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Monday, October 8, 1892.
POLITICAL,
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legion vii make its first parade this week and
u IS necessary that every member should attend
TINS dr1l There are also important matters to
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The advocate., 1892-01-20

And certainly $220OO,OOO is a small esti-
mate for consumption in the arts.
Mr.. w. says;
Did it ever occur to you what a nice spec
ulation the silver manipulatOrs can make If
they can succeed land they are succeeding
most admirably in getting the govern
ment to exchange its gold for their ,ilver at
good figure, and locking up this gold in
their vaults sell it back to it at their own
price? 0, the cunning knaVes! But there
are persons in this United States who can
see through their damnable schemes, and
will make the rottenness Of it 30 public
that the people will rise in their might and
put it down,
The above Is perverslon Of the facts
couched In the language Of ignorance.
The silver miners interest Is in6nltessi-
NAL compared with that Of other wealth
producers.
From Mr.George o. Jones' chart ! clip
the following paragraph, which shows the
true relative interests Of silver miners
and other producers.
The director of the mint reports our pres
ent production of silver at about 100000
ounces year, or at the rate Of 520,000,0OO
ounces in ten years. Twenty-Five cents per
ounce loss on these amounts would be $13,-
100000 year or s1SOOOO,OOO in ten years,
leaving the account as between American
The advocate., 1892-01-20

Will Mr.. w. please notice the effect Of
the increased markets afforded by the
law Of 1890? Now, as to that Mexican
dollar argument. Mr.. w. being banker
ought to know that no nation accepts
the metallic money of another nation as
money; they buy and sell it by weight
as bullion. But can not NJ. w. see in
the Mexican dollar strong argument In
favor of my contention that the value of
money is legal fiction, arbitrarY-arti-
fetal? Alas for his intrinsic value the
ory. Here are Mexican dollar and a
trade dollar, and yet, on account Of not
being legal tender, both selling at 10 per
cent. discount, In United States light
weight, but legal tender dollars. Now
about those fools. Why does Mr.. w.
with one breath deplOre the fOolIshness
Of giving the miner 100 cent dollar for
10 cents worth OF silver, and then pity
the farmer because he has to take 70
cent dollar for his wheat? But Mr.. w.
may rest assured that the "hayseeds" and
wageworkers know that all legal tender
United States dollars are 100 cent dollars,
aud will take all that are offered them.
The United States farmer Is not going to
be satisfied with the assurance that when
the wheat crop fails in India 1t will not
be possible for England to buy from that
nation her surplus wheat, she not having
any to sell. Our farmers prefer to put
out silver where old Eogland cannot get
at II, and thus force her to keep the
United States wheat market on England's
gold basis. II we furnish the surplus
silver of the world, what is to hinder US
from utilizing 1t, instead II allowing It
70 become the means Of robbery and Op-
preston? Mr.. w. must remember two
facts: First, there Is very little available
silver lying around loose for England to
buy; second, If we remonetize silver and
accord to 1t the privilege of free coinage,
The advocate., 1892-01-20

dollar has been altered in its proportion
or quantity, but the pure silver remains
the same as ever. But owing to the fact
that gold, as now, proved to be too dear
a metal for money use, the ratio Of value
was changed In 1884 from fifteen to six
teen ounces Of silver to one ounce of
gold; but 1t was not changed by increas-
ing the weight Of pure silver in the stand
ard dollar, but by decreasing the quantity
Of gold in the eagle and half eagle. But
It matters not how many silver dollars,
or gold dollars were coined, the fact yet
remains that in 1873, when demonetized
by fraud, at the instigation Of John Bull,
the silver dollar was at premium of
four cents over the gold dollar, and had
been at even higher premium than
that. The following official table is an
eloquent, il mute, witness against the
perpetrators OF the crime of 1873:
RATIO OF SILVER TO GOLD EACH YEAR
SINCE 1879
The advocate., 1892-01-20

