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The Portland daily press., 1894-08-01
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

The WeGthe' TO-DAY
is hkeLD to be
Fair.
PORTLAND. August 1st, 1894.
Y N spite of all precau-
= tons the windows
will be left open
and the flies and mosqui-
toes get in. That means
annoyance, discomfort and
unhappiness by day and
sleepless misery and bad
language by night.
Unless--t h ere are
screens in the windows
or a canopy over the
bed.
We make Canopys.
Any color, any size and
send a man to put them
up for $3.50.
Why not have the
sleeping rooms Of the
summer cottage fitted
out with Canopys?
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-01

The stock and prices
of travelling Bags have
created unusual interest
in that department.. The
right sorts for long and
short journeys, for hard
and constant travel or
for a days shopping are
here and in all the pop
! ular feathers.
Purses, Card Cases,
c 6 ar holders, trunk
straps, umbrellas clasps,
portfolios and belts, the
leather goods counter
shows in variety.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
BAD STORM IN TEXAS
At LEAST A DOZEN PERSONS
ARE KILLED OUTRIGHT.
Cyclone Sweeps Over Longview, Emery
and Other Places, Demolishing Houses
aud Uprooting Trecs-Hailstoncs Weigh
fourteen Ounces-recuitar SHAPED Cloud
Death In Its Wake.


A destructive storm passed over
Longview, Texas, at l o'clock Sunday
morning. At least six persons wero
killed outright, three were fatally and
many seriously injured. Great Jumps
OF ice fell. breaking BOO lanes Of glass.
Many pieces of ice weighed fourteen
20 Gig hteen ounces, while others. which
must have been very mach larger,
were found in the morning after
heavy warm rain with the mercury at
20. Some of the stones were as largo
Us goose eggs. They sank from two to
five inches in the ground near the
town. Chickens and turkeys rcostiug
In trees were killed, while ducks. geese
and hogs were re!tel TO death.
At Lansing switch. six mile, east,
dispatch says, the cyclone struck tho
graveyard. tearing up large forest
trees by TIE roots ana taking them
ncrthwestward. 1t struck the stanch
old house of John Gains. occupied by q
family OF negroes named Lester. Tho
house stood in Il grove of ancient oaks,
every one of which was uproosel. The
house was built on stone pillars, pinned
and cemented together and ceiled
throughout, the rooms fastened to-
gether by walls OF logs, but it is now
entirely demolished. There are six
persons dead, three mortally wounded,
md five seriously and painfully hurt.
Half mile south OF tho ill-fated
Lester house, tho house of John usit,
white man, was taken away from'the
floor and dashed to splinters, leaving
fny, ,rt f,, I,
by hail stones. The storm swept on
toward Marshall. Fruit t ees and
fences were demolished for many miles
around. \ Texas and Pacific passenger
train was passing at the time and
barely escaped the tunncl-s! aped cloud.
Six Killed n. Emery.
Tho cyclone passed over Emery. tho
county seat of Rains County. thirty
mics south OF Greenville, totally de-
mollshing the western portion of the
town. Six persons were killed out
right. In addition to these at least
fifty are wounded, and some Of them
will die.
The cloud came from the southwest,
and, as described by an eyewitness, it
resemhled an hour gla IS, apprs aching
like two tunnels together. point to
point. The bottom IT it was forked.
and it was one continual blaze of ciec-
tricity. 1t had the rotary cyclone mo-
ton and seemed about thirty or forty
feet wide. It struck the ground north
Of the Missouri, Kansas ard Texas
! depot and its track extends about tour
| or five miles north and is b ,nt 100
yards wide. according to dispatches
| from various points. Every thing in
tho track of the storm is . complete
| wreck
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
1t Works Automatically.

The bankers of the country have
ST ,OOO,O 900 in gold on deposit with the
Treasury at Washington. When they
deposit this gold with the Treasury
they receive *77 900, 600 in gold certiti
Gates. These certificates they are using
to do business with. They are bowling
for the Secretar. to issue and increase
the surplus gold in the Treasury.
These bankers can take $50, 600, 900 of
certificates to Washington and draw
out that amount i'll gold, pay it to the
Secretary, and take out 5O,OOO,OOO in
ten-vear bonds. SO, in reality, when
this transaction has taken place, there
will have been y contrac; lion OF $780,
600. goo in the outstanding circulation
OF the nation. AZ the bankers must sub
stitute greenbacks TO DO the business
of the gold certificates that have been
retired. And yet there arc some fools
running around saying that confidence
will DO restored when the bonds are
issuel. But the most cruel thing Of
all is that some of us who read and in
form ourselves on these questions have
to pit our intelligent ballot against an
animal of that kind on election day
Oklahoma State.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
Produce Takes II Rise.


