davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16

bushel, which was equal to the price of
one ounce of silver. From 1876 to 1880,
while silver was going down, the aver
age price of wheat at Bombay rose to
$1.49 per bushel. Between 1881 and
1885 the average price of wheat at Bonn
bay was 81. 10 per bushel, and from 1886
to 1890 $1.O1 per bushel, although silver
had been tending upward. From 1891
to 1895 the average price of wheat at
Bombay was 95 cents per bushel. Had
wheat followed the price of silver it should
have beer only 6S cents per bushei.
Cotton exports from India to Europe
have been equally at variance with
the theories advanced by Mr.. Bryan.
In 1874 India exported 1,236,SS bales
and in 1875 1,241,526 bales. During
the five years following its cotton ex-
port was below 100000 bales In
1879 it was only GAL ,45S bales. During
the FIVE years ending with 1895 the cot
ton export from India has been steadily
decreasing. In 1891 it was 1,O2S, All
bales: in 1892. $4,000 bales: in 1893.
S57, TIL bales: in 1894, 797, ,O7O bales; in
1895, 625,000 bales. In contrast with
this the United States exports Of cotton
have been steadily increasing. In 1890
they amounted to 5,020.913 bales; in
1891, $780, ITO bales: in 1892. 5,S91 All
bales; in 1898. 4,431 .220 bales: in 1894,
5,397, 500 bales; in 1895. 6.965,35S bales
Thus it will be seen that the India
bugbear has no foundation. but has
been conjured up for political purposes
by Bryan, Harvey and all the apostles
oF Silver.-Omaha Bee.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16

well as from the low-paid labor countries
of Europe.
The farming industry is unquestiona.
bly, in depressed condition today, and
the cause is not far to seek. Look at
the hundreds of silent factories with
their smokeless chimneys, all over the
country, from Nebraska to Maine, and
form, if you can, an estimate of the
immense multitude of people formerly
employed in these esta blishments, who
are now eking out a poor living as best
they can in other vocations, many Of
them, no doubt, in farming and garden
Ing, where they have'become competitors
with the men who formerly supplied
them with food. If the free-trade move
ment led by Mr.. Bryan goes on to fts
natural conclusion, whole lines of In
dustry which have survived the Wilson
bill will be ruined and hundreds of thor
sands of employees will be thrown out
of work.
The conclusion ought to be Iiain
to every thoughtful man engaged iii ag-
ricultural pursuits. We cannot afford to
reduce our wage rates to those of for
eign countries. We must make for our.
selves all articles needed for our ordi-
nary, everyday uses. importing cnly
such luXuries as foreign countries have
special facilities for producing. Tariff
for revenue only means the ruin of the
farmer, and tariff for protection meana
well-employed town and city popula-
ton. and good home markets for every.
thing the farmer has to sell.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

"I would willingly defend free trade
with my life," said Mr.. Bryan in his first
speech in Congress. and as he is now
defending free silver with his tongue
only it is easy to see to which policy he
is most devoted
Democratic orators and organs may
evade the tariff, but the workingmen Of
the country cannot, for to them it pre-
sents the unavoidable issue of work and
prosperity or idleness and poverty.
While the Popocrat demagogues are
shouting Down with the rich," the
Republican party advances with the cry
Cup with the poor" and proposes the
enactment of measures that will provide
work for the workers and prosperity
for all.
Sam Jones is n hing if not express
sive. He declares tnat he would rather
climb a ladder with an armful of GELS
tnan to undertake to fuse with the mid
dle-of-the-road-Popul
The workingman does not want Q
cheaper dollar. He wants steady en-
ployment paid for in dollars as good n
gold.
The simplest way to elect Mckinley is
to vote for him. Mr.. Bourke Cochran OBJ
serves to his fellow Democrats, and that
remark contains all the wisdom of all
the ages.
The one question Bryan never answers
Is tue Slupic Oue, I1oW ABOUT Tree
trade"'
The Bryan party is made up of all
kinds of factions, led by all sorts Of
crauks, and if it should get into office il
couldn't work together.
In denouncing wealth the Democratic
organs are consistent with their party,
for it has done everything it could to
make the people poor and keep them so.
The Republican pledge to promote the
free coinage of silver by International
agreement offers the only solution of the
money problem which good business men
can accept, and for that reason even the
Democrats among them are working with
the Republican party this year and viii
vote for Mckinley.
Any Popocrat who believes that Bry-
an can carry Kentucky when Palmer is a
native and Buckner a native and a resi-
dent of the Blue Grass state, doesn't
know the Kentucky nature.
1t is easy to see from Thomas B.
Reeds speeches down in Maine that he
is perfectly serene and happy. But then
he usually feels that way. He was born
so.
Mr.. Bryan errs in saying that it is idle
curiosity that draws people to his meet
ings. 1t is both interesting and profit
country in this age of the world, ap-
parently thinks that wealth can be Gre
ated by legislation.
"What gain would we make for the
circulating medium" asked the late
James G. Blaine eighteen years ago, '4if
on opening the gate for silver to flow
in, we open still wider gate for gold
to flow out p The question is still un-
answered and still timely.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16
Free silver and Degradation.

