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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

The low price of cotton in the
South -is al opportune object lesson
on the beauties Of Legislative inter.
ference with tho laws Of trade. In
1873, : brawling. drunken, ignorant
lawyer Congress, at the bidding of 9
conspiracyof bankers, demonetized
silver. There was no other excuse
for the act except the demand Of
the conspirators, as silver at that
time commanded premium over
gold, but it advanced the purchas-
ing power of gold about IS per cent,
and to that extent deprived the pro-
Queer of his earnings; because, un-
der the new conditions it took 80
per cent more of the products Of
labor to purchase gold dollar and
under the law there is no other
dollar) which the bankers coterie
of public plunderers had monopo-
fized, than it had previously done.
That was the immediate effect Of
tho demonstration. Other effects
followed, some Of which had: been
calculated, while others had not
been foreseen, but all were alike ad.
vantagsous to the monopolist and
injurious to the producer. The
present low price Of cotton was not
foreseen; but it is brought about
in this way. Silver in this country
is selling At 80 cents. In India it
is worth 81 33-a difference of Al
cents on the ounce. Cotton, we
will assume, is worth 10 cents a
pound in both countries. The for
eign cotton buyer, therefore, buys
his silver in this country and taking
it to India exchanges it for cotton.
Ten dollars in gold will buy-frac-
tons omitted-14 ounces in silver
in this country. In India that sill
yer will pay for about $18 worth
of cotton. and the difference be-
tween these two figures is the South
ern cotton producers loss, because
whenever he has supplied the home
market the remainder of his crop
must be sold in open competition
with the cotton Of India; and
knowing this fact even better than
the cotton planter, the home buyer
takes advantage Of tito compel the
Southerner to part with his crop at
figures corresponding with midas
prices, the difference in silver con.
sidered. But the Southern grower
is at still another disadvantage. lie
pays his help from 40 to rs cents a
day, while the Indian planter gets
his at 7 cents. Remonetize silver
and bar out the impoverished i'm.
that is now flooding our
country from all over the world and
you will have protected American
laborers, and they will require no
other protection.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

SENATOR REAGAN, of Texas, says
the railroad commission is a sue
cess, and Texas paper proves the
assertion, says the Myrtle Springs
Herald, thus; Before the commits
sion went into operation it cost IA
cents per hundred pounds to haul
-four from Denton to Kaufman /;
under the ruling of Reagan & Co.,
it costs 1880 cents. That is about
the way the commission has sue
ceeded on the Pacific coast.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

A BILL has been introduced into
Congress placing all kinds of farm
ing implements on the free list.
Should that become q law it will
save the farmers 30 per cent on the
purchase price of their implements,
which money now goes into the
pockets of manufacturers as bo-
nus for having condescended to
manufacture such things.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

THE Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railroad is in the hands of receiver,
and the supreme court of Texas has
decided that under the laws of that
state receivers are not responsible
for injuries inflicted nor compelled
to pay damages. That being the case
all of the roads in Texas will be in
the hands of receiver before long.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

A Mrs. FRASER, who represents
herself as the widow Of defunct
California Congressman, is in Chi
cago in destitute circumstances.
This circumstance gives rise to a
suspicion, more or less faint, that
her ex- husband was an honest man.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

MARION HEDspETH, the noted car
robber, was arrested in San Fran
cisco on the 10th of this month.
He had on his person two revolvers
and $4,000 in money, besides a
numbered diamond rings and other
;ouo1rr
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

THE supreme court has rendered
a decision in the case of Merrick,
Morse and others, petitioners Tor
mandamus to compel the secretary
of the treasury to receive and coin
silver DENYING the mandamus.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

The Callihan murder case 10 still
on at Salt Lake, and the same is true
OF the J. n. Stone timber stealing
case at Boise, Both are very slow.
Since the above was set up the
parties charged with the Callihan
murder have been discharged.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13
Notice Of Forfeiture
To GEoRaH A. CHAPMAN and WV. II. A'','
fhoiv hairo n aQaiQnS:

