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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

Inequalities in the distribution of
wealth may exist in our present social
system. but it is certain that no change
in the material used to measure wealth
will do anything to help those who
now are poor. The silverites indulge
in glowing generalities about the won
derful prosperity which will follow the
adoption of the 16 to panacea,
but are always careful to avoid giving
particulars as to how the predicted
change will come about. No advocate
of free coinage has yet attempted to
explain how the men who have no
property would have chance to get
some under the silver standard, if. as
its friends claim, the price of all kinds
of property would be doubled. A
scheme for the relief of the poor
which proposes to put property further
out of their reach, should be easily
seen through by those whom the sill
yer mine owners agents pretend to be
DESTROYS of helping.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
RECDDER JOHNSING A PUPIL OF
COIN.

81 been wantin' to ak you, Brudder
Johnsing, whedaer you's read de new
work entitled Coins Financial
School, and what yo' done think
about it.
"Has I read it. Brudder Simpsing?
Doan' yo' recollect dat I tended de
school myself long wild JAY Cole, ole
man Vanderbilt, and the whole passed.
of dem big bugs dat has some finances
OBJ der own to tinancier wid?'
essay, yo' doan' mean to say dat
Cole and Vanderbilt war dar. when
dey been dead years befo'? Sides l
hain't nevah mist yo' out OBJ de town
long enough fob yo' to get up dar an
back"
"Dat meek no difference, Brudder
Simpsing. I war jes' as much dar as
any OBJ de fellahs de book say war dar,
and so war Cole an Vanderbilt, and de
next time yo' runs across Lime Gage,
the big goldbug banker, or Walsh. an
nodder Chicago banker, Or Coal
Scuttle, yo' Ak 'em eff wasn't dar just
de same time dey war"
Well, guess Cat settie IL uaI Yo
war dar, Brudder Johnsing. But l
want to AK yo' eff dat little kid did get
away wild all dem big bankahs and
pollytishaners in the argument like de
book say?"
"Indeed he did, sab, jes' as s:1ah as
dey war dar. and his ansahs please de
augence moutley. Say, 20 recollec'
dat Walsh. 1 believe it war, axt him
dis heah question: How kin de
Govahment by simple ac' OBJ Con
gress raise de price OBJ any article"
Den yo' recollec' dat Coin say, you
wasn't heah yestedy?' and when
Walsh says he wasn't, Coin say,
'spose dis Govahment 'nounce dit am
guine to purchase hundred thousan
mules for the boss marines, KANT
everybody see dat de price of mules is
guine to bound up, and not only de
mules de Government buy, but de
bosses and mules to teck dar places,
and dat am jes' de way de ack OBJ
Congress am guine to ris up de price
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

The advocates of free silver seem to
think that the small bulk of gold, as
compared with the total amount Of
property in the country, is reason
for adopting the silver standard.
They might as we'll complain that the
small quantity of mercury in the
world, as compared with all the wealth
er to be measured, renders it unfit to
serve as a means of indicating the
temperature. just as a very little
mercury may be used to measure all
the changes from extreme heat to Sc
we're cold, so small bulk of valuable
metal will serve as measure Of a
great deal of property. 1t is quality,
not quantity. which Is most desirable
in the standard of values.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
Free Silver in Mexico.

ssMexico has free coinage OF silver.
"Mexico is on a silver basis.
1.-The wages in Mexico in mining
and agriculture vary from 10 to 80
cents a day in Mexican money, which
is from 5 to Is cents in United States
money.
"The average for farm labor a day
in Mexico is 20 cents in Mexican
money or 10 cents in United States
money.
''If free silver can raise prices, why
does it not raise the prices of wages in
Mexico? ''-Commercial Review, Green
Bay. Wis.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
A SILVERITE ADMITS DEFEAT.

