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The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11

he said that it seemed almost to defy
human intellect, but Ben Tillman, from
South Carolina, knows that the gold
bugs Of Wall street and vampires OF
Lombard street are "agin the farmer,
and the way the farmer can get even
is to cut his dollar in two. (Applause)
We are living in grand and awful
time. But the newspapers are printed
every day, and the Americans are not
asleep. The brain of the American
people is not dull. Their hearts are
not dishonest. These heresies come
and go as the tide flows, and sometimes
in the thickest of the night we may
not appear to see the stars that are
shining. But you remember on one
historic occasion, when the sky was all
covered with fog, some one asked, "Oh.
say, can you see by the dawn's early
light the star spangled banner yet
waving?" And it was there! ED
thusiastic cheers.)
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Where Are the Benefits?


II so cent silver dollars should dou-
BILE the prices of farm products, it is
quite as certain that the prices of all
the products which the farmer con-
sumes would double in the same way.
IL that case it is not easy to see how
the farmer would gain anything by the
free coinage of silver. Even the wages
of labor, the last to rise in an epoch OF
deprecated currency and inflated
prices, would finally, after much dis
tress of the workingmen, straggle up
to the common level.
But whether the farmer should re-
ceive $100 for 100 bushels of wheat
and pay out $50 for the necessaries OF
living or should receive $500 for the
same wheat and pay out $3.50, in both
cases the balance on hand would have
just the same purchasing power. But
in accomplishing the degradation of
the monetary standard, which could
do neither the farmer nor the wage
Garner any good, an enormous depre-
citation of values and confiscation of ac-
cumulated earnings, involving public
and private credit in maelstrom Of
destruction, would inevitably ensue.
Are the farmers and workingmen of the
country willing to invoke such
catastrophe?-Ph Record.
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is for the benefit of the many against
.onrade

is for the benefit of the many against
the few, for the poor against the rich.
Should the country descend to the de-
preciated standard of silver the dupes
OF this belief would discover, when too
late, that the fatal tendency of the
Cheap Money policy would be to
strengthen and increase the possession
of wealth among the few. While null
titudes of thrifty and prosperous peo-
pie would undoubtedly be ruined by the
desperate experiment, not a dollar of
their wealth would find it's way to the
possession Of the many; it would make
the few who control and command
large amounts of money only the richer
in affording them opportunities for
profitably specializing on the general
distress. Such has been the universal
experience in all epochs of depressed
currency and financial panic. So far
from being widened, the circle of the
prosperous and rich would be only mar
rowed by the reckless policy of the sill
verites. The power of the gold bugs"
and money sharks" against whom the
silyerite warfare is foolishly waged,
would be greater than ever, and would
be more unscrupulously exercised than
ever before The gleam of Fictitious
prosperity under a system of debased
and inflated money would soon pass
away, and would be followed by long
night of Industrial and social gloom.
There is, in short, no form of econ
omical, social or political development
which the free silver scheme is not cal
culated to arrest more violently than
if a disastrous war, a famine Or an
Egyptian plague should strike the land.
Yet the illusory prospect of creating
weal.n and prosperity out of nothing
by deeply debasing the nations stand
ard of value seems to have a strange
and unaccountable fascination for null
titudes of people something like the
attraction of the lighthouse lamp On the
seacoast, which lures innumerable
fiocks of migratory birds to their GER
tain destruction. But the simile badly
limps. 1t would, perhaps, not matter
so much if these persons should shatter
their own wings only, if their course
did not threaten so many millions of
innocent people.-Philadelphia Record
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
The Pensioners Dollar.

