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The herald., 1896-10-20
WHO FOOTS THE BILL?

Major Mckinley labors very hard every
day to convince visiting delegations that
under high protection ''the foreigner
pays the tariff" but he does not, and
Major Mckinley knows that he does not.
The gullibility of the public is not linn
itless, and the sooner the Canton man
finds that out the better will 1t be for his
reputation for honesty of purpose But
Major Mckinley exhausted his string of
protection arguments in the first fort
night Of the campaign, and since then he
has fioundered about in circumscribed
puddle of economic fallacies and none
tary absurdities. But perhaps most
men would lose their wits if forced in be-
tween the deep sea of public criticism
and Hanna's merciless ambition to be
secretary of the treasury.
And so the foreigner pays the tariff
does he? Well, let us investigate little
and see how he does it. Suppose foreign
cloth can be sold in our markets at 81
per yard, but in order to give our Gin
fants' chance to grow fat on the public
nurse bottle tariff of so cents per yarl
is put upon imported cloth. That gives
our infants" a chance to charge 81. 30
per yard for their product, but the for
eigner has no notion of being shut out.
SO he reduces the wages of his labor and
pay so cents yard to our custom house
for the privilege of placing his cloth on
sale in our markets Of course his price
Is $1.5O per yard, and we pay that for it.
Now, we would ask Major Mckinley who
pay SO cents yard to our custom house
ordinary mind it is pretty clear that the
buyer pays It. and that the flnal profits
The herald., 1896-10-20

accruing to the foreigner are not dis
turbed in the least, but as Major Nc
Kinley understands it, the foreigner
pays the so cents per yard.
What is true of cloth is true of every
other commodity, and not only so, but
under the Mckinley act" nearly every
line of American manufacture could be
bought cheaper in the markets of Eng
land than in the wareroom of the factory
in this country. Major Mckinley says
We should make imported goods pay us
all of $500, 1000 year in the way of
customs dutcs, which means that $780,
100000 should be added to the prices
which We would have to pay for our for
eign supplies were they allowed to come
in free, and yet Major Mckinley insists
that it would not be the people of this
country who buy imported goods, but the
foreign manufacturer, who would pay
the $500, 900, ,0C0
The Democratic idea of a tariff is that
practically all raw materials should be
admitted free of duty, and that tariff
should be levied on foreign finished pro-
ducts just high enough to keep prices
where industrial companies could afford
ules 1t has been demonstrated ime and
again that when customs duties are
placed higher than is necessary to give
all needed protection to American labor,
wages are not advanced but the cost of
labor's supplies are. Under the Nc
Kinley act the prices of factory and mill
products We're advanced and labor's
wages lowered as compared with prices
and wages under the tariff law which
the Mckinley tariff superseded. A tariff
of any kind which contemplates the col
lection of revenue at the custom houses
means the importation of goods for us
to buy at the price OF the foreign factory
with freight and our tariff tax added
Major Mckinley does not appear to
know it, but it is the fact, nevertheless,
that the consumer pays all the cost of
laying down the producers products at
his door.
The herald., 1896-10-20
AS TO DEMOCRACY

In arrogating to themselves all the
patriotism, business integrity and moral
sense of the country, and in insinuating :
that the supporters of Bryan are not
to be trusted, the McKinleyites provo
the truth of the old saying that "suspic-
ion haunts the guilty mind" and also
that the thief's voice is often heard
above the din of the hue and cry call
ing, stop thief
If it is unpatriotic to warn the peo-
pie that combination of trusts monop-
olies and money sharks is conspiring to
reduce them to abject poverty and de-
prive them Of their personal liberty
and sovereignty, then is the Democracy
thoroughly unpatriotic.
If the business integrity of the De-
mocracy is to be questioned because 1t
refuses to be a party to Hanna's con-
spiracy to make money so scarce that
the masses shall have none except upon
such humiliating and degrading terms
as no self-respecting man would accept,
let its integrity be doubled, for it will
never countenance such diabolical at
tack upon the rights and privileges of
American citizens.
If the moral sense of the Democratic
party is to be guaged by it's Willingness
to permit. without protest, a tinsel-
veneered aristocracy to establish it.
self upon the neck of labor, then pro-
claim to the world that it has no moral
sense. for the Democratic party stands
for the people, and it will never give up
the defense of their rights.
The Democratic party is not a private
palace car party, it is not Wall street
party, 1t is not an arictocratic party, ii
is not swallow-tail coat party, nor
Is 1t party of fashionable asses, who
cater to European nobility 1t is the
party of the brain, the Drawn and the
virtue of the country, and "by the
eternal it will continue to fight plutoc-
racy, and it will drive back and ami
hilate Hanna's advancing lines of
trusts and monopolies and money
grabbing syndicates.
The mission of the Democratic party
on earth is to advance the people to
higher and better conditions of exist
ence, and the Hannas, the McKinleys
and the Carnegies of this country will
find it more comfortable on some Sc
cluded path. The people are marching
on the highways with Democratic ban
ners. Look out for the locomotive.
The herald., 1896-10-20
GOLD

