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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-19
suuURBAN REAL ESTATE.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.


Country.
ATLANTIC CITY HOTEL FOR SALE.
For sale a irst-class. modern hotel,
located at the ocean end Of one Of the best
avenues in Atlantic City: accommodates
go people: electric lights, steam heat and
all the latest improvements; completely
furnished In frst-class manner; licensed
buffet: ready for immediate business; trade
thoroughly established. For price, terms
and full description address 7. o. Box 81.
Atlantic City. y. J.
ANTHRACITE COAL AND TIMBER
LANDS.-Warranty title; accessible 10
transportation: safe investments for cap
.itallsts; principals only: interview solicited.
= Room I'll, 1856 Liberty-s,.
GRAND vIEw-ON- HUDSON.-Two acres.
with two-story and basement mansard
roof dwelling and barn. situate within easy
walking distance OF either South Nyack or
Grand View station; the property runs 10
the river: has water grant and hne beach
owner Will sell az less than cost and upon
very easy terms Address MORTGAGEE,
y. o. Box 1914, New-York.
RENT OR SALE.-Dsrsains In hotels,
boarding houses and cottages: building
sites reasonable. ISRAEL G. ADAMS a.
CO.. Atlantic City. y. ].
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
BEST STORE in city for trunks and bags.
dress-suit cases. European outfits.
chairs. telescopes. gripsacks. steamer
trunks. CHARLES SCHWARTZ. old
Established House. 20 4th-ave.. nea-
gth-st.
SHIRT WAISTS.-The incest. the pretti-
est the cheapest in the city: chamois
gloves that wash at 49c. instead Of 9Sc.
JAMMFS. 900 Broadway.
WE WANT TO PURCHASE German gran
ulated sugar. Send terms TO A. LEWIS
& CO., SOL Federal-kt.. Troy. n. Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-19
REAL ESTATE WANTED.

WANTED. On Staten or Long Island, a
furnished cottage; must have not less
than seven rooms and bath. near the rail-
road station and water Write. stating
rent and particulars. TO y. W. EMMENS,
l79 Washington Building, New-York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
MIR. BRYAN,s IDEA OF DRONEs.

Candidate Bryan has found a new simile.
A few days ago he told story about how
they used to ring hogs noses when he was
a boy to prevent them from destroying
as much as they ate, and concluded by
saying: 'One of the principal duties of
government is to put rings in hogs noses"
His application of the story was that men
who have or make money are the hogs that
should have rings put in their noses Now
he has a new figure. He calls the who
have or make money drones. In his speech
at Wilmington, Del, he said:
OF course, do not know how drones feel
in a bee hive, but if drones could talk and
could not tell one of their speeches from
the speech of a gold standard advocate.
wealth that they have a right to make the
laws so as to secure to themselves just
portion of the wealth they produce. instead
of allowing the drones to make the laws
and eat the honey then / plead guilty to
the charge of stirring up discomfort. l will
bet you that if the drone were in politics
that party lines would not weigh very
much with him if he had business inter-
est on the other side.
This illustration, like the other one. is
aimed at capitalists and intended to excite
a feeling of distrust and hatred toward
them on the part of those who are not cap
italists. In other words, it is intended to
array class against class. From Mr. Bryan's
point of view capitalists. employers of
labor, men who have or who make money
are hogs who should have rings put in their
noses, or they are the drones of society
who contribute nothing to the general well
fare and live on the honey that others
make. He would probably class himself, an
impecunious lawyer and office-seeking pol
itician, as a working pee, but the manu-
facturer who has built up a large plant, or
the capitalist who gives steady employ
ment and wages to hundreds OF working
men. and who helps to keep the wheels
of industry in motion and the money of
bet you,' says he, that if the drone We're
in politics party lines would not weigh very
much with him if he had business interest
on the other side" Perhaps it is the grow
ing knowledge that the business men of
the country. the men who have money
and who make money. who employ labor
pay wages and control the great business
interests of the country, are practically
solid against him that makes Mr.. Bryan
denounce them as drones. 1t will be bad
day for the country if the hive ever gets
filled with working bees of his kind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
A INDUSTRIOUS DEMAND

