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Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04
he CAUGHT 1T 4 STRAW.
And Found a Bulwark of
Strength and Safety.

C. B. Downs, Of the freight depart
ment of the Boston g. Maine Railroad
at Portsmouth, knows what it is to
suffer from hunger with food within
reach, which he could eat, but not
digest. He lives at 80 Daniel Street,
and tells his experience in the follow
ing words:-
When was IA years old began to
be troubled with indigestion, which
as grew up became worse instead Of
better, until found it hard to keep
any food on my stomach. Everything
] ate caused me pain and distress, but
1 did not look like dyspeptic and SO
did not get much sympathy.
tried as many as a dozen different
things, but they all failed to cure me,
and like a drowning man l was ready
to catch at any straw offering the
least hope of rescue. Then l tried
Puritana and was not only relieved by
it from the pain, but in a short time
completely cured of my indigestion.
l could eat sausages without their
hurting me, and l found that Puri-
tana had given me new stomach
that would digest any food. l believe
~ that was the first person in
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04

only two deaths in Greenvlle since
last July.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04

Jesse Tuck. the genial purser for the
kcnnebec e Boston Steamboat Com
pany says that the passenger traffic on
tho line is daily increasing. as the sum
mer adv ances, and the prospects for a
srod season never were better, he
says. Mr.. Tuck is one of those whose
heart is in his work, and he does much
to make the sea trip a pleasant one for
those who pass by that way.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04

Hon S. w. Matthews passed Sunday
with Hon S. w Carr at Bowdoinham
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04

Flowers abound this summer OF
ladies hats. How much more beautiful
and humane then when birds abound
as ornaments for hats. Miss Eta E.
pcls one to write, fragrant with its
profusion of roses and other flowers
1t is {, busy place these days There
is Il great demand for Sailors"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04

+. T. Mayo of the Turf, Farm ano
Home. was in the city. Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04

Hon. @. p. Baker returned. Saturday
from a business trip to Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04
OUR GREAT PATTERN OFFER.
cut Paper Patterns FREE Every Reader Of KEN.
NE1Ec JOURNAL,

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Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04

AT Murphy is confined to his home
with illness.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04
AUGUSTA LOCALS.

4 "curfcw Jaw" is being agitatcd IL
Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-05-04

1t brings to any man, woman, or
child, strength, comfort, happiness, and
new life.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09
THE MEAT OF THE ARGUMENT
Denver Times.


CAMP SILVER, Aug. 10, 1896.
Messrs. Phil Armour & Co., Chicago,
Illinois:
Fried Phil: Your offer of SO cents
worth of meat and Mexican dollar
in exchange for an American dollar
received, but I can do better with our
home butcher. He offers 50 cents
worth of meat and 81 worth of Portu-
guese per cent gold bonds in ex-
change for silver dollar.
Our butcher says the gold must be
good, as Portugal has been on a gold
standard since 1853 (twenty years be-
fore the other enlightened nations of
Europe) and its national debt has only
increased 1U0 per cent since that date.
Average wages paid all artisans in
Portugal is II cents per day.
In your former letter you told me
that all we needed was little gold,
improved "banking facilities" and
"confidence.'
Portugal has little gold," the
world has had its improved banking
facilities" since 1853, and can supply
the ''confidence," so the bonds are
certainly good.
Our home butcher says he will con-
tinue to give so cents worth of meat
and 81 Of Portuguese gold bonds after
Bryan is elected. Will you guarantee
to give 50 cents worth of meat and a
Mexican dollar in exchange for an
American silver dollar after Bryan is
elected? Yours truly,
JOHN FAIRPLAY.
P. 81 see the London Times
quoted Mexican bonds at 944; Portu-
guese per cent gold bonds at 264.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09
A STARTLING REVELATION,

The history of one year of the gold
standard is enough to drive the people
Of the South and West into revolu-
tion. The robbery of the people has
been most astounding. Let us refer
to the facts and figures. The follow
ing figures are from the official re ports
of the auditors and comptrollers Of
the states and territories named.
They show the robbery Of the people
for one year in 81 states to amount to
FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOL
LARS! Nearly all of this loss falls
upon the people of the South and
West. The tax returns show an in
crease Of wealth during 1894 in only
II states, nearly all East tern states,
including New York, while the 81 here
given have decreased in tax valuation
the figures set opposite the states.
The states and territories are as fol-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09
THE GLORIES OF THE BRITISH EN-.
PIRE.

