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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-09-01

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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-09-01
COMPRESSED AIR.
an ADVANCED METHOD OF
STREET CAR LOCONIOrION.
Points in Favor of the New Motor
The Entire Mechanism Easily
Controlled by One Man
The Storage System.

HHE growth aud development
II of municipality being so
largely dependent upon rapid
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
THE NUMBER of this 4 -
xSisslte Qf TIE paper is.-. nWU
Il the number opposite your name on the
Co'ored Label Is less tbo1, this number
1t shoes that yo,tr subscribtion Is in ar
rears and should be paid up at once.

do the same, and the average depositOrs
have lot of notes that are put up at sale
by the order of court, and bought in by
some CT the slick ones, and the deposi-
tors get a few cents on the dollar after
waiting a few years-and this is the best
system on earth! If there ever was bad
law, one intended to fleece the people, one
without a single redeeming phase, it is
the Infamous national bank acts under
which the banks do business. The COM
mon people do not understand it. They
see others use them and the fall in and do
business with them, and thus place their
money in the hands of few men without
security and thus create the leverage by
which the bankers and their friends skin
every other class of people. The mer-
chant goes to the bank, borrows the mon
ey you deposit, charges up the interest
on the price of his goods and thus you
pay interest on your own money, be-
sides running the risk of losing it the
first financial furry that some bear spec
ulators get up. No bank but govern
ment bank is good or safe or cheap. AS
the king wants to rule, so the bankers
want the present system.
The Akron banks have a very poor
showing, and no other business men
would be considered solvent under like
conditions.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
THE AKRON NATIONAL BANKS.

A friend sends me the official state
ments of four nationa. banks of Akron,
Ohio-City, First National, Second Ma
tionaC and Citizen-and requests me to
explain what they mean. l group them
all together and find the following facts:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
LOADING 1T ONTO THE FARM
ERS.

There is not grain merchant or
commission man who does not wish to
load the improvement OF the common
roads on the farmer. The number OF
men who do not have to pay a cent for
the improvement of the road, but who
would be directly benefited by the
improvement is very large. The news
D aperS aIc filled with lie comm unica-
:ions of people who want good roads,
a the cost Of the farmer, but who are
not called upon to bear any Of the ex-
penSe. We think Jhata good thing to
DO would be to ask these fellows, who
would be benefited many thousands
Of dollars by better roads, to contrib
ute literally TO construct good roads.
It is the acme Of greed for citizen,
comm ission or other merchant, to ask
.the farmers to construct good roads
for his benefit. The idea, advanced by
such man, is enough to condemn
him and his business. Farmers want
good roads, and they may often be
able to build them, without serious in
convenience. But it is high time that
the city business man stops calling
Tor good roads, unless he is willing to
build them for his own benefit. The
greed of the fellows in the city is iu-
tOlerablc Farmers Voice.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
KILL THE TRAMPS!

Over a column and a half of the New
York Tribune of Feb is devoted to a
commonplace invective on tramps, in
which is here and there interspersed what
city officials who have to do with them
are reported to have said. The whole of
it may be summed up in saying that they
are lazy and very filthy, and that could
they be made to work and undergo thor
ough washing, the tramp evil would be
cured Of course, the process by which
Industrious and skilled men are transmo-
grifed into such repulsive beings was not
even hinted at. That IS we'll known to
those who have investigated the subject.
But would not be permitted publication
in the Tribune.
But the most novel and interesting part
Of the article is comprised in the lara
graphs at the close. Controller Fitch ad-
vised the shipment of all tramps to some
cannibal island in exchange for such
products as the inhabitants might care to
exchange for the food. Gen. j. c. Duane,
Of the aqueduct commission probably
some soft berth provided for opulent and
high-toned pets, dug up from Herodotus
to the effect that once year every dwell
er in Egypt was required to state his
means OF livelihood, and those who dldn t
"explai-." satisfactorily were summarily
executed. Herodotus was so much pleased
with its working that he wanted to bring
it into use IN Greece. Mr.. Duane con-
cludes: I'VE might try it in this city, and
see how It would work.
This is evidently where Prof. Powers
picked up his ideas on the subject in his
recent lecture. We are perfectly ready
to second the motion" provided it in
clldes the politicians, landlords, railroad
magnates and others who make tramps.
including professors Of alleged political
economy and the like in colleges, one Of
whom, in the art of being worse than
useless. beats a thousand tramps. Their
souls far surpass in filth tramp's body,
and it is Infinitely better to be lazy than
to prostitute their brains (when they have
any for a high salary. while honest men
have to regard it as high privilege to be
able barely to live by honest labor.-San
Francisco Star
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
FROM TONNES TOWN.
A DULUTH EDITOR SIZES UP
THE REPUBLICAN GOLD
PLANK.
Recant His Silver Views or Elect a
Silver Party, is TOwne's
Alternative.

