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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
Cheap Dollars.

Everything is cheap or dear according
to what we have to pay for it. Sugar is
cheap at ) cents Il pound. but would be
dear at 10 cents.
A cheap dollar. therefore. is one that
the merchant buys with less goods than
he would have to give for Il dearer dol
lar. If merchant now gives twenty
pounds of sugar for Il dollar and the dol
lar which he gets is a 20O-cent dollar:
and if the 2O0-cent dollar is a dishonest
dollar and ought to- be replaced by 100
cent dollar, worth only half as much: i'm
that case. the merchant will give only
half as much sugar for the cheaper dol
lar as he now gives for the dishonest
20O-cent dollar. That is, clear. is it not !?
This is precisely what cheap money"
means.
Is this what the farmer and the work
ingman really want?
Apply this illustration to labor, if Won
please. The Worklngman buys dollars
with labor. Does he want cheap col
lar. for which the merchant will give
only ten pounds of sugar. Or does he
want a 2OO-cent dollar. for which the
merchant will give twenty pounds of
sugar? Cheap dollars would cut his
wages IN halt lie surely does not want
that.
"Oh, no. says the workingman chat
is not what | want: but. if dollars were
cheap. L would get twice as MANY of
them for days work.
Would you. indeed? Not on your life.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver. at
the ratio of 16 to /. is simply scheme
to reduce your wages without your know
ing 1t or having an excuse for striking.
What good would it do you to get twice
as many dollars for days work if 81
would buy no more sugar, and no more
of anything else, than 81 will now buy ,
Besides, it prices go up under free
coinage. as they will-we admit that
does not the workingman know that the
first thing to go up will be rents. the
next thing will be food and clothing. and
the last thing will be labor? Under free
coinage. instead of being better off. the
worklngman would be worse off than he
is now.
Think this over and see what if all
means to you and to your little family
Springfield Qll.l Journal.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
Bryan Shown to- be Uncertain.

There is abundant proof that Mr..
Bryan is an insincere politician and an
unreliable adviser of the people. He
was bolter in 1893 and in that year,
too, he made a speech in which he de-
clared that the exchanged Bile value of a
dollar depended oh something besides
congressional edict.
When Frank Irvine WAS running on
the Democratic ticke for judge of the
Supreme court of Nebraska Mr. Bryan
supported Populist In reply to let
ter from Mr.. Irvine, calling Mr.. BryaT's
attention to his unexpected position, the
present candidate for President on the
Democratic ticket wrote statement of
his reasons for boiling which contained
the following cool remarks and assur-
ances of personal and peculiar esteem
tor the Democratic candidate:
regret that our people chose for slaughter
so deserving man. They ought to
have selected some one of the numer-
Gus Democrats who are responsible
for the falling off of the Democratic
vote. | have spoken TO you thus
frankly and cOnfidentially. because
feel that You deserve better fate
than the one which fear awaits you
this fall
Congress of 1893, called by President
Cleveland, Mr.. Bryan made a speech in
which he declared that:
While the government can say that given
weight of gold or silver shall consti-
tu i.a collar and invest that dollar
with legal tender qualities. it cannot
nx the purchasing power of the dol
lar That must depend upon the
law OF supply and demand
IL the number of dollars increases
more rapidly than the need of dol
lars.as II did after the gold discover
les or lSF9-the exchangeable value of
each dollar viii fall and prices rise.
thus 1t appears that Mr. Bryan knew
what the eXcfangeable yalue of a dol
lar depended on. His change of tune.
therefore, is not because conditions have
changed. but because he shifts his prin.
clpies with the varying political breezes,
ana that be is willing to do anything for
In the spring of 1892 Bryan declared
IN Il speech made by him on the tariff
question mat the fall of prices must be
attributed
TO the inventive genius that has multinlied
a thousand times, in many instances,
tne strength of single arm and
enabled us to do today with one man
what nifty men could not do fifty
years ago. That is what brought the
prices down in this country and else
where.
AT this time another change has come
over the spirit of his white house
cream lie and his fellow Populists
ascrlbe the fall in the prices of commod-
itles 70 the fall in the price of silver.
Mr.. Bryan and his associates declare
Ihat the crime of 1873" which the
News has shown 70 have been no crime
at all, has pulled everything down with
it.
How can the people believe a man
who thus stnltifies. himself and puts him.
self on both sides of vital questions.
while, at the same time. he proves nm
true to his party associates buffalo
News.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
What Stewart Thought in 1894.