AS with ancient Rome, while petty tri-
umphs are being gained on the frontier,
the British empire is rOtting at it's heart.
The average age of the well-to-do class
is 81, the average age of the producing
class is q. In Liverpool and Manches-
ter the average age of the workers is
put by middle class statists at Is and II
respectively. Our hero of the hour, Mr..
Joseph Chamberlain, proposes as rem
edy for this that every worker who ar
rives at the age of 65 (?) should receive
the magnificent revenue of five whole
shillings a week.
A working class family which lives un-
der existing conditions in our great cities
is worn out physically Intellectually and
morally in three generations. The de-
scendants exist, and may still further per-
petuate themselves, but ever in lower and
more degraded types. Yet the recruiting
ground for our city populations no longer
exists. The country districts are unpeo-
pied; the land is bare of men.
More than one-quarter of the producing
class die in the hospital, the workhouse,
or the pauper lunatic asylum. The hos
pital is an experimental laboratory for
the benefit of the rich. The workhouse
is a squalid prison. The pauper lunatie
asylum is hell upon earth.
Children exist in our great cities with
out fresh air, without pure milk, on bad
bread and Indifferent water, frequently
going to school without any breakfast
and quite insufficiently clad to meet the
weather No systematic attempt what.
ever is made to deal with this GLORY o1
the Empire" Free meals and free main
tenance would "pauperize" the children
Don't you see that? How many of the
children Of the sweaters and swindlers
who make up the governing class are
'pauperized" by their free meals anG
free maintenance?
The reports of the certifying sergeants
in the factory district, disclose more thar
Armenian horrors, and DR.. Arlidee's
Diseases of Occupations" show the
workers are deliberately and systemati
cally murdered for profit.
Afterwards reflect upon the "Glories
OF the British Empire" which those wht
swindle you, and slave drive you. an(
jeer at you, wish you to keep up and ex
tend in order that they may swindle you
and slave drive you, and jeer at you tn,
more. II only these facts rouse in yo,
One-tenth pan of the hatred they evok,
in me, the system won't last till the ent
4 of the century, for all that the Torie,
have In the house Of commons a maiorft,
of 152.-H. NJ. Hyndman, In London Jus
tice.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09
MUZZLED THEIR SLAVES.

When Bryan and party passed through
Canton, Ohio, the BOnnOt Manufacturing
company ordered their men not to stop
work, or step outside the shop, or look
out of the windows when the Bryan train
should arrive. The Bryan reception was
held within 40 yards of the Bonnet shops,
and in full view of the same. When the
train arrived from 5000 to 10000 people
gathered at the station, the band played,
the crowd cheered, and although the
crowd was within few feet of the shops,
the wage slaves did not dare lift their
eyes from their work. for fear of dis
charge. Two of the most expert pattern
makers in Ohio, one Mckinley man, and
the other a Bryan man, laid down their
tools, and stepped outside to see Bryan,
who was speaking from fiat car. One
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09
THE NUMBER of this 10
issue Of the paper is.... uAV
II the number opposite your name on. the
C0l0red Label Is less than this number
it shoes that your subscrittion Is IN ar
rears and should be paid up at once.
WHAT FREE COINAGE WILL DO
(Denver Road.l

