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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-31
WHY NOT?
The Value of Money Does Not Depend Upon
the Value of the Material Upon Which 1t
is Stamped.

The Value of Money Does Not Depend Upon
the Value of the Material Upon Which 1t
is Stamped.
The Leavenworth Times wonders if
the government could make 25 cent
piece worth dollar. We suppose if it
could do that it could say nickel is S.
and SO gold coin is 800 or bond
for $1,000 is worth million. See?-
Atchison Champion.
Yes, that is the way we see it, but
you say the government can make Ga
cents worth of silver equal 100 cents
worth of gold then why not 25 cents
worth? Don't pull away from this
question. You took up the cudgels
against us, now please answer us: If
the government can make coin con-
tanning but GA cents worth of silver as
valuable as gold dollar, why cannot
it make a much smaller and more con-
venient silver dollar?-Leavenwor
Times.
The government has done a heap
better than to make 25 cents worth of
material worth a dollar and can keep
on doing that very thing. 1t has made
half a cents worth of paper worth one
of the biggest kind of dollars, as big as
a gold dollar, and SO much bigger that
the government recently refused to
swap them with the Denver bankers
for gold dollars, dollar for dollar And
the government can keep right on do
ing it without the least trouble. And
it will do that very thing in four years
when the populists get to running the
machine.
But seriously, Mr.. Anthony, isn't this
sixty-four-cent dollar you talk about
worth just about as much this blessed
minute as the hundred-cent gold dollar?
Won't it buy just as much of everything
or anything? And if so, isn't it worth
just as much? Come, now. What makes
it worth as much as gold dollar? It's
just because the government says so;
so it will be, no matter what the gold
bugs may say about it. Even if the
gold-bugs should say it is worth only
twenty cents it will be worth one hun
dred cents, nevertheless, as long as the
government says SO. Therefore the
gold-bugs lie when they say our dollar
is worth only sixty-four cents. 1t is
the dollar that is worth the hundred
cents-not the silver it is stamped on.
You had better get up on your feet
and study your lesson, Brother Anthony,
instead of standing on your head and
imagining that ybody else is upside
down. Get some populist farmer to
loan you primer on money or tell you
few of the basic truths about it. You
are making a spectacle of yourself
Fort Scott Lantern.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-31

2ST9
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
MINNEsOTA's GROWTH,

Mr.. TURRELL's bill, introduced by
request of the governor, reducing the
states tax levy fiVe-tenths of a mill, is
an eloquent evidence of the growth of
Minnesota. This leaves our state tax at
one and seven-tenths mills. Minnesota
is one of the greatest states of the
Union. and every resident has reason to
be proud of it. Its mineral wealth,
agricultural resources and industrial
development place it at the forefront.
California, with all its golden attrac-
tons, though covering more than twice
the area, and having been admitted to
the Union earlier, has more than 1O0,-
600 people less than Minnesota. Though
many Of Minnesota's citizens have
been made millionaires by robbing her
of pine trees and many other things,
still she stands at the front. The rob-
berries could extend to millions more,
and still she would stand on Iop. She
has had her hard times, and what state
has not? She undoubtedly will have
other depressions; every nation in the
world has them, but Minnesota will al
ways be at the front. Our farmers have
often complained of poverty; but often
it has been from their own fault, be-
cause they were not wise enough to
heed the warning that they should di-
versify their pursuit. Let them engage
in the proper diversity of farming. and
only the most outrageous political ma
nipuIations can harm them to any mate
rial extent.
But, of course, this expression of JOY
over our prosperity ana inexhaustible
resources should not be construed as a
justification for corruption. Every form
of iniquity should be as vigorously dealt
with as though it were likely to throw
the state into bankruptcy. With all our
greatness. we must have pure politics
and government.
Every citizen should hail with joy
Minnesota's greatness, and yet not be
willing to condone anything which can
tarnish her good name.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
FOOLED THE TALENT.
Martinez, 20 to 4, Wins the
Turf Exchage Stakes at Mem

