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Morris tribune., 1896-09-16
The Free Coinage Problem.

The Free Coinage Problem is the
title of penny magazine or pamphlet
by Lewis N. Dembitz of Louisville, KY
1t contains one Of the fairest and best
discussions of the money question to be
had at any price. 1t contains in very
brief space and in simple language as
much of the early history of money,
especially in this country, as is neces-
sary to understand the present situa-
ton. It discusses in a logical, unbiased
and impartial manner the probable eff
fects of the proposed free coinage legis-
lation upon all classes, and especially
upon farmers and wage earners. It pre-
sents a viviG picture of the present hard
lot of many farmers and shows what
kind of money will be for their best in
terests
This little As page magazine contains
more of monetary history and facts and
more of sound argument than many
books which cost 100 times it's price. 1t
makes it possible for any intelligent la
borer or farmer who can spare cent to
become well informed OH the money
question before he casts his vote. Ten
or 5 copies can be ordered at once for
10 or 5 persons. Otherwise it will cost
2 cents to send / cent Address Present
Problems Publishing Co, 81 Park
place, New York city.
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16
An object Lesson In souashes.

An Object Lesson In SQuaShes.
Well, here am, Maria! I'm back again, yer
see
That is, ezfur as thet's concerned, I'm back
what's left of me.
I The more learn and more see since all this
talk began
Makes me the more inclined to be Bryan ST
yer man.
You know he seq in that thar speech I read to
you last night
That produce hahn t gone down bit, but COLDS
up outer sight.
Well, when got to Louisville, at half past five
o'clock,
There wa It another man had squash but me
on Pierce's dock.
I started in a-selling mine, ten cents apiece,
swar,
And at that price I'd say that gold stood just
about to par.
Bout six o'clock three other teams came on
the dock, by gosh,
And every gol darned one of 'em was full of
summer squashl
Well, then and there gold started up, and she
began to rise.
Five cents apiece for summer squashl jumps
right up and cries.
By thunder, didn't gold go up as quick and
slick as grease,
For them there fellers offered theirn at Just
a cent apiece.
But still gold kept a-going up-a-kiting up
she went,
Till sold out what had left, two squashes,
for cent
You know darned we'll that squashes ain It apt
to fluctuate,
So Bryans got the thing dead right-it's gold
sure as fate.
1t stands to reason he is right when he seq
it's because
There's something out of kilter with them
thar silver laws.
So, darn the stuff, I'd full as leve have old Bill
Ketchum's note.
And when election comes around Bill Bryan
gets my vote. R. R.
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16
Ex-President Harrison ON the Powers of
GOYernment.

will tell you what this government
can do alone. It can fix it's money unit
1t can declare by law what shall be the
relative value of an ounce of gold and
an ounce Of silver, but it cannot make
that last declaration good. 1t is unques-
tionably fully within the power of this
government to bring this country to a
silver basis by coming silver dollars and
making them legal tender. They can do
that. This government can say you shall
take one of those dollars in discharge of
any debt owing to you for 81, notwith
standing you may have loaned gold dol
lars; but it cannot say, and enforce its
decree, if you should call out the regular
army and navy and musterall our great
modern ships and add the militia, and
put William J. Bryan in command of
them-it cannot enforce the decree that
! ounce of gold is the equivalent of Is
ounces of silver. Not only that, not
France and England and Germany can
do that unless the markets respond.
Why? You may make me take silver
dollar for debt, but if I have bought
my goods at gold prices you cannot
make me give as many yards Of cloth
for silver dollar as have been in the
habit of giving for gold one.
If have a gold dollar in this hand
and silver one in that, and you declare
they are equal, and can take that gold
dollar to bullion broker and get So for
it, know it is lie. If have nothing
but gold dollar, and sugar is 90
pounds for 81, I will not give that gold
dollar for 20 pounds Of sugar. I will
take it around to broker and get two
silver dollars for it and get the 20
pounds of sugar and have one silver
dollar left. So it is, my friends. We can
of ourselves, of our own wisdom, de-
clare the unit of value. We can coin sill
yer freely, but we cannot make Is
ounces Of silver equal to 1 ounce of geld
unless it is. And it is not unless the
merchants take it at that rate That is
where all this thing comes in. 1t is
trade, it is the merchant, it is the man
who exchanges and deals in these things
that fixes the relative value, and if you
do not take the value he fixes the gold
dollar will go back to the gold vault,
and the gold will go out of circulation. |
-Ex-President Harrison in His New
York Speech.
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16