Labor, today. has reached it's crisis
This is a very simple proposition, to
anyone who looks at it with common
sense and reason, but one on which
hangs the fate of labor. If labor votes
for Bryan and free silver, it votes away
one-half of it's wages. 1t will vote its
organizations and unions out of exist
ence. For degraded labor that is drug
on the market, too poor to save a penny
too feeble to lift its head against wrong
and oppression, cannot maintain an or
ganization against power and wealth
1t will vote its children into ignorance
and toll from their earliest years. 1t
will vote it's women into the tilling of
its fields, into drudgery in brick yards
and into slavery in the very mines which
silver men will operate for their own
advantage, at the expense of everyone
i'm the United States who works for
wages. 1t will vote itself into bondage
from which it cannot escape in our day
and time. The statistics of every free
silver country in the world will prove
this proposition to be true.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16
THINGS TO REMEMBER,
Nine Points About Silver and Protec-
ton.

Nine Points About Silver and Protec-
ton.
First-That there is not free coinage
country in the world today that is not
On silver basis,
Second-That free coinage will not
raise the price of American wool one
cent while foreign wool is coming in free
of duty and is crowding American wool
out of the home market
Third-That there is not a gold stand
ard country in the world that does not
use silver along with gold and keep it's
silver coins worth twice as much as their
bullion value.
Fourth-That the free coinage of silver
will not start a single factory in this
country, when under the Democratic tar
iff the products of foreign labor are
shipped into this country cheaper than
they can be made here.
Fifth-That there is not silver stand
ard country in the world that uses any
gold as money along with silver.
Sixth-That free silver coinage will
not create a demand for labor when
Democratic free trade makes the supply
many times greater than the demand.
Seventh-That there is not a silver
standard country in the world today that
has more than one-third as much money
in circulation per capita as the United
States has.
Eighth-That free silver is not going
to increase the price of nor the demand
for farm products so long as the Ameri-
can workingman, who is the principal
consumer. is kept in idleness by trans
ferring his work to the hands of foreign
trade.
Ninth-That there is not silver-stand-
ard country in the world where the la
boring man receives fair pay for his
days work, and it is largely these mems
products that have come into this coun-
try by the grace of Democratic free
trade, and wiped out the prosperity we
enjoyed prior to 1S93.-Zanesville Times
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16

Bryans hope of success is grounded
wholly on the late P. T. Barnum's the
ory that fool is born every minute.
Paste it in your hat that free coin
age and free trade, the great pair of
panic-produeers, go hand in hand in this
without voting for the other.
Mr. Bryan is too confidential with his
audiences for dignity-almost plaintive,
sometimes, in his appeals to them to say
whether or not he 'slooks like an anarch-
ist.'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-26
tUatsINc THE TABLES.

Wsnsrs 'ssss ssasisss'. os.ssss assss
Man, Trivial r.sss. - Sse...
"A certain mp town Cl.s.lznsi.r - fhs
happy pC>@sssor IL . martial its.resi in
. very pretty and accomplished lady.
ebs ~ fond Of nicr cioti~s ard always
looks well dressed. and hsf husband he
Just n proud of her as he storid 10.
But fr"rn a technical print 81 view he
knows nothing whatever aboui her rar.
in.n;s. and 10 bo,;icns him greatly when
she assumes tina; be- does She fir~s
hroadsices az qus~f,osfs at hin when.
ever she - dressing tn accrrnrzsiy him.
"cscnrre. how does my skiss banTy'
il 81 too long In fronig'' ''Durs my
belt cover the rins:' do you think
tins gown il bccrassings'' II. my collar
down at tho back Are there assy
wrinkles in This waist:'' lis iay "a. GA
straight" These and hundr.d .ihsr
intern CATIONS ar. ;irVd at hinl ~ "a "a
Intervals. II b. .ls-ssii'f pay rlnss' aii.n-
ti"n -he gst- csoss - b. po;.nds 10
listen carefully. aud answers sl8ll.. al.
ih"ugh aiv sys ~ faslsluHn.
Th. uihs'r day a nraf WAY ai g.fiins
eve.i dawn-d upon Lins. WIN "a - a.
| dressing 'ha' iiish; f.r n party. 10. saa-
denly called Li- Aft. ffum ihc adjoining
RON
Alma" he said. do you think
these nrw ;r"s,-rrs hang int a. grss-.
fully a. thy stua;is''
WHY. George. IN. said. Il dan't
know anything about b. WIZ do 20
bother nlesi'
Hold co." said George. 81 Ma.
wonds ring u this llsiG; bo. M siis gaiir
right.
"of course e eoe7. snapped Alaaa.
"Ani these sisccs-do you lralis
think They aro boeu:s.ing TO my cosss-
plexi,n.''
what a silly qpesiion.'
"Ani-l.oll Ga. AlsBa--isfl'i Che cns;
n little l"siz "a ilso i..il--o.l ngse Hiai..
mo:In--4Bd can't Yea pin "a ups'
| why. George. ! never heard ga
drinking. have y.ns''
''.Ansl-jast wait a mtnese. Alma .
He quickly ra!sszl hia silk hat fran 10.
tr.ss,r aud claj;psd 81 an the bark ID
has head. Nov. dear. please isay AT
tentiun. l. uls hat on straight
Then she understood bis ~ icl..d liifl,
game.
Th.y walked together IN s.lefsee unit
they came \. iihin sipht q. iis.is desiina
ton. aud the ,l-ply wounded Aim
managed to siammer:
We'll. ,i-orge. son mean old thing
10 my hat really and truly ON straight
| whcncat they both laughed.
land Plain Dealer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-26

were harnessed and the horses saddled 40
as 20 he ready to start within the minute
There was to be no sleep that night
The teamsters Kept near their mules, and
Bell and his men lay down with their rifles
by their sides and their ears to the ground
1t was Ii caring dawn when the neiyhing
Of a horse some 80 yards down the stream
from the camp startled Bell and his men.
hut they remained quiet. This was follow
eli hy the hoarSe murmuring of voices
As had been agreed on, tie guards crept
back to the wagons and trees where their
horses were. Bell was about to awake the
| captain, when voice called out:
"HCllo. Bellr'
'Who arc YOU" asked the lieutenant.
"A friend, came the reply
IF you are n friend, wait till daylight.
Then show yourself. Come n step nearer.
ard we will fire. We see your' shouted
Bell
Don't DO a fool! We're 90; you re only
IA and IL womanr' said the voice from the
darkness.
Il don't care if you We're 500 and we
only ., We'll protect this outfit said
Bell, with u holiness he did not feel
ny this time Captain LaZaire ard his
vile We're awake. The captain called out
as lie hurricdly dressed:
/ If you are friends wait! II YOU are
rohbeTs, let me assure you that. beyond
/ our arms and horses, there is nothing here
| to tempt you.''
A hoarse, hooking laugh was the reply
TO this, ard one shouted:
Where's the $50, GOO in gold you got in
Matainoras:'
Day comes with no twilight on the
southern rrairies. During this brief talk
| the forms oi men, mounted ard ON foor
came into view
Ii was through nervousness that the
pistol Of Captain Iazaire's driver was dis
charged. TIE bullet struck the nearest Of
the outlaws, and he reelcd from the saddle
On the instant a wild yell Went up and
volley was fired into the camp
Dropping To the ground and calling 20
the captain to do the same, Bell and his
men returned the fire. ard the robbers fell
back, firing 70 tie rear with their revoly-
erS.
Nine Islzairc screamed and spr,trg from
the ambulance She threw her arms about
her husband, and both sank down to-
| gether.
Again the outlaws charsud in, and
again they fen back for consultation
As was aiterward learned. they had de-
tcrmined to rush in and kill every living
thing in the camp" but the appearance Of
n large body Of horSemen from the cas-,
compelled them TO fly TO the north.
-Four III Sell : men were kille,i and ev-
cry one OF the survivors was wounded
But the SD Icrt Of the affair was the kill
ing OF Captain Lazaire and his beautiful
wife. 1t seemed that one bullet had taken
the lives Of both.
ALFRED R. CAlHorx.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-26
THE ART OF CHECK KITING.
A Dangerous Practice That Has Many Fol-
lowers In These Hard Tim~s.

lowers In These Hard Times.
Check kiting is carried on by n certain
class OF business men ;o an extent that IL
not dreamed Of by the public. With a
fair credit they maintain large fictitious
capital r- keeping clerks outstanding and
flying frum one hank 20 another.
To kite successfully n man ought to
have an account IN at least two banks, and
the more the better. Kiting IL simply
drawing checks ON hanks where no money
Is on deposit and then sending the bank a
cheek drawn on n third hank e. meet the
first when it arrives. A man who Is skill
full. hold and unsrrupulous can often cs-
tablish a chain Of kites by which he can
get the U.S. of thousands Of dollars for
weeks and even inonths When a man
draws check. he knows that In the OF.
binary coursc Of business IL will not reach
the bank for "a hours. particularly III it f.
drawn after II O'clock. which - the hour
for clearing. and II the cash or another
check Is there tn cover 10 when IL arrives n
i presumed that lis intentions srr honest.
and IL would bc difficult To make out a
case of killing against him.
The small operator must needs cu.flpe
his lifting 70 the banks of the city in which
be lives. But IL a man with fair .r,rsiit
and doing business requiring the u-r Of
many checks dcsircs Co incrca<r hi. raritai
by kiting he VIII open accounts with hat,L.
IN other cities. b- which his Operations can
he greatly extended.
This Is the way u IL worked; smith az
Chicago owes ss.Doo When rav,nen, A.
demanded. hc draws hts check t,ro,nt,,lv
and with n great show Of chorrfulnc..' nj.
though lac knows that he has no; hal. the
amount ON deposit lie does not draw hi.
! check upon his local bank. however. bu;
! upon u bank, say, at - Louis. lie then
sends to the st Louis hank by the first
mail a check drawn on hank in New
York 10 cover the amount This check
gocs direct TO the - Louis bank and s-,.ts
there one day ahead q the first eb,.rk
which he knows will be deposited in a ca.
csgo bank and be forwarded through the
clearing house % st. Louis for col,ersior,.
When his cheek REACHES New York an
other check l. there Co met A. thi. sir.
drawn upon New Orleans. The -. Io,.is
, check - paid by New York, and when ,he
New York check reaches New Ori-ap. /, 4.
paid by a check drawn on . Chic.ro h.nk
I This must be protcrfesi when Il arrives n
Smith has not manasrssl 10 rnisr ,i,,. ,,o,ex
to deposit against 70. he simpiv tero-i,.
4 nBother check on an outside bank and a.
the k.tinG eocs ON.
His collections enable him 70 rav \. ro,.
tion Of his checks In his local hsut and
thus enable him tn kcsp up his kifine y M.
I'll some accident occurs By which M.
scheme Is found out A raiirssd ae..i.,,.,,-
a careless postal ci.rk BY whom cheri- /,
4 delayed = day. will break the chain ana
cssn>c his sudden downfall 50 long .- ,i,.
hanks hare confidence In n man and he
mates no mistakes IN mis- dates lao b, able
70 have the use oi large sums VI anos<y
I, without interest,"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-26

By Gay the cotton was PLEA cp INTO great
walls, and the huKyrsaEoEs Cs'sziog1sff-
with supplies from the other side Ameri-
cans and negroes, Frenchmen aud Next
cans, with here and there painted H.
dian, jostied each other through lanes
walled in by merchandise, and soldiers in
gray made a pretext of keeping order. but
the gambling houses and saloons ruled,
and riot and revel ended nearly ever- night
in robbery and bloodshel.
When they were ready 10 start back, the
captain told Bell in confidence that he had
secrefed his gold among tie merchandise
and that it would be carried unknown tn
the drivers in wagons that were 10 OCCUPY
the center of the train. Heretofore the at
tacks had been made on the wagons at the
rear or in the advance of the lire
1.-The only money shall have with our
outfit will be what may be needful till we
get to Houston. 1t will roe he worth the
while of the outlaws to attack us, and so l
have asked General Sibley to send what
ever troopers he can spare as an escort to
the train as far as San Antonio. Be-ond
that point there Is nothing to fear, said
the captain.
After rest Of ten days Captain L:zaira
started back, the slow train coming On be-
in love with her husband, whose devotion
to her was idolatrous, Was the life of the
little party.
After five days the wall Of chaparr.l
broke into dwarfed clumps, and like n
brown sea the prairie spread away to the
east Once outside this thorny wilderness
Captain Lazairo's fears, if he had any,
vanished. and as the ambulance went on
at Il trot he SIT beside his wife. and with
her sang French songs that cheeretl the
troopers.
I'VE shall be in San Antonio tomor-
row, said the captain, with the gIceful
manner Of a hoy, as one night they went
into camp amid clump of cottonwood
and by :, stream whose water was clear
and sweet.
During the afternoon Lieutenant Bell
and his men had noticed horsciEcn to the
north evidently watching the ambrlances,
but as it would do no coed to alarm the
lady they Kept their suspicious from the
captain.
Captain Lazaire and his wife slept in
the ambulance. As soon as they had re
tired this night Lieutenant Bell extin
guished the fire. His men understood tn,
reason. and without an order the mule.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-26

xisn ac, spd lskcT -re=r-ol laughing.
They 6lacknsSJed ne is-tss- sas from
sime % time for o month, and was al
most distracted for fear thsy might inform
my employer TINT had i.en convict 4
came To 81. Louis, and after q months
ss<lrch got work In n tig hardware store
The proprietor was n large. broad Shout
dered Scutchman. He was stern and ex-
acting, but behind 10 all he was just and
kind
I had been here about . month whom
my Nemesis found me oct. he was angry
with mo and said he had mind tn
blow on me ut ouce. Nearly all INV ssv-
inge had heen exhausted during tho month
I was looking for work. Tn: rsuck. how
ever. said he could mako n good haul nc
my propric;sr's storc, and said n would
aid him he would never bother ,ne again.
We were To have meeting two days later.
fastened to my rooin and wrote n long
letter ~ Major McClaughry and told him
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-26

l5v / had hecn pursued and presented
and uf the last threat the rrook had made
By the c.turn mail I received long re-
PLY. which YVES directed &c show INV en-
pioycr. IL was m awful trial. To 81 to
my ciaploycr. n man o. whom had si,oscn
bE; two or three times. and bet him know
I was at Que time a conyi,t, The warden
letter explained o. my employer what I
had told him. IL concluded with state
inent that he MAJOR McClaurhryD would
stand personally responsible for my to-
haNior II the mcrrlssnt wos.id hut kccp tine.
The old Scotchinan Rad the letter slowly
through. l stssi by ian agony. the cold
perspirat(on dripping ir"m my facc. IL
scenncl Ia me he would ncycr finish. When
he had AT length ended the letter. he turn
ed slowly In his Office chair and with n
look that t. ne seemed divine held cut his
hand. could not speak. tn. tears wcllc,l
up I'm my eyes, "a huge lump filed my
throat and then cried like a child The
strain was more than could bear.
"Ai right, my lad, = said he In strong.
earnest voice. Il will stand 10y you Had
you told ins yourself. would not have
turned you away. Just have that id
scoundrci come to the storc. Get him away
hack here in the siurc, and then tell me-
Don't worry, my lad. You are man, and
III help you to remain one"
don't rightly remember Just whnt &C.
CURED the next two or three days The
lo.d that had been lifted from my mind
was such that was In an ecstasy of Joy
At length the crook came. I. ON one
pretext or another led him AWAY back 10
the uar -. the st"r,. near Inc pruprici ~ :
oflicc. He was fortunately just COMING
out. told him who lad with Inc. I
never saw "A man become 30 enraged He
grabbed the knavc by the COLLAR, shook
him violently for u moment and then
whirled him about and kicked him to the
sidewalk and into the street
This WAS 20 years aSn am still work.
ing for that Scotrhman and have laid by
enough TO keep me In my old aga have
told this that the world may know how
hard 1t Is for u beginner In crime to ~
form and that the world may treat him
with little more kindness.