Inc last report of the director of the
United States Mint contains a statement
showing the amount and cost of the silver
bullion purchased by the government under
the so-ealled Bland act during each fiscal
year from 1878 to 1891 The smallest
amount purchased in any year was 10. SOs. $50
ounces, and the largest amount was q s20 =
500 ounces. The total amount purchased in
the fourteen years from 1873 to 1891 both
inclusive, was 291, 272 o1S ounces, at a total
cost to the government of $30S, 279, 260. The
price ranged from s1.20 an ounce in 1878 to
93c an ounce in 1885, The average price
paid for the entire period and the entire
amount was s1O5 an ounce. The present
market price of silver is 6515c an ounce
The same report contains another state
ment by fiscal years of the amount and
cost Of silver purchased by the government
under the Sherman act from Aug. 49, 1890
to Nov. 1. 1898, as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
sIxTEEN TO ONE.

The reasons against free silver coinage
are sixteen to one against those in favor
of it.
First-It would make the government a
party to fraud, thereby disgracing it in
the eyes of the world.
Second-It would demoralize the people by
making them party to a fraud in the cir
culation of half-value dollars.
Third-It would put a premium on dis
honesty by providing way in which debt
ors could pay off their debts in a debased
currency.
Fourth-It would drive gold out of circu-
of all our money, thereby greatly con-
tracing the volume of currency.
Fifth-It would cause banks and money
lenders to call in outstanding loans and re-
fuse to make new ones, thereby causing
the worst panic on record
Sixth-It would destroy all confidence,
and, by stopping investments and produc-
tive industries, throw hundreds of thou
sands of persons out of employment.
Seventh-It would reduce the purchasing
power Of our money one half. thus in eff
A~N~
proportion.
Eighth-It would cause an advance in the
price of most of the necessaries of life,
thereby making it still more difficult for
wage earners and salaried people to live.
Ninth-It would compel an army of work.
ingmen out of employment to consume
their savings while waiting for better
times.
Tenth-It would compel them to receive
on a silver basis savings which they had
deposited on a gold basis.
Eleventh-By making customs duties pay
able in 50-cent dollars, it would lower pro-
tective duties in that proportion and thus
add to the misfortunes of American work
ingmen.
Twelfth-It would compel all the railroads
Of the country to make a great reduction
in expenses and the number of their en-
ployes, and would force many into bank
ruptcy
Thirteenth-By substituting silver for a
gold basis it would reduce the value of
pensions and life insurance policies 50 per
cent.
Fourteenth-It would reduce the value of
building and loan associat ton deposits 50
per cent, thereby preventing many persons
from acquiring homes and compelling
others who have homes partly paid for to
sacrifice them.
Fffteenth-It would scale down the value
of all endowment and trust funds and all
permanent investments, thereby Gripping
college and public school funds
Sixteenth-By making times harder and
adding to the number of unemployed per-
sons while the expenses of living and all
tax levies would be increased it would add
10 the spirit of discomfort and lawlessness
which is already sufficiently alarming
The one reason in favor of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver is: 1t would
add enormously to the wealth of the sill
YER mine owners
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

At Hutchinson, Kan, in debate with the
Republican candidate for Congress, he
handed the following questions to Jerry
Simpson, his opponent, and asked an an
swer:
l. Would the opening of the minis of the
United States alone to the free and unl1m-
tied coinage of silver and gold a ratio of
sixteen to one raise the price OF silver bull
non to $l.29 per ounce, measured in gold,
and maintain it at that price?
z Has free coinage of gold and silver IN
the united States or in any other country
at a fixed ratio ever maintained the equal
lty OF the coinage to Il commercial ratio or
the tvyo metals? If So when and where?
D. Is there country in the world to-day
that has the free and unlimited coinage OF
gold and silver that has gold in circulation,
and is there gold-standard country to-day
that does not use silver as money along
with gold?
4. Are you still in favor of the demone
tizatiOn of both gold and silver and the is
Suance of legal-tender paper money in
stead?
). How did it happen that the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver in this
country never gave us as much coin money,
both gold and silver, per capita as we now
have of silver coin per capita?
g. Do you still believe in absolute free
trade?
Simpson refused to answer the questions
at that time, but promised to do so at an
other meeting. These are practical ques-
tons, and for that reason Popocratic
speakers ignore them, did Simpson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

