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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

In arguing for iree silver It's advo-
Gates have laid great stress upon the
statement that 1t takes twice as many
bushels of wheat for farmer to pay
a debt Of thounand dollars as IL did
when he contracted the debt ten
years ago. They think that since
wheat Ia worth only half as much, a
dollar should also be worth only half
as much. Even il the principle Of
the thing were admitted, it is difficult
to SEQ why the price OF wheat should
be made the standard to which a dollar
should be brought, rather than the
price OF corn or oats or hay or cotton
or butter or egga When debts were
contracted the borrower could not have
secured the money upon any agree
ment or stipulation to repay it with
fixed quantity of wheat, hay, cotton
or what not. So the proposition to
scale dollar in proportion to the fall
which has occurred in the price of any
or all commodities is essentially dis
honest. The notion that the price Of
commodities has fallen because silver
has also fallen is contrary to common
sense and contrary 10 what we see
around us every day. When the supply
OF wheat exceeds the demand, it goes
down Just as silver goes down when its
supply ia greater than the demand for
it. But wheat, when the crop is
lighter, will go up in price without any
more regard for the price of silver than
for the price Of cotton or the price of
corner lots. Cotton is worth rs per
cent more this year than last What
has the price OF silver to do with it?
Wheat is worth more this year than
last and 80 is hay. What has the price
of silver to do with it? Corn and oats
are very much cheaper this year than
last. What has the price of silver to
do with it9 II SO happens, however,
that the statement upon which the free
silver advocates lay SO much stress, is
as erroneous in fact as it is in princi-
pie. Wheat was not worth twice as
much 10 years ago as it is to-day.
Mr. J. X. Upton, formerly Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury. has pub.
lished figures which prove that in 1885
wheat was worth only II cents, a price
which is not beyond the hopes Of a
good many farmers for the crop they
made this summer.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

We trust that the Republican edi-
tors will not feel too unkindly towards
the Georgetown Hosiery Co., of this
city. Its prosperity was mentioned in
our news columna last week simply as
a piece of good news Like the many
items of business activity which have
appeared in the papers all over the
country since the Democratic tariff
went into effect in August of last year,
that little item gave the protectionist
writer's painful sensation. They look
on prosperity nowadays as offensive
partisanship. In order to ward off
their anger from the Hosiery Co., it
is proper to state that it it is prosper
ing not for political purposes but solely
to make money.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

81 N !: &: e
appeal
ing to the thousands who APP
Preciate dainty dressing with
out extravaganza.
Six Waists.
At Sin various pretty colorings Of
figured silk; plated back, loose
front lined
At &-Taffeta Silk Waists striped,
tight-fitting back; loose front.
At S6-Good quality Surah Waists
Plated back and loose front, fin
ished with box plaits and twelva
pearl buttons.
Six Skirts.
AT $3.50 to s12-Skirts made of colored
Taffeta Silks some with colored
rufiie; some with Spanish fiounce
and dust ruffie; some umbrella
shape.
At s14 to e0-Umbrella Skirts with
16-inoh corded ruffle.
Satin Skirts are ready too.
$3.50 to SIS. Umbrella
shape. Some of these are
imported.
MEMS SHOES
We do not do the only good
shoe selling in Philadelphia.
We do the best. For instance,
these Mems Shoes at $500
are equal to the very best SIS
shoe you can find in any other
store in town.
They are made in every one
of the popular shapes Of the
season, in
Calfskin,
Patent leather,
Winter russell leather.
Our faith in them is shown
by the thousands of pairs we
order in. Seventy-two cases
came yesterday. $500.
FUR cAPEs
Fur and kindred goods are
ready; so ready that the dis
play is unapproachable in
America, and fur selling has
been revolutionized to general
advantage by our methods.
Fresh proofs of it now.
Wool seal has advanced
seventy per cent in price, tbs
said. Our stocks are great
and new and right-the prices
a trihe less than last years.
Electric sealskin gets the
same careful making here that
distinguishes the work on our
Alaska seal garments. Electric
Seal Capes, $22.5o to SIS.
Collarettes and boas are
here in almost endless variety,
including all the Paris novel
ties.
FALL 0VERcOATS
A good many men have
wondered how we MANAGE TO
sell such an overcoat for s..
1t is new; a revelation in cloth
ing selling. Absolutely all
wool and of a good and endur-
ing black; made without a
skimP; right shaped; right in
every way! IS.
Or, at $Io-Covert Coat,
thirty-hve inches long. All
the asked-for shades.
$I5-not the next price, but
a stopping place for hundreds
OF careful dressers. Covert
Coat; strap seams; all-silk
lining.
More sorts to see than we've
room to tell OF. Enough to
hint of Philadelphia's overcoat
readiness - best exemplihed
here. Thank you for keeping
this clothing business growing
it makes more and more
things possible.
CANTON FLANNEL
Last winter we learned how
to sell a good unbleached Can
ton Flannel for 614c a yard
10 yards for a dollar! 1t was
a feat in dry goods trading.
Harder yet to No it this year
with prices on the jump, but
the goods are here-thousands
Of yards.
Bleached, too, but that costs
&c or IaH yards for 81.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

