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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
WOMEN AND SILVER.
Why They Should Oppose Ere
Coinage.

The silver Populists of the West
have been successful in getting num-
Der Of women interested in their asi-
tation for fifty cent dollar and are
making a special plea to women for aid
in their debased currency propaganda.
While at first sight there may be
something attractive for women in the
idea of cheap money as put forward
by the free coinage advocates, yet
when its real nature is understood it
will be seen that every women should
be a pronounced opponent OF the
scheme.
In the first place women are more
largely dependent than men on the in
terest on loans and investments Of
various kinds. Very often their sole
support is legacy which has been in
vested in mortgage on real estate.
The result of free coinage would be to
wipe out one-haf of their principal, as
the borrower could repay the loan in
fifty cent dollars. Do the women OF
the country want such change in the
value of their invested property?
Again, women as rule prefer to de-
post their little savings in banks, in
stead of investing them in some kind
of business. These deposits are loaned
out by the savings banks on real estate
security. They too would be cut down
by the adoption of the silver standard,
and one-half of the savings of years be
taken from their owners. Do the hum
dreds of thousands of women who have
little money in the bank wish to see
one-half of their deposit disappear
All over this country there are wild
ows whose only income is the pension
paid them by the Government as re-
turn for the services of their husbands
in a time of war. These pensions are
fixed sum, aud barely provide llv-
ing for those receiving them. As under
free coinage the prices Of everything
would be doubled, these widows would
not be able to live on the amount paid
them. Does any fair-minded woman
wish to see these dependent women
lose one-half of their sole support?
In addition to these objections to
free coinage which appeal to women
there is the greater one Of the evil of
high prices which would follow the
silver standard. Woman is the house
keeper of the family. She is the
shopper, and to her credit she always
buys where she can get the best things
cheapest. Any one who knows how
women read the advertisements of bar
gain sales does not need to be told
that woman wants her dollars to buy
as much as possible OF everything she
needs. And when she realizes that
the wages her husband brings home
on Saturday night, or the money avail
able Tor shopping, will under free
coinage only buy half as much as it
does now, she will make vigorous
protest that will only end when the
man of the house has promised that
he will vote against financial policy
which means doubled prices.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
A GOOD ARGUMENT.

The following letter addressed to the
New York Herald puts the silver ques-
ton in clear light:
To the Editor of the Herald:
Prior to 1878 we had free coinage
of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to l.
Yet gold dollar, composed of 25.S
grains of standard gold, was intrinsi-
cally worth three cents less i'll 1873
than the silver dollar containing 4124
grains of standard silver.
Now, if the free coinage of gold by
the United States at the ratio of l to
16 at time when gold was admitted
to free coinage in all the civilized Ma
tions of the globe could not maintain
the gold dollar on parity with the
silver dollar, would the free coinage
Of silver now at the same ratio main
tain silver on a parity with gold?
If difference of three cents in the
dollar against gold could not be over
come when gold was admitted to free
coinage all over the world, can it be
reasonably expected that difference
of fifty cents in the dollar against sill
yer could be overcome by the free
coinage of the latter metal in this
country alone? If by the concensus
of Nations the market price of silver
can be established SO rs to fix and
maintain parity between it and gold,
at the ratio of :" 1. why did not
that same consens 4 Nations main
tain gold at parity with silver at the
same ratio in 1873?
In the light of facts thus briefly re-
ferred to, can it be doubted that it is
the metal which gives value to the
coin and not the coin which givea
value to the metal9 Whatever lew 10
placed upon the statute books OF tas
country, there can, in fact, be but one
standard of value.
If we drive 600, 900, 900 gold dollars
out of circulation it would take fifteen
years to coin like number of silver
dollars to take their place, and as the
purchasing power of a silver dollar
would only be one-ha]f that of gold,
1900, 900, 900 silver dollars would be
required to supply the deficit created
by the retirement of gold. Our minis.
working to their fullest capacity,
would need thirty years to coin
81, 200, 100000. If, as claimed by the
silver men, there exists q scarcity OF
| money, how can they want to increase
that scarcity so much that it will take
thirty years to restore the existing
status? So,
LEO n. LEVI
Galveston, Texas, July 3, 1895.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02

'sThere is not enough metal money
to do the business of the country" is
the confident assertion of the silver
ties, on which they base plea for
cheap dollars. They are altogether
wrong. It is true that there is not
enough money if all business was done
on cash basis. But each year more
and more of the total volume of ex-
changes of goods is carried on with our
system of bank credits, bywhich bust
ness is done with very little money.
As our banking system is perfected
and extended the need for money in
settling accounts grows constantly
less. If metal money alone was used,
all the silver in the world would not
be tenth of the amount needed for
this country's business.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
HARTEY,S SEE.SAW BIMETALLISM

It is due to Mr.. Harvey to commend
the frankness with which he sets forth
the financial feast to which we are in
vited. He suggests:
''They say it is not bimetallism un-
less the two metals stay at exact
parity of 16 to l.. These men do not
know what bimetallism is. 1t may be
desirable to let one metal go tout OF
circulation?), as it would be now.
With both as primary money we may
have bimetallism and bimetallic
prices, whether one metal has ten
dency to leave US more than the other
or not. And, if desirable to stop its
leaving, change in the ratio will do
it, and, if necessary, can do it SO as
to set the other metal going, SO that
we can feed Europe either metal we
NAV choose"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
Not for tie South.

