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Graham guardian., 1895-12-27
SILVER BONDS.

The Market Prioe as Compared with Gold
Bonds In Mexico-Silver on the Up
Grade.
The San Francisco Bulletin calls at
tention to tie rise of Mexican silver
bonds and makes some excellent points
in so doing. 1t says: Mexican silver
5per cent. bonds are quoted in Euro,
pean markets at so cents. Gold bonds
bearing 6 per cent interest are e7
cents. In reference to these quotations
the Chronicle considers them an evil
dence of increasing prosperity in
Mexico. II Mexico were not. fairly
prosperous her bonds would not ads
vance in value, but her prosperity does
not account for the narrow margin
between gold and silver bonds. If
Mexico were the richest and most pros.
porous country in the world her silver,
bonds would be paid in silver. As it
is, she is rich enough to pay her gold
bonds in gold. The extent of cred
itor's resources beyond an ability to
pay his debts does not affect the mar
ket value of his obligations. A multi
millionaire only pays dollar for dollar.
Silver per cents. at 80 cents on the
dollar are but little below gold per
cents at 81 cents Mexican silver doll
lars, in which the silver bonds are pay
able, are worth but about 54 cents in
the market Yet the silver bond cam
not be valued at less than 90 cents, in
view of the difference OF per cent. in
the rate of interest between gold and
silver bonds. Whether we are to atf
tribute the high price of silver Bonds
in Europe to belief that silver will
soon rise to a par with gold is ques-
ton for financial experts to consider.
Cert aainly the rise in silver bonds to q
point considerably in excess of the
present value of silver bullion in the
market is at least an indication that
silver is on the up grade" (
This leads the Los Angeles Express
to remark that silver is on the up
grade and so is bimetallism, because
monometallism is illogical and an alb
normal condition of affairs that cannot
last. The rise of the Mexican silver
bonds proves also that the country is
progressing materially under silver
currency.
Graham guardian., 1895-12-27
RANCH FnR SALE.

Eighty acres of improved land
two miles from Stafford, patented
thirty acres in alfalfa, twenty-five
acres planted in corn, comfortable
adobe dwelling, best well of water
in the valley, irrigation facilities
unsurpassed, water cannot fail un-
til the Gila river goes dry. The
ranch will pay the purchase money
in two years from the alfalfa alone.
Apply to
F. L. B. GOODWIN, ,Solomonville.
Graham guardian., 1895-12-27
Explicit Directions.

An American, travelling in England
on one occasion happened to be in the
neighborhood of Millbank prison, and
fancied that he would like o glimpse at
that famous place of detention. ''Can
you tell me the way to Millbanky' ha
asked of stout tradesman whom he
met. AYE" answered John Bulls
"knock me down and rob me pockets,
and you'll soon enough be on the
straight road therel" Then, without
vouchsafing any further information,
he passed ON with chuckle.
Graham guardian., 1895-12-27

The tables are supplied with the very best
to be had in the market all kinds of vegetables
and fruit in season. Families boarded at
special rates Give us a call and be convinced
Graham guardian., 1895-12-27
Hia Head Level.

A gold standard man said to a Meri-
wether (Ga.) farmer recently: ~ see
you are getting 8 cents for your cot
ton; hope you are willing to admit
that Mr.. Cleveland was right in his
financial policy" The old farmer
winked his eye at the gold standard
man and replied: ''If mere talk of free
silver has run cotton to cents, don't
you see that with free coinage itself
cotton would be selling at double its
present pr1ce?'
Graham guardian., 1895-12-27
Would Depreeiate Gold.

The advantage of free silver coinage
would lie in the fact that it would ar.
rest the appreciation of gold. It
would, without doubt, cause an actual
depreciation in the purchasing power
of gold. Debts, of course, would be-
satisfied when paid In gold even If the
Purchasing power of the money of that
metal should be materially decreased.
San Francisco Bulletin.
The advocate., 1895-10-02
srled Offices and the position Of boss.
Principles are never mentioned. An
encouraging condition, truly.
THE GREAT GAS TRUST.

