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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-10
29d Street
lie BOutilliep Brothers.

22-inch Imported Black
India Twill Silk, bright
goods and the correct
thing for Summer wear,
fully worth 65c., marked
down to
Black, plain and figured
Mohair Bril- lianti es,
bright, lustrous goods and
the most popular fabrics
in the market. Former
price 75c. yard, now
New French all wool
Challies, this seasons
styles, light and dark
grounds, of the best manu-
facture;; formerly sold at
55c. yard, now
Printed Dotted swisses,
white ground with pretty
Dresden designs, reduced
from 35c. yard to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-10

Druggists say that their sales of Hoods
Sarsaparilla exceed those of all others. There
IS no substitute for Hoods.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-10

Goods delivered FREE within 100 mil es of New York
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
BIMETALLISM NOT A FAD.

Some persons, says the Rochester Post
Express, ought to study American history
u little more. Those who call bmetal-
lsm a fad and a "craze," If they Will
read the constitution of the United states,
will find bimetailsm in it. If they will
read the first coinage act OF the Unlteo
States, April 2, 1892, they will find 1t made
the silver dollar the unit of value. 1t re-
mained the unit value until the passage
of the act of Feb. u. 1873, when its coin
age was discontinued. Its coinage was
resumed with restriction as to amount,
under the act of Feb. %, 1878, after having
ceased for five years; and its unlimited
legal tender quality was restored and re-
mains with it. There were, Feb. /, 1895
no less than Az, ,636, ,749 of these dollars
coined; and most of them are in circula-
ton or rather represented in circulation
by silver certificates. Therefore the man
with the fad" the man with the "craze, u
in this country is the monometallist. The
man who is seeking to set up dishonest
dollar" is the monometallist.
In England, where monometallism has
been long established, 1t is the other way
and the English authorities, like Giffen,
that are cited in behalf of monometal-
lism, write as Englishmen, dealing with
English conditions, and they consider the
subject with reference to English pros
pects Their strongest arguments in favor
of monometallism there apply in favor OF
bimetallism here. And curiously enough
while they advocate monometallism
for England they do not want 1t for
the world. As for the courage in the
presidents letter, we fail to appreciate It,
Does he believe in what he said? II so.
what courage Is there in saying It? Mr..
IL
now and he is for monometallism as his
only chance. He wanted a reelection in
1882, and he was then for bmetallism as
his only chance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
Income Tax Points.

There is apparently every probability
utterly unconstitutional, should it come
before the full Supreme court on a re-
that case, the government, in addition
to having to sustain the consderabt
resistance to its collection, will eventu-
ally have to refund the various
amounts collected. Every citizen, there
fore, who is compelled to pay this
odious tax should file with it's collector
formal protest. This will facilitate
his repayment, should the law yet be
declared void.
One point in the recent Supreme court
deliverance touching the income tax
has escaped general notice. The busi-
ness firm which occupies leased prop
erty may subtract from it's return of
income the amount paid out for rent,
since its taxable income in net, all over
$4,000. But the merchant who owns his
place of business dare not count out,
say, six per cent. on it's cost, as rent; he
is required to pay tax to the govern
ment for the use of the product of his
own thrift and economy. In other
words, a federal premium is put on ten
antry and a discount exacted from
those fortunate enough to own their
own stores, factories or mines.
While the bondholder. the owner of
tenements and the proprietor of inter-
est bearing stocks based on real prop
erty, escapes scot free, the man who
earns $4,000 or more by hard and re-
sponsible clerical, executive or profess
sional labor is mulcted to the laws
utmost extent. If the annals of legisla-
tion contain a more conspicuous case
than this of demagogic and unprin-
cipled spoliation under cover of the
forms of law, we have yet to make it's
acquaintance. And yet the same pres
ident who talks gold monometallism in
one breath breaches income taxation in
the other!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
The People MAY Be Trusted.

