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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-11
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY II, '96

The interest that centers around
the meeting Of the pugs in Ell Paso
dwarfs in the general mind the
meeting Of the weatherologists and
the scientists who are interested
in climatlogy as a means Of re-
storing health, that is to meet in
San Antonio next week. No
more important gathering, that
is none more fraught with future
good or i'll to this city, has ever
been called to meet within its linn
its. 1t Is of the first necessity
that this meeting have the most
ample preparation made for the
comfort and convenience Of those
who are to attend; also, that the
scientific school of this city through
its officers, and the bushes
mems association as we'll, di-
rectly interest themselves in
putting this city with its right
foot foremost at that time. All
that San Antonio needs to COM
mend her to scientific acceptance
and endorsement as the native
sanitarium for pulmonary COM
plants, is to have her real climat-
ic advantages properly known.
Out Of this meeting should issue
such general movement OF the
physicians Of the country, direct
ng patients with pulmonary COM
plants and tendencies to this re-
gion, as would add thousands OF
dollars to our revenue every week.
There is one spot in Texas where
the hand of division has as yet had
no effect on congressional pros
poets, and that is in the old
Twelfth district. 1t is to be hoped
that this one oasis in the great
desert Of democratic aridness will
preserve its republican freshness
and VigOr. The state is in need of
such an object lesson. 1t may
teach the otherrepublican sections
the need Of unity
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-11
So long as the season lasts, and

So long as the season lasts, and
the president Of the United States
can make war on the ducks of the
Potomac flats, there will be little
inquiry in the foreign Office for
any casus belIi in any direction,
Growers proficiency in duck hunt.
ing will outlast his record as
president.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-11
State Republican League Of Texas.
OFFICERS 1856.

OFFICERS lS90-B.
Presidential A Robinson, Dallas.
Yice-Presidents-Nat SulZbacher, San Anto.
MO; Dan Webster, Denison; Seth b Strong,
Seoretary-William II Atwell, Dallas.
Treasurer-B ID Atwell, Hutchins.
Organizer-Samuel l. Hahn, San Antonio.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1856.
First district-H F McGregor, Houston.
Second district-George Adams, Salem.
Third district-M ID l. Green, Merit.
Fourth district-G o Greiner, Paris.
Fifth DISTRICT b Schmitz, Denton
sixth distrlct-Jas NJ Steere, Dallas.
Seventh Districts NJ Jones, Kosse,
Eighth dstrict-W P Golf, Fort Worth,
Ninth district j l. Woodward, Taylor.
Tenth District G Schermack. La Grange.
Eleventh district-Geo Moore, Brow nsviIle.
Twelfth district-T b johnson. San Antonio.
Thirteenth district-D G Kolp, Iowa Park.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-11
DOES YOUR ROOF LFAKP

We can stop it.. A-sy Doesr Co.. Roof
Painters. Mahncke Hotel. Ii51mo
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-11
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
INeERsoLL ON LAW AND MONEY.
He Makes Clear Some of the Absurd Ar
guments of the silverites.

