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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24

with handsome banner and beauti-
ful floral emblem for Mrs Mckinley
The flag was presented by 12-year-old
lad in behalf of the children of ST Louis
while the travelling men were introduced
as an organization largely composed of
Democrats but determined to vote for
Mckinley and sound money. Mr.. Nc
kinley's response was as follows:
Il can turn either way this year and
find Republicans. Great laughter and
applause,l 1t is appropriate and in no
sense embarrassing to me to speak joint
ly to the people of Missouri and Ohio.
tAppausc) There is one thing glorious
about our campaign this year-it is ma
tional in character and represents the
best hopes and aspirations of the Amerl-
can people everywhere You are all
commercial travellers. and whether from
Missouri or from Ohio you have had
similar experiences. You leave YOU
sample cases at home now. If / should
talk q little longer and more directly,
my fellow citizens of Ohio. to my friends
from Missouri, it is because | more fire.
quently have an opportunity to talk 10
You than | have to them. Great cheer.
tf,fr - a.. ~ i 4
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foreign trade estimates. from last years
crop being more than 10o00u.uOo bush
els. Last year the total crop MAS more
than 535. 600 600 This year Th0mRn
estimates it at 435.0000O0. The main
loss has been outside this ccnntrs, so
that the demand for our wheat Abroad
has been exceptionally heavy Brad
streets reports total exports Of wheat
and -four for last week at 4.2l5Tgi bush
els 1.-THE largest since September. 1899,
against 1890 Ago the week before aud
2.613,S6 in the corresponding week last
year. Here is an increase over last year
of 1,601 .92S bushels In the raonth Of
September we exported 1.5ll.T2I bush
els; in September 1895. 10, 1881, an
increase of 5,397 $50 bushels, This viii
explain to everyone except chuckle-head-
ed IDIOTS why wheat has risen.
No Manipulation.
There has been no manipulation about
IT, In fact the spectators have been
positively dazed at the advance. An
other thing which has indirectly made
wheat rise is the fact that the export
demand has been so heavy that
it has been found impossible to
send all that was required. All the
freight room on European steamers has
been engaged up to January.
The explanation of the decline in silver
is as easily accounted for as the rise in
wheat. Soon after Bryan's nomination
the free-silver shouters kicked up such
rumpus that spectators both here and
abroad thought there was some chance
of his success. and silver advanced on
speculative buying to about 20 cents an
ounce. 1t was not long, however, before
the holders became convinced that Bry-
ans chances of success were hopeless,
and they at once began Ia get rid of
their loads. Consequently. as more and
more holders of silver saw that they
had pad a good price Tor white ele-
plant. and sickencd of their bargain,
the price of silver gradually sank until
today il is quoted NJ 6434 cents an ounce.
This is considerably lower than it was
early last Summer. when it was thought
improbable that the Democratic party
would come out flat-footed for the free
coinage of silver.
The day will come when Mr. Bryan
and his ilk will learn that natural causes
alone govern the prices of all products
New York Press.
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While silver for weeks has been drop
ping practically without interruption
from about 20 cents an ounce to less than
10 cents, wheat has been shooting up as
if ii had wings.
1t is peculiarly interesting at this time
when Mr. Bryan and the other soon to-
be-snuffed-out lights Of the free-silver
heresy have been examining variety Of
pleasing tctions down the throats Of
farmers, to cali attention to the practical
~ simultaneous rise in wheat and drop
i'll silver.
Probably the free-silrer folk will say in
regard to the remarkable rise in wheat
about II cents a bushe in month:
What did we tell you? It's as clear as
daylight; everybody knows that free sill
yer will succeed hence they are buying
wheat now, as it will go to a dollar at
least after Mr.. Bryan's election. That's
why Europe is buying such quantities of
wheat"
Won't Work Both Ways.
If this is the free-silver argument for
the advance in wheat. why Is ii that Eu-
rope is not buying silver at 64A cents an
ounce if Mr.. Bryan's election will raise
its price to 81 20?
Mr.. Bryan's contention has been that it
was impossible for wheat to rise as long
as the gold standard prevailed. Mr..
Bryan knew as well as any of us that
he was lying when he said that What
does he say about it now. His silence
on the subject is most expansive Posi-
bly, he is racking his brains to account
for u. and it is probable he may get off
something equally Illuminating as his ex-
PLANTATION of the gold import movement.
The fact is, this advance in wheat.
wholly due as it is to natural causes.
IS a stunning blow to the free silver
fallacy. 1t is useless to tell the farmer
that he cannot get more for his wheat
while we remain on Il gold standard.
wheh ne IS receiving 10 cents a bushel
more Tor 1t than he was a month ago.
Considering that this has been one of
the stock arguments of the free silver
ties: IT is well to point out again aud
again just why wheat has advanced.
1t is all summed up in this: The crops
here and abroad have been short the
total decrease for the world, according TO
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Oct. ID. Sept. IL.

