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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-28

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for a few days
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First Regiment hard and bicycle carnl-
val 7. ". G A. park this evening. Ad-
mission With car fare. 8 eenfs-
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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
"Old Glory" in Metal.

The item of the expense of keeping
"Old Glory" floating every day over
public buildings or schoolhouses where
the daily display of the national banner
is rendered obligatory is not small
one. In East ST. Louis, ILL.,, a company
has been formed with capital of $780,
600 to go into the manufacture of shee:
iron, zinc and other metal flags. The
material from which the flags now in
use are made is not very durable, and in
the soft-coal burning states of the union
the banner lasts at best but few weeks,
all depending on the weather, and after
a weeks use it becomes SO dirty as to al
most lose it's identity. The stars and
stripes, duly waving and apparently fiut-
tering, will be painted on the metal and
then enameled. When dirty the flag
can be lowered and washed. Such
flags will Withstand the gales which so
readily whip those now in use into rib
Chronicle.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
Labor of Mountain climbing.

Below is curious calculation of the
amount of energy expended by per-
son weighing 16s pounds in climbing a
mountain peak 1000 feet high, the
time allowed for the ascent being five
hours. By careful calculation it is
found that the total amount of labor
performed is equal to raising 1.3so.Ooo
pounds to a height of one foot, or that
of raising one pound to height of L.
3s0, 900 feet. OF this enormous amount
of work 1.176,oo0 foot-pounds is ex-
pended by the muscles of the legs in
raising or lifting the body; 1900 by
the heart in circulating the blood. 80
600 by the chest in breathing. and 54,-
600 in various exertions of the body.
overcoming friction of the ground. etc.
St Louis Republic.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
Totals 1. ga IS. sOs. SOS. 15O ST. 651, sOs O75

Will these 100000 Shylocks sit idly
by and see their dollars decline to Sc
cents when they can, by depositing slips
Of paper in little box, prevent any de.
cline whatever2 But there are others
who will help them. There are 970,524
pensioners on our government and $780,
ISL of them are voters. If paid in dol
lars worth only so cents, these would
lose one-half of the $140,959,261 which
they now receive annually. Free coin
age would be an easy method of cutting
down our pension account, but will it
meet with the approval of our veterans
1t means not only loss to them of
S7OOOO,O00, but this amount every year,
or $7OO,O00,000 in ten years.
Then there are the 100000 life in
surance Shylocks who will vote to have
their $4,2o2, 1913 in policies paid IN
the same kind of money as were their
premiums. About 100000 more Shy
locks are members of cooperative and
mutual aid societies and are creditors
to the extent of $5,184 ,670,936. Nearly
100000 more Shylocks have $S16,650,-
CTS to their credit in the numerous in
dustrial companies of this country.
In truth, not only Wall street, but tie
woods and the prairies are full of these
money sharks. If the most of them
vote, as they are likely to do, in favor of
honest money, there will be no help for
the poor" debtors. They will have
to return all they borrowed or have
their mortgages foreclosed.
But worst of all there are only 4,777,-
COS of these mortgage debtors. They
cannot cast half as many votes as the
shylocks. These poor" debtors are
mostly in our large cities and have
mortgages of from $4,000 to $1,000,O00
hanging over them. Just think of it!
A poor" debtor with $4,000 mort
gage! 1t may surprise the average
populist to learn that the debtors are
the rich and enterprising, and that
they are the owners of steam and street
railroads, gas, telephone and electric
light companies, and manufacturing
and mercantile corporations and COM
panies.
These facts are likely to upset the
best laid plans of politicians some fine
day next November. The average sill
yer politician may know much about
the ratio of sixteen to one, but he knows
but little about the ratio between the
debtors and creditors of the country.
he will have to learn it by experience.
Byron w. Holt.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
SIXTEEN TO ONE LOGIC.
Fatuous Arguments Of tho Free silver
Fanatics.

