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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
GOLD STANDARD STRENGTHENED.
Attacks by silyerites Only Serve to Estab-
 fish It More Firmly.

Attacks by SilYerites Only Serve to Estab-
 fish It More Firmly.
 The rabid attacks of the silyerites on our present honest standard of values have had the effect of establishing more firmly than ever the use of gold as the single unit of value. Previous to the recent free coinage agitation a great many people who had given the money question no attention believed in the possibility of a double standard. And as convenient way of escaping the study of the question they talked vague ly of international bimetallism, {" or the adoption of silver as standard money by all the nations of the world.
 The bold front assumed by the 16 to 1 advocates forced the issue of gold versus silver standard upon every citi- zen. The result has been that the ad- vantages of gold and the disadvantages of silver are now known everywhere. To refute the silverite arguments for cheap dollars it was necessary to show the superiority of gold. This was done so thoroughly that there is no longer any attempt to show that silver is the better standard, and the only plea now put forward by the free coinage leaders is their appeal to the men who want 30 cent dollars with which to pay off their debts.
 Every attack on the gold standard, whether drawn from the experience of this or of other countries, has complete ly failed The great majority of the people who previously held no decided opinions on the question have become convinced that gold is better than sil- yer, and they will vote down next year any party or candidates who favor de- passing the currency. The boasted free silver propaganda, which was started a few years ago to convert the country has proved great success. But it is a success exactly the opposite of what the silver mine owners expected, for it has made all those who were formerly in doubt or indifferent stanch defenders or sound currency based on gold.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
HOW RATIOS WERE FIXED IN 17s2.

Proportion of Values Between Gold and
 Silver Is Mercantile Problem.
 When our mint was established in 1792 and was about to be opened to the free coinage of both metals, the main question was, What shall the ratio be? All agreed that it must be the commer- cial ratio. Hamilton, in his celebrated report on the establishment of the mint, said, HThere can hardly be better rule in any country for the legal than the market proportion" Thomas Jefferson said: "Just principles will lead us to disregard legal proportions altogether; l; to inquire into market prices of gold in the several countries with which we shall be connected in commerce, and to take advantage of them. The proportion between the values of gold and silver is a mercantile problem altogether. !" And so they made the mint ratio 15 to 1, which at that time was the commercial ratio Besides, certain powerful commer- cial nations, among them England and France, were at that time coining both metals free at practically the same ratio. HUN uihoieuo oiio Situae1oA uOW, Wueu the commercial ratio is 82 to l and the hints of all the commercial nations are closed against the free coinage of silver.
 Certainly there is no precedent of any country, or of any combination of coun- tries, by mere acts of legislation dou- bling the value of the worlds entire stock of silver bullion and coin Yet to raise the ratio from 32 to 1 to 16 to would be to double the value of the worlds entire silver stock, for the price of silver is fixed in the markets of the world and is practically the same in all countries. -Firman Smith in New Or leans PicaYune
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DANGEROUS FINANciERING.
Free Coinage of Silver Would Bring Chaos
 to the Commercial World.

Free Coinage of Silver Would Bring Chaos
 to the Commercial World.
 If substantial advantages were certain to attend the establishment of the silver standard ill this country, the damage inseparable from making the change would deter all prudent men from a step not unlike committing suicide as Q remedy for illness. A gradual financial change might possibly be effected with out damage, but sudden and radical change cannot be made without enor- nous harm. The free coinage of silver would banish the gold standard almost immediately, and the dollar would drop in a few weeks, or aeS*he most few months, to about one-haf of it's present. value. So sudden a change would bring the commercial world into state of chaos.
 Yet that very change is sought as an unspeakable blessing by the silver men. to whom the commercial world is an az gregate of a multitude of debtors and small number of creditors. 4 reduction of the money unit would scale down debts, and according to these theorists would afford debtors happy release and only injure q small number of men, who would remain rich after the sums due them had been cut in two
 Every refecting business man knows io L most all business is done on greater or less basis of credit, and very much of it could not survive anything more than momentary suspension of credit. Any financial change, or even threat of it. which would draw deposits from the banks would deprive them of the ability to extend credit and would bring no small amount of business to an absolute stop. It is only 21a years since we saw this thing happen. But in addition to this the certainty that the value of the dollar was to be at once reduced One- half would dry up every stream of credit. Who would lend $1, GOO to be repaid in a thousand half dollars? Who would lend $1, 900 on the gold standard to be repaid i'll $1, GOO on the silver standard2 Were such a change in the money unit imminent there would be a boarding of money in every quarter, and loans would only be affected on suicidal terms, which would protect the lender from loss by the change.
 Were there such advantages in the silver standard as its devotees imagine it is impossible for us to reach it with out causing a financial panic and long pfostration of business beyond anything we have ever experienced, because the business of the modern world cannot be done without assuming obligations for the future. Credit is absolutely essen tial and it is impossible without con- spicuous degree of steadiness in the monetary unit, the common denomi- nator of values, the measure of deferred payments Changes in prices can be es- timated, though even these are some- times disastrous. A change in the value of money from decade to decade, or even from year to year, within narrow limits can be provided against, but a change of one-half or even one=fourth in the value of money within few months, or perhaps few weeks, is more than business can adapt itself to- It means ruin.-Iron Age
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
 FIFTY- FOURTH CONGRESS-

