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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-07-24

so that my men can get it as they pass,
and then take your picked men into
the building and spill all the liquor
there; don't spare drop, nor let any
man taste it under any circumstances.
This order expect you to execute at
any cost
"He turned, and was about to ride
back to his staff, when l called hastily:
"'One moment, general! Suppose an
officer of superior rank should order me
under arrest, and then gain possession
of the warehouse?
Coming up close to me, and looking
me through and through, as it seemed
to me, he said, with a look of solemnity
that shall never forget:
Until / relieve you in person, you
are exempt from arrest, except upon my
written order. fear that liquor more
tEan Pope's army he added, as he rode
rapidly away.
Il took my men down 30 the ware
house which had become so important,
ard threw guard around it, placing
five men at each entrance, with orders
neither to allow anyone to enter, nor to
enter themselves.
1.-THE next thing was to roll out the
bread, which we did. just as we were
finishing that task 1 was called TO one
of the entrances, to find general officer
with his staff, demanding that the
guards should either allow him to enter,
or bring him out some liquor. Of course
refused to comply with the command,
upon which he ordered his adjutant to
place me under arrest.
II told him 1 was there by Gen. Jack
sons personal order, and was especial
ly exempt from arrest. He ordered his
staff to dismount and enter the ware
house, and gave my men the order to
level their guns and make ready.
This made the general halt, in spite
of his thirst, and hold a consultation
with his officers. They concluded to try
persuasion, since they could not get
what they wanted by force, but they
found that method of no more avail than
the other. Then they demanded to
know my name and what command 1
me for disobedience.
81 should never have yielded, and
whether they would have pushed
things to an extremity in their raging
desire for the liquor do not know; but
just at that moment Gen. A. P. Hill came
galloping up with his staff, and natu-
rally wanted to know what was the
trouble. L explained the situation,
which the quick-witted general took in
at once, and ordered the thirsty squad
off.
Have you orders to burn the build
ing? he asked
mo answered, 4 have not
Without word he rode away, and
within an hour there came an order
from Gen. Jackson tofire thewarehouse,
and when it was well destroyed to re-
port to him
81 carried out the order TO the letter;
not a man got drink that day; and for
that time the foe that Stonewall Jack
son most dreaded was vanquished. -
Youths Communion
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-07-24

ROOM.
and 1 could plainly see that he was
smouldering with anger.
"Brigadier Gerard, of the Hussars,"
said he, with the air of the corporal
with the recruit.
saluted.
maj. Charpentier, of the Horse
Grenadiers."
My companion answered to his name.
THE emperor has a mission for you"
Without more ado he flung open the
door and announced us.
1 have seen Napoleon ten times on
horseback to once on foot, and l think
that he does wisely to show himself to
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-07-24

Vinegar taken with food greatly de-
lays and sometimes entirely prevents
proper digestion.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08
AK Off the GraSS.r

By the author of The Little Dime,
Bucket
| read a sign" the other day,
Keep off the grass it said;
A man in blue the rule enforced
With helmet on his head.
The lawn was green and freshly cut,
But just across the way
A factory" stood i'll silent gloom.
As in rcproach. to say:
sect on the grass ten Thousand strong.
The turf is good and deep
Around "McKinley's porch this fall,
Take neither rest nor sleep;
Crowd in from every town and state
And near Il word of cheer;
Then bear it out. and tell il Ger,
The people wait to hear:
That good old times" are coming back
For every trade and class.
Ring bells, swing flags. stand mp and
shout,
We're walking ION the grass"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08

compelled to purchase ali the silver at
$1.29 per ounce? 1t would De Just az
sensible.
Farmer don't see bur i would be
just as right. too.
EditOr-If the farmers and mechanics
are led into voting for free silver this
fall and bring on us at least four to
six years of much harder times than we
now have they will have but them
selves to blame for it. The silverites
are fighting for their interests and are
not caring for the interests Of the farm
err or mechanic. Their politicians voted
in the Senate to defeat the Dingley bill,
which would have provided enough rev
enue to run the Government without
selling any more bonds. They voted
that way in order to compel the Repub-
lican Senators to vote for free silver
coinage. BY that vote they showed
their readiness to throttle anything or
everything in order to bring about their
pet measure. Note the argument rum
ming through all their speeches, Bryan'S
particularly. They are trying to array
the farmer and the working people
against the money power-bankers,
manufacturers and capitalists. They
have nothing but their unreasonable as
sertiOns to advance as Il cure for our
present hard times, while the Republi-
can party can point to the great benefit
that ample protection has already done
for us, through the Mckinley law with
reciprocity to open up the South Amer
lean markets to us as it did in 1892. If
we have a protective tariff that will run
the Government by providing sufficient
revenue that same protection Will start
our manufactures and gle employ
ment TO honest toll at good wages, and
prosperity will spread all over
blessed land. making the farmer as
happy as the employed mechanic.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08

