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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-04

fence of the common people-tll,
wase-.arniiig workers and they pre-
fer ii before any other Kind Of none.
Eighteenth Silver has been Thu
principal circulating medium among
the laboring people Of the country
since the beginning. except durin.
the paper period. beginning with til.
/ civil war
Nineteenth Standard silver dol
lars are honest money. rs much 80 IL
sixty pounds OF wheat and iiftysA
pounds OF corn arr. honest bushels.
! Twentieth, Measured by gold.
wheat corn. and products in general
have declined in market values more
than silver bullion has.
Those are a few positive and de-
monst rable facts. Here are few
negative propositions. equally true:
| First told money il not the mon
ey of the world any more than silver
/ is. for there is as much silver money
a. there il Of gold.
Second Measured by common
standard silver has not deprecated
in value more than gold. nor has it
been more frequently below par
since both have been used as none
rary metals.
Third There never was any con-
tract or law or custom in any nation
or among or between nations requir
ing that silver money should be
measured by gold money.
Fourth There never was any law
or custom in this country before tile
coinage act Of 1873 that pretended to
prefer gold money before silver mon
ey or gold before silver as a money
metal.
Fifth-Under existing laws silver il
not treated fairly because the govern
ment fixes the price OF gold bullion,
while it purchases silver bullion Oh
the open market.
Sixth There il no dishonor in of
fering an honest silver dollar in pay
ment of an honest debt.
Seventh There is nothing in law
or in morals requiring the people to
pay more than they agreed to pay
when the contract was made.
Eighth There is no better reason
for in creasing the quantity Of silver
in silver dollar than there is for de-
crea:ing the quantity of gold in ii
gold dollar nor is the reason rs good.
Ninth The argument that we
should pay more than We agree to
pay is no better than that we should
pay less.
Tenth There is ne good reason
why silver and gold should not again
be placed Oh IN equality as money
metals in the Inited States and coin
ed upon equal terms. Topeka Capt.
tai
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The Post Office Change.


The third Of February. 1877. Aug
Beaalle became post master. and tool
charge Of the Cresco post Office Du
ring all the intervening time he la
discharged the duties OF the of1ic
with conscientious regard to TIL
public service and the convenience
Of the patrons of the office Though
a republican Of the straitest sec
when outside the Office. in it and ii
service he WIS us impartial perhap
rs possible for any man to be: tn,
humblest patron Of the Office being
treated with as much consideration
and courtesy in answer to every L.
ultimate inquiry rs those Of higher
social or property position.
Such being the fact it is not sur
prising that he had 50 large and re-
spectacle following asking the
present administration to continue
him in the service.
He has been a resident Of this coun.
ty since 1855. and Of Cresco since 1867,
and always with an open hand to ev-
cry enterprise that would tend to the
general good. He will retire from
the Office with the respect and good
will, not only OF those who desired
his retention in the Office. but like
wise Of almost every one who favored
the appointment of another.
His successor. VIM. b. Webster.
has his record to make as a servant
of the people. The same high per-
sonal regard to the rights OF the pa
irons Of the office that has distin-
guished his predecessor will secure
him the confidence of an indulgent
public. II the Office is conducted up
on business principles. and not as an
appendage to some ambitious and as
piring politician determined to serve
the people NoLENs voLENS. our new
post master can thereby obtain a
fair degree of public confidence and
respect.
The question of the location of the
Office Is a matter of no slight import
ance. We have heard it suggested
that the town ought to put up and
own a suitable building located south
of the Court House on the public
park. or in its northwest corner, with
q hall above for the meetings of the
town council and the Mayors court.
We think the suggestion a good one,
eminently worthy the consideration
of the town council and the business
men of Cresco. The government
now allows SIS a month for rent in
Cresco. During Mr.. Webster's term
of four years, the rent thus allowed
would return to the town 500 Of it,
cost, and the use of the hall for the
meetings of the councils of the Bust
ness Mems Association and other
purposes would pay any deficienc.
in its cost. Its removal from danger
of conflagration is an additional rea
son for its location ~ suggested In
the mean time let it remain in its
present location. Who will move in
the matter and obtain from the
Board of Supervisors their assent to
its location as suggested.
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Facts for Gold Monometalists

