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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Conditions Have Changed.

We cannot compare the present
with the OLD times. The telegraph
has joined all parJs of the world to-
gether, and boat of grain cannot
leave Duluth without every market
at once knowing it. VIM. E. Glad
stone, on one side of theAtlantic, and
Frank Day on the other side, cannot
make a speech without the whole
world knowing it next day. ZAP
plause and ]aughter.)
Twelve years ago went to Duluth
and saw real estate offices with
tempting bargains offered in front and
bear traps set behind, to catch the
people coming and going. Civiliza-
tion drove the bears away, and the
hard times drove the suckers away,
and then the Duluth spectators
formed the free silver party, and
those VINO got caught went around
and tried to blame the Republican
party for the cri ne of 1873. ZAP
plause.) Men here in Mankato were
caught. The men who are yelling so
loudly for free silver in Duluth today
are the same ones who doomed real
estate so high that l could not live
there, and put acre property so high
that railroad could not get in.
These are the men who now profess TO
love the people so! Those boom eras
are the curse of any country, and par
ticularly our country, which depends
upon the common, every day people
to run the government.
The free silver medicine is like Pat
when he swallowed potato bug. A
friend told him to take paris green to
kill the bug. The remedy would kill
Pat, and the free silver medicine
would kill US. applause and laugh
ter.)
All the nations of the earth cannot
hold the parity between gold and sill
yer steady. The Republicans advise
uniting with the other nations to
get experience first. The other side
says plunge in, disaster or not.
Wouldn't you trust your business to
careful man who preferred to get ex-
perience to disaster?
Towne talks about the "bimetallic
bond of sympathy, "-the debtor try
ing to pay his debts with a cheaper
metal, to keep them at a parity, and
in this he admits the law of supply
and demand. How would it work?
If you could pay your debts in corn,
it would mean more corn rather than
higher. prices. The same is true with
silver-there would be more silver in
stead of rise in it's value.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30

ployer borrowed money from the same
works. During panicky times the people
pull out this money, and make hard times
They put it in their old stockings. where
they ought to put their feet When we
pay mortgage in SO cent dollars we are
cheating some common man in the east
There is no shorthand way to success, or
in paying our debts in 5o-cent dollars.
Such dollars would be great deal scarcer
than dollars are now. There would be
strikes and labor disturbances for the next
five years from one ocean to the other to
get back the good times. We would lose
five years, and 1 want the next five years
more than any other five years this side of
eternity and 1 am going to have it if 1
have to vote for Mckinley. (Applause.)
They tell us that England grew great on
a gold standard, and therefore we don t
want the gold standard for fear we will
grow great England has steel warships,
therefore we ought to have wooden ships.
Any old thing will do for America, accord
ing to the free silverites. applause and
laughter.
The silver men are crying for higher
prices, but when prices 60 up they are the
first to kick and denounce the plutocrats
They go through the country wagging the
tale of woe. (Laughter)
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Silver rIen Classified.

There are several kinds of silver
men. One kind really believes in free
coinage; another class don't know
much about it, but follows the party
as a man does a ship that has been
staunch in past storms -they are
simply mistaken: another class will
make money out of free silver-the
mine owners-it is no use to appeal to
a man who puts personal profit before
patriotism; the socialists, who believe
the Chicago platform the entering
wedge to Overturn existing Institu-
tions and protest against plutOcrats
aud monopolists there are lots of
these among the farmers and laboring
men-you can't appeal to these, for
they cannot understand unless you go
through a thousand theories. The
first two classes are the ones to which
| shall appeal.
The speaker took up the wheat and
silver chart of Towne and ridiculed it,.
Wheat has gone up twenty cents in
the past month, and silver has gone
down. Towne's statistics don't apply
this year, anyway.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Mr.. Bede introduced.

The Mankato band played several
good selections, after which President
Young, of the Mckinley Sound Money
club, made several announcements,
and then introduced Mr.. j. Adam
Bede, as the only Democrat on record
who had resigned an office.
Mr.. Bede opened by saying that he
was gold Democrat. The gold
Democrats have come to the Republi-
can party at present, because they
have nowhere else to 60, the Demo
Gratis and Populists having chased off
after heresies. l am Democrat and
am going to vote for Major Nc
Kinley and David ClOugh, and if /
lived in this district | would vote for
McCleary. This is where l stand. The
two parties are mixed up like Jacob
and Esau were after their long sepera-
tion, but L hope that this campaign
will result in good to the country.
Whatever they call me, an emer-
gency Republican or gold bug Demo
GRAFT, am going to vote for the United
States. l have been called clown in
the Sixth district, but if am, know
enough not to try to ride two horses
going in different directions at the
same time, as some of the PopOcrat
candidates for congress are doing.
(Applause.) The candidates on the
PopOcratic state and congressional
tickets are Republicans. When it
comes to choice between Republi.
cans, 1 prefer to vote for regular Re-
publican to very irregular one.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
His Barnum Debate.

Mr.. Bede gave witty description
of his Joint debate with Congressman
Towne, at Barnum. He repeated
some of the arguments which he used
with Towne. The latter in 1893 made
gold speeches and claimed that he had
read everything and that there was
nothing more to learn. He has
changed half a dozen times since then.
When any man, as Towne did, advises
voters to take money and then vote
as they please, he ought not to get
mad if the argument is turned on
himself as turned it on Towne about
his congressional record. Honesty in
citizenship and patriotism are the
saving elements of the nation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Why Wheat Fell.

Wheat fell after 1870 because the
opening of the Suez canal cut off a
great distance in transportation from
India. and great ocean steamers
caused Indian wheat to reach the
European market, which never ap-
peared there before 1870. At the lat
ter period Southern Russia sold 50,-
100000 bushels of wheat year in the
Liverpool market, and now sells on
the average 100,000,0 900 bushels there.
Argentine shipped no wheat to Europe
in 1870, but last year dumped 44,000,-
600 bushels there. We are ourselves
dumping spring wheat on the Liver
pool market Before 1870, we sent
40, 100000 bushels year there, and
now III 900, 900 bushels. The European
market has not kept pace with the in
creased supply, and the price went
down inevitably. Since 1898, the
panic year, we have not been consum-
ing so much wheat at home.
The farmer should diversity his pro-
ducts, and should cover his machinery
In nine cases out of ten, it is the rust
and not the trusts that is the matter
with the farmer. Where were the
wheat fields of the Northwest in 1878?
All of the great development has been
going on since the wonderful crime of
1873. Why did not Lind tell the peo-
pie not to come west after the crime
of 1873-if the crime did such damage
for the greater part have come since
that year? When hear Lind, Towne,
Day and the rest cursing the Repub-
lican party for the 'crime of 49," it
makes me wonder why they did not
get out of the party long ago if they
were honest.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
East and West.

The Popocrats are trying to make out
that there is difference Of feeling between
the east and the west. The whole popu-
lation of Nevada could go to New York
and stand on Brooklyn bridge without at
tracing the attention of the police. APP
plause. Yet the two senators from
Nevada have tried to overturn the financial
interests of the country. The east has
formed no conspiracy, as the west did that
free silver must be granted or there would
be no legislation. The speaker punctured
the alleged crime of 1873, as it has been
been punctured a thousand times during
the present campaign. He said that no
such falsehood was ever uttered from an
American rostrum as that charging the
Republican party with a crime of 1873.
Fifty-four times as many silver dollars
have been coined since 1873 as before it..
ment's stamp, if any we'll known goldsmith
will stamp it, the same as Pillsbury's Best
goes around the world with his stamp on.
The talk of a government stamp making
money and giving value to it is myth.
All the free silver countries of the world
are on free silver basis, and it is foolish
ness to say that this country could have
free silver and not be on free silver basis.
We should love every section of our coun-
try. l love the east for the enemies it has
made. When this great country calls on
the people, New England will furnish her
quota of men. I love her for her sweet
home life l love, also, this boundless
west. Here in this great field of action,
peopled by the sons of every country of the
earth, must be wrought out the final des-
tiny of the country, must be solved the
problems of the world
Great and prolonged applause followed
Mr.. Bede's speech, and he received an
ovation. Everybody went away in high
spirits, and Secretary Burgess was kept
busy passing out Mckinley buttons to for
mer silverites who had heard the truth
and seen the light.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
True Democracy.

