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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
WANT SILVER poLLARa
Treasury officials Receive . Large
Number of Requests Daily.


A Washington correspondent says that
the treasury officials are in daily receipt
of large number of requests asking for
silver dollars of this years coinage In ex-
change for silver certificates or other law
full money. Many of these requests come
from persons. who seem to doubt the truth
of the monthly coinage statement while
others ask for shipments of 1896 dollars
with a view to refuting statements that
no silver dollars are now being coined.
These requests have been complied with
as fast as received, and the treasury Off
cials desire to call public attention to the
fact that when silver dollars are ordered
in sums of or multiples of $500 they are
shipped at the expense of the Govern
ment, but when smaller sums are or
dered, the shipments are made ut the ex-
pense Of the person ordering.
There is now in the treasury $1O,5O6,-
800 in free silver, that is, silver which
may be obtained in exchange for any
lawful money, but the demand just now
Is so keen for 1896 dollars that it seems
probable that by the beginning of October
the department will be compelled to de-
cline to pay out silver dollars, except in
exchange for silver certificates or treas
ury notes of 1890.
The law requires certain amounts of
silver to be held in the treasury to cover
outstanding silver certificates and treas
ury notes, and when the minimum Is
reached silver payments would be re-
fused even in exchange for gold or in pay
ment of warrants on the treasury.
The number of standard silver dollars
coined last August is shown by the Off
cial statement to have been S2,650, 900;
since Feb. last, S11, ,212.4 .412, and since
November, 1893, $50, ,169,491 The coin
age value of the silver bullion now on
hand and on which the mints are now at
work Is $166, 745, 200, and it is said to be
altogether probable that coinage will be
continued at least until the stock on hand
of standard dollars of 1890 has been
increased to about $30,OOO,OOO, where il
stood when the present administration
went into Office.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

was pointed out 20 him and II was ex-
pected that in the future he would care
fully verify his excerpts from the good
book before uttering them. But he has
gone on from blunder to blunder. His
latest misquotation placed Demetrius in
a false light Every Sunday school
scholar is aware that it was not Deme-
trius who made the famous exclama-
ton: "Great is Diana of the Ephe-
sians," but the workmen whom he called
together. OF course, owing to circum-
stances not under his control, Demetrius
is unable to come out in card and set
Mr.. Bryan right. They used to tell a
story of prince" John Van Buren which
may interest Bryan. John also was a
little shaky when it came to quotations.
Once, in the course of an address to a
Sunday school, John undertook to tell
the children the story of Jacob and Esau.
In the middle of his narrative the man
who sat behind him on the platform
pulled his coat-tail and whispered: BE
careful, John; you are getting the hair
on the wrong man."-Rochester Post
and EXPRESS
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
Who the "Toilers" Are.

Who does Candidate Bryan mean
by the 'toiling Masses" in whose be-
half he presumes to speak? DooS be
mean that only tillers of the soil come
under that head? Does he mean that
the 100000 persons engaged in IN lnu-
featuring, mining and mechanical in
dustries are not toilers? Does he mean
that the 100000 persons engaged in
trade and transportation do not belong
to that class? Does he mean that the
100000 teachers in schools and uni
versities. the 10000 ministers of the
gospel, the 10000 physicians and sur
geons and the multitudes of other per-
sons engaged in professional scrvics in
the United States are not toilers? Does
he mean that the 100000 men and
women engaged in domestic and per-
sonal services are ''plutocrats" and
drones? Such is apparently the 3rift
and intent of his assertion.
1t is time that such demagogic trad-
die was dropped. The "toilng masses
consist of the great bulk of the AIperi-
can people. The number who are not
toilers are as scarce comparatively as
common sense in the ranks of Popuiism.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.
It's Decline Is Due to the Introduction
Labor-Saving Machines.

