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AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.

Our Monetary System Should he Divorced
from the Metals Gold and silver.
The Denver, Col, Evening Post re-
Gently published this editorial para
graph.
The truth is that some of our es-
teemed eastern friends are intoxicated
with passion and blinded with preju
dice. Silver money is not dishonest
1t buys as much as gold in the stores
and passes current in every mart of
trade. But it stands in the way of the
usurer, who would like to contract the
currency so as to squeeze the debtors
already sweating blood until they yield
their last penny and give up all hope"
The New York Times commenting on
this utterance of the Post says:
None assert that silver money is dis
honest, but all who are not stone blind
must know the silver dollar of to-day
is not the silver dollar of our fathers
that was made worth one hundred
cents on the dollar. True, the fifty-five
cent dollar of to-day is made legal
tender by the fiat of the government
and it buys as much in the stores and
passes current in every mart of trade, .
but it is only within the limits of our
own country. Across the line that di-
vides this country from another the sill
yer certificate is worth Just what the
silver is worth as bullion and that dis
credits our currency, disturbs our busi-
ness and dishonors our government"
But is it not undertaking more than
is necessary to furnish currency for
domestic purposes that will circulate
as money in foreign countries? Ameri-
can gold coin does not pass at its face
value anywhere unless it weighs up to
face value. An English sovereign is
not received even in the Bank of En-
gland unless it is full weight and it is
always weighed. This is the strongest
argument against the use of gold as
money of account because it cannot be
in circulation long without losing a
portion of it's weight and the trades
man, the wage Garner, the manufact-
urer-in short the great masses of soci-
ETY. are liable at all times to be
weighed" out of part of honest earn
ings- For the banks, in this country
at least. that are careful not to accept
q light weight coin have no scruples
about paying it out at its face value.
Inc pialn people nave not IorSOIten
how the trade dollar, although it had
more silver in it than the standard dol
lar. was paid out by the banks at par
but refused except at a discount when
taken over the counters. This was not
a question of weight, but one of legal
tender. The trade dollars were not
made receivable for debt by the law
creating them and the banks took ad-
vantage of the fact to turn an honest
penny in handling them
The currency Of the United States
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should all be legal tender for all debts
public and private. Any other kind Of
money is dishonest because it makes
cheating by, the banks not only possi-
bic but certain Paper currency issued
by the treasury department ''re-
ceivable" for all debts, public and
private, is the most reliable cur
rency ever devised by man Nor
will its purchasing value ut home
or abroad be measured by the value
OF gold but by the supply and de-
mand for all the things needed for the
! comfort and maintenance of the lniman
family. This seems so self-evident rs
to require no demonstration, because.
the United States produces more OF
these things than the people at home
can possibly consume and the purchass
ing power of domestic money will -bo
fixed by the amount of home con-
sumption and the ratio that the money
! supply bears to the supply of home
produced necessaries of life.
|. Legislation that will increase this
ratio to a point where domestic ex-
changes could be effected without the
use of credit at all would afford an.
ideal currency. 1t would doaway with
the necessity for banks of discount as
we have already done away with the.
need for banks of issue: OF course il is
entirely impracticablc to dispense with
credits in the Immediate future, because
probably more than % per cent. of the
worlds business is based upon credi t.
But it is easily conceivable that the
day will come when not civilized
country in the world will have on its
statute books n law for the collection
of debts. Legislation that will greatly
extend the cash system of doing busi-
ness will hasten the time. and laws pro-
viding domestic currency, depending
for its purchasing power not on in
trinsic value but on its dcbt-paying
quality, will steadily increase cash
transactions.
1t is a reproach to the intelligence of
the world that it has made no material
progress in the science of finance since
banking was first instituted. 1t is u
reproach to the integrity of American
craftsmanship that when the legal
strating that the true principle and
function of money had been discovered,
our public men permitted usurers to
partially rc-establish the e'system of pill
lage and plumber that is inseparable
from the use of any particular COM:
modify as the standard of values. The
country by this step backward, has lost
many times more than the cost of the
late civil war. - Evansville Qnd.)
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THE KANSAS TROUBLES.
The :antA Fe Miners Go to Work,
tempt to Prevent Them Defeated.

