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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-05-16
Facts for Democratic.


Look here. you Democratic editors
and stump speakers. A few short years
ago you said tin plate could not be
made in this country. You ridiculed
every plant that was established. You
said they We're erected for campaign
purposes. You said it was all being
done for political effect. You lied about
the matter and deceived your readers
and hearers. You said tin plate was
not then made and never would be
made in this country.
Now what do you think Of it? There
are now 1856 tin plate mills in opera
ton or under construction in the Uni
ted States. And there are tifty-eight
more projected. And now for some
figures taken from Democratic records.
The aggregate output of the mills now
and soon to be in operation is 10000
boxes each per annum. This means
an aggregate output Of 4,6SO,OOO boxes
in all When the projected mills are
completed the total annual output will
reach 6.42O,OOO boxes, or enough to
supply the home market.
That. Mr.. Democrat, is result of Re-
publican protection. 1t is result
achieved in spite Of Democratic false
hoods and sneering predictions of fail
pre- 1t is Il result Of legislating in the
interest of America and Americans. If
there were such a thing as shame in
the Democratic party. 1t would hang
it's head at the growth Of this infant in
dlstry.--TOledO Blade.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-05-16
A Prolific Yield.

n ffOI1nC xcIus
1t has yielded 16 per cent increase
in the importation of foreign goods
made by foreign labor, and displaciny
Il like amount of American labor.
1t has yielded nearly 10 per cent.
decrease in the exports of American
products and merchandise, thus cut
ting off just so much more work and
wages for Americans.
1t has yielded Il great food Of foreign
grown woods. and destroyed the sheep
raising industry on American farms
and ranches. incidentally 1t has helped
to yield u shorter supply Of sheep for
slaughter and assisted the Chicago
meat ring to put up the price Of NUT
ton.
1t has yielded more foreign imports
by n hundred million dollars worth
and yet il has yielded a decrease of IL
per celt. in the amount Of lmportations
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-05-16
Loss. $212,3O7 SCI, 27: sO.5S 50.


1t is clearly seen that there has been
slight decline in the val'le of our ex-
ports of manufactures during each of
the two months of the present year.
but the percentages are larger because
our exports of agricultural and for
estry products We're of so much less
value this year. thus making the pro-
portion or percentage of our manufac-
tured exports appear larger while the
values were really less. This was
very smooth trick, and it has been
worked for all it is worth. But the
foregoing are-the bald facts, and in
stead Of our exports of manufactures
creeping steadily up" rs we were
told, they have been creeping stead
lily" down, even though the wall of pro-
lection has been blasted out of sight.
The detailed statement Of our ex-
ports Of domestic merchandise during
February enables one to see in what
lines our people are reaching out into
the markets of the world During Feb
ruary our manufacturers of agricul-
tural implements sold $4,000 worth
less Of their goods to foreign countries
than in February. 1894. Our sales of
bricks fell off by S6,265; of candles we
sold $1,000 less; of carriages. street
cars and their parts, $24, 700 less: Of
copper and it's manufactures S4SO,OOO
less; of cotton cloths $272,OO0 less; of
fish $91. 200 less: Of fax manufactures
$4,000 less; of furs and skins S137 600
less; of hides $13O. 900 less: Of hay S43,-
400 less; Of hardware S15, 400 less: of
nails and spikes $4,000 less; of oil
cake and meal $50, 600 less: of animal
oils $4,000 less: of oleomargarine
$50, 600 less; of butter $3.50, 800 less; of
cheese $4,000 less; of seeds $4,000
less; of soap $4,000 less; of distilled
spirits S36S. 900 less; of starch $4,000
less; of refined sugar So, 900 less; of to-
baccO leaf $11S,OOO less; Of manufac-
tured tobacco $4,000 less; of eta
bles $4,000 less; of timber $4,000
less; and Of lumber $3.50, 900 less These
show some of the smaller values of
American products and manufactures
IN one months sales to other countries
when the markets of the world were
wide open to us. This is how we are
letting ourselves out
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-05-16

Values. Per cent. Of total
January. February. Jan'y. Feb.
1894. .$l4,313,2S5 $l2.2s3, los 1897 1891
1870. IA. 1OO,97S 12,ccl 800 1855 %, Ii
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
BLAND PLOTTING.
He Expects to Control the PertIe
Springs Conventions

