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Iould Not
What L.

What IL Iould Not
We d. everybody I'M
derstan by sixteen to
one" old and silver
coinag, explanations,
we still r, correspond
They have evidently overlooked what
has been so often said before. So here
goes, once more, and, as we hope, for
the last time: Sixteen to one means
that the government shall declare by
legislation that one grain of gold is
equivalent to sixteen grains of silver;
in other words, that as gold dollar
contains 23.22 grains of pure gold, ID
times that much of pure silver, namely,
371A grains, sfnll by act of congress
be enacted to be its equal in value. The
silver men demand this, because it will
restore the coinage of the two metals
to the same ratio as had existed for
nearly hundred years before the coin
age of silver dolldZs was suspended In
1873. The gold men oppose II, because
they say 23.P2 grains of gold instead of
being only worth 371A grains of silver
are in reality now worth Cos grains of
silver, and that therefore the demand
of the silver men is that this govern
ment shall declare that to be Crue
which is false and that to be equal
which is unequal. Moreover, they say
that after it attempts TO enact this
falsehood into O truth, it Is, without
charge and without limit, to stamp the
falsehood upon the inferior coin, send
it current through the country and
compel every seller to take it in pay
ment for bis commodities. every laborer
for his wages, and every creditor for his
debts. The answer of the silver men is
that when silver Is admitted to free
coinage its value will increase until il
gets back TO the old ratio of sixteen to
one" President Andrews, of Brown
university at Providence. r. J., has writ
ten to Mr.. Stephen w. Nickerson, of
Boston, O letter In which he says:
"In yours of the goth inst, after ad-
verting to Cernascbi's latest position
touching the policy of the United States
in freely coming silver at sixteen 20 one
without waiting for an Internal ional
agreement, you ask what, if any, OBJ
jections l would urge against this pol
icy. reply that would urge none.
The vast new output Of gold in recent
years as compared with that Of silver
impresses me that free coinage by us
alone would not lead to the displace-
ment of our gold; that, therefore, free
coinage would be safe. If il is safe, IL
is certainly desirable. OF course, no
one can be absolutely certain that w,
could proceed with free silver coinage
and yet retain our gold. therefore do
not dogmatizc, but leave that to the
gold men. To my mind, however, the
overwhelming probability is that gold
would stay with us. / have noticed of
late no serious argument to show that
ii would not"
That is q fair statement of the view
entertained by the most intelligent anG
lighly educated silver men.--Alban7
Argus.
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UNSAFE MONETARY SYSTEM.
Danger of Unlimited Promises to Pay
Gold Money of Ancient Greece.

Danger of Unlimited Promises TO Pay
Gold Money of Ancient Greece.
/ desire to call your attention to two
conflicting assertions regarding the
free coinage question that are circulat-
ing through the press of the country
the contradictory nature Of which must
become apparent to any but the most
ore judiced reader. It is stated that
free coinage of silver at the ratio of SIX
teen 10 one means that the owners of
silver will make profit of 81 per cent.
by taking silver bullion to the mint and
basing it coined into dollars. On the
the other hand, it is claimed that free
silver coinage means a DECEASED cur
rency and production of the present
purchasing power of the dollar to one
half. Now il the latter statement be
true, the former is untrue. 1t the coin
age Of silver adds nothing to its pur-
chasing power. then its owners can
make no profit by passing such.a meas
ure. If, on the other hand. free ccin-
age raises the purchasing power of sill
yer so that silver owners make profit
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Highest all in Leavening Powe-Latest U. Report
pNl Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE

OF 81 cent, il follows that the ASST
ton of silveritestthat coinage governs
bullion values-is correct. Hence, the
charge that free coinage means O dep,'e-
ciated currency Is unsound. The cir
culation of these two opposed state
ments side by side cnn hardly be ex-
pected to assist the cause of sound
finance.
Again, In the Philadelphia Ledger,
Mr.. Stuart Patterson assures us that
law cannot add to the purchasing power
of silver and gold, which must at MI
times be governed by their market val
ues But what governs their market
values? Supply and demand, both Of
which are very greatly influenced by
legislation. When the law declares thlt
50 many grains of gold or silver shah
constitute dollar and become legal ten
der it at once opens up On enormous
field for their employment and creates
for them an almost unlimited demand.
Hence market values are governed by
coinage laws. OF course, if the coinage
Of a metal were fixed below what is
bullion value was before the coinage
law was passed, the law would be in
operative, for no one would wish TO sac
rifice part of the commodity value OF his
possessions. That gold owes to legis-
ation its high value to-day no one " DO
understands the law of supply and de-
mand will deny. The value conferred
by law upon gold is monopolistic
value, by which it is given an exclusi, e
privilege of settling debts. Abolish that
legal fiction called the standard of val
ne. end all laws restraining the issuance
of paper money universally, and 1t viii
then be possible to ascertain the true
commodity value of both gold and ST.
yer.
The present contention regarding
the use of two metals for monetary pur-
poses is hardly creditable to our much
vuunted civilization. Back in the Ly-
curgan age It was known TO the ancient
Greeks that the purchasing power Of
money had little or nothing to do with
the material composing it; that the
unit of value or purchasing power was
not a certain weight or mass of metal
but depended upon the number OF
monetary units in circulation, and
hence was constantly huctuating with
their supply and demand. Consequent
ly the people of Sparta, Byzantium,
Athens and other nations made their
money Of q cheap material, but rigid
ly restricted the number of pieces is
sued. Discs of iron, bronze and leather
were used, and all substitutes were
prohibited. This system was In use for
many centuries, and existed in Rome
during the best days of the republic.
The money question is not O metal
. y 49, -----~lv an nrith-
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We Need Cheaper Money.

The president of furniture company
at Grand Rapids, Mich, gives in the
Chicago Record as one reason, from
manufacturers standpoint, why
the independent, free and unlimited
coinage of silver by the United States
would be beneficial TO our country. He
says:
"The only hope of the producing
classes is In legislation that will cheaper
money, thereby compelling II to seek
investment in productive enterprises.
employing idle labor and making q
market for farmers products. The only
way to cheaper moneyis to make more
of it. With our mints open to the
worlds silver, as they were previous to
1879, and as they ore now TO gold, the
demand for gold must be lcssened, and
its value thereby decreased, and the
demand for silver must be increased,
and its value thereby appreciated, ulti-
mately bringing the two TO parity"
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HENRY CLEWS' SOPHlSTRY.
Astounding Statements Made by a New
York banker.

York banker.
In the course of his regular financial
letter for the week ending July IS,
Banker Henry Clews, of New York,
propounds the following astounding
propositions:
"Thc enactment of free, indepepd-
ent sixteen TO one silver law would
work out it's own destruction by the
following means, even independent of
others:
AT the present time the Mexican
silver dollar brings in this country only
about "a cents in exchange for our silver
dollar, although it contains a larger
quantity of silver than ours does. It's
simply taken here at its commercial
value whereas the United States silver
dollar goes in Mexico in its purchasing
power for two of their dollars. 1t is
quite evident, therefore, if the United
States government should pass free
End independent sixteen 20 one silver
coinage law, the Mexican government
would, if they are smart, immediately
pass a law to adopt the United States
dollar as the money of their country
in substitution of their present stand
erd, and make it mandatory for all Next
can silver dollars to lse forwarded to the
United States mint to be converted into
United States dollars. The Mexican
dollar. now worth 81 cents, after being
melted down by the United States mint
and coined into United States dollar,
would he worth double its present value,
have twice the purchasing power and
would carry as well credit of two
cents. that being the bullion vsilue of
the Mexican dollar above the United
States dollar.
''If this be possible for the Mexican
government, The European nations viii
be apt scholars, and follow the ex-
ample Of Mexico in the conversion of
their silver money. of which they hold
81 SOC, o(0, coo in amount. They VIII
want back in exchange, however, our
gold. of which we have $500, 100000 al
together IN this country, which viii
only provide for SO 10 per cent. of their
silver holdings, and to get that amount
they win have to be quick to act SO as 10
capture IT before It gees into other cham
rrjs. The competition Tor our $500 ,ooc,-
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Kentucky Fair Dates.

The following are the dates for holdin
the Kentucky iairs this year so far as re
ported to this office. Secretaries, o
other officers will please advise us of an
errors or omissions in the list:
Lawrenceburg, August lS-4 days.
Versailles, Aug. lis days.
Springfield, Aug 20-3 days.
Lebanon, Aug. 25-3 days.
Shelbyville, Aug. 25-4 days.
jacksonville, August 26-4 days.
LaGrange, Sept. Is days.
Bardstown, Sept. 1-5 days.
Paris, Sept. 2-S days.
Williamsburg, Sept 2-3 days.
Elizabethtown, Sept S-4 days.
Ewing, Sept. "a days.
Franklin, Sept. l4-5 days.
Horse Cave, Sept. l5-4 days.
Eminence, Sept. 16-4 days.
Paducah, Sept 22-4 days.
Glasgow, Sept. 90 days.
Greensboro, October 5-5 days.
Germantown, Oct. "A DAYS
Greenville, Oct. IA days.
Liberty, Aug 10 3 days.
Campbellsville Aug IL, 4 days
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THE eoLpsue.


