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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16

Col. Kelsay and Ben Hayder
debated at Eugene last Saturday
before crowd that more than fill.
ed the court house. The colone
was at his best and made spirit
ed speech full OF logical reasoning
and proven facts. The republican
cause was we'll well represented
A careful estimate of the business
and professional men on Main
street and their empl yes, shows
their political standing to be as
follows: For Mckinley, 80; for
Bryan, 45. and for Palmer, 5.
Some of those accredited to Bryan
may vote for Mckinley, but the SO
for Mckinley are sure.
Senator Davis IN replying to the
favori,e popocratic wall that 'sthe
gold dollar has appreciated" di-
rects attention to the guage in the
river to mark the rise and fall of
water. The river rises and falls,
but the gauge remains the same.
Neither does the gauge cause the
rivers variations. There is Cor
wallis man WHO might dispute the
senator. During the last high
water he was interested in watch
ing the river. He wished to note
the rapidity Of the rise, so he nail.
ed shingle on : the hull of the
steamboat Three Sisters, lying idle
at the wharf, close to the water.
When he returned next morning
his shingle was still just out of
water. Later he met a friend who
said the Willamette had risen Ia
inches during the night. An ar
gument insued that grew into a
bet, and the shingle man took his
friend to the boat and showed him
his mark. The friend suggested
that the boat might have risen
with the water and the shingle
with the boat. The shingle man
finally stumbled" payed the bet
and treated half the town. He
supporting Bryan and insists that
"the standard do move."
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16

Mr.. Ralpl, Moody and Mr.. Allan
r. Joy whose appointments appear
elsewhere, aro good speakers and
will be worth hearing.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16

LAxoL is the best medicine for children.
Doctors recommend itin place of Castor Oil.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
From n Manifesto by the Illinois Sound
Money Democrats.

A national convention convened under
the constituted authority of our party
has just closed its sessions in the city Of
Chicago.
1t entered upon its work by violating
all precedents in the rejection of dis
tinguished Democrat as its temporary
presiding officer.
1t deprived a sovereign state of a voice
in its deliberations by unseating without
cause or legal justification delegates
elected with all the regularity known to
party organization.
1t refused to endorse the honesty and
fidelity of the present Democratic ma
tional administration.
1t adopted a platform which favors the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver by
this country alone at the ratio of Is to /,
and thereby 1t repudiated II time-honored
Democratic principle which demands the
strict maintenance Of a sound and stable
national currency.
Finally, to make II palmer that, al
though in name, it was not in fact
Democratic convention, II nominated for
President one who is not in his political
convictions, and has not always been
even in his professions, Democrat.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06

otto citizens, and made them almost for
get, as they shouldered their guns and
fell into line for the Union, whether they
had previously styled themselves Repub-
icans or Democrats. These men, in the
absence of satisfactory Democratic can
didate on sound platform, will not con-
sent to surrender one-half of the potency
of their suffrages for the sake of over
refined ideas of political consistency.
They will want to put their votes where
their votes will do the most good as
against Populism, reputation and ma
tional dishonor. They will fire their bal
lots straight at the common enemy, even
though the ballots be labeled Mckinley.
1t would be a piece of political folly
ton of this class of Democrats from the
main question, and to jeopardize the re-
suit of the election, by setting up mop
perfume claims to a partisan allegiance
which, in an emergency like this, is NOM
inal at the best.
Mass every honest American vote on
one candidate representing honest
money, the nations honor, and the inten-
ton of this people to preserve the gov
eminent and the institutions which their
fathers handed down to them. Waste
no ammunition when Populism is Shrek
ing Its battle cry, and anarchy is lurking
close behind in the rear with torch in
hand.
McKinley's personality is nothing in
TINS contest. His previous political affili-
atoms are nothing Accident has decreed
that he shall stand for the time for some
thlng thousand times more precious
than any party badge.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
Senator Palmer Out.

