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dollar, he says, that has brought down
all this alleged calamity unon us.

dollar, he says, that has brought down
all this alleged calamity upon US.
Nobody but the mine owner would be
benefited if silver should go up from
hardly suppose that Mr.. Bryan is run
ming this silver crusade for the sole and
exclusive benefit of handful of million
aire mine owners.
His whole argument is for cheaper
dollars if it has any sense or point at all.
He entices farmers to join in the cru
sade by suggesting that they can pay
their debts easier with cheap dollars.
He is like the unjust steward who said
to the debtor who owed his lord hun
dred measures of oil, "take thy bill and
sit down quickly eand write fifty"
be a good thing for them to get their
pay in cheaper dollars and that in some
roundabout way cheaper dollars would
give them steadier employment.
He tells the holders of Insurance poll
cies that it would be blessed thing for
them to have their losses paid in cheaper
dollars, because the companies would
lose more than they (the policyholders)
would, the aggregate of premiums eX-
ceeding the aggregate of losses and the
premiums being paid in cheaper dollars.
He tells the depositors in savings
them to draw out cheaper dollars than
they put in because if they don't they
may not be able to draw out anything,
or they may find it necessary to draw
out all their money to meet living ex-
penses.
By such puerilities he seeks to induce
people to swallow the free silver pill.
But we observe one strange oversight.
Mr.. Bryan did not explain how cheaper
dollars would benefit pensioners. He
might have told them that they could
more than make up their loss by dead
beating their landlords and butchers and
grocers. But he lost his opportunity.
Perhaps he will attend to that in his
formal letter"
When it comes to that he may think
it best to make it little clearer, if he
can. how workingmen, policy holders. de-
positors in savings banks and investors
in building and loan associations would
be benefited by getting their pay in dol
lars worth anywhere from 10 to so per
cent. less than the dollars they are now
getting, or the dollars they deposited, in
vested or paid in premiums.
There is ground remaining to be COW
cred in that formal letter." though the
informal speech was two hours long
Chicago Chronicle Dem.).
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japan and Mexico.

''If silver is such an abomfnabIe curse
why are Japan and Mexico booming with
prosperityf'-J K, Amber. Mich.
No one says that silver is an
4abominable CURSE The project of go
ing to the silver standard is one which
would bring on an era of panic and
financial disaster but to say this
project is bad is not to say silver is
curse" Try to apply reason to the
subject, not prejudice and emotion. The
question is q plain one of business and
only common sense is needed to settle il
rightly.
You say Japan and Mexico are "boom-
ing with prosperity" How do you
know this? Prosperity is an extremely
relative term. In both countries the
wages of the working class are SO low
that an American workingman would
deem them starvation wages. He could
not live. Mexico is far more prosperous
than she has been for many years, but
it is because, under President Diaz,
there has been peace. The country has
not been the scene of chronic revolution,
as it was up to a few years ago. Wages
are very low, and manufacturing is
profitable. Japan is just adopting the
use of machinery in manufactures, and
is yet far behind ms in everything
Toledo Blade.
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guarantee it legal tender with gold un-
der it. It would take 800, ,OOO. 600 to

guarantee it legal tender with gold un-
der it. 1t would take $4OO, 600, 900 to
do this-16 to /. Can we do it?"
"How about Mexican and India sill
ver?' asked the Populist.
"Ah, that would come to us like a
deluge! We have no tariff against sill
yer. 1t would pour in upon us; l ,2O0,-
600. There has been mined during the
last 400 years $10. 900, 600, 600 worth Of
silver. The world mined $2O9; ;165.OOO
worth of 50-cent silver last year. This
would come rushing in upon us. We
would be the dumping ground of the
world. We could not coin it, and when
we stopped our guarantee all our coined
silver would fall back from 16 to to
80 to /. We would have the 5O-ceBt
dollars of China and Japan, with no gold
in our treasury, and be the laughing
stock of the world" E*t5 e.
"Well, who would be benefited by free
coinage?" asked the Populist.
'Well no one but the mine owners.
There are 5000 of them. Their work
men are paid in silver, paper or gold
dollars worth 100 cents in gold. The
mine owner is working for silver
worth So cents. The farmer is getting
money as good as gold for his wheat
and cotton now. With: free silver he
could get no more for his produce nor
no better money than he is getting.
And, by and by, if we went on coming
silver ad libitum, silver would go down
like the old greenbaeks in 1863. That
went down to 35 cents on dollar,
while gold stood still. You could buy
wheat then for $3.50 in greenbacks or
in 1863 for $50 an acre in greenbacks or
$40 in gold. Do you want that to occur
again.
The Populist was silent
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THE WISE KANSANS. =
How They Sought to Increase The
Wealth by Legislative
Enactment