Democrats who want to find out the
real principles of their party should go
to the great leaders of that party, just
as person goes to the highest au-
thOrity in anything. Where today are
the hard headed leaders of Democracy?
Grover Cleveland, his cabinet, and his
appointees are all for honest money.
The great party leaders in Minnesota
and every state have gone away from
the heresies rIpened in Chicago. The
Chicago platform is tumble of mad
ness which l cannot support-free
silver, packed supreme court, etc.
When | saw Pfeffer in the Sixth dis
trict thought what a grand thing it
was to live in country founded by
George Washington. and going to be
saved by bunch Of whiskers from
bleeding Kansas. Applause and
laughter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Farm HOrtgage Owners.

Who own the farm mortgages?
Rothchild and Rockefeller never did
or will own farm mortgage. They
own stocks and bonds. and they will
prosper when the farmers do. Our
common people own the farm mort
cages In the failure of the Guaranty
Loan ofMinneapolis the common, poor
people of single small Vermont town
lost $3.50, 900. By such stealing we have
forfeited the confidence of the people.
The only way to get it back is to give
them to understand that we will pay
back their mortgages in 100-cent dol
lars.
The poor people of this country own
S., 900, 900, 900 of the bank deposits of the
country They can smash every bank by
drawing it out. and the Rockefellers can
not borrow dollar. When I worked on
wages 1 deposited money, and my EN-.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Vote Straight.

Vote your ticket straight, as matter of
principle 1t is a hard thing to do
sometimes. If you all get to scratching
there is no telling where it will lead. If
only one did it, it wouldn't amount to
much. We have tried the Populists in a
few states and have never made a success
of the experiment in any state. How long
are we to try them? The Populists are
honest but something is the matter-they
must be eccentric. If you had difficult
legal proposition you would not go to
Bryan or Towne for a correct solution.
Their own partners and families are work
ing against them. They all have the gold
clause in their notes, and are working
against their own acts. (Applause.)
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30

j. Adam Bede, the master Of wit
and ridicule, the only Democrat who
ever resigned an office, the exponent
of honesty and patriotism in govern
ment, addressed an audience that
crowded Mr.. Hunts hall last night,
while scores were unable to get in.
He secured the sympathy and good
will of his audience at the start and
carried the 500 voters present to the
highest pitch of enthusiasm for the
cause of sound money. No such scene
was ever before witnessed at politi-
cal meeting held in Mankato, and no
man ever received more hearty or
sincere ovation than that which was
voluntarily accorded to Mr.. Bede at
the close of his remarkable effort of
two hours duration.
Mr.. Bede was feeling at his best,
and interjected wit, humor and pathos
into his address in such rapid success
sion that the house was in roar of
laughter or laundering applause half
of the time. He appealed to the rea.
son and knowledge of his hearers,
leaving the more theoretical argu-
ments for others and INDUCING only
in a plain, practical, common sense
talk, which instantly went to the I'M
Outstanding and heart of all within
the hall. Men who could find no seats
stood spellbound for two hours. Silver
advocates of an hour before, became
no less ardent gold men before the
speech ceased.
1t was an address such as people
seldom have the good fortune to hear
and we regret that we are unable to
publish it in full, only having space
for the main argument,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
tain parity with her, he would not
take her unless her father would
throw in a railroad for transportation.
Applause and laughter.)
Poor Mans fetal.

Gold is the poor mans metal, be-
cause he can discover a mine, wash
out the gold and sell it without CAPT.
tai or an expensive plant or railroad
transportation. No poor man owns or
can own silver mine, iron mine, or
copper mine. 1t takes millions of dol
lars to equip a silver mine. The rich
men OF New York and London-the
syndicates-own the silver mines.
This talk of silver being the poor
mans money is tiresome. Gold is
really Jhe poor mans money.
The question comes down to one of
cheap labor paying for it in cheap
dollar. | as Democrat have always
favored tariff to cover the difference
between foreign and home labor prices
The Orientals have different life
and civilization and can live much
cheaper than we can. 1t is sufficient
that we learn to compete with Europ-
can civilized nations.
We are having hard times. The
people of MankatO are not consuming
so much as formerly. Help has been
discharged, people have quit living
beyond their means. What caused
the hard times? Lack of confidence,
owing to the continual fall in silver
and agitation to restore the old party,
is one thing. The people ran into
debt during the war era. A certain
class thinks the times good if they
don't know where their money comes
from. and the Greenback party was
started to initiate the currency. When
ever there is a panic, people form a
new political party and lay the blame
on the old There was the greatest era
of speculation ever known in the
eighties, and when the boom burst it
left many stranded financially.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Why Silver Fell.

Why has silver fallen? Iron ore in
1873 was worth S12 a ton in Marquette,
Mich, but improved transportation
facilities have reduced the market
price in Duluth to $3.50 or $500
a ton. You can never get
back S12 ton for iron. You
cannot run an iron, lead or silver mine
without transportation, and you can
run gold mine without it. II is
this that has destroyed the ratio be-
tween the metals. The output has
also increased vastly. In 1865, the
soldier boys came back and began to
build up instead of destroy, and rail
roads were built to the mountains,
where the God of Nature has left all
this silver treasure. Silver mining
and smelling requires transportation
and the railroads have made silver
mining possible elsewhere than along
the rivers. There are thousands of
silver mines all along the Rockies and
Andes, awaiting transportation facili-
ties to open and run full blast. This
is the reason that the old ratio of Is
to has been destroyed, and it never
will return, and all the nations of the
earth cannot restore it. And if they
could, there is no need to do it. Gold
is so precious that no railroad trans
portation is needed Civilization has
repealed the old ratio, and you have
got to repeal civilization and demone-
tie the railroads before you can get
back that old ratio. I'll take the
civilization and railroads as my choice
between the two.
Volume and value do not hold the
same ratio. / understand that when
BRYAN gets to be president and
Charlie Towne and Frank Day get
into Congress they are going to repeal
the law of supply and demand. The
value of thing depends great deal
on the demand for that class of goods.
Is there young man in the audience
who would choose a 1,600 pound girl
to a 100 pound one? If the girl con-
tinues to grow until she weighs 3,100
pounds, while he is trying to main
EasssgSx@ esssg .S97 9.ls. $50 Slsss,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul.

Departing. Trains arriving.
No. 122-o:3OA. M No, 1O1-123O P. M,
No. 1O4-2:3O p. m. No. 123-8:00 p. m.
No. 1853 100 p. M No. 193-4:00 p. m.
No. 1872 makes close connections at Austin
with through Sleeper,-for st. Louis, Peoria,
and Kansas City, arriving 7:15 next morning.
This train also connects for La Crosse and
Chicago.
No. 1O4 makes connection with Chicago
Sleeper at Austin and Lacrosse.
J. G. MOORE, Agent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
GREAT SALES prove the great
Asa merit of Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Hoods Sarsaparilla sells because it
accomplishes GREAT CURES.

We are informed today by Mrs
]. B. Ogle that her husband is still
United States court commissioner
He expects to return in about two
weeks to open an office, and vii!
carry on his duties as commissioner
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
The Railroads.
hicago, St. Paul, MINI s Omaha Ky

Chicago, ST. Paul, MINI S Omaha by /,
GOING WEST DEPARTS
No. Kansas City d Omaha Exp. 11:13 pm.
No. B 80 & Sioux City Exp, 1925 pm.
No. 5 st. Paul M'polis & Duluth
local arrives 7:40 o. m
No. Gilmore Accommodation $50 g.. m
No. 8 6 d" $50 p. m.
GOING EAST
No, Kansas City 4 Omaha EXP, 4:22 q, m.
No. st. P, NJ. q Chicago 1856 p. m.
No. st. Paul M'polis Duluth
local 7:CO:a. m.
No. 8 Elmore Accommodation 4:O7 p. m,
No. 10 60 1912 p. m.
Nos. 1, 2, and daily,
Nos. 5 6, 8, 9 and 10, daily except Sunday
No. 7, daily except Monday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
HOLDS THEM UP TO MATCHLESS
WHAT RAILROADS AND TELEGRAPHS HAVE DONE

There are Bryan, Palmer and Nc
Kinley Democrats. [ believe in 100
cent dollar and a 100-cent vote, and
shall vote for Mckinley. am asking
Republicans to vote their own ticket.
If | can throw over party principles
and do that, the Republicans ought
to do as much.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Chicago & Northwestern

EAST BOUND Depart Arrive
tChicago Mail and Passenger 7:15 am $50 am
t*Chicago express 4:05 pm l:35 pm
Piracy 81 Waseca Accom- DIN 3:15 pm 3:55 pm
WEST BOUND.
2 akota Passenger 1928 pm LOO pm
inn. Mail and Passenger 6:35 pm ITO pm
yaseca & Tracy Accom'dn 500 am 9:35 am
Dailyexcel Sunday. fDaily.
Sleepers lkato to Chicago.
Sleepers Oh, go to Mankato.
G. E. JOHNSON, Agt
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway.
CANNON VALLEY

Depart Arrive
No. % & "a Waterville and
Faribault Accommod. 6:45 am 4:O5 pm
No. 21 & %, St. Paul, Min
neapolis and Redwing Pas
senger $40 am 9:O5pm
Daily except Sunday.
No % connects at Waterville with through
trains for Des Moines; also with free chair car
to Denver, via Kansas City and Topeka. No
81 connects with through trains having through
sleepers for Chicago, st. Louis and Kansai City.
Information regarding rates, routes, etc.,
che ully furnished upon application to
F.F. POWERS, Agent
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
STAGE SCHEDULE.

Between Mankato, St. Clair and Minnesota
Lake.
Leave Mankato daily at TOO a. m.
Arrive at st. Clair daily at 10:45 a. m.
Leave Minnesota Lake at 900 a. m. Mondav
Arrive at st. Clair at 81 p m.
Leave ST. Clair daily at 2:45 p. m.
Leave Mankato daily at 6:15 p. m.
Arrive st. Clair Tuesday at 90 &. m.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-05

One of our evening contempora-
ries takes the plebiscite howl of a
few oppositionists in a serious vein.
There is really no cause for this.
The men who are booming the
scheme can be numbered on the
two hands, and their influence has
an effect upon perhaps one hun
dred men in the country. The only
thing these so-called oppositionists
want is something they do not al
present possess. Give them the full
desire of their hearts today, anc
tomorrow they will have something
new to cry out about. They are
like children who find amusement
in marching up a hill and down
again. And without exception they
come down from their high horses
when faced with anything in refu
tation of their claims and state
ments. The country is still safe
and G.. Willie Ashford will sum
mer for several more seasons with
out the vale of the Paradise of the
Pacific.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-05

The man who says advertising
does not pay, while once listened
to, is now put down as among
those who live in the sweet obliv
ion of the past. But the energetic
money making business man does
not have to be lectured on the sub
iect. In fact, this latter class have
made advertising so much portion
of their business, and raised the
standards to such a high plane that
now Dame Fashion Is taking a hand
In the work and making advertis-
ing studies a fashionable fad. A
young Boston lady set the ball roll
ing by entertaining her friends at
an advertising evening. Portions
of well known ''ads" appearing in
newspapers, magazines and street
cars were distributed among the
guests. From the pictures or strik-
ing lines of the advertisements the
guests were to recall the entire
wording as it appeared in the pub
locations, the prize going to the one
giving the greatest number of cor
rect answers. The young Boston
lady is to be congratulated upon
having picked up such sensible
method of amusing an evening
company. Let the good work go on.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-05

Some time ago it was announced
that w. r. Hearst, proprietor of
the San Francisco Examiner and
New York Journal, was to estab-
fish a new paper in Chicago and
give the pork packers points on up
to-date journalism. 1t now appears
that Mr.. Hearst has actually hired
two pages in the Chicago Record
to use during the election. Hearst
always was a shrewd young man.
His Chicago venture will probably
90 no further.