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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-22


provement on the churn daSher a
treadle and fan for sewing ma
chine and cast iron tomb stone.
The European powers have let up
talking about knocking the chip
from Uncle Sans shoulder and are
now playing war checkers with
each other. Let 'em fight, we say,
but they must keep at a distance
from our shores.
W. G. Pierce formerly Briley's)
has an attractive new ad. in today'S
paper; ladies, see what he says as
to his new stock of dress goods,
silks, embroidery, etc. Mr.. Harry
Cook will be pleased to show all new
goods to his many lady friends.
The local insurance orders here
are vieing with each other in work
ing up a membership for their or
ders. They know they have got
good thing if they should die $4,000
or $4,000 insurance. and they want
all other men to be equally as well
dved.
Mr., W. G. Bussell, of Magnolia, rep
resenting S. G. Dreyfus & Co., of
Shreveport, was in the city yester-
day. He is a most clever gentle
man, and a hustler tor business He
is an old time friend of the editor
of this paper, and we are pleased to
see him doing well.
Mr. Chic has many men at work
on the inside decorations of his
Opera House Saloon He will re-
furnish it with new bar fixtures, as
well as decorate the walls with new
papering. He will have it a hand
some place before he throws it
open to the public,
A sympathiser with Cuba in our
city, was asked to have Havana"
but he excused himself on patriotic
grounds-he added however that
the insult offered him could be
wiped out by a glass of beer. The
last time we saw him he was blow
ing the foam from the glass.
Those gentlemen who we're ex-
amined for free delivery clerks are
getting impatient to hear from
Washington. Imagine 45 or 30 men
with their ear to the key hole of
expectation awaiting places to be
filled with six or seven of them.
The suspense must be truly trying.
The citizens living in the fifth
ward, Texas side, would like to have
a couple or three lights on Maple
street and one or two on State
street. Now that license has been
voted back there and money COM
ing in, the city can afford to spend
some money in lighting its streets,
1t is time that cows and hogs
were driven off the streets of Tex,
arkana. No frst-class city allows
such animals to run at large upon
the city, as it is a nuisance pure
and simple. We hope to see our
next Legislature so amend the law
as to allow this nuisance to be
abated.
Thos. ]. Dickson, of Kansas City,
a converted iufdel and fine
speaker, will deliver a lecture at the
State Line Methodist church to.
night, on the subject of ''The
Fallacies of Ingersoll." Everybody
invited-admittance free. MIR. Dick
son has had crowded houses all
through Texas.
A drummer got sassy to the City
Marshal yesterday, when he was in
formed that he must have license
to tack up his bills, He said to the
chief: "Ir you will go and attend
to your own business, you will get
along better" Here the Marshal
arrested the jimmy fresh" and
took him down the street to see the
Mayor,
Lecturer Hastings, delivered a
lecture on Friday night at the
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-22

The citizens living in the fifth
ward, Texas side, would like to have
couple or three lights on Maple
street and one or two on State
street. Now that license has been
voted back there and money COM
ing in, the city can afford to spend
some money in lighting its streets,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-22
ANNOUNCEMENT FEES.

Election, Tuesday, April 18th, 1896.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-22

OF his defeating Jones,
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the platform and find in it a single SEN
tence that justified the language used
by General Harrison AS he said, the
Democratic platforms criticism Of the
supreme court is not one bit stronger
than that contained in the platform
upon which Lincoln was elected in
1850; and anything that I have said
has not been any stronger than that
used by Abraham Lincoln. both before
and after his election
The declaration in the Democratic
platform on the subject of federal in
reference in local affairs is nothing
more or less than a. reaffirmation of the
doctrine of state sovereignty as laid
down by Chief Justice Marshall iis the
case of McCulloch VS.. the State of
Maryland. Said he: In America the
powers of sovereignty are divided be-
tween the government of the Union and
those OF the states. They are each SOW
ereign with respect to the objects COM
mitted to it, and neither sovereign with
respect to the objects committed to the
Other
In standing upon the Chicago plat
form Mr.. Bryan stands upon that doe
Urine. If the platform is anarchistic,
so IL the doctrine of the supreme court
as laid down by Chief Justice Marshall.
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TOM WATSON.

