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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31
THE CRY FOR MORE MONEY.


An Unreasonable Demand by Blatant
Innatlonlsts.
The common argument of the silver
men is that the country needs more
money. That is the substance OF every
thing that was said at the Memphis sill
yer convention, and 1t is the substance
of all the most elaborate reasoning OF
our scientific" bimetalllsts- Yet in
the money markets of the world there
is no sign of scarcity. In this city
money Is loaning on call at per cent.
time money at from per cent. TO 2z
per cent, and on mercantile paper as
from 21S per cent to 3 per cent Inc
London Economist, ofrecent date, says
sowing to the increasing abundance
of money, and the prospect OF even
greater superfiuity, the discount market
has become weaker, and the quotation
for best three months bills Is down
to x per cent" Then it proceeds to la
ment the loss Of 1.-THE expected outlet
for our surplus money In the Chinese
loan which has been taken In Paris
and guaranteed by Russia. Turning
again to our own country. we find by
bank statement, that the New York
banks have outstanding In loans I'm
round numbers) $5OS, 900, 900, as against
S466, 900, 900 a year ago, and $4l0, 000, 600
in 1898; that their deposits are $780,
600, 900, against S4o7, zoo, 900 two years
ago, and their reserve $50, 200, O0O,
against S11O, OOO, 900 In 1923. Clearly OF
money that can be borrowed on sound
security there is no scarcity anywhere.
Unquestionably, however, the desire
for more money" is very genuine. 1t
always is. 1t varies with the condi-
ton of the country, and, while 1t is
never absent, it becomes formidable
Us a force in politics only when the
number of persons who feel the desire,
but who have no security on which to
borrow and no property to sell, : is
large relatively to the whole popula-
ton. At present the number is really
large, though not so great as 1t was
year ago, and constantly decreasing.
Probably before next year, when we
shall have the first opportunity to
vote, directly or indirectly, on the
question of getting more money by
legislation, the number will be very
much less. There is reason to hope
that it will be so small that 1t will
make no serious showing at the polls.
We had much the same experience
after the ranic of 1879. The cry for
more money was even louder and more
general than It now is, and 1t confused
the brains of good many politicians,
as it has done lately. Yet the resump-
ton actwas passed In 1875. specie pay
ments were resumed in 1879, and the
next few years, when, according to the
infiationists, everything was to go to
rack and ruin, were years of verygreat
prosperity. 1t is likely that the course
of things will be similar for the next
few years. Trade will revive. The
demand for imitation will die out. The
country and the government will be In
easy circumstances. HEN If we have
the sense and the courage to put the
currency on a sound and stable basis,
we shall be able to face the future
with equanimity.-N. Y. Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31
SOUND MONEY SAYINGS.

-. Fifteen years from now we will
look back on the free silver movement
even as we now look back on the
greenback movement = Iowa State
Register.
The silverites who are laying
their defeats to the leaders are unwise.
The cause accounts for the defeats.
Let it have its due.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
-. The silver takers if they keep
on will find themselves talking with
out hearers The fate of the green
back craze in 1876 will certainly be the
fate of the silver craze next year
Evening Wisconsin.
80. The silver men lack leaders as
well as votes In every contest which
they have waged with the sound.
money men this year the silverites
have been out-classed as conspicuously
as they have been outnumbered. st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
THE silver men from the western
mining camps will probably tell their
constituents when they return home
how they won the victory by escaping
q good whipping at Cleveland.-Cleve-
land Leader.
-. Free silver is all right for Mex.
leo. 1t goes well with pack mules and
peans. But it was never intended for
a country where electricity is the mo
tive power and where the laboring man
!, q citizen.-Iowa State Register.
Find me man that's in favor
of free silver that is out Of debt.
want his picture to show over the
country. Sam Jones,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31

