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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-02
LATEST MARKET REPORTS.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Nov. %.

CHICAGO-Potatoes- Burbanks,
d22c; Minnesota, 21@22c; Peerless, good to
choice, 21@22c; Hebrons, Wisconsin, 2O@
pc; Minnesota, 20Q22c; sweet potatoes, Toe
al. 40 per Dbl.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
More Sap, But No More Sugar.

A story is told of Canadian settler
who had agreed with a neighbor to
make maple sugar on shares, each to
get the result Of alternate days boil
ing. Desiring to overreach his part
ner the newly arrived settler took ad-
vantage of the days on which he was
in charge to add large quantities of
water to the sap which he was boiling.
The result was that he had to work
twice as hard cutting wood to eva
porate the water, and, Of course got
no more sugar.
The agitators who are trying to in
duce the farmers to increase the cur
rency By the addition of dood of
cheap dollars, are of much the same
mild as the roguish sugar makers.
They think that il they can only
double the quantity OF the money in
the country, everybody will be better
of. But the quality of money is Of
more importance than the quantity,
as the users OF it would quickly find
out. Doubling prices by depreciat-
ing the standard, would be like doub.
ling the quantity of maple sag by
adding water. There would be no
wealth In the country even though
prices were higher. But there would
be an imitation which would max C
it harder for the men who buy things
to get what they need, Is that what
the people want?
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Should Stand Up and Be Counted.

With the approach of Presidential
campaign comes the noisy threats Of
the free silver leaders that unless the
two great political parties put the 49,
toll swindie in their platform an indie
pendent silver party will be organ
lied. 1t is to be hoped that they will
carry out their threat, SO that the
country may know just how many vot-
ers have been disaffected by the free
coinage delusion. The believers in
sound money are ready to face the
plain issue OF an honest dollar versus
the silver standard. and are certain
that more than two-thirds of the peo
pie will vote against unlimited free
coinage at 10 to l.
b. ali means let the siivcrites have
a party Of their own, or join their
half brethren, the Populists. The lat
ter are only little more extreme IN
their curren " views, and are all de-
voted TO the iiSty-cent dollar. They
prefer no-ceHt paper dollars, bat are
wiling to accept money which Is half
fiat as a long step in their direction.
The sooner the country has a chance
to vote squarelv against the PROPOSE
ton to go on the silver basis, and eff
fectuaiIy squelch the cheap money ag
itation, the better for trade and indus
try. So long as there is any doubt as
TO the mainteinance of our present
standard business will suffer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
FREE SILVER WAGES.

Japan is the most powerful and
most progressive country which has
the silver standard.
One of the pleas put forward for free
silver in this country is that it would
be boon to the laboring masses, that
it would raise wages. How does labor
fare in the foremost free silver country
of the world?
Authentic information on this sub
ject based on recent investigation has
been furnished by Mr.. W. E. Curtis.
We hear great deal of the pauper
labor of Europe but there is not
country in Europe where labor is not
paid superb wages compared to what
it receives in Japan.
The very highest wages paid to any
workingmen go to stonecutters and
the best OF them get dollar day in
free silver currency, which is equivs-
lent to fifty cents day in our money.
The highest pay of bricklayers is
lightweight cents, silver basis, or
forty-four cents in our currency.
There is a watch factory in Osaka.
VI course ulSuiy sfllieu iaoor Is re-
quired there and it is recompensed
with twenty cents a day, silver basis
currency. Think of a watch maker
working in the United States for ten
cents day. The meanest boot-black
would scorn such wages.
Men in Japanese cotton factories get
about eighteen cents o day and women
about twelve cents.
There is not free silver country in
the world where the average of wages
is one-half as high as it is in the gold
standard country where wages are
lowest.
It is perfectly clear that free silver
would be great thing for the work
ingmsn. Atlanta Journal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
A Discredited Panaeea.