The House of Representatives is so overwhelmingly Republican that little interest centers in the political complexion of that body. With the Senate it is different and one might say that even the Democrats, who recently controlled that body by a slight majority, have show there. The election in Utah giving the Republicans two more Senators does not secure them control as yet, and they will have to wait until 1897 when Senators Hill, of New York; Briee, of Ohio; Blackburn, of Kentucky; and Gibson, of Maryland, will retire, and probably be sue ceeded by Republicans. The Utah Senators will take their seats early in the coming season, and their ad- dition will make the total number of Senators 90, of whom the Republi- cans will have A, or one less than a majority, the Democrats 39, the Populists 6, while there will be one vacancy in the representation of Delaware, caused by the failure to elect a successor to Senator Hig- gins.
 The present Republican majority of twenty-two in the Senate and fifty-four in the assembly, of New York, make it quite certain that Senator Hill will not be able to get in again He cannot overcome such odds at the next election, and his chances of retaining his place in the United States Senate are poor indeed. Col. Henry A. Dupont is expected to claim the vacancy in the Delaware delegation, but his application, if made, will be referred to the committee on privileges and elections, and will not be granted, if at all, before a long examination. The fact that the Republicans dc not want a majority of the Senate in the coming session will contribute to make the delay in Dupont's case greater than it might otherwise have been.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
ARKANSAS has the best temper

ARKANSAS has the best temper ance code of any State in the union if not of any country in the civilized world. Gradually, but certainly, the temperance sentiment is taking possession of all parts of the State, and reckoning from the progress made in the past it is not difficult to approximate very nearly the exact time when the entire State will plss out from under the reign and dominion of king alcohol. Washington 7elegroph.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
Atlanta. Ga. and Return.

Cotton States and International Exposition. The Cotton Belt Ky.
 will sell tickets to Atlanta, Ga., and return on the following dates, at the followingrates: Class "A" $27 40. Tick cts at these rates will be sold daily from Sept. 18th to Dec. 3l, 1895, limit ed to January [. 1896 for return. Class a." $20.35. Tickets at these rates will be sold daily from Sept. l4th to Dee. 13. 1895 and will be limit ed twenty days from date of sale. Class "D," $l4.60. Tickets at these rates will he sold Sept. 16th, 26th; Oct. 9th, 16th and 26th; Nov. 9th, 18th and 25th; Dee. 9th and 18th, limited ten days from date of sale.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
nMoNEY AND BANKING.u
An Excellent Treatise on the Science of |. Money by Horace White.

 An Excellent Treatise on the Science of Money by Horace White.
 One of the most complete works of it's kind ever published in this country is Money and Banking" by Horace White. It is both historical and philo- sophical, and because of logical arrange ment of subjects and topics, incidental definitions and explanations of words and terms used, and wide scope-em- bracing discussions of nearly every kind of money and banking system tried or proposed--it is as well adapted for the use of college students and general read CTS interested in economic subjects as for professors and experts on financial questions. A quotation from Mir Whites preface will give an idea of this latest and very timely work on money:
 "On the 25th of February, 1869, the government of the United States made it's paper evidences of debt legal tender between individuals. The nation was thus sent upon the wrong road, and has been toiling in wilderness ever since. In addition to the injustice which it wrought, the legal tender act filled the public mind with misconceptions and delusions on the subject of money. So it came to pass that although we adopted irredeemable paper with the greatest re. luctance we were willing to founder in it 14 years after the supposed necessity for it had passed away Then, partly by design, partly by chance, we resumed specie payments, but the people had to a large extent lost sight of the funda- mental principles of money. The mis- conceptions and delusiens remained, the most dangerous and widely prevalent being the notion that mere quantity is a desirable thing and that the govern ment can produce quantity and ought to.
 It is the aim of this work to recall attention to first principles. For this purpose it has been deemed best to be- gin at the beginning of civilized life on this continent and to treat the subject historically. The science of money is much in need of something to enliven it. If anything can make 1t attractive, it must be the story of the struggles of our ancestors with the same problems that vex us. The reader will find an abundance of these in the following pages. Indeed complete and correct theory of. money might be constructed from the events and experiences that have taken place on the American con- tinent, even if we had no other sources of knowledge. This may be said of the science of banking also All the wisdom and all the folly of the ages, as to these two related subjects, have been exploit ed on our shores within the space of less than 300 years. ,"
 MT. White believes that it was a great mistake for the government to engage in the banking business and that the normal and proper business of the treas ury is the collecting and disbursing of public revenue. He sees but little pros pect of banking and other reforms or even for clear thinking on currency questions until we retire and cancel the legal tender notes and restrict the treasury to the duties for which it was originally and solely designed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
North and Northeast.

