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The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
An Unworthy Citizen.

Silverite Orator-What we want is
more money.
Skeptic-Would free coinage make
more money?
s. O.-Certainly. It would give us
both gold and silver.
S.-But wouldn't free coinage at IS
to 1 drive gold out of circulation, in &C.
cordance with the Gresham law?
s. O.-My friend, Mr.. Bryan pro-
poses to repeal any law that is working
in the interest of the goldbugs and Shy
locks.
S.-But the Gresham law is a natu-
raj law, like the law Of gravitation.
S. O.-My friend, you are a pessimist
and don't know that you are a citizen
Of the grandest country on earth-one
that can without the aid or consent of
any other nation repeal even the law
Of gravitation itself if it should become
a tool of Wall street. Shame on you'll
You don't belong to this country. AS I
was saying
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
LAWMAKERS.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday. Oct. IL, 1896.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday. Oct. IL, 1895.
Sixteen acres of store, hold
ing today goods worth at re-
tail more than Four Millions
of Dollars. Sixteen acres of
store wherein the business of
the next ninety days will
equal in volume the stocks
now here. And each little
sales slip that accompanies
your package is a Wanna
maker guarantee of the right
ness of the goods and the fair
ness of the prices. You may
lose the slip, but the dupli-
cate is here-never evading
responsibility is one of the
singularities of this singular
store.
Money never went SO far in
goods gathering as during the
getting-ready time for this
October business. Hence,
while the whole stock is new
and fresh and dependable
while we've no overstocks to
to be ruinously rid of, nor
blunders to be corrected-the
news of the month must fairly
ring with the fact that this is
a Shoppers Harvest Home.
October is the supply month
for household and personal
needs. Wanamaker's w never
so prominently the supply
house for prudent buyers.
Wanamaker prices are not
fairly matched in any store
they shouldn't be, if we've
served Our Public we'll. Di-
rect gathering of merchan-
disc from three Continents,
for the largest retail output
America ever knew, must save
in costs in many ways. You
are gamers.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

The following explanations why thu
silver dollar should no longer be ooinet
were made in the house of representa-
tives April 9, 1872:
It has become impossible to retain an
American dollar in this country except
in collections of curiosities. judge
Kelley.
The silver dollar "has long since
ceased to be a coin of circulation. \ Y
The gold dollar should be declared the
money unit. Mr.. Hooper.
The principal change proposed by the
bill was in more clearly specifying the
gold dollar as the unit of value. 4
The time has come in this country when
the gold dollar should be distinctly de.
clared to be the coin representative OF
the money unit. MI. Stoughton.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

The price ef wheat continues to
advance, and has now touched the
highest figures that have been recorded
during the present crop year. The total
is about fourteen cents over July quota
lions, and as ocean freights are now con-
siderably higher than during the summer,
foreign buyers are paying 1t least
twenty cents per bushel more for wheat
than they did when the crop year opened.
The reverse has been true in the price of
silver, and this steady decline in the
price of silver. while wheat has been
going up, completely explodes the favorite
theory of the silver advocates that the
value of wheat, or any other commodity.
for that matter, is controlled by the price
of the white metal. If such had been
the case the market for wheat would
have gone down and not mp. The rise in
wheat prices is a perfectly natural result
Of the working Of the law of supply and
demand, says the Philadelphia Record.
Usual sources of European supply having
been cut off or greatly curtailed, foreign
importers have been Obliged to buy more
freely in the United States, and the
increased demand has put up prices.
That is all the reason for the advance;
but it is enough to stagger the faith of
the most purblind advocate of free silver
coinage to have his favorite theory about
the influence of silver so completely
exploded at a most. critical juncture in
Gu. crusade against the gold standard.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
Why New Jerseys Reception to
Frances Willard is off.

A letter just received from Miss
Willard dated Ma r%seilles, says: II am
here with Lady Henry to help the
Armeni ian refugees. We have two OF
three hundred in a refuge that we opened
directly on our arrival; the distress is
great. 1t looked curious enough (and SO
goodD to see Lady Henry standing up in
the midst and measuring off the number OF
yards necessary to make a woman's dress
while I took out the thread and needles
wherewith to sew it. Then the men said
if We would give them some Of that same
cloth they could make themselves shirts,
So we measured off material for them too
and for the first time their sad faces
frightened and as we left there was no
end of smiling, laughter and chatter in
the great dreary rooms of the big hospital
wing given us without rent by the city
authorities" In view of the terrible
d%estitution of these people, Miss Willard
has deemed it best to remain with them
a week or two longer, and while this
change of plan will be a disappointment
to her American constituency they will
consider the worthiness of the cause our
chieftain is aiding and take 1t all in good
heart.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
Farmer Rrown,s Dilemma.

