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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

There seems to be but one RENE
dy suggested for the depletion of
the American treasury. an in
creased revenue. 1t would Ike a
good campaign idea to suggest rel
trenchment. A conservative bus
mess man economies his expendi-
lures to the conditions of his in
come when threatened with dis
treSS,
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

The lumber interests of the
Clearwater basin have been mate
rally advanced by the authorita-
tive inspection of the state land in
spectors. The white pine belt on
Elk creek is attracting many
Eastern dealers since the estimates
Of quantity and quality have been
published. 1t is now a settled fac,
that the state lands will find buy.
ers and that the lumber will in the
near future be one of our CHIEF
productions. Routes have been
selected for railroads into this dis.
Itrict, and as soon as the timbel
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

In the older states the people are
fixed in their respective pursuits.
The old homesteads Of the eastern
states pass from father to son down
the changes Of generations and
fixed business habits are the result.
The farming element Of our popu.
lationls more transitory. There
are no more intelligent and indus
trial people in any country or in
any class than are the farmers OF
the west, but the nurtured desire
for changed conditions is inimical
to the methods that insure perma-
nent prosperity to the farming
communities Of other countries.
The feeling that there are more
comforts in other pursuits than in
tilling the soil induces carelessness
in details and extravaganza in the
expenditure of money. Farm life
is distasteful to a majority Of the
country people in the west where
prosperity in the past has aroused
taste for society and luxuries tina,
are not accessible to the resident Of
country homestead. The tastes
which attract the people from the
farm are abnormal. Life among
the natural beauties Of fields O
flower, and fruits of the harves
appeal to the most refined nature!
but a false sentiment leads to thu
prevailing discomfort.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

The bolt in the democratic party
has assumed greater proportions
than the holt in the republican
ranks. The great newspapers Of
the country are generally opposed
No Bryan. The influence of these
journals has been irresistible in
the past. There has never been a
party stronger than the papers
Public opinion is nodded by the
great dailies.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

4 free trade party with a free
trade candidate, at the head of the
national ticket advocates free sill
yer as protection to the mining
interest Of the county. The quality
of protection in the silver policy
is the element Of strength in that
issue. The great west has a log
ical right 10 demand a, the hands
Of the republicans this fostering
care for our chief industry, but
there can be no such claim upon a
party that is opposed to the idea
Of protection from principle. Pro-
lection is The cause OF the common
people. No political party in the
history Of the world ever main
tanned more consistently, the cause
Of the common people. than the
great republican party has in the
protection of home industries. The
siemocEsts have been on both side:
d evs6 other issue that has prom
ised ~ win yotes, bu, they have al
swaJs oppo1e1 protection until thu
present waxE Of silver sentimen
prevailed. Nov they are commit
ted to the Office Of foster III other Il
the single issue Of silver. II i
were not for the demand for pro
lection for silver, the old idea o
fat money would meet the de
mands for an increased, ep.r.1:1c
70 commercial e;.ces. The d.
usnd pr Il iaths fl4ee 81 ps
plFfk Il 0nS claim isr ~precs
pce ma IN NJ A4usbildin {
III ~ aud the in
cteass aSas native element {
sNAlM Thereby. This phase {
the subject appeals with force t
all protectiouists; and the battl
Tor silver. if fought within the par
~ which champions this principl
Of the commoners, would be fougt
with consistency.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

The most striking feature that
is Immediately observable in the
democratic situation is the tact
that all tried and reputable leaders
have been ruthlessly thrust aside.
There Is perhaps not a parallel in
the history Of parties to the action
If the Chicago convention. The
placing Of new men in the leader
ship with radical Changes in the
policy Of the organization threat.
eus the party and the country with
uew dangers. Great reforms are
not evolved out Of extravagan,
campaign aourishes Of rhetoric,
The party is unbalanced; and con
sentative students Of political econ
omy stand aehast in cont empla
ton Of impending danger. Al
the reputable statesmen of the
party are ia hesitating or re-
voting mood: and the great pa
pers oppose the Chicago candidates
The sound Of alarm echoes al
along the line. Extremists ar,
dangerous when they are clothet
in authority. The ST. Lnuis con
vcntion promulgated no new de
partureS. and the old and triet
statesmen are directing the poll
cies Of the republican party. nth.
Wrestling from the old party tn,
power to make laws and work re
forms was the signal for the frs
retrograding steps Of our govern
ment. and the logical remedy TO
our industrial distress would b.
the restoration Of that power. A
least it would be dangerous ex
pertinent to trust again the cham
pions of visionary schemes and th'
ideas Of extremists in politics.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

