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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
Gold will Be Hoarded.

It certainly needs no argument ts demonstrate the truth of the proposition that if two dollars are issued, one worth 50 cents and the other 100 cents, the 30 cent dollar will be the only dollar in circulation, and the 100 cent dollar will be hoarded by the banks and individuals until the whole volume of such currency entirely disappears. This law is of uni versal application and has it's origin in human nature itself. No debtor owing $100 would discharge that indebtedness in the more valuable of two moneys.
 He would surely m ke use of the cheap CT and retain the dearer It was the knowledge of this law that guided tho fathers in fixing the ratio in the begin ming at 15 to I.-Hon. J. c. Burrows
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
A Fable For Farmers.

A Filler Of the Soil, having occasion to bring Water long distance from a Spring, used fer that purpose Two-inch Iron Pipe, which for many years sup piled all the needs of his household and barnyard. One day an agent for Rocky Mountain Iron Foundry came along and urged the farmer to throw away tho Pipe which had proved so satisfactory and buy one 30 inches in diameter II perceive" he said, that your Present Pipe is entirely too harrow for the amount of Water ill the Spring. If you will use our Big Pipe, you will have twice as much Water as you get now.
 ''It is true, replied the farmer. that my Pipe is smaller than the Spring, but as it now carries all the Water that rises ill the Spring, 1 can't see how bigger Pipe would make more Water. The quantity of Water delivered through a Pipe depends good deal on the rapidity of the circulation. If 1 were to tear up the Pipe 1 am using in order to put yours in, it would cost me a lot of money for no purpose, and 1 would be so much worse off guess won t make a change. .
 Moral. The agents of the silver mine owners are making big mistake when they try to fool the farmers into believing that the use of bulkier metal to measure values would double the quantity of wealth to be measured. - w. G.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
 Had 6 Taste of Silver.

The St. Paul Globe (Dem has this explanation of why South Dakota Dem ocrats declared for sound money: ''They have had a foretaste of what silver basis is Out of the discontent with the hard conditions that attend the opening of new state there was evolved a rule of Populism. It was pledged to free coinage, with other heretical ideas of state policy. The investors who had loaned the money with which the prair- ies were subdued became alarmed. They felt their securities unsafe i'll such a state. They withdrew their loans and refused new ones The credit of the state went down. In less degree that happened which will universally come should this nation go to silver basis. The experience opened their eyes to the result of free coinage.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07

ONE question will present itself to the Arkansas delegates to the National convention. Are they really instructed for Bland2 The State convention simply passed a resolution endorsing the candidacy of the Missourian. In case the Eame of Senator Jones or that of ex-At- torney- General Garland should be presented, could our delegates sup port with consistency the Arkansas man?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
To Milwaukee. Wis.

Annual meeting Baptist Young Peoples Union. For this occasion the Mo. F. k. will sell round trip tickets for $2l55. Tickets on sale July II. h and lG. with limit of re- turn July p. By depositing tickets on OF before July 20th with joint agent at Milwaukee an extension of return limit may be obtained to and including Aug. 9th.
 J l.. REINACH.
 City Ticket Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
COTTON BELT ROUTE.
Cheap Rates to Points on This
 Popular Route.
MIL WAEKE

Annual meeting Baptist Young Peoples Union of America, Milwau- kee. Wis. July Is to 10. 1896. For the above occasion the Cotton Belt will sell tickets to Milwaukee and return at one fare. From Pine Bluff $2l. .55. Tickets on sale July l4, 15 and Is. Return limit tickets will not be honored leaving Milwaukee prior to July 20th nor later than July ?, except that an extension of return limit can be secured by depositing ticket with joint agent at Milwaukee on or before July %, 1896.
 ]. ". FARLEY, Agent. F. W. LABEAuME, G. r. X T. A.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
 easily and thoroughly. .I
 Best after dinner pills. IS % cents. All druggists.
 Prepared by c. I. Hood & Co.,, Lowell, Mass. The only Pill to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.

