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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

England seems to be rather pleased
that the Emperor William made
enough noise to drown the echo of the
presidents message on the Venezuelan
question.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

The Texas circular advising the
planting of less cotton has to go against
the high prices of the present crop, and
the agriculturists are likely to be much
exercised mentally before they enter
fully into the spirit of this judicious
communication.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

The name Of the speaker Of the house
of representatives of Maryland is
Mudd. He was among the defeated
candidates for the United States SEN
ate. What's in name, did you say?
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

"Why, sir, we take what we get and
are satisfied. We don't know anything
about what the county buys and pays
for, but when it comes to us and we
are nearly starving we accept 1t and
are thankful to God that it comes. 1t
keeps us from starving, and we don't
like to complain when you do that for
us. But ii is true. sir. that we have
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

The consumption of milk and cream
would be greatly increased if it could
be delivered in a pure state to the
patrons of the dairies.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31
Money Succeeds Senator George.

Jackson, Miss, Jan. 24.-Congress-
man II. d. Money was nominated last
night by the joint democratic caucus
on the twentieth ballot as United States
senator to succeed ]. Y. George.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

Capua, the famous city where Han
uibal's army was ruined by passing one
winter, was noted for its manufactures
Vt perfumes The Capuan perfumes
were sent in earthen and glass vessels
10 all parts of the Roman world.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

BIMELECH is q
name maladorous
in Bible history,
and yet full OF prof
liable suggestion.
Buoys are black
and uncomely. but
they tell where the
rocks are. The
snakes rattle Is
hidcous, but It
gives timely warn
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

England cannot very consistently
compel the Turks to stop killing off the
Armenians, when she is engaged in kill
ing Beers to get their gold.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

Cuba's tobacco crop has been greatly
decreased by reason of the war, but
there seems to be no diminution in Ha-
vana cigars.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

Prof Dyche, the distinguished nat
uralist, is entirely self-taught. When
13 years old he had not yet learned the
alphabet.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

Rev. Sam Jones is now preaching on
How to Get There and How to Stay
There" He certainly knows.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31
TO FIGHT FOR SILVER.
NEW NATIONAL PARTY IN THE
FIELD.

Independent Action Decided Upon by
the Friends of the White MetaI-Na-
tional Convention VIII hies: the Same
Day AS the Populists.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

DIR. Jameson evidently dia not cor
rectly diagnose the Beers case.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

England is making a tremendous
naval display: and so did Spain in the
day of the Armada.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

Gladstone's successor as the Grand
Old Man hasn't lifted his head above
the horizon yet.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

When it comes to buifeting the waves
of time. man would rather be fog
horn.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

The -four output for 1895 was 10,5S1,-
600 barrels, the largest ever made by
100000 barrels.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

found we got only quarter OF pound
of coffee when we should have had half
a pound, according to the tickets they
gave us. But we took it, gave it to
our starving children and prayed to
God for more. Testimony of poor
woman before the Cook County Board
of Corrections and Charitic5 last Satur'
day.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE POWER OF ExAMPLE"L Last
SUNDAYS THEME,

Golden Text: and Abinelech Took an
Axe in His Hand and Cut Down IL
Dough from the Trees and Laid 1t On
His shoulders'--Jud. tx, dS.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
A Lost Cause.

Although some of the advocates of
the free coinage of silver have recently
professed great confidence in the grow
ing strength of their cause, business
men need not borrow trouble on the
matter. Free silver has seen its best
day. It will never be as dangerous in
the future as it has been in the past i;
it will never come as near to finding a
place on the statute book as it did in
the Fifty second Congress. Though
it may not for many years be laid in
the grave ofabandoned issues, where the
rag-baby found burial, free silver has
received its death stroke at the hands
of the American people, and sooner or
later it will drop into innocuous desue.
tude.
The efforts of the silver mining in.
terest, aided by reckless section of
protectionists, may galvanize the free
coinage cause into AL appearance OF
vigor, but in reality it has not the
shadow of a chance. Silver is still a
peril to the currency, but free silver
is an empty cry. The danger from
the white metal lies entirely through
compromise with the silverites. The
honest money men can we'll afford to
laugh at the free coinage hogy, but
they cannot afford to assent to any en-
largement of the use of silver in our
currency.-Boston Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
Down With 5O.Cent Statesmen.

