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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10

But soon there came serious doubts
and questionings. The advocates of
sound money spread abroad literature
din which the free silver doctrine was
ridiculed as absurd, or denounced as
dangerous. 1t was pointed out that
merely cheapening the currency could
not increase the wealth of the coun-
try, and that changing silver bullion
into coins would not make it easier
for farmers to get more of it. The
evil effects of tampering with the
measure of values on which the whole
business interests of the country rest
ed were clearly shown, and the results
of policy which would cause another
financial panic given in plain language.
The men who had blindly swallowed
the free coinage mixture became
alarmed. They began to ask: sis
it not possible that we are mistaken !?
Will free silver really do what we have
been told about itP Have we been
deluded by the cheap money advo-
cates?" The answers to these ques-
tions settled the free coinage agitation
in so far as it seriously threatened to
be the controlling political issue.
Once the farmers refused to accept
the silver gospel on faith, the cause of
the silverites was lost.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10
A Spent Gale.

The free silver agitation seems to be
dwindling to spent force. On all
sides can now be seen evidence of
popular sentiment based on sound
sense and pledged to sound money.
The cry for "more money" that re-
sounded throughout the early spring
md summer is now mere whisper,
d well-founded reasoning is on ex-
ition where but little while ago
THE spectre of financial folly
gtcn Star.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10
COSr OF BAN MONEY
Falls on Wage Farmers Because
Prices Rise Faster Than Wages.

Prices Rise Faster Than Wages.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson has contribu.
ted to Harper's Weekly an article ex-
hibiting the effect of deprecated
currency upon the working classes and
people of small means. 1t consists OF
deductions from the experience of the
country during the paper money
regime. The first thing shown is the
fact we'll known to all who remember
that period, or have familiarized them
selves with it, that wages did not rise
so promp pity as the prices OF commodi-
ties. The average for seven years
after the introduction of the legal
tender notes shows an increase OF
wages of IS. 9 per cent and an increase
in general prices of II per cent. This
amounts to much the same thing as a
reduction OF nearly one-third in wages.
No fact is better understood by all
who have even slight acquaintance
with financial history than that wages
advance less rapidly than prices, and
legislation which reduces the purchas-
ing power OF money therefore falls
heavily upon nine-tenths of the popu-
lation. At q later period wages rose,
but that was when the paper dollar
was ''appreciating" in value according
to the common phrase. The silver
and other cheap money men cannot be
expected to understand this, but it is
the fact.
After allowing for the increased
taxation to which the Government was
obliged to resort, Mr.. Atkinson con.
cludes that about billion dollars q
year for seven years, 1852 to 1869, was
transferred from the many who live on
wages to the few who live on profits by
this reduction in the purchasing power
of the dollar. 1t is this perfectly we'll
established effect of reduction in the
money unit upon wage receivers that
makes the c.amor of portions of the
working classes in this country for the
silver instead of the gold dollar in
comprehensive. The working classes
of Europe know better than this; in
Germany they have openly opposed
any attack upon the gold standard
in both England and Germany the sill
yer men, who are the only international
bimetalists, are mobiles and great land
owners.
Mr.. Atkinson also figures reasona-
bly, enough that the cost of the war
was increased billion dollars by the
depreciation of the dollar, and the in
terest upon that increased cost has
amounted to billion dollars Proba-
bly, both of these estimates are too
low. The purchases of the Govern
ment were especially large at the time
when the dollar wac most deprecated.
Mr.. Atkinson gives his reasons for
believing that for term of years the
of the greenback amount
ed to tax of forty dollars upon every
man, woman and child, or $120 annu-
ally upon every bread winner.
He is quite justified in suggesting
that the foundations or many of the
great fortunes that now worry the
Populists and the Socialists were laid
by the depreciation of the currency
in the war period and the transfer to
profits of an immense amount Of the
National production which would
otherwise have gone to wages. Yet
these Populists and Socialists are de-
termined to bring about another and
a much more sudden depreciation of
the money unlt.-New York Journal
of Commerce.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10
Opinion of a Philosopher.