It's Decline Is Due to the Introduction of
Labor-Saving Machines.
The advocates of the free coinage of
silver have made many disciples in the
West because they have told the farmers
that the demonetization of silver was
the cause of the fall in the price of
wheat. and they have said that if silver
were restored to it's rightful place in our
monetary system the price of wheat
would rise to 81 bushel or thereabouts.
The prevalence of belief in this argu-
ment is a curious illustration of the will
ingness of men to accept theories which
promise to them what they want even
when they have the proof Of the failacy
of those theories at their doors. All the
Western farmer has to do if he wants
to learn why the price of wheat has
fallen is to 60 into his barns and look at
his reaping and threshing machines. 1t
is not many years since the first reaper
was put on the market. 1t would do
the work of several men and II reduced
the cost to the farmer of raising his crop
of wheat. Then the reaper and binder
was invented and soon came the cOmbl-
nation reaper, binder and thresher, which
still further reduces the cost of raising
his product. In 1888 wheat could be
produced on the big Dakota farms for
16 cents bushel. There is a para
graph going the rounds of the newspa-
pers this summer describing a combina-
tion harvester and thresher that has
recently been shipped to farm at Va
kima, Wash, to be used in harvesting
a big crop of wheat. The machine will
cut n swath twenty feet wide, will thresh
the grain and put 1t in sacks ready Tor
the market as il moves over the field. As
the labor cost of a product fixes its price
it was inevitable that the price of wheat
should fall when labor saving machinery
was used in its cultivation. The West
ern farmers have welcomed every inven-
tion that reduced their labor. They have
not been backward in buying the reapers
and binders and threshing machines.
They have used steam engines for power
and have burned the straw for fuel to
make the steam. utilizing every particle
of the product; but they have forgotten
that all these things have forced the
price of their product down. They seek
q remedy now in the free coinage of sill
yer, which they are told would double
the price of their crop in dollars, but
which would certainly cut the value of
every dollar in two and leave them in a
worse position than that in which they
find themselves today. They are just as
mistaken as the sawyers of England who
burned the first sawmill run by water
power that was set up and hanged the
proprietor. These men did not seek de-
basement of the currency. They object
ed to the introduction of Dor saving ma
chinery because they did not know that il
would ultimately increase their wages
and improve their condition. The West
erners have accepted the labor saving ma
chinery which has been the making of
that region and they want to keep their
products at the price that prevailed before
the Introduction of the reapers.-Brook-
lyn E,1 gle
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
Canadian Surveyors Arrange to Con
fscate Alaska Fields.


Interest has been aroused at the State
Department by the recent action of Cana
dian Government surveyors in so locating
the one hundred and forty-6rst meridian
as to throw 200 gold mines into Canadian
territory. This is likely at any time to
precipitate such conflict of authority as
cannot be ignored by the Governments of
the United States and Great Britain.
These mines are now operated by Amer
leans, thousands of whom have gone to
the Alaskan fields since the discovery of
gold. The miners will not readily submit
to the rules and regulations prescribed by
the Canadian mounted police. The Off
cials of the State Department do not in
any degree recognize the survey. A con-
vention, joint committee and treaty will
be required before this Government can
acknowledge that the work has been per-
formed. Negotiations are now pending
with Great Britain for q convention to
have joint commission of astronomers
appointed to survey and locate the one
hundred and forty-frst meridian from
Mount st. Elias to the northern limit.
The expectation prevails that In view of
threatened disturbances. which may ne
cessitate the sending of troops by both
Governments to that region, the pending
negotiations on the subject will be press
ed to a conclusion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
BY JINGO.
I'm a ponocratic condIdate

I'm a POpocratic candidate
On q lingo, buncO, buncombe plan.
From the coast OF Maine to the Golden Gate,
There's scarcely such another man.
I'm the brand-new freak with the llpber
jaw,
And l travel all the land about,
With q gold-bug paddy stuffed with sf fjaw.
And you ought TO see me punch his ssout.
/ belt him here and I belt him there,
Till the sound Is borne across the sea.
Aud Queen Victoria tears her hair
Till she's just as bald as bald can BE-;
And the English syndicates all quail,
As ] beat the unicorn about;
And the lion squats upon his tail
For fear I'll come and twist IL out.
From Lizard Point TO the Baltic shorvs
All Europe soon will stand aghast
When they find the lords of the silver ore
Have got a cinch on the mints at last
Then we'll build great financial wall
As high as the light Of Barnegat
And we'll close the door against them all
Except hole for the free-trade cat.
And what care we though our gold be made
To take Its fight across the seasf
We will Just repeal the laws Of trade
And run our markets as we please,
Then the silver cranks shall shout thereat,
With the folks OF China and Japan;
"Big Injun, that, from the bounding Platte.
And a muchee hoopla Mellican man."
Memo, In Indianapolis Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
CAUSE OF HARD TIMES.
Foreigners Withdrawing Money I'm Fear
of Free Coinage and Populism.

