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Summer Homes and Resorts.

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the public and to fix lower excursion rates for "A
summer outing good for return until October
81, by issuing, with usual promptness, its sum-
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1t is handsome in design and artistic in every
respect, having thirty-two beautifully illustra
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conveniently arranged information calculated
to answer fully and satisfactorily every ques-
tion likely to be -prOpounded, such as routes
and distances hotels and boarding houses,
names Of proprietors how to reach them. rates
OF board by day, week and month, etc.
The Southern offers choice of mountain and
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breezes of some OF the most delightful resorts
on the Atlantic Coast or the cool mountain
breeZes OF Swannanoa, Ashevllle Lookout
Mountain and others 800 feet above sea level
For copy OF guide call at office of any prosni-
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G. A. Benscoter, assistant general passenger
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ted States senate committee shows that
such a "cOrner" has already been
effectively conducted. Finally the
enemies of gold monometallism insist
that the only way to combat its evils is
to give silver equal rights in the mints
that is, to coin it freely as gold is
coined, and at rata of 16 to with
the dearer metal, and declare that the
result would be not "depreciatod"
dollar, but an honest dollar-a stable
standard.
The Journal hopes that at some time
Mr.. Cochran will discuss the essentials
of the currency question, and in the
discussion subordinate his rhetoric to
his reason, his malice to his power of
argument.
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It must be kept in mind that, like
most of the members of his faction,
Mr.. Cochran did not suggest any other
currency system than the present one,
which, with Mr.. Cleveland's aid, has
added 1862, 600, 900 to the interest bear
ing debt of the nation and spread dis
aster thick over the land. He attacks
the remedies which Mr.. Bryan offers,
but prescribes none of his own. So,
when we read his appeals to and forthe
workingmen we must hold that he be-
lieves the present monetary system the
best for them. Unfortunately in dis
cussing the effect of free coinage on
the fortunes of wage workers we can
not ignore two classes of whom Mr..
Cochran thinks very little. At the foun-
dation of the workingman's prosperity
is the prosperity of the farmers the
Western wheat growers whom Mr.
Cochran describes as professional
farmers who labor with their jaws, Y
and the southern cotton growers whom
he regards as ''unreconciled slave hold
ers who would like to pay no wages
Unless they thrive and have money to
spend mills will not run nor railroads
be built.
Now the prices of American wheat
and cotton are fixed at London in COM
petition with Russia, India, Egypt, Az.
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gentina, Chilli, Uruguay-all countries
which are silver using nations. The
price is fixed in gold If il be 81 cents
a bushel, that means G7 cents and no
more to the American farmer, but the
exporter in silver using country gets
with his 81 cents in gold 81 81 in silver.
1t is demonstrated fact that prices
in the silver-using communities have
not risen so greatly as to destroy this
practical subsidy to their agricultur-
lists. They can therefore and do under
sell our farmers in the markets of the
world and thrive, while we, trying to
meet their prices and still do business
on a gold basis, starve. The first prices
to rise under return to bimetallism
would be the prices of wheat and cot
ton. The farmers exporting these great
staples would again be liberal pur-
chasers in our domestic markets. Their
demands would start again the wheels
of industry, would stimulate railway
building, would revive commerce. The
multiplication of opportunities for en-
ployment would infallibly increase the
earnings of labor, if not the normal
daily wage. Nor will the cost of living
be increased in proportion to the op-
portunities for earning a living, for the
prices of most commodities would in
crease only slowly, as year by year the
volume of the currency was increased,
and as demand, growing out of wider
prosperity, increased also. These facts
Mr.. Cochran saw fit to ignore in his
speech, though so much of it was ad-
dressed particularly to workingmen.
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If we shall set aside the purely abus-
i've features of Mr.. Cockran's speech
as unworthy of detailed comment-an
certainly unworthy of him-we find the
first mooted question which he attacked
with argumentth alleged desire Of the
democracy to recognize the supreme
court in the interest Of an income tax.
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some disaster, theft or loss be halved,
its credits will have to be reduced. So
with the individual and with the ma
tion. The stock of money available
fixes the amount of credits acting as
money which can be emitted safely.
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OF the.merits or demerits of the income
tax itself Mr.. Cochran here said moth
ing. What reused him to a pitch of
indignation was the thought that the
decision of the court annulling the late
income tax law should not stand forev-
er, instead of being like former de-
cision on the same subject and like
many supreme court decisions on di-
vers semi-political questions reversed
by the same court which made it. In
its more than century of existence
the supreme court of the United States
has passed through many political
changes. 1t has been federalist, re-
publican, whig, democratic, according
to the political complexion of the party
in power and the fortune of the presi-
dent in having vacancies made for him
to fill Reorganization of the supreme
court is as inevitable as death. No
president has failed to appoint to va
cancies lawyers of his own faith, and
at no time when the creed or the inter
ests of the two great parties were in
volved in any cause before the court
has that august tribunal failed to di-
vide on strictly party lines. It is not
the Language of revolutionN to talk Of
the reorganization of the court, nor
despite the somewhat turgid oratory Of
Cochran, do the democrats purpose tC
''profane the temple" Only they wish.
as opportunity shall present itself, tc
replace certain present members of the
court who have been eager to use the
undemocratic power given to them tC
save great wealth from bearing it's JUS
share of the burdens of the state. by
men who will construe the law in thu
light of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, in the way which shall in fac
endow men equally with the right tt
pursue happiness, which is only at
tainable through fair distribution O
the blessings and the burdens of gov
ernment.
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AEA 1.-The Foot