To GEoRax A. CHAPMAN and wv II. A'''''
or their heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that n NJ, AL.
pended the sum Of one hundred w. the
1ars in labor and Improvements aPo o'.;p.
BLUE JACKET lode mining o miles
situated on Eagle creek, about eiese" Geek
from Ketchum, in Warm SPrnfs. no -
mining district. Alturas county. la at.tstes
required by section 1894 Revised ss sesd5 sta's r.
of the United States, being the ending
quired to hold the same for the yea q
December 81, 1891: that your propo,lh's.vs. sid
the same is o. follows. to-Eit: iq q lib Tibby,
George A: Chapman ana VIM; 4 ! 11i s
$s3 &3<, being one-third; and y q lis
ninety (so) days from the service s,t q Ills lis
notice. or within ninety (S0) Gays I'm r"fu,e 70
notice by publication you fall .o OF s1pssd:
contribute your proportion OF sncn n aid
elain viii bscosaesthe property of'. y ,sa
dersiened.t under the prgSn%%nAyp ffEk !.
Kstchum. idaho, Jannasy !; i & ssos
First publication January q '''
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

REPUBLICANS feel sure Of vic
tory next November and candidates
for president of that pursuasion are
thickening, the latest in the field
being Senators Alger Of Michigan
and Cullum Of Illinois.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

HILL is in New York working to
force himself on the democracy as
presidential nominee, but he is
drawing his salary as United States
Senator just the same. Hill may
carry New York, but he cannot be
elected president, and to nominate
him would be to forestall success.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13
NOTICE TO NAIL sussCRlRERs.
IT is not true that the whole OF
the adult population Of Omaha has
been indicted q few escaped.

The court of claims has affirmed
the right of the postmaster general
to annul contracts made wltnout
his approval.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

GOVERNOR THAYER of Nebraska
has surrendered the Office to which
Boyd was elected, and the latter is
40 Governor of that state.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

NEW TODAY.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-13

ASAA6 AA~~Ay "~y0 Va VAACA
were futile if not obstructive-for
the accomplishment Of the task in
hand We had little machinery,
little skifl 81; experience, few sheps
or foundries, and opr products were
without recognition or reputation
in the markets Of the world. Tar
ifs were sought to be levied then
for the protection of our infant in
dustries, and notas is now preten-
ded, to protect American labor. and
it is not surprising that jackson,
who was not a profound economist,
statesman or scholar, but plain,
blunt military man, like. General
Grant, should have been misled.
into advocating protection for our
struggling manufacturers. He did
not understand that government
was not an insurance company for
manufacturers, and wished to see
industries of that nature success
fully established in his country,
knowing that it would add to our
national independence and great
ness. But none Of the reasons
which excused his error can be
pleaded now ; nor could they if still
existent be pleaded in extenuation
of a tariff for the pretended protec-
ton of American labor. which is
quite different thing from the pro-
lection Of infant manufacturing in
dustries. We are now supplied with
the finest machinery in the world,
OF our own manufacturing; our
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
THAT COMET

That comet, OF which we pub
lished a lengthy account yesterday,
is agi.ating the whole country,
The Wilmington Messenger of
yesterday says of it:
There Is a big scare on about
Biela's comet that IS a dangerous
aggregation If explosives. It
came very near knocking the
earth off it's axis and perhaps
destroying it in 1882 and 1872, It
is a great big thing estimated at
300 ,0O0, 900 miles in length and is
full Of immense torrents of ex :
halations, vapprs and heat. Ii it
comes too near the earth it may
destroy it by its vapers, Gays an
astronomer.
"There is doubt as to whether
the comet coming in the direction
of the earth at a very rapid pace
is Biela'a, but there is uneasiness
as to whether or no a collision
with the earth will occur in a few
nigLts-about next Sunday say
some-and if it occurs what will
be the result. Some says the earth
would b. smashed to flinders,
while others talk of the earth be-
ing so damaged as to be turned
into a comet and go ~careering
through the heavena."
The N. Y. World cheers its re-
aders with this
In view of these alarming con
clusions of Maupertuis it is C me
forting to know that Arago, work.
ing upon the law of PROBABILITIES in
regard to such a contingency, came
to the conclusion that the odds
were $4,000, 900 to 1 against
it.
The Genet may now be seen
with the naked eye. It will be
found near the centre of the heav-
ems. and a reddish tinge will dis
tinguish it from the surrounding
stars"
Mr.. g.. P. Serviss, a lecturer
and writer upon astronomy, talks
to a Tribune reporter and says that
the comet is nor coming straight
for the earth and will not strike it.
1t is probably Biela's and that
is due this month. The Tribune
says:
cit is coming toward us, and
may entertain Us with some celes-
tial fireworks, but the centre of it
will probably not come within
1000, 900 miles of the earth. Even
should it come head on against the
earth, we should probably only
notice it as an unparalleled display
OF shooting stars"
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
Late. Foreign News.