Martinez, a 20 to 1, Wins the
Turf Exchage Stakes at Mem
phis.
MEMPHIS, April 1.-THE second days
racing at Montgomery Park was run in
a cold, driving rain and a wind that
was almost a tornado. Only two favor
ties won, Sam Farmer in the fourth
and Granite in the fifth race. Oscar,
a 6 to shot, in the first race jumped in
front at the start and was never headed,
finishing an easy winner. Wedgefield.
at to 1, III the second race won hand
lily by length. Martinez, at % to l, in
the third race, the Turf Exchange
stakes, led the twO-year-olds from start
to finish, winning easily. ScogginS' ell
try Buck Reno and Dart were hot ia
vorltes, but did not show. Results:
First race, five furlongs, for maiden three
year -olds-Oscar, liz. Parkinson. to |, won;
oliver, 116, Brown, 10 !. second; Bucepha-
lus 49, Thorpe, q to 1, third. Time, lilo.
Thompson, q to /, won; Volunteer H., Ill,
McCatferty, even. second: Puryear, Ill,
Brown, 3 TO l, third. Time, :21S4
Third race. four furlongs, -year-olds-
Martinez 105 (Wiliiamsl, 20 to ], won; JIb,
Ill (McDonald), z to ], second; Flynn,
lis (SargenD 20 to l, third. Time, 534.
Fourth race, seven furlongs, selling-Sam
Farmer, 103 (Shields), 2 to ]. won; Helen n.
10l (Thorpe). 5 to ., second; Red Wing IS
(Perkinson), 10 to /, thiro Time, DO
Fifth race. selling, mile and a sixteenth
Granite "a Perkins,, g to won: Catlin, 1O6
(Joslinl, 5 to ., second; Phelan Dorian, %
(Sargentl. 5 to ], third Time. l:56.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
THE COAL COMBINE.

The joint committee has submitted its
final report and made its recommends
lions. Ii is interesting reading to that
modern Gulliver, the American people,
showing, as it does, how one of the gang
of Lilliputians has tied the sleeping
giant down with its particular cord and
reduced him to helplessneSs.
The whole combination roots back, as
every one knew before this inYestiga-
ton began. in the monopolization of
those great gifts to men, the anthracite
coal fields of Pennsylvania. They are
beyond the reach of the arm of Mime
sofa. 1t is doubtful if any arm can reach
them except that of the state in which
the fields lie, and the mOnopolists con-
troll absolutely thatarm. So completely
do they dominate it that a bill was
actually introduced in the Pennsylvania
legislature, fixing the price at which
the coal mined in that state should be
sold for eXport-a minimum much
higher than even the coal barons dare
to exact.
But it is not true, as the apologists for
the local combine would have it appear,
that Minnesota is helpless because the
nub OF the combine is beyond her juris-
dictiOn. The report shows that the
wholesalers in this state fix the price of
hard and soft coal alike. 1t is said, and
the prices seem to bear it out, that they
also fix the price of wood, so that it
shall not compete with coal. 1t is shown
that these dealers are organized to fix
prices and prevent competition; that
they hold monthly conferences, and that
the RHODES bureau is but their eXecu-
tive arm. They smother competition,
not only among themselves, but among
the retailers. They shut off the supply
of coal from the latter if found to be
selling below the price they fix.
This it a combination to control
prices within the scope of the LOCK-
WOOD act. 1t is made crime by that
act, punishable by heavy fine. The
courts of Ramsey county have jurisdic-
ton. The grand jury of the county has
the right, and 1t is its duty, to make in
quiry if this crime has been committed,
and il there is reasonable ground to be-
lieye that the wholesale dealers in coal
have committed it. And if they find
these things tr ue, or prima facie true, it
is their duty as guardia Ms of the law and
the people to indict every member of
the combination. 1t is the duty of the
county attorney to bring the matter to
the attention of the grand jury. We are
not helpless, and we need not submit to
the eXactiOns of the combination here
while paSsvely waiting for some deaf
Jupiter to come to our assistance.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
.ROASTS ON The Great FRAUD.
The State Press Demands the Fullest Investigation OF the
Pine Land Swindles and Punishment With
out Regard to Rank.
FEELING NOT HAMPERED BY PARTY TIES.
The Belief Is General That Many of the States Monares
Made Their Fortunes Through tho
Shameful Frauds.