Another object lesson IL afforded the
people by the recent action Of the gas
trust in Kansas City in reducing the
price Of gas to 80 cents per thoSssnd
in order to freeze out q rival company.
This is the method by which all mo.
nopolies are established. They are
first organized with practically unllm
tied capital, and it is useless for any
competing compsnyto struggle against
them for existence. 1t was by this
same freezing out process that the
Standard Oil company gained an sb-
solute monopoly Of the oil business,
and every attempt to do business in
any line In which q trust has been or
ganized for the purpose Of controlling
1t, only shows the folly of such effort
at competition. Gas will be cheap in
Kansas City until the rival company is
disposed Of when the trust will again
be supreme dictator. Kansas City
found remedy for this dictatorship
in case of it's city water works by TAX
ing possession of them by the munich
pslity. Why not apply the same rem
edy to the gas monopoly No other
will ever succeed.
The advocate., 1895-10-02

THE Kansas City Star of September
26, speaking of the gas trust says: "It
goes without saying that what the gas
consumers of Kansas City want is per-
manent competition. To insure this
safegusrda&here must be two compa-
nies." By parity of reasoning it might
be said, "whst the water consumers Of
Kansas City want is permanent Compe
tition. To insure this there must be
two companies" Still the Star was
one Of the most enthusiastic advocates
Of municipal ownership of the Kansas
City wsterworks as affording the only
hope Of relief from the abuses to which
the people were subject at the hands
of the waterWorks corporation. There
is one advantage that such papers.as the
Star possess over many others. There
ID nothing in It's past history or its pres
emit pretentions that require it to be
consistent.
The advocate., 1895-10-02
NO MIDDLE GROUND.

II begins to look as If the repnbli.
cans Of this state were about to pass
the dodging point on the money ques.
zion.
The Kansas City Gazette says: "a
large majority of the new congress are
opposed to free silver, but are as firmly
opposed to q single, gold basis. United
against that let us stand and we will
wln IL it is possible to win at al"
In answer to the above the Topeka
Capital makes this plain assertion,
which, 80 fer as the facts are con-
cerned, Ia about the same as the silver.
ites put 1t up: "If this is true Q large
majority Of the members of congress
are afraid to look the question squarely
in the face. If they are opposed tc
free silver they are necessarily In favor
pG the gold standard; there lsno middle
ground in the matter of standards,
Either one standard or the other must
b favored by the members Of the next
ConRress. If they are for free silver
they are for a silver standard; and II
kheY are opposed to 1t they are in favor
of Che present standard, which is gold"
The advocate., 1895-10-02

THE Kansas City Times is t. be con-
graduated. It is experiencing the eff
fectS Of the good times incident to re-
turning prosperity under the benef-
cent influence Of the Wilson bill. If
the receiver iS as big humbug as the
former management the Times will
undoubtedly 60 right on telling how
prosperous everything is, just as
though nothing had happened, and
the fool suckers will 90 right on be-
lieVing it.
The advocate., 1895-10-02
THN aREENBACKs MUsT 60.

This is unquestionsbly the next step
In the great financial conspiracy
ngainat the American people. Zach
successive step in this conspiracy has
besn taken with that cool, calculating
daliberation that indicates q thor.
p1Nhly comprehensive scheme Of plum
NJ sr carefully planned In all It's details
from the beginning. The scheme com.
pretended lts execution by slow pro-
cess Ia order to insure peacesble acqui-
escsnce Of the people, and in order
that the vast profits involved In each
successive operation might have ample
tlnae to be realized; and congress has
shown In all the years since the incep-
tlOn Of the scheme that IL may be re-
Lied upon to provide the legislation
necessary to It's success at the proper
time, and when che Wall street end of
The conspiracy demands il.
Look at the method now being pur-
sued to educate the people to the ne
cessity Of retiring the greenbsCks.
They are made the instrument of the
pirates for looting the treasury Of its
gold. BY this means the people are to
be taught that greenbscks are a dan
geEcus kind Of currency. 1t is deemed
necessary to manufacture sentiment
upon this line as 1t has been upon the
either steps that have been taken. Be-
sides, while affording the people this
OBJECT lesson, another purpose is
served. BY the withdrawal of the
gold surplus, more bonds are secured
to maintain this humbug, and new
pFphts are realized by this process.
The gold-bug press falls solidly in line
with the cOnspirstors and, by every
saEtiHce, seeks to impress the object
lesson upon the public mind. The ef-
fort thus far has been as successful as
the gang could desire. The people
have voted year after year to sustain
ana perpetuate this policy of plunder
by which pirates have become million
aires and honest men have become pau
peEB, How much longer will Ameri-
can voters continue to be thus blinded
by partisan prejudice2
The advocate., 1895-10-02
growing suspicion that somebody, is
making fortune out Of the scheme.
THERPs A sCREW LOOgE sOMEWHERE


