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Rrp @unds.
Vn. Frank & CO. 7s3 Chapel St.
 Separate Skirts.

LADIES' DRESS SKIRTS - that's it--not bag made of cloth-but per- feet hanging Skirts, That's our kind-- made well, cut full sweep and got that rare thing in a Sl1irt-STYLE.
 An elegant new line of SILK BRILL IIANTINES, prettier than Silk and wear better $12.50 is their value, $s.5O is our price.
 SKIRTS that ought to bring $9.O0, but WE ask only $5.50.
 We have every fashionable fabric made into Skirts and should be pleased to show them.
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Ostrich Boas.

These lovely accessories to a lady's outfit are here in profusion, great jet black fluffy things that hug your neck softly and don't cost you much either
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lawyer, has oonclusively shown that
some 80, 900 men own or absolutely con-
troll one-half the property of the United
States; that 100, 900 men own half the
remainder. aud that the great mass Of
laboring producers actually own very
little II any more than they did in
1860. The results are simply awful
Ten men in New York city today hold
the credit Of the United States ALSO
lutely at their mercy. II ID were 70
their interest. they could tomorrow
sweep away the gold basis and precipi.
tate panic In Wall street. But the
farmer is told that all this is none Of his
business and IL expected 10 be controlled
in his vote hy tse gnld WSHrsition
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perhaps TO one, and that Is, ilas silver
deprecated or gold appreciated since
1878? On their answer to that depend
the votes of million honest farmers.
Monometalllsts say gold has stood still
while all otl,er things have cheapened
We say that silver has stood almost I'M
changed while gold has advanced enor-
mously in value, and. what is more, we
prove it by every line Of reasoning which
can be applied to the subject. That sill
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has yielded exactly the same result.
'The fluctuations since the principal ma.
tions adopted the gold standard have
exceeded al previously known. But
here is a simple test which the farmer
can easily apply for himself:
Take the average of prices in your
neighborheod for the five years ending
in 1875 ct is not fair to take one year,
and the average gold or greenback value
of ten ounce bar of silver at that
time. Divide and see what that silver
would have bought. Do the same for
the five years ending with 1895, and you
will find that the silver will buy more.
Is it not arrogant and insulting nom
sense to say that silver has deprecated
when it will buy more of the products
of your labo"2 Here is u table to help
you in the calculation:
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manufacturers.
"And how were the rest NADER"
The enormous land grants and subsi-
dies to railroads made few dozens like
Stanford, Crooker and Huntington. The
sudden growth of western cities due to
the dollhouse system Of forcing develop
ment made few hundreds. Dozens like
Jay Gould and his fellows were made
by the system Of railroad wrecking
Many were made by speculation in gold
and government bonds. by the national
banking system and many other schemes
fostered by government A few-very
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cause it does not fit the arguments
of those who have selfish interests TO
serve. They now maintain that all
forms of currency, including checks
and every other kind of representative
money. must be counted the same as the
coin basis, though every sound hnancier
knows that, by the method OF the adj
ministration in constituting the laws, sill
yer now performs no function that
greenbacks would not, and that silver,
silver certificates and grcenbacks arc
mere token money, all resting ON the
dangerously narrow basis of that metal
which is the money Of ultimate redemp-
ton.
"You admit, however, that the free
coinage Of silver would produce some
initiation. Suppose it were but 10 or 20
per cent, as Senator Jones thinks.
Would not even that much imitation do
great harm in dislocating existing bust
ness conditions?"
History has answered that question
so conclusively that argument is I'M
necessary. In lS49-56 the specie infla-
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has become pos
sessed with the
notion that gold
is infalliblc, "A
notion as degrad-
ing in its way as
tho African
snake worship.
Nine-tenths of
the gold mono
metallists in this
country boldly
proclaim that,
while all other
com m o diticA
change i'll value,
gold does not.
eve know" tho
saw arc SAY.
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you say, but divide the bushels by the
population each year, and you will find
that per capita the increase was quite
small and in such years as 1899 and
1894, when the crop was very short and
the number of bushels per capita very
much less than the average of several
years ago, the price per bushel was still
low.
The Robbery.
The war tariff was prolonged in time
of peace despite solemn promises to the
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the grower In
s II @ h eloquent
words that storms
Of applause shook
the hall. We
loved to read and
quote the old stir
ring lines telling
how "the en-
battled farmers
stood" at Lex
ington and Con-
cord, and it was
n n i.v ersally
agreed that they
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of the country.

will invite your attention to two
pictures.
twenty-five years ago the American
farmer was king. Poets sang about
him. Orators praised him.
Edward Everett held up an ear of gold
en- corn before his audience and eulogized
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DrenuStuHS tnan
they can eat and
more cotton than
they can wear
and more pork
and beef than
they want or
more shoes than
they need? Why,
the largest wheat
crop ever raised
only amounted to
three bushels per
capita for the
people of the
civilized world,
and, deducting
seed and that
made into whis-
ky, little over
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few, it must be adj
mitted-were hon.
estly made by legit.
innate enterprises in
which the govern,
ment was not a
partner, and many
by the advance in
real estate In our
great cities. Many
others have carried
the investigation
much farth or.
Thomas @. Shear.
man. ESQ the great
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ton throughout
the world is al
legged to have
been some 25 per
cent, and in this
co untry there
was a general
currency inia-
tion of 40 per
cent. Was any
body badly hurt?
Look over the pa
pers of that time
and see if you
can find any COM
plants from the
farming regions.
Do not econO-
IN lists of all
schools agree
that tho ~ wears
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N. Y World foundations OF credit
throughout the British empire, and right
now, according to DR.. Eduard Suess,
threatens a redivision OF the earth. In
short contraction is very many times
more destructive than initiation.
"But the monometallists deny that
there has been any contraction, or that
gold oheapened in 1896. or that il
has really appreciated in value since
1870"
Oh, yes, they'll deny anything noio.
Macaulay has we'll said that il prop
erty interest were affected by II thou
sands OF intelligent men would deny the
law of gravithtion. Only few years
ago some of the greatest scholars in this
country denied that man whose skin
was black and his hair woolly had nat.
ural right TO the fruits of his labor or
that a married woman had right TO
her own earnings.
Dangerous Baais.
In no speech or book published before
1890 will You find il denied that the
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yer is BY natural
law far more sta
BILE in value than
gold has been
proved from ge-
ology, from min
eralogy, from
metallurRy and
still more by
comparing the
fluctuations of
prices in differ
ent coun tries
having the diff
ferent standards
or in the same
country ut differ
ont times. Every
one of these tests
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changc, chhptor q, says, IN respect TO
steadiness of value the metals are prob
ably less satisfactory, regarded as a
standard Of value, than many other COM
modities, such as corn.
By "corn" Professor Jevons means
wheat and all other cereals.
Ricardo, in his paper on the High
Price of Bullion, says. "If we dimin-
ish the quantity of currency, we give
an additional vlr9o to it,
By currency" Ricardo meant money
Of every character, including gold.
Mr.. Macleod, in his able work on
the Elements of Banking" says, 1.-THE
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chat Mumbo Commercial Advertiser.
Jumbo is ugly and we believe that he is
great, Wo laugh at the poor hea-
then, but the argument is on their side,
for it never has been automatically
proved, and it cannot he proved, that
Mumbo Jumbo has not great power i'll
the unseen; but it has repeatedly been
proved in every way open to the human
intellect that gold is shifting and I'M
stable standard of value, far more I'M
stable than silver. and that twice with
in the memory Of men not very old it
has changed in value so suddenly as to
vitiate all long time contracts and dis
locate all industrial conditions.
The Fact About Gold.
Every economist worthy Of the name
had said again and again that gold fuc-
tuates in value No economic writer
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United States by
Il he Tribune's
agents. The lists
were published
weekly in The
Tribune for cor
rection and then
compiled in a
pamphlet. The
number exceeded
1000 and was
soon proved to
be entirely too
small. Mr.. Horr
suoce eded in
proving to h / 8
oxyn GatisfacfiOn
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from an unwilling witness Early in
1892 Hon. Roswell G. Horr, tariff edi-
tor Of the New York Tribune, started
out TO prove that protection did not Gre
ate millionaires.
Under his direction very careful
census was taken in every part Of the
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contrary. EN-
pires Of land and
hundreds of mil
lions Of money
were given to
great corpora
tions. Credit Mo-
bilier, the Indian
ring, the whisky
ring, the star
route ring and
scores of others
followed in rapid
succession, but
though the farm
ers m urm ured
they did not re-
volt. They over
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crops, the coun-
try rings with
frantic cries Of
rage and denun-
citation. The
farmer has sub
mitted too long.
He has lost the
respect of those
who have robbed
him, and it is
much 70 ha feared
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hand. the rapid increase
in the value of gold with
in the last 20 years has
wrought worldwide bank
ruptcy, has brought a wall
of distress from producers
in all lands, has again and
again shaken the very
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actual alteration
in the quantities
of the precious
metals has ma
terially altered
their value at
different periods
of history.
Professor Fran
els A. Walker of
tn @ Massachu-
sets Institute of
Technology, in
his able work on
M oney, says:
"Gold and silver
do over long pc
RODS undergo
great changes of
value and become
in a high degree
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The Concentration of Wealth.

''Many cite the concentration Of
wealth in few hands as one cause of the
farmers poverty, but is not that worse in
other countries with different systems?"
There is no country of high civiliza-
ton in which it is so bad, except per-
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received for it
fell, till 1895,
when they pro-
duccd S24,443,-
537 bushels of
oats and received
therefor $780,
600, 068. And the
population has
increased 20 per
cent. In 1870 we
produced 1884,
225, 900 bushels
Of corn, worth
1901, $3.50, 030; in
1898 1919. 496,-
1871 bus h Q | 8,
worth $591, $685.
627, and in 1895
2, 1871, 38, $50
bushels, worth
$567, B 0 9, 1906.
Ov reproduction,
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the farmer COM
plain that prices
go down AZ the
size of the crop
goes upS And
how can you
prove that olevat-
ing the condition
of the farmer
will elevate that
of other labor.
ers?''
lt Is impossible
10 raise the agri-
cultural class Of
any ooun try
without raising
all the other
classes who de-
pend ON labor for
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haps i'll one or
two where the
process has been
going on for
/, 900 years, but
in no country,
ancient or mod
orn, has the proc
ess been SO rapid
as in this. In
1860 there were
alleged to he i'll
this nation a doz-
en- millionaires.
Today there are
at least 3, 900 and
probably many
more. On this
point we have
u IL i'm p eachable
testimony and
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people OF the Cities are taught 20 con-
slider him.
And why this change? 1t is because
he has been Systematically robbed for 30
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The Gold Superstition.

How can there be- gold superstition?
What do ycu mean by such "a phrase?"
mean Just what the words imply
that largo portion of the human race
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losses American
farmers We
sustained because
of the increased
purchasingpower
of gold, look over
the files Of the
gold papers be-
fore this became
N Aplitinol igo,,n
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that in great part he has lost his own
self respect. His poverty has become
is reproach.
The Decline In Value.
Since 1870 the production of hay in
the United States has increased in al
most exact parallelism with the in
crease of population. and yet the aver
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has ever denied it. In his
&" Wealth of Nations"
Adam Smith says: "Gold
and silver. like every other
commodity, vary in their
value. The discovery Of
the abundant mines Of
America reduced in the
fifteenth century the value
of gold and silver in Lu-
rope to about a third of
what it had been before.
This revolution in their
value, though perhaps the
greatest, is by no means
the only one of which his.
tory gives some account. "
Professor Jevons, in his
work upon money and
the Mechanism Of Ex-
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years and has submitted to the robbery
and voted for more of it. He is despised
because he has consented to his own
degradation.
His very virtues have been made the
means of his degradation. The farmers,
aud especially the men who till their
own acres, are our great conservative
class. They dread revolution. They
love their country wiSh an impassioned
ardor born of close contact with the soil
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terllllnlnR TN q
general level Of
prices. IL was
taken for granted
that the amount
Of money of ulti-
mate redemption
determined the
price level. It
was the founda-
ton upon which
all disputants
built their argu-
ments. But now
you can hear it
denied every day.
And why2 Be-
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spotted Dfeechos.
He is the butt Of
vile jokes in the
city saloons. He
shares with the
mule and the
mother : in law,
the plantation
darky, the rusty
stovepipe and the
tramp as the
stockmaterial for
cheap paragraph
ers. He is brought
ON the stage Of
every low theater
as the stock VIC
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1881, for instance, 1888,
$50, 900 bushels were val,
ued at 1856, $50. 427. and
in 1895, 467, 1902, 947 bush
els at $237, 938, 998, And
yet the world has not as
much wheat as it wants.
and not much more than
half as much as it would
buy il il had the where
with. There is evidently
something the matter that
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two bushels per capita was left for
bread. 1t has been repeatedly showp
that the worlds cotton crop is still
5000, 900 bales short of the worlds
tural department has shown that the
American people are eating consider
ably less wheat per capita than they did
few years ago, and If you will take
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nearly 90. 900, 900 people cannot afford
to eat wheat bread. They are using
cheap substitutes like rye and potatoes.
Are we to suppose that they do that for
fun?
Enormous Losses to Agriculture.
II you want to realize what enormous
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tim of all the stale old practical jokes.
"Hayseed" and "Wayback" and jay
are his regular titles, even among Guilt
waited people, and in the slums farmer :
Is one of the vile epithets which provoke
q fight. He figures in the illustrated
comics az a half savage. Look at the
pictures of the typical farmer in the
New York papers and see something
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When Gold Was Cheap.


1t is point well worth noting, how
ever, that in the seven or eight years
l840-56-that gold, according to the
best authorities, lost % per cent Of its
value, the world accommodated itself
very easily to the change. The only
cutlery was from the holders of fixed in
debtedness, and they wanted TO demone-
tie gold because 1t was too cheap. We
heard very little about that in this
country and the masses of our people
did not even know it, because we had
then no permanent creditor class, no
great bondholders; hut the literature Of
Europe at the time was full of COM
plants, AND AUSTRIA, GERMANY
AND BELGIUM ACTUALLY DE
MONETIZED GOLD. On the other
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Jney were assessed for III 1870, and in
some of the finest parts Of New York
state they will sell you good farms at
the assessment Of 1860. Farmers do not
complain at reduced prices for products
of which there has been very great pro-
duction. but the figures show decline,
though not 80 great, in articles of which
there is an admitted scarcity and that
the general decline is very much great
er than can be accounted for by the
amount produced.
Starving Midst Plenty.
But as matter Of fact is there any
overproduction? Have mankind more
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N. Y. Press.

age value per ton has declined from
$13.8s to $685.. This last is the farm
price as reported by the agricultural
department for July; nevertheless, on
the day l write this hay is selling in
New York city by retail at SIS per
ton, which is beautiful illustration
of how your city consumer profits by
the loss of the farmer. Wheat is supposed
to be an exception because our rivals in
other countries are producing so much,
and yet tho figures are significant. In
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ITWVII' UBIUOU tI1tRV VIIOJ
were the salvation of the land. They
were the hardy yeomanry, the free and
independent workers. and even such for
eign visitors as De Toequeville went
out of their way to describe the happy
condition Of the landowning farmer in
this country.
Washington gloried in being farm
er. Our greatest statesmen passed their
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the annual re-
ports for 20 years
and deduct that
used for export
and seed from
the crop Of each
year and that fed
to stock ia late
years you will
find that 10000,
900 people are
eating only about
the same amount
of wheat flour
that $4,000, 900
people did. In
Europe also it has
been shown that
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course that Wall street
should strive for a rise in
stocks, that manufacturers
should lobby for a higher
tariff. that the Pacific
Railway companies should
evade payment of their
debt. All other men can
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vote and lobby to raise the price Of what
they own and be good Christians, but
at the bare hint that the farmer
is to vote for restoring silver to
get little better price for his
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Rheumatism

Is blood disease and only blood rene
dy can cure it. So many people make
the mistake of taking remedies which
at best are only tonics and cannot posi-.
bly, reach their trouble. Mr.. Asa Smith,
Greencastle, Indiana, says; "For years
! have suffered with Sciatic Rheuma-
tism, which the best physicians were un-
able to relieve. I took many patent
medicines but they did not seem to
reach my trouble. I gradually grew
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BY JOHN III. BEADLE.

The accompany illustrations are from New
York newspapers of recent date. They are pub
lshed to show the popular idea of the personality
of the American farmer in the gold stronghold
of the country. r.
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deceptive as "a measure Of the obliga-
ton of the debtor, Of the claim Of the
creditor. Thus Professor Jevons esti-
mates that the value of gold fell between
1889 and 1909 40 per cent, and from
1909 to lS49 il rose l45 per cent. "
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immediately preceding our civil war
were the golden age of the Ameri-
can fa mer, if he ever had one?
Again, from early in 1862 to early in
1865 the currency of this country was
inflated at least $50 per cent. Some
harm was done, of course, because the
initiation was rapid and tremendous. 1t
was six times as great as any initiation
now possible from the free coinage of
silver, but the only serious evil in it
was that it gave occasion for subse-
uuent contraction.
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cannot be explained by that handy
phrase 'overproduction. F"
Has there been any overproduction of
fat hogsy Every farmer knows that there
is Just now great scarcity, almost
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again. therefore, the great majority Of
farmers credited all good things to that
party. They could not believe that the
party Of Lincoln and Sumner and other
friends of humanity would do aught Of
iniustica
The Addiction of Abundance.
"But there has been so great an in
crease in production. Now, why should