Eight Cent Cotton VS.. Fifty Cent Dollars.
Last year the Southern farmer got
from four and half to five cents a
pound for his cotton--say s25 bale.
II was cruelty low price. II scarcely
left him margin on which to buy corn
and bacon.
IL made him a FREQ silver intiationist
in his political economy, but 1t taught
him a valuable lesson in agriculture.
Il taught him first to raise some corn
to feed his own mules and to fatten
hogs for his own eating. 1t taught
him secondly not to run up a big bill
at the provision store in tho expecta,
tion Of paying it OH with cotton money.
So he has lived close to the bone for
a year and worked hard. He has raised
Less cotton and more corn. He has a
pen full Of hogs to kill when frost
comes. He is not buying corn, but has
his crib full to sell. His bill at the
groceryan provision store is less than
it has been before.
And 10 and behold his cotton this
year is bringing him from eight to eight
and a-half cents a pound-say $40
bale. He did not expect any such
price. He never expected TO get over
five cents pound for his cotton again
until free silver raised the price. -
He has made on the averages from 60
to 100 bales OF cotton and he will there
fore receive from 5000 to 81, 500 more
than he expected or even hoped.
He is nobody's poor man 80 long as
cotton brings eight or nine cents. He
is actually better off to-day than he has
been any day since he went away from
home 81 years ago to fight for the cause
he believed in aud lost. He knows it
and thanks kind Providence for II.
His political economy, by the way, is
changing rapidly. He is getting out
of that free silver notion. II he can
get living price for his cotton he
would rather have his pay on gold
than on silver basis.
"Coin's Financial School, was con-
sidered great book down South, but
tho cotton crop has made silent argu-
ment against Coins free silver theories.
Cotton will bring a hundred million
dollars more into the South this year
than it brought last, and hundred
million dollars well and honestly dis
tributed is convincing and persuasive
argument, 1t is proving too much for
Coins Financial School. -
The Southern farmer with his thous-
and dollars to spare in bank, and his
corn and meat already provided, is
happier man than ho was last year, and
no has far less use for wild-eyed dema.
gogues with hare-brained schemes for
Introducing the millennium by legisla-
i've enactment.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

Aopoi vi thc cuntlnenu OF Europe. HOW
different it is from the stuff protec-
Zionist newspapers print in the United
States.
General Schoiield, who goes upon the
retired list, holds the rank Of lieuten-
ant-general, but General Miles who
succeeds him in command of our little
regular army will continue 10 be a
major general The last Congress in a
moment of good-natured weakness re-
vived tho grade Of Acknowledgement
for Schofield's individual benefit. Tho
result has been simply to belittle the
title. 1t was mislit in Sohofield's
case; and it is to be hoped that Con-
gress will not again coin the grade Of
Lieutenant general until there is a
soldier of the highest order OF ability
to enjoy it. Before the Civil War the
rank of lieutenant general had been
held only by Washington. When it
was revived, it was for Winfield Scott,
the hero of the war of 1912 and the
Conqueror Of Mexico. Then il was
given IN turn TO Grant and Sherman.
They had both demonstrated their
superlative qualities as soldiers. They
were entitled to follow Washington and
Scott in the line of lieutenant generals
On Sheridan's death bed the same rank
was given to him; and although his
place among the great captains of war
is distinctly below the place of Grant
and Sherman. no serious fault can be
found with making Sheridan lieu.
tenant general. But the thing should
have stopped there. 1t is saying
nothing to the discredit of Schofield,
or of Miles who succeeds him, to point
out that they have not demonstrated
any right to take rank with our greatest
soldiers They may belong among the
first fifty or hundred commanders de-
veloped in the war, but they certainly
do not belong with the first three or
four Congress should let the grade
OF acknowledgement rest until another
great war may enable come great Ameri-
can soldier to reach the highest dis.
tinction which military genius can at
tain.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

