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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30
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Sioux City. Iowa.--W illiam p. Royce.
when arraigned for the murder OF Con-
slant Roush. alias Nellie Patton, form
;erIy Of Van Meter. Iowa, whom he shot,
entered q plea .iIas'axat ~ tues 70 The
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

saltwater Ntinn.-John D. May, veter-
an OF Company B, list Minnesota regi-
ment, an Old resident of Saltwater, died
on Wednesday. He has served as a
guard at the state prison for the past IL
years. Deceased was S. years old and is
survived by wife and one brother.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

Saltwater, Minn.-The jury returned a
verdict of 81, 90 in favor Of the plaintiff in
the case of Miller VS.. the st. Paul Street
Railway Company, in the suit for dam
ages on account of injuries sustained by
Mrs. Miller, while riding on one Of the
defendants cars.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

Reedsburg, Wise Charles Keith died
Tuesday night at an ageo 81 veal rs. He
was the first mayor of Reedsburg, and
PRESIDENT Sof the Citizens hank M thfs;
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

Lyons, Ia.--In this city, at st. Irenus
church Wednesday,, were married, by the
Rev. Father Leahy, John Doherty and
Daniel Leal1y,. of Fulton. ILL.,, to Miss
Mary Hand, Of Lyons The same night,
at the residence Of the brides parents,
Louis E. Metzger and Miss Bertha NJ
Dickout were married. All are we'll
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

Mortified, Minn.-sam Jones opened
the Mortified lecture course at the Con-
gregational church Saturday evening, in
his lecture "Get There and Stay There
Preparations are making to do an in
creased business at the brick yard next
season More ground is being cleared
more machinery added, and 100000
brick turned out.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

city He came here from New York and
had been q resident 5ss here for over 40
years He owned an extensive property
in Lower California, where he had large
orange and walnut groves. M 5as
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

Lake City, Minn.--W. T. Holmes, the
ex-president of the Merchants bank Of
this city, who has been on trial for the
embekzlement Of several thousand dollars
from the bank, was found guilty before
Judge Gould, at Wabasha. Attorney
General Childs appeared for the prosecu-
ton, and II. B. Stocker, OF Minneapolis,
and other attorneys for the defense.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

Huron, 8. Congressman Picker
says that canvass of the state assures
him that complete reversal Of popular
sentiment will be necessary to prevent
his election to the United States senate
next year.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

Crookston, Mtnn.-John Lynch, a song
and dance artist from New York city,
was found dead on the Great Northern
track two miles south. of here. 1t .is
supposed he was drunk and fell asleep
and was struck by the train. ;...s5.=
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

Duluth Minn.-John O'Connor the
young man accidentally shot by Albert
Polinsky, while handling a revolver, died
of his injuries Wednesday afternoon. Pc
linsky was released from custody after it
had been shown that the shooting was
purely accidental.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

New Paynesville, Minn.-Miss Sarah
Cassidy, of Eden Valley, a hamlet 10
miles southeast Of here, has just fallen
heir to large fortune Of personal and
real property in Toronto, Ont, by the
death Of an eccentric uncle in that city.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

Fergus Fails, Minn.-Ex-Co congressman
Boen has bought the Fergus Falls Globe
for $3.50 and will be an editor hereafter.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07
CURED OF FREE SILVER.

