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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
LITTLE TIFF WITH RUSSIA.
United States Objects to Some I'M
proper Practices of the Cars
Representatives

Washington, D. c., July 13-The
greater portion of the labors of Mr.
Breckenridge minister to Russia during
the past year, as revealed by the pub
lished foreign relations of the United
States seem to have followed an instruc-
ton from the state department TO protest
against the practice of Russian consuls
in the United States of refusing to issue
passports to American citizens going TO
Russia if they happened TO be of the
faith.
At the point where the publication
closes he was obliged to bluntly inform
the Russian government that the United
States could not acquiesce in the opera
ton of such foreign tribunals in the
United States. Mr. Disadvantages pre-
sentation of his case was formally ap-
proved by Secretary Olney
Another dispatch says an important
subject considered was the absolute in
.sistence of the Russian government upon
its right to punish any Russian who falls
into its power after becoming a citizen of
the United States Correspondence be-
tween the two governments on this sub
ject was SO spirited as to lead Minister
Breckenridge to complain to Secretary
had been lacking in courtesy. As the
matter stands at the END of the CORE
sspOndence so far published the Russian
government rests firmly for its right to
punish Russians who become United
States citizens if they return to Russia.
Meanwhile Mr.. Breckenridge prudently
suggests that proper warning be given to
Russians naturaliZed in the L nited
States to keep away from Russia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
BASKETS OF ALL NATIONS.
Beautiful Weaves Of tine Aleutian Indians
in Substantial Wicker Work.

Beautiful Weaves Of tine Aleutian Indians
in Substantial Wicker Work.
The average person who is a stranger to
the fad that leads one to collect baskets,
upon hearing of such a collection. would
at first be inclined to scott at the idea
that there could be aything interesting to
an intelligent person in the study of bas-
kerry. But a short time spent among
the baskets now on exhibition in the
Library building will speedily convert
him, and, if he did not leave the build
ing hopeless fadist, it would be at least
with a certain respect for those persons
who had brought together such an inter-
esting collection.
There are all kinds of baskets on ex-
hibitOn, and after one comes out of the
beWilderment incidental to seeing so
much basket work, one begins to marvel
at the beautiful weaves of the Aleutjan
Indians and the substantial wicker work
of the Nootka Sound tribes. There are
baskets there that are woven so closely
that they will hold water, and baskets
with patterns woven in them that so
closely resemble the patterns traced on
Greek vases that one wonders where the
Indians got the ideas, particularly as
these baskets were woven hundreds of
years ago, when this coast was strange
to the white man.-Portland Oregonian.
New Servant Girl tat the house tele-
phone)-'No, the master is not in, and
he and the mistress cannot come to your
house next Sunday. because | am going
out myself '-Tid-B Bits.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
SURPRISING RESULTS.
The Eject of Passing Meteor on d
Ships Compass.

A very curious observation of the eff
fects produced by meteor seen at sea
is made public through the photographic
bureau in Washington. Capt. Redman
Of the British steamship Nerano, when
little more than 200 miles southeast Of
Cape Clear during recent voyage from
Baltimore TO Hayre, saw meteor which
appeared to pass close to his ship.
An observation of the North star, TAX
en- soon after the appearance of the
meteor, showed surprising result. The
direction of the ships compass needle
had been changed no less than eleven
degrees. Before the meteor passed the
needle had pointed about 5 deg. 30 west
of true north, but now it pointed 5 deg.
so east of north.
That the meteor had caused the change
was indicated by the fact that within
tWenty-four hours the needle returned
to its former position, moving slowly
back about eleven degrees toward the
west
Equally great effects have been pro-
duced upon ships compasses by light
ming, but in such cases the bolts have
actually struck the ship. The meteor
seen by Capt. Redman did not touch
his ship, and while he makes no estimate
of its actual distance, it was probably
considerable, since there was no report
of its having been observed to fall into
the sea.-Popular Science News.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
THE CRACKER OF THE HILLS.
The Origin of the Poor Whites of the
Southern Mountain Regions.