If you have any intention of going to the North or East this fall or winter. you should advise yourself of the best route from the South and West. This is the Louisville & Nashville railroad, which is running double daily trains from Memphis through to Louis vile, Cincinnati Nashville. Chattanooga, At lanta, Washington, Philadelphia New York, Chicago Detroit, Buffalo and all points North and East Pullman Sleeping Car Service through. Specially low rates made to Atlanta during the continuance of the Cotton States Exposition For particulars as to rates and through car service, write
 c. P. ATMoRE, Gen'l Pass. Agent,
 Louisville, Ky.
 MAX BAUMGARTEN. Pass. Agent.
 Memphis Tenn
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
coxey,s .Good Roads. Scheme.

General Jacob S Coxey of the late army of weary walkers was the badly defeated Populist candidate for gov ernor of Ohio His platform was "Greenbacks and Good Roads," and he would have been content with a modest $500, 900, 600 of fiat currency for a starter, the money to be expended in building good roads throughout the country.
 Has Statesman Coxey reflected on the certain result of better roads? Will not improved facilities for getting to mar ket mean cheaper transportation? Will that uot mean cheaper farm products! And can it be possible that any true Populist fayors a scheme which will make things cheaper?
 It must be mistake. What the late general really wants to do is to tear up all the roads now existing. This will make things scarce and dear. Everything will go up. Even the chickens will roost high when the army of the com monwealth is on the march. The idea that Coxey wants things cheap must be a goldbug slander, for the burden of his plea for free silver and greenbacks is the complaint that prices are now too low.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25

EVEN San Francisco is putting in a claim for the National Republican Convention. Probably Sitka will be heard from next, and if the selee- tion is made with view of comfort, it will get the prize, or rather the affiietion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25

Why suffer with Coughs, Colds and LaGrippe when LAXATIVE PROMO Does not produce ringing in the head like Sulphate of Qninine. Put up in tablets convenient for taking. Guaranteed to cure or money re funded Price, 9 cents. For sale by e. N. Hart Drug Company. Il 10 d3m
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25

IF things keep on as they have been there won't be much Turkey left for Thanksgiving.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
ST. yITUS DANCE.
A Physician Prescribes Dr. Miles,
 Restorative Nervine.

Dr. Miles Medical O.. Elkhart, Ind;
 My daughter Mattie, aged l4 was afflicted last spring with St. Vitus dance and ner- vousness, her entire right side was numb and nearly paralyzed. We consulted phy-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION,

NEXT the Rockefeller wedding New York's wedding bell seems composed of gold.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25

OATS will no longer be paying crop. The trolly has killed the demand for them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25

GRADUALLY the estimated crop of cotton is falling, and prices may be expected to rise shortly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
Train No. 5-Sund

PINE BLUFF X EASTERN R. R. Train leaves Rob Roy daily except Sum
 day ay................. 3 45 pm Leaves English daily except Sunday I5 a In.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25
RAILROAD TIME CARDS.
 STUTTGART

STUTTGART & ARKANSAS RIVER R. II.
 Train No. 1-Daiy. except Sunday. Leaves Stuttgart for DeWitt..... a. m. Returning Train No.2 Leaves Dewitt 9-50a. m. Arriving at Stuttgart...-.... ... Ill 30 u m.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25

sician and he prescribed Dr. Miles Restora- tive Nervine She took three bottles before we saw any certain signs of improvement, but after that she began to improve very fast and now think she is entirely cured. She has taken nine bottles Of the Nervine. but no other medicine of any kind.
 Knox. Ind. Jan. 5, '95. II. W. HosTErrER.
 Physicians prescribe Dr. Miles Remedies because they are known to be the result Of the long practice and experience of one of the brightest, members of their profession, and are carefully compounded by experi- enced chemists. in exact accordance with Dr. Miles prescriptions, as used In his practice.
 On sale at all druggists. Write for Dr. Miles Book on the Heart and Nerves. Dr. Miles Medical Co.,. Elkhart. Ind.
 n. Giles' Remedies Restore Health.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-25

Hoods Pills cure Constipation by restor- Dg the peristaltic action of the alimentary canal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-26
DEATH IN AN ENVELOPE.
Supposed Anarchists Send Baron Roths-
child an Internal Machine.

