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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-11

There Is no change Of cars OF any class
between New York and Chicago via the
West Shore and Nickel Plate Roads. ~
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
WESTERN MORTGAGES.
The East Not Alone Affected by the Seal
ing of Debts Proposed.

The East Not Alone Affected by the Seal
ing of Debts Proposed.
The scaling down of debts by silver
imitation would not affect the east alone,
though that portion of the country
would suffer the most seriously. 1t is
impossible to ascertain the residence of
all mortgage holders, but the census
bureau attempted TO do so in 100 repre-
sentative counties scattered throughout
the country. In the western and south
ern counties embraced in the inquiry
as rule less than half Of the mort
cages were made to residents. In Cali
fornia, however, nearly all the mort
gage debt was held by Californians, SC
that this state at least has an identity
of interest with the east as to this mat
ter. In Indiana, Kentucky. Louisiana,
Michigan and Tennessee the percentage
of local mortgage holders is rather high.
The census bureau reports that the states
conspicuous for their own supply of
mortgage loans are California, Indiana,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New
Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Kentucky. The strength of the
Populistic free silver coinage propa-
ganda is much stronger in the communi-
ties in which there is a comparatively
small number of resident mortgage
holders than in those where such loans
are held chiefly by residents. .-Phila.
delphia Ledger.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
Why Did He Change?

In 1893 w. j. Bryan was editor of the
Omaha World Herald, and on the 31st
of July of that year, announced editor
tally his views on the silver question.
He advocated: D The repeal of the
silver purchasing clause of the Sherman
act. (2) Providing for the free coinage
of silver ''on such a standard as will
put about 100 cents of silver in each
dollar, taking the average value for
the last six months" He declared
there ought to be no question ABOUT
the first, and that the second was
''honest and safe bimetalism on the
ratio of 1 to 25," and added, "No peo-
pie except t. greedy owners of silver
mines, anxious to make inordinate
profits, are interested in coinage at the
ratio of / to &c." There was a good
deal of sound sense in the views he
advocated t en-. But why has he
changed his views SO radically?
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

UNEMPLOYED LABORA RESULT
OF THE WILSON TARIFF.
statistics from Detroit Manufactories-
Free Lands to the Poor a Menace to
Farmers Protection and Reciprocity
the Remedy.

We have already made some refer
ence to the losses which the Wilson
tariff act brought to the farmers OF
Michigan by its depressing effect upon
other industries, notably upon the lum-
Der and mining interests.
Statistics recently gathered in De-
tgojt point to another class of indus
tries that have suffered in the same
way. The following table shows the
number of hands employed in the va
rious classes of manufactures Nov. /,
1892, when the Mckinley tariff was in
force, and we were at the height of our
prosperity, and Sept. 10, 1895, when
the Wilson tariff had, for two years,
exerted its blighting influence, and the
agitation for free coinage was exercis-
ing its disturbing effects upon all kinds
of business. Under miscellaneous"
are grouped the manufactures about
Milwaukee Junction not included in
the other classes
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
Points Ahout Prices.

In reference to the claim that the
demonstration CT silver in 1873 was
tho Gauge of an immediate and contin-
ued fall of prices, Carl Schurz, in his
recent Chicago speech, gave the follow
ing significant facts: "The act of 1873
in question became law on the 10th
of February. What was the effect?
Wheat, rye, oats and corn rose above
the price of 1872, while cotton declined.
In 1874 wheat dropped little; corn
made jump upward; cotton declined:
oats and rye rose. In 1875 there was
rise in wheat and a decline in corn,
oats, rye and cotton. In 1877 there
was another rise in wheat, carrying
the price above that of 1870 and up to
that of 1871, years preceding the act of
1878. Evidently, so far the 2O0-cent
dollar had not made its mark at all.
In 1879 specie payments were resumed.
Metallic money circulated again. And,
more than that, the cry about the
crime of 1879 resounded in congress
and in the country. Then at last the
2O0-cent dollar had its opportunity.
Prices could no longer plead ignorance.
What happened? In 1880 wheat rose
above the price of 1879, likewise corn,
cotton and oats. In 1881 wheat rose
again, also corn, oats and cotton. In
1882 wheat and cotton declined, while
corn and oats rose"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
WHO Is TO BLAMEf
The Free Silver Wolf Says That ths Sound
Money Lamb Is Disturbing Business.

The Free Silver Wolf Says That tbs Sound
Money Lamb Is Disturbing Business.
The wolf in the fable blamed the
lamb for stirring up the bed Of the
stream and making the water muddy.
But" said the lamb, "the water runs
from you toward me. could not have
disturbed your drinking" "Oh, well, u
the wolf rejoined, eff you did not, your
grandfather did," And he straightway
dined on young mutton.
The silverite wolves who are bowling
calamity and threatening to overthrow
our sound financial system pretend to
find an excuse for their 16 to 1 schemes
in the unsettled condition of business.
Because loans are being called in and
capital is timi0y waiting the result of
the elections the advocates of free COIN
age say, in the words of their pIesiden-
tial candidate, 'You are interfering
with business. " All unfavorable indica-
tions in trade and industry they loudly
ascribe to the gold standard, and the
manufacturers who are forced to limit
their output by reason of the refusal of
merchants to buy while there is so much
uncertainty about prices are accused of
being goldbugs who are purposely max.
ing hard times
1t should be easy for all intelligent
voters to see through the hypocrisy Of
the silverite claims. Nothing can be
more certain than that instead of being
due to the gold standard any financial
stringency which may now exist is al
most entirely caused by the agitation
for debased currency. With large
number of Office seeking politicians 60
ing up and down the country shouting
for cheap dollars, and promising to cut
the measure Of values in two if they
gain control of the government, how
can business be good? A tight money
market simply means that the owners
of capital are unwilling to make loans.
Does any reasonable man expect that
the threat of enabling borrowers to pay
their debts in 80 cent dollars is going
to encourage investors to part with their
capital? On the contrary, is it not self
evident that the clamor fer O debt re-
pudiation policy is the real source of
business depression?
So long as there remains any doubt
as to the future financial basis of our
great industrial and mercantile opera
tions so long will there be anxiety and
fear in the commercial world. Distrust
will continue to breed failures; capital
will be scarce and interest high; debts
will be hard to collect, and investors
will hesitate to engage in productive in
dustries. This condition of affairs can
only be remedied, in so far as our money
standard is concerned, by an emphatic
declaration at the polls against free sill.
yer and all other cheap money fallacies.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

ger re employment AFTER ne was dis
charged. If that means anything in the
world to a sane man, it means that if
the laborer is willing to have his wages
cut down he will get more work.
If it were true that reduction in the
rate of wages would increase the chance
of employment, would not blame Mr..
Bryan for telling the truth, because,
however unpalatable the truth may be,
conceive it the duty of any man who
attempts to address his fellow citizens
never to shrink from statement Of the
whole truth, whatever may be the con-
sequences to himself. But, as a matter
Of fact, diminution in the rate of wages
does not increase the scope of employ.
ment
There cannot be an abundant product
unless labor is extensively employed.
You cannot have high wages unless
there is an extensive production in ev-
cry department Of industry, and that is
why l claim that wages are the one
sole test Of a cosntry's condition-that
high wages mean abundant protection,
and abundance necessarily means pros
perity. Mr.. Bryan, on the other hand,
would have you believe that prosperity
is advanced by cheapening the rate of
wages, but the fall in the rate of wages
always comes from narrow rroduc-
ton. and narrow production means
there is little demand for labor in the
market. When, after the panic Of 1878,
the price Of labor fell to 80 cents day,
it was harder to obtain work than when
the rate of labor was 90, and the differ
ence between tho Populist, who seeks
to cut down the rate of wages, and the
Democrat, who seeks to protect it, is
that the Democrat believes that high
wages and prosperity are synonymous,
and the Populist wants to cut the rate
of wages in order that he may tempt
the farmer to make war upon his own
workingmen.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

Mr.. G. G. Conn, Democratic ex-con-
gresham from Indiana, very properly
characterized the Chicago convention
as "a chaotic mass of calamitized dele
gates" and makes the following point
in reference to the claim that free sill
YER at 16 to 1 is the money of the con-
stitution: "The trainers of the consti-
tuition might as well have stipulated
that we should always sleep on feath-
srs or wear powdered wigs with pig
tail queues. Our money is always the
Kind specified by the constitution, and
It's gold, silver and paper dollars are as
good as gold wherever they circulate.
It has long since been demonstrated
impossible t. fix by legislation the
price of any marketable commodity
with an unknown and unlimited pro-
luction, and until this government can
restrict the output of both gold
and silver to certain proportionate
Quantities, in order to regulate their
commercial value, there is no way to
establish sta BILE parity between these
metals of statute"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

Some of the severest structures upon
the Chicago convention and candidates
have come from consistent Democrats
of the old school, and this, from Senator
Villas speech at the Wisconsin Demo
cratic state convention, is one of them:
'If the people of the United States be
capable of accepting their financial
teaching fr"-r men who never had finan-
cial training Or experience, defying the
accumulated wisdom of all scientific
study and practical skill, if the fiscal
policy of 7O,OOO,OO0 nation is to be
taught from travelling carts by noisy
mountebacks as quack nostrums are
vended to the gullible, if men who
were never able to own q boat on an
interior pond of business shall set the
sails and take the helm of the ship of
state on the ocean currents of the
great worlds finance, who can fix the
limit to our capability for insanity,
who put a hook in the mouth of this
leviathan of folly?"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

Democratic and assistant Dem ocratic
papers are publishing the following
table to show that the Wilson tariff act
is better revenue producer than the
Mckinley act.
UNDER THE MKINLEY ACT.
Customs. All sources.
l2 months ending
Sept. 80, 1891 = sl9e, ,357s9 1871 1892 ,53es 81
IL months ending
Sept 30. 1897. 1888, s59.i9 sei,si7 SOL 2
IL months ending
Sept 80, 1893. " ls9,ls2,9o5.4e 1865, 5s4, eOo.55
ii months ending
Aug 81, 1884,. 1850 9Sa7 2s2, O7s, 3is. 81
UNDER THE WILSON ACT
IL months ending
Aug, 81, 1890. S6l POI 1895 1905, 0j1 OBJ 16
IL months ending
Aug 81, 1925. l54,2ls,sia 3al,72e,sl9.s 81
The figures they point to especially
are those for the ii months ending Aug.
81, 1894, and those for the IL months
ending Aug. 81, 1896. They ignore
one very important fact. During more
than seven months of the year 1894 the
Wilson tariff bill was under discussion,
with the certainty that it would pass,
in somef form that would give a re-
duction of duties. 1t passed it's final
stage about the first of August, and
became a law without the Presidents
signature Aug. 10, though not taking
effect till Sept 1.
During this whole period of discus
sion 1t was considered certain that
duties would be materially reduced
and importations were naturally kept
down to the actual requirements of cur
rent trade. Stocks were reduced to
the lowest possible point, and goods
were held back to await the operation
of the new law
A more just comparison would be to
take the second full year of each tariff,
after business had had time, in each
case, to adjust itself to new schedules.
These show the following:
Customs duties for second full wear
of the Mckinley tariff, ending Septem-
Der 80, 1s02-S1s5, 1913, s59.19.
Duties for second full year of the
Wi]bon tariff, ending August 81, 1906
S1A, 21s, s139f.
Difference in favor Nc Kinley tariff
S31, 500, 045.15.
This fact also remains true that dur
ing every year of the Harrison admin
istration, including the period when
the Mckinley act was in force, receipts
exceeded expenditures and the public
debt was reduced; and during every
year of the present Democratic admin
istration, including the period covered
by the Wilson act, expenditures have
exceeded receipts and the public debt
las been increased.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
eouRke COCHRAN ON BRYAN.
The Eloquent Ex Congressman Exposes the
Free Silver Fraud on Worklngmen.

The Eloquent Ex-Congressman Exposes the
Free Silver Fraud on Worklngmen.
In his great speech in Madison Square
Garden, New York city, ex- Congress.
man Bourke Cochran said in reply to
Presidential Candidate Bryan:
If everything in this world or in this
country, including labor, be increased
in value tomorrow in like proportion
not one of us would be affected at all
If that was Mr.. Bryan's scheme, he
would never have Populist nomination
to give him Importance in the eyes of
this community. If that were all that
he meant, he would not be supporting
it, and would not be taking the trou.
BILE to oppose it. If everything in the
world be increased 10 per cont in value
why, we would pay 10 per cent in addi-
tion for what we would buy and get 10
per cent more for what we would SELL
What, then, is it? 1t is an increase in
the price of commodities and allowing
labor to shift for itself. If the price Of
commodities be increased and the price
of labor be left stationary that means a
cutting down of the rate of wages.
If, instead of a dollar which consists of
a given quantity of gold equal to hun
dred cents anywhere in the world, with
the purchasing power of hundred
cents, the laborer is to be paid III dol
lars worth 90 cents each, he can only
buy half as much with days wages as
he buys now. If the value of this Pepu-
list scheme, then, is to be tested, let the
laboring men Of this country ask Mr..
Bryan and his Populist friends simple,
common, everyday question, "Where
do come in?''
Mr.. Bryan himself has a glimmering
idea of where the laborer will come in,
or, rather, of where he will go out.
There is one paragraph in his speech
which-whether it was the result of an
unconscious stumbling into candor or
whether it was a contribution made in
the stress of logical discussion am ut
terly unable to say-that throws flood
of light upon the whole purpose underly-
ing this Populist agitation. Wage earn
ers, Mr.. Bryan says, know that while a
gold standard raises the purchasing
power of the dollar it also makes it
more difficult to obtain possession of the
dollar. They know that employment is
less permanent, loss of work more prob
able and unemployment less certain.
If that means anything, it means
that cheap dollar world give him
more employment, more frequent en-
ployment, more work and chance to
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
How to Mako n Summer Dessert

A novel and delicious dessert is called
stone cream. To make it dissolve half
an ounce Of gelatin in little water and
O pint Of sweetened milk in which
lemon peel has been boiled. AS soon as
it is cold pour over layer Of jam in a
deep glass dish. When the mixture sets,
stick strips of blanched almonds into
the cream, place on ice and serve.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

From 1888 to 1889 the trade of the 10
old states was perfectly free to the
world The result was that Great
Britain filed every section of our
country with her manufactures Of
wool, cotton, leather, linen, iron, glass,
md all other articles used here, and in
four years she swept from the country
every dollar and every piece of gold.-
Bolles' Financial History of the United
States
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
"Cheap."

Judging by the haste with which
New York retailers are tumbling over
each other to mark down the prices OF
clothing, the "cheap" goods of the free
traders have made "cheap" men OF rs.
According to all reports, there is little
demand for the "cheap" goods at any
price. People find it mighty hard to ee.
food, while even "cheap" clothing is q
luxury.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
The Free Trade Club.

The remarkable dilatoriness with
which Democratic clubs are being form
ed throughout the country suggests the
use Of this emblem as being fit and ap-
propriate, with which our free trade
tariff reform. foreign industry. friends
should be dubbed into line by The regu-
lar Democrats who led their party into
action mt Chicago. If there are deserters
from the ranks, club them into line.
The free traders here seem to be wilter-
ing rs badly as the British Cobdenites.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

1t is not the demonstration of silver
hat has hurt the farmer, but the de.
nonetization of his markets. The re-
peal of the Mckinley law carried with
t the repeal of the reciprocity treaties.
In consequence the export of our agri-
cultural products fell off for the year
1895, as compared with tho year 1894,
% the amount of more than S25, 900, 900.
-Ex-Gov. Foraker, of Ohio.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
SCl'Ofula

Is deep-seated blood disease which
all the mineral mixtures in the world
cannot cure. SIS. Guaranteed purely
vegetable } is a real blood remedy for
blood diseases and has no equal.
Mrs. Y. T. Buck, of Delaney, Ark, had
Scrofula for twenty-five years and most
of the time was under the care of the
doctors who could not relieve her. A
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02


Here is falling off of Z, $40 employees
in the industries mentioned: In all
the manufactures of the city in 1892
there were nearly $4,000 persons en-
ployed. The same proportion of reduc-
ton in force would probably not hold
in all the others as in some of those
mentioned above, but it is safe to say
that there are from IL, 900 to Is, ZOO less
persons employed in the manufactures
OF all classes in Detroit now than there
were in 1892. Similar results, on a
smaller scale, can be seen in every
manufacturing city in the state.
What does this mean to the farmer
and retail merchant?
1t means in every case smaller pur-
chasing power.
1t means that in many cases people
out of employment have moved to the
country and have themselves become
producers instead of consumers of farm
and garden products.
1t means that large number of 9TH
ers who remain in the city have become
producers on their own lots, or on land
donated to them.
Much has been said about the dona-
ton of land for the poor people of De-
troit to cultivate in small tracts, and
many hundred such tracts have been
set apart during each of the last three
summers. This was movement
that grew, almost of necessity,
out of the melancholy industrial
conditions existing in the winter
and spring of 1894. But every Pin
gree potato patch was not only sig
nal of distress from a wage Garner, but
it was sign that the wage Garner and
his family had curtailed their buying
to the lowest possible limits, and every
farmer and market gardener in Wayne
and the four contiguous counties felt
the effect in contracted market or in
diminished prices.
Itwould be a good thing for the farm
ers and merchants if every man
who is now working mendicant
potato patch was at work in the
factory, earning good wages, and buy
ing his supplies at the corner grocery.
/, Republican success, sound money,
protection and reciprocity will open
the way to that coveted result
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
Against American Machinery.

Free machinery for manufacturing
all things" is the idea of the Demo-
cratic candidate for president. But how
do the manufacturers of machinery and
the wage carners whom they employ,
feel upon the subject?
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

specialist said he
could cure her, but
he filled her with
arsenic and potash
which almost ruined
her constitution. She
then took nearly
every so-called blood
medicine and drank
them by the wholesale,
but they did not reach
|, her trouble. Some
one advised her to try
G SIS and she verv
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

nR. ANNIs 5. II. COOLING. homeopathic
- Residence and office, Williams ST., (Com
stock Block, Owosso, Mich. Office hours-2 to
p m and TO 8 p. m. Calls promptly respond
ed to. Special attention given to Obstetrics
ana Diseases OF Women and Children
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

soon found that she had real blood
remedy at last. She says: "After tax
ing one dozen bottles of SIS. am
perfectly we'll, my skin is clear
and healthy and would not be in
my former condition for two thousand
dollars. Instead ofdrying upthe poison
In my system, like the potash and
arsenic, SIS. drove the disease out
through the skin, and was perma-
nent1v rid of IL -
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
More About the Wooden Mills.

Last spring the New York Press
made inquiries among New England
wooden mills, with the idea of showing
their condition as compared with the
year previous. Returns from 80 mills
were received, and the following is the
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02

Things done simply from sense Of
iuty are seldom done well.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
WELL. DRILLING!

No water. no pay. TwOinch black pipe,
so cents per foot; galvanized pipe 55 cents.
Experienced workmen. Satisfaction guar
anteed. Address WATSON BROS, 400
f. Mason ST, Owosso. or Chesaning. Mich.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
The Two Tariffs.

Democratic and assistant Dem ocratic
papers are publishing the following
table to show that the Wilson tariff act
is a better revenue producer than the
Mckinley act