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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16
Some Safe Bets.

Silver IS now worth about SO cents
an ounce. The silver bullion in a dol.
lar is worth about 54 cents. Free silver
coinage would raise the price Of silver
TO 1873 cents an ounce, and the silver in
an American dollar would be worth 81
III gold the world over even without a
government stamp on it. "-Ex-Con-
gresham r. p, Bland in New York
World of July /, 1896.
II you have a neighbor who thinks
Bland is q great statesman, and who Is
willing to back his opinion with money,
and who would have anything to lose
after going through the free coinage
cyclone, here arc some Of the perfectly
safe bets you can make him:
First.-That free coinage would not
in Il year raise the price Of silver to
81 per ounce. (You can bet on Il
number Of years, but would have to
wait longer before the bet could be set
tied.
Second.-That the price Of silver will
be lower Il year after than one year
before the passage Of a free coinage act.
Third.-That the price Of silver will
be less than so cents per ounce when a
free coinage act has been in effect six
months II n year.
Fourth.-That at no time within one
year after free coinage at 16 to / has
become a law will an American silver
dollar be worth as much as % per cent
of the value of an American gold dollar.
If you cannot get even bets, give odds.
The price of silver is determined
mainly by the cost Of production. All
the silver the world can use can be pro-
duced at less than rs and probably less
than 20 cents per ounce. No legislation
can raise, except for a short time, the
price of silver. 1t is to be hoped that we
will never be forced to make this fool
ish free coinage experiment, but if we
do we should, if we can find takers, re-
coup some Of our certain losses by bet
ting on the inevitable.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16
The Real Currency contraotionists.

While the silverites are bowling them
selves hoarse over ''gold standard CON
traction of the currency" the people
who believe in a steadily expanding
volume of money should keep III mind
the fact that free coinage at 10 to /
would be the greatest contraction meas
ure Of the age. 1t would put the coun-
try on a single silver standard, would
drive gold out of use, would frighten
investors into withdrawing loans,
would make it impossible for The gov
ernment to redeem It's paper obligations
in coin Of any kind, would cause the
suspension of banks by creating a panic
among depositors, and By establishing q
precedent for the Republication of debts
would greatly curtail the operations Of
our present credit system. If currency
contraction is an evil, the people who
favor expansion should vote to sustain
the present system Of gold and silver
under which the volume Of money has
increased from @18 i'll 1873 to S23 at
the present time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16
Larrelr 4 onee.Ien 81 rre.rht.

The principal reason why the highly
civilized and commercial n~atiors have
gradually abandoned silver and adopted
the gold standard is that value fer value
silver Is 80 times as heavy as gold. Sc
that If the cheaper metal we're used to
settle balances IN trading between two
countries CT between distant points q
the same country itwoula cost 30 times
more TO transfer ii than if payment was
made in gold. The foolish idea that
business men have conspired TO discredit
the white metal IL order 70 increase the
yalue Of gold is merely a cheap money
Gelusion. Merchant mixers asc In
terested III having e possible ma
terial for use IN ~nIS--pring values and
making exchanges, and the fact that in
millions CT transactions the handling Of
money the greater weight Of silver meant
a larger cost Of transporting ii was Of it.
self a sufficient reason why gold should
be preferred.
Left TO themselves, men always choose
the easiest known method Of doing any,
thing. Sinceit is far easier TO use a sub
stance having great value III small bull,
than one 80 or 60 times heavier, it is
only natural thai, whenever it is pos
sible TO secure sufficient gold, that metal
should be used instead Of silver. Wood
is now generally used instead Of steel
for bicycle rims because it is lighter.
Steelites who should claim that the
wood conspirators had demonetized steel
rims would be laughed at. Yet their
arguments would be just as sound as
those of the silverites.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16
The nIonstrous wrenz.

