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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
Greece Sends Troops Forward.

Athens, July 18.-The Greek govern
ment has decided to send reinforce
nents of troops to the Graeco-Turkish
frontier, owing to the strained rela-
lions between Greece and Turkey i'm
mediately growing out of the Cretan
instruction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
Mrs. Parnen Hasn't Sold ..Ironsides.n

Bordentown, N. J., July 18.-The re-
port that Mrs. Parnen had disposed of
the "Ironsides'' property to a syndicate
for a site for the colored industrial and
manual training school is denied by
Mrs. Parneu. She says that Iron
sides is still in her possession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
wyoming Populists Uninstructed-

Cheyenne, Wyo., July 18.-The Pop
ulist state convention met yesterday
and decided to send an uninstructed
delegation to St. Louis. The conven-
ton named Vim. Brown for congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
Caution.

All instantaneous cough cures con-
tain opiates and are liable to dry up the
phlegm and mucus in the bronchial
tubes and lungs, thereby causing con-
gestion. We guarantee Beggs' Cherry
Cough Syrup against this danger. All
druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
Free Silver Convention

At St. Louis, July 22d, the Santa Fe
Roulette home road-will sell tickets
July 10. 20 and q, at one fare (s9.503 for
round trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
It Does Not Pay.

to experiment with medicines. Beggs'
Blood Purifier is no novelty. A record
of twenty years proves it to be the
best known formula for enriching the
blood and driving from the system
those impurities which breed disease.
For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18

DeWitt's Little Early Risers act gent
" but thoroughly, curing Indigestion,
dyspepsia and constipation Small
pill, safe pill, best pill G. W. STAINS
field
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
TITANIC GEOGRAPHY.
Proposed Globe on Which Londol
Will be the Size of Penny.

" III % I1IU k5l2o q q z OILIJ'
London, July 18.-A scheme is on foot
to erect a gigantic model of the globe,
surrounded by staircases, twice the
size of the proposed globe for the Paris
exhibition.
The scale will be one-five- hundredth
of nature, and the globe will take two
years to build. London will be about
the size of an English penny. num-
Der of public men have written letters
favoring the idea.
Wake up, Jacob, day is breakingi"
so said DeWitt's Little Early Risers
to the man who had taken them TO
arouse his sluggish liver. G. w STAINS
field
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
Facts Speak Louder Than Words.

Out of the $500 boxes of Bergs'
German Salve sold in 1895. only three
boxes were returned as unsatisfactory
This seems almost incredible. as every
box has a positive guarantee accom-
panying it All druggists sell it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18

Ayers Ague Cure is warranted spe-
cific for all malarial diseases and bill
larry arrangements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums. al
lays all pain. cures wind collie, and is
the best remedy for dfarThoea. TWen
ty-five cents a bottle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
Mineral Water.

The finest in the west. Come and try Il
J. W. PHILLIPS. SIP W. Eighth Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18

We aim to please our trade. Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia ". Sth st
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
Populists. Attention.

Please bear in mind that the Santa
Fe route has been selected as the Of
fetal road in going to the st. Louis con-
vention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18

subseribe for the sTATE JOURNALA
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
A Pointer for Farmers.

/ remember one instance that bears
particularly upon this question that came
to me today as l sat here, and that was
this: Ny father came from the New
England states upon this prairie in 1887.
He told me this instance once: That
after sowing a crop of wheat by hand,
cutting it with the cradle, binding it with
the rake, and threshing it with the ball
upon the floor, he put it upon wagon
and drove it to this city of Milwaukee,
ninety-six miles away, and sold it here
for 46 cents bushel. This was in the
sos, and silver then was $1.30 an ounce.
Now tell the silver men to explain to you
how it was that in the early sos wheat
was 46 cents a bushel, and silver S1.3o
an ounce. if the price of silver always
carries with it the price of wheat. And
when he hens and haws. say to him:
.sIt is not only confined to wheat. but
that other commodity you yoke up with
silver. cotton: and tell him that for the
four years ending in 1S45 cotton in the
city of New York averaged only cents
a pound: and that for the four years
ending in 1894 the same class averaged
s cents a pound. Tell him to, explain
that to you. That was when we had
free coinage and silver was then Sl.3o
an ounce. He cannot explain it. That
one illustration. my friends. utterly de-
stroys the whole silver heresy.-Con-
gressman Fowler of New Jersey.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
What Stewart Thought in 1894.