American products in the last ninety
days. The magic of Aladdin is tame by
the side of the sober truth of modern
trade. The widest dreams of the apos-
ties of tiatism pale into insignifcance in
comparison with the simple fact Of to-
day. Nature is making money for
Americans faster than any printing
press could do it. The rise in the prices
of the products of American farms
means the beginning of a prosperity that
needs only the success of the honest dol
lar at the November election to guaran-
tee its permanence.
Most of the chief farm products share
in the advanced prices. Most of these
commodities are being exported in enor-
nous quantities, and in exchange Amer
lea will get European gold. No one can
say truly how much has been added to
the wealth of Americans by the rise, but
a few figures will give the reader an ink
ling of the mighty force at work for
American veal Corn has risen 5 cents
a bushel, wheat II cents and oats 4
cents. Competent grain men estimate
that those advances have added 10 the
value of the holdings in this country on
the three cereals alone the following
enormous sums:
Corn ......-........-.. .Slo0,UOO,U0O
Wheat. -. ............ ........ 50,000,O00
oats -..-...-.-- ........-.-- -o,VVV'oVV
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Another popocratic Forgery.

Another "bald. unbushing forgery" as
il is called by John c. Nieolay, Lin
coins private secretary. has been put
in circulation by the Bryanites.
This forgery is 4 quotation from an
alleged speech by Mr. Lincoln. in which
he is made to say that "as result of
the war corporations have been en-
throned and the cru of corruption in
high places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor TO
prolong its reign by working upon the
prcjudices of the people, until all wealth
is aggregated in a few hands and the
republic is destroyed"
The war was hardly over when Lin
coin was assassnated. The speech is a
forgery on the face of ii, notwithstand-
ing the fact that Bryan has made use
of il. But Mr.. Nicolay, who, in Writing
the life of Lincoln, had access TO all
his papers, and who, as private secre-
tary. personally knew of Lincon's pub
lie addresses. is the best possible au-
thority on the subject. When he says
that Lincoln "never said or wrote any
thing that by the utmost license could
he distorted to resemble it," there can
he no doubt of the forgery. No can
yass in this country has ever been
marked by such unbushing forgery as
Bryan's. Philadelphia Press.
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ounce. As this silver is worth in the
market 66 to 81 cents an ounce the mar
gin of profit is easily seen TO be very
heavy oDe-10 to 20 per cent.
Moreover, some of the mines represent
no actual investment whatever. Count
ing water" and all, the Elkhorn mine
has nominal capital of only 81. O00. 900.
1t has paid dividends amounting to ST.
212O00. The Granite Mountain is nomi-
nally capitalized AT $10,000,000 Ii has
already returned in dividends to it's
stockholders S12,120.000. Other mines
show enormous profits on investments
that are largely fictitious.
Yet the multi-millionaires who own
these properties coolly ask the people of
the country to pay them incalculabla mil
lions of additional profit by coming each
66 cents worth Of their product into
$1.29 worth of legal tender money
They ask the country thus almost ex-
actly 10 double to them the market price
of product already so profitable that it
pays them millions every year to produce
it.
So far as they are concerned free coin
age would do precisely this 1t would
enable them to pay d dollar of wages
or debt with 81 cents worth Of silver
How far the process would enhance the
general value Of the silver dollar no man
can know. But this much is clear:
Every penny of the advance be it much
or little. must be paid out of the peo-
pies earnings. while every penny of the
difference between the new price of sill
yer and its mint price will represent so
much of robbery from creditors aud toll
ers.
In brief. this great silver trust is a
conspiracy among hundred or so multi
millionaire mine-owners to rob the pub
lie and TO levy a tribute upon the wages
of everyone who works.
Is there any conceivable reason why
any workingman, any savings bank de-
