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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
Our Oppressive Indcbtedness,

Following is an excerpt from a COM
munication to tho Copiuh (La, Signal 4;
~ want to say, first, that 1t IL n fHct
that we are III debt, as nation, as pri,
vate citizens. 40.
Second, that these debts, especially
those Of long standing, have been, by
the natural operation OF the single gold
standard, multiplied by two; the appre-
citation of money is gradually absorbing
everything Of value in the country and
rendering it practically impossible for
the people ever to pay the debt.
According to Mr.. Stroud OF North
Carolina, who has quite recently made
investigation, and plenty Of first class
proof is at hand TO verify his statement,
our debt, public and private, municipal
and corporate, is at the lowest estimate
from $50, 900, 900, 900 to $40, 900, 00O,
900. Let us take the minimum figures,
$50, 900, 600, 900. Say the average inter-
est is O per cent, the interest is 81, 800,
900, 000 When we consider that all tho
corn, wheat. oats and cotton produced
by the farmers and all the gold and sill
yer mined by the United States amounts
to only about 81, 400, 900, 900 annually,
the appalling fact remains that after
taking nearly everything the farmer and
miner produce, leaving nothing for the
support of their families. We fall short
of meeting the interest on this indebted
ness nearly $400. 900. 900 annualIv.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
Morton Is Sad.

"The silver sentiment isuniversal all
over the west" said Secretary Morton,
"and it is growing. So many trimmcrs
think it is going to win that they are
jumping that way. There is no hope of
elccting gold candidates anywhere in
the west, and right there in San Fran
cisco, whore they have more than q
hundred millions of gold coin in tho
vaults of their banks, where deposits are
paid in gold by specific contract, and
where grecnbacks have never been good
enough for them, the people are crying
for 90 cent silver dollars. California is
not n silver producing country. 1t is a
gold producing country, and it is ex-
traordinary that the people of that state
should prefer silver money to gold.
They are willing that silver miner in
Colorado shall get the same amount of
good ont of so cents worth of silver
that gold miner in their own state
gets for 100 cents Of gold. The gold
miner may work all day and the silver
miner half day. and both will get the
same wages II the 16 to 1 policy is car
ried cc.. and yet the Californians seem
to be crazy for it. Washington Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
Unconscious uumor.

The Philadelphia Times says: "Ev-
cry dollar III tho savings banks repre-
sents an expenditure of 100 cents worth
of labor measured in gold value. If the
government should authorize the FREQ
coinage of silver and thus establish sill
yer monomctallism, every dollar in the
savings banks would shrink to 80 cents
worth of gold value. In other words,
every deposit would be cut i'll half-a
gold dollar worth 100 cents would be
paid for with silver dollar worth 80
cents. 1t is this monstrous fraud which
the advocates of cheap money insist
shall be pcrpctratcd by the congress and
president to be elected November next. "
Could there be moro bold faced
falsehood than this? In all probability
four-fifths of these deposits were made
in silver dollars or silver certificates.
Some Of them were made years ago,
and some of them were made this year.
The market value of silver has been
huctuating during this period, but
check on any Of these savings banks
calling for 81 was payable in 100 cop
per cents or one paper dollar, whether
silver certificate, gold certificate
grccnback, national bank note or other
kind, or i'll silver coin or in gold coin.
They were equal and interchangeable
between drawer, drawco and payee, or
at the grocery, factory or almost any
where else in this country. II free coin
age came such check would still call
for 100 cents and not 80 cents, nor any
representative of 80 cents Nor would
any bank dare to offer but so cents to
any depositor who had given in one dol
lar-no matter Of what kind-at the re-
ceiving teller's window. There may be
arguments against free silver worthy
of a respectful hearing, but such rash
statements as those Of tho Philadelphia
Times must elicit only gutfaw. Gin
oinnati Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
VII: You Sell Your DlrthrirhtY