THERE'S A SCREW LOOSE SOMEWHERE.
The Capital, in its issue Of Septem-
ber 27, objects to the claim of the free.
silver papers that the receiyeTship Of
the Kansas City Times is owing to its
abandonment of the cause Of free sill
yer. The Capital says:
These papers poins out that under DR.. Nun.
ford's direction the Times wss silver and
democratic paper and prospered, but that
since it became an advocate Of the gold stand
ard It has failed. AS q matter OF fact, the
Times has encountered the same vicissitudes
ss the territory from which It derives its sup.
port When Kansas and Kansas City pros
persd, 30 did the Times.
For once we believe the Capital Is
right. The embarrassment Of the
Times Is not result of its policy, but
Of the general conditions prevailing in
the territory from which it derives It's
support. These conditions affect all
kinds Of business. Nothing prospers
but the money sharks; and nothing else
will prosper until these conditions are
changed. But the point In the Capt.
tails editorial Ia it's acknowledgment
that the country is not prosperous. In
disputing the proposition that the
Times has failed because of its advo-
cacy Of the gold standard, the Capital
has to fnd some other reason for its
failure; and IN doing 80 it absndons it's
former claims of the great prosperity
Of Kansas, and breaches the most
rsbid kind Of calamity. But this Is
not the worst Of it. After giving
statement showing that with q monthly
expense account Of SIS, 900 the receipts
Of the Times have fallen only $3.50 per
month short Of that amount, the Capt.
tai asks:
How many other business enterprises of
the magnitude OF che Times can make better
showing during the hard times?
There are probably very few. The
business failures occurring everywhere
throughout the country from day to
day show that the disease Ia general
that it is an epidemic, in fact, and that
oil these business failures cannot cer-
tainly be owing to failure to advocate
the free coinage Of silver. But here Is
something worse than all the rest.
The Capital closes its remarks upon
the subject as follows:
II Is further shown that the Times lost more
money two or three years ago than recently
when 1t has been opposing silver.
Now that is getting back very close
to the period Of unparalleled prosper
ity that prevailed under republican
administration. Surely If the reason
assigned by the Capital for the recent
losses Of the Times Is the correct one,
which is undoubtedly true, there must
be some mistake about times being
as prosperous as they are said to have
been under the late administration.
There seems to be q screw loose some
where. Can the Capital tell us where
1t lsp
The advocate., 1895-10-02

ARTFUL appeals to patriotism have
succeeded not only in making people
vote themselves into poverty, but also
ii unlocking tina purses Of the thrifty.
For some months the columbian
Liberty Bell committee" has been so
liciting by circulars for money to pay
d debt Of 5000 ON the new Liberty bell,
and exhibit it over the country, Tne
Aopmlslee appeAla 70 the patriotic aen-
sIhl1itlss o ~ Victims end tapgel y 8
The advocate., 1895-10-02

WHEN the Kansas Million club starts
out to exhibit q train load of Kansas
products in the Eastern states it ought
to take car load of Dawes fool opin-
ions. They would be a great curiosity
among the heathens.
The advocate., 1895-10-02

THE row in the New York state dem
ocratic convention ct Saratoga was
similar to that Of the republican com.
mittee in Chicago, with the pugillstic
features left out. In most Of the states
q republican Or democratic convention
simply maens I segambls fos the AZ.
The advocate., 1895-10-02