Cleveland will have distinction
forced upon him after the fourth Of
March. He will be the only DEM
ocratic ex-president living and he
will be without fear of rival for
that honor.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

The EN- ample OF good crops on
land that was most thoroughly
cultivated, even in this dry season,
is an object lesson for the husband
man
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

Domestic discomfort prevails to
an alarming extent in the sodptrs
districts. One Of the causes III -ahs
prevailing financial distress asssi1s
lack Of persistence in the stppoEt
Of direct lines Of business ppliefs
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23


The populists are rejoicing over
the fact that the democratic plat
form is in full accord with popu-
listic views on all important issues.
The charge is made by the republic
cans that the Chicago ticket is a
populist ticket. and they are borne
out by the populist speakers and
writers generally. If they had
simply threshed the grain out OF
the chaf there would have been
hope of retaining the conservative
vot. RS of the old party, but the
adoption of the platform as whole
is nothing short Of revolution
The danger to the country nov
lies in the parade OF the old falacie.
under false colors. The popul,s
party was in its decadence. 1t wa.
found wanting in every common
| wealth that advanced it to power
Every clause Of the Omaha plat
form has been enacted into statute.
| aud their futility established. w,
cannot afford to experiment rs /:
nation with dangerous measures
after the warnings we have had it
the nature Of failures where tn.
populist idea has prevailed in thu
past.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

The best financial policy is
founded upon persistent industry
and practical economy.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

Every phase o! political senti.
ment from state rights to anarchy
in the mutations of years has been
called good democratic doctrine.
Washington, Jefferson and Jack
son have been the patron saints of
the Jealous campaigners for half a
century. There was perhaps no
one issue upon which they were in
full accord; but the politician can
assimulate the most refractory ele-
ments of party faith. The demo.
cratic policy of every campaign
year is a mingling Of incongruities.
As the complete reverse; VI setiti,
ment OF the psss four yeas vivid,s
illustratssy 50 does the history o.
the fafH teAct usthe methods O
The east.s.s'1 has been the party
iof barter an1 sahe years of it.
s6ufgtesffor power as it is today
The chicag6platform is the result
1of exchange with The populist.
who declared war at Omahs
against all prosperous men, cor
i porations and nations with Alt
| geld, the champion Of rioters, and
other discordant factions that ar,
trying to destroy our social ant
business systems Whether de
claration OF principle is the out
come of an exchange Of platform
for Office in Chicago or with Cap
tain Gum, w. H. Clage.t or Sen
ator Dubois in IDAHO. the sympos
ium makes "democi attic doctrine.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23
m ~ =
wi 50 r. HOGAN,
AtUney ut Lar.

Business before the l.. :. Land office
3 specially. PIats OF the Nez Perces
reservation, Office on Main St, Lew.
iston, Idaho.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

Room s. Volume: Block. lew ist"n,
Idaho.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

Would be pleased Ia figure OH all
kinds Of brick and carpenter work.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23

