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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-11-10

FL Juez Instructor Sr. Triana dio
lectura todos los documentos y &C
tuaciones que contiene ell proce; 80 su-
marisimo tornado al reniente de Ma
VIC S seil or Gallego. kesulta de la
exposition de hechos, confirmados
por todos los testigos que han presta
do declaration, que ell del actual, a
los y so de la noche, Sc hizo la
mar el sehor Gallego Ell ell pliebot
Dos ae Mayo con objeto de vigilar las
costas enue Cuba y Turquins, Ell una
extension de 90 millas. Llevaba un
practice, dos cabos de mar y diez ma
rinos de la dotaci6n del RsIna JKerce-
del, con otras tantas carabnas y sa
bles de abordaje y mil cartuchos Las
condolences marineras del pailebot
eran pesmas carecia dc espacio, pues
no mlde sino metros de eslora por
2 50 de manga; no tenil canon, anne
tralladora nj otro medic e6caz de de
tensa. y era tan dihciI penoso diri
g,rlo que invirti6 no menos de treinta
y Seis horas para recorrer seis milas
antes de avi,tarse por vez primera
con ell ReiHa Merceaes.
Todo el dia 2 de Octubre estuvo
en- el mar y al obscurecer entro en- la |
boca del puerto, de donde salio a las
pocas horas. En- los dias 3y4 no
tuvo novedad en- este tltimo dia hi
20 aguadl en- Cayo Dumas FL dia (
al amanecer VIC en- la playa una por
cion de hombres bahaudose supuso
que perteneciaa a una partida acam
pada pero la falta de certeza sobre
este particular y la recommendation
que el comandante general de San
tiago de Cuba le habia hec DE- q ie
no buscase aventuras innecesarias nj i,
&c comunicase con Ia terra, le insA- Il
aaron abstenerse d c agredirlos.
En- la tarde del mismo dia comunico
,on el RetNG Mercedes.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-11-10
u N VI A J r
DEL GENERAL
MARTINEZ GAMP02.

Fechada en- Tuaas de Zaza el
a de Octubre ppdo, pubIica TN
colega cubano la intesesantisima
reseha que sigue, escrita con ell
mismo epigrafe que precede por
uno de los corresponsales de di-
cho colega
PRIMER DtA.
FL IS, a las seis y media dc la ma
dana, emprendio la marcha la extrema
vanguardia de la columna del Gene
raj en- Jefe, llegando Jicotea a las
aaeve y media. A los On ne minu-
ros de estar ALI entraba el General
con los Escuadrones de Lusitania Y
Faiaveea. En cuyo poblado espera
oaa las Columns de Tarragona AL
nso XIII, al mando de los T.nien
-es c rone.es Salamanca y Velarde,
espe .tiyamente, saliendo Immediate
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-11-10

a las seis Y media dc la m4iana
sallerou con Ia fIerzas citadas desti
nadoS Ia e>t,ema retaguardia y cIs
toJll Je acenIlIas hasta Arroyo Blan
g, don ie Ilegaron las cuatro de la
ttrde, SIN otrA nJvedad que 10 del dia
anterior All pasaron IA noche, ia
ctend , tlmo.ea uI 500 rancho
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-11-10
UN CONSEJO DE- GUERRA
FL PAILFB0T "Do5 DE MAYO. +"

FL PAILFBOT "DoS DE MAYO"
FL 26 de Octuhre 1l,imo, las
ocho de la mlIana tleem IS en- ell D!g
rl1 aF III War!na, col-ga haoanero). Sc
reunieron los Sres General de Biga
dA Suero y Mlrcoleta, Coronel Ca
pello, Capitin de Navio Sr. Pedemon
te, Capitanes de fragata Sres. Lozano.
B'yo. Eul4te y Garcia de la Vega /;
suplentes Srts. LaSquetti. Captain de
Fragata, y Casaus. teniente coronel
de Inf4nteria de Marina; Juez ms
tructor Sr Tri4na. Secretario Sr.
Freixas. Fiscal Sr Garcia Gutierrez,
Defensor Teniente de NAvio Sr. An
duiar y el Asesor senior Montero, con
objeto de celebrar Ia vista p1blica del
Consejo DE- Guerra torm1do al Te-
nIente de Navio d. Francisco G. lile
60 y Areno'a, com md lnte d Il p.ie
bot Dos d. lIzy1. que en- ell punto CO.
nocido por el Aserra ierro huoo d.
entregar a una fuerte partidl insu-
rrecta algunas cara5nas. stbles y car
tuch)s a canbi) de cinco pri5ionrro,
hechos por los insurrectos en- la dota :
cion del paiebot. por haberIes sor-
prem dido cuauio estaban tomando
aqua para la dotacion del barco.
Despu6i de hlber oid0 los Sre;.
G>nefales y J.fes qle formaban e.
Consej } de Guerra la mi1a del Espi
rltu SAntr en- la capiila de la Com IN
d4ncia General del Apostadero. Sc
conotituy3 ell Consejo las nuevo me
nos cuArto de la mlnana. Un nu-
meroso publico llenaba el va,to sa
lon, y ocu0ab4n los primeros asicntos
muchos ohciaes y jefes de marina.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-11-10
Ell TENIENTE GALLEGO.

