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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

'The fact is, we wanE nothing cheap
but money. is the frank declaration
of the National Waterman, a leading
cheap money organ. OF course not.
The editor of that paper wants things
scarce and dear. Cheapness means
easy production, so he wants things 20
be hard TO get. His wife may buy
goods when they are marked down,
but he waits 20 buy when prices are
way up. He always hikes 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 saw
inc presses. He travels by stage coach
instead of railroad, andbe uses candles
because their light costs pore than
that from oil. He always buys In the
dearest market, and would shudder at
the idea Of getting anything at a bar
gain. Like q true American, he never
tries 70 think of some way OF doing
work easier, for that would mean that
things would become cheaper. He Is
q consistent. straight-out advocate OF
everything dear but money, and that
be wants as cheap land as poor as II
can be made.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
BRUDDER JOHNSING A PUPIL OF
COIN.

az been wantin' to ax You, Brudder
Johnsing, whedder you's read de new
work entitled Coins Financial
School, and what yo' done think
about it."
"Has I read it, Brudder Simpsing?
Doan' vo' recollect dat l tended de
school myself long wild jay Cole, ole
man Vanderbilt, and the whole passed.
of dem big bugs dat has some finances
obder own to fnancier wid?"
"Say, yo' doan' mean to say dat
Cole and Vanderbilt wal dar, when
dew been dead years befo'? Sides l
hain't nevah mist yo' out OBJ de town
long enough fob 20 to get up dar an
back"
"Dat meek no difference. Brudder
Simpsing. 1 war jes' as much dar as
any OBJ de fellahs de book say war dar,
and so war Cole ar Vanderbilt, aud de
next time yo' runs across Lime Gage,
the big goldbug banker, or Walsh, an
nodder Chicago banker, OF Coal
Scuttle, yo' ak 'em eff wasn't dar Just
de same time dey war"
"Well, l guess dat settle 1t dat 20
war dar, Brudder Johnsing. But l
want to Ak yo' eff dat little kid did get
away wild all dem big bankahs and
pollytishaners in the argument ike de
book say?"
Indeed he did, sab, jes' as suah as
dey war dar. and his ansahs please de
augeuce moutley. Say, yo' recollec'
dat Walsh, 1 believe it war, axt him
dis heah question: How kin de
Govahment by a simple ac' OBJ Con
gress raise de price % any article?
Den yo' recollec' dat Coin say, you
wasn't heah Yestedy?' and when
Walsh a V 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, and not only de
mules de Government buy, but de
bosses and mules to teck OAR places,
and dat am les de way de ack OBJ
Congress am guine to ris up de price
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
TEXAS sILyERITES.
They Expose Their Ignorance by
Adopting a silly Resolution.

a. 1AAJ
The platform of the Texas silverite
convention held at Fort Worth on
Auuust 9th. declared: "Ihat that act
the coinage law of 1879 by striking
down ons-half of the standard money
of REDEMPTION, has caused the destruc-
ton OF thousands of millions OF dol
lars of the value OF property Inc
silverites therefore resoluted some
more and demanded the free and IN
limited coinage of gold and silver al
the ratio of 10 to /.
II the eminent free coinage states
men who wrote the Fort Worth plat
form had been more familiar with
facts, they might have modified 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 standard money
of redemption" is a preposterous IN
vention OF free silver agitators. AT
the time that the coinage of the silver
dollar was dropped there was practl-
cally no silver money OF redemption
in the country, whereas we now have
over $500, 900, 600. That certainly
does not look like striking down
silver.
But V e if the claim of the silver
ties that silver has been demonetized
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 a
value according to its utility aud cost
of production. If there was neither
gold nor silver in the world, property
would be just as valuable as 1t Is now.
There Is no less real property N this
country because we do not measure
wealth by the silver standard. There
are Just as many farms, houses, rail-
roads, steamships, factories, stores,
etc. and Just as 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 ~Auctuating standard, Ivy 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 hnan-
ciers probably meant to say was that
the alleged contraction of oar metallic
currency caused a great reduction III
prices of property. But there has not
really been aEy contraction, for we
have now ten times as much gold and
silver money as we had in 1873. And
while there has been n decline IN the
price of many articles it has been
caused by increased production, or by
new inventions, ETC., winch have
greatly reduced the cost of manufac-
turing goods.
Wild and unfounded assertions,
such as the Texas 16 to l shouters re-
" on for eupport, may delude the
people for a short time, but the truth
will soon overtake the falsehood aud
sound money doctrines will prevail
over those of a debased currency.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
4 Serious Experiment.