George s. Boutwell, was secretary of
the treasury when the silver dollar was
dropped. He has published a statement
over his own signature that this was
done after consultation with both home
and foreign financiers. The object he
says, was the single gold standard, and
he and those with whom he advised
intended that it should be a step in
making the gold standard the only
one in the whole world. At meeting
in Boston few days ago Mr.. Boutwell,
reaffirmed all these statements.
1t is avowed that while silver, under
our coinage laws, was still a. premium
a deliberate step was taken by the Sec
rotary of the treasury, in conference
with great financiers, to destroy silver
as money all over the world. The ex-
secretary says that all the time from
1873 till now he and those in the secret
were against bimetallism. Boutwell,
makes his extraordinary confession be-
fore a great Boston audience, with a
telegraph report of its general approval
AS soon as the American people found
out what had been done by Boutwell,,
Sherman, Ickelheimer and the rest of
them, they denounced the whole trans
action, and in 1878 coinage of silver dol
lars was resumed on the account of the
government. Notice was then officially
given by congress that it held coin
to mean silver dollar of 371H grains of
fine silver and gold dollar of 49, 22
grains of fine gold. 1t further declared
in the Matthews resolution that
all public Gebts were payable
at the option and convenience
of the government in either dollar.
This notice was given before the re-
sumption Of specie payments and be-
fore the difference in value of the green
backs had reached the difference in the
two metals at the legal ratio.
The reason that the silver dollar has
not been freely paid out according to
the "coin" contract and the official dec
laration Of congress is because, with the
single exception of Daniel Manning, we
have had neither president nor secre-
tary of the treasury brave enough to
enforce the peoples rights against the
great financiers. These officers have
run the treasury in the interest of
Ickelheimer, Morgan and the bank SYN
dicates. They have betrayed the cause
of the people. The duty of these Off
GERS was clearly to pay the people con-
tracted debts according to the contract
of payment in "coin Of the United
States" When the dollars varied in
value 1t was the sworn duty Of these
The herald., 1896-10-20
AN ERROR CORRECTED.


Editor Herald: Your correspondent
writing from Pasadena Saturday quotes
me as charging the Hon Charles "A.
Boutelle with having opposed the PEN
sioning of old soldiers in the last CON-
gress. What / did say was that it WEBS
left to the distinguished gentleman to
be the only opponent of resolution in
troduced in congress during the discus
sion of the Venezuelan question remov
ing the disabilities of ex-confederates,
that they might enlist in the United
States army and fight for the flag and
the maintenance of the Monroe doc
trine. The resolution was passed, pat
riotic members of all parties speaking
and voting for it, and to the credit Of
the American congress the record shows
but one objector-the gentleman from
Maine, who is sent to the Pacific coast
to instruct us how to vote. / can easily
understand how your correspondent
honestly erred. owing to the rush in
making up copy" for morning paper.
l am not informed as to Mr.. Boutelle's
record on pensions, but If his conduct
in that relation in the future is to be
measured by his solitary vote on the
resolution to strengthen the American
arm at period of great moment when
there was an outburst of patriotic senti-
ments from the far east to the extreme
south as against English encroach-
ments, the old soldier may not find in
him a conspicuous champion. Ex-fed-
eral soldiers We'd with ex-confederates
in support of the measure-indeed the
strongest speeches made in it's behalf
We're made by Republicans-but Mr..
Boutelle would not-could not-leave
his isolated. narrow and proscriptive
path, preferring to 60 down to history
as the sole one obtecting.
WILLIAM r. BURKE. !:
October 10. 1896. :. = -,'s' -,'
The herald., 1896-10-20
!; SECRETARY LAMON1 ADDRESSED