We had a public meetin in the schoolhouse here
last week,
And q Teller from the city was invited down to
speak.
He'd studied up the subject of finance in every
light
And claimed that he was competent to show
US what was right.
He says this whole blamed country is a-goin
straight to smash
Unless we get free coinage and increase our
stock of cash.
He's dggered out q daisy scheme and claims
twill work immense.
He wants to make our dollars cost us only fifty
cents.
He'd take flour bits Of silver and would run
1t through the mint
And stamp it plain zone dollar" with the gov
ernment's imprint.
The mines would dump their silver, and the
nation, slick as grease,
Would grind out brand new dollars at just fifty
cents apiece.
That sounds all right, but since that night
somehow I've often wondered
When l buy dollars for fifty cents who'll Take
'em for a hundred.
Chicago Times Herald.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

1t is a noticeable fact in the present
campaign, which is unrivalled In public
interest since the campaign of 1860, that
the Democratic speakers and press as
well, studiously avoid auy reference to
the tariff question. They evidently find
it more to their purpose to throw silver
dust in the eyes of their voters, but
after the experience of the past four
years. the people are certainly not blind
to the vital issue, though for the time.
being it may occupy second place to the
of sound money. The experience
in this country of free trade has been
disastrous every time it has been tried.
and what is needed now is sufficient tariff
to give ample event to run the govern
ment, and thus stop the need of borrow.
ing, and as we'll to afford p~sotection tn
u industries to keep our wage arner
employed at ..remanerative wapes.
When this is done the o troubles
will adjust themselves to thu necessities of
business.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

In his great speech delivered in Boston
last Wednesday, Speaker Reed said
"The discussion we are now having in
born and bred of the depressed condition
OF public and private affairs. 1t has come
upon us like the greenback agitation OF
1878. 1t had the same cause. and in nv
Judgment will have the same fate. With
the rising tide of business in 1879 which
followed specie resumption, greenbackism
disappeared from the face of the earth.
perhaps never again to reappear. 10 like
manner, when this election is over and
business reviyes, this question of free
coinage of silver by the United States
single-handed and alone will disappear
from public and private discussion. I"
Speaker Reed is undoubtedly right.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
NEWS AT THE C0UNTY-sEAT.

SALEM, Oct. 10, 1896.
The Young Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union held their annual meeting
on Wednesday night. There was some
disposition to disband the Union and go
into the WIS. The majority, however,
was decidedly against this, and the fol-
lowing officers were elected !: President,
Virginia Bronson; Recording Secretary,
Georgianna Boon; Corresponding Secre-
tary George Lawson; Treasurer. Frances
P. Carpenter; Vice-P President, Cornelia
B. Wistar; Second Vice President, Lille
Edwards; Third Vice President. Annie
Bullock.
Rev. G. M. Perkins has been elected
rector of St. Andrews Protestant Epis-
copal Church, Bridgeton. Mr.. Perkins
is now rector of st. Johns Church in this
city, and of St. Georges, in L. P. Neck.
He will be the responsible head of st.
Andrews Parish, but will retain his two
other retorships. The actual work at st.
Andrews will be done by Rev. Charles
Hannah, of this city, who is highly recon-
mended. He will be curate under Mr..
Perkins.
The ninth annual Conference of the
| Sixth District of the State Y. M. G. A.
| will be held in this city OF Saturday and
| Sunday, October II and 1S. The Confer
ence will open at 2 O'Clock Saturday
| afternoon with devotional services by F.
Il. Langstrath, of Railway, followed
| with an address on the Responsibilities
and Opportunities Of the Undeveloped
| Field" by G. T. Kilborne, of Orange.
sThe Benefits and Dangers of Physical
| Work." by DIR. Henry Chavanne, OF
| Salem, and "The Limitations, Develop
ments and Results of Boys Work." as
seen by L. r. Ledden, of Clayton, will
| close the afternoon session. In the even
| ing Professor A. D. Yocum, of Millville.
| will make an address on Educational
| Work" Mr.. Harry Curtiss, General Sec
rotary Of the Camden Y. M. G. A., will
| close the session with an address on
.sBible Study, Essential to Our Existence
| and Growth" On Sunday Mr.. Kilborne
will condn not a preparation service in the
morning, and the day will be generally
| observed in all the churches. A number
| of meetings for men only will be held in
Association Hall.
Mrs. Abigail g. Dunn, widow Of Nehe-
miah Dunn, was found dead in bed Tues
day morning at the residence of her son,
| Mr.. Albert R. Dunn, in Easton, Pa. She
left her boarding place in this city last
| Friday, for q three weeks visit with her
son, in her usual health, and 80 arrived
there as far as is known at this time. A
dispatch was received of her death on
Tuesday morning. She was afflicted
with heart trouble, which 10 doubt
caused her death.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

