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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25

1t is unQucstionably true that no part
on our people is SO vitality interested III
tine preservation of u sound and stable
currency as the men and women who
work for wages, and in the term wages
| include salaries and compensation i'll
every form paid for personal services
i'll all the occupations of life The evils
of deprecated and huctuating currency
must always fall most heavily upon the
poor, who do not produce for them
selves but for others and who are there
fore compelled to purchase with their
wages everything they eat, drink and
wear Their wages will remain station
ary or at best they will rise slowly and
mt long intervals, while the prices of
the necesSarieS of life are liable to rise
suddenly from day to day rs the value
of the currency changes, and consequent
~ what may appear tn be fair rate OF
compensation ut the time labor con
tract is made may prove to he grossly
inadequate long before the labor is per
formed. The laborer cannot protect him
self against fluctuations i'll the prices of
commodities, for he cannot purchase at
wholesale when prices aro low and keep
ont of the markets When prices are high.
He must buy day by day, and he must
pay ont Of his earnings. whether their
purchasing power be great or small.
The employer cannot afford to promise
higher wages in advance, because with
depreciating and fiuctuating currency
he cannot possibly foretell what the
prices Of his products will he at any
time in the future. Thus the laborer is
the victim of two influences, neither Of
which can he successfully resist. He
must accept whatever wages are offered
by employers or 60 without work, and
he must pay whatever prices are de-
manded in the markets or 80 without
food Secretary Carlisle ut Louisville
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25

lions of business activity, with woollen
and worsted goods at low prices In
consequence of free wool and reduc-
tions in >the schedule on woollen and
worsted fabrics, purchases were made
In an exceptionally active manner,
while "the reserve of manufactured
goods in storehouses Of makers and in
the hands of retail dealers was re-
duced almost to vanishing point"
The Herald looks for an increased out
put of wo0llen and worsted fabrics
from American factories during 1895,
and one that will exceed in volume
the output Of any year in the history
of this country, so that when the de-
mand has been supplied falling off
in the importations of foreign made
fabrics may be looked for, since with
free wool our manufacturers will be
able to hold their own market. That
manufacturers have already adapted
themselves TO the new conditions pro-
vided by free wool and the reduction
Of the tariff on manufactured goods
and that they have acquired a great
deal Of valuable experience, in most
instances without any loss, is shown
by the new factories and extension of
old mills now in process of construc-
ton, indicating that our manufac-
turcrs are, with few exceptions, in u
position to hold their own, and in "a
year or more will be able to control a
larger proportion of the American
market, than they have possessed at
any previous time.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25
RIDGEW

TO The Iowa County Democrat
A. J. Broker, of Wadena, Mime
sofa, visited his sister Mrs. +. w.
Mason, last week.
Mrs. S. Tresidder and daugters, of
Dodgeville, visited relatives here, the
first part of the week,
Mike Mcdonald and Ben Holland,
of Hollandale, were here on business,
the first part of the week.
Ryan x O'Neill shipped car load
of horses to the Chicago markets,
Monday.
Doctor Day, of Hollandale, visited
his brother here, Tuesday.
Married, at st. Bridget's Catholic
church, Ridgeway, Wis, June "A.
1895, Fathyr GREELEY officiating, Mr..
Jos. +. Sours, of Oregon, Ill, to Miss
Mary Lynch, of Ridgeway.
Doctor Day performed very pain
full operation on the infant child of
Ira Beaumont. Monday.
The Mill Creek cheese factory ship
ped a car load of cheese from here,
Wednesday their first shipment this
year They received s and 81 cents.
James Ryan and John Toay left
here Monday, for South Dakota, to
harvest their wild oats"
Con. Murphy visited his parents at
Mount Horeb, Tuesday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs Herbert, a
son.
Wanted BY Ryan \ O'Neill, at
Ridgeway, 100 horses, for which they
will pay the highest market prices.
Nicholas Reed has given his resi-
dence new coat of paint.
Tom Clayton, of Dodgeville is
painting the residence of James Har,
rington.
Grandpa Yapp went to Madison,
to attend the Assembly, Tuesday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25
FINANCIAL LAWMAKERS.
Free silver Charlatans Endcavoring to
Humbug the People.