Senator Stewart of Nevada made a
speech i'll Congress February II, 1874, i'll
which he said:
Let everybody know what a dollar is
worth. The farmers will then know how
to measure the difference IN price be-
tween his wheat in Illinois and the wheat
in Liverpool. The wheat will be meas
ured by the same standard-go ld-in
Illinois as it is in Liverpool and any man
terry: the whole subject of finance is a
mystery. and what do we see every day ?
We see those who devote their attention
to it ma king large fortunes out of this
mystery.
Let us do as all the people of the world
have been doing from the beginning
measure our values by gold adopt the
standard that all can understand, and
get rid of this mystery.
Mr.. Logan-What does the senator
wanti
Mr. Stewart want the standard gold.
and no paper money not redeemed in
gold. no paper money the value of which
is not ascertained. no paper money that
will organize a gold board to speculate
with it. Who pays for this gold board ?
Who pays these immense fortunes? How
is it that millions and millions can be
rolled up annually there? Did anybody
ever calculate who paid for it? 1t
comes out of the producers. How do
these men exist? By the latitude which
your deprecated currency gives to specu-
lation and nothing else.
Persons who are specializing in your
deprecated currency are making the
money, and they will continue to make
it so long as you have a deprecated cur
rency.
If the farmers would get rich they
have got to become skilled in this fiuctuat-
ing currency and make corners and man.
ipulate the market, and if they do that
they cannot farm.-tC Congressional Rec
ord forty-third Congress, first session,
vol. 2. p. 1922
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
viduals.. A man who has repudiated his

viduals. A man who has repudiated his
debts is never trusted again and is re-
garded with contempt by all his neigh
bOrs. And so is nation.
A free-coinage law is Reputation, and
that it is understood in that sense is in
Dictated by such letters as the above.
For if under free coinage the silver dol
lar is to appreciate to the value of gold
dollar how will the farmer get more of
them for his thousand bushels of wheat
How can he pay his debt any easier than
he can now?
No, it is reputation tire silver men
want, and repudiati ton is dishOnOr.-Chi-
cago Times-Herald.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
Bryan a Greenbacker.

Mr. Bryan is not so much s;lvor;+o
as he is greenbacker. He said. on the
floor of the House of Representatives in
Washington. June 5. 1894.
The issue of money by the govern
ment directly to the people gives as )
safer currency than national bank bills1
ana saves TO the people as a whole the
bank issues money. Won mnst nov IA :,
market rate of interest to get If. hmt
when the government issues money. the
people save the interest, if the money Is
afterward called in; and they save tha
p p,,n also, if the money is kept in cir
He asserted that greenbacks s.can be
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
FARMERS EGG BASKET
The Mckinley Law Checked I'm
- portation and Gave a
= Home Market.
EFFECT OF THE WILSON BILL.
The Canadian Farmer Has Protection
but the American Farmer
Has None.

There is no reason why Canada, Next
co. China or any other country should
supply the United States with Il single
egg. Canada does not buy a single egg
from us. and there is no reason why we
should buy from her When we do, the
American farmer loses the benefit of part
of his natural market.
The purpose of this article is to show
by a few figures the benefit which the
American farmer derived from the Nc
kinley law: not merely because the
law stopped imports from other countries.
but because under that law he received
an average of II cents dozen for his
eggs all the year around. Under the
present Wilson-GOrman bill, he hardly
averages ) cents a dozen: and the people
could better afford to pay Il cents a
dozen in 1892. than they can 5 cents a
dozen in 1896.
From 1883 to 1890. there was no tariff
upon eggs. The Canadian farmer could
send his eggs across the line from Maine
to California. Mexico, China France,
Germany and other countries supplied
us with 15,5OO.OOO dozens of eggs. an
nualiy. on the average. We paid every
year TO the foreign farmer on this small
product alone. at 10 cents dozen. s.
0OO.OOO. This importation of over l.
100000 dozen month or $4,000 dozen a
day was felt, i'll the way of competition,
BY our farmers chiefly in the large cities.
Farmers can get the best prices for eggs
and their products in the large cities;
but when New York, Philadelphia. Bos-
ton. Buffalo. Cleveland. Chicago. San
Francisco and many other markets are
supplied with eggs shipped at cheap
rates of transportation by water, how
Gan the farmer expect to compete who
mas to ship his eggs by rail?
The following statement shows impor-
tations of eggs. by countries. the year be-
fore the Mckinley tariff went into effect.
Tor the year ending June 30 1899:
Imp0rtations of eggs, by countries July1.
1883 to June 30 1899
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
A Question for Farmers

