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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
PRICES AND WAGES.
GOLD IS NOT APPREcIATlNo AND WA
GES ARE RlSIrc.

Facts That Should Stop the senseless
Howling Against Gold-Inersased Out
put Of tho Yellow Metal VIII Stop Its
Upward Tendency.
The following statistics and diagram
Of prices, wages, etc., ought to stop the
bowling Of those who are shouting
against gold because It is appreciating
at some rapid rate and thus putting
money into the pockets Of the gold
bugs. The truth is that 1t is practically
stationary In value as compared with
all labor products and that it has depre-
oiated only when used as measure OF
value Of that most important Of all COM
modities-labor. How this works to the
advantage Of labor is shown by the rap
idly increasing purchasing power Of
wages. The greatly increased output Of
gold in 1894 and 1895 will probably en-
tirely stop the slight tendency to appre-
citation and perhaps check the downward
course Of prices Of labor products. This
would be Of doubtful benefit, as it is
perhaps best for mankind that prices Of
most manufactured articles should de-
cline somewhat owing to constantly i'm
proved methods Of manufacture. It Is
only fair that consumers should receive
a share of the benefits Of cheapened pro-
duction.
RELATIVE PRICES AND WAGES IN THE UNITED
STATES.
Compiled from "Has Gold Appreciated" by
To-. I
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
Free Coinage Means Silver MonometAllism.

A stork which had q nodding ao-
quaintance with a crane who lived in
the same marsh asked one day, "Neigh-
Dor Crane. do you always stand on one
legf" The crane thoughtfully swallow
ed frog which it had impaled mo-
ment before, and, after some reflection,
replied. "No; I always stand on the
other"
The pretense that free coinage would
establish financial system resting OF
two distinct standards Of value has been
abandoned by nearly all silverites and
Populists. They admit that free silver
at 16 to 1 would shift our currency
from gold to silver basis, and that
we should have monometallism as Ger
tainly as we have now. The only differ
ence would be that, instead Of standing
on the gold Leg which has been used
for go years, the country would try to
balance itself Oh an unsafe silver leg.
But the wise American bird replies to
the pleading Of the silver mine owners
that their cheap metal be tried: 'No.
thank you! / always stand on the
Othero
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
HISTORY TEACHES

HISTORY TEACHES:
That it was the year Of q terrible
panic.
That our primary money has in
creased since 1873 from $185, 900, 900
to $l,250, 900, 900.
That the decline in some products
began in 1854 and others in 1896,
1865 and 1857.
That prices are lower while the
volume Of money is larger In 1895
than in 1878.
That they had 2,o0o, 900 silver dol
lars in 1878 against 400, 600, 600 In
1896. e
That the crime Of bimetallism put
cotton below cents in 1845.
That prices have declined since 1878
in the face Of steady increase Of pri.
mary money.
That they are "built that way"
That it is larger in 1895, counting
gold alone, than In 1878, including
gold and silver.
That the burglars, pickpookets and
politicians get their share.
u. Holland Wright in Goldbug.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
Employment Wanted.

Wanted, by large number Of orators
out Of a Job since Nov. 8, employment
as agitators for schemes which will fool
the public. Great ability as denouncers
Of everybody and everything guaranteed
Glowing promises and general humbug
a speciality. Speeches five hours long
delivered at the rate Of $50 revolutions
per minute. Choice selection Of epithets,
suoh as "robber bankers, ""goldbugs," "
"money sharks" and "bloated capital
lists" furnished In quantities to suit.
Wool pulled over dull eyes, and ears
tiokled by smooth phrases at reasonable
rates. Plans for making everybody rich
in three weeks expounded below actual
ost. Rural districts gulled at a great,
bargain and fake stories Of the money
power g crimes invented fresh each even
ing.
Address Messrs. Stewart, Bryan,
Bland, Harvey, Blackburn or Morgan,
care American Bimetallic league, WASH
ington. References from estate OF for
mer employers, the late free silver issue.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23

Note. The United States price table Is made
from tho average prices in the United States
Of 90 articles for each year between 1910 and
1850 and Of 223 articles for each year between
article Is given as much relative Importance
IN computing the average as that article has
In the consumption Of the average citizen Of
the United States.
The figures for wages in the United States
pre- from the Aldrich report and are averaged
BY weighting the figures for different indus
tries according to their Importance.
The results given In the last two columns
"Purchasing Power Of Wages" and Cost Of
ro@ the sares tho 8reh report
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
Borrowers to Pay In Gold.

