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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-25
OLNEY OR CARLISLE.
Either Would Be Supported by Presidem
Cleveland.

Either WosIld Be Supported by President
Cleveland.
NEW YORK, Feb. ga Herald special
from Washington says: The general opin-
ion Is that there will be a good deal Of
Olney among the delegates when they
meet in Chicago next July. The close
friends of Secretary Olney say that he is
not looking for the nomination. Yet, they
say, that should the nomination be offered
to him he would not refuse it.
For several months there has been talk
in Washington OF Olney being the nomi-
nee. The movement has been growing in
force until it has assumed Importance. II
is believed that the time is not far distan,
when Cleveland will unequivocally an.
nounce his position in regard to a renom.
ination that he will decline again to be a
candidate, and that all of his influence
will be exerted in behalf of his successor
With Whitney declining to be candi.
date one can see but two men whom the
President could cordially support. One is
Richard Olney; the other is John g. Car
Isle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-25
CONFERENCE OF SILVER MEL
They WiU Plan to Capture Too Dem
CRATIC COMremtioms.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Feb. 24.-Circulars
have been issued calling private confer
ence here February 26 of silver man, dele
cations to be present from every Congress
sional district. 1t is stated that the object
is not to organize new party, but to get
the silver men together to do effective
work. The understanding is that the
meeting is to plan for the capture of the
two State conventions of the Dem ocrats
this year and declare for free coinage of
silver. The party in the State is close on
the issue, though the sound-money M en-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-25

Circulars and Testimonials of the Great Hudyan
fraa
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
Things Might BE Far Worse.

1t is frequent excuse of unthinking
men for leaning toward free silver
that "things can't be worse than they
now are. >" This is mistake. Mat
tiers can be very much worse, especially
for the workingmen.
First-They would be worse if wages
were paid in SO cent dollar or in a
dollar worth less than 100 cents. How
over it may be with mine owners and
mortgage debtors, men whose capital is
their labor are not interested in having
tho purchasing power of their dollar"
diminished.
Second. Things would be made
worse for the 1888. $50 savings bank
depositors in this state alone if their
$715, 032, 500 of savings were made pay
able in deprecated dollars
Third Things would be worse for
the nearly LOCO, 900 pensioners if their
monthly stipend were to be paid in 53
cent dollars.
Fourth. Things would be worse for
all the millions of beneficiaries OF stock,
mutual and cooperative insurance COM
panies and all the l,745, 725 sharehold-
ers in building and loan associations II
payment were to be made to them in
any money less good than the best
Fifth. Things would be worse for
everybody in case of q panic caused by
the prospect of silver basis. New
York World.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
ANDRES MONUMENT.
vandals Have Clipped His Memorial In
Westminster Abbey.

Vandals lave Clipped His Memorial In
Westminster Abbey.
Near the center of the south wall OF
the nave is q monument to Major Andre
of Revolutionary note. The very long
inscription upon it begins, Sacred TO
the memory of Major John Andre, who,
raised by his merit, at an early period
of life, to the rank Of adjutant general
of the British forces In America, and
employed in an important but hazardous
enterprise, fell sacrifice to his zeal for
his king and country, on the I'd OF Oc-
tober, 1880, aged go. universally beloved
and esteemed by the army in which he
served and lamented even by his foes. p"
About the base Of the monument,
which is panel set against the wall,
are several small figures These project
from the panel, and represent the presen-
tation Of Major Andres letter to Gen
eral Washington on the night before his
execution. The ease with which the
heads of these figures could be broken
off has been too great temptation to
relic hunters. and most Of the heads
have been knocked off and stolen. That
such vandalism is not wholly modern is
shown from the fact that Charles Lamb
writes of the defacing of this very mon
ument in this way in his Essays OF
Ella" Southey, the poet, when boy
was pupil at the Westminster school.
Later in life he was exceedingly sensi-
tive in regard to his political princi-
Piles, and for a time q serious quarrel
existed between himself and Lamb, be-
cause the latter, speaking in regard to
this injury to Andres monument, de-
scribed it as the "wanton mischief OF
some schoolboy, fred perhaps with
raw notions of transatlantic freedom. "
Then, addressing Southey, he added,
1.-THE mischief was done about the time
that you were q scholar there. Do you
know anything about the unfortunate
relief"
There is now fastened upon the wall
Of the nave, above the monument,
wreath of oak leaves which Dean Stan
ley, when no visited America, gathered
near the spot on the bank of the Hudson
river where Andre was executed. Al
though Andre died in 1880, it was not
until 1891 that, at the request of the
Duke Of York, his bones were exhumed
and taken to England to be buried in
the abbey. The box in which they were
placed for the voyage is still preserved
in the oratory over st. Islip's chapel,
where the wax figures are kept.-Max
Bennett Thrasher in st. Nicholas
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
Stamp Would Add No Value.