Fatuous Arguments of the Free Silver
Fanatics.
Mexico has free silver. The Mexican
people are very poor. Therefore, we
want free silver.
Wages in this county are too low
Wages are higher here and in all the
gold standard countries than in China
India and other silver using nations.
Therefore, we want free silver.
We believe in the double standard
under which both metals will be used
to measure values. Free coinage at six
teen to one will drive out all our gold
and put our currency on the silver basis.
Therefore, we want free silver.
We favor an honest dollar which shall
be just to all the people. The adoption
of the silver standard will enable debt
ors to repudiate one-half of their obli-
cations. Therefore, we want free sill
yer.
Gold dollars are too scarce and dear
to serve as Money of the people. Unde:
free coinage silver dollar will always
be worth just rs much as a gold dollar.
Therefore, we want free silver.
The government can make so cents
worth of metal worth 100 cents in gold
by stamping it lone dollar Under
free coinage such dollar would buy
only half as much goods as gold dol
lar-that is, it would be worth only
half as much. Therefore, we want free
silver.
The prosperity Of the American peo-
pie depends on the amount of wealth
produced and the fairness with which
it is distributed among the producers.
Measuring products In silver instead Of
gold would neither create any more
wealth nor distribute it more justly.
Therefore, we want free silver.
The country is suffering because there
is not half enough money to do business
with. AS soon jas free-coinage law is
passed our $60O,OOO,ooO in gold will all
be withdrawn, and we shall lose all
that amount from circulation. There
fore, we want free silver.
There is something wrong with the
country somehow, though we don't
know what it is nor how to cure it.
But everything will come all right if
lot of cheap-money agitators are elected
to congress, so now and everlastingly
we want free silver.-Whidden Gra-
ham.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
GOING BACK.
Free SilverItes Resort to Out-of-Date
Methods.

Free Silverites Resort to Out-of-Dato
Methods.
The silverites who want the American
people to give up the stable money
standard under which they have pros
pered, in order to go back to the silver
dollars of their ancestors, are the kind
of men who are afraid. of everything
that is new. They are like the boy who
went to the mill with big bag across
his horses back. In one end of the bag
was two bushels of corn and in the
other end big stone. When the miller
asked the boy why he did not divide the
corn and put half of it on each side OF
the horse the bright youth replied:
Father and grandfather allus took
their corn to mill this-a-way. Iain't no
better than them. What was good
enough for grandfather is good enough
for me-"
The idea that because the men who
lived in this country 100 years ago
adopted a free coinage law we should
be satisfied with the same system, is not
suited to progressive, go-ahead Ameri-
cans. The latter want the very best of
everything and just as soon as better
way of doing things is discovered the
old way is dropped and the new taken
up. The question as to what was the
best money system 100 years ago has
nothing on earth to do with the practi-
cal affairs of to-day. To talk ct going
back to free silver merely because it was
an old system is on level with trying
TO establish a monarchy in this country
because we were once ruled by The Brit
ish kings. When the people got tired OF
kings they kicked them out and estab-
lished the republic. When they got tired
of trying to use the double standard
they made gold the unit of value, and
they intend to keep it. Out of date sys-
TENS don't count for much with live
Americans,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
Inflated Prices for Cur Dogs.

If this government should open its
mints to coinage of the worlds silver
at sixteen to one, we would go at once
TO silver recommendation. This is the
voice of all history emphasized by the
present status of every free coinage
country on the earth. We can no more
have bimetallism in actusl use and I'M
limited silver coinage than we can
have a square, round object or dry,
wet weather. Wherein would the peo-
ple be benefited if they got double
prices in half value money! If farmers
products brought double prices, SO
would the manufacturers The bene-
fits and advantages would be equal,
except that buyers would always de-
duct enough to safely cover the fiuctu-
atoms of silver, and this amount would
be a dead loss to producers and a pre-
MUM to spectators. [ know a boy
who sold cur dog for 500, but be took
pay in pups at $50 apiece. so he was
not materially benefited by the inflated
prices-From Speech of Judge George
n. Aldredge.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
working,nan,s simple Question.

