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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29
HOW GOLD Ids FALLEN.

As good an illustration as can be
found of the steady depreciation Of
gold, as compared to'a unit Of human
labor, is afforded bydthe pay table OF
the United States Army. 1t is the in
tention all the timeto keep the pay and
allowances of the private soldier just a
triAe better than The average wages of
the common laborer. This will give
the Army the pick of the laborers for
its ranks. Consequently, the pay OF a
private soldier at different periods shows
the best average pay of the laborers OF
the country at those periods. The fol-
lowing table shows this monthly pay as
e
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

If the Government has the power
to create values" why should it ever
levy taxes? What is the need Of start
ing with 30 cents worth of silver to
make a dollar? Why not make dollars
out of the cheapest material it can get,
and make enough of them to pay all Of
its expenses?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

would accompany it. You need not be
told that. You have only to read the
Chicago platform, at which your loyal
souls must revolt, and read Mr.. Bryan's
speeches.
But they cannot possibly bring you
relief. Common sense is strongly against
any supposition that they can. The un-
broken experience of the world for CEN
turies forbids the hope that they can.
They are planning to lead the country
into as fathomless misery as when they
inaugurated the rebellion. They have
even less reason for this mad scheme
than they had for the precipitating the
rebellion.
Now, comrades, the duty Of the hour
seems so clear that no one ought to mis-
take it.
A vote for VIM j. Bryan is a vote to
continue the miseries of the past four
years, augmented hundredfold by
measures so vicious that beside them
those advocated in 1892 seem tame and
commonplace.
1t is vote to give the country over
to the complete control of the men who
came in in 1892, unrestrained by the
element which has held their evil ten
denotes somewhat in check since then.
On the other hand, vote for Maj.
Mckinley is vote to return the control
of the country to the hands of the men
under whom it enjoyed amazing pros
perity.
1t is vote to end the doleful times
which set in in 1892, and bring back
the full tide of prosperity.
1t is a vote to turn from the nostrums
of financial quacks to sound ideas and
well-established principles.
1t is vote for our friends and against
our enemies.
1t is a vote to put in the White House
a welLtried comrade, who shared every
experience of the war with us; who has
the deepest sympathy with bis old COM
panions-in-arms who feels on all things
exactly as we do; who has been true as
steel in every relation Of life; whose ex-
perience and sound judgment in public
affairs is second to that of no other man
in the whole country, and whose ability
is everywhere acknowledged to be of the
highest order.
Now, my comrades, let us have no
more struggling on election day, but
solid, well-closed ranks for Comrade Nc
Kinley.
Yours for National Honor and Ma
tional Prosperity,
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

THE Covington saloon-keeper who led
in the outrage on Secretary Carlisle bears
the anarchy-suggestive name of Dibow-
ski. He is one of the kind of fellows who
would like to loot every decent home
he could reach. To him every man
who has house and lot of his own is
rich man." who "has stolen the earn
ings of the poor" and should be plum
dered.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

Two weeks ago Senator Quay pro-
duced nervous prostration among the
Popocrats by the plain announcement
that Mckinley had 27O votes certain.
Everybody knew that the Pennsylvania
Senator never talks unless he knows ex-
actly what he is saying, and it took a
good deal of effort on the part of Chair
man Jones to rally his colleagues Now
Senator Quay says that his former est-
mate is too low. Everybody thinks it
was.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

If the dollar is not to be made
cheaper no Populist wants it, because
the very essence Of their bowls is that
the dollar will buy too much. If the
dollar is made cheaper, wages, pensions
and salaries will be cut down, because
they will not buy SO much as they now
do. There is no escaping this.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

WHEN President Cleveland said to
Princeton College, "Wben design is
apparent to lure the people from their
honest thoughts, and to blind their eyes
to the sad plight of National dishonor
and bad faith" why did all the Popo-
Gratis at once shrek that he meant them,
and was talking politics
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

Mr.. BRYAN and the Chicago Con-
vention have pitched this campaign on
a much lower plane than ever known in
q Presidential contest. 1t is an assault
upon virtually everything that is dis
tinctiyely American.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

Paul Globe: trust, Mr.. Bryan. I make
position plain.-Tom Watson.
THE NEW "BoNNIE BLUE FLA,
We are q band Of GROWERS.
Ayerse to honest toll,
A crowd of tireiess howlers-
five didn't howl we'd spoil.
As long as the patient people
Will listen 10 our din,
On the Crime Of '73" we'll heap
And every possible sin.
Chorus:
Wow! Wow! Wow
"Tie Crime Of "a"
Hurrah. Hurrah for Silver Coinage free
1t may hurt you. but won't hurt me-.
Wow! Wowt Wow!
"The Crime Of I'd"
We are not much on figgers.
And facts they are bore,
But we're the speechful jig2ers
To make your eardrums sore.
We rsveu't any reason
To back up our belief,
But paying debts is treason
A creditor = a thief.
Chorus: Wow! Wow, Wowi
The workingman's the masters slave,
The pensioners o cheat;
TIE savings bank is freedoms grave,
Aud honesty deceit.
Economic laws are tyrants' chains.
Statistics il q lie.
Let us get in, and we'll take pains
Those laws to nuiiify.
Chorus: Wow! Wow etc.
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ixed by different acts Of Congress:

Now the private soldier receives Sl3
a month on enlisting, gets s14 the third
year. s15 the fourth year, SIG the fifth
year, and S1S the sixth year and after.
At the lowest, he gets more than three
times as much as he got 100 years ago,
and nearly twice as much as 90 years
aoO
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

ONE month ago a bushel of wheat
would buy only liz grains of gold.
To-day it viii buy 16a grains. Has
gold fallen, or wheat risen?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

The wheat prices given were almost
constantly from 8 to 80 cents higher
than the Chicago prices. 1t will be
seen that at no time did the movements
of silver and wheat correspond. For
example, from 1915 to 1850, when
silver was generally above par, wheat
remained for year as low as 60 cents.
In 1856, when silver was near the
highest point reached in this country,
wheat was down to SO cents at Cincin-
natl and 60 cents at Chicago. In 1894
silver was 6S cents, and wheat only "a
cents. Last Friday wheat was up to 70
cents, while silver had fallen to 651
cents These plain figures tell the whole
story very conclusively.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

CHAIRMAN Marion Buffers final an
peal to the Populists would be much
more effective if it contained few facts.
So far the only one we have been able
to discover is the assertion that God
made the universe. This is in the ma
ture of concession, and is probably
accompanied with the mental reserva-
ton that He did not do the work very
we'll, and was party to the Crime of
1873"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

IT is very singular what immense
prosperity the country enjoyed for 20
years after the "crime of '73." All
sections prospered and developed as they
never did before. This was only inter-
rupted by the accession to power of the
/" same old gang"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29
THE long PENSION CASE.

The United States Supreme Court has
dismissed the Long pension case by
reason of abatement" Commissioner
Lochren, against whom the action was
directed, having retired from the office.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

GEN. LEW WALLACE says that Nc
Kinley is going to have landslide in
Indiana, because the Republican party
is showing extraordinary vitality. 1t
was never so near right in what it had
to offer in opposition to its opponent"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

Mr.. BRYAN says that there will be
no panic after his election. Mr.. Bryan
said equally confidently that the pas
SAGE of the Wilson Bill would bring
about an immediate and great increase
of prosperity.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

YoU cannot afford to do without a
copy of No. Is, NATIONAL TRIBUNE
LIBRARY, entitled Chronological Rec
ord Of the Battles, ETC, of the War of
the Rebellion. 1t only costs five cents,
but it is worth dollars to you, for the in
formation ii contains.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29
TIE Democratic Platform of 1892

declares that n7t@i
ZEN
The dollar unit of coinage Of both metals
must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable
value, or be adjusted Through interna-
tionai agreement, OF by such safeguards of
legislation as shall insure the maintenance
of the parity of the twip metals and the
equal power of every tdolla at all times in
the markets and in theopayment of debts /;
aud we demand that al paper currency
shall be kept at par with, and redeemable
in, such coin. fse7
This is exactly The. position that the
Republicans and Foupd Money Demo
Gratis maintain today. x
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

THE Utah silver-mine owners are fol-
lowing the example of their colleagues
in Colorado and assessing the employees
heavily for Bryan campaign funds.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

WHEN man says "the purchasing
power Of dollar is too great" he means
that the wage-earner is getting too much
for his money. He can mean nothing
else.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

THE United States is great Nation,
and can do anything that is possible for
the united action of 100000 people,
but it can never make 30 cents worth of
silver equal 100 cents worth of gold.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29
WHEAT AND SILVER.

The Cincinnati Price Current, most
reliable commercial paper, of wide cir
culation and influence, gives the follow
ing annual average of prices of wheat at
Cincinnati and silver at New York for
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

The dollar of our fathers" and
grandiathers was really a gold dollar.
They used 100 golo dollars where they
qsed one silver dollar.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

AT Louisville Bourke Cochran de-
ssribed Populism as "a sonorous declama-
ton, based on a fundamental miscon-
cepiion of facts"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

OVER 200, 900 barrels of American
apples will be shipped to England this
year. Would the farmers really get
any more for them if We should call so
cents a dollar?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

ANDREW JACKSON claimed to be q
true friend of the people" In his last
message he said: az
Engaged from day 10 day in their useful
tolls, they (workingmeh) do not perceive
that although their wages are nominally the
same, or even somewhat higher, they are
greatly reduced in fact by the rapid increase
of spurious currency, which, as it appears
to make money abound, they are at first in
clined to consider blessing. It
is not until the prices of the necessaries of
life become so dear that the laboring classes
cannot supply their wants out OF their wages
that their wages rise"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

WEwant to kill this Free-Silyer fraud
so dead at the election that there will be
no hope or thought of q resurrection,
and our minds will be free to discuss
real issues like the Tariff, the Monroe
Doctrine, Reciprocity, and the Pension
policy.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

THE home price of our produce is
fixed by what We can sell our supplies
ab4oad for. Is any man fool enough to
think that we can change this by any
Juggling with the value Of a dollar?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29
BoTH sides are confidently claiming

large majority of the States and the
Electoral Colleges. There is this COM
forting thought: The Republicans gen.
orally know what they are talking about ;
the Popocrats scarcely ever do.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

So many among the Popocrats are
only in the movement for the spoils that
they cannot comprehend that any man
will act from pure, disinterested, patri-
otto motives. They do nothing except
from the hope Of immediate personal
gain, and SO cannot understand that
anybody else can think and act differ
emily. Hence the readiness with which
they yell Bought up" at anybody who
opposes them. Gen. Harrison recently
thought it necessary to deny these ale
cations as regards himself. 1t was one
of the rare instances where the ex-Presi-
dent wastes his time and words. No
body believes the allegations.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

WHAT devilish glee swells the
breasts Of the "old gang" when they
see an old soldier fooled into voting to
cut down his pension
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

The silliest Of all the silly chatter of
the Popocrats is that Of "serfdom to
England" As well call us "serfs of
England because we use the same
pornd-weight and yardstick.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

Observation-Disclosures
We will send 100 copies to any adj
dress, postage prepaid, for So. Ought
to sell 100 in short time in almost any
community.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29
ARCHBISHOP KATzER, of Milwaukee,
follows the lead of Archbishop Ireland,

loiloNS VIC iOou Va AhACADi"AOp AACloHu,
and says:
have made careful study of the qnes-
ton and have read all OF Mr.. Bryan's silver
arguments, but have not found a single point
in favor Of the free coinage OF silver. / can
see only social revolution following its adop-
ton. 1t must he showed under.
There is no reason to think that free silver
would benefit the laboring classes or even
the debtors of the country.
What object to most is the ratio Of Is 10
/. We had Tree coinage prior to 1873 we are
told, and it did not bring ruin, but then silver
was worth more as merchandise than as
money. II is its cheapness that is objection.
able. Those who wonld be benefited by free
silver are the Silver Barons and those who
have enough to buy the metal for specula-
ton.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 20, 1896

The first dirty work of dirty dollar
will be to swindle the pensioners.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

DID Bryan or any of his followers
ever make a prediction that was full
filed?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29
TRIBUNETS.

Neur York Press: NJ s. Q.-Say. young fellow.
your fights over you'd better take a rest.
w. J. B-Can't. Pm wound up for three
weeks yet.
Philadelphia Record: Nell-The fruit you
sent me the other day was green.
Bjones-Thats strange. sent it by a mes
senger boy.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-29

,1ssfo ar ma .sscrOs pOsr orcs As ssooso-css
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18

"EGtrois IF g BesscooEesss Eolsse
end knowing the good Dr.. Miles NerTine
has done ms. my wish to help Others over
comes my dislike for the publicity. this
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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18
THE LION ESCAPED.
And He Raced Down q Mem.
phis Street But Attacked
No One.

Memphis, Tenn, Aug. "a
Yesterday morning at o'clock
Reno, said to be the largest
male lion in captivity, now
quartered at East End Park
and forming part of Col. Dan
iel Beone's animal show, broke
from his cage and dashed
down Poplar Boulevard at a
terrific pace. Fortunately no
one was astir in the neighbor-
hood at SO early an hour, and
the beast seeming blood at
Maudlin's slaughter house, a
few blocks away, dashed into
pens and attacked the cattle.
The hungry brute succeeded
in killing a steer and a calf
Men his keeper, Jerry Gala
han, appeared upon the scene
and after a sharp conflict the
lion was finally pitchforked into
submission and returned to his
cage at the park. The citizens
in the neighborhood of the
park tonight held a mass meet
ing and demanded that the lion
be removed at once.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18

court said he thought the
house would regard Mr.. Bal
tours statement as eminently
satisfactory. (Cheers.) He
added that, considering the
anxiety felt on the subject
throughout the country, and
since the negotiations had as
sumed the shape which led
him to believe that the papers
on the subject can be COM
municated to the queen at an
early date, he hoped they
would be communicated to the
public as soon as possible.
"Yes," answered Mr., Bal
four, ct is the desire of the
government to communicate
the results as soon as this can
be done without prejudice to
the public interests"
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18

1st. 800 acres of land, two miles
from city hall Of Brownsvil e, stu
ated on Resaca la Guerra, and
horseshoe atfluent of such resaca,
on mail road, suitable for fruit or
ehards, 80 acres now in irrigation,
with pecan, walnut, chestnuts,
plum, peach, pear, apricot, cherry,
japanese persimmon, fig grape and
ribbon cane. Can be sub-divided
INTO 5 or 10 acre lots, giving each
abundant water supply, there being
depth of 8 to 10 feet of water all
seasons of the year. Price SO to
$50 per acre, according to location.
Will sell in body at special rates.
I'd. 80 pieces adjoining, one of
200 and the other Of 100 acres, stu
ated on Resaca Rancho Vieio, five
miles from city hall on mail road.
Both pieces almost surrounded by
water of 10 to 5 feet in depth, 40
acres under irrigation. This land
is eqdal to if not superior to the
Mississippi bottom lands, and can
be made paying investment for
fruit orchard or truck gardening. |
Can be sub-divided into 5 to 1OI
acre lots Price 80 to $50 per
acre; whole tract on special terms. |
3D.. 100 acre tract two miles
from the city of brownsville, on
resaca. with good water supply. |
Ebony, Mesquite, Ash, blackberry
and other tiHbers. Alluvial soil. |
To one who desires to sub divide in
small tracts, this is paying in
vestment. Sold in bulk only. Price
SO per acre.
4tb. $4,000 acres in one body,
having frontage of about six
miles on the Rio Grande Railroad
pm the south, and the Arroyo Col
orado on the north. Well timber
ed along the streams and lakes; ba~
lance prairie. Includes within its
limits the famous battle fields of
Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
Arabic and pasture. Price 50, per
acre.
9th. A tract adjoining No. 4,
which together with that tract will
include 100000 acres in one body
very desirable. Special terms to
colonizist.
9th. 10000 acre tract about
three miles, from the Arroyo Post
Office. This land is well timbered
and watered, soil alluval, adapted
to fruits, cotton, corn, cane, etc.
Special terms to any one buying
tract, officiating to colonize.
z tb. 1850 acre tract. fronting on
the RIO Grsnde. abont twenty miles
from Brownsville and 8 miles from
Santa Maria. 800 acoes under cul;i-
walton on low lands on river front
All good arabic land. Price SO per
acre.
9Th. 725 acres, triangular form,
fronting on Rio CrGode, Is miles
above Brownsville good land. Well
wsiered. Price $4,000.
9th. Numerous tracts Of pssture
lands from 1000 to 5000 acres each
in different parts of the county.
10Th This ia a very desirable
place for a email fruit or truok farm,
containing 10i acres, with new
brick dwelling of G rooms, frame sta.
bic and other ont'houses, and large
underground cistern: three miles from
Brownsville on Resaca de ia Palma
on the county road.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18

The cocoa-palm may we'll be
deemed the staple of life, as it
produces every essential re-
quisite for the support of many
nations on the globe.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18
VENEZUELAN QUESTION
Mr.. Balfour Says the Matter
VIII Reach a Settle
ment.

London, Aug. 14.-The first
lord of the treasury, Mr.. Bal
four, in the house ofcommons,
today, replying to Sir William
Harcourt, liberal leader, who
requested information relative
to the progress of negotiations
for arbitration Of tie Venezue-
Ian, dispute, asking whether
apparent difficulties had been
removed by the proposal Of
die United States, contained
in the dispatch Of :, said the
government is still considering
the latest proposals Of Secreta-
ry Olney which are regarded
as opening the way for an
kuitable settlement
II. Balfcur added:
&c government has evfry
to expect that pendMg
pms viii lead to an
cement Of the Us
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18

Two ounces of att II of roses
represents the refined product
of a ton ofrosebuds.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18

The first regular silver coin
age to be passed out in the
order of business was in Oct
ober, 1892.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18

The S. gold piece was first
coined in 1895, by virtue of
an act Of congress passed
April ?, 1862.
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The skin IS the only part of
the human body that is not
hardened by age.
The Newtown bee., 1896-05-01

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