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The advocate., 1896-08-26

Senator Thurston says Of Bryan's denial
Of the statement that he has been employed
to make speeches by a silver syndicate:
81 have no hesitation In declaring that l
believe him."
The advocate., 1896-08-26

Sheep-Receipts since Saturday, 74S; shipped
Saturday, Il6. The market was lOGl5c higher
The following are representative sales:
IS lambs.... 67 S4.75 2? lambs .. s. 4.6O
HorSes-Receipts since Saturday, 81 shipped
Saturday, none. There was practically no
trading this morning. The receipts were only
moderate
The advocate., 1896-08-26

Average Value Of Farm Crops, 1892 to 1895.
Average value Of farm crops per
bushel In the years following:
The advocate., 1896-08-26
Chicago Live Stock.

CHICAGO, Aug "a 4-Cattle-Recelpts, 2O,OOO;
market strong for best, others l0c lower; fair
to best beeves, s33lG47o stockers and feed
ers, S2.AO0S 20 mixed COWS and bulls, Sl.256
2S5; Texas, e25O1320
Hogs-Receipts, 5000 market active and )
to lOc lower; light % 2O926O; rough packing,
$3.50 ,27o; mixed and butchers, $500 341:
heavy packing and shipping, 82.8O0325; pigs,
S325936O
Sheep-Receipts, l7,OOO market strong; ua-
tive, e. OOGS50 western, g. 4O033O; lambs, $500
G650
st. Louis Live Stock.
ST Louis, Aug. A.-Cattle-R Receipts, 4,OOO
market slow and lower: native steers, &34OA
44O; Texas steers, 826O03.5O.
Hogs-Receipts, 800 market to 1Oc lower;
light, g. lO024O; mixed, S9.OO0325 heavy, SS %
133O
Sheep-Receipts, 1900; market Sc lower.
Chicago Grain and Provisions.
The advocate., 1896-08-26
JERRY SIMPSON,

s. W. M'ELRoY.
Sept l, Atwood.
The advocate., 1896-08-26
MARKET REPORTS
Kansas CltY LlYe Stock.

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2A-Csttle-R Receipts,
since Saturday, 1910; calves, l,23, shipped
Saturday, 928 cattle, no calves Best native
cattle were steady, others weak to 10 cents
lower Texas cows steady, steers slow and
weak in places. The following are represent
atiVe sales:
The advocate., 1896-08-26

Hogs-Receipts since Saturday, 1928 shipped
Saturday, LIS The market was uneven The
The advocate., 1896-08-26
DATES FOR SPEAKERS.

The following dates for speakers are
announced by the committees having
charge OF the campsign
The advocate., 1896-08-26

EMO estimate made by the Department Of
Agriculture for 1892.
The advocate., 1896-08-26
Wright & Hannah topped the cattle

Wright & Hannah topped the cattle
market on two days last week On
Tuesday they sold for William
Paske Of Moran, Kas., at S4.35, sixty
eight head Of 1908 pound grade Dur.
ham steers which had been fed corn on
grass. On Friday, August 21, they
sold at S4.55-l0 cents higher than any.
thing else that day-twenty.One head
Of grade Durham and Hereford steers
averaging 1913 pounds. These steers
had throe months Of corn on grass,
and were fed and marketed BY ME.
Frank Webb Of Moline, Kas.
The advocate., 1896-08-26
NJ. S. PETERS ( CO.
Live Stock Commission
Merchants,
Rooms 70 and II (nsw wing, Exchange Bldg.
Kansas City Stock Yards.

Anyone feeding or handling stock and
desiring market reports, or desiring in
formation relative to the markets, should
write us.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12
Tile People Versus PiutOcracy.