"There are 500. 900 to 1000. 900 men
In this country who, within q year or
two. have borrowed gold on land, rail.
road mortgages, etc." says the Chicago
Tribune (Rep.). "They have promised
specifically to pay back in gold coin Of
equal weight and fineness Of present
American gold coin. Why cannot the
government be equally honest3 Why
does congress want to shirk the promise
to repay in as good money as 1t now de.
mands3 Is 1t done for the purpose Of
cheating the lenders?"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
TRUE AND FALSE TEACHERS.

"CoIN" TEACHES:
That 1878 was year Of great pros
perity.
That the volume of primary money
was reduced one-hah in 1873.
That the decline in the prices Of
farm products began In 1873.
That this decline in prices Is due to
the reduced volume Of money.
That the "daddies" had plenty Of
dollars before 1873.
That the crime Of the gold standard
put cotton down to 6 cents in 1895.
That primary money regulates
prices
That the people are dissatisfied.
That our money, per capita, is di.
minishing.
That the capitalists, bankers and
business men steal all Of our money.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23

are soon exhausted and they must be re-
newed. This incapacity to protect it's re-
serve is the chief reason why state is
not fitted to issue fiduciary money"
The second phft of NJ. Leroy-Beau-
lieu's article is headed "Bimetallism.
He discusses our silver question in
mastery way. Because Of general
movement toward gold and away from
silver and the great decline in the price
Of silver, he concludes that "the diff
culties in the way Of the restoration Of
silver are infinitely greater than they
were 30 years, or ten years, or five
years since" he believes that bimetal-
ism is practically thing of the past,
and that all governments Of Europe are
satisfied with the "pre-eminence Of gold
and the secondary and ciIcumscribed
function of silver." He attributes the
occasional 5imetallic utterances Of gov
ernment officials in Europe to their
habit Of avoiding offending or definite
ly estranging any group Of voters; even
one Of slight Importance"
In conclusion he says:
"As soon as the capitalists, small and
great, Of Europe shall know that the
United States have definitely adopted
the gold standard and relegated silver
to subordinate monetary role the saw
ings of western Europe will flow toward
that country. Freed form the fear that
he may some day be repaid in depreciat-
ed money, every person with savings in
all Europe will be happy to find a re-
turn Of 81 to 4 per cent in good Amer
lean securities, and Of 5 to 81 per cent
in the shares of we'll established Ameri-
can enterprises. Then the immense ter
ritory Of the United States will find its
vast resources rapidly and completely
put in the way Of exploitation. The
abandonment Of notes or paper money
issued by the state, the definite adop-
tion Of gold as the sole standard-these
are the two necessary conditions on
which the United States can secure a
financial position as important as that
they now hold in agriculture and in in
dustry. On these two conditions they
can some day approach and equal Great
Britain as financial power. If, on tho
contrary, they persist in their system OF
government paper money and in the
rehabilitation Of silver, their indus
trial and commercial development alike
will be trammeled, and they will un-
dergo marked and permanent experiences
Of financial weakness.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
Like q Beheaded Hon.

The great cause Of 10 to 1 is still
feebly kicking little, like hen whose
head has been cut off, but is dead just
the same. Conferences will not revive
it. In neither the Republican nor Dem
ocratio party is it living force. In
neither Of the great political conven-
tions next year will 1t be more than a
dead duck. &.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
EXPENSIVE GREENBACkS