"Tho Republicans will have cam
paign fund Of $50, 900, 900 to send ont
speakers and distribute literature and
organize in every doubtful state" says
the Washington Post. Whence will this
fund come to debauoh the people and
fasten the shackels of the gold monopoly
upon themf The usurcrs and gold gam
blers Of London and New York will ad-
vance it. Who will repay it? The very
people whom 1t buys, for the usurers
will squeeze 1t out Of them again with
1000 per cent interest. This being so,
Is any man 80 foolirh as to sell his birth.
right for mess Of pottage2-Silver
Knight.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
AILtsA AND eorroN,
ilsssat fiasSMeaN th ths Fsssket ~she
CaEtNjn QueatIans paFtiuopt.

f1sesat nia9SAarAtA th ths Fissket wBht
uaVtSia NuestI0ns PaFtinapt.
The reports OF Fridays cotton mar.
kct in New York were both interesting
and important.
The chief note was the recent rise in
price of bullion silver and the state
ment that it has had an almost instan-
tancous effect on the cotton market.
just why this is SO is partially explain
ed in Mcintyre 81 Wardwell's New
! forl1 cotton letter, which we reprint:
Silver has lately been rising quito rapidly,
and thcro is big silver speculation In prog
resa in London based largely on the spread OF
free silver sentiment in this country. This
may put up silver quotations materially, and
this greatly stimulated Manchester trade In
cotton goods with East India-in fact Liver
pool sales of spot cotton in two days are 10000
bales, n fact which speaks volumes.
:; This may very well be supplemented
by the New York Suns cotton review:
For time this morning the situation looked
rather weak, partly owing to tho decline in
tLiverpool, where the work OF dooinating tho
weak bulls had not been quito finished, but
later on, when 1t was found that Manchester
had woke up, or ut least owned up that IL was
doing good business, prices horo rose rapid.
| ly. INC NlanCnOStur revival IL attributed III
most hololy TO the recent rise In silver, which
naturally has stimulating effect on business
with the East Indies. The early decline here
was all recovered on the double quick, tho
market rising to IL points from the lowest
| figures of the morning.
Now, here is testimony of the most
unanswerable kind right ont of Wall
streot-right from the headquarters Of
the money power i'll this country. More
over, tho testimony seems to be gladly
impaired to the public. There is a
checrfulncss, an elation, i'll the tone of
the reports which we quote that cannot
be mistaken. 1t is declared that even
slight rise in the price of bullion silver
helps the cotton market by stimulating
Manchester's trade with the far east.
This is precisely what The Constitu-
tion has been declaring for yoars-that
the value of silver and the market price
of cotton and wheat are linked together
and are inseparable. The question arises
here, and we invite the poor crushed
and defeated cuckoos to answer it: If
the 'demand for silver in the east in
creascs the value of that metal, why
will notthe incxhaustible demand of
the open United States mints restore the
value represented by the present ratio
of 16 to /?
One more question: If the slight rise
in the value Of silver, whether it be
brought about by the eastern demand
or by the certainty that the Democrat.
ic party will declare for FREQ coinage,
tends to advance the price Of cotton,
why will not the rise of silver to the
mint ratio increase the price of cotton
in proportion?
Another question in conclusion: If
the increase i'll the value of silver to
the extent of penny fails to disturb
the gold value, why will the increase
in the value Of the metal to the extent
of Is. Cd. drive out the yellow metal?-
Atlanta Constitution.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
Would Thrive on Temporary pefeat.

Some of the silver men do not agree
that if the silver cause does not win in
the approaching election the question
will be finally settled. At least Senator
Bacon says that defeat for silver does
rot mean the end Of the struggle.
"The people who are for silver" he
said yesterday, "are actuatcd by the
same spirit which filled the souls of the
antislavery qgitators. The defeat of
John @. Fremont in 1856 did not mean
the death Of the antislavery movement,
and the defeat of silver candidate in
1896 will not indicate that the fight is
over. On the contrary, it is my belief
that if we should have four more years
Of the single gold standard the silver
cause would come to the front in 1900
with even more strength than it has
now. Washington Letter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
Bynum Failed.

