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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07

by such arguments They will move
heaven and earth to win, SO be prepared
for whatever may develop. So many who
were flourishing few years ago in conse-
quence of Republican and Democratic fig
uring, cannot stand the pressure. and
to escape the expose Of financial failure.
they are shutting down their mills and
factories, and have the pure cussedness
to tell their men that the 'silver swindle'
and Wilson tariff have compelled this
move. Let it be known that the money
combine can afford to be generous at this
hour. Hence they can hire one concern
here, another there to close work, and
proclaim in bold type that 1t is the fear
that silver is going to win that forces them
to this alternative. Study these questions
and II you have a gold bug among you
work with him day and night until the
victory is won. If we fail with the
gifted Bryan. God only knows the depth
of misery, soualor, and wretchedness to
which we shall be subjected.
1t is enough, or ought to be, for you to
know that every rich man, banker. mill
ionaire and aristocrat Is solid against Bry
an. Do not forget that what is for their
interest means beggary and starvation to
the masses. Even the preachers are on
the side Of Shylock and against the people.
1t seems like a big job Lincoln said
of the rebellion. with the money, ministers
and powerful corporations all against us,
but the producing forces of this country
can save it to industrial freedom and
thus elevate the standard of manual toll,
giving 1t that degree of dignity and con-
sequence which will compel the respect, If
not the admiration, even of Shylocks.
E. w. B. Harvey.
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want Of sufhcient security prevents them
from entrusting their~little hoard to them;
and there is enough money hid away in
old boots and other places of concealment
to double the amount now contained in
the savings banks. Then there is moth
ing that gives a growing ,enterprising man
more independence of character than to
have a deposit in the savings bank: with
1t many a reckless spendthrift would pause
before he spent his wages in the saloon or
gambling den. The more a man econo-
misses the more Industrious he becomes.
The postal savings bank has proved
blessing and success in other nations. Let
US have the system here. There is one
very desirable subject of information that
is of importance on this subject. that is
the number of national banks that have
broken down. with the losses that the de-
positors and stockholders have sustained.
The same information in respect to the
private banks and savings banks since I
commenced writing this article, bank in
this county has closed it's doors. "Oh, It's
the best banking system the world ever
saw"
From an old greenbacker.
Samuel Linnett.
Muscatine, Iowa.
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you would lose nothing. But this asser-
ton IS only falsehood and they know it
when they make it. But what they are
afraid Of is that the people would get out
OF uebt. and then usury would come to an
end. as heard a fellow say In 1891. when
we had good times. which were brought
about by the Sherman law Of $780, to coin
A500,O0 silver a month. which c. K. Davis
said in his speech in Crookston on the 18th
day of October, 1880, that that silver bill
was ten thousand times better than any
tariff bill that could have been devised.
Yes. this fellow said that, and now. mind
you. he is owner Of shares in many banks.
Those are his words. That it would never
do If we had good times all the time. as
we have now. The farmers would have
plenty of money themselves, and there
would be nothing. to do for the banks.
There you have it, just in a nut shell.
That is just what is troubling them. If
we get free coinage Of silver the farm
products and labor would all rise. and
the laboring people would be able to get
out of debt. and there would be nothing
for the bankers and the money brokers to
do. But so may it be.
John Kron.
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McKINLEY'S SOPHISTRIES.
Stand Fast For Bryan.