1t is only year or two ago since tho
country was thrown into excitement by
the announcement that Il man named
Frank Melbourne had discovered II
method of bringing rain out Of clear
skies. To the farmers of the western
prairicS the news was especially crafty
ing, rs they had SO often suffered from
drought that ii means of supplying arti
fetal moisture was Of the greatest inn
pOrtancc. In spite of the warnings of
men of science that the man was an i'm
poster many villages and towns paid
considerable sums of money to Mel
bourne ard his imitatorS, expecting to
be favored with refreshing showers. 1t
is true that in some cases it did rain
after the rainmaker chad sent up Il bal
loon with dynamite and had set off some
gases out of machine which he carried
around in wagon, but i'll the great ma
jority of cases no rain fell, and the peo
pie lost their money Even when it did
rain no sensible man believed that it
had been brought by the bomhardmont
of the air, and now Melbourne confesscS
that he cannot and never could make
rain, saying III II recent interview:
"Thcre isno such thing as making rain
The American people like to be hum
plugged The bigger the humbug the
easier they are dupcd. y
Another set of charlatans are now
travelling through the south and west
engaged i'll trying to- fool the people
into believing that wealth will be rained
down upon them if they will only elect
II free coinage congress and president
PETER Bland, Steward and Coin are
preaching doctrines that are just as silly
and as much opposed to natural laws as
We're those of the rainmakcrs. 1t is not
strange that people who could be delud-
cd into thinking that a quack could make
rain should believe that debasing the
measure Of values would make moro
wealth. But fortunately they are i'll the
minority, and the intelligent majority
will never consent to be made the vic
Tins of such foolish schemes. The new
rainmakcrs are making lots Of noise and
sending up plenty free coinage gas, but
they are only laughed mt by the men Of
sound common sense. Let the quacks 90
on, but dom waste any money ON them
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25

The high tariilltes, who predicted
dire disaster to certain industries un-
der the reduced rates of the new law
are dazed knocked silly, as it were
by the workings of the law. From
every industrial center comes reports
of revival of manufactures. The
Milwaukee Sentinel of July %, under
the headings "Great Boom on in Iron"
" Pittsburg Plants Unable to Meet
their ORDERS" contains the following,
dated Pittsburg, Pa, July D: "Pltts-
burg's industrial boom has reached
such proportions that its enormous
iron and steel plants are unable to
fully meet the demand. The flood of
orders upon local billet manufacturers
is 50 great that buyers were forced
to go to Philadelphia during the week
for supply. Local manufacturers
decline to take orders for immediate
delivery and no contracts are being
taken for shipment before September"
only few days ago came the report
that one manufacturing firm had
received an order from Europe for one
thousand tons Of steel billets. And
all the reply protectionists can make
is, that the revival of business is all
due to the prospects of Republican
victory at the polls next year. But
let them rest assured that the party
which seeks to return to MCkinleyism
will never again be placed in power by
the American people.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25
THE INCREASE IN IMPORTS

The Dry Goods Economist, of New
York, in It's issue of July 20, replies
To statements that have been recently
made in u number of newspapers,
claiming that the large increase in
The imports of woollen and worsted
goods represents 40 much work taken
from American operatives. The
Economist says tina. this claim has re.
ceived very strong refutation by the
Boston Herald. Admitting the large
increase in the importations OF
woollen and worsted goods, the Her.
aid calls attention to the still greater
increase in the importations OF
foreign wool, the material ont OF
which American operatives are tc
manufacture textile fabrics, and to thu
fact that most woollen, worsted and
knit goods factories are running on
full time, and some of them night anC
day, in order to supply the demand, 81
the operatives can hardly be in q
position to complain that any foreign
country is depriying them of work
The increase of importations are at
tributed by the Herald to the great
falling of in regular demand TO
nearly two years, owing to the hare
times and the economy practiced b,
the majority of our population, the re
suit being that on the recent restora
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25
How VIII They Get IT,

Silyerites reply to the proof that there
is far more money now in this country
than at any previous period in our his
tory by saying: The money is all
locked up in the banks. We want free
silver so the people will have the mon
ey." But they never explain how free
coinage, under which the silver mine
owners would take their bullion TO the
mint and get back coined dollars would
pnt those dollars III the pockets Of the
people, or how it would keep them out
Of the banks if their owners chose to dc
post them. The fact that we have near
" five times rs much money per capita
as Mexico, free silver country. should
lead the believers III free coinage to
think little about tie probable results
Of their scheme
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications us they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies,
Deafness is caused by an intlamed
condition of the mucous lining Of the
Fustachian Tube. When this tube is
inilamed YOU have rumbling sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result,
and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be des-
troyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is moth
ing but an innamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars
for any case of Deafness caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure Send for circulars; free.
+. ]. CHENEY \ Co. Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 15c
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25