1t is always well for persons of an
argumentative turn of mind to have
a few solid facts Ct hand. So many
wild statements are made by many
gold monometalists that is is evident
they are lacking in this important
particular. and for their information
the Capital presents few significant
| facts.
First-Silver has been used as a
money metal quite as long Is gold.
Second Silver and gold both have
been used as money metals ever
since recorded history began
Third-Silver is used as the mone-
tary standard by more nations and
by more people, four to one. than is
gold.
Fourth Silver is quite as much Il
standard for measuring the value Of
gold as gold il standard for measur-
ing silver.
Fifth-Silyer has been above tie
line Of comparative value between
the two metals as often az it has been
below it, and quite US frequently as
gold has been.
Sixth-There has always been (con-
sidering long periods OF time Us
much silver money in the world as
there was Of gold money.
Seventh There is az much silver
money in the world now as there is
Of gold.
Eighth-Silver was made non.-
tary standard quite as early as gold
was and among or by more nations
and people.
Ninth Silver and gold We're adopt
ed by our government in the begin
ming as the only money metals to
represent values above one cent. and
the two metals. when coined accord
ing TO law, were made legal tender
for all SUMS whatever.
Tenth-S Silver and gold money
have passed current in this country
ever since the government was or
ganized. and the gold and silver coins
authorized by our coinage and mint
laws have, from the beginning, iaA-
cept during brief period since the
war; had and maintained equal pur-
chasing and debt paying power.
Eleventh-In this country. except
az above stated, silver money has all
along been rs good in every respect
as gold money.
Twelfth Measured by common
standard, silver money in this coun-
try has maintained sleadiness of
value equal with gold money.
Thirteenth Measured by Il COM
mon standard. silver money in the
United States was above par as often
and III long as gold was.
Fourteenth-Th quantity of silver
| which was originally agreed upon as
sufficient for our monetary unit-a
dollar-was 81 grains pure meta.
and il hass so remained ever since.
Flfteenth-rhe quantity Of gold, as
originally agreed upon. was reduced
twice since the first coinage act was
passed in 1902.
Sixteenth Silver money is ~ good
to-day in this country as gold money:
it will purchase as much propert.
and pay us much Indebtedness
Seventeenth Silver money il pc
culiarly we'll suited for the conyen
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THE CRESCO
MARBLE ( GRANITE Works.

MARBLE 4 GRANITE Works.
KLINE & BARBER, Props.
MANUFACTURERS OF MONUMENTS
HEAD STONES, TABLETS, URNs AND
VASES FROM THF FINEST MAR
BLES AND GRANTEES.
All kinds of Cemetery Work executed
ut lowest living prices.
Statuary and fine carving n speciality.
Work. Curling and Tagging.
We have III stock Il fine line of Iron
and Terra Gotta Vases for lawn
or cemetery Decorations; wind
guard Chimney Tops c.
sure cure for Il smoky
cllimney:)
Wire door mats; Hartman's Steel
Picket Fence for Lawns or Gene
terry lots. the cheapest and
handSolnest wire fence in
the world: Cement
Tile for public
or privtae
walks.
something that will wear a life time.
Having correct plat of the Cresco
Cemetery we are prepared to set
curbing or any other needed
improvements when
desired.
We can save our patrons from 10 to
- per cent on all orders placed
with uS and guarantee
satisfaction.
Call OH us and examine our stock
and prices.
Nj. 4. KLINE j. Ii. BARBER.
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The Trust Not to be Trusted.