He Makes Clear Some of the Absurd Ar
guments of the silverites.
If you can make money by law, why
shouldn't we be rich? II 100 people
should settle on an island and form a
government and elect a legislature, they
could make laws. And if money is the
creature of law, there is no reason why
they should not be as wealthy as Great
Britain. Laughter and applause. Law
is inexhaustible [laughterl and if you
can turn it into money no nation has an
excuse for being poor.
Then there is another thing. If the
government can make money by law
and l would like to have some good
Bryan man answer the question-if the
government can make money by law,
why should the government collect tax
es? Laughter and applause. Let US
be honest. Here is poor man, with
little yoke of cattle, cultivating 40 acres
of stony ground, working like slave
in the heat of the summer, in the cold
blasts of winter, and tie government
makes him pay sic taxes, when, accord
ing to these gentlemen, it could issue a
500, goo bill in a second. Issue the bill
and give the fellow with the cattle a
rest. Laughter. Is it possible for the
mind to conceive anything more absurd
than that the government can create
money?
We-and remember it-have TO sup
port the government. Government can
not support us. And the idea that the
government can create money in poll
tics in finance, is just as absurd as the
doctrine of perpetual motion is in me-
chanics, just as idiotic as the philoso-
piers stone, just as absurd as the foun-
tain of eternal youth.
All, but they say, "What makes gold
valuable is that the law has made it a
legal tender" Again, gentlemen, you
are arguing backward. Because it was
valuable the law made it legal tender.
Making it legal tender did not give it
value; but, being valuable, the law
made it legal tender, recognizing its
value. And yet these gentlemen say that
it got all its value from the law max
ing it legal tender. 1t is exactly the
other way. The legal tender law rests
ON the value of the metal. Why is gold
valuable? l don't know. Why do peO.
pie love oysters? don't know. Jap
plause and laughter. Why do so many
people get idiotic about election? ZAP
plause don't know. But these are
facts in human nature. For some rea-
son, or for money, people give value
to gold And that value is recognized
by the lawmaking power, and that is
all there is to the legal tender act.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
Free Silverite Logic.

Yesterdays World had a clever car
toon whose idea is applicable to the dis
oussion of the currency question. 1t rep
resents an aged farmer and wife driving
their old nag at its topmost speed, which
Is slow at best, and the farmer is rep
resented as saying: "Why, she's going
a mile minute. All had to do was to
set the mileposts closer together. I" All
the dairymen have TO do is to make a
quart half its present size to double the
yield. When bushels are cut in two,
then the United States grain product
will be twice as much. That is the way
the free silver people propose to make
more money.-Utica Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
Labor,s Commission to Mexico.

The report of the commission Of in
quiry sent to Mexico by the Chicago
Trade and Labor assembly to investi-
gate the social and industrial conditions
that prevail under the silver standard
in that country was recently made pub
lie.
This commission consisted of Messrs.
Mas and Enright, members of the Chi
csgo Trade and Labor assembly, who
were selected with no reference to any
predictions ON the currency question
which they may have entertained.
The report is scathing and unan-
swerable arraignment of silver mono
metsllism as currency system. 1t is
a staggering blow to the free silver prop
uganda that seeks to deceive and be-
tray American labor. The revelations
it contains are singing rebuke to the
repudiationists who are endeavoring to
persuade American mechanics that
their condition can be improved by
Mexicanizing our currency.
In the comforts and necessities of life
the Mexican laborCrs, according to the
Investigations of Messrs. Mas and En-
right, are down to the minimum, and
in no time in history could their condi-
ton have been more dcplorable, or the
race would be extinct. Special stress is
laid on the significant fact that the
principal inducement offered capital to
invest in Mexico is the cheap native la
Dor to be found and the absence of all
danger of strikes. This fact alone should
be sufficient to impel American labor TO
resist with all its mighty power the
attempts to Mexicanize our currency.
Under the silver standard in Mexico
labor is the cheapest commodity in the
country. In Mexico "to don the raiment
of toll is to wear the garb of servility.
The toiler lives and dies a veritable
beast of burden and performs his tasks
with the impassive indifference of an
automaton.
1t deserves the careful study and con.
sideration of every intelligent American
wageworker 1t is entitled to his re-
spectful credulity, because it comes not
from economic scholars or from dreamy
sociological theorists, but from plain
toilers, ''inured to the hard knocks Of
the factory and workshop"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
The Gold Doll ar Measured by Labor.