The government pays about $14O, ,OOO,-
900 year to pensioners. The payments
last year were S141, 1896, ,229. Every one
of these dollars was worth 100 cents
and equal to dollar in gold.
If the policy of the Chicago platform
and party should be made effective by
legislation, every dollar thereafter re-
ceived by pensioner would be worth
only So cents. 1t would be called a dol
lar, but in the purchase of pensioners
supplies it would go only so far as SO
cents go now. The buying power of the
pensioners monthly allowance, like
that of the depositor's money, still to
be paid out of the savings bank. and
the value Of policies to be paid by life
insurance companies, would be reduced
by nearly one-half-New York Times
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
CAMPAIGN NOTES,

The way in which some free silver
democrats nowadays refer to the doc
trines of Jefferson is absurd. Thomas
Jefferson was as strong sound money
man as Alexander Hamilton. He fa-
vored the use of both silver and gold
men now; but only on the basis of a
ratio that would maintain the parity
between them. In other words, he con-
tended that the ratio should be the COM
mercial ratio existing between the two
metals. That is heaven wide from the
doctrine of the free silver men. They
nowhere propose to make the silver
dollar equal in commercial value to
the gold dollar. 1t is an essential point
in their platform that the silver dollar
Vt) Free Press.
1t is impossible to make sale of pig
iron because of the agitation for free
silver. The use of iron is so general
in nearly all forms of industrial under
taking that the demand for it, or the
lack of demand, is a sure indication OF
the condition of the business pulse.
The stoppage of the sales of pig iron
has led to the stoppage of the produc-
ton of ore in the Rockefeller mines at
Bessemer, Mich, throwing 1000 men
out of work. The continuance of the
silver agitation will, no doubt, further
aggravate and intensity the conditions
of doubt and insecurity which compel
prudent men to a wise inactivity until
the storm shall have blown over
Philadelphia Record.
Advocates of free silver argue that
the increased demand-which would
be forced and not real demand
would raise the price of silver bullion
so that the make-believe ratio CT one
to sixteen would become the GEM
mercial ratio. That is a guess based
on a fallacy. The experiment has been
tried and found dismal failure. Under
the Bland law the government coined
$4,000, 900 worth of silver a month: but
the price of silver bullion kept drop
ping. Under the Sherman bill the
government bought 4,500,OOO ounces of
silver a month; but silver kept drop
ping. The "boy orator" pledges him
self to do what no nation on earth has
ever been able to do-keep gold and
silver on parity at ratio other than
the real or commercial ratio.-Bing-
hamton On. " Republican.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11

varIous Kinds of Legal Tender
The Fourth National bank in the city
of New York has issued leaf1et, which
gives the following concise and cor
rect statement of thesvarious kinds1of
legal tender under the present laws of
the United States:
Gold coin is legal tender in all pay
ments, without any limit as to amount.
The silver dollar of the acts of 1892,
1887 and 1878 is full legal tender to
any amount. The trade dollar was a
legal tender to the amount of five dol
lars, but has no legal tender qualifica-
tions now.
All fractional silver coin now minted
is legal tender to the amount of ten
dollars.
Minor coin is legal tender to the
amount of twenty-five cents.
United States notes 'greenbacks'D
are a legal tender in payment of all
debts, public and private, except for
duties on imports and interest on the
public debt
Gold certificates are not legal ten
der. but may be issued in payment of
interest on the public debt and are re-
ceivable in payment for customs, taxes
and all public dues.
Silver certificates are not legal ten
der, but are receivable for customs,
taxes and all public Dues
Currency certificates are not a legal
tender for any purpose, but may be
counted as part of the lawful money
reserve of the banks and may be ac-
cepted in the settlement of clearing
house balances.
United States treasury notes of 1890
are legal tender in payment of all
debts, public and private, and are re-
ceivable for customs, taxes and all pub
lie dues. They may be counted as
part of the lawful reserves of the banks
and are redeemable in gold or silver
coin in the discretion of the secretary
of the treasury.
National bank notes are not a legal
tender except that they are receivable
for all dues to the United States except
duties on imports and for all debts and
demands owing by the United States,
except interest on the public debt and
in redemption of the national currency.
Each national bank is required to re-
ceive at par for any debt or liability
to it. the notes of every other national
bank.-Albany Argus.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11