Ifany one thinks that the silver craze
possesses the land west of the Rocky
Mountains, let him read the opinions
of the Portland Oregonian:
''The chief enemy of industry and
paralyzer of business is the member of
congress who proposes to shift the
basis of money from the gold standard
to the silver standard. These men are
entitled to no quarter. The highest
duty of citizenship is to OPP ose and
defeat them. There will be no revival
of industry and business till they are
put down. Do we want restoration of
prosperity? Do we wish to make it
possible for men to invest money. in
business and industry? Down, then,
with the fifty-cent statesmen, whose
policy threatens values and compels
every prudent man to withhold IN
vestments. The business of the coun.
try is throttled by the cheap-money
craze. No man who can command
money is such fool as to invest SO
long as it is uncertain what it may be
worth next year. He simply sits still
and waits for the craze to blow over.
This is the chief thing that prolongs
hard times and impoverishes the coun-
try. The silver man IN congress is
the arch enemy of the country's pros
perity."
The Oregonian is a credit to the
state of Oregon.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
EITHER SILVER Or GOLD.

The opinion has long prevailed,
says the Iron Age of April 2, that the
great majority of business men in the
great industrial and financial centres
of this country we're in favor of sound
currency and emphatically opposed to
free coinage. Many CT them, no doubt,
are bimetallists from conviction, but
having recognized that any interna.
tional agreement is impossible, side
with those who demand the gold
standard pure and simple. On the
other hand, many who are at heart in
favor of free coinage have perslstently
masqueraded as bimetallists, since it
seemed the only course to keep the
agitation going. The little game has
been played long enough and there is
growing Impotence at further dallying
with the most important issue now be-
fore the people-the reform of our
currency on straight gold basis.
There is no choice between the two ex-
tremes of free silver coinage and the
single gold standard, because the in
termediate ground is not tenable. Bus
mess men recognize that with all our
power and wealth we cannot maintain
a parity of silver with gold at any rate
we may fix. The other alternative, bi.
metallism based on international
agreement, is hopeless, in view of the
attitude of several of the great Euro
pean nations
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
Why Has Interest Fallen

The strength Of the free coinage
agitation among the farmers has been
the dishonest pretence that cheap
money would make lower interest on
loans. By cunningly der ouncing gold
as dear money, and promising that if
our currency was put on the silver
basis it would be easier to borrow
capital, the silverites have secured a
following which otherwise would not
have listened to their arguments.
That poor quality of money does
not make low interest can be seen by
reference to facts of recent history.
While our currency was on paper
basis, in the alleged happy days of the
period previous to 1873, interest on
farm mortgages and all other loans
was far higher tLan it is to-day. Ever
since the resumption of specie
payments on gold basis interest has
been gradually falling until now the
average rates paid are lover than ever
before in the history OF the country.
If there was any foundation for Popu-
list money theories interest should
have been low when the so-called cheap
greenbacks were SO abundant. Why
is it that during the twenty-three
years that gold has been the stan dard
of value rates Of interest have steadily
declined?
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
A Highly Ingenious Scheme.

"Oh! for just a little of that spirit
of TO-" signs the Is to patriot who
edits the Meriden. Neb. Courier, as he
urges lis readers to dump the gold
into the sea as they did the teas. !"
Since the chief complaint of the sill
verites is the alleged scarcity Of gold,
1t is evident that this Nebraska editor
has got hold OF a great idea. The
wicked money power is expressing the
people because gold is scarce and dear.
Of course the gold bugs do not want
to see the yellow metal become plen-
tiful, and for that reason they are only
mining about $500, 100000 worth of
it per year. If the patriots of '96 will
set to work and dump all the gold
they can get hold of into the sea i.
should be clear to any Populist mind
that instead OF being a scarce metal
gold will be more abundant than sill
yer. Then the hated money power
will be willing to loan out its wealth
at no per cent. a year, and the pur-
chasing power of the dollar will be as
small as the average free silver editors
knowledge of the money question. By
all means let the dumping begin.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
Position of the Manufacturers Club

The Manufacturers Club of Phila-
delphia have repudiated the action OF
certain members Of that organization
who had pledged their cooperation
with Republican Senators from the
West on the basis of free silver coin
age and high tariff By an over
whelming majority the club adopted
resolutions declaring its unalterable
opposition to the free coinage of sill.
yer by the United States alone"
Philadelphia papers, regardless of
partisan leanings, give full measure
of praise to the club for its stand on
finance. The Press (Rep.) regards it
as ''the most effective blow at free
silver that has been struck in many a
day." The club, the Ledger lind.
Rep.) says, ''has sent a message to
the national Republican convention
from the greatest Republican city in
the land that must be respected" In
the opinion of the North American
(Rep.), sit doesn't matter what the
free silver members of the club do
and say after that" The action is
decidedly against any further de-
basement of the currency" the Times
lind. Dem.) says, while the Record
DEM says that the declarations "are
more outspoken than have been most
of the state political platforms re-
Gently put forth, and their effect
should be not only to redeem the good
name of the manufacturers of Phila-
delphia, but to bring strength to the
cause of sound money everywhere"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
POOR MANS MONEY.