[Denver Road.l
The free coinage catechism pub
lished by the goldbug New York Post
contains the following:
@. Why would free coinage harm
those with fixed incomes or who draw
interest?
A. Because their incomes would re-
main unchanged as expressed in
money, while their living expenses
would increase enormously.
O. Why would their expenses in
crease under free coinage?
A. Because Of the violent, general
and PERMANENT RISE IN PRICES.
@. Would such a rise Of prices be
inevitable?
A. 1t would necessarily follow the
reconciliation of silver.
This is not the catechism which the
goldbugs are sending out to the farm
ers. 1t is not the one from which
the Mckinley orators quote when
they predict $3.50 pork and 10 cent
corn as the immediate result Of free
coinage. But it is the one that the
goldbugs send out to small money
lenders and to county officials and
clerks Of all kinds.
The goldbugs have different cate
chism for the farmer-one that tells
Of "cheap-money, tifty-cent dollars,
and low priced farm products" They
admit on one hand that free coinage
will raise prices-they deny it on the
other.
When these gentlemen can prove
that money can be scarce and cheap,
or plentiful and dear at the same
time; when they can prove that free
coinage will both raise and lower the
price Of farm products, then, and not
till then. will the people listen to
them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09
FIAT MONEY, IF NOT, WHY NOT?

The national bank parasites and money
sharks usually get upon their hind legs
and howl at the mere mention OF fiat
money. Misinfor1ned, as this class Of
partisans usually are, they assume to
credit themselves with all knowledge re-
specting finance and the monetary sys-
TENS of the earth, and yet their knowl-
edge, when probed, does not extend to
the simplest elements Of political econo-
nv. AS a premise, assert that there is
not one among the 80 dominant nations
of the earth that has not issued, is not
issuing. and has not now in circulation,
paper money, issued directly by the gov
ernment, or by banks under government
authority, which is not secured by any
reserve of gold or silver, and is essential
ly fiat money.
The facts shall give are not distorted
statements manufactured for ShylOck
purposes by debauched gold bug press,
but are obtained either from the official
reports of the United States mints, or
from data obtained by our consuls and
representatives in foreign countries, to
which they are accredited.
1 state without fear of successful con-
tradiction that the nations that I shall
name, have issued more than $2,469, 900,
600 of fiat money. These nations are as
follows:
Great Britain, $113, ,0O0,O 900; Germany,
over $50, 900, 900; France, over $32, 900 900; !;
Russia, $539, 600, 900; Italy over $191 ,O00,-
600; Spain over 5000, 600; South Amer
lean states, over $3.50, ,OO0 boo; Mexico, In
dia, the Central American states, Servia,
Roumania Netherlands, Hayti, Greece,
Belgium, Sweden, NORWAY, Portugal,
Denmark, Canada, Austria Hungary, and
the United States over -4D24 100000
These countries represfnt population
of ], LIE, 900 ,0OO Htoveria billion and a
quarter Of people are actually using over
two thousand four hundred millions OF
fat paper money, are the Populists OF
this country without precedent for their
demand that the government issue prac-
tically irredeemable paper money in an
amount sufficient to facilitate exchanges
Our bank parasites grow red in the
face when you mention fiat or irredeema-
BILE money, issued to the people, not
through them, but by the government
Did the national banker ever ask himself
what hts note, which he never issues tc
the people for less than. 8 or 10 per cent,
| in it's final analysis rests upon?
Does it not rest upon q bond issued by
the government? What does that bond
| rest upon? Can there .be any answer
save this: The faitit and credit of the
people? Then, it may well be asked, why
does not the government issue it's money
directly to the people. instead Of circuit
! ously through corporations7 Would MOI
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09

CONTINUED ON INSIDE PAGES.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09

The Rings steal hundreds Of mill
ions annually from the People. One
tenth Of the plunder is used to con-
troll the daily. press and buy up the
leaders OF the two old parties, to
darken Intelligence and make the
voters poor. blind and incapable Of
eeif-defense. Strike before it is too
late.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09

times it's present absurd value; or, to
put it otherwise, commodities must
decline to onefourth Of its present
price, and labor all the world over, be
crucitied as it was never before cruci-
fed, in days Of medieval serfdom or
even chattel slavery. Such is the con-
test. If the money lords can force
gold monometallism upon the whole
world, they will succeed in establish
ing the most gigantic moneyed aris-
tocracy among the rich, and the worst
system of peonage serfdom among the
masses that has ever cursed the hap.
less sons of men.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09
Tom Watson says:

Tom Watson says:
With infinite labor we have built up the
Peoples Party. Through days OF dark
ness we have worked for it. Through
nights of pain we have prayed for 1t.
Through storms of abuse, ridicule and
MISREPRESENTATION we have carried it's
flag. It lives and moves and thrives to-
day because of the fearless devotion and
deathless love of brave men and pure
women; men who have put principle
above party, women who loved right bet
ter than the worlds applause.
And now must we surrender and quit
the field?
Why?
Because the men who have been fight
ing us admit that they were wrong.
And must we give up our flag?
To whom?
To the men who for four years have
been firing on It,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09
A WALL STREET VIEW.

the governments note, resting on moth
ing, be as good as the governments bond,
resting on nothing?
Would it not be better for the people to
rid themselves of the fearful interest
charge of over $SO,OOO day, and bur-
den of nearly billion of bonds, constant
ly being added. B. Simpson.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09

was discharged within an hour with un-
finished work on the table, and the other,
with an unfinished job, was discharged
the next forenoon. The secretary and
treasurer, H. H. Whiting, is an uncom-
promising gold bug, and Isaac Harter
and Henry w. Harter, brothers of the late
NJ D. Harter, uncompromising gold bugs,
are the principal stockholders.-De Denver
Road.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09
LABOR CRUCIFIED.

From London Times and Echo, July 10, 10 50
II the single gold standard can be
forced upon South America and Asia,
as it has been since 1873 forced upon
North America and Europe, gold must
inevitably appreciate to at least four
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09

Hhe constitutional standard
bverturn 1t would shake tho
IS constitute the legal stand
lSny State has authority to
24th Congress, 1874
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09

If an army with banners and large
camp following had marched through
these states, the destruction of prop
erty could not have been greater.
Texas shows a loss in one year Of
$1s, 1861 900, and one far western state,
Washington, whose record was such as
to make every American proud of her
up to the advent Of the gold standard,
has lost the enormous sum Of $57 ,277,-
674, nearly tifty-cight millions In one
year. Wisconsin sustains q loss Of
$64 600, 900. The South sustains q
slump Of over e9O, ,0O0, 900 in one year.
Denver Road.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09

It takes young man many years to
distinguish himself from a genius
Commonwealth.
Evening star., 1896-10-06
The Trolley i'm Rural Regions.

From the New York World.
Steam roads in New England are again
harassing competing electric lines with
injunction suits. Perhaps this is natural,
but il ought not TO be successful 1t is a
fight against progress and against the pub
lie interest. and 1t ought not to succeed
even temporarily.
Trolley lines will soon run through hum
dreds of villages surrounding New York,
Boston and other cities They are already
running through scores, and il would add
thousands of dollars to local trade If they
were allowed to deliver gooGs at the doors
of the houses they pass aloIg their routes.
In every attempt to accommodate the pub
lie demand for such service. however they
are at once checked by political Influences
behind which stand the steam roads and
their allies.
Only the other day a steam road. COM
manded by the courts to allow an electric
road to cross its tracks, asserted its SUI
premacy both TO law and progress by rum
ming an engine back and forth at the cross
ing so TO step work.
Such attempts are foolish in the beginning
and they will be futile in the end. II is not
worth while to get Indignant at them, for
they are due to the same ignorance which
made the poor stocking kntters riotous
when looms were first introduced. 1t must
Ice understood, however, that electricity
with progress on its side. has the right TO
count and will count for a majority in
every such contest.
Evening star., 1896-10-06

From the North, astcrn Lumberman.
The forests of Canada have supplied
more or less the wants of Europe for CEN
turies. From the earliest days Of its oc-
cupation by the French, the forest wealth
of the country washed by the St. Lawrence
engaged the attention of the government
of France, who saw therein vast resources
available for their naval yards. They drew
from these forests large numbers of masts
and spars, and issued stringent regulations
for the preservation of the standing oak.
When the country was first ceded TO Great
Britain but little attention was paid at
first to its vast timber supply, owing to the
fact that almost the whole of the Baltic
trade was carried on in British bottoms.
and that the timber of northern Europe
provided unfailing and convenient re-
turn freight for the shipping thus engaged.
When, however, the troubles of the Ma
poleonic era commenced, and especially
when the. continental blockade was en-
forced, the timber supplies of the Baltic
becoming uncertain and insufficient, at
tention was directed to the North Ameri-
can colonies, with the result of increasing
the quantity of timber which reached Great
Britain from 26;1 tons i'm the year $500
10 300 tons in 1870 and TO 30S.0oo tons
i'm 1870 In 1S!5 the amount exported TO
the United Kingdom showed total OF
1910 6SJ tons.
Evening star., 1896-10-06
The Honest Shakers and
Their Cure for Dyspepsia.