One of the features of this campaign
is the candidacy of Tom Watson for
vice president. While 1T is diverting
to those who view it carelessly, it is
fraught with some dangerous possibili-
ties.
When the campaign for free coinage
was got under Roadway last spring
there was general concurrence in the
opinion that there should be close
union of all the silver forces. The
nomination of Mr.. Bryan developed this
sentiment into a fixed resolution on the
part OF the friends Of silver to get
together" the candidate being so emf
nently satisfactory to silver men of all
shades of belief 1t at once became
apparent that the Populists also would
name him. When their convention met
this was done. But there was middle
of-the-road element in that convention
It could not defeat the nomination of
Bryan, but under the leadership of the
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THE QUESTION OF PARITY.

In one of the speeches made by him
on Tuesday, Major Mckinley used the
argument that free coinage would give
US fifty-three-cent dollar. He as
serted that depositors in savings banks
and the beneficiaries of life insurance
policies would be paid in money worth
only f1fty-three cents on the dollar, and
that wage earners would suffer from
depreciation Of the value of the dol
lars given them in exchange for their
work.
This is a common form of appeal.
The gold standard people dfstort the
claim of the advocates of birnetallism
1t is fundamental contention of the
supporters Of free coinage that their
policy would increase the prices of prod
ucts, this, of course, being based upon
the quantitative theory of money so
universally accepted among the lead
ing financial students of the world.
The gold people, Selling upon the claim.
admit that prices would advance, but.
ignoring the financial truth involved.
anege that the advance would be
SoOoOO ny OSOdSSu1Oll VI The coinage.
Moreover, with amazing effrontery.
they pretend to believe that bimetal
lists deliberately propose to debase the
currency to bring about an advance of
prices. The principle involved is
carefully pushed into the background,
and an effort is made to induce the
public to believe that the free coinage
advocates base their promise of adj
vancing. prices upon debasement of
the dollar The bimetallists are
charged with a purpose to make the
dollar worth only ffty-three cents in
the current transactions of the people:
and upon this false basis are founded
all the appeals of the money power to
workingmen. savings banks patrons
holders of life insurance policies. pen
sioners and others
It is highly interesting to find Major
Mckinley making use of this form of
argument Only a few years ago he
was openly supporting the theory upon
which the bimetsllists rely. And.
moreover, in his recent letter Of ac-
ceptance, he made a statement in
which he inadvertently disclosed how
silver and gold would be placed upon
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1.-THE SILVER CONSPIRACY

It is a favorite charge with the OPP
ponents of free silver that those who
favor it do so because they have a. per-
sonal interest in the matter. 1t is
charged that there is a great silver
trust whose object is to secure the re-
monetization Of silver that the members
of the trust may profit thereby.
Of the existence of this trust we
know nothing save what we learn from
anti-silver sources. But if it did exist,
which it does not, what of it? The ben
efits to follow free silver would come
in spite of the trust, and if it should
bring them about, it would merit the
thanks of the people. It's existence is
a myth originating in the brain Of the
goldbug.
The most constant and familiar ar
gument that the gold standard press
and speakers make against free silver
is that it would make the dollar worth
but fifty-three cents; that while free
silver would raise the price of products
of all kinds, yet the dollar would be de-
preciated.
If under free coinage the dollar would
only be worth fifty-three cents, which
is the present commercial value of the
bullion in silver dollar, how or where
in would the silver mine owners profit
by the free coinage of silver? If the
theory of the anti-free silver men is
correct they would not profit by it.
If free coinage brought the CONNER
cial price of silver bullion up to it's
mint price, and the silver mine owners
profted thereby, as they certainly
would and should, then there would
have been no debasement of the cur
rency, no depreciation Of the dollar.
When the gold standard advocates
say that there is a. conspiracy among
the silver mine owners to secure the
reconciliation Of silver that the price
of their mine products may be doubled,
and at the same time declare that the
silver dollar would only be worth fifty
three cents, they contradict themselves
and demonstrate that the position they
take on the subject is an untenable
one
The contradictoriness of their argu-
ments and the zeal with which they
oppose bimetallism and advocate mono
metalIsm, makes it clear that they
want gold as the only money metal be-
cause its scarcity makes it appreciate
rapidly and continually.
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THE SALT LAKE HERALD. THURSDAY, OCTOBER l. 1895.

