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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-24

United States shall receive a pension
unless he was actually disabled in tho
service. Another amendment provides
for the appointment of a commission
to- consider necessary notifications of
the pension laws. and to report at the
next congress. The bill. as framed by
the majority of the subcommittee, also
does away with pension agencies
throughout the country, and provides
for the payment of checks direct from
the treasury department, abOlishes ex-
aminations of applicants by surgeons,
and provides for the appointment of
$50 special examiners to hereafter
make examinations.
The intention. it seems, of Mr.. Cleve-
land and his advisers is to have every
pensiOner stricken from the rolls who
does not belong 10 one of these three
classes: those wounded in action; those
who contracted disease while in the
service. and those who are actually
paupers. BY combining pension pay
ments to these, they expect to reduce
the pension expense from SIS0,0O0, coo
per year, where it is at present, to
somewhere between s4O.O0O.O00 and
$50, 600. 000-that is, a reduction of al
least $40, 0OO.OOO This would enable
a sweeping cut to be made in the pro-
tective duties. 1t is said that this plan
of pension revision has been outlined
by Cleveland himself While the
amendments which will be offered by
the subcommittee, as detailed above,
do not go quite this far. it is expected
that the next congress will cut down
pensions in strict accordance with his
idoas.-TOledo Blade
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-24
POLICY OF THE DEMOCRATS.
Fundamental Principles set Forth in
the Chicago Platform.

the Chicago Platform.
The business world is still complete
" in the dark as to the future eco
monte policy of the democratic party.
The Chicago platform denounced pro-
lection as unconstitutional, and Grover
Cleveland. though he pledged his
party, in his letter of acceptance, to in
jure no American industry, has said re-
Gently: I'D like to know what else
we're in power for" if not to repeal
tine Mckinley law.
A certain portion of the democratic
press is asserting with much vigor that
protective duties must be repealed,
while another portion is declaring with
equal persistence that ample protec-
ton to all industries will be afforded
under the new regime. Some of these
organs appear to have forgotten en-
tirely the Chicago declaration, upon
which tie campaign was fought. For
example, the Florida Times
Union, whose democracy cannot
be questioned, says: THE impOrta-
ton of Egyptian and Peruvian cotton
commenced at about the same time.
OF the Peruvian, about $4,000 bales
wore imported last year, but the bale
weighs only about $50 pounds. The
cotton is believed to be used exclusive
ly by manufacturers of wooden goods.
A mixture of it with wool reduces the
tendency of goods to shrink, but it is
not wool. In this case there should be
a protective duty in the interest of the
consumers.
The south has asked already for a
revenue duty on sugar, and now it
makes a demand for a protective duty"
on cOttoni
Above and beyond all this clashing
of private interests and confusion of
counsels, stands the plain and unequiv-
ocal declaration of the Chicago plat
form:
1--WE declare it to be fundamental principle
OF the democratic party that the federal gov
eminent has no constitutional power to inn
pose and collect tariff duties, except for the
purpose of revenue only"
This article of political faith fur
nishes the only certain basis upon
which the democratic economy policy
can be built-Al bany Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-24
COMMENT AND OPINIONS.

