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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC.
With It's Enormous Circulation 1t Is Fas
Converting Democrats Into PnnuIists

With It's Enormous Circulation 1t Is Fast
Converting Democrats Into Populists.
1t is with an inexpressible measure of
relief that one turns from reading of
the gold-bug editorials of the Kansas
City Times to the columns of the St
Louis Republic, which may nov be fitly
classed as Calamity howler." The
following from the Republic has the
true ring of pure democratic doctrine
and emphasizes the fast widening gulf
which exists between the southern.
western and northwestern democracy
and the eastern plutocracy of which
Grover Cleveland is the greatest living
exponent and representative. The Re-
public is doubtless fighting for reform
within the party" but the bulk of its
readers will become populists so soon
as they discover that no relief can be
expected from the present administra-
ton A strangely familiar sound to
populist ears has this Republic editori-
al, which reads as follows:
''1t is supposed by some who are 9TH
erwise well informed that there has
been a.decrease in the price of silver
due to an increase in the supply of sill
yer bullion as compared with the SUM-
ply of gold.
This is mistake, for the supply of
silver in relation to the supply of gold
Is less now than at the beginning of
the century The decrease in the price
of silver is due to a conspiracy of En-
glish,' German, Hebrew and American
capitalists, who succeeded in demone.
| tizing it.
There has been decrease in the
price or silver because of this con-
| spiracy, but the increase In the price of
gold has been much heavier, as can be
easily demonstrated
ITO do SO it is only necessary to see
whether other prices have been affected
| as silver has been. If the leading
staples of commerce follow silver down
| from the time of its decentralization, it
| is unquestionable proof that gold has
been s'bulled" to "a premium as a result
of the conspiracy which began opera
tion about 1870.
| s'The statistical abstract issued by
the federal treasury shows that this
has been the case Wheat cotton.
wool and all other staples follow silver
down. showing that the gold premium
has been created by the legislation
that demonetized silver
''fn 1890 an ounce of gold brought
4.1s ounces of silver more that it did in
| 1870 In 1870 bushel of wheat brought
sl.3o, as against only So cents in 1890
! In the same time cotton fell from l9. 03
cents to 1901 cents q eound and wool
from as to 2a cants.
ssfhe effect of bulling gold by de-
monetizing silver is strilxingly shown
in the decade between 1870 and 1880 by
the increased purchasing power of gold
as compared with the products of the
Mississippi valley, The census of 1870
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

shows that S,24S, 900 horses were worth
in 1870 s617, $40, 900, while ten wears
later, though the number of horses had
increased to 11,201, 0O0, they were worth
much less than in 1870, or only $685.
900. coo.
I'm 1870 1,1T9, 900 mules were worth
S12S, 5s+, 600, while in 1850 /, 729, 900 wero
worth only s105. 94S OO0 So too. with
mich cows; with mess pork and pro-
visions; with all cereals, and with
everything we produce in the Missis.
sippi valley
These figures will suggest the enor-
NIFTY OF the robbery perpetrated on the
producers of the Mississippi valley by
the gold conspirators, who began oper-
atlons in America by demonetizing sill
yer through the Sherman act of 1873
Since then they have steadily forced
gold to higher and higher premium,
forcing down the price of every article
the valley produces until we have been
robbed not of millions, but of billions.
The world never saw a conspiracy SO
gigantic or so audacious as that through
which the money dealers of London,
New York and the German cities are
operating to force the premium on gold
higher and still higher regardless of
the fact that as compared with silver
and with all our staples of production, it
is higher now than it has ever been in
the history of the world
'Out of such attempts as this grow
great political and social revolutions.
No government that is not a military
despotism can uphold such conspirators
against an intelligent people when in-
telllgence is once reused to action.
No greater crime was ever commit
ted in the history of the world than the
crime of using the government of this
country and of other countries to carry
out the plans of these plunderers of
the people. They are still in the busi-
ness of robbery, insisting that what
ever does not promote their advantage
is unsound and dangerous finance, but
they cannot go much further without.
making reaction inevitable, and, if.
when it comes, the people take back
somewhat of that they have lost
through robbery, it need not surprise
those whom success in swindling has
made more Unsuitable as immunity has
made them more audacious.'
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THEY STAND TOGETHER.

Democrats Must Not Repeal the sherman
Silver Law Unless They Give the People
Free Coinage.
The democratic platform demands
the repeal of the Sherman law The
declaration of principles was sub
scribed to by the party just as the
nominee of the convention was ac-
cepted. What is the meaning of the
present attitude of democrats in con-
gress? Are they not committed to the
platform principles which a majority of
representatives indorsed? How can we
hope for public confidence if we
promptly repudiate our own expressed
purposes?-Norfolk (Va~) Landmark
1t is true that the democratic plat
form declared for the speedy repeal'
of the Sherman act, and it is also true
that in the same paragraph of the same
platform it was declared that, ''We
hold to the use of both gold and silver
as the standard money of the country
and to the coinage of both gold and sill
yer without discriminating against
either metal or charge for mintage -
In other words, the democratic party,
assembled in national convention
at Chicago, declared for the re-
peal of the Sherman act and the free
coinage of gold and silver. For al
though the words free coinage" are
not used, that is precisely what the Ian
guage means, and nothing else. We can
assure the esteemed Landmark that
there will be very few democrats in con-
gress, and none from the west and
south, who will be found in opposition
when the effort is made to carry out the
demands of the democratic platform.
The attempt to repeal the Sherman law,
leaving gold alone as ''the standard
money of the county" is simply Wall
street device to defeat bimetallism and
a shifty evasion of the democratic plat
form.-St Louis Republic.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29
THE LAW IN THE CASE.
1t II Violated For the Express Purpose O
Enriching Gold Gambling Plutocrats

1t II Violated For the Express Purpose OF
Enriching Gold Gambling Plutocrats.
Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, attorney
general of the United States, and min
ister to England, in letter to the New
York Times of April IS, 1884, saws:
There is not an outstanding bond cou-
pom or greenback issued by the United
States which may not be lawfully paid
in silver. Not one of them on its face
or back, or in the statute authorizing
the issue, or in declaration, or in reso.
luton of congress. has any proviso that
they shall be paid in gold. And the
act of February %, 1878, directing the
coinage of silver dollars provides that
they shall be legal tender at their
nominal value for all debts and dues,
public and private, except where other
wise expressly stipulated in the con-
tract
If this be true, and an attorney-gen-
eral of the United States says it is true,
why all the fuss and furry about main
tanning gold payments? Why not use
the ten thousand tons of silver lying
idle in the treasury, instead of draining
the country of gold and then talking
about the necessity of selling bonds to
get more gold?
All the outstanding bonds are made
redeemable by contract printed on the
back of every one of them in ''coin of
the standard value of the United States
on said July IA, 1870, with interest in
such coin from the date hereof"
The coin standard value at that date
was: Silver, 4i2H grains: gold, % $40
Nothing but open robbery prevents
such payments.-Fayetteville ARK
Liberator
The democratic party is now in
complete control of the political power
of the country, and the burning ques-
tion of the hour is: What will they do
with their victory?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29
OTHER WORLDS OF HABITATIoN.
There Is Moro In Heaven and Earth Than
Dreamt of In Mans PhilosonhY.

There Is More In Heaven and Earth Than
Dreamt OF In Mans Philosophy.
Rev. DIR. Dallinger delivered a lecture
at Bristol the other night on the planets
around Us and their possible habita-
bility, says the Pail Mall Budget.
Speaking of Mercury, DIR. Dallinger
pointed out it's chief features and
showed that they approximated to those
of the earth. Although the heat from
the sun there was more intense it might
be tempered by the character of the at
mosphere.
Venus was yet more akin to our world
in every respect. SO that life there, as
we know it, was yet more possible
The conditions of the atmosphere, in
deed, were such that the whole globe
might be habitable. Mars next came
under review, the lecturer explaining
its character, substance, atmosphere
and other features, which, he said,
made the existence of creatures, If not
man, quite possible, : "
People were slowly losing their for
mer notions that there were nothing
and nobody in the universe except the
world and man. There were other
worlds, however. which, so far as hui
man intelligence could Judge. were not
yet suitable for habitation. but were
gradually assuming conditions which
might ultimately make life possible
The lecturer held the opinion that many
years hence some means OF mental COM
municstion with the denizens of the
other planets might be established. In
the present days of marvellous discov-
cries in science all things seemed posi-
BILE, and the establishment of inter
communication of some kind between
this earth and the beings Of the planets
did not seem more improbable or impos-
sible than the sending of telegraph
message from England to New York
seemed one hundred years ago.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

any one. 1t would set every lule maA
at work at fair wages. 1t would en-
t1rely eliminate any necessity for chari.
table donations, or aid to able bodied
men, except in cases of prolonged sick
ness or accidents 1t would largely de-
populate our almshouses, jails and PEN
itentiaries, most of the inmates OF
which are victims of want and
poverty, caused by enforced idle
ness 1t would largely eliminate in
temperance from the land by de-
stroying its prolific sources, idle
ness, poverty and despair 1t would
make our tramps. paupers and idle men
not only wealth producers, but wealth
purchasers and consumers. This, in it's
turn, would largely reduce, if not en-
tirely wipe out our exportable surplus
of farm products and render us less of
British dependency than we now are
This, in its turn, would give to the
farmer increased purchasing and con-
suming capacity and cause the wilder
ness to bloom as rose and the whir
of wheels and the hum of machinery to
fill the land with an anthem of peace
and prosperity. But above all things
else it would put labor in position to
demand the product of its toll and en-
force the demand and check the accu-
mutation of wealth in the hands of the
plutocratic autocrats who are fast be-
coming the owners, not only of the
nations wealth, but of the people them
selves--George c. Ward, in Midland
Mechanic
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29
THE LABOR QUESTION.

Upon . Mise Soiutte OF It's Problems Ee-
pends the Ex,stenoe of the Anasrica Rey
public
In the preceding number endeavored
to show that the continued reign and
pernicious effects of the Iron law of
wages" were made possible only by the
fact that there were million (more or
less) of unemployed laborers in the
United States. which resulted in labor
competing ESith itself for employment
Ia order to avoid starvation, ana rhat
the shortening of the days labor until
there were as many days labor to per
fern as there were lshoEers TO perform
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29
FLEEING CAPITAL.

A New York daily paper prints a
grotesque picture. which purports to
represent phase of the situation in
Kansas. The principal figure is a nle-
thorlc money-bag marked capital. ~
This is surmounted by a head with plug
hat, has legs and arms attached, holds
sachel marked capital, late of Kan
sas, In one hand and a demoralized
umbrella in the other. The face wears
look OF the utmost CONSERVATION and
the figure is running away as rapidly
as possible and is pursued by farmer
with pitchfork. This farmer ia
labeled ''Populist"
The Kansas Farmer does not concern
itself with the political aspect of the
cartoon, but calls attention to a few
considerations with reference to tho
supposed fleeing capital. Capital
works for the man who owns it. and
though proverbially "timid," it fears
no danger in the presence of gain. It
likes the protection of civilization. bat
Will invade barbarous or savage com.
munities for the sake of profit. Tho
owner of capital cannot pass prosper
Gus community without feeling Of
avariee, Productive energies are looked
upon as his ministering servants Where
great wealth is being produced the
capitalist sees his opportunity.
The record of Kansas for the produc-
ton of wealth, the wheat crop of 1892
being nearly twice as large as that of
any other state; the surplus of corn
and other grains, and of live stock,
make this state field which the capi-
talist recognizes as a valuable one, a
field In whose productions he must
have q share. But to secure this
share he must invest in the state.
either as lender or as purchaser.
The fact that during the extraordinary
political turmoil of the last three years
Kansas farmers have so diligently ap-
piled their energies as to greatly in
crease the aggregate productions of
their farms, and 70 enormously ins
crease the surplus to be exchanged for
money outside of the state, gives the
lie to the New York papers cartoon.
This picture would be more in accord
with the situation if it represented tho
farmer on his harvester and the capi-
talist looking over the line with long
ing eyes and inquiring how he can Sc
cure share Of the abounding harvest
Possibly some owners of money may
have been frightened at the horrible
stories sent out from Kansas, but the
fact remains that shrewd investors who
represent, or own great wealth ara
making loans at as low rates of inter-
est as ever prevailed here, while 9th ers
attracted by the wealth.yielding ca
pacity demonstrated by our statistics
of production are buying lands and en-
gaging in the cultivation of the soil.
No. capital is watching eagerly for the
most favorable opportunity, and is
fighting to make favosable openings
for such investments in Kansas as VIII
enable the owners OF capital to share
the wealth produced by our people
Kapsas Farmer
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

