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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09
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IN hoard. The banks, trust compan-
les and individual capitalists would
therefore be the great gainers-at the
expense of their depositors.
ssAgain, the great life insurance COM
panies of this country have for some
time been investing their funds
throughout the country upon gold Sc
curities. If our free coinage people
had their way these gold securities
would still have to be paid in gold by
the farmers and business men whose
mortgages these companies hold but
every widow and orphan, every owner
of life or benefit insurance would have
the amount coming to her or him prac-
tically cut in two, to her or his loss,
and to the gain of the company, which
could dispose of its gold at premium.
81 am not in favor myself of robbing
anybody. But if one is to go into that
business he ought at least to be as de-
cent as was Robin Hood-steal from
those who have most and give some
what of the plumber to the others who
have too little, and not rob poverty
with the result of increasing ealth. !"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09
MEXICO AS A SILVER COUNTRY.

Minister Romero, who represents
Mexico at the seat of the Government
of the United States, has written an
article on the money question, which
is of considerable interest to Ameri
cans.
Mexico is silver money country.
Minister Romero says that the low
price of silver abroad makes it un
profitable to export it, and that, there
fore, there is an ample supply of silver
in the Mexican banks, stimulating in
dustry, maintaining prices and in.
creasing the demand for labor.
1t is quite true that, although Mexi-
co has an abundance of silver, and in
cludes within her bosom mines known
from the middle ages and not yet
worked, silver is so cheap that it is
Improbable to export. 1t is very
easy for the Mexican banks to be full
of such money, but as to stimulation
of industry and increasing the demand
for labor, the sister Republic furnishes
the best possible illustration the
people of the United States ought to
require in demonstration of the effect
of silver standard.
Labor in the Republic of Mexico
deems itself fortunate at a wage of
from six cents to thirtythree cents G
day, Mexican silver money.
So abundant and so cheap is it that
men make of themselves trucks, and
on their backs conduct porterage of
things from sack of -four to a load
of furniture, when SO rare thing as
load of furniture is to be seen in q
street of Mexico. So abundant is labor
and SO cheap, yet SO desperately poor
are the cities of Mexico, notwithstand-
ing that its banks are bursting with
silver, that the water system consists
of earthen vessels carried on the backs
of labor, which sells a modicum of
water to such private patrons as may
be had for the pittance asked. American
travellers in Mexico realize, by getting
nearly twice dollars worth of every
thing for an American dollar. the diff
ference between sound money and
cheap money.
The free silver advocates would have
taken pains, had they known it in
time, to prevent the publication of
Minister Romero's views on the silver
question. As a contribution to cur
rent discussion, it must be, in their
Judgment, as unfortunate as it is
timely.
A high estimate of the intelligence
of Mexico is that ten per cent. of its
people can read and write. A country
without sewerage or schools ought to
be content with cheap money. Chi
cago Times-Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09
UNCLE SAM'S SOLILOQUY.

Uncle Sam is Lot sleeping; he has
simply shut his eyes to do some sober
thinking. He is soliloquizing about
as follows:
"These noisy free coinage people
make me tired. They pretend to want
prosperity, but are doing their best to
scare it away. They want to borrow
money at low interest; and yet they
favor laws that will make it unsafe to
loan money at ordinary rates OF in
terest. Then, too, they're such big
fools as to think they can get rich by
making cheaper money and more of
it. They imagine that if their Uncle
Sam says fifty cents is 100 cents it will
double their wealth. My dear nephews
and nieces, do not care for such ex-
pressions of faith and confidence at
the expense of your common sense.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09

Arguing about the monetary unit
established in 1892 is a pure waste of
time. It matters not what may have
been the intention of our forefathers.
Wise and great and good as they were.
they could not tell the changes which
would be made by the enormous in
crease in the amount of silver mined.
The gradual progress of the country
has made necessary wide departures
from the plans of our first Federal
Government. The fact that gold is
the standard of value Of nearly every
civilized Nation, should lead US to
adopt the same standard even though
we were still on silver basis. APP
pealing to the history of one hundred
years ago has no weight on present
issues. What we want now is the best
possible money, and there is no sense
in shouting about ''the dollars of our
daddies.''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09

