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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
FREE SILVER AND PRICE Or
COTTON.
PopulIst Statistics Which Provs Sound
Money Statements

PopulIst Statistics which Provs Sound
Money Statements.
The Arena, populist magazine, pub
fishes a series of pictures intended to
show the great decrease in the purchas-
ing power of bale of cotton, owing to
the alleged characterization" of silver
The money value of the first bale is
given as S416.90 in 1866. The next in
the same series is for 1870, when the
money value had shrunk to 1890
Other pictures give the varying values
down to 1894, the conclusion from the
whole being that the lack Of free sill
yer has caused the fall in the price Of
cotton.
How false this argument is can be
seen by looking at the figures quoted.
Between 1865 and 1870 the price of cot
ton fell from S3.9S cents per pound to
239S cents. By 1878, the year of the
crime the price had gone down TO
1880 cents. In other words, the money
value of a bale of cotton shrank from
$41690 in 1865 to $94 difference
of s322.90, while the country had free
coinage of silver at 16 to l. Since that
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
THE CHURCH MILITANT.

The First Baptist church, Indian
apolis, has baptized 104 converts since
last October.
The membership of Woodward Ave-
nue. Baptist church of Detroit has
grown to 1,056.
The Christian Endeavor society now
reports 100000 members. There were
10000 present at the convention in
Washington.
Rev. Canon Murray, rector of Chlsel-
hurst, England, recently celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of his settlement
in that living.
The Rock River conference at Free
port, ILL.,, commencing Sept. 30, will be
a notable gathering of ministers of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
One hundred and fifty ministers OF
New York city have signed an invita-
ton to Rev. j. Mcneil. the Scotch
evangelist. to visit their city.
A Methodist book room is about to
be instituted and opened in Cleveland.
The Methodist Times of that city will
have charge of the enterprise.
Rev. DR.. George l.. Robinson, pastor
of the Roxbury, Mass, Presbyterian
church, has resigned to accept the pro-
fessorship of Old Testament literature
and exegesis in Knox college, Toronto,
Canada.
In Minnesota there are 400 Swedish
Baptists. OF these, nearly 1000 are To-
Gated in Isanti county, and 1t is said
there is not railroad, a telegraph, a
Roman Catholic, Methodist or Episco-
pal church, and not a saloon in the
county.
An interesting side light on the re-
suits of the International Christian En-
deavor conventions is given by letter
Just received by young woman in the
Northwest territory. She writes: Il
am now a missionary among the In
dams here. as result of the mission
airy rally held during the Boston con-
vention."
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
one Neglected Detail.

mo, sir" said the man who was
chewing long straw, Il amt satisfied
yet l don't think airy one O. them con-
ventions went fur enough"
Il thought you regarded the future
very hopefully"
II did fur a time. But in the excite
ment we overlooked things thet orter
"a been done. 1t never occurred ter
me at the time. but we made a big mis-
take by not havin' a plank put inter
the platform maxim it ag'in' the law
fur it ter rain on a mans hay when
he's gone ter town ter tend a p'litical
meetin'. "-Washington Star.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
ALEssoN FROM EGYPT.
showing How that Country Failed TO
Maintain the Ratio.

The ancient Egyptians had eur
rency based on cats and onions, Doth
Of which were sacred objects Worship
ed by the people. AS there was some
difficulty in storing the cats, and as tie
onion was liable to decay, a circulating
medium was provided of papyrus strips,
representing a certain number of cats
and onions at a ratio of 16 to /. This
was true double standard system and
is believed to have been the origin OF
modern paper currency. + q time the
cat-onion money circulated at par, but
the historian Faque Hur records that
about 963 b. C.. a serious difficulty
arose. New colonies had been estab-
Iished in the region of the upper Nile,
and the savage Nubians had been
taught the art of agriculture. The
rich, black soil of the valley which they
inhabited was especially suited to the
growth of onions, and the production
of those perfumed bulbs was soon
enormously increased. Meanwhile the
cat crop had only grown in the usual
ratio, and the result was that, with
the demand for sacred animals in the
new colonies, at least 30 onions would
be given for one cat. This brought the
papyrus currency into disfavor and
the ruling pharaoh. Ram Bunkshus
H., issued a royal order that cats
should be the sole standard of value,
and that onions should be issued only
to the extent that they could be kept
at par with the "caterwaulers, as the
unit of value was termed.
This did not suit the onion growers,
who at once started an agitation for
the free and unlimited coinage Of all
onions at the good old ratio of their
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