Editor Representative:
1t is astonishing to every truth loving,
truth seeking individual to witness the
utter disregard of truth honesty and or
binary decency that characterizes the
leaders of the Republican party in this
most remarkable contest. In fact, truth
and candor will not permit to accept
even their nominee for the presidency to
prove which one has but to consult his let
ter of acceptance. With the Republican
party of today the end justifies the means
1t has been so long accustomed to vile,
fraudulent means to win victories that the
disease has passed from the acute stage
and becomes chronic SO that in contem--
plating the growing nautre of the disease
so far in this fight for physical existence
the only hope remains that few more
spasms in the line indicated for prolonged
existence will enable the doubling ores to
see the desire and aim of this degenerated
cabal, and thereby enabled to perform the
last rites in November.
William Mckinley states in the letter in
dicated that all one has to do is to take
his bullion worth 50 cents per ounce, to
the mint, and have it coined into dollars,
and these dollars are his to use as he sees
here ends, thus conveying to the average
mind the sidea that what has cost the
bullion owner, just SO cents, he pays out
and receives 100 cents for. thus alleging
that the owner of the bullion Is the only
one benefited by free coinage. Let us see.
BY McKinleys own admission the govern
ment is engaged III a fraudulent scheme
by coming, 53-cent dollars, thus making
a present Of A cents to the mine owner. for
he tells US that turning over these Scent
dollars to the, bullion owner, all response
bility of the government ceases; hence it
will be no, violation of law should any one
counterfeit this coin, as the governments
responsibility leases with the transfer to
the owner He Is not manly enough or
honest enough to state that silver would
appreciate from the moment Of remoneti-
cation, but, he seems anxious to impress
upon the minds Of the laboring classes the
idea that they will receive 52-cent dollars
in case silver is remonetized, instead Of
100 cents as now. We expect the average
Republican to indulge in such clap trap
as this, but for one on the road to the
executive chair of this great nation. to
indulge in such sophistry. such dishonesty,
is humlliating In the extreme. The idea
that a dollar issued by this government
will not pass for a hundred cents in any
part Of the Union, Is simply monstrous.
Mckinley knows better. and yet he will
thus harangue the delegations coming to
see him in the role of demagogue. He Is
so anxious to win that he seems ready to
adopt any means which promises aid.
sincerely pray that none of our Populist
friends will be seduced from. their loyalty
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POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS THE REMEDY.
The Collapse Of the Best Banking System the
World Ever Saw.

Editor Representative:
Facts are more powerful than assera-
lions, and it is now too apparent that the
boosted system of national banks has
proved n wretched failure. Bad as the
old United States Bank was that excited
the opposition of President Jackson, the
present collapse of the thousands of ma
tional banks, private and savings banks
all over the nation is a calamity of stu
pendous consequences. But it is q max
i'm in medicine that there is no poison but
has an antidote.
THE POSTAL SAVINGS BANK.
This is the ark of safety that has pro-
tected the mass of Industrious toilers in
all other progressive civilized nations
Why can't we have it here? The fact that
this ystem has existed in England for
over Is years without the loss of a single
shilling, ought to convince the most
credulous how vastly superior this system
is to the unsubstantial abortions that we
have tested to our sorrow.
The number of national banks in the
United States last January was 1855, with
capital of $672, 951. 45O. whilst there were
also 1,o17 private savings banks, with de-
posits amounting to 81, SIG, 595, 023; the num-
Der of depostors was 4.S75.519: average of
depositors, $S71. Now, 1t must be borne in
mind that those depositors had not a
shadow of security for their money. and
many Of those savings banks have failed.
and left their credulous depositors with
out dollar to support their families. Now
In England where the postal savings banl.
system has existed for over Is years. the
amount Of deposits arc close to $500, OOO, 900,
and ALL the deposits are limited to a GER
tain amount. SO as to encourage the
working class and start them to economic
and provide for. the future. And to en-
courage the young and extremely poor a
system of one penny deposits are provided
fOrs Now there To- much to encourage the
depositors in our savings banks. but the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
UNCLE SANS DOUBLE TEAM.

Poor old Uncle Sam, who started on his
journey over a hundred years ago with a
fine span of bimetallic colts, silver and
gold, which, together, drew him strongly
and swiftly for about 81 years, temporarily
lost his wits % years ago, and unhitched
and turned loose his white horse (Which,
by the way, was larger and stronger than
the yellow one), and has been dragged
along ever since with the poor, old NANCY
one which has been getting scrawnier and
more shrunken ever since, so much so of
late years, in fact, that instead of getting
ahead the whole outfit has been slipping
backward down hill, but some of the old
mans sons now propose to hitch in the
silver horse, if they can catch him, and
drive a two horse wagon hereafter instead
of a one horse shay, as now.
I understand that Breese, Loomis & Co.,
of Portage, Wis, have sent for a large
number of Mexican silver dollars, which
they will pass out over their counters as
IAN object lesson" I want to say to your
readers that they had better encourage the
shipment of these as much as possible,
and keep them until we get free coinage,
because, according to the Milwaukee Sem
tinel, above noted, 'they will then be
doubled in value, and the consumer who
has $50 Mexican dollars can readily get
them coined into 900 standard American
dollars. las good as gold,'' and have 2,605
grains over, which he can coin into $3.50
extra. BY all means Messrs. Breese &
LOOMS, bring on your Mexican dollars.
The Republican national committee
Headquarters have sent out leaflet No. g.
in which they say, What do the silver
men want?"
Answer-"To compel the government by
law to take all the silver bullion offered
and all Mexican and other foreign coin,
the old spoons and silverware, melt them
I'm and coin them into silver dollars free
of charge, and deliver to the owners one
new dollar for every dollars worth of sill
yer in the metal brought to the mint
Precisely this"
This is what Mr.. Heath declares is the
meaning of Is to 1, and he has spread the
new financial system broadcast over the
west, This is exactly what we silver men
claim. and so the gold men are at one
with us. and we welcome the Mexican dol
lars.
One million copies of leaflet No. has
been sent out, and they are good silver ar
guments. Get one.
Kilborun, Wis. -S. a. Murray
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DOUBLE FEES FOR CANDIDATES.
ARE list

DOUBLE FEES FOR CANDIDATES.
THEY ARE UNJUST.
Acknowledgement Childs has rendered a
decision, ruling that under his construc-
ton Of the election law, a fee must be
paid for each certificate of nomination
placed on file. This is plainly contrary to
the spirit of the law, the intent of which
is simply to provide for the cost of print
ing the tickets.
However many nominations a man may
receive, his name goes upon the ticket
but once, and the size of the ticket or the
expense of printing is not increased in
the least, therefore a double price is very
unjust, and especially onerous when the
price of the dollar is so high.
Under this ruling union candidates on the
county ticket will have to pay $40 con-
gressional "a for each county in the dis
trict and our state candidates will have
to pay 500 each.
This injustice has to be submitted to be-
cause Of a decision contrary to the spirit
and intent of the law. II. A. 5.
Editor Representative:
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all had the right of special privilege of the
banker l. e., I'd live grandly of of interest
on their debts.
This may seemna great ado about moth
ing. but such argument is loudly applaud
ed by SO many. that it assumes a dan
gerous Importance.
III Charles D. Poore.
st. Augustinep Fla, Sept. q, 1896.
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OurFOrunn.
A FEW SIMPLE RULEsEREAD AND BE
GOVERNED ACCORDINGLY.

We are 80 crowded with letters. many OK
them excellent and most Interesting. that,
TO give them all q hearing. we are con,
strained to quote the following from SOUND
Money.-Ed. Rep.
Write on one side Of paper. beginning
the first page about the middle Of the sheet
Be brief.
Always sign your name to your article.
though you may write over q non de plume.
Be brief.
Do not try to cover the whole range OF
reform in one letter.
Be brief and to the point.
Letters of 800 words on one point, properly
condensed, will cover almost any subject.
Be brief.
Shoot at the mark-not in the air. Aim
at something and hit 1t.
Be brief Boil down and quit when you
are DONE
Again we say. be brief.
In other words We say-be BRIEF!
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SILVER MEMS RUN RUINS A BANK

1 lLN
Pawnee, ILL.,, Sept. 22.-The Pawnee Bank
was forced to close Its doors TO-DAY because
Lockbridge Bros, who operated H. al
vocated the gold standard.
There is a great Democratic silver senti-
n,ent in this part of Sangamon county, and
the ma iority of the dcpositors and custom
ers of the bank were silver men. The
1,ockbridge Bros. are Democrats, but after
the Chicago convention they announced
thew were for sound money, and have taken
an active part in the campaign up to date.
Considerable feeling was created over this
in recent political discussions, and the sill
YER depositors began a run on the bank
last week. The bankers solicited aid from
other institutions, but it was not forth
coming. and today an assignment was
made to Gilbert brennan.
The liabilities are about $4,000. aid tho
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
GOLD WORSHIP.

