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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06
Will the Workman Gain?


What are the workingmen to gain by
she free coinage Of silver, even it the
claims of the silverites are fulfilled ?
The first great claim regarding free
silver is that it will increase prices and
thus enable the debtor class to pay
their obligations in cheaper money.
Putting aside the idea of dishonest re-
pudiatiOn, wage workers can gain
nothing from this, because they are not
debtor class. They owe practically
nothing. They are not borrowers.
More than any other class in the COM
munity they pay cash for what they
get. They are retail purchasers and
pay every day, week or at most every
month. But to the extent that they
have any savings i'll the form of insur
ance policies OF savings bank accounts,
they are creditors and will be losers by
any depreciation of the standard mon
ey. The value or purchasing power OF
SN6Iy uOlIdI VI ouCII Sd luSc VIII cuIIAh
TO the full extent OF the depreciation of
She money.
What would they gain by sudden
rise in the price of commodities 2
Clearly nothing, since they would have
to pay more for everything they con-
sumo. 10 the extent that food, cloth
ing, furniture and the necessaries of
life rise, their real wages, the purchas-
ing power Of days work, is reduced.
Of course, it will be SAID wages will rise
also. This is true, but wages will not
rise simultaneously with the rise in
prices. 1t is a well-establi8hed law in
economics that wages are the least
mobile Of all economic values; and land
is next in economic suggishness. Al
though a rise in wages follows rise in
prices, it always iags a long way be-
hind. In some industries it would take
six months; in some a year, and in
some much longer for wages to adjust
themselves to the higher prices result
ing from deprecated money. During
this time the wage class would be alb
sOlute losers to the full amount II the
difference; and after year or more of
the hardships accompanying a prac
tical reduction of real wages, what
will the laborer gain Absolutely
nothing. He will be where he was be-
fore the change took place; having
higher money wages, but paying COM
mensurately higher prices for every
thing he uses. But Il days work will
purchase no more OF the comforts of
life than before. This is what is now
gong on in Japan The fall in the
value Of silver has caused an increase
IN the price of commodities, but as yet
no increase in wages has taken place.
There is no aspect Of the case in
which wage workers have anything to
gain by the adoption Of silver stand
ard, but they have everything to lose.
They will lose in the value of all their
savings; they will lose in the purchas-
ing power of their wages, and most of
all they will lose by the enforced idle
ness accompanying the business dis
turbance and bankruptcy which aradi-
al depreciation of our standard money
yOuld create.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06
First publication, August 6, 1896.
SHERIFFS SALE.
F, OF WISCONSIN-In

~ a T. VI WlSOON 1N-1u
~ Circuit Court for Kenosha County.
Robert A. Maxwell, Plaintiff, Against r..
Charles Binninger, Maria Anna B1nn1nger
his wife, and Mrs. Sarah Knapp, Defendants.
By virtue of and pursuant TO Judgment
and decree of foreclosure and sale rendered by
the above named Court in the above entitled
action on the Both day of July, A. ID. 1895, and
docketed in said Court on SAID day In favor OF
said Plaintiff and against said Defendants, L,
the undersigned, Sheriff of kenosha County,
Wisconsin, shall offer for sale and sell at pub
lie auction and vendue at the front door OF the
Court House, in the City OF kenOSha, IN the
County of henoSha and State of Wisconsin,
on Saturday, the 10Th day of September A. D..
1896, at two O'Clock in the afternoon of that
day, the following described mOrtgaged prem
Use sdirected in said Judgment TO be sold or so
much thereof as may be sufficient to pay the
amount due to the Plaintiff upon said Judg-
ment for prlnclpal, interest ana cOSUS loSe6neI
with the expenses of such sale, which SAID
premises are described in said judgment as
follows, tO-Wit
part of lots numbered nine (9y and tendO in
block number thirty-two (3z). in the First
Ward of the City of Kenosha, in the County of
KenOsha and State OF Wisconsin, ana on the
southeast quarter OF section NUMBER tnlrty-
one (3t), in town number two q north, OF
range number twenty three 81 east, and more
particularly described as commencing at the
southeast corner of lot number nine ~ afore-
said: thence north on the west line Of Church
street sixty six 1850 feet and to the south line
of Market Square as enlarged and extended
by the City of kenOsha aforesaid: thence west
on the south line of Market Square twenty
eight (28) feet: thence south on Il line parallel
| to the west line Of Church street to the south
line of lot nine (9) aforesaid. thence east on
the south line of said lot nine ~ to the place
of beginning Also the east twenty Eight (28)
feet OF lot number eight (8) in said lot number
thirty-two (32), in the southeast quarter OF SAID
section number thirty-One (3D, III town mum
Der two ca north of range number twenty
three (23) east; all Of said land being i'll the
First Ward OF the City Of kenosha, Kenosha
County. Wisconsin,
DATED sheriFs Office Kenosha Kenosha
County. Wisconsin, this 9th DAY OF August.
A. ID. 1876 SAMUEL b CROPLEY,
Sheriff. Kenosha County. Wisconsin.
Cavanagh & Fisher,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