The Duluth Commonwealth gives edi-
torially regarding the Republican gold
platforms and Republican free silver ad-
vocates the following wellworded sug-
gestions, which the eminent free coinage
congressman of that city will doubtless
consider with care and profit
DECLARED AGAINST FREE SILVER.
While most of the resolutions adopted
by the state Republican convention bear
ing On silver doesn't mean anything-all
that about parity is simple verbiage-
there are two distinct statements in it..
The first is that the party is opposed to
free coinage The second is that it ia
vors free coinage by international agree
ment. And the second was presumably
put in more to show friendliness to the
silver men than from any belief that in
ternational agreement is within reach.
It costs nothing to propose conference
and not much to hold one
Some of the free silver Republicans
may persuade themselves that this is
satisfactory and that it shows hopeful
trend of the party toward the silver road.
so that by waiting the party will go all
the way with them. Most of the silver
men are apt to see that the real decision
is expressed in the declaration against
free silver and that the other is merely
a decoration as far from the real pur-
poses of the platform as the parts about
parity and other f1ourishes.
Of course the silver men may dispute
the sincerity Of the convention And if
it was no more representative elsewhere
than it was in it's st. Louis county dele
cation they have a right to question it's
craftsmanship But it is at any rate
authoritative. If the voters wanted
other instructions they could have given
them There does not seem to have been
any protest in the convention and from
the tone of the papers in other parts OF
the state there does not seem likely to be
much protest in the party at large.
This much is certain-that the Repub-
lican party will not declare against 1t in
a majority of the states, that 1T will de-
clare against it in all. but few of the
congressional districts and it is proba-
BILE that it will declare against it in the
national convention.
Free silver has nothing to expect from
the Republican party, or the Democratic
party, and those who esteem free silver
of chief consequence may as we'll begin
to remodel their ideas to correspond.
They can choose to divide on other lines
or seek some other home.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
AGREED.

At a recent prayer meeting, Dem
ocratic brother prayed to God that the
Democrats would hang together,
whereupon Populist present shout
ed: Amen! amen' This led the
Democratic brother to make the fol-
lowing amendment to his prayer:
Not, o Lord, in the sense our Popu-
list brother means. but ir the spirit of
accord and concord" ANY cord will
do. good Lord: any cord will do,'' in
terjected the Populist.-Texas Elk.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF,

we have here in Kansas are made at the
court house door. We don't need to go
away from home to find fruit of it. There
are people in. Topeka whose children afb
kept from school because they have no
shoes. There are families who do not
have sufficient clothing
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15

American goods are carried. BY this
slouchy British management of our rail-
roads, also, our people are being killed
and wounded at the rate of forty thou
sand per annum-equal to two battles of
Shiloh every year.
These are some Of the reasons for our
"animosity against Great Britain!" Are
they just? Let patriots answer! Tories
should keep silent.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15