bullion value. If silver deprecated so
rapidly in value when it was bought in
comparatively small quantities, will it
not necessarily follow that when the
United States coins it free at the mints
in enormous quantities it will be even
more overproduced and it's value con-
Stantly shrink? The fact is that there
has been such a great production Of
silver. such competition among the
miners themselves, that the supply ex-
ceeds the demand and silver is really
no longer, unless international agree
ment can be secured for it's coinage, a
money metal. 1t has become COM
mercial commodity only and is now
steadily decreasing in value except
wherein speculative demand has artifi-
cially increased its market quotations.
The United States ias teen exceed
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11

trgly friendly TO silver and the time
came when the increasing of the gov
ernmeat's stock by the purchase OF
100000 ounces monthly became a
menace. Silver was falling SO rapidly
in value and the wide divergence be-
tween it and gold, at the existing ratio,
widened SO constantly that the flooding
of the nation with the deprecated coin
was dangerous and the difficulty of
maintaining 1t at parity with gold
was so great that congress repealed the
law providing for the purchase of the
bullion. The country was simply in
danger Of being swamped by silver.
Now the silver bugs would have us
undo the good work performed by the
repeal in 1890-made necessary by the
growing lack of confidence in the gov
ernment's ability to continue ell monies
at parity-by coming all the bullion
in the United States, that of France and
China as WELL and all old silver coffee
pots and silver spoons into money
which would be worth less, by reason
of its excessive supply, than fifty-three
cents to the dollar.
Thus free silver means giving the
nation currency deprecated at least
AZ per cent and compelling the laboring
man to accept silver dollar whose
purchasing value could not be more
than SO per cent of the dollars now in
circulation in lieu of money worth the
world over one hundred cents to the
dollar. The demand for silver coinage
now is fraud, bunco game, and the
victims selected are the wage-earners,
for they, less than any one else, can Of
ford to have the purchasing power Of
their money reduced AZ per cent or
more. The laboring man who wants a
good dollar will vote for Mckinley.
That is necessary or he votes to destroy
his ability to live as well as he does
now. Eloquent periods and blasphe-
nous metaphors cannot change the sit
uation. Free silver is a gigantic fraud.
CO., Union.
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1t consists Of impudence and wind.
Before 1873 there had been no silver
dollars in circulation in this country
for thirty years. This was because the
silver in the silver dollar would sell for
more money as bullion, to be used in
the arts, than the gold in the gold dol
lar. The gold dollar being the cheaper
had driven the silver dollar out Of cir
citation, so that in 1873 few men under
forty years of age had ever seen one.
For this reason when law was enacted
in 1873 codifying all previous acts in
relation to coinage so as to simplify
them and adapt them to modern condi-
tions, then obsolete silver dollar was
dropped from the list of coins provid-
ed for in the act. Subsequently to this
in consequence chiefly Of the great re-
lative increase in the production of sill
yer and of the closing of the mints of
Germany and other countries to its
free coinage-silver began to decline
rapidly in value. So that in short
time it became cheaper than gold. Then
the owners of silver mines began to
clamor for reopening our mints to the
free coinage of silver dollars. AS sill
yer was then cheaper than gold, if this
had been done the cheaper silver would
have driven out the gold. Congress,
therefore, refused to yield to the de-
mand of the silver miners; but in 1875
it reopened the mints to the coinage
of all the silver that could be main
tanned at par with gold. Since that
time We have coined 430,000,000 dollars
and have authorized the coinage of
about 150,00O,00O more, which is over
seventy times more silver dollars than
had been coined in our mints during
the entire history of the nation before
1873. These silver dollars are a full
legal tender for all debts. Silver had
been practically demonetized by the
coinage act of 1884, which raised the
ratio from Is to to 16 to 1, with the
result of driving all silver from circu-
lation. By the acts of 1878 and 1896
we have remonetized silver to the enor-
nous extent mentioned, and then hav-
ing reached the farthest limit where it
was possible to maintain our silver dol
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11

A pretty little story is told about
Mrs A. A johnson, the dean of Ober-
lin college 1t is said she never leaves
American soil without carrying with
her sillSen American flag At a din
ner party in Germany on one occasion
the host asked each of the ladies pres
ent what in her country she was most
proud of. Mrs johnson could not
speak German very fuently, but a hap
py thought striking her she left the
table for a moment and returned with
al American flag, which she waved
while all applauded.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
Dearness Not the Goal.