A dispatch from Toledo, Ohio, tells
OF raid which the police made on an
opium joint Two girls-one the
daughter Of a gentleman of wealth,
and the other of a well known railroad
man--were captured in the den. The
incident furnishes a vivid illustration
of the duty resting upon parents to
keep close guard and watch upon
their daughters, and sons too for that
natter during their youthful years.
The development of the great public
school system has been accompanied
by an apparent falling off in the sense
Of responsibility on the part of parents
to discipline and guard their own chill
dren. But schools can never take the
place of home in training up children
in the way they should 60. The mother
should make certain that she knows
where her daughter is and what she is
engaged in during every hour OF the
day. In the evening home is the proper
place for children. In our own city
there are good many girls not quite
grown who might with profit TO them
selves spend their evenings at houle
with their parents.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

Tho Republican majority in Congress
is not likely to amend for the better
our currency laws. In the matter of
free silver the Republicans evidently
wish TO run with the hare while they
hunt with the hounds. That is what
they were doing in 1890 when they nut
that ccwardly make-shift, the Sherman
silver purchase law, upon the statute
books Their purpose now, as il was
then, is 10 go as far as possible to
satisfy the silver sentiment" Know.
ing that Cleveland is in the White
House to prevent by veto any free
silver legislation, they will be strongly
tempted to go further than they other
wise might to show their western sun
porters that the "party is not an enemy
OF silver The Republicans who were
elected last fall to the various State
Legislatures demonstrated during the
winter that they wero unworthy of the
confidence bestowed upon them, and we
rather anticipate that the Republicans
who wore elected at tho same time to
Congress will show up in the same light
when Congress meets in December.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

until he has been IL years with the
firm.
We have in the above report an I'M
colored account Of the condition of
labor on the continent of Europe. How
different it is from the stuff protec-
Zionist newspapers print in the United
States
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

The Iowa Populists say that thev
will draw largely from the free silver
Democrats, and that their party will
poll 100000 votes in the State. II ia
very likely true that the Populists in
Iowa Will draw much more freely from
the Democrats than the Republicans.
and we rejoice that it is SO. Free sill.
yer men who have been staying in tho
Democratic party in the hope of bring
ing the party over to their view of
finance, might as well give IN such
hope. The Democratic party will stand
firmly and consistently for sound money.
Men who are so infatuated with free
coinage that they must make it tho
controlling consideration, when thpv
come to vote, have no longer any in
ducements to vote the Democratic
ticket. II such men in Iowa wish 10
go to the Populist party, it is well.
The Populists can not draw free silver
voters from the Republican ranks be.
cause the Republican party has not
taken decided stand against the silver
heresy. Free silver voters stay with il
and have hope of getting substantial
concessions from it. In the long run it
will be better for Iowa Democrats to
let the free silver voters go. Sound
money isl better rock to build on, than
the vote of the free silver people.
Sixty-six million dollars worth of
gold was eXnurtpl from, +his ,,,,.4,,,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