And silver went SO low in 1893 as to
make the dollar worth only 81 cents at
one time.
For 1894 the figures have not been
received, and the director of the mint
writes us that he will not be able to
make an estimate for several months.
The value of the silver dollar for 1894
was about so cents, and at this low
price the worlds production of silver
for that year was, according to the
estimate of the Journal of Commerce,
from IA, 200, 900 to $50, 900, 900 of ounces,
as against 16i, TIC, 900 for 1893. Very
we'll; what will happen then?
The deciding election takes place in
November, 1896. The senate is already
for free coinage by considerable ma
jority. The free-coiners have only to
carry the house of representatives and
the presidency to come into complete
control of the government. What will
happen If they carry these? The first
thing that will happen will be the fact
that every man to whom dollar is due
will be confronted with the certainty
that after March, 1897, the government
will be under the dominion of power
that will authorize all debtors to pay
their debts with silver dollars, whether
they are worth only so cents each or
whether they are worth 100 cents each.
That will be fixed and established
There will be the period. then, be-
tween November, 1896, and March,
1897, in which men will be bordering
on this state of facts and making up
their minds what they will do about it.
We have immense sums abroad and
all of this would be called for at the
same time. The prospect only that we
might be driven to silver basis in
1893 drove Europeans to sending their
securities here for sale in such quanti-
ties that it produced the terrible panic
of that year. What will happen when
it is made certain we are going to q
silver basis? Could we answer the for
eign demand when added to the do
nestle demand that we have set out
above?
1t seems to us that, view the case as
we may, IL this country goes for free
silver in November, 1895, it will bring
on it q panic that will overthrow all
business and cause the greatest calam-
ity that ever befell people.-Phila-
delphia Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31
FREE SILVER COINAGE.
The Terrific Panic 1t Would Cause-Ove
throw Of All Business.

The Terrific Panic 1t Would Cause-Over-
throw Of All Business.
The free coinef's case is this: He de-
mands that the government shall.
without the cooperation OF any other
government, coin all the silver that is
brought to it's mints into dollars con-
tanning 37lA grains of. pure silver, or
4f2k grains of silver and alloy, with
the legal tender power of full dollars.
But, at the present price OF silver in
the market, that much silver is worth
. only about half as much as the gold in
q gold dollar.
If our government does this every
mans common sense tells him that
gold will disappear. Every mans
common sense teaches him that IT
there is an unlimited coinage of full
legal-tender silver dollars of this sort,
they must drive gold out of circulation,
as 1t is universal law, that has no ex-
ceptions, that if two full legal-tender
dollars are put to fully circulating side
by side upon their own merits, the
cheaper will drive out the better
money.
1t is estimated that there are in the
world something like $4,000, 100000 Of
coined silver. How much uncoined sill
yer there is in the world in the hands
of China and India, in spoons and forks
and walters and dishes and buckles
and ornaments Of all sorts in Europe
and America, cannot be estimated.
We know, though, there is enough to
make an enormous quantity of dollars
containing 371H grains each. Now
II we should open our mints to free
coinage of silver would not an immense
quantity Of this come here for coin
age? But this is not all. The proc
esses for mining silver ore and for ex-
tracing the silver from the ore have
been improved within the last twenty
years in most astounding manner.
The increasing production of silver on
an ever-falling market shows this. In
1873, when the silver in dollar was
worth more than gold dollar, the
world produced ssl, SOC, 900 of silver.
See the production in the last few
years in the following table, which
shows also the average value of the
silver in silver dollar in each year:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31

Under free silver coinage at SIX
teen to one the silver baron could take
fifty cents worth Of silver to the mint
and get one dollar for II. But the rest
of us would still have to take a dollars
worth of labor into the market to get
one dollar.-Chicago Times Herald
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31
Eyerv new day of the silver q

80. Every new day Of the silver agi-
tation reveals its true character moro
and more Enthusiastically. 1t is the old
greenbackism or cheap-money move
ment of twenty-five years ago. with
the difference that instead of one
cent dollar it proposes Afty-cent dol
lar.-N. Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31