Governor Upham will make no mis-.
take if he appoints Judge Clementson
associate justice of the supreme court.
1t was unfortunate that Clementson's
friends presented him as candidate
against Judge Winslow; but we be-
leve that in the contest not word
derogatory to Mr.. Clementson's high
character as man and Judge was
written or spoken. He is regarded by
every resident of the circuit over
which he has presided for more than
nine years as an able, upright and a
Just Judge
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25

part Of the debt, so, each one of the
$346, 900, 900 greenbacks yet outstand-
ing is part Of the debt, and will con-
tinue to be until the last one Is bought
by the government, cancelled, and for
ever destroyed,
How was the debt increased during
the past fifteen years? In this way:
In 1873, a republican administration.
under law passed by republican
congress, took the peoples money to
buy silver bullion to coin into discs
called dollars, embellished with the
motto, In God we trust"
A most appropriate motto, you will
grant, in view of the fact that each
disc coined that year lacked eleven
cents metallic value Of being worth
one dollar, or one hundred cents.
AS the government has no money
except what comes from taxes paid by
the people, or is obtained by borrowing
it on the credit of the people, the ad
ministration in 1878, which coined
these discs worth 80 cents into dollars
calling for 100 cents, contracted eleven
cents Of debt every time one of them
was dropped from the mint stamp.
And the debt made in this way is Just
as surely a part of the national debt
as is bonds issued by that government.
Now, this increasing of the debt
continued till November 1893, at
which time each disc coined added iif-
ty cents to the national debt, for each
one then lacked fifty cents metallic
value of being worth one dollar or one
hundred cents.
Had you been able to gather togeth-
er the whole number 459,322, 700 of
discs coined between 1873 and 1898,
and have sold them, at their metallic
value, you would have received in
round numbers less than $lO0000,000
had been paid for them! Not an alto
gether startling success us an invest
ment of the peoples money was it:
But we have not reached the nib of
the matter. If msmanagement had
stopped there the people would have
regarded it rs no more than the usual
laundering mischief done to national
money matters by partisan politics.
Finding the business of the country
unwilling to receive the discs and us if
to make sure of increasing the public
debt, republican administrations caused
pieces of paper to be issued called sill
yer certificates and treasury notes.
which call for the payment of $i9l,-
OOO,O which are apparently based
upon the metal in the discs and the
bullion or uncoined silver in the treas
ury, but these pieces of paper are
really demand notes payable in gold.
Were you to sell this silver bullion
and to what you received for it add
what the discs sold for. you would
lack more than $l50,O0O,OO0 of having
enough money with which to redeem
ne $i9l $500 paper promises which
have been issued since 1873.
leave it to the intelligence of the
readers of The Democrat to say if
that be not an increase of the national
debt. +. Nj. DYER.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25
A BACK WARD STEP.

The Democrat Is OF the opinion that
the people of Wisconsin will not &C.
cept as final the decision OF Attorney
General Mylrea in regard to the law
passed last winter relieving ex treasur-
ers Baetz, Keuhn and McFetridge
from the payment Of Judgments
secured against them in the treasury
cases. The attorney general had 1t in
his power to render his party a great
service by having the supreme court
pass upon the question OF the constitu-
tionality Of the law. He swerved from
his original purpose; accepted the law
rs constitutional; satisfied the jndg
ments without payment; and opened
wide the door for the repayment Of all
moneys recovered from ex state treas
urers for interest unlawfully withheld
from the treasury by them. The step
is u backward one. IL IL not only an
open violation Of pledges made by the
Republican party TO the people, but Is
virtually an endorsement Of IN offence
upon which the people of the state had
set the seal Of disapproyal. The treas
ury cases form one of the most inter
esting and important chapters in the
history Of Wisconsin. They were in
reality begun by The Milwaukee journ-
nj, which led the Democratic press OF
the state, In exposing and condemnlng
the practice OF the state treasurers
retaining for their own private use the
interest on monthly balances Of state
funds deposited In banks. The recov-
cry of more than half a million dollars,
and Judgments to the amount Of over
two hundred thousand dollars more,
was the result of placing In power
officials possessed of enough honesty
and courage to enforce the just claims
Of the state. Whilst majority of the
people endorsed the acts of these
officials, Republican politicians in gen
eral at first ridiculed the efforts to
recover from ex .trcasurers, afterwards
implored for mercy; and then, in the
words of the Republican platform of
1904 lapn,nnnI
"ns without foundation and Intended only
tomslcnd the voters of Wisconsin, the state
ment so often made and reiterated by the
Democratic press, TINT Republican success
Involves n surrender or compromise Of what
ever legal rights the courts mny hold To exist
In favor OF the state upon the bonds of thu
rN-statc trcnsurcrs.
The platform further pledged, that
If the Republican party should be
entrusted with the executive and
Legislative power OF the state,
to enforce tho legal rights Of people in the
premises"
And the work Of subvertlng the
rights of the people and the courts, in
the premises, Is now we'll under
way, What II redeeming of pledges
was there my countrymen! If the
law passed last winter to relieve the
ex troasurers from payment and AT,
torney General My"ca's recent deter
mination regarding that law, do not
involve II surrender or compromise,
then Republican pledges have been re.
deemed. Another chapter Of the
treasury cases is still to be written.
The end Is not yet. Republican poll
ticians who denied the right Of the
state to recover from x-treasurcrs
are unrepentant and unrcconstructed.
To their minds courts have no rights
which they are bound to respect.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25

