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The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-27
What Stewart Thought in 1894.


 Senator Stewart of Nevada made a speech in Congress February II, 1874, in which he said:
 Let everybody know what Q dollar is worth. The farmers will then know how to measure the difference in price be. tween his wheat in Illinois and the wheat in Liverpool. The wheat will be meas ured by the same standard-;gold--in Illinois as 1t is in Liverpool and any man can figure 1t up. But now it is mys- tery; the whole subject of finance is q mystery, and what do we see every day ? We see those who devote their attention to it making large fortunes out of this mystery. have been doing from the beginning measure our values by gold, adopt the standard that all can understand, and get rid of this mystery.
 Mir. Logan--What does the senator want?
 Mir. Stewart--I want the standard gold, and no paper money not redeemed in gold, no paper money the value of which is not ascertained. no paper money that with it. Who pays for this gold board :? Who pays these immense fortunes? How is it that millions md millions can be rolled up annually there? Did anyb body eyer calculate who paid for it? It comes out of the producers. How do these men exist? By the latitude which your appreciated currency gives to specu. iation and nothing else.
 Persons who are speculating. in yonr dcpreciated currency. are making the money, and they will continue to make it so long as you have depreciated cur rency.
 If the farmers would get rich they have got to become skilled in this fuctuat. ing currency and make corners and man. ipulate the market, and if they do that they cannot farm.-(C Congressional Rec ord forty-third Congress, first session, vol. g. D. 1392.)
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viduals. A man who has repudiated his debts is never trusted again and is re- garded with contempt by all his neigh. bors. And so is nation.
 A free-coinage law is population, and that it is understood in that sense is in. dicated by such letters as the above. For if under free coinage the silver dol. lar is to appreciate to the value of gold dollar how will the farmer get more of them for his thousand bushels of wheat! How can he pay his debt any easier than he can now?
 No, it is repudiation the silver men want. and repudiation is dishonor.-Chi- cagO Times-Herald.
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FARMERS EGG BASKET The Mckinley Law Checked Im- portation and Gave a
 Home Market.
EFFECT OF THE WILSON BILL.
The Canadian Farmer Has Protection but the American Farmer
 Has None.

There is no reason why Canada, Mexi- co, Csina, or any other country should supply the United States with single egg. Canada does not buy single egg from us, and there is no reason why we should buy from her. When we do. the American farmer loses the benefit of part of his natural market.
 The purpose of this article is to show by a few figures the benefit which the American farmer derived from the Me kinley law: not merely because the flaw stOpepd imports from other countries, but because under that law he received an average of 15 cents . dozen for his eggs all the year around. Under the present Wilson-G German bill, he hardly averages D cents a dozen; and the people could better afford to pay 15 cents q dozen in 1892, lSS than they can Q cents a
 From 1883 to 1890. there was no tariff upon eggs. The Canadian farmer could 'send his eggs across the line from Maine to California. Mexico, China, France. Germany and other countries supplied 'us with 15.5O0,OOO dozens of eggs, an- nually, on the average. We paid every year to the foreign farmer on this small product alone, at 10 cents a dozen, S2,- -bO0,OOO. This importation of over l. 100000 dozen a mon:h or 50,OO0 dozen a day was felt. in the way of competition, by our farmers chiefly in the large cities. Farmers cen get the best prices for eggs and their products in the large cities; but when New York, Philadelphia, Bos- ton, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco and many other markets are supplied with eggs. shipped at cheap rates of transportation by water. how can the farmer expect to compete who has to ship his eggs by rail?
 The following statement shows impor- -tatiOns of eggs. by countries. the year be- fore the Mckinley tariff went into effect, for the year ending June 30. 1889:
 Importations of eggs. by countries. Julyl, 1888. to June 30 1882
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Bryan Q Greenbacker.

MT. Bryan is not 50 much q silverite as he is greenbacker. He said, on the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington. June 5. 1894:
 'The issue of money by the govern. ment directly to the people gives us a safer currency tthan national bank bills) and saves to the people as a whole the profit arising from its issue. When a bank issues money, you must pay the market rate of interest to get it: but when the government issues money. the people save the interest, if the money is afterward called in; and they save the principal also, if the money is kept in cir culation."
 He asserted that greenbacks 'cau be
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Bryan Shown to be Uncertain.

There is abundant proof that Mir. Bryan is an insincere politician and an unreliable adviser of the people. He was a bofer in 1893 and in that year. too, he made a speech in which he de- clared that .he eXchangeable value of . dollar depended on something besides . congressional edict.
 When Frank Irvine was running on the Democratic ticke for judge of the Supreme court of Nebraska MT. Bryan supported . POpulist. In reply to let- ter from Mir. Irvine, calling MT. Bryan's attention to his unexpected position, the present candidate for President on the Democratic ticket wrote statement of his reasons for bolting which contained the following cool remarks and assur- ances of personal and peculiar esteem for the Democratic candidate: l regret that our people chose for slaughter
 so deserving a man. They ought to
 have selected some one of the numer.
 ous Democrats who are responsible
 for the falling on of the Democratic
 vote; l have spoken to you thus
 frankly and conhdentially, because
 l feel that you deserve better fate
 than the one which l fear awaits you
 During the extraordinary session of Congress of 1893, called by President Cleveland, Mir. Bryan made 6 speech in which he declared that:
 While sSt the sa Ssn 'a that given
 tute dollar and invest that dollar
 with legal tender qualities, 1t cannot
 nx the purchasing power of the dol
 r of fsa1 Sappg Tuss snd Se%asd SepsnS upon the
 If the number of dollars increases
 more rapidly than the need of dol.
 iars.as t did after the gold discover.
 les of 1840-the exchangeable value of
 each dollar will fall and prices rise.
 Thus 1t appears that Mir. Bryan knew what the exchangeable value of a dol. lar depended on. His change of tune, therefore, is not because conditions have changed, but because he shifts his prin- ciples with the varying political breezes, and that he is willing to do anything for office.
 In the spring of 1892 Bryan declared in a speech made by him on the tariff question that the fall of prices must be attributed
 To the Inventive genius that has multiplied
 s thousand times. In many instances,
 enabled us to do today With one man
 what fifty men could not do fifty
 years ago. That Is what brought the
 prices down In this country and else At this time another change has come over the spirit of his white house dream. He and his fellow Populists ascribe the fall in the prices of commod- ities to the fall in the price of silver. Mir. Bryan and his associates declare that ''the crime of 1873," which the News has shown to have been no crime at all, has pulled everything down with 1t.
 How can the people believe a man who thus stultifies himself and puts him. self on both sides of vitnl questions, while, at the same time, he proves un- true to his party associates? ?-Buffalo News.
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A Question for Farmers.

Ji the volume of silver money controls prices, as the free coiners would have us believe that it does, so that the more silver coin there is in circulation, the higher is the price of wheat. and the less silver coin there is in circulation, the lower the price of wheat; then will coinage of silver at 16 to 1, answer the question::
 lower in price in 1894 than ever before, while the amount of coined silver in the world was greater than ever before? = Illinois State Journal.
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The 1rishman and the Potato Bug.

MT. Tenney's story at Madison of the Irishman who swallowed a potato bug and then q dose of Paris green. in the hone of killing the bug, is very pat to the political situation. The American workingman swallowed free trade in 1892, and now, to cure the misery which he has suffered ever since. the Populist 0uack doctor is trying to induce him to swallow m unlimited dose of free silver. But if the workingman takes it. he will find, when 1t is too late, that the cure b worse than the disease.
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Reducing this to gold. as in the original statement, the net profit of the Mexican farmer would be S7G0. exactly what that of the American farmer would be, This is q fair specimen of the illusory and deceptive statements put forth by free silver men to deceive American farmers.
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Assumed net pron, to American
Assumed net profit to Mexican

iarmet.. ......s.s. .$S0UD
 Reduced to gold. d.................... l.2SO
 As this assumed profit would be in silver and the wheat would have to be sold upon the gold standard, this skillful accountant reduces this to gold, making the net profit to the Mexican farmer $12S0. But to produce this result this accommodating accountant: while con ccding that the expense of raising the wheat would be twice as many silver dollars as in the United States, as- sumes that the profit on it would he the same number of silver dollars as in the United States. As a matter of fact the freight rates in Mexico nre higher ex- pressed in the gold standard than in the United States, but assuming that they are the same, the American railroad com panies, as soon as they cross the border, require twice as many Mexican dollars quire of American dollars on American territory, so that the freight rate in Mex ico would be $16O0 instead of $500, as our free silver accountant states it. Moreover, interest rates are higher in Mexico than in the United States, if paid in Mexican silver dollars, and more- over the interest would have to be paid on twice the number of silver dollars bor- rowed by the American farmer, so that even supposing the rates of interest to be the same. the amount of interest would be double. raising it from S2OO to $4OO. Moreover, the equivalent of $40 taxes paid by the American farmer would be $50 in Mexican dollars, so that the account of the Mexican farmer, thus corrected. would stand as follows:
 5000 bushels at SLIP per bushei. ;. .. .$5. 600 Expense ........ .......... ..... .2,OO0
 Freight ........ ................l.60O
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FIGURES FOR FARMERS
Arithmetic for Wheat Growers Which Neglects Tax. and In-
 terest Considerations.
AFREE SILVER MATHEMATICIAN.
Silver Accountants Concede Double Expense in Mexico and As-
 sume Equal Profita

Warren, Minn., Aug. 6.-To the Editor: I enclose comparative slips circulated by m advocate of free silver, which subject l would like your opinion on. It, of course, is intended to catch the farmer who raises wheat, and deductions of this kind have had their influence in this dis trict. which is largely wheat growing.
 l would like the going wages in Mexico and the rates of interest in countries on silver basis as compared with the gold standard countries. L. Lamberson.
 The first slip professes to show ;he net profit to a farmer of raising 5000 bushels of wheat in the United States:
 5000 bushels. at 56 cents per bushei. .$2, 800 Expenses ........ .............$ .$l,OOO
 Freight ........ ............... 800
 IHteEtst
 laAes .sss.ss........... 4U
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VALUES DECREASED.

Prices of Live Stock Undor Republican
 and Democratic Rule. When we resumed specie pay.
 ment In 1S10 our domestic r animals, horses. mules. cat-
 tie. sheep and swine were
 valued at ...... ........ .S1. .445. .4o3. .0G2 During the ensuing six years.
 until the election of Mr.
 Cleveland in 1884. the values
 Increased to-. .............. 2.467. .S6s. .924 gain during six years of
 Republican rule of. ........ :. .sl. .o22. .445. .ss2 During the ensuing four years
 until the election of Mir.
 Harrison In 1883. values de-
 creased from ........... ?, 487, ,s6s, ,924 To. ....... ............ ...... 2, 4O0. .043. AIS A loss during four years of
 Democratic ruie of. ......... 6S, S2J .506 During the ensuing four years,
 until the second election of MT. Cleveland In 1892. values again Increased from. ....... 2,4O9. .043, AIS To-. .............. ........ 2. .411. 755 .6:'S Republican rule of. ......... 52.7l2.2so During the Inst two years.
 under the second adminis- tration of Mir. Cleveland. and
 under proposed and accom- plished free trade and sweep Ing tarin reductions. values again decreased from (lSD3D. 2, ,4S3, ,50G, ,6S1 To the comparatively insignl- hcant total of. .............. 1,S10, 446. 306 Showing the enormous loss In two years of Democratic rue or ................... OO4.OGO.3'5
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'ear ending June 3O.I Dozens. | Value.

rmnn 3c Tariff.
 Ing the last year of the Mckinley ne only eggs we bought were from and from China for the Chi
 We bought none whatever from ,an countries, as before. Even at s a dozen the tariff would not be % high. It simply made n difer- o the countries across the Ocean. or in Canada. far from the shipping
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Dozens. | Value.
Countries.
5.9lS, SO9 S2.41S,91O
n0zens valtip

The next table shows the points at wnicn these eggs were received:
 AMERICA PORTS OF ENTRY FOR EGGS.
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Ds.s25.306

2.409.043,41S 2.D1.75J,6:,S
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 c.4e7,sss.924
 2. W.043. AIS
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27

my name is MacGregor," and again,
when in sublime colors he portrayed,
'sTorquiI Of the Oak" sacrificing him
self and his eight noble sons, to pre-
serve the honor of the clan Qlthele;
this spirit beat in the bosom of Lord
Bryon, when he described the Scottish
clans marshalling for battle upon
Waterloo's field:
Sand wild and high the Cameron's
gathering rose
The war note of Lochiel, and filled the
mountaineers
With fierce native daring, which in
stills
The stirring memories of thousand
years"
This splendid patriotic sentiment
sustained the Cimbri in the great bait
tie with Mariug, while they died man
by man till night closed the carnage;
it kept the Greek ever with his face
to the foe, and soothed his last death
throes on the field of Marathon, and
at the pass of the Three Hundred" it
planted the banners of Rome over the
known world, because with the cry,
ssFor our affairs and our firesides," the
Iegions always entered the crash Of
contest; this spirit, placed the dagger
in the hand OF Charlotte Corday, and
insured Joan Of Arc to strike from the
paralized limbs of France, the letters
az Britain. and to raise the victorious
banner OF Orleans; it hurled the six
Hundred to destruction against the
Great Redan and the Malakoff, and like
the lightning Of war on the blades OF
Sir Colin Campbeil's Highlanders, cut
It's way through twenty thousand rag
ing 5epoys to the gates of Lucknow;
it moved the men Of the North, to
splendid daring, and sustained the
men and women of the South against
such odds, and i'm the performance OF
such deeds of heroism as the world
had never seen before. 1T is to this
shirt / appeal to-day. In this hour,
Of all the subjects that suggest them
selves. / think none can be so profitable
or appropriate as sour duty to our
Country and to our State.
OUR FAIR HERITAGE.
And what a country! No wonder that
a great American declared, u had
travelled through every nation in Eu-
rome, but when ] thought of America
I said to myself, after all, my country
is the best in the world. And when
came back to the sea, and saw the old
flag flying in the air, it seemed as
though the air. from pure joy, had
burst into blossom"
And we men Of the South, salute that
flag, as emblem of soyereignties uni
ted forever; one country and one flag
cemented by the blood Of our brothers
and sanctified to each other by the
memories of the past.
We pledge ourselves, that whenever
this continent is threatened with for
eign territorial aggGeesioE.s that en-
danger the safety of our Republic, Wa
will present bank of steel to all thu
nations of earth, and for one ! woult
salute the day when "old glory float
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27
His Address at the NeWDefh
Fair Yesterday.
aouR AFFAIRS AND FIRES
A Fine Tribute to the State OF
North Carolina.
BIRTHPLACE OF CIVIL LIBERTY
The Gratest State in Historical incid-
ent and the Grandest in Climate
Area and Its National
Resources.
Resources.

Ladies and Gentlemen: When from
the Areopagus Paul Numbered
the truths that were to con
stitute the diadem of civilization,
he was surrounded by no more
historic scenes, he was in the centre
of no greater culture, and no such love
of liberty, as that which surrounds
me to-day, in this beautiful city, long
called the Athens of North Carolina.
Some things never grow old. The
SUMS rays are as golden, and as
gracious to-day, as when they first
fell upon Eden.
The portrayal of the glories of our
country, the medication of patriotic
sentiments, and the excitation of love
for native land" IS the duty Of us
all, and can never cease to thrill the
bosom of every man and woman worth
the heritage of freedom
my native Country thee.
Land of the noble free,
Thy name / love.
/ love the rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hills
My hear with rapture thrills
Like that above"
Love of country is an elemental and
universal emotion of the human heart,
sometimes, alas! deadened by greed
and fear.
1t was this spirit love and prize of
native land-to which Napoleon APP
peaIed, when as the Mamelule horse
rushed down upon his Squares, he
cried, "From the SUBMITS of those
pyramids forty centuries look down
upon you" This spirit thrilled the
heart of Walter Scott, when he wrote,
my foot is on my native heath, and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27
PERSONALS

Rev. J. IT, Lambeth, Mt. Airy, was
in the city Tuesday
+, S. Parker, Jr Of Charlotte, spent
yesterday in the city.
Chester Turner, one of Hillsboro's
bar, was in the city Tuesday.
Capt. n. A. Ramsey, who went to
Newbern Monday, is at home.
VIM. Creighton is visiting his sister,
Mrs. p. e. Linnell, on Broadway.
Capt. J. A. White has returned from
a visit to his relatives in Louisburg.
DR.. w. T. Herndon, agent of Elon
College, is spending a few days with
friends here.
DR.. j. G. Kilgo is home from Nor
canton. He preached to the people
there Sunday.
Prof. Jerome Dowd, of the Trinity
Faculty, is back at his post after
short visit to Charlotte
Mrs. NJ. A. Gloss. who has been con-
fined to her room at her home on Dill
lard street, is improving.
Mr. Il. S. Parker. of Graham, was i'm
the city Wednesday on legal business.
He is one of the brightest young men
in the State and will make his mark
Mrs. A. q. Carr gave a tea yesterday
afternoon complimentary to Mrs W..
w. Fuller. Quite number of ladies
were in attendance, and a delightful
time is reported.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27
YOUR WORST ENEMY WRITING

With the rheumatism is an individual
whom, if you have a Christian spirit,
you would forgive. He is, no matter
what his delinquencies, punished e.
nough. Nothing short Of Tophet could
enhance his misery. Moreover, he is
in serious peril. The disease is always
prone to attack his heart and kill him
instanter. As a means of curing this
disease, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
has the highest reputation and the
most authoritative professional sane
ton. It's use in the preliminary stage
of the complaint is the wisest precau-
tionary measure rheumatic invalids
can possibly adopt The Bitters is also
remedy of the greatest utility in
malarial and kidney trouble, dyspep-
STA and liver complaint, constipation
and nervousness. 1T counteracts the
effects of hardship and exposure in
damp or inclement weather, and is a
capital promoter of appetite and sleep.
Give this fine remedy the persistent
trial to which all medicines of stand
ard reputation are entitled.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27
CHURCH SOCIAL.

In the lecture room of the Presby-
terrain church Tuesday evening, the
members of that church and Sunday
school delightfully."- whiled away sever
al hours. Mrs. Dora Heartt, Miss
Lizzie Taylor, Miss Florence Hunt, of
Milton; Miss Pauline Ramsay, Mr.. Cliff
ton Corpening added much to the en-
joyment of the occasion by rendering
several vocal and instrumental selec-
tions. These gatherings Of the Presby-
terians are held once every four
months. Their conception was am
Innovation introduced by the pastor.
Rev. l.. b. Turnbull, and much good
as well as pleasure result from them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27

We read that when the Tai Mahal of
India, the most beautiful building vet
erected by man, was built Of white
marble and costly woods, that, to a.
dorn it, "Bagdad sent it's comedian,
and Ceylon its Iapis-lazuli, and Puaiab
it's jasper, and Persia its amethyst, and
Thibet its turquoise, and Lanka its
sapphire, and Yemen its agate, and
Puma its diamonds, and sardonyx
and chaIcedony" But my Country
men, that Indian palace in all the glory
of marble and decorative wood, and
splendid gems, might have been erect
ed and adorned in North Carolina with
out going beyond her border.
Far more than a score of different
species Of gems of "purest ray serene
have been found here, including the
diamond ruby, sapphire, emerald,
beryl, lazulite, amethyst, garnet, agate
and zircon."
Not long ago / walked through the
Art Palace of the Columbian EXPOSE
ton, and there I saw the richest works
of such masters as Turner, and Van der
Iyn, and Zuccarelli, Burne-JOnes,
Herzog. and Semenowski, presenting
on canvass the most gorgeous noun
tain scenery OF Italy, and Russia, and
France, and Switzerland, and Norway;
but though the ice palaces and shim-
mering precipices of the Alps, and
snow-crowned Mont Blanc, are more
awe inspiring, more terrible to behold,
/ saw nothing SO softly, sublimely
beautiful, as the Blue Ridge, and the
Smoky and Balsam Mountains Of West
ern North Carolina, with Mount Mitch
ell, the highest peak east of the Rockies
| lifting its head to the empyrean, and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27
BRIEF NEWS ITEArs

Mr.. Germanie Bernard is much bet
ter. The crisis of his disease was pass
ed Tuesday morning.
Dr. Kilgo has accepted an invitation
to address the International Educa-
tional Association ON April 22. The
association meets in Washington, and
the Doctors subject will hc Christian
Education"
Sheriff Bigsbee, who owns the only
pack Of fox hounds i'm Durham coun-
ty, went out for hunt Yesterday
morning. q fine trail was struck, but
the wind blowing where it listeth"
broke up the sport
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27
DEATH OF PERCY. ANDERSON.

Last night at o'clock Percy Ander-
son, the little son of Capt. S. C. Auder-
ON McMannen street. He was only 10
years old, and for the past six months
has been a great sufferer having been
confined to his bed an that time. He
was afflicted with rheumatism of the
heart Capt. Anderson and his most
estimable wife have the HEARTFELT
sympathy of their many friends.
The funeral was held at Trinity
church this afternoon no three o'clocl,
by Rev j. r. Cole. and the remains
were laid away in the city cemetery.