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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that tn
partnership existing between
Wadsworth and Wiger, for thu
past sixteen years, was dissolved
by mutual consent the Doth day o
July, A. D. 1896.
All persons indebted to said firm
will please call at heir late place G:
business and settle within thirty
days.
After this the business will b.
continued under the firm of n. Fl
Wiger Son.
Thanking the public for our pas
patronage, we remain,
Respectfully yours,
J. S. WADswoRTH. N. HI. WIGER.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04
Attorneys.

NJ. WHITE,-Attorney at Law. River
Is Falls, Wis., AelVeI
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

j. E. Johnson and N. P. Haugen
left for Milwaukee Monday after
noon to attend the state conven-
ton.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

The Christian EndeAvor Society
of Congregational church will give
a sociablp on the lawn this eve II :
ing. All members and friends OF
the society and all teachers and
others who are here for the srm-
mer are invited. No charges for
any thing.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04
DR.. A. P. Sawyer,

Dr.. A. P. Sawyer,
For twenty years
/ have suffered with liver and
stomach trouble and abcess Of tie
liver, also s)me bronchitis, but
Family Cure has cured me. # any
one doubts this statement write TO
the M: 70 Of our town Mrs. N !.
E. Harmon, Rhodes. Iowa. Sold
at Taggart 5 drug ore.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Lien p; WELD, ATTIC rney ut Law. Rive.
Falls, Pierce Co., Wis. IVY
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

DR.. A. P. Sawyer,
For four years | was in miserable
health and was given up as incur
able. | cal,not say enough in
praise of your Pastilles for ladies.
Any one wishing TO correspond
with me can do so. Mrs. Anna
Brakefeld, Allen, Mich. Sold at
Taggart
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04
Dentists.

K r. WEEKS, Dental Surgeon Ot,ice !,
VI Bracket Block, River Fa Is, Wis.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

II E. FOLi.ANSBEE, Dental surgeon Otfice
H' over The Post-office, River Falls Wis
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04
Lodges.

RIVER FALLS LODGE, F. & A. NC. r
larger, - WIS }. Rasmussen, Sec: n. 4
Bailey, Treas ~
Regular meetings the LIST and Sd Tuesdav>
of each month at O'Clock %. m :
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Miss Elma Thorson of MartelI
is visiting Misses Alma and Clara
Olson.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

If you want Patent try White
Crest. We acknowledge no COM
petition.
VAN VooRHIs & Ross.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Messrs. John Klein, L. H. Dan :
iels, Frank Adams and Frank Co x
spent part of last week at a 5
Lake.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04
Protestant Episcopal Church.
THE SWEDISH MISSION CHURCH
st. Briaget's Church.

st. Budgets Church.
Mass every alternate Sunday. 1890 a. m
sunday School Immediately after.
Nespcrs and Benediclion, 1890 1876 D. m.
intervening Sundays at Ell PaSO.
b. F. Connally, Pastor.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

{ luff Halls was in town Thurs
day
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

For John d ere plows and re-
pairs Of all k nds call on j. P.
Carroll.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Oscar Thoen Of M une pc :
was ia town few days last week.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

TOBY II PARKER, Physicians and Sur.
T. geonS. Office on Main Street, River
Dr. Toby can be found during the night a.
MS residence, Cor. Pine and second SITS o.
Dir. TAI ker at his residence on Third ana
Maple SITS. anu
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04
BUSINESS CARDS.
Physicians.

nr. A. E. GENDERON, Office and Residanc
next door o the Gladstone Hotel.
oFFF HOURS
10 10 L 4. NJ. 2to4P NJ 1toSP
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Mrs w. j. Br1rr lett last Wed
neSday for Plymouth, Wis, on Il
visit to her moth
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Mrs. Melvin Johnson returned
home Friday.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

River Falls is II e market for
eggs. Bring then in l"r~
c.. J. HENRIKsON.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Prof. H. l.. Wilson is hone
from his trip to the Pacific coast.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

A few more carriage busters
left at Brackets cheap.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Miss Matte Howe visited in
Ellsw orth last week.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Mr.. Leibord Of Roberts is visit
ing in town.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

The Baptist SUNDAY School pie
niced at Mr.. Finley's Thursday.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Miss Grace Eaton is visiting
friends in Minneapolis.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-04

Mrs. Elliot and Miss Minnie
Hailng of Red Wing are visiting
their parents Of this city.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
WntcrMays IInproveman..
Lincoln Predicted it IN 1865:

Over thirty years ago the immortal
Lincoln predicted the very state of
affairs that now exists. He said in q
letter to friend in Illinois.
Yes. we may congratulate ourselves
that this cruel war is nearing its
close. 1t has cost vast amount of
treasure and blood, the best blood of
the flower Of American youth has
been offered upon our country's altar
that the nation might live. 1t has
been indeed a trying hour for the
republic, but see in the near future
crisis approaching that unnerves
Inc and causes me to tremble for the
safety of my country. AS result of
the war corporations have been en-
throned and an era of corruption in
high places will follow and the mon
ey power of this country will endeav-
or to prolong its reign by working
upon the prejudices of the people un-
til all wealth is aggregated in a few
hands and the republic destroyed.
feel at this moment more anxiety for
the safety Of our country than ever
before, even in the midst of war. God
grant that my suspicious may prove
groundless. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
"FoRElGN INVESTOR" BoaY.

Fiye-Sixths OF the American People Do Not
Care for Engiands Displeasure.
In fact, if foreign investments were
stopped altogether for spell, the
United States and the vast bulk of her
people would be better off. 1t would
be the worse for the American gold
bug capitalists and spectators, of
course. They would lose much of their
profits. But the loss would be the
American peoples gain, for it is out of
the universally heeced American peo-
pie, and more particularly the Ameri-
can producer and the American work.
ingman, that these profits ultimately
come.
Therefore it is that five-siyths of the
American people do not care snap of
their fingers for the displeasure of the
Lombard street capitalist, and that
they bid him go his way
while they go theirs. 1t is by
reason largely of these unneed-
ed foreign investments, anyway, that
the brokers of the east are screwing Is
and 20 per cent. interest for money
loans out of impoverished debtors in
the west, and that they are fore
closing mortgages on the homesteads
of these poor people every day.
The gold-bug lender who extracts
from the borrower, labor or products
equal to $50 cents on the (gold) dollar
has had and is having his inning. The
borrower, who is the producer and
worker, is going soon to take his. -
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Justice-You are charged with steal
ing Col. Juiep's chickens. Have you
any witnesses?
| Uncle Moscs-I heb not. l don't steal
chickens befo' misunderstanding
| Inurnal
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
NOT A NEW THING,
The Platform Upon Which President CIeve-
land Was Last Elected Declared UncQuiv-

The Platform Upon Which President CIeve-
land Was Last Elected Declared UncQuiv-
ocally for Silver.
One would think, to see some of the
hysterical editorials in the metropol-
itan newspapers of the east, that the
free coinage policy SO boldly and
clearly enunciated in the Chicago plat
form is something entirely new in this
country, but that is not the case. AS
long ago as 1877 Maj. Mckinley, the
present repub lican nominee for presi-
dent, voted, as member of the house,
for the Bland bill, which provided for
the free and unlimited coinage of
silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen
to one. That bill passed the house by
good deal more than two-thirds
majority, and it would have passed
the senate by an equally large vote ii
Senator Allison and few other trick.
tsters and trimmers had not betrayed
the interests of the country by chang
ing it into a limited coinage act
on the purchase plan. Since that time
there has never been a congress in
which large majority of the demo.
Gratis in both senate and house would
not have voted for free coinage at the
ratio of sixteen to one, and it is mat
ter of official record that in almost all
the congresses held in the meantime a
large majority of the democrats in
both houses did vote for such meas
ure. The platform on which Presi-
dent Cleyeland was elected in 1899 de-.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
Blaine's Prophetic Words.

In Vol. Z, No. 80 of the Congress
lanai Record on page IS, may be
found these prophetic words of James
G. Blaine in his speech in the senate
February Sth, 1878 on the H. r. bill
1893 to authorize the free coinage of
the standard silver dollar and to re-
store it's legal tender character.
son the much-vexed and long
mooted question of q bimetallic or
monometallic standard my own views
are sufficiently indicated in the re-
marks have made. / believe the
struggle now going on in this coun-
try and in other countries for single
gold standard would, if successful,
produce widespread disaster in the
end throughout the commercial
world. The destruction of silver as
money and establishing gold as the
sole unit of value must have ruin
Gus effect on all forms of property
except those investments which yield
a fixed return in money. These
would be enormously enhanced in
value, and would gain dispropor-
tionate and unfair advantage over
every species of property. If, as the
most reliable statistics affirm, there
are nearly seven thousand millions of
coin or bullion in the world, not very
unequally divided between gold and
silver, it is impossible to strike silver
out of existence as money with re-
suits which will prove distressing to
millions and utterly disastrous to
tens of thousands"
The farmers of the country have
had IS years experience which ought
to be all the lesson they need as to
the ruinous effects of the partial de-
monetization of silver and the acts
suspending it from coinage. AS fore
told by Mr.. Blaine they realize that it
has proven distressing to millions
and utterly disastrous to thousands"
During those disastrous years more
than 100000 banks, merchants and
manufacturers have failed in business
involving losses aggregating nearly
100000, 900, a sum almost past COM
putation. And the failures among
farmers, small manufacturers, and
dealers beneath the notice of COM
mercial agencies has been nearly two
millions involving to them losses
twice the sum of the national debt at
its highest. Iowa during that period
has added more than 50 thousand to
its list of tenant farmers, Which is an
object lesson il line with the
prophetic words of Mr.. Blaine. We
respectfully ask the men who went
wild in Iowa at the mention of the
name of the magnetic statesman" to
read and ponder his words. They
are IL message to them of
peculiar import at this juncture in
the affairs of the people.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
M,l7!a, {. Keith, NJ. ].