The :anth Fe Miners Go to Work-At-
tempt to Prevent Them Defeated.
WEIR CITY, Kan, Aug. 23-Consider-
able excitement was caused Just at
noon yesterday by an exchange of shots
between a crowd of strikers and a
negro employed at one of the Central
Coal & Coke Co S shafts
The negro had come to town on some
errand and the crowd of strikers, some
200 or 800 in number began guying him
Soon some of them saw a revolver un-
der his coat This enraged them and
they started for him. He retreated,
warning them off, and finally drew his
revolver and fired in the air. He then
ran. but, as they followed, he turned
and fred at the crowd. They then
shot twice at him as he ran He fred
a third time and was again fired on by
the crowd.
He beat them to the company's stock
:ide and got inside as fast as possible.
Nobody was hurt.
ARMED DEPUTIES.
PITTsBURG, Kan, Aug. %. - Forty
armed deputies stood off President
Walters and large body of strikers at
the Santa Fe Coal Co.'S mine at From
tenac. Mr. Walters attempted a nice
little bluff to prevent the miners who
had signed the agreement from return
ing to work, but it did not prove as
satisfactory as he had expected.
Early in the morning about 400 stril1-
ers, headed by President Walters, as
sembled at shaft No. at Frontenac
and attempted to prevent miners who
had signed the contract with Devlin
from going to work. Deputy Sheriff
kdsit was present with a posse of forty
deputies armed with Winchesters.
The presence of the deputies made it
possible for a small number of men to
go to work. and in spite of all that
President Walters and his mob of striR-
ers could do thirty-five men went down
into the shaft.
The deputies were prominent busi-
ness men of Pittsburg, who volunteered
their services for the purpose of pro-
tecting the miners who were willing to
go to work. They had done all in their
power to bring about n settlement be-
tween Mr.. Devlin and his men and they
did not propose to have Walters inter-
fere with their labors.
The strikers with Walters were most
ly from Litchfield, Midway and Pitts
burg. After being called down on
their bluff they marched to the village
school house, where they held meet
ing. 1t had been announced that Mr..
Devlin would be in Frontenac during
the afternoon and the strikers ap-
pointed a committee to wait on bim
and request him to modify some of the
Objectionable features of the contract.
Before noon the crowd had dispersed,
and at that time about sixty men had
gone to work in the shaft. Over 200
men have signed Mr.. Devlin's contract.
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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of tho Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES,


THERE is no founda tion for reports
that the administration intends to dis
cipline silver democrats.
Ir is believed that Henry LOOMS
Nelson, Kentuckian, now a resident
of New York, will be made director OF
the mint.
SECRETARY SMITH has finally con.
sented to appoint an alIotting agent
for the Kickapoo lands, and there is at
last prospect of getting that reserva.
tion open to settlement
j. LOGAN CHIrMAN, congressman
from the First Michigan district, is
dead.
SECRETARY SMITH was shown a dis
patch 20 the effect that. the Atlanta
Journal had called upon congress to
pass a free coinage bill. The secretary
said no significance should be attached
to the editorials of this paper on ac-
count of the fact that he still holds a
block of its stock.
Il. o. LEECH. rx-director of the mint,
believes tina. the Wilson repeal bill will
pass the house, but that the senate will
amend it SO as to provide for free coin
age or silver at a higher ratio which
will not be acceptable to the president.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has requested
the resignation of J. w. Flanagan, col
,cctor of customs at El Paso, Tex.
COMPTROLLER BcKELs has been in
Formed that the Peoples national bank
of Winston, \. G., capital 500, 900, had
suspended.
THERE appears to be a concerted move
in la Dor circles to forward as many of
The unemployed to Washington as pos
sible, so that their condition may be
visible to congress.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has given to
Senator Voorhees, statement of what
it would cost to recoin the silver money
of.the country at the ratio of 20 to /, if
such be adopted.
= THE government receipts for nine
teen days of August were s1564O 600;
receipts for fiscal year, $40. .5i5. 116. Ex-
penditures for month, to date, s22, $685.
900; expenditures for fiscal year, SOL
$50, ,SSs.
SPEAKER CRISP on the 21st announced
the new committees. To the surprise
of many Wilson succeeded Springer as
chairman of ways and means and
Sayers displaced Holman on appropria.
tionS.
THERE are some members of congress
who believe that by the middle of Sep
tembcr it will have been demonstrated
o that no compromise can be reached on
tie silver'question ard an adjournment
viii be taken.
SENATOR CHANDLER has introduced
u resolution declaring that John Mar
tin was never legally elected senator
from Kansas and is not entitled to the
seat
THE marine hospital bureau has re-
ccived a telegram from, DIR. Porter, state
health officer of Florida, stating that
there is no yellow fever at Tampa. An
other dispatch reports a new case of
fever at Brunswick Ga.
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CHINA WILL RETALlATE.
So Stated in a Private Letter from tn,
Celestial Empire.