Sooner or later. and probably very
soon, our workingmen will put to both
parties this question: do you intend
to refuse to us the best dollar there is,
which is the gold dollar, and compel rs
by legal tender laws to take for our la
bor an inferior doiiar2"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03

CONSTIPATION Cured by DR.. Carlstedt's
German Liver Powder. Samples and testi-
monials free. In Bottles only rs cents. The
Carlstedt Medicine Co, Evansville, Ind.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03

uUNcLe Bon, what is Pedestrian"
aWhv. he's the fellow who makes row
when a bicycle runs over him. Chicago
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03

WE have not been without Piso's Cur
for Consumption for 20 years.-LIzzIE FEr
REL, Camp St., Harrisburg, Pa, May a, '94
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03

Mr.. BooDLEs-"You began life as a bare
footed boy, / understand" New Clerk
ayes, sir; / was born without shoes."--
Tit Bits.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03

WHEREVER the tree Of benefcence takes
root, it sends forth branches beyond the
sky.-Saadi.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03

Henri Cernuschi is an eminent politi-
al economist and an able advocate of
International bimetallism. He is often
quoted by free-coinage advocates who
would never accept his test for good and
Dad money. 1t is as follows: ut is by
me ordeal of fire that money can be
uied. The coins which, being melted
DOWN, retain the entire -alue for which
tney were legal tender before they were
melted down, are good money. Those
which do not retain il sre not good
money"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is Constitutional Cure. Price 7oc.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
WALL STREET sHYLocks.
49,. rbey Are--Enough of Them to Do

49,, rbey Are Enough Of Them to Do
feat All Cheap Money Schemes.
One of the many delusions back of
.he free-coinage sophistry is that there
.rs few wealthy creditors and millions
!, moor debtors in this country. Upon
.h;s assumption it is argued that cheap
money will make it easy for the mass
- debtors to clear their farms and
homes from the mortgages held by the
cbvlocks of Wall street. Let US see now
who are these Shylocks and who are the
creditors of this country.
Everyone who has deposit in saw
mos or other banks, every holder of
life insurance policy, every pensioner,
avery member of building and loan
association, every member of aid and
benefit associations, every owner of
government bond, everyone whose sal
ary or wages are paid only after services
or labor is performed-these are some
If the creditor classes. These are the
shvlocks who have mortgage on this
country and who are to be done out of
balf of their savings by the slick sixteen
to-one scheme. In truth these Shylocks
not only own the country, but they have
votes enough to compel the poor"
debtors to pay in honest money. Let us
enumerate some of them who hoard
their wealth in banks and loan it out at
"usurious' rates Of interest, and see
how much they would lose under free
coinage and with 50-cent dollars:
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-12-26

For information, time cards, maps
and tickets, call on or write
j. S. KEENEY, Agent.
Or A. D. CHARLTON, Asst. Gen'l.
Pass. Agent, Portland, Or.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-12-26

Once more Pullman has a COM
plete line of undertaker's goods,
kept by H. f. Hubbard. 6t4
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-12-26
PIONEER LIFE.