An Interesting Study In Entomology
Some OF ITS Habits-
The goidbug's existence seems coeval
with mans, and although it has not
always been known by its presen:
name. it's methods of operating have re-
NAMED unchanged, and are marked
with great caution and exceeding cum
ming.
We have evidence Of its active pres
ence as remote as when "pottage" was
o medium of exchange and birthrights
were extorted from hungry, furnishing
men.
its natural habitat is In the commcr-
cial centers of the world. but its poi
soned effiuvium vitiates the channels of
trade to the uttermost circles of the
earth.
While its favorite diet-upon which 1t
feeds fats real estate mortgages
and government bonds, it readily de-
yours corporation bonds OF all kinds.
and it may be said to be omnivorous so
far as well-secured Understanding
gold redemption paper is concerned.
III SeutIui dpPeurauCe ID cioScfy Ic.
sembles the human family, so closely
indeed as to lead to the opinion that
it is identical with man; but after the
most thorough investigation and care
full research, even the Xrays fail to dis
cover the slightest rudiments of that
"Divine compassion that bcspeaks the
soul in common humanity, ind hence
It is reasonable and very pleasant to
think it belongs to an entirely different
species.
One of its fixed habits is to always de-
mand the ''poand of flesh" if it be SO
nominated in the bond" another is 10
see to it that it always be-so NOM
mated
So wonderful is its ability to FIX con-
ditions right for its operations by corr
rupting Legislative and judicial depart
ments Of state as to lead to the belief
thatjt is endowed with hypnotic power
akin 10 that Of the tradf fiQpa! serpeut
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SILVER MoNoMETALLISM.
Panicky Declarations OF Goldite Friends
Faced by the FactA


Among the panicky declarations that
our goldite friends are using for a scare
crow, is the one of "silver monometal-
ism" In their imagination there is in
this something awful beyond express
sion, or, at least, they would make the
people believe so.
Let us test it Is practical matter.
Ask your neigl.bor or ask crowd of
your neigbbors, gathered at the post Of
flee, or at the lodge, or elsewhere, wheth-
er they have any gold in their pockets.
II in a political meeting let those stand
up who have any gold juggling in their
purses or even carefully slowed away
in their pocketbools. We all know
beforehand not one in twenty, If, in
deed, one in hundred, will rise. Ask,
then, if they have my silver or notes
representing silver; yes, they stand up
by the score. Ask for gold notes. No;
they do not circulate much among the
people. Even greenbacks proper are
becoming comparatively scarce. be-
cause the banks and others who have
gold contracts are boarding them on
the ground that the law allows them to
be paid out for gold.
What does this state of things show +?
Plainly that TO ali practical purposes we
are using among the people silver and
paper money representing silver. Act
ually, as far as most of the people are
concerned, the gold is out of the way.
Now, just whit Is wanted is this: To
rake the silver dollar and the
gold dollar precisely alike. We
are using the silver dollar under GER
tain disabilities put on it by the law.
especially the gold contract law. We
propose to remove those disabilities,
make the silver dollar, which, as a mat
ter of fact, we now use, better than
it is under the present law, and utilize
all the silver and gold we produce, with
out discrimination against either.
This bug-bear of silver nionometnI-
lism is easily brushed aside when we
best it by the facts.-Western Rural.
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The New York end Chicago bankers
are now posing Us martyrs and heroes,
because they are standing in the
breach" and meeting the terrible on
slaughts of the European gold ship
pers." This means that the same un-
patriotic line of policy is being carried
into effect as that which brought about
the last issue Of bonds-in hopes OF in
fucncing voters in the fall campaign
another policy of infamy is to be
adopted with more bonds. more profits
for the bankers. They are now ex-
changing gold for currency and posing
as saviors of their country. When the
bond issue comes they will pocket the
swag with gleeful chuckle. The people
are just beginning to realize that this
gold shipment means loss to the many
and wealth TO the few. The gold scare
will not work SO well this time.-Weet-
ern Rural.
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Wages In Bimetaliic Countries

