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The Gold Doll ar Measured by Labor.


The proper test of the value Of an ar
ticle is the labor required to produce it.
The test applies as well to the gold
dollar as to everything else.
If less labor is required now to pro-
duce a gold dollar than was required in
1860 or in 1873-that is, if a given
amount of gold will purchase less labor,
or if, in other words, wages are higher
then by the labor test. the only gen
uine test, the gold dollar must have
gone down instead Of up.
And no silver advocate has attempted
to deny that wages have risen.
The senate report on wages and prices
made in 1892 shows conolusively that
wages have increased over So per cent
since 1860 and nearly "a per cent since
1870-in gold.
The purchasing power of wages has
increased over rs per cent since 1860
and nearly 32 per cent since 1870.
The cost of gold, measured by labor,
has declined Al per cent since 1860 and
nearly 23 per cent since 1870.
Taking the cost of gold, measured by
labor, in 1860 as the standard of COM
parison, the cost of gold from 1870 to
1891, the last year included in the AL
drich senate report, has declined as fol-
lows.
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Swlndling Old Soldiers

The value of the pension secured by
the wounded veterans, whose monthly
payment from the government is in a
great many cases their sole support,
depends entirely upon its purchasing
power. If that power be high, it will
buy u much larger supply of the neces-
stiles of life than If calculated in cheap
dollars. 1t requires no argument to
prove that, if this country adopts the
silver standard, prices as based on dol
lars containing 80 cents worth Of silver
will be just twice as high as they arc
now. Values will be no higher, and the
farmer or worker will get no more than
he does now, but nominal prices will be
doubled. AS the number of dollars paid
for pensions is fixed, it follows that if
paid in silver dollars the pensioner
would receive only one-half as much,
measured in commodities, rent, etc., as
he does under the gold standard.
These are facts which the silverites
have never attempted to deny. Nor have
they ever proposed to double the PEN
sions which are paid to the old soldiers,
their widows and orphans. Now, then.
can they expect the country to adopt a
financial system which would dishon-
estly rob the pensioners Of one-half Of
their income?
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FREEDOM oE CONTRACT.
Absurd and Revolutionary Position of the
Chicago Platform on This Question.

Absurd and Revolutionary Position of the
Chicago Platform on This Question.
The second revolutionary principle of
the Chicago Democratic platform is con-
tanned i'll its final clause, where legisla-
ton is favored that will prevent the de-
monetization Of any kind of legal ten
der money by private contract. This
clause is aimed against private con-
tracts whose terms require payment to
be made in gold. However inaptly the
clause expresses this aim, or how it
would be possible for two individuals in
making contract between themselves,
in which the public has no concern, to
demonetize a kind of money which the
law makes legal tender are questions
l will not stop to consider. 1t is enough
to know that the Chicago Democracy
favors law which will prevent one
man from agreeing to pay another in
gold or prevent the payee from enforc-
ing payment in gold. Farmers, it seems,
are to be allowed, when they loan seed
wheat to neighbor, to receive back as
good wheat as they gave. Livery men
who hire horses and buggios, neighbors
VIII AOllA thAlh bOOAD w eshOpAA
er, are not forbidden to stipulate that
the same articles shall be returned to
them, or that what is returned to them
shall be in as good condition as what
they loaned, but the man who loans
gold either for friendship or hire shall
not be permitted to stipulate that gold
shall be returned to him. The trail OF
the silver producer is over it all. The
creed of the silver Democracy or of the
silver mine owner seems to be as fol-
lows:
First. The government shall coin
into dollars all the silver bullion that
may be brought to the minis, and those
dollars shall be given back to the bull
lion owner.
Second. The government shall do
this work for nothing.
Third The government shall force
all creditors to take these dollars at 100
cents each in payment of their claims,
no matter what the dollars are actually
worth.
Fourth. Nobody shall be permitted
to mako private contract for the pay
ment of money which may not be full
filled by the payment of silver-J. L.
Brooks.
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From Secretary WINDOWS Last Speech.