r. A. Stillwell has prepared leafIet
purporting to give a history of certain
events occurring near the close of the
Nineteenth century. 1t was declared to
be period of depression, during which
it occurred to the wise men of Kansas
that they could legislate themselves into
affiuence. The governor assembled the
wise men and said:
A Kansas policy for Kansas is the
need of the hour. Wheat is hard to-
raise, and the yield is light and uncer-
tain; but we are great on corn. Make
ye, therefore, law in accordance with
which sovereign and august statute corn
shall be put upon par with wheat
They shall be interchangeable, and the
price of corn shall be the same as the
price of wheat.
The wise men passed the law as the
governor had advised and all the people
of the state rejoiced. for their cribs were
full of corn. They could hardly contain
themselves till the governor had signed
the bill which raised the price of Kansas
corn from Is cents to 45 cents bushe4.
All the people now felt rich. They
bought many luxuries and the most Of
them went in debt. Then the farmers
from other states began hauling their
corn to Kansas. 1t seemed as if the coun-
try was all corn and it was all headed
for Kansas. The people of Kansas took
their medicine-that is, they took the
corn and gave up. their wheat.
The farmers from the other states
thought Kansas people were queer, hut
they kept bringing them their corn. Corn
came in and wheat went out.
When the other states saw this vast
accumulation, the price of corn began to
decline till it could be purchased any
where except in Kansas for 10 cents A
bushel. In Kansas the price was still
10 cents. which was the price of wheat.
hnf thprp ~.
autumn came the Kansas people did not
have any wheat for seed. Then they
sent to the neighboring states and i'm
plored farmers TO exchange wheat at a
parity with corn. But the farmers said:
I'VE will exchange one bushel of wheat
for four and one-half bushels of corn
Our law replied the Kansas people,
puts corn and wheat at parity. They
are equal, for our wise men said they
should be-" And the farmers replied:
our wise men are asses; let them eat
your corn" So the Kansans went back
home and all their people were in de-
spair.
Then the governor again assembled
the wise men and said to them. "Most
consummate, picturesque and glittering
goll darned fools. There is but one
bigger fool than yourselves. 1t is he
who addresses you.
Eve thought we could bluff the ever
lasting law of supply and demand with
our statute. We thought we could leg
islate value into a thing and make our
people rich by a law: We thought
Let us honestly acknowledge our as
sininity, repeal our fool law. get back
into line with the other states and imag-
inc no more that we are wiser than the
whole world. Dc. this, and may we live
states have ceased laughing at our folly
and that our own state has ceased ours
ing us for il
Then the>wise men repealed the law,
but it was many years before the peo-
pie recovered from The effects of the corn
scare.
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Who Control silver Mines ?