TuE campaign roet some time ago piled on the back breaking straw when he wrote:
 Each dinner pail cries inly,
 Mckinley, oh, McKlnley!'
 A close examination as to the 'in- liness' Of that dinner pail will dis close the fact that it's prime factor is emptiness.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07

A CHICAGO paper announces that the city's platform, irrespective of party, is sFree silver, free gold, free paper money, free small change, free collateral of all kinds, and protec- tion from an Inert and uninterest- ng police force.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
Al Free Silver Oh,ect I.esson.

The farmer ill an interior Pennsyl- vania town who kept his silver dollars hoarded i'll a lard keg. and found. after they had been struck by lightning that he had a mess of fused silver on his hands worth only 5S per cent of its former valuation as coin. had fine ob- ject lesson in the beauties of the free silver doctrine, -Ph Philadelphia Bulletin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
To Fort smith, Ark.

Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, (coloreO July 7th to 9th, Fort Smith, Ark. For this occasion the Iron Mountain will sell round trip tickets on the certificate plan for $S75. Limit of certificate July 18th.
 H. B. MIZELL,
 Ticket Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
Free Silver and Nudity.

People who have lived in Mexico say that if we adopt the free coinage of sil- yer we must prepare to do as most of the Mexicans do-go without clothes -- Louisville Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07

IT seems very much like a case of ''down in front" with Uncle Horace just now.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07

Mir. Geo. L. Smith, Of the Geo. L.. Smith Mantel Co.,. Louisville, Ky, writes Feb. 26. 1894: For about year was terrible suf- ferer from heart trouble. which got so bad I was obliged to sit up in bed to get my breath. l had to abandon business and could hardly crawl around. My friend, MT. Julius c. voght. one of our leading pharma- cists asked me to try Dr. Miles Heart Cure. had used little more than bottle when the pain ceased and palpitations entirely disappeared. I have not had the slightest trouble since. and today am attending to business as regularly as ever"
 Sold by druggists everywhere. Book on Heart and Nerves sent free. Address Dr Niles Medical Co, Elkhart Ind.
 Dr. Miles' Remedies Restore Health.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07

BETTING has been suppressed on the race courses in Chicago, but this doesn't apply to the free for all go started by Mr. Harrity today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07

Entered at the Post-office at Pine Bluff. Ark. as second-class mall matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07

TIE convention opened today and great many of the delegates smiled Blandly as they took their seats.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07

Like billousness, dyspepsia, headache, consti- paton sour stomach, indigestion are promptly cured by Hoods Pills They do their work
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21
NOW rur r1posrrmy ORIGINATED.

HOW THE EXPOSITION ORIGINATED.
The Bee cheerfully gives space to a
letter from Mr.. R.w. Richardson relating
to the origin OF the Transmississlppi
exposition. While according to MI.
Richardson due credit for bringing the
1'ransmlsslssippl congress to Omaha ana
exerting his influence with the repre-
sentatiyes of this and other states to
have the project of a Transmississippi
exposition endorsed, we do not think
his statement detracts anything from
the claim that the inception of the ex-
p~ositlon came from The Bee and Its
editor.
The original idea of holding an inter
state exposition at Omaha was pre-
scented and advocated by The Bee years
opo when the state fair was removed
from Omaha. Incidental to the inter-
state exposition project was the estaD-
lishment of a permanent exposition OF
products of the transmississippi II
try. This idea had been repeatedly
advanced and the erection Of a per-
manent freproof exposition building in
the heart of the city urged from time
TO time. Within the past two years
conferences were had with members
of the Board of County Commissioners
and the detailed plan and purpose OF
such n building discussed with q view
to its erection on county grounds. The
first definite suggestion of the proposed
Transmississippi exposition was formu-
lated by the editor of The Bee some
weeks previous to the session or the
Northwest state immigration con-
~vention at st. Paul. Minneapolis ana
st. Paul papers were at that time call
ing for action looking toward a MD
| continent exposition at the wi cities.
II was deemed important that Omaha
should either compete at the convention
for this enterprise or endeavor TO anticl-
pate the appeal for congressional rec
IGNITION by securing an endorsement
from the then coming Transmississippl
congress-. This idea was
Gated to Mayor Bemis and prominent
members of the Commercial CLUB VINO
were enlisted in the state fair work.
At the outset the project met WIN d
somewhat cold reception. But by the
time the congress assembled in Omaha
enough favorable sentiment had been
aroused to warrant the Omaha delega-
ton in asking the congress to memorial
ize congress in behalf Of an exposition
in this city in 1898.
The reference to the exposition in the
invitation issued by Mayor Bemis FOL
Mr.. Richardson was therefore In con-
sonance with the idea previously adj
yanced and discussed. In fact, the
invitation circular merely intimated
that a Transmississippi exposition was
contemplated at some indefinite time
and at some indefinite place to be later
determined. The first public plea fol
an 1898 Transmississippi exposition a
Omaha was that contained in the
editorial in The Sunday Bee, Novem
Der %, 1895, the day before the as
sembling of the congress and before It's
members had any thought that such 6
project was to be brought up for its
consideration.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21