The "monstrous wrong" for which
Governor Boies arraigns the Republic
ans is, the Philadelphia Telegraph says,
''the wrong of giving the poor man the
best money in the world and assuring
him that what little property he may
possess or may acquire shall not be put
in jeopardy by the uncertainties of a
shifting and questionable currency; the
wrong Of insisting that the dollar paid
TO the wage earner shall be worth 100
cents and shall not be cut down to 80
cents"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16

A s~iivcrite newspaper says, "a bushel
of potatoes, a dozen Of eggs and a pound
of butter can be bought in many por-
tions of the western reserve OF Ohio at
che present time for 80 cents" And
this fact is stated as "a reason for free sill
ver. Would the farmer be any better OF
if he sold his 20 cents worth of potatoes,
eggs and butter for 5S cents in coin
worth 80 cents on the dollar and had to
nav Sc IN silver coin for every dollars
worth of value that he purchased Mt the
stores and in the markets~t,-~
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16

The Baltimore Sun points out that
-Four good times have in the past al
ways been times when foreigners were
investing money freely among us. 1t
was not altogether or chiefly our own
savings that made business brisk. 1t
was the continued influx Of foreign
gold. Now we are unfortunately isolat-
ed by the threat of the silver basis and
shall be bottled mp indusrrially if we
shall yer actually reach it. Our theo-
rists kill the goose that laid the golden
egg"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16
Sure Cure For sixteen to One Malaay.

The following suggestion was sent b
the editor of the Velasco (Tex. Worl
to a prominent sound money man il.
New York:
Can't you get information from Mex
icof The people on the Rio Grande bor-
der are against free coinage and our
people who go there in nearly every in
stance come back converted. Yon ought
to send an intelligent man to Mexico
and get the facts. | went there and it
converted me to the gold standard.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16

.PUBLlCArIos.

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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-08-27
The Lesson of 1892.

What happened in 1892? Everybody
had money, plenty of money: and then
they came to you and whispered in your
ear that although you had plenty of
money and plenty of work that you were
not buying what you bought cheap
enough: that they were taxing the many
for the benefit of the few, and too many
of the American people listened to il.
Ii was the arousing of the class of en-
ployers against the employed: and the
employed against the employer; and we
had the change. They gave us the cheap
stuff, hut in what condition did they
leave the American people?
1t reminds me of colored gentleman
who wanted to cross the Arkansas river.
and had no means. He sat down awhile
upon log and waited until someone
should come up. Shortly a white gen.
tleman approached. He says: Boss.
| want to cross this river; will you,
cent in the world" well. sir" he said,
IF you haven't a cent in the world it
don't make n damn bit of difference
which side of this river you are on"
And 80 il is with ell cheap goods that
these gentlemen furnish us. They fiji
the stores with their clothing. made Of
shoddy, brought in under an ad valorem
law by which the importer is made to
swear that il is worth nothing, and it
is worth nothing. Ii il made out Of
old hats picked up out of the streets
and alleys of our foreign cities, of rags
from Switzerland and rotton socks from,
Italy. 1t is sent over to be placed upon
American backs. That is not the civil
ization we want. We want American
wages. American clothing and Ameri-
can civilization. Now, in 1896 they
came TO us. We had plenty of money
before. now we have no money. They
come TO us and say they are going to
give II TO us; and they propose this
doubling of the face value of silver
From speech by Congressman Fowler
of New York at Milwaukee.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-08-27
Carlisle's Five Points.

"There is not free coinage country
in the world today that is not on a silver
basis.
III.
"There Is not a gold standard coun-
try i'm the world today that does not use
silver as money along with gold
Ill
'There IL not silver standard country
In the world today that uses any gold
as money along with silver.
Nv.
'Therc IL not a silver standard country
IN the world today that has more than
one-third "a much moncy in circulation
DER capita as the United States.
V
"There Is not a silver STANDARD country
In the world today whore the laborinc
man receives fair pay for his days
work"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-08-27

silver would go at a parity with gold IL
Of 54,OOO,OOO ounces a year. Ii did not
20 10 a parity. How can they say now,
and look the American people in he face
with steady eye, that where il failed then
IL is going 10 work entirely different and
satisfactorily now?
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-08-27

Now you ask me for my proof and |
will proceed to give IT, The unlimited
and free coinage of silver in this country
will drive out the gold. This is as indis-
puta BILE as any law of physics. such as
The law Of gravita:ion. Ii has driven our
gold in every country which has unlimit-
torical and clear proof of IL? In fact.
there is not an enlightened gentleman
who will talk 10 you ia advocacy of free
coinage q silver who does not admit that
this will he the inevitable result. hut they
say IL will only last two or three years.
that the paticlH vm probably survive
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Why Capital Is Timid Today.