1t Is perhaps less unfortunate than
would at first thought appear that such
purely scientific questions as the tariff
and the currency should have to be
settled through the medium of general,
partisan discussion. In a government
like our own. resting upon the aggre-
gate, final intelligence of the masses,
no other method of settlement is feas-
method of settlement is. upon the
whole, quite so satisfactory.
1t is a proverbial fact that the more
learned the doctors, the greater the dis
agreement There is no issue in alb
stract science which has ELECTED less
divergence of opinion among the So
called masters of science than has the
issue, let us say, of protective tariff;
yet the common sense of the plain peo-
pie in the end settled the tariff question
more decsively even than the learned
arguments of the scholars have settled
any issue in abstract science. This
consensus Of popular opinion, moving
cautiously along lines of common sense
tests. may be relied upon in due season
to settle the currency question to its
own satisfaction, just as it has settled
the question of moderate protection by
tariff enactment. And unless 1t does
reach this settlement by and for itself,
1t will not accept any other verdict as
final.
The tariff question has ended in what
Is fairly called compromise but it is
essentially a triumph for protection,
honestly applied for the benefit Of the
masses. Crudities in the present law
remain to be removed, and experience
will doubtless from time to time sug-
gest necessary minor notifications: but
in the vital fact of a popular recol from
extreme theories either of free trade or
protection, the tariff may be regarded
as settled at last and finally. So it will
be with the silver issue. so-caled. BIZ
metallism was the custom of our fa-
theirs from the Republics earliest days
down to recent times. 1t will likewise
be the choice of the future. The aggre-
gate common sense of the masses will
recoil from either extreme of contend
ing factions urged on by self-interest;
and it will, in a spirit of compromise,
re-establish that system which, while
working no injustice either to silver or
to gold will at the same time bring no
spoliation to the masses of the people,
1t is popular governments mission to
do these things.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
RESPECT THE PLATFORMS.
,m the Lancaster Intelllgencer.

From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The good sense of the country will hold
its political preachers and prophets to
their declarations in favor of bimetallism;
and no party will even dare to inaugurate
or If inaugurated, to maintain and pursue
a policy that will drive gold out of circu-
lation and make our money less valuable
than the money of the world What we
need is q sound currency as everyone de-
clareS and comedies The simple question
is what is 1t and where will we get it. A
sound currency Is not necessarily formed
by the most valuable material in the world
1t must be capable Of coinage and must be
n valuable metal, but not necessarily the
most valuable metal. And II must be
stable in value; and not only stable in
value but so abundant that Ii may not be
locked up and kept in any way from the
use of those who want 1t. Gold is d pre-
cious metal, as stable in value as any; sill
YER is a metal less precious and perhaps
less stable; but Its use as money has been
demanded, until of late, unanimously, by
civilized nations, to help out the store Of
gold and to make the money metals as
abundant as they should be. Some cred
itor nations have Of late cast out silver
in the belief that gold is sufficiently abun-
dant and in the knowledge that the more
precious the money the greater the profit
But debtor people are sorely injured by
the destruction of silver as a money metal
and the consequent appreciation of gold
thus called upon to perform alone the
money function. This loss may not suf-
flee to prove that gold Is not, alone the
best money; but the fact that the great
United States now pays so high q price,
to its few holders in quantity, to get the
gold that it needs. shows clearly that gold
is not so abundant and readily obtanable
aa to furnish alone the best money.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
Why Not a PennsyIyanian ?

