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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

The point is opportunely made by ex-
Congressman Flood in the May Chau-
tauquan that no important legislation
affecting money or tariff can be eX-
pected of the Fifty-fourth congress.
The house will be Republican, the con-
troll of the senate Populistic and the
president, 50 far as classified, will
probably still be a Democrat. There
fore little partisan legislation need be
feared, and business will have three
years of rest and recuperation. In the
interval, therefore. we perceive a good
time for the people to discuss the cur
rency question, fully and fairly, so as
to be ready by the time the Flfty-fifth
congress assemblies to move intelligent
ly toward some definite legislation.
Let them study it, however, before
passing judgment upon it. The great
trouble, at any rate with some eastern
people, is that they have made up their
minds in advance of hearing the evil
dence, which is not quite fair to the
other side.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
Opening Foreign Markets.

Democracy, it will be remembered,
promised that it would give to Ameri-
cans 1.-The markets of the world in ex-
change for it's scheme of lowered tariff
duties. Mr.. Il. j. Gibson, in the Phila-
delphia Press, shows how rapidly we
are at present capturing the markets
of the world" Our exports for March,
he says. aggregated s64,S75,OO7. For the
corresponding month last year the ag.
gregate was $70,607, 500, showing loss
of $5,732,4 ,493. in exports for that one
month under the Wilson bill as COM
pared with the conditions that existed
a year ago. For the nine months of the
fiscal year the exports were $S6,567, 100
less than for the corresponding period
in the last fiscal year. That Is the way
the Wilson bill is "opening foreign
markets.
The imports tell a still worse story.
For the month of March there was an
luCItd5t III pNtI tHe SdHis
month year ago of $3,7S9, 1872 and for
the nine months Of the fiscal year the
imports have increased s54. ,443 Thus
the Wilson bill has opened our markets
to foreigners to the extent of $54, ,655, ,443,
and has at the same time closed for
eign markets to our products to the ex-
tent of $S6,567, ,166, making total loss
to the United States in its foreign trade
Of $141. .222 500 in less than nine months.
The excess of exports for the month of
March year ago was $5,151.S75, while
this year there Is an excess of imports
of 81, ,419, 800. In February the excess of
imports was $3,0S6,531. In March this
increased to s4,419,s0O showing an in
crease in the excess of imports over ex-
ports of over s1,5oOOOo for March as.
compared with February. This, in Mr..
Gibsons opinion, demonstrates that a
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

The Philadelphia Record, after say
ing that the hope of an international
bimetallic agreement Is all moonshine,
proceeds to remark: "There Is no ques-
tion that this country has a strong in
terest in the appreciation of silver,
which is so important a product of it's
mines; but 1t Is certain that this
country alone cannot change the exist
ing relations between the two metals"
If this country "alone cannot change the
existing relations between the two
metals" and the other nations will not,
does the Record mean that they will
not be changed at all?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20


steady increase in the adverse balance
Of trade, such as took place under the
Walker tariff bill, must be expected un-
der the Wilson act. And sooner or
later he suspects that this must be met
with an expectation Of gold, or else by
the further sale abroad of bonds.
And yet it is the same president who
forced this condition upon the country
that now assumes to declare, In direct
violation Of his party's platform, that
a single gold standard constitutes the
only honest" money. Have the Ameri-
can people not yet paid sufficiently for
the pleasure of having Mr.. Stephen
Grover Cleveland pilot them into
economic bogs?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
rIOre Income Tax Kinks.

The decision that royalties from coal
leases are not taxable while profits
from the mining and sale of coal are,
newly illustrates the haphazard char
acter of the Populistic income tax.
Thus, the owner of land who con-
tributes nothing but perhaps the acci-
dent Of ownership to the coal industry,
escapes scot free, whereas the operator,
who risks his time, his money and his
energies, besides giving employment to
hundreds of workmen and adding ma
terially to the general welfare, is made
to pay a direct tax upon his enterprise
and thrift. There are many owners Of
coal lands who are also producers of
coal; but in the main it is probably true
that the holder of a coal lease does
little else than to draw his rentals, and
gives back to the community little in
way of reciprocated benefits beyond his
household expenditures.
The difference between this type Of
1ease-holder and the active coal opera
tor is precisely the difference between
the drone and the busy bee. The drone
does little or nothing to quicken enter
prise or multiply opportunities for the
employment Of labor; yet under the
beautiful adjustment of Mr.. Cleveland's
pet income tax, the drone is encouraged
in his inactivity and the busy bee is
''held up and made to deliver per-
centage of his lately meager profits. To
be sure, in almost any other business
could get back the amount of his in
come tax by marking up the retail price
of his commodity and thus putting the
tax directly on the shoulder of the con-
sumer And even in the coal business,
should II soon reach normal condition.
this Is probably what would occur, to
the infinite confounding of those who
have argued that the income tax was q
direct tax on wealth.
AS matter of fact the income tag
would have been a final tax on wealth
only in the case of the very persons
whom the Supreme court has liberated
that is. the owners of tenements ard
the holders of leases. For obvious
reasons, these could with difficulty
charge back the amount of their tax
Upon their tenants Nearly all other
persons falling within the tax's scope
can. and no doubt will, charge their tax
back in this way. Thus the income tax,
SO far as it has any vitality remaining
fl it. will become in practical effect
direct tax utterly contrary to the spirit
of democratic institutions, and explic-
able only on the basis of gross ignor-
ance or malice on the part of those who
enacted 1t.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
We Need q Stable Dollar.