positor, any holder of life insurance
policy. or any other honest man should
vote for this rings programmed
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all the early statesmen of the country
and of the first President of the United
States George Washington: policy that
has been pursued for more than half the
lifetime of the republic, and during all
the period that it prevailed we enjoyed
the highest prosperity in every enter
prise and undertaking of American peo-
pie. You have come here because you
are i'm favor of the supremacy of the
law and because you mean to maintain
a government by law and under the law
You are here because you believe in pub
lie and private honesty, and because you
do not propose that any part of the pub
lie debt of this country shall be repudi-
ated in whole or in part.
"You are here to declare that every
obligation of this government is as sa-
cred as its flag, and that obligation shall
be kept and performed. You are here
because you want no depreciating or fluc-
tuating currency with which to do your
business. You are here because you be-
lieve in an honest dollar for an honest
government and for an honest man. You
do not want dollar that is worth less
than 100 cents, for you were taught in
your childhood in these great states that
an honest dollar had 100 cents in it.
My fellow citizens, the Republican
party is an inspiration and an education.
| wish every man in this country might
read the first platform that the Repub-
lican party ever made as a national party
in 1856 in the city of Philadelphia /
wish that every young man might read
il, and | wish that every old Repub-
lican might look up the old record and
recall it. 1t reads today more like an
inspired prophecy than the declaration
of political organization. 1t declared
for the unity of the states and the indis-
solubility of the American Union 1t
declared for free homes. for free lands,
for free speech. and it declared for a
protective tariff 1t decreed that the two
oceans should be united by rail, the At
lantic and the Pacific, and every prom
Use that this great platform made has
been kept. How glorious is Republican
triumph. There is not a page of Repub-
lican history that has been written in the
last thirty-three years that any lover of
humanity. any lover of liberty. any
patriot would strike from the pages of
American history today; not one. You
can trust the Republican party, for be-
hind il is the great conservative force
of the country; behind it this year, as in
the days of the war. is the great patri-
otto heart of the country.
Democrats and Republicans alike,
thank you, my fellow citizens, for this
call This is not a party campaign; 1t
is a patriotic campaign. 1t is not
campaign for men, it is campaign for
times for the long journey you have
made that you might testify your devo-
ton to Republican principles. | bid you
go back home and say to all the people
that Ohio, this splendid old state of my
birth, will give to these great doctrines
of the Republican party an unprecedent-
ed ma ority this year.
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snite of legal enactments of parlianents
or congresses. Our hard times have
come from the general competition with
the countries of the whole globe into
which we are forced by cheapness ana
facility of transportation-from oycr-pro-
duction in past years, from extravaganza
during good times. and from our own
social and political agitations. One of
the chief causes of hard times to-
day is this agitation for radical
change in the currency of the coun-
try. If the American people put down
by an overwhelming majority this agI.
tation-bury it out of sight-one chief
cause of hard times will be out of the
way Other causes may remain, more
or less That of the general competl-
ton with all the nations of the earth
must remain. Good times, however.
may be expected to come back, even II
only gradually. The overproduction that
glutted our markets has been used up;
capitalists are anxious to do something
with their money-if it can be invested
safely: our wondrous natural resources
invite investments to develop them-and,
confidence. restored. the outlook is
bright. But the essential thing is con
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roTPouRr


