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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-21

Ruiz Gorilla, whose exile from Spain
was ended by the recent action of the
government in granting amnesty to
political offenders. is critically i'll at
Cervera, on the Spanish frontier.
Ex-senator. Lyman Trumbull has
been nominated by the ~pOpulists for
mayor of Chicago. George 3. Swift
will be nominated by the republican
convention. Judge Payne is in the
lead for the democratic nomination.
Rev. Madison C. Peters, in the
Bloomington Reformed church, New
York, routed poor, foolish Howell Os-
borne from his grave, and set him up
as an awful example TO young men.
Mr.. Peters told his hearers how How
ell Osborne had spent nearly $780,
900 a year in loose living, "~galloping
through a course of Internal revelry
in the vortex of sinful pleasure" and
dying Fundamental" at the age of So.
"Mr. Osborne's was o an isolated
case" said Mr.. Peters. THE prev
alence of hat abominable notion that
a young man has to O his wild oats
is the reason why this ruin is brought
to the doors Of so many, and the pas
tor Or other who aids in dispelling this
idea is performing an inestimable ser
vice to humarity.'
Mrs. William Astor, mother of Mrs
Coleman Drayton, has sailed on the
Teutonic to visit England and France.
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt and her
daughter, Miss COnsuelo Vanderbilt,
will be passengers on the first out
going steamer. Those who should
know assert there is no question that
all arrangements have been completed
as to the betrothal Of Miss Vanderbilt
with a young English nobleman Of
highest rank and grandest establish
ment and that this will be announced
very shortly after Mrs. Vanderbilt and
her daughter reach the other side. A
young man bearing q prominent Bos-
ton family name had been all devo-
ton to Miss Vanderbilt and she ap-
parently was very happy in his at
tentionS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-21
NEWSY PERSONALS.

Ruiz Gorilla, whose exile from Spain
was ended by the recent action of the
government in granting amnesty to
political offenders. is critically i'll at
Cervera, on the Spanish frontier.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-21
ISAAC P. GRAY DIES
PRES IN MEXICO.
PNEUMONIA AFFECTED BOTH
HIS LUNGS.

Unconscious from the Time of His
Arrival-Taken TO the American
Hospital-A Soldier and Statesman
Governor of Indiana and Promi-
nent Throughout the Nation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-21

The king of Spain is suffering from
attack Of the rheumatism.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-21

departures. Both will be represented.
and they are expected to clash and
make things lively.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
SILVER NOT DE Y0NErIzED.

The charge that silver was "demon-
etized"-that is, that it ceased to be
money in 1S73-has been one of the
chief arguments of ths free coinage
advocates. When it is pointed out
that instead OF the few millions OF sill
yer then in use We now have ovar four
hundred millions of silver money, the
silverites reply: cit is true that we
have far more silver money than when
we had free coinage. By the law OF
1878 gold was made the standard OF
value, aad SO silver is only token
money. Our silver dollars and GER
tifcases are not money of ultimate
redemption"
Like the good old lady who loved
TO hear the blessed word "Mesepo-
tamia," the silverite press and orators
enjoy using big words and have caught
up the phrase s'money OF ultimate re.
demptlon,' and are using it to prove
their false claim that silver is demon
etized. They cannot deny that u
silver money is full legal tender anu
therefore on an equality with gold. But
they pretend that the Government re.
deems silver in gold, and that a silver
currency sincerely token money. 1t is
on this ground that they repeat the
old exploded charge that the law of
1873 destroyed one-half of the a
try's money.
1t is easy to show that all the talk
about redemption money" is founded
on a delusion. Our paper currency is
redeemable in coin, either gold or sill
yer. But silver is a full legal tender,
and does not require redemption. The
statement that il is token money, like
our subsidiary coinage, is simply an
invention of the silverites, who are
trying to find a hole to crawl out of
their baseless fiction about the strik-
ing down of silver. The one fact that
We are using over four hundred mill
ions OF legal tender silver is sufficient
answer to all the misleading state
ments about "the crime of 1873 by
which silver was demonetized."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
They Don't Want Cheap Money.