Lewiston, Idaho,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11

Hambleton & Co. Of Baltimore, In
their weekly letter Of May so. offer the
following explanation Of why capital ID
being withdrawn from business enter
prises:
LET as put ourselves in the place of
our European creditors and consider If
we would not act as they have acted.
Would we buy British securities or in
vest in British industries and enterprises
II we thought there was danger OF our
being paid In currency worth only half
as much as the money which we loaned!
Suppose our financial journals and news
papers generally should daily warn Us
against investing our money in Eng
land and intimate hat we run a great
risk of getting back only 80 cents for
every dollar already so invested, would
we not only not buy British securities,
but would we not, before the threatened
disaster came, draw home every dollar
we could obtain? This is what Europe
has been doing in regard to the United
States for five years past.
Ever since the passage 81 the SheT
man silver act of 1890 Europe has fore
seen the danger, sold u securities and
Withdrawn capital from this country.
This has resulted in our paying off hun
dreds of millions of dollars of what we
owed Europe, and we are at least to this
extent the gamer. But we cannot afford
to be independent of the European mar
kets and European capital, and we can-
not enjoy full prosperity until we satisfy
other countries-what we are fully con-
WINGED of-that free silver coinage is a
dead issue, and that every dollar of our
currency and every other obligation
will be maintained on a parity with
GOLD
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
Going Back to Their Grandfathers.

The s~ilverites who want the American
people to give up the stable money
standard under which they have pros
pered, in order TO go back TO the silver
dollars Of their ancestors, are the kind
of men who are afraid of everything
that is new They are like the boy who
went to the mill with a big bag across
his horses back. In one end of the bag
was two bushels Of corr and in the
other end a big stone. When the miller
asked the boy why he did not divide the
corn and put half of it on each side of
the horse the bright youth replied
Father and grandfather allus took
their corn to mill this-a-way. / amt no
better than them. What was good
enough for grandfather is good enough
for me-"
The idea that because the men who
lived in this country 100 years ago
adopted a free coinage law we should
be satisfied with the same system, is not
suited to progressive, go ahead Ameri-
cans. The latter want the very best Of
everything and just as o o as a better
way Of doing things is discovered, the
old way Is dropped and the new taken
up. The question as to what was the
best money system 100 years ago has
nothing on earth to do with the practi-
cal Affairs Of today. To talk OF going
back to free silver merely because IL was
An old system Is on q level with trying
to establish . monarchy in this country
because we were once ruled by the Brit
ish kings. When the people got tired Of
kings they kicked them out and estab-
lished the republic. When they got tired
Of trying TO use the double standard
they made gold the unit Of value, and
they intend to keep it. Ont Of date sys-
TENS don't count for much with live
Americans,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
Edisan,s microscope.

Thomas A. Edison has announced the
substance which he found the potential
for the x rays. 1t is tungstate of cal
cium, and he claims that it is eight
times as sensitive as the barium cyanide
which up to this time has been the main
reliance of the experimenters. He uses
it in the crystalline form, the crystals
being carefully sifted to a uniform. size,
about half as large as the crystals of
granulated sugar.
These are spread on a sheet of white
paper, rendered slightly adhesive, and
with this as q screen Mr.. Edison is able
to see with the naked eye the bones OF
the hand or the arm, when held in front
of the Crookes tubes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
nIIohiean,s Experience.

In 1899 it was nip and tuck between
the Democrats and Republicans in Mich
igan. III 1894 the Democrats put a dis
~tinguished and popular man up for gov
on a straight 10 to 1 platform,
making that the issue, and the majority
against him was 106, 392. In less than
six months there happened to be another
state election, and the Democrats still
chung to 10 TO /, and in a midyear con.
test, as IT was, the majority against
them amounted to so, 407. That was
enough for them. This year they tie
themselves TO sound money.
Not only docs every consideration Ct
honor and patriotism command us to
stand for sound currency, but consi ezra
tons Of ~expediency as well. There is 3
probable presidency in sound currency
There is nothing but disaster in free sil
yer-Utica Observer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
ToAals 80. no. han. ga IS, sa. sos, l5O Del esl. OOe, O7s