President Max Robinson, of the
Georgia branch Of the 7. 2. A., is
showing his friends a sc. silver dol
lar and telling them how a few days n
MEXICO is pretty apt to convert the
strongest free silverIte into the most
ardent sound money man.
The SIC. silver dollar is a Mexican
dollar with more intrinsic value than
our silver dollar; that is, there is
more silver in it than there is in one of
Uncle Sans silver dollars. Neverthe-
less it is worth just the bullion value,
or SIC, and that is all it brings in
the country that coins it and at its
own minis when it is hot from the
dies.
Mr.. Robinson got his silver dollar
az the Mexican mint. It was one OF a
number coined while the travelling
men visited the mint and each Of them
paid 52c. in United States currency
for the Mexican dollar. If the United
States adopts free coinage Mr.. Robin
son has made arrangements to have
shipped to him a carload of Mexican
dollars at New Orleans, there to be
minted into United States coins at a
handsome profit, provided, like the
Mexican dollar, there is not too rapid
a depreciation in their purchasing
power.
There were $50 travelling men in
the party that invaded Mexico. Among
them were some free silverite. rabid
white metal bugs, who were delighted
that the notes in the eyes of their
gold-washed brethren were to be dug
ont by some practical illustrations of
the advantages Of free silver. The
practical Illustrations met them On all
sides, all the way 'front.' the Rio Grande
TO the door of the palace Of President
Diaz. Instead of the notes being in
the eyes of the sound money men the
free silyerites discovered that there
were large planks of o in their
optics. They studied the situation
bravely, confronted their lessons like
men, took their own medicine with
ont a grimace and when the return
trip was made rendered thanks that
they we're returning to a sound money
country. FIfty-two cent dollars, 13c.
calico, S12 -four, zoe. day labor,
beauties OF the regime of free silver,
changed the color of their views until
they were literally tinSed with yellow.
Il is doubtful If a white monomet-
came back from Mexico. -Savan-
nah (Ga.) Press.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07
High Prices aud Low Wages.
sected.

The most stupid swindle for which
it was ever attempted to gain the
votes of the workingmen is the high
prices, dear-goods scheme of the l6 to
/ silverites. 1t passes belief that any
set of political agitators should have
the impudence to ask the wage earn
ers of this country to help adopt the
cheap silver standard of China, Mex
leo and the small South American
countries. On the admission of Its adj
vocates the first effect of free coinage
would be to reduce wages fifty per
cent. by making food, clothes, rent,
and everything the worklngman must
buy for himself and family, twice as
dear as they are now. The result
would be that all the Injuries and
many of the necessities, which the
wage Garner is now able to buy, would
be raised entirely out OF his reach.
The silverites say that wages would be
doubled under free coinage. But
would they? The worhDgmen know
that it is only by harl struggles, ex-
tending over long periods, that small
wage advances are secured. Are they
willing to risk the certain doubling OF
prices for q possible increase IN
wages?
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07
AND PRICES.

The following is from a speech de-
livered at Argyle, Mimi, by the Hon.
Knute Nelson:
The truth is that reliable statistics
as we'll as our own experience and OBJ
servation demonstrates to us that
there is no lack ofcirculating medium,
that We never had a greater per capita
amount Of money in circulation than
now, and that the volume OF circula-
ton does not necessarily regulate or
fix the measure of prices, but that
this is now, as ever, mainly governed
by the law of supply and demand.
Toe same currency buys a bushel OF
wheat at 80 cents and a bushel OF po-
tatoes at the same price. AT this
figure wheat is %ry cheap and pota-
toes very high. The one product is
overplenty, the other o%verscarce. And
this makes the difference, not the
volume or the quality OF the curren-
cy. There is an undoubted lack OF
currency among our farmers in many
localities, especially in the upper
country, but this lack comes, notfrom
a scarcity of money in the State or
Nation, but for the lack of product to
exchange for money. Compare the
counties Of Freeborn and Polk, if you
please. In the former, with twenty
townships of land, 1S,000 people,
twenty-four creameries and a great
amount of dairy products, a large
number of cattle, horses, sheep
and hogs and an advanced
system of diversified farming, money
is not scarce, and the times are far
from hard and depressed. IN the lat
ter with IS townships of land, $4,000
people, only two creameries, a not
numerous amount of cattle, still fewer
sheep and hogs, a scantiness of dairy
products and system of farming main
ly devoted to wheat culture, money is
quite scarce and times are very hard
and trying.
What makes the difference? They
both exist under the same currency
and the same flag, The difference is
this: In the county of Freeborn the
farmers have a large and valuable var
iety of farm products, bringing a fair
price, to exchange for money. This
makes money plenty and times easy.
On the other hand. in the county OF
Polk the farmers have little to e1-
change for money except wheat, and
that was a very light crop, and the
prices, owing to a glut in the foreign
market, were very low. This makes
money scarce and times very hard.
Farmers of the Red River valley, if
you look at the situation in its true
light, is it not plain to You that relief
cannot come from the referendum,
from saloons kept by the State, from
Government ownership of railroads,
from female suffrage or from the un-
conditional free coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to /?
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07
COMMERCE WITH GoLD STANDARD
COUNTRIES.