THE attitude of Kenosha county re-
pubIcans in relation to the guber-
material contest is passive. AS a
county we have no favorite. LaFoilette,
Scofeld, Elliott and others have their
folIowings, with perhaps slight lean
ing toward Elliott; as he is nearer
home than the other candidates and
has many personal friends in this
county; but even his friends have not
assumed anything like aggressiveness
in his behalf. The convention for the
election of delegates to the state con-
vention will be held tomorrow and at
that time something may develop to
indicate which of TIE candidates is to
receive the vote Of the Kenosha county
delegates, but up to this writing no
man is in position to say that he can
deliver any political goods from this
bailiWlck.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

AT the congressional convention
which met at Beloit Tuesday 81. A.
Cooper was renominated for congress
by reclamation. This is an endorse
ment heartily bestowed upon worthy
man and representative. Mr.. Cooper's
record during his term in congress has
been clean and able. He is an honor
to the first district and his constitu-
ency delight in thus honoring him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06
we Believe It Wise.

The determination of the honest
democrats to nominate ticket
of their own, and to have their conven-
ton meet not later than September 2,
is wise. That date will give two
months of time for practical work in
the campaign, and that is long enough.
The active part of campaign work
never begins before September. Dis
tribution of documents, of course, al
ways starts in June or July, immedi-
ately after the tickets are put in the
field, but the sound money democrats
will have much of this work done for
them by the republicans, and some of
it is being done already. The stump
speaking and parading features of the
business of campaigning can all bedone
satisfactorily in two months. Neither
of the big parties ever gives any more
time to it than this.
Many republicans and sound money
democrats think the nomination of an
independent democrat will be blum
der. It will divide up the sound money
strength, they contend, and give the
Chicago ticket a chance to win. This
is mistaken view, we believe. The
object of al the honest money demo-
Gratis, those who favor as we'll as those
who oppose an independent ticket, is to
elect Mckinley. Everybody knows
that the contest is between Mckinley
and Bryan. One of these men is sure
to be elected, and the desire of the gold
democrats is that Bryan be not that
one. Every democrat, or nearly every
one, who intends now to vote for the
republican candidate, will vote for him,
even though a separate ticket be put
up by his element. On the other hand,
many sound money democrats would
not vote for the republican candidates
in any event, and some of these would
be won over to the Chicago ticket If a
ticket by their own faction be not put
up.
AZ independent ticket will give the
honest money democrats rallying
point at which they can hold the
weaker members of their element, who
might otherwise drift over to the dem
ocratic-populist coalition. IL will give
them something to talk and work for
and Will enable them to hang on to the
party machinery, which otherwise
would fall into the silverites hands.
All these considerations are of great
Importance in campaign. These
democrats intend to get back into their
party after the present campaign,
when the grip of the regulators and
communists upon it is loosened. Tie
republicans wish to see the honest
money democrats nominate strong
ticket. That ticket will perhaps draw
few votes away from Mckinley, but
il will take a far greater number away
from Bryan. 1t can not get any elect
oral votes anywhere, and none of its
supporters will expect any, but it will
help to make the overthrow of the
conspirators who are now running the
democracy overwhelming and decisive.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06
No man can secure employment until

No man can secure employment until
some one with money to pay him is
willing to invest his money in labor.
No man invests his money thus who
cannot see a reasonable and safe return
from it and that his investment is safe.
So long as there are threats of free
trade and free silver the money invest
ed where it will employ labor will be
very little. There can be no return OF
better times so long as such conditions
exist.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

A DECATUR, H., free silver paper
tells fool tale about Macon county
farmer who borrowed money on farm
which is now due and payable in gold
and he cannot get gold to pay his obi
cation. The whole tale is a self-evi-
dent falsehood told by the paper or it's
informant. Such condition does not
or could not exist at this time in Illi-
nois or Wisconsin. Every dollar is as
good as gold and the borrower or the
lender can yet convert silver or paper
into gold. The free silverites are of
course frightening everybody who has
money and making money hard to get
but as yet they have not succeeded in
bringing about the conditions the paper
says exists in the case it gives but if
they keep on those poor fellows where
obligations come due will be compelled
to borrow money under contract to pay
back 100 cents for every 100 cents they
borrow, and if the free sil7erites should
win, the borrower will have to sell
twice as much stuff, lay up twice as
many cheap dollars to meet his mort
gage. The free silverites will make a
mans road rocky just as the same crew
made it rocky for all of US with their
free trade nostrum that was to make
better times for everybody than we had
in 1892.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06
First publication, August s. 1895.
| CTATE OF WISCONSIN, County