Total .16S. s74 6S2.5 SO $685. s31 O02 25
The average price paid for this silver dur
ing the fiscal year 1891 was $1.04 per ounce;
in 1892 it was Sac per ounce; in 1893 1t was
SAC per ounce, and in four months of the
fiscal year 1894 it was 73c per ounce. The
total cost to the government of sill the sill
yer purchased under the Sherman law was
as above stated, s155, 1881, O02.25. At the pres
ent market price of silver. 651sc an ounce,
the entire amount would cost s11O, 951 .916, or
$44, 949, 086 less than the government paid
This loss represents what the people paid
during three years in a vain attempt to
keep up the price of silver. Yet the silver
ties claim that silver has been "discrimin-
ated against" and the mine owners now
demand that the government shall coin
their entire output free of charge and
stamp every so cents worth of bullion as
worth 100 cents. and make it legal tender
for all debts, public and private. 1t is a
monstrous demand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

ard of living. The following extract from
Mr.. Curtis's article is entitled to special
attention in connection with the PROPOSE
basis:
The decrease in railroad wages from the
frontier to the interior is most noticeable
in the track service. Section hands get
81 day at the Rio Grande, in silver, as
on the American side they receive 81 in
gold. This. however, is the maximum. 1t
decreases toward the interior, where only
and managed by native Mexicans pay
track da iaborers even iessEas low as . cents h
Section fo mer nVs are ali natVea Their
wages range from S25 to $50 a month.
In regard to the wages of the native. or
the peon. the general laborer. Mr.. Curtis
says that he receives between 30 and 81
cents day in silver in the city and %
cents in the country towns, and sometimes
much less. He cites the case of porter
in a general merchandise store in Durango,
who works from o'clock in the morning
until in the evening for Sc a month in
silver. This man, his son and daughter
are regarded as specially prosperous be-
cause they earn s11.5O a month. Corn and
beans. with a few vegetables, constitute
the diet Of these people, and they pay very
little for clothing. The mass of people cam
not with such wages, eat butter, which is
from 50 to 20 cents a pound, or sugar,
which ranges from 10 cents a pound for
native to % cents a pound for that
which is imported. The price of a pound
of American flour is Is cents, and of ma
tive flour cents. Wages ranging from Is
to 81 cents a day would not go far in sup
plying family with flour bread or in pur
chasing clothing when the retail price of
prints is from Is to 30 cents and cassi-
meres $1.75 a yard.
The point which it seems necessary to
enforce in connection with the two vary
ing reports referred to is that those cor
respondents afflicted with the sixteen-to-
one malady do not and probably cannot
state the facts regarding conditions in
Mexico. They can only the few rail-
road employees who receive fair compensa-
ton, but ignore or cannot the mil
lions of natives who are povcrty-stricken
beyond the conception of the people of this
country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
ga FREE COINAGE PANIC.v

If 1T We're understood that this country
intended to substitute a dollar worth So
cents for it's present dollar, it is obvious
that every one who had money coming to
him would try to collect it before the
change was made, and this is what free
coinage means. 1t means silver mono
kept at parity with the gold dollar, as at
present, but resting on it's own intrinsic
value, just as the Mexican dollar now does
Just as soon as it was decided that the
change was to be made every creditor
would demand payment of debts banks
would call in loans, lawsuits would begin
for collection of debts, credit would be sus-
pended. This would make panic at once
Business would be paralyzed. 1t would
come before the change could be put into
effect and before prices would have an OPP
portunity to rise. For the time being the
demand for money would be so great that
prices would be terribly depressed. After
the change was effected and the new
standard in force, there would, of
course. be a rise in prices, but that would
be small consolation TO those who had gone
to pieces in the smash up.
more vivid portrayal of what would
result from the election of Mr. Bryan than
the foregoing has not been printed since
the year 1896 came in. Not in the same
space have the disastrous results of free
and unlimited coinage of silver been so
fully stated. Free coinage means silver
recommendation" Not satisfied with such a
statement of the truth, the writer declares
coinage were decided upon, would make
panic at once
1t may be added that this vivid picture
of the disaster and desolation which would
follow the election of Bryan was presented
In an editorial of the Indianapolis Sentinel
of May s. 1885,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
HONEST AND DISHONEST REPORTS.

The Chicago Record sent two men to
investigate the conditions and the compen-
satlon of labor in Mexico One of these
men was a protested silverite. He saw
everything in the most favorable light
The only wages of which he took note
were those paid mechanics and the most
responsible employees of railroads. Daz-
zled by the silver CLEAN, the sunburnt mud
the two-room houses or huts with dirt
floors became really charming cottages,
while the glamour of the white metal be-
trayed him into saying that the people
who earned but % or so cents daily in sill
yer values were quite as well or even bet
ter off than the mass of laborcrs in the
United States.
The other representative of the Record
was William E. Curtis, a man inclined to
the sound-money side. but not so blinded
trial conditions of Mexico. Mr.. Curtis
shows that the high rates paid skilled Ia
Dor in the railroad shops and TO conduc-
tors and engineers are paid TO no others.
The engineers, who are all Americans, are
paid from SIPS to $500 a month in silver.
equivalent to half these figures in United
States money. F'iremen, who are Mex
leans, receive from $50 to SIS a month, or
SIS to $3s in gold. The general foreman of
railroad shop is paid $1S5 a month. or
half that amount in the money of the
United States. In fact, all the foremen are
paid good wages even when reduced to
gold. but when the wages of the great
mass of labor on the railroads and in their
shops are considered. they are those of
starvation judged by the American stand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

The Constitution OF the United States
gays: mo person shall be deprived of life,
liberty or property without due process of
law; nor shall private property be taken
for public use without just compensation"
In respect to sacredness and protection this
places property on the same footing with
life and liberty. No person shall be de-
prived of either without due process of
law" and special provision in regard to
private property says 1t shall not be taken
for public use without just compensation.
1t il question whether the free coinage
by the government of 50-cent silver dollars,
clothing them with the legal-tender quail
fty and handing them back to the bullion
owAsr to be passed as 10o-cent dollars
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
CORBETT ARRESTED.
Like ..Fitz," He Is Charged with
Agreeing to Engage in n Fight.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-James j. Corbett,
the professional pugilist. was arrested to-
day in Asbury Park on a requisition issued
by the Governor of New York. The charge
is agreeing to engage in n prize fight, the
Indictment having been found at the same
time as the one on which Fitzsimmons was
arrested in this city last week. Corbett
agreed 10 come to New York next Saturday
to plead to the indictment and was released
under 81 900 bonds.
The National Sporting Club. of London,
has decided net to offer purse for any
match in which Corbett Is engaged, but,
should F'itzsimmons arrange suitable
match with any one else. the club viii offer
"a substantial purse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

All well informed people now know that
the so-called crime of 1879 was no crime
at all and that the phrase is simply a politi-
cal catch word. The great monetary crime
of the century has been cajoling and coer-
ring the government into buying 100000
worth of silver per month for fourteen
years under the Bland act, and then $780,
900 ounces Of silver per month for three
years under the Sherman act in a vain at
tempt to bolster UP the price of a constant
ly depreciating product. thereby entailing
an enormous loss on the government and
people
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
General Political News.