Demagogues have called silver "the
poor mans money" Silver and pa
per money of small denominations
are everybody's money, the money of
the pocket, the money Of small trans
actions. Those who have larger
transactions use bank checks. But if
silver is the poor mans money 1 would
ask, why is it such? If because he
uses money in but small sums, then
silver is everybody's money, in small
sums. IT it is the poor mans money
because it is cheaper than geld, less
valuable than gold, and therefore has
less purchasing power, l would ask if
the poor man, the laboring man, has
not the right to as good dollar as the
rich man? Shall we have a yard
stick of SO inches for the wealthy and
a yardstick of "a inches, or only Is
inches for the poor man? Shall we
have bushel of four pecks for the
wealthy, and bushel of three pecks
or two pecks for the laborer? The
people who thus try to humbug the
poor man would in reality become his
robbers and oppressors. With de-
preciated currency the prices of all
things he uses would increase, while
his wages would remain the same, at
least for good while after the infa-
ton. This is the uniform experience.
The wage Garner, the day laborer. is
always the greatest sufferer from q
deprecated culrency.-Geo. 81. Yea
man in ga Currency Primer"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
Averge Price

These figures prove that the average
price of wheat was lower in 1926
than during the ten years following
the crime of'73 The price of wheat adj
vanced in Minnesota after the legisla-
ton Of 1878, and remained higher for
some years. The change IN the cur
reucy laws could not both advance
prices and lower them. Ii wheat in
Minnesota was only worth 70 cents per
bushel before the gold bugs assassin
ated silver, and was worth 81 cents
eight years after, what becomes of the
Popul1st pretense that the law OF 1873
has steadily reduced the price OF
wheat? Is not this one fact of higher
prices following the so-called demone-
tization of silver conclusive evidence
that the law of 1873 has not been the
cause of low priced wheat?
The real causes for the fluctuations
in wheat prices are the size of the
crops grown; the VARYING demand for
our surplus wheat in foreign markets;
the com petition of other wheat-grow-
ing countries, and cheapened methods
of production and transportation.
The coinage law OF 1873 has no more
to do with cheap wheat than it has
with the changes in the weather.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
North Dakota Dropping Silver.

A Fargo dispatch to the ST. Paul
Pioneer Press says that the free silver
craze IN North Dakota is over. The
political and commercial relations of
the Dakotas and Minnesota are so
close that the success of the free silver
men in North Dakota has been sur
prising in view of the solidity of the
sound money sentiment of Minnesota.
The three states are peopled by sub
stantially the same classes, and it is not
improbable that the sound money sem
timent which has all along maintained
itself in Minnesota should be on the
point of reasserting itself in the Da-
kotas. One of the best speeches on
the money question made in Congress
this winter was made by Representa-
tive Johnson, of North Dakota, and
the Pioneer Press dispatch says that
with the rank and file of the Republic
cans Mr.. Johnson is the most popular
man in the state, and mainly on ac
count of his stand on the money ques-
ton. The politicians of North Dakota
are said to be beginning to drop sill
yer and put themselves in line with
the sound money Republicans, and
when the rats desert the ship the
fpunderlDG is not far off.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
THE AMERICAN PARTY.
Silverites Advised to Flock Togethe

Silverites Advised to Flock Together.
The American, of Philadelphia.
edited by Wharton Barker, one of the
manufacturers who tried hard to tie
protection and free silver together,
on April 4th, called upon silverites to
withdraw from the old parties and to
form an organization called the Amer
lean Party.
The paper says the action of the
Manufacturers Club, of this city, at
its meeting on Monday last. declaring
for gold standard 'Makes it clear
that the self-appointed and place-seek-
ing leaders of the Republican party,
the men who will control the st. Louis
Convention, will be permitted to make
the platform of that party declare for
the gold standard or a cowardly strad-
die that can mean nothing but the
gold standard. The Democratic party
will do no better, for the President
and his allies will surely control the
action OF that party at the Chicago
Convention. 1t is not worth while
for those Republicans and Democrats
who believe that bimetallism must be
re-es.ablished by the United States to
longer wait upon the action OF their
representatives. They must not waste
time. "The country can only be saved
from the money lenders, from the
dealers in credit, by the formation OF
a new party. It should be called the
American party. This party, stand
ing for American interests, the inter-
ests OF all engaged in productive in
dustries, the party of the plain people,
cannot fail to command a great major
ity of the votes of the people at the
election to be held in November"
If the Silverites will only accept
this advice, go off by themselves and
give the toiling millions the long
lookedfor opportunity to declare for
5O-cent dollars. the campaign atmos-
phere will be cleared up wonderfully.
1t is to be hoped that all of the "16-
toll or bust people will take this
honest step in favor of dishonest
money, and await the counting OF
noses on this issue.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
THE SOUTH'S INTERESTS.