The quality of circulation is even
more important than the quantity. Nu-
merous devices for enlarging credit
may, and often do, avert the evils of a
deficient circulation, and a redundancy
may sometimes modify its own evils be-
fore their results become universal, but
for the baleful effects of debased and
fiuctuating currency there is no remedy
except by the costly and difficult return
to sound money. As poison in the blood
permeates arteries, veins, nerves, brain
and heart, so does debased and fuotu-
ating currency permeate all the arteries
of trade, paralyze all kinds of business
and bring disaster to all kinds of people.
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The report of the commission of In
quiry sent to Mexico by the Chicago
Trade and Labor assembly to investi-
gate the social ed industrial conditions
tnat prevail unGer the silver standard
in that country was recently made pub
lie.
This commission consisted of Messrs.
Mas and Enright, members of the Chi
cago Trade and Labor assembly, who
were selected with no reference to any
predictions on the currency question
which they may have entertained.
The report is a scathing and unan-
swerable arraignment of silver mono
metallism as a currency system. 1t is
staggering blow to the free silver prop
| uganda that seeks to deceive and be-
tray American labor. The revelations
it contains are singing rebuke to the
repudiationists who are endeavoring to
persuade American mechanics that
their condition can be improved by
Mexicanizing our currency.
In the comforts and necessities of life
| the Mexican laborers, according to the
Investigations of Messrs. Mas and En-
right, are down to the minimum, and
in no time in history could their oondi-
ton have been more deplorable, or the
race would be extinct. Special stress is
laid ON the significant fact that the
principal inducement offered capital to
invest in Mexico is the cheap native Ia
Dor to be found and the absence Of all
danger of strikes. This fact alone should
be sufficient to impel American labor TO
resist with all its mighty power the
attempts to Mexicanize our currency.
Under the silver standard in Mexico
labor is the cheapest commodity in the
country In Mexico "to don the raiment
of toll is to wear the garb of servility."
The toiler lives and dies a veritable
beast of burden and performs his tasks
with the impassive Indifference of an
automaton. /"
1t deserves the careful study and con-
sideration of every intelligent American
wageworker 1t is entitled to his re-
spectful credulity, because it comes not
from economic scholars or from dreamy
sociological theorists, but from plain
toilers, "inured to the hard knocks of
the factory and workshop"
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A I.ncI. of Faith.

President Stryker of Hamilton col
lege, Utica, N. Y, in recent address,
in which he paid his respects to CaDdi-
date Bryan as the Absalom Of finance,
made this among other telling points:
"Silver is to Ego to $l.29" upon the
election of this day dreamer. Well,
then, either the public does not think
so or does not think his election posi-.
BILE. Why? Because if it did think it SC
and believed he would be elected. this
same public would be buying silver,
and in view of this miracle of a 100 per
cent advance would be crowding tC
have share in the huge profit"
The price Of silver continues to de-
cline.
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INeERsoLL ON LAW AND MONEY.
He Makes Clear Some of the Absurd Ar
guments of the Silverites.

guments of the Silverites.
If you can make money by law, why
shouldn't we be richp If 100 people
should settle on an island and form
government and elect a legislature, they
could make laws And if money is the
creature Of law, there is no reason why
they should not be as wealthy as Great
Britain. daughter and applause. Law
is inexhaustible [laughterl, and If you
can turn 1t into money no nation has an
excuse for being poor.
Then there is another thing. If the
government can make money by law
and would like to have some good
Bryan man answer the question--if, the
government can make money by law,
why should the government collect tax
esq Laughter and applause. Let ne
be honest. Here Is poor man, with
little yoke of cattle, oultivating DO acres
OF stony ground, working like slave
in the heat of the summer, in the cold
blasts of winter, and the government
makes him pay $40 taxes, when, accord
ing to these gentlemen, 1t could issue
100000 bill in second. Issue the bill
and give the fellow with the cattle
rest. Laughter. Is it possible for the
mind to conceive anything more absurd
than that the government can create
money?
We-and remember it--have to sup
port the government. Government can
not support us. And the idea that the
government can create money in poll
tics, in finance, is just as absurd as the
doctrine of perpetual motion is in me-
ohanics, just as idiotic as the philoso-
piers stone just as absurd as tho foun-
tain of eternal youth. y
All, but they say, what makes gold
valuable is that the law has made it
legal tender" Again, gentlemen, you
are arguing backward. Because it was
valuable the law made it legal tender.
Making It legal tender did not give it
value; but, being valuable, the law
made it legal tender, recognizing its
value. And yet these gentlemen say that
it got all Its value from the law max
ing 1t legal tender 1t is exactly the
other way. Tho legal tender law rests
on the value of the metal. Why is gold
valuable2 / don't know. Why do peo-
Pile love oysters? don't know. [Ap-
plause and laughter. Why do SO many
people get idiotio about election? [Ap-
plause. don't know. But these are
facts in human nature. For some rea-
son, or for money, people give a value
to gold. And that value is recognized
by the lawmaking power, and that is
all there is to the legal tender act.
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rhe Vorl,ingman,s Point OF Wow.

The free silverites contend that free
coinage will increase the price of bread,
meat, butter, fowls and everything else
the workingman uses.
There is no pretense or possibility OF
o pretense that it will increase the
wages of the workingman in anything
like the same proportion, if, indeed, it
increases them at all.
The great majority of workingmen
work for employers who, like tho rail
roads, must pay their bonds, principal
and interest, in gold. II the incomes OF
their employers must hereafter be in
silver, how are they to pay their obliga-
lions in gold unless they cut down ex-
penses either by reducing wages or by
Diminishing some of their men?
Blood cannot be got out of turnip.
Wages can only be paid from earnings.
What possible interest can any work
ingman have in voting for debasement
of the currency which will at the same
time diminish the wage paying capae-
ity of his employer and reduce the pur-
chasing power of his wages? - New
York World.
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HUNTERDON COUNTY ORPHANS
IL COURT OF SEPT. s, 1896.

PRESUMPTION. Fl. Burdette Herr. In the
matter of the application of Bridget Cunning
ham, Executrix of Michael Cunningham, de-
ceased, for order to sell Real Estate to pay
debts. Rule to show cause.
Bridget Cunningham, Executrix of the last
Will and Testament of Michael Cunningham,
deceased, having made and exhibited to this
Court, under oath, a Just and true account of
the personal estate and debts of the said de-
cedent as far as she can discover the same, by
which it appears that the personal estate of
whereupon on application of the said Bridget
Cunningham, Executrix of the said Michael
Cunningham, deceased, setting forth that the
said Michael Cunningham died seized of Real
Estate situate in the City of Lambertyille, in
the County of Hunterdon, and leaving his wi
dow him surviving, who hath an estate in
dover in said lands, and praying the aid of
this Court in the premises, 1t is ordered by the
Court that all persons interested i'll the lands,
tenements, Entertainments and real estate
whereof the said Michael Cunningham died
seized, do appear before this Court on Mon
day, the Ninth day of November, 1896, in the
term of September 1896, to show cause, il any
they have, why. so much of the. Real Estate
seized as aforesaid, should not be sold as will
be sufficient to pay his debts, or the residue
thereof as the case may require, and It is fur
ther ordered that this notice be published in
! the LAAIBERTyII.LE RECORD for six weeks sue
cessively and also true copies thereof set ur
as the law directs.
Done in open Court and dated Surrogate's
| Office, Sept. 8, 1896.
o. H. SPROUL.,
! Clerk of Hunterdon County Orphans Court
| Sept. 16, 1896.
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The workincman.s Alternative.

If our workingmen think their wages
are too high by 80 per cent and would
rather have them paid in dollars that
will buy only half as much in the mar
kets and at the stores, they will vote for
Mr.. Bryan and free coinage of silver.
If they think, as we do, that this would
be free and unlimited" folly ON their
part, they will stand by Thomas Jeffer-
sons common sense doctrine that dol
lars should be coined as near the mar
ket ratio as possible, so that they will
buy 100 cents worth of goods wherever
they are rendered. Baltimore Sun.
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Is Your Mortgage oyerdueY

Have you mortgage? Is it overdue?
If 30, vote for free coinage, and you in
vite the MORTGAGE to foreclose as soon
as possible after election and before
there is time to pass free coinage bill.
If you don't think SO, just imagine that
you have changed places with your
creditor and then consider what you
would do six months before the cheap
money era was expected to begin.
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Free silyerite Logic.

Yesterdays World had clever car
toon whose idea is applicable to the dis
cussion of the currency question. 1t rep
resents an aged farmer and wife driving
their old nag at it's topmost speed, which
is slow at best, and the farmer is rep
resented as saying: why, she's going
a mile a minute. All had to do was to
set the mileposts closer together. All
the dairymen have to do is to make a
quart half its present size to double the
yield. When bushels are out in two,
then the United States grain product
will be twice as much. That is the way
the free silver people propose to make
more money. Utica Press.
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Leave Lambertville for Manunka Chunk s.ss
10 20 M l.37, 5.07 and S.25 M. Sunday % p IL
For Phillipsburg and Easton only 6..s IA Weet
days.
S.54 pm weekdays. 8 81 p m sundays. For Phil
lipsburg and East0n only, 7.02 M
Arrive at Phillipsburg 40 and q a. m, %,
5.5S, 1856 and 9.3i p. M. Sunday 9.2l p. m.
Leave Phillipsburg rs, 8 40 and II y a m z7'''
6.04 and 9. SO m. Sunday 30 p M.
Arrive Belvidere 1853, 1922 and ll,5S M, 81
$50, 1902 Sunday, 1902 p m
Arrive Manunka Chunk SOB. 1870 and u 0s ~,
1888, 6.3S and 1910 p M. Sunday, lO.lO M
Additional trains leave Belyidere for Manunka
Chunk 100 and $50 IN, and 2 30 N, sunday
| 100 a IN. Returning, leave Manunka hunk fof
Belydere s.25, AS M, APO, GAO and lois q. IN
| Sunday, l0.15 m.
Chunk at 600 m. Belyiderc 6.l5 III, Martins
Greek 35 m, arriving Lehlgh Junction Oh a m,
will carry passengers and make stops at nag sta
| lions north of Phillipsburg.
Passengers for Broad Street Station, Philadel-
| phia, by trains leaving Manunka Chunk 25 III
daily. and 1925. 5.2I p m weekdays and leaving
| Phillipsburg SEQ daily, LOO and $50 III
weekdays go through without change at iren-
| ton. A through for Manunka Chunk Is at
tached to trains leaving Broad Street Station Al
| $50, go M, 1900 noon and 81, IN. BY all
other trains passengers to or from Broad street
change ears at Trenton
| Connection is made at Manunka ChunE With
Delaware, Lackawanna 4 Western ReiIrosd Le-
high Junction with Iehigh Valley liehigh & sus.
suehanna Morris Essex and New Jersey CentrA
Raiiroads. At Lambertviile with FleTnington Rail
road At Trenton with trains to aad from Ne.
| York, Camden, &c.
For further 1 u formation see timetables, rhiga
can be obtained at the ticket Offices
] r. WOOD
General Passenger Agept.
| s.M. PREVOST
General Manager
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In silver standard countries there are
no savings banks and no building and
loan associations. This is what serves
to account in large degree for the pa
thence with which the people Of those
countries submit to tho spoliation and
robbery of deprecated currency. They
have so much less to lose from this spe-
cies of fraud than have the people Of
gold standard countries.
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Kicking Against the pricks.

There is no doubt of the forceful and
magnetic quality of Mr.. Bryan ON the
stump. He has wonderful facility for
making things appear what they are
not. He can, as the Irish say, talk q
bird off BUSH" But who can contend
successfully against factsP Mr.. Bryan
would have us believe that depreciating
prices are due to deprecated silver and
appreciated gold. He has been harping
on this theme ever since he was nomi-
mated But the markets give him the
lie. The following figures showing the
course of prices are more eloquent than
q hundred BrYans:
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why Not cam Francs pollarse

AS well might the farmer and laborer
think to make profit by selling his
farm or labor for francs instead of dol
lars because it takes 5 francs to make
dollar, and he would consequently get
five times as many Of them, as to think
that by selling his farm or his labor for
silver dollars, two of which make gold
dollar. that he would make profit by
so doing
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The Crime of 1896.

The golden" wheat and the 'sil-
yer" white cotton have united to put
about $3.50, 900, 900 more of effete Eu-
ropes wealth into the pockets Of the
American farmers than last years crop
brought. A national convention Of Pop
ocrats should be called at once to de-
nounce this terrible ''crime of 1896, u
which has been committed just as Bry-
ans tears were melting the hardest
heart as he sobbingly told of the sor-
rows and tribulations of the farmers. -
Louisville Post.
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In 1878 farm products were lower
than ever before since the civil war, and
the greenbackers" were arguing that
the preparation for resumption ON Jan.
/. 1879, had produced the hard times,
and their advocates tried to postpone
the date for resumption. But resump-
tion came Jan. 1, 1879, and No. . cash
wheat sold at 815s; by May it was up
to $1.01A, and by December. 1870, it
was up to $1.8S1s. Corn was 39s& in
January. 1879. but in December, 1879,
1t was 43H.
Such facts need to be borne in mind
at this time. when SO many false the.
cries are afoat.
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Free silver in Mexico is great instr
tuition. Wages averaging 85 cents among
all kinds Of workingmen are a great in
stitution, too-for Mexico. They are not
desirable enough, however, in American
eyes, to be made part and parcel of our
civilization.
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Any workingman who found

Any workingman who found his
market basket too heavy on Saturday
night can vote to Tighten it hereafter by
supporting the presidential candidate
who is telling the people of the south
and west that the purchasing power Of
the dollar is too great.
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That's right, Uncle Samuel, go ahead
and try free coinage at 10 to 1. I
shouldn't wonder bit if it would work
all right. Anyhow, it might be the
means of forcing Europe to take up BIZ
metallism again. Something should be
done right away. Here's Germany, with
$107, 900, 900 worth of silver whose val
ne is rapidly declining, and l don't sec
any prospect of Europeans ever coming
to the rescue unless you first try the ex-
neriment
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Wheat has advanced IS cents busht

in New York since Mr.. Bryan was NOM
mated. and silver has declined in the
same time about cents an ounce.
These facts do not agree with Populistic
theories-but SO much the worse for the
theories
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-21

The labor test confirms the result of
the interest test, that gold has not APP
preciated i'll value louisville Courier
Journal
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AS wheat goes up silver goes down,
and with it go the hopes of the repudi-
ationists
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LAMBERTVILLE NATIONAL BANK,
LAMBERTvILLE, N. j.

close at 8 O'clock p. Nj. all business days. ex-
cept Saturdays, when the closing time win be /
o'clock, p. NJ.
All legal holidays observed.
Stated NEE tings of the Directors every Monday,
at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT at five and
seven dollars per year.
Coupons cashed and dividends and interest col
lected.
WILLS, when enclosed in scaled envelopes and
accompanied with written instructions as to their
delivery. Ia ease of death, will be receipted for
and kept, free of charge.
STOCKS AND SECURITIES PURCHASED fol
patrons of the Bank, at market prices.
We respectfully solicit accounts, and offer every
accommodation consistent with conservative
banking
Cashier,
Feb. 10. IS92-it
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Reading Railroad.
TINE TABLE IN EFFECT NAY 70. 1895
TRAINS LEAVE NEW HnpE

TRAINS LEAVE NEW HOPE
For Glenside Jenkintown and Philadelphia, week
days. 5.45. 100, a. m F, 100. 1870 $40 u m q "a
goes to Berk street, balance to Trrmnal) sun
days 6 80 a. M, $40, 6i5 p. IN.
TRAINS FOR NEW HOPE.
Leave Philadelphia, Reading Terminal, week
days 1872, 902 q. M. 2 OF. 4.22, Coz, iO.47 p
Sundays, 9 80 n. IN l 35, 7. 90 p. M.
Lea We Berks street for New Hope week days, t %
p m
Close connection at Jenkintown with fast ex
press trains to and from New YORK, Baltimore,
Washington, the South and West.
ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION.
Leave Philadelphia. Chestnut street Wharf AMI
South Street Wharf for Atlantic City
Week-days--Exp press, 900, a. m, 2 Oo, 90, 90
p. IN. Accommodation 500 a. m, ESQ , N.
sundays-Express, 300, 1000 m Accom-, s.65
q. M, 445 y. IN.
LEAVE ATLANTIC CITY DEPOT
Week -days-Exp press 7.3H, 9.GOa m. $50, $50
m. Accom-, S.l5, a. M, Az p. m. Sunday-Ex-
press, 90, 7.sO p. m. Accom- 10 a. M, 4.15
p. IN.
Parlor Cars on all Express Trains.
c. q. HANCOCK,
l. A. SWEIGARD, Gen Pass. Ast.
General Superintendent
Oct. 2, 1896.