DELPHIA LODGE, No. 40, x. OF p, maots ON
Monday evening of each week, Mt the X. OF =.
hall. Visiting knights in good standing inVi-
led to attend, JAMES II. MINICK, G. Z.
JACOB e. HALsTAD, X. of X. & s.
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State 0mcers.
Barber County omcers.
PHYsICIANsIN MEDICINE LODGE.

s. Koc1ELL,
HOMEOPATHIC PHI YSIJIAN & SURGEON,
Office on Kansas Avenue, next to Index office.
MEDICINE LODGE, KANEAs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

n " q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 30.
VI liz Os Regular Communications, first
and third Monday evenings in each month.
MHs. FRANCIS ELLIS, W. NJ.
MAMIE V. o BRYAN, SEQ.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29
The Keystone Watch
Case Co. of PHILADELPHIA.

the largest watch case manufacture
ing concern in the world, is now
putting upon the Jas. Boss Filled
and other cases made by it, a bow
(ring) which cannot be twisted or
pulled off the watch.
1t IS sure protection against the
pickpocket and the many accidents
that befall watches fitted with the
old-style bow, which is simply held
IN by friction and can be twisted off
with the fingers. It is called the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29
SOCIETIES.

q A. +. & A. M, Delta Lodge No. y
IN - Regular communications, first and
third Saturday evenings in each
" month. All atiilIatins aud nOn-aiiili
ltinE nasons in good standing, cordially in
VIted to attend II. A. BURNETT, W. NJ.
|. W. STOUT, Secretary.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

CYPRUS CHAPTER No. 83, Il. A. NJ, meets
1n Masonic Hall every I'd and 4th Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER |. LONG, RI. p.
X. b. PECK Sec'y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

The little band of populist patriots
in this congress have done the people
more service than either of the old par
ties, or both combined They have
saved to the people already the sum OF
$50. .oeo, coo in appropriations and pri-
yate bills. by keeping their eyes ON
snap legislation when certain boodlers
wanted to get their hands into the pub
lie treasury st Joseph MOL Wasp,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

n D GaDRRD POST, No. ia, mectf
VI n M I'd & 4tb Saturday i'm each month
ct the court house in Medicine Lodge, at T.. N.
All comrades cordially invited,
L. Il. WILLIAMS. Post Com mRndcr
JOHN W. UPPERMAN, Adjutant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

NAoS No. 81, ,REBECCA DEGREE. I. O.o.F.
81 ~ "a aud 4th W ed. nights, each month.
Mus. NJ. ALLEN, N. q,
Mats Arc. SCMIDT, sccy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29

q " LOREN EDWARDS CAMP. No. l52
D, =. OF ", meets on lst and 3d Satur
day cvCEsags of each month, in their hall ON
North MHin stTcet.
J.U. RpNIG, Commander.
J. III. WILLIAMS, Adjutant.
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ENSIGN ENCAMPME ENT No. G2, l. o. o
Meets first and third Friday of each month
y. l.. ALLEN. II. =. q. X. HARRIs. 4. 4.
W. Il. ROUSE, ). w. }. Z. WALSTAD, ;.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-16
Tin-plate Workers.

We observe that the Welsh tin-plate
workers employed at the Elwood.
Ind, tin-plate mills have quit work
and their places have been filled by
others, and this item ofnews appears
in certain Democratic newspapers.
What are those men doing over there
at Elwood, any way? It is said that
something over 800 of them are en-
ployed in the tin-plate industry. But
Mr.. Cleveland told Welsh editor the
other day that he had been looking
for a tin-plats factory for year or
SO and had not been able to find one.
Can it be that those 800 men are sim
ply playing at making tin to make
Republican capital for 1896?-Cincin-
natl Tribune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-16
Democratic DemagOgY.

There is contemplate malev olence
in the Democratic charge that Cover
nor McKinley's opinions are worth
less on financial questions, because,
as a Bourbon organ vindictively
puts it, he "didn't known how to
manage a small fortune of his own"
On the same principle Alexander
Hamilton, Henry Clay, and Samuel
j. Randall were not qualified to dis
cuss financial problems. Governor
Mckinley lost his property in an eff
fort to help a friend, and not from
inattention to business or lack offore-
sight. It is hard to please the aver
age free trader. If Republican
chances to accumulate wealth heis a
"plutocrat" who has fattened on the
toll of the people. If he prefers to-
devote his gifts and energies to his
country and remain poor it is proof
conclusive of his unftness for public
trust.-Ney York Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-16
Jefferson.

Real estate transfers az taken from
the records at the register of deeds
Office for the week ending August s:
] 0. and w. Fl. Snyder to B. Oes-
teich and O. Scberer, lots 9 and 10, blk
9, village Rome, Jefferson county; al
so piece Of land in Walworth county,
Sc 600.
Minna Goette to Chas. Goetsch, part
lot 2, blk s, Cole. Bailey & Co.'S add to
city Watertown, So, 400.
Albert F. Haberman to Ernest N.
Musselman. part eh swq. sec. SO, town
Concord, ST ,OO0
Owen Clarity to Eugene Clarity, 1872
acres in secs. 3 and 10, town Sullivan,
81.
Herman F. Guerich to Joseph Vogel,
W go it,, lots /, 4 and 5, blk s, First ward
city Watertown, $500.
Emil Purucker fell from the third
story of A P. Puerner & Sons brick
building Saturday morning, and mar
velous to state, escaped with only a
sprained wrist.-Ban1aer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-16
Two July Pictures.

The Democratic papers a year ago
were baying in chorus about the bale
full effects of the Mckinley act. The
Democratic orators were believing
from a thousand platforms about it's
evil results. Their arguments were
addressed mainly to the workingmen,
whom they declared the tariff was
robbing for 1.-The benefit of the few"
To prove this assertion that the tar
if did not benefit labor, they quoted
from the Democratic campaign book
the statistics of strikes and lockouts
during July, 1892. That record
shows that in all Ia, 4O4 men were af-
fected by labor troubles, and of this
number $4,000 belonged to one
branch of business alone-the iron
and steel industry-and only 4O4 to
all the other trades.
What is the situation to-day? AS
a result Of Democratic victory last
November, and of the declared pur-
pose OF the party to wipe out the
Mckinley act, denounced in the Dem
ocrati,' platform as 1.-The eliminating
atrocity of class legislation" hun
dred of thousands of men have been
thrown out of work, mills and mines
are suspending operation, and so emf
nent a Democrat as Abrams. Hewitt
asserts that wages must belargely re-
duced
We invite the workingmen to look
on the bright picture of July, '92,
and the dark one of July, '93.-Neso
York Recorder.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-16
How Silver is Purchased.

It seems to be very difficult for the
public to understand the way the
government buys silver under the
Sherman act. The general suppose
ton appears to be that the govern
ment loses money on every purchase
to the extent of the difference in in
trinsic value between gold and a sill
yer dollar. The Presidents message
rather favors that idea, without ex-
plicitly maintaining it.
Now the truth is that the govern
ment gets the silver for it's value in
gold. For example, take the last sill
yer purchase, made July 81. The
amount bought was 216,OO0 ounces,
or 1O3, $50, 900 grains. 1t takes on
Iy 371 .25 grains ofpure silver to make
standard dollar, but the govern
ment actually paid only 7e.3 cents
per ounce. There are 40 grains in
an ounce.
The purchases are madein notes re-
deemable in coin. The holder may de-
mand gold, but if so the government
only pays out gold for silver at cost,
figured on a gold basis. To illustrate,
take the total purchases required for
each month and the price paid for the
bullion bought last week COS cents
per ounce) as the two bases of calcula-
ton and we have thefollowing result:
Amount of silver purchased (ounces) a, 500 900
Amount of treasury notes issued in
payment. ............. 10, loo,5UU
Gold value of the bullion itself. 3,163,5 500
If the notes were presented for re-
demption they would call for SIS, 163,-
500 in coin, gold or silver. Itshould
be remembered that with silver at par
an ounce of that metal is worth
$1.29.-Inter Ocean.