If the volume of silver money controls
prices. as the free coiners would have
us believe that it does. so that the more
silver coin there is in circulation. the
higher is the price of wheat. and the
less silver coin there is in circulation.
the lower the price of wheat: then will
some farmer. who believes in the free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1. answer the
question:
How. did it happen that wheat was
lower in price in 1894 than ever before.
while the amount of coined silver i'm the
world was greater than ever before ~
Illinois State Journal.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
1913, 800 81, 41S, 976
1t would evidently be impossible for

1t would evidently be impossible for
farmers fifty miles in the interior of any
of the states bordering on the Great
Lakes. to compete with eggs shipped by
water from Canada.
The Mckinley tariff imposed a duty
of cents a dozen on eggs This law
went into effect October |. 1890. Dur
ing the year ending June 80. 1890. we
imported nearly 100000 dozen eggs less
than in the year previous. when there
was no protection. The importation of
eggs steadily decreased until the repeal
of the Mckinley law in 1894. so that
instead of nearly 100000 dozen eggs
being brought into this country. as here
tOfore, in 1901 we imported 5000. OOO
dozen; 4.000.000 in 1882: 5000 OOO
in 1929; 1.150000 in 1881 By 1894
nearly S2.000.000 had been taken from
the foreign shipper, which now went into
the pockets of the American farmer.
The following table shows the importa-
tons of eggs since 1888:
Annual imp0rtations of foreign eggs, 1888
1895
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
The Irishman and the Potato Bug.

Mr.. Tenpey's story at Madison of the
freshman who swallowed ii potato bug
and then a dose of Paris green. in the
hope of killing the bug, is very pat to
the political situation. The American
Worklngman swallowed free trade in
IS92, and now, to cure the misery which
ne mas suffered ever since. the Populist
quack doctor is trying to induce him 10
swallow an unlimited dose of free silver.
BUT If the workingman takes it. he will
nnd. when It is too late, that the cure Is
worse than the disease. :
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24

b Protected. October g. 1890, at cents per
dozen.
C German &c Tariff
During the last year of the Mckinley
tariff the only eggs we bought were from
Canada, and from China for the Chi
nese. We bought none whatever from
European countries, as before. Even at
cents dozen the tariff would not be
any too high. 1t simply made a differ
ence TO the countries across the Ocean. or
places in Canada, far from the shipping
points.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24

If the Mckinley law had been let
alone. the American farmer in 1896
would be supplying nearly every egg IN
the American market. The farmers
wife would have felt encouraged to in
crease her stock of poultry, on which
she depended for pin money to clothe
herself and her children. When the
iff or eggs reduced from 5 cents to 3
cents dozen, importation increased
100000 dozen in one year, at an in
creased price of S125.0OO. Unless the
American farmer can see it to be his in
terest to vote for Mckinley and the
restoration of a proper duty on eggs, the
Canadian and other foreign farmers will
soon again ship us 16.OO0O0O dozen
year and the price of domestic eggs will
continue to decline. as they have done
for the last two years.
Question. why Should Democrats Legis-
late in favor of the Canadian as against
the American Farmer?
The American farmer could not sell
eggs in Canada. even if they had no
tariff on American eggs. There are only
few large cities there, and they are
near to the Canadian cheap farms. The
half-a-dozen small markets in Canada
have a total population only One-quarter
as large as that of the city of New York.
A few election districts in the city of
New York. or in Philadelphia. or in
Chicago. afford better market for
American eggs than the whole of Can
ada Yet Canada imposes duty of .
cents dozen on our eggs. while we i'm
pose a duty of only ; cents a dozen on
her eggs.
The Canadians have protection. but
under the Wilson bill we have not.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24

A gain during six years of
Republican rule of. :.
During the ensuing four years
until the election of Mr..
Harrison in 1888, values de-
creased from
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24

Sl.520
Reducing this to gold. as in the original
statement. the net profit of the Mexican
farmer would be $3.50. exactly what that
of the American farmer would be. This
is a fair specimen of the illusory and
deceptive statements put forth by free
silver men to deceive AMERICAN farn,ers
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24

A loss during four years Of
Democratic rule of.
During the ensuing four years,
until the second election Of
Mr.. Cleveland in 1892. values
again increased from.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
VALUES DECREASED.