In a recent interview Mr.. A. K.
Mcclure, editor of the Philadelphia
Times, said:
''The first need of the South to-
day is credit, faith in its government
and in the integrity of its contracts.
1t needs money and it needs immigra-
ton. There is no place in the world
where both can be SO pro6tably en-
ployed. While there are hundreds of
millions of capital idle in the worlds
money centres, it will not seek invest
ment in any state that is not squarely
for honest money, and that does not
resolutely MAINTAIN its faith in paying
every dollar in the money that is in
trinsically worth its face in any coun-
try"
Mr.. Mcclure has for twenty years
been one of the staunchest and most
useful friends the South has had. He
has done more, perhaps, than any
other man to attract attention to the
resources and possibilities of this Sec
ton.
There are many evidences that the
agitation for the free, unlimited and
independent coinage of silver at Is 10
l has done the South immense injury.
We have no doubt that it has pre-
vented the investment of many millions
of outside capital in Southern indus
tries, Southern real estate and southern
securities. We are happy in the as
surance, however, that this barrier to
Southern progress will soon be re-
moved.
The Democratic party is certain to
make clear and straightforward dec
laration for sound money and the
South will be found solid on that plat
form.
The day of the free silver demagogue
is fast drawing to a close and a few
months hence the most cautious CAPT
talist will have no reason to apprehend
that the South is given over to the
free silver folly.-Atlanta Journal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
Tie Silver TheOrist.

The sincere silverite is prophet.
He predicts that the opening OF our
minis freely to silver will double the
value of silver in the worlds markets.
Experience in other countries and all
ages is against him. Business men,
familiar with monetary questions, say
no. But neither the experience of
mankind in the past nor present
''gumption'' weighs with the man who
has theory. Hit or miss, he wants
to try it with light heart, having, as
he thinks, nothing to lose if his theory
is wrong. In this he is again mistaken.
The great calamity of fall to the si,-
yer basis, and the panic and long stag
nation that would follow must affect
the silver theorist along with his
neighbols. He would suffer in pocket
in hundred ways.-Baltlmore Sun.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
Free Coinage in Mexico

Mexico, our neighbor, has the silver
standard, and til too we'll known here
that it he's no money whatever but sill
yer, and why? Simply because it is
on $ ar basis, and it is equally we'll
known, and cannot be denied, that our
people can cross over the line any
day and get in exchange for silver
dollar of our money two Mexican sill
yer dollars, and the Mexican dollar
has in it about three grains more sill
yer THAI there is in our dollar. There
can be but one reason for this, and it
is to be found in the fact that ours is
gold standard country while Mexico
is on silver basis; and yet, in order
to get what may be supposed to be but
temporary relief from the effects of
horded money-not its scarcity-we
should disgrace the American people,
bow the knee to reputation, pull
down our flag from its high pinnacle
amid the taunts and..jeers of other ma
tions, and from that time on mourn
over "what might have been" But
certainly the free silver voters could
not then laugh very heartily over
''the ruin they had wrought. ". W.
Hale, Paris, Texas.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
SOUND CURRENCY PROBLEM.

Thrifty, provident wage-earners and
salaried men in large numbers carry
small life insurance policies. If this
country should ever 60 on silver
basis, the great insurance companies
would profit immensely by it, fol
their thousands of millions of dollars
invested in mortgages would still have
to be paid in gold-they are writer
that way-while the widows and or.
phans of their policy-holders would
suffer by having their policies paid in
silver, the purchasing power of which
would be only one-half as much as
that of the gold which they would
otherwise receive. Look at the re,
suit
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-08
Warming to Political Candidates.

That loose-thoughted crowd, free
silverites or "bimetallists, who pre-
dict or who imagine that after more
than sixty years adherence to gold as
the single standard of our monetary
system, this country can he induced
to plunge into the abyss OF silver,
make a grave mistake. The gold
standard represents the resistless
march of civilization. Shells, copper
and other metals inferior to gold be-
long to the past. or to Nations living
more in the past than IN the present.
The gold standard has to-day the ap-
proval of the people of the United
States as positively as at any time
during the last half century, and they
will not change it, however much the
irreconcilable may rage, or however
cunningly any great national party
mixes up the issues in its platform.
The more political can iidate under
takes to straddle this question, the
surer will fate's powerful grasp TURF
him down. N. Y. Sun.