What would be the value of paper
money if the government offered to put
its seal upon all paper brought to it,
giving pound of paper money for a
pound Of paper? The operation of the
free coinage of silver would be perfectly
analogous, except that the paper would
be defaced by the process Of printing,
while silver would remain unchanged
in value. Under free coinage pound
of dollars and pound of bullion must
be of the same value. A pound Of silver
dollars is now worth more than pound
of silver bullion only because the gov
eminent has u monopoly of the manu-
facture of silver dollars and it limits the
supply and it is also committed to
maintaining the dollars ut par In gold
But if it agrees to puts its stamp upon
all the silver brought to it its monopoly
disappears, the quantity becomes indea-
mite, and the government is Of course re-
leased from the obligation to maintain
their value above what it really is, and
the silver dollar must circulate at its
bullion value, just as the gold dollar
does. Consequently no class Of persons
would be so astonished and disappointed
by the results of free coinage as the
mine owners. who imagine that under
free coinage their bullion would be
transmitted ut the mint into dollars
worth what silver dollars are now
worth. journal of Commerce and Com
mercial Bulletin.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
Information For All.

Too much cannot be said in praise of
the penny publication Present Prob
lens. Four numbers have thus far
been issued, and each contains an excel
lent discussion on the money question.
No l is 48-page pamphlet entitled
1.-THE Free Coinage Problem. y 1t is a
most excellent treatment of the whole
FREQ coinage problem, showing its bear
ings on farmers, wage earners and the
general public.
No. 2 contains, besides other short
articles, the now famous Horrible
Crime - The Decentralization of Iron
2,200 Years Ago" by Alex. P. Hull.
No. is entitled Free Coinage Dis
sected. +" 1t is by ex-Congressman John
De Witt Warner, one of our best posted
men ON the money question. He makes
good use of the 80 pages in this PAM
phlet. Besides laying bare the 16-to-1
question he indicates what must be the
final solution of the coinage and cur
rency questions.
No. 4 is entitled "Sixteen to One
Versus Wages. 1t is also by Mr.. War
ner. 1t shows from statistics in this
and other countries that actual wages
have always and everywhere declined
when paid in depreciating money, and
have risen, when paid in gold. His sta
tistics and arguments are full and con-
elusive. No one who understands them
will attempt to answer them.
This admirable series of timely little
pamphlets undoubtedly furnish both
the best and the cheapest information
on this question for the general reader.
They are convenient size for carrying
in the pocket, are illustrated and are
printed in attractive form with neat
covers
They are published semi-monthly by
the Present Problems Publishing CO.,
81 Park place, New York city. The
subscription price is 20 cents per year
single copies, cent each. Sample copies
will be sent free to writers or speakers
on the money question. who are likely to
use large quantities if the pamphlets
are found to be satisfactory.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30

Mankind progressed from the use of
rowboats to sailing vessels and steam
ships 1t is not "enmity' to sailing
vessels that makes us travel by steam
ships 1t is no 'unfriendly act" of a
great newspaper against hand presses if
it uses steam presses. 1t is no "crime"
against horses if we transport our goods
by railroads. Neither is it enmity to
silver nor an unfriendly act, nor a crime
toward it, if other nations and our own
use gold for the transfer of values. We
will continue to use rowboats and sail
ing vessels as well as steamships, just
as we will continue to use copper and
silver as we'll as gold. No act of con-
gress could. however, give to our sailing
vessels the great and almost uniform
swiftness of our ocean steamers. Not
even an international agreement would
accomplish IT'D. Ochs.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
A samnla silverita Error.