gold, 1871 to 1SSO....... 2.S7@ 800
Average price of beef cattle IN
gold. 1881 to 1892. ....... 3.7O0 4.21
The figures from 1861 to 1861 are on
dressed hogs, as that was the way they
were marketed at that time. That, Of
course, raises the price for those years.
1t is a further fact that in those years
following the war the country was
nearly stripped of hogs, which had a
tendency to make prices high. The wal
comes in the first period also, when
farmers by the hundred thousand were
in the army, and every influence helped
to make high prices.
And yet it will be seen that there is no
average decline after 1873, down to
1892. There were years of low prices,
and so there were before 1873, but the
price of hogs in Dubuque, after our cur
rency came to the gold standard (Which
means equal in value to gold, was the
same as it was before. These figures
completely disprOve the theory that
prices have any relation to the year
1873. They have one
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08
When Bryan IL Elected.

They say men will not have to work,
When Bryan is elected;
Therell be no toiler, hence no shirk,
When Bryan is elected;
For silver then will all be free
And, every morn Inc night, will be
Brought round in carts to you and me,
When Bryan is elected.
1 know a man who wants a job,
When Bryan is elected;
His name is Peter, twill be Bob
When Bryan is elected;
He says for twenty "slugs" a day,
He'll hire himself. his horse and dray
Delivering silver down his way,
When Bryan is elected.
/ know another who declares,
When Bryan is elected;
He'll silver-plate the golden stairs,
When Bryan is elected;
They'll just make laws to beat the band
Repeating all with Sherman's brand
Like that one called supply and demand.
When Bryan is elected.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08

When the Gold Is All in England.
There's a smile of satisfaction on the sill
yer magnate's face,
And he waits without a tremor for the
outcome of the race;
And he dreams of trips to Europe, and of
yachts and horses fine
When the gold is all in England-and the
~silver's in the mine.
There's a twinkle in his optic and a
chuckle in his grin
And he drops a bit of silver in the slot
near Bryan's chin;
And he plans to fool the public with his
little cash combine
Till the gold is all in England-and the
~silver's in the mine.
He leaves to politicians all endeavors to
explain:
He's crucified his conscience on the cross
of sordid gain;
He merely pays the salaries. and waits
with smile divine,
Till the gold is all in England-and the
silver's in the mine.
He's waiting till each dollars worth of
silver in his hoard
VIII bring him in just double what the
country can afford:
It's then he'll pocket all the cash and
shake each foolish dupe.
the gold will be in England and Our
Willie in the soup.
Samuel Merwin, in Times-Herald.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08
How Will Cheap Money Help the
Farmer?