Supposed Anarchists Send Baron ROths-
child an Internal Machine.
PARIS, Aug. ga serious attempt
has been made upon the life of Baron
Alphonse D'Rothschild. A large and
heavy envelope was received at the
bank addressed to the baron and was
opened by NJ. Zadkovitz, the confiden-
tial clerk of the well-known banker.
just as the clerk opened the envelope
it exploded with great force, tearing
his right eye out and blowing off some
of his fingers The remains of the
strange envelope was nothing more
than an Internal machine. The police
seem to be unanimous that the out
rage was the work of Anarchists.
They are of the opinion that the con-
struction of the Internal machine and
the material employed resemble in
many respects those sent to the French
deputies in 1891, in boxes made to ap-
pear like packages of books, The
police are using every effort to dis
cover where the letter was posted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-26
A SHINY MUMMY.
Endearing Terms Debs Applies
to the Democratic Party.
A Letter From Woodstock Jail
is Read
AT AN OHIO PICNIC.
Debs' Temper Not Improved by
His Stay in Jail.
AT AN OHIO PICNIC.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2e.-Genera1 Coxey,
Populist candidate for governor of
Ohio, addressed large assemblage at
q Populist picnic in the northwest Sec
ton of the city yesterday afternoon.
He told those present that he would be
the next governor of Ohio and would
probably be the Populist candidate for
president in 1895.
A letter was read from Eugene v.
Debs, the president of the American
Railway union, who is now confined
in the jail at Woodstock, Ill. It is q
remarkable document, in that it at
taeks in a most vicious manner all the
doings of the old political parties, the
present national administration, etc.
Debs says that to expect any changes
from the old parties is idiocy. both
are controlled by the money power
and both are equally debauched by its
influence"
Debs then refers to the present ma
tional administration as probably the
most infamous that has ever cursed
the country he says that the Dem
ocratic party, incapable and corrupt.
full of false professions, detested and
scorned throughout the land, is as dead
as a mummy and embalmed in it's own
slime"
He then states that in one respect
the Republican party is superior to the
Democratic, because it does not hesi-
tate to boldly champion every meas
ure calculated to enlarge the power of
plutocracy, while the Democratic party
makes professions of loyalty to the peo-
pie, to which it turns traitor in the SUI
preme hour of trial.
There is but one course open-to
turn boldly to the Peoples party. 1t
is impossible to either cleanse or de-
oderize the old parties.
Debs then goes on to score the courts
and abuses President Cleveland in a
most libelOus manner, winding up by
characterizing Judge Woods, who SEN
fenced him to imprisonment as Gear
Woods, who, in the interest of corpor-
atoms and in defiance of constitutional
rights, deprived me of my liberty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-26
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A Double Tragedy Occurs 'at Sioux City,
Iowa.

A Double Tragedy Occurs 'at Sioux City,
Iowa.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Aug. 26.-Early
yesterday morning in a house of i'll
repute, occurred what was probably a
murder and suicide. Max Noack of
Marcus, Iowa, was found dead in a
room with bullet wound in his brain.
By his side lay Hazel Hammond, an in
mate of the house, with bullet wound
in her head. The cause of the tragedy
is unknown. Noack had only been in
the city few weeks and was but lit
tie known. Hazel Hammond, or Ora
Minton, as her right name is said to
be, is said to have come from Central
2 City, Neb., where her parents are
reported to live. Noack, it is believed,
was trying to induce the woman to
leave the life she was leading and re-
turn to her home, and that when she
refused he shot her and then killed
himself. It is reported by some that
Noack was the woman's half brother,
and by others that he was her hus-
band. Noack formerly worked at
Grand Island and Lincoln, Neb. The
doctors say the woman may live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-26
KIER HARDIE DINED.
The English Socialist Addresses an Assem-
bly, in New York.

The English Socialist Addresses an Assem-
bly, in New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-Kier Hardie,
the British socialist and ex-member of
parliament, was given dinner by the
Central Labor Federation at Labor Ly-
ceum. In a speech Mr.. Hardie said
that he was glad to meet face to face
the men and women of America who
are to carry the flag of socialism on to
certain victory. He hoped his visit to
this country would help the socialist
movement here as much as he knew it
would help him personally, and as a
result the movement in England.
Mr.. Hardin, in speaking of the criti-
cisms which have been made in Eng
land and this country regarding the
course of the socialist poet, William
Morris, in refusing to issue cheap edi-
lions of his poems SO that the poor
people to whom they would naturally
appeal, could enjoy them, said that, in
his opinion, Mr.. Morris did not de-
serve the criticisms showered upon
him. He thought he might pursue the
same course under similar conditions.
Mr.. Morr1s wrote his poems for the
satisfaction of his higher sensibilities.
They were in measure personal and
for himself alone. Under the present
course they would reach the wealthy
classes who otherwise might not notice
them, and really do more'good than if
they were scattered broadcast