There is capital enough for every
legitimate business enterprise, and by
the processes of credit it can be multi
piled indefinitely, but it cannot be set
at its work so long as men fear that it
will be suddenly cheapened in the using.
Capital brings no return to the owner
unless he somehow puts it at the service
of the community, but the tempting
lure the lenders follow is profit, and
when the risks are great the profits
must also be great. Remove the thought
of risk, and boarded capital will be set
free, mills will start up, railroads IN
dertake extensions and improvements
and hopeful enterprises commend them
selves to investors. AS it is, pending
the decision of the value of the dollar,
no one is spending, everybody is hoard
ing. We live from hand to mouth, with
the machinery of prosperity idle at our
doors. Congregationalist.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Which? Which?

In communities where wageworkers
predominant Mr.. Bryan continues to
deny any intention of cheapening the
dollar. He knows and they know that
this would mean diminishing by one
half the purchasing power of wages and
reducing by one-half the value of all
savings, assurances and loans. And so
he pretends that free coinage will in
crease by nearly one-half the price of
silver and make a silver dollar worth
truly as much as a gold one.
But in the west and in farming COM
munities Mr.. Bryan wakes eloquent on
the need of a cheaper dollar to increase
the price of farm products and enable
the farmer to pay 500 of debt with SOL
in silver. Leading silver advocates at
the west have repudiated Mr.. Bryan's
idea for eastern hearers only that free
coinage will increase the price Of silver
to $1.29. They say fatty that such dol
lars would be as bad as gold. What
they want is a dollar worth only 81
cents.
Which dollar does MIR. Bryan really
want? He cannot have both. Which is
to be bunkoed-the workingman or the
farmer, the mine owner or the debtor?
Which?-New York World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30

"As a new woman" he said, 81 sup
pose you will object to the wedding
ring as a symbol of mans tyranny"
"Of course shall" she replied. "Un-
der no circumstances would ] consent
TO wear such thing. 1t is not essen
tial to a marriage, and it stands for
all that is objectionable in the mar
riage relation
"And on the same theory" he con-
tinued, Il suppose you will refuse to
wear an engagement ring also?"
"Well-no," she answered slowly and
thoughtfully. That's very different
matter"
But, theoretically it"
"There is no use arguing" she inter
rupted. 81 don't care what it is the
oretically. Practically it is very often a
diamond, while the wedding ring is
only plain gold, and that makes all
the difference in the world."-Chicago
Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
SHINGLES LAST a CENTURY.
Roofs OF Michigan White Cedar Resist
Climatic Ravages.

Roofs of Michigan White Cedar Resist
Climatic Ravages.
There are said to be Michigan white
cedar shingles now doing good service
on roofs in that state that have been in
full exposure and wear for over IS years.
1t is thus seen that climate affects the
durability of shingles, and the fact that
white cedar is the natural product of
Michigan and red cedar of the Pacific
coast is held to be proof that the red
cedar is naturally adapted for use on the
Pacific coast and the white for use in
such sections as the middle and north
western states, etc. A peculiar objec-
ton is brought against the red cedar by
some-nanely: that there exists in that
wood an acid which is, in the climate
of certain sections, so acted upon by
water as to corrode rapidly the nails
with which the shingles are fastened
onto roofs, the rust extending to the
wood around the nails, and soon causing
a leaky roof-this action explaining the
holes so often to be seen around the
nails in red cedar roofs. Another point
offered for consideration in this connec-
ton is the fact, as stated, thata shingle
is ruined by kiln drying, and that no
kiln-dried lumber can be regarded as of
equal value for outside work to that
which is air-dried.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
MAKING HAIRPINS.
The Process OF Manufacture-CIose At
teation Is Necessary.

The Process OF Manufacture-CIose At.
tention Is Necessary.
For ages, says the Chicago Chron-
icle, the English and French controlled
the manufacture Of hairpins. and it is
only within the last 20 years that the
goods have been produced in other
countries to any extent. The machinery
used is of delicate and intricate char
acter, as the price at which the pins are
sold necrssitates the cheapest and most
rapid progress, which can only be pro-
cured by automatis machines. The wire
is made expressly for the purpose and
put up in large coils, which are placed
in clamp and so carried to the ma
chimes while being Strengthened. This
machine cuts, bends, and. by a deli
cate and instantaneous process, sharp
ems the points. Running at full speed,
it will turn out 12O hairpins every MIN
lite. To economic, it is necessary to
keep the engine going day and night.
The difficult part of the work is in the
enameling, which is done by dipping the
pins in a preparation and baking in
an oven. 1t is here that the most con-
slant and careful attention is required.
as the pins must be absolutely smooth
and the enamel have perfect polish.
The slightest particle of dust causes i'm
PROJECTIONS and roughness.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
An Unworthy Citizen.