The Pittsburg Commercial-G Gazette is
Of the opinion that pennsylvania has
no conspicuous presidential candidate
to present to the next national Republi-
can convention; no one who would start
in with even remote chance of win
ming" Does not our contemporary take
too gloomy a view of the question !?
There is, in politics, no certainty con-
nected with any event that is one year
distant. Pennsylvania, to be sure, has
as yet no candidate ranking, in popular
strength, with either Reed or McKin-
ley; but that need not necessarily dis
courage the hopeful presentation, one
year hence. of a Pennsylvania candi-
dacy. Who knows what changes may
occur within year?
1t is the opinion of many experienced
politicians that the next national Re-
publican convention will select as the
party's standard-bearer not one Of the
now foremost candidates, but more
or less dark horse" This opinion may
turn out to have>b been erroneous. But 1t
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

The Philadelphia Record Is correct III
it's assertion that 'if every owner of sill
yer bullion should be permitted to take
it to the United States mint, and there
have a dollar stamp put on every so
cents worth, it would at once become
legal tender for the payment of dollar
of indebtedness, and the whole people
of the United States would be con-
tributing to the silver kings" But sup
pose we put dollar stamp on dollars
worth of silver bullion, why should the
Record complain? That is what honest
bimetallism would do.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

Is sustained by numerous precedents
and is certainly plausible Pennsylvania
IL as we'll entitled to the presidency as
Is any other state. Considering the
staunchness of her Republicanism she
Is better entitled to it than any other
state; and since the formerly doubtful
states" are likely to cut little or no
figure in next years presidential cleo
tion, this would seem to be favorable
time for Pennsylvania to claim recogni-
tion.
Nor is any difficulty likely to arise In
securing a candidate. The woods of
Pennsylvania are literally full of first
rate presidential timber.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

Is there enough gold in this country
with which to do the business of the
country? If so, and If silver Is to be
wholly discarded, what Is to become of
the $500, OOO 900 Qn round numbers)
worth of silver now used as money in
the United States? These are questions
worthy of attention,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

urally have to be conservative. SO as
not to frighten these foreign bondhold-
ems. But, at the same time, is 1t not a
misfortune that the richest nation on
earth, in material resources, should be,
with respect to the per capita volume
of its currency, one of the poorest-so
poor, in fact, that it has to borrow In
stead of lend? Must this poverty be in
tensifed by the further limiting of our
coinage to gold alone, of which we have
less than $40 per capita, as against more
than $40 of gold and silver per capita
in bimetallic France?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

The railroad committee Of the New
York board of alderman has recon-
mended that an ordinance be adopted
compelling all surface cars to use fen
ders and wheel guards. That is what
ought to be done in every other wide
awake city, not excepting Scranton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

Elsewhere we present excerpts from
the utterances of leading Democratic
speakers and journals showing that Mr.
Cleveland's object is to force gold
monometaiiism upon his party. The
Republican party, by the way, has al
ready explicitly declared for bimetall-
ism, and is quite likely to do so again.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
Also Wants Gold Monometa Ilism.

From the Philadelphia Record, Dem.
In the relations of gold and silver there
can be but one honest money standard
that which has been established by this
government and by all other great COM
mercial nations. In the acute stage which
the conflict between honest money and
cheap silver has reached in this country
international bimetallism has no stand
ing ground. 1t Is fight to finish be-
tween opposing forces, and the neutrals
in the bimetallic camp must take silver or
20 to the rear.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

Those who hope for speedy return
to honest bimetallism in this country
have much to be thankful for in the
fact that Colonel Alexander Mcclure
has begun to call them names.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

ance as to strong drink. The wholesale
inhibition OF one brand of liquor will hard
ly effect cure for the drinking OF an
other brand. nor will the cause of temper
ance In one department be helped by in
TEMPERANCE in another
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

If the United States shall permit
Great Britain to lombard Greytown 1t
might as well permit 1t to land marines
and seize the town. That is probably
what England is aiming at.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

Bishop Andrews is assured that the
violation of pledges concerning the re-
lease of confidential news is not fire.
quent offence among reputable news
papers. Honesty is the best policy, in
journalism as in all else.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

The season of congressional seed
planting has required, we are told.
What will the harvest be?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
Roor TIMING AND SOLDERING

All done away with by the use Of HART
MANS PATENT PAINT, which consists
OF ingredients well-known to ali. It can be
roofs, also to brick dwellings, which will
prevent absolutely any crumbling, crack
Ing Of breaking Of the brick. 1t will out
last Thinning Of any kind by many, years,
OF the cost of timing. Is sold by the joA
Or pound. Contracts taken by
ANTONIO HARTMANN, 81 Birch u
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

The latest gossip is that Brer Har-
rity is to be stripped of his National
Craftsmanship Yellow Vest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
Referred 70 mr.. Hogan.