Ex-Congressman Bynum Of Indiana
was in the city during tho early part Of
the week and talked confdentially with
leveral of his former associates 1t seems
that Mr.. Bynum has been very encrget-
ically engaged in making goldbug
speeches i'll the Hoosier state, but from
his own confession his efforts to convert
the people could not have been shin
ing success. He announced while here
that the strength of the silver move
ment Appropriated the force of revo-
luton; that all classes and conditions
of men wcro imbued with the craze, and
that if the Democrats put forward q
stalwart candidate ON a clean 10 to /
platform that they would win in a
walk in Indiana. Washington Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
The Man and the Platform

The Man and the Platform
Major Mckinley is nominated
for the presidency by the Rcpubli-
can party. He is distinguished
citizen, an, eminent son of Ohio, a
gentleman of high character. For
him, personally, through the heat
ed campaign that is to follow the
Plain Dealer will have only words
of commendation.
But the major stands upon a
platform that purports to represent
certain principles of finance and
general policy of government. On
the question of finance the major
is forced, by the platform on which
he is placed to accept the gold
standard with all its burdens on
the American people. He stand
on that platform as the representa-
tive of the bond dealing interest,
not only Of this country but Of the
world; of the gold sydicate which
by its concentrated power demon
tized silver, diminished the value
OF property throughout the United
States, paralyzed industry and
made money lending and money
dealing aside from trust manufact-
lures the only profitable pursuit.
He stands upon aplatform that
pledges the whole power of the
United States in favor of one class
Of people, the moneyed class,
which, least of all, needs protection
and support by legislation.
Candidate Mckinley represents
q policy antagonistic to the great
mining interests Of the west, to the
wheat raisers throughout the coun.
try, 10 the cotton raisers of the
south, to the manufactures Of the
north. the returns for whose pro-
ducts steadily decrease as the COM
parative volume of real money
continually contracts. BY the
platform on which he stands he is
pledged TO gold, and gold only, as
the money of final redemption in
this country; to the European sys-
TEN Of finance. under which the
moneyed influence controls the
governments of Europe. So may
we not say that, in planting him
self upon this platform, he stands
rs the representative OF power in
this country WHICH aims to be sup
erior to the people and to the gov
ernment?
The gauntlet is thrown down
the Democrats to pick up. The
challenge is given, we wait to see
with what courage it is accepted.
If the Democratic party has any
thing Of the spirit that characteriz-
ed its leaders in the days gone by |
1t will meet this challenge with a
bold definance. 1t will repudiate
the single gold standard and will
adopt an unequivocal bi-metallic
plank, free coinage for both gold |
and silver, full legal tender power
for those coins and their honest
use without discrimination, ,o'and
make declaration of independence
from the powers of Europe that
will be as historic as the declara-
tion issued in il77G. We wait for
the issue to be made up.--Plain
Dealer. "a
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
Hill md tho Goldhnra.

1t is said that the Democratic gold
bugs arc anxious to have Senator Hill
take charge of their forces at Chicago
We wonder where their forces are. 1t
will take man Of Hills acute vision
to discover them. But Hill has probably
not forgotten how the goldbugs knitted
him when q candidate for governor in
1898. Although he had declared himself
IN favor Of free silver. q gold platform
was thrust under him and in addition
tho Democratic gold men voted the Re-
publican ticket. Now he is expected to
lead the fight for gold. There seems to
havo been queer change all around. -
Sound Money.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
m
Pointed Paragraph From, The Speech
or Senator Teller. ,r,