- Judge Gresham is 4 good man
/ against whom fate seems to have a pc
culiarly bitter and relentless grudge.-
st. Louis be-Democrat.
eYTake him all in all, who is there
among the political characters of the
last twenty-five years of whom it can
+ be said more truly than of Blaine that
he was a great man?-N. Y. Sun
/ (dem.)
| Whatever one may think Of
Gresham's taste in taking a seat in
Cleveland's cabinet there can be but
one opinion of Cleveland's judgment in
selecting so able a man.-Minneapolis
Journal
EPresident-elect Cleveland seems
to have very little influence with his
party in congress. 1t NAV be different
after March 4, when his turn comes to
hand around the post ofices.-N. Y.
Recorder.
When the next president feels the
/ need of light exercise he will indulge
! in the pleasurable and exhilarating
/ pastime of working the New York
democratic machine with his foot
/ Chicago Tribune.
/ s37The sacred inner circle of the
democracy announce that Cleveland
( favors an extra session, but they don't
I say that it would be called to wipe
I out every vestige of protection" as
| they formerly expressed it. The dem
] ocratic ak isn't sharp enough to cut
! the root of the tree.-Minneapolis
/ Journal.
I git is amusing to note how eau
/ tious!y democratic editors are edueat-
/ ing the people up to belief of pop
/ ping tax on sugar, tea and coffee. :"
They say "a whisky tax is impractical
/ BILE" 1t does seem like robbing demo-
[ Gratis to tax whisky. But the admin
! istration must have money.-Chicago
Inter Gee an.
/ CS-Mr. Gresham seems destined to
be secretary of state under the Cleve-
! land regime whether he wants the job
or not He is fully qualified for the
position, but it is a great pity that,
rowing to the lack of talent among the
veterans of his party, Mr.. Cleveland is
Obliged to bestow the highest honor
within his gift upon SO young con-
ver;--MiuneaDolis Tribune.
Cleveland asks democrats. to stand
a little back until after March 4, upon
which occasion, day and date ne will
read the regulations TO govern the me-
nagerie. 1t is pretty tough on some
two million expectants, but the re-
quest is reasonable, for the job IS a
big one. y southern paper states the
case in a sentence: ''Less'n you got on
shoes don't trample de brambles- -
Chicago Inter Ocean
syThe mugwumps are pleased at
the suggestion that Judge Gresham
NAV be secretary of state. They in
sist that he has been tried and noe
found wanting at the bar; in the field
as a gallant soldier; in the cabinet in
two different departments, and on the
bench, where his industry and fairness
and courage have excited public admit
ration. The nomination will excite
the admiration of the mugwump 20 the
same degree that it will arouse the IN
dignation of the TamMany tiger
Chicago Inter Ocean
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sIedicIne to the Rescue.

He was a young doctor unknown to
fame, with pronounced ideas about po-
likeness, and she-well-she could talk
He had tried to look interested while
she exercised her one accomplishment
until his head ached, and now as they
are nearing her home she looks up with
her most coquettish glance:
''Now, doctor, you must tell me what
to do for this dreadful sore throas"
A CLEAN of hope lights his tired face
as he responds gravely: keep your
mouth shut Life.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-24
DEMOCRATS AND PENSIONS.
cIeveIand's Plan for the Reduction of
Expenditures.


OF course every one understands that
the matter of tariff revision has been
postponed until the next congress
Then, with a democratic house. senate
and president, the work will be pushed.
The democratic leaders, from Mr..
Cleveland down, are studying the prob
IN OF how to accomplish their free
.lde desires. The difficulty is that
sc revenues are now no greater than
90 required to meet the necessary
governmental expenditures. Hence it
follows that they must either simply
Shift the burden by imposing duties
on non-eompeting imports like coffee.
tea, sugar, etc, or they must reduce
governmental expenses. The outlook
seems to be that they viii do both.
The reduction of expenditures is TO
be accomplished by large reduction
in the pension roll This work IS to be
begun By the present congress. and
completed next winter. The demo-
cratic subcommittee on appropriations,
in framing the pension appropriation
| bill for the coming year, has adopted =
number of amendments that viii
largely reduce the pension payments
The subcommittee goes, apparently,
upon the theory that any ex-soldier OF
the union armies in the rebellion who
receives a pension is pauper, and that
his psns:ou is of the nature OF charity.
Read the list of changes that sub-com-
mittee proposes and see for yourself.
Here are the principal ones:
That no widow shall receive a PEN
sion under the act of 1890, unless she
was married to the soldier prior to
1870; that no person shall receive PEN
sion under the act of 1890 unless he
was disabled in the services so as to be
incapaeitated for manual labor, and IN
receipt of an income of less than 5000
q wear: and that no nonresident Of the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-24

Miss Bleeker-Is Mr.. Blanky a well,
read man? Does he seem familiar with
the best authors?
Miss Lakeside-Well, l should say he
was He calls Shakespeare willie, :"
and he boards with the author of
''Dashaway Dick; or, Forty Buckets Of
Bloodr'-Truth.
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08