From the Wilkes-Barre Leader.
The friends of the Third party have yet
to be convinced that intemperance in
speech and action, malice and bitterness
are going to advance the cause Of temper
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus, The
Tribune AstrOloger.
Astrolabe cast: 800 a. m. for Thursday,
April 49, 1895.
CAV
k~H

A child born on this day will wonder
when 1t will be the editors turn to re-
ceive benefits from Pennsylvania civil
pension bureau. In fact the burden of his
thoughts will be what neXt?'
A suspicion has gone abroad that Homes
dale's proposed new daily paper has joined
the Anthracite county BOOM
There are many who insist that they
can detect a hollow. plocking sound in
Congressman Scranton's shouts In the in
terest Of the Smith senatorial boom.
Boss Burns showed under this day, 1893.
Ajacchus' Advice.
Do not carry your spring overcoat upon
your arm so long as the balmy air of
spring gives evidence of having been
blown through an Ice cream freezer. un-
less you desire to enrich the undertakers.
Never attempt to run down a slanderer.
1t is easier to catch the will'o-the-wisp
than to locate first-class liar.
Mr.. Gompers should remember that
the "bearding Of the lion In his dem is a
dangerous allegory to Introduce into prac-
tlce away from home.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

From cursory inspection of the re-
turns we should say that Robert Is still
all Wright
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

ENTERED AT rHs posroFFioB AT SCRANTON PA. AS
sEcoND-cbAss NAIL MATTER.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
Points on BimetalliSm

James Dobson, the eminent Philadel-
phia manufacturer, says that in the
past twelve years we in this country
have lost in the material wealth, the
product of the soil, from which the
wealth of the country is derived, $12,-
| 900, 900, ,OOO-a sum 50 large that it would
purchase all the railroad stocks,
watered or unwatered, besides leaving
surplus. He attributes this fall in
prices to the contraction of our cur
rency by the artificially enhanced value
of gold, and says it would be checked
by bimetallism.
Replying to that, Henry Dunning Nc
Leod, the eminent British monometall-
ist, claims that the currency of the
world has not contracted in effect, be-
cause people nowadays do business
largely on the basis of credits. His
argument in brief, is that S. worth of
gold will float $1OO worth of credits,
ieHce we uo ilot Heeu " DOtHeT our
heads about silver. Mr.. Dobson, how
ever, asks, What is this but initiation
of the worst kind, worse, even, than fiat
money!" And he adds:
"We are met with the statement that
with the aid of the modern mode of
financlering we do not require the same
amount of money to do the same vol
ume of business; that the use of checks,
or bills of exchange, dispenses, to a
great measure, with the use of money.
/ cannot see the force of the argument,
for / have yet to find a bank that will
accept any check apd pay it out over
the counter, unless you have the money
in bank to meet 1t. The only difference
in the method of payment Is that it is
more convenient to keep your money in
bank than in your safe or on your per-
son. If checks are used in payment
the same amount of money will be re-
quired in either event. The difference
10 SiilPiy VIC iioiiSy 10 hcPt lOI
use. The use of checks neither dimin-
ishes nor increases the volume of
money, and in no way affects our cir
culating medium"
Checks and credits may suffice dur
ing prosperous times, but 1t is noticed
that people demand cash during a
panic.
1t is estimated that $4,000, ,000, 900
worth of American securities are held
abroad, in the form of collaterals on
loans made to Americans
l,by foreigners. Some Of these securities
stipulate that they shall be redeemed
in gold. Others do not. If all should
be presented for payment at one time.
demanding gold, there would not be
enough available gold in the whole
world with which to cancel them.
Therefore. whatever action is taken
with reference to our currency will nat
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
THE SCRANTON OF TODAY.