THOSE people who are so much con-
cerned about the alleged wheels In
Lewelling's head are now seeking a
remedy for softening Of the guberna-
torisl brain, which is much more seri-
GUS.
The advocate., 1895-10-02

One copy Of ''The Dead Line" Glenn
ems Kansas story, which was published
in the Advocate last year, goes free
with dollar subscription to the Advo-
cate Paper and book may 60 to sepa-
rate addresses
The advocate., 1895-10-02

KANsANs are the most hospitsble
people In the world. They are all in
favor of having million more people
come to the state, provided they have
money.
The advocate., 1895-10-02

LIKE the traditional parrot, Cover
nor Mckinley has concluded that he
has been talking too much, so he de-
clines to make any more speeches for
a while.
The advocate., 1895-10-02

THIS thing Of going in debt as q
means of preserving credit has never
been bowling success amonghusiness
men, whatever Mr.. Cleveland's idea Of
1t may be.
The advocate., 1895-10-02
A CONsPIRATOR'S LETTER.

Is the absence in this date line of the
year signifcantp There is one circum.
stance that makes me think it is. Con.
gresham Elkins, in giving a brief
written history to Commissioner Sparks
Of his connection with the alleged
Maxwell grant, skips the year 1877,
which the record shows to be the year
left blank in the above date line. AS
Mr.. Elkins, therefore, purposely
lodged the year 1877 in his letter to
Commissioner Sparks, 1 am of the
opinion that he also purposely lodged
that year in his letter to Commissioner
Williamson.
Second "Touching q survey
thereof"
The word touching" is significant.
It is like the knocking at the gate In
Macbeth; it occurs after bad deed has
been done, namely, after Congressman
Elkins and Commissioner Williamson
had secretly agreed upon a survey of
nearly 2,OOO,O acres of public land as
the Steve Elkins tax.title Maxwell
grant. Congressman Elkins, there
fore, was not required to make formal
application to Commissioners William.
son for survey; he had simply to be-
gin: Touching the Beaubien and
Miranda grant and a survey thereof
THAT you and l, you know, have
agreed upon.l Hence, the word touch
ing throws the mind back from the
official formslity of the present letter
to the unofficial informslity of past
procedure, when Congressman Elkins
and Commissioner Williamson were
alone, In secret, at night, discussing
the financial question; and, having
concluded that the volume of their
currency, at least, could be greatly in
creased by So survey thereof" ar
ranged for an official denouement of
the secretly -Sgreed-upon survey by the
simple word touching
Aud never to my latest day
VIII forget that resurvey;
And how word could make one see,
In secret, Steve and Jim agree
Touching"
Third-"Touching the Besubien and
Miranda grant,"
What right had Congressman Elkins
to touch the subject-mstter of the
Besubien and Miranda grsnt9 Was
he an ownerH No; he got real mad at
Commissioner Sparks for daring to call
him even an ''alleged owner" In his
letter to the commissioner, dated
"Deer Park, Ind, June %, 1885," Ell
kins says:
Inasmuch as my brother, John T. Elkins,
was the deputy United States surveyor who
made the survey, and was on his bond. 1 as
sumo you refer to me when you use the words
"alleged owner" In this you are In error
which beg you will allow me to correct.
am not Enow and never was an owner, di-
rectly or indirectly, in the Maxwell grant.
Congressman Elkins, then, was not
touching the Beaubien and Miranda
grant matter because he was an owner.
WsSbe touching it because he was
employed by the owner-the Maxwell
Grant company-to touch itP No; the
company swears it did not know any
thing about the Elkins survey; that it
was made without its request, knowl-
edge or procurement" 1t follows,
then, that Congressman Elkins had no
right to touch the Beaubien and Mi
rands grant matter. The alleged
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-13