Mr.. Abbot Kinney has addressed a
letter to Hon. Dan Lamont secretary of
war; of which the following is copy:
Hon. Dan'l Lamont, Secretary Of War,
Washington:
Dear Sir: The proposed employment
of detachment of the army as patrol
in the mountains of the Sierra Madre to
guard this great government forest res
ervation is essential. The largest and
most destructive forest fire ever known
in Southern California is still burning
on the government reserve.
This range of steep mountains fronts
the great valleys of Southern California.
1t condenses the moisture from the
clouds during the wet season. The in
tegrity of the forest and brush growth is
an absolute essential to this irrigating
country. For long periods we have no
rain. We depend then upon springs and
streams. These can only be supplied
from the winter rainfall. The retention
of this rainfall on our steep granite
ranges depends on the sponge-like humus
and the retaining roots and forest COW
ering. Over and over again it has been
locally demonstrated that forest water
shed burned over cannot retain for
summer delivery as much of the rainfall
as it did before. The floods increase, the
springs diminish. The headquarters of
the military department of Arizona were
the stategic center and the cheapest
point to maintain soldiers in the south
west. Many railroads center in this
place and touch every point in Arizona
better than any from any other place.
The Mexican border is reached at San
Diego by short line. Another railroad
commencing here runs close to the Mex
lean border for hundreds of miles east
ward, commands every point on it to El
Paso. Los Angeles is the center of pop
ulation in the southwest and adjoins the
gerat harbor already provided for by
congress. The splendid grounds of the
Soldiers home near this city can be used
for an army post. or lands adjoining can
be had. To all these points must be ad-
ded the fact that Los Angeles is the CEN
ter of the government mountain lands
of Southern California in brush and
forest. The highest interests of this irri-
eating country demand that these for
ests should be guarded.
1 respectfully submit that an army
post be re-established at this point and
that part of the soldiers duty should
be to protect the mountain forests and
enforce reasonable regulations for their
government I had the honor to submit
at the request of General Mendel, u. S.
E., plan of forestry government to the
forestry commission that recently Wis
ABBOT KINNEY,
Vice-President for California of Ameri-
can Forestry Association.
The herald., 1896-10-20
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T. w. C. writes to The Herald: I see
by the Republican newspapers that the
greatly enhanced price of wheat in the
past few weeks is attributed to the pros
pect of the election of the Republican
candidate. To my mind the prospect of
McKinley's election has as much to do
with the matter as the services of the
priest in the nursery rhyme had to do
with the saving of the malt that lay in
the house that Jack built. We are told
in that interesting story:
This is the priest all shaven and shorn
That married the maiden all forlorn
That MIXED the cow with the crumpled
horn
That tossed the dog
That worried the cat
That killed the rat
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
You see there are only five distinct re-
moves from the priest to the malt Let
us see how many there are from McKin-
ley to the higher price of wheat:
/. In March Mckinley orders short rain.
fall in India and Australia.
2. Secures nomination at st. Louis.
8. Short crops in India and Australia.
a. Demand for California wheat to supply
deficiency.
5. Consequent enhanced price.
If this isn't as clear as black cat In
a dark cellar, then all the labored argu-
ments Of the Republican press to prove
that tinkling cymbal is as the voice of
one crying in the wilderness are utterly
thrown away upon an unappreciative
public
The herald., 1896-10-20

