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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-06
ucIaurbIin Jury Completed.

NEW YORK. June 5.-Just before,
recess was taken by Judge Barrett In the
Court OF Oyer and Terminer at l O'Clock
"A jury had been secured for the second
trial Of Polict-Inspector William Nc
Laughln on the charge OF extortion IL
mas taken the Court and counsel fourteen
days to select jury to try the Inspector.
The last juror selected is A. c. Jennings
a dealer in paints, at 90 Nassau street.
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MARRIAGES.

AMSON-PAYNE.- Married, In
this city. June 3. 1895. by Rev. j. b. Hut
son. Mr.. WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMSON
and Miss ELENORA PAYNE.
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ROME. June 5.-Signor Ferrare. elected
to the Chamber of Deputies In the recent
elections. was shot and mortally wounded
by unknown persons at Rimini last eve.
ming. Deputy Ferrare was accosted on
the street by A group OF unknown men.
who first insulted him, and finally free
several shots at him with a revolver.
When he fell the men ran away.
The assassination was undoubtedly the
work Of Anarchists, Signor Ferrare de-
feated the Socialist candidate, Carbato. In
his district by narrow majority.
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PAINTS.

WE OFFER
PURE iINSEED OIL,
LEWIS'S WHITE LEAD.
WESTMORELAND WHITE LEAD.
and fun line OF Colors, Brushes, etc.
for painting: MIXED PAINTS. Sample
only the best quality OF these goods.
PURCELL, LAID a CO,
NH Is Wholesale Druggists
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NH 4
EDUCATIONAL.
MCABE.s UNIVERSITY SCHOOL FOR

noYs
established 1860, removed to Richmond.
The thirty-frst annual session begins in
Richmond September, 1896. BOARDING
DEPARTMENT LIMITED. For terms
and information address w. GORDON
MCABE, Hsad-Master, Post-Ofice Box
345. Richmond. my s-iw
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rADIEsf Chchester's English Pennyoyal Plis
~ Take no o,hsf. ssnd w., sssp-, fef Par'fvlAf hsist
f,f L.ds,," ~ LrrrsH by Return MALL, Haf{s~
my q Sa So TuG Thiy
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DOCK AND JoB PRINTING NEAT.
I'D IL IxlCuIxp AZ TnH bleSArce
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The Women OF the South

OH the noble. patriotic,
Glorious women OF our land;
How they struggled. bursting. patient
Soul inspired. enduring band;
Bore the hsrdships. Iouent the battles
OF privation, death. and woe.
Giving courage, hope. and cheer.
In a way that women only know.
Responded TO by Colonel William III.
Stewart, OF Portsmouth.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
A Serious Experiment.

The free coinage of silver and the
substitution OF a new unit anil meas.
ure of value for the existing one in
the business transactions OF the couu.
try is not an ordinary experiment
which can be safely tried to-day aud
abandoned tomorrow if found injuri-
Gus, because the immediate conse-
quences of such q step would be 80
far-reaching and SO enduring that
they would continue to be felt for
years after the policy hal been re-
vcrsed. It is incumbent, therefore,
upon those who insist upon the adop-
ton Of this revolutionary policy to
show plainly and conclusively in ad.
vance not only that it would result in
no injury, but that it would be posi-
lively beneficial, for if not positively
beneficial the change would at least be
wholly useless. This cannot BIZ done
by appeals to the excited passions and
preiudices Of the people, by attempts
to array one class Of our citizens or
one section OF our country against an-
other, or by loose and e%xtravagaut
statements unsupported by facts and
reasons. The questions involved are
too serious, the interests to bs affected
are too large and the common sense
of the people is too strong to justify
or even excuse this course of treat
ment. Hon. John G. Carlisle.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
NO CORNER IN GUILD.

Silverites claim that the gold sup.
ply of the world has been "cornered"
by the banks, who can compel the
Government to pay e%xorbitant prices
for gold. Though this alleged gold
corner does duty as an argument in all
free coinage literature, it has not the
slightest basis in fact. There is no
corner in gold, and no way in which
the supply Of that metal could be
monopolized if any persons were SO
foolish as to attempt it.
Gold is produced in various parts Of
the world by thousands OF Individuals
ana mining corporations. 1t is dealt
in like any other commodity by men
who make a business Of handling the
precious metals. A large quantity Of
it is bought by jewelers., gold leaf
manufacturers, dentists and other
tradesmen. In all large cities there
are merchants who deal in gold, and
there is no more difficulty in getting
gold than there is In buy ing tin or sill
yer.
But the silverites will reply that at
least the gold money Of the world is
locked up in bank vaults. This is
partly true, but it is merely because
the millions OF people who have saved
a little gold consider the banks the
safest place in which to keep their
savings. Besides, by depositing their
money in the banks it can be more
readily loaned out than if each person
went round looking for borrowers.
And it is a great mistake to suppose
that bankers wish to keep money
locked up. On the contrary, they are
always anxious to loan it out at inter
est, and keep in their vaults only
enough to meet unusual demands.
It is true that there is not at one
time any large amount of gold coin in
circulation in this country, but the
reason is that paper currency (gold
certificates, etc.). is SO much more
convenient that the people will not
use gold in ordinary business trans
actions. But any person who wants
gold, and has any salable products to
exchange for it can always get it.
The theory of the cheap money ad-
vooates that the banks own all the gold
entrusted to them, is like the idea
that the safe-deposit companies have
monopolized oil the stocks, bonds and
other securities, because thelatter are
largely deposited With those com.
panies. A little thought will show
even those who have been deluded into
favoring free silver that the gold in
the banks belongs to millions oil
owners who can withdraw IT. If they
wish. And the fact that any peraon
who should Try to ,nonopo!iss gold
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
of silvah.' Well, jis' as oil de SCHOLARS

who had dar parts larnt war a swal-
lowin' down, 'cordin' to de rule OBJ de
school, the good-for-nuAin niggah
what KEEP de doah bus out latin his
bes'. 'What yo' laHin' at, yo' brack
rascal?' says Coin. Der de niggah he
say: Didn't you say folder day dis
Govahment mustn't buy silvsh, 'kase
buyin' made it commodity, and sill.
yah didn't want to be dat?' in Jose I
said so,' says Coin. An didn't you
say that all de Govshment got to do
to fotoh up silvah war to weigh it and
put on de Govahment stamp? in
cose I did, says Coin. well, den,'
says de niggah, show much you 'spose
de price OBJ mules would he riz ef, in
stead of buyin' and payin' down de
spot cash for EN-, de Goyahment only
sent 'roun' a man wild a bran lin ir'n
to bran 'em u. s. on de aankY Den
ole Hutch, who had been takin' a lit.
tie nap on one OF de back seats, got to
lafin' and fell of, and dey got de news
down to de Bode of Trade dat dar was
a big tumble in wheat. So de next
day Coin he 'pollygize to de school
fob de niggah not havin' his paht com.
mitted and comm in wrong and spilin'
de show, an he say he gwine to hlah a
new do keepah ef he have to pay TO
bits mo- a week. "-Sigourney (la.)
Review.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
Why Silver Has Fallen.

The silver men say it is because the
United States demonetized silver in
1873, that it hos gone down in value
until the silver in our silver dollar is
only worth so cents.
They conveniently forget that the
United States was not the only Nation
to demonetize silver in 1873. Ger.
many also demonetized silver in 1873.
France did the same in 1875, aud In
dia the same in 1898; and since 1871,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland,
Russia, Austria, Switzerland and Bel
GUM have ceased the free coinage CT
silver.
The action OF these principal Ma
tions of the earth hes had at least as
much effect on the fall in the price Of
silver as the action of the United
States. But the great increase in the
annual production Of silver has had
moro effect on the decline in price
than any decentralization by any
country. The fall in the prize of sill
yer has simply kept pace with the in
crease of production, the game as any
thing else.
The average production Of silver in
the ten years prior to 1872 was, in
round figures, $50, 600, 900 each year,
and the average price was $1.32 an
ounce. In 1886, the production had
increased to 1920, 600, 600, and natur-
ally the price had gone down to 80
cents m ounce. In 1892 and '93, the
annual production had reached the
enormous sun of $196, 600, 900, and
the price most naturally went down to
6S cents; and the most remarkable
fact is that the fall in price has been
in nearly exact proportion right
straight through to the increase of an-
nual production.
Will any fair-minded man assert in
the face of these facts that increased
production has no effect on the fall in
price, but that decentralization of sill
YER by the United States has alone
produced this result?-From DR.. W.
P. Hills "Argument Against Free Sill
yer Coinage at 16 to l."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11

''The fact is, we want nothing cheap
but money" is the frank declaration
of the National Waterman, q leading
cheap money organ. OF curse not.
The editor of that paper wants things
scarce and dear. Cheapness means
easy production, SO he wants things to
be hard to get. His wife may buy
goods when they are marked down,
but he waits to buy when prices are
way up. He always hires the printers
who do the least work for the most
wages, pays the highest prices for the
poorest paper, and never thinks of
such wicked inventions as labor say
ing presses. He travels by stage coach
instead OF railroad, and he uses candles
because their light costs more than
that from oil. He always buys in the
dearest market, and would shudder at
the idea of getting anything at q bar
gain. Like g true American, he never
tries to think of some way of doing
work easier, for that would mean that
things would become cheaper. He is
o consistent, straight-out advocate Of
everything dear but money, and that
he wants as cheap land as poor) as it
can be made.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
A WRONG DIAGNOSIS.

A doctor writing in the California
Medical Journal asks: "What is the
actual value of gold?" and answers his
question by saying: "Simply q fctit-
ious or fiat value, placed upon it by
legislation" If this doctor knows no
more about the science of medicine
than he does OF finance, his patients
will have on excellent chance Of test
ing the value OF fiat drugs and pills,
with possibly the result that they will
recover quicker than if they swallowed
real mixtures compounded according
to his directions. And if he should
have occasion to bring suit for pro-
fessional services rendere !, the patient
could plead as a defence that the value
of such services was merely a fictitious
or fat value, fixed by legislation.
The error into which this California
doctor has fallen is one which is com-
mon to all cheap money advocates, and
especially to silverites. They believe,
or pretend to believe, that value is
something created by law, and placed
by Governments on gold, silver or
paper. That it is purely a delusion
can be seen by %supposing the
laws making gold the stand.
ard of value to be repealed. At
once the natural laws OF
trade would force the selection by
b,,;nos, ~ nj aomo oonomo maaauro
of values. What would be the material
need for such measure? 1sit not GER
tain that because Of the very qualities
wh,ch make gold the superior money,
that metal would DO used by tar the
largest number of persons? A few
might use silver, but when they found
that the rest were using geld, they
would see the advantage of having the
same standard as those with whom
they traded. So that without any
legislation gold would continue to be
the standard money of the country.
The value of gold depends on the
cost of production, and the demand for
it both in the arts and for money, and
if the supply continued as at present,
it's value would be the anne The
Government stamp puts no value into
the gold coin, for the gold is worth as
much as bullion as when coined. There
is no possible way by which Govern
ment fiat q add q fictitious value to
any substance. No ~silverite will pre-
tend that legislation could make six
teen ounces of iron worth one ounce
of copper, or that the value OF either
iron or copper is fictitious. And it is
just as impossible for Government to
give value to the two rarer metals,
gold and silver. The Oakland doctor
will have TO make a new diagnosis Of
silver's weakness and the strength OF
gold.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
BRUDDER JOHNSING A PUPIL OF
COIN.

81 been wautin' to a. you, Brulder
Johnsing, whedder you's read de new
work entitled Coins Financial
School, and what yo' done think
about it,"
"Has I read it, Brudder Simpsing2
Doan' yo' recollect dat I tended de
school myself long wild Jay Cole, ole
man Vanderbilt, aud tho whole passed.
of dem big bugs dat has some finances
OBJ der own to finencier widY
essay, yo' doan' mean to say dat
Cole aud Vanderbilt war dar, when
dey been dead years befo'? Sides I
hain't nevah mist yo' out oh Gle town
long enough fob 20 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, 20 ak 'em eff I wasn't dar just
de same time dey war"
"Well, l guess dat settle it dat yo'
war dar, Brudder Johnsing. But I
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 suah as
dey war dar, and his ansahs please de
augence moutley. Say, yo' recollec'
dat Walsh, I believe it war, axt him
dis heah question: Glow kin de
Govahment by a simple &C OBJ Con-
gress raise de price oh any articleg
Den yo' recollec' dat Coin say, you
wasn't heah yestedyY aud when
Walsh says he wasn't, Coin say,
'spose dis Govahment 'nounce dit am
guine to purchase a hundred thousan'
mules for the boss marines, KANT
everybody see dat de price OF mules is
guine to bound up, aud not only de
mules de Government buy, but de
bosses and mules to teck dar places,
and dat am ies' de way de ack oil
Congress am guine to ris up de price
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11

Inequalities in the distribution of
wealth may exist in 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 o
derful prosperity which will follow the
adoption of the 16 to l 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 q 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
seer through by those whom the sill
yer mine owners agents pretend to be
DESTROYS Of helping.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
Free Silver in Mexico.

"Mexico has free coinage Of silver.
) "Mexico is on a silver basis.
''The wages in Mexico in mining
and agriculture vary from 10 to 30
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 Y"-Commercial Review, Green
Bay, Wis.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
SMALL CHANGE.

The Democrats of Ohio, following
in the lead of those in Kentucky. have
pronounced by a large majority in ia
vor OF honest money. Six months
ago the free silver people Of these
States supposed they were SO strong
that no party would dare oppose them /;
to-day they feel the ground slipping
from under them and a growing dir
illness in their 16 to l heads. The
absu1dity of their position and the
falsity of many of their claims is be-
coming apparent to all who think
with sound minds. The common
sense of the people, when appealed
TO, is the best safeguard against fiat
money legislation.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
A SILYERITE ADMITS DEFEAT.

Why waste time dsceiving the pao-
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, iatter ourselves as
we may, and the silver States have a
condition, not a theory, to face.
Sitting around our own camp fires
and congratulating ourselves on what
we will do is all very we'll, but it pro-
duces no results. 1t reminds us Of q
lot of oranks 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 a 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 moi
been asleep. They have been playing
on the prejudices of the people for
years, and they have got us whipped
unless we can make q move that will
end in some substantial result in the
way Of education. Toasting our shini
around our own hesrthstones and
hearing ourselves talk to each other,
is worse than oarting GOALS to Newcas'
tie.
It is all we'll enough as we glide
through life to deceive the other fell
lows II we can accomplish it, but
when we ooms to deceive ourselves VIC
make the error of our lives.
II Colorado understands her bust
ness, she will begin digging for gold
with renewed ensrgy.-Meroury.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
Ilsinuatin; 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 destroye1s Of
National prosperity. They come in no
questionable shape. They announce
their own approach, and the general
security is preserved by the general
alarm. Not SO with the evils Of a de-
based coin, a deprecated paper cur-
rency, or q depressed and falling pub
lie credit. These insinuate themselves
in the shape Of facilities, accommola-
tion aud relief. They hold out the
most fallacious hope OF an easy pay
ment of debts and q lighter burden Of
taxation. daniel Webster.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11
TEXAS sILvERITEs.
They Expose Their Ignorance by
Adopting a Silly Resolution.

The platform of the Texas silverite
convention held at Fort Worth on
August 9th, declared: "That that act
(the coinage law OF 1879 by striking
down one-half OF the standard money
OF redemption, has caused the destrus>
ton of thousands of millions Of dol
lars OF the value OF property" The
siiverites therefore resoluted soma
and demanded the free aul un-
limited coinage OF gold aud silver ut
the ratio of l6 to L.
IT the eminent free coinage states
men who wrote the Fort Worth plat
form had been more familiar WITH
facts, they might have moliiel their
statements, although the silverites, as
a rule, pay little attention to facts
which conflict with their pet schemes.
The charge that the law of 1873 struck
down one-halfof the "%s.,ndarl money
OF sedemption" is a preposterous IN
v%ention Of free silver ~agitators. At
the time that the coinage of the silver
dollar WAS dropped there WAS practi-
cally no silver money OF redemption
in the country, whereas we now have
over 500, 900, 900. That certainly
does not look like striking dowa
silver.
But even if the claim OF the silver
ties that silver has been demonetizel
since 1873 were true. it would still be
false that the change in our coinage
laws caused ''the destruction of thou
sands of millions of dollars OF the
value OF property Property has q
value according to its utility AMI cost
of production. If there was neither
gold nor silver in the world, property
would be just as valuable as it is now.
There IS no less real property in this
country because we do not measure
wealth by the silver standard. There
are just MS many farms, houses, rail-
roads, steamships, factories, stores,
ETC.. and just Is many goods OF all
kinds, as there would have been if we
had used the silver instead Of the gold
standard.
The material in which wealth is
measured has practically nothing to
do with the production and distribu-
ton of wealth. OF course an inferior
and fuctuating standard, by unset
ting business enterprise, will hamper
industry. Bat the theory of the Tex.
as silverites that what they call "money
Of redemption" regulates the amount
of property, is ridiculous in the ex-
IRENE. What the Lone Star finan'
ciers probably meant to say was that
the alleged contraction OF our metallic
currency caused a great reduction il
prices Of property. But there has no
really been aIy contraction, for we
have now ten times as much gold ane
silver money as We had in 1873. And
while there has been a decline in thE
price OF many articles it has beer
caused by increased production, or'hJ
new inventions, ETC., which have
greatly reduced the cost of manutac
turing goods.
Wild and unfounded assertions.
such as the Texas 16 to l shouters re
ly on for support, may delude tue
people for a short time, but the truth
will soon overtake the falsehooa an
sound money doctrines will prevail
over those of a debased currency.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11

Silverites cannot understand how
the increasing production Of gold
should cause o 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 production
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 Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-09-11

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 q 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 o. a very little
mercury may be used to measure all
the changes FROM extreme heat to Sc
we're cold, so o snail bulk of valuable
metal will serve as a measure Of a
great deal Of property. 1t is quality,
not quantity. which Is most desirable
in the standard Of values.