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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
A VERY BAD RECORD.
Sixty Eight Bank Officers in One
County Jail.
"BEST BANKING SYSTEM THE
WORLD EVER SAW"
There Are Less Post Office Thieves
Than Bank Thieves, Showing
That Public Control Is Pre-.
ferable to Private Control.
(Bob Schilling's Advanced

dob Schilling's Advance.)
Former bank officers to the number
OF 6S. all serving sentences in one
penitentiary! That is the remarkable
fact which will appear in the forth
coming report of warden Hayes of the
Kings county IN. W penitent tiary ac-
cording to the New York World.
TO be more explicit, there are now
within the cold gray and black walls
of that institution seven men who,
when arrested for embezzlement Of
depositors' funds, were presidents Of
national banks; 13 men who, when
rounded up in career of crime by the
strong arm of the law, were honured
and respected cashiers of national
banks, and 40 other men who were
trusted clerks or tellers in banks of
the same class.
The Kings county penitentiary is
one of the five penal institutions in
the country which, under contract
with the general government, keep
in confinement all prisoners convicted
of felonies by the United States
courts. The other prisons that board
Uncle Sans lawbreakers are that at
Albany, the Erie county penitentiary
near Buffalo, the house of correction
at Detroit and the most impregnable
prison in the world, the Minnesota
state penitentiary at Saltwater, MINI.
Federal convicts are allotted to the
contracting prisons in turn. At pres.
ent the Kings county penitentiary has
all the United States prisoners that it
is permitted to have. For this rea-
desperate, train robber and murderer.
was sent to Albany.
The Offenses for which the federal
courts send prisoners to the peniten-
tiary are for telonious violations of
the national banking laws for robber-
les of and interference with the
United States mails, for counterfeit
ing the coin or bank notes of the gov
ernment, for misuse of the mails, for
violations of the revenue laws, and for
felonies committed in the territories
not punishable under tribal laws.
Federal prisoners, as rule, are
either men of more than average in
telligence, such as bank defaulters
and counterfeiJers, or of desperate
courage and daring, such as train rob-
bers and moonShiners
There are today in the five peniten-
tiaries named 2, 100 federal prisoners.
In their assignment no distinction is
shown. A new batch is sent to the
prison that has at the time the fewest
"boarders," as they are called.
The percentage of former bank off,
cials at Albany, Erie, Detroit and
Saltwater will average the same as at
the Kings county Institution. The
total number is equally divided be-
tween the five prisons. There are at
present 405 "boarders' at Kings, of
whom 68 are from banks. The total
number Of bank defaulters, ,em be zzlers
and wreckers, formerly connected with
national banks alone, will therefore
approximate $40, or about one-sixth of
the total number of federal prisoners
in confinement for felonies.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
! ing which they agree toshold each month
in each township until the close of the
10 v,o,,o;r,, Of 1909

ing which they agree toshold each month
in each township until the close of the
campaign of 1896.
(3) At the township monthly meetings
the planks of the Populist platform are
to be discussed, commencing with the
one on silver, to which all advocates of
free silver are to be especially invited;
and then follow at succeeding meetings
the discussion of the income tax, and all
other planks of the Omaha platform.
1t shall be the duty of the chairman
of the township central committee to re-
port to the county chairman the first
Saturday in each month the money
collected and the state of public senti-
ment He shall take poll of his town
ship at least once a month.
8. The state organizer shall report all
money collected and all subscriptions,
and also render an itemized account Of
expenditures and work done at least
once month to the state central COM
mittee. His compensation shall be 50
per day to be met out of his own oOllec-
ton.
4. 1t shall be the duty of the district
organizer as far as possible to cooperate
with the county chairman and also
make weekly report to the state CEN
tral committee, and be subject to his
orders. His compensation shall be not
exceeding 81 per day, which he must COL
lect, rendering weekly report of personal
expenses and money collected, and re-
nit with his report any surplus money
to the state central committee.
The state and district organizers are
authorized when cash can not be COL
lected, to take personal notes for not less
than S. due in 80 or 60 days. The district
or county chairman shall collect the
same and remit 25 per cent to the state
central committee. twenty-five per
cent of all money collected after expenses
of organizers are paid must be remitted
to the state central committee.
N. H. MOTSINGER, Chairman.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
Sovereign Not the First to Taboo
Bank Paper.
BRITISH SYNDICATE SET LIVELY PACE,
Even the Banks Refuse to Redeem
Their Own Paper in Gold
When Offered-A Pretty
Condition of Things.
IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT TRY
1T ON.