Oklahoma bandits while holding up
a stage coach the other day shot a
woman. All the men Of the party
promptly handed over their valuables,
but the lady in question attempted to
live up to the true standard of femin-
inc bravery and defied the robbers. AS
a consequence the men escaped with
the loss of only their watches and loose
change, while their valiant companion
sacrificed her life in her stanch deter
mination to preserve the credit of her
sex.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

The officials Of the Lake county, In
diana. fair are using bloodhounds to
track the small boys who Chamber over
the fence to see the fat pig and the
freshly scrubbed lamb with a blue rib
bon falliResin, its eyes. Still little fear
is entertsinef by the precocious Hoes
Ter urchNsS Since only two dogs make
up the canine police force. What are
two dogs to a score of barefooted,
freckle-nosed youngsters who have Wis.,
ions of pink lemonade. deep pumpkin
pies and the mule races on the other
side of a ten-foot board wall?
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

Money value Of 500 pounds In 1896 at
$0.07S0 per pound, $39)
time the fall in price has been much
less, having been only from 1914 in
1873 to s39 in 1895 at the present quota
tons of 7.S0 cents per pound.
The history of cotton prices shows,
therefore, that under free silver The
price of bale of cotton declined
s322.90, or G4.5s cents per pound, in
eight years Under the present finan-
cial system the price has only fallen
$50 per bale, of IL cents per pound In
% years. In face of these official
figures how can any intelligent man
pretend that II was the change In our
currency laws in 1873 which has re-
duced the money value Of cotton?
The advocates of free silver may at
tempt to answer this exposure of their
low price for cotton argument by show
ing that there was a great increase in
,the cotton crop between 1865 and 1873.
This is true. but there has also been a
far greater quantity of cotton produced
every year since 1873 than ever before,
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

-cInalc complaints SO llIIlc UNDERSTOOD
W physicians.
All womb and ovarian troubles,
Irregularities, whites, bearing-down
pains, displaccments, tendency to can.
Ger and tumor are cured permanently.
81 feel as if | owed my life TO your
Vegetable Compound. After the birth
of my babe | was very miserable. 1
had drawing pain in the lower part
of my bowels, no strength, and terri
bic bacllachc. Every day failed. My
husband said if | would try bottle of
your Vegetable Compound, he would
get it for me. The change was won
derful. After l had taken the first
half bottle began to have great faith
in it. When had taken three bottles,
was well and growing stout. 1t is
pleasure for me to write this to you.
/ only ask women in any way afflicted
with female troubles to try t."-MRs.
ANNA IvoR, Pittsford Mills, Rutland
Co., VT.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
Government owner.h,p OF silver Mines.

Governments Ownership OF silver Mines.
Why j. it that both the populists and
the der. l,rats failed to put a plank in
their platforms demanding that the
government own and control the silver
mines of this country, so that the profit
which would be made from free coinage
would so to our government and thus
indirectly be a benefit to the whole
people? Why should this profit go 10
a few individuals who own the silver
mines and who arc already enormously
rich? Is not this building up one OF
the most dangerous trusts that the
country has ever seen?
Think OF a few men having under
their control all the silver of this coun-
try and the government compelled to
turn it into dollars as fast as they
produce it! Suppose that these silver
men combine to shut down work on
their mines when they want to produce
a stringency in the money market.
then open them again when they wan,
to make money abundant Would not
this put the whole business of the
country at their mercy?
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
THE suNsHiNY WOMAN.
THAT Brave Attitude Towards Life"
That Stevenson Wrote or.


When we come to count over thc
qualities that endear our friends to US
almost all OF us think first of cheerful
ness, Gays a writer in the New Orleans
Picayune Sunshiny men or women
who bring a bright thought or word,
OF even glad smile. with them are al
ways welcome as the flowers in May.
Each heart knoweth its own bitter
ness, each soul has its own troubles
and trials and vexations, and so we
turn to the one who can tighten our
sadness with the radiance of a cheer
full spirit. Sunshine of the soul is
largely matter of cultivation, for
there are but few so fortunte as not to
have had their sorrows. They give
themselves up to fits of dependency
and moodiness and are a kind of moral
wet blanket on the pleasures of all
with whom they come in contact. They
tell you their sorrows and bedew you
with their tears until it seems that
there must be kind of luxury of woe
in which they rejoice. After all, the
cheerful spirit is but an example of
1.-THE brave attitude toward life" OF
which Stevenson wrote. 1t Is a cour-
ageous bearing Of inevitable burdens;
determination not to fret and not to
add to the sorrows of the world the
griefs of ones own heart. A woman
VINO had had many sorrows and heavy
burdens to bear, but who was noted
for her cheerful spirit, once said in ex-
planation you know l have had no
money. had nothing could give but
myself and so l made the resolution
that l would never sadden any che else
with my troubles. l have laughed and
told jokes when l could have wept.
have always smiled in the face of every
misfortune. | have tried never to let
any one go, from my presence without a
happy word or a bright thought to car
~ with them. And happiness makes
happiness. l myself am happier than
i would have been had l sat down and
bemoaned my fate" This gospel of
happiness is one that every woman
should lay to heart. What it means to
a man to come home at night to a
WIG HO OAiS Jul VIM ido
had to fight the hard battle of life
knows. If he is prosperous it is an adj
ded joy, but it is in misfortune that it
shines like a star in the darkness. A
complaining wife can kill the last bit
of hope and courage in a sorely troub-
led heart, while a cheerful one gives
new courage to begin the fight over
again. The mother who lets her chill
dren grow up to be moody and discon-
tented, subject to blues and sulks, is
failing in her first duty. She is handi-
Gaping them in the race of life. Cheer
fulness is one of the prime requisites
to success and happiness. The sun
shiny man or woman has every one
for friend, for this sad old earth
must borrow its mirth; it has sorrow
enough of its own.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
A rrade Journal.s SUMMARY.
To a man who has no money there
are several ways to get it-namely:

To a man VINO mas no money there
are several ways to get it-namely;
(a) Beg it.
OBJ Steal ii.
(c) Borrow 1t.
Cd Secure it by gift.
(e) Trade something for it.
If we are to beg for 1t. we might
Just as we'll do the best we can. There
fore a dollar based on a gold standard
is better than a 16-to-1 silver dollar,
which to-day is worth about 80 cents
intrinsically.
If we are to steal 1t, we want the
best. A thief who would steal a sill
yer dollar in preference to a gold dol
lar would be acquitted on the ground
that he was insane.
If we borrow it, we want that kind
of money which will so farthest, for
go we can get along with smaller loan.
Therefore a gold dollar is better to
borrow than 16-to-1 silver dollar.
If we are to secure it by gift, GER
tainly we should not depreciate that
which we are about to receive.
This brings us to e, which Is the
way most money is obtained. A peril
nent question for each of us to ask at
this time is, What have | got to trade
for money which | want? 1t may he
labor: it may be a horse or COW; 1t may
be lumber or shingles; it may be a
saw-mill At the present time We can
trade any of the above and get gold
dollar for every dollars worth of value,
as may be agreed upon between buyer
and seller. We can get a dollar which
is worth dollar anywhere and every
where.
Now, your labor or horse or cow CT
lumber or machinery will be-worth just
AS much, or nearly as much, next year
as 1t is this. but if we have free coin
age at 16 to l will the dollar which you
get IN trade be worth as much as the
dollar you can get now? What will
that be worth? Can you tell? It may
be worth So cents or more or less. Ono
day this, one day that, but can any one
tell? These are all pertinent questions
and, Zen carefully considered. must
guide LJ in voting at the next election
in November, and do not lose sight
of the fact that if all the silver IN the
world is coined into money you cannot
get cert of it except by a, b, C, d or
O. above referred to.-Lumber Trade
Journal
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