PERTLE SPRINGS, Mo-, Aug. s.
Silver Dick Bland arrived here today
10 lead the forces and frame the reso-
lutionS which will be adopted by the
Democratic silver convention, which
meets tomorrow. The advance guard
is a small one, not more than a dozen
delegates being here, and, barring
Senator Cockrell, who lives here Bland
is the only star attraction on the
ground. Bland, however has already
thrown down the gauntlet to the anti
silver element in the Democratic state
central committee, and it may result
in considerable friction, if nothing
more. Mr.. Bland had not been here
half-hour when he was out in the
declaration to a few trusted friends
that the time has arrived when the
silver men should assume control of
the party machinery. For publication
he refused to talk, but the statement
of his declaration of war is correct
1t has excited lively comment. This
declaration is interpreted to mean that
he proposes TO fight the old committee,
and endeavor to oust them and
secure new committee favorable to
the white metal. Mr.. Bland is of the
opinion that the convention will con-
clude its work by Wednesday after
noon easily, and that it's final results
will be most gratifying to the friends
of silver, who hold that the ratio Of
Is to l is the proper basic point upon
which to go to the nation for the fight
for free and unlimited coinage Be-
yond this the eX-congressman will not
go. As the probable selection of the
state central committee for temporary
chairman of the state convention,
Bland is reserVing his fire until to-
morrow. He will speak about an hour,
and as 1t is quite probable that in ad-
dition TO acting as temporary chair
man, he also will be chairman of the
committee on resolutions, he proposes
to submit for the affirmative to the
silver men a platform that will ring
with the express declaration of 16 TO l.
1t mas been suggested that he proposed
to incorporate a plank denouncing the
national administration. The state
central committee will meet in the
morning to decide on the temporary
organization of the convention, which
Will be convened at noon. A new
scheme developed today whereby the
silver men intend to secure the state
machinery and q majority of the state
committee. The plan is to let the
present committee remain and to elect
one new member from each of the
fifteen congressional districts and three
from the state at large, making a COM
mittee of thirty-four members, instead
OF sixteen, as at present. Then the
committee would be in a position to
force the fight in the next convention
on silver lines.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
CITY NEWS sIFTINGs.

The water department finished clean
ing out the reservoir at McCarron's
lake yesterday and the water will be
let in today.
When the Metropolitan opera house
opens again the entrance will present
a more attractive appearance, as it is
to be redecorated.
Rev. J. w. Conley is to deliver a
series of five lectures on American
Professionalism at the Chicago uni
Versity this week.
st. Mary's summer festival will be
held this evening in the hall corner of
Ninth and Locust streets. 1t promises
to be a very successful affair.
A festival and social will be given in
the hall at the corner of Ninth and
Locust streets by the young people of
st. Mary's church this evening.
Judge Richie, of the district court of
Lima, is in the city on his way to
Spokane. He has been the guest of
Judge Orr, his former law partner.
Judge Orr and Judge TWohy switch
places in the municipal court again
To-Day, the former taking the civil and
the latter the criminal department.
Il. II. Morphy had as his guests at
the commercial club yesterday p A
nipeg.
Judge Orr deferred his decision in the
Lowe case until the 9th inst. He de-
slres further time to examine authori-
ties.
The, congregation of the Peoples
church give a picnic Thursday. The
steamer and barge leave the foot of
ing.
The steamer Lotus has been char
tered by the Minnesota Boat club for
the use of members and friends at the
regatta on Minnetonka Friday and
Saturday.
The steamer Flora Clark will leave
the foot of Jackson street this evening
at 1:3O with the Young Peoples Luth.
eran League of Memorial Lutheran
Church and their friends. The league
promises a good time to all who at
tend. "
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
VETS RECEIVE A CIRCULAR.
Pensioners Told to Demand Gold
Mt TnneISH.

