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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03
THE GOLD STANDARD IN ENGLAND
AND THE UNITED STATES.

1t is interesting to note how closely
the United States has followed IN the
footsteps of England in her financial
policy. Would it not be reasonable to
expect the same or similar results
In 1916, after a period of unexampled
prosperity, and the suspension OF
specie payments, England demonetized
silver and adopted the gold standard.
In 1873, after period of unexampled
prosperity, and the suspension of
specie payments, the United States de-
monetized silver and adopted the gold
standard.
In 1919, England passed an act pro-
viding for resumption of specie pay
ments in 1923.
In 1875, the United States passed an
act providing for resumption of specie
payments in 1879.
Mr. FELTON,, of Georgia, in a speech
in the House of Representatives in
1878, said, in speaking of this legisla-
ton in England, ''The result, was, that
from 1915 to 1923 more than four-ffths
(4-5) of the landowners of England
lost their estates. The number of
landowners was reduced from one
hundred and sixty thousand to thirty
thousand, and in the language of Wen
dell Phillips bankruptcy, the very his
tory of which makes the blood run cold
to-day, blighted the empire.
The American cyclopaedia, which
knows no politics or creed, says of the
same Legislation:
This was not accomplished without
wide spread disaster, the details of
which are painful to read of, even at
this distant day."
The provisions for meeting the in
debtedness of the Government and
regulating the finances of the country
are very similar in this country to
those in England, except that the bank
of England performs very much the
duties of the United States Treasury.
The Bank of England has to keep in its
vaults the indebtedness of the, Govern
ment ar bullion, one fourth only Of
which can be in silver, to an amount
equal to its issue of notes.
Since the resumption of specie pay
ments in 1923, so scarce has been gold,
that the Bank of England, up to 1866,
has had to suspend specie payments
three times, to-wit: October 25, 1847,
November ~. 1857, and May II, 1866.
On this last occasion the American
Cyclopaedia says: "In it's efforts to
save itself and comply with the absurd
provisions of the bank act it spread
ruin and desolation around it, and
years have been necessary to recover.
from the effects of the panic thus Gre
ated"
While the United States have not
had to suspend specie payments, and
have escaped the dire consequences
that have befallen England (perhaps
by the partial reconciliation and coin
age of silver), is there anything so.
attractive in the experience of England
in it's efforts to maintain the gold
standard, as to induce MS, contrary to
the traditions of our country, to the
result of our own reason, and the in
stincts of the great mass of our people,
TO follow blindly in her footsteps?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03
A BIG FIRE AT NORFOLK.
twenty-five Houses Burned and 100
Families Homeless.


Norfolk, Va, Sept. 2.-The immense
five-story brick pillow foundry and i'm
plement factory of S. r. White and
Bro, was discovered to be on fire to-
night at 1875. The flames rapidly
spread over the entire structure, leav-
ing it a mass of ruins. The brisk wind
which was blowing at the time scatter
ed the sparks in every direction and in
a very short space of time a number
of buildings in the vicinity caught on
fire and the flames spread RAPIDLY
from one tenement to another, con-
Stunning the entire block.
At 10 o'clock the Union stock yard
was enveloped in a sheet of flame and
was destroyed in very few minutes.
The flames from this building com.
municated with the row of houses adj
joining the stock yard on the south
and soon they were victims, OF, the de-
youring element. ~ III.
~ One hundred families white and col
ored residing in the fire district have
been made homeless and houseless by
the confagration, many of them losing
all their furniture upon which there is
no insurance. The change in the wind
is the only thing that saved the prop
erty of the Old Dominion Steamship
Company and that of the Clyde Line.
Loss estimated at $500, 900. Insurance
not known at this hour. All together
there have been destroyed about TWEEN
ty-five houses in the district. At 1880
the fire is not yet under control.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03
FIFE LONG SPEECHES.
Continued from list page