They Hsve Boon Condemned By All the
Eminent Finenciers.
The elementary principles Of national
finance are so little understood that Seo-
retary Carlisle's proposition to retire
the noninterest bearing greenbacks even
at the expense Of issuing interest bear
ing bonds is treated by prominent pa,
per in this city as something ridiculous,
the credit for which belongs exclusive
ly to the statesman from Kentucky. No
other man would have the nerve to
claim It,"
Yet in q review article, already no.
ticed in these columns, that is set forth
as the idea Of M. Leroy Beaulieu, and
under the leadership Of President Theirs
it is the idea that France practiced from
1871 to 1879, when the last Of the war
paper currency was retired, though that
currency drew only and the bonds
drew per cent interest. Indeed there Is
no difference Of opinion among f1nanciers
Of standing in this country and abroad
upon this question. Mr.. Hugh MoCul
loch. a successful banker and one Of tho
few trained fnanciers we have had at
the head Of the treasury, got congress to
begin the retirement Of the greenbacks
before the reduction Of the bonded debt,
but after a couple Of years the cheap
money men and the demagogues and
the men who have full set Of convio-
tions on all financial questions without
the least acquaintance with financial
history proved too much for him and
stopped the work.
Enough Of the history Of the green.
back has been published in the last two
or three years, and the difficulty Of keep
ing a gold reserve for their redemption
has been great enough in the past three
years to convince any Intelligent OBJ
server that the most expensive portion
Of the national debt Is the portion which
draws no interest York Journal
Of Commerce.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
Greenbsoks and Cheap Silver Dollars.

The United States note was forced
loan from the people to the government,
which the government promises to repay
In dollars, but the free coinage Of legal
tender silver at the ratio Of 16 to 1, OF
at any other ratio not corresponding
with the commercial value Of the two
metals, would be forced loan from the
people to the owners Of silver mines and
silver bullion without promise of re-
payment by anybody. One loan was
forced for the benefit Of the government
in q time Of war, but the proposition OF
the advocates Of free coinage is to force
another loan for the benefit Of private
individuals and corporations in time
of profound peace. Hon. John g. Car
isle Nov 49,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23
A Query.

If the government should coin $780,
900, 900 month in legal tender silver
dollars, how would the farmers Of this
section get any Of itP Will some free
silver advocate please answer
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-23

From 1s until 1858 coinage Of silver free Any could bull
lion to the treasury and have it for
A s54 Of silver coined During the years coinage
dollars only fee and 1888
Of SO in 50 During
Of coinage silver
nx times the amount coined under Of
such facts 1t strange that sensible meetings
Elverdo
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-31
TERMS---$2.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
SINGLE COPY, THREE CENTS.
NUMBER 10.

Barnes" said Emily. "ln fact, know
ing you by reputation as man Of great
shrewdness, have not thought that you
were telling us your true ideas. Itwould
have been foolish to do so. &"
perhaps, though sometimes what
seems foolish may be wise. y
"Quite true. And now, gentlemen, l
regret the necessity of dismissing you,
but l have ball on hand for tonight
and must beg you to excuse us that we
may prepare for it. You know in the
fashionable world we train for ball as
athletes do for their sports. You will
forgive my sending you away.
This was her way, and men never re-
sented it. They simply obeyed. Mr..
Barnes was delighted that both the 9th
er men would leave with him. He had
prepared trap for Mr.. Mitchell, but
now he would entice two birds into it.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-31

Lost onc7 No-that is, don't knoaD."
beautiful carvings in cameo and intaglio.
I ordered set made to be used for but
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-31

cause you know what Bob says is law.
You are as much afraid of him as-well,
as all the rest of the men are Of you.
But haven't told you what am going
to do I want Bob to take me with you
both whenever you go to the theater "
"Ohol So that is your little plot, is
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-20
BLEW THE RIVER DRY.
A Little More and the People of Detro i
Gould iIave Walked Over to Canad4.