Thomas Lavender was arrested ct a
Chicago theater because he insisted on
his right to wear his hat so long az
the lady in front of him retained her
floral and feathery cart-wheel. In his
gloomy prison cell Thomas may console
himself with the thought that gym
pathizing, enthusiastic public yearns to
clasp him by the hand and call him
brother.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
sober DIsrussion.

This must be campaign OF educa-
ton. We advise men to study, talk and
read all they can about this great ques-
ton, but do not get mad at your neigh
Dor who does not think as you do. Re-
member he is entitled to his opinion
and to respect All the facts are not on
one side. There are plausible things in
favor of free silver, but there are more
plausible ones in favor of our present
standard. Richmondville IN. "
Phoenix.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
An Eminent nimetalli.r. Opinion.

Professor Edouard Suess, the leading
bimetallist of Austria, states briefly
but with great force the objections to
free coinage by this country alone.
The result would be, he says, the loss
of all your (our) gold, and the obliga-
ton to buy in England the gold neces-
sary to meet your (our) obligations in
foreign Countries He declares that
"one nation alone is too weak to take
such step, which must lead to a
financial and perhaps an economical
crisis"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

The little band of American cruEad-
ers for the9saphy that .recently left
New York E,sscei fngEcdasiaersble at
tention ia GsSco: smRIi q the English
newspapers, and has given the Irish
press an entirely new. theme for dis
cussion. Shortly after landing they
uttered a prophecy that Ireland was
soon to become the ruler of Europe,
and that the ancient glories Of that
mystic island would be restored. The
Irish newspapers are evidently pleased
with the idea, and some Of the prin-
cipal papers of Dublin and elsewhere
have thrown open their columns for !ts
discussion. The Americans have made
some distinguished converts and will
soon visit the principal cities of
Europe.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

A New York justice awarded Mrs.
Henry f. Abbey alimony amounting to
one-third of her husbands income
pending that lady's divorce from the
opera manager. If the court is going
to put such a damper as this on the
theatrical and musical worlds efforts
toward separation it is feared that peo-
pie of those professions will lose all
their opportunities for advertisement.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

A student of race track ethics writes
that there are fewer women who visit
race tracks nowadays than formerly,
but that they bet much more. He
claims. further, that young clerks and
others earning small salaries, who for
merly endangered their positions by
going to the races themselves, now
stay at home and send their money TO
the track in charge of some feminine
friend. who places it for them.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

1--WE don't want any 53-cent dollars
in this town." was the emphatic greet
ing of a workman to the presidential
candidate of the populists and silverites
as he passed through Huntingdon.
Pa. If the American workingmen are
wise they will see to 1t that every town
and city in the United States gives
the same answer to the free coinage
appeals for votes.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

the crop for 1892 reaching 9,O35,S7o
bales as compared with 3,93O.5OS bales
in 1873, the largest crop during The
period from 1865 to 1873, so that II in
creased production caused the great
decline in prices in one case it is sure
ly fair to credit 1t, and not the stop
page of free esilver coinage, with the
lower prices Of the past 2S years.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

