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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-05-16

1t was generous Of Paderewski, who
has made SO much money in America,
to signify his appreciation Of us by
donating $40, 900 as a fund whose in
come is to be used in prizes for the best
original musical compositions by per-
SONS CT American birth. The highest
prize will be $500; the second, $500;
the third, $500. 1t is noticeable that
the great pianist says the prizes must
be awarded without any distinction as
to age or religion. Thus any man or
any oma Of any age, provided only
he or she had the good luck to be born
in America, may compete. 1t is to be
particularly noted, too, that Paderew-
ski makes it a condition that the prizes
shall be awarded only once every three
years. This shows that he understands
the present earning capacity Ct capital
in the United States Il u dct, since it
would take three years for an invest
ment Of $40, 600 to return 81, 600 at or
binary rates. Yet, with all his shrcwd-
ness, he seems to have overlooked one
small point. He specifies American
birth as the sole condition of competing
for the prizes, Does that mean the ccrl.
petitor shall be born in the UriteG
States or scme other American country
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-05-16
What Everybody Ought to Know.

Wnat OuSHt 10 hhoW.
The frequent loss of life, accidents
and destructive fires that are occasioned
by the crossing or entangling Ct electric
wires show that every person ought to
know the simple means whereby to
escape such dangers and losses. In one
of the latest tragic incidents of this
kind the telephone wire which passed
over the roof of a mans house became
crossed with a trolley wire and began to
Emit sparks. The owner of the house
feared a fire would break out and burn
his hcme. He ran quickly to the roof,
and without thinking CT the danger
seized hold Of the wires. OF course he
received into his body the whole force
If the trolley current. He was held fast
in it by a power that he could not *
~tricate himself from. His son ran to
his assistance, but the son. too, was
needless Of the danger, and while not
killed was horribly shocked and burned.
The father was stone dead when released
from the grip of the current.
The right way for the man would
have been to put on rubber shoes and
gloves before going to the roof. The
gloves would have insulated his hands,
the shoes would have protected him
from the current lcaping down into the
tin roof or any metal with which his
feet might come in contact. Then with
a pair Of strong pinchers he could have
cut the wires at his leisure.
Next, if tho son had put on rubber
shoes and gloves also he could have pro-
tected himself from the current and
saved his father, even though the father
had neglected to insulate himself. With
the pinchers held i'll his rubber gloved
hands the young man could have cut
The wires and his father would then
have dropped to the roof free from the
deadly current.
There is Il bit of wire known as a
''shunt" in use among electricians. 1t is
n short wire Of a yard or more III length,
thoroughly coated with gutta percha- 1t
has an iron hook at each end.
If the son had had such an instru-
ment. he could have hooked one end of
it upon the crossing wire at II side CT
his father, then carried it across his IA
TIERS back and hooked the other end
on to the telephone wire at the old
mans other side. This would have
drawn the current away from the ia
Tiers body and sent it through the
shunt. and the man would have been
released. People over whose house cleo
trio wires pass ought in all cases to have
u set Of rubber gloves and shoes, a pair
of pinchers to cut the crossing wires and
the short piece of insulated wire called
the shunt handy in the house. They
should also keep clearly in mind the
danger Of fooling with electricity.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24
ANOTHER HYpocK1rE UNMAsKED.


ANOTHER HYPOCRITE UNMAsKED.
The utter lack of sincerity of Senator
Stewart and Gov. Altgeld in their Free
Silver crusade has been exposed by the
publication of their ironclad gold con-
tracts, which they compel those who do
business with them to sign. Now the
startling announcement is made that the
Ropocratic candidate for Vice President,
Arthur Sewall, is the same kind of an
artful hypocrite. Silver is good enough
for the workingman or other common
people, but everything coming to him
he wants paid in gold. The first de-
velopment made was that the First Ma
tional Bank of Bath, Me-, of which he is
President, made out all its contracts pay
able in gold. He attempted to explain
this away by saying that that was the
action Of the directors, as to which he
was only partially responsible. Then
his investigators came back upon him
with the statement that in his shipping
business, which he controls entirely, he
made the same stipulation. He has ID
ships in commission, and he never makes
| charter for one of them either for
foreign or domestic trade that does not
contain stringent gold clause. He has
lately had ship-the Misunderstanding
on 1900 tons of oil at Brooklyn for the
japanese market. He will receive about
S27 900 for this service. The clause in
the charter relating to payment reads:
The said party of the second part agrees
to pay to the said party of the first part, OF
| agent, for the use of said vessel during the
voyage Aforesaid
if ordered to one port Cents,
United States
if ordered to two ports Gold,
on each and every case delivered, whether
full, part full or empty, payable pro rata
upon correct delivery Of cargo at each port
Of discharge in approved 80 days sight bill.
on London, ct the rate Of exchange of S. &c
gold to the pound sterling.
He may defend this on the ground
that payment might be rendered in
! japanese silyer. Unfortunately for him
The National tribune., 1896-09-24

