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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
Grant on Silver Money.

President Grant, eight months after he
had been bunkoed into signing the de-
monetization of silver act of 1878 and
unconscious of the fact at the time of
writing, wrote to friend as follows on
Oct. 3, 1878: Il wonder that silver is not
already coming into the market to sup
ply the deficiency in the circulating me-
dunn. Experience has proved that it
takes about $40, 900 900 of fractional cur
rency to make the small change neces-
sary for the transacting of the business
of the country. Silver will gradually
take the place Of this currency, and, fur
ther, will become the standard Of values,
which will be boarded in small way.
estimate that this will consume 5000, OOO,-
600 to $500, 000,0 900 in time of this species
of our circulating medium. l confess to
q desire to see limited boarding of
money. But want to see boarding of
something that is standard of value
the world over. Silver is this. =
Our mines are now producing almost I'M
limited amounts of silver, and it is be-
coming . question What shall we do
with it? Isuggest here solution which
will answer for some years-to put it in
keeping it there until it is
fixed, and then we will find other mar
kets."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
A Sort of Subtreasury.

A New York daily paper says that
money can be borrowed on butter, eggs,
cheese, chickens and farm products of
all the kinds that will keep as easily as
on diamonds and watches. Not oaly is
this so, but there is great deal more
money loaned on ordinary farm products
than in all the pawnshops in New York.
This is business which is growing ev-
cry year. and which has now assumed
such an enormous proportion that it
makes up a large part Of the discount
line of several banks. Cold storage and
the development of the storage warehouse
business in New York have made this
possible. Most of those warehouses, es-
pecially the storage warehouses, are to
the banks what the pawnbroker's safe is
to him, only the banks act through some
one else, while the pawnbroker owns the
warehouse and the capital both.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
Should BE Impeached.

A bride giver or bride taker in Office
is a fit candidate for impeachment.
When Mr.. Cleveland refuses to extend
patronage to men who do not agree with
him on the silver question, he uses his
high Office for the purpose of bribing
silver men to desert their constituents in
order to secure the privilege of dispens-
ing few Offices to friends.
It is bribery pure and simple, and be-
cause Cleveland exercises his privilege
in that direction does not make it anv
the less criminal offense.
Cleveland should be impeached.
Bribery in his high Office is an incen-
tive to less important officials to exercise
the same doubtful methods. If this sort
of bribery is not stopped, it won't BIZ long
before our whole system OF government
will be used as an engine for bribery.
Incarcerating a petty briber while \
wholesale briber like Cleveland goes un-
molested is disgrace. Road.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
People's PARTY In Pennsvlvania.

The Peoples Party of Pennsylvania
will hold their state convention at Will
Transport on June IA. The basis of rep
resentation is to be one delegate from
each district and one additional for ev-
cry 100 votes or fractional part thereof
cast for Weaver.
The call issued by the state committee
says: I'VE believe the condition of our
country demands prompt action on the
part of the common people. The late
rulings Of the courts as affecting labor
organizations, the depressed condition of
industrial pursuits, and the aggressive
policy of the great monopolies intrenched
behind the Pinkertons and the militia
and hidden beneath the gowns Of the
judiciary, warn US of the common con-
hict which shall determine whether we
shall continue to possess the inherent
right Of personal liberty or the bondage
of the slave"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
Where Will 1t End?

When fair elections by the people have
become impossible; when votes are open
ly bought, or the voter driven from the
polls, or the corrupted elector is made to
vote a dozen times; when the evil has
become so notorious that the man who
thus debauches himself, his neighbor and
his country boasts of his disgrace and is
proud Of the perfection of his infamy;
when the mails are tempered with in the
interest of the spoilsmen; when gentle
man will consent to hold place Gin the
Georgia senate, for instance) which is
the gift of four counties, and which he
obtained in the face of the admitted
facts that three of the counties voted
against him, while in the remaining
county his majority was carried to the
necessary point by throwing out nine
precincts and retaining only two, and
when Christian gentleman (of the
breed called 'Peerless') can still claim
to be mirror of honor while holding
on to congressional Office which he Sc
cured by series of mysterious devices
-one which was to count $4,000 votes
in county where the limit was Dos
sible 9,0OO-how can person who be-
ieves there is no stopping place pre-
scribed for human passion or human
greed when law is once put under foot
fail to see the dread import Of the ques-
ton, Where will it end?'- E. Watson
in Peoples Party Paper.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
Texas Populists.