The proper test of the value of an ar
ticle is the labor required to produce it.
The test applies as well to the gold
dollar as to everything else.
If less labor is required now to pro-
duce q gold dollar than was required in
1860 or in 1S73-that is, if a given
amount of gold will purchase less labor,
or if, in other words, wages are higher
then by the labor test, the only gen.
uine test, the gold dollar must have
gone down instead of up.
And no silver advocate has attempted
to deny that wages have risen.
The senate report on wages and prices
made in 1892 shows conclusively that
wages have increased over 6S per cent
since 1860 and nearly "a per cent since
1S70-in gold.
The purchasing power of wages has
increased over rs per cent since 1860
and nearly 80 per cent since 1870.
The cost of gold, measured by labor,
has declined Al per cent since 1860 and
nearly 90 per cent since 1870.
Taking the cost Of gold, measured by
labor, in 1860 as the standard of COM
parison, the cost of gold from 1870 to
1891, the last year included in the AL
drich senate report, has declined as fol-
lows.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
The workineman's Alternative.

If our workingmen think their wages
are too high by so per cent and would
rather have them paid in dollars that
will buy only half rs much i'll the mar
kets and at the stores, they will vote for
Mr.. Bryan and free coinage of silver.
If they think, as we do, that this would
be "free and unlimited" folly Oh their
part, they will stand by Thomas Jeffer-
sons common sense doctrine that dol
lars should be coined as near the mar
ket ratio as possible, so that they will
buy 100 cents worth of goods wherever
they are rendered. -Baltimor Sun.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
The Workingman,s Point of View.

The free silverites contend that free
coinage will increase the price of bread,
meat, butter, fowls and everything else
the workingman uses.
There is no pretense or possibility Of
pretense that it will increase the
wages of the workingman i'll anything
like the same proportion, if, indeed, it
increases them at all.
The great majority Of workingmen
work for employers who, like the rail-
roads, must pay their bonds, principal
and interest, i'll gold. If the incomes of
their employers must hereafter be in
silver, how are they to pay their obliga-
tions in gold unless they cut down ex-
penses either by reducing wages or by
dismissing some of their men?
Blood cannot be got out of turnip.
Wages can only be paid from earnings.
What possible interest can any work
ingman have in voting for debasement
of the currency which will at the same
time diminish the wage paying capac-
ity of his employer and reduce the pur-
chasing power of his wages?- New
York World.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
SwlndIing Old Soldiers.

The value of the pension secured by
the wounded veterans, whose monthly
payment from the government is in a
great many cases their sole support,
depends entirely upon its purchasing
power. If that power be high, it will
buy much larger supply of the neces-
sites of life than if calculated in cheap
dollars 1t requires no argument to
prove that, if this country adopts the
silver standard, prices as based on dol
lars containing 80 cents worth of silver
will be just twice as high as they are
now. Values will be no higher, and the
farmer or worker will get no more than
he does now, but nominal prices will be
doubled. As the number of dollars paid
for pensions is fixed, it follows that if
paid in silver dollars the pensioner
would receive only one-half as much,
measured in commodities, rent, ETC., as
he does under the gold standard.
These are facts which the silverites
have never attempted to deny. Nor have
they ever proposed to double the pen
sions which are paid to the old soldiers,
their widows and orphans. Now, then,
can they expect the country to adopt a
financial system which would dishon-
estly rob the pensioners of one-half of
their income?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
Blessings Come Double.

Capt. "Bob" Fresenius, represent
alive OF the Lone Star brewery,
saws Lone Star beer is all right,
and he can prove it. He came
down town yesterday morning
looking as happy and mysterious
as coulo be, and his friends did not
know the reason for so much hi
larity displayed until he made
anxious inquiries where he could
get a double-ender baby carriage.
Then it leaked out that two lovely
babies were presented him early
yesterday morning by Mrs. Fresen-
ius, boy and girl, and his friends
set his mind easy by promising to
order a double carriage from st.
Louis for them. Mother and child
rem are doing very nicely, and Papa
Fresenius is likely to survive, with
careful attention.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
What Makes Interest Low.