proprietor OF the SANITARY Cottages
Of Bellville, Ohio, invites cores
pondence from those who are sick
and distressed in body OF mind and
specially asks those persons who
have in vain tried other physicians
and found no benefit, to write him
and obtain a knowledge of the laws
Of life and to become well and stay
we'll. There is no use of being
sick or crippled up by Rheuma-
tism, Nervous Troubles, Paralysis,
Cancer or any other chronic or So
called incurable disease. You can
be cured. DR.. Keith's methods are
entirely different in theory and in
fact from poison giving medical
men and he cures where all others
have failed. No poisonous drugs
are used. Every step is made
plain to you and you are educated
in the agays and lars Of life as you
go on to health.
Doctor Keith uses plants, Roao-
ers and herbs which are not pois-
onous and this Doctor gives you
rules about diet and other habits
which are sure to cure every cur
able case where they desire to be
we'll.
Correspondence Immediately an
swered.
Valuable book sent free to your
address by return mail. Send
postal.
No charge for consultation thro'
the mail.
Address a postal card and have
some of the laws come to you free.
Have your eyes opened to the
true laws Of life and do not take
any more poisons and physics that
do your pody harm rather than
good.
References from the Nations
choicest citizens.
Remember the man; remember
the Melville G. Keith,
M. d., Bellville, Richland County,
Ohio, q. S. A.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15

clared unequivocally for bimetallism
and the free coinage of both metals
without discrimination or charge for
mintage, and the bill repeating the
purchasing clause of the Sherman
act contains similar pledge, solemnly
enacted by congress and signed by
President Cleveland. With what grace,
then, can the boiling democratic
organs ask their readers to believe that
free coinage is new heresy which de-
cent democrats cannot accept? It is
the single gold standard which is q
new thing in our financial policy, and
thing which has never been recog-
nized in the platform of any political
party in this country until the money
power forced it into the financial plank
recently adopted at st. Louis against
the wish and will of Maj. Mckinley
and his most friendly supporters
Denver Republican.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
SOME LOVELY FALLAcIEs.

Favorite Argument of the Gold Standard
Advocates Meets a Serious SnaE.
When the advocate of the single gold
standard is asked to explain why
wheat, cotton and other products as
well as silver have fallen SO in value,
he replies that the production has
greatly increased. To bear himself
out he shows that the cotton crop has
been growing larger and larger, that
the wheat crop has increased and that
silver production has doubled in the
last 20 years.
But very slight investigation will
show that there are cracks in this the
DRY. In the first place, there has been
no phenomenal increase in wheat
growing, and the crop of the world
averages only about bushel and a
half to each inhabitant of our planet,
which is very moderate allowance
for year. To claim that there is an
over.production is to assert that money
can be made on wheat only when the
supply Is SO scanty that starvation is
threatened. So far as cotton is con-
cerned, it may be true that there is oc-
casionally a slight reproduction,
but 1t is not sufficient to cut the value
of the staple in two. Moreover, as the
population has been going right ahead
at the same time, and the savages are
beginning to accustom themselves to
shirts, the reduction should have been
gradual and slight.
Silver's price has been cut in two
since the act of characterization in 1878,
and it is said to be due to overproduc-
ton, not to decentralization. In other
words, the goldolaters claim that if
silver had been freely coined right
along, its value would have fallen just
the same In 4s years the west has
produced fully $4,000, 0oo,o 900 of gold
and 81, $50, 600, oooof silver, yet gold has
maintained, even increased, its value,
while silver has declined. Here the
production theory meets with snag.
In 1875, according to the director of
the mint, the worlds gold production
was $4,000, 900, while the estimate for
1896 is 100000, 900. The gold produc-
ton in 81 years has m ore than doubled
1t has increased 125 per cent. The
conclusion is unacceptable that the
value of gold has been kept up because
OF free coinage, and that silver has
fallen because it has not had the ad-
vantage OF free coinage Certainly, if
there were anything in the gold theory
that free coinage cannot affect value,
and that great increase in production
is sure to lower price, then the phe-
nomenal increase of 125 per cent. in
the production of the yellow metal
ought to have sent the price of it down
to Jericho.-Memphis Commercially.
peal
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
"wlLL SILVER WIN p.
An English Authority Admits It VIII q
ia thu Markata of the World