The battle for unsound money
will go on till it is squelched. Those
who imagine that the populist animus
back of the movement will be satisfied
with a fifty-cent dollar are cherishing
a cruel illusion. To the mind OF .
populist any dollar with intrinsic
value is an outrage A fifty-cent dol
lar is just half as great an infamy as .
one hundred-cent dollar. OF the two
he prefers the cheaper, but he would
vastly prefer a dollar that was good
for paying debts and nothing else. =
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31
FREE COINAGE PALACES.
A "Coin" Statement That ID Not Borne
Out by Facts.

A "Coln" Statement That IL Not Borne
Out by Facts.
Perhaps the most crushing part of
the avalanche of fact that poor "Coin"
has brought upon himself is the proof,
from actual market reports, that the
farmer has not been hurt by the fall in
prices since 1873, whatever has caused
that fall. Prof Laughlin has shown
that the farmers of the northwest
really get more goods now in exchange
for their wheat aud corn than they did
in 1879. What he showed for that re-
gion has now been shown for Virginia
in q most practical and telling little
pamphlet, Free Coinage and the
Farmer. by Mr.. E. C. Klipstein. The
writer has had access to the books of
q prominent country merchant of Vir-
GINA, covering the years 1867 to 1895,
and showing the real exchangeable
value of produce in goods then
and now. In 1867 the farmer
could get for so bushels Of
wheat, 100 bushels of corn, 500 pounds
Of pork and 100 cross ties, money
price of S2s9.50 in 1898. he would get
but s13s. There is the free-coinage
argument in q nutshell; the farmer
robbed of half his crops by the gold
monopoly. But look further and see
what the farmer could do with his
money in 1867 and what he can do
with it now. Mr.. Klipstein gives q
long list of prices of groceries, dry
goods, hardware, tools, ETC., of daily
necessity to the farmer, and shows
that an average consumption of these
articles would have cost, under 1867
prices, e34f.0 s. In 1898 the same things
could be bought for s1l2.05. Thus the
Virginia farmers loss by falling prices
is really a considerable gain. On the
transaction referred to he would be
SIT to the good-that is, to supply his
needs in 1867 he would have had to add
s51.5s to his purchase, while now he
could purchase the same things with his
produce and have S25. 05 to his credit
N. Y. Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31

An Indiana Jury recently returned q ven.
dict Of "Blode to pieces by biler busting"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-31


it to him; but put it on the ground OF
old friendship.
1t would not do any good, my
child he said. i could not keep 1t.
"Do you wonder told McWilliams
to get it for me? l could not do any.
thing Else; could /, dear?-with you
away, too After had arranged
about it l told him he could come
whenever he liked to look at it, and
stay as long as he liked, and need
never ask to see anyone, but that Ed.
ward would show him right in here.
He could not thank me, but l knew"
She rose and went over to the pic.
ture, looking at its sunshine through
happy mist like that which kept the heart Of
Eden green
HAS he been here YETI" Hubbard
asked, busying himself with lighting
fresh cigar.
"Yes; he came to-day, and asked for
me first. You would have thought he
had made q new fortune, to see now
happy he was"
..ffe has won the best woman ia the
world for FRIEND" said Hubbard.
Then there came familiar knock on
the window, and. while Mrs. Hubbard
fed to cool off her bedimmed eyes,
Hubbard himself let in one of the
chosen spirits of the pipes.
'sGlad to see you, Dick" he said.
''Come in. Mrs. Hubbard will be down
in q minute. She has just been ex.
planning to me the fine points of thi,
new Inncss. What is your opinion Of
it?"-Lippincott's Magazine,
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ana perfectly Wnlue na1r, ana ne kept
up q nervous bobbing of his head all
the time, but seemed to be unconscious
of it. l had often wondered who he
was, and somehow or other always az
ISOLATED him with my father, though /
did not know why. He seemed to know
a good deal about pictures, always
picking out two or three of the best to
hover around, and thought that he
might be dealer, except that he
looked too poor. He interested me so
much that had often been tempted to
speak to him; you see, have not quite
got over the bohemian tendencies
used to indulge when painted instead
of buying pictures"
when you painted what, Nan?'
"Canvasses, of course; you don't sup
pose ever thought Ipainted a picture,
do you? But don't interrupt.
THAT morning was watching my
old friend, specializing about him as
usual, when / noticed him suddenly
discover that"-shc waved her hand to-
ward the Inness-''and the poor old fell
low looked as if he had been struck by
some one. He sat down on the bench
nearest it, his white head shaking
more than ever, and rubbed his hands
piteously together. could not stand
1t any longer, and few down and
asked McWilliams who he was.
THE moment he said the name OF
Healthy l remembered where l had
met him. When ! was little girl,
papa had taken me to his house to see
his pictures; for he had superb col
lection then himself.
That's old Healthy McWilliams
said; i always let him in here when
he's sober, though be never has even
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-10
EXTRA YACHTING WEEK.
Work of Captain Sands and Robert
Goelef-ManY Races Planned.