Delaware has to-day one of the least
expensive State governments in the
Union, but it used to be great deal
less expensive than it is now. In 1850
and there are many men now living
In the State who were voters in 1856
the whole income of the State amount.
ed to only s31, 1863. 80, and the expendi :
lures were s5,07l Al less than the in.
come. The sources of income were /:
bank tax, 81, 1903. 81; railroad tax,
$500; interest on loans, s., l47. so /;
bank dividends, SIS, 305; retailers
licenses, &C., 81, 352. so; fines, &C.,
So49 81; and sundries, s45. 40. The ex-
penditures were: executive, 81, 1913. 80; ;
Legislature, 50, 01o. 90; judiciary, So, 500;
school fund, sl5, 9i7.62; balance, S.,
O7l.4l. The Governor, Secretary OF
State, Attorney General, State Treas
urer and other executive officers had
therefore So, 333 81 year divided
among them. Think of a session of
the legislature costing the State only
-, 0l0 %! That is about enough to pay
one clerk in these moIe flourishing
times. The five judges had an average
salary of sl,100. Tho whole cost Of
running Delaware's State government
in 1850, exclusive of the school fund.
was $40, S44 %. At that time the State
was free from debt Of every description
and had invested capital including
school moneys, amounting 10 S411
l25.s3, Times have changed since then
in more ways than in the cost of run
ming the State government. There was
at that time, for instance, no railroad
in the State south of the town of New
Castle. A dollar would go good deal
further then than it will now, and the
people were accustomed to do with n
good deal less. The national government
instead of spending four hundred mil.
lions as it does now got along with Sl3,-
600, 900 in 1850
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

Tho whole theory of tho FREQ silver
movement has gone to pieces. Cotton
and wheat have gone up in price with
out the assistance Of any considerable
advance in the price of silver bullion.
What knocks into small bits the elabo.
rate tables with which free silver Sena-
tors used to ornament their speeches
in the Congressional record. The
statement now issued by the Treasury
also knocks hole in the part of the
theory which claimed that the hard
times were due to contraction of the
currency; for it shows that the return
of prosperity has come with further
contraction. The circulation statement
issued by the Treasury yesterday
shows the amount Of all kinds of money
in circulation in September aggregated
81, $50, 593, 500, a decrease from August
of SIT, $50, $40, and decrease of $780,
AS, 473, since October lst, 1894. The
circulation per capita on October LIST,
was 1922. 81, based on an estimated popu-
lation of 70, 253, 900.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10

The talk about Mr.. Harrison's favor
ing Robert t. Lincoln for the Repub-
lican Presidential nomination is very
interesting. Mr.. Lincoln is like Mr..
Harrison. He has an ancestor But
the nomination of Mr. Lincoln would
bring to everybody's mind what kind
of a party the Republican party was
when it nominated the great Lincoln
81 years ago. Comparing what it was
then with what it has now become
would not help it in the good graces
OF the American people.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-10


The far Southern States will be as
reliably Democratic in 1896 as they
have ever been. The Republican party
has ceased to exist in them, and the
Popuists have spent their force. An
illustration of this was given Wednesday
in a special Congressional election in
Georgia. j. G. Black, the Democratic
candidate, defeated Thomas r. Watson
the Populst by two thousand majority.
Watson was elected from the same dis.
trict in 1890 and was the leader of the
Populsts in Congress. He is the
ablest Populist in Georgia and two
years ago great crowds attended the
meetings which he addressed. His day
has evidently passed, The Populists
have shot their bolt in the South and
are about done. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-17
Forming a "white Mans Party,

The South Carolina democratic executive
committee, of which Senator Irby is chair
man, was in session. with closed doors, all
Wednesday night and until after o'clock
yesterday morning. The committee consid-
cred the advisability of calling an extra
session of the legislature to pass a regis
tration law to replace that recently de-
clared unconstitutional by Judge Golf, but
dropped the subject after Gov. Evans,
who was present by invitation, expressed
determined opposition to the calling of the
legislature together at this time. At pre-
vious meeting the committee had recon-
mended the democratic primaries for the
nomination of candidates for membership
in the convention, but left 1t to the various
county organiza lions to settle upon such
methods of nomination as suited them. AT
the meeting Wednesday night this previous
action was rescinded and the recommends
ton for primaries was made mandatory
Provision was made for equal representa-
ton of the two factions of the democracy
upon the boards of primary managers and
the primary was opened to all white men
who would pledge themselves to support
the nominees, thus readmtting to fellow
ship those democrats who bolted the nom-
nation of Evans last fall and voted for
Pope, the Independent candidate for gov
ernor. July 80 is the day set for the pri-
marieS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-17
SHAKERS AND DOCTORS TALK
TOGETHER.