CTATE OF WISCONSIN, County
OCourt for Kenosha Couuty-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at d regular term
of the County Court, to be held in and for said
County. at the County Court Room, in the City
Of kenosha, in said county, on the first Tues
day being the first day Of September A. D.
1885, at 10 o'clock A. M. the following matters
will be heard and considered
In the matter of the estate of Eliza P Cur
tbs, deceased
The application of Ernest H. Morgan, for
the appointment of an administrator of the
estate of Eliza P. Curtis, late of the town of
Somers, in said county, deceased.
In the matter of the last will and testament
of Gertrude COSgrave, deceased
The application of Laura S. Sykes to admit
to probate the last will and testament of Ger
trude Cosgraver late of the city of Kenosha, in
said county, deceased.
In the matter of the estate of oliver P. Gibbs,
deceased.
The application of Geo. T. Gibbs for the ap-
pointment of an admin SGratOr OF the estate or
Oliver P. Gibbs, late of the town of Salem, IN
said county, deceased.
In the matter of the estate of Cora King, de-
ceased.
The application of Clayton King for the ap-
pointment of an administrator of the estate of
Cora King, late of the town of Bristol, in said
county, deceased.
By Order of the Court.
Dated August 4th. A. d. 1896.
IS ANTHONY VAN WICK, County Judge.
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CONSULTATION, EXAMINATION AND AN
OPINION IN EVERY CASE GIVEN FREE.

Doctors Rea and Rea have been connected
with the largest hospitals in the country and
have no superior in diagnosing and treating
diseases and deformities. They will give $50
for any case where they cannot tell the disease
and where located in FIVE minutes. Treats
durable medical and surgical diseases.
CHRONIC cATARRH.
Diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat,
lung diseases including early consumption
bronchitis, asthma, cons titutiOnal catarrh,
pleuriSy, etc. Dyspepsia. sick headache,
stomach and bowel troubles, Bright's disease,
diabetes, kidney, liver bladder and chronic fe-
male diseases, All nervous affections, with
loss of sleep, forgetfulness, ETC. Indigestion,
interrupted nutrition, slow growth in child
rem and all wasteing diseases in adults.
NOISES IN The EAR.
Catarrhal deafness, chronic diseases of the
eye, ear throat, stomach, liver kidneys blad-
der and urinary orgaDs Hemorrhoids (piles)
treated without the knife No pain and no
detention from business.
YOUNG AND MIDDLE AGED MEN.
Suffering from SpermatorrhOea and impo-
tency as the result of Self-abuse in youth
or excess in mature years and other causes,
producing some of the following effects:
dizziness, confusion of ideas, aversion to So
cieuy, defective memory and sexual eXhaus-
ton, which units the victim for business and
marriage, should call on DR.. Rea and get his
opinion.
DISEASE OF WOMEN.
Treated by our new home treatment. there
by saving the patient the annoyance and en-
barassment of local treatment.
BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES TREATED.
DR.. Rea frankly tells them whether or not he
considers the case durable.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06
First publication, July 0. 1896.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

NENOSHA COUNTY COURT-In Probate.
n In the matter of the last will and teS-
lament of Alonzo White, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims ana
demands of ali persons against Alonzo White,
deceased late of the city of Kenosha,
in said County of Kenosha, will be received, ex.
amined and adjusted by the County Court OF
Kenosha County at the regular terms of said
Court to be holden at the County Court Room,
in the city of Kenosha, in and for said county.
and on the first Tuesday of January, A. D. 1897,
at 10 O'Clock A. M of those days also that the
time until and including the first Tuesday of
January, A. d. 1897, is the time allowed and linn
tied for creditors of said Alonzo White,
deceased, to present their claims for examina-
tion and allowance.
Dated at Kenosha, the both day of June,
A D, 1896. BY the Court.
12 ANTHONY VAN WICK, County Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

THE much-used phrase, "silver is
the poor mans money" has a good
deal of truth in it. All silver countries
are very poor. There is not silver
standard country in the world whose
laborers receive over 80 cents day. 1t
is the poor mans money in the same
sense that skins are the poor mans
clothing"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

WHETHER there is cause or not for
the impression that is abroad that
outsiders are at work in this city and
county in the interests of certain CUB
ernatorial candidates, the feeling GER
tainly exists, and today there has been
quite sentiment created, that our
people can and will take care of their
own caucuses and will be on hand to
do it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06
TRADES COUNCIL ORGANIZED.
A Full List of Oficers Selected Tuesday
Night.