Plutocracy snatches shyster lawyers
from the gutter. and as reward for
dirty work in politics promotes the m
to the highest judicial positions in
the country. 1t is no wonder that
such tools of monopoly dec are all
progressive laws unconstitut;Oaal.-
st. Louis Evening journal.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15

The signs Of the times seem to in
dicate that the two great parties will
enter upon the presidential campaign
moro firmly committed than ever to
the gold standard, while those who op-
pose it will have to join ranks with
the silver independents and the Popu-
listf, who are to meet in ST. Louis in
July.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
$2,3o5,2e7.47
1e2,5Oo.oo
$11,723.00
eo,1o1.oo
122,926.oO
I 154 32
Total money
273,166.9S

Total money
(good and bad). 1925 5,904.3S
Just how they can have that 50 in bank
bills is not plain, as bank bills are not
issued in less denomination that S. and
mu!tiples theresf.
None of them seem to have any of their
own bank bills, but all have issued to the
full legal limit of their bonds. They
pay out bank bills and keep, as far as
they keep any money, the legal tender
bills of the nation. They are good deal
smarter than their patrons in this re-
spect.
These four banks owe other
panhs .',.... .''''''' %, Szv'oto.s 10 -
They owe depOsitors. ....... 1871, 1858. 43
A total liable to be called
for at any time. ............ VI .992. .2O0.3O
In other words, the banks have only 13
cents in money for each dollar they owe!
In other banks they have an additional
II cents on the dollar, but in case OF a
panic the other banks would no more be
able to pay them the IA cents than they
would be able to meet their demands.
Besides this, they have $2,305, ,262.G7 in
notes due them, but when people want
money they don't want notes. All banks
are solvent and sound SO long as depos-
itors do not demand their money, and
then they are not in it. Assuming that
the rate of interest in Akron is per
cent, and by the process of compounding
it is more. the people of Akron pay these
banks S1S4,42096 year! In ten years
this will absorb an amount equal to the
entire deposits! This has been going on
for years and years. If you had eyes
you would see that with only S225.904,
and that of other peoples money, with
this small margin these banks can and
do draw $1S4,000 a year interest! The
people could employ the government to
do all their business for one-tenth that
sum and have their deposits as safe as
the government. The nation is strewn
with the wrecks of banks whose secret
speculations busted them. There is. no
more safety in a national bank than there
is in private bank-really not so much
as the liability of stockholders in ma
tionai banks is double their stock, while
in private banks it takes all the prop
ertv of the bankers-if it can be found.
And in any banks the officials know
before anyone else the real situation and
they not only cover property but draw
the banks funds and have their friends
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15

The government can issue bonds to
provide a safe and profitable invest
ment for capital, but to provide en-
ployment for starving labur-would be
observation-disclosures (Tex.) Jour-
nal.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15

AOd1lO dllO ONCl
drafts (sums on
which t h ey
draw interest.
United States
b o n d Con
which t h e y
draw INTEREST,".
Due from other
banks against
which to issue
drafts, etc) go.
In bank bills (not
legal money!
they held. 81
In gold and sill
yer they held. 9
In paper money
(fiatD they held l
In nickles, etc.,
they held ......
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15

The Rings steal hundreds Of MILL
ions annually from the People. One
tenth Of the plunder is used to con-
troll the daily press and buy up tho
leaders Of the two old parties, to
darken intelligence and make the
voters poor. blind and incapable Of
self-defense. Strike before it is too
late.
The advocate., 1896-01-08
He Gives the Paper Free.
w. ]. BRYAM.