itself and seems likely to do go for
some time to come. The fact has been
pretty we'll established during the past
three or four years that the American
people are not anxious to absorb new
territory lying far beyond the borders
of the republic and there is no reason
to believe that they are likely in the
near future to be favorable to the ac-
QUESTION OF remote territory, either In
the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21

The railroads of Nebraska pretend to
have given due consideration to the re-
nuest for a fiat reduction in grain rates
for the next thirty days. 1t was pro-
nosed to them tina the rate be cut in
half. The answer was that the grain
men in Chicago We're and must con-
tinue to be greatly opposed to any such
reduction in rates, as they have TOO
much corn already. They threatened
to reduce the price of corn proportion
atelv with the amount of reduction in
rates from Nebraska. The railroad
men of Omaha are telling their patrons
that under these conditions u
Grain rates would be of no benefit to
Nebraska producers. Is there any one
in Nebraska credulous enough to &C
cent this view of Il matter which is to-
day of vital aoncern to the jobbers and
country merchants of the state? BY
what power can Chicago grain men re
duce the price of corn in Nebraska D
cents a bushel? 1t is well known corn
Is n drug on the market; there is more
in Chicago than its owners know what
| 70 do with. But hat is no reason why
Chicago should be permitted to dictate
to Nebraska shippers and railroads.
Merchants %nd bankers of Nebraska
regard this as the most important sub
iect with which they have to n at
this time. The surplus grain of Ne
braska must be moved within sixty
DAVIS. 1t will not move unless the rail
roads reduce the rate and give the pro
Queer the benefit of such reduction. IL
Chicago does not want u corn there
should be n supreme effort made to
sell il in New York and Baltimore and
ship it via Duluth and the lakes. Sup
pose the Omaha road would announce i
5-cent rate on corn from Nebraska tc
Duluth. There is now - cents differ
ence in the lake and all-rail rates tc
the sea. This would give the Nebraska
producer about 20 cents for his corn, &
price quite low enough. At any rate
some provision must be made to assisI
the western producer to get higher
prices for his products or else the heavy
crop of this year will be of little benefit
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21

The national meet Of the League of
American Wheelmen at Omaha for lSoS
would form n most appropriate ac-
compartment Of the Transmlssissippi
exposition. 70 Omaha has a host of as
enthusiastic wheelmen as N city
of it's size. If they will go to work at
once and exert themselves to secure
this gathering there need be little ap-
prehension of failure. The bicycle is
here to stay and it will be the center
of as much interest in 1898 as now
Omaha for the League Of American
Wheelmen meet in 1898!
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21