THAT gold has not appreciated as the
Popocrats claim is clearly shown by the
fact that interest for the use Of gold has
gone down in even greater ratio than
the price Of produce. Only few years
ago 6 per cent. was considered a very
low rate of interest. Ffom' s to 10 per
cent. was much more common. The
Government paid 6 per cent. on large
portion of its Indebtedness, and this was
held to be equivalent to a much higher
rate, because it was free from taxation.
Now, on the same class Of off, securities, a
man can get all the money'he wants at
4 and 5 per cent, where he formally paid
s and 10. Cities and towns are borrow
ing tens of millions as low as 3 per
cent, and under the Harrison Admins
tration the Government Vas Vas offered all
the money it could use at p per cent.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24
TRIBUN ETS.
THAT OLD STORY.
community.


At Fredericksburg Mr.. Bryan said:
81 am glad to visit this historic place. Here
George Washington once came and threw a
silver dollar across the river; but remember,
my friends, that when he threw that dollar
across the river it lit fell and remained in
American soil. [Applause.] They thought it
was great feat then. but we have developed
so rapidly in the last hundred years that we
have financiers now VINO can leave George
Washington's achievement far behind. We
have fnanciers who have been able to throw
gold dollars all the way across the Atlantic,
and then bring them back again by an issue Of
bonds. [Great applause.
''Would you believe it, my friends, that a
silver dollar. which was good enough to be
handled by the Father of his Country, is now
so mean q thing as to excite the contempt Of
many of our so-called fnanciers? mo, no!1"
As usual, Mr.. Bryan was away off on his
facts The accepted legend has always been
that it was at Mt. Vernon and across the Poto-
mac that Washington threw the silver dollar,
and not ACROSS the Rappahannock at Fredericks-
burg. which would be much less Of feat.
There gre now, and always have been, plenty
of men who could throw dollar across the
Rappahannock, while to send 1t across the
lower Potomac would DO quite another thing,
and only explainable by Senator Evarts on tho
ground that "a dollar went farther in those
days"
have never taken any stock in the dollar
story, for the reason that the thrifty Father of
his Country was eminently not . man to
throw" money around loose. Certainly he
wouldn't throw dollar when stone would
do just as we'll.
Bat Bryan displays his ignorance whom he
assumes that it was an American dollar which
Washington threw. None Of these was coined
until 1793 when Washington was an elderly
man-six years before he died. What few
were coined during Wsshington's life were re-
The National tribune., 1896-09-24
ARTICLES FORTHCOMING.

TIE TERNONT BRIGADE IN THE
WILDERNESS By Breuet Maj.-Gen.
L. A. Grant commander of the brigade,
and late assistant Secretary Of I'ar.
THE Battle OF FAIR OAKS. OR
SEVEN PINES. By Maj.-Gen IT. d.
Pldisfed. formerly LieuteAcnf-Cofonei Of the
11fh Ne., and afteraoaad Major-Geaestsl Of
Toiuntcers.
FIRIKG ON FORT SUMTER. A thrilling
story Of young Ohio mechanic sohO aods
in Charleston at The fine, and ipds compelled
10 join the rebels, but soho afterwards escdp- d
end serred three gears in a Onion regiment.
The BAT7LE OF POISON SPRING. By
Hfiy Britton, late Of the Var Department,
and author Of 1.-The Girl War on The Bor.
DER cfe
IA AND OUT OF CHARLESTOK. b.
r. o. B., yorng Connecticut mon. srht
scos carght in Charleston at the opening o.
hostildics
TIE GREAT MORGAN RAID. A 7rut
Historg Of The Capture Of Gen. John II. Mor.
gan, Jy The Captor Himself-Maj. Geo. w
Rae, 9Th Ky. Gaze
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS VISIT TC
RICHNOND. By Liem. Geo. Z. Dudley
50fL n. y Engineers.
COZ. FORSY7H'S INDIAN FIGHT or
TIE ARICKAREE. By Il. Bailey. Maa
kdto, Kan.
COON,S CA VALRY BRTGADEAT NASH
VILE by Birney Mclean, I'd Iow'
CaU, Hampton, Ia.
"REMINISCENCES OF GETTYSBURG
By Jas. Fulton, d. d., Noio London, Pa.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24

his charters for the home market con-
tain The same provision Several firms
have recently employed his ships to
bring lumber from Maine to New York
City. In each of the charters is the
following clause: bsa
The party of the second part agrees to
pay to said party of the first part, or agent.
for the transportation Of said timber, - -
dollars and - cents. United States gold
or lis equivalent. gaitiea
In brief, Mr.. Sewall is prudent
business man, who takes no chances.
He is carefully insuring himself against
Che disasters which would follow Bryan's
election.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24