LONDON, Nov. 21.-The Socialist
Democratic Federation, through
it's committee On unemployed
working, begins to-day a new
rent campaign. Waite, the So
cialist, who organized the demon.
stration unemployed, addressed a
meeting yesterday. He said if af-
ter tosday any man paid a farthing
for rent while his family did not
leave sufficient food, he would be
a cur. Waite declared he had not
paid any rent in seven years and
meant never to pay any. This
statement was greeted with cheers.
He called upon his hearers to iDi-
tate the Irish and pay their land
lords with blacksthorns. Emerg-
ency committees, he added, have
been formed in every district to
assist tenants who resist their
landlords. If the property owners
succeeded 10 distraiEing their tea
ants, it would cause broken heads,
then the distrained, together with
their wives and children, will &C
to st. Stephens and camp out bes
fore the Houses of Parliament
This plan of campaign,th the speaker
shouted, would pain thousands OF
dirty landlords. Throughout hii
speech Waite was greeted with
hearty applause.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
Railroad photographers.

KNOXVILLE, TENN Nov. 21.-A
committee of the Order of r .il-
road Telegraphers came to town
to-day to ascertain from General
Superintendent Vaughn Of the
East Tennessee Railroad, the re-
suit Of the resent demand for an
increase of wages from $40 to $45
a month. Mr.. Vaughn being out
of town it was decided to await
his return. Meantime the threat
ened strike of the telegraphers on
the Queen & Crescent road had
been settled by a compromise. In
stead of getting the SIS a month
additional wages demand, each
operator is allowed twenty-five
cents an hour for overwork, and no
determination is to be made
against members Of the Order of
Telegraphers.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
A Gard.

Editor Argus:-At the risk of be-
ing misunderstood I feel that it is
the duty of some citizens to counsel
Cancellation. The Democrats have
much to make them rejoice, but it is
said that the greatest satisfaction
comes from rejoicing in the mind"
Harsh or unwise criticism in a time
of exultation does not convince and
win. Our rejoicing should not lead
US to make mistakes. The peace
and prosperity of a community
is not promoted by discomfort,
the confidential relations between
neighbors should not be strained
too far.
While 1 am a Democrat from the
crown of my head to the sole of my
feet, | think wisdom and discretion
suggests moderation.
Indignation meetings are object
ionable from many standpoints. AS
a member of the Cleveland and Carr
Club l think there are expressions
that do not reflect the individual
sentiment of every member of the
Club, in the resolutions passed. And
the resolutions should not have been
so worded as to bind some of US who
were not there. Let us be content
with our victory, and, as citizens,
turn our a tention to the duties be-
fore us and refrain from hasuy ex-
press;ons that can but distract and
not promote the highests interest of
our people. Respectfully,
j. e. PETERSON.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24