Southern Mountain Regions.
The notion that the poor white element
of the Southern Appalachian region is
identical with the poor people generally
over the country is an error, and an en-
TOR of enough Importance to call for
correction. The poor white of the South
has some kinfolk in the Adirondack re-
gion of New York and the Blue and AL
leghany mountains of Pennsylvania !;
but he has few relatives any place else
above the Mason-DiXOn line. The states
of New York and Pennsylvania were
slave states until the early part of this
century
This poor white mountaineer descends
direct from those immigrants who came
over in the early days of the colonies,
from 1920 to about. or some time after.
the Revolutionary war period, as sold
passengers They sold their services
for q time sufficient to enable them 10
work out their passage money. They
were sold, articled to masters, in the
colonies for their board and fixed wage,
and thus they earned the cost Of their
immigration
The laws under which they were ar
tice laws in those days. The sold pas
the purchaser of his labor. He could be
whipped if he did not do the task set
him, and woe to the unlucky wight if
he ran away. He was sure to be caught
and cruelty punished And though be
was usually 8 descendant of the lowest
grade CT humanity on the British islands,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
WILL ENFORCE THE FINE.
Umpire May Allow Tebeau to Play To-
day Under Protest

Washington, D. c.. July 13.-Presi-
dent Young of the National Baseball
league today wired instructions to the
umpire at Cleveland as to the course he
should pursue in case the fine of 5000
imposed on Capt. Tebeau of the Cleve-
land club is not paid by 4 o'clock when
the time limit fixed by the league board
expires. What these instructions are
President Young refused to say.
Their is reason to believe that the
umpire will permit the game to be played
subject to protest by the visiting club
Mr.. Young is consulting with other mem
bers of the league board on the case and
will be brought to an end with q deter
minaticH to uphold the action of the
board in filming Tabeau. The court will
be asked to set aside the temporary in
junction restraining the league from col
lecting the fine. This accomplished,
measures will be taken to compel its
DaVmpnT
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
ROSE AND RUE,

When l was q maiden fair and fond,
And smiled and sang all day,
a strange young squire
With looks of fire.
He lured my heart away.
The gardeners son as he stood by
-Four gifts thus gave to me:
The yiolets blue,
The pink, the rue,
And the red, red rosy tree.
For your balmy lips the sweet Glove pink
For your eyes the violets blue,
The rose to speak
Your radiant cheek,
And for memory the rue"
And first my love was fond and leal,
And then he turned untrue.
My rose and pink
And yiolets shrink
But my tears keep fresh the rue.
Alfred perceVal Graves
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
\ UG. WIGGENHORN,

WatcAmakay and 1ez0eley
Opposite Bank of Watertown, corner
Main and First Streets. Keeps constantly
on hand a large stock of Watches, Clocks,
Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, etc. Par
tcular attention paid to repairing watches,
clocks, jewelTy, etc. and warranted to
rive Ga tiSfactjOn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
Treasury Statement.

Washington, D. c., July 13.-Today's
statement of the condition of the treas
ury shows: Available cash balance,
S263, TBS, 4S4; gold reserve, S99,2O2,32S.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
KAISER AS WRECKING MASTER.
Has One of His Cruisers Release \ Strand
ed French Steamer

Berlin, July 13.-While the imperial
yacht Hohenzollern, having Emperor
William on board, and the German
cruiser Gefon, were lying at anchor in
the French steamer Gen Chanzy went
aground off Floro. The Emperor sent
the Gefon to pull off the French vessel.
which she succeeded in doing today.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
wales Gives Garden rarity.

London, July 13.-The Prince and
Princess of Wales, in behalf of the
Queen, gave garden party at Buck;ng
nam palace this afternoon in honor of
Princess Maud of Wales, who is to be
married to Prince Charles of Denmark
on Wednesday,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
Unite Against America.

Madrid, July 13.-Senor Segasta, for
mer prime minister of Spain, in an inter-
view on the subject of suggested alli-
must be exerted to maintain its policy as
against the policy recently developed in
America.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
NIarries Miss Baird.