Silverite Orator-What we want is
more money.
Skeptic--Would free coinage make
more money?
S. O.-Certainly. 1t would give us
both gold and silver.
S.-But wouldn't free coinage at 16
to drive gold out of circulation, in &C.
cordance with the Gresham law?
S. Only 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 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!
You don't belong to this country. As
was saying
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
The Danish Prince.

The Danish prince who married one
of Queen Victoria's granddaughters is
more French and Irish than Danish,
so far as blood goes. The Irish strain
is that of the famous O'Clarys, of Tyr
connell. A hundred years or so ago,
50 the story runs, a member of this
family amassed wealth in Marseilles,
and. dying, left his two daughters hand
some dowries. These were the two
sisters Clary, one of whom afterwards
became Joseph Bonaparte's wife, queen
of Naples. The other married Berna-
dotte, the soldier of Napoleon who be-
came Charles XIV, king of Sweden.
Prince Charles is Bernadotte's great
grandson
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
eEEEorlvE MATCHMAKING.
ezwpls sad Direct Method Employed By
she Nez Perces indians.

GaDPle 8ad Direct Method Employed By
she Nez Perces Indiaas.
An cid custom was revived by the
1ez Perces Indians and their visitors
during the celebration on the last
Fourth of July, says the Morning Ore
CONAN. The natives of the local tribe
are very wealthy people, and there are
designing mothers among the aborig-
ines as we'll as in the different classes
of civilized society. The young bucks
of the Nez Perces tribe ere regarded
somewhat like the scions of royalty in
matrimonial circles. The maidens from
all visiting tribes were brought to Lap
wal to find husbands. The customs of
the tribes, which were revived for the
occasion, were more effective than the
Boston mans way.
The manageable maidens were by
common accord quartered in selected
spot in the valley of the Lapwai. At an
appointed hour the young men who
wanted wives to share their annuities,
their homesteads and the affections of
their hearts appeared in procession on
the haiiowed camp ground. The hour
was midnight, and the scene was in a
grove of trees made fragrant by the
wild flowers, and every heart danced to
the music Of the ripping waters. The
young men marched forth. and none
but candidates for matrimony Joined
the march. They were dressed in their
brightest colors, and each carried a
white willow cane. AS they approached
the tents they chanted an Indian chorus
that was as doleful as the song of the
owl, and kept time by beating upon the
tents with their canes. The drumming
was deafening TO the distant spectator
and must have been distracting to the
waiting maidens in the tents. At last
the singing and the drumming had the
desired effect.
The maidens came forth, after delay
just long enough to satisfy that uni
versal passion Of the mind Of a wom-
an to drive a lover mad with doubt.
There were more men than maidens.
The former kept up the march and the
music without. The maidens counter
marched on the line of the same circle,
each selecting husband from the line.
The chosen ones hastened to follow
their brides away into the darkness.
The unfortunate suffers were left to de-
Spair.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Senator Stewards Sound Arguments.

The question never will be settled
until you determine the simple ques-
ton whether the laboring man is en-
titled to gold dollar if he earns it, or
whether you are going to cheat him
with something else. That is the upshOt
of the whole thing. = There have
been great many battles fought against
gold, and gold has won every time. 1
do not care how much you discuss it o.
how many resolutions you pass, they do
not make any difference. You must
come to the same conclusion that all
other people have-that gold is recOg-
nized as the universal standard of value.
1t is the measure that must be used. Is
is the measure by which your wealth
must be tested. 1t has been and always
will be the touchstOne of measurement,
and when you depart from that and try.
to figure up any other measure which
the world does not recognize you get
into confusion. Attempting to reconcile
them, it is idle to talk about. 1t is idle
to talk about compromising on any other
measure of value. The world will not
accept it. We have the experience OF
every nation that has tried it, and il
has been tried in almost every civilized
nation. Do not let us try to de-
ceive the American people. Do not let
US try to make them believe by some
hocus pocus Of legislation that we can
give them something of real value-we
can give them measure of value that
is better than the universal standard Of
mankind. Do not deceive them in that
regard. Let them know the facts now.
1 believe that it would be highly injuri-
Gus to this country to again initiate the
currency. y need not enlarge upon
the evils of a deprecated currency.
This country has felt them too severely
to require that l should mention them
1t matters not what kind Of a depreci-
ated currency you have, it necessarily
entails many evils. $50