NEWPORT, R. l.. May 10, 1S95.-Cap-
! tain Robert Goelet and Commodore
| Sands, to whose efforts Newport will
| owe the extra week of yacht racing
which has been determined upon, are
very busy preparing to make h rae
ing season of the coming summer surpass
that of any previous year. 1t has now
been decided that during the first four
lays of the extra week, as 1t is called,
races for schooners and sloops over the
outside courses, on alternate days, be-
ginning with the ~schooners, shall be the
features. When these races shall have
been finished, the races for the smaller
boats ON the inside course will be in
order.
A special effort will be made to at
understood that they are practically GER
arranged for their benefit.
cl Aath0o ossly t this plan sonca If a9 SEe eutlin yacht IT.
extended through one or two more weeks
to t Rroy oafco dor al az thu bse fr ra0 Wee Tale are mah
to say nothing of the ladies' catboat
races, which have not yet been specially
provided for in the plans.
in a sense of secondary Importance as
compared with the big scheme for the
important development of Newport as an
proposed to locate here every possible
convenience which may assist yachtsmen
in making this a base. of operations,
and indeed the great yachting headquar-
xtent of making IMPORT the wintering
place for a large number of craft.
In connection with h scheme it is
proposed to establish here a coaling sta
tion for steam yachts, at which coal
may be purchased at prices only very
slightly in advance of New York prices.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-10
SWEAT PEAsE

It used to be considered in the Hgood
old days" when our grandmothers Erew
the sweet-pea, that any one could krow
it. This is true, in a way, to-day. but
not every one can grow 1t well, anp no
one knows the. possibilities. Of this beAuti-
full flower unless it is well grown.
pease is to obtain good seed. Youfcan
get it. if you buy Of dealers who have
established q reputation for fair de$ling
and honesty. They. cannot afford tQ} sell
anything but good seed, II. they had the
disposition to do 50. The best may acost
but the extra cost will prove honeywell
Unlike other flowers, the sweet-pe3 in
sists on being planted as early In thefsea-
son as possible. AS soon as the ground
can be worked. begin to get ready fpr II;
that is advisable, because 1t is easier to
furnish support for your plants when
grown that way-dig a trench about six
inches deep. Throw up the soil and let
exert it's meilowing. d~igingratins In
fuence upon it. It will be throWn/ up
in Jumps and clods, because at That
season season the moisture from me4ting
SHOWS and early spring rains wllfEnot
have ain out Of it; but q day Or
will so effect it that 1t may be e&sily
crumbled and pulverized BY the hod.
Sow the seed thickly. 1t should not
be more than an inch OF TOW apart.
Cover lightly at first. After the Plants
have got to BE an inch or two hgxgh.
Keep On putting more soil into the
trench e the plaats grow. until aitithe
Is returned a. it~.-IzaFpsr's Baxaaf.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-10
ANUS MENTS.
a CADEMY OF MUSIC.
"A FRANK E. HENDERSON Manager.
To-ninoht Last Chance to see
Sat. Matinee HERkMAmN
Sat. Evening THE GREAT.
Monday, May 10, ONE WEEK,
MONROE & RICE
IN
"MY AUNT BRIDGET"
20 Comedians. 10 Pickaninies.
RnM IGRAND CONTINUOUS
PERFORMANCE
mi From 1 O'Clock to IL p. m.
Sas Prices, 10. rs, IS and so.
THEATRE An entire change Of bill weekly;