The silver men give away their case
when they say that free coinage viii!
increase prices" The one universal
human interest is cheapness. The ideal
condition would be one wherein all de-
sirable things were produced without
any cost at all. Every advance toward
that condition-that is to say, every
cheapening of the necessities of life
is great gain for everybody. On the
other hand, every increase in the price
of the necessities of life is a direct
and grievous hurt to the people.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
Free Silver a Gigantic Fraud.

1t is really awful the way silver has
been mistreated by the United States
Think of it! Prior to the crime of
1879 only eight millions of silver dol
lars were coined by the government
and there was free coinage then. But
since that notorious crime" the gov
ernment coined s42O,OO0,O 900 in silver
dollars and purchased S150,0O0,000 in
silver bullion and issued treasury notes
thereupon. OF course that was con-
tracing the currency.
The ''crime" seems to have been due
to the fact that the more silver the
United States purchased the less its
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
More About Demonstration.

Nashville Center, Martin County,
Mimi, Aug. 2-To the Editor: I notice
in your column of Notes and Queries
in your paper of July %, in answer to
the question whether a person is
obliged to receive silver dollars in pay
ment of debt, you answer that he is,
silver dollars being legal tender to any
amount. Now, this being so, in what
or of what does the demonetization Of
silver consist? George Boiler
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
sf.ckarei n bal ItalIene..

An Italian fashion for cooking fresn
mackerel is TO make dressing from
tablespoonful of butter, mixed with =
little minced shallots, parsley and the
green tops of young onions. Spread
this on the fish, wrap them well IN
strong white paper, saturated WIN
olive oil, and boil or bake them In
Quick oven. Garnish them with lemon
and parsley. Sweet peas, seasoned
with shallot and minced parsley, are
also sometimes served with fresh mack.
ereL Salt mackerel is very good cooked
after the English fashion, that Is oy
immersing it half an hour in water
containing handful of fennel ana
dash of vinegar Drain and serve with
hot gooseberry sauce.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
To suIt Any weather.

A pretty, yet servieable gown. which
was imported lately, would suit any
kind of ordinary weather. 1t was
mad in moss-green canvas, lined with
bright shade of pink. The tight-tit-
ting basque bodice had long. square
revers of white satin, over which fell
cascades of coffee-colored lace, and tho
vest, of white chiffon, was also veiled
with lace. Pink ribbon encircled the
waist and the neck, which was finished
with pointed motifs of lace.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
Too Late to Mend.

There is point beyond which medication
cannot go. Before it is too late to mend.
persons of rheumatic tendency inherited
or acquired should use that benignant ue-
fense against the further progress1of tho
approximations ma1ady rheumatism. Inc
name of this proven rescuer is Hostetters
stomach Bitters, which. it should also be
recollected, cures dyspepsia, liver COM
plaint fever and ague, debility and nervous
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is o constitutional cure. Price, 75c.
The Reason Why.

Party with Demijohn-Why don't
you lay in stock of whisky for Sun
day on Saturday night the same as I
do?
Other Party-Man alive, do you sup
pose would be able to sleep if / knew
there was whisky in the house? I'd
be walking the floor the whole night
Truth.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11

lars on par with gold, we stopped the
further coinage Of silver, just as it had
been stopped in all the great silver us
ing countries Of Europe for the sans
reason.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11

Cheap and trashy money in which
to pay wages, high prices for every
kind of goods which labor buys-these
are the blessings of free silver for the
American Workingmen.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
Free Coinage in a Nutshell.

A fine ounce of gold is worth s20.67.
Sixteen ounces of silver are worth
s11.20.
Congress can legislate until it is
black in the face without making the
ounce of gold worth less or the 15
ounces of silver worth more. = New
York Press.
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11
An ELOQUENT speech.

