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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

Mr.. Crocker thinks he has
found 1t i'm the brokerage charges which
arise out of the present system of conduct
ing the insurance business. 1t would
certainly seem that If the companies
would deal directly with the public en-
ploying their own officials at moderate
and yet sufficient salaries, they might be
able to offer the public better terms and
yet be able to make better profits them
selves However, 1t must be admitted,
on the other hand that If this is SO 1t Is
strange that none of the companies have
vet discovered 1t for themselves and acted
upon the discovery,
We have long thought that the solution
of the fire insurance problem lies in the
direction of local mutual fire insurance
associations, on the assessment plan, with
proper safeguards in the matter of secur-
ity for payments. 1t is seen that Canton
and Stark county pays one dollar for fifty
cents worth of instantaneous half the
money paid going for expenses, commits
sions, advertising profits etc. II those
who insure against fire In this county
would contribute one half their present
PAYMENTS for fire insurance to fund
from which losses would be paid, exper-
ience has demonstrated that everybody
would be as well insured as under the
present system. The expense of admin
istration would be the only separate
charge, and at remote intervals there
might be drafts on the surplus required.
Nevertheless the net result ought to
show q big net snving.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
The ascent Dollar.

The Ascent dollar seems to have
wonderful facination for some men. They
see it circulating daily without discount
and conclude more of them would be a
good thing for the country They do not
stop to think that If too many are coined
under q free silver act the government
could not maintain them Mt par. The
moment they begin to settle below par
prices will go up. A grocer; will give
curtomcr twenty pounds of sugar for 100
cents or a dollar that is legal tender to
the value of 100 cents but he will not do
so for q deprecated dollar. If silver
should drop away, under free coinage,
from its present equivalence with gold
the prices Of all kinds of commodities,
measured in silver, would rise. But the
laboring mans wages would not rise, at
least they would be the last thing to go
up, and If they did rise he would not be n
whit better off than he was before. If he
should earn 50 per day, payable in silver
dollars worth IS cents apiece his wages in
reality would amount to just 96 cents
measured in gold, and would buy no
more than 96 cents of your present cur
rency The laboring man would gain
nothing by such a scheme and he woud
probably live to see financial panic pre-
cipitated by the free coinage of silver, If
such policy is adopted in the near fu-
ture. Panics have several times been
caused by such disorganization of our
money system and the train of disaster
that invariably follows them is an elo-
qucnt record of the danger of rapidly
growing, deprecated currency.
Sober-minded people in all parties Will
soon come to the conclusion that the blat-
ant western mine owners have had about
enough say about free silver and that the
only policy which this government can
wisely pursue in regard to the currency Is
to maintain it above suspicion, silver and
paper at par with gold. With silver on
this basis we believe a majority of the
people are for bimetalism; but they are
not for bimetalism on free silver basis,
for the reason that it would be impossible
under such unfavOrable conditions for the
government to make the ascent dollar
continue to pass on parity with the gold
one.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

We do not quite understand the quality
of the democracy of some democrats and
some newspapers that profess democracy,
when they every day abuse the democratic
administration. Abuse of our party and
its leaders is expected from republican
quarters; misrepresentation of the posi-
tion of the president is the cheerful occu-
patton of the republican press, but what
can so called democratic papers say for
themselves when they continue to mis-
represent in the face of the presidents ex-
press and explicit disavowal to the con.
trary9 Our party worked hard to secure
a democratic president; now some dem.
oorats join with the republicans in heap.
ing abuse and circulating distorted state.
ments. The News is democratio We
believe in holding up the good name OF
our party and our democrats who are in
positions of trust.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
RimetnIism in France.