Let us all be thankful that the finan-
cial question has at last been finally
settled.
1t is SO easy that anybody might have
done it.
All that is needed is that the govern
ment of the United States shall agree to
pay $1.29 to any one who will bring it
60 cents worth of silver.
If this is done, our financial troubles
will Immediately disappear. Prices will
advance. Wages will go up. Everybody
will have plenty of money. We shall
have at once the only perfect financial
monetary system known in history.
The age Of miracles is not past. --.
New York World.
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16
Thrills Savings Would Shrink.

The savings bank deposits of the
United States amount to 81, 800, 600, 600
on a gold basis.
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16
Some Facts For Farmers,

In 1877 the average value of the hay
crop in the United States was So. so per
ton. The following year it dropped to
$3.50, and in 1879, the year next ensu-
ing, it jumped up to So. 80 per ton.
Again. In 1891, when this country
was firmly on a gold basis, the average
value of the hay crop was So. 40 per ton.
In 1892 it fell to 1918 per ton, and in
1898 it rose to So. IS per ton. Last year
the average value was So. Sc per ton.
Assuming that the fall in prices is
due to the ''crime of 1873," how are
these fluctuations to be accounted for?
Will some Bryanite explain also why it
is that the average value of the hay crop
per ton was greater in 1895, when we
were on. gold basis, thar it was in
1878, when gold was at premium?
Hay has undoubtedly declined in price
since 1878, but why should it not have
done so? Apart from cheaper methods
of production and cheaper rates of trans
portation, the annual hay crop increased
from 1855, 100 tons in 1878 to 65,
766, 158 tons in 1898. Last year it
amounted to about AZ, 100000
At the same time the number of
horses in the United States increased
only from 1922, 47O in 1878 to Is, $685.
318 in 1896 It is estimated that there
are nearly LOO, 900 fewer horses in
this country today than there were three
years ago.
These plain facts and figures should
not be hard to comprehend. Let the
farmer study them before he allows
himself to be hoodwinked by free silver
dam aoO0icTVo
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16
al ! Z. =.

Under free coinage they would shrink
in actual value to about 5000, 900, 600.
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Morris tribune., 1896-09-16
Free Information.

Messrs. G. A. Snow q Co, of
Washington, D. G., lawyers and
agents fer procuring patents, will
send free to any address, pamphlets
with information about home and
foreign patents, caveats, copyrights,
trade marks, infringements, design
patents, abstracts of decisions, etc, as
we'll as the cost of patents in the
United States and foreign countries.
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16

How do you find business? IF you
want to borrow money, are you not told
that this free silver racket is soaring in
vestors? Don't manufacturers complain
that they have difficulty in getting loans
with which to buy raw material, pay
wages and carry stocks of goods? Isn't
the uncertainty about the money in
which loans will be repaid playing the
dickens with credits and confidence
among business menl
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16

If you Jay gold dollar on the anvil
and hammer it out of shape, it is still
worth 81.
If you do silver dollar the same
way, you hammer 46 cents out of it,
and it is worth its bullion value only,
or 81 cents.
Gold loses coin shape, yet loses no
value. But silver loses coin shape and
loses nearly half its value. Is it wise to
drive from the United States this gold
of fixed value by introducing the free
coinage of inferior silver and make
yourself the prey Of brokers?
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16

If this country is big enough to "get
along" with so cent dollar, it is big
enough to get along twice as well with
q real dollar
Morris tribune., 1896-09-16
Worst Of All Misfortunes.

The great trouble about reputation
is that you cannot pay debts with it
more than once. In other words, it in
wolves the crucifxjon of credit Oh a
cross of rascality, and the loss Of credit
is the worst Of misfortunes. st. Louis
GIobe-Democrat
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24

insignificant sore, to which Ipaid little
attention at first. This sore refused
to heal, and after a while became quite
obstinate, and began togrow. placed
myself under the treatment of promi-
nent physicians, who said had cancer
of the most stubborn type, and though
l took their treatment faithfully, the
cancer grew steadily all the while,
increasing in size and severity.
also took nearly every medicine
that was recommended for the
blood, and applied various salvcs
and ointments, all without the slightest
benefit Year by.year, found myself
steadily growing worse, for the cancer
was sapping my life away, although
spent hundreds of dollars with doctors,
and as much more experimenting with
various so-called remedies. l was
strongly urged by the doctors to sub
NIT to an operation, which they
claimed was the only hope for me.
I" I had well-nigh abandoned hope of
ever being cured, when I was induced
to try s. s. s., and even the first bottle
afforded relief. The medicine caused
the cancer to discharge, thus forcing
out the poison, and Riding the sys-
tenn of it. continued to take S. S. S.
until the discharge ceased, and the
cancer healed up entirely, and l am
perfectly we'll. My cure is regarded
as truly remarkable, and demonstrates
what wonderful remedy s. S. S. is.
! shall take pleasure in always recon-
mending it,
s. S. S. is the only remedy that
gets at the root of all blood diseases,
that all so-cailed remedies fail to
reach. 1t is guaranteed
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
First a Mole
Then Cancer.

Probably no disease carries such ter
ror in its path as Cancer-and well
may this dreadful affliction be regarded
with horror. In an alarming manner,
it slowly but surely preys upon the
life's blood, bearing the victim nearer
the grave day by day. Beyond the use
of the knife the physician is powerless,
and too much cannot be said against
the folly of resorting to the knife for
cure of this terrible disease. Cam
Ger is in the blood, hence it is apparent
to all that no relief can be expected
from an operation. In ninety cases
out of a hundred the cancer promptly
returns, if not in the same place, in
the same locality, and is far more ma
lignant than before. The same is true
of attempts to remove the cancer by
means of caustic plasters, etc, and all
who have had this treatment claim
that death cannot be more painful.
But there is cure for cancer--one
which gets at the seat of the disease,
and removes its cause. 5. S. S. is the
only real blood remedy, and cures cam
Ger and all other blood diseases, even
after other treatment has failed.
One of the well-known residents of
Macon, Ga, is Mr.. H. Powers, the con-
tractor and builder, WHO lives at SIS
Ross street. For twenty years Mr..
Powers has suffered intensely from a
cancer on his face, which was treated
constantly, but grew worse all the
while. He sought the best medical
skill in vain, and could see no hope of
ever being cured.
On June D, 1896, he writes: Twenty
years ago, while being shaved, small
mole on my face was cut, leaving an
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
poLITlcs hal re PuLpIT.

In a recent sermon preached by Rev.
Robert S. Macarthur, pastor Of the Cal
vary Baptist church on West Fifty-sev-
enth street, New York. he said;s
"He is the enemy Of the toiling
masses who would pay for their labor
in deprecated coin. Those Pcpulistic
orators who are trying to make wage
earners believe that they should be will
ing to take a SO cent dollar fer 100
cents worth of work are tho enemies Of
mankind. These Populistic orators show
a tender solicitude for the workingman
that is really touching, but any man
who will give dishonest dollar for
honest work is labor's enemy. Well did
Daniel Webster say in great speech
which he once delivered in this city,
He who hampers with the currency
robs the workingman of his bread. =
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
DON'T LET UP!
REMEMBER THIS!
GUARD AGAINST SURPRISE
The Peril That ConfrontS the
Nation Now is That the PeO-
pie Should Think There
Is No Peril.

The peril that confronts the nation now
Is that the people should think there is no
peril
The battle is not won simply because tho
tide is running strongly in the direction
of sound money. Every day of effort now
means at least u year OF immunity alike
from currency cranxs and silver peddlers.
Remember thisl
Treasure It'll
Don't let up,
Guard against surprise and don't let up.
The last days OF the campaign win be filed
with forgeries and Misrepresentation
from the opponents Of sound money. Let
it be remembered that this campaign Is
different from any previous national cam.
paign in the fast that with the men who
are conducting one side of it it is not a
political campaign at all. 1t Is simply the
hugest business speculation known to his
tory, one which, il successful, will make
the chief spectators the money lords of
the earth.
Remember that every ono of these men,
looking at tho election as they do, merely
as great effort to boom and corner
the silver MARKET is influenced only by
selfish consideration.
The 16 to ] dollar should never have an
abiding place in this country.
Let it be stamped once and for all with
the brand Of the peoples disfayor, and let
it pass into history as one of the exploded
! financial crazes So let the watchword he,
"Guard against the enemy and don't let
uut'1
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
Good Advice.

e. r. Gunby, who is the Republican
candidate for governor of Florida, came to
the city recently to see Chairman Hanna.
He told the following new story:
"a colored man, sab, was working on
the wharf in Savannah the other day and
was paid off in silver. He put a half dol
lar in his mouth to bite it and see if it was
lead, and it slipped down his throat and
stuck about half way down. In great
darn he ran to a surgeon and asked him
to cut it out. Can't cut that ont, said
the surgeon. It's got TO stay there. Say,
hoy, arc you registered?'
'sNo, sab, / isn't registered, replied
the co1ored man.
"'Well, you go AMI get registered right
away, said the surgeon, and vote for Nc
Kinley, because if Bryan is elected that
half dollar will be dollar, and then you'll
choke to death sure -
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24

In point of fact, the amount of money in
actual circulation in the United States has
never been less than a22 per capita since
1891 1t has huctuated between $22 and
$25 during that time. And at the present
time, counting the money in the treasury
in the computation, we have per capita of
money in the country about S34. No other
country in the would exceeds this, or any
where nearly equals it, except France,
which has about $50 per capita. The aver
age circulation medium in 80 countries of
the world is less than S13 per capita.
France excepted, the United States stands
at the lead and has more than twice as
much money per capita as the average ma
ton of the world.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
Governor Atkinson.
Huntington Herald.

Huntington Herald
Foit G. w. Atkinson las everything
in his favor--a wide and honorable ac-
quaiatanee throughout the State, the
full accord of his party, great popular
ity with the pubic, much experience in
public affairs, ability for business, and
skill and pash as an "electionefr His
opponent seems to have very few Of
these advantages, and to excel im moth
ing bat perennial and eternal desire 10
hold Office For candidate ON the
short side, this can not be said to be
much of an advantage.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24

DIR. A. @. Blair of Grantsville, life
long Democrat, declares himself in favor
of sound money and protection. -Four
years ago no man argued for free trade
harder and with more sincerity than did
DR.. Blair; but the experience OF half
step toward ultimate free trade is suffi-
Gent to show any man who is willing
to be convinced, that protection to
American industry is what we need in
this country. Richie Review.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
wages increase Under Gold standard.

In nearly every country in tho world
having the gold standard of value the
wages of labor have increased materially
during the last % years, and at the same
time the purchasing power Of the money
in which wages are paid has increased
also while in the countries having the sill
yer standard of value wages have been ac-
tually reduced by the depreciation of the
currency to such an extent that the laborer
is in u much worse condition than he was
at the beginning of that period.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
Mr.. Atklnssn's Canvass.

Our splendid candidate for Governor
continues TO win golden opinions in his
canvass of the State. In this particular
he has and has had no equal since we
have known anything about the State.
Neither of his competitors can come
within gunshot of equaling him in
real ability and oratory. He is one of
the best furnished men in the State, and
the people will elect him.-Mountain
Echo.
Does your dollar buy too much? Has
the money which the farmer gets for
his crops too great purchasing power?
Is there anybody who prefers dollars
which will buy few things to those
which can be exchanged for many
things? If SO, you can easily be accom-
modated with cheap Mexican dollars.
Now. don't all speak at once!
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
Hon. II. c. Mowhorter.

State Gazette.
Our candidate for Judge 1T the Su-
preme Court Of Appeals is Captain III.
@. McWhorter. Of Charleston, Kanawha
County, lifelong Republican, a vet
Gran who wore the blue. and an old
practitioner III the courts of this State.
His long experience as jurist, has even
temperament and his wide acquaint-
ance with the people and varied inter
ests Of the State win make him one Of
the best and most popular Judges Of the
State. He made the race ON the Repub-
hcan ticket fer the same position in
1888, when the gallant General Golf tl.i-
umphantly led the fight in this State,
and very nearly then succeeded in gain
ing a seat on the bench This time he
viii succeed along with the balance Of
the State ticket
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
WHEAT GOING UP e SILVER GOING
DOWN

While silver has been going down
steadily ever since Popocrat Bryan be-
gan his remarkable performance upon
the stump, it is gratifying to observe an
advance in one of our great agricultural
products which both in value and use
fulness far exceeds the output of our sill
yer mines.
Wheat is now selling IS cents higher
than it was at this time last year and
the chances are that much better prices
win be realized in the near future.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
The Party of Bimetallism.

The Republican party has always been,
and is today, the party of bimetallism II
its plans are carried out, we shall have an
enlarged use o. silver on a safe basis, at
which it will be maintained ut parity
with gold. If the plans of the Populists
prevail, our silver dollar and paper cur.
rency will lose one-half of their present
value, and all our gold will disappear, thus
reducing instead Of increasing the amount
of money in the country.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
Prosperity In America.

In Belgium the people have increased
their deposits in the savings banks forty
fold since 1870, when they We're enjoying
all the benefits of minis open to silver, not
only in Belgium, but in France, Switzer-
land and Italy.
In our own country under the operation
of the standard established in 1873 the peo-
pie have doubled their savings banks de-
posts from 1878 to 1890, and whereas in
1870 the number of depositors was 1 $780,
SAC, with deposits of $549, STA, 1858, in 1895
the number of depositors had grown to
4, S75, 6l9 and the amount of deposits to
S1,S1O, 597, 023. The average deposit per
capita had meanwhile increased from
$1426 in 1870 to $50. S8 in 1895.
These facts absolutely demonstrate that
the countries which have adhered to the
gold standard have shown a steady in
crease in the savings deposits of their work
ingmen. 1t is complete and irrefutable
proof of the falsehood of Bryan's dictum
that "tbe gold standard is a conspiracy
against the human race, and it shows
that there is no truth in his other assertion
to the effect that raising the purchasing
power of the dollar 'makes it moro diff
cult TO obtain possession of the dollar. "
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
what Ex-Governor Flower Says.

Not even the honest believer in silver
standard or the most enthusiastic bimetal-
list can, if he be patriotic citizen, con-
scentiously support the forces of political
anarchy. The advocacy of free silver coin
age By Bryan and many of his adhercnts
is only a cloak for The spirit OF revolution
behind -EX- Goyeenor Glover
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
shan We Adopt Asia. Standard ?

tits the duty of the people, and especial
ly the duty OF the laboring people, TO pause
before it is too late and carefully consider
whether they viii determine to overthrow
their existing monetary system and sub
stitute in its place the deprecated silver
monometallism of Asia and Mexico and
the small states and republics of Central
and South America, with their low rates
of wages and their high rates of exchange
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24

Bryan doesn't like the gold standard
because he does not approve the aphor-
ism, "Silence is golden. For Mr..
Bryan to be silent would mean for him
|. living death.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24

The campaign Of education is about
half over, and the people in every sec
ton of the Union show proofs that they
have learned their lesson and know
how to vote.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24

That Mr.. William Jennings Bryan, the
Chicago nominee for president, purposed
to stump Virginia in 1898 in behalf OF
Captain Edmund X. Cooke, the Populist
nominee for governor, against Colonel
Charles T. o Ferrall, the Democratic nom
inee.
He was induced not to do so, but his
avowed sympathy was with the Populists
and not the Democrats.
Query. Mr.. Bryan less of a Populist
in 1896 than he was in 1893?--Richnond
Times
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24

Silver is down again to 66I4 cents
an ounce and falling. Either the deal
ers begin TO think doubtfully of Mr..
Bryan's chances of election or they do
not share his confident conviction"
that a free coinage law would raise the
price OF silver bullion to 81. 30 al ounce.