Governor Altgeld of Illinois expresses
popular delusion of the free coinage
advocates when he asserts, Formerly
all of the gold and all of the silver that
was mined each year was added to the
stock of money of the world" In one
form or another this assertion is being
repeated throughout the country as an
argument for free silver.
By formerly" however, Altgeld
means previous to 1878. But he is very
much astray as to his facts. In no coun-
try of the world, at any period in his
tory, have all Of the gold and silver
mined each year been used as money.
Large quantities of both metals have al
ways been used in the arts, at some
periods the consumption in this form
exceeding the annual production. AT
least so per cent of all the gold and sill
yer mined has been used for other pur-
poses than for money. Since the discov
cry of America the value Of the worlds
production of gold and silver is given
by DIR. Soetbeer and other statisticians
at about SIS, roo, 600, 900.
The total value of the worlds stock
VI ItOuSJ 10 INV Dub AlbblO hhOAO oA"4A
So, 600, 900, 900, showing that over &c..
900, 900, 900 worth, or about 60 per
cent, of gold and silver has been used
in the arts.
In the 80 years previous to 1873 the
United States coined only 8, 900, 900 sill
yer dollars, and about $125, 900, 900 of
subsidiary coins. During the past %
years there have been coined over 422,-
600, 600 silver dollars and about $780,
900, 600 in subsidiary coinage. Thus in
stead Of adding less silver to our stock
of money since 1878, we have coined 30
times as many silver dollars as were is
sued before that time and have greatly
increased our annual coinage of sub
sidiary silver Our coinage of gold has
also increased largely since 1878, the
average amount for the 23 years before
that date being about 1871, 900, 600 an
nually, while for the past 23 years it
averaged over $45, 900, 900 per year.
In spite of these indisputable facts.
which can be verified by any voter who
win write to the director of tho mint
and ask for his official report Governor
Altgeld asserts that "the annual I'D
dition to the stock of money is less than
half of what it formerly was. Could
there be clearer proof of the campaign
of deception and misrepresentation
which is being carried on by tho 16-to-1
agitators?
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
Senator Mills For Gold.

In 1879 gold became the standard
which measured all values in this coun-
try. 1t is now the standard, the uni
form standard, of value of the CONNER
cial world. | denounce now in
this country the attempt to shift and
change the standard of values for the
purpose of enabling the debtor to cheat
aud defraud his creditor out of one-half
OF what he has promised him and in
doing so to put the country upon va
riable and shifting standard of value,
by which the people will be plundered
continuously from one end of it to the
other. Every contract now in existence
in tho United States made since 1879 is
on the gold standard, and where dol
lar is mentioned it means n gold dollar
or one MS good as gold, and will never
vote for any law that enables man to
cancel an obligation to pay 100 cents
by paying 81 cents. Senator Roger Q.
Mills in the Senate, 1894.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
WHY HE TOOK 1T OFF.

He Concluded That Bryan Badges DOM
Look Well on Farmers With Overdue
Mortgages.
The following is tho substance of a
conversation that took place few days
ago in rural county of New York:
Neighbor-Hello, Georgel You wear
ing free silver badge?
Farmer-Yepi Don't it look fine?
Mt looks all right, but if you
knew what it means I don't believe
you'd bo wearing it.
FL rather guess I would. You
know 1 have mortgage on my farm?
N.-Yes, but I don't sec how free
coinage will give you money to pay it
off.
F-Dont expect it will right away,
but it will make it easier for me to get
money so that can pay it some time.
1t will raise the prices of what l have
to sell without adding anything to the
mortgage
N.-But don't you know that it
would increase tho price of what you
have to buy even more than Of what
you have to sell? But, say, George,
ism t your mortgage overdue?
F.-Yes, it is-more than two years.
N.-Well, now, if that's SO, you are
certainly making mistake to vote for
Bryan.
F.-How so2
N.-Don't you see that it will COM
pei the holder of that mortgage to fore
close it? just as soon as Bryan is elect
ed, or as soon as it becomes probable
that he will be elected, every holder of
overdue mortgages will arrange to fore
close them. They won't wait to see
what Bryan dollar will look like.
but will take your farm if you don't at
once pay off the mortgage in dollars as
| good as gold?
F.-Do you think they would?
N.-Certainly. I'd do SO myself
rather than wait and be compelled by
law to accept a cheaper dollar. Sc
would you if you had money loaned
out. So would anybody. Men don't
loan money for fun, and they don't care
to lose half of their principal.
MAY be you re right Ifyou are,
certainly don't want to vote to have my
mortgage foreclosed I couldn't raise
money to pay it now; that's sure.
The next day the farmer had parted
company with his Bryan badge. and
when he had given his reasons to an.
other farmer in the same boat tho other
farmer also threw his silver badge away.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
An Apt Illustration.