Senator Stewart of Nevada made a
speech in Congress February IL, 1851, III
which he said:
Let everybody know what dollar is
worth. The farmers will then know how
TO measure the difference III price be
in Liverpool The wheat will be meas
ured by the same standard -gold-ln
Illinois as it is in Liverpool and any man
can figure it up. But now it IS mys-
terry: the whole subject of finance is
mystery. and what do we see every day
we see those who devote their attention
to it making large fortunes out of this
Let us do as all the people of the world
have been doing from the beginning
measure our values by gold, adopt the
standard that all can understand, and
get rid of this mystery.
Mr.. Logan-What does the senator
want?
Mr.. Stewart want the standard gold,
and no paper money not redeemed In
gold, no paper money the value of which
is not ascertained, no paper money that
will organize gold board to speculate
with it. Who pays for this gold board
Who nays these immense fortunes? How
is it that millions and millions can be
rolled I'D annually there? Did anybody
ever calculate who paid for it? 1t
comes out of the producers. How. do
these men exist! by the latitude WHICH
your deprecated currency gives to specu-
iation and nothing else.
Persons who are speculating in your
deprecated currency are making the
money, and they will continue to make
it SO long as you have a deprecated cur
rency.
If the farmers would get rich they
have got to become skilled in this fluctuat-
ing currency and make corners and man.
ipulate the market, and if they do that
they cannot Congressional Rec
ord forty-third Congress, first session,
vol. 2, p. 1922
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
Cheap Dollars.

Everything is cheap or dear according
to what we have TO pay for it. Sugar IS
cheap at cents Il pound, but would be
dear at 10 cents.
cheap dollar. therefore, is one that
the merchant buys with less goods than
he would have to give for a dearer dol
lar. If merchant now gives twenty
pounds of sugar for dollar, and the dol
lar which he gets is a 2O0-cent dollar;
and if the 200-cent dollar is dishonest
dollar and ought to be replaced by 100
cent dollar. worth only half as much; in
that case. the merchant will give only
half as much sugar for the cheaper dol
lar as he now gives for the dishonest
20O-cent dollar. That is clear, is It not?
This is precisely what cheap money
means.
Is this what the farmer and the work
ingman really want?
Apply this illustration to labor, if you
please. The workingman buys dollars
with labor. Does he want cheap COL
lar, for which the merchant will give
only ten pounds of sugar? Or does he
want 200-cent dollar. for which the
merchant will give twenty pounds of
sugar? Cheap dollars would cut his
wages in half. He surely does not want
that.
"Oh. no. says the workingman, that
is not what | want; but. if dollars We're
cheap, l would get twice as many of
them for a days work.
Would you. indeed? Not on your life.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver, at
the ratio of 16 to 1, is simply scheme
to reduce your wages without your know
ing it or having an excuse for striking.
What good would it do you to get twice
as many dollars for days work if So
would buy no more sugar, and no more
of anything else, than 81 will now buy
Besides, if prices go up, under free
coinage, as they will-we admit that
DOGS not the workingman know that the
first thing to go up will be rents, the
next thing will be food and clothing. and
the last thing will be labor? Under free
coinage, instead of being better off. the
workingman would be worse off than he
is now.
Think this over, and see what it all
means to you and to your little family
Springfield Qll) Journal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
FARMERS EGG BASKET
TIE Mckinley Law Checked I'm
; portation and Gave a
Home Market.
EFFECT OF THE WILSON BILL.
/ he Canadian Farmer Has Protection
but the American Farmer
Has None.

There is no reason why Canada, Mexi-
-. China, or any other country should
0uppiy the United States with a single
On. Canada does not buy single egg
1ron us, and there is no reason why we
should buy from her. When we do, the
American farmer loses the benefit of part
II his natural market.
The purpose of this article is to show
ey q few figures the benefit which the
American farmer derived from the Nc
Kinley law; not merely because the
law stopepd imports from other countries,
6ut because under that law he received
m average of 10 cents dozen for his
aggs all the year around. Under the
Dresent Wilson German bill, he hardly
averages 5 cents dozen; and the people
could better afford to pay Is cents a
lezen in 1896.
From 1888 to 1890, there was no tariff
f1Don eggs. The Canadian farmer could
foend his eggs across the line from Maine
|te California; Mexico, China, France,
- with 15,5O0,OOO dozens of eggs, an
(1ually, on the average. We paid every
year to the foreign farmer ON this small
Product alone, at 15 cents a dozen, ST.
100000. This importation of over L.
4e0.OOO dozen a month or $4,000 dozen
4ay was felt, in the way of competition,
ky our farmers chiefly in the large cities.
Farmers can get the best prices for eggs
pad their products in the large cities;
but when New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
(fen, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, San
Francisco and many other markets are
oates of transportation by water, how
pan the farmer expect to compete who
has to ship his eggs by rail?
The following statement shows impor-
|fations of eggs, by countries, the year be-
fere the Mckinley tariff went into effect,
Hnr fhQ ondip0 1000,
Expectations of eggs, by countries, July1.
1eS8 to June 80 1880
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25