Prices of Live Stock Under Republican
and Democratic Rule.
When resumed specie pay
ment in 1879 our domestic
animals, horses, mules, eat
tie, sheep and swine were
valued at ST. 445, 42ss O62
During the ensuing six years,
until the election of Mr.
Cleveland in 1884, the values
increased to- .......-........... a.467, s6s, 924
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
Assumed net profit to American

farmer. 70 5Ff
iIeuuceu 10 SOlu III
AS this assumed profit would he i'm
silver and the wheat would have to be
sold upon the gold standard. this skillful
accountant reduces this to gold making
the net profit to the Mexican farmer
S12SO. But to produce this result this
accommodating accountant while, con-
ceding that the expense of raising the
wheat would be twice as many silver
dollars as in the United States. as
sumes that the profit ON it would be the
same number of silver dollars as in the
United States. As matter of fact the
freight rates in Mexico are higher ex-
pressed in the gold standard than in the
United States. but assuming that they
are the same. the American railroad com
panles,, as soon as they cross the border.
require twice as many Mexican dollars
to pay given freight rate as they re-
quire of American dollars on American
territory. so that the freight rate. in Mex
leo would be $1,000 instead of $500 as
our free silver accountant states it.
Moreover. interest rates are higher in
Mexico than in the United States. If
paid IN Mexican silver dollars. and more
over the interest would have to be paid
on twice the number of silver dollars Dor
roWed by the American farmer. SO that
even SuppoSlng the rates of interest
TO be the same. the am0unt of interest
would be double. raising it from 5000 to
s4oO. Moreover. the equivalent of $40
taxes paid by the American farmer
would be $50 in Mexican dollars. so that
the account of the Mexican farmer Tins
corrected. would stand as follows:
5000 bushels at SIP per bushel 81 500
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
FIGURES FOR FARMERS
Arithmetic for Wheat Growers
Which Neglects Tax and In
terest Considerations.
AFREE SILVER MATHEMATICIAN.
Silver Accountants Concede Double
Expense in Mexico and AS
sumo Equal Profits.

Warren, Mimi, Aug. .6.-To the Editor:
l enclose comparative slips circulated by
an advocate of free silver. which subject
l would like your opinion on. 1T, of
course, is intended to catch the farmer
who raises wheat, and deductions of this
kind have had their influence in this dis
trict, which is largely wheat growing.
| would like the going wages in Mexico
and the rates of interest in countries on
silver basis as compared with the gold
standard countries. l.. Henderson.
The first slip processes TO show :he net
profit to farmer of raising 5000 bushels
of wheat in the United States:
5000 bushels, at So cents per bushel. $500
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24

A gain during four years Of
Republican rule of. .. 52112 $50
During the last two years.
under the second admins
tration of Mr.. Cleveland. and
under proposed and accom-
pished free trade and sweep
ing tariff reductions, values
again decreased from Qs93) 24S3, 506, 6s1
To the comparatively insight
ficant total of / ,S19, 446 5O6
Showing the enormous loss
in two years of Democratic
rule of Observation-Disclosures. 664, O6O, 80 )
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
Countries.
Dozens, / '
Is. 91S. 800 81. 41s.976

The next table shows the points at which
these eggs were received:
AMERICA PORTS OF ENTRY FOR EGGS
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24
5S,S25-5O6

2. 409,043,41S
2,461, 755,69S
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24

864,O6O,.375
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-24

2.467,S6S,
=, 9,043, AS
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-07-02
To John w. Pohlman and
the heirs at law of B.
j. Gagnier decd.
G. M. d. Miser Admr. and ]. P. Davis
VS..
John w. Pohlman and the heirs at law of
B. !. Gagnier decd.