In the matter of the action of the
People versus Plutocracy, the formal
pleadings of the parties have raised
TIE issue of the standard of monetary
currency. But the verdict in the great
trial now proceeding before the Amer
lean people should be given not only
with strict regard to the evidence pro-
duced, but also with reference to the
character and credibility of the parties
producing it. The Democratic party
has always been the friend of the toll
ers of the Nation and has ever stood
as the champion of equal rights an6
individual liberty. 1t represents the
best interests of all the people. And
yet it is claimed that they are now en-
deavoring to accomplish the ruin OF
the country, to depress labor. bring
about panic, shocking credit and par
alyzlng every industry. Can it be pos
sible, is it reasonable to believe that
the Democratic party is about to com
NIT hari-kari? That it's special objec
is to render the people miserable and
to spread universal ruin?
The Democracy which we love and
Tor which we stand has ever been the
firm and faithful friend OF the poor
and weak as against the rich and
strong. The Republican party is at,
tempting to pose as the guardian ol
the people, who will hardly be de.
ceived by the cheap, false halo with
which it seeks to decorate itself. That
party comes into court with unclean
hands, stained by the crime of d
stolen Presidency in 1876. 1t did not
hesitate the most daring and despic.
able treason by assassinating the in.
stitution under which We live, and
undermining the best hope of every
lover of the human race-government
OF the people, for the people, by the
people.
The counting out of that matchless
statesman and Democrat, Samuel j.
Tilden, from the Presidency, should
never be condoned or forgotten and
the professions of patriotism coming
from the party that perpetrated that
wrong bears upon it the stamp of
fraud and insincerity.
If the country needs to be saved,
let it be saved from the clutches of
party guilty of the foulest crime in
American history--the disgraeeful
robbery of the Presidency in 1876
New Yesk Snhnrhan-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12
Moneys Narrow Basis.

The only money in the country is
the gold estimated at between $780,
900, 900 and $500, 600, 900, but in fact
probably much less. All other forms
Of currency are in fAct or in practice,
promises TO pay money. The silver
movement has for its purpose au in.
crease of the amount OF actual money,
and nothing else.
Putting the highest estimate on the
amount of gold in the country, there
would then be less than SO per capita
on which to carry on the business. 1t
is customary to use all tho currency
as basis in estimating the per capita
circulation. Such course is no more
justifiable than it would be to include
all bank checks, promissory notes and
drafts as part of the circulation.
They, like greenbacks, National bank
notes and Treasury certificates, arc
mere promises to pay money, which
is gold, and in which all other medi-
inns of exchange must be finally re-
deemed.
Silver men think the monetary basis
is too narrow for the superstructure.
Topeka journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12
WLabOr CruciileI. y

The London Times has the follow
ing, which laboring men, producers,
and business men should read care.
fully:
"If the single gold standard can be
forced upon South America and Asia,
as it has been since 1873 forced on
North America and Europe, gold mu st
inevitably appreciate to at least four
times its present absurd value, or to
put it otherwise, commodities must
decline to one.fourth of the pres ent
prico and labor oil the world over, be
crucifed as it was never crucified be-
fore-in days of mediaeval serfdom
or even chattel slavery. Such is the
contest. If the money lords can force
monometallism upon the whole world,
they will succeed in establishing the
most gigantic moneyed aristocracy
among the rich, and the worst system
of peonage serfdom among the masses
that has ever cursed the hapless sons
of men,"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

The action OF the German Govern
ment in passing a law by which the
Government is to exercise control
over all stock exchanges will doubt.
less result in similar attempt in the
United States, predicts the New York
Commercial Advertiser. 1t is the
purpose of the German Government
to exercise severe control over the
stock exchange transactions and the
issue of stocks and bonds by new com.
panies, with view to lessening spec.
ulation and protecting the public
from fraudulent or uncertain financial
and commercial enterprises. A com
prehensive law to this end has lust
been adopted by the Reichstag by an
overwhelming majority. 1t is likely
to cause a revolution in the present
stock exchange methods. In the first
place, it Is intended to discourage
stock sreculating by forbidding GER
tain borsen-termip- handel Exchange
time contracts) for grain, as well as
stocks and bonds The Government
will assume certain control over the
stock exchange business, with special
reference to listing on the stock ex-
change of new issues of stocks and
bonds or paper of new companies. 1t
will endeavor to maintain less fluctu
ating and, as the agrarians hope,
higher prices for grain and mill pro
ducts by forbidding all time delivery
contracts being made on change for
such grain and products.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