The Huntsville Mercury does not
believe that the people of the South
will commit themselves to the unlim-
tied coinage of silver. 1t says:
"Our people are honest if not
wealthy and want every dollar paid to
them to be worth 100 cents. They
have no silver to coin and cannot pos
sibly feel an interest in the Western
silver mines. If the Government is
to go into the wholesale business of
guaranteeing prices, the farmers ofthe
South had far better work for cotton
than silver. This Government has the
same right to say that a pound of
cotton shall be worth ten cents that
it has to say than 3714 grains of silver
shall be worth 81"
The press of the South is over
whelmingly against unconditional sill
yer coinage because it would be silver
monometallism, and Southern news
papers have sense enough to realize
the disastrous results that would bring
upon us.-Atlanta Journal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
Tie Crime Was Still in Sight.

Fellaire, formerly Rusty Rufus. re.
garded the greasy mendicant with the
eye Of an expert.
"Pard," he said, "honest Iniun,
now, how long have you been in the
husiness? %
"About twenty-five years." an
swered the tourist.
81 think you're telling the truth. l
can see the signs about you, right now,
that you had something to do with the
CRIME of 1873"
And Fellaire was so pleased with
himself that he gave the frescoed va
grant silver dollar and kicked him
of the premises. Chicago Tribune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02

For people who do not think for
themselves the weight of mere num-
bers has great authority. So when
they find evidence of a widespread
agitation for free silver they say:
stSee how this idea is spreading.
There must be something in it. I" There
is something in it, but it is only what
the small boy found when he cut his
drum open to see what made the
sound-wind. Any scheme which
promises men wealth without working
for it will get some followers, especially
if it is backed up by powerful in
terests like the silver mine owners.
But it will die out just as soon as the
people find they have been deceived,
as most of the followers of free coin
age are finding out.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02

The silverites are growing desperate
as they realize that they are losing
ground, and are now abusing the bust
ness men of the country as we'll as the
bankers. In a recent magazine article
the author of "Coin's Financial
SCHOOL, attacks merchants and traders
generally, CHASING them with ''money
changers" as enemies of mankind.
Such nonsense indicates the mental
calibre Of the would-be teachers of the
people on the important question OF
our money, and will open the eyes OF
any business men who may have been
for the moment deluded into believing
some of the free silver fallacies.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
Prices Not Related.

The sudden rises and falls in the
price of wheat do not affect in the
least the price of silver. Nor does the
price of silver have the least effect on
the price of wheat. One of the main
arguments of the silver1tes is COM
pletely overthrown by the fact that
these two commoditi" "ft wheat and
silver have little ~ market rela-
tons with each oth-i.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02

closed up. Nov he is roofing around
outside and grulting that he will be
good hog if let ia again, and will make
crops come up faster than they do now.
But Uncle Sam has learned by his
former experience just how the crops
come up, and having got the rooter
out, intends to keep him out.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
Bimetallism and bimetallic price!

Bimetallism and bimetallic prices
with silver alone in circulation-gold
having left US, with the blessed priv
ilege on our part to buy it back If we
will change our coinage ratio so as to
pay moro for it, and of dumping our
silver in Europe if, by the same
change, we offer it cheaply enough
and with the money end of every
transaction at the sport of Congress,
Mr.. Harvey is altogether too modest
in claiming a return only to the times
of our fathers. There would be actual
ly involved a relapse to the times OF
the petriarchs. Hon. John Dewitt
Warner, in Forum.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
Senator Vests Admission,

The karsas City Star lind. re-
marks: Senator Vests main ex-
preston OF preference for single
silver STANDARD is confession which,
one after aDther, the prominent sill
yer leaders Ire making, being forced
into it by tie unquestionable proofs
that the United States cannot, by it.
self, MAINTAIN silver and gold in cir
culation Together with the minis open
to the coinae of both at the ratio Of
&c 10 L.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
RecOnSiderInr

''Reports from Illinois received by
politicians in this city, says the
Washington Star Ind. indicate a
growing feeling of confidence on the
part of the sound money Democrats
that they will be able to prevent the
sending Of free silver delegation
from that State to the National Con-
vention. 1t is claimed that strong
reaction has already set in among the
Democrats, resulting from the ex-
treme action of the recent Altgeld-
Hinrichsen free silver convention"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
Just the Same Right.

81 have just as much right to de-
mand that the Government pay me
ten cents for my five-cent cotton as
the silver mine owners have to de-
mand that fifty cents worth of silver
be stamped one dollar" Such, in
substance, is the opinion of ex-Gov-
ernor Bullock, of Georgia, on the
antics OF such men as Senator Stew
art, of Nevada.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
SMALL CHANGE.

Claptrap talk about 'Wall street
should not deceive anyone into voting
for cheap dollars. So far as the stock
brokers and spectators of Wall street
are concerned it makes no difference
what kind of money we have. In fact,
they are not very anxious to have
stable financial system, as they profit
most when prices fuctuate. Wall
street is simply ''bogey'' to scare
innocent farmers and workingmen.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
Fire and Nail Test,

"Drive nail through the center of
silver dollar and it is only worth little
over fifty cents. Drive nail through
a gold dollar and it is still worth 100
cents. Tried by fire, the gold dollar,
when melted, is worth 100 cents.
Tried by fire, the silver dollar, when
melted, is worth about tifty-fve
cents. Hon. Joshia Patterson.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
WHY WORSHIP SILVER?

I contend for the present system.
They think I am opposed to silver. I
am no more opposed to silver than any
other commodity. Why should we
pay more for silver than the market
price? We buy everything else in the
open market. We are trying to pre-
vent our servants from paving more
than the market value. We make close
contracts for every kind Of services
which are demanded, but they tell us
that silver is something sacred-that
silver is money metal. Well, it is
not money metal which the people
want to handle much, except for mere
exchange. But even if it was money
metal, is that any reason why it should
be favored?. 1t must be tested as we
test diamonds, silks, satins, muslins,
everything we buy. We must test it
by its market value, and if that mar
ket value of silver is only two-thirds
of its coinage value in gold, how can
the parity be maintained?
The careful measures which I have
mentioned by which we have sus-
tanned the gold standard, are now to
be swept away by one fell stroke, the
free coinage of silver. All the safe
guards which experience has shown,
not only to our own country but to
other Nations, to prevent the depre-
citation of our coin and our currency,
are about to be abandoned, a new
standard is about to be proposed, and
all our money is to be brought down
to that standard. Is it strange that
the people of the country are begin
ming to be alarmed about it? AS l shall
show presently, they are looking for
another thing entirely, larger vol
ume of currency, and not cheaper
ing or debasement of any of it. These
are two quite different things.-Hon.
John Sherman, June 1, 1892.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
Result OF Free Silver.

'sNo invasion of hostile armies,
burning and destroying as they ad-
vance, could by any possibility equal
the desolatlon and ruin which would
thus be forced upon the great mass OF
people" Professor J. Lawrence
Laughlin.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
The Greedy Silver Pig.

This greedy silver pig nearly de-
stroyed Uncle Sans industrial garden
two years ago. After a hard fight he
was driven out and the silver-purchase
law hole, through which he got in, was
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02

The Silverites are being pushed
hard by sound money arguments.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02

Sound money and free silver, like
oil and water, will not mix.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

memorable words of President Grant,
Let us have peace" There were
present today Generals Prentiss and
Buell., Gen. Joe Wheeler and Gen. Nc
Cleary and Senator Harris were absent
on account of sickness. The exercises
opened by a speech by Gen. Prentiss,
the Hornets Nest" the Oldest con-
tested part of the battle. Generals
Wheeler and Stewart and Capt. Paine.
who had been assigned to the duty by
the Confederate veterans, welcomed
the boys in blue. After a pretty prayer
by Rev. Mr.. Baily, of Iowa. Generals
Buell. and Prentiss entertained the vet
Grams with the "reminiscences of the bat
tie, going into the details of the fight,
and in conclusion congratulating all
upon the good feeling that was every
where manifested. Saturday was taken
up with business of the association. Of
heers' reports and speeehmaking. The
crowd numbers about 10000 people.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
WAS THE GROOM INSANE.
NuptiaI Couch Tragedy Causing
u Sensation in Frisco.


SAN FRANCISCO, April G.-Late
yesterday afternoon the bodies of Car
10 Enrico Reta and his wife of but
few hours were found dead in bed in
a room of the Palace hotel, to which
they had retired about a. m. A pistol
let hole over the heart of each told
how they went out of the world to-
gether clasped in each others arms.
Carlo Enrico Reta, lieutenant of the
Seventeenth CaSart cavalry" arrived
in this city nine months ago. He had
no means of earning livelihood, eX-
cept by giving instructions in the Ital-
ian language. This is how he became
acquainted with Adele Wolf, the girl
who was found dead at his side His
love was reciprocated by his pupil, but
Ler mother refused to entertain an
idea of marriage. Reta was a must
clan. a gentleman by birth and breed
ing, and very popular in the Italian
colony. He gave up his commission
In the Italian army when he came to
this country, but his card still bore his
title. Reta's family in Italy is a veal
thy one, but the young man himself
had little money
Joseph Wolf. the father of the dead
girl, is now in Carlsbad, Germany,
being separated from his family. The
dead girl had been in Europe with her
mother and was well educated, espe-
cially in music, her voice being far
above the average
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
He WAS TOO GREEDY
Marietta, Pa. Cashier Gets
Away With $4,000 All
in One Grab.
LAST OF MANY POPULATIONS
Nuptial Couch Tragedy Caus-
ing a Sensation in San
Francisco.
HYPNOTlSM AS A DEFENSE.
Kansas Supreme Court Ac-
quits a Condemned Muir
derep.
HYPNOTlSM AS A DEFENSE.

LANCASTER, Pa, April 6.-Thomas
Grady. cashier of the First National
bank, of Marietta, was arrested today
on a charge of embezzlement. 1t was
learned from inside sources that the
amount taken was $4,000, but that
Grady had made restitution in the
sum of $4,000, by turning over securi-
ties to the bank. The embezzlement
was discovered by Grady stealing $l9,-
600 outright He went to Philadelphia
to deposit $25, ZOO, but only put $4,000
away and pocketed the balance. Bank
Examiner James Harrity, it is said,
discovered the difference between the
actual balance at Philadelphia and
what should have been there, and
caused Grady's arrest. Grady en-
tered the bank as a messenger, and
was promoted step by step until he
attained the position of cashier. He
was we'll known in society. His down
fall is said to be the result of stock
speculation. Bank Examiner Harrity
is now in charge of the bank. The
capital stock of the bank is $4,000 and
the surplus fund 100000, and the de-
falcatiC1 does not affect the bank.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
AVENGED HIS BROTHER.
Jersey City Man Fatally Assaults
IL Cream City Horsemnn.

NEW YORK, April 6-August Neil
Eon was riding horse through East
Twenty-fourth street today Leading
two others, when a man WHOM he
knows as Bernard Zery struck him on
the head from behind with a long
club. His assailant then struck m
several more blows, and one of his arms
was broken. Nelson jumped from the
horse to better defend himself, and
then Zery ran away. Nelson was car
ried to a nearby drug store, where he
was seized with spasms. Before losing
consciousness, he said that he lived at
439 Ninth avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. He
was taken to the hospital, where, it is
believed, his injuries will result fatally
Nelson is said to have stabbed Zery's
brother in Jersey City some time ago.
The police thus far have been ''pable
TO find Zery.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

from the southwest that totally OBJ
scured the sun. The darkness of even
ing settled over the country. Build
ings could not be seen fifty yards and
the sand was scattered along as
though sown broadcast from great
hand. The falling of the sand contin-
ued more than an hour, and those out
in it could hardly breathe. The high
wind prevailed all night and today,
but this evening it is raining.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
Anti-sa1oon League in Politics,

CLEVELAND, O., April 6.-The Ohio
Anti-Saloon league is going into the
executive. campaign this fall, and ar
rangements are now being made for
the holding of county conventions at
which prominent speakers will dis
cuss the need of temperance legisla-
ton. The object OF the league is to
secure passage by the legislature of a
township local option law and the
work of organization has been in prog
ress for a year.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
Panama Diggers on Strike.

COLON, April Cat a public meet
Ing of merchants of this place held
here today the sum of $1,000 was sub
scrIbed as a voluntary contribution to
the government, but the amount is
insufficient, and it is expected that the
important duties will be doubled. The
laborers who have been at work on
the Panama canal have struck for
increase of wages to 81 per day. A
detachment of troops has been sent
to maintain order among the strikers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
COAT MAKERS STRIKE.
They Demand More Than Fifty
Cents Per Garment.

CINCINNATI, o., April ga coat
makers strike was ordered tonight by
the Coatmakers' Protective union. On
March 80 the association made a de-
mand on the fifty-four clothing facto-
ries of the city to increase the prices
for making coats 50 per cent. They
represent that the average price for
making a coat has been 80 cents. They
gave till April for reply. One house
acceded and fifty-three refused. The
strike is to begin on Monday. There
are over 200 members in the associa-
ton and over 800 contractors employ
ing from two to fifty girls each. If it
goes into effect it will throw thousands
of operatives out of employment. A
meeting is called for tomorrow to Sc
cure the cooperation of Covington and
Newport in the movement.