Notwithstanding the extraordinary
heat of Tuesday evening the represen-
tatives of the various labor unions of
the city got together Tuesday evening
and organized the Kenosha Trades ana
Labor council. President Jones, of
the Racine Trades and Labor council,
was present as was also Charles john
son, another representative of that
body. The council was organized with
the following officers:
President-A. Van Lear.
Vice-President- Mat Brady.
Recording Secretary L. H. Grover.
Corresponding and Financial Secre-
tary-B. ii. Larrabee.
Treasurer-Dwight House.
Seargent-at- Arms Peter Quigley.
Trustees Mat Goergen, NJ. +. Zens
and C.. Workman.
This body will secure charter at
once and become the central body hay
ing Jurisdiction over the local labor
unions as a centralized body. They
work under the State Federation OF
Labor and under the American FEEDER
alton, of which Samuel Gompers is the
head
1t is expected to so orgrnize all
trades in the city as to bring all work
ingmen in the city under them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

THE Chronicle, the leading demo
cratic paper of Chicago, is of the opln-
ion that the Bryan silverite populist
ticket from top to bottom, from presi-
dent to coroner, will be defeated by
from $4,000 to 100000 majority in
Cook county.
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That
Tired Feeling

out life, ambition, energy or appetite.
1t is often the forerunner of serious ILL
ness, or the accompaniment of nervous
troubles. 1t is positive proof of thin,
weak, impure blood; for, if the blood is
rich, red, vitalized and vigorous, it i'm
parts life and energy to every nerve,
organ and tissue of the body. The
necessity of taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
for that tired feeling is therefore apparent
to every one, and the good it will do you
is equally beyond question. Remember
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

THE average populist doesn't care
who makes the laws of the country so
long as he is permitted to make a
speech.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06
Engrayedcal1lng cards

Calling cards and invitations en-
graved in latest style from copper plate
at less than Chicago prices. Leave or
send your order or your old plate to
this office.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

Ex-Gov. j. M. THAYER, of Nebras-
ka, who lives in Lincoln, gives his word
for it that Bryan can't carry his own
ward, his own city or his own county,
and that Nebraska will go against him
by Is. 600 majority.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

THE great drawback of the populists
is the fact that they do so much talk
ing that they never have any time to
think.
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

THE republican party is in favor of
the smelling of more iron, instead of
the coming of more silver, as a means
of restoring prosperity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-06

Following are the real estate transfers
recorded during the past week. Report
ed for this paper by Benedict & Tarbell,
abstracters, real estate, insurance and
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-10-01

the world. But nothing in this depart
ment is, perhaps, as attractive and
strange as the beautiful tiligree work
copied from peasant brooches two or
three centuries old. MIR. Anderson has
in Paris, Brussels and Chicago re-
ceiyed first gold medals for this re-
markable work.
But ii is not only as manufacturers
Of jewelry that the Norwegians excel.
In the art of wood carving for in
that country it is an aft--the Norweg
ians stand unsurpassed. IL was
reasonable. therefore, to expect that
this branch of Norwegian industry
would furnish a handsome exhibit in
the Old Norway booth; and so it will.
Handsome miniature SHINING wheels,
boxes and receptacles OF all kinds
handsomely carved, key hangers in
the shape of large spoons. handsomely
carved and painted, constitute only
one branch of this department Per-
haps, most interesting of all is the
beautiful collection of what may be
called the Norwegian national weapon,
the "Tollekniv, with its handsomely
carved hilt and sheathe No Nor
wegian peasant would consider himself
In full dress without having this knife,
Or dagger rather, dangling at his belt.
1t is handsome, sractical and easy of
access, always I.gdy for use; in fact
Norwegian history gives too many
eYidences of its having been too ready
for use In times gone by. before the
modern civilization had reached to the
mountain valleys of the interior, there
was hardly a gathering of peasants,
whether for the purpose Of celebrating
wedding or a christening, or for a
funeral without this knifes disflgur-
ing OF manning. ard perhaps killing,
some one whose brain. by the strong
beverages provided at the festivities,
had been fred to evil deed. During
the last 30 years. however, occurrences
Of this kind have been rare and the
national weapon is now carried only
for peaceful purposes. II has become
q fad in Norway even for young ladies
ID wear a miniature knife Of this pat
tern at their belt when out on noun
tain excursions or when trayersing ia
tho winter on their rapid snow shoes
the snowy fields Tbs collection OBJ
timed by the committee contains also
s number Of thase miniature knives for
the use of ladies'
ANOTHER attractive feature Of this
booth VIII be the collection. running