A Washington special to the Boston
Herald says: Judge Seth Shepard Of
Dallas, just appointed member Of the
new court of appeals of the District Of
Columbia, is quoted as saying: ''Polit-
ically there has been dissension in the
Democratic ranks, in the Hogg- Clark
fight, but these disputes ought to be set
tied and the factions united, and think
they will be. The strength of the Popu-
lists surprised us. If this Republicans
had voted soidly with the Populists for
Mr.. Nugent, the latter's nominee, he
would have been elected The Populists
have had their own way in Kansas.
What they will accomplish in Texas re-
mains to be seen, and at present the vote
is an unknown quantity"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
yer dollars). They were also held by the
banks as reserves in large quantities.

banks as reserves IN large quantities.
But on Feb. 81, 1857. congress demone-
tized all foreign coins. This took them
out of the banks. They went abroad
never to return. And this was one chief
cause of the panic of 1857.
The facts above given properly circu-
lated should forever silence the bubbles
of the gold men about the nonuse and
noncoi;age of silver up to 1878. From
1861 to 1878 we used little coin.
Some brief notice is needed of The
Tribune's other points. The demoneti-
cation of silver here "when none was in
use' (but it was at 8 per cent premium,
mind you) was part of deep scheme
started by the downing of silver in
Germany in 1871 to put all the wealth
of Christendom, including $50 billions
of interest sucking debt, on a gold basis
by destroying the silver half of the basis.
They are getting on well with it.
They ask sneeringly if we want to go
on &-cent dollar like Mexico. It is
true that they have worked their dia-
bolical will with Mexico and South
America, where the currency is thrown
into horrible confusion and reliable
business is made almost impossible by
the rise in gold. They came near Mex
icanizing us in this respect. but have
failed as yet.
The talk about dollars worth of sill
yer in the dollar and our efforts to de-
stroy bimetallism may be passed with 81
lent contempt.
The money of depositors in banks
would lose some of it's purchasing power,
as it should, yet it is not likely that gold
would go to premium, but that silver
would go to 1.29 again in gold if we
had free coinage. It is not the billion
and half of bank deposits these fellows
are trying to protect, but the hundreds of
billions of stored up wealth throughout
,Christendom that they wish to double in
value.
Their plea for the deposits Of workmen
In savings banks, ETC., is like the howl
the mortgage people are always raising
about the poor widows and orphans of
the east, to whom the western farmers
should willingly pay high interest. Wise
nations legislate for producers rather
than for interest suckers.
SAMUEL LEAvITT.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
A Good Start.

The Peoples Party club of the Ninth
congressional district of Pennsylvania,
the object of which is to educate the
members upon the question of political
economy, was organized in Reading re-
Gently and started with a mem bership
of over so. William Anderson of st.
Louis, president Of the International
Brassworkers' association and secretary
Of the Peoples State association of Mis-
souri,. addressed the meeting.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
A Georgia Example.

The state of Georgia owns the West
ern and Atlantic railroad kat connects
Chattanooga and Atlanta ard is about
40 miles long. The Louisville and Nash
vile system has it leased and pays the
people OF Georgia $35, 900 per month
rental, which goes for the education Of
tne children OF the state. That's one
form OF government ownership. Cotton
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24

Great Caesar! How the unions through
out the country are just everlastingly
faying Judges Kicks, Taft and Billings.
It is little these judges or their masters
care for laboring peoples resoluting. It's
ballots they fear.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24

The Peoples Party Of Ohio holds its
convention at Columbus July and 5.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
One Sided Tariff.

Cotton continues to come into the Unit
ed States in constantly increasing vol
ume. Nearly n per cent more, says the
Boston Journal of Commerce, was i'm
ported during the first eight months of
the current fiscal year than during the
corresponding period last year, and at
this rate the years importation will
amount to about 5O,O0O,O0 pounds,
equivalent to 100000 American bales.
Most of the imports are of Egyptian cot
ton, and 1.-The average value as report
ed, by which we understand the average
cost to the American manufacturer. is a
little over 10 cents pound.
All this cotton is imported free Of duty
under the Mckinley law and the Repub-
ican tariff system for the protection of
American industries and American labor
from foreign competition. The duties
on manufactures of such cotton were
raised considerably by the Mckinley
tariff, for the benefit of the New Eng
land manufacturers. It is evident from
this statement that these duties should
be among the first to receive the atten-
ton of the tariff reformers in the next
congress.
It is a plain case that the American
growers Of fine cotton should be ''pro-
tected" from the competition of the
Egyptian farmers and their pauper labor
ers, or that the duties should be removed
from fine cotton goods. The discrimi-
nation in favor of rich manufacturing
corporations and against the cotton
farmers and consumers is unjust and in
Observation-Disclosures News and Courier.
Pennoyer Is All Right.
At mass meeting of the Peoples
Party and anti-Chinese voters Of Port
land, Or. the following resolutions were
passed:
Resolved, That the Peoples Party, in con-
vention assembled, tender our admiration and
respect to Governor Pennoyer for his very apt
rebuke to the Gresham Cleveland coordination.
Resolved, That wOrkmen as class are
merciful and lenient toward the unfortunate
and unakilled, even in craftsmanship, and we
therefore tender our coincidence to Gresham.
Cleveland and the Six Chinese Companies.
Governor Pennoyer, referring to the
failure of Chinese to register, says: ''The
refusal is most undoubtedly the result Of
collision between the president and the
Chinese minister. If Cleveland had in
sisted that the law must be enforced,
there would have been no failure to reg
lister. It is most humiliating that the
citizens of Oregon first learned of this
unholy compact from hieroglyphic
proclamation of the Six Companies posted
on the walls of Chinese washhouse in
Astoria. Cleveland has thus become re-
sponsible for whatever trouble may
arise. If he had declared his purpose to
enforce the law, there would have been
complete registration. The Chinese
minister has apparently dictated the
policy Of the administration, and he was
not probably aware of the fact that ar
ticles Of impeachment have been pre-
ferred against a president for II less Of
Tense than Cleveland's refusal to strictly
enforce the exclusion law"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12
THE SAN JUAN MINES.
Memories of Pixies Peak and Leadvnle
Recalled.