No. Is of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
LIBRARY will shortly be ready for issue.
This is historical number Of great value
to every soldier and sailor of the late
war, and to every student Of history,
and ought to be found in every home in
the land. All GAR. Posts should have
a copy to assist comrades in locating the
dates of events in which they pariici-
pated. It is entitled GA CHRONOLOGY
CAL RECORD OF THE BATTLES, ETC., OF
THE LATE WAR" 1t contains 1890
events, arranged by months and years,
with the day on which each occurred
noted on the margin. At the end Of
the chronology follows chapters giving
losses, assertions, prisoners of war, and
deaths in prisons Of Unip and Confed.
crate troops, percentage Of losses, deaths
in hospitals, discharges for disability and
the causes, greatest Iegimental losses
names Of infantry, cavalry, and heavy
artillery regiments, showing the heavies
losses, and Confederate regiments where
the losses were very great.
Send in your orders now. Price
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BRYAN talks incessantly and vapidly
about representing the plain people. !"
He tries to make out that he represents
the same class that Lincoln did. This
is absurd on the face of it. Ninety
nine out of every 100 of the men now
living who admired, loved, and followed
Lincoln, and who idolize his memory,
are the bitterest opponents of Bryan
and all that he represents. The people
whom Bryan represents are the men
who denounced Lincoln as an cape,
a "gorilla," an abolition fend," a
coarse clown who was destroying his
country" etc. organs own father seems
to have been one of the coarsest and
most vituperative of these.
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THE Popocrats find themselves badly
outclassed in the oratorical match to
which they have invited the country.
They have no end of tireless takers,
with voluminous voices--Bryan at the
head. But when they try to bring into
action artillery of sufficient caliber to
answer such intellectual giants as Harri-
son, Reed, Cochran, Carl Schurz, Thurs
ton, ETC., they find themselves wofully
lacking. When they kicked the minority
out of the Chicago Convention they
kicked their own brains out, and are
suffering from it. Carlisle is to take the
stump against them, and they have no
man in Kentucky to meet him that the
people there will consider for moment
as being in the same class. Senator
Villas is against them in Wisconsin, ex-
Gov. Campbell will do nothing for them
in Ohio, Senator Gray will not help
them in the East, Senator Hill is quite
unavailable, and so it goes. They would
be very glad to exchange thousand or
more of their fellows who can talk a
| great deal for some man who can actu-
| aliv saw something.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24
BRYAN ON PENSIONS.


from tte Omaha Hortd Herald tAr. Bryans paper,
Not. II, 1892
The next session Of Congress will have to
wrestle with one deficiency of SIG 600 000
This is On account Of pens ons. The appro-
priaiion for pensions for tie next year must
not b. less than Si50,000,000. 1t is there
fore easy arithmetic TO perceive that the APP
preparation that Congress must make for
pensions next session must aggregate not
less than SlS6000 600.
This tremendous sum would in itself be
enough 30 run reasonable Government.
One would not complain if it were an honest
debt, bu. large proportion is not debt, be-
cause it was never earned by any act OF
patriotism or heroic service. The Govern
: IDent is held up and dcspoiled Of no near
aeriion OF this and it seems helpless TO de
feDd itself. One cannot help being curiou.
20 know how many more years it will take
10 exhaust the generation which feels ilsel
iniured by the war. 1T is safe to saw tina
never did generation display such remark
able longevity.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24

THE report of tie United States Sen
ate Committee in 1890 showed that be-
tween 1880 and 1890 the wages Of
mechanics, operatives, etc., had increased
40 per cent, and that they were go
per cent. higher than in 1860. The
Crime of 1873" would seem to have
been very good thing for the wage.
earners.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24
Tax DECEASED DOLLAR.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your
issue of Aug. "a you certainly did not mean
to say:
sTo put the whole thing in q nutshell:
IF the dollar is not 10 be made cheaper and
of less purchasing and debt-paying power,
there is no point or reason for the POpulist
campaign. II it is made cheaper, and Of less
purchasing and debt-paying power, it will
be swindle on every wage-earner, money
saver. pensioner, and others whose income 10
fixed"
All Sound Money men believe that the
free aud unlimited coinage Of silver at
ratio of Is to would result in bringing us
TO a silver standard and that 0ur dollars
would then be of less purchasing power than
they are now. but OF the same debt-paying
power, as they would be legal tender, and
there is where the injustice would come in
to the creditor and the advantage to the
debtor The ,Ilar would be debased,
cheap dollar, and would not purchase so
| much, but would have equal power with the
present good dollar to discharge debt.
Please excuse me for writing this. fours,
in f., c. and L.-R. Z. HALL, Center Square,
Ind
Comrade Halls criticism is just, and
demands further explanation. If Free
Coinage should succeed, the value of the
silver dollar would be reduced to the
neighborhood of so cents. According
to the letter Of the law it would have as
| much debt-paying power as ever.
Morally, it would not, and there would
be an immense number Of men who
would scorn to take advantage Of the
law to defraud their creditors. Prob
| ably many institutions, such as savings
banks, insurance companies, would do
| the same. But the Government would
pay pensions, salaries and other fixed
charges in the debased dollars, and this
would be the general rule with private
corporations and individuals. There, as
Comrade Hall says, is where the swindle
would come in.
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THE NATIONAL WAsN A THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER a. 1896