Free traders said: "Give us free
wool and American operatives will
supply textile fabrics for the markets
of the world" The last congress gave
us free wool, and the wooden mills of
the country are running on full time
and are unable to supply the demand
for their products.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25

EDITORS DEMOCRAT: In the good
time coming, the people of this
country will be anxious to know the
truth on public questions, and will
have the courage to look the truth
squarely in the face when it is present
ed to them.
There will grow out Of this desire
and courage Il willingness to support
and pay for, the newspapers which
hew to the line let the chips fall where
they may.
And this movement, this declaration
of Independence, this emancipation
proclamation, must come from the
people. However much our newspa.
pers brag Of independence, of their
influencing" public opinion, they are
always just so many yards behind the
people and whip and spur as we will
they cannot be brought to the wire till
the bunch has passed under it and is
well around the first turn.
Nor can the newspapers be blamed
for this servility, they publish what
the people want and will pay for.
What protest against is the assert
ing of half the truth as though it
were the whole. or what value is the
discussion of great public questions in
the columns Of journal managed
10y II man who is under orders Of the
corporation owning the stock, to pub
fish nothing which conflicts in the re
hottest degree with the fallacies and
falsehoods of party platform?
What real discussion Of the merits of
public questions is permitted or can be
ected from journals thus imprison
eds AS we'll might be asked how
much fresh grass gosling is getting
when shut up in II barnyard with
"poke" fastened to its neck.
And your poke ridden gosling can
furnish you as much and rs definite
information of the geography of the
farm rs your partisan newspaper will
furnish you on matters of national
concern.
am led to make these observations
by hearing the partisan "quack of
poke ridden editors who call attention
To the recent increase of 500, 200
In the national debt under democrat
ic administration, rs II it were utterly
unheardof, something entirely new,
something wholly outside the practice
obtaining under republican admins
trations.
am very sure Democrats regret the
increase of the debt as much as any
one regrets it, but | see no reason for
the republican pot to call the demo
cratic kettle black, for while the demo
cratic administration increased the
debt, ii was done for the best of
reasons, and in an open and above
board way, while the increase of the
debt more than $lOO,OOO.O00 in the
past fifteen years by republican nd.
ministrations was not for good
reasons nor was II done in an open
and above board way. AS you have
not read much Of anything except
your poke-ridden party journal, you
may doubt my statement that republi-
can administrations within the past
fifteen years have increased the ma
tional debt more than 100000, 900.
Let me show how il was done
First bear in mind. not all of the ma
tional debt is in the form Of bonds,
nor is II necessary to issue bonds to in
crease the debt.
For example, the greenbaeks issued
under stress Of the civil war were 4
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25

1--WE had an epidemic of dysentery
in this vicinity last summer" says
Samuel S. Pollock, Of Briceland, Cal.
~ was taken with it and suffered Sc
verely until some one called my atten-
ton to Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. procured a
bottle and felt better after the first
dose. Before one half of the bottle
had been used | was well. recon-
mended it to my friends and their ex-
perience was the same. We all unite
in saying it is the best" For sale at
II. ID. Pulford drug store.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25

The Milwaukee Telegraph, one of
the staunchest Republican newspapers
in Wisconsin, says Before the Re
publican editors spend too much time
and energy in defending the legisla-
ture for relieving the tx, treasurers
from their Indebtedness to the state,
they had better read over Republican
platforms and casually glance at the
speech made in this city by Colonel
John G. Spooner, last September, which
speech was loudly cheered by thous-
ands of Republicans present that
bushels of cough medicine and barrels
of beer were required to restore their
throats to their former wholesome
state. Brethren, it may not be mess
but Mt this distance 1t looks like one.
Stump speakers might begin now to
devise ways and means by which to
satisfy their Republican audiences that
ust the right thing has been done
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-07-25
For Watches

Or clocks, go to y. Jenkins. the
ieweler Everything in his line at
bed rock prices