An example will illustrate the difference
between monometallism and our system as
1t stands. The treasury of the United
States Is run on u monometallic basis
and in little over a year 1t had to borrow
gold on $l62000.000 in bonds, in order to
keep from bankruptcy. The business Of
the country Is run or our composite sys,
tenn Of gold. silver and legal tender paper,
and there is no difficulty beyond the gem
eral business depression from which we are
rapidly recovering. If the business of the
country had been put on a monometalIic
basis a thing for which certain people
were scheming, gold would have been
simply unattainable except at ruinous
premium, and there would have been a
general smash. There Is danger in every
change of currency of cheating somebody
and no change should be made which in
wolves an obvious swindle Of this kind
The dollar may be too cheap; and 1t may be
too dear 1t is a pet phrase that mo dol
lar can be too good for the working mani"
but any dollar is altogether too good"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

The Indianapolis Journal, to which
General Harrison often contributes
editorials, says that both the ex-presi-
dent and Governor Mckinley "are in
telligent and consistent bimetallists.
They both believe that the commercial
world should make both metals full
money at a fixed coinage ratio which
they believe will make the coin unit of
one metal as valuable as that of the
other. 1t is probable that both are op-
posed to the free and unlimited coin
age of silver by the United States alone,
because they are convinced that, upon
a ratio of 16 to 1, the American silver
dollar will not have the purchasing
power in the necessaries of life which
the gold dollar has, and that as result
Of this not only would no more gold
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

From the Philadelphia Times.
A court Is the sanctuary Of justice. and
next to the sanctuary of God 1t should be
the most sacred of all places in any COM
munty. 1t should be place where every
honest man and woman can appear as a
witness with perfect assurance of respect
and of absolute freedom from affront;
and every lawyer, as a sworn officer Of the
court should aid. or be compelled to aid, in
making the court room a place where
Justice Is judicially administered. There
should be no cause for hesitation on the
part of any self-respecting man or woman
to enter the court as q witness.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

A state tax of "a cents per barrel on
beer is now suggested as a school-fund
revenue-raiser. If revenue can be
raised in no other way sufficient to
meet the expense of free schools, let us
have beer tax. 1t would probably
not materially affect the consumer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
ROOF Thinning AND SOLDERING

All done away with by the use of HART
MANS PATENT PAINT, which consists
OF ingredients well-known to all. 1t can be
applied to tin, galvanized tin, sheet iron
roofs, also to brick dwellings, which will
prevent absolutely any crumbling, crack
Ing or breaking Of the brick. 1t will OUT
last thinning Of any kind by many years.
and it's cost does not exceed one-fifth that
of the cost of timing. Is sold by the job
or pound. Contracts taken by
ANTONIO HARTMANN, 81 Birch Ct
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

be coined in this country, but the $685.
000,0OO Of gold now in the United States
would either go abroad or cease to be
money because of the premium 1t would
commando change which the best in
formed believe would paralyze the busi-
ness and industry of the country"
There is considerable difference be-
tween this position and Mr. Clevelands $
stand for gold monometallism.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

The Philadelphia Record thinks that
"honest bimetallists OF the sort who be-
lieve in putting dollars worth of sill
yer into a silver dollar are as scarce as
hens teeth" II the Record will wait
until one year. from next November, we
jority of such bimetallists in the United
States
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
Colonel HitchcOck's Letter.