Celestial Empire.
CLEVELAND, O., Aug. GA gentle
man in this city has just received from
friend in Tien Tsin, China, letter
saying United States Consul William
Bowman, who left that city short
time ago for this country, carried with
him a message from Viceroy Lii Hung
Chang to President Cleveland. The
gentleman who sends the information
does not tell how he got a copy of the
message, but vouches for it. 1t is:
The Viceroy Ii Hung Chang requests Consul
Bowman on his return to the United States to
call upon President Cleveland and state:
First-That the vicero-, Ii Hung. appreci-
ates the good intentions Of the president and
secretary of state. and thanks them for their
efforts to secure q kind and just treatment for
the Chinese residing in the United States
Second-That the viceroy feels keeDly the
unfriendly nature and injustice of the Geary
law
Third-That China will take no action there.
on until the next session of the United States
congress, in hope that the Geary law will be
modified.
Fourth-That IL the next congress decides to
enforce the law. China will at once retalsate
friendly relations between the two countries
will be broken on, and laws will be enacted
hooking toward the expulsion OF all Americans
from China
Ffth-That meantime instructions have been
issued to oil officials to take especial care to
protect all American citizens in China from
violence.
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Riotfng Mobs In Vienna.

VIENNA, Aug. 23.-Thousands of
roughs gathered last evening near
Wagemann's factory. in the Favoriten
quarter, and jeered and stoned the po-
lice who have guarded the building since
the strike of the unemployed began.
The police tried to drive the Toughs
away. The first two charges, made
without drawing swords, We're repulsed
and several policemen were injured
with stones Eventually the police
charged with drawn swords The
roughs held their ground until many
had been cut and several arrested They
t6eP refrea TED slowly, still Sighting:
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Gold and Currencx.

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-The Ems ar.
rived last night with q, 4s3 900 in gold
from England. $500. 600 from Bremen
haven and $542, 500 from the Deutsche
Bank OF Berlin Gold to the amount
of e250. 900 was withdrawn from the
Bank of England to-day for ship
ment abroad. OF this sum $50. 600
will go to the United States and $780,
600 to Canada Trading in currency
was less active to-day and the premium
paid was lower than yesterday. Tho
quotation was from IL to per cent
Spot gold declined to TX while the
metal to arrive eommaqds merely
nominal premium. -
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Edgar Thompson works Closing.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. aS.-The an
nouncement was authoritatively made
last night that the Edgar Thompson
steel works of the Carnegie Steel Co,
Braddock, will be closed down indefi-
nitely next week, owing to a lack of
work. This will be remarkable oc-
currence, as this plant is always in full
blast at this season of the year, the
stop for repairs being made earlier.
The shutdown will throw about 800
men idle 1t is quite likely that one
or two of the six blast furnaces now in
operation at Braddock will also be
closed down owing to the rapid accu-
mutation of pig iron.
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Famous Yacht Wrecked.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass Aug. 23.-The
steamer Gay Head, which arrived last
night, reports seeing the famous steel
schooner yacht Volunteer on the rocks
at the entrance to Hadley's harbor,
Mansion. The Volunteer, which had
been riding out the gale with top mast
housed and both anchors down, had
evidently dragged ashore. The Volun-
teer was a steel sloop. owned by Gen.
Charles j. Paine. of Boston, well known
as an enthusiastic yachtsman, and was
designed by the late Edward Burgess
She was the winner of the American
cup during the last International race
in 1877
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THE LATEST.