How Will Cheap Money Help the
Farmer?
In a speech at Reinbeck. in Grundy
County, the other day, ex-GOv. BOieS
advised farmers to take no alarm az
the talk about cheap dollars" since
cheap money means higher prices for
farm products and is therefore in their
interest. This advice Is in the same
line with Gov. Altgeld's talk. in ILL
nois, about the present '20O-cent gold
dollar" These gentlemen both virtu-
ally admit that they do not expect the
silver dollar. under free coinage. I o re
tain its present current value. In say
ing SO they take issue with their can
didate, for Mr.. Bryan. in his speech
accepting the nomination for the presi-
dency. distinctly and unequivocally de
clared:
I'VE contend that free and unlimited
coinage by the United States alone will
raise the bullion value of silver to its
coinage value. and thus make silver
bullion worth S1.29 per ounce in gold
throughout the world
A public speaker preSumes upon the
ignorance of his audience, when he
urges his hearers to vOte for cheap
money on the ground that cheap money
means more money. and that if money
is more abundant they will get more of
il for their crops. Farmers and work
ingmen. by voting for Bryan, can. #
enough of them are for him. succeed
in debasing the currency. They can
make the money of this Ountry less
valuable than il is. But they cannot
| prevent the disastrous consequences of
their action. nor avert the calamitieS
which invariably follow the cheaper
ing of the monetary unit Of value. All
that they can do is to shut their eyes To
the teaching of history and lake the
risk.
The price of everything which is
bought and sold depends upon two
values. which must be equallzed, be
fore any two parties to any transaction
| can close a bargain. These are: first.
| the value of the article offered for sale.
and, second. the value of the money
given in exchange for 1t. If the dollar
is made cheaper and poorer, of course
| farmers will have to get more of them
In payment for their corn and wheat.
| But more dollars. if they are cheaper
dollars, do not mean more value receiv-
ed. The man who supposes thai they
do is ignorant as a child, and q hopeful
victim for swindlers. He is not
sharp.
We sell every year to foreign nations
about one billion dollars worth of
| our products. There is no magical
| power in coinage legislation to compel
| these nations to pay rs for our pro-
| ducts more than they think they are
worth. If we reduce the value of our
dollars. they may pay us more of them
| than they do now; just as. if we should
| reduce the number of pounds in a bush
ell of wheat from 60 10 80. they would
take more in number of the lightweight
bushels than if they were of full weight.
But they would not take any more
pounds Of wheat, and they would not
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08
from the change. Thus he remarks:

from the change. Thus he remarks:
"Of n class of commodities it is
safe to make a production that the rise
Of price would come late rather than
early. Even the poorest families are
supplied with the bare necessities of
life, and One have use for a much
larger supply. Cereal products are so
largely Of this class that the demand
for them would be but slightly increas-
ed, presumably, even if the incomes of
most families were doubled. Thus the
rise in price Of plain foodstuffs would
come much later than that for other
things"
SO, with regard to the wage rate, he
sees no encouragement for the work
ingman: Unfortunately" he says,
there is no ground for expecting high
err immediate wages. Nothing in the
changed situation will alter the relation
of labor and capital or labOrer and CAPT.
talist. When higher prices are realized
in any industry the employers will be
able usually to pay higher wages; but
nothing in the situation will Immediate
ly compel them to do Sc. Either higher
wages will come very slowly as a result
Of the increased cost Of living, or else
after long struggles between employers
and employees, in which each failure
will make subsequent struggles harder"
The concluding chapter Of Mr.. Coles
pamphlet is good enough to quote in
full. Here it is:
Free coinage, as proposed in the Uni
ted States, would make a new standard
Of payments, to which all prices must
adjust themselves, for free coinage
would absorb comparatively little of
the worlds surplus of silver, and would
barely affect the value of gold; it would
give a new meaning to the word dol
lar" in all contracts, and would make
their value so uncertain hat our credit
currency, which is of vastly more i'm
pOrtance than our specie or paper.
would Suffer. an immediate and e
contraction, precipitating bankruptcy,
shut-dOwns and general business stag
nation, with consequent distress among
those dependent upon day wages. AS
time passed it would raise prices, but
in some industries earlier than in 9th
ers, and it would raise most prices ear
lier than it would raise wages. and
hence a good proportion of the people
would be forced to pay higher prices
long before they received higher in
1t would enable land specula-
tors, building owners. railroads. gas.
and manufacturing companies
to pay off their debts in money inferior
to that borrowed, and would put much
Of this loss ON savings bank depOsitOrs
and investors of small means, who have
saved at great sacrifices for old age,
for dependents and for the education
Of children. Indeed. free coinage has
nothing to recommend 1t and every
thing to condemn it. Its sole virtue lies
in it's profitable services for bullion
owners and politicians. The politicians
find 1t profitable. moreover. only in so
far as they can induce others to disre-
gard all cas- and experience and
blindly imagine that they see "A panacea
the cOuntry's Ills in free coinage of
silver Observation-Disclosures &nhEia
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08
Hogs and Cattle in Iowa for Thirty
one Years.