Gould have Walked Over to Canada.
From the Detroit Tribune
Inasmuch as the winter season is pref
~ well over and in order to make room
for the spring stock OF freshets the De-
troit river yesterday had a quarter-off
sale with the result that its stock of water
was run down almost to the bottom. The
strong winds blowing up river came with
in an ace of making a Red sea path
across to Windsor, so that people might
have walked across instead of patroniz-
ing Walter Campbell's big ferry boats
While the river wasn't quite blown out
of existence, still a new record was estab-
lished and the oldest inhabitant lost his
job. Instead of having to go back to 81
or AS for the lowest amount of water i'm
the river the date can be put at Feb. IL,
1896 for it was nearly five feet below the
normal yesterday. breaking all previous
records by at least foot.
So low were the ferry boats in the river
that passengers found ii more convenient
TO step from the docks to the upper than
the lower decks, and so steep was the
gang plank inclined that 1T resembled
Montreal toboggan slide. The ferry COM
pany refused to carry heavily loaded
wagons.
Added to this low state of water, which
left the Woodward avenue sewers above
the river level and out of which porued a
rocking, sinking Niagara Falls a sea of
tremendous proportions was on, tossing
the river in spray So big were the
waves that were dug out of the river that
several of the ferry captains affirmed
they frequently saw the bottom of the
Detroit river in midstream.
Up the river, in the many slips near the
Belle Isle bridge, and where private
yachts are moored for the winter many
of the boats were resting on the bottom,
and several of them. particularly the
small sail boats, were left high and dry.
But the river was the oldest looking on
the Canadian side. There, back of d.
NJ. Ferry's seed store, the river is very
shallow for some distance, the bottom
suddenly dropping down where the cur
in commission there, but it crumbled
away. after being deserted. until only the
piles were to be seen, and these had been
rotted away until their tops were barely
visible. Yesterday, however, they stood
like giants above the dred-up river the
water having receded 100 feet from the
shore. On this wharf. some years ago.
stood Hurley's coal slide. One day il gave
way. letting all the coal into the river.
and yesterday Windsor's poor stocked up
their depleted coal bins. gathering up the
coal from the rivers bed. On the shores
or Lake st. Clair, at Belle river on the
Canadian side. where the water is shall
low when at its normal, the lake bed was
dry for half a mile out.
The Middle Grounds that Jesse Burke
made famous two years ago, by building
them into a piece of land. dubbed Cheeky
island, were away above the surface Of
the water yesterday.
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gin with. Now II has become disgust
ing and scandalous.
one OF the latest manifestations was
when the president concluded to take
a run down the river for a day with
the ducks. NOBODY objected to his 60
ing. Nobody cared three strayys
whether he went or stayed. But he
set about accomplishing his designs as
though the whole community was COM
bined to prevent him, and as though II
was a matter of life and death to out
wit, hoodwink and battle the commun-
ity. His myTmidons spent the day tin
toeing about like conspirators. An aw-
full hush roasted on the brow of Thur
Der, small officers OF the lighthouse
service were winking and gesticulat-
ing like so many gnomes In a panto-
mime. There could not have been more
secrecy if a revolution or a coup deaf
had been in contemplation. And
finally, at the dead OF night, the presi-
dent accompanied by DIR. O'Reilly.
rushed.into a closed carriage and drove
rapidly by devious and roundabout
ways to the Seventh street wharf,
where they allghted and made their
way to the deck of the lighthouse ten
der, Maple. And after all that fuss
and nonsense over a matter of no sort
of consequence there was a reporter
waiting to see them safely aboard and
to wish them a friendly bon voyage!
Seriously, this thing has come to be
ludtcrOuS
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-20
BURIED TREASURE.
A Sealed Oyster Can Contains $1,000 Of
the Monty.


the Monty.
w. s. Fassett, a well known hon buv-
or, just in from Grants Pass. tells n
strange but true story of the unearth-
ing of a large sum in greenbacks on
Pared Overton's ranch, 10 miles south
of that town, says the Portland Tele-
gram.
Overton. on Wednesday last, while in
speeding an uncultivated corner of his
farm. saw the top of square oyster
can projecting from rift i'm the
ground, made by the recent heavy rain
Curiosity led him to dig up the can.
which he found to he sealed and To con-
tain some metallic substance, which
ratified i'm it, on opening il he discov-
cred the metallic substance to consist
of -four octagonal $50 slugs, minted i'm
San Francisco i'm 1852. Besides these,
the can contained $1,000 in greenbacks,
rolled up I'm an oilskn. almost as crisD
as they came rom the printing press.
the second year OF the rebellion.
Mr.. Fassett says Overton is "A resi-
dent Of san Francisco. having bought
the ranch about year ago. and recent
~ came up TO take a look at the prop
erty. II is claimed that II originally be-
longed to the late Arson Burlingame
formerly United States minister 10 Chi
ma, but since then IL has changed hands
a dozen or more times. In 1865. so the
story goes. Washington city friend of
Burlngame's named H. $. Welsh. who
was an invalid. came out here and To-
Gated on that piece of ground hoping
that the climate would restore his
health. In a little less than a year
thereafter he died
Welsh brought with him a married
negro couple as servants who. after
their masters death, said he had taken
with him from home a large sum of
and fhnR ell
what became of il. The white people
to whom the negroes told the story
placed no faith in IT, because after a
most thorough search. not more than a
few hundred dollars I'm currency was
found lin the cabin. Mr.. Fassett adds
that the greenhacks Overton dug up
are possibly the money Welsh's serv-
ants had reference 10.
II Welsh has any living heirs, n very
fine point of law can be raised bearing
upon the legal ownership OF this treas
urc trove.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-20