Springfield, ILL.,, July Ex-senator John
Nj. Palmer has come out openly against
the Chicago platform and nominees
Bryan and Sewall. He said today that
he personally knows of 500 Democrats
in this (Sangamon) county who will not
support the ticket, and he thinks there
are twice that number who will not. He
continued:
mo Democrat, so far as have been
informed, will support the Populst ticket
nominated at Chicago. My own plan is
that the Democrats of Illinois, in CO.
operation with Democrats of other states,
call a convention and nominate candi-
dates. favor local tickets in all the
congressional districts and in all the
counties, in order to preserve the Demo-
cratic organization"
Having thus stated his views as to the
course that ought to be pursued the
senator was asked if he thought :here
was any danger to be expected from the
silver movement. he replied:
"Not a particle. Mr.. Bryan will re-
ceive the support of the semi-Populists,
called Democrats, the real Populists who
are soon To hold convention III ST.
Louis, and those fellows out West who
have no conscience in this thing, but who
own the silver and want to sell it. We
will whip them out of their boots. We
ought to have fought them year ago,
and l wanted to do it, but the people
seemed indisposed to move in the mat
ter. We will fight them now, however,
and give them enough of it.
There is nothing in the platform but
16 to 1, and there is nothing i'll the nomi-
nee but mouth He is good talker, he
is fine talker, but when that is said 1t
is all said. At the same time | think he
is the right sort of a man for. conven-
ton of that character TO nominate. lie
suits gathering of that Kind"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
OPPOSE CHEAP MONEY.
The Building Associations Pass Resolu-
tons on tae Money Question.

At the annual meeting of the United
States League of Local Building Associa-
tons held in Philadelphia, July %, the
following resolution on the money Ques-
ton was adopted:
The United States League of Local
Building and Loan Associations, in con-
vention assembled, declares: /. That it is
the sense of this meeting that the interest
of all shareholders of building and loan
associations in the United States de-
mands that the present standard of value
upon which our monetary system has
been based since the resumption of specie
payments in 1878 shall remain unchanged
and inyiolate. =. That we believe that
the interest of every class in the com
munity, and especially those of the great
wage-earning class, imperatiyely de-
mands that the present standard of value
whether coin or paper, shall be equal in
value to every other. 3. That patriotism
demands that the dollar" bearing the
mint mark of the United States shall be
the equal of the dollar of the most adj
vanced nations and entitled TO full faith
and credit all over the world; and to
that end it must be maintained free from
all suspicion, debasement, or reputation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
EDITOR DANA'S ADVICE.
Democrats Should Vote for McKin-
ley and Not Sacrifice Prin-
Ciple to Party.

New York Sun: The political reasons
for not putting up an honest-mOney can
didate this year Oh Il genuinely Demo-
cratic platform are strong and obvious.
The nomination of another Democratic
candidate would contribute to the per-
sonal comfort of Democrats who are re-
luctant to vote for Mr.. Mckinley, but
it would accomplish nothing else. And
this method of voting for principle only
would surely imperil the result i'll many
Il close state.
Better far to vote for principle in
way that will count.
Every Democratic vote cast for Will
liam Mckinley as the representative of
honest money and the nations honor and
the preservation of democratic institu-
tons against the wild horde now pre-
pairing to attack them, will do just twice
as much service for the common cause
as can be done by Democratic vote for
a third candidate standing no chance of
election.
Let every Democrat who appreciates
the magnitude of the present crisis keep
this fact steadily in mind: His vote for
Mckinley and Hobart is worth double
his vote for the best Democrat that
the sane part of the party could put up
as a protest against the inquiry consum-
mated at Chicago.
Is there any sincere Democrat who,
understanding all that the election means
for our beloved country, is willing to
cut his vote in two this year; to deprive
his ballot of one-half it's efficiency?
1t will be said that there are such
Democrats. 1t will be said that there
are Democrats who can persuade them
selves under no circumstances to cast
their votes for any Republican candidate
for President. Perhaps that is so. Let
them register their protest against Chi
cago by refusing TO vote for presidential
electors. Let them concentrate their
partisan enthusiasm upon the state and
local tickets. They will help in this way
to defend the nations honor and the
continued existence of the institutions
which the regulators and the revolution
lists are assailing. They will help, it is
true, only half as much as if they voted
for Mckinley and Hobart, but they
would help not one particle more
than that by bestowing their votes upon
a sound-money Democrat nominated for
the sake of their personal comfort and
political consistency.
On the other hand, there are hundreds
of thousands of Democrats, if not mil
lions of them, who see in the present
crisis a call to duty only less urgent and
inspiring than that which summoned to
the front thirty-fve years ago our patri-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
DEBTOR AND CREDITOR CLASSES.
From n Pamphlet Entitled "The Silver
Snake"