From the farmer and tradesman
to the government there is appar-
ent the shrinking from giving
offense, lest the vengeance Of some
offended financial power should
descend. The business man sub
mits some portion Of his judgment
and his will, and the nation sub
mits some portion of its interna-
tional right, lest some mighty
foreign creditor shall make de-
structive demands. Where will
all this end II the people shall
decline to assert themselves
This country cannot much longer
exist free and independent against
all the rest of the world, nor can
It's people much longer be free in
the noblest sense OF the term II the
United States, II debtor nation,
shall follow policy dictated by
creditor nations. We produce all
Of the necessaries OF life. Other
nations consume our products. Tn
the race for existence II Is a con-
slant struggle between producer
and consumer. Our present system
OF money deliberately submits to
she desire and the profit OF creditor
nations, leavinglusinthe mass, and |
as individuals, prey 10 the money
gathering aud The deadly cheaper.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
Time For Honesty.

Can o man be honest who advocates
the free coinage of silver and then sup
ports n goldbug candidate? II free coin
age'of silver il not important enough TO
vote for, why under heaven do they
keep saying they. want it? If it is inn
portant enough TO vote for, why don t
they vote for it? Speak out and be hon
est, ye FREQ silver Democrats. The peo-
pie are watching you,-Wadcsboro IN,
ca Plowboy.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
nnl.,er Mixed.

Senator Tillman camo to Texas with
his pitchfork. IIo, spoke in Dallas, and
us they had no suitable place to accom-
modato the large audience. they bor-
rowed the Populist platform. Some of
the Democrats present objected to bor-
rowing and using their neighbor's plat.
form, but the senator remarked, ooh,
well, you must not be too particular.
for God only knows what kind Of a
platform will be standing on next No.
ven,ber. "--Fittsburg (Tex.) Plaindeal-
er. '@''
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
MIR. St. Johns Platform.

Since the publication of his proposed
platform in The Arena we have confer
red with Mr.. William p. st. John and
Others and have persuaded him to amend
it by expunging its tariff plank and 80
altering its preamble as to refer that do.
mand, along with other reforms, to tho
optional initiative Of the people. -
Arena
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
lHt ufthe old world,

INT OF TIE OH WnTIHi
"A thB debt 10 oroditaps RbFaad
lnDFoaata an tho maasoa of tho
nation the price of human 70.
duction on the farm and In tn
workshop is decreased Wit
appalling rapidity, exacting IL or /,
and more toll from our citizens t,
meet the given demand, and old
ing over their heads threat OF tn :
day when confiscation TO meet
their obligations will leave them
bare and defenseless. The only
remedy is to stop falling prices the
deadliest curse of national life.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23
II Saves Lives Every Day.

Thousands Of cases Of Consump-
tlon, Asthma, Coughs, Colds and
Groups are cured every day by
SLiluh's Cure.-S"ll by Miller d
Case.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-23

RAM0NS Relief Cures Sick Headache
W. Neuralgia, Cramps, Cholera Morbus
piarthGa. &c, agents. for large bottle.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-02-13

left nothing whatever to be desired,
OF course there were many other dude
caricatures that year, but this was the
most offensive by long odds 1t hap
pened that young man of Mr.. How
ards acquaintance got three valentines
that year from three different cities,
and every one of his unknown admirers
picked out this identical valentine.
What could a man think under such
exceptional circumstances except that
there was distinct resemblance be-
tween himself and the fellow in the pic
ture? 1t must have been deeply de-
pressing. learn from Mr.. Howard
that this gentleman did not commit sui
eide, but he would have committed
murder under favorable conditions.
One of the most successful valentines
ever sent out was entitled "The Slug
gard" 1t represented man in bed.
A pair of naked and gigantic feet hung
over the footboard, which was in the
foreground: and the sun, with smile
of derision on his countenance, was
seen looking in through an open win
dow. Mr.. Howard gave this to me in
a philosophical spirit as a sample Of
what is considered a rare joke by many
thousands Of persons, Perhaps the
richest thing-if popular applause be
the criterion--in the line Of comic val
entines for women was picture en-
titled Going to Seed" 1t represented
a particularly ill-conditioned plant in a
large red fower-pOt, and the flower was
the typical head Of an old maid. Thou
sands upon thousands of these were
sold. and they served, doubtless, to en-
bitter the thoughts of corresponding
number OF women who ought rather to
have been congratulated. While many
Of these valentines are used in malice,
the real reason why they sell is that the
people think that they are funny.
There's a very deep theme. l have
made a special duty OF the problem,
What do people laugh at? And have
partly solved it. have learned what
myself laugh at-but the remaining
persons mentioned in Mr.. Porter's CEN
sus have thus far eluded me. And even
in my own case the result is not con-
slant. One day, perhaps, / can laugh
at one of my own jokes, and few days
later, when l run across 1t in copy Of
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-02-13