says an eminent English doctor, "will
carry enough poison to infect house
hold" In summer time, more espec-
tally, disease germs fill the air, multi
tudes are infected, fall i'll, die; multi
tudes escape. These messengers OF
mischief do not exist for millions. Why
not' Because they are healthy and strong
protected as acrocodils is against gun
shot. 1t is the weak, the wasted. the
thin -blooded who fall those who
have no resistive power so that a sudden
cough or cold develops into graver
disease. We hear Of catching diseased
Why not catch healthl We can do il
by always maintaining our healthy
weight.
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pie

The iron grasp Of scrofula has no
mercy upon its victims, This demon
of the blood is often not satisfied with
causing dreadful sores, but racks the
body with the pains of rheumatism
until Hoods Sarsaparilla cures.
"Nearly four years ago became af-
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rency problem will not earn for him
RANK among the economists of the
world. Much of his eloquence was de-
voted to an effort to prove that the
volume of money in circulation in a
country has nothing to do with prop
erty values or with prosperity. Upon
this point most of the accepted econo-
mists take issue with him. AS in these
later years Mr.. Cochran has become an
ultra conservative, perhaps this quota
tion from John Stuart Mill will be
held in respect by him
That an increase in the volume of
money raises prices and q diminutiOn
lowers them, Is the most elementary
proposition ih the theory OF currency.
and without it we should have no key
to any of the others.
Or, if Mr.. Cochran desires citation to
more modern student of economics,
to o man more Immediately in touch
with present day economics, he can
learn from the writings of General
Francis A. Walker that:
Some monometallic writer's, indeed,
have undertaken t. prove that the de-
monetization of silver has had nothing
to do with the fall Of gold prices. Such
a proposition is, on its face, monstrous
absurd. IL ncr,ber of nations have
LARGELY .dimini> rl their use of silver
and largely irca .,sed their use of gold,
this must har. md the effect to lower
prices EXPIRE 81 in terms of gold. To
deny this is to deny that demand and
supply determine value.
But, says Mr.. Cochran, what if the
supply of money is decreased ? "ln
the larger transactions of life there is
no money used at ALL" Upon investiga-
ton this declaration SINNERS down to
the assertion that if the people have
not money enough for their business
they can use checks-a contribution to
economics which irresistibly recalls the
Iquestion of the French princess 'Ii
the people have no bread why do not
they eat cake ?" Yet there is half O
truth in Mr. Cockrans argument. I'm
doubtedly the wide use of bank credits,
checks and drafts does to some extent
relieve the monetary stringency due tc
contraction of the currency. For af-
fording this relief the bankers are paid,
and it is in order that they may at all
times be called upon to furnish this ser
vice, to their own great profit, that all
bankers are on the side of every move
ment which looks to contraction oi
the circulating medium. But even the
supply of this credit money-check'
and drafts-is limited by the supply o.
/ basic money, which was once gold ant
| silver, and is now gold alone. The east
. of one bank can be taken as typical o
| the whole banking community. It dee
9 great credit business on compare
E lively small stock of actual money il
its vaults. II this stock of money b.
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We do not have to rely on the cyl
dence of history or the arguments of
the professional economists to disprove
Mr.. Cockran's novel theory that falling
prices are beneficial. If we study the
conditions today we find that with
everything cheap industry is paralyzed
and men are cheaper than ever. If the
eloquent orator of Madison Square
Garden will attempt to finance any pro-
ductive enterprise except that of pro-
ducing Mckinley voters-he will find
that money eau not be borrowed to be
used in manufacturing or producing
goods the prices of which are likely to
be cheaper SIX months hence than now.
He will find that the charm of the ap-
preciating value of the dollar in which
he thinks the workingman should be
paid appeals also to the capitalist, who
is content to keep the dollar in his own
vaults and enjoy its enhanced value
himself It is the nature of men to
cling to that which is growing more
valuable and to unload property which
is deteriorating. The heappreciating dol
lar which Mr.. Cochran SO admires is q
dollar for boarding, not one to be risked
in the enterprises of productive indus
try. Today it is easy to borrow money
on interest bearing bonds of perfectly
solvent corporations of a public or
semi-public character, but how easy is
it to borrow on the best farm lands, on
the best equipped factory or on q stock
of goods? Money is absolutely driven
from the channels of productive indus
try, and therefrom result absolute
stagnation of business, dearth of EN-
ployment, grave curtailment of the
purchasing power of the people and
widespread distress. That with a rising
market, which is rising prices, business
revives, factories reopen, the avenues
for the employment of labor are multi
piled, is one of the truisms of the COM
mercial world.
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Mr.. Cochran has, by implication, de-
MED that the increase or decrease of
the volume of the currency affects
prices. His position on this point is, as
we have already, noted, controverted by
practically every economist who has
won authoritative place in this CEN
tury. He has also denied that the de-
monetization of silver has affected any
material contraction of the currency,
because bank credits have taken its
place. Here, too, he is at odds with the
scientific students of the money ques-
ton. Finally he throws his glove in
the face of all teachers of accepted
economic dogma by attempting to
prove that falling prices are advanta-
geous to the community and to indi-
viduals. In impassioned defence of
what he, perhaps honestly, believes the
rights of the wage workers, he cries ::
"YoG shall not obscure the golden pros
pect of further improvement in his
condition by further cheapening of
the cost of living as we'll as by fur
ther appreciation of the dollar which
is paid him."
Now Mr.. Cochran is not so young a
man as to be ignorant of the history
of his country. He has been observant
of public phenomena for many years.
and he must recall the fact that every
era of rising prices has been an era of
commercial prosperity every period of
falling prices time of industrial dis
tress. The coincidence between falling
prices, commercial depression and leg
islation for the contraction of the cur
rency has been given several striking
illustrations since 1860 in the United
States. In Europe the same intimate
connection between the volume of
money, prices and prosperity was dis
tressingly shown in the dark years of
1919, when prices fell 90 per cent.
Mr.. Cochran may be challenged to cite
one period in the history Of the world
when falling prices were not accom-
panied by the gravest commercial dis
tress.
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Mohave County miner., 1896-05-16
Gull Service.