(From the Denver Road Populist.)
1.-THE American people do not want
50-cent dollar" is faYorite assertion
of the gold standard advocate. II
thank thee, Jew; for teaching me
that word" The American people do
not want 5O-cent dollar and the
great struggle now going on between
them and organized greed bears evi-
dence of the fact. They are rapidly
discovering, too, what real "50-cent
dollar" is, and why they do not want
it. In the recent controversy between
the water company in Denver and the
citizens many Of the latter attempted
to tender the company payment for
water service, but everyone Offering
National Bank bills was told that
such currency was not legal tender.
In every case the company refused it
and the citizens we're forced to ex-
change the bills for some other kinds
of currency. When silver was offered
it was not refused. In this way many
people, for the first time, understood
that National Bank bills were not le-
gal tender. Recently in Indianapolis,
gentleman rendered the Capitol Ma
tional Bank Of that city one of it's
own bills and asked that he be given
gold in exchange. He was informed
that the bank did not give gold in ex-
change for its notes. Three other
banks were tried and each refused to
make the exchange, either for the
bank bill or for a hundred dollar
greenback, and the man was informed
by Mr.. Jno. P. Frenzel, president of
the Merchants National bank, that
not bank in Indianapolis would pay
out gold in REDEEM ption Of any kind Of
paper money.
Here then is the real, actual $50
cent dollar" Of which we have heard
so much. That dollar is the national
bank note. That dollar is not legal
tender. That dollar is repudi lated by
it's own makers. That dollar will not
pay debt unless the creditor chooses
to receive it; while the poor, despised
and much villified silver dollar is le-
gal tender, and will pay all the debts
Except those protected by that in
famous clause originated by it's ene-
mics, "unless otherwise stipulated in
the contract') owed by the people of
the United States.
For this reason the people desire it
and demand that it shall be furnished
them in ample quantity, and also de-
mand that the Infamous exception
clause be abolished. The people not
only ''know good thing when they
see it," but they also know poor
thing, and are fast discovering how
poor thing the 50-cent dollar natiSn-
al bank note is, and how good a thing
they have when they possess an un-
limited legal tender silver dollar.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
THAT DANGEROUS GLASS;"

'The workingmen are a dangerous
class"
Cries the capitalist press,
can ignorant mob is the toiling mass,
With no right to see redress
A dollar day is sufficient pay
To keep them in clothes and bread,
And If they attempt to have their say
Well give them a diet Of bread
A dangerous class. do hear you say,
The men who defve and toll
The miner who sees not the light of day,
And the man who tils the soil
A dangerous class? And if so, why2
Come, answer if you can,
Is it just that you should thus decry
The fame of your fellow man?
~
See the brave and fearless engineer
Guiding the midnight train,
Tho he knows that danger is ever near,
His nerves must bear the strain,
Firmly grasping his throttle bar,
With eye along the rails,
He speeds his train on the Journey far.
With a courage that never fails.
e,
And if perchance, the swollen stream
Has swept the bridge away,
Or on curve he NETS the gleam
OF headlight gone astray,
He sets the brakes and danger braves
And with his latest breath,
He laughs at fate If he only saves
His passengers from death.
=
A dangerous man" is the brakeman,
too,
AS he stands on the icy deck,
Keeping his vigils the long night
through,
To save from the dreadful wreck,
The millions entrusted to his care;
While the owners snug and warm,
Think not of his toll and meagre fare,
AS he bides the pelting storm.
And the farmer, too is a dangerous
man."
AS he tolls from morn till night,
To earn and save what 'er he can
Tho his burden is never light,
And they who build the marts Of trade,
Wher the city rears it's domes,
The men who toll with pick and spade,
And rear the palatian homes,
Are dangerous, but only so
To those who would enslave,
Their breasts are barred to every foe
All noble. true and brave.
With flashing eye and throbbing heart,
They rally one and all,
From home and loved ones they will part
To heed their cOuntrys CALL
Down with this s1ander base and vile,
Against the sons Of toll
And down with those who seek by guile
Their liberties to spoil
Rouse labor? From your lethergy
And make your armOr bright;
And let your watchword ever be
Truth, Liberty and Right!
&C. w. Stewart in Kansas Commoner.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
TIRED OF THE TWINS.

Geo. T. Gilmore, formerly prominent
Topeka republican, now living in Seattle,
Washington, has renounced the republi-
can party and joined the Peoples party.
J. H. Choate, of Washington, Kansas
late chairman of the democratic central
committee, and prominent politician of
the fifth district, has quit his party and
joined the Populists.-Kansas Agitator.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
A PAIR OF 'EM.

Repeal the silver bill and good times
will return within ninety days.-John
Sherman.
Pass the tariff bill and good times will
return almost immediately.-Grove
Cleveland.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18

"Experience teaches FOOLS" It also
teaches the wise. Thousands have
learned through experience that Uncle
Sans Monogram Whiskey is dependa-
h1n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
POPuLISTS IN CONFERENCE.
INDIANA MEMBERS OF THE
PARTY IN COUNCIL.
A Large and Representative Meet
ing of Workers and Leaders.

NATIONAL CHAIRMAN TAUBENECK
ADDRESSES THE MEETING-DECID-
EDLY HOPEFUL OUTLOOK FOR THE
FUTURE-OLD PARTIES WILL 1G-
MORE SILVER TO THE GREAT AD-
VANTAGE OF POPULIST GROWTH
WHAT WAS DONE AT THE CONFER
ENCE-THE BOYS ARE EVIDENTLY
sPOILINC FOR THE FIGHT-THEY
WANT TO GET AT THE ENEMY-NEW
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION SUGGEST
ED-THE COUNTIES TO BE WORKED
SYSTEMATICALLY AND THOR
OUGHLY.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-01
Average gold Average

Mr.. falkner'S tables are only carried
down to 1891. We have calculated the in
dex numbers for 1892, 1893 and June /, 1894.
What These Figures Show.
When properly interpreted, Mr. Falkners
figures show that commodities had fallen
by 1S9O-9l from the average price of the
four years preceding the demonetization
Of silver. 1S70-73, 22.9i per cent. mot per
cent. as Professor Laughlin infers) and
silver 2l.S per cent. mot so per cent, as
Professor Laughln states). and that by
June 1, 1894. commodities had fallen S99
per cent. and silver 52.7 per cent. These
figures do not differ materially from Mr..
Sauerbeck's, or from those Of the London
Economist. Down to the closing Of the In
dian mints and the repeal Of the Sherman
act In 1893. prices Of commodities kept step
with silver. Under these direct blows sill
yer tumbled faster than commodities but
the price Of commodities bids fair to soon
overtake 1t.
AS shown by our index numbers taken
from the figures of Mr.. Falkner commod-
tiles had fallen 1873 per cent. by June l,
1884, and silver 52.3 per cent. But right
here let 1t be remarked that silver did not
depreciate in the silver countries even
after the closing Of the Indian mints and
the repeal of the Sherman act. This is
shown by the average price of eighteen
leading commodities at Shanghai as COM
piled by w. 8. Wetmore, of the Eastern
Bimetallic league. Taking the average
price from Jan. to June q, 1S93 prior to
the closing of the Indian mints, as the in
dex number, Mr.. Wetmore shows that by
the end Of 1894 Sept. 16 to Dec. 80, after
the closing Of the Indian mints, the pur-
chasing power had diminished by less than
3 per cent, and this was without doubt
due to some accidental cause" Moreover,
the price of those commodities in gold
using countries, that come in competition
with the products Of silver-usng countries,
have fallen in the American and English
markets as rapidly as silver. Such com
modities as cotton, silk, hemp, jute, wheat,
barley, oats. flour, rice, sugar, tea and tin,
taken collectively, fell between January,
1893, and Jan. 4, 1895, q per cent, as shown
by the tables Of the Economist These
twelve commodities fell p per cent. in the
two years 1S90-9l. silver 25 per cent. The
exclusive products of gold countries are
not so sensitive to variations In the price
OF silver, but they are rapidly falling to
the lower level
Professor Laughlin says: "If silver and
goods have fallen CORRESPONDENCE, It
would show that there might be a common
cause. like the appreciation of gold, due to
Its scarcity" 1t is now in order for him
to disprove these figures or come out for
bimetallism
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-01
Threw away THE BELT
MIR. william Thornton, Of 1877 w. Market
Street, Explains How and
Why lie Did 1t. 'saf
From the ElmIra Gazette.

Old age has many iniirmities none OF
which are more prevalent than kidney dis
orders. Have you ever noticed how the
old people complain of backache, lame
back, and general listlessness? And there
are many other symptoms of which they
do not speak, such as bloating of the limbs
painful and infrequent urination or excess
iveness of the urinary discharge. Most
people think they are too old to find relief
and cure, but this Is not so. No better ev-
idence than the following, which comes
from an Elmira citizen, who has been
cured of a very severe case ut n years Of
age. Mr.. William Thornton. of 127 West
Market street, speaks of his case In this
way: II am n years old. l have been
afflicted with that dreadful complaint
(lxidney disease) for over ten years. max
ing my old age burden. / was so bad as
to be forced to carry belt at all times
and when my suffering became beyond
endurance. would put on the belt. draw
ing II tightly around me and buckle It,
thus bringing an extreme pressure over
the kidneys; this, undoubtedly, forced the
urine out, a function which the kidneys
themselves had become too diseased to
perform. My condition I put down to Il
strain I received. I began taking Doan's
Kidney Pills. l was much surprised as
the ailment was so severe and SO long
standing, while had tried many remedies
without any relief whatever. The pain
have experienced at times from straining
in my efforts to discharge the urine was
simply awful. have done away with the
use of my leather belt and the pain has
all gone. and recommend Doan's Kidney
Pills to all afflicted with kidney and
urinary disorders"
For sale by all dealers, or sent by mall
on receipt Of price by Foster Miburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents for the U. 8.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-01
THE ABDUCTION CLUB.
Its Members Tossed UP to Sec Will ch One
Should kidnap tho Fair Lady Of His
Choice-IIow u Bold Maiden Turned the
Tables.

i'S "ehocIs iosSco Up 10 sec Whl ch One
Should kidnap tho Fair Lady of His
ChOice-IIow Bold Maiden Turned the
Tables
From the Chicago Herald.
Strange in its way was the Abduction
club, once formed in the south of Ire
land, the members of which bound
themselves by an oath to assist each
other in carrying off young girls When
a girl was thought worthy Of being car
ried off the members drew lots or tossed
up for her. The members of the club
were mostly the younger sons or connec-
tions of respectable families, having lit
tie or no fortune and greatly desiring
wealth. They were called "squireens,"
and attired in red waistcoats, lined
with narrow lace or fur, tight leather
breeches and top boots. They distin-
gushed themselves In fairs and mar
kets, races and assizes. Their agree
able manners made young men of that
class popular with the peasantry. who
were always ready and delighted to as
sst them in their perilous enterprises.
The forcible abduction of woman was
certainly an outrage, but an outrage 50
agreeable to the spirit of the time, and
so congenial to the ardent and romantic
character Of the people, that 1t was con-
sidered an achievement creditable to
the man and a matter Of exultation to
the woman.
Obdurate parents who interposed
their authority to prevent the course Of
80, In
selves minus their daughter some dark
night, thanks to the vigilance and
promptitude of the Abduction club, for
not only heiresses were the objects Of
Its attention, but all couples who want
ed to marry and were hindered by
something or somebody. 1t was gen.
orally the widest and most devil-may-
care fellow who undertook to head the
enterprise, and such a man was always
found to have most attractions for a
young and romantic girl. A statute
was passed for furnishing such as car
ried away maidens that be inheritors,
but, this proving Intellectual, forcible
abduction was made capital crime
The law proved imperative from a
belief which prevailed that the Offend
er was not liable to punishment II the
woman abducted him, so that the girl
in most cases mounted the horse first
and assisted the young fellow to mount
behind her. She then galloped Off with
her lover. stopping ut the nearest
church to be married. Nearly always
the girl would manage to get word to
her sweetheart as to the most conven-
lent time and place for forcibly abduct-
ing her. Frequently. when young
lady was carried Off really against her
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SCRANTON TRIBUNE--sATURDAY MORNING. JUNE l. 1895