OGDEN, Jan. Especial. Memories
of '4S, of Pixies peak, of Leadville and
the Black hills are recalled by the San
Juan gold excitement. Reports differ
widely concerning the extent and profit
ableness of the new placer diggings, but
there seems to be good reason to believe
that there has been an Important dis
covery. The fact that this discovery is
in region comparatively new to gold
hunters will intensity interest and aug
ment the belief that another Ell Dorado
has been found. The fact that new
gold field is near the Carrizo mountains
will lead to a thorough exploration of
the mountains by gold hunters. This
win settle the question as to whether
there is gold in the mountains or not.
An important gold discovery would be a
most excellent thing for the world at
large. It might prevent the furtherpuI-
ling apart of the relative values of gold
and silver.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12
The palles 11arkets.

THURSDAY, Jan. 12.-This week ie q
repetition of the former in business cir
cles in the city. A general complaint
comes in from all quarters of the dull
ness of the season. The only activity is
in the land department where there is q
rush of persons for their final proof on
lands, and especially so of securing titles
to forfeited railroad lands. Which is
limited to the Sd of next month. The
inquiry for money on that account has
been met with some difficulty on account
of stringency that prevails outside of
the banks. In some instances large
bonuses have been paid. The mer-
chandize situation continues steady
without any material change in prices.
Provisions and staple groceries are in
good stock and prices are steady with an
upward tendency on quotations-especi-
ally in bacon, hams, and lard, which is
higher than formerly owing to the light
corn crops and the small stock of young
hogs raised the past year in the east.
This staple will rule high throughout the
coming season. A suggestion comes
SAaAs OuA 4ACIS WOQlQ QO OCIJcE W put
wheat into pork than to put into market
otherwise.
Eggs are in better supply with a de-
cline in quotations in few days. But
ter remains steady at former prices.
Potatoes are in good supply and but
few are moving from outside. Quota
tions are unchanged, other vegeta bles
are in fair supply, and prices more firm.
Poultry of all kinds is in fair supply at
former prices.
The beef and mutton market is quite
steady. The demand for fat beeves is
easily supplied with good quality.
Mutton sheep that are really fine, find a
ready market for home wants, and q
better demand for export with firm
prices.
The grain market in Portland is
huctuating more or less, having nothing
to report worthy of encouragement
to holders. The eastern and foreign
markets are dull, with occasional spurts
of activity, but on the whole is weaken
ing in tone.
The Dalles market is lifeless on former
quotations.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12

A new ssnickel in the slot'' machine
was on exhibition at The Umatills
few evenings since which is quite q
curiosity. By expending five cents and
turning crank one is dealt poker
hand by the machine. the cards turning
on a cylinder. The player can then
discard by touching buttons, and an
other turn of the crank completes his
hand. The machine, of course, "deals
on the square," and the result is di-
rected by pure luck. The apparatus is
designed to provide amusement only.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12

The Portland Cracker company which
owns the cracker factories of the north
west, and has recently created consid-
erable interest among the trade by cut
ting quite swath in the confectionery
business, continues its work of absorp-
ton, having purchased the candy fac
tories of the Bernheim, Alisky Candy
Co., and ]. N. Mathscheck & Co., thus
crushing out competition and becoming
a combination of formidable proportions.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12