The following letter appeared in the
New York World of March l.
The panacea of silver coinage sug-
gested by Senator Tillman as remedy
for certain existing troubles indicates
that his Examination of those troub les
has been very superficial.
The history of modern abormal
economic conditions IN this country,
Of great fortunes acquired by sudden
specuiations, Of stock watering and
cornering and gambling, all dates
back to the disturbance of our fnan-
cial basis by the issue Of deprecated
currency during the war. 1t was the
uncertainties and fluctuations of this
currency which gave the spectators
their opportunity and developed the
Wall street of to-day.
Senator Tillman's proposition is
that as cure for these evils we shall
revert in part to the conditions in
which they originated. Yet the only
thing worse than the present condition
of sound currency menaced by the
agitation for silver would be the dis
turbance of silver coinage. q step that
might be more costly in its conse.
quences than the depreciation of our
paper money during the Civil War.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
SOME OBJECT LESSONS.
Stealthy Robbery of Mexican Wage
Farmers.

Farmers.
Collector Fitch, of the port Of Eagle
Pass, who was here in attendance upon
the meeting OF the sound money Dem
ocrats, said in reference to the burn
ing Of the railroad shops at Poririo
Diaz, on the Mexican side of the
river, that the employees had been out
on strike for some time and to this
fact is probably due the report that
the fire was the work of an incendiary.
Concerning the dissatisfaction
among the employees, he said they did
| not complain Of the amount of their
wages, paid in Mexican money, but of
its purchasing power. When the men
first went to work in the shops they
were paid 81 day in Mexican money
and tie wages were satisfactory, be-
cause that was equivalent to So day
in American money. As the price of
bullion silver declined, the purchas-
ing power of the Mexican dollar de-
creased in the same proportion, until
81 day in Mexican money was equiv
alent only to 81 day in American
money. The men asked for raise,
but were told that the company was
still paying what it had agreed to pay,
had never made any cut and had not
in any manner violated the contract.
This was true in fact and the men
could not gainsay it, but they never
tkeless realized that their wages had
been reduced one-third by the fuctu
alton of the money in which they were
paid. They could not demand other
money, because that which they re-
ceived was the legal tender money of
the country, and SO, after vainly wait
ing and hoping for rise, they saw 10
way of attaining their purpose of a
restoration OF wages but to walk out.
As further illustrating the effect OF
an unstable currency. Mr.. Fitch said ::
ga friend of mine was employed by
the Mexican Railroad Company at a
saiary OF $500 month. The legal
tender money of Mexico was then
worth about 80 cents on the dollar, as
measured by the worlds standard, and
he reckoDed his salary at $3.50 month.
After having served the country faith
fully and efficiently for some time, he
was rewarded by 10 PEI cent. raise.
This was twice afterward repeated IN
testimony of appreciation of his valu-
able services until his salary was in
creased to $3.50 month; yet, as
matter of fact, he is now rec living,
after years Of faithful services a nd
ripened experience, $50 month less
than when he began, for his $500 now
represents only about $3.50 in the
money of the world.
"Here is phase Of the silver ques.
tion," said Mr.. Fitch, (Which the
people on the border in my section
understand so we'll that very few sill
verites can DO found among them.
These free silver object lessons will
probably explain the statement Of
Captain Tarver at the sound money
conference that not per cent. of the
voters of Webb County ore the least
bit injured with freesilverism. They
have had too much familiarity with
its workings jus: across the border"
Galveston (Texas) Tribune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20

The American people are not ready
to accept gospel of poverty for pau.
pers and hate for the prosperous.
They look forward to the time when
they shall be richer than they are
now, and they know that if the wishes
of the sil7erites we're carried out that
time would be far distant. They are
convinced that the true remedy for
the ills of poverty, of which so many
justly complain, is not the reduction
of all to similar poverty through cur
rency schemes which mean repudia-
ton and confscat1on of property, but
in increasing production SO that all
shall get more of the things they de-
sire. They do not believe in injuring
the rich. They prefer to be rich them.
selves, and they know very we'll that
anything that strikes at the men who
are at the head of the financial and
industrial enterprises of the country,
in the long run Injuries every class and
hurts most the poorest and dependent.
This knowledge will save the country
from silverism, populism, socialism
and all other attacks on the rights of
property.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
How Does 1t Happen!