1t is seldom u free silver arguments is
heard without reference being made TO
the fact that free silver is good enough
for France and should be for this country
As matter of fact that cannot be re-
futed France stopped the coinage of sill
yer away back in 1876, while since that
date we have coined nearly six hundred
millions. Not a five franc piece has been
coined in France in eighteen years.
Today she has a circulation Of Sl3i, 300, 600
against s5ig, 20, 900 in this country.
Now to support this silver France
maintains a reserve of nine hundred
millions in gold while our reserve has hard
work to stay near one hundred. millions.
The exact truth is that since we stopped
the enforced purchase of silver in 1898 the
United states and France are treating sill
yer pccisely alike-letting it alone
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
Englaud,s Rapid Growth in Wealth,

An interesting comparative statement
of the wealth of England in 1894 and in
1870 has just been published. In view Of
the great shrinkage in agricultural and
land values and the general settling of
prices it is surprising that this statement
shows the taxable value of property in
Engand and Wales to have steadily risen
from R1O4, 900, 900 in 1870 to 9l6l, 900, %
600 in 1894. This increase Of more than
80 per cent much more than overcOmes
the shrinkage in the taxable value of land
from $40, 900, 900 in 1870 to R33, 900, 900
in 1894
In the United States wealth has proba-
bly, increased in about the same proper
ton while for the last fifteen years there
has been remarkable deterioration in
land values except in the immediate neigh
borhood of towns and cities and in other
special locations. In New England many
farms have been abandoned after several
generations of successful tillage. In
Ohio the decrease in the value of lands
during the past fifteen years has been one
of the surprising developments Of the
times Farm land that brought 500 per
acre fifteen years ago can now be bought
in numberless cases for fourth or fifth
of that sum.
But wealth goes on increasing, rich
corporations abound and millionaires
multiply. The reason is that their wealth
is made by foreign and domestic COM
merce which may be carried on indepen-
IDENTIFY of the tilling of the soil Thus a
territory may produce oil or coal and buy
its farm produce and yet create great
wealth. The prosperity of Canton largely
turns on the manufacture of articles re-
quired by commerce and not on the value
of Stark countys agricultural posses
sions, valuable as they are. If nothing
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
Why Not Lunch.

Among the democrats interrogated as
to gubernatorial preference Marion
county named W. A. Lynch, OF this city
and county. 1t is not at all probable that
Mr.. Lynch over gave the matter any seri-
Gus thought but there is no reason why
the democratic party of Stark county
should not think some in his behalf. W.
A. Lynch is n man among men. He Is
very capable in the business world and as
a lawyer and scholar takes a high rank.
When it comes to qualification no better
man can be found in Ohio than our own
fellow-citizen. Stark county has large
democratic vote and Stark should have
something to say. The county has fur
nished republican governor and 1t
would be quite fitting should we give
the democratic candidate. W. A. Lynch
possesses every element to make bril-
liant campaign and we believe that he
can obtain large following all over the
state.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

A curious state of affairs is developing
in New York over the organization by
prominent women of determined move
ment against woman suffrage. We notice
such ladies as Mrs Abram Hewitt, Mrs.
Elihu Root, Mrs. Everett p. Wheeler
(wife of the ex-candidate for goyernor)
and Mrs f. l.. Stetson are back of the
movement. The organization is known
as "an association opposed to the extern
sion of suffrage to women" and now has
SO members. 1t simply illustrates the
old observation that there never was and
never will be proposed reform that will
not arouse opposition in some quarter
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
Looking edwards at Coxey.

The washington Star says of stark
county citizen:
one year ago and this city was much
disturbed because of the unwclCome pres
ence within its borders of the host Of
generally undesirable men brought hithcr
by the calculating and far-from -irrespon-
sible Jacob 5. COxey. Locally though the
invasion was interesting because the
horde of ill-fed and unwashed visitors
loudly announced their intention Of COM
pelling the people of this community to
furnish the COmmOnwealers with subslSt-
ence; a threat that for "A while was carried
into execution. Today COXcy has been
almost forgotten by the District of Column
bia: the mention of his name prOyOkes
nothing more serious than smile for in
the year that has gone by since he made
his demonstration he has failed utterly
to live up to the profession he so vOciter-
ously scattered abroad; CoXey' principal
object was self -glorifcation with view
to ultimate proht-political or otherwise.
More interesting than any other phase OF
the subject is the fact that in so short
time man who created so much of dis
turbancc should have jOurneyed such a
great distance toward oblivion.
The public interest in this individual
was aroused by what he said he would do;
it soon subsidized when the public discov-
cred what he did do We do not suppose
a bigger political fraud has defaced the
landscape in the history of the country
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