What keeps interest high is uncer-
tainty. That means lack of confidence.
That means low credit and high inter
est.
In Idaho, Montana and other far west
states the average interest OH farm
loans is over 10 per cent. Idaho has had
the severest laws enacted against usury,
but these have not made interest low.
Montana has failed to pay her own
drafts. Those who have money to loan
are afraid to lend in states where the
state itself fails to pay its debts. In
the older states where debts never have
been repudiated the interest on farm
loans averages from 81 to615 per cert.
This is because men who have money TO
loan believe that they will get their
money back. They do not have to charge
high insurance in the interest for fear
they may lose the principal.
The reason western farmers have had
to pay high interest is that those who
had money to lend were uncertain what
they would get back. They had been
uncertain because they feared repudia.
ton or debased money. Reputation by
southern states for years kept money out
of the south and kept interest high. The
free coinage movement at the west has
had the same effect.
When sound money comes to stay,
those with money to lend will be more
ready to lend it and ready to lend it
cheaper. This is truly 'cheap money"
When the last bonds were sold, the sec
Rotary of the treasury stated to congress
that he could save S16,O00,O 900 interest
if congress would say that the bonds
would be payable not only sin coin, !"
but Sin gold" People expected they
would be paid in gold but they wanted
to be sure. The difference between be-
ing half sure and being sure was $16,-
900, 900 in interest.
1t is "cheap interest" the western
farmer needs, not "cheap money" He
can get "oheap interest" with sound
money, and in no other way.
That is true of all borrowers who
need money to carry on their business.
New York World.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
The worRingman's Place.

1t is to be noted that the free silver
party is largely made up of mechanics
and workingmen. And yet no "class"
to use Mr. Bryan's phrase-would be
go quick to suffer from the adoption of
free silver, and none would suffer from
it SO long as the mechanics and work
ingmen. Their true place emphatically
is now, as ever, in the real Democratic
party-the party of Jefferson-now led
by that old Democratic warhorse, Cen
eral John NJ. Palmer. And it is good to
know that many of them so see and act
accordingly.- Hartford Times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
FREEDOM or CONTRACT.
Absurd and Revolutionary Position of the
Chicago Platform on This Question.

Absurd and Revolutionary Position of the
Chicago Platform on This Question.
The second revolutionary principle of
the Chicago Democratic platform is con-
tanned in its final clause, where legisla-a
ton is favored that will prevent the de-
monetization Of any kind of legal ten
der money by private contract. This
clause is aimed against private con-
tracts whose terms require payment to
be made in gold. However inaptly the
clause expresses this aim, or how it
would be possible for two individuals in
making contract between themselves,
in which the public has no concern, to
demonetize kind of money which the
law makes legal tender are questions
will not stop to consider. 1t is enough
to know that the Chicago Democracy
favors law which will prevent one
man from agreeing to pay another in
gold or prevent the payee from enforc-
ing payment in gold. Farmers, it seems,
are to be allowed, when they loan seed
wheat to a neighbor, to receive back as
good wheat as they gave. Livery men
who hire horses and buggies, neighbors
who loan implements and tools to anoth-
er, are not forbidden to stipulate that
the same articles shall be returned to
them, or that what is returned to them
shall be in as good condition as what
they loaned, but the man who loans
gold either for friendship or hire shall
not be permitted to stipulate that gold
shall be returned to him. The trail of
the silver producer is over it all. The
creed of the silver Democracy or of the
silver mine owner seems to be as fol-
lows:
First.-The government shall coin
into dollars all the silver bullion that
may be brought to the minis, and those
dollars shall be given back to the bull
lion owner.
Second. The government shall do
this work for nothing.
Third. government shall force
all creditors to take these dollars at 100
cents each in payment of their claims,
no matter what the dollars are actually
worth.
Fourth. Nobody shall be permitted
to make private contract for the pay
ment of money which may not be full
filled by the payment of silver. T.
| Brooks
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
Kicking Against the Pricks.

There is no doubt of the forceful and
magnetic quality of Mr.. Bryan on the
stump. He has "a wonderful facility for
making things appear what they are
not. He can, as the Irish say, talk a
bird off a bush. >" But who can contend
successfully against facts? Mr.. Bryan
would have us believe that depreciating
prices are due to deprecated silver and
appreciated gold. He has been harping
on this theme ever since he was nomi-
mated. But the markets give him the
lie. The following figures showing the
course of prices are more eloquent than
q hundred Bryans:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
Bowling Brevities.

There will be three league bow.
ling games this week.
Tonight the Ivys and Missions
bowl at Mission garden.
On November 3, election day,
the Ivys and Casinos are sched-
uled for a game, but this game
will be postponed.
The postponed game Of Septem-
Der IL between the Ivys and Hay
seeds will be played after the pres
emit schedule has been finished.
The Turner's and Casinos are
scheduled to meet tomorrow night
on the Casinos alley at Mission
garden, and the Hsyseeds ana
Sommers bowl at Sommers' garden
Thursday night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
Are you insured? Free coinage would

Are you insured? Free coinage would
sut down the value of your policy one
half by making the policy payable in 90
cent dollars instead of 100 cent dollars,
as now. Have you any money in the
bank? Free coinage would reduce the
value of it one-half for the same reason.
Do you draw a pension? Free coinage
would diminish the value of it one-half,
again for the same reason. Free coinage
would take away one-half the value of
all the money you received.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
Prices will be marked up at once.
When will wages 60 up proportionately 2
A Lack of Falth.

President Stryker of Hamilton col
lege, Utica, N. Y, in recent address,
in which he paid his respects to Candi-
date Bryan as the Absalom of finance,
made this among other telling points:
"Silver is to ''go to sl.29" upon the
election of this day dreamer. Well,
then. either the public does not think
so or does not think his election posi-
BILE Whyp Because if it did think it so
and believed he would be elected. this
same public would be buying silver,
and in view of this miracle of 100 per
cent advance would be crowding to
have share in the huge profit.
The price of silver continues to de-
cline
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
N1ade

Cures, not once or twice or hundred
times, but in thousands and thousands
Of cases. We know it cures, absolutely,
permanently cures, when all others fail to
do any good whatever.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is known to possess
merit or the power to cure disease; it is
known to be the best building-up medicine
on earth; it is known to be honestly adver-
tised, and for these reasons the people
buy and take Hoods Sarsaparilla almost
to the exclusion Of other preparations.
In fact, Merit Made and Merit Maintains
the confidence of the people in
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
Stole a Whip.

Will Casey, F-year-old white
boy, was arrested by Officer Kieffer
Saturday evening as a suspicious
character. Casey, it is said, stole
whip from William Glseser's
wagon, on West Commerce street,
and was caught trying to sell 1t to
a Mexican employed by Mr..
Glaeser, and the Mexican reported
the matter to the officer. A num-
Der of whips have been reported
stolen from buggies lately and the
officers are 'lsying" for the pur-
loiners Of the rod Of obedience.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
The Crime Of 1896.

The golden" wheat and the "sil-
YER" white cotton have united to put
about $3.50, 900, 900 more Of effete Eu-
ropes wealth into the pockets of the
American farmers than last years crop
brought. A national convention of Pop
ocrats should be called at once to de-
nounce this terrible "crime of 1896, "
which has been committed just as Bry-
ans tears were melting the hardest
heart as he sobbingly told of the sor-
rows and tribulations of the farmers. -
Louisville Post.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-26
Silver Down. Wheat Up.

Has any one observed any sympa.
thetic relatlons between the prices OF
wheat and of silver lately? While the
price of wheat has gone up about 20 per
cent during the last month, the price OF
silver has been sagging until it is now
worth only 60 or sc cents per ounce
that is, until the silver in silver dol
lar is worth only 81 cents. If wheat
and silver don't get together at this
critical period for the white metal, its
lest friends will desert it on election
day.