Free coinage advocates. who claim
that their scheme for fifty-cent dollars
would benefit the whole people, should
explain how it happens
that the most civilized countries
have gradually abandoned the silver
Standard;
that the great commercial nations
which do the largest portion OF the
worlds business are all on the gold
basis;
that no important country has ever
gone back to silver after once using
gold as q measure of values;
that the principal support for free
coinage in this country comes from
the sparsely settled mining states
which want the government to arti-
fcially increase the price of silver;
that the states in which there is
the greater production of wealth, and
the largest number of skilled work.
men, are all opposed to the cheap
money agitation;
that wages are far higher in gold
standard countries than in China,
Mexico and all other silver countries /;
that the condition of the American
farmer is SO greatly superior to that
of the ryots who cultivate the soil Of
silver standard India;
that if it be true that the gold
standard lowers the price OF goods
this is not desirable for our sixty-hve
million consumers;
that wherever the experiment of
cheapening the currency has been
tried it has always injured most the
masses whose labor produces all
wealth;
and that the men most anxious to
overthrow our present standard are
the silver mine owners, spectators
and office-seeking politicians.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20

The simplest knowledge OF the in,
Independence of all members of the
great community called the United
States would prevent the silly attack 8
on banks and rich men which are the
stock-in-tr trade of the Populist and
silverite press. The folly of the at
tempts to make free-silver votes by
abusing the owners of property is
shown by these papers themselves
when they hold out as an inducement
to support the Is to l delusion the
promise that the scheme will make all
The people richer. This means that
they recognize that the desire
for wealth is universal and
proper, and that all men prefer
riches to poverty. And if this is true,
why seek to create prejudice against
our present financial system merely
because all have not yet become
wealthy?
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Seventeen Years in the Wilderness.

The story OF our standard since the
Civil War is one of the most humiliat-
ing chapters of our monetary history;
and that is saying great deal. 1t was
on December 81. 1861. that specie
payments were suspended, after long
experience on gold basis-since
about 1884. In 1862 the government
made the error, before alluded to, OF
trying to get loan without interest
by issuing irredeemable paper. The
inability to understand that the inter-
est on $3.50, 100000 was small mat
ter compared with the confusion pro-
duced in prices and credit by chang
ing the standard from gold to paper
of dubious value tbehind which there
was not dollar OF reserve) was severe
ly punished by disaster. The green
backs then issued deprecated even
sixty five per cent. Without going
into the subsequent history Of this de-
preciated standard, it is sufficient to
recall that, in 1875. the Resumption
Act was passed, under the provisions
of which sufficient gold reserve was
collected, and specie payments were
resumed January l, 1879. After sew
enteen years wandering in tie wilder
ness of uncertainty we returned to
the same gold standard which had eS-
listed previous to the war. This return
was accomplished only after painful
sacrifices which convulsed the coun-
try; but the result has proved equal
to the cost.-Professo J. Laurence
Laughlin, IL February Forum.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
ADMITS IT Is CROOKED.
A Western Bankers Reasons for
Favoring Free Coinage at 16 to L.