Come and inspect our city.
Elevation above the tide, TAO feet. -
Extremely healthy.
Estimated population, 1895. 100000.
Registered voters, 20,599.
Value of school property. 100000.
Number Of school children, 1000.
Average amount of bank deposits wv
000. 600.
It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn
sylvania.
Can produce electric power cheaper than
Niagara.
No better point in the United States az
which to establish new industries.
See how We grow:
Population in 1860 0.................. 9,22S
Population I'm 1870 S7O.,... IS, 900
Population in 1880. SS0.................... 45,soo
Population in 1890. O................. 75.2lo
Population in 1894 (estimated)...... 103.Wo
And the end is not yet.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18

aPrinters Ink" the recognized journal for adver-
tisers rates THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE as the best
advertising medium In Northeastern Pennsylva'
MIA. printers Ink" knows.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-18
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THE TRIBUNE IL for Sale Daily ut the D., l.. and w.
Station at Hoboken.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
Pullets or Hens.

'Pullets excel for eggs, hens for any
thing else," says a writer for Farm
Poultry. who explains as follows: Start
ing out in the spring Of the year, pull
lets in the average case lay many more
eggs than hens and are not so persist
ent in sitting. In summer the balance
is about even, and in the fall the hen,
as rule, lays the first part before she
molts, the pullet the last part after
she molts, it usually being the case
that the pQllet is the first molter. This
leaves the chances in favor of the pullet
as winter layer.
With the spring Matched pullet a
great deal lies in the individual, for
some are naturally more enterprising
than others, and taken miscellaneously
they would not do bit better during
the winter months than an equal num-
Der of early molters at any age. Hens
throw stronger and more vigorous chick
ems than pullets, are more experienced
and less foolish. Hence a greater per
cent Of their eggs will be fertile. They
are better mothers and usually better
sitters. In word, pullets for layers,
old fowls for breeders.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
Lucky and Unlucky Vegetables.

Peas and beans arc very important
plants in folklore, and there are many
superstitions connected with them.
Peas were favorite instruments for divi-
nation. A pea pod with nine peas was
equal to a wishbone when placed above
the door. In Northamptonshire it is &C.
counted generally lucky to find nine peas
in a pod, or kid. In Me<klenburg, Ger
many, it is believed that peas must be
sown early OH Wednesday or Thursday,
or the birds will carry them off. If
they are fed to hens, it is said that fowls
will lay well. They must not, however,
be eaten during the Christmas holidays
nor until after Twelfth day.
Beans were mysterious in antiquity.
Pliny says they contain the souls of the
dead. The Romans used them in reli
gious ceremonies. They were used in
Greece as ballots, and Pythagoras desir-
ed his disciples not to Glove beams
that is, not interfere with politics. Our
phrase, "You don't know BEANS" prob
ably means you are no politician. Ovid
prescribes beans to expel evil Spirits
Philadelphia Press.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
Cutting Seed Potatoes.

In a paper submitted to the Kansas
state board of agriculture Wyandotte
county farmer said:
Better results will ordinarily be Sc
cured from cutting seed potatoes as they
are used than cutting them in advance.
Where cut in advance they may be
spread out thinly, and the cuts will dry
up, or they may be dried up by plaster
(gypsum), or they may be thoroughly
mixed with dirt. The cutting I prefer
to have done by hand. An active boy or
girl, after two or three days practice,
will cut 20 bushels per day. It takes q
smart man to cut 40 bushels Of potatoes
per day with a machine I prefer to
have large potatoes cut to single eyes.
I have thoroughly tried Mr.. Grenier's
plan of planting whole potatoes, both
large and small, and am decidedly Of
the opinion that, although it has dis
tinguished advocate, under our condi.
lions it will not do.