The performances at Gravesend where
the Democratic local boss, one McKane,
organized a band of ruffians and arrested
and hustled off to Jail number of re-
spectacle men who had gone there to in
spect the registration lists under an order
from Judge Cullen of the Supreme Court
are unparalleled for their boldness and
effrontery., The Tammany bosses, bad
and INSCRIPTIONS as they are, pay some
outward heed to orders of the court.
but this Gravesend boss apparently con-
siders himself superior to all courts, and
works his sweet will in the way an
oriental despot might. All the local off,
GERS of the place, not excepting court
officials, are merely his puppets, and
do precisely as the boss tells them. He told
them to commit these men, all of them
respectable, on trumped up charges of
drunkenness and vagrancy, and they did
it. If McKane is able to do these things
with impunity now what will not be
and other bosses of his character resort
to if they succeed in getting thief like
Maynard upon the bench? Already the
courts seem to have few terrors for
them, but with Maynard seated they will
have none at all. Indeed with him on
the bench they will with good reason
look upon the courts as their allies.
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Zoology. electricity, education, by
giene, philosophy, mathematics and me-
teorology are all represented in the No
vember Popular Science Monthly, edu-
cation leading in a. number of titles.
Henry L. Clapp contributes thoughtful
essay on The Scientific Method with
Children. Under the title The Pessaloz.
zlan System, Hon. George S. Boutwell,
claims for the schools of Massachusetts,
the credit for pioneer work in America
that had been attributed to the Oswego
Normal School by a writer in the
Monthly for May. An argument for Yer
tical Handwriting, illustrated with cuts
and fac SMILES, is presented by Joseph
Witherbee The opening article of the
number is fully illustrated paper on
The Conservation of our Oyster Supply,
by Robert F. Walsh. The first half of the
lecture on Evolution and Ethics, de-
llvered by Prof. Huxley at the Sheldon
ian Theatre, Oxford, is printed in this
number. Prof. Huxley shows that the
idea of evolution had a place in the
thought of both Greece aud India six
centuries before Christ Charles M.
Lungren,s Illustrated account of Elec-
tricity at the Worlds Fair is concluded
this month, electric welding, cooking,
heating, and the telautograph being
described in this number. In Nature at
Sea the marine creatures seen on a vow
age from the Bahamas to New York are
described by Prof. FIJI. Herrick, with
illustrations. Lady w.. Paget writes
in favor of Vegetable diet, and other
articles are Laplace's Plan for Perpetual
Moonlight, by Daniel Kirkwood; North
and South American Aboriginal Names,
Els Maser; Origin of the Mississippi
Valley Rainfall, by J. H. Patton: Mathe-
NAUTICAL Curiosities of the Sixteenth
Century, by V. Brandicourt; and a
Sketch of John Ericsson, with portrait.
The Worlds Fair and the Congress of
Evolutionists are made subjects of edi-
torial comment
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08
STATE OF MAINE.

CUMBERLAND. SIS.
A I the Court of County Commissioners be-
n gun and holden at Portland, within and
for the County of Cumberland, on the first
a regular session thereof on the first Tuesday
OF October, Ammo DOmini, 1898,
On the foregoing petition it being SATISFACTORY
ly shown to the Court, that the Petitioners are
responsible, and that an inquiry into the merits
is expedient, it is hereby ORDERED That the
County Commissioners will meet at the Post
Office in said town of Freeport. QSnown as Free
port post office9 on Monday, the fourth day of
December A. D., 1898, at 8 o'clock in the
forenoon, and that the Petitioners give notice
to all persons interested, by causing an attested
copy of said petition and this order of Court
thereon, to be served upon the Town Clerk of
said town OF Freeport, and also by posting up
copies OF the same in three public places in
said town, and publish the same once a week
for three weeks successfully in the Portland
Daily Press, a newspaper printed in Portland,
and each of the other notices, to be at least
thirty days before the time of said meeting; at
which time and place, (after it has been salts
factorily shown that the above notice has been
duly gven) the Commissioners will proceed to
view the route set forth in said petition, and
other routes and roads connected Herewith
and after such view they will give q hearing to
the parties and their witnesses at some con-
venient place in the vicinity when and where
appear and show cause, If any they have why
the prayer of said petition should not be
granted.
Attest: B. G. STONE, Clerk
Copy of the Petition and Order of Court
thereon.
Attest: B. c. STONE, Clerk.
now d1aW3WW
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER s.
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING DAY.
Proclamation.
BIZ THE PRESIDENT.