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 5.-This is pen
sion day, and checks for several hun
dred thousand dollars We're paid out
by United States Commissioner Click.
The following circular was distributed
among the old soldiers of Topeka and
Shawnee county who this morning
visited the United States pension office
to get their quarterly allowance from
ths government:
Comrades: Halt! You are entitled
to gold in payment of your checks.
Demand it. Do not accept deprecated
currency"
The pensions are paid hy checks.
which are cashsd at the Topeka banks.
1t is claimed the circular was prepared
by a bimetallist, who wants to show
that there is not enough gold III the
banks to pay the pensioners alone.
aside from doing the other business
of the country. 1t has also been sug-
gested that this may be part of the
Sovereign boycott of national bank
notes 1t is not known who distributed
the circulars.
Over 800 pension checks were paid
by the Bank of Topeka, only TWO ask
ing for gold. One was customer. and
ether was so insolent, he was told to
get out of the bank. President J. R.
Mulvane, of the Bank of Topeka, said:
I'VE generally pay most of the pen
sioners in gold, as 1t is more convent
ent when we are rushed, but this cir
cular which was distributed among
the pensioners is diabolical. I know
not what else to call it. We do not get
q, cent for making this payment, or,
rather, for cashing these checks. We
do not charge these veterans anything
for collecting their money, and it really
costs us about $25 every three months
to handle this pension business. We
must be very particular about every
check, and the checks must be forL
warded to Washington by express.
We cannot risk the mails. The gov
ernment does not keep any money de-
posted with US, so you see how foolish
it is that this circular should be sent
out telling them to demand gold.''
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
REGISTERED TRAVELLERS.

Henderson, Mimi; w. H. Dawson.
Slayton; A. Corbet, Amboy; J. ". Con-
ner, OWatonna; GeoSge r. Lamereac,
Max Wiser, Fargo; W. j. Lewis
STAPLES; W. s. Fish, Indianapolis; w
". PaSko and wife, New York: w. II
Macke!lan, F: Barnard and wife. Phil
adelphla; NJ. e. Meyer, Dubuque; John
Fried, Gibbon,. Mimi; c. H. Brandon
Nashville; j. S. Bienemann, Redwins;
X ). Nessey, Warrington Springs. S.
D.; A. Talbot, London,
At the Ryan-D. W. Bars, Seattle:
10y WlicoX, Eau Claire, John C. Gage,
sas City; John G. spooner. elt.''-' Henry teSry
Villas, W. NJ. Spooner, Madison: r s
Harrison, ]. w. Roberts. c. GrofmueI.
Ter, New York; f. P. Suffer- Baltimore;
John John E. Burke, Norfolk, Va; f. j,
Crosse: L. P. Duffee, Kalamazoo; IT.
W. Holcomb. Philadelphia; G. Heller.
Chicago; l.. Ziese, Boston.
= At the Merchants'-J. A Richter.
Shh!eyenne, S. D. P. A. Macdonald,
J; Darch, Butte; D. L. WeIlman,
Frazer, Mimi; j. NJ. Hixon, La Crosse;
II. L. Conger Milwaukee; ]. HerbsY
Fargo; J. E. Richie, Lima; J. G. Ferry,
NJ w. Harris, Ira Shoemaker, G. f.
Gleason, G. H. Henry, F. McDonough
Eau Claire; F. Lambert and wife, En-,
celsior.
At the Metropolitan-T. S. Bowman
and wife, F: S: Feldbush and family,
st. Louis; Judge Charles G. Start,
o; r. K. Killer, Portland; n. S.
Moied, Furgus Falls; H. B. Harm,
kansaS City; c. B. Bird and son, 500
City; j. W. Ford, Chicago: Leslie Wiz
l1ams and wife, Fulton, Ill.,; Mrs J.
A. Bogg and daughter, Albany, Me.
M. Ceel, Waverly. 10.
At the Aberdeen-Mrs. w. Porteous.
Miss Chapman, Painsville, O.; Miss
Morrison, Miss Harrison, r. NJ. BEN
nett, w. Y. Chute, DR.. Porteous, J.
K. VandeTlip, Minneapolis; l.. c. Dill
man, Spokane; Gardiner Lathrop, KAN
sas City; T. E. Gainter, New York.
At the Clarendon-S. P. Swenson, Du-
luth; George Gordon, Helena; Dr. J.
s: Penney. Wabasha,; E. F. Andras,
Window; r. G. Lonfuram Mankato; NJ.
V. Rice, Cottonwood; c. a. Lambert,
Young America.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06

they We're the lowest known for
many years because everybody was
afraid of Democratic free wool
There is the difficulty with this that
the low price was not local. but uni
versal. and it involves the acceptance
as a fact that the wool growers of
Australia and the Argentines were
also afraid of the free wool of the
Democrats. But, and this is the val
liable result, freeing wool did not
produce the ruinous consequences
predicted. On the contrary, prices
have steadily recovered from the low
figures touched in spite of protec-
ton; and, as the adjustments are
made to the new conditions, thew
will advance until a normal price is
reached. If freeing wool has been
beneficial, if the assertions of the
free traders are borne out, it be-
comes one of those most convincing
of arguments, a demonstrate ton, for
the extension of their policy to other
products. Real freedom never did
aught but good to anything made
free
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
A SWIFT DECLINE.