and maintained at a parity if free
coinage were restored. In that letter
the Republican candidate stated that
the only people who would be benefited
by free coinage were the owners Of
silver bullion They would be able to
take fifty-three cents worth of bullion
to the mint, get a dollar for it and
use the dollar in the payment of debts.
The questions are often asked: How
will free coinage restore the parity?
In what manner will the wealth and
vast business transactions of the coun-
try influence the result? In Nc
Kinley's statement the key to the an
swers is found.
If the owners of silver bullion can
have it turned into dollars and use
the dollars in the liquidation of debts
which they undoubtedly can-then
all who may become owners OF bull
lion will have the same privilege.
Every man who has silver, whether in
the form of bullion or coin, will be
able to use it in discharging his obi
cations. The volume of business trans
acted in the country is enormous; the
amount of debts outstanding at any
given time is practically beyond COM
putation. In the event of free coinage
being established every debtor whose
obligations were payable in current
funds would be in the market as a
bidder for silver so long as there
should be any difference between its
bullion and coming values. 1t can
readily be seen that this demand would
at once advance silver to par. There
would be no fifty-three cent dollar.
The amount Of silver available would
be so small in proportion to the de-
mand that the market could not be
glutted. The ratio being near the
normal figure, the parity would quick
ly be established firmly and no one
would thereafter think of there being
any possibility of loss on either coin.
In the meantime. under the opera
ton of natural laws. the elevation of
prices would be inaugurated; business
would lift it's dropping head; prosperity
would emerge from the caves into
which it has been driven and again
walk abroad among the people, and all
would realize that unreasonable bene-
fits had been secured to them by the
change.
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ANOTHER GONE.

Another gone! Alas, one more
Deluded by q Woman's trickl
Another stalwart bachelor
To figure as a Benedick!
"a marriage" see, has been arranged
Between Miss Blank and''-yes, and
My well-loved friend you must have
changed:
You, of all men alive, to marry!
At Cambridge. on debating nights,
Brown and yourself shone in the lists
AS valiant foes of "Woman's Rights
A pair of stanch misogyniStS;
How Valueless your speeches prove!
Brown, too, 1 understand, is fated
To make like you the deadly move
But, though I mourn for you, my friend,
My fears are not for you alone;
This fall of yours, does it portend
A like disaster of my own?
Is love a brief insanity
Which seizes all of us? Shall no men
Escape it's raYages? Shall [
Become a lover? AbSit omen!
Oh, Maud, or Muriel. or Kate!
Your name, from force of circumstance,
cannot definitely state;
Let me entreat you in advance:
Oh, unknown maid whom shall L WOO,
Let me put forward my petition
Before you have reduced me to
a semi-imbeciie condition.
When, on some fragrant summer eve,
| VOW that you are quite divine,
And ask you simply to believe
There never was such love as mine,
Despise such platitudes as those,
From my demented self protect me,
And if / finally propose,
Be kind. be generous and reject me!
London World
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It is quite manifest that Henry c.
Payne aspires to the distinction of be-
ing the rainbow chaser of this cam
paign. His estimate published this
morning looks like the work of a child.
For instance, he puts Idaho in the
doubtful column. There will be at
least three Bryan votes cast in that
state for every one cast for Mckinley.
He claims California and Oregon as
reasonably certain for Mckinley.
when they are absolutely certain to
go for Bryan. Nor is there any ap-
parent chance for Mckinley to carry
Washington, Nebraska or Kansas.
though Payne claims those states as
reasonably certain for his candidate.
When he makes such absurd claims in
the west, IT is reasonable to assume
that he Is equally wild with respect to
the situation elsewhere, and that the
Democratic estimate as given in the
Geographic columns is much more
nearly accurate.
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WHAT Is THE DIFFERENCE:

Senator Cannon said at Provo, $50
help me God, 1 will not aid in passing
a tariff bill until we get proper tinan-
cial legislation" 1t is claimed by The
Ogden Journal that L. Holbrook occu-
pies a similar position. If he does, then
there is not much difference between
him and the free trade candidate, w.
H. King. Protectionists would like to
know just how Mr.. Holbrook does stand
on this question.
That is what the Provo Enquirer says.
Why this sudden anxiety to know how
Mr.. Holbrook stands as to which is the
paramount issue, free silver or tariff +?
reflect can easily find out.
The Silver Republicans called a con-
vention to nominate congressional
candidate. The call was wholly outside
the regular party organization, and
was made because the Silver Republi.
cans placed the silver issue before all
others, taking the same position that
Senator Cannon did in the senate when
he voted against the Dingley bill.
Bearing in mind all these facts, is it
at all likely that the Silver Republicans
would have nominated as their con-
gressional candidate any man who was
not thoroughly in accord with them on
this vital question? Why was Mr.. Hol-
brook in the Silver Republican con-
vention? Simply because he held the
same views as to what is the paramount
issue in this campaign that all The
other delegates did And their posi-
ton was exactly the position that SEN
ator Cannon took.
We should have no hesitation in say
ing that Mr.. Holbrook, were he to be
elected, would vote against all tariff
legislation until legislation in behalf
Of free silver should be obtained.
Our contemporary says it would ike
to know just how Mr.. Holbrook stands
on the question. We should be glad to
know just why our contemporary is so
anxious to know. 1t will satisfy a great
many minds that are wondering why it
is so anxious about the matter if it wils
explain.
What is the difference how he stands
on the question?
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sANCTITY OF SUPREME COURT DE-
CISIONS.

The opinion of Professor W. G. Sum-
ner of Yale university regarding the
sapcyity OF decision of the supreme
court was expressed in 1873 as follows:
1T Ghe second legal tender decision)
did as great a wrong as the bred Scott
decision, and the latter instance shows
that ii is not useless to discuss a con-
titudional question even after the court
has decided" Now apply that to pres
ent conditions and what do we get? The
class in anarchy may answer.
SO says the Springfield, Mass, Re
publican We do not belong to the
class in anarchy Chat class seems to
be found exclusively at Yale), but we
will answer. We give the answer that
the supreme court has and is entitled
to the highest respect Of every lover of
his country; and the further answer
that that august body is not infallible
and not always above just criticism.
Being composed of men, though they be
men of learning, integrity and the high
est ideals, they are still men, swayed
by the same passions and influences
that other men are, though less fire.
quently. That they are so swayed I'M
consciously does not affect the fact
that they are swayed.
A man is no more free from the So
cial influences surrounding him than
from the atmospheric influences sur
rounding him. It is our firm belief that
it was social influences and not legal
arguments that caused Mr.. Justice
Shiras to change front on The income
tax decision, though he was uncon-
sciously influenced by them.
We fancy this is not exactly the kind
of an answer the Republican expected.
The sanctity of a supreme court decis-
ion is just the sanctity of its good rea-
soning and sound law; nothing more.
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GIVE AID TO CHAIRMAN JONES.