Original Attachment Bill No. 3IS. In
the Chancery Court at Maryyille, Tenn.
1t appearing from the bill in this cause,
which is sworn to, that John w. Pohlman
and the heirs at law of B. J. Gagnier de-
ceased, Whose names and residences are
unknown and cannot be ascertained after
the most diligent inquiry are justly indebt-
ed to G. M. D. MiseE Admr. and J. P.
Davis the complts. and that they reside
out of the State; and an attachment having
been issued and levied on the defendant.
property, it is ordered that publication b.
made for four consecutive weeks in tho
Maryville TIMES requiring the said defen
dants to appear before said Chancery Courl
on the grid Monday Of October next and
make defense to the bill filed against them
in this cause, otherwise said bill will be
taken for confessed, and the cause proceed.
ed with exparte.
This June 18th. 1896.
W. c. Chumlea, c. & M.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-07-02

the Department Of State, bringing
into review, also, our diplomatic
and consular service, and the Great
Seal Of the Uaited States. In Feed
ing City Like New York; John
Gilmer Speed makes some aston
Thing statements, presents sur
prising figurs, and asserts that
New Workers could live COM
Portable for four:months in case of
a siege cutting off all their food
spplies. DIR. Parkhurst: speaks
forcible to young men In his paper,
IA Young Mans Religious Life"
and Mrs. A. d. T. Whitney, with
equal vigor and directness, writes
to girls concerning beauty. VIII
liam Martin Johnson's Souvenirs
OF Summer Days" is an artistic,
practical article-timely also, being
directed to those who will enjoy
part Of the summer amid new
scenes. "People Who Live In the
Moon," A $4,000 House, articles on
seasonable dresses, upon millinery,
needlework and various topics of
general and household interest,
and the usual departments are also
included i4xthe July Journal which
is unusually complete. No feature
of it will appeal to lovers of the
beautiful more strongly than the
cover by Maxwell Parrish printed
In rich tones of brown and green,
on buff paper. BY The Curtis Pub
fishing Company, Philadelphia, one
dollar per year, ten cents per copy.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-07-02

The Knoxville Tribune and Sem
tinel pretend to have found great
deal of excitement in this county
over the Sheriff7s race. They say
the latest is prohibition candi-
date and as there are so many(?)
prohibitionists in this county, the
democrats will unite with them
and elect their candidate. The fact
is the prohibition candidate has
been out over a month and our two
esteemed contemporaries are be-
hind on the --latest" There is no
excitment whatever, as all true
republicans are going to support
Sam Walker, the nominee, and as
there are nearly twice as many
republicans in this county as there
are democrats, prohibitionists and
populites combined there is no
doubt whatever as to who our
nextSherifr will be.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-07-02
CAMPAIGN soNHs.

y
We have just received from the
music publishing house of The S.
Brainard's Sons Co., 151 Wabash
Ave-, Chicago, copy of the "True
Blue Republican Campaign Song
Book" for the campaign of 1896.
The book contains solos, duets,
mixed and male quartet, and is
especially arranged for campaign
clubs. 1t is not cheap word
edition, and is sold for the remark
able low price of 10 cts. or $1O0 per
dozen postpaid. The following is
the contents of the book:
Always looked behind. A thousand
dollars a minute. Billy Mckinley,
o! Git on board. Good bye, free
traders. Growers veto. Ninety
two and ninty six. Political barber
shop. Sammy's syndicate. That's
what's worring. The Democratic
boat The fellow I'd like to meet
The Grover I wear down below
Under the flag of protection. Way
down on Quantico Bay. Well sing
a little song.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-07-02
July Ladies' Home journal

The Ladies' Home Journal for
July-an artistically attractive and
interesting issue-opens with a
sumptuously illustrated article on
Joan of Arc and her home, by EN-
ma Asbrand Hopkins, whs enter
tainingly writes of the childhood
and religious life of the Maid. APP
ropos ofthe approaching centenary
of Burns Arthur Warren presents
1.-THE Other Side of Robert Burns"
revealing the better side of the
poet. Hezekiah Butterworth tells,
his engaging way, Brook Farm
story. "The Wife of Ben Bow"
and Alice Wellington Rollins hui
morous romances of "a Town
Bicycle" A trio of poems of the
field, fromed in drawing by w.
Hamilton Gibson, and musical
composition-"The Landon Polka"
by Mrs. Francies j. Moore, are
page features. Edward w. Box
writes editorially of the girl be-
tween sixteen and twenty, and
enters a plea tor people who go to
the country in the summer time to
live as near to Nature as possible.
Ex- President Harrison discusses