of Free Coinage and Populism.
Financiers tell us that the vaults of
Europe are full of idle money and that
foreigners, who have more clearly per-
ceived the dangers of free coinage than
our own people, have been withdrawing
money from this country for years. The
older civilizations of the world do not
offer favorable opportunities of invest
ment and until our people show prom
Use of honesty this gold will continue to
be boarded in European banks and safe
ty deposit vaults.
Those who are attributing the hard
times to the present monetary system
of the United States have only theory
upon which to base their arguments.
The country never enjoyed a more pros
porous era than during the four years of
Harrison's administration under the
same sound money standard. In fact, all
through the SOS times were generally
good. The election of a man pledged to
destroy the protective feature of our
revenue system and the presence of an
overwhelming majority of revenue men
only" in both houses of Congress, max
ing certain the repeal Of the Mckinley
tariff bill, first excited distrust and in
security among the manufacturers and
capitalists of the country. Nothing is
so timid as a million dollars except two
millions, is common phrase embodying
~
becoming general capital became scarce.
Foreign investors withdrew their funds.
Credit was hard to get. Failures fol-
lowed and down the toboggan slide we
went until the people were eager and
ready to accept any theory, no matter
how hair-brained or visionary, as So
luton of the impending difficulties.
Then it was that those malcontents
found their seed sown on fruitful soil.
Tillman in South Carolina. Altgeld in
Illinois and Bryan beyond the Mississip-
pi exercised their baleful influence to
excite class against class, the employe
against the employer, the West against
the East. They have been instrumental
in breeding discomfort, in causing strikes
and creating a condition of affairs that
must ultimately lead to anarchy. When
the Chicago rioters stopped the govern
ment mails. stoned trains and attacked
those who did not sympathize with them
in their lawless actions, a leader of this
movement and the governor of n great
state denounced the federal government
for interfering with their destructive de-
signs.
1t is such men as Altgeld who have
done more to prevent the return of pros
perity than anything else. The people
must crush out now and forever the ele-
ment of society represented by the candi-
date of Populism. 1t will not do to
merely defeat them. They must be over
whelmed. Then and not until then will
the dawn of prosperity reappear. Then
rs the silver lunacy fades from the pub
lie view and general confidence returns,
our markets will again fall under the
control of natural developments and the
gold now stored up in the vaults of
Europe will return to America to be in
vested in our various enterprises, Great
ing a new demand for labor and all in
dustrious people will prosper.-Elmira
IN W Advertiser
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
THE WONDERFUL BRYAN.

who Is this Mister Bryan, pa,
That some folks call him great?"
"He thinks" the father made reply,
THAT he's a candidate"
And does he look like other folks,
And does he drink and eat?"
His looks and acts are common, and
He walks upon his feet"
"He has no wings. then, has he, pa,
To cleave the ambient airY'
"He has no wings, my son, but he
Has wheels beneath his hair"
"And can you hear them rumble, pa
The wheels of which you speak,"
"They do not rumble much. my son,
They are the kind that squeak"
And did you see and hear him, pa
This wonder from the WestY'
THAT / did both, my weary look,
l fancy, will attest"
Then tell me of the silvery song
This warbler has to sing"
He simply waved his arms and yawped,
But didn't say q thing"
--C'lpyeland I,naTpr
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
Want More of This I?