If the Mckinley law had been let
alone, the American farmer in 1856
would be supplying nearly every egg in
the American market. The farmers
wife would have felt encouraged to in
crease her stock of poultry, on which
she depended for pin money to clothe
herself and her children. When the
iff on eggs reduced from 5 cents to 3
cents a dozen, importation increased
100000 dozen in one year, at an in
creased price of $125,0OO. Unless the
American farmer can see it to be his in
terest to vote for Mckinley and the
restoration of proper duty on eggs, the
Canadian and other foreign farmers will
year and the price of domestic eggs will
continue to decline. as they have done
for the last two years. a......e--
late in favor of the Canadian as against
the American Farmer?
The American farmer could not sell
eggs in Canada, even if they had no
tariff on American eggs. There are only
few large cities there, and they are
near to the Canadian cheap farms. The
half-a-dozen small markets in Canada
have a total population only one-quarter
as large as that of the city of New York:
A few election districts in the city of
New York, or in Philadelphia, or in
Chicago, afford Al better market for
American eggs than the whole of Can
ada Yet Canada imposes a duty of D
cents a dozen on our eggs, while we i'm
pose duty of only scents dozen on
her eggs.
The Canadians have protection, but
under the Wilson bill we have not.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25

used to pay the expenses of the govern
ment." The tariff on some of the neces-
saries of life might be reduced, and the
deficit made up by an issue of money"
Or, if this is not deemed advijable, "gov-
ernment paper can be issued to pay for
special improvements; harbors can be
deepened and rivers improved in this
way" He introduced a bill to issue
$1O,OO0,O0O of United States treasury
notes, with which to inaugurate the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal. He
further suggested that 1--WE can use any
available coin on hand to take up ma.
tured bonds and replace the coin so used
with paper money" He introduced an
other bill providing in this way for the
payment of the $25.OO0.00O outstanding
2 per cent. bonds. He did not stop even
at that point, but gravely proposed that
government paper should be issued in
the place of national bank notes, as they
are retired" His theory of the ultimate
redemption of government obligations,
as stated by himself, was that the larger
the issue of treasury notes, the smaller
will be the "coin" reserve required with
which to meet them. By "coin" he ex-
planned that he meant both gold and sill
yer, wilfully ignoring the disparity in in
trinsic value between the gold and silver
dollar.
And this is the financier and states
man for whom honest and sensible men
are asked to cast their votes, next No
yember!
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
Bryan a Greenbacker.

Mr.. Bryan is not so much a silyerite
as he is a greenbacker. He said, on the
floor of the House of Representatives in
Washington, June 5, 1894:
'tThe issue of money by the govern
ment directly to the people gives us
safer currency (than national bank bills)
and saves to the people as whole the
profit arising from it's issue. When a
bank issues money, you must pay the
market rate of interest to get it; but
when the government issues money, the
people save the interest, if the money is
afterward called in; and they save the
principal also, if the money is kept in cir
culation."
He asserted that greenbacks "can be
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25

viduals. A man who has repudiated his
debts is never trusted again and is re-
garded with contempt by all his neigh
bors. And so is a nation.
A free-coinage law is reputation, and
that it is understood in that sense is in
dicated by such letters as the above.
For if under free coinage the silver dol
lar is to appreciate to the value of a gold
dollar how will the farmer get more of
them for his thousand bushels of wheat !?
How can he pay his debt any easier than
he can now?
No, it is reputation the silver men
want, and reputation is dishonor.-Chi-
cago Times-Herald.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
Bryan Shown to be Uncertain.