"Does Wall street own or control any of
all the silver mines of this country? If SO.
what Is her object in being so still about
it?'-H. j., Dresden, Kan.
You seem to think Wall street is a
woman. We doubt if the majority of
the Populists who talk so glibly about
"Wall street. know what it is. The
United States subtreasury in New York
is on Wall street; so are a number of
banks and brokers' offices. When prop
erlX used "Wall street. is simply gen
eral name for the dealers in New York
in stocks, bonds and other securities.
The silver mines are owned by cor
porations, and their stock is dealt in by
New York brokers, the same as other
stocks. "Wall street" is not keeping
still about it. The fellows who are
keeping still are the great silver .barons,
who are pushing free coinage, and spend
ing money like water to make it win.
They don't want the voters to know
that free coinage at 16 to / would, by
putting the country on a silver basis,
make the value of the dollar depend
on the market price of silver bullion,
which they, by speculation, could run
up or down, and really put the entire
money of the country at their mercy
Toledo Blade.
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remember in 1864, after his dreadful
wound. we did not suppose we would
have him with us again-we have with
us today that brave soldier -comrade, Col
Russell B. Hastings. lApplause.] 1
was glad to note in tho eloquent speech
of my comrade, Capt. Ellen, that the
old Twenty-third Ohio stands in 1896
as it stood in 1861, for the country and
the country's flag. Great applause and
cries For Mckinley. tool Nobody
could have doubted that, knowing the
metal from which this old regiment was
made.
My comrades. you are just as loyal to
country now as you were loyal to country
then. and aS-Sou stood from 1861 to 1865
for the preservation of the government
of the United States, you stand today
just as unitedly for the honor of the
government and the preservation of its
credit and currency. ICheers.l
Protection and sound Money.
I do not know what you think about
it, but l believe that it is a good deal
better to open up the mills of the Unit
ed States to the labor of America than.
to open up the mints of the United
States to the silver of the world. [Great
cheering and cries of 'You are right
Washington told us over and over again
that there was nothing SO important
to preserve as the nations honor. He
said that the most important source OF
strength was the public credit, and that
the best method of preserving it was to
use it as sparingly as possible. No gov
ernment can get on without it and pre-
serve it's honor. No government is great
enough to get on without it. In the
darkest days of the revolution, Robert
Morris, it's fnancier, went to one of his
friends in Philadelphia after he had in
volved himself as debtor for a large
sum of money on account of the gov
ernment and said to him: Il must have
81 100000 for the continental army.
His friend said: "What security can
you give, Robert?' He answered: "My
name and d. my honor" Quick sI s came = the !.
[Applause.] And from that hour until
now the country's honor has been cur
sheet anchor in every storm. =
Lincoln pledged it, when, in time Of
war, we issued paper money. He saids
Every dollar Of that money shall be
Rutherford B. Hayes, your old colonel,
as President of the United States, to ex-
ecute the promise in the resumption OF
specie payments in 1879. tCheering and
applause.1 When Robert Morris said
that they had nothing to give but their
honor there was behind his word 3.OO0,-
600 of struggling patriots. Today behind
the nations honor are 7OOOO,OO0 of free
men, who mean to keep this government
and its honor and integrity and credit
unquestioned. [Great applause.l
/ thank you, my comrades,I for this
call. Nothing has given me greater
pleasure. Nothing gives me greater
pride than to have been a private soldier.
with you in that great Civil war. Zap
plause.] I bid you welcome to my home.
You already have my heart; you have
had it for more than thirty years. fGreat
cheering.] 1t will give Mrs. Mckinley
and myself much pleasure, assure yOu,
to have you come into our home. Zap
plause and three cheers for McKinley.1
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poor Mans Money"

Among the transparencies carried by
the shouters for Bryan at Des Moines
Friday evening We're some bearing the
words, "Silyer is the poor mans money,
Vote for the poor mans money and "A
200-cent dollar is a dishonest dollar"
Such sentences show the drift of the
public mind and reveal only too plainly
that with many people the silver ques-
tion is one of prejudice rather than one
of reason. What is the meaning of the
phrase, ''Silver is the poor mans mon
eyT' We doubt very much if the man
who carried that transparency could
have given an intelligent answer. Under
present conditions silver dollar of the
United States will buy just as much at
home or abroad as "a gold dollar. 1t
makes no difference to the wOrkingman
whether he receives his weekly wages
IN gold or silver coin. The amount of
goods he can purchase is the same. I'm
til the agitation of the silverites drove
the gold of the country into hiding places
wOrkmen were often paid i'll gold and
when this silver craze is squelched they
will again receive gold as a part of their
wages.
There is one way, however. in which
silver can be said to be the poor manas
money. In those countries where the
coinage of silver is unrestricted the wage
earners are emphatically poor. A list
of those countries is printed in another
column this morning and the wages paid
to skilled and unskilled labOrers given. As
was shown by the well-authenticated let
ters from Mexico published in the Re
publican on Friday and Saturday the
price of the necessaries of life in these
countries is double the price paid in the
United States. Is this ''the poor mans
money that the wage-earners of the
United States are to vote for? Are they
willing to sink to the level of the Mexi-
can peon or the coolie of India? If so
the way to do it is to vote for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. If a
free coinage law. such as is contemplated
by the silverites be passed, one of two
things must happen. Either the silver
of the entire world must be lifted to a
parity with gold or the silver dollar of
the United States must sink to the level
of Mexico and other silver countries.
In that case the wages of the working
man will be cut in two and he will in
deed have cause to talk of 'poor mans
money"
Why should not the laborer continue
to be paid in good money-Cedar Rap
ids RpnuhlioaD
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Questions for Wage-Earners.

History teaches that in all cases where
the cost of living has suddenly increased
as result of deprecated money wages
have invariably been the last to respond
to such conditions. Does anybody be-
lieve that with 53-cent dollars as the
sole. money of redemption the wages of
the $4,000 railway employees would be
doubled? Would the salaries of the
10000 school teachers be .dou6led2
Would the wages of the 100000 wom-
en- and children who work in factories
be doubled? Certainly not.-Galvestou
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02
TO WfIIiam j. BRYAN.

You shall not prod the sides of labor
with goads of silver. You shall not inn
pale the laborer's wife upon the pfongs
Of high cost and low wage.--Waterbusy
American. s.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05

power of the goldbug movement-are
ignorant of the fact that the condition
Of the laboring element of this nation
is hardly susceptible of being rendered
worse? Do they not know that wages
are now down to the starvation notch;
that multiplied thousands are unable
to obtain days employment at any
price; that very large percentage OF
those who have positions are working
OH one-half, and even less time, and
that the prices for farm products have
been beaten down until the farm has
ceased to pay? Can it be that these
goldstandard advocates are so blind
that they do not see that distress, more
general and severe than perhaps ever
characterized this fair land before, is
now the portion Of her people? Spring
field (NIO.) Leader
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05
Exercise Indoors

Elderly people and others who may
be temporarily house bound and pre-
vented from enjoying a regular daily
stroll outdoors can devise a fair substi-
tute as follows: Bundle up as if for the
usual constitutional, select q large,
sunny room, preferable at the top of the
house, open wide the windows. shut
off the heat ana move round briskly.
going to the window and inhaling the
fresh air deeply through the nostrils.
We have often called attention to the
fact that house air, with its many i'm
Durities, overheated condition and gen
eral lifelessness, is one of the principal
predisposing causes TO colds and
catarrhal affections. Where q patient or
invalid is confined to bed, if the shout
ders are kept well covered and the head
lightly protected, the windows may be
opened and the room flushed with fresh
air without any special risk, provided
tho current does not strike them too di-
rectly The danger from want of
proper ventilation is decidedly greater.
Deep inhalations of air at the open win
dow, taken gently through the nose,
impart an enliyening and tonic intilI-
ence to the whole nervous system, which
can soon be demonstrated by personal
experiment.-Th Health Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05

Plat of the NE Of
the NV of Section
: So Town 40. Range
10 East, to the Viii
lage of Eagle Riy-
er, Wis.
deS. sec. amt.
lot :, blk 3 35.S4
lot >. blk 4 $50
lots 4 & ). blk 4 91.7G
lot IA, blk 4 6.34
Dickinson. Cook &
Tambling's Addi-
tion to Village Of
Eagle River.
west 25 TT of
lot IA, blk 4 81. 40
i "a II k Tambling's
Addition to the Viii
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05
Industrial Notes.

The four unions Of carpenters in In
,lianapolis and the suburban town Of
Houghyille have consolidated, and the
new union will be No. 2S1. The new
union has upward of $50 members and
is one of the largest i'll Indiana.
The Indianapolis Sentinel says: ut
is understood that William G. Pomeroy
of Chicago, secretary and vice-presl-
dent Of the Hotel and Restaurant En-
Moves National Alliance, will be ole of
samuel Gompers' strongest competitors
in the coming fight for the presidency
IF the American Federation of Labor"
President Gompers has gone to Dal-
las. Tex. on a mission that may result
in an amalgamation of the National Or
der Of Railway Engineers with the
American Federation of Labor. With
the engineers in the federation Mr.
Gompers is confident long step will
have been taken in the fusion of other
railway orders.
Detroit Stove Works, after an eigh-
teen weeks contest, is hailed by those
interested as complete victory. The
matters regarding which the trouble
first arose had long been adjusted and
the only point preventing a settlement
had for weeks been the disposition Of
the non-union men who had taken
the strikers places. By the terms of
the company all the old hands of the
company are reinstated and have re
turned to work.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05
zone Primary Money Mass"

BY restoring silver to its former place
both metals would become in effect one
metal; one primary money mass, both
would respond to the demand of debts
and business, and to support with
broader basis the credit fabric of the
world. Says French writer in 1881:
''.rhe law, by placing the yellow metal
and the white metal on the same basis
them, has made them really a single
STERLING (Kan.) Democrat
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05
Paderewski Better.

Paderewski has recovered in a large
measure from the insomnia which trou-
bled him at the close of his American
tour. but it is probable that he will not
nlay publicly next year. Most of his
vacation has been passed in the South
Of France Paderewski keeps up in
Paris the friendship of the Americans
he met here, and at a dinner ne gave
lust before leaving Paris, the colors, or
the flowers were red, white and blue,
the Hungarian orchestra had been taught
to play Sousa's marches, and after din
ner was over there was dancing. for
which the host insisted that the must
clans should play only American airs.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05
TAX DEED NOTICE.
Notice of the Expiration Of the
Time for the Redemption Of
Lands Sold for Taxes
for the Year 1893.
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK,
Villas County, Wisconsin.

TO Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that the following
lots or tracts of land sold May 10Th, in the
year 1894, for the taxes due and unpaid for
the year 1898, remain unredeemed in the Of
flee of the county clerk of Villas. county,
Wisconsin; that opposite the description Of
each tract or lot or part thereof, in the fol-
lowing list, is the name of the person. if any,
to whom assessed and the amount of taxes,
interest and charges calculated to the last
day of redemption due on each
Now, therefore, unless the taxes, interest
and charges set opposite the tracts herein
described shall be paid on or before the 10Th
day of May, 1897 the said tracts of land
shall be forfeited and will be conveyed to
the purchaser or purchasers in pursuance of
the statutes in such case made and provided.
Dated at Eagle River, Wis, August %,
1896 G. FRANCIS GOLDMAN,
County Clerk, Villas Co.. Wis.
Town 49, Range Al Town 80. North of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05
John A. Logan.s Prophecy.

/, for one, can see benefit only to the
money-holder and those who receive
interest and have fixed incomes | can
see as a result of this legislation, our
business operation crippled and wages
for labor reduced to Il mere pittance.
| can see the beautiful prairies of my
own State and of the great West,
which are blooming as gardens, with
cheerful homes rising like white tow
ers along the pathway of improvement,
again sinking back to idleness. / can
see mortgage fiends at their hellish
work. | can see the hopes of the indus
trious farmers blasted as they burn
corn for fuel because its price will not
pay the cost Of transportation and divi-
dends on millions of dollars of fictitious
railway stocks and bonds. / can see
our people of the West groaning and
burdened under taxation to pay debts
of States, counties and cities incurred
when money was more abundant and
bright hopes of the future were held
out to lead them on. | can see the peo-
pie of our Western States, who are pro-
ducerS, reduced to the condition or
serfs to pay interest on public and pri-
vate debts to the money sharks of Wall
street, New York, and of Threadneedle
street London-From a speech in the
Senate on withdrawal of Treasury
pOtaC
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05
General Distress.

General DISTRESS.
Can it be that these gentlemen who
roll in Wealth-and who constitute the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-05

' image OF MlnOcQud,
Wis.
lot Z, blk 1 S.72
lot II, blk ; S.72
Lands Omitted From
Last Years Adver-
tised List on Tax
of 1892, Sale OF
1893.
lot 3, IA, 40, . 4.40
lot 4, IA. 40, 8 6.68