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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

ly legal tender, but are practically SO,
being accepted by the government for
customs, taxes and other public dues,
being thus kept at par with gold, the
gold equivalence to be lost IL we
abandon the existing gold standard.
They will then represent only the IN
trinsic value of the pure silver in the
silver dollar and will fuctuatc in pnr-
chasing power according to the market
demand for silver bullion. That is, in
stead of being worth, as they are now,
100 cents to the dollar, they will be
worth SO cents, more or less, to the
dollar
SIXTEEN TO 1, the demand Of own
ers Of uncoined silver that the govern
ment give them the equivalent OF an
ounce of gold for sixteen ounces of
silver, although they cannot get the
equivalent of an ounce OF gold from
any other source for less than about 81
ounces Of silver.
STANDARD, that by which some
thing is measured. Standard of value
that by which value is measured. Gold
is the universal money standard of
value because it is not only held by
mankind as the most precious OF money
metals. but because all other kinds of
money are rated according to their
equivalent in it.
SUBSIDIARY COIN, small pieces of
money metal having only limited legal
tender power
TALE, the thing told on the face of
the coin--its declared value.
TOKEN MONEY, coins lawfully cur
rent for more than their real value.
TROY WEIGHT, twelve ounces to
the pound, supposed to have taken it's
name from the goldsmiths of Troyes.
town Of France, southeast of Paris.
UNIVERSAL STANDARD OF
VALUE, gold, because all other COM
modities of the world are measured by
their relation to it. Eighty per cent.
of the worlds business is done on the
gold standard of value. Even in sill
yer standard countries, where gold is
not seen, prices are fixed by the gold
standard, and the silver money fluctu-
ates in value according to it's relation
to gold. -Pawtucket Post.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
PERSONAL.

The new shah of Persia is anxious
to open the country to international
commerce, and favors the introduction
Of electricity and steam.
Gurdon w. Wattles, vice president Of
the Union National bank of Omaha,
has Keen chosen as president OF the
Trans Mississippi and International ex-
M. Osiris, the banker Of Paris, who
recently bought Malmaison, intends to
restore the palace and grounds, both
OF which are now in a most dilapiaated
condition, after which he will make a
gift of the property to the state.
ELAN Russell, weight 200 pounds, of
Plainfield, Ind, is the proud father of
ten-nch baby which weighed only
one pound and half at it's birth and
at the end OF three weeks weighed
three pounds. Mrs. Russells weight is
$50 pounds.
The French people have not yet
erected statues Of Balzac, Alfred de
Musset and Victor Hugo, but they have
the physician of Nine. de Pompadour
and the author of several works on po-
litical economy.
E. A. Mcdowell, the American COM
poser, has been appointed to the head
of the new musical department in Co
lumbia college. He is of the same age
as Paderewski, and the New York Post
says of him that he ''has no superior
among the living composers of Europe"
Frederick William Nichols Cronch,
tho author of Kathleen Mayourneen,
who died few days ago at the age of
So, had been married four times and
was the father OF twenty-seven chill
dren. He was native of London, but
for nearly fifty years had lived in Bal
timore.
The younger Dumas casually opened
a medical work one day in 1873 and
read a chapter on the poisonous eff
fects of nicotine on the human system.
He was so impressed with it that he
threw away the cigar he had just light
ed, and he never smoked even SO much
as a cigarette thereafter
The Campbells Of Argyll began in
119o. Tallyrand dates from 1899, Bis
marck from 1910, the Grosvenor family,
the dukes of Westminster, 1905; the
Austrian house of Hapsburg goes back
to 952 and the house Of Bourbon to S64.
The descendants of Mohaamed, borG
$40, are all registered carefully and
authoritatively in book kept in Mecca
by the chief of the family
buildings,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
! SOUND MONEY DICTIONARY.