What has been said about the merits
of the question in philosophical sense
is plain and seems sound, but may there
not be other reasons why silver should
be coined at the ratio of 10 to II
What other reasons can there be!
Well, such reasons as those given with
respect to the debtor class as against the
creditor class.
Name some.
1t is said that the country for the past
twenty years has been gradually getting
into the hands of what is called the cred
itor class, which is alleged to be very
small proportion of the population, while
the great majority have fallen into the
debtor class and into the absolute con-
these creditors, as a rule, are harsh and,
practically owning the majority of the
people and able to dictate to them, are
sucking" what is called the life blood"
out of the country.
Who are these terrible creditors who
are doing thisi Name single class.
Well, the bankers and money lenders,
for instance; the money power" as il is
called.
Then the country is gradually getting
into the hands of a class of which the
bankers are the representatives, and
these vampires" are sucking the life
blood" out of the country, crushing the
energy ont of the people and enslaving
them. That is the argument then, is it :?
Well, you are from Rockford, Ill. Let
us take the situation right in Rockford.
That city, rs we understand it, is the
second largest furniture manufacturing
place in the world being next to that of
Grand Rapids. Now, if what is said
about the terrible class of creditors be
true, and if what is said about the awful
condition of the debtor class be true, the
trouble must be as apparent in Rockford
as in any other place in the country, and
there the people who have created the
wealth, the workers, are gradually be-
coming the slaves of those who simply
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
AIIUSO, UIZ,UU
Total loss. Northumberland 949, ia, 625 80

This loss has nothing to do with the
question whether gold or silver
standard is the better. 1t is direct
fruit of the Democracy's unwise agita-
ton against protection; a palpable dem
onstration that the tariff is emphatically
an issue in this campaign.-Scranton
Pa) Tribune
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
A VITAL ISSUE.
The Republican Party's Consistent
Stand as Regards the Tariff.

From 1878 to 1892, the period of maxi
mum national prosperity under Republic
an economic policies-which the first
Cleveland administration, lacking con-
troll OF Congress. was unable to disturb
the foreign movement of our gold gave us
practically no concern. 1t is illustrated
in the amended table.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-10
A Miatake,

Perhaps the populists would accom-
plish more if they would drop the
gold bug for the present and devote
their energies to the chinch bug
New York Press.
There you are all wrong. The chinch
bug works only in patches; and it
does not touch the potatoes, or the
cattle, or the pigs, or the chickens. or
the horses; but the gold bug devours
them all. And then everybody says
Good" If we kill the chinch bugs
but there would be terrible uproar if
we killed the gold bugs. And certain
kinds of weather produce spores that
fasten on the chinch bugs and destroy
them by the millions; but there is
nothing that seems to have any effect
on the gold bugs-they are as salu-
brious as bed bugs and as provocative.
If we put corrosive sublimate on a gold
bug, the daily papers of the whole
country would shrek as if we had run
a lancet into their vital parts; and
the army and navy and the courts
would all be put into operation to de-
fend him.
Chinch bugs, indeed Why, they are
quiet, pleasant and harmless little
chaps compared with the gold bugs.
If we could get clear of the gold bugs
the chinch bugs would not bother U.S.
Representative.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-10
Fallen! Fallen!