Washington correspondence of the
indianapolis Nonconformlst: The New
York Exchanges were thrown Off their
feet on Friday. The old Jew banking
house of Lazarus Freres knocked the
bulls crazy and showed them that the
1ckelheimer outfit controlled prices of
American farm produce i'll this coun
try, and them. On Wednesday night
about midnight / was down in News
paper Row and around the headquar-
ters Of the Associated Press and United
Press. A gentleman came to Inc and
asked me this question:
why are the men on the boards of
trade and produce exchanges so i'll
teusel Y interested in the passage OF
Blan,i's seigniorase billy"
Are they" l asked, in my most in
nocent way.
Are they. Well I should remark
that they were. kilograms ere being
sent by the hundreds all over the coun
try to them, from Portland 10 San
Francisco, and from Detroit to Calves
ton"
What is the nature of the tele-
grams"
"Oh! they are all about the same.
They say that there will be quorum
in the House i'll the morning and that
the seignioragc bill will pass"
The next day--the day The bill
passed showed why the produce ex
changes and boards of trade wanted to
know. All kinds of farm produce
wheat, cotton, corn. pork, beef and
everything of that kind advanced
about > per cent, because $55, 100000
was added to tho currency There
was life once more on the exchanges.
All the great dailies in their market
reports said the day OF falling prices
had passed and good times were in
sight.
But this did not suit old Lazarus
and his gang at all. SO he said, III
shust put sthop to dot" and he
shipped $l,25O,0 o0 of gold to Europe.
/ This fact was announced on the pro-
dace and stock exchanges just at the
right time, and prices went tumbllng
One thing IN connection with this
shipment Of gold. and which will pre-
vent Sherman and Carlisle using it rs
III argument against the selgniornge
is the fact that it WAS shipped at a
loss. The rate of exchange, as quoted
on all the boards, shows that it WAS a
loss. But Messrs. Ickelheimer, La
zarus. Heidelbach, Frer., Sherman,
Carlisle & Co. have proven that they
tx the markets for farm produce, and
, that they DO not intend for prices to
rise until they get some more bonds
and full power to issue the paper
money Of the country to suit them
! selves
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
Parade q. the United States.

4 writer in the Minneapolis Union
has figured it out that if all the people.
high and low, of all sorts and couGi-
tons, were to form one gigantic pa
rade, the procession would line up as
follows:
Rothchilds in carriages.
Grover /. on Throne of Gold.
Wall Street Gang rs Courtiers.
Confident and Contente1 Capital OIL
horseback, 200, UOO.
Business Men on tho verge Of
bankruptcy, 100000.
On foot and in carriages. idle men,
nearly all of whom voted for Or
against tariff, 100000.
On foot, child laborers in rags,
100000.
On foot, farmers, each carrying
mortgage. 9,oOO,0OO.
Charity and her cohorts, each carving
kettle Of sonp, doing it ont to
the blessed poor, who follow
the procession, hungry
and on foot.
Able financ;ers with brass band, sing.
ing. My country It's of thee, sweet
land of liberty p, We owe thee
ALL 1000 n. G.. Nation
al Guard).
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29

The state OF New York is the high
est. In that state 30. 81 per cent. Of
all the real estate is covered by real
estate mortgage debt. This does not
include the city, municipal, state,
county, railroad, or any such debt,
but is merely the debt covered by mort
gage on land. II all OF the debts OF
the state were averaged among the
classes subject to pay tax. it would
run this per cent. up to figures that
would look beyond the power or ca
pac;ty OF the people to pay. The old
party orators tell rs the times are
prosperous and that all there is needed
to start the boom is confidence.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
industrial Legion.