The goldbugs are fond of quoting the
comparatively low wages paid in Mex
leo. which is free coinage country, as
an argument against free coinage in tie
United States. We have not the figures
before us, but we would like some gold
organ that has 10 tell US what is the diff
ference between the wages paid in Mex
leo and the wages paid in Italy and
Spain, which ore both on the single
gold standard. The fact is, that the
bimetallic countries are the only coun-
tries in the world to-day that are not
troubled with financial depression.
Why? Because the gold manipulators
OF Europe and Wall street let them
alone. They can't touch them
Wheeling Register.
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HON. C. r. CALDWELL,
OF Parkersburg, W. Va, Recon-
mends Wrights Celery
Capsules.
PARKERsBURG, w. Va,
January 20, 1895.

PARKERsBURG, w. VA,
January 26. 1895.
THE WRIGHT MED. Co.,
Columbus, Ohio
ntlemen:-I have been using
Wright's Celery Capsules since Novem-
Der, 1894. and find them to be as recon-
mended. 1 first began taking them
while at Hot Springs, AK, under treat
ment for Sciatic Rheumatism. Liver and
Stomach trouble, Constipation which ]
had been long sufferer. found the
Celery Capsules gave me great relie
from the beginning and have used them
ever since. With pleasure, and unso-
licited, recommend them to any and
all suffering with like Affections or either
OF them. Very truly yours,
CHARLES I CALDWELL.
Sold by 7. S Hagan. Druggist. Pric,
so cents and Sl.OO per box. Call at drug
store and get free sample. g.
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Don't Let The Horn Worms
Destroy Your Tobacco.
A New PreVentiVei

The Manipulating of tobacco worms is a
thing Of the past, if the claims OF the
IN. S. j." Co., Richmond, Va, be
true and their claims seem to be well
substantiated.
Not only is the labor and worry saved
but the farmer gets a greater number
of pounds OF tobacco and a better
quality by the use of IN. :. J."
No apparatus IS needed save Zoe sitter.
The proprietOrs propose to GIVE FREE
OF COST, under certain and reasonable
conditions, several hundred boxes of
the compound leach box enough Tor
one acre., and tobacco growers would
do well to write the Company at once
for particulars. l-l2
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Trains between louisville and Versailles daily
Trains between Cincinnati and Nicholasviu
daily.
All trains connect with Southern Railway %
'-om Louisville, and with the c. y. %. & 1 o..
q . u t,.. "nW Cincinnati
You can spe 90 hours IN LouiSvtlls, about SIX
hours IN CIucinus. - Lexington and
return 70 Richmond II $3.50, u
For through rates and other InlOFSlatIou ap
any ticket agent address
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who charms his prey before devour-
ing 1t.
Of late II has been ravagiRg the indus
trial interests of the United States TO
most alarming extent; and the people
ore preparing for general and concert
ed onslaught upon it on the Sd of next
November when. by most thorough
administration of the popular sixteen
to one remedy, it is believed that the
pest will be exterminated, or ut least
reduced from its present "pernicious
activity" TO state of "innocuous desue-
trde." National Bimetailist.
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FREE-64-page medical reference book TO any
person afflicted with any special, chronic or deli
cate disease peculiar to their Address the
leading physicians and surgeons of the United
States, DIR. Hathaway 4 Co, y Dearborn street,
Chicago.
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"a Outgoing trains connect ut PARIS
with Lexington, Frankfort, Cincinnati,
Maysville and intervening points.
outgoing trains connect at WrSCHEs-
TER with Lexington and points west,
and Mt. Sterling and points east.
outgoing trains connect at LIvINGs-
TON with Cumberland Gap, Knoxville,
Louisville and intervening points.
Outgoing trains connect at RowLANB
(near Stanford) with Cumberland Gap,
Knoxville, Louisville and intervening
points.
rs Trains do not stop where no time
is specified.
For additional information, inquire Of
X. HOOD, agent at Richmond, or of
other agents.
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LOUISVILLE TOBACCO MAR
KET.
PUBLISHED BY GLOVER Il DURRETT, LOUIS
WILLIE TOBACCO WAREHOUSE.