{ Ji,ne-"Here's to Good Oh I1acs. Drink Her
Do,rH.D
v-o uant an honest dollar so we do,
We want an honest dollar, so we do.
We want an honest dollar and for 1t we
n we have 10 burst our collar
Now will your
Eree silyerll never do don't You see,
Free silver'll never do. only for shabby
few,
regulating crew
SO they be.
Protection Is our cry, so Il Is.
Protection is our cry, so II Is,
protection is our cry, and wen shout II
loud and high
For election ii Is nigh
So it Is.
We're after Bryan's scalp, so we be,
We're after Bryan's scalp. 50 we be-
We're after Bryans scalp. and Wei make
him whine and yelp
After Populistic help
Don't you see?
Now. Sewal he is sad. down in Maine,
Now Sewall he Is sad, down in Maine.
Now, Sewall he is sad, aud Watson he Is
mad.
Out of Maine
Wen vote for honest money. so we will,
We,il vote for honest money. so we will
We'll vote for honest mOncy-n0t for Ne
braskas sonney,
Rut Mckinley and Hobart
So we viii.
Judge f. ]. Hamilton.
Stureeon Ray Wis
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
A PRELATES COUNSEL
One Of Americas Great Catholic
Leaders is Opposed to
Organism.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND'S LETTER
The Chicago Platform Declared to
be Threat Against So
cal Order.

The letter of Archbishop Ireland, writ.
ten not as u preate, but in his private
capacity as citizen, cannot fail to carry
weight with multitades Of voters of his
own faith, and it is good reading for
everybody. He does not lay special
stress upon the financial plank of the
Chicago platform, but upon its declara-
ton relating to the federal authority and
the integrity of the Supreme court. The
archbishop points out in unmistakable
language the revolutionary character of
that platform. He says: ''g'he move
ment which had its expression in the
Chicago convention and which now seeks.
by means of popular suffrage, to en-
throne itself in the capital of the ma
ton, is in its logical effect against the
United States: it is secession He
quotes the frank announcement of arbi-
trary interference by federal authorities
in local affairs and observes: In these
words there is the old secession doctrine
that states are independent of the ma
tional government at Washington; there
is the annulment of the Union; there Is
notice served upon the flag of America
Andi OuASiut VI tit iCiSAiIth VI NNte'''"''
it is without power of self-asscrton or
self defense." And again, THE plat
form of the Chicago convention threat
ems the country with destruction OF social
order, with lawlessness and anarchy
On the question of government by in
junction, the archbishop tells the people
of America that The palladium of
American liberties is the supreme court
Mt Washington. the counterpart OF
which in majesty and in power to en-
force absolute justice, does not exist
among the nations of christendom.
And now a convention speaks of the SUI
prem court as it may be hereafter con-
stitnted.' intmating Enthusiastically the in
tention, if the party represented in that
convention comes to power, to so consti-
tute the courts as to make it insensible
to the stern voice of the law, and re-
sponsive to the passing whims of politi-
cal parties"
The archbishop sees in the platform
sectional and guarded expression of so
cialism The convention of Chicago sis
the international of Europe. now taxi
ing body in America. The war
of class against class is upon u.s. the war
of the proetariat against the property
holder. No other meaning than this can
be given to the appeals to the common
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ONE DAY AT CANTON
Continued from First Page.

others from Rock Island and Moline, Ill,
and Davenport. la. Mai. Mckinley said
You come from three states of the
mghtiest government OF earth. 1ou
come representing diverse occupation
and varied employments. but you come
with a single mission; you come with a
common purpose. and that purpose is to
manifest your devotion to the great prln-
ciplcs of the Republican party and your
determination to see that those princi-
pies shall triumph on the Sd day of No
vember.
'You come because, as your spokes-
men have so well said. you are interested
in the welfare and prosperity of the
country you love, which you believe will
be best subserved by a Republican vic
tory ut the ensuing election. now only II
little more than three weeks away. 4ou
In rn Lama hmm ynu hpIipVn In a nra-
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1crlve demand in Europe. They are
pouring across the sea in such streams
that there is not shipping enough to
move them promptly. Even Australia
and India are sending for the good things
of the American farm. The seas are
covered with regular liners and with
tramp steamers fiocking to American
shores for the rich freightage.
Orchards Fall in Limo.
But this list does not exhaust the
names of the staples that have scored
sensational gains. The American or
chard is coming in for share of the
good times. To the list may be added
California dried fruits, such as raisins,
prunes, apricots and peaches, which have
gained from Is to 80 per cent and are
still going up. Canned goods, such as
tomatoes, corn and peas, now an impor-
tant part of the worlds food supply,
have shown material improvement in
prices. The average man may be blind
to the import of higher prices, because
of limited information. A slight ad-
vance in the value of one or two articles
in which he may have personal inter-
est may have little significance, and
when there is such n general rise as is
now going on il requires conpre-
hensive survey of the situation TO grasp
the vastness of the addition TO the value
of the products of the farmer. Chicago
Times Herald.
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ALADDIN'S LAMP OUTCOME.
Increase in Value of Wheat Corn
at SI75coo.ooo.
Appreciation ON Other Products.

To these must be added an Aggregated
appreciation of many millions on other
commodities. Pork, for instance, has ad-
vanced from its low point by $1.S5 a bar
rel, and ribs have advanced nearly a
cent pound Lard has gone MP Ilore
than 81 fierce Rye has been add
yanced nearly 10 cents a bushel, fiaxseed
10 cents and barley cents. Cloyerseed
has scored an increase of 1925 per nun
dred weight
The yearly sales of butter and eggs ex-
ceed in cash value all the other products
OF the farm Butter has advanced %
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BRYAN's GREAT SILVER TRUST.

Conspiracy of Muiti-Millionaire Nine
owners to Rob the American People.
New York World Dem.): The World
showed yesterday that some of the mines
produced silver at cost OF only 80 cents
an ounce. The cost in other mines
ranges upward to about 60 cents an
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CLEVELAND AND ST. LOUIS.
Flag TO the Nominee and IA Floral Trib
ute 10 Mrs. Mckinley.

The next crowd occupied all the avail
able space around the little reviewing
stand. 1t was composed of commercial
travelling men from Cleveland and ST,
Louis They presented Gov. Mckinley
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-06-23

Hon. John A. Roberts of Norway,
whom the convention designates as one
OF its candidates for Senator, was born
In Gardiner In this state, on Sept. 10,
1852, and removed with his parents TO
Andover in December of the same year.
He was educated in the common schools
Of Andover, at the Oxford Normal ln-
stitute, South Paris, and at Bowdoin
College, graduating In 1871.
Mr.. Roberts taught school several
years. He read law with Hon. NJ. T..
Ludden at Lewiston, and with the firm
of Black Is Holt at Norway, and was sd-
mitted 10 the oxford Bar in ISIS. He
practiced law few months, then bought
Il farm near Norway Lake and began
farming, which occupation he still fol-
lows. In addition to his farming opera
tions Mr.. Roberts has for the past six
years been employed as book-keeper for
the firm of c. b. Cummings X sons of
Norway.
Mr.. Roberts has several times held the
offices of selectman and superintendent
of schools in Norway. He is president
of the board of managers OF the Norway
public library, since il Was made free
library BY the town. He has been presi-
dent of the oxford County Agricultural
Society since 1898, aud was elected TO
the Maine House Of Representatives In
lS92.
Mr.. Roberts has identified himself
prominently with the order OF Patrons
of Husbsndry, and is serving his sixth
term as master OF Norway Grange. He
Is also master Of Oxford County Pomona
Grange, and WAS elected overseer OF the
Maine State Grange In 1893, and re-elect-
ed in 1895.
In the line of farm operations Mr..
Rot erts makes specially OF dairving
and the manufacture Of pickles, for both
of which he finds good local market.
Mr.. Roberts will be elected 10 the
Maine Senate at the next election and in
him the agricultural as well as all the
best interests OF Oxford County will find
worthy champion.