There are sight of things your Uncle
Sam couldn't do. He might pass laws
every day of the year declaring that
water shall run up hill, but every
drop of it would continue to run down
hill.
You are silly enough to think that
because have put my stamp on fifty
cents wc9of silver and had 1t &C.
cepted me dollar that / can make
money out Of anything or nothing.
Let me tell you something. So long
as do not put my stamp on any more
silver and greenbacks than can re-
deem in gold, can apparently make
more money. But it weakens my
credit and costs me more in the long
run than it does to put 100 cents in
every dollar and to keep my credit A l..
This is the conclusion / have come to
after much trouble and worry from
trying to please you fiat money peo-
pie. Often during the last thirty
years have I been on the verge of
bankruptcy.
''Let this tree, against which / rest,
represent my currency system. 1t
stood firm and sound until the fat
money worm-now called Free Sill
ver'-got under the bark and began
to eat at the heart. 1t still stands,
when it is half eaten away, though ]
was afraid it would topple over during
the last financial storm. Do you think
that it would continue to stand if /
should allow that fiat money worm to
eat clear through it? If you do your
uncle will disown you. Anyhow, I'm
going to kill that worm; I'm through
monkeying with the fiat money peo-
pie. I want the soundest currency
system in the world, and be CAD I'm
going to have it..
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09
Defunct Sub.Treasury Scheme.

Only two or three years ago the sub.
treasury scheme, plan for system
of Government pawn shops in which
all kinds of farm products would be
pledged, was everywhere urged and
demanded by the political schemers
who 'sfarm the farmers" Adopted by
the Ocala convention of the National
Farmers Alliance, and endorsed by
all the Populist leaders, it seemed as
though it was one of the bedrock
principles of the cheap money move
ment.
To-day who expounds or defends
the sssub-treasury" scheme? Where
is the brilliant logic by which it was
shown that the country's only safety
lay in its immediate adoption? Where
the eloquent tongues which pictured
the blessings of money based on corn,
cotton, pork or tobacco? Gone, all
gone. Nobody talks 'ssub-treasury"
plan any more. Not even a Populist
can be found to advocate it. Unlim-
tied greenbacks, or dollars with fifty
cents worth of silver and fifty cents
worth of fat, have taken its place.
How long before the rest of the cheap
money decisions will follow it into
oblivion?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09

The average farmer or workingman
would not for moment think Of Civ
ing an opinion on a question of astron-
omy or chemistry in opposition to the
teachings of special students of those
sciences. Yet on the far more intri-
sate and difficult question of finance,
every voter thinks himself fully COM
petent to contradict the conclusions
of men who have spent many years
studying the problems involved in the
currency and banking questions. 1t
would be a little more becoming in
our crossroads fnanciers if they
would admit that hearing or reading a
few free coinage speeches does not fit
a man to give an intelligent opinion
on such complex problem. There is
a great deal more to the money ques-
ton than the issue betwe en- our pres
emit financial system and the silver
standard of Mexico.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09

The st. Louis Republic (Dem.) be-
lieves that true Democracy will favor
sound money. IL declares: mot only
does the past of the party condemn
the silver recommendation OF the l6-to-1
politicians, but all educated financial
authorities on earth, including tho
ardent bimetallists, are pronounced in
opposition. II the party ever does
pledge itself to free coinage of silver
at 16 to / with bullion selling at sixty
five cents an ounce in gold, il will
have to fight against the colleges, the
business men, the solid farmers, and
all other intelligent, educated, re-
sponsible, and moral forces"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09

With free coinage we would use far
less silver money than at present,
when it is used as a basis for silver
notes, which circulate on a par with
gold Mexico has free coinage, and
yet her 1000, 900 people can use
but $40, 900, OO0-less than 81 per
capita. At this rate, this country,
with free coinage. would use less than
$500, 900. 900 instead of the 5000, 900, :
900 in silver, which we are now using.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09
DEMAND FOR CURRENCY LITERA-
TURE.