Why waste TINA deceiving the poo
pie in an argument for silver?
The more talk that is INDUCED in
relative to silver the further off will
prosperity be. Why not look the is
sue squarely in the face.
From the east bank OF the Mississ-
ippi River to the Atlantic seaboard
silver has no hope. The people there
have no use for it, fatter ourselves as
we may, and the silver States have a
condition, not theory, to face.
Sitting around our own camp fires
and congratulating ourselves on what
we will do is all very well, but it pro-
duces no results. It reminds US OF a
lot of cranks who infested Waterville,
Kansas, in early days and held pro-
tracted meetings until they convinced
themselves that the earth was with
them in the jubilee. They went up to
Marysville, only twelve miles distant,
one day, to ascertain that no one had
heard of the protracted meetings. but
that half the people didn't know there
was such town as Waterville in ex-
istence.
The Mercury is for silver first, last
and always, but what is the use Of dis
guising the fact that two-thirds of the
country is against the proposition
Those Eastern gold bugs have not
been asleep. They have been playing
on the prejudices of the people for
years, and they have got US whipped
unless We can make a move that will
end in some substantial result in the
way of education. Toasting our shins
around our own hearthstones and
hearing ourselves talk to each other
is worse than carting Goals to Newcas
tie.
1t is all we'll enough as we glide
through life to deceive the other fel
lows if we can accomplish it, bu
when we come to deceive ourselves VT
make the error of our lives.
If Colorado understands her bust
ness, she will begin digging for gole
with renewed energy. -Mercury.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

Silverites cannot understand how
the increasing production of gold
should cause decline in the value of
silver. Full of their idea that it is
the relative quantity of the metals
mined which fixes the ratio between
them, they insist that as the annual
gold product is growing larger, the
value of gold as compared with silver
should fall. One reason why in
creased production of gold means
cheaper silver is that as gold is the
more suitable money metal, larger
supplies of it enable countries for
merly using silver money to replace it
with gold. The extensive pr oduction
of petroleum, as compared with whale
oil, did not have the effect of making
whale oil dearer. So the general
adoption of gold as money will not in :
crease the value of silver.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
THECApITAL SILVER CONVENTION.

The Stlver-n ounte1 stateSne
Have met in Washington,
And now ten million voters
Are wondering what WIS done;
The betting that it's nothing
Being Is to l.
There was Daniels OF Virginia,
An orator whose hair
Has not yet turned to silver,
Though soon it will be there;
And Harris. he whose hair is
As silvered as can be,
For one who has temper
As soft aad sweet as he.
There's Stone of old Mizzoura,
Whose softly silver tongue
Knocks golden silence eniways,
Assisted by a lung;
And Livingston, of Georgia,
Who keeps it up. although,
He ought to know that silver
VIII make his crackers dough.
sAuu SdSSs, 1ouuS dlu d dTNlS,
And Cox and Beard and Clarke
And Stephens and some others
Are on this silver lark
But Bland, it seems. is absent,
The argentiferous Dad
OF all the silver movement
Which really is too bad.
There's Jones. the great White Angel,
The color OF whose tin,
Reflected in his whiskers.
Falls from his moving chin;
And there are others. Let Us
Pause for IL moment here
To contemplate this meet of
These showers of the queer.
They're going to give us silver,
In quantities to suit.
And send the gold and gold bugs
Directly up the spoot,
On. they will shove the silver.
They'll shove it East and West,
And North and South AID Afterwards,
Until there is no rest
For any living mortal;
And when they've showed it where
They think they ought to have it,
By Zucks. it won't be there.
New York Sun.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
Insinuating Evils OF Bad Money.

There are some political evils which
are seen as soon as they are danger
Gus, and which alarm at once as we'll
the people as the Government. Wars
and invasions. therefore, are not al
WAYS the most certain destroyers of
National prosperity. They come in no
questionable shape. They announce
their own approach, ana the general
security is preserved by the general
alarm. Not so with the evils of de-
based coin, deprecated paper cur
rency, or depressed and falling pub
lie credit. These insinuate themselves
in the shape of facilities, accomnoda-
ton and relief. They hold out the
most fallacious hope Of an easy pay
ment of debts and lighter burden OF
taxation. Webster.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

Just principles will lead Us to disre-
gard the legal proportions altogether !;
to inquire into the market price OF
gold in the several countries with
which We shall be principally connect
ed in commerce, and to take an aver
age from them. Thomas Jefferson, on
fixing ratio.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

If living in mud huts, going half
clad, with children stark naked, and
living on mesquite beans as they do
in tree silver Mexico, is what the Is
to l men call prosperity, Well confess
we are not yearning for it to any
great extent.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
Not From His Standpoint.