He relates many thrilling exper-
fences of pioneer days in the noun
tains of Idaho. One of the stories
which he has told so often that he
believes it to be true, is about an
adventure with big silver tip bear
One of these ferocious beasts had
almost broke up a mining camp on
French creek by foraging in the
night for bacon, sugar and dried
fruit. The old robber had grown so
impudent that he would enter the
tents and clean up Il stere at each
visit. Wild Bill had a wide repu
tation as bear slayer. The min
ers sent for him to defend their
camp from bruin. The intrepid
hunter went with his arms and
trained dogs. He pitched his tent
in the most exposed position and
slept while he waited for his faith
full dogs to sound the alarm upon
the approach of enemy. The first
intimation of the anticipated con-
aict was loud burst of yelps and
yells from the dogs, and the growl
and roar Of the bear. The grizzled
head of the marauder was thrust
into the hunters tent before the
dogs discovered his presence. They
sprang to the battle and attac ked
the enemy from the rear The bear
sprang forward into the tent upon
the bed, tramping, stamping and
rolling over the PROSTATE man.
The bear found the tent to be a
refuge from the dogs, which he
elected with such force that they
did not return. The bear was kept
busy by sly attacks at every ex-
posed point, and he almost crushed
the life out of Wild Bill. The man
had not been observed by the bear,
which fought the dogs with such
blind fury that he was oblivious to
all other surroundings. The hunt
er's guns were near at hand, but
they might as well have been a
mile away. His hunting knife was
within two feet of his right hand,
but the danger of even a slight
movement was imminent. On one
occasion the bear followed one of
the dogs which had appeared at the
door of the tent farther than usual,
thus affording some freedom Of
action for tho MAN ,ubo ,uoo -
prisoned in his own bed. He
reached out quickly and drew the
long sheathe knife-under the
blankets. During the next brisk
engagement between the dogs and
bear, the right hand with the gleam-
ing weapon was released from the
folds Of the bedding. The bear soon
returned and stood with his champ
ing jaws over the mans head; and
the hot breath of the mad brute
beat upon the upturned face. Slow
ly the cleaning blade was raised
till the point almost touched the
beasts throat A desperate plunge
buried the blade to the hilt. The
wounded brute whirled and struck
at the shadow of the moving arm,
believing he had been hurt by one
Of the dogs. He staggered and fell
upon the man. The warm blood
drenched the bed, and almost
drowned the man who was held fast
under the carcass, which weighed
half ton.-Lewiston Teller
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-05-29
age to speak out boldly in favor Of woman's
suffrage. and the total annihilation Of the

age to speak out boldly in favor Of woman's
suffrage, and the total annihilation Of the
liquor traffic.
request was also made that the name
of home protection party" be adopted, and
that the convention adopt measures looking
more to the protection of the homes and the
care Of the young. A committee of five was
appointed to draw up resolutions embracing
the requests Of the ladies'.
The committee on platform was then asked
to make its report. DR.. l. X. Funk. chair
man Of the committee stated that the mar
exactly agree. and that a minority report
follows:
The majority, or narrow gauge report
declares it's agreement with the United
States supreme court that the statistics of
every state show that more crime and mis-
cry result from the use OF ardent spirits
than corrupt legislation and make good
government impossible: that the party is
unalterably opposed to the drink trafic, and
declares for its total suppression for bev-
erage purposes, rejecting all compromise
measures, whether license, local option. tax
alton or public control. Wage-earners' at
tention is called to the enormous waste
caused by the liquor traffic at the cost Of
production, and to the fact that the success
of the Prohibition party will remove this
great burden from industry. 1t declares that
the Prohibition party stands for good gov
ernment honestly and economically ad-
ministered; that there is no greater peril to
the nation than the competition of political
parties for the liquor vote, and calls upon
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-05-29

the voters to enforce the declaration of the
churches against the liquor traffic.
The minority report, which was presented
by the "broad gaugers." has this declaration
on the money question:
''That all money should be issued by the
government only and without the intervention
Of any banking association. II should be
based upon the wealth. stability and integrity
of the nation and should be full legal tender
for all debts, public and private, and should
be of sufficient volume to meet the demands
of the legitimate business interests Of the
country. And for the purpose of honestly
liquidating all our outstanding coin obliga-
tions, we demand the free and unlimited coin
age of both silver and gold, at ratio of 16 to
1, without consulting any other nation.'
Other pianks in the platform declare against
the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors
for beverage purposes. The use of liquors for
medical and other legitimate purposes should
be controlled by the state. Equal rights OF
suffrage for both sexes is favored; alien ac-
uuisition of land opposed. Government con-
troll of railroads; only English in the public
schools and no public funds for sectarlan In
stitutions; election of president and vice presi-
dent by popular vote; liberal pensions; amend
ed immigration laws; none but citizens to
vote and naturalized citizens to vote only
after being naturalized year, are other
recommendations. The hnal declarations or
the platform are:
"There should be proportionate representa-
tion In state and nation, and the initiative
and referendum adopted, so as to secure free
expression Of the popular will. We favor the
imperative mandate as a guarantee against
the Misrepresentation of the people by men
chosen to be their representatives"
x-Gov. st. John read the minority report.
Almost every sentence was applauded. When
he came to the free silver plank, the broad
gaugers broke loose with cheers and pro-
longed applause. After finishing Its reading
Mr.. ST. John moved that the report be in
corporated as part Of the majority report.
A motion was made to lay it on the table, but
this was defeated, the vote standing 80 yeas
to 400 nays big victory for the broad gaug-
ers A great connection was created when
the vote was announced.
Mr.. ST. John then spoke In favor of the re-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-05-29