Ouc cars.
The great argument OF the silver men
with the farmers is that prices are low.
OF course everybody knows that prices
are low. But an intelligent man always
wants to know, before be tries a rem
edy. what it is going to do for him. In
fact. when a man is in bad straits finan-
cially he wants, If he Is prudent, to be
more careful than eve about trying ex-
periments. for an unlucky one at such
a time might ruin him completely.
When he is prosperous, ms we We're
one mistake. but he doesn't want two
mistakes in succession The farmer is
in poor condition in 1896 to have an
other experiment turn out on him as
the experiment OF 1892 did. Now every
body agrees that farm products are
distressingly low. What shall we do
about 1t? Mr.. Bryan says give lis free
silver. Mr.. Bryan is one of the fellows
who led us into the 1892 experiment.
He said nothing about free silver then.
1t was free trade then. Now he SAYS
all we need is free silver. He SAYS his
trouble about prices originated away
DICK Ill 1910. III tuul tuluSS nave Dcen
getting steadily worse ever since. He
says that the trouble is that since 1873
we have been measuring things in
money kept at par with our gold coin.
and he alleges that gold has been stead
fly becoming dearer, as compared to
farm products. making prices lower.
This argument will not stand examin-
alton. In the historical department of
the State of Iowa at DeS MOineS is a
file of the Dubuque Herald. reaching
back before the war. The Herald has
maintained a good market report
through all of these years. These mar
ket reports have beer examined, and
average taken for each year, by taking
the market quotations on the first day
of each month from 1861 to 1892. This
was lone OF wheat, oats, corn. butter,
eggs hogs and cattle. The prices dur
ing the paper money period were re-
duced to gold because it is the value of
gold which is alleged to have arisen.
Here are the figures on hogs and cattle:
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08

give us in exchange for them n more
English sOvereigns. In other words,
we cannot sell them any more wheat
by changing the weight Of a bushel,
and we cannot get any more value for
our wheat by taking pay in cheaper
dollars.
The experiment which the advocates
Of free coinage Of silver at 16 to 1 ask
us to sanction by our votes is an ex-
pertinent attended with fearful risks.
The mere apprehension that this ex-
pertinent may be tried has already fill
ed the country with fear verging upon
panic. 1t has paralyZed business. No
element of uncertainty in business is SO
alarming as a doubt what the value OF
the dollar will be, within the next six
months. With this uncertainty staring
him in the face, the manufacturer re-
fuses to make goods, the merchant re-
fuses to buy them, improvement and
enterprise wait, labor is unemployed,
and the farmer loses his market. No
class Of citizens can profit by such con-
ditiOns, unless it be the class known as
spectators. All legitimate business
interests demand money Of steady
value.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08

would be n dollar because Congress
said so, but as compared with the dollar
containing %. % grains Of gold 1t would
only be n fifty-three-cent dollar. 1t
would buy no more, rs Don as people
got on" to 1t, than to the amount Of it's
commercial value. And it would. of
course, expel the 1OO-cent gold dollar
from circulation, under the operation
of the so-called Gresham law.
That law has no connection with the
late Secretary Of State. 1t was named
after Sir Thomas Gresham, an eminent
merchant in his day. who was Lord
Mayor of London three hundred years
ago, and who made and recorded the
observation that the worse currency in
variably drives out the better. There
Is no mystery about this. 1t Is n law
whose operation is illustrated in the
everyday experience Of us all. If he IS
Ha average human being. the mar who
has n bright. clean note and an old
dirty one. passes on the dirty one. If
he has two quarters one of which is
very much worm, he gets rid of that one.
He keeps the best eel when the diff
ference is trifling and immaterial. How
much the more. then, if he has two
kinds of dollars. II of which is actual
IL worth nearly twice as much as the
other, does he use the one Of lesser
value N send the other one to some
place where it is properly appreciated.
Thus. in the event of the admission OF
silver to free coinage all our gold coin
would become a commodity and most Of
1t would be exported.
This would produce a serious contrac-
ton of the currency. but such a CON
traction would be far less important
and disastrous than the attendant CON
traction of credit due to the uncertain
ties of the future. Upon this point Mr..
Cole is very luminous and emphatic.
He says:
Hesitation Over the acceptance OF
credit payments invariably follows, in
the minds of most men, from the ex-
pectatiOn Of a new and cheaper stand
ard of money. The result of such a
widespread check to activity can be
only distress and business panic, reach
ing all classes In the country. Many
n man who has incurred financial re-
s~pOnsibility in the past by contracting
to do work within a specified time. or
to pay for property or rights within 4
given time. will Ind that the banks or
individuals from whom he had conf
IDENTIFY expected to borrow are not only
unwilling TO lend. but eager to collect
outstanding debts. Such failure to re-
rciye expected support will lead to
countless bankruptcies. Each bank
ruptcy, moreover. will reduce the re-
sources of many other individuals or
business firms. and will cause new
bankruptcies. These last. in turn. will
start Il new circuit. uIti! none escape
altogether untouched. The panic will
be general
Mir. Cole ante pates that under the
influence of a deDased currency prices
would rise. hui he rgueS tina; the rise
would be irregular. and tina: farmers
Gnd wage earners would be sufferers
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08
Butter. 4c per pound.