The ADVOCATE takes pleasure In calling
the attention Of It's readers TO the PeEina
Subsoil Plows. That subsolling ID no
longer an experiment has been SatlBfnc.
torily proven and demonstrated. Mr.. a.
B. Perine, Of this city, Is the inventor
manufacturer aud patentee of the origlnal
Perine Subsoil Plow. No higher compli.
ment could be attributed to the popularity
OF this plow than the fact that other
plow companies are trying 10 profit from ia
success by attempting TO initiate Mr.. Pc.
rine's invention. During the months OK
February, March and April, 1895, Mr.. re
rine was not near able to supply the az.
mand for his plows, and present indications
are that he will experience another rush
this season. He has enlarged his planf
and secured additional machinery. But as
a special inducement for early orders hs
will include years subscription to elthar
the ADVOCATE or Kansas Farmer TO those
who will purchase plow before February
Is, 1896.
The prices Of the genuine Perins Suh1cli
Plows are as follows: No. /, Tor four
horses, Sl2 extra points, S2.25); No. q
three horses, Sl1 extra points, t9). Ad,
dress all communications and make all 70
mittances to PERINE PLow WoRKs,
Topeka, Kas.
The advocate., 1896-01-08

was compelled to surrender. The English
government disavows the action Of its
troops, has spologized to all parties and
ordered the troops in the field to stop fight
ing.
The st. Louis Journal Of Agriculture Al
manac for 1895 is good one. It is sold for
25 cents and is valuable to persons engaged
in agricultural pursuits. Speaking Of that
paper, one Is reminded Of the fact that four
Kansans conduct departments in it. They
are Prof. GeOrgeson, Clarence j. Norton,
Mrs. Ellen j. Cannady and ]. r. Cotton.
The Journal Is all right.
The Venezuelan Commission named by
Cleveland Is: D. ]. Brewer, Of Kansas,
Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court
and Republican; Richard A. Alvey, Of
Maryland, lawyer and Democrat; Andrew
D. White, of New York, lawyer and Re.
publican; Frederick R. Coudert, of New
York, lawyer and Democrat; Daniel G.
Gilman, Of Maryland, President Johns Hop
kins university, politics uncertain.
Judge Scott, Of Omaha, has sent Editor
Baker, Of the Gretna Reporter, to the PEN
itentiary for one year for libel. The Ne
brasks law defines criminal libel as the
malicious publication of falsehood and
that the trial must take place in the county
where the offense was committed. Raker
was tried In another county, he proved his
charges and showed that he had no circu.
latlon In the county in which he was tried,
yet the Judge found him guilty and SEN
The advocate., 1896-01-08

fenced him. The Supreme court has sus-
pended the sentence pending an appeal.
Judge Scott is apparently unfit for the
bench.
The Illinois Populist State Central COM
mittee met at Springfield December &c. All
arrangements for the calling Of the State
convention were made except to name the
date, which will be named by the Chair
man after the national convention Is called.
A resolution introduced by National Chair
man II. E. Taubeneck recommending union
Of reform elements was unanimously
adopted and a resolution indorsing him
was also adopted.
A Canadian member Of Parliament Wis
iting In Kansas City in an interesting In
terview said: SIT has always been
surprising to me that you allow foreigners
to invest so heavily In your enterprises in
stead Of making the investments your
selves. / think it would be a wise move
for this country to do as we do in Canada
adopt the postal sayings bank system.
Every Canadian postoffice Is a savings bank
and millions Of dollars Of the peoples saw
ings are used every year. The people Of
this country could shut OF this drain Of
$500, 900 interest every day Of the year.
Why have they not done it," Is not this
lesson we need to learn?
The advocate., 1896-01-08
FROM Ex-CONGREsSMAN BRYAN.
BimetalliSm is Both theoretically Correct
and Actually Necessary.

1.-THE following article by ex.Congressman
Bryan was intended for our New Year edition,
but the copy arrived too latel
EDITOR ADVOCATE; In response to
your invitation permit me to make the
following brief statement in regard to
the silver question. BiDetallism is both
theoretically correct and actually neces-
sary. The use of two metals as standard
money furnishes dollar more stable in
it's purchasing power because the volume
OF dollars is less fuctuating under the
double standard than under the mono
metallic standard. A European econo-
mist has illustrated this greater stability
as follows: He says that river fed from
two sources will be more uniform in
volume than il it is fed from one source,
because in the latter case the river must
rise and fall with every change in the
volume of the one feeder, while in the
former case the two feeders would not
often rise and fall together. In the same
manner, when the volume Of metallic
money is supplied from gold and silver
both, it is less changeable than when
supplied from one source alone. In BIZ
metallism the debtor always has the
option and can pay his debt in which
The advocate., 1896-01-08

ever money he prefers or finds the more
convenient. But the very fact that the
debtor will, as a rule, select that metal
which tends to be the cheaper, at the
legal ratio, increases the demand for that
metal and raises it's price, while the de-
creased demand for the metal which
tends to be dearer will stop it's rise II,
on the other hand, the creditor is allowed
to exercise the option he will, as a rule,
demand the desrer metal and thus in
crease the demand for the dearer metal
which will make it dearer still, while the
demand for the cheaper metal being
withdrawn it will become cheaper still.
Thus when the debtor has the option the
metals are held together approximately
at the ratio fixed by law, il the demand
is sufficient to utilize all of the metal
offered for mintage, while the metals
would be drawn more and more apart il
the option were given to the creditor. IL
may seem at first unimportant whether
the option lies with the debtor or cred
itor, but as matter Of fact it is Of the
very greatest importance. The United
States has the right to redeem green
backs or treasury notes in either gold or
silver, and if it would exercise the option
it would make any issue Of bonds unnec-
essary; but the Secretary Of the Treas
ury has already issued s162,0O0,O0O Of
bonds because the note holder has been
allowed TO choose the coin Of payment,
The advocate., 1896-01-08

and more bonds are in prospect. TheES
is no end to the bond-issuing proCel
long as we have two kinds Of legal ts,a-
der money and the government attempts
to maintain the parity by rede&ming Que
with the other. Under our present flnan.
cial policy those who desire bonds iagued
can present greenbacks and draw out
gold and then demand an issue Of bonds
to replenish the gold. If the greenhaCAR
and treasury notes are retired those who
desire gold will make the same use 0E
silver certificates and silver dollars and
will contend that gold will 60 to d pre-
MUM unless the government stands
ready to redeem all silver in gold. As
soon as the government undertakes to do
this it will then be necessary to retire al
silver and silver certificates or return 10
the bond issue process. The plain, aim
pie and sufficient remedy for bond issues
is for the government to return to Tho
bimetallic principle and exercise It's right
to pay in silver when silver ia more con-
venient. France does this and still main
tains the parity between the metals.
Aside from the theoretical advantage
Of bimetallism the use Of gold and silver
is advocated by bimetallists as an actual
necessity. There is not gold enough %
form the basis Of the worlds commercial
transactions, and the elimination Of sil-
YER as a standard money necessarily In.
creases the strain upon gold and makes
gold more dear. AS gold becomes more
dear all property measured by gold be-
comes cheaper, and with falling prices
come hard times, injustice to the debtor,
idleness to the laborer and distress TO the
people in general. When prices are fsll-
ing people prefer to loan money or 20
hoard it rather than to invest in prop.
erty. There can be no return Of general
prosperity SO long ss the scramble Cor
gold continues, and the scramble for gold
must necessarily continue so long as The
quantity Of gold is less than that required
to do the business Of the world. The
remedy is found in the immediate resto-
ration Of the free and unlimited coinage
Of gold and silver at the present legal
ratio Of 16 to without waiting for the
aid or consent Of any other nation on
earth. Yours truly,
w. j. BRYAN.
The advocate., 1896-01-08
Texas Land.

Fine fruit and farm land convenient u
the new deep water port Of Galveston.
Texas, IS per acre up and on easy teFIns.
Corn and unincumbered improved property
taken at highest price on cash payment
Values advancing rapidly. For maps and
farm facts call on or write 10
CASH & LUKHL,
Houston and Galveston, Texas.