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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12
BRIEF JorTlNes.

MISS Auud M L. ming y 6AulDitlou VI
oils, water colors, and black and whites,
| is exciting much attention among art
lovers. 1t is held at the Art Club build
| ing from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. The last
opportunity will occur tonight. The ad.
mission is free
| Call on Fred L. Merrill & Co., the
Federal street jewellers and opticians be-
| fore you buy for Christmas. See ad this
| issue.
| A tramp was found in Grand Trunk
car yesterday morning h alf frozen.
Mr.. Alger v. Curriers' portrait of Hell
ell daughter Of Prof. Henry johnson,
Bowdoin College, is to be exhibited in a
day or two in the store of Gould & Whip
pie.
A special meeting of the Little Samari-
tans' Aid Society will be held at Miss
McGregor'. 295 Spring street, this after
noon at L. 30 O'Clock.
Frates the ''tub' oarsman, who went
to the islands last summer in that tick
lish CART, says that he is engaged f or a
trip to Boston the coming summer in the
same craft, and is to receive $1,000 for a
successful voyage.
The Maine Central Railroad use vast
| number of stamps in their business, but
in sending out their yearly calendar for
1896 they wanted more of the fve-cent de-
nomination than were in the post office.
and the postmaster sent to Washington
for 5000 worth more for them alone.
,;ll
Perley Chase, at Is Gray street, Thursday
afternoon.
There were two cases of diphtheria re-
ported yesterday. That of Belle Smell at
No. 20 Forest street. and Mildred Butler
at 234 Cumberland street.
The State Board of Pharmacy assem-
bled in the Council chamber yesterday
and later moved into the Aldermen S
room. There were eight candidates for
registry as apothecaries, and the exami-
nation is q very rigid one.
A team belonging to G.. E. Lombard
the fish dealer, overturned yesterday
morning at the corner of High and
Spring streets.
The annual meeting of the Associated
Charities will be held on Friday at D.
M, at room No. 9, City building
AT a little before noon yesterday, an oil
stove caused a small blaze in the dress
ing room of the Park theatre which was
extinguished by Capt. Butler and the
chemical crew with po1y chemical The
damage was small.
The rattle snake at Greenwood Garden
has eate2 nothing but little milk and
| water since March, but he has shed his
skin twice.
The sociable at Gray's Business College
last evening was great success. A large
attendance greatly enjoyed the occasion
The members of Beacon Commandery.
No. 98. Ancient and Illustrious Order
Knights of Malta, are requested to be
present this evening at their rooms, SO
Exchange street, as matters of interest to
every member will be brought before the
meeting.
Mr.. Oliver Sargent, a fireman on the
ferry Elizabeth City, was cut severely
about the head Tuesday by the bursting
of a water gauge.
The Martha Washington Society will
meet with Mrs Crocker Ocean street,
Dser1ng, today. Take the l. 30 or 2 Is car.
If stormy the meeting will take place
Friday.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TODAY.

Eastman Bros. & Bancroft
Owen, Moore & Co.
j. Il. Libby.
Rines Bros.-3
Ira T. Clark & Co.
Stevens & Jones Co.
r. Ii. Jordan.
Fred l.. Merrill & Co.
$50 Reward.
H. Steinert & Sons Co.
ADJUSTMENTS.
Grand Concert.
PiStol-K0tZSchmar Hall.
New Wants, To Let, For Sale, Lost. Found
and Similar advertisements will be found under
their appropriate heads on Page g.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12
NEW ADVERTISEMENT
j. n. Libby


vou want it-ius+ +he
same on HOLIDAY muir
chases as on ordinary
ones.
Morning shopnins isl
~, ore satisfactory Than
afternoon shonn;ng.
Eor the light is better.
and YOU Get better ser
and the clerks fresh.
Please renort to either
of the managers anv
Yes. Santa Clause is
haye
Santa cvacia will he
Out Of town neonIe,s
ordaye hv ~ nj, have i,,e+
in ordinary times.
we give q beau+;fII
Souvenir n;c+,,ra with
49, .. $3.50 - a'a..S n So
$500 80
81
''e p'Se .4 arc
: i-'t''oSf af'a'o
' "'e" , so''uoy
e"'sso yoSsS'
aey
S''v'eSSs 'os we W
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12
Child Badly Burned.

There was quite sevevre burning &C
cident on Waterville street Tuesday. A
child named Kay was playing with
matches when It's clothing caught fire
and before the flames were eXtinguished
the little one had received numerous
severe burns about the head and Shout
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12
Santa Claus to the Children.

l am sorry that the accident happened to
my train on the Rockys, to delay the ar
rival of my goods to the White Store.
But never mird-the care I have taken in
the selection OF the goods, will more than
repay you for waiting, The train L arrived
on will be on exhibition Friday-in the rear
end of Mr.. Larrabee's White Store-and the
entire line of my Christmas goods.
EFF O. Bailey & Co. will sell at auction at
salesroom this morning a large lot of household
furniture. carpets. &c. See their notice ad-
vertising sale.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12
Commissioners of Pharmacy.

The Commissioners of Pharmacy held
their regular meeting for examination
dermen's room, in the City tuilding.
There was a class of eight, all o. them
from Maine
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12
Maine Historical Society.

The Maine Historical Society will hold
meetings for the reading of papers and
for discussion at the Library building in
this city, on Thursday, December 18th at
2. 30 and 73O D. ~
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12

Out of town peoples
orders 10y mail have just
as prompt and inteIli-
gent attention now as
in ordinary times.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12

Morning shopping is
more satisfactory than
afternoon shopping,
For the light is better,
and you get better ser
vice i'm the morning
when the crowd is less,
and the clerks fresh.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-12
Please report to either
Of the man ayers any
neglect or dlscourtesy
of our mpIoyees.

Yes, Santa Clause is
here.
Santa GFacia will be
here Some time next
Saturday.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
NEW REFORM PAPERS.

The ChatGWqWG PopWIist is a new
eight page paper just started at James
town, N. Y, by g. N. Maxton. 1t
hits straight from the shoulder.
Wehave received the first number of
the Alliance Monthly, by Bro. w. s.
Barnes, Raleigh. It is a neat paper,
filed with good reform matter.
The Record ReUieW is the title of a
60 page magazine, published by J. Fl.
Turner & Co., Washington, D. Q. Bro.
Turner was formerly Secretary of the
National Alliance and is we'll known as
an able reform writer. The magazine
is chock full of good matter.
The Blue and The Gray, Washing,
ton, D. c., devoted a large part of its
space to political economy and a patri-
otto effort to keep the Mason and Dixon
line submerged. You can secure it
and THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER both a
year for only 50.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
SOUND MONEY FANATICS.

You have heard of ''silver cranks,"
''silver fanatics" etc. Well, there is
a new tribe in the land-the Sound
money" fanatics. They are not fools,
that is, all of them are not. Some of
them are expert in practising usury,
forming trusts, buying up legislators
and the like. Those who are not fools,
however, are satisfied that a majority
of the American people are fools, and
they are acting accordingly.
These sound money fanatics have
gotten together and have ''wrote a
book" not one book, but seven books,
Seven Financial Conspiracies," as it
were. The first is National and State
Banks; second, Canadian Bank Note
Currency; third, "~Bimetallism in His
tory; fourth, ''The Worlds Curren-
cies"; fifth, 'New York Bank Cur
rency"; sixth, 1.-The Currency Famine
of 1897; seventh, 1.-THE Peoples
Money" They state that other books
will follow.
These little n~oveletts are by well
known fnanciers, men who gamble on
Wall street; men who belong to trusts
men who are able to employ the best
legal talent and take advice that en-
ables them to steal and not be punished
in the courts. They undertake to
prove that water will run up hill; that
the way to make money plentiful is to
quit making any at all; that it is
cheaper to sell bonds and borrow money
than for the government to coin it's
own.
Now what we have said is all pro
phetic. We have not yet received one
of the books. But we have read inter
views with the authors of the booklets.
We read their sound money" organs,
and can forecast just what they will
say. You have heard men try to argue
on the wrong side and know what dis
NAL failures they make. The money
question has two sides, of course
Smart men can take either side, study
it and present bright arguments. But
the goldbugs never go into the merits
of the case. They r too shrewd fol
that. Right now they are talking fol
''sound money" One of the leaders
was asked for An explanation recently
He said: "a money that the people O
all other civilized countries doint
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
SAMPLE coLDBuG ARGUMENT.

The New York Journal Of Commerce
makes the following brilliant CD argu-
ment against silver coinage. We are
going to make it a point to give our
readers all the best things said or both
sides of this vital question. We have
no fear of the consequences:
SIT is not easy to estimate how far
the current wildly sensational methods
of silver propagandism may really help
the mining interests in their struggle
for free coinage. The latter phases Of
the agitation are intended not to create
an intelligent public opinion, but to in
flame passion and prejudice among the
uneducated masses. That class is large
enough, in the sections to which these
tactics are applied, to admit of the
capture of a very large number of
votes; and, to that extent, the agita-
ton becomes dangerous. It is there
fore to the last degree urgent that
measures be promptly taken for coun-
teracting this purely demagogic pro-
pagandism.
But how is the kind of sentiment
thus created to be dealt whit The BIZ
metallic problem viewed in it's funda-
mentally scientific aspect, is one Of the
most abstruse within the whole range
of economic issues; and of what avail
can it be to reason upon it with men
too ignorant to understand either the
terms, definitions or principles of the
question, especially when they are
already recommitted by passion and
prejudice, and when their actual OBJ
jecti is the satisfaction of a mere partisan
spirit of confict2 Reasoning with these
people, through printed matter and
oral address, is not to be entirely es
chewd; for it could not fail to counter
act in some measure the poison with
which the silver leaders have inoccula-
them; but it would be a great mistake
to depend upon such contradictions ex
clusively.
'"The treatment of this issue as a
mere subject of economic debate is
neither the readiest nor the safest way
OF settling it. So far as it is made a
mere tongue contest, an excitement of
partisan debate, the period Of it's dis
posal is postponed. The battle of the
standards is as little likely to be ended
by ignorant debate as the battle of the
creeds has been. The statesman rather
than the economic theorist must be the
final arbiter.
''The first step towards a settlement
must be q recognition of the fact that,
whilst among the agitators there is a
large element of pure passion and dew
iltry, yet behind all that and among q
more serious and intelligent class of
Western and Southern citizens there is
a deep conviction of the existence of a
grave sectional inequality and inequity,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30

the correction of which has seemed to
them possible through free coinage.
The conviction lies at the root Of the
willingness of the Western and South
ern States to help the silver miners in
their attempt to force their product
upon the Government. Tenfold more
may be accomplished towards settle
ment by a wise and conciliatOry con
sIderation of this deep seated sense of
grievance than by heated debates on
the comparative merits of gold and
silver"
Now notice that the Journal Of Com
m1eTce doesn't ~controvert nor attempt
to c%ontrovert a single argument in favor
of silver. The argument (O is simply
a TRADE against people who know more
about political economy in a day than
the Journal of Commerce will ever
know, simply and mainly because it
does not study the question. 1t says:
''The bimetellic problem viewed in it's
fundamentally scientific aspects, is one
of the most abstruse in the whole
range of economic issues" That is a
paralizing sentence. But the silver
question is as simple as anything can
be. You know that two and two are
four. You know that if you divide a
thing into halves both halves are
equal to the whole. Ifyou stop up one
of two water pipes the quantity of
water will be diminished in exact pro-
portion to the size of the pipes. If the
pipes were of equal size the quantity of
water will only be one half. The man
who can't understand the silver ques.
ton is a sorry stick. The Journal Of
Commerce may not understand it; may
not know that -four is produced by
grinding wheat, but it needn't think its
readers are all fools.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
porNcs AMONG THE BANKERS.

LYMAN J. Gage, E. g. Keith, @. J.
Blar. 81. r. Eames, J. j. Mitchell, J. J.
P. OdeIl, Chas. L. Hutchinson, Barton
L. Smith, s. W. Rawson, Geo. Schnel-
ner. John r. Walsh, all bankers, and a
number of millionaires associated with
them have petitioned President Cleve-
land to visit Chicago and aid them in
working up a public sentiment against
the reconciliation of silver, says the
Chicago EGpress.
Has it come to this that the bankers
are afraid that the people are getting
their eyes open and may turn against
them9 What do the bankers want
anyways Are they lying awake nights
to see what they can do for the peoples
Is that their record in the paste
They want the entire redemption
money Of the world to consist of gold
gold, the entire amount of which on
earth can be put into a space % feet
square. They want the entire bust
ness of this globe done on the basis of
a little chunk of yellow metal 20 feet
square.
See the result. These bankers and
their friends in railroad building and
other enterprises with the government
of the United States have borrowed of
England to the extent of s., 600, 600, 600,
the interest on which at 4 per cent. is
5000, 00O, 900 a year. Rothschild and
the other bankers of England want
that interest paid in gold and with our
annual product of gold, less than 40
millions a year, we r expected to
ante up and pay England 200 millions
of gold each year.
For the purpose of keeping up this
policy, which has made the Rothschilds,
the Belmonts, the Drexels, the Nor
gans, the Cages and the millionaire
bankers of this country, while the life
of all business has been crushed out,
the bankers are about to hold a con
vention in Chicago and they are after
Cleveland to help them.
Great blazes and little fishes! Has
it come to this9 Have the bankers got
so hard up that they have to call in this
big puddin- head whose imbecility has so
completely wrecked his party that
they can never come into power again
in this ~generation7 Great guns! He is
so unpopular that he couldn't be elected
pound master in a dozen cities in the
United States, and yet, as a drowning
man will catch at a straw, these bank
ers expect this fellow will add dignity
and give prestige to their convention.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
DIR. CALDWELL AND GROVER.

The Charlotte Observer of the 18th
inst. comes out with an editorial Sc
verely condemning The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER for endorsing what DR.. Lam
sing said about CIeveland's getting
drunk end insinuating that 'he keeps
full to the high beer mark" and de-
nounces the FARMER editor as a base
slanderer. On the following day the
Observer in it's leading editorial, is
''fully prepared to agree with the
Greenville, s. c., NeUs," that "Grover
Cleveland may be drinking a good
deal more liquor than is good for him.
The man who drinks any is liable to
drink too much" But he don't get
drunk(0 o, no. What's the matter
with Editor Caldwell, anyWay9-Hick-
org Mercury.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
A FEW MINUTES WITH "so,,,>
MONEY" ADVOCATES 0N0

The First National Bank at W..
mantle, Conn, was closed bv p(
Examiner Dooley last week ~
cashier, who died a few days apo Ia 5as
forged the names of some of the 9% u0
tors for large amounts. All are ',sos',
money" men.
James Holland, Cashier of the Fo.
ers and Merchants National BY
Charlotte, N. c., is a defaulter ~,
forger, a fugitive from justice. ~
bank loses many thousands of ~
lars. He was a Deacon in the PrasS1
terrain Church. He was a Sound on%,
rency" man.
Thomas Grady, a ''sound mons,,
man and cashier of the First Nation,
Bank, Marietta, Pa, was arrested r,
embezzlement a few days ago, r,
stood high socially and otherwise. r,
pocketed $4,000.
Banker M. A. Thayer, of Spar,
Wis , was arrested on six charges.
obtaining money under false pretens
He was bound over to court unde,
heavy bond. He was a ''sound mones
man.
The Fresno Loan and Savings BAN
conducted by ''sound money" ms
closed it's doors at San Francisco, GI'
owing ~depositors large sums.
The Aurora State Bank at Auron
Mo-, closed it's doors, owing a conside
able amount. It's managers were Da
in favor of a DECEASED currency"
Business troubles caused @. T. Eide
a banker at Pawnee City, Neb., b
commit suicide a few days ago.
The City National Bank at Font
Worth, Texas, closed the other dr
Albert Schwart, President of a lare
mercantile company, committed si
eide because the bank "debased" all
the currency he had in it. The Prea
dent Of the defunct bank has since d.
livered a lecture before the Y. M. CA
in that city. The subject was: 'Sound
Money Essential to Successful Bank
ing"
Geo. E King, City Treasurer, Glcp
cester, N. j., a ''sound money" adv,
cate. is short Sc 5000 and a fugitive
from justice.
Geo. T. Frey, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
has brought suit against A. J. Wisdom
and the Bank of Chattanooga for an
alleged shortage of $50, 900 in estate
funds deposited in the bank.
Baldwin Bros, Brokers, Boston, have
made an assignment with large liabI
ties. This firm was active for the re-
peal of the Sherman law and have re
Gently been ''sound money" men.
Alonzo Snyder, book keeper and Il
lector for the Second Baptist Churd
Chicago,a Sound money" plutocrat,ha
defaulted in the sum of $4,000 Of The
church funds.
Samuel E. Aymor, book-keeper for
the Shoe and Leather National Bank,
N. Y, was arrested on the 21st ut,
for altering the account of a life insur
ance company. He is a ''sound mong'
man and is in Jail, having failed TO
give the $15, 900 bond required.
The Bank of Roxboro, N. c., Va
robbed of all the cash on hand abOuti
week ago. A telegram from Saa
Bank Examiner Palmer brings the ID
formation that the cashier of the bank
is the guilty party, and he is now ID
jail, out of hearing of the ''sou1d
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30

business with our country have full
confidence in" Very good answer,
ANY of us are goldbugs that far. Anv
one can make an explanation of that
kind. But we want to see the man
who can prove that there is any want
OF confidence in u money. We all
know that every foot of land in coun,
try and city, every building, every
scrap of property, even the lives of our
people, are responsible for every dollar
issued by the government. Now let
us see, The Secretary of the Treasury
claims that there are about $24 per
capity in circulation, or about
81, $50, OOO, 900 in all. By way of paren-
thesis we will say that in 1866 there
were about 81, 300, 600, 900 in circula-
ton and the population was only
80, 900, 900, about half what it is now.
That shows something of the fearful
contraction and inevitable apprecia-
tion of the dollar. However, there are
not $24 per capita in circulation. No
allowance is made for money lost,
burned up or that carried to for
eign countries by travellers and ambi-
tious rich girls who marry lords and
other cattle. In addition there is much
more money locked up. But we will
grant, for sake of argument that there
are 81, $50, OOO, 900 in circulation. Be-
hind this we find property, the esti-
mated value of which amounts to
$50, coo, 0OO, 600. That, of course, is
nothing like the market value, even in
depressed times, and it would con-
stantly grow in value, the country be-
ing comparatively new, if our monetary
system was better regulated. There.
fore, every dollar has behind it not
less than e38 worth of property. Now,
what fnancier is it that ever refused
to accept a dollar, a note, a mortgage
or anything when it had a legal value
of % to 1 behind it, If a man is worth
$3S, 900 in first class property, his note
is as good for 81, 900 as the note of a
millionaire is responsible for % cents.
Yet, these Sound money" cranks have
an idea that they can fool all of the
people all the time. They can't do it.
Every school boy knows that the
clamor for sound money is a blind to
deceive; that it is false; that it is
raised entirely by bond buyers and
the few who own all the gold. Yet,
great big 200 pound men claiming to be
business men, professional men, sit
around and squeak ''sound money"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
N. r. p. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

When money don't talk it is apt to
be hush money.
If the beef trust don't let up on the
price the people will have to kill Irish
bulls. .
What has become of the tariff issuef
Seems that the bloody shirt and the
tariff rag are ne more.
One of these fine days the beef mo-
.nopoly will learn that the public have
much at steak as the trust has.
The moss growing on the backs of
some Sound -money" advocates is a
good deal longer than Senator PETERS
sPopulistic whiskers.
In the absence of statements to the
contrary it is fair to presume that
Oscar Wilde was knocked out under
Marquis of Q~ueensberry rules.
The only fifty cent dollars in circu-
lation are the gold standard dollars.
They have appreciated so much since
silver was demonetized that half Of one
will buy a dollars worth of property.
Reports from a number of county
Alliances show that there has been a
slight gain in membership during the
past three months. That is a good
sign, but we want more of q good
thing.
The New York Voice, q prohibition
organ, devotes q half-column editorial
to the task of satisfying any ane mar
that it can't demolish Coins Financial
School" Better try to fill up an ocean
by throwing pebbles into it.
Tt looks like some of the ''sound
money" belonging to the Merchants
and Farmers Bank at Charlotte has
gotten so far away that it isn't
sound" anymore-the distance is SO
great that the bank can't hear any
<isound" at all.
"a Chicago newspaper offers $50, OOO
IN cash prizes for the ten best serial
stories with a mystery in them that is
not explained until the last chapter
appears. If the Democratic editors
In North Carolina decide to compete
outsiders will get badly left.
The people of M~ecklenburg county
ought to session the editor of the Char
aotte Observer. The birth place of
liberty" should not tolerate advocates
OF men who have helped to fasten this
Fuinous English financial system on
us. The ''sons Of worthy sires" ought
to perpetuate the good name of their
ancestors. This English goldbug crime
rs athousand times more runious thar
n crime that brought on the Revo
~1utlonary war.
No, the Alliance isn't taking any
stock In the State bank cIamor
National banks are as much as we car
stand, more in fact. The man VIII
Vnlnks State banks will benefit any
BODY except the benefciaries-th
nke themselves-ought to take
plunge In cold water. Estate bank
would increase the circulation" O
course. But before you get any {
Sne circulation you would have to pa
20 or 10 per cent. for the use of i
an money should be national and ne
issued through any kind of banks.