The National Committee, ct it's ses-
sion at ST.. Louis Feb. - again recon-
mended that the Industrial Legion be
| at once organized i'll every city, town,
and voting precinct III the land. They
recognized the necessity Of 1t once get
ting into line and saw the abs Lutte
need CT a compact, united band, and
and III accordance with the resolution
at the original meeting at Memphis
Nov. -. 1892, they admit Ill Alliances,
Peoples party clubs, silver leagues,
I. NJ. Il. IS, and all other farm and
labor orders, hy simply paying 10 cents
for postage for charter and supplies.
In order to reach the people and see
whether key are ready for the battle,
announce the plan below. The Lee
gion is no: secret, but its work is so
simple that the youngest member as
well AZ the oldest veteran can easily
organize. Lot us follow the example
Of the minute men Of rs. Therefore l
call on all members Of Peoples party
committees, national, state, county,
city, town, precinct, and all officers OF
all clubs, leagues, and all farm and
labor orders that wish to become Lee
gions, to send to me for constitutions
and instructions without delay. All
" no can afford it, send stamps, and We
will return the papers at once, and you
can he in line in thirty days.
We have an election in Oregon the
first week in juno and i'll Alabama in
August. The people in these states
need help and plead for i: every day,
and We are powerless to aid. Let all
of the true members CT this party give
Il week to this work. If you fool away
precious time with orders that have
nobly accomplished their mission, Or
"patroniZe non partisan side shows,
Won will never get into the main tent"
but will be an army of irregulars and
stragglers by the wayside, and be for
ever enslaved. Recruiting officers
must act at once, delay no longer, the
people are ready. Ii you cannot or
will not, select some one who will. and
hand him your supplies. Let no one
! hinder, go in storm or wade through
water and mud, as they do in Oregon,
! climb mountains and ford rivers, as
| they do in the silver states, march
! through forests and over plains. as
| they DO in the South and tho West, all
that liberty may be preserved and the
people delivered. Women's Legions
are springinc up, We must welcome
| them. No cause can WIN without our
prayers and mighty aid. Let the peo-
! pie act, for fear committees fail.
PAUL NANDEEvoOET.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29

any publication paper, pamphlet, or
book for the benefit of publishers who
do nothing bu. ridicule and bellttle
Populists. It was not long ago that a
certain publisher offered to send his
paper free to every Sentinel subscriber
for one year, il We would club" with
it. OF course clubbing" meant that
We were to endorse and recommend his
publication. We politely declined the
offer. No more OF it with us. Not
any. 1t is straight Populist goods OR
none at all.
Some Of our Porulist publishers are
beginning to see the point. They have
stopped publishing free notices" Of
the big dailies in settlement Of sex
change courtesies." If they have any
space to spare they are using it for the
benefit OF their reform co-workers. No
more "clubhing' with palers that deal
ont goldbug poison for 30 cents a
year. We rather claro with the cheap
est and poorest Populist paper in the
United Statas.-Chicayo Sentinel.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
Overflow Of News,

THE old Opera House at Winnebago
City, Mimi, Tell. Tho damage is sl6,-
900.
ISAAC l.. HILL was bosen as the Re-
publican candidate for Mayor of Des
Moines, Iowa.
AT the Iowa State University q class
OF thirty-one student, In the dental de-
partment was graduated.
PUCILIsT CORBETT in an Interview
says he will quit the arena after his
fight with Peter jackson.
STUDENTS Of q homeopathic medical
college in Cleveland, Ohio, are involved
in a row which is growing serious.
EIGHTY THOUSAND persons took part
in the trade unionist demonstration in
London against the House OF Lords.
MICHAEL DAvITT, in q speech, said
he is convinced Lord Roseberry is a.
firm home ruler as any Gladstonean.
POLICE at Paterson, N. J.. fear that
striking silk wea,crs will attack tho
county Jail and release the ringleadcrs.
IT has been decided by the Y. NJ.
C.. A. OF tie University of Illinois to
ercct hall at Champaign costing S20,.
0UD.
INDIANA saloon men have combined
t, defeat Judges Daily and Cotfey OF
'ha Supreme Court at the election this
fall.
THREE Poles were killed in No 4
mine of the Kingston G al Company
at Edwardsville, Pa, by runaway
car.
TWELVE NAKED mon attacked four
non-union sailors Mt san Pedro, Cal,
and beat them nearly to death with
clubs.
IN tho vicinity OF Spencer, /. T.. four
lives were destroyed ky a cyclone.
The bodies We're blown quarter of .
mile.
Mrs. MARTIN and daughter and Miss
Nellie Mccarthy were drowned in San
Francisco Bay by the capsizing of .
yacht.
AT Norwood, Mimi, an elevator con-
tanning eco bushels OF gram was
burned. The loss will aggregate about
S25.nJu.
CALIFORNIA recruits to COxeys
good roads army threaten To seize q
Santa Fe train If free transportation IL
denied.
HEAVY rains in Western Tennessee
and Arkansas have washed away the
growing crops and wrecked number
| of houses.
| WHILE sitting at the supper table
| Mrs John johnson and her son, of
| Lawrenceville, Ga, were killed Oy
lightning.
PETER DIEM, of Allentown, Pa.
| distrust3,d banks and kept his mcnex
in his homo. Burglars sscsro4 S3.OO
from him.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
ROl,S the People.