While the American people should every day
remember with praise and thanksgiving the
divine goodness and mercy which have followed
ting that one day in each year should be ,espe-
cia1ly devoted to the contemplation OF the bless
ing we have received from the hand of God,
and to the grateful acknowledgment OF his low
ing kindness.
Therefore I, Grover Cleveland, President OF
the United States do hereby designate and set
apart Thursday, the 30th day of the present
month of November, as day OF thanksgiving
and praise, to be kept and observed by all the
people of our land.
On that day let us forego our ordinary work
and employments and assemble IN our usual
places of worship, where we may recall all that
God has done for u.s. and where from grateful
hearts our united tribute of praise and song
may reach the throne of grace.
Let the reunion OF kindred and the social
meeting of friends lend cheer and enjoyment to
the day and let generous gifts of charity for the
relief Of the poor and needy prove the sincerity
OF our thanksgiving.
Witness my nand and the seal of the United
States, which have caused to be hereto
affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, on the
third day of November. in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-three, and of the Independence of
the United States the one hundred and
eighteenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
BY the President:
WALTER O. GRESHAM,
Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08
COMING THE sE1GNoRAGE.

It is denied now that Secretary Carlisle
has any intention of coming the seignor-
age, just as it was denied some months
ago that he had any intention of redeem
ing the silver certificates in silver.
Nevertheless it is perfectly we'll
understood that the Secretary cherished
that design and was only prevented
from carrying it out by the oppo-
sition of the President Hereafter it is
likely to appear also that the Secretary
seriously meditaJed the coinage of the
seignorage, and only desisted when the
President put his foot down.
It is not very creditable that the idea
of coming the seignorage should have
ever found Judgement. for an instant in
an officer of an administration which
has been posing as the special champion
of sound money. To coin the seignorage
is equivalent to an issue of fiat money,
as will be obvious to anybody who con-
siders what the seignorage is. Under the
Sherman law the treas ury is authorized
to buy certain number of ounces of
silver each month, at it's mar
ket value, and issue treasury
notes in payment for it, these
notes to be legal tnders. 1t is clear that
against every ounce of silver bullion pur-
chased there is treasury note represent
ing it's full value in circulation The
bullion is security for the treasury notes,
and these notes are issued to it's full
value. But under the coinage ratio of
the Bland-Allison act, which is the ratio
still in vogue, it requires much less than
dollars worth of silver to coin a silver
dollar. The average price of silver pur-
chased under the Sherman law has been
SO cents an ounce. So when the treas
ury purchased thousand ounces it could
issue on the strength of it, that is in pay-
ment for it, $3.50 in teasury notes. But at
the Bland-Allison ratio of coinage an
ounce of silver when coined would yield
$1.29, and 1000 ounces $3.50. The differ
ence between this and the outstanding
treasury. notes issued in payment of the
1000 ounces, OF $3.50, would represent the
profit of the government from coinage, or
as it is called, the seignorage. Some
165, 900, 0000 ounces thave been purchased
under the Sherman law. If this should
all be coined the profit or seignorage
would be in the neighborhood' of S5s, OOO,-
600. Now suppose the treasury draws
from this bullion against which treasury
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08