The Irvine Trust sends out paper
from New York, called the Snnda,
Courier, which is exclusively devoted
to q denial Of the existence of com
bination to control the price OF twine
and to apologize for it if it exists. The
evidence that it exists is too clear fol
denial, except by some subsidized
sheet like the Sunday paper named.
A Minneapolis dispatch recently
sent out said:
1.-The Binding Irvine Trust is get
ting in its work with great success.
The best binding Irvine is made OF
about 30 per cent. Of sisal and the
rest of tow or cotton. No satisfactory
substitute for sisal has yet been found.
Last winter a syndicate was formed
of Boston and London capitalists
which bought up the whole of last
years sisal crop. When the manu-.
facturers sought to procure their sea-
sons supply Of sisal they were APP
preached by the agents Of the syndi-
cate with the proposition that the
syndicate would furnish sisal to the
manufacturers ut last wears prices.
provided that the latter in turn would
sell to the syndicate their whole
manufactured output at last wears
prices. The offer was accepted
The Farmers Voice of Chicago. an
unusually well informed paper, said
in its issue of March 3Oth:
IAN agent Of the Dakota Farmers
Alliance recently went East to buy
Irvine direct from the factories. he
found Irvine that could be bought last
year for . cents q pound, had been
put up to % cents by the trust Thus
on the 100, 100000 pounds of Irvine
used annually by the farmers. the
trust this year proposed to make a
square steal Of $l7,OOO,OOO over and
above q fair profit.
After all this twine trust may serve
q beneficent end. Its raid on the re.
sources OF American farmers is SO di-
rect and palpable. that all men can
see it. and ii thus serves to bring the
trust question wildly into popular
thought.
If groups of millionaires continue
to corner all the necessities of life. it
will take but Il short time to reduce
the producing masses Of our country
into condition of hopeless poverty.
This Irvine trust has called forth a
universal sentiment of outrage and
wrong Oh the part Of the farmers OF
The land. and it can not die out for
the issue is one of life and DEATH
The farmers Of the great West yot-
ed to continue the Trust which Mr..
Blaine assured them was u private
affair with which Congress had moth
ing to do. II none were involved in
this gigantic robbery butSfhose who
had voted to continue it, We for one
should shed but few tears. The fact
is. we have in this country a lot Of
farmers who are SO credulous about
whatever is told them by their party,
that they only investigate the trap
after they are caught.
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The Universal Verdict Of the People

Who have used ClMHe's ErllUct o.
Fla 1papillon Skin C,tre awarl /
the first and hfahssi place as II rene.
dial agent in all cases Of Skin Dis
eases, Erysipelas, Eczema, Pimples
unsiyhily blotchcs, humiliating erap
tions, EoiIs. Gtsrbnneies, letter, tic.
all yield to this wonderful! prerara
ton at once. Price sl.UU for i, largs
bottle at Lowry Il Conno!ly's Drug
Store.
Glarke's Flax Soap is good for the
Skin. Try it. Price % cents.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-04

Sufferers from catarrhal troubles should
- tho above carefully.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-04

Good reliable men can find permit
p rer.e enR'9yennt a by addressing rsv nr
les, Waterloo, \. \. They hire on
salary aud pay expenses. or on com.
mission. ii preferred. Prev ius ex-
periencc not required. Outfit free.
Established over twenty Years. Writ.
them at once for terms.
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PARLOAS COOK BOOK
Large Quas,o. autographed Cover
over 100, OCO Parta cook Books have been
sod. sIail.a cn rtetipi ui g. els. by auy bsoh-
selier or ESTES Il La RAT. Boston. Mas
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-04
Deceiving tho Public.


Among the dispatches sent out by
the Associated Press from Washing
ton, Thursday night, was the follow
ing:
The postmaster general to-day, up
OH the recommendation Of General
Superintendent Bell, appointed the
following named superintendent OF
railway mail service: Tenth division
headquarters at st. Paul. Norman
Perkins, vice Walter H. Butler, re-
signed.
The correspondence that did take
place between the postofIice depart
ment and Mr.. Butler is contained in
the following kilograms:
WASHINGTON. ID. G., March 2S.-To
Butler, superintendent Railway Mail
Service, st. Paul, Mimi: am instruc-
ted by the postmaster general to re-
quest your resignation, to take effect
March 81. j. LowRIE BILL,
General Superintendent.
ST. PAUL, Mimi. March 28.-Gen-
eral Superintendent Railway Mail
Service, Washington, ID. c.: | know
of no reason why | should resign.
Permit me to respectfully decline to
do SO. BuTLRR,
superintendent.
Two serious questions arise in con-
nection with this incident. First, is
the postmaster general endeavoring
to deceive the public by asserting
that the places Of the postofIice offic-
ials who are being kicked out are be-
ing filled because Of their resignation,
when, in fact, they did not resign? In
the second place, has the Harrison
administration deliberately gone to
work to ignore the operations of the
civil service law and rules?
The Associated Press agents at
Washington obtain their information
from the departments. In this in
stance the postoffice department In
formed the press agents that Mr.. But
Ter had resigned, when the cores
pondence between him and the de-
partnent shows as plainly rs words
can speak that he refused to do SO,
even when called upon by the post
master general. Is official lying a
lighter offense than individual pre-,
yarioationy II not, why does the
sanity Mr.. Wanal4aker encourage it
in his Department.
1t SO happens that superintendent
Butler caMe up to his position through
civil service promotion, and in no
sense could his appointment be con-
sidered as having been made for par
tisan reasons. His perelAptory re-
moval without cause was utterly mex
cusable when made by an adlninistra.
ton that processes to respect the
principles OF civil service reform.
Therefore We take 1t that it's profess
sion in that direction are the veriest
cant and hypocrisy.-[St. Paul Globe
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SEEDS. SEEDS! SEEDS!

II You want the best vegetable and
flower seeds YOU e..er had buy vi
Reynolds Il Go.
This is the second year of our seed
business, consel emily no old
seed TO palm on on you for
fresh seed.
After 20 years experience as market
gardeners and florists We know
the best kinds.
Everything we offer is of the very
best quality.
Our seeds are all tested and warrant
ed, and the low price of our seeds
will save you % to j0per cent.
Send your name on a postal card and
receive our catalogue for 80 free.
Il. II. REYNOLDS s. CO,
McGregor, Iowa.
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When IL persons tells you they never
had such cold in their life raks
their word for it and advise them &c
use Chamberlain Cough Remedy
and cure it, For coughs, colds ano
hoareeness il has no equal. Sold b.
Lowry & Connolly.
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Tho hill has not yet lifted its faoe
to Heaven that perseverance will not
gain the summit OF at last Charles
Dickens.
"A loving heart carries with it,
under every parallel OF latitude. the
warmth and light of the tropics. -
Whittier.
Nothing is moro pitiful than Q life
spent in thinking Of nothing but self;
yes. even in thinking q nothing but
pne's SOUL -Farras.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04

There is not one man in thousand
who can honestly and sincerely say
that he is utterly free from supersti-
ton. He may not be ever impressed
with signs andsee omens in everything,
but the chances are that if he put on q
sock wrong side out, he will laugh at
his own credulity, and not remove it,
though he check the rising disposition
to make the orthodox wish. He feels
sense of satisfaction that he sees the
new moon for the first time over his
right shoulder. The incident cannot
do him any harm. Just now the reign
ing fad is to carry a rabbit foot around
in one of the pockets. That will bring
good luck according to the old colored
superstition. OF course, man SAYS to
himself that it is all nonsense, but the
fool is not in the way, and somehow
the man who would become indignant
il you accused him of being supersti.
tious continues to carry the Africans
favorite charm about with him. No
man would deny that Ex-Governor
Crittenden is man of education and
culture, conspicuous in his church and
presumably q Christian; yet he has for
years carried in his pocket o rabbit
foot, a buckeye and a petrified potato,
and in the crown OF his hat the but
tons off of a rattlesnake's tail, each
having its own mystic power of good.
II there is one man carrying q rabbit
foot about for luck I'll bet there are
10000 in st. Louis. 81 Louis Globe.
Democrat
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04