The all-important question which
will be the main, If not the only,
issue in the Presidential campaign
next year, is whether the people
wish a currency with half the pur-
chasing power of the present currency.
Do the laborins men who get SO, $l2.
or SIS a week desire to be paid in o
currency that will buy no more than
SO, So, or 80 will now buy? Do they
see any indication of prosperity in
that? No doubt they could ask their
employers to double their wages, but
does their experience justify the be-
lief hat it would be done2 Do
they not know that wages are the last
to 60 up when the currency is de-
graded? II they do not, they have
only to consult the history of the
country and of the world. Madison
tInd.) Herald.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
In the Beginning.

Our fathers in 1892 intended to es-
tablish neither "bimetallis m, "
"monometalllsm," nor any ''metal.
lism" whatever. They took things as
they found them-gold and silver
coins in circulation. Nor did they at.
tempt TO create a unit. They accepted
as such unit the coin which was then
in most universal use about them by
commercial sanction alone, and ar
ranged to make coins OF the came
value by putting into them the proper
amount of silver. And so far were
they from the idea OF creating a new
standard that, Is a matter of fact,
they declared that the coin they pro-
posed to mint should be ''of the value
of the Spanish milled dollar as the
same is now current"-thus constitut-
ing foreign coin at its commercial or
bullion value, the actual standard by
which the mint was to be governed.
Recognizing the fact that gold was also
actually used, they provided also for
the coinage of a ten.dollar gold piece,
to be "of the value" of ten of the sill
YER dollars, each of which was in turn
to be of the value of the Spanish dol
lar accepted as the standard. A labori-
Gus Investigation was had as to the
amount of silver and gold which the
coins should respectively contain il
order accurately to express their value,
and the result was duly bulletined by
The law in accord with the Constitution
al provision ''to coin money and reg.
ulate the value thereof" just as al
frequent intervals, to this date, the
rates at which the several foreign coins
are accepted at the Treasury are duly
bulletined, and as for fifty years Of
fectively and up to date as a matter of
law the worth of certain foreign coins
were and are estimated by Federal
statute. Hon. John Dewitt Warner,
in June Forum.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
Sound Money Sentiment In Kansas.

Outside the silver producing States it
is generally supposed that Kansas is the
leading free coinage State in the Union.
This is largely because the Peoples
party is solid for free silver, which it
find, entirely consistent with its finan-
cial theories. There is also an active
silver sentiment among the Republi-
cans aud Democrats Of the State, but
Judging from the result of an examine
ton by the Topeka Capital, the great
majority Of the Republicans at least
are opposed to the free coinage of sill
yer on any terms. The Capital pub
fishes a list of the prominent Republi-
can papers, showing that eighty per
cent. of them which have taken any
position on the silver question are
against free coinage. II also gives the
names Of a number Of leading Demo.
cratic papers. all Of which oppose free
silver. AZ the sentiment Of the PEG.
pie is fairly represented by their local
newspapers, 1t is evident that with the
exception OF the Pcpulists Kansas is
on the side Of sound currency and an
honest dollar"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

That gold is growing scarcer and
dearsr is persistently asserted by tho
s .verites, and they have succee lei In
getting many people to believe that
they were telling the tru /. But their
statements lack one essential element.
They are not true. The official figures
OF the gold product of the world FOR
1924 have just been made public by
Director of the Mint Preston. The
latest and complete returns are given
and show that the total value Of the
gold produced in 1894 was S181, 510,-
100, an increase of go, 674, 900 ever
1898. The reports from the gold pro-
ducing regions for tho first six months
of this year indicate a nearly equal
gain for 1895, which will make the
figures for this year about $500, 000,
900.
the following table shows the
production of both gold and silver
each year since 1886:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
A Blind Guide.