Popullst-"How much did you say
you owed, $1,000? Now, my friend
with free silver, it will cost you only
$500 to pay that Of" Farmer
"Umph! I'm afraid that wouldn't do
me any good" Populist-"But why
not?" Farmer-'I want to borrow
$1,000 more. Life.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

'Yes, brethren and sisters" said
the Western minister, in the course OF
the funeral sermon, "our dear broth
er has gone to the land where all
things are known-even the truth
about the coinage question, per
haps. indianapolis Tribune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

If the Government can manufacture
money, what's the use in taxing the
people? Why not grind it out and
run itself and let the people so Tree
of taxes? Will some Populist please
answer?
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

We have been needing rain badly.
According to the Populist, free silver
theory, Grover Cleveland and the
Democrats ought to be ashamed of
themselves for not giving US ain when
we wanted it.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
4 Query.

If the Government should col 4
S5O,000,OO0 month in legal tender
silver dollars how would the farmers
of this section get any OF it? Will
some free silver advocate please
ANSWER?
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
Where Silver Is Well Thought or.

First Church Member "What are
the charges agln' Deacon Jones?"
Second Church Member Islander
in the parson. Said he was as good
as gold. "-Harper's Bazaar.
The silver craze has been killed by
that terrible enemy of the calamity
bowler, General Prosperity" and
will be buried by the side of its twin
bple. =, the Mckinley bill.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

would have to pay for it with money
calling for gold on demand, makes
clear the absurdity Of the "Goid
Corner" argument.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

Cotton is Advancing AMI the free
silver craze is declining.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

The silver question: VIII you lend
me a dollar?
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
Not UnallOyed Pleasure.

About the worst feature of the in
dustrial revival is the starting up OF
the silver crank. Philadelphia Times.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

Free Silver in Kentucky.
No amount of windy oratory will
initiate the free silver tire in Kentucky.
It is punctured beyond repair.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

Every day of bright sunshine in
lures the free silver crop.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

Painter-'My customers would kick
If they knew was substituting cheap
for dear material. don't need to be
told who are back of the American BIZ
metallic League"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-18
Cost OF q Bale Of Cotto,

'onn W. Starnes, one of Tiptons
farmers, cultivated thirty five acres in
cotton last year and made tweptv-ono
bales. The total cost, including rent
iced OF team. labor. picking, ginning
nauiing to market, ETC., amounted To
$3.50. So He sold his cotton in Memnb;s
ana received S5a5-thas losing sfss so
on the years work. Mr.. Starnes nlaces
his land rent at 81 per acre. which is en-
tireiY too much if cultivated in cotton.
Now If the land is actually. worth the
amount paid it must be for some
other crop, and being farmer he
should learn what that crop is. and
devote his labor to it.. But we fear
our friend Starnes will continue tn
raise cotton on his 4-doliar land and
lose another s125. The casual reade-
Will conclude from the foregoing state.
ment that Mr.. S. was. actually 81 be-
mind onsthe years work, and he is r.
he only made the 81 bales of cotton
he says nothing aboutpx the corn. :.
peas potatoes, sorghum, vepeta-
oies, butter, milk, hogs, etc.
mat his team and labor made
while making the cotton-all of which
went to feed his wife and children md
winch was worth fully the SIPS If he !
iaa 1t all to buy. Summing the whole |
'hlng up, and comparing his condition |
With thousands upon thousands who |
ire not farmers, and who are dependent |
~ the business prosperity of the conn |
~ lof which there is none) Tor n liv.
Nc, Mr.. Starnes is bound to admit that
e still belongs to the favored class
nd al because he has an occupation
y which he can make q living
ovington Leader. ssS &c - Ky a
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-18
HERE AND THERE