The election of the Bryan ticket would
mean four years more of the industry
wrecking. labor-robbing, business-killing
Wilson German tariff. 1t would mean
enues and increasing deficits. 1t would
mean four years more of what we have
had during the past three years.
Have not the people had enough of
this kind of experience? How is it with
the farmers? What is the Wilson-G Cor
man law doing for them?
Let us briefly cite: 1t knocks the
farmers wool market out with a free
trade club.
1t knocks off 20 cents per bushel on
every bushel of onions he sells.
1t knocks off 2 cents per pound on his
butter.
1t knocks off 2 cents a pound on his
cheese.
1t knocks off 3 cents pound on his
hams and bacon.
1t knocks off 1S cents on every bushel
of his barley.
1t knocks off 10 cents on every BUSH
el of his apples.
1t knocks off 3 cents on every dozen
of his eggs.
II knocks off 80 cents on every one
of his sheep.
1t knocks off 8 cents on every bushei
of his oats.
1t knocks off 0 cents on every BASH
II knocks off 10 cents on every gallon
of his honey.
1t knocks off SO per head on his cat.
tie and $15 per head on his horses.
1t knocks off 10 cents on every bushel
of his potatoes.
1t knocks off Z cents on every pound
of his hops, and cents on every bushel
Of his corn.
1t knocks off 50 on every ton of his
hay.
1t does more knocking off than tAis,
but this Is enough to show that IL is
time for the farmers, as well as the
representatives of all other American
industries to go to the polls and knock
out the party that proposes to continue
in force the Wilson-Gorman tariff law.
The knocking off figures here given
show the difference in the duties on
im-o<ts under the Republican protec-
tive tariff and the present non-protec-
tive tariff. They show that the farmer
is hard hit by the Wilson German law,
and that is what ails him today.
The sooner we get back to protection
the sooner will all American industries
revive and prosperity b. restored.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

laborer has to eat has greatly increased.
This is one of the beauties of depre-
ciated silver currency which the white
metal advocates fail to point out to our
wageworkers when they ask them to
vote for silver, yet they are results that
will invariably follow any appreciation
of the currency, whether in India or the
United States.
IF the voters of this country could be
made to understand the poverty, squalor
and suffering which is calmly accepted
in India as n necessary part OF exist
ence, and see that these conditions grow
worse as their money becomes more and
more worthless, the possibility of any sill
any class outside of those directly in
terested in silver, would be remote in
IaaI
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
Next Lesson-Quarterly Review.


A single bitter word may disquiet an
entire family for a whole day. One
surly glance casts a gloom over the
household, while a smile, like q sleam
of sunshine, may light up the darkest
and weariest hours. Like unexpected
towers which spring up along our path,
full Of freshness, fragrance and beauty,
20 do kind words and gentle acts and
sweet dispositions make glad the home
whsre peace and blessing dwell-Rsv.
=. y. Rtaufrer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
Plenty of Gold.

There is no scarcity of gold. In the
total production of gold has been $J,-
SIC, ,3S2, $50, which is nearly twice the
total production of the world in the 3Ss
years before 1850. In 1895 the prodpc-
ton of gold was $2O5, 10000 and for
1896 it is estimated by the director OF
the mint at $22O,OOO,O0O. This produc-
ton il far in excess of what the mines
of California and Australia turned out
at the time of their greatest productive
ness.
The production of silver has grea,Yy
increased since 1850. The trouble with
silver, as money for general transactions,
is that no coin can be made Of il larger
than 81. A man can carry $1,000 OF
gold in his pocket as easily as he can
carry $50 Of silver.-Louisville CONNER
cial
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

side of the hat was trimmed with stiff
taffeta bows in brown. and green-loops
of each. The other side of the hat was
u mass of snowballs nesting in green
leaves. The back was a standing mass Of
lace, and the pointed top carried out the
brown and green motif in an abundance of
these leaves.
With Mrs. Cleveland's order was one
for small russell shade hats for the little
girls. There are trimmed with forget
me-nots and green ribbon.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

''Skilled laborers seem to have Jared
little IL any better than the lowest grade
of day laborers, and advancing prices
and stationary wages are grinding all
classes between the upper and lower
millstones. BY present experience /
know that the rate of wages paid on tea
plantations in India Is practically the
same as was in force thirty-one years
ago. while the cost of everything the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

Edgar M. Tomlinson, who testified be-
fore the Lexow committee In New York
that he paid a bribe to William s. An
drews, former street cleaning and excise
commissioner, to influence his action a. a
commissioner of excise, has confessed that
the charge was not true, and that he com
mitted perjury in making 4
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
He Quotes the Bible.