The accident insurance business in
the United States has been of rapid
growth. 1t is hardly more than twen-
ty years ago that it was undertaken
by a single company as an expert
ment. but there are now ten large
stock companies and many more mu-
tusl or assessment companies in the
field. Last year they received nearly
$1,000, 900 in premiums, and paid out
about S3,n00,00 in losses. In 1895
ten of the leading mutual companies
carried 1901, ,539, 750 of risks, received
1888, 1897 in premiums, and paid out
BAL, 172 in losses; the loss ratio was
f7.2 per cent. In the same time the
ten stock companies carried 81, ,2G1, =
274,617 in risks, collected s., 1852, 623
in premiums. and paid 50, 515, $50 in
losses; their loss ratio was 43.7 per
cent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

In San Francisco the telephone com.
pany is putting in what it calls kitchen
telephones at fifty cents month. For
this sum the subscriber may call up
and talk to one other subscriber as
often as he chooses. But he has no
bell by which the other subscriber
may call him up. The kitchen tele-
phone is connected usually with the
grocery. For fifty cents more the sub.
scriber may have n telephone connec.
tion with his doctor, or any other per
SOD. He may call up any subscriber
to the general service of the city for
I've cents. The company does not say
that this service can be given with
profit at the rate named it expects to
recoup by getting the people into the
habit of using telephones, knowing
that the telephone habit is hard one
to break.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

In 1873, in Japan, al ounce OF gold
bought 49, ounces of silver. In 1898
half an ounce of gold buys 49, ounces
OF silver. Prices in gold standard
countries are calculated i'll gold value.
ThcGapanese manufacturer can, there
fore, make goods in that country, send
them to the United States, sell them
for half the gold price of 1873, get
with that gold as much silver as he
did in 1873, take that silver to Japan
aud with it purchase as much OF
everything as he ever did aud pay US
much debts and taxes rs he ever did.
As gold rises still higher in value,
compared with silver, the Japanese
3an afford to make still lower and low
er gold prices for his goods, and as
the same goods must sell for the same
price IN the same market the Ameri-
can manufacturer must come down in
his price, although his debts and taxes
do not come down. This is the secret
of the recent importations Of Japanese
goods at prices that have alarmed our
manufacturers. -CUmberland (Nl.)
Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12
McKinley's False Statements.

"Work and wages have been cut in
two," said Mr.. Mckinley to the West
Virginia editors. Isn't it dangerous
tc make wild and self-evidently false
statements such US this? Do they not
tend to cause people TO suspect that
the man who utters them is either u
foolish fellow who never knows what
he is talking about, or else person
who is reckless with the truth? The
truth never needs the crutches of ex-
aggeration, and their use is a confess
sion that the truth Is not there. New
York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

1t is not generally known, except
by certain persons whose Office it is to
learn of such matters, that the i'm.
mense sum OF S9,5O0, 900 is annually
expended in charity in the city of New
York. That, at least, is the approx
mate amount, estimated us closely as
circumstances admit of on the part of
experts. There are about 5000 fam
lilies ,1ho are listed "givers" to char
itY.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

Lawn tennis has fallen into state
OF almost hopeless desuetude in this
country, and even in England, its
home, it has been eclipsed by the
more fascinating sports of bicycling
and golf.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

An optimistic livery stable keeper
says that the use of the bicycle will
die ont. Hope, springing eternal in
the human breast, and, in the estima.
ton of the San Francisco Examiner,
has seldom given more sprightly ex-
hibition than this.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

Any Nation which is the equal OF
England can do for silver what Eng.
land has done for gold. The United
States can do it, and the duty rests
with her. The Government should
make the citizens dollar worth com.
mercially what it says it is worth. -
Topeka (Kan.) Journal,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12
Farmers and the Nail Trust.

Each keg Of nails used by the farm.
ers this year will cost more than twice
as much as Inst year. The highly pro.
tected nail trust will make fortunes
for the few firms which control the
nail industry. How will that help the
farmers?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

A German physician says that Stan.
ley owes the fact that he alone of
those who made up his party has so
long survived the most dangerous of
his African trips to his having sub
mitted five times to TRANSMISSION of
African blood into his veins, which is
believed in Africa to be q great aid to
acclimatization.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

In the Nuremberg Chess Tourna-
ment, the young German, DR.. Laskar.
fairly earned the honor of being the
greatest living player of the royal
game.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

Wiggles-"There's one good thing
about Hicks. He is always willing to
admit it when he is in the wrong"
Waggles-'I don't think it is good
thing. 1t doesn't seem to trouble him
a bit, willie Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12
Statisticians estimate that the
worlds stock Of silver coin amounts to
$4,000, 900, 900.

The Vermont State prison is self
sustaining institution. "Every State
prison should be, maintains the New
port (R. I.) Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

A good many gold newspapers seem
to think they can fool their readers
with So cents facts.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

The term Sound money" is tho
most dangerous and wicked deception
that the prolific brain of spectators
ever promulgated.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

America is about old enough and
big enough and strong enough to
stand alone.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

If praying were only done by those
who could look into heaven like Ste.
phen. the millennium would never come,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

The indictment brought against Mr..
Bryan is that he does not consider a
millionaire any better than any other
American citizen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

Peasant spoke to our herb dc ctor
and he advised me that should
Doctor Qnterrupting)-Oh! he gave you
some ldiotic advice, | don't doubt.
Peasant-He advised me to see you.-
Humoristische Blaetter.
Character building is bigger work
than building railroads,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12
SILVER NUGGETS.

There is no yellow streak in Mr..
Bryan's white metal speeches.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

Bryan's white metal speeches.
America is about old enough and
big enough and strong enough to
stand alone.
A good many gold newspapers seem
to think they can fool their readers
with 53 3cents facts.
The term Sound money" is tho
most dangerous and wicked deception
that the prolific brain of spectators
ever promulgated.
The indictment brought against Mr..
Bryan is that he does not consider q
millionaire any better than any other
American citizen.
II, MS the goldbugs say, the fight for
sound money is in the interest of tho
wage workers when were their employ
ers seized with this sudden desire to
sacrifice another slice of their profits
to their employees?
Bryan is in favor of coming silver
without the consent of England. Nc
Kinley will coin silver if England will
allow it. Which is tho American
patriot? Work for America and let
England attend to her own business.
Abundant currency made up OF gold,
silver and good paper, means activity
in every department of trade and
manufactures, employment for ali,
living wages for the artisan, and good
prices for the farmer.
Let all friends of bimetallism call
halt to internecine strife and stand
shoulder to shoulder against the com.
mon foe that threatens destruction to
American liberty, American pros.
perity, American institutions.
Senator John Sherman SAYS that the
free coinage of silver would raise
prices of farm products, but what good
would the money do when it would
require SO much more of it to pur.
chase anything? Why it would do
much good every way, if there was
moro to pay to buy something there
would be more TO pay it with and as
SO many are in debt it would be their
very salvation.
If free coinage would enable the
savings bank to pay Off their 1885,
600, 600 OF deposits III 53.cent dollars
and thereby make profit of $685.
$50, 900, why is it that the heads OF
those banks, who are in the business
to make money, are SO bitterly op.
posed to free coinage? Don't they
want to make ali that profit?
w. j. Bryan stands for this princi-
pie: America first, the world after.
wards. VIM. Mckinley stands for u
principle that is Just the opposite. It
is this: England's grip on this coun.
try, even though obtained by unfail
and secret means, must be perpetua,
ted if 1t takes the last shingle off the
roof of your house.
Every attempt to restore silver,
every appeal pointing out the awful
effects which have followed its de-
monetization, has been met and
fought back. The old cry has been
time and time again raised: ''If you
try it, all the gold will drift away if
you try it, there will be panic"
which is precisely as though soma
people had man in an air chamber,
and had exhausted nearly all the air
and stood with one hand hold of the
pump handle, saying to him: "If you
dare to kick, we will give you two or
three strokes and take away what air
you have"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

II, as the goldbugs say, the fight for
sound money is in the interest of the
wage workers when were THAR employ
ers seized with this sudden desire to
sacrifice another slice of their profits
to their employees?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

W. j. Bryan stands for this princi-
pie: America first, the world after
wards. VIM. Mckinley stands for a
principle that is Just the opposite. 1t
is this: England's grip on this coun.
try, even though obtained by unfair
and secret means, must be perpetua'
ted if 1t takes the last shingle off the
roof of your house.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

If free coinage would enable the
savings bank to pay OFF their 81, $780,
600, 600 OF deposits III 53.cent dollars
and thereby make profit of $634, :
$50, 900, why is it that the heads OF
those banks, who are in the business
to make money, are SO bitterly op.
posed to free coinage? Don't they
want to make ali that profit?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12

Let all friends of bimetallism call @
halt to internecine strife and stand
shoulder to shoulder against the com
mon foe that threatens destruction tc
American liberty, American pros
perity, American institutions.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10

say in government will have to follow
The terrible burden of waste and OPP
preston in the great military arma-
ments of Europe will be lifted The
era Of wan is nearing its close. The
era of peace, of tho brotherhood OF
man. the parliament of nations, OF
which Tennyson sang, will have It's
definite advent within the time OF
many OF VIZ now living. And the great
est single influence contributing to
this result of immeasureable bete-
ficence, will be seen to have been Cleve-
lands message, appealing as it did to
the conscience of Englishmen.
Call it luck if you will. Complain OF
his phraseology if you please. But the
fact remains that just slch a message
was tho way and the only way to
bring the matter to such focus as
would have this result.
1t is another of the instances where
Grover Cleveland has been one of the
most useful men to his times that the
world ever saw, because, as one OF his
letractors once said of him, lie
Knows just enough to do right and
hat is all he does know
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10

Mayor Van Patten Of Burlington has
cen appealed to to close the saloons
I the city on Sunday. and he refuses
D act It vas represented to him that
tides ID decentralization, especially
Esnong young men and boys, was be-
pg wrought by the Sunday traffic,
distances were cited where boys. sup
psed by their mothers to be at Sun
by school, were frcquenting these
aces and the houses of i'll fame
here liquor is universally sold, and he
as told that more people could be
sunted as entering places on Sunday
here liquor is sold than entered the
&urches; and that the states officers
I'D fatty refused to move in the
after only on individual warrants
'aced in their hands. But the Mayor
fused to act, saying Il decline to
It myself in the position of the st.
sbans officials, who virtually say
bu may sell six days but you must
L sell on Sunday" The Mayor as
officer of the law was sensible so
4 but no one else will move honestly |
q energotically for the enforcement |
1.-THE law. either on the six or the
zenith day, and the net result is a
s,meful and wholesale violation.
Id yet the esteemed Free Press, with
4 this under its eyes. continues to
ach about the beauty and the sue
s of prohibition.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10

\ contemporary points to the fact
that 2l0 persons appeared in the Bos
ton courts the morning after Christ
mas on charges of drunkenness. as
proof that license laws bear worse
fruits than prohibitory ones. Boston
is a city of about half million popu-
lation and the center Of more than q
million people. Compare the showing,
according to population, with that in
the half dozen leading towns in Yer
mont on the same day teven Brattle
boro had two intoxication arrests) and
1t is a much better one according TO
population than We can make under
prohibition. So if the figures prove
anything at all, they prove Just the
opposite of what the cotemporary i'm.
AGNES. The liquor problem is ever
difficult one to deal with, and entirely
results will not be reached
under any system. What the opponents
Of the Vermont law contend is that.
considering all the avenues of democrat
iZation in which it works. il has the
worst results of any. The advocates of
it generally begin by claiming that
pretty nearly ideal results come from
it, and when defeated on that ground. |
they think they prove their case by |
showing that the results Of other sys-
ems are not ideal.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10

Serious news comes from Venezuela
TO the effect that England is making
hostile movements, with the purpose
as il is feared there. OF provoking
collisions such as will afford an ex-
cuse for sticking to tine refusal to
arbit,ate \ British armed force num-
bering several hundred is reported to
have appeared at the extreme limit Of
the British claim. II venezuela
should send an armed force to the
frontier, fighting would be very diff
cult to avoid. To add To the compli
cations the revolutionary movement in
Venezuela has assumed such proper
tions as to lead to large number Of
arrests, over 90. and 10 an appeal by
the president for authority to execute
the prisoners for treason. The belief is
general in o'ticiai cIrcics al Caracas
that British gold is instigatin@ the
-evoluitonists.