A carpet used in the room of the
English mint, after being in wea- some
years, was recently burned in pans and
yielded $500 worth OF gold.
If any member of the imperial family
lives out of Russia for more than one
fourth of the year then his or her in
come is considerably reduced.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

daddies. After passing 3,1S7 GAP resoiu-
tions denouncing the horrible crime of
1853 the onionites marched in a body to
the palace of their pharaoh and de-
manded that the unjust law enacted at
the instance of the Satbugs should be
repealed and the bicatallis standard
restored. Ram Bunkshus listened to
them patiently and answered: Great,
no doubt. was the wisdom of our an
cestors. But l am in the wisdom bust
ness myself to some extent When the
ratio of 16 to l was adopted, that was
the true ratio of the cats and onions.
Now, owing to great increase in the
quantity of onions, the ratio is 30 to /.
All powerful as l am, cannot make
onions worth more than their market
value. The present standard stays.
AS for you, o foolish onionites, your
leaders shall feed the sacred crocodiles.
The rest of you will return to your
farms and hustle. / have remarked. -
Thus ended the first and only cur
rency agitation in Egypt.-Whidden
Graham in Puck.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
The nav tenant visita the family on

The new tenant visits the family on
the floor below. After q few compli-
mentary remarks the lady says: "Shall
call my daughter to play something
for you on the piano? You haven't
heard her yet" "Oh, yes I have; and.
TO tell the truth, the landlord let me
have the apartments a third cheaper
on that account"-Texas Siftings.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

The string of pearls which General
Harrison presented to his bride at tho
wedding was a superb gift. A dupli-
cate string is shown by the jeweler
from which it was bought and is valued
at $1,000
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

More money" is the delusive cry of
the silverites in their campaign for
cheap dollars. But they do not attempt
to show how 16 to l free coinage law,
which would put our 5000, 100000 gold
at a premium of nearly 100 per cent.
and drive il all out of circulation, could
possibly give us more money than
we have now.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

Autumn is here and thousands Of
straw hats are not half worn out Well
does Mr.. Nordau say that human
progress is a constant struggle against
nature.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

The London Times thinks Spain
ought to sell Cuba. The insurgents
have thought so for many years and
have been Offering their blood for it,.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

Runaway horses are unknown in
Russia. No one drives there without
having a thin cord with a running
moose around the neck of the animal.
When an animal bolts the cord is pull
ed. and the horse stops as soon as 1t
feels the pressure. on the windpipe.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

It has been showing again on Mars,
and politicians suspect that the inhab-
itants of the little planet have had an
election and the usual treatment is be-
ing accorded to the defeated candidate.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

What seems but case Of simple
diarrhTa frequently develops into the
most dangerous of bowel troubles, II
neglected. Dir. Fowlcr's Ext. of Wild
Strawberry is u ncvcr-failing specific
in all such cases
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

If the fact that some farmers are
poor is used to justify the confiscation
of the property of creditors. would not
the poverty of the Coxey armies of
tramps and unemployed workers justi-
fly them In demanding share of the
property owned by the farmers?
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

Jones-Don't you think the taxes on
personal property should be abolished?
Smith-Why? What is the need of
abolishing taxes that you can swear
off?-New York World.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

From the number of sea serpenTs
seen this summer it would appear that
the present output of the distilleries is
peculiarly effective.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

The census of Kansas, just completed
by the state board of agriculture,
shows population of 1886, 659-an in
crease over last year of 1926.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

Gold is the spectators dollar" say
the advocates of the silver standard.
How about the cheap money period
from 1861 to 1873? Did not specula-
ton of all kinds flourish then, and
were not the gamblers in bonds, stocks
or farm products greatly aided by the
deprecated and fluctuating currency ?
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

Thousands are suffering cXcruciating
misery from that plague of the night.
Itching Piles, and say nothing about it
through a sense Of dclicacy. Instant
relief in Doan's Ointm cnt. 1t never
fails.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
MICH

Nothing win wear out a man faster
than to have chronic grievance.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

after suffering from dyspepsia for
three years. decided TO try BurdocIl
Blood Bittcrs. Two bottles cured me
entirely" Mrs. G.. c. White, Tabcrg,
Oneida county, New York.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

Even in the most severe eases of
sprain or bruisc, cut or burn. Thomas
Eclectric Oil gives almost instant re-
lief. 1t is the ideal family liuiment.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11

The poet says that care will kill a
cat" but bootjack will stop its song
quicker.