. as there is plenty Of wheat for all
reasonable demands, and yet as it is so
largely controlled by the combination, it can
keep it out OF market long enough to compel
the public TO buy at their own figures. This
will be the last probable chance the farmer
will have for a long time to make money on
wheat, as the coming crop prospects are ex-
ceedingly favorable for five hundred
million bushel weld.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
Fosters Wonderful Powers.

In referring recently to the death OF
Charles Foster, the eminent Spirituaiist, a
writer in the New York Tribune saws:
My first interview with him was peculiar and
striking. from almost any point OF view. hsd nad
serious crisis in my business affairs, and was con
tempiating an important change, with some
grave fears as to its result met friend down
town who incidentally spoke OF having a recent
interview with Foster, and Of his wonderful
powers. My curiosity was excited. and / eX-
pressed desire TO see some manifestations.
why not 60 with me now said my friend,
and gladly consented. As we entered the room
unannounced. Mr. Foster who was sitting at his
table in his shirt sleeves, fairly enyeoped in to-
baeeo smoke, turned and .aecosted me at once.
mentioning my name, and remarking; you are
attended with number OF friends, and one Of
them wishes me to say to you that the change you
contemplate in your business i jus. the thing 70
insure your success. lie says. Go on as you now
propose to do, and you win never be sorry.
We'll" / answered, these friends are very
kind. Who are they VIII you give me their
names?'
The one who bears you this message said he.
''is tail man with long full beard and dark blue
eyes. He died about year ago OF consumption.
Think he viii give his name" and with that ne
took up his alphabet card, and began to 90 over
il with the idea OF having the letters raped out
a. they were touched.
NO. no" said he che don't like this way. 1t is
too SLOW. He says he VIII write you, and the
slip OF paper: "AlI right - using my first
name. which even nv friend did not know, much
less the medium. go ahead. You are on the
right track" and then came the signature. bold
and dashing. and il was almost pe.fect fac
smile OF my dead friend and former partners sig
nature, ending witha peculiar flourish sucn sS he
always made. To say that was dUmbiounded
don't express ii. / was well-uich dazed-
/ had never even heard OF Foster be-
tore. and IL he had heard OF me he
certainly could not have expected and
as / never use my first name ia my sigma
ture and few except my family friends know
what il is. il aStonShed me to see II written out
in full. The peculiar thing about IL Is that il i
the name by which my dead friend always ac-
(QSteG and 10 expression WAS more common
TO him than 1.-THE right track This is only one
OF a series of things Just strange and ineXplica
bic, that occurred during that interview, and in
subsequent Seances i saw things which would
not expect any one TO believe should narTate
them. L saw enough to convince me that Foster
was often an arTant humbug, but many Of his
disclosures were, as then believed. and 40 now.
wholly beyond any trickery, and beyond his own
power OF explanation.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
Luther Benson.

Luther Benson seems TO be taking Texas
BY storm. The Gatcsville (Texss) Advance
in a recent issue says:
Never before in its history has Gainesville been
addressed on this subject by so able a man. Ben
son is a born orator. Eloquence perches on his
brow and beams from every feature Of his face
His speeches, far out OF the common run OF such
orations, chain the audiences to their seats, and
they listen to his charming, magical eloquence
and his transitions from grave TO gay unconscious
OF the fight of time. The editor OF the Advance
has heard all of our temperance lecturers in this
state and III all of them were COMPRESSED into one
they would not be equal 10 Benson. His language
is graceful and chaste. and he says nothing that
could wound the tenderest heart or shock the
most modest sensibility. He viii lecture at sew
eral points in Texas, and we take this method OF
cordially recommending him to all our people,
and we solicit for HIM their cooperation. He
viii do your people more good in one
lecture than any other man win in ten
lectures. and his work lives after he has gone.
Here in Gainesville he touched the hearts and re-
formed the lives OF men on whom other agencies
had been tried in vain.
Mr. Benson will spend several weeks in Texas
He is not politician and does not make political
speeches. He is Democrat. however, and is also
firm Prohibitionist. But his lectures are tenn
perance lectures, and such as all good men can
heartily indorse. He brings from his home at
Indianapolis the highest testimony rs 10 his
worth.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
HENDRICKS IN MISSOURI.
The Monument Fund of the Late Vice Pres.
ident in Missouri - $4,000
VIII be Raised.
IBoonville AdKertiser.l


The organization Of the Hendricks Monu
ment Association has been perfected in this
State. The necessary machinery has been
supplied, and branch organization effect
ed. The General Executive Committee is
composed of TWENTY-FIVE. These are: Hon.
David Il. Francis, Mayor OF st. Louis; Web
NJ. Samuel, P. 2. Conner. Hon. John Il.
Henderson, Hon. George W Allen: Presi-
dent of the City Council; L. C. Nelson,
Joseph Zimmerman. Judge 7. 5. Lanham.
Judge L. \. Noonan, i. +. Rowland, S. w
Cobb. President of Merchants Exchange; ID.
u. Houser and Colonel d. 7, Dyer, st. Louis;
George NJ Shelley. Postmaster, Kansas City;
Hon. ID. c. Allen. Liberty: Hon. John Reid,
Lexington; Colonel Z. W. Stephens, Colum-
bia Hon. William Gentry. Sedalia; Colonel
Lon V. Stephens, Bonneville; Michael X.
McGrath, Secretary of State, Jefferson City;
Major John L. Edwards, St. Joseph; John
H. Garth. Esq, Hannibal; Colonel John r
Williams, Macon Rob l.. McElhany, ESQ,
Springfield; Hon. Harvey W. Salmon, Gin
ton: 7. Murphy. ESQ, Joplin; Major Jasper
\. Burks, Pennington, and Colonel L. A.
Rozier, Ste. Genevieye.
AT a meeting OF the committee held la ST.
Louis on the 18th inst, the following officers
were elected: President Hon. David K. Fran
els Vice Presidents, Web NJ. Samuel. S. W.
Cobb and Michael h. McGrath; Treasurer.
Mr.. L.. I. Nelson. OF the banking lrin OF VEL
son x Noel, st. Louis; Secretary, Hon. George
". Allen, of st. Louis. These officers con-
stitute the sub-Executive Committee for the
State, and are authorized to name local COM
mittees for the counties and cities.
These committee and the newspapers OF
the State are authorized TO solicit and receive
subscriptions. The work has been well COM
menced, and it is expected that at least
$4,000 OF the 100000 required for the pUEr-
pose will be raised in Missouri 10 appropri
ately commemorate the name and services of
Vice President Hendricks