At Toledo Mr.. Bryan said, "If you
have little home and it only cost you
800 and has but one room, you who
own that little homo would be as much
exercised by the announcement it had
caught ON fire as would the great man
who lives in marble palace, because it
is your home.''
You would be good dcnl :, ore exer-
cised also if you knew that ,,,r. Bryan
having been elected presidf ct. the in
surance which you had paid for out Of
your labor with 100 cent dollars was to
be paid to you in dollars worth 90 cents.
1t wouldn't make so much difference
to the man who lives in the marble pal
ace -ExchanCe
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
The Corpuient Bourbons.

Where does the Duo d Orleans get his
fatf From the Spanish and Neapolitan
Bourbons, Of whom he is unquestionably
descendant, even though Louis Phi
lippe were Chiappini. Icannot think
Of any French Bourbons, except Louis
XVI, his sister Clotilde and Philippe
Egalite's father and the Comte dc
Ohambord and his sister, who We're very
fat The two latter were, however. de-
scended from the Neapolitan and Span
fish Bourbons. Obesity has been an oft
recurring malady of tho Spanish royal
family ever since Elizabeth Farnese
married Philip v. She was the heiress
of the latest italian that probably ever
lived. He was prince for Barnum
show whose legs had to be propped up
by buckram and whalebone cases to pre-
vent them overlapping his feet. Fatty
degeneration impaired the usefulness of
Charles Ill of Spain and destroyed the
activity of the late Queen Christina,
grandmother of tho Comtesse do Paris.
Queen Isabella strongly inherits the
family failing. The Comtesse de Paris
makes brave fight against the heredi-
tary diathesis by Bantingizing at Mar
ienbad and ON the Aubergne moors,
where she tires out all her gamekeep-
ers. -London Truth.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
What Free Coinage Means.

What does free coinage" as it is
called, meanY 1t does not mean that the
government would buy any of the sill
yer; not an ounce. The government
would simply receive the silver from its
owner. stamp it and hand it back to
him. Does this create any demand for
silver?
Buokwheat flour is now used to a
limited extent for food. The demand
for buckwheat flour is entirely due to
this fact. Would opening new buck
wheat flour mill create any demand for
buckwheat? Certainly not. any more
than the reaping and thrashing did.
These are all simply steps in preparing
the supply. The market would still
have to be found in competition with
other kinds of flour. Hon. ]. 7. Nc
Cleary of Minnesota.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
Animala, Illusions.