FaVOrinS free Coinage at 10 10 L.
The following letter was received
some time ago by the Secretary of the
Sound Currency Committee of the Re-
form Club. Il was written by Mr.. L.
P. La Rue, owner of the Cherokee
County Bank Of Columbus, Kansas:
"Your kind invitation to join your
sound money society is received. /
am going to be honest with you and
tell you my interest lies with the free
coinage people. We in the West are
owing the East large amount OF
money. If we can get free coinage at
16 to we will then have Deprecated
money we will have a cheap dollar, a
fifty cent dollar and under the sanction
of the government We then con pay
our debts to the East with this fifty
cent dollar. We will then cut all SAL
aries and wages down just one half by
paying the wage workers in this fifty
cent dollar.
"Then you see we can export manu-
featured articles in competition with
the cheap labor of Europe. You see
it would not do to cut wages down, but
we propose to hoodwink the laboring
man on the money. Personally l own
large amount of property bought at
forced sale away down and now | want
the imitation that 16 to would give
US; then I would sell all my property
at handsome advance in this cheap
money. 1 would loan these fifty cent
dollars out at just as high rate
of interest as [ now get for q
gold dollar and I would get double
the interest by holding twice as much
Understanding obligations. Then
when all salaried men and wage
workers saw 1t demonstrated that their
wages were cut down just one. half they
would raise such clamo1 and want
the good money as before, that the
government would be compelled to
adopt the gold standard as we have 1t
now, and all my interest obligations
would be paid in gold dollars and the
West would also have their debt paid
to the East.
ssYou see, we know that for this ma
ton to alone adopt free coinage at the
ratio of Is to l, that we could not
raise the bullion price OF the silver
dollar all over the world, yet we talk
that way because that is all there is
in the argument. We know that we
are big, but We are not quite SO large
as all of India and China and South
America. If all those nations cannot
raise the bullion price Of silver we
cannot step IN and do it alone. But
you see we are looking out for self in
terest, as we who are in position and
own silver mines and other property
expect to reap handsome returns out
of the different conditions that will
come about by the free coinage OF sill.
yer at the ratio Of 16 to l. Sound
money! Yes, sound money. 1t is
ALFRED sound for debt ridden West.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Force the sigitin~,

The Sound Money Committee of the
New York Chamber Of Commerce has
decided that the agitation against free
silver shall be continued with vigor
The sound money men of New YORK
and Pennsylvania should JON forces
and assume the offensive. The silver
ties mean to force the issue; and al!
talk OF compromise is out Of the ques-
ton in matter that Affects the ma.
tional honor and credit. The cam
paign of education must go on; and
the people of every state net blinded
by sectional or selfish intereats should
turn in and make it short, sharp and
decisive. philadelphia Record.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
An 0utspoken Presidential Possibility.

Governor Bradley, of Kentucky,
who has had some mention as Re-
publican presidential or yice-presl-
Dental possibility, thus defines his
views on finance, in response to the
request of the Cincinnati Commercials:
II am opposed to the free and un-
limited coinage Of silver, believing it
would destroy all national prosperity.
The gold dollar is the best dollar, and
I am in favor OF making every other
dollar equivalent to it IN value. l am
the friend of silver, and believe it can
be best protected by holding its issue
in such bounds as will insure it's parity
with gold "a circulating medium. y
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Viewed From Different Standpoints.

Mr.. Vest has new plan of campaign
for the Democracy, compromise on
the silver question. '1hsve no doubt"
he says, 'that large majority of the
silver Democrats would be satisfied
with a declaration in the national
platform for the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver as standard
money of redemption, the ratio to be
fixed by Congress, this declaration to
be accompanied by another against the
exercise of the veto power as to
measure passed by Congress and adj
mitted to be constitutional"
Mr.. Vests estimate of the modesty
and sweet reasonableness of the free sill
yer Democrats does not impress one as
extravagant. and yet the first response
to his suggestion is its utter repudia
ton by free silver newspaper as q
cowardly surrender to the gold bugs.
Strange how differently things i'm
press different minds. We should
have thought, now. that Mr.. Vests
suggestion was cool demand for the
unconditional surrender OF the sound
money Democrats. -New York World.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
A Currency Primer.