Commerce has set the mark Of selfishnesS
The signet Of It's all-enslaving power
Upon n shining ore-and called it gold;
Before whose image bow the vulgar great,
The vainly rich; the miserable proud,
The mob of peasants, mobiles. priests and
kings. ,a
And with blind feelings reverence the
power
That grinds them to the dust of misery"
IL Shelley, in Queen Nab"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07

In the fall of 1894 there was imported
106,S25 bushels of barley from Russia, of
a value of $22,51O Never before or since
has any barley been imported from that
country.
You will remember that in 1890 barley
was worth from 60 to IS cents per bushel
in our local markets; that was the year
of heavy importation. Yours truly,
Il. A. Rosing,
Chairman Democratic State Central Com
mittee.
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The BARIEY IRU ESIION.
Editor Representative:
My Dear Sir: AS the barley question is
worked to some extent in your county, 1
desire to give you the following official
information, furnished by the treasury de-
partment.
Our friends, the enemy, claim that one
cause of the low price of barley is the
large importation of barley from Canada,
and sometimes you still find a man who
insists that Russian barley is imported
The following figures show the amount
imported from 1886 to 1896 from Canada:
r;Ac
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07

Ripans Tabules cure nausea.
Ripans Tabules euro headache.
Ripans Tabules assist digestion.
Ripans Tabulea cure .biliodsnes3.
Ripans Tabules cure bad breath.
Ripaas Tabulcs: for sour stomach.
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Thus it will be seen that 81 farmers have
given up the unequal contest and left our
county; and no doubt many Of them are
now competing for an opportunity to sell
their labor in st. Paul and Minneapolis.
And further. that the wealth of the re-
mainder. instead of being increased by
four years Of labor. has been diminished
to the extent Of s27,Ss5. This on live
stock alone while the value Of their farms
has also rapidly declined.
II the workingmen OF Minneapolis and
st. Paul have any hopes Of lettering their
condition by compelling us farmers to
leave our farms and return again as
tramps to their Cities begging for work
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assets, consisting of real estate and notes.
are estimated at $75.eoo.s -
Country banks all through this section
are fearful of similar treatment before the
campaign closes.
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THE BARLEY QUESTION.

Alexandria,, MINI.
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1So6-Number of farmers occupying
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THE CONDITIONS IN NORTH DAKOTA.

Muscatine, Iowa.
The oasis., 1896-04-18
Las Planchas de Plata.

The old and famous group of mines at Las Planchas de Plata, are now the scene of very active operations by the present owners, a New Orleans com oany named "Plata Reina de Sonora, y of which Captain Miguel Bornio is general manager. MT. Bornio was at the Planchas last week, and has now returned to New Orleans to attend the shipping of machinery and sup plies. A large amount of new and i'm proved machinery has been purchased, and when in operation it will rank the properly high in the list of bullion producers.
 Recent discoveries of very rich min eral have been made upon the proper ties. at various points, aud have added greatly to their importance and value. Tn a new tunnel in the "Laderan mine there has recently been opened q pocket of ore thirty feet in width, which is also continued into the '"Lo- lita," an extension of the 'Ladera. The ore will yield forty to fifty ounces in silver per ton throughout the entire body. and the rich streak, which is about four feet in width, will go l5O ounces per ton.
 Work is being prosecuted vigorously and the new developments daily in- crease in extent and value.
The oasis., 1896-04-18
Sonora Siftings.
Continued from First Page.

polls of the world. They do large mail order business, and by sending your address you will receive byreturn mail, postage paid, a full line of sam ples with directions for self measure ments, from which they will guarantee to fit you in elegant style and prices remarkably cheap.
 At Suaqui de Batuc, in the Ures district, SeIor Carlo CalderOn and as- sociates are working eight very profit able claims, all yielding a good ship ping ore, carrying gold and silver. No ore which runs less than Sl00 per ton is extracted, as the cost of transporta- tion is so heavy that it is prohibitiye for ores of smaller value. Some S3OO, GOO has been realized from ore of that de- scrlption. Recently Senor CaldeTon has purchased five stamp mill, near Querobabi, which has been taken down and is now being shipped to Suaqui de Batuc, via Torres. It win be set up and put upon reduction of the large bodies of second grade rock left in the workings, which will then be extracted and made to produce.
 Messrs. Calderon & Rueda the well known Hermosillo bankers and mer- chants, are in correspondence with heavy capitalists in Paris, France, who are inv -stigating the mineral re- sources of Sonora. with view to in- ycstment. They have heavy interest," in the Transyaal. Recently Selor Rueda has gathered from the office of the state treasurer of Sonora state m snt of the output of he Nina Pfie-
The oasis., 1896-04-18

tas mines-as made from the tax re- turns and it has been forwarded to Paris fer comparison. The Paris house returned to SeIlor Rueda a similar statement from their correspondent in the Transyaal. Senor Rueda states that he had found comparisons of the two sets of figures very interesting, and that they make for the great So- nora gold lode far better showing than for the Transvaal.
The oasis., 1896-04-18
Ne,ys Notions and Novelties.

Spanish and English Interpreters and Dictionaries. Mexican Mining and Stamp Laws. Sonora and Mexico Maps, Opals, Filigree Silver, Drawn, Linen and Souvenir Spoons, Maga zines. Blank Books and Stationery, Pocket Cutlery, Smokers Articles, Toilet Goods. etc, etc.
 oNoRA NEWS COMPANY.
The oasis., 1896-04-18

Mir. Charles Hof, the Tucson ice and telephone man, was visitor in the line cities the fore part of the week.
The oasis., 1896-04-18

Mrs. I. F. Coppel was in Nogales Tuesday en route to Tucson. She was accompanied by her son Leo, who was very ill.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-16

who was SO violently opposed to tho
diSponsary law that he would pcylnct
to send up to tho Court of ConcrnI
Sessions Tor trial cases made ont
against violators Of that statute.
| Inc constitution says tho Governor
shhl nave the power to appoint GER
tain officers, by and with the advice
anu consent OF the Senate. Senators
contend that this cOnfers q substantial
power upon the Senate, which should
be protected. The custom has bccn
Tor a Governor. if the Senate rejected
any OF his appointments, to wait until
INC Senate adjourned and then reap.
point tho rejected appointee. Senators
maintain that if this practice is to be
allowed TO continue, there is not bit
Oh use IN the Senate passing on appoint
ments, Tor its confirmation or rv lection
uoes NOT amount to q row OF pins
Ihcy want the Scnatc's power with
| regard to appointments made q sub
stantial reality.
On tho other hand, the Governor
claims that tho con ,titution lod pcs tho
appointing power in his hands. and
thut passage Of tho provision prevent
ing reappointment OF an appointec re-
Jectcd by the Senate really operates to
transfer that power to the Senate.
1T Is hardly likely that the Governor
VIII lose the power he desires TO pro.
serve, for the House will not likely con-
s?nt TO the passage Of such bill over
| ms veto. The argument presented to
Inc members Of tho House is vory
plausible and has some force. 1t is
| practically to this effect You are en-
| Titled TO some show in2thc matter OF
appointments.
| The Governor IS usually guided in
tho making OF appointments by the
dcsirc OF tho majority Of the members
OF tho delegation from the country for
| whlch the appointment is to be made.
1t Is frequently the case that the RcD.
rescntatives favor the appointment of
ono man, while tho SENATOR wants an
other to land. The Governor takes
the advice Of the members of the
House and appoints their man, whose
appointment the Senator has rejected,
Senatorial courtesy operating to have
MS COnlcoroS vote against any appoint
mcnt which does not suit him. When
the case is put in this light, tho nom
bcrs Of the House arc apt to Drote, {:
what they consider their rights, even
II those rights arc not specified in the
constitution.
II all the Senators would examine
into the merits Of an appointment,
therc would be some value in tho pro
vision requiring appointments to re-
ccive the sanction OF the Senate, but
If each senator, in return for like con-
sideration, simply votes against an ap-
pointment because it is objectionable
70 the Senator from the county for
which it Is made, then it appears that
the confirmation provision, coupled
with law preventing reappoiutmc Mt
of rejected appolutrr, would un-
doubtcdly practically take the appoint
ing power out Of the Governor hands
and Pct It. for each county in the hands
of he > 'natOr from that county.
The effect o. the veto of this bill
viii be to leave She old law governing
trial Justices OF force, for the consti.
tuition expressly says that it shall re-
main OF force until the General Assem-