The startling pine land frauds which
the senate committee has unearthed
and exposed have stirred up the state
press as nothing in recent years has.
done. The papers indicate that they
have long suspected that the state was
being robbed in this way; they have
only wondered that the matter has been
permitted to run so many years without
decisive action being taken. The pa
pers with few exceptions demand that
the matter shall be probed to the bot
tom and the guilty ones punished with
out regard to personal prominence. A
very few of the most partisan papers
express doubts as to the motive OF the
committee, intimating that it is prob
ably movement to make 1pOliticai
capital; but most of the papers of every
party color join in the demand for in
vestigation, and that no guilty man
shall escape.
Appended are only few of the many
expressions already made by the pa
pc rs:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
"OLD GLORY" NOT LOWERED.

1t was very prosaic, literal sort of
mind which conceived the headline for
the news from Honolulu that Commits
sioner BLOUNT has sent the marines
back to the Boston" revoked the pro-
tectorate and had the flag which fioated
over the Hawaiian state house, as the
emblem of that protectorate, lowered.
He did not see the greater moral fact
that lay behind the removal of our flag,
and which gave to that flag a more
exalted position among the nations than
ever.
The flag was dishonored in being
raised there; it is honored and restored
in being taken down. The raising of it
meant that this nation was about to de-
part from its traditions and its true
policy, and was to enter with most I'M
seemly haste on a career of spoliation of
foreign countries. 1t meant that the
flag was to be made the shelter and pro.
lection of as rapacious and merciless
lot of buccaneeriDg Americans as ever
''cut a throat or scuttled Ship, 1t
meant that we were to assist in the over
throw or government with which we
were at peace, with which we had
treaty of comfy aud trade, in order
solely that parcel of speculative Amer
leans, combining with the sugar trust,
might get their hands into the treasury
of the United States and get the bounty
of which the freeing of sugar from tax
alton had deprived them.
The lowering of "Old Glory" means
that this policy is reversed. 1t means
that the people of Hawaii will bt con-
suited in any disposition made of their
country; that there will be no annexa-
ton of it to this country by either fraud
or force, and only by their consent. 1t
means that this nation is going to be
honest in its relations with its sister
powers, whether they are weak or
strong. And in this better policy the
stars on the old flag CLEAN out brighter
than ever, and every American who
loves his country better than he loves
pelf will feel prouder of the flag which
means so much more to humanity than
it did since the hateful day when it
went up over the island of Hawaii.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
STICK TO YOUR LAST.

A word with you. Chairman WILSON,
of the MARKHAM investigating commit
tee. A very favorable opinion has been
formed of you by those who have been
keeping watch of the members of the
house in which you sit. You have i'm
pressed them as courageous and clean
man, who was remarkably free from
partisan domination. They have not
found you among the membership of
that Commercial club whose members
are singularlY possessed by the delusion
that no one knows of their populations
save their gang" You are lawyer.
and familiar with the law of evidence.
You know, of course, that secondary
evidence of lost instrument is always
admissible after suitable ground is
laid for its introduction. You know
that if letter is proven to
have been destroyed that the party
receiving or having seen it can
State what its contents were. Why.
then, did you refuse to let Witness FARE
testify as to the contents of the letter be
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
A Fight to a Finish.

