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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01
A CONGRESSMAN MoBBED
Arkansas Mounlaineers Handle
a Candidate Roughly.

Fort Smith, Ark Aug. 2S.-
Congressman Hugh A. Dins
more of the Fifth Arkansas dis.
trict and ex United States min
lister to Corea, was mobbed at
a political speaking at Eglan
tine, Van Buren, county, Wed
nesday, and sustained injuries
which will coniine him to his
bed for some time to come.
The congressman was rough
lY handled and but for the in
reference of friends he would
probably have suffered much
worse injuries. Dinsmore was
recently renominated for third
term in congress and has been
stumping his district. He spoke
at Byzantine Wednesday and
divided the time with Jerry
Seaman, a local candidate. Van
Buren, is a rural mountain coun
ty, and the audience was in
sympathy with Seaman. Dur
ing a heated discussion the
speakers became involved in a
personal alteration and the
crowd mobbed the congress
man. He was knocked to the
ground and Scanlan's friends
pounced upon him, breat-
ing him severely. Dinsmore's
friends took a hand in the
melee and stopped the assault,
when it was found that Mr.
Dinsmore had been badly hruis
ed and that one of his ankles
had been broken.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01

Tuffold Knutt: "Wot does all
this talk about 16 to l mean,
anyhow" Mosely Wraggs: ut
means that wen yon cit a gold
dollar you kin take il to a bank
an git 10 silver dollars fur it.
You're the dernedest ignorum-
mus I ever scent -Chicago
Fttbuus.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01

Watts Been reading any
thing about these Cuban afro
cities??" Potts: mo. I've got a
box of them at home yet, that
my wife bought three months
ago from an alleged SNUG
gler. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01
DETAILS OF THE ASSAULT.

DETAILS OF THE ASSAULT
Little Rock, Ark, August %
"Details Of the assault upon
Congressman Dinsmore at En-
glautine have been brought to
this city by a gentleman who
claims to have been at 'the
speaking, which would indicate
that the affair was much worse
than reported.
according 10 this authority
four men made a wanton as
sault upon the congressman
and beat him terribly, his eyes
being gouged, his face badly
scratched and his leg broken
before his assailants could be
pulled off. Mr.. Dinsmore had
finished his speech and was
seated, and Seaman, a populist,
was addressing the crowd. In
the course of his speech Scan
Ian called Dinsmore 4 liar,
whereupon the congressman
struck Seaman in the face. I'M
mediately four Of Scanlan's
friends attacked Dinsmore and
knocked him to the ground.
While some Of them beat him
in The face with their fists,
others kicked him in the ribs
and jumped on him with heavy
boots. Mr.Dinsinore was power
less against the assault, and be
fore his friends conid get to
him he was almost insensible.
A physician dressed Mr.. DiDs-
more's wounds and lie was
taken to Clinton, where he will
be confined to his room for sew
eral weeks.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01
SITUATION IN ZANZIBAR.

LondoL, Aug. a9.-The
Times in its editorial this
morning apparently regards
the news from Zanzibar as in
dicating that England is resoIv
ed to preserve the status quo
and Lord Salisbury evidently
considers that financial and
political reasons stand in the
way of the annexation of Fan
zioar.
The Times is Of the opinion
that Lord Salisbury is not GER
tain that France and Germany
will readily consent to aban-
don their rights and consular
jurisdiction on the Island of
Zanzibar. (
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01
FOR RER-T.

The Miller's Hotel building hav-
ing been completely repaired is Of
fered for; rent for hotel purpost d
Reasopabia rates. Apply 10 Fran
tisSp 9tajti5r
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01
From and after June 18Th, 1896
regular passenger train will
run as follows:
Passenger Train between Browns
vile and Point Isabel in effect
on and after June Is.
REGULAR TRAIN.
EXCURSION TRAINS.

1--we ByiIle every Saturday at 5.p. m.
Sunday ga. m.
,, Pt.Isabel ;, >, 4.p. m
Excursion tickets are good until Mon
day mornings train,
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FIRST class. round 7trips transferable
to members Of ones family good unit
September 90th 1896, will be sold for
S25. 90 Mexican coin.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01
ASK the recovered

ASK the recovered
oyspeptics, bilious
sufferers, victims of
fever and ague, the
mercurial 4 c ased
patient, how they re-
covered health, cheer
ful spirits and good
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MONS LIVER REGu-
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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01

81 nev& seem to be able to
agree with you, she said.
yet" he retorted, q distinct
ly remember your being on my
side upon one occasion " So,
saying, Adam threw trium-
plant glance at Eve and took
a turn around the garden alone.
New York World.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

The gold standard men say free
coinage will benefit the silver mine
owner by giving him $1.29 for his
ounce of silver, and at the same
time say our dollar under free coin
age will be worth only SO cents
And in this contradicting them
selves the silver men gain strength
they could not otherwise obtain.
The gold men were silver men too
long and too recently to be consist
ent thus early in the campaign
East Oregonian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07
------'---------------
FALSE PROPHETS.