factory districts many of the employees
on duty at the time the storm broke
were without relatives in the city, and
their disappearance would scarcely be
noted, even though they be buried In
the ruins. 1t is believed by the police,
too, that, owing to the suddenness with
which the crash came, many tramps
and homeless ones sought shelter
among the buildings which were lev
eled, and that nothing will be known
of their death until perhaps weeks
hence their bodies are found.
The list at o'clock of known dead
in ST. Louis is 169 and in East ST. Louis
LAG.
The city is in darkness tonight, re-
pair of the electric wires having been
scarcely begun, and but few of the
trolley lines are running. All over the
stricken district the debris -choked
streets are crowded with sight-seers,
and through the dim morgues in the
east end of the city and at the morgue
at Twelfth street constant stream of
people is urged forward by aisles of
police.
Hundreds Of homes in ruins, dozens
of manufacturing plants and dozens OF
business houses are wrecks. Many
steamboats, are gone to the bottom of
the river, and others are dismantled;
railroads of all kinds have suffered
great lcas, and wire and pole-using
companies have -
WEEKS OF TOLL
and. large expenditures OF money to
face before they will be IN satisfactory
shape again.
Tie most furious work OF the sto-n
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-05-29
MAP OF ST. LOUIS AND EAST ST. LOUIS SHOWING THE DEVASTATED DISTRICT

land; vice president, Hale Johnson, Illinois.
The free silver plank was rejected, and the
candidates were placed upon the thinnest kind
of a narrow gauge platform, embodying mere
ly the principle of prohibition, and even omit
ting the woman suffrage plank which has
been feature of its platforms for years past.
Ex-Gov. st. John, seconded by nearly all the
Western delegates, made gallant fight for
the free coinage of silver, and Helen NJ. Cou-
York, struggled in vain for woman suffrage,
but the narrow gauge people controlled the
convention and took everything. When the
nominations were reached the name Of Charles
E. Bentley, Of Nebraska, the broad gauge
candidate, was not presented, his boom having
been burst by the overwhelming defeat of the
silver forces at the afternoon session. 1t was
long after midnight before the last business
was concluded, and the convention adjourned.
Joshua P. Levering, the Prohibition NOM
inee for president is a prominent coffee mer
chant Of Baltimore. He is ffty-fve years of
age, reputed to be very wealthy and is pres
ident of the Young Mems Christian associa-
IL.
been connected with the Prohibition party
since 1884, and has for some years past acted
as vice chairman Of the state executive COM
mittee. He ran on the Prohibition ticket last
fall for governor, receiving the highest vote
ever cast in the state for the party. Mr.. Lev
ering is pronounced in his views on the ques-
tions at issue, and previous to the conyen-
II, ba nf
the nomination upon free silver or broad
gaugs platform.
Hale Johnson. the nominee for vice presi-
dent is forty-nine years of age. He was born
in Indiana, and served through the war. He
is a past commander in the G. A. r. and
colonel in the Veteran Legion. In 1891 he
was delegate to the national Republican con-
yention, but shortly after became Prohipl-