OPENING oFTHE CHAUTAUoUA SEASON
with the closing days Of June the
Chautauqua will be once more upon
us. The Chautauqua has a firm hold
upon the people of the west, and partic-
uarly upon the people of Nebraska ana
before the summer months shall have
been passed nearly every section OF
the state will have had its Chautauqua
assembly.
The Chautauqua idea, the idea of
bringing some kind of systematic In
struction In the higher branches of
education home to the people who have
not the time or cannot afford to be-
come regular attendants upon recog-
nized educational Institutions of stand
ing, has always been endorsed and en-
couraged by The Bee. People never
know so much that they cannot prott
by learning more, nor does any n ever
become too old to learn. There Is no
department Of science or the arts in
which marvellous advances have not
been made In recent years OF when
every person should know WIZ" makes
pretensions at being well Informed.
The great benefits which the Chautau-
qua reading circle and its adjunct, the
Chautauqua assembly, have conferred
upon us arise from the opportunities
they present for people in business or
at HON to prosecute their studies along
approved lines. BY popularizing new
scientific discoveries and sclehtinc
methods the ChautauQua is extending
the work of higher education among
classes that n few years ago couid nave
no aspirations in that direction.
At the same time there are two con
I nding forces operating in the manage
ment of nearly all the Chautauqua as
semblies-the educational ana the COM
mercial. The commercial force mani
tests itself in the efforts to construct
n program that will draw crowds. NOT
that there is not much to be taught
by an exhaustive discussion of a pollt-
zeal question of the day by prominent
representatives Of the opposing sides
But the transformation of the
qua into a political campfire and the
subordination of the educational pur-
pose to the greed for gate receipts, as
is seen in prOclamations or speclal
Grand Army of the Republic days, fire
mems days, fraternal benefit organlZa-
ton days, etc, is to be deprecated and
avoided. Against this The Bee has pro-
tested on former occasions. There has
been a marked Improvement in the
character Of the work of the western
Chautauuuas during the past few years,
but there is room for still greater I'M
provement. The best drawing card for
every enterprise of this kind is a repu-
tation for thorough and effective edu-
c%ational work. That should be the aim
and object of the C~hautauqua.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21
IN MEMORY OF WAR CORRESPONDENTS

-
Among the kilograms of congratula-
ton received by Major Mckinley on the
day of his nomination was one from .he
veteran newspaper correspondent,
George Alfred Townsend, which said;
"The army correspondents laid their
corner stone on South mountain, Mary
land. while YOU were being nominated.
Come back here where you served hot
coffee to your regiment and dedicate
our memorial as president-elect.' The
project of erecting a memorial on Son'h
"aS a recollection IF letters
i'm the midst of arms and as a recOg-
milton of the important part performed
by Journalists during the civil war WAS
started several years ago by surviving
army correspondents and has now taken
practical form. 1t was prompted by
the consideration that "a memrnto
should be modestly raised TO the pen
beside the sword when "Mr. Lincoln,
himself a reporter Of war events, felt
the inspiration AMI confidence to write
his proclamation of emancipation" Tie
project has no sectional bias and the
memorial is designed to honor the EN-
ergy, enterprise and talent displayed
by the newspaper men who followed
| the armies in their campaigns M de-
scribed from day to day the progress
and events of the struggle. In short,
the memorial is intended to be n mOnu-
ment TO American journalism and should
commend itself warmly to all who ap-
preciate the services rendered to the
public in peace and war by the fourth
estate.
The number of war correspondents
still living is not very large, but some
of the most distinguished names still.
identified with journalism won fame
with the armies of the union, sharing
with the soldiers the hardships of the
march, the %priyations of he camp and
the perils of the battlefield. 1t required
courage and endurance, as we'll as eX
ceptional ability, to be a successful wa
correspondent and the service whicl
most of those rendered who represented
the great papers of the country at TIT
front was invaluable. These mel
braved every danger and endured ever!
sacrifice in order to keep the publ
informed as to what was going on ant
the good work they did not only II
reporting the progress of events, bu
in sustaining the hope and patriotism o
the people was immeasurable. sue
men as George Alfred Townsend
Whitelaw Reid, J. Ii. Mccullough
George Wilkes and others who won dis
tinctlon as war CO respondents, per
formed a service to the union NOR
valuable than that OF many generals
1t is only just that the meritoriou
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21
THE SUGAR