In 1878 when the Bland Allison
law was being discussed, the op-
ponents of silver, declared that if
more than fifty millions of silver
dollars were coined, gold would be
driven from the country, and we
would be ruined. But there were
two hundred millions of these dol
lars coined, and there was no ex-
pulsion of gold, but large imports.
When the Sherman law was re-
pealed, Mr.. Sherman is reported to
have said, I'm ten days the skies
will brighten, business will resume
its ordinary course, and the clouds
that lower upon our house will be
in the deep bosom of the ocean
buried" We all know how COM
pletely that prophecy has failed.
When Blackburn was defeated
in Kentucky, the gold advocates
claimed that the "silver craze"
was dead, and they pretended to
be full of enthusiasm about the
prosperity that they saw coming
on angels wings to bless the
country. 1t is still coming" "
Now they say it is the "threat Of
free silver" and, if Bryan is de-
feated and Mckinley is elected,
the whole land, we are assured
will literally flow with milk and
honey.
As prophets, the gold champions
have been discredited and con-
demned by the utter failure of
every prophecy they have made
since the silver agitation began.
Let the people now do a little
independent thinking for them
selves, disregard the mournful
croakings of the money lender,
elect Bryan and Sewall and try
the effect of a genuine American
policy for the American people,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07
The Democratic Platform.

The platform which has been heralded
to the people OF these United Ststes by
the democratic party in convention as
sembl ID, on which it is predicted the
brill mt Bryan will be swept to victory
by tidal wave is as follows:
We, the democrats OF the United States,
in national convention assembled, do re-
affirm our allegiance to these great essen.
tial principles of justice and liberty upon
which cur institutions are founded, and
which the democratic party has main
tanned from Jefferson's time to our own
freedom OF speech, freedom of the press,
freedom OF conscience, the preservation
of personal rights, the equality of all
citizens before the law, and the faithful
observance Of constitutional limitations.
Recognizing that the money question
is paramount to all others at this time,
we invite attention to the fact that the
federal constitution names silver and
gold together as the money metals OF the
United States, and that the first coinage
law passed by congress under the consti.
tuition made the silver dollar the unit OF
value and admitted gold to free coinage,
at ratio measured by the silver dollar
unit.
We declare that the act of 1873 de-
monetizing silver without the knowledge
or approval OF the American people has
resulted in the appreciation of gold and
corresponding fall in the prices OF
commodities produced by the people; a
heavy increase in the burden of taxation,
and OF all debts, public and private; the
enrichment OF the money-lending classes
at home and abroad; paralysis OF indus
tries and impoverishment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to the sin-
gle gold standard, which has locked fast
the prosperity of an industrious people
| in the paralysis OF hard times. Gold
monometallism ia British policy
founded upon British greed for gain aud
power, and its general adoption has
brought other nations into financial ser.
vitude to London. 1t is not only un-
American, but anti-American, and it can
be fastened upon the United States only
by the sitting Of that indomitable spirit
and love OF liberty which proclaimed our
political independence in 1776 and won
it in the war of the Revolution.
We demand the immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage OF gold
| and silver at the present legal ratio OF Ii
to 1, without waiting for the aid or con-
sent OF any other nation. We demand
that the standard silver dollar shall be a
full legal tender, equally with gold, for
all debts, public and private, and we
favor such legislation as will prevent the
| demonstration of any kind of legal
tender money by private contract.
We are opposed to the policy and practice
OF ofsurrendering to holders of obligations OF
the United states any option reserved by
law to the government of redeeming such
obligations in either silver coin or gold
coin.
We are opposed to the issuing Of
interest bearing bonds of the United
States in time Of peace, and condemn
trafficing with banking syndicates which,
in exchange for bonds at an enormous
profit to themselves, supply the federal
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07
advertising rates within the re

care as is essential to securing the
best results. In addition to the
effects of hard times we have the
encouragement resulting from the
failure of the crop, and in consequ-
ence a great proportion of orchards
are badly cared for this year. The
permanent damage which will re-
suit from this neglect can not easily
be estimated, but it will be great.
The grower who does not allow
himselfto become discouraged but
gives his orchard just as good care
as if it was bringing him good re-
turns, will get his reward in time.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