The worlds fair directory has re-
quested Theodore Thomas to resume
charge of the music
THE president has issued his procla-
nation opening the Cherokee strip to
settlement at the hour of IL o'clock
noon, central standard time, Saturday,
September 16.
THE American Bankers association
has issued a circular calling upon bank
ers to sign petition for repeal of the
Sherman law and to make energetic
effort to influence congress.
WALTER SANGER, the bicycle cham
pion, has been expelled from the Mil
waukee club for refusing to appear in
a race after being advertised.
DIXON, the colored pugilist so often
successful in lightweight contests,
was defeated by Plimmer in a late con-
test at Madison square garden, New
York.
JAPAN has made demand upon the
provisional government of Hawaii for
suffrage for the japanese.
VOORHEES, occupied the attention of
the senate on the 22d with speech de-
Tending the administration on the sill
yer question. The discussion continued
in the house, at times becoming mo-
notonous-
THERE is report that China will not
retaliate for the Geary law until after
the next session of congress
The national encampment of the
Farmers alliance opened at Mt. Gretna,
Pa, on the 22nd with $1,000 present
An address was delivered by Hon. Ben
Terrell, of Texas
CROP bulletins of Illinois and Iowa
say that recent rains have been greatly
ed yet, especially in portions of Illinois
Apples and potatoes will be short in IL
linois
AT Caldwell. Id, the house of fam
lily named Brookshire, lately from Mis-
souri,, was burned. Two children aged
and 2 years were burned to death.
The private bank of ]. n Knapp T.
Co, of Cedar Falls, Ia, failed to open
its doors
THREE men were killed and several
seriously hurt by the murderous folly
of militiaman in a track trouble at
Gilberton, Pa.
E. NJ. DONALDSON, president of the
Marion (Kan.) First national bank,
also of dozen Iowa banks and secre-
tary of the Union Trust Co, Sioux
City, all suspended institutions, is .
fugitive, charged with forgery and em-
bezzlement of over $500, 600
TIE railroads of South Carolina have
won victory over the dispensary law
Of that state. - - = -
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FOOL MilITlAMAk.