Totals ...... 10. lAl. 2AA 81, 31, 500, l50 ~ 65l. 02, 07s
Will these 10, 900, 900 Shylocks sit
idly by and see their dollar decline to
30 cents when they can, by depositing
slips Of paper in q little box, prevent
any decline whatever But there are
others who will help them. There are
870. 524 pensioners Oh u government
and 760, 96l Of them are voters. II paid
In dollars worth only 90 cents. these
would lose one.half of the $140, 959. 38l
which they now receive annually. Free
coinage would be an easy method Of
cutting down u pension account, but
will 1t meet with the approval of our
veterans? 1t means not only a loss to
them Of $40, 900. 600, but this amount
every year. OF S700, 900, 600 in ten years.
Then there are the 2, 900, 900 life in
Shylocks who will vote to have
their 81, 202, 857, 1913 in policies paid in
the same kind Of money as were their
premiums. About 8 $500, 900 more Shy.
locks are members of cooperative and
mutual aid societies and are creditors
to the extent of So, 1874, go, 936. Nearly
1000, 900 more Shylocks have 1915,
$50, 678 to their credit in the numerous
industrial companies of this country.
In truth not only Wall street, but the
woods and the prairies are full of these
money sharks. If the most of them vote,
rs they are likely TO do, in favor of hon
est money there will be no help for the
poor debtors. They will have TO re.
turn all they borrowed or have THEN
mortgages foreclosed.
But worst of all there are only 4, Ill.,
COS of these (mortgage) debtors. They
cannot cast half as many votes as the
Shylocks. These poor" debtors are
mostly in our large cities and have
mortgages of from $4,000 TO 81, 600, 900
hanging over them. Just think of it!
A poor debtor with a $50, 900 mort
gagel Itmay surprise the average Popu.
list to learn that the debtors are the
rich and enterprising, and that they are
the owners of steam and street rail
roads, gas. telephone and electric light
companies, and manufacturing and mer-
camille corporations and companies
These facts are likely to upset the
best laid plans of politicians some fine
day next November. The average silver
politician may know much about the
ratio of l6 TO /, but he knows but little
about the ratio between the debtors and
creditors of the country. He will have
to learn it by experience. Byron W.
Holt
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
Some sixteen to One Logic.

Mexico has free silver. The Mexican
people are very poor. Therefore, we
want free silver.
Wages are higher here and in all the
gold standard countries than in China,
India and other silver using nations.
Therefore. we want free silver.
We believe in the double standard
under which both metals will be used
TO measure values. Free coinage at 10
to l will drive out all our gold and put
fore, we want free silver.
We favor an honest dollar which shall
be just to all the people. The adoption
Of the silver standard will enable debt
ors to repudiate one-half of their obliga-
tions. Therefore, we want free silver.
Gold dollars are too scarce and dear
10 serve as money Of the people. Under
free coinage a silver dollar will always
Be worth just as much ~ . gold dollar.
Therefore, we want free silver.
The government can make 80 cents
worth Of metal worth 100 cents In gold
by stamping It lone dollar" Under
free coinage such q dollar would buy
only half g much goods as q gold dol
lAr-thst is, IL would be worth only
half 8 much. Therefore. we want free
silver.
The prosperity Of the American peo-
pie depends ON the amount Of wealth
produced and the fairness with which
Is is distributed among the producers
Measuring products In silver instead Of
gold would neither create any more
wealth nor distribute 1t more justly.
Therefore. we want free silver.
The country is suffering because tkere
10 not half enough money to do business
with. As soon az q free coinage law is
passed u 5000, 600, 900 in gold win all
Be withdrawn, and we shall lose all
that amount from circulation. There
fore, we want free silver.
There is something wrong with the
country somehow, though we don't
know what it is nor how to cure it.
But everything will come all right if q
lot of cheap money agitators are elected
to congress. SO now and everlastingly
we want free silver. -Whidden Gra-
ham. +.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
NUMBER 43
No Cabinet Bikes.
The ladies Of the cabinet

The ladies Of the cabinet
Are weeping briny tears,
And sounds like those Of martyrs cries
Fall on the nations ears.
A shadow as of blasted hopes
Has fallen ON their lives,
And they regret with might and main
That they are cabinet wives.
Because, forsooth, the president
Has stated that he feels
It's not the proper thing for them
To fly around on wheels.
And anything he says must be
The law in Washington;
A single word from him's the Ten
Commandments punched in one.
He knows the streets of Washington
Have power TO entice
The bikesters, till they think they're on
The streets of paradise.
And yet. despite this charm, he says
They must not ride. Alacki
Are women towards not to hit
The tyrant In tho back?
They do not raise a hand TO strike.
Their courage is A clam.
Ye godsl And do u women think
"Sic semper" is a sham?''
1t must be so. We only hear
These ladies weep and wall
As every woman tamely hangs
Her boomers on a nail.
New York Sun.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
nlrda or nlncrent Foather.