that England does not go to India to buy
the silver bullion, with which to buy
India's surplus wheat? India has more
silver than all other nations combined.
But where is Epglsnd to obtain this
70 cent silver, and from what source are
we to be flooded with cheap silver II the
United States uses her total output for
use In the arts and as legal tender money!
Gen. A. J. Warner sums up the situa-
tiOn thus:
Il is admitted again on all hands that
there are no great stocks of silver bullion
in the world. All the silver, as fast as it is
produced, is coined into money somewhere,
or is used up in the arts. I don't suppose,
if you should telegraph tomorrow to Lon
don, Paris, Berlin, New York and San Fran
cisco, that you could find $5,0O0,OOO Of silver
bullion.
We have then only the annual production
to deal with; and what is the annual pro-
duction, and how was the last years pro-
duction used up? The production of 1888
is stated by the director of the mint as $l42,.
100000 for the world. How was it dis
tributed?
Tndl. to ,k........................... 8 35OOOOOO
The United States for coinage pur-
poses .......................... 32OW Oo
.JaDar ......................... 10000 100
Mexico at least Observation-Disclosures. 10 0O0O o
Asia and Africa Observation-Disclosures. 1S.OOLlO0
Europe and America for subsidiary
coinage .......................... $1,000 900
Total al.......................... $4,000 900
Leaving for the arts. % 900 90
Total. Si42, 900 600
The advocate., 1892-01-20

the price Of silver will rise to $l.29 an
ounce, or 100 cents worth to each silver
dollar.
The gold bugs assumption that free
silver coinage would drive gold from the
Uuited States, Ia insincere and menda-
cious, and ls equivalent to saying that
one can put two pints of water in q one
pint measure, or that both eides of pair
OF balances can go up or down at one
and the same time. Here again Mr.. W.
has something to learn. Flrst-The
value Of each unit of account or dollar
is fixed and governed by the total volume
of such units or dollars in existence.
Second-An initiation Of the volume Of
currency, even though the added units
be silver, or paper, will depreciate the
value Of each unit In the original vol
ume. Hence, the initiation of the volume
Of our money by flood Of silver dollars
would reduce the purchasing value of
the gold units; while the withdrawal Of
any considerable quantity or number Of
gold units from the country would In
crease the value Of the silver units. See?
That is the milk in the goldolator's
cocOanut
Mr.. W. says:
If we should adopt silver basis (and
free coinage would have this effect), we
would not only at the present time reduce
the value of every article of export 30 per
cent, but would at the same time SO dis
turb our circulating medium that no man
would know on the morrow the value there.
of.
This fallacious and sophistical argu-
ment. Silver miners, like all other
men, covet money, not for its intrinsic
value but for It's value for use, which
consists of its power to pay debts and
make exchanges. The attributes of money
are entirely legal and no other substance
possesses them. All legal tender United
States dollars, whether of gold, copper,
brass, silver or paper, must possess the
same legal value and purchasing power.
Where the farmer sells his wheat, he re-
ceives not gold or silver bullion or
bundles of bank note paper, but legal
tender United States dollars. 1t there
fore matters not to him what price Eng
land pays for her silver bullion, 30 that
when such silver reaches his hands 1t Is
in the shape Of legal tender notes Of &C
count. Will Mr.. w. explain why 1t is
that he deprecates the possibility of a
silver basis ard of the farmer receiving
pay for his wheat In debased silver
currency, when he takes pains to prove
that except when India's crops fail the
farmer is exactly In that predlcament at
present.
Under free coinage every ounce Of gold
not demanded for use In the arts, ETC., is
taken to the mint and coined into legal
tender, and the owners of such gold real
lie the arbitrary and artificial value
given it by the fiat of law. Deprived Of
such fiat gold would occupy the position
wheat would occupy were there three
bushels produced for every bushel de-
manded for use, there being slightly
more than one third of the total output
OF gold used in the various arte, etc.
AS 1t is with gold 30 1t would be with
silver were silver put upon an equal foot
ing with gold by free coinage act, and
re-assert the proposition that no owner
of silver in the United States would be
The advocate., 1892-01-20
The United States Omcia

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farmers and American silver kings as fol-
lows:
Relative value of certain American farm
products compared with the value Of all
silver produced in this country, when silver
is selling at par with gold:
Per YCnr. Ten YCars.
Cotton .............. S39OOO0,0'0 S3 900 200 900
Wheat. at.............. 49h 600 $50 1850 y OOOO
COrn......",....... 7l2 OOUOO 7l-O,OOOOW
ducts ............. 02OO"O,OOO 900 900
Total. .........S 25i7.fOO 600 S25 40 OOp 0 0
Silver, do. ......... 90 ODO 100 500 ono 900
Difference ...S 2 465yot0OO S!4C5O. 90 600
Loss on the above named farm products,
caused by a decline of 25 cents per ounce on
the price of silver, compared with like de-
cline on all silver produced in this country:
per Y,0 Ten Ye0rR
On the farm products
named ..............S G37 OOO OOO SO 37OOOaCO
On all silver .........s Is OOOUO 100 OOUO
Difference ..""..$ 624 OOOOOO &C. 100 900
The above table shows that the Ameri-
can farmers in the last ten years have
lost by the demoneization act nearly
fifty times as much as the American sill
yer miners,
B-When say America 1 mean
the United States.
Mr.. w. Is extremely soIlcltons that IL
shall not be overlooked that he has dem
oDstrated the impossiblliryof maintaining
a double" or metallic standard. Well,
suppose he has. Who demanded or sug-
ges'ed double standardP What the
people demand is that the two money
metals shall be pat upon terms OF exact
parity and equality, before the law, with
each other. They demand for silver the
privilege Of free coinage possessed by 1t
for nearly 100 wears. They ask for 1t, not
q double standard, but an alternating
single standard. II we must have q
metallic STANDARD, make the two metals
equal before the law and let them take
their chances. We shall then have an
automatic, self-regulating standard, and
In the jealousles and friendly emulation
Of the two metals will be the safety Of
the people. The Atlanta Constitution
thus aptly puts the case:
The most frequent cry of the goldolators
and their followers is that the free coinage
Uf silver would make that metal the stand
ard Of value. What of IL? Such result
would demonstrate beyond all possibility Of
q doubt that gold has grown too valuable to
be employed ss money standard. What
would be the result2 Simply this: Gold,
ceasiDg TO be the standard Of value, would
thereby be deprived of the functions that
add to its value, and would gradually sp-
proXimate its true money value. Silver, on
the Other hand, having restored to it the pO-
tential money value, would gradually grow
in this direction until gold again became the
The advocate., 1892-01-20

farmers and American silver kings as fol-
lows:
Relative value Of certain American farm
products compared with the value Of all
silver produced in this country, when silver
ia selling at par with gold:
The advocate., 1892-01-20

Difference ......S 2 4O5yoCoO S!4C5O, 90 600
Loss on the above named farm products,
caused by decline of % cents per ounce on
the price of silver, compared with like de-
cline ON all silver produced in this country:
Per Yea. Ten Years.
On the farm products
named ...........,..S G37 OOO OOO SO $40 00a.or0
On all silver ........, l3 O0OO00 l5O 90 900
The advocate., 1892-01-20

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-23

upon whicn the national nag shall float the
same as ut all Government posts. Advising
the Council of Administration to call the
e the sos Mssp II
1893 Expressing the thanks OF the encamp-
mont to the Old Guard, of Washington. who
served as guards during the sessions OF the
encampment.
The Close of the Enoampment.
Senior Vice Commander Duffield, OF
Michigan, offered resolution which was
adopted, returning the thanks of the en-
campment to the citizens of Washington
for the generous hospitality of the recep-
redeemed the pledges made by the commit
tee ct Detroit
A resolution of thanks to Commander in
Chief Palmer for the faithful and intelli-
gent discharge of his duties was offered by
General W. III. Gibson, of Ohio, and
adopted by rising vote, followed by three
cheers
A proposition to accept conveyance to
the encampment of Andersonville prison
grounds, now owned by the. Georgia De-
partment, G. A. r., was referred to the
incoming administration.
This having exhausted the business OF the
encampment, the installation of officers
elect for the ensuing year took place, Com
rade Beath, of Pennsylvania, the RANKING
Past Commander in Chief, administering
the obligation to the oficers-elect.
After the new Commander in Chief had
been installed he was asked if he could
name his personal staff for the year. He
answered that at present he was prepared
to name but one-E D. Gray, OF Mil
waukee, to be Adjutant General. Comrade
Gray then came forward and was inducted
into office by Comrade Beath.
The new Commander in Chief then
assumed the gavel and declared the twenty.
sixth annual encampment G. A. R. ad
iourned sine die
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-23
made speech in which he referred to many
incidents in which they par anticipated
THE NEW COUNCIL CHOSEN.
Names Of Those Selected by the Various
Departrnents for the Next Year.

Names Of Those Selected by the Various
Departments for the Next Year.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-The Grand
Army Council of Administration for the
next year has been named by the. various
departments as follows:
Alabama, j. c. Miller, of Green Pond; Arr
zona, H. B. Lighthiser, Phoenix; Arkansas,
Logan H. Root, Little Rock; California, N.
D. Ayly, San Jose; Colorado and Wyoming,
G. W. Barker, Manitou Springs; Connecti-
cut. T. 1. Gill, Hartford; Delaware, M. b.
Fowler, Wilmington; Florida, G. I: Foote.
Idaho, 6. T. shoupe, solomon Cityi
Illinois, Fl. S. Dietrich, Chicago; In
diana, W. H. Armstrong, 1ndisnapolisi
L. B. Raymond, Hampton: Kansas, E. b.
Jones, Bolton; Kentucky. Jonathan Mo.
Kelvey. Louisville; Louisiana and Missis-
e. c. Milliken. Portland; Maryland. J. 3.
Hough, Baltimore; Massachusetts, William
A. Olen, Boston; Michigan, Joseph Bella1r,
Grand Rapids; Minnesota, C. c. Edwards, st.
Paul; Missouri, L. E. Carter. St. Josephy
Montana, L. S. Wilson, Bozeman; Nebraska,
John Barsby, Fremont; New Hampshire. o.
W. Baldwin. Lebanon; New Jersey, Benta-
Berger, Santa Fe; New York, Theodore Freis-
ten, New York; North Dakota, e. s. Miller,
Jamestown; Ohio, R. III. Coderane, Toledoj
gon, D. c. Sherman, Galena; Pennsylvania,
A. P. Burchfield, Pittsburg; Potomac, d. A.
Grovenor, District OF Columbia: Rhode
Island, III. c. Luther, Providence; South Da-
kota, s. II. Jumper, Aberdeen; Tennessee.
W. H. Nelson, johnson City; Texas, David
Macay, Dallas; Utah, C. o. Farnsworth, Salt
Lake CITY; Vermont, s. W. Cummings, Sc.
Albans; Virginia and North Carolina, d. r.
Wilson, Richmond; Washington and Alaska,
J. E. Brown, Spokane; West VIRGINIA, @. w.
Hart, Buckhannon; Wisconsin, e. S. Smith,
Marion.
Jason Brown, son of John Brown, made
application for admission to post in Ohio.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-23

ances from over 400 of the delegates that
they would support him, and he thought he
had right to aspire to the position, but,
recognizing the sentiment of the encamp-
ment in favor of General Weissert, he was
perfectly willing to step aside, and he asked
that the election of General Weissert be
made unanimous Colonel Lincoln further
said he was not believer in the sliding
scale, and therefore his name would not be
used in connection with the Office of Senior
Vice Commander.
General Weissert Elected Commander.
Past Commander Kimball, of Massa-
chusetts, moved that General Weissert be
declared elected by scclamation, but that
was held 10 be out of order. General
Weissert was then formally placed in nomi-
nation by Benjamin F. Bryant, of La
Crosse, Past Commander of the Department
of Wisconsin, who performed the same
service for General Weissert at the encamp-
ment at Detroit last year. General S. II.
Hurst, of Ohio, was also named for the
position and the roll call was begun. Be-
fore 1t had proceeded very far, however, the
name of General Hurst was withdrawn,
whereupon General Weissert's election was
effected by acclamation. The General came
forward and returned his thanks to the en-
campment for the honor bestowed upon him.
The election of Senior Vice Commander
brought into prominent view the factional
ght that has ragged within the ranks OF the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-23