pestifences and calamities that visit
the farm, it is not fair to drive him
between the bulls and the bears of
Wall street and let them take from
him what is left. daughter and APP
plause.)
s'The Democrats of this State have
done well against great odds. In spite
Of great influences they declare for the
restoration of the money of the Con-
stitution. You met your opponents
i'm open conflict and by superiority
of numbers overcame them. What do
they do: the very people who have
been calling all silver Democrats Pop
ulists, who have been trying to read us
out of the party for years, when they
found they could not read us ouJ, In
stead of going out to some other party
and giving up the name we have proven
our right to, they try to go out and
take the name with them and call us
anarchists because we don't go with
them. (Applause.)
THE GOLD BUG EMBLEM.
/ understand these gold standard
Democrats declare their emblem
should be the hickory tree. We have
heard about Satan stealing the livery
of heaven, but we have never before
seen men try to use the name of that
great hero and statesman to undo all
he tried to do. (Cries of "GoId.")
Talk about Andrew jackson belonging
to the "goldbug Democracy" { Laugh
teri Go back to the time of An
drew Jackson, and whom had he ar
rayed against him? The very men
who, after trying to use the Democra-
tic party for private gain and, having
failed, are trying to elect the Republi-
can candidate for President by nomi-
mating a gold standard candidate.
(Cries of 'They can't do it.'O They
take a hickory tree for their emblem.
Why don't they get something appro-
pirate? Why don't they put upon
their ballot the picture of an owl?
(Baughter.) Nothing could be more
appropriate. 1t looks wise and does
its work at night. (Laughter.) Or
if they don't like an owl, take the
mole. 1t is slick animal, and works
under the ground all the time. Great
laughter and applause.) But they
ought to spare the sacred memory of
the man who was the hero of New
Orleans, and whose resting place, the
hermitage is I0b Mecca OF all VINO SBlJ
love Democratic principles. Great ap-
plause.
RULE OF THE PEOPLE.
My, friends, remember that relief
cannot come to you from those who.
have fastened this yoke upon you
You may go to New York or Boston,
and find financie"s who debate the
greatness of this country and proclaim
the necessity for foreign aid. The men
who do this know more about Europe
than about the United States. They
go oftener to London than to the great
prairies of the West and South (Cries
of ''Good.)
"If because of their more intimate
acquaintance with foreigners they
have an exaggerated idea of the nee
essity of foreign aid, you people, who
live between the A4leghanies and the
golden hills, who are willing to trust
your all upon the republic and rise or
fall with it, have the power and the
right to take the reigns of government
in your own hands and administer the
law, not for foreign syndicates, but for
the people of the United States"
fGFeat aDplauSe).
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

The Charlotte News says~that in the
Mecklenburg Populist convention
resolution opposing fusion with any
one who would support Mckinley and
Sewall was introduced, created a ffut-
ter, but was passed over without ac-
ton. Fusion was effected with Re
publicans who openly avow they are
for Mckinley, Hobart and the gold
standard. This has taken all the real
enthusiasm out of the true silver Popu-
lists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

1t is significant that the greatest re-
ception Bryan has received at any
place in America was at Mark Hanna's
home. This shows that the people
know that Mckinley stands with
Hanna for the trusts and the anti-or-
ganized labor crusade which Hanna
has waged.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03
Dividends Did It
OFFICE OF THE
EQUITABLE NATIONAL BANK, 81
4 .


CINCINNATI BJana OF 1894
Hon. John M.Pattison, PresidentU q ion
Central Life Insurance CO., Cincin-
natl, Ohio.
DEAR SIR:-I take pleasure in ac-
knowledging receipt this day through
e. w. Jewell, your General Agent in
this city, of $40, 1927 SO, in payment of
policy No. S,928 in your company.
l wish to express to you my hearty
thanks. My policy was for $4,000,
and on your Life Rate Endowment
Plan paid you but the Ordinary Life
Premium, just the same as I would
have paid any of the other leading
companies for policy to be paid only
at death, and yet your profits have
been so large that in little over %
years it has matured for an amount
over the $4,000, and thus | have an
Endowment Policy of Ordinary Life
Rates.
l am greatly pleased at my good for
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gives such contract, or secures such
results. I carry policies in a number
of the leading companies, but I have
none whose results compare with this.
/ am glad that my own city of Gin.
cinnati is the home of such an institu-
ton as the Union Central Life Insur-
ance Company, and as a citizen am
proud of it. / ann,
Yours respectfully,
GEORGE FISHER.
For the cost of policy on your life
like the above, address
CAREY j. HUNTER,
Superintendent for Virginia and
North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

wealth is king in peace and in
war; was the utterance in recent
speech of Mr.. NJ. M. Estee, the Republi-
can leader in California. That is what
Mark Hanna thought when he made
up his committee largely of million
aires. The people will say in November
whether manhood or money is king.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

The special friends of Cleveland at
indianapolis are very hostile to the
nomination of Henry Watterson
"They never speak as they pass by
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

Those Ripley bankers who were
robbed OF 1908, while listening to Bry-
an speak, will be doubly hostile TO free
silver. The thief made himself too
fres with GAicxes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

Mrs. Lease says Tom Watson is no
gentleman, Neither are You" yoH can
Tetort. 81
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

Women who are weak and nervous,
who have no appetite and cannot sleep,
find strength and vigor in Hoods Sar-
saparilla.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take laxative Broma Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. csc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS

Two negro boys hayebeen appointed
cadets to Ann6pda rs Ed.negro has ever
graduated at the Naval Academy,
though several hNpk graduated iron.
Vest Point.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03
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~
In his speech, in the Iredell Republic
can county convention, Senator Sharp
charged Congressman Shuford with
ingratitude to the Republicans who
had put him in Congress, with dicl1er-
ing with the Democrats to sell them
(the Republicans) out, and said the
Republicans of the district demanded
a candidate to vote for who was in
favor of protection and sound money.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills, Biz
Eousness, Indigestion, headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

s'If there were no party prejudices,
Bryan would get 90 per cent of the
rural vote of the Union" said Theo.
WiImot to the Washington Post. And
he might have truthfully added 80 per
cent of the urban vote. AS it is. he
will get 80 per cent of the rural and
so per cent of the city vote outside of
New England. A poll of the $4,000
Changers in Pennsylvania, shows that
10000 are for Bryan. Most of them
were formerly Republicans.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

A large claim. of Republican mem
bership in silver clubs is made at the
silver headquarters. 1t is that COM
piIation of percentages of members
in silver clubs, most of which have
been organized since the Chicago con-
vention, show that almost SO per cent.
were former Republicans. The re-
turns are for the most part from Ohio,
Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and
Wisconsin. Michigan and Iowa show
the largest number of clubs in proper
ton to the population.--Wa Washington
Post.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19

Congressional Ticket.
or Congress, 18th District,
n. @. VAN VOORHIS, Of Muskingum Co.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19
MARIETTA.
wITTENBERG
Condensed Testimony.

Chas. b. Hood, Broker and Manu-
facturer's Agent, Columbus, Ohio, cer-
titles that DIR. Kings New Discovery
has no equal as Cough remedy. ].
d. Brown, Prop. st. James Hotel. Ft.
Wayne, Ind, testifies that he was cured
of a Cough of two years standing,
caused by La Grippe, by DR.. Kings
New Discovery. b. f. Merrill, Bald
winsville, Mass, says that he has used
and recommended it and never knew it
to fail and would rather have it than
any doctor, because it always cures.
Mrs Hemming, 222 q. 25th St., Chica-
go, always keeps it at hand and has no
fear of Group, because it instantly re-
lieves. Free Trial Bottles at w. FL.
Styer's Drug Store
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19
American Society OF Municipal I'M
provement.
CHICAGO, October 10th.

CHICAGO, October 10th.
A large city is no place for conven-
tions if you want to get work out of
the members or expect much attention
to be paid to them. The lateness of
the season and overshadowing interest
in the Presidential election, it was
supposed, would keep good many
away. We found, however, when we ar
rived that the attendance was very
satisfactory. Chillicothe has It's Mayor
and sixteen city officers here. Park
ersburg its Mayor and four city officers.
GAINESVILLE and several other Ohio
cities have delegates here, and Cincin-
rati large delegation. They came in
a private car with Aug. Hermann, the
general President of their Board of
Administration, at its head, and so
are other cities, East, West, North
and South, including Toronto, Canada,
represented.
The place of meeting, Kinsleys Hall,
is in the fourth story of a building OF
steel, stone and bronze, not large but
built of solid and costly materials. The
proceedings are very interesting, the
only trouble rbeing that time enough is
not found to discuss the various papers
submitted Mr.. Hathaway's paper or
IA'Paying Streets with Brick" was vel
received and was considered of enough
Importance by the editor of Municipal
Engineering" to ask for copy for pub
lication,
The kinds of street pavement mos
talked about were asphalt and brick
The lowest price given for asphalt wa'
s1.s5 per square yard, Brooklyn, N. Y
The lowest for brick was 65 cents PEI
square yard at Marietta, Ohio.
The President for next year is Angus
Hermann of Cincinnati, and the plac,
of meeting will be Nashville.
S. j. Ii.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19
SILVER QUESTION IN NUTSHELL
Are Our Wage-EarneTs Getting Too High
Wages?

Are Our yvage-EarneTs Getting Too High
Wages?
In every rural town in the country
free coinage advocates are promising
farmers that sixteen to one would raise
the price of grain and meat and thus
reduce the poportions of the produce
of the farm that goes to pay the labor
employed. OF all brazen performances
of the century, the most impudent is
that by which at the same time the
wage-earners are invited to assist in a
campaign to make their food more dear
to them and to reduce the wages of the
most numerous class Of wage-earners
in the country.
There is the silver question in a nut
shell. 1t is simply question as to
whether our wage-earners are getting
too high wages. They may as well face
the question. If our wage-earners be-
lieve they are getting too high wages
and that this country is suffering in
consequence, all they have to do is to
take lower wages. If they prefer a
roundabout way, they can favor free
coinage of silver, and they will get their
wages cut down half without any
further trouble on their part.
In the light of our experience with
fiat money legislation, from the green
back to the Sherman pig silver certifi-
Gates, this long-suffering country will
finally learn that wealth is not created
by fiat, but is made by labor; that the
law can put no dollar into any mans
pocket unless it first takes 1t from the
pocket of some other man, and that
wage-earners are first and most inter
ested in opposing interference by law
There has never yet been made law tc
put into any laboring mans pocket
single dollar that he did not earn. He
of all men, therefore, has the best right
to insist that there shall be no Law
passed that will raise the price Of what
he has to buy, and thus take from him
any portion of what he has earned
Hon. John De Witt Warner, In Present
Problems"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19

The farmer and the mechanic must
be free TO use the very best tools and
implements, and the merchant and
banker must be free to use the very
best money and instruments of.credit.
An honest and stable measure Of value
is justas necessary to both as are honest
and stable measures of weights and
quantities, and 1t requires no argument
to show that without these it would be
impossible TO transact the ordinary
business OF the country Hon. John
G. Carlisle.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19

A noticeable feature of the panic in
the popocratic ranks is the attempt of
the Populists to shift the responsible
ity for the coming defeat from their
shoulders and to charge it to the mis-
management of Senator Jones and 9TH
ers who have had hand in directing
the Bryan campaign.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19
Confiscation of Property.

A farmer who had his crop Of wheat
stored in the granary or a manufacturer
who had his warehouse filled with the
products of. his factory would think it
nm outrage if the government should
insist upon confscating one-half of his
wheat or his goods. What better is it
by the adoption of free silver coinage to
confscate one-half of the wage Of the
laborer or one-half of his accumulated
savings, or one-half 'of the dover OF the
widow, or one-half of the pension ofthe
soldier er?-Philadelphia Record.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19

The Ohio Supreme Court holds the
Dana law, which prohibits the name of
one candidate from appearing on two
or more tickets, to be constitutional
The decision will be we'll received by
everyone in favor of clean, straight
politics. 1t will also be deplored by
the candidate who by jugglery tries to
represent two or more parties.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19

IT is especially desired that the SOL
dier boys turn out Thursday, the ed,
to go up to Canton. 1t is estimated
that about 1900 people will go up to the
Majors home from Washington county
alone.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19
County Ticket.

For Probate Judge,
d. r. ROOD, of Belpres
For Sheriff,
JOHN S. McCALLISTER, Fourth Ward.
Auditor,
W. A. PATTERSON, of Waterford.
For Recorder,
JOHN W. ATHEY, Marietta Towns p.
For Commissioner,
JOHN RANDOLPH, Wesley Township.
For Infirmary Director,
VIM. SCHNAUFFER. Newport Township
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19
Republican State Ticket.

Republican State Ticket
For Secretary of State,
CHARLES KINNEY, of Sctoto Co.
or Judge of the Supreme Court
MARSHALL j. WILLIAMS, OF Fayette 20.
FOR Food and Dairy Commissioner,
JOSEPH E. BLACKBURN, OF Belmont Co.
FOR Member Board of Public Works,
FRANK A. HUFFMAN, OF Van Vert Co.
For Circuit Judge,
HIRAM L. SIBLEY, of Washington Co.
For Common Pleas Judge,
JOSEPH M. WOOD, Of Athens Co.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19

For Pin Worms, Eczema, Hives. in
fact, any Of the various torturing,
itchy diseases of the skin, Doan's Oint-
ment is an instant and positive remedy.
Get 1t from your dealer.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19

Even catarrh, that dread breeder of
consumption, succumbs to the healing
influences of Thomas Electric Oil.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19

If there had been the slightest proba-
bility of Bryan's election the popocrats
would have compelled the withdrawal
of either Watson or Sewall from his
ticket, as no set of men with ordinary
business sense would take the chances
of the complications0in1 in the electoral
college which would follow the elec;
tion of Bryan and the failure Of either
Sewall or Watson to get sufficient
number of votes to elect them to the
Vice Presidency. Knowing that the
whole outfit is doomed to certain de-
feat anyway, the popocrats didn't
bother about the double tail to the
ticket.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1876

For President,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
or the United States.
For Vice-President.
GARRETT A. HOBART,
OF New Jersey.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-06-22

Democrats for the sake Of the party, and
they would cheerfully make It, But if the
delegates from this locality should go to
that convention and vote for the free coin
age of silver by the United States alone
they would be misreprescnting the state
of public opinion here
II find myself spoken of here and there
as a possible candidate not very seriously
or prominently, but sufficiently to attract
attention if / should fail to notice it.
have said that would not be a candidate
1 will add copying the emphatic Ian
guage once used by the late General Sher-
man, / will not run if nominated, nor
serve if elected l am not foolish enough
to suppose that any eastern man could be
nominated by this convention, much less
that 1 could"
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-06-22
Rnse Ran at Frackville.

Several residents of town witnessed a game
of base ball at Fnckyille yesterday between
two teams of Lawrence colliery employe,
known as Sections No, l and 80. The game
was a spirited one and resulted in a victory
for Section No. l by a score Of to l, The
players on the latter team We're Howard
Burchill, c.; Harry Drake, p.; Robert Cation,
h.; Frank Seitznger S.. Thomas Parry,
2b.; Robert Prunin 3b. Clayton Burchill
IT,; William Davis, cf Victor Burchill rf,
The opposing players We're Art Rose, c.'
Anthony Flynn, p; Jack Dillman, ss.i John
Faulter, lh. Frank Mengle, 'b Michael
Haggerty, 3d.; George DillmanN }fi Frank
Dillman, cf,; William Rillman IF.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-06-22
See A. Holderman's display of jewolry. t
BnlkN BrnnChO.

A balky broncho driven by lady from the
valley created considerable amusement by its
antics in the vicinity of Main and Centre
street, on Saturday evening The horse came
up Centre street under its own control, max
ing straightway for Girvin's store. where a
large crate filled with crockery was standing
on the sidewalk. Here the lady turned the
animal which suddenly swung itself around
heading for Goldin's clothing store where it
was caught by passerby, The occupant was
very much frightened.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-06-22
There WAS No Fight.

The scientific contest between John Bon
ner. Of Summit Hill, and "Yok" Hayden,
Of Wilkes Barre, which was to have taken
place at the Mountain Scenery Hotel, near
Hazleton, on Saturday evening, failed to
materialize, There were between two
and three hundred sports present, but their
pleasure was marred by the appearance of
Deputy Sheriff Williams with five assistants,
and who refused to permit the fight to come
Off under any consideration. An effort will
be made to pull the fight ofTin the near future.