Secretary Carlisle is selling bonds
for currency. but he will not pay q
cent OF interest or principal to the
holders except in gold. This is the
way the present adminis.ra: ion serves
the people. OF his $50, 100000 bond
sale he only received $4,000, 900 in
gold. He sold them for 81. Is. which
actually amounted to 500 200. OCO. He
has therefore taken $4,000, 900 in cur
reAcy and reduced the circulation that
amount. MIR. Carlisle thus actually
rohs the people to please the goldbugs.
That the people quietly submit to such
a ruinous policy as this administration
carries ont in its management Of the
National Treasury is certainly an owl
dence of partisan slavery. No Secre-
t~rv of the Treasury could have mon
keyed with the people in revolutionary
times III such manner. II such an
attemp: had been made there would
have been 4 vacant char in the Cab
met.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
<sOi<3sux Poison.
". s. Morgan. secretary of the Re
form Press Association. writes:

". :. Morgan. secretary OF the he
form Press Association. writes:
We have Il letter from George l.. Burr
president of the Nebraska Reform Press
Association, stating that one Of the draw
backs t. the progress OF the reform move
meut is ;hc cheap Semi-Weekly papers that
are being sent out by the publishers OF
metropolitan dai.ies. Mr.. Burr says that in
some counties in this state 500 to 400 copies
az these come 10 single pn>toffice
This is not the first complaint OF Ihi> Kind
that We h ave heard. In fact. We have the
best reasons for believing that IL every
state. especially where the popuist cause
is gaining rapidly, as III Nebraska. the
goldNugs are sending out their poisonous
literature at les than actua. cost OF the
paper on which the priating Is done. We
have had propositions sent into this os.ce
wherein shey proposed to furnish dollar
weekly FOR IS cent> year. We have been
surprised and panied to see reform papers
carrying lay.>hly displayed advertise
n,ent OF some great daily. proeo-inS TO
send out weekly or sen,i-wea,ly at prices
with which no reform paper could compete.
We a.c asked. '.now are we going TO rem
edy this? Is there no way that We car
| compete ~ith Them in the prices they
| Offer:
We want to say to Bro. Morgan this
| The Sentinel has for one quit patron
izing, in any way. shape, or manner
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29

The following table from tho official
mortgage bulletin issued by the Gov
crnment Dec. .. 1893, shows the ratio
of mortgage debt as compared with the
valuation of real estate in the states
named. These figures arc worthy OF a
careful study:
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29

money power, can he corrupted and
their suffrage bought for price.
Show these demons of plutocracy that
they are hencetorth mistaken when
they say: I'VE may buy the poor for
value. and the needy for q pair OF
shoes
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
PENCE of Colorado is a pound.

PENCE of Co!orsdo is a pound.
THE next Congress will be elected
with a quorum attachment.
ERAsTUs WINAN is the latest addi-
ton TO the list IF Napoleons of firan-
ces.
PENNSYLVANIA endorses Cleveland
and the cuckoo Congress by 1Sl, 900
Republican plurality. Next!
SECRETARY CARLISLE has no right
to entail debt on the coming genera
ticn. What right has he to contract o
debt on people unborn?
The bankers will now say the reason
for the continued hard times is lack
of confidence on account of the pas
sage of the Bland silver bill by the
House.
REPRESENTATIVE PENCE the Popu-
list member from Colorado. SAYS if the
Senate returns the Wilson bill to the
House with the income clause stricken
out. the Populists of the House will
vote against the bill.
TEE stuffed White House king will
soon be like Alexander the Great. he
will shed tears because there are nc
more Democratic platform planks to
knock ont. He is making way with
them pretty fast. and during the de.
no1ition the cuckoos fiddle and sing,
Two Little Girls in Blue
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29

that in my Judgment. inside the next thirty
months the west and the south will be united
in favor of men who stand FOR the free and un-
limited coinage of silver At "A ratio of 10 to l.
f-vor of the control OF the issue OF paper
money by the Government and not by the
banks a,lu against the issue OF bonds
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
Republicans As Friends to Silver.