Il Is evident that Biblical quotation Is
not Candidate Bryan's forte. A few
days ago be credited Solomon with the
familiar prayer which fell from the lips
of Agur, the son of Jakeh. His mistake
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

The annual report Of the Denver and
Bio Grande Railroad Company for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1896, has just
been issued. The gross earnings were
e7,051, 1850, an increase Of $63A, A,8z603
ever the preceding year.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
MRS. CLEvELAND'S FALL HAT.
symphony in Flowers aud Colors Re-
minds One of Late Leaves.

OHO I<tHVeBs
An important order was to be executed
the other day by Washington milliner,
for Mrs. Cleveland had written down for
an autumn hat. "Your own selection"
she ordered the milliner The hat when
1t reached Gray Gables was of pale green
straw with brown dots scattered over 1t.
These were small knots of grass. One
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

Totals 49,. 81, 539, 1853, ,634 81. 1.603, $50, OPS
The treasury money and bullion fund
last month shows net decrease amount
Ing to $2,137, III. Gold coin holdings de-
creased S12,S10,170. silver bullion ST.
072,O ,O1S, and it lost $9i.344 IN subsidiary
silver On the other hand, its store Of
standard dollars increased 1908, ,916,
gold bullion $2,623, ,145, greenbscks $5,-
AS, ,S04, national bank notes $1,SS1,-
948. and silver treasury notes 81 ,0S4 ,OO2
The changes in detail in August in the
money and bullion fund are shown by the
following table:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
$2i.48 PER CAPITA.
Circulation of This Country ON Sep
tember 1, 1896.


The Treasury Departments monthly
circulation statement shows, as expected
after the big excess of expenditures over
receipts and the big decrease in the gold
reserve and surplus cash in August, an
unusually heavy net increase in the circu-
lation last month. The treasury lost
heavily in gold coin and silver certificates
in August. The conspicuous changes in
the circulation during the month were
increases in gold coin circulation of $1S,-
702,O25, and in silver certificates $14,-
083, ,223; and on the other hand, increases
of So, 5,445. .S04 in greenback circulation,
So, l45,O0O currency certificates, and ST.
6S6,O0S in silver treasury notes The
total circulation of the country on Sept.
1 is placed at 81 ,539, 1G9, GA, per capita
of $21. .4S, against 81 sos, $50, ,02S ON Sept.
l year ago. The amounts of the various
kinds of money in circulation on Sept. 1,
1895, and on Sept. year ago are
shown by the following table:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

CRAWLING CHAPTER, r. A. M, No. 120.-
Meets every third Tuesday in each month.
w. +. BENKLEMAN, II. p.
A. TAYLOR Sec
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS. No. 1862, meets on
the I'd and 4th Saturdays at 2 o'clock in the az
ternoon. MRS. n. E. HANSON, President.
REBECCA WIGHT, Sec.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

DANISH Ev. LUTHERAN CHURCH : Rev.
A. Henritzy. Pastor. Services every Sunday at
1880 e. m. and p. m. and every Thursday at
7:30 p. m. Sunday School at p. IN.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

CRAWLING LODGE, I. o. o. F., No. 1S7.-
Meets every Tuesday evening
]. PATTERSON. N. @.
NJ. SIMPSON, Sec.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

MARVIN POST, No. 240, G. A. r., meets the
second and fourth Saturdays in each month.
w. s. CHALKER, Post Com.
J.'J. COVENTRY, Adjutant.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev.A II. Mosser
Pastor. Services every Sunday morning and
evening at the usual hour. sunday-school fol-
lowing morning service. Prayer meeting every
Wednesday evening
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

CRAWLING LODGE. No. $50, =. d A. NJ
meets in regular communication on Thursday
evening ON OF before the full Of the moon.
NJ A. BATES, w. N.
A. TAYLOR, Secretary.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

CRAWFORD TENT, X. o. T. NJ. No. 1o2.-
Meets every Saturday evening.
A. MCKAY, Com.
T. NOLAN, r. z.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH.
Rev. w. H. Mawhorter, Pastor. Services every
Sunday at TOO p. m. and alternate Sundays &C
1880 a. m. Sunday-school at 2p. m.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

N. d. CHURCH-Rev. R. l.. Cope, Pastor.
Services at 10 80 O'clock am. and 7l1 pn Sum
day school at II m. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at 7M o'clock. All are COR
daily invited to attend.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17

ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH.-Father
Fl. Webeler. Regular services the last Sunday
in each month.