The demand for literature on the
currency question IS something phe-
nomenal. Probably 5000, 900 pamph-
lets and books on this subject have
gone into the hands of the American
people during the past three months
Fully half of the 10000 newspapers
and periodicals in this country are de-
voting considerable space to the silver
question. This means that our think
ing people have taken hold of the cur
rency question and are studying it as
they seldom study question. That
they will reach a sound, safe and
practical solution of the problem is the
opinion of all who believe with Lincoln
that ssyou can't fool all of the people
all of the time
The two great sources of supply for
books and pamphlets on the currency
question are the Coin Publishing Com
pany and the Reform Club. The
Coin Publishing Company has proba-
bly, sold over 1000, 900 books and
pamphlets since last January. It has
sold nearly 500, 900 copies of s'Coin's
Financial School, !" which has become
the text book and bible of the Is to
free-coinage people. The Sound Cur
rency Committee of the Reform Club,
of New York. has sold and distributed
fully ], 200. 900 pamphlets and books
on this great question. 1t has distrlb-
uted 200, 900 copies of s'Coin's Finan-
cial Fool" one of the best of the
thirty or more replies to 'sCoin's FL
nancial School, and 150, 900 copies of
ga Financial Catechism.' Both Of
these pamphlets are published as num-
bers of Sound Currency" single cop
les of which are sold at five cents each.
So great has become the demand for
literature on both sides of this ques-
ton that the Reform Club has estab-
lished supply bureau at so William
street, New York City. Tt has on
hand nearly every valuable book or
pamphlet in print and has reprinted
many essays and speeches, the demand
for which has suddenly revived.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09
"COIN'S FINANCIAL FOOL.v
HIS soLILoQUY.

want bogus dollar. just based on mere
pretence;
I hate the :.gold-bug's" gold one that is
worth hundred cents;
For L m a ''Silver Beetle, as all the world
can see,
And except my precious humbug, you will
find no bugs on me.
can give you learned statistics from Rome
to Adam Smith,
And quite miscellaneous lot of fallacies
Herewith,
To prove that all our troubles in panics new
or old
Are but the rank production of dollar made
from gold.
Ibrook no British meddling with the ''white''
stuff that / laud.
For what care we for England or the folks
who live ''abroad?''
They tell us two and two make four, as sure
as I'm alive.
And so to be American I VOW that they
make five.
Does anybody think the Yankee Nation can
not say
That anythings dollar and make its value
stay?
Should England ever dare to, by the -Reyo-
luton s birth
We will suddenly annex her. or s:wipe her
from the earth"
we need a plle OF money, anu IL lSn { Eng
lands right
To refuse the kind we offer. If she does
want to fight.
For if we Yankees Iegislate that water runs up
hill,
In spite OF all creation will bet you that it
will.
I know the silver bullion that the people had
to buy,
Piled up, would make monument broad
base and six miles high,
Besides the minted silver, which nobody takes
away.
But we ought to keep on buying itin spite OF
what they say.
don't care continental for Wall Street or
Grover c.,
For all the bloaIed .sgold-bugs'' are as mean
as they can be;
DO I've sent broadcast my phamphlet as a
sort of Summer SCHOOL,"
To show the folks the wisdom OF "Coin' 8
& 1<nancial Fool.
Joel Benton, in Harper's Weekly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09

eve only want to restore the con-
-ditions which existed in 1878, say the
silverites. That is, they want less
than million silver dollars in circu-
lation, instead of the six hundred
millions of silver money now in use.
They want an inflated paper currency,
without specie for It's redemption.
They want to get rid of our six hun
dred millions of gold. practically none
of which we had in 1878. Is this what
they mean when they clamor for ''the
conditions of 1873 ?"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09
SMALL CHANGE.

If the Governments stamp can mike
all silver bullion worth S1.29 per
ounce, why can it not make it worth
S1.50 or 50 per ounce? Why does not
the Mexican Governments stamp make
all the silver in that country worth its
coin value?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09

The Florida Citizen Dem.) says !:
''The Democratic press of the State,
with the exception of one or two
newspapers, is decidedly in favor OF
sound money!"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15

appeared in the mill of G.. A. Phillips &
SON. which had been shut down for sew
cral DAYS, at ~. 80 noon The fire depart
ment responded promptly to the alarm,
and did noble work, but the infiammable
material in and about the building, and
the dryness of the day, made the flames
spread very rapidly.
Six streams were played upon the mills
of Totman & Nye, but in spite of this,
the fire made quick Roadway and soon
both were ablaze. Help was summoned
from Waterville, in the fear that a change
in the wind might carry the fire to the
business portion of the village. in a
short time the three sawmills were a heap
of ruins.
The mills shut down. Tuesday morn
inc and there was only one man at work
in the buildings. He was setting a saw
in Nye's mill.
Evervthing was destroyed except two
%o,aning machines, n for c~lapboards and
Tho other for boards, valued at 5000 and
sI1oo respectively. These W machines
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15

40 to 100 men who get prescriptions there
daily are assured of as good medical treat
ment as they could get anywhere. DR..
Bradbury adds to his skill as q physician
long experience in camp; DR.. Robert j.
Martin of Augusta, is regarded as one Of
the best physicians and surgeons in the
capital city; Drs. O'Neil and Jonah also
stand high in the profession. The pro-
visions for hospital and ambulance ser.
vice are the best in every particular and
are all the proof that could be desired that
the State regards the health of its troops
as of the utmost Importance while they
are on tour of duty.
The field officer of the day is Maj.
George W. Bryant of the FIRST Regiment.
Officer of the day for the First is Capt. W.
q. Peterson of X Company; commander of
the guard, Lieut.. Il. +. McGillicuddy of 4
Company; s"npernumerary officer, Lieut..
A. A. Chapman of + Company.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15

as the field evolutions. Gen. Choate said In
reply to the reporters question, $50 far as
l have observed the policing of the camp
has been very good"
Governor Cleaves has always insisted
that the troops should be we'll fed. He
realizes that the men work better, that
their general health is better, that better
results all round are obtained when they
have an abundance of wholesome, nutri-
tious and appetizing food while in camp.
1t is barely possible, too, that the Cover
nor's recollections of scanty rations in
the days when he was a soldier boy in
earnest, may have turned his attention
to the subject. Be that as it may, he
has insisted On good rations being served
in camp and the commissary department
has executed his wish to the letter.
There is no lavish display but the tables
always convey the impression of album
dance to the hungry. Good bread and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Farm buildings owned by Joseph
Saucier, South Lewiston, were burned,
Wednesday night. Loss, $4,000; partially
insured.
A. J. L. won the 2. So race at farming
ton, Wednesday; best time, 1861. Shube
Wilkes won The 2.35 race; best time.
2.37%.
The S-ycars-old daughter of Patrick
Donahue, Portland, Wednesday night,
fell from a piazza on James Walsh's
block, go feet. striking the bannister be-
low. She will die.
Walter b.. Fuller, q graduate of wor-
cester, Mass, Polytechnical school, and a
recent teacher at Horton Academy, Wolf
vile, n. S., was, Wednesday, elected q
teacher in the Manual Training school at
Saco.
Rebortage and Sullivan, the prisoners
liberated by outside parties from the
lookup at Livermore Falls. last week, were
captured at Lewiston, Tuesday night.
They were under sentence to Auburn
Jail.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15

butter, pickles, etc are to be found at
every meal. This morning for breakfast
the troops had sirloin steak and potatoes;
at dinner there was roast lamb and string
beans, and at supper cold meats were
served and fruits in abundance.
Tomorrow, Governors day, the troops
will have baked beans for breakfast, good
hearty diet, but not quite so appetizing as
back in the sixties when the bean hole
was a source of inspiration. At dinner
there will be roast sirloin with string
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15

town, today. AS a result, the three great
sawmills of this place, the Phillips, Tot
man and Nyc, are in ruins. Three hun
drcd hands are thrown II of employ
ment, and the town has received a blow
from which it will be difficult indeed to
recover. The people here are dazed by
the calamity, and the day has been one
whose excitement will not soon be- for
gotten.
1t seems to be the general opinion that
the fire was inccndiary. The flames first
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15

weighed five tor and they were drawn to
a place Of safety by a pair of horses.
The total loss is about 500, 900, divided
as follows: S.. A. Nye & Co., S35, 900; in
sured for $40, 600; G. A. & c. M. Phillips,
$40, 900; insured for 1913, 900; N. Totman
& Son. $25, 900; insured for SIC, 600.
This is the third time. the first in
1858, when the sawmills were all under IA
roof $50 feet long. In July, 1889, the
mills, machine shops and a number of
dwelling houses were burned. The people
here are much depressed and the fear is
expressed that the mills may never be re
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15