Republican party on the silver ques-
ton. DO Republican readers know
what the record OF your party is on
that question? Do your Republican
editors know what that record is? II
they DO. they are lying to you. Read
the Republican record in Congress on
silver and then say if tina. party has
always stood for silver" You never
seen it? Don't know where to find it :?
Ask some Republican editor. If he
don't know, then get the Congressional
Record and there find the following:
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29

IL the House April i. 1873:
Republicans for silver. ...................S1
Republicans against. ........... ....... go IS
In the House June :, 1879:
Republicans for. Observation-Disclosures. IS
Republicans against ................ Ii
Ia the House June ~, 1890:
Republicans for ...... ........... %
Republicans against.-.... ...............l3 D
L III. Se:i:,te June II. 1880:
Republicans for -. Observation-Disclosures. -. Is
Republican against ...... -
In the Hou-e March a 1892:
RepaDi ans for. Observation-Disclosures. IL
Repu eicius against. ..... o;
Ia the Senate July 2. 1921:
Republicans for. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. II
Republicans against. Observation-Disclosures. ~
IN the House July Is. l>9t:
feIublic,nS for. Observation-Disclosures. Q
Republicans aSAnst..... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. %
In the House August -. l-at3
R-pub CANS aga nst. ....................-..ll IL
In the House March /. 1894:
Republicans Observation-Disclosures. 10
Republicans against ........ ......... 49,. Il
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29

Cleveland, Off duck hunting in
North Carolins. rides free on govern
lnent boat at the public expense, and
draws his salary while neslectiag his
business. Harrison, searching for
suckers. rides ives: in palace car do
mated by the corporations which he
served so we'll. and will be paid for
tune for few lectures on wha. is
called law. While times are pretty
tough for the millions, things are ccm-
ing mighty easy for these two products
of plusocracx And thus is realized
the working of our boa.ted Govern
nent, which guarantees special priyi-
ieses to none. 1t is beautiful svs.em
on paper, but on wheels is accurately
summed up in Pats homely rhyme:
When the rich man rides. he rides IN chaises
When the poor man rides, he walks be JaseH~
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29

THE Chicago Dispatch calls Mrs.
Lease "Peeping Mary" Not correct.
Mrs. Lease does not peep. she open:
the door and walks right in.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-29
How the Farmers are Robbed.

The railroads and the middle men
have been farming the farmers more
vigorously than Secretary of Agricul-
ture Morton ever dared to. They
have farmed them out OF nearly three
fourths of the proceeds Of their labor
The railroads We're III condition to
dictate their own terms on hauling the
farm products to market. They are u
corporation and have no soul. and
don't care whether :he farmer succeeds
OR fails, and cares less whether the
consumer is able to buy the products
after the transportation charges are
piled on to the cost of the article.
The middle man is the wholesale
dealer and the commission merchant
and his business Is to huy as low as
possible, and sell for AL he can get
They jew The farmer down and hoist
the consumer up, and take out3&s big \
slice as possible. all OF winch goes to
reds1ce the farmers rate OF labor.
Under the diversity OF climate in the
United States. internal commerce IS
desirable III order that each section
may Joy profit from the productions
suitable to its locality and climate.
The south can produce cotton while
the north is more of Il grain producing
section. An exchange OF these prod
| ucts between the sections is desirable,
but the trouble is the powers Of e1-
change let's the bars down for railroad
and commission robberies. BY the
time the wheat and corn producted in
the west reaches the south. or the min
ing regions of Pennsylvania, the price
| Is about four time that paid to the pro-
Queer.
or course the railroads aud middle
men get this. If they were satished
with onehalf of the profit, tho people
might tolerate the system, but when it
comes to giving them over three
fourths, the farmer and the consumer
have right to kick. Government
ownership of railroads would remedy
this evil AS far as transportation is con-
cerned, for the Government would
only charge actual expenses for carry
ing the farmers produce to market
An exchange shows how the thing
works, as follows:
! The daughters OF Ncbt aSk; gather ut the
| corn crib every autumn and sing peans OF
rejoicing over 1900 granAries bursting
with golden wealth. They hear Il cry FOR
! food from Pennsylvania miners and load
on the cars at 81 per ton. 1t goes only
! eleven or twelve hundred miles to Penn
| >yivnnia and miners eat thereof at Scl..5
before It Is ground.
| The winter hr-eGcs play over the treeless
! plains II Nebraska and IA miyn:y common
wealth feel the ticklish sensation around
| ,ner legs a. when the front door koy Id
| dropped down your back on cold winter
| night. Ehivering and suffering, they cry
| to their empty granari,s for aid-ths min
ers Il. ar the cry-ioad the cars " th black
! diamonds TO warm their western sisters.
| The coal costs % ,c,ts Il ton At the most
| expensive hard coal mine IN America. 1t
is carried back only eleven or twelve hun
| dred miles. aud T. dumped on the brok on
hearthstones ut 5000 to $3.50 per ton.