The average age of . horse is usual.
ly put down at twenty years; the great.
est age on record is believed to he
sixty-two.
"A farm well titled and fert;l;zed
will always be productive, and if the
products of such farm can be fed tn
good stock, it can readily be made
profitable.
The highest welfare of all kinds
OF domestic animals requires that their
food be not only wholesome and nour-
ishing, but must be in an available
form for digestion and assimilation
The quality of the fleece NAV he
greatly improved by taking particular
pains to care for the sheep in such a
way as to best protect their wool and
cause it to grow in the most healthy
condition. my
1t is not always the richest food
that is best for stock and especially 40
for growing animals. This is shown
by the rapid gains that can he readily
secured where the animals have GOOD
pasturage during the summer, with ali
stock the cost as well as the results
must always be procured,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-18
STATE OF ONO, CIrY OF ToLYpo. J,
;. - LUCAS COuSrY -

FRANK j.. CHENEY makes oath that he T.
the senior partner Of the firm off, j. CHENEY
q Co, doing business in the City of Toledo
county and State aforesaid and that said
urn VIII pay the sum OF ONE HUNDRED DOL
cannot cured by the use of HALL' CArARRH
CShk. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn TO before me and subscribed in INV
presence, this6thday OF December, A. D. 1885.
{uxIl A. w. GLEASON,
$50 s Notayv Public
Hau's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
sc1s directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system. Send fortestimoni.is
iree +; ]. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
~ Sold by Druggists. csc.
Halls Family Pills, 25c-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-18
Necessity of Rotation,

Experiments have shown that II ;s
bad policy to grow corn successfully
on the same land. Smut and otber
forms OF rot are known to prevail more
IN corn thus raised than elsewhere
The writer has seen IS per cent of a
crop lost by dry rot' where il had
oeen grown successfully for three
years on same ground. The spores of
these diseases propagate in the soil
until it becomes dangerously infected
ana IN that case the evident remedy is
TO starve out these germs by planting
crops that will not afford them sus-
tenance With few. exceptions no
crop should be planted twice on the
same ground without some other crop
Farm and Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-18
The Hot sprinr, Of sou,h D..,..

Ths Hot Springs Of South Dakota.
me following letter from Mr.. w. M. Tv
.on, Commander OF the Pennsylvania SoI
oier and Sailors Home at Erie. Pa writ
zen on ms return home, after q stay OF some
weeks az bot Springs, South Dakota. indi
become one Of the leading health resorfs ~
the country: E -s'o = "
Col. FRED EVANS, PROP. = 80 = 49,
Evans Hotel, u Hot Springs, S. d.
Dear Sir: Among the many who have
S Sesn Denented BY treatment at the Hot
Gus hospitality at your hands, / Claim the
right to say a word in behalf Of the SPRINGS
IS health resort, and cannot do better than
70 state the facts in my own case. -
lett Erie, Pa, about November 1. 1891
my friends at the time doubling whether 1
would ever recover my health. arrived At
Hot Springs so weak and disheartened that
~ required aid to leave the cars and reach
tne hotel. For the first two weeks felt no
Improvement Then / experienced q change
which continued until my departure, and re-
turned to my homo very much stronrer
and almost free from pain. -
] do not hesitate to say to anyone sael;n.
relief from pain, and desiring rest, that do
NOT oelleve there is any place where an in
valid can go and find so MANY advautares.
sucn as healing waters, pure air, GRAND
mountain scenery and comfortable hotel &C
Communications, as Hot Springs, &. d. The
provision for comfort, and all that goes In
make one feel at home. lam 80 thoroughly
of the many advantages to Be
,ound at your location, that it Is pleasure
or me 70 recommend the Hot Springs to |
3 well as health. ="
Wishing you every success. and that Hot
springs may become better known and an |
'reciated, am Truly yours, so
fSi0ned) w. N. TYSON.
Inc Hot Springs of South Dakota are
cached directly by the Burlington Route.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-18
such things will be failure without