The shopkeeper who cheats by lying with
gard 10 the quality of his goods, and the grocer
the butcher who gives short weights, is thief.
However, tfeir knavery touches nothing but
pocket book There is another Widespread form Of
Misrepresentation OF a far more dangerous aad
villainous charActer
We refer to the false statements and worthless
guarantees that frequently accompany medicines
To guarantee medicine to cure is to brand Il as
a quack product. IL We can guarantee to cure dis
ease. then We guarantee everlasting life for in
a large majority Of people die OF disease the
proportion Of violent or accidental deaths being
very small.
The Shakers have always been known a most
upright sDd honorable people, aud their in
the manufacture of medicines has also been well
krown. 1t is therefore not surprising to find them
pursuing a very original and novel plan for the
irtroiuo tion OF their remedy for dyspepsia.
These God fearing people. whose motto has always
been, Try all things, and kold fast that which is
good, have put upen the market sample
bottles Of their product, sufficient TO give It
trial.
The Shaker Digestive Cordial is prompt in lis
action that for the trivial OF ten per-
son can usually determine as to whether not
IL meets the requirements Of his There are
TO ms of dyspepsia which it won't help but these
are Ia cases the first dose relieves
all distress, and increase OF appetite at once
follows.
All druggists have it, and the next time you are
troubled with indigestion send out and try this
popular and successful product. 1t represents
ly hrrdred years of patient Investigation aud
Evening star., 1896-10-06
DOUGLASS IN PLASTER.
A Cast to BE Presented TO the Bethel
Literary Society.

There has just been received in this city
the plaster cast of the Fred Douglass capi-
tai that has just been erected over one
of the composite pillars in the state capi-
tol building at Albany, n. Y. The plaster
model was donated by Mr. John T. Bruce
of the state treasurer's Office at Albany,
who is a contributor to the colurans of
TIE Colored American, published in this
city in the press name of Bruce Grit to
the Bethel Literary end Historical Society
Of this city. 1T is arranged that the cast
is TO be presented next Saturday night at
the regular meeting of the society at the
Metropolitan A. Al. f. Church. and Mr..
Edward f. Cooper, editor of the Colored
American, will deliver an address as the
representative of the donor. through whose
suggestion and efforts the idea of typifying
the colored race in the decorations of the
beautiful building at Albany was brought
to the attention of the board of commits
sioHers Of the state of New York having
this construction In charge. Mr.. Bruce
listed the cooperation of prominent citi-
Zens of Rochester which was Fred Doug
lass early home. and through their aid he
secured the adoption of the proposition.
and the finished marble capital has just
now been put in place.
The capital is symbolic of the emanci-
patton of the slave. On each side of the
center. which is occupied by a medallion
bust portrait of Douglass, a small negro
head emerges from the scroll work. SYM
bolizir z the state of the race In bondage
| The entwining vines give the semblance
of fetters through which the heads are
struggling. In these small heads the
features are those of the plantation negro,
one being that of a woman with the famil-
| lar bandanna turban. The portrait Of
| Douglass represents him at middle age,
| and will. therefore. be somewhat unfamiliar
| to those who knew him in his later life.
The portrait. however, is said by those who
were acquainted with the negro statesman
at the height of his career to be faith
full and excellent. The entire work is ar
tistic. and judging from the somewhat in
complete details of the plaster cast cspi-
| tai must be one of the handsomest pieces
| of symbolic carving ever produced in this
| country. The cast is now on exhibition at
| the office of the Colored American, 3e
4 ID street