- sTATE OF NEW JERSEY
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, }
To all whom these presents may come 1fee
Whereas, in the Judgment Of the Board OF
Directors of the Publishers Special AgenSy,
a corporation organized under the laws OF TINS
State, it has been deemed &dvIsanie anu anu
most for the benefit Of such corporation that
the same should be dissolved before the ex-
piration of the time limited IN its Certifeale
thenticated record of the proceedings of said
Board of Directors of such corporation heid
in accordance with the provisions of an act
entitled IAN act concerning corporations,
approved April 7th, 1875, ami the several
supplements thereto. which said record; m
in interest of all the stockholders OF said
corporation that such dissolution should take
place, as by said act required having been
BY said corporation deposited in my Office;
Now therefore, l.. Henry c. Kelsey, Secre-
tary of State of the State Of New Jersey.
ments of AN act concerning corporations,
approved April 7th, 1875, and the supplements
thereto. relative to the dissolution Of cor
porations. have been fully compiled viii ey
that the Publishers Special Agency did.
on the ninth day of May, 1895, file in my once
a duly executed and attested certificate of
consent of the dissolution of said corporation
by two-thirds in interest of all the stockhold-
ers thereof, which said certificate of consent
are now on lille and of record in my said
office, as provided by law.
In testimony whereof. l have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my official
(SEAL.) seal, at Trenton. this ninth day of
May. A. d. eighteen hundred and
HENRY C. KELSEY,
e11 M L Secretary of State.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-10
oHBMIsTRY's WORK.
The BENEFIT Science Has Been to the
World In Practical Ways.

AA
The Solvay ammonia process for max
ing soda ash, depending on the now
abundant supply of ammonia salts from
where coal is converted into coke, has
within the last forty years by the in
telligent work of Solvay, and yet it has
almost revolutionized the soda industry.
this process in England was 5000 tons;
in 1889 the work of the Solvay Company
in various parts of the world produced
430, 600 tons: largely, it is true, at the ex-
pense of the Leblanc process, but with
the result of greatly lessening the cost
of soda ash. The Solvay process is of
great interest to u W COUNTRY on aee.
springs.
THE starch sugar industry also imme-
diately concerns ourselves, since by 1t
Sc, GOO bushels of corn are in this country
daily converted into sugar with an an
500. 900.
perphosphates and the whole list of ar
tiicial manures, spectrum analysis, and
the art of photography are but a few of
the most important examples of the
progress of applied chemistry. .Agricul-
tural chemistry, as shown by the large
number of well-equipped and carefully
conducted experiment stations in many
of our States and generally in England
and on the continent of Europe, is con-
tributing yearly more and more to the
material wealth of the world. Under its
guidance the manufacture and use of
fertilizers, superphosphatess ammoniated
fertilizers, potash salts and nitrates are
extending.
Public health, too, is receiving aid from
the chemists. Food and water analysis,
the nature and use of distEfectants, the
remedy of river pollution, the suppress
sion of manufacturing nuisances, ventil-
alton, physiological chemistry, pharmacy,
are among the many subjects which to-
day are being Investigated by the chem
lists, and often under h wise and almost
indispensable assistance of the State
Ch~autauquan.