such things will be failure without
a market.
Again, the farm aud market m;gh,
favor one special crop to the exclusion
OF al others. A single row of vegeta-
pies In some places will pay more than
any acre OF wheat, and an acre of
wheat in some places will pay more
than an acre of vegetables.
with this same condition running
throughout every department. of aur;.
culture, who can give the relief remedy
put the farmer himself? No one knows
MS circumstances, his natural farm aid.
vantages, market conditions. and how
can they advise him in the change he ;s
pound to make rightnow or be ruined2
IN the light of these facts no infiexible
rule OF relief can be given, unless the
ADVISOR is familiar with the conditions
mat makes his plans necessary.
Every farmer must have a money
crop, and every farm is suited TO the
,uiiest extent to one money crop. Steep
niiisides twentymiles from market are
profitable for grapes when made into
Wine, because it is non-perishable and
.ne cost OF marketing is small. Also
dried pepper. dried green peas, sage.
navy beans, white beans and onions can
oe hauied long distance. Each would
De q paying money crop, and the de.
mand for them is good enough to make
1T safe to raise them.
Chickens and eggs get higher every
year, although the United States nro-
dnces 100000 900 worth of them an.
nuaiiy. Butter is as high as il was
when cotton was ten cents. and is al
ways in demand. Broom-corn and pop
corn prices are always good. Castor
Deans pay fine profit. =
With these facts before MS. let every
Earmer weigh every advantage that
markets and farm conditions afford him
ma adjust his plans from them.
a little brains put. on the market now 1
Vail bring . handsome price, for the
lime has come when brains onlv will
make farming pay.
AS stated shove, every farm in the
'nited States is suitable for one nav
n.y. profitable money crop; suitable
rom the TACT that the market is favor
pie as well as the farm, if it can oniv
e located, and every farm is suitable |.
" the raising OF the home supplies to !!
large extent. Let farmers take conr-
&C. The remedy. is in their own
ands. When paying crops are raised q
very year why not raise some of
lem. /? =, .,...'
Sotton conventions and organizations
axe matters worse. They never can e
rlng relief, as time and experience has =
oven. FE sst ssA =
Brains at the head and the farmer y
y Q paying money crop and crops to ?
ppiy home consumption. These mat
rs ne must arrange himself if success
er crowns his labors. Cor. Texas
nm and Ranch. -. u -
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-18
MICHIGAN'S BENEFACTOR
An on Repeated Story Of True
Philanthropy.
"nss Cnas. II. Hackley Has Done for
Western Michigan.

| tEfom Grand Rdpids, AieA, Erenino press ,
The most beautiful spot in all this CITY i,
nseparably associated with the name of
hackiey Chas. Il. Hackley has been in the
lumber business here continuously since
1ooo ana IN that time has amassed fortune
WHICH gives MIN rating among the wealthy
men OF Inc nation. But with wealth there
oia not come that Tightening of the purse
ssrIngs which is generally a marked char.
acteristic of wealthy men.
uls not a wonder then that the name NJ
Cnaries II. Hackley is known at home and
abroad His munifccnce to Muskeoon aloha
represents an outlay of nearly half a million.
FOR the past twenty years he has been
constant sufferer from neuralgia and rben-
matism, also numbness of the lower limbs
10 much 50 that 1t has seriously inter- Tered
with bis pleasure in life. For some time
past his friends have noticed that he ha.
seemed to grow young again and 70 have
recovered the health which he had In youth
10 reporter for the Press Mr.. Hacklev
explained the secret of this Transformation
II nave suffered for over % years, he said
WIN pains In my lower limbs so severely
mat the only relief could get at night was
Dy putting cold water congresses on INV
nmos. was bothered more at night than
IN tne DAY time. The neuralgia and rheu.
matic pains In my limbs, which had been
growing In intensity for years, finally be.
came chronic. l made three trips to the
not Springs with only partial relief and
snen zen back to my original state. /
Uou.on SIT stiil and my sufferings began to
% make life look very blue. Two years AGO
,ast september noticed an account Of Dr
WAnaIns' Pink Pills for Pale PeonIe = nd |
wuat tney mad done for others, and some |