consent, by the time the dashing ride
was over she was found to be COM
pletely reconciled to her abductor, like
the Sabine women, 30 that prosecutions
bore a very small proportion to the
number of offenses.
A memorable case occurred in the
Edgeworth family-a name Maria
Edgeworth has made of literary cele-
brity. Captain Edgeworth. widower
with one son, married widow with one
daughter. They formed an attachment
for each other and entreated their re-
spective parents to give their consent.
which both refused. The young girl was
an heiress, and the penalty for abduct-
ing her was death, SO the spirited lass
procured the feetest steed she could
find, seized the young fellow, dragged
him up behind her on the horse and
galloped off with him to the priest
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cause goods felt more strongly than gold
the effects of cheapening processes. As
In my original exposition of prices, al
though my left hand representing money!
fell, SO also did my right hand (represent-
Ing goods) fall. Goods may fall in price,
but gold is not, therefore, scarce.
Wharton Parkcr's Reply.
In the American, Wharton Barker
makes SO far as we know the only at
attempt yet begun by the free silver men
to reply to Professor Laughlin's statis-
tics as to prices. We give below Mr..
Barker's response:
1t will be noticed that Professor Laugh
lin discredits the figures of Mr.. Sauerbeck,
and by inference those Of the London
Economist. Why he should take the aver
age price of commodities for the year 1860
as the index number instead of a number
of. years as Mr.. Sauerbeck did, We cannot
understand, unless he wished to support
his contention by as favorable showing
as possible. Although misleading, this
assumption of an index number IL par
donable, but there Is no possible excuse
for the statement that to-day goods are
only per cent. cheaper than In 1860, while
silver Is so per cent. cheaper" Professor
Laughlin has no right to compare the
price Of commodities In 1891, as given by
Mr.. Falkner's chat Is. the senate) ta-
bes, with the price of silver In 1S9i-95
The facts are. as stated BY Mr.. Falkner's
tables, and compared with the low aver
age price Of 1860. that commodities had
fallen s per cent. by 1891 and silver % per
cent, and not 50 per cent, as Professor
Laughlin would have us believe.
Mr. Falkner's tables do not differ In any
important particular from those of Mr.
Sauerbeck. Reducing the prices given by
Mr.. Falkner for the years 1866 to 1879 from
currency prices to specie prices, taking the
average price for the four years 1870 to 1875
Qnstead of 1S6U as the index number 100,
and placing in parallel column the aver
age price Of silver compared with 1873.
when the bullion In the silver dollar was
worth exactly its face. we get the follow
ing index numbers:
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tai ......... IS, 7ss, ,O2s, ,75O $40, 75e. 477 700

Total ........ $S, 799. OPS 760 $40. 759, 477 700
OF the amount produced before 1850, 1t is
q conservative estimate that 1900, ,OOO 900
was In existence In 1850 With the produc-
tion Of the last forty-three years added to
that we have supply Of $500. 900. 900 to be
accounted for. But, at the best, in the
currencies of the world today, we can dis
cover only about 1896. 100000. So that 1t is
difficult to account for the remainder, 81
600, ,OOO,0 900. The only explanation Is that 1t
has gone into the arts, but that explana-
ton probably does violence to the facts.
In short, the abundance Of gold is reason
for driving out silver. just as railways
drive out stage coaches. for the better in
strument Of exchange supplants the poor
er when the better is obtainable. 1t is not
natural then. to find that, because Of
this enormous production and cheapening
Of gold, It should have fallen In value rel
atively to goods. Why It did not was be-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-01
Facts Regarding Gold Production.

said short time back that silver had
fallen because of the abundance of gold.
Perhaps that seems startling to you,
having constantly heard Of the scarcity Of
gold in season and out of season. But let
me again briefly appeal to the facts Of the
production Of gold. Owing to its durabil-
ity. all the gold ever produced still remains
In existence, unless lost by abrasion or
accident, such as shipwreck. Hence the
annual supply is small compared with the
total stock. and a change Of the annual
supply has little influence In changing the
total stock, except after the lapse of many
years. You add or subtract barrel Of
water to or from Lake Michigan and you
do not perceptibly raise or lower its sur
face. So. In speaking about the value Of
gold, and the supply Of 1t, we are con-
cerned with the total supply In existence.
and very little with the annual supply at
the moment. You will see how different
1t Is as regards wheat, whose annual pro-
duction means everything for It's value
because the annual supply-barring the
amount carried over from last year--is the
source of the total supply. For wheat the
total supply is the recent product, for
gold the total supply is the whole of 1t pro-
duced since the world began. Therefore,
when we speak Of the value of gold being
regulated by demand and supply we mean
the existing demand for 1t as compared
with the total amount Of gold accumulated
in all past years. Now as to the supply
Of gold: