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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-10
Daniel webster's Uttersnoe.

The great Defender of the Constitu-
tion," Daniel Webster, was not in sym.
pathy with any plan for cheapening the
currency or the debasement of the
money standard. Hear what he said
over so years ago on the subject:
"The very man, of all others, who has
the deepest interest in sound currency,
and who suffers most by mischievous
legislation in money matters, is the man
VIII earns his daily bread by his daily
toll. His property is in his
hands. His reliance, his fund, his pro-
ductive freehold, his all, is his labor.
Whether he work on his own small cap
ital or another's, his living is still earned
by his industry /; and when the money of
the country becomes deprecated and
debased, whether it be adulterated coin
or paper without credit, that industry is
robbed of its reward He then labors
for a country whose laws cheat him out
of his bread. Iwould say to every owner
OF every quarter section Of land in the
west, would say to every man in the
east who follows his own plow. and to
every mechanic, artisan and laborer of
every city in the country-I would say
to every man, everywhere, who wishes
by honest means to ga1 an honest iv-
ing, beware Of wolves in sleeps cloth
ing Whoever attempts, under what.
ever popular cry. to shake the stability
Of the public currency stabs
your interest and your happiness to the
heart. Toledo Blade.
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Ahe Fallen Price.

Price has eadily fallen in this coun.
try since January, 1891. when the coun.
try was on the crest of the wave of pros.
perity due to the Mckinley tariff.
Price has fallen because consump-
'tion has been reduced. Bradstreet's
table of prices. which has been
reduced to series of index numbers by
the .'American," shows that hides and
leather are the only two articles higher
than then On the average, taking SO
articles Of leading consumption. prices
nre 1881 per cent of the prices
ruling Jan. !, 1891. The twin
reasons are plain. Tariff agitation
has destroyed consumption. Factories
have been closed or are running
on short time. The rate of wages
their regularity has been impaired All
with factory operatives and going out
IA the wider and wider circles, have re-
duced consumption, and q very small
1oduction in price will produce q very
large fall in price. In addition the ex-
nan sion Of the country has been abrupt
II checked by doubt as to the currency
{ 8Ajlroad building is third of the aver.
( age and u sixth Of full year. The en-
tie work Of developing new properties
skas been stopped until men know in
what dollars their returns are to come
~. These two causes have reduced
[ooasumptiOn ON vast scale. and re-
3uesd consumption has reduced prices.
The way to restore prices is not to
E1oahls dollass. but to double current in.
<ustry by restoring protection and Civ.
I ~ currency sound basis by electinR
Mckinley and Hobart. = Philadelphia
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-10

aow They Have Not Travelled TesstAss
In value.

How They Have Not Travelled rssstAss
In Value.
The claim is made by the free silver
ties that wheat and silver have travelled
together IN price or value.
But the statistics show that there IL
no such intimate relationship between
wheat and silver. They show that with
the single exception of the last three
years the value Of wheat has averaged
higher since 1873 than it did in the five
1eay preceding that date. The highest
price attained was in 1880, years after
the "crime."
In the following table the value Of an
ounce of silver and q bushel Of wheat
in the period lS6s-ls72 is taken as 100.
with the average value for each Of the
following periods expressed in percent.
age on that basis
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-10
THE FARMER VOTE.

III We Were offered Food Tinctured
With Poison We Would Reject It."
The advocates of free silver Popocracy
have been claiming the Ohio Farmer.
one Of the best agricultural papers in
the country, as supporter of Bryan
and Sewall. As matter Of fact the
paper is strictly non. partisan and very
clearly resents the claim that it has
swung into line for free silver and Pop.
ulism. In recent issue The Farmer
says:
"We honestly believe in bimetallism.
and upon a safe platform and with safe
candidates it is the principle which the
producing classes should conscientiously
support. The ways and means of SO.
curing it, however, have never been
suggested by our editors, and as that is
now the partisan feature of the question
we must leave it with our readers.
"We also are firm in the belief that a
protective tariff is as necessary in this
country for agriculture as for all other
industries, to enable them to compete
with the cheap labor and cheaper lands
of foreign countries.
"But above either of these issues and
all others is the patriotism which seeks
and desires the safety and stability of
our government. The degeneracy and
downfall of all nations have come from
corrupt or incompetent rulers or public
servants.
1--WE believe that the farmers of this
nation will. next November, decide the
contest. This is, in other words, the
party that receives the bulk of the
farmer vote will be victorious, as the
party affiliations of other classes are al
ready pretty well defined. We hope
and believe that our many readers win
perform that sacred duty without the
influence of prejudice.
''Let patriotism and the desire for the
stability Of the government rise above
even personal interests. If we were
hungry and were offered food tinctured
with poison we would reject iti''
1t is very easy to read the meaning of
this significant declaration. The Farmer
is for protection, and while it believes
in bimetallism, it is quite apparent that
1t does not consider bimetallism as feast.
BILE without an international agreement,
such as the Republican party Is pledged
to. 1t is equally certain that it is not
ready to follow the anarchistic teaching
of Bryan and Populism.
"If we were hungry and were offered
food tinctured with poison we would re-
ject it," The country is hungry for
prosperity and the farmers for better
times. but the free trade, free silver
Popocracy offers poisoned cup. The
farmers are wise enough not to touch
1t. Safety and prosperity lie in Repub-
ican victory Ohio State journal.
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An Ashtonishins Admission.

"There goes feller." said the man
who was whiting shingle. "that is
the ign'rantest man in this hull town.
chip"
That's pretty hard thing to say"
HE practically owned mp ter 1t hisself,
though. We wuz talking things over in
the store the other night. and I'm dun.
gasted Of he didn't come right out q =
own up thet hs didn't know exactly
how this anvarumank ovkaS he ran"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-10
EsoP MoDeRNlzeD, SILVER PLATED
illustrating the Fate Of an Ass That Got
Free and Unlimtted Glover.

illustrating the Fate of an ASS That Got
Free and Unlimtted Glover.
A certain ass and horse occupied ad
joining stalls in a large barn. They
were fed on nutritious golden grain and
as much freshly cut clover as was good
for their health. This diet kept them in
good condition and made them strong
enough to perform their duties to the
satisfaction of the farmer who owned
them. The ass, however. was continu.
ously complaining because his coat was
not 90 sleek as that Of the horse.
II little clover is good thing, he
thought. unlimited clover would make a
bigger ass Of me, and it is what need
to fatten me up and improve my coat.
Then he told the horse that he proposed
to eat up all the clover in the pasture
the next time the farmer turned them
into it. The horse pointed ont to HIM
how absurd it was for one ass to try to
eat all the clover in q 4O.acre lot with.
out assistance, and advised him to stick
TO his present diet, as the difference in
their coats was due to other causes.
sense and brayed loudly in answer to
argument.
The first time the farmer turned him
into the pasture, the ass started In to
eat mp all the clover In sight. He ate 20
fast and 70 much that he deranged his
digestive apparatus and suddenly found
himself swelling and In great pain. Az
no veterinary surgeon was ct hand the
poor ass eopt ON swelling mp until he
finally burst When the farmer found
his remains he promptly slinned them.
20 the ass In the end Lost even the rough
hide which he We trying to improve.
Moral; Don't b A asl.-New York
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SOUND SENSE.
A Few Extracts From One Of Major Nc
Kinley's Recent Speeches.

A Few Extracts From One Of Major Nc
Kinley's Recent Speeches.
Whatever dollars we have in this
country must be good dollars, as good
in the hands of the poor as the rich !;
equal dollars equal in inherent merit,
equal in purchasing power, whether
they be paper dollars or gold dollars or
silver dollars or treasury notes each
convertible into the other and each ex-
changeable for the other, because each
is based upon equal valu e and has be-
hind it equal security good. not by the
fiat of law alone, but good because the
whole commercial world recognizes
their inherent and inextinguishable
value.
Businessmen, workingmen and the
people generally are coming to realize
that business and politics are closely re-
lated; and that bad politics means BID
business, and that politics cannot be
neglected without endangering our occu-
pations, our earnings and our labor.
1--WE have had some distressing OK.
perience in this direction, which has
taught us that if we do not keep our
business our business will not keep us
[great cheering] and that if somebody
elS0 uooS Our WOrk we Will nave no WOrK
to do at home. [Applause].
1--WE are learning another thing, my
fellow citizens; indeed, we know It al.
ready-that no matter what kind Of
money we have we can not get it unless
we have work. Cries of You are
right, MAORI Whether it is poor
money, or whether it is good money,
whether it is gold or whether it is silver,
we can not get one dollar of it unless we
have employment for our hands and
heads. Enthusiastic cheering and wav-
ing of hats.
"And we know another thing-that
when we have work we want honest
dollars with the most purchasing power
dollars which will not depreciate in
our hands over night, but which will be
good every day and every year and
everywhere. Renewed cheering and
cries Of "Hurrah for McKinley."]
"We can not help labor by reduci' g
the value of the money in which la "
is paid. The way to help labor is
provide it with steady work and gt d
wages, and then have those good wa. rs
always paid in good money, money as
sound as the government and as ur IL
lied as this flag" [pointing to ne
American fagl. Tremendous cheering
and applause.
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Average American decline in two years, 421<
per cent.
Total imports Of wool for 10 months ending
June 80: Under Mckinley law QS94), IS, ,155, ,66s
pounds under Wilson. German law (lS98), 2aO.
6ll. .l78 pounds
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The Decline Of silver.

There is simple and unanswerab)e
reason for the decline Of silver. Take
the worlds product Of silver and gold
since 1855. that 10 for 20 years. The
worlds product Of gold in 1855 was
T.i40, ,0O0 ounces. and the highest pre-
dtction Of gold was in l60h. when the
world produced 8.600, 900 ounces. Thus
in 40 years the increase In the produc-
1n oanos q ro.d S.s sssn S1dSot SSs q Vse
in 1853 was 81, ,1oo, ,o6o ounces. The
wsrld's silver product In 1895 was 1885,
O0o. cor ounces. being an increase Of
lsy, ,eOo, ,0O0 ounces. OF over 500 per cent.
The world has mot had use Tor 1t e.
money Il u not needed In the arts, and
Il has therefore declined In price from
ol.eo IN ounee 70 about 90 cents
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Does it follow from the above actual
statistics that the free silver argument
is logicalp
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Wheat sold in 1910 from 81 cents to
80 cents per bushel. In 1890. it had
risen to So cents. In 1878 its market
81. .O3 During the period from 1878 to
1891 it vacillated in price, according to
the production at home and tho expor.
tations from foreign competing coun-
tries. In 1873 the paper dollar WIS
worth but 87.9 cents in gold, which, in
fact, made the price Of wheat lower
than is indicated in the table Of statis-
tics.
Free Silver-Wages are lower by one.
half than in 1878.
Actual results:
Oomon labor. or..................... 1850 81 90
Free silver-Corn is no longer profita.
BILE to the farmer. It has deprecated il
price since 1878.
Actual results:
Corn. 1850 86c
1873 1879 .sc .s
such price as to be Improbable to the
farmer
Actual results:
1878 Sc
1892 88c
Free silver-We need more money per
capita. We have not as much money
per capita as in 1878.
Actual results:
Money per capita. a...................ls60 90 90
1878 l8 30
1893 28 rs
Does it follow from the above actual
statistics that the free silver argument
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Results-Twenty Years.
Wealth more than doubled.
Debt reduced two.thirds.
Interest annually reduced three.
fourths.
Rate of interest reduced.
Debt per capita reduced over three.
fourths.
Interest psr capita reduced over five.
sixths
Free Silver Argument.
Wheat has gradually fallen in price
since 1878.
Actual results:
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CLAIMS REFUTED.
Silver Arguments Cast to the
Four Winds.
FARM PRODUCTS ROSE IN PRICE.

while Many Other <Nsosssariss Have
Gradually DeolinsA In Value. Sugar
and Nearly All ASliclss Used By the
Farmer and Artisan Have Gone e the
Lowest Notch, while Labor wss Better
Paid In 1o0a Than Ever Before.
The average free silver man would
have one believe that the year 1873
marks the decline in value Of all articles
produced in the United States on the
farm, in the workshop and from the
mine.
In each and every year where there
was not an overproduction or an abnor.
NAL expectation from competing nations
there is found gradual appreciation. as
is shown by the following tables:
Study This Record Of Twenty Years Of
Progress In the Unissd States Undsr
Our Present Monetary System.
Before silver was "demonetized"-
Wealth of the United States, 1870, $780,.
000,OO0,O0
After silver was "demonetized"-
Wealth of the United States, 1890, $685..
600. .0OO,O 900.
rSee United States Statistical Abstract, 1894,
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Free silver-We need more money per
capita. We have not as much money
per capita as in 1878.
Actual results:
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-25
AN OLO-T|ME DRIVEWAY,
A Portion of San Francisco That
Has Not Improved Its
Condition.
Tanners Hollow Presents No Induce.
ment for a Boulevard
Continuation.

That portion of the metropolis located
on what is known as the ''old San Bruno
road" leading from the Mission proper
out through South San Francisco to the
county line of San Mateo County,'is one
portion of the City proper that has never
been blessed with an improvement club,
and as a consequence it bears on its sur
face and surroundings the sad spectacle of
neglect and forgetfulness.
With the exception of few inhabitable
dwellings on York street, from Twenty
fourth to Army. the old San Bruno road
presents the same appearance to-day that it
did thirty years ago, with the exec ption of
the eastern side, where lot of tanneries,
soap works and chemical laboratory are
located, all of which are useful, but none
of which are ornamental in their present
condition.
In addition to these structures, which
are ancient and unsightly, the road is in
bad condition, and in the winter season is
a bed OF real mud into which wagons sink
to the hub.
With the prospect of making Folsom
street boulevard from Third street to
Nineteenth. and inviting a continuance to
Army street, thence into San Bruno road
as an outlet to the waters of the bay and
San Mateo, the condition of this portion of
the old road should receive attention either
from the property-owners or the Super
visors to induce persons seeking pleasant
driveway to patroniZe that route. The
view at present comprehends seven tam
neries, two establishments for soapmaklHg
and one where chemicals are prepared, an
offensive odor from sour marsh lands and
water. with a forlorn picture Of dilapi-
dated pesthouse in the offing on the knob
of the hill east OF the road. continuation
of the Folsom-street boulevard would be
mistake. for its outlet in this direction
to the County line, unless it receives some
attention from those who are now seized
by the spirit of progress ami improvement
The neglected condition of Tanuery Flat
IS in sad comparison with the improved
location of the southeast section of the
Mission, where handsome residences and
good streets can be found south of Twenty
fourth street with the tall and graceful
spire of St. Peters Catholic Church in the
center of the improved section.
Army street, which runs parallel with
the bed of the old Mission Greek to the
base of the Twin Peaks and under Bernal
Heights to the San Bruno road, might
have some inducements to those residents
of the Mission who are now seized with
the spirit of progress as suitable avenue
leading to good driveway in that portion
of the City.
Since the advent of the electric cars from
the City front on Brannan street to Tenth,
and out Bryant street to Bernal Heights,
the heretofore remote section has given
the south end a boom and property has in
creased in value. New houses are being
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-25
THE NEW FIRM OF
RA|NEY AND CO,
Rainey, Kelly and Mahoney
Have Formed a Con-
Solidation.
WILL PLAY THE PUSH"
Sam Will Help Martin and Jerry
if They Get Up a Little
Primary.
A sTABLEMAN's RISING POWER.
The Boss of the Democratic Junta
Makes a Deal in Republican
Politics.

Sam Rainey has formed political part
nership with Martin Kelly and Senator
Jerry Mahoney.
This trinity of Old friends, which has
played both ends against the middle in
San Francisco politics before, is now lying
low and figuring. Martin Kelly is fre-
quently about the Bush-street stables, and
Mahoney drops into the Reception saloon
occasionally to meet Rainey in a back
room.
Kelly and Mahoney declare that they
will run rival primary in the Fourth
District for the selection of delegates to
the State Convention, a I'D it is said that it
is to be held on the same day as the regu-
lar primary soon to be called by the
county committee. People who take an
interest in current Republican local affairs
have been wondering what the Mahoney.
Kelly com bination even hoped to accom-
phsh with the Republican organization
and the great majority of the party in the
Fourth District arrayed against them.
They are counting on Sam Rainey and
the Fire Department push to help them
make a showing of mum bers and strength.
Rainey has control of the Junta anti
Buckley organization beyond any ques-
ton, but he is assiduous1y strengthening
his power in that organization, and his
partners are expected TO help him out in
his political battles in the Democratic
party. The Rainey push and the Kelly
push and many of the friends of Rainey
and Kelly who amount TO something in
district politics will be played together at
primaries of both parties. 1t is reported
that Martin Kelly is now working to win
over to Rainey some of Sam Braunhart' s
men in the Twenty ninth. and that his as
sistance to Rainey has already been seen
in other directions.
Kelly and Mahoney have been lying
low ever since that snap Saturday night
meeting in Mahoney's rooms at the Bald
win Hotel, when two forged proxies, one
legitimate proxy and two of the eleven
members OF the State Central Committee
created an alleged congressional COM
mittee for the fourth district. Two or
three days later the members of the STATE
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-25

to furnish his readers with anything like
an adequate idea of the effect produced by
Mr.. Burdette's talk must necessarily re-
produce the lecture verbatim, and even
then disappointment would result.
AS has been said "he is funny without
knowing it," and he talks straigh ht ahead
as though laughter was not ex pected or
desired. But the laughter comes at un-
stated periods and causes the "Hawkeye"
man to interject asterisKs and paragraphs
where they had no place in the setting of
his lecture.
He described the boastful and awkward
young man as he appeared at his hrst So
cial function; the self-conscious maid un-
der similar circumstances; the old maid.
the bachelor, the green and fresh of socie-
ty's urban products.
There was nothing cheap in Mr.. Bur-
dette's humor. He did not attempt to make
any play on the common and uninterest-
ing foibles of mankind, but showed how
funny the average man may be under the
most ordinary circumstances.
He was serious at times, almost to the
pathetic, but he never made the blunder
OF stopping to explain his jokes or pausing
for laugh.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-25

Kelly and Rainey have had long expert
ence in helping out bosses on the other
side at primary elections. Kelly's push
will help out the Junta where Sam Rainey
rules and the Fire Department toughs will
be placed under Kelly's orders whenever
they are needed.
There is nothing surprising in this part
nership after all. 1t is the way of boss
politics when Raineys, Kellys and
Mahoneys get show to go up against the
decent element OF any party. Kelly is
Kellycan in politics, Rainey is a Rainey-
crat, and the devil may take the party.
Another reason why this arrangement
is very natural and a to-be-expect d
thing is that both Mahoney and Kelly
have long been close personal and polit-
ical friends of Sam Rainey. Mahoney has
been to Sacramento as Senator for two
sessions of the Legislature, and at
both sessions he was personally intimate
with Rainey when the latter was there in
behalf of fire department and other bills,
and Mahoney has as a legislator proved
himself valiant friend of Sam Rainey
and his legislative schemes. Rainey really
owes it to Mahoney to help him when he
is in tight place, and it's likewise with
Martin Kelly.
Sam Rainey, as he gets further out of
politics, is forging right to the front,
and promises to become a greater boss
than he ever was when he had to keep in
the shadow of Chris Buckley.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-25
MADE THE BABY SICK.
The Haste of Landlady Costs Her
$500 in q Justice Court
Suit.

Justice of the Peace Groezinger gave
John Walton judgment for 5000 and costs
yesterday in his suit against James Reid
and Alice Reid.
The plaintiff alleged that on November
Z last the defendant Alice Reid, who was
the landlady of the house where he resided
with his wife and little child, entered his
rooms which he had been given an in
formal notice to vacate and in his absence
placed the family belongings in the hall
way, tearing up the carpets and taking
away the mattress of the bed, leaving his
wife no place to sleep: that Mrs. Walton
had been com pelled with the fve-months-
old baby, to occupy the kitchen for two
nights without comforts of any kind that
iii consequence both had been made i'll.
Mrs. Reid admitted having taken up one
piece of carpet and removed her furniture,
but denied that she had in any way inter-
fered with the Walton property.
Justice Goezinger held that in view of
the fact that no legal notice to leave the
premises had been given any forcble
entrance amounted to trespass and that
the plaintiff was entitled to damages, and
he gave judgment accordingly.