He Fired Into Crowd and Started q
Disastrous Riot Which Resulted in -Four
Deaths.
GILBERToN, Pa, Aug. 23.-The tear
ing up of the SchuykilI Traction Co s
tracks here by the borough officials re.
snlted most disastrously. When the
company officials heard of the Gilberton
affair they Immediately sent force OF
men to try and effect an amica BILE set.
tlement.
When the break in the road was
reached President Z. f. Jones. of the
traction company, with Richard Amour,
of Shenandoah, chief of the company's
police, got off the car and in a few mo.
ments had effected settlement, and
the work of tearing up the tracks was
stopped.
In the car were a number of men
taken on at Girardsville, members of
the national guard, who had with them
rifles belonging to the company.
While the railway officials were en-.
gagged in conversing with the borough
officers, some of the crowd taunted the
men on board the car and called out,
Where is the Girardville militia?"
A man named John Briggs, of Girard-
vile, stepped out and said, "Here we
are" accompanying his salutation with
an oath, and, leveling his rifle, fired
into the crowd, killing Richard Paifitt.
aged 25, single, spectator. Chief
Amour and President Jones had settled
the trouble and Briggs shot over
Amour's shoulder.
This Immediately enraged the people
and stones were fired. Shots from the
car became general and for while a
most terrific battle ensued. Chief
Amour tried to subdue the trouble
and, while in the act of stopping his
men, was shot in the breast and died
yesterday afternoon. 1t is supposed
he was shot by one of his own men.
The battle ragged for an hour or more
until the cooler headed people of Gil.
berton prevailed upon the crowd tc
disperse and the dead and injured were
looked after.
In addition to Paifitt, William
Hughes, aged 10, an onlooker, was shot
and instantly killed; Richard Connors
was shot in the hand and leg, not dan
gerous; Evan David, shot in the leg,
which will have to be amputated;
James Hullihay had his skull fractured
by stone and may die. Briggs, who
started the riot, was shot by a COM
panion accidentally and received a
scalp wound and was also wounded in
his leg.
When the trouble had quieted down,
Briggs escaped, and, running toward
Mahonoy plain, hid in a barn, but was
captured and, together with Arthur
Wyvale, also a member of the Girard-
vile militia, was taken to the Pttsville
Jail.
Sheriff Wall, of Schuylkill county, is
now in possession of the tracks and
will prevent any further disturbance.
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Great Storm on Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX, n. s., Aug. e3.-Not since
the memorable storm of thirty years
ago when fifty vessels were wrecked
on this coast, has such gale swept
Nova Scotia The storm set in Mon.
day night and continued until the next
afternoon. Rain poured in torrents.
Many wrecks are reported, among them
one schooner which sank with her crew
of twelve men. Many other minor ac-
cidents have occurred and the damage
to property is large.
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The free coinage of silver is de-
manded by the Omaha platform, and
its adoption would bring present relief
and temporary prosperity. The do.
monetization of both gold and silver,
and substitution of legal tender treas-
ury notes, would forever settle tie
financial problem, and bring to this
nation perpetual prosperity. PITY
burg Kansau. -
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GENERAL.

IT is believed now that the trial races
of the would-be cup defenders will be
sailed September and the final races
September Is
On the evening of July 80 the Dutch
steamer Bantam ran into and sank the
German steamer Amigo, in Hong Kong
harbor. Two boats lying alongside the
Arigo were also cut down, causing the
loss of several Chfnamen.
ARMED forces met in the outskirts of
Piedras Ncgras. Mexico. but the citi-
zens readily submitted to the federal
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-06-23
FROM EVA.
A few Items Caught ON the Fly by our
Resident Reporter.

A few Items Caught ON the Fly by our
Resident Reporter.
Miss Annie lofty is visiting at
Camden.
Master Warner Stem went to
Huntingdon Saturday.
Miss Leola Lowry has returned
from an extended visit to friends
at Dickson.
Our farmers have commenced to
lay-by the corn crop, and a good
rain at this time would prove de-
cidedly beneficial.
Mr.. Jake Browning is the hap
piest man at Eva. He says a fine
boy made his appearance at his
house on the Goth ultimo.
EVA. June 81.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-06-23
FROM COOLERS LANDING.

Our Reporter Says Corn is Fine and They
Have Cider in Abundance.
Miss Leila Hudson is visiting at
Holiday.
The river continues low, and fish
ing is good.
Nh. j. Phillips is running a fish
cry at this place.
The corn crop is fine in this Vi
entity, and peanuts are lookingwell
We were blessed with a good rain
Tuesday, and it was badly needed.
Mr.. John Hooten will leave for
Paducah shortly with a raft Of fine
timber.
Messrs. Ferd Saunders and Enoch
Harris, of Camden, are here ON a
fishing expedition.
Mr.. John WHY, of Camden, is
still here engaged in the manufac-
ture of duck callers.
Joy reigns supreme in the house
hold Of Mr.. Phillips now since the
arrival Of a new daughter.
Mr.. John Eaves and family, of
Holiday, spent Sunday with Mr..
Marion Eaves and family.
Mr.. Russell, who stole the boat
from Mr.. Hooten and ran away, is
not such a william after all. He
shipped the boat back.
Good cider is in abundance here
now, and the thoughtful housewife
will give some attention to prepar-
ing gingerbread for the boys.
While Messrs. Hudson and Rob.
erts were returning from Holiday
last Friday the former was thrown
from his horse, but it is not thought
that he is hurt much.
CooLEY's LANDING, June 20.
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