When the silverites are forced to
admit that the adoption Of fres coin
age would unsettle our trade relations
with all %gold.using Nations, they fall
back on the plea that our trade with
silver standard countries would be In.
creased. And free silver orators and
writer's try to deceive our business
men with the pretense that If we we're
on a silver basis we could capture the
trade of China. Japan, Mexico, and
other silver countries.
The extent of the commerce for
which we are asked to sacrifice our
financial system can be seen from the
statistics of the worlds trade. Ac-
cording to the latest and most reliable
source of information, the value of
the imports of goods by the eighteen
gold standard Nations amounts to
S7,04S, 900, O0O, and OF the exports TO
So, 519, 600, 900, a total of So. 5G7.-
900, 900. The imports Of all the sill
ver-using countries amount to S746.-
900, 900, and their exports to $751;
600, 900, q total of 81, 625, 900, 900, or
but a little more than one-eiChth as
much as that of the gold-using Ma
tions.
These are the figures for the worlds
trade. But when we examine into the
commerce of the United States We
find a greater difference in favor of
the gold countries. The latest re-
turns show that this country exports
to eleven gold standard Nations goods
valued at SIG, 500, 900, and imports
from them goods valued at SAL, 000,-
600, a total of 81, 157, 500, 900, while
our trade with all the silver-using
countries amounts to only Sal, 900, 900
exports and 500, 900, 900 imports, O
total of SAL, 900, 900.
These statistics prove that whatever
advantage we might gain by adopting
the silver standard through increased
trade with silver countries, we would
lose vastly more by putting ourselves
in the same relation to our best
toners that we now hold to the silver
Nations.
Even if the possibilities for COM
merce with the silver countries we're
far greater than they are, it has not
yet been shown how free coinage
would help us to take advantage of
them. If we do not sell those coun
tries now it is not on account of our
money system, but because our goods
are too dear. As it is the principal
argument of the silverites that the
adoption of their scheme will at once
double prices, it follows that u
goods would be twice as dear if we
were on a silver basis. If we cannot
sell now to silver using countries,
how could we possibly do so If we
charged twice as much for our goods?
cannot compel any country to buy
out exports if they do not wish to do
Will some silverite explain how
debasing our currency will make new
markets for our products, or enable us
to buy goods cheaper from other
countries?
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07
Free COINAGE Dlsseeted.

The Sound Currency Committee Of
the Reform Club has Just issued a
short pamphlet entitled ''Free Coin
ace Dissected." 1t puts the case
against free coinage IN the elearest
possible light, aud the language Is SC
simple and the sentences so short that
no ordinary mechanic or farmer need
have any difficulty IN understanding
the discussion. Ex-Congressman John
Dewitt Warner, the author of the
pamphlet, dissects, IN turn, each Of
the principal claims of the free coin
age advocates.
Many excellent answers to Coins
Financial School have been written,
but, heretofore, there has been NO
hrst-ciass pamphlet to put into the
hands Of the millions who have not
read Coins Financial School," but
who are interested in the currency
discussion. They will be glad to get
In this condensed form, not only the
principal objections to Coins" book,
but 10 the whole scheme Of free coin
age at 10 to L. The pamphlet is, in
TACT. a primer Of sound currency.
The pamphlet is we'll adapted for
general distribution, and merits a wide
circulation by the friends Of honest
money IN all sections Of the country.
It is No. 16 of Sound Currency, and
can be obtained by sending FIVE cents
TO the Reform Club, 80 William street,
New York City.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07
CREDITORS AND DEBTORS.

The advocates Of free silver seek to
create a class feeling in favor OF their
scheme by representing the country
as divided into two classes, a large
number Of poor debtors and a small
number of rich creditors. They ap-
peal to the envy of those who have
been unsuccessful in life by pretend
ing that the cause OF their failure is
the oppression of the borrower by the
lender, and nine-tenths of the free
coinage literature is devoted to in
yectives against the robber capitalist
who has enslaved the poor farmer and
workingman.
Like all other silverite arguments
this OF the debtor against creditor has
no foundation in fact. In the first
place it has been repeatedly shown
that as a rule the number Of creditors,
that is, men and women who have
money owing them by individuals,
banks, insurance companies, etc., Is
much larger than that Of those in
debt. BY far the greater part of the
debts of this country is owed by o
comparatively small number OF per-
sons or corporations, who have bor-
rowed in large amounts the united
savings OF millions. 1t is only among
the farmers that toe number of debt
ors appears to be larger than of
creditors, but this is more seeming
than real. A majority OF the farmers
Of the country are not in debt, and
many Of those who are have borrowed
money from other farmers. These
facts prove that a law intended to
benefit debtors at the expense Of
creditors would iniure far more peo-
pie than it would help.
Another reason for condemning the
silverite attempt to set class against
class is the falsity Of the claim that
the creditors are responsible for the
poverty of the debtors. This idea
would not be worthy Of notice,
we're it not made the basis of the de-
mand for laws which would wipe out
one-half Of the debts Of the country.
To say that the strong, thrifty, capa-
bic and industrious have caused the
poverty OF those who we're less capable
or fortunate, is absurd. On the con-
trary, if the assistance given by the
creditors capital was not OF greater
benefit to the debtor than the interest
which he pays, borrowing would cease.
There IS no law to compel men to bor-
row, so the presumption is that the
debtor must be satisfied that il will
pay him to go in debt. Neither di-
rectly nor indirectly is the man who
saved a little money to blame be-
cause his neighbor finds it profitable
to borrow. The complaint against
creditors is founded on ignorance OF
the service performed by the men who
save and lend capital.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07
WHAT MAKES INTEREST HIGH.

The readers OF this do not need to
have it explained that business activ-
ity depends in large measure upon a
low rate of interest, which is the most
conclusive proof of plenty of money
to be loaned. If 1 can get capital at
4 per cent. a year, l may build a fac
tory and employ hands and carry on
an industry successfully and with
profit to myself, where If l had to pay
6 or 7 per cent. for the money, or
could not borrow it at all, / might be
unable to do so, and the factory would
remain unbuilt and the labor unem-
ployed. How are we to have interest
cheap and money abundant? Capital
lists are no worse than other men. But
they are no better. They are just like
yourselves. What would you do?
Suppose there we're a lot of men who
advocated the passage of a law that,
after you had loaned out money on
gold value, would force you to accept
silver values in return-would You be
in a hurry to lend money? Would
you not rather keep it locked up in a
trust company or else loan it only at
high interest and for short terms?
And then, if this agitation stopped
and every one became satisfied that
there would be no interfeien with
the standard of values, and that capt.
tal when loaned out would be safe and
would 5e repaid in money as good as
loaned, would not you-would not
every capitalist-be prompt to offer to
loan his funds at interest, however
low, rather than let them remain idle?
This country to-day affords an OBJ
iect lesson Of this. In those parts OF
the country where the people believe
that our currency is safe and that no
change in its standard is likely to
take place, plenty OF money can be
had at 4 aud 8 per cent, while in those
parts of the country in which the peo-
pie are confident that free coinage
legislation will be had, and that a loan
made for any long time ahead may be
repaid in deprecated silver, there is
scarcely a place where you can borrow
money on very long time at all, ex-
cept on gold contracts, or even on
short time, at less rates than 6 or s
per cent. Free silver would not add
a dollar to the real wealth of the West
or South. But the apprehension OF it
has kept from those sections OF the
country the millions upon millions OF
capital that, had they been invested
there. might have made such prosper
ity as the world has not seen since the
sun shone upon Eden.-Hon. John
Dewitt Warner, in Free Coinage Dis
seeted.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07