When the free coinage idea shall hare
crystallized into a definite plan Of ac-
ton, and that plan be thoroughly un-
derstood, u large proportion of its advo-
Gates Will return 10 their respective par
ties. Those vino wait 2 dollar to be 100
cents Will never harmonic with the
element that seeks to establish as tho
principal currency Of the country a coin
with a legal tender value Of 81 and pur-
chasing power of so conts.--Gold Beg.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
WEBSTER, DAY COUNTY. SOUTH DAKOTA, June IL. 1895.

pering to them of the wonderful pros
perity that would flow from the coinage
of disks of silver, worth 90 cents each.
into full legal tender dollars.
Whenever the Altgelds and other
demagogic advocates of fat money,
whether it consist of irredeemable paper
currency or Of deprecated silver, under
take to trace the history of such methods
of finance they should give the devil his
due. Philadelphia Record.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
What Debts Are Paid with.

Our Populist brethren say there isn't
gold enough in existence to pay what
we owe. We don't pay debts with gold.
We use gold as a measure of services,
and we pay debts with u cotton and
our wheat and our corn and our cattle
and u manufactured products. Bel
ton TEX. } Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
n,,orlan,s Arnloa saIve.

The hest salve in the world for cuts
hrnisps. sores, ulcers, salt rheum, lever
soras letter. chapped hands, chilblains
aorns and all SKIN eruptions, and posi-
4 yalv cures piles, or no pay required ~
= cnaranteed TO give p%erfect s~atislactlon
- money rounded. Price % cents per
nov. For sale by f. Ross 4 10.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
workingman,s simple ouestion.

Sooner Or later, and probably very
soon, our workingmen will put to both
parties this question, ''Do you intend to
refuse to us the best dollar there is,
which is the gold dollar, and compel us
by legal tender laws to take for our Ia
Dor an inferior dollar?"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
Has No Private Life.

Cecil Rhodes. when asked by an in
terviewer III London TO mention a point
or two as to his private life, replied, 81
never had any private life, always hav-
ing been too busy to stop for one." Cecil
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
Ineradicable,

Kentucky's wishing for free silver as
a panacea for all evils will never lessen
the country's thinking of that state in
connection with the gold re.-Phila.
delphia Times.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
WALL STREET
SHYLOCKs.
MIC THEY ARE-ENOuGH OF THEM
TO DEFEAT ALL CHEAP
MONEY SCHEMES.

Estimate of What Free Coinage Would
Cost Some OF Our Shylocks-BiIIions of
Dollars of Savings Would BE Sacrificed
on the Sixteen to One Altar-The "Poor"
Debtors who own Our Railroads and
Corporations,
One Of the many decisions back of
the free coinage sophistry is that there
are a few wealthy creditors and millions
of poor debtors in this country. Upon
this assumption 1t is argued that cheap
money will make it easy for the mass
OF debtors oclear their farms and homes
from mortgages held by the Shylocks of
Wall street. Let US see now who are
these Shylocks and who are the creditors
Of this country.
Every II who has a deposit in a saw
ings or other bank, every holder of a
life insurance policy, every pensioner,
every member of a building and loan
association, every member of aid and
benefit associations, every owner Of a
government bond, every one whose sal.
airy or wages are paid only after services
or labor is performed-these are some
Of the creditor classes. These are the
Shylocks who have a mortgage on this
country and who are to be done out of
half Of their savings by the slick 10 + o l
scheme. In truth these Shylocks not
only own the country, but they have
votes enough to compel the poor"
debtors to pay in honest money. Let US
enumerate some of them who hoard their
wealth In banks and loan 1t out az
"~usurious" rates Of interest, and see
how much they would lose under free
coinage and with 90 cent dollars: