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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

6omethsng About Countries that Have
4 : silver etaudard.
: Mexico ID . silver standard country.
She has large national debt. The In
terest on EGO. 6S7. $50 IL payable In Lon
don. 1t Is not even payable in Mexico.
The London indebtedness Is greater
than the Mexican Indebtedness.
Guatemala Is a silver standard coun-
try. or her debt, fSS7, ZOO Is owed
abroad.
Honduras Is a silver standard coun-
try. Practically the whole Of her debt
Is owed abroad and not cent Of inter-
est has Honduras been able to pay
since 1872.
Nicaragua Is a silver country. She
owes E286, 900 In London, on which she
has been obliged to default payment
of the interest.
, Salvador is silver country. She owes
f264, 900 in London.
Paraguay Is q silver country. She de-
clared herself bankrupt to her foreign
creditors In 1885 and issued new bonds
In exchange for her old ones ut about
80 cents on the dollar. Paraguay has
just defaulted the interest on the half
Of her debt which she had not previous
ly repudiated. She owes now In Europe
f836,55O, with defaulted interest
amounting to over f76,500.
Peru L. q silver country. She had
foreign debt Of f31, $40, $50, with ar
rears of interest amounting to f22,99S,-
651. Being utterly unable to pay, the
European bondholders had decided to
them In exchange all the states rail-
ways, guano deposits, mines and lands
for a period Of sixty-six years.
Bolivia Is a silver country. Her Eek
ternal" debt to foreign corporations Is
1000, 900 bolivianos; debt owed at home
is 4,428, 705 bolivianos. Forty per cent
of the customs dues at africa are by
law seized by the foreign bondholder.
China is a silver country. 1t Is mat
ter In the memory Of every citizen that
the money to pay China's war indem-
nifty was raised by a loan In Europe
The Japanese commission has just
gone to London to collect 1t. Her Feb,
ruary loan of 1895 was 100000, pay
able in gold, and her customs revenue
is to-day mortgaged in terms toforeign
syndicates. The United States pays In
gold and borrows at per cent. China's
foreign loan Of December, 1894, OF
SIS, 600 900, payable in silver, cost pei
cent. in interest.
Japan, the most prosperous OF the sill
yer countries, is paying at the rate OF
z per cent. for foreign indebtedness
Of 2,11O,112 yen. The bulk Of her debt
loaned her In silver by her own citizens
costs her 51a per cent. per annum. ia
pans financiers favor the adoption OF
a gold basis.
India Is on a silver basis. OF tota
debt, funded and unfunded, Of 227 ,354,
39S rupees, los, 113, 1872 is foreign deb
owed to England. Sixteen million
pounds sterling a year must be paid In
England. This Is paid in gold, while
the taxes raised in India are silver Il
1t extraordinary that India has stopped
the coinage Of silver in order to get
upon q gold basis and relieve herself OF
a heavy yoke that was yearly growing
| heavier?
Russia Is on a silver basis, but sht
has been forced into an indebtedness Of
gold rubles Of 1,99S,307, 496. Russia
was forced to ask permission of foreign
bankers before she went to war. W.
| didn't have to ask that permission
Russia Is about to adopt the gold basis
| Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

equivalent to 5o.1s7 cents United States
standard. About the 1st Of August.
1895, the price was 90 cents. ut which
over 1900, 900 ounces were bought and
stored In safe deposit vaults in New
York. A fall immediately began, carry
ing the price as low az 659< cents on the
10th.
"As the standard silver dollar con-
tains 371.25 grains of pure silver and
the ounce consists Of 480 grains. 1t fol-
lows that the bullion value Of the dol
lar Is that part Of the market price of
silver which 371.25 Is Of 4SO The prob
lem Is a simple one under the rule OF
three, and may be stated thus:
"Four hundred and eighty Is to 371.25
an price of silver In cents Is to bullion
value Of dollar.
Here Is a liable showing the bullion
value of the standard silver dollar at
various prices Of bullion:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
An Apt Illustration.

At Toledo Mr.. Bryan said: IF you
have n little home and il only cost you
500 and has but one room, you who
own that little home would be as much
exercised by the announcement it had
caught on fire as would the great man
who lives in marble palace, because it
is your home:"'
"You" would be good deal more ex-
ercised. also, if you knew that. Mr..
Bryan having been elected President the
insurance which you had paid for out of
YOUR labor with 100-cent dollars was to
be paid to you in dollars worth 53 cents.
1t wouldn't make so much difference
TO the man who lives in the marble pal
ace.-Chicago Times-Herald.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Property and Industry.

Property is the fruit of labor. Prop
erty is desirable, is positive good In
the world. That some should be rich
shows that others may become rich, and
hence is encouragement to industry and
enterprise. Let no man who is homeless
pull down the house Of another, but let
him work diligently and build one for
himself, thus, BY example, assuring that
his own shall be safe from violence
when it is built Abraham Lincoln.
The Gold Dollar and the SILVER Dollar.
The value Of every dollar earned by
the wage Garner and paid to the farmer
under present conditions is 100 cents.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

people will find employment. and do1ass
will be easier to get.
of 1802-the starting up Of the mills
not the mints--that will benefit and bless
labor and give the United States genu-
inc boom. A vote for Mckinley and
Hobart Is vote for these better condi-
tions and better times.-Norwich (Conn.)
Bulletin
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

In some parts of the country there are
malicious persons who throw tacks in
the roadway to annoy bicycle riders by
perforating the pneumatic tires. To
meet this dif{iculty It has been proposed
to attach magnet In front Of the for
ward wheel, with the object Of picking
70 the tacks ~ the machine rolls along
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

Design suggested for the 'free sill
ver' dollar. The American eagle will
not stay on a debased coin. The man in
the moon likes it because it gets its
shape from him, and the trombone suits
its sliding value. No charge for design.
Free coinage. free design. So the silver
trusts are bound to get rich.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Develop the Industries.

Mr.. Mckinley believes in confidence,
and plenty of IL, even IL Mr.. Bryan
doesn't. The Republican candidates
address to the Republican Press asso-
citation of Virginia was one of the best
Of the many good addresses that he has
impressing upon the West Virginia edi-
tors that development under wise sys-
TEN of tariff will give them better
towns, better farms, better farm houses,
better schools, better homes and hap
pier people," he added:
But remember that you can do this only
never do ii II you destroy confidence. Great
appisrse) Strive for q fuller development
OF your Industries; build up q greater and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
An African,s Care for Ornaments

Soon after you get started on a jour
rey with black followers all your
breakable property-cups, saucers, etc
will be smashed or lost, but the gen
tie African, Notwithstanding, will veal
round his ankle a thin thread Of beads
for three years; he will tear his way
through matted grass, and follow a
wounded buck through tangled jungle
without injury to his ornament. 1t II
remarkable how an ornament sticks to
a native.-Century.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Ra.ic Money We. Papet.

The province of paper money is that
Of convenience, and the essentials re-
garding its issue are that 1t shall be
in limited quantities and redeemable
In fundamental coin or securities. Then
It IL safe. and In business Is preferred
to mstal--Baftimors Herald
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
A Pertinent Query.

II Bryan is bound to be elected, as the
free silver folks aver, why are they hav-
ing Mysteries about what the goldbugs
will do when Maj. Mckinley is elected
-pittsburg News.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

With the unlimited coinage Of silver
at the ratio Of 10 to the value Of the
dollar would sink to the price Of the
silver bullion In coin, containing 81 Il
grains Of pure silver. or about 81 cents.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Gold.

The last United States mint report
amounts of gold held by the great ma
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
DINNER TABLE sHERBEr FRERzRR.

filled. At intervals the hostess gives
the freezer handle n few turns, and
then the maid, lifting of the top, goes
about filling the glasses, oftenest with
water ice favored with lines.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Am L Wrong?

The Boston Herald publishes the fol-
lowing from a subscriber to the Wall
Street Daily News. 1t Is admirably
put, and deserves the widespread pub
lication which 1t is bound to receive:
rf q dollar be a dollar-honest coin
without deceit-one may melt 1t, one
may smelt 1t, but its value won't re-
treat.
Melt ten dollars-silver dollars-in I'M
biased melting pot, and the silver
'slug" resulting only sells for five
the lot"
Melt gold dollars-melt an eagle In
aforesaid melting poland the gold
en- slug resulting quickly sells for
"ten the lot"
VIII you tell mckinley tell mellow
these dollars equal are-if a little
glowing furnace put on only one a
scar?
There was never yet equation that de-
manded legislation to establish right
to bean equation is equation-else
1t Is a fallacy!
And I'm thinking-quietly thinking
that poor man has poor sense-if he
vote to have q dollar-that will melt
to fifty cents.
IF We Owned n silver Mine.
There are tons of human nature stacked
to-day upon the earth;
Every man will boom his interest for all
that he is worth.
If It helps his purse or pocket he will
quickly fall in line
And we all would be for silver if we owned
silver mine.
Men who have lot of cattle want them
to increase in price; s
Dealers, too, in solid GOODNESS would put
up the rate on ice;
He who sells us fancy liquors would adj
vance the price on wine
And we all would be for silver If we
owned a silver mine.
Those who have to sell their labor wish
for wages to advance,
And the fiddler and the caller like to see
the people dance;
Officer holders kick and grumble, but
they never will resign
And we all would be for silver If we
owned a silver mine.
So it Is in every calling, every craft, and
every art;
That which fills with chink the pocket
finds warm place in the heart.
When we gamble on ball game watch
us roofing for that nine
And we all would be for silver IL we
owned a silver mine.
Times Herald.
81 Some Figures.
'In order that the two metals, gold
and silver, may be at a parity at one
ratio" said a leading treasury ofiicial,
In conversation with a reporter to-day,
IAN ounce Of silver must be worth
$1,000 in gold. The highest point the
price of silver has reached In recent
years was $1.21, on Aug. 10. 1890, six
days after the purchases under the
Sherman act commenced. After re
maining comparatively steady at about
that figure for fortnight, the price be-
gan to decline, and by the end Of De-
cember, 1890, 1t stood at $L045. On the
LIST Of July, 1898, nearly three years
after the purchases under the Sherman
act began. the price Of silver varied
from ~ cents to "a cents. In March,
1894, the lowest recorded price Of the
white metal was reached, being n
pence per ounce, British standard,
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20
/O// First AyeNafe.

convention, to be held at the state capi- to be fixed by this committee. The fore called to nominate county and beat can didates.
 2. Each county shall be entitled to the same number of delegates in said conven- tion as it had in the last state conven- tion.
 B. Each county executive committees shall decide for its county whether the delegates to the state convention shall be selected by primary election, beat meetings, county conventions or mass meetings.
 4. No delegate to the congressional con- vention Saall be elected at the same time that delegates are selected to the state convention.
 5. That the executive committee of each county shall have the right to deter mine whether to admit any but white voters to the primaries of their respec tive counties.
 Delegates to the congressional conven- tion shall be elected in such a manner as the respective county executive commit tees shall determine. on Saturday the 22d day of August. 1896, and the congress sional conventions of the several districts in the state shall be held on Tliesday. September 1. 1896 at such places as the respective congressional executive com mittees may determine. Each county shall be entitled to the same number of delegates in the congressional convention that it is allowed under the foregoing apportionment in the state convention.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20
GUATEMALA

The present president of Guatemala is Reina Barrios, nephew of the former president of that name, who was killed in battle some years ago in an attempt to bring about union among the Central American republics. In review of a re- cent work upon Guatemala the New York Evening Post says of the present Barrios:
 He makes and breaks the law at will; he controls taxation; he grants and re- vokes concessions to monopo,es; he sets aside the decisions of courts. Every de- partment of government, the judiciary, the bureaus of administrat tion and police, are but organized blackmailing agencies; but the sutor who would be sure of sat- isfaction must bargain with the president himself What. contemptible creature the president Is, with his mixture of brag- gart and coward, Signor Cairano de- scribes with vivid strokes. The spectacle of the generalin-chief of Guatemala needing chair to mount his horse be- fore reviewing his tatterdemalion army,
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20

were formerly supposed to be lukewarTn or indifferent, and the number who have consented includes not a few notable statesmen, land owners, financlers and others The question is also being pressed upon members of the house of commons by the continual representations made to them from all parts of the country in favor of bimetalism.
 A resolution was drawn up at the re- cent Paris bimetallic congress, and it will be moved in the house of commons at the earliest possible opportunity this year MT. Balfour has definitely promised to speak in support of this resolution. The Philadelphia American says that "it will be of great interest to watch the effect of the openly avowed adherence of the lead CT of the house of commons. Of course, MT. Balfour will warn his hearers that he speaks from his private conviction, and not for his colleagues But the weight that his words will carry will be none the less great, nor will the effect be less on the house. Around Mr. Bal four much interest gathers, because of the complete misunderstanding placed on his words quite recently. It will af- ford him much qualification to be able to reaffirm his allegiance to bmetallism and his openly pronounced allegiance will carryLconviction into the hearts of his hearers, and will do much to convert the many waverers among the rank and file of the conservative party.
 Should the resolution be carried-and about this it is impossible to forecast practically the blmetallic contention will have gained the day at last. For it means that a conference will be assem- bled (with full powers practically, from which something must result in the dl- rection of utilizing both gold and silver as money"
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.

The question of bimetallsm is growing in England. It is not alone MT Balfour who speaks out for free silver as a rem edy for the business depression of that country. The ranks of silver are grow ing steadily in every direction. Already active steps for the formation of strong party committee have been taken with the most gratifying results The com mittee has for its object the formation of an international conference for the purpose of considering what measures can be taken to remove or mitigate the evils resulting from the constant fluctu- ations and the growing divergence in the relative value of gold and silver" Ev- cry member of parliament who joins pledges himself to help the attainment of the specified object. It Is remarkable that a great many members of rariia- ment who have joined are those who
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20
CAPTAIN KOLB,

In recent interview at Washington Capt. R. F. Kolb is thus reported:
 We've got the democracy beaten in Alabama beyond hope of redemption, even if they were united and harmonious instead of being split and torn over the free coinage question. Whether they nominate a free silver man or gold champion is not of the slightest conse- quence. The result will be the same"
 This is the same gentleman who claim ed to be a better democrat than those who supported Governor Oates. Now he wants the democrats beaten, and he is willing to get up fusion in order to hand the electoral votes of Alabama over to MT. Reed To do this he must ad- init negroes into his council and sustain some of them for office. We feel sure that tens of thousands of good men who formerly supported Captain Kolb will refuse to follow him into the mongrel camp, but will return to the old demo- cratic party and make the fight under the only flag that has protected the southern people from mongrelism and negro rule.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20

From this table 1t will be observed that
 in the principal silver-using countries the balance of trade is against us, while it is in our favor in those using gold as the standard. To silver using Mexico. West Indies and Asia we owed balance of $102 559, ,120, and to gold-using South America S7S641 1S5 But when we come to gold standard Europe and Africa we find that the balance in our favor is $244, ,552 If these balances we're set tied by the payment of the metal which is the standard of value in the respective countries, then we received $166. 6.30S,367 more of gold than we paid out, and $63,- 760357 more gold than we paid of both gold and silver, .et
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20

The free coinage republicans are con- fident that, by the plan they have inaugu- rated of linking tariff and free coinage together, they will eventually win. Sena- tor Teller, leading republican senator, is the author of the movement. In speak ing of it he said 'I am confident we shall very soon hear from the great in dustrial interests of Christendom, now threatened as never before by the compe- ttion of the silver-using countries, es. pecially the Asiatic countries, or what has been properly called the Asiatie peril This competition cannot be met by tariffs, and can only be overturned by a change in the monetary system that is now giving to Asiatic manufacturers a bonus of such magnitude as to render competition with them on our part i'm possible
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20
would draw smile from even the fiercest

i jingo.
 'Signor Cairano closes his book with an account of the great public works which President Barrios and his satellites have been engaged in for several years in the hope of turing foreign capitalists to put more millions within their grasp. They promise before 1898 to complete railroad between the capital and Puerto Barrios, on the Gulf of Mexico, which will bring the city of Guatemala within easy reach of tourists from the United States and Europe, but the line of this road has been surveyed through an almost inn passable mountainous region, 15O miles across, which must not only make it's construction enormously expensive fo the grief of the foreigners who are to provide the funds), but also preclude 1t from earning running expenses, should it ever be finished. At the capital, Guate- mala, a city of 10000 inhabitants, there is projected a park 36S hectares (about 1000 acres) in extent, with artificial lakes, grottos and fountains, besides drives and walks. shrubberies, gardens and a race course, and connected with the town by a magnificent boulevard two miles and three-quarters long. In the city itself a grand hotel, with 300 splendid suites of rooms, a theater, baths, etc, etc. is to make the astonished millionaire tourist of the United States and Europe forget Paris and New York. The ulterior mo- tive of these grandiose schemers is to es- tablish a gambling hell which shall eclipse that of Monte Carlo"
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20
VIEWS OF A KENrUCKIAN.

Hon. w. J. Stone, former member of congress from Kentucky. in a recent in terview said:
 Well, as for myself, I don't see how any one can put any but-the correct con' struction on the platform. It is as plain as the sun in a clear sky at monday It declares that the democratic party is In favor of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country. and that we want them both admitted to the hints on equal terms and without discrimina- tion against either.' Nothing could be palmer That's what I am in favor of; that's what the democratic party has been in favor of from the very first time it ever defined its position on the sub- ject"
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20
PARTY LAW
Adopted by the Executive Committee on
 Tuesday. January 2l

l. Whereas, The democratic committee or the United States, in its call of the na- tional convention, adopted a wise and conservative policy in inviting all con- servative citizens, irrespective of past po- htical associations or differences, to join in sending delegations to the said con- vention; therefore, be it
 Resolved by the state democratic ex- ecutive committee of Alabama, That we hereby invite all conservative voters. ir- respective of past political associations or differences, who can unite with us in the effort for pure, economical and con stitutional government. and who will sup port the nominees and principles of the democratic party, to join with us in send ing delegates to the approaching state
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20

J. T. Bailey, the only democratic negro editor in the south, is in Birmingham in the interest of his paper the Southern Enquirer, published at Mobile. Bailey is well educated and highly recommended. He should be encouraged by democrats in his efforts to teach his race that it is to their interest to vote the democratic ticket,
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20

Either the numerous correspondents of the State Herald all over Alabama are phenomenally mistaken as observers of events were never deceived in the his- tory of political affairs or.Captain John- ston is going to administer to Clarke the worst defeat democrat ever suffered in the state.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20

c. Violet MaLotte Wilson is the name of Chicago person who had been writ ing poetry for the past fifteen years and had the misfortune to lose by fire his en- tire collection few days ago. But, thank Heaven. the name of the poet was savedi
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20
ANOTHER ESTIMATE.

A cool, close calculating democrat fur nishes the State Herald the following figures regarding the probable make up of the next national democratic conven- tion as regards the financial question:
 For Free Coinage.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20
A Tramp's New Trick.

Louisville Courier-Journal. A tramp visited all the houses at Clo- verport and begged from every kind lady he met 0 postage stamp with which to write letter to his sick mother. He got the stamp every time and went out of town with several dollars in his pockets as result of the successful ruse.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20

We shall continue to insist on the Ad- vertisers explaining how and why it got its consent to abandon its principles" in 1894 and make war on a sound money man in the interest of free coinage ad- Yncate
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20

The country is still reaping the benefits of the British gold standard. Failures during the first week in Feb ruary were $4,079,6SO. against s2,9O9,S9 last year. And still the Advertiser and MT. Clarke inform us that the country is jmproying