use of either gold or silver as
money is to abridge the quantity
of circulating medium, and is Ii
able to all the objections which
arise from a comparison Of the ben
efits of full circulation with the
evils of a scanty circulation |
take no risk in saying that the ben
efits of a full circulation, and the
evils of a scanty' circulation, are
both immeasurably greater today
than they were when Mr.. Hamilton
uttered these weighty words, al
ways provided that the circulation
is one Of actual money, and not of
deprecated promises to pay
"In the report from which | have
already quoted, Mr.. Hamilton ar
CUES at length in favor of a double
standard, and all the subsequent
experience of ninety years has
brought out no clearer statement of
the case, or developed more COM
plete comprehension of this subtle
and difficult subject. 'On the
whole, says Mr.. Hamilton, it seems
most advisable not to attach the
unit exclusively to either of the
metals, because this cannot be done
effectually without destroying the
office and character of one of them
as money, and reducing it to the
situation of mere merchandise
Mr.. Hamilton wisely concludes
that this reduction Of either Of the
metals to mere merchandise Il
again quote his exact words) would
probably be greater evil than oc-
casional variations in the unit
from the fluctuations in the ,ela-
tive value of the metals, especially
if care be taken to regulate the
proportion between them, with an
eye to their average commercial
value | do not think that this
country, holding SO vast proper
tion of the worlds supply of silver
in its mountains and its mines, can
afford to reduce the metal to the
situation of mere merchandise
If silver ceases to be used as money
in Europe and America, the mines
Of the Pacifi, slope will be closed
and dead, Mining enterprises of
the gigantic scale existing in this
country cannot be carried on to
provide backs for mirrors, and to
manufacture cream pitchers and
sugar bowls. A source of incalcul-
able wealth to this entire country
is destroyed the moment silver is
permenantly disused as money. It
is for us to check that tendency
and bring the continent of Europe
back to the full recognition of the
value of the metal as medium Of
exchange"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

THE goldbugs are chuckling
good deal because they have all
the money on their side, and are
tauntingly asking the silver men,
"Where are you going to get your
campaign funds?" Uucle Dick
Bland answers it effectively. He
says; "This Campaign for silver
is a movement of the common
people. We need no Doodle. We
are not afraid of Doodle. See how
the free silver cause has spread
from farm to farm, from town to
town, from state to state, until it
embraces every part Of the country
All this happened without the use
of money. We are right. That is
our campaign fund."-Scout.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

Do not make up your mind to
vote until you investigate and find
out whom all the trusts and COM
bines will support TOR president,
If all the railway combinations
and deadbeat politicians and cor
poration tools are for a man, the
people must vote solidly against
him.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07
BLAINE ON SILVER.

HERE is another extract from
Blaine's speech in favor of silver.
The speech was made February 7,
1878, in the senate during the de-
bate on the bill for the recoinage Of
the silver dollar and to fix its STAN
dard value. Among other things,
Mr.. Blaine said:
"The responsibility of re-estab-
lishing silver in its ancient and
honorable place as money in Europe
and America, devolves really upon
the congress of the United States.
If we act here with wisdom and
hrmness, we shall not only success
fully remonetize silver, and bring
it into general use as money in our
own country, but the influence Of
our example will be potential among
European nations, with the posi-
ble exception of England. Indeed'
our annual Indictment to Europe is
so great that, if we have the right
to pay it in silver, we necessarily
coerce those nations, by the strong
est of all forces, self-interest, to aid
us in upholding the value of silver
as money, But if we attempt the
remonetization on q basis which is
obviously below the fair standard
of value as it now exists, we incur
all the evil consequences of failure
at home, and the certainty OF sue
cessful opposition abroad. We are,
and shall be, the greatest producers
of silver in the world, and we have
larger stake in its complete
monetization than any other
country, The difference to the
United States, between the general
acceptance and the general destruc-
tion of silver as money in the COM
mercial world, will possibly within
the next half century equal the en-
tire bonded debt of the nation,
But to gain the advantage, we must
make it actual money, the accepted
equal of gold in the markets of the
world. Reconciliation here, fol-
lowed by general reconciliation in
Europe, will secure to the United
States the most stable basis for its
currency that we have ever enjoyed,
and will effectually aid in solving
all the problems by which our
financial situation is surrounded.
"On the much vexed question of
a bimetallic standard, my own
views are sufficiently indicated in
the remarks | have made. / be.
lieve the struggle now going on in
this country, and in other countries,
for a single gold standard, would,
if successful, produce disaster in
the end throughout the commercial
world. The destruction of silver
as money, and the establishment of
gold as the sole unit of value,
must have a ruinous effect upon all
forms of property except those in
vestments which yield fixed re-
turn in money. These would be
enormously enhanced in value, and
would gain disploportionate, and
therefore unfair, advantage over
every other species ofproperty. If
as the most reliable statistics affirm
there are nearly seven thousand
millions of coin bullion in the
world, not very unequally divided
between gold and silver, it is inn
possible to strike out of existence
as money without results which
will prove distressing to millions,
and utterly disastrous to tens Of
thousands. Alexander Hamilton
in his able and invaluable report
in 1871, on the establishment of q
mint, declared that to annul the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