man who weighed them did not have
good eyesight, or that some one made a
mistake / have been breeding turkeys
for 30 years, and they say that l have
won more prizes for big turkeys than
any other man living. But / never
grew a turkey that weighed As pounds.
l don't believe that any one has, but
may be mistaken in that.
Last Christmas there was a little
thing which goes to show the way in
which these fat turkey stories get
around. A friend Of mine who knew
that l would go a long way and give
a good deal of money to see turkey
that weighed 45 pounds, telegraphed
me that a man living about 10 miles
from me had a turkey that weighed
nearly 80 pounds.
well, you can bet that I harnessed
my old mare in a hurry and started for
the town where the big turkey was
said to be. l got there just before noon
and drove into the mans yard, and
told him what my visit was for, and
asked to see the turkey.
you've just passed him. he said.
It's that big fellow close to the barn
May / look at him and weigh him?
/ asked; and then told him who / was,
and that l was willing to give a good
deal for a turkey that would weigh As
pounds. He told me to go ahead and
do as / wished, remarking that the
turkey was not quite as heavy as he
was a few days before, when he was
weighed and turned the scales at 4Sls
pounds. ] had looked the fowl over
and i thought he was a small fellow
for a 40-pounder even, and I've ham
died so many turkeys that I don't Of
ten make a mistake about the weight.
II had a pair of steelyards, stamped
by the state inspector of weights and
me- a =IIr
cotton cloth with me, and so l weighed
the turkey, tying the cloth about his
legs. Well. Ii was just as / expected.
The gobbler could just turn the weight
at 3Sie pounds, and L gave him every
at that, for he was just a
little bit shy. Yet the man that owned
him told me that he had weighed 4S15
pounds only a few days before and in
sisted upon it that he had lost 10
pounds since then. | guess he did not
Know how to read the figures on his
scales. He wouldn't lie about il. Peo-
pie out our way don't lie"
Told in his quaint. inimitable fashion
and with that twang that type will no.
reproduce. Mr.. Hartwell's turkey talks
were as interesting as anything at the
shQw. He had a goOd-sized audience
before he had finished telling about his
experiences, and as nearly all of the
listeners were breeders. it was better
TO them than any amusement that
could have been devised.
But there was one doubter He was
3 German from Avenue Z, who had
suggested the 45-pound story He had
been announcing very frequently that
ne had once had a bird that weighed
W. pounds when it was dressed. He
'eaftirmed this story after Mr.. Hart
well had doubted the raising OF a bird
hat weighed that much at even live
weight
well" was the comment of the New
England fancier whose fowls have
gone TO England, Wales, Germany and
Austria as well as into every state in
he union, your bird was a wonder.
my friend, but l guess il was weighed
IN the scales that the New York poul-
-erers sell by and not the ones they use
when they buy poultry"
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Burlington

Phil Daniels, T. =. a. Butte. Mont.
W. w. Johnston. c. A, Billings. Mont.
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Mrs. Eugene Searles,
no Simonton ST., Elk
hart, Ind. says: "Ner-
Vous troubles had made
me nearly insane and
physicians were unable
20 help me. Ny memory
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You can travel on a railroad train
that cost 100000 for DAY and al
night for 5000. but you can't own the
train. Pay the Standard 5000 for a
yearly subscription and Sights and
Scenes OF the World and they both be-
long TO you.
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For a quick trip TO Chicago try the
Burlington route via Northern Pacific
at Billings.
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Lame back or side. try shnoh's Bella.
dcna Plaster. pc.