| notes have been issued to it's full value
| and which therefore is in it's entirety
only sufficient for these notes to rest
upon, enoughssto scoin s5s, 100000, then it
must be obvious that part of the Sc
curity for the treasury notes has disap-
peared, and that to certain extent each
one of them must be fat, representing
nothing but the promise of the govern
ment to pay.
The coinage ofsathe seignorage is an at
tempt to get out Of thing more than
there is in it, and it cannot be done. If
man mortgages his house to it's full
value, he cannot get anyone to take an
other mortgage with only the security of
the house behind it until the first one
is discharged. A man may take it if
he is convinced that the mortgagor has
other resources from which to pay it and
will use them. So the people will take
the treasury note or the silver dollar
coined from the seignorage just as long
as they believe that the government is
able and willing to give them when they
demand it a gold dollar, that is to make
good the difference between it's real
value and it's stamped value, and no lon
ger. Putting the best view upon the sit
uatlon the silver dollar coined out of the
selgnorage is fat to the extent of the
difference between it's market value and
the coined value, and the treasury note
issued on the basis of the bullion from
which this seignorage has been abstract
ed is fiat to the extent to which the Sc
curity has been diminished by the alb
straction of the seignorage. If the govern
ment should be shorn of all it's resources
for the payment of the silver bullion
treasury notes except the bullion on
which they were issued and be compelled
to sell this bullion to redeem them, all the
bullion would only suffice to
redeem them if it sold at the price at
which it was purchased. But if $5S, 000,-
900 OF seignorage had been distracted it
would be short by that amount The
coinage of the seignorage is in effect the
abstraction of a part OF the bullion
pledged to the holder of the treasury
notes as security for them.
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08

The Boston Herald to the contrary, we
nevertheless believe that it is perfectly
true that every real obstacle to the pass
age of the silver repeal bill was placed
there by the Democratic free silver sena-
tors Or the weak kneed supporters of
repeal. A half dozen silver senators
might have prolonged the debate, but
alone they could never have placed the
passage of the bill in jeopardy. They
themselves admitted this, for the mo-
ment the Southern Democratic senators
notified them that they would no longer
aid them in filibustering they declared
that the jig was up. But the jig would
never have been begun if these senators
had taken this position at the beginning
of the session. By their attitude they
made the success of filibustering posi-
BILE, and thereby induced and encouraged
the silver men to resort to it.
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08
PORTLAND DAILY PRESS
MAINE STATE PRESS.


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The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08
GLORIOUS REPUBLICAN VICTORIES.

GLORIOUS REPUBLICAN VICTORIES.
The figures on our news pages tell the
story Of yesterdays magnificent RepubliA
can victories better than any words Of
ours can. Six months of a Democratic
administration have proved sufficient to
open the eyes of the voters to the incapa-
city of that party and the danger which
its supremacy threatens to American in
dustry. 1t is evident enough that the
votes have repented their action of last
fall and are doing what they can to avert
its disastrous consequences, by giving
the Democratic majority in Congress a
foretaste of what they will encounter
next fall if they persist in their tariff
smashing and wild cat banking schemes.
Massachusetts has given a grand account
of herself. Her voters have made no mis-
takes this year. Ohio answers Larry
Neals plea for free trade by rolling up a
majority of over 10000 for Mckinley.
But the greatest surprise is in New York.
Republicans hardly dared to hope for
anything more than the defeat of May
nard, but they have not only buried MIN
under huge majority, but they have
also defeated the whole Democratic
state ticket by majority which may
reach 10000. Body, the Doodle Mayor
of Brooklyn, is showed under by 10000
majority for the Republican candidate,
and in New York city the Republican
gains are large.
An overwhelming Republican victory
has been won all along the line. A tidal
wave has swept over the Democracy.
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08

The Boston Herald and the Springfield
Republican which have been shouting
for some days past that the defeat of
Russell would be rebuke to Cleveland
will now, undoubtedly, turn round and
say that the election had no significance.
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08

The Hon. Isaac H. Maynard has got the
ferdict of the people and it sustains by
an overwhelming majority the indict-
ment brought against him by the New
York Bar Association, that he is thief.
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-08

The most unhappy man in tn 9 United
States this morning is, prsbabl y, the
Hon. Isaac H. Maynard of New York.