Major Dick, of Akron, is a candidate
for something on the republican state
ticket he does not care much what it is
so it is an office. This is the same fellow
who was imported into the third congress
sional district against Paul Srog when he
was candidate for congress. Dick
opened up "cold storage" in room
number l3 in one of the office buildings
at Hamilton and asked the Foraker
owd to please step aside as he was sim
por,+1" to run the campaign. As result
most all the republicans stepped aside and
Dick sneaked out of town. But the For
aker boys have not forgotten him and it
is safe to say that there is one congress
sional district that will give him knock
if his name gets into the convention.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

The Marquis of Castellane after n stay
in this country of just two weeks went
back home and wrote his impressions.
The most prominent one is that we are
given on this side too much to hunting the
almighty dollar. The almighty assurance
of such remark, coming from a man
who has just emerged from n scramble
for Jay Gould's millions, which were
piled up by the very method this Mar
quis does not approve, surpasses belief.
While on this subject it is interesting to
note the report that the young count is at
Monte Carlo where he is industriously
blowing in considerable of the money he
married in New York. Great men are the
Castellanes, father and son.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

1t is not enough for a motorman on an
electric car to ring his bell and then ex-
pecU everybody to clear the track. In the
first place one vehicle has about as much
right to the street as another even if that
other is propelled by electricity. In the
second place, even if a motorman rings
his bell person in a fit of abstraction
may continue obvious to all danger; or
the pedestrian may get excited and run in
the wrong direction. Everybody should
try and give the street cars the right of
way as a matter of courtesy because they
generally carry good many people; at
the same time the motormen should re-
alize the responsibility that rests on them
and for the proper discharge of which
they should be held to strict accountable
ity,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
Fiour SI7 a Barrel.

Our populistic friends have short mem
ories. They think all the government
has to do in order TO make money and
maintain it at par is to put the govern
mcnt stamp on It, If they will recall the
year 1862, when we were getting pretty
deep into the war they will remember
that the paper money of the loyal states
was still ut par with gold or very nearly
So We then had $40, 900, 600 of paper
money. The governments first issue of
$50, 900, OOO-lcss than any of the three
recent loans Of the present administration
sent gold to a premium of five per cent.
That is, although these demand notes
were payable in gold yet dollar in them
had already shrunk to 95 cents and every
commodity bought with them rose just
five cents on the dollar. BY December Of
that year gold commanded a premium of
32 per cent That is, paper dollar paid
in exchange for the necessities of life,
was worth just IS cents and, in conse-
quence, prices rose 32 per cent to meet
this depreciation. Flour rose to 81 per
barrel. Within few weeks-early in
1S63-thc currency was swept bare of
metallic money. BY 1864 paper money
had sunk to the low level of 65 per cent
below par-that is government promise
to pay in gold was worth but 35 cents
on the dollar and flour arose to S17 per
borrp1
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

This free silver craze originated in the
mining states of the west which porduce
great quantities of silver and want the
government to buy it. That is the center
of all inspiration on the free silver PROPOSE
ton. But why our farmers in the East
cannotssee that they are being used as cats
paws in this business Is a mystery. How
much silver do our readers think was pur-
chased by the government under the law
of 1878 and 1890 requiring regular month.
ly purchases of ounce silver? Why the
enormous amount of 464 million dollars
worth. What became of this silverY A
large portion is stored in the big silver
vaults under the treasury at Washington
tons and tons of it. At the present
price of bullion this silver represents a
loss of $780, 600, 900! Stark county tax
payers pay their share of this loss created
by a law that was friendly to silver and
designed to bolster the price of it. In the
face of this disastrous experience gentle
men of the old greenback school are shout
ing themselves hoarse for free silver when
VIC aliOoiy htt'O iloiO pH"ii wiz NiiIui"VN
by some hundreds of tons-to be exact
S549, 700, 900 in all.
Let us have all the silver the country
will digest and assimilate but in all
conscience where will the benefit be in a
free coinage of that of which we have q
plentyY
The president draws the line at "honest
money" That is whenever silver begins
to sink below par or threatens to it is
time to stop.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

Jos. p. Smith, whom Gov. Mckinley
appointed to a soft job is in very em-
barrassing predicament for a public offlc-
ial He went to Cincinnati and contract
ed little bill at book store After be-
ing sent statement for several months
he wrote the following letter to the firm /:
COLUMBUS, OHIO February II, 1895.
W. o. Davie & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio:
DEAR SIR-It was my intention to pay q
visit to Cincinnati in the near future, and
would have called to pay my account in
person. 1t was also my intention to select
some new books for the library but as you
have kept showing your contemplate bill
under my nose, l shall now not do so You
might have made me a present of such a
paltry amount, instead of annoying me with
your bill as you have done.
JOS. p. SMITH.
The Mckinley and McDougall gang,
aided by Joe Simth have been preaching
reform" and taking such an active hand
in reform matters at Cincinnati that this
letter has queer look for IA true reformer.
1t looks funny; that's all
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

The mine owners and their hired law
yers insist that there should be a law pro-
viding for the coinage of silver at the old
ratio of 10 to /. That would mean that
silver which is actually worth sixty
seven cents an ounce, would be given a
mint value of $l.20 an ounce.
There would be millions and millions
of dollars in such a law for the mine
owners and their lawyers. That is why
they are mOnometalists. They claim to
be bimetallists, but their claim Is fraud
ulent and they know it.-Exchange.
Why fraudulent?" Because a free
coinage of silver at l6 to 1, when gold
is worth just thirty times as much as
silver, would give us silver currency
that could not be maintained at par.
Hence the cheap money would drive the
good out of the country, on the theory
that a man will not pay debt in gold II
he can pay it in deprecated silver Thus
we would reach monometallism with sill.
yer the only metal in circulation. AS a
currency-inhation and people robbing
scheme the above would be hard to beat.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
More Indications of Reviving Busi-

More Indications of Reviving Busi.
ness.
One of the most accurate business bar
ometers the country affords is the sale of
government postage stamps. 1t has been
found that the sale Of stamps fluctuates
almost exactly with the state of busi-
ness This was determined by Mr. Hazcn,
late third assistant post master general.
These sales were larger during the quar-
ter ending March 81 last than for any
quarter in the history of the government,
exceedingly by $3.50, 900 the largest pre-.
ceding quarter in 1898, before the panic.
The restoration of confidence in the
treasury is now such that the raids on the
gold reserve, which ran as high i'm Jan
uary as 81, 1856, 0I6, are now down to an
average that is below s24, 900 day.
In 1890 the number of new national
banks organized was 3O7. For the year
ending Oct. 81, 1894 the number was only
so, smaller than in any year since 1879.
This year, judging by the record for a lit
tie more than five months, the number
for 1894 will be about doubled. The
bank note circulation is also increasing
after quite long period of retrogression.
This increase for March was 49, 1862, 321
The advance during April was still more
gratifying and indicates an increase of
nearly S4,0OO,OOO
All these indications of reviying bust
ness are based on hard headed deductions
from well kown data long since ascer.
tanned to be reliable There is no senti-
ment in it and no guess work. For all of
which let us rejoice.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

1t would be sight for the Gods to see
Japan tackle Russia and trounce her If
the cause be righteous. Russia needs the
same kind of a shaking up that China has
just received in the interests of civiliza-
ton In such an affair the advantages of
location would all be on the side of Japan
and the advantage Of strength on the side
of Russia providing Japan receives no
helm from EnRlnnd.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette is
trying to lay the blame for the row in the
republican party and the attempt to in
dict Geo. b. Cox, at the door of John r.
Mclean, Senator Brice and Paul j. Sorg.
If the G. G. would adjust its eye glasses
to the proper focus it would without
difficulty see that the whole trouble was
started right in the ranks of its own party
and by its own political brethren.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

were bought or sold in Canton but the
products of the farms of Stark small
town could transact all the business that
would be done. 1t is thus seen that the
case of England cited above is in no wise
exceptional although the figures are an
nouncod as "highly important and sig
,.ia,,,,N -
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

If the crops are good--and this is the only
"if' we are going to use-this country
will be travelling the broad highway of pros
pority next fall, and the chief occupation
Of the silver boomer will be gore Pitts
burg Times
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

1t is stated ON good authority, that the
Prince of Wales has a peculiar habit of
winking his left eye. If the Prince should
visit Canton on Sunday, when the
saloons are supposed to be closed, he
would find quite a number who have his
eye winking fad.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

A monometalist is man who believes
in the use of but one metal us money.
President Cleveland is mOnometalist.
His metal is gold and gold alone. -Clevo-
land Leader.
A gratuitous and very contemplate
falsehood i'm view Of the PRESIDENTS ox-
press disavowal the other day of the Nor
ton interview But what better is to be
expected Of the republican press?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

In Wisconsin the woman's suffrage
bill has been beaten. In Michigan n COM
mittee of the house of representatives has
reported in favor of submitting the ques-
tion to a vote of the people in 1897. In
New York a similar provision has passed
both houses of the Legislature. But it
must pass at a subsequent session before
it can be submitted. In Utah the consti-
tutional convention incorporated woman
suffrage in the new constitution by a
decided majority the, Mormon members
going solidly for it. Their reasoning in
the premises probably is that the Mormon
women will be unit for Mormon in
terests while the gentle vote will be more
or less scattered. All of these movements
toward suffrage for women indicate that
that idea is marching on and that it will
be but question of time when it will
take the country unless in the meantime
experience will develope that the innova-
tion is not advisable.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

round under very liberal pension laws they
propose TO have all they are entitled to
and they do not propose to make any
apologies for taking It. In other words
they are neither saints nor humbugs.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

Sir Estes G. Rathbone, the individual
who was 4th assistant postmaster general
under Harrison is said to be doing mis-
sionary work against Mckinley.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
WHERE WE STAND ON THE CUR
RENCY QUESTION.

From the National Democratic Plat
form Of 1850, Plank 3.
Honest money, consisting Of gold and
silver, and paper convertible into coin on
demand; the strict maintainance of the
public faith, state and national.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

The crime of 1896" Coins Financial
School" The whole purpose of the bool;
is TO deceive farmers and wage earners.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
CURRENT COMMENTS.
MISS BAYARD RIDES.
fTimes-Herald1

Miss Florence Bayard, the daughter of the
United States ambassador to Great Britain,
cabled to firm of bicycle-makers in Wash.
ingtown ordering a safety wheel. With the
diplomatic visitors in Washington using
wheels and the sons and daughters of our re,
representatives. abroad adopting them there is
promise that the wheel will break into society
after all The fact that Miss Bayard's wheel
is to be called the Victoria" does not mean
that she is naming it after the Queen of Eng.
land
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09

Il. Nulty, Of St. Paul. Mimi, writes: "Was
confined to bed for weeks, doctors could do
me no good; Japanese Pile Cure entirely cured
me-" Fisher < Young.
Stin, stylish colored shirts, Rosen-
thalls.