Uncle Ned-'T don't adzactly know
all de vantages of free silver, but if
it's free. whut more does I wanter
know? An dat word 'onlimited' hit
mean plenty for everybody, an plenty
to spare i"-The &c Id Bug.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10
The South,s Worst Enemy.

II know of no more effective way of
Gripping the South and its industries
than for our people to clamor for the
payment of debts already contracted
and hereafter to be contracted in de-
preciated silver dollars. Hon. Hill.
airy A. Herbert.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10
when the Crops Begin to 1

When the Crops Begin to 70
1t seems the way tibet people act
troubles in the air.
Fer all the big mems faces look as II
had a scare!
But father says 1t is no use for folks tol
glum,
Fer when the crops begin to move
Twill
Make
Things
Hum.
1hay taIk about the silver erase an 81
of coin
And wonder If there isn't some nevis
thay kin joinl
But father SEE II seems TO him the ne|
going dumb,
Fer when the crops begin to move
Twill
Make
Things
Hunt
An father sez the feuars thet has .
else Ia do
But set around an talk an talk on
tibet don't came true,
Had better get move on them and y
Kingdom come"
Fer when the crops begin to move
Twill
Make
Things
Hum.
-olsihs I'D
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10
SHALL CHANGE.

It is significant fact that in the
States where the largest number of
skilled workingmen are employed at
the highest wages, the agitation for
free silver met with no response. At
Itempts we're made by few so-called
''labor leaders, to create sentiment
I'm favor of free coinage, but in every
case their efforts were fruitless.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10

The Savannah News states the case
thus clearly and tersely; "The dead
free silver movement will be buried in
grave clothes made of eight-cent cot
ton"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10

Senator Mills is the last prominent
man TO leave the sinking silver ship.
But PETER and Blackburn are still left.
and mean to stay on the burning deck,
after all but them have fed.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10
Gooa rimes Gstting in TheIr Work

The good times are killing the free
silver craze, and the people viii see
70 IL that nee silver viii not get .
chance TO kill The good times. kan
sas CRY Star.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10
Only a Free Silver Soliloq VI

An exchange publishes long
Gle entitled slow 1t Feels to
We have not read it, but presur
is a soliloquy of the free silver q
ment.-Atlanta Journal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10

Speech is silver. and both are pretty
ehesp just now.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-07-04
No Wonder he Had Changed.

care you the man who painted that
ere picture of Moses in the Bull
rushes p" asked countryman of an
artist who had recently startled the
town by an exhibition Of oil paintings.
eyes" replied the artist.
CAL right. Then I want you to
paint my father. !"
Certainly, if he gives me a few
sittings."
"Let me have photograph of
him
''Can't do that neither. He never
had his picture taken.
"I am afraid then I must decline. I"
"Decline What fur ? Haven't you
painted Moses? You didn't have
photograph Of him, did you No, l
thought not. Well, my father hain't
been dead nearly so long as Moses.
If you can paint Moses, you ought to
know enough to paint my father. .
Approaching the situation, the
artist went to work and evolved such
a portrait as be thought might satisfy
so original son.
"Crikey!' exclaimed this art pat
ron on seeing the completed painting.
"That almost knocks the stufin out of
Moses; but, say, how he has chang
ed |"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-07-04
Winchester and would leave to Gen.
Beautegard to do justice to the brave
men of his command. Beauregard's
report was never published, therefore
this Justice has never been done.
LET HISTORY DO 1f1N JUSTICE

LET HISTORY DO 1f1N JUSTICE.
It wa. the recent death Of our be.
loved General that revived and
brought before my minds eye like
panorama every minute detail Of these
battles, and though the great soldier
has gloriously finished the battle OF
life, and is receiving at the hands OF
his Maker whom he so devotedly serv-
ed strict justice, still it is my privi,,
lege and right as one who followed
him to assert, and I do it de6antly,
that no officer on that field did more
than he in making it glorious victo-
ry for our arms. Though he was not
called upon like the lamented Barlow
to lay down his life, but equally and
as fearlessly he exposed it, or present,
like the heroic Thomas J. Jackson, a
"Stonewall'' to the further advance Of
the enemy, he nevertheless met their
great lines of battle like pillows
sweeping over the plains Of Manassas,
and alone, without support, he fell
upon them like a tornado and with
wells and murderous volleys and
cleaning bayonets thrust in their faces
he never allowed them to realize that
they were being driven by the two
thousand infantry, such was the mo
mentum of his terrific assault. "The
Old Guard" never died more willingly
and heroically around Napoleon than
did these Carolinians in following
their beloved and heroic commander.
KERsnAw' LOVE FOR HIS MEN.
Is>S VIII pp.thetic to see the tender So
l;citude he had for the comfort and
welfare of his men and their lives
were precious to him-never needless
ly exposed or sacrifced-aud it was
this very knowledge Of how he cared for.
them that made the troops rush into
the very jaws Of death at his COM
mand. He never isolated himself
from his soldiers, but met and treated
them as his fellow citizens of the
South. On the weary march when
the column was halted for an hours
rest he would dismount from his horse
and sit surrounded by groups of his
devoted men. History has never
done him justice, but Lee aud Jack
son trusted him and his old soldiers
followed and loved him unto death.
D. w. BRAILsFoRD,
Palmetto Guard, End Regiment.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-07-04

There is more Catarrh in this sec.
tion Of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the,last
few years was supposed to be incura-
BILE. For great many years doctors
pronounced it local disease, and
prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Sci
ence has proven catarrh to be con-
stitutional disease and therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the mar
ket. 1t is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to teaspoonful. 1t
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo, O, s.
k1~Sold by Druggist, 75c.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-07-04
PIANOS AND ORGANS.
S Thinos 10 Remember when you Go to Buy.

PIANO or ORGAN is something about which or
dinory BUYERS know absolutely nothing. The market s
flooded with cheap rattleraps which to the eye iook as
we'll as really good instruments. They are ac1uay SOLO
at about three times their value Ludden q Bates
Southern Music House being the largest buyer tne
South is able to represent only best
Every man in its employ is an expert IN n,s a;n u
rooms. Buy only from House with an estaolisheo
reputation for skill and fair dealing.
For further particulars write or call on
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-07-04

DEMURALlZEU ThUOP6.
When within mile of the field of
battle we met streams of the wounded
and hundreds of demoralized soldiers
swarming to the rear, many of whom
had thrown away their arms. They
declared that the day was lost that
Bee, Barlow, Johnstone and Hampton
were killed, and added that all who
were not killed we're like themselves
retreating. In vain did the heroic
Cuthbert, with Lieuts. Holmes, Webb
and Brownfeld, plead and then order
cd them to fall into our ranks-all to
no purpose. I remember Capt. Cuth-
bert last appeal. He said If you
are Carolinians come with us, for we
are going to redeem the day. |
heard him say this. We descend
ed hill, crossed stream where our
field hospital had been established,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-07-04
THE ENEMY ARE COMING. i.

About an hour by sun on that event.
full morning a member Of '"The Black
Horse Troop famous ante-bellum
organization, on duty as vidette in
front of the enemy, came at full speed
by our camp for Gen. Bonham' s head
quarters, and as he passed Col. Ker-
shaw's tent, just on the edge OF the
road, he announced to him that the
enemy were advancing.
The colonel ordered the adjutant to
have the long roll beaten, and in a
minute Pritchard, who was right at
hand, was drilling the soldiers with
that portentous call to face the foe.
The tents Of the entire command
fell as though struck by cyclone and
we're rolled in rows for the quarter
master wagons to take care Of, and IN
twenty minutes every company had
been formed and was marching out to
the regimental line, the Palmetto
Guard carrying, I heard it asserted,
1872 rifles, and every company appa-
rently carrying 100 men.
Col. Kershaw was sitting in the
road upon his horse as calm and placid
as a May morning, devoid OF all hurry
and excitement and with an assured
smile upon his lips. When the regi;,
ment had been formed and saluted
him he rode to its centre front and
said in that singing and resonant voice
Of his, never pitched upon high key,
but reaching great distances "The
fate Of the day depends upon the Car
olinians. This was literally true,
for there was not a bayonet in sup
porting distance Of us nearer than
Manassas that we were aware Of, a
point twenty miles in our rear. He
then ordered Battalion, right flank,
right face, forward" This order by
the old tactics threw the regiment into
columns of fours, and we started down
the road to meet the Brooks Guards,
whose retreating volleys we could
plainly hear, now rapidly approaching
us. just here an order came from
Gen. Bonham ordering Col. Kershaw
to retire. His reply was: "Say to
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16
Anent The Same and Fish Inter
egts Of Kentucky.