In his able work entitled Longevity published
a few years ago. DR.. John Gardner of England pre-
diets that vegetable agent will yet be found
shall so retard those changes that bring about old
age as to prolong human life much beyond its pres
ent limit.
Acting. perhaps, upon the impulse producel by
this thought, many eminent physicians have called
from time to time upon the Shakers of Mt. Lebanon
to inquire of them concerning the secrets of medic
inal plants, in which these sincere. supplemented
and God fearing people are known to be wise and
skillful beyond all other men.
The Shakers willingly told what they had learned
and in turn received from their visitors much vuua-
Bile information abont is,as,. which they at once
made practical use Of. The most important po;I.
was that IL genuine and certain remedy could be
found for Indigestion and dyspepsia, AMI the all
MEETS growing out of il, long step would be 'ake
In the right direction. Oil age, said these physi-
clans, begins in failure of the Digestion and 50 do
most diseases at any AMI all periods of life. The
result of these consultations the discovery by
the Shakers of the desired specific, made wholly
from herbs, and now known the Shaker Digestive
Cordial. Its action is magical and worthy of its
origin.
Where there is distress after eating heartburn
sick headache, bad taste in the mouth biliousness
weakness and WEAKNESS, cold hands and feet aver
sion to food. nervousaess, any other symptoms
Of dyspepsia, the Corlal will. prove its curative
virtues. Behind it Is the reputation Of people no
have never defrauded or deceived their fellow men,
In order 20 test whath.r this remedy Is adapted
to your case, ut practically no cost, you may pro-
cure a trial bottle for ten cents of almost any
druggist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-17
DIR. BOOTH ELECTED.
The General Assembly mt PittsburE
Holds a business Session.

1
| Holds Business Session.
| The first business session of the Presby-
| terrain general assembly at Fittsburg open
| ed at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, with
| the committee on commissioners report of
| the roll. Following this was the call for
nominations for moderator.
| Gen. James A. Beaver, ex-governor of
| Pennsylvania, took the floor to nominate
DR.. Robert Russell Booth Of New York
| He referred eloquently to the historical in
| terest that attached to the Third Church,
| and the part in the cementing of the
| church that DR.. Booth had taken twenty
| five years ago. Said he: I'VE want a man
| for moderator who believes that the Scrip
lures teach what man should believe. We
| want man who believes in the govern
ment of tn. Presbyterian Church, and be-
| 1ieves that it should govern"
He then named DR.. Booth for the office
and the nomination was greeted with
| cheers. Rev. Andrew c. Zenos, ID. D., of
Chicago seconded the nomination on be-
half of the western contingent.
The western commissioners were deter
mined not to let the office go without a
| fight, and DR.. S. S. Cryor of Albert Lea,
| Mimi, nominated Gen. Robert N. Adams of
| Minneapolis. He referred to Gen. Adams
brilliant military record and to his thirty
| years work in the church as home mis-
sionary.
lie was followed by LIT. clarence w.
Backus of Kansas City, who placed in
nomination DR.. William N. Page of Leav-
| enwcrth, Kan. DR.. Backus offered a plea
for the west in the choosing of a modera-
| tor and based bis claim on this ground
DR.. George c. Pollock of .Litchfield, Mimi,
| and Hon. e. E. White, LII. D., of Column
| bus, Ohio, spoke in behalf of DR.. Page, and
| DR.. ]. ]. Lampe of New York pressed the
| claims of DR.. Booth. Nominations were
| then closed, and Isaac d. Frye of Cincin-
rati and H. T. Nash of st. Louis were ap-
| pointed tellerS.
| The first ballot resulted as follows: Booth,
| 800; Page, 1855; Adams So. Total, 54S.
| On motion, the election of DR.. Booth was
made unanimous, and the new moderator
| was called to the platform and made a
| pleasing address.
DIR. W. L. McEwan presented him with
| a handsome gavel, made from olive wood
| in Jerusalem, and sent to the assembly by
| the Rev. Edwin s. Wallace, a Presbyterian
minister and United States consul at Jeru-
salem.