Sales on our market for the week Just
closed amount to 34O6 hhds. with re
ceipts for the same period 1895 hhds.
Sales on our market since January LIST,
amount to Ill ,479 hhds Sales of the crop
of 1895 on our market to this date
amount to 1O7,O 16 hhds.
The offerings on our market this week
have been liberal and there is no change
to report in prices. A few hhds. OF fine
hurley leaf were offered and one hid
sold as high as 5000 per 100. There
will be no auction sales on our market
during the coming week.
The following quotations fairly repre-
sent our market for hurley tobacco 1895
crop:
Trash dark or damagedlS 90 to l 80
Common colorv trash 90 to 5 80
Medium to good col trash 80 to 90
Common Tugs not coiory 200 to 3 90
Common colOry lugs 90 to 90
Medium to good col Tugs 90 to 90
nn
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l.. & n. II. II.
EFFECT MAECU !. 1896
NORTH BOUND.
X. G.. DIVISION.

IN EFFECT NAECU I, ISlG.-
NORTH BOUND.
Nv. Express for CINCINNATI AEv
\. VI. Paris. Maysville. Win p. "
chester and lexington
G.2j mail So
Cincinnati. Paris, Mays
p. VI. vile, Winch ester and
2.O5 Lexington mail, LOS
Livingston, London, Jel-
ITO lico, Pineville l. 81
Fast line Tor Livingston, A. NJ
ll.43 London, JellicO, KnOxville 5 IL
\. NJ. Fast line for Cincinnati, p. NJ
3I9. Paris, Winchester H.4a
p. NJ. Rowland, Lancaster and \. NJ
lbs Stanford. IO.IC
p. NJ. Rowland, Lancaster andl p. VI
7:40 Stanford, 6:lO
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PROFESSIONAL COLUMN.


II. b. HOGG,
ATTORNEY At Law.
RICHMOND, KENTUCKY
Once No. II First street. up stars 7I-7o
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c,,d,tor Cl.s. Under rire.

"can any person tell me why In 1873 It
was q good thing for the American people.
or for any people. TO strike down one-half
The money OF the world and provide that
= load of indebtedness should be paid In
eoId alone? Has anyone ever given 10 any
person q vahd reason7 II yon place Inc
world back In 1874 why should one-saif the
money be destroyed and the debtor and the
business people be left TO bear this whole
burden by paying dollars twice as large as
the ones they contracted TO pay7
Fright here We are met with several as
sumpfions We are told of q 5o-cent dollar
nv friends, the contention OF the men who
struck silver from the statute books. and
provided that all the Indebtedness should
be paid In gold alone-their contention was
not 10 have dollar. but they were then
fiphtinR for q two-doilar dollar. lap
nlause.l And we of to-day who ask to go
hack 10 the money of the constitution anc
ne only money under which we ever had
any fair prosperity. we are not fs hitting Tor
a 5,-ccnf dollar, but we are fighting against
tbc fwo-doIar dollar of Wall street and
lombard street. [Applause.l
Law Of 1879 Discussed.
.sEoilouing close upon the legislation o.
these European nations came the leSlsin-
sfon Of Amerfcl-qQt legislation eyer s49-
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~ 10
Vi to IS 90
us are not applica-
aud frosted crops.
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ASK thu recovered
dyspepTica bilious
sufferers victims 81
fever ana sgne. the
mercuriai diseased
patient, how they re-
covered h-alth, thref.
ful spirits and good
ai'l~ii'ci they will tel
Iyoa by taking sim
IhoSs iavEk Reeve
LAgos
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The Hebrew spoken by the Polish
and Russian Jews of to-day is a poly
glot, composed of few Hebrew roots
with large admixture of Russian. Ger
man, Polish, Lithuanian and Tartarian
words.
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R. N. |, & B. R. R.
Time Table No. "a, In Ell
feet May II, 1905.

EAST BOUND. n - -,
TX Sum - Crrn ~ CruI H. e..r
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-09-15
Interesting Talk.

Toy Anna, a Japanese who grad
uated from the college at Delaware
in 1896, was the guest of Mr.. Ton
James in this city Sunday. Toy
Anna gave very interesting talk
to the Sunday School in the after.
noon, telling ofthe curious customs
of the japanese, and Chinese, and
also repeated the Lords Prayer ir
the language of the japanese. Ir
the evening he talked to the Ep'
worth League, and we were only
sorry that his time was so limited
as we enjoyed his talk very much
After finishing his education in this
country Toy ANA will 90 back t.
Japan, and be one of the mission
aries to help christianize his native
country. We wish him success in
this great work.