When Mr. Bryan was in Illinois col
lege be boarded with DR.. II. X. Jones. a
relative. who had been one of the ia
Hoas Concord school. 1t was during
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18
Suppose You Shout BE Mistaken.

Farmers who think that free silver
cages should consider carefully what
effect a 16 to 1 law will have on the
lenders of capital The silverites are
telling you beautiful stories about the
great volume of money which will be
ready for loaning at low rates of in
terest as soon as we adopt the silver
standard. But suppose the scheme
should not work in the way they cx-
iect? Suppose that as soon as it be-
comes likely that a free coinage law
will be enacted there is a general de-
mand that all mortgages should at
once be paid ir full? The promise of
cheap money when free silver comes
won't help you now. Where are you
going to get the money to pay off
your mortgage? Do you suppose any
man is going to make loars while there
is a possibility of his being repaid in
50-cent dollars? And if you can't raise
the money when it is called for, and if
your farm is sold at a sacrifice, where
will you he then?
mink these things over. Don't be
fooled by the free silver idea that
cheap money means low rates of inter-
est. The facts are just the other way.
Interest is far higher in all silver-Us-
ing countries than in gold countries.
If We go on the silver standard the men
who have capital to lend will charge
more interest than they do now in
order to cover the risk of being repaid
in deprecated silver dollars. So if
you succeed in borrowing under free
coinage you will pay higher interest
on the loan. Ask anybody who knows
the facts whether interest is not much
higher in Mexico, India or the silver
South American countries than in the
United States, England or Germany,
with their currency based on gold.
Then make up you mind that you will
vote for the financial system which
il left undisturbed will benefit you far
more than free silver will.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18

silver mines y.lo are supporting the
free-coinage newspapers, distributing
free-coinage literature, paying the sal
aries of free-coinage stump speakers
and backing free-coinage candidates.
Are they doing it for the good of the
country or for the money there is in it
for themselves? Do men go into speeI-
lations that promise 100 per cent profits
out of philanthropy or out of greed for
dollars? Will the people who have al
lowed themselves to be imposed upon
by these silver kings persist in
scheme to add millions on millions to
the enormous fortunes of few score
men by depriving the plain people of
half the value of their savings and
their wages?
The only people in this country who
could profit by the free and unlimited
coinage of silver would be the owners
Of mines, bankrupts who wish to re-
pudiate their debts and spectators in
the returns Of the men who toll for
their bread. If this nation ever should
sink to the level of silver basis the
workingman would not be able to lift
his head for generation to come, the
farmer would plunge deeply into debt
because the working classes, who are
the greatest consumers of farm PRO-
dcts, would have their purchasing
power cut in half, and this whole coun-
tlz would become the victim of the
money sharks of the world.
But the American people will not
commit so foolish, so outrageous, so
criminal an act as to vote half of their
own belongings into the pockets OF
rapacious and unconscionable silve,
kings.-New York Press.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18
Cash Is TIE basis Of all price compu-

Cash is the basis of all price compu-
tations In China. Considerable sums
NAV be paid in gold or silver, but tney
are treated as merchandise and are
bought and sold by weight without
government stamp TO guarantee Weigns
and fineness.
The as was a brass coin used In italy
until after 200 A. d.
2. international Trade,-When trade
became international there was stiiI
greater need for the most accurate anu
reliable counters of value possible. heai
coinage began when governments nrse
guaranteed weight and fineness with an
official stamp great part of this I'M
mense gain to commerce and ciViilza-
tion was lost when, after awhile, mon
archs began to abuse this coming prlVl-
,ege and to break faith with their sub
jects by stamping light weight or oth-
erwise debased coins as genuine. Sucn
coins would continue in use, but would
soon depreciate in value.
Figure IA represents one OF the ear
liest silver coins. 1t was struck IN
Rome about 200 B. y.
Gold was coined in Rome in 20o b. G.
Figure Is shows the gold solidus OF
Julian III. The solidus weighed four
scruples from 312 A. d. to 1453 ana
formed the basis of more modern Euro
pean coins. The form, coined in Flor
ence in the fourteenth century, was the
first regular coin Of western Europe.
IT, soon became the recognized unit or
value in commerce and was replaced
only by the English sovereign, when
has since remained the standard unit
of value for international trade.
The commercial world has chosen
gold as money because, all things con-
sidered it Is better fitted for this pur-
pose than any other metal or substance.
II owes it's position entirely to its IN
trinsic worth. 1t has needed no speclai
legislation to sustain it, nor has the
almost unlimited special legislation in
the interest of silver and other metals
and substances been able to make them
"as good as gold" in any modern CIVIL
lied country. 1t has come by eVoiu-
ton and will not go even by revolution.
We have passed the fishhook, wampum,
tobacco, iron and silver stages OF ciyili-
zation and have entered the golden
stage. Each year sees some progressive
country stop experimenting with the
tickle and fiuctuating silver standard
and declare for the stable and world
recognized gold standard of value. Pos
sibly we may, by foolish legislation,
make silver legal tender for awhile and
drive gold out of circulation, but our
commercial interests will continue to
use gold, and soon all interests will be
glad to drop Mexico and China and to
return to the society of civilized ma
tions. Byron W. Holt.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18