Blaine is is-reported to be improving to-
day. -
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12
CLEVELAND v. MURPHY
Rather Dr0Il Scenes Witnessed at Al
banY by un-Laakers.
IHE WRATH OF HILL STIRRED UP.
Murphy to be Elected in Spite of cleve-
land or his Friends.
THE WRATH OF HILL STIRRED UP.
Marphy to be Elected in Spite of cleve-
land or his Friends.
CHIEF Value OF THE INCIDENT.
cleveland's was a DistinetiveIy Per-
sonal victory Last November,
and Tammany May 60.
Special to TIE cHnoslcIz.l

Special to The CHRoNIcLE.l
ALBANY, n. Y, Jan. 1.-THE recon-
mendation of the presidential electors,
after casting the vote of New York for
Cleveland and Stevenson that Murphy
of Troy be elected to take the place OF
Hiscock in the senate, was the red rag
and mad bull parable renovated. Mr..
Cleveland still objects, and his particu-
lar friends in the state also object.
This stirs up the wrath OF the Hill men
who are also Murphy men, and they 60
scowling about the business of electing
Murphy in the teeth of the president
elect. .--ss.~@ss at,es:-<-s
Mr.. Cleveland is private citizen,
and since he does not like the eminent
Trojan, it would seem to be quite the
proper thing for him to say so. If Mr..
Murphy can get elected without Mr..
Cleveland's good opinion, that is an ex-
cellent thing for Mr.. Murphy. To be
disapproved of by large feshy gentle
man who is soon to dispense patronage
from the white house may have a de-
pressing effect on the spirits, yet the
chances are that Mr.. Murphy will not
grieve and go into a decline. But the
rich crimson rage OF Mr.. Murphy's
friends, because of Mr.. Cleveland's lack
of delicacy in refusing to pretend to
like their favorite is highly interesting.
Of course the chief value of the incl
dent to the country at large comes from
the light it throws on the course of the
executive who will shape the policy of
the next administration. His election
last November was distinctively per-
sonal victory. The democrats who de-
manded his nomination at Chicago knew
well that if elected he would not respond
readily to party dictation; if they did
not know this they had studied his for
mer administration to little purpose.
While anything like an open rupture
with his party may be nearly or quite
out of the question it is more likely
that he will do its bidding against his
inclination.
This probable adjustment of party to
president, particularly with the senate
almost a tie and the two democratic
senators from New York inimical to the
executive, will be watched with much
interest and some solicitude. Another
such equibble as the Garfield -Conkling
affair is certainly not to be desired.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12

At Baker city a shipment of fifteen
carloads of beef cattle is icing fed on
account of the failure of Puget sound
beef company to come up with the
purchase price of the cattle, the owners
refusing to allow the shipment to be
made without some guarantee that their
money will be forthcoming.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12
Banking Profits.

Bankers Journal. A bank in small
town derives profits from the following
sources: From interest on its capital
invested in bonds; fro,6 interest on its
circulating notes loaned to the public !;
from interest derived by lending por-
ton of its deposit fund; from profit in
buying and selling drafts or exchange on
New York and other cities. The same
is true, of course on much larger scale,
with the large metropolitan banks, ex-
cept that while the relations of small
banks are local, those of the large banks
reach to all parts of the world. In inn
ports and exports, the Office of the
banker is almost as important as that
of the ship or the railroad. In amounts
involving millions of dollars, not more
than eight per cent is settled by the
direct shipment of money. Bills of ex-
change are used which, in reality, are
nothing more than methods of barter
so much -four, for instance sent to
Scotland in exchange for burlaps and
bags. The banker is generally regarded
as dealer in money, but this in only
incidental. Primarily he deals in credits
and instruments of exchange. For in
stance, a Chicago bank received in one
day from depositors IS, ,400, 900. Only
five per cent of this was cash; the re-
mainder was made up of checks, drafts,
bills of exchange and clearing house
exchanges.
When the steamer Telephone was
leaving the dock at Eagle Cliff last Tues
day, Max Young, who was bidding his
boys goodbye, got his fingers in between
two piles that were showed together,
and they were crushed fat. Fate seems
| to follow Max, he has been mashed up
several times.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12

The Moro band boys are expecting
their instruments every day, so as to
make life wearisome and not worth
living to an outsider.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12

A bill will be introduced in the Olym-
pia legislature abolishing poll tax; also
one that in incorporated cities there
shall be but one assessment for munich
pal, county and state taxes. Such a law
would no doubt operate well in this
state. Take it in The DaIles, for in
county, city and school. And the poll
tax arrangement as il is worked is
fraud of the biggest sort. Wasco county,
with population less than one-third az
large as that of Multnomah, pays more
poll tax than does the larger county,
while others with far less population
than The Dalles have more polls assessed
than does Wasco county.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-12

Condor has decided to incorporate as
a city. The citizens are all down on a
petition for it.