The free coinage of silver and the
substitution of a new unit and meas
ure of value for the existing one IN
the business transactions OF the COIN
try is not an ordinary experiment
which can be safely tried to-day and
abandoned tomorrow il found iniuri-
Gus, because the immediate conse-
auences of such a step would be so
far-reaching and so enduring that
thew would continue to be felt for
years after the policy had been re-
versed. 1t is incumbent, therefore,
upon those who insist upon the adop-
ton of this revolutionary policy to
show plainly and co1clusively IN adj
vance not only that it would result in
nc injury. but that it would be posi-
lively beneficial, for if not positively
beneficial the change would at least be
wholly useless. This cannot be 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 ~extravagant
statements unsupported by facts and
reasons. The questions involved are
too serious, the interests to be 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.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
fascinating 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 well
the people as the Government. Wars
and invasions. therefore, are not al
WAYS the most certain d%estroyers of
National prosperity. They come in no
Questionable shape. They announce
their own approach, ana 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 a depressed and telling pub-
lie credit. These iasinuate themselves
in the shape OF facilities, accommoda-
ton aud relief. They hold out the
most fallacious hope of an easy pay
ment OF debts and a lighter burden OF
taxation. -Daniel Webster.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
A SILyERITE ADMITS DEFEAT.

Why waste time decsiving the poo
pie in an argument for silver?
The more talk that Is INDUCED In
relative to silver the further OF 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, Aatter ourselves a.
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 viii DO Is all very well, but 1t pro
duces no results 1t reminds US OF q
lot OF cranks 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 not
been asleep. They have been playing
on the prejadices OF the people for
years, and they have got Us whipped
unless We car make a move that viii
end in some substantial result in the
way Of education. Toasting our shint
around our own h%earthstones and
hearing ourselves talk to each other,
is worse than carting Goals to Newcas
tie.
II is all well enough as we glide
through life TO deceive the other tel
lows if we can accomplish 1t, but
when we come TO deceive ourselves VT
make the error Of our lives.
If Colorado understands her bust
ness, she will begin digging Tor golC
with renewed energy
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

Inequalities IN the distribution of
wealth may exist in our present social
system. but 1t is certain that no change
in the material used to measure wealth
will do anything to help those who
o are poor. The silverites indulge
in glowing %generahties about the won
deriul prosperity which Will follow the
adoption of the is to 1 p@anacea,
but are always careful to avoid giving
particulars as to how the predicted
change viii come about. No advocate
of free coinage has yet attempted 70
explain how the men who have no
property would have a chance to get
some under the silver standard, II, 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
e through by those whom the sill
yer mine owners agents pretend TO be
DESTROYS of helping.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
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 ID to 30
cents a day in Mexican money, which
is from ) to 10 cents in United States
money.
''The average for farm labor q day
in Mexico is 20 cents in Mexican
money or 10 cents in United States
money.
''lf free silver can raise prices, why
does it not raise the prices OF wages in
ico?"-Commercial Review, Green
Boy, Wis.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

Silverites cannot understand how
the increasing production of gold
should cause a decline in the value OF
silver. Full of their idea that 1t Is
the relative quantity OF the metals
mined which fixes the ratio between
them, they insist that a the annual
gold product is growing larger, the
value Of gold as compared With silver
should fan. One reason Why III
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 1t
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 q
crease the value of silver.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
SHALL

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 AMI a growing diz-
ziness in their 16 TO 1 heads. The
nbsuidity of their position and the
falsity of many Of their claims Is be-
coming apparent TO all who think
with sound minds. The common
n Of the people, when appealed
70, is the best safe guard against Tat
money legislation.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

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 a reason
for adopting the silver standard.
They might as well complain that the
small quantity of mercury In the
world, as compared with allthe wealth
en- TO be measured. renders 1t unit TO
serve as a means of indicating the
temperature. Just as a very little
mercury may be used to measure all
the changes from extreme heat TO Sc
we're cold, so a small bulk Of valuable
metal viii serve as a measure OF a
great deal of property. 1t Is quality,
not quantity, which Is most desirable
IN the standard Of values.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

eyes, brethren and sisters" said
the Western minister, in the course OF
the funeral sermon, ''our dear broth
er has gone to the land where al
things are known-eyen the truth
about the coinage question, per
haps. indianapolis Tribune.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
rnE CAPITAL SILVER CONVENTION.

The silve.-nonntel statesmen
Have met in Washington,
And nov ten million voters
Are wondering what was donei
The betting that it's nothing
Being l6 10 l.
There was Daniels OF Virginia,
An orator whose hair
Has not yet turned to silver,
Though soon it will be there;
AMI Harris, he whose hair is
As slIvered As a be.
For one who has a temper
As soft and sweet as he.
There's Stone OF old Mizz)ura,
Whose softly silver tongue
Knocks golden silence eniways,
Assisted by q lung;
And Livingston, Of Georgia,
Who keeps it up, although,
He ought to know that silver
VIII make his crackers dough.
And Casey, Young and Jarvis,
And Cox AMI Beard and Clarke
And stephens aud some others
Are on this silver lark.
Bat Bland. it seems, is absent,
The arsentiterous DAD
or all the silver movement
Which really is too bal.
There's Jones. the great White Angel,
The color Of whose tin.
Reflected in his whiskers.
Falls from his moving chin;
And there are others. Let Us
Pause for a moment here
To contemplate this meet Of
These showers Of the queer.
They're going 70 give US silver.
In quantities 10 suit.
And send the gold and gold bugs
Directly up the spoot,
Oh. they will shove the silver.
They'll shove it East and West,
And North and South and Afterwards.
Until there j. no rest
For any living mortal;
And when they've showed it where
They think they ought 10 have it,
By Zucks, It won't be there.
New York Sun.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

II living in mud huts, going half
clad. with children stark naked, and
living on mesquite beans as they do
in free silver Mexico, is what the l6
to l men call prosperity, we'll confess
we are not yearning Tor it to any
great extent.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

Just principles will lead rs to disre-
gard the legal proportions altogether ;
to inquire into the market price OF
gold in the several countries with
which We shall be principally connect
ed in commerce, and to take an aver
age from them.-Thomas Jefferson, on
fixing a ratio.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

II the Government cen manufacture
money, what's the use IN taxing the
people? Why not grind it out and
run itself aud let the people 60 free
of taxes? Will some popalist please
answer?
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
MT From His standpoint.

Populist-"How much did you say
you owed, 5000? Now, my friend
with free silver, it will cost you only
$500 to pay that off" Farmer
"Umphl I'm afraid that wouldn't do
me any good" Populist-"But why
ntt?" Farmer-"I want to borro y
$1,000 more. Life.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

The silver craze has been killed by
that terrible enemy of the calamity
bowler, General Prosperity" and
will be buried by the side of its twin
brother, the Mckinley bill
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

We have been needing rain badly.
According to the Populist, free silver
theory, Grover Cleveland and the
Democrats ought to be ashamed OF
themselves for not giving US T ain when
we wanted it.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
Where silver Is Wen Thought OF.

First Church Member-"Wbat are
the charges agln' Deacon Joneg?"
Second Church Member ISLANDER
in the parson. Said he was as good
as gold."-Harper's Bazaar.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
Query.

If the Government should coin
$50, 900, 900 a month in legal tender
silver dollars how would the farmers
Of this section get any OF it? Will
some free silver advocate please
ansVer2
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

would have to pay for it with money
calling for gold on demand, makes
clear the absurdity OF the "Gold
Corner" argument.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
Not Unalloyei Pleasure.

About the worst feature Of the in
dustrial revival is the starting up Of
the silver crank. -Philadelnhia Times.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04
Free Silver in Kentucky.

No amount of windy oratory viii
initiate the free silver tire II Kentucky.
1t is ~puncturel beyond repair.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

Painter-"Ny customers would kick
If they knew / was substituting cheap
for dear material. don't need to be
told who are back Of the American Bi-
Metallic League,
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

Cotton is Advancing AMI the free
craze is declining.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

The silver question: VIII you lend
me q dollar?
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

Every day OF bright sunshine in
lures the free silver crop.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-09-04

Bunco Steerer- II want good money
so do the silver mine owners who
make their contracts in gold. They
try to bunco the whole people, while /
practice only on individuals. Hay'n't
they got q gall?"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-20
MGNTIO ON.