guests, Rev. w. w. Rose. of Free
mont, officiating. The ARGUS wishes
the happy young couple the fullest
meel of life's joys and prosperity.
A RUNAWAY dray coming down
Walnut street yesterday afternoon
colli'ed with the light spring wagon
CT Mr.. Tom Jones', of Fork town
ship, ia which he was sitting, throw
ing him out and causing him some
painful, though, We r glad to say,
not serious bruises, and smashing
up his wagon generally. There is an
ordinance against the careless leav-
ing of dray teams in the streets. The
law requires that every draymau
shall always be in command of his
team.
The Goldsboro Cotton Mills, un-
der the new ownership of Mr.. L. D.
Gulley, with a new superintendent,
who is thoroughly competent for all
DEPARTMENTS of the business, and
with a full set of hands, has started
up on full running time, and is al
ready kept in large supply of orders.
Its yarns are said to be of the high
est quality and are always in ready
demand. These mills are now an
unfailing source of permanent and
profitable labor employment for
Goldsboro. Success to the enter
prise aud long years of prosperity.
THE city is being billed as it has
never been before for the coming Of
one of the finest comedy attractions
that has ever visited the South-the
Moss Jollity company, which is
known from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc and has earned the enviable
reputation of doing all they adver-
tise. They are a standard company
of highest merit-and the new man.
agement Of the Opera House gives a
guarantee to refund the admission
money at the door after the enter
tainmeut if it does not come up to
what is advertised. The company
appears here next Friday night in
ga Quick Match.
IT has long been a custom, graci-
GUS Ill the observance, to especially
remember the orphans at Thanks
giving. It should not be forgotten
this year that Goldsboro has an
Orphans Home-in sight of our
own happy homes-the inmates of
which hare no other home than this,
and no bounty of love save the
charity of those noble hearts in the
world that are endowed With the
God-like attributes of love for the
poor aud being" father to the
fatherless" Remember the Colds
boro Orphanage to-day,
THR new management of the
Messenger Opera House has had the
building renovated throughout,
made thoroughly clean and comfort
able, and all who favor the house
with their patronage are assured
that absolutely perfect order will
be maintained. The Moss Jollities
are the attraction for Friday even.
ing, and no finer entertainment has
ever been placed upon the boards in
this city. Prices have been put
down % meet the pressure of the
times; and reser, ed seats a~e already
sellirg rapidly at Mlller's Phar-
m Ict.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
Amount;
Number

This shows that in the first year
of the present Republican admin
istration the amount paid in pen
sions was eighty-nine million dol
lars. In the second year it leaped
to a hundred and six millions, and
in the third it rose to more than a
hundred and eighteen and half
millions. In the fourth or last
year of Republican rule the az.
gregate will be a hundred and Fl ty
millions unless the outflow is
checked.
There is a serious outlook for
nation. Obviously there is but
one of two conrses to pursue
either to cut down the rapidly
growing expenditures, OF meet
them either by oppressive taxation
or running into debt. That the
first course is the only sale one to
adopt must be obvious to all.
Will the Republicans join with
the Democrats in cutting down
expenditures, or will they insist
on plunging the country into debt
at the risk of bankruptcy,-A5s
lont0 Journal.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
The Money Conference

LoND N, Noy. 21.-TheA meri-
can delegates to the international
Monetary Conference, which opens
Tomorrow in Brussels, left Vic
toria station this morning at II
o'clock. in a special saloon car
riage. Mr.. Henry White, Secre-
tary ofthe American Legation, and
q number of others we're at the
station to bid them FAREWELL Henry
W. Cannon, President OF the Chase
National Bank, Of New York. and
President of the delegates, told
Representative of tile Associated
Press that he had been greatly
pleased by his stay in London. He
added:
"Whatever views the Gladston~
ians may have regarding oliver,
nothing could exceed the courtesy
they have shown us here. MIR,
Leach and [ went all over the
Bank of England Saturday, and
took luncheon with officials.
find on all sides the greatest in
terest in the Conference, aud am
hopeful that it will have good re-
Suits"
Senator Allison said sThere
is no telling how long the Confer
ence will last, and I expect it will
be a week before VIC get fairly
down to business, and an adjourn.
ment over the Christmas holiday
is inevitable"
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
More territory.