interests OF tobacco and corn. This was
a hard blow to our country. There ic
plenty of tobacco, corn, eggs and mo-
lasses to give US all the per capita"
we could carry IL the crime OF demone-
tization had not been committed
against them, thereby casing prices oil
these and other articles, except the
precious metals, to fall precipitateiy.
Economists tell us that these articles
ceased to be used as money because
they lacked some essential quality.
They say that some were perishable;
others bulky and hard to transport;
others could not be easily divided for
the purpose of making change; others
were not uniform in size or quality.
while nearly all lacked stability OF
value. But every tobacco, corn, mo-
lasses or egg producer and every lover
OF the weed, of omelets or OF johnny
cake and sorghum knows that they
were demonetized because they were so
plentiful that the shylocks could not
monopolize them as easily as they
could the precious metals.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18
Mexico Is simp'e OF what wonid
Result Shoul Bryan Win - Silver
Wave Is Reccding-The Silver Syn
dicafc.

The condition of Mexico Is naturally
attracting good deal of attention,
from the fact that it is on free-silver,
50-cent dollar basis. It's example is,
however, o. very little Importance as
an object lesson for the United States,
for the reason that other factors Of
much more potency enter into the case
to determine the real condition. Still,
it is pertinent to inquire into the facts,
apart from making an argument for or
against any particular theory of
money.
Whether one concludes that Mexi-
CO is prosperous or not depends alto
gether from ones point of view So
far as concerns business men, those,
whether foreign or native, who 1--we
enterprise and capital. Mexico is pros
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18

porous. 1t has vast resources of gold
and silver, and no end, hardly, of good
land. The industrial class are fairly
Industrious and never think of strik-
ing. They work long hours and are
much more contented with their wages
than our laborers, skilled or unskillad.
The government is stable. The pro-
verbal unrest and chronic state of
revolution which prevailed prior to the
administration of that truly great
statesman, JuareZ, no longer curses
the land. The term "Mexicanize," ais
formerly used, ought to be blotted from
our language. 1t is positively SANDER
ous Not only is there peace at home,
but Mexican credit is good abroad.
The national debt is being paid, inter-
est and principal, in gold. No adyan-
tage is taken of creditors to force a
We repeat that from business mans
point of view Mexico is prosperous,
highly so.
But when viewed from the stand
point of the people, their condition and
opportunities, it is altogether different.
The great mass of the people are ab-
jectly poor and wholly illiterate. Their
contentment is due to their ignorance
and to the fact that they and their
ancestors never knew any better con-
dition. The climate is mild and their
absolute necessities are few. The best
paid labor, the labor in mines, towns
and factories, does not command over
one-half the pay common on this side
of the line, and that, too, in 50-cent
dollar. The agricultural labor is paid
about one-quarter the United States
rate, besides the depreciation of the
money. A citizen of the United States,
accustomed to our ways of living, can
hardly conceive the abjectness of the
poverty of the poems, the class which
does about all the work of every kind
and constitutes at least 80 per cent of
way of clothes except the rags on their
backs, live mostly on beans and a
vile native coffee, their only luxury
being a kind of liquor worse than
barrel-house whisky, and OF which one
can get beastly drunk for few cents
Their houses are like pig pens, no such
things as bedsteads or chairs being
found in them. A few descendants of
the Spanish grandees have great
estates and are very rich, while the
poems. attached to them by system of
practical serfdom, get less actual share
in the profits of the land they work
than did the plantation negroes Of the
cotton belt before the war.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18