When an extreme silverite like
Senator PETER confesses that the
people are no longer interested in the
silver question, the ordinary politi-
clans ought to see that the jig is
up. 1t is true today that the only
people actively at work to keep life
and interest in the free coinage ques-
ton are the political leaders who
made the mistake of tying up their
fortunes with it, and are now un-
able to get away. We could name,
easily, a dozen or a score of men
prominent, politically, in the coun-
try who would probably pay hand
somely today if they could sever
their connection with the silver
movement, and blot out of evidence
all their past utterances on the sub
ject. They would not take advice
Made dizzy by the apparent mental
revolution of the people, which ex-
hibited itself in the universal inter-
est in the silver question a few
months ago, they sacrificed their
convictions to join what they sup
posed to be the winning side. The
tide has receded as rapidly as it adj
ing hopelessly in the mud.
Iowa furnishes a good example of
this. Only a few weeks ago it was
commonly understood that the Dem
ocrats of that state would declare
in their convention with practical
unanimity for the free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of Is to l. So GER
tain did this appear that the lead
ing Democrat of the state came out
value of the gold dollar, which should
put him in line with the movement,
while retaining a pretense of being
true to his convictions. There has
been no missionary work done in
Iowa since. There has been no men,
Der of the cabinet to make a tour of
the state IN the interest OF SOunQ
money. There has been no cam
paign against free silver And yet
it is understood that the state con-
vention will refuse to indorse it,
simply because the people have been
impressed by the universal decline
of interest in the question, and have
an assurance that it is a losing issue.
The same is true everywhere. With
the exception of a few states in the
South, where public opinion and pub
lie education on the financial ques-
tion are several years behind the
rest of the country, there is little
interest in free coinage today. The
return of prosperity has killed it.
Democrats who are wise, who have
either a particular regard for their
personal fortunes or a loyal con-
Germ for party interests, will do we'll
to confine themselves to issues pecu-
liar to the party, and to drop the
silver question like a hot potato.
The people have willed it, and those
who stand in the way are going to
regret it.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
COURTS SHOULD SETTLE 1T.

The question whether the reduc-
ton of salaries made by the city
council is to stand or not is likely
to be settled in the only place that
1t can be-the courts. That will be
assured if the council stands by the
position it has already taken, and
follows the course marked out by the
committee yesterday. Comptroller
McCardy has made the issue by
sending in the pay rolls at the old
figure. He is a gentleman not averse
to issues. They do not keep him
awake nights. In fact it does not
require much imagination to pict-
ure him going forth to meet the
council with great joy in his heart
because there is blood on the face
of the moon. He has audited the
pay rolls that pass through his office
at the old figures; with salaries as
they have been paid heretofore. He
accompanies them with some not
very respectful remarks, whose good
taste is also open to question, on the
councils action. If the two bodies
of the council should accept
this action and ratify it, they
would reconsider their former
decision that salaries should
come down. If they do not, then the
pay rolls, or at least those portions
Of them relating to the salaries that
were to be changed, will be held up
until the courts shall have decided
whether or not it is within the power
of the city legislature to alter a sal
ary fixed in law passed by the
legislature of the state That is
the question at issue, and it ought
to be passed upon judicially. 1t
should be brought to a hearing as
quickly as possible, in order that
the persons affected may know their
tate without unnecessary delay. In
the meantime, to prevent the pay
ment of salaries in which there is
no change and about which there
has been no controversy, would be a
cruelty of which we shall not be-
lieVe that the council or the comp
troller's office could be guilty.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
wATERSIDE RLAZE.
Wharves and Steamers burned at
Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 5.-About 2
o'clock a fire broke out on the Big
Sandy wharf boat, and spread very
rapidly, and soon swept out the wharf
boats of the Louisville mail line, the
New Orleans & Memphis line, and
everything along the public landing.
A number of wharf boats were totally
destroyed and others damaged, and
two steamers, the Big Sandy and the
Carrollton, were burned to the waters
edge. The loss on the Big Sandy is
$4,000 and on the Carr Jllton S3O,OOO not
including cargoes. TIE loss on the
wharf boats makes the total over $780,
OOO The steamers Bedford. Scotia and
Tacoma and the Cincinnati & Louis
vile mail lines large wharf boat mar
rowly escaped. If any roustabouts
were asleep on the steamers they NAV
ne lost There were TO passengers on
the boats at the time, and all members
OF the crews are accounted for.
Fireman Bennett was overcome bv
heat and is unconscious at the hosnf-
tai. He may die. William r. Shaw.
superintendent of the wharf boats.
Fireman Jack CrawIey and William
hlbby We're badly burreG, and the fire
man of the Big Sandy was also badly
burned.
There was a multitude of specta-
tors about the river banks on this side
and all the bridges We're full. Intense
excitement existed because of reckless
reports about the loss OF life. Fire
man Edward Bennett was so overcome
with heat that he became unconscious
but was all right at the hospital to-
night. Superintendent W. NJ. R. Shaw.
of the iCncinnati wharf boat, was
badly burned; also Clerk Jack Crom-
ley, Fireman William Kibby, Ben
jamin Franklin and George H. Schmidt.
None were seriously hurt, however.
The flames licked Savage Row for
some minutes so as to scare the colored
occupants badly, but none were hurt.
At one time the Spencer house was in
danger, and all those adjoining the
public landing began moving. AS the
firemen worked from boats, as we'll
as from land, the sight was a brilliant
one. A horse attached to a dray could
not be driven from the burning wharf
and plunged into the river and was
drowned. The safe in the Cincinnati
wharf boat was left open. Seven
hundred dollars in currency and 5000
in silver and the books were burned.
The hulls of the burned boats sank.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
SRlNT PRuI.
INJURIES FROM DRUGS.
Clerk kinema and an InGuisitive
Boy the Victims.