There is abundant proof that Mr..
Bryan is an insincere politician and an
unreliable adviser of the people. He
was bolter in 1898 and in that year,
too. ne made a speech in which he de-
clared that the eXchangeable value of
dollar depended ON something besides a
congressional edict.
When Frank Irvine was running on
the Democratic ticke for judge of the
Supreme court of Nebraska Mr.. Bryan
supported Populist. In reply to let
ter from Mr.. Irvine, calling Mr.. Bryan's
attention TO his unexpected position. the
present candidate for President on the
Democratic ticket wrote a statement Of
his reasons for boiling which contained
the following cool remarks and assur-
ances of personal and peculiar esteem
for the Democratic candidate:
l regret that our people chose for slaughter
deserving a man. They ought to
have selected some one of the numer-
Gus Democrats who are responsible
for the falling off of the Democratic
vote l have spoken to you thus
frankly and cOnfidentially, because J
/ feel that you deserve better fate
than the one which fear awaits you
this fall.
During the extraordinary session Of
Congress of 1898, called by President
Cleveland. Mr.. Bryan made a speech in
which he declared that:
While the government can say that given
weight of gold or silver shall consti-
with legal tender qualities. it cannot
fix the purchasing power of the dol
lar. That must depend upon the
law of supply and demand. /
If the number of dollars increases !
more rapidly than the need of dol
lars-as 1t did after the gold discover
les of 1S49-the exchangeable value of
each dollar will fall and prices rise.
Thus it appears that Mr. Bryan knew
what the exchangeable value of a dol
lar depended on. His change of tune,
therefore. is not because conditions have
changed. but because he shifts his prin-
cples with the varying political breezes,
and that he is willing to do anything for
office.
In the spring of 1892 Bryan declared
in a speech made by him on the tariff
question that the fall of prices must be
attributed
To the inventive genius that has multiplied
q thousand times, in many instances.
the strength of single arm and
enabled us to do today with one man
what fifty men could not do fifty
years ago That is what brought the
prices down in this country and else
where.
At this time another change has come
over the spirit of his white house
dream He and his fellow Populists
ascribe the fail in the prices of commod-
tiles 70 the fall in the price of silver.
Mr.. Bryan and his associates declare
that 1.-The crime of 1873 which the
News has shown to have been no crime
at all, has pulled everything down with
it.
How can the people believe man
who thus stultifes himself and puts HIM
self on both sides of vital questions,
while. at the same time, he proves uE-
true to his party associates -Bufalo
News,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
1913, 800 81, AIS, ,976

It would evidently be impossible for
farmers fifty miles in the interior of any
Of the states bordering on the Great
Lakes, to compete with eggs shipped by
water from Canada.
The Mckinley tariff imposed a duty
Of cents a dozen on eggs. This law
went into effect October 1, 1890. Dur
Ing the year ending June 80, 1890, we
Imported nearly 1000 dozen eggs less
than in the year previous, when there
was no protection. The importation of
eggs steadily decreased until the repeal
sf the Mckinley law in 1894, so that
instead of nearly 100000 dozen eggs
being brought into this country, as here
fofore, in 1901 we imported 100000
dozen; 100000 in 1892; 100000
IA 1923; 1,75O,0O0 in 1884. By 1894
nearly $2,OO0,000 had been taken from
the foreign shipper, which now went into
the pockets of the American farmer.
The following table shows the importa-
lions of eggs since 1888:
Annual importations Of foreign eggs, 1888
1896.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
A Question for Farmers.

If the volume of silver money controls
prices, as the free coiners would have
us believe that it does, so that the more
silver coin there is in circulation, the
higher is the price of wheat, and the
less silver coin there is in circulation,
the lower the price of wheat; then will
some farmer. who believes in the free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1, answer the
question::
How did it happen that wheat was
lower in price in 1894 than ever before,
while the amount of coined silver in the
world was greater than ever before ?
Illinois State Journal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
The Irishman and the Potato Bug

Mr.. Tenneys story at Madison of the
Irishman who swallowed potato bug
and then a dose of Paris green, in the
hope of killing the bug, is very pat TO
the political situation. The American
workingman swallowed free trade in
1892. and now, to cure the misery which
he has suffered ever since, the Popu,ist
quack doctor is trying to induce him to
swallow an unlimited dose of free silver.
But if the workingman takes it, he viii
find, when it is too late, that the cure is
worse than the disease.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
VALUES DECREASED.
Prices of Live Stock Under Republican
and Democratic Rule.

and Democratic Ru
When we resumed specie pay
ment in 1879 our domestic
animals, horses, mules, cat
tie, sheep and swine were
valued at ............ ...... :.
During the ensuing six years,
until the election of Mr..
Cleveland in 1884, the values
increased to-. ..............
A gain during six years of
Republican rule of. f....... :,
During the ensuing four years
until the election Of Mr..
Harrison in 1888, values de-
creased from
10. -..... ........... ......
A loss during four years of
Democratic rule of. ........
During the ensuing four years,
until the second election of
Mr.. Cleveland in 1892, values
again increased from.
To. -. .............. ........
A gain during four years of
hepuDllcdn rule OF
During the last two years,
under the second admins
tration of Mr.. Cleveland, and
under proposed and accom-
plished free trade and sweep
ing tariff reductions. values
again decreased from QS93).
To the comparatively insigni-
ficant total of. ............. 8.
Showing the enormous loss
in TWO years of Democratic
rule of
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
Year ending June 80 Dozens. / value.

During the last year of the Mckinley
tariff the only eggs we bought were from
pese We bought none whatever from
European countries, as before. Even at
3 cents a dozen the tariff would not be
any too high. 1t simply made differ
ence to the countries across the Ocean, or
Roints.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
Dozens. | Value.
Dozens. Value.

The next table shows the points at which
tAese eggs were received:
AMERICA PORTS OF ENTRY FOR EGGS.