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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-05-23
PAYS TO BE TEMPERANCE.
Story of Ben, the Colored Nan, Teaches
an Important Lesson.

"Say, Ben, do you ever drink whis-
ky ,!mo -, 49,. aou nsoa Tor
though. Mighty sorry to say it too"
what made you stop?"
"Well, used ter spend heaps O. my
wages on whisky, till one day mis-
sionary man come along and held a
meeting in de church. He talked
Temperance, and give it to us fellers
pretty strong, l tell yer.''
What did he say?''
ooh, heaps of things. l really can't
rec'lect all. But one thing made a
deep impression on my mind. He said
if was shame for us poor working
)lks to spend our money for whisky
when our chilluns needed it for shoes.
He said we gave so much money to
the whisky seller that he could afford
to buy tenderloin steak every day,
and turkey and goose whenever he
had a mind ter, while the best we
could do was to buy a few cents
worth of liver. That was true,
sure 'nough. I'd had nothing but
liver for month past, and couldn't
afford that every day. He said the
silk, and ride around in coaches, and
wear patent leather shoes, while our
chilluns went barefoot and dressed in
caliker dresses. OATS a fact. Mine
did He reckoned up how much we
spent in a year for whisky, and
clare for it was 'shamed and when
he asked us to come and sign de
pledge, promising fore God never to
drink whisky no mo- again, l up and
signed purity quick. Den he told us
how whisky burned up our insides,
and showed us pictures how our
stomachs looked all burned and red
from whiskey and said to myself,
Yer ole fool yer might have have
saved yer money and yer good looks,
too, if yo'd only been temperance
What yer got ter show for it now?
Only a burnt up stomach"
And haven't you drank any
since ~
mo, boy, I've saved my money,
and now live in nice house, and
my chilluns go to school, and we
don't have to depend on liver no
mo-. l tell yer, boys, it pays to be
Temperance.
He was light. What do you think
about it?
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-05-23

he Plainly Shows the Dangers of skepti-
cism, of Idlenoss, of Perpetual Pleasure
Seeking and of Gamblins-The Fruits of
D..1 f,,,>oor,,
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-05-23

Ten or more persons are necessary
for the formation of new Tent, a
larger number will lesson the costs to
each.
Address all communications to
GEO. W. GLENN.
The advocate., 1896-08-05
What q Magnificent Showing.

"The State Board of Charities made
It's annual settlement last week, and it
was found that after paying a POpulist
deficit Of several thousand dollars and
running the several institutions in
proper manner, they were able to turn
back into the State treasury over $71,-
600 Of their appropriation. What q
magnificent showing. ."-TopebG Cap.
itGL.
The Lincoln Beacon IL edited by w.
S. Wait, who was one of the mem
bers of the Board of Charities dur
ing the Popullst administration,
aud the following extract from
that paper shows how ridiculous the
Capital makes itself appear. The
Beacon says:
"FOr the year ending June 30, 1894,
the entire appropriation over which
the Populist board had control was but
$3.50, 1888 (see Session Laws 1893,
pages /, Z, II, 1S, 81, 80, 81, 42), while
the amount appropriated and under
the control of the present board for the
year ending June 30, 1895, was $685.
462 (see Session Laws 1895, pages 9, II,
"a, 25, 30, 80, "a, Al, AZ, At, 4S, 54, So,
II, 72, 70, 74). Out of the $3.50, ,939.53
allowed by the Legislature, the POpu-
list board not only made many Inn.
proVements, but left several Thousand
dollars unexpended in the treasury,
and we defy the Capital or its parrot
to point out single deficit Of the Pop
ulist board for the year mentioned,
while the Republican board, control
ling the same institutions for the same
length of time and no more, expended
$51 ,522.47 more than the entire sppro.
pristion controlled by the Populist
board. o, what magnificent show
ing"
The advocate., 1896-08-05
The silver Platform.

The following is the platform adopted
by the Silver convention at st. Louis:
The National Silver party, in con-
Vention assembled, herewith an
nounces its declaration of principles:
l. The paramount issue at this time
in the United States is indisputsbly
the money question. 1t Is between the
gold standard, gold bonds and bank
currency on the one side, and the bi-
metallic standard, no bonds and gov
ernment currency on the other.
On this issue we declare ourselves
to be in favor of a distinctly American
financial system. We are unsltersbly op-
posed to the single gold standard, and de-
msnd the immediate return to the con-
stitutionsl standard Of gold and silver,
by restoration by this government,
Independently of any foreign power,
Of the unrestri cted coinage Of both
gold and silver into standard money at
the ratio Of l6 to l, and upon terms of
exact equality, as they existed prior
to 1873; the silver coin to be q full legal
tender equally with gold for all debts
and dues, public and private, and we
favor such legislation as will prevent
for the future the demonstration Of
any kind of legal tender money by prl-
vste contract.
We hold that thepowsr to control and
The advocate., 1896-08-05
Bryan,s Idea Of Parties.

In q speech at Centrslis, ILL.,, since
his nomination, William. j. Bryan said:
"Psrtiey are not made to be wor-
SHIPPED. They are merely the instru-
ments by which we serve our country.
The people are made not for parties,
but parties are made for the people,
and parties can only claim the support
Of the people when these parties are
efficient instruments in the hands Of
people of accomplishing good. And
those who are called upon to vote have
right to consider the platform utter
snces or policies advocated by the var
ious parties as well ss the character Of
the candidates who are nominated.
"You must not expect that any plat
form will contain all you desire. No
thinking person finds In any platform
an expression of everything in which
he believes. Nor must you expect that
any platform will be free from some
objections. We select our party, we
select our platform, not in the hope of
bettering something that is absolutely
In accord with our opinion, but which
gives full and entire expression of all
Of our hopes and aspirations, and we
take that platform and join that party
which for the time being promises to
give us the best Of legislation on the
most important questions.
The advocate., 1896-08-05

questions was In harmony with Popu'
list doctrines and with the positions
taken and votes cast by the straight
Populists In the House. Further, he
never hesitated to champion measures
which the Populist members wished to
bring before Congress, but which the
tyranny and intolerance Of the Speaker
would not give the Populists an OppOr-
tunity to champion.
"I was not surprised at his conVen-
tlon speech In defense of the platform,
but / was surprised at its reception by
that convention, not having made due
allowance of the extent and magnitude
Of the propaganda that has been going
on In the Democratic party.
''KnoWinR Mr.. Brysn's views upon
economic issues, l have interrogsted
him concerning those views and his
political affiliations. His reply was,
4 believe ] can do more good by stay.
ing in the Democratic party
"Mr. Bryan is a man of extraordi-
nary mental gifts. He has a very
agreeable presence end is a man Of the
Glesnest moral character and general
probity."
The advocate., 1896-08-05

after we have become familiar with
9 certain word to express what we have
learned to regard as unit of value,
we employ that word for the purpose
and comprehend its application per-
fectly; and by the use Of that term we
express or estimate value readily and
understandingly. If am asked the
value of my farm or of any other prop
erty which l own, i would not think Of
answering in wheat, or bacon, or -four,
OF In anything but dollars, and because
we have all become accustomed to ex-
press values by the use Of the word
dollar. .-SiIger and Gold.
The advocate., 1896-08-05

regulate paper currency Is lnsepa.
rSble from the power to coin money;
and hence that all currency intended
to circulate ss money should be issued,
and its volume controlled by the gen.
ersl government 'only, and should be
legal tender.
We are unslterably opposed to the
issue by the United States of interest
bearing bonds In times of peace, and
we denounce as q blunder worse than a
crime the present treasury policy CON.
CURED in by Republican House of
plunging the country in debt by hun.
dreds of millions In the vain attempt
to maintain the gold standard by bor-
rowing gold; and we demand the pay
ment of all coin obligations of the
United States, as provided by existing
laws, In either gold or silver coin, at
the option Of the government, and not
the option Of the creditor.
2. That over and above all other
questions Of policy, we are in favor of
restoring to the people of the United
States the tlme.honorsd money of the
cOnstitution-gold and silver, not one
but both-the money of Washington
and Hamilton, and Jefferson, and Mon
roe, and Jackson, and Lincoln, to the
end that the American people may re-.
ceiVe honest pay for an honest product;
that the American debtor may pay his
just obligations in any one standard,
and not In a standard that has sppre-
ciated 100 per cent. above all the great
staples of our country; and to the end,
further, that silver standard countries
may be deprived of the unjust sdvsn-
tage they now enjoy In the difference
In exchange between gold and silver
an advantage which tariff legislation
alone cannot overcome.
We, therefore, confidently appeal to
the people of the United States to leave
in allegiance for the moment all other
questions, however important and even
momentous they may appear, to sunder,
ifneed be,all former party ties and party
affiliations and unite in one supreme
effort to free themselves and their
children from the domination of the
money poWer-.s power more destructive
than any which has ever been fastened
upon the civilized men of any race or
in any age. And upon the consum-
nation Of our desires we invoke the
gracious favor of Divine Providence.
The advocate., 1896-08-05
Congressman Baker on Bryan.

1t Is all one way. Every man who
knows Mr.. Bryan speaks In the same
way of him. Congressman Baker Of
the Big Sixth, whom everybody In
Kansas knows and for whose judgment
oil have great respect, has added his
estimate Of him to the many already
given. In q late interview In the Lin
coin (KaS.) Beacon he says:
''Mr. Bryan was q member Of the
lower house with me for four years.
During that time every vote he cast
and every stand he took upon economic
The advocate., 1896-08-05
Unit of Value.

Slowly, In the course of trade among
people Of one locality, and in the de-
VelOpment of commerce among people
Of different places, men became fs-
milisr with certain ideas or estimates
OF value attaching to particular arti-
cles when measured by the value of
some one or more other things; they
employed certain words, names or signs
to represent those ideas or estimates of
value; and when they came to use
some particular article or a certain
weight of some particular article, as
means Of representing the idea or esti-
mate Of value and also to use 1t as q
medium Of exchanging other property,
they gave 1t the name or designation
which they used In expressing the idea
OF unit Of value.
Every nation has It's own familiar
names or words to express values, and
they use no other. In Great Britain,
values are expressed in pounds, shil-
lings, pence and fsrthings. In France,
the unit Of value iS expressed by the
word "frsnc;" in Germany, it is
''msrk;" In the Uuited States, it is
''dollar." An American, not accus-
toned to the use of any coins but our
own, does not know how to express
value In francs or marks; and French
msn and Germans, who are not famil.
lar with our coins, do not know how
to estimate or state value In dollars.
Nor could any Of US, whether Ameri-
can, Frenchmsn, German, or English.
man, estimate values by the weight Of
the metals Of which our coins are made.
No man here or elsewhere would think
Of stating the value of his horse or his
farm In pounds or ounces of gold or
silver, and yet 1t is by weight of metal
that property is paid for when pay
ment is made with metallic coins. We
do not express values by the weight of
some kind of property. We are &C.
custOmed to use words for that pur.
pose that do not express the idea Of
weight at sll-words that express the
idea Of value and nothing else. In
truth, value Is an idea that cannot be
precisely defined. 1t is a relation OK.
isting between productions of labor
with respect to their usefulness or de.
sirability among people who use them
or desire their possession.
A bushel Of wheat may be worth q
dollar In money. But what Is It's value
in corn, cotton or cloth, or oil or any
one Of q Thousand other articles? And
what is the value Of dollar when ex-
pressed In any Of these other things
Value is necessarily q relation, an
idea or conception Of the mind. But
The advocate., 1896-08-05
GOVERNMENT BANKING.
A Scheme for Doing Away with Credit
Banking,

OuSAAhAD5s
The way TO bring about the BepaEa
tion Of the government from the
money spectators is to change OuI
National banking system 30 as to make
National banks government agencies
for all purposes, providing them on
safe terms with currency Sufficient to
transact the peoples business, requir-
ing them to lend money at not to ex-
Ceed an average Of per cent. per
Rnnum. This would allow good profit
TO the bankers, at the same time get
ting money to the people at one-third
former rates "a rate that business
everywhere could afford to pay. If
the men who "moVe the money that
controls the affairs Of the world" could
not compete with this system, they
could readily turn their attention to
some other business more useful than
that which In past years has rendered
them dangerous In the extreme. And
If bankers are not willing to operate
under the proposed change, they cen
60 out Of business. Congress could
provide for purely government banks
quite as easy as they provided the pres
ent system of National banks for the
benefit Of private persons. Four Of
every FIVE persons now engaged in
banking would be ready and willing to
enter the public service to perform the
same work that they are now doing.
And they would be more careful than
they are now, for they would be con-
frOnted with no temptations to Specu-
late and would be surrounded by
checks and safeguards more effective
than those now existing.
Let banks with small capltal-Ssy as
low as $25, 900, or less, be authorized.
This would put banking facilities
within reach Of every community need
ing them, and among the things now
needed by farmers Is tho proximity OF
Q bank where money can be procured
at reasonable rates Of charge.
Let each bank have q savings de-
partment, so that every county In the
country could have at least one gov.
eminent savings bank where deposits
would be always safe.
Let every bank of $4,000 capital or
upwards be authorized to keep loan
department for the purpose Of making
long time loans, for time extending
over q period Of one to Eve or more
years. at an annual interest charge not
to exceed 2 per cent, The expenses Of
this department would not exceed /
per cent. on the average. The other
per cent. would be returned to the
government, and this would afford a
considerable public revenue. If objec.
tlOn be made that the change proposed
would increase the circulating medium
to q dangerous extent, we need only
refer to the fact that 90 per cent. of
our business Is done with substitutes
for money-indlvldusl paper, and the
system proposed would substitute real
mOney-the combined credit Of all the
people, which Is all that makes any
thing money.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-09
THE REV. FRANK T. PIERSON.

The Rev. Frank 7. Plerson. who died IN oe'"e'n'
Iowa last week was born in East orange ~ - al
1867, md was the OF the late lheodore F. y.
son His studies were pursued IN the puo"c so"o0''
OF East Orange and at the preparatory sc"oo' AZ
Oherln Ohio In 1856 he entered Oberlln College ou'
after two years he went TO Princeton. where ne was
graduated in 1890 He had intended 10 enter the MIN
,.trv as a pastor but he engaged In mission WORK
after leaving college having charge OF St bartholo
news Mission In this city for some time. haF'y u"
lsse he went to Europe with two or three other young
men and conducted "A seres OF successful evan
gclistlc meetings in London, LiVerpooi anu o''''
large cities In England and Scotland
.hout four months ago Mr.. PiersOn was ordained
10 the ministry by the Council Bluffs Presoytery.
Ills meetings in Augusta, Ga. In January ana the
carly part Of February formed the cTowning WORK Oh
bis busy he. Three large services We're hed da''y'
and IL was often past midnight before ne was
through with the personal work Incident TO Inc meet
Ing. I, his farewell service he sail: Many times
l have prayed that might die IN the work want
10 be preaching the Gospel 10 the end ana, as a
living man pleading with dying men. 10 urge men 10
come to Christ until my days are ended. Following
The campaign IN Augusta. he went TO Oelwein where
ne began another series Of evangehstlc meetings
conducting Ave services Sunday. The next day
he Was stricken with the fever. which proved fatai
after a brief Illness HIS funeral was held In East
Orange last Friday. the Rev. J. ". Thomas and DR..
J VI Ludlow conducting the services.
In 10 Mr.. IcrsOn married MISS Mary H. foN OF
Oakland CAL whose singing In this city IN the fhil-
lbs Presbyterian Church and the Marble Collegiate
church and IN evangesi!c meetings held by Mr..
Moody ana by George -. Mackay. IL well remem-
bcrci. During the worlds Far evanSensuc cam
paign IN Chicago carried on three years ago ny ME-
M50Iy Mr and Mrs Plcrson took an active part.
spending four mon hs with him In this work Since
,h.t nm. they have held meetings In many OF the
large cities in almost every part Of the country An
interesting series OF services vas held year or Two
go In Inc Harlem PRESBYTERIAN Church. OF this city.
" lille Mr. IierSln unusually succtssiui III
reaching men especially young men MrS. Ilerson
10 begin the Christian lie.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-09
CHARLES KRAMER HAYES.

Char.es Kramer Hayes. only son OF General Ed
win Lewis Hayes died at his home. No. II West
Nincty-eighth-st late Saturday afternoon after an
illness lasting n week. lie contracted a cold while
travelling In the western part OF the state ana
pneumonia developed. which caused his death
Mr. Hayes was born on April is. 1860. In Nauseon.
Ohio where his father was a leading citizen. When
he was a lad his parents moved to brooklyn, ana IN
tho ,,,hlic schools OF that city he educated.
After he had completed his studies he entered the
empoy Of the New Haven Carpet Company OF TINS
CIV with which ne was connected At the time OF MS
death . AZ.
ON Iulv H. 1851 Mr. Hayes was married 70 MISS
Annah Eel Chamberlain the daughter OF q. II;
ch,mh.risin of Hrooklyn lie leaves IA widow and
Il nine years old $500 -,,.,.., -.
Mr. HAYES was not a member Of any political or
social club as he preferred to spend all his tim,
when not engaged In his business with his wie ana
family. -. A,,s. 60
morrow morning AT 1890 o'clock. The burial VIII De
at Hloomts,l y. !
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-09
THE BRITISH BLUE BOON.
prpuAps A rRIFLE TOO COMPLETE.

PERHAPS TRIFLE TOO COMPLETE
From The Philadelphia Times.
The British case in the Venezuela dispute; az COM ON
,ued and arranged by Sir Frederick foLSck' - Con
rrinsIve and unanswtrable-unt the o'IrI SUI -
heard The only objection 10 Sir fredefcKs ar
gument is that 1t Is too compete
EVERYTHING THAT JOHN BULL CLAIMED
From The Boston Traveller
Sit,ed down 10 It's lowest terms. THIS pronunSia-
rnento declares for everything that Johh i'I
Claimed thus far and IL even goes several i,Il!l.h
authorities one or two better In the matter VI '''
ritorial appetite
AN EX PARTE STATEMENT.
From The Plttsburg Dispatch
IT.. pri.ish hlue book on the Venezuelan bound
Diary dispute presepts nothing new "a ne ISri,sh
contention. 1t is entitled 10 fair cohsnera.e,o' ~
proceedings Of final settlement OF the question; Du
has no weight except as 1t STANDS the test Oh d"
impartial tribunal
80 MUCH THE LESS JUsTIFICAT1oN.
From The Rochester Herald.
Il IL claimed that the British blue book on the en-
oanelan question makes out very strons case tor
Jrpland SO much the less 1ustlncauon ~ thcle ioi
Saisburys refusal TO arDitratc'
D1srNTEREsTED DECISION WANTED.
From The Utica Herald
,nrs Vencznelans and all others. however. Will
await the decision OF more dsinierested tflouha'
than the Salisbury Government
HE syIO1ID HAVE COURTED ARBITRATION
From The Boston Transcript
7, the Rritish case is strong as Great Britain
Asserts II to be- IL the facts are as stated II prcat
Rrl,ain has refrained from taking wnat IS ner own
simply out Of Difference TO the weakness Oh VIZ IA
ezIIea the wonder grows that Lord oaiisD uIu
not court arbitration at the very outset o. the Co"
troyersy with the United states
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-09
PROPHETS WITHOUT HONOR.

From The Atlanta Constitution.
4 stranger in Billville walked into the postoflce
and asked TO be directed 10 the signal service man
He amt here no more" said the postmaster.
isn't here?"
No. You see. they don't stay long; they em-
CRATE"
"Emigrateg'
eyes, sir. You see, it's this way: We had one here
six years ago. an every time he'd prophesy cold
IL would come hot you couldn't stand Ii'h
buster: an when he'd hang out the storm nag tne
weatherd come as mild mutton; an wheh ne
said rain II would come so dry you could near the
ground crack, an he got 10 he looked OF as fich a
liar that the parson took him for text an SAID
hell his portion. an II worried him so that ne
took 10 drink. an give II out that he'd been pro-
NOTED, an went 10 the Pacific slope. In TACT. con-
tinued the postmaster. they all goes there after
they've failed IN bneiness.
"All OF them
Yes slr-except them that we don't lynch
"Why that's pretty bad!'
"Yes, sir: but you see. this Is farmn com
munity, an when a gifts a Government salry
fer maxim wea Their fer you he orter make II r!ght
il knocks the farmers out to say ian an miss IL
by six weeks"
$50 the Signal Service Bureau has "A hard time
here?"
yves, sir; an IT'S a pity, too COS some OF the
fellers air real nice men, but they soon play out
an can't git no credit at the stores account o
miesIn the weather so constant, an then they al
ways say they've been promoted an go West.
They do say that they's n regular colony of them
therer'
And then the postmaster put on his spectacles and
went forward 10 a customer who wanted three
cents worth OF notepaper