A writer in the popular Science
Monthly asks whether it il safe to
bore the earth much. He assumes the
earth to be hollow sphere, filed with
a gaseous substance, called by us nat
ural gas, and he thinks that tapping
these reservoirs will cause disastrous
explosions, resulting from the lighted
gas coming in contact with that which
is escaping. Earthquakes, he says,
are probably caused by vacuums created
BY the outaowing gas. He compares
the earth to balloon Aoated and kept
distended by the gas in the interior,
which, if exhausted, will cause the
crust to collapse, affect the mott on Of
the earth in its orbit, cause it to lose
its place among the heavenly bodies
and fall to pieces.
Another writer thinks that boreing
should be prohibited by stringent law.
He, too, thinks there is possibility of
an explosion, though from another
cause. Should such disaster occur
"the country along the gas belt from
Toledo through Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky will be ripped to the depth
Of 1900 or 1900 feet aud Topped over
like pancake, leaving a chasm
through which the waters Of Lake Erie
will come bowling down, filing the
Ohio and Mississippi valleys and blot.
ting them out forever"
Still another theorist has inyestigat-
ed the gas wells with telephones and
delicate thermometers, and he an.
nounces startling discoveries. He dis.
tinguished sounds like the boiling Of
rocks, and estimated that mile and q
half or so beneath Findlay the temper
AZURE of the earth is $500 degrees.
This scientist says an immense cavity
exists under Findlay, and that here the
gas is stored; that mile below the
bottom Of the cavity is mass of roar
ing, seething fame, which is gradual.
~ eating into the rocky floor of the
cavern and thinning it. Eventually the
flames will reach the gas, terrific ex.
plosion will ensue, and Findlay and its
neighborhood will be blown skyward
in and instant. Such are some Of the
theories gravely propunded in respect
to the new fuel
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04

A few days ago Mr.. 0. M. Cornitius
sent his wife and children to Waco to
keep them from catching meningitis.
The baby caught black measles on the
train and is now in critical condition
Brennan Banner.
The statement in the last sentence
OF the above is fiction Of the whole
cloth and yard wide, brother Garrett
The family Of Mr.. Cornitius, according
70 personal knowledge Of the writer, arc
IN perfect health, as are most othel
people in Waco.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04

Attorney General Hogg has prevent
ed the consolidation Of the M. X. & T.
and the I. & G. N. roads on the ground
that they are competing lines. Won
der if his little injunction game will
work on Gould's proposed combine of
the M. X. and T., Cotton Belt and
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04
There are in Oklahoma,

There are in Oklahoma, eighty
townships of thirty-six sections, each
Of which will be thrown open, but two
sections in each township are reserved
for school lands. This leaves eighty
townships Of thirty-four sections, that
1920 sections Of $40 acres each,
and as there are four homesteads in
each section, there will be 1880 10.
cations, il all the land is desirable,
which Of course is not the case.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04

President Harrison is sorely pre-
picked over the problem of what to do
with the "colored man and brother, !"
but lady Harrison arrived ct conclu-
sion on the matter quite promptly. On
taking charge Of the White House she
bounced ever negro cook about the e.
Enlistment.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04

Arrangements are being made to
hold an International Congress to be
composed of the wage earners of the
world, in Paris, in August next, with
view 10 form a Permanent Interna-
tional Workingman's Congress, which
shall formulate fixed policy to be ad-
hered to by all afiliating labor organi-
cations.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04

At IS per diem the Texas legis Ia
tors worked only during the day and
short hours at that; but now at 81 they
work day and night. Judging from
this, it would be a great mistake to
double the salaries of the United States
cauo<orc
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04

Lovers of music are cordially invited
to visit D. H. Spencer's ware room and
inspect his new stock, and persons
wishing to rehearse or practice in con-
cert are rendered room and instru-
ments free. Mr.. Spencer has a fine
Grand Hallett and Davis piano on ex-
hibition which he would like every
lady in Waco to see.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-04

Big crowds of expectant people
ready to move into Oklahoma Terrific
ry on the 22d Of April, are camped on
the border about Gainesville and Deni-
son, Texas, and Arkansas City, Kan.
sas, and other places, and there will
be rush and a roar when the sun
rises on the %.