Es natural de Jerez de la Frontefa
provincial de CaIiz, casado y de IS
amos de clad. 81 a52ecto sereno, su
apostura gallarda y la v4ronil EXPIRE
sion De su rostro. ems )mbr cido por
Ia melancolia, pero altivo y arfog4nte
sin afectacion. pre- li,pone al p1olc }
en- f'vor suyo. Todos sus ras sos, sus
iemanes y 81 tranquil lad, cuAn 10
habla contestando las preguntas que
el Tribunal lie dirige, revelan en- ell SC
nor GlIlego al hombre de honor y al
mil'tar digno. que estiml haber cum
plido su deber en- TO la la MEDIA de
sus fuerzas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-11-10
Ell FISCAL.

Corresponds este cargo al ilustra.
do jefs senior Ga, ci Gutierrez. que
lego un informe s5bfio, precise v
muy correcto.
Empez6 manif st ndo "a. los rs.
mores esparciios al inc ,arse este pro-
ESQ daban al hecho proporciones ex-
traordinarias; pero q teatf Fl "a m ~.
laiia habia reducido Z nicrosc6n;.-
co grano de are "a,
Hzo una relacion hel detrni.la
q los heshos, Y diia qle las rs1oa.
sasilidades por est clasc Ic successes
pnelen pr5v-.sif, va lei h.eho en- 81
ya de sus consecneneias, va de los
anteeede ties que 10 han dcternsinado.
In q Case que tsnem3s a "a vista
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-11-10
PRUEBA DE TEsTIGos.

Fueron examinados por ell rnbu.
nll ell practice Manuel Lopez, los ca
Dos lie mar y sete marineros, renun.
ciandose los demas testigos. Todos,
salvo ligeras discrepancies de nero
letalle, estuvieron de complete acuer-
do en- la exposition de 10 suce lido.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-11-10

FL lunes II. a las seis y media, em
preadiose Ia mlrchl STEM ore de van
guar liza y h.nqu .Ando la guerrilla
del Cond: Lersan1i, al mando de los
citados ol.iales kspina Ortega, sin
cesar el con y marchlndo muy
POGO a po>o por la, crecidas de los
arroyo8 y can4das para poder pasar a
nai . y prot ger Il paso dc la infante-
rit + Caption zero, con unos Guam
tos guerrilleros Sc multiplicaba STEM
pre- para eyttar desgracias en- los dis
untos vadeos que hubo que h3cer,
saIv'nd) aigunos soIdados V ofcia (
les dc unt m ier.e segurd A no ser
por ST incAniAb actitul y prictica
en- estas ope aci >nes, no h1bieran Ile-
ga1o a Alfonso Slnchez hasta las cua I
tro de la tarde la llanura que LA
man del IrgfHtto. donde sc hzo to,
sin mas novedad sino que el enemigo
hizo unas cuantas descargas al A,n
queo del ala i'qujer1a A larga distan-
cia, por 10 euaI ell captain E,piia,
que la mandaba ordeno no Sc cont.s
tara INTERN no Sc aproximasen, tenie1
do que pernoctar alb orillas del ri3
lana, por ser impossible vaiearlo nj a
cabalIo por la gran creciente que lie
vaba. D2sde etc momento hasta el
microbes %. a las seis de la maiiana,
en- que sc pudo vAdear, ell enemigo,
aprovechsndose de la ventaja inmen
sa de ocupar ell otro lado del rio.
considerando que estabamos sitiados,
no por su iuerza y vaIor, sino por los ,
elementos, no ce5o de hacer flego
por todos los cuatro frentes, pues al
eiecto sc reuneron todas las fuerzas I
Insurrectas que por ali merodeaban !
con obIeto de yer 81 podian hacernos :
oastantes bajas, con ell deliberado EN- {
peho de hacer victima de su sana 4 la {
pr'me~a hgura militar de Espafia, al |
falIenfe tfeaeral Martinez Campos. !
oues desde que descubrieron el lado {
lue ocupaba el campamento del Ge- /
leral, no cesaban de hacer sus dispa- +
'os, eayen1o con f.ecuencia las balas :
saemlaas a su alrededor, habiendole r
ltfavesado la manta de viaje el ma |
etla dc grupas tres proyectiles, sin c
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
On SILVER,

Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
published an article on finance in the
Louisville Courier Journal recently.
We make the following sensible ex-
tract:
I'm 1892 this country, with onlv
100000 of people, was bold enough
and proved itself able to discard the
monetary system of Great Britain and
establish n of its own, which for
nearly a hundred years met everv de-.
manda and stood every strain that the
growth anddevelopment of the country
put upon it. I believe that the de-
struction (entailed upon us by this
demonetization policy Of one-half of
redemption money has contributed
more than any other cause to the
shrinkage of all values, the deprecia-
ton Of all property, the stagnation OF
trade, the paralysis of industry-the
financial troubles in which we now
find ourselves. Whilst it may be true
that the restoration of silver to it's place
OF unrestricted coinage and unlimited
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
LET IT CIRCULATE.

Large amounts of counterfeit money
is being circulated throughout the
country. This is a legitimate outcome
of currency contraction. II they use
silver and put the proper amount in a
dollar, let it circulate. five were to find
a man coming silver we would not tell
on him. He would not be guilty of
any worse crime than the man who
may be caught haulinga load of wheat
to market. Silver money, if coined st
the ratio of 16 to 1, is as legitimate a
thing to circulate as money, as wheat
is as an article of food. Our Creator
planned it in making the world. It has
been done in all countries since the
days of Adam and Eve until the Bank
of England, John Sherman and Grover
Cleveland appeared on the stage. Let
it circulate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
ALLIANCE NEWS NOTES,

Alliance work is reported active in
Johnson county, Texas. Comanche
county will hold a call meeting this
week for the transaction of important
business.
Elmendaro Alliance, Emporia, Kan,
was re-organized about a month ago
with IL members. 1t now has 81 mem
bers and three applications on file.
That is business.
President Evan Jones has preached
five Alliance sermons" in Fannin Co.
Tex, recently, and the county is said
to be afre. He recognized one Ali
ance with % members and organized a
new one with 10.
The Alliance at Villanow is TAKING
on new life. The old members are com.
ing in and paying up their dues and
there seems to be general activity
among the brethren, says the CARTHAGE
Free Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14

legal tender function may not prove a
for all the ills that we now
suffer. am convinced that it will do
more and 90 further in that direction
than anv piece of legislation that has
been or could be suggested.
81 agree with Daniel Webster, who
in his day and even to this day was
ond ia still held to be something of an
authority as a constitutional lawyer.
He declared that the constitution of
the United States made gold and silver
the redemption money of this country,
and that neither Congress nor anv
State had any rightful power to sub,
stitute any other or to destroy either
the one or the other of these metals.
If Congress had the power to demone-
tie silver, it must be conceded that it
had the same power to demonetize gold.
It has seen fit to exercise this assumed
power as to one of these metals. Had
it exercised the same power over the
other the anomalous and somewhat
embarrassing condition would have
been left without a money at all. Il
they could strike down half they could
strike down ALL"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
ALLIANCE ORGANIZATION.

If there ever was a period in the
history of the Alliance when organiza-
ton was imperative that period is now.
The Alliance grappled with the jute
trust, successfully maintained itself in
every conflict, and has now stirred the
giants of finance, with which, as q
national organization, it must soon
engage at the polls 1886 in a deadly
conflict of ballots. If the money power
wins the fight for the Presidency and
the national Congress in this conflict of
ballots In 1896, woe unto the Alliance.
woe unto the people and this COUNTRY
Let the Alliance arise, therefore. n
put On the whole armor of ORGANIZED
ton, the full panoply, and march on
bravely, solidly and triumphantlv Co
victory.-COttOn Plant.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
ONE THOUSAND PAPERS SUE
SIDIZED.

According to the New York Herald
an important crusade against Bi-metalI-
ism was inagurated in New York last
week. Ex-Secretary Fairchilds, J.
Dewitt Warren, VIM. J, Combs, E.
Ellery Anderson, E. P. Wheeler and
others are identified if not prime
movers in the scheme.
About a thousand newspapers
throughout the country have agreed
to aid the schemers by publishing as
editorial matter articles prepared by
the gold syndicate in New York. These
articles will attack the financial
theories of Thomas Jefferson and the
advocates of free coinage of silver.
The Reform Club of New York,
which entertained Speaker Crisp be-
fore he showed his animus against the
free coinage Of silver, is the head
center of gold bugism and manipulation
of the movement. For months past
this club has been quietly working
among its two or three thousand mem,
bers scattered throughout the country
preparatory to opening the crusade.
The rapid advance made by the free
silver sentiment at the South and
West forces the club to come out into
an open field fight. Therefore they
have concluded to use such newspapers
as they can in the diffusion of a New
York gold monometallist sentiment
and not the thought or sentiment of
the editor OF the paper. Democratic
and Republican newspapers will agree
upon sound money however much they
may disagree as to other policies.
The only hope for this country to
escape gold recommendation is through
the success Of the Populist party. And
the sooner Southern and Western free
~silverites or bi metallists recognize the
fact the better for the prosperity of
America.
Now when you g a newspaper
suddenly change from a silver advocate
to a gold standard or ''sound money
sheet, you may guess that it is sub
sidized by this goldbug gang. 1t is also
an easy matter to pick them out when
they go at it sorter easy like by de-
claring that they are for silver, but
can't agree to a 80 to 1 ratio" or that
it wont do without international
agreement" or any other bit Of tom
foolery. Spot them! They may be
small sheets, but you may rest assured
that they have gotten a slice of
Doodle. The time has come for decisive
action. No man can afford to coun-
tenance or p~atronize a newspaper that
has no moral stamina. Keep a close
watch of them. There are signs that
North Carolina is harboring such cat
tie. Watch them, we say.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
AMONG THE SOUND MONEY
MEN.

R. K. Goodwin, ''sound money" BOOK
keeper of the defunct bank at Le1D1
ton, Va, was found guilty Wednes'@
OF making false entries on the Oor
and helping the cashier loot the iDi
tuition. He gets four years in thePS"
Tertiary. ,
The Texas State Treasury is OSp
rupt, and Sound money" Demtct',
have had control of the State everp"
it was a State. The last legislaturS%
propriated 1914, 600 to be used at oD~
and the State Treasurer only has sDgI
800, 600, leaving a shortage Of S5l4|
John Boyle, of the cotton firm o.
N. Setter & Co., is a ''sound moD%
man. If he isn't, why did he steaSo ~ p
600 of the firms money last week DIt
to make it all palmer toyou, he OOoS
$25, 600 worth of q. S. bonds ano
camped with the bonds and BALANCE
the money.
N. F. Clark & Co., St. Cloud, h5G%
are sound money" men. Why
your dear life, they were suppose
be worth a million dollars, anu,
course, trained with the Wall sU
goldbugs. They failed last WeeA
$500, 900 sound dollars" and the b"
are said to be predetermined.
The Commissioners of Public w"
in Chicago, Sound money" Guy
officials, have discovered that "a
81, OOO, 900 sound dollars, city
r missing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
NO PANIC WHERE SILVER IS
USED.

Hon. ]. s. McCaughan, who has re-
sided in Durango, Mexico, for six years,
writes home that financial matters are
all right there. He says Mexico has
passed through the panics of the past
two OF three years with scarcely a
touch of their ~paralyzing influences.
For it is an indisputable fact that while
business in other countries has been
stagnant, and failures of daily occur.
renee, a failure in Mexico has been a
most rare exception, and her business
and industries have shown incresed
activity.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
PRACTICAL FREE COINAGE.

Mr.. J. M. Davis, of ST. Joseph writes
that he and thousands of other read
ers would like to know just how the
Republic would take the country from
gold recommendation and keep it from
silver recommendation, says the st.
Louis Republic.
The United States Government
should carry into effect that reform
just as a wise Government would carry
into effect any reform. It should on
slider well all the rights and all the in
terests involved and make the change
with only the minimum of disturbance
to the vast business organization which
penetrates everywhere, and upon
whose steady activity the material
welfare of every citizen depends.
Mr.. Davis will ask how this desirable
end can be accomplished in practice.
We think that the course marked out
by the familiar precepts of public and
private conduct is too plain for any
question. Congress should at once
amend the coinage laws by adding a
provision that on and after q fixed date
the minis of the United States will be
open to the free coinage of gold and
silver. The time allowed should be no
longer than is necessary for the pur-
poses of prudence. 1t might be eigh-
teen months.
In the same act of Congress there
should be a provision instructing the
President to notify all other nations
and to invite their cooperation.
Congress should also provide for a
thorough Investigation of the factors
which determine the relations of the
metals.
At some period, several months in
advance of the date fixed for opening
the minis, Congress should proceed,
having a~scertained whether any other
nations will cooperate and having
gathered information on the means by
which bimetallic coinage can be estab-
lished, to declare the weights of the
coins and thus fix q ratio approximate,
ing what may be expected to remain
the commercial ratio of the two
metals.
There is neither uncertainty MOI
rashness about this course 1t is sim.
liar to the plan any competent business
man would pursue in establishing 6
change affecting every corner of his
system of purchases, sales and credits
1t is Identical with the course which
every nation guided by statesmen has
taken in ordering readjustments Of
such far-reaching consequences. A
/ date would be fixed for opening the
minis, whether other nations agreed OF
not. Time would be given for arriv
, ing at a correct judgment and for the
a. adjustment of business.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
FOR THE FIGHT.

Farmers organizations have ever
presented a tempting bait for profes-
sional politicians and legal thieves.
While all these organizations have a
two fold object, that of ofense as we'll
as defense, yet the parasites of society
sometimes capture the guns and turn
them on the farmers strongholds, says
the Pennsylvania Farmer.
The Alliance was organized with a
special reference to defence against the
farmers enemies. While the Grange
and kindred organizations were con
tending with petitions, the Alliance
made their demands, with the pro
posal to back them up with the ballot.
While this policy may tend to keep
some timid or p~rejudiced ones out OF
the ranks, those that do come in will
form a phalanx that is invincible.
This feature should be kept promi-
nently N view. We r not engaged
in a game of bluff, neither are we en-
gagged in play. The interests of our
families and our country are involved.
Let US understand this. We should
improve every opportunity for CO.
operative efforts to better our condition
and and tighten the burdens of life.
We must be ready to give friendly
counsel and take it. We must help
each other to learn and practice the
best methods of agriculture, prompt
the careless to industry and the de-
spairing to new courage, and teach the
thriftless to thrive, and the spend
thrifts to save. The Alliance must be
a school to teach the ignorant, and q
refuge to shelter the tempest tossed
but, brethren we must keep our guns
loaded and our powder dry for the
enemies without. The battle is in
sight now. The hosts are m~arshalline
for the grandest struggle of the cen,
fury, and the Alliance standard will be
in the thick fight. Let US close up the
ranks and strengthen them every
where. Rally the hating and bring il
the new recruits
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
A SINGLE STANDARD MEANS
RUIN.

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
is one of the few metropolitan news
papers that has not been bought by
the goldbugs. A recent issue says:
much has been said of late about
the large increase of the product of
gold in the world. It is estimated that
in 1895 the aggregate will reach $780,
600, 900. This has given rise to the i'm,
preston that the single gold standard
may safely be adopted in all the com
mercial nations. 1t is important that
the public should be correctly in
formed upon this point, and 60 this
end the Commercial Gazette has been
presenting facts, figures and estimates
drawn from sources of the m%ostreliable
information.
1--WE have already shown that the
consumption Of gold in the arts in
creases with the well being of the peo-
pie, and a German writer of recognized
ability has stated that through the arts
and through foreign boarding the in
creased production has been absorbed,
and from this the conclusion is drawn
that there was no more gold in the
commercial nations available for none
tary purposes in 1892 than there was
in 1852. The accuracy of these figures
is liable TO be disputed; they r dis
puted, but, after all, the known ten
dency of affairs is calculated to sustain
in whole or in large part the estimates
to which we refer. Heretofore we have
mentioned the boarding of gold in
India, Japan and China. In the latter
country particularly, the wealthy peo-
pie, and there are many of them, hold
their accumulations in gold, and this is
confiscated by an unstable and greedy
Government. But the greatest hoard
to which we have not heretofore called
attention, and which is visible through
official statistics, is in Russia. There
gold is not used formonetary purposes,
neither is silver. The circulating
medium is almost exclusively paper.
This is not based upon anything except
the credit of the Government, ofbanks
authorized by the Government, and
for it there is not provided any coin of
ultimate redemption. The figures
herewith presented with reference to
the Russian gold boards are obtained
from the report of the Director of the
U. s. Mint for 1893, published August,
1894. We quote:
THE amount of gold accumulated in
the Imperial Russian treasury and
Bank of State was as follows at the end