1gnatius Kingma, prescription clerk
in the drug store of Lathrop Mussetter,
corner of Fourth and Wabasha streets.
was compounding a mixture over a
gas stove yesterday afternoon, when
the pharmaceutical bomb exploded, bad
ly burning Mr.. Kingma's right hand
The store was filled with smoke, and
the police had difficulty in restraining
excited spectators from calling out the
fire department. There was no dam
age to the building or fixtures.
Aaron Michael, nine years old, son of
Marks Michael, a clothing dealer, at
101 West Third street, was painfully
injured yesterday afternoon by swal-
lowing ammonia. A bottle of the COM
mon household solution happened to
be within reach of the little fellow,
who tried to ascertain whether the
fluid would taste more agreeably than
1t smelt. Within a brief interval the
experiment and Aaron's audible COM
sments thereon had aroused every one
in the house. DR.. Carl Wirth ordered
appropriate antidotes, and hopes that
the unfortunate boy may escape the
internal ulcerations which are apt to
follow in the train of such an accident
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
PEACE AT SPRING VALLEY.
Four Negroes Missing and Two of
Them Reported Dead,


SPRING VALLEY, Ill, Aug. 5.-The
situation is very quiet in this city to-
night. The mines will work tomorrow.
This afternoon few negro, women
were allowed to pack UP their goods
and depart from Location. One hun
dred negroes run out of this city yes
terday are all at Seatonsville. Many
of them slept in the woods last night.
The mayor contemplated putting in a
few deputies tonight but the situation
is so calm that in all likelihood this
will not be necessary. n meeting of
the miners and citizens will be held in
the public square tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock. The man Role, who was
shot and robbed by colored men Satur-
day night, is still alive, but cannot live
long. The coal company officials begin
to feel alarmed, as dynamite bomb
was found near Manager DalzelIs res
1dence this morning. There is no clue
as to who dropped it there, but it is
generally believed that it has been
there ever since yesterday, when the
crowd visited Dalzell to demand of him
the discharge Of all negroes. The nom
English-speaking miners of Spring
Valley, to the number of 1900, held a
mass meeting at the lumber yard near
the Rock Island depot toGay and passed
d leSOlullOH that no negroes would be
allowed to remain inside the city limits
after o'clock tomorrow evening"
Speeches of the most inf1ammatory nat
ure were made, advocating the imme-
diate opening up of hostilities. The ne
groes at Seatonville held a meeting at
the Union church later and organized
themselves for active service. They
also passed a resolution that they would
continue to work in the Spring Valley
mines until discharged by the coal
company. In addition to the negroes
reported injured at yesterdays conflict
four others are missing, as follows:
Washington Anderson. aged forty-sev-
en-; Arch Fleming, thirty-five years;
Sam Johnson, thirty years Louis Mar
tin, thirty-tive years. OF these, it is the
opinion that two at least are lying
dead in the woods surrounding the late
negro colony, as farmers report having