The painful questions that will soon be
wringing parents hcartsA"WiH baby get
through the summer?"-must be squarely
faced.
The fearful number of infant deaths
every summer from cholera infantum Is
due to the ignorance Of well meaning
moth, r..
Inn r )pcr foo is now known to be the
cause of nine-tenths of all the frightful
infant mortality of August.
Mothers milk, when healthy and suf-
ficient, is the ideal infant food but when
in the first year Of the baby's life
recourse must be had to another food, or
when the time comes for weaving the
child lactated food by all manner Of means
should promptly be given in preference to
anything else. 1t has saved~th lives of
thousands of babies.
Mothers and nurses who have used lac
tatcd food all agree that 1t best supplies
the materials for baby's rapid growth and
development. Lactated food Is prepared
with a regard to purity. cleanliness, and
freedom from possibility Of contagion
that merits all the praise that has been 30
~lavishly bestowed upon 1t by physicians.
Thu nutritious parts OF barley, wheat
and oats are so prepared as to be easily as
simulated to these are added sugar of
milk and the salts which are the basis Of
mothers milk. These constituents are
thoroughly cooked at high steam heat, and
make a predigested, palatablc, nutritious
food, a perfect substitute for mothers
milk, fit for meeting every demand Of
the rapidly growing child.
Lactated food has tided thousands OF
babies through the sickly hot days. 1t
should be In the hands Of every parent.
Mrs. Edward Hilands of Franklin, Pa,
whose beautiful baby is shown above says:
"Our baby was very delicate, but now
Is one of the healtniest children In the
state. If it had not been for lactated food
l know she would not be alive today, for
before she commenced Its use she was
skin n bones. / tried IS food, and
| don't know how many others, and they
seemed to do more harm than good. She
is two years old now and Is still living on
lactated food and will be for two years
to come, for 1t keeps her in perfect health,
and that is what want"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15
Weather Conditions and General Forecast.

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE area of high
pressure is central on the middle Atlantic
coast. A second high pressure area has
moved from the north Pacific coast to
South Dakota. A storm Of considerable
intensity is developing to the north OF
Montana. Rain has fallen in the south
Atlantic, middle and east Gulf states,
lower Mississippi valley and the upper
Lake region. The temperature has fallen
in the lower Missouri valley and over the
Middle slope, has risen in the lower Lake
region, and has remained stationary else
where.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15
Excellent Hospital Service.

1t is difficult to conceive wherein the
post hospital service could be improved
upon. Certainly there is none connected
with the national guard of any state that
car surpass it, and we very much doubt If
many equal it. The operation performed
upon the Paris boy, Wednesday, was one
creditable to the best equipped hospitals.
Every appliance was had and the opera
ton was M ,er the eyes of N of the
best physical rs ami surgeons in the State,
Surgeon General Thayer Of Waterville.
The surgery was performed by Maj. Full
Ter, surgeon of the Second Regiment n a
man of high rank in his profession. A
glance at the hospital staff explains why
the hospital service is so good and why the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15
BABIES IN AUGUST.
Anxious Mothers Dread the
Hot Summer Days.
Everything Depends Upon the Diet
on Which They Are Fed.
Lactated Food Best Supplies the Material, for
Healthy Growth.

Not only the physicians, but thousands
of modest parents who have seen their
children safely through the trying years
Of %babybood and youth now know that
there is no rational excuse for cholera in
fantum entering any intelligent home In
the land.
Every case Of diarrh0a that terminates
disastrously must be set down to culpable
inattention to baby's great need Of pure,
nourishing food.