the person to whom / have referred
draws about 900 valentine pictures
every year. and each Of them Is printed
in editions Of 10000 Most of them are
sold in this country, but there is also
quite an export trade with Europe, The
most popular of them run through many
editions, But let us suppose that each
OF them has two editions. That will
give total Of 27,OOO,OOO year. Now,
reflect, further, that everyone Of them
Is designed to make somebody swear,
ana you begin to get an idea of the ter
rible business in which this artist is
engaged. Let us suppose that 100000
OOO OF them reach their destinations,
and that each individual recipient
sWears only five times. We have to-
tai of 1OO,000,000 cuss-words, for which
my friend, the artist is directly respon-
slole, every year, Suppose, further,
that the artist holds his job thirty-Six
and half years, and afterwards suf-
ters IN purgatory one day for every
piece OF violent language caused by
him, as computed above, he will be
there 100000 years, and I do not call
II enough, writes Howard Fielding in
a New York paper Of recent date.
These mathematical operations are
founded upon exact facts. In this let
ter | am simply trying to state a matter
OF news in plain words.
l have known the valentine artist for
a long time, but never suspected him
Of doing anything of that kind. 1t was
only yesterday that learned about it.
went into his work shop just as he
finished a drawing. looked over his
shoulder expecting to see a pretty pic
ture designed for one Of the magazines,
with the familiar signature, c. Howard.
Instead | saw horrible freak wearing
white apron and engaged in pouring
cats into a sausage mill.
That's sweet thing, Howard" said
I, Whats it for?"
For butcher" said he. cts in
tended to be slight token Of some
body's regard on Feb. IA. I've made
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-02-13

The upturned eye is typical of devo-
ton.
Wide open eyes are Indicative of
rashness.
The eye is really self-adjustible
telescope.
Caesar Borgia had prominent half
closed eyes.
Side-glances are always to be dis
trusted.
The eyes should not be used in weak
ness or sickness.
Brown eyes are said by occulists to
be the strongest.
Small eyes are commonly supposed
to indicate cunning.
Near-sighted people almost always
have prominent eyes.
The proper distance between the
eyes is the width of ones eye.
There are from four to six grains of
aqueous humor in the eye,
The downcast eye has in all ages
been typical of modesty.
Many eyes supposed to be black are
only deep orange brown.
Eyes in rapid and constant motion
betoken anxiety, care or fear.
People of melancholic disposition
rarely have clear blue eyes.
The eyes of fish and birds are round,
with no angles at the corners.
The deer really weeps, it's eyes being
nrOv1ded with lachrVmal glands
Whenever blue occurs in the iris it
is generally the predominant color
Eyes with long, sharp corners, indi-
cate great discernment and penetra-
ton.
Homer attributed a protruding eye
to Juno. He called her ox-eyed Juno.
In all nocturnal animals the eyes are
placed to look forward as in the case
of man.
The eye of the octopus is said to be
be black, large and as vicious as that
of snake.
In mythology, Pluto, and the NAL
evolent deities were represented with
small eyes.
The white of the eye showing be-
meath the Tres is indicative of nobility
of character.
The eye of the serpent seems to have
an expression of intense hatred and
mlignity.
A bit of gold leaf 1-1125th part OF
an inch square, can be perceived by
the naked eye.