Representative Benton McMillin, of Ten
nessee, has completed the compilation of
the Democratic campaign book of 1896
An effort is to be made to get up an ex-
cursion party of not less than one hundred
Republicans from the Pacific coast to make
a pilgrimage to Canton to see and shake
hands with Mckinley before election day.
The National Democrats of Nebraska
to be held in Omaha Oct. l. The conven-
ton will be composed of $50 delegates. five
State.
All the roads running into Chicago have
decided TO make reduced rates for Chicago
day, Oct. 8. There Will be several floods OF
political oratory on that day and the roads
are figuring on large crowds of all political
faiths.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
Not a Good Man to Elect.

BIRMINGHAM Ala, Sept. 23.-The Pop
ulist convention of the Fourth district, in
session at Calera, yesterday unanimously
nominated W. f. Aldrich, Republican, for
Congress on d platform declaring for free
silver. honest elections, protection and rec
iprocity. Aldrich made a speech accepting,
saying that while he will vote for Mckin-
ley he is for free silver coinage. Aldrich
is the present Representative from the
Fourth district and is also the nominee of
the faction of the Republicans in his dis
trct who bolted the regular convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
Lost All Interest,

What is a Popocrat?" she asked.
He started to explain to the best of his
ability, and was getting along to his own
satisfaction until he happened to notice
her trying to squelch yawn.
Perhaps l am Wearying you?" he asked.
1T isn't as interesting as L expected
she admitted. II thought perhaps a
Popocrat might be a young man who was
not afraid to pop
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

william Mckinley is growing candi-
date. His speeches the past month have
shown to the country that he is an able and
patriotic man with high ideals and pur-
poses. On the other hand, every day which
Mr.. Bryan devotes to speaking proves to
the intelligent people of the country his
utter unfitness for the presidency
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
President Eliot, of Harvard, in an article

President Eliot, of Harvard, in an article
in the Atlantic Monthly. attacks the PEN
sion system, bat the president of Harvard
should know that no widow who was mar
ried after the passage of the act of June
81, 1890, can be pensioned under the de-
pendent act, and that no other widow can
be pensioned unless it can be shown that
the husband died from injuries received in
the service. even If he were drawing pen
death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
CRIME is RAMPANT.
Murders md Robberies Frequent I'm
the Indian Territory.

FORT SMITH. Ark, Sept. 23-Peopie
who have travelled through the Indian Ter
ritory during the past few days report
woeful condition existing in that country.
Crime is rampant. and the people are In
state of terror. Many people say that the
condition now is worse than ii has been
for many years. with the exception of the
brief reign of the notorious Cook gang.
While there are no train robberies re-
ported, there are frequent murders, rob-
berries and similar crimes. and the whole
territory swarms with whisky peddiers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

While in New York Governor Matthews
informed newspaper reporter that Bryan
would carry this State by 10000. That
will do to lay away along with his predic-
ton that the sound-money Democrats will
not poll 1000 votes in the State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

One of Indana's Senators has been try
ing for thirty odd years past to prove that
he did not call Union soldiers ''Lincoln's
hirelings when the proof was conclusive
that he did. Mr.. Shivelys attempt to deny
and disprove his insulting allusion to the
Hebrews in his speech at Peru will be
equally unavailiEg.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

The American Protective League has
made an inquiry which discloses that $50
representative employers of labor in thir-
ty-six different States. who gave employ
ment in 1892 TO Ia, 231 hands, are now Civ
ing employment TO only rs, 700 In the
month of July. 1892, these concerns dis
tributed s2927,00o as wages. Last year,
after about two years of the Democratic
tariff law the same employers paid only
81 469, 712 as wages. The decrease in the
number of people employed is 80 per cent,
and the loss in wages was over 81 per cent
In view of such facts as Il csc wage earn
ers cannot be blamed if they insist that
the tariff is very much of an issue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

DENVER, Col. Sept 23.-The petitions
asking United States Senator Wolcott to
resign, which have been circulated all over
the State, are now being collected by J. 3.
Holmes. of this city. Mr. Holmes said to-
day: 1--WE propose to allow him to inspect
them and then ask him to resign. Ii he
does not. every petition will be filed with
the United States Senate demanding the
action of that body. In case they should
neglect or refuse to act. the matter will
be taken to the United States Supreme
Court and a test case made"