We present, on another page. an in
teresting defense of gold monometall-
ism by Colonel f. l.. Hitchcock, of this
city. 1t Is well worthy of perusal by all
who wish to gain information upon a
subject of growing public interest. The
monetary problem is before the house.
The people, we believe, are eager to be
instructed. We shall gladly give space
to any reasonable expression of opinion
concerning this question.
So far as the colonel's questions are
concerned, If he will permit us to an
swer them by asking other questions,
we shall ask If he thinks there Is suf1ic-
lent gold in all the world to perform
the money function of the world? That,
really, it seems to us, is the funda-
mental question. Is it desirable to
have, as a single standard, a money
which the few men in our great none
tary centers can corner" and thus
give to it, from time to time, an arti-
fetal value? Under the policies per-
petrated by our gold standard presi-
dent, exports have fallen, imports have
grown, and where we used to have gold
flowing into our country, we now have
it flowing out again; or held here by the
payment of fat subsidies to foreign syn
dicates. Is that desirable?
If not, then one of three possible poll
cies will have to be adopted in hope of
bettering our present condition. The
first is to go to a gold standard en-
tirely, thus doing away with our pres
ent silver money except in subsidiary
coinage. This is the Cleveland policy.
The second is to wait for an interna-
tional agreement which shall fix ratio
between gold and silver and thus rem
der expedient the coinage of both met
ais to be used Interchangeable This
is the policy of many Republicans. The
third plan is to shut foreign silver out
by tariff and coin our own silver at
an established ratio toward gold. This
is the much-abused Cameron plan. We
do not believe the fourth alternative of
silver monometallism to >be either de-
sirable or likely.
Mr.. Cleveland's notion is that all who
dissent from his single standard idea
are enemies of the public welfare. Yet
it was Mr.. Cleveland and his party who
created nine-tenths of the mischief from
which our country is now suffering. 1t
was he and his party who started the
recent hue and cry against silver until
a silver standard dollar, once good the
world over is now more or less dis
credited who sacrificed our balance of
trade; who, by their reckless handling
of the government revenues, scared
business and caused money to become
tight and who, with gold flowing out
of the country in consequence of their
legislative laundering, now try to dam
the efiiux by substituting foreign bank
ers not to draw more gold out. The Re-
publican party, having once frankly de-
clared for bmetallism, will now, we
should fancy. hardly go to Grover
Cleveland for instruction in finance.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus, The
Tribune AstrOloger.
Astrolabe cast: 1.47 a. m. for Saturday,
April 20, 1895.
ri ) 81
Moon rises az q. m.

Moon rises 3.37 a. m.
A child born this day will observe that
the most successful minister often has diff
ficulty In keeping the devil out of his choir.
He will be of the opinion that but for
the words there would be no sacred music.
A new spring bonnet will often neutral
ize many glaring vocal defects in an Of
fertory solo.
The first straw hat to appear upon our
streets this season Teclined upon the
brow of u man from Minooka. What's
the matter with the fashion leaders CT
Green Ridge?
Ajacchus' Advice.
Do not allow the current discussion of
the financial question to cause insomnia.
Be cheerful and glad on this bright spring.
time day,
Nor waste your time mourning for lost
Schedule A."
Just imagine. ye hopeful, how sad you
would feel
To find yourself "queered" by the hay
market deal
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
CLEVELAND A FALSE PROPHET
From the Irish World.


From the Irish World.
Whether dealing with the tariff or the
financial question, Cleveland always as
sumo the role of the prophet, and, look
ing into the dim vista of the future, tells
us what dire calamities will result If his
views are not adopted. His money-lend-
ing friends, Morgan, Rothschild, ETC., have
told him that the best possible thing for
the country would be the demonetization
of silver. With the white metal out of the
way, every gold dollar would have its pur-
chasing power increased, and as q conse-
quence, every producer of wealth, whether
he Is a farmer on his farm or wage worker
in workshop, mill or factory, will have to
give more of the results of his labor for
the dollar, which would be enhanced In
value by the adoption of the financial sys-
TEN advocated by Grover Cleveland. The
loss entailed by the producers would be the
exact measure of the gains made by the
class who live on interest and the clever
manipulating of money.
How far the country has already trav-
eled toward financial ruin, through the
adoption of the financial policy Cleveland
champions, will be shown by a little Ng-
uring. Two of the greatest staples by
charged are cotton and wheat. The prices
of both have steadily gone down ever
since silver was practically demonetized
in 1873. How this fact has affected the
debt-paylng power of the nation is shown
by the following comparison between the
amount of cotton and wheat 1t would have
taken to discharge the national debt in
1866 and the amount 1t would take to do
it now. The national debt in 1866 was $2,-
OOO,OOO,OOO; paid principal, interest and
premium, $4,350, ,0O0, 900; 1884, balance due in
dollars, about 5000, 600, 600; 1866, could have
been paid in cotton, H1s4,OOO bales; paid,
principal. interest etc, in cotton, 81
$50 600 bales, 1894, balance due in cotton at
8 cents, 5l,000,0O0 bales; 1866, could have
been paid in wheat 1,OO7 1000, 900 bushels
paid principal, interest, etc, in wheat,
2O5l, 900, 900 bushels.
Thus, after paying in cotton nearly seven
times the original amount of the national
debt the American people still owe in cot
ton, nearly four times the original debt. 1t
would take twice as much wheat to pay off
the national debt today as 1t would have
taken the year after the war closed, al
though in the intervening twenty-nne
years we have paid in principal and inter-
est four times the amount of wheat which
would have been sufficient to liquidate the
national debt twelve months after Lee
surrendered. to Grant. AS In the last
analysis, 1t is the great staples like cotton,
wheat and other farm products which pay
our foreign debts, We can readily see how
this country has been robbed by falling
prices, due to the decentralization of sill
yer. Our loss has been Europe's gain.
England, for instance, obtained her raw
materials and food supplies at much
cheaper rates than she would have to pay
If the purchasing power of gold had not
been increased through thefinancial policy
which Grover Cleveland would like to see
perpetuated
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