The last number Of Sound Currency
is entitled 'A Currency Primer" Its
author is George &. Yeaman.
1t is, as its title indicates, a thor
oughly popular discussion of the
currency question dirested especi-
ally to those who have not studied the
subject, and SO clearly expressed that
no one will fail to understand its ar
guments.
The authors general position is thus
set forth upon the title page: "Ihe
whole matter of money, a measure of
value, q means of exchange, circulat
ing medium, is one of necessity, con-
venierce, adaptation to the end. 1t is
a question of the fitness and effective
ness OF the material substance OF which
the instrument is made. Manifestly
that fitness, the convenience and eff
fectiveness of the thing must be de-
termined by the judgment of those
who use the instrument, those who do
the business, the labor AMI exchange
of the world. Law should attempt to
follow that judgment and no. attempt
to form it, force it, or control it.
Copies can be obtained by sending
five cents to the Reform Club Office,
50 William street, New York City.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
The Senate and Free Silver.

The silverites claim vehemently that
their endeavors are for the benefit of
the masses. This contention makes it
peculiarly striking that the Senate,
which has been satirically christened
1.-The millionaires' club" should be in
favor of the white metal, while the
House. holding the most direct rela-
tionship with the people that is posi-
BILE, is over whelmingly opposed to it.
Washington Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20

This stlmst
bl
likeness
woulbe
astral body that
He become
fixed ntenty the heavens
the but the reflected golden
on an earth filled with pitfalls He about to walk into well what
WE'LL for then he could study astronomy all day. this would
his
Possibly of
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
4 Wise Nan.

Hiram" said Mrs. Corntossell,
(Which kind O. money do you favor?'
"Well, Mandy replied the old
gentleman, "ter tell We the truth l
kinder hate ter express any opinion.
I've seen lot O. telle,s sit down and
worry bout maxim "'Sce, an the
fus' thing they kns> ~z-s.~.didn't hev
none OF neither kind. Exchange.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Preferred a Silver Harp.

st. Peter--"Who is that kicking up
that row over there?"
Angel-"Oh, it's that face silver man
who Just came up. He refusesto play
on gold harp. He wants silvee
Texas Siftings.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
THE FARMERS INTEREST.

In Foreign Trade With Gold Stand
ard CouRtrles-But Little Con-
cerned About Trade With Silver
Standard Countries.
Mr.. James I. Rhea, of Holdrege,
Nebraska, thus sizes up the farmers
interest in foreign trade:
"Of all American classes none are
so interested in our foreign trade and
in the gold standard prevailing here
and elsewhere as the farmer. The
following table, taken from the Year
Book, Department OF Agriculture,
1894, shows the total value of agricul-
tural exports for the year mentioned,
as compared with our total exports
and the per cent. which the farmer
bears to the whole:
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
The Only Way to Keep COMPANY.

On the back of gold, as the stand.
ard money of the nation, We are now
carrying in our circulation over 40o.-
900, 900 silver dollars, which is fifty
times as much as the total quantity of
silver dollars coined from 1893 to 1878
and over two hundred times as much
as was ever in circulation under free
coinage. This silver circulstes,
through its paper representative, side
by side with gold, because it is prac-
tically exchangeable with gold. 1t is
the only way in who it ever did or
ever can circulate side by side with
gold. The pretense eternally persisted
in that it lever did circulate in this
country side by side with gold in any
other way or on any other terms is
historic and an economic lie. 1t has
become tiresome lie.-St. Paul Pho
neer Press
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Song of the SilveTite.

They talked Of girls with golden hair,
He did not seem to hear.
They spoke Of golden sunshine,
His face grew pale with fear.
A golden moment' met him,
In anger he arose,
And said, II am Populist,
And only silver &c es.'
Washington Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
A Terrible Crime.

"Why did they lynch that poor old
MANI
'Why? Great Scott, man, why?
He was guilty. He was about to cele-
brate his golden wedding right here
in silver state, too !'-Harper's
Bazaar,