Chairman Jones, of the National DEM
ocratic committee, says the committee
is out of funds. If that condition OF
things is allowed to continue it means
that the campaign in behalf of free
silver and the uplifting of the people
will be seriously crippled. If the ma
tional committee has no funds it can
make no free silver propaganda, neither
by way Of speakers nor by way of lit
erature.
Senator Jones and his advisers have
conducted an admirable campaign.
They have brought matters TO that state
where success is already in sight, but
it is not yet attained. If their hands
are NOT upheld now and at this critical
juncture, it may not be attained. Can
the people Of Utah. who are so deeply
Interested in the success of the free
silver cause. afford to be apatheitic now?
Times are hard in Utah as elsewhere,
but it is within the power of her peo-
pie to do far more TO aid the common
cause of silver than they are doing. II
the people of a silver producing state
will not give freely, according to their
ability, how can they expect the people
Of other states to give freely to the sill
yer cause? It is the duty of the peo-
pie of the silver states to lead in this
matter.
The story is abroad in the east, ''in
the enemy's country" that there has
been raised in the state of Utah silver
campaign fund of one million dollars.
What great joy would it give us to say
that the story is true, for it would
mean success assured. But. alas! how
great is the story and how small the
contributions. 1t will surprise the peo-
pie of Utah, it should chagrin them, 90
learn that there has been sent from
this state to Chairman Jones less than
ten thousand dollars. There isn't a
mining camp in the state that shouldn't
have done better than that
1t is less than five weeks TO election
day. 1t is not yet too late to give Chair
man Jones the financial aid he needs,
but if there is any considerable delay
it may be too late.
Let every person in the state who is
in free silver hand in his or
her subscription forthwith, always re-
that many a mickle makes a
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great delegation from Texas, it evolved
a result that no one had thought of as
being a possibility, attacking the tail
of the ticket and putting up Watson in
stead of Sewall
The Texas Populists who were re-
sponsible for Watson's nomination have
gone into a combination with the Re
publicans designed to give the electoral
vote of the state to Mckinley. Not
withstanding this fact, Watson is on a
transforming tour. posing as the special
friend of the silver cause and demand
ing recognition. If he cannot secure
division of the electors, he threatens
to run a dle-of-the-road ticket. In
Colorado he has reused his followers
and the latter are arranging to run an
independent ticket. 1t can do no harm
there, but the same programme is
threatened in Kansas, where it would
be dangerous.
Watson may not succeed in launching
independent tickets, but his appeals
cannot fail to have an injurious effect
upon the Bryan vote. Wherever he has
a contest on hand he announces that
the full Popuiist vote cannot be polled
for the ticket unless he is accorded
recognition, and this sentiment finds an
echo in the minds of some in every
section.
The Georgian protests he is earnestly
for Bryan, but he does mischief wher-
ever he goes. The inconsistency of his
course has become so glazing that the
charge is openly made that he is in
the pay of Mark Hanna. There is no
evidence to support that charge, but it
is certainly true that he is a dangerous
character, and the Populists should find
some way to cage him. It was all right
for the Populisls Of any state to make
honorable efforts to secure division
Of electors; it was perhaps all right for
such division to be made when 1T
seemed best to those in charge; but it is
all wrong to permit Tom Watson to stir
up discord and spirit of revolt in
those states where there has been no
division of electors.
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BRYAN,s TAMMANY SPEECH.

Mr.. Bryan's speech in Tammany Hall
was one of the best he has made. At
the very outset he launched forth in
defence of the Chicago platforms dec
laration against federal interference
in local affairs, quoting ex-President
Harrison's remarks upon it. What Mr..
Bryan said in regard to the plank will
meet with the hearty Endorsement of
every true Democrat. There is no at
tack upon the supreme court in the
Democratic platform, and those who
say there is do so from lack of ability
to comprehend the meaning OF the
plank or from mere perverseness.
Mr.. Bryan challenged any one to read
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THE HERALD "a a franchise mem
be- at The United Press, and re-
ceires rkse complete leased wire
Overland and Pacific Coast news re-
ports OF The United Associated Press
es, embracing accurate Intelligence
OF all current events in Ghe whole
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sion of the latest news UP CHI the
hour of going 10 press.
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versity who interrupted Mr.. Bryan's
speech at New Haven disgraced their
college and the city in which it is stu
ated. We observe that college boys are
very apt to call themselves men, and
these students would probably resent the
imputation if their right to the title of
gentlemen were questioned. There was
nothing manly in their action, and, II
good breeding is essential. to a gentle
man, they showed themselves conspicu-
ously deficient in this quality.-Boston
Harald