The republican party is pledged to
the protection of the sugar interest OF
the United States. BY the tarlft act OF
1890 raw sugar was placed on The free
list and q moderate duty was imposed
on refined sugars. In order to encourage
the production and manufacture of
sugar ~ this country a bounty was
given, under the operation OF when
there was a very marked increase III
the domestic industry. The sugar
plantcrs of the south enlarged the
area of production and greatly Increased
their facilities of manufacture. The
beet sugar Industries in California, IN
Utah and in Nebraska were greatly
extended. The year following the ac-
ton of the last republican congress III
behalf Of this great interest a most re-
markable growth was realized anu
progress continued until 1T was assured
that the democratic party would attack
this in common with all the other III
dustries of the country. Then enter
prise begun to lag and the great sugar
interest felt the depression hatafecteu
every other industrial and business in
terest in the nation. The blight of dem
ocratic policy fell upon this as upon
every other enterprise in the nation
and since then its course has been one
of decline. Not only did n democratic
congress repeal the bounty that was
intended to support and stimulate sugar
nroduction. but a democratic treasury
a." -. -...l,:,oJ Ir thn nlminiStr1-
ton. refused to pay the producers ana
manufacturers Of sugar what they had
earned and what was fairly due them
under the enactments of congress. Inc
history of the country affords no par
ollel TO the injustice done the sugar
nrodrcers by a democratic congress and
administration.
The republican party pledges itself
to restore proper protection to TINS great
interest. Its platform does not specify
in what way this shall be done, u
that is not essential. 1t will be guided
by what the conditions indicate to be
wisest and best. The belief of the party
is that this country is capable oil pro-
ducing every pound OF sugar needed Tor
the consumption of the American peo-
ple and by this belief its action will be
dictated. If a tariff duty is necessary
TO produce the desired result it Will
adopt that; if a bounty is deemed to
be more e%xpedient 1t will make that
he means of developing and building
I'D he sugar industry. 1t is not COM
mitted to any specific policy. Whatever
is best for the general good the party
will adopt and it will treat this ndus-
try. as it has every other in the past,
with fairness and liberality.
There is not a reasonable doubt that
the United States can in time produce
all the sugar which is required for
home consumption and thus keep at
home 500, 100000 annually sent out Of
the country in payment for this neces'
sarv of life. The building up of this
industry means not only cheaper sugar
for our people, but a means of proht'
able Investment for many millions OF
capital and of employment for a great
deal of labor. From every point OF
practical consideration the question OF
developing and fostering the sugar in
dustrv of the United States appeals tc
the serious attention of the American
people.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21

AS has several times been intimated
In The Bee, the State Board Of Trans
portation has found its time too en-
crossed to permit It to take up the new
Omaha and Lincoln tariff cases until
after the state convention. No little
thing like the establishment of just and
discriminating freight rates out of
Omaha and Lincoln can be allowed to
interfere with the urgent political du-
ties of the members of the board. The
cases will wait, but politics will not,
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21
Courageous Soldiers HOnOred.

The publication in orders, at intervals, Of
the names of enlisted men who are deemed
worthy of honorable mention, serves to re-
mind the general public as well as the army
that courage and devotion to duty can find
opportunities for exercise in times of peace.
The last batch contains the names OF SIX
soldiers. each of whom, 'at the risk of his
life,' saved some person from drowning, and
a seventh who stopped a pair of runaway
horses and rescued the occupants. II in
the whole list there is not one case recorded
Of special valor or constancy performed
in campaigning, although parts of two years
are covered by it, this is a suggestion that
happily even Indian hostilities have now
become rare. But the soldierly trait of self
sacrifice is none the less fifty marked for
the emulation of others, when concerned
with savage life instead of taking it.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21

There are at present in the United States
1889, 900 valid insurance policies, represent
ing a value of 80, Asa, 900, 900. This does
not include the numerous beneficial orders
and burial societies. If free silver coinage
should be enacted the insurance companies
would not pay their policies in gold, but
in legal tender silver currency. This means
a loss of so per cent for every beneficiary
of an insurance policy, or a total loss of
nearly five billions OF money. If there
were more holders of life insurance policies
In the south and west there would not be
so much Of an cutlery in those regions for
deprecated silver money.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21

Between nov and Saturday all the
remaining county conventions will be
held and the list of delegates to the re-
publican state convention completed.
The resolutions and instructions
adopted N these conventions will show
which way the straw is pointing on
more than one contested place on the
state ticket. Up to date none of the
candidates who have any opposition at
all are able to make good their claims
of sure nomination. 1t Ii still every
body's fight