BANK, originally bench upon
which the merchant weighed money
metals or other things Now, any
place where money is handled as a
commodity.
BIMETAIIISM, the theory that, if
both gold and silver arc coined free
and in unlimited quantities at a fixed
ratio for private owners, the coins Will
circulate concurrently in country.
1t has often been tried and invariably
failed. IL the coinage ratio be more
favorable to silver than to gold,
judged by the true or commercial
ratio, gold will disappear. If unjustly
favorable to gold silver will disappear
BULLION, originally bulla, a seal or
stamp. Later, and now, money metal
stamped or nstamped-uncoined
Bullion is bought where it commands
the least value and sold where it COM
mands the greatest.
CAPITAL, surplus wealth.
CENT, from centum; Latin, hum
dredth part Of a dollar.
SlnSUIIA LAWN uilOuiI VI HioiANJ
in USE
COIN, stamped metal used as money.
CREDIT, expectation of money
within limited time.
CURRENCY, that which is given or
taken as having or representing value.
DIME, Latin, dccimus, tenth, a
tenth of dollar
DOLLAR, from a dale in Bohemia
where there was issued a pure and
honest coin at time when the coinage
generally was debased.
FIAT MONEY. Fiat Latin, let it be.
Paper or other substance intrinsically
worth nothing forced into currency as
money and not redeemable in money
metal, therefore not properly money.
DOUBLE STANDARD, the proposal
that in the same country at the same
time two yardsticks can be in use, one
thirty-six inches long, another eigh-
teen inches long, each to be called a
yard Gold is the yardstick thirty-siX
inches long, silver a yardstick eighteen
inches long.
FREE SILVER, a popular way Of de-
scribing the privilege sought by own
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

ers of uncoined silver to take it to the
minis or assay offices of the United
States and get in exchange standard
money at the rate of $1.29 per ounce Of
silver, although the real value of the
metal to-day is a little over 60 cents
per ounce. The owners of the bullion
will make the profit and the govern
ment and the people be the losers. Sill
YER will be no more free than now,
and nobody will be able to get dollar
then otherwise than now. that Is, by
giving labor or some other commodity
in exchange for it.
GOLD CERTIFICATE, a receipt by
the government of the United States
for not less than $50 worth of gold,
coined or uncoined, deposited in the
treasury and retuInable on demand in
exchange for the receipt. These re-
ceipts are not nominally legal tender,
but the government has made them
practically so by accepting them for
payment of duties on imports. None
are issued when the gold in the treas
ury falls below 500, 100000.
GOLD RESERVE, $100OO0,oOO gold
coin or bullion held in the treasury to
maintain the specie payments and the
parity of all legal tender American cur
rency with gold.
GRESHAM'S LAW. When both
metals are legal tender and have equal
privilege at the mints, the cheaper VIII
drive the dearer out of circulation.
The law is as old as the currency, but
was not named until after formulated
by Sir Thomas Gresham 300 years ago.
August 16, 1893, in the House OF Repre-
sentatives, William ]. Bryan said: We
established bimetallic standard in
1892, but silver, being overvalued by
our ratio of Is to j, stayed with us and
gold went abroad, where mint ratios
We're more favorable. . If we should
not open the minis to free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver at Is to /, as Mr..
Bryan advocates. the ratio would be
still more favorable to silver. We
should lose our gold.
LEGAL TENDER, currency which a
government permits debtor to infer
and compels a creditor to receive
MINT, a place where money is
coined The name comes from Juno
Moneta, Juno the adviser, adjoining
whose temple on the Capitoline hill
the Romansmint was.
MONEY, a thing universally recog-
nized as having intrinsic value and
used as measure of value of other
things; also commodity.
PARITY, equality Of purchasing
power or debt-paying power,
PECUNIARY, referring to money.
RATIO, the rate at which gold meas.
ures the values of other metals. To-
day one ounce Of gold measures that
is. will buy nearly thirty-two ounces
of silver. The ratio is, therefore, ] to
80, Gold is always the /.
SEIGNIoRAGE, the charge for
stamping money. When coinage is free
there is no ,eigniorage.
SILVER sssFIrgRsTIFICATIs, a treasury
receipt foiy MAsf dollars actually de-
posted. 3dstiifeeipts are not nominal
4
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- Observation-Disclosures NNFnNnTTT

whatever value it pleases on silver. it
can with equal facility regulate the
value OF pumpkins.
Our contemporary is perfectly logical
in defending its proposition. Many
things have been advocated for money.
An Express correspondent early in the
summer argued for the coinage Of
iron There has been iron money in
the worlds history, and every argu-
ment applicable to silver is applicable
to pig-iron But legal-tender iron is
only the beginning. Several Kentucky
gentlemen largely interested in coal
mines want to know why there should
not be a free coinage of coal. The
Railway Age points out that it would
be inconvenient for every woman,
when she went shopping. to wear black
kid gloves and carry her small change
i'll push cart. The Ages objections
are frivolous in the extreme. 1t even
objects to the Virginia proposition to
have free coinage of tobacco, on the
ground of liability to debasement Of
the currency by introducing an alloy
of cabbage-leaves. 1t squarely refuses
to support the free coinage of fence
rails and screen doors. and declares
that no sum over five thousand dollars
should be made payable in dead cats.
Since it denies so much, let us see what
it affirms:
The one thing now needed is some-
~, o., =
mand his vote. There is an article
which is most happily adapted to use
as money and the coinage of which
would directly and vastly benefit the
agriculturist. With pumpkin cur
rency, no man need, when hungry, take
the trouble to stop and buy food. He
would eat his money. And on esthetic
grounds fair eXpanse the good
round belly of pumpkin offers for
minting! How legibly it could be
branded This is dollar. In God we
trust" The captious may argue that
the coinage of pumpkins would so in
crease the cost of pumpkin pie as to
put it beyond the reach of the masses
and convert it into luxury for the
rich. In reply we triumphantly assert
that pumpkin pie is good enough to
be expensive 1t deserves to be
luxury Moreover, the main intent Of
the free coinage men is to raise the
price of food and farm products. Why
not begin at once with pumpkin pie?
We therefore raise in this campaign the
banner of the free coinage of pumkins!
The serious-minded reader will ex-
claim, This is nonsense" Perhaps he
will kindly point out the difference be-
tween the nonsense of the Railway
Age and the logic of the free silverites
Buffalo Express.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
each case showing healthy increase IN
the twenty years:

Although the increase in the valua-
ton Of farm lands in the above-named
counties has been at a healthy rate,
the increase of town and city real es-
tate has been at a higher percentage
because the growth of population in
Ohio in the twenty years has all been
in the towns and cities.
Notwithstanding all the assertions of
thepopocrats to the contrary, the state
ment,that farm lands in Ohio have fall
en- in value since the crime of 49, is
gross falsehood, as the above figures
taken from the official records OF the
state show. Fair-mnded people will
not tolerate such Misrepresentation and
the revolt against it has already come.
1t is one of the peculiar features of
the present campaign that the facts and
figures are on the side of sound money.
Popocrats do not try TO disprove the
figures. They content themselves with
fine spun theories and attempts to sus-
tain their position by bold assumptions.
But mere assertions without any foun-
dation in fact carry no weight. The
tive. arc not only made on facts, but
are the facts themselves. They cannot
be denied or disputed, and sincere peo-
pie will accept them in preference to
the wild and sweeping assertions of
the popocrats. If, as they claim, the
lack of the free coinage of silver in
this country has caused all values to
l., ooi 10 YooOncilo
with their statement the increase il
the valuation of farm lands under the
limited coinage of today over the
valuation under the free silver laws OF
1870? It cannot be done. All of which
goes to prove that the alleged crime OF
having no free and unlimited coinage
of silver is not at all intimately con-
nacted with the value Of land.
IT is true the value of farm lands has
fallen since 1880 in Ohio, but that has
been due to the opening up OF immense
tracts of cheap land in the west and the
great emigration to that setcion. In
stead of farmers sons remaining on
the home farms and seeking to add to
them, thus increasing the demand for
farm lands, they have gone to the far
west or to the towns and cities. Thus
the demand for Ohio farms has de-
creased and with it their selling value.
That this is true is proved by the fact
that the fall in price has occurred in
the last fifteen years. If it had been
caused by free silver it would have be-
gun earlier and there would have been
no such increase in value between 1870
and 1890 as we have seen occurred.
Columbus State Journal.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
The Isicycle Craze.

People who think the bicycle craze
is on the wane will open their eyes
when they read an announcement of
sale, by a New York firm, of good BIZ
cycles at SIS each brought 10000 eager
purchasers to the store. The crush was
SO great that after several persons had
been injured the proprietors were
obliged to stop the sale.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
Comfort to California

Yes, and economy, too it You take the
burlington Routes personally conducted
excursions which leave Omaha and Lin
coin every Thursday morning. Tourist
seepers clean, bright, comfortable.
through to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Second class tickets accepted Only 50 for
"A double berth, wide enough and big enough
for two Write for folder giving full in
formation or call at tie depot and see the
local ticket agent.
J. FRANCIS, Gen. Pass Agent, Burling-
ton route Omaha, Neb.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
Low Rate Excursion south.

On the first and third Tuesdays of
each month till October about half
rates for the round trip will lie made
to points in the South by the Louisville
& Nashville railroad. Ask your ticket
agent about it, and if he cannot sell
you excursion tickets write to G. p.
Atmore, General Passenger Agent,
Louisville, Ky, or Geo. B. Homer, D.
p. A., st. Louis, Mo.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
Don't Tobacco Spit q Smoke Your Life Away

If you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever, regain lost manhood, be made
we'll, strong, magnetic, full of new life and
vigor, take No-To-Bae, the wonder-worker
that makes weak men strong. Many gain
ten pounds in ten days. Over 100000
cured. Buy No-To Bac from your drug
gist, who VIII guarantee a cure. Booklet
and sample mailed free. Ad. Sterling REM
edy Co, Chicago or New York.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

With the exhilarating sense Of renewed
health and strength and internal clean
Illness, which follows the use of Syrup Of
Figs, is unknown to the few who have
not progressed beyond the old-time
medicines and the cheap substitutes
sometimes offered but never accepted
by the Well-informed.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
T;cy Knew Her.

Mabel How many engagement rings did
You bring back from the seashore'
Gertrude None.
Mabel Why, how did that happeni
Gertrude nluckily, got in with the
suIne crowd that met last year
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

their advice, but found
until l took Lydia L
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Oh! what
a relief it is, not to i
have that tired feel {
ing day after day, in I
the morning as much
as at night after a
hard days work, and y
~ ho fran From, oil
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

pains caused by Ovarian and Womb
troubles. | cannot express my graft
tude. hope and pray that other suf-
fering women will realize the truth
and Importance of my statement, and
accept the relief that is sure to attend
the use of the Pinkham Medicine. -"
Mrs. JAMES PARRISH, 25o1 Marshall
St., N, E., Minneapolis, Mimi.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
A Substitute.

Benson. you know went to Africa, and
there met his death"
Poor fellow! But his body was brought
home and given decent burial wasn't IT,
"Well, they hung the cannibal. and then
brought home his body and buried it,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
oAAAAAAAAAAAAs
! LEGAL TENDER PUMPKINS. |
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The Railway Age, which believes in
sound money and has the good of the
country at heart, has declared in favor
of the free coinage of pumpkins. II
the United States can by legislation put
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

Rural host Well, good bye, goodbye; l
shall expect to see all you folks back again
next summer.
Town lot daresay, es we'll have q
chance to recuperate during the winter.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
Doubtful.

Shall say au revoir and not good-bye9'
he whispered, soulfully.
Her long lashes swept her damask cb eek
Il hardly know" she faltered. your
French is pretty rank, but them
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

1t is said that the rubber bands of fruit
jars will recover their elasticity if soaked a
few hours in amonia water.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
OH! WHAT a RELIEF.

81 suffered with terrible pains in my
left ovary and womb. My back ached
all the time
I" j had kidney trouble badly. Doc
tors prescribed for me, and / followed
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

The telegraph messengers IN populous
French towns use bicycles for the dlstrlbu-
ton of their kilograms.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

rirG. Nins.osy'a Soothing Syrup
Forchlren teething softens the 1Ens reduces inan
nation allays pain, wiid collie. p cents bottle
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16
SiSnS.

sWhen the sun looks misty it is sign of
rain, isn't it.n
Sometimes it is only sign that your
Spectacles need polishing"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

StatisticiaDs agree that the population Of
the world averages 100 women to every 100
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

shall recommend Piso's Cure for Con
sumption far and wide. Mrs. Mnlllgan,
Plnnlstead, Kent. England, Nov. 8, 1898.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

Just try Zoe box of Cascarets, the finest
liver and bowel regulator ever made.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

81 don't quite see why you call Mr.. Biggs
lantern awed?r Why, because his face
lights up SO when he talks
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

Daniel Campbell and his wife, of Walto
county, Florida, are said to be respectivel
III and 112 years old.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

In France, when a railroad train is more
than ten minutes late, the company is
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

DR.. kay's Lung Balm is the safest, suTest
and pleasantest cure for all coughs
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

Moses Brown of Boston has the credit
reiigionsASing the first deposit of gold bull
TO the ehlh.,e coined. In 1795 he deposited
9Sabbath62
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

Man is reasoning, rather than reason
able animal. -Alexander Hamil ton.
Thirty-five million human beings die
every year.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

Goes Cough Baisam
Is the oldest and best It will brea. up cold quicker
than anything else. 1t is always reliable. Try it.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-16

A blackberry lodged in the throat of Miss
Della Thorpe of Fairfield, Conn, and choked
L. ~, b q u Il
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-16
OLYMPIA, Oct. 13, 1896.

JUGGLING WITH THE FIGUREs.-
One way Auditor Hopkins has of figur-
ing the saving" OF this lauded eco
nomic administration that is yearly
adding $50, 900 to the county debt, is
to omit the part of the salary paid the
Superior Judge by the county. When
the deputy Tin the absence of the
Auditory was asked how this omission
occurred, he manifested considerable
embarrassment, but finally declared
that he did not know why it had not
been included in the county's expend-
itu res for salaries. When the Audi.
tor was interviewed on the subject
he said that it was omitted because
the Judge was State officer.
Whether this be true of district Of
ficer or not, $1,000 of the salary oil
the Judge, whose district is Thurston
county, WAS paid by the county, and
Auditor Hopkins has misrepresented
facts when he made a statement
which does not include that item in
the salary account. 1t is, however
in strict keeping with the corrupt
methods that are being pursued to
give these cormorants further lease
OF power.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-16
A Patriotic Appeal.
ED. Standard:

ED. STANDARD:
regret that have been unable tC
be very much in evidence, so far, dur
ing the campaign. There are but few
points to which the attention of The
voter need be called, but first and
above them all is an appeal to theil
American patriotism. / here and now
earnestly caution the present Republi.
can party to be on its constant guard
and watchfulness that it does not
wreck itself either in the Charybdis OF
its un-Americanism, or on the Scylla OF
its Hannaism. / mean no disrespect
either to the party or the man, but
let this party remember that at St.
Louis there was no Blaine, no Conk-
lin, no Garfield, no Plat Ito mention)
no immortal 305. no anything but
Hanna, Inglebright, and the proud
boast of the party that they had NOM
mated William Mckinley for Presi-
dent at cost of two million dollars
and would elect him if it cost twenty
mi lion. Let this party know that
in this land of ours there are thirty
two societies and organizations, that
an American cannot join simply be-
cause he is an American, and that his
father was a native born citizen. Tell
them that they can pride themselves
no longer on party fealty, and that