Mrs. j. Hewitt Broaddus, of Ewing,
Neb., who is indorsed by the best citi-
zens of her home community, has
caused to be circulated in the east an
other earnest appeal for assistance in
behalf of the starving families of
Ewing and it's vicinity. They literally
lack, she says, the barest necessaries OF
life and see no hope of improvement
ed. This appeal ought to receive a
substantial answer; and we believe,
from what we know of Scrantonians,
that so far as this city is concerned, 1t
will,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

Neat and natty as a new Easter bon
net, our clever pictorial contemporary,
Scranton Life, this morning makes it's
initial bow, in an issue full of bright
ness from the dainty illuminated front
cover to the last word on the final page.
Life announces that 1t will not give way
to personal innuendoes nor malicious
gossip, but will instead simply aim to
entertain and please. Upon such a
basis, and under its present skilful
management Life ought to live long and
prosper,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

Having mulcted them with the in
come tax, Mr.. Cleveland is shrewd in
trying to compensate the so-called
gold bugs by means of a single gold
standard.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
SCRANTON, APRIL 20, 1895.
THE SCRANTON OF TO-DAY.

Come and inspect our city.
Elevation above the tide, 7i0 feet.
Extremely healthy.
Estimated population. 1885, 10000.
Registered voters, 20599.
Value of school property $780,
Number of school children, 1900.
Average amount Of bank deposits, slV.-
100000
It's the metropolis Of northeastern Penn
sylvania.
Can produce electric power cheaper than
Niagara.
No better point In the United States at
which to establish new industries.
See how we grow:
Population in 1860. 0.................. s,s23
Population in 1870. 7O.................... 35,OOo
Population in 1880. 0.................... 45,s5O
Population in $780, 90.................. 75,2l1
Population in 1894 (estimated). 1O3,Coo
And the end is not yet.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
Protect the witness.

for him that costs more labor than he can
afford to give for 1t.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-03-16
Look Here Indies.

If you desire anything in the line OF
satines of The very latest styles and fin
est finish, at the lowest possible price,
choice ribbons, cheaper than ever be-
fore offered IN Custer. the latest styles
in ladies and misses waists, and runner
Gus other articles in the line of ladies,
misses and chiIdrens goods, 60 10 Mrs.
.Shankland, who is now opening up the
most attractive stock ever dlspla! ed in
the city. Due notice will be given in a
future Issue Of her grand opening ol
spring millinery. already purchased
which embraces all of TIE latest styles
and shapes, and will he offered at prices
which will both please and aslouisll
Won
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-03-16

Mrs. Eliza Tucker, the aged mother OF
Mrs. John McFadden. died at the home
of her daughter, on Wednesday.
Mrs, Tucker was suffering from a
severe attack of the grippe, but her
death vas not anticipated until q shor,
time before she died. At the time she
was nearing her seth birthday. She
was a native Of Tennessee, but had spen,
the greater part Of her life in the west
ern states. In her youth she joined the
M. Z. church, living for more than hal
a century in the church Of her early
choice. She came to reside with her
daughter two years since. She leaves
behind three children who cherish hel
memory as blessed. The funeral was
held from the house on Thursday after
noon.
G.. M. BOSWELL.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-03-16

A.. ]. Zones this week purchased of W.
w. Olds, a prominent business 10, on the
north side Of Custer Avenue, upon
which the store building of Wallace
Smith is located, which was also pur.
chased by Mr.. Jones, into which he will
remove his drug stock April LIST. Wallace
Smith, having leased Of ID. Carrigan the
vacant lot adjoining c. w. Hitchcock's
store on the east, will, upon its compile
ton, continue business in his respective
line. He will probably occupy one side
Of G.. w. Hitchcock's store with his stock
in the mean time. w. s. Wood, who at
present is occupying one side Of the
Wallace Smith store building, with a
stock of merchandise, will remove the
same to Keystone some time during the
coming week, where he will engage
in business.