Martin County Democrat
A war has been begun in Minnesota
and other states against combines and
trusts that may prove of benefit if
fought to finish. Anything that will
tend toward stopping the Capitalization
of wealth should meet the approval of
every man not member Of trusts or
combines. When we realize the fact
that there are dozen men in the United
States who could stop the wheels on
every railroad track, shut down the big
mills and block every avenue of trade
by means of the wealth that is central
iZed in their power, it is time to think of
some way to stop the amassing of for
tunes of sufficient immensely to bring
about results, if so desirable, that would
menace the welfare of the people at
large,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
EDITOR VS.. AUDIT OR
Mr.. Sherin Replies to the Strict-
ureS of James III.
Burns.
The News Mans Explanation of
the Trouble With the Au-
ditOr.

c. Z. Sherin was seen last evening by
a representative of the GLOBE in regard
to an interview with County Auditor
Burns published in this paper yester-
day morning. Mr.. Sherin said:
$50 far as any personal controversy
between Mr.. Burns and myself is con-
cerned. there is none. nor can there be
one. The people of st. Paul are as we'll
acquainted with the public character
isticS of the present county auditor as l
am. Charges made against him as
public official by the Daily News are
all true. As the official paper Of RAM
sey county, the News executed certain
work for which Mr.. Burns withheld
the pay long after it was due. In the
presence of C. W. Copley, of the Bank
of Minnesota, made demand of Burns
for the money due. Mr.. Burns replied
that he would pay it, provided l would
give him an indemnifyiDg tOnd. | pre-
scented the bond. He then equivocated
and desired to advise with County At
torney Butler before making payment.
Upon his request l secured Mr.. Butler,
and then Burns tersely told US that
when he wanted to see Mr.. Butler he
would send for him. E
THE only recourse left me in the
and the consequent tediousness of eX-
pensive litigation. Upon presentation
of writ of mandamus, Mr.. Burns
alighted from his high horse and paid
the amount due from the county"
''Did you," was asked of Mr.. Sherin,
threaten to roast him in your paper if
he did not pay the money!"
81 do not make my collections in that
way. The fact that the roast on MIR.
Burns official record appeared in the
News after the amount was paid shows
that the there was no understanding of
this kind. l hardly know what to say,
personally. of county official who will
confess, as he did in the GLOBE of this
morning, that he retained county war
rants, due other parties, in his own
hands until they would promise not to
roast him. On the face of his own
statement he is conducting public Of
flee to serve private ends"
do you anticipate trouble over the
matter of legal nature"
None at all. The News has treated
the subject solely as matter of public
interest in so far as it relates to the sup
preston of the financial report of Ram
sey comfy. The statement of Burns
that it would require three months in
which TO prepare financial statement
to submit to the county commissioners
is bOSh. To begin with, the work was
all completed by eX-Auditor Kahn and
was in Burns possession at the time.
To end with, have the word of Mr..
Kahn that six days would be ample time
IN which to prepare the report.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
A STATE SCANDAL.
Only Rigorous Investigation
Will Satisfy the Public.

Only Rigorous Investigation
Will Satisfy the Public.
Rochester Daily Record and Union.
If such colossal frauds have been per-
petrated by men now occupying the
highest standing in business circles, and
if by such dishonest methods great
fortunes have been accumulated, let the
frauds be opened up to the minutest
secret and circumstance, no matter who
gets hurt.
Nothing less that careful and rigor-
Gus investigation will satisfy the public,
and the parties against whom the allie
cations are directed cannot afford to be
content with anything less. Hence the
joint resolution calling for the appoint
ment of commission to examine wit
nesses and collect evidence as to the
truth of these charges should be
adopted without opposition. The good
name of the state is involved, as well as
the reputation of men prominent in
official and commercial circles, and
therefore such an investigation should
be had as will either bring the accused
parties to justice or forever set at rest
the scandalouS Allegations that are
more than intimated in the committees
report.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
BEGAN WITH M'ILRATH.
The Whole Land Department One
Mass of Corruption.