Chicago platform, and who will shape
and control his Administration, if elected,
any friend Of yours, any man who has
been on your side on any question during
the last 80 years? Can you mention
single one of them who has advocated a
measure during that time that you felt
was essential to the well-being of the
country for which you fought? Can
you indicate one of them who has not
been in violent opposition to such meas.
ures? Has not the event repeatedly
proved that the success Of these same
men, in the measures that they were
fiercely urging. would have been OF
incalculable injury? Has anything since
the war hurt the country so terribly as
the partial success Of these same men in
1892? Is it possible that men whom
you know to have always been deadly
wrong, have suddenly become more right
than the men who have successfully re-
sisted them? What reason have you
for thinking that you can trust these
men, in an event Of momentous import
ance, better than those with whom you
touched elbows on the field Of battle, and
since in score of contests for the Ma
TONS prosperity? You can only judge
of these men by their past. What is
there in it to inspire your confidence that
they can lead you and the country out
of the Slough of nespond? Can you
point to single promise Of theirs that
was ever fulfilled-a single prophecy
that was realized? VIII you take the
nostrums of quack who has always
killed his patients? Are not all the
men whom you have found to be
right in the past, now in most resolute
antagonism to these men, fighting them
more determinedly than at any time
since the close of the war? Are not
nine out Of every 10 of your old, we'll
known, well-trusted comrades strenuously
opposed to them?
These questions, comrades, you can
answer in but one way. The men who
put Mr.. Bryan in nomination at Chicago
have always done most badly even for
| their own section. Their rule has al
ways been blight, their counsels have
invariably led to disaster. A million
graves testify to the danger of following
them. A section sadly backward in
education, miserably undeveloped in re-
sources, n,ournfully tagging in the rear
of true American progress, too we'll
illustrates the blasting effects Of their
| domination at home
1t is madness to think that these men
can lead you to prosperity. Possibly
they would not if they could. Certain
ly they could not if they would. We
are sure that you will see this, if you
think upon it calmly and with full
memory of the past.
| We beg that you will do this, and
speedily rejoin your comrades, who are
as truly fighting the battle for the
country as from 1861 to 1865.
Yours, hopefully,
| THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24

THE price of wheat on the farm is
determined by what it costs to get the
wheat to market. In 1875 it cost 81
cents to carry a bushel of wheat from
Chicago to New York. 1t now costs
less than cents.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24

The San Francisco ArgonaM presents
this table of interests in California which
would be directly robbed by the Free
Coinage Of silver:
Deposits in savings banks 1885,, 422,3 31
Life insurance policies 114,409,7O6
Insurance in fraternal societies
(estimated) $500. 100000, 900
Fire insurance. sol 49,, $40
Building and loan associations 19,7O5,75
Total. $sBs, 375 659
This immense sum belongs to 100000
citizens of California, who would be
robbed Of over $4OO,0O0,O0O by the
opening Of the minis to free and un-
limited coinage.
The National tribune., 1896-09-24
r. D. SHAW.

Publish this will Rite you A game
inglish Americk CRATE god you Will Hear
the Cnon Rore.
All will recognize this at once as a
characteristic Popocratic argument. 1t
has the sweet temper, the gentle courtesy,
the convincing logic, the lucid reason
ing of the regular Popocratic harangue.
Yet the man who wrote that really
thinks he has brains, and is argying
finances"
The National tribune., 1896-09-24

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We will send 100 copies to any adj
dress, postage prepaid, for So. Ought
to sell 100 in short tiWe in almost any
community.
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A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER.

We accede to the request of our cor
respondent, and publish his letter below,
following as near as possible, his spelling
and punctuation:
CENTRAL CITY NEB Sep the DC
Shut, your tory or Rebel or Quen Victory
OF your sheat From Hell or from Nick .nley
lying mis- leading Emmy of the Old Soldiers
you must think the Old Soldiers are all
Dam iooles any man that will Publish A
Paper for Mckinley or gold sanderd ingland
is A trater or Bendick arnell or A Son OF
A -- hell is full of such International
agreement ingland must say What We can
pay to hell with you and you Paper.
Pleas Publish this
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