An English Authority Admits It VIII Give
Us the Markets of the World.
An editorial in the London Com.
merce, a recognized trade authority, a
champion of monometallism for En-.
gland, and claiming the largest circu
lation in the world, has caused con.
siderable talk among Cincinnati bust
ness men. From it the following ex
tract is taken:
Leaving the question Of tariffs for
moment, let us consider what BIZ
metallist America will mean for us
In the first place it will mean an i'm.
mediate premium upon United States
exports. The effect of coming silver
at the proposed ratio would, in all
probability, bring about great
boom in manufactures of all kinds.
Wages might rise considerably but the
experience Of other countries goes to
show that they would not rise in pro.
portion to the advantage which ex.
porters would derive who sent their
goods to q gold-using country, to-wit
the United Kingdom. The manufac.
turers of the states would not be quite
in the same position of vantage as the
agriculturists of the Argentine, nor
the exporters in India, but they would
have sufficient leverage over the man.
ufacturers here to turn the scale in
every trade where now there is doubt
which way the market trends. In tin
plates many kinds of machinery, in
Guiding some of the very heaviest; In
leather, and in many sundry manu-.
features whore the British producer
can with difficulty hold his own. the
effect of the change would be decisive.
Then this policy is also bride to the
farmers American dead meat-live
cattle being rohibited-wheat and all
farm produce suitable for expectation
would come over in greatly augmented
quantities, for the difference in the ex-
change would mean such an addition Of
profit that an immense stimulus would
be given all along the line. AS to silver
mining, all that can be said is that
there would be rush. The dimen-
sions OF the movement would depend
upon many things impossible TO fore.
see. These anticipations of what has
bered, based on mere theory. We
know already too we'll what to expect
from foreign traders in country
where silver is the standard currency.
India, Japan and Argentina are all
bearing witness to the insidious effect
on British trade of conditions now in
perspective in the United States Mean
time, we cannot too soon face the posi-
bilities and realize the true significance
of the position as it is"
Among our local business men this
is considered substantial acknowl-
edgement that free silver coinage at a
ratio of sixteen to one with gold would
give us the markets of the world, both
for our manufactures and our agri-
cultural products. = Cincinnati En-
quirer
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
OF course paper notes are not

OF course paper notes are not
money at all. They are mere promises
to pay money. OF course, also, the
talk of coming money out of paper
is ignorant bubble or worse. Govern
ment can not take piece of paper
worth q cent or less and make ii
worth ten, a hundred or thousand
dollars by putting stamp on it.
Whoever says government can dc
that, is either dishonest or grossly
ignorant Monona Leader.
And yet the supreme court of most
of the states, Iowa among others, re
ported on page 246. Vol. l6 Iowa SUI
preme court, have done that very
thing How it would grieve thu
judges who gave these decision.
should they ever learn that 81, Geo
H. Otis, pronounce you either dis
honest or grossly ignorant.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15

Jas. w. Wilson, the noted agric Ill
tural writer and associate editor OF
Farm, Field and Fireside of Chicago,
has always heretofore voted the re.
republican ticket on. national issues,
but as he puts it himself, when the
republican party adopted the rninous
Cleveland policy, with about a mil
lion others we stood npon the higher
ground of American citizenship" anG
since with voice and pen he has beer
advocating the election of Bryan an6
Sewall.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
Bludbl der,

The new vegetable tonic-alterative
and blood purifier is in the shape of
a pleasant syrup, and contains in a
concentrated form the most vaIu-
chile vegetable curatives. which have
been developed by modern medical
and scientific research. 1t acts di-
rectly upon the blood, through it i'm
parting tone and vigor to the entire
system and eradicating diseases, and
is unequaled as cure for Scrofulous
Cancerous and other hnmors, wheth-
er constitutional or otherwise. Ca
tarrh, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Drop
sy, sick and nervous headache, female
weakness, and ali blood, liver and
kidney disc sses. Price 81. Sold by
J.J. Lowry