Two months ago money, stocks and
other property to the alleged mount and
value of $101, 500 were contributed to the
cause of foreign missions at a meeting of
the International Missionary Alliance
held at Old Orchard, Me-. At the meeting
of the same organization held in Carnegie
Music Hall, in New York, on Sunday
night, under the direction of the Rev. A.
B. Simpson, the gifts similarly made and
pledged are said to have reached the
amount and value of $112, 200. There, as
at the meeting in Maine, the giving was
accompanied by scenes of great fervor
and excitement, the attendants upon the
meeting bestowing not money alone, but
also jewelry, watches, etc. The people
who attend the meetings of this organi-
cation are not as a class rich. But they
believe that their duty to assist in the
worlds evangelization is an imperative
and an immediate duty, one that they
can not evade, and dare not deny nor
defer. Hence the lavish generosity of
their offerings. which 80 strongly CON-
trasts with the measure of liberailty
which generally attends the work of
more conservative religious bodies along
the same lines.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

Ex-Governor Boies and His Hired Man.
Hired Mani heard that in your De-
Moines speech you said prices are Sc
low that you have either got to ge'
more for your oats or else cut my wages
Boies-You heard right.
Hired MAXWELL, which are you
going to do?
Boies-I am going to get more fol
my oats.
Hired Man-How?
Boies-By lessening the purchasing
power of money. Free coinage will give
us a dollar which will only buy five
bushels of oats instead of ten bushels,
and that will be the same as getting &c
cents for my oats.
Hired MAXWELL, what are you 60.
ing to do about my wages?
Boies-Oh, I'll pay you just the same
as I'm paying you now, $50 a month.
Hired Man-Are you going to pay
me in these new dollars?
Boies-Certainly the same kind Of
dollars that l get for my oats.
Hired Man-Those dollars that can't
buy only half as much of anything as
the old dollars?
Boies-Yes, yes; the same sort of dol.
lars.
Hired Man-Then, as l understand
it, you propose to get twice as much fol
your oats and pay me only half what
I'm getting now?
Boies-Why, no.. I'll still pay you
$40.
Hired Man-But this $40 won't buy
only half as much stuff as now, you say,
for the purchasing power is to be less.
ened one-half so with my $40 I can
only get $40 worth of stuff. Youl
scheme would bring you twice as much
for your oats and bring me only half as
much for my work. Is this fair, do you
think?
Boies-Well, every man has to look
out for himself.
Hired Man-So Isee, and l think I'll
look out for myself and vote for an hon.
est dollar for al honest days work. -
Council Bluffs Ga Nonpareil.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

In the haste in which the Democrats
at Chicago prepared their platform they
forgot to include the plank declaring in
favor of restoring the natural freezing
point of zero. Mankind has suffered and
shivered tremendously because Of this in
human standard of temperature adopted
undoubtedly at the instigation of coal
barons and quaok doctors. Without
waiting for the aid Or consent Of any
other nation let us proceed to lower the
freezing point and to reform our climate
in the interests Of the masses.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

Have you a mortgage? Is it overduei
If SC. vote for free coinage, and you in
vite the mortgage to ~foreolose as soon
as possible after election and before
there is time to pass a free coinage bill.
If you don't think SO, just imagine that
you have changed places with your
creditor and then consider what you
would do six months before the cheap
money era was expected to begin.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

The Pennsgrove Record, whose editor
continues to have blood in his eye. says
that J. Ford Thompson, of Upper PENIS
Neck, accepted the Democratic nomina-
ton for Assembly at the solicitation OF
the silver Republicans of the county. Ii
Mr.. Thompson is depending on these for
his election he is likely to be disap-
poiuted. There are not enough OF them .
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
One of Tom Reeds Nuts to Crack

One of Tom Reeds Nuts to Crack
Tom Reed gave the Popocrats at Nor
ristown, the other day, the following hard
nut to crack:
"But, they said, you have had a gold
basis for the last three years, and as that
is the cause of your trouble, why have il
any longer? Now, 1 want to say to you
that We have bad some experience on
that subject. From 1861 to 1859 we did
lot consume any silver at all and silver
was only at a very small discount.
sSince that time we have bought more
than six hundred millions of dollars OF
silver, and silver has gone down to fifty
cents on the dollar. If we buy the rest
of it where will it go to ? (Laughter.)
Until you have ans ersd that ques-
ton, my Populistic friends, don't you
undertake any talk on this subject.
When you have answered that I will see
you again."
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

After making a careful canvass among
leading men of both parties in every county
from Sussex to Cape May the New York
World says New Jersey will give Major
Mckinley a plurality of "a, $50. This
estimate, the World says, is "most con-
sentative" In referring to this the New
ark Neos says: sit is only a year ago that
the electors of New Jersey piled up q
plurality of &c. 900 votes for Griggs over
McGill in the Gubernatorial election. The
silver craze then had not aroused the
people to resent the ENGRAVING of Populis-
tic and Anarchistic doctrines on the
sturdy oak of Democracy. The voters of
New Jersey are singularly independent.
They made short work of the old gang of
Democratic despoilers quite recently; they
may confidently be counted on to deal
the free silver craze a mortal blow, and
with such force as to make the World's
estimate seem infantile. It will not be
surprising to find that New Jersey has
polled a plurality Of 40. 600 for Mckinley
and Hobart. Some of the exuberant
Republicans, given over to lightning
calculations, affirm, with pious sincerity,
that sound money, Mckinley and Hobart,
will carry the State by go, 900 plurality"
Governor Griggs says it will be $4,000.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

The National issues so completely over.
shadow everything else, that the county
candidates are liable to be forgotten, but
of course they will be in it on the Sd OF
November. L~oudenslager, Miller, Crisp
in n Westcott are a strong team, and
Salem county and the First Congressional
District will be needed to swell the Re-
publican majority that New Jersey is
expected to give this fall.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
Go LIN slowly.

Every cheap money experiment evel
tried in this or in any country has DEM
onstrated that. while prices respond
quickly to changes in the value Of
money, wages respond but slowly.
Hence, though wages appear to rise
when money is depreciating, they are in
reality falling. The difference in rapid
ity with which wages and prices 90 up
has been illustrated by prices going up
in elevators while wages walk up the
stair steps. 1t is certain that wage earn
ers always lose and never gain by being
paid in a deprecated or d~epreciating
currency.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
How Bryan VIII EDO" the Trusts.

MI. Bryan to the Trusts-You fel.
lows are not in it with me. You think
you're doing great things when you put
up the price Of n thing at a time
and you get cussed for it besides. But
my little silver trust scheme puts up
prices on everything at once, and /
make 'em think we're doing 'em a
favor. You fellows are too slow.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
Want the Best Tools.

The farmer and the mechanic mus
be free to use the very best tools and
implements, and the merchant and
banker must be free to use the very best
money and Instruments Of credit. Al
honest and stable measure of value ID
just as necessary to both az are honest
and stable measures of weights and
quantities, and it requires no argument
to show that without these it would be
impossible to transact the ordinary bust,
ness of the country. -Hon. John @.
Carlisle.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

Even though the farmers may be
right in thinking that they are not as
prosperous as they ought to be, it by no
means follows that free coinage will
improve their condition. Because a man
has rheumatism is no reason why he
should take the advice of a quack doc
tor who prescribes a big dose Of ipecac.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
A Pointer for Advertisers.

Out of a total If 277 weekly papers
published in New Jersey, the Amer
lean Newspaper Directory for 1896
accords a circulation in actual figures
to but 81. The MONITOR REGIS
TER is one of the CT, and the cir
culation is guaranteed by a re ward
of 500.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

A farmer who had his crop Of wheat
stored in his granary or a manufacturer
who had his warehouse filled with the
products of his factory would think it
an outrage II the government should in.
sist upon confscating one-half of his
wheat or his goods. What better is IL
by the adoption Of free silver coinage to
oonfscate one-half of the wage of the
laborer or one-half of his accumulated
savings, or one-half of the dover Of the
widow. or one-half Of the pension of the
Observation-Disclosures Record.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

Harper's Weekly for October "a will
contain an illustrated paper on the Prince.
ton Sesquicentenniala In the same num-
Der interesting Features of the
Campaign" will be considered. and full
page illustrations by T. de Thulstrup, W.
st. John Harper. and Al. Hencke will be
given. A paper BY F.. W. Hewes, entitled
"Wages and Silver" will show graph
cally and conclusively, with the aid of
diagrams, that the purchasing power of
wages has increased in every industry
since 1873; and Henry Charles Lea, of
Philadelphia, will contribute q paper on
the tissues OF the Election"
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

The Camden county Republicans have
nominated Herbert johnson for State
Senator, David Baird for Sheriff. and
re-nominated Assemblymen Derousse,
Lloyd and Scovel.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16

The free silver Democratic leaders
hereabouts are not as hopeful as they
we're earlier in the campaiga, and now
concede that the election may be very
close, with the chances in favor of Bryan.
IF there should be a landslide from the
West it will be in favor of Bryan, and if
Mckinley is elected it will be by a very
narrow margin. That will do from their
standpoint, but the present chances are
in reality two to one for Mckinley and
Hobart
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
GLEANINGs.

The twenty-third annual convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of New Jersey will convene at
Bridgeton on the Goth inst, to be in
session four days.
Agnes Slack, of England, Secretary of
the Worlds W. G. T. u, John G..
Woolley and other prominent speakers
will address the evening meetings. John
G.. Wooley will speak Fifth-day evening,
22d. Let everybody from Woodstown,
who possibly can, hear him.
Let not the good brothers of this
vicinity leave it for the wives and sisters
-alone-to hear this amounted speaker,
but weigh well the question-whether
they are r%eligiously putting themselves
into a position to learn unbiasedly all
there is to learn relative to the onmove-
ment of the temperance hosts, which, in
their hearts they knoU represents the
standard of the GREATEST financial
problem before the American people to.
day.
"The average annual tariff is $271,-
100000, and the drink bill would pay it
| four times 0uer and have q nice little sum
left" Where then is the financial
wisdom shown in working and voting
for a protective tariff candidate-who
dare not lift n finger against the vile
destroyer of tie unprotected home-the
black license system? while in the politi-
cal arena is a candidate for the Presi-
dency whose manhood is above reproach-
even to the daring of presenting to the
view of the people of these United States
the financial drain that ia centered in this
diabolical license system ? And is the
question of finance the loftiest pinnacle
of idealism, of Christian integrity, of
''love thy neighbor as myself" that this
age of Christendom has reached after
almost nineteen hundred years.
All, it is sad, sad indeed, to see even
Christian men groveling over the
(political) problem, whether it shall be a
gold or a silver coin, while.youder at the
corner of the street stands a poor little
child with insufficient clothing and a lack
of food, driven from a place called home,
a victim of the license system, begging
each passer-by to purchase a morning
paper, the proceeds from these sales to be
put again into the unfeeling hands of the
liquor benumbed father, aye. aye-or
mother-who again spends it at the
licensed saloon!
Have we, as Christians, no pity ? no
soul for pity ? that zoe dare, before a just
God, let these things go on q.
The Armenian massacres, soul harrow.
ing as they are, are but as a handful OF
outrages as com pared with the endless
number of victims of the legalized
license system.
All, my friend, God is not Knocked.
His tenderness, at least, stretched out
toward the little ones, hungry for broad,
and yet the supporters of the license
system, gives them instead-a stone.
Who are the supporters of the license
system?
Every voter who supports the license
parties. 1t is just as plain as A. B. G.