lacking In that spirit and excitement that
attended them last year at Detroit Both
were ended with scarcely struggle. Whiie
the friends of Hurst and Lincoln made
some show of lively opposition for day or
two. and even last night were claiming an
equal chance with Weissert in the race, the
Wisconsin man went through this morning
by reclamation, the other candidates being
Withdrawn. 1t was fine compliments to
Weissert, who is q brilliant lawyer and ex-
ceedingly popular with the Grand Army
leaders.
The graceful withdrawal of Lincoln will
put that popular gentleman in good run
ming condition for another campaign, when
he may not be handicapped by position
In the Bureau of Pensions, which was
probably the sole cause of his rejection at
this time by the majority of the delegates
The thinking men of the Grand Army are
growing very sensitive on the subject OF
pensions, and the iteration of the charge
that the organization is but machine Tor
the grinding out Of pensions and pension
legislation, and it was pretty generally
recognized that it would be very bad policy
to take for Commander in Chief the Deputy
Commissioner of Pensions, no matter how
popular or how deserving; and so Lincoln
was set aside with regret, to await more
fitting time.
The Last of the Many Reunions.
IF the public buildings were thronged to.
day, SO were the union tents and halls, and
the reunions of minor organizations have
been merry and endless These are in
progress tonight at every point also,
though the great crush is at the big
Pension Bureau building, where the grand
reception of the National EncsInpmenti is IN
progress The immense hall where the In
augural balls are held is gorgeously deco.
rated and the crush 10 tremendous Mild
hammered Vice President Morton is the
leading figure of the public dignitaries,
| though all of the high officials of the Gov,
ernment are in attendance; and though Less
fashionable than the inaugural routs, as II
| to be expected on account of the miscellane
Gus nature of the gathering, 1t is the more
| enjoyable because of its fine and sensible
democracy.
This day and this reception will practi-
cally end this one of the annual social fetei
of the Grand Army, and tomorrow tn.
| bugles and drums will be sounding ane
| beating a retreat in earnest and on eVerJ
side. There are yet many excursions to bt
made to old battle-felds and other point
of interest, but the feast may be said to b
ended and the last toast drunk tonight
The railroads, however, do not expect t.
| get through with their rush and crush o.
| extra trains before Monday.
| Many of the Pennsylvania posts are pre-
| pairing to start for home tomorrow, but OF
account of the fact that most Of them are
| almost neighbors to the District of Colum
| bia and can reach their homes with rid,
| of very few hours many of them will re
| main to the last and suck the annual en-
| campment lemon dry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-23
WOUND UP WITH A BALL.

The Leading Social Event of the Week at
washington-vice President Morton and
General Palmer the Principal Speakers
Before the Dance Began.
WASHINGTON, Sept 22-The leading
social event of the week in honor OF the
Grand Army was the reception to the MEM
bers of the National Encampment given by
the citizens of Washington this evening in
the spacious court of the Pension Office
building. The interior of the building has
been handsomely decorated with flags and
bunting
The committee having the reception in
charge had wisely restricted the invitations
to a limited number of citizens and to the
officers and members of the encampment
The crowd, therefore, while large, was at
no time uncomfortably so, and locomotlon
was easy.
The Marine Band occupied seats on the
platform, and during the evening rendered
most delightful programme of patriotic
airs The Choral Society of Washington
sung several patriotic songs, with solos by
Dershane Cloward and Mr.. Costello. When
the Choral Society sang marching
Through Georgia the whole audience
Joined in the chorus, singing it over and
over ASdiu Lie 0Lar OpanSl lOu oohaSA
was recited by Charles B. Hanford.
The prominent officials and others in
vited to attend the reception assembled in
the room of the Commissioner, and when
the band played ''Hail to the Chief" they
marched downstairs and took seats on the
platform. Vice President Morton, who
| took the Presidents place, was escorted by
John Joy Edison, Chairman OF the Citizens
Committee. They were followed by ex-
President Hayes, Secretary John W. Fos-
ter, Postmaster General Wanamaker, Gen.
eral John Palmer, District Commissioner
Douglass, Private Secretary Halford, SEN
! ator Manderson and Mr.. Grinnell, the Third
Assistant Secretary of State.
After taking their places on the platform,
| Commissioner Douglass introduced Vice
President Morton, who delivered neat
| speech Of welcome. When the applause
following this speech had subsidized, General
John Palmer responded appropriately. Y.
| When he had finished his speech there were
| loud calls for ex-President Hayes, Post
master General Wanamaker and Secretary
Foster, each OF whom responded briefly and
happily.
| During the evening the presentation oi
the national standard by guard OF honor
| with a handkerchief salute by the entire
| assemblage took place, the band playing
''Rally Round the Flag" Refreshments
were served, followed later by promenade
concert and dancing