delay was out Of the question, the work
was promptly packed Off to another
firm. But the union was up to the move,
and the firm which proposed to give
its help was warned that such a step
would be taken at it's peril. The mold
ings were sent from one, place to an
other, but the delegates set apart as
watchers were always on the trail, and
every attempt to have the work done
seemed to be checkmated. AS last re-
source, the holdings one night were
put on a barge, towed down the canal.
and there painted fresh color and
stamped with French mark. Thus
changed they excited no suspicion, and
secured admission to the yards; All
went well until the work was about
completed, and then In some way the
whisper got abroad that a trick had
been played. No sooner had the rumor
gone the round of the yard than the
puzzled delegates appeared upon the
spot, furious at being so cleverly hood
winked. They bearded the principal in
his Office, and announced their inten-
ton of calling out the mems at once. But
they were day too late. The principal
was not to be browbeaten. He express
ed himself delighted, stated that there
was no work on hand, and he was
about to give notice himself, and beg
ged the delegate who was acting as
spokesman to act forthwith without
the loss of a minute. 1t was now the
delegates turn to turn tail, and after a
short consultation they generously, as
they declared, gave the firm the benefit
Of the doubt, and retired from the field,
leaving the ready-witted partner to
laugh in his sleeve. The works, need
less to say, were neither closed nor
placed on short time.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-13
Historv OF the Barometcr.

Professor g. Hellmann gives a very
interesting account of the invention Of
the barometer, which has now been i'm
use $50 years. Torricelli, who died at
the early age of 80 years, was too busily
engaged in mathematical studies to
publish an account of his discovery, but
on June IL, 1914, he wrote a descrip-
ton of 1t to his friend Ricci. This let
ter. and Ricci's objections to the ex-
pertinent, were published In 1863 by G.
Dali, a friend Of Torricelli's, and, as
this work Is now exceedingly scarce.
Professor Hellmann has reprinted the
correspondence, in the original Italian,
In the aforementioned journal. Some
of the paragraphs, Nature" says are
noteworthy, especially those In which
Torricelli states that 1t was not merely
a question of producing a vacuum, but
of making an instrument which would
indicate the changes of the atmosphere.
The first continuous barometrical OBJ
servations appear to have been made
In France. In England they were first
taken by Robert Boyle. about the year
1850, to whom we owe the invention
Of the word barometer"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-13

CHA Il n No cenditson 70 Pay ths
Costa Of War.
IA 1eml-ofhcial statement has been r.
ceived In Washington from the leaders
oitpne Of the most influential elem6nts In
Cuba showing that the war expenditures
are becoming 50 enormous and the sugar
and tobacco industries 30 Improbable
that they believe general, NpFipipg VIZ
result from the hard times caused. The
portion Of the statement concerning the
desperate conditions prevailing IL as fol-
lows: The war expenses of lS6S-7S were
paid by Cuba. Spain furnished 212,367
men, but not single dollar. Cuba was
loaded with nearly $500, O00. 900 debt, be-
sides yearly budget of $58,00O,O0O In
those ten years. Gen. Lovellar declared
In the Spanish Cortes that the war ex-
penses had been 500, 900, or an av-
erage Of $4,000, 900 year. Sugar pro-
duced then with slave labor was sold at
6H cents pound. Leaf tobacco was sold
100 per cent above to-day's prices. Per
contra, sugar sells to-day ut 1.86 cents a
pound, or 80 per cent below cost of pro-
duction, and Is pressed to its last ditch
by German beet sugar. The tobacco in
dustry Is ruined beyond redemption by a
tariff war. Leaf does not pay the cost of
labor at to-day's prices. A $45,OOO,OOO
deficit Is the last straw on the camel's
back. The budget Of 1884 was closed
with $6,0O0,0OO deficit and sugar sold
then at 2.625 cents pound, while this
year it sells at 1.S6 cents pound"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-13
A Standing Cavalry Order.

An old cavalryman says that horse
will never step on a man Intentionally
1t is q standing order In the English
cavalry that, should a man become dis
mounted, he must lie down and keep
perfectly still. If he does SO the, entire
troop will pass over him without his
being injured. A horse notices where
he is going, and is on the lookout for a
firm foundation to put his feet on. 1t
is an instinct with him, therefore, to
step over a PROSTATE man. The injuries
caused to human beings by n runaway
horse are nearly always inflicted by
the animal knocking them down, and
not by his stepping on them.-Boston
Herald.