ABOVE the din of political con-
vention at home is heard g voice
from Cuba announcing that the
Spanish government will strike
that decisive blow before this sum-
mer expires. 1t is doubtful, though
that the announcement will effect
the value of Cuban securities in
nny waV
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

IT is to be feared that indirect
losses due to the failure of the fruit
crop in the Northwest this season
will be greater than the direct
losses. The inevitable tendency of
hard times is to deteriorate farming
and even if there had been good
crop Of fruit this year the orchards
would not have received,as thorough
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

AN Eastern paper accuses Bryan
of stopping at a $2 a day hotel
during the Chicago convention,
Certainly that was a creditable
fact. Mckinley was probably pay
ing several times that amount.
Bryan is not an aristocart.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

THE newspapers now in revolt
against the silver cause were al
ways there. They never for a
were otherwise than under
the thumb of the gold syndicate,
and as this becomes generally
known their influence will vanish
as mists before the sun,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

THE man that votes for Bryan,
votes for home and country as be-
lieved by all patriotic people in this
broad land of ours. The man who
votes against Bryan, votes for
monopoly, trust aud combinations
Of capital, against all the industries
and laboring men of this country.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

So long as We want her to do it
England will manage our money
system for us, and we may depend
on her having an eye on England's
in terest while she is at il,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

THERE is prevailing impression
that the 400,0O0,0O0 silver dollars
in circulation in the United States
is backed up by gold in which they
can be redeemed at will. This i'm
preston is erroneous. The treas
ury department has given out the
information that STANDARD silver
dollars are not exchangeable for
United States notes (greenbacks)
nor treasury notes. They may be
deposited and silver certificates
taken out therefor. They are not
redeemable in anything" So the
silver dollar Is not a fifty-three-
cent dollar after all, 1t does not
require gold to go its security to
make it worth its face. The gov
ernment receives it in payment OF
its dues and make it a legal tender
and that is ample to give circulat-
ing value.-East Oregonian.
The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-03-19
COMMENT AND OPINION.

DThe Mckinley club is one of the
popular institutions of the land just
now. Its influence is pervasive, and
wherever it is played proves to be a
trump.-Cincinnati Gazette.
DThe exact date of the republican
party's origin is not of SO much impor-
lance as the fact that it still lives and
is going to win one of its biggest VIC
tories this year.-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
DHorace Boies, of Iowa. has given
out a statement that he is not a candi-
date for president. This is the first in
timation the country has had for some
time that Mr.. Boies is on earth.-Toledo
Blade.
UFor the eight months of the cur
rent fiscal year the governmental re-
ceipts aggregate 1924, SEC, 600 and the ex-
penditures $242 ,Os5,54S, leaving def
icit of SIS, OOO,O in round figures. Com
ment is unnecessary.-Albany Journal.
DThe treasury department is able
to show a surplus of Sl27,S40 for Feb
ruary, but it was secured by holding
mp payments which should have been
made before the close of the month.
The showing deceives no one, however,
for the figures for the eight months
of the fiscal year indicate deficiency
| of $1S,55S,537. The democratic law still
is tariff for deficit only.-Troy On.
W Times.
UThe present democratic tariff law
is failure as revenue producer. The
expenditures of the government are
steadily in excess of the receipts. A
large portion of the greenbacks used to
draw gold from the treasury has been
used to meet current expenses; the gold
thus drawn out was replenished by
the issue of bonds, thus putting the gov
ernment in the position of issuing bonds
to meet ordinary expenses.-Ubledo
Blade.
D"The whole country knows exactly
what the republican party will do as to
the tariff, whoever is elected president.
1t is the congress, far more than the
president, that always makes the tariff
The tariff will be revised and increased
in the interest of labor and industry.
1 rode the night before last on the
Pennsylvania road along 200 miles of
flaming furnaces employing fifty and
perhaps q hundred thousand laborers,
and thought how fortunate had been
that great state in having a man in the
senate SO great that he was able to keep
the fire burning in the furnaces and the
smoke coming out of all the chimneys
in his state. It Is the republican party
that is for protection, and it will be for
it whatever men come or whatever men
| go."--J. 8. GARRISON.