| officers to pay in the dollar most ad
vantagecus TO the people.
This had always been done before.
There is no single exception in the
whole history of the republic to debt
payment in the cheaper metal The
cheaper has sometimes been silver and
quite as often gold. The cheaper dol
lar has always paid the debt until this
new era of honesty came ina new
honesty that makes every president and
congress of the United States up to the
Wall street days ''repudiators."
The very fact of the exclusive use of
the cheaper metal under our bimetal-
lism prevented material departures
of value in the metals. For the dear
metal all over the world was immedi-
ately less used and less called for, and
generally fell finally below what had
been the cheaper, and so the metals
have varied in a small way under the
use of both over the world. Sometimes
gold has been higher and sometimes
silver. About half of the world has
now gone to the single gold standard
The intention is openly avowed that
the other half, or more, shall be forced
to follow. Can a sensible person con-
template a world adoption of the single
gold standard without coming to the
conclusion that the enormous increase
of demand for this metal will increase
it's value? An increase in the value of
gold is a decrease in the expressed value
of everything measured by it. With
the Boutwell, plan inaugurated in 1873
opr 11ota nd only do Il
for the world. we must have a great
shrinkage of values. The only escape
from such conclusion is to follow Val
entine and say that the use of the pre-
cious metals does not affect their COM
mercial value.
Who can believe that the nine billions
of dollars in the precious metals now
used for money, no longer go used and
thrown on the market, would not cause
a fall in their price and value? So the
complete disuse of one metal would
lessen its value, and necessarily the
substitution for it of the other would
increase the demand for and the value
of the sole money metal Thus, under
such scheme as this Boutwell, one,
nothing else could be expected to hap
pen different from what has happened
Silver disused has fallen from prem
ium of three cents to forty odd cents be-
low gold Gold it is claimed has gone
up. The presumption is clearly that it
has for the opposite reason that silver
has gone down-greater use and de-
mand. If the operation is to continue
we are at best only half through. No
one can tell how long 1t will take or
what sacrifices will be required to COM
plete the gold conquest.
The herald., 1896-10-20

Il The supreme court has just decided
tshat the Spence trust to build an OBJ
4arvatory with a splendid telescope on
Uount Wilson is valid and must be
1hrried out. 1t will be remembered that
Elne superior court decided the other way
{knd freed the large amount of Los An
o1es real estate Mr.. Spence had ded-
<ated for that purpose. 1t is reported
1at much Of this real estate has been
~. The people will feel little regret
- ne capitalists who paid ninety
The herald., 1896-10-20

1t is not exactly a boom that has
struck Southern California, but the first
car load of oranges of the season left
Los Angeles for the east yesterday, and
1t was not only the finest kind of fruit,
but nature bestirred herself and ripened
this car load about month earlier than
is her custom. Undoubtedly Southern
California is highly favored country.
For health, pleasure and money making
the world.
The herald., 1896-10-20

A'dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says.
Probably the most unique political or
ganization of the entire campaign was
formed here yesterday. 1t is a "one-
armed and one-legged Bryan club" Mr..
S. O. Hare, a well known citizen of 20S
East Fulton street. is the leader of the
movement. No one who has not lost
an arm or leg is eligible to member
ship in the club. The club starts with
twenty-seven members and has bright
prospect of many acquisitions.
The herald., 1896-10-20

thousand dollars for the 120 feet on the
corner of Fourth and Spring streets re-
imbursed and the property used for the
noble purpose Mr.. Spence intended.
The Improvements have consisted of a
few sheds and shacks, and Mr.. Jones,
who is probably the wealthiest man in
Los Angeles today, will suffer little il
at all. We shall be glad to hear that
the work for the Mount Wilson observ-
atory has begun.
The herald., 1896-10-20

Stand up, William Mckinley, and
hear We that the mills are opening to
the employment of labor every day, ami
you are as good as out of the race. But
Bryan will ask Bishop Newman to pray
for you.
The herald., 1896-10-20

Ex-Governor Flower Of New York
complains that his speech was garbled.
No Bryan man garbled it. 1t was 50
ultra-monopolistic in sentiment AMI
showed SO much contempt for working
people that the Democracy wanted ev-
erybody to have it in full.
The herald., 1896-10-20

to the Examiner that it collect, with us,
the evidence. We both have good case
Exemplary damages in $4,000 or $1O00,-
COO would be very proper and reason
able lesson to these violators of their
franchises The Times has nothing 10
complain Of All the discrimination has
been in its favor. The monopolies know
their friends.
The herald., 1896-10-20

Why are certain highly respected gen.
t1emen talking so much about Sound
money!" Is any one trying to work off
= lot Of unsound money? There is
roomsfor suspicion that some of these
"sound money men are not quite sound
lof mi1ad.
The herald., 1896-10-20

Wheat continues on the upward jump
and Bryan is getting closer in the af-
fections and confidence of the public ev-
cry day. Eighteen hundred and ninety
six is p great and glorious year for the
GOOD people of the United States.
The herald., 1896-10-20

Five ex-governors Of Illinois have
started out to make speeches at thirty
eight towns in that state for Mckinley;
and all this fuss, feathers. worry and ex :
pense in the face of Hannas statement
that Illinois would give the Canton man
not less than 100000 majority! Their ac-
ttons do belle their words. Close the
hooks on Illinois. 1t is for Bryan sure,
eafe and solid.
The herald., 1896-10-20
TO THE EDITOR
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For City Justices.
c. o. MORGAN.
G. S. BARTHOLOMEW.

Let every friend of silver go forth to
battle at once and keep himself in the
thick of the fight until the polls close
on November Sd.
The herald., 1896-10-20

The dispatches announce that Major
Mckinley took a drive in the crisp Oc-
tober air. yesterday morning. That is
nothing. He will take a slide on one of
Salt rivers cakes of ice on the night of
November Sd.
The herald., 1896-10-20

At San Francisco yesterday wheat ad-
vanced cents over Saturdays prices,
and the Mckinley bill'' is not in op :.
Grafton either,
The herald., 1896-10-20

The Examiner and Herald have been
for some time subjected to constant
discrimination by certain persons and
transportation companies. We suggest
The herald., 1896-10-20
COUNTY

COUNTY
For Senator, Thirty-seventh District
JOHNSTONE JONES.
For Assemblyman. Seventeen District
A. RI SPRAGUE.
For Assemblyman,S Seventy District
F. A. CATTERN.
For .Assemblyman, Seventy-second
District,
tz,s.- w. R.. STEELE.
For Assemblyman. Seventy-third
District
VIM MEAD.
For Assemblyman, Seventy-fourth
District,
w. l.. PRICE.
For Assemblyman, Seventy-fifth
District,
~ s. A.WALDRON.
For Superior Court Judges.
HENRY T. HAZARD.
M. E. c. MUNDAY.
GEORGE H. SMITH,
All. UTLEY.
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For Supervisors.

W. A. MORGAN, Fourth District.
JAMES HANLEY, Fifth District.
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CONGRESSIONAL

CONGRESSIONAL
For Member of Congress. Sixth District,
C. A. BARLOW.
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National Democratic Ticket
For President,
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
OF Nebraska.
{ For rvice-President.
ARTHUR SEWALL i,'sii'
OF Maine. flfHi
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Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-30

that was built was known as the "old
Log Church. p"
The Eastside members did not join
tho new movement.
The building was of black oak logs,
and was about 30 by 35 feet in dimGn-
sions In the east end was the pulpit,
above which was a sounding board,
and below was the preceDtor'R box,
occupied by tho leader of singing
Mr.. Smiths successors were Rev.
William r. Smith. Rov. Samuel Hem
derson and Rev. Thomas Love. 1t was
during tho latter's ministry that pres
bytery met in his church, and was
entertained without ardent spirits for
the first time. Tea was substituted, "
being made by the ladies Of the con-
gregation-and for once the church did
not have a liquor bill to settle.
The present church, brick struc-
! ture, was erected in 1850. 1t will seat
about 400 people,. The large basement
is occupied by the Sabbath school.
The interior of the building has boon
improved recently.
Rev. David w, Moore was ordained and
installed pastor of the church May 9th,
1851; no resigned in the fall OF 1879,
The next pastor was Rev. George II.
Jones. Ho was succeeded by Rev.
Robert Graham, Rev. L. Il. Mcdowell,
Rev. j. I. Marshall and Rev. S. L.
Irvine, the present pastor. The elders
of the church are j. b. Barney, G. X.
Woodward, George Fem, John Arm
strong and William Wilson, Jr.