San Francisco, Nov. 21.-The Ee-
anainer' to-day published a three-page
article, by its correspondent Will
liams, on the annexation of the Haw-
allan Islands by the United States.
The article says it has been under
stood that the State Department at
Washington has been for some time
considering the question of annexa-
ton, and considerable correspon-
dence on that subject has been ex-
changed with the Hawaiian minis
tiers. Admiral Brown, it is claimed,
also received instructions to look into
the matter while he was at Honolulu.
Mr.. Williams was sent to Hon
olulu by the Examiner, and spent
five weeks there Investigating the
subject. Out of forty-two members
of the Hawaiian Parliament, he OBJ
tanned signed articles ON the subject
from f~orty-one. Ten of these regard
annexation as possible and desirable
in case the Hawaiian Government is
disrupted. The t%hirty-one who are
opposed to annexation are natives,
who are in lavor of the autonomy of
the Hawaiian Kingdom; Americans
who object to a territorial form of
Government for the islands, and SUI
gar planters who conduct their bust
ness with contract japanese laborers.
If Hawaii were annexed, this last
class could not hire cheap contract
labor, and their interest would suffer.
The article referred to says Amer
can interest in Hawaii represents a
capital of about $11, 100000, while
British interest are small. Americans
conduct almost all of the business,
and English interests + not likely
to be increased. It was stated that
the Queen favored the English in
preference to the Americans, but this
impression to Williams, was circu-
lated by those who owned landsnea
the United States coaling station at
Pearl Harbor, and those interested
in the Hawiian cable to the United
States, for the purpose of making the
United States Government stop in
the annexation Of the Islands of the
Kingdom.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
DREAMER OR DRUNKARD.

o thou. who ne'er hast loved,
Thy life is as the dreamer's, unaroused
He wanders on thro' peaceful dales,
Nor kn,sws the height or depths of hope
Intensity of feeling is not his, deep
Griefs consume him not nor doth he
know
The altitude OF Joy. Yet if he once
And taste the tree. whereon there
knowledge of good and evil, he hence
forth
Would not return. cen if he could,
To calmer scenes of ignorance and
blise.
His is the drunkard's life thereafter.
Not the dreamer's. No more easy sleep,
And slow, smooth days. He graves the
drink,
The vino of gods, and the ambrosial
f nit
That in Heavens gardens grows,
And evermore lis life is spent
In feverish desires and scant fulfill
ments.
Nor till the final rest,
When deaths chill finger stills his eager
heart
Shall he attain, or even hope to know,
Peace and the joys it brings.
Minnie G. Ballard,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
A PIundered Treasury.

The n~ew~fangled method of
bookkeeping introduced by Pres
ident Harrisun's first secretary of
the treasury was doubtless designed
TO obscure the real condition OF
things. By inc uding the gold
reserve, thu national bank redemp-
ton fund and fractional currency,
it was possible to make a hand
some surplus appear OIL paper
when in reality there val = deficit
in the Treasury. Under President
Cleveland the books of the the
Treasury were kept in = plain
business-like way So that every
body could understand by a glance
at the se%cretary's statements the
exact condition of the public
funds.
The method Of keeping accounts
"a exposed during the campaign,
and the real condition of the treas
ury fully exposed. The following
brief statement from the New
York Herald shows how the pubs
lie purse has been plundered-
When the Democrats went cut
of Office in March; 1888, there VAS
a surplus of a hundr.d million
dollars in the Treasury, When
they return to power in March,
1898, they will have to meet de
felt of a hundred millions.
In other words, the Republicans
found a hundred million surplus
and will leave u hundred million
deficit.
A prolific cause of this depletion
Of the national treasury has been
the notorious pension extrava-
gance of Republican legislation.
The headlong increase in the num-
Der Of pensioners and the amount
of tensions during ten years is
shown by the following figures.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
The Cotton Crop.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 21.-Re-
ceipts of cotton at Memphis since
September LIST are 200,945 bales less
chan last year. This is due to short
age of the crop in this district, which
is estimated all the way from So to
As per cent, al compared with last
8 ason.
A canvass of the cotton factories
and buyers of the city was maze to-
day and the average of the seventy
two estimates on the total yield OF
TIE crop Of 1892--93, is 6,624,63s
bales. Estimates range from 6,000,.
O00, 900 to 100000 bales. If The
average of the factories alone wal
given it would not be in excess Of
6,350,000.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-24
La Grippe Again.

During the epidemic of La Grippe
last season DIR. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds
proved to be the best remedy. Report
from the many who used it confirm this
statement, They were no only quickly
relieved, but the disease left no bad
after results. We ask you to give this
remedy a trial and we guarantee that
you will be satisfied with results, OF the
purchase price will be refunded. 1t has
no equal in La Grippe, or any Throat,
Chest or Lung Trouble. Trial
bottles free at H. Hill s. Sons Drug
Store. Large bottles, 50c. and $1.00.