Mankato Daily REVIEW.
In may instances on a single section
the state was defrauded from one to
thee and four thousand dollars, and in
others the timber was absolutely stolen,
and nothing was paid to the state.
This condition extends back to the
days when McIlrath was state auditor,
aud has continued till the present day.
The pine land gang managed always to
reach the appraisers and the scalers.
and such returns were made as were
satisfactory to the purchaser.
The headquarters of this gang has
always been at Minneapolis, and many
of its leading citizens of today have
grown immensely wealthy by practices
of this kind. The report claims that
the school fund has been depleted mill
ions of dollars, and the worst feature is
that the committee proves it. The
whole land department is one mass Of
fraud and corruption, and the boast
that our school fund was sacred
HERITAGE" guarded and protected
against peculation and theft" has
shielded and protected the most dam
nable system of robbery that ever dis
graced a civilized cOmmunitY.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15
THE RESULT SO FAR.
Every Stick and Stump Is Wit.
ness Against Them.

Duluth Daily Commonwealth.
1t is queer how these things go by
spaSms. There is not word in the
committees report that has not been
common talk for years. The facts
about the Indians stolen timber have
been notorious for years. There must
have been deliberated blindness in the
auditors office in Minnesota, and in the
Indian Office at Washington under more
than one administration. And now this
spasm. Whatever the cause, it is well
come.
For the present upheaval much Is due
to the persistency of several members of
the legislature, to the insistence of Maj.
Baldwin on his hobby and to the atti-
tude of the secretary Of the interior, and
perhaps also the president who appoint
ed him. But all these men together
couldn't have stirred things up until
the time came when the people were in
a temper for it. The newspapers could
have bounced and denounced for years
and it would make nothing until the
people were ready for it. Finally the
Iethargic, many-headed creature shakes
itself, and, presto! it doesn't matter
what any man says or who says 1t
every word goes straight to the mark.
Every stick and Stnmp is witness
against the thieves. Every guilty act
accuses them. These sleek creatures
who have fattened so long on the peO-
ashamed, unable TO turn in any dIrec-
ton but their sins, so long in immunity,
confront them.
The pine land ring is the target now.
Mai. Baldwin has had cordial enmiIy
for the pine land ring all the while
more power to him-anG HOke Smith is
reputed to be one who will listen will
ingly to complaints against the despoil-
erS.
Meanwhile the state legislature is in
vestigating their past sins and will pre-
6 sent discriminating evidence, it is said,
against some of the lordliest of them.
That mlllionaires who have done their
stealing on grand scale should be con-
victed, and If convicted be made to
wear stripes for it, is of course very i'm
probable. But many improbable things
are happening in the state this year.
The wholesome quality of indignation
seems to burn with all intensity rare in
these days of degenerate good nature.
But the remedy is Of more conse-
Quence than the penalty. 1t Is worth
while to punish the thieves If they can
be caught and punished; it is more
worth while to see that what pine is
left escapes from their designs. For
most of their purloining was after all
with the knowledge and consent OF the
state, and according to statute in such
case made and provided. What they
gobbled uL obedient to the law amounts
to great deal more than what they ac-
Quired by fraud or guilty connivance.
The people were cheated either way.
Pursue them with a sharp stick for
their rascality i'll the past and catch
them if you can. But by all means head
them off in the future. The peoples
heritage is getting more precious every
year, and no part of it should be filched
away.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15

hadreceived from Representative PRAY,
after he had sworn that he destroyed
the letter? Do you know what this
looks like-what people are saying il
means? Don't you know that it looks
as il you were shaking the lime for Il
whitewash? Ii you don't, Others do, and
it is what the others think of man that
makes his reputation. Are you inditfer-
ent to the good opinion you have so Tar
established? The GLOBE reminds you
of the old saying about the law being a
jealous mistress. That means that she
will not brook any flirting of her devo-
tees with other vacations. Stick to your
law, and don't take up the trade of
Whitewater.