Is it not surprising that all sorts of
financial heresies should be believed
in by the masses when those who as
sumo to be teachers hold such mis-
taken views. For instance, President
Z. b. Andrews of Brown University,
in his book, Gan Honest Dollar, says
that the world is billions of dollars
poorer because OF the gold standard.
Now, If that statement mea anything,
it means that there are billions of dol
lars worth less Of houses, railroads, yes
sells, factories, clothing, furniture,
etc., in existence than there would be
under q different financial system.
But how, or why, this is so he does
not tell us. The world is .icn or poor
according as it has many or few Of the
things which minister to our comfort.
An increase in prices is not an increase
OF the things for lack OF which men
are poor. President Andrews ought
to know better than TO mistake prices
for wealth.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
A Question OF Honesty.

Mayor Warwick. Of Philadelphia,
hit free silver q hard blow between the
eyes when he said In his speech before
the Union League. Of Philadelphia, on
June "a:
eTc jaggis with this question is
c~owardice. We cannot climb over il,
dive under it or sneak around it.
This is more than q question Of party.
1t is a question Of principle
and honesty. The Government
has no more right to debase the coin
than the rogue has to clip it. The
Government does not make standards
Of value. They are made by com
msrce and the laws of supply and de-
mand. The Government can't make
honest a thing that is dishonest. 1t
may be able to compel obedience to
its DEGREES by force, but 1t has no
more right to stamp fifty cents worth
OF bullion with the declaration that it
is a dollar that / have to steal q dollar
from my friend here. The moment
Il does that it makes the Goddess of
Liberty on that coin tell O lie. It is
simply . question OF honesty, and in
the name of God don'tlet the Govern
mens OF the Republic be dishonest. II
the Government can take fifty cents
worth Of bullion, and can by it's inn
press make it . dollar, IL can by the
same power take twenty-five cents
WORTH and make 1t $40"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
BEYAS ON VALUE.
The Siiver-Tongued Orators Queer
Ideas

Ideas.
Ex-Congressman W. j. Bryan, OF
Nebraska, is one OF the foremost free
silver orators of the country. He is
regarded as an authority By all the
free coinage advocates and was their
leader in the late House of Repre-
sentatives. During the past four
months he has been travelling through
the West and South preaching the
gospel Of cheap dollars and demanding
the coinage OF all silver at ratio OF
l6 to /. 1t is therefore of interest to
know the nature of his arguments in
favor of a debased currency.
In his long speech at Memphis,
Tenn, delivered on the day sitter Sec
rotary Cerlisle's mastery address at
the sound money conference in that
city. Mr.. Bryan tried to reply to the
Secretary's statement OF honest money
principles. His remarks consisted al
most entirely OF attacks on the Secre-
tary's record on the silver question,
bpt at last he got down to the doc
trines of the siiverites. Speaking OF
their proposalto coin at a ratio of l6
to / silver which is actually valued
at 80 TO J.. he said: "They (the
sound money men) say that you a
not put value in a thing by process OF
law. You also cannot tell which way
water Will run, but you can dig a
ditch and make ii run any way you
want to. Whenever the
Government says we will stamp a dol
lar on 4l2t grains of silver that min
ute that much silver viii be worth 81
anywhere in the world, the same as it
will be here at home, less the cost OF
transporting it,"
tai tallacy OF the sliverite. 1t is the
error ON which is based the delusion
of the fat money men. the idea that
the Governments stamp can give
value to an article. And how wild is
this notion car be seen from Brysn's
claim that by merely digging a ditch
you eau "make water run any way
you want to-" Indeedl Can You
make it run up hill contrary to natur.
al laws? Mr.. Bryan says ''any way
but every sensible man will laugh al
him. And it is just as ridiculous to
pretend that merely stamping 412i
grains of silver zone dollar" viii
double its real value.
The point at issue whether a Gov
ernment's stamp can create values)
can be very easily settled. Mexico
stamps 417.79 grains of silver tone
dollar" Now what are the facts, al
known to everyone? Are Mexican
dollars worth : dollar anywhere il
the world" lesJ the cost of transport.
ing them to Mexico? OF course not,
They are worth only three cents. AND
that would be about the real value o.
our dollars in other countries under
free coinage.
The value OF silver, as of all labor
products, depends on the demand fol
it and Its cost of production. Mark
ing il with the word "dollar" o,
pound" cannot add to its real value
and il is only men who believe that b,
digging bitches We can make water
run eany way" who are fooled intc
thinking otherwise. The common
sense public will know howto estimate
the pretended '~'fnancier," MI. Bryan
N.As.. ..
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
Free Coinage Hypnotism.

Everybody has heard Of "Triloy"
with its story Of the woman who knew
nothing of music, but when hypno-
tized became a wonderful singer.
Svengali Stewart, of Nevada, has
evidently read the book and is trying
his best to hypnotic Miss Columbia,
in order that be may make her sing
the doleful songs Of the silverites.
But weird and uncanny as are his in
carnations, which his trusted follow
ers consider speeches full of financial
wisdom, they will have no effect on
Miss Columbia She is q very prac-
teal young woman and will not put
herself IN the power of q political
quack. The Senator from the silver
mines may charm never SO wisely, but
it will be all in vain. He is discred-
tied and his performances are all
humbug. As Lypnotist he is a fail
ure, and he may as well 60 out OF
business
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
Would This BE FairY

Free silver coinage means granting
the privilege to every holder of silver
bullion, resident and nonresident, to
take his bullion to the United States
Mint and have it coined into standard
dollars free of cost. as the holder OF
gold bullion does. Any one can buy
silver bullion at less than seventy
cents an ounce. That ounce converted
in,o coin would have a face value of
S1'.29. But the holder Of gold bullion
when he takes 100 cents worth Of his
bullion to the mint TO coin, can only
get 100 cents worth Of coin. The gold
bullion man makes nothing by the
transaction, but the silver bullion man
would make ffty-nine cents on every
ounce Of silver. -Laporte Qnd.) Re-
Publican.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
Pennsy,yanIa For Sound Money.

efforts have been made" says the
Philadelphia Record (Ind.), TO create
the impression that Pennsylvania is
wavering in its belief in honest money /;
but as the emphatic utterance Of the
League represents the sentiment of
Philadelphia, SO also does the attitude
of the city typify the position Of the
State. The hard.handed and clear
headed workingmen in the industries
of this great commonwealth recognize
the baneful effects that would follow
the debasement of the National cur.
rency, and they are not to be deluded
by the fallacious theories of the silver
ties. They ask an honest wage, and
are willing to pay their debts in
honest money"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
SOME NORTHERN OPINIONS.
Mexico,s 5O-Cent DoIIars.

A silver dollar in this country passes
at its face value OF one hundred cents,
and lie exchangsabie for a gold dollar.
The Mexican dollar passes at IFS face
value in that country, but it is not ex-
changeable for gold. The result is
that a ifty-cent piece of American
money has the same purchasing power
in Mexico as the Mexican dollar. And
yet the 16 to / fatists declare that the
gold behind the American dollar is
not essential to its current value. -
Arapahoe (Neb.) Public Mirror.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
a Nut for snverites to Crack.

Under the free coinage OF silver,
who Issues the coin? Does the Gov.
ernment2 Not much. All ii does is
to take the bullion from the man that
brings it, test it, and stamp it, and
give ii back to him to issue. The
Government does not issue a cent of ii
directly. The silver. miner issues it
and does so on his own terms. just as
much so as the National banker, who
takes his securities to the Treasury
and gets bank notes in exchange and
Issues them on his own terms. New
York Voice.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
Where is the / to / Man?

When one comes to think about it,
the moderation OF the silver men is
remarkable. II it is possible to main
tain an arbitrary ratio between silver
and gold Of, say, 16 to /, why not go
further and make the two metals OF
exactly equal value? Some of the
English bimetallists talk Of ISL to /,
Others OF 23f to /, and another of %
to l, while still another says the ratio
must depend OF circumstances, but
none have yet proposed to make them
equal. Let us hear from the / to ]
Dry Goods Economist New
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

The silverites all claim to be BIZ
metallists, anddeny that they want sill
yer monometallism. At the same time
they are loud in their assertions that
previous to 1873 silver was the unit Of
value, and the country had q silver
standard. This is especially insisted
on in the new silver Bible, "Coin's
Financial School" As the free COIN
age advocates protest that all they de-
mand is the restoration Of silver to the
position it held before 1873 it is clear
that they really want to establish the
silver standard. For if under free
coinage we were on a silver basis, il
must be evident that restoring free
coinage will put us back again on the
anne standard.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
SMALL CHANGE.

"Stop thief" has always been ths
cry OF the pickpocket who feared cap.
ture. So we now find the silverites
who want to enable debtors to repudi-
ate one-half OF what they owe, shout
ing loudly against our dishonest
money system" This may deceive q
lew people, but not for long. The
people know that II not quite perfect,
our present system is better than we
yer had before, and far better
than one based or fifty csut dollars.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

The 16 to l shouters protest over.
much that they are working solely in
the interest of the people, because Of
their unseldsh desire to promote the
public welfare. How truly good OF
them! But suppose that there were
no offices in view, and no spoils for
the free silver politicians. Would
these same "leaders" work SO hard for
cheap money? And if there were no
silver mine to put up funds for
the free coinage agitation, would the
country be flooded with silver litera-
ture? Not much. The free sil-
yer movement is born of the selfish
motives OF silver producers working
through sshemers who want the spoils
Of politics.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

This is the convincing answer OF
facts, against silverite theory. In
view OF these official figures it will re-
quire unusual impudence on the part
OF the cheap money advocates to repeat
their claim that gold Is growing
scarcer and that q few bankers can
ORR the worlds supply.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

'If the free coinage Of silver is such
q good thing" asks the Memphis
Scimitar, sswhy Is 1t that the greatest
and most enlightened Nations have
abandoned it?'
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
Ths Macon fGal Ta,eoronh fDou

The Macon tGa.) Telegraph (Dem. J
says: "Speculasors and schemers can
live, no matter what kind Of money ia
In circulation, but the honest man
wants an honest dollar. He should b,
certain that he is going to get II be.
fore he gives the order for the sup
ply"
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-02
AboIishing Daxs of Grace.

The law abolishing days of grace in
Pennsylvania will take effect January 1,
and will apply to all paper made on or after
that date. This change involves a departure
from methods which are as old as the country
itself. There will be considerable annoyance
and confusion incident to the change, until
the public becomes accustomed to the new
method. On January l, and for quite a
period thereafter there will be two classes of
paper current-that made prior to the new
year, which will bear grace, and that dated
January 1 and after, payable without grace.
Until the old paper disappears entirely-and
We shall be confronted now and then with a
struggling note of the old form even for years
to cOme-the community will need to keep
a close watch upon all bills receivable.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-02

The carload of Malcolm Love Pianos
arrived yesterday morning. They are now
on exhibition in O'Neill Bros warerooms
To say that it is a fine lot of pianos is putting
it mildly 1t is without doubt the most
magnificent selection of high-grade pianos
ever shipped into Central Pennsylvania. Our
people will do well to call and see them
O'Neill Bros, are the sole agents for the NAL
colin Love Pianos Intending purchasers
will confer favor by consulting the Messrs.
O'Neill before buying elsewhere. Their
pianos are offered at the lowest possible prices
consistent with the quality Of the goods
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-02

William Neiswenter to-day put force of
men at work remodelling his stables on West
Coal street to make them resemble the
famous Tattersalls, of Philadelphia. The
cellar, first and second floors will be fitted up
in the latest livery and sales stable style.
They will be occupied solely by stalls, with
the exception of a space on the first floor
which will be used for the display of horses
at weekly sales The third story will be used
for the storage of carriages, wagons hay and
feed Mr.. Neiswenter has established a
lucrative herse dealing trade, his sales
attracting people not only from all parts of
this region, but from many distant points,
and he is making his headquarters the best
equipped in that line of the business outside
of Philadelphia