IIegeman's Camphor Ice with GIycerIne.
The original and only genuine. Cures Chapped Hands
The McCook tribune., 1896-09-11

Silverite Delusions.
The fomenters of hatred among the
people pretend that the silver agitation
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-07
THE COUNTRY IN MINIATURE
Senator Cannon Wants a Gigantic Ground
 Map of the United States.


 Senator Cannon of Utah has intro duced joint resolution in the senate, the effect of which, if it is enacted into law, will be to give to the city of Wash ington perhaps a more curious and gi gantic attraction for tourists and eufios- ity seekers than is possessed by any oth- CT city i'll the world. MT. Cannon pro- poses, in short, to have constructed a monstrous map of the United States, showing every physical feature of the country every hill, mountain, valley and plain; every lake, river, duck pond and fishing pool; every hamlet, village, town and city; probably every railroad and canal. All this is to be done in miniature of course, but on such scale as will give map, if it may be so termed, no less than half a mile in length and one-third of a mile in breadth. The cost of such project may be left to the imagination.
 The joint resolution by MT. Cannon provides for the appointment of a com mission of five persons, who are to serve without compensation, three being ap- pointed by the president, one by the president of the senate and the other by the speaker of the house, whose duty shall be to inquire into and report upon the advisability, practicability and cost of establishing such map, which Mir. Cannon describes as Q ground map of the United States to present our eoun- try in miniature. '"
 The map is to be constructed on such a scale that one foot of map surface will represent one square mile of actual area This would give. as stated, map ap- proximately half mile in one dimen- sion by one-third of mile in the other for, in round numbers, the United States extends about $500 miles from east to west and about half that distance from north to south. This would make a map $500 feet long by 1,750 wide. That Mir. Cannon is serious in his prop osition is indicated by the fact that in presenting the joint resolution he an- nounced that ill @ few days he would address the senate on the subject. New York Tribune
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-07
REQUESTING TREATMENTS.
New York Wrestling With the Greet Prob
 lem of Housing the Poor.

A problem of farreaehing importance is now making the architects of the metropolis think hard While they are perspiring over their drafting boards some hundreds of thinking men and wo- men of means are eagerly awaiting the result, for upon it hinges the answer to the question of how the wage earning masses of the future shall live. The idea is to secure plans for model apartment house which is to sound the deathknell of the tenements and relieve the army of sufferers now i'll housed in them. The architectural competition is the outcome of the movement for the betterment of the homes of the less prosperouselass by the Association For the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor.
 As yet the site for this much needed home for portion of the flower mil lion" is a secret; but, if possible, a whole city block will be secured, and it will be covered with the new building, Not more than 70 per cent of the total area of the land is to be occupied, the rest being left vacant for light and air. There must be no wells or light shafts, and all windows must open directly upon the outer air All staircases and corridors must be lighted by windows opening in this way, and all apartments must have cross ventilation. Every room of suit must be private. Every living room is to contain not less than IA square feet, and every bedroom must contain at least 70 square feet of floor space.
 The plans call for building on these conditions six stories in height. The apartments, must be suits of two, three and four rooms The building is to be fireproof This is the sort of structure the architects are wrestling with. They will undoubtedly succeed. After awhile the obnoxious word tenement" will be scratched by all real estate agents here. It has already disappeared from the housing councils dictionary When the plans are submitted, they will be open to the inspection of all, so as to enable the thinking men and women of other cities containing densely populated spots to take peep at them.-New York Cor Pittsburg Dispatch.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-07
RUskIN IS DYING.
The Great Genius Said to Re Slowly Pass
 ing Away.

John Ruskin, according to letter re- ceiyed by one of his former students now living in New York, is dying. Vir- tually Ruskin has been dead for years. Like so many of those who have made the world better and happier by their genius, his mind has given way before his body. His memory has gone entire ly, and he is subject to continual delu- sions of the most pathetic kind. He fan cies that he is ruined and that he and all around him are on the point of star vation
 Ruskin wrote the last words that will ever come from his pen about four years ago His autobiography. "Practerita, /" will never be completed, but fortunate ly he was able to continue it to a con siderable length. AS it stands it forms one of the finest specimens of autobiog- raphy ever written St. Louis Globe Democrat