Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-15

In Mexico today if you present at the
counter of any national bank check
on New York for $50, piece of paper
of no intrinsic value but ultimately re-
deemable in gold, you will receive in
exchange therefor approximately 500
of the silver coin of that country.
Starting out with your hundred Next
can dollars, having still a few Ameri-
can dollars and half dollars left, these
being, OF course, also ultimately re-
deemable in gold, you enter store
and purchase an article costing one
dollar. You throw down a fifty cent
American coin and the article is yours;
If you pay in Mexican money it will re-
quire full dollar of their coin. Just
think of the disturbance to business
caused by such condition, not to
speak of the humiliation involved in
the money of country being so depre-
ciated as TO be worth only one half that
OF like money Of foreign nation.
Farmers, artisans, business men of the
United States of America, do your own
thinking; use the brain God has given
you and do not allow yourself TO be
deceived by the shallow sophistries
and specious arguments OF those who
would lead you to your destruction
and the country to such disturbed
condition of commercial panic and
disaster as the world has never wit
messed, the end of which the Omnis-
cient only can foresee.
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Grant Nj. Morse of Portland was in
the city last Friday and Saturday. He
is the nominee for Judge of Probate on
the Republican ticket, and man who
will ably fill that position if elected,
which he is certain to be. He has a
large acquaintance and many friends
throughout the county and is making
more every day as his acquaintance
grows larger. Mr. Morse is very pop
ular at his home in Portland, is a
justice of the peace, is interested in a
manufacturing plant there, and his
advice and counsel is much sought
after in legal and business affairs.
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Thomas Garfield of Jam estown,
said that he never wrote the letter
given out by Chairman E. G, Watkins
of the state silver-pop committee. He
denies the authorship of the letter,
which was published over his signature,
saying he had deserted the Republican
party, and be also says that he is dia-
metrically opposed TO the principles of
the Chicago platform. He is still a
staunch Republican.
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Reports are being freely circulated
by free silver agitators in this vicinity
that the managers of several of our
factories will not employ men unless
they first agree to vote for Mckinley,
and that those already at work must
also agree to vote the Republican
ticket or lose their jobs. There is not
word OF truth in statements OF this
character and hese despicable
methods are used only to prejudice the
minds of voters.
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Mckinley says, il the government
had the power TO make money, as some
people seem to believe, or had the
power to double the value of thing
by its stamp or fiat, il would not need
to resort to taxation--it would simply
set its minis to work and make the
necessary amount of money to pay its
running expenses. 1t could have paid
of the national debt long years ago in
this way.
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If any man or any newspaper tells
you that the st. Louis platform pro-
nounces for gold recommendation he or
it does serious violence to the truth.
That platform declares in favor Of
patriotic bimetallism.