Populists are sometimes twitted with
being set of financial ne'er do wells,
who, having miserably failed to get
rich themselves, naturally grumble at
the fellows who have been luckier.
Now the shoe is on the other foot.
The Republican party, that tremen-
dous machine controlled by the Money
Power, will soon put a candidate in
the field, Maj. Mckinley, who failed in
business year or two ago, and came
out of the catastrophe owing 100000
more than he had cash to meet
A number of wealthy manufacturers
kindly made up a pony purse to put
the major out of debt. These men, to-
gether with others of the same class,
have been furnishing funds to help Mr.,
Mckinley secure the nomination for
the presidency-as Senator VIM. Chan
dler boldly charged some time ago.
Soon we shall have the humiliating
spectacle of bankrupt candidate who
is to cure hard times, and whose nomi-
nation has practically been bought by
a set of men who expect to be greatly
benefited by the particular kind of leg
islation of which said candidate is the
avowed champion.
To such depth of degradation has
the party of Lincoln fallen!-Nevada
Director.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-10

life and is corporation lawyer ever
ready to defend corporate interests,
right or wrong. that he is a plutocrat
of the plutocrats; that he is not a
multi-millionaire comes, not because
he Is troubled with the least qualms
of conscience about the morality Of
the business of appropriating to his
own use the weai.n- created by the
working bees in the industrial hive,
but solely because his cunning falls
short of the degree necessary to make
the opportunity of its requirement o
perfectly safe one.
Strange as it may seem in a country
where the majority is said to rule
and where the humble producers out
number the leeches in the proportion
of a hundred to one. this cold-blooded
parasite, who glories in the ability Of
capital to crush the life out Of labor
organizations, has been general in the
army, governor, United States senator,
and president of the United States by
virtue of votes cast by men whom and
whose calling he holds in utter con-
tempt, and it is because Of the hope
that the notoriety he has thus gained
may be made to rebound to it's private
gain that plutocratic paper made him
the offer noted above.
Such men and such papers are fit
representatives of Christian % civil
lization which differs from the barbar-
ism of the dark ages chiefly in the fact
that 1t has transferred the right Of
man to possess himself of his neigh
bors' property from his physical to his
mental ability to do so. However, the
day is not far distant when theft,
whether accomplished at the end of
gun-barrel or the end of contract,
will be recognized for what it really is.
Then the history of such men as Harri-
son and such offers as the above will
be objects of great curiosity and won.
derment as the strangest relics of an
earlier barbarism now is.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-10

We beg leave to correct Senator
Teller Of Colorado and John Sherman
Of Ohio. You see there is no one who
has kept closer tab on John Sherman
during the last twenty-five years than
the writer hereof. We know him, as
the saying is, as we'll as Is we had
wheeled the dirt to make him.
In course of speech on the anti
bond bill Senator Teller had the fol-
lowing Exchange of courtesies," with
the senator from Ohio.
Teller-The senator from Ohio talks
about the sacredness of contracts.
remember when the senator from Ohio
declared that theperson who would not
take a Accent greenback in exchange
for any debt that the government owed
him was a robber and a thief. Mr..
President, he changed his mind very
soon after that.
Mr. Sherman-I do not think 1 used
those words.
Mr.. Teller-He used the words rob
Der" and "extortioner;" that it was
"extortion."
Mr.. Sherman-Not thief"
Mr.. Teller-He was a robber without
being thief
about the bondholder's being an "ey-
tortioner" Gid not occur in a public
speech. 1t was embodied in letter
TO the Hon. A. Mann, Jr., of Brooklyn
Heights, written from the senate cham
Der March 20, 1868. We quote from
the letter the following extract-which
is mighty interesting reading just at
the present time when John is talking
so loud about Reputation" when it
proposed to stop the issue of more
bonds:
your idea that we proposed to re-
pudiate or violate promise when we
offered to redeem the principal in legal
tenders is erroneous. think the bond
holder violates his promise when he re-
fuses to take the same kind of money
he paid for the bond. If the case is
to be tested by the law, I am right; IL it
is TO be tested by Jay Cookies adver-
tisement, l am wrong. hate repudi-
alton or anything like 1t; but we ought
not to be deferred from what is right
for fear Of undeserved epithets. If I'M
der the law as it stands, the holder of
5-20's can be paid only in gold, then
we are regulators, if we propose to
pay otherwise. If, on the other hand,
the bondholders can demand only the
kind of money he paid, then he is a
repudiator and extortioner to demand
money more valuable than he gave.
A Good Book.-"The Danger Line
Reached" by Ex-Governor Hadley, Of
Arkansas, is a book of unusual
merit. 1t treats an intricate subject in
simple but thorough manner. To the
business man who wishes to arrive at
a correct conclusion upon the money
question 1t will dispel all doubt Those
who are searching for truth, and want
complete and Straightforward answers
to the gold-bug assertions Of the Wall
Street press, should read this work.
1t is strictly non-partisan, written in a
calm and philosophical vein, and
should be in the hands of every BUSH
ness man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-10
Labor Pays All Debt.

All wealth comes out of the earth.
This fact should be kept in mind.
The way it is extracted from the
land is also important.
1t can only be drawn from the soil
by the application of labor to land.
Thus it will be seen that all of the
debts and taxes are paid by labor
applied to land.
The most difficult thing in the world
is to secure for this fact a lodging
place in the human mind.
The merchant thinks probably that
he adds to the wealth of the country
by selling goods at great sacrifice
from his bargain counter.
He does not add penny to the vol
ume of the nations wealth.
The banker may think he adds to the
national wealth by the practice Of
usury, skinning the people on his
loans.
A banker never did add one cent to
a nations wealth.
The great army of middle men may
think they add to wealth by robbery
of both the producer and the consumer.
Middle men never created one penny
of national wealth.
And so it goes with all classes OF
business and professional men. They
are consumers of wealth. but they do
not produce cent.
All wealth being created by labor,
it follows that all of the debts of gov
eminent, national state and municipal,
fall to the lot of labor to pay.
An another important question to
be remembered is that the greater the
debts, the heavier tax and the less
labor derives in the way of wages for
producing wealth. When the debts be-
come sufficiently burdensome then la
Dor becomes a condition of absolute
slavery Mercury.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-10
CRANDPA'S HAT.
Harrison tho Recipient of AN Offer Bar
barously Magnificent.

Harrison the Recipient of AN Offer Bar
barously Magnificent.
Benjamin H. Harrison was offered
$4,000 by a certain New York paper
to write for it a gossipy letter of not
less than 100 words each day from the
reporters gallery in the republican
national convention. There are thou
sands of honest, sober, Industrious la
boring men engaged in producing
wealth in this country who would glad
ly bind themselves to their masters
during the remainder of their natural
lives II their masters would agree to
secure them in the possession of job
which would average them $500 per
year.
Put these two facts together and then
consider some other things in connec-
tion with them.
Ten thousand dollars at the above
rate would hire man to grub, pillow,
hustle lumber, shovel coal, or do any
other "unskilled" labor-which, by the
way, is always cheaper than Skilled"
labor, though it is the humble mudsill
upon which the latter depends for it's
support thirty-three years and four
months, at the end of which time the
unskilled laborer, if he had not died
sooner, would be ready to fill a pail
per's grave.
Ten thousand dollars will buy, and
pay cash for, one of the finest 160-acre
farms in the grandest agricultural
state in the Union; it will buy and
pay cash for two stores better than
the average stores of the country; it
will buy, and pay cash for, ten of the
average blacksmith, wagonmaker or
carpenter shops of the country. At 6
per cent interest $4,000 will produce
an annual income, without the slight
est exertion on the part of, its owner,
as great as two of our unskilled labor
Ing men can earn in the production of
wealth by hard years work and be
just as fresh at the opening of its sec
ond year as it was at the beginning of
it's first
But what is perhaps more sugges-
tive, $4,000 would have hired one hun
bred better, brighter and brainier men
than Ben Harrison. either of whom
would have sent better copy" to the
paper employing him than Harrison
could.
Then who or what is Benjamin Har-
rison, that he should be thus favored
above other men?
Physically he is little, short pudgy
fellow, good deal after the style of
Punch" in Punch and Judy, gray
bearded and gray haired and over SO
years old.
Mentally he is cunning enough to
keep his plate right side up when it
rains porridge' and to espouse the best
paying side of any question in which
he may be interested. 1t goes without
the saying, since he has never pro-
duced dollars worth of wealth In his