Mrs. A. B. Liebermann is visiting at
Fort Atkinson.
Mrs. Anna Thomas visited in Jefer-
son a portion of last week.
Frank Mcclellan, of ST. Paul, was in
town the first of the week.
Walter Zochert, of Milwaukee, has
been visiting relatives here.
Miss Lydia Broenniman and brother
Leonard spent last week III Chicago.
DR.. j. c. Hoffman,, of Chicago. form
erlY of Jefferson, was in town Friday.
VIM. G. Hoffman,, Of Edgerton, is
passing a few days at his old home here.
Miss Rertha Stoppenbach, of Jeffer-
son, has been a guest of Mrs. G. R. Field.
Miss Minnie Sehrt, of Waukesha, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Theodore Kusel.
Preston WILDER, of Milwaukee, was
in the city Saturday on his way to Mad
ison.
Mrs. n. G. Pendleton, of Davenport,
Ia. is visiting her parents, Rev. DR..
and Mrs. Johnson.
Frank Rotter, of Milwaukee, attend
ed the funeral OF his si~ster-in-law, Miss
Ida He'll. Monday.
John Ford, who has been living with
his son at Whitewater the past few
months, was a visitor here yesterday.
Mrs. Frances Duffy, of W%atertown,
has been visiting Mrs. P. Malloy, 1U2
Tenth street.-M ilwaukee Erening WIS.,
consin.
Mrs. Harry Baum and child, ofOcon-
omowoc, are visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Baum.
Our former resident, Memo Stamm,
of Milwaukee, called on friends heie
Saturday.
Mrs. E. w. Schultz has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. R. T. Hunter, at Fort
Atkinson.
Mrs. W.B. Stevens, of Sibley, Ia,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. W.
Evans last week.
Fred Vullmahn, of the Buchhelt
Mailing company, has returned from a
business tour of several weeks in the
East.
Henry P. Fischer, state factory in
spector. gathered statistics here last
week for the labor and industrial
bureau.
Mrs. j. Robbins and Mrs. S. J. Ken
visit to their niece, Mrs. n. A. Carpen-
ter, in Belolt.
Ell. Wiggenhorn witnessed the great
football game at Minneapolis Saturday
between the Wisconsin and Minnesota
university teams.
W. D. Sproesser was at Jefferson yes
terday on business connected with the
Soldiers Relief commission o~fJeferson
county, of which he is a member.
George C. Lewis was out from Mil
waukee Sunday to pay his parents a
final visit before their departure for
their winter home. Dunedin, Fla.
They went yesterday.
George Pooler and son. of Sioux
City, Ia, we're guests last week at the
home of Daniel Jones. Mr.. Pooler is
assistant superintendent of the United
States Express company.
Phillip Heinrichs, formerly president
of the Heinrichs Manufacturing COM
pany expects to leave here soon and
locate at Milladore, Wood county,
where he will open a general merchan-
disc store.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-20
THE X
Pocket Kodak

Does all that a larger camera
will do and just as well-but On
a smaller scale. It's not a
plaything to be toyed with for
an hour, then thrown aside
it's a practical camera for the
experienced photographer as
well as for the novice, for grown
people as we'll as for children.
1t is as handsome and well
made as a $500 camera and is
perfect in every detail. It is
cheap in price, not because it is
cheaply made, but because it is
small in size and is manufact-
ured in enormous quantities., by
improved machiner in the larg-
est and best equipped camera
factory in the world.
When you are trying to think
of a suitable present for birth
days or weddings, Or Christmas,
just remember the POCKET
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nary line-it will be appreci-
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-20
2O3 Main Street.
|VerS & Pond
Pianos,

THE two characteristic fea-
lures that have given the
Ivers & Pond Piano its
enviable position in the piano
world are the beauty of its tone
and its remarkable durability.
Tone quality, the a~daptability to
express musical thought, is the
distinguishing feature between the
artistic and the commercial piano.
The richness, the purity, the in
finite shades of expression in the
Ivers & Pond tone attract and
fascinate musicians the world ove
Combine with this the absolute
of scale, crisp, re-
sponsive action, and simple ele.
gance of design and finish, and
the reasons for the popularity of
the IVers & Pond Piano are
as plain as day.
". D. SPR0ESsER,
ais Main ST..
WATERTOWN, WIS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-20
CARD OF THANKS.

We hereby tender our heartfelt
thanks to all friends and neighbors
who by their kindly acts in many ways
assisted us during our late bereave-
ment.
MRS. ELIZABETH HARRISON,
MRS. EMILY PLowMAN, Niece.