1t Is wholly immaterial to those poor
people whether Mexico is on a silver or
a gold basis. They themselves en-
a copper basis, and are bound ~ ~
there until their general plane Of 9 :
zation is raised. To hold up Mexico
as a model for America, or as an ex-
ample in any point of view, is simply
preposterous.
Another reason why Mexico can fur
nish no criterion by which to judge
monetary system is that the money
metals are the great staples OF :'ro-
duction in that country, except as agrl-
cultural products are raised for do
mestic use. The gold yield is much
larger than statistics indicate, for the
reason that there is a tax on the out
put of both gold and silver. There is
not much attempt to smuggle out the
silyer-it is too bulky-but great part
of the gold produced escapes taxation,
and, in escaping taxation, eludes the
statisticians. There is supposed to be
S5,O00,000 in gold in the country and
ten times that amount in silver money.
There Is more than that amount of
each metal produced annually. The
statistics Of 1894 gave the gold output
as S4,500,000. The actual amount must
have been at least S6,000,O0O. The sill
yer output was 60,S17, 800, about three
times as much as all Europe, Asia and
Africa produce. To go to Mexico for
lessons in finance is much like what it
would be to study thei.' peon novels for
models of workingmen's homes.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18
HISTORY OF MONEY.
USED IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF
CIVILIZATION.
Gradual Evolution from Skins, Fish
hooks, Shells, ETC., In Hunting stage
to Silver and Gold In Present Com
mercial Stage.

A study of the growth of money may
be useful just now in order to give a
more definite idea of exactly what mon
ey is and to learn why certain articles
OR substances have been discarded, and
Others retained. The natural and gen.
elal tendencies we'll understood, we
have only to juuge of the future by past
experience to predict what will and
what will not be the principal money
metal of the near future
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18

western states. The argentiferous en-
thusiasm that aroused Colorado, for
instance, to high pitch has percepti-
bly, declined, and there are not few
republicans in that state who are
sanguine that it will be carried for
Mckinley and Hobart.
In Kansas it is the same way. There
is no detection among the republicans
of the Sunflower state, who are well
organized and are showing a compact
and aggressive front to the enemy.
The republican newspapers of the state,
national ticket most enthusiastically,
and this is Of itself a tower of strength
to the cause. Kansas has not forgotten
the glorious traditions of the past, and
can be relied upon in the crisis now be-
fore the country to cast her vote on the
side of prosperity and national honor.
From Nebraska, the home of Candi-
date Bryan, who is now swinging
round the circle, the word goes forth
that the republicans of that common
wealth will not be satisfied with less
than $4,000 majority for Mckinley.
They know Bryan there, and all that
he stands for, and are eager to register
their opinion at the polls. Missouri.
too, is lining up for the battle for sound
money, and every day sees new ac-
cessions to the ranks of national
credit.
In fact, the same story comes from
all over the country, and the Bryan
managers are perceptibly alarmed.
They are making herculean efforts to
bring about a display Of enthusiasm,
and the tour of the "boy orator"
through the east has been arranged
in the hope that his presence may
arouse his followers to a semblance of
life. So far the indications are that
the plan will not be a brilliant sue
cess. All the glittering generalities
that Mr.. Bryan can find among his
book of quotations, together with his
latest stock of new and pleasing
metaphors" cannot swerve the people
from their purpose to give the advo-
Gates of financial heresy lasting les
son.-Kansas City Journal.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-18
silver Wave Recedinr.

Indications are growing stronger
every day that the silver craze has
reached high water mark, and that the
wave is receding. From all over the
country the testimoney is the same,
and it is particularly applicable TO the