Butter, 4c per pound.
Beans, zoe per bushel.
Cabbages free.
Cider free.
Cheese, 4c per pound.
Eggs, &c per dozen.
Hay, 50 per ton.
Poultry, &c, dressed.
Poultry, &c. undressed.
Honey, Zoe per gallon.
Hops, Sc per pound
Milk free.
Onions, zoe per bushel.
Peas, zoe per bushel.
Potatoes, 15c per bushel.
Castor beans. 25c per bushd.
FlaXseed, 2Oc per bushel.
Wool free.
Mckinley tariff
Apples, 25c per bushel.
Butter, &c per pound.
Beans, 4Oc per bushel.
Cabbages, Sc per head.
Cider, sc per gallon.
Cheese. &c per pound.
Eggs, &c per dozen.
Hay, 81 per ton.
Poultry, &c, dressed.
Poultry, &c, undressed.
Honey, 25c per gallon.
Hops, 15c per pound
Milk. &c per quart.
Onions. 4Oc per bushel.
Peas, 4Oc per bushel.
Potatoes, 25c per buShel.
Castor beans, SOC per bushel.
FlaXseed. 3Oc per bushel.
Wool. lie 10 be per pound.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08
A Plain, Simple Definition by Prof.
VIM. Morse Cole of Harvard.
TIE JUDGMENT OF AN EXPERT.
What II Is-How II Came to Be
What II will Be II Free Coin.
age Prevails.

A college professor, William Morse
Cole, formerly instructor in political
economy at Harvard College, has writ
ten a pamphlet Upon what would hap
pen If the mints of the United States
were opened for the free coinage Of sill
yer at the existing ratio, which presents
some little considered aspects of the
subject in a new light, and will repay
the attention Of thoughtful people. He
states the question before the country
as being whether the Government shall
coin free an unlimited number of silver
dollars, and still allow men to pay
their debts in dollars containing 1922
grains Of gold or in dollars containing
BIN grains of silver, as they may
choose.
Having thus defined the case. which
has been submitted to the judgment Of
b American people, he proceeds to eX-
anime the effect of coinage laws upon
the price Of bullion, and in beginning
this inquiry ~propounds the fundamen-
tai question, What Is a dollar? The
answer Is that a dollar is nothing but
n verbal expression to which Congress
arbitrarily supplies the meaning. What
ever Congress calls a dollar Is a dollar.
It's power of definition in this respect is
absolute and illimftable. If it decreed
that 300 grains of pig iron should be a
dollar that is what a dollar would be,
and the people who are advocating the
free coinage Of silver rs a means of
cheating their creditors by authorizing
payment of debts in a coin less valuable
than that in which the debts were in
CURED must often be surprised at their
moderation.
But while Congress has unlimited
power to say what a dollar shall be, 1t
has no power whatever to fix what a
dollar shall buy. 1t may decree that a
dollar shall consist of 100 grains Of sill
yer, but it would not follow as a result
Of such decree that 1OO-grain silver dol
lars would buy as much as the present
article. AS a matter Of fact, they
wouldn't buy more than about a fourth
much. The Congressional fat Is
pCwerless to create values. and fifty
three cents worth Of silver bullion
would not, through the process of being
converted into a disc, n of having
words zone dollar" and I'm God we
trust" stamped upon 1t, gain an addi-l