There may be a few people in this
country who honestly believe the sill
verite charge, that the change in our
coinage laws by which the silver dol
lar was omitted from the list OF legal
tender coins, was brought about by
British influence. Ofcourse the story
about the bribery of Congress by the
English banker, Ernest Seyd, is a stu
pid lie, yet it is repeated as a free
coinage argument. To all the at
tempts to make it appear that
Great Britain is anxious to have other
countries adopt the gold standard,
there is one conclusive reply. For
over a hundred years India, with more
than two hundred millions Of people,
has been governed by the British.
Yet the silver standard was established
and is still maintained in India by the
British Government. Does that look
as though the British gold bugs were
engaged in striking down the silver
money" Of the world?
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07

There are in this country about
twenty-five million adults. II the free
coinage scheme for quitting the
money in the pockets of the people,
was adopted, each man and woman
would have to carry round with them
twenty-five big silver dollars in order
that 'the people" might have in their
possession all the money OF the coun-
try. OF course it would never do to
let the wicked bankers have the prec-
ious white metal disks on deposit, 30
checks could not be used for large
purchases. The necessity for a woman
carrying two or three pounds Of silver
on a shopping expedition would be n
pleasing result of the cheap money ex-
pertinent. Merchants would build
special vaults for holding their re-
ceipts, and we would be back again to
the primitive condition of bsrterins
goods for metal.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07

changes in foreign trade, and prove q
burden upon the producers of our
great stapies-cottoD, corn and other
grain. By h~indering international
commerce il would burden the agri-
cultural products Of this country like
q high protective tariff. Not only
would the men who work for salaries
be deprived, at least for a while, of
employment, but when enabled to re-
turn to work they would find the dol
lar paid TO them as wages deprecated
in value as a consequence of a change
OF standard. The only possible ben
eft would be from 3 limited increase
in the value Of silver bullion, which
would 60 into the pockets of the great
silver mine owners-the men who are
really backing sll the agitation and
furnishing to it its sinews of war.
The picture Is not overdrawn. When
1 contemplate it, there Is but one
source of comfOrt-it is in an abiding
confidence that within twelve months
OF full, free discussion the American
people can be relied upon to over
whelmingly defeat any party which
proposes to bring such disaster upon
as.
Instead Of free silver at l6 to l,
means silver monOmetallism, a
contraction Of the currency, and a
temporary and permanent injury to
business, which had been described,
the Secretary urged the necessity for
d sound-monev currency, consisting
Of gold, silver. and paper, but every
dollar kept as good rs any other dol
ar. This would allow the coinage Of
al silver, which could be held at an
.nnal exchangeable value with gold.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-07

Editors of free silver papers mast
have a very poor opinion of the intel
ligence OF the public. Instead II CIV
ing facts and arguments to show that
free coinage would be a good thing
for the country, they content them
selves with chiid's fables about the
sshylock,. gold conspirators, and
"money sharks" This may please
those whose minds are already made
up in favor of the ifty-cent dollar.
bu. it does not enlighten the men who
are honestly seeking for the truth on
the money question. That the silver
standard advocates find no better argu-
ment than silly abuse OF their oppo-
nents, may be safely taken as evidence
of the weakness of their cause.