I'll, a..I.. il The last issue of the
AU}u,,rl entitled "Anent the Game
4ah Fieh IurcSls of Kentucky" b!
me Of our local sportSmen has at
rac,ed considerable attention.
\ gentleman writes US Il heartily
uJorse what your writer has to say
-avp, that would suggest that in.
.rea3 Of prohibiting hunting for two
.r three years OF any other length OF
inc ir, ,Lr hunGng go on but en-
power every land owner or person in
whose possession the land is, with po-
lice authority 10 arrest trespassers ard
lfacc the tinG at not less than one hum
lrcd nor more than two hundred dol
ars for each offence. The party upon
~ nom the fine is imposed to pay same
OF be placed al hard labor till the fine
.hsIl have been paid at so cents day.
rhc land owners will then, buy game
md fish, and jcpIenish their fields and
streams, in single year. Unless
.uch police powers are given land ow-
GERS, lramps and Irresponsible negroes
ran undo all that could possibly be
zone to nepleuizh our fields, forests
and streams, since no one can know
one half Of those tresspassing,
Il would only take one season for
Two dozen quail to give the land own
Is tive hundred birds, as they lay and
hatch twice Z year"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16
strikinu BACK.

The Columbia Finance and Trust
Company will find itself defendant
in at least one suit within the next
few days. This is an outcome of
its intense eagerness to press or
oppress) our people with what, in
the Judgment of those who are in
position to know, are unnecessary
suits. Mr.. w. n. Anderson was en-
dorseron note $3.50, which he was
ready to pay, but could not do so
because the Trust Company was in
a dispute with former attorney of
the New Farmers Bank, who held
the note, as to which should collect
it. Mr.. A. was warned by both the
Trust Company and the attorney
not to pay the other. In the mean
time the property of the maker of
the note had been attached by an
other party upon some grounds we
do not remember what, and the Trust
Company swooped down upon
and attached Mr.. Anderson also,
when he is ample able toI
pay, the note fifty times over
If the facts are as represented to us,
the Columbia Finance and Trust
Co.. Trustee, should be taught a
lesson.
1t is bad enough for our people to
have to stand all that may legitim-
ately come to them these hard times,
without having this concern, that
cares not one whit for the interests
Of this section, attempt to run
things without regard to law and
right. We hear of several salty |
that are to be filed to other
suits that have been brought. This
Company may yet find that the
Courts are able TO put limit to its
iggressions.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16
H0w's This!

We off.r one hundred dollar
reward for any case of Catarrh tha
cannot be cared by Halls Catarrl
Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & Co, Props. Tole
do, Ohio.
We the undersigned, have known
J. Cheney for the last fifteen years
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and finan
ciallV able to carry out any obligation
made by their firm.
West and Truax, Wholesale drug.
gists, Toledo, o. Walding, Kinnan
& Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Tole.
do, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price, Is cents per bottle. Sold by all
Druggist. Testimonials free. 23-5t
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16
Al angry Judge.

George /. willis, editor of "The
lap"ti. Wa- -"-ycd with a writ 10 ap.
pear before Judge CantriIl at Frank.
lort, Oh "Wednesday morning. II
-ecm4 the "bnys around Frank fort
nave been dodRiUg the grand jury,
5ud she sut'orjlie, had sent out a
Deputy ~h rim. unknown even by
-.V1 'olhn.o whose presence was de-
sirrdD to cl..a TIE unwary. II seems
E!u"r Hi,.'- wuu,j-hed this piece of
o.a- and heated his article, '"Look
Ga, tor him. The irateJudge called
1--WE huigh' Of INC Quill before him
"lnr "p~'tur'iur rlie proceeding of the
r,ur'. MIR, Willis explained that he
lad uu intention IF Obatrucling the
Irnnrrd.U&- Of tie court, and the
I"grucd Judge advised him to distin-
gni-l between legitimate news and
dat whirh would binder. the courts in
their work. There upon he dismissed
ae ra-e.
Nj Willis may possibly have been
.reading on dangerous ground, but
Ihr,o is $50 question that Judge Can
u.a was. II il trae that newspapers
are running dangerously near the
.atrfy line in their wild scramble for
r0rmHw~. But d Judge who tackles
0nn tor publishing an item Of news il
mnrkeying With mighty dangerous
Aaz-~aw, uGver-the, less. Ii there is
one thing more Ghan another the peo-
uio OF this country are sepsii'vely
j aioa- o. IL I, the freedom Of the
pro,s
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16

The Republican National Commit
tee was in session at Washington
City last Thursday, and were very
jubilant over the political outlook
They do not feel that the Democrats
will be able to correct the bad man
agement of their administration 4,
--stiIne 10 have the full confidence of the
epeopie, and unless business can be
fully resumed. they have little fear of
defeat in '96. They are hoping aud
praying for business perpIexities if ii
viii only restore the administration to
them. These are Republican tactics.
The two questions of areatest interest
Before the committee, were finances
and the establishment Of committee
headquarters. They were between
New York and Washington City.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16

The Ways and Means Comw'ur
Friday decided to report that porte.
of the Tariff Bill relating to the iUlrr
nal revenue AS separate mcanul
The vote was 6 to ), and the result
was reached by Representative Bynun.
charging the position previously taker
by him. His action was due :" hi
belief that if the income tax PROPOSE
ton were attached to the Tariff BIZ
the passage of the latter would be
endangered.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16

United States Senator William F
Villas, in letter to the Catholic Cit.
zen concerning the A. p. A, says
'TO enter a secret political society, to
submit ones political freedom to the
behest of it's authorities, unknown to
the laws, means the citizens surrender
of the glory of manhood by self-en-
slavement. Even if done with good
purpose, the method is debasing and
degrading. 1t the way ola criminal
in Individual conduct. In political
affairs it seeks to strike an unseen
blow, which shall do injury to ones
fellowmen." Mr.. Villas, in conclusion,
says that the movement is a blow at
religious liberty, and that every
citizen should be opposeh to its prin-
ciples.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16

The Montgomery County Times l.
out in an article arraignirg Senate.
Lindsay for alleged treachery to Al
Bascom, of Bath county, late an A.
pIicant for Collector of the Seventh
Revenue district of Kentucky. We.
months since, heard this story witt
variations, hut of its truth or faI-its
we know nothing. The Times, how
ever, claims that he has "seen th'
record" sand knows whereof il
sspeaks."
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16
The reports of the commercial agcu

The reports of the commercial agcu
sSies this week bling intelligence Of tho
Saest encouraging nature. Brad.
streets weekly review OF trade say
that a movement in The direction OF al
expansion in the volume Of business
has appeared, and that the penduIum
which swung in one direction from
May last year until 1894 should soon
be swinging in the opposite direction,
Reports from the leading bu-inc-,
-centers are full of encouragement, am
the general feeling is that from now
.on the improvement will be pro-
nounced.-Courier-.JOufnal,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16

The customs authorize, al San Fran
cisco, assisted by special Treasury
agents, have unearrhed @iganti"
smuggling scheme employing three
vessels at least in its workings.
George Wichman, a prominent candy
dealer of that city, and Louis Green
wald. of Victoria, B c., are in the
county Jail, charged with smuggling
$500 pounds of opium and - Chine"
ashore on the northern coast in Sep
dember.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16

Hon. Evan Z. Settle, of Owen couu-
ty, has formally announced in card,
in the Owenton Herald, hiz caudidarl
for the Democratic nomination ia III
Seventh congressional dislri"'
now represented by Cot. W. {
p. Breckenridge. Mr. Settle i, ma.
of conceded ability and great pop~
Aarity.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-16

Thomas ii. Carter, on Thursday, t.
signed the Craftsmanship of the EXecu-
tive Committee of the National r. %
publican Committee, and Joseph II.
Manley, of Maine, was elected to tie
vacancy. Mr.. Carter, however, sin
remains Chairman of the National
Committee.