Birds arc perhaps more commonly the
victims of illusions than other animals,
their stupidity about their eggs being
quite remarkable. Last year, for in
stance, hen got into the pavilion Of o
ladies' golf club and began to sit on
golf ball in corner, for which it made
nest with couple of pocket handker-
chiefs. But many quadrupeds are not
only deceived for the moment by reflec-
tions, shadows and such unrealities, but
often seem victims to illusions largely
developed by the imagination.
The horse, for instance, is one of the
bravest of animals when face to face
with dangers which it can understand,
such as the charge of an elephant or a
| wild boar at bay. Yet the courageous
| and devoted horse, so steadfast against
the dangers ho knows, is q prey to a
hundred terrors of the imagination due
to illusions, mainly those Of sight, for
shying, the minor effect of these illu-
sions, and "bolting," in which panic
gains complete possession of his soul,
are caused, as a rule, by mistakes as to
| what the horse sees, and not by misin-
depreciation of what he hears. 1t is no.
ticed, for instance, that many horses
which shy usually start away from OBJ
jects on one side more frequently than
from objects ON the other. This is prob
ably due to defects in the vision Of one
or other eye.
In nearly all cases of shying the horse
takes fright at some unfamiliar object,
though this is commonly quite harm.
less, such as wheelbarrow upside
down, freshly felled log or piece Of
paper rolling before the wind. This in
stantly becomes an illusion, is inter
preted as something else, and it is a Gu
rious question i'll equine homeopathy tt
know what it is that tho horse figures
these harmless objects to be. Wher
Russian ponies first began to be shipped
to Harwich, they usually objected tt
pass near donkey. This reluctance
was explained on the hypothesis that
the ponies seldom saw donkeys in Rus
STA and mistook them for bears. Lon
| doY, Gpaotokny
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
"TERRlFIED" VOTERS.
a Maine Newspapers Explanation of thu
Recent Landslide.

Maine Newspapers Explanation OF the
Recent Landslide.
Tho Bangor Commercial, one OF the
few straight Democratic papers in Maine
this year, thinks tho main cause of the
Republican landslide there on Sept. IA
was the wicked and successful attempt
to alarm the voters. Through their
scheme of individual lists, says The
Commercial, "tho status Of every voter
was known, and to doubtful ones were
sent during the past week numerous
documents designed to frighten them
into the belief that an awful calamity
would befall the country should Bryan
and Sewall be elected.
"They were told that their savings
banks deposits would be reduced one
half; that holders Of mortgages and real
estate would take steps toward immedi-
ate foreclosure; that life insurance pre-
miums-in fact, all kinds of savings in
vestments-would be dealt blow from
which they could not possibly recover.
The plain people. almost terrified at the
dark picture drawn for them, rushed to
the polls to support the Republican can
didates, with the result already shown.
The explanation is probably correct.
The voters were frightened; but not
without good reason. A rational man
will not knowingly vote to destroy the
title to half of his property. Every voter
with two lobes to his brain, who has
dispassionately studied the free coin
age question, knows that it means a
reduction of tho value of our dollar to
tho value of the Mexican dollar. Wage
carriers. pensioners, savings banks de-
positors, ETC., know that Mexican dol.
lars are only worth half as much as our
present dollars and will only buy hall
as much. To pay pensioners in such
dollars is equivalent to cutting pensions
in two. Is it any wonder that the pen
sioner objects to such proceedings and
does so with his vote? The wage earners,
depositors in banks, members of build
ing and loan associations and holders OF
insurance policies of all kinds would be
caught in the same way if they had tt
accept 50.cent dollars instead Of whole
dollars.
Is it any wonder that the voters OF
Maine crushed to the pollsh to save theil
earnings and to guard against future
loss? A mans first duty is to himself
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
Monkey. : n.vo No F,eas.

1t is curious that monkeys should be
thought to be infected with what nat
uralists call, the pulex irritaas and
what ordinary people know as the flea.
AS every zoologist is aware, monkeys
have neither fieas nor any other para
site whatsoever; in which, Of course.
they differ vastly from man.
AS a matter Of fact, when monkeys
begin to pick each other about in the
friendly way we have all observed, they
merely detach bits of hardened sebace-
GUS matter which has been excreted by
the glands, and the fea idea is entirely
fabulous. Pearsons Weekly
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-09-30
Free silver and Cheap wheat.

The evil day of the western grower
has now come. The wheat growers of
Russia and Argentina are undertaking
him and driving him from the market.
Silver is not doing it, but these compel
itors are by Offering their wheat at a
lower price. They were influencing its
price long before the silver agitation
began, and they will continue to infiu-
ence it whatever our government may
do with silver This country is not the
entire commercial world, and, much as
we may wish it, cannot by any juggling
with silver advance by cent bushel
the price of wheat in the markets of the
world--and for the very obvious reason
that foreign buyers are not dependent
on our market. Philadelphia Ledger.