 Presi dent Clevelsnd's order enlargins Che scope of civil servics and taking ir 30. 900 additional appointive positions. in round numbers. is to be commended. The number now embraced within the civil service regulations IS S5,l35, and practically includes everything in the way Of appo,ntlve positions under the federal government below the grade ol laborers and the higher places which are hlled by presidential appointment and confirmed by the senate This is great step in advance and will do much to re. form the abuses of the spoils system.
 The patronage of the federal govern ment has grown to be so enormous that some such reform has been imperstively demanded With change in the party control of the government 1t is by no means necessary to change every one of its employees. With cabinet officers, and heads of bureaus, and persons in ad. ministrstive or executive positions, and foreign ministers, and the like, it is both proter ard necessary that such places should be filled by persons in sympathy with the party in power. The filling of these places, at the present time, leaves a very large amount of patronage at the disposal of the president.
 But with the average government em- ploye, such as railway postal clerk, or city letter carrier and thousands of clerkshipe, no such claim can be made With persons Tn this class of positions, only honesty and capacity and efficiency are regarded There cannot be sweeping chsnges every four years without positive detriment to the government service. A bank or great commercial house or e large manufacturing concern or g vast railway system holds on to its experi enced and capable employees, and there is no reason why the federal government should not do the same. Spoilsmen and political bosses will kick, but the public which is served by the different depart. ments of the federal government. will be benefited by the new order of the pres ident.-Rocky Mountain News.
Mohave County miner., 1896-05-16
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The Victor Dam.

The deeds have been placed on 6le by which James Brown grants to the Coum. bian Colonization company between 5000 and 4,000 acres oi land, situated in the basin abou. the Victor narrows and which, according to the plans of the col. onixation company, is to be the site of . reservoir, with a capacity of water sufs. cient to irrigate 200 900 acres of land. be. low and to the northw west of Victor. :. The transfer is conditional upon the work to be done by the company, and the grantors "reserve all rights to the land until water from the Mojave river shall, by a dam to be constructed, be raised to level with the house on said land now occupied as residence" That is to say, if the Columbian Colonization company fails to build the dam and reservoir as proposed, then the transfer Is void.
 The consideration IS to be Glass A cer. tifcates of water right to 1000 acres oi land, and fifty first mortgage per cent bonds oi the denomination of ,000y each.
 It is estimated, taking the certificates at par value, that sO,OOOs represents the amount paid for the land, should the con ditions be fulfilled. d.-Times Index.